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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIII No. 133 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1951 Per Copy—15g~
Georgia Senators
Fear Way Alaskans
Would Vote
JUNEAU, UP) — Governor
Gruening returned f rom a six
week trip to the States with a
, report that Georgia’s governor
had stated openly that his oppo
sition to Alaska statehood was
based on a fear of the way Alaska
senators would vote.
Gruening said Gov. Herman
Talmadge told the annual Gover
nor’s conference that the people
of Georgia were opposed to any
more senators who might be in
favor of cloture — the procedure
limiting debate. It is the cloture
rule that can stop filibusters, an
oft-used tactic of southern sen
ators.
Talmadge gave the explanation
in response to a question after he
had cast a lone “no” vote on the
resolution for endorsement of
statehood.
Gruening said in an interview
that, in Talmadge’s statement, “it
was at least stated clearly what
those who have watched the state
hood battle have long suspected.
When last year a group of south
ern senators talked to me about
their opposition to the Alaska
statehood bill, not one of them
gave this as their reason.”
Governor Gruening expressed
the opinion the Talmadge state
ment might be valuable to state
hood proponents in the future.
$650,000 In Frozen Funds
Released To Alaska
Veterans Bureau
JUNEAU, (/P)—Alaska's Board
of Administration approved yes
terday the release of $650,000 of
long-frozen funds to the Commis
sioner of Veterans Affairs.
The office of Floyd Guertin
will have the money for home or
business loans to veterans. The
fnds have been “frozen” since
June, 1949, awaiting improvement
in the territorial treasurv.
Philip Murray Re-Elected
To 12th Year Head CIO
NEW YORK, (jP)—Philip Mur
ray, 65-year-cfld former coal
miner, was re-elected today to his
12th year as president of the CIO
after a confetti-throwing demon
stration by shouting convention
delegates.
Murray’s name was put into
nomination by Jacob Potofsky,
head at the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers, who called Murray
‘ not only a union leader but a
leader of mankind.”
Three Killed In Crash
Of C-47 At Elmendorf
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — An Air
Force C-47 crashed in landing at
Elmendorf air base Wednesday
night, killing three of its five
occupants.
The two others were injured
critically. All names were with
held.
The C-47, attached to the 6th
Radar Calibration unit at Elmen
dorf, crashed a quarter of a mile
west of the runway in attempting
a ground control aproach landing
in heavy fog, base officers said.
The plane caught fire but base
firemen quickly extinguished it.
NY Longshoremen
Go Back To Work
NEW YORK, (/P) — Striking
longshoremen flocked back to
freight-jammed piers today after
their leaders agreed to end the
port’s billion-dollar, 25-day wild
cat walkout.
Along the miles of waterfront
from Hoboken and Jersey City,
N.J., ta the far reaches of Brook
lyn, thousands streamed to work
before the 1 p.m. deadline set by
their leaders.
The rebel union faction, which
steamrollered the strike into New
York’s longest port tie-up, yielded
to a New York fact-finding board
in the pre-dawn hours to end the
strike.
John Dwyer, co-chairman of
the strike committee, told a gath
ering of 1,200 dockworkers that
“If we had this crowd every
morning on the picket line we
would have continued the strike.”
Dwyer said that behind the
committee's back-to-work action
was the fact that an injunction
against picketing had been issued
in New Jersey yesterday, and an
application for a similar injunc
tion was to be filed in New York.
Two Women Die
In $50,000 N. C.
Fire At Bethel
BETHEL, Alaska, (JP) — Fire
swept Bethel’s two main build
ings Wednesday claiming the
lives of a school teacher and a
hotel manager.
The Bethel school superintend
ent said an 18-year-old native
from Kipnuk village was missing
after the fire but it was not de
termined whether he was a vic
tim.
The dead were Mrs. Bessie
Smith, about 60, a territdrial
public school teacher, and Miss
Ann Joyce, manager of a road
house hotel.
The school superintendent said
five others escaped through win
dows of the roadhouse after fire
broke out in the kitchen about
5:30 a.m.
The roadhouse and the town’s
movie house, owned by the Nor
thern Commercial Co., were
burned to the ground with a loss
estimated unofficially at $50,000.
Cause of the fire was not known.
Bessie Smith will be remem
bered by many in Nome as the
ANS teacher stationed here sev
eral years ago.
Japanese Freighter In
Trouble In Mid-Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, {JP) — The
Japanese freighter K i n u g a s a
Maru, with 42 men aboard, was
reported in distress in the North
Pacific early today.
The RCA Radio Marine station
at Pt. Reyes, Calif., said it picked
up an SOS from the 4,971-ton ves
sel saying she was in need of
immediate rescue.
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The vessel’s position was given
as approximately midway be
tween Japan and the Aleutian
Islands on the Great Circle route.
The Kinugasa was reported
laden with iron ore.
Will Recommend
Continuance Oil |
Exploration Alaska
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DENVER, (/P)—A committee of
industry advisors to the Navy
concluded today that exploration
for oil in Naval Reserve No. 4 in
Alaska should continue.
Capt. R. H. Meade, chief of'
Naval Petroleum Reserves, an
nounced the decision at the end
of a four-day meeting here. He
was chairman of the committee of
advisors to the Secretary of the
Navy.
Capt. Meade announced that the
committee will recommend to the
secretary that he ask Congress
for funds to (rarry on exploration
in the 37,000-square-mile Alaskan
reserve through 1952 and 1953.
The reserve is above the Arctic
Circle.
He said the committee con
firmed the discovery of a new
Alaskan oil field at Umiat on the
Colville River and heard from
“responsible sources” that re
serves there are from 30 million
to 100 million barrels, based on
present limits of the unit.
Capt. Meade said he was an
nouncing for the first time that
the committee has been advised
of widespread occurrences of nat
ural gas in the Aloskan Naval Re
serve.
U. S. Presents Its
“Foolproof” Arms
Count Plan To UN
PARIS, (&)—'The United States
presented its “foolproof” arms
count plan to the United Nations
Thursday. Russia dismissed it as
“ludicrous” and called for a world
conference by next June 1 to con
sider the whole disarmament
question.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Achesdn formally presented the
Western power plan along with a
challenge to Russia to work sin
cerely for peace in Korea and to
show good will.
The plan, which President Tru
man elaborated Wednesday night
in *a major speech, calls for step
by-step disarmament and a count
and limitation of atomic and
other weapons under strict U.N.
controls.
Following Acheson to the floor
at this sixth session of the U. N.
Assembly, Soviet foreign minis
ter Andrei Y. Vishinsky heaped
ridicule on the plan, said he ccruld
“not keep from laughing.”
Then he countered with a So
viet proposal whose main points
were:
Cessation of hostilities in Korea
within 10 days and withdrawal
of troops to the 38th parallel;
Withdrawal of all foreign
troops from Korea within 30 days;
Conclusion of a pact of peace
by the. five oig powers, meaning
inclusion of communist China,
plus the disarmament conference
by next summer.
There is little liklihood the
West would even consider such a
plan. The “Pact of Peace” has
been the keystone of Soviet pro
paganda for months.
Gold Production
Up 20 Per Cent
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON/ (/P) — Gold
production increased 20 per cent
during 1950 to reverse a two-year
downward trend, the Bureau of
Mines said yesterday.
The bureau said that the 1950
output of 2,394,231 ounces was
mc/re than twice the wartime low
reached in 1945.
South Dakota was the leading
gold producing state in- 1950. It
also was top producer in 1949.
California, second in 1949, was
forced into third place in 1950 by
Utah. These three states, with
Alaska, supply 72 per cent of the
national total.
Gold production in 1950 in
cluded:
South Dakota, 567,996 fine
ounces; Utah, 457,551; California,
412,118; Alaska, 289,272.
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Small Nations In
U. N. Plead For
Greater Security
PARIS, (TP) — Small nations
pleaded for greater collective se
curity against the possibility of
another Korea today in speeches
before the United Nations As
sembly. Their pleas followed dis
couraging new tough talk by the
United States and Russia.
As they spoke, U.S. ambassador
Philip C. Jessup, in a special news
conference, challenged the Soviet
Union to start disarmament talks
in the U.N. now—not to wait until
some time before June 1, 1952, as
the Russians proposed yesterday.
Jessup also accused the Russians
of trying to by-pass the U.N. in
asking a world-wide arms confer
ence.
Russia’s proposal was in an
swer to a U.S. plan—also put be
for the U.N. General Assembly
yesterday—for a census of arma
ments and progressive reduction
of both conventional and atomic
weapons. Jessup said the U.S. and
her British and French allies
would push for quick U.N. action
on their proposal.
In the General Assembly meet
ing today F. W. Doidge of New
Zealand urged increased mea
sures of collective security to give
the free world strength to repel
any future aggressions such as
occurred in Korea.
Daughter of Former Sitka
Marshal Charged Larceny
SEATTLE, t/P)—Mrs. Gertrude
Tucker Meehan, 31, daughter of
a former U.S. marshal at Sitka,
was bound over to Superior Court
on a grand larceny charge yes
terday by Justice of the .Peace
William Hoar.
Filed July 16, it accuses Mrs.
Meehan orf drawing about $328 in
state aid to dependent children
funds to which she was not en
titled, having failed to notify wel
fare authorities of her marriage
to a Coast Guardsman, which re
sulted in her receiving an $85-a
month government allotment.
The court was told Mrs. Mee
han has made full restitution. The
superior court will now dispose
of the case.
SE Indians Claims
382,000 Acres Of
Prince of Wales Is.
JUNEAU, (/P)—A congressional
subcomittee studying aboriginal
land claims was told yesterday
the Tee-Hit-Ton Indians of south
eastern Alaska claim 382,000
acres at the north end of Prince
of Wales Island.
William L. Paul, Sr., appearing
before the committee as a repre
sentative of the tribe, estimated
the land is valued at $8,000,000.
Other witnesses were attorneys
R. E. Robertson and N. C. Ban
field and William L. Paul, Jr.
The latter, speaking for the
Alaska Native Brotherhood, said
his people would even consider a
reservation plan in order to gain
paper title to the lands.
Banfield, an American Legion
representative, asked for equit
able adjustments but opposed
large grants and plans for reser
vations. Robertson stressed the
need to clarify the status of south
east Alaska tidelands to help
speed development of industry.
It was the sixth such hearing
for the committee which came to
Alaska six days ago from Seat
tle. The group planned to visit
Sitka today and Ketohikan to
morrow.
Find No Trace Missing
Fairbanks Airplane
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Air Force
and Civil Air Patrol pilots
searched high mountains along
the Alaska Railroad today for a
light plane and its two occu
pants missing nearly a week on
a flight to Anchorage.
Bob Rouse, a Fairbanks con-.
struction foreman, was at the con
trols of the Cessna when it left
hei<e last Saturday on what was
fo have been a pleasure jaunt.
Viola O'Brien, Fairbanks cafe
employe who formerly lived in
Spokane and Walla Walla, Wash.,
was a passenger.
Jim Magoffin, who piloted a
Civil Air Patrol plane in the
search, said the railroad line had
been searched without finding a
clue.
Magoffin said the pilot’s plan
was to follow the railroad to An
chorage but he apparently left
the railroad to escape fog re
ported at points along the line on
the day of the flight. Rouse had
no instrument training, Magoffin
said.
Fairbanks Jaycees
To Help Police
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — To help ;
meet the urgent police needs of ■'
Fairbanks, the Junior Chamber of '
Commerce has offered to organ
ize and train an auxiliary force
of volunteers. The volunteers
would stand regular shifts with
policemen.
ARMISTICE DAY
Monday is a legal holiday as
Armistice Day, November 11,
falls on Sunday this year.
All Territorial as well as
Federal offices will be closed.
The Post Office will also ob
serve the holiday as well as
most of the business houses.