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VOL. L. No. 13. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE, (/P) —All passenger
vessels operating out of Seattle
for Alaska will install fire sprink
ler system by March, officials of i
the Northland Transport a t i o n j
company and the Aleska Steam
ship company have announced.
Installations are being made de
spite possibility that the present
waived program may be extended
by Congress, company spokesmen
said. Presidential authority to
grant waivers permitting Ameri
can passenger ships to sail with
out the new sprinkler systems, ex
pires March 30.
NENANA — The tripod on the
ice is being installed this week.
The ice averages about thirty-two
inches thick on the river. It had
over a foot of snow this week.
WRANGELL, (/P)—James No
lan, Wrangell business man, filed
today as a candidate for the House
of Representatives on the Demo
cratic ticket for the 1949 session
of the Territorial legislature.
WASHINGTON, (/P>—'The bur
eau of land management yester
day ordered 223 acres added to
the Tanacross, Alaska, airport. A
bureau announcement said the ad
ditional land, recently given up
by the army, will permit extension
of one of the Tanacross runways
and will provide additional pro
tection to the east approach zone.
JUNEAU, (/P) — The Alaska
game commission will hold its an
nual meeting in Ketchikan Feb.
16, officials said yesterday.
WASHINGTON. (/P)— President
Truman has stated that he is seri
ously considering re-appointing
Ernest Gruening as Governor of
Alaska.
SEATTLE, </P) — An agreement |
.granting drivers in heavy con
struction work an average 30
cents hourly wage increase has
been signed by the AFL-teamsters
union and the Mountain Pacific
chapter of the associated general
contractors of America, Frank M.
Brewster, teamsters official, an
nounced yesterday. It applies in
20 Washington counties and Alas
ka and may affect 25,000 workers,,
depending on amount of heavy j
construction work done.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,'
Calif. (/P)—Radio singer Dennis
Day and his bride of a day, Mar
garet Ellen Almquist, 23-year-old
University of Southern California4
graduate, are honeymooning to- j
day. They were married yesterday. |
DAYTON, O., </P)—Miami val
ley hospital announced this morn
ing the condition of Orville
Wright, 76-year-old aviation pio
neer, had taken a turn for the
worse during the night and no\Xr
was critical.
Wright, co-inventor of the air
plane suffered a heart attack
Tuesday and lung congestion de
veloped yesterday.
SEATTLE, (JP)—Alaska Steam
ship company officials are won- i
dering if some residents of the
midwest are planning to introduce
buffalo steaks to the Alaska Ter
Many Die In
Four Accidenls
(By The Associated Press*
Two airplane accidents in the
Atlantic and Europe and two rail
road mishaps in the United States
took a heavy toll in lives and in
juries today.
, A British South American Air
ways plane with 29 aboard and
eight hours overdue at Bermuda
from the Azores was believed lost.
The passengers included Sir Ar
thur Coningham, a retired British
air hero of the recent war.
At Frankfurt, Germany, the U.
S. air force announced the crash
of a plane, presumably * B-17 aid
ing in the search for a DC-3 trans
port missing since Tuesday. The
number aboard the B-17 was not
immediately learned.
The air force said the wreckage
of a plane believed to be the DC-3
has been sighted in the lower
French Alps. The DC-3 had 21
persons aboard — four crewmen
and three American women and
five children, dependents of U. S.
soldiers in the Trieste area. The
transport was en route from
France to Italy.
The B-17 crashed about 20 miles
east of the DC-3 wreckage.
. OGALLALA,. Neb. All 18
cars and one of the three power
units of the crack Union Pacific
City of San Francisco streamliner
were derailed 12 miles east of here
early today.
Twenty-five persons were in
jured, seven seriously enough to
require hospitalization here. A
hospital spokesman said none of
the injured was in critical condi-!
tion.
Apparently a broken wheel on
one of the power units was the
cause of the accident, a railroad
spokesman said.
MITCHELLVILLE, Tenn., (/P>—
Fourteen persons were injured
early today when the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad’s stream
lined passenger train Humming
bird, involved in its fourth acci
dent in recent days, was in colli
sion with a freight train on a sid
ing near this town on the Tennes
see-Kentucky border.
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FRESNO, Calif. <;P)-*The bodies
of 32 persons who perished when
a chartered transport plane loaded
with Mexican deportees crashed
and burned Wednesday were be
ing brought out of the Los Gatos
canyon yesterday.
The civil aeronautics authority
early yesterday began an investi
gation of the disaster which killed
28 Mexicans, three crew members
and a U. S. immigration service
guard. There were no survivors.
Witnesses said an engine fire ap
parently set one wing ablaze, the
wing tore off and the DC-3 plung
ed in flames.
ritory.
They received a letter from two
brothers who indicated they were
interested in settling in Alaska.
Among other things, the two asked
“What is the transportation cost
for buffalo calves, year-old buf
faloes. two-year-olds and mature
buffaloes to Anchorage. Palmer, I
Curry and Fairbanks.
SS. Connolly i
Breaks Tow; Sinks
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BOSTON, <yP)—The army fun
eral ship Joseph V. Connolly went'
adrift from a tow line yesterday
off Cape Race, Nfld., and sank,!
the coast guard reported yester- i
day The ship, previously ravaged
by fire, was under tow for New
York.
The coast guard said the towinj
hauser slipped off a towing drum
on the commercial tub Curb. Al
most immediately, the coast guard
said, the Connolly disappeared
from the cutter Acushnet’s radar
scope. The Acushnet was accom
panying the Curb.
Earlier, the Acushnet said, it
was noted heavy seas were flood
ing the Connolly’s after hatches.
A whole gale was blowing and
heavy snow squalls were prevail
ing when the Connolly disappear
ed. the coast guard said.
It was not known if anyone was
aboard the Connolly, but the coast
guard presumed no one was left
on the ship.
The Connolly was abandoned
by her crew of 45 on Jan. 12 after
a raging fire broke out in the en
gine room and spread to a cargo
of caskets which were being taken
to Europe to return U.S. war dead.
The crew was rescued.
Denis. Dinner
Oversubscribed
WASHINGTON, (JP), The Dem
ocratic faithful are coming to the
aid of the party with $100 bills.;
For this, they will get a dinner, j
“Record-breaking reservations”,
for the Jefferson-Jackson dinner
here Feb. 17 were reported today
by Wilson W. Wyatt, the chair-j
man.
As a result, he said, the main
mallroom of the Mayflower hotel,
which seats 900, isn’t big enough
and the dinner will be split into
two sections. One will be at the
Mayflower, the other at the Stat
ler.
President Truman will divide
his time between the two. His
speech will be carried by radio
and television to similar dinners
elsewhere.
O. D. COCHRANE. PIONEER
PASSES AWAY
Orville D. Cochrane, pioneer
lawyer of Nome passed away this
morning about three o’clock. “O.
D.” came to Nome in July of 1900
from Oregon where he had grad
uated from the University of Ore
gon and has been a familiar fig
ure all through Nome’s colorful
past, having served as Mayor,
City Attorney and Legislator in
1921 and 1937, since which time
he has served continuously tor six
terms, being President of the Sen
ate in 1943.
Funeral notices will be pub
lished later. . j
SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS.
RON BROUSSEAU
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Breousseau
are the parents of a baby boy
born Thursday morning at three
o’clock, weighing seven pounds, 15
ounces and has been named An
drew. Mr. Brousseau is manager
for the Lomen Commercial Co.
GANDHI ASSASSINATED
(By G. Milton Kelly)
NEW DELHI, (TP) —Mohandas
K. Gandhi was shot to death to
night by one of the Hindus he led
to independence.
The frail and wizened little po
litical and spiritual leader was the
target for three bullets fired a4,
close range at his prayer meeting
on the lawn of the sumptuous
Birla mansion, the estate of an
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Indian industrialist who long had
supported Gandhi. He was 78.
Police arrested the assassin im
mediately. They said only that he
was a Hindu from Poona. He was
held incommunicado at police
headquarters.
Sobbing bitterly, Gandhi’s per
sonal secretary, S. Kalyanam, told
the Associated Press:
“Bapu is dead.”
Bapu is the affectionate name
for Gandhi, meaning Fatner. To
millions of his followers, he was
known as Mahatma, or great soul
ed one. His full name was Mohan
das Karamchand Gandhi.
Bystanders said Gandhi slump
ed forward as the third shot lang
out. He seemed unconscious as he
was carried to his quarters in B;r
la house. The secretary said death
followed within a half hour.
A crowd of several hundred
persons formed about Birla house,
many of them weeping.
Death came less than a year af
ter he achieved his life’s main
goal of independence from Great
Britain for the teeming ub-con
tinent of India. Paradoxically,
however, Gadhi considered his
triumph a failure because India
and her 400.000.000 people were
divided into separate dominions of
India (Hindu' and Pakistan (Mos
lem'. The partition resulted in
bloody, destructive comm unal
warfare between Moslems on one
side and Hindus and Sikhs on the
other.
It was in an effort to end the
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French Withdraw
5,000 Franc Notes
PARIS, (/P) — The government
proposed yesterday to withdraw
all its 5,000-franc notes from cir
culation as a blow at both infla
tion and the black market.
Authorized cources said this
would grab about $500,000,000
worth of francs away from black
marketeers. There are about 66,
000,000 notes of the denomination
in circulation, worth about one
billion dollars at the free exchange
rate. The informants indicated
those who could not explain their
possession of the notes would have
them taken away.
The government closed all
banks to forestall speculation dur
ing debate on the measure. Pre
mier Robert Schuman urged the
national assembly to act quickly
so that banks, the stock market
and other financial agencies might
open by Saturday.
Passage of this measure and
the government’s free gold trade
bill seemed assured by a socialist
decision to support them in the as
sembly. Schuman had staked his
cabinet’s life on his-monetary pro
gram. The cabinet last Sunday de
creed devaluation of the franc
and the establishment of a free
money market.
The 5,000-franc note is worth
about $15 on the free market. Its
withdrawal is something like the
withdrawal of all $20 bills would
be in the United States.
PARIS, (/P) — Both houses of
France’s legislature approved to
day the government’s bill with
drawing all 5.000-franc notes from
circulation.
The finance ministry announced
British Worried
Over Middle Hast
Relations
LONDON. t/P)— Britain’s gov
ernment worriedly eyed the Mid
dle East today, fearful of a crisis
in their relations with the Arab
states.
Officials conceded that recent
riots in Baghdad reflected a seri
ous British miscalculation of pop
ular Arab opinion. The riots were
in protest against a revised Brit
ish-lraq treaty of alliance.
Some informants said the Brit
ish may try to retrieve lost ground
by proposing slight modification
of the treaty, which was signed
Jan. 15. It has not been ratified.
The government of Premier Salih
Bey el Jabur, which negotiated
the revision, quit Tuesday.
The treaty would permit British
troops to enter Iraq in event of
war and would allow the British
to use Iraq airfields.
There was some hope that a
new Iraq government might be
formed which would be able to
convince the people the treaty is
in their best interests.
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
had expressed hope the British
Iraq treaty would be one of a sys
tem of alliances to form a British
Arab bulwark against the spread
of communism in the middle east.
that everyone holding the 5,000
franc notes will be repaid. The
announcement said the operation
was not “an expropriation.” An
official source had indicated yes
terday that some of the bills
might be confiscated ns a blow at
the black market if holders could
not explain their possession.