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VOL. LII. No. 120 NOME ,ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
....WASHINGTON, (/P)—Army en
gineers issued a new list today
placing the country’s expenditure
for flood control and river and
harbor projects in the present fis
cal year from $636,504,000 to
$618,549,000.
The list, reflecting last minute
reductions ordered by Congress,
did not affect the two Alaska
projects included. These are the
Nome Harbor project, left at
S800,000, and the Wrangell Nar
rows project, left at $750,000.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The de
fense department called today for
the drafting of 1,522 physicians,
dentists and veterinarians for the
army during November, Decem
ber and January.
The total includes 922 physi
cians, 500 dentists and 100 veter
inarians.
The department acted only four
days after President Truman set
in motion the machinery for the
drafting of medical men. The first
registration date is Oct. 16.
The department’s announce
ment said the navy and the air
force have indicated that they do
not presently plan to make sim
ilar requests to selective service
for the induction of the physicians
and others.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Secretary
(>f the Interior Chapman has re
voked a ban against acquiring or
use of public lands in Alaska by
Interior Department employees.
Chapman issued the blanket
regulation last May. It prohibited
all interior employees in the
United States and Alaska from
claiming public lands, participat
ing in their eacnings, or using or
occupying the property.
The ban still applies to two
groups of interior department em
ployees—those of the bureau of
land management and some per
sonnel of the geological survey.
SEATTLE, f.P)—Funeral serv
ices for Dr. William Elmhirst
Duckering, 68, Dean of the Uni
versity of Alaska, will be held at
1:30 p.m. Thursday at Arthur A.
Wright & Son, Inc. Cremation
will follow.
He had been at the University
of Alaska since 1932, serving as
Dean and head of the department
of civil engineering and mathe
matics.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. UP)—After
spending the week-end unloading
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Reds Charge U. S.
Planes Fired On
Soviet Airfield
1 MOSCOW, l/P)— Russia charg
ed yesterday that two American
fighter planes strafed and dam
! aged a Soviet airfield near the
j key Siberian seaport of Vladivo
stok last Sunday.
(In Tokyo, an official U. S. air
j force spokesman said he is “un
j able to comment at this time” on
the Russian assertion.)
A Russian protest note was prof
fered to U. S. minister-counsellor
Walworth Barbour Monday night
by Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei Gromyko. The note placed
the incident 62 miles north of the
Soviet-Korean border.
It demanded “strict punish
ment” for the “responsible per
; sonnel” and American assurances
against such incidents in the fu
I ture.
The note said two F-80 Shoot
ing Star jets machine-gunned an
airfield in the Sukhaya Rechka
area at 4:17 p.m. (local time) Sun
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! Harry J. Nelson,
CAA Inspector,
Dies In Juneau
| -
Funeral services were held last
week in Juneau for Harry J. Nel
son of Anchorage, airways main
tenance inspector for the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and
long-time Alaskan.
| - Nelson died in Juneau on Sept.
i 23. He had been rushed there
from Gustavus after suffering a
stroke while the CAA plane on
which he was a passenger was
! idling before take-off at Gusta
i vus. He succumbed that evening
! in the hospital at Juneau.
The six other members of the
CAA party, inspecting Southeast
ern CAA stations with Nelson, re
mained in Juneau and served as
pallbearers at his funeral. The
party had left Anchorage an Sept.
21.
Long associated with bush pilot
and mining operations in the
Nome area, Nelscfn had been with
the CAA for the last decade. He
was 59 years old and resided at
Anchor View.
Surviving are his widow in An
chorage; one son, Grant of Nome;
and two daughters, Mrs. Tony Jo
hannson of Fairbanks and Mrs. J.
S. MacKinnon, Jr., of Juneau.
Steward “Screen
ing” Dispute
Spreads In Seattle
SEATTLE, (/P)—The dispute of
the Marine Cooks and Stewards
i union over the Coast Guard se
curity “screening” program spread
to a Seattle-Alaska freighter Mon
day. The steward department re
fused to sign on the SS. Susitna at
Pier 42.
The Susitna, an Alaska Steam
ship Co. cargo ship, is scheduled
to said about Thursday with
freight for Sitka and Southwest
: Alaska ports.
Charles Nichols, Marine Cooks
| and Stewards port agent, said he
; was “not too sure” about the dis
! pute on the Susitna. Another un
l ion official was handling that
' ship, he said. But, Nichols added
the refusal may have been be
! cause steward members did not
i want to sign on until the day be
; fore the ship sailed. This would
i enable them to escape payment of
Alaska taxes on voyage pay, he
| said.
Meanwhile, Seattle-Alaska pas
1 senger service has been knocked
out by the controversy. The SS.
Baranof, which sailed Friday, is
en route to Alaska os a straight
, cargo ship. All passenger reserva
| tions were cancelled when the
steward department failed to
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[Gromyko Agrees
To Some Of U. N.
“Plans For Peace”
LAKE SUCCESS, {/?)—Western
diplomats were skeptical yester
day of Russia’s surprise accept
ance of some parts of U. S. Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson’s
four-point anti-veto peace plan.
They speculated on the Soviet
Union’s motives.
Was it one of Russia’s startling
diplomatic shifts, they asked? Or
was the tentative embrace which
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky gave the plan in the
60 nation political committee in
tended as the kiss of death?
Puzzled diplomats were wait- j
ing for a major Vishinsky policy
speech to clarify the situation.
The plan itself, called “United
Action for Peace,” is a formaliza
tion of Acheson’s Sept. 20 pro
posals, which the state depart
ment’s Republican adviser John
j Foster Dulles, called the “logical
1 sequence” of the lessons learned
| in Korea, ts main points are:
1. Emergency sessions of the
veto-free General Ass e m b 1 y
whenever the security council,
which has the primary responsi
bility for preserving peace, is
hamstrung by a veto.
2. Peace patrols of observers to
report to the Assembly of acts of
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IT TOOK 458 YEARS TO PROVE COLUMBUS WAS WRONG
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Republicans Lead
In Early Returns
For Legislature
JUNEAU, {/P) — Early returns
from yesterday’s Alaskan election
showed a strong Republican
swing in legislative races.
The reports from 41 of 233 pre
cincts showed Republicans lead
ing for both Senate seats in the
Third Division (Anchorage* and
for one of the two Senate seats in
the First Division (Southeast*.
Such Democratic administra
tion stalwarts as Sen. Victor Riv
ers of Anchorage and Sen. Frank
Peratrovich of Klawock, in the
First Division, were trailing in
scattered and inconclusive re
turns.
In the Third Division, where
most of the returns were from
outlying towns, speaker of the
House Stanley McCutcheon was
trailing. He was in ninth position,
in the early morning totals. In the
race for seven Third Division
seats in the House.
There were no returns early to
day from the Second (Nome) or
Fourth (Fairbanks) Divisions.
As expected, E. L. (Bob) Bart
lett, the Democratic Delegate to
Congress, was running far ahead
in his race for re-election. Early
tallies gave him a margin of more
than two to one over Aimer Pe
terson of Anchorage, his Repub
lican opponent.
Labor Commissioner Henry
Benson, Republican, was far
ahead in his bid for re-election.
He had a lead of nearly two to
one over Ross Kimball, but there
were no returns from Kimball's
home city, Fairbanks.
Storm and Floods
Strike B. C.
VANCOUVER, B. C., (£>)—'The
first major storm of the fall sea
son hammered British Columbia
Monday, causing unse a s o n a 1
floods and hitting communications
and seafarers.
Slides blocked the government
owned Pacific Great Eastern Rail
way.
The full brunt of the storm was
felt on the Queen Charlotte Is
lands off B. C.’s northern coast,
where several gillnet fishing
boats were washed asohre and a
large raft destroyed at Queen
Charlotte City. Winds reached 65
miles an hour.
Towing and tugboat companies
lost scows and booms off the
mainland and Vancouver Island.
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