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•_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_ _
' VQL. L. No. 121 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1948 " PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
STAUNTON, Va. (/P)—'The first
snow of the season in Virginia,
about two inches, fell on Snowy
Mountain in Highland county,
Wednesday.
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P) —
Germany’s favorite food—potatoes
—officially went off the ra ion
list in the British-American zones
yesterday for the first time since
the Allied occupation started.
EUREKA, Calif, (fl3) — Adrian
Howari, 23, left a note of prayer
for his native Saudi Arabia and
his Moslem religion, then killed
himself by cutting his throat with
safety razor blades, the county
coroner reported yesterday.
The youth was a student at
Humboldt state college and was
brought to the United States under
auspices of the American Arabian
Oil company. College officials said
he had been homesick.
# OTTAWA, (/P) — It’s getting
warmer in the Arctic and cooler in
Southern California. This is the
word from Andrew Thompson,
Canada’s No. 1 weatherman, who
has just returned from a world
conference of his fellow meteorol
ogist in Norway. Winter seasons
in the frozen north are up to five
degrees warmer in the past 50
years, but a slight decrease has
been noted at southern California
stations.
BALTIMORE, (/P) — The local
chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous
has moved its offices into the
Bromo-Seltzer tower.
The secretary—you should ask
his name—explained the group has
outgrown its old offices. It now j
has a membership of 500 men and i
women.
The headache remedy firm1
which occupies most of the build
> ing does not handle its rentals.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — T/Sgt.
Harry A. Holt of Kellogg, Ida.,:
died Monday of injuries received!
in the crash of a B-29 bomber on j
Shemya, western tip of the Aleu
tian island chain.
The crash, which occurred Sept.
20, now has clamied four lives.
N ne others we.e injured.
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KETCHIKAN, (JP) — Executive!
director Glenn Wilder of the Alas
ka Housing Administration told
JRotarians here that the adminis
tration does not wish to compete
with private enterprise.
He said “where costs are too
high and newcomers have only a
lew hundred dollars, we hope to be
able to take care of them.” A total
of $15,000,000 has been authorized
for Territorial and federal financ
ing of emergency housing in Alas
ka.
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—About 1200
acres have been cleared as sites
for new Alaska farms, the Univers
ity of Alaska's Farthest North Col
legian reports.
Lorin T. Oldroyd, director of the
extension service, told the Colleg
ian that about 600 acres in the
Tanana Valley and a similar
amount in the Matanuska Valley
were cleared under the soil con
servation program last year.
“Go Fly A KiteM
Fairbanks Tells
Maritime Unions
FAIRBANKS, I/P) — A group of
businessmen yesterday told lead
ers of the five striking west coast
maritime unions to “go fly a kits’’
after learning of the union’s offer
o operate Alaska vessels on unin
terrupted “relief ship” basis de
spite the general walkout in Pacif
ic ports.
In a telegram to Seattle’s Mayor
William F. Devin, the Fairbanks
businessmen said:
“ . . . . we emphatically recom
mend no conciliatory negotiations
with communist-dominated un
ions. Now '.hat Alaska Railroad is
hauling foodstuffs and clothing to
Alaska we suggest telling (Harry)
Bridges and associates .... to go
fly a kite. We must have uninter
rupted flow of freight to survive.”
Copies of the telegram were ad
dressed also to the waterfront em
ployers association, Bridges and
William Gettings, regional repre
sentative of the striking unions.
• The offer to man Alaska ships
on the same basis as that employed
last week in the sailing of the re
lief ship Square Sinnett was made
Monday by Gettings after a con
ference with Mayor Devin.
'The agreement called for retro
activity on any wage increase and
other benefits obtained in the cur
rent tie-up>.
Internationl News
At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press)
(Thursday, October 7, 1948)
Nine of the 11 nations on the U.
N. Security council were reported
today solidly in favor of raising
the Russian blockade of Berlin.
Only Russia and the Soviet
Ukraine were on the other side.
Russia has a crippling veto, how
ever, which is expected to negate
any positive action against her.
(PARIS) — An authoritative
source said all the six “neutral”
countries on the council had stud
ied the western power charges
that Russia menaced peace and se- i
curity in Berlin and feel that lift
ing the blockade is the first re
quirement for easing the west-east
crisis. The neutrals are China, Sy- i
ria, Belgium, Colombia, Argentina
and Canada.
They heard no Russian counter
charges since the Russians chose!
to sit out the argument in silence.
The United States, Britain and
France, which brought the charges
are arrayed against the blockade.
(BERLIN) — The Russians an
nounced large war maneuvers yes
terday in the air corridors through
which the U. S. and Britain have
been supplying western Berlin
since June. British fliers engaged
in the air lift said they saw Rus
sian planes drop live bombs in the
Soviet occupation zone 12 miles
northwest of Berlin.
The United States protested the
proposed Soviet plan for flying
bombers over Berlin and for gun
nery drills in the air lift corridors.
(Continued on Page Three)
Truman Blasts At
Dewey; Wallace
Blasts At Both
<By The Associated Press'
President Truman, handed a
new setback in the South, pushed
his vote campaign up the eastern
seaboard yesterday.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey mean
1 while mapped an eight-day offen
sive into the midwest with a 33
talk tour scheduled to cover nine
States.
Mr. Truman’s Dixie reverse w s
an announcement by E. H. Crump,
Tennessee Democratic leader, tha’
his powerful Shelby county organ
ization will support the States
Rights ticket in the November
election.
“Truman has sold the South
down the river for Negro votes in
large northern cities,” Crump said
in a statement at Memphis Wed
nesday night, taking issue with
the President’s civil rights pro
gram.
The President moved on toward
a major speech in Jersey City, N.
J. last night after telling a party
rally in Philadelphia’s Convention
Hall that the Republicans are try
(Continued on Page Seven)
(“Flying Discs” And
“Parachuters” Just
Spider Swarms
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — No,
ma’am. Those weren’t men in par
achutes you saw drifting down
toward the thundering surf north
of the Golden Gate. They weren’t
flying discs, either.
Take the word of the U. S. air
force and assorted professors—
| they were spiders. Parachuting
spiders, that is.
They created quite a stir yester
day at that. Mrs. Wilma E. Huff of
Stinton Beach phoned the sheriff,
who called Hamilton Field, and
air force search planes and a heli
copter w ere rushed into action to
seek the “parachuters” she report
ed.
The coast guard sent three more
planes and a cutter. Civilian and
(Continued on Page Nine)
Political Writers
I
Favor Dewey
NEW YORK, (fl3) —Newsweek
magazine says 50 of the nation’s
political writers unanimously pre
dict victory for Republican Presi
dential nominee Thomas E.
Dewey.
The magazine reports in its cur
rent issue the following results of
a poll of 50 writers:
Average forecasts—Dewey, 376
electoral votes; President Truman,
116; States Rights candidate Gov.
J. Strom Thurmond, 39.
The Republicans will retain nar
row control of the Senate and in
crease their majority in the House.
The average of the predictions for
the Senate gives the GOP 50 seats
and the Democrats 46.
Average estimate on the popular
vote for Progressive party candi
date Henry Wallace is 2,778,700.
Diomede Eskimos
Return Home
Seventeen Little Diomede Eski
mos, including six women and one
child, who were held captive for
almost two months by Siberian of
ficials on Big Diomede Island
were released and permitted to re
turn to their home island Septem
ber 25, according to word reach
ing here yesterday.
Members of the party were re
ported to be all in good health,
having suffered no unusual hard
ships during their imprisonment in
guarded tents, it was reported.
Release and safe return of the
party was confirmed in an offi
cial air force statement issued yes
I terday by Colonel A. M. Clark of
i Alaska Air Command.
An official army air force part}
! composed of Colonel Clark, Majoi
Ralph Sims Lt. C. A. Lewis
1 M/Sgt. R. Riddle and Father Torr
Cunningham, flew from Norm
Wednesday to Kotzebue where
they boarded the North Star to gc
on to Li.tie Diomede island to in
vestigate the matter.
The Little Diomede Eskimo;
were taken prisoner during then
annual ivory-trading trip to th(
Siberian Island. They had receivec
no official notification from the
state department in Washington
that the Russians had revoked a
1938 trade agreement permitting
trading between the two islands.
They had been detained by the
local Soviet officials pending the
check as to the validity of their
passes.
Union Proposal to
Work Alaska Ships
Carries “Joker"
SEATTLE, UP)—Waterfront em
ployers in Seattle told Governor
Ernest Gruening of Alaska yester
day that there is a “joker” in the
proposals of striking mai^time
unions to load and sail ships to the
Territory.
President Gilbert W. Skinner of
the Alaska Steamship company
made public the exchange with the
governor.
He said Gruening telegraphed
that he understood Mayor William
Devin of Seattle had secured an
agreement from CIO unions to
"load and sail Alaska steamers un
der pre-strike conditions with re
troactive increases of pay if these
should be granted in the strike set
tlement.”
“Alaska unions” the Governor
said, "are not involved in this
strike, yet all Alaskans are being
made to suffer by conditions be
yond their control. Hope you will
agree to have Alaskan ships oper
ate pending settlement of your
strike differences instead of using
Alaskans as hostages.”
Skinner replied that "the wel
fare of Alaska is and will continue
to be our first consideration.” He
added, however that there is a
"joker in the union proposal.”
The proposal, he said, is "that
ships would be sailed on the same
basis as the Nome relief ship—
meaning no southbound cargo per
•Continued on Page Five*
Joint Action
Needed To End
Housing Shortage
'By The Associated Press)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey called to
day for joint action to end the
housing shortage. The Republican’s
Presidential candidate said the job
cannot be done by the federal gov
1 ernment alone.
Dewey said the program should
and can be worked out by indus
try, labor, capital and the various
governments—state, local and na
tional.
If federal aid is needed to get
action ,he said, it can be supplied
to States on a “realistic, practical
basis.”
President Truman repeatedly
has accused the Republicans of
failing to do anything about hous
ing and contended that Dewey fa
vors putting “two families in ev
ery garage.”
Dewey laid down his views on
the problem in an address prepared
for ground breaking ceremonies at
' a housing project in New York
; City.
While he was there, Mr. Truman
moved into Albany with a plea
that voetrs keep the Democrats in
power.
“Why in the world would you
want to upset the applecart now
(Continued on Page Nine)
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FAIR NOTES
—
With a grand Native Potlatch
| the Northwestern Alaska Fair op
ened in the high school auditorium
on Wednesday evening.
| The opening of the program was
J zy the 752nd Air Force band from
Fort Richardson near Anchorage,
with a number of selections.
The Nome Eskimos played host
to all visiting natives from the
1 surrounding country and islands,
serving native foods, and dancing.
On Thursday night the opening
of the Fair proper with the offi
cial welcome by C. D. Jones, pres
i ident of the association, and native
; welcome announcement by Sam
Mogg, of the Arctic Native Brother
hood, selections by the Air Force
[ band and a short talk by Ralph
Browne, consultant for the Alaska
; Development Board.
Mr. Browne stated in brief that
the development board was cogni
, zant of the fact that the North
western Alaska’s Second Division
has until now been a forgotten cor
! ner in any planning for Alsaka.
He stated that development of
its resources and small businesses
should be given serious considera
tion both from general economy
and from the military standpoint.
Roads, cheaper power, reindeer,
tourist industry, housing, agricul
ture and many other allied indus
tries are necessary for the economy
of the area.
Browne stated that his survey
was yet very young and he could
not make any definite appraisals
of conditions at the present mo
i ment, but that with the sincere co
operation of the many individuals
a complete analysis of the survey
will be forthcoming.
The Fair displays are something
(Continued on Page Ten)