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VOL, L. No. 142 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (TP)—A new or
der of sales has been issued by
district judge George W. Folta for
the Alaska Asiatic Lumber Mills,
which has been in receivership a
year and a half. Bids will be re
ceived here Jan. 5. The ^previous
minimum price of $150,000 was
lowered in the new order to
i $35,000.
F’ORTLAND, (/P)—'The bulk of
the $25,000 estate of Flora C. Fitz
gerald. Portlander who died Nov.
9, was bequeathed to the Presby
terian church for missionary and
educational purposes in Alaska, the
will showed today.
MANILA, (jP)—A couple of Fili
pino farmers didn’t know the war
was over.
Two actors dressed in Japanese
l uniforms were waiting on location
when along came the farmers.
They stopped dead when they
saw the Nipponese uniforms. Then
they raised their hats and bowed
low from the waist.
Japanese soldiers required such
bows when they occupied the
Philippines.
TOKYO, (#»)—'The U. S. car
rier Princeton and two escorting
destroyers of task force 38 depart
ed from Yokosuka yesterday for
an undisclosed destination.
The war ships are a part of the
task force on maneuvers out of
Tsingtao, China, western Pacific
fleet base.
The carrier and the destroyers
Fox and Brenner arrived at Yoko
suka on Sunday. Navy spokesmen
said the ships’ destination was se
cret.
NANKING, f/P) —For the first
time since Pearl Harbor marines
were guarding the American em
bassy in China.
A detachment of 40 men arrived
from the Tsingtao U. S. navy sta
tion to take up guard duties today.
A spokesman said their presence
was normal to assure the security
of the embassy compounds.
SAPPORO, Hakkaido, Japan (jP)
Two Japanese were shot to death
and five others were beaten by a
pair of unidentified American sol
diers last night.
Military police are searching for
the soldiers.
Four of the injured were re
ported in serious condition.
MOSCOW (/P)—The army paper
Red Star called today for intensive
ski training of Russian Troops.
“Widen the scope of ski sports,”
the lead editorial said, “Raise the
quality of training on skis. Every
one on skis!”
TOKYO, </P)—Joseph B. Keen
an, chief prosecutor of former
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and
24 other Japanese war leaders, de
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’ NOTICE
Families and friends ..of ..Troop
666 Boy Scouts of America are
cordially invited to attend a Court
of Honor Friday evening at 7:30,
Pioneer Hall.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
Friday, November 26, 1948
Chinese Communists fighting
east of Suchow shifted suddenly
southward today, closer to the
Yangtze River in the crucial bat
tle north of Nanking,
j Nationalist troops in the Pei
i ping-Tientsin area of north China
prepared for a major action which
may break any time. Gen. Fu Tst
Yi, supreme Chinese commander
in the north, said confidently his
troops are ready and willing to
fight the Reds “at any time and
any place.”
Dr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, who founded the Chinese re
public, became premier of the
shaken land, replacing Wong Wen
Hao. Sun is a bitter enemy of Rus
1 sia and has the close support of
| rightists in the legislative Yuan, of
which he was prseident.
Oscar Lange, who enjoyed U. S.
citizenship for many years and
i then renounced it to join the com
munist Polish government, accus
ed the United States in the U. N.
assembly today of “an economic
cold war against the eastern Euro
pean countries,” which Russia con
trols.
He was attacking the European
recovery program, which is cost
ing U. S. taxpayers six billion dol
lars this year. Russia opposed the
ERP because communism thrives
on disorder.
The United States, Britain and
France were disclosed in Washing
ton to be planning to publish
new 1,000 page volumes about
Russia and Spain, dealing among
other things with the Hitler-Stalin
deal to divide Poland.
The United States opposed in
the U. N. a British proposal that
might take the Negev desert of
southern Palestine from Israel.
The general assembly voted regret
that South Africa refused to place
Southwest Africa, which she has
ruled since 1920, under U. N. trus
teeship.
Neutral members of the security
council kept up their dogged ef
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Globe Girdler
Will Work To
Repair Plane
SEATTLE, (fP) — An Alaska
night club and radio station owner
says he has offered a job to Mrs.
Richard Morrow-Tait to help her
finance repairs on her wrecked
’round-the-world plane.
The British aviatrix and ex
model crash-landed along the high
way between Anchorage and Fair
banks last Sunday. She said she
would have to go to work to fi
nance plane repairs and resump
tion of her flight.
Keith Capper of Anchorage, who
heard of her accident while in
Seattle, said he had wired Mrs.
Morrow-Tait an offer of a job at
his night club or radio station.
He said he wired her “as one pi
lot to another: I’ve cracked up in
that counrty myself. I know what
it’s like.” I
Dropping Prices
May Stay Truman’s
Control Demands
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A slight j
but welcome dip in living costs ;
raised the possibility today that
President Truman might tone
down his demand for “standby”
price control and rationing powers
when Congress meets in January.
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of
the President’s council of econo
mic advisers, said a continued ebb
in prices, washing out the need for
drastic controls, would be “swell.”
But he didn’t predict that would
happen.
1 “It would be like seeing a fever
chart go down,” Nt>urse told a re
porter, “but we aren’t drawing any
conclusions yet.”
I His comment came after the bu
reau of labor statistics reported
last night that its cost-of-living
index for October showed a dip of
one-half of one per cent. This was
I the first drop in seven months for
i the index as a whole.
I
Nourse said food alone was re
sponsible for the October drop in
living coses. Groceries and meats
declined “substantially” to carry
the index down despite price rises
in all other major commodity
groups, the agency said. It was the
third straight monthly drop for
foodstuffs.
The relief for householders was
slight, however, the index was
j only half a percentage point under
I the record high set in August and
September. It stood at 73.6 per cent
above the 1935-39 average.
Air Force Plans
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Extending Reach
; Of B-29 Bombers
(By Ellon C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The air
force is trying to stretch the global
reach of both the present work
horse of its bomber force, the B-29
super fortress, and the giant new
B-36.
This has been disclosed in two
j developments:
1. Word that fleets of flying
“tankers” are planned for six of
the groups of strategic bombers
operated by the air force. These
converted B-29’s will be used to
refuel the superfortress bombers
along their route to a target, thus
extending their range.
2. Tests of a B-36 with new en
gines of more power and presum
ably greater fuel economy to pro
vide more speed and range.
The air force has high hopes
for the aerial refueling system.
Air secretary Symington told a
C o n g r e ssional committee last
spring that with such a system
B-29’s could bomb any part of
Russia from bases in Alaska and
Labrador.
Techniques and equipment de
veloped in air force experiments
for more than a year are believed
to have evolved a system whereby
a superfortress could be filled
with virtually a full load of gas
oline in fifteen minutes while fly
ing along the course to a distant
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Fire Destroys
Jessen’s Weekly
FAIRBANKS, OP)—Police said
today they thought a fire which
destroyed four business houses
here early \Vednesday was set by
a firebug.
Police are questioning two per
sons in connection with the fires .
but said they had no evidence
against either of them. One was
picked up a day before the blaze
for questioning in connection with
previous fires.
The newest outbreak destroyed
Nerlands warehouse, Adler’s book
store, The Alaska Architectural
and Engineering company, and
Jessen’s Weekly.
E. F. Jessen, owner of the week
ly, announced he plans to build a
modern fireproof building to re
place the burned structure. Mean
while the paper was being printed
in the plant of the Fairbanks
News-Miner, local daily. Radio
station KFRB offered Jessen space
in its studio and the Anchorage
Times wired offering temporary
jobs to members of Jessen’s staff.
Search Continues
For Freighter
NEW YORK, (/P)—Coast guard j
and air force planes continued a
near-hopeless search today for the
British freighter Hopestar and her
crew of 37.
The search was expected to be
abandoned last night, but coast
guard headquarters here said bad
weather prevented a full sweep of
the area where the 5,267-ton ship
is believed to have gone down.
Planes from Bermuda, Halifax
and Argentina, Newfoundland, to
day will comb the area about 600
miles east of New York, where the
Hopestar radioed on Nov. 14 that
she had suffered “heavy weather
damage” in a howling Atalntic
gale.
No further word was heard from
the ship which was bound from
Newcastle, England, to Philadel
phia, in ballast.
Fire Destroys
Chick Hatchery
In Anchorage
"
ANCHORAGE, Damage was es
timated at $20,000 in a fire which
destroyed an Anchorage hatchery
and killed 7,000 baby chicks yes
terday.
The blaze was believed to have
started from an oil stove explo
sion.
Fort Richardson firemen were
able to save a house about 30 feet
from the hatchery, although heat
from the blaze melted tarpaper on
the side nearest the flames, its
owner said.
There were 1,500 chicks in the
brood room and 5,500 in the main
hatchery. Only the main building
was covered by insurance, owners
said.
The hatchery is located in the
Spenard area south of Anchorage.
It is without fire-fighting facilities.
Unions Must Ratify
Terms Of Shipping
Strike Settlement
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*)—Terms
for settling waterfront strikes on
east and west coasts today cleared
the decks for early resumption of
normal American shipping.
Negotiators in the 86-day CIO
longshore strike on the Pacific
Coast announced settlement terms
last night. Earlier in the day nego
tiators agreed on peace in the 17
day strike of AFL longshoremen
on the Atlantic coast.
Both tentative agreements must
be ratified by the union member
ships before some 515 strike-bound
ships put to sea.
On the Pacific coast four other
unions are involved in the strike,
but the longshore terms, are con
sidered the key to peacei The four
other unions scheduled meetings
with management today.^
Final settlement would return
92,000 to maritime jobs *nd many
thousands more to work in other
industries halted or curtailed by
the strike.
It would release some $30,000,
000 of Marshall plan cargo in east
tren docks and restore business
running into millions of dollars.
The Pacific tieup, second long
est in history, has cost by estimate
of the Pacific American shipown
ers about $344,000,000 in trade at
the rate of $4,000,000 a day
The negotiators agreement boosts
the western longshore basic wage
by 15 cents to $1.82 an hour,
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BOY SCOUT COURT OF
HONOR TONIGHT
This evening at seven thirty
there will be a Court of Honor for
boys of Troop 666, Boy Scouts of
America. The program will take
place at the Pioneer Hall and will
be preceded by a fifteen minute
musical program by Juanita Fa
gerstrom. Other Girl Scouts are
also participating in the program.
The address of the evening will
be given by Col. H. Burkhalter,
commander of Mai'ks Field.
Presentation of eight merit
badges will be made by Mayor
Luther Dunbar.
President of the Chamber of
Commerce H. F. Harper will pre
sent 1st Class badges.
Karl Dewey, president of Rotary
will present Second Class badges.
John Hudert of the Scout com
mittee will present the Star Badge
and also a very special prize which
is not being revealed at this time.
All friends of the boys have
been cordially invited to attend
the program.
SHOPPING DAYS
TIU CHRISTMAS