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VOL, XLVIII. No. 59._ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946 PER COPY—15c
Newspapers Feel
Effects of the
Lumber Strike t
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SEATTLE, May 17, —(/P)—News
papers as far east as Oklahoma
started tightening their newsprint
belts in preparation for a possible
spread of the CIO loggers strike ]
from British Columbia into the1
five fir and pine States where
they control the entire wood-pulp
^ industry.
37,000Canadian affiliates of the
International Woodworkers of A
merica are in the third day of
t^ieir dispute as IWA officials in
Portland, started counting the re
sults of the strike vote conducted
for the past three weeks among
members of the union in Wash
ington. Oregon, Montana, North
Idaho and Northern California.
Hirliner (Crashes !
In Georgia Woods
Killing 27 Instantly
RICHMOND, Va., May 17,—(;P)—
A twin-engined airliner with eng
™ ine trouble and groping through
the fog for a return landing at
Byrd Airport, crashed and burned
six miles southeast of Richmond,
killing 25 passengers and crew of
two.
The plane was operated by the |
Viking Transport Air Company
a chartered run from Newark,
N. J., to Atlanta, Georgia.
The plane dove into the Hen
rico County woods after over
shooting the field a few minutes
Earlier in a vain attempt to land. |
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Election Returns
2nd Division Near
Being Complete
Election returns are now com
plete with the exception of Shun
gnak. The following reports
^ were received this morning:
Gambell, St. Lawrence.
Bartlett 64, Olson 55, Johnson 43,
Sharpe 17, Cross 62, Lyng 63,
Anderson 71, Madsen 52, McDon
ald 49, Porter 55, Wallace 23.
Peterson 7, Cole 4, Soholt 3,
Benson 5, Jones 6, Mitrovitch 2,
Munz 5, Anderson 5, Laws 6,
Milligan 7, Ost 4.
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Savoonga, St. Lawrence
Bartlett 48, Olson 46, Johnson 37,
Sharpe 10, Cross 47, Lyng 47,
Whaley 2, Anderson 47, Madsen
THROUGH COLDEN CATE — The battleship USS New Jersey, veteran of warfare
in tnc Pacific, glides majestically under the famous Golden Gate bridge at San trancisco.
First Vessel For
Bering Sea, Season
SEATTLE, May, 17, —The first
shipment of fresh supplies for the
lower Bering Sea areas around
Bethel and Kuskokwim river
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points is scheduled out of port
in a few days.
The Northland Transportation
Company is operating the vessel,
Sailors’ Splice, for the WSA, and
will probably make three sched
uled trips according to the need.
22, McDonald 34, Porter 44, Wal
lace 37.
Peterson 1, Cole 1, Benson 1,
Mitrovitch 1, Munz 1, Anderson 1,
Laws 1, Milligan 1, Ost 1.
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Totals compiled to date are as
follows,
Bartlett 776, Olson 713, John
son 369 Sharpe 328, Cross 550,
Lyng 640, Whaley 312, Anderson
639, Madsen 522, McDonald 579,
Porter 640, Wallace 333.
Grigsby 167, Peterson. 224,
319, Anderson bmbmbmbmbmbb
Cole 263, Soholt 175, Benson 337,
Jones 288, Mitrovitch 192, Munz
319, Anderson 326, Laws 373, Mil
ligan 302, Ost 372.
To help iestore shrunken wool
ens, rinse them in soapy water in
stead of clear water.
George Jones, 75
Dies in Hospital
George Jones, 75, died Wednes
day after several days in the hos
pital. He suffered from a stroke
with pneumonia complications,
several days in the hospital. He
was suffering from a stroke an i
pneumonia.
This well-known oldtimer came
to Nome in 1904, and has made
trips to the States.
He was born in Maine and came
west but a short time before leav
ing for Alaska.
Mr. Jones spent many years min
ing and freighting for mining out
fits all over Seward Peninsula.
For several years he has been
janitor of the Nome Territorial
School, where he rendered his
services wholeheartedly and ef
ficiently.
In 1913, he was elected mayor
of Nome.
George Jones is survived by sev
eral sisters, one of whom is Mrs.
Willard Sprague, of Belmont,
Mass.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m.,
Saturday afternoon from the
Federated Church, by the Pion
eers of Alaska.
The albatross has the longest
wingspread of all birds, often 14
feet from tip to tip.
Byrnes Has Hopes
For June Meeting
Of Ministers
PARIS, France, May 17,—(TP)—
Secretary James Byrnes and a
party of 15 others including Sen
ators Connally and Vandenberg,
left Orly Field for Washington,
after the deadlocked foreign min
isters conference adjourned until
June 15.
Before departing, Byrnes ex
pressed the conviction, that des
pite the failure of the current
conference to draft any major
treaties, the outstanding differ
ences between Russia and the
• Western powers would be settled
next meeting.
Harvey Grant
Oldtime Nomeite
Dies In Portland
Word was received late this af
ternoon that Harvey Grant, well
known Nomeite, who has been ill
at his Portland, Oregon home,
died today.
He was associated with Wm.
McDonald, E. K. Johansen, and
Henry Wuhrman in the Grant
Mining Company holdings on
Coffee Creek.
Truman Makes
Last Ditch Stand
Prevent Rail Strike
UNDATED, May 17,—OP)—Pres
ident Truman today made what
appeared as a last move, short of
seizure, when he summoned La
bor and Management disputants
for a series of Whitehouse con
ferences as a last ditch effort to
sidetrack a nation-wide railroad
strike set for Saturday.
The President said on two oc
casions that he would seize the
railroads before one p.m. PST.,
Saturday, the strike deadline, if
[ that move became necessary to
, keep two hundred fifty thousand
j engineers and trainmen on the
job. At the same time he ex
pressed the hope that seizure
wouldn’t be necessary as repres
entatives of the soft coal operators
and John L. Lewis, were “standing
by" in Washington, awaiting a
'ossiblc new move by President
Truman.
Whitehouse press secretary,
David Ross told news men there
was nothing new on the deadlock
ed coal conferences.
In the railroad dispute the
President has scheduled confer
ences starting at 11:30 a.m. with
the union leaders and manage
ment representatives, seeking to
avert the rail walkout. Negotia
i tions collapsed yesterday when
carriers turned down the modi
j fied union wage increase offer for
engineers and trainmen.
In Philadelphia, about 370 AFL
truck drivers left their jobs in a
! wage dispute, halting the distrib
i ution of the city’s three largest
; papers. A circulation of some
million copies sold daily.
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Army Bomber
Crash Cloaked
Secrecy -Killed 2
%
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., May 17.
—<7P)—A B-17 army bomber
whose aftermath was cloaked in
such army secrecy that an un
confirmed report was circulated
it was an atom bomb plane, killed
two army men and injured seven
on a ridge in Marin County, north
of San Francisco.
Another unconfirmed report by
a navy spokesman of the Western
Sea Frontier, said another plane
may have crashed against Mt.
Shasta in northern California.