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VOL. LI. No~ 65NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1949Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONTREAL, (/P) — Back-slap
ping police got the goods on Ed
ouard Belland last night.
Arrested while attempting to
swallow a capsule of heroin, Bal
land was slapped on the back for
five minutes.
He coughed up the evidence.
LONDON, l/P> — Big Ben, the
giant clock that booms the hours
above the House of Parliament
was 90 years old yesterday.
Big Ben has failed only once in
these nine decades — a broken
\
pendulum spring put it out of ac
tion in 1944.
The clock was named after Sir
Benjamin Hall, chief works com
missioner in 1858 when the clock
was built. It started service in
1859.
ROME </P)—Six workmen were
killed and five were injured in an
explosion and fire in a paper fac
tory Monday at Merate, near
Como, dispatches from there re
ported yesterday.
SEATTLE, bP> — James Bond,
author of the book, “From Out of
The Yukon.” yesterday was on
his way to Alaska again. Via Pan
American Airways, to write his
second book on the gold rush
country. He left Seattle Friday,
flying to Whitehorse, Y. T., and
plans to travel north of Dawson
• into the wilderness country.
SEATTLE. (/Pi — When four
year-old Olaf Tenlen walked into
ithe Alf Tenlen’s kitchen Monday
and saw the batch of homemade
soap on the bench, he rolled up
his little sleeves and cried “cake
dough!” He ate some.
He will recover though.
LONDON, (P) — A Germany
bound mass flight of 15 United
States air force jet fighters is
grounded in Greenland by bad
weather, an air force spokesman
said here today.
The flock of F-80’s left Bangor,
Me.. May 26.
Philadelphia, (P> —A group of
newspaper men and women yes
terday watched by color television
receivers the caesarean delivery
of a girl at the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital.
The demonstration, sponsored
by Smith, Kline & French labora
tories, Inc., was described as the
first public viewing of surgery by
color television.
SHANGHAI, (A*) — Permission
for the first American ship to en
ter communist-held Shanghai has
been issued to the China Victory
of the Pacific Far East Lines.
The vessel is due about June 7
from San Francisco by way of
Tientsin and Hong Kong.
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Sen
ate appropriations committee to
day approved an allowance to the
public roads administration of
$1,653,000 and contract authority
for $2,608,000 for surveys and
construction of roads around
Ketchikan, Alaska. The commit
tee also wrote into the second de
ficiency bill an appropriation of
Senator Demands
Atomic Energy
Records, Reports
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa) demanded
today that the atomic energy com
mission turn over to him a vast
volume of records and reports, in
cluding memoranda of the 1943
Roosevelt-Churchill talks at Que-1
bee on atomic matters. He also
asked FBI and security reports on
an unnamed number of persons.
Hickenlooper fired this demand
! when the Senate-House atomic
i committee opened hearings on his
charge that there has been incred
i ible mismanagement” of the atom
ic energy commission under the
chairmanship of David E. Lilien
thal.
Among other things, Hicken
looper asked the minutes of the
commission’s meetings and its
records of overtime pay to per
1 sonnel in the headquarters office,
j Lilienthal sat impassively while
I the Senator ticked off a 14-point
list of material he wants. He gave
. no immediate indication whether
! or not the commission would at
' tempt to comply with the request.
Lilienthal has called Hicken
! looper’s charges an “un-Ameri
can” effort to “smear” the com
mission. He also has declared that
the atomic project was “bogged
down” when the civilian commis
sion took it over from the army
in 1946 and now is “really roll
ing.”
Many Killed
Across Nation In
Holiday Accidents
j
(By Tho Associated Press)
At least 413 persons were killed
in accidents over the three-day
Memorial Dey week-end, tradi
tional opening of the summer re
sort and travel season.
The score:
253 killed in traffic crashes.
37 drown ings.
73 deaths in fires, falls, air-,
plane mishaps and other acci- >
dents.
The period surveyed was from
6 p.m. in all time zones Friday un
til Monday midnight.
The toll on the highways—jam
med with some 30,000,000 automo
biles over the extended holiday
period—exceeded the estimate of
215 deaths by the national safety
council. Sunny skies lured mil
lions to outings in the first long
weekend of the spring season.
This years accidental death toll i
compared to an unofficial 404
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$150,000 for research by the agri
culture department on Alaskan
problems. It added another $40,
500 for care of insane in Alaska.
BARCELONA, Spain, (fP) — A
small bomb exploded today in the
cellar of traffic police headquar
ters during Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco’s visit to this Cata
lonian capital. No one was in
jured.
Attorney General
Refuses To Turn
Over Records
WASHINGTON, (^P) —Attorney
general Tom Clark today refused
to give a Senate committee the se
cret government files on 16-4 offi
cials of foreign governments.
Clark told a Senate judiciary
subcommittee the information is
“extremely delicate” and even in
volves ambassadors and foreign
ministers of European govern
ments.
He promised to cooperate with
the committee to give “all the in
formation possible."
Chairman McCarran (D.-Nev.)
i said the committee does not want
the files themselves—but he does
want a “revelation of the basic
facts” in the files.
Instead of the files, McCarran
demanded Clark produce infor
mation to show how many com
munists or communist agents have
entered this country in the last
five years and are known to have
engaged in “espionage or related
activities.”
Boeing Strike
Ruled Illegal
WASHI NGTON. </P) — The
United States court of appeals
yesterday ruled that a strike of
Boeing Aircraft company employ
ees at Seattle last year was illegal.
It also threw out the Machinists’
Lodge 751 as bargaining agent for
the firm’s 14.500 workers there.
The action over-ruled a nation
al labor relations board order that
the walkout was conducted under
provisions of the Taft-Hartlev act
and that the union is the legal col
lective bargaining agent for Boe
ing workers.
The group involved is the aero
nautical association of machinists.
The three-judge appeals court
held unanimously that the union
acted unlawfully in not giving
Boeing sufficient notice of intent
to strike. The court also asserted
the walkout, which occurred
April 25, 1948, was in violation of
a then-effective contract between
the union and company.
• "
Ford Strikers
Return To Work;
Out 25 Days
(By The Associated Press)
Operations were resumed yes
terday at the Ford Motor com
pany. A strike involving 106,000
production workers ended in its
24th day early Sunday.
The company and the CIO UAW
drew up a plan for naming an ar
bitrator of a dispute over union
charges of speed-up on the assem
bly line. If they cannot agree on
an arbitration within three days,
each will select one member for
a board which will deliver a “fi
nal and binding” verdict.
Two weeks are expected to pass
before full scale automobile build
ing can be attained. The key
Rouge factory must get into full
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News of the World
At A Glance —
I
Tuesday, May 31, 1949
(By The Associated Press*
The three big western powers
sought today to come up with a
new short-range plan for Ger
many that might be acceptable to
the Russians after the Soviet re- j
jection of the Bonn Union project , j
The western foreign ministers j
held an unscheduled meeting be
fore coming to grips again with
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky. Their apparent pur
pose was to salvage something, if
! possible, out of the four-power
i foreign ministers council in Paris.
In the first definite answer to
, the western powers at this session
I of the Big Four, Vishinsky yester
! day rejected their plan to unite
| Germany on the principles of the
i recently framed Bonn constitution
I
j for Western Germany,
i The United States, Britain and
j France were reported still trying
' to offer a limited objective, such
as economic unity for Germany,
which Russia might find accept
; able. This would get them bark
j dowm to the tangled issues arising
j over the rival currencies.
In addition to the broadside
from Vishinsky, communism dealt
ja needling attack on the United
1 States by nominating Gerhart j
Eisler for the communist-domin
ated People’s Congress for the
Russian zone of Germany. This
set-up is the Russian reply to the
Bonn project for Western Ger
many but it claims to speak for all
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Larry Galvin Buys
U.S. Mercantile Co.
_
The U. S. Mercantile Co., one of
the oldest mercantile businesses
in Nome changed hands this week ,
when Kenneth Rank sold out his
business to one of Alaska’s most
progressive businessmen, Larry
Galvin of the Nome Hardware.
Mr. Galvin announces that the
business will continue as estab
lished, frith Bob Austin as man
ager. Mr. Austin was with the N.
C. Company during the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Rank and
family will leave the latter part of
the month for the States to the.r
home at Cashmere, Wash., where
they will visit for Some time be
fore establishing themselves in
business again.
The U. S. Mercantile Co., which
was established by the McDougall
and Southwick Co., of Seattle ;n
1900, was purchased by Ira Rank,
uncle of the present owner. Ira
had w'orked with them before the
purchase.
In connection with his trading
business Ira Rank operated coast
wise vessels' on our coast until his
death a few years ago, at which
time Kenneth Rank took over the
business. In the colorful history
of the U. S. Mercantile Co., can
be written many tales and adven
tures of the schooners Trader, Sea
Wolf, Bear, and Twins, which
were operated and captained by
Ira Rank, from the Yukon River
villages to Point Barrow'.
American Artillery
Has Left Korea
SEOUL, </P> — A trustworthy
source said yesterday the last
American artillery battalion in
Korea had gone home.
It departed, said this source. or»
May 28 — Saturday — aboard the
Liberty ship Antolak. The ship is
bound for Hawaii. It is due there
in about 10 days.
This battalion's departure has
not been confirmed by the army
or state departments.
A heavy portion of the battal
ion’s equipment reportedly was
turned over to the Korean Repub
lic’s new army.
Three infantry battalions of a
, U. S. regimental combat team re
main in Korea. These American
forces, best sources say, are due
to leave by the end of July. After
that about 500 men with attached
service units are to stay here as a
training mission.
Halsev Amazed At
Air Force Claims
*By The Associated Press*
Memorial Day found Americans
throughout the world paying hom
age to patriots who gave their
lives to their country, and pray
ing for a peace that would pre
vent a future toll.
Weather over the nation on this
fourth Memorial Day since the
close of World War II was gener
ally fair and sunny and millions
took advantage of the week-end
holiday to get out. As a result the
accident rate was high — 413
known to be killed up to Monday
night.
The center of the nation’s ob
servance was at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in Arlington na
tional cemetery. *
Senator Tvdings <D.-Md.», chair
man of the Senate armed services
committee, said America must be
so strong there never need by any
future unknown soldier.
President Truman proclaimed
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CORRECTION
Under date of May 18, The
Nugget carried an Associated
Press release titled “Ring Splice”
To Bring Material For Nome
Breakwater.
We have just received the fol
lowing communication from W. R.
Wood, Nome agent for the Alaska
Steamship Company:
Alaska Steamship Company
Seattle. Washington
May 23. 1949
W. A. Boucher,
Editor, Nome Nugget.
Nome, Alaska.
Dear Bill:
To prevent any misunderstand
ings to our customers in the Ber
ing Sea area, I would like to clar
ify the (A*) release of May 18, 1949,
appearing in the Nome Nugget
under the caption, “RING SPLICE
TO BRING MATERIAL FOR
NOME BREAKWATER.”
The material listed in the sec
ond paragraph is consigned to the
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