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VOL. XLIX. No. 143 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF |
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WASHINGTON, (&)—The Air
force has announced new assign-1
ments for three generals. They in
clude: Brig. Gen. Frederick Bon
Harten Kimble, born in Portland,
Ore., from Langley Field, Va., to
command of the Alaskan Air Com
mand’s Aleutian sector, Adak.
LONDON, (>P) — Britain’s food
ministry today promised the peo
ple extra'food rations during the
Christmas season. Minister John
Strachey said Britons may buy an
extra six pence (10 cents) worth of
meat, or enough for a scanty meal
if spent on cheaper grades; an ex
tra pound and a half of sugar, and
an extra four ounces of candy.
The British, whose rations are
skimpier than in the worst days of
the war, ordinarily get one shilling
<20 cents) worth of meat and a
half pound of such a week, ane
one pound of candy a month.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Twenty-two
Washington State Masons and two
from Alaska hold newly-bestowed
honors in the Ancient and Ac
cepted Scottish Rite Masons—the
thirty-third degree (honorary).
The honor was conferred Wed
nesday night by the grand com
mand er, southern jurisdiction,
John H. Cowles of Washington, D.
C., who has held his position as
head of Scottish Rite Masons in
the south and west for 26 years.
Those receiving the degree in
cluded: Herbert A. Holmes, Ever
ett; William McCush, Bellingham;
Mark M. Moulton, Kennewick;
James Earl Stone, Kelso; William
Wilkening, Olympia; Frank H.
Mapleton, Fairbanks; and Norvin
W. Lewis, Nome.
LORAIN, O., (JP)—The crippled
oil tanker Bruce Hudson was be
ing towed toward shelter at Tole
do, O., today by the American
Tanker Rocket following a rescue
battle of several hours against
heavy seas and a blinding snow
storm, local shipyard officials
reported. No injuries were report
ed in the 15-man Hudson crew,
and officials said the storm-tossed
lake had settled to a slilghtly roll
ing surface, with high winds dim
inshed to normal.
Engineers Turn
Thumbs Down On
Nome Breakwater
SEATTLE, <>*P)—The report of
U. S. district and division engin
eers on improvements proposed
for Nome harbor, generally is un
favorable to the improvements de
sired, it was announced today.
It was made after a public hear
ing in Nome and states that past
experience has shown that main
tenance of structures in the path
of sea ice is impracticable. The ex
tension of jetties beyond the
shoreward limits of the sea ice de
sired by Nome interests would re
quire massive construction and a
continuous wall of uniform align
ment. The report said that the ex
penditure which would be requir
ed for such construction and for
maintenance would not be justi
France Calls
Conscript Army
To Fight Strikes
PARIS, (/P)—France called an;
additional 80,000 conscript troops
to the colors today to help meet;
the emergency caused by an epi-;
demic of strikes which slowly are
strangling French economic life.
The cabinet’s decision, reached
in a session of more than four I
I
hours, brought up to 15 divisions
the total of military forces called
up within a week to deal with the
threat of civil strife arising from
communist-supprted strikes in
volving 2,000,000 men.
The decision followed an an
nouncement that 66 police com
missioners, each of them in charge
of a district, were fired by the
government. There was no official
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explanation. Communist newspa
, per, L’Humanite, called it a purge.
Premier Robert Schuman’s new
cabinet which met under the
chairmanship of Socialist Presi
dent Vincent Auriol, announced
that the second half of the 1946
class of conscripts was being call
ed into uniform. Half the class of
1947 was called up last week.
The ministry of war refused to
confirm a report that French
troops on duty in occupied Ger
many were being brought back to
Paris to reinforce local troops.
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Report U.*S. Ser
geant Leads Indian
Raiding Force
NEW DELHI, (JP) — The U. S.
embassy said today it is investi
gating reports that a former army
sergeant is leading a company of
northwest frontier tribal raiders
i against the Indian and Kashmir
state army forces in southern
Kashmir.
Accounts published in New Del
hi and London said the man iden
tified himself as Russell Haight of
Denver, Colo., and that he wore
cowboy garb. He was said to have
left a road building job in Afghan-!
istan to join the invaders of Kash
mir at Rawalpindi in Pakisstan.
The reports said the man de
clared he had joined the Canadian ;
army when the war started, that
he took part in the Dieppe raid in
France and that he planned to
teach the tribal raiders commando j
tactics he learned in England dur
ing the war.
The raiders have been ejected
from parts of Kashmir, but still
are attacking in the rugged, moun
tainous southern area.
The embassy could revoke
Haight’s passport, possibly caus
ing Pakistan to deport him or re
quest him ot leave.
A British correspondent who in
terviewed the man in Rawalpindi
said he wore a large hat, high yel
low boots, a combat jacket and
three and a half rows of campaign
ribbons. The Briton said the man
was “cutting quite a figure” in
Rawalpindi, army headquarters
for Pakistan.
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gation that might ba ax pact ad to
rasuli.
Curley Back As i
Mayor Of Boston |
BOSTON, (/P)—Cheered by 400
fellowers, James M. Curley today
formally took over as mayor of j
Boston again after serving five
months in federal prison for mail
fraud.
Congenial as ever—but solemn
faced most of the time—the 73
year-old mayor told reporters “I’m
just going to take up where I left
off.”
Then, he prodded photograph
ers to hurry with their pictures as
“I’ve got a day’s work to do.”
Looking drawn and tired, Curley
said he nevertheless felt ”10 years
younger than when I went away.”
About 300 waited outside an
hour in the biting cold for his ar
rival and another 100—most of
them city hall employees—lined
the stairways and corridor to his
j office.
They cheered and applauded—
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Army Convinced
Lolos Hold No
Airmen Captive
NANKING, VP) — A 15-months'
search during which American of
ficers lived with primitive Lolo
tribesmen in the mud huts of wild
west China has “proved conclu
sively” no American airmen are
captives there, the army announc
ed Saturday.
An army graves registration
| spokesman said the long search
i ended after special teams com
pleted the tracing of every report
and rumor. More than a year ago,
one American officer returned *
from a remote tribal village to re
port “we feel there are five Amer
icans in the Lolo country,” but
Maj. Alva Smith, commanding a
search team, said:
“Our work positively establish
ed that no Americans are held
captive.”
Major Smith, of Savannah, Ga.,
Capt. Edward McAllister, Alle
ghany, Va., and Sgt. John Fox,
Tacoma, Wash., lived with the lit
tle-known Lolos of the wildly
rugged China-Tibet border region
during the search.
McAllister and Fox disguised
themselves as priests to gain the
confidence of the mountain tribes-<
men. They found slavery a gen- \
eral practice, with Chinese seized
in raids on lowland villages held
to work while their masters fought
with neighboring tribes.
The two followed down one re
port of a “big-nosed” American
captive to find instead that one
Lolo tribe was holding a North
China native whose size and fa
cial characteristics led to reports
he was an American airman.
Another report led to a former
Chinese soldier who had gained a
reputation as a pilot “because he
once had ridden in an airplane.”
McAllister told the news con
ference at which the results of the
search were disclosed that the
Lolos, instead of being wild, semi
savage people as described in ear
lier reports, were kind and coop
erative' once their trust was ob
tained.
Taft And Dewey
May Fight It Out
For Nomination
WASHI NGTON, (A3) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
and Senator Robert A. Taft of
•
Ohio may collide head on in the i
April 13 Illinois primary in their
contest for the 1948 Republican
Presidential nomination.
While neither has given any in
dication of his plans, friends of
Taft said today he is almost cer-;
tain to enter the Illinois lists if |
Dewey decides to try openly for
the state’s 56 convention dele
gates.
Taft is an announced candidate,
but Dewey hasn’t said publicly
that he is running again for the
nomination he won in 1944.
Politicians generally have look
ed on the Illniois Republican sit
uation as unsettled because of re
ported opposition within party
1 ranks there to Gov. Dwight Green
i as a “favorite son” candidate.
Under Illinois law, the name of
any candidate may be entered in
a preferential primary with or
! without his consent. The results
j are merely “advisory” to the state’s
delegation but prestige is involved.
Dewey’s friends have given no
tice that his name will be entered
in the March 9 New Hampshire
primary, where former Gov. Har
old E. Stassen of Minnesota, an 1
announced candidate, already hast
pitched his hat.
Dewey forces also are reported
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Moscow Insists
Foreign Ministers
Decide Jap Treaty
MOSCOW, tJP) — The Soviet
Union stood firm today on its oft
repeated position that ground
work for the Japanese peace
treaty must be laid by the council
of foreign ministers, where the
veto may be exercised.
The Russian foreign ministry,
Tass reported, rejected a Chinese
suggestion that the treaty be con
sidered by the Far Eastern com
mission, with a unanimous vote
of the big four—in this case, Bri
tain, China, Russia and the United
States—required for any decision.
The Russians expressed agree
ment with the Chinese concept of
unanimity of the big four (the
right to exercise the veto> but
said the Japanese peace settlement
should be undertaken first by the
foreign ministers of Britain,
China, Russia and the United
States, and proposed that they
meet in China next January for
that purpose.
Copies of the Soviet note, by
foreign minister V. M. Molotov,
were sent to the United States and
Britain. Thus, presumably, the
United States will be required
once more to state its position on
the Japanese treaty. Up to now
the United States has been against
any use of the veto in a Japanese
peace conference.
Molotov’s note was in response
to one from Chinese foreign min-1
ister Dr. Wang Shih-Chieh, deliv
ered Nov. 17.
Only Four Rescued
From Ill-Fated
Clarksdale Victory
KETCHIKAN, 'Three sur
vivors of the ill-fated transport
Clarksdale Victory rested com
fortably in a hospital here today,
as a coast guard ground party con
tinued a final despairing search
for 45 other officers and crewmen
now believed almost certainly to
have perished when the vessel’s
stern snapped off and sank from
sight along the British Columbia
coast.
Third officers William M. Ras
musson of Modesto, Calif., and
Clair E. Driscoll of Los Angeles
were flown here yesterday, and
second mate Henry H. Wolfe, of
.Oakland, was flown to Annette Is
1 land and brought here by boat.
The fourth known survivor,
i seaman Carlos Sanabria of Hon
duras, still is aboard the cutter
Wachusett which remained at Hip
pa Island to continue the search.
All four of the rescued suffered
from exposure and shock and one,
, not identified, was said to have re
ceived a broken hip when bashed
against the rocks by pounding
1 seas.
None of the four bodies recov
ered thus far has been returned
here. Only two have been idenfi
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DC-3 Crashes Near
Yak Utah All Killed
JUNEAU, i/P)—The cause of a
twin-engine air transport’s crack
up and death of its 13 occupants
remained unknown today, but an
; airman who followed the ill-fated
ship into Yakutat two hours later
expressed belief it resulted from
some emergency other than wea
ther.
“Weather conditions required a
standard instrument approach to
Yakutat, but there were no severe
atmospheric conditions and we
made a smooth landing,” said Em
mett Flood, Renton, Wash., co-pi
lot of a Northern Airlines plane.
The DC-3 transport crashed
early yesterday as it approached
the Yakutat village airport for a
scheduled landing. All of the 13
persons aboard — 11 passengers
| and two crewmen—perished in the
,wreckage which was reported
“about two-thirds burned.”
The plane was operated by the
Columbia Air Cargo company of
Portland, one of several firms op
erating in Alaska and between
Alaska and the States on a non
schedule basis. Two wartime pi
lots were at the controls: Jay B.
Haworth, Jr., 26; and co-pilot T.
A. Keranen, 27, both of Portland.
Flood, who accompanied a
ground party to the crash scene,
said one wing had been torn from
the transport, apparently when it
hit a tree. Wreckage was strewn
over a 100-yard area.
Yakutat is about 200 miles
northwest of Juneau and about
350 miles east of Anchorage, from
which it had departed. The plane
was headed back to Seattle and
Portland after picking up seven
passengers at Fairbanks and four
at Anchorage.