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OLDEST NEWSPAPER W ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 20 . NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS (/P)—The body of
Wellesley L. Dickinson, 39, Alas
ka highway patrolman, will be
flown to his father’s home in j
Davenport, Iowa, Saturday. He
died here Tuesday in a hospital
of a cerebral hemorrhage. Three
children survive.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President i
Truman has approved legislation!
to pay the Puget Sound Bridge
and Dredging Co., of Seattle,
$9,789 for the loss of supplies and
a scow enroute to Alaska.
The loss occurred at the time
the government was building de
fenses in Alaska during the war.
W A S H I N GTON, (/P) — The
communications commission re
ceived these applications for con
struction of new standard broad
cast stations Wednesday:
Aurora Broadcasters, Inc., at
Juneau, Alaska, 580 kilocycles,
one kilowatt power, unlimited
hours; also, at Ketchikan, Alaska,
630 kilocycles, one kilowatt power,
unlimited hours.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Chris
Lykke, 47, newspaper, public re
lations and advertising man, died
of a heart attack yesterday.
Lykke, a native of Chicago, was
a sports writer in New York, ed
ited the Ketchikan, Alaska, Chron
icle, published the Hollywood
Filmograph, and was an editor on
the Culver City Call and San
Francisco News.
In 1946 he organized his own
San Francisco advertising and
public relations agency.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Argu
ments for the pending metal mines j
aid bill will be heard today by!
the House rules committee, chair- j
man Peterson (D.-Fla.) of the j
public lands committee said to
day.
The measure to authorize $60,
000,000 to help finance the search
for and development of new
sources of strategic and critical
metals and minerals passed the
Senate last year.
It has been approved by Peter
son’s committee but is pigeon
holed by the rules committee,
though it is reported to have ad
ministration backing.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Gene r a 1
Services Administration approval
of the Fairbanks utility expansion
program under the Alaska Public
Works Act was announced yester
day by Col. George Rathjens.
Rathjens, consulting engineer
on the city project, returned re
cently from Washington, where he
completed the groundwork for
building of a water plant, power
plant, telephone building and a
railroad spur.
The project project is on a 50
50 basis between the federal gov
ernment and city. Sale of general
obligation and revenue bonds
raised $4,500,000 for the project.
For this year, the project i s
• budgeted for $2,367,000.
PETERSBURG, (/Pj —Clarence
E. Walters’ resignation as general
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Five Crewmen
Still Missing From
B-36 Crash
McChord Air Force Base, Taco
ma, (/I*)—Two tree-snagged para
chutes and tracks in the snow
turned the search for five missing
airmen to the west side of Prin
cess Royal Island.
They alone were unaccounted
for of the 17 men who plunged
from an ice-coated, blazing B-36j
bomber off the northern British
Columbia coas t last Monday!
night.
Eleven men have been brought i
here and a twelfth was to be j
flown out today.
A coast guard spokesman at!
Ketchikan, Alaska, said the tracks
led down a small stream toward
: the west side of the island.
“It’s my understanding from
the crew of the plane making the
report that the 'chutes and tracks
are in an area not yet covered by
any ground party,” he added.
The Canadian destroyer Cayu
I ga, which has served as a base
for ground parties searching the
area, moved to the vicinity oj the
new clues and was to dispatch a
crew into the spot at dawn.
The search plane’s report and
j that of returning ground parties
that they had heard shots from
the inland of the rockjr, heavily
wooded island raised hopes for j
the rescue of the missing men.
Sufvivors brought here said it
was possible the shots had been
fired by Capt. Theodore F. Schr
eier of Madison, Wis., the co-pilot.
They said he was the only man
among the missing group to have
carried a pistol.
Meanwhile, S/Sgt. Vitale Trip
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Report Of
Pioneers’ Home
Xmas Fund: 1949
I, William W. Knight, superin- j
tendent, Pioneers’ Home, Sitka,;
Alaska, do herewith render an ac-!
counting of the receipts and dis
bursements of the Pioneers’ Home
Xmas Fund made on Dec. 25,1949.
I is with great pleasure that we
submit this statement. This year j
all records were broken, in the!
total amount of donations receiv- J
ed, also the share each man re
ceived. It is indeed most gratify
ing to know that at Christmas
time the “Old Timers” are so well
remembered and loved, the won
derful letters that arc received
with the donations are cherished
greatly by the “Boys” so at this
time kindly allow me to thank,
you all most sincerely on behalf of
the Pioneers’ for this wonderful
Christmas Gift.
Balance from 1943 . $ 49.00
Received from Coliseum
Theaters:
Juneau .$1,000.00
Ketchikan . 771.00
Sitka . 330.00
Petersburg . 261.50
Wrangell . 158.50
Skagway . 69.00
Haines . 28.00 2,618.00
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Pilot Of Crashed
B-36 Fells Story
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(Editor’s note: Capt. Harold L.
Barry, 30, of Hillsboro, 111., pilot
of the ill-fated B-36 which crash
ed off the northern British Co
lumbia coast around Monday mid
night after the 17 men aboard had
parachuted, was one of the 10 sur
vivors to reach McChord air force
base Wednesday night. Following
is his story).
(By Capt. Harold L. Barry)
(As told to the Associated Press)
McChord Air Force Base, Taco
ma, (A3)—When we started to lose
altitude at around 15,000 feet, I
told the radar operator to direct
us over land.
We dropped to 5.000 feet in 10
minutes.
I set it on the automatic pilot
and we bailed out in only 10 to
15 seconds. I was the last to leave
the plane. It kept flying on be
yond us after we left the ship.
I landed in a little lake on Prin
cess Royal Island. It was covered
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Cordovans See
“Flying Disc”
CORDOVA, (/P) — A bright
gleaming aerial object moving at
terrific speed was reported by a
Cordova Air Service pilot and
his passenger yesterday near
Hinchbrook Island between here
and Seward.
Pilot Lawrence Barr and the
passenger, Mrs. Florence Barth,
said they got an excellent view of
the fast-flying object before it
disappeared, and that it answered
descriptions of a flying disc.
Barr, sighting the object at 1
p.m., checked with the civil aero-;
nautics authority after landing1
and said he learned there had
been on other civilian or military
planes in the vicinity.
“The object definitely could not
be identified as any known type
of aircraft,” Barr said.
Truman Says
He Will Do As |
He “Damn" Pleases
■
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (/Pt—President!
Truman barked at reporters yes
terday in a chips-on-the shoulder
news conference that they were
disgruntled, he didn’t like their
attitude, and they ought to cool
off.
That was all because he had
given an exclusive interview to
Arthur Krock of the New York
Times and reporters were trving
to amplify some of the points in
that interview regarding dealings
with Russia.
The chief executive said with
obvious heat that he is his own
free agent, he will see whom he
pleases, say what he pleases, and
he isn’t going to be censored by
anyone.
When the President emphasized
that he is going to do as he
pleases, somebody asked whether
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May Discontinue
Suspension Of
Assessment Work
(By Mary Lee Council)
Director Clawson of the Bureau
of Land Management has inform
ed Delegate Bartlett of his oppo
sition to further waiver of asssess
ment work on mining claims in
Alaska.
At the present time $100 worth
of labor or improvements on each
mining claim in thd Territory
must be performed before July 1
of this year. For the past several
years, Delegate Bartlett was suc
cessful in having the requirement
waived. The last law passed
which suspended assessment work
until the period between July 1
of 1949 and July 1 of this year
was enacted despte mounting op
position within Congress and the
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HIS OWN LITTLE STOCKPILE
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News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Thursday. February 16. 1950
(By The Associated Press*
There is a growing feeling in
western capitals today that secret
protocols of the new Sino-Russian
treaty have sold the Chinese peo
ple down the Yangtze.
In Washington, secretary of
state Acheson said that Chinese
and Russian negotiators obvious
ly were not in Moscow for nine
weeks just to come up with the
simple alliance announced yes
terday.
The full impact of secret codi
cils will become known only
through time and events, Wash
ington observers said. Similar
opinions were expressed in Lon
don and Paris.
Highly placed diplomats believe
that Russia’s overall strategy calls
for three distinctive spheres in
the Far East.
The first sphere valuable to
Russian security are the border
areas; Manchuria, Inner Mongol
ia, Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang.
Russia is expected to maintain
iron clad control over these areas
directly or through trusted agents.
China proper is the second
sphere. Here Russia will attempt
to dominate internal and foreign
policies as much as possible but
with a wary eye on China’s poor
financial structure and unstable
political history.
The third sphere is southeast
Asia where communism is knock
ing at the door.
A three-day meeting of top
American diplomats in the Orient
broke up in Bangkok Thailand
(Siam) in a gloomy atmosphere.
To many it seemed that Moscow
timed the announcement of the
Sino-Russian pact to take the
edge off the American conference.
Some of the American diplo
mats were represented as believ
ing even now it is too late for
United States aid to check the
communist advance in this corner
of the world.
! Conservative strategy in the
British election campaign will be
made cleared today. Labor had
1 chosen the battlefield of planned
economy and full employment.
The Conservatives are attempting
i to force Labor to the battlefield
i of international policies.
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
called Tory chief Winston Chur
■ chill’s appeal for another Big
: Three meeting with Stalin, a po
j litical ‘stunt.”
“We must continue to work for
agreement through the atomic
1 committee of the United Nations,”
Bevins said in a nationwide
broadcast.
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Friday, February 17, 1950
The heavy hand of the stut<
behind the iron curtain moved
again today to stifle opposition. In
Poland, Homan Catholic Bishop
Kazimierz Kowalski was placed,
under house arrest at his home in
Pomerania.
The bishop was accused by the
i communist-dominated state of us
ing pressure an dthreats against
“patriotic priests.”
i In Berlin, both Catholic and
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