222 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. No. 1NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 ■ PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEWARD, (/P) — Seward voters
approved the acquisition of the
Seward Marine Ways, a four acre
area with 15 large buildings and a
small boat harbor, 209 to 165 in a
special election Monday. The gov
ernment will be paid with $40,000
revenue bonds.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Secretary of
State George C. Marshall today
was named “Man of the Year” by
Time, the weekly news magazine,
which called him the “man who
had the biggest rise in fame dur
ing the year, and who, more than
anyone else, changed the news for
better or worse.”
CANON CITY. Colo, {JP)t James
Sherbondy, 28-year-old murderer,
was captured at a ranch house
three miles north of Canon City
today, last of the dozen incorrigi
ble convicts who smashed their
way out of the Colorado prison
Tuesday. The killer of a deputy
sheriff gave up without a fight.
He was armed only with a bogus
gun similar to several others made
by the escaping prisoners.
Two of the dozen convicts were
killed and four others were shot
and wounded one critically. An
other was beaten on the head by a
ranch wife wielding a claw ham
mer. Eight guards and civilians
were shot and beaten.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senators
inquiring into commodity trading
want to know exactly what ar
rangement President Truman’s
personal physician had with his
brokers, Senator Knowland <R.
Calif.) said today. On behalf of
the committee, Knowland contin
ued he has asked the firm what
arrangement they had with Brig.
Gen. Wallace Graham, who has
said he did not know that he was
the holder of 50,000 bushels of
wheat last September.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Joe Klaas, uni
versity of Washington graduate
and war veteran who has won two
major campus prizes for playwrit
ing, has joined the Alaska Broad
casting company as a writer-an
nouncer, his mother said yester
day.
Accompanying Klaas is his wife
^ the former Betty Jane Stanley,
campus actress, who also will be
employed by the broadcasting
concern as a writer-announcer.
They will work in Anchorage.
WASHINGTON (A1)—'The comp
troller of the currency today is
sued a call for a statement of the
condition of all national banks at
the close of business Dec. 31, 1947.
The federal reserve board called
for statements on the condition of
bonks in its system as of Decem
ber 31, and the federal deposit in
surance corporation issued a sim
ilar call on FDIC-insured banks
which are not federal reserve
members.
EVERETT, Wash. (/p)—Mrs. Vi
ola Laurin Carson was held with
out charge today in the city jail
while police investigated the fatal
shooting of her husband, Albert,
37, in a hotel room Wednesday.
. Police Capt. Jack Johnson said
Seek To Take
Foreign Aid Away
From State Dept.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
• Brooks (R.-Ill.), one of the sever
est Congressional critics of admin
istration foreign policies said to
day he will head a group demand
ing that operation of the Marshall
plan be divorced from the state
; department.
! Brooks told a reporter he and
I others of like views intend to
press in the Senate for “business
management” of any European re
covery funds that are voted.
“If any other method is used, it
will be simply ‘Operation rathole’,”
Brooks declared.
“I am in favor of the intelligent
investment of American money in
, Western Europe to g^t production.
It must be done under the control
of men who are engaged in pro
j ductive operation in America and
not by hangers-on from govern
ment departments.”
Brooks said he thinks leaders
from the fields of industry, agri
tulture and labor should be called
in to organize the recovery pro
gram, in much the same way as
they were employed to get large
scale production going in the
! United States after the Pearl Har
bor attack plunged this country
1 into war.
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Army Searches
Cook Inlet For
Crashed B-29
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — An army
harbor vessel criss-crossed waters
of Cook Inlet near heie today as
part of an expanding search for
an air force B-29 superfortress
that vanished Wednesday a few
minutes after taking off from El
i mendorf Field with nine crewmen
aboard.
j The 150-foot army transporta
tion service vessel LT-822 arrived
from Kodiak under command of
Capt. Ray Harris. Planes and
ground parties scanned the Point
McKenzie area west of here all
day yesterday without finding i
trace of the missing B-29.
A bright flash seen in the
plane’s line of flight just after it'
left on a weather observation mis- j
sion led searchers to fear it ex
ploded and fell into Cook Inlet.
Meantime there was no word
from the search for five men miss- j
ing after the crash of another B-29'
north of Nome Dec. 23. Missing
are the pilot and navigator of the
plane, unreported since they set
out afoot to seek aid, and three
members of a medical team who
parachuted in rescue efforts. Six
members of the crashed plane
were rescued.
Mrs. Carson said her husband had
been teaching her to use a gun. ,
With the gun in her hand she was;
telephoning her parents she told
Johnson, when her husband1
shouted to “shoot” and she pulled
the trigger. He died in an ambu
lance op the way to a hospital.
The Carsons came here from
Anchorage, on December 23,
Johnson reported.
Storms, Tornadoes
Do Much Damage
In States
• By The Associated Press*
j Winter’s most damaging storms
! of ice and snow struck across the
central states and eastward into
southern New England over the
New Year’s holiday after a series
of tornadoes ripped through five
southern states.
The storms left a wide path of
destruction in their wake. The
property damage was expected to
run into the millions. The death
toll was 20 persons, not including
those killed in the twisters which
struck in Dixie.
More than 80 persons died in
traffic accidents over the holiday
I period. Fourteen persons were
killed in a crash of two Missouri
Pacific passenger trains in a snow
storm in Otterville, Mo. The tor
nadoes which twisted through
Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee,
! Mississippi and Alabama injured
; 250, destroyed 240 homes and
j damaged 250 others.
The freezing rain and snow,
which yesterday centered near
the Chicago area, continued today
in many parts of the storm belt.
The weather bureau said the
i freezing rains today extended over
; a narrow band from lower Michi
1 gan across Lake Erie to southern
New England. Snow was expected
to follow.
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| Romanian King To
Enter Switzerland
BUCHAREST, Romania, (/P) —
The Romanian government asked
{ today for 35 visas for former king
Mihai, Queen Mother Helen and
their retinue to enter Switzerland.
Diplomatic passports were re
quested for Mihai, who abdicated
Tuesday, and his mother.
A spokesman for the Commun
ist-dominated “popular D e m o
cratic- Republic” which succeeded J
the Monarchy, said the requests
may reach Swiss federal offices
in Bern tomorrow, but that a rep’y
is not expected before late Mon
day or Tuesday, because Swiss
offices close at noon on Saturday.
HARRY DELAND FILES FOR
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
Harry Deland, who has been su
pervising deputy of the Territorial
department of taxation, filed for
Territorial Auditor last week on
the Democratic ticket in the 1st
Division. His home is in Palmer.
Creeks Rout Reds
From Konitsa
ATHENS. «P)—Gmk war min- j
iiter George Stratos said today
guerrilla forces were fleeing into
the Grammos mountains after a
"crushing defeat" inflicted in the
battle of Konitsa. where a week
long seige of the government gar
rison was lifted yesterday.
The offensive against Konitsa
was believed to have been aimed
I at capture of a capital for a Greek
Communist government, existence
of which was proclaimed in a
I Christmas Eve broadcast by in
surgent leader Markos Vaflades.
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513 Dead In Strife
In Palestine
JERUSALEM, {&)—Arab snip
ers killed a Jewish nurse and
sprayed a Jewish funeral proces
sion with bullets in the Mount of
Olives today, police said, as com
munal strife ignited by the United
Nations decision to partition Pal
estine continued for the 34th day.
The unofficial count of dead
since Arab-Jewish violence erupt
ed at the end of November has
mounted to 513, ' including 251
Arabs and 230 Jews.
The Jewish nurse was aboard a
Hadassah hospital bus which eye
witnesses said was attacked on
Mount Scopus by Arabs using au
tomatic weapons and grenades.
Police opened fire on the Arabs
and captured the house from
which they had fired.
A squad of Hagana men rushed
to the scene and a three-cornered
battle between Jews, Arabs and
the police ensued. One policeman
was reported wounded and both
the Arabs and the Jews brought
up reinforcements before the bat
tle ended.
Fourteen Killed
In Missouri
Train Collision
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(By Larry Hall)
OTTERVILLE, Mo. (/P)—Alex
ander W. Weddell, former ambas
sador to Spain and Argentina, and
13 other holiday travelers were
killed in the New Year’s Day col
lision of two passenger trains near
this central Missouri town.
Approximately 12 persons were
injured, five of whom required
hospitalization.
The dead also included Mrs.
Alexander W. Weddell and Frank
M. Ryan, identified as a Holly
wood movie director, and his wife
and three children.
The collision occurred during a
heavy snow storm while the Mis
souri Pacific’s “The Missourian”
was traveling from St. Louis to |
Kansas City in two section.
The engine of the second section i
rammed into the rear Pullman of j
the first train, crushing the car so (
completely that torches were used
to cut the wreckage apart and re- J
move the dead.
All of those killed were occu
pants of the rear Pullman.
The Weddells were enroute
from their Richmond, Va., home
to Tucson, Ariz.
Weddell, 71, had served in many
diplomatic posts throughout the
world. He began his state depart
ment career in 1907 when he be
came secretary to the Minister to j
Denmark. He became ambassador
to Argentina in 1933 and served
until 1939, then asked President
Roosevelt for the post in Spain.
He served as ambassador to Spain
until his retirement in 1942.
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FUNERAL SERVICE FOR
MADELINE PAUL JACOBSON
There will be a funeral service,
tomorrow morning at the Catholic;
church at nine o’clock for Made-|
line Paul Jacobson, who died last
week.
Search For Missing
Airmen Continues
The search for the missing fly
ers who started walking to Shish
maref from the wrecked B-29 con
tinues by the army who are main
taining a constant watch over the
entire area at all times when
weather permits' both day and
night. To aid Capt. Harry Strong
who has set up camp five miles
from the wreck, pilots Munz and
j Whaley have taken Charles
O’Leary and Sammy Mogg with a
dog team to pick up the bodies of
the parachuters which were sight
ed from the air. They will have
emergency supplies in case they
are weather bound. Both men are
experienced and hope to locate
bodies and bring them in by plane
as soon as possible.
Elmendorf Flier
Dead In Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/P)—First
Lt. Thomas O. Brown, 22, army
pilot, was found yesterday in his
room at a hotel for transient air
personnel at Tinker Field here.
The officer’s home address was
listed as Saginaw, Mich., he was
stationed at Elmendorf Field, Fort
Richardson, Alaska with the 54th
troop carrier squadron.
The flier was at Tinker Field
with his crew to take a C-54 air
plane to Elmendorf Field, Fort
Richardson.
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Will Investigate
Communism In
Canal Zone
(By William F. Arbogaai)
WASHINGTON (/P)—Chairman
Thomas (R.-N. J.) announced to
day that the House committee on
un-American activities will make
an on-the-spot investigation late
this month of “Communist infil
tration” in the Panama Canal
Zone.
The Panama inquiry will be
part of a five-point program the
committee has outlined for imme
diate consideration. This includes
a resumption of the investigation
of Communist influences in Holly
wood and hearings on attempts to
steal atom bomb information, to
indoctrination of Negro groups
with Communism and the spread
of Fascism.
Thomas said he will conduct the
Panama investigation, assisted by
Robert E. Stripling, chief investi
gator. Whether other committee
members will accompany them to
Panama has not been decided.
HOUSE WARMING AT
ARCTIC CLUB
The members of the Arctic Club
held a house warming in their new
clubhouse on 3rd Ave. on New
Year’s Eve and it is reported a
good time was had by all. The
committee in charge were Neva
Whaley, Frank Love, Frank Bing
ham, Gordon Osborne, Kirk Jack
son, Walter Glavinovich John Mc
Nees and Karl Dewey.