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VOL. LI. No. 148 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1949 Per Copy—Ue
NEWS IN BRIEF
CHICAGO, (/P)—Frank J. Chris-)
tenson. 44, a former Cook County
(Chicago* assistant state's attor
ney, was slain in gangland style
Friday night near his suburban
Cicero home.
Christeson, a one time foe of
gambling in the suburb, was shot
down by a barrage of bullets from !
gunmen as he stepped from his :
automobile and started to cross'
the street to his home. He was '
dead upon his arrival at the Lor
etto hospital.
SEOUL, Korea, UP)—A violent,
sudden storm ripped through the
Korean east coast cuttlefish fleet
last Sunday, causing a heavy loss
of lives and boats.
Estimates of fatalities ran as
high as 600. The marine bureau of
the Korean commerce department
said, however, official reports
were incomplete.
The first word of the tragedy
came only Saturday from the
Kangnung correspondent of the
Korean Pacific Press. He said at
least 100 small boats were lost.
HYDE PARK, N. Y. f/Pl—Elli
ott Roosevelt said Saturday he
was going into radio and televi
sion production.
The second son of the late Pres
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt said
he and Morgan Jones, New York
City radio and television execu
tive, had formed the firm of Roose
velt and Jones, Inc.
Roosevelt said he would serve
as a director of the new firm.
TAKU BAR, China, f/P)—Angus
Ward’s party was scheduled to
leave Red China, finally, yester
day—aboard a tug.
But the 20-odd members of the
U. S. consul general’s staff were
not expected aboard their ship of
haven—the Lakeland Victory —
before late at night. Their 16 mile
trip from Tientsin down the Han
river to Taku Bar, in the Gulf of
Chihli, will require about 10hours.
SEATTLE, f/P) — “Big Jim”
Thompson ,a veteran campaigner
in the I.W.W.-led strikes in the
lumber and other industries many
years ago, died here Thursday at
age 76.
Jame^ P. Thompson was his
proper name, but he was known
the breadth of the land as “Big
Jim” during the era when the'
“wobbly” label was the popular
one for members of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
He had been in retirement here
for many years, except for an oc
casional sally at oratory for the
I.W.W. organization.
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WASHINGTON. (/P) —Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska has reoom
menrled to the postoffice depart
ment reestablishment of the post
office at Akiachuk, Alaska, and
the appointment of Jack G. Os
koekoff as postmaster.
Bartlett s-ald Saturday he also
recommended the appointment of
Mrs. Lydia Clay as postmaster at
Stormy River to succeed Mrs.
Winifred White, retired.
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Seek Persons
Responsible For
Atomie Sliipmenls
WASHINGTON (JP), The House1,
un-American activities committee
dug out Saturday what it consid
ers proof that the Russians got
1,000 of heavy water—valuable
for atomic experiments—in 1943.
The committee also is thinking
of calling in the head of a Cana
dian firm for questioning about
1,000 pounds of uranium com
pounds the Soviets got in the
spring of 1943.
The heavy water was the fourth ;
wartime atomic shipment to the |
Soviets the committee believes it
has nailed down. Additional
checks have shown that a report
of a fifth—a shipment of uranium
compound in mid-1944—was a
dud.
While the committee was trying
to find out just how much atomic
material Russia got from this
country during the war—and how
it happened—a casual remarks by
a former Pentagon official set off
fresh speculation about where the
country’s a-bombs are stored.
The Mexico, Mo., ledger quoted
Curtis Mitchell—who until a few
weeks ago was a deputy director
of public information at the Pen
tagon— as saying that the first at
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States Gets All
Kinds Of Weather
By the Associated Press
Screeching tornadoes, a whist-*
ling blizzard and flashing light
ning killed at least 11 persons in
various parts of the nation over
the weekend.
The known deaths from other
causes indirectly attributed to the
weather had mounted to 34.
Property damage from the tor
nadoes which lashed north central
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri,
and Illinois was high. Arkansas j
alone estimated its damage might i
reach $100,000.
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All the tornado dead are in Ar
kansas and Missouri. The twisters
hammered six Arkansas commun
ities yesterday, killed four ner-!
sons and injured nine. Many es
caped the fury by taking shelter
in storm cellars.
Garland Robbins. 60, of Provi
dence, described the twister as
“black as midnight and roaring
like hell.” His store was de
stroyed.
Near Poplar Bluff, in south
eastern Missouri, six persons were
killed and 15 injured by a tornado
which cut through ten miles of!
farm area. Telephone lines were
knocked down and some streets
flooded in Poplar Bluff by a
heavy rain which followed the
twister.
Some farm buildings were un
roofed in Madison county, in
southern Illinios, by another
twister but no one was injured.
At Miles City, Mont., a 98-year
old retired stockman was found
dead of exposure to a blizzard
which had swept the Rocky
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Bridges Trial
'■>. Hi Be Long
Drawn Oul Affair
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SAN FRANCISCO, i/P) — After ,
four tumultuous weeks of the i
Harry Bridges perjury trial, gov
ernment prosecutors estimated
Saturday they are about one third j
through their half of the bitterly- j
fought case. It looks like a long
trial ahead.
“I’m hoping to wind up the gov
ernment case by mid-January,”
said chief prosecutor F. Joseph
Donohue.
The prosecution so far has scor
ed with what it calls its “Sunday
punch” witness, backed by some
corroborating testimony in its ef
fort to prove that Bridges, left
wing CIO longshore labor leader,
was and is a communist.
The hard-slugging defense team
of Vincent Hallinan and James
Maclnnis has fought every step.
Courtroom noise sometimes threat
ens to drown the simple charge:
that Bridges, a native of Australia,
lied under oath when he was nat
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Easier To Obtain
Gas than Dog Food
On Alcan
KOIDF.RN, Yukon Territory (JP)
Maine’s Alaska Highway “mush
er” is finding dog food a problem
on the early stages of his 5,000
mile trip by sled.
A truck driver gets gasoline
more easily along the highway
than Cecil A. (Mush) Moore has
been getting dog food on his sub
zero trek homeward to Lewiston,
Me. The dogs need their “fuel”
re-fills oftener.
Moore said he had made as
much as 40 miles a day along the
highway since leaving Fairbanks
Nov. 14.
For two weeks he has been trav
eling in 20 below temperatures.
He was over the 350-mile ark up
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Bi«* Crowd Knjovs
11st Annual Roof
Carden Saturday
Pioneer Roof Garden held Sat
urday night in the school audito
rium brought out the largest
crowd assembled this year in
Nome. The weather was all that
could be desired: the hall taste
fully decorated and there was not
a dull moment from start to fin
ish.
At the stroke of 9 p.m. Chas. D.
Jones, former president, called
for the members of Igloo No. 1
and the Ladies Auxiliary to form
lines in the corridor, after which
they marched in perfect order to
the strains of appropriate music
played by Emily Boucher, then
| forming an arc in front of the
; stage and singing “Alaska, My
Alaska” in unison. The audience
j responded in loud and continuous
j applause.
The program then got underway
by the master of ceremonies Jack
Estes introducing Charles O’Leary,
President of Igloo No. 1, who in
j brief, but most appropriate lan
guage, welcomed the assembled
! guests.
When the curtain was raised for
j the first act, there appeared eight
! of Nome’s charming school girls
who sang a most appropriate or
iginal number entitled “Pioneers
of Nome,” each girl playing a gui
tar in accompaniment. This was
composed by Mary Roell and Jane
Scott, both of Nome, and fitted
the occasion to perfection.
The Barber Shop Quartet—Ted
Duffield, Raymond Tveter, Dick
Small and Dan Jones participating,
brought down the house for or
iginality. having the barber’s
chair and all the accoutrements on
the stage, blending with the two
reditions.
His Master’s Voice — Corporal
Monahan, impersonating Al Jol
son, rendering two numbers, did
himself proud in being more Jol
son than Jolson. It was really a
masterpiece of impersonation and
was well received.
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National Pkn in« Champ
m.ymmmmmmm'f —_ _
i» P|°winK champion for the second consecutive year is
Paul Stiefbold, Naperville, III., shown holding the gold trophy he won
SEJfcSrt lhcV*nt n?V Ru"nel1** Iowa. before 70,000 people.
Stiefbold defended his National Level Land Plowing crown successfully
•pinat eight other finalists. A winneT in 1946 and 1948, Stiefbold is I
the only three-time victor m the history of national plowing com petition. i
Arws of the \\ orhl
At \ (planer - - -
Saturday. December 10. 1949
<Bv The Associated Press*
The 194J1 general assembly of
the United Nations in its final ses
sion today debates the cost of in
ternationalizing Jerusalem. It al
ready has been warned the cost in
blood as well as money would be
heavy.
The decision to set up United
Nations control over the Holy City
was made last night despite strong
objections of Israel and Hasme
mite Jordan, the nations which oc
cupy the city.
Both the United States and Bri
tain voted with Israel against the
measure.
Israel foreign minister Moshe
Sharett warned:
“This is a dark day for the
United Nations. It has no way of
implementing its decision. Those
who sponsored the resolution have
charged themselves with grave
responsibility for the moral au
thority of the U. N
King Abdullah of Jordan once
said the U. N. would rule over this
part of the city “only over my
dead body.”
The Soviet Union supported the
! measure. So did its satellites.
The British commonwealth split
in voting as did Latin America.
The final vote for internationali
zation was 38 to 14.
West Germany’s rightwing lead
er. chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
has come out in favor of a German
army to fight against any Russian
aggression.
Adenauer’s remarks that only
| German military forces could
guarantee his country’s security
were made before a closed meet
ing of the Christian Democratic
party which he heads.
In Moscow, the Soviet army
newspaper Red Star said the
western powers are about to re
arm Germany. It said Atlantic Pact
powers agreed in Paris that West
ern Germany should be a basic
participant in the Western Euro
pean military system.
American military leaders at
tending the Paris conference de
nied the West has any present
plans for arming Germany.
China’s Yu nan province, bor
dering Indo China and Burma,
has gone over to the communists.
It was the Nationalists’ Inst re
maining province in South China.
All that is left to the national
ists now on the mailand is a nar
row fringe of coast, plus a small
area of Szechwan and Sikang pro
vinces deep in the intreio”.
The nationalists now base their
strategy mainly on holding the is
lad of Formosa, hoping for the
day when the Red machine would
show signs of crumbling from in
ternal weaknesses.
Monday, December 12. 1949
U. S. Consul General Angus
Ward is a free man today, after 13
months in Chinese communist
hands.
Ward and his 19-member party
boarded the U. S. evacuation ship
Lakeland Victory off Tientsin
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