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VOL. LI. NoT 50_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FULLERTON. Calif. (/P)—Rec
ord endurance fliers Bill Barris,
and Dick Riedel landed at this air
port yesterday, Tuesday, at 11:44
a.m. (PST), setting a record of
six weeks, or 1.008 hours of con
tinuous flying.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Ira H. Rothwell,
mayor is the first chairman of the
newly created Territorial fisheries
board. The action was taken Mon
day as the board set up its perm
anent organization.
Other members include William
Walton, Sitka; Karl Brumstad,
Kodiak; J. P. Valentine, Ketchi
kan: and J. H. Wakefield of Port
Wakefield.
Rothwell, Walton and Brunstad
are fishermen members of the
^ board, Wakefield represents the
industry and Valentine the public.
Yesterday the board was to in
terview aspirants for the post as
executive director of the board.
The position pays $12,000 yearly.
SHANGHAI. (/P) — A message
from correspondent Seymour Top
ping to the Shanghai bureau of
l the Associated Press yesterday in
dicated he was under house arrest
in Nanking, which was captured
Sunday by the communists.
The brief message said:
"Presume you know Nanking
communications disrupted. Have
made arrangements to permit us
to continue filing if communica
tions are re-opened. Also to get
pictures out when airtransport is
available, despite 'Boy Scouts'
posted by front door."
ST. PAUL, Minn. (/P)—Officials
of Northwest Airlines today said
they planned to continue opera
tions in and out of Shanghai as
communist armies moved toward
that city in the Chinese civil war.
Families of two Northwest Air
lines employees in Shanghai have
been moved to Manila, the line’s
headquarters said, but all em
ployees are remaining on their j
Shanghai job.
PRINCETON, Eng. </P)—Broad- ]
moor prison’s annual convict’s;
stage play tonight will have a par
son in the cast again this time—
it’s safe.
Two years ago a convicted mur-1
derer who enacted a parson in the |
prison play was so realistically I
costumed he walked past the
prison guards and has not been
seen since.
Tonight’s parson will wear short
pants, white knee socks and a
clerical collar five inches high.
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FORT KNOX. Ky. (/P) — Mili- j
t tary authorities today announced
plans for establishing a perman
ent testing station in Alaska for
Arctic equipment.
A group of 136 officers and men
will leave in June for the new as
signment at Big Delta, 110 miles
southeast of Fairbanks.
The Fort Knox group will be
joined on the West Coast by sim- j
ilar groups from Fort Bragg, N. j
C.. Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort
Bliss. Tex., a spokesman said.
Col. H. H. D. Heiberg will be’
the commanding officer. The exact
time of departure has not been set!
Alaska Fish And
Wildlife Conditions
‘National Disgrace’
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ANCHORAGE. O^P)—Describing i
the condition of Alaska’s fish and |
wildlife as a “national disgrace,”
a national director of the Izaak
Walton league said Monday the
federal government should “pro
tect the fish and wildlife or turn
it over to Alaskans to control.”
The statement was made by
Burton H. Atwood of Winnetka,
111., who returned home Monday
after five weeks in Alaska as spe
cial representative of the Walton
league.
Atwood said the United States I
is “just as guilty of exploitation 1
of Alaska as any other absentee
interest.” He said millions are
taken annally in profits from the
Pribilof fur seals but only token
appropriations are made to sup
. port the fish and wildlife service
in the Territory.
The conservationist trav e 1 e d
more than 10,000 miles in Alaska,
flying patrols with wildlife agents,
visiting trappers and Eskimo
herders, and conferring with civic,
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CITY COUNCIL
Monday night, at the first regu
lar meeting of the new Nome City i
Council, under Mayor Steve An
derson, business was handled in
fine shape.
A letter from Carl J. Lomen at
Washington, D. C., was read to the
members. The letter stated that
the Nome Seawall appropriation
had passed safely out of the Sen
ate committee and that the early
part of May should see it safely
on the President’s desk.
Mayor Anderson assigned to job
of taking a complete inventory of
City property to Councilmen Al
bert Anderson and Lester Bron
son.
It was recommended by the spe
cial committee inquiring into the
liability for the accident in which
an Arctic Cab ran into the city
truck, that the matter be dropped, i
and that the city assume no re
sponsibility.
Under discussion of the fire and
police departments it was decided
to postpone advertising for the of
fices until some definite plan of
action could be devised in a spe
cial meeting of committees.
Ed Webster presented a com
plaint that the city had covered
his cabin with snow removed from
the streets and that he had paid J
$18 to have some of the snow
shovelled off the roof.
Gus B.iornstad also complained ;
to the city that snow had been
pushed up in front of his garage
by the “cats” removing snow from
the city streets.
The street committee was di
rected to look into the complaints.
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and details of the type of equip
ment to be tested has not been an
nounced.
Officials said the temperature
at Big Delta ranges from a’ sum
mertime 80 degrees to 50 below
zero in the winter.
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Magnuson Gives
Federal Works
Plan For Alaska
<</P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Magnuson (D.-Wash.) said yester
day the federal works agency has
endorsed his bill to set up a feder- ,
al works program in Alaska.
He quoted Maj. Gen. Philip B.
Fleming, administrator of the
agency as saying that immediate
federal action to improve living
conditions in the Territory is es
sential if Alaska is to attract per
manent residents in large number.
Magnuson’s bill is scheduled for
a hearing before the Senate pub
lic works committee Thursday. I
would authorize the FWA to ac
cept applications for public works
from Alaska and its subdivisions.
Federal funds for such construc
tion would be matched locally.
“The United States has held
Alaska for over 80 years,” Magnu
son quoted Fleming. “It is now
time that an active program for its
growth and development be un
dertaken.” The plain duty of the
government is to promote in all
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Moscow Publishes
Plans For Lifting
Berlin Blockade
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, (/P>—Moscow’s press
published yesterday the terms un
der which the Soviet Union offer
to life the blockade of Berlin.
A statement distributed by Tass,
the official news agency, said that
if an agreement can be reached on
a date for a meeting of the coun
cil of foreign ministers, then:
1. The Russians will lift their '
communications ban, provided the
West ends its counter-blockade of i
Eastern Germany;
2. The Berlin currency question, ]
which hampered the four-power
talks in Moscow last summer, can
be discussed by the four powers
after the communications restric
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Program Opening
Up For Lifting
Berlin Blockade
WASHING TON, UP) — The
United States said yesterday “the
way appears clear” for lifting the
Berlin blockade provided the Rus
sian terms actually are those pub
lished by Moscow.
The state department got out a
1,200-word statement of the Amer
ican position. It was understood
the United States, Britain and
France had discussed the publish
ed Soviet terms and found them
acceptable.
The only reservation appears to
be whether the Russians intend to
propose any further conditions.
The formal state department
pronouncement came after a
round of top-level government
conferences. One of these was a
report to President Truman from
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Walrus Club
Presents Series of
Boxing Matches
The Walrus Club is presenting
the first of a series of boxing
matches beginning Saturday night
in the High School gym, and to be
held monthly thereafter.
These matches are being ar
ranged as a part of the Club pro- 1
gram to re-awaken interest in
sports and entertainment. A port
able ring of sturdy construction
has been erected and ten bouts, in
volving athletes from Marks Air
Base, Nome and vicinity, have
been arranged, giving more than
two hours of good, clean entertain
ment.
Reserved seat tickets are on sale
at The Polar Bar, the Board of
Trade, The Breakers Bar and the
Nevada Bar.
Kai-Shek Forecasts
World War III If
China Loses War
SHANGHAI, (/P)—Chiang Kai
Shek today returned to the battle
against communism, forecasting a
third world war if China lost.
His country, he said, would be
the tinderbox and furnish the men
for that war if the Chinese com
munists win.
The generalissimo pledged to
share the hardships of his coun
trymen “on the brink of disaster.”
He said he could not disregard his
responsibility at such a time.
The statement—his first since
retiring from the presidency Jan.
21—was issued from Chikow, his
ancestral home. But foreign and
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U. S. Naval Ships
Leave Shanghai
SHANGHAI. (/P>—Heavy U. S.
naval vessels moved out of Shang
hai yesterday as two communist
spearheads rolled toward the
Shanghai-Hangchow area.
The communist radio in Peiping
boasted two nationalist armies, the
20th and 99th, had been wiped out.
Two towns, Ihing, 85 miles west
of here, and Chingtai, 60 miles
southwest of Nanking, were cap
tured. the radio said.
The communist broadcast said
the Nanking-Hangchow highway
had been cut. Government garri
son headquarters said Red advance
units were around Soochow <\Vuh
sien>, 40 miles west of here.
Red capture of Ihing, on the
west bank of Lake Tai, would
mean the communists were half
way to Hangchow, where some
300,000 government troops and be
lieved dug in. A rapid thrust could
cut the Shanghai-Hangchow cor
ridor.
The American ships went down
the Yangtze estuary from here to
avoid involvement in the civil
war.
The British followed the Ameri
can lead and withdrew warships
of their Shanghai force. Movement
of the ships into the Yangtze estu
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Acheson Pleads
For Approval of
Security Treaty
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of state Acheson told Senators to
day that if they approve the North
Atlantic Security Treaty they will
be “less free” to oppose arms aid
for Europe.
Acheson was before the Senate
foreign relations committee to
plead that the Senate approve the
treaty and that Congress vote a
$1,450,000,000 foreign arms pro
gram.
The treaty, signed here April 4
by 12 nations, will not be binding
on the United States until the
Senate approves it by a two-thirds
vote. The Truman administration
plans also to ask the arms aid. It
would require approval by a ma
jority of both Senate and House.
In the Senate, some members
have said they are inclined to vote
for the treaty but doubt the wis
dom of the arms program. Senator
Byrd (D.-Va.), for one, has de
manded to know whether a vote
: for the treaty would be regarded
I as a moral commitment to support
' the arms aid.
So that point was promptly
raised w'hen the foreign relations
1 committee opened hearings on the
[treaty today with Acheson as the
; first witness.
First off, Acheson read a long
prepared statement. Thht said, in
effect, that if the pact is approved
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U. S. Asks Russian
Views On Lifting
Berlin Blockade
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NEW YORK. (/PI — The United
j States delivered a note to the Rus
isians here today asking for a for
mal statement as to when and on
what conditions they will lift their
Berlin blockade.
The note was taken by Philip C.
Jessup, American ambassador-at
large, to Soviet deputy foreign
minister Jakob A. Malik.
Jessup called on Malik at the
Soviet offices on upper Park Av
enue.
The text of the American com
munication was not made public,
but informed quarters said its
main purpose was to shift the Ber
! lin negotiations to a formal basis
| and get Russia’s views down on
paper.
Previously no views had been
exchanged in writing since* Jessup
first brought up the question in an
informal talk with Malik at Lake
Success Feb. 15.
Jessup brought the note with
him on his return to New York
this morning after talks in Wash
ington yesterday with President
Truman and state department of
ficials.
Before going alone to see Malik.
Jessup met with members of the
U. S. delegation to the U. N.
He disappeared later and was
understood to have called on Bri
tish and French representatives to
show them the note.
The American note was under
stood to seek clarification spocifi
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