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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LI~U~No. 95 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951 Per Copy—157
Tomorrow's Concert by Estaleali Baker
To Be Feature Event of 11th NWA Fair
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Estaleah Baker, wife of General David H. Baker, commanding
officer of the Ladd AFB has arrived to present a musical program
at the school auditorium tomorrow evening, -as a special feature j
of the NWA Fair. Mrs. Baker’s'
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concert will be a rare treat for
tne people of Nome as she has a
beautiful voice of rare flexibility
which is known as a spinto lyric
- i soprano.
During her professional career,
Mrs. Baker has been prima donna
for the Ferris Hartman Light
Opera Company and appeared in
concerts and recitals in many
parts of the United States, as
well as Panama and Central
America.
Voice teachers under whom she
has studied include Madame Lil
lian Edwards of Paris and Lon
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Lindley Mordecai
don, and with John Monroe of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music,
in Baltimore, Md.
When asked to take part in the
NWA Fair, while on tour in Nome
f this summer, Mrs. Baker was told
how few and far between are the
chances for the people of this area
to hear fine music and see the
artist too. Mrs. Baker most gra
ciously accepted the invitation of
the Fair and even gave up a va
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cation trip, planned in August, to
sing here tomorrow.
Her accompanist will be Capt.
Lindlev Mordecai, professional ac
companist, who is a doctor at Ladd
Air Force Base.
We have heard by mukluk from
Fairbanks that Capt. Mordecai is
also an outstanding artist and al
though he is not soloing on the
program, it is hoped that he will
perform a number for us during
the intermission.
Mrs. Baker, who it is reported,
started singing at the age of three,
has selected a very fine program.
One group which children and
adults alike will specially enjoy
is “Little Damosel” by Novella
and “Adele’s Laughing Song” from
“Die Fledermaus” by Strauss. This j
number has been performed 21
times this season at the Metro
politan.
Lovers of opera music have al
ready expressed their delight that
she has included selections from
Traviata from Verdi and the Bar
ber of Seville by Rossini.
Mrs. Baker is opening her con
cert with a group of religious
classics including “How Beauti
ful Are the Feet” from the Mes
siah.
While in Nome Mrs. Baker will
be the house guest of Mr. and
Mrs. G. R. Jackson.
BOY SCOUT OFFICE
MOVED TO ANCHORAGE
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The Alaska council of Boy
Scouts was recently moved to An
chorage from Juneau.
Maurice F. Powers, territorial
scout council executive, made the
transfer, according to Ken Ubbel
ohde, in charge of the Gastineau
district. Powers had made his
headquarters in Juneau since
early in 1948.
Coast Guard To
Grapple Oil Slick
In Yakutat Bay
(By the Associated Press)
Grappling operations were to
be undertaken by the Coast Guard
today at an oil slick in Yakutat
Bay, Alaska . . . the area where
two planes with 41 persons aboard
disappeared late last month.
The slick was spotted just be
fore dusk Wednesday by a Fish
and Wildlife plane among reefs
and shoals two miles from Yaku
tat.
Oil on the water was the latest
clue to the possible fate of a
Korean airlift DC-4 which van
ished July 24 with a crew of
seven and 31 passengers, or a
small Norseman plane which has
been missing since July 27 with
a bush pilot and the wife and
daughter of a wealthy New Jersey
scientist.
Further south, heavy fog ham
pered a search for a Queen Char
lotte Airlines float plane which
disappeared six days ago on a
37-mile flight to the fishing vil
lage of Tcfino, on Vancouver Is
land, B. C. Six loggers and the1
pilot were aboard.
U.S. May Have To Sejid
More Than Six Divisions
To Atlantic Pact Army
WASHINGTON, f/P> — A warn
ing by Senator Connally <D-Tex),
that the U.S. may have to send
more than six divisions to the At
lantic Pact army has intensified
the bitter troops-to-Europe battle.
In passing a $56,062,405,890
money bill to finance the mili
tary establishment for the fiscal
year, the House declined by a vote,
of 131 to 84 to put a six-division
lid on U. S. contributions to the
European defense army.
The Senate checked its earlier
controversy over troops for Eu
rope in a resolution which said
“it is the sense” of the Senate
that only four U.S. divisions . . .
in addition to the two already j
there . . . should be sent to
Europe.
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Senator McCarthy Brands
23 State Department
Officials Communists
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
McCarthy (R-Wis) offered today
to let a “committee headed by a
good Democrat” decide whcr is
right in his latest feud with the
State Department and some fellow
senators over his charges of com
munism in government.
McCarthy used his senatorial
immunity from libel suits yester
day to name in the Senate 26 per
sons he identified as State De
partment officials and employes
“charged with communist activi
ties.”
This stirred majority leader Mc
Farland (D-Ariz) to protest vig
orously against what he called a
senator’s use of his immunity “to
smear any individual” or become
a “character assassin.”
McCarthy’s Senate speech, well
publicized in advance, drew large
crowds to the Senate public gal
leries, but few senators listened to
the entire exchange.
International Sourdough
Reunion To Be Held In
San Francisco Aug. 16-18
SEATTLE, </P)—‘Pioneers of the
Klondike gold rush will hit the
trail for San Francisco next week
for the 20th annual convention of
the International Sourdough Re
union of Alaskans and Yukoners
of both Canada and the States,
August 16 to 18.
Many of the original ’98 stam
peders will be present, including
Dr. W. E. Thompson, 92, formerly
of Dawson; Crystal Morgan, dau
ghter of the late Jack McQuestion
of 1884 vintage and one of the
founders of the Yukon Order of
Pioneers; A. V. “Art” Duel, gold
rush cartoonist of now historic
events; J. J. “Jack” Devine of
Detroit, partner of D. E. “Griff”
Griffiths who initiated the famous j
dog races at the mid-winter Ice
Carnival in Fairbanks; Shel Wet
tach of the Sourdough Roadhouse
near Name; Dr. K. Falkenberg
and A. C. “Clem” Alexander, who
took the Edmonton trail north;
Judge E. Coke Hill, a formet*
Fairbanksan now in San Fran
cisco; A. W. Hawks of Santa Bar
bara, who built the first tram over
Chilkoot Pass, and numerous
others of the Klondike clan.
)HST Investigates
Cribbing Scandal
At West Point
WEST POINT, N. Y., UP) — A
private presidential inquiry into
football emphasis at the nation’s
service academies—prompted by
the cribbing scandal at the U.S.
military academy here — was
under way today.
President Truman, an avid foot
ball fan, told his news conference
yesterday he was attempting to
find a remedy for the situation!
at West Point without killing the
patient. *
All but a few of West Point’s
varsity football team were among
the 90 cadets who have been dis- j
missed for violating the academy’s
honor system by cribbing in
exams.
Meantime Earl Blaik, head foot
ball coach and director of ath
i
letics at the academy, began build
ing his 11th army football team
from the remnants of a squad
that could have been one of the
nation’s best until it was riddled
by the current cribbing scandal.
Gone is his son, Bob, who* iden
tified himself as one of the 90
involved cadets, just a short time
after the father told sports writ
ers in New York Gity he would
stay as coach at the military
academy.
Young Blaik, who would have
been a senior, was a quarterback.
Some rated him as the nation’s
best.
SYDNEY, Australia, (JP) — The
Sydney Sun reported today that
southeastern Australia has been
hit by its heaviest snowfall. Ho
bert, its streets covered with two
and one half inches of snow, re
ported a temperature of 28.9 de
grees—coldest in 49 years.
Melbourne had two snow falls
this morning and Geelong, Vic
toria, reported the first snowfall
in 50 years.
Envoys At Kaesong
Sit In 131 Minutes
Of Dead Silence
U.N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (/P) — Deadlocked
United Nations and communist
truce negotiating delegations sat
for two hours and 11 minutes in.
dead silence today, each waiting
for the other to change his po
sition.
The unprecedented silence was
precipitated, the United Nations
command said, when the commun
ists refused to talk about any
thing except a buffer zone lo
cated where they want it.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U.N. delegate, proposed several
alternatives to break the dead
lock. Then he waited for North
Korean Lt. Gen. Nam 11., head of
the Red delegation to reply. Nam
said nothing.
For 131 minutes, nobody spoke.
When negotiations resumed
after a five day break, U.N. dele
gates offered a series of alter
natives intended to break the dis
agreement over where to end the
shooting war.
The five Red generals refused
to consider anything except a buf
fer zone back along the 38th
parallel.
Adm. Joy tried to break the
deadlock by proposing that nego
tiators temporarily pass over this
question and go one to the next
point that deals with “concrete
arrangements for the realization
of a military armistice and the
resultant cease-fire.’,
Director National Bureau
Standard Resigns To Take
Job In Private Industry
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Dr. Ed
ward U. Condon resigned today
as director of the National Bu
reau of Standards. He said: “I can
no longer afford to accept the se
vere financial sacrifice involved.”
President Truman accepted the
resignation, effective Sept. 30,
“with regret.” He said Condon
has served “in a most critical po
sition with continued and loyal
attention to his duties.
Condon, whose government sal
ary is $14,000 a year, said he is
leaving to take a job in private
industry. A physicist and an ex
pert on atomic energy, he was di
rector of research for the West
inghouse Electric Corp., before
entering government service in
1945.
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RB-45 Jet Bomber Attains
Speed 886 Miles per Hour
SHREVEPORT, La.^—Barks
dale Air Force base reports that
an RB-45 jet bomber has averaged
•a speed of 886 miles per hour—
believed to be a record for that
type of plane.
This speed was made possible,
it was explained yesterday, by a
“jet air stream,” which traveled
at a speed of from 225 to 300
miles per hour. The stream is an
air current which encircles the
earth at certain stratas of the
atmosphere.
Barksdale sources said the
plane’s average was made on a
recent 13-minute 50-second 205
mile flight from Fort Worth, Tex.,
tc Shreveport.