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VOL. LI. No. 115 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LLANDUDNO, Wales, l/P> —
Prime Minister Attlee Saturckiy
told Britons that inflation threat
ens to wipe out the benefits of
cheapening the pound.
“There is no occasion for gen
eral price increases,” he declared.
“It is the duty of every good citi
zen to cooperate with the govern
ment in preventing inflation.”
In a speech prepared for a La
bor Party rally here, the prime
minister said his government is
more than ever determined to hold
down prices, wages and profits.
ASTORIA, Ore. (/P)—The new
Ore gon-Alaska Navigation Co.,
which wants to establish a ship
line to the Orient and Alaska, said
Saturday it had everything it
needs but cargo.
George S. Quigley, Seattle, traf
fic representative of the firm,
asked port and chamber of com
merce officials here to help the
firm obtain government contracts
for shipping wheat, phosphate
and other cargo.
Quigley said the firm i3 incorpo
rated in Oregon at $250,000, and
can charter ships from the mari
time commission as soon as it ob
tains shipping.
DUBOIS, Pa. I/P) — A bolt of
lightning crashed into a group of
children playing in a grade school
yard during the noon lunch recess
Saturday and two were killed and
four were stunned by the bolt.
LANSING, Mich. I/P)—The Re
publican state central committee is
going to make sure that no Demo
crat gets a peak at the GOP fi
nances.
The committee approved a pro
posal that its books be audited by
the lowest bidder of three prom
inent firms “provided t^iat the
resident manager of the low-bid
ding auditing firm is a Republi
can.”
NEW YORK. (TPl—The Mutual
Broadcasting System said Satur
day a second atomic explosion
took place in Russia less than two
weeks ago.
The report was attributed to
the MBS correspondent in Stock
holm, who said reliable Swedish
sources disclosed the explosion
took place near Crimea on Sept.
14. The Crimea is in southern Rus
sia, a peninsula extending into
the Black Sea.
LONDON, (/P) — The Evening
News said Saturday United States
atom bombs soon may be stored in
England under American control.
‘The news that Russia now has
an atomic weapon is expected to
result in a closer sharing of atom
ic secrets between the United
States, Britain and Canada,” the
paper added.
A spokesman for the American
Third Air Division—natural cus
todian for a cache of atom bombs
if one was started in Britain—
said any comment on the report
‘‘must come from much higher
than this headquarters.”
FAIRBANKS, <A*)—A Ladd Air
Force Base soldier killed late Wed
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Atomic News
IGives Military
i Many Problems
FORT BENNING, Ga. </P)—Rus
sia’s reported production of a nu
! clear fission explosion his U. S.
military heads with a whole book
full of problems, led by this:
Is Soviet Russia currently capa
ble of delivering atom bombs on
American targets?
So far as they know, the biggest
; Russian bomber is a copy of the
early models o fthe U. S. airforce’s
B-29 Superfortress. That Russian
version is believed incapable of
striking targets in the continental
U. S. from Russian soil and re
turning. However, no responsible
military man has ever said that
fanatic Russian airmen might not
be willing to make a one-way run.
By doing that they could reach
some major American industrial
centers.
A second possibility, and one
which military men long contem
plated grimly, is the seizure of
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“Frigid Airs*’
Well Presented
At Marks Air Base
—
The “Frigid Airs,” a rollicking
one and one-half hour stage show,
presented by miltary and civilian
personnel from Fort Richardson
played to capacity crowds at the
Base Theater on Saturday after
noon and night.
MC’s by Walt Bosley, who kept
the show rolling with his ready
wit and humor, the members suc
ceeded in keeping the audience in
a lively mood throughout the en
tire performance.
It is impossible to say what
could be considered the highlight
of the production since the entire
show was well received by the
audience. The “Three Rockets,”
“Wac’s Fifth Avenue,” “Rhapsody
Accordiana,” “Stimulating Simu
lation” and “Green Pastures Quar
tette” were especially good and
well received noted applause from
the attending prsonnl.
nooKie Lruarci, an act riesign
cd to portray a new recruit on
guard duty, was especially inter
esting to the personnel since it
satired the usual army routine.
Vocalists Shirley Colaw and
Lorena Oliver gave excellent per
formances as did Joseph Santos
and Ruth Merrylees in “Ballet
Moderne.”
Don Timoney, Norman Ward
man, and Virgil Herring with their
I running gag routine kept the in
| between act intervals from drag
| ging, by their excellent perform
ances.
The entire cast, despite some of
them becoming airsick on their
trip to Nome, put on excellent per
formances, holding to the old ad
age that the show must go on.
The show has been touring
Alaskan Bases and has been well
received at all of the stations
where they have staged the show
to date. The entire production will
be staged at Kodiak next week for
the benefit of personnel ther^.
Palmer Considers
Mixing Native And
\Y hite Scholars
PALMER, Alaska, — Resi
; dents of Palmer and the Matanus
ka Valley apparently wei'e divided
in opinion Saturday on whether to
approve a governmexit-proposed
program to take in 380 natives and
160 white wards of the Territory
in the Palmer elementary school.
William Wax-ne, assistant secre
tary of the department of the in
terior, and Don Foster, superin
tendent of the Alaska Native Serv
ice, conferred in Anchorage last
week with numerous A.N.S. rep
resentatives to select a site for re
building the Eklutna school.
Warne notified Valley represen
tatives a school site has been
chosen in Palmer on the John
Bugge property six blocks from
the town’s center.
Present plans call for construc
tion of doi*mitories only, with
children quartered there. They
! would attend the Palmer Elemen
; tary school and be sent elsewhere
I when they reach high school age.
The A.N.S. would build the neces
! sary school facilities to take care
| of the 600 added students. Palmer
enrollment is slightly more than
500.
The school would be under the
jurisdiction of the Palmer school
district with the A.N.S. paying the
| per capita cost for each child en
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
HOLD GENERAL DINNER
MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT
At the Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors meeting held
Friday night complete plans were
formulated for the general dinner
meeting to be held tomorrow night
in the Pioneer Hall. It is hoped
that all interested members and
guests will be in attendance at this
first of a series of general dinner
meetings to be held throughout the
Fall and Winter months.
Important matters introduced
for discussion will include the pro
posed city sales tax measure which
is of particular interest to all of
Nome’s citizenry.
Everyon is urged to attend and
enter into the group discussion
concerning matters pertinent to
the welfare of Nome. Reservations
should be placed with Nome Mo
tors, Gordon’s or Vi’s.
LATE BULLETIN
NEW YORK. (/P)—'The Boston
Red Sox captured first place in the
American League race by defeat
ing the New York Yankees 7 to 6.
WASHINGTON. (/P)—The Sen
ate voted to boost the pay of the
Armed Forces. The measure pro
vides the first general armed serv
ices pay boost in 40 years. Similar
legislation has already passed the
House.
WASHINGTON. (JP)—'The Sen
ate-House committee agreed on a
program of overseas arms aid in
the amount of eng billion. 314
million dollars.
(iliarg(‘
With (^rasli < )f
Plane Killing 23
QUEBEC. </Pt—J. Albert Guay,
! Quebec jeweler, was arraigned
Saturday on a murder charge con
I nected with a bomb explosion
aboard an -airliner which sent his
wife and 22 others crashing to
their deaths Sept. 9.
Guay, 30, was accused of mduc
• ing Mrs. Arthur Pitre, 40, to place
a package of explosives aboard the
plane. She was arrested Friday
after taking an overdose of sleep
ing pills. She is recovering police
said she told them she put the
package aboard not knowing what
it contained.
The jeweler was charged spe
cifically with the slaying of his
wife referred to by the court clerk
by her maiden name, Rita Norel.
Mrs. Pitre was under detention in
j her own apartment.
Koyai uanaaian iviounieci ronce
officials described the bizarre epi
sode as part of a love triangle in
intended to get rid on an unwant
ed wife and collect $10,000 in in
surance on her,
“We have definite proof that
explosives were placed aboard the
plane to get rid of a woman,” said
Inspector Rene Belec.
There was no indication as to
what kind of device caused the
explosion which preceded the
plane crash, but officials said it
occurred in the luggage compart
ment. Police said Guay had work
ed four years in a Quebec arsenal.
Mrs. Pitre’s detention ended a
two-week hunt for a “mystery
woman” who delivered a package
I —addressed to a non-existant per
^ son in Baie Comeau, Quebec—to
the ill-fated Canadian Pacific Air
! ways plane just before it took off. j
The dead included three New
York executives of the Kennecott
Copper Corporation.
LABOR STRIKE
! SITUATION
'By The Associated Press)
The three-ring bargaining strug
gle between big labor and big bus
iness tensed today with the pros
pect of new action in two of the
arenas—steel and automobiles.
The third contest, between John
i L. Lewis’ united mine workers
and the nation’s coal producers,
marked time although Lewis held
a tight strangle hold on the oper
ators. The 480,000 UMW diggers
began the second week of a protest
strike because their welfare fund
benefits have ceased.
The CIO steelworkers’ union
kept a steady pressure on the re
sisting big steel employers, insist
ing on a company-paid pension-in
surance program to cost 10 cents
per man hour of work. Negotia
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WXLN TO BROADCAST
BASEBALL GAMES
Starting this evening the Marks
Air Force Base Radio station
WXLN, will broadcast the base
ball games, received from the
States by shortwave, starting at
4:15 pjn. every afternoon.
News of the \\ oriel
At A Glance - - -
Saturday, September 24, 1949
iBy The Associated Press'
aszlo Rajk, Hungary’s former
No. 2 communist was sentenced to
death today by a people’s court in
Budapest for plotting to overthrow
the Hungarian government and
supplant it with one subservient to
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugosla
via.
Two other defendants also re
ceived death sentences. Two were
sentenced to life imprisonment, one
to nine years and two were held
for court martial.
Rajk, former foreign minister
and interior minister, was charged
with the others of working with
on American and Yugoslav spy
ring for the downfall of the com
munist-dominated Budapest gov
ernment.
It was Hungary’s second big
treason trial of 1949. In the first,
last Feruary, Josef Cardinal Min
dszenty was sentenced to life im
prisonment.
The announcement by President
Truman yesterday that an atomic
explosion had occurred in Russia
brought excited and sober com
ment from every corner of the
world except from Russia. The
Moscow press and radio kept
mum. One dispatch from Moscow
said that in the past week the Sov
iet newspapers have issued re
peated warnings against foreign
spies. They urged “vigilance and
yet more vigilance” for national
security.
Londonreported that the Western ,
European press generally held to
the view that the atomic blast
might ease Russia’s suspicions of
American power and help to bring
the two nations together in plan
ning atomic control.
German Nobel prize winner
Prof. Otto Hahn said Mr. Tru
man's announcement was good
news. He said that in the last war
both sides had refrained from us
ing poison gas because each side
was afraid of retaliation. He said
it would be the same with atomic
weapons—nations would be fear
ful of using them.
Many delegates to the United
Nations expressed disappointment
that Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky
made no reference to the U. S.
President’s disclosure.
Vishinsky, speaking yesterday
in the U. N. assembly following
the Truman announcement, pro
posed a Big Five peace pact and
again accused the United States of
plotting war on the Soviet Union.
One effect of the Presidential
announcement was to wipe out all
Congressional objection to sharing
atomic secrets with Britain and
Canada.
Monday, September 28, 1949
Uranium—a four-syllable snyo
nym for destruction—still domin
ated the world’s news today.
Statesmen of both east and west
still talked of international con
trol of atomic power, but the indi
cation that Russia now has an
atomic weapon raised a specter of
an arms race that could lead to
cataclysm.
The Russians said they still
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