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VOL. XLIX, No. 57_NOME~ALASKA, MONDAYHyiAY 12, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHINGTON, (TP)—Now that
summer is coming, the scuttlebutt
around the navy department is
I that A number of officers 'male
are “bucking” for what they con
sider a choice assignment.
But so far it has gone only to
a Wave officer. It consists of in
specting the legs of Waves to dis
couarge the women sailors from
going barelegged.
The navy doesn’t even like
Wave legs camouflaged with
makeup. It wants ’em in stockings.
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MADRID. (TP) — Fourteen per
sons were killed and 30 were in
jured Saturday morning in a rail
road accident near Ciudad Real,
90 miles south of Madrid.
WASHINGTON, (TP) — The
White House announced that Pres
ident Truman made a brief Moth
er’s Day visit to his mother, Mrs.
Martha Truman, at Grandview.
Mo., Sunday.
LONDON, (TP)—The New Times
of Moscow was quoted in a Mos
cow radio broadcast heard in Lon
don by the Soviet monitor as say
ing that an “anti-Soviet” attitude
had been detected in some Swed
ish newspapers.
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ROME, (/P)—Calabria and other
parts of southern Italy were re
covering today from the effects of
an earthquake which rocked the
area yesterday, killing three per
sons, injuring 40 and causing wide
damage.
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ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Missing
eight days since leaving in a dory
loaded with household goods and
► supplies for a Cook Inlet island,
Balsor Howell and his wife were
feared lost today. The two had
bought the island for a home in
Kachemak Bay, near Homer. They
weer both war veterans and for
mer employees at Fort Richard
son.
SEATTLE, (/P>—Walter Griffin,,
Seattle, a state department of la-1
bor employee, told police yester-1
day his wallet containing $1,408
apparently was taken from his i
pocket Saturday night. A button
cut from his hip pocket indicated
his pocket had been picked, he
said.
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VIENNA, (/P)— Representatives
of the United States, Britain, Rus-1
sia and France assembled here to
day to take up work on the Aus- j
trian treaty where the Big Four
foreign ministers left off at their
recent Moscow conference.
The main issues to be resolved
were the definition of German as
sets in Austria and Yugoslavia
reparations demands.
SEATTLE, (/P)—First of ap
proximately 700 machinists em
ployed in the salmon canning in
dustry were to be cleared for
Alaska today following accept
ance of a new contract granting
average wage increases of 12V6
per cent, it was announced by I.
A. Sandvigen, business agent of
the machinists’ union (independ
ent), local 70. i
Christen New P.A.A. Clipper ’Northwind**
Eskimos of Nome, Alaska, dressed in colorful furs, greeted the arrival of Pan American World
Airways’ first scheduled DC-4 Clipper last week.
The four-engine Clipper is one of a fleet of new DC-4’s replacing smaller DC-3’s on Pan Amer
ican’s Alaska service. Clippers now fly from Seattle to Nome in 13 hours, cutting 3 ho rs off
former schedules. <Pan American World Airways)
Must Reduce Debts
Before Tax Cutting
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Taft 'R.-Ohio> called today for a
Senate-House budget trimming
decision ahead of scheduled Sen
ate action next week on the four
billion dollar tax cut bill.
Taft said he will ask leaders
from both sides of the Capitol to
get together On a compromise of
the economy pledge which has
been hanging fier since March 3.
The Senate voted 64 to 20 then
to whack $4,500,000,000 off Pres
ident Truman’s proposed $37,500,
000,000 outlay for the year begin
ning July 1. It tacked on a provi
sion earmarking $2,600,000,000 of
any surplus for debt reduction.
The House earlier had pledged
a $6,000,000,000 spending cut with
out any specific debt payment
promises.
While the Ohio Senator was si
lent on the particular point, he ob
viosly hopes to be armed with an
agreement on spending cuts be
fore the Republicans undergo a
Democratic barrage — intensified
by pot shots from some GOP
members—on the tax reduction
bill.
Senators Aiken (R.-Vt.» a fre
quent dissenter on party policy
matters, and Senator Wilson <R.
Iowa), who goes off the reserva
tion occasionally, said they want
to know the spending totals before
they vote on taxes.
Democrats have lost no oppor
tunity to point out that for more
than two months the Republicans
haven’t been able to agree on how
deep the pruning knife shall go.
They have shouted that the Re
publicans are trying to whittle
government costs at the expense
of self-liquidating projects. They
have contended that debt reduc
tion should come before tax cuts.
The GOP leaders have heard
Ask Suspension Of
SS. Rate Increases
<(>P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska
formally asked the maritime com
mission today to suspend rate in
creases filed by three steamship
companies to become effective in
the Alaska trade May 21.
The Territory, in a petition said
••To show the extent to which the
proposed changes will, if they go
into effect, do serious damage to
the economy of the Territory, and
harm to both individual and
classes of Alaska shippers and re
ceivers of freight.”
The Territory asked suspen
sion, pending a hearing, of new
tariffs proposed by the Alaska
Steamship company, Northland
Transportation company and
Alaska Transportation company
for freight and passengers be
| tween Seattle and Alaska and be
tween points in Alaska.
“The carriers have not made a
conscientious effort to eliminate
some of the wasteful duplication
of services in Southeastern Alas
ka, which is in a large measure
the cause of the operating losses
incurred in that area,” the petition
stated.
“The savings possible through
the curtailing of passenger service
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some of the same tunes played
within their own party’s ranks,
both in and out of Congress.
Gov. Earl Warren of California
often mentioned as a possible first
or second place GOP nominee in
1948, aimed indirect criticism at
the partie’s Congressional leader
ship on a week end visit here.
At a news conference Warren
called for balancing the budget
and a “substantial” debt reduction
before there are any tax cuts—a
position most Congressional Dem
ocrats have taken.
Form Coalition
Govt. In Japan
TOKYO, 1/P) — Japan’s three
main parties will receive equal
representation in the forthcoming
coalition cabinet, which will be
pledged to adopt tight state con
trol of key industries, political
leaders decided today.
Whether the Premiership will
go to the Socialists,, who hold a
plurality in the Diet, remained un
answered after this second meet
ing to form a coalition govern
ment. The conservative cabinet
headed by Premier Shigeru Yo
shida will resign May 20.
Last Of Marines
Leave Peiping
PEIPING, (/P)—The U. S. Ma
rines’ Fifth Regiment completed
its withdrawal today from Peip
ing, which 19 months ago greeted
the first division leathernecks
with almost hysterical excitement.
The last group of 500 men left
for the Port of Chingwangtao by
special train and road convoy.
There was little ceremony as
the marines boarded antiquated,
ncomfortable coaches. American
Consul Myrl Myers, a few mem
bers o fthe consulate and Peiping’s
mayor. Ho Su-Yuan, were the
only persons to say goodbye to
Frisbie.
The only marines left in Peip
ing are three officers and 42 en
listed men handling claims. They
will leave May 27.
SEATTLE, (iP)—Four Japanese
manned Liberty ships were to ar
rive here today for a group vessel
delivery. The seamen will be
transferred to the barracks ship
John C. Ainsworth and will sail
to Cathlamet where the ship will
await a’ full load of “returnees”
before sailing back to Japan.
Russian Army
!n Maneuvers
Near Alaska
(By Ray Richards)
‘:-Intelligencer Washington
Bureau)
WASHINGTON—News thai the
Hi. >ian army has started maneu
ver on Bering Strait within 100
miles of American soil jolted
Washington.
It was revealed a defense crisis
exists in Alaska and presaged
quick approval by Congress of ap
propriations for railroad and high
way construction in the Territory.
Details were given by an off
the record appearance by Gen.
William H. Arnold, deputy direc
tor of plans and operations for
the war department general staff,
before the House appropriations
committee.
In transcribed testimony he
stated the immediate double
necking of a portion of the Alas
ka Railroad for military purposes
“should have the priority over
battleship construction even in
time of war.” He added:
“In our plans and operations
division, Alaska is a very, very
vital spot. Within the last year or
two it has assumed very great im
portance in our defensive think
ing.”
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, of
Washington and Delegate E. L.
Bartlett of Alaska said the United
States has every reason to be
acutely alerted” by the Red army
games opposite Alaska, first ever
held there.
“The maneuvers confirm re
ports repeatedly heard during the
war that Russia has secretly built
a great transportation network
and defense establishment in what
had been the almost impenetrable
territory of northeastern Siberia,”
said Senator Magnuson,
Bartlett commented: “General
Arnold made it clear the army be
lieves Alaskan defense projects
are more important now than in
the recent war, even when the
Japanese were in the Aleutian Is
lands.”
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Noted Alaska
Missionary Dies
SEATTLE, </P)—The venerable
Rev. Frederic W. Goodman, 77,
Episcopal Archdeacon Emeritus
of Arctic Alaska, was stricken
with a fatal heart attack in a gro
cery store here Saturday.
Famed for his missionary work
with the natives of northern Alas
ka from 1925 until about five
years ago. Archdeacon Goodman
was at Port Townsend for a time
after returning to the States and
then came to Seattle. He was an
honorable canon of Saint Mark’s
catherdral here.
Among the publications that
brought his widespread attention
was an Eskimo language transla
tion of the Episcopal prayer book.
He served churches in mary parts
of Canada and the United States
before going to Alaska. His head
I quarters for many years was at
Tigara, Point Hope.