Farm Girl Becames
uMiss America**
ATLANTIC C ITY, N. J., (/P)—
Beatrice Shopp, 18-year-old Miss
America of 1948, heads for her
Minnesota farm home today. She
will spend a few days there be
fore coming to New York to start
her new career.
In a breathtaking weekend, the
baby-faced brunette, who “loves
to clean fish,” won $16,000 in con
tracts and scholarships by out
classing 54 other beauteous con
testants.
She says she’ll have a few days
at the four-acre family homestead
to think over all the offers that
have come her way as the beauty
of the year.
It’s all a far cry from the Hop
kins, Minn., farm, where Beatrice,
nicknamed “Bebe”, says she tends
about 100 chickens, drives a trac
tor and helps her mother in the
kitchen.
The little girl from the farm,
who neither smokes nor drinks,
says she won’t consider marriage
until “I am 24 or 25 years old.”
Allan Lee of the Lee Bros.
Dredging company at Solomon, is
in Nome for dental work.
L. E. Ost of Council, is in Nome
on party business in his capacity
as Republican Divisional commit
teeman.
Four Children Die
In Washington Fire
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• By The Associated Press*
Four children were fatally burn
ed and three persons were killed
in auto accidents in Washington.
State this week-end.
Trapped in their home by flames
the four children of Mr. and Mrs.
William Zerger: Larry, 7; Jimmy,
5; Sharron 3; and Kenneth 18
months. The parents were at the
Snohomish county fair. The home
was six miles northwest of Mon
l
roe. A neighbor discovered the
fire, but was unable to enter the
i house because of the heat.
Mrs. Margaret Scott, 78, Seattle,
was killed when the car in which
she was riding overturned a mile
east of Eatonville.
An Ephrata store-owner was
killed when his car left the high- ,
way five miles east of Ephrata.
George H. Allen, 41, of Seattle
was fatally injured when his tank- |
er overturned on the Yakima
highway eight miles sout hof El
lensburg.
Oren Dover. U. S. Deputy Col- !
lector* of Internal Revenue, is in
Nome on business for his depart
ment. His office is in the Federal
building.
I
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Mrs. Woodbury Abbey and son
left Friday for the States for a va
cation trip.
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COMPLETE LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES
ON COASTAL RAMBLER
THE SEIFFERTS
“The Surprise Store” Phone Main 78
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
COASTAL RAMBLER sailed
August 29th for Nome.
All other sailings cancelled
until further notice.
W. R. WOOD, Agent
Phone Main 68
Situation Grows ]
More Tense In
Blockaded Berlin
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communist demands that Berliners
must kick out the elected anti-com
munist city government.
Meantime the Russian-licensed
news agency ADN reported Friday
night that a German-led spy ring
“supported” by American and
British authorities, has been
smashed in eastern Germany with
the arrest of 15 agents.
The report said all the arrested
agents were under orders from
Kurt Schumacher, Social Demo
crat leader in western Germany
and had “the fullest support of
American and British occupation
authorities.” It hinted that Schu- j
macher’s Socialists operated an!
underground throughout the Rus
sian zone.
Reached in Hanover, Schu
macher declined to make any
statement on the Soviet agency’s
charges.
Railway officials in Hanover
said Friday night the Russians al
lowed eight railway cars of mail
to travel from blockaded Berlin
to the British zone of Germany
during the day. A British transport
official in Berlin said it had “no
significance as far as the blockade
of Berlin is concerned.”
The official said the westward
movement of mail posted in the
Russian sector of Berlin has been
going on all summer “in dribs and
drabs.” He said the mail trains do
not travel over the blockaded in
ternational Helmstadt line, but
along northerly routes which has
never stopped such traffic.
With the situation in Berlin rap- j
idly worsening, there still was no
indication when the four military j
governors would meet here again ^
to continue discussions toward set- j
tlement of the 79-day Soviet block
ade of the#clivided city. The talks
now are in recess after apparently
reaching a deadlock.
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CLIFF FORD RETURNS
TO SCHOOL
On Wednesday Cliff Ford, who
has been working for the summer
months at Alaska Airlines is leav
ing for Chicago to take up his
studies at Northwestern University
where he is a pre-med student.
Cliff has been very popular here
in Nome and will be missed by all
who knew him. It is hoped he will
return next summer and renew
old acquaintances.
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — After 22
years, film actress Greta Garbo
has taken the first step toward be
coming an American citizen.
The Swedish-born actress, wear
ing slack and sports jacket, ap
peared unexpectedly yesterday at
the Federal building and in five
minutes filed a declaration of in
tent with the naturalization office.
She plans to return to the films
in a picture based on the life of
George Sand, part of which is to be
made in Europe.
DREAM
THEATER
—•—
1 Show, Mon. and Tues., 7:30 p.m.
"WILSON"
Alexander Knox
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Also "Girl* Preferred"
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1 Show, Wed. and Thurs., 7:30 p.m.
"THE MIGHTY McGURK"
Wallace Berrey - Dean Stock well
Also "Fala At Hyde Park"
India Invades
Hyderabad To
V
Restore Order
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Hyderabad and that the fabulously
rich Nizam had refused to disband
private armies such as the Raza
kars. The state and dominion had
been at odds for months because
the Nizam, Gen. H. E. H. Sir Mir
Osman Ali Khan, a Moslem has
refused to accede to India.
About four out of five of the up
wards of 16,000,000 people of the
rich state are Hindus. India has
demanded a plebiscite to determine
the future of Hyderabad. The
state is the size of Minnesota and
in south central India and sur
rounded by Indian territory.
The invasion was launched with
in 48 hours of the death of Gov.
Gen. Mahomed Ali Jinnah, the
founder of Pakistan and the main
force in the partition of India. New
Delhi sources said they expected
Jinnah’s death to ease differences
between India and Pakistan.
Bernadette Amarok, who has
been attending the University of
Alaska for the past two years, is
teaciting this year at White Moun
tain in the industrial school main
tained by the ANS.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Queuille New
French Premier
*
PARIS, (JP) — Premier Henri
Queuille Saturday offered France
a program of budget reductions
and increased taxes in an attempt
to get the nation back on its fi
nancial feet.
Backed by a national assembly
vote of 351 to 196, confirming him
as premier, Queuille sought to
form a new centrist government.
He offered the nation a financial
policy along the same general lines
as his two predecessors, Andre
Marie and Robert Schuman. The
same policies caused the downfall
of the two governments.
To adherents of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, the premier tendered a
vague promise to consider the gen
eral elections which they are de
manding. He said the question of
elections will be taken up with the
assembly after the country’s fi
nancial difficulties are solved.
PORTLAND, Ore., <£>) — Five
persons were reported drowned in
the Pacific Northwest Friday and
a sixth was feared lost while fish
ing on a small lake.
Three of the drownings were in
a single accident near Coos -Bay,
Ore. An automobile plunged into
j the Coos river, carrying three con
struction workers to their deaths.
AN
ECONOMIC SURVEY
IS UNDERWAY
IN THE
SECOND DIVISION
Read About Your Division
in the following Alaska Books
Alaska The Last Frontier
By H. W. Clark
Opportunities In Alaska
By George Sundborg
Alaska Now
By Herbert H. Hilscher
NOTE—You may also borrow a copy of the
Preliminary Survey held in 1940 for study
purposes.
KNOW YOUR DIVISION!