ss NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. HI. No. 43 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, (£>) — John Nu
nooruk, 23-year-old Eskimo from
Wales, Alaska, died Monday of
injuries when he was struck by a
motorcycle Sunday on a down
town street.
Lt. A. P. Brandt of the Alaska
Highway Patrol said Nunooruk
was thrown 100 feet by the im
pact.
Gerald Hassel, 20, driver of the
motorcycle, and Neva Snell, 20,
who was riding with him, were
seriously injured.
TACOMA, (/P)—Indictments on
two counts of evading income
taxes were returned by a federal
grand jury Monday against Ken
neth E. and Audrey Richardson
O’Harra, Anchorage, transporta
tion company operators.
They are accused of reporting
gross profits in 1943 for their
O’Harra Transportation Co., of
$135,709.69 whereas the govern
ment contends their gross profits
actually were 181,363.06. In the
second count they are charged as
president and treasurer, respec
tively, of the corporation with un
derstating their tax by $8,000.
They are free under $1,500 bond.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Oscar Ander
son has been re-elected Seattle
secretary-treasurer of the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union.
He defeated Hans Hansen by
109 votes. Also re-elected was
Ralph E. Olsen, assistant secre
tary. Other officers along the
coast also weer re-elected, includ
ing E. M. Berg, Bellingham; Hans
Ostrandt, Portland, and Abe Leh
te, San Francisco
SACRAMENTO, (/P)—Congress
and President Truman were urged
by the California Senate yester
day to speed up statehood for Ha
waii and Alaska.
Senator Gerald O’Gara (D.-San
Francisco), who offered the reso
lution endorsing admission of the
two Territories to the Union, said
the move was essential to nationel
defense.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Mrs. Augusta
Courage. 84, died yesterday fol
lowing a long illness.
Born in New Buffalo. Ind., Mrs.
Courage came to Seattle 45 years
ago. She was in Nome, Alaska,
during the gold rush.
Her husband, Capt. John Cour
age, was lost at sea in 1944. His
56-foot halibut vessel, the F. C.
Hergert, vanished off the Califor
nia coast with the skipper and a
crew of five aboard.
Surviving are a son Capt. John
H. Courage, Jr, of Seattle, master
of a fishing vessel.
BEMUS PONT, N. Y. </P), Bain
(Continued on Page Four)
Thirteen Die In
Crash Of B-29
_
1 ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., (/P)—
A B-29 bomber carried all airmen
aboard—believed to be 13—to
fiery deaths in a crash last night
into the Sandia secret weapons
base.
I Thirteen crew members were
listed on the loading report. An
air force official warned how
ever the death toll cannot be de
termined with absolute accuracy
j until an actual count of bodies is
I made.
The air force drew a tight se
crecy curtain on the tragedy in a
remote area of the atomic bomb
i assembly installation.
Newsmen were barred from en
tering the area, a spot 7,000 feet
high in the Manzano Mountains.
The scene is some five miles east
of Sandia headquarters and 17
miles east of downtown Albu
I querque.
i A road block was thrown across
I the only trial leading into the
area, just off transcontinental U.
S. Highway 66.
The gian strategic air command
' plane from Walker Base at Ros
well, N. M., plunged to the ground
and burned three minutes after
it took off from nearby Kirtland
Field.
Emphasizing secrecy cloaking
the locale, one officer observed:
“Not even the President of the
United States could get into the
J place.”
Names of crewmen were not
made public. The Strategic Air
Command said no one above a
. junior officer was aboard.
' The superfortress burned for
! more than two hours. Flames
! shooting higji in the air were vis
ible from a distance of 15 miles.
The air force said no buildings
were involved in the crash.
Officials declined to say, how
! ever, whether the plane fell in an
area about which there have been
; guarded reports in the past hint
i ing an underground atomic in
stallations.
I
NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL
! PLANNED AT FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, </P>—Plans for a
new $300,000 Catholic school with
accommodations for 250 pupils
have been drawn and construction
is scheduled to get under way
shrotly. the Rev. E. A. Anable,
pastor of the Fairbanks Catholic
Church, announced yesterday.
He said the building will con
tain five class rooms, a gymnasi
um, music rooms, a lunch room
I and a convent for the Sisters of
| the Chairty of Providence. A gar
age, heating plant and caretaker’s
. house also will be built.
The school, to be erected on a j
J 3Va acre site at Slaterville, near j
| Fairbanks, will have no religious
| or racial restrictions.
“Alaska U. S. A.*’
Has Premier Here
Thursday Night
Alaskans will have the first ^
chance to see the new Alaska De
velopment Board color motion
picture “Alaska U. S. A.” at si
multaneous world premiere show
ings to be held April 13 at Ketch
ikan, Juneau, Anchorage, Fair
banks and Nome, it has been an
nounced by George Sundborg,
consultant of the board at Juneau.
The showing here, which will
: be at the Federated Church at
7:30 p.m. Thursday evening. The
film will be shown to all children
in the public schools here
throughout the following few
days.
The movie was produced for
the Alaska Development Board to
stimulate interest throughout the
| United States in Alaska business
and industrial opportunities. It is
! designed to show what modern
Alaska is really like, and to pic
j ture the Territory’s resources and
j recreational attractions.
I “Alaska U. S. A.” was produced
for the Board by Machetanz Pro
ductions. Fred and Sara Mache
j tanz, widely known throughout
j Alaska, spent more of last year in
the Territory taking the pictures
j from which the film has been
j made. The script for the sound
: track which accompanies th pic
! tur was written by George Sund
i borg, who also did the narrating.
Following the premiere show
ings, prints of the film will be
1 available for showing elsewhere
| in Alaska. It later will be sent on
a circuit of showings in all 48
States.
The Nome part of the picture
was taken last Fourth of July and
the week following by Fred and ,
Sara Machetanz and includes
some of the outlying districts.
U. S. Will Seek To
Revoke Bridges’
Citizenship
(By Katherine Pinkham'
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The ;
federal government moved yes-1
terday for immediate revocation
of Harry Bridges’ citizenship.
Such action, if successful, would
open the way for a federal hear- \
ing to deport to Australia the CIO
longshore boss, convicted of per-1
juring himself at his 1945 natural- *
ization hearing by denying he |
ever was a communist.
For that conviction, Bridges
was sentenced Monday to five
years imprisonment. Two labor
union aides were given two years
for their testimony in his behalf
(Continued on Page Two)
Charge U. S.-Russia
Planes Fi re At
Each Other
LONDON, </P)—Russia charged
yesterday that a U. S. military
plane opened‘fire four days ago
on a flight of Soviet fighters over
Latvia, and said one of the Sov
iet planes fired back.
A Soviet protest, lodged with
the U. S. embassy in Moscow,
identified the plane as a B-29
bomber, but U. S. air force head
quarters at Wiesbaden, Germany,
said the plane in question may
have been a missing navy aircraft
sought since Saturday in the
northern Baltic. Air Force offi
cials said this plane, a navy ver
sion of the B-24 bomber, was not
armed.
This plane had 10 men aboard
‘Continued on Page Two)
Taft Demands Tru
man Cleanse Stale
Depl. Of Treason
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Taft (R.-Ohio) demanded today
that President Truman “elimin
ate any suspicion of treason”
from the administration “if he
can.”
Taft, chairman of the Senate
Republican policy committee, also
‘accused Mr. Truman of libeling
Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.' and
of pre-judging McCarthy’s charg
es of communism in the state de
partment.
As Taft let fly at the President
the stage was set for former com
munist Louis Budenz and Owen
Lattimore, Far Eastern affairs
specialist and Johns Hopkins pro
fessor, to confront each other at
a public hearing April 20.
McCarthy has said that Budenz
will swear that he knew Latti
more to be a member of the com
munist party.
Lattimore testified under oath
last week that he never has been
a communist and that he never
knowingly has promoted the
cause of communism.
Lattimore said in a statement
yesterday that he does not know
Budenz. and “to the best of my
recollection I have never met him
and have never been associated
directly or indirectly with him.”
The committee voted yesterday
to subpoena Budenz next Mon
day, but later agreed to Budenz’s
request that his appearanco be
put off to April 20.
Budenz, former managing edi
tor of the Daily Worker, renounc
ed communism in 1945 after serv
ing the party for 10 years. He
then rejoined the Catholic church.
He is now on the faculty at Ford- i
ham University in New York.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday. April 11, 1950
(By The Associated Press'
The tiny kingdom of Thailand
has taken its place alongside dem
ocratic powers in the cold war
against communism, Premier Pi
bul Songgram disclosed today.
The premier of the southeast
! Asian kingdom said the United
! States has granted $10,000,000
worth of arms and other military
aid to Thailand.
! The grant follows the policy
I set at the February conference in
Bangkok of American envoys who
I promised military assistance to
I Asian nations displaying the will
, to stand against the communist
! tide.
Thailand is the only Asian re
gime recognizing the French
sponsored Bao Dai government in
neighboring Indo-China. The U.
' S. and other western powers have
recognized Bao Dai who is mak
ing a stand against communist-led
Chinese Nationalists said 5,000
; communist guerrillas have sur
rendered during the past week on
Hainan Island off the coast of
South China. The Nationalists
have stepped up their campaign
against the estimated 25,000 to
30,000 Red invaders on the island
which has been put down for cap
ture this year in the Chinese com
munist time table.
' “Hainan has become an unsink
i able carrier,” said Gen. Huang
Han-Ying, a high Nationalist staff
; officer who arrived in Taipei,
Formosa, from Hainan.
Plans to evacuate 1,600 Ameri
I cans and other foreigners from
Red-held Shanghai collapsed to
; day for the second time in a
[
' month. At Hong Kong, British au
i thorities announced they have
; cancelled plans for the steamer
i Anking to make the trip to Shang
; hai. No reason was given. Last
month U. S. state department
plans to evacuate the foreigners
were blocked by Chinese authori
ties.
Washington informants said
secretary of state Dean Acheson
has decided against any detailed
review of Britain’s dollar crisis at
next month’s London conference
of Big Three foreign ministers.
Wednesday, April 12. 1950
Washington diplomatic and mil
itary authorities, said today the
cold war isn’t going to turn into
a hot one because of any one inci
dent—such as an airplane shoot
ing scrape reported by the Rus
sians yesterday.
Nevertheless American officials
took a serious view of the impli
cations of Russia’s protest note
which said an American plane
(Continued on Page Three>
p'..I FRIDAY, 8:00 P.M.
\7irl ocout oeneiit HIGH school gym
Program - Refreshments - Games - Prizes !!
I