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VOL. L. No. 102_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1948_PER COPY 15<«
NEWS IN BRIEF
SINGAPORE, {JP)—A patrol of
British Gurkha troops yesterday
killed two Chinese insurgents car
rying Siamese travel . permits. It
was the first documentary evi
dence of Chinese communist in- J
filtration from Siam into rebel
lious Malaya. The incident was
in Kedah State.
ROME, UP)—The foreign minis
try said yesterday Italian and
• Yugoslav frontier guards ex
changed shots Sunday night at the
Casa Rosa border crossing near
Gorizia. The ministry said no Ital
ians were wounded and added
that it did not know whether
there were any Yugoslav casual
ties.
SEATTLE, (iP) — The Seattle
4 port of embarkation reported the
army transport Honda Knot left
Whittier, Alaska, yesterday with
bodies of approximately 1,500
military personnel and civilians
who were killed or died in the
Alaskan theater during the war.
The Honda Knot will arrive at
Sitka today, then will go directly
to San Francisco. She is due there
Sept. 2.
HONG KONG, (/P) — Former
Japanese sub-Lt. Mangan Sage
jima was hanged yesterday at
Stanley jail for the murder of the
Rev. Leonard Kentish, Australian
missionary, on Aroe Island, Feb.
1 5, 1943.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Funeral serv- |
ices were held here today for |
Laurence E. Albert, head of the
U. S. secret service for the Pacific ,
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Northwest and Alaska. He died
^ Sunday after a long illness.
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DALLAS, (jP) — Byers-Rolnick
Hat company of nearby Garland,
Tex., plotted a way out yesterday
for the man who wagers thus
and-so “or I’ll eat my hat.1’
The firm announced it is join
ing forces with a candy manufac
turer to make candy hats—in six
delicious fruit flavors—for those j
who have to eat their hats.
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (JP) — j
Two army flyers were killed yes-;
*terday afternoon when a Ran- j
dolph air force base training plane j
crashed one mile north of Selma, j
SEATTLE, (JP) — Charles A. j
Burckhardt, 79, former president
of the Pacific Fisheries associa
tion and long active in ship-build
ing and Alaska cannery opera
tions, died here Monday after a
brief illness.
* WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The bur
eau of mines calmly announced,
in its mimeographed monthly re
port, that U. S. gold production in
June was 155,037 tons, compared
* with 155,034 in May.
Someone took a second look and
hastily calculated that this was
more gold than the whole world
has yet produced. The bureau
♦ came through with a hasty cor
rection.
It should" have been 155,037 fine
ounces, not tons.
Russia Stops All
Consular Relation
With United States
(By Thomas P. Whitney)
MOSCOW (/P) — The Russian
government, reacting sharply to
the expulsion of the Soviet con
sul general from New York, chop
ped off all consular ties with the
United States today.
The action entails the closing of
Russian consulates in New York
and San Francisco, the closing of
a United States consulate in Vlad
ivostok and the voiding of an
agreement granting the United
States the right to open a consul
ate in Leningrad.
It grow out of what has become
known as the Kosenkina affair,
the case of a Russian school
teacher now in a New York hos
pital, who has been the subject of
an international tug-of-war on the
highest diplomatic levels, v
The U. S‘. state department, on
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Two Berlin Supply
Planes Collide
And Burn; 4 Dead
RAVOTZHAUSEN, Germany,
(/P)—Two American planes on the
supply run to blockaded Berlin
collided outside this American
zone town yesterday killing four
U. S. fliers.
Five American fliers have been
killed previously in two accidents
on the air run since the Russians
blockaded Berlin late in June.
The planes were two-engined
C-47s. They plunged into corn
fields, around this village which
is 14 miles northeast of Frankfurt.
The planes were returning to
Wiesbaden from Berlin, where
they had delivered supplies.
Hours after the collision, flames
from the wreckage prevented re
moval of the bodies. Rescuers;
could see only one body in the
tangle of debris.
U. S. Refuses Entry
To “Red Dean” |
LONDON, (iP)—As far as Cen
terbury’s “Red Dean” is concern
ed, the United States can either
receive him as a friend of Soviet
Russia or do without his presence.
The dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson,
disclosed Monday night that he
had been refused a visa to enter
the United States because Ameri
can authorities disapprove of the
National Council of the American
Soviet Friendship Society which
had invited him to be its guest.
An American official subse
quently said in Washington that
Dr. Johnson probably would be
admitted if he came “on his own
work.”
“Oh, dear, no,” the 74-year-old
churchman exclaimed as he left
by plane for Poland, “I do not go
as a split personality.”
In Poland, Dr. Johnson will at
tend a meeting at Wroclaw of the
“Congress of Intellectuals in the
Defense of Peace.”
fnternation’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
(BERLIN)—Maj. Gen. Alexan
der Kotikov, Russian commandant
in Berlin, accused the anti-com
munist city government today of
unauthorized actions splitting the
city police force and other agen
cies. The city government charged
the Russians themselves caused
the splits by strong arm tactics.
An American spokesman said
the Russian attack was “another
attempt to increase the pressure”
on the elected Berlin administra
tion and perhaps intended to “jus
tify eventual withdrawal of recog
nition” of the city regime.
Two more shootings on border
zones in Berlin and Bavaria were
reported. Persons in Russian uni
forms wounded a German woman
! in Berlin. German police from the
Russian zone killed a German
agent of the U. S. army on the
Bavarian border. At the oft-raided
Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the
Russians, British and Americans
withdrew armed patrols, easing
tension.
The official Russian newspaper
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Truman Cancels
Russ’ Credentials
YORKTOWN, Va. (/P) — Presi
dent Truman today canceled the
credentials of Soviet consul gen
eral Jacob Lomakin.
Mr. Truman’s action was an
nounced by Presidential secretary
Charles G. Ross at the White
House yacht, docked at the navy
mine depot near here.
The President also said the na
tional security resources board
has recommended the continuance
of voluntary allocations of petro
leum and steel.
Ross Sc.id the President signed
aboard the Williamsburg last
night the formel revocation of the
credentials issued to Lomakin, the
Soviet consul general in New
York. He said it is being flown
back to Washington today.
The United States several days
ago asked Russia to recall Loma
kin for “highly improper” activi
ties in the case of three refugee
Soviet school teachers.
CITY COUNCIL
HAS BUSY MEETING
Following the regular business,
reading of bills, reports of com
mittees and communications the
City Council approved 4 to 1 a re
ediest by Frank Coplen for a li
quor dispensary license.
Work of the street committee
and the fire committee was dis
cussed at length and the report of
the fire committee on the putting
in of extensions to the fire mains
on First Ave., West, and on West
D St., also plans for further ex
tension of the mains in the East
End district of Nome, and the “B”
Street line to the new hospital
site. Work is going along well and
should be quite complete when
the freeze-up comes, said Les
Bronson chairman of the commit
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Longshoremen,
S.S. Companies
Sign Two-Year
Agreement
SEATTLE, UP)—'The Inter
n a t ional Longshoremen &
Warehousemen's union and
major steamship companies
serving Alaska have announc
ed a new two-year agree
ment covering longshore work
in Alaska. William Gettings,
union representative, said it
prvoides a \SVi cents hourly
wage increase. Gettings said
the agreement means long
wcrk in Alaska would con
tinue even though Pacicif
Coast ports were closed by
strike, but that CIO long
shoremen would not work
Alaska ships in Seattle in
event of a strike.
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—A go
to- meeting work stoppage by
j thousands of longshoremen step
ped up the volume of strike talk
along the west coast waterfronts
yesterday.
The NLRB went ahead with
plans for the balloting But neither
union nor employer spokesmen
reported anything in the situation
to prevent a strike when the Taft
kartley cooling-off period ends
] Sept. 2. The dispute between the
union and ship owners involves
wage, hour and working condi
tion demands, but centers largely
on the hiring hall.
Sixteen Die In B-29
; Crash In Hawaii
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(By Lief Erickson)
HICKAM FIELD, Hawaii, (/P)—
Sixteen airmen died last night in
the twisted, burned wreckage of
an Okinawa bound superfortress
that crashed in one of the islands’
worst peacetime air disasters.
Four others were burned seri
ously. One of the big bomber’s
four engines conked out three
minutes after it took off from
Barber’s Point on another leg of
its Far Eastern hop. from the 98th
bomber group’s base at Spokane.
Wash.
The pilot was ordered to land
at the municipal airport, which
adjoins Hickham field. The super
fort came in at an altitude of 150
feet and missed the municipal air- j
port. The pilot banked the plane
in an attempt to circle and bring |
it back in but a wing caught a
transport plane parked on a Hick
am field taxi way.
The superfort crashed into a i
concrete power substation and,
exploded.
Witnesses said the four surviv
ors either jumped or were thrown
free from the wreckage. They
were rushed to Tripler arm} gen- '
eral hospital where doctors said
their condition was serious.
The plane was one of 28 from
the 98th group enroute to Okin
awa to relieve the first air divi
sion unit there. It was one of 14
superforts scheduled to leave yes
terday.
Chamber Dinner
Attended by Many
A dinner-meeting of the NWA
Chamber of Commerce was held
last night in the Pioneer Hall, and
was very well attended.
President H. F. Harper told the
group of the past activities of the
Chamber and that it behooves
each and every member of the
Chamber to carry on the work in
earnest, to talk about the activi
ties of the chamber and to take a
hand in the work necessary to get
the job done. Whatever the prob
lem. it takes the combined effort
of all members.
Carl Lomen, who represented
the Chamber in Washington, told
of the extreme difficulties in ob
taining passage of the Nome Sea
wall Bill. He stated that “Friends
of Nome” Senators and Congress
men in the Capitol City, did much
by way of assistance in getting
the bill before the Houses and
passed. Nome is indeed indebted
to these men for their support.
G. R. Jackson, who very ably
assisted Mr. Lomen in Washing
ton, spoke of the work accom
plished by Mr. Lomen and stated
that the forthcoming session
wrould require the services of Mr.
Lomen in obtaining passage of the
appropriation bill for the break
water.
Mr. Jackson also stated that he
had received a report of a fisher
ies survey to be undertaken dur
ing the month of September and
to embrace the district just south
of and adjacent to Nome and the
Seward Peninsula.
He brought out the fact that
this committee comprising him
self, Carl Lomen and A. Polet,
had been working continuously
on the project for the past several
years.
Jack Anderson, dock superin
tendent for the Lomen Commer
cial Company, reported addition
al information on the fisheries for
area in that he had made several
trips into various parts of Norton
Sound and Bering Sea between
Nome and St. Lawrence Island.
He stated that there are many
kinds of fish in the Bering Sea,
and that the Golovin Bay herring
is known the world over for its
remarkable quality. Halibut, cod,
and other fishes abound in the
shallow’ w’aters of the Bering Sea,
he said, and there are numerous
of the shell and bottom fish vari
eties. An industry is here, he
stated, the men and equipment
are the only necessity. Nome har
bor could be utilized for the small
boat fleet and the Eskimos could
have a business which would
raise their economy over present
standards.
Sam Mogg and Frank Johnson,
both members of the Arctic Na
tive Brotherhood, spoke of the
fishing industry, and a cold stor
age plant, as part of the business
planned by the association. Both
the men were for putting the Es
kimo on his own, and giving them
a chance to become self-support
ing in an economy far above pres
ent levels. They brought out facts
about the living conditions of Es
kimos during wdnter periods when
work was not available and the
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