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VOL. LI. No. 137 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1671949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
W ASHINGTON, {&)— Harold A.
Jones, civil aeronautics board
member, left yesterday for Alaska
to study the problems of certifi
cated aid carriers and the needs of
Alaska for air services.
Jones will report to the board
on his findings. It is understood
to be concerned over the financial
difficulties of the certificated air
lines in Alaska. These are the air
lines authorized to operate sched
uled service.
The study will not cover the op-,
erations of non-scheduled air car
riers nor will it relate to the Alas
kan route case now pending be
fore the board, an official said.
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — The na
tion’s multi-million dollar “falsie”
business is periled by plastic sur
gery.
Dr. H. Otto Barnes, Los Angeles
plastic surgeon, told the conven
tion of the Pan American Medical
Women’s Alliance Monday, that an
operation can increase a woman’s
bust measurements. The operation,
which removes the need for fal
sies, requires a small incision and
rearrangements of tissues.
He added that it has been un
dertaken successfully and is val
uable because anything that up
lifts a woman’s morale “is benefi
cial.” j
WILMINGTON, Del. UP) — A
strike today halted the Wilming- j
ton Transit System, leaving Dela- j
ware’s largest city without buses
and trackless trolleys.
The walkout hour was 3:50 a.m.!
Actually the stoppage started
some time earlier when the last
“Owl” bus was garaged.
SEATTLE UP)—'The first known
displaced Europeans to go to Ko
diak flew north early today.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Ansis
Antons and their son, Ervins, 27.
The elder Antons is a carpenter
from Latvia. They are sponsored
by the Kodiak Baptist church.
They left on the 2 a.m. North
west Airlines plane to Anchorage.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Mackay Ra- j
dio said today it had intercepted
a radio message indicating a U. S.
air force B-29 was believed lost |
and about to land in the ocean off
Bermuda.
Mackay said the message, sent
by the marine station at Bermuda,
said:
“All ships within 100 miles of
Bermuda please keep sharp look- i
out for USAF B-29 aircraft 5289
with USAF markings and silver
colored believed lost and about to
ditch and may transmit signals on
500 kilocycles.”
No other information was avail
able here.
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SEATTLE, (/P)—•More than two
dozen ships which took part in the
Hawaiian Island operation “Miki” |
will unload in Puget Sound ports
before Friday.
Five—The Mt. McKinley, Wash- |
burn, Union, Winston and Semin- j
ole—will unload at Tacoma. Tying
up at Olympia are the Chilton,
Bexar, George Clymer, Cavalier,
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Bartlett Says
Alaskan Defenses j
Must Be Improved
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(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON. (^ — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said yesterday
defenses of the Territory should
be improved next year when new
housing may became available for
combat troops.
Just back from Alaska, Bartlett
said it is generally known that
Alaska is inadequately defended
but the $96,000,000 voted by Con
gress in its closing days for use by
the armed services in the Terri
tory will pave the way for over
coming deficiencies.
The money will be mainly used
to provide housing, twhich he said
can be started in the spring to pro
vide quarters for combat troops.
“There are adequate air force
installations in Alaska,” Bartlett
told a reporter, “but the troops
there are chiefly air force and
service units. There are no com
bat troops to defend the airfields.
“It is generally conceded if war
comes to Alaska the airfields
could be captured without trouble
and used as bases for airplanes
that could bomb any city in the
United States. Such a situation
exposes the Pacific Coast and
even the industrial east to attack
in case of war.’
He said the services could send
materials to Alaska this winter
and start construction when warm
spring weather arrives.
‘Appropriating the money at the
last session,” he said, “reallysaves
a year in getting the construction
of housing and other necessary
buildings under way. If the appro
priation had not been passed un
til the next session, construction
could not have gotten under way
until the summer of 1951 and we
would have lost an entire year.”
Bartlett said that though the
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East Coast Marine
Strike Averted
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A strike
of 2.000 AFL deck officers on 500
vessels plying the Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico sealanes was nar
rowly averted late last night by
government intervention.
A truce for at least one week—
but more probably for 30 days—
was agreed upon an hour before
the AFL masters, mates and pilots
were to walk off passenger and
dry cargo vessels of the 38 com
panies represented by the Ameri
can Merchant Marine Institute.
Federal mediators who stepped
into the dispute on Monday, weary
from tussels with coal and steel
j strikes, proposed the truce. It was
j accepted to allow more time for
the parties to settle their differ -
. ences over hiring arrangements
I ments demanded by the union,
| and 16 other contract issues.
The peace terms provided that
the union and the companies each
would consult their principals by
next Monday and either side
i would be free to revoke the truce
[ by Tuesday noon.
The contract expired on Sept. 30
but was extended twice before the
truce. The last minute extension
i was understood to have been
urged by sister unions of the AFL,
which were pledged to support the
deck officers but which were anx
ious to keep working if possible.
The union wanted a rotation
system of hiring, by which avail
able work would be shared in turn
by qualified men listed in hiring
halls. These are a sort of union
employment bureau, supplying
men for ship jobs.
LIBRARY ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
Keogoayah Kozga Library Club
sponsors of Nome’s Public Library
which is maintained in the City
Hall, elected new officers for 1950
at their regular meeting Monday
evening at the home of Mrs. W.
(lonvict Knihassv
(]|erk of Treason
WASHINGTON f/P)—Herbert J.
Burgman, 53, long a clerk in the
American embassy in Berlin, was
convicted late yesterday of treason
to his country.
Instead of coming home with
ather diplomatic personnel when
the United States and Germany
went to war, Burgman remained
behind and became a radio propa
gandist. He is a native of Hokah,
Minn.
Burgman faces a maximum sen
tence of death, a minimum pen
alty of five years in prison and a
$10,000 fine.
If Burgman heard and under
stood the verdict branding him as
a traitor he gave no indication.
Suffering from a heart ailment,
he sat slumped in a wheel chair
when jury foreman Homer R. Ba
ker, a physicist employed at the
naval research laboratory, an
nounced the jury had found Burg
man “guilty as charged.”
Burgman’s German wife and his
Germanborn son, Thomas, 26,
likewise showed no reaction. Both
had testified in his behalf.
The defense contended (1) that
Gergman was mentally incompe
tent when he made the propagan
da broadcasts and (2) that he acted
under duress.
It was Washington's second post
war treason trial. Burgman was
indicted in March, about the time
another jury in the same court
room was convicting Mildred E.
(Axis Sally* Gillars, also a German
radio propagandist. She received
a sentence of 10 to 30 years and a
$10,000 fine. Her appeal is still
pending.
Cameron. Mrs. Larry Galvin was
elected president; Mrs. Elmo Mil
ler, secretary-treasurer of the
club. Mrs. K. Dewey was elected
chairman of the board of directors
of the Library and Mrs. W. Cam
eron secretary-treasurer.
Auto Pioneer Still Going Strong on Anniversary
, Ransom E. Olds, left, at 85 the only living member
of America’s early automotive pioneers, takes part
in the 43th anniversary of the company bearing his
initials — Reo. With Mr. Olds is Joseph S. Sheror
Jr., President of Reo Motors, Inc., and Reo truck'
.of today and yciterday. The 1950 Reo is powered
the company’s new Gold Comet engine, roc...
introduced. The company, originally named the Reo
Car Company, was formed on September 27, 1904.
Just 185 days after ground was broken for the first
snip'1 building in Lansing, Mich., a carload of new
was shipped. Reo today manufactures trucks,
trin:: i coaches and school buses, and is the world’s
poducer of power lawn mowers.
PioiKMM* Hoof
(iardrn Vctivitics
Although the date sef for the
Iioof Garden, December 10th, is
still more than three week.-, away,
chairman Dan Jones is driving his
various committees, exacting "on
the spot" rehearsals for those in
charge of entertainment; demand- .
ing reports from the committee on
games, prizes, etc.; accepting some
suggestions, rejecting others; scrut
inizing every detail on the pro
gram, determined as he says, “to
make this, the 41st Annual Roof
Garden the most elaborate, yet
typical Pioneer celebration that
has ever been offered to the peo
ple of Nome.” As one member of
i the cast was heard to say last
i night after rehearsal: “Dan is
' tough to work with, technical, me
thodical, heck on detail, but still
we like him. He knows his stuff.’*
Mary Roell, incoming president
of the Ladies Auxiliary has been
assigned the duty of selecting the
choicest fur piece obtainable for
one of the prizes. She has received
j specimens from Kotzebue, Kobuk,
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| Poland A rresls
Spies. Saboteurs
WARSAW, Poland, </P>—Presi
dent Boleslaw has disclosed the
arrest of spies, saboteurs and ter
rorists in a drive to wipe out on
j “entire underground army” in
communist-led Poland.
The report on widespread oppo
sition to the Red government was
made in a speech last week to the
Control committee of the ruling
communist party and published in
detail yesterday in the nation’s
press.
Observers believed the unpre
cedented revelations indicate a big
series of treason trials soon.
Fire Destroys
\laska Airlines
Anchorage Hangar
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ANCHORAGE. CP'i—A $100,000
fire destroyed most of the Alaska
Airlines hangar at Merrill Field
Monday, burning two planes and
two automobiles.
The flames, of unknown origin,
broke out at 1:55 p.m. and were
not brought under control for
more than an hour. Explosions of
gasoline drums and magnesium
landing flares kept firemen from
entering the blazing structure.
The Anchorage, Alaska Rail
raod, Air Force, CAA and Alaska
Airlines fire departments joined
in preventing the blaze from
spreading to nearby buildings.
Anchorage, fire chief George
Burns s-aid a 40 by 60 foot section
of the hangar was destroyed and
the remainder was badly dam
aged by smoke and water. It had
been used by the airline recently
for storage. The planes which
burned were a Cessna 170 and a
Stinson.
The damage estimate was made
by the fire company officials for
the airline.