NOME NUGGET
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VOL. L. No. 119_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1948_PER COPY 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES, (^ — Russian
, science is lagging because Soviet
scientists are afraid to make mis
I takes, says Dr. B. E. Shackelford,
. ^rseident of the Institute of Radio
it Engineers.
». “A Russian scientist who makes
a mistake is all through. Thus he
-doesn’t dare to push research into
unknown paths,” Dr. Shackelford
explained during a press confer
ence at the IRE convention.
FALKIRK, Scotland, {^—Win
ston Churchill says the interna
tional situation has brought “ur
gent and formidable dangers.”
“The situation in Europe has
grown ever more menacing” the
former prime minister said in a
brief letter to C. W. Forbes. Con
servative candidate in next Thurs
day’s parliamentary by-election in
this district. He did not elaborate.
HONGKONG, (/P) — Thirty per
sons were reported dead and 300
homeless in the typhoon that
struck Hainan Island on Monday.
Damage was reported at $5,000,
000.
NEW YORK. (/P) — Reductions,
effective today in the retail prices
•f 49 cuts of meat were announced
1 by the Grand Union company tor
I its metropolitan division super
Vjtfkets.
The'' ^reductions were attributed
by the confrpany to a general break
in the dress'ad beef market, result
ing from heavy receipts of live
cattle. '
FOREST GROVE, Ore. </P)—It
wasn’t enough th^t Pacific univer
sity here has the Initials PU.
Saturday the cathpus journalism
honorary announced it would be
gin publishing a humor magazine
next month. Its title: PU Stinker.
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Cordell
Hull observed his 77th birthday
Saturday. The former secretary of
state was reported progressing so
well at Bethseda (Md.) naval hos
pital that he may leave there soon.
He retired in 1944 because of ill
ness.
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Igor Si
korsky, pioneer helicopter design
er, predicts 50-passenger helicop
ters within the next ten years.
He spoke Friday at a luncheon
on the first anniversary of Los An
geles helicopter mail service only
one of its kind in the woHd.
SEATTLE, (A3)—1The AFL radio
officers’ union Saturday won the
right to represent Alaska Salmon
Cannery radiomen. J. N. Draznin,
election examiner for the national
labor relations board, said the vote
was 22 for the union and six for
no union.
SEATTLE, (A3)—A 30-pound, 4
ounce king salmon caught by Alex
Takacs of Seattle spawned a new
car for its captor today. The fish,
largest caught in the finals of any
salmon derby here this year, was
tops in Sunday’s Puget Sound sal
man derby sponsored by resort
owners of the area.
Russia Proposes
Int’l Atomic
Energy Control
PARIS, (A*) — Russia formally
proposed Saturday a simultaneous
ban on the atom bomb and forma
tion oT arr international atomic er
ergy control organization.
In a' concession to the western
powers, Soviet deputy foreign min
ister Andrei Y. Vishinski proposed
that the U. N. atomic energy com
mission and the security council
draft two cmiventions prohibiting
i a omic weapons and setting up
control over atomic energy, to be
signed and put into force at the
same time.
The Russians previously had de
manded that the atomic bomb be
I banned before the control body.
, was formed.
Warren R. Austin, United States
delegate told reporters a short
time later the Russian resolution
was an “Oriental maneuver of the
type with which we are familiar.”
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Marshall Advocates
Freedom Of Press
i
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Secretary
of State Marshall contended Satur
day in a nftw»pp««r w»eic state
ment that we must see “that the 1
barriers to the flow of information
are reduced and as far as possible
eliminated.”
It is essential to the world peace
we seek, Marshall counseled.
Striking at censorship and press
control, the secretary declared
that “Americans should keep con
stantly in mind that no people
have lost their liberties so long as
their press remains free.” 'I
He described “freedom of the,
people to know the truth” as fun
damental.
i Income Tax Bill
:To Be Presented
To Legislature
j JUNEAU, (/P)—A general income
tax bill will go into the hopper of
the January legislature, attorney
general Ralph Rivers said Friday.
Addrsesing the local junior
i chamber of commerce, Rivers said
the proposed income tax would, if
adopted, be levied on all who do
business in Alaska. It would affect
I seasonal or permanent operators
I and workers alike.
The attorney general said the bill
is one of several already drafted
for presentation to the legislature.
Others would make business li
cense taxes uniform, revise the li
quor laws, establish a board of
control to provide a central au
thority now divided between the
highway patrol, U. S. marshal and
city police, centralize authority
for motor vehicle control into one
department, set up a retirement
system for Territorial employees
through a withholding plan under
which the Territory would match
5 per cent of an employee’s month
ly pay. and impose a Territorial
tax on all land outside of city lim
its.
Truman Finishes
9,000-Mile Trek To
Garner Votes
(By The Associated Press)
Washington Democrats lined up
a 250-car motorcade to hail Presi- !
dent Truman’s return Saturday as
his home-state riopublicans readied i
greetings to Gov. Thomas E. Dew- j
ey campaigning eastward through
Missouri.
Some 10,000 members of the
Truman-Barkley club were on
hand when Mr. Truman’s special
train rolled into the Capital’s
union station to end a 9,000-mile
vote hunt that carried him to the
i Pacific coast.
Next week the President turns ■
the campaign tables on Dewey by
carrying his drive to win a White
House lease extension into the
GOP candidate’s home state of
New York.
Dewey • is due to return home
Sunday night. Reports from Paris
said his foreign affairs adviser,
John Foster Dulles, was flying to
Albany for a special conference
with the New York governor.
With elections one month away,
both men wound up their current
i campaigns with major talks Fri
day night summarizing the points
j they have presented to date.
The GOP campaign theme has
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
The western powers stood fast
; today on their decision to accuse
Russia before the United Nations
of endangering the peace and se
i curity of the world by blockading
] Berlin.
(MOSCOW)—The Soviet Union,
I in a last minute surprise, tried to
I forestall the debate before the
world peace agency. She sent notes
last night to the United States, Bri
tain and France proposing that the
big four foreign ministers meet
and consider the Berlin crisis and
the whole German question.
(PARIS)—Both the U. S. and
Britain let it be known they would
oppose any attempt by Russia to
block the western indictment of
Soviet actions in the beleaguered
German City. Russia contended
the security council has no juris
diction until a German peace
treaty is signed.
U. N. sources said surely Russia
will veto any action taken against
her and ignore any decision the U.
N. takes about Berlin.
(BERLIN)—Her military gover
nor in Germany, truculent mar
shal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, said
as much Saturday. He declared
that trying to solve the Berlin
blockade by means other than di
rect negotiations would result only
in continuing the abnormal situa
tion. Such methods, he said “will
not lead to results.”
(LONDON) — • Britain stopped
breaking down her wartime air
raid shelters.
(BRUUSSELS)—The Belgian de
fense minister said the six nations
of the western European union are
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U. S. Asks Big Four
Talks Be Resumed
(By Arthur Gavshon)
PARIS, f/P)—United States, Bri
tish and French foreign ministers
met today to discuss America’s call
for resumption of big four talks on
Berlin and Germany. They met
while the United Nations security
council was opening debate on the
Berlin crisis.
U. S. secretary of state Marshall,
Britain’s Ernest Bevin and their
top advisers on German affairs,
met with French foreign minister
Robert Schuman in Schuman’s of
fice, a French spokesman reported.
They had before them fully
translated texts of a Russian note,
received in the early hours of this
morning, which replied to their
notice to the Kremlin last week
that they considered direct east
west negotiations for a Berlin set
tlement a failure.
! Discover New
Atomic Mineral
NEW YORK, UP)—Discovery of
a new green mineral rich in uran
ium, the same kind that makes
power and bombs, was announced
I Saturday at Columbia university,
f This green mineral is a relative
; of the yellow carnotite, from
which the United States gets its
domestic uranium in the Rockies.
Carnotite is one of the two best
sources of the atomic stuff.
Whether the green mineral is
plentiful is not yet known. The
green crystals, small things cling
ing to mine walls, were found in
the Belgian Congo and sent to Co
lumbia for analysis. Like the yel
low carnotitie, the green stuff is
about 60 per cent uranium.
If the new mineral proves a
good uranium source, the discov
ery is the most important of its
kind since the atomic bomb. More
than 100 minerals containing
uranium are known, but the stuff
has been too difficult of extrac
tion.
Unions Have Lost
Millions In Wages
In Maritime Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
maritime strike which has locked
tight all but one of the west coast
ports from Mexico to Canada en
tered its second month Saturday.
No early settlement appeared like
ly. Only Tacoma, Wash., on the
Puget Sound, still operated under
conditions approaching normal.
Longshoremen there are members
of an AFL union.
Employers' held fast to their re
fusal to deal with any of the five
striking unions until all union
leaders sign anti-communist affi
davits under the Taft-Hartley law.
CIO president Philip Murray
asked the maritime commission to
use its influence toward reviving
negotiations, in a Washington, D.
C., development Friday.
CIO longshoremen are getting
a few days work each month for
each member through separte con
tracts to load army cargo. About
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Louis Stringer
Finds Pitchblende
Near Nome
The finding of a deposit of sra
tegic pitchblende in the area adja
cent to Nome by Louis C. Stringer
veteran Alaska prospector recent
yl, will possibly accelerate the de
velopment of the Second Division.
The information was made known
here by Mr. Stringer yesterday be
fore his departure for the States
via Fairbanks and Juneau.
Mr. Stringer stated that the
grade of the energy bearing mate
rial was given the highest geiger
count of any such ores yet discov
ered and tested by the govern
ment.
Also of interest to old-timers in
the area, said Mr. Stringer, is the
activity planned for the coming
mining season of 1949 will be the
opening of the coal deposits near
Cape Lisbourne some 380 miles
north of Nome. My company, stat
ed Mr. Stringer, has made ar
rangements to mine claims ex
tending through 12 million tons of
high grade anthracite coal, with
I the possibility of obtaining posses
sion of the entire known deposit of
more than 19 billion tons of coal in
the area.
i The marketing of the coal has
already been planned, stated Mr.
Stringer, in that the operation
could be made to the Orient at a
very reasonable rate, and that the
supply will never exceed the de
mand.
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Russia Says It's Il
legal For Council
To Act On Berlin
PARIS, (/P) — Russia told the
United Nations security council to
j day it has no right to consider
western charges that the Soviet
blockade of Berlin is a menace to
world peace.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky led off his
fight to keep the Berlin issue out
of the council’s hands. He declared
the western demand for U. N. con
sideration of the dispute was de
void of legality, as it does not
fall within the scope of the secur
ity council.”
The issue, he said, should be sent
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Many Hear Carl
Lomen Talk On
Reindeer Industry
In the crowded Service Club at
Marks Air Base Sunday night,
Carl J. Lomen gave an interesting
resume of the reindeer industry
rom it’s inception in Alaska to the
present day and also gave advice
as to the possible future of the in
dustry.
Mr. Lomen told of the govern
ment project to furnish the Alaska
native with meat and clothing
through the planting of reindeer in
Northwestern Alaska before the
turn of the century.
He explained that the first ex
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