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VOL. XLIX. No. 69_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. JUNE 9, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONG BEACH, Calif. </P)—Use
plain English, Dr. Cecil H. Bliss
of the University of Iowa advises
dentists, in discussing a patient’s
problems.
“Avoid the use of bad-sounding
phrases,” Dr. Bliss urged the Los.
Angeles county dental society.
“Instead of saying ‘false teeth,”
you might try “wrinkle remov
ers’.”
DORANVILLE, Ga. (;P>—Four
thousand dollars in currency was
spread along four miles of rail
road track here Saturday when a
mail bag fell under the wheels of
a speeding express train.
Reports that the bag contained
$50,000 brought scores of search
ers to the scene.
The bag bounced under the
train wheels when the mail clerk
tossed it toward the station plat
form. Postoffice inspectors recov
ered most of the money.
SEATTLE, (/P>—Herring fisher
men in Southeastern Alaska re
ceived a negotiating committee’s
report at a union meeting Friday
night. Another special meeting
was called for Tuesday night at
which, leaders said, a definite new
contract proposal is expected from
employers.
NEW YORK, (/P)_The liberty
ship Paul Bunyan wobbled and
shivered at sea a few days out of
Liverpool, England, chief engineer
Leonard W. Balentine reported
when the ship docked here.
But it wasn’t the cargo—1,200
tons of Scotch whisky—that gave
her the wobbles. Balentine said
the ship’s propellor had snapped.
SPANGLE, Wash., m — Two
persons were killed and eight in
jured near here yesterday when
a Greyhound bus and a passenger
car collided at the top of a small
hill.
The dead, both of whom were
riding in the car, were identified
as Robert Cole of St. John, Wash.,
and Eugene E. Nelson of Rosalia,
Wash.
Andrew J. Calhoun, 22, of Ro
salia, and Bill Schaeffer, 20, of St.
John, who were also passengers
in the car, were the most serious
ly injured. Calhoun is in a local
hospital suffering from a frac
tured skull, possible leg fractures
and a crushed hand and wrist.
Schaeffer received severe head
and facial cuts.
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SEATTLE, {IP)—The movement
of cannery workers to Alaska by
air, tried out on a large scale the
first time this year, reaches its
peak this week. Officials of North
ern Airlines said today more than
' 1,500 workers, headed for 21 dif
ferent canneries, are being flown
from Boeing field here and Bell
ingham to Naknek, Cold Bay, Ko
diak and Anchorage. The largest
group is being flown for Pacific
American Fisheries of Belling
ham. The shorter air run north
saves operators wage costs, as
workers are paid from the time
they leave. 1
Rains Do Much j
Crop Damage In
Northwest U. S.
<-By The Associated Press>
A hammering rain, striking at
the height of the cherry harvest in
the rich fruitlands of Oregon and
Washington, took one life over the
week end and slashed a $2,000,000
hole in the wallet of the northwest
farmers.
i Mrs. Michael Yallup of Toppen
ish died when a flash flood swept
her from a ten near the Dalles.
! Her husband said an eight-foot
| wall of water slammed into their
j camp and that he clutched at a
; fence wire to save his life. Mrs.
; Yallup’s body was found a mile
j below the camp.
T. O. Duncan, whose home is at
Bandon, Ore., rescued his chil
dren from a truck just before the
machine was swept away in the
Dalles flood. The Red Cross at the
Oregon City said more than 50
persons saved themselyes by
l clinging to debris, fence wires
! and by climbing trees,
j Fruit growers estimated the
| damage to orchards from the rain
and hail storm that brought on
the flood would exceed $1,000,000.
Hail,, rain, high winds and flood
waters ruined 5,000 acres of sugar
beets and much wheat in the
i Walla Walla region.
Farmers there and in the Cen
tral Washington fruit growing
area from Okanogan south through
; the Wenatchee and Yakima val
i leys placed their losses another
$1,000,000. Floods also struck the
I lower Yakima valley, covering
; fields, filling basements and wash
i ing out roads and ditches.
I More rain throughout the north
west was in prospect today.
EXTENSIVE REPAIRS
TO BE MADE ON
C. A. A. AIR FIELD
—
Earl Butcher, paving contractor,
has been in Nome the past several
days attending to preliminary de
tails in connection with his con
tract with the C.A.A, to repair
and seal-coat the local C.A.A. air
field.
Mr. Butcher states his contract
calls for 3000 sq. yards, one inch
deep, of patching, and 489,730
yards of seal-coating, and estim
ates the work will require 60 days
(w. p.)—40 to 50 men will be em
ployed.
610 tons of asphalt and some
equipment is scheduled to arrive
on the first boat, which combined
with C.A.A. asphalt and equip
ment remaining from the Som
mers Construction Co. original
work on the field, will be used to
complete the present job.
Mr. Butcher left for Fairbanks
on Thursday’s plane expecting to
return on June 9th, at which time
he will open an office for employ
ment and other purposes. Actual
work on the project will begin fol
lowing arrival of the first boat.
Joe Molloy, C.A.A. staff engin
eer from Anchorage headquarters,
will be the resident engineer, rep-;
resenting the C.A.A. for the dura-1
tion of the contract.
CONGRESS
ROUNDUP
WASHINGTON, i/Ph-As in the
case of the tax reduction bill, the
next move on the Taft-Hartley la
bor bill now is up to President
Truman.
The Senate completed Congres
sional action on the GOP-spon
sored union-curb bill Friday night,
approving it 54 to 17.
The legislation now goes to
President Truman for his veto or j
approval. Earlier in the week Con-!
gress sent him the Republican
backed tax cut measure.
Mr. Truman has given no indi
cation of his intentions with re
gard to either bill.
GOP leaders in Congress claim
sufficient strength to override a
, veto of the labor bill, pointing to
i the Senate margin of 54-17 and
i the House vote of 320 to 79. A two
third majority vote in each branch
is necessary to overcome a Presi
dential veto.
However, they conceded that in
the case of the tax bill they lack
ed the strength in the Senate to
override a veto.
Senator Ellender (D.-La /> told a
reporter he does not expect Mr.
Truman to disapprove of the labor
bill, adding:
“I think he may write a sting
ing criticism of it, but accept it
primarily on the ground that by
July 1 he would have no other
tool to fight John L. Lewis.”
On the final Senate vote 37 Re
publicans and 17 Democrats voted
for the labor bill, 15 Democrats
and two Republicans voted
against it.
Senator Ferguson ( R.-Mich.>,
chairman of a judiciary sub-com
mittee looking into alleged vote
frauds in Kansas City last fall,
announced he will recommend
that the Senate authorize a broad
inquiry with committee sessions
in Kansas City.
Ferguson has charged the jus
tice department “whitewashed”
the matter in an early probe of
the Democratic primary election
in which Enos Axtell, with the
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Spain May Resume
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Monarchy Status
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MADRID, (A*) — Generalissimo
Francisco Franco decreed today a
national referendum on his re
gime and eventual return of the
monarchy—but no freedom of the
press, speech, assembly or other
facilities for discussion of the
questions involved.
The vote, July 6, will be the
first election in Spain since that
held February. 1936, under the
republic.
The referendum will be by
“yes” or “no” on the law of suc
cession approved by the Cortes
(parliament Saturday. This law
declares Franco chief of stale and
Spain a kingdom, and provides
for a king or regent to succeed to
power in the event of the death
or incapacitation of Franco. Fran
co also is given the right to name
his successor in the event he re
tires. 1
Austria Is
Stalin's Answer
To Truman Policy
(By The Associated Press*
A Communist maneuver against
the conservative-dominated gov
ernment of Austria was reported
in Vienna Saturday, adding to the
swift-moving sequence of events
which many western diplomats
regard as Stalin’s answer to the
Truman doctrine.
A high personality in the Aus
trian administration quoted a
leading Austrian Communist as
saying Moscow would refuse to
sign a peace treaty with the pres-1
ent Austrian government. The
Communist, Ernst Fischer, was
quoted as telling two Austrian
; cabinet members that he had def
' inite information from Moscow
! that repercussions could be ex
i pected if “western orientation” in
Austria remained unchanged.
This drew significance from the
Communist coup in Hungary,
which forced Premier Ferenc
! Nagv out of office, and the arrest
j in Sofia of the chief of Bulgarian
j opposition to the Soviet-supported
Communist regime.
The British sent a second letter
to the Russian commander in Bud
apest asking copies of documents
allegedly implicating Nagy in a
plot to overthrow the Hungarian
republic.
British Maj. Gen. O. P. Edg-1
cumbe made the demand in reply
ing to a letter from Soviet Lt.
Gen. V. P. Sviridov, -acting chair
man of the allied control commis
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Federal Housing
To Be Liquidated !
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Foresee
ing early saturation of the build- (
ing materials market and many j
price reductions “in the offing.”
the House appropriations commit
tee recommended today that the
office of Federal Housing expe
diter be liquidated at the end of
this month.
The committee took the action
in the annual government corpo
rations supply bill in which it
also <a> called for sharp curtail
ment of the National Housing
Agency activities and <b> asked
Congress to require the Tennessee
Valley Authority to repay during
the next 40 years $348,239,240 in
appropriations for power-produc
ing facilities.
The bill carries appropriations
for six federal agencies and says
how much of their revenues 21
others may use for administrative
expenses during the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
Total new appropriations
recommended are $36,097,580, a
reduction of $14,039,920, or 28 per
cent, below budget estimates. To
tal administrative expense limita
tions are $41,649,700, a cut of $14,
847,550, or 26 per cent, from what
the 21 agencies had requested.
Of the total recommended cut in
direct appropriations, $9,225,920,
or almost 06 per cent, was directed
at the housing agencies.
Floods, Tornadoes
Damage and Kill
in Central U. S.
•By The Associated Press)
Lowland residents along the
middle reaches of the Mississippi
river were struck by flood waters
today as the death toll in other
widespread week-end floods and
tornadoes mounted to at least 24.
Damage to crops and city prop
erty was estimated in the millions
of dollars.
Ottumwa, hardest hit by floods,
had seven of Iowa’s 11 deaths as
the Des Moines river receded from
about one-third of the homes in
; the city of 32,000 population. Hei
; shel Loveless, director of rescue
| operations, said, however, that he
i expected to find other bodies
downstream but added that he had
“no idea” how many.
The Mississippi, swollen by
■ high water from the Des Moines,
. rolled on over thousands of acres
of Illinois and Missouri farm
lands, after breaking six levies
and flooding the village of Alex
: andria, Mo., and forcing more than
j 1,000 families to evacuate their
lowland farm homes between
Warsaw, 111., and Hannibal, Mo.,
yesterday.
Mayor Merl Hamil of Alexan
dria said the stream appeared to
have crested there with six inches
of water in the main street. About
600 families were driven from
1 their homes.
The river reached a record stage
of 23.6 feet at Quincy, 111., but that
city, situated on a bluff, escaped
! damage. Across the river, the
power part of the downtown sec
^ tion of Hannibal, Mo., was flood
ed.
A 15-block area of Sharon, Pa.,
was leveled and five persons were
killed by a tornado which ripped
into western Pennsylvania late
Saturday from Ohio.
Red Cross officials estimated
the storm damage in Sharon at
$660,000.
Wooten Succeeds
Hoppin As Head
Of Alaska Airlines
NEW YORK. (/P)—Raymond W.
Marshall, chairman of the board
of Alaska Airlines, Inc., announc
ed the election of James A. Woo
ten as President, effective July 1,
of the company which operates
more than 6000 miles of certificat
ed routes in the Territory and
makes non-scheduled flights in
and out of the United States.
Wooten, who has resigned as
general manager of the contract
cargo division of American Air
lines, succeeds Marshall C. Hop
pin who will continue with Alaska
Airlines in another executive ca
pacity to be announced later.
DROUTH
ASBURY PARK, N. J. (/P)—'The
Hotel Columbia is closing its bar
for six days. Conventions under
way, the management explained,
include that of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union.