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VOL. L. No. 127_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948_PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, (A*) — Wildrid Mey
nell, 96, essayist and biograjlher
of Disraeli, died Wednesday night
at his Sussex home.
BREMERHAVEN, Germany (Ah
The U. S. army transport General
Black, sailed for New York yester
day with 813 immigrants of 11
nations. They will be the first dis
placed persons admitted to the U.
S. under a recent Congressional
Act.
BANGKOK, Siam (A*)—Siamese
provincial officials charged yes
terday 100 French soldiers crossed
the Siamese border from Indochi
na and killed a police constable
and two Siamese civilians Oct. 18.
PEIPING, (Ah—Hsu Hsiu-Chih,
who was mayor of Peiping during
the Japanese occupation, was sen
tenced to life imprsonment yester
day on conviction of collaborating
with the enemy.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
(/P) — Fifteen hundred dockers
struck yesterday because the gov
ernment won’t let them pay their
income tax through weekly pay
roll deductions.
Paying once a year, leaders of
the unofficial one-day demonstra
tion said, leaves most workers
flat around income taxtime.
JUNEAU, OP) — Until further
snow falls, the Haines Cutoff can
be traveled between Haines and
Fairbanks, Territorial highway en
gineer Frank Metcalf advises. Six
inches of snow lie on parts of the
highway.
ANCHORAGE, OP) — Flown to
Minneapolis for medical treat
ment, Ted Hersee, well known
guide at Homer, died there last
Wednesday. His wife was at his
bedside. He was flown here by
the Tenth Rescue squadron and
south by Northwest Airlines.
TOKYO, OP)—Brig. Gen. Jarred I
V. Crabb will assume command
of the United States Thirteenth
Air Force on Nov. 11, Far Eastern
Air Forces command announced
todey.
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BERLIN, (/P)—For the first time
since the war, international trav
elers will be permitted to drive
private automobiles through West
ern Germany beginning Nov. 1.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, (/P) — The
newspaper Izgrev says 10,000 Bul
garian Jews will leave for Israel
soon.
The emigrating group, Izgrev
reported, is mostly in the under1
50 group, although there are
a small number of older people
leaving, whose children are in Is- j
rael.
NEW YORK, (/P)—A plot to ex- |
tort $100,000 from Edgar F. Luc- |
kenbach, Jr., heir to a steamship |
fortune and “angel” for Broadway
shows, was disclosed today by po
lice.
Detectives said the scheme had !
been broken up with the arrest of
two men, one of whom admitted [
sending an extortion letter.
Russia “Jams”
Planes’ Radio
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Communications
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SEATTLE, (/P>—'The Post-In‘el- !
ligencer quoted an Alaska airline
operator today as saying that Sov- !
iet Russia repeatedly has jammed
radio communications of planes in
the Aleutian Islands and North
Pacific.
The newspaper said R. C. (Bob*
Reeve, owner of Reeve Aleutian
Airways, related in Anchorage:
“They jam us both mechanical
ly and by voice. . . . Our commun
ications hove been jammed too
frequently for the interference to
be accidental.”
Reeve said radio conversations
from pilots to Aleutian bases were
jammed, as well as ground in
structions to pilots making GCA
(ground control approach* land
j ings in the islands.
Reeve was also quoted as say
ing that pilots of another commer
cial airline have been led off
course on flights to Japan by false
radio bearings which he said or
iginated in Russia. The other air
line was not identified in the dis
patch.
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lnternation’1 News
At A Glance —
Thursday, October 21, 1948
(By The Associated Press)
The Big Five powers pledged
themselves in favor of peaceful
settlement of their differences.
It remained to be seen tomor
row, when the Berlin blockade de- i
bate is resumed, whether the ac
tion was more than words. The
big five are the United States,
Russia, Britain, France nad China.
They agreed to a Mexican resolu
tion to that effect in the United '
Nations political committee.
Informed sources said there is a
slim chance at least that the six 1
smaller powers on the security
council will be able to bring Rus
sia and the western powers to a
solution of the Berlin crisis. One
neutral source said deputy for
eign minister Andrei Vishinsky of
Russia had given conditional ap
proval to a neutral plan for solv
ing the Berlin issue. An American ;
spokesman said the plan is accept- i
able and satisfactory.
The plan is said to appeal to the
United States. Britain. France and
Russia to make no move that
would lead to war; a call to life
Russia to lift the blockade; the
four powers to put into effect the
tentative Moscow accord which
would have made Russian-spon
sored marks the sole Berlin cur
rency; and the foreign ministers
council to meet afterwards on all
German problems. The Russians
tightened the blockade a little
more with railway restrictions.
Communists were stirring trou
ble still in Korea, France, Greece
and China.
Jews and Arabs seemed to be
fighting harder than ever in the
Negev desert of Southern Pales
tine, despite an U. N. cease-fire
order. The ews captured Beershe
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"There Can Be No
Isolation For U. S.”
Says Dewey
___________ •
Both President Truman and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey were book
ed on New York programs yester
day, but with Mr. Truman making
his talk from the White House.
The Presidential candid a ' e s
were holding their main fire, ow
ever, for next week’s campaign
windup when they make their fi
nal personal appea nc • tou of
th '°' ’ ■ mtest.
Dewey spoke Wednesday night
on the ..v\ fork Herald Tribune
for: m whe e he renewed his
strength-through-un'ty plea
iivisi > >nd dissension are an
nvitation to he ggressor, he
. a.d. “V*e v ill put them beh.r us.
The tas of w in" ) ace s'1
v r sanship. We must
ep it a~ v hi \
ica will stand before the world as
o.'. conn, y and one people, be
lieving deeply in the cuu of
peace.”
el cir.g “there can be no so
lation for America,” ^ewey ad ;ed:
‘There can be no wihd.awal
from a world where freedom and
tyranny are locked in a deadly
struggle for survival.”
Democratic national chairman
J. Howard McGrath said, how
ever, that “the continuing threat
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West Virginia May
Decide Control Of
Next Congress
West Virfginia’s hot Senatorial
battle drew fresh attention today
as the Presidential candidates
sparred between their final cam
paign rounds.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey omitted
that State from his windup tour
which opens next Tuesday in Chi
cago. President Truman has made
two campaign visits to West Vir
ginia, put ing in a special vote
plea for Matthew M. Neely who
seeks to unset GOP Senator Chap
man Revercofnb.
Holding Senate control by only
a six-vote margin now, the Re
publicans may need to win the
West Virginia race to retain the
upper hond.
Dewey and Revercomb have not
seen eye to eye on the displaced
persons issue, but the top high
command sent national party
chairman Hugh D. Scott, Jr., to
Hdntington last night with a spe
cial plea for the Senator.
“From top to bottom,” Scott
said, the Republican party and
the national ticket want Rever
comb re-elected. “And I do mean
from top to bottom,” he added .
The party chairman said there j
wasn’t “sufficient time” on Dew
ey’s schedule to permit him to
come there in person.
“That’s why I’m here,” Scott
idded. After he spoke, Revercomb
told the party rally:
“I am here to say that win or
~>s? I .‘hall continue to represent]
' ' n ' of West Virginia as a
man who will not bow to ou side
delation.”
He did no1 amplify the remark.
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Rep. Jackson Will
Gel Information on
Alaskan Defenses
SEATTLE, f/P> — Rep. Henry
Jackson <D.-Wash.» said yesterday
he will fly to Alaska soon to gath
er first-hand details on the Ter
i Dry's defenses for the House ap
•opria ions committee.
Jac’’ on, who held the second of
o c nf rences with E. L. Bart
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' t, Mas 1 Delegate to Congress,
aid:
Delegate Bartlett, as the Con
• ' ”*"1 ’-epresentative of the
. v o" Alaska, does not have
’o ' in Dngress but he has a
’ -h mst be heard.
‘ as told me the story of
’f 1 'r n es and as a mem
vital H 'use committee, I
- ■ r>ed .hat Mr. Bartlett’s
j i fend Alaska shall be
on i a member of both the
1 - e appropriations committee
he .nterior department
s bcommittee which controls
Masks funds.
glance at the world globe,”
said, ‘‘shows how vulnerable
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3o Die In Crash
Of Du tell Plane
PRESTWICK, Scotland, (i£p)—
Thirty-eight persons perished yes
rday when a fog-blinded Royal
1 Dutch Airlines Constellation
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, rue a high tension wire, burst
into flames and crashed into a
pasture.
Nine of the dead were Ameri
cans. Two persons, both Dutch,
survived the crash. Both were re
ported gravely injured.
Six persons were taken from
the wreckage alive, but four died
in hospitals later.
The huge four-engined aircraft
was en-route from Amsterdam to
New York. While groping through
he fog for a landing, the pilot ra
dioed the control tower at the
field:
“I have hit something. I am go
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Churchill Planned
To Die Rather than
Be Taken Prisoner
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HOBART, Tasmania, </P) — Sir
James Bissett, former captain of
the liner Queen Mary, says Win
ston Churchill planned his own (
death during the war rather than
risk falling into enemy hands.
In a speech at Lanceston last
night, Bissett said he was respon
sible for the safety of Britain’s
wartime prime minister on three
voyages of the Queen Mary.
Always, he said, a special life
boat crew was standing by to take
Churchill should the liner be
sunk. In addition a man stood by
with a loaded pistol with orders
to shoot Churchill should his cap
ture by the Germans seem immin
ent, Bissett said.
(In London, Churchill’s secre
tary said Churchill had heard of
Bissett’s speech but had “no com
ment at all.”)
Argue Interior
Secretary Exceeds
Authority
(By Charles D. Watkins)
d/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (JP) unsel
for Alaskan salmon packers ar
gued in the Supreme Court today
the secretary of interior had ex
ceeded his authority when he in
cluded 3,000 feet of off-shore wa
ter in an Alaskan Indian reserva
tion.
The off-shore water is included
in a reservation created under the
Wheeler-Howard Act for the Kar
luk Indians on Kodiak Island.
The solman packing companies
were warned not to fish in the wa
ters but disregarded the order.
T"en the fish and wildlife serv
ce included in its fishery regula
ions for 1946 a prohibition against
anybody but the Karluk Indians
and their permittees in the re
a ided waters.
The packers obtained an injunc
tion in an Alaskan district court
restraining the service from en
forcing the prohibition and the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld that decision, this action
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Elissa Landi. Stage
And Screen Star,
Dies Of Cancer
KINGSTON, N. Y. (VP)—Elissa
Landi, Italian-born actress and
novelist, died of cancer yesterday
a. the age of 43.
Miss Landi, reportedly the
grand-daughter of Empress Eliz
ieth of Austria, died in Kingston
hospital, where she had been a pa
tient for the past 10 days. Her ill
ness previously had been describ
ed by her physician only as a
“chronic condition.’’
Dr. Kenneth Lefever, who an
nounced the cause of deatlr, said
the actress “never knew she had
cancer.”
rter condition, however, Tiad
been known to her family for nine
months, he said.
Miss Landi was an artist of mul
tiple facets, equally successful as
motion picture and stage star, as
a novelist, as a linquist, as a pi
anist and as a singer.
Her varied talents, combined
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Quadruplets Born
In England
EDMONTON, England, (/P) —
Quadruplets—a girl and three boys
—were born yesterday to Mrs.
Bessie Taylor, 28, wife of a sewing
machine mechanic. Doctors said
the mother’s condition was satis
factory and the quads have a good
chance to live.
Different colored ribbons were
placed on the infants to tell them
apart and they were placed in
oxygen tents.
The father, Robert, said he has
been promised a lease on a larger
house. The Taylors have two other
sons, five and seven.