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VOL. L. No~139NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1948 PER COPY— 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) — Still reeling
from Tuesday’s storm, the North
Pacific area braced itself yesterday
for a new gale reported to be
sweeping coastward off the Gulf
of Alaska.
Earlier this week, high winds
and waves claimed seven lives,
and three ships and damaged sev
eral others along the shores of
Oregon, Washington and British
Columbia.
JUNEAU (A»)—Alaska Governor
and Mrs. Ernest M. Gruening are
Statesbound aboard the steamer
Princess Louise.
Among their stops will be Van
couver, B. C., Taxco, Mexico, and
Washington, D. C. They expect to
be back in Alaska before the holi
days.
In Taxco, the Greunings plan to
visit William Spratling, design di
rector of the Alaska Native Serv
ice arts craft division, who left
here several days ago.
WASHINGTON, (jP) — Senator
Cain (R. Wash, and Mrs. Cain an
nounced yesterday they have de
cided to separate and that she will
file suit for a divorce in Tacoma,
Wash., hteir home.
They said an amicable property
settlement has been reached and
that Mrs. Cain will have custody
of their two children, Candy and
Harry P, *11.
LONDON. (/P)—Princess Eliza
beth’s physicians announced today
that she and her infant son are
maintaining such “steady and sat
isfactory progress” that daily bul
letins are being discontinued.
FAIRBANKS, {JP) — Fairbanks,
without a traffic fatality in five
years and no serious traffic injury
in two years, has a traffic saftey
campaign under way.
Bicycle and pedestrian safety
are stressed in the drive backed by
the Fairbanks junior chamber of
commerce.
“The theme of our campaign is
4It could happen here,” Phil Lind
quist Jaycee safety committee
chairman, said.
“We still have to remember that
we have all the hazards found in
cities where the accident rate is
high.”
KETCHIKAN, (£»)—Under spon
sorship of the Ketchikan Lions
club, a drive has started to raise j
funds for a city ambulance. At
tempts are being made to raise
$5,000. The city has no such ve
hicle.
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FAIRBANKS, iff)—Linda Jean
Carroll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Elwood Carroll, was only three
days old today, but she could boast
two paternal grandparents and two
maternal grandparents here, a
great grandmother and two great
great grandmothers and one great
grandfather.
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MILWAUKEE — While driving
along a street, Charles Brooks was
seized with a violent sneezing
spell. He lost control of his car
and it climbed 10 feet up a tele
phone pole guy wire and stayed
International News
At A Glance —
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t|5y The Associated Press
Thursday, November 18, 1948
China claimed today a great and
complete victory at Suchow, with
communists in flight after suffer
ing 130,000 casualties.
The nationalists were said to
have lost only 40,000 men, but
both sides often exaggerate casual
ty claims. It seemed true this time
that the government had won at
least the first phase of the battle
and the capital of Nanking appears
safe for a while.
The communists said they held
the initiative. It appeared certain
they had had to abandon, for the
moment at least, the conquest of
Suchow and to withdraw their
forces for regrouping.
The U. S. sent 1,250 more ma
rines from Guam to bolster the
3,600 men at threatened Tsingtao,
U. S. naval station on the Yellow
sea and evacuation port for Amer
icans in the area threatened by the
Reds. Whether the marines would
engage in open fighting with the
communists depends * on circum
stances, the state department said.
Experts in Washington said the
communists could take Tsingtao
any time they wished. An Ameri
can task force of a dozen ships is
there.
Sen. Malone (R.-Nev.) said in
Tokyo secretary of state Marshall
is to blame for the nationalist gov
ernment’s plight in China. He said
Marshall shut off the flow of am
munition which would have held
back the communists, although the
U. S. already had given Chiang
Kai-Shek the guns for which the
munitions were needed.
Malone said $20,000,000 worth of
ammunition and machine guns
would have saved China and that
1,000 planes to strafe and bomb
Red lines might even yet save
Chiang. He said President Truman
already has all the authority he
needs to give Chiang the credit to
buy the planes.
The China problem doubtless
will be talked out Monday when
Marshall reports to Mr. Truman.
The secretary called to Paris fi
nancial experts from Washington
and Berlin to advise on the cur
rency problem in Berlin—the issue
which led the Russians to blockade
the city in June. The airlift has
been costing U. S. taxpayers at
the rate of $100,000,000 a year
since. It took two more British
lives last night when a transport
plane crashed.
Marshall’s move in Paris and an
hour conference between Juan A.
Bramuglia, November president of
the U. N. security council, and
Soviet deputy foreign minister An
drei Vishinsky suggested new hope
for solving the blockade crisis.
Bramuglia had a new kind of com
promise calling for gradual easing
of the blockade and making Rus
sian marks the sole Berlin money.
The Russians sealed off their
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there. Brooks eased himself out,
brushed off his clothing and called
a wrecker. He wasn’t hurt—and he
wasn’t sneezing any more.
Gruening Speaks
For Competitive
Alaska Shipping j
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., (/P)— |
Canadian competition in freight J
shipments to Alaska would be one ;
likely result of Alaska’s rise to j
statehood, Governor Ernest Greun->
ing predicted here today.
Increased use of Canadian ship
ping and the strategically-situated
Port of Prince Rupert would help
relieve the northern Terri4ory’s
“recurrent marine transportation
dilemmas,” he said.
Gov. Gruening stopped here on
route to Washington, D. C., where
he will confer with President Tru
man on shipping and other Alaska
problems.
At a Pacific Northwest Trade as
sociation conference held in Port
land, Ore., this week, Gov. Greun
ing was taken to task for his ad
vocacy of the need for compeitive
steamship service to Alaska.
He accused his attacker, F. A.
Zeusler, Alaska Steamship com
pany executive, of speaking as a
company employee and “solely in
the interests of the company.”
The current “transportation di
i lemma is due to the United States
! west-coast shipping strike. Canadi
j an ships cannot fill the breach be
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Resolution Passed
By Northwestern
Alaska C. Of C.
NORTHWESTERN ALASKA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
NOME, ALASKA
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce in regular meet
ing held at Nome, Alaska, on No
vember 2, 1948, held discussion on
the reported deplorable conditions
said to be prevalent on Nome City
streets and in Licensed Public
places.
It was the unanimous opinion of
those assembled that the allega
tions were supported by facts and
it was therefore resolved that
these facts be brought to the atten
tion of law enforcement agencies
for the purpose of enlisting their
counsel and possible aid in enact
ing more effective measures of
control.
In support of aforementioned
facts, we submit the following:
WHEREAS; overindulgence in
alcoholic beverages, as practiced
on the streets and public places is
highly contributory to the spread
of venereal disease, tuberculosis,
major and petty crime and,
WHEREAS; the number of in
dividuals on the ‘‘Siwash List” is
consistently growing, and
WHEREAS; alcoholic liquor is
being sold, or given to people on
the Siwash List, to Civilian and
soldier minors in direct disregard
for the law, and
WHEREAS; the major portion
of the offenders whose name ap
pear on the Siwash List, as well
as numbers of girls soliciting on
the streets show no visible means
of support, and
WHEREAS; the Commanding
Officer of Marks Air Force Base
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Truman To Renew
Attempt To Raise
Postal Rates
(By Charles Molony)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President ;
Truman will renew with vigor;
next year his plea for higher pos- j
tal rates to help balance ihe bud
get, those in the know said today.
The postoffice department now
seems likely to wind up $500,000,- I
000 in the red next June 30—an
unprecedented loss which would
account for more than a third of
the deficit forecast for the entire
government’s operation this fiscal
year.
Officials told a reporter private
ly the increases most certain to be
proposed will involve second class
! mail—made up chiefly of news
! papers and magazines.
They said the reason that the
postoffice department rates that in
that category is that it is its big
gest money-loser. They insisted the
fact that a majoriyt of the nation’s
press opposed Mr. Truman’s elec
tion is beside the point.
To emphasize their no-retalia
tion contention, they recalled that
the President recommended postal
rate boosts in eacr of the last two
years and followed up the first
suggestion with a specific bill
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Govt. Tries To
Settle East Coast
Maritime Strike
(By The Associated Press)
The government will make a
new attempt to settle the nine-day
old east coast shipping strike to
day.
William N. Margolis, assistant
director of the U. S. mediation and
conciliation service, said striking
AFL longshoremen and their em
ployers will meet in their first
joint session since the strike start
ed. Wages are the issue.
Margolis flew to New York from
Washington Wednesday as the gov
ernment stepped into the contro
versy. The strike at ports from
Maine to Virginia has made thou
sands of dock workers and more
than 200 ships idle. Its economic
effects have been fell throughout
the east coast area.
Other labor developments in
cluded:
Delegates to the 67th annual
convention of the American Fed
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Two Killed In
British Air Lift
BERLIN, (A1)—Two persons were
killed and two were injured Wed
nesday night in the crash of a Bri
tish C-47 airlift transport in the
Soviet occupation zone, Royal Air
Force officials said yesterday.
It was the second fatal accident
to a British airlift plane and
brought the toll of British lives lost
in the airlift to six. Four persons
were killed in the crash of an RAF
plane near Wunstorf Sept 20.
Thirteen Americans have been
killed in airlift accidents.
West Coast Strike
Mav End Sunday
SAN FRANCISCO, — Reli
able waterfront sources predicted
today that a settlement in the 79
day old west coast maritime strike
may come before midnight Sun
day.
A 10-day period of negotiations
under the so-called Roth-Murray
peace formula expires then.
Under terms of the formula, de
vised by President Almon E. Roth
of the San Francisco Employers
council and agreed to by CIO pres
ident Philip Murray, the last offer
of the employers is to be submitted
to the CIO longshore membership
if peace has not been achieved in
the 10 days of negotiations.
An observer commented the pe
riod could be extended by agree
! ment on both sides but added a
prediction extension would not be
! necessary.
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Displaced Persons
Ship Docked
Today At Boston
(By Tom Horgan)
BOSTON, (JP) — Hundreds of
smiling men, women and children
—displaced persons coming fo a
new land—lined the decks of the
U. S. army transport Gen. Omar
Mundy as the big ship arrived to
day in Boston harbor.
The sun, like a huge orange, was
coming up over the Atlantic hori
zon as the vessel reached quaran
tine after a rough, 13-day voyage
from Bremerhaven, Germany.
A public health boat drew along
side and physicians went aboard.
Customs men also climbed aboard
before the transport steamed up
the harbor toward Commonwealth
pier.
Some of the men on deck wore
unifomrs of the Polish guard, an
organization that served under
American command since the war
guarding bridges in the American
occupied territory.
They are among the 808 modern
pilgrims, all guaranteed new
homes and employment either by
individuals or responsible agen
cies.
Nationalities include: Poles, 347;
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Propose New Govt.
Farm Subsidy
PORTLAND, Me. (/P)—'The na
tional grange convention today en
dorsed a system of flexible gov
ernment price supports aimed at
preventing future surpluses and
shortages of farm products.
It took this action after defeat
ing a proposal to continue indefin
itely the present wartime support
program of 90 per cent of parity.
Working to end its 10 day ses
sion by nightfall, the grange de
clined to take a stand on the con
troversial issue of compulsory
health insurance.
It went on record, however,
against a reduction in income taxes
during the present period of “high
employment and income.”