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VOL. L. No. 150 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY7pECEMBER 15, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
KODIAK, i/P> — Upwards of
$6,000 raised during the naval op
erating base’s recent community
chest drive will be given to vari
ous organizations and agencies
here. Capt. R. L. Johnson, com
manding officer, announced. The
>G riff in Memorial hospital ■will re
ceive $2,390 and the community
gfcenter S‘2,165.
h CRAIG, (A*)—The town of Craig
needs an additional power unit for
* its municipal light system. Coun
cilman Clifford Anderson has
gone to Seattle to obtain prices
and delivery times on oil-burning
equipment to replace the present
two-cylinder diesel unit which
drives a generator.
FAIRBANKS, (A>)—New x-ray
equipment, similar to that found
•in most of the large Seattle hospi
tals, has been bought and inseall
ed in the Fairbanks Medical and
Surgical Clinic. The machines it
replaces have been given to the
* University of Alaska department
of physics by the clinic and the
Genial Electric corp.
ANCHORAGE, (^)-^John Gor
such, head of the Anchorage Busi
ness College, has been elected
president of the chamber of com
merce by the new board of direc
tors.
KETCHIKAN, <£>)— Alaska has
lots of Christmas trees. So trees
for home use or for churches or
fraternal organizations can be cut
from national forest land without
prior permission provided they are
taken 100 feet or more from a
highway, C. M. Archbold, forest
supervisor, announced.
Cutters planning to sell trees
must obtain permits. A charge of (
5 cent sa tree is made, with a min
• imum sale of $3.
FAIRBANKS, <£>)—'The super- '
fortress Overexposed, on a rou
tine photographic mission in
northern Alaska reached a mile
stone in Alaska flying last week.
It marked the completion of 10,000
hours and 2,000,000 miles of Arc
tic flying by the 72nd photo re
«cannoissance skuadron based at
the Ladd Air Force Base, Lt. Col.
Charles S. Overstreed, command
ing officer, announced. Overex- i
posed, one of the original squad
ron planes, has taken part in many
of the almost 900 missions and its I
engines have run nearly 1,000
hours without a change.
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FAIRBANKS, (JP)—A radio re
port said searchers have found the
body of Clyde McLaughlin, Yu
kon River bush pilot, frozen in a
sleeping bag on a trail northwest
of the yillage of Beaver.
He has been missing on a flight
since Nov. 26.
Searchers theorized he may have
been attempting to trek in from |
fhe crash. The plane has not been i
found.
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SEATTLE, f/P) — The Commer
cial Marine Construction company
has started work on an order by
Alaska Packers’ association for six |
32-foot “Monkey” boats.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, December 14, 1948
(By The Associated Press)
Talk of a negotiated peace and
a coalition government spread
through Nanking today as Chinese
communists increased peril to
that capital and Peiping.
Chiang Kai-Shek, whose coun
try is on the brink of disaster,
sternly denounced “peace mon
gers.” Many who talked peace and
a deal with the Reds were among
the highest officials and generals
of Chiang’s regime.
A usually reliable source said
the liberal leader Shao Li Tze and
the northwest commander Chang
Chih Chung have been offered
posts in a new cabinet. The strat
egy—if it could be called that—of
Gen. Fy Tso-Ya at Peiping was
so puzzling that most people saw
it as political. Fu has been report
ed negotiating for a proposed coa
lition government.
The communists formed a semi
circle around Peiping, the cultural
center of China and largest city in
the north. Red troops were seven
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Nome Eskimos To
Have Xmas Party
SEATTLE, (/P)—The appeal of
an army hostess for gifts for Es
kimo children brought a prompt
response.
David Tewkesbury, publisher
of the Alaska Almanac, went
shopping, about $150 worth of
gifts and shipped them off by
Alaska Airlines to the city in the
far north.
The appeal had come from Jane
Sniffen, army hostess at Marks
Air Forces Base, who plans a
Christmas party for 300 Eskimo
children.
Tewkesbury sent a good variety
aboard the airliner for children
ages 2 to 6—doll buggies, plastic
toys, wind-up toys, fruit cakes and
other treats.
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Santa In Nome
Friday Afternoon
Santa is coming to town on Fri
day, according to word received
by Gordon Osborne, chairman of
the Christmas Tree committee. He
expects to be in front of the Nome
School about one o’clock on Fri
day . and visit with the children
before starting on a trip through
the downtown district. He will
then take his departure and hopes
to return in time for the Com
munity Christmas Tree program
Friday evening at the Nome
School Auditorium, where a fine
program is underway by tHfe chil
dren for him and their parents
and friends.
The program is scheduled to be
gin at eight o’clock and a capacity
crowd is anticipated for the event.
Stockings have been filled with
goodies for all children attending
the festivities which will be hand
ed out to the children personally
by Santa Claus.
Foreign Aid Fund
Nigh Exhausted
WASHINGTON, 'The Mar
shall plan hit the bottom of its
foreign aid barrel yesterday after
earmarking $536,600,000 for Euro
pean recovery during the first I
quarter of next year.
With the allotment of these |
funds, the Economic Cooperation
Administration said it has used up
the $5,055,000,000 first year ap
propriation from Congress.
Since then, ECA officials have
said they will ask Congress for
$1,125,000,000 to carry the pro
gram through April, May and
June.
Search For Lost
Landed Plane
FAIRBANKS (JP), An air search
was scheduled yesterday for a
C-47 which reported its six pas
, sengers were uninjured after the
plane made a successful forced
! landing on a frozen river in the
Northway region of the upper
i Tanana river valley.
The weather bureau said the
temperature is about 30 below
zero in the area. j
Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, I
5001st wing commander said C-47s i
C-54s and B-29s will fly a 200
mile radius around Northway,
near the Canadian border, where
a tentative radio fix indicated the
ship may have landed. The plane
was returning from a routine
flight to Barrow.
The pilot radioed first he had
lost his bearings and was attempt
ing to land on a stretch of frozen
river.
At 8:05 p.m. Monday, he mes
saged the landing was successful,
i but he was unable to determine
the plane’s exact position.
AFL And CIO
Both Pledge Taft
Hartley Act Repeal
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The AFL
and CIO called separate strategy
meetings yesterday with two im
mediate goals: repeal of the Taft
Hartley act and a bigger political
role for organized labor.
The CIO’s nine vice-presidents
were summoned into conference
by president Philip Murray to
press the decision of the organiza
tion’s recent convention in Port
I land, Ore., to demand outright re
peal of the Taft-Hartley act.
Three CIO leaders officially ad
vised secretary of labor Tobin of
that decision Monday. They are
secretary-treasurer James B. Car
ey, general counsel Arthur Gold
berg, and David J. McDonald, sec
retary-treasurer of the CIO steel
workers. *
They planned to report to the
vice-presidents yesterday on what
Tobin told them. The secretary
was tight-lipped to newsmen
about his two-hour parley with the
CIO officers.
CIO spokesmen said yesterday’s
closed-door meeting would draft
a program of action for the next
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Pay Hike Not
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Enough Says
Boss Lundeberg
SAN FRANCISCO, </P>—An em
ployer offer of a $16 to $35 a
month increase in pay will be pre
sented to the membership of the
AFL sailors union of the Pacific.
Harry Lundeberg, union execu
tive secretary, received the offer
Monday in negotiations with the
Pacific American shipowners asso
ciation and called it “insufficient.”
But he agreed- to submit it for a
vote.
The $16 raise to $186 a month
would be for ordinary seamen.
More skilled workers would get
larger boosts, with the $35 to
bring some classes of boatswains
up to $325 a month.
The union had asked increases
from $20 to $60 a month. Lunde
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Arrives In Nome
Sir Hubert Wilkins, well known
Arctic explorer and personal
friend of many Nomeites arrived
at Marks Air Force Base yester
day for a brief visit.
During his visit he will observe
lhe present activities of the Arc
tic Indoctrination School and will
lend any assistance with sugges
tions and recommendations to the
present curriculum based on his
own personal experience of Arctic
survival.
Sir Hubert Wilkins visited Nome
last fall and renewed many old
friendships of the early days.
Two Northland
Freighters Turned
Over To Alaska SS.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Two Alaska
freighters, the Lucidor and the
Palisana, previously sailing under
the flag of the Northland Trans
portation company, have been
taken over by the Alaska Steam
ship company, H. N. Peterson,
A. S. S. C. traffic manager an
nounced yesterday.
Both freighters are fully refrig
erated and capable of handling up
to 3,500 tons of refrigerated car
go
Fo rtheri initial Alaska voyage
under Alaska Steamship, the ves
sels will be operated under space
charter to the army. The Palisana
will begin loading today, with the
Lucidor scheduled to go into a
loading berth Saturday or Sunday.
Mrs. Earl Coulihard, who has
been in the States for over a month
returned home today with Pan
American. While in the States her
trip was sadderted by the death of
her father.
U. S. DISTRICT COURT
The case against former chief of
police, Clyde Gray was dismissed
this morning in the U. S. District
Court for lack of evidence. Clyde
Gray was on trial for bribery and
offering to bribe a U. S. officer.
Nixon Accuses
Justice Dept. Of
Using ‘Whitewash’
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (>P)—Rep. Nix
on 'R.-Calif.* said he suspects the
justice department of using one
Red spy investigation to filibuster
against another.
A “whitewash” may be ;n the
making, said Nixon, a member of
the House un-American activities
committee.
The committee and the justice
department have been rowing for
nearly two weeks over who should
go after—and how—the rften sus
pected of stealing government se
i crets for the Russians a decade
ago. Each has its own investiga
I tion going, but the department has
monopolized most of the key wit
nessse.
The committee had a meeting
scheduled for noon yesterday.
Members said they might have a
witness but not one of the major
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East Coast Signs
Maritime Pact
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NEW YORK, (IP)—Port of New
York members of the national
' in all ports, vice-president Jack
fied an agreement with Atlantic
and Gulf coast ship operators pro
viding for a $3.50 monthly in
crease for all union members.
NMU prosident Joseph Curran
announced the pact was approved
overwhelmingly at a membership
meeting here Monday night.
Recommendation for similar ac
tion has been sent to NMU units
in all porst, vice-president Jack
Lawrenson said.
Negotiators for the union and
Monday under a wage reoponing
Monday unde ra wage reopening
clause in the current contract.
GEORGE SUNDBORG SPEAKS
AT C. OF C. DINNER TONIGHT
George Sundborg of the Alaska
Development Boar?! arrived today
with the Pan A/herican to be
honor guest this evening at a din
ner meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce where the recent sur
vey of this division, made by the
Board, will be discussed thorough
ly before its release to the public.
The dinner which is scheduled
for seven this evening at the Pio
neer Hall is being planned with a
seating capacity of a hundred so
that all who are interested will
have the opportunity of hearing
and taking part in the discussion.
Q SHOPPING DAYS
O TIU CHRISTMAS