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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. L. No. 130NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1948PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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PROVIDENCE, R. I. (/P)—Sen. j
J. Howard McGrath, Democratic
national chairman, says he will ask
for disciplinary action against
committee members who have “de
serted” President Truman.
McGrath said Wednesday night
he will make his recommendation
to the national committee when it
m meets after the election.
4 VALDOSTA, Ga. (^P)—A Negro
preacher who said he was 108
years old honeymooned yesterday
with his fifth bride, a 67-year-old
widow.
The Rev. R. J. Green, cane in
hand, and Rosa Lee Minus mar
ried here Wednesday. They came
to Valdosta from their home in
Ocala, Fla., to avoid the waiting
period required by Florida law.
» LOS ANGELES (JP)—Sen. Glenn
Taylor, the independent progres
sive vice-presidential candidate,
says the Wallace-Taylor ticket will
carry California Nov. 2.
« He made the prediction here
Wednesday before embarking on
his final west coast campaign
swing.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (JP)—North
west Airlines said yesterday it will
open service between Seattle
Portland and Hawaii Dec. 1.
Four-engined DC-4s will make
three flights a week.
4 MANILA, UP)—Removal of 13th
Air Force headquarters to a base
outside the Philippines—probably
U. S. occupied Okinawa—was re
ported imminent today.
The impending move was de
scribed as an administr a t i v e
change which would not affect tac
tical units now in the Philippines
area.
* JUNEAU, UP) — Col. John R.
Noyes, chief of the Alaska road,
commission, left yesterday for
Haines, Alaska, for discussions
with Brig. Gen. Alan C. Connelly,
commander of the Northwest high
way division of the Canadian gov
ernment, about keeping the Haines
Cutoff open until late in the season
in the Interior.
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JUNEAU, (£>)—'The Territorial
commissioner of mines said yes
terday assaying offices in four
Alaska cities will soon be equipped
with instruments for testing Alas
ka mineral for possible use in the
production of atomic energy.
• Commissioner B. D. Stewart
said equipment will be installed in
offices in Fairbanks, Anchorage,
Ketchikan and Juneau.
ANCHORAGE, </P) — Delayed
election returns from all but one of
69 Third Division precincts con
tinued to bear out the early trend
—a Democratic sweep of the two
Senate and seven Hoi^e seats in
• the Territorial Legislature.
The vote on the fish trap mea
► sure was* to abolish, 7,764; to con
tinue them, 573.
The only missing precinct was
False Pass in the Aleutians, which
19 voters were listed.
Halt Inflation Or
Commissary Will
Be Opened To j
Civilian Personnel
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ANCHORAGE (/P) — The com
manding officer of Fort Richard
son today served an ultimatum
on Anchorage merchants — either
apply the brakes to increasing
prices or the army will throw open
its commissary permanently to all
war department civilions living in
Anchorage.
The officer, Col. Harry Gener
ous, said that since the beginning
of the Pacific coast maritime
strike, he has received an ever-in
creasing list of complaints from
war department employees living
in Anchorage.
He asserted that the spread be
tween city prices and those at the
commissary is from 40 to 60 per
cent.
“Opening the doors of the com
missary would mean feeding at
least another 4,500 people,” the
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Barge Service To
Kodiak Off; No
Insurance Open
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Insurance
troubles apparently have brought
an end to the emergency barge
service to Kodiak, the island’s “life
line” during the maritime strike.
Mayor Lee Bettinger of Kodiak
reported here that the island city’s
hopes for supplies were killed by
word from Seattle that no insur
ance is available to cover shipment
of $200,000 worth of merchandise
aboard a chartered barge.
Bettinger was informed the in- i
surance was cancelled because of 1
the loss of the self-propelled barge
Skarstone in the Gulf of Alaska
lsat week. Four of the five men
aboard perished. The Skarstone
was operating under a private
charter.
Bettinger said cancelling of the
charter left Kodiak without any
prospect of relief from a serious
shortage of food items and other
staples.
“We have no sugar, salt, short
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Oldtimers’ Ashes to
Be Scattered Here
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. f/P)—'The
last request of Hollis C. Inman,
86, that his ashes be spread over
snow at Nome, Alaska, will be car
ried out.
Inman, chief electrical inspec
tor for the city of Miami Beach,
died Tuesday. His son, H. C. In
man, said arrangements would be
made to send the ashes to Alaska
after funeral services yesterday.
Inman’s strange request was at
tributed by his son to a love of the
north country where he spent sev
eral years in his youth prospecting
for gold.
During the war Inman develop
ed improved fuses for bombs,
depth charges and grenades and a
submarine detecting device.
Seward Peninsula
Gets Year ’Round i
Parcel Post Service
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ANCHORAGE, I/?1)—Progress—
like it did with the pony express
—has caught up with the dog team
express.
The railway mail service an
nounced today it was lifting win- |
ter restrictions on parcel post traf- j
fic between the States and the
Seward Peninsula and Nome
areas.
The regulations, which prevent
ed persons in those areas from
sending or receiving parcels be
tween Nov. 1 and March 31, were
of long standing.
Originally, they were intended
to cut down the loads carried by
dog teams. Loads carried by dog
teams were handled at extremely
high cost.
In the past, parcels from the
States were held up at Seattle un
til Spring.
The air age, the railway mail
service said, has changed all that.
Air service has increased to the
point where it is possible to serve
the outlying communities on a
year-round basis.
Union Will Unload
Three Ships
SEATTLE, (/P)—Striking mari
time unions indicated today that
the way has been cleared for un
loading of three ships of a Seattle
company which is suspending op
erations.
The firm is the Alaska Trans
portation company. It wants cargo
removed from the company-owned
passenger ship Georg Washington
and from two freighters chartered
from the maritime commission.
The latter vessels, the Sword Knot
and Clove Hitch, are to be return
ed to the commission.
The unloading of the cargoes—
chiefly canned salmon—was ap
proved by the northwest joint ac
tion committee, made up of all
striking unions, on condition the
company would negotiate “satis
factory agreements” with all un
ions involved.
Business agent Fred Bruette of
the marine firemen’s union said
that group voted to release the
company’s ships.
Final approval must come from
the membership of the CIO long
shore union, but they indicated
earlier they would go along with
the firemen. Three was no an
nouncement as to terms for the un
loading work.
PRACTICE ALERT
AT MARKS AIR BASE
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A practice alert was started
Wednesday evening at Marks Field
and is still in force at the air base.
All the men of the various branch
es of the service have been acti
vated to their stations in shifts
covering the 24 hours of the day,
and are carrying fire-arms.
The calling of soldiers out of
the city suddenly on Wednesday
caused several people to be alarm
ed, some of whom even packed up
essentials, it is reported.
Internationa News
At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press*
Thursday. October 28, 1948
Prime Minister Stalin asserted
today that all nations on the U. N.
security council except Russia and
the Soviet Ukraine are backing a
policy which can lead to war in
trying to solve the Russian block
ade of Berlin.
He said, however, that the pres
ent international crisis “can only j
end in an ignominious failure on i
the part of the instigators of a
new war.”
The Russian dictator was ans
wering questions by the controlled
communist newspaper Pravda. He
j rehashed the oft-repeated Russian
arguments and contended, in ef
fect, that all the world except Rus
sia and her bloc is out of step.
The United States, Britain and
France have accused Russia of en
dangering peace by blockading the
four-power city. The six “neutral”
powers of the council tried to
solve the crisis through a compro
mise which Russia vetoed Monday.
The issue still is before the coun
cil.
Britain and China asked the
United Nations today to consider
applying economic pressure to
force peace in Palestine. The
United States is expected to sup
port that position.
| Israel has rejected a ruling of
the U. N. mediator that she should
withdraw * troops from positions
recently won in the Negev, the
desert of southern Palestine. Israel
contended the troop positions are
subject to negotiation. Egypt ac
cused the Jewish state of violating
the cease fire order.
Russia pleaded in the security
council for a two-day postpone
ment of the debate, probably to
give her delegation time to get a
line from the Kremlin. On a tie
vote, U. S. Delegate Warren Aus
tin, council president, ruled that
the debate will be resumed tomor
row.
The British-Chinese move was
for measures “not involving the
use of armed forces.” U. N. action
under the proposal would call for
all members to sever economic and
diplomatic relations with the of
fending party. The United States,
Russia and a dozen small coun
tries are the only nations now
recognizing Israel.
Palestine appeared quiet, ine
Jews said yesterday their battle in
the Negev had destroyed the
Egyptian army and air force and
sealed the Egyptian troops in Pal
estine into three isolated pockets.
Russia tightened her Berlin
blockade, for which the western
powers have accused her of en
dangering peace. Parcel post serv
ice between the city and West Ger
many was stopped and passengers
of street cars were being searchd.
German welfare officials arranged
to evacuate 700 children a week
from the city.
The British commander in Ger
many, Sir Brian Robertson, said
he expected “no war in Europe for
the next few months.” He said the
removal of all occupation troops
may be the only way to solve the
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Wiiness€‘s Air
Grievances At CAB
Alaska Hearings
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Eleven wit
nesses were to appear for Mt. Mc
Kinley Airways yesterday at the
civil aeronautics board hearing
here on air service to and within
the Territory.
It will raise the Mt. McKinley
witness list to 23 in two days. Wit
nesses are to follow for Pacific
Northern Airlines, Alaska Air
lines, Northwest and Pan Ameri
can.
The only witness to share the
stand with the Mt. Kinlev group
Wednesday was for Alaska Air
lines. Both lines are seeking cer
tificates for runs to the States.
The A. A. witness was Gale W.
Kelly, assistant traffic manager
for the Seattle region of Sears
Roebuck Co. He testified that Alas
ka Airlines flew 35,618 pounds to
Anchorage from Seattle for his
firm last month and 43,707 pounds
to Fairbanks. He declared that if a
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Air Force May
Insist On ‘‘Aiding”
Globe Girdler
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TOKYO (/P)—Mrs. Richard Mor
row-Tait, globe-girdling English
aviatrix, will have an air-sea res
cue plnae escort on the overwater
flight from Japan to the Aleutians
unless she makes an official ob
jection.
The comely, red-haired flier and
her navigator, former RAF pilot
Michael Townsend, have delayed
their takoff for Hokkaido until to
day. From Hokkaido they will hop
to Shcmya in the Aleutians.
On arrival here Wednesday,
Mrs. Morrow-Tait told newsmen a
prime objective of the round-the
world flight was to prove it can be
done in a single engine plane with
out escort.
However, a spokesman for the
Far East Airforce said yesterday
no such statement was made to
them officially. He said the air
force is preparing to escort the
Morrow-Tait plane — a British
Proctor Four—over the 1,778 mile
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NWA Inaugurates
New Services
ANCHORAGE, UP)—J. W. Mar
iner, director of cargo for North
west Airlines, said yesterday the
line will inaugurate new cargo
service and tourist class travel
class flights between Anchorage
and Seattle.
Mariner said the cargo service
will offer scheduled operations at
low rates for Alaska merchants
and a $710 fare under tourist class
for the traveling public.
The new service, scheduled in
addition to the daily passenger
service now operating, will run
three flights a week—Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
Mariner said cargo rates will be
15 cents a pound on shipments 100
pounds and over.