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VOL LI. No. 118 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF j
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WASHINGTON, (/P»—President
Truman, back from a two-day trip
to Missouri, turned sailor Satur
day,
From the deck of the yacht Wil- |
liamsburg 1 e planned to watch an j
afternoon water pageant commem
orating the 150th birthday of the
Washington naval gun factory.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., </P) —
Traffic cop Roland L. Banville
wrote out a parking ticket and left
it unde** the windshield wiper of
a car.
When cal1 j on to pay off in po
lic court, i.e explained:
4 • us a new car and I didn’t
rt ognize my license number.”
SEATTLE UP)—The army trans
port service went under the navy
today.
Capt. Melville W. Eaton, U.S.N..
took command of the North Pacific
sector, which includes the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska.
He said civilian personnel here
would not foe affected.
The transfer means the navy as
sumes administration of army
shipping, which includes six pas
senger transports and five freight
ers.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A landing
force of marines and units of the
Atlantic fleet will hold a month
» long cold weather exercise on the
Labrador coast in October.
The navy made that announce
ment Friday after the defense de
partment had denied that such a
maneuver was planned.
The exercise will be held in the
vicinity of Hamilton Inlet.
A Canadian destroyer will take
part in the maneuvers and Cana- i
dian army officers will attend as
observers.
SEATTLE. </P)—Record loads of
cargo and passengers carried by
Pan American Airways clippers
during the first six months of the '
year have produced the biggest,
volume of business in the history |
of the division, Harvey Hancock, |
traffic manager for the Pacific- j
Alaska division, announced today.
Biggest gain during the first
half of the year was cargo and
mail which rose 52 per cent over
the same period in 1948. Passen
gers traveling over the company’s
routes in the Pacific and Alaska
increased six per cest for the first
half of 1949 as compared to the
first half of 1948.
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FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Radio Sta
tion KFAR celebrated its 10th an
niversary Saturday with sponsors
doing all the talking.
More than 50 businessmen whose
programs are aired by the station
were invited to take over the air
waves for the day.
The.statios, owned by Austin E.
Lathrop, grew in the past decade
from 1,000 watts to 10,000 watts.
It is linked with the American
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Half Million ]
Steelworkers
1 hit On Strike
PITTSBURGH, (A*)—A strike by
a half-million CIO United Steel- |
workers Saturday shut down iron
and steel mills from coast to coast. I
The free pension and insurance
walkout dealt a crippling blow to
American industry. Coupled with
the two week-old coal mine strike,
it threatens to disrupt American
economy.
Picket lines at mill gates in 27
states generally weer small and
quiet in the first nation-wide steel
strike since 1946. Plant gates in
Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland
were circled by picket lines which
dwindled to mere handfuls several
hours after the strike began at
12:01 B.m.
A restaurant man in Lorain, O.,
whose establishment is near a
giant plant of the National Tube
company, posted this sign in a
window:
“Large bowl of soup, for dura
tion of strike, one cent.”
Supervisory workers and fore
men passed through picket lines
without incident. They are allow
ed free entrance to kep mill equip
ment in good shape to resume
work whenever the strike ends. No
violence was reported anywhere.
The strike closed 53 steel com
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Pair Land Plane In
Alders; Are Unhurt
PALMER, Alaska, (/P) — Two
Matanuska Valley men survived
an emergency landing of their
small plane in Alaska’s wilderness
Thursday by using alder trees to
cushion the jolt.
The pair, Dr. R. E. Garrett and
L. C. Stock, a restaurant owner,
returned here unhurt Friday.
They were on a bear hunting
and picture outing in a rented
plane when the engine conked out.
Finding the plane without appar
ent damage, they decided to cut a
clearing through the alder grove
for a takeoff strip. They had slash
ed brush most of the day with a
knift and a hammer when Pilot
Bob Totten discovered them at
3:30 p.m. He instructed them to go
to the bank of the nearby Knik
River for a pick-up at an impro
vised strip.
They were unable to cross the
stream, however, so food and bed
rolls were dropped for their one- j
night outing. A helicopter of the
10th Resceu Squadron at Fort
Richardson picked them up.
Dr. Carrett was the only casual
ty. He was suffering from blister
ed hands and feet and exhaustion
from the alder-clearing ordeal.
Stock, president of a sports
men’s organization, commented:
“We made a better let-down in
those alders than lots of airport
landings I’ve seen.”
U. of M. Professor
Named As Giving
Keds Atomie Data
—
WASHINGTON I/P)—The House
un-American activities committee
Friday named Joseph W. Wein
berg, University of Minnesota pro
fessor, as the “Scientist X’’ accused
of slipping wartime atomic secrets
to a communist spy.
In Minneapolis, Weinbeig got
out a statement saying “I am not
the person” referred to in previous
committee reports as “Scientist
X.” He also said he had never
given secret information to any
unauthorized person.
ThG committee recommended in
a report that the justice depart
ment prosecute Weinberg on
charges he lied under oath in:
1. Denying communist party
membership and attending young
communist league meetings. 2.
Knowing communist leader Steve
Nelson. 3. Knowing Nelson’s sec
retary, Bernadette Doyle.
Nelson, the committee says, “was
engaged in securing information
regarding the development of the
atomic bomb from Scientist X.”
That was back in 1943, the com
mittee adds, when Weinberg was
employed at the radiation labora
tory at the University of Califor
nia. The laboratory helped per
fect the a-bomb.
As to the accusation of lying
under oath, Weinberg said: “I
have always told the truth. I af
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Postman, 111, Kills
Son And Self
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., (/P)—A
44-year-old postman tossed his
five-year-old son off the top floor
of a 14-story building here Friday,
then took the plunge himself.
The bodies of Claude S. Hat
ton and his son, David, landed a
few feet from the city’s busiest
downtown comer at a time when
the sidewalk was crowded with
shoppers and workers on their
lunch hour.
Hatton had been absent from
work because of illness, a superior
in the postoffice reported. How
ever his physician said his ailment
had been diagnosed as simple in
digestion.
A prescription for treatment of
the illsess was found in Hatton’s
pocket.
NOTICE
TO THE PUBLIC
A general meeting of the City
will be open to the public tonight
at 7:30 P.M. in the Nome School
Gymnasium, for the purpose of
discussing the Sales Tax issue
which comes before the rote of
the people at Special Election, to*
morrow.
CARRIE M. McLAIN,
City Clerk
17 Killed In
Train-Bus (.rash
ONTARIO. Calif. </Pi—A racing
passenger train ripped into a U. S.
air force bus at a crossing last
night, killing 17 of the 22 occu
pants.
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Eleven of the dead were mili
tary or civilian personnel from
March Air Base; five were mem
bers of the Ontario hostess1 club—
a service organization—the other
was the chaperone, Mrs. Ruby
McLaughlin, 45, mother of one of
the dead girls, Juanita McLaugh
| lin, 18.
Chief deputy coroner Edward P.
Doyle said only five, including
twin sisters sitting in different
parts of the bus, escaped alive.
It was hours before officers could
draw a coherent picture from sur
vivors.
Acetylene torches finally cut
away the mangled wreckage from
the battered locomotive, and the
train headed east more than four
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Justice Douglas
Injured When Ilis
Horse Falls on Him
YAKIMA, Wash. </P) — Justice
William O. Douglas, one of the
leading liberals of the U. S. Su
preme Court, was injured gravely
yesterday in the Cascade Moun
tains he loved as a boy. He suf
fered 13 rib fractures and a punc
tured lung when his frightened
horse fell and rolled on him.
His chances of full recovery,
however, appeared excellent to
day. Doctors attending him at a
Yakima hospital said his condition
fas not critical. The stamina gain
ed from an active, outdoor life
away from his judicial duties stood
him in good stead.
Doctors said the justice rested
well throughout the night and got
some sleep despite the obvious
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Will Hold Up Civil
Rights Measures
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Demo
cratic Congressional leaders and
President Truman agreed today
that Congress should put off con
sideration of civil rights measures
until the session starting in Janu
ary.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, Demo
cratic floor leader, said after a
conference with the President that
“it seems doubtful that a prolong
ed discussion of any civil rights
bill at this session would be help
ful.”
Lucar .said a fair employment
practices commission measure
probably would be the first to be
considered in January.
Luoas said he though this ses
sion of Congress would be wound
up in two or three weeks.
News of I he \\ oi’hl
At A Glance - -
Saturday, October 1, 1949
• By The Associated Press)
The Soviet Union was accused
by Premier Marshal Tito today of
staging troop movements along
the Yugoslav frontier in an effort
to intimidate Yugoslavs and over
threw the Tito regime.
Teh charge was made in a Yugo
slav reply to the Soviet note
Thursday in which Russia re
nounced her treaty of friendship
with Yugoslavia. The latest Yugo
slav blast in the vitriolic word war
was reported in London by the of
ficial Yugoslav news agency.
The note said: “It is well known
that Soviet representatives tried to
organize their agents within the
Yugoslav government and Yugo
■ slav army with a view to over
throwing the legal Yugoslav gov
: ernment.”
Two Soviet bloc nations, Hun
gary and Poland, yesterday fol
lowed Russia’s lead and renounc
; ed their friendship and mutual aid
treaties with the Tito regime,
i Czechoslovakia appeared ready to
follow suit. London sources said
Bulgaria and Romania also weer
| about to jump on the bandwagon
in the Russian squeeze play against
the outcast heretic from the ortho
dox communist circle.
It looked as if the Russian bloc
might even go so far as to break
off diplomatic relations with Yu
goslavia. London sources said.
Nationalist Chinese top men
bickered today while communists
| continued to mass their forces for
a thrust at Canton. Acting Presi
dent Li Tung-Jen had vetoed the
appointment of Gen. Tang En-Po
as governor-commander of Fukien.
The general had suffered many
defeats including the loss of
Shanghai. But he is a friend of
Chiang Kai-Shek and the general
! issimo s emergency council is re
! viewing Li’s veto. Li says the
! council has no night to do so.
1 The official military news agen
cy in Canton said the commun st
12th army has pushed into Can
ton’s Kwangtung province from
Kiangsi to the east. The present
strength of communist regulars in
northern Kwantung was estimated
privately at 30.000 men.
Canadian and British delegates
ended their talks with American
I officials in Washington and said
i good progress had been made in
, preliminary negotiations for a
| closer three-nation atomic partner
ship.
The Berlin airlift closed shop
I last night. The American Third
air division announced in London
that 300 men already are erroute
horn to the United States. Tn 15
months the American and British
made more than 275.000 flights
■ over the Russian block: de with
food and fuel for Western Berlin.
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Now sufficient supplies are mov
ing by surface routes. But the
American and British said they
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