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VOL. LI. No. 28 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONTESANO, Wash. (£>) —
Grays Harbor county sheriff Mike
Kilgore late Friday reported dis
covery of what he described as a
Japanese wartime incendiary bal
loon bomb.
Several such Japanese balloon
bombs were reported turned loose
across the Pacific during the past
war.
JUNEAU. (/P) — Baby sitters
bearing banners paraded Territo
rial halls late Friday.
Five girls between the ages of
11 and 14 were demonstrating
against a child labor bill which
would prohibit anyone under 16
years of age from working after
7 p.m.
The bill already passed the Sen
ate. House members promised an
amendment exempting baby sit
ters.
WASHINGTON, {£>)—'The Sen
ate has approved the following
nominations for postmasterships
in Alaska:
Clarence S. Hollingsworth, Col
lege; Marietta M. Benson, Metla
katla.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P) — Atwater
Kent, host to Hollywood and the
world at large, manufacturer and
philanthropist is dead.
The 75-year-old million a i r e
whose name was once synony
mous with radios and later with
parties succumbed Friday at his
12-acre mountaintop estate, Capo
di Monte, in swank Bel Air.
He retired 12 years ago and
came here after selling the Atwa
ter Kent Manufacturing Co., Phil
adelphia. In 1919, he organized the
Atwater Kent Foundation to coor
dinate his more than 125 charities.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, (JP) — A
workers' court Saturday convict
ed 13 persons accused of conspir
ing with Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty in black market money deal
ings. They received prison terms
ranging from one to eight years
and were fined.
No appeal is permitted.
Pal Biro, the presiding jtidge,
ruled that six of the accused could
not withdraw confessions they
made before the triaL The six
asserted in court they had been in
timiated by police into making the
confessions.
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Seattle
Port of Embarkation will have
scheduled refrigerator ship service
to Adak, Alaska, and Japan under
a space charter arrangement with
the Pacific Far East Line, it was
announced.
A "Reefer” ship will sail for
Japan via Adak approximately ev
ery 20 days.
The first vessel to leave under
the new arrangement was the
Contest which left here last night.
The steamship Flying Dragon is
posted to sail from Seattle March
25 for Adak and Yokohama.
WRANGELL, UP) — A search;
party looking for Mr. and Mrs. J
Harry Harto, missing off the Sti-;
kine flats, returned last last night I
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Senate Delays
Confirmation Of
Gov. Gruening
<(>P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
a'e interior committee voted today
to confirm Llewellyn M. Williams
as secretary of Alaska but put off
action on Gov. Ernest Gruening
because of protests of Alaska leg
islators.
Senator Butler (R.-Neb.), led
| the fight to postpone confirmation
I of Greuning. He was supported by
i Senator Millikin <R.-Colo.).
Senator Cordon (R.-Ore.) ex
i pressed the opinion that the ob
I jections should have been raised
sooner, but offered a motion to re
! consider the favorable vote cast
1 earlier for the Alaskan governor.
The committee set a deadline
J next Monday for receiving the
j formal objections to Greuning’s
nomination from the Alaskan law
I makers.
J Butler did not take sides in the
objection, but said “There is no
urgency about the appointment;
Governor Gruening has just as
: much authority now as he would
' have after confirmation.
Among the telegrams from
Alaskans asking for delay in the
Gruening were some supporting
the candidacy of Howard Lyng, of
Nome member of the Territorial
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lntemation’1 News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
Monday, March 7, 1949
Diplomats throughout the west
ern world were still puzzling to
day how to interpret the Soviet
switch in foreign ministers,
i Some observers in Washington,
London and Paris believe the re
moval of V. M. Molotov from the
foreign ministry and his replace
ment by Andrei Vishinsky, a man
of lesser stature in (Russia, means
the Russians are about to inten
sify their programs and let up on
communist expansion temporar
ily. This may mean a new period
of extreme Russian isolationism,
they say.
Foreign observers in Moscow it
self speculated whether the sud
den shift might bring about new
efforts to arrange a meeting of the
big four council of foreign minis
ters.
It also posed the question whe
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BILL ODOM TRYING FOR
RBCORD FLIGHT
SAN FRANCISCO </P)—A brisk
tail wind speeded distance flier
Bill Odom toward the California
coast today on his record-seeking,
light plane flight from Honolulu
to New Jersey. He said he was
ahead of schedule and past the
worst of a Pacific Storm.
His latest report showed him
well past the halfway mark on his
long ocean hop.
The balding 29-year-old flier
eased his gasoline-heary Beech
craft off the runway at 7:05 p.m.,
last night. I
TELEGRAM
Washington, D. C.
Mar. 3, 1949
Common Council Nome
Nome, Alaska.
Jackson and Lomen, supported
by Congressman Crawford of
Michigan testified before the sub
committee on appropriations yes
terday re: sea wall. Fine reception
and we are much encouraged. The
matter may reach the House either
two weeks, after which we tackle
to Senate. Advise Chamber of
Commerce and Rotary Club.
CARL J. LOMEN.
Ask Appropriation
For Highways,
! Trails, In Alaska
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WASHINGTON </P)_An appro
priation of $9,000,000 will be asked
for highways and trails to accom
modate the fast increasing popula
tion to Alaska. The budget bureau
bureau will ask Congress to in
clude it in a deficiency bill,
j B. Frank Heintzleman regional
j forester for the Territory, told a
reporter Saturday the# roads are
I needed for communities where pa
per mills are planned, both for
residents of those areas and to
I provide access to the forests.
He said the forest service now
! is laying out about 400 home sites
: near Ketchikan, and plans others
S around other towns in the area
where mills will be established.
Work on the first paper mill, to
cost $33,000,000, will start near
Ketchikan in the spring, he said.
Other roads and trails would be
constructed around Juneau and
Sitka.
Only this week President Tru
man asked Congress for a suple
mental appropriation of $6,653,000
for the federal works agency, to
cover additional salaries and ex
penses “and construction of forest
highways in Alaska by the public
roads administration.” The exact
amount for Alaskan highways has
not been made public.
FBI Nab Two Spies
In U. S. Secrets
Stealing Case
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(By W. H. Mobley)
WASHINGTON (JP)—A Russian
on the United Nations staff and an
American woman emplqyee of the
justice department were held by
the FBI in New York Saturday,
accused of stealing U. S. secrets.
A guarded announcement from
the department of justice hinted
at a spy-thriller sequel to last
summer’s sensational stories of a
wartime Red spy ring operating in
high government places and re
laying inside information by cour
ier to Soviet agents in New York.
Arrested in New York Friday
night after an uptown-downtown
movie-style chase, the justice de
partment said, were:
Judith Coplon, 27, formerly of
Brooklyn, N. Y., an employee of
the department since 1943. Offi
cials would say o:.iy that her gov
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Public Works Bills
To Assisi Alaska
Now In Congress
(By Vern Haugland)
WASHINGTON, (A1)—The gov
ernment recently has loaned Alas
kan communities $286,000 for the
advance planning on 27 public
works projects, commissio n e r
George Field of the bureau of
community facilities said Satur
day.
The estimated cost of building
the projects—school and hospital
buildings and waterworks — is
! $13,500,000.
“Legislation has been intro
duced in the 81st Congress to pro
vide for a program of public
! works to assist in the development
of Alaska,” Field told a reporter.
“The legislation would aid the
, local and Territorial governments
in financing and building public
works needed to maintain the
health and welfare of the com
; munities, and by so doing speed
! the economic growth of the Terri
tory.
“Overall needs for such facili
1 ties are large.”
Senator Magnuson (D.-WashJ
and Delegate Bartlett, have intro
duced identical bills <S. 855 and
| HR. 224» to authorize an Alaska
i public works program continuing
until June 30, 1955.
An estimated $50,000,000 would
be required to bring the Terri
tory’s public works up to the
standards required for her present
population. The bills propose that
50 per cent of the federal govern
ment’s outlay for the program
would be repaid.
During the past 15 years, Field
said, the federal government has
helped finance, through grants av
eraging 45 per cent of the total
cost, construction of schools, hos
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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Saturday, March 5, 1949
(By James Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, (A*) — The House re
considered yesterday afternoon its
defeat of a bill to eliminate ex
perience rating credits under the
unemployment compensation law,
and the bill passed 14-8.
The bill was introduced by Rep.
Alfred A. Owen, Jr., Third Divi
sion Democrat from Anchorage.
The rating section of the act al
lows credits estimated at more
than $1,000,000 this year to em
ployers who maintained stable
payrolls. Organized labor opposed
the bill.
Legality of the rating clause is
now before the circuit court in
San Francisco on an appeal after
Alaska’s district court ruled it in
valid on the grounds of legislature
procedure error in enacting the
clause.
Reconsideration came on motion
of Rep. Jack Conright, Anchorage
Democrat, who had voted with
the majority against it yesterday
morning. Four votes were changed
to reverse the earlier 13-10 deci
sion—Conright, G. E. . Almquist,
Amelia A. Gunderson and Percy
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Soviets Make Big
Shakeup In For
eign Department
i
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, (/P) — Andrei Y. Vi
shinsky replaced Vyacheslav M.
Molotov as foreign minister Sat
urday in a momentous shift of
helmsmen in international rela
tions.
Russia’s second most important
official in dealings with the out
side world, foreign trade minister
A. I. Mikoyan, also was replaced
by his deputy, M. A. Menshikov,
after 23 years at the job. Until
Saturday Vishinsky also had been
j Molotov’s deputy.
These dramatic changes — the
most important in the Soviet
Union since Molotov took over the
foreign ministry a decade ago
from Maxim Litvinoff—were an
nounced by the presidium of the
Supreme Soviet in a brief state
ment which left unanswered a
host of questions.
i Appearing on the back pages of
; morning newspapers under the
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Milk Fund Ball
Is Grand Success
A life-size portrait of “Susie,
j the Cow” beamed her approval on
i the many score dancers and well
wishers enjoying the first milk
fund ball at Nome Public School
a u d itorium Saturday evening,
March 5. The rafters, gaily hung
with hundreds of milk cartons,
the soft colored lights, an excel
1 lently-polished floor, and a tune
ful orchestra—sometimes sweet—
, sometimes swing—all combined to
i make for easy dancing. Snow
' cooled soft drinks refreshed the
' dancers throughout the evening.
Walrus Club members, who
sponsored the benefit, declare
they are pleased with the results
and will make a detailed report of
the proceeds in the next few days.
Their gratitude goes to all who
contributed in various ways tow
ard the success of the ball, includ
ing the string orchestra: Harry
Venable, Smiley Homewood, Joe
Carlton; guest pianist Mrs. Helen
Stevens; Mrs. Vi Mitrovich, who
, worked in the box office; Nome
Boy Scouts for their fine check
room service; and Pfc. Robert
Stanley, the "Susie” portrait art
ist.
I
Noorvik Eskimo
Wins Fairbanks
Dog Team Derby
FAIRBANKS. (/P) — A 33-yeor
old Eskimo who brought his dog
team here by plane from the Arc
tic village of Noorvik, is Alaska’s
champion “musher” of 1949.
The Noorvik trail-burner, Dan
Snyder, won the top prize money
of SI,900 in the 70-mile, three day
all-Alaska dog team derby which
ended here yesterday. The race,
run in three heats, was the main
event of the annual Fairbanks
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