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VOL. Lli No. 74 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) —The estate of
Carl L. Carlson, of Vashon Island,
former Alaska trapper, miner and
trader, was valued at between
$125,000 and $150,000. The bulk
will go ot a niece, Gyda Frederick
son, Vashon Island, Wash.
Mr. Carlsen, 69 years old, died
June 14.
LONDON, i/P) — Pravda noted
yesterday the ninth anniversary
of Hitler’s invasion of Russia and
said the Soviet people “under
Comrade Stalin’s brilliant guid
ance, fighting the fascists single
handed, completely routed Hitler
ite Germany.’’
TEL AVIV, Isreal, (VP)—Rabbi
Yehuda Lieb Maimon walked ou4
of an Israeli cabinet meeting yes
terday and said he would seign as
minister of religion if the govern
ment fails to cancel purchase of
non-Kosher war surplus canned
meat from the United States.
PARIS, (JP)—Negro singer Lena
Horne and M-G-M musical direc
tor Lennie Hayton, who is white,
were secretly married in Paris in
1947, Miss Horne’s manager, Ralph
Harris, announced yesterday.
Harris said the couple kept the
wedding secret for professional
reasons, and now have decided “it
is time that everybody knew.”
LONDON, (/P)—Prince Philip is
being relieved as first lieutenant
of the Destroyer Chequers and is
returning here on home leave next
month, the Admiralty announced
yesterday.
Princess Elizabeth, his wife, is
expecting the birth of their second
child this summer.
Prince Philip is scheduled for
reassignment as commander of
the Destroyer Magpie later this
year. He has been serving with the
Mediterranean fleet since last Oc
tober.
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Helicop
ters soon may drive packhorses
out of business in Canada but dog
teams are here to stay.
That is the opinion Lt. Col. C. H.
Smith of Ottawa, Can., gave yes
terday in an address prepared for
the American Congress of Survey
ing and mapping.
Smith said helicopters are re
placing pack animals in trans
porting survey parties in moun
tainous country during the sum
mer. But in winter, he added,
nothing has been found to take the
place of dog teams.
MONTGOMERY, UP)—The Ala
bama legislature declared Wed
nesday “we will not submit to the
intermingling of white and Negro
children in our public schools.”
Without a dissenting vote, both
Houses passed two resolutions de
nouncing recent U. S. Supreme
Court decisions against segrega
tion as a threat to southern civili
zation.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—A two-day
search of the Kuskokwim River
for the body of Patrick J. Carroll,
whose plane crashed into the
stream Sunday, has been fruitless.
Carroll was a civil aeronautics
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Mrs. Kanari Traps i
Large Wolverine
Every year Kougarok miners go
to camp in the spring expecting
to find that their camps have been
l invaded by the wolverine, a no
torious animal noted for his abil
ity of tearing through the sides of
buildings( opening cans and de
stroying all kinds of stored food.
All kinds of traps have been set
for the wary animals and Kouga
rokers have tried time and again
to track them down, and failed.
Last year Mr. and Mrs. John
Kanari had twenty-five pounds of
, meat stolen from their camp a
few feet from where they were
j sleeping.
Mrs. John Kanari decided to set
a trap of her own last fall when
camp was being closed for the
winter and get even with the thief
who took her meat.
Outside her cook-house were a
variety of oil drums and butter
pails. Taking a large oil drum and
: two 60-pound butter barrels, she
placed them in a triagle, on top of
which she carefully balanced a
very large butter barrel in which
several inches of ice had frozen.
The barrel on top was placed on
its side with the open end a little
lower than the heavy bottom. It
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News-Miner
Sued For Libel
FAIRBANKS, (A3) —Golden
North Airways, Inc., filed a $50,
000 libel suit yesterday against the
Tanana Publishing Com p a n y .
publishers of the Fairbanks Daily
News Miner.
The suit named an editorial,
reprinted from the Daily Empire
of Juneau, concerning non-sched
uled air carriers operating in Alas
ka.
Golden North declares in its suit
that statements in the editorial
were “defamatory, tending to hold
up to public scorn, contempt and
ridicule, destroy the good reputa
tion for safe and efficient and
economical air operations and de
prive the airline of the benefits
of public confidence, respect and
esteem and impair its usefulness
and position as a duly certified
non-scheduled carrrier.”
Austin E. Lathrop, publisher of
the New Miner and president of
the Tanana Publishing Company,
declined to comment on the suit.
Charles Evans, president of Gol
den North, said the line started
operations as a partnership here in
1946. Owners under the incorpo
ration are Evans, his wife, Vir
ginia Evans of Fairbanks, and
William B. Frazier of Seattle.
LATE BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, f/P)—'The Sen
ate Insular Committee decided to
vote Monday on House-approved
legislation to grant Statehood to
Hawaii and Alaska. The decision
was announced by chairman O'
Mahoney after a closed-door ses
sion of the committee at which It
completed its study of the Alaska
bill.
Mother Sees Saint- ,
hood Ceremony
VATICAN CITY, UP)—For the !
first time in the 2,000-year history ;
of the Roman Catholic church, a
mother will see her daughter ele
vated to sainthood tomorrow.
Mrs. Kassunta Goretti, now 87,
will be among the hundreds of
of thousands who will see Pope |
Pius XII preside at the canoniza
tion of Maria Goretti, who died in
1902 at the age of 11 of 14 dagger
-wounds received in defending her
self from the impassioned attack
I of a country youth.
Her slayer, now 68, lives in a i
Capuchin monastery doing menial
tasks. He is Alessandro Serenelli,
who served 27 years in prison for
his act, and who later was one of
the principal witnesses in the in
vestigation preceding Maria’s ele
vation to sainthood. A deeply pen
itent recluse, he will not attend
tomorrow’s ceremony.
Eijjlit Rescued
From B'29 Crash
TOKYO, (/P) — Eight men of
the 11 man crew of a superfort
down 140 miles off Guam were
rescued today by a crashboat.
Three others, one of whomwas
seen from planes as he tried to
climb into a lifeboat, are missing.
The. crashboat,reached the sur
vivors of a B-29 crash before
dusk. Far East Air Force head
quarters announced.
A Search for the other three
crew members continued.
NATHAN F. TWINING
Due to arrive today is General I
Nathan Twining, commander of
ihe combined Army, Navy and
Air Force in Alaska on a tour with
Major General Tunner, head of
the Military Air Transport Serv
ice, and Lt. Gen. Norstad, Vice
Chief of Staff of the Air Force,
They are on a tour of inspection
of military installations which in
cludes Marks Air Force Base
which is now in the process of be- '
ing closed .
Just before going to press we |
were notified that the general’s
plane circled the field several j
several times but was unable to i
land due to poor visibility and
continued on its way to Naknek. ,
Missing Soldier j
Turns Up After
Twelve Day Search
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A Fort
Richardson soldier, missing since
June If) in the rugged Chugach
Mountain foothills, hobbled into
an Alaska Road Commission camp
east of here yesterday.
Corporal Vernon Bynum, of
Alabama, was taken to the air
force hospital at Elmendorf Field.
Medical officers said Bynum was
suffering from a gunshot wound,
accidentally inflicted, and malnu
trition. >
Bynum, lying on a hospital cot
and chewing a large piece of to
bacco, told of his 13-day ordeal.
He started out from Fort Rich
ardson on a two-day hunting and
fishing trip and to “see what
those mountains looked like.”
He could not find the same way
back in two starts and the third
time started down what turned
out to be Campbell Creek Canyon.
The soldier said that on June
18, the first clear day since he be
came last, he came across a trail.
He could see Cook Inlet, near An
chorage, in the distance.
Bynum said:
“I heard a big animal crashing
through the underbrush. I loaded
my rifle, but stumbled as a moved
across the rough terrain. The gun
fired, the bullet entering my heel, j
“I shot a branch off a tree and
used it as a crutch.”
Bynum said his only food dur
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s.
Son Born To Ten
Year Old Girl
OMAHA, t/P) — A ten-year-old
girl and her newborn son were in
“excellent condition” in an Omaha
hospital today.
The baby, who weighed six
pounds eight ounces, was deliver
ed Tuesday without any special
measures, a hospital spokesman
said.
The girl, described as “small
for her age,” had been in the hos
pital several weeks. She had been
given blood transfusions to build
up her strength.
The spokesman said the girl’s
name and address would be with
held. The child, he said, will prob
ably be placed for adoption “very
soon.” I
Navy Brass At
Marks Air Base
Admiral T. L. Sprague, Com
mander of the Air Force of the
Pacific Fleet, accompanied by |
Rear Admiral J. Perry, Command
er of Fleet Airway 4, and Rear
Admiral Harrison, chief of staff
to Admiral Sprague, with a staff
of several other officers, arrived
in Nome Wednesday on an inspec
tion tour of Navy installations in
Alaska and stayed overnight at
Marks Air Force Base.
They departed early Thursday
morning for Kodiak. This was Ad- ;
miral Sprague’s first official trip j
to Nome. I
News of the \\ orhl
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Thursday. June 22, 1950
U. S. state department advisoi
John Foster Dulles said in Tokyc
yesterday the “captive world” o:
communists would not risk wai
with the free world at this tirm
because it is too weak.
He told the American chambei
of commerce such a war, if i
came, would see “the total demoli
tion of the artificial, rigid and rel
atively weak structure that Sovie
communism has built.”
He warned, however, that th*
real danger to non-eommunis
countries is that they may b<
taken over from within by small
disciplined communist minorities
Dulles talked with Genera
MacArthur in a review of Ameri
can foreign policy in the Far Eas1
They were said to be invirtuall:
complete agreement on the nee<
for prompt American aid fo
communist-threatened Formosc
MacArthur advocated an Ameri
can military mission to administe
the arms aid to the Chinese ns
tionalists on Formosa.
Meanwhile, defense secretar
Johnson and General Omar
Bradley inspected the air defense
of Okinawa, which is likely to re
main an American base followin
the signing of an early separal
peace treaty with Japan now ac
vocated by U. S. foreign polic
advisers in the Far East.
Dulles said at a news confei
ence his, Johnson’s and Bradley
conclusions will be pooled o
their return to Washington and ‘
think they will form the basis fc
some positive action but T cann<
forecast what.”
He added that it is IT. S. polic
to “preserve international peac
security, and justice in the worl
—and that includes this part c
the world as well as the so-calle
western world.**
Budapest dispatches said
looks as if the Roman Cathol
church, many months under a
tack from the communist domii
ated government, is about to c;
pitulate to the state demands. T1
hierarchy has asked fo ran offici
review of “church questions.”
France has made a new propo
al aimed at wooing Britain to jo
six Western European natioi
which has accepted the Schum.
plan to pool coal and steel r
sources. France proposed a Eur
pean parliament that could revie
the decisions of the pool’s contr
commission. This would me;
participating countries would gi'
up less of their sovereignty
joining the merger.
RANGOON, Burma, (ZP) — I
dia’s premier Mawharlal Neh
charged yesterday that India cot
munists are attempting to “d
stroy our country and our young
generation.”
Nehru said the Reds in Ind
were busily arming strong-ai
gangs, thinking It would bene
them when the next war corr
but “instead they are destroy!
their own country in the proces
The Indian leader was enrol
home from a visit to Indonesia.