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VOL, XLIX. No. 66._NOME' aLASVA. '■.^toav. JUNE~2, 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
CARNOUSTIE, I/P) — Willie
Turnesa of White Plains, N. Y.,
defeated his Walker Cup team
mate, Dick Chapman of Pinehurst,
N. C„ 3 and 2 in their 36 hole fi
nal match Saturday to win the
British Amateur Golf champion
ship.
VANCOUVER, B. C., (/P)—'Ten
fishing boats unloaded 232,000
pounds of halibut here and at
Prince Rupert Saturday, the larg
est* catches of the season. Sold on
the Fish Exchange, prices aver
aged 16 cents a pound for chicken,
19.6 cents for medium and 16 cents
for large.
LIVERPOOL, England (/P)—'The
21,846-ton Empire Victory, one of
the world’s largest whaling fac
tory ships, has docked here from
the Antarctic with 13,500 tons of
whale oil, 400 tons of sperm oil
and 1,315 tons of meat meal.
The British ministry of food
will distribute the cargo for the
.manufacture of margarine and
other fats.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Thomas
Byrd Stewart, Jr., Juneau, was
among students graduated here j
Saturday at the School of Advanc
ed International Studies. The;
school is conducted under the aus-1
pices of the Foreign Service Edu
cational Foundation to give gradu
ate degrees in the field of foreign i
relations.
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SEATTLE, UP) — Washington’s
prospects of dominating the row
ing world for the remainder of the
decade appeared bright' Saturday
as the results of its freshman
crew’s sensational showing Friday
in defeating three varsity boats in
a two-mile time trial.
The yearlings, rated among the
best in the school’s history, led the
first string varsity to the finish
line by a length in th^ fast time of
10:30.0, nearly half a minute fast-1
er than they rowed last Saturday
in decisively beating the Californ
ia frosh.
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LEEDS, Okla. (TP)—Six persons |
were killed and about 25 injured
Saturday night by a tornado
which demolished more than two
thirds of this northeastern Okla
homa town of 855 people.
SEATTLE (TP)—A belated aerial |
honeymoon, planned seven years
ago and postponed since the wed
ding Dec. 1, finally got under way
Friday for Mr. and Mrs. Jack P.
Faulkner, an assistant service of
ficer for the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, department of Washington,
and his wife took off from Lake
Union in a float plane for a trip
to Ketchikan and points north.
They will hunt and fish before re
turning here about June 9.
WASHINGTON, (TP)—Statehood
for Hawaii is tentatively on the
program for debate in the House
late this week.
Rep. Halleck '(R.-Ind.) Republi
can floor leader, said House con
sideration of the statehood legis
lation will depend upon the dis-1
position of a large number of!
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j U S.T JUNK NOW —American B-29’sf Navy torpedo bombers and training planes make
akrie collection of iunk on Guam. Thev were damaged during the war with Janan. _
116.3 Miles An Hour
At Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, (/P) — Mauri
Rose of Chicago, a. confident lit
tle guy with a black moustache
and a big pipe, was down in the
books Saturday as a second-time
winner in the 31st annual 500
mile race at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, but the first two places
should have been labeled “Lou
Moore entry.”
Rose and Bill Holland of Bridge
port, Conn., the No. 2 finisher,
drove identical new four-cylinder
cars owned by Lou Moore of Ven
tura, Calif., and called the Blue
Crown Spark Plug Specials.
The race, second fastest since
the holiday event was inaugurated
in 1911, cost the life of William
(Shorty) Cantlon, veteran Indian
apolis driver who finished second
to Billy Arnold in 1930. Cantlon,
43-year-old bachelor and used car
dealer, smacked the wall coming
out of the southwest turn, trying
to avoid a mixup that occurred
when Holland skidded into the
grass along the inside of the track.
The amazing Ted Horn of Pat
terson, N. J., driving the Maser
ati, in which Wilbur Shaw twice
won the race, claimed third
money. He has never taken the
trophy but his methodical driving
has placed him among the top
four finishers in eight straight
“500’s.”
Rose’s winning speed was 116.3
miles an hour, second only to the
late Floyd Roberts’ 117.2 in 1938.
The seven leaders all averaged
more than 100 miles an hour.
other measures on a crowded
House calendar.
Wm. Arthurs,
Former Nomeite
Dies In Seattle
I Funeral services for William
Arthurs, 72-year-old pioneer Alas
kan, who died in Seattle last Sun
day, were held Tuesday in the
Bonney-Watson chapel. Burial
was in Acacia cemetery.
Wm. Arthurs, was in Seattle for
medical attention. Born in Michi
gan, he came to Nome in 1900, re
siding here until 1932. He was
postmaster in Nome for several
years just prior to moving to Fair
banks in 1932.
He was a member of Igloo No.
lf Pioneers of Alaska, I.O.O.F.
Lodge No. A-5, and the Midnight j
Sun Rebekah Lodge No. 3-A, all
of Nome.
Surviving are his widow, Ada
M.; a daughter, Mrs. Noel Wien,
four brothers, Robert, Stewart,
Walker and Colin, all in Canada;
and two sisters, Mrs. Laura Mad
den, Montreal, Quebec; and Sarah
Sault St. Marie, Mich.
Still Negotiating
Longshore Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Union
representatives agreed early to
day for the settlement of a strike
by 4,000 CIO warehousemen in
the San Francisco Bay area. The
tie-up continued, however, pend
ing membership ratification of the
agreement.
Terms were not disclosed.
The association earlier had of
fered a pay increase of one cent
an hour plus three additional paid
holidays. The union turned it
down. It sought an increase of
six and one-half cents bringing the
hourly base pay to $1.30.
Many Killed In
Arkansas Tornado
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (£>)—With
33 bodies in mortuaries, Jefferson
county officials today sought an
additional 15 persons believed
missing after a tornado ripped a
20-mile path south here, injuring
hundreds and leaving hundreds
more homeless.
Coroner E. D. DuPree, who an
nounced early today 37 bodies
had been recovered, said he be
lieved that was correct after a
check of the various establish
ments. A check of the four mor
tuaries here showed 18 white per
sons and 15 negroes.
The majority of the victims
were children, including members
of a Negro ’teen-age group attend
ing a meeting in a house where 11
persons were killed. It least 10
white children died.
One crew blasted a hole in a
dike on a dammed break along
Bartholomew Bayou into which
several houses were believed to
have been blown, then waded
waist-deep in the muddy water
hunting for bodies.
The twister bounded along
the 20-mile course—10 miles wide
in places—from a point approxi
mately 10 miles southwest of here
to a spot in the Arkansas river
bottoms about 10 miles southeast
of Pine Bluff. Its fringe struck
the extreme southern outskirts of
this community of 40,000 at the
northernmost tip of its course,
damaging the Pine Bluff country
club house. It pounded over Gri
der field, wartime army aviation
primary training center, leaving
the airport untouched.
Pine Bluff is 43 miles southeast
of Little Rock.
53 Killed In
Plane Accidents
PORT DEPOSIT, Md. (/P) — A
four-engine Eastern Airlines
transport plunged suddenly from
J.000 feet into a wooded ravine
here Friday night, killing all
53 aboard in the nation’s worst
commercial airline disaster.
Eye-witnes^s differed on what
happened just before the big DC-4
plummeted to the ground at a 45
degree angle.
Several said they heard an ex
plosion and saw the tip-end of the
tail section tear away.
The transport was flying along
smoothly at about 1,000 feet when
the engines suddenly roared thun
derously and the big aircraft turn
ed over on its back and started
falling.
The graphic eye-witness account
of seaman 1/c Frank Welch of
Tonawanda, N. Y„ was typical of
the statement by most of those
who watched the plane fall into
the woods.
Welch said the DC-4 was flying
at 1.500 to 2,000 feet when it start
ed to turn over to the right.
“The plane tipped a little” he
said, “and then started to nose
down. The whole tail assembly
disintegrated and I counted nine
separate pieces falling to the
ground.”
It tore into the wooded hillside,
snapping off six and eight-inch
trees and burst into flame with a
mighty explosion.
Largest single bit of wreckage
was not more than 12 feet long,
apparently a section just forward
of the tail. Debris and dismem
bered bodies were strewn over an
area 20 yards wide and 75 yards
long.
By dawn, rescue workers had
collected 52 distinguishable bodies
but most of them were mutilated
beyond recognitioh.
They were tak#n over trails
hacked through the woods to near
by Bainbridge naval training sta
tion, where investigators Satur
day morning started the grim job
of trying to establish identificat
ions.
Civil aeronautics inspectors
meanwhile poked through the
strewn wreckage seeking evidence
which might establish the cause of
the crash.
The disaster climaxed a 49-hour
series of costly air crashes around
the world.
Only the night before, a United
Airlines plane of the same type
crashed on takeoff from LaGuar
dia Field in New York and 40 lost
their lives.
Holiday Deaths
Exceed Last Year
Despite the* nation’s two worst
airplane crashes and two disas
trous tornadoes, automobiles again
headed the list of victims in holi
day deaths over the Memorial
day week end.
The total of 214 traffic fatali
ties was far ahead of the 164 for
the same holiday week end last
ytear, but well under the 275 pre
dicted by the national safety coun
cil for the period up to last mid
night.