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VOL~XlIx. No. 15 NOME, ALASKaTmONDAY,~FEB~RUARY 3. 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
BOSTON, (/P) — Ted Williams,
Boston itea Sox slugger, today
• signed his 1947 contract—reputed
ly calling for between $60,000 and
$70,000.
GARLAND, Pa. (IP) — Tne en
gineer was killed and six other
men, including a passenger, were
injured in the derailment of seven
of nine cars of an eastbound Penn
sylvania railroad train near here
last night.
Lloyd A. Geart of Erie, Pa., d.ed
^ of injuries suffered when ne was
pinned under the wreckage of the
Erie-to-Philadelphia flyer.
KIRKLAND, l/P)-Two children
were killed when a landslide de
stroyed their home northwest of
here. Their bodies were found
Sunday afternoon after rescuers
had battled more than 12 hours
with bulldozers, other heavy
equipment and fire hoses to clear
away the debris.
The children, Allison Bicanic,
12 and his sister, Judy Ann, 3V4,
were engulfed in their bedroom
when a 50-foot mud cliff over
hanging the home collapsed. The
bodies were found beneath eight
feet of debris.
DENVER, (/P) — Lowry Field
^ medical officers today were trying
to determine the germ responsible
for an epidemic of respiratory ail
ments which resulted in a post
quarantine of 14,000 soldiers, but
which was pronounced now under
control.
Col. Robert Platt, post surgeon,
reported 95 per cent of the post’s
personnel had been inoculated
with vaccine which produced
“highly favorable results.”
SEATTLE, (/P)—Butter'was up
I a cent again today while eggs
tumbled one to three cents a dozen
on Seattle’s produce row.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The Su
preme Court today concluded an
other session of handing down
opinions without ruling on the
? government’s contempt case
against John L. Lewis. It was the
court’s first opinion day since Jan
uary 20. The next will be Monday,
February 10.
JUNEAU, (iP)—In an advertise
ment, postponing many church ac
tivities because of the cold wea
ther, the Rev. Robert Webb, Epis
copal priest, also announced “there
will be no objection to members
p, of congregations wearing the most
convenient clothing to church ser
vices during this cold weather. In
other words, ladies may wear
slacks to church, if they desire.
This is only an emergency mea
sure.”
PARIS, (/P) — Marcel Cerdan,
French middleweight champion,
won the European 160-pound title
by knocking out Leon Fouquet of
> Belgium in 2:06 of the first round
af their scheduled 15-round bout
Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES, (/P) — UCLA
has been selected as host for the
national intercollegiate tennis
championships here June 23-28.
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PREPARING FOR W I N T E R—This C—woman chops wood, which will be her only
source of fuel this winter, before her tencmcu. ... * ulda, Germany, as her husband watches.
Murray Cites
Alaska As Answer;
Newsprint Needs
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Murray (D.-Mont.>, today cited
Alaska as the answer to the needs
of United States’ newsprint con
sumers, describing it as the “most
feasible place for immediate ex
pansion of newsprint production.”
The retiring chairman of the
Senate small business committee
1 said in his final report that 25 per
| cent of the nation’s newsprin.
I needs could be met from develop
ment of the Alaskan industiy
without interfering with the con
servation program.
Murray said Alaska has been
little more than a promised land
I for too long and a newsprint in
dustry would be an immediately
practicable way to “convert some
: of the promise into reality.”
He estimated that between 20
and 30 million dollars would be
needed to establish the necessary
mill and waterpower.
Shortage of labor inadequate
power and the high cost of devel
opment were listed by Murray at
major abstacles. But he said it was
believed that four mills making
use of the pulp timber allotment
in the Tcngass National Forest
area would ease the pressure on
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PAA Planes Guide
Lost Pilot
SEATTLE, (/P) — Two Pan
American passenger planes helped
guide a lost private plane to a
safe landing in British Columbia
yesterday, PAA reported today.
The pilot of a small twin-en
gined plane radioed Ketchikan
that he was lost, and described
his surroundings. Capt. Richard
Hawley, pilot of a southbound
PAA plane contacted the lost pilot
by radio and determined he was
in the Moffett area over the Queen
Charlotte Islands. Meantime a
northbound PAA plane sighted the
lost pilot and guided him to a
landing at Sandspit B. C.
The name of the lost pilot was
not learned here.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
(Special to The Nugget)
JUNEAU, Feb. 1 9:40 p.m.—
Republican Representative from
the Third Division introduced in
the House Saturday a measure
1 which would appropriate $900 to I
buy medals for members of the'
Alaska Territorial Guards.
Representative Mrs. E. E. Eng
j strom of the First Division intro
| duced a measure in the House
; which would require the enrich
! ment of flour and bread to meet
certain standards as to vitamin
and mineral contents. The Terr.
torial Board of Health to be made
the enforcing agency, with penal
ties provided.
Representative Steve McCutch
eon of the Third Division intro
j duced a measure for the creation
i of an Alaska Transportation Au
thority, with the auditor and at
torney general, and highway en
gineer as members, to construct,
develop, improve, own, operate
manage any and all types of water
I transportation facilities in the Ter
ritory.
Introduced in the House a join,
memorial which prays Congress to
enact legislation to grant every res-i
ident of Alaska now in the armed
forces a tract of land not to exceed
160 ares, upon disharge, and that
a patent is to be issued.
JUNEAU, Feb. 3, 12:40 p.m.—a|
joint memorial addressed to Con- j
gress, Delegate Bartlett, and the
Maritime * Commission, protestr
any raise in the freight rates tc
Alaska.
Rep. Gill <R.-3rd Div) introduces
a bill for a gross tax of one-half
percent over $500 on single per
sons, and $1000 on married ones.
Sen. Norman D. Walker <D.- 1st
Div.), is seeking the termination
of the veterans special tax on
March 31, 1949, instead of when
$3,250,000 has been reached.
DAVID HENRY ARRIVES
FROM SOLOMON
David Henry arrived, via dog
team, from Solomon last week to
visit with Mr. and Mrs. Richard
i Nershack.
Nationals Move
To Eliminate
Communist Threat
PEIPING, — Trains moved
cautiously along the Communist
harrassed Peiping-Tienuin rail
road today as a government offi
cial promised “drastic steps” to
eliminate the Red threat to the
threat to the line which 2,000
Americans would use for their
imminent withdrawal from Peip
ing.
Gen. L. Tsung-Jen, d rector of
the Generalissimo’s Peiping office,
told newsmen garrison forces had
been increased in this area and the
rail line wouid soon be free of in
terference.
Fighting still was reported, how
ever, at some points along the cor
ridor from Peiping to the Sea.
The departure date of the U. S.
truce headquarters personnel and
their wives and children is ex
pected to be announced within 24
hours—a part of the general Amer-1
ican withdrawal from China.
nless a truce should end the
fighting along the 115-mile route
^ .he coast, they will have to
leave by air which would mean
a 'andoning much equipment in
Peiping, or run the gauntlet on the
Peiping-Tientsin railway under U.
S. Marine ^ua d
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11 Sentenced For
Abuse In Camp
HAMBURG, Germany. (£*) —
Five women and six men were
sentenced to death by a British
military court here today after
conviction of abusing and killing
Allied personnel in the Raven
b r u c k women’s concentration
camp.
One of the women sentenced
was an internat onal spy and ad
venturess. Carmen Maira Mory.
She paled, lowered her eyelashes
and made the sign of the cross as
she stood in the dock.
Then she turned and stumbled
out as one after another of the ac
cused 15 camp employees—mainly
doctors and nurses—entered the
dock to hear their fate.
SS. Alaska Runs
Aground; Safe In
Cordova Harbor
SEATTLE, bP)—The steamship
Alaska lay at a Cordova wharf to
day with ninety passengers and
i crew members safe after an
exciting 18 hours in which the ship
ran aground and later narrowly
avoided sinking in Cordova har
bor.
The Alaska awaited arrival of a
navy tug from Kodiak to deter
mine extent of damage caused to
the vessel’s forward hull when she
grounded at Orca Bay, off Cor
dova, in a storm early Sunday.
Alaska Steamship company offi
cials here said navy divers would
examine holes in the hull to see if
temporary repairs would be made.
The Alaska was bound from
Yakutat for Cordova, Valdez and
Seward when she grounded. The
ship radioed for aid as water rose
in her No. 1 and No. 2 holds in the
harbor, while the Coast Guard cut
ters Wachusetts and Cedar raced
from Ketchikan to aid the dis
abled ship. Capt. Percy Selif man
euvered the vessel to the dock
about midnight.
The passengers and crewmen
still were aboard today, company
officials said, because of insuffi
cient housing in Cordova. They
said no ship would be ordered to
.a.\.e the passengers off until' a
diver made a report of damage.
E. M. Pettijohn of the Cordova
Times said Captain Selig estimat
ed three or four days would be
needed to repair the damage.
Pettijohn reported there was
only momentary exc i t e m e n t
among the passengers, although a
bitter north wind whipped the har
bor and the temperature ranged
between zero and 12 below.
Disastrous Fire
At Valdez
SEATTLE, (/P)—The Commun
ity hospital at Valdez, was de
stroyed by fire today, the Valdez
operators for the Alaska Commun
cations System reported to his
Seattle office. The brief message
said patients were being cared for,
but gave no other details.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A fast spread
ing fire at Valdez destroyed the
community hospital and three ad
joining houses at midnight, burn
ing, fatally, one elderly patient
and forcing others to flee in freez
ing weather. The damage is es
timated at $50,000.
Mrs. William Schmidt, lone
nurse on duty, risked her life to
car y bed-ridden patients from the
lower floor. The name of the pa
tient who died was not immedi
ately available.
EXTREME LOWS REPORTED
IN THE INTERIOR
Unofficial reports for extreme
low temperatures over the week
end are Mayo Yukon Territory
with a temperature of —79 and
Tanacross, Alaska with a temper
ature of —72.