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VOL. LII No. 69 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950 ' Per Copy-^Tsc
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE, (/P)— A 63-pound,'
four-ounce king salmon was
flown here from Ketchikan last
night The Ketchikan chamber of
commerce rented the big fish here
for display.
It was caught by Bob Brown
ing of Ketchikan, and put Brown
ing in first place in the Ketchikan
seasonal salmon derby which runs 1
until Aug. 31. It displaced a 57
pound, 11-ounce king entered
there 10 days ago.
Experienced salmon fishermen
around Ketchikan said they still
expected an even larger fish to be
caught before the derby ends.
The big king was caught on a
Martin plug and 42-pound test
cuttyhunk line.
ST. LOUIS, (JP)—President Tru
man and his boys of Battery D
got together today at a gay re- ■
union breakfast in which they
compared expanding waistlines
and swapped stories of the first
world war.
The breakfast for members of
Battery D, 129th Field Artillery,
which Mr. Truman commanded,
started another full day of activi
ty for “Captain Harry,” here for
the 35th division’s annual reunion.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Harry Gold,:
indicted Friday on charges of re- j
laying atom secrets to the Soviet
Union, will be returned to Brook
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"SQUARE SINNET" DUE
IN NOME ON JUNE 25
The first boat of the season, the
“Square Sinnet”, left for Nome on
June 9th, according to Bill Wood,
who arrived yesterday with Jack
Dillon to open the Alaska Steam
ship office here. The boat is stop
ping at Naknek and Squaw Har
bor in addition to the stops al
ready announced and is scheduled !
to arrive here about June 25th.
Mr. Wood, who has been so ac
tive in civic affairs and who made
many friends while stationed here
for the company, states that he
enjoys his new post at Ketchikan, j
which is a very busy place.
Mr. J. Dillon, the new agent, is
accompanied by his wife.
2 Dead, 4 Missing
In B-29 Crash
LONDON, (/P)—A fifth survi
vor and another dead crewman
of a United States B-29 bomber
were plucked from the North Sea I
Saturday, nearly 24 hours after
their flaming plane plunged into
the water.
This left four U. S. Air Force
men still missing from the crash,
off the Norfolk coast of southeast
England. Five of the 11 crewmen
have been picked up alive and
two dead.
Ships and planes pressed the
hunt for the men still missing.
• The Air Force said the plane,
abandoned when one of its four
engines caught fire during a train
ing flight, was frof the 72nd re
connaissance squadron at Fair
field-Suisan air base, Fairfield,
California. It was in Britain on a
training mission.
Griieninj* Denies
l{es|>onsihililv For
Indictments
JUNEAU. <7P)— Governor Ern
est Gruening denies flatly the
truth of a statement which he
said accused him of responsibility
for indictments handed down at
Anchorage Friday against a num
ber of Alaska firms and individu
als.
“Mr. Gilbert Skinner, owner of
the Alaska Steamship Company,”
the Territorial governor said Sat
urday, “has issued a statement
charging me with responsibility I
the press against the Alaska
for the indictments reported in ,
Steamship Company and others.
“Mr. Skinner does me far too
much credit. He is apparently not
fully aware of the method by
which the federal government op
erates. The governor of Alaska
has no power or influence to per
suade the Department of Justice
to investigate and prosecute al
leged violations of the anti-trust
laws.”
The Alaska governor said he
first learned the federal authori
ties were interested in checking
an alleged anti-trust violations a
year ago. He said he learned the
investigation came “in response
to complaints from Alaskans.”
And he added:
“I neither sponsored nor in
stigated the proceedings which
have followed.”
Gruening added in his state
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28 Puerto Ricans
Lost In C-46 Crash
CHARLESTON, (^—Recupera
ting from a soul-trying experience
in shark-infested waters, most of
the Puerto Rican survivors of an
Atlantic Ocean plane crash today
made plans to continue on to their
work in Michigan sugar beet
fields.
Thirty-four of the migratory
workers were brought here yes- j
terday, after being picked up j
early Tuesday morning. Their j
plane, a C-46 owned by Westair j
Co. of Seattle, Wash., crash-land- I
ed 275 miles off Miami last Mon
day night.
There were 65 persons aboard.
The pilot, Joo Halsey, Seattle, co
pilot and steward also were with
those landed here yesterday by
the U.S. Navy destroyer escort
“Saufley”. Eight Puerto Ricans
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BUS CO. TO SERVE NOME
A new organization serving
Nome and vicinity as well as
Marks Air Force Base and mining
camps is the Far North Transpor
tation Company, which is sched
uling a regular bus service for
points out of town.
Their schedule includes for the
present stops at Marks Air Force
Base, No. 5 Dredge, Quianna Club
.and other stops will be added
when service demands.
The new company is owned by
Reader Brothers and is managed
by Chuck Reader.
Rep. Mack
Asks Hall On
Russian Imports
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Rep.
Mack <R-Wash.) renewed today
his demand that the government
halt importation of goods pro
duced by Russia and its satellite
countries.
Rep. Mack, in a statement, said
the value of such goods amounted
to $42,000,000 last year. Russia, on
the other hand, bought only $6,
000,000 of products from the Uni
ted States, he said.
“By these transactions, Mack
said, “Russia obtained $35,000,000
American dollars and credit with
which to buy goods in other na
tions that would strengthen her
economy and war potential. . .”
He quoted from a recent speech
HUNTING BOAT OVERDUE
FROM ISLAND TRIP
Increasing concern is fell for
the oomiak of Sammy Mogg
which is overdue from a hunting
trip which was scheduled to in
clude King Island and Diomede
Island. They have not reached
either King Island or Diomede
according to reports, although
they were heard from at Wales on
Wednesday of last week.
In the party is Tex Zeigler,
bush pilot and employee of the
Alaska Airlines, who went along
to take movie and still pictures.
Others known to be in the party
of nine are Sam Mogg. Jr., and
Lawrence Okpealok.
of Willard Thorp, assistant sec
retary of state, in which that offi
i cial said there is “mounting evi
; dence that Russian goods are pro
i duced by slave labor.
THIS IS YOUR FLAG. No matter what size it is, its
proportions are set by law. Taking the width of the flag
as 1, the length is 1.9. The width of the union, or blue i
field, is 7-13tlis of the width of the flag and the length
is .76. Each stripe is l-13th wide. The diameter of each
star is .0616.
The original U.S. flag, authorized by the Continental
Congress, Sept. 3, 1777, had 13 stars and 13 stripes to
represent the 13 original states. They were Deleware,
Pennsylvania, New' Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Mass
achusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire,
Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island.
That was the order in which they ratified the Constitu- j
tion.
New' stars were added as new states entered the un
ion. The first added was Vermont; the last, Arizona, in
1912. Between 1795 and 1818 the flag hed 15 stars and
15 stripes. But in 1818 Congress authorized the return
to 13 stripes with one star for each state.
Alaska Steamship
Charges (duelling
In Indictment
(A statement, in part, by G. W.
Skinner, president. Alaska Steam
ship Company.)
“This criminal indictment is
sheer political persecution of the
Alaska Steamship Company. It is
Governor Ernest Gruening’s latest
attempt to harass and embarrass
the Alaska Steamship Company
and to make way for socialized
government operation of steam
ship service to the Territory.
‘ The alleged charges and the
Justice Dept, inquiries have been
instigated and sponsored by Gov
ernor Gruening. We have been so
informed by representatives of
the Department of Justice, and
others.
'The indictment is our penalty
for my refusal to make a "deal"
on the Alaska statehood issue. I
neither came out for nor against
Statehood, since this matter is
one for the people of the Territory
and the Congress to determine.
‘‘We are determined to fight
these charges and to bring into
plain view ‘he motives of those
who have instigated and spon
sored them. We are satisfied that
a full trial of this matter before a
fair and impartial tribunal will
vindicate the company and its
personnel.
"The various matters which the
Department of Justice inquired
about in its recent investigation
have repeatedly been the sub
ject of exhaustive inquiry both
by the Maritime Commission and
Committees of Congress. In each
and every instance these same
charges and complaints asseited
by Governor Gruoning have been
oa'ion.
found to be utterly without foun
“Notwithstanding this. Governor
Gruening seems determined to
be. t the Alaska Steamship Com
pam to i s knees. For over ^ifiv
\cars Alasaa Steamship Cenpanv
has endeavoied to serve the best
i. tc rests of the people of the Ter
ritory ard we are not n »»• throw
ing in the sponge to sa;i. !y thi
w aims of ii poli.ician ben*. « n
siroving private industrj- in Al
osi a for his own political ad van
tag*’.”
Gruening son weds
HONOLULU, (/P)—Mrs. Nadine
<Didi) Roosevelt and Peter Brown
Gruening, son of Gov. and Mrs.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska, were
married Saturday.
The bride* is the former wife ot
George Roosevelt, Jr., of the Oy
ster Bay Roosevelts and nephew
of the late president Theodore
Roosevelt. She is the daughter ot
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Unger of
Honolulu.
The groom is 26, his bride 24.
Only a few close friends of the
couple attended the ceremony at
which the Rev. Henry Judd offic
iated.
Gruening is a reporter for Uni
ted Press. He was transferred
here from Sacramento. Calif. He
is a graduate of the University ot
California.
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