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VOL. LI. No. 68 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE. </P)—With her holds
bulging with cargo and a heavy
deckload, the Alaska Steamship
Company freighter Coastal Ram
bler sailed from Seattle yesterday
for the first Nome-Bering Sea
voyage of the year.
The ship, with Capt. Ludwig
Jacobson as master, was loaded
with 5.800 tons of freight, includ
ing 200.000 feet of lumber and a
deckload of trucks, tractors, ma
chinery and heavy equipment for
isolated Bering Sea ports that
have not seen a ship since Sep
tember before the freeze.
W A T E R BURY. Conn. i/P» —
Worlds featherweight champion
Willie Pep of Hartford, will meet
Eddie Compo of New Haven in a
15-round match for the title here
July 12, promoter Rocco Mara an
nounced yesterday.
WASHINGTON I/P), The House
approved yesterday a bill to per
mit Canadian ships to carry pas
sengers and freight bet ween
Haines, Skagway, and Hvder,
Alasks, and other ports in the
Territory until June 30, 1950.
It also passed a bill to turn over
to the Territory school buildings
no longer used by the Alaska Na
tive Service. Both bill now go to
the Senate.
SEATTLE, (VP) — The Alaska
Steamship company yesterday an
nounced that Petersburg has been
added to the itinerary of the
steamer Denali for three summer
cruises. They are the June 30.
August 11 and September 22 sail
ings.
TOKYO, </P) — Screams came
from a downtown Tokyo movie
theater.
Passersby halted, noted outside
showboards advertising a horror
film, smiled and started to pass
on.
Just then a screaming woman
and an angry man emerged. The
man shouted to the doorkeeper:
• My wife was just bitten by a
rat.”
SHANGHAI, f/P) — Death was
the penalty fixed yesterday by
the communist garrison command
for a traffic death.
Wang Kuo-Jen, truck driver for
the communist army, was con
demned man for killing a student
on a bicycle in a collision.
Students of Tunghi university
petitioned the garrison headquar
ters to commute Wang’s sentence.
NEW YORK, UP) — Evangelist
Ramos, 28, died early today in
Bellevue hospital of head injuries
suffered last night in a boxing
bout with Joseph Malone at Mar
ia's East Side gymnasium, police
reported. Police said Ramos
struck his head on the ring floor.
WASHINGTON, </P)—An Arctic
explorer claims it’s a lot easier to
get lost in the Pentagon building
than in the frozen wastes of the
polar regions.
Charles A. K. Innes-Taylor, 49
year-old former British subject
who apparently has had trouble
finding his way around the Pentn
Army Wants No
Part In Senator’s
Atomic Mess
| WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
j of defense Johnson said yesterday
j the military establishment does
! not want control of atomic energy
developments.
He added in a letter to chair
1 man McMahon <D.-Conn.» of the
I Senate-House atomic committee:
“I intend to see to it that this
* attitude is maintained by the mil
■ itary establishment.”
! McMahon, whose committee is
, conducting an inquiry into charg
es by Senator Hickenlooper <R.
Iowa> of “incredible mismanage
ment” against AEC chairman Da
vid E. Lilienthal, had written
1 Johnson observing he had heard
reports that “the armed forces are
! somehow involved” in that inves
' tigation.
Colleagues said that if the Sen
ate-House atomic committee lets
him. Hickenlooper may attempt to
I prove that about a score of per
sons whose loyalty has been ques
tioned at one time or another are
' still holding key jobs in the AEC
| setup.
In addition, they said Hicken
I looper probably will try to show
j that loopholes in security regula
tions—and lapses in enforcement
I of the rules—have been such that
j alert spies could have obtained
; some valuable information.
Adding these together with
I what he has called “wasteful” ad
ministrative practices may sum
' up Hickenlooper’s cause of “in
(Continued on Page Seven!
U. S. Labor Strife
Boiling Over
<J3y The Associated Press*
A strike of AFL bus drivers in
the Detroit area today left some
30,000 suburban residents without
public transportation.
The drivers quit at midnight in
protest against a wage cut pro
posed by the Dearborn Coach Co.
Cuts proposed by the company
range from 8Vi to 13Vi cents an
i hour. Present wage scales were
, not disclosed.
Other labor developments today
included:
Washington: John L. Lewis,
i chief of the united mine workers,
announced the U. S. Steel Corp.
has agreed to new contract talks
(Continued on Page Three)
gon, made the comparison to re
porters yesterday as he became an
American citizen at naturalization
.ceremonies here.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., UP)—
! Two rescue vessels safely remov
1 ed 27 crewmen late Monday from
the lighthouse tender SS. Alberni,
which went aground in the fog on
! Canoe Rocks in Queen Charlotte
Sound.
The fish packers China Hat and
Klatawa took the damaged vessel
under tow.
tin Vancouver, the RCAE re
ported radio Messages indicated
all hands were taken off without
injury.'
Air Force Intent
On Buying Only
B-36 Bombers
WASHINGTON, (JF) — The air
I force bomber buying program for
j next year includes only the Con
I solidated Vultee B-36 and the
Boeing B-47, information from
various sources indicated today.
Total purchases of the two
[types will range from 166 to 200,
! in addition to spares, under the
(original $1,426,000,000 plane pur
j chase plan submitted to Congress.
J It may be increased substantially
I if an additional $851,000,000 is
, made available, as has been indi
I cated by shifting of funds origin
ally asked for universal training.
The air force already has re
ceived or ordered 170 B-36’s. It
plans to increase that to around
250. It now has two B-47’s and
i ten on order. This will be increas
| ed to at least 100.
The B-36 is a 165-ton bomber
(Continued on Page Three)
Helge Instad.
Arctic Explorer,
Heads For Alaska
SEATTLE, —Helge Instad,
Arctic explorer is tall, loose and
has the built-in balance of a cou
gar. He is 49. His hair is nearly
white. But he looks 30. There is
no picture quite as calm as that of
Instad smoking his pipe.
He was 26 when he sold a thriv
ing law business in Norway. He
figures this way:
“Life is very short. You must
use it.”
Later he became governor of
Spitsbergen, a land near the North
Pole. He gave up that, too.
“I did not wish to be tied
. down.”
He spent two years in northeast
Greenland. He has been a journal
ist and once he worked in a saw
mill to get enough money to buy a
gun and a canoe.
The canoe took him to his last
adventure, which was four years
with nomadic Indians in the Ca
nadian Arctic. He called them
"the caribou eaters.” They touch
outposts of civilization only to buy
rifles, ammunition, and a little to
bacco.
For four winters Instad chased
their fan-shaped dog teams over
the trials left by herds of migrat
ing caribou. He lived with them
as an Indian. There were times
(Continued on Page Seven)
26 Perish In Plane
Crash In Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, (/P)
Reports from Florianopolis said 26
persons were killed Monday when
a Brazilian army transport plane
crashed into a mountain soon af
ter taking off.
The air ministry here said
wreckage of the plane, a C-47,
was located near Cambirclas Peak
and rescue parties were rushed to
the scene.
The plane was on normal trans
port service, carrying both army
personnel and civilians between
Rio de Janeiro and the state of
Cio Grande do Sul. Florianopolis,
47 Die When Plane
Crashes In Atlantic
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, (VP>—
A plane jammed with Puerto Ri
can men, women and children
bound for the United States
; crashed in the Atlantic early yes
terday and 47 persons are missing
and feared dead.
I Officials said 75 persons, in
cluding a crew of five Americans,
were aboard the two-motored
C-46 plane. The U. S. coast guard
reported 28 known survivors.
Nineteen of the passengers
were small children or infants,
(Continued on Page Eighth
Murray Charges
John L. Lewis With
Rumor Mongering
WASHINGTON, (/P>—CIO Pres
cient Philip Murray yesterday ac
cused John L. Lewis of ‘rumor
mongering” and ‘‘lack of respon
sibility.”
He made the accusation in de
nial of a statement by the united
mine workers chief Monday. At
that time Lewis said he had heard
that Murray had agreed to a “pu
sillanimous compromise” on Taft
Hartley labor law repeal.
Lewis, in a message to all Sen
1 ators, said he had heard reports
that Murray and AFL president
: William Green had agreed to
1 “four oppressive amendments”
for inclusion in a new law.
Referring to Lewis as a “rule
1 or-ruin union official,” Murray
said the mine workers leader’s
statement contained “false and
malicious libels” concerning him
and Green.
A spokesman for the AFL Mon
(Continued on Page Seven)
Denverite Buys
Alaskan Gold
DENVER, i/P)—A sealed plastic
container somewhat larger than a
beer can stood in the cashier’s
cage of Boettcher and Company,
Denver investment brokerage, to
day.
The container held 100 ounces
of gold dust from Alaska. A client
—Boettcher and Company would
not identify him—is buying the
dust for $3,945.
Officials said the client is buy
ing the gold as insurance against
the day when the American dollar
may dwindle in value.
Although pure gold is pegged
by the U. S. government at $35
per ounce, the gold dust brought
in from Alaska’s Yukon fetched
$39.45, the Boettcher company
said. They said it is 86 per cent
fine and would bring about $30.20
per ounce at a U. S. mint.
U. S. citizens may own gold in
its natural state but may not ex
port it from the country.
Transportation and brokerage
charges boosted the price of the
dust for the Boettcher client well
above what the gold would bring
at the mint.
a coast city, is 480 miles south
west of Rio de Janeiro.
News of the World
At A Glance ---
Tuesday. June 7, 1949
<By The Associated Press*
The foreign ministers confer
ence in Paris resumed open ses
sions today. A high French source
said that because the east-west
I deadlock on Berlin has not been
broken in secret sessions, both
Russia and the west are anxious
now to have their respective plans
put on record.
One rival plan to restore unity
in Berlin was presented by U. S.
secretary of state Dean Acheson.
It is backed by Britain and
France. The other plan was pro
posed by Soviet foreign minister
Andrei Vishinsky.
j In Berlin, the United States rep
resentatives told the Russians that
east-west trade in Germany can
not be resumed until the Berlin
rail strike is settled. There is no
settlement in sight of the strike of
14,000 Berlin rail workers.
American officials said today it
I is entirely likelv deputy foreign
minister V. M. .Molotov may now
be in charge of Russian policies
I in China and elsewhere in the Or
, ient.
Such a move to exploit the com
munist advance in China has been
looked for by diplomats ever since
, Molotov was transferred months
j ago from foreign minister to un
disclosed new responsibilities.
If he has been given the as
signment—as reported from Paris
—it will be taken as fresh and
significant evidence that F^jssia is
shifting interest from the western
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SPECIAL MEETING HELD
ON BREAKWATER
The Nome Common Council
culled a special meeting to discuss
the proposed site for the Nome
| breakwater.
A. S. Cary, chief of the geology
section of Seattle District Corps
of Engineers, is in Nome on a sur
vey for adequate rock supplies
for the project. He stated before
the group assembled in the city
I hall that the rock would more
; than likely have to be hauled
1 from Cape Nome about 13 miles
j away. It is the only granite-hard
I rock in the area, he said.
In explanation, he said, the
breakwater, as now proposed, will
be placed immediately adjacent to
the present bulkheads and become
a part of them, and would be con
I tinuous from the east jetty to the
east of the Northern Light and
Power Company plant in the east
end of Nome.
Two types of construction were
proposed and discussed and argu
ments were pro and con between
the merits of sheet steel piling with
a rock fill in front and one of en
tirely rock construction with large
rock on the front face to break up
I the| force of the storm. Also much
discussion as to the location of the
breakwater; whether it should be
adjacent to the present bulkheads
or a few hundred feet out from
shore on the first bar.
It was suggested that the coun
cil get in touch with Col. L. H.
Hewitt for more particulars. The
meeting adjourned.