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\ . >l. LI. No. 69 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, 1/P) — Silver
pr< duction in the United States in
April was 3,388,198 fine ounces, a
decrease from the 3,450,237 ounces
mined in March but a slight in
crease in daily production due to
the shorter work month, the bur
eau of mines reports.
Production during April in
cluded: Washington, 33,120 ounces
and Alaska, 962 ounces.
SEATTLE, (/P)—G. W. Skinner,
president of Alaska Steamship
company, is en route north on a
business trip to Alaska on his
yacht Leonore. He plans to trans
fer to plane at Seward to com
plete a swing from Sand Point,
Alaska, to Bristol Bay and back
through Southwestern and South
eastern ports.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Brig. Gen. A. B.
Connally, head of the northwest
highway system in the Yukon ter
ritory, reports the Haines cutoff
opened for traffic yesterday.
Crews have been working stead
ily cn the highway ever since the
Alaska road commission completed
work on the road to boundary.
JUNEAU, i/P)—Carrying seven
tons of equipment nad two tons of
food, the largest prospecting party
in recent years left here yesterday
for the Wrangell Mountains in
search of base metals, principally
copper.
The five-man expedition is led
by Fred Mann, mining engineer.
His wife is also making the jour
ney. The party will proceed to
Haines, thence to the ore fields by
way of the Alaska Highway.
VANCOUVER, B. C. </P), 20,000
leaflets were dropped by plane
Wednesday on Graham Island of
the Queen Charlotte group to In
dor Ulmer that ground and air
crews are looking for him.
Ulmer and a partner became
separated while trekking overland
from their disabled fish boat IT
days ago and only the partner
made safety. The search con
tinues.
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Col. J.
Monroe Johnson announced yes
terday that President Truman will
address the annual American Le
gion convention in Philadelphia
in August.
Johnson, a member of the inter
state commerce commission, said
Mr. Truman will attend the con
vention as a delegate and will be
presented with the American Le
e on distinguished service medal.
SEATTLE, iff) — The Coast
Guard Bering Sea patrol cutter
Northwind has rescued 30 King
Island natives from a drifting ice
floe north of Nome.
Coast guard headquartrers here
reported the Northwind picked up
the group yesterday afternoon and
is returning to King Island, in the
Little Diomede group.
The natives were carried to sea
by heavy currents.
—
OSLO, Norway (;*P)—Sigrid Un
dset, Nobel prize winning author,
died today at Lillehammer, Nor
way.
Congress Approves
I-Year Suspension
Assessment Work
WASHINGTON. </P)—'The Sen- |
ate and House have approved a |
conference committee report un- i
der which mining assessment ;
work would be suspended for one j
year.
The House supported a three- 1
month’s suspension. It yielded to!
the Senate’s one-year proposal af-1
ter Senator O’Mahoney 'D.-Wyo.'j
promised he will seek early ac-!
tion by the Presideht so that if the j
legislation is disapproved. Con- |
gress may enact a new bill to,
meet his objections.
Law requires $100 worth of de
velopment work on a mining
claim each year. The deadline is
June 30.
The bill, which now goes to the
! White House, provides that min
ers who already have done their
work for this year will receive
credit on next year’s work.
To take advantage of the sus
pension provision, the claim own
er must give notice to the interior
department not later than Aug. 1.
The House also approved a con
ference report on a bill by Rep.
Engle <D.-Calif.) to authorize the
secretary of the interior to post
pone assessment work on mining
claims in certain unavoidable
contingencies.
The Senate has not yet acted
on this report.
Ask Military Check
On Atomic Materi
als Sent Abroad
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (^(—Senator
Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) called to
day for a close military check be
fore atomic materials are sent
abroad, “even to the friendliest of
countries.”
The Michigan Senator said he
wants to be sure that the military
liaison committee approves in ad
vance atomic energy commission
decisions such as that which sent
radioactive isotopes to a research
division of the Norwegian military
establishment.
“The point is not whether a
country is friendly to us,” he told
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CONGRESS
HIGHLIGHTS
(By Jack Rutledge)
WASHINGTON. </P) — Demo
cratic Senators trying to push
through the administration’s labor
bill said yesterday their cause has
been seriously hurt by the mine
shutdown ordered by John L.
Lewis.
Nevertheless, Senate debate
continued on the labor program.
The administration wants to re
peal the Taft-Hartley act and re
place it with one easier on unions.
A substitute offered by opponents
would retain most of the T-H pro
visions.
One provision the administra
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U. of A. Library Given Rare Documents
"With gifts such as these, the University of Alaska can soon
become a repository for the complete history of the Northland,”
said Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President of the University of Alaska
in thanking B. A. Gillam, Fairbanks businessman for the 63 rare
documents and books presented to the University Library.
Among the valuable papers were the Minority reports oppos
ing the purchase of Alaska; a U. S. Senate document claiming to
set forth by name and amount those who were paid off tor engin
eering the purchase; the c .rrespondenee of Capt. L. A. Beardsley,
of the UkS.S. Jamestown, who was "The Law” in Alaska for sev
e ul years after the purchase. The first report on ike "vegy.iblc
possibilities” of Alaska made in 1869 and a complete set of 18 cop
ies of Harper’s Weekly on the Klondike were among the terns n
the collection presented by Mr. Gillam.
"The University is very grateful for this invaluable contribu
tion. As each day goes by it becomes increasingly difficult io :ind
and acquire letters, papers, documents and books that played a
part in the formation of the history of the Northland,” Dr. Bunnel
stated.
Dr. Bueliman
Opens World MBA
Assembly At Caux
CAUX. Switzerland — “Change
in both East and West” is the key
to world unity, Dr. Frank Buch
man, initiator of Moral Re-Arma
ment, told the opening session of
a special World Assembly at
DR. FRANK BUCHMAN
Caux-sur-Montreux. Switzerland,
last Saturday. In this “tremen
dous uniting power” lies the hope
of the future, he said.
Dr. Buchman’s address, titled
“Is There An Answer? There Is."
was heard by minister president:
and leaders of Western Germany
and delegates from the cabinets
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♦By The Associated Press*
A hint that the FBI ran an in
formation pipeline into the Rus
sian embassy was given yesterday
to the jury trying Judith Coplon
on espionage charges in Washing
ton.
It came during the reading by
Miss Coplon’s lawyer of the sec
ond heretofore secret FBI report
brought into the open on insistent
defense demands.
This long and detailed docu
ment, based on data from nearly a
score of “confidential informants,”
i included the text of an applica
I tion filed by one Leona Saron for
a job on the Soviet Information
Bulletin.
The information bulletin is
published by the Russian embas
sy here.
So voluminous were the reports
read to the jury that trial ob
servers speculated much of the
information must have come from
within the embassy itself.
Yesterday Miss Coplon’s de
fense diverted attention from the
direct issue of the espionage trial
with a report that named Freder
ic March and other Hollywood
headliners as communists.
The Hollywood file—also quot
ing secret informers and without
any clue as to how much of it the
FBI believes—drew' ridicule and |
condemnation from March and,
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News of the World
At A Glance ---
Thursday. June 9. 1949
'By The Associated Press'
Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky is
expected to reject today an Amer
ican suggestion that the “little
blockade’’ of Berlin be ended by
Monday.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson made the proposal yes
terday at the foreign ministers
conference in Paris. It is part of
the bargaining and counter-play
between Russia atjd the west in an
effort to reach an economic and
political agreement on Berlin and
all Germany.
The “little blockade” is a stop
page of rail service. The Russians
blame the stoppage on a strike of
West Berlin workers who want
payment in West marks worth
about four times the value of East
marks. Western authorities have
suggested the Russians settle the
strike by ordering the Soviet-con
trolled railway to meet the work
ers demands.
The West has a bargaining club.
Russia desperately wants an East
West trade agreement tor Ger
many. It is about to be signed.
But Western authorities have said
they will nof sign until the Berlin
rail strike is settled.
In Berlin the strike has caused
some tense scenes. Russian offi
, cers chased a mob of 200 strikers
out of the railway’s American sec
tor headquarters today. The Rus
sians sent out an sos for Western
sector police to guard the build
ing. The mob had invaded the
building and was looting when
the Russians arrived. The Soviets
swung into action when some of
the strikers started tearing pic
i tures of Stalin and Lenin from the
walls.
In Nanking, communist-held
former nationalist capital of Chi
na, the Chinese communists are
said the be watching the moves at
the Paris conference with great
interest. It will be their guide for
relations with the western powers.
Foreign observers say that com
munist China more and more is
following Russia in foreign policy.
If the Paris conference fails to
find a way for East and West to
work together. Communist Chi
na’s relations with the west will
be further strained.
Observers see a deepening fric
tion already between the United
States and the Chinese Reds. It is
^ partly over the treatment of the
American consulate general and
his staff in Mukden, deep in Red
territory. The Mukden U. S. offi
cials have been marooned and no
American contact has been made
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Plans Made For
50tli Anniversary
Entertainment
Wesley Welsh, industrious pres
ident of the Walrus Club presided
as temporary chairman last eve
ning at a meeting of a group of
local business men and other in
terested persons at the City Hall
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