_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LTi. No. 19 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1950 Per Copy—Inc
NEWS IN BRIEF
PETERSBURG, (/Pi—The Alas
ka Steamship Company’s S. S.
Denali rammed a Puget Sound
Bridge and Dregde Co., dump
scow at 9:20 p.m. Monday night
in the Wrangell Narrows 14 miles
south of here. No one was injured.
Carp. Carl Nilsen of the Denali
said his ship was undamaged and
the scow was beached.
He blamed a misunderstanding
of signals for the collision.
WASHINGTON. i/Pi — House
majority leader McCormack (D.
Mass.) predicted yesterday that
the ♦House will pass the Alaska
and Hawaii statehood bills this
session.
He said he intends to call up
the bills within the next "week or
two."
"I promised Delegate Bartlett
of Alaska and Delegate Farrington
of Hawaii I would do that/' he
toid a reporter, "and I intend to
do it."
McCormack expressed the opin
ion there would be a fight before
the bills pass the House and that
there might be even stronger op
position in the Senate.
VANCOUVER. B. C. (fi>) — The
foreman of a track clearing crew
was swept into the Fraser River
when a rain-loosened avalanche
roared off a mountainside and
across railroad tracks in the Fra
ser Canyon Monday.
The victim of the hurtling mass
of snow and rock was John Ter
jik of Kamploops, B. C. He was
alone on a 100-ton snowplow
when it was hit by the slide. His
body was tossed into the river and 1
disappeared under an ice pack.
The slide blocked both Canadi-:
an National and Canadian Pacific
Railway lines. The C.P:R. an-,
nounced it would fly stranded
passengers from Kamloops to the
coast and the C.N.R. said it might
follow suit.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (/P) — Re
turning from the first Pacific
Coast weather expedition for (
1950, the six ships of Operation
Micowex are due here Monday,
Pacific amphibious force head
quarters reported yesterday.
The group concluded explora
tions at Bristol Bay, in northern
Alaska, last week, just as Arctic
storms set in.
Two ships of the expedition, the
destroyer-transport USS. Wan
tuck and the LST. 1138, left Alas
ka last week. The other four
ships are the USS. Bunston Hall,
expeditioh flagship, thewce break
er Burton Island and the subma
rines Perch and Barbero.
FAIRBANKS, (£h — Fairbanks
voters will decide next Tuesday
on the annexation of 370 acres to
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Sight Oil Slick In
Search For Missing
Ditched B-36
SEATTLE, (/P) — Upwards ol
two dozen planes from two na
tions awaited a break in the
weather today to resume search
for a gigantic American B-36
bomber which may have crashed
to its doom in the icy- wind
whipped waters of Queen Char
lotte Sound just before midnight
Monday.
No word has been heard from
the 163-ton air force heavyweight
since the last of three messages
reported at 11:40 p.m. Monday
night.
“Going to let down ...”
Earlier the huge bomber with
16 crewmen end an air force lieu
tenant colonel aboard, has mes
saged that one engine was afire
and advised searchers to “keep a
careful lookout for flares or
wreckage.”
The disappearance of the giant
six-motor bomber was the first
loss of this advanced type craft
in actual operation. One other was
wrecked at Carswell Air Base at
Fort Worth, Tex., when the 163
ton plane plunged into a lake at
the end of a runway in an at
tempted takeoff. Other mishaps
concerning the B-36’s have been
of minor nature.
(In Washington, the air force
identified the passenger as Lt.
Col. Daniel V. McDonald, attach
ed to the office of plans and op
erations at air force headquarters.
He lived at Arlington, Va. The air
force said his wife was notified
that McDonald is “missing in
flight”).
Searching airmen and surface
craft yesterday and last night
found no trace of the%wreckage in
the area, some 460 miles north
wero of here. Nor were any dis
BULLETIN
KETCHIKAN, «/P>—*The Coast
Guard headquarters here said it
had received word that nine or 10
men from the lost B-36 had been
rescued or sighted on one of the
British Columbia coastal islands.
tress signals picked up from the
crank-style “Gibson Girl” radio
which is a part of the bomber’s
emergency crash equipment.
A somber note of whether the
big plane could survive “ditching”
in the wind-driven waves of
Queen Charlotte Sound came
from RCAF headquarters in Van- j
couver, B. C.
They said they held scant hope
that the big plane could remain
afloat long in the gale-swept, icy
strait, and survival of the 17 on
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Miners Continue
To Defy Return
To \\ ork Orders
PITTSBURG, (/P)—Mine whis
tles shrilled in vain again yester
day as striking soft coal miners
for the second day defied work
orders from both the government
and John L. Lewis.
The no contract no work walk- j
out continued full force in all ma- I
jor coal producing states. Hun- ;
dreds of pickets roamed Pennsyl
vania highways to make sure all
pits were closed.
Pennsylvania state police re- ;
ported two men wounded with
buckshot in the area of Latrobe.
It was not determined if they
, are miners or pickets.
, The men wounded were identi
fied as Frank Kozar, 23, and Le
roy Harris, 27.
Police wore trying to learn if
.the shooting was connected Vith
j the posting of armed guards at a
nearby non-union strip mine. A
truck was dynamited at that pit
'last week.
The West Virginia Coal Associ
■ ation said some idle mines in the
United Mine Workers district 17
, tsated they have not received
| any orders to return to work.”
Association secretary Jesse V.
Sullivan said the men “are not
revolting but are awaiting in
structions from their union lead
1 ers to return to work.”
The coal strike situation was
unchanged in Ohio, Virginia* Il
linois, Alabama and West Virgin
ia among the larger producing
states.
One West Virginia digger was
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Alaska Allotted
$2.685,214 IJv GSA
NO NOME PROJECT
LISTED; $71,500 SET
SCHOOL AT CHUGIAK
-
WASHINGTON. (ff) — General
Services Administrator has allot
ted $2,685,214 for 12 public works
projects in Alaska.
The projects:
Ketchikan. improvements to
sewers, streets and sidewalks,
$536,000; Skagway, water and
sewer improvements $65,414;
Fairbanks elementary school
$412,000 and sewers $125,000;
Naknek, school facilities $230,
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5 In Senate Races
For itli Division
FAIRBANKS, iff) — Three
Democrats and two Republicans
filed for two Fourth Division Sen
ate seats to be filled in the 1950
election.
The Democrats are Rep. War
ren Taylor, Robert Hoopes and
Jesse Lander; the Republicans are
W. L. (Dan) Lhamon and Jack
Coble.
Candidates for the Division’s
five seats in the House are: Demo
crats— Rep. Essie Dale, Rep.
Frank Angerman, Rep. Glen
Franklin, Thomas Jones, Duke
Knlffen, Everett Smith and Rob
ert McCombe.
Republicans — Rep. George
Miscovich. Alden Wilbur, Charles
West, Lou Joy, Mike Stepovich,
Thomas Wilson, C. J. Woof ter,
Irving Reed. Prof. George Gasser
and George King.
NOW, ALL TOGETHER
• • . **' **£T i i'*'." T- V _-r •a*' :
News of the \\ or Id
At A (fiance - - -
Tuesday, February 14, 1950
<By The Associated Press)
Far Eastern diplomats of the
United States meeting in Bang
kok, Thainland (Siam', were re
ported today to be lining up an
economic aid program for south
east Asia to stave off communism.
Ambassador at Large Philip C.
Jessup, in a closed door session,
was said to be gathering informa
tion from the delegates that may
be used by Washington in mould
ing a new concrete program for
this trouble spot.
Businessmen in Thailand, which
borders on explosive Indo-China,
rpedicted Moscow-supported Ho
Chi-Minh would win out in his
struggle for power over western
supported Bao Dai, playboy pup
pet emperor under the Japanese
recently installed as chief of state
by the French. The United States
has recognized the government
of Bao Dai. Thailand is hesitant
over extending recognition.
To the northeast, jittery Nation
alist Chinese defenders of the is
land of Hainan said 160,000 com
munist troops were poised to
strike. They predicted the next
two weeks might tell the story.
Fog enshrouds the island now.
The communist dominated gov
ernment of Hungary is not going
to permit Robert A. Vogeler,
American businessman charged
with spying and sabotage, to have
an American lawyer to defend
him.
Vogeler’s family and his firm,
the International Telephone and
Telegraph Co., retained New York
attorney Morris l.. Ernset to de
fend him. However, a Budapest
lawyer said the law permits only
Hungarian lawyers to conduct de
fense in such cases.
In Helsinke, Finland, police
said they had no explanation for
the explosion in the parliament
building wheer 300 electoral col
lege representatives are to name a
President tomorrow. Guided by
the recent election they are to re
elect President Juho Paasikivi, the
anti-communist elder statesman.
In the British election campaign
speakers for both the Labor gov
ernment and the opposing Conser
vatives have called for a new at
tempt at international control of
atomic weapons.
Anthony Eden, wartime for
eign secretary who is often spoken
of as a possible successor to Win
ston Churchill as party leader,
deplored the “race of new wea
pons of destruction.” He said Bri
tain’s unique geographical posi
tion “imposes on us the obligation
to make the attempt” to bring
about an international atomic
agreement.
Laborite attorney general Sir
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BASKETBALL GAMES
Xl_.. 7 „_ T ¥* C-l_1 High School Girls—Wolverines vs. Huskies
* HUrSClftyj 4 p.m., rll ^CllOOl Nome High School vs. Hangar Team