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VOL. LIII No. 88 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1951 Per Copy—15*
Alaska Airlines
Preview New Run
A pre-inaugural flight of an
Alaska Airlines plane, which is
covering the newly certificated
route which starts at Seattle and
Portland, is arriving this after
noon. Aboard are five distin
guished guests, from the larger
party which made the flight as
far as Fairbanks and Anchorage.
They are, Marshall Dana, assis
tant to the president of the First
National Bank; William Knight,
of the Oregon Journal; William
Baker, of the Ketchikan Chroni
cle; Monroe Sweetland, Demo
cratic chairman of Oregon and
also associated with the Alaska
Airlines; and O. Bean, of Portland.
Others of the party may arrive
tomorrow, depending on weather.
Local manager, Paul Spurlock
is making plans for their enter
tainment as thye plan to spend
the night here.
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British Bomber
On Polar Flight,
Is At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Ten crew
men o*f a British bomber streched
their air legs today after a casual
hop over the top of the world
from Iceland to Fairbanks.
It took the four-engined Aries
bomber 18 hours and 54 minutes
to go over the North Pole to Fair
banks from the take-off point at
Keflavik, Iceland, a 3,558-mile
jaunt.
V “It was a beautiful day at the
North Pole” and a “jolly good
flight,” Wing Cmdr. R. T. Frog
ley commented briskly after ar
riving here through “typical Eng
lish weather” in an instrument
landing at 9:54 a.m. yesterday.
Today the 10-man party, plus
a Reuters reporter, Peter Jackson,
who joined the expedition the last
minute in Iceland, was sightsee
ing. Then tomorrow at 8 a.m. they
plan to fly the plane the 4,128
miles back to Manby, England.
The return flight will be via the
Polar region, but not necessarily
over the pole again, Frogley said. ■
He called the trip merely a
training flight and passed over
questions cm whether it had mili- j
tary significance.
The Aries is a modified version
of the British Lincoln. An earlier
Lincoln model skipped over the
pole to land at Ladd Air Force
^Base near here in 1944. The Frog
f ley hop wound up at Eielson Air
Force Base, 26 miles from here.
$300,000 Nurses Home
To Be Put Up At Seward
SEWARD, (IP) — Ground was
broken yesterday for a new $300,
000 nurses home building being
built by the Methodist Board of
Missions and Church Extension.
y The structure will be three
stories, with a basement recreation
hall and 19 single rooms, each
with a private bath.
The building is in Brownell
Park in the heart of the residen
tial district. It will replace the
nurses quarters destroyed by fire
last year.
Fish and Wildlife Service
Asked Identify 30-Foot
Headless Creature
SEATTLE, (/P) — Photographs
and measurements of a 30-foot
headless creature with hand-like
front feet, found by Alaska fish
ermen were being sent today to
the United States Fish and Wild
life Service office here for pos
sible identification.
The decaying animal, found on
Shuyuk Island near Point Banks,
60 miles north of Kodiak, was re
ported to be covered with hair or
fur three-quarters of an inch thick
and brownish-yellow in color. It
had a tail like a whale and two
flukes measuring 72 inches each.
The feet measured 45 inches ac
ross.
Fish and Wildlife officials here
said the animal possibly could be
a giant shark or any one of a
number of small whales.
Grand Jury To Investigate
Reports of Bradley U.
BB Score Manipulations
PEORIA, 111., {/PI—State's at
torney Michael A. Shore yester
day ordered a grand jury investi
gation of reports the scores of two
Bradley University basketball
games were manipulated at the
instruction of gamblers.
Shore said the games were be
tween Bradley and Washington
State played in Peoria Dec. 21,
1949, which Bradley won 67-59,
and between Bradley and Oregon
State, played in Peoria Dec. 7,
1950.
He said he bad heard reports
the score manipulation consisted
in “shaving” Bradley’s score to
less than it would have normally
been. #
Flood Damage to RRs
Is Still Incalculable
fBy the Associated Press)
The Midwestern floods have hit
railroads such a staggering blow
that their loss in property dam
age and revenues still is incal
culable.
Some of the hardest hit lines,
including the Santa Fe, Union
Pacific, and Missouri Pacific, said
Monday their losses could not b,e
tallied or even estimated for sev
eral days or perhaps weeks or'
months.
NPA Will Open Office
In Anchorage Soon
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The Na
tional Production Authority soon
will open a region office in An
chorage, Alaska, Delegate Bart
lett said today.
Bartlett told a reporter the of
fice had been approved by top
officials of the NPA.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
American Legion Boys* Nation de
cided yesterday that 21 is a young
enough voting age.
.The boys voted 44 to 26 to de
feat a resolution offered at their
simulated congressional session to
lower the voting age to 18 years.
Other bills on which the dele
gates from 43 states voted in
cluded:
To grant statehood to Alaska,
approved 49 to 21.
Reds Advance
New Proposal For
Troop Withdrawal
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, (JP) — Communist
cease-fire negotiators today ad
vanced a new proposal on with
drawal of foreign troops from
Korea. A United Nations spokes
man called it “reasonable in con
tent and phraseology.”
Brig. Gen. William Nuckols,
who attended today’s sessions,
said the new Red proposition was
“more temperate and reasonable
in tone’.’ than previous commun
ist demands.
Officially the U.N. said the new
Chinese and North Korean sug
gestion on troop withdrawals was
“sufficiently interesting” for Al
lied delegates to propose a long
overnight recess for further study.
The five communist generals
brought out their new plan after
a three-day recess. They had
asked for the recess Saturday to
consult with their governments on
the troop withdrawal demand
which had threatened to break
up discussions.
After General Nam presented
the new idea, a rapid fire ex
change followed between he and
Adm. Joy, head of the U.N. dele
gation. This clarified just what
the communists were driving at.
To make sure there was no
mistake, each side supplied the
other with key portions of their
positions in writing. Nuchols said
these were the first written ex
changes between the opposing
delegations in nine days of meet
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mgs.
Wednesday’s sessions ended in
an atmosphere of “now we are
getting somewhere,” Nuchols said.
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'Teams Named In
| Boy Scout 1951
! Finance Campaign
I The annual Boy Scout Drive is
scheduled to get under way Fri
day morning at 7:30, according to
chairman Jack Dillon, who heads
the finance drive this year.
The following men have volun
teered their services and have
been divided into eight teams as
| follows:
| Nome 1951 Finance Campaign
Boy Scouts
Chairman—Jack Dillon.
Team 1 — Ben Young, captain;
Ernie Boyer, Lt. Hendershot,
Grant Nelson, Clyde Kammerer,
Dan Jones, Tommy Martin.
Team 2—Jim McLean, captain;
George Bayer, Maurice Kealiher,
Ted Duffield, Jimmy Harris, Paul
Dryden, Hank Miller.
Team 3 — Jim Walsh, captain;
Joe Hunt, Paul Mandeville, Hap
Lancaster, Don Lyle, Don Hurl
bert, Pearse Walsh.
Team 4—Sammy Mcrgg, captain;
Bert Bell and Robert Okpealuk.
Team 5 — Keith Hedreen, cap
tain; Johnny Reader, Arv Saario,
Tim DeLine, Larry Galvin, Jim
Kealiher, Gordon Osborne.
Teams 6, 7, 8—one-man teams:
Dewey Goodrich, Bob Baldwin,
Bob Reddaway.
FBI Makes Arrest For
November 5, 1948 Slaying
Of Tacoma, Wash., Girl
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — The
FBI yesterday announced the ar
rest of Bill Smith, Jr., on a mur
der charge for the slaying of
young Noreen McNichols at Ta
coma November 5, 1948.
Harry M. Kimball, FBI agent in
charge here, said Smith was ap
prehended in a home at Burlin
game, on the Peninsula south of
here at 3 a.m.
Kimball said Smith made no* ef
fort to resist arrest, denied slay
ing Miss McNicholas, but admit
ted that he had known her.
Smith was to be arraigned be
fore a U. S. Commissioner to
day. The U. S. attorney at Tacoma
has recommended $25,000 bail.
House Republicans
Advance Plan
“Get Acheson”
WASHINGTON, (JP) — At a
sharply split party meeting, a
majority of House Republicans
present agreed today to support
a plan aimed at striking Secre
tary of State Acheson off the fed
eral payroll.
The decision to pursue the “get
Acheson” drive through the me
dium of the State Department ap
propriation bill was taken by a
standing vote of 71 to 33.
More than 90 Republicans either
did not attend or refrained from
voting.
The majority approved a motion
to support an amendment to the
State Department money bill.
Party leaders said the amend
ment, still to be drafted, would
not designate Acheson by name
but would specify that no federal
pay could go to any “policy
making” department head who, at
any time during the five years
preceding appointment, belonged
to a business or law firm that
represented a foreign government.
Acheson’s law firm once repre
sented Poland.
Democratic leaders were con
fident they could beat it.
Harriman and Iranians
Hit Snag in Negotiations
Over Nationalization Feud
TEHRAN, Iran, (/P) — Negotia
tions between President Truman’s
special envoy, W. Averell Harri
man and Iranian officials were re
ported to have hit a snag Tues
day over details for ending the
bitter British-Iranian feud over
nationalization of oil.
The snag was not described as
a deadlock. Both Harriman and
members of the Iranian govern
ment’s oil nationalization board
still expressed “satisfaction” with
progress made in the talks so far.
But after 10 hours of discussion
in the bedroom of ailing Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh, the Iran
ian cabinet still had not reached
agreement on the basis for re
suming formal negotiations with'
Britain.
Both Harriman and the Iranians
were understood to have submit
ted proposals <falong the same
general lines,” according to a
source close to the negotiations.
Frank Costello
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Indicted For
Contempt Congress
NEW YORK, (ff)—Frank Cos
tello, named by the Senate Crime
Committee as the top man in the
nation’s.underworld, was indicted
by a federal grand jury today on
a charge of contempt of the Sen
ate.
Gambler Joe Adonis and con
fessed bookmaker Frank Erick
son were indicted on the same
charge.
The indictments stemmed from
their refusal to answer questions
at the widely-publicized Crime
Committee hearing in New York
last March.
Costello was indicted on nine
counts, Adonis on 16, and Erick
son on 74. The maximum pen
alty on each count is a year in
prison and $1,000 fine.
U.S. Attorned Irving H. Saypol
said the charges against the three
men were certified to the Senate
by the committee and by the Sen
ate to him as prosecutor in the
federal district where the alleged
contempt occurred.
Saypol said a warrant would be
issued for Costello’s arrest.
Both Adonis and Erickson al
ready are serving sentences for
violation of gambling laws, Adonis
in New Jersey and Erickson in
New York.
24 Planes Search
For Lost Korean
Airlift Transport
JUNEAU, (Jf) — The weather
cleared last night and search
planes hunting a lost Korean air
lift transport made a midnight
sweep over North Pacific waters
off the Alaska Panhandle.
The Canadian Pacific Airlines
transport with 38 aboard van
ished Saturday while flying from
Vancouver, B. C., to Anchorage,
on the first leg of a flight to
Tokyo.
Soupy weather had restricted
the search but pilots participat
ing in last night’s sweep, while
reporting no results, said cover
age of the area probed was “ex
cellent.” Twenty four planes were
in the air hunting the lost trans
port.
TUESDAY RESULTS
American League
New York 3—Cleveland 2
Boston 8—Chicago 3
Detroit 2—Washington 1
Only games scheduled.
National League
Brooklyn 6—Chicago 3
New York 4—Pittsburgh 3
St. Louis 9—Philadelphia 5.
Boston 6—Cincinnati 1. #
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4—Seattle 2
Hollywood 5—Oakland 0
Portland 2—Sacramento 0
San Francisco 3-1—Los Angeles
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