THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. No. 108 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1943_PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF ;
SEATTLE, </P) — There were
reindeer in the sky Monday night,
even if it wasn’t the night before 1
Christmas. The reindeer were
from Golovin, Alaska, on the north
shore of Norton Sound. They were
flown to Seattle by Alaska Air
lines and are en route to Goldth
waite, Texas, for training as part
of a department store Santa Claus
window for Christmas.
Not yet accustomed to eating
> hay, the reindeer will dine on
moss flown from Alaska to Texas.
EVERETT, Wash. UP)—An 18
year-old Tulalip Indian, Ladelin
(Landy) James, became Monday
the first Indian ever appointed to
the West Point Military Academy
from Washington State.
He is a graduate of LaConner
f high school, where he played foot
ball, baseball and basketball.
The award was made by Rep.
Henry M. Jackson at a tribal
council meeting Monday. Jackson
also returned to the tribe 600
acres of land used by the army
during the war as an ammunition
depot.
EDMONTOIN, Alta. (/P>—Fire
fighters continued to battle flames
at the Atlantic City company’s No.
3 oil well about 20 miles south of
here.
Flames went high into the air
from two separate blazes, one at
the well-head and another at a
nearby oil-saturated sump.
The well blew wild when being
drilled last March and the com
pany has been working to get it
under control. The fire broke out
Monday.
* FORT LEWIS, UP)—A transport
carrying 800 officers and enlisted
men of the 2nd division is sched
uled to arrive at Seattle Sept. 15
from Alaska where the troops
have been stationed since April.
They are all members of the 1st
battalion, 23rd regiment. They
were stationed at Ladd Field,
Fairbanks, and at Edison air force
base, adjacent to Fort Richardson
at Anchorage. Officers reported
455 volunteered to remain in Alas
ka.
* PASADENA, Calif., (JP) — A
“very big” earthquake about 5,300
miles southwest of here was re
corded at 8:21:03 a.m. today, Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology re
ported. Scientists said the shock
was slightly deeper than usual and
•was centered in the southwest Pa
cific area.
ALBANY, N. Y., (#) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey will open his
campaign for the Presidency Sept.
20 with a speech in Des Moines,
Iowa.
The Republican President i a 1
nominee’s campaign mana g e r ,
Herbert Brownell, Jr., said in an
nouncing this today that the ad
dress would be delivered at Drake
stadium.
The subject matter of Dewey’s
* first speech was not disclosed.
The address will be broadcast
over the CBS and the Mutual net
works.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
—
TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1948
(By The Associated Press*
Russian-backed German police
yesterday held 19 German police
after demonstrations Monday in
which communist mobs wrecked
attempts by Berlin’s anti-commun
ist city government to meet peace- j
fully. Tension was nearing the
breaking point in the divided city.
The Soviet-supported pol i c e
seized the western zone plain
clothesmen in the office of the U.
S. military government’s liaison
officer. Twenty-seven west e r n
Berlin police, part of the group
brought in Monday to help protect
! the city assembly from commun
ist thugs, were still hidden from
1 Russian-supported Germans in the
j city hall. A Russian major ordered
! the three western powers’ liaison
officers to leave the building.
They refused.
The anti-communist city admin
istration, meeting in the British
sector, has set new municipal
elections for Nov. 14. Balloting
has been opposed by the commun
ists, who fear a further decline in
popularity among the Berlin vot
ers.
Meanwhile, some 20,000 Ameri
can soldiers deployed through
rough mountainous terrain of the
U. S. zone of Germany in the big
gest maneuvers since the end of
the war. U. S. generals said there
was no political significance to the
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NWA CHAMBER
BANQUET IS
WELL ATTENDED
Tuesday night in the Pioneer
Hall the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce held a very
interesting banquet meeting. Pres
ident H. F. Harper welcomed vis
itors and announced the purpose
of the gathering.
J. T. Elson and John Dassone of
the Fish and Wildlife department
were present and Mr. Dassone ex
plained that the Bering Sea survey
which the chamber has long been
requesting is now a reality and the
boat conducting th£ survey should
I be here in the next few days. The
1 survey will begin atNome and con
tinue into Norton Sound on sever
al different runs and then toward
St. Lawrence Island and south
ward toward Nunivak Island and
the Aleutians. The vessel is a 100
ft. steel hull and well suited to the
drag-type fishing which is neces
sary in the survey.
Carl Lomen spoke briefly on the
effect of the .maVitime strike on
Nome and advised the chamber to
get busy and request the release
of a boat for Nome before the close
of the season of navigation.
Charles D. Jones, president of
the NWA Fair Association report
ed on the progress of the coming
Fair which is slated for October 6,
7, 8 and 9.
The new chamber pamphlet was
displayed at the meeting and was
receilved with considerable ap
p 1 a use. President Harper an
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Gruening Flays
Last Legislature
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FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Alaska Gov.'
Ernest H. Gruening scored the last
legislature in a Labor Day address
here for failure to pass tax laws.
He particularly blamed mem
bers from the Fourth Judicial Di
vision, which includes Fairbanks, i
for “having to pass the hat to keep :
the doors of the University of
Alaska from closing.”
He said Alaska is the only po
litical entity under the American
flag where the preponderant ma- j
jority of all businesses pay no
taxes, except federal income tax.
The Governor also reiterated
his plea for Alaska statehood. He
said the argument that Alaska
must be more fully developed be
fore statehood is granted “is like
saying you must learn to swim be
fore you can go in the water.”
The Governor’s talk was one of
the highlights of the most elabor
ate Labor Day celebrations in
Fairbanks history. Events includ
ed the first wild west rodeo ever
i staged this close to the Arctic Cir
cle.
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Bridges Defies Use
: Of Military In
Loading Ships
SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—Leaders
of striking CIO longshoremen ar
j ranged to meet with army officers
; here today to discuss the army’s
shipping in the light of the week
old tie-up of west coast ports.
Harry Bridges, president of the
longshore union, said in Seattle
last night that “all unions in the
nation would support the steve
dores” in case army personnel is
used to handle military cargoes.
An army spokesman in Washing
ton said military personnel would
handle army cargo essential for
overseas bases if an agreement is
not reached with the longshore
men.
Bridges said his longshoremen
would load army ships if the pre
vailing port wage is paid. He said
a 15-cent an hour wage raise in
cluded in a new contract with in- |
dependents in Seattle would apply
to any army work.
Bridges was to meet with army
officers here this afternoon after
holding telephone discussions with
army port officers in Seattle yes
terday.
No break was indicated in the
strike which has idled 28,000 men
and 160 ships on the west coast.
Besides Bridges’ union, four sea
going unions are involved. After
collapse of negotiations, chiefly on
wages and the disputed hiring hall
issue, the operators withdrew all
previous concessions. They an
nounced they no longer would ne
gotiate with unions whose leaders
failed to file non-communist affi
davits under the Taft-Hartley act.
Bridges has refused to file such an
affidavit.
Nine hundred members of the
San Francisco employers’ council
yesterday voted its unanimous
support to the ship owners.
Western Allies W ill
Protest to Moscow
About Berlin
LONDON, (/Pi—A British diplo
matic source said yesterday the
western powers are planning a
joint protest to Russia over the i
continuing communist-led riots in
Berlin.
The protest may go either to
Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
Russia’s military governor in Ger
many, or to the Soviet govern
ment in Moscow, the source said.
The British foreign office issued
a formal statement, however, say
ing any report that an official Bri
tish diplomatic source had said
the western powers are planning a
joint protest to Russia over the
Berlin riotingis without founda
tion.
A foreign office spokesman
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Soldiers May Load
Ships For Army
SEATTLE, UP) — As the CIO
maritime strike went into its sixth
day, the army said there was a
possibility it might use soldiers to
load supplies aboard strikebound
commercial ships for its Alaskan
and Far Eastern bases.
Col'. William H. Donaldson,
commander of the Seattle port of
embarkation, said the army hoped
to avoid such action but “we have
a job to do and we will not fail to
do it.”
The unions have agreed to work
only ships carrying war dead, in
coming mails and passenger bag
gage.
Colonel Donaldson said the ship
ments might be made from east- ,
ern and Gulf ports.
Reds Kidnap 19
German Police
BERLIN, (/P)— Russian tommy
gunners and Soviet sector police
kidnaped 19 western sector police
today, after the Soviet command
ant had guaranteed them safe pas
sage from Berlin’s besieged city
hall.
They were taken from a French
convoy at the Lustgarten, only a
few blocks from the city hall—
which is in the Soviet sector of
this divided, blockaded city.
As the 19 policemen and a Ger
man photographer were tumbled
into a Russian truck to be hauled
away a French officer protested
that the Russians were “pulling
some funny business.”
“You mean this is a plain dou
ble cross, don’t you?” asked an
American reporter.
“Yes,” snapped the Frenchman.
The Germans release from the
encircled cityhall had been nego
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COASTAL RAMBLER DUE
HERE SUNDAY
The Alaska Steamship M/V
Coastal Rambler will be in Dutch
Harbor Thursday, W. R. Wood,
Nome agent, announced today. He
states the vessel should arrive in
Nome on Sunday, September 12.
Alaska Sufferer In
Shipping Strike
(By The Associated Press*
The threat of a prolonged tie-up
of shipping lanes because of the
mairtime strike hit Alaska with
varying impact today.
Anchorage grocers hung out
signs reading “no danger of short
ages,” and wholesalers said cur
rent supplies will last Anchorage
housewives at least two months.
Most merchants have stuffed their
shelves in anticipation of the tie
up.
One Anchorage merchant re
ported he has made arrangements
with a 55-truck Montana freight
firm to haul food over the Alaska
highway in the event of an ex
tended strike.
The City of Anchorage may suf
fer, however, since it has been
counting on the arrival of a gen
i erator from the States to install
in a new generating plant. The
city has been pressing hard to
complete the plant in time to stem
an expected power shortage.
Seward reports longshoremen
i there are working all vessels in
! port and probably will continue to
'unload all vessels docking there.
The noose around Nome was
keenly felt, however. Merchants
reported they are out of potatoes
and short of eggs, butter, dairy
products, farm goods and a vari
ety of groceries.
The Nome chamber of com
merce met last night to consider
action. Many merchants report
supplies now on hand will not last
another two months, Nome can
not possibly be fed through the
winter.
Fairbanks merchants reporting
they are already receiving large
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Dev. Board To
Investigate In
Second Division
Fred Aydes, assistant chief of
the Alaska branch. Division of
Territories and Island Possessions,
will conduct a comprehensive sur
vey of economic opportunities in
the Seward peninsula and the Sec
ond Division for the Alaska Devel
opment Board.
To confer with Governor Ernest
iGruening and George Sundborg
of the Alaska Development Board,
Ayres flew down from Haines last
week
Sundborg said that the decision
to investigate the economic oppor
tunities of the Second Division
was made at the last meeting of
the Alaska Development Board,
which was held in Anchorage re
cently. Sundborg stated that the
Board felt that the Second Divi
sion has been a “forgotten corner”
of the Territory for many years
and that it is time that a concerted
effort be made to develop new in
dustries there.
During his two months in the
Territory, Ayres will be on leave
without pay from theDepartment
of the Interior.
Late advices state that Mr.
Ayers’ trip has been delayed for
two weeks.