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VOL. L1I. No. 62 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1950_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON,(/Pi—Earl Wavell, the
one-eyed British field marshal
\yho crushed Italian armies in
Africa ten years ago, is dead.
The veteran soldier, who also
served as Viceroy of India in the
turbulent period after the war,
underwent an abdominal opera
tion on May 5, his 67th birthday,
• He suffered a relapse Sunday.
A daring strategist who be
lieved in taking calculated risks,
Archibald Percival Wavlel won
the first substantial victories for
Britain in the last war. He turned
the tide, temporarily at least, in
1940 and 1941.
ANCHORAGE, </P>—An F80C
jet plane was found yesterday 5C
minutes after first being reported
missing. The pilot made a forced
landing 12 miles northwest ol
Willow airstrip, north of here.
The pilot. Lieut. Nolan Dots
was spotted by search planes as
he stood alongside his grounded
but unharmed ship and waved
He had fired two flares to aid
searchers.
Some 29 planes of the 5th fight
er interceptor squadron conducted
the search. A helicopter from the
10th rescue squadron was sent tc
. return Dots to his home base a1
Elmendorf air force base here
The pilot is with the 6 th fight
er interceptor squadron.
JUNEAU, UP)— The territorial
board of administration released
$16,193 in territorial funds yester
day.
Two-thirds of the sum—$11,192
—went to the Alaska housing
authority to meet expenses in
curred during its planning opera
tions on low cost housing projects
The remainging $5,000 will meel
operating expenses of the Nation
al Guard.
WASHINGTON, —The Justice
Department today announced 3
more income tax evasion indict
ments have been returned by a
Kansas City federal grand jury
investigating crime conditions in
that city.
The Department said the in
dictments named Walter L. Rain
ey, John Mangiaracina and Sam
Goldberg, all of Kansas City.
Rainey and Mangiaranci were
described by the Department as
having gambling connections* in
the Kansas City area.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A House
judiciary subcommittee approved
legislation yesterday to create a
new judgeship for the Third Dis
trict of Alaska.
ANCHORAGE, </P)— The air
plane will fly the wrong way to
day for Miss Lee Deamud of De
troit. The Detroit girl was to fly
here today from Seattle for her
marriage to FBI agent Robert J.
Bergeron. Instead, a southbound
flight will carry Bergeron’s body
back to the states.
The 27-year-old special agent
died over the weekend as he read
ied an apartment for his bride-to
be. He was believed overcome by
carbon dioxide from a kitchen oil
range. His body was found by fel
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Chicago Street Car
Crash Kills 33
■ CHICAGO, (/P)—A wall of fire
enveloped a crowded street car
after it struck a double trailer
i gasoline truck last night and 33
persons perished in the flames.
Thirty others were injured, at
least three critically. About 20 re
mained in hospitals. Many of the
i dead and injured were negroes.
The spreading flames from the
thousands of gallons of gasoline
in the huge truck set fire to eight
; two-story buildings and several
i automobiles. Five buildings were
burned. No bodies were found in
the buildings. But more than 100
persons—mostly Negroes—were
made homeless.
11 The accident occurred near the
end of the evening rush hour—
near the heavily populated 3rd
and State St. district,'*on the city’s
south side.
The crash and a deep roar were
followed by black smoke and bil
lowing flames that surged along
State St. like rolling flood waters.
Panic followed the crash.
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Senate Committee
To Vote On
Statehood June 12
WASHINGTON, (£>)—The Sen
ate interior committee agreed un
animously today to vote on the
j Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills
the week of June 12.
Chairman O’Mahoney <D-Wyo.)
I said copies of the hearings on Al
aska will not be ready for com
mittee study until late next week
and the testimony taken during
recent hearings on Hawaii will be
; ready the following week.
He said there was some discus
sion of proposed amendments to
the two statehood bills today but
that no action was taken.
The Senate Republican policy
' committee was silent today on
i legislation granting statehood to
Alaska. Senator Butler <R-NebJ
ranking Republican on the Senate
interior committee, which is
handling the statehood bill, asked
the policy committee if it had
any suggestions on how he would
stand on the bill.
Butler told a reporter no sug
gestions were offered.
“Some of the policy committee
members favor the Alaska state
hood bill,” he said, “and some op
pose it.”
JUNEAU, <£>)— The revised
Alaska statehood bill now being
prepared by a senate committee
would give Alaska one-ninth of
all public lands in the territory,
governor Greuning told the cham
ber of commerce here yesterday.
Greuning said the new state
would designate what land it de
sired. *
Another change, the governor
said, would leave the manage
ment of the Pribilof Island seal
herds in the hands of the federal
government but would provide
that half the net proceeds from
the sale of seal furs be returned
to the state. This would provide
about $750,000 to the state each
year.
Peter Miseovich
Dies At 64
! _
SEATTLE, (JP)—Peter Misco
vich, 64, of Fairbanks, a leading
figure in Alaska gold mining for
40 years and the head of one of
the territory’s best known mining
families, died in a hospital here
last night. He had been ill since
March.
Miseovich joined the stampede
to the lower Yukon river region
in 1910 and remained long after
Iditarod, focal point of the terri
tory’s last major gold strike, be
came a ghost town.
Since 1916, he had mined at
Flat and Poorman, 400 miles
southwest of Fairbanks, he was
credited with introducing many
mechanized processes into Alas
ka’s placer mining.
Though never a candidate for
office, Miseovich long was active
in the territory’s Republican par
ty. One of his sons, George, is a
member of the Alaska legislature.
Miseovich was born in Dalma
tia, Yugoslavia, in 1185. He came
to the United States in 1904.
In the years before he went to
Alaska he worked as a stevedore
! on New York City, as a copper
1 miner in Butte, Mont., and as a
1 coal miner in Washington.
He was married in 1912 to a
girl he courted by mail after he
was shown her photograph by her
j brother. She traveled from Yugo
slavia to Iditarod for the wedding.
He is survived by Mrs. Misco
vich and a son, John, who accom
panied him here for medical
treatment in March, and three
| other sons, three daughters, and
; two grandchildren.
The body will be flown to Fair
banks for funeral services.
—
GEN. CUNNINGHAM TO HEAD
iU. S. ARMY IN ALASKA
SEATTLE, ftf')—Brig. Gen. Julian
Wallace Cunningham will sail
from hero Friday to become com
manding general of the U.S. Ar
j my in Alaska.
He succeeds Maj. Gen. Stanley
L. Scott as the commander of
j ground forces in the north. He
has been deputy director of the
organization and training division
of the army in Washington, D.C.
General Cunningham served in
the Pacific during the war. He
received a distinguished service
medal as task force commander
of a southwest Pacific assault on
New Britain Island.
I
MRS. NELS SWANBERG
HONORED ON 77th BIRTHDAY,
Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge
honored Mrs. Nels Swanberg at
their meeting on Wednesday even
ing, celebrating her 77th birthday
with a surprise party.
Mrs. Swanberg, who has been
a member of the organization for
over thirty years, was thoroughly
surprised when her party was an
nounced and received many love
ly gifts and rememberances from
her friends.
Her daughter, Mrs. Axel Ed
man, made the delicious birthday
cake and the committee of Mrs.
Charles Haberman and Mrs. Har
ry Hagen prepared the rest of the
refreshments.
i
Salmon Cannerv
*
Dispute Eased
SEATTLE. (/Pi—The first crack
in the deadlocked Alaska salmon
cannery dispute came late yester
day when the employers' group
agreed to deal on an equal basis
with all unions representing can
nery employes.
The Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc. representing the cannery
operators, and Local 77 of the
packinghouse workers’ union told
the national labor relations board
they were willing to remove the
“exclusive recognition” clause
from their contract.
Aid Sped
To hishinii Boats
In Gulf of Alaska
JUNEAU, (/Pi-Two 36-foot tish
^ ing vessels, each carrying three
, men, were missing in the Gulf of
Alaska today, the Coast Guard re
ported.
Three other vessels, reported
earlier to be in difficulty, were
located yesterday.
One of the two missing boats,
the seiner “Sea Hawk,” broke
away from the fishing vessel
1 “Glenwood.” The latter craft sent
out distress calls early yesterday
and was seen by a Navy patrol
bomber making about six knots
an hour northeast of Cape St. Eli
' as.
Also missing is the fishing boat
“Double Knot”, reported overdue
by the Halferty canneries at Cor
dova.
The “Lori-Ann,” carrying six
! persons, was sighted in calm wat
ers on the west side of Middleton
i Island w’ith a line still fouled in
i its propellor. The “Witch” also
was located in the Middleton Is
land area anti was to be aided by
the fishing vessel Galveston. The
“Witch” called for aid when it
ran out of fuel.
Frank Moses, well-known and
respected native of this area,
passed away this morning at the
hospital from a lingering illness
The date of his funeral had not
been set at the time of going to
press.
17 KILLED IN LARGEST
PHILLIPINE PRISON BREAK
MANILA, (/P)—Seventeen men,
one of them a guard, were killed
today in the largest attempted
prison break in the history of the
Philippines.
Five convicts and two guards
were wounded in the two-hour
gun battle that ensued after lunch, j
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Wednesday Games
National League
St. Louis 2, New York 0.
Brooklyn 6, Chicago 1 (night)
Boston 4, Cincinnati 1 (night*
Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 3
(night)
American League
Chicago 10, Philadelphia 7
Cleveland 5, Washington 4 (night)
Boston 7, St. Louis 5 (night)
\< ‘ws of the \\ orhl
At A (/lanee - - -
Thursday May 25, 1950
By the Associated Press
Powerful western radio trans
mitters beamed to the world to
day charges that Russia is rearm
ing eastern Germany in violation
of solemn promises.
This is a counter-propaganda
stroke by the west in the cold
war, designed to offset the Rus
sian-staged communist youth
demonstration in Berlin next
Sunday.
The strategy was decided on by
the big three western foreign
ministers at their recent London
conference. The western radio
programs broadcast over Europe
and into the Soviet bloc told of
the simultaneous protests to Mos
cow yesterday by Britain, the
United States and France that
Russia is drilling a 50,000-man
army-type police force in eastern
Germany.
Thus the west brought a war
mongering charge against the
Russians at a time when commu
nist youth are about to stage their
monster “peace offensive” in Ber
lin.
Other highlights in the world
picture:
China—Hong Kong dispatches
said nationalist Chinese are rush
ing reinforcements to the embat
tled defenders of the Wanshan
Islands fLadronesh A second com
munist invasion attempt was said
to be imminent on this nationalist
blockade base. The first red as
sault 10 days ago was repulsed.
Formosa— On learning that
Washington has decided to con
tinue Marshall plan aid for his
Island bastion, generalissimo Clii
ang Kai-shek said at Taipei: “For
mosa is now impregnable. We
can no longer be defeated by the
enemy.”
France— Marshall plan experts
have announced a new European
payments union for swapping
currency and easing trade bar
riers goes into effect July 1. It is
hailed as the biggest step toward
postwar free trade in western
Europe and .iust what the Amer
ican economic doctors ordered.
Britain—Foreign secretary Ern
est Bevin will undergo a second
operation for hemorrhoids next
Tuesday. The ailing cabinet min
ister interrupted hospital treat
ment May 4 to attend the Big
Three foreign ministers confer
ence in London.
United Nations— At Montevi
deo, Uruguay, a U.N. subcommis
sion Wednesday night approved
a code of ethics for newspaper
men. The code calls on journalists
to be factually accurate and ob
jective.
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New York at Detroit, rain.
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 8, Sacramento 3
* (11 innings)
Seattle 9, San Francisco 3
San Diego 2, Hollywood 1.
Los Angeles 6, Portland 2.
Thursday Gamecs
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento ’6, Oakland 3
Seattle 2, San Francisco ’
Hollywood 7, San Diego 4
Los Angeles 9, Portland 2