22 NOME NUGGET
_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. ~No. 115 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1948 PER COPY 15c*
NEWS IN BRIEF
_ i
MANILA, i/P)—‘Thitry-odd thou
sand refugees who fled from
erupting Mt. Hibokhibok will be
gin the trek back to their homes
on the southern Philippine island
of Camiquin Monday. Most of
them took refuge in Mindanao.
MANILA, {&)—Customs collect
or Melecio Fabros announced yes
terday that American made goods
coming to the Philippines through
British Columbian and Mexican
ports will be admitted free of duty.
MANILA, </P) — The “heaviest
artillery barrage since Bataan,”
the Manila Bulletin said, raked
the Candaba marsh sector in cen
tral Luzon yesterday as the gov
ernment attacked Hikb a 1 a h ap
guerrillas. The Bulletin’s corre
spondent said the “Huks” suffered
heavy casualties.
NEW YORK, (/P) — E. Eastman
Irvine, 64 editor of the World Al
manac, died yesterday while on
his way to work from his Staten
Island home.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The civil
aeronautics board will hold an
other hearing in Seattle next Wed
nesday into the crash of a Pan
American DC-4 at Annette Island,
Alaska, last Oct. 27, in which all
17 occupants of the plane were
killed. The hearing will be in the
federal office building.
BOSTON, (#*)—Eugene C. Cow
les, 88, long dean of American
light opera, died Wednesday night
after a protracted illness.
A plaintive ballad he composed
when he was a light opera star in
the ’90s—“Forgotten”—is a popu
lar favorite on radio request pro
grams. During World War I, his
songs helped sell thousands of dol
lars worth of war bonds.
LONDON, f/P>—Lord Vansittart,
conservative former foreign secre
tary. coined a phrase today for the
output of the Moscow radio and
the Rlssian press.
“A Niagara of sewage,” he called
it in a House of Lords debate.
RIO DE JANEIRO i/P)—Special I
police fired into a downtown mass
meeting early today and wounded
10 persons.
The crowd assembled after at-,
tending a civic meeting called to
form an organization to oppose j
foreign exploitation of Brazil’s oil.
WASHINGTON, (JP) —A report
on contributions to the two major
political parties, released today, in
cluded $1,000 from J. A. Wooten of
Anchorage, Alaska, to the Demo
cratic national committee.
MANILA (/P)—Eighty-three per
sons were killed in a 10-hour bat
tle, the bloodiest clash so far be
tween the constabularly and Red
led Hukbalahaps, the Manila Bul
letin said today. The fight took
place yesterday near Munoz in
Nueva Ecija province 75 < miles
north of Manila.
SPOKANE, <^) — The western
division of the American Mining
Congress will hold its 1949 con
vention in Spokane during the
third week of next September.
Marshall Maps Out
Proposals To
United Nations !
PARIS, UP)—Here, in brief, are
the proposals advanced by U. S.
Secretary of State Marshall in his
speech to the United Nation as
sembly yesterday:
Palestine: Admission to the U.
N. and Trans-Jordan; early de
rrvobilization of troops in Palestine,
repatriation of refugees, economic
aid to both Jews and Arabs.
Korea: Independence for Korea,
with membership in the United
Nations.
Greece: The Greek nation must
“be made secure from aggression
and unlawful interferenc from
without.”
Indonesia: A negotiated settle
ment between the Dutch and the
Indonesian Republic without fur
ther bloodshed.
Japan and Germany: Early
peace settlements so these coun
tries may exist as “democratic and
peaceful nations” who will in the
future qualify for U. N. member
ship.
Austria: Restoration of political
and economic freedom within Aus
tria’s 1937 frontiers and admission
of Austria to the U. N.
Armaments: Adoption of an in
ternational system of atomic en
ergy control; progressive reduction
of armament with a guarantee
against violation.
Hold Hearings On
Union Disputes
JUNEAU, (/P)—Melton Boyd of
the regional NLRB in Seattle is
conducting a series of hearings in
to a jurisdictional dispute between
the two CIO unions at the Juneau
Spruce Corporation.
Both the international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union and the international wood
workers of America have laid
claim to the job of loading barges
at the mill.
The ILWU set up a picket line,
but the IWWA workers crossed the
line several weeks ago, enabling
the mill to reopen after several
months idleness.
The hearings are expected to end
this week and the findings will be
placed before the NLRB council.
.._. i
Union Heads Must
Sign Affidavits
- i
CHICAGO, </P) — The federal
circuit court of appeals in a two
to one decision yesterday held con
stitutional the portion of the na
tional labor gelations act requiring
union officials to sign non-com
munist affidavits.
Judges Otto Kerner and Sher
man Minto upheld the constitu
tionality of that section of the act.
Judge J. Earl Major, in a separate
opinion said he believed the sec
tion was unconstitutional.
The court’s opinion was on peti
tions of the Inland Steel company
and the CIO united steelworkers i
union asking that a national labor;
relations board order be set aside.'
Russians Arrest
Eight LI. S. Soldiers
FRANKFURT, Germany, (£>)—
Eight American constab u 1 a r y
troops were picked up by Russians
along the zonal border in three
days, but all have been returned,
the U. S. army announced yester
day. •
Two troopers seized Wednesday
near Eschwege were returned this
morning. Six taken earlier were
released Wednesday.
Constabulary officials said in
each case the troopers patrolling
the border, had been accused by
the Russians of crossing over into
the Soviet zone.
Maritime Cancels
Charter Contracts
WASHINGTON, (^P)—1The mari
time commission announced Wed
nesday night the cancellation of all
charter Contracts with steamship
companies owning no ships of
their own.
The action covers 54 ships and
involves 13 steamship lines, a
spokesman for the commission
said.
He asserted the move was an
elaboration of policy announced in
April when the commission dis
closed it would approve no new
charters.
The 54 vessels being removed
from charter service will join the
maritime commission’s reser v e
fleet of more than 1,500 ships not
now in use but still seaworthy.
International News
At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press)
(Thursday. Sept. 23. 1948)
Secretary of State Marshall told
the United Nations yesterday
American patience should not be
mistaken for weakness. His warn
ing came as the three western
powers awaited answers to their
notes to the Kremlin on the tense
Berlin situation.
At the same time, a British for
eign office spokesman said the
cominform — communist interna
tional information bureau—may be
meeting now in Russian Crimea,
where Prime Minister Stalin has
been on vacation.
Marshall used the United Na
tions as a rostrum for a clear def
inition of United States foreign
policy. In it were hidden barbs for
the Russians.
“It would be a tragic error,” i
Marshall declared, “if, because of
misunderstandings, the patience of
others should be mistaken for
weakness.”
Again obviously referring criti
cally to foreign policy of the Sov
iet bloc, Marshall said the work of
the United Nations had been seri
ously hampered by “the refusal of
a group of nations to participate in
certain of the important commis
sions established by this assembly,
such as the Balkan commission,
the Korean commission and the in
Continued on Page Three
Hurricane Races
Up East Coast
- - —— ■■
MIAMI, Fla. (/P)—A tricky but
powerful hurricane sped up the
Atlantic early today, meancing
shipping off the eastern seaboard.
Still packing 75-mile-an-hour
winds over a 50-mile radius, the
two-fisted storm that battered
Cuba and Florida picked up for
ward movement as* it bowled
northeastward in the open sea.
It moved forward at 35 miles
an hour after lumbering through
Florida at only eight miles an hour.
All shipping in the storm’s' path ,
was advised to use caution and
small craft was warned to remain
' in port.
Heavy gales covered the area
from the North Carolina and Vir
ginia coasts to near Bermuda,
I which was struck by a storm only
j two weeks ago.
The island resort took precau
tions against high winds. Planes
! flew to fields in the United States,
j Yachts sought shelter. A floting
dock was sunk. Residents were still
I repairing damage from the previ
! ous storm.
Meanwhile, Florida cleaned up
i debris and counted three dead in
; the wake of the storm, all in the
| greater Miami area.
Damage to property, including
the state’s fruit and vegetable
crops, was estimated at $25,000,
000.
Gaza To Be Seat Of
Arab Government
DAMASCUS, Syria, (/P) — The
newly formed Arab government
for Palestine will be seated at
Gaza, in Egyptian-occupied terri
tory on the coastal plain 40 miles
south of Tel Aviv, it was announc
ed here yesterday.
Jamal Effendi Husseini, nephew
of the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem
and one-time chairman of the Pal
estine Arab party, is the foreign
minister, said the Palestine higher
executive office here.
The office said the regime will
claim jurisdiction over all the
Holy Land (which includes the j
Jewish State of Israel).
Ahmed Hilmy Pasha, former
military governor of Jerusalem, is
the premier.
Hunters Find Five j
Year-Old U. S.
Plane Wreckage
EDMONTON, Alta., ^ — Ru
mors and speculation yesterday
shrouded the discovery of the
wreckage near Fort Nelson, B. C.,
of a U. S. air force transport which
crashed with 11 aboard more than
five years ago.
The Edmonton Journal said
nearly $500,000 in currency and
gold were aboard, but in Wash
ington, air force headquarters dis
counted the report. The air force
verified the story the wreckage
had been found, however.
(The Chicago Tribunt reported
in a special dispatch that the hunt
ers who found the wreckage were
(Continued on Page Eight)
Maritime Strike
In Third Week
SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—The Pa
cific coast maritime tieup entered
its third week today with talk of
renewing negotiations between
employers and the five striking
unions.
The independent marine fire
men’s union proposed in a letter
to employer associations that nego
tiations be resumed.
A spokesman for the shipping
industry replied that the firemen’s
union had been “invited to come in
and negotiate as soon as they can
assure us they can negotiate with
the intention of signing a con
tract.”
But he added “It would be no
agreement at all if a contract
(with the firemen) were condi
tioned upon our agreement with
unions in control of communist
parly line labor leaders.”
President B. J. Malone of the
firemen pointed out that officers
! of his union had filed non-com
munist affidavits under the Taft
Hartley act.
He warned shipowners in the
letter that his union was prepared
: for a nine-months strike.
1 _
Attempt On Tito's
Life Reported
ROME, </P) — An unconfirmed
report attributed to the Trieste
news agency says an unsuccessful
attmpet was made on the life of
Yugoslav’ Premier Marshal Tito
two weeks ago.
The report, circulating among
newsmen here, said “partisans”
had mined a bridge along the Dal
mation coast during a trip by Tito
through that area but that the ex
plosives were discovered before he
crossed the span.
POWER MEN HERE ON
DAM SITE SURVEY
R. C. Johnson and Joseph H.
Morgan of the U. S. Bureau of Re
clamation. who are making a gen
eral survey of possible dam sites
in the Territory, were in Nome
this week on a Seward Peninsula
trip. The two men are gathering
data to present to the Congress of
the United States at the next Ses
sion beginning in January.
They have met with the NWA
Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary
Club, the City Council and other
interested persons the past few
days. Before the chamber of com
merce Mr. Morgan explained the
working of the bureau which was
born in 1902 through executive or
der of President Theodore Roose
velt. Today the bureau of reclama
tion has some 14,000 specialists
employed designing and building
dams for power and irrigation
where needed.
Morgan stated that dams were
built in locations where weather
conditions were much worse than
in the Seward Peninsula area. Ad
verse conditions have been over
come by the skilled technicians
and scientists in constructing dams
in areas frozen in during the win
<Continued on Pag.. Four)