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VOL. XL:X. No. 92 NOMeTaLASKA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1947PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIE
WASHINGTON. </P>—A short
lived demonstration in front of the
Russian embassy in fashionable
m 16th Street ended yesterday with
Soviet officials removing four de
rogatory signs from the premises.
The signs, one of them saying
“Spies, beware,” were tacked to
trees of the embassy. The incident
attracted no more than a half
dozen office-bound workers..
Among bills awaiting the signa
ture of the President is H. B. 174,
which pertains to mining on nav
igable streams. The bill passed
the Senate on July 23rd.
When the President signs the
measure it will be possible to get
a permit to mine navigable
streams in Alaska. ^
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday signed two
bills affecting Alaskan communi
ties.
One would transfer to the Cath
olic Society of Alaska 320 acres
along the Andreafsky River*north
of the Kuskokwim region for a
mission.
The other would transfer to the
city of Petersburg a school and
two lots which have been admin
istered by the interior department.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
• Truman signed yesterday legisla
tion permitting a Canadian steam
ship line to operate between
points in the United States and
Hyder, Alaska.
Sponsors of the legislation said
wartime authority for such serv
ice had expired and the Canadian
line is the only shipper that can
provide the service.
KETCHIKAN, (/P)—Pilot Chas.
Ryan of Alaska Airlines suffered
a fractured skull Wednesday when
a ladder on which he was climb
ing into a plane collapsed and he
fell on his head. The coast guard
brought him to the hospital here.
SEATTLE, (iP> — The pursel
seiner Inga O which ran aground
on Dungeness Spit west of Portj
► Townsend Wednesday night, was
refloated shortly after midnight,
the Coast Guard said yesterday.
A coast guard boat from Port
Townsend aided in the refloating.!
Registry of the vessel was not;
available.
SEATTLE, (/P> — Funeral serv-,
ices were held here today for j
Capt. Alexander B. Hoskins, 54,
Bellingham native and merchant
mariner, who died Wednesday.
Capt. Hoskins was stricken with I
a heart ailment three months agoi
while serving with the army I
transport service at Adak, Alaska.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Harry B.
Hawes, former Democratic Sena
tor from Missouri, died at his I
home here last night. He was 78. j
Since retiring from the Senate in i
1933 he had practiced law here,,
representing both the Philippine
g government and the Philippine1
sugar association in a legal ca
pacity. Hawes was elected to the
Senate in 1926 after serving three
terms in the House. He did not
seek re-election in 1932.
Booby Trap Hid
In Hung Bodies Of
British Sergeants
(By Edward Curtis)
JERUSALEM, (/P)—The bodies
of two young British sergeants
kidnapped as hostages by Irgun
Zvai Leumi were found hanging
yesterday from two eucalyptus
trees and were blasted to bits by
a booby trap when British soldiers
started to cut them down.
Jewish settlement police found
the bodies in a forest preserve
near Natanya just 24 hours after
Irgun, extremist Jewish under
ground organization, announced it
had executed the Britons in re
prisal for the hanging of three Ir
gunists convicted in a prison de
livery.
The area was cordoned off and
dogs were turned loose in an at
tempt to pick up the trail of cne
killers.
In Jerusalem, top Palestine gov
ernment officials met to map a
rigid campaign against under
ground violence. One official said
plans under consideration in
cluded a demand upon the Jewish
agency to cooperate actively in
stamping ouf underground attacks.
fin London Prime Minister Att
lee placed the entire Palestine sit
uation before his cabinet^.
When soldiers started to cut the
bodies down after an hour-long
probe for mines, the booby trap
exploded behind the body of ser
geant Clifford Martin. It blasted
to bits his body and that of ser
geant Mervyn Paice and scattered
the pieces over a wide area.
The blast wounded one grena
dier guardsman in the face and
threw several bystanders to the
ground, including photographer
James Pringle and correspondent
Cagter L. Davidson, both of The
Associated Press.
Strike Halts
Anchorage Phone,
Electric Service
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Alaska
long distance operator on the Seat
tle switchboard advised this morn-:
ing she was unable to complete
telephone calls to Anchorage,
Alaska, because of a strike of op
erators in the northern city.
The operator said she was ad
vised telephone service went on
an emergency basis at 10 p.m.
(PST> last night.
Earlier, members of the inter- j
national brotherhood of electrical
workers <AFL> in Anchorage had
turned down a five per cent wage
increase offered by the city, and i
set a midnight deadline in their!
negotiation for increases ranging,
from 17 to 19 per cent.)
(The walkout also was to affect ]
operation of all city power except
pump lines which would be main
tained, the union said, to assure
an adequate water supply).
Lou Tayiur, union business
agent, said the union considers
the flat raise prejudicial to ap
prentice workers who “need it
most.” Apprentice telephone op
erators now earn $1.13 an hour.
•
One Killed As B-25
Bomber Crashes
In Washington
I
McCHORD FIELD, Wash. </P)—
One man was killed and two of
three others on a B-25 bomber
bailed out early today after the
plane caught fire and crashed east
of Kelso, Wash., during a night
flight to Hamilton Field. Calif.
Searching state patrol and po
lice officers found the partly
burned wreckage after daybreak
one mile east of the Goble Creek
bridge, eight miles east of Kelso.
One body lay in the wreckage,
A. V. Clark, Longview police chief
reported. The fourth man remain
ed unaccounted for early in the
forenoon.
The plane, in trouble shortly af
ter leaving here at 2 a.m., dropped
a flare over the Longveiw area
and was then seen with one en
| gine afire, the Cowlitz county
sheriff’s office reported. The
crash occurred about 2:30 a.m.
The plane’s crew chief, Tech.
Sgt. (first name unavailable)
; Matthews, was critically injured
j in his parachute jump and
brought to the Cowlitz general
hospital, Longview.
Sgt. Elmer L. Taft, Fort Law
ton, Wash., parachuted over Rose
Valley, several miles from the
crash scene, awakened persons in
j a house 200 yards away and then
1 got a ride into Kelso. He was on
furlough and was making his
i first airplane flight, he said.
“They hung a ’chute on me, told
me what to do and then shoved
me out of the plane,” he told
newsmen.
The two men leaped from ap
proximately 1,000 feet altitude.
The plane was Attached to Hamil
ton Field.
U. S. Will Spend
Millions To Open
European Markets
BERL^, (JP) — In a bold at
tempt to open European markets
to free trade, the American mili
tary government will spend mil
lions of dollars in Europe buying
goods from Germany’s neighbors,
authoritative sources declared to
day.
The dollars will come from the
sale of Germany’s exports under
the American-British bi-zonal
import-export plan, according to
these sources. Goods will be
bought wherever they can be
found, whether in western Euro
pean countries or those dominated
by Russia.
This program has been initiated
already in the signing and nego
tiating of trade agreements with
Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and
Italy. It is intended to refute fre
quent Soviet charges that America
is trying to drain Europe of dol
lars.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman signed today legislation
to permit United States registra
tion of a Canadian-built dredge
Ajax for operation in Alaskan
waters.
States Get Heat.
Hail, Tropical
Storms All At Once
A month of stifling calm for
much of the nation, July beat a
tempestuous retreat ‘this morning
from some areas, leaving hail
damage in West Virginia and an
area spanning the Maine-Canada
boundary, and with , a tropical
storm blowing up from the Gulf
of Mexico.
Most of the eastern half of the
country enjoyed cooler weather; I
the weather bureau said the drop
was a much as 25 degrees in some
places, Farthur west, the heat spell
was unbroken. At Las Vegas,
Nev., the mercury reached 112 de
grees.
Telephone and electric service
was disrupted at Huntington. W.
Va., by hail stones described as
twice the size of walnuts.
Maine’s Aroostook County pota
to crop took a beating from hail
and wind; a half-hour “twister”
that brought the hail yesterday
lifted roofs from two houses and
two barns, and littered the streets
of Fort Kent. Canadian border
i town, with trees:
The New Orleans weather bur
eau warned of'a tropical storm
moving northwestward from a po
I sition about 90 miles east of Tam
pico, Mexico. It was expected to
pass inland about noon, probably
into Northern Mexico.*
Shower areas tonight may be
the Carolinas, Dakota, Florida,
Arizona and Minnesota.
—
AIR BASE KEEPS OPEN HOUSE
TODAY—ARMY AIR FORCE DAY
Today, commemorating Army
Air Force Day, the Nome Air Base
is holding “open house” for the
people of Nome to inspect the Air
Base, equipment and planes.
In town, the citizens, and busi
ness men, under the auspices of
the American Legion Post No. 19,
are giving a free dance tonight in
the Nome High School gymnasi
um. The Nome Air Base orchestra,
composed of seven pieces, will
furnish music for the dance. Rep
resentatives of women’s organiza
tions will be hostesses, serving
coffee and doughnuts in the Home
Ec room during the evening.
Anchorage Police
Chief In Action
ANCHORAGE UP) — Police en
forcement of a city ordinance pro
hibiting the operation of taxi
stands drew protests from cab
owners and drivers yesterday.
After warnings from chief of
police Patrick Quigley Wednesday
owners said provisions of the or
dinance, requiring them to operate
only from cab terminals, would
bring about a 50 per cent cut in
business.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Acting
chief of police Patrick Quigley
yesterday ordered an all-out drive
on the city’s vice conditions.
Quigley, who took charge of the
force after city council dismissal
of chief Elmer Johansen last week
said disorderly houses had in
creased from 25 to 75 or “possibly
100” during the last year.
Seven Superforts
Complete Tokyo
\\ ashiii"ton Hop
WASHINGTON, f/P)—Seven B
29 superfortresses with 1G0 persons
aboard flew over downtown
Washington at noon today, and
headed for nearby Andrews Field
and the finish of a one-stop 7,000
mile flight from Tokyo. The planes
had spent 31 hours 24 minutes in
the air.
TOKYO. (/P)—Eight superfort
resses took off yesterday on a one
stop flight to Washington in a dis
play of long-distance U. S. aerial
might for army air force day.
The last of the big ships took off
at 1:09 a m. <EST.»
Their first and only scheduled
i stop was Anchorage.
The squadron expected to cover
the gruelling 7,986 miles across
the desolate wastes of the North
Pacific, Alaska and Canada and a
northern arc of the United States
in about 31 hours.
A maximum of three hours was
expected to be consumed in re
fuelling at Anchorage, and then
the big silver craft were due to
start the last leg.
Shortly before their departure,
i the crews of the eight ships re
ceived this message from their
commander, Brig. Gen. Roger M.
Ramey, Fort Worth. Tex., chief of
the Eighth Air Force:
“Bring ’em on home and don’t
spare the horsepower.”
The departure was from the Yo
kota air field, 30 miles west of
Tokyo. Here the men of the squad
ron had been undergoing intense
training since their arrival from
the United States July 2.
The purpose of the flight is to
train the men in fast, long-distance
operations and is timed so that it
will wind up right in the middle
of Air Force Day in the United
States.
The bombers were scheduled to
be met by a jet fighter escort from
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Senator Bricker
(Jets Phone Threat
7
COLUMBUS, O. (/P) — Police
disclosed today that Senator John
W. Bricker, <R.-Ohio> had received
two threatening telephone calls
yesterday and that as a result ex
traordinary precautions were
taken to guard him at the Repub
lican rally here last night.
One of the telephone calls, police
said they believed were made by
“cranks,” was made to the Bricker
home in suburban Upper Arling
ton a few hours before the Sena
tor was to take part in a statewide
dinner honoring Senator Robert
A. Taft, (R.-Ohio). The call was
taken by the Senator’s mother-in
law, Mrs. Maud A. Day, who re
ported that the caller said:
“This time we’re going to get
him.”
Three weeks ago Senator Brick
er was fired upon in Washington
by a former Capitol policeman.
The other telephone call was
made to Bricker’s law office in
the downtown Leveque-Lincoln
Towers office building.