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VOL. LI. No. 140 NOMeTaLASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, <P)—The spy con
spiracy trial of Judith Coplon and
Valentin Gubitchev wos postpon
ed yesterday until Dec. 27.
The Russian engineer’s newly
retained attorney, Abrahm L. Ru
merantz, won the postponement
when he told federal judge Syl
vester J. Ryan he needed the time
to prepare himself for the trial.
SEATTLE. i/P) — The venerable
Coast and Geodetic Survey ship
Surveyor will be back on the job
next spring.
After a season of idleness, the
faithful old campaigner will be re
habiliated and sent back into ac
tion next year .officials said yes
terday.
The Surveyor is scheduled to
replace the Derickson. which has
been adjudged too small for the
rigors of Alaska survey work. The
Surveyor did not go north with
the fleet last summer.
Bids are out for repair work on
the Surveyor, offiicials said.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Two army
tank crews got a close-up mid
river taste of Arctic maneuvering
difficulties.
The 10th Rescue Squadron re
ported Monday it has evacuated
six men from two tanks that
broke through the Tanana River
ice at Big Delta. They were strand
ed in micf-river. The men were
taken to the Lad Air Base hospital
for treatment for exposure and
frost bite.
TOKYO, <JP) — Kazuro Fujii
hired Yoshikane Nakamoto to in
stall a burglar alarm in his house.
But Fujii’s house was burglar
ized anyway. Undisturbed by any
alarm, he slept soundly while a
thief made off with all his cloth
ing.
Tokyo police went to work.
They nabbed the burglar.
It was Nakamoto.
He told officers he had failed to
rig the alarm so he could loot Fu-'
jii’s home undisturbed.
POCATELLO, Idaho, (/P)—By a
bare 500 vote majority, Pocatello
voters tossed out pinball machines
yesterday from Idaho’s second
largest city.
The machines, under Idaho law,
may be licensed on local option,
They have been operating here.
MOSCOW, UP)—American Sen- j
ators touring Europe and the Mid
dle East are ‘nervous,” the news
paper Pravda said today.
The newspaper ridiculed them
as “round-the-world comptrollers”
and said after U. S. failure in
China the Senators are afraid
their Marshall Plan and otfyer
money sent to Europe and else
where would also “weep.”
RANGOON. Burma, (/P) — The
headless bodies of 60 rebels were 1
found today after government
troops drove a group of commun
ists and Karens out of the village
of Mazalikangon.
It was believed that the leaders
took the heads of their dead com
rades so that the bodies could not I
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Jewish Refugee
Plane Crashes
In Norway
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OSLO, Norway, </P)—Police an
nounced yesterday they recovered
26 bodies from the wreckage of a
Dutch plane which had carried 28
Jewish refugee children and seven
adults. The police said one child is
known to have survived.
There was only the slimmest
chance that there were any more
survivors, the rescue parties re
ported.
Ihe fearchers found the twm
engined DC-3 transport after
searching since Sunday through
the dense forests of southern Nor
way. It was lost en roj;j from
Tunis, North Africa, to Norway
v/ith 28 undernourished refugee
ch;!dren, three nurses and four
crewmen. It was an Aero Holland
ship.
The plane smashed into the for
est, t utting a broad sw ith through
the 4 ees. As rescue workers came
upon it, som? of them reported
th«*y could nerr faint, feeble cries.
It was reported that, the lone
f . vi/or was a 12-year-aid oiv
Several bodies were found
strewn in the dense woods.
OSLO, Norway </P)—A 12-year
old Jewish refugee boy woke this
morning from a good night’s sleep
—his first since he survived the
nightmarish plane crash Sunday
in which 34 persons died.
Little Isaac Allal, one of 28
North African Jewish children
flying to a Norwegian rest camp,
was the only survivor.
Isaac’s whimpers led two search
ers yesterday to the forest- hid
den wreckage where he had lain
trapped among debris and bodies
for two cold nights and a day.
Two brothers and a sister died in |
the crash.
Isaac doesn’t know yet that an- j
other brother is dead at home in
lar-off Tunis. That brother, a 17-J
year-old, fell dead when he learn-1
ed of the tragedy in Norwav.
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Turkey Shoot
Sunday Morning
Next Sunday morning at ten
o’clock the second turkey shoot
of the Nome Sportsman’s Club
will get under way and from the
enthusiasm voiced a much bigger j
crowd is expected this Sunday.
The same type of shoots will be i
held in addition to which the
members will have one shoot to
themselves and also a match will
be held for large and small bore
rifles with scopes.
The same stuffed bird used last
week has been repaired and will
again be target for the free-for-all
shoot.
Winners of chickens in the last
tournament are invited to be there
next Sunday and will be eligible
to shoot off in a turkey shoot.
Participants are urged to come
early so that the contests can get
started on time and all events can
be completed.
It is reported that the Boy
Scouts may again be on hand
with refreshments.
ROOF GARDEN 1
BREVITIES i
—
The High School auditorium is j
undergoing a general renovation;
at this time, the principal change
being the installation of new,
modern fluorescent lighting sys
tem: the very latest in illumina
tion. It will be completed in time
for the Roof Garden, and the com
mittee on decorations promises to i
add some artistic touches to blend
with the soft mellow glow.
The dance floor, recently sand- j
ed, will be in first class condition i
and the music will be so diversi
fied as to give those who wish to
indulge in the old square dances
Virginia Reel. Highland Fling,
etc., an opportunity to demon
strate to the younger set “light
fantastic” twirls of days long ago.
Rube Cremer has overhauled
| the old Roulette Wheel which once
graced the famous gambling hall
of Tex Rickard in Nome, and re-,
ports it in perfect working order.
So, you will hear Rube repeat
that old, old spiel “ROUND AND
ROUND SHE GOES AND WHERE
IT STOPS NOBODY KNOWS.” \
And the prizes, Oh! boy, the best (
ever offered in a game of chance. I
! Vera Nelson, recently returned
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Steel Strike Now
Hits Auto Industry
DETROIT, UP)—Delayed effects
of the steel strike will hit the na
tion’s automobile industry hard
next week.
With but few exceptions the
factories closing tonight for the
Thanksgiving day holiday will re
main idle until perhaps Dec. 12 or
later.
Ford, Hudson and Studebaker
and a few branch assembly plants 1
of other companies around the
country will furnish all the motor
vehicle output next week. Even
Ford will cut down to four day’s
operation and Studebaker has an
nounced it will close on Nov. 30.
I > riders' Attorney
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SAN FRANCISCO i.Ti— With
Harry Bridges taking a back seat,
almost forgotten amid the tumult
the longshore leader’s attorney in
his perjury trial yesterday drew
six months for criminal contempt
of court.
The lawyer narrowly missed
having to go to jail immediately.
Federal Judge George B. Harris
imposed the jail sentence on at
torney Vincent Hallinan after a
bitter, scatching excoriation, the
like of which probably never had
been paralleled in local federal
court history.
i he judge ordered the colortul
and stormy figure of the San
Francisco Bar taken into custody
immediately. But he later relented
and granted a stay to permit Hal
linan to continue Jo represent
Bridges for the duration of the
trial.
Bridges. 48. naturalized Austral
ian, is head of the left wing CIO
longshore union, is charged with
falsely swearing at his 1945 nat
uralization hearing that he never
had been a communist. He and
two union aides, J. R. Robertson
and Henry Schmidt, are charged
with conspiracy to defraud the
government.
Bridges would be subject to de
portation if convicted. Two previ
ous government attempts to de
port him failed, in 1939 and 1941.
The Supreme Court of the United
States held in 1945, as an out
growth of a deportation order
based on the 1941 hearing, that
Bridges had not been proved a
communist.
Although Hallinan was granted
a stay of sentence, he probably |
will have to serve it once the case
has been decided. Judge Harris
original order also directed that
Hallinan’s name be stricken from
the roll of attorneys in his court.
His face dark with anger, the
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THiRD SHOT__
I
, DEPORTATION
A PROCEEDINGS
MARRV
BRIDGE*
News of I lie N\ orld
\[ \ Glance .. .
Tuesday, November 22, 1949
'By The Associated Press*
The French National Assembly
is debating today whether Ger
many should be brought into the
European family of nations.
The 24-day-old government of
Premier Georges Bidault, in con
cert with the governments of the
United States and Britain, stands
for more generous treatment of
Germany. The debate may decide
whether the Bidault government
will stand or fall.
France has been overrun thrice
in modern times by German arm
ies, many French deputies want
the dismantling of German heavy
industry continued because of an
historic fear of a militarily strong
Germany,
Interior Minister Jules Moch,
one of the pillars of Bidault’s coal
ition government, was applauded
recently by his fellow Socialists
for declaring he was against ad
mitting Germany to the Council
of Europe—West Europe’s consul
tative and advisory body.
Western Allied officials in Ber
lin today presented a file of evi
dence showing the old spirit of
German nationalism is very much
alive and kicking.
An American political authority
commented: “The bugaboo of com
munist may soor^ have to tage a
back seat. There’s competition
around.”
The West German legislative
halls at Bonn have been ringing
more and more with speeches on
behalf of Germanism. Rightist
parties have won the largest sup
port in West German elections.
In the Russian-occupied Eastern
zone. Germans gave back civil
rights to ex-nazis, who immediate
v1 banded together within the Na
tionalist Democratic party and
lashed out against the communist
regime’s plan of turning private
enterprise into socialized industry.
Tn Ottawa, field marshal Lord
Wavell. former Viceroy of India,
said Germany would eventually
become a greater problem for the
West than the Soviet Union.
U. S. Gen. Omar Bradlev and
the U. S. joirit chiefs of staff are
entertaining at tea in Washington
today for Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery of Britain, chairman
of Europe’s Western Union de
fense.
The U. S. state department
awaited results of its proposal to
30 governments that they join in
a concerted effort to free consul
general Angus Ward from a Chi
nese communist jail.
The appeal was made over the
week-end by Secretary of State
Acheson in an unprecedented
move. There appeared little doubt
that Britain, France and most of
the western nations would agree
to bring pressue on the commun
ists for the release of Ward. The
big question mark was whether
Moscow and the four other Soviet
bloc nations would agree to take
part in the international move.
Save your date—Saturday, De
cember 10, 1949. Pioneer Roof
Garden. Adv.