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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LI. No. 93 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949 _Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
FORT WORTH, Tex. (/P)-Two
giant B-36 bombers left Alaska
Wednesday afternoon on their re
turn trip to Carlswell air force
base here.
Eighth air force headuarters an
nounced the first B-36, with Maj.
Gen. Roger Ramey at the controls,
took off from Anchorage at 2:30
p.m. Gen. Ramey is 8th air force
commander. The second, piloted
by Maj. John D. Bartlett, 8th air
force project officer, took off from
Eielson field near Fairbanks at
3:15 p.m.
The planes flew to Alaska last1
Sunday on a trail blazing mission.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—The Tanana
river was reported receding yes
terdal at the central Alaskan vil
lage of Nenana, ending the imme
diate threat of a flood.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — The Ladd
air force base yesterday identified
as Sgt. James F. Hartigan, 21, the
soldier who tok his own life Sun
day night.
Investigators said he shot him
self fatally and attributed his ac
tions to despondency over separa
tion from his wife Dolores.
The sergeant came here in June.
JUNEAU, (/P)—'The Alaska Na
tive Service’s supply ship, North
Star—converted from the Coastal
Rider—left Seattle Monday to car
ry supplies to Arctic stations.
Its first stop is to be Mount
Edgecumbe, near Sitka. Other
stops are scheduled for Mekoryuk,
Tanunak, Golovin, Kotzebue, Ki
valina, Point Hope, Point Lay, and
Wainwright.
JUNEAU, (/P) — Clarence J.
Rhode, Alaska director of the U.
S. Fish and wildlife service, said
yesterday there was nothing un
usual about the large run of pink
salmon in Anan Creek near Wran
gell.
He said the run was always
heavy. People flocked for many
miles to watch the salmon crowd
up the stream.
Rhode said he was watching the
creek and i$ the fish seed the en
tire drainage—which he termed
unlikely—he would consider an
early opening of the fishing sea
son.
SEATTLE. (/P) — Territorial
treasurer Henry Roden announc
ed the million dollar bank loan is
virtually assured for the Territory.
He said tha only barrier is getting
private guarantors for the three
per cent interest involved. He said
fifteen private citisens will be
asked to guarantee $1.0ft0 interest
each, pending action by the Ter- !
ritorial Legislature.
SAN FRANCISCO, (fP)—Harry
Bridges, head of the CIO long
shore union, had passage on the
10:30 a.m. (PST flight to Honolulu
today.
His trip to Hawaii was linked
with the strike which'has tied up
ports there since May 1.
George Hillenbrand of the U. S.
conciliation service and Louis
Goldblatt, longshore union offi
cial, left by plane last night for
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Engine Not Normal
Before Reeenl
Seattle Plane Crash
SEATTLE, OP) — Three persons
testified at a civil aeronautics
board hearing yesterday that an
engine of a C-46 transport was
backfiring before it took off and
crashed onto the roofs of South
Seattle homes.
The parade of witnesses re
sumed today as the CAB pressed
its investigation into the cause of
the July 19 crash that killed seven
persons. The plane arrived from
Alaska earlier in the day.
Douglas D. Miner, aircraft and
engine mechanic who has a repair
shop at Boeing Field, said he
“heard an engine backfiring be
fore the plane left the ground. The
initial application of power did
not sound like a normal applica
tion. Malfunctioning of the igni
tion system probably caused the
backfiring.”
Miner said he noticed the trou
ble when he first saw the airliner,
only 500 feet from where it start
ed its takeoff roll.
“The engine did not sound nor
mal to me,” said Franklin S. Dear
born, photographic pilot for Pa
cific aerial surveys.
Similar testimony was given by
Francis L. Vaillancourt, Boeing
airplane company preflight in
spector.
James M. Adams, reserve pilot
ot the ill-fated plane, told the
board he felt the plane “touch
down” on the runway just after it
took off. “It was just a matter of
seconds,” he expls^ied.
Two Killed In
Rodeo Fracas
BIG SPRING, Tex. UP)—Shots
rang out and two men fell dead in
a real western drama before 2,500
rodeo fans here last night.
One of the show’s judges and
a cowboy college student were
felled from a six gun fired by an
infuriated brahma bull rider.
Henry Preston (Buck) Jones, 45,
the judge and intended target,
died on the spot, two .38 caliber
bullets in his body.
Carl C. Myers, 23, an innocent
onlooker, fell into the arms of a
girl, struck by a stray bullet.
Herb Frizzell, 34, was overpow
ered and jailed after he fired four
shots at Jones from short range.
Sheriff Bob Wolf and county
attorney Elton Gilliland said Friz
zel told them the trouble started
over an insulting remark he said
Jones made before Frizzell’s niece.
The two had had a fist fight.
TRUMAN HAS NO PLANS
FOR VISITINO ALASKA
WASHINGTON, (JP) —Charles
G. Ross, Presidential press secre
tary, said yesterday that President
has “made no plans whatsoveer”
for a visit to Alaska.and Hawaii.
Ross said he had talked with
Mr. Truman nad that the chief ex
ecutive informed him that he had
not made any vacation plans at
all.
The President is planning, as he
has told newsmen, to get away
Burton Island
Meets With Mishap
SEATTLE, UP)—The navy ice
breaker Burton Island limped
toward Point Barrow. Alaska, to
day without its starboard propel
lor and part of its shaft as the
Coast Guard cutter Northwind
raced to its aid, the coast guard
said.
The Burton Island is with the
navy’s supply mission to its vast
petroleum reserve and other gov
ernment agencies on the Arctic
shores.
The coast guard said the ice
breaker gave its position as 60
miles east of Point Barrow. A
brief message from the Burton Is
land gave no details of the mis
hap.
The Northwind left Shishmaref,
a small village on the Seward Pe
ninsula, late last night. It expects
to reach Point Barrow about 6:30
a.m. (PST> Saturday.
New Arms Aid Bill
Sent To Congress
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The ad
ministration sent to Congress today
a new arms-for-Europe bill shorn
of provisions giving President
Truman power to decide when
and where aid should be given.
The new measure, submitted to
the House and the Senate, named
specifically the countries to be
aided under the $1,450,000,000
program.
It made no change, however, in
cost of the proposed program. The
proposed outlay has been criti
cized sharply by both Republicans
and Democrats in Congress.
The re-written measure was
submitted to the Senate by chair
man Connally (D.-Tex.) of the
foreign relations committee and to
the House by chairman Kee (D.
W. Va.) of the foreign affairs com
mittee.
Connally told reporters the new
bill was drafted by secretary of
state Acheson and has the approv
al of secretary of defense Johnson.
Connally disclosed the changes
after members of his committee
and the Senate armed services
committee had met with Acheson
and Johnson.
Mr. Truman told a news confer
ence yesterday that he did not
care whether he gets authority
which critics had claimed would
have empowered him to give mili
tary aid to any country in the
world under almost unlimited con
ditions.
He did make a fresh demand
for the full amount of money
asked, however.
Col. Peter Sather. son of Pete
Sather of this city, now stationed
at Anchorage passed through
Nome enroute to Pt. Barrow with
a group of navy officials on Wed
nesday who were to witness
Barex, the navy re-supply expedi
tion which passed through Nome
on Saturday night.
from Washington sometime after
the adjournment of Congress, but
this “vacation” has not reached
the point of planning.
Three Planes Race
Back From
^Operations Vittles’
Westover Airforce Base, Mass.,
f/P)—By two minutes, eight home
hungry airforce lads today won a
three-plane Transatlantic race for
the honor of being the first ship
to return permanently from “op
eration vittles,” the Berlin airlift.
Capt. George Peabody of Seat
tle, Wash., set his C-54 down at
10:16 a.m., <EDT‘. Two minutes
later Capt. Gerald Pearson of
Spokane, Wash., landed.
The third contender, command
ed by Capt. Warren H. Delker of
Chapman, Kas., came in at 10:40.
Westover commandant, Col. Jo
seph E. Barzynski welcomed Capt.
Peabody and his crew as the first
plane of operation “phase out.”
The colonel described “phase
out” as “the victorious conclu
sion of another tough but beauti
fully conducted operation.”
This base was takeoff point for
many of the airlift crews in the
cold war maneuver with the Rus
sians which started in June, 1948.
Truman Pleads for
Federal Aid To
Education
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman called Democratic Con
gressional leaders to the White
House today in an effort to get
passage on a controversial federal
aid to education bill.
The controversy over whether
public funds should be made
available to parochial and other
private schools for auxiliary serv
ices has blocked efforts to get the
measure to the floor in the House.
Chairman Lesinski (D.-Mich.)
of the House education nad labor
committee refused to say, after the
conference, whether he will call
his committee back into session to
consider it.
Rep. McCormack of Massachu
setts, the Democratic floor leader
in the House, told reporters that
Mr. Truman was very urgent in
his appeal for passage of the bill
at this session, to redeem one of
his 1948 campaign pledges.
TRUMAN NEWS
CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday opposed any re
duction in the $1,450,000,000 he
asked for arming foreign coun
tries, but he said he doesn’t care
anything about having blank
check powers.
The foreign arms bill pending
in Congress would permit the
President to send weapons to any
country whose arming he thinks
would help the United States.
When asked about this clause at
his news conference, Mr. Trman
said he doesn’t particularly care
whether it remains in the bill. He
said all he wants is to see that Eu
ropean pact countries are proper
ly taken care of.
He also said the bill ought to be
passed as quickly as possible in the
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, August 4, 1949
• By The Associated Press)
American commanders an
nounced today in London they
have reached a complete under
standing with Britain, Norway
and Denmark on a mutual defense
plan.
Adm. Louis E. Denfield, spokes
man for the U. S. joint chiefs of
staff said: "We are going home, I
am sure, with 4 very much better
understanding of the situation
than when we came over.”
The U. S. commanders are on a
10-day tour of Western Europe to
discuss defense plans of North At
lantic treaty countries. The con
ferences are held in strict secrecy.
Norway and Denmark both
were overrun by the Germans in
World War II. Norway borders on
Russia in the north. Atlantic poet
framers say the pact is entirely
defensive. Russia contends it is an
act in preparation for war against
the Soviet Union.
The Norwegian commanders
t said they are seeking military
equipment from both the United
States and Britain and are ex
changing ideas on military train
ing.
The American chiefs, Gen.Onfar
Bradley, army; Adm. Louis Den
field, navy; and Gen. Hoyt S. Van
denberg, air force; planned to go
j to Paris later today.
A Czechoslovakian army news
paper said the jailing of a Roman
Catholic priest by the commun
ist Czech government is only the
start of the government’s fight
against the Vatican’s ex-commun
| ication decree.
The official Prague radio an
nounced last night that Rev. Alois
Fajstl has been sentenced to eight
years imprisonment for treason.
The priest was accused of refusing
to administer the last sacrament
I to a sick old woman until she
j handed in her communist party
membership card. The priest de
nied the charge.
One army newspaper Obrana
Lidu said: “This just sentence
must be a decisive proof to the
Vatican that we are not afraid of
its decrees and that we shall be
merciless in the defense of our
I People’s Democratic regime.
In Rome, a Vatican informant
said the Czech trial may have
been “a communist trick to try to
discredit the church and its faith
ful.” Vatican spokesmen have said
the excommunication decree acts
op the consciences of wayward
Catholics and requires no overt act
to put it into effect.
Reports reaching Seoul, capital
of non-communist South Korea,
said communist border guards
numbering 6,000 men have struck,
across the border at three points
and their object seems to be the
capture of a rich rice growing pe
ninsula. American troops have
been withdrawn from South Ko
rea.
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia is beckoning other Balkan
nations to walk out from Russian
nation. In a speech at Skoplje,
capital of Rugoslav Macedonia,
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