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VOL. LI. No. 151 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (#*)—The new Alaska
Public Works Act has brought 137
applications from the Territory’s
cities and towns for a total of
nearly $50,000,000.
The figures were reported by
John Argetsinger, district engin
eer fo rthe Community Facilities
Service of the General Services
Administration, which has Terri
torial headquarters here.
KETCHIKAN, (/P> — Ketchikan
city officials are planning to seek
$710,000 for two projects under
the federally-financed Alaska
Public Works Program.
The city council has authorized
the mayor to apply for $520,000
for a downtown sewer, paying and
sidewalk project and $190,000 for
a street improvement and sewer
installation job.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. </P)—
Lost for four days in the 10-below
* zero cold of the snow-covered
Blue Mountains, 18-year-old Don
ald McDonald was sought today
by nearly two score volunteers
who planned to criss-cross the
rugged area on skis, snowshoes
and dogsled.
"The Walla Walla youth wander
ed away from an elk hunting
camp last Thursday.
WRANGELL, (/P) — Wrangell
won its second straight game from
Sitka Saturday night, 29-23, in
their week-end high school bas
ketball series.
FAIRBANKS, bP)—Suggestions
for unifying the agriculturtal pro
gram in Alaska will be presented
to the secretary of agriculture,
Frank Heintzleman said after a
con ference.
Heintzleman, federal commis
sioner of agriculture for the Ter
ritory, met with agricultural lead
ers Friday to hear their ideas. He
said details could not be made
public until after they are receiv
ed by the cabinet secretary.
SIOUX CITY, la. (/P) — Mrs.
Alice Hammond, 25-year-old Sioux
City bookkeeper, died today of in
juries suffered in an explosion at
the Switf & Co. packing plant here
las Wednesday.
Mrs. Hammond was the 20th
person to die as a result of the
blast. Thirty-eight of the injured
still remained hospitalized today.
WACO. Tex., (/P)—The mystery
of why Baylor University’s bear
mascot, Josephine, has been irri
table and sluggish was solved to
day. Veterinarians say it will be
twins or maybe even triplets, and
that they will arrive about Christ
mas time.
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (/P) — Six
persons were killed yesterday
when a bus rolled off the road into
a deep revine. The other 37 passen
gers were injured. Three victims
were children. The chauffer and
conductor could not be found. Pas
i sengers said they were not injured.
| Police are looking for them.
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|| LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Here’s a
Fire Destroys
Burns Hotel
In Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Weekend
occupants of the fire-damaged
Burns Hotel all were alive and
unharmed today, thanks to a bark
ing dog and an unidentified guest.
The guest roused upstairs sleep
ers after flames ate into walls of
the frame building early Friday
and spread swiftly upward to the
attic. Most of the lodgers fled to
safety unaided. Two were over
come by smoke and carried out by
i firemen, who revived them with
j an inhalator.
| One woman, clad in a housecoat
and slippers, climbed out a win
dow in the 20 below zero weather
and made hei way over an icy tin
roof to the window of an adjoin
ing apartment house.
Those with quarters in the hotel
basement were awakened by the
barking dog as it tugged at the
bedclothes of the owner’s son.
They escaped without difficulty.
The blaze broke out again Sat
urday but was quickly extin
guished. It was believed re-kin
dled from smoldering sawdust in
the attic. Loss to the hotel was es
timated at more than $15,000.
Some water damage was done
to toys and candy for the Central
Labor Council’s annual Christmas
party, but enough were saved to
carry on the celebration. They
wrer« stored in the »*p\r *»f 4he ho
tel on the first floo .
Officials of the Fairbanks and
Ladd Air Force fire departments
said the blaze started from an
electrical connection to the adja
cent Arcade restaurant. Damage
wras confined to the hotel*
A 33-year-old man was arrested
after the fire and held by police
without charge on suspicion of
looting. Authorities said he wor^
fireman’s clothing and made sev
eral trips in and out of the hotel
building unnoticed.
WASHINGTON WOMAN
KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
YREKA, Calif. </P) — A young'
Pullman, Wash., woman was kill
ed yesterday in an automobile
collision on the same icy stretch of ,
| highway where two other Wash- j
ington residents were injured Fri- !
day.
| Mrs. Margaret Low, 26 of Pull
man, Mrs. Ledda McMillan of
Millbrae, Calif., and her son,
Frank McMillan, Jr., 6, were kill
ed in yesterday’s accident.
Highway patrolmen said the
McMillan machine skidded on the
highway and swung broadside in
front of the Low automobile. Da
vid Low, husband of the victim,
and their small children were in
jured slightly.
new name for Los Angeles: It’s
the “Sucker City.”
Detective Jack Tugwell today
disclosed that tag had been tacked
on Los Angeles by check artists
who already have passed more
than $300,000 worth of “bum pa
per” here this year. Tugwell said a
woman had clipped one store with
23 checks and another with 20
checks for a total of $2,000.
Father Duncan's
Church Burns
At Metlakatla
METLAKATLA, </P) — The
Duncan Memorial Church, a
southeastern Alaska landmark at
this indian community for nearly
60 years, was destroyed by fire
shortly before noon yesterday.
The blaze was believed caused i
by a defective heating plant.
The church, named for the late
father William Duncan, was er
! ected during his lifetime and re
built shortly before World War II.
It was supported from a $140,000
trustee fund raised by the vener
able priest through community
industries.
Father Duncan led the Tsimshe
an Indians from old Metlakatla,
British Columbia, to this Annette
Island spot. It now is a debt-free
model Indian town with a popula
tion of 700, a modern cannery,
sawmill and public buildings.
The church probably will be
rebuilt with money from the trus
tee fund, using lumber cut in the
sawmill here.
Annette Island airfield volun
teers helped townspeople fight the
flames, but they were beyond con
trol before they were discovered.
Coast guard equipment also was
flown in from nearby Ketchikan
by Ellis Airlines.
ABANDON SEARCH FOR
MISSING FISHERMAN
JUNEAU. (^P) — Coast guard
headquarters have reported it was
calling off its fruitless search for
the body of Andy Haffner.
The 59-year-old fish e r m a n
drowned Dec. 7 in the sinking of a
troller during a storm. He is sur
vived by his wife, five sons and
three daughters.
Mack Mercado, who reached
shore and survived for five days
in a shack without food or heat,
is recovering at a hospital. His
feet were frozen but doctors said
he will not lose them. Mercado
owned the boat.
Consul General
At \ okoiiama
Aboard Lakeland Victory, UP)—
The Lakeland Victory steamed
from Pusan, Korea, Saturday af
ternoon with all but one member
of U. S. consul general Angus
Ward’s party.
The ship was due in Yokohama,
Japan this morning.
Alfred Kristan, German on
Ward’s staff in Mukden until the
diplomat and his party of 20 were
ousted by the Chinese commun
ists, was transferred to the U. S.
embassy in Seoul, capital of South
Korea.
Franco Cicogna and his wife,
Italians, also were assigned to Se
oul—bue refused that post. They
said they would continue on the
Lakeland to Yokohama and return
to Italy rather than go to Seoul.
U. S. consul general and Mrs.
Angus Ward joined fellow Ameri
cans in Yokohama today, after a
year’s virtual imprisonment by
Chinese Reds, and got a rousing
welcome for their 30th wedding
anniversary.
Ward and members of his staff
a1 Mukden, Manchuria, arrived
aboard the akeland Victory to
i complete the first leg of their
I journey back to the U. S.
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BRINGS RESULTS
i Within thirty minutes after the
paper hit the streets, two of the
missing persons listed in Friday’s
paper were located. Within an
hour and a half the third party
showed up.
All lucky people to be given
turkeys at the U. S. Mercantile Co.
and the Nome Hardware Co., have
now been identified.
The following people may claim I
their turkeys by presenting their
tickets at the Nome Hardware j
Store:
Earle Coulthard, Mrs. Coplin, i
Maggie Kawchec, Mrs. Ramsey,
Dick Cornwell, G. Avac, Pearse or
Jimmy Walsh. C Seeds, J. Pierce.
Ann Cross, Mrs. Bingham. Father:
Murphy.
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News of the \\ orhl
At A Glanee —
Saturday. December 17. 1949
tB.v The Associated Press*
The visit of Chinese communist
leader Mao Tze-Tung to Mo.-cow
will result in a Soviet-Chinese
friendship pact, Moscow observers
forecast today.
A few hours after his arrival
yesterday. Mao, chairman of the
Chinese People’s Republic, con
ferred with Prime Minister Stalin
in the Kremlin.
The meeting brought together
the ruler of 450,000,000 Chinese
with the ruler of 200,000,000 Rus
sians, who is also master of the
communist forces within and
without the Iron Curtain.
Despite frail health, Mao made
an eight to 10 days trip on the
Trans-Siberian Railway to be in
Moscow for Stalin’s 70th birthday
celebration next Wednesday. It is
Mao’s first visit outside China.
What did the two communist
leaders talk about? Mao said at the
railway station on arrival that he
had come to strengthen the ties
between the two nations. He spoke
in admiration of Stalin. He said he
wanted to widen the peace front
engineered by Stalin.
Undoubtedly Mao would like an
| economic pact with the Soviet Un
ion to help rebuild his country’s
industries destroyed by many
years of warfare. Without help
from the west. Mao is largely de
pendent on Russia for aid.
Yugoslavs who left the Russian
orbit predict Mao will become the
Oriental Tito in time. But his pres
ent visit underlines the solidarity
of Stalinist communism in the Far
Fast. His visit is a demonstration
to the world that the Hammer
and Sickle never was more power
ful in the Far East.
Dr. Seokarno. who has been
President of the Indonesian Re
public since 1945 was sworn in as
President of the new sovereign
United States of Indonesia today.
The United Nations trusteeship
council has shelved the controver
sial problem of internationalizing
Jerusalem until next week. Today
it tackles another thorny issue—»
Kashmir. It will attempt to come
to a quisk preliminary decision on
the future of this princely Indian
State which Pakistan and India
have fought and argued for two
years.
In Sofia, Bugarian leaders
threatened purges of alleged spies
charged with working with the
British and American intelligence
services. Former deputy Premier
Traicho Rostov confessed he was
guilty of treason before he was
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