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VOL. L1I. No. 33 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY MARCH 20, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
OTTAWA, (£*)—Two Canadian
Pacific Railway freight trains col
lided at nearby Ashton station in
a heavy snowstorm early Satur
day, killing two men and injuring
two others.
The dead: Engineer A. T. Short
and Fireman C. H. Hannam.
Railway officials said a locomo
tive and seven freight cars were
badly damaged and the station
was "practically demolis hed"
when a freight car plowed into it.
HALIFAX, N. S., (/P)—A Nova
Scotia trawler was rammed and
sunk in the early morning dark
ness of Halifax harbor Saturday,
carrying 11 of her 17 crew mem
bers to death.
Only six escaped from the 115
foot Gertrude de Costa, out of
Yarmouth, N. S., after a sudden
collision with the Interisland
Steamship Co., Ltd., vessel Island
Connector.
A1 lthe survivors are from Nova
Scotia. All the dead except one
from Grank Bank, Newfoundland,
also were Nova Scotians.
WASHINGTON, (£>) — The Ru
ral electrification administration
approved a $50,000 loan Friday to
the Chugach Electric Association
of Anchorage, Alaska.
DETROIT, (/P)—The endurance
contest between strike-b o u n d
Chrysler Corp* and the CIO-UAW
Saturday dragged into the 53rd
day. There was no official word
from either camp to bear out ru
mors that a settlement of the pen
sion dispute was in sight.
The strike has idled 89,000
Chrysler production workers and
about 50,000 other workers in sup
plier plants across the nation.
ENCINO, Calif. (JP)—Edgar Rice
Burroughs, who dug a literary
gold mine in the African jungle
with Tarzan of The Apes, is dead.
_
KANSAS CITY, (/P) — An air
liner, carrying 35 persons, skidded
on an icy runway at Municipal j
Airport yesterday and crashed i
through two wire fences then
nosed into an embankment. No
one was injured.
HOLLYWOOD, (^—Safecrack
ers looted the vault of Dr. Will
Durant, noted author, of some
$225,000 in war and savings bonds
during the night, police were in
formed today.
The noted philosopher’s wife,
Mrs. Ariel Durant, discovered the
theft when she awoke. She said
jewels—possibly worth another
$25,000—also were missing, but
she could not list them immedi
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Jessup Is “Not
Communist;” Flays
Sen. MeCartliy
WASHINGTON, (^—Ambassa
dor Philip C. Jessup declared to
day that Senator McCarthy (R.
Wis.‘, by accusing him of “com
munist affinity,” showed a “shock
ing disregard for the interests of
our country.”
With a sweeping denial of any
communist sympathies, Jessup
told a Senate investigating sub
committee that it is a matter of
“utmost gravity” when an Ameri
can envoy is “held up before the
eyes of the rest of the world as a
i liar and traitor.”
The ambassador-at-large lashed
back to McCarthy after speeding
' home from a survey mission to
the Far East. He said that during
his absence his integrity was at
j tacked only by two sources—Mc
j Carthy and the Moscow official
! newspaper Izvestia.
Jessup added:
! “Anyone who believes in the
concept of guilt by association
j might draw some startling con
i elusions from this fact. However,
11 do not believe in the concept of
I guilt by association,
i “Moreover, I do believe that
anyone who, without adequate
proof, levels a charge of conscious
or ignorant support of commun
1 ism at a member of the United
I
PASSAIC, N. J., </*')—Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) was
named today as the winner of the
Marine Corps League's national
Americanism award for 1950.
The award, announced by the
League's Americanism chairman
John R. O'Brien, of Passaic, cited
the Senator for "rousing the na
tion to the menace of bad secur
ity risks in our government."
States Senate—or at any official
of the United States government—
is irresponsible.
“I have no evidence that Sena
tor McCarthy was motivated by
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ST. PATRICK’S DANCE
VERY SUCCESSFUL
The Irish and their many
friends turned out Friday night at
the Arctic Club to attend a St.
Patrick’s Day party given by
Father Murphy of the St. Joseph’s
Church and entered into the spirit
of the fun customary on St. Pat
rick’s Day.
Special recognition went to
Carmen Peterson of the ACS who
played the piano for the dance
and to Mrs. Wm. McDonald who
brought along her fiddle, making
the Virginia Reel the most popu
lar dance of the evening.
Charlie Blatchford
And Son Believed
Lost At Golovin
Last Friday word was received
from Golovin that Charlie Blatch
ford and his son Kinnegan were
overdue from a hunting trip on 1
Golovin Bay.
Capt. T. McAllister, who is in
charge of operations for CAP was
notified and left immediately with
the CAP L15 plane with Pilot Hol
ger Jorgensen at the controls.
Major Les Bronson, of CAP left
a few minutes later in his private
plane with Lt. W. Shepard of CAP
as observer.
The CAP plane landed at Golo
vin to obtain further information
on the missing pair and refueled
before taking off on the search,
carefully patrolling the shore ice
about 4 miles off Cape Darby.
The dog team and sled of the
party was located from the air
and upon landing on the ice Pilot
Jorgensen discovered a meal had
been prepared but was untouched.
Tracks leading to the edge of the
ice and signs of the boat being
launched indicated the pair had
taken off after a seal. There were
no signs of their return.
Major Bronson with Lt. Shep
ard proceeded oue over the ice
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Rescue All Of Crew
Of Fire-Explosion
Destroyed Elder
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PEARL HARBOR (#»)—'The en
tire crew — 40 men — of the net
tender Elder were saved Friday
in a double featured rescue near
the United States atomic testing
area in mid-Pacific.
Twenty-six of the little 163-fo.
ship’s crew were picked up in the
afternoon from a life boat and
two rafts lashed together. They
had been adrift in shark-infested
waters for a week.
The other 14 crewmen were
reached Friday night, still man
nning the fire-blackened, explo
sion-wracked Elder. They refused
to leave their helpless ship which
had five feet of water in her en
gine room.
The twin rescue cleared up the
mystery of what happened to the
Elder since she last reported Mar.
7 on a 2,600-mile voyage from Ha
waii to Eniwetok, scene of forth
coming atomic experiments.
But still unanswered Saturday
was how the military transport
Gen. A. W. Brewster passed up
the net tender after sighting her
Monday. The Elder’s skipper said
his ship signalled the Brewster
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Bitter Words Fly
In Bridges*
Perjury Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, (fr) — The
week-end recess brought a tem
porary halt to bitter exchanges
between lawyers giving their ar
guments to the jury in the gov
ernment’s perjury trial of Harry
Bridges.
The CIO longshore president is
charged with lying at his 1945
naturalization hearing when he
denied he had ever been a com
munist.
Chief defense counsel Vincent:
Hallinan Friday blamed govern
ment prosecutors for inciting “the
hatred and rage of the court” and
causing Hallinan to receive a six
month contempt of court sentence.
The contempt incident occurred
four months ago, near the outset
of the trial.
Hallinan asserted prosecutor F.
Joseph Donohue sought to prove
Bridges a communist by reference
to the fact that Bridges’ former
attorney, Richard Gladstein, had
defended convicted communists in
New York.
The special prosecutor asserted
shipping industry leaders who tes
tified for Bridges, “under the lash
of Lou Galdblatt, secretary- treas
urer of Bridges’ union, came here
and sold their conscience and
their soul for the dollars of pro
fit.”
He pictured Bridges as a “vain,
egotistical, clever and dangerous
man with a lust for power;” call
ed him “a fraud anc| a faker who
prates of democracy in the union
he has ruled with an iron hand.”
He said “Bridges turned to the
communist party for power as
j naturally as a flower to the sun.”
Johnson Against
Civil Defense Plan
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Senator
Edwin C. Johnson <D.-Colo.) said
Saturday a vast civil defense or
ganization against atomic attack
is not only unnecessary at this
time but might even prove harm
ful.
The Colorado Senator, a mem
ber o fthe Senate-House atomic
energy committee, spoke out
against “needless alarm and
waste” at a time when there is no
immediate threat of war.
He told a reporter the govern
ment should work out detailed
civil defense plans and a program
should be ready for operation
“whenever there is real danger ”
But he insisted such a program
at this time would only confuse
the public and give cities a false
sense of security.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Saturday. March 18, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
The Belgian government resign
ed today in a dispute over the re
turn of exiled King Leopold to the
throne.
Leopold earlier had urged the
coalition government to call Par
liament and settle the royal ques
tion, which has torn the nation
for months.
Premier Gaston Eyskens’ gov
ernment of Social Christian (Cath
olic )and Liberal representatives
fell when the Liberal faction re
fused to support the Catholics in
inviting the exiled King to return.
The Catholics, although the
largest party in Parliament, lack
an overall majority without the
Liberals.
The fall of the government
came after 100,000 mining and
metal workers staged a 24-hour
strike in the French-speaking Wal
| loon area in protest against Leo
pold. These workers returned t<»
their jobs today but labor leaders
warned this was only the begin
ning of widespread demonstra
tions. Antwerp dock workers and
civil servants voted to strike Mon
i day.
The advisory referendum last
Sunday showed 57.68 per cent of
I the nation favors Leopold’s re
turn. Leopold in Switzerland yes
' terdav called this an “unquestion
j able majority” but many political
I observers contend it is insufficient
for a monarch who needs to have
; an undivided nation behind him.
Leopold, as commander-in-chief
; of the Belgian army, ordered its
' surrender to the Nazis early in the
war and did not follow his govem
men-in-exile to London.
The currency of communist
controlled East Germany took a
deeper nose dive today. There was
a near panic in Berlin as holders
of Ea^t marks raced to Western
exchanges to swap their money
at the rate of nine East marks for
one West mark.
In the black market, the East
mark was worth only one-tenth of
a West mark. Exchange officials
said “there is no telling how far
the collapse will go.”
The East mark began its decline
immediately after Moscow an
nounced the revaluation of the
ruble on a gold basis recently. Re
ports spread that East Germany
was to be included with Russian
satellites in a ruble bloc. Germans
feared for their currency anrt
started dumping East marks.
In Paris, the Council of the Re
public, Parliament’s upper house,
approved the French-American
arms deal by which France is to
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A1 Kluber, Max Cooper and Jack Estes
Professional Entertainers - Comedians - Instrumental and Dance Music
A NIGHT OF SIDE - SPLITTING FUN PROMISED!
High School Gym Tuesday Night -- 9:00 p. m. Admission $1.00
Co-sponsored by Chamber of Commerce, Arctic Club and CAP