SS. Diamond Knot
Rammed And
Sunk By Freighter
(Continued From Pane One
were then pulled apart and two
tugs took the Diamond Knot in tow
and a salvage tug put a line on the
Fenn Victory.
Coast Guard boats from the Ediz
Hook station here stood nearby.
The fog blanket still lay over the
strait. The Fenn Victory sailed
from Seattle late yesterday, bound
for Portland.
Earlier, the Fenn Victory’s skip
per, a captain Gaidsick. told the
coast guard the contact was keep
ing the smaller vessel afloat.
Captain C. N. Goodwin ordered
the crew of the Diamond Knot to
leave the ship shortly before the
attempt to separate the vessels be
gan. The order was given as a pre
cautionary measure, he said, “Un
til I see if it will stay afloat.”
The crew members drifted near
the scene in lifeboats, refusing to
go aboard any of the numerous
coast guard craft of tifgs in the
vicinity.
Goodwin radioed the coast guard
that he hoped salvage tugs could
pull his vessel to Esquimalt, a few
miles away.
Goodwin said his No. 2 and No.
3 'holds were flooded and Uo. 1
had 10 feet of water.
The Strait was fairly calm ex
cept for ground swells. The two
ships were obscured by a heavy,
low-lying fog bank.
The Diamond Knot was inbound
from Alaska, the Fenn Victory out
bound from Seattle to Portland.
The Diamond Knot was launch
ed at Los Angeles on Sept. 8,
1944, by the Consolidated Steel
Corp. as the first in its series of
long-range cargo ships.
Her wartime mission was to car
ry army and navy supplies info
the Pacific area. She and her sis
ter ships were designated AV-l’s
with a length of 326 feet, 50-foot
beam, and 18-foot draft.
REBEKAH GRAND PRESIDENT
ARRIVES IN NOME
Florence Rine, grand president
of the Rebekah lodge for this dis
trict, arrived last evening and was
met by a group of the Midnight
Sun Lodge. She was taken to the
home of Mrs. E. Mahan where
a smorgesbord was prepared and
many of the members arrived and
were presented. This evening a
party will be held at Dexter at
the camps of Mrs. Ole Hay and
Mrs. Luther Dunbar. •
CITY COUNCIL HELD REGU
LAR MEETING MONDAY
Nome City Council held their
regular business meeting last
Monday at the City Hall. ^
Chairman of finance L. E. Bron
son reported that the city bulkhead
of sand-filled drums was about
one-third completed and prison la
bor was being utilized.
Councilman Steve Anderson re
ported that the cemetery commit
tee were temporarily operating
unned the name of the Nome Cem
etery Assn, until lawyers complete
the necessary papers. Mr. Polet of
the same committee reported that
funds were being raised locally,
which they hoped would enable
the association to cofnplete the
badly needed entrances for the
cemetery.
The Girl Scouts reported that,
they planned to place trash cans j
in prominent parts of town to!
make people conscious of keeping
the streets clean.
A. Polet asked the city to assist
in raising of sidewalks on Front
street on the north side. Council
man Hedreen stated the south side
needed the same thing. Action was
placed in his hands.
Councilman Hedreen also called
to the city’s attention that the
bulkhead on Lane’s Way needed
refilling and repairing and co-op
j eration was urgently needed of all
property owners on the south side.
Carl Dewey Anderson was ap
pointed Councilman to replace Ben
Young who has resigned.
GIRL SCOUTS
CIVIC MINDED
With dignity and grooming be
fitting queens and decorum of
diplomats, a trio composed of
Wilma Stephenson, Mary Louise
Lyle, and Margie Steinwandle, ap
peared before the Nome Council
Monday evening and presented a
proposal to supply neatly painted
“Waste Disposal” drums at speci
fied stations on the city streets.
Girl Scout Jackie Bodle, charm
ing daughter of Colonel and Mr>.
John E. Bodle, has offered to sup
ply the drums and the Girl Scouts
have agreed to be responsible for
maintenance, having made ar
rangements with the Nome Sani
tary Service for periodic pick-up
, service.
Ellen Mandeville proudly es
corted the Girl Scout committee
0
before the council.
CHOOSES TRIP TO NOME AS
GRADUATION PRESENT
Farris A. Flint who is associated
with the Famous Features Syndi
cate of N. Y., with offices in Chi
MS REEF KNOT sailed Aug. 12th for Unalaska, Nome.
Golovin, Unalakleei and St. Michael
SS. BARANOF Scheduled to sail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau anVl Seward August 16th.
e
SS BARANOF Scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle August 22nd.
SS ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan,
Juneau and Seward Aug. 23rd.
SS Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seward for Cordova,
Valdes. Juneau. Ketchikan and Seattle Aug. 28th.
Reservations made through Anchorage. Fairbanks or Nome Agent
Truman Family
Will Visit Brazil
WASHINGTON </P)—The White
House announced yesterday that
President Truman will be accom
panied on his forthcoming trip to
Brazil by Mrs. Truman and their
daughter, Margaret.
Charles G. Ross, Presidential
press secretary, told reporters that
the President’s flying visit to Rio
de Janeiro is still scheduled for
late August or early September,
but that the time of departure is
yet to be determined.
Mr. Truman plans to be in Bra
zil for the closing, days of the in
ter-American defense conference.
He will return to this country
with his family aboard the battle
ship U. S. S. Missouri.
Burn To Death
Just “Taking Ride”
ILWACO, Wash. (/P) — Two
Grays Harbor women who had
gone “just for the ride,” were
burned to death late yesterday
when a fish truck left the road at i
the Naselle Junction northeast of I
here, crashed^nto a culvert and
burned.
The victims were Mrs. Norma
Dorland, about 24, of Westport,
| and Betty Brown, 23, of Aberdeen.
Deputy Sheriff Peter Maloney
said both women were burned be
yond recognition as the flames,
fed by 16,000 pounds of oil-rich
tuna, swept through the truck,
i The driver of the truck, Earl
| Torbet, 25, employed by the South
Bay Trucking, company of Aber
deen, was thrown clear of the ve
hicle as it left the highway, plow
ed along a shallow ditch for 150
j feet and smashed against the cul
j vert.
He was taken to the Ilwaco hos
I pital where Maloney said he did
not appear to be critically injured,
although unable to talk enough to
provide details of the accident.
cago, arrived with his ' daughter
Nancy on a tour of Alaska. The
young lady who has just gradu
ated from high school chose a trip
to Nome as her graduation gift in
preference to a trip anywhere else.
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CIO Asks For
Voluntary Price
Reductions
WASHINGTON. (/P)—The CIO.
contending the price situation de
mands further action than a jus
tice department investigation, re
newed today a request that Presi
dent Truman call an industry
government-labor conference to
seek voluntary price reductions.
Emil Rieve, chairman of the la
bor organization’s full employ
ment committee, said in a state
ment that the CIO welcomes at
torney general Clark’s announce
ment that an investigation of high
prices will be made.
“But many prices are set by
large monopolies and monopolies
do not necessarily fall under thei
criminal law and Clark’s investi
gation,” he added.
“For example, in the automobile
industry, General Motors controls
probably 60 per cent of the busi
ness and therefore is able to dic
tate prices.
“So we feel that steps should be
taken at once to carry out our pro
posal of yesterday, that President
Truman summon a conference of
industry, government, and labor
representatives to seek voluntary
price reductions an that Congress,
immediately upon reconvening,
should re-establish price and ra-!
tioning controls.”
On Capitol Hill, Rep. Crawford
(R.-Mich.> a leading Congression
al critic of OPA, labeled as “fan
tastic” Clark’s order for an anti-;
trust investigation into food, cloth
ing, and shelter prices.
Will Plead Guilty
To Atomic Secret
Document Theft
PITTSBURGH. (/P>—U. S. At
torney Owen M. Burns said today
that Alexander von der Luft 23
year-old ex-army sergeant charged
with taking atomic bomb docu
ments, would enter a plea of guilty
Thursday, Aug. 21, here before
federal district judge Robert IVI.
Gibson. ,
Von der Luft, husky be-spec
tacled Princeton university stu
dent of nearby Mt. Lebanon, is
charged with scaling and conceat
ing government documents. The
maximum penalty on the two
counts is eight years imprison
ment, a $7,000 fine or both.
In a statement, Burns said the
court would accept von der Luffs
guilty plea. The former sergeant
has said the papers he brought
home from the Los Alamos. N. M ,
bomb project had only “souvenir”
value.
Von der Luffs attorneys had
planned to plead no contest but
Owens said such a plea would not
be accepted “in a case of this im
portance to the national safety cf
the country.”
NEWLY-BORN RATTLE
snakes have no rattle, according
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
but develop a joint to their rattle
with each succeeding moult. Older
joints, however, gradually wear
away and are lost so that the num
ber of joints on the rattle is not
necessarily any criterion of a
snake’s age.
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