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VOL. XLxX. No. 125 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1947PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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# NEW YORK, i/P)—Leon Joseph
son, 49, one-time Trenton, N. J.,
attorney and admitted communist,
was sentenced Wednesday to a
year’s imprisonment and fined
$1,000 after a jury convicted him
of contempt of a Congressional
0 sub-committee investigating sub
versive activities.
NEW YORK, (/P) — Heavy fog
yesterday delayed the docking of
the giant liner Queen Elizabeth
for ten and one-half hours.
3 The ship was forced to anchor
off Ambrose light at the entrance
to the harbor because of zero visi
bility. When the fog had lifted the
tide had changed, forcing the Cun
ard White Star Line to delay her
docking until 6:30 p.m. (EST). Or
iginally she had been scheduled to
dock at 8 a.m.
The Queen Elizabeth was one
of an estimated 20 ships delayed
by the fog. Ferry traffic and piane
m schedules also were disrupted.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The agri
culture department yesterday es
timated gross farm income this
year will be $34,300,000,000, the
highest of record and 18 per cent
above* 1946.
Net income, after' paying pro
duction expenses, was figured at
$18,000,000,000.
4 LONDON, (^P)—Plans for Prin
cess Elizabeth and Philip Mount
batten to drive through London
streets in a state carriage after
their wedding Nov. 20 have been
called off as a safety precaution,
it was learned yesterday.
The royal family resolved upon
the cancellation, qualified sources
said, after being informed by the
cabinet that Scotland Yard and
the home office felt such a drive
•' involved risks; “doubtless remote,
which should not be taken.”
HAVANA, Cuba, (/P) — Patricia
(Satirai Schmidt’s oft-postponed
murder trial was postponed again
yesterday because of the illness of
an attorney. •
The 22-year-old Toledo, O.,
dancer will resume her testimony
tomorrow, under the questioning
of her defense attorney, Rene Cas- ,
^ tellanos. She is accused of firing
a fatal pistol bullet into the throat j
of her lover, John Lester Mee, of i
Chicago, aboard his yacht in Ha
vana harbor last April 8.
r DEVONPORT, Eng., (/P)—Dev- 1
onport hospital authorities an
nounced today that another of the
quadruplets born last week-end
to Mrs. Nan Robinson, wife of a
navy stoker, had died last night.
One of the quads died Monday
night. Doctors said the two sur
viving infants—both girls — were
doing “satisfactorily.”
CHICAGO, (JP) — Charles A.
Owen, president of the Coal Ex
porters association, today said that
the U. S. exports of solid fuels is
expected to exceed 40,000,000 tons
for 1947.
r In an address prepared for the
annual convention of the National
Coal association, Owen said that
exports for the 12 months ending
Sept. 30 were 36,700,000 gross
Four Lost When
Freighter Auk
Runs Aground
ANCHORAGE, (£»)—Four men
were lost when the 65-ton motor
ship Auk, loaded with school sup
plies and general freight, ran
aground on a sand bar Monday
and broke up at the mouth of the
Ugashik river, on the north shore
of the Alaska peninsula.
The men, all well known in the
Bistol Bay area, were:
Fred Lucas, about-50, captain;
an'd Nefita Hansen, Whitey Der
ringer and Bert Holland, crew
members.
Peter Haoyjifn of Ugashik,
brothei'of one of the victims, mes
saged he found the bodies of Der
ringer and Holland on a beach to
day. Lucas, a veteran skipper, had
sailed on Bristol Bay for 15
years.
The Auk loaded at Naknek nine
days ago with cargo for Pilot
Point and Ugashik, about 50 miles
south of Egegik. The vessel for
merly was owned by the Alaska
Packers association and was
! bought a year ago by Fred Grind,
of Egegik.
Lucas was a former bureau of
| fisheries man in the Bristol bay
area. A daughter believed to be
living in Seattle and his wife and
stepchildren at Ugashik survive.
Derringer was also a former bu- |
reau of fisheries employee.
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Wallgren Issues I
Alaska Day I
Proclamation
OLYMPIA, (/P) — Gov e r n o r
Wallgren yesterday proclaimed
Oct. 18 as Alaska Day in com- j
memoratjon of the 80th anniver- j
sary of the Territory’s purchase
from Russia. i
Since this important purchase,
the years have witnessed a great
development in the Territory.
Wallgren said, and the people of
Alaska will continue to expand its
vast resources.
‘‘The State of Washington, sit- !
uated as it is,” the governor said,
“is particularly interested in the
growth and expansion of our
neighboring Territory, and it is (
most fitting that the citizens of j
our state join with the people of1
Alaska in celebrating this anni-1
versary.
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Giant Jade Nugget
Flown To States
SEATTLE, (#>)—A third of a ton |
of Alaska jade, quarried in a sin-1
gle piece this summer in the Ko
buk valley, 30 miles above the
Arctic Circle in western Alaska,
was flown east to .Chicago last
night by George Van Hagen, Chi
cago writer. The piece, about four
feet long and 18 by 20 inches in
depth and width, was also flown
south from Alaska. Van Hagen
said he had been told it was bet
ter than the usual Alaska jade but
he did not know at the present
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Sharp 'Quake
Shock Centered
Near Fairbanks
An earthquake, so sharp it
knocked the needle from the uni
versity of Washington seismo
graph, rocked a large area of
south central Alaska late Wednes
day, breaking windows and
knocking goods from store
shelves.
No casualties were reported.
Apparently centering in the re
gion of Fairbanks, the quake sent
residents hurrying into the streets.
It was the city’s 16th such tremor
in the last nine days and was de
scribed by residents as the sharp
est in the last 10 years. Vibrations
continued for almost half an hour
after the initial shock.
Seismographs at the university
of Washington and at Mount St.
Michael’s observatory in Spokane
recorded the trembler at 6:15 p.m.
(PST) with the latter placing the
peak at 6:20 p.m. The Dominion
meteorological bureau at Edmon
ton said a “moderate” earthquake
was felt in Tanacross, Alaska, at
6:11 p.m. and a minute later at
Northway, Alaska.
The university of California’s
Ferndale seismograph registered
the quake at 6:17 p.m. with con
tinuing tremors for more than an
hour.
The shock also was felt in An
chorage, where residents describ
ed it as one of the longest in their
memory, and in Galena, near
Fairbanks.
Another strong shock, heaviest
since the first one nine days ago,
was recorded on the university of
Alaska seismograph at 9:35 a.m.
Wednesday. Its origin was placed
at the Salcha river fault, 50 miles
southeast of Fairbanks.
DETROIT, f/P)—President Wal
ter P. Reuther of the CIO united
auto workers today filed a $500,
000 libel suit against “FDR,” a
new weekly publication in the De
troit area.
He named as defendant Cy
Aaron of Detroit, whom he identi
fied as the publisher of the news
paper which Reuther said catered
to “certain minority political
groups.”
TOMORROW,
OCTOBER 18, IS
ALASKA DAY
Tomorrow is Alaska Day, and
the 80th anniversary of the trans
fer of the Territory from the Rus
sian government to the United
States of America. On October 18,
1867, military ceremonies were
held at Sitka, then the capital, and
the Stars and Stripes were raised
for the first time.
Alaska is no longer the mysteri
ous frozen ice-box of 80 years ago,
but one of the most strategic and
important spots in our world. It
appears that Russia thinks so too,
and would be interested in raising
the Hammer and Sickle over the
Territory.
Alaska is having serious grow
ing pains this year with curtailed
income, but it is still only eighty
years young and can overcome the
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Truman’s Falk
Confuses Both
Denis And GOP
WASHINGTON. (£>)—President
Truman appeared today to have
left his own party divided on the
issue of government price controls
while projecting the high cost of
living squarely into the 194k cam
paign.
Politicians generally said Mr.
Truman’s statement that he has
some interesting figures on price
rises indicates he will give the na
tion his version of how and why
living costs have soared when he
feels the proper time has arrived.
But he left both Democrats and
Republicans somewhat confused
when he said at his news confer
! ence yesterday that rationing and
government controls, which he
said includes rent controls, are the
methods employed by a police
state.
The President emphasized that
he was trying to get a free enter
prise nation to accomplish volun
tarily in the conservation of food
what police states do by force.
Senator Pepper tD.-Fla.), who
has said that Mr. Truman undoub
tedly will be re-nominated by the
Democrats, told a reporter he can
not agree with the President that
I these would be anything smacking
' of a police state in the return to
rationing and price controls the
Florida Senator has been urging.
hike’ Doesn’t Want
! Part In Polities
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MANCHESTER, N. H., (/P) —
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
says that he does not want “any
thing to do with politics” and that
he has no personal acquaintance
with persons sponsoring a “Draft
Eisenhower” movement.
The army chief of staff made
the statement at a news confer
ence here yesterday during which
he said no name of the sponsoring
committee “rings a bell with
me.”
“I have a lot of friends in the
country and I don’t want to lose
any of them,” the general replied
when asked if he would be a Pres
idential candidate.
The army leader’s declaration
was made shortly after an official
of the draft Eisenhower for Pres
ident league and the general’s aide
engaged in an exchange of state
ments regarding his position.
Detroit Women
"Save" Bread
DETROIT, I/P)—Detroiters can
use some education on President
Truman’s food-saving plan, mem
bers of the new city conservation
committee decided today after re
ceiving telephone calls from sev
eral housewives who reported
they had saved 20 to 30 slices of
bread.
‘‘Some of it is getting pretty
stale—are you going to collect it
or do you want me to .take it to an
agency somewhere?” one woman
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Govt# Discusses
Housing Program
For Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
'(.-Pi Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, </Pi—A co-or
dinated government program re
signed to insure a basic economy,
permanent population and impreg
nable defenses for Alaska is being
prepared.
William E. Warne. assistant sec
retary of the interior, told a re
porter today discussions have rfbt
gone far enough for announce
ment of any details but it is hoped
a master plan will be ready for
submission to Congress next year
1 with a request for immediate ac
tion.
One item under discussion is a
five-year housing program for the
Territory.
Warne heads an interdepart
mental group which includes rep
resentatives of the army, navy, air
force, agriculture and commerce
departments, -maritime commis
: sion, public works agency, federal
• housing agency, federal security
agency and reconstruction finance
corporation.
Warne recently spent a month
! in the Territory. He said it is
necessary to speed the housing
, program because the situation is
; desperate and worse than any
other place in the nation.
“We hope for immediate action
on the program when it is formu
lated.” Warne said, “and believe it
will have to extend over a five
year period.”
“Just how it will be worked out
we can’t say yet. We are going to
j investigate to find out which areas
will need additional legislative
and budgetary attention and make
our recommendations to Congress.
The whole program will have to
be kept within appropriations.”
“The Territory is just a big em
pty store house, with less than
100,000 population,” he continued.
“We need a permanent and
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Streamliner To
Be Christened
“Au-Ro-Ra”
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Mrs. Molly
Manring of Anchoi’age was an
nounced today as the winner of a
week’s vacation at the Alaska
Railroad’s Mt. McKinley national
park for having chosen a name
for the road’s new streamliner
which makes its inaugural run to
morrow.
Mrs. Manring’s winning name
is “Au-Ro-Ra”—the letters A R R
in capitals standing for Alaska
Railroad.
Announcement of the winner
was made at a joint meeting of
the Lions, Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs, commemorating Alaska
Day.
, Several thousand entries were
received in the name contest from
all parts of the Territory, and
some from the States. Long let
ters of explanation accompanied
many entries, and some contest
ants sent drawings and oil paint
ings.