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NEWS IN BRIEF !
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NEW YORK, (/P) — The New
York Yankees moved within a
step of mathematically clinching
the American league pennant to
day when they beat the St. Louis
Browns 6-4. One more Yankee tri
umph or a Boston defeat will as
sure the New Yorkers of the flag.
Tommy Henrich hit a three-run
homer and Johnny Lindell clouted
a four-bagger to pace the winners’
attack. Johnny Berardino homer
ed for St. Louis.
WAREHAM, MASS., (/Pi—Mrs
John Dos Passos. 50, of Province
town, was killed, and her hus
band, the noted writer and play
wright, was seriously injured Fri
day night when their automobile
hit a parked truck.
Dos Passos, who is 51, was
taken to an infirmary in Boston
where- doctors operated on his
right eye.
HOUSTON, Tex., (/P) — A 58
year-old Houston man filed a pe
tition to divorce his wife - - - for
the fifth time.
He met her through a matri
monial agency in 1943. Since then
they have been married five times
and divorced four times.
The last marriage lasted from
Sept. 2 to Sept. 8.
“Never again,” the man’s law
yer quoted his client as saying.
BOSTON (i^P)—Rain washed out
the Boston Red Sox-Chicago
White Sox double-header today.
while the teams were in a 1-1 tie
after seven and a half innings of
the opener. As a result, the rival
sockers will play twin bills today
. and Tuesday.
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FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Warren
Steele, about 32, drowned Satur
day night in the Chena river when
he backed his loaded oil truck too
close to the stream in attempting
to turn around. His companion I
Bonnie Carr of Fairbanks, kicked I
out a window as the truck sank,
into 15 feet of water and managed!
to reach shore. Steele’s father. Bob
Steele, is a former postmaster of
Eagle, Alaska.
LONDON. I/P> — The Bank of
England has sold gold valued at |
$80,000,000 to the federal reserve
bank, the treasury announced to
day.
KETCHIKAN, (/P)— Longshore
men were scheduled to return to
work today at Ketchikan under
an agreement ending the strike at
all Alaska ports.
MONTE CARLO, (/P) — Nancy
Riach, 20-year-old hope of Great
Britain in women’s swimming at
the coming Olympic games, died
in her sleep last night just four(
days after competing in the All- [
European championships.
She was taken to a hospital Sat
urday where her illness was diag
nosed as infantile paralysis. She
competed last Thursday against!
the advice of physicians.
DUVALL, Wash., (/P)—Emil Ha- j
misch, Duvall, topped 25 other ■
entries yesterday in winning the
Food Prices Are
Almost Doubled
In Ten Years
CHICAGO, UP) — The principal
food items on the housewife’s
shopping list were near the all
time peak reached after the first
world war Saturday and gloomy
predictions came from some quar
ters on the outlook.
Butter, hogs, wheat, corn, oats
and lard dropped on the nation’s
primary markets Friday, but the
trend was checked in most of
these commodities Saturday.
Eggs were $1 a dozen in some
cities, choice steaks were $1 a
pound and higher and butter was
near or above $1 a pound in some
places.
Paul Porter, last federal price
chief under OPA said in an inter
view at Atlanta. Ga., that the na
tion would be lucky if it escaped a
“bust.” He said there wasn’t much
that Congress could do about the
price situation at this “late” date.
In Minneapolis, John H. Mac
Millan, Jr., president of Cargill,
Inc., one of the nation’s largest
grain merchandising firms, said
the over-all production of wheat,
corn, oats, barley, rye and grain
sorghum in the United States was
expected to be 19,000,000 long tons
below the amounts produced last
year—a figure greater than the
country’s total grain exports in
1937.
MacMillan said government of
ficials should review the crop sit
uation with a view of revising its
grain export program.
For the third consecutive Fri
day, the Associated Press index of
35 wholesale commodities advanc
ed Saturday to 194.35 compared
with 191.58 a week before. How
ever, this was slightly lower than
the 194.99 reached Thursday. The
base year 1926 equals 100.
Walter Reuther, president of the
CIO United Auto Workers, told a
mass meeting in Buffalo, N. Y.,
Friday night that he would try
and promote a national buyers’
strike “to see if we can smash the
profiteers.” He called for a “fight”
to restore price control.
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Withdrawn Minis
ter From Spain
LAKE SUCCESS, The Domini
can Republic today announced it
has withdrawn its minister from
Madrid in compliance with a 1946
United Nations assembly recom
mendation slapping at the Franco
regime in Spain.
The announcement on the eve
of the 1947 assembly in New York
left Argentina listed as the only
U. N. member which has not com
plied with the majority recom
mendation of the 55 nations that
all recall their top level diplomats
from Madrid.
sourdough flapjack contest.
A small package of sourdough
flown from Anchorage, Alaska,
Saturday served as a “starter”
for the affair which was presided
over by Fred Bruhn, grand mas
ter of the Cherry Creek Grange.
Pravda Says Cost
Of Living In
Russia Reduced
MOSCOW, </P) — Pravda and
other Russian newspapers Satur
day prominently displayed Tass
News Agency dispatches from
abroad commenting on food and
living costs in the United States.]
One story carried the headline.
“United States cuts grain ex
ports.”
Pravda, organ of the Commun
ist party, reported from New York
on “the rapid growth of the cost
of living” in America. The same
paper contrasted this news with
an editorial on the Russian har
vest which said, “from day to day
; the victory on our fields is grow
j ing.”
Pravda also carried an an
nouncement that the price of
meat, fish and other items had
been reduced in Moscow’s cooper
ative stores.
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MAYOR DUNBAR
ASKS COOPERATION
IN CHEST X-RAY
| One of the functions of your
j city government is to make Nome
| as attractive as possible with a
I view of encouraging new business
i concerns to establish themselves
| here and to keep our present en
| terprises satisfied.
A healthy community is our
major objective if we are to be
successful in our efforts and we
must take steps to prevent a dis
ease such as tuberculosis from en
dangering the health of our popu
lation. This is a liability which
Nome seriously intends to curb.
Tuberculosis is no respecter of
race, creed, color or financial or
social status. There is a very def-1
inite danger of infection to our j
residents if active cases are allow-1
ed to go undetected. Eighty per i
cent of those having tuberculosis
in the early stages are not con-;
scious of being ill and consequent- '
ly see no reason to consult a phy-1
sician until the disease has consid
erably advanced. The only certain
way such cases can be discovered
is by means of an x-ray of the
lungs.
Facilities are now available
whereby all residents of a com
munity may be x-rayed rapidly
and with a minimum of effort.
Such a program will be offered
here beginning on or about Sep
tember 22nd. It is being sponsored
by the Nome Health Council and
the Territorial Department of
Health. Everyone is eligible and
urged to receive a free chest
x-ray.
I earnestly request that every
citizen respond most wholeheart
edly to this program, first by hav-j
ing an x-ray and then by support- j
ing the program among your
friends and acquaintances. By so
doing, you will not only protect!
yourself and your family, but will |
make Nome a healthier place in;
which to live.
LUTHER DUNBAR, j
Mayor!
Washington Man
Shoots. Kills His
Three Children
OMAK, Wash. </P>—Police chief
Tob Johnson said a 31-year-old
father, William Cary, was being
held on an open charge in tiio
Okanogan county jail today after
the man’s three small children
were shot and clubbed to death as
they lay in their beds early yes
terday morning.
Johnson said Cary was captured
by police officers after a terrific
struggle in a blood-spattered farm
house north of here.
Four-year-old Isolo Ward. a
playmate of the Cary children,
was shot in the leg and /beaten
with a rifle barrel as she pleaded
for mercy, Johnson said he was
(told by Cary’s grief stricken wife
and the child.
Johnson quoted the little girl as
saying she begged “please don't
J shoot me in the head” and that
her assailant replied “All right 1 )1
shoot you in the leg.” The gird is
recovering in a local hospital.
The dead are John Cary, 9,
Billy Cary, 6, and Bobby Jo Ca~y,
i 4.
i Johnson said Mrs. Cary told
him she was awakened about 2
a.m., by the pressure of a rifle
j barrel and saw her husband lying
on top of a gun.
“I tried to move it but that
; awakened him and he started to
beat me. I fled for help,” Johnson
quoted Mrs. Cary as saying. “As
I ran I heard gun fire and when I
| returned with a neighbor, Lee
Covery, Billy was dead and the
other children were being beaten
with the rifle.”
Johnson said Cary had quit his,
job at a lumber mill ten days ago
and planned to enter a hospital for
treatment of trouble arising from
an old head injury.
Alaska Sure To
Get Statehood
PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. i/P»—
Alaska will get statehood “with
out too much delay," Senator
Hugh Butler of Nebraska predict
ed in an interview here Saturday.
The Senator stopped off here
enroute to the United States after
a trip to the northern territory.
He is chairman of the U. S. Senate
committee on public lands.
“Statehood will come for Alas
ka in certainly less than 10 years
—possibly from three to eight
years,” Senator Butler predicted.
“It might have come sooner if
the Territory had already worked
out a general tax base like the
other states have.
“Alaska should see that a gen
eral tax bill gets through at the
next session of the legislature—a
tax bill that includes real and per
sonal property taxes. Alaska has
got to show that it can support the
more expensive form of sate gov
ernment.”
The Senator expressed the be
lief the development of Alaska
and the northwest territories of
Canada, together with northern
British Columbia and the port of
Prince Rupert, could well go hand
in hand.
Taft And Dewey
Feel Nation's Pulse
For Possibilities
• By The Associated Press*
Two potential candidates for
the 1948 Republican Presidential
nomination mov’ed into new terri
tory today to sound out their
chances.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York invaded New England for
the first time since his 1944 cam
paign.
And, following Dewey’s not-yet
cold footsteps in the west, Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio headed for
Los Angeles and two important
policy speeches in his tour to
“help me make up my mind”
whether to seek the nomination.
Officially, Dewey went to
Springfield, Mass., to attend the
Eastern States exposition. Unoffi
cially, the trip threw him in con
tact with GOP governors or their
close aides from eight eastern sea
board states.
Elsewhere there were remind
ers that other Republicans regard
the race as still wide open. These
included:
1. A declaration by Senator Cap
per of Kansas that “all over the
United States there are good
Americans who look forward to
the possibility of helping elect”
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as
President on a Republican ticket.
2. Predictions by two other GOP
Senators, Ball of Minnesota and
McCarthy of Wisconsin, that for
mer Gov. Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota, the only avowed can
didate, will be a serious contender
at the convention and that no can
didate will win the nomination on
the first ballot.
Informal Attire At
Royal Wedding
LONDON, I/P)—Britain’s lords
may wear street clothes to Prin
cess Elizabeth’s wedding without
raising an eyebrow.
The Earl of Clarendon, Lord
Chamberlain, who rules on such
matters with the advice of King
George, announced today:
“The dress for those attending
the ceremony in Westminster Ab
bey will be: ladies—morning dress
with hats; gentlemen — morning
dress, lounge suits or service
dress.”
Canada Removes
Priee Controls
OTTAWA, UP) — Despite com
plaints of labor and housewives
against rising prices, Canada re
moved wartime price controls to
day from everything except sugar,
meat, wheat, fats, dried fruit, iron,
steel and tin.
Rent controls were retained, the
wartime prices and trade board
said, but such commodities as
flour, bread, canned goods, tex
tiles, clothing, lumber, building
products, agricultural implements
and wood pulp were freed of con
trol at midnight Sunday.