VOL. U. No. 55._NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1949_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (/P)—Rep. Sims
(D.-S. C.f said Saturday there’s an
“excellent chance” that within a
month the House will pass a new
version of the compromise Demo
cratic labor bill it defeated this j
week.
Sims, who introduced the orig
inal compromise, said the new bill
may provide for both plant seizure (
and injunctions in “national emer- j
gency” disputes. The defeated
Sims bill provided for injunctions i
only.
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NEW YORK, (/P)—A chastened!
Rocky Graziano is back in the
good graces of the New York State
athletic commission. j
The former middleweight cham
pion, who had his New York li- j
^ cense revoked in Feb. 1947, for
failure to report an alleged bribe
offer, was unexpectedly reinstated
by the commission Friday.
WASHINGTON, (TP)—President
Truman Saturday proclaimed May
23 as National Maritime Day.
WASHINGTON, (TP)—President
Truman Saturday signed a bill
designating Gen. Henry H. Ar
nold, retired, as a five star general
of the air force.
SEATTLE, (/P> — The Seattle
purse seiner, Victory Maid, was
aground today in Geese Pass,
Alaska, with eight‘men aboard,'
the coast guard reported.
Geese Pass is between Kodiak j
and Trinity Islands.
The coast guard said the vessel
was listed as owned by Oscar
^ Holsbo of Seattle.
Several coast guard vessels werej
in the vicinity and first reports
from the grounded ves.-el did not
indicate it was in immediate dan-;
geri
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SEATTLE, i/P)—Chris Lample, |
who will direct construction and
administration of the CAA com-j
mercial airports at Anchorage and
Fairbanks, said today he expected
to fly back to Anchorage in mid-,
week. He came to Seattle last
4 week after conferences in Wash
ington, D. C., on what he said
were routine details about financ
ing and other phases of the aix^
^ ports for which Congress last year
authorized $12,500,000.
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SEATTLE, — Authorization
for a radio-telephone station at
the Nome agency of Alaska Steam
ship company has been granted
by the federal communications
commission.
“This should resujt in a much- [
1 improved Bering Sea operation
I^this year,” Adm. F. A. Zeusler,
executive assistant to the presi
dent, predicted today .
All vessels in Bering Sea serv
ice will be equipped with radio
telephones this season, he said.
SEATTLE, </P) — Two eleven
year-old girls from Alaska, riding
bicycles, were injured in a colll
i sion with an automobile Saturday.
Police said the girls, Doreen
l Duffy and Diane Methvin, failed
Ito halt for a stop sign. They were
MAtreated for abrasions and bruises
lFat a hospital.
. Driver of the automobile was
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West Will Try To
Penetrate Russian
Radio Interference
WASHINGT ON, (JP) — The
United States and Britain fired
their opening guns Saturday in *in
unprecedented peacetime ra d i o
war with Russia.
In an attempt to smash through
i Soviet noise blockade, they
planned to use a battery of 61
transmitters, all blasting at once,
to hurl a barrage of Russian-lang
uage broadcasts in the direction of
Moscow.
Assistant secretary of State
George V. Allen announced the
campaign Friday.
He said the state department’s
Voice of America programs would
carry an announcement charging
Russia with “deliberate interfer
ence” which “follows a pattern
similar to the systematic jamming
of shortwave broadcasts conducted
by the Nazis during the war.
Allen estimated that the Soviet
radio has been using 60 transmit
ters to block reception of Ameri
can and British shortwave broad
casts in Russia. Up to now, the
Voice has used no more than 10
transmitters to get through to the
Russian people.
The Soviet jamming started in
earnest April 24—just before the
first news of negotiations to end
the Berlin blockade. The state de
partment charged that the timing
was deliberately designed to keep
the Russian people from hearing
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Flood, Tornadoes
Strike Texas
LUBBOCK, Texas, (/P> — One
woman was dead and scores were
marooned by a flood of Lubbock,
Saturday as rescuers at Sundown,
40 miles to the west, toiled through
soaked wreckage in a grim search
for tornado victims.
The tornado ripped through the
north edge of Sundown Friday
night, killing at least two persons
and injuring at least four others.
But three to five persons were re
ported killed by the roaring twist
er and the hunt for bodies con
tinued.
Another tornado struck near
Morton, Tex., also in the high
plains country, destroying two
homes, farm buildings and equip
ment.
A torrential rain and hailstorm,
measuring more than five inches,
brought Lubbock,, the unprece
dented flood. Water rose . into
homes, rescue operations were be
ing pressed, business was ' para
lyzed.
Barbara Scarbo, 25,
Doreen is the daughter of Clif
ford Duffy of Fairanks. Diane’s
father, Hubert Methvin, lives in
Anchorage. The girls are attend
ing school here.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (/P) — The
Hollywood Turf Club, burned out
af its handsome 56,000,000 plant,
shifted scenes and went ahead
double speed to hold its summer
meeting at nearby good neighbor
Santa Anita Park.
New West German i
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Constitution Has
Been Completed
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BONN, Germany (/P)—The Ger- '
mans at last have the constitution j
for a new West German Republic i
—democratic, unarmed and pledg
ed to peace.
Today it is being rushed to
western zone military governors
for final approval. The 11 West
German States’ legislatures must
ratify it yet, too.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
military governor, said he is try
ing to arrange a quick meeting of ,
! the military governors to approve
' the new constitution.
Despite opposition from State
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l‘Good Boy’Truman
Reaches 65 Years
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WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
I Truman has his own explanation
for feeling so healthy at age 65;
“I’ve had to work so hard all my
I life I’ve never had time to get into
mischief.”
The Presidential quote was
i given to Dr. Edward Hughes Pru
1 den, pastor of the First Baptist
Church. It was Mr. Truman’s re
sponse to Dr. Pruden’s expressed
hope that “I will be as full of vim
and vigor as you are when I reach
my 65th birthday.”
Yesterday was an especially big
day for Mr. Truman. It was Moth
1 er’s Day, his own birthday and the
| fourth anniversary of his formal
! announcement of the end of the
war in Europe.
However, aside from attending
church, Mr. Truman made no par
ticular occasion of the day.
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Fighting Presses
Nearer Shanghai
SHANGHAI, UP) — Fig h t i n g
around Kaiting brought the Chi
nese civil war to an area 17 miles
northwest of the heart of Shang
hai today.
Far to the southwest, commun
i ist armies pressed a twin-pronged
J offensive along an irregular 230
mile front. This operation extend
ed from the seaport of Hangchow
, on the east to Lake Poyang on the
west. At some places the Red
drive had carried 200 miles south
of the Yanktze.
A Shanghai garrison communi
que seemed to indicate the fight
ing closest to Shanghai was on a
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TERRITORIAL TREASURER
OSCAR OLSON RESIGNS
JUNEAU (/P)—Territorial treas
urer Oscar G. Olson tenders his
designation to acting Governor
Williams, effective as of close of
business on last Saturday. Olson
said due to ill health and for per
sonal reasons he found it no longer
possible to carry on his duties.
Williams with attorney general J.
Gerald Williams and auditor
Frank Boyle appointed Henry Ro
den of Juneau, prominent attor
ney, to fill the position of treas
urer.
Plane Wreck
Victims Rescued
After Six Days
(By George Brhnmell)
(Canadian Press Staff Writer*
VANCOUVER, B. C. (Distrib
uted by (AV — Sun-burned and
grimy, weary of chocolate bars
and mosquitos, Bill Grant and
Sheila Cure came home last night
—six days overdue.
Dressed in the same light cloth
ing they wore when their light
Canuck aircraft crashed late Mon
day in a driving snowsotrm atop
8,080-foot Mount Hozomeen, 135
miles east, they told this story:
Grant, 30, a Vancouver pilot,
and the 28-year-old student nurse
left Cardston, B. C., en route to
Vancouver at 8 a.m., Monday.
; “The weather,” said Grant
, “was line.”
i “We hit the first bad weathei
! when we tried to go through the
Coquihala Puss. It was coming
down like curtains.”
They tried the Big Bend high
way route then but had to turn
back. They tried to get to Prince
ton, B. C., “but we were blocked
in solid.”
“We were about at the border
when it really closed in,” Grant
said.
“Then she started to ice up. The
wings and struts were ised and the
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Detroit Mayor Asks
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Plant and Strikers
'To Settle Strike
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DETROIT, OP) — Acting Detroit
‘Mayor George Fdwards made per
j sonal appeals to Henry Ford II
, and Walter Reuther today to try
to settle the five-day strike of 65,
I 000 Ford workers.
Edwards, a former organizer
! for the CIO UAW, proposed three
1 alternatives to the Ford Motor Co.
j president and Reuther, president
| of the UAW:
Resumption of direct negotia
tions, broken off a few minutes af
ter the walkout started last Thurs
day noon.
Mediation of the “speed up” dis
i pute by Detroit’s labor-mannge
j ment-citizens committee. 'Both
j Foi d and Reuther helped set up
this group*.
Mediation by Edwards himself.
The acting mayor, serving in
> the absence of Mayor Eugene I.
| Van Antwerp, previously had sug
i gested use of the labor-manage
; ment-citizens committee. This
group was founded several years
ago but has never settled a major
' strike.
That offer, along with a media
tion proposal by Mayor Orville L.
i Hubbard of Dearborn, was reject
ed Sunday as 5,000 Ford strikers
marched through Dearborn, home
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Miss Jane Sniffen Elected
“Miss Nome Of 1949"*
Lucky Winning Numbers
Junior Contest—No. 219
Senior Contest—No. 262
The Arctic Club Carnival and
Queen Contest, concluded last
Saturday night in the high school
gymnasium, was a brilliant suc
cess according to Queen Contest
Chairman Ted Duffield.
The crowning of Miss Jane
Sniffen as Miss Nome 1949 and
the announcement of the winning
tickets in the contest was a fitting
climax to a most pleasant and en
joyable evening.
At the crowning celebration ihe
two Queens of 1948, Miss Nome
1948, Vera Nelson; and Junior
Queen Lurisse Lowe, were seated
on their thrones. With the an
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"QUEEN LINDA"
: nouncement of the new Junior
Queen Linda Gifford. Junior
Queen Lurisse presented her
, crown to her successor Junior
Queen Linda, amid rising cheers
from the crowded gymnasium.
Queen Linda was presented with
an order drawn on any store in
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"QUEEN JANE"
Nome for a parka valued at $50..
Queen Vera stepped down from
her throne and presented her
crown to the newly elected Queen
Jane, who stepped up to the
throne (which was placed on a
huge polar bear rug, loaned for
the occasion by Wm. Munz* and
sea ted herself, surveying her
loyal subjects. She was presented
with a check for $150 and a gold
nedal.
Following the crowning cere
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