VOL. L. No. 104 _NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948_PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (j*P) —Alaska-bound
on his first medical appointment,
Dr. Vernon A. Cates of Seattle
sailed on the steamer Baranof
Saturday with his bride, the for
mer Grace Moore of Chehalis,
Wash.
Dr. Cates and Miss Moore,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Moore, were married here Friday
night. He will join the staff of
the Doctor’s Clinic at Anchorage.
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SEATTL7, (iP)—Adm. Joseph E.
Stika, commandant of the 13th
coast guard district, is off on a
visit to Alaska coast guard bases.
The admiral will take part in cer
emonies at Sitka honoring war
dead. He also plans to visit Skag
way for the 50th anniversary cele
bration of gold rush days.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Tne Alaska
passenger ship Baranof left on
schedule last night after members
of the marine cooks and stewards
union accepted alterations in
crews’ quarters aboard the vessel.
Dissatisfaction over stewards’
a c commodations threatened to
hold up sailing of the Baranof,
which was due to leave at 9 p.m.
Charles Nichols, union dis
patcher, said the stewards signed
on the Baranof during the day
and were aboard in time for sail
ing.
A full list of 160 passengers was
booked for the voyage. The ship
* was scheduled to sail for Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and
Seward.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Amble In did
so in the $20,000 Longacres mile
yesterday. He beat Minstrel Boy
by a neck to repeat his 1946 tri
^ umph in the big money feature.
The time was 1:35 3/5.
Hank H. the 1947 winner, was
tjiird, giving the entry trained by
Allen Drumheller of Walla Walla,
a clean sweep. The entry paid
$2.90, $2.40 and $2.50.
SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—“Uncle
Charlie” Graham, president of the
San Francisco Seals baseball team
and affectionately regarded by
many as the Connie Mack of the
minor leagues, died early yester
day of pneumonia.
Charles H. Graham came up
wfrom behind the plate to the front
office in a career that closely
matched Connie Mack’s. He was
a catcher, manager, owner, and
club president in his half century
in baseball.
His Seals aje in first place in
the Pacific Coast league.
SEATTLE, {/P)—A sportsman
p- was accidentally shot to death
Friday afternoon while hunting
deer north of Ketchikan, the coast
guard reported.
Reports to the Seattle district
coast guard headquarters from its
Ketchikan base identified the vic
tim only as Wm. Smith.
* The coast guard said a hunting
companion mistook Smith for a
deer.
A coast guard plane was to fly
the body to Ketchikan. Smith’s
hunting companion, the coast
guard said, was directed to report
to the U. S. marshal’s office at
Ketchikan.
Draft Registration
Starts Today
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Young
American men, between the ages
of 18 and 25, today are preparing
to start registering in a new se
lective service program designed
“to avoid a war.”
The “avoid a war” description
was given Friday night by the se
lective service director, Maj.
Lewis B. Hershey in a nationwide
broadcast.
The draft, he said, is for the j
purpose of protecting the United
tates against “immediate and po
! tential enemies.”
“I do not use the phrase ‘pro- j
tect ourselves’ loosely,” he de
clared.
“No nation as rich as we are,
and subject to as many envious
eyes, can hope to continue in ex
istence unless it is ready and able
to defend itself.”
Registration for all men 18 to
25 begins today and continues
through Sept. 18. Men will sign
up by age groups with the 25
year-olds first.
. There are about 4,000 draft
boards in the country and each
has organized about five centers
for registration, Hershey said.
Actual registration should take
little time, Hershey said. Small
cards carrying 16 questions are to
I be filled out. Within a few days
registrants will receive another
; questionnaire which must be fill
| ed out and returned to draft
boards within ten days.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press*
Saturday, August 28, 1948
French Premier Andre Marie’s
month-old cabinet resigned after
[Struggling unsuccessfully for two
days to draft wage and price re
forms.
Finance Minister Paul Revnaud
had proposed a 10 per cent rise in
wages, still controlled by the gov
ernment, but the socialists would
not agree, holding out for a 15 to
16 per cent increase.
France’s political instability was j
eyed for# any effect on current j
four-power discussions in Mos
cow over the German situation.
(BERLIN)—The commandant of
the Soviet sector of Berlin, Maj. |
Gen. Alexander Kotikov, evaded 1
pleas by city council leaders that
he protect their meetings at the |
City Hall, which is in the Soviet
sector, from further invasions by
communist demonstrators. The
commandant passed the buck to
the Russian sector police. All was
quiet at the Berlin city hall after
tumultuous demonstrations Thur
sday and Friday by the commun
ists against the city regime, pre
dominantly antj-communist.
(MOCOW)—Western envoys in
Moscow conferred again Saturday.
An authoritative source said there
there was little chance a four
power communique would be is
sued before Monday.
(BELGRADE)—Yugoslavia, fir
ing her second shot at a commun
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Bricker Predicts
Big GOP Victory
In Ohio
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator
Bricker (R-Ohio) predicted Satur
day that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
will win the Presidency in the
November election “by a tremen
dous majority.”
His forecast with a more cau
tious one by Gov. Roy Turner of
Oklahoma that President Truman
will win in a campaign in \dfciich
Turner said “There is work to be
done.”
Bricker, who was Dewey’s run
ning mate in 1944 when the late
President Roosevelt again was re
elected, told a reporter on a brief
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National Guard
And Native Guard
To Be Established
ANCHORAGE, (/P> — The An
chorage Times said Saturday that
the army and the Territorial gov
ernment are making plans for es
tablishment of native scout units
in Alaska as well as battalion of
the national guard.
The Alaska Scouts, the Times
said, will be made up largely of
Eskimos in the more remote sec
tions of Alaska. Their training,
the newspaper added, will be sim
ilar to that for guard units but
will have unique features to adapt
the program to the native cus
toms.
Guns, uniforms and other
equipment will be made available
to both native and white compan
ies, the account said.
Under the reported plans the
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Charles E. Hughes,
86, Dies Of
Heart Failure
i
OSTERVILLE, Mass., UP) —'
Charles Evans Hughes, retired
Chief Justice of the United tates
who narrowly missed becoming
President in 1916, died Friday
night.
Hughes, secretary of state in the
Harding and Coolidge cabinets
and twice Governor of New York,
succumbed Friday night only a
few hours after he was reported
in critical condition from a heart
ailment.
The 66-year-old former chief
justice—the only American ever
to be appointed twice to the U. S.
Supreme Court—died at the Wi*
anno Club, where he had come
on Aug. 5 to convalesce for sev
eral months.
The former jurist’s son, Charles
Evans Hughes, Jr., a New York
attorney, said death was caused
by congestive heart failure and
uremic poisoning.
With the former jurist and
statesman at the time of his death
besides his son, were two daugh
ters, Mrs. William T. Gossett of
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Mrs. i
C. A. Waddell of Riverdale, N. Y.
Shipping Strike
Negotiations At
Virtual Stalemate
SAN FRANCISCO i/P)—Pacific
Coast maritime contract negotia
tions wrangled on today in an at
mosphere of more than usual an
tagonism.
The waterfront picture became
much more difficult late yester
day when longshore union spokes
men termed the latest employer
proposals “completely unaccept
able.”
They reaffirmed that their
coastwise strike called for next
Thursday, when an 80-day gov
ernment injunction expires, would
come off on schedule.
But Robert Mayer, spokesman
for the employers, still main
tained the outlook was “optimis
tic.”
Henry Bridges’ CIO longshore
union, through spokesman Morris
Watson, said the employers had
not offered to continue the pres
ent form of hiring hall—key issue
in the talks—and union security.
The employers emphatically
denied this. Frank Foisie, presi
dent of the employer group, said
the union statement was “pure
hokum, in'ended only for confu
sion.”
“On the hiring hall, we made
the identical concession that was
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POLICE CHIEF GRAY
UNDER ARREST FOR
TAKING BRIBES
Clyde Gray, Nome's Chief of
Police, was arrested last week on
charges of accepting and giving
bribes on complaint filed by Dis
trict Attorney Frank C. Bingham.
Gray waived hearing for ex
amination and was bound over to
the Grand Jury on $5000 bond.
The City Council has appointed
Chief of the F’ire Department W.
Fire Chief W. W. Laws.
Acting Police Chief
W. Laws, to temporary police
duty until a new Police Chief can
be found.
Laws, who was also a Second
Division Representative in the
last legislature, is seeking re
election in the coming general
election October 12.
Ex-Chief Gray was released
from custody on bond.
Thirty-Six Die
As Lightning
Strikes Airplane
WINONA, Minn. OP)—Thirty
six persons died as a storm raked
a Northwest Airlines plane atop a
wooded Mississippi River bluff
near here yesterday.
A human chain wound its way
down the steep and rocky side of
a 150 foot ravine today to bring
out the mangled bodies of 26 per
sons trapped in the wrecked fuse
lage. The bodies of 10 others were
carried out last night.
None of the victims were from
the Pacific Northwest.
The crash occurred between
Winona and Fountain City, Wise.,
on the Wisconsin side of the river
during the height of a severe elec
trical and rain storm.
The plane was one of the air
lines newer Martin 2-0-2 ships
and was bound for Minneapolis
from Chicago with 33 passengers
and three crew members.
It left Chicago at 3:50 p.m. and
although due in Minneapolis at
5:30 p.m. apparently was behind
schedule because of the storm.
NWA’s Twin Cities headquar
ters said its last message from the
plane was received at about 5 p.
m. and read, “Am descending
through heavy overcast.” The
plane then was at 7,000 feet.
A crash witness told the cor
oner he saw the plane fall into the
ravine on Sutters Ridge after
lightning shattered a wing.
Howard Rackow, a farmer liv
I ing on Perry Island in the Missis
sippi river, told the coroner he
was getting some stock out of the
^ storm when the plane passed over.
“I was in the yard with my
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Soviet Korea
“Will Destroy”
U. S. Korea
SEOUL. i/P)—The Russian pup
pet regime in North Korea, in a
broadcast intercepted by the U. S.
army and made public today,
threatened “to destroy” the elect
ed government in American-oc
cupied South Korea.
The broadcast from Pyongyang,
headquarters of the Soviet occu
pation zone, was the first picked
up since an election in North Ko
rea Aug. 25 for a supreme peoples
council.
It heaped abuse on the Korean
republic in South Korea, whith
was an outgrowth of United Na
tions-observed elections in the U.
S. occupation zone May 10, and
then said without elaboration:
“We have elected our represen
tatives to the supreme peoples’
council to destroy these treacher
ous people in South Korea. Each
of our election cards will turn in
to bullets to destroy the puppet
government of South Korea when
the central government of Korea
is established.”
Earlier, the U. S. army an
nounced that a survey showed 24
political slayings in South Korea
during August.