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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. XLIX. No. 122 NOME, ALASKA, Friday, October 10, 1947 PER COPY — 15c~
NEWS IN BRIEF j
SEATTLE, (A*)—Application has
been received from the Territory
of Alaska Board of Road Commis
sioners for approvel of plans for
construction of a fixed highway
bridge across the entrance to Kla
wak Lagoon, Klawak Inlet, the
Seattle District Engineer’s office
reported today.
WASHINGTON, (A3)—Charles R.
Denny, 34-year-old chairman of
the Federal Communications Com
mission, has resigned effective
October 31.
The White House made public
late yesterday Denny’s letter of
resignation saying that “from a
financial standpoint it is'not pos
sible for me to remain longer in
the government service.’’ The
commissioners make $10,000 a
year.
Denny declined to comment on
a report that he will become as
sociated with a radio chain.
He joined the FCC in 1942 as
general counsel, took over as act
ing chairman in February of 1946,
and has been chairman since last
December 3.
JUNEAU, Alaska, (/P)—Frank
A. Metcalf, Juneau engineer, was
sworn into office yesterday as
Territorial Highway Engineer.
The oath was administered by
Atty. Gen. Ralph Rivers. Met
calf fills the vacancy created by
the death of W. Leonard Smith.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Heavy market
demands for Alaska pink salmon
is created by the fact this year’s
pack totaled only 1,712,870 cases,
the smallest in 20 years, Seattle’s
brokers reported today.
The firm of McGovern and Mc
Govern, in a trade bulletin, said
p “an insatiable demand” continues
for pink salmon, despite some re
lief from the Puget Sound pack
of 475,239 cases.
Meanwhile, the price for fresh
Cohoe salmon advanced to 34 1/2
cents a pound to fishermen in
Seattle, the bulletin said.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—There is
n’t going to be any Santa Claus
this year, on postage stamps, that
is. .
The postoffice department said
so today, settling for 1947 at least
the long - standing controversy
^over whether a likeness of St.
Nick should ride with the yule
tide mail.
Robert E. Fellers, superintend
ent of the stamp division, told a
reporter the same old objections
still hold good: “the religious
angle,” opposition from the Tub
erculosis Associations and the ac
counting problem.
CHICAGO, 111., (£>)—'Ten per
sons, including six children and
four women, were killed and more
than a dozen others were injured
early today in a fire which swept
through a crowded four-story ap
, artment building on the city’s
near northwest side.
All of the dead and injured in
the blaze,which police *and fire
officials said appeared to have
been of incendiary origin, were
jUtgrpes. Jourteen wfir^ho^oit
Frisco Refuses
Meatless - Eggless ;
Program of Pres.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., i‘/P)—
Spokesmen for at least three hun
dred of San Francisco’s larger
eating places served notice today
they do not intend to observe the
"meatless Tuesday” and “eggless
Thursday” request.
Members of the Golden Gate
Restaurant Association declaimed ni
a resolution adopted last night
that their patrons will get eggs,
i
poultry and meat whenever ord
ered. They called the meatless
and eggless days dictatorial and
inefficient as food savers.
The restaurateurs said they
would adhere to a conservative
program based on a “waste not”
appeal to diners and a trimming
of the number of items offered
daily plus elimination of “frills.”
, The city’s major hotels an
nounced they would abide by the
voluntary meatless-eggless prog
ram.
Yugoslavs Expelled
From Chile, For
Communist Plans
—
j SANTIAGO, Chile, l^i-Two
, Yugoslav diplomats, accused by
the Chilean government of fo
menting, on orders from home a
I communist campaign against the
I United States and hemisphere sol
i idarity, were expelled from Chile
last night.
An official statement said the
i two men, Andre J. Cunja, Yugo
' slav charge d’affairs, and Dalibor
! Jakasa, secretary of the Yugo
j slav legislation in Buenos Aires,
1 a visitor in Santiago, were acting'
for the new communist interna
i tional headquarters in Belgrade.
! _
BUENOS AIRES, </P)—The two
Yugoslavs, due in Buenos Aires
j today after being expelled from
; Chile on charges of “communist!
agitation” will be asked to leave'
Argentina if they fail to quit the1
country voluntarily, a high oficial
announced.
“It should not be forgotten that
they are accused of a crime against
another American state,” the spok
esman said.
i
Dutch Forces
Counter Attack
In Central Java
BATAVIA, Java, (/P)—A Neth
erlands army communique an
nounced today that Dutch forces
had jumped off at six points
yesterday in “clearing sweeps”
directed against Indonesian for
ces operating behind their lines
in central and west Java.
A republican spokesman in Jog
jakarta, the* Indonesian capital,
asserted that the Dutch employed
tanks and motorized infantry in
their thrusts. /
The Dutch said their casualties
vesterdav totaled five killed. 10
U.S. Should Make
Alaska A Real
Fortress Defense
WASHINGTON, (/Pt—Represen
tative Dawson <R-Utah> said today
it is “absolutely imperative" that
the United States spend more mon
ey for defenses in Alaske and
make it “a real fortress.”.
“If Russia should attack us it
would be through Alaska,” Daw
son told a reporter. “I think we
should spend less money in help
ing Europe and more in building
impregnable defenses in the Ter
ritory.”
Dawson, just back from hear
1 ings in Alaska on granting state
hood to the Territory, told a re
porter he does not believe the area
is ready to become a state from
a financial standpoint.
He added, however, he was
more in favor of statehood than
before he visited the Territory
with a House public lands sub
committee.
“I haven’t definitely made up
my mind but Alaska should ev
’ entually be given statehood,” Daw
I son said.
I “The majority of the people
want it and when we bring up
1 the question of their financial ab
ility to support statehood they
ask why we don’t let them worry
j about that.
“And, they may be right.”
He said other members of the
committee were more in favor of
immediate statehood.
“I might vote for it now,” Daw
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Krug is Charged
Governing For
Governing’s sake
_
CORDOVA, Alaska, (^—Fish
eries are “virtually the entire ec
onomy of this and other Alaska
area,” the ClO-Cordova district j
fisheries union said yesterday in
protesting the interior department
management of Alaska fisheries
at a fisheries regulation hearing.
In a formal statement, the union,
with a membership of 1,080, said
that better enforcement against
fisheries violations would build
up the runs. Seton H. Thomp
son, chief of the Alaska division
of the fish and wildlife service,
presided.
The statement said that secre
tary Krug, in supporting the sen
ate bill 1446 prepared by his de
partment to set up a leasing sys
tem for fish traps, was “govern
ing only for governing sake.”
The secretary’s letter with which
he transmitted the bill to the sen
ate, the union charged, “disowns
any interest in the social and ec
onomic aspects” of the fisheries
industry and indicates that “con
servation is his only concern.”
“Why have hearings at all, un
less there is a material and prac
tical application of regulations to
benefit the people of the Terri
tory?” The statement asked. It
pointed out that the last territor
ial legislature memorialized con
gress to hold up the bill pending
FBI Probe Thefts
From Los Alamos i
Atomic Project ,
—
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M. (/Pi
Federal agents who have been
probing thefts of confidential mat
ter from the Los Alamos atomic
project nabbed two more suspects
yesterday, and at the same time
revealed the investigation also has
covered a highly secret weapons
project outside Albuquerque.
Complaints filed immediately
after the simultaneous arrests 85
miles apart in New Mexico, accus
ed George Wellington Thompson,
38, formerly of Greenwood, Miss.,
of taking classified photographs
from both the army’s Sandia base
here and the atom laboratory: and
I Ernest Lawrence Paporello, 29,
formerly of Union City, N. J., of
! stealing half a dozen Los Alamos
pictures.
The two were identified by the
FBI as former army photograph
ers at Los Alamos, where the first
*
atom bomb was assembled. Af
ter his discharge Thompson was
a civil service employee at Sandia.
Arraigned in Santa Fe, Thomp....
son pleaded guilty to the Los Al
amos thefts but denied taking any
; photos from the base here.
Paporello’s hearing in Albu
querque was continued until next
; Monday, allowing him time to en
gage counsel.
Bonds of both were fixed at
| $10,000. Thompson was held in
I the Santa Fe city jail, where FBI
said a doctor attended him for
! nervous indigestion shortly after
! his arrest. Paporello was lodged
i
i in the county jail here. His at
torney said he expected to arrange
bond today.
Typhoon 170 MPH
j Sweeps Iwo Jimu
__
IWO JIMA, (i^P)—Wind - weary
American servicemen and their de
pendents emerged from storm
shelters early this morning after
36 hours concealment from a vis
cious typhoon which howled a
cross this battlefield island at
speeds reaching 170 miles an hour.
Correspondents flying here from
Japan found no casualties or in
juries among the servicemen and
24 dependent families.
But damage to installations was
extensive. The winds smashed
like giant hands on scores of build
ings, ripped out the jisland’s inner
communications system and snat
ched the flagpole off Mt. Suri
bachi’s top, linked in history with
the U.S. Marines who captured
this one-time Japanese bastion.
.Maj. Svend W. Nielson, Knox
ville, Tenn., the island’s engineer
officer, said ruefully that the
storm’s havoc “sets us back at
least six months,” but the island
commander, Col. Raleigs Macklin
of Ottowa, Kansas was thankful
that the loss was not greater.
The typhoon struck hardest at
buildings on which maintenance
had been allowed to lag. Nearly
half of Iwo Jima’s buildings are
quonset huts, and the wind rip
ped through some of them like a
giant can opener while stomping
Navy Ram-Jet Goes
Over 1400 M.P.H.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (^—Unit
ed States Navy ram-jet engine
tests have recorded speeds in ex
cess of 1.400 miles an hour, of
ficials who could not be named
acknowledged today in comment
ing on British estimates that one
of their engines reached 900 miles
an hour in a drop test.
If the British plane represents
their highest achievement to date
they are behind the Navy and
the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, which now has
under way an extensive drop test
1 program with the ram-jet engines,
. with speeds expected to reach up
j to 2,000 miles an hour.
In its only test thus far, using
; the least powerful of the several
, sizes of ram-jet engines built or
designed for the purpose, the test
hit a measured speed of nearly
1 one and a half times the speed of
i sound, or just over 1,000 miles an
hour.
Another test with a somewhat
more powerful modification of the
1 same engine is scheduled shortly
■ at its testing station*north of the
Virginia Capes, with an expected
, speed of 1,200 miles an hour.
More powerful engines of the
same overall diemeter are being
; readied for subsequent tests, with
expected speeds of 1,800 to 2.000
; miles an hour.
This particular type engine is
taken to altitudes of around six
' miles under the belly of t B-29
' and dropped into the Atlantic
| Ocean.
i
The Navy’s tests, which have
been under way for at least two
I years, are more spectacular in that
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Bodies of Men Who
i Fallen in War II,
Come Home Today
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,</P)—
A grey transport slips through the
mists of the Golden Gate today
with the bodies of men who died
in World War II, the first to fall
and the first to come home.
A nation’s grateful tribute a
waited the first funeral ship re
turning the war dead, most of them
victims of Japan’s attack on Pearl
Harbor which sowed American
cemeteries all over the world.
In Washington, the capitol flag
heretofore extended only on the
death of a president or a member
of congress.
The transport, Honda Knot, in
bound from Honolulu, carried 3,
028 bodies. In addition to the
Pearl Harbor dead, the ship also
bore some who died in later bat
tles in China, India and Burma.
In all, nearly 300,000 Americans
i lost their lives in World War II.
Actually the conflict cost more,
the figure does not include the
missing or those who died as pris
oners. The Honda Knot and a
transport from Europe, due in
New York October 25, are the
first of many, for officials say
three-fourths of all Americans who
died abroad probably will be re