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VOL. L1I. No. 53 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1950 Per Copy—IHc
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE, OP)—The Coastwise
Shipping Line announced yester
day it has chartered three Liberty
ships for Alaska service. The line
now operates the John Cropper in
the Alaska trade.
The vessels are the North Bea
con, Seafair and Pacificis. Taken
on a bareboat charter, they will
be equipped with limited refriger
ation facilities.
The North Beacon will sail
from Long Beach, Calif., May 13,
San Francisco. May 16, Portland
May 19 and Seattle May 25. The
Seafair is scheduled for June 10
from San Francisco, June 15 from
Portland and June 20 from Seat
tle.
The ships were chartered from
New York interests.
POCATELLO, Idaho, (/P) — A ;
Marysville, Calif., family of five,
injured four weeks ago in an auto
accident near Demonton. Canada,
* was brought to Pocatello in a C-54
army plane Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Boster
and their three children were
flown to the gate city to recuper
ate from injuries suffered in a
car-truck collision near Fort Nel
son in northern British Columbia.
They will stay with relatives
here.
Only one member of the family, |
Joan Boster, 12, still requires hos
pitalization. She is under treat
ment for a broken leg and arm. I
The Bosters were enroute from
Marysville to Alaska when the ,
accident occurred.
PORTLAND m — Wholesale j
salmon prices skidded as much as
15 cents a pound yesterday as the |
first Columbia River catches of
the new season went on sale.
Dealers priced Chinooks at 45
to 46 cents a pound. Fishermen
were receiving 20cents a pound
from canners and 25 cents on the j
fresh market.
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PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. (/P)— I
The American crabbing vessel
Jackie Joe was seized Monday by
the fisheries patrol cruiser Kiti
maat and brought to Prince Ru
pert. The Jackie Joe is Ketchikan
owned.
Other than revealing that the
vessel was boarded in waters off
the Queen Charlotte Islands, fish
eries department officials would
make no comment on the incident.
VALDEZ. (/P)—Trucking opera
tions over the Richardson High
way have brought a big business
boost to this coastal terminal.
Banker J. W. Gilson has re
ported the volume of business in
Valdez in 1949 was double the
1947 total. He attributes it to in
crased trucking during the past
two winters.
He predicts the total for the
first six months of 1950 will be 50
per cent above the same period
of 1949.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (/P) — Click
ing along at an average speed of
9V4 minutes to the mile, 35-year
old Mainhardt Bredt of Olympia
outwalked 67 other male contest
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Late Returns
Change Line-lJps
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<By The Associated Press)
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Late returns from scattered pre- |
cincts have given Rep. Warren
Taylor of Fairbanks the lead in
the three-man race for two Dem
ocratic nominations for Territori
al Senators in the Fourth Division
With 54 out of 70 precincts re
ported in the Division that sprawls
across the middle of Alaska from
the Canadian border and the Arc- j
tic Ocean to the Bering Sea, the
unofficial tally yesterday was: •
Taylor 1142; Jesse Lander 1092,
Robert Hoopes 1047.
The order is just reversed from
the standing in the early returns,
which were mostly from Fair- j
banks. In the first returns, Hoopes
was running ahead and Taylor
was third. The race has been
watched throughout the Territory
because of Taylor’s prominent
role in the 1949 Legislature. He
was chairman of both the judici
ary and the rules committees in ;
House.
Another change in the Legisla
tive races was reported in the
Second Division (Nome). Rep.
Percy Ipalook went into first
place in the race for the Republi
can nomination for the Division’s
two Senate seats. He went ahead
of Sen. Charles Jones and Sen.
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Dr. Googe Returns
To Alaska Service
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JUNEAU — Dr. James Googe,
U. S. Public Health Service medi
cal officer who recently left his
Alaska post to be transferred to i
service in Germany, will return
instead to Juneau, it was an
nounced last week by Dr. C. E. j
Albrecht, commissioner of health, j
“We are pleased to be able to
announce that Dr. Googe will be I
a member of the Alaska Depart- |
ment of Health staff as of May 1,”
Dr. Albrecht said, “and consider i
it Alaska’s good fortune that the .
plans to transfer Dr. Googe to
Germany weer changed.”
Dr. Googe and Mrs. Googe left !
Juneau in March after spending j
two years in Alaska where Dr. '
Googe served as medical director
for the Alaska Native Service.
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LATE BULLETIN
JUNEAU — Alaska census!
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enumerators have listed over one
hundred thousand persons living
in Alaska today. Preliminary to
tals from enumerators as of Mon
day, May first, listed 24,581 per
sons in the First Judicial Division,
46,583 persons in the Third Judi
cial Division, and 28,200 persons
in the combined Second and !
Fourth Divisions for a total of
99,364 persons as of May 1. Of the
230 enumeration districts in the
Territory 109 are complete. How
ever all listings in incomplete
enumeration districts are includ
ed in above figures. All indica
tions point to a minimum of 135,
000 persons now living in the Ter
ritory, exclusive ot military per
sonnel.
GOP Claim Pepper
Defeat Forecasts
Republican Swing
(By The Associated Press)
Senator Claude Pepper, Florida
New Dealer who went down the
line for nearly all of the Presi
dent’s “fair deal” program, has
lost his bid for another term after
14 years of devotion to causes he
cherished as “liberal.”
Rep. George Smathers, 36-year
old former Marine now in his sec
ond term in the House, defeated
Pepper by a solid margin in yes
terday’s bare-knuckle primary.
Smathers, who has opposed Presi
dent Truman on several issues,
sails himself a “middle-of-the
roacf liberal.”
When 1412 of the State’s 1595
precincts had been heard from,
the unofficial count was 349,211
for Smathers to 283,084 for Pep
per.
Pepper conceded early today
and congratulated his opponent.
Smathers never was headed in the
count. He lost his home county of
Dade (Miami) by 947 votes out of
a total of ’32,665.
Pepper’s term ends next Janu
ary 5. Technically, Smathers was
only nominated, but the Demo
cratic nomination in Florida is
equivalent to election as Demo
crats outnumber Republicans by
hotter than 15 to 1. His Republi
can opponent in November will
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Hot Springs Adv.
Reaches Congres
sional Record
((JP) Special Washington Service)
W A S H I NGTON, (/P> — Rep.
White (D.-Idaho) says withdrawal
of forest lands in Alaska from set
tlement “has greatly retarded the
development of the Territory.”
“Alaska needs transportation,”
White said in the Congressional
Record. “It needs roads and set
tlers. It needs a more liberal pol
icy by the federal government in
assisting the settlers to go upon
and own their lands and homes
and encouragement to use Alas
ka’s natural resources, including
the stands of timber.
“Let us remove the blocks hold
ing Alaska back and let the great
commonwealth roll forward in its
development as the forty-ninth
State in the Union.”
White also inserted in the Rec- |
ord an advertisement in the Fair- ,
banks (Alaska) News-Miner sign- ;
er “Citizens of Hot Spring, Alas
ka,” protesting action of the civil
aeronautics board in ordering
non-scheduled air lines in the
Territory to show cause why they
should not discontinue regular
service.
The advertisement said the
board’s action is “killing off the
bush flying so vital to the econ
omy of the hinterland.”
The message was addressed to
President Truman and asked his
cooperation in getting for Alaska
an air industry free “from the i
paralysis of the CAB.”
Truman "W orst !
[•resident’* Ever To
He At W liite House
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NEW YORK, (/P)—Republican
Harold E. Stassen declared in a
speech last night that President
Truman is “the worst President”
and “the cleverest politician” ever
to occupy the White House.
Mr. Truman’s forthcoming tour
of the West is a political venture ;
“to try and get a puppet Con
gress,” Stassen added.
Calling, the President “a post
graduate of the most effective po- I
, litical school in America — the
Pendergast School of Kansas
i City,” Stassen told a Republican
meeting:
“From that school he knows the
j methods of attacks on opposition,
' of claims for all improvement, of
I dodging blame for things that go
: wrong, and marshaling votes
through organization.
“The tragedy for America is
that the same school which made
Truman such a clever politician
also made him such a bad Prysi
j dent.”
Stassen, President of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, former
Governor of Minnesota and un
successful contender for the
! GOP Presidential nomination in
; 194P., delivered his blast at Mr.
i Truman in a speech before the
women’s Auxiliary of the New
York County (Manhattan) Repub
' lican committee.
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Reds Have Rocket
Installations
Aimed At Alaska
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PHILADELPHIA, OP) — Russia |
has built powerful rocket instal- j
lations in the Arctic and Baltic
areas aimed at Alaska, Norway
and Sweden, a 33-year-old es
capee from a Soviet concentration
camp said yesterday through his
lawyer.
The statement of secret opera
tions at Svirlag, north of Lenin
grad, was made by Victor Mar
tunuk, a Russian naval engineer,
through attorney Ivan M. Czap.
Martunuk now is in Montgom
ery County jail, Morristown, Pa.,
after fleeing 12,000 miles to bring
vital Russian rocket secrets to
America, the lawyer said.
Senator Edward Martin (R.-Pa.)
introduced a bill which has pass
ed the Senate granting Martunuk
“lawful residence” in this coun
try. The escapee is in jail await
ing House action on the bill, his
attorney explained.
Martunuk was an inmate of a
Soviet prison camp at Svirlag
and, while there, he said he came
in contact with information about
rocket installations pointed at
Alaska from the Arctic Ocean is
land of Novaya Zamyla.
Martunuk said he was sentenc
ed to a 25-year term because he
served as a volunteer with a Ger
man anti-communist army of Rus
sian prisoners.
Czap said Martunuk was ar
rested as a stowaway aboard the
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News of the \\ oriel
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Tuesday, May 2. 1950
(By The Associated Press)
General Douglas MacArthur
warned today against “the inter
national perfidity” of communism
and for the second time in 10
months suggested the possibility
of outlawing Japan’s communist
party.
In a statement marking the
third anniversary of Japan’s “no
war” constitution, MacArthur said
there was no danger of the com
munists coming into power by
constitutional means. However, he
warned that “communism now
makes but a shallow pretense of
seeking such an objective.”
Japanese communists, he said,
might make “abusive use of free
dom" to create conditions of law
lessness and unrest to open the
way for seizure of power through
“intimidation and force.”
Two British Commonwealth
governments, Australia and South
Africa are working out legislation
to ban the communist party. Mac
Arthur raised the possibility of
outlawing communism in Japan
in his Fourth of July speech last
year. Communists elected 41
members to the Japanese Diet
(Parliament* last January but
they have been losing heavily in
prestige since tnen.
Chinese Nationalists on Formo
sa in a Red hunt arrested 1,284
persons Sunday. They were
charged with entering Formosa il
legally or lacking proper creden
tials. The Nationalists said new
Yak-21 fighters of the Soviet Un
ion’s Far East air force are aiding
the Chinese communists who are
reported preparing an invasion of
Formosa.
In Washington informants said
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
will urge quick action of an in
tensified defense program at the
12-nation Atlantic Council meet
ing in London. May 15. Acheson
believes, these informants said,
that a stepped-up effort in the
military field is essential. He
wants the integrated defense plan
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Out of Town
Readers —
This space carried a
story on the movement
of the ice at Fairbanks,
which we are not per
mitted to print in papers
going through the mails
due to restrictions im
posed by the U. S. Postal
Service.