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VOL. L. No. 114 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1948 PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
GENEVA, Switzerland, UP) —
Australia has offered to take an
unlimited number of Europe’s
800,000 refugees.
Brig. F. G. Calleghan, head of
the Australian military mission in
Germany, relayed the offer yester
day to the international refugee
organization.
....GREENEVILLE, Ky. </P) — A
Muhlenberg circuit court jury last
night convicted Raymond Ellison,
37, on a murder charge in the
death of his 12-year-old bride last
March and fixed his punishment
at death in the electric chair.
The jury reached its verdict af
ter 20 minutes’ deliberation.
HONG KONG, <#*)—Ten persons
burned to death and at least 30
others were injured today in a
spectacular godown (warehouse)
fire.
BANGKOK, (iP) — The interior
ministry reported today that po
lice and units of the Siamese air
force fought a 20 hour gun duel in
south Siam without any casualties.
Interservice rivalry was blam
ed for the flareup.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—The fu
neral ship Sgt. Morris Crain—the
11th since repatriation of the Pa
cific war dead began last October
—arrived today with 3500 world
war II dead from Manila, Saipan
and Honolulu.
The number of dead returned
for burial will pass the 30,000
mark with the Crain’s arrival.
VAN NUYS, Calif. </P)—Airforce
Capt. James P. Fitzgerald, 28, one
of the few men to fly faster than
the speed of sound, is dead.
Injuries suffered when his TF-80
jet plane crashed Sept. 9 near Van
Nuys airport on a flight from
Muroc Calif., air base caused his
death Monday at Birmingham vet
erans hospital. He had been un
conscious since the crash.
KANSAS CITY, (£>)—Five men
were fatally shot and two wound
ed Monday night in a gunfight
growing out of a routine police
call.
Three of the dead and the two
wounded were policemen.
The shooting occurred in a Ne
gro apartment house district after
two patrolmen answered a routine;
disturbance call about a “loud
party” in an apartment building.
JUNEAU, Off*) — The associated
boards of trade of central British
Columbia and affiliated chambers
of commerce of southeast Alaska
•opened a two-day convention in
Juneau today.
Sessions will stress imprevement
of trade relations.
About 60 delegates from British
Columbia are scheduled to attend.
SHANGHAI, </P) — Col. Chang
Ya-Ming, assigned to track down
blackmarket operators, was exe
cuted yesterday for his own black
marketing.
Chang was convicted a month
ago. He formerly was head of the
Shanghai economic section in the
government’s financial reform pro
gram.
Contracts Signed
For Relief Ship j
For Nome Area
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Contracts were
to be signed yesterday to permit
the loading of the vital Nome,
Alaska, supply ship.
The agreement followed a vote
Monday night by five striking
maritime unions to load and man
the Alaska steamship company’s
Square Sinnet so the Nome and
Norton Sound areas may receive
winter supplies before ice halts
shipping. The ship is scheduled to
arrive in Seattle Friday and load
ing will begin as soon as possible.
The agreement provides the
ship is to be loaded and manned
<5n pre-strike terms with the provi
sion that any final wage increase
in west coast negotiations will ap
ply. The steamship company said
the waterfront employers’ associa
tion and the Pacific American
steamship association also ap
proved the arrangement.
The unions involved are the in
ternational longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union, marine
cooks’ and stewards’ union and the
marine engineers’ beneficial asso
ciation, all CIO, the marine fire
men’s union, independent, and the
marine radiomen’s union, AFL.
! Earlier Monday, an agreement
| was announced to allow rail ship
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Refinery Strike
Pinches West Coast
—— ■ —- ——
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — The
west’s gasoline shortage pinched
hard in Portland yesterday, as ne
gotiations continued in California
in efforts to end the 18-day-old
deadlock.
In Washington, D. C., director
Max W. Ball of the interior depart
ment’s gas and oil section added
another warning: if the strike con
tinues, the whole country may feel
its effects this winter.
The west itself can continue to
furnish gasoline to all essential
users, he added, but will feel a
shortage of diesel and heating ails
before spring.
Many service stations in Port
land remained closed Monday, and
some others sold gasoline for only
40 minutes and then shut down.
Others remained open only a few
hours.
69 Estonians Cross
Atlantic In Boat
WILMINGTON, N. C., (JP)—69
Estonians, victors in a battle
against the Atlantic Ocean, yes
terday hoped their luck would
hold good against U. S. immigra
tion laws.
The group, >vhich includes 13
children ended a 60-day crossing
of the Atlantic in a small boat here
Monday. They were immediately
secluded by immigration officers
who refused to let them tell their
story because of “security rea
sons.”
They came in a 79-foot auxiliary
schooner ,the “Prolific” which was
taken under coast guard escort.
Internationa News
At A Glance —
(By the Asssociated Press)
(Tuesday. September 21, 1948)
World hopes for some solution
of the smouldering East-West cri
sis centered in Paris yesterday.
Although the Berlin situation
was not on the agenda of the
United Nations assembly conven
ing yesterday, it was the principal
thought in the minds of the assem
bled diplomats.
In Berlin, German communist
newspapers said the United Na
tions general assembly had no au
thority to debate the Berlin crisis.
However, the American, British
and French foreign ministers have
already conferred on the problem.
Their ambassadors at Moscow are
en route by plane to consult with
them.
i First headache of the assembly
will be the problem of Palestine.
The world has had a chance to
study the solution of Count Folke
; Bernadotte, who was killed in
Jerusalem as he attempted to es
| tablish a peaceful settlement. His
i plan called for recognition of the
j State of Israel and an imposed
| peace backed up by the United Na
j tions. Cairo newspaper said yes
! terday the Arab States would re
ject Bernadotte’s plan.
(PARIS)—Flower-filled planes
carrying the bodies of Bernadotte
and his French aide, also assassin
ated at Jerusalem, arrived Tues
day in Paris, where simple services
! were arranged.
(TEL AVIV)—The Israel gov
i ernment formally outlawed ter
rorists groups.
(LONDON)—Meanwhile, Britain
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i Dewey Will Give
(Formula For
“Lasting Peace”
En Route to Albuquerque with
Dewey, (/P)—A formula for pre
venting a new world war was
promised today by Gov. Thomas
j E. Dewey as he cut across the
southwest for a vital Presidential
j campaign speech at Albuquerque
tonight.
| The Republican Presiden t i a 1
| nominee planned in his third for
mal address to tell the country
just how he proposes to establish
a “just and lasting peace.”
Dewey gave an overflow audi
ence in Denver’s 4,000-seat audi
torium last night a preview of
some of his ideas on foreign policy.
He predicted that the the more
than 100 serious problems he said
face the U. N. assembly ’’may be
added action on the critical situa
tion in Berlin.”
Calling for a “strong and con
sistent” foreign policy, the Repub
lican Presidential nominee de
clared:
“It is my firm belief that our
country should never again seem
to wobble in foreign affairs so that
dictators may think us weak and
irresolute. We must not only have
the strength of freedom—we need
leadership which knows how to
use this power to build lasting
peace.”
Hurricane Hits
Florida Keys; Does
Damage
MIAMI, Fla., (/P)—Winds of 110
miles an hour lashed Key West
yesterday as a big and growing
tropical hurricane brushed near or
over the island city 175 miles south
of Miami.
All weather stations along the
long narrow stretch of Florida
Keys—famous fishing grounds for
thousands — reported hurricane
force winds of 75 miles an hour or
better.
Torrential rains accompanied
the winds.
The hurricane was a short dis
tance south of Key West at 10:30
a.m. (EST> and moving norih
northeastward at about 10 miles an
hour.
Key West reported 110 mile an
hour winds at 10:20 a.m. RedCross
officials at the island city where
President Truman has his “Little
White House” said no casualties
had been reported. Shelters were
crowded.
In Miami, sustained wind reach
1 ed 60 miles an hour and visib.lity
was almost wiped out by the blow
ing rain.
The storm had enlarged and
hurricane winds and strong gales
covered an area about 300 miles in
diameter, the weather bureau re
ported.
The slow movement of the storm
kept the center over South Florida
for a longer period and delayed the
arrival of the hurricane winds
somewhat, forecasters said.
The storm grew rapidly in size
after crossing Cuba, said Chief
forecaster Grady Norton.
Winds of hurricane force — 75
miles an hour and higher—began
to sweep Miami between 1 p.m. ]
and nightfall.
The Red Cross reported 840 per- i
sons spent Monday night in Mi
ami’s 59 shelters which were
thrown open Monday.
Hurricane warnings fluttered
along the east coast as far
north as Melbourne, and storm
warnings extended to Daytona
Beach. On the west coast of the
peninsula, hurricane flags flew to
Fort Myers and storm warnings
to Tarpon Springs.
Disaster units were on the job
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Australian Now
Head Of U. N.
PARIS, (JP) — Dr. Herbert V.
Evatt of Australia was elected
president of the general assembly
of the United Nations today,
The Australian emerged victori
ous after failing in the first ballot
to win the necessary simple ma
jority of 29 votes.
He polled 25 on the first ballot to
22 for foreign minister Juan A.
Bramuglia of Argentina, candidate
of the Latin-American bloc.
Evatt received 31 of the 58 na
tions’ votes on the second ballot
to 20 for Bramgulia.
His election highlighted the,
opening day of the U. N.’s first
assembly session on the European
continent.
Candidate Dewey
Promises To Give
“Honest Answers”
<By The Associated Press>
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s “Cam
paign to unite America” rolled
yesterday into the west—the region
President Truman said faces GOP
“sabotage.”
Having unfolded the broad out
lines of his “new era” Republican
program in Des Moines Monday
night, the GOP nominee headed for
Denver. There he was expected to
give some of his promised “hon
est answers” to such questions as
high prices housing, farm aids and
other national problems.
The New York governor said he
does not “contend that all our dif
ficulties today have been brought
about by the present national ad
ministration.” But he added that
| “any fair-minded person would
[agree” part of the difficulties “are
merely the result of the adminis
tration’s lack of judgement or of
faith in our people.”
Mr. Truman, however, told his
Denver audience that Republican
leaders “working against the inter
ests of the people” have been
| “eager agents of big business.”
He urged the people of the west
ern states to join him in fighting
what he termed “Republican un
dercover sabotage of the west” and
“slick political propaganda of the
special interests” backed by .‘mil
lions of dollars that Wall Street is
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Republican Club
Hold Good Meeting
The Republican Club of Nome
held a special meeting last night in
the City Hall for the purpose of
meeting with Aimer J. Peterson,
Republican candidate for the Ter
ritorial office of Attorney General.
President of the club, Robert E.
Long, opened the meeting and in
troduced Mr. Peterson of Anchor
age, who spoke vigorously on the
chances Tor a Republican land
slide in the coming election and
also severely chastized the Demo
cratic regime for lackadaisical at
titude toward existing tax mea
sures and collection of same. He
stated that the Republican plat
form is definitely for Statehood
for Alaska and for complete aboli
tion of fish traps.
Mr. Peterson stated that in the
event he was elected Attorney
General he would prosecute his
office with positive relation to all
existing laws of the Territory. He
added that there was, in his opin
ion, no need for further taxation
maseures, provided that present
tax levies could and would be col
lected.
In speaking for ether candidates
for Territorial offices, Mr. Peter
son stated the Republican aspir
ants to office were of the highest
caliber and were each and every
one of them worthy of the undi
vided support of the Republican
Party.
L. E. Ost, of Council, and well
known throughout the Second Di
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