m NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL.XLVIII. No. 94. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1946 PER COPY — 15~
Britain Might
Start Blockade
Of Holy Land
J
• -
LONDON, Aug. 7, —(/Pi—A well
informed government quarter said
today that Britain might institute
a full-scale blockade of the Pales
tine coast to end illegal immigra
tion into the Holy Land.
The informant said the British
government was planning an all
out drive to end illegal immigra
tu#i of European Jews into Pales
tine and that the land and sea op
erations involved might include
a blockade of the coast.
A special meeting of the cab
inet was held at No. 10 Downing
Street, Prime Minister Atlee’s of
ficial residence, to discuss the
problem of Palestine, where some
1,500 illegal immigrants—men and
women—were still held aboard
shhps in Haifa Harbor.
ihev have not been permited
to leave their cramped quarters
on the ships, despite unsanitary
conditions, pending determination
of a policy by the British gov
ernment.
It was announced at Malta
yesterday that the British cruiser
AJAX had left that Mediterran
ean fortress island for Haifa. This
movement was described in Lon
don as “not connected” with a
blockade plan.
Dream Center For
N. Y. Shoppers
NEW YORK. Aug. 7, —(JP)— A
dream center for shopping, offices
and amusements — where the
streets will be warm in winter
and cool in summer and pedes
trians will be moved along on
Gliding sidewalks instead of hav
ing to walk—will be under con
struction here within a year, its
planners announced.
Mayor William O’Dwyer yes
terday officially approved the
U>lan, which will cost an estimat
ed $50,000,000 and be built on
20 acres in the heart of Flushing,
Queens, not for from the site of
the 1939 World’s Fair.
Wilhelm Marx, 82,
Dies In Germany
BONN, Germany, Aug. 7, —(/P)—
Wilhelm Marx, 82, veteran states
man who was chancellor of Ger
many in 1923-24 and 1926-28 un
der the Weimar republic, died
here Monday.
He had been inactive politically
since 1928.
—Rocky Moantmin Now* Photo.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. MoCfettan and tbetr son, Charles,
McClellans Motor
From Kotzebue
To Denver, Colo.
The Denver Rocky Mountain
News, carried a story on the trip
the Herbert O. McClellans took
from Kotzebue to Denver recently.
A thrill-packed automobile ody
ssey—3563 miles from Fairbanks,
Alaska, to Denver—was recounted
here yesterday (Aug. 1,» by the
McClellan family of Kotzebue. Al
aska.
The McClellans—Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert O. and their sons, Char
les, 16, and Robert, 10—are Den-1
verites home on a visit after six
years in cool Kotzebue, a small
Eskimo village on the northwest
shore of Alaska, 25 miles north of
the Arctic Circle.
Mr. McClellan is unit manager]
of a reindeer preserve in Alaska
for the U. S. Indian Service. His
job is to see that the Alaskan
reindeer, the staff of life for the
Eskimo, doesn’t become extinct.
The McClellans planned all
through the long Arctic night last
winter for their automobile jour
ney to their old home town.
Their “operation Denver” was
no token undertaking, according
to the McClellans. Not when
Kotzebue has no roads, no anch
orage, no depot—nothing but a
cleared-off area in the tundra
which serves as a landing field.
They left their home in a small
private plane, when there was no
night in the Arctic. Their children
were attending school in White
hoVse, so they started their long
trek from there alter purchasing
a used automobile in Fairbanks.
‘ The old Alaska highway from
Fairbanks to Edmonton was a
well-kept gravel road,” Mr. Mc
Clellan said. “The traveling was
fast and smooth and was daylight
travel all the way.
“As soon as we crossed the Al
askan border into Canada, we
found the travel rather ticklish.
The road isn’t so well-kept through
the far reaches of Canada as
through Alaska.
“Canadian Mounted Police have
strict supervision over the high
way and tell you how and when
to travel and how much to take.
We had to carry extra gasoline,
provisions for three meals, sleep
ing bags, extra parts and six tires.
Travel at night was restricted and
you were given a quota of miles
to make each day and a time limit
for the travel. If you were over
due a rescue party was sent to
(Continued on Page Five>
G. I. Brides, Babies,
Admitted to U. S.
From Foreign I .and
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, —I/P)—
The Justice Department said to
day 46,000 GI brides plus 12,000
of their children have entered the
United States.
The largest number—over 22,
000—came from England.
An additional 16,000-odd im
migrant aliens were admitted dur
ing the fisct five months of this
year, a Department official told
a reporter.
Fisheries Hearing
Gets Underway
In Juneau
"
JUNEAU, Aug. 7. Con
gressional inquiry into the con
trol and regulation of Alaska fish
eries got underway late yesterday
with a blunt statement by Will
iam Paul Jr., secretary of the Al
aska Fishery and Marine Work
ers union 'AFL», that the south
east Alaska fishery is "in a mess.”
Further testimony by Paul was
cut short, however, to permit tes
timony by witnesses from out
of-town.
i
Abolishment of fishtraps over
I a five year period to permit resi
dents and veterans to make a liv
ing with seine boats was advo
cated by Frank Peratrovich. Pres
ident of the AMWU.
A suggestion that fisheries be
placed under Territorial control
brought a statement trom attorney
William Stump of Ketchikan, that
conservation might suffer under
Territorial control.
Stump also opposed extension
of indian reservations onto navi
gable waters as has been done at
Karluk and attacked the entire
policy of reservations.
Over 17 Million
Ex-Servicemen
In United States
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, — (/P)—
The ex-service population of the
nation has passed the 17,000,000
mark for the first time.
As of July 31, the Veterans Ad
ministration reported today,
17,240,000 veterans were listed on
its rolls. This compares with the
previous high of 16,836,000 a
month earlier and 6,712,000 at the
end of July, 1945.
The number of World War II
JUNEAU, Aug.* 7, — UP)— Com
plaints of pilfering, which ship
ping men listed as one of the prob
lem.-. confronting Alaskan ship
ping, were branded as false yes
terday by union witnesses before
the closing session of a congress
ional sub-committee investigating
Alaskan shipping.
Tom Moore, president of the
Alaskan Territorial Federation of
Labor, <AFL', asked the operators
to furnish some proof of their
charges. He told the commit
tee he would investigate any evi
dence but felt the charges were
"pulled out of the air.”
Union witnesses also countered
the operators’ assertions that la
bor difficulties were the principal
cause of shipping strife with an
assertion by Chris Hennings, CIO
representative, that management
I was responsible for "90 percent
of the labor difficulty” and that
operators “welcomed” labor dis
putes.
Earlier in the day. David ScolJ.
special counsel for the Alaska De
velopment Board, told the com
mittee that F. J. Horan, Examiner
for the U. S. Maritime Commission
had just released a report deny
ing the shipping companies’ peti
tion for increased passenger and
freight rates to Alaska.
Albert Stephan, attorney for the
Alaska Transportation Comoany,
declared that if the Examiner’s re
port, denying increased rates be
comes the final decision, then op
erating subsidies will be the only
solution.
William Seman, general mana
ger of the Northland Transporta
tion Company, the last witness
for ship operators, declared ‘hat
even a rate increase would not
solve the shipping problem. He
said the only solution was res
toration to the owners of the
right to full management.
Attorney Stephan submitted a
five-point proposal in behalf of
the Alaska Transportation Com
pany:
1. Continued jurisdiction by the
Maritime Commission; 2, Certifi
cates of convenience and necess
ity for existing carriers to regu
late competition; 3. All present
companies to serve all Alaska; 4.
Authorization of the Comm.ssion
to construct and make available
suitable new vessels; 5. Amend
ment of the Merchant Marine Act
to provide differential operating
subsidies for Alaska carriers.
veterans increased from 2,688.000
at the end of July, 1945, to
13,274,000 July 31, 1946. On that
date there were 3,966,000 veter
ans of other wars, chiefly World
War I.
%