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VOL. XLIX. No. 114 . ' NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 22, 1947 PER COPY — TSc~
, NEWS IN BRIEF
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LONDON, \Ay>— Well lualiiiedj
sources said Saturday it seemed
^ virtually certain that Princess
Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
would honeymoon in Britain in
view of government resti iction;
on foreign travel.
PASADENA, Calif. (/P)—Anita
Oser, 23, heiress of the Rockefeller
and McCormick familes, was mar
ried to Lin Carl Pauling, Jr., 22,
son of a well-known scientist, here
Satui'day.
The bride is the great grand
daughter of the late John D. Rock
efeller and Cyrus Hall McCor
mick. She and her brother, Max.
inherited a $3,600,000 estate when
their mother, Matthilde McCor
mick Oser, widow of Swiss army
officer Max Oser, died last May.
LOS ANGELES, (£>) — Actress
Jane Withers, 21, and film pro
1 ducer Williafln Moss, 27, were hon
eymooning today at some undis
closed place after there marriage
here Saturday.
There were some 2,000 guests
for the ceremony at First Congre
gational Church.
SEATTLE. (/P) — MS Jumper
Hitch departed at noon, Saturday.
September 20, with ports of call
i being Chignik. Squaw Harbor,
Sand Point. Unalaska. St. Michael,
Unalakleet. and Nome.
VANCOUVER, Wash., (/P)—Pa
tricia Detweiler, 2, was killed
last night when she ran into a
driveway as her father, Harry
Detweiler, was backing his car
from the garage.
Police said the tot toddled, un
noticed, from the porch where she
had been placed.
ATLANTA, (£») — Three-year
old Robert L. Witeher was recov
ering today from injuries suffer
ed when he was tossed from his
horse.
Witcher told his parents the
horse was galloping like mad and |
everything was under control—up \
to the point his horse rocked right
over backwards.
His parents have dismounted
Witcher until his mouth heals.
SEATTLE, i/P) — Funeral serv-:
ices for James Everett Barragar,
72, early-day athlete—who went
to Alaska in gold rush days and
l£ter ran a Juneau bookstore and
worked for a Juneau power com
pany, will be held today. He died
last Wednesday. He. played base
ball as a young man and was a
prominent Juneau bowler, He w?3 j
a member of the Juneau Elks
lodge.
Two daughters, Mrs. Betty Nin- j
nis and Mrs. Harriet Tucker, and
► two sons, Frederick L. and James
E., all of Juneau, survive.
PORTLAND, (/P> — Alaska is
overcrowded at present by people
who cannot find employment or
homes in the Territory and are
* living in tents and trailers around
Anchorage and Fairbanks, Frank
L. Oliver, assistant attorney gen
eral of Alaska, reported here Sat
urday.
Oliver said many had driven to!
Storm Devastates
Gulf Coast: Manv
90
Reported Dead
(By The Associated Press*
NEW ORLEANS, (/P) — Hurri
cane-groggy New Orleans griml>
battled serious floods Saturday as
the 11-day-old tropical storm borr
in the Atlantic moved beyonc
Shreveport, La., with fitful gusts
and heavy rains.
There were unconfirmed re
ports of at least a dozen deaths
but only one known fatality wa:
officially recognized. The body o
an elderly man, dressed in denin
dungarees, was thrown ashon
Friday morning near Gulfport a
the storm’s peak.
Property damage will run inti
the millions, a hurried survey re
vealed.
Lake Borgne backed into Bayo'
Bienvenue, broke through a rail
road embankment and flooded
sizeable section of eastern Nev
Orleans.
Police said 2,000 had been evac
uated from an area 25 blocks Ion
and 16 blocks wide now under wa
ter. There were no estimates of it
depth.
The storm, as it hit Shrevepor
and moved northwest into Texa
and Oklahoma, was nothing lik
the terrific, 100-mile terror tha
struck the coast early Friday.
Winds had slackened to abou
40 and 50 miles an hour. Rain wa
heavy. No damage was reportei
in the Shreveport area.
Reporter James H. Gillis of th
Times-Picayune in a communica
tion filed from Gulfport, Miss., vi
naval reserve radio Friday nigh
said there were unconfirmed re
ports' of at least a dozen death
from drowning and other causes
No bodies had been ■ recovered
he said, but added five wen
known to be dead in the Pas
Christian, Miss., area.
The entire coastal area was iso
lated. Communications still wen
difficult Saturday morning.
At least 20 persons were treatec
here for minor injuries resultin'
from the storm. Most were cut b>
flying glass or hit by debris sail
ing through the air. The centra
fire station said that between 20(
and 300 fires were extinguishec
Friday and Friday night. Mos
were blamed on broken electri<
connections and falling wires.
The weather bureau said th<
hurricane in its dying convulsion;
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Alaska this summer over the A!
can highway, hoping to find work
but have exhausted their fund:
and are unable to return home.
KENNEWICK, Wash., (/P)—Th<
three-day Kennewick grape festi
val wound up Saturday after i
closing “mayor’s day” in whicl
mayors from surrounding town'
were guests, one of them from i
town some 2,000 miles away.
Mayor Hjalmar Nordale of Fair
banks, Alaska, dropped in by air
bringing with him a party of 1J
including some Eskimos. Two o!
them, Oliver Omouak and h.’s
wife, put on an exhibition of na
tive dancing, accompanied bj
Laura Hagberg. also an Eskimo.
Former N. Y. C. 1
! •
Mayor LaGuardia
| *
Died Saturday
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i NEW YORK, l/P) — Fiorello H.
| LaGuardia, 64. three times mayor
of New York City and former d.
rector of UNRRA, died Saturday.
The fiery political leader had
been in a coma since Tuesday
night when he collapsed at his.
home. His health had been failing
. since last June when lie undt-r
, went an operation which disclosed
Jan incurable pancreas condition.
M The announcement of hi; death
i brought an immediate tribute from
; his successor as chief executive of
t New York, Mayor William O’
Dwyer.
> "In his death the people of the
city, the state and the nation have
lost a great, patriotic citizen,”
: O’Dwyer said. He added:
“I fully believe that his tinsel
"! fish devotion to the people and his
untiring and energetic effoits to
promote public welfare contribu
ted greatly to the failing health
which culminated in death today.”
5i LaGuardia died in his sleep, Dr.
’1 George Baehr, attending physician
s said.
. When LaGuardia died at 7:22
_, a.m., his wife, their two children,
Erik, 15, and Jean, 18, and Mrs
f I LaGuardia’s sister, M:ss Elsie
’ i Fisher, were at the bedside.
I The diminutive LaGuardia—he
| was five feet, three inches—was a
^! rough and ready exponent of the
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- Hoover Predicts
t Scanty 1947
' World Harvest
, l NEW YORK, (JP) — Herbert
i Hoover said last night that the
; 1947 world harvest may yield a
i little as that of 1945 and he out
- lined steps needed “if large areas
; of the worlgl are to be saved from
mass starvation.”
I A doctor and nurse accompan
\ ied the former President to the
r Madison Square Garden meeting.
His secretary explained that Ho>
II ver had not felt well for several
I days but was “all right now.”
II The meeting in behalf of Ger
t; man relief was sponsored by the
: i American Friends Service com
mittee, the Labor League for IIu
: man Rights fAFL)f and Lutheran
» World Relief, Inc. A spokesman
for the sponsors said Hoover ap
| peared against the advice of his
physician.
J “Due to the failure of agricul
; j tural recovery in Europe and Asia,
together with devastating droughts
in other parts of the world—in
. eluding the American corn crop—
. the next 12 months will be a grim
i food year,” Hoover said.
: ALASKA AIRLINES BRINGS
EXCURSION TO NOME
Yesterday afternoon the Alaska
Airlines arrived from Anchorage
, with an excursion party of 47
I tourists, who spent the day sight
‘ seeing and departed last evening
i on the return trip. The tourists
. included Anchorage residents as
■ well as tour passengers from the
States.
Russian-American
Split Widens In
United Nations
(By Max Harrelson)
NEW YORK, (/P)—French for
eign minister Georges Bidault de
clared Saturday that the growing
conflict between the United States
and Russia has reached such a
critical stage that further efforts
to reconcile the two viewpoints
seemed hopeless.
In France’s opening* policy
speech before the United Nations
assembly, Bidault frankly ack
nowledged that he saw no way
out of the crisis sharpened by the
speeches of secretary of state Geo.
C. Marshall and Soviet deputy
foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishin
sky.
, “The French delegate deems it
futile and dangerous to conceal
the magnitude and seriousness of
the crisis,” Bidault told the 55 na
i tional delegations as the assembly
continued its fourth day of gener
al debate.
In his pessimistic and straight
; forward speech, Bidault said
France had devoted her efforts
I toward compromise and reconcil
iation between Russia and the
United States since the beginning
of the United Nations but such ef
. forts now’ seemed futile,
i “Today the means are meagre
! for finding a meeting ground for
' the tw’o main statements the as
sembly has heard,” he declared,
referring to the Marshall and Vi
I shinskv declarations.
“It is but honest to say that one
I does not see how they can be re
: conciled,” he said.
I As a result, he said, France
would take her stand squarely on
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If U. S. Pays More
It Should Have
More Control
WASHINGTON. (/P) — Senator
Bridges <R.-N. Hd said Saturday
he will insist that United States
controls be increased over the
American and British occupied
zones in Germany if we assume a
larger share of these costs.
Bridges told reporters “What I
want to make sure of is that we
don’t have to pay all the bills.”
The cost is now borne equally by
the two countries but Britain re
cently asked the U. S. to pay a
greater share.
Bridges, as chairman of the Sen
ate a p p r opriations committee,
called a special session Saturday
to hear top-ranking armed service
officials at a closed door session.
Bridges said that army depart
ment officials are asking informal
Congressional approval of plane
to spend a part of $600,000,000
voted by the last Congress for oc
cupation costs throughout the
world at a greater rate than in
tended.
If the United States assumes a
part of the occupation costs now
paid by England, this appropria
tion will not last until next July
1. Officials probably would seek a
deficiency or supplemental appro
priation when Congress meets.
New Company
Lowers Freight
Rates To Alaska
SEATTLE (/Pi—A new company
announced today it would start
tug and barge freight operations
from Puget Sound to Seward,
Alaska, early next month “with
freight rates averaging 35 per cent
less than current charges by other
water carriers.”
Entry of the newly-orgaaized
Alaska Freight Express corpora
tion into the Alaskan shipping
trade was announced here and in
Anchorage by its president, L. B.
DeLong.
The company said it has filed
its tarriffs with the U. S. Maritime
commission to become effective
October 1. It plans its first ship
ments as a common carrier shortly
thereafter.
The new firm, with headquart
ers at Anchorage, was incorpora
ted at Juneau, Alaska, with $500.
000 capital stock. Sailings will be
directed to Seward but future op
erations in Southeastern Alaska
i
also are contemplated, De Long
said.
He said the company would use
modern twin-screw seagoing tugs
of 1.380 horsepower, equipped
with radio direction finders and
radar instruments. The barges
will include moulded, covered
steel vessels, 260 feet long, with
eight holds and cargo capacity of
4,000 measurement tons.
At Seattle, De Long said, the
company has leased piers 50 and
51, and will adapt them for barge
operation. Sailings will start from
Seattle, the company announced,
but added if there is sufficient
cargo it will load over Tacoma
docks eventually. T. A. Thronson.
Tacoma, is traffic manager of the
new firm.
j The company said joint rates
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Taft Heads For
'Washington Stale
In Political Tour
(By Jack Bell)
LAKE TAHOE, Nev., (/P)—Sen
ator Taft (R.-Ohio) heads for po
litically-untested Washington
State today after receiving assur
ance from Republican leaders that
he had made some new friends by
a week-end spent in Nevada.
Taft, resting here before taking
a train for Seattle tonight, was
credited by Senator Malone (R.
Nev.) with having made “a good
impression’ on Republicans who
heard a Saturday night speech in
Reno and others who conferred
with the Ohioan later.
Taft will meet with representa
tives of the Republican clubs of
King County (Seattle) tomorrow
night and will speak twice there
Wednesday.
An associate said the Taft forces
realize they may be invading
somewhat hostile territory in
Washington State, where Governor
Thomas E. Dewey of New York is
credited by some party leaders
with having an edge now in any
battle that may develop over the
GOP Presidential nomination.