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VOL. LII. No. 45 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Alaska 1
Juneau Gold Mining Co. reports I
a net loss of $343,099 for 1949
compared with net loss of $708
,738 in 1948.
All nine properties were idle
last year, as they have been since |
the wartime shut-down of opera
tions.
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TOKYO, (/P)—A Tokyo chemi
cal company has a new insect
killer and it wants 4,000 healthy
lice to test it.
So guess where it’s going to get
them. Why from the bums of
Tokyo. One of the bosses of Tok
yo’s vagrants agrees to bring in
4,000 lice for an amount of five
sen per louse.
He won’t get rich at it though.
Twenty thousand sen equal about
55 cents.
DETROIT (JP)—Blond Gertrude
Knycz talked her way smack into
a $25 fine.
Before a policeman could give
the court all the details Miss
Knycz insisted on telling how her
car could do much better than the
mere “more than 60” for which
she was ticketed.
“ . . . Just let me say, this, your
honor. If I wanted to, I could
have gone up to 130 ... ”
At that point traffic Judge John
D. Watts blew the whistle. He
fined her, placed her on proba
tion and suspended her driver’s
license.
WIESBADEN, Germany, (/P)— i
Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon, chief of
the U. S. Air Force in Europe, an
nounced Saturday the search for
a missing navy Privateer plane
missing for a week would be
abandoned at sundown yesterday.
U. S. planes roared over the
Baltic for the seventh day Satur
day with scant hope they still may |
find the plane and its crew of ten. i
FAIRBANKS, hP) — A charred;
body found late yesterday in a.
fire-razed cabin was identified as
the of Farris Price Blackwell, 46.1
The blaze was believed to have'
started from a cigax*ette which set
fire to a sleeping bag.
U. S. Marshal Stanley Nichols
said Blackwell was a member of
the carpenters union local at An
chorage.
TAIPEI, Formosa, (>P)—A com
munist invasion force gained a1
precarious toehold on the north
coast of Hainan island today after
suffering heavy losses at sea, of
ficial Chinese Nationalist dis
patches reported tonight.
WASHINGTON (JP), Conference
to discuss what is being down to
work out an agreement with Can
ada for construction of a railroad
from the United States to Alaska i
will be held at the Capitol Wed-1
nesday.
Senator Magnuson (D.-Wash.)
said Saturday the conference will
go into all details of what vari
ous departments have accomplish
ed.
President Truman asked the in
terior, state and defense depart
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Committee Urges
Abolishment Of
Jury Sanity Trials
(By Vern Haugland)
MaP) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska
ought to abolish its ‘archaic jury
system” of sanity hearings, an in
terior department advisory com
mittee has recommended.
The committee pointed out that
only two states now require jury
trial for the commitment of an in
sane person.
The committee also deplored
the practice in Alaska of detain
ing persons under sanity observa
tion in federal jails. In a report to
interior secretary Chapman it
said:
“Our committee inspected the
jails now being used for this pur
pose in Alaska and was astounded
to discover that sick persons, es
pecial^’ those who are charges of
the government, are, in this age,
placed in quarters as unsafe (not
fire-proofed>, unsanitary and gen
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Hawaii ILWU Balk
At Un-American
Activities Probe
(By Lief Erickson)
HONOLULU. (JP) — The House
un-American committee, winding
up the first week of a three-week
inquiry into communism in Ha
waii, Saturday had 11 contempt
actions in prospect.
That many Hawaiian witnesses
since last Monday have refused |
to say if they are or ever have
been communists.
Seven of the 11 are from Harry
Bridges CIO international Long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union. And the ILWU has an- j
nounced that contempt action will
be used as the basis of a new le- ;
gal challenge of the- committee’s
right to ask the communist ques
tion.
The committee’s inquiry echoed j
in Hawaii’s Constitutiinal conven- j
tion. Frank G. Silva, convention
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Governor Answers
C lonini n n ica l ion
Of Percy Ipalook
In response to a communication
to Governor Gruening from Percy :
Ipalook favoring reservations at
Shungnak the following commun
ication was received by Ipalook
from the Governor, which states!
in part:
“ In regard to your sug
gestion that reservations are the
alternative to enforcement of;
game laws, the fact is that accord- j
ing to competent legal opinion in |
the department of the interior ex
actly the same game laws will ap
ply and will be no less rigorously '
enforced on the reservation as off |
the reservation. It is clear there- 1
fore that reservations furnish no .
solution whatever to this prob
lems ...”
Committee Suggest
Nome For Alaska
Psychiatric I Hit
Last year a committee desig
nated by the Department of In
terior, headed by Dr. Winfred
Overholser, visited Alaska, in
cluding Nome on a survey of hos
pitals and conditions existing par
ticularly in the interest of Alas
ka’s mentally ill. A hearing was
held for th« public in the Federal
building at that time.
Their report under the date of
February 10, 1950, in a pamphlet
entitled “A Mental Health Pro
gram for Alaska,” has been re
ceived by Dr. Fred Langsam,
which includes the following in
teresting information for Nome,
under the recommendations for
facilities for early diagnosis and
treatment:
“Of the present general hospi
tals in Alaska which were sur
veyed by your committee, prob
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U. S. Airmail Spy
Sentenced To Five
Years In Germany
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen. G er
rmany, (TP)—A U. S. Air Force
court martial convicted Cpl. Gus
tav Mueller of St. Paul, Minn.,
Saturday of trying to give secret
American military information to
Russia.
The 19-year-old airman was
sentenced to five years imprison
ment and to be dishonorably dis
charged from the U. S. Air Force.
Mueller testified in his own de
fense that he was only trying to
trap some Russian spies when he
gave away secret documents.
The court, composed of seven
air force officers, deliberated an
hour and a, half on its verdict af
ter a two-day trial. Mueller, slim
and dark-haired, took the verdict
quietly, standing erect before the
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Mystery Bomb
Wrecks Plane’s
Fail Assembly
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LONDON, </P»—Who put a time
bomb on a London to Paris air
liner last week—and whom was
he trying to kill?
In an all out attempt to answer
this question, Scotland Yard be
gan today to dismantle a two-en
gined British European Airways
Viking at Portholt airport.
The Viking limped back to
London last Thursday night with
its tail assembly almost torn
away.
BEA’s first version was that it
had been hit by lightning over
northern France. The stewardess,
suffering from a broken arm and
shock, was taken to a hospital.
The 28 passengers — including a
; babe in arms—escaped injury.
The lightning theory was aban
l doned last Saturday. BEA’s chief
I press officer asserted all the evi
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1 dence pointed to sabotage.
He said an explosion apparent
ly occurred in the plane’s toilet,
next to the little kitchen where
the stewardess was preparing
; food and drinks.
The plane staggered home with
i both sides of the fuselage blown
| out and the riddled tail assembly
j hanging by only the top stryts
and the flooring. The pilot land
ed it with the wing ailerons alone,
i One of the passengers was
Ralph Strauss, a Marshal Plan of
ficial. He pooh-poohed sugges
tions that he was the target of an
assassination attempt.
London newspaper searching
the BEA passenger lists for Thurs
day said one of the travelers on
an earlier plane was Rear-Admir
| al Eric Longly-Cook, director of
British naval intelligence.
OLD-.TIME NOMEITE
PASSES ON
Phil F. Murray, for many years
a Nome resident passed away in
Seattle Sunday, April 16. He
leaves a widow, two sons, three
daughter sand ten grandchildren.
WE DON'T WANT HIM, YOU CAN HAVE HIM
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News of the \\ oriel
At A Glance —
Saturday, April 15, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
The United States has denounc
ed Czechoslovakia’s charges that,
the U. S. Information Service in
Prague was used as an espionage
center. It called the charges “de
monstrably false” and a “deliber
ately planned propaganda attack.”
The state department said the
U. S. I. S. was carrying on legit
imate functions in diplomatic re
lations and in the maintenance of
friendly contacts between coun
tries throughout the world.
The statement followed the sen
tencing Thursday of two Czech
employees of the U. S. I. S. to long
prison terms on charges of spread
ing hostile propaganda and sup
plying state secrets to the U. S.
embassy press attache.
At the same time, Romania re
jected a U. S. protest against the
recent closing o fthe American in
formation office and library in
Bucharest. The communist-dom
inated Romanian gover n m e n t
i charged the U. S. agency was used
! for spying. The center was closed
on March 6.
France turned down an Ameri
can-British plan which would
give the Germans final say in the
ownership of the Ruhr’s iron and
steel industries after occupation
is ended. The French move auto
matically suspended for 30 days
passage of a new Ruhr control
law, designed to break up state
owned cartels and the hugeKrupp
industrial empire.
Tomorrow’s municipal council
1 elections in the Yugoslav-control
: led zone * B” of Trieste are ex
pected to give overwhelming vic
tories to the People’s Front ticket
patterned after Premier Marshal
Tito’s party. Such a victory would
strengthen Yugoslavia demand
that the area in the Adriatic port
city be formally annexed to Yugo
slavia.
Trygve Lie, United Nations sec
retary general, expects to spend
two days in conferences with
Kremlin leaders, if his projected
trip to Moscow materializes dur
ing his save-the-U. N. mission. He
hopes to see Prime Minister Sta
lin, deputy premier Molotov and
foreign minister Vishinsky.
Dispatches from communist
held Canton to Wall Kiu Yat Po,
Hong Kong independent Chinese
daily, said Mao Tze-Tung, com
munist Chinese leader, reported
ly has set the end of June as the
deadline for completing an inva
sion of Hainan, Chinese National
ist island off South China. Plans
to check the invasion were believ
ed discussed at a meeting of Na
tionalist military chiefs today.
Monday, April 17. 1950
The communist-led Polish gov
ernment has announced a new ac
cord with the Roman Catholic
church but today the Vatican
press office denied that any such
pact has been signed.
The Warsaw announcement
said the pact had been signed by
three Catholic bishops and pledg
ed religious freedom in Poland in
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