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VOL. XLIX. No. 61_NOMeTaLASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947 PER COPY-^Hk~
NEWS IN BRIEF i
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ABILENE, Tex. i/P) — Search
contiuued today for two airmen
who parachuted from a flaming
B-29 which crashed near Merkel,
Tex., 16 miles west of here last
night. Eigteen other crewmen par
achuted and were found. Several
were injured. None were from the
Pacific Northwest.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (£>) — Chil-;
dren were blamed by some inves
tigators today for the wreck of the
Western Pacific railroad’s Feather
River express at Decoto.
None was killed but four crew
men suffered cuts and bruises in
the wreck which occurred shortly
before noon yesterday.
Deputy sheriff A1 Ayers said
he believed children placed on
the rails the small concrete lid of
a wate'r meter box which wrecked
the train.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Ray C.
Wakefield, of California was nom
inated by President Truman to
day for a new seven-year term on
the federal communications com
l
mission, beginning July 1.
Mr. Truman also sent to the
Senate the nomination of Edmond
M. Hanrahan, of Brightwater, N.
Y., £pr reappointment to the se
curities and exchange commission
for a term expiring June 5, 1952.
CHICAGO, UP)—Julius (Dolly)]
Weisberg, a former Chicago night
club owner and convicted slayer,
who had lost all court appeals to
escape death in the electric chair,
and who was to have been exe
cuted early Friday morning, died
yesterday in his death cell, appar- j
ently of a heart attack.
Weisberg, 50, who was convicted !
a year ago of the slaying of an au
tomobile salesman, died less than
two hours after he was trans-1
ferred to the death cell—about 2£
feet from the electric chair.
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WASHINGTON,, (/P)—Employ-!
ees who strike against the govern
ment forfeit not only their jobs.
but their right to undelivered pay.
for work done before they walk
out. Comptroller general Lindsay
C. Warren ruled today.
His decision came in a case in
volving three union carpenters
who were employed by the Veter
ans Administration in remodeling
its Waco, Texas, center.
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GRANDVIEW. Mo. (/P)—Presi
dent Truman told reporters today
that his mother, gravely ill at her
home here was "holding her own"
this morning.
Later, press secretary Charles
G. Ross, disclosed that Mrs. Tru
man asked for wheat cakes this
morning.
Despite her "vsfcy tired and
weak heart," Mrs. Truman rallied
early last night, and ate fried
chicken, gravy and mashed pota
toes.
HOLLYWOOD, </P) — Bettey
Grable an dher misician-husband
Harry James, today are the proud
parents of a second daughter,
named Jessica and weighing six
pounds 14 ounces, born to the ac
tress by caesarian section.
Telephone Strike
Virtually Ended
WASH NGTON, {IP) — The re- j
turn to work today of 20,000 West
ern Electric installation workers
virtually winds up this country’s,
first nationwide telephone strike.
Only two disputes—betv/een the
Western Electric company and
equipment workers at Point:
Breeze, Md., and Lincoln, Neb.—
remain of the scores which
brought on the walkout April 7.
At one time 340,000 persons
were idle, but that number shrank
fast in the past two weeks, after
four independent unions in New
Ydrk City settled for a $4 weekly
pay increase.
United Seek To
Buy Western Route
WASHINGTON, (fP) — United
Airlines hopes to begin operating
PC-6 planes between Denver and
Los Angeles by September if per
mitted to purchase the route from
Western Airlines, W. A. Patterson,
president of the company, said to
day.
Testifying before a civil aero
nautics board examiner, Patter
son said the service will be con
tingent upon delivery of planes
from the factory.
Planes now operated over the
route by Western Airline are the
smaller DC-4, which do not have
pressurized cabins such as are be
ing installed on the larger models. |
Patterson testified at a hearing
on the application by United and
Western for approval of the sale
of the route for $3,750,000.
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Give Ten Percent
To The World
—
JEFFERSON, Iowa, (4*)—For-1
mer governor Harold E. Stassen
of Minnesota, candidate for the
Republican nomination for Presi
dent in 1948. advocated today thatj
the United States devote ten per
cent of its total national produc- !
tion of goods and food for the next
ten years “to building for world-!
wide peace and plenty and free- j
dom.”
“It should not be a sharpster
lending program. It should not be
a light-headed giveaway program, j
It should be a practical, sound, j
long-visioned business-like ap
proach to the situation that exists
in the world today, and to what
we can foresee • in the years
ahead,” Stassen said.
The former Minnesota governor
recently returned from a tour of
Europe during which he inter
viewed Russian Generalissimo
Stalin.
Stassen said he believed Amer
ica could find a “strong and wise
and humanitarian world policy”
between what he called two “ex
tremes” advocated by former vice
president Henry Wallace and
Robert McCormick, publisher of
the Chicago Tribune.
Half a million of the known or
ganic chemicals can be produced
from oil. <
Agricultural
Budget To Be Cut
WASHINGTON </P), The House
appropriations committee mem
bers reported today additional
cuts have been recommended to
reduce the agriculture depart
ment’s 1948 budget of $1,200,000,
000 by almost 40 per cent.
The sub-committee in charge of
the bill met in closed session to
day. Members told reporters pri
vately they were asked by party
leaders to find new places in
which to make cuts.
The House Republican steering
committee met early this week
and speaker Martin reported some
members had complained that
preliminary recommendations for
reductions in the agriculture bill
were inadequate.
The House took an 11 per cent
whack out of President Tluman’s
estimates in passing a $3,469,791,
100 navy supply bill yesterday.
Caribou Absorbs
Reindeer Herd
Herbert C. McClellan, unit man
ager of the Reindeer Service of
the Alaska Native Service at Kot
zebue, informed local ANS offi
cials that the Shungnak reindeer
herd has been absorbed by the mi
gration of a caribou herd.
McClellan said that he received
this information from Marvin E.
Warbelow, local ANS Reindeer
Supt. at Shungnak. Warbelow said
that many reindeer herds have
been similarly threatened this
year but that this instance was the
first successful incident. Warbe
low reported that many precau
tionary measures had been taken
to prevent the caribou from inter
fering with the reindeer in that
area. He said that, this year, cari
bou are migrating further west
than is usual
The Shungnak herd, consisting
of five or six hundred deer, was
on loan to Evan Commack from a*
native association. It has now been
reduced to 37 head, Warbelow
said.
High School Graduation
Exercises Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow, Thursday, night at
eight o’clock the graduation exer
cises of the Nome High School
1947 graduating class will be held
in the High School auditorium.
Following is the program:
Processional, “War March of the
Priests” Mrs. E. Beberman.
Invocation by Rev. M. Day.
Salutory by -Walter McCarthy.
Song, “Cloud Ships” by Girls’
Chorus.
Valedictory by Julia Silverman.
Song, “Beautiful Dreamer” by
Girls’ Chorus.
Graduation Address, “Leader
ship,” by Colonel John E. Bodle.
Presentation of Class by Super
intendent W. L. Angell.
Presentation of Diplomas by W.
J. Dowd, president of Nome
School Board.
Song, “Play Gypsies, Dance
Gypsies,” by Girls’ Chorus.
Benedition by Rev. M. Day.
Postlude by Mrs. E. Beberman.
Seek Removal Of
Phone Excise Tax
WASHINGTON, (TP)—With the
Senate ready to open debate on
the House-approved $4,000,000,000
income tax cut, the telephone in
dustry asked Congress today to
repeal the excise levies on com
munications.
This would save taxpayers an
other $400,000,000. The excise is
levied on telephone, telegraph and
other communications service.
It was the first recommenda
tion for a new tax cut in the com
mittee’s move toward geenral re
visions of the tax structure, which
chairman Knutson <R.-Minn.) said
should mean “substantial” tax re
ductions beyond the current $4,
000,000,000 bill. The committee
plans, to write the general revi
sions into law next year.
In the Senate, finance chairman
Milliken (R.-Colo.>, predicted that
! opponents of a 1947 income tax
! will reach their “high water
I mark” on a postponement vote—
1 but that the mark won’t be high
enough to block the tax slash.
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“Poisoned Air”
Looms For Future
(By Elton C. Fa^)
(</P) Military Affairs Reporter)
WASHINGTON (JP)—'The dead
ly potentialities of a “radioactive
cloud” weapon are complicating
i plans for hiding men and ma
! chines underground in event of
| atomic age warfare.
! But the problem of sealing off
1 subterranean sites against poison
i ed air is under study, according to
i an article in the current unofficial
! service publication, Armored Cav
alry Journal.
The article was written before
plane maker Glenn L. Martin’s
disclosure last week of experi
ments by the army and navy to
create radio-active clouds. These
clouds, covering a mile-square
area, could be formed by a burst
of radioactive matter released
from an airplane.
Martin’s disclosure was made
before a Congressional committee,
and he declined to go into detail
on the method.
The Journal, in reviewing stud
ies and programs abroad for un
derground sites mentioned that
Great Britain and Sweden both
are making such efforts, and then
said:
“Another country, it is persis
tently rumored, has pressed pris
oner-of-war labor into construc
tion of the largest underground
airfield in the world—located in
a highly dominating and com
manding area, which has great
semiglobal air-striking potential.”
The Journal did not identify the
country, but the only nation re
ported to be using prisoner-of-war
labor >n quantity at this time is
Russia.
RETURN FROM BOARD OF
REGENTS MEETING
O. D. Cochran and M. J. Walsh
returned Monday evening having
attended the Board of Regents
meeting at the University of Alas
ka.
Senate Works On
Unification Plan
WASHINGTON, iJP)—'The Sen
ale armed services committee
neared a showdown today on the
hear4 of President Truman's
a mv-navy merger plan—whether
should be a single cabinet
cificer to speak for land, sea and
air forces.
Across the Capitol, the House
expenditures committee sidetrack
ed the unification issue to open
hearings on two other, but far less
controversial, Presidential plans
for government reorganization.
And chairman Hoffman <R.
I/Iich>, of the House group told a
reporter: “If anyone is blocking
army-navy unification, it is Presi
dent Truman.
“How does he expect us to get
1 ou* a unification bill when he
rends us a couple Ji tnese reor
ganizations we have to act on in
a hurry? We’ve got to get them
out before July 1.”
The reorganization Hearings
have been scheduled to last a
week. They might run longer.
Asked whether he thought that
might mean no unification legisla
' tion this session, Hoffman replied:
“I think we’ll get it, all right,
but I don’t know in what form.”
May Denies
Bribery Charges
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Former
Rep. Andrew J. May testified to
day that checks received from the
munition-making Garsson broth
ers and deposited to his personal
j bank account were used to pay
expenses of a Kentucky lumber
company.
The former House military com
mittee chairman is on trial on
charges of taking $55,000 in bribes
from his co-defendants, Murray
and Henry Garsson, in return for
official favors to the $78,000,000
Garsson shell-making combine.
The prosecution contends that
May received a substantial part of
®the alleged bribes through Gar
sson financing of the Cumberland
Lumber company. May has denied
getting any profits from the firm
and has insisted he only acted as
the Garssons’ agent.
Wallace Still Says
“One World”
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A 3
point program which would
pledge American resources to
elimination of depression and war
is proposed by Henry A. Wallace,
who asks ‘‘those who still shudder
at the cost”:
‘‘What will be the cost in wasted
men and materials of a new de
pression; what will be the cost in
property and life of an atomic
war?”
A crowd which filled the San
Francisco opera house, birthplace
of the United Nations organiza
tion, to its 3,250 capacity, with an
estimated equal number listening
to loudspeakers outside, last night
iieard Wallace declare that he
‘‘spoke out” in Europe ‘‘because I
believe that we shall never get
peace until be get one world.”