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VOL. LI. No. 109 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEEDLES, Calif. (^—Congress
man Richard J. Welch (R.-Calif.>
died in a hospital Saturday after
suffering a heart attack while en
route east by train with his wife, j
WASHINGTON, CP) — Civilian
help is being sought by the navy
in an effort to find jobs for 76,000
civilian workers to be laid off by
Nov. I in an economy cut.
At the close of a three-day con
ference Friday, navy officials from
the United tSates, Alaska, Hawaii i
and the Canal Zone gave approval
to the so-called “Philadelphia ;
Plan” for other districts.
PASCO, Wash. CP)—Both ends
of the long Snake River bridge
three miles southeast of here, were
blasted with dynamite charges be
fore a wind-whipped fire in the
floor planking was brought under
control Friday night.
The tar and creosoted roadway
took most of the damage. Engin
eers estimated traffic would have
to be rerouted around the bridge
at least two days before it could
be repaired.
Explosive charges were set off
at both ends of the ancient, two
lane wooden structure to make a
fire break.
SOUTH GATE, Calif. </P)-^Just
after her honeymoon Mrs. John
Doke said she was warned that
her marriage couldn’t last because
her bridegroom “had such an un
holy temper.”
Hhey were wed in Edgerton,
Mo., Sept. 11, 1879. She was 18
then and John was 20.
Yesterday they celebrated their
70th wedding anniversary.
SEATTLE, (P)—The annual ex
odus of calmon cannery workers |
from Alaska by air has started
from a dozen Territorial ports.
The 800 fishermen will be flown
here for rerouting to their homes.
Many live in California. Pan!
American Airways will add two
extra flights from Alaska for five
consecutive days to handle the ex
tra passenger load.
TOKYO, IP) — Some of Japan’s
jobless may be sent to countries
needing workers if mutually satis
factory arrangements can be
made, General MacArthur’s labor
chief said today.
Chester W. Hepler made the
statement at his final news confer
ence. He leaves for Geneva Thurs
day to head the employment and
migration section of the interna
tional labor organization.
SEATTLE (/P)—The coast guard
has reported that a barge, towed
by the fish packer Stimson, ran
aground last night near Juneau.
The coast guard cutter Storis
was dispatched after the Stim
son’s radioed call for assistance.
The five persons aboard the fish
ing vessel were presumed safe.
The Stimson was enroute from
Juneau to Cross Sound near Cape
Spencer when the accident oc
curred.
FORT WORTH, Texas, (/P> — j
Woodruff Randolf. president of the
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Joint Chiefs Of
Staff Visit Marks
Air Force Base
The Joint Chiefs of Staff visited
Marks Air Force Base Friday.Sep
tember 9th, remaining overnight
and departing the next day, on
their tour of Alaskan bases. While
here they visited various business
places in Nome and the King Is
land Village.
Among those present in the
party were General O. N. Bradley,
United Stotes Army; General Hoyt
S. Vandenburg, United States Air
Force; General J. L.Collins, United
States Army, Vice Admiral A. D.
Struble, United States Navy, Lt.
General Twining, U-nited States
Air Force: Rear Admiral F. D.
Wagner. United States Navy, Ma
jor General F. L. Scott, United
States Army; Colonel W. F. Mat
thews, United States Army; Capt.
F. G. Kelly, United States Navy;
Colonel J. H. Ives, United States
Air Force; Colonel E. D. Reynolds,
United States Air Force; Lt. Col
onel G. T. McHugh, United States
Air Force; and Lt .Col. E. C. Dol
manqusa.
Twenty-Three Die
In Crash Of
Canadian Airliner
SAULT AU COCHON, Quebec,
(#*)—A Canadian airliner exploded
and crashed here Friday killing 23
persons, including an American
mining millionaire and his two top
aides.
Dead in the crash—third worst
in Canadian history—were E. Tap
pan Stannard, president of the
Kennecott Copper corporation, and
a director of J. P. Morgan com
pany, and two of his top execu
tives—vice president R. .1 Parker
and Arthur D. Storke, president
designate of the $600,000 Kenne
cott concern.
All three men were from New
York City. They were reported en
route to northeast Qubec where
desopits of titanium ore have been
discovered. Titanium is a medium
weight ore expected to bridge the
gap between aluminum and steel.
The sixteen other passengers, in
cluding three children and crew
of four—all Canadians—died in
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Charges His Union
Is Discriminatory
DALLAS, Tex., </P)—A steam
fitter who charged his own union
with ‘unfair and discriminatory
practices” against its members is
picketing the union’s headquarters
again today.
Ray Booker has said he will
picket local headquarters of the
AFL plumbers and steamfitters
union each Monday until the union
“stops its boycott of members who
want to do a full day’s work.”
Booker charges the union “is in
terested in stretching out construc
tion jobs as long as possible, and
to do so instructs its members to
work at a certain pace to insure
that jobs last as long as possible.
Union officials have offered no
comment.
Census Of Business
Mouses Started
j
The federal census of business
got under way in Nome Saturday ;
when Paul Solka, Divisional Su- ;
pervisor for the Second and Fourth
Divisions in the business cerfsus
began the enumeration of Nome
businesses. He expects to complete
his work here Tusday and will
then return to his headquarters irt !
Fairbanks.
While a census of business has
been conducted in the States since
1928 when Herbert Hooven, then
secretary of commerce inaugurated
the fact finding survey, this is the
first time that Alaska nad Hawaii
have been included by Congress.
; The census of business is prelim
i inary to the population census
which will get under way some
time after the first of the year,
Solka reported. Since the census of
business is being conducted on a
limited budget, only the larger cit
ies in Alaska are being enumerat
j ed by personal contact, and the
outlying areas will be covered by
mail.
The population census, of
course, will be conducted on a
much larger scale.
Solka reported fine cooperation
by Nome businessmen in render
1 ing the necessary information for
the business census.
Information gathered by the
j survey will be used only to com
pute totals for the various busi
nesses, and under no circum
stances will figures be published
which might reveal the individual
identity of a business. The individ
ual reports are not available to
any other branch of the govern
ment, Solka emphasized.
According to information re
ceived by Solka, it is expected that
the first general compilation of re
sults of the business survey will
be published about the first of the '
year.
C. of C. Board of
Directors Meet.
The Chamber of Commerce
board of directors and interested
members had their usual weekly
meeting at the residence of Mr.
Bill Woods, Alaska Steamship
company representative, on Friday
night. President Harper opened the
meeting by introducing Axel Os
berg and B. P. Gerard of the Os
berg-Manson Construction com
pany, who were able to give many
pertinent facts in regards to the
I construction of the breakwater.
Work will commence as soon as
necessary equipment arrives on
the next boat.
Local help will be used as much
as possible and work will continue
throughout the winter months,
weather permitting. The seawall
itself will average a height of from
13 to 18 feet and a width of from
85 to 90 feet at the base, following
the contour of the beach, and will
extend from the Jetty down to the
Northern Light and Power Co.
Rock will be hauled from the
Cape Nome site in heavy duty '
trucks. An appropriation has been
granted from an emergency fund
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Armed Forces
Produces Series of
Special Broadcasts
Starting tonight at 7:30 p.m., and
continuing each night through Fri
day of this week, at the same time,
the local radio station WXLN
will broadcast a series of talks
entitled “The Nation’s Defenses;”
pertinent, timely subjects by na
tionally and internationally known
military and civilian speakers. The
series was originally broadcast by
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem, who assisted the Armed
Forces Radio Service in preparing
them for recording for the pleas
ure, benefit and education of the
armed forces over the world.
This series of pragrams has
been given the personal attention
| of Secretary of Defense, Johnson.
Each broadcast will consist of
two fifteen minute talks, and will
be heard under the general title
“Heard At Home.” Following is a
list of topics and speakers:
Monday, September 12 — Louis
, Johnson, Secretary of Defense:
I “The Defense Establishment; Geo.
! F. Keenan, Director, Policy Plan
| ning Staff, Department of State:
“The International Situation."
Tuesday, September 13—Secre
tary Gordon Gray, Department of
the Army: “The Army’s Role;” j
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Secy, of Air Forces
Fays Nome Visit
The Honorable Stuart W. Sym
ington and party arrived at Marks
Air Force Base Sunday afternoon
and remained for a short visit.
While here they visited Nome
before continuing on their trip.
With Mr. Symington was Major
General Armstrong of the Alaskan
Air Command, who was accom
panying the party on their tour.
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Hungaria Indicts
Red Officials
(By Andre Marlon)
BUDAPEST. Hungary. </P)—The I
Hungarian government accused
eight former high-ranking com
munists Saturday with treason
and of trying to overthrow the j
government ‘with the armed help
of Tito and the other present lead
ers of Yugoslavia.”
The eight men—including for
mer foreign minister Laszlo Rajk
and Lieut. Gen. Gyorgy Palffy,
former chief inspector of the Hun
garian army—will go to trial on
the indictment on Sept. 16.
Copies of the indictment were
handed to correspondents several
hours after the Hungarian Work
ers (communist) party issued a
communique announcing the ex
pulsion of three leading party
members and their arrest on
charges of spying for ‘foreign im
perlaist powers.” The powers were
not named in the communique.
The three were Palffy, Zoltan,
Horvath, editor-in-chief of the
Hungarian trade union newspaper,
Nep Szava; and Pal Justus, former
communist member of parliament.
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Saturday. September 10. 1949
<By The Associated Press*
The Washington conference on
Britain’s financial plight was re
ported today to be making good
progress along the lines of stop
gap aid. Some informants said the
representatives of Britain. Canada
and the United States would con
clude their major talks by Monday
night.
Four committees have drawn up
major recommendations to help
Britain earn more dollars. These
center around:
1. The purchasing of more raw
rubber from Britain by the United
States to supplant synthetic rub
ber.
2. Permission for Britain to
spend Marshall Plan money in the
purchase of Canadian wheat. The
Economic Cooperation administra
tion requires that Marshall plan
countries purchase U. S. farm pro
ducts in surplus supply.
3. A smoothing out of U. S. cus
toms regulations. However, there
can be no tinkering with the tar
iffs without Congressional approv
al.
4. Expansion of American over
seas investments to put more dol
lars to work in the world.
Authorities in China’s wavering
Yunnan province began a purge of
communists today. Gov. Lu Han
of this southwest province last
week declared his independence
of the nationalist government. But
he is now reported back in the
government fold.
Acting president Li Tsung-Jen
of Yunnan issued an order for the
immediate dissolution of the pro
vincial People’s Council.
The official Central News agen
cy said peasant uprisings were
spreading in North China and com
munist forces were not strong
enough to cope with them.
At St. Cergue, Switzerland. Dr.
Brock Chisholm, director general
of the World Health Organization
said the atom bomb has been ren
dered obsolete by genn weapons.
He said scientists have found one
substance so deadly that seven
ounces, properly distributed, could
kill all the people in the world
within six hours.
Small Circus Shows
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE. — It worked
out well all around, especially for
Alaskan kids who had never seen
an ocelot or eaten cotton candy.
And Mr. and Mrs. John Beck,
operators of the Pacific Northwest
Shows which opened here Satur
day, have realized an ambition to
see Alaska. ‘*We always wanted to
visit the Territory, so we just
packed up the carnival and headed
north.” said Mrs. Eeck.
It didn’t have the animals or
acts to compare with major cir
cuses, but Anchorage kids found it
completely satisfying. The show,
which came up by truck, has ap
peared at Fairbanks and White
horse. Its stand here is sponsored
by the Lion Club, with profits to
be used for improving swimming
facilities at Lake Spenard.