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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, October 19, 1951
Canadian Plane
Rams Full Throttle
Into Mountain
NANAIMO, B. C., (JP) — A
Queen Charlotte Airlines plane,
laboring at full throttle to gain
altitude, crashed into the side
of a mountain 10 miles from here
Wednesday night, carrying 23
persons to their death.
The victims were 30 miles from
their destination at Vancouver,
B.C., nearing the end of a south
bound 400 mile flight from Ke
mano, when the twin-engined
craft hit the rocky side of 5,000
foot Mount Benson. All those
aboard except the three crew
members were believed to be log
gers and construction workers.
The accident was witnessed by
Keith Price, operator of a power
station near this city, which is
150 miles northwest of Seattle.
Price said it was about 6:50
p.m. when the plane circled his
station at an altitude of about 50
feet, veered west and narrowly
missed 130,000 volt power lines.
Then he related, the plane roared
at full throttle toward the moun
tain in an apparent attempt to
g^in altitude, crashing into the
rocks at the 2,000-foot level.
A sheet of flame leaped up and
a loud explosion was heard. That
was all.
24-Hour Moon Visible
Now Through December
For the benefit of the Chee
chakos and as a reminder to the
Sourdoughs in the community,
Rube Cramer calls attention to a
phenomenon in our skies for the
next three months. He states that
during the months of October,
November and December, Nome
will have a 24-hour moon.
“Just watch,” he said, “And
you will find that the moon will
be visible the entire 24 hours.”
Mr. Cramer remembers calling
attention to this fact in 1904 at
which time he reported it to the
Nome Nugget. John Wilson, who
lived here at that time, and was
interested in astronomy, ex
plained to him that every 18
years this phenomenon occurs as
the moon takes a shorter circuit
around the sun. \
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RUSSIAN LEAVE
VIENNA, (TP)—In Moscow, there
is a “lost” Austrian who is both
a free man and a prisoner of the
Soviets. He is Ferdinand Riefler,
a member of the lower Austrian
provincial diet, who was arrested
by Russian troops in Austria and
sentenced by a Soviet court on
unknown charges in 1948.
Riefler was removed to a prison
camp in Azerbaijan. Last Novem
ber, he was set free from prison
and allowed to report to the Aus
trian legation in Moscow. But ever
since November, the Austrian gov
ernment reported, the legation has
been unable to obtain a permit for
Riefler to leave Russia.
The legation provides him with
food and money, he is free to
roam around Moscow, but “ap
parently the Russians are never
going to allow him to leave,” an
Austrian official here said.
j Truman Does Not
Choose To Tell
If He Will Run
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman said Thursday he will
not disclose whether he will run
for reelection until after he com
pletes the three major messages
he will submit to Congress in
January.
This was about the only defin
ite thing the President said re
garding his political future dur
ing a bantering exchange with
reporters at a news conference.
A reporter told Mr. Truman
that Senator Taft, when announc
ing his candidacy for the Repub
lican nomination, had said he
would like to see Mr. Truman as
bis Democratic opponent.
“Will you accommodate Sen
ator Taft?” the reporter asked.
The President said he couldn’t
answer that question now. He
said he had made up his mind
what he is going to do but he
proposed to pick the time of his
announcement.
Asked whether he would like
to see Chief Justice Vinson run
if he does not make the race
himself, the President said he
would answer that question when
he made his announcement.
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Longshore Union
Venture Selling
Tuna Successful
LOS ANGELES, (£>)—'The In
ternational Longshoremen and
Warehousemen Union’s experi
ment in fish-peddling is so suc
cessful that outlets are selling
out their stocks.
Already in the Los Angeles
area 12 outlets are being mobbed
by housewives after choice, fresh
albacore tuna at 25 cents per
pound.
“We plan to continue selling
until the tuna season is over,”
said Jeff Kibre, secretary of the
ILWU’s fisheries division. This
may be next week or well into
November.
The union has prepared a series
of recipes for cooking and can
ning the big fish—they average
from nine to 20 pounds—and a
copy of the recipes goes with
each sale.
It all started because canneries
were buying frozen tuna from
Japan in preference to the fresh j
catches of American fishermen, j
said Kibre. “So we decided to:
use American initiative and create
our own market,” he explained.
All fishermen, regardless of
union affiliation, are invited by j
the ILWU to participate. The
ILWU program pays a minimum
of 15 cents a pound to the fish
ermen, Kibre said, compared with
llVfe cents paid by canneries.
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HEAVYWEIGHT .
LETHBRIDGE, Alta., (/P) — It
would take a lot of cream to do
justice to the strawberry that Mrs.
George Halvorson picked in her
garden at Coaldale. It weighed
three-quarters of an ounce, and
was 5% inches in circumfrence.
Dramatically Save
Small Children
In Fairbanks Fire
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A three
weeks-old baby and five other
small children were lowered to
%
safety from windows of a burn
ing apartment house building
Wednesday as firemen battled
flames in sub-freezing tempera
tures. , *
Some 30 persons were left home
less by the fire in a two-story
unit of the Fairview Manor apart
ment house project, occupied most
ly by military men and their
families.
Firemen said a woman identified
as a Mrs. Hall tied a three-weeks
old baby in a sheet and lowered
the infant to the ground. Two more
children, aged 3 and 5, followed
by the same route, then the woman
slid down the sheet herself.
One Air Force officer, Capt.
George Boynton, former Belling
ham, Wash., Herald reporter, re
cently recalled to active duty, ar
rived home from the Ladd Air
Force base to find his apartment
in flames and his family trapped
inside.
Unable to enter the building
through the dense smoke, he stood
on the ground outside his apart
ment window and caught his two
year-old daughter, who was drop
ped to him by his wife, Michaela,
while she leaned out of the smoke
filled apartment. Then she threw
out a mattress and dropped to the
ground unharmed.
Fireman said another Ladd Air
Force officer, Capt. Delbert Smyth,
saved two children by dropping
them from a second-floor window
into the arms of a Catholic priest.
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Soviet Agreement ;
Not Worth Paper
It Is Written On
WASHINGTON, </P)—President;
Truman said today he is sticking!
to his statement that a Russian I
agreement is not worth the paper!
it is written on.
That was the President’s only
comment on Soviet Foreign Min
ister Vishinsky’s statement that
U.S.-Soviet relations could hardly
be worse than they are now after
Mr. Truman had said in a speech
that Soviet agreements are not
worth the paper on which they
are written.
Vishinsky made the crack in a
note rebuffing a secret U.S. pro- I
posal that Moscow act to bring
about an armistice in Korea. He
suggested instead talks on the j
general cause of East-West con
flict.
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Initial State Department reac- j
tion was that this offer was pro- j
paganda, but the wording of the
Russian note was such as to set
off guessing among diplomats as
to whether the Kremlin is sin
cere.
Moscow and the State Depart- j
ment disclosed Wednesday night;
Snow Closes Isabel Pass
On Richardson Highway
JUNEAU, UPf — Road Commis
sion officials report the Richard
son Highway has been closed tc
traffic at Isabel Pass because oi
snow. Motor traffic between Val
dez and Fairbanks will have tc
use the Tok Cutoff route for the
rest of the winter.
that Ambassador Alan G. Kirk on
Oct. 5 made the approach for
Soviet intervention to end the
deadlock between United Na
tions negotiators and the com
munists.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vish
insky gave no direct reply, but
he noted that Russia is “not a
party to these negotiations.”
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