= NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. L. No, 97._NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948_PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE, (/P)—H. O. Adams,
agent for the Alaska Steamship
company at Juneau, has been ap
pointed traveling freight and pas
senger agent in Alaska, the com- J
pany announced yesterday. Jun-i
eau will be his residence.
SEATTLE (/P)—The motorship
Reef Knot was scheduled to ar
rive here yesterday for unloading
150,000 cases of Bristol Bay sal
mon. The Alaska Steamship Co.
g said it will sail north with a full
army cargo for Anchorage and
Whittier.
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NEW YORK, (/P)—Round-trip
trans-Atlantic fares on Pan Amer
ican World Airways will be re
duced 25 per cent on Oct. 1. It was
announced by Juan T. Trippe,
Pan-Am president,
t He called the move an “anti
inflationary fare program design
ed to assist the European recov
ery program by supplying Europe
with an increasing flow of tourist
dollars.” One-way fares will not
be affected.
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WASHINGTON. (/P>—President
Truman today named Laurence
A. Steinhardt to be ambassador.
to Canada.
Steinhardt. a veteran career
diplomat, succeeds Ray Atherton, j
recently named as alternate dele- ;
gate to the forthcoming United
Natnons general assembly meet
ing at Paris.
t The White House announced
that the Prseident is giving Stein
hardt a recess appointment sub
ject to confirmation by the Sen
ate at the next session of Con
gress. Steinhardt’s last assign
ment was as ambassador to
Czechoslovakia.
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NEW YORK, </P)— Babe Ruth,'
baseball’s ailing homerun king,
showed “no improvement in his
condition” today, Memorial hos-!
pital announced.
This contrasted with a bulletin
yesterday that the sick, retired
baseball star had rallied and was
improved. Even his wife said yes-;
terday that “He’s feeling better.”
Series Of Plane
»
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•Mishaps Around
The World
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(By the Associated Press)
Five men were killed yesterday
in the latest of a series of airplane
accidents in which two planes
were destroyed by fire and three
^ others were reported missing in
widely separated sections of the
globe.
In Kansas an air force plane
crashed in flames shortly after its
takeoff from the Topeka air base.
Five men were killed and two in
jured seriously.
A Trans-Canada Airlines plane
burst into flames shortly after
landing at Sydney, N. S. Cool
work by the stewardess aided the
^ escape without injury of the 11
passengers and six crew mem
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Russia Pulls
Out Of Western
Zone In Berlin
BERLIN, (iP) — The Russians
evacuated the Allied four-power
Kommandatura building in Ber
lin today and hauled down their
flag.
This action appeared to com
plete the division of Berlin be
tween the east and west—at least
as far as the Russians are con
cerned.
The Russians withdrew July 1
from the Allied Komroandatura,
which had provided four-power
administration for this city for
three years. They pulled out with
the comment that “the Komman
datura no * longer exists.”
They then announced they
would retain their sentry and flag
at the building until their archives
have been removed. The Kom
mandatura is situated in the
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Witness Injured
Escaping From
Russian Consulate
NEW YORK, (A3)— Mrs. Oksana
Stepanovna Kosenkina today re
jected the suggestion of a Soviet
vice-consul that she be moved to
another hospital, saying “You
kept me prisoner, you would not
let me go.”
The suggestion was made by
vice-consul Zot I. Chepurnykh
who visited the police-guarded
hospital room of the Russian
teacher, seriously injured yester
day when she jumped three stor
ies from the Soviet consulate
building.
Detective William Dyczko, a
Russian-speaking officer who was
in the hospital room during the
vice-consul’s visit, said Mrs. Ko
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Barrow Eskimoes
Get B-C-G Shots
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Don Fos
ter, director of the Alaska Native
Service, reported here yesterday
that the first B-C-G vaccinations
10 combat tuberculosis have been
given at Point Barrow.
• The vaccineis called bacillus
:almette-guerin and is reported to
give “relative immunity’ to T-B.
It is injected as a preventative
measured
Foster said it is being admin
istered to children between the
ages of one and 12.
The navy, Territorial depart
ment of health and the Alaska na
tive service are taking part in the
program.
Foster also took issue with re
ports that the Eskimos are becom
ing a “vanishing race.” He com
pared their situation with of the
American Indians, who “are now
thriving though their population
too, was low at one time.”
POLITICAL
ROUNDUP !
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman added a record vote-get
ter to his cabinet yesterday and
Democratic party aides hoped the
newcomer, Maurice J. Tobin,
would help corral the labor bal
lots in November.
Tobin stepped out of the Massa- j
chusetts governor’s race last night
to accept the post of secretary of
labor which has been vacant since
the death of Lewis B. Schwellen
bach June 10.
The 47-year-old New England
er brings to Washington a politi
cal record in which (1) he twice
defeated James M. Curley for
mayor of Boston, the stronghold
of that veteran Democratic party
leader; (2) in winning the Bay
State’s governorship in 1944, he
became the first candidate to top
the million-vote mark in a guebr
natorial race there, in fact, Tobin
polled 13,000 more votes than the
late President Roosevelt received
; in the state.
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International Probems Loom In
House Subpoena Of Russian Witness
WASHINGTON, </P) — Russia
protested to the United States yes
terday against New York court
order directing the Soviet consul
in New York City to produce in
court a Russian school teacher.
The state department promptly
telegraphed Governor Thomas E.
Dewey asking that any further ac
tion against the consul be held up
for the time being.
Russia’s move and the depart
ment’s action was announced by
a state department spokesman.
Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kos
enkina is the teacher involved.
Meanwhile, under close guard,
another Russian school teacher
I was brought to Washington yes
terday to talk with Congressional
spy investigators while the consul
in New York defied the order to
produce Mrs. Kosenkina.
i Rep. Thomas <R.-N. J.) an
nounced that Michael Ivanovitch
Samarin is here from the New
York area and will be questioned
THREE YEARS AGO TOMORROW ...
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THE PRESIDENT
ANNOUNCED IT . . .
SERVICEMEN READ ABOUT
IT . . .
ALL AMERICANS CHEERED
IT . . .
JAPANESE WEPT
AT IT . . .
. . . THE WAR WAS OVER
by members of the House un
American activities committee
behind closed doors. Thomas
heads the committee.
In New York City, Soviet Con
sul general Yakov M. Lomakin
ignored a state supreme court
writ directing that he produce
Mrs. Kosenkina in court at 9:30
a.m.
Mrs. Kosenkina has been se
cluded in the Soviet consulate
since last week when Lomakin
says he “rescued” her from a
White Russian < anti-communist)
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International News
At A Glance —
i By The Associated Press)
Western diplomats trudged into
the Kremlin yesterday for their
fourth talk in two weeks with
foreign minister Molotov over
the Berlin blockade and the east
west cold war.
An informant in London, who
has been following the Kremlin
exchanges from the inside, said
the western powers can be expect
ed to ask prime minister Stalin to
intervene personally if the talks
with Molotov fail .
To all appearances, the diplo
matic maneuvers were like the
irresistble force encountering the
immovable object. The London
informant said there had been no
sign of weakening in the U. S.,
British and French position as of
Wednesday.
Communist tactics beset the
Berlin City government agafn
and threatened a third depart
mental split of its functions in the
east and west zones. The com
munist labor department hjjad re
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Jumper Hiteli To
Sail North Aug. 21
SEATTLE. </P)—August 24 is
the revised date for the next
Nome sailing, the Alaska Steam
ship company announced yester
day. The Motorship Jumper Hitch
under the command of Captain
Ludwig Jacobson, will make the
trip in place of the Motorship
Rose Knot formerly set to sail
August 19.
In addition to Nome, the Jump
er Hitch ports of call will include
Unalaska. Solomon, Golovin, St.
Michael and Unalakleet.
(A telegram received by W. R.
Woods, local agent for the Alaska
Steamship Co., states cargo will
be received for transport on the
Jumper Hitch until August 20.)
After this sailing there remains
but one other this year on which
shipments may be made to Bering
Sea points September 23.
The Terminal Knot is north un
loading freight at Shishmaref,
Deering and Kotzebue. It should
be returning the first of next week.