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VOL. L. No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1948. PER COPY — 15c
“Will be no war,”
Says Russia
—
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL<
By the Associated Press—Warrior,
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan,
said today his Arab Legion scouts
have occupied Jericho, whose
walls tumbled to the blast of the
prophet Joshua’s trumpet 3,400
years ago.
The city is less than 20 miles
northeast of Jerusalem. It is equi- j
distant from Amman, the Trans- j
Jordan capital whence Abdullah j
has vowed to ride into Palestine
this week at the head of the reg- j
ular armies of his country, Syria;
and Lebanon.
Jews in Haifa said the Arab
legion had shelled a Jewish set
tlement near Naharaim on the
Trans-Jordan border, killing 10
Jews. The Jewish militia, Haga
nah, was said to have occupied
border fortresses at Samakh and
Jisr el Majamie, abandoned by
the withdrawing British.
Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish un
derground organization, claimed
the capture of all the Mansheih
quarter of Arab Jaffa, which ad
joins Tel Aviv. Haganah and Ir
gun troops fought side by side
in an intensifying battle for the
port city.
Tdp American officials are
greatly disturbed lest an invasion
of Palestine by outside Arab ar
mies touch off World War III.
The United Nations still talked
of means to block war in the Holy
Land. An act of aggression, such
as invasion, will test the U.N.’s
resources and prestige to the ut
most.
Despite the germs of another
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Refuse To Load
Lumber Aboard
SS Baranof, Juneau:
_ i
JUNEAU, —(/P)—Longshoremen
refused to load lumber yesterday
aboard the steamer Baranof, con
tending the lumber passed picket
lines set up at the Juneau Spruce
Corporation.
The picket lines were established
April 10 in connection with the
longshoremen’s attempt to get the
barge loading jobs now handled
by the CIO-International Wood
workers of America.
Horace Adams, local agent of
the Alaska Steamship Company,
said he had passed the matter to
his Seattle office for further act
ion. .
E. S. Hawkins, manager of the
corporation, said he will file a
complaint with the National Lab
or Board charging “another boy-,
cott.”
Hawkins said also that the cor
poration is going ahead with plans
for a complete closure of its op
erations. He said permission has
been requested of the Forest Ser
vice to sell the company’s stock
of logs.
Territorial Labor Commissioner,
Henry A. Benson and Juneau’s
Mayor Waino Hendrickson said
they had been advised by Fed
eral Conciliator Albin Peterson
that he will take action in the
dispute within 24 hours.
$700,000 Fund For
Health Survey In
Alaska Is Urgent
WASHINGTON, — (A1) — A
$700,000 fund to be spent bet
ween July 1 and March 1 to sur
vey health and sanitation condi
tions in Alaska was recommended
today.
The House appropriations Com
mittee, with testimony before it
that the situation is alarmingly
critical, approved the special Al
aska fund.
The Public Health Service
would make the survey and “em
ergency corrections” and report
back in time for the next Con
gress to consider what is needed
for the Territory.
A sub-committee, which was
told by Dr. Arthur Berstein of
Chicago that Alaska’s health and
sanitation situation is alarming
and that it is the government’s
duty to take immediate steps to
improve conditions, told the full
committee in its report:
“The committee is aware of the
fact that Alaska figures promin
ent in the national defense pic
ture, and certain large scale de
velopments undertaken and now
under way in the territory have
been announced.
“The health situation, which for
some years has been rather ser
ious, is now appreciably aggrav
ated, and unless adequate steps
are promptly taken to cope with,
will undoubtedly become worse.
“Although the evidence is that
there are many serious defic'en
cies in the .Public Health situation,
the prevalence of tuberculosis and
venereal disease is particularly
serious. It is indicated that the
death rate from tuberculosis in
Alaska is the highest in the
world.” Dr. Berstein was chair
man of a special Alaska committee
of the American Medical Associa
tion and investigated conditions
in the Territory last summer.
Berstein, Gov. Ernest Gruening
and Dr. Earl C. Albrecht, Terri
torial Health Commissioner, all
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Stassen Wins Penn.
Primary Vote For
Republican Pres.
PHILADELPHIA, —(&)—White
House hopeful Harold E. Stassen,
today won Pensylvania’s Repub
lican presidential popularity con
test.
The former Minnesota gover
nor captured first place in yester
day’s preferential write-in-vote
primary. He scored a slim and sur
prising victory over New York’s
governor Thomas E. Dewey.
Stassen’s triumph in industrial
Pennsylvania followed his dele
gate successes in the farm states
of Nebraska and Wisconsin. But,
the vote is not binding on the
Keystone State’s 73 GOP Conven
tion Delegates.
Jay Cooke, Stassen’s Pennsyl
vania campaign manager, said the
victory “clearly indicates the
smashing majority that Stassen,
as the nominee, would receive in
the November election.”
New City Council
In Active Session
First Meeting
The Nome Common Council met
in regular session last evening in
the City Hall with all of the reg
ular councilmen present, except
C. D. Anderson, who has been re
ported absent for the past sever
i al meetings.
Those present were Steve And
erson, Lester Bronson, Keith Hed
reen, Paul Mandeville and Rich
ard Webb. The newly elected mem
bers, who were to take the oath
of office, Fred Cavota, Thomas
McAllister, and Gordon Osborne
were present.
Business taken up by the out
going council included the read
ing of the Auditor’s report on the
accounts of the City Clerk’s office.
Statement of which w’ill be pub
i lished later.
The Council passed Ordinance
No. 320, which pertains to the
licensing of motor vehicles with
in the City of Nome.
Pleasure cars will be taxed at
$10.00 each.
Trucks, tractors and commer
cial vehicles at $15.00
The full ordinance is published
elsewhere in this issue of the
Nome Nugget.
A resolution was passed, taking
up rules and regulations govern
ing the collection and enforcement
of the licensing ordinance.
Following adjournment of the
meeting, the three outgoing mem
bers gave up seats to the new
members.
I As the Council now stands, the
; members are Steve Anderson,
Lester Bronson, Fred Cavota,
Keith Hedreen, Thomas McAllister
| and Gordon Osborne,
j The first order of business was
appointing of Committees by the
Mayor, Luther Dunbar..'
Streets and Alleys - Keith Hedren
and Steve Anderson.
Police and Jail - Gordon Osborne
and Keith Hedreen.
Fire and Water - Lester Bronson
and Thomas McAllister.
Health and Relief - Fred Cavota
and Lester Bronson.
Finance and Building - Steve An-!
derson and Gordon Osborne.
Laws, Ordinance and Printing -
Thomas McAllister and Fred Ca
vota.
Next on the agenda was the
order of business calling for a
motion to advertise for a Chief
of the Police and Fire Department.
After quite an agile discussion
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Bartlett Bill Would
Authorize Building
For U. of Alaska
WASHJNGTON,—(/P)—Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) offered a joint
resolution yesterday to authorize
construction of buildings and fa
cilities in or near the University
of Alaska for research in Arctic
Health.
The proposal calls for appro
priation of $4,900,000 to be used
by the Public Health Service for
this purpose.
548 VOTED IN FIRST OF
BLANKET PRIMARIES
DEMOS POLL STRONG VOTE IN
ALL BUT ATT’Y GENERAL POST
In the Primary Election yesterday 548 ballots were
cast, with the popularity vote for Second Division
candidates going to Aimer 'Slim' Rydeen who re
ceived a vote of 256.
Rail Strike Called
For May 11, Will
Affect Nation
—
CHICAGO,—(/P)—May 11 was
| set today for a nationwide rail
road strike.
The date for the start of the
! walkout of 150.000 union members
1 was made public in Cleveland
while union spokesmen were pre
paring a formal announcement
of the date in Chicago.
The strike will start at 6:00 a.m
on May 11, the Cleveland sources
1 said.
The strike would paralyze the
1 country’s transportation system by
i pulling locomotive engineers, fire
men and enginemen and switch
men off the jobs. Two years ago
a strike cut off rail service for
two days until President Truman
intervened.
What legal steps might be un
dertaken to head off the crippling
walkouts remained a question.
The wage dispute between the
unions and the nation’s class 1
railroads has passed through all
steps of machinery set up under
the National Railway Labor Act.
Railroad workers are excluded
from coverage by the Taft-Hart
ley law. Hence the government
cannot ask for an anti-strike in
junction as it did recently against
Lohn L. Lewis’ coal miners.
WASHINGTON, — (JP) — The
National Mediation Board decid
ed today to make a new attempt
to head off the threatened rail
road strike May 11.
It scheduled a meeting in Chi
cago Thursday with the railroads
and disputing unions in an effort
to mediate the wage controversy.
Board chairman Frank Douglass 1
told a news conference all other
procedures under the Railway
Labor Act have been exhausted.1
“This is the last thing we can
do as a board,” Douglass added.
The agency first had attempted
to arbitrate the dispute.
Then it asked. President Tru-j
man to appoint an emergency i
board to investigate.
The emergency board recom
mended a 15 1/2 cent hourly in
crease in wages but that was re
jected by the three Brotherhoods i
involved.
They are locomotive engineers,
firemen and enginmen, and switch
men. About 150,000 workers are
represented by the three unions.
Douglass said that he and med
iation board member Francis A.i
O’Neill will leave for Chicago to-'
night. |
• The following is the official tal
ly for Nome only;
For Delegate:
E. L. Bartlett 376; R. H. Stock
118.
For Attorney General:
Aimer Peterson <R> 237; Ger
ald Williams <D> 194.
For Auditor:
Frank Boyle <D> 244: Harry De
Land <D» 77; Albert Goetz <R>
143.
For Highway Engineer:
Ira Farnsworth »R> 97; Donald
McDonald II. <D> 266; Frank Met
calf <D> 119.
For Territorial Senator Second
Division:
James Adams 47; C. D. Ander
son (R* 107; Edward Anderson (D)
141; Lester Bronson <R> 63; Ben
Gillette <R> 110; Howard Lyng
<D> 119: Garnet Martin (D» 117;
Charles O'Leary <D> 158; George
Waldheim «R> 130
For House of Representatives:
William Beltz <D> 184; Frank
Degnan (D> 92: Axel Edman (D)
156; Percy Ipalook <R> 119; Frank
Johnson <R' 91; W. W. Laws <R)
162: George Madsen <D> 193; Ches
ter Milligan <R> 180: Sam Mogg
j (R» 115: Wallace Porter <D> 108;
Pete Reader <R> 108; Aimer Ry
deen <D> 256; and Nels Swanberg
Jr. <R) 144.
FAIRBANKS. — With approx
imately half of the 1186 ballots
in the record Fairbanks primary
vote tallied with the following
results:
Bartlett 588, Stock 105, Peter
son 304, Williams 329. Boyle 404,
DeLand 107, Goetz 159, Farns
worth 79, MacDonald 485, Met
calf 133, —For Senator Jesse Lan
der 147, Frank Barr 132, are the
two leading Democrats, John But
rovitch 430 and Clarence Woof
ter 189 are the leading Republi
cans.
For the House the leading five
Democrats are Robert Hoopes 186;
Warren Taylor 185; Essie Dale
167; Glen Franklin 164; Frank An
german 161. The leading Repub
licans are Joe Coble 256; Walter
Calhoun 187; Alden Wilbur 165;
Lary Meath 162; and George Mis
covitch 149.
WASHINGTON, ——Senate
Public Works Committee recom
mended the enactment of a law
to build a $1,875,000 rock sea
wall at Nome, Alaska. The bill
now goes before the Senate.
Nome City Clerk
The full Senate Public Works
Committee approved the seawall
bill today
Carl J. Lomen
April 27.