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VOL. L. No. 141_ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
YOKOHAMA, </P) — The U. S.
transport Gen. M. M. Patrick ar
rived today with 245 American
evacuees from China. Fifty-nine of
them disembarked here and the
balance will continue on to the
United States.
PETERSBURG (A*)—All Luther
* an churches in Alaska will be rep
resented at the annual circuit con
vention starting today, to last four
days.
Dr. H. L. Foss, Seattle, president
of the Pacific district of the Evan
gelical Lutheran church, will offi
ciate at dedication of the new
church here. The Rev. Thomas
Knudson is pastor.
VANCOUVER, B. C. <£>) — The
w
international salmon commission
said yesterday it will meet at Bel
• lingham Nov. 29 and 30, as orig
inally planned.
Some Fraser Valley fishermen,
denied U. S. entry because of an
ti-communist border laws, had
asked the commission to hold all
meetings in Canada until U. S. au
thorities are “prepared to admit
Canadian representatives without
hindrance.”
WASHINGTON, {IP)—Friends of
Senator Alben W. Barkley, vice
president-elect, said yesterday he
probably will spend the Christmas
holidays in South America.
They said Barkley is considering
invitations to visit Argentina, Bra
zil and Chile on a trip that would
begin about mid-December.
A definite decision probably will
be made this week. Barkley now
is at home in Paducah, Ky.
PARIS, (/P) — A Soviet spokes
man denied today rumors that
Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinski will
leave the United Nations assem-1
> bly session soon.
The spokesman said the rumors, i
which circulated chiefly in the cor
ridors of U. N. headquarters here,
were “entirely untrue.”
Vishinsky is chief of the Soviet
delegation to the United Nations
and a Soviet deputy foreign min
ister.
, SAN FRANCISCO, {IP) — The
Marshall Mars, giant, four-engined
flying boat, returned safely to Ala
» meda naval air station yesterday
after one of its engines failed en
route to Hawaii.
The crippled flying boat landed |
at 9:10 ajm. The Marshall had
taken off from Alameda about |
► midnight and lost the engine about
three hours later 600 miles off the
mainland. . .
On board were seven passengers
—six army personnel and one
navyman—and a crew of 14.
WASHINGTON, (^)—The State
Department announced today that
Charles Oliver Thompson of Fair
banks, has been transferred from
I Calcutta, India, to Karachi, Paki
stan, as second secretary and con
sul.
SEATTLE, (j<P)—Requiem Mass
for Gerald Crock, 5, who died un
expectedly Sunday was to be said
at 10 ajn. today in St. Alphonsus
Interna tion’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press
Tuesday. November 23, 1948
A top American government of
ficial estimated today five billion
dollars must be poured from the U.
S. treasury into China if there is
any change to stop the advancing
communists.
President Truman, who reviewed
foreign relations with Secretary of
State Marshall, was described as
eager to reach a decision quickly
on China. He must reply to an ur
gent appeal last week from Chiang
Kai-Shek asking in effect that the
U. S. furnish a great deal more and
about take over direction of the
war against the Reds. Some gov
ernment officials are known to
feel it is too late. During the war
and since, the U. S. has sent
$3,600,000,000 to China, with little
to show for it.
The communists regrouped after
a battering last week and opened a
new drive on Suchow, key to Nan
king 180 miles away and to cen
tral China. Weather held back na
tionalist planes which blunted the
i communist attack last week.
| The Reds increased threats in
North China to Peiping and Tient
sin by taking over Paoting.
President Synbman Rhee of
South Korea asked new assurance
I American occupation troops will
not leave South Korea “while the
; communist threat continues.” A
Korean communist army was
formed in North Korea which Rus
sia occupies and probably would
move into the south if U. S. troops
left.
Doctors ordered King George VI
of Britain to take a complete rest
for six months. He cancelled tours
to Australia and New Zealand for [
1949. A circulatory disease—possi
bly a blood clot—recently became
“acute” in his right leg.
The Americans told the U. N. the
security council still should find
a solution of the Berlin blockade
crisis. An American spokesman
said “the aftions of Soviet outhori
ties in Berlin are increasingly pre
venting the lawful city government
from exercising its functions.”
The Russians forbid circulation
in their zone of the new Berlin
telephone book since it did not list
the communist police department.
The communists were threatening
to stop the elevated railroad, sole
transport system in Berlin after 6
p.m.
The American military govern
ment said steel production in the
Ruhr made another postwar record
last month and that communist
unions had failed to stir labor un
rest. The report said the Berlin
blockade has forced 400 more fac
tories in western Berlin to close or
cut operations.
Australia called on the Arabs
and Jews to settle the Palestine
question on the basis of the U. N.
partition plan of last Nov. 29. The
resolution recommended U. N.
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Church. Born in Juneau, the boy,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Crock, had lived in Seattle a year
and a half.
Globe Girdler Will
Continue “In Bar
row If Necessary”
(By George Meyers)
FAIRBANKS, {!■P)—“I am going
to continue,” Mrs. Richard Mor
ro^-Tait, British “round-the-world
ther, said yesterday, “if I have to
put the plane in a wheelbarrow.”
And it loo ts at this juncture as
if she may have to do just that.
Wings and landing gear dam
aged beyond repair, her one-en
g.ned plywood plane lies in a heap
today alongside the Alaska High
w. y 235 miles southeast of here,
where it crashed Sunday.
Neither the ex-model nor her
navigator, Michael Townsend, has
enough money to pay for shipping
the wrecked plane into Canada,
the nearest repair point, or for
shipping parts from Canada to
Alaska.
Monday was the flying matron’s
25th birthday and she declared
“what I need for a birthday pres
ent is a miracle.”
Mrs. Morrow-Tait was worried,
too, lest souvenir hunters dis
mantle “Thursday’s Child” com
ple ely as the battered ship lies un
guarded a few yards off the high
way. Officers had difficulty in per
suading the comely redhead to de
sert the wreckage.
Mrs. Morrow-Tait said she and
Townsend were fortunate to es
cape uninjured when the small
plane broke its landing gear com
ing down the highway and plung
ed into roadside brush. Only safety
belts, installed when the two spare
gas tanks were removed at An
chorage recently, saved them from
being hurled out of the ship, she
sadi. Engine trouble forced them
down.
The flier and her navigator were
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UNION THANKSGIVING
SERVICE
November 25, 1948—10:30 A.M.
This service will be conducted
in the Federated Church tomorrow
morning at the hour of 10:30 to
11:30. Please come early as the
service will be broadcast by remote
control over WXLN radio station.
All are cordially invited and urged
to attend.
Following is the outline of the
service:
Hymn of Adoration and Praise:
“O Worship the King”
Invocation by Rev. Verne Rimling
The Doxology
Two Songs—played and sung by
the musical group from the
Church of the Nazarene under
the direction of Mrs. Lewis Hud
gins.
Responsive Reading—led by Chap
lain Darling.
Prayer—by A. E. Capener.
Song—by the Girls’ Chorus from
Lavinia Wallace Young Mission
under the direction of Rev.
Theron McGrew.
Thanksgiving Message—
by Rev. H. R. Amundsen
Vocal Solo—by Mrs. Capener, Miss
Harriet Brown accompanist.
Hymn—“America”
Benediction—by Rev. Rimling.
SUP Demands
Bridges’ Removal
SEATTLE, (/P)—The removal of
Harry Bridges “and his associates
from control of the CIO long
shoremen’s union” was demanded
yesterday by the Seattle local of
the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific.
Ed Coester, Sea tie agent of the
rival AFL union, said the member
ship instructed him to send an
“open letter” to CIO president
Philip Murray at the national CIO
convention in Portland, making
public the demands.
The letter also urged that the
Pacific American Shipowners’ as
sociation insist that Bridges and
other longshore officers comply
with the Taft-Hartley law’s non
communist provisions before being
permitted to negotiate further.
I
U. S. Army Breaks
Czech Spy Ring
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P) —
The U. S. army said today it has
smashed a Czechoslovak spy ring
which had been getting data on
American troops and installations.
“Approximately 20 persons were
arrested,” the announcement said.
All those arrested, except one
who claimed Czech nationality,
were either from the Suden en
land of Czechoslovakia or were na
tive Germans.
The army said htey were “oper
ating in the United States zone of
Germany on behalf of Czech in
telligence.”
Communists Lose
Italian Election
ROME, (/P)—From Verona in the
north to Catania in the south,
Christian Democrats continued to
win over communists and extreme
left Socialists in municipal elec
tions Sunday.
Results of elections in 29 com
munities showed Christian Demo
crats victors in 24, the remaining
five going to communists and ex
treme left socialists.
Of the 461 councilmen elected
in the 29 communities, 341 were
Christian Democrats or members
of local lists supported by the
Christian Democrats. Social-com
munists won 120 seats.
Passengers Dine
Luxuriously—F ree
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., (/P) —
Nearly 1,500 passengers dined,
rested and played in luxury with
out added cost aboard the Queen
Elizabeth as she went nowhere
again today. Their regular fares
cover the service.
The Cunard White Star Line,
owner, is footing the bill for the
extra service. Her departure is
now a week behind schedule, with
passengers and crew awaiting set
tlement of the longshoremen’s
strike in the United States east
coast ports. Line officials have
promised the crew the Elizabeth
will not sail until the "Strike ends.
Who Will Represent
Who Ties Up
Strike Settlement
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Argu
ments over what workers shall be
represented by which union threat
ened yes erday to prolong the west
coast maritime strike, already 83 •
days old. Only one previous Pa
cific waterfront tieup has lasted
longer: 98 days, in 1936-37.
The non-striking AFL sailors
union of the Pacific has demanded
jurisdiction over stewards aboard
Alaska Steamship company ves
sels, a Pacific American shipown
ers association spokesman said,
and the PASA has asked the na
tional labor relations board what
to do about it. The PASA mean
while delayed further talks with
the striking CIO marine cooks and
stewards union, which claimed the
same Alaska ship jobs.
Still in the argument stage too,
I are rival CIO and AFL claims to
1 shipboard radio operators.
The PASA was scheduled to
meet today with another union,
the independent marine firemen,
with whom it had reached a wage
agreement. Several other issues in
volving the striking firemen re
mained unsettled, however,
i Also expected to meet yesterday
were CIO longshoremen and the
waterfront employers association,
who in separate sessions Monday
sought to propose specific contract
language for issues on which they
had reached accord.
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SCOUT TROOP 666 TO
HOLD COURT OF HONOR
Troop 666, Boy Scouts is busy
this week getting ready for their
Court of Honor which is scheduled
for Friday evening at the Pioneer
Hall at 7:30.
Boys participating in the import
ant program as Tenderfoots are
William Lencer, Michael McGil
| vray, Samuel Ashnouk, Cecil EI
[ ingnak, Milton Willoka, Harold
Ahmasuk, Don Pierce, Sam Mogg,
Jr., Edward Omauk, Myron
Wheeler, Jerome Trigg, Gilbert
Ozenna, Norman Otuk, Arthur
Johnson, Arthur Outwater, Elmer
Greene, Billy Lee, Carl Ahwinona,
John Norbert, Jr., Clyde Hershak.
Gordon Swanberg.
Second Class Awards:
Herbert Kagoona, Ray Miller*
Carl Smith, Roy Luke, Frank Shel
don, George Bell, David Bowen,
Andrew. Kalerak, Roy Gifford.
First Class: Ralph Bingham,
John Hudert, Jr.
Merit Badges will be awarded
also to several of the boys.
Glen Mazen will receive the
highest award to be given to any
Troop member to date. He will be
awarded the honor of being a Star
Scout.
NOTICE
Families and friends ..of Troop
666 Boy Scouts of America are
cordially invited to attend a Court
of Honor Friday evening at 7:30.
Pioneer Hall.