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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__
VOETTl No. 58 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1950 Per 0,i>v—15c
NEW S IN BRIEF
PRINCE RUPERT ,</P> — Trav
elers report that Russia may be
planning to put military installa
tions on Big Diomede Island—
closest Russian soil to Alaska.
The arriving travelers said yes
terday that Russia has been evac
uating civilians from the Bering
Sea island. The island is only a
mile from Little Diomede Island,
owned by the United States.
Persons making the reports
asked anonymity but were de
scribed as reliable informants.
WASHINGTON, (/P), The House
Ways and Means Committee yes
terday approved a 10 per cent
withholding tax on corporation
dividends.
This withholding, if it finally
becomes law, would put no new
tax obligation on any taxpayer.
But it is designed to get taxes
from persons who now fail to re
port their dividends in their per
sonal income, tax returns.
The committee had received es
timates that the plan would bring
$150,000,000 more a year into the
federal treasury.
The vote was taken behind
closed doors. The committee sent
both treasury and its own staff ex
perts from the committee room.
JUNEAU, (JP) — Glen Carl of
Marysville, Wash., was fined $75
by U. S. Commissioner Gordon
Gray yesterday after pleading
guilty to non-payment of Alaska’s
non-resident fishermen’s tax. It
was the first sueh case since the
law was held constitutional.
Carl paid the $50 tax after he
was arrested while fishing in
Chatham Straits.
JUNEAU, (/P)—yoters approved
o v e r w h elmingly yesterday a
school construction program to be
financed by bonded indebtedness
not to exceed $750,000.
EDMONTON, Alta. (/P>—A tiny
casket was lowered into the
ground here yesterday. In it to
gether—as they had lived—were
Brenda and Beverly Townsend.
Joined face to face at the abdo
men, the twins died Sunday in an
operation to separate them.
BALTIMORE, (^) — General
Omar N. Bradley is dissatisfied
with the present state of Alaskan
defenses, but he says that instal
lations on that "most exposed
part of U .S. soil" will be rushed
to completion.
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff made these re
marks is a brief speech before the
Association of Commerce here
Monday, in opening air forces
week.
The general also observed that
American defenses in any future
war would require "total mobil
ization," and added that such an
effort also is needed "even to win
the cold war."
JUNEAU, (j*P)—A five-year-old
boy shot and fatally wounded his
baby sister Monday while playing
with a 32-20 caliber rifle.
The victim was Yvonne La
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Fairbanks Elec
trical Workers
Reject Agreement
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Striking!
: electrical workers rejected a ten
tative agreement Monday night to
| keep the city supplied with power
and gave Fairbanks officials five
days to set up emergency service.
The striking workers, members
of Local 1550 International Bro
therhood of Electrical Workers
<AFL>, voted 83-32 against the
tentative agreement reached Sun
day between union officials and
the Fairbanks Exploration depart
ment of the United States Smelt
ing, Refining and Mining Co.
The agreement sought to keep
the company’s power plant oper
ating during the course of a strike
which opened Monday in support
! of demands for a union shop.
The company supplies about
two-thirds of the city’s power.
Frank Angerman, union busi
ness agent, said the men operating
the power plant did not want to
go through the picket lines and
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Nationalist Chinese
Give IJ|> Chushans
TAIPEI, <>P)—Nationalist China
Monday night announced the
abandonment of the Chushan is
lands.
The official announcem e n t,
j coming on the heels of vows .bv
i Nationalists to defend the islands
t6 the death, said 150,000 troops
were evacuated.
Only yesterday a Nationalist
general from there, who insisted
that he not be named, said the
battle for the Chushans had not
started.
The Chushans were extremely
important to the Nationalists.
From that base 100 miles south
east of Shanghai an effective air
and naval blockade of the big
communist port had been affected.
Earlier yesterday, Chiang Kai
Shek pledged to die defending
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DAILY VACATION BIBLE
SCHOOL STARTS MONDAY
Will your children be in Daily
Vacation Bible School, Monday
morning, May 22nd?
The first meeting will be at the
Federated Methodist church at 9
a.m. All children from the little
four-year-olds to those through
high school are invited to come. A
token of enrollment will be given
to each one at this meeting.
All children who are four years
old and older, who have not been
in public school are admitted to
the Beginners’ Department under
the direction of Mrs. Earl Town
er and Miss Vernice Osborn. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert F. Treat will di
rect the Primary Department,
while Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. F.
Carlson will have charge of the
Juniors. Miss Esther McCoy and
Mr Lewis I. Hudgins will super
vise the Intermediates.
Each of these groups has a very
able corps of assistants who will
be present to greet the children
on Monday.
Chinese Reds Free
Two Yank Airmen |
MANILA, (/P) —Two American
airmen freed after 18 months im
prisonment by the Chinese com
munists arrived in Manila by
plane from Hong Kong Monday
night.
They were Marine master sgt.
Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati
and navy chief electrician Wil
liam C. Smith of Long Beach, Cal.
The two were brought here in
a navy flying boat after medical
examinations in Hong Kong where
they were landed earlier in the
day by a destroyer.
Both seemed happy to be free
of the communists. They were not
permitted by the navy to relate
their experiences in the various
| Chinese villages where they were
held by the Reds.
Original plans call for the pair
j to be flown to Guam and then
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Joe Naslioalook
I Straddles Fence
Twixt 2 < lO Ij nions
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Toe Nashoa
look, an Eskimo Fishermen’s Un
ion representative, was reported
under pressure from a third side
today in the tug-of-war over his
' Far North union.
Reports here today were that
the pressure this time was fi*om
member sof his union—Local 46,
International Fishermen and Al
lied Workers. They want him to
come home.
Nashoalook is in Seattle. He has
been for several weeks.
He has been the center of a bit
tercontest between two powerful
CIO union groups for affiliation
of his union’s members, along the
Arctic Coast and the Bering Sea.
His union voted overwhelming- j
ly to affiliate with the CIO long
shoremen’s union.
Then last week in Seattle he an
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Arguments for The
Property l ax
Arguments for the property
Tax Law, which has been chal
lenged in the U. S. District Court
in Fairbanks, were concluded yes
terday and Judge Pratt has the
case under advisement.
Attorney H. L. Faulkner of Jun
eau, representing Luther Hess of
Fairbanks, plaintiff and the Jun
eau Gold Mining Company, asked
a permanent injunction to declare
the Territorial property tax law
null and void and to restrain fur
ther tax collections.
Assistant Attorney General Di
mond based his contention that
the property tax law passed by
the last session of the Territorial
Legislature is legal on three main
assumptions:
1— That the Territory basically
has full power of taxation.
2— That this full power of tax
ation is limited only by the provi
sion that equal protection under
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I{ai! Strike Ends
“Satisfactorily
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CHICAGO, I/P) — The nation’s
worst railroad strike in four years
was settled yesterday and striking
firemen on five major rail sys
tems were ordered back to their
jobs immediately.
The struck carriers—their pas
senger and freight service disrup
ted by the six-day-old walkout—
planned to resume normal service
“as rapidly as possible.”
The striking Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men recalled picket lines and or
dered the strikers to return to
work.
Both sides expressed satisfac
tion over the settlement terms.
The carriers said they won the
fight on the principal issue—not
to hire a second fireman on mul
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News of I he \\ orld
\l A (#lanee - - -
Tuesday, May 16, 1950
• By The Associated Press)
The 12-nntion Atlantic Alliance
in London today attempted to
bridge the gap between what their
generals ask for defense against
communism and what their treas
uries can afford .
The committee of experts face
this dilemma: If they build and
pay for a safe number of guns,
will be gunmnking bring on eco
nomic misery and provide fertile
soil for the seeds of communism?
Their generals and defense min
isters, meting last month, laid
plans for a large-scale rearma
ment which diplomatic sources
i say includes a total ground force
of 30 divisions backed by the Bri
tish and United States air power.
It is the second day of the con
ference which yesterday heard U.
S. Secretary of State Dan Ache
son outline the findings of the Big
Three foreign ministers confer
ence last week.
In Moscow, U. N. secretary
general Trygve Ido’s mission is to
solve the crisis in the United Na
tions, now boycotted by the Sov
iet Union because communist Chi
na has not been seated in the
world body. Before talking with
Stalin, Lie consulted President
Truman, and government leaders
in Britain and France.
Present at the Lie-Stalin talk
were vice-premier V. M. Molotov
; adn foreign minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky. Because of the length
of the interview, Moscow observ
ers said they must have talked
j over other basic points of east
west tensions beside the China
question.
Russia has sent a note to the
Tehran government accusing it of
using American experts to make
j air surveys of “military signifi
cance” along the Soviot-Iranian
border.
The note, made public last
night, said that the Iranian Oil
j Co. Ltd., had ben organized to
seek oil in northern Iran and was
making aerial photographs, topo
graphical surveys and geological
studies near the Russian border.
The Soviet Union told Iran this
work should be carried out by
Iranians and warned the move is
“incompatible with good neigh
borly relations between Iran and
the U. S. S. R.
The communists whooped up a
big propaganda campaign in Ger
many, using as their ammunition
a Russian announcement that she
has cut sharply East Germany’s
war reparations bill.
Wednesday, May 17, 1950
The 12 North Atlantic Treaty
nations today weighed the possi
bility, of creating an international
army to contain communism.
In what might be the last day
of their London conference, the
foreign ministers of the pact coun
tries heard an American proposal
to set up a super command. It
would weld together their mili
tary power and strengthen politi
cal and economic ties as well.
Under this plan the continental
countries would supply most of
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