m NOME NUGGET
_ OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LI. No. 83 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (/}’)—A study of ice
and snow formations in Taku gla
cier will be started about mid
week by 18 geologists who have
established bases on the glacier’s
surface.
Maynard Miller is field director
of the survey, sponsored by the
American Geographic Society.
Army and navy planes have
dropped more than six tons of
supplies and equipment on the
three camps already set up by the
members of the expedition.
The temperature on the glacier
was reported Monday morning at
44 degrees, only 12 degrees lower
than Juneau.
WASHINGTON. </P>, The House
public lands committee yesterday
decided to refer establishment of
recreational facilities in connec
tion with the proposed Eklutna
power dam in Alaska. It struck
such items, estimated to cost about
$1,500,000 from a bill already
recommended to the House. The
reduced estimated cost of the dam
is now $20,000,00. which would
be repaid in 50 years.
BULLETIN
LOS ANGELES, (/P> — A com
mercial airliner with 40 persons
board crashed and burst into
flames yesterday two miles south
west of Santa Suzanna Pass, the
sheriff's office reported. Shortly
before the plane was to have land
ed at Long Beach, Calif., the pilot
radioed he would bring the craft
dovrn in Burbank. He requested
police at the airport, saying there
had been a violent fight aboard.
SEATTLE. (/Pi — Arthur John
Ficken, former meat market op
erator in Juneau, Alaska, died j
Monday after a long illness. He!
was 71 years old.
Ficken was born in Chicago, 111.
He came to Seattle seven years!
agf from Juneau, where he had
lived 30 years.
Funeral services were held at
1 o’clock today.
SEATTLE, UP)—Halibut fishing1
season in the vast area III, west of i
Cape Spencer, Alaska, ended at
midnight last night. The area’s
quota of 28 million pounds will
have been reached at that time.
A deluge of fishing vessel ar
rivals is expected later in the
week. The Fishing Vessel Owners
association said the bulk of the
boats should return during Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday.
Some of the Seattle boats may
stop in Alaska ports enroute home,
but most are expected to return
direct from the fishing grounds. |
NEW YORK, <P)—Mayor Wil
liam O’Dwyer announced today
that he wiil run for re-election.
The mayor said at a news con
ference: “I deem it my duty in the
best interests of the city to run
for re-election.”
The announcement came a day
after the Democratic mayor con
ferred with President Truman in
Washington and just after Man
hattan district attorney Frank S.
Hogan had been promised the
(Continued on Page Six>
Forty-Five Die
In India Air Crash
— __
BOMBAY, India, i/P)—Thirteen
American correspondents and 32
other persons died yesterday in
crash of a KLM Constellation
groping through monsoon rain
storms toward a Bombay island;
airfield.
The American reporters were
returning home from a tour of In
donesia sponsored by the Dutch
government. It was the second
tragedy to befall planes of KLM
(The Royal Dutch Airline* within
three weeks. The Constellation
that carried the reporters to In
donesia crashed on its return trip
to Europe, killing 33 persons off
Bari, Italy, June 23.
The correspondents killed in
cluded Charles Gratke, foreign
editor of the Christian Science
Monitor, and two Pulitzer prize
winners — H. R. Knickerbocker
and S. Burton Heath.
A 14th American killed was
Lynn Mahan, representative of a
New York public relations com
pany. The others killed were 11
Dutch crewmen, including the
general operations manager of
KLM at Karachi, Pakistan; 17
other Dutchmen: two Chinese and
one Briton.
Thirty-three bodies had been
(Continued on Page Two)
Hawaii Governor
Asks Broad Power
To Deal with Labor
HONOLULU, (VP)—Gov. Ingram
M. Stainback turned to Hawaii’s
legislature today in hopes of get
ting broad new powers to end the
islands’ 74-day dock strike.
He will call a special session, he
announced, just as soon as the
legislature's holdover committee
drafts a proposed Little Taft-Hart
ley labor program. He asked that
it be done by Tuesday. The com
mittee went right to work.
The keynote in the five-measure!
series by the Hawaiian Bar As
sociation would arm the governor!
with injunctive powers to step |
into the CIO longshore tieup. It
would authorize him to seize and
operate the now idle docks and
(Continued on Page Six)
WALRUS CLUB FIGHTS
REALLY UNDER WAY
The boxing matches, sponsored
by the Walrus Club of Nome, and I
which have been postponed sev
eral times for various reasons, are
now a certainty, stated president
Wes Welsh today.
All arrangements have been
made and eight big fights are as
sured. The men are all in top con
dition and the display of the man
ly art of self-defense should be
of the best.
It was learned today that Bob
Brown and Curley Miller will re
place Ralph Ober and Richard
Carroll in the third event. One of
the boys injured his shoulder.
The main even will be fought
under professional rules. The bout
is between Gearge Swanson and
Wesley Boyt and should provide
some real excitement.
Strrl Strike Seems
Certain Unless
Truman Steps In
—
(By The Associated Press'
President Truman may inter
vene to prevent a threatened
strike of the nation’s 500,000 steel
workers.
A White House announcement
said he had the steel labor dispute
“under consideration” and a state
ment would be issued shortly.
Barring Presidential action, a
strike may begin Saturday. CIO
president Philip Murray has an
nounced he will recommend his
United Steelworkers quit work
this week-end.
A steelworkers’ 170-man wage
policy committee was expected to
approve his recommendation yes
terday.
President Truman has the power
to declare the proposed strike a
danger to the nation’s safety and
welfare. He could delay a work
stoppage for 80 days while a fact
finding board examines the dis
pute.
Besides un unspecified wage
hike, the steel workers are de
manding company finance pen
sions and insurance.
The giant unit is expected to
back up its demand with a CIO
sponsored economic report calling
for wage increases to fight off a
possible depression.
The CIO’s economic analysis,
prepared by Robert R. Nathan, a
consulting economist, advocated
wage raises in all but “severly de
(Continued on Page Seven!
Hearing on Juneau
Spruce In junction
JUNEAU, (/P) — Hearings were ■
resumed yesterday on whether a
temporary injunction barring the
international longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union from pic
keting the Juneau Spruce Corpo
ration mill shall be made perm-1
anent.
The hearing began Monday be
fore chief trial examiner for the
NLRB, which issued the tempor
ary injunction.
Witnesses Monday were Free
man Schultz, general manager of
the Spruce Company, and Mike
Seston, ILWU member.
The union discontinued picket
ing last May after a period of pic
keting begun April 19, 1948.
The union claims its members
should be assigned to barge-load
ing work at the mill.
JUNEAU. </P) — The National
Labor Relation Board has given
both sides until Aug. 2 to file
briefs in a complaint brought by
the Juneau Spruce Corporation.
The company charges the Inter
n a t i o nal Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union local with
unfair labor practices.
After filing of briefs, trial ex
aminer William Ringer, who con
ducted this week’s hearing, may
decide whether a temporary
NLRB injunction against the un
ion to prevent picketing of the
company’s plant, will be made
permanent. *
Cook Inlet Fishing
Strike Settled
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A seven
cluy strike of CIO fishermen and i
cannery workers, which reduced
Cook Inlet cannery output to a
trickle, ended Monday, with the
union’s acceptance of a new price
and wage offer by the Alaska Sal
mon Industry. Inc.
The largest increase for fisher
men will be in the price paid for
red and silver salmon. Those
taken in lower Cook Inlet will
bring 70 cents apiece, those in the
uppe" Inlet 66 cents.
John Wiese, president of the
CIO Westward Alaska fisheries
council, said:
“This is 8 cents better than 1948
prices and 4 cents more than the
industry offered before the strike.”
Under the agreement, the price
of king salmon will remain un
changed.
Pinks taken oy gillnets on the
upper inlet will be worth 18 cents,
or 4]2 cents more than last year.
Seine caught pinks will bring 21
cents, a rise of 5*/2 cents.
Chums, whether caught with
gillnets or by seining, will net 26
cents, up 3!/2 cents.
Beach gillnetters employed by
companies will get three-fourths o!
the new quoted prices, while
handtrap fishermen will be paid
79 per cent of the scale for the up
(Continued on Page Two)
U. S. Army Will
Attempt Convoy
Into Berlin
BERLIN, f/P) — An American
army convoy of 60 trucks, loaded
with supplies for the U. S. military
post in Berlin, rolled toward the
Soviet zone frontier today in a
test of Russian policy.
Unarmed, but with American
military police escorts, the convoy
is scheduled to appear at the Rus
sian’s Helmstedt checkpoint on the
main Berlin auto road tomorrow
morning.
British military police at Helm
stedt reported today that several
hundred Berlin-bound German
trucks were stalled there in a con
tinuation of the tieup which, the
Russians began Sunday.
The military police said that
Soviet guards had allowed as
many as six trucks an hour to
pass in the early morning but
were now cutting back to as few
as three.
The American army, if its con
voy gets through the Soviet zone
without difficulty tomorrow,
plans to establish a weekly truck
ing service to their Berlin post to
relieve some of the burden on the
U. S.-British airlift.
. . - —
Mr. and Mrs. William Bartley,
of Oroville, California, arrived in
Nome Friday evening on the
Alaska Airlines plane from An
chorage. They will visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Jones of Nome,
Mrs. Bartley and Mrs. Jones are
sisters.
The Bartleys and Mrs. Jones
will leave on the Pan American
plane next Sunday for Fairbanks
where they will begin a leisurely
ride down the Alcan to California.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Tuesday, July 12, 1949
'By The Associated Press.'
Britain’s labor government —
armed with a proclamation of na
tional emergency — seized the
strike-bound port area of London
to force a showdown with some
12,000 striking dock workers.
The workers’ 16-day-old dispute
with the dock labor board has tied
up 127 ships and si >wed the hand
ling of dollar expo ts and import
ed goods.
The proclamation of a state of
national emergency was signed
yesterday by King George VI af
ter the cabinet decided to have re
course to such a measure. It was
the first time since the general
• trike of 1026 that a state of emer
gency had been proclaimed to
quell a labor dispute in Britain.
Some 2,300 soldiers and 400
ilors and marines went into the
port today to unload food. The
government has been sending
‘Continued on Page Two)
FLANS MADE TO RE-OPEN
FEDERATED CHURCH
Monday evening members of
Board of Directors of the Feder
ated Church had as their guests at
dinner at the Pioneer Hall Bishop
Gerald Kennedy, Rev. J. S. Gaiser
and Rev. G. Edward Knight of the
Methodist Church. Rev. Knight,
who is the superintendent of the
Bishop Gerald Kennedy
_ __
Alaska Methodist Mission, acted
as toastmaster for the dinner and
plans were discussed for the re
opening of the Federated Church
i under a Methodist minister who
should arrive in a few weeks.
Tuesday evening the public
was invited to hear Bishop Ken
nedy and Rev. James S. Gaiser,
who attended the World Confer
ence of Churches in Amsterdam
last year, told of the accomplish
ments of this outstanding confer
ence, the first ever to be attempt
ed and of his experiences while at
the conference.
Bishop Kennedy gave a short
talk on the importance of the
church and its traditions and re
sponsibilities.
They plan to leave today for
Fairbanks and to attend the Alas
ka Conference of Methodist work
ers in Anchorage.