222 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 3 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF i
JUNEAU, (JP)—‘The Territory of
Alaska is looking for a good deep
red ink bottle to dip its pen into.
The Territorial general fund
lacked $221,645 in paying bills at
the end of December, treasurer
Hfenry Roden reported.
. ’ Roden said he had $480,184 on
hand at that time but bills pay
able totaled $701,829.
JUNEAU (JP)—Territorial Dele
gate E. L. Bartlett wants a two
year extension of his job.
feartlett filed on the Democratic
ticket Friday for re-election to the
position he holds in Congress, sub
ject to the primaries on April 25.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
smog in Los Angeles is so bad a
doctor from that city said:
“I had a patient who came out
from the east—a man who wore a
glass eye—and he had to buy a
new, bloodshot eye to match the
good one.”
The doctor was Dr. Elmer Belt,
a member of the California state
Board of Health. He was protest
ing to the board a proposal to
spend $170,00 0a year on a survey
to discover whht lasting bad ef
fects the smog may have.
Dr. Belt maintained the smog is
already making people miserable
—‘ and that’s sufficient evidence
to do something about smog right
now.”
MEXICO CITY (/P)—Fay Emer
son was staying with friends to
day in Cuernavaca and hoping to
get a divorce within a month
from the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s son Elliott.
Her attorney, Francisco Lopez
Figueroa, said she would file her
divorce petition this week, prob
ably in Cuernavaca, charging
“mental cruelty.’’ The attorney
said the divorce probably would
be granted about three weeks af
ter filing.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.
(/¥)—Air force salvage crews Sat
urday began efforts to raise the
wreckage of a giant B-50 bomber
which plunged into Choctawhat
chee Bay with the apparent loss of
two lives
Nine other crewmen reached
life rafts and were saved. Crash
boats from Eglin Field picked
them up within six or seven min
utes after they escaped from the
rapidly sinking plane. None of the
survivors was injured.
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SAN ANTONIO, (/P)—The con
tinental division of the Military
Air Transport Service said today
it flew 85,000,000 passenger miles
last year.
Its territory extends from Adak,
Aleutian Islands, across Alaska;
The continental U. S.; through the
Panama Canal Zone and as far
south of Santiago, Chile. It also
includes Buenos Aires in Argen
tina on the east coast.
The division ha headquarters at
Kelley Air Force Base. It was
formed in July, 1948, a merger of
the navy’s and air force’s air
transport services. It maintains
C-47 and C-54 flights over more >
than 33,000 air route miles.
“Lei’s Give Alaska’s
School Children
A Break”
An Address by Governor Ernest
Gruening over facilities of the
Alaska Broadcasting Company.
In taking this opportunity to
speak directly to the people of
Alaska. I am particularly address
ing my remarks to the educational
authorities, to the school boards of
our cities and of our independent
and incorporated school district.
However, what I have to say will
be of interest and concern to the
parents of our school children and
even more to the children them
selves.
In the past few weeks, most of
our city and school authorities
have had an opportunity to ac
I quaint themselves with the Alaska
Public Works Program. Without
going into detail as to its many
; promising aspects, I desire to dis
cuss the extraordinary opportuni
ties it affords our schools and our
school children.
Here in Alaska, where the need
for public facilities has been so
great and steadily increasing, but
where means of financing them
ited, we have been compelled for
j have, until recently, been so lim
years to resort to the policy of
I first things first, and ofter to do
without, ranslated into terms of
i
, school construction, this has meant
’ our making provision for the bare
I fundamentals, the three R’s, first.
Thereafter, as conditions might
permit, we would think in terms
of recreational facilities for our
school children, of vocational
courses such as manual training
I and machine-shop work for the
boys and home economics courses
for the girls. Unfortunately, con
ditions have seldom permitted
anything approaching a modem,
full school program for our chil- J
dren. As all of us know, these fea- j
tures of the school curriculum,
which are taken for granted in
in school systems in most of the
States, have only here and there
materialized in Alaska.
Now, however, the Alaska Pub
lic Works Act makes it possible
for our cities, school districts, and
for the Territory itself to correct
and improve our school facilities, i
It is my earnest hope that provision
will now be made to provide voca
tional opportunities within our
schools to supplement the basic
course of study. I am equally
hopeful that the school authorities
will include in their financing ar
rangements and in their applica
tions for federal matching funds,
provision for expanded recreation- J
al facilities as a part of their (
school plant and program. To have i
physical education, for example,
on a course of study, without ade
quate physical equipment within
the school plant is both contradic
tory and a failure to meet our ob
ligations.
S i m i larly, my advocacy of
greater physical and recreational
opportunities for our school chil
dren is not for the sake of recrea
tion alone, although that is import
ant in itself. In Alaska our winters
are long and, in many sections, se
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Truman Requests
$185,000,000 For
Alaskan Projects
By Charles D. Watkins
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman asked Congress today for i
appr oximately $185,000,000 to j
spend in Alaska during the 12
months starting next July 1.
The President said in his bud- •
get message to Congress that “the
1951 programs . . . include 23 mil- 1
lion dollars for development of
natural resources in Alaska De
velopmental expenditures in Alas
ka under other functions—in par
ticular national defense, transpor
tation. and social welfare—will
amout to approximately 162 mil
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Mad Fox Biles
Many Eskimo l)o£s
j “
JUNEAU, f/P)—A mad fox has
chewed up transportation 200
miles southwest of Point Barrow.
The Territorial health depart
ment reported Friday it was send
[ ing rabies vaccine to Point Lay,
where a large number of dogs
have been bitten by rambunctious
Reynard.
Dogs the the chief motive power
for sled transportation in the Es
kimo area on Alaska’s northwest
Bering seacoast. The bitten dogs
have been isolated, a department
doctor at Kotzebue radioed.
The department also disclosed
that more than 30 cases of ring
worm have been reported among
Anchorage school children. Physi
cians and teachers were request
ed to be on the watch for possible
spread of ringworm to other areas. '
Nationalists Fire 1
On American Boat,
“Flying Arrow"
'Wayne Richardson, Associated
Press bureau chief in HongKong,
boarded the American freighter
Flying Arrow bound for Shanghai
on the first leg of a homeward
journey. He is the only newsman
on board. His first hand account
of the shelling of the freighter by |
Chinese Nationalist gunboats fol-1
lows>:
(By Wayne Richardson)
Aboard the Flying Arrow off
Shanghai, (/P>—Chinese National- !
ist gunboats shelled this American
freighter mercilessly today. Ren
dering her unseaworthy with be
tween 30 and 40 shell hits.
There were no casualties among
the crew of 43 and 12 passengers.
Chinese Nationalist gunboats,
blockading Red held Shanghai,
stood guard over the Flying Ar
row after the shelling.
'From Taipei, Formosa, Chinese
Nationalist naval headquarters
announced their warships detained
the American freighter after the
shelling. A naval spokesman said
the Chinese opened fire when the
Flying Arrow ignored warnings
to halt).
Numerous fires were started
•aboard. Sailors from the British
sloop Black Swan boarded the
Flying Arrow and helped the crew
put out the fires.
Part of the ship’s $10,000,000
loaded in Hong Kong was dumped
overboard when it caught fire.
Capt. David Jones of Chicago
pronounced the ship no longer
seaworthy after inspecting the nu
merous shell hits. Some large ones
were just above the waterline.
Captain Jones requested the
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Mary Ann Amarok, daughter of Joe Amarok of Nome, as she
stepped off the Pan American plane Thursday morning enroute
to Haskell Institute where she will study on a scholarship. Mary
Ann was a guest o fhet Pan American on its first flight to Hawaii
in November, 1948.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Saturday. January 7. 1950
(By The Associated Press)
U. S. military officials in Tokyo
said today Formosa is doomed to
fall to communist China now that
the United States has decided on a
hands-off policy.
United States defense strategy
in the Pacific has depended on a
neutral if friendly Formosa, these
experts said. In enemy hands For
mosa could be a bludgeon against
American air fileds on Okinawa
and in the Philippines.
From Hong Kong. Chinese Na
tionalists claimed they had smash-*
ed a second communist attempt to
invade Hainan island, off China’s
south coast. Hainan and Formosa
are the last remaining territories
under control of Chiang Kai
Shek’s Nationalists. The National
ists said their war planes caught
1.000 junks approaching Hainan
and shot them down like sitting
ducks. Five hundred were sunk
and the rest fled to the Chinese
coast, the Nationalists said.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek who
has had a long stay in the United
States, is leaving next week for
Formosa to join her husband. She
will make a farewell appeal to
Americans by radio tomorrow.
Nationalist China now holds a
precarious position in the United
Nations. On the security council
the Chinese Peoples’ Republic of
Mao Tze-Tung has been recogniz
ed by five of the 11 members—
the Soviet Union Britain. Yugo
slavia, India and Norway.
Five other nations—the United
States. France. Cuba. Ecuador and
Egypt have not recognized the
communists and continue to ac
knowledge the nationalists gov
ernment. The United States and
France have no immediate plans
to recognize the communists.
Nationalist China hold the coun
cil presidency for January. Thus
Tuesday Chinese delegate T. F.
Tsiang makes his first appearance
in the uncomfortable spot as chair
man of a council, half of which
does not recognize his government.
Britain’s nod of approval to Rod
China raised a fresh Congression
al cry in Washington for drastic
snippping of European Recovery
funds.
Republican Senator Taft said
the British diplomatic move “will
provide a lot of ammunition for
those who want ECA funds cut.”
Sen. Brewster (R.-Me.- said the
British action “presents a problem
of how far we can go in allowing
our support to be diverted to the
implementation of policies at vari
ance with our own”
Brewster said Britain acted to
save a $2,000,000,000 investment
in the Crown Colony of Hong
Kong.
The American freighter Flying
Arrow sailed from Hong Kong
yesterday for communist- held
Shanghai in defiance of warnings
from Chinese nationalists and the
U. S. state department. National
ists announced today minelaying
has been completed on the sea ap
proach to Shanghai. The Flying
Arrow is carrying a $10,000,000
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