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VOL. LL No. 121 ■ NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, </P)—A riot
in San Francisco’s colorful China
town last night broke up a meet
ing in celebration of communist
victories in China. One Chinese
was injured.
A flying wedge of Chinese :
youths broke up the gathering of
400 members of the Chinese Work
ers Mutual Air Association in Chi
nese American Citizens Alliance
hall.
LAS VEGAS. Nev. CP) — Joe
Kirkwood, Jr., the “Joe Palooka”
of the movies and pro golf star,
was honeymooning today with
actress Cathy Downs, much to the
surprise of the couple’s Hollywood
friends.
Quietly, and without a word to
friends, the couple were wed here
Saturday night by a Congregation
alist minister in a hotel chapel.
He is 28 and Miss Downs 23.
WALLA WALLA, CP) — The
saddle which Dr. Marcus Whit
man, pioneer northwest mission
ary. used in crossing the continent
in 1842 has been presented to
Whitman College.
Donated by George A. Taber of
Reading, Mass., it was accepted
for the school by ChesterC. Maxey,
college president. Taber’s father
received the saddle as part pay
ment of a debt in the 1860’s.
SEATTLE, f/P) — -Coast guard
headuarters reported today the
cutter Chautauqua had been dis
patched to the aid of the Pana
manian freighter Navigator, in dis
tress 700 miles southeast of Kodi
ak. Alaska.
The coast guard said the freigh
er had lost its propellor in rough
seas but had no other details from
the Chautauqua, a coast guard
weather cutter, which was on pa
trod.
SEATTLE f/P)—The Pathfinder,'
coast and geodetic vessel returned
Saturday after a summer of sur
veying the bottom of Alaska’s
Bristol Bay.
Findings will be reported during
the winter to the International hy
drographic bureau at Monte Carlo,
where all nations contribute
their findings except the Russians.
Findings are made available to the
Russians, however.
The ship took another gander
at a submarine peak some 360
miles west of Cape Flattery. The
peak is 11,000 feet high, and still
has 2,500 feet of water atop it.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The city
concii adopted a resolution Satur
day accepting the final bid of the
B. J. Van Ingen Co., of New York
City for the purchase of $4,500,000
in public utility bonds.
Four million of the amount
will cost 4Vfe per cent and $500,000
in general obligation bonds will be
at 344 per cent.
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BOSTON, (JP)—The three men
who told six-year-old Martha
Murray they were going to “clean”
her house were right—they did.
Martha greeted her mother,
Mrs. Margaret Murray, on return
^Continued on Page Seven)
Chinese Flee
From Canton
( By The Associated Press)
Chinese began fleeing from Can
ton Satrday as the front to the
north showed signs of caving in
under the pressure of attacking
Red armies.
Diplomats in Canton said they
expected to hear today that the
nationalist capital was being
moved to Chungking. That was
the wartime capital in Western
China.
Kukong, anchor city only 125
miles north of Canton, was yield
ed without a fight. Hengyang, the
nationalist base 265 miles to the
north, appeared to have been
abandoned.
Press reports said Gen. Pai
Chung-Hsi, central front com
mander, had quit Hengyang and
would set up headquarters at
Kweilin, capital of his native
Kwangsi province.
That was a hint he may leave
Canton to its fate. His 200,000-man
army is the best left to the na
tionalists on the Chinese mainland.
A well-informed commonwealth
diplomat in London said Britain
will recognize the newly-estab
Chinese communist regime in
Peiping. India was expected to
take a like step. Other common
wealth governments might follow
suit. Trade with China is a big
factor.
Dr. Moore Denies
Auditor’s Charge
Of Illegal Loans
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Dr. Terris
Moore, president of the University
of Alaska, denies charges of audi
tors that the University made ille
gal loans.
An audit ordered by the 1949
legislature and made public last
week had said the university bor
rowed an unauthorized $211,000
from various sources and that
$191,000 remained unpaid on Dec.
31, 1948.
Moore said the $191,000 loan
obtained last year by the univers
ity was “entirely approved and le
gal throughout the entire period
until paid in full last sprinlg.”
In a prepared statement, he
said:
“Legality of the loans was sup
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Flood, Snow And
Tornadoes Do
Much Damage
(By The Associated Press)
A serious flood threatened Hous
ton, Tex., Saturday and the first
snow storm of the season maroon
ed hundreds of hunters in the cen
tral Idaho forested area.
One person drowned in Houston
and residents in suburban areas
were being evacuated as the heav
iest railfall in years sent bayous
and creeks on a rampage.
Snow that measured as deep as
10 inches fell in the Cassia divi
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Interior Depart
ment Lets Large
Grunt For Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
((/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON (fP)—The inte
rior department is getting a rec
ord total of $84,285,358 in cash and
contract authority for its activities
in Alaska this fiscal year.
The conferees on the interior
department appropriations bill ap
proved $58,647,858 in cash and
$25,637,500 in contract authoriza
tions for the year which started
July 1. This tops any previous
year’s total for the department’s
Alaskan activities by $15,000.
The bill is awaiting President
Truman’s signature.
Of the total for Alaska. $26,762,- j
000 in cash and $8,000,000 in con- |
tract authorization is for:
I
New construction of the Kenat j
Lake-Homer Road, Eagle-Forty
Mile-Alaska Highway, the Turn-!
again Arm Highway, the Richard
son Highway-Mt. McKinley Na- ;
tional Park road, and local farm
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B. C. Premier (ioes
iTo Washington
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WASHINGTON, (ff>) — Byron
Johnson,( premier of Briitsh Co
lumbia, is expected here this
week to confer on proposals to
construct a railroad through his
Canadian province to connect with
the Alaska Railroad.
Senator Magnuson iD.-Wash.)
said Saturday he looked for John
son to arrive today or tomorrow.
Magnuson and Delegate Bartlett
of Alaska are backing leg:slation
to authorize President Truman to
negotiate with Canada for a sur- ,
vey of proposed routes for the j
1,400-mile railroad. It would link
a railroad at Prince George. B. C.,
with the Alaska Line.
The House has passed the reso- j
lution. It is pending in the Senate, j
i )\<>r Million Idle
From I , S. Slrikrs
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<Bv The Associated Press'*
There wasn’t much to cheer i
about on the nation’s labor front
Saturday.
Here's a quick run-down of ma
jor disputes which already have
made idle more than a million
workers:
There was nothing to indicate
an early settlement of the coun
try’s major labor trouble—strikes
by some 850,000 steel and coal
workers.
There were threats of a nation
wide railroad strike and a walkout
by some 20,000 aluminum work
ers in eight states.
The continuing strike by John
L. Lewis’ 380,000 united Mine
Workers—now three weeks old—
prompted Cyrus S. Ching. federal
conciliation director, to warn:
‘Each day brings the nation
closer to a crisis.”
Ching, who urged Lewis and
mine operators to resume negotia
tions in an effort to end the strike,
said ‘this strike must be settled
promptly.”
Ching, after his all-day meeting
in Washington with Lewis and
the operators, made no claims
about bringing a settlement any
nearer. Both sides aired their dif
ferences at the meeting. The gov
ernment did not issue an ultimatum
that the miners go back to work
or that the negotiations should be
resumed at a specific date. At
Chinag’s request, the operators
asked Lewis to meet with them
Tuesday or Wednesday. But the
time or meeting place has not been
set.
The government has made no
move in the week-old steel strike.
The dispute over pensions and in
surance has made idle some 450.
000 CIO steelworkers in basic steel
plants and forced the layoff of
thousands of other workers in
steel-related industries.
Ching said no immediate plans
have been made to call the union
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THE TOO BUSY BEAVER
i
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
Monday. October 10, 1949
<By The Associated Press'
War-sick China celebrated to
day the anniversary of its 1911 re
volt against the Imperial Manchus
with dragon dances and fire
crackers. Across the world, in
France, the slipping nationalist
government suffered another set
back.
The entire staff of the national
ist Chinese embassy and consul
ate general in Paris forsook the
government cause and declared it
self in favor of Mao T/.e-Tung’s
new communist regime set up in
Peiping last week.
The only members who did not
desert were the newly-named
charge d’affaires, Tuan Mao-Lan
and Ambassador Tsien Tai. who is
ill.
While communism was demon
strating in China that nothing
succeeds like success, the democ
racies scored a reassuring victory
! in Europe. The anti-Red Austrian
government of Chancellor Leopold
Figl emerged from week-end par
liamentary elections still securely
in power.
His coalition, composed of the
Socialists and the Conservative
Peoples’ Party, held its position as
Austria’s largest party, winning
144 seats in the 165 member lower
house. Of these Figl’s People’s
Party took 77. The communists
upped their four place to five.
Chancellor Figl, surveying the
results, declared the election gave
“clear and unmistakable proof
that Austria is an outpost of the
[ western democratic world.”
With the Austrian election over,
Europe turned toward Norway
where another was being held to
day. Labor’s scant majority in the
Norwegian Storting (Parliament*
was on the block as voters filed to
the polls.
| Some observers thought state
planning and rationing might com
bine to eliminate Labor Prime
Minister Einer Gerhardsen’s lead
! of 76 seats to the combined oppo
1 sition’s 74.
The Chinese embassy's “little
revolution” was not the only bit
of pro-communist activity in lead
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World Series
Farts ami Figures
(By The Associated Press'
Standings
W L Pet.
New York N. L.) 4 1 .800
Brooklyn (N. L.) 1 4 .200
Financial Figures
Yesterday’s attendance. 33,711
Receipts (net- .$167,165.45
Commissioner’s Share $25,074.81
Clubs, and Leagues’
Share . $142,090.64
Fire-Gam* Totals
Attendance . 236,710
Receipts (net- (does not include
radio and television
fee- .$1,129,627.8®
Commissioner’s share $169,444.17
Clubs’ and Leagues
Share . $469,327.90
Players* share (First 4 games
only) . $490,655.75