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VOL. LI. No. 144 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949 ' Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TULSAN, UP)—Fifteen hundred
pound of frozen Arkansas chick
ens were shipped out of here by
air yesterday for thawing—of all
places—at Anchorage, Alaska,
It was the first of a series of
weekly shipments contracted be
tween an Anchorage restaurant
owner and a north Arkansas
poultry farm. The quick-frozen
fowl, flown by way of Seattle, will
reach Anchorage this noon.
WASHINGTON, (/P)-Sums ap
portioned to States from the $20,
000,000 in federal aid funds avail
able for improvement of highways
in national forests were announc
ed yesterday.
The funds, for use in fiscal 1951,
which begins next July 1, are to
be distributed to 40 States, Alas
ka and Puerto Rico by the com
merce department’s bureau of
public roads.
Allotments for fiscal 1951 in
clude: Oregon $2,753,489; Wash
ington $1,391,825; Alaska $1,500,
000
WASHINGTON, </P) — Station
KBYR, Anchorage, Alaska, ap
plied to the communica t i o n s
commission Wednesday for a per
mit to change its studio location
to Spenard, Alaska.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Coals to New
castle, ice boxes to Eskimos—and
now it’s Christmas trees to Alas
ka.
Longshoremen were puzzled
yesterday as they tied into 130
bales of fir Christmas trees.
They are going from Orin Farr
of Rex ford, Mont., to Sidney Urie
of Woodrow, near Seward. Alas
ka, in the Steamer Denali.
“The boys though there must
be some mistake. They nearly
threw ’em off the pier,” Emil
Hanson, stevedoring comp any
superintendent, said.
Alaskans customarily use spruce
and other native evergreens for
Christmas trees.
KETCHIKAN, f/P) — A civic
meeting here this week was told
that a Methodist college may be
established in Alaska, and that
Ketchikan and Juneau are the fa
vored spots. Say Hall and the
Rev. Wybum Skidmore told of
plans for the institution. They
said decision on the site probably
will be made at the church’s gen
eral conference in March. Funds
are reported already available.
KODIAK, </P)—Deputy Marshal
Clarence Dizney got orders from
his Anchorage superiors to inves
tigate what sounded like a slay
ing.
He discovered taht a visitor
from Anchorage had overheard a
conversation about moving a body
that was dripping blood. The vis
itor reported it to authorities at
Anchorage.
Dizney found the body had been
dripping all right—but it was a
side of beef.
ANCHORAGE, </P) — Dr. C.
Walter Clarke of the American
Social Hugiene association reports
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Lewis Reinstates
3-Day Work Week
For Coal Miners
NEW YORK John L. Lewis
yesterday reinstated the three
day work week in hard and soft
coal mines across the country be
ginning Monday, December 5.
The work-week will be Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, as
it was all summer.
Lewis authorized the making of
separate contracts with each coal
company, abandoning the recent
policy of striving for nationwide
| contracts.
The policy was approved by the
1200-man United Mine Workers
; committee which has been stand
: ing by here all week and which
allowed a truce to expire at mid
: night without moving to stop a
new walkout.
Lewis called in reporters to the
policy committee meeting on the
mezzanine floor of the Hotel
j Roosevelt and had copies of the
resolution distributed. He said:
“The resolution speaks for itself
and there will be no amplifica
tion.”
Lewis first mentioned the pos
sibility of invoking a three-day
work week at the UMW conven
tion a year ago. He said then that
employment in the ind u s t r y
j should be stabilized “and if there
! is three days work, we’ll all work
three days.”
“If we are going to starve, we’ll
; all starve together,” he told 3,000
delegates to that convention in
Cincinnati.
On September 19 the miners
, walked out saying they were
' starting a “no-day work week.”
; Lewis authorized anthracite min
ers, chiefly in eastern Pennsyl
vania, and sofe coal miners west
of the Mississippi, to return to
work but the 380,000 other soft
coal miners stayed on strike until
Lewis and his policy committee
i called a truce November 9.
Lewis’ strategy is in the form of
a compromise because it keeps the
coal miners at work before
Christmas, thus reducing the
threat of a revolt among the coal
diggers who have been reported in
! several states to be grumbling
about meager earnings this year.
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AMERICANISM MONTH
TO BE OBSERVED
Acting Governor Lew Williams
has issued a proclamation that the
period from November 24th to De
cember 25th will be observed in
Alaska as Americanism manth.
Sponsored by the Junior Bar
Conference of the American Bar
Assn., our readers are urged to
observe this period with thought
on the fact that “through strife
and sacrifice in defense of this
country where a free press and
radio is preserved, free spirit of
equal treatment for all, security of
home and family without fear of
oppression, and unfettered pride of
a free people exists.'*
We are asked to rededicate our
selves to the precepts of the
founding fathers and undertake
the “obligations of watchfulness
and preservation of the freedom
of life we hold so dear.”
Bridges’ Attorney 1
Fights For Client
And Himself
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SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Harry |
Bridges defense counsel was fight
ing both for his client and his
own psofessional standing today.
In one court he was charging
that the prosecution’s chief wit
ness, in turning on the CIO long
shore leader, was doing what he
himself once said only a “perjurer
: or stool pigeon would do.”
In another court the attorney,
Vincent Hallinan, was trying to
have set aside a six months sen
tence for contempt of court and
an order barring him from further
practice in San Francisco federal
district courts. The order is effec
tive after the Bridges’ trial ends.
In the trial itself, Hallinan was
i trying to impeach the testimony
of John H. Schomaker, star gov
ernment witness and one time
aide of Bridges in the CIO Inter
national Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union.
; Hallinan offered to show
j Schomaker once wrote an editori
| al asserting anyone who says
I Bridges is a communist “is a per
jurer and a stool pigeon.”
i Schomaker has testified that
both he and Bridges were mem
bers of the communist party dur
ing the 1934 Pacific Coast water
front strike.
Australian-born Bridges is on
trial on charges of perjury and
conspiracy for saying when he be
came an American citizen in 1945
that he had never been a com
munist. Two other longshore lead
' ers are also on trial on conspiracy
charges.
Hallinan tried Wednesday to get
an editorial from the Waterfront
Bulletin into evidence. It was the
pro-Bridges statement he said
wrote. The prosecution protested
this was not proper impeaching
evidence. The jury was excused
for the day. Judge George B. Har
ris indicated he would rule today
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PLAN PROGRAM FOR
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS
Ted Duffield, president of the
Arctic Club has announced that
plans will be getting under way
this week-end to formulate the
l program for the annual Commun
j ity Christmas Tree celebration.
He has called a meeting of all
interested parties who are willing
to assist in the community custom
for Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.,
at the City Hall, where commit
tees will be appointed.
BULLETIN
PETERSBURG (/P)—An Alaska
Coastal Alrlinas pustngtr plana
•nrouia from Patarsburg to Wran
gall was forced down at tha mouth
of tha Stildna River shortly bo
fora noon today. It was not imma
diately known haw many war#
aboard, but it is faared tha pas
sengers were seriously injured.
Company agent Eldor Lae said tha
plane is down in King Slough
area. A doctor was dispatched to
tha scene.
Navy Jet Plane |
Exceeds Speed
Of Sound In Test
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MUROC AIR BASE, Calif. </P),
Skimming like a hummingbird i
only 30 feet off the ground, a
a navy Douglas Skyrocket has
pierced the sonic barrier in a daz
zling speed test.
While navy officials were silent,'
competent observers put the speed
of the D-558-2 at between 760 to
800 miles per hour. The speed of
sound at Muroc’s 2300 foot alti
tude ad 55-degree temperature
was figured at 757 MPH.
The 45-year-old test pilot Eu
gene F. May, a grandfather, was
| at the controls of the rocket and
: jet-powered plane as it swooped
before newsmen yesterday and
flashed out of sight before the
roar of its motors could be heard.
The official world record is 6/0
MPH. by an F-86 jet fighter.
The veteran pilot thrust all out
on the four rocket boosters and
the sleek, needle-nosed craft ne
gotiated the measured eight-mile
course before most onlookers
could gasp, “Here she comes!”
The navy had admitted last week
that the Skyrocket has repeatedly
exceeded the speed of sound in
level flights. Its maximum speed
is still a secret.
Stepping from the gleaming
white thunderbird May told news
men:
“It was as smooth as a kitten’s
ear.”
Hallinan Gels Self
Into More Trouble
In Bridges'’ Trial
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SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
I
government called a former Aus
tralian longshoreman who fought
through the bloody 1934 water
front strike with Harry Bridges
as a witness today in the west
coast longshore leader’s perjury
trial.
The witness is Henry Schrimpf,
i stolid, barrel-chested and once
' characterized by Bridges as “a
bitter enemy of mine.” He testi
fied he joined the Communist
party in 1934 at the behest of
longshore officer Henry Schmidt,
l on trial with Bridges.
Schmidt, along with another
union official. J. R. Robertson,
is charged with conspiracy to de
fraud the government in connec
tion with Bridges’ naturalization
hearing in 1945. Bridges, Austra
lian born, charged with stating
falsely at his hearing that he had
never been a communist.
Ex-communist John H. Scho
maker, who sparred with chief
defense attorney Vince Hallinan
through a stormy cross-examina
tion yesterday, mentioned
Schrimpf in his testimony as a
leader in a meeting to discipline
Bridges’ private secretary.
Schomaker was a key witness
'in the government attempt to
prove that Bridges was once an
active member of the communist
party. Schomaker said he gave
Bridges an application form and
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News of the World
At A Glance - - -
(Thrusday. December 1, 1949)
(By The Associated Press)
The weary and confused nation
alist government of China set up
shop in Chengtu today. Observers
predicted the newest refugee capi
tal would last only a month.
Chiang Kai-Shek has taken over
leadership of the Nationa list
forces again. Chungking, the pre
vious capital, fell to the advancing
Reds yesterday.
Chengtu is only 170 miles from
Chungking. The communist arm
ies previously drove the national
ists from capitals set up at Nan
king and Canton.
At Sarajevo, Yugoslavia began
its trial of 10 Russians accused of
spying for the Soviet Union. The
Union. The court announced of 12
originally scheduled to appear two
were absent. The statement said
one of the accused hanged himself
after denying his guilt. Another
defendant was too ill to appear.
The trial is Premier Marshal
Tito’s latest thornprick in the side
of Russia and his first sally since
the Russian-led Cominform call
ed upon communists to step up
the squeeze-play on Yugoslavia.
In the United Nations assembly
Russia is expected to roar back at
Yugoslavia, which has charged
the Soviet Union with leading a
j campaign to oust Tito. The Yugo
slav spokesman predicted in a U.
N. speech yesterday that the Com
inform’s plot against the Yugo
slav regime would fail.
In Paris, North Atlantic Treaty
defense chiefs are deciding whe
ther the United States or Britain
will call the signals should war
come again to Western Europe.
Britain is the top nation in the
Brussels Alliance with France,
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg. The Brussels Alli
ance nations have signed the At
lantic pact along with seven other
nations. The United States wants
the future Atlantic high command
to be paramount on strategy deci
sions as well as in name. Because
of America’s great contributions
iln money and material, the
American point of view was as
sured wide support.
U. S officials in Gemany show
ed increasing concern today over
the question of rising German na
tionalism Some German politi
cians, since the Western Allies
slackened occupation contro 1 s ,
have been beating the drums for
what U. S. High Commissioner
John J McCloy called “national
ism in its sinister sense”—mean
ing Naziism.
In Washington, the state depart
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