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VOL. HI. No. 37 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
BERK ELEY, Calif. (JP) — An
earthquake of moderate intensity
early Monday jarred, the Aleutian
Islands, Don Tocher of the Uni
versity of California seismograph
station reported.
The earthquake, recorded at
5:12 a.m., centered in an area
3,400 miles northwest of Berkeley.
ANCHORAGE, i/P)—Convening
of the Third Division Grand Jury
to hear of possible anti-trust law
violations in Alaska was postpon
ed Monday until yesterday to per
mit the drawing of more names
for jury duty.
Subpoenas have been issued to
163 firms and individuals request
ing them to appear before the
grand jury to testify regarding
violations of the 1890 Sherman
anti-trust act.
FAIRBANKS (/P>—'Waska Him
lich, 18-year-old Eskimo boy, was
sentenced in U. S. District Court
Saturday to a two-year prison
term for breaking into a dwelling
at Bethel and robbing it. He will
be sent to the McNeill Island,
Wash., federal penitentiary.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — Car
goes handled by Pacific Coast
ports in 1949 were off 15.4 per
cent from 1939, the last normal
prewar year, says the Pacific
American Steamship Association.
Los Angeles forged ahead of
San Francisco as the west’s lead
ing port and probably will remain
the queen port of the Pacific
Coast These facts emerged today
in a PAS A report on 1949 ship
ping made public by Albert W.
Gatov’, president.
He reported that, with cuts in
government aid to foreign coun
tries, shipping from Atlantic and
Gulf ports has been slipping con
siderably more than on the west
coast.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., UP)
A long-standing feud between ri
val teen-aged newspaper carriers
resulted today in the death of one
of them with a shotgun charge in
the face.
Sheriff Guy Hickman said Pat
Bowers, 14, shot Wayne Cothren,
15, from a few feet away when
they met on a street in a residen
tial section after school yesterday
afternoon. The Bowers boy was
held without charge.
Prosecutor Robert H. Williams
said “some charge” would be filed.
Cothren was a carrier for the
Arkansas Gazette and Bowers a
carrier for the Arkansas Democrat.
Both of the daily newspapers are
published at Little Rock.
NEW YORK, UP)—Automobiles
have killed more Americans than
all the U. S. wars from the Revo
lution through World War II. The
industrial accident toll is almost
as great.
The menaces were stressed yes
terday at New York’s 20th annual
safety exposition.
John Cruickshank, chief engin
eer o fthe United States Guaran
tee Company, gave these figures:
927,260 persons killed by autos
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Post Photographer
Gives Talk On
Flying Saucers
■ ■
Harold Rhodenbaugh, who was
in Nome for several days on an
assignment from the Saturday ,
Evening Post, is reported to have ,
made a very interesting talk on
flying saucers at the Anchorage
Writers Club this week.
He is reported to have said that
fears of mass hysteria would dis
rupt the nation and that is why
there is so much hush-hush over
recent developments. He claimed
that the “flying saucers” have
been photographed in Southwest
| U. S. Proof that the saucers exist,
i Rhodenbaugh stated, are held by
an Idaho businessman, Kenneth
Arnold of Bose, Idaho.
He also stated that pieces be
lieved to be part of a disk were
found in the Pacific Northwest
and were made of light strong
metal called titanium. He also
stated that experiments at Wright
Field are underway to determine
how much the public can be told
without a resulting nationwide
| confusion and panic.
Gen. Dale Gaffnev
w
Dies In Florida
AUGUSTA, Ga. </P)—Brig. Gen.
Dale V. Gaffney, deputy com
mander of the Air Force Proving
| Ground at Eglin Air Base, Fla.,
, died yesterday. He was command
er of Ladd Air Force Base, Fair
banks, Alaska, until last year.
I Gaffney was 56. He became a
pilot in 1918 and had served in
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1951 Appropriation’
Recommendations
(By Mary Lee Council)
(Secretary to Delegate Bartlett*
Completion of the construction
program for The Alaska Railroad
would be assured should the
House Appropriations Committee
recommendations for an appropri
ation of $31,000,000,000 for the
fiscal year prevail.
The oney is included in the first
omnibus bill containing regular
fiscal year funds for all federal
agencies which was reported to
the House this week. In previous
years, appropriation bills were
acted upon in “piecemeal” fash
ion, but the 1951 fiscal year appro
priations are embodied in one
package.
The House committee allowed
$20,400,000 in cash as requested
in the President’s budget for road
construction in the Territory with
an $8,000,000 contract authority
allowance, $700,000 below the
President’s budget.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
estimate of $1,873,581 was allow
ed in full by the committee for
management of fish and wildlife
resources in Alaska, investigation
of fish and wildlife resources and
other items requested by that In
terior Department agency.
The Bureau of Reclamation has
been allowed $250,000 as request
ed for general investigation.
Other sums approved for the
Interior Department section of the
omnibus bill indicate that the
committee has earmarked for
Alaska: $13,000 for the Alaska
Field Office under the Office of
the Secretary; $815,000 for the
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Mining Course to
Open Tonight
The first class of the University
of Alaska Mining Exten s i o n
Course will be held in the assem
bly room of the Nome High School
tonight at 7:00 o’clock. The first
part of this class will be taken up
with registration for the course.
As mentioned in an earlier issue
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Interior Dept. W ill
“Observe’* Reserv
ations Elections
WASHINBTON (/P)—Rep. Jack
son <D.-Wash.) said Monday in
reference to an Alaska reservation
election next month:
“I hope the new commissioner
of Indian afffairs, Dillon S. Myer,
will review the reservation situa
tion in Alaska in light of the re
striction written into his next
year’s appropriation.”
Jackson had written into the
interior departent appropriation
bill a restriction that Indian bur
eau funds for the year starting
July 1 can not be used to create
; any more reservations in the Ter
| ritory. But he said the prohibition
! will nt apply to elections before
| July 1.
He made his comment in con
| nection with an interior depart
! ment announcement it will send a
representative to observe native
j elections at Chungnak and Hyda
' burg April 24. The elections are
to determine whether the natives
there want reservations establish
ed for them. The elections were
! scheduled originally for February.
Alaska C. of (i. Booth At Seattle Times Sports-\ aeation Show
—
Thousands saw the Ala ska
1 Chamber of Commerce booth at
the Seattle Times Sports and Va
cation Show, March 17 through 26,
sponsored by the Alaska Steam
ship Company, reports from Seat
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tie indicate.
Between fifteen and twenty
thousand pieces of literature, de
scriptive of Alaskan cities, sports
events, products and vacation pos
sibilities were distributed during
the show, to interested people.
The booth created much inter
est and was diescribed by the
manager, Mr. Martin P. Kelly, as
one of the finest in the exposi
tion.
The Alaska Chambers of Commerce booth at the Seattle Times Sports and Vacation Show, pic
turing a few of the thousands who viewed it during the first week.
News of the \\ oriel
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday. March 28, 1950
• By The Associated Press*
Nationalist Chinese defenders
of Hainan Island said today they
“completely annihilated” com
munist forces which stormed
ashore yesterday.
Hainan, 10 miles off the com
munist-held South China main
land is the second largest territory
left to Chiang Kai-Shek’s govern
ment.
The Nationalists claimed 4,00(1
of communist general Lin Piao’s
elite “steel corps’’ were killed,
wounded or captured in the in
vasion attempt.
It was not clear immediately
whether there had been an all-out
Red offensive to take the island or
merely a preliminary jab.
The battle arrayed two of Chi
na’s most famous generals against
one another. Lin won his spurs in
Manchuria fighting. He led Red
forces in their southward surge
j and commanded armies that took
I many key Chinese cities such as
' Peiping and Canton.
The island is defended by na
tionalist general Hsueh Yeuh who
i sa veteran of Hunan province’s
war against the Japanese. He has
boasted he can hold Hainan island
, against any communist attempt.
In Washington, largely because
of the serious situation in the Far
East, the state department an
nounced a new line-up of high
officials.
A top aide of secretary of state
, Dean Acheson will soon go to
Tokyo to confer with General
MacArthur, it was announced.
| Roving ambassador Philip C. Jes
j sup, just returned from surveying
conditions in the For East, will
share a general coordination job
with undersecretary James E.
Webb. Dean Rusk, who has been
deputy undersecretary for politi
cal affairs, was made chief of the
I bureau of Far Eastern affairs.
Meanwhile Republican Senators
continued their onslaught on
Acheson’s administration. Sena
tor Bridges < R.-N. H.) told the
Senate American foreign policy
has been influenced by pro-com
munists. homo-sexuals, and a mas
termind spying for Russia.
“The department of state has
fallen into a condition of degrada
tion unparalleled in the nation’s
history,” he chai’ged
Diplomatic sources in London
said the Big Three foreign minis
ters of the United States, Britain
and France will discuss new
moves in the “total diplomacy” of
the cold war when they meet in
London in May.
In Karachi, Pakistan’s Premier
Liaquat Ali Khan announced he
will have personal talks in New
Delhi soon with India’s Prime
Minister Jawahralel Nehru in an
attempt to secure the p< ace of the
sub-continent. There have been
mounting tensions between the
two nations.
Wednesday. March 29. 1950
Diplomats in London said today
the Atlantic Pact machinery—de
, signed for peace but ready for
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