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VOL. LIII No. 100 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1951 Per Copy—i5^
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York, accompanied by Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening, is sched
uled to be at Kotzebue Sunday
noon to dedicate the new airport
there. The airport was constructed
this summer by the territory un
der contract to Lytle and Green.
The field is to be named the
Ralph Wien Memorial Field, hon
oring one of the members of a
well-known Alaska family which
has pioneered in aviation in this
part of Alaska. It will be remem
bered that Ralph Wien was killed
in an airplane crash in the early
30’s while flying one of the first
diesel powered airplanes to come
into the territory. He was flying
with Father Walsh, Jesuit priest,
w’ho also was killed in the crash
at Kotzebue.
Tony Schwamm, Director of
Aviation for the Territory, has ex
tended an invitation to all the
citizens of Nome to attend the
dedication and local airplane com
panies are endeavoring to have
planes available for all reserva
tions.
It has not been determined if
Governor Dewey will have time
to include Nome in his itinerary
following the dedication at Kotze
bue, although several invitations
have been extended to him.
The new airport is a strip 3,750
feet in length, running east and
west and 150 feet wide. The sur
face is gravelled and at the pres
ent time, due to the rainy wea
ther can safely land planes only
as large as the DC-3.
Hurricane Hits Tampico
TAMPICO, Mex., UP)—A dan
gerous hurricane hit Tampico in
full fury this morning. Houses
were wrecked. Fifteep persons
were reported injured by flying
roofs.
Electric power was cut off to
prevent fallen wires from killing
people in the streets.
Firemen rescued 25 families
from the wreckage of their homos.
The only casualties reported up
to 10:30 a.m. were the 15 hurt by
flying roofs.
The terrific storm hit about 8:30
a.m. in the midst of a deluge of
rain. The weather bureau esti
mated the wind’s force at 78
miles an hour. The greatest force
of 130 miles an hour at the hurri
can’s center passed only about 60
miles east of Tampico.
TUESDAY RESULTS
American League
Cleveland 6—Washington 0
New York 11—Detroit 4
Chicago 13—Philadelphia 5
St. Louis 6—Boston 4
National League
New York 7—Cincinnati 4
Boston 3—Pittsburgh 1
Philadeplhia 3—Chicago 2
(Completion of game suspended
July 22)
Philadelphia 4—Chicago 1
St. Louis at Brooklyn, postponed
Pacific Coast
Hollywood 5—San Diego 3
Oakland 9—Sacramento 1
Portland 5—San Francisco 0
Seattle 6—Los Angeles 1
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Court Decision Deprives
Washington State of Funds
For Functions Government
OLYMPIA, Wash., (Jp) — The
Washington State Bankers’ Asso
ciation underlined the state’s
deepening financial crisis today
with a warning to members to
accept state warrants (checks' on
a collection basis only.
The warning went out as legis
lators prepared for a special ses
sion scheduled to convene here
Friday at 11 a.m. Governor Lang
lie called the session yesterday as
an aftermath of a State Supreme
Court decision that the revenue
appropriations bill passed at a
special session in April was un
constitutional.
In his call for a special session,
Governor Langlie reminded legis
lators the state is without funds
to carry on the functions of gov
ernment as a result of a Supreme
Court ruling.
Southeast Alaska
Fish Buyers Hit
By OPS Ceilings
JUNEAU, (JP)—A union official
said today some 70 fish-buying
scows are tying up in southeast
ern Alaska because they cannot
meet the trollers’ union price and
sell under Office of Price Stabil
ization regulations.
Andy Barlow, executive secre
tary of United Trollers of Alaska,
said although the season is open
until Sept. 20 the buyers are out
of business.
“This means many trollers must
cease because they have no ice
to bring the fish to port and must
sell on the fishing grounds or not
at all,” Barlow said.
He said the buyers and unions
reached an early agreement on
prices due to the uncertainty of
the OPS about ceilings. The OPS
later decided there would be no
ceiling because of the lateness of
the season, Barlow added.
“Then like a thunderbolt the
OPS changes its mind and rolls
back canned salmon from $29 ter
$24 a case, leaving buyers up
set,” he said.
Barlow said the OPS will con
sider the problem at a meeting
in Seattle this month but “regard
less of the outcome, nothing can
undo the damage done to troll
fishery this year.”
Bob Murphy Predicts He
Will Kayo Maxim In 7th
NEW YORK, (/P) — Confident
Bob Murphy predicts he will
knock out light heavyweight king
Joey Maxim and become the new
champion about 7:JO p.m. tonight.
“I’m going to knock him out
within seven rounds. And with a
left hook to the body,” said the
husky, hard-hitting San Diego
redhead.
The bettors lean strongly to
Murphy. Solid support for the
challenger in the last few days has
zoomed him from an underdog to
an 8Vfe to 5 choice. By fight time,
the California southpaw may be
favored by 2 to 1 or more.
Republican Dewey
Met At Juneau By
Dem. Gruening
JUNEAU, (/P)—Republican Gov,
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
was the dinner and house guest
last night of Democratic Gov. Er
nest Gruening of Alaska.
The two-time Republican nom
inee for President was whisked
away to the Democratic governor’s
mansion from the airport yester
day afternoon while the official
heads of the Republican party in
Alaska stood by. The Republicans
met Dewey at the airport, along
with Governor and Mrs. Gruening.
Governor Dewey appeared a bit
weary, and curt, after the long
flight from Seattle, at the end of
a seven-week tour of the Far East.
Answering a newsman’s ques
tions abruptly as he walked away
with Governor Gruening, Dewey
said:
“I’ve always been for statehood
for Alaska.”
When Governor Gruening sug
gested a drive to scenic Menden
hall Glacier, the New York gov
ernor replied:
“We just flew over it.”
Governor Dewey is scheduled to
visit Ketchikan, Anchorage and
Fairbanks during the week. Sun
day he is to be in Kotzebue, an
Eskimo village north of Bering
Strait and north of the Arctic
Circle. He is to dedicate a new
airport there.
Navy Lets Contract
For First Atomic
Power Submarine
WASHINGTON, (yP)—'The Navy
has let a contract for the first
atomic - powered submarine — a
craft described by a congressional
authority as having “immense
military implications.’’
Announcing yesterday the!
award of a contract to the Elec
tric Boat Company of Groton,
Conn., the Navy gave no details.
Nor would officials elaborate on
the 26-word announcement.
But semi-official sources have
said an atomic - powered sub
marine would have a vast under
water range, and speculation as to
its possible speed has ranged as
high as 50 to 60 miles an hour—
more than twice that of conven
tional undersea craft.
Oregon Prison Sit-down
Strike Breaking Up
SALEM, Ore., (/P) — Oregon’s
prison strike faded today as the
eat-and-then-vcrte procedure be
gan returning strikers to work.
A series of rapidly breaking de
velopments yesterday brought the
strike to a virtual end by night
fall—with the convicts making ap
parent gains in their seven-day
sit-down.
As each group voted to go to
work, showers and clean clothes
were provided and work assign
ment made out. Then the next
group moved up for its turn.
J. Edgar Hoover Reports |
Communists In U.S. Drop
From 54,174 to 43,217
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Member
ship in the U. S. Communist party
has dropped from 54,174 to 43,217
in a year’s time, FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover h-as told senators.
And each party member now
has back of him about seven to
eight fellow travelers, as against
ten several years ago, Hoover told
a Senate Appropriations subcom
mittee March 1 while testifying
in support of his request for
funds. His testimony was made
public today.
But Hoover cautioned that the
remaining party members consti
tute “a hard core dedicated to
sabotage and to militant revolt
against this country if and when
the time comes.”
45.000- Ton Ship
Wisconsin Stuck
In Hudson River
NEW YORK, (iP)—The mighty
45.000- ton battleship Wisconsin
drifted aground in the Hudson
River opposite Manhattan today
and then 13 puffing towboats
pulled her free in a marine drama
witnessed by thousands.
A strong downstream tide held
her fast on the New Jersey shore
just south of Edgewater for ap
proximately two hours.
The battleship came into New
York harbor yesterday from Hali
fax, N.S., on a training cruise
and was moored fore and aft to
floating buoys.
A Navy spokesman said.unof
ficial information indicated her
stern line snapped and that her
end swung around and touched
bottom off the Jersey shore.
From office buildings on the
New York side and from Palisades
Park and other vantage points on
the Jersey side, thousands of spec
tators watched the little towboats
push and haul to get the huge
gray-hulled vessel back into mid
stream.
Capt. Thomas Burrowes of
Washington, D. C., commanding
the battleship, could be soon on
the bridge directing operations.
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10th Rescue Finds
Bodies of Pilot
And 3 Passengers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, {/P) — A
10th Air Rescue Squadron ground
crew Monday found the bodies of
four men killed last Wednesday
when their light plane crashed in
a dead-end canyon 25 miles from
Talkeetna.
The rescuers, who earlier had
reported only three bodies had
beed located, radioed the body of
the fourth victim was found in
the plane wreckage.
Glen Hudson, veteran Alaska
bush flier, piloted the single
engine Cessna plane. His passen
gers were Elmer Wolford and his
two sons, Dairy Lee and Steven.
Allies Accuse Reds
Of Bad Faith In
Kaesong Talks
MUNSAN, Korea. (JP) — The
Allies accused the communists to
day of making “a universal sym
bol of bad faith” out of Kaesong,
site of Korean war truce talks.
The charge was broadcast after
a shirt-sleeved subcommittee held
its sixth session in Kaesong with
out sign of breaking the deadlock
over where to draw an armistice
line across Korea.
The subcommittee scheduled
another try for Thursday.
Armistice negotiations were
complicated by a dispute over
latest Red charges that United
Nations forces violated the Kae
song neutrality zone.
The “Voice of the United Na
tions Command,” broadcast from
Tokyo to Korea, said the “Com
munist charges border on the ri
diculous.”
Quake Knocks Out
Hawaiian Island
Water Supply
HONOLULU, (£>)—'The heaviest
earthquake ever recorded on the
volcano island of Hawaii cost the
Kona coast district most of its
treasured water stores—with two
months of normal drought ahead.
Property damage was estimated
at between $750,000 and $1,000,
000, but the water loss was the
most critical.
The quake jarred the largest of
the Hawaiian islands in early
morning darkness yesterday. It
wrecked or damaged more than
200 wooden water storage tanks—
20 of them on one cattle ranch.
Each of 200 families along a 30
mile stretch of the Kona coast, on
the west slope of Mauna Loa vol
cano, had at least one tank for
storing drinking and household
water.
The Kona coast is the driest sec
tion of the islands.
The tremor was centered deep
below the undersea slope of mas
sive Mauna Loa. The volcano rises
13,680 feet above sea level and
slants 18,000 feet under water to
the ocean floor.
There was no evidence of any
impending eruption by Mauna Loa
one of the world’s most active vol
canoes.
Nome CAP Cadets Among
250 At McCord Air Base
McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE,
(^P)—Civil Air Patrol cadets from
all sections of Washington, Mon
tana, Idaho and Alaska arrived
here over the week-end to begin
a two-week encampment.
The boys, ranging in age from
15 to 18, will follow a rigid train
ing schedule while here. It is an
ticipated that between 200 and
250 cadets will attend.
Ten of the cadets came from as
far away as Nome, Alaska.
Six of. the Nome group are full
blooded Eskimos on their first
trip outside.