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VOL. LV No. 23 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Nome High School Nanooks Win
Basketball Championship
Nationalist China j
Declares Void 1945
Treaty with Russia
TAIPEH, Formosa, Iff)— Chiang
Kai-Shek’s Free China, in a dram
atic cold war move of open de
fiance to Soviet Russia, announced
today it was declaring null and
void the Nationalist Chinese-Rus
sian treaty of 1945.
The move clears the way for
Nationalist participation- in any
blockade of the Red Chinese
mainland.
The treaty, signed in Moscow in
1945, was an outgrowth of the
Yalta agreement.
It gave Russia full rights to two
Manchurian ports, Dairen and
Port Arthur.
Foreign Minister George Yeh
declared the United States had
not been consulted on the action
because “it was purely an internal
matter.”
Nationalist China declared the
treaty had been “violated and
nullified by the Soviet Union in
carrying out its program of ag
gression in China.”
AVA Invited to Enter
Alaskan Contestant in
Mrs. America Contest
JUNEAU — A letter invitation
has been received by the Alaska
Visitors Association to enter an
Alaskan contestant in the MRS.
AMERICA contest.
The letter stated that judging
will be based 50 percent cm home
making and 50 percent on beauty,
with the national finals to be held
in Asbury Park, New Jersey, next
September 15. Preliminary elim
inations are held in the states and
«. territories some time previous to
that date.
The contestants compete for
thousands of dollars worth of
prizes as well as the coveted title
of “Mrs. America,” according to
the invitation.
Alaska Visitors Association of
ficials stated that they are en
thusiastic about th* project and
are itching fo'r a chance to prove
that Alaska has some of the most
beautiful wives in the world.
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Advertising men for the asso
ciation said they would schedule
the all-Alaska elimination contest
at the height of the tourist season,
as one of this year’s additional
attractions for this summer’s vis
itors.
ROBERT I. JOHNSON CHOSEN
TO HEAD INTERNATIONAL
INFORMATION ADMIN.
WASHINGTON, LP) — Robert I.
Johnson of Philadelphia, presi
dent of Temple University, was
reported today to be the Eisen
hower administration’s choice to
take over direction of the State
Department’s International Infor
mation Administration (IIA).
Its activities include the “Voice
of America” operations, now un
der investigation by the Senate
Investigations Subcommittee that
is headed by Sen. McCarthy (R
„„ Wis).
By HERB WILLIAMS
The Nome High Nanooks re
turned home victorious yesterday
morning from Anchorage where
they wan the Class B champion
ship after sweeping the four
games in the round robin sched
ule, playing each team once.
The scores were: Nome against
Cordova 47-29; Wasilla 35-24,
Valdez 73-39; Kodiak City 57-32.
The Valdez score was a new tour
nament high for a B team.
George Bell, Milton Willoya,
Elmer Greene and A1 Sahlin were
selected an the all-star team while
Pete Larsen and Gordon Swan
berg made honorable mention.
The individual games summary:
Nome-Cordova — Both teams
started very slowly stage fright
was evident. Elmer Greene’s re
bounding and George Bell’s shoot
ing were the deciding factors.
Nome looked sloppy and played
very poor until the fourth quarter
when they literally ran Cordova
off the floor with their fast break.
The Nanooks had complete con
trol of the boards. Quarter scores
were 7-4, 17-10, 29-22 and 47-29.
Nome-Wasilla—This game also
began very slow as Wasilla was
in a 1-3-1 zone and the Nanooks
had a little difficulty hitting the
basket during this tilt. After three
tedious quarters capped by a
three - point third quarter drive
led by Greene and Olson, the
Nanooks came out on top, hitting
for 11 points and limiting Wasilla
to one field goal in the last period.
Quarter scores: 7-5, 21-11, 24-22
and 35-24. Coach Hahn comments,
“After this terrible showing the
people were asking ‘How did
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Communist Stockpiles
Take Heavy Beating
From Allied Warplanes
SEOUL, (#1 — Allied warplanes
laid a heavy hand on Communist
supply arteries and stockplies
again today while ground action
along the 155-mile Korean front
diminished to a near standstill.
U.S. Superforts struck the heav
iest blow—a pre-dawn raid on a
supply center west of Chaeryong
in western Korea. The 12 B-29s
also hit repair facilities five miles
northwest of Pyongyang, the Kor
ean Communist capital.
B-26 light bombers ranged over
large sections of North Korea in
the dark. Their crews reported
destroying 125 Communists ve
hicles, one locomotive and hits on
a communications center.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
last night’s toll brought to 1,303
the total of Communist vehicles
destroyed in the past 12 nights.
Carrier - based planes sprayed
destruction along both Korean
coasts on Friday. The Navy at
tackers blew up 29 railroad cars
and heavily damaged a locomotive
on the east coast north o‘f Hung
nam.
The cruiser USS Toledo and the
destroyer Wedderburn steamed in
to Wonsan Harbor, and pumped
salvos directly into marshalling
yards and supply centers. The
Navy said that explosions were
touched off.
Bartlett Warns Statehood
For Ohio Should Get in
Line After Alaska, Hawaii
WASHINGTON, UP! — Ohio' was
warned today not to try to elbow
its way into the Union ahead of
Hawaii and Alaska.
The warning was given in jest
by Alaska’s voteless delegate to
Congress, E. L. Bartlett, at a
House committee hearing on leg
islation to grant statehood to
Hawaii.
Rep. Bender (R-Ohio), a mem
ber of the committee, took the
occasion to urge early action on
his resolution to complete con
gressional action started 150 years
ago to admit Ohio into the Union
—formally, that is.
For the past century and a half
Ohio has been generally accepted
as a full-fledged state.
Then some researcher discov
ered that Congress, when it ap
proved Ohio’s constitution and
boundaries back in 1803, somehow
neglected to pass the necessary
resolution formally admitting the
area as a state. i
Bender then moved to set the
record straight.
Bartlett said “Ohio should take
its place in line” with Hawaii and
Alaska.
Sen. Russell Predicts
$500 Million Saving Will
Be Tough to Accomplish
WASHINGTON, OB—Sen. Rus
sell (D-Ga) predicted today the
Eisenhower administration will
have difficulty reducing spending
by more than a half billion dollars
even-if it squeezes all the waste
out of the military program.
Russell, former chairman of the
Armed Services Committee, said
his intimate contacts with the de
fense program have convinced
him only a relatively small
amount of “fat” can be trimmed
off outlays in that field.
“Of course, we could cut mili
tary spending by $10 billion if we
chose to do it, but I don’t know
how much defense we would have
left,” the Georgia senator said.
Former President Truman esti
mated that military outlays would
reach $46,296,000,000 in the year
beginning July 1 and Bridges has
said this may be $2V£ billion un
der actual expenditures.
Because the military program
represents such a large propor
tion, Russell said he doesn’t be
lieve the Republicans can trim
Truman’s predicted $9,900,000,000
deficit materially unless they cut
into that program.
Representative Promises
Early Hearing on Bill to
Make Alaska a State
WASHINGTON, UP)— An early
hearing on bills to make Alaska
a state was promised today by
Rep. Miller (R-Neb), chairman of
the House Interior Committee.
Presiding at the opening session
of a hearing on statehood for
Hawaii,. Miller said he had asked
Rep, Saylor (R-Pa), chairman of
the Territorial Subcommittee, to
hold the Alaska hearing “at an
early date—I hope within the next
six weeks, perhaps sooner.”
The hearing will take up a bill
to permit Alaska to elect its own
governor, as well as the statehood
proprosal.
Robert Reeve Withdraws As
Candidate For Alaska Governor
Education Group
Protests Teachers’
Pay Increase Plan
ANCHORAGE, OR—The Alaska
Education Association Saturday
protested the Territorial Board of
Education’s recommendation for
a $300 increase in teachers’ sal
aries plus a bonus system accord
ing to the length of service in Al
aska.
The association, which has a
membership of 769 out of the 850
teachers in the territory, said it
was standing firm on its original
request for an $800 across-the
board increase for all teachers in
the territory.
Pearl Schockley of Anchorage,
AEA president, said the group
recognized a need for a bonus or
similar system of extra pay to
attract permanent teachers to the
territory but that the immediate
need was to bring salaries to a
decent professional level and that
the $800 raise would be a step
toward that.
She pointed out that Alaska
schools would need 300 more
teachers next year and a mere
$300 raise with the promise of a
$50 bonus to stay would not be
enough attraction.
The recommended bonus system
of the board would take a teacher
10 years to reach the AEA salary
raise goal.
Three Nomeites Among
Officers Named for
Pioneers' Grand Igloo
JUNEAU, — Territorial Sen.
Gerrit (Heinie) Snider of Wasilla
was elected and installed Sunday
as new president of the Grand
Igloo of Pioneers of Alaska.
Snider is serving the second
session of his first term in the
Senate. He is widely known as a
radio narrator of Alaskan stories.
He came to Alaska 44 years ago.
Other officers elected were:
Mike Walsh, Nome, first vice
president; Alfred Zenger Sr., Ju
neau, second vice president; Cora
Sweeney, Juneau, secretary; Bob
De Armond, Sitka, treasurer; Sen.
Charles Jones, Nome, recorder;
James Barrack Fairbanks, chap
lain; Dr. W. H. Chase, Cordova,
historian; Sid Raynor, Anchorage,
sergeant at arms; C. J. Woofter,
Fairbanks; Otto Koppin, Cordova,
Feliz Gray, Juneau; SeA. Howard
Lyng, Nome; and Christine Han
sen, Ketchikan, trustees.
Waldorf Astoria Cheaper
For Convicts than Alcatraz
WASHINGTON, UO—Senate de
baters reached bipartisan agree
ment Friday that stern Alcatraz
prison costs more to house a pri
soner than would a plush, big
city hotel.
Sen. Langer (R-ND), saying it
now costs twice as much to feed
and house a prisoner at the island
prison in San Francisco Bay as at
any other federal prison, figured
the government could board in
mates “in the Waldorf Astoria
cheaper.”
JUNEAU, UPl— The withdrawal
of Robert Reeve as a candidate for
the governorship of Alaska was
announced here Sunday night.
The announcement was made
through the Republican Central
Committee, a majority of which
originally gave a controversial en
dorsement to the Anchorage air
line operator, who was the party’s
unsuccessful nominee for Con
gress last year.
Reeve has just returned to An
chorage after talking with Secre
tary of the Interior Douglas Mc
Kay in Washington.
Elton Engstrom, chairman of
the GOP Central Committee, said.
Reeve asked the committee to
withdraw his name from consid
eration. “He said he is grateful to
the Central Committee and the
party for endorsement,” Engstrom
said. “He said he also outlined for
McKay his proposals for Alaska
development and received assur
ance they conformed to a program
which will be instituted by the
new administration.”
The Central Committee an
nouncement came on the heels of
the departure of McKay’s special
emmissary for the States after a
24-hour on-the-spot survey of Al
askans’ attitude about who should
be appointed governor.
Ralph Cake, former GOP na
tional committeeman and one of
McKay’s closest advisers, con
ferred with legislators and most
members of the Central Commit
tee Saturday and Sunday.
During the talks he repeatedly
emphasized that McKay has not
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Mt. Trident Still Erupting
ANCHORAGE, UP)—A half-mile
wide flow of lava was sizzling
down the snowy sides of still
erupting Mount Trident today.
The active volcano, which first
belched a layer of orange brown
ash in the Mount Katmai National
Monument a week ago, was send
ing sulphurous smoke and gas
fumes from vents in the side of
the mountain. It’s clouds billowed
18,000 feet into the air, and could
be seen for 100 miles.
A ground party including Grant
Pearson, superintendent of na
tional parks in Alaska; Ray Peter
son, George Peters, a Ranger, and
bush pilot Johnny Walatfta, was
in the Alaska Peninsula area to
day.
Mounts Mageik and Martin
were active also but Mount Nova
rupta was quiet. Mount Katmai,
which blew its top spectacularly
in 1912, was obscured by smoke
which hid whatever mischief it
might be brewing.
Exclaimed Peterson: “Greatest
show in the valley since 1912.”
Urges Hawaii Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of Interior McKay urged Congress
today to grant Hawaii immediate
statehood.
In a statement for a House In
terior subcommittee hearing, Mc
Kay called for legislation to let
Hawaii become the 49th state upon
a determination by the President
that all requirements laid down
by Congress have been met.