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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV NO. 144 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1953 _Per Copy—15^
Community Xmas
Tree Celebration
Slated for Dec. 18
The Community Christmas Tree
annual celebration will be held
this year on December 18 at the
school auditorium, stated Mrs.
Steve Anderson, chairman.
Active committees are now at
work on the various phases of
the celebration.
Finance Committee Clyde Kam
merer, Herb Williams, and Donald
McDonald will soon be soliciting
business houses and individuals
to cover the expenses.
Heading the committee to fill
the many hundreds of stockings
are Mrs. Lorena Gray, Mrs. Rose
Bronson and Mrs. Helen Fager
strom of the Aurora Circle.
Olaf Halverson is in charge of
decorating the big tree and Supt.
Wm. Angell is chairman of the
program committee.
Mrs. Andersen states that W. W.
Laws has placed jars in downtown
business houses for free-will con
tributions which will be picked
up as they are filled.
She also said that stockings
will be filled at the Community
Center and will be limited for
distribution to pre-school children
through the sixth grade.
As an entirely separate venture
in connection with the Christmas
Tree and Christmas spirit, Tommy
Martin has spearheaded a move
ment to set the tree up on front
street after it is used at the school
so that the entire community may
enjoy it throughout the holiday
season. It is reported that he will
be assisted by the Volunteer Fire
men.
Alaskan Returns From
FBI School to Head Up
Territorial Police Force
JUNEAU, (tf—William Trafton,
who left Alaska three months ago
as a sergeant in the Territorial
Police, has returned as a lieuten
ant. He has just completed a 12
weeks course in the FBI school at
Washington, D.C., and was com
missioned on its completion.
He will be the officer in charge
of the Territorial Police A. P.
Brandt announced.
Brandt also said his desk is
piled high with the examination
papers of candidates for appoint
ment as territorial highway pat
rolmen and they are being studied.
“It’s quite a job,” he commented.
. CHRISTMAS LIGHT STOP
CHANDLER, Okla., iff)—Police
man Hank Albritton promptly ar
rested a motorist for drunkeness
when the driver, holding up traffic
for blocks, demanded indignantly,
“When’s that light going to
change?”
The red light he was referring
to was part of downtown Chan
dler’s new Christmas decorations.
Alaska SS Co. To
Cut Passenger
Sailings In Half
SEATTLE, UP) — The Alaska
Steamship Co. will slash its win
ter passenger service 50 per cent
with the new year to its lowest
level since 1895.
The company will remove the
S.S. Denali from service on Jan. 1,
general passenger agent H. N.
Peterson announced Thursday and
reduce sailings from once a week
to once every other week.
The curtailment lowers Alaska
ocean passenger service out of
Seattle to its lowest point since
before the gold rush of 1898,
Peterson said.
Under the new schedule, the
Denali and Baranof will maintain
weekly service through 1953. No
passenger vessel will sail from
Seattle Friday, January 1. Jan
uary 8 the Baranof will begin her
new routine of departures every
other Friday for Ketchikan,
Petersburg, Juneau and Seward.
With the February 19 voyage,
Wrangell will be added as a north
bound port of call, and weekly
service will resume in April.
Meanwhile, the company an
nounced, it will add enough
freighters to its schedule to give
weekly cargo service to both
southeastern and southwestern
Alaska.
Diane Wells May Be
Allowed Leave Alaska
On $5,000 Additional Bond
FAIRBANKS, <JV-The possibil
ity arose Wednesday that Diane
Wells would be permitted to post
additional bond and leave Alaska
for the states.
Her attorney, Walter Sczudlo,
said Judge Harry Pratt had ag
reed tentatively to allow Mrs.
Wells to go if $5,000 additional
bond is posted. •
Permission was sought for Mrs.
Wells to leave Alaska when it was
learned the case cannot be heard
until Febrauary at the earliest.
The delay is forced by a crowded
Federal court docket.
Her co-defendant on the mur
der of Cecil Wells, Johnny War
ren, Negro jazz drummer, also is
free on $5,000 bond.
Warren’s attorney, Everett
Hepp, said he will press for a
separation of the charges against
his client and Mrs. Wells. Sczudlo
has filed a request for a change
of venue.
The district attorney has argued
against separation of the charges
on the contention that such a
move would force the govern
ment to accuse a specific person
as the actual slayer, which he
said the prosecution is not pre
pared to do.
Police Quell
Violence On
’Frisco Waterfront
SAN FRANCISCO, UR — Extra
police were on watch for possible
further violence Friday at the
dock of the steamer Aleutian.
There were two bitter flareups
Thursday between rival water
front unions.
Nine men were injured and
five were arrested in the bloody
fights, which were halted in a
drizzling rain by armed police
with riot guns and tear gas.
Twenty policemen from outly
ing precincts stood by in case of
repercussions of trouble between
1,400 members of Harry Lund
berg’s AFL Sailors Union of the
Pacific, and the independent Na
tional Union of Marine Cooks and
Stewards backed by Bridges.
Superior Judge Preston J. De
vine issued an injunction at the
request of the Hawaii & Pacific
Line, which is chartering the
Aleutian, limiting pickets to five
men of each union.
The court also forbade more
than four AFL men from assem
bly near the picket line.
Thursday afternoon AFL mem
bers massed at their union hall
near the Bay Bridge and began
a march toward the Aleutian,
two and a half miles away.
Rain was coming down in a
steady drizzle as the marchers
slogged along in a ponderous
mass, 20 to 30 abreast.
Some of the marchers made no
effort to conceal their weapons,
which varied from baseball bats
rolled in newspapers, to pieces of
2 by 4 timbers and lengths of
chain.
When the marchers hit the po
lice line, the union men surged
forward for a moment, but the
police held. Another brief rush
and night sticks and timbers
came into play.
Unrepatriated POWs
Will Be Freed Jan. 22
Says Arthur H. Dean
PANMUNJOM, UP)—U.S. Envoy
Arthur H. Dean told the Commu
nists Friday that unrepatriated
war prisoners will be freed Jan.
22 unless a peace conference de
cides some other course “and no
human hand or mind or debate
can change it.”
“We are never going to agree,
under any circumstances, to a
change in that date,” he declared.
Dean and Communist diplomats
huddled for almost three hours
on plans for a peace conference
while a few miles away 30 more
South Korean war prisoners un
animously rejected pleas to re
turn home.
Allied persuaders in three days
have talked to 90 South Koreans
who chose life under the Com
munists and not one has changed
his mind.
Big Three Arrive In Bermuda
For History-Making Conference
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Tunnel Blasted
Through In Giant
Canadian Project
KEMANO, B.C., Iff) — A dyna
mite blast deep in the heart of a
mountain Thursday completed the
main artery of a giant power proj
ect which will generate electricity
for the Aluminum Company of
Canada development at Kitmat.
The blast, fired toy Alcan vice
president McNeely DuBose shat
tered the final barrier of a 10
mile tunnel through the solid rock
of the Coast Range.
It marked the end of 21 months’
work, 24 hours a day, six days a
week, to drive the tunnel through
Mount DuBose.
The job, which entailed remov
ing 2,300,000 tons of rock, was
completed right on schedule. Nu
merous world records for tunnel
ling were set by drilling and blast
ing crews.
The accomplishment was de
scribed by Alcan officials as a
“major step” toward completion
of the va^t “Project British Col
umbia” which eventually will cost
more than $500,000,000.
The first aluminum ingots are
scheduled to be loaded aboard
deep sea ships for world markets
late in the spring. Annual produc
tion has been estimated at 83,000
metric tons.
The pouring of concrete floor
ing throughout the entire length
and lining of some soft sections,
is all that remains to complete
the tunnel job..
None of the tunnel work was
done by the old-fashioned pick
and shovel method. Heavy ma
chinery, valued at $25,000,000, did
everything.
Jack Dempsey To Marry
Widow Millionairess
NEW YORK, OR— Former heavy
weight boxing champ Jack Demp
sey and wealthy Mrs. Estelle Au
guste of Palm Beach, Fla., today
announced they will marry soon.
At a news conference Mrs. Au
guste, a pretty blonde, said:
“I really think it’s wonderful to
at last find a real man. In my orbit
I’ve met so few of them.”
The couple said the wedding
date has not been set, but that it
would be some time before Christ
mas.
Dempsey, 58, has been married
three times previously. Mrs. Au
guste, 42, has been married twice
before. Her last husband, the late
Harmon Spencer Auguste, died
four years ago leaving her a for
tune.
Asked if reports that she is
worth 45 million dollars were true,
Mrs. Auguste smiled “That’s not
a nice question,
TUCKER’S TOWN, Bermuda, UP)
—President Eisenhower arrived in
Bermuda Friday for the start of a
history-making Big Three confer
ence with Prime Minister Church
ill and French Premier Laniel.
The Presidential plane Colum
bine landed at American-leased
Kindley Field.
Waiting to greet Eisenhower as
he stepped from the plane were
Churchill and Laniel, together
with British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and French For
eign Minister Georges Bidault.
A crowd of about 2,000 was on
hand to welcome Eisenhower. Al
so present was a colorful honor
guard made up of Royal Welsh
Fusilieres, Bermuda militia and
U.S. airmen.
Eisenhower stepped off the
plane promptly and was greeted
by Bermuda Governor Sir Alex
ander Hood and Mrs. Hood, fol
lowed by the commanders of the
military units drawn up to receive
him.
The President then walked a
few steps and was met by Church
ill, who gave him a hearty hand
shake. The crowd of Bermudans
and Big Three conference officials
cheered.
In the Presidential party were
Secretary of State Dulles and
Lewis Strauss, chairman of the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Strauss was added to the party at
the last minute this morning.
The colorful reception ceremon
ies contrasted sharply with the
sombre questions facing the con
ference.
Churchill earlier had been be
lieved eager to press his pet
scheme for a quick meeting with
Premier Georgi Malenkov. Now,
however, it seems obvious that the
American desire to give priority
(bo pressuring the French for rati
fication of the European Army
treaty dominates.
5
Egyptians Fire On U.S.
Freighter Carrying Gift
Wheat To Jordan
CAIRO, Egypt, (£)—An Ameri
can freighter carrying 9,600 tons
of gift wheat for Arab refugees
from Palestine was fired on in
the Gulf of Arabia Thursday.
Het owners in New York said
there was no damage or casualties.
An Egyptian official here said
an Egyptian shore battery fired
what he called a warning shot at
the freighter, the Albion, because
she failed to heed an order to halt
for inspection.
The Albion is scheduled to un
load at the Jordan port of Aqaba
at the head of the Gulf tomorrow.
Ceremonies are planned in con
nection with the arrival of the
•gift wheat.
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