SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LI. No. 89
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949
Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) — One of the i
army’s top marksmen, James V.
Morrison, warrant officer j.g., |
will represent the armed forces of
Alaska in pistol matches to be
held here this week-end.
Morrison, who holds the distin
guished pistol medal, is supply of
ficer at the general depot in Alas
ka. He will compete here in the
North Pacific regional matches to
be held at the Seattle police pis
tol range.
HOUSTON, Tex. \fP) — Houston
may keep its schools open all year.
The city’s school board asked
superintendent W. E. Moreland
yesterday to draft plans for keep
ing the schools open 12 months
and estimate costs.
Dr. Henry A. Petersen, a board,
member, suggested the plan as an
alternative to another large bond
issue for building more schools.
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman yesterday nomin a t e d
Knox T. Hutchison to be assistant
secretary of agriculture.
Hutchison is a Murfreesboro,
Tenn., farmer.
SEATTLE, (£>)—The Norwegian
motor vessel Kaubo plowed
through choppy waters in the
Strait of Juan de Fuca yesterday,
still listing heavily from shifted
copper ore.
The 5,000 ton vessel was report
ed by the coast guard as off Race
Rocks inside the Straits Tuesday
morning It was under escort of
the U. S. army transport James
O’Hara which answered its s.o.s.
call early Saturday.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Harry I. Lucas,
59, hief underwriter for the fed
eral housing administration in
Alaska, died Monday afternoon af
ter a heart attack at his nearby
summer home.
Lucas came to Alaska in 1911.
For a long time he was associated
with B. M. Behrends bank and
then joined the staff of the FHA
when it was first organized. He
was mayor of Juneau for six
years. His widow, two sons—Lee
and Harry Jr.—and four grand
children survive him.
SEATTLE (/P)—Many Columbia
River tuna packers may leave
their production lines idle unless
a large catch forces a reduction in
the present raw fish price, Mc
govern and McGovern, Seattle sal
mon brokers, said Monday.
The firm said the present price
of $350 to $380 a ton is out of line
with lower retail prices prevailing.
The brokers also termed the |
Alaska salmon catch as “dismal,”
running about 550.000 cases of
reds as compared with 1,236,226
cases last year.
GLENDALE, Calif. (JP) — Vin
cent (Vince) Dundee, former mid
dleweight boxing champion, died
today in a sanitarium where he
had been confined since 1942. He
was 41.
Sanitarium officials said death
was due to multiple sclerosis.
Dundee won the middleweight
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Public Meeting ()f
Nome Citizens
A public meeting was held last
evening in the city hall for the
puropse of discussing civic prob
lems in relation to recent happen
ings in the city jail which result
ed in the death of a man and a
woman.
Jim Frye was selected to act as
chairman of the meeting and Mrs.
Joe Hunt as secretary. A capacity
crowd filled the city hall with
many citizens taking part in the
discussion.
The group was assured by Dep
uty Marshal George Bayer, that
his department is hard at work on
the case of the death of Georgi
anna Lott.
The first action taken was that
of a recommendation to the City
Council for the divorcing of the
police and fire department for
better protection. It was brought
j out in the discussion that the city
' was short of funds and that estab
J lishing of two separate depart
; ments would involve the expendi
ture of more money which in turn
would mean more taxes. It was
also brought out that Chief Laws,
] who now holds both the fire de
partment and police department
jobs did not seek to be police chief
but was appointed as such by the
council when they were unable to
! find a satisfactory successor to the
S former police chief. Mr. Laws was
highly praised for his outstanding
work as fire chief.
The right of Councilman Gor
don Osborne to act as patrolman
and be a member of the city coun
cil was challenged. Former Fire
Chief C. F. Yenney informed
those present that all councilmen
are police officers according to the
laws of the city.
A discussion was held on the
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Gives Reply To
Cardinal Spellman
HYDE PARK, N. Y. (/P)—Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, denying
any “bias against the Roman
Catholic church,” said today she
would “continue to stand for the
things in our government which I
think are right.”
She made the statements in a
letter to Francis Cardinal Spell
man who assailed her last Friday
in a letter for a “record of anti
Catholicism . . . unworthy of an
American mother.” ,
“I assure you,” wrote Mrs.
Roosevelt, “that I have no sense
of being an ‘unworthy American
mother.’ The final judgment, my
Dear Cardinal Spellman, of the
worthiness of all human beings is
in the hands of God.”
The controversy stemmed from
Mrs. Roosevelt’s opposition to fed
eral aid to parochial schools. Car
dinal Spellman said Mrs. Roose
velt aligned herself with backers
of the Barden bill in her June 23
column and two others. The Bar
den bill would permit federal aid
only to public schools. Mrs. Roose
velt mentioned Cardinal Spell
man’s opposition to the Barden
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Shanghai Suffers
Worst Storm In
Over Thirty Years
(By Fred Hampson)
SHANGHAI, UP) — Shanghai’s
worst storm in years killed 29 per
sons, injured 23 and left upwards I
of 200,000 homeless, reseuers
sloshing through flooded streets
learned today.
Fourteen died when a house col
lapsed, 10 lost their lives in a se-1
ries of fires and five others were
electrocuted by power lines blown
down in the 25 hour storm.
Property damage app eared
, heavy. But the worst may have
I occurred in neighboring farm
areas. Badly needed truck crops
! were either totally destroyed or
| badly damaged. The lower Yang
; tze rice crop, due to be harvested
; in 40 days, was destroyed partial
i
The typhoon ended Monday
midnight. Earlier it had seriously
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I
Board Driven
Through Body
Of Auto Racer
—
YAKIMA, (JP)— Allen Hobson,
! 24-year-old auto racer who was
! impaled by a 2 x 6 inch board in
1 a 70-mile-an-hour crash Sunday,
was reported in “good though crit
ical” condition at a hospital early
today.
The 10-foot long board knifed
through the left side of his body,
breaking four ribs and tearing out
the top of his left lung. The Cor
netius, Ore., driver sat painfully
in the car almost an hour before
the board holding him could be
sawed through.
An ordinary saw, used at first
to cut through the board, had to
be discarded as the teeth of the i
saw set up painful vibrations.
Workers finally used nearly a
dozen mechanic’s hacksaws in cut
ting through the board. He was
taken to the hospital with 14
inches of the board still in him.
Three and a half hours later
doctors removed the rest of the
board from his body.
His wife stood by him at the
track while workers f6ught to free
him.
Alaska Airlines
Gets Back Mail Pay
SEATTLE </P)—Alaska Airlines
announced yesterday that the
company has received $750,000
from the post office department
for retroactive mail pay to Decem
ber 31, 1946.
The company said $232,000 will
be used to retire its only outstand
ing bank loan. The company has
claims pending for mail pay for
the three years which exceed
$1,500,000.
Returns for the first eight
months of the current fiscal year
are 85 per cent higher than they
were in 1948, the company report
ed. Profits are estimated at $230,
000. A year ago the company had
lost $250,366., ~ ' .
Truman Signs
Atlantic Treaty:
Asks For Funds
(By John M. Hightower)
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman signed the historic North
Atlantic treaty yesterday and im
mediately asked Cogress to back
it up with a $1,450,000,000 foreign
arms program.
The Chief Executive said the
Western European members of the
newly ratified military alliance—
as well as other nations around
the globe—must have American
help to build up their defenses
against the threat of Russian ag- j
gression.
Barely an hour before he sent a
special message to the lawmakers
pleading for swift approval of his
program to meet “the most press
ing current needs,” Mr. Truman
penned his signature to the rati
| fication instrument of the Atlantic
pact.
He called the treaty — ratified
only last Thursday by an 82 tol3
Senate vote “a historic step tow
ard a world of peace, a free world,
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Klansmen Try To
Kidnap Mayor Of
Donalsonville, Ga.
DONALSONVILLE, Ga., (/P)—
The mayor of a south Georgia
country town said today he beat
off with gunfire a mob of Ku Klux
Klansmen who tried to kidnap
him.
Mayor C. L. Drake of nearby
Iron City said “seven or eight au
tomobiles loaded with uniformed ,
and masked klansmen” approach
ed his house about 3 a.m. Sunday,
July 17.
“I opened fire on them and they
scattered in a hurry,” he said.
“When they shot back they were
too far away to do any harm.”
Iron City is a twon of about
500 persons in extreme southwest I
Georgia. It is about 15 miles from
the Alabama line and about 35 !
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FEDERAL DEPT. OF LABOR
REPRSENTATIVE HERE
Mr. L. E. Evans, representative
of the Federal Department of La
bor, who has been on a routine
trip to Nome and Kotzebue for
his department stated today that
from now on the Second Division
would have an annual visit from
the department to administer and
enforce the wage and hour laws
and particularly the federal law
on child labor.
Mr. Evans left today for Juneau
as he has been advised by wire
today that he was selected to at
tend the convention of the Loyal
Order of Moose in San Francisco
on August 14, as an Alaskan rep
resentative.
He stated that the weather here
today equals that of the California
city to which he is going.
Mr. Evans can be reached at
Box 1030, Juneau, Alaska, should
anyone have inquiries concerning
labor problems which apply to his
department.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Monday. July 25, 1949
<Bv The Associated Press>
Chinese communists drove
closer today to Changsha, 400
miles north of the provisional na
tionalist capital of Canton.
The advance threatened to
sweep the nationalists from Hu
nan province. The nationalists re
alized only too well that the loss
of Hunan would doom South
China. Private report placed the
Reds at points five miles east of
Changsha and 10 miles east of
Suchow. Government sources con
ceded the capture by the commun
ists of Yungan, 18 miles east of
Changsha. They reported hard
fighting near Liling. 45 miles south
east of Changsha.
Meanwhile, the official Central
Daily News of Canton came out
against the prospective release by
the U. S. state department of a
“white paper” on China. It said
such an action would give moral
support to the Chinese communists
and impair Chinese-Ameri c a n
friendship.
The newspaper said the state
department “wants to convince
Congress” that further aid to na
tionalist China would be of no
avail.
Informed sources in Canton
said the nationalists are getting
ready to purge “bad elements”
within the Kuomingtang fNation
alist Party*.
A Belgrade dispatch reviewing
Yugoslavia’s diplomatic position
said Premier Marshal Tito, the
first communist ruler to say “No”
to prime minister Stalin, seems to
be still firmly in the saddle.
More than a year ago the com
inform blasted Tito for nationalist
deviation from what the Kremlin
regards as orthodox communism.
There have been border inci
dents, shootings, sabotage and
spies in Yugoslavia, but the coun
try appears to be weathering the
economic and strategic strains re
sulting from the cominform at
tack.
Czechoslovakia’s comm u n i s t
premier, Antonin Zapotocky, said
yesterday that if forced to choose
between Catholicism and com
munism, the country’s answer
would be: “Moscow, Stalin, social
ism.”
London’s month long waterfront
strike ended today. There were
threats of new labor troubles in
Britain’s state-owned coal mines
and railroads.
Tuesday, July 26, 1949
Western Europe kept a watch
ful eye today on the United States
Congress where the vast foreign
aid program is being thrashed out.
British newspapers expressed
fear that Congress may cut the
proposed $1,450,000,000 arms aid
program to a point where it will
be ineffective.
Editorial comment reflected un
easiness that President Truman’s
arms-for-Europe program will
suffer under an economy drive.
The London Times said: “Only
the passing of the military pro
gram can remove the doubts that
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