VOL. L. No. 104 _NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948_PER COPY 15^ NEWS IN BRIEF Draft Registration Bricker Predicts Shipping Strike Thirty-Six Die —Alaska-bound Starts SEATTLE, (j*P) Today GOP At As on his first medical appointment, Big Victory Negotiations Lightning Dr. Vernon A. Cates of Seattle WASHINGTON, (/P) — Young sailed on the steamer Baranof American between the In Ohio Virtual Stalemate Strikes men, ages Airplane Saturday with his bride, the for- of 18 and 25, today are preparing (By Jack Bell) mer Grace Moore of Chehalis, to start registering in a new se- WASHINGTON, {JP) — Senator SAN FRANCISCO i/P)—Pacific WINONA, Minn. OP)—Thirty- Wash. lective service program designed Bricker (R-Ohio) predicted Satur- Coast maritime contract negotia- six persons died as a storm raked Dr. Cates and Miss a war.” Moore, “to avoid day that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey tions wrangled on today in an at- a Northwest Airlines plane atop a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde The “avoid a war” description will win the Presidency in the mosphere of more than usual an- wooded Mississippi River bluff were married here the se- Moore, Friday was given Friday night by November election “by a tremen- tagonism. near here yesterday. night. He will join the staff of lective service director, Maj. dous The waterfront became majority.” picture A human chain wound its way the Doctor’s Clinic at Anchorage. Lewis B. Hershey in a nationwide His forecast with a more cau- much more difficult late yester- » down the steep and rocky side of __ broadcast. tious one Gov. Turner of when union by Roy day longshore spokes- a 150 foot ravine today to bring E. SEATTL7, (iP)—Adm. Joseph The draft, he said, is for the Oklahoma that President Truman men termed the latest j employer out the mangled bodies of 26 per- Stika, commandant of the 13th purpose of protecting the United will win in a in \dfciich campaign proposals “completely unaccept- sons trapped in the wrecked fuse- coast guard district, is off on a tates “immediate and po- Turner said “There is work to be able.” against lage. The bodies of 10 others were visit to Alaska coast guard bases. tential enemies.” ! done.” They reaffirmed that their carried out last night. The admiral will take in cer- “I do not use the who was run- for next part phrase ‘pro- j Bricker, Dewey’s coastwise strike called None of the victims were from emonies at Sitka war ourselves’ he de- honoring tect loosely,” ning mate in 1944 when the late Thursday, when an 80-day gov- the Pacific Northwest. dead. He also to visit plans Skag- clared. President Roosevelt again was re- ernment injunction expires, would The crash occurred between for the 50th cele- as rich as we way anniversary “No nation are, elected, told a reporter on a brief come off on schedule. Winona and Fountain City, Wise., bration of rush and to as envious gold days. subject many •Continued on Page Five) But Robert Mayer, spokesman on the Wisconsin side of the river can to continue in ex- eyes, hope for the employers, still main- during the height of a severe elec- — Tne Alaska SEATTLE, (/P) istence unless it is ready and able tained the outlook was “optimis- trical and rain storm. Baranof left on to defend itself.” National Guard passenger ship tic.” The plane was one of the air- schedule last night after members for all men 18 to CIO Registration And Native Guard Henry Bridges’ longshore lines newer Martin 2-0-2 ships of the marine cooks and stewards 25 and continues begins today union, through spokesman Morris and was bound for Minneapolis union alterations in 18. Men will accepted through Sept. sign To Be Established Watson, said the employers had from Chicago with 33 passengers crews’ aboard the vessel. with 25- quarters up by age groups the not offered to continue the pres- and three crew members. Dissatisfaction over stewards’ year-olds first. ent form of hiring hall—key issue It left at 3:50 and (/P> — The An- Chicago p.m. to ANCHORAGE, a c commodations threatened There are about 4,000 draft in the talks—and union security. due in at chorage Times said Saturday that although Minneapolis hold of the Baranof, boards in the and each The up sailing country employers emphatically 5:30 p.m. apparently was behind the army and the Territorial was to at 9 gov- which due leave p.m. has organized about five centers denied this. Frank Foisie, presi- schedule because of the storm. ernment are for es- union dis- making plans Charles Nichols, for registration, Hershey said. dent of the employer group, said NWA’s Twin Cities tablishment of native scout units headquar- said the stewards Actual patcher, signed registration should take the union statement was “pure ters said its last message from the in Alaska as well as battalion of on the Baranof the during day little time, Hershey said. Small hokum, in'ended only for confu- was received at about 5 the national plane p. and were aboard in time for sail- cards 16 guard. carrying questions are to sion.” m. and read, “Am descending The Alaska Scouts, the Times ing. I be filled out. Within a few days “On the hiring hall, we made overcast.” The will be made of through heavy A full list of 160 was said, up largely passengers registrants will receive another the identical concession that was plane then was at 7,000 feet. Eskimos in the more remote sec- booked for the The ; voyage. ship questionnaire which must be fill- (Continued on Page Six) A crash witness told the cor- tions of Alaska. Their * was scheduled to sail for Ketchi- ed out and training, | returned to draft oner he saw the plane fall into the the newspaper added, will be sim- kan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and boards within ten days. POLICE CHIEF GRAY ravine on Sutters Ridge after Seward. ilar to that for guard units but lightning shattered a wing. will have unique features to adapt UNDER ARREST FOR Howard Rackow, a farmer liv- SEATTLE, (/P)—Amble In did the program to the native cus- Internation’l News ing on Perry Island in the Missis- so in the $20,000 Longacres mile toms. I TAKING BRIBES river, told the coroner he uniforms and other sippi yesterday. He beat Minstrel Boy — Guns, was getting some stock out of the by a neck to repeat his 1946 tri- At A Glance equipment will be made available ^ ^ storm when the plane passed over. umph in the big money feature. to both native and white compan- Clyde Gray, Nome's Chief of “I was in the yard with my The time was 1:35 3/5. (By The Associated Press* ies, the account said. Police, was arrested last week on (Continued on Page Four) Hank H. the 1947 winner, was Saturday, August 28, 1948 Under the reported plans the charges of accepting and giving tjiird, giving the entry trained by French Premier Andre Marie’s Continued on Page Three bribes on complaint filed by Dis- trict Allen Drumheller of Walla Walla, month-old cabinet resigned after Attorney Frank C. Bingham. Soviet Korea waived a clean sweep. The entry paid [Struggling unsuccessfully for two Charles E. Gray hearing for ex- Hughes, amination and was bound over to $2.90, $2.40 and $2.50. days to draft wage and price re- “Will Destroy” forms. Dies Of the Grand Jury on $5000 bond. SAN FRANCISCO (/P)—“Uncle 86, Finance Minister Paul Revnaud The City Council has appointed U. S. Korea Charlie” the Graham, president of Chief of the F’ire W. had proposed a 10 per cent rise in Heart Failure Department San Francisco Seals baseball team i wages, still controlled by the gov- SEOUL. i/P)—The Russian pup- and affectionately regarded by —' ernment, but the socialists would OSTERVILLE, Mass., UP) pet regime in North Korea, in a many as the Connie Mack of the not agree, holding out for a 15 to Charles Evans Hughes, retired broadcast intercepted by the U. S. minor leagues, died early yester- 16 per cent increase. Chief Justice of the United tates army and made public today, day of pneumonia. France’s political instability was who narrowly missed becoming threatened “to destroy” the elect- Charles H. Graham came up j eyed any effect on current President in 1916, died Friday ed government in American-oc- wfrom behind the plate to the front for# j four-power discussions in Mos- night. cupied South Korea. office in a career that closely cow over the German situation. Hughes, secretary of state in the The broadcast from Pyongyang, matched Connie Mack’s. He was (BERLIN)—The commandant of Harding and Coolidge cabinets headquarters of the Soviet occu- a catcher, manager, owner, and the Soviet sector of Berlin, and twice Governor of New York, zone, was the first picked club in Maj. | pation president his half century 1 Gen. Alexander Kotikov, evaded succumbed a since an election in North Ko- in baseball. Friday night only up pleas by city council leaders that few hours after he was reported rea Aug. 25 for a supreme peoples His Seals aje in first place in he protect their meetings at the | in critical condition from a heart council. the Pacific Coast league. City Hall, which is in the Soviet ailment. It heaped abuse on the Korean SEATTLE, {/P)—A sportsman sector, from further invasions by The 66-year-old former chief republic in South Korea, whith communist ever Na- p- was accidentally shot to death demonstrators. The justice—the only American was an outgrowth of United Friday afternoon while hunting commandant passed the buck to to be appointed twice to the U. S. tions-observed elections in the U. deer north of Ketchikan, the coast the Russian sector police. All was Supreme Court—died at the Wi* S. occupation zone May 10, and guard reported. quiet at the Berlin city hall after anno Club, where he had come then said without elaboration: tumultuous demonstrations Thur- on 5 to convalesce for sev- “We have elected our Reports to the Seattle district Aug. Fire Chief W. W. Laws. represen- and the commun- eral months. tatives to the coast guard headquarters from its sday Friday by Acting Police Chief supreme peoples’ Ketchikan base identified the vic- ists against the city regime, pre- The former jurist’s son, Charles council to destroy these treacher- W. to ous South Korea. Each tim only as Wm. Smith. dominantly antj-communist. Evans Hughes, Jr., a New York Laws, temporary police people in * was until a new Police Chief can of our election cards will turn in- The coast guard said a hunting (MOCOW)—Western envoys in attorney, said death caused duty be found. to the companion mistook Smith for a Moscow conferred again Saturday. by congestive heart failure and to bullets destroy puppet deer. An authoritative source said there uremic poisoning. Laws, who was also a Second government of South Korea when was a Division in the the central of Korea A coast guard plane was to fly there little chance four- With the former jurist and Representative government last is re- the body to Ketchikan. Smith’s power communique would be is- statesman at the time of his death legislature, seeking is established.” election in the the U. S. an- hunting companion, the coast sued before Monday. besides his son, were two daugh- coming general Earlier, army fir- Mrs. William T. Gossett of election October 12. nounced that a showed 24 guard said, was directed to report (BELGRADE)—Yugoslavia, ters, survey i Ex-Chief was released in South Korea to the U. S. marshal’s office at ing her second shot at a commun- Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Mrs. Gray political slayings on bond. Ketchikan. (Continued on Page Three) C. A. Waddell of Riverdale, N. Y. from custody during August.