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VOL. L. No. 143 NOME, A LASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
JOHANNSBURG, Union of
South Africa (/P)—A tornado killed
four persons and injured more than
100 Friday night in the Roodeport
area of Orange Free State. Damage
was estimated at about $4,000,000.
ATLANTA, (JP)—Aaron D. Rich
ards. 27, apparently doesn’t give
• a hoot for a toot.
Police early Saturday found
Richards sitting calmly in his
stalled automobile on a railroad
crossing. Six trains weer held up.
Richards, said police,^ just ig
nored the angry whistles.
He was booked on a charge of
public drunkenness.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Capt. Harry B.
Shelby, 47, a native of Bellingham
and a lifelong resident of this
state, died suddenly of heart dis
« ease at his home here Friday. He
had been with the Alaska Com
munications System of the U. S.
Army Signal Corps for 29 years
and had planned to retire next
July. Among the survivors are his
mother, Mrs. Alice Selby of Bel
lingham and a brother, Thomas J.
Selby of Juneau, Alaska.
JITNEAU, (/P)—'The car ferry
Chilkoot was reported aground
Saturday on the Katzechin river
flats across from Haines, Alaska,
but. was expected to float free on
the next high tide. The ferry was
en route from uneau to Haines by
way of the Lynn canal.
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CHICAGO, (jT) — A man who
stepped on another man’s toes in a
restaurant was fatally shot Satur
day. The dead man was identified
as Joseph Brzeda, 27, of Chicago.
Held without charge are Charles
Tanthorey, 26, and his brother-in
law, Raymond Fassett, 40, both of
Chicago.
* Police Lieut. Paul Johnson said
the shooting occurred after Grzeda
stepped on Tanthrorey’s toes in a
restaurant on the near south side.
DETROIT (/P) — Oldsmobile of
General Motors joined with Buick
and Cadillac Saturday in announc
ing price increases for 1949. At the
same time Oldsmobile said produc
# tion of its “66” nad “68” series,
least expensive of its 1948 cars,
would be discontinued for 1949.
The Buick and Cadillac divisions
of General Motors announced price
increases recently.
COMPTON, Calif., (/P) — Mer
chants here have enlisted burly
9 Compton college football players
to help protect the weaker sex
from women Christmas shoppers.
So men can shop without endan
gering life and limb, no women
customers will be allowed in
Compton stores the night of Dec.
6. The football players will stand
in front of the shops to give the
ladies the straight-arm.
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# WASHINGTON, (/P)—American
(potato growers won’t have to com
pete with the Canadian product
f therest of this marketing season.
I The agricultural departm e n t
gave that assurance Friday in an
nouncing that the Canadian gov
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
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Saturday, November 27, 1948'
Russia launched a bitter attack
in the general assembly today on
Ihe United Nations special com
mittee on the Balkans iUNSCOB>
charging that the committee’s in
v'estigators were “amateur Sher
lock Holmeses.”
Fighting against the committee’s
report, Soviet deputy minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky asserted the
committee’s findings were based
on “distortion, falsification and
bad faith.”
The committee has charged that
Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria
are aiding the communist guerril
las in Greece. Vishinsky said the
UNSCOB report onyl “presumes,
assumes and considers it likely”
that Greece’s three northern neigh
bors actively helped the rebels.
Even as hope for a compromise
settlement of the Berlin deadlock
dwindled, an American spokesman
said the United States accepts the
iead that the Soviet mark should
be used in all of Berlin.
The spokesman, Willard L.
; Thorp, assistant secretary of state,
told a news conference that the
United States has in no way with
drawn from the agreement to ac
cept the Moscow directives of Aug.
30.
Themistokles Sophoulis, Greece’s
88-year-old premier, dug grimly
to a thread of life today, seven
hours after doctors abandoned all
hope for him.
The premier was stricken with
two heart attacks this week and
; suffered a relapse during the
I night. He has received the last sac
j raments of the Greek Orthodox
church.
In China, the battle for the ap
proaches to Nanking spread over
a 100-mile radius south of Suchow.
From reports reaching Nanking it
appeared that nationalist troops
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Plane Crew See
Sub Periscope In
Gulf Of Mexico
—i . —
WASHINGTON, </P)—Navy offi
cials today discounted reports of
an unknown submarine in the |
Gulf of Mexico. Privately, they
were writing the whole thing off
as a mirage inspired by enthusi
asm.
The crew of a training plane
from the Corpus Christi, Tex., na
val air base reported Friday they
though they saw a periscope 20
miles off the U. S. coast.
An analysis later by base offi
cials said the object, which disap
peared in 10 minutes, was more
likely a snorkey—the snout of the
breathing tube used by modern
submarines.
Navy experts here say it could
have been a snorkey—or a peri
scope—perhaps belonging to a Rus
sian submarine, 'but they doubt it.
Spotting a periscope or snorkey
from the air. they said, is extreme
ly difficult and is generally possi
ble only at very short distance.
Substitute For
Taft-Hartley Law
Being Prepared
WASHINGTON, </P) — The ad
ministration is preparing a substi
tute for'the Taft-Hartley labor law
with built-in compromises to meet
possible objections from Congress,
industry or labor.
This, it was learned today, is the
plan being followed by a five-man
lawyer team assigned to draft the :
new labor law:
1. Write labor legislation which
can be sent to Congress with Mr.
Truman’s blessing, and
2. Write alternatives for several
sections of their draf:, as possible
substitutes along the way or what
may be a bumpy legislative route.
Exactly what the draft will con
tain is a carefully guarded secret,
but it was reported to call for re
instatement of most of the old
Wagner labor act, plus some modi
fied Taft-Hartley provisions.
The men doing the drafting job
are William S. Tyson, labor depart
ment solicitor; Kenneth Meikel
john, the department’s liaison offi
cer with Congress; Fred W. Liv
ingston, labor-management con
sultant; and Charles Donohue and
; Kenneth Robertson, labor depart
| ment attorneys.
“People In Cold
Countries Have
Warm Hearts”
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—‘The air force
and civilians have pooled their
resources to help Mrs. Richard
Morrow-Tait carry on in her deter
mination to complete a global
flight to her home in Britain.
Friday’s developments prompted
the British aviatrix to comment,
after a night of 40-below weather:
“I can’t understand hqw it hap
pens that the kindest people in the
world live in the coldest place in
the world.”
Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her navi
gator, Michael Townsend, crash
landed their single-engined plane
last Sunday on the Alaska High
way, 235 miles southeast of Fair
banks. Because the two were out
of cash, the accident appeared to
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR J. J. OLEARY
Funeral services were held this
morning for J. J. O’Leary from the
Catholic church at 8:30 a.m., with
Father Murphy officiating at the
services.
Special music for the mass was
sung by the Catholic choir accom
panied on the organ by Anne
Walsh.
Pall bearers were Tolbert Scott,
Nels Swanberg, Sr., Hilky Robin
son, Ben Mozee, M. J. Walsh,
Charles Jones.
Following the mass the Pioneers
of Alaska, Igloo No. 1, took charge
and held their impressive burial
service with Fred Rohn, president,
M. J. Walsh as chaplain and
Charles Jones as historian.
The sympathy of the community
goes out to the members of the
O’Leary family in their hour of
sorow.
Alaska Receives
Mail From States
Overland tv Truck
SEATTLE, (/P)—Seattle mail to
Alaska is now being carried by
truck over the Alaska Highway.
The overland mail service is op
erated by Alaska Freight Lines un
der contract with the Postoffice.
Powerful, specially-built trucks
and trailers are hauing an average
of 22,000 pounds of mail weekly
between Seattle and Fairbanks,
E. W. Hundley, traffic manager of
Alaska Freight Lines, announced.
The Fairbanks trucking concern,
operated by Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., of
Fairbanks, is packing mail from
here to Fairbanks on a run that
averages 5x/2 days, cutting approx
imately 2 days from the time made
by mail boats.
Ghezzi recently was awarded
the 3,200-mile “star route” con
tract by bid. It is the longest star
route in the world, even outdis
tancing the cross-nation route of a
century ago and its famed pony
express.
Its two drivers. Les Crump and
j H. W. Baker, keep the mail rriov
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CIO Longshoremen
Vote To Return
To Work
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — CIO
longshoremen in the four major
Pacific coast ports, voting over the
week-end, ratified an employer
approved contract to end the 89
day maritime strike.
But much still remains to be (
done before the Pacific coast wa
terfront is reopened.
San Francisco, Seattle, Portland
and Los Angeles area locals of the
internaitonal longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union approved i
the new pact overwhelmingly by
standing vote, and there was little
doubt that smaller locals would j
follow suit.
The contract provides a wage
increase of 15 cents an hour—the
last union demand—and other ben
efits. It would run three years.
With the raise the scale will be
$1.82 an hour. The agreement re
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Freighter Aground;
In Lituya Bay j
SEATTLE, (/P) — The freighter
Kasilof with eighe men aboard
was reported aground today in
Lituya Bay, 40 miles northwest of
Cape Spencer, Alaska.
The Coast Guard said its cutter,
Unalaga, was enroute to the scene.
It was expected to reach the
grounded freighter about 8 p.m.
The freighter, a 65-footer, was
towing a 100-ton Green scow. The
coast guard report said the freigh
er was on the rocks but not taking
water. A plane was to fly to the
scene from Ketchikan today.
The Kasliof is operated by the
Berger Disributing company of
Seattle. It is owned by Heinie Ber
ger, formerly of Cordova. I
Administration To
Ask Another ERP
Appropriation
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Can
non <D.-Mo.) Saturday promised
swift action to fill a $1,250,000,000
in the European aid program.
The veteran lawmaker is due to
become chairman of the House ap
propriations committee January 3,
That will pu‘ him in a position to
give a powerful shove to an ex
pected administration request for
the additional Marshall plan funds.
President Truman foreshadowed
such a request Friday in author
izing economic cooperation admin
istrator Paul G. Hoffman to use
the eptire $4,000,000,000 European
recovery fund by next April 2 in
1 stead of making it last untli July I.
The 80th Congress gave Mr. Tru
man that option in finally approv
ing the foreign aid appropriation
bill.
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Jurisdictional
Dispute Halts
Maritime Peace
SEATTLE, I/Pi — Ed Coester,
Seattle agent of the AFL-Sailors
Union of the Pacific, said he had
received word from Harry Lund
berg, San Francisco, union presi
dent, to “disregard reports that
the maritime strike is ‘almost
over’.”
“The west coast maritime tie-up
will not be over until various jur
isdictional issues now pending are
settled to the satisfaction of our
membership,” Coester commented.
He said those “issues” included
the question of jurisdiction over
Alaska ship steward department
personnel and the controversy be
tween AFL-sailors and ClO-long
shoremen over certain work on
coastwise Alaska ships.
The AFL-sailors union have pe
titioned for a national labor rela
tions board election to determine
jurisdiction for Alaska ship stew
ard department employees. The
CIO-marine cooks and stewards
union claims jurisdiction.
Officials of the Alaska Steam
ship company, only remaining ma
jor ship line in the Seattle-Alaska
trade, sudi the situation had “not
yet been clarified” in regard to a
cooks and stewards contract.
(By The Associated Press)
Early resumption of normal
shipping operations along the
strikebound east and west coasts
hinged Saturday on a vote among
dockworkers on terms for ending
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SHOPPING GAYS
Till CHRISTMAS