Lewis’ Birthday
National Holiday
CINCINNATI (JP) — The united
mine workers’ convention yester
day unanimously adopted a resolu
tion to make John L. Lewis’ birth
day, Feb 12—a national holiday in
the coal industry.
The resolution climaxed a move
ment started several years ago
within the union to make Lewis’
birthday a memorial holiday.
The anthracite agreement, cover
ing about 80,000 Pennsylvania
hard coal miners, already has pro
vision for that observance.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Find Mountain
Climber Dead
QUILCENE, Wash. (^) — Moun
tain climbers, who scaled the
Brothers Peak in the Olympics in
an effort to rescue an injured high
school student, found him dead in
; his sleeping bag.
The boy, 17-year-old Robert
Thorson of Bremerton, suffered
head injuries in a 40-foot fall 24
I hours earlier.
A companion wrapped him in
his sleeping bag at the 6,000-foot
level of the 6,800-foot snow-capped
peak and then led searchers to the
scene. A doctor estimated that
Thorson died an hour after being
injured.
Scotty’s
Liquor Store
presents
YOUR FAVORITE BRANDS
BLACK 160
VOTERS
For sound representative government
elect
For Delegate to Congress:
For Attorney General:
For Auditor:
For Highway Engineer:
For the Senate:
For the House:
E. L. (Bob) BARTLETT
J. GERALD WILLIAMS
FRANK A. BOYLE
FRANK A. METCALF
EDWARD ANDERSON
HOWARD LYNG
WILLIAM E. BELTZ
GEORGE P. MADSEN
ALMER RYDEEN, Nome
FRANK DEGNAN,
Unalakleet
All of the Democratic Candidates are pledged:
1. To the support of our schools and the University
of Alaska.
2. To seek economy in our Territorial Government.
3 To enact an equitable tax program to support our
Territorial institutions.
4. To give equal opportunity to every citizen in ac
cordance with the rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution and Laws of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska.
5. To grant pensions and financial support of the
pioneer and needy commensurate with the needs
of the times.
6. To support the right of tli£ people to elect their
own Governor.
7. To the passage of a Municipal Airport Act to pro
vide all communities with adequate air service.
8. To work for fair and reasonable regulation of
child labor for the protection of our children.
9. To the improvement and expansion of our high
way system in the Second Division.
10. To the enforcement of all laws including the
liquor laws.
11. To work for additional home facilities for pioneer
men and women.
12. To work together for the betterment of the Terri
tory in harmony and without self-interest.
NOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Truman Blasts At
Dewey; Wallace
Blasts At Both
(Continued from Page One)
ing to put all the plain people into
a “company union” run for the
benefit of the national association
of manufacturers.
He said the GOF candidates
“have all their pr >rnises wrapped
up in a package called ‘unity’
which they guarantee to cure mere
ills than any patent medicine you
ever saw.”
Dewey s associates said he in
tends to keep stressing the ’’unity”
| theme in his next campaign toui,
which gets underway Sunday
night. The GOP Presidential can
didate is scheduled to make three
broadcast addresses on the trip
which will take him into Pennsyl
vania, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota,
Michigan and back to New York.
! Gov. Earl Warren, Dewey’s run
ning mate, headed into Wisconsin
after a foreign policy speech in
j Chicago last night. The Californian
called for more public information
on the government’s handling of
foreign affairs. He said the foreign
policy program outlined by Dewey
i is a ‘‘hopeful and confident ap
| proach” to world problems,
j Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, the
| States Rights Presidential candi
| date, said the nation’s major po
litical parties have been “seized”
by advocates of totalitarianism.
Henry Wallace moved his Prog
ressive party campaign to Port
land, Ore. after a long tour of Cal
i ifornia. Accusing both the Repub
licans and Democrats once again
i of “war-mongering,” he told a San
Francisco rally Wednesday night:
“Instead of milk, butter, meat
and decent housing we are asked
to be content with a diet of hat
1 red.”
Another western campaigner,
the Democrat's Senator Alben W.
: Barkley, shifted his vice presiden
tial drive yesterday to Montana
I and Idaho.
I __ _
Passage To Orient
Only By Airplane
—
SAN FRANCISCO, {/P) — Air
lines offered the only commercial
passage from the west coast to Ha
waii, the Philippines and the Ori
ent today. The 36-day maritime
strike has tied up the last of the
Pacific liners.
The American President lines’
President Cleveland, at sea or in
foreign ports since the strike be
gan, docked yesterday and prompt
ly was taken off sailing lists until
the dispute between the shipping
industry and five maritime unions
is settled.
APL has four vessels idle here
—the Cleveland. Wilson, Meigs
and Gordon. The Matson liner
Lurline is at Long Beach, Calif.,
and the four big ships in the Alas
ka trade are at Seattle. They are
the Aleutian, Baranof, Denali and
Alaska.
There were no indications of a
strike settlement.
The CIO longshoremen’s union,
largest of the five involved, orig
inally asked a 21-cent increase
from theri base scale of $1.67 an
hour. When the strike began Sept.
2, they cut the demand to 15 cents.
Irrigation for the desert in the
southern third of Palestine is en
visioned in a plan to use water
from the Jordan river and pipe
water from the Mediterranean to
the Dead Sea to replace the Jor
dan supply.
Recover Body Of
Crashed Flier
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Recovery of
the body of Robert R. Whisler, 25,
from wreckage of a plane sought
since June 16, was reported Wed
nesday by U. S. Marshal Stanley
Nichols.
Whisler, whose wife lives in
Myola, Maine, was killed while
searching for three escaped federal
prisoners.
The trio was retaken when, af
ter witnessing the crash, they
scratched a message in the sand
of a river bar: “Plane in river,
pilot dead.”
Searchers were unable, however,
to find the plane until cold wea
ther froze the Tanana river, low
ered the water level and exposed
EAST END DOCK WAREHOUSE
BEING TORN DOWN
The Lomen Commercial Co. is
busy tearing down the East End
dock warehouse on Front Street
as it is imperiled by the storm ele
ments. This building which was
erected in about 1902 by the John
Sesnon Co. was used until 1939 for
the terminal lightering point from
all ships in the roadstead. It was
operated by the Lomen Co. from
1927 until that time. In 1939 the
harbor facilities of Snake River
were purchased by the Lomen Co.,
from their competitor the Nome
Harbor Lighterage Co., from
where they have since been oper
ating.
the plane’s propeller.
Whisler was a Fairbanks air
plane mechanic.
Vote for
Edward Anderson
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
For Senator
General Election, Oet. 12, 1948
Member, House of Representatives
1945, 1946 and 1947
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CONCERT
Sunday, October 10
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