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VQL. L. No. 85. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JULY 16, 1948. PER COPY 157
60 B-29s On Flight
Mission to Europe
Across Atlantic
WASHINGTON, — (JP) —The
Air Force announced today that
60 B-29s are enroute to England
for a “short” training visit there.
The big bombers, comprising
two groups, will make the trip
over two routes, one by way of
* Labrador and the other via Ber
muda.
In England, USAF officials said,
the American formations will be
guests of the Royal Air Force,
using three RAF airbases while
there.
While there was no announce
ment from the Air Force, it was
considered probable that some of
the B-29s will make training
flights out of England to United
States bases in Germany.
The Superfortresses are crossing
the Atlantic in the wake of the
American cargo plane fleet recent
ly sent into Germany to fly food
into Soviet-blockaded Berlin.
The training trip greatly aug
ments U.S. air strength in Eur
ope at a time when Russia is
threatening to slam shut the air
corridors into the beleaguered city.
Douglas C-54 planes will trans
port maintenance personnel and
suplies for the B-20s. Each Super
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Howard Lyng Is
Member National
Demo Committee
v.
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PHILADELPHIA, — UP) —The
new Democratic National Commit
tee, which will form the Party’s
policies, includes many new mem
bers.
The make-up of the committee,
announced yesterday before the
Democratic convention adjourned
included:
Alaska: - Howard Lyng, Nome
and Mrs. Essie R. Dale, Fairbanks.
Employers Charge
Work Slowdowns
Unions Deny Same
SEATTLE, — </P) —The Water
front Employers Association said
today that more than 400 long
shore workers have been “fired”
* because of work “slowdowns”
in the last two weeks.
M. G. Ringenberg, manager of
the Association, said 35 longshore
gangs, averaging 12 men each, and
40 individual dock workers have
been discharged.
> The regional head of the CIO
Intmational Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union, William
Gettings countered that “all our
men are working,” and added that
*he knew nothing of any firings.
The union has denied repeated
charges by employers that a slow
down is in operation.
International News
At A Glance—
___
By the Associated Press
The Kremlin-bossed Cominform
' took another crack at Premier
| Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, ac
cusing him of conducting a “reign
. of terror.”
The Communists in adjoining
i Italy, in the wake of the attemp
ted assassination of Palmiro Tog
! liatti, the leading Italian Com
munist, temporarily paralyzed the
! country with a general strike.
Riots resulted in at least six dead.
; The Communists were challeng
ing the very life of the government
Alcide De Gasperi, who defeated
them at the polls in April. But
the government declared a back
to work movement was beginning.
BERLIN
The Russian newspaper in Ber
lin said “obviously the time has
come to regulate the problem of
air corridors,” through which the
-U.S. and Britain are feeding their
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$4,000,000 Worth of
Alaska Sealskins to
Be Taken This Yr.
| SEATTLE, —(£>) —Four million
■ dollars worth of sealskins will
I
be brought back from the Pribi
loff Islands by the Navy ship AKA
19 which sails from here Aug., 1.
The take exceeds the 1947 kill
in the Bering Seo islands by $400,
:ooo.
SOVIETS REFUSE j
LIFT BLOCKADE
CITY OF BERLIN
By Tom Williams
LONDON, — (JP) —The British
Cabinet studied for nearly three
hours yesterday the Soviet re
fusal to lift the Berlin blockade.
An atmosphere of crisis prevailed.
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
emerged from the cabinet meet
ing at No. 10*Downing St. and went
directly to Buckingham Palace to
report to the King.
Anxious crowds waited in the
block long street outside Prime
Minister Attlee's official residence.
Foreign office spokesman would
not comment on the Soviet re
jection of the British, French and
American notes demanding that
the Russians end their blockade
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To Make Alaska
Waterpow’r Survey
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
Bureau of Reclamation disclosed
today it has opened an Alaska of
fice for an Alaska water-power
survey, at Juneau.
The first assignment will be
j a study of power possibilities at
Eklutna Lake for service to the
city of Anchorage, the Alaska
Railway, Indian Service installa
tions and the electric cooperatives
in Matanuska Valley.
Other studies- will include water
power resources available to Jun
eau, Sitka and Ketchikan.
Sec. Treas. Snyder
To Visit Alaska
WASHINGTON, — </P) —Three
high officials from Washington
will attend the joint meeting at
Denver tomorrow of directors of
the Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bank at its Denver Branch, the
Treasury said today.
They include Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder.
From Denver, Snyder is ex
pected to fly to Alaska to visit
Governor Gruening.
John J. Pershing,
87, Died Thursday
| WASHINGTON, — (JP) —Gen
' eral John J. “Blackjack” Pershing,
■ who led the American troops to
! victory in World War I, died yes
terday at the age of 87.
Announcement of the general’s
death was made by President
Truman through the White House
aides, after he had learned of it
upon his return from the Demo
cratic National Convention at
Philadelphia.
The aged former Chief of Staff,
had been ill since February 1938
when he was stricken at Tucson,
Ariz., by a form of rheumatism
which afected his heart muscles.
He came close to dying at that
time.
Since then, he had lived at
Walter Reed Hospital here.
Death was caused by a blood
clot which reached his lung.
At Pershing’s bedside were his
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NEBRASKA TOWN IS SWEPT BY TORNADO
I
A tornado which swept across sou heastern Nebraska and Iowa left
this wreckage of what had been a h use and other buildings on the Hen
ry Gadeken farm near Talmage, Ne (AP Wirephoto)
GOPs BRAND
SESSION CALL
CHEAP POLITICS
CONGRESS REACTION
By the Associated Press
President Truman’s call for a
special session of Congress July
26, promptly drew cries of “cheap
politics” today from many Re
publicans of the GOP-controlled
House and Senate.
The split in Democratic rank?
shown at the Party’s National
Convention in Philadelphia also
was reflected in reaction of the
minority’s Congress members to
1 their Chief’s back-to-work pro
posal.
They differ as to whether it
was a wise or unwise political
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Southern Demos
To Fight For
States’ Rights
ATLANTA, — (#*) — A small
band of southerners headed for
Birmingham today to fight for
another lost cause.
But unlike 1860, when the South
first bolted the National Democrat
ic Party, these latter proponents
i of State’s Rights will not find
a south solidly behind them.
At Philadeljhia Gov. Fielding"
Wright of Mississippi issued a call
[yesterday for “every man and wo
man who believes in their rights
and who opposes Harry S. Tru
man and the things he stands for”
to meet in Birmingham on Satur
day.
Some but not all the rebel
southern Democrats—slapped down
(Continued on Page Three)
Truman 20 To 1 In
Speech Response
WASHINGTON, — <7P) —Tele
grams in response to President
Truman’s speech accepting the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion and calling Congress back
into sesion are running about 20
to 1 in favor of his actions, the
White House said.
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross, said “a couple of hund
red telegrams have been received
at the White House, along with
a few letters concerning his Phila
delphia speech and call to Con
gress.
On other matters Ross told a
news conference:
Mr. Truman has not started
drafting his special message to
the legislators for their first ses
sion July 26 and hasn’t decided
whether he will deliver it in per
son;
He couldn’t add anything to
what the president said about leg
islation to be submitted or whether
new legislation will be proposed;
He hasn’t the “remotest idea”
how long the session will last.