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VOL. L. No." U8 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 1, 1948 PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO, (/P)—A typhoon with
winds expected to increase grad
ually to 97 miles an hour was mov
ing toward Japan yesterday from
a point 50 miles northeast of Iwo
Jima.
The storm, designated as "Lib
by" was expected to be 475 miles
south of Yokohama last night. It is
progressing northwesterly at a rate
of 12 miles an hour.
WARSAW, {/P) — The Polish
council of ministers announced
yesterday bread rationing will end
Nov. 1 because of good harvests.
Approximately 8,000,000 workers
holding ration cards will be af
fected. It was disclosed approxi
mately 11,000,000 tons of wheat,
rye, barley, and oats are being
harvested this year, compared with
4,000,000 in 1947.
SHANGHAI, i/P) — Wang Hsia
Oho, former employee of the
American-owned Shanghai Power
company, was executed yesterday
for what was described officially
as a “communist inspired” plot to
sabotage the plant.
Wang was convicted by a spe
cial criminal tribunal.' He was ac
cused of putting steel filings into
a generator.
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Indepen
dent Air Carriers Conference op
erating five flights daily from Boe
ing Field to Alaska, is carrying
from 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of
freight north each day, W. V. Tay
lor, coordinator of the independ
ent air carriers, said Wednesday.
The conference, an organization
of independent carriers, has 28
planes in its Alaska service, he
said.
BERLIN, (/P) — Russian soldiers
who made a foray into the U. S.
sector of the city last evening shot
and wounded two German civil
ians, American military police re
ported.
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Honda
Knot, former army war dead ship,
is scheduled to arrive in Seattle
from San Francisco next week to
load military cargo for Alaska,
the Seattle port of embarkation
said yesterday.
The ship stopped in Seattle last
summer with war dead from Alas
ka. The Honda Knot has made
several trips with military dead
from Pacific* bases to San Fran
cisco.
MANILA, (JP) — A 10-second
earthquake of slight intensity was
felt yesterday in the rural section
25 miles north of Manila. No cas
ualties or damage was reported.
OYSTER- BAY, N. Y.,(/P)—Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, 87, widow of
the President, died today at her
home, Sagabore Hill.
Mrs. Roosevelt had been in ill
health for some time at her home.
A native of Norwich, Conn., she
married Theodore Roosevelt in
1886.
HAVANA, Cuba, (/P>—Patricia
(Satira) Schmidt, exotic dancer
who shot and killed her married
lover on a yacht in Havana harbor,
was pardoned last night by Presi
dent Crau San Martin.
Praise Courage Of
12-Year-Old Boy
In Plane Crash
EDMONTON, Alta., (/P)—RCAF
flyers yesterday praised the cour
age of a seriously injured 12-year
old boy who was rescued from a
wrecked plane after hanging head
downward for 42 hours beside the
body of his mother.
The boy, Michael Lintner, suf
fered a compound skull fracture,
a broken right arm and frozen feet.
He underwent surgery at an Ed
monton hospital Wednesday night
and his condition was reported
| critical.
Michael was being flown by his
mother, Mrs. A. L. Lintner, from
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Waterfront Assn.
Seeks Extra
Session On Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Ship
ping industry leaders yesterday
supported a proposal for an extra
session of Congress to deal wtfh
the West Coast maritime strike.
They offered “to prove to any
Congressional committee” that the
strike is political and “without a
strike issue o n trade union
grounds.”
This offer was made in a tele
gram to Rep. Fred A. Hartley R.
N. J.) from Frank P. Foisie and
J. B. Bryan, presidents, respec
tively, of the Coast Waterfront
Employers’ Association and Pacif
ic American Shipowners’ Associa
tion.
Rep. Hartley recently proposed
an extra session of Congress to
deal with the strike, which began
Sept. 2 and has tied up 148 Amer
ican ships.
Since negotiations over wages
and the hiring hall bogged down
on the even of the strike, the em
ployers have refused to talk fur
ther with unions whose leaders
have not signed affidavits dis
avowing communism.
CIO longshoremen seek a wage
hike of 15 cents to $1.82 an hour.
On strike with the longshoremen
are three allied CIO seafaring
unions and the independent ma
rine firemen’s union. Officers of
the firemen have signed non-com
munist affidavits.
East Coast Strike
Called Off
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NEW YORK, 0*P) — Leaders of
some 12,000 Atlantic and Gulf
Coast ships’ officers called off a
threatened strike last night, sev
eral hours before the midnight
deadline.
The announcement was made by
federal mediator Bernard J. For
man. He said employers’ represen
tatives and the AFL masters,
mates and pilots association had
reached agreement on wages and
hiring procedures.
The agreement gives the union
a six per cent across-the-board
wage increase and provides for a
compromise hiring clause, Forman
said.
“‘Food Supplies |
Not Critical In
Alaskan Cities” i
SEATTLE, ifl?) — The maritime
strike has damaged the economy
of Alaska but has not yet created
the expected extra demand for
plane cargo space, airline officials
said yesterday.
Leaders of aviation firms serv
ing the Territory, both on sched
uled and non-scheduled flights,
said the emergency nature of the
present air lift has been “greatly
overemphasized.”
“To the best of our knowledge,
there is no critical emergency or
shortage of necessities in Alaska,”
D. E. McMorran, Pan American
Airways traffic manager, said.
“Although the amount of cargo
increase is above a normal level,
we estimate only a 15 per cent in
crease in the volume of food car
ried in September. Our cargo is
normally 50 per cent food and the
past month it increased to 65 per
cent.”
Henry Frances, regional mana
ger of Mount McKinley Airways,
one of the largest non-scheduled
carriers north, said:
“We have not had any requests
for large shipments of food,
i Freight volume is increasing,
yes, but so far we have not had to
schedule any extra sections.”
Under present arrangements,
scheduled and non-scheduled car
riers probably can lift 1,500,000
pounds of air freight a month. Ap
proximately 800,000 pounds were
carried during September.
Many air-line officials rapped
the civil aeronautics board for an
nouncing an exemption order for
irregular carriers to meet the
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’Alaska Railroad To
Carry Sea Freight
From States
WASHINGTON, (A*) — Acting
secretary C. Girard Davidson or
dered the Alaska Railroad yester
day to operate government barges
between Seattle, Tacoma and Alas
ka ports. Davidson said the order
was necessary in view of the west
coast shipping strike to insure
the movement of essential food
supplies and construction materi
als. He said that further delay in
getting essential supplies before
winter would add to the cost of the
federal program for strategic and
economic development of Alaska,
plus endangering the welfare of
its citizens.
The Railroad will operate three
barges obtained in June from
navy surplus. Davidson acted after
receiving a telegram from Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening.
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SEATTLE, (/P)— John P. John
son, general manager of the Alas
ka Railroad, was due in Seattle
yesterday to work out a contract
for barge shipment of essential
food supplies and construction ma
terials to Alaska.
Acting secretary of the interior
C. Girard Davidson yesterday or
dered the railroad to operate the
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Development
Board To Conduct
Economic Survey
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Industrial and business develop
ment possibilities in Northwestern
Alaska are to be the subject of a
special comprehensive survey un
dertaken by the Alaska Develop- j
ment Board, it was announced here
today.
Ralph Browne, Ketchikan news
paper man, has been retained to
make the study of Second Division j
economic opportunities, which was :
authorized by the Alaska Develop
ment Board at its meeting last
month in Anchorage. Browne was
on the Public Relations Staff of
the Northwestern Service Com
mand of the army along the Alas
ka Highway and at Prince Rupert
during the war. He has written
numerous articles on Alaska de
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Govts. Release
Texts Of Arctic
' Explorers Messages
WASHINGTON, f/P) — A note
cached by Admiral Robert E.
; Peary 450 miles from the North
Pole on an Arctic expedition 43
| years ago was published today by
; the State department.
The short note, dated Sept. 5,
I 1905, was recovered last summer
• by a three-ship U. S. navy expedi
, tion on which Canada was repre
! sented.
Peary left the note at Cape Sher
idan in the Canadian Arctic. It was
placed in a whisky bottle within
a cairn, or pile of stones.
Also recovered was a copy of a
longer record left there July 25,
1876, by Captain G. S. Nares, who
headed a British expedition aboard
HMS Alert and Discovery. Peary
took Nares’ original note and left
a copy in the cairn with his own
record.
The state department and the
Canadian government arranged
for simultaneous publication of
texts of the two notes.
Peary’s note said:
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Arrest Head Of
Jewish Stern Gang
TEL AVIV, Israel, (JP)—Reliable
informants said yesterday Israeli
police have arrested Nathan
Friedman-Yellin, head of the Stern
gang.
A terrorist arm of the Stern
gang, a Jewish underground ex
tremist organization, has boasted
that it was responsible for the
assassination of Count Folke Ber
nadotte, the U. N.’s Palestine me
diator, in Jerusalem, S ept. 17.
The informant said Friedman
Yellin was arrested in Haifa last
night, together with one of his
right hand men. In the room
where they found Yellin, and in a
search of Fi-iedman-Yellin’s apart
ment in Tel Aviv, police were said
to have found “documents throw
ing new light” on Stemist activi
ties.
Mot And Me *avy
Barrages Fireel In
Big Campaigns
<By The Associated Press’
President Truman and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey headed their
campaign caravans today into key
Senatorial battlefields in West
Virginia and Wyoming.
The outcome of the November
elections in these two states may
determine which party will win
Senate control now held by the
Republicans.
Both Presidential Candida t e s
outlined plans in major talks last
night for* making this country
j more productive for all.
Mr. Truman’s was based on the
election of a Democratic Congress
I to carry forward his domestic pro
gram; Dewey’s on a foreign policy
blueprint for avoiding another
war.
“Give us a Democratic Con
gress” Mr. Truman told a Louis
ville audience,” and we will move
forward for the benefit of all the
people, toward better housing, bet
ter medical care, better education
j
—all the things that mean a hap
pier and more secure life for the
average American faimly.”
The President said the Republi
1 can Congress backed a “vicious”
! $3,000,000 campaign by the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers to
destroy' price controls and that to
day’s prices are the result.
While the President was discuss
ing the issue of high prices, Dewey
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press>
Russia hinted again today she
has the secret of the atom and ac
cused the United States of seeking
j war.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
‘Andrei Y. Vishinsky attacked the
United States in the political com
mittee of the United Nations.
He said the United States was
building an atomic bomb stockpile
“in th^ illusion that America has
a monopoly on the atomic bomb.’
“Certain governments, and par
ticularly the United States, are
making energetic efforts to main
! tain the present lack of any effec
tive control over atomic energy,”
Vishinsky charged.
He called for an immediate ban
on atomic weapons.
The Soviet delegate was reply
ing to U. S. delegate Warren R.
Austin, who yesterday repeated
American proposals to submit to
international control of atomic en
ergy under United Nations author
ity, without veto. Austin accused
Russia of blocking all efforts to ef
fective control by refusing to per
mit the international commission
to inspect and control atomic en
ergy in Russia as in all other na
tions. Russia, said Austin, had
placed her “sovereignity athwart
security for all.”
In rebuttal, Vishinsky said Rus
sia will not accept international
control of the production of raw
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