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VOL .X L V 111. No. 139. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAyT NOVEMBER 20, 1946 PER COPY — 157
, NEWS IN BRIEF ,
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BURBANK, Calif. (/P) — Only
one body from a Western Airlines
crash has been brought down from
White Mountain. Rescuers said to
day that they would be forced to
abandon further efforts until next
Monday, because of snow and cold
weather.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The mail
ing out of millions of terminal
^\eave bonds to former GI’s has
started. By Christmas, war de
partment officials said today, it is
expected that the bulk of a cur- j
rent backlog of some 4,000,000 j
claims will have been paid. Most
payments are in five-year treasury
bonds but cash is used for odd
sums.
* CHICAGO, (i^P)—A new 26-year
peak was established by wheat to
day when a car of the grain sold
in the cash market at $2.25 a
bushel. This was the highest price
for the bread cereal since 1920.
MADISON, Wis. (/P)—Rep. Rob
ert K. Henry, R.-Wis.) died today.
He was elected to his second term
Nov. 5. Henry 56, underwent an
Operation today and died shortly
thereafter.
GERMANY — Brig. Gen. Wil
liam H. Draper, Jr., said in a pub
lished review that Germany, after
more than a year of four-power
occupation, was headed for econo
mic collapse and that the only cure
4 would be fulfillment or revision of
the Potsdam declaration for eco
nomic unity.
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GREECE — The foreign office
announced it would appeal to the
United Nations to investigate
Greek border fighting. A week-old
battle near the Yugoslav border
was continuing.
PALESTINE — An explo s i o n
rocked the Palestine income tax
<?ffice in Jerusalem, but no cas
ualties were reported. The govern
ment announced that a suspect de
tained after last night’s mine ex
plosion downtown had been iden
tified as a fugitive from an insane
asylum.
CHINA—The Communist com
mander in chief charged Chiang
Kai-Shek with “the entire respon
sibility” for national disunity and
jTssailed “American reactionaries”
for encouraging him.
UNITED NATIONS —A letter
from Soviet foreign minister Mol
otov to Italian ambassador Pietro
Quaroni revived speculation that
an agreement between Italy and
Yugoslavia might settle the fate of
disputed Trieste. In the U. N. po
litical committee, Molotov person
ally took over direction of the
Russian campaign to force an ac
% jointing of allied troops in for
eign non-enemy territory.
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Temperatures in the Philippines
range between 70 to 75 in the
early morning to 85 to 90 in the
afternoon, in all seasons.
SKI DORMITORY — Skiers, headed for Mount Mansfield, leave the dormitory which the
state of Vermont oDeratec a* Starve. Vt.. where young folk can stay overnight for 75 cents.
Storm Continues
In Northwest
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Record break
ing snows, which have crippled
travel and communi cations
th' oughout the Puget Sound coun
try, spread lightly over portions of
1 Oregon today as the Pacific nprth
1 west entered its third stormbound
| day.
Snow began failling in Tilla
t mook and other Oregon coastal
communities last night. It reached
three inches at some points.
Snow also resumed falling in j
the Puget Sound area early today
and the weather bureau forecast
snow for the entire day with the
temperature ranging from 30 to
35 degrees.
The city schools in Seatle were
closed down and numerous cars
were reported “ditched” along
suburban roads as freezing tem
peratures continued. Seattle bus
lines also were experiencing dif
ficulty on steep hills.
Meanwhile, as the storm-caused
death toll stood at three—one in
British Columbia and two in
Washington — North Vancouver,
B.C., police continued their search
for 18-year-old Roy L. Pike, miss
ing since Saturday on a hike up
Grouse mountain.
ELECTRICITY FURNISHED BY
U. S. S. R. & M. PLANT
Nome is now being serviced
with electric power through the
courtesy bf the U. S. Smelting Co.’s
plant which will be operated for a
few more days until the Northern
Light and Power plant can make
the necessary repairs to their plant
on Front Street. Jack McCumber,
owner of the Nome Cab Co., and
Gus Steinwartdle, both of whom
worked at the U. S. Smelting Co.’s
plant before the war, voluntarily
left their own work to expedite
the opening of the power plant,
and with John Bahnke and Nels
Swanberg, Jr., are carrying on the
work.
CIO Strikers Go To
Work; AFL Marine
Pickets Them
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P> — CTO
longshoremen and marine engin
eers voted overwhelmingly to go
back to their jobs at 8 a.m. <P.S.T.»
today, but AFL deck officers or
ganized picketing beginning at 6
a.m. “to protect our interests”
while they voted on contract terms
ottered by shipowners.
Thus, the end of the 50-day-old j
Pacific Coast waterfront tieup was'
delayed at least until Saturday.
Capt. C. S. May, president of the j
AFL union, said the masters. I
mates and pilots would take a
coast-wide vote Thursday but the
count would not be completed be
for Saturday.
Shortly after 6 a.m. pickets |
from the AFL deck officers union j
took up their posts at piers of San
Francisco’s embarcardero. Police
Sgt. W. Hanrahan said there were
two pickets to a pier and added
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Canned Fish
Supply Better
WASHINGTON, f/P)—'The agri
culture department said today the
civilian supply of canned fish for ,
the year ending next July 1 will
be about 15 per cent greater than
in the past year despite a smaller
pack.
Civilians have been allocated
473.000. 000 pounds compared with
510.000. 000 last year. This amount,
however, is far short of pre-war
consumption which averaged 600,- [
000,000 pounds annually.
A reduction in military and ex
port requirements permitted an
increase in civilian supplies de
spite the fact that the pack is now
expected to be about 35,000,000
pounds less than last year’s 680,-1
000,000 pounds.
Pax Reduction
Runs Into Snajj
WASHINGTON, </P> — Increas
ing opposition indicated today that
Republican leaders may run into
a major fight against their plan
for a quick 20 percent reduction
in individual income taxes once
Congress meets.
In talks with reporters, two
more G.O.P. House members —
Reps. Curtis and Miller of Nebras
ka—add their voices to those of
scattering party members already
questioning its wisdom.
On the Democratic side, veteran
Rep. Doughton of North Carolina
took a firm stand against any tax
reduction until after the federal
budget is balanced and a start
made on reducing the federal
debt.
Doughton guided the writing of
Democratic tax legislation for 12
years and his views usually com
mand a large following in his
party.
Miller disputed the right of the
right of the House Republican
steering committee to speak for
all party members on tax matters.
“They are taking in a lot of ter
ritory when they try to say now
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CITY COUNCIL HOLDS
SPECIAL MEETING
The Nome%City Council held a
special meeting in the City Hall
last night at 7:30 p.m., for the pur
pose of authorizing and drafting
telegrams to various governmental
department heads in reference to
the need of government assistance
for the protection of federal, city
and individually owned property
bordering on the Bering Sea.
In addition to the members of
the Council, many citizens were
present. After some discussion it
was decided to call a meeting, of
the people of Nome, for later in
the week.
Green Backs Lewis
In Coal Strike Fight
WASHINGTON, i/P>—Denounc
ing the government’s policy, AFL.
president William Green today
said “the miners who have volun
tarily walked out” will not return
until a new soft coal contract is
signed.
Green in a statement vigorously
backing up the now silent John L.
Lewis, declared:
“In my opinion the government’s
resort to the injunctive process
with its enslaving and incriminat
ing elects, will have the opposite
result of that intended.
“Instead of returning to work
the miners who have voluntarily
walked out will voluntarily refuse
to return until a new contract be
comes effective.”
Green spoke out as Lewis gave
no public sign of the course he
will pursue in his present collision
with the government.
Lewis has served notice that
his United Mine Workers’ contract
with the government ends at mid
night tonight. Miners have been
leaving the pits by the thousands,
with the mid-day total reported
above 127,000.
The federal district court here
has ordered Lewis to recall the
contract termination notice.
Referring to this order. Green’s
statement said:
“The govenment represent':it;ves,
adding insult to injury to the
workers of the nation, have re
sorted to the use of injunction
process and as a result have made
an extremely bad situation much
worse. Labor regards this step on
the part of the government as a
violation of the Marris-LaGuardia
act. It represents force, violence
and the threat of punishment on
the part of the government.”
Green’s statement attacking the
government’s use of the injunction
! followed by several hours a sim
ilar denunciation by the CIO con
vention at Atlantic City.
The AFL leader added:
“Neither troops with bayonets,
nor court injunction, nor incarcer
ation of miners or their represen
tatives in jail, can serve to produce
one single ton of coal. Only the
skilled, trained, courageous, free
mine workers who are willing to
risk their lives in the coal mines
each day, can do this.”
Army Lieutenant
Shoots (laptain
FRANKFURT, </P>—A lieuten
ant in the U. S. army military po
lice shot and killed his company
commander, a captain, early to
day. headquarters of U. S. Forces
in the European theatre announc
ed. The lieutenant then accident
ally shot himself in the leg in an
ensuing struggle with another of
ficer who had tried to intervene,
the announcement said. The inci
dent occurred at Bebra. near Kas
sel.
No motive for the shooting was
given by the announcement.