Sea Captain
, Of Fenn Victory
Hangs Himself
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A vet
eran sea captain, brooding over]
a multi-million dollar loss in a
Puget Sound collision in which j
he was officially absolved ofJ
blame, hanged himself last night]
police reported.
Capt. Joseph A. Gaidsick, 58.
a master for the American-Ha- j
waiian Lines, was found hanging
by a rope thrown over a bulkhad
in the crews’ quarters of the SS
Sea Devil at its moorings.
Gadsick’s former ship, the Fenn
Victory, was in collision with the
freighter Diamond Knot in the
Strait of Juan de Fuca during a
• heavy fog Aug. 13.
The Diamond Knot sank with
a cargo of Alaskan salmon estim
ated to run around $3,000,000 in
value. The cargo currntly is be
ing salvaged.
• As a result of the collision the
Alaska Steamship Company filed
a $1,000,000 maritime libel suit
against the Fenn Victory, owned
by the federal govrnmnt and op
erated by the American-Hawaiian
Lines.
(The $1,000,000 suit was dismis
sed in Seattle late Friday by U.S.
District Judge John C. Bowen,
who ruled that since the Fenn
Victory was owned by the gov
ernment the court had no power
• to seize it.)
Gaidsick was absolved of blume
by the American-Hawaiian com
pany but he brooded nevertheless.
Deputy coroner Ray Brooks said
the veteran skipper was to have
appeared soon before a maritime
commission hearing into the Aug.
13 collision.
He testifitd at a hearing held in
Portland that his 10,000-ton ship
was thrown into full speed astern
as soon as the danger of a col
lision was seen. The Fenn Vic
tory returned to Puget Sound un
der its own power after the crash.
Denmark Is In
Process of Change
In Government
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (TP)— j
Premier Knud Kristensen, whose
minority government fell Satur
day, was granted permission by
King Frederik IX to call new el
ections. No date was set, but
it was generally expected #they
they would be held Oct. 30.
The premier paid a formel call
upon the king to inform him of
the crisis, precipitated when the
lower chamber of parliament cast
an 80 to 66 vote of no confidence
on a resolution criticizing Krist
ensen for his attitude on tlv? South
Schleswig question as voiced in
speeches outside pailiament.
The king had odre -ed the lower
chamber dissolved to prepare for
the new elections. Under Dan
ish law Kristensen'; middle-of-the
road government will remain in
power on a trusteeship basis un
til election results are announced.
Then it will submit a formal res
ignation.
! Resolutions of no confidence
had been offered by the Social
j Democrats, with 48 seats in the
lower house; the Communists,
with 18;; and the radical Left
Party, with 11; representing to
gether a majority in the 194 seat
House. The radical Left’s reso
lution was the one voted on.
Kristensen’s Liberal Party won
38 seats in the 1945 election and
formed a minority government,
because no single party had a
majority and no coalitions were
forthcoming.
South Schleswig, which has been
a controversial issue for some time
is in Germany just south of the
Danish border.
The Danish government notified
Britain Oct. 13, 1946 that it did
not “demand the incorporation of
South Schleswig into Denmark for
the time being’’ but left the deci
sion to residents of South Schles
wig.
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Whiskey Industry 1
Pledges Cut Grain ,
Use In Half
1■ ■ ■
WASHINGTON, </P)—A r m e d I
with a pledge from more than
half of the whiskey industry to ■
cut its grain consumption 50 perj
cent, president Truman’s Citizens’ I
Food Committee today tackled the:
nation’s brewers for a similar
concession to Western Europe’s
distress.
The Distilled Spirits Institute,!
after a long session with commit- ]
tee chairman Charles Luckman
and his aides, voluntarily agreed
to stop using wheat and cut the
use of corn, barley and rye by
50* percent. Luckman said the
institute represents 60 percent of
the industry.
He predicted the remaining 40
percent would follow suit, while
an institute spokesman said that
enough whiskey is now on hand
to maintain a “steady flow to the
market” of good whiskey despite
curtailed operations.
But Publicker Industries, Inc.,
said the cut “doesn’t do enough”
and offered to do more. The big
beverage and alcohol firm told
Luckman its companies “stand
ready to join immediately in dis
continuing all use of grain of any
kind in the manufacture of dis
tilled spirits” whenever the gov
ernment requests.
The agreement with the distil
I leries, announced by Luckman at
j the White House, was the com
1 mittee’s first major move in sup
port of Mr. Truman’s voluntary
I "self-rationing” plan designed to
I save 100,000,000 bushels of grain
to help feed Western Europe. This
is the margin of difference bet
ween this area’s estimated need—
570,000,000 bushels—and the sup
plies available.
Luckman estimated that the
| emergency will last anywhere
j from 4 to 10 months.
Adoption of# the plan by all
distillers would mean a saving
of 2,500,000 bushels of grain a
month,” Luckman said. This would
be mostly corn. An institute
spokesman said some wheat is
used to flavor rye whiskey, but
a Publicker official said distillers
"do not use any wheat,” except
in emergencies.
Late this week, it was learned,
the Food Committee will meet
here with spokesmen for the res
taurant industry whose leaders
will be attending a convention in
San Francisco in the first part of
the week.
Robrt J. Wilson, executive sec
retary of the National Restaurant
Association, which already lias be
gun a food saving campaign, told
a reporter that unless the volun
tary conservation drive is success
ful “I am afraid we will be con
fronted with price regulation and
rationing.”
The committee’s activities also
were being focused on president
Truman’s broadcast to the nation
in support of the voluntary drive
to “buy wisely, eat sensibly, waste
nothing.”
CITY COUNCIL RECEIVES
REPORT OF APPRAISERS
The Nome City Council held a
special meeting last Friday ev
ening at the City Hall to receive
the appraisal report for real and
personal property as the work
has now been completed by H.
Henratta and his assistants.
Taxes on stocks on hand will
not be assessed until December.
The Council has not decided as
yet, the percentage to be used in
tax assessments.
Russia Unites All
Communists For
“Fight U.S. Plan”
(Continued from Page One)
attended by communist leaders
from Russia, France, Italy, Czech-;
oslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bul
garia, Yugoslavia and Hungary.
To implement the work of the
organization, an “information bur- (
eau” is to be established in the
Yugoslav capital at Belgrade. Toi
it will be assigned, the announce
ment said, the task of “exchang- j
ing experiences” and, if necessary j
of “coordinating the activities of
the communist parties on a basis
of mutual agreement.”
Russia was represented at the
Warsaw conference by two of
its top Politburo leaders—Col.
Pandreau Zhdanov and George
M. Malenkov.
(The Politburo is the political
bureau of the central committee
of the all-union Communist par
ty.)
Zhdanov was among the com
munists who signed the resolu
tion in Moscow in May of 1943,
calling for dissolution of the Com
intern—the international organ
I ization founded by Lenin in 1919
to organize the working class par
' ties of the world.
The published text of a declar
ation issued by the Warsaw con
ference said that formation of
the new communist organization
was necessitated by international
I developments which had resulted
in a split between the western and
eastern worlds.
The declaration blamed the
split upon “imperialist polititions”
in the United States, whom it ac
! cused of trying to provoke a new
war.
The Marshall plan and Truman
j doctrine were described as tools
l of the United States campaign
| for world domination. Assert
ing that no concessions could be
made to “the new course of the
United States and the imperial
ist camp,” the statement declared.
“Full resistance to all mani
j testations of U. S. policy on all
lines therefore are called on ev
I _*_
New Vessels Are
Authorized by the
Maritime Comm,
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The
dream of a crack American pass
enger fleet moved forward with
the announcement that U. S. ship
builders have bid about $10,000,
000 to $17,000,000 per vessel to
build five ships for round-the
world trade.
This is the first post-war pries
tag on the cost of turning out
modern ships to compete on the
waters of the world with foreign
tonnage.
The government started ten
years ago to relieve the American
Merchant Marine as <1> a means
of a livelihood for thousands of
citizens and <2> as a defense meas
ure.
The war interrupted these plans
and, when it ended, left this coun
try with plenty of war shipping,
but few tip-top cargo ships, arid
even less passenger ships.
The American President lines,
San Francisco, applied to the
Maritime Commission for a con
struction-differential subsidy to
build five 500-foot passenger-car
go vessels. The subsidies make
up for the higher cost of building
ships in the United States than in
foreign yards.
The Maritime Commission op
ened bids from four companies
whose prices ranged from $9,690,
000 to $16,881,000 per vessel.
The commission took no immed
iate action on the bids, but the
Newport News, Va., Shipbuilding
and Drydock Co. apparently was
low bidder for three of the ships,
the maximum allowed one firm.
The ships will be operated by the
American President Lines.
erywhere.”
The declaration asserted Amer
ican plans for world domination
could not succeed if Europe’s
communist parties stood Strongly
at the head of all national ele
ments defending the sovereignty
and independence of their respect
ive nations.”
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