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VOL. XLIX. No. 145 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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LISBON, UP) — The fishing
smack Don Manuel Segundo sank
yesterday near the city of Porto,
i an Atlantic port, and the crew of
35 drowned.
WASHINGTON, (A1) —The na
tional labor relations board, for
the first tmie under the Taft-Hart
ley act, has asked the courts to
prevent a union from forcing an
employer to pay for services not
performed.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—'The pilot of
a P-80 jet fighter, attached to the
* 94th fighter squadron, was killed
Monday when his plane crashed
and burned one miles east of Ladd
Field while making a landing ap
proach. The pilot’s name was
withheld.
JUNEAU, <JP)—Appointment of
Burke Riley, who recently resign
ed as director of the office of voca
tional rehabilitation for Alaska, as
administrative assistant to Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening, was an
nounced yesterday by the govern
or’s office. Riley succeeds George
Rogers who resigned last August
to accept a fellowship in econo
mics at Harvard University.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Reinholt Brust,
administrative officer of the Alas
ka Native Service since July, has
been appointed assistant general
superintendent of the service, Don
| Foster, ANS superintendent, said
today. Brust replaces Fred Geeslin
who has been permanently as
signed to head the native service
project at Mount Edgecumbe in
the Sitka area. With the native
service since 1925, Brust came to
Alaska from Kalispell. Mont., six
years ago.
SEATTLE (/P)—Mrs. Elizabeth
D. Adams, 81, Washington State
» pioneer and widow of G. A.
Adams, early-day Alaska attorney
and gold mine owner, died Sunday
after a month’s illness.
She accompanied her father to
Nome, in 1899 and was married at
Council, Alaska, in 1906. Her hus
band was clerk of the district
court at Nome and later a United
States commissioner and judge.
She and her husband returned
to Tacoma in 1918, where her hus
band died in 1932. Two daughters
survive.
ARRAS, France, (/P)—A passen
ger train en route from Paris to
Lille was derailed near this city
early today in a wreck blamed by
some government officials on sab
oteurs. The Arras hospital estim
ated 20 persons were killed. A hos
pital spokesman said 17 bodies
had been removed from the
wreckage. Workers at the scene
said they believed another three
were mangled beneath the debris.
About 40 persons were injured.
Of these, 27 wer hospitalized.
A section of the rails gave way.
KEARNEY, Neb. (/P>—It was a
difficult decision a district court
jury here was called to make.
Math Meyers, whose truck col
lided with a car driven by Mrs.
Evan Hartman, sought $711.66
damages. In a cross-petition Mrs.
Arabs Violent
In Protest Over
Palestine Partition
(By the Associated Press*
The fury of the Holy^ Land
Arabs against the impending par
tition of Palestine erupted yester
day in shooting, wrecking and
burning throughout Jerusalem
and boiled over in threats and
mass demonstrations in other parts
of the Middle East.
Jews of Jerusalem counterat
tacked against the Arab mobs and
i struck Arab business quarters.
Reports of the da^’s casualties in
Palestine, confirmed and uncon
firmed, totalled three Jews killed
and 22 Jews and six Arabs in
jured. A pall of smoke hung over
; erusalem, where a number of
buildings were in flames. British
forces, using armored cars and
Bren gun carriers, braced them
selves for new disorders in the
current three-day Arab protest
strike against the United Nations
! partition decision. A curfew was
imposed on Arab quarters of Jeru
salem.
United Nations officials kept a
: close watch on developments, but
' there were no indications in New
York that action was planned to
bring the disturbances before the
i security council.
Thousands of Egyptians demon
strated in Cairo against partition.
They were promised an “abun
dance of arms” by Abdel Rahman
| Azzam Pasha, secretary general of
I the seven-nation Arab league. The
demonstrators smashed windows
j of foreign-owned shops, wrecked
posters advertising foreign movies
and American soft drinks, and
shouted “We want war!”
The Syrian chamber of deputies
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French, Italian
Strikes Ease
(By The Associated Press)
Strike pressure eased slightly
yesterday in Italy and France,
chief beneficiaries of the $597,
000000 interim aid program voted
yesterday by the United States
Senate.
The conditions in France re- j
mained critical however, because
2,000,000 men still were idle in ;
strikes called by communist-dom-1
inated unions, Paris subways op
erated again, however, when po-,
lice evicted sitdown strikers in six j
power stations. And a ten-hour j
“silent filibuster” by communists;
opposing stringent anti-strike leg- j
islation before the national assem- j
bly was broken.
Italy staved off a nationwide
strike of city employees by prom
ising enough money to cities to
pay wage increases. Disorders in
industrial Milan, where leftists al
most seized power in protests
against replacement of a labor- j
favoriag governor, also were set
tled, the interior ministry said.
Hartman sued Meyers for $91.95
damages.
After four hours deliberation
the jury called it a “draw” with
neither defendant nor plaintiff en
titled to damages.
U. S. To Conduct
Atomic Tests On
Eniwetok Atoll
WASHINGTON, l/P)— Projected
atomic tests behind a curtain of
absolute secrecy in the remote Pa
cific suggested today that Ameri- j
can scientists may be preparing
new weapons based on the same
terrible power as the atom bomb.
A terse announcement from the,
atomic enei'gy commission dis- j
! closed that the armed forces ai*e
1 making tiny Eniwetok Atoll—
1,500 miles from the nearest large
land mass—into a closed-off prov
I ing grounds for l'esearch on "new
fundamental data.”
What goes on there, the commis
sion said, is expected to result in
advances in "peaceful as well as
in military applications of atomic
energy.”
Asked whether a reference to
“atomic weapons” means that this
country’s arsenal now includes a
nuclear fission running mate for
the atom bomb, one official . re
plied:
“You can draw your own con
| elusion.”
Unlike the surface and under
water atom bomb tests at Bikini
Atoll in the summer of 1946, which
were covered by several hundred
reporters and foreign observers,
the new experiments will be under
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i
CAA Investigating
Alaska Airlines
j Plane Crash
, SEATTLE, (A5)—A double-edged
j investigation into the Sunday
'crash of an,Alaska Airlines trans
port, and the resulting death of
eight persons, continued yesterday
with Leon D. Cuddeback, regional
chief of the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration, asserting that inves
tigators have yet to determine:
1. Whether the plane landed;
within a safe stopping distance'
from the end of the runway;
2. Whether there was any func
tional failure of the large aircraft.
The plane, a DC-4 inbound from
Alaska, overran the end of the
Seattle-Tacoma airport runway,
•plowed about 175 feet through
mud and plunged over a sharp1
bank onto a passing automobile.
Pilot James E. Farris, 37, of i
Seattle, Monday attributed the ^
crash to failure of the plane’s hy
draulic brakes. He said the plane
“rolled like it was on a bed of
ball-bearings” and then leaped a
60-foot embankment at the end of
the airport runway.
In Washington, the civil aero
nautics board ordered the com
pany to show cause by Dec. 15
why it should not be required to
stop scheduled operations between
Anchorage and Seattle. The board
said its enforcement section as
serted the carrier was providing
scheduled service between points
not on its established routes and
particularly between Seattle and
Anchorage.
In addition to the eight dead,
two others of the 28 passengers
aboard the plane continued to be
hospitalized in critical condition. I
Wages Will Rise
Unless Congress
(aits Cost Of Living
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Secretary
of labor Schwellenbach said yes
terday another postwar round of
wage boosts is in prospect unless |
Congress acts to cut the cost of
living.
Schwellenbach went to the Cap-1
itol to back President Truman’s
broad economic controls program
as increasing complaints came
from Republican legislators that
the administration is not present
ing sufficiently specific legislative
proposals in that field.
The labor secretary testified be
fore the House banking committee
while another Congressional
I group, the Senate-House economic
committee, was hearing conten
j tions from grain exchange men
: that the administration has un
justly singled them out for attack.
“The high prices of grain have
been caused by unprecedented
government purchase for export,
rather than by speculation,” J. O.
McClintock of the Chicago board
of trade said.
McClintock objected to the ad
I ministration’s request for power
) to increase the amount of margin
| or cash down payment, required
| in trading for future deliveries of
j grain. The administration contends
that low margins have encouraged
speculation.
Senator Wherry (R.-Neb.> was
I one of those contending the ad
I ministration is not sufficiently
specific about what it wants as
anti-inflation measures.
He told reporters that Congress
has received nothing but “vague
generalities” and declared Mr.
Truman should lay down concrete
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Bunting Calls For
Less Dollar Aid and
Govt. Spending
NEW YORK, (/PI—Earl Bunting
president of the national associa
tion of manufacturers, today call
ed for increased productivity,
emergency foreign relief in goods
not dollars, and reductions in gov
ernment spending and income
taxes.
His program, he said, would
“nullify the administration’s pro
posal to establish a ‘police state’ in
America;" would assure mainten
ance of the American living stand
ard, and would make possible
“generous" foreign aid.
He also asked labor leaders to
forego demands for general wage
increases without increases in pro
ductivity, except in cases of gross
inequities.
“All feather-bedding rules
should be set aside," he said, as
well as “all restrictions on indi
vidual productivity not essential
to employee safety and health."
His speech was the highlight of
the opening of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers’ 52nd
congress of American industry,
which brought more than 3,000 in
dustrialists from all over the coun
try to the Waldorf-Astoria for a
three-day session.
New Disorders
Break Out In
Bloody Palestine
• By The Associated Press)
Rioters using grenades and ma
chine guns battled in the Tel Aviv
Jaffa area of Palestine today and
new disorders broke out in Jeru
salem in a resumption of bloody
violence touched off by the United
Nations partition plan.
More threats to Palestine’s Jews
came from Arab nations ringing
the little country. In Cairo teach
ers of A1 Lazhar university were
attempting to organize enlistments
for a holy war with the announc
ed purpose of “driving the wolves”
from Palestine.
Unofficial reports listed two
Jews killed and five Jews and two
Arabs wounded in Palestine to
! day.
A member of the Jewish under
ground militia Hagana and a Jew
ish physician were killed and five
Jews—a policeman and four Ha
gana men—were wounded in the
Tel Aviv area there reports said.
( Two Arabs were shot and wound
ed by British troops in Jerusalem.
Yesterday’s casualties, by unof
ficial report, was 14 dead and 38
wounded.
In the second day of a three-day
Arab protest strike against parti
tion, the government clamped an
around-the-clock curfew on the
no-man’s land border region be
tween all-Jewish Tel Aviv and
all-Arab Jaffa. A curfew on Arab
districts of Jerusalem was con
tinued another 24 hours.
Thousands of Jews and Arabs
: fled the trouble areas of Jeri^alem
| as Jewish sources predicted a ris
j ing tempo of violence.
In New York, Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver, chairman of the American
section of the Jewish agency, de
clared in a speech at a “thanks
giving” rally last night that the
Jews of the Holy Land must have
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Trygve Lie To
Visit Palestine
LAKE SUCCESS, </P) — Secre
tary-general Trygve Lie said to
day that he planned to visit Pales
tine and at the same time an
nounced the appointment of Ralph
J. Bunche, United Nations trustee
ship expert, as principal secretary
of the five-nation commission
which will supervise partitioning
of the Holy Land.
Lie said he could stay in Pales
tins “only a short time.” He plan
ned to go there on a trip that will
take him to Europe early in Jan
uary to survey prospects for hold
ing the 1948 session of the general
assembly somewhere in Europe.
Lie at his weekly news confer
ence also announced the appoint
ment of Victor Hoo of China, an
a s s i s tant secretary-general, as
head of the Korean independence
commission set up by the recently
adjourned 1947 assembly session.
Bunche, who will head the sec
retariat attached by the U. N. to
the partition overseer group, is an
American Negro who formerly
worked for the U. S. State Depart
ment.