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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948 PER COPYHll
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (#>)—S. J. Swanson,
Alaska Transportation company
vice-president, said today the
company had no plans for placing
4 the passenger ship George Wash- j
ington on a South American run
this winter.
“We have received numerous
inquiries along this line from pas
sengers and travel agencies,’’
Swanson said, “but we are still in
the midst of our Alaska tourist (
season and we have no immediate
** plans beyond the Alaska trade.”
SEATTLE, !/P) — Alaska’s sal
mon pack reached 2,866.392 cases
on August 21, the federal fish and
wildlife service reported today.
The figure is about 800,000 cases
under the pack recorded at the
same time last year.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Anchorage
voters will decide today whether
the city should purchase a diesel
electric generating plant to pre
vent rationing of power this win
ter.
The proposal is to issue bonds
up to $300,000 to finance, pur
chase of a new or used diesel
plant. City officials said present
facilities produce a maximum of
6,800 kilowatts but that 8,300
kilowatts will be needed to meet
peak loads during the winter.
GREAT NECK, N. Y. f/P)—Mrs.
* Maud Ballington Booth, co-found
er of the Volunteers of America
after a rift in the Salvation
Army’s Booth family a half cen
tury ago, died last night at the
age of 82. She and her husband, the
late Ballington Booth, son of Gen.
-JVilliam Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army, organized the
Volunteers ot America, a religious
and charitable relief group.
PORTERVILLE, Calif.. (JP) —
“This is a vine homecoming”
might have been the remark—it
probably wasn’t—when Mr. and
Mrs. George Strum returned from
their month’s vacation. *
There were grapes all over the
end of their living room. A
Thompson seedless grapevine had
sneaked its tendrils through a tiny
cr^ck and was doing its best to
take over the place.
The house had been built on a i
vineyard site, and strum said that
the plant had been cut but not
grubbed out.—It will be now.
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TOKYO, </P)—Maj. Gen. A. P.
Kislenko, Soviet member of the
allied council for the Far East, to
Otoy demanded a special council
meeting to consider General Mac
Arthur’s labor policies.
Kislenko based his request on
the fact he had not received an
answer to his protest early this
month against the Japanese gov
ernment’s ban of strikes by gov
ernment workers. The govern
ment forbade such strikes after
MacAthur said they should not
( be tolerated. Kislenko demanded
ipn^ug. 11 that the ban be lifted.
A Tass news representative said
'islenko wanted the meeting held
j “soon as possible.”
Flyer Risks Life
To Save Pal
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HONOLULU, (/P)—A tail gun
ner from Pasco, Wash.—Sgt. Don
ald Kienholz—risked his life to
save a buddy from certain death
in the fiery superfortress crash
which killed 16 airmen at Hickam
field Tuesday.
The air force said Kienholz,
thrown clear in the crash, rushed
back into the flames to drag out
Sgt. Harry C. Larsen, Los An
geles. The air force said both men,
along with two other survivors
are still too badly injured to be
interviewed.
The giant bomber from the 98th
bomber group at Spokane had
just taken off from Barber’s Point
for Okinawa when an engine quit.
As it tried for a forced landing,
its wing hit a parked transport
plane.
Truman Stops
Railroad Strike
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman acted yesterday to head
off a s'rike set for Saturday on
the Pittsburgh and West Virginia
railway.
The White House announced
Mr. Truman had signed an execu
tive order setting up an emerg
ency board in the railway’s dis
pute with the brotherhood of
railway trainmen.
Ttie order was signed aboard
the Presidential yacht Williams
burg at Yorktown, Va. Under the
law it automatically postpones a
strike which had been set for 6
p.m. tomorrow.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
(By Associated Press*
Thurrsday. August 26. 1947
(MOSCOW)—American, British
and French diplomats met at the J
U. S. embassy in Moscow yester
day to prepare perhaps for their |
last powwow in the Kremlin on
the Berlin blockade and German
problems.
A Moscow dispatch said the
announcement on the course of
seven other Kremlin talks since
July 31 may be forthcoming soon.
Russian consular officers are
leaving the U. S. Rissia severed
consular relations over*the U. S.
demand for the recall of consul
general Jacob M. Lomakin from
New York because of his part in
the refugee school teachers’ cases.
Lomakin’s credentials were can
celled Wednesday by President
Truman and he sails Saturday.
(BELGRADE)—Behind the iron
curtain. Yugoslavia accused Ro
mania of a “monstrous anti-Yugo
slavia campaign* and of plotting
to overthrow Premier Tito. The
cominform has bitterly criticized
Tito. Russia and all her satellites
except Yugoslavia joined the de
nunciations.
(WASHINGTON) — The U. S.
state and labor departments were
reported to have questioned Gen.
MacArthur about the order for
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Communist Mol)
Demonstrates
In Berlin
(By Richard Kasischke)
BERLIN, (/P) — Backed by a
howling crowd, pro-communists
forced their way into Berlin’s city
hall today and took over the as
sembly chamber for a propaganda j
barrage against the anti-commun
ist city government.
While 10,000 or more persons
shouted and surged outside, some
500 pushed through police lines
into the building and took seats
in the third floor assembly hall.
They remained there long enough
to hear tirades against the city
government and then left to jo<n
the huge crowd outside.
The city hall is in the Russian
sector of Berlin. The socialist
party announced it is planning a
counter-demonstration outside the
b u rned-out German Reichstag
building, which, though it is in
the British sector, is only a stone’s
throw from the Soviet sector bor
der.
During the wild demonstration,
communist leaders shouted de
mands for *“an end to this bank
rupt city government.” They call
ed for formation of an adminis
tration in Beilin ‘‘which will work
hand in hand with the great Sov
iet Union and countries of east
ern Europe.”
While the communists met in
side, the crowd outside chanted
the Red anthem, the “Internation
ale.”
No casualties were reported
By midafternoon, a large part of
the crowd had dispersed.
VFW To Demand
Stronger Alaska
d/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, UP)—A strong
er Alaska will be demanded by
Veterans of Foreign Wars during
their 49th annual national en
campment here Aug. 29-Sept. 3.
A statement issued yesterday
by national V.F.W. headquarters
said Alaska is an important but
vulnerable outpost in event of
another war.
To strengthen the Territory,
V.F.W. will adopt resolutions, it
said, to promote a national guard
for Alaska, Statehood, resettle
ment of veteran homesteaders,
and maintenance of important
highways.
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Portland-Alaska
SS. Service Starts
PORTLAND, (/P)—The steamer
Henry D. Lindsley, due to start
regular direct Portland-to-Alaska
shipping service, has ber t h e d
here.
H. H. Wrightson, manager for
the coastwise line, said departure
would be delayed until next Mon
day because of the heavy out
bound cargo to be loaded.
The vessel came here from San
Francisco and will sail for Sew
ard and Whittier. A second Alas
ka bound ship is expected to call
here for cargo about Sept. 15.
“Who Is The Liar?”
In Spy Probe
—
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, i/P)—Congres
sional spy probers gave chase to a
1929 jalopy yesterday in a re
newed attempt to prove whether j
Alger Hiss or Whittaker Cham
bers lied about a pre-war com
munist underground.
They also started writing a re
port on what they have found out
so far.
A closed meeting was called to
discuss the report. No hearings
were scheduled for the day.
In a drama-packed encounter
before the House un-American
j activities committee Wednesday,
Hiss and Chambers told widely
I different stories about a Model A
j Ford and about nearly everything
I else.
They traded charges of “liar"
at a hearing that ran all day and
'into the night. Each stuck firmly
to his main points, in the face of
warnings that one or the other is
sure to face a perjury trial.
Chambers, short, pudgy, 47
year-old senior editor of Time
magazine, insisted that Hiss was
a member of a Red underground
in Washington a dozen years ago.
He said he knew because he used
to be a communist himself and
servqd in the underground.
Hiss insisted it wasn’t so, that
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Envoys Meeting At
| Kremlin Today
MOSCOW UP)—The three west
ern envoys went to the Kremlin
today for an appointment with
Soviet foreign minister V. M.
Molotov.
Informants say this session
might be the crucial one in nego
tiations on the German crisis.
They have changed forecasts on
chances of an agreement on pro
cedure from ‘‘fair” to “good.”
The envoys, U. S. ambassador
Walter Bedell Smith, French am
bassador Yves Chataigneau and
special British representa t i v e
Frank Roberts, all appeared in i
good spirits. Each left for the:
Kremlin from his own embassy.
Prime minister Stalin will not
attend tonight’s conference, offi- ^
cials announced. Stalin has at
tended two of the long series of
conferences.
MOST STORES WILL REMAIN
OPEN MONDAY EVENINGS
The following stores have vol
unteered to remain open Monday |
evenings until eight o’clock to ac
commodate construction workers
and other who are unable to buy
during the day:
Arctic Shop, Richter’s Photo
Shop, Vi’s Apparel, Hazel’s, Army
Surplus Store, Cavota’s General
Merc handise Store, Gordon’s
Shoe Store, Nome Hardware Co.,
Polet’s Curio Store,
The marchants have announced
they will give a trial to keeping
open until eight o’clock, and if
the business warrants will con
tinue to do so.
The stores will start keeping j
open next Monday night, August
30, until eight o’clock.
Strike Is Certain
Unless Employers
Give Good Offer
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P)—Long
shore chief Harry Bridges, armed
with solid support from his CIO
union for a west coast strike Sept.
2, prepared yesterday to meet wa
terfront employers in negotiations
that may avert the waalkout.
Bridges announced the expect
ed resumption of peace talks at a
meeting of 6000 longshoremen
Wednesday. The meeting voted
unanimously for the strike and
also to boycott a national labor
relations board election next week
on the employers’ last official
wage offer of a five-cent hourly
! increase.
Similar votes were taken at stop
work meetings in Seattle, Los An
geles and Portland.
Bridges cautioned against “over
Optimism” from the negotiations,
and counseled the membership to
“keep in readiness to hit the
bricks Sept. 2 unless your nego
tiating committee receives a sat
isfactory offer from the employ
ers.”
A Bridges spokesman, Morris
Watson, denied persistent water
front rumors that an offer had
been made by Frank P. Foisie,
president of the waterfront em
ployers association, to end the
dispute over union dispatchers at
hiring halls.
But the talk persisted that the
employers had expressed willing
ness to go along with the union
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Hiss*, Chambers
Buy Same House
(By William F. Arbogasi)
WASH1N GTON, (TP) — The
House un-American activities
committee assigned an investiga
tion today to track down a new
report that Alger Hiss and Whit
taker Chambers once were inter
ested in the some old farm near
Westminister, Md.
The committee also brought in
a handwriting expert in an at
tempt to get to the bottom of the
widely different stories the two
men have told about their rela
tionship a dozen years ago.
The latest story the spy inves
tigators are trying to run down is
that Hiss made a down-payment
to a real estate agent on the Mary
land farm but lost interest in the
property and didn’t complete the
purchase. Then Chambers was re
ported to have bought the farm
later and his family was said to
have lived there for a while.
Rep. Nixon (R.-Calif.) told re
porters the committee intends to
see if “this is another link in the
chain of evidence or just pure co
incidence.”
The committee members are
searching for a key to crack the
Hiss-Chambers riddle.
They claimed some success: A
sworn statement by ex-commun
ist Louis Budenz that he always
had considered Hiss to be under
party discipline.
Budenz. who rmnmv-^