252 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. N~59: NOME,"ALASKA; MONDAY, MAY 17. 1948 _15c Per COPY
Martial Law Placed
Over Minnesota
Towns Bv Gov’n’r
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UNDATED LABOR —!/P>—CIO
Auto Workers’ talked today of
a possible strike by 225,000 em
ployes May 20 at General Motors’
90 plants if a pay boost is not
agreed upon before then.
T. A. Johnstone, acting director
of the United Auto Workers’ GM
department, said there is a very
good possibility of a walkout. The
threat was the latest move in an
industry-wide campaign for higher
wages.
^ One major automobile manu
facturer, however, countered the
drive with a proposal which pos
sibly would, in effect, cut wages.
The proposal, by the Ford Mot
or Company, was the first of its
kind in the motor car industry.
The CIO United Auto Workers
answered it with a crisp rejec'ion
and a hint that the company’s
107,000 production workers might
join Chrysler’s 75,000 strikers.
Meanwhile, Gov. Luther Young
dahl extended martial law in
Minnesota where violence flared
last week along picket lines of
the striking packinghouse work
ers.
In Chicago, the Packinghouse
Union ordered wage talks with
packers resumed “immediately,”
and in Washington soft coal op
erators drafted a plan of strategy
for new contract terms w:th John
L. Lewis, president of the UMW.
Pleading a cause of “public
security,” Ford asked elimination
> of “differentials” of about 10 cents
an hour in wages of its employes
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Father Flannagan
Of Boys Town,
Dies In Germany
BERLIN,— (/P) —Msgr. Edward
J. Flannagan. known throughout
the world as the Father of Boys
Town, died at an Army Hospital
Saturday after a heart attack.
He had been inspecting facilities
in Germany for the youths he
loved so well—regardless of na
tionality.
The 61 year old Nebraska priest
famed for his credo “There is no
such thing as a bad boy” was
stricken Friday night at Harnack
House, an American military gov
ernment residence for visiting of
ficials.
Rushed to the 279th Station
Military Hospital, he failed to
respond to oxygen and special
heart injections, physicians said.
Catholic Army Chaplain Em
mitt I. Walsh administered the
last sacraments at the famed
priest’s bedside when death came.
Father Walsh said he “died peace
fully and in prayer.”
Funeral services will be held
here Monday for Father Flanagan,
with Cardinal Count Konrad von
Preysing, Bishop of Berlin, of
ficiating. Three American Army
Chaplains will assist at the Altar.
Rosary services were held Satur
day and Sunday at Army Chapels.
The body will be sent home
to the U.S. by plane.
JEWISH SOLDIERS REMOVE JERUSALEM DEAD DURING TRUCE
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Three Jewish soldiers, one wearing a gas mask, and another holding
his nose, remove an Arab corpse from the wreckage of a building in the
Katamon district of Jerusalem during a 48-hour truce in the fighting be
tween Arabs and Jews for control of the district. Picture made by Asso
ciated Press staff photographer James Pringle. (AP Wirephoto)
Tidal Rave Alerts
Aleutian Islands
And Hawaii Sat’d’y
HONOLULU, —i/P)—A major
earthquake apparently on the floor
of the Bering Sea sent tidal wave
alerts flying through the Aleu
I tians and Hawaii Friday and Sat
1 urday but no high waves appeared.
Before the alerts were called
1 off on Saturday some Hawaiians
j had fled for the hills. Freighters,
fishing sampans and other small
craft in the port of Hilo put to
sea: Trucks and heavy equipment
were moved to high ground.
The center of the d:sturbance
was apparently near Umnak, the
first Aleutian Island west of Un
alaska, where Dutch Harbor is
located.
The only ship at sea reporting
it felt the quake was the motor
ship Square Knot, about 100 miles
northwest of Umnak Island, re
porting “a severe earthquake with
a violent bouncing motion experi
enced on a smooth sea.”
U.N. Atomic Com*
Ends 2-Year Effort
On Atomic Control
LAKE SUCCESS, — f/P) —The
United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission decided today to end
its two-year effort to agree on
world atomic control. The vote
was 9 to 2.
Russia and the Ukraine voted
against the suspension, which was
proposed originally by the United
States, Britain and France.
The move came after the West
ern powers concluded it was use
less to continue the talks any long
er in view of the deadlock be
tween Russia and the commission
majority. .
Tests On Atomic
Weapons Proved
Highly Successful
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
Whitehouse said today that tests
i involving three atomic weapons
of improved design proved suc
i cessful in all respects recently
at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
The statement was made as
the Atomic Energy Commission
gave President Truman an offic
ial report saying the results “in
dicate very substantial progress.”
Chairman David E. Lilienthal
and four other Commissioners re
ported orally to Mr. Truman that
the “present stage of the Commis
j sion’s tests of atomic weapons is
now concluded.
Lilienthal called the tests a
“milestone in atomic develop
ment.”
“The Commission reported that
the tests involving three atomic
weapons, each of improved de
sign, was successful in all res
pects, and that results indicate
very substantial progress. The
President gave general approval
of commission plans for steps it j
proposed to initiate at once for
further nuclear development, be
ing based upon information gained
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HOSPITAL NEWS
With the $10,000 goal set for
the emergency hospital fund near,
several persons have asked where
donations are being received. It
was thought by the committee
that donations could continue to
be taken at the Nugget office
or to Marjorie Sario, fund treas
urer, at the M and M Bank.
Captain Harry Strong $ 5.00
Total today $9,460.70 i
Navy May Get
Giant Carrier In
Four Years
WASHINGTON, — f/P) — A
House Armed Services Sub-Com
mittee approved unanimously to
day a bill clearing the way for
the Navy to get started on a 65,
000-ton giant aircraft carrier.
Navy authorities say the super
carrier, capable of cruising in Arc
tic waters, would be the largest
ship of any kind ever built. It
would be about half again biggqr
than the Navy’s biggest present
carriers. Up to four years would
be required for its construction.
Presumably, multi-engine bom
bers capable of carrying an atomic,
bomb thousands of miles could
take off from its flight deck.
To clear the way for its con
struction, the sul committee re
commended to the full committee
that the Navy be allowed to st >p
work on 13 of its unfinished ships.
This would divert approximately
$229,090,000 to build the proposed
carrier and vessels designed to
launch guided missiles.
Army Sergeant
Says Will Stay
In Russia
l
WASHINGTON, — (JP) — The
United States beat Moscow to the
draw today with the disclosure
that a youthful American Army
sergeant has defied orders to leave
Russia and return to this country.
A State Department announce
ment identified him as Sgt. James
McMillin, 21, Boulder, Colo. Re-,
porters were told his actions were
due to infatuation for a Russian
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Palestine Is Battle
ground For Jewish
And Arab Armies
By the Associated Press — The
Egyptian army was reported by
Arabs today to have driven 30
miles into Palestine, more than
lalf-way to Tel Aviv.
On the east of the new Jewish
State of Israel, other forces of the
five Arab nations invading Pales
tine were said to have captured
the important Rutenburg power
station, where the Yarmuk River
joins the Jordan. King Abdullah
of Trans-Jordan, leader of most
of the Arab forces, said the sta
tion supplied two-thirds of Jewish
industry.
The Jews said the capture of
Arab Acre, an old crusaders' port
12 miles sou'h of Lebanon is im
minent. Haganah forces were de
clared to have struck seven miles
into Lebanon and wrecked a •stra
tegic bridge.
Tel Aviv, government seat of
the State of Israel' was bombed
for the third straight day. The
Egyptians declared they destroyed
important dock works there yes
terday. The Jews said they des
troyed one or two planes.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 73, was
elected President of Israel. A
British subject, he is now ill in
New York. Israel applied for
membership in the United Na
tions. That body was informed
by Abdullah that Arab interven
tion in Palestine had the “so»o
purpose of restoring peace and
security and establishing law and
order.”
WASHINGTON—Top U.S. of
ficials studied the question of
lifting the ban on shipments >f
American arms to the middle east.
Senator Taft, <R-Ohio> advocated
this and asked that U.N. armed
forces ‘’prevent aggression against
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Northwest Airlines
Offers Lower Rate
Alaska Foodstuffs
SEATTLE, r—f/P) Northwest Air
lines announced todal it has asked
the Civil Aeronautics Board for
permission to reduce its rates on
foodstuffs, magazines and news
papers flown from the Pacific
Northwest to Alaska.
George E. Hatch, district traf
fic manager for the line, said the
new schedules will go into effect
June 7, if given CAB approvel.
“The Alaska market is wide
open for foodstuffs,” Hatch said.
“Alaska produces much less than
it consumes. Air transportation
can tap this market for Northwest
food dealers as easily as they can
send their produce to many points
within the States.”
Rates on quarter-ton food ship
ments would be lowered 18 cents
a pound—a slash of 20 per cent.
Newspapers and magazihes tar
iffs would be cut from 18 to
22 1/2 cents a pound.
Hatch said Northwest is plan
ning to reduce costs of shipping
a number of other commodities
to Alaska if the new' schedules
are approved .