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NEWS IN BRIEF
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METLAKATLA. (A')—1The Met
lakatla town council has adopted
a budget of $160,014 for the 1949
50 fiscal year. It is $18,000 above
the current year’s budget.
It includes $30,000 for the com
munity sawmill. That fund car
ried $89,500 this year, of which
$33,520 remains, but which is ear
marked for spending.
► The mill is designed to cut
about 50,000 feet of lumber per
day. The community expects it to
provide employment in the fall j
and winter, when there is no fish
ing and the native community’s
cannery is closed.
FAIRBANKS, bP) — Two ser
geants were injured seriously
Sunday when their rented *ur
plane crashed taking off from a
Mt. McKinley national park land
ing field*
The Ladd air force base infor
mation office said both were in a
hospital there.
They are M/Sgt. Jacob Koehler,
24. Atchison, Kas., with compound
^ fractures of both legs and possible
head injuries; and S/Sgt. William
R. Ready, 23, Rifle, Colo., with a
broken right leg, left arm and
lacerated eyelid.
Both are members of the 72nd
. reconnaissance squadron.
SEATTLE, UP) — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Isabel Ambler Gil
man. author, teacher and lawyer,
will be held at 1 o’clock Friday in
the Home Undertaking company.
She died Monday at the age of 85.
p She was admitted to the bar in
Juneau, Alaska in 1910.
Mrs. Gilman spent several years
in Alaska, first as principal of a
school for white children at Pe
tersburg* and later as a govern
ment servant. For a time, she had
charge of a village of Eskimos on
the Bering Sea coast.
In 1920 she went to New York
to write a book “Alaska, the
American Northland.’’
KODIAK. {IP) — Prices of 66
cents for red salmon, 60 for sil
vers. 27 for chums and 21 for
pinks wera agreed upon yesterday
for the Kodiak Island area by rep
resentatives of the United Fisher
men of Alaska and the Salmon In
dustry. The fishing fleet started
operations today.
KETCHIKAN, </P)—A 42-pound
! 2-ounce fish won top prize in the
Ketchikan salmon derby. W. E.
McKinley landed it for the $1,500
first prize.
* YOKOHAMA, Japan, UP)—1The !
• glamorous mermaids” caught the
eyes of the American GI’s at the
Yokohama trade fair.
The Japanese girl swimmers
were cavorting in an oversize
fishbowl on a stage.
The GI’s thought they would
have some fun. They threw a cou
ple of rocks at the bowl. It broke. |
The spectators down front—in
cluding the Americans — were
flooded out.
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman had no comment today on
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Unemployment
And Relief Rolls
Grow In States
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Rising
unemployment and swelling relict
rolls have led five States to pass
depression-style relief laws and at
least seven cities to revive “work
relief" projects.
But an Associated Press survey
today suggested no national emer
gency. It found most States cer
tain they could handle their relief
load in stride.
It indicated joblessness has
dwindled or stabilized in at least
ten States in recent weeks or j
months. It showed that, almost ev
erywhere, unemployment insur
ance has been a “cushion” to keep
most laid-off workers off “poor
relief” until they found new jobs.
An inside-government memo
randum made available to iff*) sup
ports these findings. It says coun
try-wide statistics “do not reflect
the emergence of any new crisis.”
The report adds:
"The current relief situation
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Will Try To Get
Bridges* Case
Thrown Out
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P>—Attor
neys for Harry Bridges say it is
their aim to get his perjury case
tossed out of court.
Bridges is accused of fraud and
falsely swearing he was not a com- 1
munist during his naturalization
in 1945. He pleaded innocent yes
terday.
Resner told Judge Roche:
“This case will never be brought
to trial.”
Resner gave notice of motions
to dismiss, to challenge the grand
jury array, challenge the jurisdic
tion of the court, to attack the in
dictment on the grounds the stat
ute has been run out and to call
for a bill of particulars.
He also said he wanted a post
ponement of the case until attor
ney Richard Gladstein could be,
present. All defendants have
named Gladstein their attorney of
record.
Gladstein is in New York as de
fense attorney for 11 communist
leaders on trial there.
Senate Considers
Military Pay
Increase Bill %
WASHINGTON, </P) — A warm
Senate welcome yesterday greet
ed the battered—but only slightly
bent—military pay bill.
It passed the House late Wed
nesday on a voice vote after sev
eral vain attempts to shave down
increases for the top brass and to
extra pay for flight and submar
ine duty.
Chairman Tydings (D.-Md.) of
the Senate armed services com
mittee promptly announced that
hearings would open on the bill
with secretary of defense Johnson
as the first witness, backed by a
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CONGRESS j
HIGHLIGHTS
(By Jack Rutledge)
WASHINGTON, OR)—A choice
of injunctions or seizure as a curb
in national emergency strikes con
fronted the Senate today as it bat-;
tied over a labor bill.
Technically, five propos a 1 s
were up for a possible vote. But
what the Senators really were
trying to decide narrowed down
to these alternatives:
1. Continue specific government
power to get court injunctions, as
in the Taft-Hartley act. Labor is
solidly against this.
2. Avoid any mention of injunc
tions but authorize the govern
ment to seize an industry. This is
another way of authorizing an in
junction if it becomes necessary,
but is not nearly so distasteful to
labor leaders.
Number one is supported by
Senator Taft tR.-Ohio> and other
Republicans. Number two by Sen
ators Douglas (D.-Ill.), Aiken R.
Vt.» and Lucas <D.-111.>. the Dem
ocrat leader.
The administration wants to re
peal the Taft-Hartley law and re
place it with a modified Wagner
Act easier on labor. Opponents
want to keep the T-H Act. or sub
stitute a bill with most of its con
trols over unions.
The administration, in trying to
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School Construc
tion Funds‘Frozen’
JUNEAU, (;P)—With the Terri
tory of Alaska running close to
$900,000 in the hole, a total of
$1,774,063 in school construction
funds has been “frozen.”
Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial
commissioner of education, said
Wednesday the board of adminis
traion had frozen the funds be
cause of the Territory’s financial
condition.
Earlier, treasure Henry Roden
said the Territorial fund at the
end of May was $879,032 short of •
meeting obligations. He said there
was $164,497 on hand and unpaid ,
vouchers totaling $1,046,530.
Dr. Ryan said the frozen school j
funds included $750,000 for incor-1
p o r a t e d school districts for
schools, buildings and repairs;
and $1,024,063 for rural school
building construction. The appro- ,
priations were made in the last
legislative session. ,
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Jap Fishing Ship '
Shelled And Sunk
HONG KONG, (JP)—Four sur
vivors of a Japanese fishing trawl
er said today their vessel was
shelled and sunk in the China
Sea.
They said they did not know
their attackers. The captain and
seven crewmen were killed or
missing. The four were rescued
off the China coast.
The Japanese were hospitalized
here with 14 Formosans who sur
vived the sinking of toheir fishing
boat after it developed engine
trouble north of Luzon.
Interior Report
Brings Agitation
For Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—An inte
rior department observation that
some day the United States may
lose Alaska brought a renewed de
mand in Congress yesterday for
Alaska statehood.
The interior department arous
ed the lawmakers with these
words in a report submitted to the
White House:
“It is quite conceivable that
sometime in the future the United
Nations might demand more equi
table division of the unpopulated
and potentially rich regions of the
globe.
“Therefore, the United States is
faced with the problem: Who will
develop Alaska? . . . Today Alas
ka belongs to the United States:
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Bridges Pleads
Innocent
•Special to The Nugget*
SAN FRANCISCO, r/Pi — CIO
longshore leader Harry Bridges
and his two union aides pleaded
innocent yesterday to federal in
dictment. Bridges is charged with
perjury and conspiracy in connec
tion with his 1945 naturalization.
Henry Schmidt and .1. W. Robe.-1 -
son are accused of conspiracy.
The defense, pleading for time,
won a continuance to Sept. 1,
when the trial date will be set.
Defense attorney Herbert Resrter
said he would ask for a bill of
particulars and a transcript of the
entire grand jury proceedings
which led to the indictments. The
government attorney said he
would resist such motions.
SCOUTS ENJOYING
ENCAMPMENT AT FAIRBANKS
According to reports from Fair
banks, 99 Boy Scouts and 20 Scout
leaders from all parts of the Ter
ritory are participating in the
third annual Alaskan Air Scout
encampment at Ladd Air Force
Base.
Boys from 11 towns were picked
up by C-47’s and delivered to
Ladd Field with the boys from
Nome being the first to arrive.
17 boys from Point Barrow
Barrow were unable to attend as
an epidemic of .measles has broken
out there. 7 boys from Fort Yukon
gave up their trip to assist with
the reconstruction of their homes
after the recent flood.
A complete air force medical
examination was given the Boy
Scouts, followed by instructions in
drill and military retreat forma-1
tions which was in charge of the
non-commissioned officers of the
4th Infantry regiment’s 1st bat
tallion. Other groups to play hosts
to the Scouts include the 449th
Fighter Squadron, the 10th Rescue
squadron and the 72nd Photo Re
connaissance squadron.
Bill Wood, local Alaska Steam
ship Co. agent, has received ad
vice that the Coastal Rambler
should be in the roadstead some
time tomorrow morning between
9 and 12 o’clock. I
News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, June 16, 1949
<By The Associated Press'
The Big Four foreign ministers
began the final phase of their se
cret talks today. They appeared
determined to salvage from their
three-month long parley in Paris
two broad agreements on the fu
ture of Berlin and Austria.
British and French officials
said the ministers would make ev
ery effort to wind up their work
by tonig.it but American and Rus
sian sources expressed doubt the
talks would end before Saturday.
Some concrete arrangements for
the future of Berlin are believed
in-sight. It was understood these
would pledge all four powers not
to impose any kind of trade or
traffic restrictions in Berlin and
to work for a revival of trade be
tween Eastern and Western Ger
many.
The ministers today faced the
question of how they can helo
settle the complicated Berlin rail
way strike. Leaders of the anti
communist rail strikers in the
German city were seeking ways
to settle West-East sec’or traffic
problems.
Western rail traffic in Berlin has
been stalled since the walkout on
the Russian-controlled railways
began May 21. The strikers have
demanded full pay in West marks,
union recognition and job secur
ity.
Britain is near agreement with
Premier Marshal Tito oi Yugosla
via cm a five-year trade pact. This
was revealed in London by Sir
Charles Peake, British ambassa
dor to Belgrade.
It has been estimated unoffi
cially the pact would cover about
$800,000,000 worth of goods. Bri
tain would give Tito manufactur
ed products in exchange for tim
ber. grain and food.
The British trade move tits in
with the western policy of keep
ing Tito’s regime alive and Kick
ing, against the attacks of his Sov
iet-dominated neighbors.
Tito was kicked out of the com
inform (communist international
information bureau' a year ago
for following nationalistic policies
instead of following Kremlin dic
tates. He was accused of deviating
from true Maxism.
The cominform recently was re
ported stepping up its pressure
against Tito, who insists on devel
oping Yugoslavia with his own
kind of communism.
State department officials in
Washington have found evidence
that even the communists feel
they are now on the defensive in
the East-West cold war in Europe.
A report from Bucharest, Ro
mania, said the cominform bulle
tin, published there, stated it is
now the “cardinal task" of com
munists to block the spread of
A m ericanism. Washington offi
cials took an interested look at the
defensive nature of that declara
tion.
Chinese nationalist infantry and
cavalry were reported to have
counterattacked with su c c e s s
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