Soft Coal Contract
Being Discussed
PITTSBURGH, (JP)—A big bloc
of northern and western coal op
erators met behind closed doors
today to debate John L. Lewis’
new' share-the-work program.
Their answer — which may be
given the united workers presi
dent tomorrow when contract ses
sions resume at White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.. may determine'
whether the nation’s 400,000 soft,
coal diggers stop work again July
6. An operators’ spokesman said
any reaction to the Lewis proposal
would probably be kept a close se
cret until the operators’ negotia-!
tors gather around the conference I
table with Lewis.
Lewis has put this proposal be
fore them:
He will change the “no contract,
no work” policy of the united
mine workers and keep the miners
in the pits after the present con
tract expires, provided—
The industry goes on a uniform
three-day work week during ne- j
gotiations for a new pact.
The alternative is a shutdown
of all bituminous mines. The
UMW leader made that proposal
to northern and western operators
Florida Governor
Takes Young Bride
LOS ANGELES, (£h—Governor
Fuller Warren of Florida and his
pretty sun-tanned California
bride are honeymooning today.
Barbara Jeanne Manning, 23, j
softly spoke the words “I do” for
the Governor in a late afternoon
candle-lit ceremony at Westwood
Community church yesterday.
There were 200 fashionably]
dressed guests inside the church
and a crowd of informally dressed
curious on the outside as the sil
verhaired 43-year-old governor]
and the bride recited their vows, j
A Lutheran minister, the Rev.
A. J. Soldan, officiated, omitting!
the word “obey” from the cere-1
mony.
The church, lavishly decorated]
with flowers, formed a colorful
setting for the uniting of a Florida
governor and a California beauty.
But outside the sky was leaden
gray with not even a trace of sun
shine.
at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
where he and the management of
ficials have been talking contract
terms.
SERVICE BARBER SHOP
AND BATHS
ANNOUNCES INSTALLATION OF
AUTOMATIC SHINE
Will Try To Ferret
Out Secrets Of
Age-Old Glaciers
PASADENA, Calif. (/P) — Na
ture’s own deep-freeze lockers,
the glaciers which hold the secrets
of earth’s history in by-gone ages,
may yield some of their treasure
this summer to a team of scien
tific “safecrackers.”
Explosives experts, known as
seismologists, are en route to
Alaska to join a glaciological re
search group headed by Dr. Rob
ert Sharp and Dr. Laurence No
bles of the California Institute of
Technology.
Using dynamite and radar,
along with other tools of science,
the researchers also hope to blast
from Alaska’s mountains of ice
the answers to such questions as
these:
Are glaciers receding—drawing
back toward the earth’s poles—
and‘if so, what will that do to our
weather,
How are glaciers formed and
what are they made of down deep
inside, How can the southernmost
glaciers survive summer heat—
why haven’t they melted long
ago?
The melting of glaciers has an
important effect on the world’s
water supply as well as on its cli
mate. Depth-soundings by radar
may help scientists calculate how
long this melting can continue
and at what rate.
This summer’s research is a
continuation of studies begun by
the group last year. The Caltech
group, which will be based at
Yakutat on the south coast of
Alaska, will be joined in July by
Dr. George Haltiner of the U. S.
navy school at Monterey, Calif.
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GOOD NEWS
The N. C. Co. wish to announce that they are
changing, within the next few days, their grocery
department into a SUPER-MARKET.
The new arrangement will offer larger displays,
more convenient shopping services and modern
methods of merchandising that will mean lower
prices and better values to the customers.
You will enjoy shopping at your friendly com
munity store and will profit by doing so.
Watch for further announcements.
Northern Commercial
Company
Alaska’s Pioneer Merchants
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veyed a rail route into Alaska from
the British Columbia rail station
of Prince George.
“Such a railway is not only of
prime importance as a defense
measure but also in the interest of
development of Alaska, particu
larly in its effect in controlling
freight costs as well as providing
better access to areas rich in nat
ural wealth,” the reclamation re
port said.
It added that in Southeastern
Alaska there is an opportunity
for immediate establishment of
additional airlines operating down
the Pacific coast. Although one
third of Alaska’s population is
concentrated in the area, only one
scheduled carrier now gives serv
ice to “Outside” points, it said.
“Alaska offers opportunity for
immediate large-scale develop
ment requiring millions of dollars
of capital, and equally good op
portunity for immediate small
scale development requiring only
a few thousands of dollars,” it
| said.
“Wholesale and distributing fa
I cilities for an expanding Alaska
should be feasible in all the larger
communities and such important
terminal cities as Haines and Val
i dez.”
The bureau estimated that
: Alaska has a low-cost power po
| tential of more than fifty billion
kilowatt-hours a year.
It said power development in
the next few years will be slow,
but “by the end of the' next 10
years talk should turn to the early
construction of ‘power giants’.”
It estimated Alaska’s power
need by 1953 at 2,588,000,000 kilo
watt-hour, in the following cat
I egories:
Domestic and commercial con
sumers, 350,000,000 kilo w a tt
1 hours; farm, 41,000.000; mining,
145,000,000; pulp mill>. 402,000.
000; other industrials including
transportation,, 1,342.000,000; mil
itary, 78,000,000.
The report said “no appreciable
amount of water-power capacity”
has been developed in Alaska. It
estimated the total capacity of hy
droelectric power plants now in
operation at about 32.000 kilo
watts, compared with 8,000,000
kilowatts available for develop
ment.
Sen. Flanders Asks
Use Atomic Bomb
Only In Retaliation
—
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Flanders <R.-Vt.> said today he
; will ask Congress to forbid use of
; the atomic bomb except as a wea
i pon of “retaliation.”
Flanders said the bomb, like bi
ological warfare and poison gas,
1 "is not properly a military device”
but “rather a means for the mass
murder of citizens.”
He announced to a news confer
ence that he has drafted a resolu
tion for the Senate and House
which would state as a national
policy that the United States will
"not employ the atomic bomb as a
weapon of warfare,” but—
"Until satisfactory means of
control are agreed upon and put
into complete effect through the
United Nations the armed services
of this nation are directed to pre
pare themselves and to hold them
selves in readiness to retaliate
with overwhelming force against
j any nation which initiates the
military use of atomic energy.”
I Flanders said the resolution has
four major purposes:
1. Make it unnecessary to wait
for the convening of Congress and
the declaration of war in case an
atomic bomb is dropped on this
country. Flanders says Congress
by approval of the resolution
would call in advance for instant
reprisals.
2. Set up a national policy for
the guidance of the armed serv
ices.
3. Give reassurance to the peo
i pie behind the Iron Curtain as to
i our purpose and plans as far as the
I atomic bomb is concerned should
we be drawn into a war with their
governments.
4. Give a new impetus to endeav
! ors to reach an agreement in the
United Nations on the use and
control of atomic energy.
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