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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _________
VOL. L. No. 123__PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
PARIS (iT*)—The United Nations
budgetary committee decided yes
terday in favor of Geneva as the
site of the ninth session of the
economic and social council next
year.
ANCHORAGE (/P) — The high
tide in Cook Inlet reached 34.2
feet on Oct. 3, highest of the year,
Frank Houston, deputy weight
master at the city scales in the
Alaska Railroad yard, reported.
Anchorage has some of the high
est tides of any ocean waters in
the world.
PARIS, The death of Hen
ry du Moulin de la Barthete, 48,
chief of cabinet under Marshall
Petain’s Vichy government in
1940, was announced here yester
day.
BATAVIA, Java, (/P)—A grass
fire which spread to buidlings of
the Dutch naval base at Soerabaja
caused nearly $2,000,000 damage
Monday. An area of nearly a half
square mile was in ruins, and
food stores were destroyed a
Dutch naval communique said.
NEW YORK, (JP) — Security
and commodity markets through
out the United States were closed
yesterday in observance of Co
lumbus Day.
Canadian and European markets
were open as usual.
MOSCOW, (JP)—Maj. Gen. John
W. O’Daniel, military attache of
the U. S. embassy here, reported
by telephone to his office yester
day his arrival in Stalingrad. He
is the first foreigner minister to
Moscow to journey outside the
capital since new restrictions on
travel by foreigners went into ef
fect.
BERLIN, (JP) — Walter Bedell
Smith, U. S. ambassador to Mos
cow, arrived here today for an
overnight stop on his flight from
Paris back to the Soviet capital.
He conferred with Gen. Lucius D.
Clay, the Amerioan commander
in Germany.
YOKOHAMA, (/P)—An Ameri
can trial court today sentenced
two former Japanese navy officers
to be hanged and six others to
serve hard labor prison terms for
murders and brutailities against
Allied prisoners of war.
METLAKATLA, (JP)—A dele
gation will fly to Washington, D.
C., to present Metlakatla’s claim
against the government for use of
the airfield area on Annette Is
land. The town council authorized
Mayor Rod Davis to head the
group which will present its case
to the bureau of the budget.
SEATTLE, (JP) — Weather per
mitting a coast guard PBY from
Kodiak will search waters near
Seward, today for a 20-foot boat
and three persons overdue on a
charter trip to Montague island,
60 miles east.
The area has been twice hit by
storms since last week-end.
Alaska Steamship
Turns Down 2nd
Gruening Plea
SEATTLE, (;P) — The Alaska
Steamship company turned down
today a second suggestion from
Governor Ernest Gruening of
Alaska for operation of ships to
the Territory.
Gruening telegraphed the firm j
after CIO longshore leaders here
said they stood ready to load ships
under conditions in existence be- ■
fore the strike provided that Alas- j
kan companies agree that any
wage gains in a new contract be
made retroactive.
F. A. Zeusler, assistant to the
president of the Aleska Steamship
company, replied to the governor
that the firm is “striving to
achieve a shipping condition for
Alaska’s future, free from turmoil
and work stoppage.”
He said there could be no assur
ance of this “until contracts can
be made with responsible union
leadership.”
“You can render a great service
for the people of Alaska,” he tele
grpahed the governor, “by study
ing all the facts in the current
problem and then using your good
influence to assist in eliminating
irresponsible dominance in labor
leadership so that the future sta
bility of shipping to and from
Alaska may be attained.”
Klawok Indians
May Operate Their
Own Cannery
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(By Vern Haugland)
((JP) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, UP) — The In
terior department has approved a J
plan for the Klawock Indians of
Alaska to buy and operate their
own fish cannery.
The office of Indian afairs esti
mates the investment required by
the little community on Prince of
Wales Island at about $300,000.
E. Reesman Fryer, the agency’s
director of resources, told a re
porter he has advised the Indians
to petition Alaskan Indian super
intendent Don C. Foster at Juneau
for a government loan.
He added that the department
will recommend to the Congress
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Navy Develops
‘Picket’ Submarine
For Ocean Defense
(By Elion C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, {JP) — A new
unit in the nation’s defenses will
start operating next month — a
submarine with radar “eyes” to
detect any hostile planes attempt
ing to sneak approach across such
remote places as the Polar seas.
The navy has announced that
the submarine Tigrone, taken
from the reserve fleet and con
verted into the first radar picket
submarine will be commissioned
November 1. The Tigrone had va
ried service during Word War II,
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Storm Lashes
North Pacific;
Ship On Rocks
SEATTLE, (tf*)—Winds from 50
to 60 miles an hour churned the
North Pacific Monday night and
forecasters predicted little change.
The coast guard said it has re
ceived no distress calls.
The weather bureau said dis
turbance ranged from a point on
the Kenai Peninsula 140 miles
northeast of Kodiak to Alaska
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coast points and the Queen Char
lotte Islands.
It followed a week-end gale ‘hati
sank two ships and crippled six. j
From Prince Rupert, B. C., came
a report of the rescue of five
American seamen after 12 hours
on Lewis Island, 25 miles to the
south, where their 93-foot ship
went aground.
They were Cept. John M. Thorn
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Truman Goes For
Farm Votes
In Wisconsin
(By Ernest B. Vaccaro)
Aboard Truman Cam p a i g n
Train, (JP)—President Truman di
rected his vote appeal to the Wis- i
consin and Minnesota dairy coun
try today.
He headed for St .Paul and a
major address at 7:30 p.m. after
a rousing reception in Illinois
where he laid down a four-point
farm program. In a talk in the
armory at Springfield, 111., last
night, Mr. Truman told a police
estimated crowd of 6,000 that Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey is backed by
Wall Street and that he is aligned
with “some queer characters.”
Mr. Truman’s campaign train
moved through Wisconsin on a j
schedule which called for a speech
only at Superior, at 12:30 p.m.
but with the possibility of a series
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Alaskan Air
Commanders Talk
With Mac Arthur
TOKYO, yp>—'The U. S. com- !
mander in Alaska and the deputy >
Pacific fleet commander began a
series of conferences with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur Monday.
Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air
force general who commands all
armed forces in Alaska, and Vice
Adm. John L. McCrea, the deputy
fleet commander and former nav
al aide to the late President Roose
velt, has arrived here for the con
ferences.
General Twining’s air command
adjoins that of the Far East air
force commander Lt. Gen. Ennis
C. Whitehead. The navy also has
an independent command here un
der Vice Adm. Russell E. Berkey.
However, all services in the Far
East are under the general stra-!
tegic direction of General MacAr
thur.
The conferences were described
as routine and likely to continue
for several days.
Internationa News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, October 12, 1948
<By The Associated Press)
The western powers, feeling fur
ther mediation efforts useless, are
pressing for a showdown in the
security council on their demand
for lifting the Berlin blockade, a
Tjni.ed Nations source said yester
day. Another council meeting is
sought for today or Thursday.
Warren R. Austin, chief Amer
ican delegate, accused Russia of
blocking all efforts to solve the
Berlin problem.
Speaking in the U. N. political
committee, Austin called on the
chief Soviet delegate Andrei Vi
shinsky to deny that communist
leaders have repeatedly declared
peace impossible between the cap
italist world an dthe Soviets.
Mediation efforts of the six pow
ers on the security council not di
rectly involved in the Berlin dis
pute have apparently bogged
down. The Kremlin’s answer to
questions put by the mediators,
Argentine, China, Belgium, Co
lombia, Canada and Syria, still is
awaited. *
Secretary of State Marshall re
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Russia “Yearns for
Co-Operation” I
PARIS, (/P)—Andrei Y. Vishin
sky told the United Nations politi
cal commi tee yesterday the Rus
sians are “yearning for coopera
tion.”
But cooperation is impossible,
he said; so long a sthe one side “is
bolstered by the atomic bomb.”
He did not repeat the hints he
dropped in a speech Oct. 1, that
the Soviet Union now has the
bomb.
Luella A. Grant
Was Murdered By
Unknown Person
Due to suspicious circumstances |
surrounding the death of Mrs. j
Luella Grant in an early Monday j
morning fire at her home the cor
oner ordered an autopsy to deter
mine the cause.
On Tuesday morning the autop
sy was held and it was discovered ;
tha‘ some person or persons had
made entry into the home and •
bludgeoned her to death with
some heavy sharp instrument
which fractured the skull in sev
ral places. It was reported that
any one of the several blows
would have been sufficient to
cause death.
The fire which burned the furn
ishings in the room was started af
ter the death of Mrs. Grant, ac
cording to the report, as death
took place at least an hour before
heat of the flames scorched the
body sligh'^.v .
The coroner’s jury met at the
scene again today to make the
final survey of the evidence to
make their report at the court,
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Nome Registers
Record Vote
Nomeites went to the polls yes
terday in the general election in
greater numbers than any election
in the past twenty years, to cast
616 votes.
Interest seemed quite high and
contests for the various offices
very close.
Fish trap referendum took a top
spot in the topics of the day and
closed with a score of 438 to abol
ish the traps over a period of ten
years and only 140 in favor of
keeping them.
The vote count for Delegate to
Congress gave E. L. Bartlett 348,
to R. H. Stock 202; Attorney
General Aimer J. Peterson 305, J.
Gerald Williams 218; Auditor
Frank A. Boyle 290, Albert E.
Goetz *234; Highway Engineer
Donald MacDonald II 322, Frank
A. Metcalf 214; For Second Divi
sion Senators C. Dewey Anderson
244, Edward Anderson 240, How
ard Lyng 269, George J. Wald
heim 289; For Second Division
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Early Returns Give
Democrats Lead
In Election
(By The Associated Press)
Incomplete returns in the Alas
ka general election indicated to
day a record vote was cast at
many points in the Territory.
Democratic candidates lead Re
publicans in four major races,
and incumbent E. L. Bartlett held
a substantial lead over Republi
can R. H. Stock in the race for
Delegate to Congress. *
Early results from Anchorage,
Juneau, Fairbanks and Douglas
gave Bartlett an edge of 1,864 to
480.
A referendum to abolish fish
traps was favored by 3,067 to 276
in an early tally.
Other early results included:
Attorney General — J. Gerald
Williams (D) 1,359, Aimer J. Pe
terson, (R) 871.
Auditor—Frank A. Boyle, (D),
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Dewey Receives
‘Wallace Welcome’
In So. Illinois
(By Jack Bell)
En Route with Dewey to Okla
homa City. (/P)—Southern Illinois
gave Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a
“Wallace Welcome’’ of flying to
matoes and rotten eggs last night
as he headed for Oklahoma City
with 13 speeches on his program.
Besides the flying groceries,
Dewey was beset by a mishap at
Beaucoup, 111., where his special
train backed up into a crowd of
about 1,000 persons who had
turned out to hear the nominee in
an after dark speech.
“That’s the first lunatic I’ve had
for an engineer,’’ the Republican
Presidential candidate comment
ed.
At Mt. Vernon, 111., in a south
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