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VOL. XLIX. No. 94. HnOMETaLASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON — Stating that
Alaska “has become a modern
American community, with a
sound economy and a healthy and
literate people, who have shown
themselves to be fully capable of
self-government,” the United
States Junior Chamber of Com
merce has gone on record as fav
oring immediate statehood for
Alaska.
WASHINGTON — Congression
al party including assistant secre
tary of interior Warne will arrive
in Nome August 14 via FWA plane
for short stop while on business
trip throughout the Territory.
PRINCETON, Ind. (/P)—Sheriff
James G. McDonald reported to
day the slaying of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bateman and Miss Nora
Turpin at a country home two
miles east of here on the Taft
town road.
All three had been shot and the
unmarried woman had been de
capitated with a butcher knife.
Roy Turpin, 48, brother of Miss
Turpin, was held in Gibson coun
ty jail and the sheriff said Turpin
verbally had admitted the triple
slaying.
NEW YORK, (/Pi—Rodney 'Gip
sy) Smith, 87, British evangelist,
died of a heart attack aboard the
British liner Queen Mary at 1 p.
m., Monday, it became known
when the linejr arrived here today.
PARIS, (/P)—The French press
said yesterday 15 strikers were
killed and about 40 were wounded
Monday near Sfax, Tunisia, in a
riot which followed an attack on
an army motorized column.
WAXAHACHIE, Tex. (/P) — 19
persons including 17 Negroes and
two white men were killed in
Texas’ worst 1947 traffic accident
at dawn yesterday when two
trucks collided on a slight curve
near here. Six were injured. The
white men killed neither identi
fied yet, were the driver of a gaso
line tank truck, and a hitch-hiker.
COEUR. d’Alene. Idaho, (/P>—
S. T. Marr, Portland, executive
sceretary of the Oregon State Fed
eration of Labor told delegates to
the Idaho federation convention
Monday that union organization j
holds the answer to “anti-labor”
legislation.
ANCHORAGE (/P)—The Matan-|
uska Valley’s annual fair, inter-1
rupted for five years by the war, I
will be held Aug. 30-Sept. 1. En
tries for the industrial, agricultur- j
al and horticultural displays are
expected from Fairbanks, Juneau,
Anchorage, Palmer and other sur
rounding communities. The fair
was first held in 1936.
BEAVERTON, Ore. (JP) — An
chorage must be planning a sum-1
mer pie festival.
A baker here, F. M. Kain, re- ^
ported today a'shipment of 1,500
cherry, apple and berry pies is J
heading north aboard the S. S.
Baranof to a bakery at the Alas
kan city. The pies weigh one and
a half tons.
Lack Of Funds
Stops Territorial
Conciliation In
Anchorage Strike
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—With nego
tiations deadlocked, Anchorage
city councilmen and striking mu
nicipal workers yesterday awaited
the arrival of Leonard E. Evans,
Juneau labor conciliator, invited
here to help mediate the walkout,
now in its sixth day.
Although Evans’ services were
asked by the council, Lou Taylor,
business agent of the AFL inter
national brotherhood of electrical
workers, said the union favored
the intervention of a conciliator.
A stalemate over wage demands
caused 140 electrical workers and
16 telephone operators to leave
their jobs at midnight last Thurs
day. The electrical workers had
demanded wage increases of 17 to
19 per cent. The city countered
with an offer of a five per cent
raise for the electricians and 20
cents an hour more for the opera
tors.
ANCHORAGE, (IP)—Hopes for
the settlement by conciliation of
the strike of electrical workers
and telephone operators against
the City of Anchorage hit a new
snag today.
Territorial Commissioner of La
bor Henry A. Benson, acknowledg
ing Mayor Bowden’s request for
conciliation service from his de
partment, wired from Juneau:
"Lack of funds, inadequate per
ronnel and prior commitments
will permit our conciliation only
as a last resort. Therefore, we sug
gest and urge further negotiation
be held in an attempt to reach an
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Longshore Strike
Ties Up Shipping
At Juneau
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JUNEAU, t/P)—The port of Jun
eau was tied up at noon yesterday
in a contract dispute between
longshoremen and three Seattle
steamship companies.
A spokesman for the interna
tional longshoremen and ware
housemen’s union said the walk
out occurred following failure of
the Alaska Steamship company,1
the Alaska Transportation com
pany and the Northland Trans-;
portation company to reach an
agreement absolving the I. L. W. |
U. or its officials from any liabil-,
ity in case of a strike.
*At Seattle, a spokesmen for the
operators said ^mother point at is- j
sue involved preference of seamen
in handling cargo in Alaska ports*, j
Negotiations have been under
way several weeks. The freighter
Lucidor unloaded freight up to j
noon, then sailed with approxi-j
mately 300 tons of local freight
aboard. i
The steamer Baranof discharged
no freight last night. The long
shoremen agreed to handle passen- j
gers’ baggage, mail and ship’s I
stores during the tieup. Canadian;
Steamship companies were not af
fected.
Gen. Eisenhower
Visits Nome Arniv
Air Base
General of the Army Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Chief ^>f Stcfcf of
the U. S. Army is arriving this
afternoon at about four o’clock.
The people of Nome have been of
ficially invited to witness the ar
rival of the general and his party
at the field at that time.
The war-time Supreme Com
mander of the Allied military ex
pedition in Europe,, who won his
rank as a Five-Star General in
1!)44, is the highest ranking offi
cial to visit Nome, as well as one
of the most popular officers in the
U. S. Army today.
Shortly after his arrival and
greeting by officers of the Nome
GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Base, headed by commanding of
' ficer Col. John E. Bodle, and in
cluding*George Goshavv of Shish
maref, who served in World War I
with General Eisenhower, a tour
will be made of the Base and
Nome.
Those who are not planning on
going to the field to meet the party
can see the General sometime be
tween four and six o’clock as he
goes through town.
Mayor Luther Dunbar urges the
people of town to show their wel
come by displaying flags at that
time.
Following the tour will be an
hour of relaxation followed by a
reception and dinner at the Offi
cer’s Club.
Tomorrow morning Gene r a 1
Eisenhower will give a short talk
at the Base to all the personnel
just before departing at 9:30 a.m.
Coal Operators
Demand Price Hike
WHITESBURG, Ky., </P)—Four
hundred operators idled their
truck mines yesterday in demand
for higher prices for their coal and
put 6,000 union miners out of
work temporarily.
A mine operator, Luther Bates,
said the Letcher Truck Mine Op
erators association wanted more
than the customary $4 a ton for
their coal. Ramp owners who buy
the coal and resell it charge $5.75
to $6 a ton, he contended.
The miners are members of the
United Mine Workers.
Labor Government
To Take Control
Over Labor
LONDON, (/Pi—Prime Minister
Attlee told Parliament today that
Great Britain would reduce her
armed forces, impose a limited di
rection of labor and seek relaxa
tion of clauses in the U. S. loan
agreement to help ease her grow
ing economic crisis.
He said also that workers “in
the more essential industries”
would have to work longer and
that coal miners would be asked
to labyr half an hour a day addi
tional; but they will still keep the
five-dav week.
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Attlee said Great Britain also
would shut down her imports in a
manner that would mean “hard
ships for many people.”
He said the United States, at
Britain’s entreaty, had agreed to
discuss the sterling convertibility
and non-discrimination in trade
agreements in the $3,750,000,000
loan, which Attlee said would be
exhausted this year.
He denied, as Winston Church
ill had charged on Monday, that
the labor government had “frit
tered away” the American bil
lions, advanced after termination
of lend-lease from which Great
Britain received $31,267,240,530
from the U. S. and gave back in
reverse deals $6,310,792,047.
Attlee said British armed
strength would be reduced by 420,
000 men by next March. The
forces numbered 1.297.300 men on
July 1.
“An exhaustive inquiry has been
| instituted into the whole future of
our defense policy,” he said.
At another point, the labor gov
1 ernment leader said Great Britain
was increasing the rate of her
troop withdrawals from overseas.
"Despite these accelerations in
the rate of withdrawal, there is
no change in our foreign policy or
in the defense policy which under
lies our foreign policy.” Attlee as
serted.
The prime minister said his So
cialist government would “have to
take some measure of control over
the employment of labor’ in order
to stimulate production.
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Mass B-29 Flight
From Fort Worth
To Anchorage
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FORT WORTH. Tex. (/P)—Seven
teen B-29’s left Fort Worth army
airfield about midnight last night
for a non-stop flight to Anchorage.
A C-54 transport from Roswell.
N. M., carrying maintenance per-1
sonnel and supplies, also was in
the flight.
Another B-29 was delayed be-i
cause of mechanical trouble, but,
was expected to catch up with the
other planes within an hour.
About 380 officers and men are
on the flight via Great Falls.
Mont., and the trip is expected to
take 15 hours of flying time to El
mendorf Field at Anchorage.
Col. Alan S. Clark, command
ing officer of the Fort Worth field,
is in command of the mission.
Slates Swelter In
Death-Dealing
Torrid Wave
'Bv the Associated Press'
An induction of cold air from
Canada held some promise yes
terday of breaking up the three
day searing heat wave over the
northern midwest states.
The Chicago weather bureau
said the Dakotas already had re
ceived some relief from Monday’s
high readings of 100 degrees or
more and that western Minnesota
could expect at least moderately
lowering temperatures late yester
day afternoon or last night.
Elsewhere, however, the wea
ther generally would be a continu
ation of the past two or three days
with the southerly flow of hot air
prevailing for at least another 24
hours. Temperatures in Michigan
yesterday were expected to climb
above the highs of Monday when
Grand Piapids reported a maxi
mum of 94, Detroit 89 and Sault
Ste. Marie 87.
Temperatures ranging from the
high 90s at many points to 111
degrees at Philips, S. D.. Monday
baked ‘he already dry topsoil and
brought reports from some sec
tions that the corn crop was firing.
Pierre, S. D., had a high of 111)
degrees, and readings of 105 were
reported at such widespread points
as Valentine, Neb., Fargo, N. D.,
and Advance, Mo.
Most of the rest of the nation
except the coast and Rockies con
tinued to swelter Monday after
many sections reported high 90’s
and 100 or more Monday, with lit
tle relief in immediate sight.
Atlanta, Ga., and Meridian,
Miss., reported 100, Chattanooga,
Tenn., 105; Little Rock, Ark., 102;
Memphis, Tenn. 103; Vicksburg,
Miss., 99 and Montgomery. Ala.,
98 in the South.
The eastern seaboard had tem
peratures in the 80*s although
warmer readings were forecast for
yesterday and today. In the far
west Seattle had 71, Los Angeles,
84 and San Francisco 84 Monday.
Montana reported some cooling
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Alaskans Seeirf
ANCHORAGE, (A*)—Two veter
an Alaska pilots reported yester
day a five-minute aerial pursuit
of “a disc-like object” at 170 miles
an hour.
The pilots. Jack Peck, a veteran
of 17 years flying in the north, and
co-pilot Vance Daly, informed the
civil aeronautics administration
that the incident occurred north
west of Bethel at about 500 feet
altitude.
The C.A.A. issued the following
release on their report:
“A disc-like object resembling
the rear view of a C-54 without
motor or flying wings; wind negli
gible; ceiling and visibility un
limited; true course northwest; no
visible means propulsion. After
determining no reported traffic at
Bethel, Peck followed the object
in a DC-3 for five minutes at indi
cated air speed of 170 miles per
hour before it disappeared.”