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NEWS IN BRIEF
DALLAS, Tex. (/P) — Bobby J.
John, 27, was electrocuted yester
day while working on a home
made television set with an elec
tric drill. Officers said the drill ap
parently shorted out in John’s
sweaty hands.
JUNEAU, (/P>—‘The HMCS On
tario, Canadian light cruiser, left
for Esquimalt, B. C., Monday
morning after a five-day visit
here.
ANCHORAGE, (/P>—Fire seri
ously damaged the interior of the
Fort Richardson service club yes
terday, putting a two or three
month crimp in the social life of
the post’s enlisted men.
Temporary service club facili
ties were setup in a basement lo
cation with what furniture and
equipment was saved from the
flames.
The fire started in the attic. Its
cause is not known.
MIAMI, Ffa. </P)—Novelist Rex
Beach was reported in serious
condition today at Doctor’s hospi
tal. Beach, whose adventure sto
ries have been read by millions,
was said by physicians to be “se
riously ill.” He suffered a set
back over the week-end.
He was flown here by ambu
lance plane from his ranch near
Sebring July 24. The 72-year-old
writer is suffering with a throat
ailment.
FAIRBANKS, </P)—'The appar
ent suicide of a soldier who died
Sunday night almost immediately
from a .30 caliber M-l rifle bul
let tore through his stomach, was
being investigated today by Ladd
Air Force base officials.
The rifle was found under the
soldier’s sprawled body in the in
fantry supply room. His friends
said he had been despondent over
family troubles. His name wasi
withheld.
ANCHORAGE (/Pi—An uniden
tified suspect was questioned by
police Monday in connection with
the death of Mrs. Laura A. Sho
walter, about 57.
The woman’s brutally beaten
body was found early Monday in
an empty lot. Police said she had
been returning from a theater
Sunday night when attacked.
SEATTLE, </P>—Ernesto Arce
bal Mangaoang, 47, business agent
of the cannery workers and farm
laborers union, Local 7, was ar
rested Monday by immigration
and naturalization service offi
cials.
A native of the Philippines,
Mangaoang is charged with be-1
longing to an organization advo
cating overthrow of the govern
ment by force and violence.
L. W. Williams, acting district
director o fthe service, said the
charge is based on information
that Mangaoang is a member of
the communist party.
An alien, he will be given a de
portation hearing, Williams said.
JUNEAU. (JP)—Mrs. John Cle
ments, wife of a Juneau doctor,
won the annual Juneau salmon
'.Continued on Page Eight)
Britain Charges
Russia .Has Ten
Million Slaves
GENEVA, Switzerland, </P> —
Britain formally accused Russia
today of maintaining 10,000,000
slave laborers in “a new slavery
organized on a mass production
basis.”
Russia retorted in the United
Nations economic and social coun
cil here that the British charge
simply was a smokescreen to
cover up Britain’s own labor trou
bles.
The United States proposed ap
pointment of na U. N. commission
of 11 to inquire into “the nature
and extent of forced labor”
throughout the world. The U. S.
resolution suggested emphasis in
such an inquiry be placed on “sit
uations involving large numbers
of persons or widespread practices
of forced labor.”
The British charges were made
by Corley Smith, British delegate
who presented what he described
as a copy of a “corrective labor
code of the Russian Soviet Fed
erated Socialist Republic” on rules
for labor camps in the Soviet Un
ion. The R.S.F.S.S.R. is Russia’s
largest republic, with Moscow as
its capital.
Russia retorted that the codes
presented by Britain actually rep
resented a humane system with
“re-education of the people” as
one of its aims. The Soviet dele
gate said the code’s object was to
place persons sentenced to penal
servitude “in conditions which
make it impossible for them to do
anything hostile to Soviet soci
ety.”
U. S. Rejects
Soviet Protest
WASHING TON, i/P) — The
United States today emphatically
rejected a Russian protest against
Italy’s membership in the North
Atlantic defense pact.
Secretary Acheson termed the
charge^ “utterly without founda
tion” in a note delivered to the j
Russian embassy shortly before
noon.
“The text of the treaty itself is
the best answer to such misrcpre- J
sentations and allegations,” the
American reply said.
The Soviet government had
charged that Italy violated iis
peace treaty by joining the 12-na
tion defense treaty last April.
Acheson had denounced the
Russian charges at his news con
ference last Wednesday, foresha
dowing today's formal rejection of
Russia’s latest accusations.
•
Laura Hudson, wife of the vice,
president of the Alaska Airlines is
visiting through Alaska from her
home in Seattle. She brings greet
ings from Mr. and Mrs. John
Solon, formerly of Nome, and
states that John now has two bar
ber shops in Seattle.
Mrs. Laura Lefever is visiting in
Nome for a few days from Seattle.
Her husband is with a geodetic
party in Southeastern Alaska and
her son is with the geodetic sur
vey now located at Pt. Lay.
Clark and McGrath
OK’s Seem Certain
—
WASHINGTON, </P>—1The dou-'
ble appointment moving attorney i
general Tom Clark to the Supreme
Court and Senator J. . Howard
McGrath <D.-Ri.) into the justice
department seemed yesterday to
have a clear path to Senate ap
proval.
President Truman sent his for- j
mal nominations of the two men ,
to the Senators yesterday, after i
receiving word they would ac-1
cept the posts.
But the backwash may produce i
conflicting bids by Senators Sten
nis <D.-Miss.> and Senator Kerr’
<D.-Okla.> for a coveted place on
the Senate’s tax handling finance
committee. Stennis is a States!
Rights supporter; Kerr an admin
istration backer.
McGrath’s acceptance Monday
of President Truman’s offer of the
attorney generalship cleared the
way for the official action by
President Truman to nominate
both him and Clark.
Clarks acceptance of the Su
preme court appointment, to fill j
the place vacated by the death of j
associate justice Frank Murphy,!
had been a foregone conclusion.
McGrath’s decision to take the I
cabinet post was announced at the j
White House after the Rhode Is
land Senator had consulted with
his home folk about his Senate
i
successor.
—
Chester Milligan, dredge opera
tor from Council is in town await
ing repair parts for his dredge.}
due on P.A.A.
The working season of the
dredge which is short under nor
mal conditions has been handi
capped by a series of breakdowns
this year causing costly delay for
the company.
Polio Shows
Sharp Increase
• By The Associated Press'
Infantile paralysis cases showed j
a sharp increase in some States in j
the last week, boosting the na- j
tion’s total far ahead of 1948, a
near record year.
The number of polio deaths for
the first seven months of 1949. an
Associated Press survey showed,
is about double the total up to
Aug. 1948.
The survey showed approxi
mately 8,000 cases and 442 deaths.
However, data on fatalities was
sketchy and incomplete in some
States on the number of cases.
Many communities, fearing epi
demics in the heavy polio months
of August and September already
have taken emergency measures.
State health officials and leaders
ol the national foundation for in
fantile paralysis are taking all
precautions to prevent the out
break or spread of the disease.
The 27,680 polio cases reported
in 1948 were the second highest of
record but up to Aug. 1, 1948, the
total was under 5,000. The worst
polio year was 1946 when about
30,000 cases were reported.
Increases in the number of
cases over last week's figures were
reported in New York, Illinois, In
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Legislature Puts
Hawaii Into Steve
doring Business
HONOLULU, </P> — Hawaii’s
House of Representatives Monday
night voted to put the Territory in
the stevedoring business until the
end of the dock strike—a move
one legislator warned might mean
bloodshed. The bill went to the
Senate immediately. One propon
ent predicted it would puss the,
upper house by today.
The House vote was 24 to 6.
Under the House bill the Terri
tory government would be prohib
ited from hiring striking CIO in
tern ational longshormene and
warehousemen. Neither would em
ployee! of the seven struck island
stevedoring firms be employed.
But the Territory government
would be permitted to rent steve
doring equipment from the struck
firms.
The 95-day old strike has
brought about a tense situation.
The islands are dependent on ship
ping for most of their essentials.
The strikers are demanding at 32
cent increase to their prestrike
$1.40 hourly wage.
Minority spokesmen in the leg
islature protested the Territory
should be given powers to seize
stevedoring property to operate
efficiently.
Gov. Ingraml M. Stainback, who
called the special session of the
legislature last week, asked Satur
day for the right to use trained
dock workers to meet the emer
gency He called a ban on them
“vindictive.”
But the House ignored his pleas.
Marketable Fish
Found In Bering
SEATTLE, (/P)—Members of a
federal fish and wildlife epedi
tion said yesterday they found
marketable cod and flat fish in
the northern Bering sea south of
St. Lawrence Island,
They said cod caught during a
fishery survey ranged up to 20
pounds and were in prime condi
tion. Drags off the southern end of
St. Lawrence Island also produced
rock sole, lemon sole, starry
flounder and yellowfin sole.
The survey group, headed by J.
G. Ellson, fishery engineer, char
tered the trawler Deep Sea for the
expedition.
Members said the survey may
result in extension of fishing op
erations northward in the Bering
Sea, but that further exploration
is needed to determine whether
cod and sole are available in com
mercial quantities.
TO ORGANIZE WATER
POLLUTION BOARD
The organization of an Alaska
Water Pollution Board will follow
the meeting of the board of health
meeting which convenes in Jun
eau on September 26.
This board will be responsible
for the administration of the Alas
ka water pollution act, passed by
the last legislature to safeguard
Alaskan water and establish
standards of water purity.
Mrs. Katherine Kehoe who is on
the board of health will be a
member of the water pollution
board.
Flood \\ aters
Threaten Nenana
FAIRBANKS, UP) — The city’s
Red Cross facilities were held
ready for possible emergency use
yesterday as the rapidly rising
Tanana River pointed a new and
stronger threat at Nenana.
The small central Alaska com
munity (population 300' lies ap
proximately 40 miles west of Fair
banks.
Rivermen reported the raging
river was coursing through its
banks at its fastest pace in a quar
ter century. Already it has cov
ered several hundred feet of Alas
ka Railroad track, flooded most of
the community’s gardens and
threatened to rip out several
docks.
The town’s water gauge was
washed away but George Gale,
railroad agent, estimated the
flooding river as about two feet
under the peak reached last year
when floods were the worst in Ne
nana’s 33-vear history.
Railroad crews stood by be
tween Mile 46 and Mile 48 to
guard the tracks and bridges in
anticipation of overflow from
Lake George, famous self-empty
ing lake which it is feared will
break momentarily.
Water was being brought in
from Healy by rail.
The Alaska road commission of
fice at Anchorage urged motorists
to stay off the Tok Cutoff to
speed repair work_ Passenger cars
are being towed through, but the
Cutoff is closed to loaded trucks.
Tourist Travel Hits
Season’s Peak
! SEATTLE. i/P)—Tourist travel
| to Alaska hit a peak for the sea
I son when the S. S. Aleutian sail
| ed for the north Saturday with a
! passenger list of 291.
1 It was a gala departure as the
Alaska Steamship Company ves
sel left Pier 42 at 11 a.m. She will
1 complete a 12-day round trip -after
calling at Ketchikan, Wrangell,
I .Juneau, Hawki Inlet, Seward, Val
dez and Cordova.
The passenger bookings for Sat
j urday’s sailing were the heaviest
! for the season thus far. Company
officials §aid indications were fa
! vorable for large tourist volume
i the remainder of the season.
The passenger farthest from
home apparently was Miss Olive
Coates, who lives in South Africa,
and is at present on an extended
tour.
PAA Flies Reeorcl
Amount of Cargo
SEATTLE, OP)—Pan American
World Airways carried 2,671,343
pounds of cargo aboard its Alaska
clippers during the first six
months of this year, traffic man
ager D. E. McMorran said yester
I day.
It is double the amount carried
by the airline during the same pe
riod last year.
The number of passengers flown
hptween Alaska cities and Seattle
increased from 14,486 carried dur
ing the first six months of last
year, to 17,128 for this year.