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VOL. ' L. No. 50. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 26. 1948. PER COPY — 15~
Blanket Primary
Eleetion Tuesday
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Tomorrow, Alaska’s first blan
ket primary election will be held,
at which time many people, who
have never declared party affili
ation will cast a vote for the first
time. This is an important election
as many matters must be decided
for benefit of the future of the
Territory.
It is the duty of every Alaskan
to choose wisely, men who will
act for the best interests of the
Second Division and the Terri
tory as a whole.
Most important issues in the
coming picture are a sound tax
structure, uniform system of trade
licenses; appropriations sufficient
to carry on a strong advancement
in education in elementary high
schools, and the University of Al
aska; insurance of funds to com
bat T.B. and other health needs;
old age pensions sufficient to pro
vide the needs of the aged.
We have a sincere group of men
from which to choose, all well
known to us, let’s send Second
Division delegates who will work
for the development and better
ment of this Division.
Cannery Workers
Hold Out For
New Contract
SEATTLE, —(/P) —Members of
Hope Lodge No 79 and Bellingham
Local No. 239, International Asso
ciation of Machinists <Ind.» have
rejected an offer of a 12 1/2 per
cent wage increase in the Alaskan
salmon canning industry.
I. A. Sandvigen, business rep
resentative of the Seattle Lodge,
said the workers are asking a
25 per cent increase in wages,
$25,000 insurance for machinists
flown to Alaska and retention of
“coffee time” and its inclusion in
the contract.
He said that serving coffee at
10 a.m. and 3 p.m., with lunch
and coffee at 9 p.m. for the night
shift, has been a custom for a long
time in most canneries. Sandvigen
said the employers offered no in
surance.
Machinists are being released
to go to Alaska to start preparing
the canneries for operation, Sand
vigen said, but employers are re
quired to sign a preseason con
tract and furnish insurance.
Albin L. Peterson, federal la
bor conciliator, assigned to the
negotiations, will be notified that
the employers and unions are
deadlocked and need assistance,
Sandvigen said. Almost 1,000
machinists are affected.
Back to work, Asks
Boeing President
SEATTLE, —(A5) —A back-to
work drive got under way today
at the strike-idled Boeing Air
plane Company, but officials of
the aeronautical mechanics union
(Ind.) predicted the effort would
be “futile.” •
The strike, affecting 15,000
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Alaska Railroad
To Make Test
New Rate Cut
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ANCHORAGE, —C/P)—Officials
of the Alaska Railroad predict
that Alaska shippers will save
$100,000 during a trial period
1 when rates will be cut.
The trial period will be May
15 to Sept. 15. Col. John P. John
son, the road’s'general manager,
said that, “If it is proved that the
tonnage increase would compen
sate for the reduction, the trial
rates would be made permanent.
Yearly savings would be made
to shippers of $300,000, his assist
ant, Larry Moore said.
The lower rate will cover 15
classifications of goods. The plan,
approved by the department of
the interior, reduces the Alaska
Railroad’s portion of the joint
tariff from Seattle to Anchorage
by 34 per cent.
Mine Operators
May Toss Pensions
Into Lewis’ Lap
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WASHINGTON, —(TP) —Mine
Operators talked of tossing the
whole thorny problem of pen
sions for miners into the lap of
John L. Lewis.
An industry spokesman said
operators are considering a plan
under which they would pay the
United Mine Workers’ union 10
cents a ton on all coal mined—in
stead of paying it into a fund—
and then let the union use the
money as it sees fit.
The aim would be to remove
' all operator control over miners’
pensions—and avoid disputes like
the one which caused the six
i week mine strike now ending.
, The present contract, due to ex
pire June 30, has piled up a $33,
000,000 pension fund from a 10
cent tonnage royalty paid by the
operators.
U.N. Security Sets
Up 3-Nation Truce
Commission
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.,. —(/P)—
The United Nations Security
Council established a three-coun
try Palestine truce commission
but made no provision to force
the Arabs and Jews to stop fight
ing.
The action was the council’s
fourth effort in two months to
bring peace to the Holy Land.
Some of the delegates doubted it
would succeed in view of the fail
I
ure of pleas and orders to the Ar
! abs and Jews March 5, April 1
and April 17.
The United States, France and
Belgium were naml*d to the com
mission in a resolution proposed
by the U. S. and adopted by the
council.
The U.N. plans call for peace
efforts to be caried on simultan
eously here and in Palestine.
Consuls of the three countries
in Jerusalem were notified of the
council decision and instructed
to start talks with Jews and Arabs
Arabs May Invade
Also Ban Shipping
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL,
By the Associated Press—A plan
for immediate invasion of Pales
tine by Trans-Jordan’s Arab leg
ion was reported by well-inform
ed sources in Cairo today.
Coupled with this was a hint
of Egyptian action at sea. Egypt
banned all shipping from her ter
1 ritorial waters bordering southern
, Palestine, effective May 1. Arab
■ sources said the ban was prelim
inary to “naval maneuvers.”
Within Palestine, the civil war
continued.
A major battle appeared to be
shaping up for Jerusalem,
j Jewish extremist fighters of Ir
gun Zvai Leumi maintained an
attack upon Arab Jaffa against
the advice of Haganah, the Jew
ish militia. Heavy mortar fire op
ened the morning operations. Small
arms fire followed.
Jewish forces threw mortar fire
into Acre during the night, but
were driven off by British artill
ery fire at dawn, th British an
nouncd. The army reported most
of about 200 prisoners in the Acre
prison escaped.
All air services at Lydda, Pal
estine’s internationally served air
port, were suspended.
Oil supplies tightened. Iraq pet
roleum ceased flowing to Haifa,
where Haganah fighters seized
control last week.
A fresh test of East-West poli
tical strength was staged Sunday
inGermany. Communists ran 4th
in community elections in two
American zone states, Bavaria
and Hesse. The communists lost
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Gov. Gruening
Asks For Statehood
For Alaska Now
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SACRAMENTTO, Calif.,—(/P)—
; Governor Ernest Gruening of Al
aska called again Friday night for
statehood for that Territory.
Speaking before the Western
conference of governors, Gruen
ing said: “We are not quite serfs,
but we would like emancipation
from our present state.”
He accused the United States
of discrimination against Alaska
during the 80 years the Stars and
Stripes have flown over the north
ern region. He criticized especial
ly the lack of highways, shipping
and air transport development.
But, he added:
“The Alaskans get along pretty
well, despite discriminations, as
they have the rugged frontier
spirit.”
Gruening said Alaska is not a
land of snow and ice and he told
a banquet session that Alaska is
“twice as large as Texas and 50
pound cabbages are grown.”
HOSPITAL NEWS
Donors today to tfce Emergency
Hospital fund:
Olaf Halvorson $ 10.00
K. H. 10.00
James Kealiher 15.00
TOTAL TO DATE $9,214.70
Limited UMT And
Draft Program Is
Proposed In Com’
WASHINGTON, —i/P)—A com
promise plan wrapping up a lim
ited universal military training
program with a temporary draft
had the support of secretary of de
fense Forrestal Saturday.
Faced with mounting congres
sional opposition to a separate
UMT program, Forrestal yester
day agreed to accept—temporar
ily—a merger proposal advanced
by members of the Senate com
mittee on Armed Services.
In a second major strategy
switch on defense plans, For
restal said in a letter to chairman
Gureney <R-SD>: “f believe it
will give us a maximum military
strength for a minimum of cost.”
But he added:
‘T do not regard this proposal
as an adequate substitute for
UMT.” He asked that the com
promise be followed “as soon as
possible” by a permanent univer
sal military training program.
The drive for abandonment of
’ the separate UMT plan broke out
at Friday’s closed session of the
Senate committee.
Fighter Pilot Given
Up As Missing
ANCHORAGE. —f/P)—The 10th
Rescue Squadron Saturday called
off its aerial and ground search
for Lt. Kenneth H. Winborne, of
Sinclair, Wyo.. missing fighter pi
! lot.
Lt. Winborne disappeared 10
| days ago while on a routine flight.
His disappearance brings to 13
| the number of flyers now missing
i in the immediate Anchorage area.
Nine of them were aboard a B-29
| which exploded over Knik Arm
! Dec. 31, two minutes after taking
; off from Elmendorf Field.
Two flying trappers, Neil Hol
dren and Tex Morrow, have been
missing since they left Anchor
age March 7, for the Big Susitna
trap line.
P-51 Pilot Kinned
When Parachute
Fails To Open
FAIRBANKS, — (JF) — Ladd
Field Air Force officers announ
ced Saturday the arrival of the
82nd Fighter Group and the death
of a Philadelphia pilot in one of
the unit’s first northern training
missions.
First Lt. William J. Tomlinson,
24, of Philadelphia was killed
when his parachute failed to open
after he leaped from his burning
P-51. He had leaped from low
altitude after coming in for an
emergency landing attempt. The
plane crashed near the end of the
runway.
The fighter group came north
from Genier Field, Manchester,
N.H. It includes the 95th, 96th
and 97th Squadrons. The com
mander is Col. Henry Viccellio
of Dallas, Texas.
Tomlinson’s wife, Anne, and
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Tomlinson, live in Philadelphia.
Alice Kowasuk
Dies In Accident
Tragedy claims one life last week
end.
A tragedy during the past week
end claimed the life of Alice Ko
wasuk, 19, and seriously injured
Ralph Willoya, when a sno-plane
in which they were riding with
Joe Mahoney and Frank Ibianna
went through the ice on the coast
about 17 miles west of here.
The group was out for a plea
sure spin up the coast when they
ran into foggy weather and the
sno-plane plowed into open water
about four feet deep. Two of the
Boys, Joe Maloney and Frank Ibi
anna were able to extricate them
selves and Ralph Willoya, but it
was some 20 minutes before they
could remove the body of Alice
| Kowasuk, who it is believed, died
1 from shock in the icy water.
The sno-plane is the property of
Ralph Willoya and George O’Con
nor, both of Nome.
Ralph, an ex-serviceman with
| four years duty is in the army
hospital at Marks Air Force Rase
with a broken shoulder and a
fractured right hand.
Alice Kowasuk lived here with
1 an aged grandmother, as both her
parents are dead. Details of the
funeral have not been completed.
Marshall Leaves
Rogota (lonfal) For
‘Important Events’
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, WASHINGTON. — (JP) —Secre
1 tary of state Marshall returned
I to Washington Saturday to deal
with the “important events” he
said necesitated his leaving the
Bogota Inter - American confer
' ence.
The secretary’s plane reached
1 the airport at 9 a.m. <EST> after
' an overnight flight from Bogota.
Marshall stepped off the plane
looking chipper despite the long
trip. With him were William Mc
•' Chesney Martin, president of the
, Export-Import Bank, and Mar
shall S. Carter, an aide.
Talking with reporters, Marshall
gave no indication of the “im
portant events” which he said
Friday in Bogota necessitated his
return to Washington.
Bid For GOP Votes
Stassen, Dewey,
UNDATED POLITICS, By the
Associated Press—
By Jack Bell
Harold E. Stassen pressed his
bid in Oregon today for the Re
publican preferential vote, at
start of another busy week of na
tional political parleying.
The presidential aspirant said
at Portland last night he was en
thusiastic over his prospects, 12
national convention delegates are
at stake, with Governor Dewey
of New York his opponent. He ,
will return east tomorrow and
governor Dewey will arrive in
Oregon May 1 for a 10-day tour.
Stassen also takes time out this
week from his battle with Senator
Robert A. Taft to bid openly for
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