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Alaska Newspaper
women Return
From Europe Tour
By Vern Haugland
—AP SPECIAL WASHINGTON
SERVICE—
WASHINGTON, — {IP) —Two
■women newspaper executives from
the north have advised the Army
of Occupation in Germany to go
slow on any plans to send dis
placed persons to Alaska.
Alaska would like and could
use displaced persons—especially
the Baltic types in the camps ar
ourid Frankfurt, they said.
But, they added the Territory
simply cannot assimilate them un
till new industries, such as pulp
mills, are introduced on a con
siderable scale. ,
This was the advice to Ameri
can ‘Brass’ in Frankfurt and Ber
lin of Miriam Dickey of Fairbanks,
vice president of the company
which publishes the Daily News
Miner, and Mrs. Helen Troy Mon
sen, Juneau, publisher of the Al
aska Daily Empire.
They flew back to the States
from Lisbon this week, conclud
ing a two and one half month
tour of Europe.
The two women plan to spend
several days in Seattle before re
turning to Alaska.
If Russians Have
Atom Bomb, We
Wont Know Until
LOS ANGELES, — </P) — If
Russia has an atomic bomb it’s
going to be difficult to detect radi
ation from any tests, says Com
mander J. T. Hayward, Navy at
omic expert.
Commander Hayward, plans and
operations director of the Armed
Forces special weapons project at
Sandia, N.M., told interviewers
that a Russian atomic test might
be reflected from radiation im
pact on the moon “if we trained
a spectrometer on the moon; but
the moon would have to be in the
right phase.”
Radiation, ,he said, couldn t re
detected here from Siberia.
Sgt. Myers Retaken
In Reno, Nev. !
SAN FRANCISCO, — </P) —1st.
Sgt. Peter Myers, 29, who escaped
from custody at the Presidio last
Wednesday, was arrested in Reno,
Nev., Friday by civilian author
ities, Sixth Army headquarters
announced.
Myers was being held here pend
ing a court martial in Alaska, the
Army said. He formerly was at
tached to the 51st Ordnance Sup
ply Company, Fort Richardson,
Alaska. He is charged with em
bezzling $2,000 and with theft of
soldiers’ savings deposits.
The Army said Myers has a wife
in Kansas City, Mo.
GEN PERSHING
BURIED TODAY
IN ARLINGTON
WASHINGTON, — (JP) — The
nation and the world gave a last '
salute to General of the Armies
John Joseph Pershing.
For the second day, thousands
trekked to the capitol to file si
lently past his bier.
Other thousands deployed along
1 adjacent streets waiting for a
glimpse of the cortege taking him
to a hero’s grave across the
Potomac River.
Every walk of life was repres
ented among those who paid final
tribute to the flower-banked ro
tunda of the capitol.
There were simple flowers from
the lowly. There was an immense
red rose design from the French
government and “the people of
France.” Among almost countless
floral pieces was a great flower
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U.S. Smelting Co.
Has First Cleanup
On No. 5 Dredge
_____
! A U.S. Smelting Company of
ficial Saturday reported that the
company had made the first gold
clean-up in the Nome area since
the “freeze order of 1942.”
The clean-up, last week, on the
only dredge in operation in the
immediate vicinity of Nome, the
No. 5 Dredge of the company, was
in the approximate weight of 125
pounds, which was made into one
bar.
Marines To Guard
i
.
U. S. Consulate
In Jerusalem
■
WASHINGTON, — </P) —The
Navy has ordered a squad of 112
Marines under a Non-Commis
sioned officer into Palestine to
guard the Consulate General at
Jerusalem, the State Department
announced Saturday.
The department reported that
the action was taken at its request
and with the approval of the
President.
The Marines are being detached
from the American Nav’al Forces
in the Mediterranean, n'hey are
the first American servicemen to
be sent into the Holy Land for
guard duty since the trouble be
gan there. Civilian guards have
been used for the Consulate Gen
i eral up to now. j
60 SUPERFORTS
ARE IN ENGLAND
SCAMPTON, — </P) —The last
two of 60 American B-29 Super
fortresses sent to Britain for “man
euvers” swooped into this Royal
Air Force Base today.
The operation has been des
cribed officially as a routine navi
gational training exercise. But the
giant planes bulwark American
power in Europe at a moment of
rising tension with Russia over
the month-long Berlin crisis.
Crews of the 58 planes which
arrived Saturday and Sunday had
spent yesterday servicing their
planes and unloading equipment
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Steel Company
Fattens Wage
Envelope
I
PITTSBURGH, — OP) —Beth
lehem Steel Company Saturday
joined the fatter pay envelope pat
tern set by the U.S. Steel Co.
The company granted an arev
.
age 13 cents an hour increases to
its 80,000 workers throughout the
the nation.
The increase, announced by a
Bethlehem spokesman in New
York, constitutes an increase of (
approximately nine per cent. The
spokesman said the raise was ef
fective Friday. Increases range
from nine and one half to 25 cents
an hour.
U.S.Steel, long the bellwether
of the industry, granted its 170,
000 members of the CIO United
Steel Workers an average hourly
boost of 13 cents Friday—and said
its 100,000 salaried workers would
receive similar increases. All are
effective immediately.
A spokesman for “Big Steel”
said the corporation had lost its
avowed fight to halt inflationary
tendencies.
The CIO United Steel Workers
hailed the wage increase as “a
great victory.
Benjamin F. Fairless, president
of U.S. Steel, said in a statement
the decision to boost wages simply
meant the corporation was forced
to abandon its plans to stabilize
living costs by pegging wages.
Last April “Big Steel” did just
that—it refused demands for a
“substantial increase” and also1
lowered prices of its products some
$25,000,000 annually.
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ees from Vanport, city of 19,000 which was completely destroyed by flood
waters Memorial Day, paraded with signs demanding better housing and
other reliief grants. Refugees are presently being housed in former navy
marracks and trailerrs rushed here by Federal Housing Authority. (AP
Wirephoto)
Air Secretary Say
America Must Have
Air Superiority
LOS ANGELES. — (JPt —‘ You
cannot win a war without air
superiority and you cannot lose
one with it,” says Air Secretary
J. Stuart Symington.
‘‘The American taxpayer has
placed his money on air power,”
he declared last night at a ban
quet of the Institute of Aeronaut
ical sciences. “It is the best
possible defense against possible
attack by any power.”
Symington scoffed at any con
cept of American isolationism.
“The protection of two oceans
he said has been ended forever by
the discovery and flight over over
the so-called polar route.
U.S. Tanks Shipped
To Chinese Reds
From Philippines
MANILA, — (/P) —The Even
ing News said Saturday that at
least five U.S. Army surplus tanks
had been shipped to Chinese Com
munists aboard a Russian vessel,
presumably from Cebu City on
the central Philippines coast.
The report has not been con
firmed from any other source.
Russians Attempt
Smash European
Recovery Plan
BERLIN (/P) —Maj. Gen. Wil
liam (Wild Bill* Donovan, wartime
Chief of the Office of Strategic
Services, said Saturday the Rus
sian blockade of Berlin is an at
tempt to smash the European Re
covery program and drive the
LJ. S. out of Europe.
Donovan, who is visiting Eur
Dpe in a private capacity, said at
i news conference:
“It is a matter of the Soviets
doing what they said they are
going to do-that is, wreck the
European Recovery Program; and
what they have not said, but which
they want to do: to drive us out
of Europe.”
Communist Papers
Banned In Yugo
slavia, Reported
BUCHAREST. — UP) —YURO
slavia has banned the sale of the
Cominform’s bulletins, which have
been blasting the regime of Pre
mier-Marshal Tito.
The latest bulletin of the Com
munist information bureau, is
sued 48 hours late, protests the
ban as “another disgraceful act,”
and orders that the edition of the
bulletin in the Serbian language
be suspended.