OOTOYOK RETURNS TO
DRAW HIS ARCTIC NORTH
Wilbur W. Walluck, Monday
returned to Nome on the Alaska
Airlines plane from Anchorage
and in a few days expects to con
tinue his journey, which started
at the University of Chicago or
thopedic clinic, where he hopped
an airplane for Anchorage, then
to Nome, and finally to his home
in Shishmaref.
Walluk, 19-year-old ‘‘Ootoyuk
of the North” (full-blood Eskimo)
was first of 24 Alaska children of
fered treatments by the Univers
ity clinics, left Alaska last April
for the Chicago hospital where
for three months he underwent
treatment for tuberculous verte
brae. He now wears a brace and
is well on the way to becoming
fully cured.
Wilbur stated today: ‘‘It’s good
to be back in God’s country again.
I like it! I love it!!’
When he arrives at Shishmaref,
Wilbur says he will settle down
to make his living through his art
in Alaska drawings.
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Dead Husband’s
Grave With Plants
SONORA, Calif., WP) — A 45
year-old woman calmly related
today, district attorney Ed Vilas
said, she poisoned her husband at
his request and carefully planted
a flower garden over the shallow
grave where she had buried his
body in pieces.
Mrs. Ada Hansen, questioned
at length by Vilas and others, was
held without bail on a charge of
suspicion of murder.
Vilas said she maintained un
swervingly that her husband,
Otto Hansen, about 48, had been
ill for several years and had
forced her to administer him
strychnnine.
He was her third husband, the
other two having died, she said.
Complaints of an unpleasant
odor led the auto camp manage
ment to the remains yesterday.
The man was believed to have
been dead about four months.
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Longshoremen
Call Stop-Work
Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO, </P)—Union
leaders announced longshore op
erations in San Francisco will be
shut down froth 7 p.m. tonight
until 8 a.m. tomorrow for a stop
work meeting.
They will gather to hear a re
port on the findings of a Presi
dential fact-finding committee
which questioned the CIO long
shore leaders and the employers
in the Pacific Coast maritime con
tract row last week.
The waterfront employers’ as
sociation called the stop-work
meeting a violation of contract
and threatened to register a com
plaint with the national labor re
lations board.
Employer spokesmen contended
the men could hold a day and a
night meeting, without keeping
any workers from their jobs.
James Kearney, president of
local 10 of the union, said the
longshoremen would also discuss
the pending NLRB poll among
five maritime unions involved in
the coastwise dispute. The poll
will allow union members to ac
cept or reject a “final* employer
contract offer.
Leaders of all five unions have
announced they will strike* at
midnight Sept. 1, when the gov
ernment’s anti-strike injunction
ends.
U. S. Troops Stage
Maneuvers In
Grunewald Forest
(Continued trom Page One)
maneuvers along the Rhine river
near Heidelberg. It was the first
time since the war’s end the two
allies had engaged in joint war
games. U. S. and French officers
said the show was successful and
predicted other such efforts in the
future. Only 1,500 troops took
part in the operation.
The Grunewald Forest maneu
ver caused considerable excite
ment among the Germans. Sever
al called the Associated Press
bureau here to ask what truck
loads of helmeted troops and ar
mored cars were doing in the
woods. The forest runs through
the American and British sectors
of Berlin.
Berlin is deep in the Soviet oc
cupation zone, entirely surround
' ed by it.
> Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
Russian commander in Germany,
today offered western Berliners
60,000 tons of coal as their “first
winter installment.”
The official Soviet news agency
said the coal would be available
in a few days for those western
residents who had registered for
food in the Russian sector.
The Russians proclaimed sever
al weeks ago that they would feed
all Berlin with grain imported
from the Soviet Union. Only a
small per cent of western Berlin
ers went over to the Russian sec
tor to register for food.
The Soviet news agency an-1
nouncement said Sokolovsky had i
acted after representatives of the |
city’s “four Democratic parties”
had appealed to the Russians for
coal.
The Allied air lift over the Sov
iet blockade continued to click at
a record rate. In a 24-hour stretch
yesterday 619 British and Amer
ican planes brought in more than
4,100 tons of supplies. i
NRLB To Decide
“Hiring Halls”
Controversy
■ 1
(By Max Hall)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The na
tional labor relations board soon
will issue its most important
ruling so far under the unfair la
bor practice sections of the Taft
Hartley act. It concerns maritime
“hiring halls.”
This decision, which may be
handed down this week, will
mark the first time the five-man
board has dealt with the labor
law’s ban on discriminatory hir
ing practices.
Two NLRB trial examiners
have lifted the hiring hall issue to
\ the board level by announcing
! their findings on the subject:
1. On June 24, examiner How
ard Myers held that the CIO na
tional maritime union violated
the law by demanding a continua
tion of its hiring halls on the
; Great Lakes. It is this case that
ithe board is expected to rule up
j _
Discover Uranium
Ore In Canada
VANCOUVER, B. C.. [IP)—Dr.
F. F. Walker, deputy minister
of mines for British Columbia,
said yesterday the uranium ore
found in northern British Colum
bia “may be” pitchblende.
He made the announcement af
ter conducting laboratory tests on
the ore which was reported last
Saturday by prospector Ernest
Johnson.
Uranium is found in many com
pounds, but is usually at its high
est concentration in pitchblende,
officials said.
Johnson’s claim is located about
130 air miles north of Vancouver
in the Bridge River district near
Gunn Lake.
on shortly.
2. Monday, examiner Wallace
E. Royster held that the same
union and also the CIO American
radio association violated the law
by demanding a continuation of
their hiring halls in Atlantic and
Gulf ports.
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