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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P)—The bodies of
three men washed ashore at Long
Beach, Wash., were identified yes
terday by the coast guard as John
Hilton of Vancouver, Ted Reese of
Portland and A1 Jones of Warren
ton, Ore.
Hilton and Reese were reported
to have drowned when their con
verted metal lifeboat capsized on
the Columbia river bar on a trip
from Depoe Bay, Ore. Jones was a
crewman on the fishing boat Sun
beam, parts of which were found
at Long Beach and the Columbia
river mouth. The body of W. Fales,
owner and skipper of the vessel,
has not been recovered.
TOKYO. (/P)—Six Far Eastern
air force B-29's were ready in Ja
pan and the Aleutians today for
flights to the United States tomor
row in Air Force Day exercises.
1 Four superforts will take off
from Misawa in northern Honshu,
two going to Seattle and two to
Minneapolis. Two bombers will
fly from Shemya in the Aleutians
to Baltimore. The longest flight
will be from Misawa to Minneapo
lis, 5,666 miles.
Each plane will carry two Amer
ican correspondents in addition to
the crews.
SEATTLE, {/P)—The coast guard
received a report today that the
two-man crew of the 90-foot fish
packer Salvor was abandoning
ship after it grounded 60 miles
southwest of Wrangell, Alaska. ;
The Salvor first called for aid,
then messaged that the crew was ;
leaving the vessel. The message ■
said the boat was on a rock in I
Chatham Strait, at the mouth of
Gedney harbor.
The coast guard at Ketchikan,
Alaska, ordered the cutter White,
Holly to proceed to the scene.
WASHINGTON, 0P)-^J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the federal,
bureau of investigation, is ill with j
bronchial pneumonia, his office
announced today.
The FBI director, ill since Mon- ;
day, is being treated at his home.
An FBI spokesman said Hoov- j
er’s condition is r e g a rded as
“neither critical or serious.”
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Canadian long
shoremen at Prince Rupert and
other British Columbia ports are
refusing to unload cargoes divert
ed from strikebound U. S. ports,
William Gettings, Seattle CIO
longshore representative, said to
day.
The action is in reply to a report
that the bulk of Southeastern
Alaska canned salmon pack, which
normally moved through Seattle
and Puget Sound# would be di
verted to Prince Rupert.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska was list
ed today by Nat S. Rogers, new
president of the Seattle chamber
of Commerce, as among the out
standing problems faced by that
organization.
A railroad connecting Seattle
and Fairbanks and settlement of
aboriginal claims are the next
steps needed to lay a solid founda
tion for Alaskan development,
Rogers said.
Fire Destroys Wien
Hangar; 2 Planes
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS 1/P)—Fire destroy
ed the main hangar of the Wien
Aleska Airlines at the municipal
airport along with two airplanes
late Wednesday. Estimates of loss
ranged up to $200,000.
Lost in the fire were a four
place Cessna and an eight-place
Norseman, stockroom supplies, a
machine shop, engine overhauling
depot and freight and waiting
rooms.
A Daouvtas DC-3 airliner parked
near the hangar was hastily towed
to safety and one light plane was
pulled from the hangar before it
was enveloped in flames.
As the 75-by-200-foot hangar
went up in flames, fire depart
ments from the city and from Ladd
Air Force base kept it from
spreading to the adjoining hangars
of the Alaska Airlines and the
Northern Commercial company.
Officials said an exploding fire
pot in a nearby “nose hangar”—a
hangar which can accommodate
only the nose of a plane—was re
sponsible for the fire. The firepot
was being used in cleaning engine
parts.
Fuels and lubricants stored in
and near the hangar sent flames
and smoke billowing high into the
air, drawing hundreds to the air
port runway.
Inlernation’l News
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At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press>
Thursday, September 16, 1948
Indian troops from the east and
west were only 125 miles apart in
converging drives on Hyderabad,
capital of the invaded princely
state of that name.
The little war seems about over.
India appointed civil administra
tors for the state, whose rich Mos
lem Nizam refused to join the In
dian Union. Though the shooting
may end, the war will continue in
words before the United Nations
security council, which tackles
Hyderabad’s complaint in Paris.
(PRAIS)—France was an un- j
happy setting for the U. N. meet
ing. Some 108,000 strikers were
out in the steel, plane and automor
bile industries. They fought riot
ously on the boulevards Wednes
day, injuring 100 police. The com
munists, who control much of the
French union labor, were using
the strikes in an effort to upset the
infant government of Henri Que
uille. The premier of five days
said he poposed a general wage in
crease and will impose $160,000,
000 new taxes. A typical French
comment was:
“We admire his courage, but we
wonder how many more days he
will stay in office.”
(BERLIN) — German youths
stoned Russian-controlled German
policemen in the Soviet zone of
blockaded Berlin for the third
time recently. American authori
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Truman Will
“Give Them Hell”
On Campaign Tour
• By The Associated Press*
President Truman left Washing
ton today on a 16-day western
campaign tour with this pledge:
“I’m going to fight hard and I’m
going to give them hell.”
“It’s a victorious trip,” the Pres
ident also told, his running mate,
Senator Alben M. Barkley of Ken
tucky, who was at the station to
see the President embark on the
; second swing of what may be the j
| most strenuous campaign ever
waged by a White House occupant.
The President will deliver more
I than 100 addresses in at least 18
of the 21 states his special 17-car
: train will touch on a 9,500-mile
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Air Force Masters
i Arctic Flying
With B-29’s
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(By Ellon C. Fay)
' WASHINGTON, </P), The United
I States bomber force has licked the
l problem of operating in the stormy
I but strategically vital Arcfie, its
chief disclosed recently.
Gen. George C. Kenney, boss of
the strategic air command, s>.d
crews have now learned how to
fly B-29’s “with high efficieocj’- in
the bitter cold up near the top of
the world.
“Last winter we took all (he
mystery out of flying B-29’s in 1he
Arctic,” he said in an interview.
The general’s comment pointed
up the major importance strate
gists attach to the polar regions,
the short air road between three i
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II. \. Mediator Shot
In Jerusalem
AMMAN, Trans-Jordan, (/P) —
The United Nations staff here an
nounced today Count Folke Ber
nadotte and a French colonel were
shot and killed on the Jewish side
of Jerusalem today.
Count Bernadotte, the United
Nations mediator for Palestine, and
the Frenchman “were killed in the
Jewish sector this afternoon by
men in Jewish army uniforms,”
said a telephoned message from
commander Seymour at the Amer
ican school in Jerusalem.
Bernadotte twice succeeded in
bringing about a truce in the war
for Palestine between Jews and
Arabs. The truces have been fitful,
punctuated by shelling and fight
ing. Both sides appeared to ex
pect the present truce, now two
months old, to run out at almost
any moment.
Bernadotte was head of the
Swedish Red Cross and the hus
band of the former Estelle Man
ville of New York. He was 53.
The killing was reported to have
occurred at 5 p.m. Jerusalem time.
Army Transports
Being Loaded
Despite Pickets
SAN FRANCISCO. </P)—Steve
dores hired by the army despite
union pickets were loading two
army transports today, but a pri
vate firm was considering taking
over the military-cargo job with
union labor in struck Pacific coast
ports.
The firm, Griffiths and Sprague
in Seattle, said it was willing to
handle all army cargoes from Seat
tle but was undecided whether to
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MAYOR LUTHER DUNBAR PROCLAIMS
AIR FORCE DAY FOR NOME
WHEREAS, The President of the United States has proclaimed
September 18, 1948, as Air Force Day to honor the air arm of the
National Military Establishment; and
WHEREAS the United States Air Force on September 18, 1947, in
the fortieth year of its history as the world’s oldest military air organ
ization, became an autonomous Air Force, and in this year observing
its first anniversary as an independent organization in the defense
structure of our nation; and
WHEREAS a grateful citizenry, recalling the years of experience,
of development, and of service that have produced its present capa
bilities and efficiency, recognizes the United States Air Force as one of
the nation’s most far-reaching weapons of defense;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mayor of the City of Nome, in order that
we may honor the men and women of our Air Force for their contri
butions to the development of American aviation and to the growth
of American air power, often at the sacrifice of their lives, and like
wise recognize the service of those who in the armed forces or in the
civilian centers of science, research, and production have aided in the
building of our air might, do hereby proclaim Saturday, September 18,
1948, as Air Force Day in Nome.
il urge all citizens to join in the observance of this, the first anni
versary of the United States Air Force, in the forty-first year of Amer
ican military aviation, with ceremonies appropriately expressing their
appreciation of the contribution of American military air power to our
present peace and freedom and their faith in American air power as a
guarantee of continuing peace and lasting security.
In witness thereof, I hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of
the City of Nome to be affixed.
Done this 15th day of September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred foryt-eight, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third.
LUTHER DUNBAR,
Mayor, Nome, Alaska.
I nioiK Employers
Confer < >n Relief
Ship Cor Nome ^
(Special io The Nugget)
SEATTLE, )/Pi-—Spokesmen for
Alaska Steamship Co. and CIO
longlongshoremen said inconclu
sive conferences have been held on
the proposal of a relief ship for
Nome. A company spokesman said
the problem was still in the con
ference stage and the company
made no further comment.
William Clark, secretary of the
longshoremen's local, said a stale
mate had been reached in confer
ences Tuesday and Thursday, and
"our joint committee is seeking
other channels" for getting sup
plies to the Nome area. "There is
a good prospect that something
can be arranged." He said the
union would rather deal with an
established Alaska company but
that the Alaska Steamship Com
pany was sticking strictly to the
Waterfront Employers Association
of an unyielding program of "pre
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Sen. Morse Blames
Both Sides For Not
Settling Strikes
ASTORIA, Ore. i/P) — Senator
Wayne Morse <R.-Ore.> blamed
both the unions and employers in
failing to settle the west coast oil
and longshore strikes in a speech
here yesterday.
The former Pacific Coast labor
arbitor devoted most of his ad
dress to foreign affairs, but wound
up with a critical attack on both
the strikers and employers in the
two major Pacific Coast disputes.
"I know something about the
longshoremen’s contract.” Morse
said. "There is no sounder provi
sion for arbitration in any labor
contract than there is in this one.
Why don’t they use this provision
and end the strike?”
Morse said there is no issue in
either strike that cannot be set
tled by arbitration, if “political as
pects” of the dispute are removed.
The Senator did not explain his
reference to politics in the strikes.
Unknown Planes
Drop Flares Over
Russian Ship
TOKYO, </P) — Flares dropped
over the Liberty ship Moses
Brown by two unidentified planes
resulted yesterday in an erroneous
report that the Russian-chartered
vessel had been fired on.
Capt. Kenneth D. Frye, skipper
of the 7,176-ton freighter, radioed
the ship’s operators, the Shepard
Lines, that the flares were drop
ped Saturday night in the Sea of
Japan, off Russia’s Siberian coast.
Because the Moses Brown is
owned by the U. S. maritime com
mission, copies of the message
were relayed from San Francisco
to the commission and to the com
pany’s New York offices.
(Washington, the maritime com
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