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VOL. XlTvIII. No. 106. NOME. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1946 PER COPY —15c
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50 Ships Tied Up
Sound Ports In
All-eoast Strike
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SEATTLE. Sept. 4, —PP)—Fifteen
hundred seamen walked off ap
proximately 50 ships at Puget
Sound ports today at the start of
an all-coast maritime strike.
Shipping lines rushed to remove
perishables from ships as striking
seamen, members of the sailors
union of the Pacific and Seafar
ers’ International Union, AFL
faliliates, announced plans to pick
et the entire waterfront at 7 a.m.
tomorrow.
The Merchants Exchange esti-j
mated 75 “active” ships were tied
up here, of which between 40 and
50 will be affected, the other ships
are army and navy transports. (
About a dozen other “active” ships
are lying in other Sound ports.
M. G. Ringenberg. president of
Waterfront Employers ofi
Washington, estimated the tieup
would cost business “millions of
dollars in Seattle.” Shipments of
oil and gasoline, the bulk of which
comes from California by water,
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will stop, he said, but dealers are
well stocked. The lumber in
dustry will be hard hit.
^.Vessels sailing between here and
Alaskan ports will be permitted
to complete their runs and return
here. Ed Coester, Seattle agent
of the S.U.P., said. Ships run
ning only in Alaska waters and
plying between Alaska ports, how
ever, were also to be tied up to
day, he added.
One employer source here es
timated that 15,000 persons would
be thrown out of work after pic
ket lines are established. CIO
Martiime Unions have their sup
port of their rival union’s walk
out
Pres. Truman Talks
With Sec. Byrnes
faris Development
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4,—(£>)_
For the second time in less than
24 hours, President Truman to
day talked with Secretary of State
Byrnes on developments at the
Paris Peace Conference.
White House Press Secretary,
Charles G. Ross told reporters that
Byrnes telephored Mr. Truman
taom Paris at 9:4) a.m. (EST) and
talked with hia for about five
fl^nutes. s
"The Presidot is being kept
fully abreast o all developments
in Paris,” Ross said.
REPAIRS ON PARTHENO N—Greek workmen have erected scaffolding (right) to
! make repairs on the famous Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens, which dates from 447 B. C.
Two Pilots Dead
Iu Plane Crash
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 4,—</Pt—Al
aska’s youngest commercial pilot,
18-year-old David Johnson, and
his brother, George, were killed
yesterday when their small float
plane hit a 300-foot radio antenna
after take-off in a dense fog from
the Chena river.
The tragedy came as an after
math to a holiday moose hunt. The
brothers were taking off for the
Tanana river to butcher a moose
they had shot during the week
end.
David was licensed as a com
mercial pilot upon his graduation
from high school last June and
had been flying as a “Bush Pilot”
out of Point Barrow until this
week. George was a mechanic
and a private pilot. Both were
born at Haycock, Alaska.
BRITISH FLEET VISITS
JAPANESE WATERS
KURE, Japan, Sept. 4—(.4s)—Thir
teen ships of Britain’s Pacific
Fleet are here for an official visit.
The flotilla includes one cruiser,
five destroyers, one destroyer es
cort, four submarines and two
submarine tenders. Another cruis-|
er is expected tomorrow.
P.N.U. Invites
Alaska To Join
Northwest Group
SEATTLE, Sept. 4—(/Pi— Head
j quarters of Pacific Northwest Un
ited’s interim committee reported
today that Mayor Earl Riley of
Portland invited Alaska to join
the regional organization in a talk
at Anchorage before his return to
Seattle by air last Midnight.
Riley, Chairman of the P.N.U.
interim committee, warned Al
askans. however, against getting
involved in the inter-city bicker
ing that once marked Seattle
Portland and Pacific Northwest
States’ rivalries.
“Thresh out your problems to
gether, organize your program and
then come in” to P.N.U. he told
them.
“There never has been a discus
sion in any meeting of Pacific
Northwest United that didn’t in
clude the needs of Alaska and
your neighbor to the south, Brit
ish Columbia. We don’t think
any broad general program for
Pacific Northwest promotion is
complete without you.”
He said Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana "intend to
forge a solid bloc that can act as a
unit inside and outside of Con
gress,” and added: “We are one
British Forces
Leaving Greece
LONDON, Sept. 4,—(JP)—A Brit
ish Foreign Office spokesman said
today that some British forces
were being withdrawn from Greece
but official quarters said troops
will be kept in the Hellenic king
dom for “some time.”
The present reshuffle is “the!
first installment of a general with
drawal from Greece,” it was said
at the Prime Minister Attlee's
residence, but complete evacua
tion as demanded by Greek left
ists and Soviet Russian spokesmen
depends upon “a number of fac
tors.”
The Foreign Office spokesman
said the present withdrawal was
a part of a general regrouping of
British forces in the Middle East.
He declined to give the number
of men being moved out of Greece.
The latest announced strength of
British forces in the Hellenic king
dom was at least 50,000.
King George II today awaited
a personal invitation from Prem
ier Tsaldaris to return to the
Greek throne in Athens.
region of the United States that
wants to see Alaska develop and
wants to help Alaska reach State
hood.”
UNDATED Strikes —P>— The
Wage Stabilization Board appear
ed to be under fire from both sides
today in the AFL Seafarers In
ternational Union wage dispute
as John Hawk, union president,
said a strike of from 94,000 to
100,000 sailors was all set for
Thursday.
Meanwhile, a promise to boost
the allotment of new Nash cars
for sale to its own workmen from
11 to 17 weekly ended the week-old
work stoppage at the Nasn-Kel
vinator Corporation plant in Mil
waukee. but truching operators
in New York City refused to
budge from their earlier offer un
less the strikers negotiate “on a
j reasonable basis.”
j In the seamen's case, both the
sailors and the Pacific Employers’
Association that they stand to lose
gains won during the summer if
the order of the Wage Stabiliz
ation Board of Aug. 23 is con
tinued in effect.
The WSB order approved a
wage increase of up to $17.50 a
month for the seamen, holding
any amount above that figure to
be inflationary. But the AFL sail
ors already had negotiated a con
tract with the Pacific American
Shipowners Association providing
for an increase of S22.50 a month,
and for $27.50 with the Atlantic
and Gulf Coast agents.
J. B. Bryan, president of the
Pacific Employers’ group, contend
ed that in negotiating the $22.nO
increase the seamen agreed to
drop some 70 other demands which
probably would have cost the ship
ping companies considerably more
than the $5 difference in base bay,
and that if the pay cut-back stands
the other demands might be re
instated.
The CIO National Maritime Un
ion pledged its support to an AFL
strike which a Maritime Commis
sion spokesman said would mean
a nationwide shutdown.
New York w'as faced with
threats of food shortages as Jos
eph M. Adelizzi, chairman of the
Wage Scale Committee, predicted
the trucking tieup would reach
100 per cent today. The truck
ers are demanding a wage increase
of 30 per cent. The employers
countered with an offer of $3 a
week.
DRAG CHENA RIVER
FOR SOLDIER’S BODY
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 4, —(/P)—Ar
my crews were dragging the mud
dy waters of the Chena river yes
terday for the body of a Ladd Field
soldier 48 hours after his over
turned rowboat was found.