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voi. L. No. 109 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948 ' , PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P> — The ap
pointment of Dr. Fred T. Foard,
medical director for the IT. S. pub
lic health service, as director of
health of the bureau of Indian af
fairs was announced today.
SEATTLE, (A*)—Capt. Grant H.
Evans, 60, skipper of Puget Sound
boats for more than 30 years, died
September 2 aboard the U. S. S.
Cardinal O’Connell off Anchorage,
it was learned here Wednesday.
Captain Evans was serving as a
pilot in Alaskan waters for the
Seattle port of embarkation, his
widow, Mrs. Mayme Evens, said.
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MANILA, (/P)—The propellor of
the incoming American President
Lines liner President Polk, struck
a small fishing vessel in Manila
Bay yesterday. The fishing craft
sank.
Two persons aboard the vessel
were saved by a nearby American
navy launch.
VANCOUVER, B. C. ^—Gus
tav Wiegner is being held in the
Oakalla prison here until his trial
in connection with the fatal shoot
ing of John McComas, 52, on the
Alaska Highway last month.
The 24-year-old Dayton, Ohio,
salesman said in a preliminary
hearing Wednesday the shooting
was accidental. No date has been
set for the trial.
WASHINGTON, ^)—The U. S.
received its first major dividend
yesterday from the Marshall plan
investment — 25,000 tons of high
grade rubber for its stockpile of
strategic materials.
Evan Just, director of ECA’s
strategic materials division, said
this purchase from the British gov
e r n m ent adds a “substantial
amount” to this country’s stock
pile of this vital commodity.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Supplies are be
ing flown to 10 men stranded on a
rocky shore near Cape Spencer,
Alaska, while coast guard rescue
vessels await clearing weather be
fore making another rescue at
tempt.
Eight of the men were stranded
when the fishing vessel Caledonia
went aground Monday and the
«^her two, coast guardsmen, were
marooned with them when high
seas capsized a rubber raft in
which they were attempting a res
cue.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, (/P)—
Former President Eduard Benes
was buried in a tomb in the gar
den of his country home at Sezi
movo Usti today, with Protestant
and Catholic services at the grave
side.
SACRAMENTO Calif. (/F)—Fol
lowers of popular music were
dropping by a music shop today to
pick up the “most-hated record of
*the week.” The selection is “Na
ture Boy.”
Read a newspaper advertisement
telling of the bargain: “For 2 cents
^e’d throw it out the window!
“Better yet, we’ll give you 2
cents to take it out of our store . .”
Truman Tells Of !
Campaign Plans
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WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
Truman said yesterday the United
States will stand up for its rights
in Berlin while keeping up negoti
ations in the hope of establishing
peace.
His guarded statements on the
Soviet-American crisis came at a
news conference in w’hich he also
discussed political matters. He
shrugged off, without comment,
accusations made by Harold Stas
sen that his Presidential campaign
was inciting class warfare.
He disclose# partial plans for his
next big political swing into the
west. It will carry him to Dexter,
la., on Sept. 18, Denver and other
Colorado cities on Sept. 20, Salt
Lake City, Sept. 21 or 22, San
Francisco a day later.
Mr. Truman said he definitely
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Briggs Body Co.
Closed By Strike
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DETROIT, Mich. (/P) — An es
timated 50,000 Detroit auto work
ers continued idle for a second day
, and still more were threatened
with idleness as a result of a walk
! out by 170 plant guards at the
' Briggs Manufacturing Co.
The eight Dertoit plants of the
Briggs company were closed Wed
nesday, throwing 25,000 workers
off their jobs.
Chrysler Corp. sent home 19,000
and Packard 6,000 when a short
age of Briggs bodies halted assem
i bly lines. .
Continuation of the strike would
completely shut down the latter
| two companies, management said.
; The guards, members of Local
i 114, united plant guardsworkers of
America Und.) struck over a de-i
mand for 15 minutes paid prepar- '
atory time. The company now al
lows five minutes.
fnternation’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
Thursday, September 9, 1948
Perhaps the Berlin and German
problems will go before the for
eign ministers of the U. S., Russia,
France and Britain meeting soon
in Paris to consider the problem
of Italy’s former colonies. All the
western powers accepted a Russian
bid to the parley to talk over the
question deadlocked more than a
year.
Russia suggested the ministers
meet in Paris today. The British
foreign office hinted this is physi
cally impossible. Secretary of state
George C. Marshall would have to
drop everything and fly. France
does not even have a government.
PARIS—Henri Queuille, a radi
cal Socialist (Conservative), was
talking with French politicians to
see if he could form a stable cab
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Air Force Grows
In Size
(By Ellon C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The air
force has a fledgling flock of new
type warplanes and 89,000 more
men than it had a year ago.
sary of its status as a separate, in
as the September 18 first anniver
sary of it sstatus as a saparate, in
dependent arm of the fighting
services approached.
In the last year, said an air
force summary, 13 new models
have been introduced, among them
three fighters, two bombers, three
transports, a trainer, a pilotless jet
target aircraft and a cargo glider.
Jet engines are used exclusively
in all the new fighter types and in
two bombers.
It reports its strength now at
more than 400,000 men and offi
cers.
Russia Planes
“Show (>ff" To
Excited Berlin
BERLIN, f/Pi — Russian fighter
planes stunted and dived high
above the American sector of Ber
lin yesterday, leaving vapor trails
reminiscent of the war days. The
Russians broke no regulations, but
excited the German population in
this jittery four-power city.
The maneuvers, duly announced
in advance, were staged against a
somber background of big power
tension.
The Soviet commandant ip Ber
lin. Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov,
had just told the Americans ‘not
to interfere in matters which don’t
j concern them.” This was the Rus
1 sian answer to a protest by the
' American commandant, Col. Frank
I
Howley against an invasion of
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115.000 Idle From
Many Strikes
New efforts were made today to
i end crippling strikes in the oil,
! shipping and trucking industries
| but hopes of early settlement ap
peared dim.
Meanwhile, more than 115,000
workers, including 50,000 Detroit
auto plant employees, remained
I idle because of work stoppages.
The number included 30,000 CIO
longshoremen on the Pacific coast;
15.000 CIO refinery workers and
some 15,000 AFL truck drivers in
New York city and northern New
Jersey.
Representatives of six major
struck oil companies and the CIO
oil workers union resumed nego
tiations in an attempt to end the
week-old strike as the federal gov
ernment placed a temporary em
bargo on shipment of gasoline and
other fuels from west coast ports.
The union is asking 21 cents an
hour pay increase. The Los Ange
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New Airfield for Berlin Air Lift
German men and women in the French sector of Berlin le^el ground as work progresses on the
new airport designed to aid the air lift supplying the blockaded sones of the former German capital.
The area is a former training ground for the German army. Most of the workers are women.
Army Must Pav
Longshoremen
New Higher Wage
r? “
SAN FRANCISCO, CPi—Harry
Bridges sidestepping a showdown
with the army, has offered condi
tionally to handle military cargoes
in struck Pacific ports.
The CIO longshore leader,
speaking for striking unions which
tied up all shipping on the west
coast, told army officers Wednes
day that his men would load mili
tary cargo if paid the wages asked
of employers during recent nego
tiations.
He said that the CIO seafaring
unions involved in the strike
would serve on ships carrying mil
itary cargo if paid the scale cur
rent on the east coast.
As an alternative, he said the
longshoremen and the seafarers
would load for present pay with
the provision that retroactive ad
justments be made at the end of
the strike.
Bridges outlined his proposal to
newsmen before he met with army
officers.
The longshore chief had no com
ment after the meeting, and major
general James A. Lester, com
mander of the San Francisco port
of embarkation, merely told re
porters:
“This was an exploratory meet
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Fairbanks Appeals
To President
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The Fair
banks chamber of commerce and
Rotary club said today they have
sent President Truman an appeal
to use his emergency powers to as
sure Alaska sufficient commodi
ties during the maritime strike.
Earlier, Delegate E. L. Bartlett
said “Ninety thousand Alaskans
deserve the same protection that
140,000,000 got from the President
when he took emergency action in
the recent nationwide railroad
strike.”
Bartlett declared much work
which has been started here will
be lost if the government allows
the flow of supplies to be halted.
Banks’ Lending
Power Curtailed
(By Charles Molony)
WASHINGTON UP)—Borrowers
may find it tougher to get money
from the banks as the result of a
new federal reserve board action
aimed at cutting down on infla
tionary lending.
At least FRB officials hope so.
Wednesday, in an effort to make
lending funds scarcer, they ordered
their member banks across the na
tion to put another $1,900,000,000
into reserve vaults where borrow
ers can’t get at it.
Its new action, using anti-infla
tionary power voted by the special *
session of Congress a month ago,
raised the amount of money banks
must have in reserve by an addi
tional two per cent on checking
accounts and lVfc per cent on sav
ings deposits.