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NEWS IN BRIEF
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CORDOVA, (iP)—The fifth an
nual convention of the Alaska
Moose association will be held in
Juneau in the fall of 1949, dele
gates to this year’s assembly de
cided. At a business session, Harry
DeLand, Juneau, was named di
rector for the eastward section of
Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A new
“twin” parking meter will be
tried out in front of the federal
building here soon. It will stand
between two cars, thus cutting the
number of required meters in
half.
City manager Don Wilson said
they could be placed along Fourth
Avenue and present meters be
moved to Fifth Avenue in an ef
fort to improve the streets’ ap
pearance.
SEWARD (>P)— Clem and Vir
ginia Schneider, former Seward
couple now traveling in Europe,
have visited the Austrian Alps re
cently, a letter to friends said.
They will return to New York late
next month after tours through
Germany, Holland and England.
CHANUTE AIRBASE, 111. </P)—
Three men were killed last night
in a crash here of a C-7 air forces
plane carrying persons.
Nineteen injured taken to the
base hospital “probably owe their
lives to the fact that the plane
first hit two empty barracks,”
Brigadier General F. R. Upthe
grove, commanding general, said.
LOS ANGELES, (IP) — George
Edwin Burnell, internationally
known philosopher and religious
educator, is dead at the age of 85.
Author of more than 1,000 re
ports on metaphysical subjects
and secread literature, Burnell
died yesterday after a short ill
ness.
PARIS, OP)—Russia has poured,
the equivalent of about $450,000,
000 into postwar Poland to help
develop new steel, chemical, ce
ment and other industries, the
United Nations was told today.
Tadensz Lychowski, Polish del
egate to the assembly’s 58-nation
economic committee, made the es
timate.
MANILA, <>P) — Fire destroyed
12 business houses in downtown
Manila today. Firemen estimated
damage at $500,000. Thirty stu
dents in a vocational school in one
building narrowly escaped.
FULLERTON, Calif. (/P) — Bill
Barris and Dick Riedel say they’ll
take off again late today in a new
attempt to break the endurance
flight record.
Their monoplane, Sunkist Lady,
was forced down yesterday by
magneto trouble after 210 hours
in the air in an attempt to break
the record of 726 hours which was
set at Long Beach, Calif., in 1939.
LONGVIEW, Tex. (JP) — The
drone of an airplane engine over
Gregg county airport here early
today gave assurance that the en
durance fliers Pred Vinmont and
Bert Simons were still in the air.
Denis. Lead In I
Fourth Division
Legislative Race
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FAIRBANKS. I/P) — Struggling j
returns from the outlying pre
cincts of the Fourth Division gave
the Democrats the lead for one
more seat in the Territorial legis
lature.
It increased the balance for the ,
lower house to 19 Democrats and j
five Republicans, compared to the
Republican edge of 13 to 11 in the
1946 election.
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On returns from 50 of 65 pre
cincts, Republican Walter Calhoun
dropped out of the list of the five
leaders for the five seats from the
Division. Warren Taylor, Demo
crat, who had been trailing behind
the five leaders, moved into fourth
place, with 1757. Calhoun had
1669. The only Republican left
among the five was A. F. <Joe> Co
ble, in fifth place with 1704.
The three Democrat leaders
were; Glen D. Franklin, 2141; Es
sie Dale, 1911, and Frank Anger
man, 1810.
In the Senate race, Frank Barr,
Democrat took the lead over in
cumbent John Butorvich, Jr., Re
publican, 2249 to 2203. Both were
elected as their opponents were
far behind.
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International News
At A Glance —
Saturday, October 23, 1948
(By The Associated Press>
Paris informants said Saturday
the United States and Canada are
expected in the next few weeks to
begin drafting a North Atlantic j
pact pledging full military aid to1
the five-nation Brussels Union.
The alliance would link the U. S.
and Canada in formal treaty rela
tionships with Britain, France and
the Benelux countries—Belgium,
The Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Ultimately the concept may be ex
tended to take in other anti-com
munist nations of western and
southern Europe.
American informants indicated
the broad outlines of a North At- ;
lantic alliance already exist. They j
predicted the actual drafting of j
the treaty will begir^soon after the '
U. S. election Nov. 2. The out-1
come of the election is not expect
ed to affect the plan, it was said,
as both the Republican and Demo
cratic pities have committed
themselves in principle to backing
the Brussels Western European
Union.
The North Atlantic alliance is
expected to commit the United i
States and Canada to build up the J
air, land and sea forces of the
Brussels powers with arms and
equipment. The pact also will call
for standardization of equipment
and training and create a seven
nation unified military strategic
command under an American
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During the night the two Dallas
pilots passed the 100-hour mark
in their attempt to beat the
world’s endurance record of 726
hours set in 1939.
Ask ( Commercial,
Wildlife Fishing
Be Separated
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Separ
ate federal administrations for
commercial fishing and wildlife is
recommended in a Pacific fisheries
conference resolution. Both are
now under the same administra
tion.
The conference, which ended
Friday night was attended by del
egates of fishermen’s unions, boat
owners, packers and allied pro- !
cessors. Miller Freeman, Seattle
publisher of the industry journal,
Pacific fishermen, was reelected
chairman.
Delegates also asked in the reso
lution that the fisheries be placed
under a federal agency where a
they would be free from what
they termed domination by recla
mation, water power and Indian
service.
Another resolution asked that
the present federal dam projects
on streams supporting commer
cial fisheries be developed to their
fullest extent before further pro
jects which may be destructive to
fisheries are undertaken.
As an example, delegates point
ed to the Grand Coulee power in
stallation on the Columbia. They
said the installation is only partial i
and should be completed before
other dams are constructed down
stream.
The delegates requested that
the Indian service be reorganized.
They want to restrain it from fur
ther extension of Alaska Indian
reservations which the delegates
held to be destructive of free de
velopmnt of the fisheries and
other industrial opportunity in the
Territory.
Leads In
Newspaper Polls
Results of the latest newspaper
polls in the Presidential race fol
low:
New York Daily News (state
wide, including 27 upstate coun
ties and 39 New York City assem
bly districts) Dewey 49.7 per cent;
Truman 43.0; Wallace 7.3.
Chicago Tribune <53 cities down
state Illinois, plus Chicago):
Dewey 27,028 votes; Truman 23,
496 votes; Wallace, 1,631.
Chicago Sun-Times (20 coun
ties including Cook — Chicago); J
Dewey 12,138 votes; Truman, 11,-;
077; Wallace 440.
Philadelphia Inquirer < 1,500- j
ballot poll New Castle county, I
Delaware, including Wilmingt<Tn):
Dewey, 41.8 per cent; Truman
27.6; others two per cent; unde
cided, 28.8 per cent.
Philadelphia Inquirer (2,138
ballots in western Pennsylvania,
including Pittsburgh; 3,100 ballots
in eastern Pennsylvania, includ
ing 2,500 in Philadelphia): Dewey,
47.1 per cent; Truman, 29.1 per
cent; Wallace, 2.3 per cent; other
candidates, .4 per cent; undecided,
21.1 per cent.
Spokane, Wash. Spokesman-Re
view (for Ravelli, Lake, Sanders,
Lincoln, Flathead and Missoula
counties in northern Montana):
Dewey, 59.7 per cent; Truman,
37.3; Wallace, 2.8.
Bridges Ignores
Congressional
Investigation
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SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A Con
gressional investigation of com
munism in west coast maritime
maritime unions was in recess Sat
urday after a tumultuous one-day
stand.
Striking maritime union mem
bers picketed the hearing, which
resulted in a threat of contempt
action against two union leaders—
and a six-weeks recess.
Reps. Charles J. Karsten <R.
Wis.) and O. C. Fisher <D.-Tex.> of
the House labor and education
subcommittee conducted the hear
| »ng.
At the conclusion, Karsten said
he would recommend action for
contempt of Congress be filed
; against Hugh Bryson, head of the
CIO maritime cooks union, and
1 David Jenkins, California labor
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Bridges Charges
Investigation Of
Him 6Un warranted’
JUNEAU, </P> — Harry Bridges
has termed the request of four
Alaska junior chambers of com
merce for an investigation of his
affiliations “unwarranted.”
The four chambers had made
the request of a two-man Con
gressional sub-committee which is
now conducting a hearing in San
Francisco on the question of com
munism in maritime unions.
Bridges, in a telegram to the ,
Juneau chamber, termed the re- t
quest unwarranted “following 10
years of investigation, three trials
and a United States Supreme
Court decision holding me not a 1
communist.”
The leader of the CIO longshore
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Truman Says GOP
Plans “To Crush
Organized Labor"
<By The Associated Press*
President Truman took his po
litical prospecting to Pennsylvania
mine areas Saturday as Gov. Tho- i
i
mas E. Dewey tried to shake off |
a cold in Albany before starting ,
his campaign windup Tuesday.
Headed for a major address in
Pittsburgh Saturday, Mr. Truman I
faced a day-long journey through
the mountain stronghold of John
L. Lewis, boss of the United Mine
Workers, who has been outspoken
in his opposition to the Democratic
Presidential candidate. In a speech
at Scranton, he asked miners to
help block GOP plans “to crush
organized labor.”
Dewey will not begin his final
vote tour until tonight, midnight,
when he heads for the same big
cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Bos
ton, New York.
The Republican President i a 1
candidate returned to Albany Fri
day night suffering from a head
cold which he told a party rally
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CAB Hearings On
Service To Alaska
Open in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, </P) — The first
phase of a civil aeronautics board
hearing to determine whether more
air service between the United
States and Alaska is necessary is
scheduled to open here today.
Thirty-one airlines, cities and
government bureaus have filed no
tice of intention to appear here or
in Washington. D. C\, where the
second phase of the hearing is
scheduled to start about 10 days
after the close of the Anchorage
session.
Only two airlines are expected
to present their case in full here.
They are the Mount McKinley
Airways and the Wien Alaska Air
ways, who are seeking certificated
routes to Seattle.
Others expected to appear here
include formal and informal in
tervenor located in Alaska.
Some industrial witnesses.
Northwest Airlines, Pan American
World Airways and Pacific North—
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Unions Seek To
Unify Strength To
Support Strikes
MARTINEZ, Calif. (^—Strik
ing CIO oil workers called for a
meeting tonight of all labor organ
izations—CIO, AFL, rail and inde
pendents— ‘'to mobilize unified
support” of the long oil and mari
time strikes.
The strikes of the oil workers’
union against six California refin
ing companies and of five mari
time unions along the Pacific
coast are in their eighth week.
Negotiations in the oil deadlock
were resumed. Three sessions of
Union nad Shell oil company rep
resentatives were scheduled today
in the San Francisco Bay area,
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Palestine Becomes
Political Football
In Campaign
<Bv The Associated Press)
The Presidential campaign hit
the stretch drive today with Pres
ident Truman and his Republican
opposition accusing each other of
playing politics with Palestine.
Shortly befroe he set out for
Chicago and the first of a final
series of big city speeches, Mr.
Truman last night declared his
support of the original United Na
tions plan to partition the Holy
Land, subject only to changes ap
proved by the new Jewish State
of Israel.”
In a statement which White
House press secretary Charles G.
Ross said had been ‘‘cleared with
the state department,” the Presi
dent also asserted that he has or
dered swift study of Israel’s ap
plication for an American loan.
Mr. Truman said he had been
forced to ‘‘reiterate my own posi
tion” because Gov. Thomas E.
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