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VOL. XLVIII. No. 140.NOME, ALASK~A~~Fr7dAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946 PER COPY*—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
KEY WEST (/P)—President Tru-!
man departed at 8:14 a.m. (E.S.T.) j
tbday in search of deep sea game
fish while his cabinet officers
fought a legal battle with John L.
Lewis in the economic struggle
precipitated by the walkout of
400,000 soft coal miners. The Pres -1
ident boarded a destroyer, the USS
Stribling, for an all-day tishing
trip.
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NEW YORK, (/P) — The Coast
Guard reported early today the
cutter Campbell was proceeding
to the aid of the 7,176-ton cargo
ship Theodore Parker which is
wallowing in the north Atlantic
340 miles southeast of Argentia,
Newfoundland, with its engines
dead.
SEATTLE, (/PI—Western Wash
ington appeared “over the hump"1
in its iour-day battle with nature
today as the weather bureau pre
dicted that rain, which commenced
falling in the Puget Sound area
yesterday, would continue
.throughout the day and spread in
to western Oregon. The eastern
portions of both states, however,
* faced new snows, the forecasters
said.
^HOLLWYOOD, (/P;—A stay of
execution today was granted Al
bert Deverich, 29, convicted of il
legal possession of an Italian ma
chine gun, because his heiress
wife, Marilyn Garland, 18, ex
pected to become a mother next
spring. Federal Judge Leon Yank
wich refused to reduce Deverich’s j
sentence but granted the stay un
fil May 1. Deverich was ordered
to serve two concurrent six month
sentences.
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ANCHORAGE (/P) — The An
chorage Times announced a 35
percent reduction in size today
due to lack of newsprint. The
daily’s paper supply has been held
up in Seattle by the maritime
strike.
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LOS ANGELES, </P)—'The 12th
death from an epidemic of infant
diarrhea was reported today at
Los Angeles general hospital.
Cause of the infant epidemic was
unknown by doctors who reported
it was similar to the ailment which
struck children of war brides last
spring.
P CHARLESTON, Ore., UP) —
Leonard Hal, local crab fisher
hauled up one of his pots
from five fathoms of water in
Coos Bay here today. In it he
found a note in a bottle. The note
said: “Kilroy was here.” The pot
was empty.
CIO To Disregard
Some AFL
Picket Lines
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — CIO
unions of the committee for mari
time unity, their strikes settled,
notified the AFL masters, mates
and pilots that they would disre
gard the deck officers’ waterfront
picket lines today on all vessels
except those operated by the Pa
cific American shipowners associ
ation.
Capt. Charles F. May, west
coast president of the masters,
mates and pilots, said his members
would offer no resistance, but
added: “We won’t forget it either.”
The MMP’s “no contract, no
work” stand was the only dispute
un ettled in the 53-day-old west
coast shipping tieup.
! he Ar L, group was voting to
day on a contract submitted by
the Pacific coast shipowners but
a co n t was not eupoctod before
Saturday.
CMU committees in the San
Francisco and Portland areas had
voted to return to work on foreign
vessels, army and navy ships and
those operated by oast and gulf
coast operators.
“Unions of the CMU always re
spect a bona-fide picket line where
a labor dispute exists between a
union and its employer,” the CMU
here notified May. “It is our un
derstanding that your organization
does not have any dispute with
operators of foreign flag vessels or
Atlantic and Gulf coast vessels.”
May told newsmen his union
was picketing foreign vessels “so
American shipping will not be at
a disadvantage.”
He said east coast and gulf ves
sels were included in the tieup be
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“More Power,
Or I Quit”
WASHINGTON, — Whether
housing expediter Wilson W. Wy
att quits the government or gets
the additional powers he wants to
provide homes for veterans ap
parently was up to President Tru
man tonight.
Wyatt’s recommendations on
how to handle the housing crisis
were delivered to Mr. Truman at
Key West, Fla., in a confidential
report requested by the President
on Nov. 9, when he killed all price
controls except those on rents,
sugar and rice.
It was reported that the housing
chief urged Mr. Truman to back
him up in an aggressive new pro
gram, including extra federal aids
to encourage more rental housing.
W OMAN LIGHT KEEPER — Mrs. Fanny May Salter,
only woman lighthouse keeper in the tT. S. Coast Guard service,
raises the colors at the Turkey Point, Md., Ii«ht on Chesapeake
15ay. She has been the keeper lor 20 years.
Governor Issues
Thanksgiving
Proclamation
JUNEAU — Whereas the Presi
dent of the United States has, by
proclamation, designated Thurs
day, November 28, 1946, as a day
of national tranksgiving: and has
called upon the people of this na
tion to observe that day by offer
ing thanks to God for the bounties
vouchsafed us, and by re-dedicat
ing ourselves to the preservation
of the blessings of liberty envis
aged by our forefathers in the pre
amble to the constitution.
Now, therefore, I, Lew M. Wil
liams, acting governor of the Ter
ritory of Alaska, name Thursday,
November 28, 1946, as Thanksgiv
ing Day, and recommend to the
people of the Territory of Alaska
that they unite on that day in re
turning thanks to Almighty God
for the blessings bestowed upon
us for the privilege of being citi
zens of the United States, a land
where personal liberty and free
dom shall ever triumph.
TOWN MEETING i
| Alaska Development
Board Manager
To Visit Nome
George Sundborg, general man
ager for the Alaska Development
Board, in answer to an appeal
from the Chamber of Commerce
will arrive here on Nov. 29 to see
personally the result of Nome’s
continuous beach erosion and the
damage caused by the last two
storms.
He has already taken steps to
see what the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation can do and has
also corresponded with the Dis
aster Loan Corporation who aided
! Seward in their rebuilding after
their big fire. Mr. Sundbog plans
to spend several days here.
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i ANCHORAGE, (/P>—'This city’s
j annual “fur rendezvous,” which
I attracts buyers from all over the
United States will be held from
| Feb. 25 to March 1, 1947, manager
i Charles Chevillon said today.
In addition to the famed auc
j tions, the show will include exhib
its of other Alaska industries, an
i
| expanded sports and entertainment
i program.
VT GYM TONIGHT
Coal Miners Strike
In Defiance Of
Government Order
PITTSBURGH, UP) — The na
tion’s soft coal miners, some de
pressed and some in holiday spirit,
struck yesterday in defiance of
their government.
The strike, which government
officials fear may cripple the na
tional economy, began at 12:01
a.m. when John L. Lewis main
tained 'silence, refusing to bow to
a federal injunction which re
quired him to continue the United
i Mine Workers contract with the
government.
1 Lewis thus automatically laid
himself open for contempt of court
i charges, as wel! as violation of t ie
Smith-Connallv law. He could lie
sentenced to a year in jail and
fine 1 $5,000.
But one minor sa d. "If they put
John in jail, there won’t be one
ton of c-al mined until he’s out.”
M ny of ihe miners were strik
ing only h.'df-he irtedly and mere
ly ou* of loyalty to Lewis and to
their tradition of “no contract, no
work.”
One miner said, "it isn’t c insti
tutional to try to keep a man on
the job by force.” None of the
miners interviewed would give
their names because they were
I afraid of prosecution under the
Smith-Connally law.
Maintenance men will remain
on the job to prevent mines from
j being flooded, and the mines will
remain open for anyone who
wants to work. But no one ex
pected any miners to report this
morning.
Premature walkouts -swept the
country beginning Monday, reach
ing a climax last night when 157,
000 were reported idle in Pennsyl
J vania, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana
| and Illinois.
Thousands more failed to report
for night shifts yesterday and the
last crews left the pits shortly be
fore the swing shifts were sched
uled to start.
WASHINGTON, W’l-Two fed
eral marshals served John L.
Lewis with a summons today re
quiring his appearance in federal
court Monday morning to answer
a contempt citation resulting from
j the soft coal strike. Lewis accept
I ed the summons in his private of
I fice “without comment.” an aide
! reported.
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds
borough last night ordered Lewis
i to show why he should not be held
in contempt for refusing to with
! draw his contract termination no
tice—the signal which led to the
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