Vernon Konukpeok and Edith
Topsekok were married on Satur
day evening, Oct. 23 by the U. S.
Commissioner. Attendants at the
wedding were Edgar G. Weokliluk
and Bruce P. Oxereok.
C. D. Anderson is at home re
cuperating from burns sustained
this morning when hot water acci
dentally spilled on him. During
his stay at home Mrs. Glen Mun
cy will be in the Alaska Travel
Service Office.
VIENNA, <>P)—Composer Franz
Lehar, 78, whose lilting light op
era music is known and sung
throughout the world, died yetser
day at his home in Bad Ischl.
Lehar, whose charming melo
dies and graceful waltz themes
were universally loved, was the
composer of the Merry Widow and
several other operettas that are
among the present day’s last links
with the light-hearted music for
which Vienna was famous.
His physician, Dr. Franz Wur
nik said the composer who had
been critically ill for six weeks,
died of cancer. His illness was
complicated by gastric ulcers,
Mrs. Roosevelt
Addresses German
Women Meeting
STUTTGART, Germany,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Satur
day told a meeting of German wo
men that Sovietism must not be
allowed to fill the vacuum left by
Nazism.
In a speech prepared for deliv
ery in German to a meeting spon
sored by the League of Women
Physicians, the widow of Ameri
ca’s wartime President declared
Sovietism must not be allowed to
“carry on any of the same methods
which created the fear and hatred
of the other systems.” She was
referring to Nazism and Fascism.
“The words Nazism and Facism
will forever be looked upon with
horror by the free peoples of the
world and Sovietism must not be
allowed to fill the vacuum,” she
declared, adding “if a system is
good let it be voluntarily adopted
by other peoples to their need, not
imposed by foreign pressure.’"
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Maritime Strike j
Brings High Prices,
Unemployment i
To Alaska
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SEATTL7, CP) — Many critical
i Alaskan defense projects are at a
(Standstill for lack of materials,;
says Ralph E. Westover of Anchor
age, who flew to Seattle Friday in
a new move seeking settlement of
the west coast maritime strike.
Westover, vice-president of the
Alaska Junior Chamber of Com
merce. was sent to Seattle by that
organization for conferences with
i the waterfront employers’ asso
ciation, Mayor William F. Devin
and leaders of the striking CIO j
1 longshoremen.
Westover said the military in
Alaska is getting its supplies. But
work of many small sub-contract
ors is being delayed. One Alaskan
contractor, Shaw, Edwards and j
Goodman, informed Westover, the ;
latter said, that three of its de-1
fense jobs are at a standstill or
near-standstill.
“We want shipping resumed as ,
1 soon as possible, with a contract
between labor and management j
that is binding so we can have j
continuity of service instead of the
1 haphazard shipping service of the ’
past 14 years,” Westover said.
“In my opinion, the people of;
Alaska are more anxious to have a
1 good, equitable settlement made,
I that will last the next four or five
j years, than they are in an immedi- \
ate, haphazard settlement which I
I would last only a few months.”
Westover said there is at present
plenty of food in Alaska and star- j
*vation of the people cannot be
charged. But the maritime strike
has reduced consumer buying!
power in Alaska by at least 30 per
cent, he continued. Small busi
nesses, many of them founded by
war veterans, are being forced to
close their doors, and Alaska, for
the first time in many years, has
an unemployment problem.
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Truman Says GOP j
Plans “To Crush j
Organized Labor”
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in New York was so bad he could
n’t hear himself speak. While in
New York he had made two major
speeches, plus talks Friday to
workers at party headquarters.
Dewey told his supporters to
“look ahead four years” and close j
out the present election drive
without “vituperation and abuse.”
He said the Democrats may resort
to tactics of “desperation”’ in the
next few days.
If the Republicans can win the
electioA, he said, “without creating
artificial divisions, without cre
ating hatreds ... we can so unite
our people . . . that we can mobil
ize the enormous strength of our
country for the most precious
cause on earth—that of the peace
of the world.”
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Woman Killed By
Explosion Of
Anesthetic Gas
HARRISBURG, Pa. (A5) — An
explosion of anesthetic gas appar
ently killed Mrs. Anna Barbara
Vugrinec on the operating table at
the Harrisburg hospital, superin
tendent Webster C. Kohlhaas said
today.
Two anestheticists, Miss Frances
Metz, and Miss Dolores Cartier,
were slightly injured in the blast
but kept on working, Kohlhass
said. The surgeon, Dr. Norman B.
Sheplern and his assistant Dr.
Thomas E. Davies, were unin
jured.
The accident occurred Friday
as the woman, mother of five chil
dren, was undergoing an abdom
inal operation.
Kohlhass said the operation was
about completed at the time of the
blast. However, Mrs. Vugrinec
was still under anesthetic.
“She apparently died of shock,”
he added.
A combination of gas and ether
was being used, he said.
“We don’t know the cause of the
explosion but b£ believe it must
have been from static elecrticity,”
Kohlhass added. “We have no
knowledge that our mechanism
was faulty.”
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