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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. No. 126_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1943 ]_PER COPY 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
OTTAWA, (/P)—Defense minis
ter Brooke Claxton, announced
yesterday a Canadian expert on
armored warfare, Maj. Gen. F. F.
Worthington, has been appointed
co-ordinator of the nation’s civil
defense planning.
The tag job of tjie 58-year-old
retired general will be to super
vise plans for civil defense to go
into operation should war come.
Worthington is a native of Scot
land.
JUNEAU, </P) — A coast guard
vessel returned here Monday with
the body of 35-year-old Alex Tas
sell who drowned while seal-hunt
ing Saturday. He was a lifetime
resident of Douglas.
LOS ANGELES hP)—Francis G.
Gorman spent $1,100,000 postage
to send a $1,000,00D bill to munici
pal judge Benton Worley to pay
a speeding fine on a ticket he re
ceived just before he went to
Shanghai.
The million dollars Chinese bill
was worth about two bucks,
American.
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KINGSTON, N. Y„ (/P) — The
condition of screen actress Elissa
Landi was reported worse yester
day at Kingston Hospital.
She has been on the’serious list
in the hospital for ten days. Her
physician says she is suffering a
“chrpnic condtion.”
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Lt. Gen.
Curtis E. Lemay took over yester
day as the new boss of the Stra
tegic Air Command.
Lemay, veteran of air cam
paigns in both Europe and the Pa
cific during World War II, came
here Sunday from Germany where
he was chief of U. S. air forces in
> Europe. He succeeds Gen. George
C. Kenney, who has been assigned
to head the air university at Max
well Base, Ala.
Lemay spent Monday conferring
with air secretary Symington,
chief of staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg
and other officials at the Penta
gon. Yesterday morning he sat
down to his desk at SAC head
quarters, at nearby Andrews Base,
1 Md.
HONOLULU, Joseh R. Farring
ton, Hawaii Delegate to Congress,'
declared today the shipping indus
try needs legislation like the rail- '
way labor act to prevent frequent
and costly strikes and tie-ups.
A Republican seeking re-elec
tion, Farrington said in a speech
he will ask a Congressional inves
tigation to prepare legislation to
curb shipping strikes.
*nie railway labor act has pre
vented serious transport stop
pages, he said, adding: “We in Ha
waii are entitled to some protec
“on"
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Word has been recenved from
Bob Lewis, youngest son of Mr.
► and Mrs. Norvin Lewis, who is
taking his military training, that
he is now in the big Army radio
school at Fort Monmouth, New
Jersey.
Alaska Transpor
tation Co. Suspend
Operations
Will Turn Back Ships
To Maritime Commit
sion When Unloaded
SEATTLE, (/P) — One of three
strikebound Scnttle-Alaska sh'p!
lines—The Alaska Transport -n
Company—said ‘oday it is
pending operation “indefinitely”
and has “no future plans.”
A. J. Swanson, vice preside '*
and general manager of the f.r n
whose ve.sels are idled by he
maritime strike, declined to o’
orate.
He did say, however, thn' the
fi: m hopes to turn back to the
maritime commission “as so n as
possible” wo vessels it chartered
from the commission.
The ships are the freighters
Clove Hitch and Sword Knot. T \e
firm al o owns three vessels—the
freighters Empire, Consequence
and Tongass and the newly ac
quired passenger liner, the George
Washington.
Before the chartered vessels can
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Employers Refuse
To Negotiate With
“Irresponsibles’
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SAN FRANCISCO, </P) — West
i coast waterfront employers told
CIO longshore chief Harry Bridges
yesterday that it considered “any
contract which you and your lead
ership are ultimately to adminis
ter .. . is worthless.”
The statement was in a letter
written by Frank P. Foisie, presi
dent of the waterfront employers
association, to Bridges. Foisie re
jected the latter’s proposal for re
opening negotiations in the 48-day
old west coast maritime strike.
Bridges had offered to allow
strikers to select a rank and file
negotiating committee by secret
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Devin Continues
Efforts Toward
Maritime Peace
SEATTLE, (/P) — Although he
frankly admits the prospects are
not very hopeful, Mayor William
F. Devin declared yesterday he
will continue his efforts to get
cargo ships through to Alaska
with supplies badly needed there.
The mayor expressed his deter
mination after a conference sep
arately with representatives of
both sides of the water front strike
controversy, the unions and the
employing companies.
The mayor said longshoremen’s
leaders repeated their offer to
load ships on pre-strike condi
tions, with the proviso that any
fur her increases would be retro
active. He said the employees ex
plained it would be necessary to
refer to San Francisco but didn’t
offer much hope.
internation’l News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, October 19, 1948
The United Nations security
council unanimously ordered Jews
■in ! Arabs yesterday to stop fight
ing at once in the Negev Desert
f South Palestine.
Even as the peace agency acted, I
’• lei’s air force bombed the Arab
capital of Gaza for the fourth
-/might d iy ~nd Egyptian fliers
// reported to have struck at
wo Jewish settlements.
The gr ve- issue of blockaded
Perlin was up before the security
council again.
Th ' Russians tightened their
’in A >/ ode by ruling that all
road traffic entering the city must
pass through the Soviet zone for
inspection.
Fr-mch communists, trying to
the Tar'hall plan, were ar
rayed against the government in a
-w? over the coal strike
About 335,030 miners were
out in their third week of the
e, which has deprived France
m 1 Europe of large quantities of
coal. The United States has been
ing up leficiencies in Europe’s
•oil production from its own pits.
Secretary of State Marshall
talked to ^ope Pius XII. He was
returning from a check of the bog
ged down Greek campaign against
Greek communists.
^President Syngman Rhee of
South Korea called on Gen. Mac
Arthur in Tokyo. Back in Korea,
police found .60 ’dns of dynamite
planted on a road leading to Rhee’s
palace. Communists have been
blamed for such tactics there in
the past.
MacArthur’s office filed war
crimes charges against Japanese
Adm. Seomu Toyoda, who headed
the navy at the end of the war,
and Lt. Gen. Hiroshi Tamura, who
was in charge of allied war prison
ers.
Russia and the Soviet Ukraine
abstained from the 9-0 security
council vote on a Syrian resolu
tion which demanded a cease fire
in Palestine and instructed medi
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Air Cargo DC-3
Crashes At Merrill
Field; Crew Safe
ANCHORAGE, tfp) — A Fair-,1
banks-bound Columbia Air Cargo
DC-3, loaded with fresh vegetables !
crashed a few hundred yards west
of Merrill Field yesterday after
failing to gain altitude on the
takeoff.
Two passengers and the three j
crew members escaped injury but
the plane was extensively dam
aged. The plane did not burn.
PORTLAND, (/P)—The crash of
a Columbia Air Cargo C-47 plane
at Anchorage yesterday was blam
ed by company president Joe Dob
bins on engine failure.
He reported the pilot, Pat J.
Manley of Portland, had notified
the civil aeronautics administra
ion, that the engine failed just as
the plane was about to leave the
ground.
Close 2nd Division
Contest Between
Ipalook and Beltz
JUNEAU, (JP)—Late election re
turns from the Second Division
yesterday brought a change in one
of the individual races, but left the
party balance unchanged from
early tabulations.
On a Territory-wide basis, the |
alignment for the lower House of |
the Legislature still shows 18 Dem- i
ocrats and six Republicans on the
inside track.
On returns from 21 of the Sec
ond Division’s 34 precincts, Percy
Ipalook replaced W. W. (Chief)
Laws, an incumbent, for one of
the four seats in the House. Both
.re Republicans.
Ipalook had 584 votes to Laws’
524. If Laws is the lower; he will
be the fifth defeated member of
the 1947 Legislature. In a hair
line contes , William Beltz, Demo
crat, is one vote behind Ipalook
with 583 for the fourth seat. (Re
turns today give Ipalook a total of
710 votes and Beltz 706, making
Ipalook’s margin four votes more
than Beltz).
On increase in Third Division
(Anchorage) returns from 53 to 63
out of 68 precincts, failed to alter
the Democratic sweep of Legisla
tive seats there.
Maritime Strike
Gives Air Lift
Million Lbs. Month
Four Million Dollar A
Day Shipping Business
Virtually Dried Up
SAN FRANCISCO (A*)—The Pa- !
cific coast maritime strike, now in
its 49th day, has nearly dried up
a $4,000,000-a-day waterb o r n e
commerce but has spurred on a
huge commercial air lift.
All dry cargo sailings have
stopped, save a few ships which
carry supplies for the army. Oil
tankers are not affected by the
strike.
While paralysis set into ship
ping, the strike forced resort to the
air lift. Pan American Airways
reported today perishable food
shipments to Alaska have increas
ed about 100 per cent and to Ha
waii about 55 per cent. The air
shipment of food to Alaska now is i
at the rate of a million pounds a
month and still growing.
Of the 375 dry cargo ships oper
ated by west coast American
steamship companies, 222 were
tied up as of October 15. They lay
idle in various ports from Seattle
to San Diego, from Mobile to New
York. The largest number in any
one port was 61 in San Francisco.
What has been the cost to labor
in wages lost?
An exact statement cannot be
made, but—the 222 ships now idle
have an average crew of 45 men
who draw a total of about $139,
000 a day.
West Coast CIO longshoremen,
clerks, carloaders and related
dock workers were paid $57,000,
000 in wages last year. At that rate
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Committee Found
Fifth Column On
Diomede Island
Committee Says Reds
Nomeites Have Given
Out Information
JUNEAU, (/P)—A Congressional
inves igating committee is sched
uled to leave Alaska by plane for
San Francisco today after a tour
during wihch it sought evidence of
fifth-column activity in the Terri
tory.
Congressman Charles Kersten, a
member of the committee, said
the group found evidence of fifth
column work in the Diomede Is
lands bu said he could not di
vulge its exact nature.
The committee said during a
tour of Nome it learned Russia
had information about the city
which could only have come from
Nome residents.
The group subpoenaed several
labor union leaders yesterday in a
hearing on union activities in the
Juneau area.
Territorial commissioner of la
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Wiese Wouldn’t
Object To Reds
In Unions
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Seven
members and officers of Anchor
age labor unions locals told Con
gressional investigators Monday
they never have been members of
the Communist party .
The investigating Congressmen
and Rep. Charles Kersten (R.
Wisc.» and Rep. O. C. Fisher, <D.
Tex.) of the House committee on
education and labor. They were to
go to Juneau yesterday before re
turning to the States.
Kersten said his committee was
“glad to accept” a suggestion by
the Alaska Junior Chamber of
Commerce that it investigate the
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Ballot! Splitting
Will Cut Down On
All Candidates
ALBANY, N. Y. (&)—The possi
bility that ballot splitting may
reach an all-time high in the Nov.
2 election was studied yesterday
by the followers of Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey.
The Republican Presidenti a 1
nominee worked here yesterday
on his next major campaign
speech to be delivered tonight in
New York City before the Herald
Tribune Forum. He is expec ed to
discuss plans for development of
the nation’s resources.
With his second campaign trip
behind him, Dewey and his strate
gists were said to be convinced
that there is going to be a lot of
ticket splitting this year—in fact,
possibly more than ever before.
This apparently is due to inter
est that has developed in Senate
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