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VOL. XL1X. No. 43. ^MeTIlLASKATwEDNESDAyTaPRIL 9, 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John D.
^ Goodloe was elected chairman of
the reconstruction finance corpo
ration today, taking over duties
relinquished by 74-year-old ('has.
13. Henderson.
Henderson, who has served as
chairman since July 1, 1941, has
agreed to continue as an RFC di
0 rector until President Truman
names a successor. His resigna
tion was submitted to Mr. Truman
recently upon the advice of physi
cians.
MINNEAPOLIS. f/P) — A bullet
accidentally discharged during a
marksmanship exhibition killed a 1
member of the orchestra at the
Northwest Sportsmen’s show here
last night. Curtis Erickson, 27, a'
bass viol player, died enroute to a
hospital of the bullet wound just
above his heart.
1 ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A three
member committee will appear be
fore the House public lands com
mute in Washington D. C., April
16 to press the Territory's case for 1
Alaskan statehood.
The committee was completed I
yesterday with appointment of
Hugh Dougherty, insurance man,
• to represent the Anchorage cham
ber of commerce. Also to attend |
are Lee Bettinger, mayor of Koc1.
ak. and Bob Atwood, editor of the
Anchorage Times.
Additional federal aid in con
struction of the international air-:
port here also will be sought.
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COPENHAGEN. UP) — King
Christian suffered a heart attack
Sunday, and a- Royal Palace com
munique said today the 76-year
• old monarch had been ordered tc
"rest for a considerable period."
The communique, issued al
noon, said the king had recovered
from the attack.
KANSAS CITY, UP) — Paul E.
Richter announced his resignation
from the executive committee of
Transcontinental & Western Air.
Inc., and said he would not “stand
• for re-election of an officer or di
rector of the company” at a meet
ing of stockholders April 24.
PRESTON, Md., </P)—Rear ad
miral George Creighton Carmine,
81 year old retired coast guard offi
cer, died at his home here last
night.
He had been seriously ill a week.
At various times he commanded
coast guard units at San Francisco,
* Boston and Washington. He was
decorated for World War I convoy
duty and figures in the Aleutian
islands seal-poaching controversy.
CASABLANCA, Morocco, </P)~
Sixty-one persons were killed and
119 were wounded in rioting yes
. terday.
The riot was said to have been
caused by a fight between a Sene
galese and a Moroccan over a wd
man.
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SEATTLE, (/P)—James A. Tay
lor, president of the Washington
^ state federation of labor (AFL)
from 1927 to 1945, died in a hos
pital here last night after a pro
longed illness. His death ended a
career of nearyl 50 years in the
Eskimo Couple and Sled Deer
Eskimos in the territory north of Kotzebue, \laska, domesticate reindeer, both tor milk a'iS for
pulling sleds. The couple is shown with two of many ucn trained reindeer to be seen dvrin;.; the
Noithwestern Alaska Ninth Annual Fair, being held at Nome, Alaska, April IT. If. 19, and 20.
(Richter Photo)
Red Cross Aid
Given In Nome
During the past year the needy
citizens of Nome have been the
recipients of financial help and
other aid from the American Red
Cross.
Most of the calls for assistance
have come from service men away
from home and desirous of infor
mation concerning relatives or
friends. The Red Corss has sup
plied such information many,
many times, this year.
During the fall storms in Nome
there was considerable damage to
personal property, especially in the
East end of town. The Red Cross
flew twenty mattresses in from
Anchorage and authorized the pur
chase of much essential material!
for house repairs.
Quite a few folk have needed j
temporary financial assistance, and 1
in some cases money has beenf
given outright. No one has been
refused aid. In excess of one thou
sand dollars has been used locally
for such assistance.
In the next few days all of the
people of this area will have an
opportunity to invest in the Red
Cross Fund for 1947.
SUPPORT YOUR RED CROSS!
CHRIST ROUSTS RETURN
TO NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Roust and;
son, who have been away visiting
in Juneau, arrived home on Mon
day and report that there is no
place like Nome and it’s good to be j
home again. Mr. Roust spent most
of the time while out, in Seattle on
Strike Settlement
Being Negotiated
• By The Associated Press)
The American public adjusted
itself to sharply curailed telephone
service Tuesday as the coast to
coast strike of nearly 300,000 em
ployees of the Bell system entered
its second day.
Calls between dial telephones
continued without interruption,
but calls over manual phones, or
traveling the long distance lines of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Co., parent organization of
the Bell system, generally were
limited to emergency calls. Of the
nation’s 31,600.000 telephones, 18,
700,000 are dial-operated.
Negotiations to end the coast-to
coast strike, called Monday by the
independent national federation of
telephone workers, were resumed
Tuesday in Washington and in
many other cities over the nation,
but Joseph A. Beirne, NFTW pres
ident, said the unions were settling
down for a long shutdown.
First lifting of the strike action
was reported last night when Ken
neth Abrahamson, president of the
Jamestown, N. Y., federation of
telephone workers, an NFTW af
filiate, announced a nine per cent
pay increase had been accepted
and 66 operators and 49 plant em
ployees would return to work for
the Jamestown Telephone Corpo
rator
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SEATTLE, (/P)—The nationwide)
telephone strike cut long distance
calls between Alaska and points in
the United States by 60 per cent
yesterday, Col. T. J. Tully, com
manding officer of the Alaska |
Lewis Plans To Call
New Coal Strike
WASHINGTON, f/P)—Owners of
the seized soft coal mines accused
John L. Lewis today of engineer
ing a “deliberate and premeditat
ed’’ new strike by his united mine
workers in defiance of federal
courts.
The justice department kept se
cret its own view pending another
appearance by Lewis tomorrow j
before the judge who plastered
him and thetJMW with fines total
ing $3,510,000 for violating a no
strike order last December.
Lewis advised his union locals
by telegram during the day that
he approves “resumption of pro
duction at each mine as fast as it
is certified by federal mine inspec
tors as being in conformity with
the federal mine safety code.”
Capt. N. H. Collisson, the coal
mines administrator, turned down
last Saturday a demand by Lewis
that the government close the
mines until federal inspectors cer
tify their safety.
Collisson advised Lewis that the
518 mines which the government
had shutdown as hazardous he
would permit to reopen if the op
erating manager certified them as
safe and the local union safety
committee made no claim of “im
minent danger.”
day.
He said the telephone company
had assured him they would be
able to clear incoming calls from
Alaska over their lines from Seat
tle hereafter.
The colonel said the -best place
Henry Ford, Auto
King, Passes <in
LETROIT IjP)—In the flickering
i-ght of kerosine lamps and can
'll Henry For i. famed pioneer ot
to.' automobile indu-try, died at
'HP o'clock Monday night in his
home at Dearborn, Mich., near
here. ♦
He would have reached his 84th
birthday next July 30.
High flood waters of the River
Rouge running through the Ford
estate had cut power and heating
services at the residence—and a
wood-burning fireplace warmed
the room.
Funeral services will be held
t om St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathe
dral in Detroit Thursday.
Al: Fold operations • kroughout
world wii! be sippen led on
Thursday. Flag'- on all Fo;d prop
erty will be at half staff until af
ter the funeral.
Mr. Ford’s death marked the
passing of not only one of the
world’s most noted industrialists
but of an individualist who devel
oped one of the most colossal fam
ily fortunes the world has known
out of what often had been ridi
culed as "a lot of crazy ideas.”
He developed his great indus
trial empire for which he was once
-aid to have refused 81,000,000,000,
out of an idea for a cheap automo
bile and an initial capital invest
ment, mainly by his friends, of
828,000.
T lat was in 1903, and at his
death, the great empire belonged
exclusively to his family and had
manufactured more than 31.000,000
vehicles,
He had been planning to cele
brate his wife’s birthday and their
39th wedding anniversary next
Friday.
The surviving members of the
lamily, in addition to the widow,
arc Mrs. Edsel B. < Eleanor* Ford,
and her children, Henry II, Ben
son, William and Josephine Ford.
Edsel Ford, only son of the noted
manufacturer, died in May, 1943.
Greek Offensive
Against Guerrillas
ATHENS, (/P)—The Greek gov
ernment announced today the
launching of a long-awaited “gen
eral offensive” designed to crush
guerrilla forces in western Mace
donia and Thessaly.
The announcement said opera
tions were commenced at dawn af
ter government aircraft had drop
ped thousands of leaflets over the
guerrilla-controlled area warning
the civilian population that the of
fensive was about to start.
Both the second and third army
corps were reported participating
in the drive.
Strong forces were reported
standing by ready to prevent the
guerrillas fom escaping by sea
along the eastern coast of Thessaly.
The leaflets addressed to civil
ians warned them to keep away
from roads and streets in the field
of operations. Those failing to heed
the warnings run the risk of being
“killed without discrimination as