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VOL. XLIX. No. 42. NOME~ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 PER COPY — 15c~
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P) — Expansion of
the Northwest’s tourist industry,
improvement of overland and sea
routes to Alaska and continued de
velopment of the Columbia basin
on both sides of the international
boundary will be primary topics
of discussion wnen the Pacific
Northwest trade association as
sembles here April 14-15 for its
fifth annual gathering.
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Telephone calls
to the long distance operator here
brought forth the following re
corded words:
“Operator’s strike. Only emer
gency calls accepted. If you do
not have an emergency please hang
up. If you do have an emergency,
please wait until the operator ans
wers.”
ATHENS, (,/P)—Press dispatches
reported today that 270 guerrillas
^ had been killed, 114 captured and
an unspecified number wounded
by government forces in clashes
with leftist bands in northern,
eastern and central Greece during
the last 48 hours.
BATAVIA, J a v a . (/P) — The
wreckage of a Netherlands East In
dies airforce Dakota plane, which
disappeared March 13 with 27 per
sons aboard, was sighted today on
the 6,000-foot peak of Mt. Boerang
rang, 10 miles northwest of Ban
doeng.
The reconnaissance pilot who re
ported the discovery said he saw
no signs of life. He said both
wings were ripped off, but that the
l^jdy of the plane was intact. A
ground searching party immedi
ately started for the wreckage.
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FRANKFURT, Germany, —
Herbert Backe, 50, German minis
ter of food and agriculture during
the latter part of the war, hanged
himself yesterday in the Nuern
berg jail, where he was awaiting
trial on war crimes charges.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—George A.
Garrett, Washington, D. C., in
vestment banker, was nominated
by President Truman today to be
minister to Ireland.
Garrett’s nomination wks sent to
the Senate along with that of
Henry Grady to be ambassador to
India. The President also nomin
ated Jed Johnson, former Demo
cratic Representative from Okla
homa, to be a member of the U. S.
customs court, succeeding William
J. Keefe, who resigned.
WISTER, Okla. (/P) — The St.
Louis & San Francisco railroad's
station agent here reported that
four persons were killed when a
windstorm struck Glendale com
munity in Leflore country in Okla
homa early today.
DUBLIN, (/P)—Beverly won the
Irish Grand National steeplechase
today. Highland lad was second
and African Collection third. The
winner, owned by T. J. Doyle and
ridden by Dan Moore, was a six to
one selection. The odds on High
land Lad were 100 to 7 and 20 to 1
on African Collection.
On to the NW Alaska Fair at Nome
Four domesticated sled deer being readied for the trip from a northern village to the Nort aw st
en Alaska Fair, (the ninth annual), being held in Nome, Alaska, April 17 to 20. The deer will be
entered in races and be on display throughout th ■ Fair. (Richter Photo)
Russia Demands
U.S. Scrap A Bombs
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. </P) —
Andrei A. Gromyko, today renew
ed Russia’s demand that the United
j States scrap its atomic bombs im
mediately. The Soviet deputy for
; eign minister declared that such a
step plus a general slash in arma
ments would “remove mutual sus
picion and lack of confidence'’
throughout the world.
Delivering the long-awaited Sov
iet policy speech to the United Na
tions commission on conventional
armaments, Gromyko ripped into
assertions of the western powers
that iron-clad international secur
ity measures must precede actual I
disarming.
The Soviet delegate to the U.S.
also rejected American and Brit
ish contentions that disarming
must be conditioned on establish
ment of safeguards.
He said the general assembly
resolution of last December calling
for arms reduction did not “direct
ly and indirectly” indicate any ne
cessity for such safeguards.
In asking again for a convention
to outlaw atomic weapons now,
Gromkyo said:
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ACS ANNOUNCES
INTERRUPTED SERVICE
■■■■— ■ ■ —
The Alaska Communication Sys
tem announced that due to the
telephone strike which was called
this morning, all radiotelephone
calls destined to points in Seattle
and other points throughout the
United States may be subject to
considerable delay.
Special efforts are being made to
maintain commercial telephone
service from the Seattle ACS of
fice to Alaska via radiophone as a
minimum service.
Also telegraphic services will be
subject to delay in delivery and
transmission to points in Seattle
and beyond.
TelephoneWorkers
Strike; U.S. Mav
Seize Industry
'By The Associated Press)
Telephone workers from coast
to coast walked off their jobs to
day, crippling service in the na
tion’s vast telephone industry.
Still unaffected were dial tele
phones, which serve about CO per
cent of the nation’s telephone users,
and leased wire service to press I
and radio.
I
Supervisory employees stepped
in to provide emergency service
where long distance and local serv- 5
ices were affected.
An estimated 340,000 workers,
demanding $12 a week pay in
creases and other contract changes
made the walkout nationwide at 9
a.m., <EST> when employees of the
Pacific telephone and telegraph
company quit in Los Angeles.
The strike, first nationwide tel-j
ephone walkout in American his
tory, began in the east shortly be
fore 6 a.m. EST—the official dead
line— and spread westward for
three hours as the deadline march-;
ed across the nation.
Attorney General Tom Clark 1
gave President Truman an opinion
Saturday that the industry could
be seized under the federal com
munications act but an official
close to the situation said flatly
that seizure has so far received no
serious consideration.
The telephone lines will be
taken <^ver only if it seems that is
the only way to bring order to the
situation, this official asserted.
President Joseph A. Beirne of
the NFTW, which is independent
of AFL and CIO, challenged the
Clark opinion, but left unanswered
the $64 question:
Will the union work for the gov
ernment even after seizure?
Beirne said Clark’s opinion, 1
given verbally to President Tru
man at Saturday’s cabinet meet-1
Taft Says Expenses,
Taxes Will Be Cut
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Taft of Ohio declared today that
the Republican-controlled Con
gress will disregard President Tru
man’s “political timing" and cut
both taxes and government ex
penses this year.
Taft, who heads the Senate Re
publican policy committee, told a
reporter he regards as a “purely
political statement” the President’s
assertion in his Saturday night
Jefferson Day address that the Re
publicans are headed toward “false
economy.”
Mr. Truman told his audience of
Democratic party members he rec
ognized frankly that the present
tax burden is too heavy to be con
sidered permanent, adding:
“At a proper time I will support
tax reduction and tax readjust
ment designed to reduce the bur
den and to adjust the burden to
the needs of a peacetime econ
omy.”
$100; Safe Stolen
From Glue Pot
Early Sunday morning the rear
window of the Glue Pot was
broken and entry was made
through a door by one or more
robbers who relieved the establish
ment of the small safe and its con
tents amounting to about $100.00
in silver.
Chris Simeon, who customarily
takes the early morning shift at
the Glue Pot, discovered the brok
en window and open door and re
ported at once to Police Chief
Brown.
Chief Brown stated he made a
complete survey of the property
and that he was confident the cul
prit or culprits could not get away.
ing, was “contrary to the opinion
of our legal counsel.”
Communists Kill
U. S. Marines
PEIPING, i/P) — Chinese Com
munists, sweeping suddenly out of
l ie early morning darkness, Satur
day attacked a U. S. Marine artil
lery supply depot near Tangku,
killing live marines and wounding
id others, six of whom were not
expected to live.
Papers found on the bodies of
slain attackers verified they were
Communists, an official marine
statement said.
The statement did not mention
the number of casualties suffered
by the attackers, but Chinese mil
itary officers reported 100 of the
band killed or wounded.
These officers announced that
600 government troops from Chi
ang Kai-Shek’s second army had
been dispatched from Tientsin to
aid marines in tracking down the
attackers, whose numbers were
not known.
Even as the attackers faded into
the darkness from which they had
struck at a marine ammunition
dump, a heavily-armed marine
convoy was made ready at Tient
sin, 25 miles to the west, to set out
in pursuit.
Stung by the biggest casualty
toll in a long series of clashes with
north China irregulars, Col. Julian
N. Frisbie, commander of the Fifth
Marines at Peiping, was flying to
Tientsin to take personal com
mand.
A brief marine announcement
confirmed that the fighting at
Hsinho lasted fifteen minutes, be
ginning at 1:15 a.m. The reports of
the fighting were fragmentary,
saying that one marine tank was
disabled by a land mine, and that
j several explosions of stored am
munition rocked the dump.
Marine fighter planes were
called out but the Chinese had van
ished before the airmen could get
into action.
i This same dump was raided last
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Seek To Narrow
U. S. World Aid
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Senate
critics sought anew today to nar
row President Truman’s doctrine
of world-wide aid to “free peoples”
by writing into the Greek-Turkish
bill a proclamation against inter
vention in any other nation’s civil
strife.
With the Senate expected to start
debating the $400,000,000 stem
Communism measure Wednesday,
Senator Edwin C. Johnson <D.
Colo.), spearheaded a drive for
such a non-intervention amend
ment even though it already has
been rejected by the foreign rela
tions committee.
Johnson’s proposal would state
in effect that the United States in
extending aid to Greece and Tur
key, is not establishing a policy
under which it will feel called up
on to intervene in the troubles of
nations elsewhere. It also would
reaffirm American intentions to
submit to the United Nations all
future disturbances inv o 1 v i n g
world peace.