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VOL. XLVIII. No. 130_NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940_PER COPY — 15c
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United Assembly
Swept By Fear Of
^New Tensions
3y JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
NEW YORK, (>P)—Fears of new
tensions between Russia and the
western powers over atomic con
trols, disarmament, the veto and
other critical issues swept through
many United Nations assembly
1tel egations today as diplomats
from 50 other member countries
debated the challenging policy
speech hurled into the assembly
by Soviet foreign minister Vya
cheslav M. Molotov.
The Soviet leader topped off
his speech yesterday with a four
point arms reduction program, in
cluding a request for action by the
asembly to try to get the United
^tates to stop making atomic
bombs.
American and other major del
egation members were reported
considering what response they
might make to his as well as to
various charges laid down by Mol
otov in blunt, sometimes harsh,
language.
Warren R. Austin, chief United
9 States delegate, had an opportun
ity to respond to the Russian lead
er today. He was scheduled to
sfjeak during the late afternoon
assembly session, but aides re
ported he almost certainly would
not revise the main body of his
address.
It was prepared before Molotov
tossed his oratorical bombshell in
a lively session last night, and re
portedly deals in a conciliatory
vein with the veto issue and other
«2J. N. constitutional problems.
Molotov assailed Winston Chur
chill as a “prophet” of “aggressive
imperialistic circles” in America
and Britain and blasted Bernard
Baruch, U. S. member of the U. N.
atomic commission, for allegedly
holding a “militant philosophy” j
leading toward a “new aggres
sion.”
He attacked the American atom
ic control plan as designed to give
this country an atomic monopoly,
asserted abolition of the veto would
wreck the United Nations, and de
manded a U. N. report on Ameri
can and British troops in foreign
lands. Capping off his address
with the four-point arms reduc
tion plan, he urged the assembly
to act on it at once. This provided
one of the most dramatic inci
dents in the asembly to date.
* Molotov had spoken in Russian.
When he finished he had to wait
{though two long translations of
his 7,000-word speech, one into
English, the other into French. I
When the interpreters finished,
assembly president Paul-Henri
Spaak of Belgium asked if there
TEXAS PRODUCTS MA P_Miss Elsa Killingstad, Brownsville, Tex., hostess at a Texas
dinner in Washington, poses with a fruit and vegetable map of the Lone Star State.
Plumbing Fixtures
Increases In Price
WASHINGTON, (/P>—OP A al
lowed manufacturers of enameled
cast-iron plumbing fixtures an
11.5 per cent increase in their ceil
ing prices effective today. This
higher cost of bathtubs, sinks,
lavatories and other items will be
passed on to consumers.
The increase was the third in
dustry-wide boost granted plumb
ing manuafcturers this year and
lifted ceilings 34 percent above
1941 levels.
was any more business before he
adjourned the session. The hall
was already largely empty.
Molotov sprang suddenly to his
feet and said: “The Soviet dele
gation calls on the other delega
tions to express their views on
disarmament.”
The other delegations were
caught off-guard, but Philip Noel
Baker, Britain’s graying, slightly
stooped Chief delegate promptly
rose and objected that there was
neither time nor preparation for
such a debate. Molotov insisted
but was overruled by Spaak.
His insistence on the point,,
however, left no doubt that push
ing the disarmament plan would
almost certainly be Russia’s pri
mary concern during the remain
der of this session.
Chamber Sponsors
l Public Meeting
i &
The'NWA Chamber of Com
I
i merce held a regular Tuesday
noon luncheon at which a number
j of interested citizens attended,
| filling the Nevada Lounge to ca
[ pacity.
President Duke Mitrov itch
opened the meeting with a. few
well chosen, pertinent remarks,
stating the purpose of the get-to-!
gether, and that he was pleased
with the turnout of citizens.
He stated, the meeting was call- j
ed for the purpose of discussing!
a plan of city management, a pro-1
gram of city planning, so that!
Nome could be a more decent and i
safe place in which to live. The
meeting had been planned before
the present storm which added
much to the need for such con
certed effort of the citizens of
Nome toward city planning.
Mayor Dunbar and City Clerk
Carrie McLain gave brief outlines
of the difficulties the present city
management was having with
keeping income above expenses.
Other citizens spoke of the need
for a campaign to move the town
to a higher location away from the
beach, suggesting some of the
worked-over mining ground north
of the present site about three
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Large Convoy
Reported Held
In Edmonton
SEATTLE, bP)—Reports that a
large motor convoy, bound for
Alaska, is stranded at Edmonton,
Alta., by Canadian refusal to
grant permission to travel over the
Alaska highway were denied in
Edmonton last night as the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce asked the
Northwest Trade association to
intervene in the dispute.
The request was made by Glenn
Carrington, chairman of the Seat- |
tie group’s Alaska relief commit- i
tee, to the association president,
Stanley McKean in Vancouver, ;
B. C.
W. J. Eveleigh, an official of
Northwest Defense projects, said
in Edmonton, however, that no
Amercian trucks were “stranded”
and if the convoy “is in Edmon
ton, they haven’t applied for per
mission to go over the highway.”
“I issue the permits and they
definitely haven’t approached me.
If they did apply here, they would
get one since we would assume
that all customs regulations had
been complied with at the bor
der.” He suggested that “if” a con
voy is being held up it would be
at the border.
Officials at the American air
NEWS IN BRIEF
V. EsTON, Mass. (/P)-—• A moder
ately strong earthquake, appar
ently in the vicinity of the Aleu
tian Islands, was recorded-on the
Weston College seismographs at
2:50 a.m. <EST>. today. The sta
tion said the 'quake, lasting two
hours, was centered 4.070 miles
northwest of Boston.
ANCHORAGE, I/P> — Professor
Ivar Skarland of the University
of Alaska, returned from a flying
inspection of the reportedly “pre
historic” animal carcass washed
ashore in Cook Inlet recently, said
flatly today the animal “is a
killer whale.” He admitted, how
ever, that despite discovery of a
“blowhole” in the animal’s head
and other identification, he left
many doubtful residents in Hom
er, near the discovery scene.
“They are friendly and tolerant
about it,” he explained, “but they
still bel eve the animal had 00,
000,000 birthdays.”
OTTAWA, (/P) — Retail ceiling
prices on British Columbia red
cedar shingles will jump approx
imately 20 to 2a ecnts a bundle,
the Canadian prices board said to
day in announcing increases in
manufacturers’ and wholesalers’1
ceiling prices. The action was
taken, the board said, to offset in
part the effect of recent wage in
creases and the higher cost of logsL
SAN MATEO, Calif. (/P)—Nick
Wall, fast, hard riding jockey who
always gave the fans a ride for
their money, was near death to
day. Wall went down in a flurry
of horses’ hooves yesterday in thb
fifth race at Bay Meadows. He
suffered twelve broken ribs and
a dangerous spinal injury. The
jagged edge of one broken rib
crowded his feebly beating heart
today.
SEATTLE, i/P) — Picketing of
ships by the masters, mates and
pilots association <AFL>, sched
uled for today, has been postponed
pending members’ ratification of
the picketing decision. Capt. C. F.
Peterson, acting agent for the as
sociation here, said the decision to
postpone picketing was reached
after word from San Francisco
that employers had agreed to re
sume negotiations.
base in Edmonton also said they
had not heard of any convoy nor
had they been asked for assist
ance.
The dispute is the outgrowth of
several similar reports recently.
All of which have been denied by
Canadian officials but which they
agree have prompted discussions
between Canada and the United
States.