Differential Pay
Continues To Jan. 1
((£*) Special Washington Service) .
WASHINGTON, </P)—The office
of Delegate Bartlett announced to
day President Truman’s order for
continuing the 25 per cent differ
ential for government civil service j
workers in Alaska is retroactive to
August 30.
Government agencies operating
in the Territory have paid civil
service workers there the 24 per
cent differential because of high
cost of living and environment for
more than a year.
The supplemental independent
offices bill passed by Congress this
year provided the President should
establish regulations for the dif
ferential by August 30. He missed
the date by two weeks, but Bart
lett’s office said the order is retro
active and provides that the pres
ent differential be continued until
Jan. 1. * ^
The civil service commission
wrs instructed in the order to
make a survey of the situation and
determine how much differential
should be paid the workers and
draw up needed regulations.
Strike-Bound
Salmon Pack Freed
For Shipment
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rector of the CIO-international
longshoremen’s and warehouse
men’s union, said dock workers be
gan handling the shipment this
forenoon. Griffiths & Sprague, an
independent firm, reached an
agreement with the army last
week for handling essential mili
tary cargo at the port of embarka
tion, during the maritime strike.
Some 20 of the city’s 60 long
shore gangs were sent to handle
the salmon cargo at the port of
embarkation and barges and other
vessels not tied up, Gettings said.
Gettings also reported long
shoremen had gone for work to
load coal for the Orient for the Pa
cific Coast Coal Co., and the first
ship had been loaded.
An official of McGovern & Mc
Govern, brokerage firm, said about
500,000 cases of salmon were
stored at the salmon terminals, but
all might not be shipped east Im
mediately. An official at Ames
terminals where about 150,000
cases are stored, said a similar
a g r e e m ent with Griffiths &
Sprague was being discussed.
Pilot Pickets
From The Sky
NEW YORK, (/P) — A striking
airlines pilot picketed in the sky
yesterday as he spelled out the
word “scab” some 10,000 feet
above New York City’s interna
tional airport.
It was Mack Gilmur’s way of
protesting ceremonies marking the
start of flight operations at the
field by National Airlines.
Gilmur is one of a number of
striking National Airlines pilots.
On the ground 40 additional pick
ets, including other striking pilots,
marched outside the airport’s ad
ministration building.
The picket line protested the
company’s alleged refusal to re
hire pilots as recommended by a
Presidential emergency board for
the settlement earlier this year of
a National Airlines strike.
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SNAKES ALIVE WORTH!
MORE FOR FARMERS
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RAPID CITY, S. D. OP)—Her-1
petalogist Earl Rrockelsby says
more people die every year in the
United States choking on popcorn
in movie theaters than- from veno
mous reptiles.
Brockelsby, who operates a rep
Mle garden here, protests the use
of poison gas to exterminate
snakes. “Such tactics,” he says
“destroy all the harmless snakes
along with prairie rattlers.
“The harmless varieties save
South Dakota farmers thousands
of dollars annually. U. S. depart
ment of agriculture reports indi
cate bull snakes, for example, de
stroy enough rodents annually to
save each farmer about $100.
“Use of gas is an expensive way
to get rid of rattlesnakes,” Brock
elsby insists.
Russia Lays Claim
To Daylight Movies
MOSCOW, </P) — A day 1 i g h t
movie projecture and screen have
been perfected in the USSR, it is
claimed by the newspaper Kom
solm Pravda. The paper said a test
had been held in the hall of the
Politechnical Museum and had
been hailed as a success.
“Scientists have been working
for a long time on the problem of
showing films during daylight,”
said the announcement.
The inventor is R. I. Novitsky.
The new device, it was an
nounced, enables the spectator to
see perfectly from every angle.
Novitsky’s screen is said to be
made of “organic glass.”
REPUBLICANS
The Nome Republican Club will meet in the
the City Hall, Tuesday, Sept. 21., at 7:30 p.m.
Honored guests will be:
R. H. STOCK
ALMER J. PETERSON
ALBERT E. GOETZ
Donald MacDonald II
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Attendance is urged for all interested citi
zens.
Robert E. Long
President.
Strike Conditions
At A Glance
(Continued from Page One)
of of independent union. After
UAW members refused to cross
the plant guards’ picket lines,
Briggs closed its eight plants
which employ 25,000 workers.
Lack of car bodies from Briggs
stopped work for an additional 33,
000 workers at Packard and
Chrysler.
The guards struck Sept. 8 in
support of demands for week-end
premium pay and an increase in
“preparation time” from five to
15 minutes.
Among other developments:
Printers—At Indianapolis, Judge
Luther M. Swygert began hearing
in federal court on NLRB charge
that the AFL printers’ union had
violated his injunction against vio- j
lating the Taft-Hartley act in the
10-week- Chicago and Hammond,
Ind., newspaper strikes. The union
denies the charges.
Maritime—CIO stevedores pre
pared to move army cargoes at full
speed tomorrow for the first time
since the CIO longshoremen’s
union tied up west coast shipping
with a strike Sept. 2. The army
work will be done through special
agreement under contractors who
are not parites to the labor dis
pte. Pay will be at the pre-s’.rike
rate of $1.67 per hour.
Oil—Federal conciliators con
tinued efforts to settle the 17-day
old walkout of west coast CIO oil
refinery workers. Police investi
gated firing of a bullet into the
home of an oil plant foremen at
Rodeo, Calif.
Trucking—The number of strik
ing truck drivers in the New York
metropolitan area dwindled as the
AFL teamsers’ walkout went into
its 20th day. Some 6,000 members
of local 807 have returned to work
under individual contracts grant
ing a 17Vfe cent pay raise. About
3,400 members of the local were
still idle, and some 1,800 members
of local 282 were striking for a 25
cent increase.
Bus—A threatened strike which
would have stopped service on
three New York City bus lines
serving 3,500,000 passengers has
been averted by city 'intervention.
The bus lines prepared to put into
effec a one-cent fare increase
which will permit granting of 24
cent-an-hour wage hikes. The pub
lic service commission authorized
the “interim” fare raise.
Lead Mining — The 10-weefc
strike of 4,000 CIO mine, mill and
smelter workers against the St. Jo
seph Lead Co. which operates
mines in southeastern Missouri,
collapsed. Union members voted
yesterday to go back to work, and
a spokesman said he assumes the
company will observe a contract
which expired in July. The strike
was over frontage issues.
WOULD NAME AIRPORT
HONORING NOEL WIEN
The Aircraft Owners and Opera
tors Assn., ot Fairbanks, have
nominated the name of Wien for
the new Fairbanks airport as Noel
Wien was so outstanding in the
pioneering of aviation in Alaska.
The name of Hjalmar Nordale
was placed in nomination previ
ously as a tribute to the former
mayor for his efforts in getting the
new field for Fairbanks, a cam
paign which took him to Washing
ton twice and involved a great deal
of work.
Passenger—“You’ll bring me
down safely, won’t you?”
Pilot—“I’ve never left anyone
up there yet.”
FAIR NOTES
All persons desirous of making
application for concession in the j
coming Fair, must file same with 1
the Secretary not later than clos- j
ing time Thursday, Sept. 23.
The Fair Board met with the
heads of the Fair Departments i
Sunday afternoon and plans have!
been made which will be announc
ed in this column in each forth
coming issue of this paper.
Manager Anderson has been in
structed at Sunday meeting to j
send invitations to the Presidents
of the Chamber of Commerce of ;
Fairbanks, Anchorage Juneau and
Whitehorse to attend our Fair.
G. W. Gasser, Commissioner of
Agriculture has been invited to
give an address at our next Fair
on the opening night.
All Persons wishing to enter ex
hibits in the Fair should study the
rules and regulations as published
in the preliminary program. If you
have no copy, you can obtain one
from the secretary.
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Eric Nelson, owner of the Pio
neer Water Co., who has been in
the hospital for some time, is re
cuperating at home. Always cheer
ful, regardless of weather or hard
work, he has been missed around
[ town.
PAA Seeks Route
To Los Angeles
SEATTLE, '/P) — Harvey Han
cock^Pan American Airways Pa
cific-AIaska division traffic direc
tor, returned to Seattle last night
from an Alaska trip made in con
nection with an air route hearing
scheduled here October 25.
Pan American has asked the
civil aeronautics board for exten
sion of Seattle-Fairbanks service
to give Alaska passengers one
plane service to Portland, San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Stabil
ization of Alaska service and in
creased business are sought by the
move, Hancock said.
He was accompanied on his trip
by Capt. Harold Gray, Pacific
Alaska division manager, and
Capt. Gordon Maxwell, division
operations manager.
Rastus and Liza were married
but a short time when he came
home with a big wash tub, a
washboard and a handsome three
foot mirror.
Liza: “What’s all that junk you
go there?”
Rastus: “You kin t ake your
pick. Yo kin take the tub an’
washboard and go to work, or yo
kin take the mirror an’ set down
I an’ watch yourself starve.
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