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JL. XL.X. NO. 20. NOME, ALASKA,'FRiDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947 PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
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FRESNO, Calif. (/P)—Mrs. Ver.
M. Porter of Fresno died today
from burns received in the crasn
of the Southern Pacific Dayligiu
train and a gasoline truck on Feb
ruary 4. Her death was the fifth
fatality from the accident.
ADAK, Alaska. (aP)—The North
west Airlines Douglas DC-6 trail
blazer was scheduled to take off
early today from Shemya in the
Aleutians for a 10-hour, 2,000-mile
flight to Tokyo. The plane, carry
ing Croil Hunter and other line
officials, is making its second
route survey flight to the Oriem.
NEW YORK, f/P) — Sugar Raj
Robinson, the welterweight cham
pion listened to the reading of a
newspaper story that quoted him1
as saying he was offered $25,00;
not to go through with a bout las!
August with Marty Servo and ther.
told the state athletic commissio:
today:
“That’s just as new to me as i
is to you gentlemen. That neve,
happened.”
Robinson was called to testify
as the district attorney and grand
jury widened their inquiries into
boxing yi general.
SEATTLE, (Ah — Attorney
Thomas M. Green, Jr., said today
the proposed sale of the *PacifK
Coast Cement company’s Seattle
plant and Alaska limerock quarry
at Dali Island, near Ketchikan,
for $1,100,000 would be considered
at a stockholders’ meeting here
February 21. Proposed purchaser,
Green said, is the General Con
struction company of Seattle “or
its nominees.”
The steamship Diamond Cement
also is involved in the deal Green
said, although no price has been
set for her. The vessel carries
limerock, used in cement manu
facture, from Alaska to the Seattle
plant.
DENVER, (Ah —Joe C. Hearn,
about 30, chief pilot for the west
ern division of Slick Airways, Inc.,
was killed and William Day, 29,
Los Angeles, was critically injured
early today when the air freight
carrier’s cargo plane crashed near
Stapleton airport. The two-engine
converted army plane struck a
ridge 3,300 feet from a runway as
it prepared to land. It was enroute
to Denver from Chicago.
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Five per
sons were injured, three seriously,
in the crash of an Anchorage
bound army transport plane yes
terday shortly after taking off
from Fort Nelson, B. C., the 10th
rescue squadron at Elmendorf
Field reported. Names of the in
jured were not available.»
SEATTLE—The Near East was
brought closer to the Pacific
Northwest when Pan American
World Airways inaugurated sched
uled Clipper service between New
York and Ankara, Turkey. The
5,631-mile trip will require ap
proximately 25 hours elapsed
time, with stops at Gander, New
foundland; Shannon, Eire; and
London.
TURNING OUT NEW DIME S—Myron Shire, worker in the Denver mint, puts fin
ishing touches on some of the new U. S. 10-cent pieces bearing FDR’s likeness.
De Mille Argues
Against “Closed
Shop” Slavery
WASHINGTON, (ZP)-Movie
maker Cecil B. De Mille asked
Congress today to prohibit the
closed shop and “free” workers
“from a serfdom unparalleled in
American history since the abol
tion of slavery.”
Terming the power of the closed
shop un on absolute, the Holly
wood producer declared it control;
“the right to work” and thereby
“the right to live.”
It is a “grotesque departure
from American democracy” De
Mille told the Senate labor com
mittee.
The witness said he was “de
prived of the right to work” for
refusing “to pay a political assess
ment” of one dollar levied by hi;;
union the American Federation of
Radio Artists.
Referring to an incident in the
1944 election, De Mille said his lo
cal made the assessment as part of
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 13, 5:25 p.m.—
The referendum on fish traps will
go before the voters in the 1918
general election. The Senate passer
the House bill but made an amend-'
ment for the abolishment of traps
to take ten years instead of five.
The House received the bill and
quickly passed it with the amend
ment. It now goes to the Governor
for his signature, which is expect
ed, as he is in favor of trap aboli
tion.
The Senate passed the bill to
replace the governor on the board
administration with the commis
sioner of labor. 1
SS North Sea
Goes Aground
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP)—Res
cue ships, after battling through a
southeasterly gale, early today re
moved 150 passengers and crew
members from the SS. North Sea,
aground on middle reef near Bella
Bella, B. C., 300 miles north of
Vancouver.
In a pounding sea, the 3,133 ton
ship struck the reef in Seaforth
channel on the inside route to
Alaska, late last night.
SEATTLE, (A3)—A “ham” radio
operator at Vancouver, B. C.,
picked up messages from the ves
sel to Bella Bella harbor authori
ties saying the ship North Isle had
taken off 35 passengers and that
several small fishing craft had re
moved others.
An estimated 85 passengers and
a crew of 60 were believed aboard
the vessel.
The rescue craft took the pas
sengers to Bella Bella for the night
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TNT Explodes;
Many Killed, Hurt
MANILA. (/P)—A Manila Daily
Bulletin correspondent reported 18
persor\s were killed, many missin'
and injured today when a pile of
TNT exploded at the U. S. 13th
Airforce ammunition depot at Bar
rio Rosario, town of Bauan, in the
province of Batangas.
The correspondent said the blast
wrecked many houses. Detonations
were heard for 30 miles.
Most of the casijalties were ci
vilian drivers and laborers trans
porting boxes of the TNT from the
depot to the seaport.
The injured were taken to the
U. S. army hospital at Batangas.
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Demand Definition
Of Arms Limitation
Commission
(By Francis W. Carpenter)
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (/Pj—Sir
A lexander Cadogan, British dele
gate to the United Nations security
council, asked the Soviet delegate
Andrei A. Gromyko, point-blank
today whether Russia believed the
question of atomic control should
come within the scope of a propos
ed commission on arms limitation.
Cadogan, siding with the United
States contention that a resolution
framing the arms commission
must clearly state that it would
not encroach on the existing atom
ic commission, asked Gromyko for
an answer. i
Great Britain, Prance and
Colombia lined up with the United
States in favor <jf a clear defini
tion of the scope of the arms com
* mission. Russia has remained firm
in its position that it is not neces
sary to make a specific statement
in the resolution creating the arms
body.
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Judge Dismisses
Portal Suit
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DETROIT, (/P)—Federal Judge
Frank A. Picard today officially
d smissed the Mt. Clemens Pottery
Co. case, which led to $4,800,000,
000 in portal pay claims against
'industry.
He directed the CIO United Pot
tery Workers and the employees
of the firm to pay costs of the six
year-old action but did not fix
them immediately.
Judge Picard last Saturday
wrote an opinion denying portal
claims of the pottery workers on
grounds that they were too trifling _
to merit damages.
Development
Board Hearing
Postponed
(By Mildred Hermann)
T'>ri Development Board bill
hearing was postponed yesterday.
The bill most likely will be heard
today. Expect to put Su.odborg on
the stand.
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce today rejected the report of
its executive board and voted two
to one to urge continuation of the
volopment Board. The execu
tive board had presented a long
report, giving eleven reasons, in
cluding the Nome lighterage hear
ings, which it called an unwar
ranted invasion into matters be
yond its jurisdiction, as to why the
board should be abolished.
Strong support was also given
to the board by a resolution from
the Anchorage chamber of com
merce, which sent a resolution say
ing the majority of chambers in
the Territory at a convention in
Anchorage last December had
voted for continuation of the
board.
^►Cochran challenged the truth of
this statement, saying neither
ome or Fairbanks chambers were
represented at the convention. He
said that Mr. Polet had attended
but he did not represent the Nome
chamber, and his opinions were
not those of the Nome chamber.
A strong wire from Dr. Oscar
Chapman, assistant secretary of
the interior, urging the legislature
to continue the board and support
it w th a strong appropriation.
The bill providing for a referen
dum on abolition of fish traps
passed the Senate today. As
amended by Cochran, the referen
dum would set ten years for the
period during which the elimina
tion would be completed. Cochran
opposed the referendum on the
-jo; today saying the people did
not care to be bothered with these
peanut bills.
He did not answer when Butro
vich of Fairbanks asked him if he
thought Arnold, lobyist for the
canned salmon industry, would
consider this a peanut measure.
A memorial asking for a road
from Fort Davis to Solomon, etc.,
passed the Senate this afternoon
14 to 2.
Ed Anderson’s bill providing for
an isolation ward in the Arctic for
uberculosis patients passed the
House and is now in Senate com
mittee. It carried a $30,000 appro
priation.
And Little Inch
Pipelines Sold
WASHINGTON, (£>)_The war
■’ssets administration today sold
the government-owned big and lit
tle inch pipelines to the Texas
Eastern Transmission corporation
of Houston, Tex., for $143,127,000.
The firm’s* bid was the highest
of 11 opened at a public session
’oct Monday. It is only $2,700,000
lower than the government spent
to build the lines during the war
to transport oil and petroleum
nroducts from Texas to the Phila
delphia-New York area.