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VOL. LI. No. 90 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday appointed Al
vin Anderson, director of fisheries
of the State of Washington, as a
member of the International Pa
cific Salmon Fisheries Commis
sion.
Anderson succeeds Milo Moore,
both in this post and that of State
Director of Fisheries.
The commission was established
n 1930 by Canada and the United
S'. :iC'.
SEATTLE, </P> — John O’Shea,
78. long-time resident of King
County and Alaska, died July 23.
Born in Ontario, Canada, he
worked as a logger for the White
River Lumber Co., near Enurn
claw before moving to Juneau, in
1896.
O’Shea participated in the Klon
ke gold rush in 1898. Ht retired
in 1947. Survivors include John
OShea, Anchorage, a son.
SEATTLE, I/p) — Col. Clarence
L. Strike, assistant commanding
officer of the Alaska Communica
tions System, will retire today af
ter 34 years of army service. He
has been with the ACS for two
years.
WASHINGTON (jP), The White
House yesterday announced that
Ward M. Canaday has turned
d >\vn President Truman’s offer of
the chairmanship of the munitions
board.
Canaday, of Toledo, O., is chair
man of the finance committee of
the Willys-Overland company.
He wrote the Prseident that he
f ■ and himself unable to “free mv
seif" from other responsibilities in
order to devote full time to the
chairmanship.
SEATTLE, (flV-The last Bristol
Bay ailing from Seattle this year,
by ;c Square Knot, has been set
foi August 20 by the Alaska
S ‘ e :i m ship com pa n v,
The company said that, in addi
‘ . v. to the Nushagak and Naknek
1 ghterage points in Briston Bay,
the Square Knot will call at Sew
ard, Kodiak, .Sand Point, Squaw
K bor, Kin.a Cove and False Pass.
HONOLULU, UP) — The coast
guard cutter Iroquois sped an
iron lung today to a boy aboard
the army transport General Dar
by. The boy was said to be para
p'
iyzed, but the exact nature of his
i'lness was not made clear.
Tne Iroquoin expects to reach
the transport in about 30 hours.
The name of the stricken youth
was not known here. The Darby
was 1,000 miles northeast of Ha
waii.
YAKIMA. Wash. UP) — Allen
Hobson, Cornelius, Ore., racing
driver, was taken off the critical
list at a hospital yesterday for the
first time since he was run
through by a 2 by 6 inch plank
last Sunday. Attendants said Hob
son was able to sit in a chair for
a short while yesterday.
Hobson was pierced by the
plank when his racer plunged
through the fence at a turn.
Russia May Resort
J
|To Armed Force
If Political Fails
! WASHINGTON, (IF)—Secretary
of State Acheson told Congress
yesterday the United States should
begin promptly to help re-arm
Western Europe because “the pas
sibilitv of direct military aggres
sion” by huge Soviet forces can
not be ignored.
Leading off the administration’s
drive for Congressional approval
[of a SI.450.000,000 arms aid pro
1 gram Acheson pictured Western
European countries .is Lving un
\ r the shadow and constant fear
of Russian armies which are the
greatest ‘he world has known in
peacetime.
He also suggested that Russia is
approaching a crossroads in its
policies toward the West where i'
may have to choose whether to
continue trying confines' by polit
ical means or to esor* ' > • .nil:
‘.ary ’means.”
Acheson appeared ben re ‘he
H use loreipn affa: - committee
to make his plea for t'. • aim pro
1 po rl, already under attack by in
fluential Congress members.
Acheson said “the mere pres
ence" of the large Russian forces
; "has had a - psychological effect
that has been damaging to recov
ery and stability, and has been a
major influence in the los-’ of free
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Hawaiian Govt.
To Take < )ver Job
<>f Stevedoring
i _ 6
, HONOLULU, i.-P. —Legislation
to end Hawaii’s 90-day dock strike
by putting the Territorial govern
ment in the stevedoring business
! today appeared set lor enactment
Saturday.
CIO longshoremen countered
with a call to spread the tieup to
the Pacific Coast.
A special session ol the Havva
| iian legislature came out of a
closer! session late yesterday with
Senate-House agreement on what
it believes is a precedent-smashing
i bill: government entrance into a
strike-bound industry wit hout
seizing struck firms.
The measure would simply em
power the Territory to start its
own stevedoring business. Hiring
of any of the 2,000 striking mem
bers of the international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union would be prohibited. So
would use of the seven struck
firms’ employees and equipment
“unless necessary.”
ILWU stevedores respon d e d
quickly with a move to carry out
their threat to extend the tieup to
the West Coast.
They approved a resolution
calling on all maritime unions—
longshore and seafaring—to pre
vent Matson Navigation Co. from
sailing its ships from Pacific
ports to Hawaii. Matson is the
biggest mainland-islands carrier.
The legislature’s bill was label
led “clearly strikebreaking” by
ILWU regional director Jack Hall.
He said the government would be
hiring ''scabs."
Complex Senate
Rules Delay Vote
<)n Foreign Aid
(By Don Whitehead)
WASHINGTON, f/P) — A con
fused Senate—tangled in its own
complex rules— groped for a way
yesterday to reach a vote on the
big foreign aid bill.
The whole vast issue was
thrown back into the lap of the
Senate appropriations committee
late Wednesday on a technical
point, leaving the Senate just
I where it stood two weeks ago.
Chairman McKellar tD.-Tenn.'
was expected to call the comrnit
.
decide on a course of action.
Some Senators demanded the
entire recovery program be re
opened.
The Economic Cooperation ad
ministration already has commit
i most of i s emergency funds,
and the European recovery ,i.yi
8ram may grind to a halt before
the bill gets back on the Senate
floor for a vote.
Briefly, here is what happened
in the four hours of e infusion
which stalled :he air bill:
Majority lcadc. La:.-; of Illin
ois '"aiseel a point of order—a chal
lenge — against an amendment
which would have required ECA
to earmark 51.500,000,OOQ for buy
ing surplus American farm com
modities. The amendment was
sponsored by Senator McClellan
< D.-Ark.)
Lucas' fight to kill tl^ McClel
lan amendment led finally ‘o a
which was challenged by Senator
ruling by Vice President Barkley
Taft 'R.-Ohio'. The Senate sided
with Taft by a vote of 51 to 38.
And then McClellan challenged
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kl an Cross
Burns In Seattle
SEATTLE, i/Pi — A north end
housewife told police last night
that she found a small cros.-,
marked with the symbol of the Ku
Klux Klan. burning in her back
yard. A rock had been thrown
against the house shortly before
the incident, she said.
Mrs. (71af Maxvold said » small
card on the cross carried the mes
sage:
“The South has been taken. The
north will be taken. (Signed* the
K.K.K.”
Mrs. Maxvold, a fisherman’s
wife, added:
“If this is a prank, I certainly
cannot understand it.”
BULLETIN
JUNEAU, (£>) — Alaska’s new
fifty dollar non-resident fisher
men’s license fee was held invalid
today by Judge George Folta. He
ruled it was unreasonably dis
criminatory against non-residents.
The tax is one of three enacted by
the 1949 legislature which are un
der court challenge. Action was
brought by A. H. Ziegler, Ketchi
kan attorney in behalf of two
Seattle halibuters and the Polar
Fisheries of Ketchikan.
Murray Asks .‘50
Cents Hour Hike
Cor Steel \\ orkers
NEW YORK, (>P) — President
Philip Murray of the CIO .steel
workers announced yesterday his
union wants a package increase of
30 cents per hour in their current
dispute with the steel companies,
including a fourth round wage in
crease of 12Vfc cents.
Murray revealed the demands
for the first time at the opening
session of the fact finding board
appointed by President Tinman
to avert a strike in the dispute.
Murray was the first speaker
for the union before ‘he board.
The demand.', also include 11.23
coats per hour for pensions and
0.27 cents per hour for social in
surance.
"The un:on is not af aid to : me
. its side of the dispute examine . in
the public interest,” the gray-hair
ed union head told the board.
"Tne industry, on th*• ■ .the
hand, has been desperately anx
ious to conceal the economic fact
iiom impartial scrutiny.
"The industry is amassing pro
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COPENHAGEN. Denm '... -,P
Copenhagen newspapers reported
today that a floating mine nearly
hit the Danish royal yacht carry
ing King P'reierik and Queen In
grid.
The papers said the crew oi the
royal yacht, the “Dannebrog.”
sighted the mine in the A'iantic
floating directly in their path.
Crewmen exploded the mine,
identified as a derelict left over
from World War I. with rifle fire.
The i oyal couple, returning
from a visit to the Faroe Islands,
were asleep at the time.
(Hark Appointed
To Supreme Court
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (A*)—President
Truman’s surprise choice of attor
ney general Tom Clark for the Su
preme Court and Senator J. How
ard McGrath for attorney general
gained approval of senators today.
Although the President told his
new conference yesterday that
Clark and McGrath hadn’t finally
agreed to the shift, there seemed
little doubt that two will announce
their formal acceptance next
week.
Clark. 49-year-old Texas law
yer. would fill the court place left
vacant by the death of associate
justice Frank Murphy.
Moving into Clark’s place as the
nation’s chief legal watchdog
would be McGrath, 45-year-old
chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee, former solicitor
general and former governor of
Rhode Island.
If arrangements can be made
this week-end for appointment of
his Senate successor, McGrath is
expected to agree to accept the
cabinet post.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday, July 28, 1949
Chinese communist forces jab
bed deeper into southern China to
day. New areas of Hunan province
— China’s bread basket — fell
swiftly to the victorious Reds.
Nationalist newspapers in Can
ton began talking of the planned
defenses of Formosa. Press reports
said Sun Li-Jen, one of China’s
best generals, is slated to head the
national defense headquarters on
Chian.; K ii-Shok' fsi md ba-fion.
The Nationalists acknowledged
loss of Chuchow, 25 miles south
oi Changsha, capital of Hunan.
The communists have severed rail
connections between Changsha
and Hengyang. Chuchow - 315
rr.de-. nor'h o’ Can'on, The com
munist time ‘able calls for ‘he
capture of Canton by Aug. 15.
B”ita:n advised her nationals in
Kwongtung and Kwangsi p:uv
to get out while there is still
. e. The British c< n ul i ral
Canton warned that commun
t- ma> engulf tloose provinces.
In a .mg- n Wednesday, secre
;.vy t/f State Dean Acheson said
A:r *r sinvinfi *n (Thin*! 1ic*g
‘he datige: of being treated as hos
'ages of the communist.-.
Friday, July 23, 1343
T ic X )nil A' bm‘ c treaty was
■ ■* •• ri •') lay !>y ‘he upper house
• 1' ‘he French parliament. The mo
1 on of approval i tiled on the
United States b> back the treaty
wi‘h arms.
Since tno treaty had already
been approved by the French
lower house, it now goes to Pres
ident Vincent Auriog for his sig
nature.
The pact now requires only the
iAil.cation of the Dutch upper
house to become legally effective.
Pa - age in the Dutch upper house
■ is expected within two weeks.
Chinese communist armies
moved further into Hunan pro
vine's rice bowl today. National
ist dispatches said the commun
ists are on the outskirts of Chang
1 teh. where heavy fighting is un
derway.
Changteh is 100 miles n >rth
west nf Changsha, Hunan capital.
Communist strategy appeared to
be to block nationalists from
Kweiyang, which might replace
Canton as the nationalists provi
sional capital.
A Vatican informant said today
( that the Roman Catholic church
I in Poland is next on the commun
ist list, set down for extermina
tion. The Vatican source said the
Polish government would attempt
to supplant the Catholic church
with a “people’s church” subserv
ant to the government.
The communist magazine in
Rome complained that the Vati
can’s decree of excommunication
for communist supporters struck
Italian families “like a spiritual
atomic bomb.’ The Moscow press
said the decree was “medieval.”
This is a new communist com
plaint. Earlier leading Italian com
munists shruggeef off the Vatican
decree as unimportant and inef
fective.