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VOL. LII. No. 56 ~NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 12. 1950 Per Copy—15r
NEWS IN BRIEF
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OMAHA, (/P) — Southeast Ne
braska’s flood toll stood at 22 yes
terday as searchers still sought
the bodies of the missing.
Early Thursday morning. 13
bodies had been recovered. Nine
persons, still unaccounted for,
were presumed dead.
Most of the victims were trav
elers, trapped by water thui rose
with phenomenal speed after tor- ‘
rential rains cascaded across the '
countryside with the force that
swept cars, and even a bus, ='rom
the highways.
WASHINGTON (&)—Rep. Mack
fR.-Wash.) said yesterday he can
find no basis for reports about a
$250,000,000 Japanese sawmill op
eration in Alaska to be financed
by the U. S.
Mack said the reports quoted
the Economic Cooperation Admin
istration as being interested in the
deal.
He said EC A told his the report
was without foundation.
The said he has asked General
MacArthur about it and was told
that neither the army nor the Jap
anese government knows any
thing at all about such a plan.
He also said the forest service
denied any knowledge of it.
SEATTLE, (/P)—The new look
in the contract for machinists in
the Alaska Canning Industry is
only slightly different from the
1949 model.
Members of the International
Association of Machinists will
meet Saturday to consider the con- |
tract offered by the Salmon In- !
dustry.
Its only change calls for flying j
of the workmen to Alaska on reg
ularly scheduled airlines instead
of chartered flights, a union offi
cial said.
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KRESTOVA, B. C., (/Pi-Two;
more Doukhobor homes went up
in flames Wednesday as the radi- ;
cal Sons of Freedom sect mem- :
bers continued their prote s t s
against “a third world war.”
The destruction brought to 31
the total number of dwellings put
to the torch since April 14.
Police rounded up 22 men and
11 women who disrobed briefly as
the homes burned.
W A S H I N GTON, (JP) — Rep.
Stockman (R.-Ore.l introduced a
bill yesterday to suspend for a
year the requirement that $100
worth of work be done annually
on mining claims.
He said in a statement that be
cause of the high cost of labor
and materials $100 spent annually
to improve mining claims is not
enough to do any worth while
work.
In fact, he said, it was just a
waste of labor and materials.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Round
ing up of 170,000 Alaska bound
bees was completed at the South
west Airways Freight terminal
yesterday without casualty to
bees or jittery air freight workers.
The buzzing insects, bound
from Chico, Calif., to Homer,
Alaska, for the nectar of Arctic
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Threatened Strike !
Mav Flit Fairbanks
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Fierirical Power
FAIRBANKS, i/Pi — The dead
lock between electrical workers
and the Fairbanks Exploration
Company continued today with no
immediate hope of settlement.
Local 1,550 of the International
Brothorhood of Electrical Work- ,
ers <AFL> served notice on the'
company Wednesday that it would j
strike next Monday and shut
down most of the Fairbanks area
power unless granted a union
shop.
Company and union made coun
ter offers to handle any emer
gency service for the city is the
strike actually tsarts. No decision
was reached.
Frank Angerman, Territorial
Legislator and union business
agent, served the notice in a letter
to Roy B. Earling, vice president
and general manager of the Fair
banks Exploration department of
the United States Smelting, Refin
ing and Mining Co.
Angerman wrote the strike was
to be called because of an ‘abso
lute deadlock in working agree
ments” between the company and
the union.
City officials expressed them
selves as alarmed over possible
effects of a strike on the city.
The company normally supplies
municipal electrical demands over
the 1,000-kilowatt capacity of the
Northern Commercial Co. power
plant. A shutdown of the company
powerhouse operations wo u 1 d
mean curtailment of electrical
power to an extent whereby only
the downtown section would re
ceive power.
A further complication is that
one Northern Commercial boiler
is down for the present, being
cleaned. This cuts the present ca
pacity to 550 kw.
Earling said the deadlock came
last month when officials began
negotiations on terms of a new
union contract. The old contract
expired May 1. '
Ho said union officials ‘walked
out of the meeting, refusing to ne
goitate further, when the company
refused to grant a union shop.”
Mayor Maurice T. Johnson
asked the federal mediation and
conciliation service in Portland,
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ROTARIANS SEE FILM
"HUMAN GROWTH"
Raymond Sanford, located in
the Alaskan Sector of the work
designated to the American Social
Hygiene Assn., spoke at, the Ro
tary noon luncheon Thursday, and
then showed a sex education film,
“Human Growth.” It dealt with
the natural growth of adolescent
youth.
A letter was read from A. Polet,
who has been at Mayo’s, Roches
ter, stating that he had attended
a meeting of the Seattle Rotary
Club and expected to be back
next month sometime. Karl
Dewey was reported somewhere
in Ohio.
The other guest of the club was
William Lawrence, an engineer
for the government who has been
checking on the condition of the
Federal Building.
Kail Strike Idles
Main \\ orkers In
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CHICAGO, (/P) — Unemp loy
mcnt mounted swiftly yesterday
as coal mining and other industry
began feeling the effects of the
strike of locomotive firemen on
four key rail systems.
With no peace moves under way
or announced, prospects for early
peace were dim.
Fourteen major mines in west- !
ern Pennsylvania, including those
owned by the Bethlehem Steel
Corp., closed down. There were
no empty gondolas to carry coal
away. The shutdown forced 4,400
miners into idleness.
Several other mines were oper
ating a half day. Some mines at- .
tempted to keep operating 'by ’
dumping coal on the ground, but |
1 such space was limited.
Mine officials said all western !
Pennsylvania’s 55,008 miners may j
be idle next week if the strike
continues.
At Cleveland C. F. Weigele,
general manager of the New York j
Central’s west division said, 25,
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Grand Jtirv (lalls
260 Finns, Persons:
No Indictments
ANCHORAGE, (/Pj—Officials of :
the Alaska Salmon Industry, the
Association of Pacific Fisheries,
the National Canners’ Association
and heads of several dozen other
packing firms were called Wed- j
nesda.y to testify next week in the j
grand jury probe of alleged vio
lations of the Sherman anti-trust J
act.
Thirty-five new subpoenas were
issued by department of justice
attorneys. Most of them were di
rected to' firms headquartered in ,
Seattle.
All together, more than 260 |
firms and individuals have been
summoned before the grand jury
since the session began March 29.
No indictments have been return
ed.
Officials of the Alaska Salmon
Industry, the Pacific Fisheries and
the National Canners’ Association
were directed to appear before
the jury at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May
16.
Nineteen other Seattle canneries
and packers were ordered to ap
pear at the same time.
They were Libby, McNeill and
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Truman Uncertain
W hether Mr Is A
Pig ()r Donkey
BUTTE, Mont. </p> _ President
Truman said today he will not
“cease to fight” for the repeal of
the Taft-Hartley Labor Law.
“The Taft-Hartley law hangs
over the head of labor, threaten
ing to destroy the gains of 15
years,” he said.
“There it will hang until we are
able to replace it with a law that
is fair to management and labor
alike.”
The President, in one of a series
of major talks on his cross-coun
try crusade for the Fair Deal said
in a prepared address:
“That is something we must do,
not only for the sake of labor, but
for the sake of the whole country.
“I believe profoundly that the
Taft-Hartley act is a substantial
infringement of the basic freedom
to bargain collectively.”
Mr. Truman’s address, arranged
for the rear platform of his cross
country special train, was one of
a series in which he has been try
to whip up sentiment for the Fair
Deal.
The President said that the
“avowed intention” of the spon
sors of the Taft-Hartley Law
“was to strengthen the hand of
management.”
“To do this,” Mr. Truman said,
“ihev devised a clever law which
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25.000 Homeless
In Manitoba Flood
WINNIPEG, Man., f/P)—Most of
the 25,000 persons left homeless
by southern Manitoba flood wa
ters were crowding yesterday into
stricken Winnipeg, itself a victim
of the rampaging Red River.
The exodus posed more prob
lems for harried officials in the
prairie city. They have already
appealed for the evacuation of
the city’s 200.000 women and chil
dren.
A track washout eight miles
south of here stalled a Canadian
National Railways train carrying
550 flood evacuees from the flood
ed Red River valley, but a navy
ferry service began the task of
carrying the passengers across a
water gap to safety. They will be
taken into Winnipeg. The refu
gees—includingfi 145 children and
46 infants—were stranded at St.
Norbert station.
The waters rose steadily in the
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Baccalaureate Program
NOME SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 8:00 P.M.
Processional—“Grand Marche” from Tannhauser by Wagner
Juanita Fagerstrom
Invocation Rev. Neil Murphy, S. J.
National Hymn “America” Congregation
Scripture.Lesson Ephesians III-IV
Anthem High School Glee Club
Message—“Worthy of the Vocation Wherewith We Are Called”
Rev. Robert Treat
America The Beautiful Congregation
Benediction Rev. Paul Carlson I
News of f he \\ oriel
At A (fiance - - -
Friday, May 12. 1950
'By The Associated Press*
The Big Three foreign ministers
at their London conference today
discussed plans to give the West
German government fuller pow
ers. The foreign ministers of the
United States, Britain and France
considered easing occupation re
strictions on Germany during a
discussion of their over-all prob
lem—how to bolster western de
fenses against the threat of com
munist expansion.
The plan, presented by Ameri
can and British delegations, would
give the Bonn government full
diplomatic voice abroad. It would
give the Germans power to issue
exit visas and control their cus
toms.
The plan also would unfreeze
important internal controls, leav
ing the Bonn government fairly
free to rule its people. However,
the Allied high commissions would
retain the power to veto legisla
tion conflicting with the interna
tional aims of the occupation.
The French delegation was less
inclined to relax these controls.
A communique issued yesterday
said the basic problem is how to
step up plans for the defense of
Western Europe without destroy
ing the two-year-old United States
plan for European economic re
covery.
The Bi’itish admiralty announc
ed a British destroyer has recap
tured the 564-ton British steamer
Ethel Moller, seized by Chinese
Nationalists two months ago. The
; ship, seized by the Nationalists
l for runiing their blockade of com
munist China, was retaken with
out a fight, the admiralty said.
Warsaw dispatches said Marshal
Konstantin Rokossovskv. who left
the Soviet army last November to
head Poland’s military forces, has
been named to the Polish com
munist party politburo. A shakeup
in the communist party leadership
was expected following the eleva
tion of Roskossovskv to the coun
try's most powerful political body.
In Washington. Congressmen
expressed strong disapproval of
any plan to give American atomic
bombs to member nations of the
Atlantic Defense Pact. The plan,
in tentative form, was discussed
yesterday by military officials
who made no decisions or recom
mendations.
JUNIOR-SENIOR CLASS
BANQUET ENJOYED
Last evening the Junior-Senior
banquet was held at the Pioneer
Hall for members of the class, fac
ulty and parents.
Twenty-six places were laid on
three lace-covered tables decor
ated with narcissus and daffodils,
with a delicious fried chicken din
ner being served, complete with
strawberry shortcake. The dinner
was catered by the North Pole
Bakery.
Hand made programs with
menu in crimson folders featured
the senior class emblem, the polar
bear.
Toastmaster for the evening
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