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Alaska Finances |
Shaky Says Olson
JUNEAU, — (/P) —Territorial
Treasurer Oscar Olson predicted
Saturday that Alaska’s financial
condition would be “shaky” when
school vouchers are presented.
At close of business May 31 the
Territory had a cash balance on
hand amounting to $230,000 plus,
he said. The department of edu
cation is expected to present vou
chers for approximately $300,000
due various districts and another
$30,000 due the teachers.
Senate Votes Down
Proposal to Forbid
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
Senate, pressing toward action on
draft legislation, voted down a
proposal to forbid race segrega
tion in the armed services.
The roll call vote was 67 to 7.
The vote was not a direct test
t on how the Senate feels about
race segregation. Senate leaders
were confronted with the pros
pect of a filibuster from southern
ers if the proposal was not side
tracked.
They are anxious to get final
action on the draft measure which
as it stands, leaves to the depart
ment of defense the question of
whether the army, navy or air
force are to have units of mixed
races.
Senator Langer (R-ND) offered
an amendment to prohibit dis
► crimination or segregation because
of race, color or religion in assign
ments or induction into the armed
services.
It was tabled on a motion from
chairman Gurney (R-SD) of the
Armed Services committee. The
motion was not debatable.
John L. Lewis Will
Talk Contracts
With ‘Soft (jolliers'
WASHINGTON, — (TP) —John
L. Lewis opened soft coal con
tract talks today—with a blast of
denunciation at the operators.
He called them “fat Cats” — -
magnificently opulent — digging
deep and without restraint into
the national purpose.”
He made two points clear about
any agreement replacing the con
tract expiring June 30:
1. The United Mine Workers
have no wage proposals, but they |
“expect improvements.”
2. They want guarantees under
the 1947 Miners’ Welfare fund
which has paid out nothing be
cause it is tied up in a legal dis
pute.
He put the next move up to the
operators. The miners will con
sider any offer “which you may
persuade yourselves to utter,”
Lewis said.
This was in a statement with
which Lewis opened the nego
tiations.
He scornfully told the operators
they had reduced collective bar
gaining “to mockery.”
Flying Wing Dwarfs Flying Fortress In Flight
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Winging swiftly over Southern California desert country, near Muroc,
a 100-ton Flying Wing B-35 bomber scoots past a B-17 Flying Fortress,
which was a heavy bomber of World War II stardards. Giants bombers
like the Wing have made the Fortress a "medium" bomber. (AP Wire
photo.
Republicans End
Two-Day Session
At McKinley Park
FAIRBANKS, — </P) —Alaska’s
third Republican convention this
spring adjourned yesterday after
a two-day meeting at Mount Mc
Kinley national park.
The two conventions were or
ganized because of a controver
sy over a convention called at
Sitka last month by attorney Al
bert E. White of Juneau.
Delegates to the Mount McKin
ley meeting labeled it “the first
regularly called Republican con
vention in Alaska in 16 years”
and endorsed the program of the
“anti-White” group at the Sitka
convention which broke away and
held a meeting of its own.
Thirty-nine elected delegates
and 13 others carrying proxies,
representing a total of 52 pre
cincts fi;om all four of the Ju
dicial divisions met at Mount Mc
Kinley. They claimed to speak
for not less than 90 per cent of
the bonafide Republicans of the
Territory.”
The following delegates were
elected to the Philadelphia con
vention: Jack Clawson, Anchor
age; Cash Cole, Juneau; R. E.
Robertson, Juneau; and alternates
J. E. Johnson, Ketchikan; John
E. Manders, Anchorage and Maur
ice T. Johnson, Fairbanks.
Captain Austin E. Lathrop and
Mrs. Louise P. Clegg, both of Fair
banks, were endorsed for national
committeeman and committee
woman.
This is the same roster of dele
gates and committeemen named
by the Republican group which
bolted the Sitka conventions called
by the Alaska Central Committee
headed by White.
This set of delegates, unin
structed, will seek recognition by
the National Convention over the
delegates elected by the “White”
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i U.N. Mediator Gave
Proposal for Peace
i To Arabs and Jews
! UNDATED PALESTINE—
By the Associated Press
The warring Arab states and
Israel received from the United
! Nations mediator today his pro
posal for peace in Palestine.
It’s up to them to accept or re
I ject. The main difference was over
immigration. The Jews had “as
sumed” in their qualified accept
ance last week that unlimited im-,
migration would be allowed dur
ing the four week armistice and
arms embargo, even of men of'
fighting age. The Arabs, in their
“explanations” said no such thing.
Fighting went on.
The Israeli cabinet reported to
day it was sharply split over ac-1
ceptance of a compromise pro— |
posed by Count Folke Bernadotte,
the U.N.’s merchant of peace.
An Arabic newspaper said Ber
nadotte previously had said he
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BOMBS OPEN UP ICE-JAM
IN KOBUK RIVER
The Kobuk River dropped two
feet in a period of 15 minutes
recently, following a bombing of
the ice-jam by P-51’s of the 64th
Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter
Group.
Richard Collins, CAA official at
Shungnak, reported the bombing.
He stated the ice was weakened
after several 500 pound bombs
were dropped by the planes, the
ice started to move and water
started to drop at once.
Ice cakes now line the shore,
Collins reported. He stated that
as soon as conditions permit, he
will take a boat and check on
conditions both at Shungnak and
other sections of the Kobuk. He
said there was no great amount
of damage at the CAA’s station
with the exception of one guy
wire, which was broken.
Alaskans To Be
Vaccinated For
Tuberculosis
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Plan
for eventual vaccination of all
healthy Alaskans against tuber
culosis with a special vaccine
found particularly effective among
indians was outlined yesterday
by the interior department.
Secretary of the interior, Krug,
said the project will begin at
Point Barrow where the Navy will
help vaccinate all natives found
free of tuberculosis infection.
The Navy will fly Dr. Joseph
D. Aronson of Henry Phiops In
stitute, Philidelphia, to Alaska for
the campaign. Already 160 Point
Barrow children have been found
free of tuberculosis.
After his work at Point Bar
row, Dr. Aronson will visit all
hospitals operated by the Alaska
native service and will train phy
sicians to administer the vaccine,
Continued on Page Three
Longshore Threat 1
Of Strike Hangs
Over Alaska Ports
SEATTLE, — (/P) —The threat
of strike by the CIO International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s union hung over 16 Alaska
ports Saturday.
Union officials said the strike,
already approved by the union’s
1,114 members in Alaska, would
become effective June 16 unless
wage and contract demands are
met.
Pay raises ranging from 13 to
20 cents an hour, an eight-hour
day, short night shifts, one day
off weekly and revision of the va
cation clause are sought by the
union.
The hiring-hall arguments are
now threatening a nation-wide
tie-up.
Tides Cause New
Threats In Flodded
Areas on Columbia
PORTLAND, — UP)—'The Army
today threw a fresh engineering
field command against the raging
Columbia river. It was a desper
ate attempt to hold the weakening
100-mile dike front from Portland
to the Pacific.
Twenty-six officers of the Army
Engineers Corps rushed to crit
ical points in heavily barricaded
lower valley as the great river
built up pressure with its second
flood wave in a week. The rein
forcements, including five lieut
enant colonels, flew in during the
night from Fort Belvoir, Va.
The time was short, the task
huge:
Prevent expension of flood toll
by the Columbia and Fraser riv
ers in Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho Montana and Canada’s British
Columbia—26 dead, 52 missing,
about 60,000 homeless, damage of
perhaps $140,000,000.
The new flood crest was deep
1 into the already hard hit indus
trial area around Portland and
Vancouver, across the Columbia
in Washington.
The weather teamed with the
river. So did the sea.
Thermometers soared to seas
onal highs throughout the north
west Sunday — 90 degrees and
: above in the mountains where the
1 snowpack melted fast and flowed
down to add new waters to tribu
taries of the Columbia.
And this was the day of the
season’s highest tide—9 feet.
•
Six-Power Gov’t
Proposed For
Western Germany
The United States and five west
ern European countries announced
today a proposal for a separate
federal government in western
Germany.
Russia has uttered her oppos
ition in advance .She spoke of
a break in the Potsdam agreement
and a blow to “peace loving peo
ples whose interests were grossly
trodden underfoot.”
PARIS
Other opposition came from the
camp of Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
still a power in French politics,
and French Communists, de
Gaulle’s chief adviser said France’s
government had abandoned French
security in agreement to the ac
cord.
LONDON
The U.S., Great Britain, France,
Belgium, Holland and Luxem
bourg reached the agreement dur
ing conferences in London. Rus
sia has been invited to join the
plan with her stripped and at
least partially Communized zone
of eastern Germany. She is certain
to reject the plan and with more
bitter words.
The plan provides measures to
block further German aggression.
The steps projected for creating
a federal German government in
clude the election of a constitu
ent assembly, drafting of a con
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