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Qperators Insist On
£Jo Jurisdictional
Union Disputes
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—The in
sistence of shipowners on settle
men of the AFL-CIO jurisdic
tional dispute which has tied up
the port of Coos Bay, Ore., and as
surance against a recurrence re
mained today as the last major
barrier to ending the west coast
shipping strike.
“Coos Bay now is the key to the
fntire situation,” said Dr. Nathan
P. Feinsinger, special mediator for
secretary of labor Schwellenbach,
after another day of continuous
negotiations aimed at ending the
46-day strike by three unions.
The mediator said he was draft
ing a written proposal for possible
solution of the Coos Bay dispute,
sffid that the unions had promised
to consider it today.
“That is the first hopeful sign
in this issue,” he declared.
Shipowners demanded settle-I
ment of jurisdictional disputes
such as that which tied up Coos
Bay for months. They insisted the
CIO longshoremen <ILWU) give
specific assurance, as a condition
for settlement of the strike, that
*ej|ms of the contract preventing
a Recurrence of the Oregon tie-up \
would be observed,
Feinsinger said the waterfront j
(WEA> and ILWU had settled all
points of dispute. But the em
ployers said they would not sign
until the Coos Bay issue was set-!
tied. That issue, Feinsinger em- j
j^hasized, was jurisdictional and
Riot an issue between the WEA and
ILWU.
‘Things look pretty good,” Fein
singer said at one stage during
yesterday’s negotiations. He would
not, however, forecast the strike’s
end.
The gap between the owners
and the CIO marine engineers
<MEBA> was lessened to the rela
tively minor issue of preferential
hiring in Alaska waters. The AFL
masters, mates and pilots (MMP>,
• (Continued on Page Five)
Senate Will
Investigate Military
Occupancy
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WASHINGTON, (/Pi — An im
mediate Senate investigation into
charges involving the military oc
cu]P/)tion of Germany and Austria
was forecast today by Senator
Brewster (R.-Me.).
Brewster told a reporter that
Republicans are anxious to push
the inquiry without waiting for
the newly-elected GOP majority
to take command of the Senate
January 3.
The war investigating commit
tee, he said, will probe the high
c^t of occupation; reports that U.
S. officers and troops have been
^hpa^ged in many “black market
(derations” alleged misconduct by
United States officers and men in
volving what Brewster described
as “sensational sex stories.”
PILOTLESS PLAN E—This PQ-I4, built by Culver for the Air Technical Service Com
mand, flies without a pilot, guided by remote radio control from the ground or another plane.
Czar Lewis Orders
Shutdown Of
Coal Mines
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis brushed aside a White
House appeal today and signalled
a r.oft coal mine shutdown starring
next Wednesday midnight.
Promptly aiter rre ^ent Tru
man squarely checked to him re
sponsibility for any pre-winter
mine stoppage, Lewis announced
the working contract with the
United Mine workers with the
government will be considered ter
minated Nov. 20.
By arbitration, the miners do
not work without a contract and
the UMW boss gave formal notice
of a termination of the contract
under which the government has
operated the mines since last
spring.
Mr. Truman announced at 2:15
p.m. that Lewis had rejected a
government proposal for a 60-day
truce to permit negotiations look
ing to a return of the mines to pri
vate ownership.
The President said Attorney
General Tom Clark had ruled that
the government’s current contract
with Lewis could not be reopened
unless both parties agreed.
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Roy Summer Glad
To See Old Friends
SEATTLE, (/P)—In a body cast
with two broken vertebrae and a
fractured leg bright-eyed Roy
Summer, Jr., 12, of Nome, was too
busy being cheerful today to com
plain of his ill luck.
“I was here 14 months once be
fore,” he told Orthopedic Hospital
nurses. “I’m glad to see my old
friends again.”
He was run over by a flatcar
and his father, a miner, arrived
with him last night on the steam
ship Cordova. Part Eskimo, he was
treated here once before for bone
tuberculosis from a broken knee
cap.
Nome Rotary Club
Receives Charter
The Nome Rotary Club received
its Charter, No. 6388, in Rotary
International from Dan Lhamon,
President of Fairbanks Rotary
Club, and Special Representative
! of the District Governor of Rotary
! International, Roy Fletcher, last
evening when twenty-seven Rota
rians, thei’.- ladies, and other guests
attended the housewarming of the
new organization, bringing gifts
and good wishes.
Guests from the Fairbanks Ro
tary Club were Dan Lhamon and
wife, Roy Ferguson, T. S. Batch
! elder and wife, and Phil Johnson.
The banquet hall was beautiful
ly decorated and the table set in
a big “U” seating nearly 80 Ro
tarians, ladies and guests. The
dinner was very well prepared and
'superbly served far beyond expec
tations.
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Seek To Build
Trans-Canadian
Railroad to Alaska
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VICTORIA, B. C., (JP) — AI-1
though officials here declared they
had had no recent conferences i
with American interests seeking
to build a railroad through Brit- j
ish Columbia to Alaska, other
sources disclosed that a company
recently was incorporated for that
purpose in New York.
The organization, however, is j
believed relying on large land
grants to carry the project through
to completion and government
policy has been against such ac
tion in view of recent surveys
which showed coal and oil poten
tialities of the Peace River region
through which the line would pass.
Premier John Hart, who sa:d
such reports had been frequent
since 1943, said he understood the
survey made between Prince
George B. C., and Teller, Alaska,1
via Fairbanks in 1942 and 19431
was an aerial one. I
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Propose To Cut
Federal Budget By
!\ine Billions
WASHINGTON, </P>—A nine-1
billion reduction in the federal
budget, acompanied by dismissal
of at least 1,000,000 civilian gov
ernment workers, was recom
mended today by Rep. Taber <R.
N.Y.), who will head the House
appropriations committee in the
new Congress.
At a news conference, Taber
told reporters the $9,000,000,000 is
the minimum “we might hope to
; save.”
He proposed that the estimated
2.300000 civilian employees of the
government be reduced by at least i
1,000,000 to effect a saving of
$3,000,000,000. This cut, he asid,
can be made “without damaging
the efficiency of the government.” j
Taber said a saving of $2,500,
000,000 could be made on non-re
curring items of expense for the
army and the navy; another bil- 1
lion and a half could be retrieved
from other agencies “including un
necessary construction programs.”
Radar-Equipped
Plane Flies Food
To Alaska
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SEATTLE, i/P> — An American |
Airlines DC-4, first commercial
plane to be equipped with radar,
today awaited loading of 20,000 lbs.
of food before taking off for An- !
chorage on the last leg of its
trans-continental journey.
The plane took off yesterday
from New York with a cargo of'
slide fasteners consigned to west
coast garment manufacturers in
San Francisco. It arrived in Seat
tle shortly before midnight.
Company officials said that the
Alpha had been used for the past
year in radar experiments with
the cooperation of army, navy. I
and other government branches.
!f Taxes Are Cut,
Spending Also
Musi Be Cut
WASHINGTON. </P)— Congres
sional Republicans swung an axe
at taxes today but ran into oppo
sition from their own and Demo
cratic ranks to any revenue slash
es not paired with even deeper
cuts in spending.
Members of the House Republi
can steering committee, eager to
get their party’s hands on legisla
tive controls for the first time ia
14 years, laid before Senaie col
leagues a quickly assembled pro
gram to take a 20 per cent sliee
off individual income taxes.
Changes in business levies would
await detailed study.
Acting while the Senators most
ly talked—among other tnings
about how to block Democratic
Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mis
sissippi from taking his seat—ihe
House group went down the line
for:
1. An eight-year tenure for fu
ture Presidents.
2. “Constructive” labor legisla
tion.
3. An end to war powers.
4. Relief from soap, oils, and
food shortages and.
5. “Substantial savings” in gov
ernment costs.
The House members supported
their 20 per cent tax cut proposal
with a formal assertion that it
could be achieved “while at the
same time the current budget can
be balanced and payments begun
on the national debt.”
Chairman Robert A. Taft, of
Ohio, who led the Senate group
into its second day of discussion,
said he agreed that it vvo'iH be
done and that the federal budget
could be pared to thirty billion
next near—eleven billion less than
year’s budget.
But Senator-elect John Sher
man Cooper of Kentucky, one of
the “freshmen” who will give the
Republicans control of the Senate,
told a reporter he thinks taxes
must be maintained at their pres
ent level to give the treasury a
chance of making payments on the
debt.
And Senator Homer Capehart,
Indiana Republican, declared he
hopes his colleagues don't go off
“half cocked” in their efforts to
bring relief to the taxpayers.
Republicans To Go
On With Truman
WASHINGTON, (iP)—Republi
can Senators showed a disposition
today to go along with President
Truman on recess appointments to
important federal jobs which re
quire Senate confirmation.
They made it plain that the
thought of a sit-down strike
against confirmation of appointees
who are Democrats is out. Senator
Wallace H. White, of Maine, pres
ent Republican leader, told a re
porter such action would be “un
excusable.” Other highly placed
Republicans agreed with him.