NEWS IN BRIEF
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phone workers said they will
itrike as scheduled next Friday
unless their new 15-cent-an-hour
wage demand prompts company
negotiators to “get down to busi
ness.”
Company officials looked over
the new proposal and said: “We
don't see how they justify it."
SEATTLE, </P)—Application for
5 federal loan to assist in con
struction of 75 dwelling units in
Juneau and 150 in Anchorage,
was announced yesterday by M.
C. Redman, director of the Seattle
field house of the public housing
id ministration. The application
was made by E. Glen Wilder, ex
ecutive director of the Alaske
Housing Authority with the en
dorsement of the municipal gov
ernments of the two cities.
HISTORIC CHAIR PRESENTED
TO ALASKA MUSEUM
SEATTLE. (/P) — A chair that'
comforted the weary bodies of a
group of polar explorers in 1926
• s enroute from Seattle back to
Alaska.
The chair was the only one
aboard the dirigible Norge when
the aircraft crossed the North
Pok- from Spitzenbergen to Tel
ler, Alaska.
The chair, owner by Carl Lo
men, Seattle, has been presented
by him to the Alaska Historical
Museum. It is being transported
to Alaska by the Alaska Steam
>hip Company vessel Baranof.
The chair was given to Lomen
by Roald Amundsen, famed Arc
tic explorer who commanded the
Passengers Escape
Burning Ship
COPENHAGEN, Denmark </P)—
Flames swept a little Danish
steamship in fog-covered Katte
gat Strait early today, driving 108
passengers into lifeboats for saf
ety.
All the passengers — traveling
from Oslo, Norway, to Copenha
gen, aboard the 3,038-ton Kron
prins Olav—were picked up safe
ly a short time later by a Swed
ish-American liner which answer
ed the burning vessel’s distress
call.
A spokesman for the Kronprins
Olav said all passengers were
taken aboard the Swedish-Ameri
can liner Stockholm, but a few
were injured in abandoning ship.
Although the sea was calm, fog
hampered the rescue work.
H. Garde, a director of United
Steamships. Ltd., said fire broke
out amidships when the Kron
prins Olav was seven miles off
Kullen Peninsula, Sweden. The
peninsula is about 45 miles north
of Copenhagen in the Kattegat
Straight, which is one of the chan
nels connecting the North and
Baltic Seas.
The passengers weer ordered to
abandon ship in lifeboats but
most of the ship’s crew of 50
stayed aboard to fight the blaze.
When a huge meteor fell in Si
beria in 1908, the noise was heard
in Irkutsk, 600 miles away.
Norge expedition.
Lomen said the chair was the
only one on the Norge due to the
I necessity of lightening the ship of
every possible article.
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Monday, February 20, 1950
5:00 pun.—News—Short Wave
5:15—Music of the Masters
6:00—Music from America
6:30—Twenty Questions
7:00—Number Please
8:00—Ozzie and Harriet
8:30—To be announced
9:00—Judy Canova
9.30—Sam Spade
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—G.I. Jive
10:45—Words with Music
11:00 pun.—Sign Off
Tuesday, February 21, 1950
7:00 a.m.—Morning Melodies
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Sunrise Serenade
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—Not So Quiet, Please
9:00—AFRS Sports Reel
9:15—Melody Roundup
9:30—To be announced
10:00—Jack Berch
10:15—Chiquita
10:30—Platter Previews
11:00—Personal Album
11:15—Remember
11:30—I. & E. Special
Noon—Luncheon Turntable
12:30—Album Music
12:45—At Ease
1:00—Around World In History
1:15—Jack Smith
1:30—Yesterday’s Best
2:00—Matinee Melodies
3:00—Name It For A Song
3:30—Musical Varieties
4:00—Supper Club
4:15—Second Hand Juke Box
4:30—To Be Announced
5:00—News—Short Wave
5:15—Music of the Masters
6:00—Jubilee
6:30—You Are There
7:00—Number Please
8:00—Burns and Allen
8:30—The Air Force Hour
9:00—Bob Hope
9:30—The Whistler
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—G.I. Jive
10:45—Words with Music
11:00 p.m.—Sign Off
Wednesday. February 22. 1950
7:00 a.m.—Morning Melodies
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Sunrise Serenade
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—Not So Quiet, Please
9:00—Zeke Manners
9:15—Melody Roundup
9:30—To be announced
10:00—Jack Berch
10:15—Chiquita
10:30—Platter Preview
11:00—Personal Album
11:15—Solitary Singer
11:30—1. & E. Special
Noon—'Luncheon Turntable
12:30—Album Music
12:45—At Ease
1:00—Around World In History
1:15—Jack Smith
1:30—Yesterday’s Best
2:00—Matinee Melodies
3:00—Name It For A Song
3:30—Musical Varieties
4:00—Supper Club
4:15—Service Club Calendar
4:30—To Be Announced
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Bridges’ Denial He
Is Communist
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>) — Four
days of searching cross examina
tion has failed to make Harry
Bridges waver from his flat de
nial thgt he ever belonged to the
communist party.
As his federal court perjury
trial recessed Friday for the week
end, the CIO longshoremen’s and
warehousemen’s union leader de
nied:
1. That the communist party.
“dictated or ordered his union to
change its affiliation in 1937 from j
the AFL to the CIO.
2. That he had ever visited com
munist headquarters in New
York.
3. That he had ever dined in
New York with Roy Hudson, iden
tified by the prosecution as an
important communist.
The government charges that'
Bridges was a member of the
communist party and perjured
himself at his 1945 naturalization
hearing when he denied member
ship.
Two union aides, J. R. Robert-1
son and Henry Schmidt, his char- i
acters witnesses at the hearing, j
are co-defendants charged with
conspiracy.
Bridges, after court adjourned, I
travelled to Stockton, Calif., 75
miles east of here, to speak be
fore a “Bridge Defense fund”
rally. The stormy labor leader,
who will return to the witness
today, told the gathering the de
fense would rest when he finished
his testimony.
He also criticized the U. S. im
migration service for what he
called its “subversive, un-Ameri
can .illegal activities.”
Some immigration agents “get
into a habit of pushing people
Navy Ship To Sail
On Secret Mission
SAN FRANCISCO, <JP) — The
navy’s experimental guided mis
sile ship, the Norton Sound, is be
ing fitted out here for a secret un
dertaking called “Project Reach.”
Capt. John Quinn, the Norton
Sound’s skipper, said today he had
been asked not to say anything
about the nature of the project.
Cmdr. H. H. Larsen, executive of
ficer, said the assignment probab
ly would be carried out some
where in the Pacific.
The Norton Sound returned re
cently from a northern assignment
during which it fired two Aerobee
rockets—one 700 miles off the
Oregon-Washington coast and the
other in the Gulf of Alaska. Pri
mary object was to get upper at
mospheric data on cosmic rays,
Quinn said. This data is being
evaluated at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity.
As a laboratory ship for scien
tists and weapon experts, the
Norton Sound has fired more than
20 guided missiles and about 15
rockets, Quinn said.
around because they are Torcign
born and don’t speak good Eng
lish,” he declared.
He said he was “very confident
of a fair trial.”
An unflattering account of Mer
vine Rathbone, prospective re
buttal witness, in the People’s
World, left-wing newsp a p e r ,
caused a minor brush at the close
of court between counsel.
Prosecutor F. James Donohue
said he thought it was an infring
ment worth court notice. Defense
attorney Vincent Hallinan pro
tested that newspapers are worth
less as evidence and added that
the prosecutor professed similar
views earlier in the trial.
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