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Nome Again Suf- !
fers Much Damage !
from Storm
Nome was again buffeted by a
mid-November storm which came
without warning bringing strong
winds whipping waves and slush
ice into the rear of the recently
damaged and unprotected build
ings.
" The Northern Commercial Com
pany, general merchandise store,
again took the brunt of the dam
age, when the rear basement wall
broke through filling the base
ment with water and ice. An am- j
monia line to the cold storage
plant broke, filling the store with '
fumes making it impossible to do
any salvage for quite some time.:
Many thousand dolalrs in mer-;
^handise and supplies were lost. '
The Dream Theater was again j
severely damaged by the water
and ice which broke windows j
thirty feet above beach level,
flooding rooms with water and
' slush ice, and putting the heating
equipment out of commission.
The Polar building also sus
i tained considerable damage to the
|r rear and the basement by the wa- i
ter and ice.
. The southwest corner of the M.
%nd M. Bank was undermined by
the water rushing through the
broken bulkhead alongside the
building.
The Lomen Commercial Com
pany machine shop was again
damaged considerably. Harry
Knutsen pulled him home off the
south of Front Street to his prop
Kty north of the Lomen machine
op, before any damage was \
done.
Two storage and warehouse
buildings were washed out before
daylight on Sunday morning, car
rying some equipment and sup
plies and one delivery truck.
The Northern Light and Power
Company building was damaged
and much of the equipment ruin
ed, necessitating the switching of
(ttne power lines to the Army power
plant. The move was made be
cause of the incubator in use in
the hospital which needed electric
power for its thermostatic control
of heat.
As is usually the case much
other damage was caused but will
not become known until a later
examination of properties.
The City Council is holdnig a
% special meeting this afternoon to
make plans for some city action in
the matter of an ocean breakwa
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NEW YORK. f/P) — James J.
(Jimmy)Walker, 65, mayor of New
York from 1925 to 1932, was crit
ically ill at Doctors Hospital today.
Molotov Reserves
Right To Reject j
All Proposals
NEW YORK, bT*)—Soviet For-j
eight Minister Molotov agreed to-1
day to consider British American
and Chinese proposals for volun
tarily restricting the use of the
veto in the United Nations secur
ity council, but he reserved his
right to reject all of them later.
Molotov told a Big Five group
meeting specifically on the veto
issue that he did not see any need
to burden the security council
with what he called any more for
malities or more procedural rules
—thereby strongly indicating his
opposition to adopting what Brit
ish foreign secretary Bevin called
a “code of conduct” for restricting
use of the veto.
However, Molotov finally said
he would consider various propo
sals for vetoing of security coun
cil decisions. The conferees—Mol
otov, Bevin, Secretary of State
Byrnes and representatives of
France and China—agreed to meet
again tomorrow on the veto
question.
At today’s session Britain pro
posed seven rules on which Bevin
urged the great powers to agree
voluntarily for limiting their vot
ing rights in the security council.
Byrnes formally proposed several
similar agreements and Ambassa
dor Wellington Koo of China made;
suggestions along the sarnie lines.
Franco Objects To
U. N. Isolation
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MADRID, (/P) — Generalissimo!
Francisco Franco maintained to
day that United Nations isolation
of Spain would greatly increase
the possibility of war.
“Every action of violence and
injustice always tends rather
towards war than towards peace,”
Spain’s chief of state said last
night in answer to questions hand
ed him by the Associated Press.
He said a diplomatic break I
would bring about “disunion
among nations and dissention in
the interior of many" and cost the
U. N. prestige, and “the under
mining and disunion of the latter ■
would greatly increase the possi
bility of war.”
(The U. N. general assembly, [
now meeting in New York, has on '
its agenda the question of what to 1
do about the Spanish government.
Poland has demanded the United
Nations all break diplomatic rela
tions with Franco. Secretary-Gen
eral Trygve Lie has urged action
by which “democratic government
may be restored in Spain”*.
Maritime Unions
Voting On Return
To Work
i
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*) — The
end of the 49-day-Pacific Coast
maritime strike was in sight today
as strikers began voting on a ten
tative agreement under which they
would return to work Wednesday.
Settlement of the union security
demands of a third union, the AFL
masters, mates and pilots <MMP>.
remained as a barrier to reopen
ing west coast ports, but that
union was to meet with the em
ployers today, amid indications of
an agreement.
Reaching a tentative agreement
was announced yesterday by the
operators and leaders of the inter
na ional longshoremen and ware
housemen <ILWU> and the marine'
engineers’ beneficial association
<M3BA», both CIO unions Union
leaders urged membership ratifi
cation.
Harry Bridges, ILWU leader,
said the agreement included the
Coos Bay, Ore., jurisdictional dis
pute between CIO committee for
maritime unity and Harry Lunde
berg’s AFL sailors’ union of the
Pacific. Lundeberg could not be
reached for comment.
Employers had demanded that
there would be no more work
stoppages such as that which has
ited up Coos Bay since mid-June.
Bridges said the agreement an
nounced would mean “substantial
gains” for both CIO unions. He
said it “will go to the union mem
bership with the unanimous
recommendation of the joint nego
tiating committee for approval.”
ILWU members would gain 15
cent an hour wage bosts to a base
of $1.52 an hour and the MEBA
members a 15 per cent high under
the proposed contracts. The ILWU
also obtained appointment of a
federal fact finding committee to
study waterfront safety conditions.
The strike began October 1 on
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Relief Barge
Refloated
JUNEAU, (A1)—Floated success
fully after grounding on a reef
early last Friday, the Seattle food
relief barge Sondra Lee was under
tow today on the way here with a
large cargo of food supplies.
The barge radioed early Friday
it was breaking up near Mole
Harbor and the coast guard cutter
Wachusett raced to the scene but
could not get near enough to put
a tow line aboard. A large tug in
port here steamed out and pulled
the barge off at high tide.
CIO Murray Says
Republicans Will
“Crucify” Labor
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. t/H)—
President Philip Murray opened
the CIO’s eighth convention today
with a declaration that the “un
precedented profits” of industry
constitutes the gravest threat ever
faced by the American people.
Murray asserted Communist of
fers a threat to our free economy,
but the “staggering profits” of
corporations—which he said were
running at $15,000,000,000 rate
this year (after taxes)—are “the
gravest threat to the maintenance
of our system of free enterprise.”
Murray told the estimated H00
delegates that the coming wage
struggle would he the convention’s
most important concern.
He declared that if Republican
leaders think the election results
gave them a mandate to "crucify
labor”, “they are making a grave
mistake.”
“No! No!” he shouted. “They
can’t do that to the American peo
ple."
In defiant and bitter language
Murray reviewed the big CIO
strikes of last winter and blamed
them squarely on big business. He
said no CTO union “precipitated
a strike.”
Tojo Admits Guilt
Of Starting War
In Pacific
TOKYO, .(/P) — Hideki Tojo,
Japan’s wartime premier, has ac
knowledged chief responsibility
for launching the Pacific war, the
prosecution told the Allied war
crimes tribunal today.
It quoted Tojo as saying last
Spring during questioning in Su
gamo prison that “I, as senior
member (of the cabinet' am chief
ly responsible” for the attacks on
Pearl Harbor, Hongkong. Malaya
and the Philippines.
Tojo heads the list of 27 alleged
warmongers on trial.
Joseph W. Ballantine, special as
sistant to the U. S. Secretary of
State, told the tribunal later in the
day that the state department had
opposed a meeting of President
Roosevelt with the then Japanese
Premier Fumimaro Konoye in the
autumn of 1941, as proposed by
Konoye.
The department felt, Ballantine
said, that if the talks failed, the
Japanese leaders would then be
“in a position to declare that the
United States was responsible.’’
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Truman Orders
Showdown Fight
With Lewis
WASHINGTON, </P) — Defying
the prospect of a government
crack down on John L. Lewis,
thousands of soft coal miners to
day laid down their tools three
days ahead of a deadline set up
the United Mine workers chief.
As the walkouts spread, Presi
dent Truman called for a show
down fight with Lewis and Attor
ney General Tom Clark summoned
aides to another emergency ses
sion to explore possible court ac
tion against the UMW boss. It was
I the second such conference in as
many days.
Mr. Truman was vacationing in
Florida but intimates said he h id
left orders for subordinates in the
capital to either smash Lewis
leadership of the miners or bring
him to terms on a deal to keep
mines going.
Lewis, rejecting a government
j proposal for a truce, had “termin
, ated” the miners’ wage contract
effective Wednesday midnight—
i signal for a complete shutdown
! in the mine fields. The govern
ment insists the contract still is
effective.
PITTSBURGH, i/P)—Some 20,
000 miners quit work in fnu- s' it's
today 72 hours ahead of the sus
i pension deadline tnreaten..* » m me
nation’s soft coal fields.
The idle included (5,500 in Penn
sylvania, 6,000 hi West Virginia,
, 5,500 in Illinois and 2,000 in Ala
bama. Heavy absenteeism from
some working mines awi was re
ported in some sections.
There are about 400,000 miners
I
1 in the bituminous coal industry.
—
WASHINGTON, {&) — Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today
called on John L, Lewis to con
tinue mining soft coal for the gov
ernment for at least nine more
days.
On the Government’s complaint,
' Goldsborough signed an order re
! straining Lewis from terminating
j his contract at Wednesday mid
i night—a notice that already had
prompted thousands of mine work- -
ers to quit their jobs in advance
of the deadline.
The judge directed Lewis—and
the United Mine Workers—to hold
the termination notice in abeyance
at least until November 27, when
a hearing wil be held on whether
| a temporary injunction will be is
I sued to uphold the government’s
; position that Lewis cannot breach
his contract.
The legal action was another
step in what was heralded as a
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