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==VOI,. L. No. 43. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1948 PER COPY — 15c
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20 SS Elite Guards
Convicted Today
Wholesale Murder
By Thomas A. Reedy
NUERNBERG, Germany, —(/Pi
—Twenty officers of Hitler’s SS
(Elite Guard) were convicatd ol
wholesale murder today in an Am
erican finding so biting the death
penalty for many seemed inescap
able. Sentences will be announced
tomorrow morning.
A three-judge court found them
guilty on all three counts of ar
indictment charging the killing ol
at least a million Jews, Gypsies
and others classified by the Nazis
* as racial undesirables.
The judgement was handec
down by presiding judge Michae
A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh. He
summed up the counts as “plair
murder.” The conviction was thr
most all-embracing in the historj
of the Nuernberg trials.
Convicted of all three counts
were four generals, 12 colonels
three majors and one lieutenant
Mainly they exterminated Jews
Their own records, introduced ir
court showed at least a millior
slain. The prosecution held tha
p maybe 2,000,000 died from thei:
bullets or in their gas vans.
CIO May Picket
Juneau Plant
JUEAU, — </P) —Juneau’s AFL
Carpenters and nine members ol
the Juneau Contractors Employ
ers Association are to meet tonighl
• with other interested employei
groups in an effort to settle the
carpenters’ strike.
The carpenters quit work April 1
in support of their demands for
a 25-cent increase to boost wages
to $2.25. They also asked ad
justment of wages each six months
to meet changes up or down in the
cost of living.
Employers offered to increase
wages 12 1/2 cents an hour.
Juneau Carpenters
Strike For Pay
JUNEAU, — (/P) —The Juneau
Spruce Corporation, already beset
by a strike at its Edna Bay logging
camp, was threatened today with
picketing of its local plant.
The CIO Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union said it will
^ start picketing the plant tomorrow
morning.
E. S. Hawkins, company manager
said he had refused to discharge
three sawmill workers union men
and hire six ILWU men to take
their place in loading lumber
barges.
Hawkins said the ILWU insisted
it had jurisdiction. He said the un
ion asked employment of its men
o.n a six-hour day basis with
* time and one-half for overtime and
for work done before or after the
^ , period 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Hawkins asserted that in case
. the mill was forced to shut down
he would sue the union for dam
ages under the Taft-Hartley law.
* Longshoremen’s union members
confirmed that the demands were
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Gov’t Orders
Railroads To Cut
Service In Half j
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! WASHINGTON, —(/P)—‘The 26
day old mine shutdown forced the
government today to order coal
burning railroads to cut to half
of normal.
The reduction is effective at
midnight, April 15, and presum
ably would be cancelled if mining
i resumes before then.
: There appeared no immediate
prospect, however, of an end of the
walkout despite a new threat of
action against John L. Lewis and
his United Mine Workers,
j Rep. Hartley <R-NJ> said today
i that if the Taft-Hartley labor law
which he helped write fails to
: “put the brakes” on Lewis, he
i will ask for stiffer laws. Hartley
> is head of the House Labor Com
■ mittee.
The pending new cutback in
i coal-burning freight and passen
ger train service was ordered by
the office of defense transporta
tion and the Interstate Commerce
i Commission to save dwindling sup
i plies of coal.
ODT said Wednesday the rail
• roads ha^ stocks enough to last
only 22 days.
Rep. Hartley told reporters the
possibility of further congressional
action aimed at Lewis hinges on
what happens to the union leader
when he answers a contempt ci
tation in court Monday.
General Recalls
Bataan Annivers’ry
By Spenced Davis
BATAAN, —>(JP)—A husky, two
star general stepped out of a jeep,
j took a calculating look, and swung
i his machette at a tangle of under
growth. Then he scrambled up an
eight foot embankment.
“If I’m right the entrenchments
would be about here,” he said.
“This was our final line of resist
ance.”
The rest of the group crowded
, up the embenkment. There we
| found the foxholes of Bataan, all
i but buried now by the rank jun
, gle growth.
Six years ago today 90,000 Am
erican and Filipino soldiers and
civilians—emaciated, malaria rid
den and battle fagged—climbed
out of fox holes like these all the
way across the Bataan peninsula.
Resistance was at an end.
Among them was this same maj
. or general, Albert M. Jones, now
i head of the U. S. joint military
• advisory group to the Philippines.
SEIFFERTS RETURN FROM
VISIT TO STATES
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. (Binks)
- Seiffert, who made a trip to the
! states due to the illness of Mr.
jSeiffert’s mother, returned on the
I Pan American plane last night.
While in the states they made
several business contacts for their
new and enlarged business for
| “HAZEL’S VARIETY STORE.”
made on Hawkins but declined fur
ther comment.
Both unions are affiliated with i
the CIO.
Govt Fails Protect
Alaska Says Colien
WASHINGTON, —(/P)—Felix S.
Cohen, former interior department
associate solicitor, said today that
the government fails to protect
Alaskans against absentee owner
ship.
He also wrote in an article titled
“Open Season on Alaskan Natives”
that the natives of Pribiloff Is
lands are “held in virtual serf
dom.”
Cohen quoted an Alaska native
woman as saying that secretary
of the interior Krug has broker
f promises to Alaskan natives anc
has kept the indian bureau frorr
fulfilling its promises.
interior department oiiiciats
said they had not seen the artich
in the news letter of the Institute
of Ethnic Affairs, and could no
comment. The institute is apr:
vate organization which interest:
itself in minority groups. Coher
resigned from the interior depert
ment recently to practice law heie
“Although the impact of absen
tee monopoly falls heavily upor
white families as well as upor
natives,” wrote Cohen, “the absen
tee-controlled press and chamber:
of commerce of the territory hav<
managed to stir up enough bitter
ness between whites and native:
in Alaska to make united actior
against the colonial order extreme
1 ly difficult.
“Under the impact of this pro
paganda, many white Alaskan
have failed to see that the sami
forces which oppose the ownership
of resources by resident indian:
also oppose the ownership of re
sources by resident whites.
“Wherever indian groups seel
to defend their lands or theii
homes, their right to cut theii
own trees or to use their accus
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Sen. Vandenberg
Says, Isn’t Running
UNDATED POLITICAL —f/P)
—‘The possibility developed today
that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg—
who says he isn’t running—may
influence the result of Nebraska
G.O.P. presidential primary.
Vandenberg is one of seven
whose names have been entered
in next Tuesday’s voting. Nebras
ka Republicans will say then what
man they would like the party
to nominate for president at the
June Philadelphia convention.
The Michigan senator isn’t cam
paigning. In fact, he tried to get
his name withdrawn. This was
in line with his repeated state
ments that he isn’t a candidate
and will not “connive” in a draft
movement.
But Nebraska polititians who
knew their way around say there
is some strong sentiment in the
state for the chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
They contend that he is likely to
be among the top four Tuesday
and three leaders generally are
expected to be Harold E. Stassen,
wfro walked away with the Wis
consin primary, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York and Senator
Robert A. Taft.
Bigger ’n Better
Airforce in the Air
WASHINGTON. — —Pres
ident Truman asked Congress for
an appropriation of $725,000,000
for expansion of the Air Forces,
i The House appropriations com
I mittee, to which the presidential
request was directed, called a
| special meeting on Thursday af
| ternoon to consider the request,
• It plans to report to the House
! next week a bill carrying the new
funds.
The additional fund is for use
during the fiscal year starting Ju
ly 1
The president last week <noti
fied Congress that such a reques
w’ould be forthcoming. It is par
of an additional $3,000,000,000 t(
be sought for overall defense pur
poses for the next fiscal year.
The $725,000,000 requested
$195,000,000 would be in cash anc
i $530,000,000 in contract authoriz
- ations for which cash must bi
. furnished later.
The Army Air Force would re
i ceive $135,000,000 of the new casl
i and the naval bureau of aero
- nautics $60,000,000.
I
; The bigger-and-better Air Forci
; drive temporarily has shunted as
. i ide plans for universal military
. . .
; training.
•I Jews, Arabs Battle
On Jewish Lifeline
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL—
1 j (/Pi—Haganah fighters recapturec
' Kastel today in the seven-dey see
j saw battle for the strategic little
1 Arab village commanding a Jewish
■ j lifeline to food-short Jerusalem, i
‘ Jewish agency spokesman said
Haganah, the Jewish militia, hac
, held the village through six day>
J of fierce Arab attacks until yester
! day, when a strong Arab force
j stormed it. The Arab commander
Abdul Khadder Husseine, cousin
i of the’ exiled Mufti of Jerusalem
! was reported by Arab officials tc
j have been killed in the assault.
Preliminary Arab-Jewish truce
iaiKs iaueci yesieraay ai LiSkp suc
cess, N. Y. A special session of the
United Nations assembly has been
called for next Friday to recon
■ sider the Palestine problem, includ
ing the United States proposal of
a U. N. trusteeship and the pre
J viouslv voted partition plan,
i Strong American military sup
i port seemed certain for the pro
jected western European bloc of
nations, to strengthen it against
Russian expansion. Belgian prem
! ier Paul-Henri Spaak, who con
ferred this week with President
Truman, told a Washington news
i conference the European nations
will ask military aid later on.
The U. S. foreign aid chef, Paul
G. Hoffman, said he did not be
lieve industrial priority and ra
tioning would be required to as
sure that the needed fuel, supplies
and food get overseas.
In Berlin, Gen. Lucius D. Clay
j announced there will be no meet
, ing of the Allied council tomor
row, the regular meeting day, be
cause none of the four-powers
has asked for one. The council has
not met since the Russians walked
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Donors To Date
*
For Emergency
Hospital Fund
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The following is a list of donors
to date for the emergency hospital
fund. Other donatipns are being
received continually and will be
published as they come in.
A & A Garage $ 10.00
Alaska Distributors 100.00
American Legion Post 19 691.61
Arctic Oil Delivery 20.00
Joe Amarok 5.00
Alaska States Produce 5.00
Alaska Airline^ 20.00
Anonymous 50.00
Arctic Club 813.88
C. D. Anderson 10.00
, James Adams 10.00
.•May Bale 150.00
j Board of Trade 150.00
, i (Continued on Page Five)
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Alaska Statehood
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Gets Big Boost
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‘ WASHINGTON, — </P) —Dele
gate Bartlett of Alaska hailed final
House committee approval of the
Alaska Statehood bill Thursday
as a “real victory for those who
r
believe Alaska can prosper as it
| should only if it becomes a State.”
But the bill has a long and pos
i sibly tedious path to travel before
1 it becomes law and Alaska is ad
mitted as a State. It must first be
I approved by the House rules com
. mittee and then by the House.
I From there it goes to the Senate
■ interior committee. If and when
> that committee approves the meas
ure, it must be passed by the Sen
, ate.
Indications were that this long
procedure might prevent it reach
ing the Senate floor this year.
Bartlett said the action of the
public lands committee in elimin
1 ating from the measure words
1 granting recognition of tribal
rights in the Territory did not
, impair rights of the Indians, Al
j euts and Eskimos in the proposed
new State.
yune ooviousiy me question
of those rights will be settled in
other ways than in the Statehood
bill,” Bartlett said. “If that set
tlement is by way of legislation,
consideration can be given to the
subject in a way not possible in
the Statehood bill.”
During discussion of the amend
ment eliminating recognition of
tribal rights, Bartlett told the
committee he would rather see
them remain in the bill but would
not object to the elimination.
The approved measure would
increase land the Territory will
receive by a million acres and
turn over to the new State con
i trol of its fisheries, fur and game.
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NENANA POOL SENDS
4300 GUESSES FROM NOME
The Nenana pool has closed for,
another year, at least as far as
| guessing goes. We can only hope
that ours -is the lucky number.
4300 guesses went out from
Nome this year.
During the next few weeks
attention will be focussed on the
conditions at Nenana, and, a few
minute pools about town.