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VOL. XLIX No. 109 ' NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 10, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, —Permission for
a 10 per cent increase in one-way
fares and a 10 per cent decrease in
L round-trip rates has been asked
by Northwest Airlines from the
Civil Aeronautics Board in Wash
ington and the Air Transport
Board of Canada in Ottawa, line
officials said yesterday.
LAKE SUCCESS, i/P) — Soviet
f Russia proposed yesterday that
the United Nations police force
have 12 divisions of troops 1,200
planes and five or six cruisers.
Rissia did not propose any bat
tleships or carriers for the U. N.
force.
The figures were submitted by
the Soviet delegation to the U. N.
military staff committee as Rus
sia’s estimate of the size and
strength of the forces to be put at
the disposal of the security council
by the U. N. members.
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WASHINGTON (fP)—More than
$2,500,000,000 has been paid to
, veterans in unemployment or self
employment allowances since the
fall of 1944, the veterans adminis
tration announced yesterday.
However, only half of the na
tion’s 14,500,000 World War II
veterans have received readjust
ment payments of any kind and
• fewer than eight in every hundred
have claimed all of the allowances
to which they are entitled under
the GI bill.
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. </P)
“Keep the change.”
A newsbow never hears sweeter
words. But when 15-year-old Ed
ward Grant looked at the bill a
man gave him for a paper, and
heard the welcome phrase, he was
goggle-eyed. It was a $100 bill.
This was the latest report of an
unknown philanthropist, described
as driving a 1932 automobile, who
has been handing out $100 bills in
this area for small items of serv
ices. At neighboring Inglewood.
Flora Killingsworth, a waitress,
said a man resembling the one de
, scribed by the newsboy, gave her
a $100 bill after eating breakfast
and told her to keep the change.
SEATTLE, </P)—U. S. Customs
Seryice agent Fred Bradt said yes
terday the government impounded
24,610 pounds of halibut brought
in by the halibut boat Urania and
that Capt. L. B. Jensen and four
crew members have been charged
with catching “in excess of one
pound of halibut to seven pounds
of other salable fish.”
Jensen and three of the crew
members are from Seattle. The
fifth is James J. Jones of Ketchi
kan. They posted $500 bond each
and were released.
i
OLYMPIA, (/P) — Dr. Donald
Black, Port Angeles, state senator
from the 24th district, filed his
resignation with secretary of state
Belle Reeves today. Black gave no
• reason for his resignation but it
was known here that he has been
connected with a Cordova, Alaska,
hospital. He would have been up
for reelection in November, 1948.
India To War
%
Against Communal
War And Massacre
—
NEW DELHI, I/P)—Prime Min
! ister Jawaharlal Nehru of the
month-old Dominion of India,
pledged government measures “on,
a war basis” today to cope with
: communal massacres blamed for
1.000 Delhi deaths in three days.
I
In a radio speech last night.
Nehru declared that such mea
sures—which he did not detail—
were necessary in the fact of a
i situation he called “analogous to
war." He said the "serious crisis”
threatened the future of India.
He declared, however, that the
military still were "masters of the
situation” and shortly would be
“more the masters.” His address
followed reports from police and
army authorities that the rioting
let up somewhat yesterday, but
gunfire still resounded through
the Dominion’s capital and its old
er sister city.
Sikhs and Hindus in predomin
antly Hindu India have been kill
ing Moslems in retaliation for the
slaughter of merr»bers of their re
ligious communities in the Mos’em
Dominion of Pakistan.
Official sources estimated the
dead in New and Old Delhi at
1,000 in the three days ended yes
terday. One civil official said the
killed and wounded might run up
to 10,000.
The butchery and attendant
1 burning and looting have para
lyzed the life of the twin cities and
i sent thousands of their 300,000 or
so Moslems fleeing toward Paki
stan 300 miles away, carrying
their children and goods.
The Moslem exodus followed an
inpouring of Sikh and Hindu refu
j gees from Pakistan.
U. S. Govt. Sues
Glass Companies
In Anti-Trust Case
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WASHINGTON, (/Pi—The jus
tice department announced today
it has filed a civil anti-trust suit j
at Toledo, O., against tRree lead-;
ing glass manufacturers charging!
“conspiracy to monopolize" the
production of glass fibers in the
United States.
The Owens-Illinois Glass com
pany and Owens-Corning Fiber
glas Corp., both of Toledo andj
the Corning Glass Works of Corn
ing. N. Y., ware named as defend
ants.
The department said it is alleg
ing that Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Corp. “was formed jointly by
Owens-Illinois Glass Co., and
Corning Glass Works as part of a
conspiracy to dominate and con
trol the development of the fiber
glass industry.”
An additional charge, the an
nouncement said, is that these
companies “entered into cartel
agreements with the principal for
eign producers in order to butress
their monopoly in the United
States by dividing territories and
getting exclusive rights to patents
and technical information.”
V-2 Rocket Fired
In Secret Navy Test
By Carrier At Sea
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WASHINGTON, —t/P>—N aval
warfare entered an awesome new
phase with the first shipboard
firing of a 15-ton V-2 rocket in a
secret week-end test by the car
rier Midway far out in the At
lantic Qcean.
The navy provided few details
but quoted its top expert in guid
ed missiles, rear admiral D. V.
Gallery, as saying “This launch
ing will mark the beginning of
a new era in naval weapons.
Although the test rocket explod
ed after traveling only six miles,
the experiment indicated land tar
gets could be pounded with such
projectiles from warships operat
ing far offshore.
The Germans were firing the
46-foot V-2s up to 200 miles to
ward the end of World War II,
when they concentrated the big
weapons on London and Antwerp.
Last night’s navy announcement
did not^av whether the early des
truction of the test rocket Satur
day was pre-arranged, but an of
ficer speaking privately indicated
the plan had been for a flight to
maximum range. The Germans
had frequent premature explosions
with the V-2, and this was one of
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WILL CONTACT EVERY
NOME CITIZEN IN
T. B. SURVEY
Every man. woman and child
in Nome will be contacted in the
next week by a canvasser to be
given the opportunity of safe
guarding their health with a free
chest x-ray. The survey will be
conducted by the Territorial de
partment of health in co-operation
with the local public health serv
ice.
The local survey was announced
by Lois Jund, T. B. consultant,!
who expressed the hope that every
citizen of Nome would avail him
self of this special opportunity
and turn out 100%, as have the
other communities in Alaska al
ready visited.
In order that every citizen may
be registered for the survey a
house to house canvas will be
made by members of the Home
Arts Club and their assistants dur
ing the next week. The clinic will
begin about September 22 in the
west end of the federal building.
The survey, which is part of the
comprehensive campaign against
tuberculosis in the Territory has
already been held in Fairbanks,!
Anchorage, Ketchikan, Peters
burg, Wrangell, Cordova and Val
dez and will be completed
throughout the Territory before
Christmas.
The x-ray will take only a few
moments of each person’s time.
The most up-to-date equipment,,
which usese 4x5 film and special
technicians, will handle about six- j
ty persons per hour. No disrobing]
is necessary.
Tuberculosis can be stamped out j
with wholehearted co-operation ofi
everyone. Only an x-ray can dis-|
Shipping Strike
Stalemated At
Ketehikan
KETCHIKAN, 1/P)—'The dispute
over unloading of the freighter
Sailor’s Splice remained stale
mated today as participants await
ed the result of conferences by
federal conciliators, union heads
and employers.
Striking CIO longshoremen ar
ranged to picket all night in a
pouring rain, and members of a
citizens committee which offered
to handle the ship’s cargo in de
fiance of the longshoremen con
tinued a dockside vigil.
The citizens’ group was balked
in efforts to move cargo when
Seattle leaders of the AFL sailors’
1 union of the Pacific, revising ear
! lier instructions, advised SUP
members here “not to work under
unsafe conditions. A picket line
would come under this heading.’’
Federal conciliators Harry H.
Lewis and Albin L. Peterson ar
rived by plane from Seattle yes
terday and immediately conferred
with representatives of longshore
ment and waterfront employers.
Germain Bulcke, second vice pres
ident for the international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union, arrived from Juneau to
join in the talks.
Before leaving Juneau Bulcke
told members of the House sub
1 committee on territorial and insu
lar possessions at a hearing that
the Juneau longshoremen were
ready to sign an agreement with
I the steamship operators and re
turn to work if the operators
would sign pending arbitration of
two points. These issues, he said,
were the dispute over whether
AFL sailors or CIO longshoremen
would work cargo aboard ships at
Alaska ports, and “determination'
of satisfactory language for settle
ment of disputes arising out of the
contract.”
Bulcke did not discuss thej
union’s request for insertion of a i
contract clause to protect the
union from liability under the
Taft-Hartley act, but said “as we
see it the contract doesn’t contain
anything in conflict with the Taft
Hartley law.”
Chairman Fred Crawford of the
sub-committee asked whether
longshoremen would remain on
strike if they are unable to get a
contract signed for the next six
months and shortages occur. Bul
cke replied that the question was
hypothetical, and he declined to
answer.
cover the disease at the early
stage.
Mrs. Ben Hydnman is chair
man for the canvassers who have
been divided to town into districts.
Those working west of B street are
Mrs. Ben Hyndman, Mrs. A. Nor
land, Mrs. R. Amundsen, Mrs. |
Wilfred Boucher, Mrs. M. Day,
and Mrs. Paul Gallaway and their
assistants.
East of B street will be Mrs.
Frank Love, Mrs. Robert Baldwin,
Mrs. H. Smith, Mrs. Robert Long,
Mrs. Ken Rank, Mrs. Frank Bing
ham. Several men have volunteer-1
ed to assist and their names will
be published in the next issue.
\
I . S. Must Aid
Kuropc Phis \ car
lu Special Session
WASHING TO N, < /P>— Sec rotary
of State Marshall said today that
Europe must have some kind of
temporary aid this year and only
Congress can authorize it.
This was a strong intimation
that he believes a special session
of Congress will be necessary. But
Marshall declined at a news con
ference to say flatly such a session
should be called.
The secretary did say the state
department would have at hand
by late October adequate facts on
which to chart a course of action.
His statement came on the heels
of an urgent new plea from Lon
don that the United States assume
a large share of Britain’s occupa
tion costs in Germany. There were
reports this country is making
preparations to do so.
Marshall, when saying the state
department will have needed data
at hand by late October, com
mented that the majority of Con
gressional committees visiting Eu
rope will have returned by that
time.
He declined to estimate how
much aid may be required prelim
inary to the long range plan Mar
shall has projected for European
reconstruction.
The secretary of state said he
has not made up his mind on any
details of the program. He classed
the question of a special session
.also as detail.
At the same time, Marshall said
he does not think it is possible to
get authority for aid without a
special session.
Union Outlawed
By Judge Biding
OWIU Not Eligible
FORT WORTH. Texas,—(/R—
In the first such ruling on the
Taft-Hartley law, federal district
Judge T. Whitfield Davidson Mon
day upheld the requirement that
labor unions file affidavits that
their officers are not communists.
The judge declared that the
non-communist provision is fully
constitutional — legal, consistent
and proper.
The ruling was made at a hear
ing there involving the oil workers
international union (CIO). He held
that the CIO had not complied
with the law, thus the OWIU did
not have recourse to the NLRR.
The OWIU had filed a petition
seeking to force regional NLRB
director Edwin A. Elliott to count
ballots in an election of workers
of the Deep Oil Development com
pany at Wichita Falls, Tex.
“The constitution guarantees a
representative form of govern
ment,” Judge Davidson declared,
“and it is consistent and proper to
throw restraint around any organ
ization by denying privileges to
those who would destroy this form
of government.”
Davidson ruled that the OWIU
was not eligible for certification
as a bargaining unit because the
CIO failed to comply with the
provision of the Taft-Hartley law
which requires filing of non-com
munist affidavits.