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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. L. No. 70. _NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1948 15^ Per COPY
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Indications Show :
The Alaska Service
May End June 30
WASHINGTON, — </P) —Rep.
Tollefson (R-Wash) predicted to
day the government will have to
operate steamship service to Al
aska if the present temporary sub
sidized plan expires June 30.
Said Tollefson, “If the law under
which the service operates now
dies the Maritime Commission can
charter ships to the present oper
ators—three Seattle firms—or in
stitute government operation, as
General Agency Operation.
Under the latter plan the com
mission would assign vessels to
the companies to be operated on
government account with the com
mission responsible for all losses.
The representative said that dur
ing the last year of government
war time operation there was a
loss of $4,000,000 on the Alaska
service.
Indications grew today that the
present law, under which the gov
ernment charters ships to the
Seattle companies at one dollar
a year and pays the insurance
on the vessels, will be permitted
to expire.
This is due to opposition by
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Political Roundup
Includes Use Of
Mud And Blunder
UNDATED POLITICS ROUND
UP—By the Associated Press—
Harold E. Stassen said today pres
ident Truman made an "unjusti
fied, unstatesmanlike" statement
when he termed this Congress
the "worst" in history.
The Republican presidential as- j
pirant gave the Senate appro- }
priations committee his opinion
of the president's lashing of Con
gress on a cross-country speaking
trip. Stassen was before the com-;
mittee to oppose House cuts in the
European Recovery Program fund.
Stassen had just said he thinks ,
Congress has made "one of the
most constructive two year rec- |
ords in foreign policy of any
Congress in the history of our
nation."
On the House floor. Rep. Clev
enger (R-Ohio) said it "has not
done badly," then added:
"High taxes Harry, like a nasty
little gamin, has dipped his hands
into the mud and dirt and has
plastered it all over our new
buggy and danced out of reach
of the whip. Might well be there
will be some Congress-tanned
Missouri jack-ass hide on the
Christmas market-come Novem
ber.
House Democratic leader Ray
burn jumped up at that. He told
Clevenger the use of such lan
guage toward "any president"
was an "amazing performance."
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BULLETIN
Tony Zale kayoes Rocky Graz
ziano in third round. Wins light
heavyweight title of the world.
U-S- Opens Talks
Today On ERP
WASHINGTON, — </P) —The
United States opened negotiations
today with the Marshall Plan
countries on agreements to govern
American-European recovery op
i erations.
The British ambassador, Sir Ol
iver Franks, spent 75 minutes in
the first meeting with Secretary
of State assistant Willard Thorpe,
the American negotiator.
Franks said afterward: “We had
a satisfactory first session. We
were actually concerned with try
ing to determine what differences
I exist between us on the points
! of the agreement.”
Last Coal Strike
Now Being Felt
By Auto Industry
UNDATED LABOR,—f/P)—Soft
coal wage negotiations showed no
outward sign of accord today.
Meanwhile repercussions of the
last coal strike jarred a segment
of the automobile industry.
With June 30 the expiration
date of the present soft coal
contract, John L. Lewis, boss of
the United Mine Workers’ Union,
and operators couldn’t agree on
arrangements to keep the mines
open after the agreement ends.
General Motors Corp., has an
nounced that 200,000 of its work
ers will be laid off for a week,
beginning Monday. The company
said the layoffs could be blamed
on steel shortages resulting from
the last coal strike.
Assembly line workers in Ford
Motor Co. plants across the na
tion were in a one-day shut
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Employers Accuse
Longshoremen Of
Unfair Practies
_ j
SAN FRANCISCO,—(/P)—West
Coast Waterfront Employers to
day again accused CIO Longshore-1
men of unfair labor practices.
In a complaint filed with the1
National Labor Relations Board \
regional office, the waterfront1
employers association of the Pac-!
ific charged the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
I men’s Union with:
(1) Refusing to bargain collect
ively with employers; (2) Refus
j ing to bargain on contract clauses
i the employers contend violate the
: present law; (3) Attempting to
; force the shipping industry to en
ter into a contract in violation of
the law.
Principle dispute revolves ar
ound the hiring of a dispatcher
for the hiring hall. The man now
is a union appointed man. The
employers want a dispatcher to
be an impartial party.
Crucial Debate In
French Assembly
On Six-Power Plan
INTERN ATION AL—(#")—
PARIS—A crucial debate was
on in the French National Assem
bly over acceptance of the six
power plan to establish a fed
eral government in western Ger
many. The extreme rightists and
Communists assailed the plan. Ob
servers forecast passage by a nar
now margin when the talk dies
down late tomorrow.
The United States, Britain, Bel
gium, the Netherlands and Lux
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Experimental XS-1
Air Focre Plane
Faster Than Sound
WASHINGTON, — f/P) —Air
Secretary Symington said today
the Air Force research plane XS-1
several times has flown “much
faster than the speed of sound.”
Symington told a news confer
ence that so far as he knows no
other plane has achieved super
sonic speed, that is, faster than
sound travels.
The first and only pilot to fly
the XS-1 beyond the speed of
sound is Capt. Charles E. Yeager,
25, a fighter pilot who destroyed
13 German planes while serving
with the Air Force.
Yeager, a native of Myrna, W.
i Va., is a test pilot assigned to
| the Ai^ Materiel Command at
Wright Field, Ohio.
The speed of sound is 763 miles
! an hour under standard conditions
which are with a temperature
of 59 degrees Farenheit at sea
level.
The XS-1 has a wing span of
28 feet, a length of 31 feet and is
11 feet high. Its empty weight
is 4,892 pounds, including more
than 500 pounds of devices for j
measuring performance.
It carries 8,000 pounds of fuel
for its rocket motor.
The plane was designed to reach
1,017 miles an hour at 40,000 feet
and 1,700 miles an hour at 80,000
feet.
MRS. JOHN MOORE ARRIVED
TODAY FROM CALIFORNIA
Mrs. John Moore arrived from;
Santa Rosa, Calif., today on bus- j
iness and to visit her home town. |
Mrs. Moore is daughter of Mrs. j
Charles Calkins, formerly of Nome i
who now resides in Santa Rosa,
California.
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set afire by an air raid which the Jews said killed 40 persons and in
jured 60 others. Also a victim was the horse which lies in the street still
hitched to its cart. (AP Wirephoto.)
; Schwellenbach, 53
Dies in Washington
WASHINGTON, — </F> —Sec
retary of Labor Lewis B. Schwel—
lenbach, 53, a former Senator and
federal judge, died early today
after a long illness.
Mrs. Schwellenbach was at his
bedside at the time of his death.
The White House said death
resulted from “cardiac failure
which complicated his recent ill
ness.”
Schwellenbach was a former
democratic senator from Wash
i ington state and federal district
court judge. He succeeded Frances
Perkins, one of the original mem
bers of the late president Roos
evelt’s cabinet.
Schwellenbach was the first
man in the history of the Pacific
northwest ever to serve all three
branches of the federal govern
ment: lawmaker, jurist and execu
! tive. Few public officials have
had such varied experience.
Two Dead In
PIdne Crash Near
Eagle Creek
FAIRBANKS, —(>P)_The death
of an enlisted man and his wife
in the crash of their privately
owned airplane near Eagle Creek,
50,miles north of Fairbanks, was
reported today by the Ladd Field
public information office.
The crash occurred Monday
while the couple was returning
here from Circle Hot Springs. The
! bodies were recovered by a heli
copter crew of the Tenth Rescue
Squadron.
Names of the two victims were
withheld.
UNEASY PEACE
IN HOLY LAND
AMID GUNFIRE
PALESTINE, — (TP) —Uneasy
peace came to Palestine today to '
the accompaniment of wailing air
raid sirens in Tel Aviv and gun
bursts in Jerusalem.
The four-weeks armistice and
arms embargo became effective
last night.
During the truce, Count Folke
Bernadotte, U.N. mediator, will
seek to resolve the great issue of
partition.
The Jews said the cease fire
generally was observed several
hours before the deadline. They
announced a last minute bombing
of Damascus.
The heaviest last minute fight-,
ing was around Latrun, where the
Arabs block the main Tel Aviv
Jerusalem supply road. The Is
raelis claimed “important suc
cesses” there.
The Arab legion of Trans-Jor
dan said the Jews broke the truce
in Jerusalem within an hour, kil
ling an Arab soldier. Random
shooting echoed in the Holy City
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