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NEWS IN BRIEF
(Special to The Nugget)
WASHINGTON. (JP) — Judith
Coplon was convicted yesterday
on two counts of being a spy for
Russia. The jury convicted her on
both counts in the indictment. Shp
faces a maximum sentence of 13
years in prison and a fine of
$12,000.
ATLANTA, </P)—The Governor
of Georgia got a big charge out of
shaking hands with a pig.
“Stinky,” the pig, was intro
duced to Gov. Herman Talmadge
as part of a Shrine initiation cere
mony Wednesday.
As the State’s chief executive
bent over the greet the porker, an
ananymous Shriner applied an
electrically charged stick to Tal
madge.
Said the Shriner, “Just wanted
to see what kind of a broad jump
er he was. Pretty good, eh?"
JUNEAU. <>P) — Funeral serv
ices were scheduled yesterday for
Anna Rasmusson, who died this
week at the age of 115 years.
She was one of the last old-tim
ers of Southeastern Alaska’s Tlin
git Indian tribe.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Rep. Jack
son <D.-Wash.> left last night by
plane for Fairbanks, Alaska,
where he will be chief speaker
Friday at exercises marking the
retirement of President Charles E.
Bunnel of the University of Alas
ka.
SEATTLE. (/P) — The Seattle
Bar Association voted last night
to take action toward halting the
practice of using “decoys” in sol
diers’ uniforms to catch prostitutes.
Clay Nixon, who presented the
motion, described the device as a
tactic employed by the Seattle po
lice department.
CHICAGO, — The national
safety council estimated yesterday
that 290 Americans will die in
traffic accidents during the three
day Fourth of July celebration.
VALPARAISO, Chile. — A
former Chilean navy captain was
being buried today with military
honors.
The guard of sailors fired a rifle
volley in salute.
One of the bullets struck and
killed Ernesto Rodriquez, former
navy employees.
LONDON, (>P)—Ted Schroeder,
top-seeded favorite from La Cres
cent). Calif., won the Wimbledon
tennis championship today, de
feating Jaroslav Drobny of Czech
oslovakia in the men’s singles fin
als. 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1 . sJ
today accused Russia of disregard
ing Balkan peace treaties.
A state department note said the
Soviets are trying to block action
by the Western Powers on charges
of human rights violations in com
munist dominated Hungary, Ro
mania and Bulgaria.
The charge was made in the
atest of the long series of attacks
by the western powers on alleged'
denials of religious, political and
other rights in the three countries.
Labor Situation j
Boils And Bubbles j
<By The Associated Press)
Reversing his traditional policy
of “no contract, no work,” John
L. Lewis yesterday ordered soft
coal miners east of the Mississippi
river to work a three-day week
starting Tuesday.
Lewis’ action, expected by soft
coal operators, was announced at
White Surplur Spring. W. Va.,
where negotations for a new’ con
tract are bing discussed by the un
ion and the producers.
The current working agreement
with the operators expired last
night, but Lewis directed his min
ers to work the shortened week
i “to remove stresses and strains
! which could cause industry and
| public irritation.”
Lewus ordered his united mine
i workers to toil Tuesday, Wednes
| day and Thursday next week,
j when their 10-day vacation ends.
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!
| Seldovia Faces
“Destitute Winter*’
Due To Strike
j -
i ANCHORAGE. (/Pi—Unless the
Alaska fisherman’s union strike is
i settled by July 10, Seldovia’s pic
turesque mayor declared yester
day that town can expect to miss
j its annual “payday” and look for
, ward to a destitute winter.
Carl Eric “Squeaky” Anderson,
the mayor, is prominent in Alaska
; fishing affairs and was a naval
beachmaster in the Aleutians dur
ing the war.
He said if the fishermen are not
allowed to take salmon before
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Geological Survey
Plans Big Alaskan
Program This Year
(By Charles D. Waikins)
((/P* Special, Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. (.Pi — The geo
logical survey is planning a com
prehensive program in Alaska this
summer.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said
he has been informed the program
is.based on $1,280,950 contained in
the House-passed interior depart
ment appropriation bill and $400,
000 in funds from other govern
ment agencies.
Continued coal investigation in
the Homer area on the Kenai pe
ninsula and eastward fiom the j
Nenana River are a principal part
of the program, Bartlett said.
It also will include geological:
mapping and study of the nrnerali
possibilities of the Chichagof-Icy j
Strait-Glacier Bay region and a j
study and appraisal of the gold
and other mineral possibilities in
Juneau area.
A survey of limestone on Prillce
of Wales island is contemplated,
along with extensive investiga
tions into petroleum possibilities
of several regions. Bartlett said
these include the Cook Inlet re
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Fairbanks Strike
Indefinitely
J
Postponed
FAIRBANKS, </P)—The sched-:
uled strike of the Fairbanks mine
workers’ union against the U. S. ^
Smelting company was indefinite
ly postponed late yesterday, a few
hours before the midnight dead
line.
However, an announcement is
sued by both sides emphasized no '
settlement had been reached.
In addition to closing the com
pany’s mining operations, the
j walkout would also have shut
I down the firm’s power plant
which supplies most of this city’s
electricity.
Frank Angerman, union organ
izer said the company “showed
signs of being willing to make
concessions to the union pending
further negotiations.”
Another session is scheduled for
today, with Harold R. Conn of
Seattle, regional commissioner of
the federal conciliation service,
meeting with the disputing par
ties.
The union’s original demand
was for a 35-cent raise on hourly
scales ranging from $1.14 to $1.95
but Angerman said members were
willing to use that figure “as a
basis for bargaining.”
Still Searching For
Stunting Plane
o
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Clear skies
sent military and civilian aircraft
searching the area between An
chorage and Kenai yesterday for
the yellow Waco plane missing
j since its Kenai takeoff Monday
night. The plane was piloted by
Tom Maloney, Jr., son of the Alas
ka Steamship Co., agent here.
The CAA disclosed today iden
tity of Maloney’s passenger. He is
Emmett Hanson, about 23, of
Boulder Point. He lives with Er
vin Modlander, a fisherman now
on strike.
The CAA reported Maloney's
plane was stunting after takeoff
and lost its undercarriage and
damaged a wingtip after hitting
the masts of a fishing vessel in the
Kenai river.
Program For
Fourth ( )f Julv
(Celebration
—.. -
Chairman of the 4th of July j
Program, T. A. MacAllister, has
announced that the plans for the
celebration for the fourth will in
clude a full day of entertainment
and many new features will be
added.
The schedule of events is as
follows:
Children's Parade from 10:30 to
11:30 with prizes of $10.00 each
being given for costumes and dec
orated vehicles. The prizes are
listed in the special handbill which
will soon be circulated.
The parade will start at the N.
C. Cat Department.
Patriotic Exercises at 11:30 to
12:30, with Col. H. Burkhalter
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Bids Submitted
For Nome Seawall
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SEATTLE. i'/Pi — Two Seattle
firms, the Manson Construction
and Engineering Co. and the Os
berg Construction Co., offering
joint bids, were low bidders on the
proposed Nome, Alaska, seawall.
Col. L. H. Hewitt, district army
engineer, announcing their offers
yesterday, said two alternatives
were proposed: (1) Construction of
a rock seawall, complete with cul
vert, and (2) Construction of a
steel sheet pile bulkhead with
rock fill, complete with culvert.
On the first plan, the two firms
bid $1,063,900, he said. Their bid
on the second was $1,546,880. The
government estimate of fair costs
were $1,223,040 and $1,465,336 re
spectively.
NO AWARDS WILL BE MADE
UNTIL MONEY IS AVAILABLE
THROUGH A NEW APPROPRI
ATION BILL NOW BEFORE
CONGRESS. COLONEL HEWITT
SAID.
The bids call for slone lo be
used from the Cape Nome quarry
and the seawall will lie along the
northwest shore of Norton Sound,
fronting on Nome.
Two other bids were submitted.
They were a joint bid by the Don
ovan Construction Co., and the
James Construction Co., both Seat
tle. $1,783,150 and $2,328,580. and
a bid by the three firms of Peter
Kiewitt & Sons, Morrison Knud
sen Co. and S. Burtch & Sons, all
Seattle, $2,505,000 and $2,275,500.
Stevedores Reject
Plan for Hawaiian
Strike Settlement
(By Leif Erickson)
HONOLULU, UP) — Honol u 1 u
stevedores overwhelmingly turned
down a plan for ending Hawaiia’s
crippling waterfront strike yester
day. Their comrades elsewhere in
the islands are expected to follow
suit today.
The peace plan, advanced hope
fully by a fact-finding board and
accepted reluctantly by employers,
was batted down 826 to 59.
The board proposed a raise of
14 cents an hour. The workers in
striking 62 days ago demanded 82
cents on top of their current hour
ly wage of $1.40.
Wearily, acting Gov. Oren E.
Long said he would ask the two
sides to resume collective bargain
ing. ‘‘Surely, there must be some
way this strike can be ended,” he
added.
The CIO international long
shoremen's and warehousemen’s
union, however, indicated it was
preparing for a long struggle.
Harry Bridges, union president,)
is flying from San Francisco Tues
day or Wednesday to take over
personal direction of the strike.
ILWU official Henry Schmidt
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MOST STORES WILL CLOSE
FOR JULY 4th CELEBRATION
Closed Monday for the Fourth
of July, will be most of the stores
of Nome. There will be no issue of
the Nome Nugget on that day.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Thursday. June 30. 1949
• By The Associated Press*
An agreement providing for
more freedom of trade between
European countries receiving Mar
shall plan aid was being worked
out in Paris today. The plan before
the Organization for European
Economic Cooperation <OEEC> is a
compromise between conflicting
American and British proposals.
The original agreement for set
tling financial accounts between
Marshall Aid countries expires to
day. The United States has urged
greater bilateral trade which
makes it easier for her to control
her dollars and gold.
It was considered probable that,
in deference to Britain, proposals
for multilateral trade might be
watered down, with safeguards to
j shield Britain against losses she
fears.
London observers said BrPons
are in for a jolt when they learn
how dangerously low are their
' dollars reserves. Britain’s ambas
sador to the United States, Sir Ol
iver Franks,, has been asked to
hurry home for economic talks.
Finance ministers of the Brit;sh
| commonwealth have been called
[ into session in London to discuss
, the crisis.
The communist administration
, in Shanghai announced today that
: 82 persons were killed and 99 in
1 jured in the nationalist air raid on
Shanghai Wednesday. No foreign
ers were reported among the cas
' ualties. Most of the bombs fell in
the Chapei district.
Soviet foreign minister Andrei
! Y. Vishinsky had distributed a
lengthy statement to the press in
London today claiming a diplo
matic victory for Russia at the re
cent foreign ministers conference.
He said Russia’s firmness forced
a western retreat.
Largely the statement was in re
buttal to post-conference state
ments of U. S. secretary of state
Dean Acheson. Vishinsky differed
with Acheson on the progress of
Marshall Plan Aid and whether it
was Russia or the West who want
ed to give the Germans- more free
dom.
German police in Berlin report
ed the Russians are still stopping
a number of truck- because of
claimed irregularities in their
travel papers. The British military
government has sent i transport
official to investigate he traffic
snarl. The Russians seized 11
trucks yesterday.
There is a slight prospect for
the settlement of Australia’s crip
pling miners’ strike. Leaders of the
24,000 striking mine rs have
agreed to confer tomorrow with
the Australian council of trade un
whieh has a settlement plan.
Meanwhile the government has
fror.cn all union funds to prevent
other unions from aiding the min
ers. More than 500.000 workers
are idle clue to the .-:rike tying up
coal deliveries to factories.
Friday. July 1, 1949
Czechoslovakia’s comm u n i s t
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