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• v6l~lT~~No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1948 PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, (JP) — Authoritative
sources say Princess Elizabeth will
have her baby in Buckingham pal
ace about mid-November.
Most guesses had been that Eliz
abeth’s child would be born some
time in October. The princess made
her last public appearance June
28.
SHREWSBURY TOWNSHIP, N.
J. (jP)—Peeping Toms on horse
back are the subject of a lot of
worry today.
Residents charged riders take
advantage of the elevation afford
ed by their mounts, and peered in
to bedrooms. One resident found
three riders—and their t horses—
peering into the bedroom.
BLOOMSBURY, N. J. </P>—Only
80 shopping days to Christmas . . .
%a freight car loaded partly with
Christmas ornaments burned Sat
urday on its way to Allentown,
Pa., via Central Railroad of New
Jersey.
TOKYO </P)—Rivers subsided in
central and northern Honshu Sat
urday leaving an estimated 858
dead with 700 missing.
Torrential rains, measuring as
much as 24 inches in some places,
flooded the rivers after Wednes
day’s typhoon.
WASHINGTON, </P)—1The con
dition of J. Edgar Hoover was re
ported “slightly improved” today.
The FBI chief has been ill with
bronchial pneumonia for the past
week.
TOKYO, (/P)—Japan’s third Ant
arctic whaling fleet, including one
k.radar equipped vessel, will sail
from Yokohama about Nov. 7, the
newspaper Asahi said today.
The fleet will begin whaling in
the Antarctic in December.
TOKYO, (IP)—A 105-ton fishing
boat was reported seized by the
Russians today off the eastern tip
of Hokkaido, Kyodo news agency j
said.
Since August, 12 Japanese fish-1
ing boats have been seized by the :
Russians but most of them have
been returned after being detained '
^>r investigation ranging from one
to four weeks.
SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., </P)— J
Charles H. Ingersoll, 79, co-founder j
of the Ingersoll Watch company,
was critically injured last night
when struck by an automobile.
Ingersoll had stepped from an
automobile in which he was a pas
senger to ask directions and was
struck as he walked back to his
car.
LON ANGELES, (JP) — Two sis
ters who were married in a double
wedding ceremony have given
birth to youngsters on the same
day and in the same hospital.
They are Mrs. Robert W. Payne
and Mrs. Mike Ruvolo. The one
difference in the chain of similar
ities is that the Paynes got a boy
and the Ruvolos a girl.
Longshoremen ,
Work Armv Ships;
No Pay Hike
SEATTLE, <JP) — Striking CIO j
longshoremen were working army
cargo at the Seattle port of em- j
barkation Saturday.
The first break in the west coast
maritime tie-up came Friday night j
when five gangs were dispatched
to the pier after a special steve
doring arrangement brought with
drawal of pickets.
A contract for handling military
cargo was reached through Grif
fiths and Sprague stevedoring
company, firms which is independ
ent of the waterfront employers
association. The firm recently
agreed to a 15-cent hourly pay in
crease for longshoremen. How
ever, under the special military
cargo arrangement, union officials
said the longshoremen will work
for pre-strike wages.
There have been reports that
the firm might also enter an agree
ment with the army for handling
military caroges at California
ports, but president Frank Setter
stein said Saturday morning his
firm does not expect to operate
there and is not currently conferr
ing with the army on the possibil
ity.
The approximately 60 members
of the international longshore
men and warehousemen’s union
who went to the port Friday night
started off the first shift with
handling of mail and baggage only.
They were unloading the transport
Sgt. Charles E. Mower, which ar
rived late Friday from the Orient.
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
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(By The Associated Press)
German and Palestinian con
flicts simmered today as major is
sues confronting the United Na
tions in Paris. The general assem
bly convenes tomorrow.
A British official source said the
foreign ministers of Britain, The
United States and France would
confer this afternoon on the Ger
man crisis, which centers at Sov
iet-blockaded Berlin.
Soviet foreign minister V. M.
Molotov was absent. He sent a dep
uty Andrei Y. Vishinsky, to rep
resent Russia in Paris.
The Arab League, over the ob
jections of Trans-Jordan and Iraq,
announced the formation of a new
Arab government . for Palestine.
Ahmed Hilmy Pasha, military gov
renor of the Arab-held section of
Jerusalem, was appointed prime
minister.
This act was denounced by King
Abdullah of Trans-Jordan who
said formation of such a govern
ment would amount to partition
ing Palestine—an act long opposed
by Arabs. (This stand, of course,:
ignores the fact the United Na
tions partitioned Palestine into
Arab and Jewish sections May 15).
The United Nations delegates
had another message from the
smouldering Holy Land. It was a
posthumous report from Swedish
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Truman Keeps
Word; “Gives
Republicans Hell” j
DEXTER, la. </P) — President
Truman declared Saturday that a
Republican victory would place
the American farmer in “great
danger” of “man-made disaster”
from “gluttons of privilege.”
In a slashing “give ’em hell” at
tack on his opposition, the gray
haired chief executive said that
“Wall Street reactionaries” are
“putting up fabulous sums of mon
ey” to elect a Republican admin
istration.
The Republicans, he continued,
j have already “stuck a pitchfork in
the farmer’s back” and are now
ready “to let the bottom drop out
of farm prices.”
Speaking to a crowd gathered
; for the natioAal plowing contest,
the President asked:4
“Are you going to let another
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Strike Conditions
At A Glance
(By The Associated Press)
Labor disputes involving auto
mobile workers in Detroit and
maritime and oil workers on the
west coast continued today. But in
New York the ranks of striking
truck drivers declined and a
threatened bus strike was averted.
In Missouri, 4,000 lead miners
ended a 10-week strike.
A dispute between the Briggs
Manufacturing Co. and 170 of its
plant guards kept 60,000 other au
tomobile industry employees idle.
The Detorit firm rejected a I
UAW-CIO settlement proposal as
the strike entered its 13th day. It
charged the UAW was itself, guil
ty of a “wildcat strike” in refusing
to work.
The plant guards are members
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Tuna Fisheries Mav
J
Become Important
Alaska Industry
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((/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON (/P)—A new and
imp ortant fishery — top-quality
tuna—may be'in prospect for Alas
ka and British Columbia, fish ex-r
pert A. W. Anderson said Satur
day.
But theories that a shift in the •
Japanese current or that the cen
tral Pacific atomic weapon experi
ments might have something to do
with it, he said are probably with
out basis. K
Anderson, chief of commercial
fisheries for the U. S. Fish and
wildlife service, returned from
Alaska this week.
He told a reporter, Alaska’s al
bacore catch, first in its history,
exceeds 450,000 pounds. It’s sell
ing at from $520 to $550 a ton. Al
bacore is a choice species of tuna.
The tuna are being caught south
of Ketchikan, in waters off South
eastern Alaska and British Colum
bia. Canadian fishermen, too, are
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t
Jews Seek Assassin
Of Bernadotte
The government of Israel acted
Saturday to ferret out the assas
sins of Count Folke Bernadotte,
United Nations Palestine mediator,
and his Freich aide.
A U. N. official formally noti
fied the new Jewish state that it
“must assume full responsibility”
for the slayings. Foreign minister
Moshe Shertok advised the U. N.
that “Israel is adopting the most
vigorous and energetic measures
to bring the assassins to justice
and eradicate evil” in Palestine.
The Israeli army slapped a cur
few on Jerusalem’s 90,000 Jews.
Roadblocks were thrown up
throughout the Jewish section of
! the Holy City and sound trucks ad
■ monished the people to stay at
I home.
I
I Military policemen were station
ed outside the American consulate
and others were ordered to accom
pany any U. N. car in the city. The
curfew was the first ordered by
the Jewish state since Israel pro
claimed herself a nation last May.
In Paris, U. N. secretary-general
Trygve Lie put the Palestine ques
tion before the full membership.
Placing the issue on the agenda of
the assembly session opening Tues
day had the affect of bringing the
assassination before all 58 mem
j ber nations simultaneously. Lie
j also said the slayings raised grave
questions about the safety of U. N.
personnel in troubled areas. The
[ U. N. Middle East toll now stands
at eight.
Hurricane Heads
Toward Florida
I _
MIAMI, Fla., (£*)—-'The master of
the stricken British freighter Loch
monar reported today the 73 per
sons aboard were believed safe as
a hurricane with winds of over
100 miles an hour moved away
from the ship and closer to the Cu
ban coast.
South Florida from Miami
through the Keys was placed in
the “danger zone” of the storm
which yesterday trapped the Loch
monar, a 9,000 ton vessel. The
weather bureau warned south Flo
ridans to standby for possible hur
ricane warnings by nightfall.
The coast guard received a mes
sage from the Lochmonar stating:
“Consider passengers and crew
safe on board until weather calms.
Do not think ship will break up.
Vessel settled more and pounding
eased. Holes in five fuel tanks.
Three holds taking water slowly.
Auxiliaries working. Sky clearing j
and wind easing slightly. Tug
Curb standing by.”
Strike-Bound
Salmon Pack Freed
For Shipment !
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SEATTLE, (fP) — Strike-bound
salmon valued at between ten and
twelve million dollars was freed
for shipment to market by rail to
day by a new agreement between
packers and the Griffiths &
Sprague Stevedoring Co.
William Gettings, regional di- j
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Relief Ship Cargo
Northbound Only
‘Special to The Nugget)
SEATTLE, Sept. 18.,I/P)—Will
iam Clarke, secretary longshore
men’s local, said a union commit
tee agreed tentatively on a plan to
send a relief ship, The Square Sin
net, to the Nome area to beat the
freeze. Clarke said the committee
would recommend this to the full
membership Monday. Under the
proposal any and all cargoes would
be loaded for Nome and Norton
Sound. For southbound trip the
cargo would be restricted only to
personnel effects, except that com
mercial cargo which could be taken
as far as Ketchikan.
WIRE ORDERS NOW
ADVISES AGENT SS CO.
Merchants and shippers are
urged to wire their orders to Seat
tle or vicinity immediately, stated
Alaska Steamship agent W. R.
Wood, today, in order to insure
prompt delivery to Seattle docks,
thus preventing any delay in sail
ing of the proposed emergency
ship to Nome, pending negotia
| tions for its release.
Merchants and shippers are ad
vised that the Coastal Rambler,
now unloading in the Nome road
stead, will accept southbound ship
ments to Seattle after returning
from other ports in Norton Sound.
Southbound shipments on the
emergency ship will be limited to
personal effects, household goods,
and automobiles. Those wishing to
ship merchandise south bound
: should take advantage of the
Coastal Rambler as much as prac
j ticable, advises Mr. Wood.
LATE BULLETIN
I The Square Sinnet is scheduled
to sail for Nome September 30ih.
Soviet Planes Over
Aretie Alaska Coast
Lester Bronson, local bush pilot
and flying-school operator, return
ed Saturday from Kotzebue with a
story of Soviet planes flying over
the Arctic Alaska coastline.
Mr. Bronson stated that the Es
kimos of the Cape Espenberg area,
on the Arctic Circle at west longi
tude 164 degrees, reported having
on several occasions seen large
planes of the B-29 class and bear
ing letters on the underside of the
wings “U.S.S.R.” flying low over
the mainland for periods of 30
minutes at a time, during the past
few weeks.
C. of C. Managers
Make Alaskan
Recommendations
SEATTLE, (yP)—Directors of the
Western States Council, made up
of managers of chambers of com
merce of the 11 western states,
recommended here Saturday that
in*view of Alaska’s strategic mili
tary location all factors regarding
Its security be given immediate
and increased attention by the fed
eral government.
It recommended also that all
known communists be prevented
from working on board all vessels
carrying cargo to Alaska and those
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