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VOL. XLIX. No. 103 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1947 PER COPY~^l5~
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU. UP) — The British
cruiser Kenya, cutting short a
planned five-day visit to Juneau,
was to sail yesterday for Van
1 couver, B. C.
Capt. Lennox Boswell said mid
shipment of the Kenya had ac
cepted an invitation from a Navy
task unit to take a training cruise
on four submarines which left
here Monday.
The Kenya, which saw action
all through World War II, was
modernized last year and is now
joined to the American West In
dies squadron.
BULLETIN!
(By Larry Hauck)
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P)—The se
curity council yesterday rejected a
Dutch-supported Belgian propos
al that the council ask the Inter
national Court of Justice to rule
on the competence of the United
Nation^ to act in the Indonesian
conflict. Only the United States.
Belgium. France and Britain
backed the move.
TOYKO, (/P) — Three Puget
Sound fishermen now serving as
“instructor fishermen” aboard
UNRRA fishing boats were aboard
three Shanghai-based vessels
which the U. S. 24th division head
quarters at Kokura said yesterday
had been reprimanded for fishing
in Japanese waters without Allied
headquarters’ permission.
The men were Mel Carlson,
Bellingham; Frank Paseka, Ever
ett; and Chauncey Vaughn, Port
Orchard.
The vessels, American-built, 85
foot diesel seiners, were appre
hended, the army said, by two de
stroyers of the British-American
naval support group, off Kyushu,
southernmost Japanese home is
land. The vessels were ordered out
of the Japanese area.
TULSA, Okla. (/P) — Discovery
of oil on a farm in which she
owns a one-fifth interest, will
mean retirement for Mrs. Anna
Renfro, a charwoman in Tulsa of
fice buildings for the past 20
years.
Mrs. Renfro, about 50, broke the
news to her employer, W. M. Hor
ster, building manager at the
bank, with the announcement that
she was quitting. She has been
making $28 per week for 40 hours
work at the building.
“They have struck oil on my
farm near Shawnee,” she explain
ed. “It isn’t much but it will give
me enough money for the rest of
my life so that I won’t have to
work.”
SHANGHAI, (tf>) — The “am
phibious monster” scare which
has created a state of near-hys
teria among Shanghai’s supersti
tious river dwellers in recent days
resulted in a third death today.
The latest victim was a terrified
cargoboat worker who leaped into
the Whangpoo river and drowned
after hearing screams for help
from a nearby sampan. Earlier a
man and woman were beaten to
death by panic-stricken Chinese.
Three thousand boatmen kept
watch along the Whangpoo to
night for the “monster,” which
New Labor Law
May Not Fit Ole!
Labor Cases
WASHINGTON, l/P) — Officials
of the national labor relations
board voiced frank but private ap
prehension yesterday over what a
union challenge might do to their
plans for applying new Taft-Hart
ley act policy to 3,500 old NLRB
cases.
A CIO official disclosed anony
mously that some CIO unions are
considering asking the courts to
rule on the legality of this proced
ure because:
1. The Taft-Hartley law net into
effect only last Friday while,
2. The cases involve conditions
which existed under the Wagner
national labor relations act.
In calling for a separate review
j of each of the old cases, NLRB
general counsel Robert N. Den
ham has expressed the opinion
they can be examined in the light
of the Taft-Hartley act and modi
fied if necessary.
Some NLRB officials, however,
acknowledged that if a number of
unions raised a challenge to this
precedure in the form of court
suits the result might be to “ham
string” the board pending a final
judicial determination.
Denham has had nothing to say
on this point.
In holding that the old cases can
be reviewed in the light of the
new act, subject to possible modi
fication, the general counsel said
he believes a good example is pro
vided by a proceeding involving
the Geraldine Novelty Co., Inc.,
of Gloversville, N. Y., and the CIO
fur and leather workers.
Legionnaires Move
On New York Citv
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For Convention
NEW YORK (/P)—American Le
gionnaires by the thousands
moved on New York today while
their leaders, busy as mess ser
geants just before chow time,
sought to shape up the serious
matters that will be laid before
the 29th convention opening to
morrow afternoon.
State delegations began to hold
caucuses to decide which way to'
throw their votes for national com
mander, and standing committees
continued work on resolutions to
go before the convention, which
continues through Sunday. Some
of the committee sessions, particu
larly that on housing, developed
lively discussions yesterday.
Early arrivals not concerned
with these matters were reminding
New York, host to the Legion 10
years ago, what to expect when
things get rolling. One group
squirted water pistols at girl pas
sersby; another evoked startled
screams, using the same targets,
with a cane that delivered an elec
tric shock.
A Floridan paraded with ear
muffs, A Dfenver group showed up
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has been variously described as an
“eye-gouging thug,” “the Pootung
monster” and “the thing.”
Russia Holds Up
Ratification Of
Europe Treaties
(By Arthur Gavshon)
LONDON. (/P)—A British for
eign office spokesman said yester-1
day a “state of deadlock” had de
veloped among the four leading
allied nations and the five Euro
pean states which fought alongside
Germany over formal ratification
of peace treaties.
He said Bulgaria, Finland, Hun
gary and Romania were ready to
deposit their instruments of rati
fication and that the Italian con
stituent assembly had authorized
its government to do so.
The United States, Great Bri
| tain and France have passed leg
1 islation necessary for ratification
l and also are in a position to depos
it their signed and sealed docu
ments. Russia has not.
The spokesman said two factors
still prevented the ending of the
state of war between the Allies
and the former enemy states.
The first was that Russia pro
■ posed recently that the Allies
withhold deposit of their ratifica
tions until all five ex-enemy states
, ratified their treaties. The spokes
i man said the second factor was
; that at least two Italian political
I parties, the Communists and So
cialists, were insisting that the
Italian government not ratify its,
treaty until all the Big Four had
done so.
Britain asked Russia to recon
sider her proposal, but has re
i ceived no answer, the spokesman
! said.
When peace treaties become op
erative, the Allies will be requir
ed to withdraw occupation troops
within 90 days.
“As a result of the deadlock,
such evacuation is not yet obliga
tory,” the spokesman said. “More
over, a conference among the Big
Four on the future of Italian col
onies is being delayed because the
Russians asked that it await rati
fication.”
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Bartlett Seeks To
Keep Sew#ard As
Terminal Point
SEWARD, (/P>—Delegate E. L.
Bartlett of Alaska has pledged his
support to the proposal of local
longshoremen that Seward should
be made a terminal port.
Bartlett also promised, at a
meeting yesterday with union, city
and chamber of commerce heads,
that he would seek aid of Anchor
age and Fairbanks business men
in urging the national labor rela
tions board to render a decision
favorable to longshoremen in their
dispute with sailors over ship
hatch work.
The Alaska Delegate urged
striking longshoremen to return
to their jobs, saying their objec
tives already have been realized
by having their grievances called
to attention of the NLRB.
Col. Leslie Ruby of the North
ern Stevedoring Company and
Col. John Johnson of the Alaska
Railroad assured Seward citizens
Navy Plane Breaks
Record At 650.6
Miles Per Hour
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MUROC, Calif. i/P»—1The navy
was doubly sure yesterday it has
the fastest aircraft in the world—
a snarling, snorting and bellowing
plane that spun itself a 650.6 m.lc- j
an-hour new international speed
record in four passes over a mei
sured three-kilometer course on
this Mojave desert waste Monday. |
The blood-red Douglas jet-pro
pelled Skystreak, with a long tubu
lar fuselage and just enough wings:
to keep it in the air, set the new
mark with a tall Marine pilot,1
Maj. Marion E. Carl, 31, at the
controls in a tiny cockpit which
didn’t look large enough for a man
half his size.
In so doing, the Skystreak broke
its own world speed record regis
tered only last Wednesday.
“There’s a ship,’ said Major
Carl, a Pacific combat veteran
with 18 Japanese pianes t^ his
i credit. “I don’t know if we sc! a
record or not, but men. there’s a
plane.” This was several hours be
fore the speed had been computed
officially.
Company Gives Up
Business Rather
Than Sign Contract
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SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
Luckenbach Steamship company,
struck by CIO longshore walking
bosses since July 11, was out of
the stevedoring business here to
day.
Rather than sign a union con
tract with the walking bosses the,
company announced yesterday it
was “abandoning immediately
and permanently the stevedoring
business which we have conduct
ed in San Francisco for 23 years.”
Vincent P. McMurdo, Lucken
bach’s Pacific Coast manager,!
said the 46-day strike “made the'
decision for us.”
Seven Luckenbach ships are
struck here. The seventh, The To
wando Victory, was picketed at 8
a.m. yesterday when it arrived.
from Gulf ports.
The company said it would call
for bids from stevedoring compan
ies to service its ships now in port
and any more that may follow.
But the international longshore
men’s and warehousemen’s union
which embraces the walking boss
es in dispute, quickly labeled the
company’s action a “lockout” and
added:
“They tLuckenbach> will have
to put this whole union out of
business before they can get away
with that. They think they are go
ing to get another contractor to
work the ships. Such a contractor
is liable to get into trouble.”
Hoping to attract some of the
American and British trade to his
barbershop, one enterprising ton
sorial artist in Chungking, China,
displays this inviting placard in
his window: “We Cut Heads Nice
ly.”
the railroad would continue to op
erate to this city until highway
facilities are completed.
Balkans Sitting
On (lommunist
Fed Powder Keir
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American attempts failed to
solve the government crisis in
strife-torn Greece today.
The situation in Greece, where
guerrilla warfare continued in the
north, was described in Washing
ton by Chairman Eaton <R.-N. J.>,
"all the elements for touching off a
major war.”
A dispatch from Tehran, Iran,
said Iranian and diplomatic offi
cials were investigating reports
that 10.000 Barzani Kurdish tribes
men, "backed by the Red army,”
had gathered in Russian Azerbai
jan. One high diplomatic inform
ant said this might be “another
move in the Soviet war of nerves
on the eve of Parliament’s consid
eration of the Russian-Iran oil
agreement.”
There is strong opposition in
Iran’s Parliament to ratification
of the agreement, signed in Mos
cow in 1946, to give Russia control
of exploiting oil deposits in north
ern Iran.
In Bulgaria, meanwhile, the
Communist-dominated Fatherland
Front government moved to out
law the principal opposition party,
Nikoal Petrov’s Agrarians. The
bill was expected to pass today.
Petkov himself is under sentence
of death on charges of plotting
against the government.
The Soviet Union yesterday re
jected a British-American request
for consultation on the sentence,
holding this would be tantamount
to interference in Bulgaria’s inter
nal affairs.
Greece, Bulgaria’s neighbor,
was in the grip of a crisis brought
about by the resignation of the
cabinet of Populist <Royalist) De
metrios Maximos Saturday. Con
stantin Tsaldaris, premier-desig
nate, has been unsuccessful thus
far in attempts to form a new gov
ernment.
American attempts to solve the
crisis failed when Themistokles
Sophoulis, 86-year-old leader of
the main branch of the liberal
party, insisted at a conference
with U. S. Ambassador Lincoln
MacVeagh that he <Souphoulis>
become Premier.
Dwight P. Griswold, adminis
trator of the $300,000,000 U. S.
aid program in Greece, conferred
with Souphoulis at his home Mon
day night. An authoritative source
said Griswold stressed the need
for political unity if the U. S. aid
mission was to succeed.
GEORGE HITE BRINGS
BRIDE TO NOME
George Hite, well known local
contractor returned home yester
day from the States and surprised
everyone by bringing a bride, the
former Leila Simmons, who was in
charge of the Maynard Columbus
Hospital for some time. She made
many friends during her stay who
will welcome her as a permanent
resident.
The ceremony took place in
Douglas op his return from Seat
tle, where he went on business,
with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boyer
as attendants.