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VOL. XL1X. No. 68 - NOME’ ALASKAT'FRnjAY JUNE 6. 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ASUNCION, Paraguay. UP) —
Paraguayan rebels were report*. 1
fighting hard before their capital
city of Concepcion yesterday in
the ware of a Loyalist claim that
# one route of escape for the in
surgent* had been cut of through
loss of the town of Capitan Eudo.
(In dispatches from the Br azil -
ian-Paraguayan border last night,
the Brazilian news agency Asz
press quoted a communique say
ing that insurgent headquarters in
Concepcion had been “intensely
bombarded with a heavy loss of
life.”>
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A Senate
public land sub-committee de
clared today that “use of explo
sives in a non-permissible man
ner” was the immediate cause of
the March 25, Centralia, 111., mine
disaster which claimed 111 lives.
Submitting a report to the Sen
ate on an investigation it made,
the committee said:
“In summing up the responsi
bility, committee members found
that almost everyone concerned
was guilty of negligence to one
degree or another—management,
the miners, the mine workers’
union, state bureaus and federal
bureaus.”
PORTLAND, Ore. {IP) — The
General Air Cargo company,
Portland, said today it has been
authorized to carry passengers on
its flights to Alaska. The company
has been hauling cargo between
Portland and Alaska for several
months on non-scheduled flights.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The mis
branding or misrepresentation of
furs would be prohibited under
legislation introduced by Senators
McCarthy R.-Wis.) and Johnson
(D.-Colo.)
The legislation would apply also
to articles made wholly or partly
of fur.
VANCOUVER, B. C. (/P)—Re
moval of Ripple Rock in Seymour
Narrows as “a menace to safety”
was urged yesterday in a resolu
tion presented by the shipping
bureau of the Vancouver Board of
.Trade. The rock is a sub-surface
boulder lying in the narrows be
tween Quadra and Vancouver is
lands. Repeated attempts to re
move it have been unsuccessful.
PHILADELPHIA, (/F)—A new
vaccine capable of preventing in
fluenza epidemics such as those
that took 15,000,000 lives after
World War I has been announced
by Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of the
Rockefeller Institutee for Medical
Research at Princeton, N. Y.
' WASHINGTON, James M. Lan
dis, chairman of the Civil Aero
natics Board told Senators today
that federal aviation officials lack
direct authority to require “ade
quate” fire fighting equipment at
airports.
Landis and Wallace S. Dawson,
director of air safety for the CAB,
also said it is doubtful that such
equipment could save many lives
j Discuss Armed Forces Merger
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(Soundphoto)—Heads of the Army and Navy met in the east wing of the
White House to discuss their new plan for unification of the nation’s armed forces. The plan, which the
President referred to as an “admirable compromise”, received the Chief Executive’s hearty approval.
Seated: Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, left, and Secretary of War, Robert Patterson. Standing,
left to right: Maj. Gen. Lauris Norstad, Director, Air Plans and Operations, War Dept., General Staff;
' Fleet Adm. Wm. D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to Commander in Chief of Army and Navy; Gen. of Army,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S.A., Chief of Staff; Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of Naval Opera
tions; Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations.
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Pioneers Initiate
Improvement
Of Cemetery
■
At the last meeting of Igloo No.
1 Pioneers of Alaska, the matter
of the deplorable condition of the
I
local cemetery was discussed at
length. A committee was appoint
ed to meet with like committees
from the various lodges and the
City Council, at City Hall, Satur
i day, June 7, at 8 p.m., for the pur
pose of taking concerted action
, immediately in improving and
1 graveling the approaches, repair
ing fences, leveling unappropriat
ed plots, and in a general way to
enlist the aid of all the people of
the community in an effort to re
! store the last resting place of our
dead to a condition in keeping
with our civic pride and the moral
f obligation which we owe the
' memory of our departed citizens.
The Pioneer report stated that,
; due to war conditions and con
tributory causes, the care of our
; cemetery has been sadly neglect
1 ed in recent years. The opportun
ity is now offered to all of us to
remedy -this condition as soon as
possible. As individual citizens
when we visit the cemetery on
Memorial Day we shudder at the
sight of the graves of our depart
ed friends; the dilapidated condi
tion of the approaches, railings,
fences, etc. But we do nothing
about it. It reflects negligence and
indifference on the part of all of
us, more especially on the part of
the City government, because, af
ter all, it is a city cemetery.
We hope now, that with the ini
tiative taken by the Pioneers and
in airline crashes because most
accidents involving fires are too
far from airfields.
Wallace May Start
Third Party
RALEIGH, N. C. (/P) — Henry
Wallace, asked at a press confer
ence yesterday if he would sup
port President Truman for re
election, hesitated and said: “That
depends on—I would say ‘No’.”
The former vice president made
an address las': night and the press
conference yesterday morning was
held at the home of Josephus Dan-1
iels, publisher of the Raleigh News
and Observer and a former cab- i
inet member.
Wallace, who has been crusad
ing vigorously against the “be
firm with Russia” aspects of Pres
ident Truman’s foreign policy,
had been asked earlier if he plan
ned to lead in the forming of a,
j third party, and he replied:
“I’m doing everything I can to
make the Democratic party a lib-1
eral party. If the Democratic par
ty becomes a war party, a party
of reaction and depression, then
I’ll no longer be a Democrat.”
Asked if he would support the
: Republican party, Wallace said:
■
“I can’t imagine myself cam-1
paigning for a Republican under'
' any circumstances.”
He then modified this statement
j by saying that he might “make a
slight reservation” about apply-1
I ing this to Harold E. Stassen, the |
former governor of Minnesota and
I Oregon’s Republican Senator
Wayne Morse.
the cooperation of the various or
ganizations, the City will make
this project No. 1 on its agenda
and on behalf of the citizens of the
municipality, lend its best efforts,
without delay, to remedying the
deplorable conditions which exist
in our cemetery.
Bridges, Owners
In Word Battle
SAN FRANCISCO, </P>—Harry
Bridges and West Coats shipown
ers explosively broke a tense pub
lic silence yesterday over negotia
tions aimed at avoiding another
shipping strike on June 15. Each
charged the other with bad faith.
Bridges’ CIO maritime com
mittee, which he heads, said the
shipowners were resolved to “lock
out” the unions rather than extend
contracts a year and mediate
“slight wage increases” being
asked by “a couple of the unions.”
The shipowners countered with
the assertion that such an exten
sion was offered the unions on
Memorial Day. Their statement
suggested that anything else, such
as wage increases, constituted
something new injected by Bridges
without their knowledge.
U. S. Musi Take
War Refugees
WASHINGTON, (^—Assistant
Secretary of State John H. Hill
dring said today the United States
can hardly expect other nations
to take in Europe’s war refugees
unless this country will accept its
share.
His opinion was advanced be
fore a House judiciary sub-com
mittee considering a bill to permit
immigration of 400,000 displaced
persons over a four year period.
WILSON SCOTT RETURNS
TO NOME
Wilson Scott, elder son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tolbert Scott returned
last evening to mine at Iron Creek
with his father. His family will
remain at Auburn, California for
the summer.
Truman Makes
Reply To Senator
Taft’s Remarks
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—President
Truman yesterday called the eco
nomic philosophy of Senator Taft
<R.-Ohio> the “old idea of boom
and bust.’’
He read to a news conference a
1,000 word statement replying in
caustic terms to a recent assertion
by Taft that "apparently the Presi
dent and the administration are
abandoning talk of keeping prices
down in favor of heavy spending
abroad that will keep them up.”
Mr. Truman said the adminis
tration did not urge the Greek
Turkish aid program to bring
prices down, but rather to extend
aid to starving millions and to
“set up a bulwark against totali
tarian aggression.”
He reiterated his plea for vol
untary price reductions and said
they are as important now as ever
before, if not more important.
Mr. Truman covered a wide
range of foreign and domestic sub
jects during the conference.
He began by naming Dwight
Griswold, former Republican gov
ernor of Nebraska, as administra
tor of the Greek aid program, and
Richard F. Allen, former Red
Cross official, as field director of
the $350,000,000 program of relief
for seven European countries and
China.
Then he read the statement on
Taft and went on, largely in re
sponse to questions, to these other
matters:
Foreign:
1. The President, in response to
a question, described the Com
munist coup in Hungary as an
outrage. He added the state de
partment is making a complete in
vestigation now.
2. Argentina — The president
said George Messersmith, Ameri
can ambassador to Argentina, has
completed his temporary mission
in Buenos Aires and described
the mission as successful. He
could not say when Messersmith
would return and said his future
is undetermined at this time. The
President said the United States
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Communists Brag
About Hungary
BUDAPEST. (A3)—Matryas Ra
kosi, Hungary’s No. 1 Communist
and virtual dictator, has told fac
tory workers that his party took
1 over control of this country “be
fore the United States could rub
its eyes.” *
“We were able to solve the cri
sis before the foreign press, good
and bad, was able to intervene,’*
Rakosi said. “Before the United
States could rub its eyes, every
thing was perfectly put over.
“Such a task could only be car
ried out when democracy is united
and is led by the brave and iron
fisted communist party, conscious
of its aims.
“This is why the feat has been
acclaimed by the Lovers of de
mocracy all over the world.”