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VANCOUVER, 13. C., l/P)-Two
men were held here today on
charges of breaking and entering
and retaining stolen property as
police continued an investigation
of evidence which they said indi
cated loot from recent burglaries
was being transferred to seamen
for resale on the ‘black markets”
of Shanghai and Yokohama.
Police identified the two arrest
ed men as David Baldwin, 27, and
^Cecil Phalen, 20, a seaman.
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SEATTLE, (/l*) — Continuation
of the coal strike for 15 days would
result in closing the majority of
the state’s businesses, schools and
industries, J. Harry Gatewood, as
sistant regional administrator of
the solid fuels administration, said
4lf>day.
YOKOHAMA, (/Pi—Koja Tsuda,
former attendant at a prisoner of
war camp, was sentenced to life
imprisonment today by an eignt
man court who convicted him of
war crimes charges including in
direct responsibility for the death
of a British corporal.
£ HANOI, Indo China. (IP) —
French transport planes hurriedly
ferried paratroopers into Hanoi
today as continued fighting was
reported between French and Viet -
Nam forces at Haiphong and
Langson.
DETROIT, i/P)—General Motors
^ Corp. reported today its produc
tion of pasenger cars in United
States plants last week totaled
^31,993 units, the largest weekly
output since the end of the war.
The previous high mark was 30,
467 vehicles assembled during the
week ended Nov. 16.
LONDON, |/P) — A bill to na
tionalize Britain's railways and
long distance trucking lines was
introduced in the House of Com
fmons today.
These big items in the Labor
government’s socialization pro
gram, would establish a central
commission with special boards to
deal separately with the railways
nnd road haulers.
NEW YORK, {IP) — William
Shakespeare, dead for 330 years
continued to make money for his
Admirers as a first folio edition of
nis plays was sold last night for
$5,900.
COATESVILLE, Pa. (/P) — Wil
liam B. Marshall, who was re
jected as a Civil War volunteer
because of a heart condition, died
Monday. He was 99.
SPOKANE, (/Pi —An 18-truck
• convoy, bearing equipment and
food for the Alaska Railroad and
* employees, left Spokane yester
day after an overnight stop en
route from Seattle to Anchorage,
a trip of more than 2,000 miles.
The convoy was at Bonners Ferry,
Idaho, last night.
Yugoslavs Increase
Forces Along
Greek Frontier
(By L. S. Chakales)
ATHENS, (/I1) — The foreign
ministry announced today the
Yugoslav government had inform
ed the Greek minister in Belgrade
that Yugoslavia was strengthen
ing her forces along the frontier
because large numbers of Greeks
were “seeking refuge from terror”
in northern Greece.
The announcement coincided
with dispatches from Salonika
which said a new battle had
broken out in Macedonia. Greek
third army headquarters said 600
members of a “Communist” band
from newly established leftist
headquarters on Mount Jena had
occupied the voltages of Mavron
and Mandhalon, 10 miles north
east of Edessa.
This action was from 20 to 25
miles southwest of the scene of re
cent clashes on the Skra-Notia
front, not far from the Yugoslav
border. Reinforcements were be
ing moved in from Edessa and
planes were thrown into the
mounting battle, the army said.
f/P) correspondents Joseph C.
Woodwin reported from Salonika
th.’t the partisans controlled both
Mavron and Mandahalon alter an
all day light, and that the fate of
two Greek platoons in Mavron
was unknown.
Other press dispatched in Ath
1 ens said some armed villages re
sisting the attack were mistaken
for guerrillas and machine-gunned
by Greek fighter planes.
The extension of guerrilla ac
tivity to Mandahalon, on the edge
of the Macedonian plain, which
sweeps to the Gulf of Salonika,
indicated that the partisans might
be attempting to cut off all west
ern Macedonia from Salonika.
The Athens government has
charged the guerrillas are being
reinforced and supplied from
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania.
Premier Constantin Tsaldaris has
announced his intention of putting
the complaint before the United
Nations in New York.
New Proposal
May End The
Maritime Strike
SEATTLE, (/P>—The American
Federation of Labor checkers have
taken under advisement a new
working agreement drawn up by
shipping operators, Albin L. Pe
terson, federal conciliator, dis
closed today. He did not reveal
any of the details.
This development, which
brought new hopes for reopening
the long-closed Seattle and Puget
Sound ports, followed the col
lapse of a tentative proposal for
sailing new relief ships from Seat
tle to Alaska.
Lt. Comdr. E. P. Chester, Jr.,
Alaska relief committee chairman,
said he would “keep trying” to
send ships from Seattle, but added
JOY FOR A GREEK FAMILY
YOUNG MISS GREECE—and her sister, too—eagerly watch grand
mother Kakavias of Corinth open a Greek War Rebel Ass°c«amn
35-lb. food parcel. Any American, like the generous person who helped
the Kakavias. wanting to supply food to starving Greece m y -
$12.75 to the Association in New York City and that n g Ratine
telegraphed overseas. In a few days a hungry Greek j*™#"**^
nutritious, staple foods. In addition to the parcel service <n ahh centers*
this winter a $12,000,000 fund-raising campaign to build 40day
to house and feed 375.000 war orphans, and to supply a warm, no
meal to almost 2 million hungry school children.
Lewis Eludes
Virginia Complaint
ALEXANDRIA, V u </P) — A
Virginia official who sought to
sei vc a new legal complaint on
John L. Lewis reported today he
had been advised that the United j
Mine Workers’ chief spent the!
night away from his home there, j
J. F. Moriarty, deputy city ser-1
geant, appeared early this morn-1
ing at Lewis’ home with the sum-,
mons. But, later, he told reporters j
that a servant at the residence in-1
formed him that Lewis had not
stayed there last night.
The summons directs Lewis to
appear Monday before the Virgin-!
ia State Corporation commission
to show why the United Mine
Workers’ union should not be en-;
joined from selling memberships,!
as a violation of the Virginia Sc
curities law,
“If 1 don’t serve the papers to
day,” Moriarity said, “Lewis will
find them tacked on his door to
night.
“I’ve served papers on Lewis
before. He never dodges any- j
thing.”
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that he had been told by Gov. Er
nest Gruening of Alaska to trans
fer the entire relief program to
Portland “if we can’t get results in
Seattle.”
The tentative program collapsed
when the AFL marine trades
council and operators were unable
j to get together on wages.
Spanish Refugees
Stowaway (>n
Canadian Ship
VANCOUVER, R. C„ UP)—Four
Spanish refugees from Gen. F ran
cisco Franco’s army, discovered
stowed away on the Canadian
merchantman Tipperary P a r k, i
were behind bars at the Canadian
immigration shed here today as
the Vancouver Labor Council
promised on all-out legal fight to ‘
prevent their return to Spain.
The four are Julian M. Fuster,
21, Jose Cruz Perez, 21, Feveriano
Garso Sanchez and Francisco Gas
co Gisbert, 25. Another of their or- :
iginal party, Dabud Riesco, 21. |
jumped overboard at Norfolk, Va.,
and was picked up by a U. S. de
stroyer and died two days later of
pneumonia, authorities said.
The four were described as
members of an anti-Franco resist
ance movement and Foster de
scribed the fate they expected if
they are returned by drawing a
finger across his throat.
Under Canadian law they must
be returned on the Tipperary
Park on her return if no alterna
tive can be found, but an official
of the Spanish Veterans’ associa
tion said arrangements might be
mode to settle them in Mexico.
Delegates to the Labor Council
sessions, however, sought to gaia
official sanction for them to re
main here.
Attorneys Prepare
For Lewis
Contempt Trial
(By Harold W. Ward)
WASHINGTON, </P) _ Govern
, merit attorneys pressing the con
tempt charge against John I*
Lewis armed themselves today
with an economic report saying a
90-day coal strike would be “ca
tastrophic” to the United tSates.
An official acquainted with the
government’s preparations said a
corps of economists had compiled
I data on the ominous probable im
pact of the strike on post war re
covery.
The “catastrophic” prediction
was in this material, but it may
be next week before it is brought
out in a trial which extend fo*
days, or even weeks,
i Repercussions were widespread
as the strike went into its seventh
; day:
More than 70.000 workers in
coal-burning industries already
were idle and jobs of additional
'housands were jeopardized is
coal stocks shrank.
The steel industry reported -15
ol' :ts 227 blast furnaces banked
and future cutbacks s'cheduled.
Railroads began furloughing
men.
Some schools and colleges ex
‘ended the Thanksgiving recess to
conserve coal. Earlier school shut
downs were reported from Walla
Walla and Denver in the west to
Philadelphia in the east.
Agriculture department officials
said a prolonged coal strike, crip
pling transporta1 on and f>l pro
cessing plants, would endanger
the food supplies, particularly for
big cities.
Babe Bulb Sick
In Hospital
NEW YORK, f/P>— George Her
man <Babe> Ruth, baseball’s “king
of swat,” is in good condition at
French hospital where he is suf
fering from a sinus infection, a
physician said today.
Dr. Iago Caldston said the 52
year-old former baseball player
was being treated with penicillin
for an infection of the left sinus.
He entered the hospital yesterday.
CITY COUNCIL READS
NEW ORDINANCE
The City Council met last Mon
day night in the City Hall. A num
ber of communications from other
cities in the Territory in relation
to our recent storm catastophes,
were read.
The long-awaited ordinance, to
have the house numbers put on
each and every house in Nome,
was read for the first time.
There was a discussion about
the merits of both, a breakwater,
and the moving of Nome, but no
decision was made in favor of
either.