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NEWS IN BRIEF
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (/P) — i
Fire destroyed the large Quality
grocery and the D and D Sports
Center yesterday.
Damage to the grocery and
meat market was estimated at
$55,000 and to the D and D at
$90,000. The latter is a combina- j
tion bar, restaurant and sporting
goods store. Both establishments
were insured.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, (/P)—’The '
night of June 1 was the coldest1
for the date here since 1918.
It was 30 degrees above. No
damage was reported to early
crops. The minimum for last night
was up to 35.
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, — A
partly-baked snake put radio sta
tion WLDY off the air for ten
minutes yesterday.
Engineer Darrell Holbrook
found a five-foot pine snake coil
ed around wires carrying 1,100 j
volts after the transmitter went1
dead.
Holbrook removed the harmless t
reptile and the station went back j
on the air. He said the snake ap- j
parently suffered no ill effect.
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CALEDONIA, Mich., UP) — j
Eighteen-year-old F r a n k Bales j
suffered more embarrassment
than injury yesterday when he i
walked accidentally into the side
cf a moving auto.
The door handle of the car
caught in his belt—neatly detach
ing his trousers.
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BOSTON, </P)—Settlement of a
strike which began May 15, pre
venting start of operations of five
gold dredges in Fairbanks, Alas
ka, was reported today by the
U. S. Smelting, Refining and Mi
ning Co.
The company said settlement j
was made without increase in op
erating costs but gave no money j
details of the agreement which
they said was signed for two
years with the AFL electrical
workers union.
The contract contained a main
tenance of membership clause,
the company said. Officials re
ported loss of three weeks pro
duction in the strike which in
volved approximately 300 work
ers.
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(/P)—An Iowa Democratic pri
mary today may help the Truman
administration decide whether to
boost or soft-pedal the Brannan
farm plan as an issue in the No
vember elections
In three other primaries tomor
row, California democrats will
say whether they want James
Roosevelt as their nominee for
governor, South Dakota Republi
cans will pass on the bid of sena
tor Chan Gurney for renomina
tion, and New Mexico Democrats
will choose from among five can
didates for governor.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Pioneer
Mrs. Agnes Potts Hering, 75, Al
aska’s “outstanding Mother,” died
in St. Joseph's Hospital Saturday.
She was stricken Friday with a
Fairbanks Strike
Settled With
Compromise
_FAIRBANKS, </P>— More than
260 AFL electricians voted 2-1
Friday night, a union official said,
to end their 19-day-old strike that
has cut off two-thirds of Fair
banks’regular source of power.
The vote was on a counter-pro
posal offered the AFL interna
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local 1550, by the Fair
banks exploration department of j
the U. S. Smelting, Refining and j
Mining Co.
Kenneth Fa veil IBEW Interna- i
tional representative, reported the
strikers dropped their demands
for a union shop and wage in
creases and accepted the com
pany offer which included bebe
fits on seniority rights, vacations
and grievance procedure.
A return to work is scheduled
early next week. The strike had
halted mining and dredging oper
ations of the company and idled
the power plant which provides
approximately 65 per cent of the
city’s electricity.
During the power brownout,
supplies to householders and busi
ness firms were rationed to pro
vide for emergency service to hos- j
pitals and other institutions. Some j
auxiliary power was obtained j
from generators brought in be
fore the strike.
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Aleution Defenses!
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Reviewed On
Duteh Harhor Day
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By Clark Beach
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Some of |
the boys who fought in the Aleu
tians are probably remembering
today (Sat.) the islands’ fog and
bone-chilling winds.
This is the eighth anniversary
of the day the Japanese bombed
Dutch Harbor, opening the futile
little campaign in which they I
made their only capture of North j
American soil.
Between June 6 and 10, 1942,
they took Kiska, Attu and Agattu,
at the western extremity of the
island chain. By the following
June, the Americans were back
again, at the cost of 3,000 men
dead, wounded or ill from expo
sure to the vile weather.
When the Japs invaded, there
were no American defenses west
of Dutch Harbor, about halfway
between Anchorage and Attu.
N-o-w, once again, there are
practically no American forces in
all the Aleutians.
Why?
The military men answer this
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sudden heart attack.
Mrs. Hering. mother of nine
children, was named the Terri
tory’s outstanding mother by a |
mother’s committee of the Golden
Rule Foundation earlier this year.
She was born Aug. 7, 1874, in
Ballybay, County Monoghan, Ire
land. She came to Alaska in 1889
with her husband to become one
of the early pioneering families
of the far north.
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Corporation Taxes]
May Increase
WASHINGTON, </P> — Tax
planners had a fresh warning by
president Truman that a veto
hangs over excise tax cuts total
ling more than one billion dollars. I
The president wants any tax
cuts balanced with new revenue.
H e told administration leaders j
that he’ll veto a lop-sided bill.
But House ways and means
committeemen are still shy about
$760,000,000 in new revenue, and
one of them said privately that
increasing corporations’ taxes is
the only way left.
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Other Congress highlights:—
Republican senators Smith of
New Jersey and Knowland of Cal
ifornia wanted a list of what Am
erica is getting for her money in 1
return for vast arms outlays for
Europe.
Secretary of State Acheson,
conceding the bill may go higher
in’ future years is asking $1,222,
500,000 to rearm Europe against
communism.
A six-months extension of rent
control—which would keep it
past the November elections—is
being urged by Democrats for po
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liasehall Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Friday Games
National League
Brooklyn 8, St. Louis 1.
New York 7, Cincinnati (5
Pittsburgh 5. Boston 4
Philadelphia at Chicago, post
poned, rain.
American League
Chicago 6, New York 5, 12 innings
Detroit 8-16. Philadelphia 2-5.
Boston 11, Cleveland 5.
St. Louis 10-9, Washington 5-3
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 5, San Diego 4, 11 innings
San Francisco 4, Portland 0.
Seattle 5, Los Angeles 1.
Sacramento 5, Hollywood 3.
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National League
Cincinnati 3-6, Boston 0-7
St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 2
Chicago 13, Brooklyn 8
New York 4, Pittsburgh 3
Saturday Games
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 2.
Boston 10, Pittsburgh 6.
Other games postponed, rain.
American League
New York 7, Cleveland 0.
Detroit 3, Washington 0.
Boston 17, Chicago 7.
St. Louis 12-6, Philadelphia 5-13.
Saturday Games
New York 3-6, Chicago 1-3
Boston 11, Cleveland 9.
Detroit 6, Philadelphia 1.
St. Louis at Washington, post
poned, rain.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 6-6, Sacramento 1-5
Seatlle 2-0, Los Angeles 0-3.
Portland 5-4, San Francisco 016
San Diego 11-3, Oakland 8-7
Saturday Results
Sacramento 3 Hollywood 1.
Oakland 7, San Diego 3.
Seattle 5, Los Angeles 1.
San Francisco 5, Portland 5 (Tie
called 15 innings, time limit)
Sen. Lvnj* Keports
< hi Statehood Hill
'This is the concluding article
in a series of three in which Sen.
Lyng reports to the ' people of
Nome on the Statehood bill'
If H.R. 331 is approved by a
majority vote of the Senate Com
mittee on Territories and Insular
Affairs 'this Committee consists
of 13 members', the Act is then
transmitted to the Senate to take
its place on the daily file and will
come up for debate and final pas
sage in its regular term. Chair
man O-Mahoney has set June 12
as the tentative date for action on !
the part of his Committee.
This is the first hurdle—the
second is passage by the Senate
—and the third and final one,
acceptance of the amended Act
by the House of Representatives,
for they are the ones that passed
the original Bill a month or more
ago.
If all of those events occur, and
your guess is as good as mine—
I am not overly optimistic—the
Governor of Alaska will, within
thirty <30> days after the approv
al of this Act. issue a proclama
tion ordering an election of twen
ty-nine '29* delegates who shall
comprise the Constitutional Con
vention. These delegates are ap
portioned as follows:
First Judicial Division, seven
<7>; Second Judicial Division,
three (3>; Third Judicial Division,
seven <7>; Fourth Judicial Divi
sion, four (4>; and Eight <8> are to
Territory. Eight months are al
TerritoryT. Eight months are al
lowed for choosing the delegates,
including filing of candidates and
nomination through a Primary
election—filings may be made by
independent or non-party candi
dates.
All residents of Alaska, who
are citizens of the United States,
and have not less than one <1>
year’s residence in the Territory,
and thirty (30» days in the pre
cinct, are eligible to vote for dele
gates to the Constitutional Can
vention. The delegates so elected
will meet at the Capitol of the
Territory, Juneau, on the first
Tuesday following the ninetieth
(90> day after the election. The
Constitutional Convention shall
not exceed seventy-five <75> days,
and after first adopting the Con
stitution of the United States, will
proceed to write and form a con
stitution and state government for
the State of Alaska.
The Constitution of the new
state shall be republican in form
—there is no mention in H.R. 331
of the word “democracy”, neither
is there in the Constitution of the
(
United States, for the United
States of America is a Republic,
and its government is republican
and therefore representative in
form, based on free elections. A |
pure democracy is quite different
—even Russia claims to be one.
This Act expressly forbids the
Consitutional Convention from
making any distinction in civil or
political rights on account of race
or color, and must not write any
thing into the new State Constitu
tion that is repugnant to the Con
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News of the V\ orhl
At A Glance - - -
By the Associated Press
Saturday, June 3. 1950
Six western European nations
agreed today to pool their coal
and steel industries in a French
authorized plan to advance the
cause of peace and take Europe
along the road to union and pros
perity.
France, western Germany, Bel
gium, the Netherlands, Luxem
bourg, and Italy issued a joint
communique in Paris giving full
support to the pool plan first an
ncunceo by French foreign min
ister Robert Schuman last month.
Talks to work out details are set
for June 15.
Monday, June 5, 1950
President Truman signed today
a bill authorizing the United
States to spend $3,121,450,000 on
this year's foreign aid.
The total includes funds for the
third year of the European re
covery program and for starting
the president’s Point Four pro
gram to develop backward areas.
Signing the bill at a White
House ceremony, the president
raid it is an important step toward
rtrengtnening freedom and de
feating “communist imperialism ”
The bill authorizes five pro
grams in all of which the largest
involves this year’s expenditure
of $2,350,000,000 for the Marshall
plan.
The Point Four program starts
with an allocation of $35,000,000
for technical assistance to under
developed areas in the world.
Other programs include aid to
the people of South Korea, south
east Asia and non-communist
, Chinese; relief and public works
for Arab refugees from Palestine
and continuing support ror United
Nations child welfare programs.
In Germany—The western al
lied high commission turned over
control of all west German cht mi
cal industry except outright war
products to the Germans.
( > Charged \\ i!Ii
Taking Over
California Fishing
LOS ANGELES, (A5)— Seven
fiish canneries charge that the
CIO fisherman's union is trying
to take over the $26,000,000 south
ern California fishing industry.
Federal court complaints fiiled
yesterday by the canneries al
lege violation -of the Sherman
antitrust act. They state that the
fishermen do not have a true la
bor union because of overlapping
membership in the Federated
Boat Owners Assn, and the Fish
ermen’s Cooperative Assn.
The union and its affiliates are
accused of trying to control the
fishing industry by forcing the
signing of illegal price-fixing con
tracts. establishing a boat own
ers’ pool and preventing canner
ies from buying fish from boats
outside the pool.
The complaining canneries are
Van Camp, South Coast, West
Coast, Southern California, Pan
Pacific, South Pacific, and Coast
Fishing Co. The government is
not a party to the action.