English Miners;
Vole To Return To
Work Next Monday.
LONDON, (£*)—Strikers in the
Grimethorpe, England, coal mine
voted unanimously yesterday to
return to work Monday, breaking
the back of a five-week-old unau
thorized coal strike that took
60,000 workers out of Yorkshire
pits.
Miners elsewhere in the rich
Yorkshire coal fields had come out
in sympathy with the Grimethorpe
workers, cutting Britain’s coal
production in the midst of an eco
nomic crisis in which the fuel was
badly needed.
Labor circles expressed belief
that all the strikers would return
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to work with the end of the
Grimethorpe walkout.
The strike developed Aug. 11 af
ter the national union of mine
workers and the national coal
board, which operates the nation
alized mines, asked Grimethorpe
workers to work a larger “stint,”;
—two feet more of coal face,—to
up-boost production. The men
said they were already producing
to the limit of their capacity.
SCHOOLS OF WHALES AND
PORPOISE IN BERING SEA
Yesterday morning about seven
o'clock those who were looking
toward the sea were rewarded
with an unusual sight. Hundreds
of whales were traveling . east
across Bering Sea. It is reported
that they continued to travel by
for almost an hour. Natives usu
ally consider this a sign of storm
when the whales travel so close to
shore. Around noon schools of
porpoise were seen traveling the
same way.
Britain Acts To
Avert Impending
Economic Crisis
LONDON, (A>) — Sir Stafford
Cripps, president of the board of
trade, announced today new cuts
in Britain’s armed forces and a
slash in permitted capital invest
ments as crisis measures to help
stave off economic collapse.
The labor minister urged an im
mediate one-third increase in ex
ports, and said capital invest
ments would have to be cut dras
tically to make the increase pos
sible. He said the labor govern
ment would use compulsion, if
necessary, with all industry and
labor to achieve production tar
gets.
“Though we might be able to
get further temporary assistance
from the United States of America
under the Marshall plan or some
other way, we cannot count upon
this.” Sir Stafford told 2,000 in
dustrialists and unionists.
“We do not wish or intend to be
tied by economic strings to the
political policies of other coun
tries, however friendly they may
be.”
LUTHERAN MISSIONARY
VISITS NOME
Mrs. Bertha Stedje, missionary
worker for the Lutheran Church
of Teller passed through town
yesterday enroute home from
Fairbanks.
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Many Dead And
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Liner Explosion
BELFAST, Northern Ireland i/Pl
Eighteen dead or dying men and
more than 50 injured were
brought ashore today from the
British liner Reina Del Pacifico,
which docked here badly damaged
by an explosion at sea.
While hundreds crowded the
dock area, the 17,720-ton motor
ship was towed in and police be
gan an inquiry, studying among
other things what they described
as the possibility of sabotage.
The wartime troop transport, on
a trial run after being refitted for
resumption of peacetime service,
was torn by an engineroom blast
yesterday about 125 miles north of
Copeland Island, which lies just
off the coast near the mouth of
Belfast Bay.
An SOS brought five tugs and
a lifeboat carrying doctors and
nurses. One of the doctors report
ed 34 of the injured “terribly
burned” and said some probably
would die.
Fifteen men were killed out
right and three died this morning
in hospitals.
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
(By Hugh Fullerton. Jr.)
NEW YORK. (iP)—Bucky Har
ris contends that Joe Page, the
Yankees reliable relief pitcher,
should get credit for twice as
many victories as the 14 already
in the records. . . . Bucky’s theory
is that Joe, who had made 51 ap
pearances up to yesterday, had
saved an additional 14 games
without being listed as winning
pitcher. . . . This discussion brings
out one important baseball fact—
that few. if any. clubs in recent
years have been able to win a
title without having an able game
saver. . . . The first Yankee pen
nant winners in 1921 and 1923 did
not have any real standouts,
though Jack Quinn and Sam
Jones must have saved a lot of
games to judge by their records.
. . . Then in 1926 Garland Braxton
finished 23 games and the next
year Wiley Moore came along to
become the first of the celebrated
Yankee relievers. . . . Wilcv. who
Ed Barrow picked right out of the
record book, appeared in 50 games
that year, won 19 and lost seven
and there’s no telling how many
other games he saved. In the mid
dle 1930’s Johnny Murphy took
over the fireman role and the
Yanks won thtee pennants in a
row.
Johnny stuck around for the
1941 world series and milkman
Jim Turner took the job in 1942.
Now it’s Page, and all relief fling
ing records seem about to fall.
Strike Continues
At Ketchikan
KETCHIGAN, (/P)—The strike-!
bound freighter Sailors’ Splice
was moved from the Northland i
Transportation company dock to
the adjoining Alaska Steamship
company dock Wednesday to
make room for a Canadian steam- j
er which was to arrive yesterday.
CIO longshore pickets also
moved their activities to conform
with the switch, but members of
the Merchants Association, who
had maintained a 24-hour watch
at the dock abandoned their duty
pending yesterday’s arrival of ne- j
gotiating officials from Seattle. ,
‘Great Issue Is Free
People Vs. Total i
tarians’ Says Taft
SANTA CRUZ. Calif. (^—Sen
ator Taft, Republican of Ohio,
opening a western prospecting
trip for the Republican Presiden
tial nomination, declared today
this country is not going to enter
a world state that envisions con
centration of all power in a dis
tant capital.
The Ohio Senator, who said he
will not decide until he returns
home after his far western swing
whether he will be a candidate,
told the State Bar of California
the New Deal had tried to “get
rid” of states rights so it could
concentrate all power in Washing
ton.”
“In my view,” he said in an ad
dress prepared for delivery in a
panel discussion at the lawyers
meeting, “the great issue today is
that of a free people against a to
talitarian state.”
Nothing, the tall Ohio Senator
said, could limit freedom further
in the United States than the abo
lition of states rights, adding “who
is going to enter a world state ’f
: history shows that the federal
plan is only a passing phase to the
concentration of all powrer in a
distant capitol?”
Taft, considered one of the lead
ing contenders for the GOP Pres
idential nomination at next year’s
party convention, appeared on the
panel with James E. Murray,
Democrat of Montana, a staunch
New Dealer, Charles Halleck of
Indiana, House Republican leader
and Rep. Ray S. Madden. Demo
crat of Indiana.
MRS. FREDA NEIMI. FORMER
NOMEITE PASSES ON
Word has been received of the
death of Mrs. Freda Neimi. a for
mer Nomeite who will be remem
bered by the older residents as
Mrs. Freda Alexson. She came to
Nome in 1913 with three small
children after the death of her
husband who was killed working
on the Alaska Railroad.
She will be remembered as a
plucky Finn who bravely support
ed her little family by working
from house to house in the com
munity until 1928, at which time
she moved to Fairbanks and mar
ried.
She died at Redmond, Washing
ton, where she has been with her
oldest daughter. She is survived
by two daughters Mary and Helen,
her son having passed away in
1929.
“Did your teeth chatter when
the burglar entered your room?”
“How should I know? They
were in the drawer.”
I Extra Session Will
Do Little Good
VIENNA, Ga. (>P) — Senator
George <D.-GaJ said yesterday he
believes President Truman will
call Congress into special session,
but that it is a very ticklish gam
ble” which could result in a politi
cal stalemate with loss of prestige
to the chief executive.
George, the ranking minority
member of the Senate finance
committee, said in an interview,
that he personally saw little good
that could result from a special
session since he did not believe an
emergency relief program for Eu
rope could be pushed through be
fore the first'of the year.
The Senator said that any broad
foreign relief program will result
in keeping prices up in this coun
try.
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