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VOL. L. No. 100. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 PER COPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, <jP)—A rich Soviet
grain harvest is rolling into state
granaries.
Four important districts in the
Kuban and Ukraine reported to
prime minister Stalin they had
exceeded their goals for grain de
liveries to date.
Indications were that this year’s
harvest would exceed even the
abundant returns of last year.
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G O ESCHENEN, Switzerland,
(/P)—The 800 residents of this
village returned to their homes
yesterday as explosions in the
munitions depot here grew weak
er. The population was evacu
ated Wednesday when fire touch
ed off a series of explosions and
threatened main stores in the
mountain redoubt .
OLYMPIA, (iP)—John Miner, a
41-year-old factory worker, was
arrested here Wednesday night in
connection with the fatal shooting
of his 33-year-old wife on the
lawn of a home near the Olympia
country club.
Sheriff Frank Tamblyn said the
couple’s 7-year-old son witnessed
the shooting and that Miner ad
mitted doing it.
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JUNEAU, (JP)—C. Arnold, man
aging director of the Alaska Sal
mon Industry Inc., said 'here yes
terday he is not as concerned
about the salmon shortage as the
impending maritime strike.
He is here to confer with E. E.
Murray, ASI president.
LONDON, (JP) — British and
American air units will join next
month in the biggest air defense
“games” since the war.
The air ministry said nearly
100 U. S. superforts based in Bri
tain will take part in the exer
cise, as well as U. S. bomber units
from Germany.
RENO, Nev. (JP) — Two “awful
sorry” Negro boys were held by
juvenile authorities today for
starting a downtown fire Sunday
which killed five persons and in
jured 137.
Police chief L. R. Greeson said
the nine-year-old boys told him
they started a paper fire in the
basement of a vacant building,
then tried vainly to put it out as it
spread to stored junk.
WASHINGTON i/P)—Secretary
of defense Forrestall will hold a
conference with the joint chiefs of
staff at the naval war college at
NewPort, R. I., beginning late to
day and continuing through Sun
day.
The defense department said
the conference follows the pattern
established at Key West, Fla.,
March 11-14. Similar meetings
are planned at intervals of a few
months in the future.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (/P)
Three young Polish refugees
made a forced landing in a small
plane last night on Bornholm is
land. They told police they were
flying from Poland to Sweden
“because conditions in Poland
were unbearable.”
NLRB Rules
Against Union
“Hiring Halls”
(By Max Hall)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Labor
unions smarted yesterday under
the first major crackdown on
union behavior by the national
labor relations board.
The five-man board headed by
Paul M. Herzog ruled, unanimous
ly Wednesday night that hiring
halls operated on the Great Lakes
by the CIO national maritime
union are illegal under the Taft
Hartley law.
In so doing, the board created
several legal precedents that ex
tend far beyond the shipping in
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Credit Buying
Curtails Due In
Month’s Time
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WASHINGTON, iff)— The fed
eral reserve board put the finish
ing touches yesterday on new reg
I ulations to curtail installment
buying.
The credit controls will be is
sued and go into effect in 30 days.
They were provided under the
R e p u blican anti-inflation bill
passed by the special session of
Congress.
President Truman, who had
i asked for stiffer anti-inflation
, measures, told a news conference
| yesterday he thought the credit
restrictions should be put into ef
fect—and will be as soon as pos
1 sible.
The board is expected to re
quire one-third down payments,
with a 15-month limit on payment
of the balance, on most retail
items costing more than $50.
Russian Witness '
Rallies After
Sinking Spell
NEW YORK </P)—Improvement!
was reported yesterday in the
condition of the Russian school
teacher who a week ago leaped
from the third floor of the Soviet
consulate.
During the night she had been
reported sinking at Roosevelt hos
pital.
A bulletin issued at 10 a.m.
said:
“Mrs. Kosenkina’s conditi o n
' shows improvement this morning.
Her temperature is 101. Pulse is
110, which is strong. Breathing
more easily since being put under
an oxygen tent. She ate a good
breakfast.”
The hospital said that the pa
tient had not been advised that
the oviet consul general had been
invited to send a surgeon for con
sultation. The invitation was is
sued Wednesday by the hospital.
A spokesman for the hospital
said yesterday that it was similar
to the invitation that would be
extended to the private physician
of any private patient, and was
for consultation purposes only.
Three New Deal
Lawyers to Appear
In Spy Probe
W A S H I N GTON, </Pj — The
House un-American activit ies
committee yesterday ord ered
three former New Deal lawyers
to appear for questioning in its
communist spy ring investigation,
they are* Nathan Whitt, Lee
Pressman and John Abt.
The committee also said that
Alger Hiss, former state depart
ment official accused of being
part of the pre-war Red under
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U. S. Demands
Removal Of Russ
Consul-General
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(By John M. Hightower)
WASHING TON, </P) — The
United States is stripping the So^
iet consul general in New York of
his official position because of
his conduct in the Kosenkina af
fair and has demanded that Rus
sia get him out of this country.
■ This sensational turn in the
Soviet-American row over the
refugee school teachers in New
;York was disclosed today with
i publication of an American note
; handed to the Soviet embassy last
, night.
The note flatly rejected Soviet
charges that the teachers, Mrs.
Oksana Kosenkina and Mr. and
Mrs. Mikhail I. Samarin, were
abducted by the anti-Soviet Tol
stoy foundation with the conniv
ance of American officials. The
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Reds Hold U. S.
Army Prisoners
BERLIN United States ot
ficials said today the Russians are
giving them “the run-around” in
negotaitions for release of two
Americans arrested Aug. 5 after
crossing into the Soviet occupa
tion zone.
The men were Lt. Sherman S.
Turner, of Council Bluffs, la., and
Roland M. Myers, of Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Turner military government of
ficial in charge of Bad Kissinger,
and Myers, another military gov
ernment official, were reported to
have stepped inadvertently over
into the Soviet zone while inspect
ing the Russian-American border
near Mellrichstadt, 75 miles east
of Frankfurt.
Three Named In Spy Charge Hearing
Whittaker Chambers, who said he once served in the Communist Underground in Washington,
testifies under oath before a House committee investigating stories of a widespread spy ring in the
federal government, that among the members of the Red Network in Washington were Nathan Witt
(left), former National Labor Relations Board executive secretary: John Abt (center), former Agri
culture Adjustment Administration counsel, and Lee Pressman (right), formerly general counsel for
Works Progress Administration and for many years general counsel for the CIO. (/P) Wirephoto
Bridg es Urges
Longshoremen To
Reject Wage Offer
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — CIO
longshoremen opened a two-day
coastwise caucus yesterday to ans
wer an employer offer of a five
cent hourly pay increase. Their
rejection was virtually a foregone
conclusion.
The longshoremen have yet to
vote on the other in election re
quired under the, Taft-Hartley
act. At a meeting Wednesday
night president Harry Bridges
urged 6500 San Francisco mem
bers to reject the five-cent offer.
He called it the “lowest pay
raise offered any group in the
country this year. You’ve got no
choice. We’re hitting the bricks
Sept. 2.”
That date marks expiration of
the 80-day cooling off period or
dered by a federal court here in
June to prevent a coastwise strike
then threatened by five maritime
unions, including longshoremen.
The waterfront employers as
sociation called last night’s meet
ing a “stop work’’ gathering. As
such, said the WEA, it is a viola
tion of the union contract.
Principal issue is the hiring
hall, which the national labor re
ltions board Wednesday declared
was illegal. The longshoremen in
sist only a court decision can de
termine its status.
Fisheries Vessel
To Bering Sea
This Month
j SEATTLE. (/P>—'The U. S. fish
and wildlife service will send a
vessel into the Bering Sea this
month to determine whether the
ai*ea can become a rich, new
source of sole, flounder and cod,
officials said today.
The vessel is the 100-foot drag
boat Washington, now being out
fitted here. It will leave for the
northern w'aters Monday.
Survey work in the Bering Sea
before the war similar to that
now planned, aided in the devel
opment of the fast growing king
crab industry there.
Officials said the vessel will
probably stay in the north until
early in November. Technicians
will try out new types of fishing
gear and generally explore bot
tom fishing possibilities in the
vast area.
Refrigeration of catches also
will come in for attention.
“The problem in the past has
been the extreme distance of Ber
ing Sea fishing grounds,” a
spokesman said. “The answer lies
in vessels that caix freeze the catch
on the spot.”
The Washington’s trip will in
augurate the fish and wildlife
s e r v ice’s recently authorized,
long-range Alaska exploratory
fishing program.
The vessel, valued at $250,000,
will be extensively altered and
improved this winter for further
research next spring.