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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XL VIII. No. 115. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1946 PER COPY —15c
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. </P)—
Presid ential press secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters to
day there was no comment from
the White House on Prime Minis-1
ter Stalin’s statement yesterday
concerning prospects of war and
peace. Ross was asked for reac
tion at a news conference.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. (/P)— j
Selective service officials remind- j
ed young men that they still must;
register on their 18th birthday,
Asserting there has been consid
erable “misunderstanding in some
localities” because Congress ex-1
empted 18-year-olds from training
and service, national headquarters
emphasized that no change was
made in the requirement for reg
istration of 18-year-olds. Failure
to do so may result in fine or im
Hfcsonment.
SEATTLE, Sept. 25. (/P)—G. W. i
Skinner, president, and L. W. Ba- j
ker, general manager of the Alas-!
ka Steamship Co., will leave Seat- j
tie Sunday in a station wagon for
Anchorage, via Spokane, Banff,
Calgary, Edmonton, Dawson
Creek, Whitehorse and Fairbanks.
They will study the possibilities
in future tourist travel combining
^otorcar and steamship between
here and Alaska. Mrs. Skinner
will accompayn them.
HONOLULU, Sept. 25. </P)—Un
favorable weather forced post
ponement of today’s scheduled
take off of the superfort “Pacusan
Dreamboat” on its nonstop polar
%jght to Cairo. Col. C. S. Irvine,
the pilot, said the take off would j
probably be made in a few days, j
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WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 25
(/P)—The fire-stricken tanker
Bennington, with four aboard
dead and three reported missing,
neared Southport today, after
picking up a doctor from a Coast
Guard crash boat to treat a severe
ly burned man. The Bennington
sent out an urgent appeal for aid
when fire broke out and an explo
sion followed while the 10-172-ton
«sel was 185 miles off Charles
, S. C.
OTTAWA, Sept. 25. OP)—War
veteran squatters pushed their
way past police and sailors last
night and moved approximately
wtO families into a navy training
^building and a one-time women’s
army corps barracks in Canada’s
capital. They occupied the army
depot despite resistance of four
squad cars of city police.
SEOUL, Sept. 25. (/P)—A strike
of 52,000 employees immobilized
all operations of the government
owned South Korea National rail
way today. The workers demand
ed labor laws identical with those
for factories in North Korea, sal
ary increases and their two hop
(Jne-twelfth pint) daily rice ration
doubled. South Korea is adminis
tered by U. S. occupation officials;
North Korea by Russians.
Showdown Near In
Power Strike
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25. </P>—'
A showdown neared today in an
Allegheny county court room on
Pittsburgh’s power strike amid
hints from CIO unionists of a pos
sible general strike call in the city
unless the leader of the power
union is freed from jail, wher ho
was lodged last night for con
tempt of court.
A three-judge court was prepar
ing to act on its warning to nine
strike leaders that they also would
face contempt charges unless the
strike is called off.
Meanwhile, the executive board
of East Pittsburgh local of the
United Electrical Radio and Ma
chine Workers union asked the
CIO-Steel City industrial council,
representing 200,000 workers, to
hold a meeting at which the board
said it would present a resolution
asking ‘‘a general CIO strike if
Mueller is still in jail.” No time
for the meeting was suggested.
The power strike, called in
spite of an injunction against it,
was still on this afternoon. The
contempt conviction was for call
ing of the strike yesterday in the
face of an injunction against it.
Two Russians
Arrested For
Woman’s Murder
BERLIN, Sept. 25. </P)—Amer
ican and Russian military police
in a joint patrol early today ar
rested two Russian civilian men
for the murder of a 28-year-old
German woman in her home in
the American sector of the city,
the U. S. provost marshal an
nounced.
Answering an alarm turned in
by a relative of the woman, the
police captured the Russians in
the house in possession of the wo
man’s suitcase. They found ner
body in the attic with a bullet
wound in the head.
American investigators said
they suspected the Russians were
demobilized soldiers who “chose
to stay on in Berlin rather than go
home.”
“America To Face
Challenge From
Communist Party”
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 25.
(/P)—Arthur B. Langlie, former
Washington governor, declared
last night that North America
faces a challenge from the Com
munist party “within the next two
to ten years.”
Speaking before the Pacific
Northwest District Kiwanis con
vention, Langlie said “The danger
is not today but when the great
demand has been exhausted, when
we have to cut down production
and when we are hard put to
maintain our high social benefit
policy.”
Regulars About to Embark on Scenic Trip in India
All aboard for a five-hour ride in the Himalaya Mountains. These happy
'Guardians of Victory" ore all set for a beautiful trip on a narrow-gauge
Min. New sights and m good job are being offered qualified civilians by
be Regular Army.
Visitors Speak To
Nome Chamber
Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Alaska
director of OPA, Miss Ernestine
' Zollman, and Sam Wettrick were
guests at the meeting of the NWA
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
noon at the regular luncheon.
Mrs. Hermann gave an interest
ing resume of a few of the “good"
things the OPA has done for Alas
ka, both financially and economic
ally. She stated the OPA was di
rectly responsible for the outcome
1 of the freight rate hearing in that
i rate increases were disallowed,
| thus saving the people of the Ter
ritory millions of dollars.
Mrs. Hermann stated that the
OPA takes credit also for having
the marine insurance rates reduc
ed from 15 to ll/z per cent.
The Office of Price Administra
tion director said that one of the
most important acts of the office
was to keep the flow of scarce
goods into Alaska on an allotment
basis.
The committee on the shipping
strike reported that they had re
ceived replies to their communi
ques to various officials in con
nection with the tie-up and they
were assured of every considera
tion possible.
A letter was received from the
Methodist women regarding the
hospital for Nome designating
slight changes in the original
terms.
President Mitrovich informed
the chamber that the lighterage
rate hearing was set for 10:00 a.m.
Thursday morning in the court
room of the federal buidling. Ship
to shore rates at all Bering Sea
and Arctic ports and communities
are to be considered at the hear
ing.
SAM WETTRICK. SEATTLE
ATTORNEY. HERE
Sam Wettrick, attorney from
Seattle, who will represent the
Lomen Commercial Co., at the
maritime lighterage hearing which
starts tomorrow at ten o’clock in
the Federal Court room, is a guest
of Carl Lomen.
Yugoslavs Charge
U. S. Spreads Anti
Tito Propaganda
BELGRADE, Sept. 25. (/Pi—Of
i ficial Yugoslav sources said today
| the foreign office had charged!
! that the United States informat;on!
! service had become a center for
! propaganda against Yugoslavia
and had asked the U. S. Embassy
! to close the service and the Amer
ican reading room here.
A formal foreign office note,
! the source said, accused the U. S.
of distributing bulletins against
the Tito government in contra
j vention of Yugoslavia’s press laws. [
Volcano Stromholi
Erupts In Italy
ROME, Sept. 25. </P>—Dispatch
es from Messina, Sicily, said today
the volcano Stromboli on the is
land of the same name in the Li
pari group became active again
Sunday after two years of quies
cence.
A dense mass of incandescent
vapor hung over the 3,049-foot
peak, the dispatches said, while
small streams of lava coursed
down its sides into the sea. Show- |
ers of ashes were doing consider- I
able damage to crops.
No More Increase
On Farm Products
Price Ceilings
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Sept.
25. UP)—Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson says that in
general the time of price increases
for farm products under the new
price control law is behind us.
The present ceilings, he said in
a nationwide broadcast last night,
are sufficient to stimulate produc
tion.
Boosts—announced as he was
speaking—for oils made of cotton
seed, soy beans, com and peanuts,
Mask ans Beat
Marine Strike:
Sliij) Bv Air
Alaskans are now shopping in
Chicago by air.
This was revealed today in a
omple maneuver by Alaskan Ra
tio Supply, Inc., of Anchorage,
Alaska, in circumventing the per
plexing problem of the shipping
strike.
Faced with a fast-depleting
stock and a compelte black-out of
supplies from the United States,
the radio dealers quickly reasoned
if “they won’t ship it in, we’ll fly
it in.” Chartering a DC-3, owned
and piloted by Pat Arnold, former
colonel in the AAF and the owner
of the Arnold Air Service of Alas
ka, the company’s executives
made the 3,000 mile flight from
Anchorage to Chicago to gather
the essential stock.
A three-ton plane-load of sup
plies, including Hallicrafters radio
equipment, was procured by Wil
liam E. Geyser, president, and
Charles V. Schachle and D. C.
Langdon, vice-presidents, after a
whirlwind tour of Chicago manu
facturers.
The “shopping tour by air” to
Chicago from Anchorage was
completed in 22 hours.
SEATTLE, Sept. 25. (A*)—A new
first in Alaskan aviation was es
tablished yesterday with the flight
of dairy feed from Seattle to Cor
dova by Cordova Airlines.
The feed was flown for Vina
Young, Alaska dairy operator, as
a result of the maritime strike.
Russians Fire On
And Seize Danish
Fishing Boat
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 25. oF)—
A Danish fishing cutter returning
from a fishing expedition in the
Baltic, reported today they had
been intercepted off the German
coast by Russian naval craft,
taken ashore and detained for sev
eral days.
The fishermen said they had
run in close to the coast to avoid
a storm nad were trying to help
a German cutter in distress when
the Russians fired warning shots
from machine guns across their
bows.
Taken to Warnemuende. they
were questioned, their vessels
searched and everything resemb
ling weapons thrown overboard
by the Russians before they were
released. The fishermen declared.
and for cotton linters "are the last
of the adjustments in view now,"
Anderson reported as he left the
microphone.
Anderson did not deal with
plans of the meat industry to pe
tition him for removal of price
control or with the reports of
farmers holding their produce in
hope of higher prices.