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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. L. No. 49. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 23. 1948. PER COPY — 15c
Holy Land Takes
Center Of Inter
National Stage.
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PALESTINE Jew's occupied two
more Arab villages between Je
rusalem and Tel Aviv today while
Haganah consolidated the control
it wrested in a swift attack on the
port city of Haifa.
The attacks apparently were
aimed at protecting the Jewish
food lifeline between coastal Tel
Aviv and the Jewish community
of Jerusalem.
Haifa officials said 105 Arabs
were killed yesterday in the Jew
ish militia’s attack, which struck
after British forces withdrew from
all but the port area. Other re
ports said four Hiaganah men
were killed. Arabs last night pre
pared to usher in the passover
week tonight, the United Nations
political committee again took up
the Palestine question. The United
States is reported to have aband
oned plans to call for a special
international police force for Pal
estine. However, the Americans
are believed ready to insist upon
creation of a truce commission to
carry out the Security Council’s
cease fire order of a week ago.
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan
urged Arab nations yesterday to
send their armies into Palestine
to battle the Jews as soon as the
British give up their League of
Nations mandate May 15.
Washington officials are study
ing tlie possibility that Europe’s
Communists may be compelled to
shift tactics because of their set
back in the Italian elections. The
officials speculated that Russia
may resume post-war efforts for
alliances with the non-Communist (
left-wing, or even may seek a new
meeting between President Tru-1
man and Prime Minister Stalin.
Communism’s methods were
condemned last night by unani-1
mous vote of the 21 nations at
the Pan American conference in:
Bogota, Colombia. The resolution
urged each Western Hemisphere [
nation to adopt measures to com-;
bat Communism and other forms
of totalitarianism.
Italian authorities, enforcing
the post-election peace, arrested
Communists in several areas last
night and confiscated weapons.
In Moscow, newspapers pub
lished dispatches from abroad ac
cusing the United States and Brit
ish of trying to enlist Germans
for military purposes and using
former army generals as consult
ants.
Spring Banquet In
Capitol City Held
By Nor’Westerners
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Har
mony—musically if not politically,
—was a feature of the annual!
Spring Banquet last night of thej
Washington State-Alaska Society.
Not the least of several sur
prises was a quintet composed of
Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.),
Senator Cain (R-Wash.), Rep.
Russell Mack (R-Wash.), Frank
Senate Committee
Gives Go-Aliead To
Alaska Airports
WASHINGTON, —(A3) —A Sen
ate Commerce sub-committee un
animously endorsed legislation to
authorize construction of commer
cial airports at Anchorage and
Fairbanks, Alaska, at a total cost
of $13,000,000.
The sub-committee action was
announced by chairman Capehart
(R-Ind.). The bill must still be
approved by the full committee
before it can go to the Senate
floor.
Capehart said the sub-commit
tee also unanimously approved
an international aviation facili
ties bill introduced by Senator
Brewster iR-Me.). It would place
on a permanent basis the air traf
fic and weather control stations
now operated by the U. S. out
side the continental limits.
The Indiana Senator said in
a statement that approval of the
two projects followed a full study
of the importance of both to na
tional defense.
Commercial aircraft now use
army facilities at both Alaska
communities. The contemplated
airport at Anchorage would cost
$8,000,000 and the Fairbanks air
port $5,000,000. The funds will
have to be appropriated in sep
arate legislation.
The House has approved the
Anchorage project, but is still con
sidering the Fairbanks construc
tion.
Engineers Go To
Work In Boeing’s
Strike-hound Plant
SEATTLE, —'(/P) —Engineering
activity resumed at the strike
closed Boeing Aircraft plant here
today as the walkout of nearly
15,000 union workers went into
its second day.
Only a handful of pickets pat
rolled the gates of the big plant
and adjacent air field as an es
timated 3.000 or more engineers,
office workers and supervisors
entered their offices.
The company estimated only
500 were on duty yesterday after
they had been instructed to stay
home unless called individually.
But the calls were multiplied
today to step up office and en
gineering activity to near nor
mal pace.
There ware -no -indications,
however, of any settlement soon
of the dispute which brought the
walkout shortly after midnight
yesterday. The points of deadlock
were a demand of the Aeronaut
ical Mechanics Union (Ind.) for
a 30-cent hourly pay increase,
disagreement over arbitration pro
cedure proposals and union in
sistence on retention of seniority
provisions.
Bell of Ephrata, and police in
spector Clarence Talley, a native
of Washington State.
The all Pacific Northwest menu
included planked giant Aiaska
salmon.
Fishermen And
Industry Agree
Most Alaska Dist’s
SEATTLE, —(/P)—Contract ag-1
reements between the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union and the Alas
ka Salmon Industry, Inc., are well,
on their way to being settled, Os- [
car Anderson, union leader, said
yesterday.
Anderson said that the union
and the industry had reached ag
reement on all districts with the
excepttion of settling on fishprices
at the Cook Inlet district and
Westward points on the Alaskan
Peninsula.
He said that “We’re not very
far apart” in either case.
The two groups have yet to
consider their agreement for the
large Bristol Bay area.
As the deadline for the Alas
kan fishing season neared, the
i industry appeared well on their
way to settlement with the other
unions in the 75 million dollars
a year industry.
Members of the Machinists lo
cal 79 will meet tomorrow morn
ing to vote approval or rejection
of a proposed contract drawn up
jointly by company and union
negotiating committies.
Difficulties between the indus
try and local 7 of the Cannery
Workers union were also reported
being ironed out. although the
groups have yet to agree on the
; hiring hall issue.
Alaska Coal To Be
Stripped By Firm
(From Portland
PORTLAND, Ore., (>P)_Coal
j stripping north of the Arctic Cir
1 cle in Alaska is planned by a
' company that announced organiz- i
| ation here yesterday.
| William T. Foran, Fairbanks,'
Alaska, said the Alakite Corp., j
! held a claim on coal deposits near
'Cape Lisburne, some 100 miles
north of the circle in the Arctic
Ocean.
Foran, who served as a consult- j
ing engineer for the Navy’s oil
reserve and the U. S. Coal Com
mission survey for Alaska, said
chromite, asbestos and clay min
ing is also under consideration.
He said the coal would be mar
keted in Japan and other west
ern Pacific areas. The minerals
and clay will be sold in the United
States
Foran is vice president and con-,
suiting geologist. Other officers
are Portlanders. They are R. W.
Rish, President, and Michael Lor
ing, Secretary-Treasurer. Portland
will be headquarters of the firm.
Foran is a University of Washing
ton graduate of 1923. j
HOSPITAL NEWS
—
Donors today to the Emergency
Hospital fund:
Robert E. Long $ 25.00 j
Evelyn Yager 5.00
Pioneer Igloo No. 1. 50.00
TOTAL TO DATE $9,179.70
Civil Contempt
Charge Postponed
WASHINGTON, —(Vf^) —Judge
T. Alan Goldsborough today post
poned indefinitely any further
contempt penalty against John j
L. Lewis and the United Mine^
Workers union.
Goldsborough accepted a gov
ernment recommendation that he
impose no further punishment at
this time.
Assistant attorney general Gra
ham Morison said no useful pur
pose could be accomplished by j
new fines against Lewis and the
union now.
Last Wednesdey, Goldsborough
fined Lewis $10,000 personally and
the UMW $1,400,000 for criminal
contempt of court. The contempt
finding was based on their dis
regard of an April 3, court order
to stop the coal strike.
There was also a finding by
the judge that Lewis and the
union were guilty of civil con
tempt.
Today s court session was tor
sentencing on the civil contempt
charge.
Morison told Goldsborough that
85 per cent or more of the soft
coal miners have returned to the
pits.
Therefore, Morison said, he
moved that a civil contempt sent
ence be put off “indefinitely.”
The judge agreed.
Morison said the government is
• “quite happy” over the back to
work movement in the coal fields.
Judge Goldsborough said “The
court is more than happy to know
that the normal situation is being
restored.”
“The court postpones indefin
itely any sentence for civil con
tempt.”
“All right gentlemen,” Golds
borough said without looking to
ward Lewis, who was in his ac
customed place, “the matter is
disposed of, and this court is ad
journed.”
Speculation before the session
was that Goldsborough would let
Lewis off easy this time since
most of the 400,000 members of
his union are back at work.
McKinley Park To
Get Hotel Ti Cabins
WASHINGTON, — </P> —The
nation’s down-at-the-heel national
parks and monuments can be made
spic, span and comfortable at an
additional cost of about $50,000,-1
000 a year for the next several
years, the National Park Service
estimated yesterday.
No such allowances have been
provided for 1948-49, but park
experts hope to get the program
under way in the years following.
In a master plan, the agency
said, among other things:
Mount McKinley Park, Alaska
—a new lodge-and-cabins, or
combination hotel and cabins,
planned for construction at won-1
der lake 80 miles from McKinley,
Park station this year, will be j
built next year. Alaska Reilroad
Company also planning to en
large its hotel at the station; bids
for the project this year were re
jected as too high.
Asks For Alaskan
Canada-lJ.S. Joint
Defense Board
KETCHIKAN, —f/P) —Alaska’s
governor, Ernest Gruening, was
asked today to seek appointment
of an Alaskan to the Canadian
American joint defense board.
The request was ma<^p by Dr.
R. M. MaeKenzie, Democratic
candidate for Senator in the first
division in the Territorial prim
ary election next Tuesday. Gov
ernor Gruening is now in Wash
ington. D.C.
“In view of the growing mili
tary importance of our northern
ramparts,” Dr. MaeKenzie said,
“I feel that an Alaskan should be
appointed to the board.”
He said the future of the nation
may depend on such matters as
the location of Arctic bases.
“I believe the counsel of an
Alaskan adviser,” Dr. MaeKenzie
said, “would be of utmost value
; to the board in formulating de
cisions which may affect the wel
fare of all Americans.”
0>al Miners Take
News of Sentence
Postponement •< )K"
PITTSBURGH. —{#)—Soft coal
miners received warmly today
word that a civil contempt sent
ence against their union and John
1L. Lewis had been postponed.
“That makes everybody feel
good,” said Frank Hughes, presi
dent of the UMW district 3, at
| Greensburg, Pa.
Here is the comment of Mich
ael Honus, district 4. secretary
treasurer in the Uniontown Coal
and Coke region:
“I think it was a wise decision
because I don’t believe John L.
Lewis was guilty. All of our men
are working now. This should end
it.”
Virtually all of the 400,000 bit
uminous UMW miners were back
except in cases where there was
no immediate work. The western
Pennsylvania coal operators as
sociation, representing some of the
biggest producers, expected 95
per cent production today.
Operators as well as union lead
ers expressed confidence the na
tion’s coal production will be 100
per cent by Monday—for the first
time since the miners’ pension
walkout began March 15.
66Are You Donkey
Or Elephant?"
ANACORTES, Wash.,— (/P) —
Paul Luvera, with the best of in
ternational intentions (political),
sent a bit of pre-election advice
to relatives in Italy. His brother,
Conolato, replied:
“Following your suggestion,
most of my neighbors and my
family have agreed not to vote
the Communist ticket.
“I understand you people will be
having an election soon. We all
hope that you and your neighbors
don’t mind if we tell you how
you should vote. By the way,
are you a donkey or an elephant?’*