Russian Blockade
Brings Trouble
In Russian Zone
(Continued from Page One)
luck of supplies which formerly
were obtained from wes ern Ger
many.
The supplies, chiefly coal and
steel from the Ruhr, were shut
off when the western powers
stopped trains from entering or
leaving the Russian zone. This
was a counter measure to the
Soviet land blockade of Berlin,
started late in June.
The newspaper said the Madge
burg strike protested Russian re
quisitioning of occupation zone
foods for Berlin.
The Russians have not denied
persistent reports of food short
ages in their part of Germany.
Shortages were said to be aggra
vated by seizures of stocks to sup
port the Russian promise to feed
the entire city of Berlin, including
blockaded western areas.
The American zone of Germany
had food trouble also. A crowd of
10,000 demonstrated at Hof in Ba
varia against high food prices and
shouted approval of a resolution
calling for a buyers’ strike.
American and British planes
supplying the 2,050,000 Germans
in western Berlin started freight
ing in shoes and cigarettes, as
well as food and coal. They took
in 9.790 pairs of shoes made in
western Germany, and 1,620,000
cigarettes from surplus U. S. army
stores.
The British-Licensed newspa
per Telegraf said the Russians
have sealed off an area of the
Soviet-British border near Salz
wedel and erected rocket guns
there.
East Coast Strike
Called Off Pend
ing Court Ruling
NEW YORK UP)—A threatened '
strike of 60,000 CIO seamen u^s l
staved off early today by an j
agreement with 42 Atlantic and
Gulf Coast shipping companies
for retention of union “hiring
halls” and for pay increases.
The hiring halls—in which the
union picks men for jobs—had !
been the main issue in dispute
between the operators and the
national maritime union <CIO) in
lengthy bargaining. i
This settlement, however, does
not affect the NMU dispute with
the Great Lakes ship owners, or
similar tangles on the west coast,
where a strike is threatened Sept.
2.
National labor relations board
attorneys are confronted by a
puzzler in these other cases.
The east and Gulf coast agree
ment—subject to ratification by
the union membership — was
reached early this morning after
an 11-hour session of negotaiting
committees of the NMU and the
ship owners.
A strike had been threatened
for after Sept. 2, when federal
court cooling-off injunctions ex
pire.
The agreement gives boatswains
a wage increase of $25 a month
and ratings an increase of $12.50
a month.
It provides that the status quo
on the hiring halls shall be pre
served until a court of “compe
tent jurisdiction” determines whe
ther the hiring system is legal
under the Taft-Hartley act. The
operators have contended the act
bans the system.
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Operators Declare !
Krug Does
Endorse Traps
KETCHIKAN, f/P> — A spokes
man for salmon trap operators
said yesterday official Congres
sional records “clearly substanti
ate” their use of secretary of in
terior J. A. Krug’s name in an
election controversy over fish
traps. !
Fred Gunderson, chairman of
the committee of Alaska trap op
erators, replied to criticism by I
William E. Warne, assistant sec
retary of interior, in connection
with newspaper advertisements J
by operators prior to the Oct. 12
elections. Alaskans will vote at
that time on whether they want
salmon traps abolished or retain
ed.
Gunderson said Krug wrote
Senator Vandenberg on June 11,
1947, that “the fish and wildlife j
service is convinced that the trap
is an efficient form of fishing gear
and is no threat to the conserva
tion of salmon.
j Saying the operators “did not
pretend to have Krug’s blanket
endorsement of salmon traps,”
Gunderson’s statement added:
; “In the advertisements pub
. lished in Alaska newspapers we
[claim that Krug believes traps do
1 not threaten future salmon runs.
I
Our source material is clearly a
matter of public record.”
Warne had contended the ads
wei*e misrepresenting Krug’s
stand.
Sourdoughs Talk
Of Steaks And
Possible “Rush”
VANCOUVER, B. C., </Pi -
Steaks and stakes were the topic
of talk yesterday among the 600
odd chechakos and sourdoughs
here as they hitched packs to
leave leave the scene of the 50th
anniversary of their gold rush
along the Klondike trail of '98.
The first topic was the Canadi
an government’s lifting of the em
bargo of beef to the United States.
The price of steaks was on the
rise here, but that, said the old
timers, “is just old stuff to us.”
“Steers I bought in Calgary in
July, 1897 for $4.25 per hundred
weight fetched m^ $125 in Daw
son Creek”, said oldster Stan
Cameron, now living here.
“I cleared $25,000 on 54 head
■ of cattle and 15 horses.”
* ) The second topic was the re
i port that a uranium deposit was
j
I discovered in the Bridge River
j area, 120 miles north of here.
The old-timers wound up a
three-day international sourdough
re-union during the week-end.
: They came from all over Canada,
the United States, and even from
Europe, to swap yarns with the
boys who rushed to the end of a
! golden rainbow.
When Thomas Elliott of the B.
C. and Yukon chamber of mines
declared yesterday “There- is a
small scale rush into the Bridge
River area already,” some sour
! doughs wondered if there might
j be another glorious trek.
Conductor—How old is this
( boy?
Mother—Four.
Conductor—How old are you
sonny?
Boy—Four.
Conductor—Well, I’ll let him
ride free, but when he grows up,
i he’ll either be a liar or a giant.
Irregular Carriers
Fight Fur Life
SEATTLE, </P) — Members of
the Independent Air Carrier Con
ference are meeting here to map
what thy say will be a fight on a
national scale to keep the non
scheduled air transport industry
from extinction.
John J. Klak, general counsel
for the IACC, said the meeting
was precipitated by a recent civil
aeronautics board order calling
lor an investigation of all “large
irregular air carriers” to check on
violations of federal air commerce
rules.”
The meeting was called for
Seattle, he said, because two non
scheduled airlines operating from
Seattle to Alaska have been ac
cused by the board with violating
the federal “regularity” ruling.
He explained that the most im
portant charge in the CAB order
for calling an investigation was
that “irregular” carriers have
conducted their operations so as
to set up a “pattern of regular
ity.”
The two Alaska-Seattle firms
are Golden North Airways, Inc.,
1 and Mount McKinley Airlines.
Both use Anchorage as their main
Alaska base.
Klak saicl 17 non-scheduled air
lines are represented here.
U. S. Denied
Soviet Charges
About Witnesses
• Continued from Page One>
school teacher cases, Marshal
said available evidence does not
bear out the Soviet protests.
The secretary said this is true
especially since one of the teach
ers, Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Ko
senkina, by her own actions re
futes the charges.
Mrs .Kosenkina jumped from a
third floor window of the Soviet
consulate in New York last Thurs
day to escape from her hosts.
She now is in a New York hos
pital under treatment for serious
injuries. Marshall has said previ
ously she and the other teachers
involved Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Samarin, would be given asylum
in this country.
The Russians have demanded
that the U. S. hand the three over
;
to the Soviets. Among other
things the Russians have accused
American authorities of conniv
ing in “kidnaping” the teachers,
whose own claims are that they
prefer to live here rather than go
back to Russia.
Marshall said a note answering
the Soviets is in preparation,
based on reports from authorities
1 in New York City.
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