Mine Workers
Refuse To Renew
2-Year Contract
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officials back at the bargaining
table.
Ching planned to meet yester
day with representatives of the
Bethlehem Steel company in New
York. He also planned sessions
with other major steel producing
companies and hopes to meet later
with Philip Murray, USW union
president.
The two strikes have made idle
nearly 900,000 workers and con
tinuation of the work stoppages
' threatens to idle additional thou
sands.
The biggest threat appears to be
the fabricating steel industry—
the plants that use steel for hun
dreds of articles. Some 500,000
USW workers the employed in the
fabricating plant sand Murray
wants free pensions and insurance
for them as viell as for the 454,000
men on strike.
Their contracts begin expiring
tomorrow. About a dozen firms,
which employ a few thousand
workers, have signed new con
tracts with the union, agreeing to
pay the 10-cent hourly package
recommended by the Presidential
fact-finding board.
Gunfire was reported in the
coal strike. At Harriman. Tenn.,
police chief E. E. Patterson said a
band of armed men shot down the
tires of a coal-laden truck from
a non-union mine near London,
Ky., Wednesday night.
Senate Rejects
Olds Nomination
WASHINGTON, (A3)—A smart
ing 53 to 15 defeat on the reap
pointment of federal power com
missioner Leland Olds yesterday
handed President Truman his
third—and sharpest — Senate re
buff this year on an important
nomination.
Despite the pressure of party
discipline which Mr. Truman mar
shalled behind the nominee, the
Senate refused overwhelmingly to
return Olds to the commission for
a third term.
The vote came shortly after
midnight. It followed weeks of
debate which steadily mounted in
heat and bitterness.
Opponents shouted that Olds is
a foe of capitalism, that 20 years
ago he write articles that helped
promote communism.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson fD.
Colo.) called him “a warped, ty
rannical, mischievous, egotistical
chameleon whose predomin ant
color is pink.”
Senators supporting the nomina
tion countered with charges that
private gas and oil interests were
backing the fight against Olds.
Olds said he had nothing to say
about the Senate’s action beyond
this: “I think everybody knows
where I stand and what I stand
for.”
He told a reporter that he had
made no plans about another job j
—‘‘I just haven’t gotten around to
that yet.”
Early in the session, a Senate
committee bottled up Mr. Tru
MRS. FRANCES GUNDERSON
PASSES ON
Jules Gunderson, mining man
from Rainbow Camp in the Kou
garok, arrived in town, having
closed down camp for the winter.
He has received word of the
death of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Rrances Gunderson, at Snohomish,
who is well known here having
lived in Nome from 1908 to 1918.
She passed away at the age of 76
years, after a lingering illness.
Mr. Gunderson plans to spend
the winter in Fairbanks with
friends.
Monty Ferguson, of the Nome
Grill, who left last week for medi
cal treatment is reported to have
gone to the hospital at Fort Rich
ardson, for a complete check-up.
Monty is a veteran of World War
I.
HOUSING IMPROVEMENT
URBANA, 111. (/P)—The housing
situation at the University of Illi
nois has improved to the point
where the campus ice skating rink
once more is being used for skat
ing. The building has been used as
a dormitory for three years.
I
man’s nomination of former Gov.
Mon Wallgren of Washington State
to be chairman of the national se
crity resources board.
The Senate also rejected the
nomination of Carl A. Ilgenfritz to
be chairman of the munitions
board because Ilgenfritz. a steel
company executive, had accepted
the appoitnment only on condi
tion that he might keep his private
salary.
Sale of Buildings
The Alaska District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, will offer
for sale on October 11, 1949, by sealed bid, the following buildings
and structures:
Over I0(r Qiionset Huts of various sizes
12 K-D Frame Ruildiiigs
5 Single ami Double Cowiii Huts
6 Yak Huts, joined
2o Miscellaneous Sharks
a! Wood Tanks
lo Steel Tanks
Paint. Roof Tar, Lumber and Other Miscel
laneous Structures ami Supplies on Surplus
Leased Land.
The property being offered is located near Marks Air Force
Base, also in the Ordnance-Utilities-Material Yard area, the Old
Hospital area and the Plumbing Supplies area Northeast of the
North-South runway of Marks Air Force Base, near Nome, Alaska,
and may be inspected by making arrangements with the Resident
Engineer, Mr. William Brown, Nome, Alaska.
Bids will be opened at 3:00 P.M., 21 October 1949. Purchasers
will he required to remove the structures from the premises.
Specifications of sale, bid forms and other information may be
obtained at the office of the District Engineer, Alaska District, Real
Estate Division, Anchorage, Alaska, and from the Air Installations
Officer, Marks Air Force Base, also the Resident Engineer, Nome,
Alaska.
Catholic Information
We all have pull in heaven—
I knew the Governor, so I wrote
him direct for a legitimate person
al favor.
I knew the Governor’s mother.
I knew he loved her. I knew she
therefore had honorable influence
with him. So I wrote her to plead
my cause with her son.
I knew, too, an old family ser
vant whom the Governor had pen
sioned for life for services worth
ily rendered. So I wrote him to
say a word in my behalf.
Now the Governor alone could
grant by request and perhaps my
plea to him would have been all- i
sufficient. But it couldn’t hui-t to j
use all legitimate “pull” in his ,
mansion. It seemed wise. I did it.
God alone can provide for the
needs of His creatures, so every
Catholic prays to Him first, in
adoration and supplication. But in
our Father’s house there is Mary
whom He honored above all His
ci'eatures by inviting her to be
come the mother of His Divine
Son, -and at whose request Christ
performed His first earthly miracle
in Cana of Galilee. In our Father’s
house there are the saints—ser
vants of God who are pensioned
for eternity for services worthily
rendered. Mary, His Mother and
ours! The saints, His brothers and
j sisters, and ours.
Pull in Heaven? Why it’s tre
mendous! It’s there waiting for us,
if we but ask. To us Catholics it
would seem wasteful; it would
seem unreasonable; it would seem
downright nonsesse not to use all
possible heavenly pull to back up
our requests to God Almighty.
“Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us!” “All ye holy Saints
of God, pray for us!”
There is equally sound logic be
hind every Catholic belief and
practice. Or purpose in publish
ing these articles here each week
is not necessarily to persuade our
readers that our beliefs are right,
but rather to persuade you that
they are not unreasonable, not su
perstitious, not evil. It is only by
creating such mutual understand
ing and trust that democracy can
be made to work in our commun
ity. our country, our world.
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