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' VOL. L. No. 105NONE, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1948PER COPY 15<t
NEWS IN BRIEF
PORTLAND, </P) — A commit
tee of Portland businessmen will
fly to Alaska to be at the dock
when the first freighter of a new
shipping service arrives at Whit
tier. The S.S. Henry D. Lindsley is
due to sail from here Thursday
evening on the inaugural of the
Coastwise Lines’ new service. It i
is due in Sept. 8.
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KETCHIKAN (/P)—Abner Sund |
of Seattle, a retired tugboat op- j
erator, was charged with man
slaughter Monday for the shoot
ing of Maurice Smith, 18, also of
Seattle. He was released on $3,000
bond. Sund told a coroner’s jury
he and his party were returning
from a fishing trip to Eagle River
Saturday when he saw a move
ment in the brush and opened
fire, thinking it was a deer. He
^ went over and found Smith
wounded in the chest.
Sund said he and his wife have
been touring Southeastern Alaska
for several weeks.
LOS ANGELES, (fl») — The in
fantile paralysis outbreak has
soared to 52 deaths in Los Ange
les county, with 272 patients
confined in the general hospital,
32 of them in respirators.
Dr. Sidney B. Clark of the po
liomyelitis coordinating council
reported that the county has had
1,225 cases since Jan. 1, with 595
of them in August alone.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Secretary
of the interior Krug yesterday ap
pointed three regional counsels
fo rthe bureau of land manage
ment. They are Francis L. Mc
Farren, 44, Albuquerque, N. M.;
Max Caplan, 40, Billings, Mont.;
and Abe Barber, 59, Anchorage.
McFarren and Barber are being
transferred from Washington.
SEWARD (IP), Walter Frost, 44, i
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a welder who drove a truckload
of dynamite over a burning camp
last summer, died of heart attack
at his home near here Monday.
He was living 12 miles from
Kenai. Frost came here with his f
family from Dragerton, Utah, two j
years ago. He was employed as a
mechanic welder by the Alaska
Road Commission. Frost drove the
k explosives-laden truck out of a ;
» commission camp over a flaming
road during a forest fire.
FAIRBANKS, (IP)—The pilot of j
a jet-propelled F-80 army air j
force fighter was killed when his
plane crashed during a routine
training mission 10 miles south of
the Ladd air force base. The pub
lic relations office said the flier’s
identity is being withheld pend
ing notification of his kin.
SEATTLE, (IP)—The top man in
the U. S. coast guard, Adm. Jo
seph F. Farley of Washington, D.
C., will visit Seattle for a week,
starting September 14. The coast
guard commandant is slated to
make a survey and inspection
trip of Pacific Northwest and
' Alaska coast guard bases. He will
be accompanied by Adm. H. C.
Hepheard, the coast guard’s mer
chant marine safety chief.
Railroads Prepare
For West Coast
Freight Embargo
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The rail
roads today prepared to clamp an
embargo on virtually all freight
destined for the Orient from West
Coast ports if a maritime work
stoppage develops there tomor
row as threatened.
Plans for the embargo were an
nounced by Arthur H. Gass,
chairman of the car service divi
sion of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads.
Gass said the embargo is a pro
tective measure to prevent freight
cars being tied up a western ports
in case of a maritime work stop
page. If the work stoppage does
not occur, the embargo will be
withdrawn at once, he said.
Gass said classes of freight ex
empt from the embargo include:
Freight consigned to the army,
navy, air force, marine corps or
coast guard.
Freight where shipping space is
available and for which special
permits have been issued by west
coast representatives of the car
service division of the A.A.R.
Truck Drivers Tie
Up New York City
NEW YORK (/P)—A truck stop
page began in New York today
and a union spokesman claimed it
was halting the movement of all
general cargo in and out of the
city.
Union officials said that some
9,400 members of local 807 of the
AFL international brotherhood of
teamsters, which rejected a new
contract last night, had stopped
work. It claims 13,000 members.
While the city’s division of la
bor relations said city, state and
federal mediators would begin
mediation efforts “early this af
ternoon” to end the stoppage.
New York commercial activi
ties were hard hit by a trucking
strike in 1946.
Two other locals—282 and 816
—accepted a management offer of
a 15-cents an hour wage increase.
Under the old contract truck driv
ers got $85 weekly and helpers
$60 a week.
NWA CHAMBER PLANS
BANQUET MEETING
The board of directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce made plans, last night
at a board gathering, for a gen
eral chamber banquet to hear re
ports on subjects relative to
chamber activities.
It was reported that much was
gathered to help the board from
the general banquet held last
week and that more such general
meetings should be held if pos- j
sible.
Topics reported at the previous
general meeting were the seawall,
Bering Sea fish survey, new hos
pital construction, Arctic Native
Brotherhood co-operative cold
storage plant, roads and hapbors.
Chairmen of these several com
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Egg-Spattered I
Wallace Named
Labor Candidate
(By The Associated Press)
Henry Wallace carried his egg- t
spattered Presidential campaign
further into the south yesterday
while picking up more support in
the north from the American la
bor party.
“We will go on,” the Progres
sive party candidate said after
being showered with eggs and
ripe tomatoes in two North Caro
lina cities Monday; he was due to
visit several other North Carolina
communities on his six-state
southern trip.
In New York, a state conven
tion of the American Labor party
nominated Wallace and his run
ning mate, Senator Glen H. Tay
lor, as its candidates.
The vote came after the con
vention was told by Rep. Vito
Marcantonio, ALP Congressmen,
that President Truman has “a
I sordid record . . . against the peo
ple who toil.”
Elsewhere on the political
fjont:
The CIO’s 51-man executive
; group meeting in Washington
took up the job of approving a
Presidential candiate. All signs
pointed to an endorsement for
President Truman despite objec
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
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Tuesday, August 31, 1948
(By The Associated Press)
(BUCHAREST)— Russia’s com
inform kept the fires kindled un
der Premier Tito of Yugoslavia.
The latest bulletin said Tito j
thought he could “afford to be- J
have impudently” because Tito i
and his followers believe Russia
will never abandon Yugoslavia, j
(LAKE SUCCESS)—The United
Nations security council rebuffed
its Russian president by refusing <
to accept his agenda for an emer
gency meeting to talk over Pales
tine and Kashmir.
(PARIS) — Robert Schuma n n
seemed sure to return to the pre
miership of France. He resigned
as premier 33 days ago and has
been foreign minister in the inter
im under Andre Marie, who quit
Saturday. It will be the 11th
French government in three years.
(ATHENS)—Greek army force
attacked communist rebels near
the Yugoslavia border.
(BATAVIA^) — The Indonesian
socialist party was reported to
have joined the communists in the
Dutch island.
(TOKYO) — Russia released
12,520 more Japanese prisoners.
(By The Associated Press)
(Wednesday, September 1, 1948
Sudden, unexpected death has
taken from Russia today her sec
ond or third most powerful man,
Col. Gen. Andrei A. Zhadanov.
He was an implacable foe of the
United States, the virtual voice of
communism in Russia and the
spearhead of the Russion opposi
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ANS North Star On
Last Trip North
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SEATTLE, <A‘i — The little
wooden motorship North Star,
veteran of the Arctic and Antarc
tic, may be making her final voy
age to the north for the Alaska
Native Service. She sailed from
Seattle last month for northern
outposts.
Acquisition of a newer and
larger cargo ship, the Coastal
Rider, by the government service
was approved by the maritime
commission a report received here
said.
The commission reportedly ap
proved the transfer of the Coastal
Rider from jurisdiction of the
maritime commission to the de
partment of interoir for use by the
Alaska Native Service.
The deal had been pending for
weeks. It was a well known fact
| that the 1,450-ton North Star,
which has been serving the route
for 16 years, was too small to
carry the increased supplies to
Alaskan Indian villages and gov
ernment bases.
The future of the sturdy North
Star is indefinite, officials of the
Native Service said. It is under
stood that the Coastal Rider will
require considerable alteration
for the Native Service trade.
The Rider, formerly operated
between Seattle and Kuskokwim
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To Honor Dead
From Aleutians
JUNEAU, (/P)—Ceremonies are
scheduled Sunday at Sitka to
honor 98 men who were killed in
the Aleutians during the war.
The ceremonies will honor the
war dead whose remains are, or
will be, interred at Sitka.
Governor Gruening will pesent
a wreath honoring unknown mili-1
tary dead and Admiral Joseph
Stika, commander of the 13th
coast guard district, will present
a wreath for coast guard dead.
Many military officials from Fort
Richardson are expected.
Governor Gruenmg will also
make the dedication address at
the opening of the nine-mile road
between Skagway and Dyea to-:
morrow. The ceremony will be
held in connection with the cele
bration of the 50th anniversary of
the gold rush.
Coast Guard Hunts
Missing Fishermen
KETCHIKAN, (/P)—'The coast
guard is continuing a search of
Wedge Island today for three fish
trap men missing since Mondays
storm.
The coast guard cutter White
Holly reported yesterday the fish
ing vessel Northern Pride had lo
cated a skiff and blankets on the
beach at Wedge Island, near
Windy Point, but too late to make
a search. The search was to begin
today.
The men are believed to have
taken to their boats when the fish
traps on which they were work
ing were smashed by heavy seas. >
Many Issues Slill
Hang Fire In
Shipping Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/Pi — An
agreement on the thorny hiring
hall issue appeared in sight yes
terday but a labor peace on Pa
cific Coast waterfront still hung
precariously as the 12:01 Thurs- *
day strike deadline neared.
Waterfront employers and the
CIO international longshoremen’s
and warehousemen’s union still
were far apart on the wage ques
tion, among others.
The employers late Monday
raised their offer two cents to 10
cents an hour straight time and 15
cents overtime in an effort to
forestall the threatened walkout,
but the union insisted on 18 cents
and 27 cents.
An ILWU statement said the
employer offer did not provide
for retroactivity and did not con
tain “the usual periodical wage
reviews.”
On the hiring hall issue, the
ILWU said “an agreement in
principal was reached.”
“The employers are considering
language offered by the union,
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Coast Guard Finds
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Seiner Crew After
Night-Long Search
KETCHIKAN i/P)—Coast guard
searchers found the six man crew
of the Ill-fated seiner Rustler
safe ashore after an all night
search of Southeastern Alaska
waters. A tender is taking them to
Ketchikan. The Rustler is report
ed aground off Ritter Point, where
the crew spent the night after an
SOS boat sinking. The captain is
Jimmy Young Craig. The boat is
owned by the Nakat Packing cor
poration.
Yesterday planes and surface
vessels searched the storm-lashed
Pacific off the Southeastern Alas
ka coast for the crew of the seiner
Rustler, which sank during the
night.
An SOS went* out at 8:15 Mon
day just before the Rustler went
down, which said the crew would
attempt to ride out the gale in an
out-board-powered tender.
Help was asked at once since
there was doubt that the small
open boat could long survive in
the towering seas. The distress
call gave no further information
after listing the seiner’s position.
SHIP NEWS
COASTAL RAMBLER SAILED
AUGUST 28TH
The Coastal Rambler sailed at
noon, August 28th, from Belling
ham, Wash. Its ports of call will
be Larson Bay, Sand Point, King
Cove, Unalaska, Nome, Solomon,
Golovin, St. Micheal and Unala
kleet.
The Alaska Steamship M/V
Terminal Knot sailed at 8:30 a.m.
today for Seattle vit St. Michaels
and other possible stops enroute.
A navy submarine is in the
Nome Roadstead today.
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