Storm Hits North
West; Disrupts
Power, Shipping
'By The Associated Press'
A new storm moved in toward
the Oregon and Washington coasts
Saturday, ending a brief respite
from gale-force winds which had
battered shipping, interrup t e d
power service and caused scat
tered damage in the western part
of the two states.
The weather bureau, which had
small craft warnings up, ordered
'them replaced with storm warn
ings at 8 am. in anticipation of
strong to gale force southeast
winds from Cape Blanco north to
Tatoosh Island and through the
Strait of Juan de Fuca.
As Friday’s blow began to sub
side Friday night, an LCT dis
abled by water in the fuel tanks,
was taken safely in tow by the
coast guard cutter Bonham. The
Bonham found the LCT. wallow
ing without power, after the Aber
deen Victory out of Coos Bay re
ported seeing a blinking light. The
Bonham went to that position and
found the craft which was enroute
from Martinez to Seattle with six
men and a $100,000 cargo aboard.
The tuna clipper Conquest,
which had been drifting helpless
With a broken rudder, made its
own repairs and headed for the
Columbia river.
The storm, moving inland from
the coast, toppled trees over Bon
neville transmission lines, disrupt
ing power in Pacific, Wahkiakum,
and Grays Harbor counties in
Washington. A 40-foot smokestack
blew off a waterfront plant at
Seattle to smash into utility lines
and two cars on the street below.
Portland, despite the 33-mile-an
hour winds, experienced no dam
age except power interruptions.
The weather bureau warned
that flood stages probably would
be exceeded again on the Santiam
river at Jefferson, Ore., and on the
Willamette River at Harrisburg.
THE MONGOOSE, KNOWN AS
a serpent killer, that destroys not
only the eggs and young of these
creatures but also the most veno
mous adult snakes, is not immune
to the snake’s poison, according
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
By its agility and quickness of
eye, however, the mongoose avoids
the fangs of the snake while fix
ing its own teeth in the back of
the reptile’s neck.
, Be they ever so humble, nobody
stays home.
Russia Doesn't
Want To Make
War At This Time
(Continued from Page One)
flown to Stalin’s villa at Sochi on
! the Black Sea after a tour of Mos
! cow to study Russian trade unions
and factories—quoted the prime
minister as saying in a two-hour
i interview:
j “We want as close trade dela
1 tions with Great Britain as possi
' ble. We are interested in the de
! velopment of trade relations be
I tween our two countries.
“The sooner the two states
agree, the better for good partners
in common work.
“Just as the Soviet Union has
always stood for improvement of
political and economic relations
with all countries, so it now stands
for such improvement, beginning
with the United States and Great
Britain.
“If thees countries wish to im
prove relations with the Soviet
Union, they will be welcomed. We
shall be prepared to go forward to
meet them irrespective of what
| the economic setup may be in
| those countries.
tin Washington, Stalin’s re
marks were received with cau
j tious reserve. One reaction was
j that “it will be interesting” to see
1 whether his words are translated
into “more co-operative action”
by the Soviet delegation to the
United Nations.
(American government leaders
have expressed themselves as
] fairly certain that Russia does not
want and will not risk a war at
this time, although they are equal
ly convinced the Russians will
press their aims by every political
means available up to the point of
, an open and formal break with the
United States.*
i Home Fires Burn
j In Bern For Berners
| BERN, Switzerland, (JP) — The
city councilors of Bern sat up and
took notice recently when two
Americans from Berne, Indiana,
dropped in.
They were Elmer R. Nussbaum,
electrician, and Sherwood Sprun
ger, a carpenter, both on vacation.
Descendants of Indiana settlers,
the visitors explained that Berne,
Indiana, was founded about 1840
by immigrants from the Emmen
tal area near Bern, Switzerland.
And to the surprise and delight
of the city fathers, Nussbaum and
Sprunger still spoke the local dia
. lect, “Berndeutsch.”
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Sailings from Seward:
Every third Monday for Ketchikan, Seattle
Next sailing - SS DENALI - October 20. Service to Kodiak-Island
Cook Inlet ports every three weeks - Inquire for details.
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On alternate Thursdays for Valdez, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan
and Seattle. Next sailing - SS ALEUTIAN - October 23.
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On alternate Fridays for Juneau, Ketchikan, Seattle.
Next sailing SS. BARANOF. October 31.
All sailings subject to change without notice.
• Reservations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
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i Lewis' District 50
Union Cannot
Have NLRB Aid
WASHINGTON. </P> — District
50 of the united mine workers,
the catch-all union John L. Lewis
threatens to use anew in waging
an organizational war on rival la
bor groups, is in a tight spot.
It lacks any chance for National
Labor Relations Board support.
The way has been cleared for
all AFL unions to make use of
NLRB facilities if their -leaders
wish, and the heads of virtually
I
all federation affiliates have indi
cated they will take such neces
sary qualifying steps by sign:ng
non-Communist certificates.
But Lewis' refusal to meet any
of the Taft-Hartley act require
ments in his all-out opposition to
the law leaves his District 5G
perched on a shaky limb. It plain
ly will have to fight hard to ho^d
o.i to what it has now, let alone
make inroads on other unions. |
One District 50 official familiar
with the problems involved ex
presses the opinion that Lewis’ I
miscellaneous union will hove to 1
win heavy employer backing to
survive.
That is not to suggest that any
Lewis union would be a ‘’c Jmpany
union.” But it does mean that
without recourse to collective bar- j
gaining elections through the (
NLRB each District 50 union wi1! I
have to depend on overwhelming
strength of numbers in a shop or
plant to convince the boss that it
has the majority required to force
a contract.
BADMINTON
—
All persons interested in play-!
ing badminton this winter call
Gordon Osborne at his shop next
to the Dream Theater.
NOTICE
Reservation for the farewell
dinner given by the people of
Nome honoring Col. John E. Bodle
and welcoming Col. Joel E. Mai''
lory, will close Wednesday eve
I ning. 6 p.m. Register your reser
| vation with A. Polet. The dinner
will be held in the Pioneer Igloo
on Friday evening, October 24,
6:45 p.m. Space limited.
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REAM
THEATER
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Monday and Tuesday
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Wednesday and Thursday
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Robert Dbnat Deborah Kerr
Also "Rhvthf"
‘Quillan Thinks
Airplanes Safer
iThan Automobiles
i _
SPOKANE, bP) — Joe Quillan,
68-year-old Alaskan prospector, is
paying his first visit to civilization
in 46 years and his reaction is “I’m
, going to get back to Klery Creek
as soon as I can.”
i His chief reason for wanting to
get back to his diggins north of
j the Arctic Circle is the automo
i bile.
“Both sides of the streets are
full of them,” he said, “and hun
dreds are running up and down
the middle like the wind. Down
here I’m afraid of getting killed
every time I turn around.”
A good many other things about
civilization are new to him, too.
He said he had his first ride in an
elevator when he arrived in Seat
tle a week ago.
Quillan is going on to visit a
sister, Mrs. M. A: Fleming in
Rochester, N. Y., and he’s going
by plane, which he prefers to an
automobile.
“It’s safer,” he said.
The cornea of a fish’s eye is flat,
and all the focusing is done by
the lens of the eye. In the human
eye the cornea is rounded, and it
performs about two-thirds of the
work in bending light rays to a
focus on the retina.
U. S. Institutions—
Havens Of Safetv?
J
I _
When you think of a hospital,
, school or other type of institution,
J it’s only natural that the first con
sideration to come to your mind
I will be safety.
But are these places safe?
NFPA statistics show that on
the average—each and every day
of the year—there are six school
fires and three hospital and insti
| tution fires in the United States.
These are the buildings that
' house and harbor the sick, the old
and the very young. If any type of
building should be safe, surely
such institutions as these should
be.
In hospitals and institutions,
safety to life primarily involves
adequate and accessible emergen
cy exits; careful housekeeping and
correction of fire hazards; compe
tent personnel on duty at all times
trained to act quickly and calmly
in cases of fire; and protective
equipment, especially automatic
sprinklers.
Improperly installed or faulty
electrical fixtures and wiring and
careless handling of matches and
cigarettes cause almost a third of
all school fires, while proper in
stallation, handling and upkeep of
heating equipment and chimneys
and flues would eliminate another
14.7 per cent of school fires.
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