Plumbers Vote
To Go On Strike
At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—'The fourth
crippling strike of the year
threatened vital construction pro
jects here today. Members of the
AFL plumbers and steamfitters,
Local 367, voted overwhelmingly
Friday night, 69 to 11, to go on
strike Wednesday in support of
wage and other contract demands.
The union is seeking a 50 cent
hourly increase, to $3.50, with
double time for all overtime in ad
dition to board and room on all j
jobs outside the city limits. The j
Master Plumbers’ Association has
offered $3.15.
Local construction work has
been crippled earlier this year by
strikes of the painters, electricians
and carpenters unions.
Meanwhile business agent Sam
Odle of Local 367 offered terms to
eight Stateside contractors who
have major projects in this area
threatened by next Wednesday’s
strike call.
Odle said he was sending regis
tered letters to these firms, offer
ing to agree to supply them with
men during the strike at the pre
vailing $3 per hour.
But, he said the firms must
agree to accept a wage scale even
tually reached by the local and j
the Anchorage Master Plumbers,
and pay this scale retroactive to
July 26.
“It is not our intention to in
convenience those contractors not
signatory to local agreements, nor
do we wish to hinder progress on
vital military or civilian installa- ]
tions,” he said.
If the firms agree to retroac
U.S. Commissioner
Killed In Accident
At Wrangell
WRANGELL, (/P) —Richard J.
Suratt, 55, U. S. commissioner
here since 1936, was found dead of
a knife wound in his home Satur
day night. A trail of blood led to
a spot where he had been clearing
brush.
U. S. marshal Jack Krepps said
Suratt apparently slipped and fell
on a two-foot machete (a large- j
bladed knife) that investigators |
discovered lying on the ground.
Mrs. Suratt found her husband’s i
body on the floor of a hallway
when she returned home about
midnight.
A coroner’s jury went to the
scene yesterday and an inquest
was scheduled for tomorrow on
the arrival of federal judge Geo.
W. Folta and J. W. Lievers, clerk
of his court. They are en route
here by ship from Ketchikan.
Suratt came to Alaska more .
than 30 years ago as a wireless
operator. He was an authority on
Alaska history, was the author of
a number of articles appearing in
national magazines, and was a
former cameraman for Pathe;
Newsreel. <
I
tive payment, he said his local
would furnish plumbers, but not
to six Anchorage master plumb
ers’ jobs.
The Master Plumbers’ spokes
man, Keith Youth of the Anchor- j
age Installations Co., said “a
strike now will hurt others. For
instance, my firm will have to lay
off teamsters, laborers and ware
housemen.”
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SERVE EVICTION NOTICES
ON SERVICEMEN'S WIVES
SPOKANE, Wash. (/P)—Eviction
and rent increase notices have not
been uncommon in Spokane since
rents were decontrolled a year
ago. But word of at least six being
served in the past three weeks has
Mayor Arthur Meehan up in
arms. He has threatened to recom
mend reinstatement of controls.
The six, he said Friday, were
handed to wives and families of
Spokane air force base fliers
whose B-29 superforts are en
gaged in the Korean war. Six
crewmen have been listed as miss
ing in action. •
“It’s hard to believe that prop
erty owners would take advantage
of wives and children of men
fighting for their country,” he
commented irately.
34 Die In Crash Of
Transport Plane
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C. (jF)—
An air force transport hurtled in
to swampland near here yesterday
and exploded into a blazing fun
eral pyre for 34 servicemen.
The dead included 30 members
of the Tennessee Air National
guard, en route to Nashville from
war games in this area. Four air
reserve crewmen were on the
plane.
Minutes after the C-46 climber
from the municipal airport here
it plunged into the pine-spotted
muckland. The servicemen were
still within sight of the airport
until just before the ship crashed.
Towering, gasoline-fed flames
pushed would-be rescuers back.
When the flames died, white-jack
eted army medical corpsmen be
gan removing the bodies. Late last
night, they had recovered 15. The j
others were trapped in buried,
charred wreckage.
Bits of the big transport were
flung in a 100-yard circle. The
wings were still further away.
There were conflicting reports
MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT
MODERN CLEANERS
A fire at the Modem Cleaners
alerted the fire department early
Sunday morning when the dis
patcher of the City Cab turned in
a fire alarm.
The fire was in the northwest
comer of the Modem Cleaners
building and was brought under
control by the combined efforts of
the Nome Fire Department and
the M.A.F.B. Fire department
Very little interior damage was
done and no clothing was dam
aged, however there was consider
able outside damage.
Owner of the cleaning estab
lishment Paul Mandeville stated
that the cause of the fire is still
unknown but it is suspected that
it was deliberately set by an ar
sonist.
The Mandeville family was at
their summer camp at Dexter at
the time of the fire.
about the crash. Some said the
plane seemed to explode in mid
air. But a pilot who flew over the
Caroline swampland said the ship
didn’t blow up until it struck.
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