especially true since the opening
of the Alaska Highway, for thou
sands of cars each year are mak
ing the trip into the Fairbanks
area, down the Richardson and
Glen Highways to the Anchorage
section, with many cars later go
ing down the Haines Cut-off into
the town of Haines in the 1st Di
vision, from where the cars are
shipped by boat to Seattle.
The Nome section seems to me
to be ready for the services of a
Highway Patrolman, and I will
include this item in the budget
submitted to the next Legisla
ture, from my department.
Mr. Hudert, Mr. Stormfeltz and
Mr. Cross of the A. R. C., have
been most kind and helpful in es
corting me over the Nome and
Solomon areas road systems, as
well as the railroad system, and
spme of the adjacent airfields.
It has also been most gratify
ing to have been able to meet with
many of Nome’s civil leaders, so
as to obtain their suggestions and
recommendations.
FRANK METCALF,
Territorial Highway Engineer.
Berlin May Issue
Own Currency To
Halt Confusion
BERLIN (i*P)—Berlin’s city gov
ernment may issue its own cur
rency in an attempt to unravel
the city’s east-west monetary
snarl.
The anti-communist city ad
ministration announced last night
it is debating two plans as a solu
tion to the currency mix-up, re
sulting from circulation here of
rival eastern and western marks.
1. To issue an emergency cur
rency for the city.
2. To make the western mark
exclusive currency in western
Berlin in order to overcome the
difficulties caused by the Soviet
blocking of eastern mark accounts
in the city’s western sectors.
In western Berlin both the
eastern and western German cur
rencies now are legal. In the Sov
iet sector only the eastern mark
is valid.
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NLRB Rules
Against Union !
“Hiring Halls” j
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dustry.
The board found the union, I
president Joseph Curran and six \
other officers guilty of two un- j
fair labor practices against four
tanker companies.
It ordered them to drop their
demands for continuation of the
hiring halls. And especially it or
dered them not to call a strike for
that purpose, as they did last
May.
The decision has these effects
in the muddled maritime indus
try:
1. It greatly lessens the threat!
of a new strike on the Lakes in
September. The board’s findings
are expected to be fought all the
way to the Supreme Court, but
the law permits NLRB attorneys
to seek an immediate court in
punction—if necessary — to en
force the order. Meanwhile new
negotiations were set for yester
day in Cleveland.
2. It foreshadows similar orders
and similar injunctions in any
other case, on the Paific or Atlan
tic coasts, where •naritime hiring
halls might be found to operate in
the same manner as those in the
Great Lakes case.
Hiring hall cases are pending
on both coasts, but the present
order does not deal with any ex
cept the Great Lakes. On the east
coast, where the national mari
time union settled its differences
with shipowners Wednes day,1
both sides agreed to continue,
their existing hiring halls pend
ing a ruling on their legality by a
federal court.
Union hiring halls, widespread j
in the' maritime and construction ;
! industries, are places where a i
union receives job applicants,
signs them up, and furnishes them j
to employers who need them.
The board didn’t find hiring
halls unlawful in themselves—
but only if they operate in such
a way as to favor members of the |
union against non-members. The
board said the Great Lakes hiring ,
halls operate this way because if
union members are available they
are put ahead of non-members.
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Geologist Lost
Twice In Month
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EDMONTON, Alta., (/P)—A re
tired geologist from the Univers
ity of Minnesota, who was lost
and found once earlier this month
is being sought again near the [
Arctic Circle. ' *
The Royal Canadian air force
said however, that lack of com- j
munications probably accounts
for the fact that Margaret Olden
berg has been unheard from since !
last Friday. With a party, she is1
seeking geological specimens near j
Pelly Lake, 200 miles from the |
nearest station.
Miss Oldenberg was reported j
missing Aug. 11 by pilot Ernie
Boffa of the Canadian Pacific
Airways, but two days latr he ra
dioed she and her pilot had been
found unharmed.
STORNOWAY, Scotland, </P)—
Sixteen U. S. jet fighters, home
ward bound from Germany, wait
ed here yesterday for better wea
ther before taking off for Iceland.
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Security Council
Has Emergency
Palestine Session
LAKE SUCCESS, (JP) — The
United Nations security council
decided today to meet in urgent
session on Palestine yesterday
afternoon.
The decision was taken after
the council received a request
from Count Folke Bernadotte, U.
N. mediator, for immediate action
to prevent a breakdown of the
Holy Land truce.
The mediator warned the se
curity council that the situation
in Jerusalem is “gradually getting
out of hand.” He said it is doubt
ful whether the Holy City can be
demilitarized in the near future.
Count Folke Bernadotte, asking
the council for prompt action to
halt the renewed Arab-Jewish
i strife, declared in an interim re
port that the Arabs have accepted
in principle the plan to disarm
regular and irregular troops in
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Counterfeit $10
Bills In Circulation
SPOKANE, </P)—Does Alexan
der Hamilton’s hair look too white
on that $10 bill, friend?
U. S. secret service officials
warned here yesterday that the
phoney $10 bills being circulated
widely in the country may appear
in the northwest at any time.
One way of telling mint-made
from home-made sawbucks is that
Hamilton’s hair is unusually
white on the bogus bills. Agents
said other discrepancies show up
readily when a counterfeit bill is
compared with a real one.
Jerusalem.
“But the Jews, who stated they
did not exclude demilitarization,
have shown no readiness to ac
cept it up til now,” Bernadotte
added.
Under these conditions it would
be necessary to have a “strong
and well-armed internati o n a 1
force” to bring about demilitari
zation of the Holy City, the re
port said.
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