VOL. L. No. 110_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1948_PER COPY 15<*
NEWS IN BRIEF
HOLLYWOOD, (/Pi — The fact
that Bob Hope changed writers has
nothing to do with this gag.
The comedian was rehearsing
for his new radio show. He had
^just come from dinner. Suddenly
he gasped for breath.
For once there wasn’t a funny
crack from writer, cast or press
agent. They called a doctor from
the emergency hospital, who re- j
moved a fish bone from Hope’s j
throat. Hope recovered and went
*on with his usual gagging.
MOSCOW, (/P)—Eric A. Johns
ton, president of the motion pic
ture association of America, ar
rived in Moscow by air Saturday.
‘‘I have come here to try to sell
some pictures,” he told reporters
at the airport.
He added that he hopes to see
* prime minister Stalin. He last saw
Stalin on a trip to Russia in 1944,
when Johnston was president of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
BOSTON, (/P)—Five iron lungs
were flown from Massachusetts to
Lost Angeles to help combat an
outbreak of infantille paralysis.
Two more are to follow.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman for the second straight
weekend cruised nearby waters on
the yacht Williamsburg preparing
for a campaign tour—this time all
the way to the west coast.
With aides he was going over
the rough outlines of the main
speeches he will make at Dexter,
la.; Denver, Salt Lake City, Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
CLIFFSIDE PARK,, N. J., (/P)—
She was his only daughter and Ar
’ thur C. Spout didn’t want to miss
her wedding.
The Hoboken banker however,
was too ill to attend the Saturday
church ceremony. So, the Rev.
John A. Clark went with Gladys
Spout and her husband, Helmut E.
Schdank, that night to the father’s
bedside. There the wedding cere
mony was repeated.
Spout, ill of pleursy and phle
bitis, joked with the young couple,
waved them off for a wedding trip.
Yesterday, Spout died.
9 WASHINGTON (/P)—William J.
Wagner, trading as Alaska Broad
casting Co., Sitka, Alaska, has
asked communications commission
authority to build a standard
broadcast staion. He asked author
ity to operate on 1400 kilocycles,
250 watts day and night.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—David Jai
ment, 27, a carpenter, was electro
cuted Friday when a broken high
tension line dropped to the alum
inum roof upon which * he was
working. Jaimet was employed by
the Morrison-Knudsen company.
Originally from Fullerton, Neb.,
he came here two years ago after
serving in the army.
OTTAWA, (/P)—A. U. S. naval
plane carrying five persons, two of
them classed as “very important”
is missing between Churchill, •
Man., and the Pas, the U. S. em
bassy said today.
Boeing Strike Over
But Jurisdictional i
Battle Rages
I
SEATTLE, f/P)—The aeronauti
cal mechanics union find.) called
off its 140-day-old strike against
the Boeing Airplane company Fri
day night but complications hit re
turn-to-work plans.
These were the complications:
1. The union appeared headed
into a full-scale jurisdictional bat
tle with the AFL teamsters union.
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2. The company placed a ban on
rehiring of “a small number of
subversives.”
3. Boeing said it will try to re
employ the rest'of the strikers as
rapidly as possible but indicated
that expansion of assembly opera
j tions will have to await stepped
up production in the shops. The
union voted to return to work to
day.
The company has been hiring all
workers who would pass through
| the picket lines and has more than
8,000 production workers on the
job. Some 14,800 went out on strike
April 22.
The strike was called in support
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Employers Signing
With Truck Union
NEW YORK, (£>)—Striking AFL
| truck drivers continued their in
roads against a once-solid em
: ployer front, signing additional op
erators to their modified wage de
mands.
The agreements, reached indi
vidually with the trucking con
cerns, further loosened the 11-day
tieup which had threatened" the
metropolitan area’s supply chan
nels.
John E. Strong, the striking lo
cal’s president, said that 285 op
erators, employing 2,278 of the
unions 9,400 struck members, had
signed contracts accepting the
scaled-down terms.
More than 120 firms agreed to
terms Friday, some within an hour
after the strikers decided to lower
their wage increase demands from
25 cent sto 17V£ cents an hour.
Coast Guard Res
cue Fishing Crew
SEATTLE, (/P) — The stranded
crew members of the fishing ves
sel Caledonia, wrecked last Mon
day on Icy Point on the Gulf of
Alaska, and two coast guard res
cue parties were taken aboard the
cutter Citrus Friday afternoon, the
coast guard announced.
A radio message said the 13 men,
eight from the fishing boat, board
ed the Citrus At Kaknau Cjeek,
Palma Bay, and that all were in
good shape. The first coast guard
party of two men was also strand
ed when their lifeboat swamped,
and later three more coast guards
men went ashore with supplies.
Lieut. Ralph Burns, the Citrus
commanding officer, radioed that
the party would be put ashore at
Hoonah, for transfer to another
boat.
Nome Must Have
Another lioat
NOME, </P)—Groceries were be
ing rationed in Nome Saturday as
the Northwestern Alaska Chamber
of Commerce appealed to striking
maritime unions and government
officials to arrange shipment of a
boatload of winter supplies.
Stores already have reported
they are out of potatoes. One bak
ery was closed down because of
lack of flour and the only other
bakery is putting out a limited
amount of bread which is not
meeting demands.
Stores said that groceries put out
on a rationed basis may last a few
weeks.
The Chamber addressed its tele
gram to Harry Bridges of the CIO
longshoremen, President Truman,
Territorial Governor Ernest
Gruening and the Seattle chamber
of Commerce.
It said “This section will be
without many necessities of life in
the next few weeks.” The chamber
asked that one ship be permitted
to bring in winter supplies about
Oct. 1, “Since we are closed in for
seven months each year.”
“We must have a boat about Oct.
1.” the telegram said, “to bring
merchandise not available before
that time from the various sections
of the west and midwest states.”
Communists Will
Seize Berlin
On “X-Day”
(By Richard Kasischke)
BERLIN, (/P)—A Liberal Demo
cratic newspaper here said today
“X-Day” for achieving seizure of
Berlin#,has been fixed for some
time after the November Presi
dential elections in the United
States.
The newspaper Montags Echo
asserted the Russians have given
German communists orders to step
up riotous demonstrations to seize
control of the city because Mos
cow wants no four-power settle
ment of the 80-day-old blockade
crisis.
A highly informed source in
Moscow said last night resumption
of four-power talks there on the
Berlin crisis is “quite likely” this
week. The informant made this
prediction after the return to the
Russian capital of Francois Sey
doux, political and diplomatic ad
viser to’ Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre
Koenig, French military governor
in Germany.
Until “X-Day’\ Montags Echo
said, the communists aim to “seize
every opportunity to promote riots,
strikes and demonstrations” to
worsen the local political situation.
Some 120,000 Germans assem
bled in the Russian sector of Ber
lin yesterday to hear communists
harangue the United States. Amer
ican armored cars patrolled the
streets in anticipation of another
march on the allied control au
thority building in the U. S. sector,
but no disorders were reported.
Democrats W ork
To Slop "Stales
Rights” Revolt
(By Jack Bell)
<(/P) Political Writer)
President Truman’s supporters
counted today on a victory in
Texas tomorrow to offset the ■
spreading revolt that threatens to
keep him off several Dixie state
ballots.
Truman forces were primed for
an effort to squash an attempt of
states rights backers to seize con
trol of the party machinery at a
state convention.
The states right party already
has qualified electors for Gov. J.
Strom Thurmond of So. Carolina
and Gov. Fielding Wright of Mis
sissippi.
They will contest the Truman
Barkley ticket for Texas’23 elec
toral votes—sixth largest bloc in
the nation—even if they can’t win
j control of the party machinery.
The Truman camp made no se
cret of the fact it would like a
Texas victory to counteract last
week’s set back in Louisiana.
The state party committees ac
tion there ruling Mr. Truman off
the ballot brought threats of a suit
from the Democratic national com
mittee as well as retaliation
against the Louisiana politicians
involved.
William Primm, Jr., assistant to
national chairman J. Howard Mc
Grath, called the Louisiana action
“flagrantly dishonest and fraudu
lent.” Republicans watched this
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Internation’l News
At A Glance —
—
<By The Associated Press)
India invaded the princely State
1 of Hyderabad today, giving the
unsettled world another cause for
concern.
(RHODES) — Israel, another
fledgling state, was accused by the
U. N. mediator for Palestine,
Count Folke Bernadotte, of evict
ing 8.000 Arabs from three vil
lages in violation of the truce. He
ordered the Jews to readmit the
refugees.
(JERUSALEM) —Jerusalem had
its heaviest daylight gunplay Sun
day in the eight weeks of the
shooting truce.
(BERLIN)—Blockaded Berlin, of
course, remained the main sore
spot. Western sources in Moscow
(predicted a climax in the lengthy
talks over the blockade this week,
perhaps by Wednesday. Either
some sort of agreement or an end
of the negotiations was expected.
The Liberal Democratic news
paper Montag’s Echo said the Rus
sians have ordered German com
munists to seize Berlin some time
after the U. S. elections in Novem
ber. The paper said the huge dem
onstration of 200,000 Germans last
week “removed any illusions com
munists have had about their pop
ular support in Berlin.”
(PARIS)—France’s new premier
Henri Queuille, ordered his minis
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India Invades
l Iyderabad To
Restore Order
NEW DELHI f/P»—Indian troops
invaded the princely state of Hy
derabad from all four sides today.
The declared purpose was to re
store order.
The dominion soldiers, spear
headed with tanks and armored
cars and covered with air support,
advanced swiftly, mostly against
negligible opposition, a govern
ment statement indicated.
A Madras dispatch said Indian
forces striking from the east ad
vanced 40 miles to within possibly
60 miles of Hyderabad City, the
state capital.
The first Indian communique
said her troops made “steady
progress in all sectors.” The bulle
tin said several columns of undis
closed strength penetrated the
state.
Indian planes operated over Hy
derabad all day against what the
communique said were military
objectives.
India asserted disorder is rife in
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Situation Grows
More Tense In
Blockaded Berlin
(By Edwin Shanke)
BERLIN, (/P)—The Soviet mili
tary administration’s official news
paper Saturday accused the west
ern allies of “inciting” Berliners
against Russia and communism.
The entire communist press
railed against anti-communists in
the most abusive terms it has yet
used. It warned that Thursday’s
bloody street fighting, which fol
lowed a huge fmti-communist dem
onstration, might have “serious
consequences.”
The obvious aim was to build up
for a Communist counter-rally in
the Soviet sector and intensify
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Hurricane Hits
Bermuda
MIAMI, Fla., (/P) — Hurricane
winds aoproaching 140 mile an
hour velocity swept the British is
land of Bermuda in the Atlantic
today.
The weather bureau’s storm
warning service at Miami said the
center of the severe hurricane was
only 65 miles southwest of Bermu
da at 10:15 a.m. The storm was
moving north-northwesteward.
‘‘Winds at Bermuda have reach
ed hurricane force and will con
tinue to increase until the storm
passes,” forecasters reported.
Bermuda was braced for the
blow.
COASTAL RAMBLER DUE
TUESDAY MORNING
The Coastal Rambler of the
Alaska Steamship Co., is due to ar
rive on Tuesday morning about
eight o’clock, it has been announc
1 ed by the agent, W. R. Wood.