EH NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. XL1X, No. 77. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, 35. 1947 ’ 7 FRIDAY JUNE 27 1947
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NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW (VP)—A Tass dispatch
from New York about the new
Hartley-Taft labor law in the
United States was printed here
yesterday under the headline:
r “Step towards Fascism.”
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NEW YORK, (/P)—The genera*
federation of women’s cluoa de
feated a resolution yesterday
which “strongly urged continu
ance by the United States of an
equitable rent control program.”
The resolution was supported
by Mrs. William A. Smith of the
Alaska federation who said “rent
control has been a great help to a
lot of veterans.”
PEARL HARBOR, (JP) — The
brilliant, orange-hued battleship
Nevada, target for the first Bikini
atom bomb, was scheduled to ar
rive here today for intensive ra
diological study.
The navy tugs Chickasaw and
Serrano have been towing the
29,000-ton old dreadnaught for the
past 15 days on the 2120-mile trip
from Kwajalein.
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Seward
has been chosen as a staging area
for transient shipping by Birch,
Johnson and Lytle, construction
company with several contracts in
the Interior.
The company has leased 26
acres and will convert empty
buildings into warehouses.
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FAIRBANKS, Robert Er
nest Mills, 19, whose mother, Mrs.
Mildred Hills, resides in Spring
field, Ore., was killed Monday
when caught in a bank cavein at
the U. S. Smelting, Refining and
Mining Co.’s Ester camp near
here. The body will be flown to
Springfield.
JUNEAU, (JP) — A legislative
salary cut from $12,000 to $6,600
annually prompted the resigna
tion Wednesday of George Sund
borg, general manager of the
Alaska Development Board.
Cathryn Mack, who has been in
the board’s office, was named act
ing secretary.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Comdr.
N. H. Leslie, who now heads the
17th coast guard district of Ketch
ikan, will be transferred to com
mand of the 7th district with
headquarters at Miami, Fla., coast
guard headquarters announced
Wednesday.
At Miami, he will succeed
Comdr. J. E. Whitbeck, transfer
red to comhtand the 5th district at
Norfolk, Va. The 17th district is
being consolidated with the 13th,
with headquarters at Seattle.
LOS ANGELES, “Alaskans
are not to be worried about polar
air attacks,” Robert Ellis, Ketchi
kan mayor and president of the
Ellis Airlines, said here yesterday.
He is helping convert a surplus
navy amphibian into a transport
for his company.
“We had such a scare when the
Japs appeared on the Aleutians
we’d have to see enemy rockets
to be frightened now,” he said.
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| IL S. Charges
: States Used Force
Against Greece
(By Max Harrelson)
LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — The
United States today charged
Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria
with using force against Greece
and advocated employment of
United Nations counter-force is
necessary.
! The American position was
stated before the security council
by Warren R. Austin, chief U. S.
delegate, as debate began on the
voluminous report of the U. N.
I Balkan investigating commission.
Austin told the council that it
may have to resort to counter
measures of the strongest possible
kind if Yugoslavia, Albania and
Bulgaria continued “using force
against the territorial integrity
and political independence of
Greece.”
Under the U. N. charter the
council may call upon members of
the world peace organization to
make available whatever forces
! are needed to preserve peace,
pending creation of the permanent
i U. N. global police force, which
now is under consideration.
IU. S. Government
I “Solidly Behind”
: Aid Program
—
WASHINGTON (£>)—'The world
received assurances yesterday on
: the eve of the critical Molotov
Bevin-Bidault economic confer
ence, that the American govern
ment is solidly behind secretary
of state Marshall’s proposals for
I European recovery based on self
help.
Diplomatic officials were con
cerned for a brief period last Wed
nesday that the Paris conference
| might be considerably upset by
! some evidence to the contrary due
to comments on the Marshall plan
by secretary of the treasury Sny
der.
Snyder himself, however, clear
j ed away this concern by (1) in ef
| feet endorsing the recovery pro
, posal and (2) declaring that his
earlier statements “should be no
wise interpreted as disagreeing in
any respect with the comments
made, by secretary Marshall at
Harvard."
Marshall first launched his pro
posal in a speech at Harvard uni
versity June 5.
The possibility of an apparent
conflict between the two members
of President Truman’s cabinet
most concerned with foreign fi
nancing was regarded here as a
potential threat to any real prog
ress in the Paris meeting. The
great issue there is Russian coop
eration in a joint European recov
ery program.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)— The fed
eral works agency advanced $63,
300 to the City of Fairbanks, to
day to work out plans for an in
tegrated municipally-owned util
ities system estimated to cost
$3,500,000.
| Truman Vetoes
Another Major
! Legislative Bill
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WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Truman yesterday vetoed the wool
price support bill because he said
it would have “an adverse effect
on our international relations.”
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The veto was sent to the Senate,
1 where the bill originated. Senator
Aiken (R.-Vt.) asked that it be re
ferred to the agriculture commit
tee, which arranged a meeting for
yesterday afternoon to consider
what action will be taken.
Senate Democratic leader Bark
ley (Ky) told reporters there is no
chance that the legislation can be
enacted over the veto. A two
thirds vote in Senate and House is
necessary to override the Presi
dential rejection. Barkley specu
lated that the bill may be allowed
to die in the committee.
The measure would have con
tinued government prices on wool
at present levels and authorized
the President to boost tariffs or re
strict imports if foreign wool or
wool products pushed down do
mestic prices.
“The enactment of a law pro
viding for additional barriers to
i the importation of wool at the
very moment when this govern
ment is taking the leading part in
a United Nations conference at
Geneva” to reduce trade barriers
“would be a tragic mistake,” Mr.
Truman said.
He added in a message to Con
gress:
“It would be a blow to our lead
ership in world affairs.
“It would be interpreted around
the world as a first step on that
same road to economic isolation
ism down which we and other
countries traveled after the first
world war with such disastrous |
consequences.
“I cannot approve such an ac
tion.”
The veto was the third major
one this Congressional session.
He previously had vetoed a tax
reduction bill and the Taft-Hart
ley labor bill.
Congresmen
Musi Cut Speeches
WASHINGTON, (A>)—If the pa
per shortage doesn’t ease up soon,
Congress members may find it ad- j
visable to cut down on their
speech-making.
The appropriations committee
informed the House of this dire
prospect yesterday.
It said the government printing
office reports it is getting just
barely enough newsprint paper to
print the Congressional Record
and sees no chance for increased
supplies. The record prints the
speeches and proceedings in Con
gress.
A special session of Congress,
printing office officials said, might
lead to a “great difficulty” in
printing the record.
Fewer speeches would save
money.
The officials told the committee
it costs an average of $71 a page
to print *the record.
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“Congress Respon
sible For Rising
Living Costs”
WASHINGTON, UP)—The CTO
blasted at Congress yesterday for
failing to check rising living
costs.
Instead, the CIO contended,
Congress has “worked in the op
posite direction.”
The labor organization urged
immediate creation of, a federal
investigation board with the job
of shedding light “upon the un
warranted levels of many prices.”
It said that “by the use of public
pressure and exposure of profit
eering, we may be able to force
lower prices.”
And, the CIO added, if “increas
ed foreign demands (for food
| clothing and machinery) and crop
failure continue . . . this will re
i
quire that we re-establish price
| control and a rationing program.”
The CIO blast was laid down
by Emil 'Rieve. a CIO vice presi
dent, in a statement prepared for
the joint Congressional commit
tee on President Truman’s econo
mic report. This group, which also
j came in for sharp criticism by
Rieve, is studying suggestions on
how to stabilize the nation’s econ
omy.
Earlier Senator Flanders (R.
Vt.) suggested that President Tru
man urge voluntary meat ration
ing to help check what the law
maker called a “really serious”
living cost spiral. He is a mem
ber of the economic report com
mittee.
Congress To Cut
Own Budget
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The House
appropriations committee recom-1
mended yesterday that the legis
lative establishment do some cut-,
ting on its own budget for the fis-1
cal year 1948.
It sent to the House floor a
$55,057,505 appropriation bill to j
finance the legislative establish-1
ment for the year beginning Julyi
1. The total is $21,245,572, or 27.7 j
per cent, below budget estimates j
and $7,373,690, or 11.6 per cent,!
under current fiscal year funds.
The cut is larger than the com-1
mittee has recommended for some
other federal agencies, although j
not the largest to date.
The cut in funds for actual op- j
eration of the Senate and House—\
major component parts of the leg
islative establishment—is less than
three per cent below budget es
timates.
JULY 4TH CELEBRATION
COMMITTEE NAMED
At the regular meeting of the
Nome City Council Monday, June
23, Mayor Dunbar appointed
Councilmen Bronson and Ander
son to handle the July Fourth
celebrations. This committee is al
ready underway making prepara
tions for a “rootin’ an’ tootin’
celebration” and asks the public
to co-operate in participating end
subscribing towards this annual
event.
Japan Must Be
"Supervised" For
A Generation
TOKYO. </Pi—General MacAr
thus told visiting American news
paper executives today that Japan
should be “supervised” for “a
generation,” perhaps with the aid
of American bomber and fighter
planes.
The Allied supreme commander
mentioned possible supervision by
the United Nations, but at the
same time, he was quoted as indi
cating that a “great sweep of our
airpower” from Okinawa bases
could protect — or supervise —
Japan.
That MacArthur meant Ameri
can airpower was suggested by
another statement which hinted
he favored United States reten
tion of Okinawa and the Ryukyus,
formerly part of the Japanese em
pire.
The group of publishers and ed
itors spent three hours with the
five-star commander. A member
of the party—J. Loy Maloney,
managing editor of the Chicago
Tribune—gave the Associated
Press a report on MacArthur’s
views on various phases of the oc
cupation.
While advocating generation
long supervision, MacArthur said
he did not believe the military oc
cupation of any country should
last fewer than three nor more
than five years. Little good could
be accomplished in less than three
years, he said, but he feared ef
fects of an occupation beyond five
years.
Proclaim 3-Day
July 4th Holiday
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JUNEAU, (£*)—The following is
a proclamation issued by Gover
nor Gruening on June 25:
“Whereas the Fourth of July,
1947, marks the one hundred and
seventy-second anniversary of our
national Independence Day and
will be observed with fitting cele
brations throughout the Territory
of Alaska;
And whereas it falls upon a Fri
day and the following day, Satur
day, July the fifth is by Territori
al act a half work day, when Ter
ritorial as well as many private
offices and establishments are
normally closed in the afternoon;
Wher^ps the cessation of all
business on that day will afford
opportunity to our citizens to rest
from their labors and fully par
ticipate in the celebrations which
herald again that we are a free
people and that we strive toward
peace and freedom for all peoples;
Now therefore I, Ernest Gruen
ing, Governor of Alaska, by the
authority vested in me by Sec
tion 1761 compiled laws of Alaska
1933, do hereby declare Saturday,
July the fifth, nineteen hundred
and forty-seven, a public holiday
in the Territory of Alaska, and
urge that normal business activi
ties be discontinued on that day
so all the people may participate
in the week end observance of our
national Independence Day.”