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VOL. XLIX. No. 133 NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF >
SEATTLE, t/P)—Fifty sacks of
flour from “Friends in Alaska” ,
has been contributed through Maj.
Don Adler, Seattle, former Fair
banks resident, to the Friendship
train. The train sets out on the
first leg of its jaunt to Europe to
day.
* ATHENS, </P)—The ministry of
public order said yesterday the
number of refugees seeking safety
in urban centers from guerrillas
has swollen to 310,000, necessitat
ing allocation of $41,000,000 to
• feed and house refugees, most of
them old men, women and chil
dren.
LONDON. The House of Com
mons approved last night without
a record vote a treasury enabling
order imposing a "5 per cent tax
on foreign films shown in Great
Britain as part of the govern
ment’s campaign to save dollars.
MILAN, Italy, (/P)— Four thou
♦ sand workers in the biggest pastry
producing firm in Italy yesteray
began the fourth day of a strike
called to protest the discharge of
an employee who ate two pastries.
NEW YORK, (>Pi — The New
York stock and curb exchanges,
cotton market and other commod
ity exchanges here closed yester
day, election day, but grain and
livestock markets in Chicago and
ft the cotton market in New Orleans
were open, as well as grain mar
kets throughout the country.
SHIMONOSEKI. Japan, </P> —
Two cold storage ships left here
today for the Antarctic to take
part in Japan's second whaling ex
pedition. The whaling ship Daiichi
Maru will leave Yokosuka Thurs
day.
SITKA, </P)—Fifty men directed
* by U. S. Commissioner Ernest
Dennis, started a search today for
Joe Beale, a hunter, who disap
peared on Cruzoff Island two days
ago.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) The first
contingent of troops to participate
in Exercise Yukon was expected
today at Big Delta.
They will take part jn a month’s
Arctic training program 100 miles
south of Ladd Field where last
* winter Task Force Frigid maneu
vered in temperatures down to 60
degrees below zero.
UNIVERSITY, Miss. (/P)—Bar
9 ney Poole, Ole Miss’ big left end,
played in his first losing game in
four seasons — 32 games — when
Mississippi bowed to Vanderbilt,
10-6. He was a member of Army’s
undefeated teams during the past
three campaigns.
NEW YORK, Charlie Col
bert of Hugo, Okla., won $1645 in
the steer wrestling contest of the
Madison Square Garden rodeo,
and it took him less than a minute
0 to do it. The cowpoke tossed four
steers, each weighing about 900
pounds, in a total time of 52.4 sec
onds.
v It took fellow cowhand Shoat
Webster of Lenapah, Okla., 111.4
seconds to hogtie five calves for
which he received $1080. The Gar
den posted $155,400 in prizes.
Former Governor
John G. Winant
Commits Suicide
CONCORD, N. H. (/P)—John G.
Winant, 58, former ambassador to
the Court of St. James, committed
suicide Monday night by shooting
himself in the head with a bullet
fired from a .32 calibre Belgium
pistol.
His private secretary, J. Ber
nard Teulon. said in a statement
issued early yesterday that the
death weapon was one of two pis
tols found in the bedroom where
his body was discovered. The
other, a .32 German Luger._appar
enlly had been thrown against the
wall when he couldn’t find ammu
nition.
Teulon said that Winant had not
been in good health since the sum
mer, but that he h^d continued
work on his memoirs, even com
pleting a section of the second vol
ume Monday.
He ate lunch downstairs, but
had dinner served in his room. No
one saw him after dinner. Teulon
said he died at t’>:20 p.m., about an
hour after the diplomat had fired
the fatal shot into his head. He
' did not regain consciousness, pass
in- away while his personal physi
cian, Dr. James W. Jameson was
administering to him.
Mrs. Winant, who was notified
.1 New York of his death, arrived
at Concord airport in a state of
collapse in a chartered plane early
yesterday. She went immediately
to the family home.
Medical referee Clarence E. But
terfield pronounced Winant a sui
cide and said he had shot himself
, while alone in a bedroom of one
-of his sons/A single shot had been
fired from the Belgium weapon.
(Continued on Page Seven'
NLRB To Throw
Out Many Cases
WASHINGTON, UP) — The na
tional labor relations board paved
the way toay for throwing out
scores or even hundreds of bar
gaining election cases involving
unions whose officers won't take
the Taft-Hartley non-Communist
oath.
On the heels of a decision to dis
miss three petitions by unions of
John . L. Lewis, CIO president
Philip Murray and the CIO furni
ture workers, the board began
sifting some 1,900 other cases with
a view to similar action where ap
propriate.
Just how any of these were filed
by unions which did not comply
with the non-Communist provi
sion will not be known until the
board reaches the bottom of a pile
of affidavits dumped in just be
fore the deadline last Friday mid
night.
As a matter of policy, the board
said in dismissing the first three
cases yesterday, it has to assume
that the Taft-Hartley act is con
stitutional until the courts say
otherwise.
Murray’s steelworkers, who
filed one of Jhese cases and have
21 others pending, had asked the
board to hold up until their law
yers could argue the point.
U. S. Government
Spent $75,000,000
On Canadian Port
SEATTLE. i/P>—The managing
director of Alaska Salmon Indus
try, Inc., declared at Alaska, ship
ping rate hearing here Monday
that an increasing flow of the in- ;
dustry’s traffic is being diverted \
through United States-financed i
port facilities at Prince Rupert, B.
C.
Indicating surprise at the testi
mony by A. S. I. managing direc
| tor W. C. Arnold, one of the mar
I 'time commission examiners, C.
W. Robinson, asked:
“Do you mean that the United
Slates government spent $75,000,
000 on a Canadian port” during
| the war?
“That is correct,” Arnold re
plied.
“To avoid paying the high
freight rates to Seattle,” he said,
“much traffic from the Ketchikan
area is being diverted through
Prince Rupert, the western termin
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II. S. Accuses
Russia Of Failure
To Co-operate
WASHING TON, (/Pi — The
United States, in a new foreign
policy statement, bluntly accused
Russia of failing to cooperate in
efforts to establish peace.
The document, which sets forth
this nation’s position on postwar
problems, declares:
1.—Russia is to blame for fail
ure of the United Nations “to
grasp the fruits of peace and vic
tory.”
z.— J he boviets have Jailed to
make good on wartime commit
ments for the demilitarization and
reconstruction of Germany.
The U.S.S.R. is mainly interest
ed in getting “maximum repara
j tions” from Germany and in set
I ting up German political regime
1 “friendly” to the Soviet.
These and similar charges, most
I of them previously aired by gov
ernment leaders, are summed up
j in a statement entitled “Aspects
' of current American foreign pol
! icy,” issued Monday. Fifty thou
; sand copies are being prepared for
public distribution.
“A basic aim of the United
States,” the report says, “is to
press for the necessary treaty set
tlements which will permit with
drawal of occupation troops from
Germany, Austria, Korea and
Japan and enable all nations of
the world to refurn as soon as pos
sible to a peacetime basis.”
.
FLASH
SEATTLE. (£>) — The Maritime
Commission's Alaska rate hearing
called at the Territory's request,
ended this afternoon in the ninth
day. Attorneys were given until
December fifteenth to file briefs.
The two examiners who conducted
the hearing on the interim rate in-1
crease will submit reports to the
Maritime Commission for a final j
rate revision decision.
Slates Elections
Brin** Many Party
Turn-< )vers
(By The Associated Press'
A series of party turnovers in
mayoralty contests and Kentucky’s
return to a Democratic adminis
tration stood out today from Tues- i
day’s off-year elections.
In Mississippi, where the elec
tion of a successor to the late Sen- ,
ator Theodore G. Bilbo drew na- j
tional attention, the apparent win
ner as counting went on today
was Judge John C. Stennis.
Stennis, 46. who didn’t stress the
; race issue on which Bilbo always
■ campaigned, opened a lead of
4,000 votes over the next man in
a field of five Democrats.
Veteran Congressman John E.
Rankin, who had promised to “out
Bilbo Bilbo” if elected, was run
ning last. He did not give up his
House seat to run for the Senate.
The mayoralty elections though
, buffeted by cross-currents of local
issues, were such that both Demo
crats and Republicans could find
| something to cheer about.
Such things as this happened:
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Britain Swinging
Away From Labor
*
Government
LONDON, i/P> — The political
spotlight swurrg to Scotland yes
terday as 69 cities and towns held
municipal elections regarded by
many observers as a barometer of
public reaction toward the policies
of Prime Minister Attlee's’ labor
government.
The fact that Scotland is pre
dominantly conservative, except
around industrial Glasgow, led to j
predictions that the vote would j
show a continuation of the right
wing trend evidenced Saturday in
local elections in England and |
Wales.
i This swing to the right, which
saw net conservative gains of 621
city council seats and net labor
losses of 652 seats, was generally
interpreted as a reflection of pub
lic restiveness under the increas
ing austerity of life under the la
ter government.
The government, however, dem
onstrated its intention of hewing
closely to the line by beating down
Monday night in the House of
Commons an attempt by conserva
tives and a few rebellious labor
members to annul a month-old
measure authorizing the labor
ministry to channel unemployed
persons into undermanned indus
tries.
The vote was 252 to 144. with
many of the 394 labor members
abstaining.
The motion to annul the mea
sure—enacted under recent legis
lation giving the government al
most unlimited powers t) deal
with Britain’s economic crisis—
was sponsored by Laborite Rhys
Davies, 70-year-old trade union
leader, Davies said compulsory
job placement followed “the line
that the Nazis in Germany and
Italy took when they were in an
economic crisis.”
Freight Kates Are
“Wolf At The Door
Of Alaska**
SEATTLE, i,Ri—George Sund
borg of the Alaska Development
Board, testifying against interim
agreement shipping rates, yester
day likened steamship freight tar
iffs to “a wolf at the door of Alas
ka, taking a bite out of everything
going in or coming out.”
Sundborg was the Territory’s
principal witness yesterday as the
maritime commission completed
the eighth day of its rate investi
gation here.
The inquiry is expected to be
concluded today. One of the com
mission examiners, C. W. Robin
son, left for another hearing in
Los Angeles yesterday afternoon,
leaving Robert Furness to wind up
the Alaska case.
It is scheduled to resume at 9
a.m. in the customs court room at
the federal office building.
Sundborg led through his testi
mony by Alaska's attorney gen
eral, Ralph J. Rivers, made a
lengthy series of charges purport
ing to show that “high rates” are
retarding Alaska's development.
He cited what he said were ac
tual instances in which prospec
tive new industries were “discour
aged” from starting in the Terri
tory because “they knew they
could not succeed in view of high
transportation costs.”
Sundborg said high shipping
costs “tend to prvamid the cost of
living in Alaska,” leading some
Alaska merchants to use their
“landed costs” as a basis for ex
cessive price markups on vital
commodities.
At this point, Ira Ewers, coun
sel for Alaska Steamship company
and Northland Transportation
(Continued on Page Five)
U. S. May Give Part
Of Gold Supply
To Needy Europe
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A propos
al to ship some of America’s huge
gold hoard to Europe in connec
tion with the Marshall recovery
plan is receiving serious consider
ation from top administration offi
cials.
If finally approved by the White
House it probably will be present
ed to the special session of Con
gress November 17 as part of sec
retary of state Marshall’s program
of helping Europe help itself back
to economic health. This program
now is being put in concrete form
by state, treasury and commerce
department authorities for consid
•
eration by President Truman next
week-end.
The essence of the gold proposal
as described by officials familiar
with it is this:
The administration would sak
Congress to authorize a European
stabilization fund of about $3,000,
000,000 to be administered by the
treasury. This would be an addi
tion to the $6,000,000,000 to
$7,000,000,000 in gifts and loans
which probably will be recom
mended to feed Europe and revive
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