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VOL. LI. No. 98 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1949 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE i>P)—The nine-week
old strike against North Coast
Greyhound Lines continued yes
terday as Union headquarters an
nounced an overwhelming rejec
tion of the company’s latest offer.
Striking employees rejected the
offer, submitted last week, by a
vote of 349 to 19, the announce
men said.
FAIRBANKS, (yP)—Fred Potter,
78-year-old sourdough, died Sat
urday of a fractured skull received
when he fell down a * flight of
stairs.
He was believed to have been
born in Treadwell, Alaska.
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NEW YORK, (iP)—Mrs. Cornel
ius Vanderbilt, Jr., does not have
polio, as first suspected, Doctors
Hospital reported Monday night.
Tests ruled out polio, but her
ailment had not yet been diag
nosed, a hospital spokesman said.
The pretty, 28-year-old, fifth
wife of the 50-year-old Vanderbilt
was taken to the hospital Sunday
night for observation as a possible
polio victim.
WASHINGTON, UP), The Town
send old-age pension plan is perk
ing up again in Congress.
Backers are more than half way
in signing up the 218 members
necessary to force a vote on it in
the House. They had* a pep meet
ing yesterday and organized a
drive to round up the remaining
93 signatures.
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman today nominated Lt. Gen.
Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw to the
commanding general of the air
materiel command of the air force.
VANCOUVER, B. C. UP) — A
Canadian Pacific Air Lines plane
flew directly from Shemya in the
Aleutians to Vancouver last night,
cutting more than six hours from
the normal flying time between
Hong Kong and Canada.
The lines’ “Empress of- Sydney”
covered the Trans-Pacific route
in 29 hours and 55 minutes of fly
ing time.
The direct Shemya-Vancouver
hop eliminated normal routing
through Anchorage.
JASPER, Tenn. (VP)—Mrs. Ray
mond Hix of Whitwell, Tenn., has 1
given birth to her fourth child in
less than a year.
The stork made only two trip's
—twins each time.
A boy and a girl, both reported
doing fine, were born Sunday.
The first set, also a boy and a girl,
was born Sept. 10, 1948.
Hix, a packing house employee,
and his wife have two other chil
dren. one two years old and the
other four.
ROME, i(iP) — A group of boys
went exploring yesterday in an
abandoned ammunition dump out
side Rome.
They found a round, rusty ball
of metal and had lots of fun roll
ing it about—until the hand gren
ade exploded.
Marcello Cimini, three, and Na
tale Cordiali, five, were killed.
Two others were injured.
Bridges Asks
Negotiations To
‘Start from Scratch'
HONOLULU, </P) — Longshore
men and waterfront employers
met across a peace table today in
a new effort to end Hawaii’s 109
day CIO dock strike.
The agreement to resume direct
negotiations developed with dra
matic suddenness during a confer
enct Gov. Ingram H. Stainback
arranged in his office yesterday.
Almost immediately officials of
Hawaii’s seven struck stevedoring
firms and leaders of the ILWU be
gan meeting. The first session
j lasted two hours.
R e s u mption of negotiations,
made at the suggestion of ILWU
president Harry Bridges, was on
the basis of starting “from
scratch.’’ The stevedores struck
May 1 for a 32 cents hike in their
$1.40 hourly pay.
The talks came on top of these
maneuvers in court and on the
waterfronts of Hawaii and the
mainland.
1. Circuit judge Edward A.
Towse ordered a contempt action
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Germans Warned
i
Don’t Abuse
New Freedoms
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Secretary
of State Acheson warned the
Western Germans today against
abusing the freedoms permitted
them by the western occupation
powers.
Acheson sounded the warning in
a news conference statement of
Sunday’s elections in Western
Germany. He hailed the results as
a “victory for moderation and
common sense.”
He noted there had been sharp
criticism of the occupation powers
during the election campaign. He
Seattle Banks
Turn Down Loan
To Alaska
JUNEAU t/P)—Territorial treas
urer Henry Roden said the million
dollar loan he negotiated for Alas
ka has failed. Announcement
brought conflicting statements as
to the reason.
Roden charged failure to com
plete the loan was brought about
by “entrenched” business interests
which used “legalistic skulldug
gery” in hope of “bringing Alasa
to its knees and do its bidding.”
I
In Anchorage Elmer Rasmus
sen, president of the Bank of
Alaska, said he received a tele
gram from J. F. Mullen. Juneau
banker, saying the cancellation re
: suited from the discovery that
; Territorial indebtedness is $2,500,
: 000 instead of one million and
I
| that it will “progressively mount”
' throughout the year.
In Seattle K. Winslow, Jr., man
ager of the Seattle Trust and Sav
I ings Bank, said he had “no com
ment other than to confirm the
statement made by Mr. Mullen.”
Roden charged that unnamed
industries seek to force the Terri
I tory to hold a special legislative
session to modify or repeal exist
ing tax law’s and enact a sales tax.
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JUNEAU UP)—Treasurer Henry
Roden said there is no new plan
for meeting Alaska’s financial
pinch, after the collapse of the
plan for a million dollar loan from
a Seattle bank. Governor Ernest
Gruening is returning from a meet
ing in Ketchikan. The board of
administration is expected to meet
soon to attempt a new line of fi
nacing.
i -
indicated he wasn’t worried about
that but:
“Abuse of such freedoms may
alienate western sympathies while
failing to serve the best interests
of the German people.”
$7,500 Gives Orthopedic ‘Alaska* Kooni
_
Two executives of Pacific American Fisheries, Archie W. Shiels
(left) chairman of executive committee and former president, and
Philip D. Macbride, chairman of the board, after donating $7,500
to Orthopedic Hospital. Seattle, visit 6-year-old Billy, a patient
from Palmer, Alaska.
Mrs. Truman Guilt
less In Accepting
Freezer As Gift
$
WASHINGTON, — Senator!
McCarthy <R.-Wis.» said yesterday
an employee of the company re
ported to have paid for deep freez
ers sent to Mrs. Harry S. Truman
and a number of other notables
had engaged in “attempted smug
gling octivities.”
McCarthy emphasized that he
does not think there was anything
“even remotely improper” on Mrs.
Truman’s part.
The Wisconsin Senator made j
his statement at the opening of
yesterday’s five per center hear
ing. The Senate investigating com
mittee is trying to find out whe
I ther improper influence with gov- ^
ernment officials figures in the1
activities of persons who charge
fees for help in landing govern
ment contracts.
Albert J. Gross, a Milwaukee
manufacturer, told the committee j
last week that his company sent
deep freezers to Maj. Gen. Harry j
H. Vaughan, President Truman’s
military aide, and a number of
other prominent Washingtonians. !
He said the units were paid for by 1
the Albert Verley Company, a ,
Chicago perfume house.
In a statement to newsmen Sat- '
urday, Vaughan said two old
friends of his—one of whom is as
sociated with the Verley company
and the other reported to have
been associated with it formerly—
gave him seven freezers in 1945, !
and that he in turn made gifts of
them to friends.
Vaughan raid he had one of the
freezers sent to the “Little White
House” at Independence, Mo. A
committee member has said he
was told that Mrs. Truman sent a !
thank-you note for this freezer to
Gross, thinking he was the donor.
At yesterday’s session McCar- j
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Bridges Personally
Defies Hawaiian
Picket Injunction
HONOLULU, f/P)—Harry Bridg- !
es shoved Hawaii’s 108-day CIO
dock strike into a decisive phase
yesterday. The Territorial govern- ,
ment obtained an anti-picketing
injunction. He defied it personal- 1
>y
The next Step was up to Walter |
J. Acekerman, Jr., Hawaii’s attor
ney general. His office said Bridg- I
es, president of the CIO interna
tional longshoremen’s and ware
housemen’s union, might be ar
rested for contempt. Ackerman
said he would determine what to
do.
Ackerman went into circuit
court yesterday to ybtain the in
junction. He acted under an emer
gency law of the Territorial legis
lature. Under this act the govern
ment has seized Hawaii’s struck
stevedoring firms. It plans to op
erate the docks, tied up since the
ILWU struck May 1 for a 32 cents
hike in the $1.40 hourly basic long
shore wage.
The Territory resorted to the
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News of the World
At A Glance —
Tuesday, August 16, 1949
<By The Associated Press'
Victorious conservative leaders
of Western Germany began plan
ning today for a coalition govern
ment.
Calls for talks went out from
Dr. Konrad Adenauer, 75-year-old
leader of the Christian Democratic
Union (CDU> which emerged in
Sunday's elections as the biggest
single force in the new State.
The CDU plans to unite with
smaller conservative parties in a
coalition that will exclude the
left-of-center Social Democrats,
second largest party. The govern
ment probably will be formed
early next week, with Dr. Aden
auer expected to become the first
chancellor (prime minister) in
Germany since Hitler.
German communists reac t e cl
with a surprising tone of concilia
tion to their defeat in the Sunday
balloting. Otto Muschke. one of
their top leaders, said they had a
chance and failed. He indicated
there would be a shakeup in the
communist party, which won only
15 out of 400 seats. The CDU won
139 and the Social Democrats 131.
Alan K. Kirk, U. S. ambassador
to Moscow, conferred for '45 min
utes with Premier Stalin last
night. Kirk described his first
meeting with Stalin as a courtesy
call and said it was a “pleasant
visit.”
Russia has made its ambassador
to Belgrade a deputy foreign min
ister. The announcement made no
mention of a successor in Yugo
slavia, which was denounced last
week as an “enemy and foe of the
Soviet Union.”
The guerrilla radio in Greece
broadcast charges of firing by
Yugoslav border patrols on guer
rillas retreating before the Greek
government’s new offensive in
Northern Greece. Yugoslavia re
cently closed her border with
Greece.
The government in Athens said
mopping up continued in the of
fensive against the guerrillas in
the Vitsi Mountains near Albania.
In China, big American and
British oil companies began mov
ing out of Canton in the face of
the communist drive for the na
tionalist refugee capital. Tlie na
tionalists claimed a counter attack
had driven the Reds out of Nan
kang, 195 miles to the northeast.
Wednesday, August 17, 1949
The United States embassy in
Canton asked the Chinese foreign
office today to guarantee safe con
duct through the nationalist block
ade for the liner General Gordon.
The ship has been assigned to help
evacuate several hundred Ameri
cans from communist-menaced
coastal cities.
Latest reports indicated com
munists were closing in on Nan
hsiung, 155 miles from Canton it
self. The nationalists lost radio
contact today with Foochow, big
port to the north opposite Formo
sa, but announced they were send
ing naval units up the Min River
to its relief.
In Europe, Pope Pius XII eon
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