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Jury Verdict Says
Kawakita, Nisei,
* Is Traitor
* (Continued from Page One)
The exhausted jury announced
its decision after eight days of de
liberation following 11 weeks of
testimony.
If upheld the verdict could car
ry a death sentence, but U. S.
Atty. James D. Carter made no
demand for it. The penalty could
range as low as five years impris
onment. The trial was reported to
V be the first on treason charges
held west of the Mississippi.
Carter contended that Kawaki
ta’s„acts were of aid and comfort
to the United States enemies.
The government called more
than 30 witnesses, most of them
former inmates of camp Oeyama,
on central Honshu. Kawakita was
charged with striking prisoners,
compelling them to work when
sick, and one one occasion with
participating in ducking an Amer
ALBERT MILLER
FUNERAL THURSDAY
Funeral services for Albert Mil
ler, 75, were held yesterday un
der the auspices of the Poineers of
Alaska, of which he was a mem
ber. Miller died last week from
injuries sustained in a fall at No.
5 Dredge camp.
ican in the camp cesspool.
All these charges the little Cal
exico, Calif.-born Nisei denied.
Kawakita, known to American
prisoners as “the meatball,” was
arrested after being spotted in a
Los Angeles store by a former G.
I. prisoner, William L. Bruce, of
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
(Editors note: The Los Angeles
Kawakita treason conviction story
was the last written by Lindsley,
who was stricken shortly after
ward with a heart attack and
died. Lindsley, who saW wide
service in the Pacific as a war
correspondent, including Japan
'where Kawakita’s brutalities
against American war prisoners
were committed, covered the Ni
sei’s trial from the start.—(/P)>.
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military cargo.
Bridges said, “Only the dead
will be worked,” referring to fu
neral ships bringing home war
dead.
“We offered to set up a commit
• i
I tee to work perishables but em
ployers wouldn’t have any” he
added.
The Pacific American shipown- i
ers said the strike would threaten
the economy of Alaska and Ha
; waii and would seriously hamper
the European and China aid pro
grams.
Bridges warned his union mem
bers to prepare to pound the wa
terfront pavements in picket lines j
for four to six months.
In Washington, President Tru-1
' man said the government was
powerless to act further except
'through negotiation. A federal
court injunction banning the
strike for an 80-doy cooling off
period expired yesterday as the
strike began.
The President told a news con
ference the administration is still
trying to settle the dispute by ne
gotiation but that he has no emer
gency powers left.
The waterfront employers asso
ciation and Pacific American
shipowners association declared
survival of the industry was at
stake.
They announced they no longer
would deal with any union whose
officers refused to file non-com
munist affidavits with the nation
: al labor relations board. Such af
fidavits are required to qualify
, unions for NLRB services. Brid
ges has refused to make such an
affidavit but said he was willing
to refer the question to the union
membership.
He told 6,000 cheering long
shoremen losing their strike
would put the union out of busi
ness. Discussing negotiations
which collapsed Wednesday night,
Bridges said:
“I crawled on my hands and
knees and all I got was a spit in
eye. We will prepare for a four to
six months’ strike now. There will
be no more talks with the employ
ers except on our terms.”
Four other unions backed the
longshoremen with pledges of
, ‘‘all for one, one fo rail.”
The federal conciliation service
tried to get negotiators back into
joint sessions yesterday but fail
ed. Bridges said employer evi
dence of ‘‘intention to negotiate in
good faith to end the strike” was
a union requirement before talk
ing further.
Longshore employers withdrew
a 10-cent-an-hour wage hike of
fer and a proposal to continue
with the present union-named dis
patchers at hiring halls until the
supreme court determines whe
ther they are legal. In any new
talks employers will go back to
their Original offer of a five-cent
wage boost and an impartial dis
patcher, the announcement said.
NEW HOTEL RAPIDLY
NEARING COMPLETION
With completion of its exterior,
the imposing building on the cor
ner of First Avc., and B Street is
fa^t becoming the most modern
appearing building in Nome.
The structure, presently occu
pied by May's Bar, is being con
structed for a new hotel for May
i Bale, by contractor Bill Gillis,
, who states that although the
building is very nearly complete
nfi the outside, the finishing work
inside will take possibly a couple
of months more.
Strike Also
Ties Up Barg es
SEATTLE, (/P)—Hopes of main
taining large-scale barge service
to Alaska in the event of a pro
longed steamship tie-up were
dashed yesterday with the an
nouncement by a major barge line
that it “will shut down if the
coast shuts down.”
The announcement came from
the Alaska Freight Express.
Earlier, the Griffiths & Sprague
Stevedoring company, which han
dles cargo operations for the
barge firm, announced the sign
ing of a two-year contract with
the CIO longshoremen.
The stevedoring company was
one of the independent Seattle
waterfront firms to sign such con
tracts. The others, none affiliated
with the waterfront employers as
sociation, were G & S Handling
company and the Dahl Transpor
tation company.
The latter firm operates one
small freighter between Seattle
and Juneau. Officials said the
crew of the 130-ton vessel is not
involved in the current maritime
TWO NOMEITE GIRLS
TO SCHOOL OUTSIDE
Patricia Walsh, cheerful and
obliging clerk of the N. C. Co.,
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.
J. Walsh, left Tuesday for Santa
Barbara where she plans to con
tinue her education by taking a
business course. The N. C. Co.
also lost Jane Scott, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert Scott, who
has been in the office of the com
pany, and who left for a Califor
nia college.
SCHOOL REGISTRATION
STARTS TUESDAY. SEPT. 7
Registration of grade and high
school pupils in the Nome Terri
torial School will start at nine
o’clock on Tuesday morning, Sept.
7th.
Those who register the first day
will have an opportunity to work
for a perfect attendance record.
controversy.
William Gettings, regional long
shore representative, said the con
tract with the independents calls
for hourly wage increases of 15
cents for straight time, bringing
it to $1.82, and 22V£ cents for
overtime, boosting it to $2.73.
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