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agreements in which Alaskftns
have no voice or no authority'.**
Without ‘wishing to enter Into
the merits of demerits of these
controversies, the utilization of
Alaska as a hostage is an outrage.
Neither side in the conflict has
any right to use the actual and po
tential suffering of Alaska and its
people as a leverage to compel the
other side to yield, and I doubt
whether any red blooded Alaskan
would ‘be willing to be so used.
For the moment we are relatively
helpless, although I believe that
our ingenuity will in the long run
enable us to overcome this situa
tion which threatens to be ever
recurring.
Unless we find alternative solu
tions the future of Alaska will be
dim indeed since transportation is
our lifeline. I expect to go to
Washington in a few days to see
whether I cannot prevail upon
those in authority to find more ef
fective methods of solving the
present controversy than have
hitherto been employed, or failing
in that, to help us in the develop
ment of alternative methods and
routes of transportation.
Meanwhile we should renew our
own efforts., to develop other
routes of communication between
the United States and Alaska
which, while costly and perhaps j
not too effective for a time, once
established, help free us from the
tyranny and maltreatment which
we are continuing to'receive from
those who dominate what was
once considered the historic trade
route from the States to Alaska.
Commander Chester’s message
to me of this morning follows:
"Relief vessel to westward sit
uation. Grommet Reefer with
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Alaska Steamship Company as
general agent has been designated
as relief vessel by the maritime
commission. The only thing hold
ing up placing this vessel on berth
for loading is the selection of en
gineering officers. The operators
demand the right to select their i
engineers and the engineers’ union
demands the right to place on
board engineers of their choice
who most need the work.
“Thus a little strike within a
strike has developed. In our Fri
day meeting a method of selecting
engineers was agreed upon by
Itafly, Yugoslavia
Still Adamant
f •'*V [ * _ ,
(By John M. Hightower)
N£W YORK, (A*) — Both Italy
apd Yugoslavia, blasted a proposed
great powers settlement of the
east-west dispute over strategic
Trieste today, telling the session
of the Big Four foreign ministers
that proposed controls for the now
international territory would be
dictatorial and undemocratic.
Neither country substantially
changed its position on the Trieste
issue, which is the greatest stumb
ling block in the way of a final
Italian peace treaty draft, and
when they had finished their ar
guments the controversy appeared
no nearer solution than before.
both sides, but the engineers’
union has not fully complied with
this agreement. Saturday each
side started blaming the other for
delaying the relief vessel, but they
are still talking to each other so
the situation has not reached a
complete stalemate. The union
agreed today, Sunday, to carry out
its agreement to furnish the oper
ators with a list of eligible en
gineers from which the operator
had agreed to select the engineers
if such list contained sufficient
men from which a choice could
be made.
“The operator has indicated that
if the union does not carry out
this agreement in good faith the
vessel will ntver sail as far as
they are concerned. The union
claims that they are having diffi
culty in finding sufficient men
who want the engineering jobs
but still maintain they ate doing
everything possible to get a* list
for the operator toy Monday noon.
“The issue has been clouded
over by the union’s contention that
the reported alterations required
for housing crews is another
method being used by the operator
to delay sailing this vessel. The
operators assured me that any al
terations would in no way delay
the sailing of this vessel and that
the selection of engineers is the
only real issue.
“If the above method of select
ing engineers fails the maritime
commission will probably demand
that the engineers be selected in
accordance with the condition?
which existed on Sept. 30. This is
the condition under which relief
vessels have sailed from all other
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NEWS In rriee
SHANGHAI (^-W. H. Donald,
Australian who became Chiang
Kai-Shek’s pre-war adviser, is
near death, attending physicians
reported today.
Donald, interned in Manila by
Japanese during the war without
their ever learning his identity, is
ill with cancer. His condition be
came worse during the night.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Walter
Johnson, former strikeout king of
the American League, remained in
critical condition today at George
town hospital after getting a wish
—to reach his §9th birthday, yes
terday.
DENVER. (A*)—A storm which
cuffed Denver and the Rocky
Mountain area with an icy paw
for three days still lingered in the
region today, making inter-city
auto traffic hazardous. As Denvei
felt its coldest weather—11 de
grees above zero—since last win
ter, weather forecasters reported
the storm was blanketing most of
Kansas, Nebraska and easten Col
oado.
PEIPING. OP)—Vicious Chinese
Communist counterattacks have
“curtailed” the government’s broad
offensive in north China’s Shan
tung peninsula, military observ
ers said today.
i They reported. loss to the Reds
of recently-captured Yehsien, one
of the province’s four major ports,
and said 50,000 communists had
launched a drive against the rail
line from coastal Tsingtao to
Tsinan, nearly 200 airline miles
inland.
Most of the communist forces
were reported concentrated
squarely athwart the neck of the
Shantung peninsula.
PALESTINE OP) — Arabs and
Jews expressed qualified approval
of a nerw conciliatory policy of the
British, but Jewish leaders said
the struggle for an independent
Jewish homeland would continue.
—
EUGENE, Ore. OP)—Two train
men and four mail clerks were in
jured as the Southern Pacific’s
northbound west coast passenger
train plowed into an earth slide
near Lowell, 25 miles south of
here, at 5 a.m. today. No passen
gers were injured.
ports except Seattle, by an agree
ment made with the national mar
itime union.
‘‘Present outlook for an imme
diate sailing of a relief vessel is
doubtful, and for an early settle
' ment of the strike rather gloomy.
Small relief vessels movements:
Departed Oct. 30, Apaches, 60 tons
for Petersburg. Commonwealth,
110 tons for Juneau.
“Departed Nov. 2: Cape Karluk,
100 tons for Ketchikan. Emma, 15
tons, for Wrangell.
Vessels loading Monday are
BSP-Sondralee, 400 tons for
Haines and Skagway. Midas, 400
tons, for Juneau. Vindicator, 200
tons has been chartered by Ton
gass Trading company for trip to
Ketchikan, instead of loading on
their own for Haines and Skag
way. Foremost, 120 tons, now
chartered for trip to Juneau in
stead of Petersburg.
"CMU clearance committee has
authorized emergency supplies for
University of Alaska to be loaded
on the relief vessel and have au
thorized Alaska purchasing agent
of interior department to charter a
vessel for necessary supplies for
Alaska native service schools.”
CHAMBER HELD
BUSINESS LUNCHEON
The «NWA Chamber of Com
merce held a noon business lunch
on on Tuesday. The fact-finding
committee, which was appointed
following the meeting of last week
reported findings to the chamber
on the possibility of making Nome
a better place in which to live.
The report contained information
regarding both a move to higher
ground and the construction of an
efficient breakwater. The evidence
as yet is not nearly complete and
comments were withheld pending
its public release upon completion.
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, of the
University of Alaska Extension
Service Department, was a visitor
at the luncheon.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW (/P) — The central
j government rushed aid today to
, the great Russian Asiatic indus
J trial district in Uzbek and Kirghiz,
j Soviet republics, stricken Nov. 3
by an earthquake which official
sources said caused civilian deaths
and devastation to buildings.
i GREECE <>P)—More than 75,000
civil employees began a 24-hour
strike for higher wages, closing
schools and public buildings.
WASHINGTON (/*>)—OPA re
moved price controls today from
household vacuum cleaners and
attachments as well as certain
items of bedding and home laun
dry equipment.
Decontrol was effective imme
diately on all of the items, which
inchtded feathers and down,
feather-filled pillows, domestic
ironing machines and domestic
clothes dryers.
Doctor—Have you any physi
cal defects?
Selectee—Yes sir, no guts.
“Trespassers Wanted”
BERLIN, Md. (/P)—"Tresspasa
ers wanted now with good shootin
I eyes!” Those signs are replacing
I the old “no traspassing” marker?
i on 5,000 farm acres near Berlin
, Rabbit and quail have multiplied
during the war years and nursery
! stock suffered as sportsmen lack
ed ammunition. Now it’s open hos
tilities and marksmen are mare
than welcome.
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