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VOL. XLIX. No. 7___NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MANILA, (JP)—Northwest Air
lines’ Oriental flight survey plane
arrived this afternoon from Shang
hai on its return journey to the
United States. It has visited Tok
yo, Seoul and Shanghai.
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NEW’YORK, (JP)—Babe Ruth is
up and around and greeting ev
eryone with his characteristic
“Hiya Krd,” and that, says his
daughter, is evidence that he is
feeling his old self again.
The former home run king drew
his second walk in as many days
at French Hospital yesterday. The
hospital listed his condition as
“good” and it was apparent he was
fast recovering from a neck oper
ation performed Jan. 6.
WASHINGTON. (P)—President
Truman today sent to the Senate
the nomination of David L. Lilien
thal to be chairman of the U. S.
atomic energy commission. The
nomination may run into vigorous
opposition by Senator McKellar
(D.-Tenn.) long-time foe of the
former TVA chairman. Aubrey
Clapp was nominated several days
ago to succeed Lilienthal. McKel
lar has indicated that he will op
pose this appointment also. Lilien
thal was formally nominated with
other members of the commission,
including Carroll L. Wilson as
general manager of the group.
MANILA, (P)—Mayon volcano
erupted violently again today, a
U. S. navy pilot, Flying a mile
away, said Mayon threw smoke
and ashes 20,00 feet into the south
ern skies. Mayon’s huge peak was
almost entirely obscured by dense
moke rising from lava flowing
down the mountain’s slopes in
scores of molten streams.
LONDON, (P)—Johan J. Smer
tenko, vice president of the Ameri
can League for a Free Palestine,
flew to Croydon airport from Paris
today despite a British govern
ment ban on his entry, and imme
diately was detained by immigra
tion authorities. The Russian-born
United States citizen was accom
panied by two American newspa
permen, who satisfied authorities
that their papers were in order.
Smertenko, accused by the Brit
ish of making derogatory state
ments concerning the British ad
ministration in Palestine, said his
words had been “grossly distort
ed.”
ATHENS, (/P) — Premier Con
stantin Tsaldaris saved his govern
ment in a four-hour cabinet ses
sion ending early today by woo
ing the wavering National Liber
als back to its support.
PITTSBURGH, (/P)—Wage-and
hour talks between CIO steelwork
ers union and United States Steel
Corp., after whose contracts usu
ally set the pattern in the indus
try, have been postponed until
next week. Originally, the talks
were to begin tomorrow. No defin
ite date has been set for the ses
sions and no reason for postpone
ment was given either by the com
pany or union.
These Meat Prices Bring Smiles
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CHICAGO, ILL. — Because he was unable to sell meat that he had purchased at high prices, Sid
ney A. Alexander, who owns two meat markets, ordered his stores to sell the meat at cost Meat hunting
housewives, learning of Alexander’s decision, made a bee-line for his stores.
Russia Disagrees
With U. S. On
I
Arms Question
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (/P) —
The United States and Soviet Rus
sia failed today to agree in a last
minute conference off the floor on
the best way to tackle the arms
question. The United States then
requested the United Nations se
curity council to delay action on
the question unitl Feb. 4 to allow
time for study.
Australia proposed today that
the United Nations security coun
; cil create a disarmament commis
| sion and rush consideration of
atomic energy control.
Norman J. O. Makin, chairman
, of the council and Australian Am
bassador to the United States, sub-1
mitted a resolution providing:
1. For a disarmament commis
sion to work out arms limitation
proposals.
2. For the atomic energy com
mission to continue its work on
atomic controls.
3. For the military staff commit- i
tee to draft proposals for the
United Nations international po
lice force to preserve world order.1
4. For the disarmament com
mission, the atomic energy com-;
mission and the military staff ■
committee to submit reports be
fore April 30.
5. For the security council to ex-1
pedite consideration of the first re- !
port of the atomic energy commis- 1
sion, which contains the United
States plan for atomic control.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, asserted
today the expressed aims of the
Administration’s reciprocal trade
program have been “sabotaged .
either consciously or otherwise.”
Woll, who also is president of
America’s Wage Earner Confer
ence, spoke at final sessions of a
hearing on proposed new trade
pacts with 18 foreign nations. The
hearing was arranged by the com
mittee for reciprocity information,
set up by executive order to gather I
information for tariff negotiators.}
Supreme Court
Debating On
Mine Workers Case
—
WASHINGTON, The nine
highest jurists in this country to
day set about deciding whether
the government had any legal
right to hale John L. Lewis into
court last November as a strike
breaking gesture.
It may be weeks before the Su
preme Court announces its find
ings, but the Justices themselves
may know by Saturday what the
answer will be, along with the one
to this second question:
Will Lewis and his AFL United
Mine Workers have to pay all or
any of the $3,510,000 in fines as
sessed against them for contempt
of court.
Saturday is the day of the next
regular conference of the nine Jus
tices. If each has made up his
mind by then, Chief Justice Fred
M. Vinson will assign one of them
to write the court’s opinion. That
task usually requires several
weeks. The Court’s opinion day is
Monday, but another will not be
due until February 3. That is th*e
earliest date a decision appears
possible.
The Tribunal wound up three
hours of arguments on the historic
case late yesterday.
The only incident during the
long and tense courtroom drama
came less than five minutes be
fore the end.
Justice Frankfurter was leading
Assistant Attorney General John
F. Sonnett" through a series of
questions and answers about the
legislative history of the Smith
Connally war labor disputes act,
under which the government seiz
ed the soft coal pits last spring.
Finally, when the white signal
light went on, indicating that only
five minutes of the attorney’s al
lotted time remained, Justice Jack
son interrupted to tell Sonnett he
thought the lawyer ought to take
another point in his argument.
“You better get on it and not de
vote any further time to the psy
choanalyzing of members of Con
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Moscow Disagrees
With U. S.-Britain
On Poland
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(By Ed Creagh)
LONDON, (/?’) — Moscow an
nounced today that “The Soviet
government cannot agree” with
the United States and Britain that
; tactics of the Polish provisional
government made it unlikely that
Sunday’s scheduled elections could
be free and unfettered.
The Moscow radio said foreign
minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov
on Monday handed to U. S. Am
bassador Walter Bedell Smith a
Russian answer to an American
request to the Soviet government
to join in the protest to Poland.
The U. S. request, sent in conjunc
tion with a stiff note to Poland
hereslf, was delivered in Moscow
early this month.
This, the Moscow radio said, was
Molotov’s reply:
“The Soviet government cannot
agree with the charges contained
in the note against the provisional
Polish government of national
unity of violating the pledges laid
on it by the decisions of the Yalta
and Berlin (Potsdam) conferences,
providing for the holding of free
and unfettered elections in Poland
o nthe basis of a universal elec
toral law with secret ballot, where
by all democratic, anti-Nazi part
ies will have the right to partici
pate and put forward candidates.”
SEATTLE, {/P)—Word was re
ceived today that a tentative
agreement had been reached in
the jurisdictional shipping dispute
at Ketchikan which has threat
ened the handling of cargo in that
port. No details of the pact were
known here, but the report said
it would be submitted to Seattle
heads of the disputants—the sail
ors union of the Pacific <AFL> and
the CIO longshoremen in Alaska.
The latter insisted upon taking
over winch driving jobs on all
holds worked by their members.
Federal Cociliator A. L. Peterson,
who aranged the peace negotia
tions, was reported enroute here
from Ketchikan.
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Marshall To Fake
{h er Stale Seev.
Job lis Week
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Gen. Geo.
. ’.Mars .all becomes Secretary of
State this week with assu antes
from Senator Vandenberg of Re
publican support on major diplo
matic issues expected to arise dur
ing the months ahead.
Final plans for Marshall to take
the oath as successor to James F.
Byrnes are yet to be announced,
but officials said privately that the
ceremony probably will be held at
the White House the latter part of
the week.
Marshall, resting alter 13
months ol' arduous diplomatic
work in China, remained in Hono
lulu over last weekend.
Meanwhile, the pattern of his
future tasks and something of the
extent of the Republican support
he can expect in striving for their
accomplishment were made clear
ill speeches by Byrnes and Van
denberg, the chairman of the Se»
' ate foreign relations committee.
Vandenberg, addressing the
! Cleveland Council spoke out for:
\ 1. Congressional appropriations
to carry on an American relief
program in war-wrecked countries.
2. Rehabilitation loans for coun
tries which need them.
3. Continuance of tariff-reduc
ing reciprocal trade agreements
in some form.
Beyond these points, all of
which seem likely to arouse some
controversy in Congress, the Mich
igan Senator also urged a policy
shift in China, saying the United
States now should support the co
alition of Non-Communist parties
backing China’s new constitution.
This evidently would mean
abandoning the policy which Mar
shall followed during his stay in
China—a policy of equality be
tween the Communists and the
Nationalist Kuomintang which to
date has run the government.
Moreover, in an apparent break
with prevailing State Department
policy, Vandenberg also demanded
that the long delayed Pan-Ameri
can conference on hemispheric de
i fense be held at Rio de Janeiro in
the immediate future.
PAT BLISS FOUND
SAFE AT BLUFF
Pat Bliss, who is flying for the
Alaska Airlines and who has been
missing since he left Golovin on
Monday, was found this morning
at Bluff by Bill Mupz, who left at
daybreak to search for him. Pat
had engine trouble and was forced
to land. A mechanic was dispatch
ed immediately to repair the
plane.
A.T.G .OFFICE IN NOME
CLOSED
Otto Geist, who has been in
charge of the ATG here, is closing
! the Nome office and leaving soon
on the first available plane for
Fairbanks, which is temporary
headquarters for this division. He
states that all equipment belong
| ing to the office has been shipped
today.