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NEWS IN BRIEF
SITKA, (/P)—With every foot of
available storage space piled high
with lumber because of the mari
time tie-up, the Columbia Lumber
mills has had to shut down. Sev
eral weeks ago the plant reduced
operations to one shift. Fifty em
ployees and numerous loggers are
affected.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Dr. Thomas G.
Sutherland of Auburn, formerly of
Cordova, Alaska, left a $195,276
estate in trust for his widow, son
and daughter, an estate inventory
disclosed today. He died last July.
SEATTLE, </P)—The first plane
to make the Pan American survey
flight from Honolulu to Seattle
landed here at 10:30 last night, 13
hours and four minutes after leav
ing the islands.
The flight was made prior to in
auguration of regular service on
the run.
KETCHIKAN, </P)—Ralph Wo
mack, Ketchikan grocer, was the
object of a wide-spread search
Monday at Bond Bay, 25 miles to
the north, after he failed to rejoin
his deer hunting party Sunday.
Coast guard and Alaska com
munications system perso n n e 1
combed the area without success
during the day. A civilian party
joined the searchers yesterday.
WASHINGTON (/P)—J. P. John
son, general manager of the Alas
kan Railroad is confined to a local
hospital undergoing treatment for
a sprained back. His office said he
would have to remain there for
several days.
PORTLAND, (£>) — The Pacific
Northwesi Trade Association has
urged Congress, in addition to ac
quiring a railroad to Alaska, to ap
propriate $150,000,000 to restore
the idle merchant fleet to operat
ing condition as a national secur
ity measure.
NEW YORK, (/P) — Although
many American pilots have offer
ed to join such a venture, Maj.
Gen. Claire L. Chennault says he
has no plans for reorganising his
"Flying Tigers" to aid China's em
battled nationalists.
His statement was made Iasi
night in Shanghai in an American
Broadcasting company interview.
LONDON, VP) — Princess Eliza
beth spent an excellent night and
she and her son “continue to make
i good progress,” her doctors re
ported today.
After visiting the princess, who
gave birth to a seven pound, six
ounce prince Sunday night, physi
cians Sir William Gilliatt and Sir
John Weir made a personal report
to the queen.
Court sources reported no addi
tional bulletins were expected to
day.
* LONDON. {IP)—Miguel Antonio
Riva, 49, Cuban minister in Lon
don since July, 1947, died last
night of a heart ailment.
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KETCHIKAN, (£>)—The number
of selective service registrants this
year show Alaska’s rapid popula
Internation’l News
At A Glance ™
I
—
Wednesday, November 17, 1948
(By The Associated Press)
The Chinese government claim
ed a great victory today over the
communists in the Suchow area,
200 miles from Nanking.
The fact remained, however,
that the U. S. Embassy and con
sulates of Shanghai, Peijing and
Tientsin urged all Americans to
leave the imperiled country as
soon as possible or risk “hazardous
conditions.”
I
The government asserted the
Red armies were routed northeast
of Suchow and were withdrawing.
The news from the defense min
istry’s official news agency was in
! direct contrast to generally accept
ed reports from other sources that
the government’s whole control of
the Suchow area was tottering.
Government spokesman H o 1 -
lington Tong asserted Suchow “is
firmly in our hands and the Reds
are withdrawing to the northeast
ward.” Neutral observers took the
reports with considerable reserve.
| The communist radio said Red
troops have isolated Suchow com
pletely and captured Suhsien, 50
miles south. The government said
! it still holds Suhsien.
Private advices from Nanking
to Shanghai said the Chinese gov
ernment will decide within three
days whether to continue the civil
war or seek a negotiated peace
i with the * communists. Such a
. peace probably would be based on
i the retirement of President Chi
i ang Kai-Shek.
Events in China made the dis
turbances over Palestine and Ber
lin seem small by comparison.
The United Nations security
council ordered the Jews and
Arabs to establish an immediate
armistice in the Holy Land to “fa
cilitate the transition from the
present truce to a permanent peace
in Palestine.” The council rejected
a Russian proposal calling for an
immediate formal peace.
Israel asserted she sought peace
but the Arabs answered with war.
Faris El Khouri of Syria said the
Jews may believe “they have won
the first round but that doesn’t
mean the end.” He foresaw con
tinuous conflict in Palestine.”
The French cabinet approved
an appeal of two high U. N. offi
cials for an immediate conference
of the Big Four executives to end
the Berlin dispute. The suggestion ,
was put forth by secretary-general |
Trygve Lie and assembly presi
dent H. V. Evatt of the United Na
tions. The United States and Bri
tain showed signs of rejecting the
appeal unless President Truman
intervenes.
Neutral powers on the security
council were reported drafting a
new Berlin compromise. It would
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tion growth, the Alaska develop
ment board said today.
A total of 4,421 registered in the
18 to 25 age group this year.
But between January, 1941, and
April, 1947, with the same require
ments and exemptions in effect,
only 1,738 were listed.
Chamber Dinner
Raises $50 For
Scout Fund
Last evening the Chamber of
Commerce held another of its se
ries of popular dinner meetings
with president H. F. Harper pre
siding.
Mary Ann Amarok, who has
been selected by Pan American
•for a trip t(^ Honolulu was intro
duced by Jim Walsh who stated
the choice had been made by rep
resentatives of several civic bodies
including the Chamber of Com
merce, Rotary and city officials.
Simeon Oliver, well known na
tive Alaskan lecturer and concert
pianist was introduced by Antonio
Polet who stated that it was*(in
usual that two members of the
Eskimo race should be guests of
the chamber and that both should
be outstanding members of that
race.
! Mr. Oliver responded that it was
a pleasure to be in Nome, having
visited ft for the first time in 1916
! as a cabin boy on the whaler “Her
| man,” which was captained by the
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AUSTRALIAN WORKERS GO
ON 24-HOUR STRIKE
MELBOURNE, Australia, (>P)—
About 85,000 Melbourne workers
struck today for 24 hours in pra
test against a new law in Victoria
outlawing strikes in essential serv
ices unless approved by a majority
of union members in secret ballots.
The strikers included railway and
street car employees, seamen, dock
workers, miners and engineers and
some building workers.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
ARRIVES AT FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Charles A.
Lindbergh, flying a B-50 bomber,
landed here yesterday to begin a
study of long-range Arctic flying
for the air force.
His arrival followed by only a
few days that of five other B-50
bombers assigned to Eielson Field
for 45 days of Arctic training.
The field public information of
fice told newsmen that Lindbergh
was not to be interviewed.
Lewis Says “Let
Labor, Employer
Battle It Out”
WASHINGTON, (/P) — John L.
Lewis says any new labor law
ought to cover only a few funda
mentals—leaving labor and man
agement free to battle out their
problems as best they can.
In a copyrighted intreview pub
lished by U. S. News and World
report, the weekly news magazine,
Lewis said he would prefer no re
placement for the Taft-Hartley
law if it is repealed.
But if there has to be a labor
law, the united mine workers chief
said it should be a miniature of the
old Wagner act: It should bar only
a few unfair labor practices like
(a) interference with the right of
workers to organize unions, (b)
“the use of privately armed forces
to enforce policies,” and (c) use of
POiiT*t ininrtptinnc ?r>
Labor And Strikes
Active All Over
The United States
—
<By the Associated Press)
There appeared some hope today
of early settlement of the 11-weeks
old West Coast shipping strike but
no progress was reported toward
ending the walkout of 65,000 East
Coast AFL dock workers.
i
Effects of the shipping tieup in
ports from Maine to Virginia were
being felt in many segments of in
dusrty and business. Estimates of
losses ran into many millions of
dollars since the AFL international
longshoremen’s association walked
out eight days ago in a dispute
over wages. Thousands of railroad,
tugboat and trucking workers have
been made idle.
The port of Halifax was reopen
ed and the 2,000 longshoremen will
handle all goods not consigned to
United States ports. Earlier the
Halifax longshoremen’s association
said it would seal off Halifax from
any more ships diverted because
of the strike.
The AFL screen extras guild in
Hollywood said its members voted
2,512 to 67 to reject an employer
proposal for continuing the mob
scene extra’s pay bracket of $9.45
a day. The guild said it will ask
the studios to make a new offer.
For the third day a strike of 150
bus drivers and mechanics of the
Edwards Lakes-to-Seas syst e m
halted operations over 1,500 miles
of route in Pennsylvania, New
Yark, New Jersey, Ohio and
Washington, D. C. The AFL Amal
gamated association of street car,
electric railways and coaches em
ployees union is seeking a wage
hike of 10 per cent. The company
has offred six per cent. The pres
ent rate for drivers is 5.55 cents
(Continued on Page Five)
Seven Dead, Three
Tugs Sunk In
Northwest Storm
SEATTLE, (JP)—A coastal storm
was gradually dying down today,
leaving in its wake, a toll of three
tugs and seven lives.
Three men were lost when the
tug St. Clair smashed onto rocks
near Port San Juan. B. C. Five
others reached shore in a lifeboat.
Two more men were missing
from the tug Ruby Eight, which
sank in Puget Sound.
Another man died of a heart at
tack as the coast guard was at
tempting rescue of him and 10
others from their sinking tug Nep
tune off the Columbia river mouth.
The ten men were saved by the
coast guard in a hazardous rubber
boat rescue but the one man died
after falling into the sea.
The seventh victim was a woman
lost overboard from the ferry
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A. R. C. TO BECOME
BRIGHT ORANGE
JUNEAU (/P)—'The Alaska Road
Commission is brightening up.
Some $2,000,000 of road equipment
all over the Territory will be
painted a bright orange color as it
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Maritime Strike
Settlement Seems
Drawing Near
SAN FRANCISCO. I/P)—Negoti
ators in the 77-day Pacific Coast
shipping strike appeared headed
down the home stretch toward set
tlement today.
A big stumbling block in the
way of peace in the waterfront tie
up idling 28,000 men—what to do
about the hiring halls for the CIO
longshoremen—was settled yester
day.
The hiring halls will stay under
union control. The tentative agree
ment of the waterfront employers
association and the longshoremen’s
union provided for “modifying
practices by mutual agreement if
1 necessary as result of court or Con
i gressional action.”
Negotiators today prepared to
take up problems involving wages,
vacations with pay and grievance
machinery.
The longshoremen seek a 15
cent an hour boost in the present
wage scale of $1.67, or will take 15
cents, retroactive to June 15, when
their contract expired.
Negotiators for the ship owners
and the CIO cooks and stewards
held a three-hour session yester
day and reported at the end that
“progress is being made.” Three
other unions are involved in the
strike.
Forrestal’s Visit
To Truman Stirs
Up Speculation
(By Ernest Vaccaro)
KEY WEST </P)—Announcement
that secretary of defense Forrestal
is flying down tomorrow' to have
lunch with President Truman
stirred speculation today the time
of his departure from the cabinet
will be discussed.
Presidential press secre tary
Charles G. Ross said simply that
Forrestal will be a guest of the
chief executive at his southern
“White House” on the naval sub
marine base.
The defense secretary told a
news conference in Paris that he
doesn’t expect to serve out another
four years in the cabinet. He said
he was leaving up to Mr. Truman
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French Hold
“Citizen Of World”
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P)—
U. S. army sources received a re
port today that Henry M. Noel, Jr.,
original “Citizen of the World” is
being detained in Baden by French
occupation authorities.
Noel, 27, a former Harvard stu
dent, renounced his United States
citizenship about a year ago be
cause of “one world” ideals.
He went to work in bombed-out
Kassel, Germany, living in a can
dle-lit room over a pig sty and
eating German rations.
The report from Baden was the
first indication he had left Kassel.
It was believed he was being