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VOL. XLIX. No. 71_NOMEr~ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ROME, (A*) — Rome police an
nounced Thursday that the Hotel
de Russe night club had been
closed indefinitely for charging
5,900 lire <$26 at the official rate
of exchange) for five jiggers of
whiskey.
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Attorney
Tom C. Clark said yesterday a
federal grand jury at Los Angeles
will investigate increased gasoline
prices in the Mountain States and
Pacific Coast area lor evidences
of monopolistic activity.
Clark said that since price con
trol on gasoline was ren^oved last
July, average prices in those areas
have gone up approximately three
cents a gallon.
DAWSON, Y. T., (&)—Ray Wil
liams, 65, who came to the Yukon
from Chicago last year to settle
the estate of his brother, Willliam
A. Williams, was presumed
drowned here Thursday following
reports from Alaskan authorities
that his rifle and sleeping bag
were found on a raft found drift
ing on Forty Mile river, below
Mosquito Forks.
Williams left here this spring to
visit gold properties discovered
by his brother on Forty Mile
river. His widow and young son
reside here.
JUNEAU (£*)—A “death watch”
has been placed by .the federal
marshal over Austin Nelson, sen
tenced to hang July 1 following
conviction on a charge of murder
ing Jim Ellen, Willoughby Ave.
grocer, last Dec. 22.
U. S. Dist. Atty. Pat Gilmore
said he had been advised by the j
department of justice that Presi
dent Truman denied Nelson’s pe
tition for executive clemency and
commutation of the sentence to:
life imprisonment. Nelson will be
hanged at the federal jail here un
less his attorneys find new evi-j
dence and appeal the case to a
higher court.
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SPOKANE, (iP) — Heavyweight
champion Joe Louis intends to
swap punches in exhibition boxing
matches in Australia and Europe
next year.
This was disclosed today by
Fred Sommers, representative for
the brown bomber’s current exhi
bition tour through the west, as
Louis rested for his four-round
bout tonight with Tiger Jack Fox
of Spokane.
ASTORIA, Ore., </P)—'The first
of three planes which will trans
port 135 fishermen from Astoria
to Bristol Bay, Alaska, was due to
take off tonight with 44 fisher
men aboard.
The chartered plane was to land
at Naknek, Alaska, tomorrow
morning. Formerly, the trip to
Naknek took as long as two
months.
Cannery workers for the Bris
tol Bay salmon season will leave
for Alaska by ship June 14.
SAN FRANCISPO, (/P) — The j
CIO Alaska fi^j^armen’s union j
membership in ^^Califomia ports
Hope To Avert
Shipping Tie-Up
SEATTLE, (£*) — A spokesman
for the waterfront employers of
Washington was optinvstic today
that final obstacles could be iron
ed out to avert a coastwise ship
ping tie-up at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
The memo of agreement signed
June 6 between the coasts’s CIO
longshoremen and employers,
which would extend the present
contract without change until
June 15, 1948, is a basis for set
tlement with all other affiliated
unions, he said.
Despite delays in negotiations
with the offshore unions and the
California clerks and checkers,
employers will be “available con
tinuously to meet with any or all
of the unions at any time,” he said
he was notified from San Francis
co. The longshoremen’s-employ
ers agreement contains a cancella
tion clause which voids it, if other
union agreements are not reached.
The regional international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
representative’s office said it was
informed, however, that negotia
tions had broken off or were at a
standtill in San Francico and that
the situation was serious. The of
fice has contacted various persons
and groups, including the Gov
ernor of Alaska, trying to bring
their influence to bear on nego
tiators to reach a settlement .
The spokesman said, that should
a walkout occur because of the
“small differences” between the
two sides it would be ’’too bad.”
Alaska CIO longshoremen are
not bound by coast contracts, he
said, but attempts are being made
to work out individual contracts
and settlements there. The union
is sending a representative to
Alaska to help in such negotia
tions.
Atomic Equipment
Already Obsolete *
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
atomic energy commission says
half its plants and equipment are
obsolete because of “startling im
provements’,’ in processes but that
commercial use of atomic power
still is probably IQ to 15 years
away. ,
The information was made pub
lic by the House appropriations
committee today in a report
recommending that the commis
sion be given only $175,000,000 of
the $250,000,000 it asked for in
the fiscal year starting July 1.
The committee said it had no
desire “to retard development in
connection with this most import
and project” but that it had been
unable to find out how the agency
plans to spend its money or how
many people will be on its pay
roll.
voted to accept a 12 Vi per cent
wage increase from Alaska Sal
mon Industries, Inc., the union an
nounced today.
Under the proposal, voted on
yesterday, the contract is extend
ed for one year. Six hundred Cal
ifornia fishermen are affected.
To Hold Hearings
On Un-American
Activities
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House committee of un-American
activities decided yesterday to
start hearings June 23 on what
chairman Farnell Thomas (R.-N.1
J.), described as “infiltration of
Communists into the labor
unions.”
Witnesses, Thomas announced,
will be members of the CIO elec-!
trical workers union from Bridge
port, Conn., Schenectady N. Y%,
and New York City.
Thomas announced also that the
committee unanimously approved
a report on the southern confer
ence for human welfare which
will be released to newspapers for
publication Sunday.
The committee plans to send
j several obesrvers to a meeting
here Monday, sponsored by the
conference, at which Henry A.
Wallace will speak.
Bartenders Strike
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Anchorage
bartenders walked off the job at
midnight Wednesday and carpen
ters are holding out for higher
wages on a veterans’ housing pro
ject, but a strike by plumbers has
ended and the men returned to
work after settling for a wage of
$2.60 per hour, plus time and a
half for overtime and Saturday
work.
They had asked $2.75, with dou
ble time for overtime and Satur
days.
The AL bartenders are asking
$20 a day, a raise of $5. The An-’j
chorage retail liquor dealers asso-1
ciation has offered $16.
The carpenters balked after the
go-ahead was received from |
Washington for construction of 96
units in the housing project. They J
insist they be paid the $2.25 per1
hour scale being paid in the city
and the contractor is offering
$1.88, saying that was the amoimt
agreed upon when the contract for
the project was obtained last year.
Construction of veterans’ homes
was held up when funds were ex
hausted. Alaska housing authority
officials who will direct the com
pleted project say they have more
than 750 persons signed for hous
ing.
REEF KNOT SCHEDULED
TO ARRIVE TONIGHT
The “first boat” of the 1947 sea
son of navigation is scheduled to
arrive in the roadstead about 10
o’clock this evening, Tom Keating,
local agent for the Alaska Steam
ship Company announced today.
The M/S Reef Knot, whose
master is Captain R. W. Nord
strom, ^carries a total of 5036 tons
of cargo for the Bering Sea area.
Tonnage for Nome, 3324 tons, in
cludes 4 tons express, 16 tons
mail, 300,000 BM lumber, and 40
tons cement (for N. C. bulkhead).
The vessel is a 5000 tonner. 340
feet long, and carries a crew of 38
men.
Indians Object To
Sale Of Timber
WASHINGTON UP)—Indians of
Southeast Alaska asked a Senate
sub-committee on public lands
yesterday to reject a bill to au
thorize sale of timber in Alaska
forests to large paper companies
for establishment of paper and
pulp mills.
James Curry, representing the
Indians said they own 10 per cent
of the 16,000,000 acres in the Ton
gass national forest. He argued
that to permit the agriculture de
partment to sell their holdings
| would be confiscation of their
property without due process of
I law. He told the committee the in
' terior department already had
■ ruled the Indians own 10 per cent
of the land.
“If this land is to be sold the
Indians should be permitted to
sell it,” Curry said. “The paper
mill operators should come to the
Indians and buy their timber
holdings.”
Interior department officials
told the committee earlier that
the interior and agriculture de
partments propose to sell the tim
ber for use by five paper mills to
a pulp paper industry in Alaska.
They said each mill would cost
$25,000,000’ to $50,000,000 and that j
at each mill a town, as large as
any now in the Territory, would,
be established.
The legislation would provide
that money received for the tim
ber will be placed in the treasury
to be held until Congress can de-!
cide the question of Indian rights
to the land.
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Russians Shoot
Swedish Relief i
Mission Officer j
VIENNA, (/P)—Russian soldiers
fired on a Swedish relief mission
car last night and killed Arne
Carsson, Vienna chief of the Swe
dish save-the-children organiza
tion.
A Swedish legation spokesman
here described the shooting as a
deplorable accident, and said no1
protest would be lodged with the
Russians in Vienna. He added that
a full report would be sent to the
Swedish foreign office.
Carlsson was killed by a rifle1
shot fired by a Russian sentry
near the Czechoslovak border. Dr.
Thorsten Arneus, chief of the
Swedish relief mission to Aus
tria, was injured slightly in the
right hand by flying glass.
Carlsson’s wife and three-year
old son, riding in the back seat es
caped injury.
A legation -official said Carlsson
was enroute from Hungary to
Czechoslovakia. At a Russian
roadblock he turned the car
around, then started back when
the Russian soldier shot from be
hind the roadblock.
The Russian soldier later said
he had shouted for the car to stop
before firing.
Premier Nagy
Enroute To U. S.
To Explain Coup
•By The Associated Press)
Fercnce Nagy, deposed by the
Communists as premier of Hun
gary was enroute to the United
States today in what diplomats
said apparently was an effort to
draw attention of the U. S. public
to events in that central European
country.
The United States accused Rus
sia earlier this week of “a most
flagrant interference in Hungar
ian affairs” in the alignment
which placed the communists, who
polled 17 per cent of the last free
vote, in charge.
Dezo Sulyok, who denounced
the Communists yesterday in the
Hungarian parliament, said today
his freedom party would refuse to
take part in national elections
scheduled for September, unless
they were supervised by an inter
national board.
President Truman, who de
nounced the Communist coup in
Hungary as an outrage, said on
leaving Canada the U. S. foreign
policy had but one objective—
peace in the world and friendship
with every nation. His words were
interpreted as an effort to oil
troubled international water. Ear
lier, Mr. Truman told the Canadi
an parliament the United States
intended to help nations who
want to live in peace without in
timidation or coercion.
British foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin said secretary of state Mar
shall’s proposal that the United
States finance a joint program for
Europe’s economic recovery was
“a bridgehead to link the east and
west.” The state department ad
visor, Benjamin Cohen, estimated
$24,000,000,000 would be needed
in six years to succor Europe.
Bevin said it would be *disas
trous for ideological or other rea
sons to frustrate that great endea
vor.” He welcomed the fact that
Russia, whose controlled press
continued caustic criticism of the
United States, was included in the
American proposal.
A subcommittee of the United
Nations Balkan investigating com
mission was drafting a report in
the Greek port of Salonika telling
why it could not go into Bulgaria,
recently an Axis satellite but now
in the Russian sphere. The U. S.
representative accused Bulgaria
of failing to fulfill its obligation to
provide the U. N. with full facili
ties to investigate Greek charges
that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Al
bania were assisting Greek leftist
rebels. The Russian representative
defended the Bulgarian action.
SHOW AT THEATER STARTS
EARLY TONIGHT
The management of the Dream
Theater announces that the show
tonight: “Son of Lassie,” is excep
tionally long, and therefore the
show will start at 7:00 p.m instead
of 7:15 pjn., as usual. The second
showing will be at the usual time
of 9:00 pjn.