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NEWS IN BRIEF
PARIS, i(j*P)—'Fists flew' yester
day morning at the Cathedral of
Notre Dame.
When relatives of Philppe Hen
roit attended a mass on the sixth
anniversary of his death, about
300 communists staged a demon
stration that wound up in a fight
before police intervened.
Henroit was Vichy minister of
information. He was assassinated
June 28, 1943.
WASHINGTON (/P)—A meeting
of region administrators of the
bureau of land management . at
Reno. Nev., July 11-12 was an
nounced today by secretary of the
interior Krug.
Krug also announced the land
^ commissioners of 11 western
states will confer at Reno July 13.
Regional chiefs w'ho will attend
the meetings include Lowell M.
Puckett, Anchorage, Alaska.
JUNEAU, </P)—Territorial edu
cation commissioner James C.
Ryan said today the Nelse Mor
tensen Co., of Seattle had sub
mitted the lowest bid for construc
tion of the Kenai school building
—$349,969. The money will come
from "unfrozen” funds.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Harold R.
Conn, commissioner in the region
al United States mediation and
conciliation service office here,
left early today for Fairbanks,
where he will conduct contract
negotiations in an attempt to avert
a strike of 650 members of the
Fairbanks Mine Workers’ Union
^ independent).
SEATTLE. (/P) —John Murray,;
41, of Bremerton, was killed in an
automobile accident yesterday on
the Aleutian island of Unimak.;
the coast guard reported today.
Murray was employed as a con
struction worker by Drake-Puget
Sound, Seattle contracting firm.
The coast guard dispatched the
cutter Bittersweet to pick up Mur
ray’s body at Cape Sarichef. Mur-i
ray is survived by his wife and
two children.
MENLO PARK. Calif. </P)—Em
\ barrassed, Charles E. (Dad) Brown
cancelled the Brown’s 62nd wed
ding anniversary party yesterday.
Brown, at 82, had the mumps.
TOKYO, (#*)—Between 25 and
35 persons were reported killed
and 1,000 houses destroyed or
damaged today by a heavy rain
storm around Kagoshima City in
southeastern Kyushu.
* SHANGHAI, </P)— Low flying
nationalist bombers blasted the
chowded Chapei district of Shang
hai today, killing at least two per
sons and injuring upwards of 100.
SEATTLE. (i^P) — Two blonde,
dark-eyed little girls, three and
five years old, boarded a plane
by themselves at Boeing field for
a flight to join their parents at
Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
The little girls, Suzan and Mary
^ Ann Urquhart, are the daughters
of Capt. and Mrs. James Robert;
Urquhart. The father was assign-'
Miners Musi File
By Aug. 1
<(/P)* Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Watkins (R.-Utah) pointed out to
day that mining claim owners
must file notices by Aug. 1 in or
der to be exempt from 1948-49
assessment work.
The general mining laws re
quire a prospector on public land
to do $100 worth of work on his
claim each year.
Congress waived this provision
of the law for the year which
will end Friday, July 1, but re
quired a notice from any person
who wants to take advantage of
the postponement.
Assessment work for the 1949-50
year still must be performed.
President Truman said he will not
approve another postponement.
Any claim owner who already
has done all or part of his 1948-49
work may, by filing notice, re
ceive credit on the 1949-50 re
quirement.
Notices are to be filed at the of
fice where the location notice was
filed.
Fairbanks Jobless
Reach Record High
FAIRBANKS. t/P) — Territorial
employment officials expressed
concern yesterday over a total of
845 men and women unemployed
this month in Fairbanks — the
highest June jobless mark on rec
ord.
Milton Ward, director of the
Ter ritorial employment office,
said new applicants are streaming
in daily, 44 new applications be
ing registered in a single day last
week.
He said that normally applica
tions run from “zero to 100” dur
ing June, which ordinarily is the
peak employment month in the
Territory.
Most applicants, he said are un
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Grandfather Finds
He’s A Mother
YARMOUTH, Eng. UP)—Friends
know E. J. Longcroft as a 64-year
old grandfather, but in the nation
al health service’s books he’s a
mother.
Longcroft, a staff sergeant in
the first world war, has been ill
for six months. A while back he
wrote the health service to find
out why his industrial sick bene
fits had stopped.
The service replied by sending
him vouchers for five pounds, five
shillings ($21> in maternity bene
fits.
%
ed to Ladd Field recently and
Mrs. Urquhart drove to Fairbanks
over the Alcan Highway last
week.
Accompanying Mrs. Urquhart
on the trip were a sister, Miss
Ann O'Connor, and Miss Mary Ce
line Kopriva, of Tacoma. The
children were put aboard a Pan
American Airways plane by Sgt.
and Mrs. Robert Beckwith, of Ta
coma. .
Justice Douglas
Opens Door To
War Crimes Appeal
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Interna
tional war criminals seeking free
dom from American imprison
ment yesterday charted a new
course toward U. S. civil courts,
1 along a route marked out by a
Supreme Court Justice.
Attorneys for Japanese war lords
serving prison terms for war
crimes said they probably will
! seek American court action as a
result of an opinion handed down
! Monday by Justice William O.
Douglas.
Douglas’ views dealt with a case
j the Supreme Court disposed of
: six months ago in what he now
calls a “potentially dangerous” de
; cision—even though it was one he
, agreed with.
In that ruling, the court held
that it had no power to hear the
1 appeals filed by wartime Japanese
Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 oth
j
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Cook Inlet Cannery
\\ orker On Strike
—
ANCHORAGE, i/P)—The Alas
ka fisherman’s union and the
i Cook Inlet cannery workers union
fCIO> went on strike Monday at
Seldovia and Kenai. In the first of
a series of scheduled walkouts
which are expected to paralyze
I canning operations along the en
tire inlet.
Picket lines were thrown
' around four canneries in the two
| towns.
John Wiese, president of the
Westward Alaska Fisheries Coun
cil <CIO> said two Anchorage
plants—the Emard Packing com
pany and the General Fish com
I pany—probably will be hit in the
i next few days.
Canneries struck yester day
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I
Committee Flans
Fine Celebration
For July Fourth
Chairman T. A. McAllister,
chairman tor the 4th of July cele
bration to be held next Monday
reports the following committees
have been appointed.
Special fireworks have been or
dered which will be in charge of
Ted Duffield.
j An airshow is planned with
Dave Bronaugh, pilot for Wien
Airlines and Ted Duffield in
charge—at which time various
bush pilots will partake and pos
sibly some parachute jumps.
The finance committee is head
ed by Charley Jones.
Laura MacKenzie and Mrs.
Charles Fagerstrom will be in
charge of the children’s parade,
for which prizes will be given for
special costumes.
Chief W. W. Laws will be in
charge of the distribution of ice
cream to the children.
James and Pearse Walsh have
charge of decorations and they
urge all business houses and pri
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Nome Blood
Donors Swamp
Local Hospital
NOME, (>P) —A 16-year-old Es
kimo boy was reported resting
easier in the Nome hospital
today after a call for blood donors
Monday night brought such a re
sponse that a second message had
to be broadcast to halt the sush.
Mike Oten accidentally shot
himself in the leg while hunting
near his native village of St. Mi
chael, about 120 miles from here.
He dragged himself to a cabin. A
radiophone call brought an Alaska
Airlines plane winging from Nome
to return him here.
At the hospital. Dr. Fred Lang
sam issued a call for blood don
ors. Type B. The call was relayed
over the local army radio station
WXLN, and the resulting flood of
donors, both military and civilian,
proved more than the hospital
could handle.
Doctors have removed the bullet
from Mike's leg, but his condition
is still regarded as critical.
The hospital said the two don
ors, each of whom gave a pint of
blood, were Pvt. Ennsensio G.
Coehlo, Pawtucket. R. I., of the
5030th Air Base squadron, and
Robert E. Masch, Milwaukee, Wis..
air radioman of the navy.
Two llurl In Cook
Inlet Strike Fracas
ANCHORAGE, </P> — Violence
flared in the Alaska Fishermen’s
union <CIO> strike yesterday when
two pickets were ‘‘roughed up” at
the entrance of the Emard Pack
ing Co., and General Fish Co.,
canneries.
The union identified the injured
pickets as Bob Weimer and Ed
Eddleman, both of Anchorage.
John Wiese, president of the
Westward Alaska Fisheries coun
cil <CIO> said the pickets around
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Bogus $20 Bills
Being Circulated
In Alaska
ANCHORAGE (/P.l—U. S. treas
ury department officials said yes
terday counterfeit $20 bills are
being circulated in Fairbanks and
several other points in the Terri
tory. Business houses here were
notified to be on the lookout for
the bogus bills.
Officials said they appear to be
from the same batch which is be
ing circulated on the West Coast
in the States.
Their most noticeable defect is
that the back-ground of the por
trait of Andrew Jackson is made
up of wavy lines instead of fine
screen.
Treasury men said the counter
feiters made one glaring error in
attempting to duplicate the bills
issued by the federal reserve bank
at San Francisco:
Genuine bills from this bank
carry the figure 12 in each corner
of the face of the bill, but the bo
gus bills show the number five.
News of the World
At A Glance —
Tuesday. June 29, 1949
<By The Associated Press)
Vatican diplomatic representa
tives in Czechoslovakia were ac
cused today by the communist
Czech government of subversive
plotting against the state.
Informants said the attacks
might mean the government is
building up a case for severing
diplomatic relations with the Vati
can. This was interpreted as a
highly important development in
the broadening church-state con
flict.
The attacks were in the form of
official statements and articles in
the controlled press. The govern
ment likened the situation in
' Czechoslovakia to what is termed
the “Vatican-Mindszenty plot
I
against the Hungarian people’s re
public."
i Britain has called a British
commonwealth conference to deal
with a deepening financial crisis.
The finance ministers of the Bri
tish nations are faced with a seri
ous problem of fast-draining gold
and dollar reserves.
Investors in England are selling
their government securities to a
serious extent. British manufac
tured goods are finding the going
hard in dollar areas. Even sales
of raw products like tin. rubber,
cocoa and wool are falling off.
Finance ministers of Canada,
Australia, Ceylon. India, New
Zealand, Pakistan and South Af
rica will confer in London early
in July with prime minister Cle
mente Attlee and economics chief
Sir Stafford Cripps.
The crisis has come to a hea^I
because the year-old system of
payments among Marshall Plan
countries is up for revision. The
old system by which nations settled
their affairs on a bi-lateral basis
ends Thursday. Britain wants the
bilateral system retained, believ
ing it is more easily controlled. It
does not provide for payments in
dollars. Some other countries are
proposing that currency be fully
convertible in dollars and gold as
a spur to international trade. The
United States is supporting the
latter system.
Striking West Berlin railway
workers returned to their jobs to
day. The Soviet controlled rail
management expects to have nor
mal traffic resumed soon. Mean
while the four occupation powers
are getting together to try to break
major economic deadlocks in di
vided Germany.
The strike was ended by a
Western Allied order directing the
workers to accept a compromise
offer of 60 per cent of their pay in
West marks. This will be raised
to 100 per cent by the West Berlin
city government.
Turkey is facing a political cri
sis. The minority democratic
party ha<f accused the government
of maintaining an unfair election
law and heavy handed police con
trol. Premier Shemsettin Gunal
tay, supported by the People’s
party, accused the Democrats of
trying to create a “terroristic at
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