Boeing Strike Over'
• But Jurisdictional
Battle Rages
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of demands for an hourly wage in
crease of 30 cents an hour. Wage
scales at the time ranged from $1
to $1.80. Retention of seniority
provisions also was a basic issue
in the dispute. The company of
fered a 15-cent raise.
Dave Beck, international vice
president of the teamsetrs union,
made the announcement which
promised a jurisdictional battle
with the aero-mechanics.
He reported formation of a new
teamster-chartered union, the
aeronautical workers, warehouse
men and helpers. He said it will
seek memberships from workers
in all hourly categories at Boeing.
The union has been organizing
returned workers a* Boeing but
previous announcements have in
dicated it was interested only in
claiming jurisdiction over ware
housemen and a few others.
Songbirds Crash I
“World’s Highest’
NEW YORK, OP)—Hundreds of
songbirds winging south in dark
ness apparently crashed into the
Empire State building early Satur- j
day and plunged dead in the
streets around the world’s tallest |
structure.
After dawn workers still were
collecting the bodies of the bright
ly plumaged birds. They included
thrushes and warblers. Many land- j
ed on auto tops and smashed j
against windshields.
The incident was duplicated in
Philadelphia where hundreds of
small birds fell dead to the streets
during the night after striking tall
buildings. Ornithologists agreed
the birds, principally warblers, (
met death while making their sea
sonal migration. They theorized
weather conditions confused the
birds and drove them down from
j safe altitudes, or that bright lights
drew them.
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intra-party s‘ruggle with glee.
But McGrath gave the Republi
cans something new to answer in
a charge yesterday that they had
“welched” on price-support prom
ises to the farmers.
He said the GOP controlled con- •
gress had passed a bill granting
the commodity credit corporation a
federal charter but had refused to
permit it to increase its storage
facilities.
Henry A. Wallace, meanwhile,
indicated plans to join in the agri- i
culture arguments. Progressi v e
party headquarters said he will
confer with party farm leaders in
Chicago where he will speak Tues
day night.
Wallace lashed out anew at Mr.
Truman last night in a Baltimore '
address saying that the President
was “inconsistent” in firing him
from the cabinet for a foreign pol
icy address which he said Mr. Tru
man previously had approved.
While the Presidential campaign
gathered steam, Maine’s voters
turne dout today for the year’s
1 first general election.
Politicians will be totaling up
the expected Republican majority
j in that northeastern state today
for any indication it may give "No
vember’s national outcome.
Like the other states, Maine
votes in November on the Presi
dency. But unless the signs fail its
jci'izens today will send Rep. Mar
garet Chase Smith, Republican, to
| the Senate as the first woman to
be elected to a full six-year term
urithout having served previously
as an appointee.
A half dozen primaries tomor
row may give some hint of how
the politicial winds are blowing
across the nation.
In Washington State, Gov. Mon
Wallgren, close personal lriend of
Mr. Truman, is seeking re-nomina
tion.
Minnesota, Michigan, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts also
have primaries in which there is
little national interest.
In Vermont, Gov. Ernest W.
Gibson, who has CIO support—
rare for a Republican—is seeking
re-nomination in a primary bat'le
with Lt. Gov. Lee E. Emerson.
CHARLES ROUSE SURVEYS
REINDEER GRAZING GROUNDS
Charles Rouse, of the Fish and
Wildlife, flying with Walter White
arrived last evening from Juneau,
on a survey of grazing ground^ for
reindeer in this division. He states
that there appears to be sufficient
range in the Golovin area and will
spend the next two days studying
conditions around here for the
Nome-Douglas herd which the Es
kimoes are trying to re-establish,
as well as the other ranges.
He is working with Hale Belsher
of the department, who also ar
rived yesterday.
Paul McCarthy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. McCarthy, who has
been spending the summer at home
and working for the Lomen Com
mercial Co., departed for Pullman,
Washington, where he is attending
the Washington State College.
Carolyn McLain, daughter of
Carrie McLain, and Fina Ivanoff,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Ivanoff,' left by Pan American for
the University of Alaska last Fri
day.
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Army Scrapping
Harbor Defenses
WASHINGTON, </P>—The army
is scrapping its historical harbor
defense system, with their mighty,
but outmoded, 16-inch coastal de- 1
fense guns.
Officials declined to say pre
cisely which have been abandon
ed. However, at least half a dozen
were scheduled more than a year
ago to be declared “surplus” to
army needs, with disposal of the
equipment to be made as soon as
possible.
On this original list were harbor
defenses at New Bedford, Mass.;
Charleston, S. C.; Key West, Fla.;
Pensacola, Fla.; Galveston, Tex.;
and Columbia, Ore.
The coastal defense system,
which had its beginning back in
colonial days, has succumbed to
changing military strategy and
weapons—planes, mobile artillery
and rockets.
ANN WALSH RETURNS
FROM STATES TRIP
Ann Walsh, teacher of the third
grade in the Nome Territorial
school, who made a quick trip to
I the States last week with her sis
I ter Patricia, returned Friday to as
' sume her work.
, Two U. S. Navy Submarines, the
USS Carp and USS Blower, which
have been on Arctic maneuvers
this past summer, are in the Nome
Roadstead today and will leave for
the south tonight. They brought
civilian passengers ashore who
will fly to the States.
FISH SURVEY BOAT
ARRIVES IN NOME
The 100-foot fishing boat of the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ar
rived in Nome Roadstead Saturday
morning and departed in the late
afternoon, after taking on a ballast
load of rocks, for its first explora
tory course in the Norton Sound
area.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Eighteen
months after L. E. Race entrusted
a 300-pound box to a storage com
pany, the concern delivered a 400
pound box.
But the 100-pound gain was no
bargain, Race—an accountant and
former naval officer—said in a
$3000 damage suit filed against Be
kins Van and Storage Co.
The box delivered to him here,
he said, was full of very solid con
crete blocks.
The box he left in storage in
San Francisco contained an exten
i sive supply of fine bourbon, Scotch
rye and French cognac. Company
! agents, Race alleged, disposed of
I his liquid assets.
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