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VOL. L. No. 71. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. JUNE 14, 1948 15c Per COPY=
Ask Congress To
Outlaw All Big
Rairoad Strikes
WASHINGTON, — </P) — A
spokesman for railroad manage
ment proposed today that Con
gress outlaw big railroad strikes
such as was threatened this spring.
J. Carter Fort, vice-president
and general counsel of the Asso
ciation of American Railroads,
said “there can be no doubt that
indefensible railroad strikes must
be prevented by law if the national
■ welfare is to be protected.”
Fort was a witness before the
Senate-House committee on la
bor-management relations. That
,group is making a general study
of what changes may be advis
able in labor laws.
Russians Tie Up
Traffic in Germany
BERLIN, — (/P) —The Russians
blocked freight shipments from
the western occupation zones of
Germany throughout the night
but agreed yesterday to restore
traffic to Berlin, U.S. and Brit
ish officials announced.
An American official said the
Russians consented to discuss the
whole question of Berlin freight
at a special meeting of Russian,
American, British and French
transport officials Monday.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. Mili
1 tary Governor, said earlier he
would reinstate thq Frankfurt
Berlin air ferry if necessary to
get supplies to the Germans and
Americans in the U.S. sector of the
city. The air lift was used in last
April’s Soviet-engineeered trans
portation crisis.
Senate Urges
Rail Extension
To Alaska
WASHINGTON, — {&) —A rail
link with Alaska through Brit
ish olumbia was urged in a reso
lution introduced jointly in the
Senate today by Senators Mag
nuson (D-Wash) and Butler (R
Neb).
The resolution asked President
Truman to begin negotiations with
the Canadian government for ex
tension of the Pacific Great East
ern Railroad to the Alaskan boun
dary. The present northern ter
minus of the line is at Prince
George, B. C.
The President was requested
further to authorize surveys to
determine the feasibility of ex
tending the Alaska Railroad to
connect with the PGE at the Can
ada-Alaska border.
, Plans, specifications, cost es
timates and budget requests would
be included under the terms of the
resolution.
Mr. Truman was also asked to
include reciprocal tariff and im
migration arrangements in his
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Here is the University of Washington Men's Glee Club, which left Seat
tle June 10 for an extended tour of Alaska. The Club is being sent on the
tour by Seattle businessmen in observance of the golden jubilee of the
Alaska Gold Rush.
Court Injunction
Restrain Strike
Maritime Workers
SEATTLE, — (JP) —A report
from Washington indicates the
threatened longshoremen’s strike
against Alaska shipping lines will
be delayed by the 80-day injunc
tion asked by President Truman
against maritime strikes on all
coasts.
The Associated Press Washing
ton Bureau messaged:
“Alaska firms are in the list
appended to Inquiry Board’s re
port and Justice Department cus
tomarily follows board list. There
is no intention to leave Alaska
out.”
William Gettings, regional dir
ector of the CIO Longshoremen’s
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Alaska Included in
Court Injunction
NEW YORK, — (JP) —A U.S.
District Court Judge today grant
ed the government a temporary
injunction restraining a threaten
ed nation wide strike of more than
100,000 maritime workers.
The strike has been threatened
by the seven unions involved for
any time after tomorrow midnight, i
It would involve dock workers
for any east, gulf and west coast
ports as well as the seamen who;
man most of the nation’s merch-!
ant shipping.
The injunction, asked by the
department of justice acting under
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Plans For U. of W.
Glee Club Made
Plans are well under way to
welcome the University of Wash
ington Men’s Glee Club which
is due here for one of their con
certs on next Sunday, June 20th.
Mayor Luther Dunbar states that
committees will be named tonight
at the regular meeting of the City
Council, and other groups will
participate in the occasion.
Housing and other problems will
be discussed and definite plans
made.
Inquiry Board Says
Maritime Deadlock
Labor Law Cause
— ■ — ■
WASHINGTON, — (/P) — A
Presidential inquiry board Sat
urday blamed the Taft-Hartley
law for the deadlock which now
threatens the entire U.S. Merch
ant Marine with a strike next
Tuesday.
In a repor1 to the White House
the five-man board said maritime
employers and unions want to
continue their traditional hiring
hall system but the employers
consider that the new law makes
it illegal.
The board, headed by Harry
Shulman of Yale University law
school, spoke of an all-coast walk
out as inevitable unless barred by;
court order.
President Truman is expected j
to order the Ju§tice Department!
to apply for a Taft-Hartley in- '
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10 Milion Bill For
Flood Housing
PORTLAND, — (/P)—'The raging
Columbia river rose today in re
newed threat to three industrial
areas in the Pacific Northwest.
President Truman viewed the
devastated American flood zone
of Oregon and Washington yes
terday as these high spots were
developing in the three-week bat
tle against the Columbia and Fra
ser rivers, worst rampage in the
U.S. and Canada.
Water from the Columbia lap
ped at a secondary dike protect
ing a $43,000,000 aluminum plant
east of Portland in Oregon. Sog
gy levees remained critical along
the 100-mile industrial and farm
ing belt from Portland to the
Pacific in Oregon and Washington.
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Senate Favors
Interior Approp’ns
WASHINGTON, — (/P) — The
Senate Appropriations Committee
reported unanimously to the Sen
ate Saturday a $422,175,098 in
terior department appropriation
bill, the biggest ever presented to
Congress.
The total is $46,486,507 more
than the House approved, but
$11,343,000 is in supplemental es
timates, not considered by the
House. The committee increase
over the House figure, as a re
sult, is $35,143,507.
The total is $52,594,737 less than
President Truman’s overall bud
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Guns Silent Today
In Palestine
UNDATED PALESTINE,—The
guns for once were quiet today in
Palestine.
Even the angry debate between
Israel and various of the seven
opposed Arab states over who
broke the truce in northern Gali
lee and Jerusalem appears to be
quieting down. It was about the
most peaceful day since the United
Nations voted last November 29
to partition Palestine into Jewish
and Arab states.
The Jews took a food convoy
into Jerusalem, where 90,000
Jews have been besieged almost
from the time Britain quit her
mandate May 15. They said Arab
Legion guns fired at the convoy,
but missed. Legion officers said
the convoy itself was a truce vio
lation. It went into the Holy City
over a new route.
Some 400 immigrants landed
in Tel Aviv. U.N. truce observers
said men of army age would be
sent to a refugee camp.
BERLIN,—American and Brit
ish military governors postponed
talks with German leaders, at the
request of France, over a Western
! Germany federal government. The
delay came because the French
national assembly still is debat
ing the six-power accord. Au
proval is expected tomorrow by
a small margin. The talks with
the German leaders had been
scheduled for Tuesday.
U.S. government observers said
the Germans appeared apathetic
to a Communist plebicite “for
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U.S. Adds Military
Aid to Foreign
Aid Program
WASHINGTON, — UP) —The
American government is expected
to expand its foreign aid object
ives to include military aid to a
western European defense organ
ization which this country might
eventually join.
That appeared to be the first
major product likely to come out
of the Senate’s 64 to 4 approval
Friday of a far-reaching foreign
policy resolution by Senator Van
denberg (R-Mich).
Passage of that resolution served
notice on the world that the trea
ty making chambers favor U.S.
participation in regional defense
organizations set up to carry out
the peace aims of the United Na
tions.
Vandenberg’s resolution, drafted
with the state department approv
al has no binding effect. A some
what similar measure ha’ been
introduced in the House which
would be law if passed by both
houses and signed by the presi
dent.
But the Senate action was ex
pected to have direct effect on
European efforts to work out
a regional defense organization
based on the five nation pact
signed recently at Brussels.