Healy River Coal
Strike Ends; Miners
Get Pay Hike
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A 16-day
strike at the Healy River Coal
Company ended Sunday night
when more than 60 miners return
ed to the pits.
A back-to-work order was is
sued after a contract was signed
by the company and the United
Mine Workers Union <Ind.\ which
recently organized employees at
the Suntrana, Alaska, mine.
The new agreement went into
effect after union members votted
last Friday to accept a company
counter-offer granting wage raises
from 20 to 421 2 cents hourly, high
er vacation pay, formation of
grievance committees and increas
ing daily shifts of underground
workers from 8 to 84^ hours.
The union had demanded a
blanket increase of 4742 cents an
hour for all workers. Pre-strike
scales were $2.2742 hourly. ;
All provisions of the new con
tract, dated Sept. 30, were retro
active to Sept. 1.
A normal flow of coal is expect
ed here this week. The mine sup
plies about 200 tons daily to the
Fairbanks Exploration company
powerplant, source of nearly two
thirds of this city’s electricity.
Agreement was reached in pro
longed negotiations attended in
the final week by Henry Benson,
Territorial commissioner of labor.
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The Healy River mine was own-;
ed by the late “Cap” Austin E.
Lathrop and was the scene of his
death in a coal car accident July;
26. It was his largest Alaska in
dustrial operation.
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Gen. Hurley Blasts
Administration
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WENATCHEE, Wash. <JP) — A
former secretary of war accused
the Truman administration Satur
day of “shielding those who at
tempt to betray the United
States.*’
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley;
hurled the charge as he blamed
secret agreements at Yalta for
what he termed “our diplomatic
confusion and failure in Asia.”
He made the charges in his key
note address to the Washington
State Republican convention.
He took Senatorial investigating
committees to task also, declaring
they “have shielded the subver
sives and prevented the American i
people from obtaining the truth.”
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Garter Snake
Scares Big Gorilla :
—
CHICAGO, (JP)—Bushman, the
gorilla who fears no man, escaped
from his cage yesterday. A little
garter snake finally chased him
back inside.
The glowering barrel-chested,
550-pound ape roamed through a
corridor and monkey house kitch-1
en for more than two hours.
A dozen Lincoln Park police
men armed with rifles and shot
guns stood guard inside the mon
key house as keepers tried to coax
Bushman back to his cage.
Edgar Robinson, who raised
bushman from infancy, tried to
lead him back to the cage, but the
animal bit his arm.
Finally keepers pushed the two
foot garter snake under the kitch
en door leading to the corridor.
Bushman couldn’t take it. He
hurried into his cage. i
World Series
Highlights
Thursday* October 5. 1950
NEW YORK, (JP) — This isn’t
Brooklyn, that’s for sure. The
bleacherites didn’t start to form
their line in front of the Yankee
Stadium until yesterday morning.
And at that there only were two
diehards. The gendarmes chased
the pair, but told them their
spot at the head of the line would
be reserved in the early evening.
Many of the writers were con
soling the Phillies on their ‘moral’
victory in holding the Yanks to’
three runs in two games—some
thing like North Carolina keeping
Notre Dame to a 14-7 victory last
Saturday. But catcher Ken Silver
stri summed it up best.
“What’s the difference whether
it’s one run or 10 runs? We got
beat, didn’t we?”
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What happened to all the talk
about the rabbit ball. The theory
is beginning to go around that
maybe the pitching in both leagues
has been so gosh awful that the
hitters have been looking good
even if they normally had no
power. Something better happen
too, or the talk’s going to get
Hershey Wants
Tern Of Draft Ex
tended 21 to 30 Mo.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, selective serv
ive director, recommended today
that the draft should be extended
from 21 months to 30 months.
He advanced the proposal as a
means of maintaining an army of
louder.
Incidentally, Bill Dickey, the
Yankee coach, said that Robin
Roberts, the young Phillie hurler,
who lost yesterday’s 2-1, 10-inn
ing affair, is the best young right
hander in either league. Dizzy
Dean, no slouch in his day i nthe
big time, agreed.
The odds on the Yanks have
jumped to 1-15. Only one team in
the history of the series has re
bounded after losing the first two
games—the Giants did it in 1921
and the Pirates came from behind
a 3-1 deficit once. I
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A1 Schacht, the clown prince of
baseball, returned to Yankee sta
dium to entertain the customers
with his antics, after missing the
last two series because of illness.
1,500,000.
, Hershey made this and three
other major recommendations tcf
the House armed services commit
tee which is studying possible re
vision in the draft.
The other suggested changes:
To modify deferment for de
pendency. He would have defer
ment for collateral dependents
wiped out.
To remove restrictions on induc
tion of veterans under 26 years of
age.
To watch carefully that the “ac
ceptability” standard does not get
out of hand.
In explanation of the third sug
gestion Hershey said he believed
“we are going to have to get a new
approach to capacity to serve.”
Although he did not specify,
+ his apparently would mean less
strict qualifications.
Iiershey made no recommenda
tions for changing the present
draft age of 19 through 25.
In fact, he said he believed that
the army could be raised and
maintained by depending on this
age group if the other suggestions
aie adopted.
Chairman Vinson i'D.-Ga.) is di
recting the work of the House
committee to find what is needed,
as he said, to “attain the size of
the army contemplated.” Vinson
himself did not give any exact
figure on the size.
I Judge Asks Florida
California To Drop
Out Of Union
CHICAGO, (>P) — A Chicago
judge suggested Wednesday that
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California and Florida withdraw
from the Union to make way for
Alaska and Hawaii.
Judge Rudolph Desort of supe
j rior court was irked at court or- j
ders in conflict with his own.
“There have been a number of
; occasions when court of Califor
nia have refused to recognize de
crees and orders of Illinois courts,
ignoring an agreement among
states to respect laws of other
states,” he said.
“Some courts in Florida like
wise have ignored rulings of this
court. They seem to be the only
states which do not respect laws
of a sister state.
“It seems to me they would
drop out of the Union and permit
Alaska and Hawaii to take their
places.”
A divorce case before Judge
Desort involved a conflict with
California. He did not cite a spe
cific instance of disagreement
with a Florida court.
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