Needed Supplies
Sold As Surplus
In China
SHANGHAI, (/P)—1The Shang
hai Evening Post and Mercury to
day said large quantities of nar
cotics, surgical instruments urg
ently needed in the United States,
surgical dressings made by Amer
ican housewives and medicinal
brandy have been sold as surplus
to Chinese merchants.
The newspaper declared that all
of these items except brandy
were sold in violations of specific
regulations of the U. S. foreign
liquidation commission.
T. V. Soong announced today
that the Chinese buyer of Ameri
can Red Cross blood plasma re
cently declared surplus by the
navy had agreed to sell back to
the United States all plasma still
in his possession.
Soong said the agreement was
reached on the basis of a settle
ment with the foreign liquidation
commission.
Terms of the resale were not
disclosed.
The disclosure that American
blood plasma was selling on the
Chinese black market for as much
as $50 a pint and advertised as a
‘health restorative” and a “vigor
improver” created a furor among
Red Cross authorities in China.
Soong emphasized that the plas
ma sale had no connection with
the bulk sale to China of United
States supluses in the Pacific isles.
Murray Reelected
CIO President
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (A*)—
Philip Murray today was re-elect
ed president of the CIO by ac
clamation.
There was a 15-minute demon
stration while a band played “Hail
to the Chief” on this final day of
a five-day meeting, and the dele
gates took one more whack at the
Communist party.
They changed the preamble of
the CIO constitution to declare:
“We turn to the people because
we have faith in them; and we op
pose all those who would violate
this American emphasis of respect
for human dignity, all those who
would use power to exploit the
people in the interest of allied loy
alties.”
There was no debate.
The convention, acting on a
swarm of important measures, al
so adopted a foreign policy reso
lution calling for world disarma
ment and opposing further stock
piling of atomic bombs.
POWER OFF WHILE
ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE
Power from the Northern Light
and Power Co., which was re
sumed Thursday afternoon, was
cut off for a short time on Thurs
day evening due to a little trou
ble with the cooling system. As
soon as the necesary adjustment
was made the power was restored.
He said that “no Chinese agency
at all” was involved in the buying.
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walk-out of his 400,000 bituminous
coal miners.
The two federal deputies went
to Lewis’ office a few minutes af
ter he arrived at union headquar
ters from his home in nearby
Alexandria, Va., where he had
been in seclusion for the last 36
hours.
The deputies ascended to Lewis’
sixth-floor office in the union
building where the mine leader
was waiting for them. The mar
shals were with Lewis only a few
minutes and then left.
Persons who have followed the
case closely said they expect Lewis’
attorneys to argue that the re
straining order obtained by the
government actually required him
to take an affirmative action.
They are expected to maintain
I that the court could not by a re
I straining order require Lewis to
1 withdraw his contract termination
j notice. The court ordered Lewis t">
refrain from “permitting to con
tinue in effect the notice hereto
! fore given” by Lewis to the gov
i ernment.
This language, Lewis’ attorneys
most likely will argue, had the ef
: feet of ordering him to do some
| thing rather than restraining him
i from an action, according to the
; usual scope of a federal restrain
ing order.
The writ is another step toward
possible clanging of jail doors in
the UMW chieftain’s face. It di
rects him to appear before U. S.
District Judge T. Alan Goldsbor
ough on Monday and tell why he
did not honor an order to recall
his contract “termination” of Wed
nesday night.
If Lewis fails then to clear him
self of the contempt charge—pos
sibly by calling off his “termina
tion” notice or by showing that
his stand is lawful—the next step
will come Wednesday. On that
day, Judge Goldsborough “with an
advisory jury” will decide Lewis’
guilt or innocence.
If convicted, the union might be
fined and Lewis sent to jail, until
j he obeys the court.
Tension mounted as the strug
gle between their leader and the
government advanced. Two men
were shot fatally in West Virginia
in the first major-flare-up of vio
lence.
Railroads, steel mills and their
customers, public utiltities and
other big users of soft coal began
battening down for the worst—a
protracted work stoppage in the
3,300 government-held mines.
A “brownout” to save fuel dark
ened the Capitol dome itself, while
Republican and Democratic Con
gress members joined in demands
for extraordinary measures. Some
asked a special session of Con
gress, but men close to President
J Truman said that was unlikely.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (/P)—If the
coal walkout continues, John L.
Lewis may get cold, too. He prob
ably has less than a month’s sup
ply of coal at his home.
This opinion comes from Ches
| Fannon, the man who sells Lewis
I his coal. Fannon told a reporter
I today Lewis has a small bin for
| his huge house.
“It only holds about a month’s
supply,” he said. *!And we have
n’t put in any coal lately.”
Lewis has some fuel insurance,
! however. There’s a woodpile in his
back yard.
New Land Office
For Anchorage
WASHINGTON, </P)—The U. S.
bureau of land management an
nounced today it will set us with
in a few months seven regional
offices for the administration of
400,000 acres of federal public
land.
The Alaska regional office will
be in Anchorage.
The decentralization of the bur
eau, which was born last July in
the consolidation of the former
general land office and the graz
ing service, will get under way in
December with establishment of a
Washington-Idaho-Oregon office
at Portland.
The regional offices will main
tain and supervise a reduced num
ber of district grazing offices and
all 25 district land offices, includ
ing three in Alaska.
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Wit—What for? I know what’s
in it!
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
HELD GOOD MEETING
The Pioneers of Alaska Igloo
No. 1 held a regular meeting last
evening at the new Pioneer Igloo
with Chas Pennycook, president,
in charge of the meeting.
Plans were made to hold the
Roof Garden, which before the
war was an annual big affair, on
December 14. The committee in
charge of the party are Gus John
son, A. Polet, Rube Cremer. A.
Castel, Gus Bjornstad, M. J.
Walsh, Chas. Jones and Pete Ol
son.
The initiation degree which was
to have been conferred on Bob
Scott and Dan Jones was post
poned until the next meeting, as
there will be others to be initiated
at that time.
Mr. Walsh made a gift of a pi
ano to the Pioneers for their new
Isgoo.
GEORGE AHGAPUK RETURNS
TO SHISHMAREF
George Ahgapuk, Shishmaref
artist, left for his home yesterday
morning.
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