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VOL. L. No. 135_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10~1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE (JP)—The coast guard
said today that the Alaska Rail
road barge ARR-738 is ashore in
Fern Harbor, Cross Sound, South- i
eastern Alaska, with a crew of two
men aboard. The barge is carry
ing 2,000 tons of relief supplies, j
TOKYO, fiP) — A shipment of
400 canary birds will leave here
today aboard a plane for the j
United States.
Japanese canary breeders said
it was the first aerial movement i
of canaries and if successful they
expected to send some 20,000 in
the next year.
The shipment is to the Oden
wald company of New York.
ANCHORAGE (/P)—Power rates
may go up here because of increas
ing operating costs. ,
The Anchorage public utiities
district formed asked last week
for a meeting with city officials to
“adjust rates.”
The APU, which acts as a
wholesale agency, estimated oper
ating costs were up about 12 per
cent. They include a 20-cent
across-the-board pay raise and
fuel costs up 19.4 per cent since
last year, officials said.
JUNEAU, (JP)—Martin Brandall
of Juneau, skipper of the gasboat
Avona, was reported Monday as j
missing since Friday when he fail- !
ed to return from a deer hunting
trip to Square Cove.
An unsuccessful search for the;
Avano has been conducted by sev
eral fishing vessels and a coast
guard patrol boat. The land area
around the cove was to be combed
yesterday.
SEATTLE, (/P)—A total of 831,
000 pounds of air cargo was flown ,
to Alaska and Hawaii last month'
by Pan American Airways, com
pany officials announced Monday.
The figure is more than double the
August cargo; due to the 68-day
maritime strike.
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Willard
Hansen, 65, a retire^, lineman with
the Alaska road commission, died
at his home Monday of a heart ail
ment. He had been ill since last
January.
An Alaska resident since 1913,
Hansen is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Susie Coombs of Seattle, and
two sons, Hartley and Robert of
Fairbanks.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The CAB
authorized Philippines Air Lines, I
Inc., yesterday to include Guam
as a regular stop on its flights be
tween Manila and San Francisco
by way of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Alaska Coastal Airlines and El
lis Airlines were authorized to in
clude Sitka as a regular stop on
flights between Juneau and Ketch
ikan.
SEATTLE, {&)— Northwest Air
lines has assigned the first of its
newly-designed cargo-passen ger
planes to the emergency Alaska
air service, Croil Hunter, presi
dent and general manager, an
nounced today.
The plane is a Douglas DC-4
with a 36,600-gallon fuel capacity.
Hunter said the plane and oth
SUP Upsets The
Applecart In
Maritime Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—A jur
isdictional dispute today blocked
immediate peace negotiations in
the lengthy west coast maritime
strike.
Harry Lundberg, president of
the AFL sailors’ union of the Pa
cific, received assurance of full
jurisdiction over steam schooners
and Alaska ships.
The SUP is not on strike but
has been idled by the picket lines
of the CIO longshoremen and four
other striking unions.
Employers said Lundeberg’s
stand brought up “complications
which must be ironed out.’’ This
delayed the expected reopening of
negotiations between employers
and the striking unions.
The SUP claims jurisdiction
over the cooks, stewards and deck
crew of the disputed lumber ship
Rolando, tied up at Coos Bay, Ore.
The SUP also says it has authority
to handle all lumber cargo on the
ship. Marine cooks, engineers and
stevedores counter that this is an
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At A Glance —
lnternation’1 News
(By the Associated Press)
Tuesday, November 9, 1948
The United Nations political
committee called on communist
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania
today to cooperate with Greece in
settling the Balkan dispute. Yugo
slavia promptly said she would
ignore the U. N. special committee
on the Balkans.
The Slav bloc of six nations re
fused to vote, as they did Monday
when the committee approved an
indictment of Greece’s neighbors
for helping the Greek communist
rebels.
The security council was on a
new approach to the Palestine
problem, trying to turn the present
truce into an armistice. The arm
istice would include wide separa
tion of warring Jews and Arabs,
broad demilitarized zones and a
reduction of armies.
The Palestine Post said the Jews
and Arabs are having preliminary
talks in Paris. Unofficial reports
in Tel Aviv said the beaten Egyp
tians are leaving Gaza, their main
base in southern Palestine and
once the seat of a newly proclaim
ed Palestine Arab government.
The Israeli navy has a blockade
arounnd Gaza, but there is no
known army pressure on the town.
Russia imposed new traffic con
trols in an effort to seal tighter
her blockade of western Berlin.
Six major road blocks were set
at sector borders to inspect vehic
les.
Trygve Lie, secretary general of
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ers scheduled to follow will be
added to the present Seattle-Taco
ma-Anchorage service. He added
that the plane can be easily con
verted for any type of service,
making it ideal for Alaska use.
Demos Snub Mrs. |
Roosevelt’s Plan
For Party Purge
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, UP) — Demo
crat leaders turned a cold shoul
der yesterday on the proposal of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt that States
Rights supporters be purged from
the party.
National chairman J. Howard
McGrath told a reporter it will be
up to Democratic members of the
House and Senate to decide who
gets the prized chairmanships in
the new Congress.
He indicated the national com
mittee doesn’t want to mix in any
such possible fight. McGrath is a
Senator from Rhode Island.
He hinted further—but didn’t
i say so flatly—that any reprisal
program such as Mrs. Roosevelt
suggested wouldn’t fit in with
current efforts to solidify Demo
crats behind the legislative pro
posal President Truman will send
to Congress in January.
In a radio broadcast from Paris
Monday, Mrs. Roosevelt said she
would like to see the “permanent
ousting of the Southern Dixiecrats
from the Democratic party.”
The widow of the late President
suggested that some southerners
who opposed Mr. Truman’s civil
rights program would be denied
Congressional chairmanships if
they aren’t recognized as Demo
crats. She named specifically Rep.
John Rankin (Miss.), dubbing him
“one of the worst reactionaries,”
and Senator Olin Johnston (S. C.)
Johnston refused to attend the
Jackson Day dinner here last win
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200 Guppies Could
Sink U. S. Fleet
BOSTON, {/P)—Extensive navy
maneuvers in the North Atlantic
have convinced Rear Admiral
James Fife that 200 breathing
submarines could sink the United
States merchant fleet.
The commander of the subma
rine fleet said that eight subma
rines of that type—known as Snor
kels or Guppies—delayed the ap
proach of an “invading” group
moving toward a landing at Ar
gentia, Newfoundland.
“Two hundred guppies could
sweep the United States merchant
marine from the seas,” Fife said.
He added, however, that the
United States has perfected new
anti-submarine devices wh I c h
should be capable of matching the
Snorkels.
Units of the second fleet cli
maxed what the navy described as
the most extensive North Atlahtic
manuevers Monday with an “in
vasion” of Newfoundland,
Sections of the second marine
brigade, under orders to capture
Argentia and its heavily defended
air base, swam ashore on northern
beaches. They wore special Arctic
equipment.
Vice AdmiralD. B. Duncan,
commanding the maneuvers, said
the snorkels would have sunk or
seriously defeated our task forces
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Un-American
Activities Star Sets
For Time Being
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(By William F. Arbogast)
WASHINGTON if?)—'The House
Un-American activities committee
seems likely to be in eclipse for
the rest of this year.
With chairman J. Parnell Tho
mas (R.-N. J.) under indictment
and two other Republican mem
bers in “lame duck” company, a
committee official said yesterday
he sees little activity ahead until
the committee is reorganized un
der Democratic control January 3.
This means that resumption of
the Reds-in-Hollywood investiga
tion and the atomic spy hunt—
both tentatively set for this month
and next—will be delayed.
So will the committee’s long
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Argentia Invasion
“Not Possible” In
Actual Warfare
BOSTON, UP) — Fighting ships
of the U. S. second task fleet
headed toward Arctic waters to
day after participating in maneu
vers off Argentia, Newfoundland,
during which assault marines
made successful beach landing.
The ships will test anti-subma
rine devices under frigid condi
tions in the far reaches of the
North Atlantic.
The marines—in the second
phase of the operations—pushed
inland after seizing the Argentia
operations base in the amphibious
attack, a Boston Traveler corres
pondent reported.
The first wave of assault troops
swarmed ashore yesterday just as
sun broke through thick fog that
enveloped the area.
Planes based on the carriers
Leyte, Kearsage and Philippine
Sea provided air protection for
landing forces and strafed and
bombed coastal defenses.
' The battleship Missouri, carry
ing fleet commander Vice Admir
al Donald B. Duncan, slipped
through the fog prior to the ma
rine landings to hurl shells at
shore fortifications.
Naval officers said that in act
ual warfare the Argentia defend
ers would have cut sharply the
number of ships that lay off the
coast and possibly could have
halted the invasion.
Lone Picket Halts
Barge Loading
SEATTLE, (/P)—CIO longshore
men reported a lone picket halted
loading of a government-operated
Alaska relief barge here Monday.
Fifty longshoremen who stop
ped work when he appeared said
the picket claimed to represent the
AFL hoisting engineers’ local 302,
but the local disclaimed any know
ledge of the action.
The third one of its type to be
put into emergency service during
the maritime strike, the barge was
half loaded when work stopped.
It is scheduled to sail Monday.
Fisheries Oppose
Wallgren As
Interior Secretary
ANCHORAGE, — The head
of a CIO fisheries group today
urged Alaska unions to oppose
any move to appoint Governor
Mon C. Wallgren of Washington
as secretary of the interior. Wall
gren, close friend of President
Truman, failed to secure re-elec
tion as governor.
John Wiese, president of the
CIO western Alaska fisheries
council, declared “Wallgren is one
of a group of politicians known as
‘the Washington gang’ who have
done lots of errands for Northwest
industrialists and others with
heavy interests in Alaska. They
are the ones who have cleverly
done axework against Alaska,
against such measures as state
hood, against Governor Gruening,
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Fear All On
Missing Planes
Have Perished
SEATTLE, (/P)—Hope appeared
faint today that any of 38 crew
men and passengers on three
planes missing in the North Pa
I cific area are still alive.
, The navy was inclined to dis
count the possibility that dim ra
dio signals picked up Monday by
four Alaska and west coast sta
tions came from a missing navy
Neptune bomber. The signals
came from a point west of Seattle
and the navy believes the plane is
down in some other sector. Nine
; men were aboard when the bomb
er disappeared last Thursday. The
search is continuing.
The hunt for two planes in the
Alaska area was shackled by bad
weather Monday. Seventeen were
aboard a Pacific Alaska air ex
press airliner which vanished
Thursday between Sitka and
Ketchikan and a crew of 12 was
on a navy Privateer patrol bomber
which failed to return to its Ko
diak base after a flight over the
Aleutians last Wednesday.
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Reach Agreement <
To Permit Loading
Gov’t Barges
(Special to The Nugget)
i SEATTLE, </P)—An agreement
was reached this afternoon to per
mit loading of emergency supplies
to be resumed on three barges of
the Alaska Railroad, Ralph West
over, vice president of the Alaska
Junior Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced. He had met with repre
sentatives of unions involved in
jurisdictional dispute. Loading
was halted Monday.
West over said the AFL union
agreed to remove its picket and
the CIO agreed to return to work.
"Both sides will operate under
conditions existing before the dis
pute," Westover said. "The agree
ment reached, however, applies
only to emergency Alaska ship
ments."