CIO Left-Wingers
Ineligible For
Executive Board
CLEVELAND, {£>) — The CIO’s
executive board called in left-wing
nominees for posts on the board
Saturday to face charges they are
ineligible under the amended CIO
constitution, because of pro-com
munist leanings.
Nine union chiefs are under fire.
Their nominations for the board
were referred to the board at the
closing session of the convention
Friday, to determine whether they
could pass the new eligibility
clause of the constitution. The
clause bars from the board mem
bers of the communist party or
any who were influenced by the
communist program.
Eight of the nine appeared be
fore the board to defend them
selves. Absent at the start of the
meeting was Joseph Selly, presi
dent of the tiny American Com
munications Association.
The convention definitely turn
ed down only one nominee for the
board, which normally has 51
members. CIO president Philip
Murray ruled on the spot that Ben
Gold, head of the fur and leather
workers, and a member of the
communist party, could not serve.
The convention, before adjourn
ing Friday night, had tossed out
two unions under leftist leader
ship—the United Electrical Work
ers and the Farm Equipment
Workers.
The two unions, with a combin
ed membership of about 470,000,
merged last week but were thrown
out of the CIO for continued defi
ance of major policy.
NEW YORK, UP) — The term
“thirty”, which in newspaper par
lance means the end of an item,
originated in the early days of the
telegraph.
At that time operators, writing
longhand, used the symbol “XXX”
to designate the end of a dispatch
filed by a newspaper correspond
ent. The “XXX” constituting the
Roman numerals for “30,” it
quickly translated itself into the
now familiar “thirty.”
Key noldn Delayed
ln Attempted
World Speed Flight
—————
SAN FRANCISCO, Milton
Reynolds arrived at San Francisco
airport at 6:30 a.m. today, conced
ing failure in his attempt to set a
new flight record around the
earth.
He used commercial plane
schedules, reaching here on a Pan
American flight. He was to con
tinue to Los Angeles at once. En
gine trouble on a flight from
Guam delayed him.
The record is six days, three
hours and 15 minutes.
Reynolds’ time on his arrival
here was six days, seven hours
and 15 minutes. But his total time
must be figured upon his arrival
at Los Angeles, where he started
his trip Oct. 31.
' Air Force Tests
INW. Radar System
J
SEATTLE, i/P) — The air force
test o fits Pacific Northwest radar
screen continued today under a
! veil of semi-secrecy.
Although the operations were
proceeding under the guiding
hand of Maj. John E. Upson, 4th
Air Force commander, and other
top air force officials, none would
disclose how the area’s “defend
ers” fared against the intermittent
mock raids of B-29’s and B-50’s.
Results of the 11-day test will
not be disclosed for about a
month, or until the reports are
checked over in Washington, D. C,.
officials said.
Nearly 5,000 men and 200
planes are involved in the test
which has been officially dubbed
“operation overgreasy.” Defend
ers are based at six fields in east
ern and western Washington, Ore
gon and British Columbia. Bomb
ers of the 15th Air Force are the
“invading” forces.
Mrs. H. Echart, businesswoman
j of Kotzebue is here for a few days
on business.
MINERS & MERCHANTS j
l BANK OF ALASKA j
h NOME :: ALASKA
h 4<
t
! NORTHERN EIGHT & POWER CO.
[ 1
> -
\ ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
G-E Dial-the-fabric Iron - G-E Steam Iron
G-E Automatic Roaster - G-E Hotplate
G-E Washing Machine - G-E Sun Lamp
G-E Electric Clock - G-E Mazda Lamps
Wiring Materials
‘ BAKER¥ GOODS \
J FRESH EVERY DAY <
& Prices Reasonable fj
I wAMr n?n i
I i \!> i i “ r®. i AjIj n
Interior Dept.
Plans Settlements
For Alaska
(Continued from Page One)
average 150 acres in size, and the
trading center of each matured
| settlement would have a popula
j tion about equal to that of the
j surrounding farms.”
Estimates are that five initial
projects could add 15,000 to 20,000
people to Alaska’s population.
Warne said that the U. S. home
stead law did a good job in the
settlement of Iowa 100 years ago.
but had to be modified-to provide
for reclamation-irrigation pro
jects—when arid regions of the
west were put under the plow.
“In Alaska the homestead act
has been ineffective—has fallen
flat on its face—because condi
tions are more rigorous there,” he
said.
“Up there it takes a man a year
to clear five acres, eight years to
J clear the 40 acres that are the min
j imum for subsistence living. That
1 is the reason ony 12,000 to 14,000
acres of the several million that
must be usable for farms, out of
| 365,000,000 acres in Alaska, have
! been cleared.
‘We propose that suitable areas
I be set up as projects, and that
j clearing be done in advance by the
I government on a repayment basis,
and that roads be built in. land se
' set aside for facilities, and credit
be made available so that houses
and living facilities can be install
ed in the first year.”
Warne said the project settle
ment proposal has been introduced
in Congress.
It is to be supplemented, he
said, by an Alaska development
program under which hydroelec
' trie and industrial possibilities
i could be developed through fed
! eral financing.
Warne said he also discussed, at
a series of town meetings with
Alaskans, the program for State
I
hood and steps to settle native
land claims “to remove one of the
blocks to progress, especially in
Southeastern Alaska.”
H said that at Palmer, in the
Matnnuska Valley, a farmers’ co
operative had worked out a mar
keting system so that this year the
valley marketed $350,000 worth of
| fresh vegetables, compared with a
high of only $16,000 two years
ago.
“This is a further demonstration
of the fact that agricultural lands
in Alaska, if properly developed
and if markets are developed, can
make major contributions to the
feeding of Alaska and to the re
j duction of living costs there." he
said.
Warne said he was particularly
| impressed in Alaska by construc
tion of two large airports nt Fair
banks and Anchorage, the $25,
* 000,000-a-year road improvement
' program, and the 50 per cent com
pletion of the Alaska Railroad’s
rehabilitation.
“The housing bottleneck that
threatened to bring Alaska to its
knees two years ago is being cor
rected under the new Alaska hous
ing act signed last April,” he add
ed.
“Several hundred units are go
ing in at Anchorage and others are
under way or proposed at Fair
banks. Ketchikan and Juneau.”
Warne said also that he had the
very distinct impression that the
decentral’/ation of interior depart- i
ment activities in the Territory
has paid off wilh “rather remark
able” administrative improve
ments.
I.egnl Blanks at The Nugget office
LARGE ROCK HAULED
FOR NOME SEAWALL
After a delay caused by unfav
orable weather the construction of
Nome’s seawall got under way
again this morning.
The record single rock to be put
into the seawall so far was carried
last Friday and weighed between
10 and 11 tons, according to man
ager B. P. Gerard. He stated that
the trucks handling the rock are
; capable of handling around fifteen
tons and that the shovel will soon
be in to solid rock so that the
trucks will move fsater.
| Thomas Wins Trial
I Postponement
WASHINGTON. (/P)—'The trial
of Rep. J. Parnell Thomas <R.-N.
J.> today was tentatively reset for
next Monday. Thomas is accused
j of conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment by “padding” his office
payroll.
William H. Collins, attorney for
Thomas, asked the postponement
because he is repreesnting another
client is the case now being tried.
Collins told reporters he doubt
ed he would be free to appear for
Thomas until two weeks from to
day. On next Monday, he may ask
for another week’s postponement.
Thomas, 54, is a former chair
man of the House un-American
activities committee. He and his
former secretary, Miss Helen
Campbell, were indicted a year
ago on the conspiracy charge.
(Joffee Prices
Advancing
NEW YORK, </P) — Additional
| coffee prices increases today fol
lowed advances in the coffee fu
I tures market.
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.
which did not raise its price.', when
most other roasters announced up
ward revisions last week, in
creased the tag on its Eight O’Clock
brand in this area five cents a
pound to 49 cents.
At the opening of the coflee fu
tures market in New York all de
liveries in the “S” and “D” con
tracts were up 200 points, the
daily limits.
Mother “Told” To
(ait l ots* Throats
l
— ■" - *
STERLING, 111. f/P)—A 35-year
old mother said last night she
slashed the throats of her four
small children because a "Saint
kept telling her to do it.”
The woman, Mrs. James Mou
ghan, made the statement at a
hearing in which she was adjudg
ed insane within three hours after
her husband found her hacking
one of the children.
Hospital attendants said a.l the
children arc expected to recover.
They are Mary Ellen, age two
months: Richard, 20 months: M -
chael, three years old nex* month,
1 and James, four.
I
PLUMBING and STEAM-FITTING
Call Vern Miller - Phone Main 79
! ____
■If...
tki GOOD OLD DAYS in kick!/
EN/OY THIS i
i Brest Straight Bourbon
A
*
Famous for its old-time quclity
"!•. A
, ' . and rich, full flacor
•y V** •>
I ■ ; y
t •
[
S ■ W
y'
;• •: >* A
>-v: •\v..
^< V ^ >*/ *.
blRAIGDT juUnbuis WHISKEY • 86 PROOF • NATIONAL DISTILLERS PROD CORF., K.Y.