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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE TWO PLATOON SYSTEM
THE ANNUAL LEWIS EPISODE
On September 21 John L. Lewis will be free to
strike the northern soft coal mines, and on October 1
he will be free to strike the southern mines. As of
right now, the possibility of a strike is obscure, since
Mr. Lewis and the coal operators have not agreed on
any terms, or even discussed Mr. Lewis’ demands, as
this is written.
However, the American public knows the story
pretty well by now. Mr. Lewis will try to get as much
of a raise for his workers as possible, though there are
several factors working against him this year. For
one thing there are very heavy coal stocks in the hands
of consumers.
For another prices are soft, and export trade has
slacked off in recent months. A third factor is non
union production, which is approaching 20 per cent
of total production. Another item to be considered is
wage control, which will tend to hold down Mr. Lewis’
demands.
Whatever Mr. Lewis’ demands, and whatever the
outcome of the negotiations between operators and
miners this year, Mr. Lewis will probably provide the
country with a good show. In fact, his annual tilt with
the operatiors has become a regular classic, awaited
each year as a preliminary to the World Series.
Employment Record Hits
New High In Spite Of
Two-Month Steel Strike
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Indus
try’s rapid recovery from this
summer’s two-month steel strike
was underlined in a Labor De- j
partment employment report yes
terday.
The department’s Bureau of La
bor Statistics said non-farm em
ployment hit a record level of
6,900,000 -persons in jobs in mid- j
August. This was an increase of
C00,000 from mid-July and 200,
000 over a yeur ago.
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Leslie C. Brown and A1 Mc
Nally, who have been working on
the Gaasland project at Cape Ro
manzoff, passed through town
yesterday enroute by Wien’s to
Fairbanks where they will board
a Pan American plane for Seattle.
Brown is enroute to his home in
Bellingham, Wash.
Evidence Shows Soviets
And Satellites Have
Millions of Slaves
WASHINGTON, (>P) — The
State Department spread on the
record Friday a mass of evidence
that the Soviet Union and its
satellites have millions of captives
in slave labor camps.
With President Truman’s en
dorsement, the Department made
public a 69-page report rounding
up official documents, testimony
of refugees and other evidence
in support of this conclusion:
‘ The number of slave laborers
in the Soviet Union and its satel
lites runs into the millions and
represents the most extreme vio
lation of human rights on the face
of the earth today.”
It was a detailed summary of
evidence prepared for a special
fact - finding committee of the
United Nations and the Interna
tional Labor Organizations.
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Visiting CAP Officials
Honored By Nomites
At Firelite Room Banquet
About 60 townspeople attended
the dinner given on Wednesday
evening at the Firelite Room of
the Board of Trade honoring the
visiting group of Civil Air Patrol
officials. The dinner was spon
sored by the local CAP and with
the cooperation of the Chamber
of Commerce and the Rotary
Club.
Phil Lancaster was master of
ceremonies and he introduced the
heads of various local clubs and
services: Larry Galvin, president
of the Chamber of Commerce;
Boyd Harwood, president of the
Rotary Club; H. F. Harper, dir
ector of Civil Defense; Capt. Bob
Emmons, commander of the Nome
CAP squadron; Maj. Les Bronson,
past commander Nome squadron;
Capt. Stan Morgan, commander
of Nome ACS; Capt. Ives from
Nome Field; Capt. Hunter Har
bison of the Alaska National
Guard; and Pete Hahn, instructor
at Nome School, teaching the
CAP course in aviation.
Capt. Donald Kestner, USAF,
liaison officer with the Wing
Headquarters then introduced the
Air Force and CAP officers to
the assembly.
Col. Jesse R. Carr, commander
of Alaska Wing Headquarters at
Anchorage, spoke of Civil Air
Patrol and its relation in Alaska
:o our every-day living.
Col. Adams, chaplain from the
Portland Area Headquarters, told
of the active part chaplains take
in the CAP program, especially
with the Cadets. He stated that
with the country’s arming mili
tarily, the chaplains are attempt
ing to arm the young people
idealogically, to strengthen their
moral fibre, to prepared them to
be better soldiers and better citi
zens.
Speaker <5'f the evening was Col.
Early W. Duncan, deputy national
commander from Washington,
D.C. Col. Duncan said he came as
the personal representative ot the
national commander of Civil Air
Patrol, Lucas V. Beau. He out
lined the broad aims of the CAP
and its relation to the national
defense, at what he termed the
brink of the air age.
He stressed the need for the
young people to learn all* they
could about aviation, for in his
Health Survey .
Party to Visit Here
This Weekend
Edward Weiss, chief of epidem
ology and biometry at the Arctic
Health Research Center in An
chorage, is scheduled to arrive
Saturday with a group of distin
guished visitors. They will spend
the weekend here and attend the
Wolf Dance being given on Sat
urday evening by the Nome Eski
mo Dancers.
The. doctors are attending the
Arctic Health Conference at Mt.
McKinley Park and as part of
the Arctic survey will visit Nome,
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Bethel.
They are: Justine Andrews,
Ph.D., officer in charge at the
Communicable Diseases Center in
Atlanta, Go.; Leslie Chambers,
Ph.D., director of research and
development branch of the Envir
onmental Health Center at Cin
cinnati, Ohio; Herbert Statsinger,
Ph.D., chief of the laboratory sec
tion, in charge of toxicological re
search, also of the Environmental
Health Center of Cincinnati.
Their weekend has been
planned by Public Health Nurse
Eugenia Wassel. Sunday after
noon she has planned an open
house for the visitors to meet in
terested people in the community.
REUBEN WILLOCK, NATIVE
OF KOTZEBtJE, FOUND SHOT
IN FAIRBANKS MISSION
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Reuben P.
Willock, 21-year-old parolee from
the McNeil Island federal peni
tentiary, was found fatally shot
Wednesday in the basement of
the Baptist native mission here.
Police said Willock, a native of
Kotzebue, died from a chest
wound. A rifle was found near
the body.
Willock was found by the Rev.
Carl Smith, Baptist minister here.
Willock was sentenced to Mc
Neil for burglary in 1951. He was
paroled in April of this year to
the native mission.
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j belief America’s future is in the
air. He revealed that CAP, as an
| auxiliary to the Air Force has
! been allocated $5 million in Air
j Force funds, has over 200 officers
| assigned to full-time duty in the
52 Wings and the CAP operates
the largest radio net in the world
j with over 7,000 stations.
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privileges, for necessary travel
expenses, and to print and dis
tribute speeches and documents.
But there was brighter news for
Republican headquarters else
where:
Gov. James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina, a former Secretary of
State and Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, bolted the Demo
cratic party he has supported for
a lifetime, came out for Eisen
hower. He said he prefers to
“place loyalty to my country
above loyalty to a political party.”
Newspaper editors and politi
cal writers over the country con
sider Eisenhower a probable win
ner over Stevenson by a possible
295 electoral votes to 170—if the
election were held at this time.
This was revealed in a nationwide
AP survey made public today.
Stevenson, moving through New
England, said at Springfield Fri
day that the GOP has not otie
affirmative campaign issue, so
they finally decided that the “cen
tral issue of our time is humor.”
He said the initials GOP stand for
“Grouchy Old Pessimists.”
FAIRBANKS, (JP)—Frank Ma
pleton, municipal utilities mana
ger. Wednesday blamed the poor
quality of coal being used for a
series of power failures in the
city.
Mapleton said the coal used at
the city power plant failed to
raise sufficient steam pressure for
turbines which resulted in a ser
ies of brief blackouts during re
cent weeks, mostly between five
and eight p.m.
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ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
says ...
That Delegate Bartlett makes no attempt in Wash
ington to have the Pribilof Islands fur seal skins processed
and dyed and sold in Alaska, thus establishing a new and
needed industry in our territory.
He and other interested Democratic politicians, in
cluding Secretary of the Interior Chapman, are well satis
fied with having Alaskan fur seals processed, dyed and
sold in St. Louis by a monopolistic firm, under the complete
control of the Interior Department.
Alaska - owned fur seal skins should be processed in
in Alaska, not in St. Louis, Missouri, home state of Presi
dent Truman.
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