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Pass Alaska
Military Pill
(By Charles D. Walkins)
WASHINGTON. TP—Hope that
Congress may yet approve at least
the $130,000,000 Alaske section of
a ptyuling military construction
program was expressed Saturday
by Senator Magnuson 'D.-Wash.»
and Delegate Bartlett of Alaska.
The bill, authorizing $613,800,
000 in projects for the army, navy
and airforce, is on the Senate cal
endar.
A similar bill has been approv
ed by the House armed services
committee but chairman Vinson
<D.-Ga.) of that committee has said
it will not go before the House at
the present session.
Magnuson told a reporter Sat
urday that chairman Tvdings <D.
Md.> of the Senate armed services
committee and majority leader Lu
cas <D.-Ill». have promised to try
to get the bill before the Senate
this session.
Magnuson said Senators Salton
stall <R.-Mass.> and Russell <D.
Ga.) have told him thtat if the full
bill cannot be approved they favor
passing the Alaska section separ
ately. Saltonstall represents the
Senate armed services committee
and Russell the Senate appropria
tions committee in handling the
measure.
Bartlett said he based his hopes
on belief that Vinson probably
will withdraw his opposition to
the measure.
The measure would authorize
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IM7 Hils Mountain
RATON, N. M., id*) — An air ,
force B-17 plane flew into the top i
of a me.-a in a storm near the
CoIorado:New Mexico border Fri
day night and killed all 10 men
aboard.
James B. Barber, editor of the
Raton Range, said the plane had
been identified as an air rescue
craft from Biggs Air Base, El
Paso, Tex.
The plane had been missing
since 5:43 p.m. Friday en route
from Biggs to Lowery Field at
Denver.
The wreckage was located by an
air rescue plane about the same
time as two ranchers found it and
reported to Mary Bartolino Black,
owner of the mountain pasture
where the ship chashed.
Barber reported the plane
crashed abou 6:15 p.m.
Barber, woh visited the scene
reported the wreckage was atop
9,500 ft. Lvwood Mesa, seven miles
north of Raton. The plane lacked
only 150 feet of clearing the gently
sloping table land and hit a quar
ter mile north of the rim.
Wreckage was scattered over 400
yards. Only the tail section re
mained intact.
housing and facilities for troops in
Alaska. It has the endorsement of
the chiefs of staff, who recently
made an inspection trip to Alaska
Of the total for Alaska, $66,480,
700 is for army projects, $25,164,
000 for naval construction and
$38,430,800 for the air force.
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Hawaii Still
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• By The Associated Press>
One hundred two thousand of
John L. Lewis’ coal miners went
back to work today, but 400.000
remained on strike as did 513,000
CIO-steel workers.
There was optimism voiced that
settlement of the 156-day strike of
2,000 CIO longshoremen at Ha
waii may come soon. Tension re- |
laxed in Detroit’s auto industry as
CIO auto workers planned to ap
ply the Ford settlement pattern to
Chrysler and other manufacturers. :
Meanwhile, as the AFL conven
tion began at St. Paul, Minn., the !
federation’s officers recommended
shortening of industry’s work day ,
and work week as an immediate
I economic goal.
The United Mine Workers sent
back to their jobs today by the
terse hint from union headquar
ters that their idleness “is not now
vital to the pending wage negotia
tions” were 80.000 anthracite <ha.d
coatl> diggers in Pennsylvania and
22.000 soft coal miners west of tne
Mississippi.
The UMW battle cry of recent
years, “No Contract, No Work.”
apparently was discarded fo*- a
limited application of "No Pension,
No Work.”
Contracts applying to all UMW
miners expired during the sum
mer, and pension and other wel
fare fund payments have been sus
pended becaus southern coal oper
ators have stopped paying royal
ties of 20 cents a ton of coal mined
to the fund under a no contract.no
royalties policy.
In the steel strike which hit 56
basic steel plants and 50 iron ore
mines Satrday, there were rumors
of new government intervention.
The White House has indicated
that President Truman is standing
on his decision of last week that
he will take no direct action, how
ever. Most lively development
would be new efforts by chief
government mediator Cyrus Ching
to get . bargaining sessions under
| way again.
The union leaders are adamant
in demanding eompanv-paid pen
sions and insurance, the compan
ies say they won’t agree to a plan
that eliminates employee pay
ments entirely.
In the Hawaiian dock strike,
employer and union representa
tives held a secret session Sunday,
before which Dwight Steele, pres
ident of the Hawaii Employers’
Council, said "there is a good
chance for settlement.” Another
meeting was held today.
The North Star arrived Satur
day evening to take on the King
Islanders as soon as the rough
seas calmed down. The ship is
scheduled to depart today. Accom
panying the natives will be Father
Tom Cunningham who will spend
the winter on the island. Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Vierick. who are al
ready on the island will be teach
ers for the ANS.
AGED EEL NEAR DEATH
STOCKHOLM (£»)—An 88-year
old eel in the museum of Halsin
borg, Sweden—claimed to be the
oldest aquarium fish in the world
—is failing rapidly. Caught by two
boys in a creek outside the south |
Swedish city in 1863, the eel, 1
named Putte '"Ducky” in English. |
"Pueppchen” in German* has out- |
lived its captors. About a year ago [
Putte developed a tumor and is
now getting weaker and weaker.
Experts on fishes’ disases have not
been able to help him.
Mrs. Simpson.
Nott“Wallie” W ill
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LONDON, UP) — Social 1‘ on
both sides of the Atlan ic are gos
siping about the announcement
that a second American Mr Simp
son would marry into the British
Royal Court circle.
The Marquess of Milford Haven,
handsome cousin of King George
VI, and one of Britain’s most eli
gible bachelors, announced his en
gagement last week to Mrs. Ro
maine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson, a
New York Park Avenue divorcee.
The nattily-dressed marquess,
who makes his living now selling •
' heaters, told newsmen he and his
fiancee will said Oct. 14 for Amer
ica. The marriage, he added,
would be “late in November.”
Mrs. Simpson, attractive 26
yc <: i'.d and mother of an 18
m mth-old girl, was divorced in
194.:, a:‘er two years of marriage
to William A. Simpson, whose
father wa- once president of Mar
shall Field & Co.. Chicago depart
nent store.
The name of Milford Haven’s fi
ancee recalled the romance of
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson 13
years ago when King Edward VIII
—now the Dke of Windsor—gave
pu his throne to marry her. The
two Mrs. Simpsons are not related.
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IN FAVOR OF
RESOLUTION 331?
VOTE YES
ON OCTOBER Rh
Resolution No. 334 which will he
submitted for ratification in the
forthcoming special election to be
held Oct. 4, 1949, is extremely im
portant to every resident of Nome
for several reasons:
1. The City MUST raise money
which the present tax laws can
not possibly provide for.
(Resolution No. 334 explains
this need in deh ,ii).
2. Consumers Sales Tax is the logi
cal modern way of distributing
the tax obligation. Several cities
in Alaska have found it effective
and fair to all.
3. The proposed tax w ill enable the
City of Nome to carry on the pro
posed improvements w ithout re
course to a lieavv burdensome
property tax.
A Consumers* Sales Lax is the
only form of taxation which can
he lev ied 011 ALL earners of a
livelihood in Nome, and not just
on the property owners. I11 this
way it is the most ecpiitable tax
possible.