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VOL. XLVIII. No. 121 NOME, ALASKA.'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER !). 1946 PER COPY~~.tc
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, Oct. 9. (/P)— Sheriff
^larlan S. Callahan revealed to
-day that bars of a King County
jail holding two condemned mur
derers, a “lifer” and a man facing
trial for murder were found cut
in a routine cell “shakedown” last
Wednesday.
The discovery, Callahan said,
was kept secret in the belief that
an outsider had helped on one of
Mfche bars. After shadowing a sus- |
pect for several nights, however,
the Sheriff said he is now satis
fied the bars were cut from the
inside.
BOSTON, Oct. 9. (£>)—'The first
guy in line at the bleacher en
trance to Fenway park, Grover C.
Gilmore, arrived Monday night,
38 hours before the starting time
f today’s game; the third to ar
rive was a barber, who took one
look at Gilmore and then sent to
a nearby drugstore for a razor and
soap so he could get to work on
Gilmore.
PARIS, Oct. 9. UP)—The peace
conference centered its fire on
^ trea-ty-writing late today with the
adoption of the preamble to the
Italian settlement.
^ Yugoslavia abstained in the vot
ing on the preamble, though the
preamble text had been adopted
unanimously in commission.
Articles one and two were pass
ed quickly and unanimously.
Soviet foreign minister V. M.
Molotov, who assailed the Italian
treaty draft plan for the projected
free state of Trieste as an “un
^ democratic means of keeping that
* strategic Adriatic area under Brit
ish-American control in an ad
dress to the delegates this morn
ing, presided as chairman.
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PITTSBURG, Oct. 9. (iP)—The
Duquesne Light company reported
today that an unattended automa
tic sub-station serving a populous
residential area had been sabo
taged, plunging the district into a
▼temporary blackout on the 16th
day of a power strike. A company
spokesman said the Brentwood
substation, where 66,000-volt cur
rent is reduced to 4,000 volts for
residential use, was shut down by
a break which he called without
qualification an “act of sabotage.”
MANILA, Oct. 9. (/P) — The
Manila Evening News said today
▼ guerrillas invaded Umingan in
central Luzon last night, held the
^ townsfolk prisoners four hours
and looted warehouses, stores and
homes.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 9. VP)
Harvard astronomers made last
•Relief Ships’ Must
Have Certification
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SEATTLE, Oct. 9. (/P)—Future'
Alaska “relief ships” will be re-1
quired to undergo certification by
city and federal officials that car-'
goes are strictly relief items be
fore they are released by striking
committee for maritime unity1
workers, CMU chairman Burt;
Nelson advised Territorial Gov-1
ernor Ernest Gruening today.
The Governor had advised CMU :
officials that southeastern Alaska ;
soon will need fresh supplies of i
food and livestock feed.
Nelson told the Governor that
the union “membership is fed up
with seeing the strike prolonged
and hampered by such double
crossing and are strongly against
future clearances.”
The CMU wire to Governor
Gruening said in part:
“Relief ship clearances used in
each case to harm our strike by |
using as a ruse to carry on busi
ness as usual, such as the case of j
SS Cordova. Membership fed up
with seeing strike prolonged and!
hampered by such double-crossing
and strongly against future clear
ances.
“Only chance of clearance is of
ship carrying food and stock feed
only with understanding you and
mayor of Seattle and someone
from department of interior check
cargo going aboard to prove to us
it is relief food.
“Unless this is done we doubt
clearance possible. We are in de
plorable condition — caught be
tween alleged needs of Alaskans
and schemes of shipowners which
hamper our strike efforts.”
Alaska Steamship company of
ficials said the company has made
no request for further ship clear
ances. The company is serving as
general agent for the maritime
commission, spokesmen explained,
and as agent has no right to re
fuse regular Alaska freight book
ed for shipment north.
ARRIVES IN NOME
Mrs. John Holm, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Jackson ar
rived Monday evening with her
two children. Her husband Staff
Sergeant John Holm is stationed
here with the U. S. Quartermaster
Dept.
minute preparations today for an
expected heavenly display of
“shooting stars” in the form of
falling meteors due tomorrow
night.
The university laboratory said
the display, expected to be “one
of the largest in astronomical his
tory,” would extend through
Thursday and should be in view
without the aid of technical in
struments if the weather is good.
Maritime Strike
Still Deadlocked
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (JP)—
CIO marine engineers stood pat1
today on their demand for a na
tional contract or at least a com
mitment from the maritime com
mission to equal terms of any east
coast ship strike settlement will
apply on government vessels in
the Pacific.
The other striking unit, the
masters, mates and pilots, agreed
yesterday to try for an eastern j
agreement and leave the making
of a west coast contract to nego
tiators on the Pacific coast.
The engineers, however, were
not budging as negotiations were
resumed today and a spokesman
said the maritime commission
would have to give in if the strike
were to be settled.
Russia To Claim
Ryukyu Islands
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (A3)—
A Russian plan to stake claim to
the highly important Ryukyu
chain of islands between Japan
and Formosa—among them blood
drenched Okinawa—is frankly an
ticipated in American diplomatic
quarters.
Highly placed officials told a
reporter privately today that the
United tSates will oppose the ex
pected Soviet move on the ground
that the islands, if they are to be
transferred from Japanese owner
ship at all, should go to China.
As an alternative to Chinese
sovereignty, the United States
would be agreeable to placing the
islands under a United Nations
trusteeship, solely administered
by China.
Hurricane Passes
Florida Fruit Crop
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 9. (/P)
A freakish tropical hurricane,
which raised havoc in Cuba with
125-mile-an-hour winds that slow
ed down relatively to a snail’s
pace before they entered Florida’s
west coast, virtually blew itself
out last night in the Carolinas.
The hurricane killed four per
sons and caused crop damage of
$2,000,000 in western Cuba Sun
day night, but the winds dimin
ished so rapidly that government
weather experts were at a loss to
explain the phenomenon. Only
negligible damage was done to
Florida’s rich citrus belt, whose
$150,000,000 crop, the largest in
history, is due to be harvested in
a few weeks.
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Truman Digs Into
Meat Shortage
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (/P) —
The White House said today that
President Truman is continuing
his investigation of the meat
shortage and is “getting reports
every day.”
Press secretary Charles G. Ross,
asked by reporters whether the
President had completed his in
quiry, said the answer “obviously
is no—he’s getting reports every
day.”
Mr. Truman told his news con
ference on Sept. 26 that he had
been investigating the situation
for some time. He attributed the
shortage then to an “extraordin
arily large slaughter” in July and
August, when price controls were
temporarily off, and predicted a
“greater quantity” of meat in the
near future.'
Last Thursday the President
: said he agreed with reconversion
director John R. Steelman’s re
; port that the meat shortage may
grow worse this winter, and an
nounced he was having a survey
made. While foreseeing shortages
| ahead, he said there will be no
i meat famine.
Asked if F. H. LaGuardia. di
rector general of UNRRA, had
urged the possible importation of
Argentine beef for that agency in
a White House call yesterday, Ross
said he had no information on
that.
As to whether anyone had sug
gested Argentine importations,
Ross replied: “Every possible sug
gestion has been made to him oy
someone.”
On another question as to whe
ther a possible special session of
Congress to deal with the meat
situation had been the subject of
discussion at a cabinet meeting,
Ross said he did not know, but
that he doubted it.
The seething controversy, over
the meat decontrol issue raged
across the nation, with a series of
I political charges and counter
I charges.
JUNEAU, Oct. 9. (/Py—A party
of three Flint, Mich., men return
ed here recently to tell of a whale
that swam beneath their boat and
nearly capsized it as they sought
to take pictures near Admiralty
Island.
The men — Howard Lintz,
George Beams, and A1 Jay Wach
owski, said the whale was one of
a school of eight to twelve they
saw cavorting in the water. As
they maneuvered their chartered
boat near for pictures, the whale
passed beneath them, lifted the
boat high in the water and nearly
capsized it.
None of the men was injured.
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Voters Display
Great Interest
In Election
JUNEAU, Oct. 9. (/P)—Early and
scant unofficial returns from
Alaska’s advisory “Statehood”
election indicated a two to one
trend for the region’s admission
into the Union.
Voters in Skagway, Petersburg,
Douglas and 12 small precincts of
53 in the First Judicial division
showed a two to one preference
for Statehood.
First and only statistical re
turns of the advisory referendum
came from Barrow where state
haad was favored by the slim
margin of 25 to 23.
The Barrow vote gave incum
bent Delegate E. L. 'Bob) Bartlett,
Juneau Democrat, a slight lead of
27 to 24 over his Republican op
ponent Aimer J. Peterson of An
I chorage.
The capital city of Juneau en
I dorsed the proposal for statehood
; for Alaska by a 7 to 5 margin in
yesterday’s general election while
scattered returns from other sec
tions of the Territory indicated
the proposal was carrying by al
most a two to one margin.
The vote on the advisory refer
endum here was 778 for statehood
and 549 against. In the First Di
vision, of which Juneau is the cen
ter, the vote was 18S0 for and 1176
against with only 21 precincts out
of 53 reporting.
Voting was the heaviest since
1940.
First Division returns gave Con
gressional Delegate E. L. (Bob>
Bartlett a lead of 1987 to 1041
over his Republican opponent, Ai
mer J. Peterson of Anchorage.
A heavy Republican vote was
indicated, however, and the pos
sibility loomed that the Republi
cans would increase their strength
in the Territorial legislature.
Atmospheric disturbances were
hampering the transmission of the
j election results.
The Nome election vote results
were: For Delegate, E. L. (Bob>
Bartlett, 291. Aimer J. Petersan,
224.
For treasurer: Cash Cole. 252.
Oscar G. Olson 240.
For commissioner of labor:
Henry A. Benson, 202. Walter P.
Sharpe, 183. Ross E. Kimball, 97.
For Territorial Senators: Wm.
Munz, 395. Chas. D. Jones, 320.
Howard Lyng, 205. Bess Cross, 94.
For Territorial Representatives:
C. Dewey Anderson, 317. W. W.
(Chief) Laws, 307. L. E. Ost, 271.
Chester Milligan, 234. W. E. (Mae)
McDonald, 234. Geo. P. Madsen,
204. Wallace Porter, 188. Edward
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