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VOL. XLVII. No. 120. NOME. ALASKA^ FRID AY, OCTOBER 5, 194 5 PER COPY_ 151
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Strikes; Idleness
1 Increase Across
The Nation
Idleness across the country over
labor disputes increased. Major
trouble spots are: Prseident Tru
man ordered the Navy to sieze the
strike-bound properties of twenty
six oil companies in fifteen states.
The CIO unions next move is
on the status of forty-three thou
sand strikers.
* First: Coal — One hundred
forty-seven thousand coal miners,
more than one-third of the na
tion’s total joined the walkout in
six states, closing about four hun
dred fifty pits.
Steel paills and blast furnaces
began to shut down. The Govern
ment called a conference between
• the operators and Lewis.
Communications — Some two
hundred fifty thousand independ
ent union telephone operators and
associated workers are expected
to leave their jobs between eleven
a.m. and three p.m. today for a
strike vote threatening to disrupt
the nation’s telephone service.
Shipping—A walkout of be
tween thirty-five and sixty thou
sand workers in the Port of New
* York crippled shipping and halted
the movement of one hundred six
ty-six ships.
Lumber — Sixty-one thousand
AFL members of the Pacific
northwest continued their strike.
Forty thousand CIO members re
mained on the job during concilia
tion conferences.
Automotive—Some eighty thou
sand workers, most of them from
auto plants in Detroit, remained
* away from their jobs.
Transportation — The strike of
twenty-seven hundred AFL bus
drivers and station employes tied
up the Pacific Greyhound Lines
in seven western states. It is es
timated that one hundred forty
seven thousand passengers are hit
by the stoppage.
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Los Angeles Joins
Seattle In Fight
For Air Route
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SEATTLE, Oct. 5— (A5) —Los
Angeles has joined. Seattle in the
fight for a mainline air gateway
to the Orient. The Los Angeles
< Chamber of Commerce issued a
^statement declaring California’s
interest would be best served by
recognition of Seattle as the air
center for Oriental operations.
COODBYE KISS —The 3,000,000th American soldier to
embark from Southampton* England, receives his goodbye kiss.
Police Question
Weinberg In
Miner's Death
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 5—UP)
— Police inspectors Richardson
and Baker today questioned Chris
tain Weinberg, 57-year-old ma.
chinist in the connection with the
miner’s pick slaying of Robert
Greene, 75, retired Yukon miner
and son of a former Washington
State Supreme Court Justice.
Weinberg lived for many years
in the old Greene home, where
Greene was found. dead from
multiple pick blows September
nineteenth.
M. J. WALSHS HEAR FROM
SON ON LOS NEGROS
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh are
in receipt of a letter from their
son Kevin, who is on Los Negros
Island in the Palau group in the
South Pacific. He states that he
recently saw Ray Miller, coast
guardsman, formerly of Nome, j
Alaska.
jGlobester Arrives
In Washington
On Time
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WASHINGTON, Oct.. 5— </P) —
The first historic flight over the
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i regular round-the-world air serv
ice becomes routine, starting to
day. This afternoon and every
Friday afternoon henceforth the
U. S. Army Air Transport Com
mand plans for the forty-passen
ger Douglas Skysters to leave
Washington.
The schedule terminates ' here
the following Thursday night. The
first flight left Washington Sep
tember twenty-eighth at'1:58 p.m.
PST., and arrived b&ck at 6:42
p.m. last night. It flew the twen
ty-three thousand, two hundred
seventy nine miles in an elapsed
time of one hundred forty-nine
hours and forty-four minutes.
Flying time was one hundred six
teen hours and twenty-three min
utes.
Pure chocolate is about 50 per
cent oil or fat content.
Mrs. Mansfeldt
Booked For
Murder of Nurse
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 5—(/Pi
—Police booked Mrs. Annie Mans
feldt, wife of a prominent physi- ;
cian on a murder charge today, j
after she brought the body of an
j attractive nurse. Mrs. Ada Martin,
to the Central F,mergency Hospi_'
tal.
The forty-five year old mother
of three children was quoted by
j police as saying she shot Mrs.;
Martin and then struck her in the
face with the gun. Mrs. Mansfeldt
assorted she learned that her hus
band, Dr. John Mansfeldt, had
I been attentive to the nurse,
i Assistant District Atto r n e y
' Harding McQuire said the doctor’s
! wife told him that last Thursday
night she went looking for her
husband and Mrs. Martin, nurse
at the hospital where the doctor
had many patients. “I found them
i together in my husband’s automo
! bile about one a m.”
She declared, McQuire reported,
that Mrs. Mansfeldt said she tele
' phoned Mrs. Martin today and the
latter agreed to meet her at a
street corner, where on meeting,
the nurse got into the front seat
of the car. Mrs. Mansfeldt said
she immediately accused her of
j being in love with the doctor.
I “She denied it. I knew she was
lying so I fired at her,” McQuire
quoted Mrs. Mansfeldt. “After I
shot her she continued to talk and
! said they were only friends. I ac_
; cused her again. Then she would
{ not talk any more and I struck
j her face with the gun and she
, slumped over. I drove her to the
[hospital,” McQuire quoted Mrs. |
[ Mansfeldt as saying.
Navy lakes Over
Operation Of 26
Oil Refineries
Washington, Oct. 5— —
President Truman last night or
dered the Navy to take over and
operate the plants of twenty-six
oil producing and refining com
panies after attempts of arbitra
tion of wage demands by CIO oil
workers union collapsed.
In a statement the President
said it was a necessary act to
maintain adequate oil reserves
“for the needs of our armed
forces.” He said some fifty re_
fineries and related transportation
and distribution facilities had
been shut down.
Congress Asked To
Approve Millions
For New Buildings
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5— f/P) —
Two projects are eligible for in
clusion in legislation. Congress
has been asked to approve author
ization of one hundred ninety,
three million in new government
buildings in the States and Terri
tories.
Alaska projects are: Kodiak site
for the building of a postoffice at
one hundred fifty thousand, and
Juneau, the extension and remod
eling of the federal and territorial
building at a million dollars, pre
viously authorized.
SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS
FRED ROBERTS
Word has been received that
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts are
the parents of a baby son bom
at Seattle on September 26th.
Natives Reopen Arguments For Three
| Million “Aboriginal Rights” Acres
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WASHNGTON, Oct. 5— OP) —
Counsel for the natives of three
Alaskan Indian villages reasserted
their claim for the exclusive pos_
session of about three million
acres of hunting and fishing land
in southeastern Alaska in a writ
ten agreement filed with the In
terior Department.
In behalf of the natives they
contended there was no evidence
to support Secy. Ickes’ recent
finding that they had forfeited
their ancestral rights to the land.
Ickes upheld their claims for two
hundred seventy-three thousand
acres, about eight percent of the
; total lands claimed.
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The Interior Department re
opened the case for study of addi
tional evidence on both sides.
Counsel for the natives of Hyda
burg, Klawock and Kake asserted
that Ickes’ decision would have
effect on the ruling: “The aborig.
inal title is lost if native custom*
and uses of the land change.”
That doctrine, the brief said,
would discourage the assimilation
of white man’s customs and cause
the rapid depletion of lands owned
by the natives. Counsel asserted
there was no evidence presented
in the hearings to show abandon
ment or reduction of the use of
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