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NEWS IN BRIEF i
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CATSKILL, (/P) —Fifteen hun
dred AFL cement workers in nine
plants in New York and Maine
struck Thursday, union officials
4 said, in a dispute over seniority
rights.
WASHINGTON. (/P)—President
Truman Thursday appointed Rear
Admiral iRoscoe H. Hillenkoetteg
to be director of U. S. central in
> telligence. Hillengoetter will suc
ceed Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
who is returning to the army air
forces for “important duties” at
the request of Gen. Dwight D. Eis
enhower, chief of staff.
SANTA ANA. Calif. — 39
year-old Bette Davis’ first child, a
seven-pound daughter, was born
Thursday by caesarean section at
Community hospital. Dr. Vincent
Carroll said both “are doing nice
ly.” She and William Grant Sherry
wed in 1945. Among the flowers
was a gardenia arrangement from
Miss Davis’ mother with a card
saying: “Will be in the front row
as always.”
SEATTLE, OP) — Four Seattle
lines signed contracts yesterday for
resumption of private service to
Alaska.
# Maritime Commission ships will
be chartered to the lines under
terms of the 16-month agreement.
Lines involved are Alaska
Steamship, Northland Transporta
tion, Alaska Transportation, and
Santa Ana Steamship.
BERLIN, (/P> — Walter Bedell
Smith, U. S. Ambassador to Mos
cow said today.the May Day par
ade before the Kremlin was “a
very good show, with 100 jet
• planes flying overhead and a large,
four-engined bomber which looked
very much like a B-29.”
Smith stopped at Tempelholf
airdrome enroute to Washington.
He said his return had no connec
tion with reports that he might be
come an assistant secretary of
state. /
MUNICH, >(#*) — Nazi posters
praising Adolf Hitler as an ideal
leader and announcing a new anti
Semitic party appeared mysteri
ously on billboards in the central
square of Munich early today.
Crowds gathered to read the
text, which appealed for election
of a '“People’s Bloc” in the na
tional socialistic interests of the
working class.
Of four posters in Karlsplatz,
two were removed by passersby, a
third was partly torn off, but the
last of them was still intact at 9
a.m.
PARIS, (j*P) — Social Premier
Paul Ramadier, fighting to prevent
the fall of his cabinet over a new
split with the Communist party,
appealed today to the national as
» sembly for full support of his wage
and price freezing program.
Sources close to the cabinet
said the premier was preparing to
ask his party to let him form a
) new government with Commun
ists excluded if he won the confi
dence vote.
Nome Christens
Clipper Nortliwind
The Clipper Northwind, named
for a famous Yankee clipper which
rounded the Horn nearly a century
ago, arrived on its first trip to
Nome last Wednesday night about
eleven o’clock, piloted by Capt.
Ralph Savory, chief pilot for the
Alaska Region and Capt. Richard
Campbell, chief pilot for the San
Francisco division.
Stewardess Lois Thompson, who
also made the first flight on a DC-3
last yearto Nome was assisted by
Gloria Sidell, who is new on the
run.
A big crowd turned out to see
the big ship, which was christened
with Bering Sea water by Joe Am
arok, owner of the Nome Laundry.
Many inspected the ship after
the ceremony, enjoyed snack
sandwiches served by the steward
esses and tried out the new air
foam cushions and individual seat
indirect lights.
Passengers on the trip to Nome
were Harry Cotrill, Inez Pangman
and round trip passenges as fol
lows: Alaska Lincke, Adron Peter
son, Charles Rennet, Charles Her
old, William Green, Robert Peter
son.
Departing weer Paul Stockard,
Pio Visintanier, and Lesley Stev
ens.
Telephone Strike
Deadlocked
WASHINGTON <JP) — Govern
ment conciliators, unable to break
a stone-wall deadlock in telephone
strike negotiations, announced to
day they are ready to submit their
own “compromise wage formula”
for Ihe first time.
They didn’t describe the formu
la, but there were indications that
they might try to end the tie-up—
now in its 26th day—with a com
! bination of:
1. An immediate wage increase,
smaller than the $6 a week de
manded by the national federation
of telephone workers.
2. An arbitration board to de
termmine the extent of any fur
ther raises, if any.
SHANGHAI, (/P)—Small change
is a thing of the past in Shanghai.
The municipal government an
nounced today that $100 Chinese
bills will be withdrawn from cir
culation following issuance of
$10,000 notes. That will leave $500
bills the smallest circulating.
The $500 bill, at the official ex
change rate, is worth four U. S.
cents. A $10000 note is the equiv
alent of 80 cents.
WASHINGTON. (Ah — Explora
tion and research of fissionable
and other strategic minerals may
have to be abandoned or sharply
curtailed July 1 for lack of funds,
Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the
bureau of mines, said today. Pa
cific northwest projects which he
said would be hit through slashing
the bureau’s appropriation from
$10,533,875 to $4,233,750, include
',r*ol exploratory work in Alaska.
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Boy Scouts Acquire
Drifters Club
Welcome News!
After months of inactivity, the
Scout movement is finally on its
way to a permanent place in the
community.
Due to lack of permanent head
quarters for Scout activity, prog
ress was at a standstaill, until the
acquisition of the Drifter's Club
house and property, situated on
Lane’s Way and Second Avenue.
A vote of thanks to the Drifter’s
Club for deeding over this property
to Boy Scout Troop No. 666 of
Nome, Alaska.
The sum involved in this trans
action was nominal, and in reality
amounted to a substantial donation
by the Drifter’s Club and their or
iginal donors.
Furthermore to perpetuate the
youth movement: if the possibility
should arise that Troop No. 666
should cease to function, the deed
stipulates that title would go to the
City of Nome for the specific use
of the youth of the community.
Although ownership is in the
name of Boy Scout Troop No. 666,
this does not mean only for their
use, but for the use of the Girl
Scouts and any other organized
youth group in the City of Nome.
Co-operation is the keynote for
any successful undertaking and if
the present is any criterion, the
success of the Scout movement is
assured.
Through volunteer labor and
equipment, three quonsets have
been moved to Dexter for a per
manent Scout camp, and within a
week Scout headquarters will be
ready for occupancy.
Together with this the Scout
Drive Fund is well under way, and
from the spontaneous response so
far, it surely looks as if it’s going
“over the top.”
We’re on our way, and for the
grand purpose of helping the youth
of Nome to be better citizens in
our community and in this great
land of ours.
May’s Trial For
Fraud Continues
WASHINGTON. (/P)—'The pros
ecution in Andrew J. May’s war
fraud trial today pursued the trail
of business records it charges were
used to “cover up” payments it
says a munitions combine made to
the former Kentucky Congress
member.
Prosecutor William A. Paisley
said in U. S. District Court that
the government will attempt to
prove that purported invoices for
lumber sales were made out and
backdated a year after firms in the
munitions combine sent $33,000 to
the Cumbeland Lumber Company.
Harry S. Glick, a Chicago ac
countant, testified yesterday to
sending the money to Cumberland
in 1943 on instructions from Henry
A. Garsson, organizer of the com
bine. At that time. Glick was em
ployed by the Erie Basin Metal
Products Co., one of the firms in
the combine.
Glick said no lumber ever was
delivered.
Search Continues
For Missing Plain*
V.
VANCOUVER. B. C.. —Vet
c an airmen, their faces grim and
lined with weariness after two
days of eye-straining flying,
watched impatiently Thursday a^
heavy overcast and pouring rain
temporarily halted the air search
for 15 persons aboard a Trans
Canada Airlines transport missing
since early Tuesday moning.
Searchers pinned fading hopes
of early discovery of the plane on
a report Wednesday that a "strange
object” had been sighted on the
south side of Thunder Mountain, a
3,500 foot peak just north of Great
Central Lake on Vancouver Island.
Veteran pilots gave considerable
credence to the report because the
locality is only a few miles to the
right of a radio beam leg. An
RCAF plane was turned back by
mountain-riding clouds and snow
flurries.
Ground and air crews today will
investigate an object, "that looked
to be an aircraft wing standing
straight up,” on a mountain peak
near Lake Buntzen, B. C. It was
sighted last night by a nine-man
crew seeking a trace of the missing
Trans-Canada Airlines transport.
This was the latest in a series of
clues to the fate of the airplane
which disappeared Tuesday with
its 15 passengers as it was ap
proaching Vancouver for a land
ing. The searchers, who climbed
to the 4,000 foot level of Coquitlam
mountain in following up reports
of signal lights seen on this peak,
returned to report their latest dis
covery.
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House Passes Loeal
Option Kent Bill
WASHINGTON. UP)—A House
passed bill extending rent control,
but letting each city, town and
i county decide whether to take it
or leave it, was tossed to the Sen-,
ate today.
“The “local option” feature got a
friendly reception there.
The House approved the mea
sure 204 to 182 last night, after
beating down attempts to require
a 10 per cent rent increase where
ceilings now apply.
Modified in several ways that
are not to President Truman’s lik
ing, the bill provides continuation
of controls from June 30. to De
cember 31, with the President
given authority to continue them
by proclamation to March 31, 1948,
if he deems this advisable. Mr.
Truman asked for extension of
controls in their present form un
i til June 30, 1948.
It authorizes landlords to raise
rents 15 per cent in return for a
two-year lease if the tenant agrees,
and exempts from ceilings all new
houses and apartments and any
that have not been rented in the
last two years.
It retains veterans preferences
! to buy or rent new homes and con
tinues government mortgage insur
ance on new homes up to 90 per
cent of value.
Demand Seattle Not
Be Given Exclusive
Ki^hi To Alaska
P* SnccirJ Washington Service)
W ASHINGTON, i.P) —Demands
.’ram Oregon and California that
‘heir shipping interests be given
1 opp ‘u’i ty along with Seattle
.rrns ,o serve Alaska today made
more involved an already much
debated situation.
And, Governor Ernest Gruening
upports their position.
California and Oregon members
of Congress demanded after a con
ference yesterday that the mari
time commission eliminate from
contracts with three Seattle ship
ping firms a clause giving them ex
clusive right to serve Alaska until
June 30, 1948.
The contracts have been under
study for weeks and only last week
the maritime commission announc
c I its approval of their form.
The Seattle companies immedi
ately filed new t;\riffc for a 35 per
cent overall increase in rates to
Alaska.
The contracts were drafted after
Congress passed interim legisla
tion to permit the commission to
charter government ships to the
private operators at nominal rates,
with the commission paying in
surance on them and recapturing
75 per cent of any profits.
Representatives of chambers of
commerce who attended the con
ference joined the Congressmen in
urging that the commission elim
inate the exclusive clause but al
low the Seattle firms to go ahead
with the Alaskan service with the
understanding that any other ship
ping firm wishing to compete may
do so on the same terms.
Witnesses testified that at the
time the contracts with the Seattle
firms were prepared no other ship
ping companies were interested.
Alaskans announced they would
fight the proposed increases though
they said the shipping companies
had notified them they would not
start the privately operated service
if the rates weer opposed.
Since early in the war the serv
ice has been operated by the gov
ernment at a loss hnd the lines
must be returned to their owners
by June 30.
Joseph K. Carson, member of
the commission was present yes
teroay and was asked to present
the request for elimination of the
exclusive clause in the Seattle con
tract to the commission.
Rep. Jackson <D.-\Vash.> former
chairman of the House Territories
subcommittee which worked out
the law under which the commis
sion would contract with the Seat
tle firms told the conference ef
forts had been made to find other
lines interested in the Alaskan
trade without success.
“I am not in favor anytime of a
monopoly,” Jackson said, “but we
simply were unable to get other
shipping firms interested in the
Alaskan trade. I want some com
petition in that trade.”
Other members of Congress
maintained the commission had no
right to give the Seattle companies
exclusive rights of. the Alaska
, trade.
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