World Cereal
Foods 10,000,000
Tons Short
WASHING TON, </P) — The
world’s supplies of bread cereals
are 10,000,000 tons short of the
amount needed to maintain pres
ent rations, Sir John Boyd Orr.
director-general of the food and
agriculture organization of the
United Nations, said today.
“The situation,” he said, “can be
met only by an increase in total
world food production. The in- i
crease which the world needs
must come mainly from the reha
bilitation and agriculture in the
war-devastated countries and from
the expansion of the underdevel
oped countries.
Sir John explained that because i
of partial failure of the 1947 crop,
especially in Europe, about 39,
000,000 tons are needed in 1947
1948 to prevent a decrease in
bread and cereal rations, com
pared with 38,000,000 tons estim
ated at the Geneva FAO confer
ence in September.
Weather Keeps
Fliers At Naknek
ANCHORAGE, (A5) — Sudden i
worsening of the weather forced !
round-the-world fliers George j
Truman and Clifford Evans to
turn back late Monday to Naknek, '
where they had taken off at 4:09
p.m. (PST) for Anchorage.
The brief announcement that the
two cub plane pilots were return
ing to Naknek. at the base of the
Alaska Peninsula, was made by
army authorities at Elmendort
Field about the time they were ex
pected to arrive here.
No details of difficulties encoun
tered by Truman and Evans were
contained in the army report, out
side the fact that poor weather
prevented them from completing
their 300-mile three-hour Naknek
Anchorage trip.
PETE LARSON
LEAVES FOR STATES
Pete Larson, tug boat operator
for the Lomen Commercial Co.,
for the summer departed for the
States yesterday.
TRY OUR
DAILY ICE CREAM SPECIALS
Root Beer Floats - Sundaes - Milk Shakes
Hot Fudge Sundaes - Soft Drinks - Candies
Also Cigars - Cigarettes - Tobacco
THE GLUE POT
Former Governor
John G. Winant
Commits Suicide
(Continued from Page One)
Notification went to two sons,
John, Jr., of Princeton, N. J., and
Rivington, a student at Oxford.
England, and a daughter, Mrs. [
Carlos de Valando of Lima, Peru.
Miss Irene Mason, secretary of1
the thrice-governor of New Hamp
shire, told officials he had been 1
suffering “mental and physical fa- j
tigue,” while Miss Orol Mears. a ,
maid in the Winant home, said he
“seemed to be in low spirits.”
They said they heard no shot:
but were attracted by the thump 1
of Winant’s body.
Winant returned to private life
last December when he asked
President Truman to relieve him
of his post as permanent U. S.
representative on the United Na
tions economic and social council,
to which the President had named
him in 1946, after he left his am
bassador’s office.
He wanted, he said, to “pick up
life again as a private citizen in
my own country.”
As governor of New Hampshire
—the only man ever to serve three
terms—Winant, an outspoken crit
ic against politics, as such, set up
several agencies for social and la
! bor betterment. His ideas caught
I on throughout the nation.
%
The late President Roosevelt
went out of the Democratic party
to name Winant, a Republican, as
first head of the social security
board.
GOP Candidates
Oust California
Democrats
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—California
Republicans picked up two addi
tional seats in the state assembly
when two GOP candidates defeat
ed labor-endorsed Democrats in
special elections in the 56th and
63rd assembly district yesterday.
Leonard P. Lipscomb piled up a
better than 2 to 1 victory to win
the seat in the 56th district over
his Democratic opponent, Leo M.
Strobel. Republican G. Delbert
Morris received more votes in the
63rd district .than his two Demo
cratic opponents, Joseph DeSilva,
official of the AFL retail clerks’
union, and James E. Armstrong.
Salmon Industry
w
Advances Taxes
JUNEAU, (A3)—Alaska’s canned
salmon industry has advanced tax
payments totaling more than
$293,000 to aid the Territory’s dis
tressed financial condition. Terri
torial treasurer Oscar Olson said
today.
He added, however, that out
standing warrants total more than
$593,000.
As of Oct. 31, Olson said, the
Territory had an actual cash bal
ance of slightly more than $22,000
Funds exclusively earmarked
for definite funds and not avail
able for general operations total
more than $1,349,000.
Airfreight Rates Slashed!
Seattle - Anchorage
Effective October 31, 1947
1 APPLICABLE FOR ALL FOODS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS.
MILK, MEATS, CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. AND CON
TRACTOR’S TOOLS, ON 20,000 LB. MINIMUM SHIPMENTS,
AND 22.9c PER LB. ON ANY QUANTITY SHIPMENTS.
Alaska Airlines has reduced rates on other types of merchandise as follows:
*
15 to 1,000 lbs. — .27
1.001 tb 3,000 lbs. — .26
3.001 to 10,000 lbs. — .25
10,001 to 19,999 lbs. — .24
20,000 minimum — .23
FROM ANCHORAGE TO SEATTLE
8c PER LB. FOR ALL COMMODITIES
DEPENDABLE OVERNIGHT DC-4 SERVICE!
ALASKA AIRLINES
Unions To Ask
For Many Benefits;
Not More Wages
WASHINGTON. (A1)—Some la
bor relations experts look for
unions to concentrate on old age
pensions and similar benefits
rather than a third round of post
war wage boosts when current,
tracts come up for renewal.
Most of the big contracts won't
expire until after January 1. Ir»
the meantime, the session of Con
gress starting November 17 will be
asked by President Truman to do
something about rising prices.
What Congress does—or does
not do—on that score is certain to
have a bearing on the forthcoming
labor-management negotiatio n s .
Both the AFL and CIO are pro
testing bitterly against .soaring
living costs, but thus far the top
leadership appears to have accept
ed the view that another pay r.se
would only be more inflationary.
bo for the present most unions
seem to have decided to apply
pressure on Congress for action on
t prices as the best way to hold
their economic ground. The CIO
came out Monday with an appeal
to all city and state industrial
union councils to ask Congress
' members for restoration of price
controls, rationing of some items,
and allocation of scarce supplies.
The AFL has said it wants Con
| gress to crack down on “monopo
lies'* which the federation's execu
; tive council contends are keeping
| prices up. In an October economic
I survey, however. AFL researchers
declared that if present conditions
prevail another round of wage in
creases will be sought.
The San Francisco AFL conven
i tion called for increased old age
benefits under federal social se
curity. indicating the way its high
command is thinking. But the
AFL leadership leaves the bar
i gaining and the contract demands
| strictly to its member unions.
The CIO follows the same policy
in general, but conferences among
leaders of the various unions rp
i suit in a “pattern'’ of demands.
| Meanwhile, the national fore
men’s institute, which describes
its thrice-monthly collective bar
gaining bulletin as “a streamliner
labor relations service for employ
ees,” said in its latest issue that
General Motors corporation will
be the first to feel the pension
plan “push.”
GOP Leaders
i Want To Know
! Total Aid Cost
(By Jack Bell)
| WASHINGTON (JP) — Prospec
tive Republican limitations on the
! Marshall plan began to take form
today with a demand from Senator
Vandepberg (R.-Mich.) that the
administration submit a “total
bill” for world-wide aid proposals.
Vandenberg’s assertion that “we
cannot indefinitely underwrite the
world.” drew attention to a grow
ing framework of requirements
upon which the GOP majority in
Congress may insist before it ap
proves any plan for economic help
to Europe.
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) already
has said the cost of such aid ought
to be limited to $4,500,000,000 in
! the next year. Senator White of
Maine, the GOP floor leader, told
a reporter he thinks other party
members will have “quite a few
ideas of their own" when the spe
cial'session begins considering the