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NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, UP)—The national la
bor relations board hearing of the
Juneau Spruce corporation case
against the international long
s h o remen and warehousemen’s
union has been completed, but the
labor dispute remain in status quo.
The ILWU still is maintaining
pickets at the corporation plant.
The three-day hearing was con
ducted by Melton Boyd of the'19th
regional NLRB office. Boyd said
he expected early action to settle
the controversy. ^
PARIS, (/P) — Premier Henri
Queuille won a reprieve for his
shaky coalition government today.
The national assembly, after a
complex series of reversals, voted
to hold local French elections next
March, instead of next month, and
then decided to go on vacation last
night. This will give Queuille a
chance to shore up his cabinet’s
strength.
SEATTLE, (i^P)—The Seattle port
of embarkation announced Satur
day that the motor vessel Grommet
Reefer has been taken over to
carry refrigerated cargo to Alaska
army bases. The ship’s first de
parture from Seattle under direct
army operation is scheduled for
Oct. 15.
PARIS, (/P) Hector McNeil,
British minister of state, was the
only big five representative to ap
plaud Andrei Y. Vishinsky’s U. N.
assembly speech Saturday.
He said he clapped because he
though a bit of politeness was due.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Mildred
E. Gillars pleaded innocent Friday
to a treason charge growing out of
the “Axis Sally” broadcasts made
during the war. She was held with
out bail for triol Nov. 15.
Her attorney, James J. Laugh
lin objected to the trial date set by
district court Judge Mathew F.
Mc-Guire and suggested Jan 21 in
stead.
“We will need President Truman
as a witness,” Laughlin said. “You
see, he goes out of office the day
before.”
TOKYO, (/P)— An entire paper
mill valued at $5,000,000 looted
from Canton, China, by the Jap
anese will be shipped back to the
Chinese government.
The stolen mill was set up in
Hokkaido by the Japanese.
PEIPING <iP)—Dispatches today
said fires have broken out at Fu
shun coal mines, 20 miles east of
Mukden.
They are the largest open cut
mines in the world.
The fires were attributed to nat
ural causes and were raging in
seven pits.
BERN, (/P)—Switzerland has re
fused asylum to former German
finance minister Hjalmar Schacht,
the Swiss foreign ministry an
nounced today.
A German appeals court recent
ly acquitted him of being a Nazi
offender.
CAB Gives Free- |
<loin In Alaskan
Cargo Flights !
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The civil
aeronautics board Friday opened
the way for virtually unlimited air
transport between Seattle and
Alaska to ease the threat of food
and essential supply shortages. The !
board acted at the request of Gov
ernor Gruening and interior sec
retary Krug. They said the action
was necessary to “alleviate an im
minent shortage of food and essen
tial supplies resulting from the
strike of west coast shipping work
ers.
CAB authorized Pan American
Airways, Northwest Airlines and a
dozen or more Alaska air operators
who hold certificates to operate
within the Territory to fly unlim
ited service between Seattle and
points in Alaska. Order is effective
until Nov. 1. Northwest and Pan
American were given authority to
serve Alaskan points other than
those normally served.
I
I
; SEATTLE, <JP)—The permission
given by the civil aeronautics
board at Washington Friday for
virtually unlimited air transport
between here and Alaska pernris
Pacific Northern Airlines to extend
1 its scheduled service into Seattle
• from Anchorage, Kodiak CordovJ,
1 Homer, Naknek, Yakutat and Jun
eau, president Arthur G. Woodley
said.
The ruling became effective at
midnight Saturday,
i The new service is to be in op
, eration during the maritime strike
emergency, Woodley said he was
informed.
A hearing on the line’s applica
| tion for permanent service is ex
pected to be heard within a month
in connection with the States
Alaska case, he said.
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Food Will Be Short
In Alaska Unless i
Government Acts
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(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) -r- Alaska
will face a food shortage this win- ,
ter unless the government acts to
get shipping in operation to the
Territory quickly, Delegate Bart
lett said Saturday.
In an appeal for federal action, j
he said there must be no repeti
tion of the 127 d^y maritime tieup
of two years ago.
The critical situation is brought |
about by the longshoremen’s strike
on the Pacific coast.
Bartlett said through his office
here that the threat of a food'
shortage this winter has put fear
into residents of the Territory,
causing a rush on stores with re
sultant high prices. Some resi
dents, he said, are leaving the Ter
ritory.
He said he has asked that gov
ernment ships and barges be used
in a hurry to carry food and other
necessities to the Territory. He
also wants the civil aeronautics!
board to permit shipment of need-!
ed supplies by airplane which are
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Both Parties
Launch Attacks
At Communism
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(By The Associated Press)
Republican and Democratic
Presidential candidates squared
off for a slugging match over com
munism.
The Progressive party’s White
House contestant, who is running
with some communist support,,
meanwhile punched away at the
Republican and Democratic candi
dates.
Both the GOP nominee, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, and his run
ning mate, Gov. Earl Warren, hit
the communist issue hard in their
speeches Friday.
President Truman, who appar
ently has been trying to egg Dewey
into a real word clash, promptly
decided to talk about the same
subject in his next major speech,
at Oklahoma City next Tuesday.
While Warren was telling a De
troit audience he would “rather
be defeated than have communist
support,” Dewey had this to say in
Los Angeles:
“Some people jeer at this prob
lem, calling it a ‘red herring.’Some
people get panicky about it. I don’t
belong to either group.”
Then the New York governor
laid down this plan as part of a
proposed “mighty world offensive”
against communists:
“We will keep informed and we
will keep the American people in
formed where they are and what
(Continued on Page Five;
Air Force Heads
At Consultation
MONTGOMERY, Ala., I/P)—The
U. S. air force has called its top
commanders, both at home and
aboard, to a conference here early
next month.
The announcement came Friday
from headquarters of the air uni
versity at Maxwell air force base.
The meeting will be held Oct. 7-13.
No reason for the conference
was disclosed except that such
meetings are held periodically “for
the interchange for mutual ideas
and problems.
Defense Ministers
Plan West Defense
PARIS, {A3)—Defense ministers
of the five-power western Euro- I
pean alliance are meeting today in
Paris to consolidate plans for mu
tual defense in the event of war.
The conference originally was
planned as long ago as April, but
had been postponed numerous
times. It will be held now against
a background of growing interna
tional tension. Even Saturday, the
Soviet deputy foreign minister,
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, addressing
the United Nations assembly here,
lashed the alliance as one aimed
against Russia and eastern Europe.
Responsible sources say the min
isters of Britain, France, the Neth
erlands, Belgium and Luxem
bourg will discuss standardization
of arms and the possibility of joint
land, sea and air maneuvers.
Idle Total Grows
As Maritime
Strike Continues
SAN FRANCISCO, (TP)—Ship
operators reported Saturday the
Pacific coast maritime strike has
tied up 132 American flag vessels
and predicted that if the deadlock
continues the total will reach 375.
The figure of 132, as of noon
Thursday, was released by Albert
W. Gatov, president of the Pacific
American Steamship association, i
Gatov forecast that if- no settle
ment is made soon an estimated
530,000 jobs in Pacific coast indus
tries “may ultimately be jeopar
dized.” Some 6250 officers and
merchant seamen already are idle,
together with most of the 12,000
longshoremen. Some of the latter
are loading cargo for the army.
Thirty-four ships are laid up in
San Francisco and 23 at Los An
geles Gatov said .
The Pacific coast total of 97 in
cluded 14 ships tied up at Port
land, 19 at Seattle, two at Belling
ham, Wash., and one each at Coos
Bay, and Reedsport, Ore., Everett
and Port Angeles, Wash., and San
Diego, Calif.
Meantime no break in the dead
lock appeared. CIO longshoremen
Friday night expressed willingness
to accept Mayor Elmer E. Robin
son of San Francisco as mediator
but waterfront employers evi
denced doubt the mayor could set
tle the issues.
Russians Throwing
Many Germans
Into Buchenwald
BERLIN, (/P) — The Socialist
press claimed today the Russians
are throwing thousands of new vic
tims into concentration camps in
eastern Germany’s intens i f i e d
purge of anti-communists.
The official “Sozial Demokrat’’
described what it called “trans
ports of misery’’ headed for Bu
chenwald, the former Nazi con- ;
centration camp in Thuringia.
One paper described one such
railroad transport of 40 heavily
guarded freight cars which it
claimed was crowded to suffoca
tion with Germans being sent to
confinement. The train was escort
ed by heavily armed Soviet sol
diers and outfitted with search
lights.
Air Force Working '
On Speedier i
Bomber
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The air
force is making progress toward
solving one of its gravest problems
—finding a bomber that can es
cape from the darting speed of at
tacking jet fighters.
The fact that this tactical feat
has been accomplished at least
once was disclosed officially over
the weekend. Air secretary Sym
ington made a brief and otherwise
unexplained reference in a New
Continued on Page Three
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
The cold war got hotter today.
The western powers broke off
negotiations with Russia on the
Berlin crisis and decided to let the
United Nations have a try at set
tling it. Diplomats expressed fear
Hie United Nations might crack up
over the Issue.
Britain’s foreign secretary, Er
nest Bevin, told the U. N. assembly
in Paris that unless the east-west
quarrel is settled, it may mean the
end of the United Nations. Russia,
alone, he cried, will be responsible
if war — shooting, atomic war —
should follow.
A Washington diplomatic source
said Russia’s continued member
ship in the U. N. is in grave doubt.
In Berlin foreign and German
political circles said they do not
expect the U. N. can solve the Ber
lin problem. They also said they
though the issue will wreck the U.
N.
Britain, France and the United
States, jointly broke off their se
| cret negotiations with Russia yes
| terdav, after receiving a note from
: the Kremlin in which the Rus
sians, among other things, de
, manded complete control over the
; air corridors to Berlin—and thus
the planes which use them.
At midnight last night the three
governments issued a 3,000-word
^Continued on Page Eight)
Both Candidates
Observe Sunday
In Campaigning
'By The Associated Press)
The two major party Presiden
tial candidates returned to politi
cal campaigning today after a Sab
bath lull in which both made peace
pleas.
World peace is “more important
than w’hether I'm President of the
United States,” President Truman
told a dinner of Texas Democrats
at San Antonio last night.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said in a
statement at San Francisco that
America is united on the Paris
peace front. He called for peac?
prayers in the face o fthe “grave
crisis in Berlin.”
Both candidates shied away
from from outright politics in their
Sunday utterances.
But former speaker Sam Ray
'Continued on Page Five)
G.A.R. Holds
Encampment
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. (/P> —
Business sessions of the 82nd an
nual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic open here
today with the gavel being taken
over by the youngest of the six
Civil War veterans in attendance.
The presiding officer will be 99
year-old Theodore A. Penland, of
Portland, Ore., senior vice com
mander.
Oldest of the half dozen attend
ing the reunion is James A. Hard,
107, of Rochester, N. Y.