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NEWS IN BUI !•
SEATTLE, (/Pi, The T*o«‘ -T- el' -
gencer quotes Bradford Washburn
as saying it was “entirely feasible"
establish a nuclear research lab
oratory at the 18,000-foot level on
Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
Washburn, director of the B >s
ton Museum of Science, now is in
Boston analyzing results of a
month’s survey work in Alaska. A
helicopter used by his party made
^ five test landings on McKinley
Glacier, saving many weeks of
climbing.
\ .
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—The body of
William C. Hill surveyor for the
resident engineer at Ladd air force
base, was found floating Monday
in Tanana River 2 miles east 01
here.
The U. S. marshal’s office said
Hill wore a defective life preserv
er. He ha been missing on a rnoose
hunting trip since Sunday. Iii?
canoe was found downstream. He
is survived by a widow living in
Fairbanks.
NEW YORK, </P) — Henry A.
Wallace »has decided not to run for
any office this year.
His course has left the choice
wide open tor an American Labor
Party candidate for U. S. Senator
in New York at the November
election.
Wallace’s decision was am uinc
ed late Monday by Rep. Vito Mar
cantonio, state chairman oi the
ALP.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.(/P)—A
S300,000 fire ripped through 300
feet of the famed million dollar
pier early yesterday.
Th well-known landmark, which
juts 1.900 feet into the ocean on
the downtown section of the board
walk, caught fire about 4:30 a.m.
A northeast wind blew roaring
flames down the beach away from
boardwalk hotels.
The pier’s huge ballroom, near
the shore end, was destroyed.
SEATTLE, </P>—'The motorship
Coastal Monarch will sail from
Seattle September 30 with the last
cargo to go to ports on the Bering
Sea until next June, The Alaska
Steamship company announced
yesterday.
The Coastal Monarch will carry
carg > for Unalaska, Saint Michael,
Unalakleet, Nome and lower Yu
kon River ports.
Cargo will be accepted at Pier
42 until September 2fi.
PETERSBURG, UP) — Uley V.
“Hack” White, Alaska outboard
racing champion, and Miss Irene
Olsen were married Saturday eve
ning at White’s hunting lodge on
Grief Island.
Garbed in hunting attire, they
stood for the ceremony read by U.
S. Commissioner Dale H. Hirt.
White’s mother lives in Belling
ham.
SITKA (/P)—Sitkans voted a two
per cent sales tax upon themselves
yesterday, 251 to 60.
Voters rejected a proposal to
lengthen the terms of the mayor
and councilmen, 138 favoring and
175 opposing.
Need Time, Place
For Contract Talks
In Stc*el Bout
PITTSBURGH l/P)—Only agree
men on time and place is needed
today to start new steel contract
talks. Outcome of the negotiations
may depend on the reluctance of
some steel companies to pay the
entire cost of insurance and pen
sions program.
Reluctance of some steel com
panies to approve in advance the
Presidential board’s proposal tha;
they pay for such programs was
interpreted in some quarters as
holding a new strike threat. .
A spokesman for the CIO united
steelworkers sadi that union presi
dent Philip Murray’s statement he
is ready to resume negotiations for
a contract based on the board’s re
port meant that he will strike any
companies which failed to agree
to pay all insurance and pension
costs.
At least two company officials
said workers ought to share the
costs of such programs.
The CIO united steelworkers
and four leading steel producers
are ready to resume contract tulles.
They will seek a settlement more
or less based on the Presidential
fact finders’ recommendation of a
10-cent hourly package increase.
The board advised against any
wage boost.
Negotiators will be working un
der an 11-day extension of the
strike deadline which expired at
midnight Tuesday.
. The union accepted- the board’s
recommendations without reserva
tions. That meant giving up its
drive for a fourth post-war round
of wage increases in 1949. The un
ion said the board’s suggested 10
cent increase in the form of com
pany-financed insurance and pen
sion programs was good enough.
GOP Gaining
In Pennsylvania
V
• -
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. 4^*)—Repub
lican forces marie deep inroads in
Democratic strongholds today to
put the 26th Pensylvania Congres
sional district seat back in the GOP
fold and hand the Truman Admin
istration a setback.
Naval veteran John P. Saylor,
who supplied the flag raised on
I wo Jima, recaptured the special
election prize his party lost in the
1948 Truman sweep.
And “he did not without men
tioning in his campaign the name
of Democratic gold star mother
Mrs. Robert L. Coffey, Sr., who
sought the Congressional post va
cated by the death of her son in
a plane crash.
Since Mrs. Coffey had received
Truman’s endorsement and had
campaigned with ringing support
of the entire “fair deal” program,
her defeat was seen as a blow to
the administration.
The western Pennsylvania vote
provided the first test of the Pres
ident’s “fair deal” program since
last year’s ballotting, Republicans
and Democrats alike regarded it as
a clue to the 1950 Congress elec
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Secy. Symington
Sees Alaska As
*•1 )efcnse Bastion**
ANCHORAGE, t/P)—Air secre
tary Symington pictured Alaska as
a defense bastion standing between
the “air frontiers of'the continent”
and the “only nation in the world
that is powerful enough to launch
an attack against, the United
States."
At a news conference Monday
the secretary predicted Congress
\v >uld enact a $137,000,000 public
works appropriation measure for
military construction in the Terri
tory.
Work will proceed immediately,
he said, on construction of a $50,
000,000 radar screen in Alaska to
detect enemy planes. He said Con
gress had approved the expendi
ture and the money could be taken
from other air force funds so the
work could start at once.”
In his “air frontiers,” Syming
ton said he included all the north
ern states. The great industrial
center of Detroit, he added, would
be a target in case ©f war.
Rep. Hugh Mitchell 'D.-\Yash.',
in the party, told the Anchorage
chamber of commerce in an ad
dress his visit had impressed him
with the need for continuity in the
public works program.
He said the $137,000,000 pro
gram at present was pigeonholed
in the House armed services com
mittee. “I will take back the story
of the need for continuity,” the
Congressman said, predicting Con
gress “will recognize the prob
lems and will get the bill through
this year.”
“Housing is one of the greatest
needs” in Alaska. Symington said.
“Instead of figuring how much
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Truman Formula
May Prevent
Steel Strike
PITTSBURGH, </P) — Big steel
started lining up yesterday behind
the Presidential board's formula
for peace in America’s basic in
dustry.
There won’t be any steel stnko
for the next 11 days—and maybe
none at all. The wage dispute that
threatened to tie the nation in eco
nomic knots apparently is headed
for a happy solution.
President Truman is “highly
| gratified’’ about the whole thing.
I CIO united steelworkers and six
j major steel producers agreed to
extension of the strike truce at re
quest of the chief executive. The
truce expired at midnight last
night. It will continue to Sept. 25.
The steelworkers also accepted
recommendations of the Presi
dent’s steel fact finding board
even though it meant giving up a
fourth round wage increase.
“The President is naturally
highly gratified,” said the White
House. “He is very much pleased
with the way things have devel
oped up to now.”
Republic Steel Corporation of!
Cleveland, the nation’s No. 3 pro
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4 Jiar«r(‘ lialkan
4 Countries \\ i 111
IJ. V \ iolations
WASHINGTON. (/P»—Sec re 1 a ry
of state Acheson announced today
that Soviet-dominated Bulgaria,
Hungary nad Romania will be
charged in the United Nations gen
eral assembly with violations of
human rights.
The secretary emphatically re
newed at his news conference the
long-standing British-Ameri can
charges of “callous disregard” of
the human rights clauses in the
peace rights treaties with the iron
curtain nations.
IIn said the three Soviet satel
lites have just turned down a pro
posal by the United States that
they name commissions, as pro
vided in the peace treaties, to take
up the dispute over charges that
they have repeatedly violate 1 the
| agreemnts. Thse call for fair trails
and various personal freedoms.
Bulgaria, Hungary, and Roman
ia, Acheson said in a statement
which he read, “continue to insist
that they have not violated the hu
man rights clauses of the treaties
but they are unwilling to apply the
procedures specifically provided
in the treaties for just such cases
of disputes over whether or not
violations have taken place."
The U. S. and Britain, acting
along identical lines, have been
trying for some two years to get
the satellite countries to agree to
act on the treaty violation charges,
but without avail. Soviet Russia
has backed them, contending the
trials of churchmen and jailing of
political foes of the communists
was an “internal affair.”
MOTOR VESSEL "HEALTH"
IN ROADSTEAD TODAY
The Motor Vessel is in the road
stead today on its farthest north
point for the season.
The motor barge which is oper
ated by the Alaska Department of
health left Kodiak, which is its
base, in the middle of June and
worked along the Aleutian chain
and then to Nuniva'k, Hooper Bay,
Scannon Bay. St. Michaels. Steb
bins, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Elim
and Golovin.
The boat is manned by a crew of
eight with Capt. E. Haugen as
skipper, and carries the following
medical officers who give medical,
dental, care as well as BCG iiioc
culations. Children are being
given the fluoride treatment as a
preventive or aid to prevention of (
tooth decay; clinical instruction
for maternal care, etc., as well as |
a check-up on communicable dis
eases.
In the party are Dr. Hazel Blair,
who has been with the department
for the past two years, having
worked on the M. V. Hygiene in
Southeastern Alaska; Dr. Robert
Lathrop with his wife as assistant
is dentist; June Bagley is clinic
nurse, John Kuhn is laboratory
and x-ray technician; Sylvig Met
calf is clerk.
The party hope to work the area
from Nome to Wainwright next
summer as the season is too far
advanced to go farther north this
year.
News of the World
At A (dance - - -
Tuesday. September 13. IP49
• By The Associated Press'
Britain and the United States
begin talks today on global politi
cal problems aimed at maintaining
a unified stand against Russian
communism.
Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin
and secretary of state Doan Ache
s' n in their talks in Washington
will deal with British and Ameri
can Far Eastern policy in view of
the Chinese communist advance.
They will also take up problems
of Germany, Tito’s split with the
Kremlin, and the Atlantic defense
'.vstem under the North Atlantic
treaty.
The way for the political talks
was paved by an apparent success
ful conclusion of a British-Cana
dian-American conference on Bri
tain's economic crisis. Leaders of
the three powers at the financial
talks, ended yesterday, expressed
confidence wavs and means have
been found to stop the drain on
Britain's dollar reserves.
Britain’s dollar position is to be
helped by these decisions:
1. Canada and the United States
are expected to buy more tin and
rubber from Britain for stockpil
ing.
2. Britain obtained permission
to spend Marshall Plan dollars in
countries other than the United
States. Britain can now purchase
wheat from Canada.
3. Both Canada and the United
States have agreed to ease customs
regualtions.
4. Britain will be free to dis
criminate against U. S. and Cana
dian goods in order to build up her
non-dollar imports.
Chinese dispatches said that
communist forces are marshalling
140 miles northeast of Canton for
a final drive on tjie provisional
capital. Troops of Gen. Po-Cheng's
14th army are moving into three
towns recently taken by irregu
lars.
Dr. Konrad Adenhauer. leader
of the Christian Democratic Un
ion. has emerged as the strong
mi n in West Germany's new fed
eral republic. He will be named
by President Theodor Heuss to as
sume the duties of chancellor
• prime minister* perhaps today or
tomorrow. Adenhauer heads a co
alition of right-wing parties. He
triumphed yesterday in the elec
tion of Heuss as president over the
socialist leader. Dr. Kurt Schu- .
macher.
Wednesday. September 14. 1949
Secretary of State Acheson said
today he and British foreign min
ister Bevin are agreed ti at the
need for a Japanese peace treaty
is urgent.
Acheson indicated to a news
conference at Washington that he
still hopes Russia will cooperate
in making the treaty.
The secretary of state met with
reporters just before going into his
second session of political talks
with Bevin.
The first session was held yes
terday and concerned the Pacific
area. It produced a joint statement
indicating that British and Amori
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