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VOL. XL VIII. No. 112. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1946 PER COPY — I5c
Few Vessels
Are Released
^On Atlantic Front
UNDATED-MARITIME, Sept. 18,
-(j*P)—A ripple of activitity stir
red the nation’s waterfronts to
day, due to release of AFL-manned
ships and foreign vessels from the
picket lines, but the bulk of Ameri
ca’s maritime fleet still was an
chored fast by the 14-day-old
seamen’s strike.
Che situation in New York—the
nation’s No. 1 port—was typical.
The U. S. Maritime Commission
said 432 ships were in port. Long
shoremen were at work on 82. Of
these, 22 were American and the
others of foreign registry.
Nearly 1,000 French seamen,
caught in the strike when they
came to the United States to re
turn a number of recently pur
chased Liberty ships to the Mari
f^rte Commission. They are neg
otiating for the same increases
won by AFL unions.
They are members of the World
Federation of Trades Unions which
numbers the CIO among its af
filiates.
Both union leaders and ship
owners appeared to be sitting tight
^aiting for Washington to do
something about arbitrating the
dispute.
NMU president Joseph Curran
asked President Truman for help
Sunday night. West Coast lead
ers appealed to the White House
for relief from the stalemate yes
terday.
Talks were broken off Sunday
night when the operators demand
ed that security watches be re
turned to struck vessels. The
NMU had withdrawn the watches
earlier in the day.
On the West Coast, there also
H*re no signs of conferences 1 e
tweep the operators and the strik
ing CIO Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union, and the Independent
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Vresident Orders
Study Of WSB
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. —(^P)—
President Truman ordered a study
of the government’s wage-price
policy which may determine the
future of the Wage Stabilization
Board.
The WSB was sidetracked by
*the White House in settling the
AFL seaman’s strike.
* The Office of War Mobilization
and Reconversion said today its
advisory board had been asked
by Mr. Truman to make a sur
vey.
A E R I XL BAY VIEW —Portion of business district and harbor water front of San Francisco,
showing part of the San Fiancisco-Oakland Bay bridge ani Alcatraz (upper right).
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Decontrol Board
To Decide On
Dairy Products
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, —(IP)—
Facing a thick stack of conflict
ing arguments the Price Decontrol
Board met today to decide wheth
er to order price lids returned to
cheese, butter and possibly all
other dairy products.
A staff member for the inde
pendent panel said the three mem
bers might delay a decision until
Friday to permit thorough exam
ination of letters, telegrams and
other data submitted in response
to the board’s invitation. The ses
sions will be closed to the pub
lic.
At the time of its meat recon
trol decision August 20, the board
allowed dairy products to remain
free of the price curb that had
expired along with OPA on June
30th.
The panel ruled that (1) while
milk and other dairy products
were in short supply and (2) while
price controls could be enforced,
(3) dairy prices had not climbed
unreasonably, hence the industry
should be given an additional trial
free from ceilings.
Army Bombers
To Fly Weather
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. —(/P)—
The Army Air Forces disclosed
today a plan to fly B-29 weather
reconnaisance planes daily over
the length of the Aleutian chain,
which juts out into the North
Pacific.
The flights will begin sometime
next month.
Similar flights by the big bomb
ers, converted to handle a variety
of meteorological equipment, are
being made daily over a 2,462-mile
route from Merced, Calif., to An
chorage, Alaska.
Joe Louis Ko’s
Mauriello In First
FLASH—Joe Louis slops Tami
Mauriello in first round of 15.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18, —(&)—The
trucking strike that has plagued
New Yorkers in various ways
will have an effect on tonight’s
heavyweight championship fight—
Mike Jacobs couldn’t find any
way to get the aluminum supports
for the raised ringside sections
transported to Yankee Stadium
so the customers, however many
there may be, will have to depend
t
Chinese Fear
Russo-American
“Mukden Incident”
TIENTSIN, Sept 18, —(/p)—Tien
tsin newspapers today expressed
fear of a Russo-American war as
they observed this fifteenth anni
versary of the Mukden incident
which precipitated Japan’s con
quest of Manchuria.
The pro-government Republican
Daily News said that “Under in
creasing Russo-American friction,
Japan might become powerful a
gain and if war breaks out be
tween the United States and Rus
sai it is possible she once more
would turn her evil jaws toward
China.”
The press reported the dancing,
other amusements and the slaugh
ter of livestocks were banned in
Mukden today in observance of
the Mukden incident.
on neck stretching to get a good
look.
New York, Sept. 18, —(fP)—Joe
Louis, heavyweight champion,
weighing more than he has for any
fight in his career, scaled 211 Vi
today and had a 13 pound edge
over Tami Mauriello for their title
fight tonight in Yankee Stadium.
Mauriello weighed in at 198Vi.
Chamber Makes
Plea For Ships
Asserting they are faced with
hunger during the area’s eight
months’ winter, the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday resolved to
appeal to President Truman, labor
leaders and others to get two sup
ply ships here before the Bering
Sea freezes.
A. Polet, local merchant, and
member of the Alaska Develop
ment Board, asserted that outly
ing districts of the 2nd Division
are only now overcoming handi
caps of last year’s shipping strikes,
and that, if faced with further
difficulties, it was possible the
people of the district would have
to “throw in the towel” in their
efforts to make a living there.
The Chamber plea was to be
addressed to Dave Beck, Seattle
labor leader; attorney W. A. Gil
more, Seattle: the president of the
Alaska Steamship Company, and
to heads of the National Maritime
Union and War Shipping Admin
istration.
Tom Keating, local agent for the
Alaska Steamship Company, an
nounced he was in receipt of in
structions from his company in
Seattle, the SS Victoria will be
dispatched to Nome for the last
boat of the season.
Agriculture Dept.
Against Rail
Rate Increases
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — fi£p|—
Department of Agriculture spokes
man argued against proposed
sharp increases in rail freight rates
today on two basic points.
1. A 25 per cent increase in freight
rates will retard the electrification
of the nation’s farms.
2. Higher shipping charges will
impose a heavy burden on the
fish industry and will curtail ser
iously the movement of fishery
products.
Also, a statement filed by Har
old H. Abel, Wyoming University
trained economist for the Pro
duction and Marketing Adminis
tration, said:
“Any increase in freight rates
of the proportion now proposed
by railroads would in effect ser
iously retard the growth of the
frozen fish industry.”
Abel estimated that U. S.-Al
aska production of fish and shell
fish will increase from 4.4 billion
pounds in 1945 to 4.5 billion in
1946, and 4.6 billion pounds in
1947, and that rail shipments of
fish products will increase “in a
bout the same proportions.”