and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Friday, September 9, 1955
IGcaOopy
NUMBER 191
Skagway port-rail closed by
strike of railway repairmen
Embargo placed on
all shipments to
city's only dock
JUINEAU </P) Skagway today
is locked tightly in the grips of
a laibor dispute that threatens
to bring on a severe supply cri
sis as a result of an embargo
placed on all water borne fre
ight normally routed through
the city’s only dock facilities.
After a series of rapid devel
opments, primed by a strike of (
the Federal Labor Union of
Railroad Shop Employes, resid
ents olf the small port and rail
read city are without rail or
sea transportation services.
The union strike, which cul
minated ten months of fruit
less negotiations between offic
ials of local 24464 (AFL) and
officials of the White Pass and
Yukon Route Railroad, was call
ed shortly after noon yesterday
Picket lines were thrown a
round the railroad shops yes
terday. it was reported here,
and the line’s rolling stodk was
idled as members of two other
railroad unions refused to cross
over. In addition, to the three
railroad unions, the Internation
al Brotherhood of Longshore
men have been idled (by the em
bargo placed on the privately
Another polio ease
in Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN Mrs. Jer
ry E. Miller, 19. became Ket
chikan’s fifteenth polio pat
ient Wednesday.
The mother of two small
children, she was brought to
Ketchikan from the Hollis log
ging camip of Ketchiken Pulp
Company.
Mrs. Miller came here early
this year from Coquille, Ore.
V eatchcombing
• It looks like we are going
to have a nice weekend for
hunting even if we don t get
a buck.
—I—I—
• The* functioning of the,
minds in the Kremlin are be
yond question the most pecul
iar in the world. Don’t they
realize that what they try to
do can be understood by a great
many people — and we don’t
mean those in high places —
just the ordinary common man
in the street.
-1-1
• Well you won’t get a cha
nce to cast a ballot for the Vea
tchcomer in the coming elec
tion — butt wish I could go
anyway.
—I—I—
£ Next week we can see what
has been done in Sitka during
the past year — the Community
Fair is on the 17th.
owned dock.
The embargo on all incom
ing freight and passenger ser
vice was announced today by
the White Pass & Yukon route
and its family firm which own
and operate the dock.
Skagway mayor Cyril Coyne
today declared the city will
take immediate steps to secure
an injunction algainst the firms
embargo in an attempt to avoid
a food and fuel suptply crisis.
Coyne said this morning that
the striking union has author
ized the longshore union to tie
up and cast off vessels hauling
mail, local freight and express
cargo should the embargo be
lifted on these items. Unless
the embargo is lifted on cargo
in these categories, Coyne said,
the city will seek the injunc
tion on the grounds that the i
dock is a public utility despite
the private ownership by the
firm.
The Federal Labor Union of
Shop Workers are seeking a 30c
per hour wage increase. Nego
tiations have been under way
since last November and fd
sral mediators have stepped in j
to no avail.
Union scale for shop employ-:
ees range from $1.63 to $2.32 j
per hour.
Wrangell logger
killed in plane
crash today
WRANGELL (/P) Mel Boh
lsinger, albout 40. head of the
Bohlsinger and Hawley Log
ging Co. died today -in the crash
of his light plane in Wrangell
harbor.
The plane plunged into the
harbor a few minutes aifter
Bohlsinger had taken off in
clear weather. Witnesses said
he got clear of the plane after
it hit. but disappeared before
help could reach him.
A recently 'killed seagull was
found floating near the crash
scene, leading to the theory the
bird may hape flown into the
propeller.
Bohlsinger formerly operated
a trucking line in Valdez. His
logging company now is operat
inlg on Level island near here
Don't take a chance
there's life in bossy
CHTLLICOTHE. Ohio (IP) A
cow’s swift kick, sent a butcher
to the ‘hospital yesterday.
Butcher? Yep. the cow was
dead, but she saved! her last
wallop for William Teeters, 31
butcher at a Chillicot'he slaugh
terhouse.
Teeters stood in the wrong
place when he cut a tendon in
a hind leg of the carcass. With
tension off. the leg flew out in
Ol’ Bossy’s last “kick.” Teeters
suffered a possible foot frac
ture.
Craig boat blows
up, 3 men killed
KETCHIKAN (JP) A message
from mayor John Summerville
at the little town of Craig, 6(1
miles west of here said the trol
ler Ruth of Hy da burg blew up
last night or this morning be
tweeen Craig and Hydaburg,
with three charred bodies left
on deck, one man missing, and
one person still alive.
No names were given the
Coast Guard, which flew to
the scene today and found the
burned wreck beached on a
small island between the two
towns. It was believed all a
board were from Hydaburg,
but that the missing fourth per
son is a man who may still be
alive.
Ellis Airlines sent a plane
over this afternoon to pick up
the family of the survivor and
bring them from Hydaburg, to
gether with the lone survivor,
to Ketchikan.
No explanation for the blast
has yet been relayed here.
Ellis Air learned late today
that the survivor is Paul Leeds
and the dead persons are Duke
Helmar, A1 Leeman and Chris
tie Bull. Name of the missing
person was not obtained.
Soviets ignore talk of return
of West German captives
East Germany says
prisoners now on
way home
MOSCOW </P) West German
chancellor Konrad Adenauer
called on the Soviet Union’s
top leaders to release German
war prisoners held in Russia as
a prelude to “normalization”
of relations between their two
countries.
Opening his historic? first
meeting with the Kremlin com
I mand Adenauer also pleaded
with Soviet premier Bulganin,
communist party ibtoss Nikita
Khrushchev and foreign mini
ster V. M. Molotov to “dedicate i
all your energies” to speedy
conclusion with the Western
Big Three of an agreement to
re-unify Germany.
Bulganin in reply ignored the
question of the war prisoners. I
On reunification, he repeated !
the Russian claim that West
Adm. Radford says no cut in
sight in military spending
President Wilson
I
agreed no cuts
possible now
toy Marvin L. Arrowsmith
DENVER (/P) Admiral Arth
ur W. Radford said after a con
ference with President Eisen
hower today “there will be no
changes in the basic military
program calling for defense
spending of about $37,750,000,
000 this fiscal year.
Radford, chairman of the
joint Chiefs of staff, told news
men that reports of a cut con
templated in that program “are
not correct.”
Radford, Eisenhower’s top
military advisor, also differed
with former President Truman
A reporter told the admiral
that Truman, in a Chicago
speech today, had said the Ei
senhower administration was
making “unjustified and most
dangerous cuts” in the nation’s
military power.”
“I don’t know of any such
actions and I think I would
know about them,” Radford re
plied, adding that he wanted
to make it clear that he did not
read Truman’s speech.
“I think we have basically
a very sound military program”
Radford said, “from the stand
point of seourity, the country
was never better off. ’
| Radford came to Eisenhow
er’s vacation headquarters here
to discuss national security pro
blems with the president. The
admiral declined to go into any
detail about those' problems,
but did say in response to a
! question, that he and the chief
executive did some talking a
bout military spending.
Radford added that he also
discussed that matter with se
cretary of defense Wilson in
Detroit yesterday.
The admiral said he and Wil
son discussed the possibility of
trimming defense spending next
year, but he recalled that Wil
son told congress earlier this
year that he looked for milit
ary spending to continue in the
neighborhood of at least 34 toil
lion dollars a year “for an in
definite time,” Radford said to
day he sees it that way, too.
His statement that “there
will 'be no changes in the basic
military program” calling for
spending of about $37,750,000
000 in the fiscal year which
started July 1 was prompted by
a reporter’s question with re
spect to published reports that
the Pentagon was contemplat
ing an expenditure reduction
of about one billion dollars.
In calling those reports “not
continued on page four)
Baseball today
CHICAGO f/P) The Chicago
Cubs handed 20 game winner
Don Nedoombe his fifth loss as
they beat the bilg righthander
a third time in routing Brook
lyn’s newly crowned National
league champions, 11-4. in the
first game of a double header
today.
NEW YORK (IP) Joe Collins
drove in four runs! with two
homers and the New York Yank
ees defeated the Chicago White
Sox 5-4 today to move into a
tie with Cleveland for first
place in the torrid American
league pennant race.
German memlberShiip in NATO
and the Western European Un
oin formed, the biig barrier to
reunion df West and East Ger
many.
The Soviet premieil urged
the establishment of normal
diplomatic relations between
the two governments, asserting
that closer contacts thus estab
lshed would help in finding a
solution to the unification pro
blem.
Seated across from, the Rus
sian leaders at a long white
covered table in the white mar
ble and gold hall of Spiridon
ovka Palace, Adenauer assert
ed: “It is unthinkable to estab
lish formal relations between
our states so long as this ques
tion (of prisoners) remains un
solved.”
In Berlin, Neues Deutschland
chief newspaper of the East Ger
man communist party, said the
East German government wou
Id continue its efforts “to set
tle finally and for all of Ger
many” the fate of German pri
soners still in Russia. It said a
greement to release “most” of
the captive Germans had been
reached Aug. 22 between Sov
it and East German represen
tatives.
Westerners viewed the Neues
Deutschland editorial as confir
mation that the East German
government hopes to take all
credit for obtaining the prison
ers’ freedom. Some believe Ad
enauer may be told the prison
er question is already settled.
!
Hot weather moves
east across nation
iby The Associated Press
Hot weather spread eastward
deeper into the midwest today
after running the mercury past
the 100-degree mark yesterday
in parts of Kansas and Nebras
ka.
Omaha han an early morn
ing low of 8 after its swelter
ing 103 yesterday. The morning
low was 21 degrees higher than
the reading at the same time
yesterday.
Temperatures were higher
in most of the central and sou
thern sections of the country,
with the biglgest jumps over
the Great Lakes and Missouri
valley.
Somewhat cooler air spread
over the area from the Rockies
westward and from New Eng
land to the Carolinas.
Los Angeles’ string of 100 de
gree or higher days was ended
at eight yesterday when the
mercury pushed no higher than
96.
(Marine forecast from Friday
to Saturday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to YaJkutat variable wind
west to north 5 to 15 mph.
Fair, except night and early
morning fog or low cloudiness