iome-Uwncd Newspaper
volume xvi
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Pres*
Thursday, September 1, 1955
iOcoCopy
NUMBER 186
Los Angeles bakes in 110
degrees; hotter outside city
Record heat for
California city set
atl:30p,m. today
L'GS AiNGBLES (#*) Los An
geles gat its hottest diay in his
tory today — a sweltering 110
degrees.
The mercury /boiled to the re
cord reading shortly after 1:30
P- m-, surpassing by one degree
the previous high of 109 set 64
years ago on July 25. 1891.
Temperatures in outlying ar
eas were even higher, with un
official readings of more than
120 reported.
Tciday s high was 9 degrees
hotter than yesterday’s and
b-Ut the previous Sept. 1 high
— in 1952 — Iby 13 degrees.
It surpassed the previous
P'-'j.c for any September date
— set Sept. 21, 1885 — 'by a de
gree.
There wfas one death from ■
heat prosta-tion in nearby Glen-j
d/ale. Comparatively low hum-1
idity — 19 per cent — prob
ably kept the toll from being]
higher.
An!d continued hot weather
is expected through tomorrow,
Yesterday's maximum of 101
was the highest miark here since]
the same level showed Oot. 5,1
1953. The temperature Was 89
downtown at 1 a. m. today.
Searing winds and the year’s
hottest weather dispelled sou
thern California's worst smog
siege of the season but encour
aged damaging Ibrush fires.
The heat and desert winds.
which Whistled up to 35 miles
an hour, abruptly ended a six
day smog attack. Citizens stop
ped wiping their smog-iWfilam
ed eyes and began mapping
their brows.
Sweating firemen battled in
100-plus temperatures to pre
vent flames near suburban
Whittier from burning homes
V eatchcombing
• For some its a “first’ con
vention df the Legion and to
others its “old stuff4 but to the
old and new, we hope they can
appreciate real Alasikan hospit
ali'ty ats dispensed by Sitka.
• It says here that a 100
vears ago a man worked 84
hours a week and now he wone>
half as long. It must be that I
was born a 100 years too late,
as I’m beating that 84 hour fig
ure each week by several hours
• Hope the weatherman takes
his Ketchikan rain back where
it belch 's and the delegates can
see and appreciate our moun
tains.
• Hate to mention it but we
are wondering if B. Frank has
cancelled "his subscription to
“’Fortune” and the paper that
reviewed the article.
Several houses were scorched,
more than 30 firemen suffered
minor burns and several ava
cado orchards were destroyed
by the flames, which blacken
ed more than 155 acres of
'brush and trees before being
controlled early today.
Highest polio total
reported for week
WASHINGTON </P) A total of
2,279 new7 polio cases was re
ported to the public health ser
vice last week, the highest week,
ly total for this year.
For the first time since June
4, the 1955 weekly total exceed:
ed the figure for ihe same week
in 1954.
Eevn though the case total
for the week ended Aug. 27
pi. hud ahead of the compara
tive 1954 week, the year s total
still is 2,964 below the 1954 to
. tal foe the similar period — 14
140 compared "with 17,104.
Mediators seek to
avert tie-up of all
Pan-Am flights
NEW YOxtK (iP) A CIO’s!
union’s contract with Pan A-1
mercan World Airways has ex-!
paired, and negotiations tor a
new agreement are continuing
with the aid of federal media
tors.
Seeking to avoid a strike of
6,000 ground service employes
and flight stewards, the air- j
line atgreed yesterday to make1
iank 'contract settlement retro- j
active to today.
The old contract expired last J
| midnight, and the workers had
| authorized tne union negotiat
ng committee to call a strike
any time alter that.
Michael J. Quill, president
of the CIO Transport Workers
! Union, and James F. Horst,;
director of the union’s air
transport division, said .last
night: “The union expects a
settlement before the heavy
traveling on Labor Day week
end.”
Mechanics and port stewards
are involved, along with oth
er maintenance and flight per-1
sonnel.
The union seeiks an increase
of 18 cents an hour for hourly
paid employes, who now aver
age $2.10. It seeks an increase
of $45 a month for flight stew
ards. who now make $375. The
company's last reported offer
was 5 cents more an hour for
hourly-rated personnel.
The union also seeks a year
round layoff pay plan and con
cessions on hours, pensions,
overtime and fringe benefits.
George S. McSwan, who
was assigned to the dispute by
the national mediation board,
scheduled further meetings of
both sides for todiay.
t
Sitka welcomes
i36th Department
Legion Convention
Many Sitkans have been busy
today welcoming friends from
other Alaskan communities, as
the 36th Annual Department
Oonvention of The American
Legion and Auxiliary opens
with delegates from all over
the territory in attendance.
About half df the delegates
are here or slated to arrive to
day; the balance will be in to
morrow morning. A full pro
gram of events is planned Jor
the convention and this pro-'
gram wall be published in full
ip a special edition of the Daily
Sitka Sentinel tomorrow wel
coming Legionnaires and their
ladies.
The formal opening of the
convention takes place at 8 p.
m. tonight at the Moose Hall,
at which time Governor B.
Fwnk ffeintzlemlan will be the'
principal Speaker. Among oth
er digniiaries in attendance
will be Robert L. Shelby, na
tional vice commander of the
American Legion and Gen.
John Moves, adjutant general.
Alaska National Guasd.
Autumn in air in
soma states today
by The Associated Press
A touch of autumn was in
the air today in many parts of
the nation, including the
plains states, the midwest, the
Ohio River valley and south as
fr as Arkansas and Tennessee.
East of the Appalachian
mountains skies mostly _ were
Cloudy and the temperature
also was mild. From the Rocky
mountains westward tempera
tures were above normal but
were beginning to drop in the
Pacific northwest as cooler
air moved ’.inland in that area.
Southern California sizzled
yesterday. Los Angeles had a
high of 101,-' the highest for
nearly two years. However,
a desert wind broke up the
smog in that area, which had
lasted for six days and was- the
worst of the season.
Baseball today
BROOKLYN </P> Roy Oam
panella drove in two runs with
a pair of singles and scored two
more to lead the Brooklyn Dod
gers to a 6-3 victory over the
Milwaukee Braves today. The
result increased the Brook’s
'first place lead over Milwaukee
to 13 games.
NEW YORK (TP) Chuck Har
mon smashed a three run homer
and Roy McMillan chipped in
With three important hits as
the Cinicinmati Reds defeated
the New York Giants 7-4 todlay
to salvage the finale of the four
game series.
PITTSBURGH (TP) Gene
Freese’s hard-hit single in the
last of the ninth today 'broke up
a tie ballgame and gave the
Pittsburgh Pirates a 7-6 victory
over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Fighting continues in Gaia
strip; two jet planes down
Israel considering
truce offer from
!
Egypt now
! JERUSALEM (IP) Fighting
flared furiously 'along the Gaza
front today. Israel said two of
her jets shot down two Egypt
in .'fighters. A Cairo broadcast
said the Egyptian planes collid
ed and crashed during a recon
naissance flight.
Amid the fighting and dis
pute claims, an Egyptian spokes
man declared Egypt had receiv
ed an Israeli 'message urging
an end to hostilities all along
the tense border line.
The Spokesman said the mes
sage was delivered through U.
N. truce supervisor Maj. Gen.
Ediwon L. W. Burns and came
from the Israeli foreign ministry
The air action caime a few
hours after Israel’s foreign of
fice disclosed that tanks and
troops blew up an .Egyptian
headquarters inside the battle
scarred coastal area.
An Israeli army spokesman
said the Egyptian vampire jets
were patrolling over Israeli ter
ritory when the Israeli pilots
engaged them near the Jewish
settlement of Y»d! Mordeahai.
three miles north of the north
ern boundary of the Egyptian
held Gaza strip. 'He said one
Egyptian plane blew up and the
other crashed.
Board set up to
probe Pensy R. R.
strike tomorrow
DENVER (/P) President Eis
enhower,. moving to avert a
strike tomorow at midnight,
today created an emergency
board to investigate a dispute
between tihe Pennsylvania rail
road and 35,000 non-operating
employes.
Creation of such a board up
der the railway labor act in
variably has the effect of post
poning strike action for at
least 60 days.
Members of the board,
which was created by the pres
iderit after the national medi
ation board has asked him to
intervene, will be named
shortly.
Eisenhower signed an exec
utive order saying that ,,in the
judgment of the national med
iation board the dispute be
tween the railroad and its em
ployes ^threatens spfostantial
jly to interrupt interstate com
i merce to a degree such as to
deprive a section of the coun
try of essential transportation
service.”
At. the summer White House
here, press secretary James
C. Hagerty listed the issues in
dispute as pay fbr holidays, a
health artd welfare # program,
revision of graded work classi
fications. and assignment of
diesel locomotives.
But a Cairo 'broadcast quoted
an Egyptian spokesman as say
inig the two Egyptian planes col
lided in heavy clouds during a
dawn reconnaissance. The spok
esman denied the warplanes
were shot Idown.
TEL AVIV. Isreal <JP) Israel’s
official radio estimated tonight
that 40 Egyptians were killed
and 40 wounded by Israeli raid
ers who attacked a military
camp at Khian Yunis in the Gaza
strip last night.
AUW and Chrysler
reach agreement
an wages today
DETROIT f/P) Chrysler Corp
and the CIO United Auto
Workers reached a contract
settlement todlay, six hours af
ter widespread strikes hit
Chrysler plants in six states.
Hie UAW immediately sent
out back-to-work orders to all
union locals. There were indi
cations, however, work disrup
tions among Chrysler’s 139,000
employes would m)ar produc
tion throughout the day.
The settlement was modeled
closely after Ford and Gener
al Motors agreements reached
in early June. It completed the
lineup of the auto industry’s
“,big three” companies on rev
olutionary, new layoff pay
plans.
Like the Ford and GM plans
the Chrysler agreement will
guarantee laid off workers 60
. (continued an paee four'
That's the day!
LOS ANGELES i/P) Men
will work one seven-hour day
a week 100 years from now
and receive the same pay they
now get for a 40-hour week,
says Joseph Pfendergast.
He is executive director of
the National Recreational Assn
of New York and made the
statement to the California Re
creation Commission yester
day.
The work week was 84 hours
100 years ago, he siaid, and
within 20 years it will be 30
hours.
(Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
Storm Warning Continued
The strong pressure gradient
will continue to cause winds of
26 to 40 srnph over Southeast A1
aska today and tonight with oc
casional very strong gusts.
Oouside waters Dixon En
trance to Cape Spencer south to
southeast winds 25 to 45 mph
today decreasing to 25 to 35
mph with occasional gusts to
night.
Cloudy with rain anid patches
of fog.