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Rail Strike
Set to Start
Thursday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Iff)—The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen today called a strike
on four major railroads to begin
at 3 p.m. (local standard time)
Thursday.
President David B. Robertson said
a work stoppage is “the only course
left open to obtain long overdue
increases in wagfes and improved
working conditions.”
All major railroads have been
under government seizure for
some time. This makes the em
ployees technically government
workers, and the government quite
probably will seek a court injunc
tion to stop the strike before it
begins.
Failure to obey a court order
would lay the union and its leaders
open to contempt penalties.
Th strike was termed a “progres
sive” one, meaning that while the
walkout initially was to affect four
key railroads and their subsidiaries,
other rail systems could be struck
later.
Four Lines Involved
The four lines on which the walk
out Thursday was ordered are:
Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way, including the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha Railway.
Terminal Railroad Association of
St Louis.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
cluding the Buffalo Division (form
erly Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burgh Railway) and the Buffalo
and Susquehanna district.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Strike Is Voted
The union represents 105,000 rail
firemen, enginemen and yardmen,
but only a maximum of 75,000 of
these members are affected in the
current dispute. The union announc
ed Oct. 24 that a membership vote
favored a strike 10 to one.
Robertson said, the controversy
has been unsettled for two years.
He said that for 13 months there
has been a deadlock on its demands
for a general wage increase for all
its members and a 40-hour week
for men in yard service. The latter
now work a 48-hour week.
Demands Made
The union's most recent demands
have been for an 18' i cent hourly
general increase, plus an additional
15 % cents hourly for men in yard
service until such time as the 40
hour work week is adopted in the
yard service.
The carriers had offered to meet
substantially the union’s money de
mands but had insisted on working
rules changes to which the union
objected.
Six Lives Are
Lost, Explosions
By the Associated Press
Explosions have taken six lives
and injured six ofher persons.
At the Douglas Aircraft Company
in Los Angeles, a blast in a curing
oven killed four men and injured
five others. The cause is not known.
Two blasts at the Independent
Explosives Company of Pennsyl
vania, at Scranton, killed two men
and injured a third. The explo
sions let go shortly after 60 other
men had quit work..
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
PFaSHINGTON _ How worried
Harry Truman has always been over
General Eisenhower’s running for
President was first indicated by a
conversation which Truman had
with some of his closest advisers in
June 1948 when a move was on
to draft Eisenhower on the Demo
cratic ticket.
The conference took place on the
newly built $15,000 White House
"Back Porch,” then under Repub
lican fire, and the most important
adviser present was White House
Jester George Allen, who happened
to be a good friend both of the
President and General Eisenhower.
Truman was worried sick over the
prospect of Ike’s running, and he
made little attempt to disguise his
worry from those sitting with him
in the cool of the June evening.
He knew, from political sound
ings throughout the country, that
Ike could take the Democratic con
vention easily if he announced. Such
assorted Democratic leaders as Jim
my Roosevelt in California, Mayor
Hague in Jersey City, Senator Olin
Johnston of South Carolina, Sen
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Tie Drill
Marine Tvt. Billie D. Shelley, 20, (left) gets special drill at the
San Diego recruit depot because he asked Gen. Clifton B. Gates,
commandant of the whole Marine Corps, to tie his necktie. Gates
couldn't — so an aide, Brig. Gen. Clayton C. Jerome, did. Now S.
Sgt. Frank F. Di'essei (right) is tie-tying drill master. The incident
with the general happened during a recent inspection. !(PI Wirephoto.
France's President Calls
For Truman-Churchill-Stalin
Heeling at Paris UN Session
i PARIS, Nov. 6 — UP) — President
, Vincent Auriol of France pened
| the six*.!'. ,cwi\.-r ... ...... vJ.iJ
i tions Genera] Assembly today with
an appeal for a Truman-Churchill
: Stalin meeting in Paris during this
session to discuss world tensions.
Auriol told delegates of 00 nn
j tions, gathered in the theater of
the red and gold Palais de Chailiot
: that such a meeting would be wel
' corned with joy throughout the
world.
Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico was
elected president of the assembly.
(ail for Demo Meet
Received in Juneau
The official call for divisional
and territorial Democratic Party
conventions has been received here,
it was announced by Jefferson
Jackson Club President Walter Her
mansen today, and an important
club meeting has been scheduled for
tomorrow (Wednesday) night.
( The official call came from Cen
tral Chairman Vic Rivers of Anch
: orage and reached Juneau Demo
crats via Divisional Chairman Jam
es Nolan of Wrangell.
The Jefferson-Jackson Club meets
at the Moose Club with Walter
Hermansen interim president. Club
officials, have issued an urgent re
quest that all members and citizens
interested in the political welfare
of the Territory attend the Wednes
day night meeting to set up the lu
cal organization of precinct caucuses
and prepare fflr the conventions
to be held this fall.
_
Fear of Volcano
Caused by Slrange
! Spot on Fujiyama
TOKYO, Nov. 6—UP!—A black spot
covering about a square mile has
appeared near the summit of 12,
425-foot Fuji, Japan’s sacred moun
tain.
! Nobody knows what it is. Rag
ing blizzards and 10 below zero
| temperature on the peak have pre
vented a field investigation. Peo
ple are wondering if the spot is the
j result of a rise in temperature at
■ the peak and whether the volcano
| silent more than 1,000 years, might
| erupt.
Quake Recorded in
Northern Japan
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 6—OP—
The University of California re
located a strong quake recorded
today as in northern Japan instead
of in South America.
The quake, first recorded at
8:4953 a.m. (11:49.53 a.m. EST),
lasted for two and one-half hours,
Seismologist Don Tocher reported.
He placed its distance as 5,300
miles from here.
The vote was 44 for Padilla Nervo,
ilihe tor \ ictor Ar.ores aelaunde oi
Peru and six for Adolfo Costa du
Reis of Bolivia.
The French President did not
mention Prime Minister Stalin,
Prime Minister Churchill or Presi
dent Truman by name, but re
ferred to them as the “distin
guished men toward whom all
anxious eyes are turned.” He
added he was sure that a meet
ing of Use three in private and
within the scope of the U.N. could
make progress at easing tensions.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky was at his desk in
the hall as Aurtol spoke. So were
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Ache
son, British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden, and French Foreign
Minister ftobert Schuman. The
western Big Three Foreign Ministers
hurried to the opening session after
a final conference at the French
Foreign Ministry to map strategy
on an American peace plan which
is expected to dominate this session.
In London, a British Foreign Of
fice spokesman said Britain would
welcome any move toward easing
cast-west tension.
President Truman has replied ta
previous suggestions of a Big
Four meeting that he would be
glad to meet Stalin in Washing
ton. Stalin never has been willing
to go far from the U.S.S.R. There
is no indication that either has
changed his mind.
A cold rain ended and a warm
November sun broke through the
clouds as delegates drove up in
shiny cars to the refurbished Palais
or; the banks of the Seine. The
flags of the 60 member nations
fluttered from poles about a pool
from which giant fountains sprayed
water high in the air.
American Plans
The American effort to make this
session a decisive one for world
peace envisions these moves:
A reported proposal for a census
o f armaments, including atom
bombs, under strict international
inspections; investigation on the
scene by a U.N.-appointed commit
tee to find whether conditions in
divided Germany will permit hold
ing of free elections; intensive ef
fort to bring peace to Korea and a
drive for conclusion of an Austrian
treaty of independence.
Auriol made his sugg&sticn for a
meeting of top leaders in a formal
speech of welcome to the delegates
after the session was opened by last
year's president, Nasrollah Entezam
of Iran.
• NOVEMBER 7
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• Low tide 2:14 a.m., 1.8 ft.
• High tide 9:01 a.m., 143 ft.
• Low tide 3:00 p.m., 5.4 ft.
• High tide 8:59 p.m., 14.1 ft.
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Churchill Says
Socialists Left
National Crisis
LONDON, Nov. 6—^—Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill declared to
day his new Conservative govern
ment found Britain on the road to
“motional bankruptcy.”
He warned the nation it is en
tering a period of emergency during
which he will be forced to take “ex
ceptional measures.”
“We are convinced,” he told the
House of Commons, "that it is
necessary to present the facts
plainly to the nation in order that
everyone might realize where we
stand.”
In addition to stringent financial
action, Churchill said he will ask
soon for a secret session of Com
mons at which he will give it full
information on the country's de
fense position.
On finances, Churchill said:
“We do not believe that a full
and frank statement of our posi
tion will aggravate the loss of
confidence abroad which has been
taking place."
Churchill did not specify Just
what remedies he has in mind.
Churchill said Britain has a
deficit crisis worse than 1949's and
is running into debt abroad at Ihe
rate of nearly $2 billion a year.
The pound was devalued in IS4H.
Churchill opened debate on the
traditional speech of the king of the
formal opening of the new Parlia
ment. The king’s speech, prepared
by the government, declared that
rising inflation “threatens the
maintenance of our defense pro
gram.”
Reds Tip Hands
fit Regard to
Talljr
tluw BtCwllJ
Would Call Off Fighting
Without Signing
Formal Armistice
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 6—W -The
United Nations Command spokes
man said today the Reds want to
call off the fighting in Korea with
out signing a formal armistice.
The U.N., he said,' will have none
of that.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, i
the spokesman, told newsmen the
Reds tipped their hand Tuesday
when they rejected the latest
Allied proposal. That was an
offer Monday to set aside the
stalemated cease-fire buffer zone J
issue for the moment and take i
i’P other items that must be set- |
tied before a formal armistice can i
be signed.
The Reds demanded, Nuckols
said, immediate “final, formal solu- j
tion” of the buffer zone matter be
fore proceeding to the rest of the
agenda.
Nuckols said this would in ef
fect allow a de facto cease-fire —
an end to the fighting without for
mal agreement — and let armistice
talks drag on indefinitely.
Nuckols said he felt the Red re
jection was flat and final. Asked
how final he thought it was, Nuckols
replied: “Only time will say how
irrevocable it is.”
Nuckols said that in rejecting
the Allied offer, the Reds asserted i
once a buffer zone was established j
it would be a mark of "bad faith” j
for either side to change the boun- ■
dary of the area by military opera
tions.
Farm Advisory Board
To Meet in Juneau
For Planning Talk
Pour of five members of an ad
visory board for agricultural plan
ning and operations in Alaska will
meet today and tomorrow in the
office of B. Prank Heintzieman, re
gional forester.
The group is comprised of:
Heintzieman, John Irwin, director
of research administration for Al
aska, of Palmer: Charles Wilson,
Territorial conservationist, of Palm
er; I. M. C. Anderson, of the Farm
ers Home Administration of Anch
orage; and Lynn O. Hollist, director
of the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice for Alaska, from College.
The work of the group is for the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
All of the members but Hollist will
meet in Juneau, preparatory to Ir
win’s leaving Thursday for a con
ference in Washington, D. C., with
the Department of Agriculture per
taining to farm problems in the
Territory.
Irwin, Anderson and Wilson will
.arrive in Juneau today. 1
$250,000
Blaze at
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. 6—UP
—Fire destroyed the Anchorage City
Transit bus garage last night caus
ing damage estimated at $250,000.
One hundred volunteer firemen
fought the blaze in near-freezing
temperatures and kept it from
spreading to other buildings in the
area.
Lost in the fire were nine buses,
including a reconditioned one
which was scheduled to start the
first Anchorage-Seward bus serv
iee tomorrow; one Jeep, 17,000
pounds of new spare parts, a
newly Installed furnace, and the
garage itself.
Employees saved four other buses
by driving them from the garage.
Firemen said the fire apparently
was started by a workman using
an electric drill on a water-filled
gas tank. A small quantity of gas
left in the tank dripped on the drill
and ignited it. There was no ex
plosion but the fire spread quickly
through the building.
Anchorage Fire Chief George
Burns said a shortage of water
hampered fire-fighting efforts. The
garage was located inside city limits
and Burns said only one hydrant
was available. Fire trucks were de
layed reaching the fire scene by
misleading information regarding
location of the fire, the chief
added.
There were no injuries. The loss
was partly covered by Insurance.
Voters Go
To Polls
Instates
By the Associated Press
In elections centering largely
around state and local elections,
voters today choose two governors,
one of them without opposition, four
members of Congress and scores of
mayors.
The off-year elections have been
pretty generally discounted by po
litical observers as a tip-off on next
year's Presidential and Congres
sional elections.
The most heat has been generated
in several mayoralty and other local
elections, notably in Philadelphia.
The special House of Representa
tives elections are to fill vacancies
caused by deaths or resignations.
They include two in Pennsylvania
and one in New Jersey, all normally
Republican, and one in Ohio which
goes either way.
The picture includes:
Kentucky — Vice President Bark
ley entered the campaign on behalf
sf Democratic Gov. Lawrence Weth
erhy and his slate of candidates for
eight oth;r state offices. Ken
tucky has had only three GOP gov
ernors in the past 40 years.
Pennsylvania Contests
Pennsylvania — Despite a two to
one Republican edge in registration,
Democrats are regarded as having
their best chance yet to break the
S8-year-old GOP rule in Philadel
phia. The candidates for mayor:
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, prominent
Baptist minister and writer, Repub
lican; Joseph S. Clark, now city
controller, Democrat. Also to be
elected is a district attorney. The
campaign was a bitter one, marked
by charges of graft and corruption.
The two special House elections are
in normally Republican districts.
Ohio — Besides the special House
election, interest centers on a pro
posal to change the state constitu
tion to give counties more probate
judges and on municipal offices
and bond issues. The House seat
at stake, in the area around Day
ton. has alternated between the
Republicans and Democrats. The
candidates are Jesse Yoder 1D1
and Paul C. Schneck (R), both real
estate men.
New York Crucial
New York — Rudolph Halley, who
became familiar to millions of tele
vision fans as counsel for the old
Senate Crime committee, is making
a bid for the New York city council
presidency, a post ranking second
to that of mayor. Halley is run
ning on an Independent, Fusion,
Liberal party ticket.
Virginia — The dominant Demo
cratic organization headed by U.S.
Senator Harry F. Byrd will retain
top-heavy control of the state legis
lature.
Mississippi — The election merely
ratifies the August Democratic pri
maries carried by a sjate of States
Rights - supporting candidates
headed by former Gov. Hugh
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'No Political Aspiration'
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower tells newsmen he has "never had any
political aspirations” during stopover at Mitchel Field, N. Y„ enroute
Iroin Paris to Ft. Knox, Ky., to visit his son, ('apt. John Eisenhower.
The SHAPE commander is home to confer with President Truman
at Washington. (/F*i WirepUoto.
Here Is Why
Eisenhower
Came lo Us
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6 — (/FI —
President Truman said it was prob
lems of European economic stabil
ity, growing out of the rearming
effort, that brought Gen. Dwight D
Eisenhower to Washington.
"That is the reason — all thr
speculation to the contrary — that
is the reason General Eisenhowei
came to see me," Mr. Truman told
I he National Society of Cartoonists.
The President went to the Statlei
Hotel to address a breakfast meet
ing of the cartoonists and to thank
them for help in defense bond
drives and other government pro
grams.
He spoke without a prepared
manuscript and did not go into de
tails of the problems talked ovei
with Eisenhower yesterday.
Implicit in his remarks, however
was the question whether U.S. Allie
in Europe can go through with the
armament programs they have
tackled without upsetting their
economies.
As the President spoke, Eisen
hower was preparing to return tc
his European Defense Command in
France.
His plane took #ff at 11:21 a.m„
EST.
Up early, Eisenhower had break
fast with Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
head of the Central Intelligence
Agency, and went out to the Penta
gon for a final round of confer
ences with military leaders before
boarding his plane.
By Implication. Mr. Truman's re
marks to the cartoonists contained
a sharp rebuke to Congress for
(1) cutting his proposed economic
aid to Europe, and (2) refusing to
give him all the anti-inflation
powers he had asked.
What's Troubling
You! Here Is All
About It
By (he Associated Press
Troubled with aches and pains?
A Baltimore physician say- it may
Just be the price of civilization.
• Dr. Curt Richter of John- Hop
kins hospital told the National
Academy of Sciences at Yale Uni
versity . . . civilization seems to
be shrinking the adrenal gland, the
| source of hormones that fight off
i stress and fatigue.
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I Ship Movements
' '*■ ■"
Barauof from Seattle in port sail
ing westward during late afternoon.
Denalf scheduled to sail from Se
attle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
Saturday night from Vancouver on
j la$t trip of season.
Eisenhower
Makes His
Statement
When Time Comes He
Will Talk on Politics;
To Speak for Himself
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6—Wl—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said today
that "if the time ever comes" lor
him to speak out on politics he'll
io so immediately.
He 'declared, however, that "as
of ,.ils moment” his job aa sup
reme allied commander in Europe
Is much too important for him to
take any political stand.
He told a news conference that
no one has been authorized to act
for him In an Eisenhower-for-Presi
dent movement, adding that if he
leels it his duty to speak "no one
will need to speak for me.”
Eisenhower met with reporters a
few minutes before taking off in
his plane, the “Columbine,” on his
return to his headquarters near
Paris.
He said he spoke on the tele
phone—presumably earlier today—
with Senator Duff (R-Pa), a leader
in the drive to get the Republican
Presidential nomination for Eisen
hower.
Eisenhower said he and Duff dis
cussed “some subjects of mild in
terest” to both of them but when
asked if Duff talked over with him
what a reporter called the “Eisen
hower for President boom” the gen
eral replied with a hearty laugh;
“No, he didn't.
“I didn’t know It had reached
the proportions of a boom.”
Eisenhower said that when he ac
cepted the combined western de
fense command last year he told
President Truman he hoped the as
signment wouldn’t last “too long.”
He declined to say how long he
expected to continue in the post,
saying “the subject never came up”
in his conversations yesterday with
President Truman.
There has been speculation that
! Eisenhower might give up his Eu
ropean post early next year if ?.e
I decides to seek a Presidential non
| ination.
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U 8 WEATHER BUREAU
• At Airport: Maximum, 45;
• Minimum, 34.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Mostly cloudy with rain
• showers tonight and Wed
• nesday. Southeasterly winds
• from 15 to 25 mph decreasing
• Wednesday. Lowest tempera
• ture tonight about 36, high
• temperature Wednesday near
• 42.
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• At Airport — 0.40 inches;
• from July 1—15.82 inches.
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Legality of $50
Fishing Fees
To High Court
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—'The
Supreme Court has agreed to say
whether Alaska may Impose a $50
a year license fee on non-resident
fishermen when it charges Alaskans
only. $5.
The U.S. Circuit Court in 8an
Francisco has held the territory
cannot. The circuit court said the
higher fee on non-residents was an
unconstitutional burden on inter
state commerce.
The ruling was given on a suit
by the Alaska Fishermen's Union on
behalf of some 3,200 members who
are non-residents of Alaska and
who fish in the territory each year.
The Supreme Court review on the
dispute was asked in an appeal filed
by J. Gerald Williams, attorney
general of Alaska. He contended,
among other things, that Alaska
had shown that "the inconvenience,
burden and expense" of collecting
the tax from non-resident fisher
men is substantially greater than
that of collecting from residents.
Important
Broadcast
By Truman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — bB —
President Truman will make what
is expected to be a highly .significant
foreign policy address to the na
tion tomorrow night (7:30 to 8 p.m„
PST) from his White House office.
It will be carried on ail major
radio and television networks. It
coincides with -the opening of the
sixth General Assembly of ■ the
United Nations in Paris.
Although no further details were
given here, it has been speculated
both in Washington and Paris that
Mr. Truman may outline a new
disarmament program.
Some believe the proposal will
rail for a world court of both con
ventional and atomic weapons,
among other things.
Offensive by
Chinese in
Korea Spreads
u. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, Nov. 6—IB—Chinese
infantrymen captured a third hill
on the expanding western front to
day and held two other peaks
against allied counterattacks.
The Reds won three other hills
but lost them again.
The three-day-old Red offensive
spread through drizzling rain over
a 20-mile sector. Attacking Reds
were supported by their heaviest
display of armor in months. They
hit United Nations forces from
points west of Yonchon, eight miles
north of the 38th parallel, to the
hills north of Chorwon, western an
chor of their old iron triangle.
Chinese attacks Tuesday took ad
vantage of rains and mist which
{rounded most UN warplanes. The
?ifth Air Force reported only 19
successful sorties during the day.
Sixteen of these were radar-dlrect
d bomb attacks on the Red front.
Chinese commanders employed
elements of a division (up to 10,000
mem in their assaults in the west.
Juneau-Douglas Have
Unintentional
Blackout
Juneau and Douglas had a sud
den and unintentional blackout for
a half hour last evening from 6:15
until 6:45 o'clock. For a few min
ites the only lights observed were
hose of the freighter Sailor’s Splice,
it the Alaska Steamship dock and
auto lights of a few cars rushing
along the streets like a man in a
hurry.
One by one candles shone through
windows like stars coming out.
Flashlights were brought into use.
Many dinners were interrupted.
The cause of the power failure was
undetermined but Alaska-Juneau
Mining Co., powerhouse operators
said that it may have been caused
by an overload on the electric lines.
A redistribution of the power load
seemed to solve the problem.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brown of Fair
banks are registered at the Bar
auoi Hotel. __ 4 ^