The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-13
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HONOLULU-CIO longshoremen notified the Hawaiian sugar indus I try today that the union was ready to resume negotiations aimed at ending a strike of 25,000 sugar cane field and mill workers.
 SALT LAKE CITY-The Nation al Housing Administration and the OPA today filed 48 criminal com- plaints against sawmills and lum- I Der dealers Tn four Rocky Mountain states in crack down" against 'black market" lumber activities. 1 WASHINGTON - The OPA an- nounced today that within the next week it will grant the Ford Motor [ Co.,, price increase on automobiles : l it produces.
 WASHINGTON Suspects in l eight cases of alleged malpractice" I, in sales of war surplus electronics l equipment were under scrutiny of i the FBI today.
 NEW YORK = Fifty prominent 1 writers have joined in organizing l the American Writers Association [ i to combat what they call an at 1 tempt to establish monopoly con- | trol over all American literary pro- i i duction The Association includes | Louis Bromfield, Katherine Brush, ! i Clarence Buddington Kelland and | John ErSkine. i FOREST HILLS N. Y.-Jack Kra- | mer, newly crowned national tennis | ] champion, sent the United States i Davis cup team off to a flying 1 start in it's intervene final with Sweden today by defeating Torsten Johansson, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2, in the first i i singles match. { HALF MOON BAY, CaIif-The Navy Patrol craft YP-636 inbound from Bikini with valuable fish ! specimens aboard ran aground in [ heavy fog on rocks two miles south | of here early today. Sixteen crew i members went ashore in a lifeboat Eleven remained aboard in final effort at salvage.
 LOS ANGELES-William Ran- .,olph Hearst was asked today to intervene personally in the labor i dispute that caused suspension of his Evening Herald and Express, ! Sept. 4. President Milton Murray | of the American Newspaper Guild . tCIO), here as chief negotiator, i wired the publisher that because ! of our reluctance to see the Situa , tion spread to other Hearst prop | critics, we urge and demand that you settle this dispute"
 NEW YORK-Full scale nego- | tiations between striking AFL teamsters and truck owners, presid- { ed over by Mayor William O'Dwyer, !, drought hope today for an early | end to the general trucking strike, , which for 13 days has damned | freight movement along the At lantic coast.
 ! WASHINGTON-T Price De- control Board today opened the way i for possible restoration of price ceilings on butter, cheese and other | dairy products within a week.
 NEW YORK-The Weather Bu- reau has reported winds of hurri- cane force three hundred miles northeast of Miami, Florida. The storm is headed northeast at the rate of Is miles an hour. are sending apparatus by plane to combat an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Des Moines, Iowa. The equipment includes five massive iron lungs and four hot-pack ma chimes
 SEATTLE-Immigrat authori- ties have taken steps against a Vancouver, British Columbia girl, Mary Christian, 19. They say she entered the U. s. hiding in the rumble seat of an automobile. The charge is illegal entry from Can ada last February II.
 WASHINGTON-The House Mer- chant Marine Committee today
 gathered facts and figures for its
 probe of charges that Johnny come lately" firms made fantastic profits from the governments $21,-
 0OO O,O0OOO0 (B) war shipbuilding program.
 LAKE SUCCESS - The United Nations Social and Economic Coun- in