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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
D0(kMEN AT SEWARD JUST WANT RULING
Westward Longshoremen Will Handle Winter
 Supplies for Inferior

SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. l6.-RS- Stewards International Longshore- mems and Warehousemen's Union (CIO) announced today through Mayor Clarence Heating that they are willing to unload cargo for Yukon River points to safeguard against winter suffering in the iso- lated interior because of the Alas kan port work stoppage.
 Yukon River traffic normally ends around mid-September.
 The announcement also said that Stewards longshoremen are not concerned with the longshore- mems dispute which has closed the Juneau and Ketchikan ports. It said the Seward union is only trying to get a National Labor Re- lations Board ruling on whether longshoremen or the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific should un- load certain matches, and that the union members will resume work as soon as a ruling is made, re- garless of what the decison IS.
 The -Ketchikan closure IS over union demands for contract safeguards outside the Taft-Hart- ley Labor Act.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
pRIBIL0F SEAL POPULATION AT
 NEW PEAK NOW
This Years Take Is Down Slightly Because of
 Early Mingling

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-LR- The Fish and Wildlife Service says the fur seal population of Alaska's s Pribilof Islands has reached a new peak of 3,6l3,653-a 6.72 per cent increase over the l946 total with a value of more than Sl00,- 900 ,OO0.
 Tie agency said the catch. how ever. from the Pribilof's famous herd. for the season which ended July 3l, was only CHAT skins, 3,276 less than taken during the sum- mer of 1946.
 It gave this reason: Tie young male seals began to mingle With the family groups earlier this summer than they usually do' forcing premature halt in the sealing operations.
 Only the three-year old bach elor seals are taken for their skins. They can be killed without injury to females, cubs and bulls only early in the season when they seg- regate themselves from the other animals
 The Wildlife Service said the Pribilof herd, containing l32,279 animals when the government took it over in 1910, now represents about 80 percent of all the fur seals in the world. The federal government has received more than $12.o00,O00 from the sale Of 1,500000 skins.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
HALIBUT SEASON
 CLOSES, TAGGED
 DISAPPOINTING


 SEATTLE, Aug. 18.-iR-After a disappointing season, halibut fish ing on the Pacific Coast and westward to the Aleutians and Ill the Boring Sea closed at midnight Sunday, the International Fisheries Commission said today.
 A tieup kept the Seattle fleet Tn port several weeks at the start oi the season. The catch from Area 3. latest area to be closed and which lies westward from Cape Spencer in Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Peninsula, dropped to 17,289,O00 pounds, from last year g, ,161 900 pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
The W aShingto Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON
pv RoBERT s. ALLEN

By RObER D. hAbGA'
 WASHINGTON - The volumes of Lincoln papers recently made public at the Library Of Con- eress greately enriched the docu- mentary history of the martyred emancipator But there is one m tripuing document in the Capital that stfll remains to be unveiled.
 It is in the archives of the stately British Embassy on upper Massachusetts Avenue.
 The document records an un- usual incident during Lincoins presidency. The unique paper was discovered blythe late British Am bassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, who' on one mellow occasion, told. the late President Roosevelt the story. This is it:
 During Lincoln's incumbency' Lsfayette Park, which faces the White House on Pennsylvahla Avenue. was enclosed by tall, iron fence flanked by a dense hedge of shrubbery The park was a popular rendezvous fer couples But there was one drawback. The gates were locked at 10 o'clock ev- cry night.
 One summer night. after work ing late with Lincoln in the White House. Secretary of State Seward passed by the park enroute to ms home nearby. He was suddenly startled by whispered cry from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
FORMER R0DEO RIDER E SLAIN
 IN GUN BATTLE
Wounded Fairbanks Bar tender HeId-PIeads
 Self Defense
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 18-lR

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. l8-lR Harry C. Montana" Weiselman, 41-year-old construction worker truck driver and former Phillips. Mont, rodeo rider was slain early Sunday morning during an argu- ment in a Fairbanks hotel, Police Chief George Norton said today Norton said bartender, Herbert c. Hager 28, was being held under guard at St. Jcseph's Hospital where' he is being treated Tor a bullet wound in his leg Marichi Gilbert, 35. tavern em- ployee, is being held as material witness to the shooting, Norton said.
 The Police Chief said Hager told authorities he fired in self-defense after Weiselman came to his hotel room looking for Miss Gilbert. Then, Hager said, he took cab from the hotel, changed his clothes and threw his clothes and two guns in the Cinema River before go- ing to the hospital for treatment of his leg wound.
 Police said Hager's shredded trousers and shoes were fished from the river. The weapons were not found
 Dr. Paul B. Haggland said an autopsy showed Weiselman had been hit three times in the stom- ach and chest by .25 calibre bull lets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
DEATH SENTENCE
 FOR BULGARIA'5
 pEA5ANT LEADER

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 18.-4R- Nikola Petkov, anti-Communist leader of the Agrarian party was sentenced to death here Saturday on charges of plotting against the Communist dominated government of Bulgaria.
 Petkov, the top leader of the op- position to the government, went on trial August 5. He was charged in voluminous indictment with conspiring to overthrow the Faith erland Front government. He pleaded innocent.
 When he was arrested in June the United States issued a formal statement denouncing the arrest and declaring that Bulgaria her self would be on trial before the bar of world opinion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
AMBASSADOR ATCHES0N CRASH VICTIM
Condition of
 Adm. King Is 8 Sti!! Serious

7 WASHINGTON. Aug. l8-Rl-- The Navy said today the condition of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King did not change overnight but is still considered serious
 The former Chief of Naval op- erations. who has hardening of the arteries and indications of a mild strcke without paralysis, entered the Naval Hospital Friday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
NEW LOAN 10
 BRITAIN OUT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-tR- The issue of new American loan went into the discard by agree ment as top-rank financial experts from both sides of the Atlantic as sembled to hunt a partial solution to Britain's dollar crisis.
 Sir Wilfred Eady, head Of the British delegation, said that so far as his country is concerned a new credit to supplement the almost exhausted 3,75OOO0,000 advance of l946 is mot on the agenda.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
Plane PIunges Info Sea; Runs
 Short of Fuel
Statesman Is Among Four Missing : MdeArihur
 Staff Officers Lost

HONOLULU, Aug, 18-iR-D Death of Ambassador George C. Atche- son. Jr., along with nine other per sons in a plane crash at sea just west of Honolulu Saturday mid night was regarded as virtual certainty today by military authori- ties. but air and surface search continued.
 Atcheson, Chief U. s. Political Adviser in the Japanese occupa- ton and chairman Of the Four Power Council for Japan. was one Of four still missing. Five bodies were recovered yes terday. a sixth was seen to sink and three injured army men were rescued.
 The Hawaiian Sea Frontier. di- recting the search, reported there still was no trace of the missing men in the rough sea. and their chance of surviving 36 hours were so slender that almost no hope re- mained
 Ranking Officers Lost
 Three ranking officers from General MacArthur's strategic op- !, erations staff also were among ten passengers and crewmen lost when the B-l7 inbound from Tokyo, crashed into shark -!nfested waters ] after running out of gasoline only 65 miles west of Pearl Harbor l GDiplomatic sources in Washing ton said that despite Atcheson's vast. Knowledge of Japanese prob lems, his apparent death probably would not delay arrangements for drawing up the peace treaty with Japan.
 Preparations for writing a pre- liminary draft already are well ed ! vanced, they said)
 : Three men of the l3 aboard were rescued yesterday from the choppy sea and five bodies were recovered. 1 Those rescued were Capt. T. l.. Rider Of Ponca City Okla. who suffered a broken arm, Col. Har- vey Huglin of Fairfield, Iowa, and a Sergeant Holland of Colmesneil. : Tex.--probably Lee Chapman Hol- land, 20-who suffered head injur- ieS
 t Kicked Sharks Away
 Huglin, who related in radio
 interview that he kicked sharks away during his long night in the
 water, reported Atcheson said nothing as the big plane plunged
 toward the sea and destruction- he only smiled very quietly. The five bodies hauled up from
 the sea included those of Naval
 Capt. Randolph B. Boyer of Au-
 duhon, Minn.. or Portsmouth, Va, and Col. David Larr, 222 Thompson Blvd, Watertown, N. Y. Identi- ties of the others were not afl- nounced
 The Army newspaper Stars and
 Stripes in Tokyo said Allied Head quarters sources had confirmed that the other victims included Col. Carl A. Russel of Richmond Heights, Mo, and Capt. K. R. Still,
 who the paper identified as the
 pilot. An unofficial source said
 Army Capt. Cecil Sigmon-no ad-
 dress given--was a member of the icrew.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
BY CRASHES 'AT COLD BAY; 8 LOSE LIVES

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Aug. lS- Eight Army airmen were killed Saturday as B-l7 bomber crash ed two miles from the 10th Res cue Squadron's base at Cold Bay. the Alaska Air Command announc- ed
 Names of the victims. believed to comprise the entire crew of the plane. were withheld.
 The plane crashed as it was pre- pairing to land at Cold Bay field. Army authorities said. Cold Bay lies near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. about 800 miles South west of Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
DERBY DEPOT

Phil Senour of the Alaska Travel Burea handling placement of boatless fisher men for the August 3l Sal mon Derby, reported this afternoon that II additional inquiries were received to- day.
 Three persons have been placed on boats having space, but balance of 19 persons still remain, and more requests for space are still coming in. Senour stat ed that he hopes to have some boat space available tomorrow.
 Anyone having space on their heat for one or more additional fishermen on Der by Day is urged to call Senour at 646, or see him i'll the lobby of the Baranof Hotel.
 The Forest Service has an- nounced that their dligout parking space at Tee Harbor will be opened to the public on Derby Day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
MARRIAGE LICENSE

Maurice J. Whittier and Airline Walker, both of Juneau, have ap- piled to U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray for a marriage license.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
panarnanian Is 0ufspoken on Russ Policies
.Pan-Am Conference Faces Tough Problem Over
 Nicaragua

QUITANDINHA, Brazil Aug. l8. -R-The American confer ence's first working committee be- gan today study of principles and other dispositions of a hem isphere mutual defense treaty.
 The committee, which elected the Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Mateo Marques Castro, chairman, met soon after the Pamamanian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Joa- quin Alfaro, charged that ''every Community party in Latin Ameri- ca is a Russian fifth column" All faro dec.ared that growing con- ferercc sentiment ''fagnt; joint treasures to protect ths hemisphere against sIbvi rsive influences
 Thorny Question
 Mariana Fiallos Gil presented o,adentiais fs , repress nlativ ot the deposed flgueloo government I. Nicaragua which wa oyer- thrown recently after g days il office. His action posed the thorny question ni $. ating N,lirasuan delegatio l.
 The 20 nations comforting at the Quitandi,.ha I,utel near PeIic..'.is, 45 miles north of Rio de Janeiro were seekint, me ans of joint action against aggression under 8 hemisphere defense treatN.
 Alfaro gave his viewl on Co.a- munism in an interview. Russia World Enigma Russia today is a world enig, ma Alfaro said. "It's pof.'y l; one of exoaas.on. Its creation ol European satellites is procf of thi' policy"
 His statement that Latin Ameri- can Communist parties were fiftf columns was IT reply fo a qpes- ton whethes lie thought Russia sought satellites in the Western Hemisphere,
 l This excludes the U'.lted States where the Communist oaIty If composed principally of Nortf Americans sharing the theology oi 1 Lenin and ais disciples he aid However, throughout Latin Am erica Communist parties receive financial and other air from abroad
 1 Alfaro said Panama and many other delegations would Suppor' l the inclusion in the treaty of definition of "subversive intinenc- es."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
sOUTHERNER HERE

Carrie Willis of Fredricksburg,
 Va, is at the Baranof Hotel. Ben
 jamin Taylcr of Montgomery, Ala, ] is also at the Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18
1TO(K 0uOIAIi0k!

NEW YORK, Aug 18.-lB-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5h, American
 Can 87A Anaconda 37, Curtlss- Wright 4as. International Harvester 87h, Kennecott. not reported New York Central 15h, Northern Pacific
 2O$i U. s. Steel 727s, Pound s4.02%
 Sales today were 710,000 shares. Today's averages: lndustflais' i l8O.44, rails. 4931. utilities, 35.6l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-18

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Along The Cape Fear

ed and cultivated, by tractor
drawn equipment. Boil weevils
(had been battled by a mule
drawn buster and from air.
planes. The cost of busting the
cotton fields from the air was
approximately five dollars per
acre.
The grower reported that when
labor was diverted to tobacco
curing, the airplane was a god
send, busting many acres in a
small fraction Of the time they
could be busted by other means
even had the labor been avail
able.
The battle against the boil
lweevils was considered of prime
Importance in getting a good
yield of cotton. The efforts Of
the etymologists in developing
treatments to control the pests
were highly praised. While the
boil weevil was not yet licked,
the concensus of opinion was
that the pest could be CONTROL.
ed.
As a final step in the produc-
ton of the two-bale-per-acre
cotton, the plants were defoliated
in the final treatment before the
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
R0BBERIES
NOW UNDER
Turkey Postoffice Safe Bat
tered Open; Strong Box .
Carried Away

GOLDSBORO, Sept. 70 -R-
Four safe robberies in Duplin
and Sampson counties within 4S
hours are being investigated to-
day by sheriffs officers and an
SBI agent, Sheriff Ralph Jones'
of Duplin said this morning.
One included the post office at
Turkey.
The Turkey post office safe
was battered open and less than
500 in cash and an undisclosed
amount of unissued savings
bonds, money order blanks,
stamps and miscellaneous pa
pers were removed, Sheriff
Perry B. Lockerman of Sanp-
son county said.
At Warsaw the safe at Milton
Vests garage was priced open
with cold chisels and $500 in
cash and a number of checks
were taken. A valuable dia-
mond ring was not taken.
The safe in the Kaiser-Frazier
garage at Wallace, which was
not locked last night, was OPEN
ed and $40 in silver was re-
moved.
Wednesday night a one ton
safe was taken from the office
Of Crumpler Brick company
near Roseboro. Sheriff Locker
man said no trace of the safe
had been found.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
SPECTACULAR AIR
SHOW FOR BURCAW
Carl Dunn Announces
Thrilling Program Al
Airport On Sunday

Thrills, chills, and even a spill
are ticketed for Burgaw airport
Sunday when Air Progress, Inc,
presents an air show as the cur
tain raiser on their operations
from that base, Carl Dunn, presi-
dent of the company, announced
today.
Highlights of the full program
of entertainment outlined by
Dunn include thrills from the
professional aerobatic exhibition
by Capt. Cecil Boone, leader OF
the Flying Aces aerobatic team,
in his converted army North
American.
Chills will be inserted into the
program by Carl Dunn, himself,
with his spectacular "How Not
To Fly" act. In this sequence the
pilot plays drop the handkerchief
with his wing tips, having out
grown the childhood game.
Not On Level
The spill, paradoxically, is
authentic but not on the level.
After the manner of a klobber-
ed high altitude fighter, the
'chutist will bail out at an alti-
tude of 5000 feet above the spec
tators and will fall free for a
See ~TAC On Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
PIEDMONT PLANS
RADAR ON SHIPS
First OF Warning Sets For
Wilmington-C Cincinnati
Planes Arrive

WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. 19-
Piedmont Aviation, whose plans
now are materializing for an
east-west air service from Will
mington to Cincinnati, today an
nounced the latest addition of
safety devices for their planes
with the arrival of radar warn
ing sets.
The radar warning devices
will be installed on their DC
3's, which will be used in the
east-west flights, according to
Les Watson, atoms
superintendent.
Watson said that these units
had been on order for some
time, and that it is expected
that a sufficient quantity would
be on hand to complete ipstalla-
ton in every Piedmont ship by
the time operations are begun.
He pointed out that this was
just another step by Piedmont
in offering the cities to be serv-
ed by his company "tne very
best equipment" to be obtained
for safety and service.
Specifically Watson said, the
See PIEDMONT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
CHARLOTTE Filler
PLANS WORLD HOP
Jean P. Doar, AAF Vet.
eran, Hopes To Break
Mark Set By Odum

CHARLOTTE, Sept. 10 r.
Jean P. Doar, 28-year-cld Army
Air forces veteran from Char
lotte, announced today Re would
attempt to break the round-the-
world flight record of GO hours
set by Pill Odom of New York
this summer.
Doar said that he had pur-
chased a twin-engined De}'avi-
land Mcsouito bomber and
hoped to have it ready for the
flight by late October
The flight would begin and
end at Charlotte.
my ship is considerably fast
er than Odom's)," Doar said
in an interview, land although
I expect t.; fly several hundred
miles farther I am confident
I'll be able to put her down
on the Charlotte airport with a
new worlds record several
hours under Odom's."
Doar said that the plane, built
by the British during the war,
could cruise at about 400 miles
per hour. Odom flew the globe
in a converted AIS bomber.
Under present plans the flight
would be financed by a group
Of sponsors in North Carolina
and South Carolina.
,Doar said that he would lily
about 20. 400 miles with New
foundland his first stop.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Us MEN ATTACK
TRAILWAY BUSES
Driver Wounded
Near Hattiesburg By Gun
fire Blast

HATTIESBURG, Miss, Sept.
10 -R-Gov. Fielding L.
Wright today opened a personal
investigation here of the am
bush firing on three railways
buses yesterday in which one
trainee driver suffered a flesh
wound in the arm.
Drivers and mechanics of the
Southern Bus Lines, a Trail
ways affiliate, have been on
strike four months in a dispute
over wages. The company re-
sumed operations Aug. 20 on an
open shop basis, announcing it
was preparing to take on old
or new employees. Trainees have
been used to replace strikers.
The governor conferred with
State Highway patrolmen who
had investigated the shooting,
but his inquiry was temporarily
sidetracked by the need for or
ganizing'relief for the residents
of Mississippi's Gulf coast,
See ATTACK On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
NLRB BACKS DOWN
ON FILING DATE
Unions Given Over 6 More
Weeks To Comply With
Labor Law

Sept. 10 -W.g
The National Labor Relations
Board and its powerful general
counsel, Robert N. Denham, to-
day called off an immediate
showdown with C1O and AL
officials over their refusal to
comply with the anti-C ommu-
mist section of the Taft-Hartley
labor act.
In a Joint announcement, Den
ham and the board extended
from next Monday until Oct. 81
the deadline for labor leaders
TO file affidavits with the board
denying any Communist affilia-
tons, as required by the law.
Denham had ruled previously
that if the unions did not file
within 20 days after the Monday
deadline, he would dismiss the
1000 ALL and CLIO cases pend
ing before the board and slam
the door against the union
using the boards facilities.
The effect of the extension,
Which was requested by the Ia
Dor leaders, is to give the CLIO
and AL more time to recon-
Slder their stand.
National conventions Of both
organizations meet next month
and Denham and the board
nope that they will reverse their
leaders, Or propose some accept
aOle compromise.
Scant Business
Dropping of the pending cases
would leave the board with
scant business and halt the
complex management = labor
peace machinery set up by the
Iaft-Hartley law.
In announcing the extension,
uenham and the board said
uey wanted to give every labor
~oganlzation "the fullest oppor-
UNITY" to comply with the law
and so be eligible to use the
0oard's services.
Both the CLIO and the AFL
ae making an about drive
aSalnst Denham's interpreted
aOA OF the act, and have asked
le board either to ~over-rule it
See NLRB on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Russia Loses First Test
In United Nations Hall;
Storm Blowing Self Out
Committee Passes
! Veto To Nations
Gromyko Fights Stubborn
ly Against Argentine
Motion ~

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 -M-
Russia lost the first round of
the veto battle in the United
Nations Assembly tonight while
the whole Soviet bloc drove
ahead with it's new campaign
against the United States on
"war-mongerin4" charges.
Russia protested in a heated
meeting of the 14-nation Steer
ing committee against Assem-
bly, consideration of an Argen-
tine proposal for a special U.N.
conference on the veto. Argen-
tina and others seek to abolish
the great power veto.
The Steering committee pass
ed the proposal on to the AS
sembly by a vote of 8 to 2.
Russia and Poland were the two
against. India, China and
France abstained.
This meant that the veto fight
definitely would burst out in the
Assembly itself and in the Po-
itical committee as soon as its
turn comes.
Andrea A. Gromyko, Soviet
delegate who has cast 10 of the
20 Russian vetoes recorded i'm
the Security council, fought
stubbornly against sending the
Argentine item to the Assembly.
Gromyko charged that the
two-year campaign against the
See COMMITTEE on Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Pretty Blonde Will
Wed In Conventional
Way In Tokyo Soon

KANNAPOLIS, Sept. 1s-P-
Pretty, Blonde Mrs. John Seku-
Itch left Kannapolis for Tokyo
today to marry her husband, 1t.
John Sekulich of New York city.
Actually the couple was mar
ried several months ago by
proxy, with the Kannapolis girl,
the former June Knight, saying
her vows before a judge in
Washington, D. c.
The young model said that the
first thing she plans to do in
Tokyo is to get married all over
again in the conventional way.
The couple met while 1t. Sc
kulich was stationed at Morris
Field, Charlotte.