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The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
Globe Cirdlers Home; l2S Days

TETERBORO, N. J. P)-Cliff Evans and George Truman landed their two pint-sized, 100-horse- power flivver planes at Teterboro airport at l0:10 am. today, ending a leisurely 25,OOO mile globe-circ- ling flight unique in the history of aviation.
 The two former army pilots came in as casually as they de- parted from this suburban com mercial airport on Aug. 9. They had flown around the earth in 123 days to show that it could be done in little fabric-covered aircraft with a cruising speed of lD5 miles per hour.
 A flight of fighter planes es- corted the two pilots on the final lap from Harrisburg, Pa, today.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10
Navy Tanker Breaks In Half

BOSTON, (P) - The $4,OOO, ,OOO former navy tanker "Ponagansett" broke in half yesterday at an east Boston pier-pitching upwards of 25o workmen to the decks.
 One man was injured critically and thirteen others were treated for minor hurts.
 The 523foot vessel was being converted to commercial use after serving in the Pacific during the war as fleet oiler. She was built in l944 and is about 57OO tons.
 Both parts of the ship remained afloat. A cleft eight feet wide at the deck line narrowed toward the water line.
 As she buckled amidShip with a rending sound, huge spray of oily water shot high into the air.
 Chief engineer Frank Cardua said at first he thought something had struck us."
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10

SAN FRANCISCO (R)-A dam age suit for s1OO,OOO was filed against the United States govern ment yesterday as a result of the breakup on Nov. 24 of the army transport Clarksdale Victory on storm-battered Hippa Island off the Alaskan coast. Forty-nine men lost their lives. Four seamen were saved.
 Yesterdays suit was brought by Mrs. Lorraine Ruth Dehne whose husband, Eugene Dehne, 21-year- old seaman, was among the miss ing. She charged negligence in op- eration of the ship.
 Attorney Melvin Belli said 10
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The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10

Experimental planting of date palms was begun in 1890 in the southwest by the Department of Agriculture.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-10

Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
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Can Dish IfOuf
But ufCun'f7ukeH II

Washington (LPA) - Chairman
A. Philip Randolph of the Nat
Council for a Permanent FEPC
last week charged that Sen. Aller
Ellender 3D., La.) "who belongs tc
the southern school of statesman.
ship which specializes in hysterical
vituperation and abuse of Negroes
and other minority groups, has
shown he can dish it out but can't
take it,
According to Randolph, Ellend-
er on his second attempt has man.
aged to have stricken from the re-
cord several sentences of Ran
dolph's testimony before the Sen
ate subcommittee holding hearings
on the Ives-Chavez- -anti-discrimin-
alton bill.
Although Chairman Forrest
Donnell r., Mo- denied BLENDERS
original motion to strike part Of
my testimony, he has now. succeed
ed" reporters were told by Ran
dolph, who is president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters-AFL.
TIE particular statement came
after Ellender refused belligerent-
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Cocaine Congress Under COP
Blosfed BY Congresswomon

Washington (LPA)-Rep. Heller
Gahagan Douglas d., CALI last
week issued a slashing 10-point in
dictment Of the record of the 80th
Congress and declared that if the
nation continues to follow its pre-
sent COP directed course it is
headed straight into a major de-
preston.
Mrs. Douglas warned that if Re-
publican domination continues be-
yond 1948 "All of US will go down
in history as members of the in
flation Congress, a cocaine Con-
gress"-a reference to President
Roosevelt's contention that "a
little imitation is like a little CO.
caine."
Placing the blame squarely at
the door of the Republicans and
charging "they are afraid of the
American people," Mrs. Douglas
gave the following review of the
COPS Congressional performance:
-Wrecking of the veterans
housing program. 2-Wrecking of
all emergency housing programs
by premature removal of priorities,
ALLEGATIONS, and price ceilings on
scarce materials. 3-Wrecking of
effective rent control and the de-
liberate exposure of 50,000,00O
Americans to the legalized hijack-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-07
4O-Hour Week Increases
Efficiency. Bureau OfLdbor
Statistics Study Shows

| hours increased, particularly among
women whose rate rose to Is or "a
percent when Saturday was added
to the 5-day week.
2. Higher hours brought dis
propOrtionate increase in injuries.
3. Output during long hours was
no better, or only slightly better,
than much shorter schedules.
4. With 5-day, 8-hour day
schedule, employers received a
midweek squirt of efficiency We'd
nesday and Thursday from work
ers. This was lost when work days
were heightened to 9 or 10 hours
and the work week to sixth day.
Long Week Inefficient
BIS found that hours could be
increased over 48 hours week and
hourly production maintained for a
few months, but after this squirt,
the fatigue factor forced de-
crease in production. Workers can
meet special emergencies but can
not keep up a furnishing pace over
long periods.
During the war, emphasis was
put on production at any cost, but
even on this basis instances were
found in which the output level
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-
Efficiency, safety and staying
steadily on the job are promoted
by the 5-day, 40-hour week, Bur-
eau of Labor Statistics study
shows.
Results of the study support
principles of hours reduction long
advocated by the American Feder-
alton of Labor.
Because of the factors essential
to reliable results, only 81 plants
and $500 workers were covered.
The records of the same individuals
and work patterns had to be avail
able over a period of 6 months to a
year, or longer, during which a
change of hours had taken place.
Records of this kind are not often
available outside of plants with in
centive or bonus systems of pay
ment. The plants studied made
Castings, forgings, airplane parts,
motors, radios, shells, rubber tires,
cigars, clothing, hats, candles and
drugs. They were in the East, Mid
west and South.
Long Hours, More Absenteeism
Some conclusions of the study
follow:
/. Absenteeism increase as
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Food Prices To
Continue High

Washington (LPA)-No decline
in meat prices is in sight, the Am
erican housewife was warned last
week by the Agriculture Dept.
The fall forecast of the federal
agency predicted only slight de-
cline from the present top levels
for meats when winter slaughter
begins.
The planned scarcity" encour-
aged by wholesale dealers in fruits
and vegetables, and by Gamers,
was paying off this month. Farm
ers and the housewife took the rap.
The perishable commodities re-
mained at sky-high prices in the
retail markets, though in many
places-notably in the area sup
plying New York City-f&rmers
were forced to plow under toma-
toes, cucumbers, and other crops.
Gamers have added to the farm
ers' problems, by limiting the
amount they are packing in order
to keep prices at last years record
levels. The Gamers are stuck with
large quantities of last years pack,
because of consumer resistance to
the low-quality and unknown
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ADA Organizes
Lawyers To Aid
Rent Controls

Washington (LPA) = A volun
tary committee of lawyers in 2;
major cities is being set up by
Americans for Democratic Action
to aid tenants to make use of the
new rent control law passed by the
COP Congress.
Heading the lawyers group are
the former counsel of the Natl
Labor Relations Board, Gerhard
Van Arkel, who resigned when the
Taft-Hartley law was passed, and
Carl Auerbach, former general
counsel for OPA.
In enlisting the support of other
legal experts, Van Arkel and Auer-
bach emphasized that they were
not proposing to handle tenant
cases on a legal aid basis. They
said they would "advise ADA and
its local chapters of significant
changes in administration, of pro-
posed legislation and of court de-
cisions affecting the preservation
of controls"
Both men, who resigned from
their key Government positions
within the last six weeks, asserted
that only through the united efforts
Of competent lawyers "can we sue
ceed in preserving controls in this
vital area of our economy and pre-
vent widespread rent increases
from imposing great burdens upon
our people. Only a vigilant and
public can prevent the
lnjustifiable decontrol Of rental
areas and compel an administra-
ton of the law which will preserve
4 measure of control and make
further extension of rent control
n 1948 practical and effective"
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ing of rent increases. 4-Stalling on
federal aid to education until next
year, when an inadequate ersatz
bill may be passed in the hope Of
catching votes in the 1948 primar-
les and elections.
"5-Stalling on even the ersatz
health program to be limited to
charity cases; put off to next year
for the same reason, to catch votes.
6-Stalling on any long-range hous-
ing program; probably killed by
the real-estate lobby. 7-Stalling on
FEPC, on anti-poll tax and anti
lynch legislation until 1948 when
one or more may be enacted de-
pending on the Republican estimate
of the election prospects. On edu-
cation, health, housing and the
civil rights bills, the Republican
majority could have legislated at
any time in the past six months.
Had there been the will, the way
was open.
"S-Systematic chopping down of
services to farmers, ranchers, min
ers and wage earners in reckless
reduction of the appropriations for
the Agriculture, Interior and Labor
-. Contradicting the
fine phrases of friendship for labor
that accompanied the Taft Hartley
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Naming of Presidential Committee
To Probe Auto Gray Market Asked

Milwaukee (ILNS). - Lester
Washbnrn, International president
of the United Automobile Workers,
AFL, has asked President Truman
to appoint an impartial committee
to investigate "the scandalous gray
market in new and slightly used
1947 cars"
Calling upon the President and
Congress to require of such an i'm
partial committee "a thoroughgoing
investigation of the reasons for,
and ways and means of immediate
ly putting an end to this most de-
testable hijacking racket of indus
try" the union head said that such
an investigation is needed at once
if the auto industry, workers and
management alike, are not to suf-
fer irreparably from the gray
market practice of selling 1947
cars from $500 to $1,000 over cor
rect prices.
Washburn pointed out to the
President that such cars are open
NY selling for anywhere from 43
Ybercent up over the list prices in
almost every part of the country
and that in many cases the gray
market situation is helped by the
fact that the public is not fully in
formed of what 1947 list prices for
cars really are.
The UAW-AFL chief said that
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kv.AFL School
In Second Year

Richmond, KY. LPA)-For the
second successive year, the Ken
lucky State Federation of Labor,
last week, ran it's resident school
for AFL union members on the
spacious campus of Eastern State
Teachers College here.
The 54 students, who came from
IL international unions, followed a
strenuous schedule which included
five classes day, plus program
of softball, tennis, swimming, and
other vacation-time sports.
Guest speakers last week includ-
ed: Barry Bingham, editor and
publisher of the Louisville Courier
Journal; Secretary-treasurer Ed
ward Weyler of the Kentucky
State Federation of Labor; j. F.
Williams, superintendent Of public
instruction in Kentucky; and Ex-
ecutive Secretary j. E. Stanford of
the Kentucky Farm Bureau Feder-
alton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-07
Tdft Grdbs
'Sufe' Aide
For rPolicing
Aided In Drafting
Taft-Hartley Law

Washington (LPA)-Any hopes
that organized labor might have
had that perhaps one or two of its
friends might be placed among the
group to administer the Taft Hart
ley law were dissipated last week.
For the second time Sen. Robert
Taft (R., Ohio) reached down into
the regional Offices of the NLRB
and selected for an important post
a man known as an ultra-conser-
vative in labor matters. The new
appointee, Thomas E. Shroyer, is
to be general counsel of the Joint
Congressional Labor Management
Study Committee-the so-called
watchdog committee.
Shroyer, formerly with the
Boards legal department in the
Cleveland regional office, aided
former NLRB member Gerard
Reilly in drafting the Taft-Hartley
law. In Cleveland. where many en-
ployers were represented in NLRB
cases by Sen. Taft's law firm,
Shroyer never earned reputation
for being sympathetic to unionism.
"I am in complete accord with
every provision of the new law"
Shroyer said. "My experience with
the NLRB convinced me of the
need for revising the Wagner Act
in this manner" He added that he
would be willing to be convinced of
the need for further desirable
changes. The other recent NLRB
selection was Robert N. Denham,
a trial examiner for the Board in
Baltimore, who was named general
counsel for the enlarged NLRB.
Said to be a personal friend of
Reilly, Denham is also known as a
"safe" conservative and is certain
Of confirmation without difficulty
next January.
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tn Union Shop
Is virtuol Open
Shop Typos Soy

Indianapolis (LPA)-The Int'l
Typographical Union-AFL warned
its locals thruout the country last
week that "a so-called union shop
may be legal under the Taft Hart
ley law, but the so-called union
shop is actually a government
established and protected open
shop which may employ either un-
ion or non-union people. Under
such contract an employer is free
to hire whomever he pleases re-
gardless of whether or not the per-
son may be competent workman
and eligible for membership in the
union."
The ITU, which previously ad-
vised against signing any contracts
under the new law, pointed out
that Employees so hired may OBJ
ject to the initiation fees and dues
of the ITU and the local union and
then the NLRB may determine
that our dues and initiation fees
are excessive and set lower
schedule. You will then be faced
with two alternatives: 1-accept the
new employee at the rates stipu-
lated by the Board, or 2-continue
to work with the non-member who
may be utterly repugnant and an
Tn pOniStic tn VOur uniOn
"For 95 years." concluded the
unions bulletin, members of the
ITU have considered the designa-
ton union shop and CLOSED shop
as synonymous but these words can
no longer be considered synony-
nous. A so-called union shop un-
der the Taft Hartley law is simply
a government sponsored open
shop"
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his union is doing all that it can in
its power to inform the public of
the correct list prices of 1947 cars
and that it has "campaigned Wig
orOusly in the public interest
against overcharges on the gray
market. He said, however, that the
condition has gone so far and is
now so bad that the federal gov
ernment itself must step into the
situation and help the auto indus
try take the drastic steps necessary
to discipline itself and it's own
members.
Auto Companies Cooperate
Recently Washburn telegraphed
manufacturers of all automobiles
requesting them to help the union
in it's campaign of defeating gray
market prices on 1947 cars by pub
fishing true and correct list prices
Of their cars in local newspapers
throughout the country. Washburn
pledged his cooperation and sup
port.
AS result of this campaign,
many of the automobile companies
are already complying by publish
ing list prices in their advertise
ments. President Washburn asks
that the public pay special atten-
tion to these advertisements and to
abide by their prices in making
purchases.
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Officials Admit
Bovcoff Working

Washington (LPA)-Officials Of
the Natl Labor Relations Board
admitted this week that organized
labor was fulfilling it's threat moi
to "do business" with the Board
and to bypass it in every possible
instance.
Election petitions and unfair
labor practice complaints are drop
ping to record low marks, an
NLRB spokesman conceded. Dur
ing the past two years NLRB has
had approximately 1000 cases filed
each month, but the figure for July,
not yet finally computed, is expect
ed to drop to around 200.
Big unanswered question is
whether this boycott will continue.
Both AFL and CIO unions have de-
clared they would not accede to the
Taft Hartley requirement that Of
ficers of local and international un-
ions file affidavits swearing that
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Housing Shortage
Probes Postponed

Washington (LPA) - There is
nothing between several million
weary, irate home-seekers and their
Congressman this week except two
klcongressional Investigations of the
sssAousing shortage. And even these
two "smokescreen" probes have
been put off until late fall.
The "lOng Investigation
which is supposed to decide wheth-
er the Taft -Ellender- Wagner hous-
ing bill should be passed, or the
whole mess left to private enter
prise-won't get under way for
months. The Senate Banking Com
mittee office reported last week
that the 14-man joint housing com
mittee, set up by joint resolution
and equipped with $4,000, didn't
meet before Congress adjourned,
and so far has no plans for conven-
ing, and no chairman or staff.
The much-publicized Gwinn SUBJ
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Steel Union Sued
In TIL Test Case

Chicago (LPA)-The first major
test of the Taft-Hartley law in this
area came last week when the
United Steel Workers-CIO was
sued for $4,000 for business losses
supposedly incurred by the Globe
Co., manufacturers of meat pack
ing machinery, as the result of a
strike called on July Ia.
In addition to the $4,000, the
company asked in U. S. District
Court for $4,000 for each week
the strike continues. The firms
complaint charged that the union
signed no-strike contract on Nov
ember l, 1946 and that the walkout
violates the contract. The union
struck for a 1211c wage increase,
after refusing a 7Rc offer.
At first, Globe asked the Circuit
Court here for an injunction, but
withdrew that action and filed the
damage suit. About 525 workers
are on strike.
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.Sn1dll Papers
Take Beutinu
Verified BY Survey
Of Associated Press

New York (LPA) = The blacl
market in newsprint, which has
victimized labor papers and other
small publications, grew to fabu.
lous proportions last week as sen.
sational disclosures here showed
prices ranging up to 1920 ton
2l9% above the S91 market price.
Ironically, in Washington an in
terim report by the House Select
Committee on Newsprint said, at
is the conclusion Of the Committee
that newsprint and paper prices
are already at their peak. Manu-
facturers' earnings are especially
good at the present time, and the
Committee can see no justification
for any further paper price in
crease. Instead, it is the belief of
the Committee that if there are
any changes in paper prices dur
ing the next four months that they
should be lower rather than high
err"
Newsprint suppliers here who
cannot satisfy anywhere near the
current demands at market prices
smiled cynically at the word
should" and said they could find
no indication of any price reduc-
tions in the offing.
The nations and the worlds
newsprint supply is still SO far be-
low demand that special report
of the United Nations Education,
Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tion, to be delivered in Paris on
Aug. rs, will say that freedom of
the press thruout the world is be-
ing jeopardized by the unequal dis
tribution Of scarce newsprint.
Sen. James Murray 3D., Mont.),
introduced a bill in the Senate to
create a special unit within the
Commerce Dept to administer a
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Congress Asked
To Suve South
From Monopoly

Washington (LPA)-Union lead
ers working with the AFL and CIO
southern drives were interested in
proposal made last week by Sen.
j. w. Fulbright d., Ark that
Congress make a study of monopo-
listic practices which "may be a
deterrent to industrial development
of the SOUTH"
Fulbright's proposal, made to
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
echoed the repeated statements of
many southern labor leaders when
he said, THE south is, believe, on
the threshold of an industrial de-
velopment which may we'll infiu-
ence the standard of living not
only of the people of the southern
states but those of the entire ma
tion." However, he warned that
this industrial growth will "die
aborning if it becomes the victim
of monopolistic practices.
Nominated by President Truman
as interim appointees until they
can be confirmed blythe Senate in
January were former Sen. Abe
Murdock 3D., Utah) and ]. Cope
land Gray, Buffalo labor relations
counsellor, both as Board members,
and Robert N. Denham, former
Baltimore NLRB trial examiner as
chief counsel.
Denham Immediately verified
labor's expectations in an inter-
view just before the swearing-in
ceremonies by criticizing unions
that have DECIDED to bypass NLRB
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UnionPreporing
For New wTuff Law
Impocf Aug. n

New York (LPA)-While all OF
organized labor was preparing tt
confront the full impact of the
Taft Hartley law on August %
anti-labor Congressman and big
business spokesmen last week pre-
dicted that new and more restric.
tive labor laws-or a "tOughening
up" of the present law-can be ex-
pected when the Republican Con-
gress reconvenes in January.
Rep. Fred Hartley (R., N. JD,
who had already announced he
would seek to have his cherished
ban on industry-wide bargaining
written into law next session, was
echoed by the New York Journal
of Commerce, big business daily,
which declared, "Any change in the
act during the next year or two is
likely to be in the direction of more
restrictions on labor unions" The
paper expressed belief that "poli-
tical hopes of electing new Con-
gress in 1948 to repeal the new law
are even weaker" than the chances
of overturning the act on grounds
of constitutionality.
p throughout the country both
management and union groups
were holding seminars and confer
ences on what their rights and re-
sponsibilities will be after August
22 when many of the most import
ant provisions of the law go into
effect. In New York, a Taft-Hart-
ley seminar sponsored by the Com
merce & Industry Assn, was ad-
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Plan For Political
Party, Labor Unity
Given 10 AFL Typos

San Francisco (LPA)-A proposal for the establishment
OF Council of international Unions to settle nterunion
jursdicona disputes work for the formation of
labor front and establishment of national labor party which
will be truly representative of the whole of the people, has
been made to the 800 locals of the nt Typographical Union
AFL and to other organizations
Adopted resolution by the Palo Alto Typographical
Union the proposal sent to the other unions with the