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The Nome nugget., 1947-03-17
Seek Government Queen Contest Aid In Ferry Strike Under Way

SEATTLE, R) Gubernatorial intervention into the para!yzin :. Puget Sound ferry tie-up was sought Saturday by some Of :Nc 10000 commuters who use the fer. rieS, but no immediate settlcmc0. of the dispute was in sight.
 Cancellation service commission CT Albin l.. Peterson said ne va. working to arrange anothe" meet ing between representatives of the Puget Sound avigation CO, which operates p ferries, and striking members of the Marine Engineers Beneficial association. The S.ri1e at midnight Thursday came artcv a deadlock in negotiations over 6 new working agreement.
 The company in q sta.cmcn' Charged the union "refusel" 10 ac- cept n0-strike. no-loci<out and ar b tration clause demanded by c company for a new contract. Tnc union issued no statement con. corning the strike.
 SEATTLE, H) - Puget Sound ferry operations were shut down today for the fourth consecutive day as federal conciliators sc.1ed- uled new conferences separately with officials of the Puget Sound
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-17
l2 Men Missing In LifebOat

HONOLULU, R)-Nine aircraft prepared 10 take off from Midway today to search anew for l2 me- missing in a lifeboat-and feare beyond the reach of planes-whii' C. 22 other crewmen of the broke tanker Fort Dearborn rode Ol lashing seas halfway between Mic way and Pearl Harbor.
 Late reports from the navy con mand ship El Dorado, 'escOrtir. |. the tanker's stern sectioh, said u . half-ship with the g aboard Wa "s:eaming ahead safely, WitH steI to sea and wind" and With tf' storm SubSiding.
 The El Dorado said the men rc- 0o-ted the bulkhead still inta and the stern seaworthy, despi;@ battering by 45-knot winds al, high seas, which had preVentt their rescue.
 Ten other Fort Dearborn c-ev men, taken from the almost bow section, were safely aboal I the liner General w. H. |, Gordo bound for San Francisco.
 The bow and stern broke apa in last Wednesdays storm l,1t miles northwest of Honolulu.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-17
TO JOE DEXTER
 GREAT GRANDSON BORN

Joe Dexter, of Golovin, is the proud great-grandfather of 71a-lb. boy born to MT. and Mrs. Phillip Dexter last Thursday at the M. C. Hospital.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-17
By Neva Whaley)

If you see four young and fair ma dens dashing around town win wild look in their eyes, you know they mean business. One of tl"m iS going to be Queen of Nome ani believe you ne the other three a"p %o;19 to let her know she
 "a,ly is in a contest. Our hats are of already to these energetic gals who have better salesmanship and more charm than we have seen in many day. Remember each tic 'ot you buy entities you to 100 votes for your favor:te candidate Navigation company and the Ma rne Engineers Beneficial associa- ton 'CIO).
 The Northwest Washington Com mun,ty council, which claimed representation of thousands of commuters, called on Governor Wallgren for immediate interven- tion>"
 Week end developments in the tieup that daily confronts 10000 commuters with transportat 0 n headaches included a union offer to submit the case to a state medi- atiOn board.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-17
Forecast And Weather Report Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. s. Dept. of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, March F, l947

Monday, March F, l947
 Forecast Nome: Clear tonight, becoming partly cloudy Tuesday with fresh easterly wind. Loves, temperature tonight o, higheSt temperature Tuesday 25.
 Nome data as of 7:3O am. today: Precipitation last 24 hours, nom. Total precipitation this month 0.02 inch.
 Temperatures last 24 hours: highest 28, lowest --8.
 Maximum wind last 24 hours r miles per hour from the north. Sunrise at 6:ll am, sunset al sos pm.
 Comparative data: Temperature one year ago today: highest --5, lowest -23.
 Extreme temperatures on this day since 1907:
 Lowest -27 in 1880, highest 33 in 1924.
 Data for other selected stations
 I.nn
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Rees Will Push Fight to Obtain
Loyalty Files of Civil Service

information of extreme Importance
to the Committee on Post Office ano
Civil Service, which must be avail
able TO the committee in its con-
sideration of legislation dealing
with Federal employees loyalty"
Mr.. Rees is awaiting action on his
resolution to give his committee the
power of subpoena, to force the
Commission to comply.
In his original request early this
year, Mr.. Rees said he asked the
commission to furnish the loyalty
files of all people on the Federal
pay roll whose loyalty had been
questioned, after the commission had
removed from the files the sources
of its information about the en-
ployes concerned.
He was under the impression at
first. the Kansan said. that there
were about 400 such individuals. He
was surprised to find out from the
commission itself that there were
$500.
Meanwhile. President Truman's
own program to investigate Federal
workers in the executive depart
ments is before Congress in the
form of a request for an appropria-
ton OF $24, 900 600, to be spent by
the Civil Service Commission and
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Representative Flanagan
Nof 10 Seek Reelection
BY the Assoeioted Press

BRISTOL, Va. May 10.-Repre-
sentative Flanagan, Democrat, OF
Virginia's fighting ninth" district,
tonight announced he would retire
from the House at the end of his
present term, December 81, l948.
Il will not stand for reelection
to Congress next year." said the
veteran campaigner who is in his
17th year in the House and has
served the district longer than any
other man.
Representative Flanagan said
he would resume the practice of
law in Bristol with his son, Francis
Wills Flanagan, who will be grad
uated from Washington and Lee
University Law School within the
next few months
Mr.. F1annagan's announcement
set off speculation as to his success
sor, but most party leaders were
reluctant to talk for publication
pointing out that nine months will
eiapse before the nominating con-
vention which probably will be held
In February, 1948.
Foremost in the discussion was
Tom Fugate of Lee County, who
managed three of Mr.. Flannagan's
campaigns and is a banker and
farmer; State Senator Harry c.
Stuart of Russell County and State
Senator M. M. Long of Wise County
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Man Found Stabbed
lin Mystery Attack

A man identified at Gallingel
Hospital as Herman Neider, Sc, O.
1861 Mount Olivet road NE, wa.
near death early today with stat
wound in front of the right ear
police reported, after being founc
unconscious in a parking lot a
Fourteenth street and Pennsyl
vania avenue Sc. at II o'clock las
night.
The victim was reported to be g
machinist at the Washington Ter
minal.
The unexplained attack on Mr.
Neider apparently happened in the
same manner as that of the mys-
terious murder of James Kemp
young Navy gun factory worker
who was stabbed to death in the
same section last winter while re-
turning home from a Pennsylvania
avenue tavern. The murder was
never solved.
Fifth Precinct police said last
nights victim was found by patrol
men after a telephone call was re-
ceived at police headquarters from
an unknown informant.
At first. investigators thought the
man was the victim Of a hit-and-
run driver Subsequent examination
by a Gallinger staff physician, DR.
William Zeller. however, revealed
the man had been stabbed in the
head with a sharp instrument.
Physicians were reported working
desperately to save the victims life
early today.
Evening star., 1947-05-11
6. 0.P. State Leaders
Drop Plan 10 Censure
Congress 'Deserfers
Commentator of Work
Adopted After Heated
Debate at Indianapolis
BY The A.sociafed Press

INDIANAPOLIS, May 10.-Re.
publican State chairmen from II
Central and Western States to-
day warmly debated but finally
discarded a proposal which
would have censured Republic
ans in Congress who have
failed" to go along with the
COP party program.
{ The group unanimously adopted a
6o0-word resolution commencing the
work OF the Eightieth Congress to
date and asserting truly deliberate
and representative government is
being restored In washington.
But they hit snag In their closed
session late in the afternoon when
three unnamed Central States Rep
resentatives repeatedly proposed
censure Of the so-called liberals" in
Congress for "deserting" the party
program.
Chairmen from Wisconsin, home
of the once-powerfhl LaFollette Pro-
gressives and from the Rocky
Mountain States were said to have
objected to the formal censure.
Aimed at tDeserters."
A. r. Howard OF Nebraska, who
later was elected new chairman OF
the Midwest State Chairmen's Asso-
ciation to succeed Willis B. York Of
Iowa. told reporters the censure pro-
posal was discussed at length but no
action was taken.
He said it was aimed at those who
(See REPUBLICANS, Page AID
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Royal Family 10 Return
10 England tomorrow
BY the Asseeiaied Press

LONDON, May 10.-King George
and the royal family will return to
England and a royal welcome to-
morrow after a three months tour
Of South Africa.
Britain's newest battleship, H.M.S.
Vanguard, will dock at Portsmouth
with the royal family on board, but
the King, Queen and Princesses will
not disembark until 10 am. Monday
for the official homecoming oeremo-
nieS.
Portsmouth already is iammed
with visitors and more than SOC, 900
persons are expected to pack the
beaches for the Decentralization
Monday. !
Queen Mary. accompanied by .
party including the Princess Royal
and the Earl of Harewood, the
Duchess OF Gloucester, the Duchess
OF Kent, Lady Patricia Ramsay and
Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay, and
the Earl OF Athlone and his Count
ess, Princess Alice. will greet the re-
turning travellers at Buckingham
Palace.
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Federal Economy Ak Threatens
To Wreck AirpIone Builders
Experts. Worried Over MiIitoy Budget,
See Cutbocks ImperiIing u S. Defense

Congress will do with the President S
military budget when it comes up
on the House floor next week is
shared by experts on high policy
level appointed to protect the ma
tional interest in aviation develop
ment.
A minimum security program
worked out by the Air Co-ordinating
Committee has been ignored, al
though its members were selected
from the War, Navy and State De-
partments, and the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board and the Civil Aeronautics
Administration to set up a general
plan with one fundamental aim in
International security.
Due to reduced appropriations.
production of military fighters,
bombers and transports dropped
last year to 1880, or less than one
fourth of the Co-ordinating Com
mittee's minimum recommendation
for 5,740 during the period when
Evening star., 1947-05-11

Chairman Rees of the House Post
Office and Civil Service Committee
will renew his demand on the Civil
Service Commission to furnish to
Congress the loyalty files" on 2,50G
Federal employees whose loyalty was
questioned but never finally checked
In formal statement he charged
last night that the commission
agreed two months ago to furnish
the files but never did so, and more
recently refused to comply with his
demand.
The commissions refusal, Mr.. Rees
said, was based on its contention
that the Security Advisory Board OF
the State, War and Navy Depart
ments had advised the files were
classified confidential as affecting
security"
Mr.. Rees said he then wrote direct
to the Security Advisory Board
about the whole issue. In reply, the
board advised him, he said, that it
had made no such statement to the
Civil Service Commission, and it lid
not intend to draft any rules cover
ing the release OF such information
to the Congress"
IN view of this development, Mr..
Rees asserted, Il ask why the Civil
Service Commission goes to such
lengths in refusing to disclose vital
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Bates Hits al Faults
In Single Salary Plan
For District Teachers
Thinks Some Better Way
Can Be Found to Ruise
Puy Of Better Qualified
BY Don S. Warren

Chairman Bates of the House
District Fiscal Subcommittee
yesterday found faults in the
single salary scale" proposed
for Washington teachers. He
suggested some better way per-
haps can be found to give higher
pay to the better qualified.
"I am not impressed with the
theory that the teacher with the
highest academic degree makes the
best teacher" he told reporters.
Pausing in protracted study OF
a new series of charts and data
supplied by school officials, MI. Bates
said he was thinking Of some trial
and error method for giving f1nan-
cial rewards to the more accomplish
ed teachers.
Instead of the single salary scale,
why not use series OF aptitude
tests and professional courses, he
asked. Mr.. Bates recalled such q
system had been employed in Boston
No Conclusions Reached.
Mr. Bates Is co-chairman with Sem
ator Cain, Republican, of Washing
ton of the congressional joint COM
mittee in charge of the teacher pay
increase bill, along with the whole
question of increased District taxes.
He stressed he had arrived at no
definite conclusions as to the ulti-
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Iurksconcerned Over Reds
In Approval Of U. 5. Aid
BY the Associaied Press.s

ISTANBUL, May 10.-A feeling
of relief mixed with some concern
over eventual Russian reaction was
evident today at news that the
United States House of Represen-
tatives had approved the program
for financial aid to Turkey and
Greece.
Turkey had not doubted for a
moment that President Truman's
proposal would be approved, but the
lively House debate plus projected
crippling amendments had created
some uneasineSs.
While there has been no official
word on precisely how Turkeys
| 500, 100000 share of the program
will be used. it is known definitely
that virtually every penny will &C
either directly or indirectly to the
military.
This probably will include, ac-
cording to reliable sources, con-
siderable quantity of modern arms
which Turkey direly needs, together
with improved lines of communi-
cations which, while assisting the
nations economic structure primari-
ly, will be of inestimable value
militarily.
Evening star., 1947-05-11
D. C.. Clocks Set An Hour Ahead
AS Daylight Saving Time Starts
New Schedules Go Into Effect With Most
Of Metropolitan Areo Cooperating
Washington awakened today
on DAYLIGHT Saving Time.

Washington awakened today
on Daylight Saving Time.
Clocks in the city and most
of the Metropolitan Area were
advanced one hour officially at
2 am.
Movement Of the hands from
am. to am. deprived perhaps q
million sleeping people Of an hour
they will not recover until the COM
munity return to Eastern Standard
Time September %.
But it was time well lost in the
majority opinion. Most people felt
the hour taken from them would
be repaid many times between now
and that last Sunday in September
They could count 141 afternoons
between now and then for the extra
daylight hour they told the COM
missioners at public hearing last
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Mercury to Jump to 50 Today
AS Sunny Skies Are Promised

Warmer weather today promised
relief from the cold spell and frost
which, in the past three nights,
caused more than 81 900 900 damage
to Maryland crops and may cost Vir-
|ginia apple growers more than half
of this years crop.
The Weather Bureau said it would
be sunny and warm today with the
temperature going to the middle SOS
after this morning when the tenn
perature was expected to drop to 36
in the city and possibly as low as 80
in the outlying sections The mid
night temperature was 43 degrees
There win be slow trend toward
warmer weather in the next few
days, the bureau said in predicting
that the cold spell was just about
over.
The 35-degree mark reached here
Evening star., 1947-05-11

Wednesday they wanted for recrea-
ton and other purposes.
1t was on the strength of the over
whelming showing In favor Of day.
light saving at the hearing that the
Commissioners invoked it. They
were empowered to do so on local
option basis BY Congress.
Farmers, mailmen and workers
who said their day already began
too early furnished the major OPP
position.
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties in nearby Maryland shifted
time in unison with Washington, as
James G. Bailey, chief District
Building electrician, moved the
hands of the master clock in "city
hall"
The city of Alexandria and Ar
See DAYLIGHT SAVING, Page AT
Evening star., 1947-05-11
CannibaIs GetU. 5. Aid
Against old Red Joe
In Gridiron Satire
Both Truman and Hoover
Present to Hear Jibes
AT AnnuuI Dinner
(Gridiron Club Guest List
on Page Al.

The Cannibal Kingdom, only
democracy on earth which had
not previously obtained anti
| Communist cash from Uncle
Sam, received it's share last night
at the annual spring dinner OF
the Gridiron Club, while Presi-
dent Truman and other distin-
guished guests looked on. The
dinner was held in the Hotel
Statler.
/ A telephone call to Washington
(collect) from the cannibal capital
in darkest Africa fixed the deal, just
as the royal treasury was about to
collapse. In glee the cannibals sang
Soak Uncle Sam for a billion
bucks or so,
Because we hear the siren
| voice of Old Red Joel"
This jibe at the expense OF the
Truman antitotalitarian doctrine
was only one of the darts which the
famous newspaper club hurled al
Republicans and Democrats alike, In
skit and song, for the amusement o1
leaders in every walk of life of the
country and of foreign diplomatic
representatives.
Well Roasted With Humor.
When he and his administration
had been we'll roasted-but with
good hurnor - President Truman
spoke. Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia, possible contender for the
Republican presidential nomination
in 1948, made a speech for the WE'LL
scared Republicans.
For the first time in the long his
tory of the Gridiron Club, Presi-
dent of the United States and for
mer President were both guests last
night. Herbert Hoover attended his
first Gridiron dinner since he left
the White House in 1888. Mr.
Hoover, too addressed the club and
Its guests. Under the rule of the
club, the speeches were not reported
Harold NJ Talburt, cartoonist for
t the Scripps- Howard newspapers
was inaugurated as president of the
Gridiron Club for 1947, soon after
he had made the traditional speech
in the dark" at the opening of the
dinner, in which Mr.. Talburts set
the pace and the theme of the COM
ing entertainment.
Noted Cartoonists on Hand.
Present to honor him were many
of his cartoonist colleagues, includ-
ing Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore
Sun, Vaughn Shoemaker Of the Chi
cago Daily News, who has just re-
ceived his second Pulitzer Prize;
Clifford K. Bergman of The Wash
Evening star., 1947-05-11
By W. H. shippen. Jr.
Aviation Editor Of The Ssor

Cut back 95 per cent since the
war, the aviation manufacturing
industry gives signs today OF
progressive disintegration.
Several of the biggest companies
now are fighting for survival. and
a few more blows from the economy
axe may prove fatal.
1t seems clear, at any rate, that
additional production cut backs will
end the companies usefulness te
national security for long time te
come-just how long can best be
realized by expediters who helped
get them into production during the
dark years of the last war.
Eight of the 10 largest manufac-
turers lost money last year, despite
development contracts for military
planes, and several others were
saved from heavy losses by tax
carry backs they cannot anticipate
this year.
The industry's concern over what
Evening star., 1947-05-11
Food Crisis Reported
Topp|ing CityRegimes
In Reich British Zone
German Officials Declared
Unwilling to Take Blame
For Continuing Shortage
By the Associated Press

! BERLIN, May 10.-Responsible
British officials expressed the
fear today that a number of mu-
nicipal administrations in large
British zone cities were on the
verge of breakdown because
German officials were unwilling
to shoulder the responsibility fol
the food shortage.
This new angle in the deteriorat-
ing German food situation was dis
closed as leaders of mine workers
in the Ruhr defeated a proposal by
Ileft-Wing unionists to call a two
day strike of 900, 900 coal miners to
protest food shortages.
Union representatives attending a
meeting at Bochum said a large
majority opposed the walkout on the
grounds that it would do nothing
to alleviate the scantiness of food
supplies and increasing tension in
the Ruhr, and would retard vitality
needed coal production.
Wy AVuIiCliS WlSNuFdW.
Reports have reached Berlin from
both Wuppertal and Brunswick that
the city councils have announced
Withdrawal from their duties until
there is visible Improvement in
the food situation. In the present
circumstances, they assert, they can
not be held responsible for law and
order.
In Essen the city council dis
tributed leaflets stating that it was
not responsible for the food shortage
Rudolph Amelunxen, minister
president of North Rhine Westphal-
la, which includes the Ruhr, was
understood to have told Lord Paken-
ham, British parliamentary minis
ter on German affairs, that without
further help the big cities were faced
with complete collapse of food sup
plies.
Lord Pakenham was in Berlin to-
day discussing with top British con-
troll commission officials all aspects
of the food situation.
At Iieilingenhsusen In the Ruhr
700 workers returned to their fac
tories today after having walked out
two days ago In protest against The
food supply which German officials
said was SO short that the normal
consumer ration in the Ruh1
amounted to 8 pounds of bread pei
week and nothing else.
Ration for Week Scheduled.
The officials said next weeks
scheduled ration is three pounds OF
bread, half pound of cereal, one
eighth of a pound of butter and a
quarter pound of meat, but there
was no definite assurance that the
meat and butter would be available
British and German sources agreed
that the miners were taking time of
in the Ruhr to scrounge the coun-
tryside for food, plant their own
gardens and barter on the black
market the schnapps and cigarettes
offered as premium for good at
tendance in the mines.
At Essen the mayor and. city coun-
Gil told the people they could expect
no more than TAO calories a day
equivalent to about seven pieces OF
bread. The official prescribed ration
is 1850 calories, itself a Starvation
diet in the eyes of nutritionists.
The Hamburg branch of the Ger
man Bi-zonal Economics Board said
strong action was being taken
against food. hoarders. with 2,00G
cows seized in Lower Saxony from
farmers who failed to meet Their
milk quotas.
Evening star., 1947-05-11
FauItIess Wins
Predkness in
Stretch Drive
On Trust Captures
Place With PhuIunx
Third Over Jet Pilot
By Froneis {. Stonn
Stor Stuff CORRESPONDENT

BALTIMORE, May 10.-Fault-
less of Warren Wright's Calumet
Farm lived up to his name today
to win the 57th Preakness in a
roaring stretch drive before
40,222 racing fans at Pimlico.
Ridden by Doug Dodson, Faultless,
the second Calumet Farm entry to
win the Preakness, defeated Ken
tucky Derby winner Jet Pilot and
nine other 3-year r-olds in the Mary
land classic, one of the country S
richest races.
Jet Pilot was not even In the
money as On Trust, the California
winner CT the Santa Anita, finished
length behind Faultless, and Pha-
lanx, the favorite, closed strongly to
take show position, 21a lengths be-
hind On Trust.
Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham's
Jet Pilot, which won the Run for the
Roses a week ago on muddy track,
led for a quarter of a mile, faded
during the last quarter and finished
fourth.
Win Worth S9S,oO5 to Wright.
Faultless, by Bull Lea out of Uner-
ring, earned a net of $98,005 for his
wealthy owner. Second and third
places were worth $4,000 and $10,-
600. Quoted at 4-to-1 on the beard
when the field broke, Faultless paid
his hackers $10.40, $3.50 and $3.50
On Trust paid ST and S340 and Pha-
lanx paid s220 to show.
Today's track was pronounced
fast, but is also was holding" stril
and the time of the winner, 1859
was full two seconds under Alsab's
record Preakness time, established
in 1912.
Despite Jet Pilots Derby victory
Phalanx, was the bettors' favorite
today, starting at even money after
once being backed down, according
to the board, to 4-to-5. Jet Pilot
was 5-to-1 when the race started
ranking third and behind Faultless
On Trust was 8 to l.
There was nothing else in the
race to harass the big four" of
Faultless. On Trust, Phalanx and
Jet Pilot. Four non-Derby start
(raptio1,od a., DoUo p 4 Cof orl