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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
Independent AirIines 10
 Fight Rules

SEATTLE, Aug. 18- IR-Members of the Independent Air Carrier Con- ference are meeting here to map what they say will be fight on a national scale to keep the non scheduled air transport industry from extinction.
 John J. Klak. general counsel for the IACC, said the meeting was pre- cipitated by recent Civil Aeronau- tics Board order calling for an in- vestigation of all large irregular air carriers to check on violations of Federal Air Commerce Rules
 The meeting was called for Seat tie, he said, because two non-sched- uled airlines operating from Seattle to Alaska have been accused by the Board with violating the federal regularity ruling.
 He explained that the most i'm portant charge in the CAB order for calling an inv est g a ion was that sirregular' carriers have con- ducted their operations so as to set up pattern of regularity.
 The two Alaska Seattle firms are Golden North Airways, Inc, ano Mount Mckinley Airlines. Both use Anchorage as their main Alas ka base.
 Klak said IT non scheduled air lines are represented here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
Woman Admits Giving
 Poison 10 Husband 'Af His Request

SONORA. Calf, Aug. 18-lR-A 45-year-old woman calmly related today. District Attorney Ed Villas said, how she poisoned her husband at his request and carefully planted "a flower garden over the shallow grave where she had buried his body in pieces.
 Mrs. Ada Hansen. questioned at length by Villas and others, was held without bail on a charge of suspicion of murder
 Villas said she maintained un- swervingly that her husband. Otto Hansen, about AS, had been ill for several years and had forced her to administer him strychnine.
 He was her third husband, the other two having died, she related
 Complaints of an unpleasant odor led the auto camp management to the remains yesterday. The man was believed to have been dead about four months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
F0UR-p0WER
 TALKS NEAR
 CONCLUSION
By EDDY GILMORE


 MOSCOW, Aug. 18-R--The four power talks in Moscow about Berlin and Germany are nearing and end. This was learned today on excell- ent authority from source who refused to say whether the conver- sations would or would not end with published agreements. {
 One thing, however. appears cer- tain. that there will be four power talks on high level on the German problem as a whole at some future date.
 There certainly will be another meeting of the envoys of the Unit ed States, Britain and France with the Soviets later this week, probably on Friday. There is nothing definite on whether this is to be the last or next to last conference. but the end is at hand barring some unex- pected development.
 The three western envoys have put in some long hours and hard work in and between their six talks with Molotov since July 31.
 It is interesting to note that while progress had bee made, there is neither optimism nor pessimism being expressed at any of the three embassies
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
pENDERGA5T5 GET CONTROL AGAIN IN
 JACKSON COUNTY

KANSAS CITY, Aug. l8--tH- Control of the Jackson County Democratic Committee was back in the hands of the Pendergast politi- cal organization today.
 The organfsation is hcsded by Jim Pendergast He inherited it on the death of his uncle, boss Tom Pen- dergast, whose faction dominated Missouri politics for years.
 The test of Pendergast's strength in the committee came yesterday in electing committee chairman. A Pendergast-backed candidate. Leo T, Schwartz, defeated Ralph M Russell. 30 votes to 26. Russell was supported by factional opponents of Pendergast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
IS
 SHOT, KILLED IN
 ESCAPE ATTEMPT
CBy The Associated Pressp

Yugoslavia's former Chief of Staff has been shot and killed in a reported attempt to flee to Ru- mania. The official Yugoslav Communist paper tPravda) says that Arso Jovanovic and three others tried to flee Yugoslavia when pretending to be on a boar hunt.
 According to this report. Yugo- slav border guards say the group hustling toward the Rumanian border at about 200 a. m. on August l2 The guards opened fire when one of the group started shooting after being told to halt. Two of the four--including the former Chief of Staff-were killed, one was captured, and the other succeeded in getting to Rumania.
 Former Chief of Staff Jovanovic is described as one of Marshal Ti- tos top-ranking military men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
WOMAN T0MAkE SOLO AIR TRIP
 AROUND WORLD

BURBANK, Calf, Aug. 18-IR-- Mrs. Dianna Cyrus Bixby, 25, plans to take off from San Francisco at one minute past midnight, Aug 26, on her solo round- -the-World flight, friends disclosed today.
 The energetic aviatrix hopes to make the 21,076-mile trip in 70 hours, elapsed time, reaching San Francisco the night of Aug. 28.
 This will give her time. she says, to rest up and have her modified twin-engine Mosquito bomber tuned up for the Bendix Air Race.
 She would cross the Pacific via Midway and Hawaii
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
kET(HIkAN
 CR RITCIzES
 SUSPENSION
First City Objects to Fish Closure -F&WS Ex-
 plains Ruling

According to the Ketchikan News, there is strong and increasing sen timent here that Albert M. Day, head of the Fish and Wildlne Service. is not acting in good faith with fishermen and industry in the present closure of this fishing dis trict. While northern districts of Southeast Alaska may have a poor showing, the Ketchikan district has A good escapement of pink salmon with an estimated 100000 in Anan Creek and another 300,O0O at its mouth. Many other streams in this district also have good escapement estimated at one million to a. mil lion and quarter fish especially in view of the dry weather which cuts down grounds available for immedi- ate spawning.
 The fishing industry claims that dry weather. and northerly winds keep fish from coming in and when the rain does come, there will be heavy run which will overcrowd streams as in l941 when tremendous runs were lost to the industry and died at taez mouth. cf streans.
 Packers claim that an inadequate survey was made of the local situa- ton before closure was ordered by Day at Juneau and no pilot traps are now being operated to determine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
Salmon Industry Objects To Fish CLosur.
WIFE OF FORMER
 PRESIDENT
 DIES YESTERDAY

UVALDE, Tex, Aug. l8.-iR-Mrs. John Nance Garner, Cactus Jacks right hand" is dead.
 The wife of the 32nd Vice-Presi- dent of the United States died at 4:3o pm. yesterday in the stately buff brick home her husband built for Ettie" 28 years ago.
 She was 78.
 Death came peacefully to the in- separable companion of the South Texas lawyer who rose to be Vice. President of the United States.
 Garner was at his wife's side when she died.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
HISS NOW LINKED TO
 CHAMBERS
Secretary Marshall Stands by Teathers-Mrs. Kos
 enkind Health Worse
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-IRt- Congressional spy probers pointed juLilantly today to a l934-35 link be- tween Alger Hiss. former State De- partment official, and Whitaker Chambers, avowed one-time mem Der of a Red underground.
 Hiss himself admitted the connec- ton by identifying Chambers as a man he knew years ago as George Croseley" and as free lance writer
 That happened yesterday in New York before members of the House n-American Activities Committee and again at news conference call ed by Hiss.
 Previously. Chambers had testi- fled under oath that Hiss was member of the pre-war Red under ground Chambers insisted had op- erated in Washington. And Hiss, also under oath, denied it. He denied, too, knowing anyone by the name of Whitaker Chambers. He said he could not identify Chambers by a picture.
 His still is sticking to his state- ments that he is no Communist and never has been.
 But Committee members said they are on stronger ground now that Hiss admits he knew Chambers at one time Some of them had been saying their investigation would be hurt badly if it developed that Chambers actually never had known Hiss.
 Hiss now is head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Chambers is senior editor of Time Magazine.
 The Committee for the first time brought the two of them face to face yesterday afternoon in New York hotel room. Rep. Nixon (R- Calif.) said afterward that Hiss positively indentified" Chambers.
 Hiss told reporters later that at the meeting Chambers said.
 "Aleer, we were both Communists. "
 Hiss said he threw up his hands at that and denied again to the Committee that he was a Red.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.--lR- A threatened strike of 60000 CIO seamen was staved off early today by an agreement with 42 Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipping companies for retention of union hiring halls" and for pay increases.
 The hiring halls in which the union picks men for jobs had heen the main issue in dispute be- tween the operators and the Ma tional Maritime Union tCIOJ in lengthy bargaining.
 This settlement, however, does net affect the NMU dispute with the Great Lakes ship owners, or similar tangles on the West Coast. where a strike is threatened Sep-| tember ?.
 National Labor Relations Board attorneys are confronted by al puzzler in these other cases.
 The East and Gulf Coast agree Iflefll--SuuJCtt lO idtANnttSti " the Union membership-was reach- ed at 2l5 a. m. JEST, after an il-hour session of negotiating com mittees of the NMU and the ship owners.
 A strike had been threatened for after Sept. 2, when Federal Court cooling-off injunctions ex- pire.
 The agreement gives boatswains a wage increase of S25 8 month and other ratings an increase of $l2.50 month.
 It provides that the status quO| on the hiring halls shall be pre-| served until court of competent jurisdiction determines whether| the hiring system is legal underI the Taft Hartley Act. The oper-| ators have contended the act bans| the system.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tcopyright, l94e. by The Bell Syndicate.
 Incl


 WASHINGTON-- When nation is in dire trouble with another nation-as we are today with Rus sia-wise leaders concentrate On the weakest point in the other na- tion's armor.
 The weakest point in Russia s armor are her own people-as this column has so long emphasized, and as is being emphasized toaa7 in New York by two Russian schoolteachers. In brief, when the Russian people get to know the difference between the U.S.A. and the U.S.SR.. they prefer the LISA.
 Simultaneously the Moscow press and radio are putting out complete ly false ideas about these Rus sian schoolteachers-because the Kremlin knows all too well that the Russian people are the weakest spot in the Soviet armor and that they must continue to be deceived.
 The Kremlin knows this, but the State Department doesn't know 1t -or, at least, doesn't do anything about it. The Diplomats who guide our Russian policy do not seem to realize that there will always be danger of war with Russia-and grave danger-until we get behind the Iron Curtain to make friends with the Russian people.
 When this column suggested floating weather balloons into Rus sia from Germany with propaganda messages and gifts attached (which the Weather Bureau says is quite feasible), the Army and Air Forces were most enthusiastic One high-ranking general urged releasing million balloons month.
 .If we can get to the Russian people that way or any other way he said, we who are supposed tc fight wars can go fishing
 But the State Department, which has the final say in all such foreign policy matters, said no Russia. they decreed, might be of- fended.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 37s. American Can 85, Aaaconda 37ls, Curtiss- Wright 97s, International Harvester 29A, Kennecott 57ls. New York Central l67s, Northern Pacific 2lA U. s. Steel 76ha, Pound s4.03h.
 Sales today were 650,000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows industrials l82l2, rails 59.37, util- ities 3470.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
LoNGsHOREMEN TO MEET

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. l8.--th Union leaders announced long, shore operations in San Francisco will be shut down from p. m. tonight until 8 a. m tomorrow for stop-work meeting
 They will gather to hear report on the findings of a Presidential Fact Finding Committee. which questioned the CIO longshore lead- CTS and the employers in the Pac- i iiic Coast maritime contract TOW last week.
 The Waterfront Employers Asso- citation called the stop work meet 1 ing a violation of contract and ! threatened to register a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
 Employer spokesmen contended the men could hold day and g night meeting. without keeping any workers from their jobs.
 James Kearney. President of Lo- cal 10 of the Union, said the longshoremen would also discus the pending NLRB poll among fiv< maritime unions involved in tht coast-wide dispute. The poll will allow union members to accept oI reject final employer contract offer.
 1 Leaders of all five unions hav1 announced they will strike at midi night, Sept. l. when the govern] ment's anti-strike injunction ex| pires, if no settlement is reached 1 by then.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
Alberta Government Is EIetied for Fouirh Tim e; Social Credit

EDMONTON, Alta. Aug. 18.-tR- Alberta's Social Credit government rolled back into power today for another term--its fourth. The Social Credit party has ruled the province since 1885.
 Prime Minister Ernest Manning, 39, and his party captured at least 42 of the Provincial Legisla- lures 57 seats in yesterdays elec- tions. Manning and the nine men in his Cabinet all won seats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
---- STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Corsair is due northbound at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Sword Knot due northbound at l o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Princess Louise scheduled to arr rive southbound Friday morning.
 Aleutian leaving Seattle Satur- day, August 2l.
 Baranof arriving here south bound Sunday. August p.
 Alaska arriving here southbound Friday morning.
 Square Sinnett sailed north from Seattle at o'clock last night.
 Coastal Monarch expected to sail northbound today or tomorrow,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
ARABS AND JEWS FIRE UPON LIN
 C0Nv0Y5 TODAY
lBv The Associated Pressl

Gen. A. LundSsroem, Chief-of- Staff of the U. N. Truce Commis- sion in Palestine, blamed both Jews and Arabs today for renewed fighting in Jerusalem.
 An Israeli army source said the Arabs shelled Jewish positions around Southern Jerusalem last night and that machinegun duels were fought in the northeast part of the city near the Damascus gate.
 Weekend fighting in the Holy City was the worst since the United Nations imposed its second truce last month.
 U. N. Truce Headquarters said one of it's planes was fired on while landing on Kalandia Air field. The shots came from a nearby area controlled by the Arabs.
 Aides of Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N. Palestine mediator who is attending a Red Cross meeting in Stockholm, tried to arrange a mo fire period" to visit Govern- ment House in Jerusalem, where heavy firing has been going on. The Jews agreed, but the Arabs said nothing.
 TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. l8.-4R A United Nations Truce Com mission spokesman said the lead ing jeep of a U. N. convey from zTel Aviv to Jerusalem was fired on three times today from Arab positions near Latrun.
 The jeep, it's three American officer passengers and the convoy all escaped hits from the machine gun fire. The convoy got through but the spokesman said a pro- test would be lodged at once.
 In the jeep were Capt. John D'Angelis, Nesquehoning, Pa, a survivor with Capt. Eddie Ricken- packer on the Pacific raft, and Mai. Sam c. Grashio, Spokane. Wash, a survivor of the Bataan Death March.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
SEATTLE VISITORS

Among Seattle guests at the Baranof Hotel are Jack Alhadeff, V. R. Fawcett, J. J. Tunneson. L. E. Sawyer. Arnold Rude. Miss Lois Quivey, Ralph Huggett, and c. E. Beavers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
TEACHER IN OXYGEN TENT

NEW YORK, Aug. l8-tR--Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina. whose leap from third floor window of the Soviet Consulate created an international stir, was placed in an oxygen tent at Roosevelt Hospital late today.
 The hospital announced the ac- ton at 3.30 pm. (EST).
 An earlier hospital bulletin noted that Mrs. Kosenkina's respiration had been somewhat labored' and said her temperature was 1034. She has been in critical condition since her jump from the Consulate last Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
CODE FOR WAR PREVENTION

Perhaps it is lese majesty Tor humble newspaperman to give advice to the high-and-mighty
 State Department. But since. if war comes, it is my children-not the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
(I0 STRIKE 7 THREAT I5
 SHAVED OFF
East Coast Agreement l. ReaChed-W West Coast
 Men 10 Stop Work
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. l8.-lR The National Labor Relations Beard, in a decision of pro- found importance to industry and labor. ruled unanimously today that 'hiring halls" of the CIO National Maritime Union on the Great Lakes are illegal.
 It ordered the union not to strike to keep them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
MARSHALL DEFENDS TEACHER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-IR-- Secretary Marshall said today that evidence reported to the State De- partment does not sustain Russian charges against United States au- thorities in connection with the refugee school teacher case in New York.
 Marshall told a news confer ence a formal answer will be given within the next 24 hours to the Russian protests. He said the U. s. views with serious concern the charges made by representatives of the foreign power involved in the New York incidents. He did not mention Russia specifically by name.
 Voluntarily discussing the school teacher cases, Marshall said avail able evidence does not bear out the Soviet protests.
 The Russians have demanded that the U. S. hand the three over to the Soviets. Among other things the Russians have accused Ameri- can authorities of conniving in "kidnaping' the teachers, whose own claims are that they prefer to live here rather than go back to Russia.
 Marshall said note answering the Soviets is in preparation, based on reports from authorities in New York City.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
wRANGELL COUPLE

MT. and Mrs. B. A. Thomas q Wrangell are in Juneau stoppinl at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18

Visiting Juneau from Elfin Covd R. J. Hatranft is staying at th| Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-18
WEATHER REPORT
GU. S. WEATHER BUREAU

GU. S. WEATHER BUREAU , Temperatures for 24-hour period
 , ending 7:30 this morning
 , In Juneau Maximum, 62,
 , minimum, 49.
 , At Airport Maximum, 62;
 , minimum, A.
 , 20 R E C A s T
 , (Juneau and Vicinity , Mostly fair tonight and , Thursday. Not much change , in temperature. } RE IPI T A T I 0 N
 , (Past 2l hours ending 7:30 am. today } Tn Juneau or inches, , since August 1, PTS inches; , since July 1. 990 inches. , At Airport .09 inches; } since August l, l86 inches <
 , since July l, 6.70 inches.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-17

With regards to profits, Mr..
Wright said that the bank should
have made upwards to $4,000 af-
ter all expenses have been deduc-
ted. Overall expenses, including op-
eroaion and maintenance cost for
the first year, came to approx
mately $4,000 it was brough out.
Income should be up to $120, 900
by this time another year. all
things being equal, Mr.. Wright
said.
The Tri-State bank has opened
over 1900 separate accounts since
it began operating. These accounts
represent about 1900 individuals
and firms, Mr.. Wright said, This
should give some idea of the ex-
banding influence of the bank, he
added
Among heaviest depositors have
been Universal Life and Union
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-17

in native costume, was so captiv-
ated by African life and music
that she has added to her con-
cert program a group of African
songs. In the colleges and Sc
hools Before whom she is ap-
pearing in an extensive itinerary
she is also showing solor films
which she and her husband took
depicting scenes of today in Mo-
Their Africa. She tells the stud
ents about life there and espec-
tally among African women,
whose status she declares must
be raised full progress can be
achieved. While overseas she gave
concerts in each of the colonial
capitals of West Africa, donating
the proceeds to the local Red
Cross and wounded soldiers
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-17
Memphis Bank
Reports Success
In First Year

Memphis (ANP) = Tri-State
bank of Memphis stockholders
beamed their satisfaction last Sat-
urday when they learned from the
institutions president and other
officials that within he brief per-
iod of one year the new financial
house on Beale Street had risen
from 18th to 9th from point of
size. The meeting of stockholders,
held at Foote Homes auditorium
was the first annual session.
DIR. J. E. Walker, president and
organizer of the bank, in an infor-
NAL address related many details
concerning the institution, declar-
ing:
"We have gone long ways, and
save shown that we were on the
right track in organizing this bank,
The president pointed out that
two white banks in Arkansas have
deposi at the Tri-State $68,00O
and that a total of $131, 900 have
been placed in he bank by other
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-17
Negro. Citizens
Expected To Vote
In Southern Pri-
marys This Year

Richmond (ANP) - 1t appears
certain that Negroes will have the
right to vote this year in the pri-
maries in the south. AS matter
of fact nothing in the cauldon OF
race vote is more certain. The
highest courts of the land are more
definite and straightforward on
this issue than any other.
The u S Supreme Court since
1927 by several decisions has out
1awed primary elections against
the white primary in 1914. Quick
" South Carolina responded with
a legislative act repeating all re-
ference to the primary in the
state code, paving the way for
making the primary the function
club which ostensibly could deter
mine the qualifications for mem
bers. AS a private club the Demo
cratic party was then supposed to
be free to exclude anybody it wish
ed to exclude.
1t remained for Judge j. Waites
Waring to rule against this private
club subterfuge of the lily white
Democrats to bypass Negro voters.
The sc year old jurist of Charles
ton, S. c., upheld the contention
of a Negro voter that he was de-
prived of his constitutional rights
in being denied participation -
the Democratic primary Of South
Carolina.
In dismissing the club dodge
technique the jurist called the
defendants contention pure So
phistry" and asserted that tina
Democratic party in South Caro-
lima is acting for the people of
the state and added that the pri-
mary is he only means whereby
the voters can exercise their choice
in selecting the officials of the fed
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-17

eral and state government.
The fourth circuit court of APP
peals in this city upheld this OPP
inion of Dec 30. The opinion was
written by Judge John j. Parker,
of Charlotte, N. c., who once was
bitterly opposed by the NAACP
and organized labor, but since then
has shown quite liberal views re-
garding all issues on the constitu-
tional rights of Negro Americans.
The opinion in the primary was
that no election machinery can be
upheld if its purpose or effort is to
deny the Negro, on account Of race
or color, an effective voice in the
government of his country of of
the state or community wherein
he lives