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The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
Alaska Receives Mail From States Overland By Truck

SEATTLE, (P)-Seattle mail to Alaska is now being carried by truck over the Alaska Highway.
 The overland mail service is op- erated by Alaska Freight Lines un- der contract with the Postoffice.
 Powerful, specially-built trucks and trailers are hauing an average of 22,000 pounds of mail weekly between Seattle and Fairbanks, E. w. Hundley, traffic manager of Alaska Freight Lines, announced.
 The Fairbanks trucking concern, operated by Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., of Fairbanks. is packing mail from here to Fairbanks on a run that averages 512 days, cutting approx imately 2 days from the time made by mail boats.
 Ghezzi recently was awarded the 3,2OO-mile "star route" con- tract by bid. It is the longest star route in the world, even outdis- tancing the cross-nation route of a century ago and it's famed pony express.
 Its two drivers. Les Crump and H. w. Baker, keep the mail niov-
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The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
.JurisdictiOnal Dispute Halts Maritime Peace

SEATTLE, (P) - Ed Coester, Seattle agent of the AFL-Sailors Union of the Pacific, said he had received word from Harry Lund- berg, San Francisco, union presi- dent, to disregard reports that the maritime strike is almost over"
 "The west coast maritime tie-up will not be over until various jur- Iisdictional issues now pending are settled to the satisfaction of our membership" Coester commented.
 He said those tissues" included the question of jurisdiction over Alaska ship steward department personnel and the controversy be- tween AFL-sailors and CIO-long- shoremen over certain work on coastwise Alaska ships.
 The AFL-sailors union have pe- titioned for a national labor rela- tions board election to determine jurisdiction for Alaska ship stew ard department employees. The CIO-marine cooks and stewards union claims jurisdiction.
 Officials of the Alaska Steam ship company, only remaining ma jor ship line in the Seattle-Alaska trade, sadi the situation had mot yet been clarified" in regard to a cooks and stewards contract.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
Plane Crew See Sub Periscope In CulfOf Mexico

WASHINGTON, (P)-Navy off cials today discounted reports of an unknown submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. Privately, they were writing the whole thing off as a mirage inspired by enthusi- asm.
 The crew of a training plane from the Corpus Christi, Tex, na- val air base reported Friday they though they saw a periscope 20 miles off the U. s. coast.
 An analysis later by base off cials said the object, which disap- peared in 10 minutes, was more likely snorkey-the snout of the breathing tube used by modern submarines.
 Navy experts here say it could have been a snorkey-or peri scope-perhaps belonging to Rus sian submarine, but they doubt it.
 Spotting a periscope or snorkey from the air. they said, is extreme ly difficult and is generally possi- ble only at very short distance.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29

COMPTON, Calif., (R - Mer- chants here have enlisted burly Compton college football players to help protect the weaker sex from women Christmas shoppers.
 So men can shop without endan- gering life and limb, no women customers will be allowed in Compton stores the night of Dec. 6. The football players will stand in front of the shops to give the ladies the straight-arm.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29

CHICAGO, (P) - A man who stepped on another mans toes in a restaurant was fatally shot Satur- day. The dead man was identified as Joseph Brzeda, 27, of Chicago. Held without charge are Charles Tanthorey, 26, and his brother-in- law, Raymond Fassett, 40, both of Chicago.
 Police Lieut.. Paul Johnson said the shooting occurred after Grzeda stepped on Tanthrorey's toes in a restaurant on the near south side.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
SEATTLE, (P)-Capt. Harry B

SEATTLE, (P)-Capt. Harry B. Shelby, AT, native of Bellingham and a lifelong resident of this state, died suddenly of heart dis ease at his home here Friday. He had been with the Alaska Com munications System of the U. s. Army Signal Corps for 29 years and had planned to retire next July. Among the survivors are his mother, Mrs. Alice Selby of Bel lingham and a brother, Thomas J. SeLby of Juneau, Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
Internation'l News At A Glance ---
Saturday. November 27. l948

Russia launched a bitter attack in the general assembly today on the United Nations special com mittee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) charging that the committees in vestigators were amateur Sher- lock Holmeses."
 Fighting against the committees report, Soviet deputy minister An drei Y. Vishinsky asserted the committees findings were based on distortion, Justification and bad faith"
 The committee has charged that Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria are aiding the communist guerril- las in Greece. Vishinsky said the UNSCOB report onyl "presumes, assumes and considers it likely" that Greece's three northern neigh bors actively helped the rebels.
 Even as hope for a compromise settlement of the Berlin deadlock dwindled, an American spokesman said the United States accepts the lead that the Soviet mark should be used in all of Berlin.
 The spokesman, Willard L. Thorp, assistant secretary of state, told a news conference that the United States has in no way with drawn from the agreement to ac- cept the Moscow directives of Aug. 30.
 Themistokles Sophoulis, Greece's 88-year-old premier, clug grimly to a thread of life today, seven hours after doctors abandoned all hope for him.
 The premier was stricken with two heart attacks this week and suffered a relapse during the night. He has received the last sac raments of the Greek Orthodox church.
 In China, the battle for the ap- breaches to Nanking spread over 100-mile radius south of SuchoW. From reports reaching Nanking it appeared that nationalist troops
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The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29

DETROIT (P) - Oldsmobile of General Motors joined with Buick and Cadillac Saturday in announc- ing price increases for 1949. At the same time Oldsmobile said produc- ton of its "66" mad "68" series, least expensive of its 1948 cars, would be discontinued for 1949.
 The Buick and Cadillac divisions of General Motors announced price increases recently.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
ATLANTA, (P)-Aaron D. Rich

ATLANTA, (P)-Aaron D. Rich ards, 27, apparently doesn't give a hOot for a toot.
 Police early Saturday found Richards sitting calmly in his stalled automobile on a railroad crossing. Six trains weer held up.
 Richards, said police, just ig- nored the angry whistles.
 He was booked on a charge of public drunkenness.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29

. WASHINGTON, R)-American potato growers won't have to com pete with the Canadian product therest of this marketing season.
 The agricultural departm n gave that assurance Friday in an noupcing that the Canadian gov
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The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29

JUNEAU, (P)-The car ferry Chilkoot was reported aground Saturday on the Katzechin river flats across from Haines, Alaska, but was expected to float free on the next high tide. The ferry was en route from uneau to Haines by way of the Lynn canal.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF

JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa (P)-A tornado killed four persons and injured more than 100 Friday night in the Roodeport area of Orange Free State. Damage was estimated at about $4,00O,000.
The Nome nugget., 1948-11-29
CBy The Associated Press)

IBy The ASSocIated PreSSJ
 Early resumption of normal shipping operations along the strikebound east and west coasts hinged Saturday on a vote among dockworkers on terms for ending
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12
Youth to
hold forum

Young Chicagoans will speak
on Human Advancement In
This Atomic Age" at a youth
conference to be presented Tues
day, June Is, 8 pm, at Phillips
High School, 244 E. 39th ST., by
the 20 Negro Baptist churches
of the BTU. Congress.
An inter-racial youth panel,
chaired by Progressive Party
candidate Al Janney, will speak
on What Our Generation Needs
and Wants For the Good Life"
Guests will include city Off
Gals, representatives of social
agencies, School Board officials,
and religious leaders.
General admission is free.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

revolution" receded from Rep.
Mundt's eyes as ne concluded by
telling his fellow Executives his
real fear. 81 wouldn't be sur
prised," roared Mundt, eff they
(the pickets outside) aren't sit
ting here at these tables within
two months and you're all
sitting in the gallery looking
down."
And as Rep. Mundt's eyes roll
ed upwards eloquently indicating
the hard wood folding chairs in
the balcony of the great dining
hall, the Executives Club-as
one man-drew out pencils and
pens and wrote a note to them
selves: Tomorrow Urgent
Mundt Bill.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

fore the Executives appeared to
be a frantic appeal 10 Big Bust
ness TO put the pressure on Illi-
nois Senators 10 vote for his bill.
IT'S getting to be question
whether the Senate will pass the
BILL" Mundt declared in sad.
hushed tones, pointing out that
the Senate has received "35. 900
Communist inspired kilograms
IN the past 10 days." opposing the
Mundt Bill.
$4,000 is a peck O. Com
munist" inspiration - but then.
the Mundt Bill is mess O.
Mundt.)
But the fear of Communist
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

ted that lao 60-pound cartons of
perans seized here were rancid
and decomposed."
+
A DRUM containing 1870, 900
saccharin tablets, shipped here
from Detroit by c. E. Jameson
& Co., was condemned because
the tablets contained an added
poisonous and deleterious sub
stance, boric acid, which is un-
safe within the meaning of the
law"
Destruction of a shipment of
Miracle-Aid, Miracle Cream, Mir
acle Bath, and Miracle Milk Bath,
sent here by the American
Beauty Products Co., was ordered
after it was shown that the
products would not. as the COM
pany claimed, remove wrinkles
and double chin, reduce weight,
or be effective in the treatment
of rheumatism and arthritis.
1t was found, by the way, that
"Miracle-Aid consisted essen
TALLY of water"
THESE were only a few of the
cases reported by the Food and
Drug Administration this week
and this goes on every week!
Not one appeared in any Chicago
newspaper. Nor did any Chicago
newspaper mention that these
well-known brands were named
in such suits: O-Ke-Doke Pop
corn, Cudahy's Sunlight Cream
cry Butter, Armour's Clover
bloom Butter, and various Hy-
grade brand cheeses.
In recent months, the Food and
Drug Administration also has
cracked down on Safeway Stores,
the A. & P. Co., H. J. Heinz Co.,
Swift & Co., General Mills,
Pillsbury, Kroger, Borden Cheese
Co., Hawaiian Pineapple Co.,
National Biscuit Co. Nabisco),
Quaker Oats, BIC Headache Pow
derS, Stanback Headache Pow
ders, and many others.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12

THE BIG Bad Wolf is, by Rep.
Mundt's calculations, the Com
nunist Party of the U.S.A.,
Communications organizations,
every progressive or liberal or
anti-fascist group in the country,
and = shhh! - the KremIin, all
rolled into one!
Round. balding. squat - and
generally shaped in the image of
a pouter pigeon-the man behind
the Mundt Bill. Rep. Mundt. was
rather out-of- sorts by the time
he arrived at the graciously ap-
pointed Mural Room 10 talk out
of his head.
1--WE have 10 have the strength
and courage to walk through an
occasional picketline," Numbered
Mundt, lunging at the microphone
hungrily, and shaking clenched
fist at his well-heeled audience.
MINUTES earlier Mundt had
warily threaded his way through
a picketline, organized by the
Civil Rights Congress, at the
Madison st. entrance to the Nor
rison. There, 80 to 40 trade union
lists, who can smell fascism even
when it emanates from the air
conditioned Mural Room, march
ed single-file, carrying placardS,
distributing leaflets, grinning and
shouting to the hundreds of spec
tators across the street from the
hotel: ''Mundt is at the Morrison
-. Kill that Mundt Bill
Beware of Mundt and his police
state bill"
Shaming the seven American
flags draped above his head, over
the speakers stand Mundt termed
the picketline a demonstration of
Communism in action"
He then produced a 1eaflet
from his pocket-one of those
which the pickets had distributed
urging Chicagoans to attend the
rally to defeat the Mundt Bill at
the Coliseum June 6. Four of the
scheduled rally speakers listed
on the leaflets were notorious
Communists" beloved Mundt.
4 THE speakers Lsted-al1 emmi-
nently respectable and disting-
uished persons - were: Rev.
Harry Ward, Professor Emeritus,
Union Theological Seminary,
NY; Leo Krzycki, honorary vice
president, Annalgamated Clothing
Workers Union, president, Amer
lean Slav Congress; DR.. Robert
Morss Lovett, former Governor of
the Virgin Islands; Rebecca
Styles Taylor, Chicago Defender
columnist, and Russ Nixon,
former officer, American Mill
tary Government in Germany,
Washington legislative director,
United Electrical Workers (CIO).
Rep. Mundt turned out to be a
pretty fair orator. After all, he's
had lots of speaking experience
such as the America First meet
ings he addressed before the war,
where he received the fascist
salute.
The purpose OF his speech be-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12
US. REPORTS:
You're buying poison
but fEauf uin'f news
IF YOU'VE got a delicate
L stomach, don't read thi:


L stomach, don't read this
story.
It's about foods, cosmetics, and
drugs-matters that vitality affect
your health and welfare-but it
isn't pleasant story.
It's the storY-suppressed by
the big daily newspapers be-
cause of advertising pressure
of how some Big Business outfits
are willing TO sell dangerous
products for the sake of greater
profits.
DOES all this sound fantastic?
Then listen to what one Chicago
food merchandising company adj
mitted about a shipment of figs:
THE product consisted in
whole or in part of filthy and
decomposed substance by reason
of the presence of insect infested,
moldY. and sour figs"
That was the charge, admitted
TO by the Steele Wedeles Co.,
made by the federal Food and
Drug Administration against
shipment of 142 30-pound cases
of Sultan Brand Fancy Adriatic
Figs. which government agents
seized in the company's ware
house here.
THE Sultan figs case is typical.
Here are few other Illinois
cases reported this week by the
Food and Drug Administration
The Hollywood Candy Co. of
Centralia was fined $1,000 plus
COSTS after il pleaded guilty to
selling three brands of candy
bars-HollYwood's Magic. Holly
woods Milk Chocolate, and Pay
daY-which consisted in whole
or in part of filthy substances
by reason of the presence of
larvae tinsect eggs). insect frag-
rnenis. rodent hair fragments.
insects. rodent hair. and setae
tinsect organs)."
The U. S. District Court or
dered that sos 50-pound cases of
Queen of the Gulf Frozen Fresh
Shrimp be destroyed because it
was decomposed.
A QUANTITY of Kanco Brand,
Hall Seal. and Air Port raisins
were condemned after Food and
Drug agents testified that some
were infested with insects, while
others We're deconaposed or
nnoldy.
Agents found worms and in
sect parts in 81 110-pound bags
of carob beans owned by the
Western Food Corp.
Forty-five cases Of First State
canned mushrooms, found in the
possession of the Delaware Mush-
roon Cooperative Assn. here,
were undergoing bacterial de-
composition"
The Batennan Pecan Co. admit
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-12
Mundt gives local executives
the Red scare Of their lives

Rep. Mua1dt doesn't talk from
prepared speeches." said the Ex-
ecutives' Club press agent to the
Star reporter. mo, srl Mr..
Mundt talks out of his head!''
els there anyone in the house
who wants to question the state
ment that Rep. Mundt talks out
of his head?)
And so Rep. Karl E. Mundt
R., So. Dak) talked out of his
head for nigh onto one hour in
the Mural Room of the Morrison
Hotel last Friday afternoon, tell
ing his fellow Big-Big- Business
men of the Executives Club of
Chicago that-the Big Bad Wolf
will get 'em, if they don't watch
out
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
WHAT COP CONGRESSMAN CARES
WHAT'S in ALAW?

Washington June 2For the edifaon prospective
viewing the with
is taken straight from the Congressional
THE President
the
1.-THE bill (S2225
Union Act to the Federal Security
"The present
sderation of the
Senator Wherry Mr. President the
the distinguished
member Committee
bill reported give explanation of the
Senator President familiar with
Senator Wherry of Committee
Banking Currency give the
PLANTATION of the bI?ApparentIy
committee
THE objection
consideration of the bill?
being objection (S2225)
third
PASSED"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
O'MAHONEY ATTACKS
DIVIDE. TRUSTS

Washington. = This week Senator
Joseph G. O'Mahoney, D, Wyo., at
tackled the worldwide oil trusts in a
telegram to the presidents of two gil
gantic American oil companies.
O'Mahoney charged that these COM
panies were robbing the American
people of Marshall plan money, and
they were buying oil in the Middle
East as though it were purchased in
the U. S. and transported by tanker
to the Mediterranean.
This payment" said O'Mahoney,
"of phantom freight from Texas on
oil produced in the Middle East adds
about 1000 to the price which the
American people must pay for the oil
bought by the Economic Cooperation
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13

Washington. The critical power
shortage in several states is seriously
hampering farm electrification pro-
grams, REA officials announced in
July according to an Associated Press
release.
These officials said REA expansion
is either slowing down or being
stopped entirely in portions of North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Wyoming and Montana.
They added:
cat the present time number of
loan applications cannot be approved
until an adequate source of power is
found for the borrowers.
"These applications include three
from Wyoming, three from Nebraska,
three in western Kansas and five or
six in the Dakotas."
REA said no real relief from the
cramped power situation is looked for
until new blocks of current become
available from projects being built by
army engineers or the bureau of rec
lamation.
REA in For Long Continued
Showdown
In the Dakotas and Nebraska, de-
pendence on projects like Fort Ran
dali, S. D., and Garrison, N. D.-not
slated for completion until 1851 or
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
Lack OF POWER HAMPERS REA !.

|1952-means long continued slow
down in REA efforts.
They cited figures to illustrate how
tight the supply of power is in the
plains region. In the first 10 months
Of the fiscal year ended July 1, the
seven enumerated states showed a 10
percent increase over the previous
full fiscal year in the amount of power
purchased and generated. The ma
tional gain was IS percent
Power Supply Tight in
Midwest
By states, the increases were:
North Dakota, 81 percent; South Da-
kota, 60 percent; Nebraska, 10 per-
cent; Oklahoma, percent; Wyoming,
s percent and Montana II percent.
The great jump in power consump-
ton is shown by other data.
In December, 1941, the average U.
S. farm consumption of electricity was
81 kiIowatt hours month. 1t had
scared to 116 kiIowatt hours by De-
cember, 1947.
In the seven listed plains states,
the change from 1941 to 1947 was:
North Dakota, from 81 to 1877 ki1owatt
hours a month; South Dakota, from
65 to III; Nebraska, from 68 to 1852;
from 60 to 100; Oklahoma,
from 81 to 81; Wyoming, from 78 to
1853, and Montana, from rs to 165.-
Great Falls Tribune
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
ECTON e. D'EWART FOR
SLASHES

To the oil men it gave the Tidelands
oil fields with its fabulous wealth;
to the lumber, sugar, wool, dairy,
farm, and other selfish interest lob
bies. it gave special consideration, and
to big business in general, always
economy-minded'' it slashed appro-
prlatlons for the Labor department.
school lunch programs, soil conserva-
ton, rural identification, land recla-
nation, and the sundry other pro-
public items which comprise decent
and democratic government
One of the shoddiest records was
compiled in the field of social legis-
latlOn. Here the Congress did
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13

nothing. 1t either killed in commit
tee or rejected on the floor legisla-
ton to increase minimum wages from
the present 40c an hour to 75c; and
all anti-lynch, antipoll tax and anti
bias bills. The much talked-of Taft
Ellender-Wagner housing bill which
would have provided long-range
program of housing, with government
aid for slum clearance projects, was
bottled up in the rules committee.
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13

But the game of tit-tat-tOe with Initiation
is continuing. A lot of lip service from the
congress will be forthcoming, but lip service
won't stop inflationary profiteering. The
American people have right to expect
ton from it's congress. Voluntary methods
have utterly failed. For two years we have
witnessed frantic appeals by the administra-
ton for restraint on the part of the public.
Mr.. Taft has flatly told the public to EAT
LESS! These appeals are about as effective
as Hoover's appeals in the early 1905 for
increased employment. Each appeal has
been met with cold rebuff and business has
arrogantly raised prices in the face of the
Presidents appeals.
Members of the congress have warned
against the dangers of "totalitarian dictator
ship, but does it ever occur to them, as they
seek to black-out freedom of thought in this
country, via newspapers, magazines, radio
and textbooks, that their action, or inaction,
on price controls has all the effects on the
American people of dictatorship? Example:
If dictator came along and confiscated
your savings, cut your standard of living In
half, took away your and your camera,
yanked out your telephone and radio, al
lowed you meat three times week, denied
your wife an operation and medical care,
you would rear up and fight back. Raising
prices has done this and more to you and
your Iamiy.
Republican high prices are costing you
hundreds of dollars each year.-But-let's
get back to what congress will do in special
session to carry out the pledges made in their
1913 platforms, particularly high prices:
Dewey tells congress to stay in session two
weeks and
/. Give token consideration to bills as a
matter of ballot box expediency;
2. Introduce the controversial civil rights
bill and make a deal with the Dixiecrats to
filibuster that gislation-until the COP ma
jority can move for adjournment, on a plea
that they are unable to break the filibuster;
3. Make more promises more flowerly
radio speeches-and contend to high heaven
that the 8Oth Congress is powerless to slow
down initiation.
In other words-the PUBLIC BE DAMN
ED-sacred profits must in no way be cur
tailed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
ECTON G D'EWART PAWNS
OF POWER LOBBY

To the power lobby, it scuttled most
flood control measures = at the ex-
pense of lives and land at places like
Vanport, Ore, slashed appropriations
for reclamation and power projects,
and attempted to fleece every user of
gas by exempting the natural gas in
dustry from regulation by the Federal
Power Commission. To Wall Street
it gave huge income tax reduction,
placing men who earn $4,000 annually
on the same level as those earning
$500 a year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-13
BIG BUSINESS Groups PLUNDERINC
AIDED BY 80TH CONGRESS

the air-lanes to tell the American
people how they are being gypped and
robbed, how their government has be-
come a servile tool in the hands of a
powerful and privileged few, and how
the welfare of the many has been
subordinated to the greed of the pow
erful few" it said.
The record of the laws passed, the
bills passed over, and the efforts to
sap the nations wealth and resources
speaks for itself.