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Union Dispute At
Seattle Threatens
Complete Tie-Up
SEATTLE, (/P)—A jurisdiction
al dispute over hiring of dock
foremen, which has crippled the
Seattle waterfront since Nov. 16.
threatened today to bring a com
plete shipping tie-up at this stra
tegic port. There was a hope for
some special arrangement for
emergency shipping to Alaska.
Maxie Weisbarth, spokesman
* for the AFL Maritime Trades De
partment Committee, said plans
were being drawn to turn away
all commercial ships from Seattle.
He hinted the tie - up might
spread later to military piers.
Weisbarth said a complete par
alysis of the waterfront would ;
have a “terrible” effect on Alas- ;
ka’s waterborne lifeline, but a ;
formula might be worked outj
which would permit some ship-1
ping to the northern territory.
The union leader described the
dispute as an “all out fight to
< whip Communism on the Seattle
waterfront.”
The remark brought an immed
iate denial from Charles Peabody,
president of the newly-formed
Independent Ship and Dock Fore
men’s Union, that any subversive
influences were behind his
group’s decision to break away
from the AFL.
Creation of the independent
union here by 98 dock foremen
is the crux of the trouble. The
* AFL has insisted that waterfront
employers hire foremen through
the AFL Longshore Union, and
has described the withdrawal of
the foremen as a move inspired
by Harry Bridges’ International
Longeshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union.
' Two ships are scheduled to sail
for Alaska tomorrow with emer
. gency supplies. The union agreed
last week to release them.
Parole Board Denies
Application by Alger Hiss
WASHINGTON, _ (JP) — Alger
Hiss today was denied a parole.
The U.S. Parole Board announ
ced it had turned down the ap
plication of the former State De
partment official, now serving a
five-year term for perjury.
Dr. George G. Killinger, board
chairman who conducted a hear
ing on the Hiss petition at Lewis
burg (Pa.) Penitentiary about 10
days ago, made this statement:
“In the matter of the applica
tion of parole for Alger Hiss, the
Board of Parole, after a careful
t consideration of the official re
cord, unanimously voted to deny
the application.”
The board is composed of five
members. It acted on the basis
of a report submitted by Killin
ger after his visit to Lewisburg.
Suit Demands Neil
Moore be Removed
As Alaska Auditor
ANCHORAGE, (&) — Suit has
been filed in Third District Fed
eral Court demanding that Neil
Moore be removed as Alaska
Auditor on grounds there is no
such elective position.
The action apparently was
brought to test the legality of the
Territory’s Reorganization Act,
which was passed in the waning
hours of the 1951 Legislature.
The Act took the posts of Alas
ka Auditor, Treasurer and Attor
ney General out of the category
and provided that they be filled
by the Legislature. But in the
final rush of business, the, legis
lators failed to make the neces
sary appointments.
Shortly after the 1951 Legisla
lature adjourned, Atty. Gen. Ger
ald Williams ruled that the act
was illegal.
The suit against Moore was
brought this week by Horace
Pugh, Anchorage laborer, through
his attorney, Roger Cremo.
Moore, who was elected auditor
at the recent territorial election,
commented afterward that “This
is going to be fun.”
“Apparently 23,000 people who
voted either for me or for my
opponent at the last election
thought the auditor was an elec
tive office,” he added.
Moscow Radio Denounces
American Comic Books As
“Crime Against Mankind’'
LONDON, (jT*) — Moscow radio
accused the United States Mon
day of using a dangerous weapon
in Western Europe — American
comics.
Charging the Americans with
atrocities in Korea through nap
alm bombs and bacteriological
weapons, the Soviet mouthpiece
went on to denounce the comics
as “yet another crime against
mankind.”
Moscow said the Americans
were “flooding Western Europe
with, ideological and moral poison
in an attempt to corrupt the
younger generation in France,
Britain and other countries to'
prepare them as cannon fodder.”
New Military Government
BAGDAD, Iraq, (JP) — A tough
new military-headed government
today dissolved all political par
ties, closed 12 newspapers and
prohibited demonstrations in the
wake of week - end rioting in
which at lease 11 persons were be
lieved killed and 58 wounded.
Frenzied mobs looted and set
fire to the Office of the U.S.
Information Service yesterday,
stoned the British Embassy and
attacked two police stations. Army
troops rolled into the capital to
restore a semblance of order last
night after rioters had driven po
lice off the streets.
St, Louis Business
Man Turns Bandit,
Killed in Holdup
ST. LOUIS, (/py—While police
sought to learn what turned a
respected businessman into a
bandit, a guard who killed him
before being overcome by gas
in an attempted armored money
truck robbery, died Monday.
Thomas F. Doerflinger, the 24
year - old guard, suffered fatal
ammonia burns of the face and
lungs during the daring daylight
robbery attempt on a busy street
Friday. He died in in City Hos
pital at 4 a.m.
The amateur holdup man, later
identified as Jacob R. Katz, head
of an ice cream store chain, sent
| a searing stream of gas from a
| crude home-made bomb through
, an opening into the truck’s locked
I money compartment where Doer
! flinger was on duty alone.
Although blinded, the guard
drew his pistol and fired five
shots back through the aperture
in the rear of the truck cab,
killing Katz.
The 45-year-old Katz, a regular
church member and father of
three children, owned a spacious
home in suburban University City.
He was president of the Reed Ice
Cream Stores.
The question of what caused
him to attempt the robbery baf
fled police.
Joint Committee Credits
Price Controls With
Stopping Inflation
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A Senate
House committee said Monday
price controls had been a “major
factor” in stopping “hectic price
rises” after the outbreak of war
in Korea.
The joint congressional com
mittee on defense production, in
a report surveying price trends of
the past two and one-half years,
credited governmental action with
a major role in halting “rampant”
inflation.
It cited evidence, however, to
show inflation still was a serious
problem to the nation’s consum
ers.
Price curbs are among the con
trols expiring next April 30. One
of the first tasks of the incoming
! Republican administration will be
to decide whether to keep or
junk these controls.
U.S. AIR DEFENSES WILL BE
MANNED DURING HOLIDAYS
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Air de
fense personnel will get Christ
mas leaves, but “our defensive
measures will not be weakened
in any way.”
Pentagon officials, in announc
ing this Friday, said all air de
fense units, including the 24-hour
“sky-watch,” will be manned con
tinuously throughout the holiday
season.
Directors of Union
Bank May * < ole to |
Sue Terri. Officials
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Stanley
McCutcheon, secretary and a di
rector of the Union Bank which
was closed Thursday by order of
the Territorial Banking Board,
said Saturday several banks have
expressed interest in purchasing
the institution.
McCutcheon said he could as
sure the bank’s 5,000 depositors it
will be reopened “in the very
near future.”
McCutcheon and Andrew Hass
man, president, were indicted on
seven counts of violation of terri
torial banking laws at the same
time the Banking Board was or
dering the Union Bank closed.
McCutcheon and Hassman both
posted $3,000 bond to gain their
release on the charges, all of
which arc misdemeanors.
“There is nothing in the in
dictment that claims the bank is
insolvent,” McCutcheon said.
“There is no charge that Andrew
Hassman or I, or anyone else,
stole anything. The indictments
charge only technical violations
of territorial banking laws.”
McCutcheon said the bank di
rectors are to meet to vote on a
proposal to sue two territorial
officials, Auditor Neil Moore and
Senator Mark Jensen, as a result
of the bank closure.
Engineers Predict Volume
Of Air Cargo Traffic
Will Be Double By 1954
BURBANK, Calif., (JP) — Air
planes will be carrying more
cargo than passengers by 1959,
two cargo engineers for Lockheed
Aircraft Corp., said Monday. >
The engineers, L. R. Hackney
and Charles L. Rausch, have com
pleted an exhaustive 18 - month
study of air cargo trends made
for Lockheed.
They predicted that the volume
of air cargo would be doubled by
1954, and that by 1960 it would
total 1V£ billion ton-miles an
nually, five times the 1952 total.
The 1960 figure would be the
equivalent of the movement of
four loaded freight trains of 47
cars each, from New York to Los
Angeles, each work day for a
year, they said.
Pilot of Missing Globemaster
Was World War II Veteran
PORTLAND, Me., (JP) — Capt.
Alger M. Cheney, first pilot
aboard the huge C-124 Globe
master which disappeared over
the Gulf of Alaska, is a native
of Lubec who served as a bomber
pilot with the Eighth Air Force
in World War II.
Cheney, 32, paticipated in more
than 50 missions over Germany
and Occupied France. He was sta
tioned at Pearl Harbor during
the Japanese attack.
€-124 Globemaster
With 52 Men Lost
Over Alaska Gulf
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A faint
radio signal was the only ten
uous clue today to the fate of
52 men aboard a giant C - 124
Globemaster which vanished Sat
urday night over the Gulf of
Alaska.
Twenty-four search planes
were poised here, ready to fan
out when weather permits over
the 150 miles to tiny Middleton
Island which monitored the four
engined transport’s last message.
The 41 Army and Air Force
passengers and 11 crewmen were
listed officially yesterday as miss
ing in the continuing plague of
U.S. military air disasters thru
out the world.
The weak radio signal, which
could have come from emergency
equipment carried by the Globe
master, was picked up Sunday
by the CAA station at Yakataga,
on the Alaska coastline about 150
miles east of Middleton Island.
The SOS was so dim no bear
ing could be taken. But author
ities at Elmendorf Air Force Base
here said the signal on the Inter
national distress frequency of 500
kilocycles might have come from
“Gibson Girl” radio transmitters
attached to the C - 124’s rubber
liferafts.
They cautioned, however, ag
ainst undue optimism, pointing
out that the signal was not picked
up again and past experience in
Alaska aerial tragedies has shown
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U.S. and Britaiii Split
Over Compromise Plan
| To End POW Deadlock
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JP)—
j The most serious diplomatic rift
j between Britain and the U.S. in
! years continued unabated today
j despite efforts by India and other
| countries to close the breach.
The two great allies split far
apart when the U.S. notified Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden it could not accept a Brit
ish - backed Indian compromise
plan for ending the Korean pri
soner of war deadlock unless the
proposal was substantially
amended.
Britain feels the proposals
should be given a chance as they
stand, but the U.S. wants all de
tails spelled out.
India came up quickly with
modifications but these apparent
ly did not satisfy the U.S.
The 21 powers which backed an
original American resolution held
an urgent closed meeting last
night at which U.S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson detailed the
American objections to the Indian
proposals. The 21 apparently fail
ed to find a position which would
please both Britain and the U.S.
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