Union Boss Hoffa Takes Stand j
Before Senate Rackets Probers;
WASHINGTON, W)—James R.
Hoffa acknowledged yesterday he
once returned more than $7,500
to some grocers after he had been j
charged with extortion.
But Hoffa protested to the Sen
ate Rackets Investigating Com
mittee that the charge had been
reduced to a misdemeanor, and
contended the matter was being
put in an unfair light in its pre
sentation at the committee’s hear
ings.
Hoffa, 44, was brought to the
stand as the culmination of three
weeks of hearings into charges
that he placed racketeers in key
New York teamster union posts
to capture union political control
of the area for himself.
But Committee Counsel Robert
F.( Kennedy asked how many
Lake Erie Swimmer
Has Further Goals
SANDUSKY, Ohio, OP)—Dr.
Harry Briggs Jr., 36-year-old
Alaskan, thinks now he might
tackle Massachusetts Bay after
making the first successful swim
across Lake Erie.
Still tired after a good night’s
sleep, Briggs told reporters he
would like to try the “route of the
Mayflower” across Massachusetts
Bay or might try swimming Lake
Erie in the opposite direction.
He swam Erie in hours and i
55 minutes over the weekend,
coming out of the water at Point i
Pelee, Ont., Canada, at 7:45 p.m.
Monday night. He had started
from Port Clinton, Ohio, with an
escort of marines and Navy men
cheering him on.
On two previous attempts to
swim the lake, Briggs, a history
professor at the University of
Alaska, had tried the north-to
south route and failed.
But he said yesterday after
crossing^ from south to north he
thinks the north-south route is
easier.
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times Hoffa had been arrested.
“I don’t know, Bob,” Hoffa
said. “I think it was about 17
times I was picked up. In many
instances the charges were dis
missed but in three of these cases
there were convictions.”
Hoffa, now the odds-on man to
succeed Dave Beck as president
of the nation’s biggest union, told
the senators when he took the
witness chair that he was reserv
ing the right to refuse to answer
any questions he regarded a out
side the scope of their investiga
tion.
Hoffa said most of his 17 ar
rests were during his earlier labor
days. It was brought out that
around 1940 Hoffa had been
charged with assault and battery
in a picket line scuffle and with
conspiracy with some waste
paper companies to violate the
antitrust laws.
Earlier this year Hoffa was ar
rested on a charge of seeking to
plant a spy on the staff of the
Senate committee. A jury acquit
ted Hoffa of this accusation in
which the formal charge was bri- I
bery-conspiracy.
Hoffa said he has no idea of J
forming a single nationwide union j
of transportation workers.
Sayiqg he favors a loose-knit
advisory, group of present separ
ate unions, the midwest boss of
the Teamsters Union told the •
committee he was recently mis-1
quoted about his ideas on Mie I
subject.
The matter was brought up by
Sen. Ives (R-NY), who said he
was “bothered no end” by the I
idea that Hoffa was fostering a I
single nationwide union of all I
truck, air, rail and dock employes.!
“A strike by such a group could j
paralyze the nation,” Ives said, j
Hoffa said he had no such idea. |
Anyway, he added, the human j
element would serve to prevent j
the separate unions from such j
collaboration.
SUMMER SCHEDULE
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MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY
NOME - KOTJZEBUE - NOME
Leave Nome 12:30 p.m. Arrive Kotzebue 1:45 p.m.
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TUESDAY and FRIDAY
NOME - DEERING - CANDLE - KOTZEBUE
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Leave Kotzebue 11:00 a.m. Arrive Nome 1:00 p.m.
Phone Main 46 J. R. (Dick) Miller, Station Manager
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U.S. Ratifies
Four-Nation
Seal Convention
(Washington News Letter!
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett.
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
The Senate recently ratified a
convention agreed to by the U.S.,
Japan, Canada and Russia relat
ing to the hunting of seals on the
open seas and establishing a joint
research program to permit the
parties to reach a permanent
agreement.
The program, which would be
effective for six years, includes
the establishment of a commis
sion comprised of one member
from each country under whose
jurisdiction research would be
undertaken. The interim conven
tion obligates each party to pro
hibit pelagic sealing in the Pacific
Ocean north of the 30th parallel
of north latitude by any person
or vessels under its jurisdiction,
except for the specifically defined
purposes of research provided in
the convention.
In 1911 the four countries en
tered . into an agreement for the
conservation of. fur seals which
was ended in 194-1 by Japan.
Prior to then, Japan and Can
ada received 15 percent each of
the gross take of. the seal indus
try on the Pribilof Islands, with
the United States retaining 80
percent.
Under the new convention,
Canada and Japan will each re
ceive 15 percent. The seal take by
the Russians on its Commander
Islands and Robben Island will be
divided, with Japan receiving 15
percent, Canada 15 percent, and I
Russia retaining 70 percent.
DON’T FORGET THE ARCTIC I
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SEPTEMBER 14
[IT’S TIME
TO START PLANNING
THAT WINTER WARDROBE
*- -PRESENTING
. A Lovely Group of
Informal Dresses
FOR THE NOME HOSTESS or TEEN-AGER
Back-to-School Dresses,
Sweaters and Skirts
Drip-Dry Dacron Uniforms
in Interesting New Patterns
AND — A wonderful selection of new
Materials for the Do-It-Yourself Department
in washable Pamplona and Maragua, washable
and drip-dry, that look and feel like wool.
Also Superla—a Beautiful Fabric
for Party Clothes and Other Things, Too
Boy. Steven Richard, Born To
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Palmquist
A boy, named Steven Richard,
was born this morning at the
MMM Hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Palmquist. Steven weighed
9 pounds, 9 ounces at birth. The
father, Paster Palmquist, is with
the Nome Gospel Home.
SALES TAX NOTICE
Delinquent Sales Taxes will be
brought before the City Council
on Monday, Aug. 25. for addition
of 25% penalty.
Robert F. Scott,
101 City Clerk
There are about 2,000 beef and
3,300 dairy animals in Alaska.
COME TO THE
German Dinner
(SAUERBRATEN)
SERVED FAMILY STYLE
at the
NORTH STAR DINING ROOM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 6 to 10 p.m.
Call Main 160 — For Reservations