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VOL, LVII No. 69, NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1955 Per Copy—15*
U.S. and Japan
Agree To Swap
Tariff Concessions
WASHINGTON, — The
United States has agreed to swap
tariff concessions with Japan so
the Japanese won’t become de
pendent on Red China for trade.
Acting under President Eisen
hower’s tariff cutting authority,
the government has decided to re
duce duties on 131 million dollars
worth of Japanese goods, ranging
from Christmas tree bulbs to
tuna, crabmeat and swordfish.
At the same time, the Eisen
hower administration also agreed
to cut tariffs on some 48 million
dollars worth of machinery, raw
materials and equipment from 16
other countries, partly to encour
age them to lower duties on
Japanese goods.
In return, Japan agreed to re
duce its tariff duties on nearly
50 per cent of the goods it im
ports from the United States—
affecting some 397 million dol
lars annually in American exports.
The Japanese-American agree
ment, signed at Geneva after
nearly four months of negotia
tion, was the first ever concluded
with Japan under the 1934 re
ciprocal trade law.
The State Dept., in announcing
it, termed it a “notable achieve
ment in the President’s foreign
economic program.”
“By offering Japan expanded
trade opportunities,” it said, “the
Japanese people will have a con
crete basis for continuing their
alignment with the free world,
thus lessening the danger of en
forced Japanese dependence on
Communist dominated areas of
the mainland of Asia.” (
State Dept., spokesmen, aware
of domestic fears of competition
from cheap Japanese goods, said
the tariff cuts would not imperil
vital American industries or
create unfair competition.
Steelworkers Union Seeks
Sizeable Pay Increases
PITTSBURGH, (At—CIO United
Steelworkers bargainers, seeking
a “sizeable” wage increase, to
day opened talks with the last of
six major basic steel producers.
Negotiators for Inland Steel
Corp. met with a union commit
tee in a closed session to hear
USW demands.
Meanwhile, Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corp., and Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co., resumed bar
gaining conference begun yester
day.
The 600,000 USW members in
the industry now earn an aver
age of $2.33 an hour. Observers
believe the union is asking as
much as 25 cents an hour in pay
hikes. They say it probably will
agree to a final settlement of
from 12 to 15 cents an hour.
RETURNED EXILE SHOT
HAVANA, Cuba, (At — Police
shot former secret police chief
Jorge Agostini to death in a gun
battle last night. Agostini, an as
sociate of deposed President Car
los Prio Socarras, had sneaked
back into the country from exile
under an assumed name.
Russia and Indian
Premiers Toast
‘All Peacemakers’
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, Ub—The premiers of
Russia and India toasted each
other as champions of peace last
night and chorused hopes the rest
of the world would follow in
their footsteps.
The exchange took place at a
Kremlin dinner honoring India’s
Prime Minister Nehru. Russia’s
top leaders were present.
Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul
ganin led off by voicing hope that
the joint efforts of India, Russia
and Red China could “ease the
tension” over Formosa.
“Everyone knows the leader
ship exercised by Mr. Nehru in
the cause of peace,” said Bul
ganin. “The government of the
Chinese People’s Republic to
gether with our own government
is taking all possible measures to
ease tension off the east coast of
China. This is in the region of
Taiwan (Formosa). Lately the
news has come to us of the repre
sentations made by the Indian
representative Krishna Menon.
Let us hope that our joint ef
forts ease the tensions.”
“I hope your hand stretched
out for peace will be held by
others,” Nehru responded. “Since
I came to your great country, I
have sensed the strong desire and
yearning of your people for peace.
My people echo that yearning as
do other people.”
Then Nehru and Bulganin
raised their glasses and toasted
“all peacemakers.”
U.S. Willing To Help
Austria To Re-Arm
WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary
of State Dulles says the United
States is willing to help Austria
rearm within the limits allowed
by its new independence treaty.
Austria aspires to neutrality in
central Europe. The treaty for
bids development of atomic wea
pons.
Dulles told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee if Austria
asks for military aid, as expect
ed, “we will give some assist
ance to Austria in equipping the
forces allowed by the treaty.”
The committee will vote soon
i on ratification of the treaty.
Seattle Swelters In
100-Degree Heat Wave
By the Associated Press
A West Coast heat wave sent
temperatures soaring yesterday.
Seattle’s 100 degrees equalled the
city’s all-time record. It and The
Dalles, Ore., tied for the highest
mark in the Pacific Northwest.
Some paved streets buckled in
the heat at normally cool Seattle.
Crowds swarmed to the lakes andi
beaches.
But even yesterday’s North
i west heat blast was cool com
pared to the Southwest, where
readings above 100 were the rule.
It got up to 118 at Needles, Calif.,
and even at midnight it remained
at 100.
Wet and cold weather continued
over most areas in the eastern
half of the country.
President Signs
Law Raising Pay
Of Postal Workers
WASHINGTON, U&— President
Eisenhower today signed into law
the bill raising salaries of the
500,000 postal workers an average
8 per cent—an increase of about
164 million dollars a year.
He called it the “greatest for
ward step for our postal employes
in more than a century.”
The bill was the third postal
pay hike measure sent to the
President in 10 months. He vetoed
the other two.
The bill gives all postal em
ployes a 6 per cent increase re
troactive to March 1. This will
mean distribution of a 40-million
dollar nest egg as soon as the
department can arrange the pay
ments.
The additional 2 per cent of
the increase comes about through
the reclassification features of the
measure. These will take effect
six months from now.
The reclassification will mean
much bigger increases than 8 per
cent for some supervisory em
ployes. The department contends
these have been slighted in sal
ary raises since World War II.
Canadian Mining Town
Threatened By Slides
FRANK, Alta., MV—'The remain
ing residents of a once-bustling
coal-mining town in southwest
ern Alberta waited in fear today
after Turtle Mountain renewed
its rumblings.
Smoke or dust issued from a
fissure on the moutain’s side since
early Wednesday and the normal
springtime rockfalls combined to
revive memories of the early
morning slide 52 years ago that
swept over homes, a mining plant
and railway siding killing at least
66 persons in the village at its
base.
Vern de Coux, a resident of
nearby Blairmore, said a boulder
that roared down the mountain’s
side Thursday was the largest in
memory since the 1903 slide.
“I looked at the mountain to
day through binoculars,” De Coux
said. “I wasn’t sure whether it
was dust or steam—and I’m not
going up to find out.”
Money In The Tank
KING’S MOUTAIN, N.C., 14V—
A motorist drove into a service
station here and asked that his
gasoline tank be taken off.
He said that every time he got
gas, he had been putting the
change in the tank. Lately his
car had been sputtering and he
said he thought it was time to
empty the “bank.”
Inside the tank was $25,95 in
half dollars, quarters, dimes,
nickels and pennies. He saved
only $21.45, however, because it
cost him $4.50 to have the tank
emptied and put back on.
JUSTICE DOUGLAS TO RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, W — Justice
William O. Douglas of the Su
preme Court leaves today on a
three - month trip that will in
clude six weeks in Soviet Russia.
More Than 20 Ships To Carry
50,000 Tons Of Dewline Radar
Materials North This Summer
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MS SQUARE KNOT
SAILED THURSDAY
FOR BERING SEA
SEATTLE, UP — For the first
time since September 23, an Al
aska Steamship Co. freighter left
Seattle yesterday for Nome.
The Motorship Square Knot
left with the first supplies to be
taken to Nome since last fall.Capt.
Arthur Howgate is master of the
Square Knot.
Two other Alaska Line sailings
for Nome are scheduled this year.
One ship is to leave July 15 and
another September 21.
Russia May Admit
Newsmen Invited
By Chief Khrushchev
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, OP —
The Soviet Union may be going
to make good on Communist
party chief Nikita Khrushchev’s
invitation for Western newsmen
to visit Moscow.
Staggering out of the farewell
banquet which concluded the
Soviet - Yugoslav talks here last
week, Khrushchev after five
hours of dining and toasting gave
a “come one, come all to Mos
cow” invitation to correspondents
clustered around the door.
The next day some 14 corres
pondents, many of them Ameri
cans, rushed to the Soviet Em
bassy to apply for entry visas.
The Soviet Embassy informed
Eric Bourne, a Briton, yesterday
that his request was the first to
be approved by Moscow. He is
a correspondent for the London
Daily Express and the Christian
Science Monitor.
General Motors Closes
20 Plants Due To Strike
Caused Parts Shortages
DETROIT, UP—General Motors
Corp., today closed 20 car as
sembly and body plants idling
60,000 workers because of strike
caused parts shortages.
National contract bargaining
between GM and the CIO United
Auto Workers continued, mean
while, with every indication that
the nation’s largest auto firm in
tended to make its bid during the
day to stave off a threatened
strike at midnight Sunday.
It was learned that GM had
made no offer to the union as
yet on whether it will go along
with the same contract deal that
the UAW negotiated last Monday
with the Ford Motor Co.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 7, Detroit 3
Boston 4, Cleveland 2
Kansas City 4, Washington 2
National League
Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 0
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 6, San Diego 4
Portland 6, Sacramento 0
San Francisco 4, Oakland 1
Hollywood 7, Los Angeles 0
SEATTLE, OR—Seattle’s water
front is humming with prepara
tions for the largest shipment for
any one project since World War
II. Some shipping men estimate
the cargoes, heading for the far
north, at 50,000 tons.
Electronic building materials,
valued in tens of millions of dol
lars, are destined for the Air
Force’s distant early warning
radar line now being built along
the Arctic rim of North America.
Portions of the Dewline will be
only 900 miles from the North
Pole.
The cargo will leave for the far
north in a fleet of ships, report
edly more than 20, sometime this
summer.
Many of these have been taken
out of storage by the United
States Maritime Commission.
Bows and hull plates are being
.strengthened so that ice floes can
be bucked in safety.
Eight hundred men are working
at the Port of Seattle’s Ames Ter
minal, processing huge stacks of
boxed and crated materials for
the Dewline.
The huge sea movement fol
lows an equally impressive airlift
this past winter in which dozens
of scheduled and non-scheduled
airline planes flew workmen and
materials north through Seattle,
Edmonton, and other points in
Canada.
This movement of men and
materials north on a vast scale
in the dead of winter, and start
of construction despite frigid
temperatures, blizzards and rug
ged locations, was unprecedented
in either military or civilian oper
ations in Arctic North America.
Western Electric Co., is the
prime contractor for the western
portion of the Dewline, the ma
terial for which is moving thru
Seattle.
Roman Catholic Bishop
Released By Chinese
After 5 Years Confinement
HONG KONG, UP\ — Roman
Catholic Bishop Frederick Don
aghy of New Bedford, Mass., ar
rived in Hong Kong today after
nearly five years confinement in
Red China.
His return leave only one Am
erican bishop in Red China. He
is the Most Rev. James Edward
Walsh of Cumberland, Md., who
is in Shanghai.
Bishop Donaghy, 52, arrived by
train from Wuchow, Kwangsi
province, wearing a plain white
shirt, shabby brown trousers and
black leather shoes.
About 50 nuns and priests
greeted him at the Kowloon bor
der station and took turns kneel
ing and kissing his ring.
He was arrested on Christmas
1950, and after five months im
prisonment placed under house
detention. He was tried three
days ago, convicted of subversive
activities and ordered expelled
from Red China.