Alaska Longshoremen Pay Rise Tied to Talks With Stalin
Reports from Moscow indicate Western envoys and the Soviet side have reached a general agreement in four hours of Kremlin talks with Prime Minister Stalin. U S Ambassador Bedell Smith expressed optimism about more meetings as negotiations continue. New ideas from Stalin offered hope for an East West Berlin settlement, with diplomats noting no loss of temper and a calm, cordial exchange through lengthy talks.
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Moscow
Russia
Kremlin
Stalin
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Sunltt
Yves Chatsigneau
Frank Roberts
Whitehall
London
Berlin
American Consulate Employee Kidnapped in Jerusalem
The U S Consul General protested to the Jewish Governor of Jerusalem after Stern Gang members kidnapped and mistreated George F Paro a 33 year old consulate clerk He was handcuffed blindfolded and slapped for seven hours then held nine more hours by Israeli military police before release
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Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
U.S
John J. Mace Donald
George F. Paro
Palestine
Paro
Granville
MacDonald
Budget for UN is handed in by Lie
Secretary General Trygve Lie asked for 33,469,587 dollars to operate the United Nations in 1949. The figure is about a million dollars under the 1948 budget and compares with annual expenditures of several states. The proposal goes to the 58 nation General Assembly in Paris for approval. A budget committee report suggests further cuts of about 1.5 million may follow. The United States pays the largest share, about 39 percent, under the funding scale.
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Lake Success
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Anigoda
Idaho
Rhode Island
Vermont
Lie
General Assembly
Paris
U. N
Assembly
United States
Elections postponed in German and Russian zones
Sokolovsky announced that Germans in the Russian Zone will be barred from elections this fall. Voting is postponed for a year, marking the first such delay by one of the occupying powers. Protests came from Christian Democrats and liberal Democrats while police hunt suspects for vandalism in the Russian sector.
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Edwin Shanke Berlan
Marshall Vassily
Sokolovsky
Christian Democrats
Liberal Democrats
Walter
Aut Cermaan
Christian Democratic Union
Beulah Overell Engaged to Los Angeles Policeman
Beulah Louise Overell, 19, heiress, will wed Los Angeles policeman Robert Cannon, 28, a former Air Force gunnery instructor and radio patrolman. The couple, who spoke of their engagement after Cannon proposed last Friday, plan marriage next May or June.
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Los Angeles
Beulsh Louise Overall
Miss Overall
Robert Cannon
Air Force
Overell
Bob
U S and Britain plan airlift to Berlin winter supply
The Washington Merry Go Round reports a hidden ace in the Berlin battle. Allied zones will be amply supplied by airlift all winter with fuel and food, aiming for at least 4,500 tons daily by October 1. The plan allocates 3,300 tons to the U S and 1,200 tons to Britain, with planes and ground support readied regardless of weather.
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Wigamorck
U.S
Berlin
U. S
Berlin air clash kills four supply pilots in blockade
Two American C-41 planes delivering to Berlin collided near Ravothhausen Germany while returning to Wiesbaden from the besieged city. Four pilots died and bodies were hard to recover as flames blocked access. Prior accidents had claimed five more. Names withheld.
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Ravotzhausen
Germany
Berlin
U.S
Frankfurt
Wiesbaden
Vancouver Bank Robbery Shocks City in Broad Way Branch
Police hunt three men who robbed the Broadway branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver B C yesterday. Estimated loot around seven thousand dollars. A truck driver identified three pictures from police files as suspects. Over three hundred dollars was found near the bank. Clerks say two men pistol whipped employees and customers while a third emptied tellers cages into a shopping bag before fleeing in a maroon car.
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Vancouver
B. C
Broadway
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Martin Linger
Lingor
Two Army Fliers Die in Randolph Base Crash North of City
Two Army fliers were killed yesterday when a Randolph Air Force base training plane crashed one mile north of the city. W A Carlson of Helena Montana is visiting Juneau and staying at the Burinot Hotel.
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San Antonio
Tex
Randolph Air Force Base
Montana
W. A. Carlson
Helena
Juneau
Burinot Hotel
Truman Starts Work On Campaign Speeches At Sea
President Truman and White House staff set sail aboard the USS Williamsburg off Cape Henlopen Delaware heading toward Cape Charles Virginia. He began notes for Labor Day speeches in Detroit and four Michigan cities urging repeal of the Taft Hartley Act and urging defeat of Republican leaders who opposed price control and anti inflation measures.
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Truman
White House
Atlantic
Sabor
Cape Men
Lopen
Delaware
Cape Charles
Virginia
Detroit
Michigan
Cadillac Square
Election in Three States In Progress
Three states South Carolina Mississippi and New York held primaries with congressional and state posts at stake. In South Carolina the Democratic runoff set contests where no candidate won a majority. Mississippi and New York expected light turnout with several unopposed congressmen. Rankin faced rivals in Mississippi's first district race as veterans battle for another term amid regional political tensions.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
Mississippi
New York
Isights
Congress
John E. Rankin
Rankin
Murray on hike to civilization located by RCAF
A 60 year old Washington DC man who flew from Edmonton in search of isolation returned on horseback after 16 days. His twin engined Cessna vanished August 7 en route to Grande Prairie for a trek toward Fairbanks Alaska. Police found him near Grande Prairie 75 miles away off his course and uninjured. The missing plane stocked with supplies remains unrecovered as the RCAF continues the search.
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Edmonton
Alta
Washington, D. C
Civilization
W. G. Murray
RCAF
Grande Prairie
Here
Fairbanks
Alaska
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Murray
Lowley Nose Creek
Inflation Rumblings Across World Market After War
New York reports world inflation shifting toward peacetime norms as currencies and commodities adjust. US farm prices fall influencing distant markets while US industrial prices rise, with a 248.0 billion dollar annual production surge noted by the Commerce Department. The trend is ongoing and risks strains as nations realign economies.
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New York
United States
Chicago
United Bhavana
Department of Commerce
Hiss-Chambers Controversy Returns To Committee Hearings
Ex Communist Louis Budenz testified before the House Un American Activities Committee on the Hiss Chambers case. Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of leading a Communist underground within federal service. Hiss denied any Communist ties and both men prepared to face each other at tomorrow’s public hearing. Nixon praised Budenz’s testimony for advancing the inquiry.
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Louis Bucenz
House UN- American Activities Committee
Communist
Daily Worker
Seaction
Hiss-Chambers
Thene
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Chambers
Budenz
House Committee
Richard Nixon
California
Committee
Stock Quotations New York August 24 Closing
Closing quotations for Alaska Juneau, American Can, Anaconda, Curtiss Wright, International Harvester, Kennecott, New York Central, Northern Pacific, U S Steel, and Pound listed. Sales totaled 620,000 shares. Averages show Industrials 18258, Amex 60.90, All 34.06.
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New York
Alaska
Rebuilding of Salmon Run Under Dr Thompson in Alaska
Dr W F Thompson of the University of Washington leads three field parties this summer in Bristol Bay Southeast Alaska and Prince Island area to study and restore depleted salmon runs. The Alaska projects involve tagging operations, scientific data collection, and industry cooperation to map migration and escapement, with results to inform winter studies at the university.
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Alaska
W. F. ‘Thompson
University of Washington
Fisheries Research Institute
Bristol Bay
Area Island
Thompson
Juneau
Inter- Hattoral = Fisheries Commission
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission
Dr Thompsan
Fraser River
Hell's Gate
The
Chool
Fishettes
Board of Regents
al~ Taska
1 .Thompson
Sven Somme
Southeast Alaska
Leon Verhoeven
Icy Straits
Upper Chatham
Upper Behin Canal
Simon Run
Mente
Jthe Fisheries Dasticute
Wale
Beare
Simmer
University
Cost of living peaks as GM workers gain raise
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a record cost of living index on July 16, driving a wage increase for about 228,000 General Motors workers by three cents or more per hour. The index reaches 173.7 percent of the 1935-39 average, 9.7 percent higher than last year and 30.3 percent above June 1946, with the total rise linked to the contract.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Motors Corporation
Labor Department
General Motors
BLS
Sitka Pulp Meetings Planned With Forest Service Officials
Alaska Industrial Corporation officials in Juneau last evening en route to Sitka to inspect the pulp site. A series of meetings with Forest Service leaders, including Heintzleman, are slated in Ketchikan and Sitka with on the ground references and future bidding plans for the Sitka pulp area. Representatives Paul J. Timblent, Roy Johnson, and Charles Semal, from New York and Belgium, accompany the delegation.
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Alaska Industrial Corporation
Juneau
George Washington
Sitka
BFP
Heintzleman
Ketchikath
Forest Service
Alea
Amber
Bitka
Paul J.timballent
New York
Initerest
Roy Johnson
Charles Semal
Belgium
Steamers Move in Coast Toll to Alaska and Seattle
Freighter Square Linnet, from Seattle, due at 3 30 this afternoon. Prince George, from Vancouver, due at 7 tonight, leaving at 11 a m. Aleuthia, from Seattle, due 8 30 tonight. Princess Louise to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Alaska to sail from Seattle Thursday. Baranof to sail from Beatle Saturday. Princess Norah to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Elizabeth Stack and Lila M Neurenfeldt arrive from Dearborn on PNA via The Burana.
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Elizabeth Stack
Detroit
Lila M. Neurenfeldt
Dearborn, Mich
PNA
Ane
Ave
Burana
Longshore Contract Set Between Unions and Three Alaska Firms
Five parties reach a two year pact in Seattle to raise Alaska longshore wages by 16 of base pay plus a 10 cent differential and a 1 hour overtime premium. The agreement covers Alaska Steamship Alaska Transportation and Northland Transportation with Local 146 ratifying the deal to head off a strike and keep cargo moving.
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Seattle
Alaska
Union A
Willand Gettings
International
Longahoremen and Warehousemen’s Union
Edward G. Dobrin
Cellings
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska ‘Transportation Company
Northited ‘Transportation Company
Gettiias
Bringig
Dobrin
Aluka
Dobrits
Lyter
Lapgshoreenen’s Association
APL
Gertings
Airjonik Juneau
Coast longshoremen widen strike talk across West Coast
In San Francisco on August 24 thousands of West Coast longshoremen stepped up strike rhetoric. Members from coastal ports meet to vote on a wage increase and boycott the National Labor Relations Board process while reports say they will report recommendations to reject the proposed wage raise.
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San Prancisco
West Coast
CIO
Cabeta
National Libor Relations Board
Elrcitor Ot
Emwlayer
NLRB
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Mel Eyndicate, Inc
Ditor
Drew Pearson
Robert S. Allen
Edward V. Reb
Inississippi
Wembley
Itv Clyiization
By Rader Winget
Hiss - Chambers
Louis Buchenz
Salmon Run
International Fisheries Commission
North Pacific
Forest Service Plan
Tousands
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