Soviet move cuts consular ties over Kasenkina affair
Moscow says it will close Russian consulates in New York and San Francisco and a U S consulate in Vladivostok, voiding the agreement to open a com state in Leningrad after the expulsion of Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin. The Kasenkina case, involving a Russian school teacher in New York, sparked the diplomatic rupture.
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Kasenkina
Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
New York
United States
San Francisco
Vladivostok
Leningrad
Kasenkiha
U. S. State Department
Esetestonite
U. 8
Mikhail I. Samarin
Douglas narrow escape spurs joke on dissent
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas survived a tractor accident in Washington state when a truck carrying four horses slid on a canyon road. The upside down crash left the occupants unhurt and prompted Douglas to quip that the incident would be a “violent dissent” in legal terms.
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Wasmxoron
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Washington State
Giend
Cascade Mountains
Douglas
United States Accepts Russia Closure of Vladivostok Consulate
Secretary of State Marshall announced Washington accepts Moscow's order to close the American consulate in Vladivostok amid a dispute over runaway Russian teachers. He called the move regrettable but not very serious and noted related closures in New York and San Francisco.
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Edward E. Bombar
Washington
Marshall
United States
Russia
Vladivostok
Pacific
Marshall Moscow
J. Marshall
New York
San Francisco
Amtorg Trading Organization
Washingbeta
Truman Cancels Credentials of Soviet Consul General
President Truman revoked the credentials of Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin amid a White House plan to recall him for highly improper activities in the case of three refugee Soviet school teachers. The action was announced aboard the Williamsburg at Yorktown Virginia.
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Yorktown
Truman
Jacob Lomakin
Charles G. Ross
White House
Williamsburg
Navy
Here
Natonal Security Resources Board
Ross
Lomakin
New York
Washington
United States
Russia
Portland Alaska Ship Run Begins From Portland
The steamer Henry D. Lindsley, to begin direct Portland Alaska service, berthed in Portland yesterday. Manager H. H. Wrightson said departure would be delayed until next Monday due to outbound cargo. The vessel will sail to Seward and Whittier, after arriving from San Francisco. A second Alaska-bound ship is expected around Sept. 15 for cargo.
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Portland
Ore
Henry D. Lindsley
Alaska
H. H. Wrightson
Coastwise Line
Aaid
San Francisco
Seward and
Whittier
Territorial Municipal Employees Retirement Plans Discussed Here
A meeting in the Senate Chamber of the Federal Building addressed a retirement plan for territorial and municipal workers. Attendees included Ralph Rivers, James Ryan, and Henry Benson, with a draft bill to be prepared for the next Legislature. A study group and an interpretation team were formed to gather data and explain the plan to stakeholders.
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Senate
Federal
Ralph Rivers
Henry Benson
Department of Labor
James Ryan
Department of Education
Jack Popejoys
City of
Juneau
Nell Moore
Auditor
Arthur Sedge
Territorial Employment Service
Pauline Washington
Alaska Merit System
Edward Keithahn
Territorial Museum
Lois Jund
Department of Health
M. P. Mullaney
Department of Taxation
Burke Riley
Governor's Office
Ronald Stewart
Department of Mines
Catherine Mack
Alaska Development Board
Frances Regan
Dorothy Whitney
Emmett Botelho
Tom Stewart
Attorney General
al Daniels
Weather report for Juneau region and airport
Temperature data for 24 hours ending 7 30 this morning shows Juneau high 57 and low 3 percent at the airport. Forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Thursday with a low near 40 degrees. Precipitation figures indicate trace in Juneau and 0.06 inches at the airport since August 1, 2.93 inches since July 1.
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Weather Bureau
Juneau
Cold Air Penetrates Interior Alaska and Juneau
A mass of cold air moves southeast across Canada into Alaska interior after penetrating south of the Coastal Mountains. In Juneau the airport dropped to 27 degrees overnight, the Federal Building roof to 37, the coldest early August reading in town. The record August lows cited reach 56 degrees on Aug 28, 1904 and Aug 31, 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Canada
Federal
Ju~ Neau
Consumer strike lowers hog prices at stockyards
Consumer resistance at retail shops pulls pork-on-the-hoof prices down for a second day from weekly highs. Prices drop from 25 cents to one dollar per hundred pounds as hog markets ease. Lauren G. Duncan, an insurance man from Ketchikan, is staying at the Baranof Hotel in Juneau.
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Lauren G. Duncan
Ketchikan
Juneau
Baranof
Longshore labor action disrupts Pacific coast ports
Foremen stop work meetings spread along Pacific Coast waterfronts as unions prepare for a September 2 strike. Employers weigh negotiations over a hiring hall and union dispatcher amid Taft Hartley disputes. Harry Bridges met with employers to discuss Hawaii concerns while West Coast talks stall.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Supréme Court
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Hawai
TLWU
Coastwise Caucus
National Labor Relations Board
Sixteen Airmen Die As Fort Crash Ravages Okinawa Flight
Hickam Field Hawaii reports sixteen airmen killed when a Superfortress crashes near Barber's Point during a Far East hop. Four others burn seriously. two survivors were serious. The bomber struck a power substation and exploded after failing to clear the airport.
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Leif Erickson
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Barber's Point
98Th Bomber Group
Spokane
Wash
Tripler Army General Hospital
B8th
Okinawa
Russian Teacher Says She Jumped to Escape Not Suicide
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, a 42 year old Russian school teacher, told reporters in Roosevelt Hospital she leaped from a third floor window of the Russian consulate to escape and not to kill herself. She said she did not want to return to Russia and claimed Soviet officials coerced her remarks.
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Martin Bogart
New York
Oksana Rakensina
Roosevelt Hospital
Russia
Valley Cottage
N.Y
Hollands Return From Two Months Vacation Across States
After a two month automobile tour of the western states the Hollands sailed back aboard the Aleutian. They met their son Dale at Fort Ord and noted Dale’s transfer to Fort Riley. The trip included stops in Tia Juana Arizona Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park with a Hollywood visit to Don Harvey.
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B. Holland
Aleutian
Dale
Fort Ord
Calif
Fort Riley
Kansas
Hollands
Tia Juana
Mexico
Arizona
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone Park
Hollywood
Don Harvey
Hal Sheldon
Juneau
Screen Children’s Guild
Holland
Alaska Electric, iLight and Power Company
War dead from Alaska go south
The Seattle Port of Embarkation reports the Army transport Honda Knot has left Whittier Alaska with about 1400 bodies of military personnel and civilians killed or dying in Alaska during the war. The ship will reach Buka on Wednesday and then proceed to San Francisco.
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Seattle
Whittier
Alaska
Buka
San Francisco
Steamship sailings announced for Pacific Northwest lines
Princess Louise is set to sail from Vancouver tonight at 9. Alaska departs Seattle at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Baranet sails from Seattle Saturday, Princess Norah from Vancouver Saturday, George Washington from Seattle Tuesday, Prince George arrives Friday at 7:9 a.m. sailing south at 10 a.m. Aleutian plans a southbound departure on Monday.
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Princess Louise
Vancouver
Alaska
Seattle
Baranet
Princess Norah
George Washington
Prince George
Aleutian
Goldstein plans six to seven story building in Juneau
Charles Goldstein announces purchase of the Olds property on Front Street to erect a six or seven story private building, the largest in Juneau. The former Occidental Hotel site will house stores on the street level with upper floors for offices, aiming for occupancy in fall 1949. Goldstein says the project will attract mercial agencies and push Juneau’s development, with a new incorporation separate from his existing company and partial public investment.
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Juneau
Charles Goldstein
Olds
Front Street
Main and
Ward
Occidental
Goldstein
John Olds
Harry Olds
Ly~ du
Iato
Alaska
Perjury charges loom in Hiss Chambers spy hearing
Washington reports the House Un-American Activities Committee chair, J Parnell Thomas, says one witness will be tried for perjury as Hiss and chambers face off. Hiss admits knowing Chambers under the alias Crosley while Chambers accuses Hiss of Red underground links in the 1930s.
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Washington
P—Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Congressional
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
House Un-American Activities Committee
Thomas
Hix
State Department
Chambers
Time Magazine
Hiss
George Crosley
Red Underground
Crosley
Red Dean barred from entering United States
Canterbury's Red Dean Dr Hewlett Johnson says US authorities refused a visa after disapproving of the American Soviet Friendship Society that invited him. An official suggested he might be admitted if he came to work on his own. He said, I do not want to be seen as a split personality, and flies to Poland for a peace congress in Wroclaw.
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London
Canterbury
Red
United States
Russia
Hewlett Johnson
National Council of the
Chhurchman
Poland
Stock Quotations and Averages for Alaska Juneau Mine
New York August 25 closing quotes show Alaska Juneau Mine at 3 percent and major stocks including American Can 1 Anaconda 86 Curtin Wright 9 International Harvester 29 Kennecott 59 New York Central 17 Northern Pacific 22 U S Steel 66 and Pound 66.09 percent. Volume reported at 20,000 shares. Averages listed: Industrials 18241, Rails 61, Wellties 34.56.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American
Anaconda
Curtin- Wright
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
U. S
Balkan states and Russians denounce Tito amid tensions
Washington officials say Moscow and its Balkan allies broaden attacks on Marshal Tito. Italian and French communists join condemnation as Tito hosts the Danube conference in Belgrade and refuses compromise. CAB inspector J P Powell arrives in Juneau and checks in at Baranof Hotel.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Balkan
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Tito
Europe
Italy
France
Moscow
Belgrade
Commun Abm
Sere P J. Powell
Anchorage
Juneau
Pacific Norther Airlines
Baranof Hotel
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