Agents in Congress Spar Over Manpower and Wages
December 3 report outlines administration plans for price wage controls and extended decontrol to key sectors while CIO announces a third wage round, risking delay in cooling inflation. Taft and other Republicans pledge swift opposition though some Democrats expect faster action. Farley Bunting pushes productivity and foreign relief, warning against a police state and urging restraint on wage demands. The NAM gathers 3,000 industrialists at the Waldorf Astoria for a three day congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
CIO
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Capitol Hill
Philip Murray
Murray
America
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress of American Industry
Waldof Astoria
Foreign Legion for U S Army Is Plea Made
U S Senator Brewster urged immediate training of volunteer forces as a special segment of the regular army for United Nations Security Council duty in Palestine. He said strong Congress sentiment supports a foreign legion to act in the Middle East, with Russia likely to respond if Jews request aid and the council is unready. The Jewish War Veterans offered to direct recruitment for Palestine duty. Hillard F. Everson of U S Customs at Sitka is staying at the Baranof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Maine
United States
United Nations Security Council
Palestine
U. S
Brewster R.me
Brewster
Congress
Foreign Legion
Middle East
Russia
Security Council
Hollywood Fires 2 Writers in Communist Probe
Hollywood studios dismiss Dalton Trumbo and Lester Cole for contempt of Congress as unions prepare to address the Communist issue at a conference. Ten cited editors and others, including Adrian Scott Edward Dmytryk Ring Lardner Jr., had already been dismissed with five freelancers remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Dec
Dalton Trumbo
Lesten Cole
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Congress
House UN- American Activies
Adrian Scott
Edward Dmytryk
R-K-O
Ring Lardner, Jr
Twentieth Century-Fox
Albert Maltz
Samuel Ornitz
John Howard Lawson
Alvah Bessie
Herbert Biberman
Eric Johnson
Motion Picture Producers Association
New York
Stock Quotations Dec 3 New York
Closing quotes Alaska Juneau mine 3 American Can 61 Anaconda 34 Curtiss-Wright 88 United States Steel 75 4 Pound 40 34 New York Central 12 Northern Pacific 18 Kennecott 44 U S Steel 75 4 Sales 980000 shares Industrials 179 63 Rails 47 50 Utilities 32 19
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Curtiss-Wright International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
U. S. Steel
Whalen Sisters Visit Alaska Office Assignment
Frances and Marie Whalen of Valdez arrived in Alaska and are staying at the Baranof Hotel Frances Whalen works for the Alaska Road Commission in Valdez but is on a week long temporary duty in the Juneau office The sisters have vacationed in Seattle and will return to Valdez next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances
Marie Whalen
Valdez
Alaska
Baranof
Frances Whalen
Alaska Road Commission
Juneau
Seattle
Coast Guard air patrol urged as defense measure
General George C Kennedy of the Strategic Air Command advocates an immediate Coast Guard Patrol of the Air to guard North American approaches. He dismisses earthbound thinking and proposes radar patrol planes from Goose Bay Labrador to Alaska and down the coasts to the Panama Canal to counter atomic missile threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Coast Guard
North America
George C. Kennedy
Strategic Air Command
Goose Bay
Labrador
Alaska
Panama Canal
Kennedy
Trygve Lie Plans Palestine Visit in January
Secretary-General Trygve Lie announced plans to visit Palestine in January and named Ralph Bunche Trustee ship Expert as Principal Secretary to the Five-Nation Commission overseeing Holy Land partition. Lie said the trip would be short and he would also survey Europe for a 1948 UN General Assembly session venue. Bunche, an American of African descent, previously worked for the U.S. State Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
Trygve Lie
Palestine
Ralph J. Bunthe
United Nations
Holy Land
Lie
Europe
General Assembly
Bunche
U. S. State Department
CAA Man Here George Lenner Stops at Bar Anof Anchorage
George B. Lenner of the CAA in Anchorage is stopping at the Bar Anof. He appears in town for a brief visit, meeting local colleagues and discussing aviation matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CAA
George B. Lenner
Anchorage
Bar- Anof
PAA Plane Crash Hearing Started Witnesses Called
The Alaska Pan American World Airways crash hearing opened with aviation officials noting weather observation failures along the Alaska coast. Eighteen people died in the October 26 crash near Annette Island. Capt Maxwell testified weather systems could aid forecasts. the company plans further wreckage studies next summer to determine a probable cause. Fred Powell outlined post crash actions by government agencies and search teams as over twenty witnesses are expected.
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Seattle
Der
Cwil Aeronautics Board
Pan American World Airways
Annette Island
Alaska
Pan American
Gordon F Maxwell
Pacific-Alaska
First Company
Fred Powell
Mount Tamgas
Govt Keeps Books Badly Says Andrews
Former GAO official J T Coleman Andrews told a House subcommittee that the government keeps books so badly that it cannot determine if there was a surplus or deficit for the 1947 fiscal year. He called the claimed 757 million dollar surplus a cash balance and noted unpaid vouchers and pre June 30 disbursements distort the figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Accounting Office
J .T. Coleman Andrews
GAO
The
Treasury
Andrews
Houses
Executive Expenditures
Army
Navy
Construction Finance Corporation
Bloody clashes flare between Arabs and Jews in Palestine
Associated Press reports heavy fighting in the No Man's Land between Jaffa and Tel Aviv using machine guns knives and grenades with unofficial tallies of about 35 dead on each side over two days of unrest. Additional violence erupted in Jerusalem and Cairo while calls for a Holy War and protests against partition shadow the region.
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Associated Press
No-Man's Land
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Holy Land
Palestine
Tn Cairo
al Lazhar University
Hagana
Polionminn
Hagans
Jerusalem
Partison
No- Man's Land
Cairo
U. S
Jamil Mardam Bey
Syria
U.S
Legation
Damascus
Partition
Geddarmes
Denali Arrives From Seattle Then Sails West
The Denali docked in Juneau at 11 15 p m bringing 18 passengers from Seattle and four from Ketchikan. Notable arrivals include H S Axelson Thelma Bakke Hans Berg and J F Wendt. It sailed for Seward at 8 30 a m with eight passengers boarding in Juneau and from Ketchikan.
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Denali
Juneau
Seattle
Ketchikan
H. S. Axelson
Thelma Bakke
Hans Berg
F. Foran
F. D. Jensen
E. Ness
R. J. Seilback
Eugene Tarr
Sidney L. Voiles
Marie Whalen
Princes Whelen
J. F Wendt
J. F. Wendt
Jack B Cunningham
Jack Lund
Kino Mack
Dale W. Adams
Emile Guilbeault
E. Guilbeault
Florence Guilbeault
West‘ward
Seward
W. ©. Stiles
G. J. Meyers
Louis Consentino
Roseley Chapman
Lawrence Pagnac
R. E. Gibson
Walter Gamble
Steamers sail schedules and tax liens issued
Steamers Norah from Vancouver arrives Friday afternoon. Baranof to sail from Seattle Saturday. Denali is southbound Sunday. The Juneau Bureau of Internal Revenue released tax liens against Robert E. Ferguson and George J. Lane for alleged nonpayment of 1943 federal income taxes.
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Princess Norah
Vancouver
Baranof
Seattle
Denali
West
Juneau
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Robert E. Ferguson
George J. Lane
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Nam Head
Farl Bunting
U. S. Army
Hillard F. Everson
U. 3 Customs
Sitka
Road Commission
Seatile-Taccona
Becante
Ins
Abiska
Witepheto
Alaska Airlines
Coast Guard Air Patrol
Americas
PAA
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