More Bodies Taken
> From Coal Mine
(By Charles Whalen)
CENTRALIA, 111. (/P) — T h c
twisted and broken bodies of lb
miners were brought to the surface
from the Centralia Coal company’s
No. 5 mine yesterday, increasing
to 33 the number of known dead
in an explosion Tuesday and leav
ing 78 still trapped in the pit and
given "no chance at all’ by a mine
rescue squad leader.
A heavy snow fell over the grim
Ip- setting as rescue squads, after
working through the early morn
ing through the early morning
hours, brought the second group of
dead miners from 540 feet below
the ground. There were only a few
persons at the pit as the bodies
were placed in ambulances and
taken to a temporary morgue in a
nearby bus garage. Last night 16
bodies were removed to the gar
age. Earlier one miner removed
* from the mine on Tuesday died.
An unidentified rescue worker
said that the bodies of the 16
brought from the pit today were
twisted and bruised and clothing
on some were burned, indicating
they had been nearer to the explo
sion than the 16 miners who were
found Wednesday night.
In Washington, D. C., the U. S.
Senate ordered an investigation of
the disaster after Senator Brook:
<R.-I11.> asserted there had been
violations of safety codes under
federal administration. Soft coal
mines generally have been in gov
ernment possession since last
New Orleans Milk
Supply Cut 80% 7
NEW ORLEANS, (/P)—New Or
leanians, their milk supply already
i drastically reduced by a strike of
Florida parish dairymen, were
faced today with a boycott called
by officers of the teamsters’ broth
erhood <AFL> against stores and
other enterprises using milk from
New Orleans dairies.
Brotherhood offices said the
boycott would affect union locals
in New Orleans, and the state cap
ital of Baton Rouge, Lake Charles
in southwest Louisiana, and Amite
and Franklinton in the strike area.
The strike already has cut this
city’s daily supply of 62,000 gal
lone of milk by 80 per cent, ac
cording to an estimate of Charles
Ball, director of sanitation in New
Orleans and residents wondered
how' much greater a cut w'ould be
i effected by the boycott of stores
: w’hich normally handle fresh fluid
milk.
Meanwhile, despite orders to the
i Mate police to ‘‘keep the roads
open.” the striking dairymen from
the Florida parishes (those east of
the Mississippi river) continued to
halt trucks and trains in their ef
forts to cut off the supply of milk
from New Orleans.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
spring. At Centralia vice president
Young of the coal company with
held comment on the Senate inves
tigation until he had been more
fully informed.
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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vide airports; to appropriate
$lli5,000 for hospital construction;
defeats House bill to increase max
.mum payments for aid to depend
ed children.
The refusal of the Senate to ac
cept. the Walker memorial accus
. g the Governor of non-feasance
was partially explained by the
senate banking committee later
in the day, covering the investiga
tion of the Union Bank of Anchor
age. The report accompanied by
the Territorial banking board re
port. Both reports show certain
ii regularities occurred but the
bank is now in sound condition
w Li a fifty-thee per cent cash re
serve. The memorial accusation of
non-feasance was upon alleged ac
tions by the governor to delay and
impede the Senate committee’s in
vestigation. The story of the me
morial was quafehed by the Empire
locally when the Governor tele
phoned he would bring libel action
; if published, although the attorney
j .-aid it was not libelous but might
j injure the bank.
! JUNEAU, Mar. 28, 3:05 a.md/P)
i At a joint session A. H. Ziegler
i was con f rmed for the board of ed
; ucation; O. D. Cochran for the
board of university regents, also
Charles Carter, Henry Roden, and
Jack Conway as board of trustees
for the Pioneers Home. They had
never been confirmed. The latter'
1 action also apparently disapproved
! of the report made by the Home
committee should have a new
board.
I
At two-thirty this morning the
conference committee was still
wortsing on the appropriations bill.
JUNEAU, Mar. 28, 4:45 a.mJ/P)
The pack tax bill was passed at
! the rate of ten and four cents, after
I McCufcheon tried to laise the
! rates and kill the bill.
Roden, Carter and Conway were
confirmed in join session as mom -
bars of the board of trustees. At
4:30 this morning there were half
a dozen conference committees out
including one on the important
generaj appropriations measure
with no sign of headway.
Reaching an agreement on ap
propriations just under eight and
a half million, the Senate adjurned
at seven-thirty this morning, the
House a few minutes later. A be
lief is expressed that the revenue
in sight will cover the appropria
tions. No new general tax measure
was passed. The tobacco tax was
among the many bills which died
, in the Senate.
~
I GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
! SEEKS INFORMATION
Anyone having information con
! cerning the following person is
I asked to communicate with the
! Governor’s Office in Juneau:
William “Shorty” Brown, pros
pector, about 55 years of age. Last
heard from in 1923 when he made
a trip to Los Angeles. W^is known
| to have been in the Fairbanks and
j Skagway areas prior to that time.
Believed to have been born in Eng
land. ffe is being sought by his
brother, Simon Tobin.
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; *
SEATTLE, (#*)—Fire, fanned by
a heavy wind, caused damage es
timated at $200,000 to supplies at
a Fort Lawton warehouse yester-1
day. Bales of new overcoats and I
troop train commissary equipment, I
most of it destined for overseas'
j
shipment were destroyed. Cause of
the blaze had not been determined.,
Starvation Kills
Many In Russia
(By Rembert James)
PARIS. (/P>—A highly respon
sible informant with an intimate
personal knowledge of 1947 condi
tions in Russia said today that
starvation had killed thousands of
peasants in four separate region
of the Soviet Union during recent
weeks. *
The source listed these regions
as the Ukraine, the lower Volga,
the upper Volga and western Si
beria.
Famine conditions were created
by severe droughts in European
Russia’s wheat-growing regions
last year and by excessive rain.'
MILLIGANS TO OPEN MINING
PROPERTY SOON
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Milligan
are scheduled to leave today for
Council to make preparations ’
1 the opening of their mining pr <
erty this season.
A boss is an individual who
always make a pretense of think
ing he is too lazy to work.
•hat destroyed much of the Siber
ian wheat crop, the informant said
The report on Russian condition*
by this highly-placed person ij
Paris was given after dispatcher
from Moscow quoted official state
ments of an extremely serious
food situation in the country, dur
to the drought.
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