Soviet Horse
Bettors Have
Troubles, Too
•MOSCOW <;P)—'The flat, or sad
dle-racing season has ended in j
Russia, to which a number of per
sons commented—thank goodness,
or words to that effect.
It has been a strenuous season,
Cull of pitfalls, very long and very
short odds. Almost everything has
happened.
This correspondent had one of
his horses disappear off the tracs
and head for the White Russian
railway station. On another occa
sion a fancied favorite, coming in
to the stretch two lengths behind,
threw his jockey into a light post,
achieving a bullseye with his toss
if not a place for his backers.
With the arrival of cooler wea
ther racing in the U.S.S.R. goes on
a solid trotting diet. Snow? Why
that doesn’t interfere with racing
nere. It goes on just the same.
This correspondent gets consid
•„> able correspondence from horse
• layers in the United States ar 3
Britain asking certain ques.nns
bout Russian racing which suern
• uvjous, but obviously aren’t.
Hence a few answeis.
1. Racing in the U.S.S.R. is a
government function. There art. no
! i ivate owners of race horses.
2. Racing, as a part of hone
•breeding, comes under the Min
is!ry of Agriculture.
3. The betting is on a pari-mu
tuel basis. There are no bookies.
4. Bets can be placed from 10
• ubles (approximately two dollars)
i pwards. The average bet is 50
i ubles.
5. There are two ways of bet
; ng, “express” or “doubles,” the
I'.nglish words being employed in
< ach case.
Express means you buy a ticket
< a two horses in the same race.
You pick one to come in first and
the other to come in second. If
'hey finish in that specific order
y ou win. If they come in in any
i/.her order you don’t win.
6. You can never tell about the
i ids. Sometimes for these tickets
you get back as little as 60 rubles
■T ir betting 50. On other occasions
the pay-off is into the thousands.
The biggest odds this season were
i 16,000 rubles for 100.
7. The jockeys are called “Zho
l.Les,” and wear their own colors.
8. The running is over a circu
lar track of 1,600 meters. The
shortest distance is 1,200 meters,
t >.e longest 3,000. The average race
is 1,500 to 1,800.
Schuman Gives -
Anti-Inflation Bilb
PARIS, (tf*) — Premier .Robert
Schuman presented a new anti
inflation bill to the French nation
al assembly today and threatened
to resign if any changes were
voted in it.
The bill was designed to raise
about 120 billion francs—a bil
lion dollars.
Schuman decided to withdraw a
previous anti-inflation bill ap
proved by the assembly. That
measure gave Frenchmen a choice
of paying 150 billion fracs addi
tional income tax or of investing
the same amount in government
bonds. It was designed to help pay
for a big reconstruction program
and to drain off excess purchas
ing power.
Amendments in the chamber
cut the expected income from the
bill by about a third. Deputies ex
empted several classes of French
citizens from its provisions.
AMERICAN LEGION HALL
NEARS COMPLETION
The American Legion hall on
3rd Ave. is being completed for
immediate use by that organiza
tion. Outside work should be fin
ished this week is reported by car
penter Harold Jacobson.
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FAUROT SENTENCED
TO TWO YEARS
F. Seymour Faurot of the Alas
ka Native Service was sentenced
this morning to two years in jail
for an unnatural crime.
India Appeals For
U. N. Intervention
NEW DELHI, (/P)—Prime min
ister Jawaharlal Nehru accusing
Pakistan again of helping invad
ers of the border state of Kash
mir, said tonight India had ap
pealed to the security council of
| the United Nations Dec. 30 for in
! tervention.
Tribesmen from the Pakistan
northwest province invaded Kash
mir in October, while the state
was independent. The Hindu Ma
harajah soon afterwards acceded
the predominantly Moslem state
of India. Undeclared war has been
in progress since.
HAVENSTRITE MINING CO.
GETS LIQUOR LICENSE
The Havenstrite Mining Co. has
| been granted a liquor license at
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May Boost Martin
For GOP Nominee
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A one
man drive to make House Speaker
| Joseph W. Martin the compromise
| Presidential nominee of the Re
, publican party was launched to
day by Rep. Leo Allen (R.-Ill.).
Allen appraised Martin’s chanc
es of getting the nomination at
j “one in five.” He said the speake
knows of the campaign now get
ting under way to “talk him up.”
“All he says,” Allen told re
porters, “is that he doesn’t see
; how anyone could refuse the nom
ination.”
The chairman of the influential
House rules committee said he
figures the Republican conven
tion in Philadelphia this summer
will supply an opening for Martin
by following the pattern of 1940.
That was the year when Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
and Senator Robert A. Taft if
Ohio fought to a stand-off in the
early rounds, allowing the lafe
Wendell L. Willkie to snatch tnej
nomination on the fifth ballot.
I LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF
DISSOLUTION
I, FRANK A. BOYLE, Auditor
of the Territory of Alaska, and
custodian of corporation records
for said Territory, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that there has been
filed in my office on this, the ilth
day of December, 1947, tne writ
i ten consent of all the stockholders
of
FERGUSON AIRWAYS. INC.
a corporation organized and exist
ing under and by virtue of the
| laws of the Territory af Alaska, to
1 the dissolution of said corporation, j
j WHEREFORE, in v.ew of the;
1 above premises, I DO FURTHER
CERTIFY that Ferguson Airways,
Inc., a corporation, is dissolved,
pursuant to Section 924, Compiled
Laws of Alaska, 1933, upon the!
filing in this office of tne proper!
proof of publication of this certifi-J
cate.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my official seal, at Jun
eau, the Capital, this Eleventh day
of December, A. D. 1947.
(SEAL)
j FRANK A, BOYLE,
Auditor of Alaska.
Pub. Dec. 26, 1947, Jan. 2, 9, 16.
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His Seals Are Sent
To Seal their Scent
ST. LEONARD, N. B., (A5)—A
truckload of trained seals rumbled
across the U. S.-Canadian intei na
tional bridge, disturbing a new
customs officer’s quiet evening.
At a loss as to what to do about
the seals, en route to a lair at St.
Hyacinthe, Que., the officer tele
phoned his chief for advice.
“There is a whole family of
seals wanting to get across, he
said, “and the smell around that
truck is something awful. What do
you want me to do?"
“Let ’em through and out of
town at once,’’ the senior officer
advised.
Girl Scout News
On Dec. 21, Lois, Alice, Jerry,
Kay, Margie and June called upon
Judge Kehoe, a well known artist
of our community. We had a very
lovely afternoon looking at his
many watercolor paintings. He
also demonstrated his method of
painting by making quick sketches
and paintings of Gerry and Alice.
We were shown pictures the judge
painted when he was a young
boy. Mrs. Kehoe served us re
freshments. We wish to thank Mr.
and Mrs. Kehoe for such an in
cpiring and hospitable visit.
On Dec. 22 we held our Christ
mas party. Because the clubhouse
was very cold we went out Christ
mas caroling after which we came
back for refreshments. The next
day we gave our decorated Christ
mas tree to a family who had
Overseas Cable
Workers Strike
j _
NEW YORK, <*>)—Union over
seas communication workers went
on strike at four cable companies
today, tieing up an estimated two
thirds of their facilities for trans
; missions between the United
States and the rest of the world.
The walkout which involved
some 3,500 employees, began at
12:01 a.m. and came while federal
conciliators still were attmpting
1 to bridge differences between
union and company negotiations.
The dispute stemmed from their
| failure to agree on provisions of
new contracts to replace those
which expired last midnight.
The companies are the cables
division of the Western Union
Telegraph company, Mackay Ra
dio and Telegraph company and
All-America Cables.
The unions are the CIO Ameri
can communications association
and the Independent All-America
Cables Employees associa t i o n
whose members had voted to join
the CIO union in strike action.
GILLIS-GILLETTE CASE
UNDER ADVISEMENT
The Gillis-Gillette case has been
taken under advisement by the
Judge, Joseph E. Kehoe.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
none. Giving a decorated Christ
mas tree every year is to become
a Girl Scout custom.
June Dunbar,
Troop reporter.
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