ACS Extends
Service In Alaska
SEATTLE, </P) — Another link
will be added to the Alaska Com
munications System network in
Alaska when the ACS today as
sumes operation of commercial
communications along the Alaska
Railroad. Col. Fred P. Andrews,
Seattle, commanding officer of the
system, announced.
A new ACS station at Palmer
and the main ACS stations at
Fairbanks, Anchorage, Whittier
and Seward will be tied together
by direct landline, and residents
at about 75 isolated points along
the railroad will benefit by being
able to make long distance calls
to the United States.
A special long distance tele
phone conversation at 7 p.m. yes
terday will commemorate the
event. Talking on the long line
were Colonel Andrews and Jack
Perry, chairman of the Alaska Di
vision. Seattle Chamber of Com
merce; Mayor Ray Kohler, of
Fairbanks; Mayor Eugene Lanier,
of Seward; city councilman Dan
Waitkus’ Assailant
Ad judged Insane
CHICAGO, tA*) — In rapid-fire
disposal of legal routine, the 19
year-old girl admirer who >hol
first baseman Eddie Waitkus, yes
terday was adjudged insane and
committed to K'nnkakee State hos
pital.
The girl, Ruth Ann Steinhagen,
appeared in felony court with the
man she shot. After preliminary
pleadings she was bound over to
the grand jury.
A true bill was immediately
voted and the indictment returned
before chief justice James J. Mc
Dermott of criminal court. This
was shortly after Waitkus, sitting
in a wheel chair, confronted the
girl for the first time since she
; shot him in a hotel room June 15.
Setchlield, of Anchorage; J. T.
Cunningham, assistant gene r a 1
manager of Alaska Railroad, and
Jack Maze, past president of the
chamber of commerce of Palmer,
Alaska.
Saturday Nite
8:00 P. M.
Hi-School Gym
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Labor Situation
Boils And Bubbles
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Thereafter, he said, the men will
work on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of each week.
In Washington, the nation’s cap
ital was threatened with a strike
of its public transportation work
ers.
Workers who operate Washing
ton’s street car and bus service
have scheduled a strike vote for
12:01 a.m. Friday to back up de
mands for a wage hike.
A scheduled strike of some 4,400
workers at the Hershey Chocolate
Corp., Hershey, Pa.—set to start
Saturday—would virtually crip
ple the entire city. The work stop
page, result of a union shop dis
pute, was voted Tuesday by the
AFL-bakery and confectione r y
workers union.
The strike, if carried out, will
affect the Hershey chocolate plant,
the soap factory, laundry, lumber
mill, furniture factory, two hotels,
and the telephone and water com
panies.
Other labor developments in
cluded:
Madisonville, Ky.—Th ee non
union coal mines in the Madison
ville area remained closed yester
day after mass visits by vacation
ing united mine workers Wednes
day. State police estimated about
4,000 men appeared at each of the
mines and demanded they cease
operations.
Mine officials complied.
South Bend. Ind. — The long
strike at the Bendix Aviation
Corp., plant here was over yester
day and the company prepared to
resume operations. Members of
the union-CIO united mine work
ers—voted 2,831 to 110 Wednesday
to end the work stoppage.
Pittsburgh, Pa.—The U. S. Steel
Corp., announced it has asked the
CIO united steel workers to re
sume contract negotiations in
Pittsburg July 6.
“But you can't withdraw your
plea of guilty after the case has
been heard.”
“Well, you see, judge, dat
speech ob my lawyer don ’vinced
me I s innocent.”
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
SECOND DIVISION,
DISTRICT OF ALASKA ss:
Public notice is hereby given,
that by virtue of a writ of Fieri
Facias <or execution*, dated May
, If). A. D. 1949. issued out of the
District Court, of the United Sta es
for the Second Division, District
of Alaska on a judgment rendered
in said Court, on the 18th day of
May, A. D. 1949, in favo oi Min
ers & Merchants Bank of Alaska,
a Banking Corporation. and
against Jennie W. Martin. Admin
istrator of the Estate of Curtis
Jacobs, Deceased. I have, on this
8th day of June. A. D. 1949, lev
ied upon the following described
i real estate, situated in the Cape
Nome Precinct, Second Division
and Territory of Alaska, to wit: |
The South fifty *50* feet of Lot
Twelve <12* and the South fifty
'50* feet of Lot Thirteen <13* both
iin Block Thirty *30), according to
tlie official plat of the Townsite of
Nome, togethc*'* with all buildings
thereon and the fixtures attached
thereto.
And that I will, accordingly, of
fer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the highest and
best bidde". for cash, on the 8th
day of July, A. D. 1949. at 11:00
O’clock A. M., on the premises of
the above described property in
Nome, Alaska.
Dated. June, 8, A. D. 1949.
B. 3. MOZEE.
U. S. Marshal.
2nd Division. District of Alaska.
C. C. Tanner
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
Pub. June 10, 17, 24. July 1, 1949.
Geological Survey
Ians Big Alaskan
Program This Year
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gion northeast from Chinitna Bay |
to the Texedni district; Alaska pe- [
ninsula-Cook Inlet region; Katal- j
la-Yakatago area on the Gulf of
Alaska! the Kanatak region; May*'
I be Creek; upper Ikpikpuk River,
and Titaluk River; Carbon Creek 1
and upper Colville River basin: '
the area of the Kiruktagiak and1
Killiy Rivers, and the area of the
Kukpowruf and Kokolik Rivers.
Bartiett said the agency will j
continue its permafrost program
in the vicinity of Anchorage an i ,
Naknek; the Kuskokwim. Fair
! banks and Dunbar areas; the Yu
! kon Flats area between Circle and
j Fort Yukon; and on the Seward
Peninsula a permafrost research
^ project will be started at the Arc
tic reasearch laboratory of the of
fice of naval research at Point
Barrow.
Miscellaneous geological studies
will be conducted in Southeast
Alaska, while water research in
( vestigation will be carried on in
i Southeastern Alaska and in the
railroad belt. Ground water inves
! t i g a t ions will be carried on
j throughout the Territory.
“Black and While”
Bool (Hosed
WASHINGTON (yPi—A govern
ment swimming pool which be
came the scene of disturbances
' when opened to both white and
Negro youths has been closed.
Secretary Krug of the interior
department, which operates the
pool, ordered it closed until fur
ther notice. He acted after the
i
mixed swimming led to a pool-side
melee for a second straigh* day
Wednesday.
Park police said hundreds were
involved in the pushing and
punching outside the Anacostia
pool in southeast Washington. At
least four youths were injured,
one a girl trampled by a mounted
policeman's horse. There were
five arrests. i
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