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NEV.'S IN BRIEF '
*. ANCHORAGE. April 26 —Two
barges at Bethel and two barges
at St. Michael are now on the list
ef “Alaska sealed bid barge sale
number one.” Bids will be rece v
ed until three p.m.. May 17, at
Anchorage Surplus Property ot
^ fice.
Items 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 16 on
the Juneau Marine Sales list num
ber one have been withdrawn by
the army.
JUNEAU, April 26, UP) — The
Juneau Central Labor Council an
nounces it has not officially en
dorsed any candidates for the
coming election. A joint CIO AFL
committee of Juneau has however
endorsed Walter Sharpe for Com
missioner of Labor over the other
candidates because of the liberal
ized workmen’s compensation act
passed in the recent session.
* WASHINGTON, April 26. </P>—
Delegate Bartlett said the govern
ment’s order setting aside thirty
three percent of this year’s Alaska
f salmon catch for export to for
eign countries was meant to in
clude the needs of UNRRA. The
figure does not. he said, include
army and navy needs.
NEW YORK, April 26, UP) —
The United Nations security coun
• cil has said a five-man subcom
mittee would be named to inquire
into the Spanish question and de
ferred further consideration of the
case until eleven a.m. Monday.
PARIS, April 26, UP)—The Big
^ Four foreign ministers met again
to seek an agreement on European
peace treaties amid reports that
Russia would block the American
effort to secure a discusion of the
Austrian situation.. An American
informant confirmed that the Rus
sians yesterday opposed placing
Austria on the agenda, but said
*the Russians however raised no
objection to a discussion of French
demands for the detachment of
the Ruhr Rhineland from Ger
many.
WASHINGTON, April 26, (/P)— j
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach
said he would call Lewis and the J
soft coal operators back into joint
negotiations early next week. He
told newsmen the situation arising
from the 26-day-old bituminous
coal strike was becoming critical
but there has been only a slight
“softening” on each side.
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SPOKANE, April 26, (/P)—'The
department of labor stepped into
the day-old bus tieup as workers
among the city’s 150,000 relied on
oldfashioned neighborliness to use
others’ cars to get to work. Con
ciliator Richard McGeen announc
ed he had been appointel to aid
^ in reaching a settlement. Police
set up loudspeakers last night and
requested all passing cars with
extra space to provide rides.
SINGER AND FRIEND — Lauritz Melchior, Metro
politan tenor, accompanies himself at the piano under the critical
eye of Jimmy Durante, his accomplice in a motion picture.
Shipping Lines Ask
100% Kate Inerease
WASHINGTON, April 26. (/Pi
Efforts to avert an Alaska ship
ping crisis were announced by
Rep. Jackson, member of the
House merchant marine commit
tee, who said he had been notified
the War Shipping Administration
would discontinue operating the
Alaska shipping service after next
January first.
He said during the war the ad
ministration had lost ten million
dollars annually in the operation
of the lines and said that private
bnes contend that when they take
over operation of the service they
will require a one hundred per
cent increase in rates to meet the
cost.
Rep. Jackson conferred yester
day with Secretary Krug and
asked that he join the maritime
commission in a complete survey
of the situation. He said the sub
committee of which he is chair
man would hold hearings during
the summer in Seattle and Juneau
and said the committee would try
to decide whether government op
eration of subsidy or increase in
rates were advisable.
FRED DUROCHER
ENROUTE HOME
Fred Durocher, Councilite is en
route home after spending the
winter with relatives and friends
in the States.
IDA BLANKENSHIP
ENROUTE TO KIANA
Ida Blankenship who has been
attending school at White Moun
tain is in Nome enroute to her
home in Kiana.
Many Dead In
Burlington Wreck
CAPERVILLE, 111., April 26, j/P)
Weary rescue workers counted at
least forty-four dead and one hun
dred twenty-five injured when
the rear section of the Advance
flyer, speeding at more than sixty
miles an hour toward San Fran
cisco rammed the other section.
Thirty-one remained in hospi
tals, some in a critical condition.
All but seven of the dead have
been identified. Engineer W. W.
I31aine, 68, of Galesburg, 111., suf
fered only cuts on the head.
Burlington officials said he had
adequate warning that the preced
ing train had been stopped, and
will be charged with manslaugh
ter.
The crash occured just thirty
one minutes after the trains had
left Chicago Union Station. The
advance section stopped when
trouble developed in the under
carriage of the train.
MR. AND MRS. BAGLEY TO
LEAVE SOON FOR STATES
Mrs. L. Bagley who has been in
charge of the office of the May
nard Columbus hospital is leaving
shortly for the States as her bus
band who has been stationed in
the U. S. Army here is about to
receive his discharge. Pat Collins
has taken the position vacated by
Mrs. Bagley. The Bagley’s are real
Alaskans having been with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs in this
Division before the war and they
plan to return here after a vaca
tion in the States.
The species of fish called Dip-1
noi have lungs as well as gills.
Yukon Captain
Faces Charges Of
Negligence
SEATTLE, April 26. (^i—Three
counts of negligence were filed
against Captain Chris Trondsen,
master of the ill-fated liner Yukon
which was grounded near Seward
in February, at a hearing later
today. Martinson said if the
charges were proved that Trond
sen faces suspension or revocation
of license.
The charges as listed by the
Coast Guard are: First—failure to
use sounding equipment in deter
mining the ships position between
Barwell Island and Point Firing
ton. Second—Failure to use the
patent log to assist in determining
the ship’s correct position. Third
—Negligently operating the vessel'
at a greater speed than was war
I ranted under the poor visibility.
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Americans Must
Eat Less Bread
WASHINGTON, April 26, I/P)—
Ameiicans were told bluntly they
must eat less bread and feed less
I wheat to livestock if the nation is
to meet its obligations to the starv
ing abroad. This notice was given
by Secretary Anderson in a state
ment describing the wheat situa
tion as “very serious,” was re
leased here and by Anderson at
Fargo, N. D„ where he went yes
terday to open a government cam
paign to buy wheat for export.
The Agriculture department re
ports that stocks of wheat on
April first were from seventeen to
possibly forty-six million bushels,
short of the total demands until
the new harvest. The department
statement said that exports of
wheat to the hungry areas were
falling farther and farther behind
on this country’s commitments.
Wrangell Faces
Food Crisis
WRANGELL. April 2fi, (/!’)—
Wrangell’s fifteen hundred people
faced a food crisis as meat mar
kets, stores and restaurants an
nounced they would close Satur-1
day as their stocks are exhausted
after passing through twenty-five
days without shipments from
Seattle.
The SS. Tongass is the first ship
to make the northward trip with
foodstuffs since the longshore
strike, now settled, tied up Alaska
shipping a month ago. It is due to
leave Seattle tonight, but Wran
gell is not included in its ports of
call. It is to stop at Petersburg,
forty miles north.
Four other relief ships are to
leave Seattle soon. The SS. Square
Sennitt is sailing May 2, and has
Wrangell on its call list.
Rouget de Lisle, a young officer,
composed the Marseillaise, French
national anthem, in 1792.
Fire Razes Three
Buildings hi
Fair han ks
FAIRBANKS, April llfi. f/P>—
Three two-story buildings are a
mass of wreckage today, but the
hundred room Pioneer Hotel was
unscathed after a fire raged thru
half a block of close packed wood
en structures yesterday.
Firemen, using twenty hose
lines, fought the fire for seven
hours before the danger was pass
ed. The businesses destroyed were
the 41-room Northern Hotel and
Coffee Shop owned by Margaret
Berge who is rushing back from
Texas. The Pioneer Grill, owned
by Don Cook, who lost all his per
sonal belongings in the apartment
overhead, the Star Liquor Store,
Allies Room and liquor store,
owned by Don Hammond. The to
tal damage is estimated by real
estate men in excess of $.'100,000.
There was little salvage, as the
thick smoke issuing from connect
ed basements prevented the re
moval of stocks and fixtures.
About one hundred persons are
forced to seek new living quarters
and about fifty employees are out
of jobs.
The origin of the fire is still un
known. Insurance is about half
the value of the buildings.
Yanks Produce
Mystery \V it ness
NUERNBERG. April 20, UP)—
Hans Bernd Gisevius, mystery
defense witness who proved a
boomerang today testified he had
“been in contact during the war”
with American Intelligence serv
ices. Many among the twenty-two
German leaders on trial for war
crimes charges appeared shocked,
as if understanding at last why
testimony among the most damag
ing outside the courtroom was
qualified.
The American informant said
he had been in the service of the
U. S. Strategic Services in Swit
zerland and Germany since 1943.
Police Seek Body
Of French Banker
VANCOUVER, B. C., April 26,
(/P)—Royal Canadian Mounted Po
lice and Vancouver detectives
stepped into the mystery of Henri
Bar, searching the freighter SS.
Samwater from stem to stern.
No police official would com
ment, but it was learned that the
French consul general here,
Charles Claudon had demanded a
full-scale investigation. Author
ized reports that the officers were
seeking the body of the vanished
French banker and three fabu
lously valuable jade necklaces.
The bar head of the Banque
Franco Chinoise of Shanghai dis
appeared while the Samwater was
three days out of Vancouver. He
left in the ship’s hold antiques and
art treasures worth $250,000.