Development B'd
Obtains Libraries
JUNEAU, — The Alaska Dev
elopment Board has added to its
working materials at Juneau the
Books, pamphlets, and other pub
lications formerly included in the
libraries of the Alaska regional
office of the National Resources
Planning Board and the offices
of the United States director of
the North Pacific Study.
Included in the large shipment
of materials is a virtually com
plete set of United States Geolo
gical Survey publications on Al
aska as well as many research
memoranda not available else
where.
Learning that the libraries were
in storage in Portland, Oregon
and not being used, George Sun
borg, consultant to the Develop
ment Board, obtained permission
to have them shipped to Juneau
where they are now available
in the office of the Alaska Devel
opment Board, Room 117, Fed
eral Building.
Plane Crashes
Claim Lives of
At Lease 20
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thing was known of casualties.
A U.S. B-29 Superfortres; fel1
in Saudi Arabia, 120 miles north
west of Dharan. The U.S. Air
Force said in Weisbaden, Ger
many, that nine bodies nave been
found. Four persons are missing
and one survivor has been found.
Two U.S. Air Force fighter
planes exploded and crashed at
Anchorage, Alaska yesterday.
Both pilots were killed.
Three crewmen of an Army
C-54 transport plane were killed
yesterday in a crash at Northamp
ton, Mass. The plane burst into
flames during a rainstorm.
Two Swiss flyers were killed
practicing emergency land r.gs at
Locarno, Switzerland. One was
Maj. Piste Hitz, who helped res
cue 12 Americans stranded 9,000
I feet up on Aguli glacier in 1940.
NEW MERCHANDISE
Being Received Regularly at
Junior’s Meat
Market
Fresh Meat
STEAKS • CHOPS - ROASTS
Fresh Fish
Prawns ■ Fillet of Sole ■ Smelt
and Kippered Salmon
ow ’oy "fy&tt'i 7/uo
Relax While You Travel
When 70a go by steamer, yon can relax In the lnxnrl*
oos comfort of staterooms, lounges and decks ... sit
back and enjoy the scenery as you sail.
Cat the Best Food — No Extra Charge
The Alaska Line is famed for the excellence of its
Q_ cuisine. You will marvel at the deliciously prepared
meals. The cost of all meals is included in the farm
Your berth, too!
Sailings Are Frequent
From Seward:
May 14 and every two weeks thereafter for
* Juneau, Ketchikan, Seattle.
May 6 and every two weeks thereafter for
Valdez, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan, Seattle.
Nenana Ice Breaks
$150,000 In Pool
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L. Cecottie and Mrs. Selma Fors,
said they would split their share
of the prize money. The name of
Mrs. Fors was one of the 15
winning guesses. The two women,
neighbors on the Glacier highway,,
said they were so surprised at win-1
ning they hadn’t made any plans.
Guessers won a total of $150,
000 by predicting the exact time
the ice would start moving in
the Tanana river, at.Nenana.
The names of 11 combinations
of persons and -four others in the
names of individuals.
Local minute pools brought joy
to severay individuals in Nome.
Eric Nelson won four pools at
the Polar Bar totalling $780, and
other pools at May’s for consider-,
able amounts, estimated at nearly j
$1,500 in all.
Howard Jonish, Capt. Robert
Knowles and Keith Hedreen split
one of the $60 pools.
At the Nevada, Ruth Morris
won $150 on tw« pools and Jack
McCumber won the incomplete
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cornwell
of the Dreaom Theater won a to
tal of $480 on three pools at the
Board of Trade.
The Bering Sea Club’s incom
plete $5 pool was split between
Joe Wallace, Tiger Bowman, King
and A1 Erhardt. The $2 and$l
pools were divided between Er
hardt and Bob Oliver.
The Polet Store pool was won
by Sammy Mogg.
Wien Airline’s pool for $30 went
went to Bob Jacobs, the $30 pool
to Mrs. Hank Miller and the $50
to Mrs. C. Mickelson.
Army Obliges
PARIS, 111., _(iP)—The Army
more than satisfied the Paris L.eg
ionaires with its contribution to
the city’s war memorial.
The veterans’ group had re
quested a field piece suitable for
mounting in the public square.
The gift arrived—a 23-ton how
itzer used by General Rommel’s
forces during the African cam
paign.
Legion commander Elbert Bog
art didn’t even try to have the
35 foot weapon moved from the
flat car it monopolized. He wired
Army ordnance rejecting it and
the Army then took his order for
two light 75-mm guns to be put
on either side of 'a flagpole. It
authorized re-shipment of the or
iginal gift to the Terre Haute or
dnance plant.
DR E A M
THEATER
—•—
2 Shows, May 14, 7:15 and 9p.m.
• Friday
LITTLE TOKYO, U.S.A.
Preston Foster Brenda Joyce
Also: Chap. 9. Capt. Marvel
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1 Show, May 15, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
DEVOTION
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid
Also: Dog Watch
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2 Shows, May 16, 7:15 and 9 pjn.
Sunday
DANGEROUS MILLIONS
Kent Taylor Dona Drake
Also: Musical Shipmates
—e—
1 Show, May 17 and 18, 7:30 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday
CLOAK AND DAGGER
Gary Cooper Robert Alda
Also: The Eye* Have It
ARMY WIVES ON SEWING
PROJECT FOR HOSPITAL
The wives of the Officers and
Non-Commissioned Officers of the
Marks Air Force Base are making
robes and garments for the Nome
Hospital.
Under chairmanship of Mrs.
W. O. Stevenson, for the officers
wives and Mrs. M. A. Rathburn
for the non-commissioned officers
wives, the groups have started
the project of sewing the much
neded bathrobes.
The materials are Indianhead
linen in royal blue, copen blue and
tan and were furnished by the
Red Cross through the office of
local chairman Ted Duffield. One
garment has been completed by
Mrs. A. Darling as the pattern
AMERICA! LEGION TO HOLD
PARTY S/.TURDAY NIGHT
The American Legion Post 19,
will hold a party-dance in their
hall Saturday night.
from which the balance of the
robes will be made.
The one difficulty was the
shortage of sewing machines am
ong the women at the post so it
was decided to group themselves
in units of three of four in order
to utilize the limited facilities.
Other local groups, it is under
stood will start soon on similar
projects, but credit and praise
goes to the women of the post
for the first group to get under
way.
ALASKA AIRLINES
FREIGHT FROM-:
CHICAGO TO NOME - 38 Cents Per Pound
MINNEAPOLIS TO NOME - 36 Cents Per Pound
GREAT FALLS TO NOME - 28 Cents Per Pound
Minimum Charged on 10 Pound Basis
TERMINAL ADDRESSES
CHICAGO - Monarch Air Srvice, 6054 South Cicero Ave.
MINNEAPOLIS - United Delivery Service, 704 North 5th St.
GREAT FALLS - Alaska Airlines. Municipal Airport.
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MAIN 66
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scheduled or regular service to these points. Alaska Air
lines is only authorized to operate on a non-scheduled
basis, occasionally, casually or infrequently to these points.
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