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'_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. XLIX. No, 84NOME,'ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY,14. 1947 _PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF I
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WASHINGTON, </P>—Rev. Jo
seph J. Mansfield <D.-Tex.), the
oldest member of Congress, died
Saturday at the Bethseda, Md.,
naval hospital. He was 86.
ANCHORAGE, (#•) — Fred Ax
ford, president of the Anchorage
chamber of Commerce, and Rob
ert Atwood, publisher of the An
chorage Times, will represent An
chorage at the hearing at Wash
ington, D. C., next Wednesday on
a proposed $8,000,000 public air
port for Alaska. Walter Plett, re
gional CAA director, and Axford
were to leave today and Atwood
within a day or so. Atwood said
he would urge immediate work.
HOLLYWOOD, (/P)—Film actor
Charles Boyer and his wife, the
former Pat Patterson, were treat
ed for minor bruises in a hospital
yesterday after their automobile
was involved in a collision. The
. couple went home after being
treated, their physician said.
PT. PLEASANT, W. Va. (/P)—A
heart attack killed Victor Brad
shaw, 33, before he could finish
committing suicide with a knife,
coroner R. W. Eshenaur reported.
The knife was found beside the j
body, Eshenaur said yesterday,;
but a self-inflicted chest wound
was not deep enough to reach the
heart.
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WASHINGTON, (&)—The Sen
ate has approved the following
nominations for postmasterships
in Alaska: Ronald L. Gillis, Can-;
die; Retha M. Young, Haines; Lil-,
ly V. Clark, Nenana.
SOUTH KINGSTON, R. I., (£>)
Gael Sullivan, 42, vice-chairman,
and executive director of the
Democratic national committee,
today was fined $100 and costs in;
district court on a charge of dan- j
gerous driving the night of July 3.
He had previously pleaded in
nocent in the same court to a j
charge of driving while under the1
f influence of liquor, but the charge
later was reduced to dangerous;
driving. Sullivan today did not
contest the lesser charge.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Assistant ■
secretary of state John Peurifoy
said today “it is quite likely” that
the State Department will take
over the government of occupied]
areas in Germany, Korea and
Japan “in the next one or two and
a half years.”
He told a House expenditures
sub-committee that the army
would continue its policing duties
and maintain constabulary forces
until peace treaties are signed, but
the state department would han
I die government and relief mat
ters.
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WASHINGTON, (/P) —Howard I
C. Petersen resigned today at as
sistant secretary of war. President
Truman accepted the resignation,
effective July 31, “with genuine
regret.”
Petersen told the President in a
letter he had “reluctantly come to
the conclusion that I cannot afford
PLANNING A NEW DRESDE N—Local government members consult plans for re*
constructing Dresden, Germany, while inspecting part of the war-torn city in Russian occupation rone.
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“International
Brigade” Invade
Greek Territory
ATHENS, (£»)—Greek officials
reported today a 1,000-man force
which attacked the village of Kon
itsa yesterday had been pushed
back to the Albanian border, six
miles away.
The guerrilla ring around Kon
itsa apparently was broken dur
ing the night. Greek veterans of
resistance fighting during the Ger
man occupation under Gen. Napo
leon Zervas were engaging the
rebels.
One official report said fighting
still was in progress -at a tiny, un
identified village about two miles
from the Albanian frontier.
Government forces were report
ed officially to have recaptured
the Greek half of the Saranta river
at Borozani.
A sub-committee of the United
Nations Balkan commission flew
at noon from Salonika toward
Konitsa for a spot investigation of
what the Greek government said
was an invasion by an “interna
tional brigade.” Representatives
of the United States, Russia, Bra
zil, Australia and Syria were on
the team.
A letter from the Greek liaison
officer yesterday told the com
mission an “international bri
gade” had invaded Greece from
Albania and that this comprised a
“flagrant violation of Greek terri
tory which constitutes unprovoked
aggression on the part of Alban
ia.” (The committee already has
reported ^o U..N. that Yugoslavia
—and, to a strife. All three states
are under Russian influence.)
longer.”
to stay in government service any
He said he could not do so “in
fairness to my family.”
Will Defer Refunds
j To Incorporated
Alaskan Towns
JUNEAU—Refunds to incorpo
rated towns for the 1946-47 school
year will not be made at least un
til- after September 30 due to lack
of money in the Territorial Treas
ury’s General Fund, it was an
nounced Saturday by the Board of
Administration following a meet
ing to re-examine the Territory’s
financial situation. After meeting
the June payroll and paying ap
proximately $100,000 in other
vouchers, cash on hand in the gen
eral treasury amounted to $8,000.
The school refunds now due to
tal $196,470.49. Anchorage, hard
est hit,, has coming $38,710 for
school operation last term, while
Ketchikan is a close second with
$29,438 due from the Territory.
Juneau has due $25,426 and Fair
banks $24,449. Other town refunds
none of which can be paid at this
time, are: Cordova, $7,682; Eagle,
$700; Hoonah, $2,922; Kodiak,
$10,392; Nenana $2,788; Nome,
$9,692; Pelican, $838; Petersburg,
$11,025; Seldovia, $4,859; Seward,
$9,750; Skagway, $5,777; Unalas
ka, $2,094; Valdez, $1,978; Wran
gell, $7,944; Craig, Douglas,
Haines and Sitka had previously
received their refunds.
In directing Commissioner of
Education James C. Ryan not to
submit vouchers for ^the refunds,
the Board estimated there would
be only approximately $220,000
coming into the Treasury from
liquor excise taxes this month and
that there would be no substantial
tax' collection for the general fund
aside from this source.
Pointing out the Territory’s fi
nancial picture, the Board issued
a strong directive to all depart
ments requesting that all expendi
tures be held to the bare minimum
of “absolutely necessary” expens
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Many Killed In
DC-3 Plane Crash
In Florida
MELBOURNE, Fla. (iP)—Twen
ty-one persons were killed yester
day in the crash of a DC-3 char
tered airliner in swampy waste
lands near here, and today 12 re
mained unidentified mainly be
cause of a confusion in Spanish
names.
The death toll was expected to
mount with two of the 13 injured
on the “critical” list.
The plane, enruote from New
ark, N. J.f to Miami with 36 per
sons aboard—a crew of five and
31 home-bound Puerto Ricans—
cut a 300-foot swath through the
scrub pine six miles from this
Florida east coast town as it
ploughed to earth shortly after
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Man Fires Shots
At Sen. Bricker
WASHINGTON (Mwo shots
were fired harmlessly at Senator
Bricker (R.-Ohio) in the Senate of
fice building subway Saturday by
a man described by Bricker as a
disgruntled patronage seeker.
Bricker was not injured.. He
told office assistants he believed
that the shots were blank cart
ridges.
Apparanetly unperturbed by the
incident, the Ohio Senator and
1944 vice presidential candidate
continued on the the Senate cham
ber where debate was underway
on the revived $4,000,000,000 in
The Board pointed out that
while the Treasury had cash assets
in excess of a million dollars, the
amount was in ear-marked funds
which could not be used for gen
eral operating expenses of the
Territory.
Truman Asks For
Test In Wages
Before Price Hike
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman appealed to coal and steel
producers today to wait until “a
fair test” has been made of the
effects of the coal wage settlement
before making any price increases.
The President, in a statement,
said the effect of the wage settle
ment “is badly misrepresented by
the bare statement that it amounts
to an increase of about 45 cents
per hour in wages of miners.”
“It is only reasonable to ask
coal and steel producers to wait
until a fair test has been made of
the actual effects of the wage ad
vance under conditions of maxi
mum production,” the President
asserted.
“If prices are raised at once,
and a wave of increases in related
prices upsets our economy, we
never will know what would have
happened if the coal and steel
managers had been willing to
wait.
“The risk involved by continu
ing present prices of coal and
steel long enough to learn what
the increased costs of production
will actually be under the new
wage agreement is not serious, es
pecially in view of the fact that
such action will greatly reduce the
hazards of renewed inflation.”
Saying the producers of coal
and steel “have been enjoying
I full share of high profits,” he
concluded:
“I am sure that they, as respon
sible leaders of industry, will
want to invest a portion of those
profits in the maintenance of busi
ness stability and prosperity for
all our people."
The President spoke of “deep
concern” being expressed in many
quarters over the results of the re
cent settlement between John L.
Lewis’ united mine workers and
the coal operators. He mentioned
widespread fear that it might lead
to substantial increases in coal
and commodity prices as well, re
sulting in renewing “the infla
tionary spiral.”
“This would be a serious blow
to our economy and to the contin
uance of the present high level of
production and employment.” Mr.
Truman said. “But such a blow
I need not fall upon us.”
WINCHESTER, III. f/P)—Sher
iff Randall Killebrei had to go
hunting for a room for a prisoner
after the standing room only sign
was placed at the Scott county
jail.
He succeeded in arranging for
detention of one prisoner at a ho
tel—with a deputy assigned to
guard him.
come tax cut bill.
Later Bricker asked that capi
tol police begin a search for his
assailant.
John Eckler, administrative as
sistant to the Senator, told report
ers the man who fired the shots
had lost his job on the government
payroll.
Capitol police | said the weapon
used apparently was a .22 caliber
pistol. Empty shells of that type
were found in| the subway.