Postmaster Genl.
Being Investigated
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WASHINGTON, (£») — Speaker
Martin (R.-Mass.) said Tuesday a
pending House investigation may
lead to a divorce between the
postmaster general and the Dem
ocratic national committee.
“There ought to be one,” Martin
told a reporter.
The House schedule this week
calls for action on a resolution di
recting the postoffice* and civil
service committee to investigate
matters in its field. The commit
tee would be required to report its
findings to the present Congress
and submit any “recommendations
for legislation” it considers desir
able.
“Running a billion-dollar busi
ness ought to be a full-time job,”
Martin said “and the government
ought not to finance political trips
around the country under the
guise of official postoffice depart
ment business.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT,
SECOND DIVISION, ALASKA.
No. 767
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
STATE OF PATRICK C. KIR
WAN, Deceased. .
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by order of the judge of the
above named court, M. J. Walsh,
of Nome, Alaska, has been ap
pointed administrator of the estate
of Patrick C. Kirwan, deceased.
All persons having claims
against said estate should present
them, with proper vouchers at
tached, within six months from the
date of this notice to the said ad
ministrator, at Nome, Alaska.
Dated, April 21st, 1947.
M. J. WALSH.
Pub. 49, 52, 55, 58. Administrator
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Andy Anderson, Sec.
ANVIL LODGE
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KARL DEWEY, W. M.
NORVXN W. LEWIS. Secy.
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Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Secy.
HAGEN .
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
0 D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
001 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. I1N f
Recommend Pay
Raises For Terri
torial Governors
WASHINGTON, </P)—After the
Interior Department’s endorse
ment of an increase from $l()'0()0
to $15,000 in the salaries of Ter
ritorial governors Monday, chair
man Crawford <R.-Mich.) of the
House territories sub-committee
declared:
“I’ll have to be sold on this bill.
I have no sympathy for proposals
to raise salaries of federal offi
cials above that of members of
Congress where the responsibili
ties are no greater.’
The increase proposal applies
to governors of Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is
lands. Irwin W. Silverman, chief
of the division of territories,
brought the endorsement of the
interior department, which was
supported by delegates Bartlett
of Alaska and Farrington of Ha
waii.
The sub-committee will con
sider it at a later date.
Crawford, meantime, announc
ed appointment of three attorney
! members of the sub-committee to
, study a bill providing increased
' compensation for U. S. commis
sioners in Alaska.
The three members. Reps. En
gle 'D.-Calif.), Taylor (R.-N. Y.)
and Dawson (R.-Utah), will con
fer with Bartlett on the proposal.
The bill would increase the
commissioners’ maximum com
pensation from $3,000 to $5,000 a
year to be collected from fees,
and provide a guaranteed mini
mum of $200 a month for 46 of
the 68 Alaskan commissioners.
Bartlett estimated the increase
cost would not exceed $100,000 a
year.
Russians To View ;
Soviet War Movie ;
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(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, f/P)—’When Russian
audiences see the forthcoming
Soviet cinema “The Battle of Sta
lingrad” they will see Prime Min
ister Stalin depicted as accusing
Britain and the U. S. of breaking
a soiemn promise to open a west-j
ern front in Europe in 1942 so
.hat Russia would be “bled white”,
and her allies could dictate the
terms of the peace.
Excerpts from the script, pub
ished yesterday in the Moscow
News, only English language pa
per in the Soviet Union, show
Winston Churchill as the princi- j
pal mover against the second
front. President Roosevelt is pre
sented as opposing him, but pow
erless to alter the British Prime
minister’s determination.
The script has Roosevelt saying
at one point: “There is only one
thing for which I am too old and
I that is to drag Churchill across the
' Channel in chains.’
; At another point Stalin is de
picted as saying to the audience,
following a Moscow conferense at
tended by Churchill and former
! U. S. ambassador - to Russia W.
' Averell Harriman:
j “It is clear. A campaign in Af
j rica and then Italy. They simply
; want to reach the Balkans first.
: They want us to be bled white so
■ they can dictate the terms later.
, At one point it quoted Roose
1 velt as telling a newsman:
! “Unfortunately, it does not de
i pend on me. What can you do
against inertia? It is like hitting a
punching bag of wet manure. You
! can only soil your hands.”
About 439,000 miles of the na
tion’s highway system are paved.
Tug Explodes And
Sinks; Eight Dead
SEATTLE, (/P) — Four seamen
still are missing from the eight
man crew of the war surplus tug
W. H. McFadden which sank Fri
day in the Strait of Juan de Fuca,
the coast guard said all are be
lieved to have perished.
The coast 'guard announced this
forenoon that search efforts were
being abandoned after exhaustive
efforts had failed to locate the
sunken craft or any evidence that
any of the men survived.
Coroner A. C. Grady said at
Port Townsend examination of
the bodies led him to believe the
boat might have caught fire and
the men had time only to don life
jackets before an explosion sent
it down. Exact cause of the sink
ing remains a mystery, although
shipping men and coast guard au
thorities expressed belief the craft
either foundered in a treacherous
rig tide or caught fire and ex
ploded.
The McFadden, a 68-foot, 500
horsepower steel-decked tug, was
t en route to New Orleans, La. It
[ was purchased recently from the
! war surplus administration by the
; Liquid Fuel and Transportation
| Co.. Fort Worth, Tex.
Whiskey From
Petroleum—?
HOUSTON, Tex. (/P) — Hang
over whiskey, equal in taste and
j quality to the best grain liquors,
j eould.be manufactured from pe
troleum if manufacturers and
|
i drinkers did not have a “preju
dice” against obtaining liquor
from oil wells, Dr. Henry Haas,
head of the chemistry department
Communists Blast
Chinese Railroad
PEIPING, (/P) — Several sec
tions of the Peiping-Linyu <Shan
haikwan* railline were blasted
and uprooted Tuesday a few hours
after two trains carrying 500
American marines and their com
mander passed safely through
Communist-held territory.
Col. Julian N. Frisbie, com
mander of the Fifth Regiment of
the First Division, travelling in a
deluxe coach, and 500 marines in
a special train reached the port of
Chinwangtao without incident.
They began boarding two trans
ports for Guam and the United
States in the withdrawal of lea
thernecks from China.
About 350 marines of the Fifth
who drove a 75-vehicle convoy
from Peiping to Tientsin Monday
were left waiting at the station by
the rail explosion. They had been
scheduled to board trains from
Tientsin Tuesday to join the re
mainder of the Fifth at Chin
wangtao.
The vehicles, which made the
highway run without difficulty,
were being shipped by water to
Chinwangtao.
The railroad was cut during the
night in two separate places be
j tween Tangku and Tangshan,
j tearing up a mile-long section in
one instance.
The railline goes southeast from
Peiping to Tientsin and Taku and
then northeast to Chinwangtao
and Linyu.
at Purdue University, said here.
“Whiskey processed from oil
products would contain no fusil
oil, which is the ingredient that
causes hangovers,” Haas said.
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