Ask- Investigation
Occupation Scrips
WASHINGTON (/Pi—Three Re
publican Senators called yester
day for a full-scale investigation'
into reports that the United States |
has redeemed millions of dollars j
worth of German occupation!
money printed by Russian author- j
ities.
The three lawmakers—Bridge* i
of New Hampshire, Ferguson of
Michigan and Knowlanri of Cal-!
ifornia—told a reporter in separ
ate interviews that they under
stand the plants to print the Ger
man marks were given to the Rus
sians by American officials.
Among other uses for the occu
pation money was to pay allied
troops.
Earlier reports have said that
the Russian soldiers drawing large
amounts of back pay—paid fabu
lous black market prices to Amer
ican jG.I.’s for such items as wrist
watches and trinkets.
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N.W.A. FAIR MANAGER
SUBM1T8 FINAL REPORT
The manager of the N.W.A. Fair
submitted his final report for the
Ninth Fair to the Board of Direc
tors showing that the Fair was
one of the biggest and best ever
held in Nome.
The report states however that
the Fair operated at a loss this
year of $1,248.44.
This is partially explained by
the fact that the Territory has al
ways paid one thousand dollars
toward the expense of all Fairs in
the Territory and the last legisla
ture failed to make the usual ap
propriation.
Another reason for the financial
loss was due to the fact that there
were other conflicting activities in
progress at the time of the Fair
and although the committees in
charge worked hard they were
unable to overcome the handicap.
However, the Board stated that
plans would be made to overcome
the deficit and that the Fair had
proved itself well worth while un
der the efficient and capable man
agement of George C. Beacom.
Player Suffers !
Freak Accident
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PHILADELPHIA, <JP) — The
longest National League clash of:
the year brought another injury
to Schoolboy Rowe yesterday.
The three and three-quarter
hour 15-inning struggle found the
Philadelphia Phillies winning out i
2 to 1 over the world champion St. j
Louis Cardinals.
Rowe’s injury, his third ailment!
in a year, came in a freak acci-!
dent.
The Phils held a 1-0 lead in the
sixth inning of the nightcap when
Stan Musial came to bat. Musial
swung, his bat broke in half and
part of it sailed out and hit Rowe 1
on his pitching arm.
The veteran hurler, whose rec-1
ord stands at seven victories and j
one defeat, suffered a deep cut on j
the elbow. Manager Ben Chapman
said he did not think the injury
was “too serious.”
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COUNCIL MEETING
DISCUSSES CEMETERY
At the regular Monday night
meeting the council members dis
cussed the condition of the City
Cemetery with a group of repre
sentatives from several of the fra
ternal organizations. The question
of greatest importance seemed to
be one of responsibility. Organiza-1
tions were willing to help but
were unable to accept the respon
sibility for taking the entire ceme
tery under hand. The city was
asked to take the lead in repairing,
the roads, fences and gates and!
find some method of assisting in j
getting the entire cemetery “clean-1
ed up.” A committee wfas appoint-j
ed and a meeting set for Friday.
MR. AND MRS. CARL LOMEN
RETURN TO NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lomen who|
have spent the winter in the
States returned Monday evening
to their First Avenue residence.
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r Private Citizens Again!
. The Alaska Steamship Company is pleased to announce its return to
private operations to and from Alaska ports and Seattle, effective with
the sailing from Seattle of the S. S. Baranof on June 6, the S. S. Aleutian
on June 13, and a sailing every Friday thereafter. Regular ports of call
will be Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Vildez and Seward. The Baranof
and the Aleutian will carry passengers, mail, express, baggage and a
limited amount of cold storage and cool room freight. In addition,
beginning June 26 and every 'third Thursday thereafter, sailings of the
S. S. Denali are scheduled from Seattle'on the Scldovia-Kodiak Island
route. Freight vessel schedules from Seattle to all parts of Alaska will
be announced in the near future.
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For the past five years, since May of 1942,
The Alaska Line has served solely as General
Agents for the War Shipping Adminis
tration, its entire operations of necessity
regulated and controlled by governmental /
authority. Even as early as September of
1939, the Alaska Steamship Company had
begun its contribution to the war effort,
concentrating ail needed facilities on the
transportation of materials to contractors
for the navy in Alaska.
Throughout this period, The Alaska Line,
which has served Alaska since gold rush
days, did everything possible under wartime
conditions to furnish necessary transportation
for the civilian and commercial life of Alaska.
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With the return to private operations, the Alaska Steamship Company
again looks forward witl< enthusiasm to a progressive program of
expanding service to Alaska '
Alaska Steamship Company
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Alaska Seems
Assured Pulpwood,
Newsprint Industry
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wins the bid will have to spend
from $300,000 to $500,000 in the
first year, merely on plans and
surveys. He said the forest service
hopes to conduct the sale as soo;>
as possible so that much of this
preliminary work may be accom
plished this summer, and actual
construction may begin next year.
If the sale is held early enough
for surveys t^o begin this year,
production may begin in 1950. thus
the 50-year contract would carry
into the year 2000.
“Kind of awed me—that’s the
first time I’ve worked on a con
tract that far into the future.”
Heintzelman said.
When the sale can be held de
pends upon the action of Congress
on a point resolution to authorize
the secretary of agriculture to sell
timber within the Tongass Nation
al forest in Alaska while claims of
Alaska Indians and other natives
to such land and timber remain
undetermined.
Under that proposal, all receipts
from such sales would be main
tained in a special treasury ac
count until land and timber rights
are finally settled. The Senate
public lands sub-committee is con
ducting a hearing on the measure
today, and the House will hold its
second hearing on the subject
June 19.
The timber included in the Pe
tersburg contract includes 1,500,
000,000 cubic feet, of which most
of it is western hemlock and more
than 20 per cent Sitka spruce, with
small quantities of intermixed
Alaska cedar and western red ce
dar. An estimated 15 per cent may
be found more available for man
ufacture into lumber, plywood,
shingles or piling than as pulp
wood.
The area embraces about 400,
000 acres of commercial timber
out of an estimated 5,000,000 to
6,000,000 such acres in the Ton
gass forest.
Heintzelman said there are five
or six other units in southeastern
Alaska for which similar con
tracts might be written. They in
clude one or two in the Juneau
area, one near Sitka, and two in
the Ketchikan area.
Petersburg is 110 miles south
east of Juneau and 130 m les
northwest of Ketchikan.
Submarines To
Train In Arctic
PEARL HARBOR, <*>) — Four
Pacific fleet submarines and a
subtender will leave Pearl Harbor
in mid-July for a two-months
training cruise into Arctic waters,
submarine force headquarters
said yesterday.
The vessels will cruise in *he
Bering and Chuckachee sear and
may go as for north as Point Bar
row ice cap, headquarter*;
This will be the second postwar
submarine cruise into the area.
Four submarines made the trip
last year without a tender. This
year the vessels are expected to
visit Adak, Kodiak, Seward and
Juneau.
The vessels will be the tender
Nereus and the submarine Broad
fish, based at San Diego, and the
Cabezon, Caiman and Kand Chub,
based here.
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