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SS. Companies Ask
Rate Increase
^)r New Ships
(l/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska
Steamship companies urged the
Maritime commission today to dis
miss an application of the War
Shipping Administration for an
increase in freight and passenger
Ales to Alaska and to recommend
a government construction subsidy
to replace ships the lines lost dur
ing the war.
At a hearing before the commis
sion on an examiner's report
recommending the rate increases
be denied, Ira A. Ewers, counsel
for the Alaska Shipping Co. and
the Northland Transportation Co.
asked the case be dismissed.
He said he based the request on
Wic fact the shipping administra
tion had dropped its request and
therefore there was nothing be
fore the commission.
Ewers urged the commission to
let the ships of the companies be
returned to them by the govern
ment by the end of the year, ap
prove a construction subsidy and
§ let the companies then file appli
cation for approval of rates they
wish to establish.
* Albert E. Stephan, counsel for
the Alaska Transportation Co.,
told the commission he believed
the companies operating to Alaska
should be given a 67.4 per cent
rate increase for a short while un
til they are in a position to apply
for approval for new rates. In lieu
of this, he said the commission
should construct ships for the
iAlaskan trade and private opera
tors should be permitted to take
over their ships from the govern
ment by the end of the year.
The government started operat
ing shipping to Alaska during the
war with the steamship companies
acting as agents for the war ship
ping administration.
David Scoll, representing the
Territory of Alaska and the Alas
ka Development board, asked the
wmmission not to permit an in
crease in rates to the Territory. He
said the people of Alaska could
not stand another rate increase.
EDMONTON, Alta. (/P)—E. W.
Patton of Fairbanks, said today he
had requested Alaska representa
tives in Washington, D. C., to see
Canadian ration coupons to permit
^purchase of food supplies in Ed
monton for shipment to Alaska,
w Patton said he also was negoti
ating with customs officials to
have Dawson Creek, B. C., desig- j
nated as a “port of entry” for cus- 1
toms purposes in shipment of the
goods.
CITY OF PLENTY —Residents of Stockholm shop in open-air market which features large
quantities of fruits and vegetables, items not rationed in Sweden.
Indian Bureau
May Be Liquidated
WASHINGTON, (JP)—’The Bur
eau of Indian Affairs is working
out plans under which the Indian
Service eventually can go out of
business, John Provins, assistant
commissioner, said today.
Rep. Stigler tD-Okla.), speaking
before the annual convention of
the national congress of American
Indians in Oklahoma City, said re
cently that he was convinced the
policy of the Indian Bureau has
been to maintain tribalism and
segregation and perpetuate “a
system of bureaucratic domina
tion.”
Stigler expressed the opinion
the bureau should formulate a
plan to “emancipate the American
Indian from slavery and should
quit experimenting and using the
Indian as a guinea pig."
PORT ANGELES, (/P)—A fed
eral court trial awaited M. M.
'Buck* Fruit, chief patrol officer
for the state game department,
who yesterday was arested — by
request—'While hunting on private
land inside the Olympic National
Park.
Fruit was charged with hunting
and possessing firearms inside the
park, contrary to park regulations,
and was brought before U. S.
Commissioner W. F. Phillips, who
released him on his own recogni
zance. The case is to test the state’s:
contention that it retains jurisdic
tion over private lands within the
boundaries of a national park.
Nome Rotary (dub
Te Re Presented
\\ ilii Charter
The Rotary Club of Nome to
morrow will welcome Dan Lha
mon, President, Fairbanks Rotary
Club, Special Representative of
Roy Fletcher, Governor of the
101st District of Rotary Interna
tional, which includes 44 Rotary
Clubs in Northwestern Washing
ton, Western Brtiish Columbia,
and Alaska.
Mr. Lhamon is to act as Master
of Ceremonies at the Charter Pre
Nome’s new ‘'Bering Sea Club” j
Thursday evening, November 14. j
Mr. Lhamon will visit the Ro
uan Lnamon
!
sentation Meeting of the Nome
Rotary Club No. 6388 to be held in
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Airliner Vanishes
in California
BURBANK, Calif. (A3)—A West
ern Air Lines DC-3, with 11 per
sons aboard, vanished in the storm
shrouded hills norfri of here today
and hours later both ground and
air searchers were stalled by bad
weather.
The plane, enroute to Lockheed
Air Terminal from Salt Lake City,
reported in over Newhall, an air
traffic check point, at 3:24 a.m.
The pilot gave his altitude as
9000 feet. Thirteen minutes later,
indicating nothing amiss he asked
the control tower for landing in
structions.
The normal approach route is
through a pass, flanked by 2200
foot peaks, and it was feared the
craft was slightly off course in
driving rain and snow flurries.
Western Air said the gas supply
would have been exhautsed by 7
a.m.
Capt. Garrel Miller, 34. Van
Nuys, Calif., was the pilot.
MRS. DEAN SCHOLL
ARRIVES IN NOME
Mrs. Dean Scholl, wife of Sgt.
Scholl of the ACS and two chil
dren arrived from the east Tues
day morning to make her home
here.
JAMES ADAMS APPOINTED
NEW DEPUTY MARSHAL
The U. S. Marshall’s office has
announced the appointment of a
new deputy officer. James E. Ad
ams, formerly with the U.S.E.D.,'
has just assumed his new duties, i
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Operators And
Union Reaching
Agreement Oil
Various Issues
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P) — Basis
for settlement of the month and a
half old west coast maritime strike
has been achieved, with an an
nouncement likely within the next
24 to 48 hours, it was reliably in
dicated today.
Dr. Nathan P. Feinsinger, feder
al mediator, emerged from the
closed negotiating sesssions to say
“the only real obstacle” to mari
time peace, the preferential hiring
issue, “has now been removed.”
No final agreement was expect
ed today in view of a further
meeting scheduled tomorrow at 10
a.m. between ship operators and
the AFI, master, mates and pilots.
SEATTLE, f/P)—H. L. Daggett,
business agent of the marine en
gineers beneficial asociation <CIO)
jsaid that the dispute which has
ken! the Alaska relief ship Grom
met Reefer tied up here probably
: will be settled today.
The union and Alaska Steam
j ship company officials expect to
' agree quickly on the vessel’s en
gineering personnel, Daggett add
ed.
Meanwhile stocks of food and
medical supplies in Alaska com
munities reached low levels as a
result of the 43-day maritime
strike.
A chief engineer and his second
and third assistants already have
been named for the Grommet
Reefer. However, the vessel’s en
gines will have to be overhauled
and this may take several days.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P> — The
dispute between striking CIO ma
rine engineers and shippers, how
ever had been resolved to the
matter of applying the remainder
of the east coast settlement terms
to the west coast—a matter on
“which the employers have
agreed,” Feinsinger asserted.
Negotiations with the CIO long
shoremen he added, are concerned
principally with three or four
points on which discussions are in
progress.
Of these negotiations, Feinsinger
said:
“There has been no attempt on
either side to change the Septem
ber 30 agreement which disposed
of all union demands except that
concerning steam schooners. That
has since been settled, and nego
tiators are now defining the work
of CIO longshoremen in this con
nection.”
However, ship owners have ad
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