THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLIX,
NEWS IN BRIEF
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^ MIAMI, Fla. id’)—Between 1,500
Wid 2,000 army, navy, marine and
privately owned planes roared in
unison today for the opening of
the 15th annual all-American air
maneuvers, described as the big
gest air carnival in aeronautical
history. About 10,000 pilots and
air-minded visitors are taking parti
in the three-day program of stunt I
flying, military aircraft maneu
vers, and air races.
▼SAN FRANCISCO, (.P)—Short
stop Roy Nicely has signed his con-1
tract for next season the San
Francisco Seals announced today.
Terms were not disclosed. He was
with the team in 1945 and 1946,
and hit .220 last season.
NEW YORK, (/P) — Babe Ruth
has had no callers except his wife
«ince he underwent a serious opei -
tion on his neck last Monday.
While French hospital reported
early today that the former home
run kings’ condition was still “sat
isfactory and unchanged.” It was i
reported that he had been suffer
ing considerable pain since the op
eration and had been quite rest
less.
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LONDON, (iP) — Soviet Russia
has asked Norway to grant her
special privileges at Spitzenber
gen, the Norwegian foreign min-!
ister announced today in Oslo. In
London a British foreign office
spokesman said Britain was aware
of a request from “some power”!
to establish a base in the Arctic
island group.
DETSOIT, (jP)—Ward's automo
tive reports today estimated this
week’s car and truck production
jin the United States and Canada
at 78,329, compared with a re
vised total of 53,437 in the short
holiday week ended Jan. 4. In-j
eluded in this week’s figures are
50,689 cars and 22,800 trucks as-'
s,enabled in the United States to
gether with 2,625 cars and 2,215
tocks made in Canada.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of Interior J. A. Krug announced
today selection of Hazelton, Pa., as
a site for the Bureau of Mines’
new $450,000 anthracite research
laboratory.
SHANGHAI, m — Northwest
Airlines’ survey plane arrived to
day from Seoul. It is scheduled to
(Hemain four or five days before
going on to Manila on its Oriental
survey flight.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Rep. Jack
son (D.-Wash.) said today he plans
legislation transferring to the In
terior Department all civil author
ity in Guam, Ameican Samoa and
amy of the Japanese-mandated
islands of the Pacific which have
come under American jurisdiction.
|Vackson told a reporter he belicv
Ied American opinion was opposed
to military rule under peace time
Seditions. He described such a
rule as not in accord with “either
;our traditions or modern practices
of other powers.”
The Flying Lears
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Industrialist William P. Lear, with
son William, Jr., congratulates daughter Patti on receiving her pilot’s
wings, making three fliers in the family. Lear, who won the Hawks
Memorial Award in 1940 for his outstanding contribution to aviation,
manufactures aircraft radio and navigation equipment, and Lear Home
Radios and Wire Recorders in his plant here.
The younger Lear, just eighteen, was the youngest entry in this
year’s coast-to-coast National Air Races, placing well up front in a
field of over thirty veteran fliers. Patti, a student at the University
of California at Los Angeles, is planning to establish a “flying date”
service for her classmates at school.
President’s Budget
Message Asks Aid
For Alaska Roads
WASHINGTON, (/PV—President
Truman asked Congress today in
his budget message for rehabilita
tion of the Alaska Railroad with n
cash appropriation of $4,000,000
and contractural authority for an
additional $15,000,000.
For maintaining existing high
ways and continuing construction
in the Territory he asked $3,753,
000 for the next fiscal year, an in
crease of $1,153,000 over the cur
rent year.
He asked $61,300 for the salar
ies and expenses of the governor
and secretary as compared to $54,
675 this year. For legislative ex
penses he made no request as the
legislature does not meet this year.
For care and custody of the insane
he asked $334,700, an increase of
$43,000. For wagon roads, bridges
and trails he asked $130,000 a de
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May Decontrol
Transient Rooms
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♦Special to The Nugget*
JUNEAU—Walter E. Walsh, in
the office of temporary controls of
the OPA in Juneau says “Effective
February 15t transient rooms in
a hotel may be released from con
trol of the rent regulations. It is
stressed that decontrol is not au
tomatically extended by the
amendment. To be released quali
fied hotels must file applications
for decontrol, designating the
number of rooms rented by the
week and by the month period.
No application will be accepted
unless the hotel has filed registra
tion required to be filed by Janu
ary 1, 1947.
CAA Lists Three
Alaskan Projects
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Administration an
nounced today a list of 800 air-;
ports to £>e built or improved with
the aid of government funds in the j
first year of the federal airport
program. The list includes three
projects for Alaska and 15 for;
Washington.
The projects for which the I
agency has allocated funds includ-1
ed; <in order, location and name
of airport; class airport when
completed: total cost; government'
share; division of expenditures;!
work proposed).
Seward, class 2 (now class 1);|
$40,000,000 and $30,000; $3,000 for
land, $37,000 for other items. I
Work: grading, draining, stabiliza
tion, marking.
Dillingham, class 2; $53,000 and
$40,000; all for items othen than
land and buildings. Work: new air
port; clearing, grubbing, grading,
drainage, runway stabilization.
Seldovia, class 1, $66,000 and
$48,700; $1,600 for land, $64,000
for other items. Work: north-south
landing strip 300 by 2,000 feet with
possible 500-foot extension; grad
ing, drainage, gravel surfacing,
zone clearance, marking.
MISSING PILOTS ARRIVE
SAFELY AT KOTZEBUE
Pilot E. B. Joiner of the Arctic
Air Service and Pilot H. Coplin
of Haycock, who were reported j
missing during the storm arrived
safely at Kotzebue.
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Art Schumann,
34, who with others took ice hock
ey to England, Scotland and Ger
many a number of years ago and;
played with the San Diego Sky
hawks and Seattle Ironmen last
season, died yesterday.
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President Asks
Congress For
37 Billion Dollars
WASHINGTON, i/Pt—President
T’-uman proposed today that the
government spend $37,528,000,000
daring the fiscal year which be
gins next July 1.
His budget message to the Re
publican Congress thus went more
than eight billion dollars over '.he
limit some key GOP leaders have
set for federal outlays in their de
termined drive to cut taxes while
whittling away at the mammoth
national debt.
Mr. Truman earmarked $11,537,
000,000—or nearly a third of the
total for national defense — and
again ignored Republican demands
that this item should be held to
ton billion dollars or less. But he
Chief Executive, calling hu budget
“realistic” and “tight," insisted
that he had been “more hard boiled
. . . than I like to be” in enforcing
his own economy demands on fed
eral agencies.
His recommended total of $37,
523,000.000 is $4,995,000,000 under
h:s revised estimate on what it is
costing the government to operate
this year and $1,636,000,000 higher
than the budget he submitted just
a year ago. Even so, the President
said the treasury will close its
books on June 30, 1948, with its
first balanced budget in 18 years—
and with a $202,000,000 surplus to
boot—provided there are no tax
cuts in the next 18 months. He
placed estimated income for the
coming year at $37,730,000,000—a
drop of two and a half billion from
the current fiscal period.
Revenues this fiscal year will
reach $40,230,000,000, a gain of
six hundred million over August
estimates and a jump of eight bil- j
lion, seven hundred seventeen mil
lion from his forecast of a year
ago. Better-than-expected tox col
lections resulting from high-level
business activity accounted for the
increases, Mr. Truman said.
For the coming year, however,
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Second Volcano
In Alaska Krtipls
SEATTLE. i/P)—A second vol
canic disturbance in Alaska’s
Aleutian islands was reported to
day by the navy, which said 9.387
foot Mount Shishaldin on Unimak
.■dan;! was erupting with such
violence that it showered ashes two
inches deep on the village of False
Pass 20 miles away.
The report, from the Navy’s 17th
district at Kodiak, said neither
teh Shishaldin activity nor con
tinuing eruptions by Akutan vol
cano 100 miles westward were en
dangering residents of the isolated
Aleutian islands.
The USS Passaic, a netlayer, vis
ited False Pass January 2 and
reached Dutch Harbor today with
news of the new eruption. Post
master Frank Bell of False Pass
■ old Passaic crewmen that Shishal
din had been erupting every five
days for several weeks.
Quartermaster 1/c Allan E. Sit
ter of Los Angeles said he observ
ed heavy black puffs of smoke
bursting from the mountain. False
Pass residents said the eruption
caused electrical disturba n c e s
which looked like lightning flashes
and lighted the entire area. Sitter
said the village was covered with
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Miners Must Do
Assessment Work
‘Special to The Nugget*
JUNEAU—In response to his in
quiry Commissioner of Mines B.
D. Stewart has received from Del
egate Bartlett a reply which states
that claimants of mining claims in
Alaska must perform assessment
work on or for the benefit of their
claims between July 1, 1947 and
July 1, 1948, and must file notice
or certificate of performance of
such work on or before 12 o’clock
noon, July 1, 1948, in order to hold
mining claim under the recent
proclamation of the President that
hostilities in the war have ceased.
Seattle Doek Companies Charge
Demurrage On Strike-Tied-lIp Goods
(Special to The Nugget)
(From the Governor’s Office)
JUNEAU — Juneau merchants
were up in arms today over .bills
for demurrage they have been re
ceiving along with freight bills
covering shipments on the tcamers
North Sea and Alaska. These bills
include demurrage for freight
which had been tied up on Seattle
docks all through the long mari
time strike.
Before shippers here are permit
ted to take delivery of their freight
they are requied to pay the at
tached demurrage charges. These
charges were imposed by the dock
companies in Seattle and range in
most cases from ninety to one
hundred days. The charge amounts
to two cents per ton per day.
Merchants here were particular
ly bitter about these charges inas
much as they had found it impos
sible to reclaim from the docks in
r
Seattle freight w’hich had been de
livered there. Many merchants
sought to regain possession of their
shipments there in order to route
them via Prince Rupert during
the strike.
Although they were not able to
get the cargo off the docks, it now
appears they were expected to
continue paying demurrage all
through the long strike.
Representatives of the board of
directors of the Juneau Merchants
Association met here yesterday af
ternoon to discuss the matter with
Governor Gruening and other of
ficials.
It was decided that the bills for
demurrage will be collected and
totaled and protest against the im
posing of these charges filed with
the United States Maritime Com
mission, which on January 22 will
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