Embargo Freight
To U. S. Points
(By The Associated Press)
Rail officials at Anchorage an
nounced an embargo today on all
cargo to U. S. points.
The action came in the face of
an acute freight car shortage. Of
ficials estimated cargo now at
Seward will keep facilities active
ly engaged for another week.
In Anchorage, Delegate E. L.
Bartlett said he has wired secre
tary of interior Krug asking au
thorization for the Alaska Railroad
to engage in shipping for the dura
tion of the maritime strike.
He said the A.R.R. has three sur
plus barges on hand now, and that
interior department appropriations
authorize the railroad to operate |
boats between Seattle and the Ter
ritory in time of emergency.
Paul S. Warber, acting superin
tendent of the railway mail service
agency at Anchorage, said the
army has agreed to handle all
classes of mail for Anchorage and
other railbelt points for the R. M.
S. He said three vessels operating
on the Whittier-Adak-Seattle run
will provide non-scheduled mail
service on an infrequent basis.
GIRL KILLS
A MOUSE!!!!!
OKLAHOMA CITY, </P) —
Scream after scream from a 16
year-old girl’s apartment sent
neighbors running to their tele
phones to call police here last
night.
Prowl car officers Fred Merz
and C. O. Williams pulled up out
side with squealing tires, hurled
themselves into the building and
dashed down the hall.
Flushed and panting, Mary Lou
Miller threw open her door as the
policemen charged up.
“It's all over” . . . she gasped.
“I screamed . . . then I killed it
with a broom.”
“IT was a mouse.”
Silesian Workers
For Opera Company
WROCLAW, Poland, (/P) — A
workers opera company is being
formed in this Lower Silesian
city.
Fifty singers have been chosen
out of 200 voice tests. Six persons
are being sent to the Chopin Mu
sic School in Warsaw where they
1 will receive free singing lessons.
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Gas Battle In
Refinery Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — Hun
dreds of CIO oil refinery strikers
fought a rock and tear gas battle
wi h police for two hours yesterday
' in an unsuccessful effort to keep
| non-striking AFL maintena nee
men out of a plant.
A policeman, a state highway
patrolman and four strikers were:
hospitalized but none was believed
in serious condition.
Cameras of three news photog
raphers were seized and the film
exposed. Several photographers
were roughed up. An Oakland Tri
bune reporter was hit by a tear
gas bomb.
It was the first mass violence of
California’s 11-day-old strike over
wages, a strike which has curtailed
gasoline supplies up and down the
west coast.
Some five pound rocks were
flung during the fighting.
Most of the violence occurred at
the main gate of the Standard Oil
refinery in Richmond. But it also
extended for blocks around the ap
proaches to the plant.
A Standard spokesman said the
union at Los Angeles offered to
settle for a boost of 19 cents an
hour, instead of the 21 cents it had
previously demanded. A 12Vfe per
cent increase retroactive from July
3 to Sept. 1 was also reportedly
asked by the union.
Standard Oil company spokes
men here said the company had re
jected the union’s proposal. The
companies are offering a 12Vfe
cents an hour increase.
A large snake will destroy more
rodents than two or three cats.
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U. S. Explore
Arctic Ocean
SYDNEY, N. S., i/P) — Cmdr.
Donald B. MacMillan, just back
from his 27th voyage to the Arctic,
says “protective measures” are be
ing taken in Greenland to repulse
possible foreign attack.
The 73-year-old explorer de
clared, in a speech last night just
after arriving from the north, that
the United States “is getting ready
in the north.” He did not amplify
Speaking before a local service
club, the said he and his crew of
16 aboard the Bowdoin penetrated
to within 660 miles of the north
pole and assembled a vast amount
of hydrographical data. This, he
said, will be used to correct chart
ings.
Information on the polar regions
is valuable to the defense of North
America, MacMillan declared.
“That’s why we go,” he said.
“That’s why we’re going back.”
He said that while the United
States has spent more than $1,000,
000 of surveying and exploring the
Arctic, Canada has allowed 300
miles of the Labrador coast to go
unexplored.
He said more than 1,000 sound
ings were taken from the Bowdoin
during the summer.
Alaskans Fly To
States To Enlist
SEATTLE, UP) — Six Alaskans
who flew to Seattle to enlist in the
army were sworn in yesterday at
the recruiting station at Colman
dock.
Five were from Kodiak and will
enter the army as privates, which
is not an unusual situation.
The other is from Fairbanks and
will enter the army as a sergeant
—an unusual situation, since he
has no previous army experience.
Sgt. Harvey Carnett, Jr., as he
is now known, entered with the
rating because of his experience as
an airplane mechanic in Fairbanks.
The youth, who is 20 years old,
will be sent to the air training
command at Sheppard air force
base in Wichita Falls, Texas, for
processing.
The enlistee found himself in the
! position of outranking some of the
' recruitment men on duty.
i
Kirk Jackson drove his big truck
i in from Solomon last night. He is
| mining the E. W. Quigley ground
in the Solomon area this year.
Kirk will return to Solomon with
I supplies. He stated that the season
has been fairly favorable and
showed us a few nice nuggets to
I prove it.
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