Alaska Is America’s
First Line Of
Defense
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to Alaska in great numbers to re
ceive delivery of American planes
to be flown across Siberia to the
fighting front.
Russia Builds Air Bases
In this delivery system, Russia
reportedly built up a great line of
airports across Siberia to make the
North American continent easily
accessible by air.
Howell was accompanied on the
Alaskan mission by seven other
members of the House commerce
committee—Reps. Leonard Hall
(R.-N. Y.>, Hugh Scott (R.-Ua.),
Carson (R.-Ohio), Chapman <D.
Ky.t, Harless (D.-Ariz.) and Rog
ers (D.-Fla.).
The trip was decided upon after
the Alaskan Delegate, E. L. Bart
lett, told the House earlier this
year that “false notions of econo
my should not, and indeed, must
not, be allowed to stand in the way
of the Alaska defense program.”
“Now as perhaps never before
it is essential for us to build in
Alaska a mighty fortress capable
of withstanding any onslaught
which might be made against it,”
Bartlett said.
“Alaska can either be the region
furnishing protection for our na
tion, or it can be the region from
which an enemy can reach us. The
choice is ours.”
NEW HOME OF MODERN
CLEANERS SOON TO OPEN
The new home of the Modern
Cleaners, owned by Paul Mande
ville on the corner of 1st and
Lanes’s Way, is rapidly nearing
completion after a lengthy delay
due to lack of materials. The
owner hopes to be in the building
some time in September.
RJr. Handeville states that not
only a modern dry cleaning busi
ness will occupy the building, but
an up-to-date laundry as well.
The present building of the
Modern Cleaners will be occupied
by the Pan American Airways.
Bill Gillis is the contractor for
the construction.
MISS CLARA SEIFFERT
HOME FROM VACATION
Clara Seiffert, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Binks Seiffert, returned
home Monday from Fairbanks.)
Clara has been vacationing for the
past several weeks in Fairbanks
and Anchorage.
Spanish Munitions
Factory Explodes; !
Many Arc Killed
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neck of the narrow peninsula.
Spanish authorities announced
no estimate of the casualties. Re
porters said most of the injured
they saw had been cut by flying
glass or were bruised by falling
debris.
j The Jerez de la Frontera radio
station, 15 miles to the north,
broadcast appeals throughout the]
night for doctors, nurses and med-i
icines.
Ambulances and rescue teams
were arriving from as far east as
Malaga, west from Huelva, and
north from Sevilla.
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The population of the San Se
veriano district, which received
the full force of the explosion, was
i about equally divided between
] summer vacation transients and
1 workers.
Many prominent persons who
live in chalets along the peninsula
coast were expected to be among
the injured.
Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta,
president of the council of state,
was reported injured slightly.
Some of the costliest damage
j was expected at the Echevarrieta
j shipyards. The new naval training
ship, Juan de Austria, which was
| about ready for launching, was de
stroyed by fire. Many smaller
j boats also burned.
i
ROLAND IVANOFF HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Last Wednesday evening there
was an accident on the Bessie
Road at the far end of the city
airport.
Roland Ivanoff, who had bor
rowed a Dodge pick-up from the I
foreman of the contractors for
Earl Butcher, to get a load of
wood for himself, was taken to the!
hospital with a cut on his head I
when the truck overturned. It was |
reported that the truck turned \
over twice, indicating extreme'
speed. Roland was carrying a pas-1
senger who was unhurt.
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MRS. SAM HUXLEY
RETURNS FROM STATES
Mte. Sam Huxley, wife of the
fire chief of the Nome Air Base,
who has been in the States where
she underwent a serious operation
at Mayo Brothers returned home
yesterday to be welcomed by her
many friends in the community. |
SS BARANOF Scheduled io sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle August 22nd.
S3 ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan.
Juneau and Seward Aug. 23rd.
SS Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seward for Cordova,
Valdes. Juneau. Ketchikan and Seattle Aug. 28th.
SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau,’ Cordova, Valdes and Seward August 30th.
M/S REEF KNOT Expected to arrive at Nome about Aug. 24.
THE LAST SHIP OF THE 1947 SEASON FOR NORTON SOUND
IS SCHEDULED TO SAIL FROM SEATTLE SEPTEMBER 15th.
RMerrations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
Europe’s Recovery
Must Precede
Aid To Americas
QUITANDINHA, Brazil, </P)—
Secretary of State Marshall told
the Inter-American conference to
day that Europe’s economic re
covery is vital to the Americas and!
takes precedence because of its ur
gency over needs of the Western
Hemisphere.
Further, in a plea for unity
among the 20 nations drafting a
hemisphere defense agreement,
Marshall said new world unity is
“vastly important” to the future of
the old world.
“The results of our labors will
demonstrate to all the world that
peoples, and nations, who really
want peace can have peace by liv
ing in an atmosphere of increas
ing co-operative action and good
will,” he said.
Responding to proposals for a
“Marshall Plan” for the Americas,
the secretary said the . United:
States has assumed “unusually
heavy burdens” in a determined
effort to meet minimum require- j
ments of war-devastated areas in
Europe and Asia “now threatened
with starvation and economic cha
os.”
Marshall continued:
“In assuming this burden we
have not lost sight of the econo
mic problems of the Western
Hemisphere. As a matter of fact
the economic rehabilitation of Eu
rope is vital to the economy of this
hemisphere.
“My government will continue
to take up economic questions
with its sister republics and seek
a sound basis for practical co-1
operation.”
HERB JENKS IN TOWN
ON BUSINESS
Herb Jenks, of the Silver Bow
Mining Co., at Coffee Creek, is in
town today on business. Herb says
the company has one pit nearly
i
ready and will soon begin work on
a second, making ready for a good
work season next year.
NOTICE
Pioneers of Alaska meet tonight
at Pioneer Igloo at 8 o'clock.
Bob Baldwin, Secy.
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DREAM
THEATER
1 Show Aug. 20 and 21, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"OUT OF THIS WORLD"
Eddie Bracken - Veronica Lake
Also "Radio Rampage"
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2 Shows, Aug. 22, 7:15 & 9:00 P.M.
Friday
"PRIDE OF THE PLAINS"
Smiley Burnette
Chapter 3. "Dick Tracy"
Also "Puppet Lore"
British Police Find
Bomb Near
Atlee’s Residence '
LONDON, f/P)—A police guard
discovered a bomb yesterday un
der a foreign office archway in
Downing Street, directly opposite
from the residence of Prime Min
ister Attlee.
Announcing the find, a Scotland
Yard spokesman said the bomb
could not have exploded, since it
did not contain a detonator.
Examination by Home Office
experts, he said, indicated the
bomb had been placed under the
arch leading from Downing Street
to the foreign office quadrangle as
a hoax.
The archway is within 25 yards
of the entrance to the colonial of
fice, where an unexploded bomb
was found several months ago.
Lying unconcealed under the
archway, the bomb consisted of
two electric batteries wired to a
glass jar with gray powder.
“The powder had explosive
qualities,” the Scotland Yard an
nouncement said, “but it would
not go off because there was no
detonator.”
TERRITORIAL SCHOOL
TEACHER ARRIVES HERE
E. C. Beimer, who is on the
teaching staff of the Nome Terri
torial school, arrived last week
with his wife from Detroit Lakes,
Minnesota. They will make their
home next door to the Jack Dowd
residence.
ACS To Extend
Service To Sitka
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Alaska
Communications System will ex
tend its radiotelephone service to
Sitka, probably about September
1, Col. T. J. Tully, commanding
officer, announced today. Tests of
new equipment at Sitka how are
underway.
Alaska points to which the ACS
already provides overseas tele
phone service from the U. S. and
Canada include Adak, Nome, Ko
diak, Seward, Anchorage, Fair
banks, Whittier, Skagway, Juneau
and Ketchikan.
Col. Tully Said the ACS plans
to extend the service to addition
al towns, including Cordova, Val
dez, Wrangell and Petersburg, as
soon as manpower, materials and
funds are available. Preliminary
work now is being done in the
Juneau area on the extension pro
ject.
NOT BED OF ROSES
DES MOINES, (/P) — An old
fashioned upright box-type folding
bed in his statehouse office solves
the housing problem for Iowa
Chief Justice William L. Bliss of
Mason City when he’s here on su
preme court business.
It has served state supreme
court judges for 40 years and the
red wool blankets bear laundry
marks of many former justices.
Justice Bliss makes up the bed
himself and recently bought new
springs. He says it’s very com
fortable.
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