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EXTRA SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
JUNEAU, Mar. 20—The House
and Senate have each passed their
own versions of the Green-Shat
tuck workmen’s compensation
measure, and it now goes to the
conference committee to iron out
the differences.. The veterans act
also passed both Houses, but the
f • House refuses to accept the Sen
ate amendments, and it now goes
to the conference committee. The
Senate committee on taxat;on and
«venue introduces a substitute for
e House measure, making gross
sales take the place of gross in
come tax. The Senate indefinitely
postponed the Alaska Territorial
Guard measure, which would
have abolished the Guard by re
turning all unexpended funds back
into the treasurer.
!The Senate passes its own mea
sure permitting Territorial offi
cials to travel to Washington pure
ly on business, also $15,000 to pur
chase a painting of Mount Mc
Kinley, also House bill for return
I ing veterans to be hired by the
Territory. The House passes pro
vision six for disabled fishermen.
To provide direct election of na
tional committeemen, women, del
egates and alternates to national
conventions. Liquor control bill
with closing hours stricken, only
prohibiting minors and placing a
tax of two dollars instead of one
dollar sixty cents per gallon of
liquor. Extending the excise taxes
on intoxicating liquor to cover
consigned shipments. Providing a
maximum of a thousand dollar
fine and a year in jail or both, on
^ conviction of using autos without
w the consent of owners. Authoriz
ing payment of deficiency on
eagle bounties, and extending
hair seal bounties to Bering Sea
areas.
New bills introduced in the
House under suspension of rules
by Warren, Pollard, McCutcheon
to appropriate $15,000 for a boat
harbor at Seldovia. The same au
thors appropriating $50,000 for a
small boat harbor at Kodiak.
The Senate passed a bill for the
people to vote for Governor, who
^must be a resident of Alaska for
eleven years. Passed the bill cut
ting the case tax on salmon from
12 and 6 to 10 and 4, and a trap
tax of $300 up to three; $400 over
to ten; $500 all above.
The House passed its own fish
trap bill, which was defeated in
the last legislature, of placing
$200 on the first trap, $300 on the
second trap; $400 on the third and
graduated by hundreds up to
jB $1200 for the eleventh through the
twentieth, and $1300 for each to
the thirtieth; $1400 to the fortieth;
Queen Contest
Conies To Front
The Carnival and Queen con
test has really “latched on” in
Nome. The last two days have
brought about two new sensation
al developments that have spur
red the candidates to a real rac
ing pace.
The Arctic Club, sponsors of the
affair, announced that each ticket,
in addition to giving votes to your
favorite contestant and being an
other chance on the door prize,
would also be a chance on winning
a $250 radio, to be selected by the
winner and purchased from the
dealer in Nome who carries the
brand selected.
The ether major development
in the contest was announced by
Dick Webb, manager for Wien
Alaska Airlines. His company will
give an airplane trip as a courtesy
gift to the queen and her ladies in
waiting.
The first pick-up and tally of
votes cast is as follows:
Jane Scott, N. C. Co.8,900
Ruth Seiffert, Larry Galvin....6,100
Pat Collins, Kougarok Freight
The Nome Army Base is spon
soring pretty 21-year-old brun
ette, Miss Kitty Kelly for Miss
Nome 1946.
and Mining Co.2,600
Lillian Leyba, Polar Curio....1,700
These returns are the first ones
made up, and no indications of
final result can be deduced from
them.
Bob Long’s committee is well
pleased with the public interest
; shown and they are anticipating
| that the coming carnival will
probably top all previous ones for
a real night of carnival and gaiety.
Carnival Committees
Mistress of Ceremonies, Mrs. Jane
i Galvin.
Food, Mrs. Guy Boyd, Mrs. Agnes
j Milligan.
Punch, Mrs. Hyndman, Mrs. Bing
ham.
Fish Pond, Mrs. Doug Johnson,
Mrs. Herschel Edwards.
Bingo, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jenks,
Hank Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Osborne.
Nigger Dolls, Walt Glavinovich,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Love.
Wheel of Fortune, Rex Langham,
Kay Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Webb.
$1500 to the fiftieth; $1400 on all
additional placed. The executive
secretary of Alaska Fisheries com
mission at $5100, raised from
$4200 to conform with salaries
paid other Territorial commis
sioners.
JUNEAU, Mar. 22 — Walker
calls for reconsideration of the
passage of the bill to purchase
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W HERE UNO MAY MEET —View of the interior
of the Center Theatre in New York City, seating 3,000 persons,
where the general assembly of the UNO may meet while New
York is interim capital of the world organization.
Russia Agrees To
Sell Wheat
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., (i«P)—
Assistant Secretary of State Clay
ton expressed the hope that Rus
sia will grant the UNRRA request
to help with wheat shipments,
“thus aligning itself with United
States and other supplying coun
tries.”
In an address before the dele
gates of 47 nations, he disclosed
that UNRRA “sometime ago” had
asked the Soviets whether Russia
could supply any wheat to meet
the heavy demands of hungry
countries. “Although I understand
no definite reply has been re
ceived to this inquiry, it was re
cently announced that the Soviet
Union has agreed to sell to France
reportedly for United States dol
lars, 400,000 tons of wheat and
100,000 tons of barley, provided
the necessary shipping was ob
tained.”
PIONEER CARD
SERIES ENDS
The sixth and last game of the
Pioneer Card series was played
Wednesday night at the Masonic
Temple. The door prize was won
by Margaret Steinbreck, and the
prizes for the game divided as fol
lows; for the men: first, Chas. D.
Jones, second Pete Reader, con
solation Andy Nordlind; for the
women: first Edith Bullock, sec
ond Karen Baldwin, and consola- j
tion Mrs. F. J. Rohn.
The prize winners for the high
score for the six games of the
series are as follows: for the men, j
first Aimer Rydeen, second Pete
Reader, third Gust Johnson; and
for the Women, first Ariel Dod-1
deridge, second Marie Hay, and
third Mrs. Pete Sather.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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RIO DE JANEIRO. Mar. 22. (JP)
A dispatch said aporoximately
two hundred were killed and
three hundred iniured in a train
wreck last night near Aracaiu.
capital of the Brazilian coastal
state of Sergipe.
BERLIN. Mar. 22, (A>) — The
gass'ng of two million Jews and
other persons in Oswiecim horror
camp was admitted in a signed
j statement given British authori
ties by Rudolf Hoess, 46. command
ant of the camo. Arrested March
8, Hoess was found hiding out on
a farm near Flensburg.
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LONDON, Mar. 22, </P) — The
Moscow radio quoting an article
from the New Times, attacked
the Johnson-May bill in United
States Congress, and declared the
measure to control atomic energy
was “fraught with grave conse
quences.” The broadcast said the
measure “would direct scientific1
activity exclusively in these chan
nels and restrict scientific infor
mat;on and treat with supercilious
scorn the scientists who discov
ered atomic energy and created
the atomic bomb.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, (/P)—
The Secretaries of War and Navy
urged Congress to grant a twenty
per cent increase to everybody in [
the two services.
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SEATTLE, Mar. 22, (/P)—L. C.
Reynolds, Pacalaska Division
manager said Pan American
World Airways would inaugurate i
weekly trans-Pacific charter trips
for UNRRA, flying the Great Cir
cle route to Shanghai, via Adak
and Tokyo. The first flight is j
scheduled Sunday from San Fran- •
Stalin Says Nations
Do Not W ant W ar
LONDON, Mar. 22, Stalin
told (/P) “I’m convinced that
neither nations nor their armies
are striving for a new war.” The
Moscow radio said “They want
peace and are striving for a guar
antee of peace,” Stalin said in an
interview.
He added “That means the
present fear of war is not caused
from that quarter. I think the
present fear of war is caused by
the activities of certain political
groups who occupy themselves
with propaganda for a new war,
and who thereby are sowing seeds
of discord and lack of confidence,”
Moscow said.
bP) correspondent Eddy Gil
more asked Satlin what signifi
cance he attributed to the United
Nations as a means of preserving
international peace. Stalin replied
“I attribute great significance to
the United Nations Organization,
since it is a serious instrument for
the preservation of peace and in
ternational security and strength.
This international organization
consists, in fact is based, on the
principle of equality of rights of
states, and not on the on the prin
ciples of domination of some
states over others.”
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
The nation’s labor disputes keep
488,000 workers idle. Major de
velopments:
Governor Martin of Pennsylvan
ia orders State Police to Pittsburgh
to protect supervisory workers
seeking to pass CIO picket lines
around the strike-bound Westing
house Electric Corp. plant.
Shipping—The port of Phila
delphia is threatened with a tieup
by striking AFL tugboat workers,
who plan to set up picket lines
along the entire waterfront.
Automotive—CIO UAW union
tells that General Motors negotia
tion over local grievances delay
the mass return to work of 175,000
General Motors employees is pro
ceeding with “utmost dispatch.’*
The company says the plants,
which have been idle since No
vember 21, will remain closed until
all union locals are ready to re
turn to work.
Poll books close tomorrow eve
ning. Be sure and register so you
can vote at the city election on
April 2. See city notice on Page 4.
cisco to Honolulu and Midway,
surveying the Tokyo-Adak-Seat
tle route on the return trip.