CAB Refusal To
End Rate War
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pendents began screaming to the
CAB for help.
Mail Subsidy Charged
The independents asserted in
general that the airline. cargo
rates are below cost and that the
airlines are using mail pay “sub
sidy” to stage a rate war. They
asked the CAB to refuse to let the
new rates become effective. The
board declined to interfere.
With respect to the independ
ents’ charge of “undercutting," it
said the airlines rates still are
higher in many instances.
“ ‘Undercutting’ as such is not
an evil,” the board said. "The pub
lic interest is served by the low
est, economical tariff. That is both
the theory and virtue of competi
tion. When the uncertificated car
riers sought and were granted the
right to compete on a scheduled
common carrier basis with the un
• certificated carriers, they asked
and received the right to compete.
“The contention is made that the
disputed tariffs are aimed specifi
cally at the uncertificated carrier.
. . . Admittely this is the case. But
what this proves is merely that the
disputed tariffs are competitive
tariffs.”
No Evidence On Costs
The board commented that there
is no substantial evidence as to the
costs of flying cargo on the routes
involved. It added that “all indus
try goes through the experience of
promotional rates—of rates initi
ally set below costs in the hope of
attaining volume business.
"In the light of the vast poten
tial market for air cargo, a reason
able promotional rate is not un
justifiable, the CAB said.
Tiie board said “The argument
that the tariffs filed by the cer
tificates carriers (airlines) are sup
ported by mail subsidies is wholly
unsound.”
The board noted that railroad
nail rates are -tight to nine limes
higher than carload freight rates.
It said that a “purported offer”
by the independents to carry the
mail for 18 cents a ton-mile “is
merely an unanalyzed offer having
no relationship to costs and in
tended simply to confuse the
issues in this proceeding.”
PROFESSIONAL
FOOTBALL
NEW YORK, UP) — There isn’t
an unbeaten team in the major
professional football leagues to
day and the pennant race between
the national and All-American
conference are taking shape as
down-to-the-wire affairs.
The Chicago Cardinals became
the last eleven in either circuit to
taste defeat by bowing 27-7 to the
Rams before a national league
record crowd of 69,631 fans in Los
Angeles yesterday.
In addition to suffering their in
itial setback, the defeat dropped
the Cards into a three-way tie
with the Rams and Green Bay
Packers for the lead in the na
tional’s western division pennant
chase. The Packers turned back
the Washington Redskins, 27-10,
in Green Bay.
Meanwhile the Pittsburgh Steel
| ers vaulted to the fore in the na
j tional’s eastern half chase by a
! half game as a result of their 35
! 24 decision over the Philadelhpia
Eagles. The Eagles and Redskins
are now deadlocked for second
place.
In the junior circuit the defend
ing champion Cleveland Browns
snapped their tie with the idle San
Francisco 49ers for the western
half lead with a 31-28 win over
the hapless Chicago Rockets.
| I he New York Yankees and the
j Buffalo Bills, who along with
Brooklyn and San Francisco, were
not Scheduled, are tied for the
eastern lead. In the only other
game in the A.A.C., yesterday the
Los Angeles Dons came from be
hind and walloped the Baltimore
Colts, 38-10.
LARGE CROWD ATTENDS
DANCE AT GYM SATURDAY
Saturday evening at the Nome
Territorial school auditorium a
large crowd gathered for the first
dance of the season. The dance
which was sponsored by the Nome
Bar Owners Assn, for the benefit
of the Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association, was climaxed by the
drawing for a Ford sedan which
was held at midnight. Carnival
Queen Clara Seiffert *drew the
lucky number for Walter Thomp
son, (eye glass man). The amount
raised for the fund will be an
nounced later.
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Petrillo Bars
Musicians From
Making Records
CHICAGO, */P>—James C. Pe
trillo’s newest edict, banning
again the making of recordings by
his 225,000 AFL musicians after
December 31, was being measured
from all angles today for the
shape of things to come in the ra
dio and enfertainment fields.
The head of the American fed
eration of musicians issued the
i new directive Saturday, declaring
that the members of the union
, were “destroying themselves” by
; supplying their own competition
in the form of recordings.
"There will never be any more
phonograph records or transcrip
tions made by members of the
; musicians’ union,” he said, adding
that “unless a (radio* program has
live music to offer, there won’t be
j any music.”.
i The order was received in va
| rious segments of the radio-re
cording industry with mixed l'eel
! ings.
Band leader Ted Weems said it
might “boomerang on musicians
of this country and result in popu
lar favorites being replaced by
foreigners,” and in California a
spokesman for one recording com
pany suggested the making of
master records might be shifted
to Mexico.
“We’ve been expecting this,”
said one spokesman for a leading
recording company. “The whole
industry has been recording like
crazy for several months.” He
added that most of the major rec
ord companies have an accumula
tion of master records “sufficient
to keep them going for years.”
"We feel that in the final analy
sis it will be the American people
who will determine what they
will hear and when and how they
will hear it,” said Mark Woods,
president of the American Broad
casting company. “Amer i c a n s
love music,” he added, “no indi
vidual can deprive them of it for
long.
Rivers Asks Repeal
Of Jones Act
JUNEAU, t/P) — The temporary
repeal of certain portions of the
Jones Maritime Act to permit the
use of Canadian shipping in trade
between Alaska points was asked
by Ralph Rivers, Alaska attorney
general, in a message to the
United States Senate public lands
committee. »
Addressd to chairman Hugh
Butler, his message said South
eastern Alaska was being deprived
of considerable benefits in tourist
trade throught the present inabil
ity of American vessels to accom
odate traffic in large volume.
He recommended the temporary
amendment to the act until Amer
ican steamship companies can ob
tain needed vessels and equip
ment.
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FIRE CHIEF ASKS
FOR CO-OPERATION
Fire Chief Brown asks for the
co-operation of Nome residents in
giving more exact directions as to
where they live when calling in a
fire.
Everyone should acquaint them
selves with the street and house
number so that in case of emer
gency they can give information
to expedite the arrival of the fire
fighting equipment. By doing so, j
much time can be gained and in
many cases much loss can be pre
vented.
Benefit Hockey
Game At Portland
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P>—An all
star benefit game in Portland led
off the Pacific Coast ice hockey
league season yesterday, two days
before the regular schedule opens.
4
The Portland Eagles were
matched against top players from
the other four clubs of the league's
northern division, with all pro
i ceeds going to Eddie Shamlock,
. former Eagle who lost the sight of
his left eye in an accident during
i a Portland game last season.
The regular schedule opens to
! morrow with Los Angeles at Fres
. no, San Francisco at Oakland and
i Portland at Tacoma.
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FAREWELL DINNER TO BE
TENDERED COL. BODLE
j Plans are being made for a fare
well dinner honoring Col. John E.
, Bodle in appreciation for the fine
co-operative spirit he has shown
during his stay in Nome. General
chairman for the dinner is Mayor
! Luther Dunbar. The committee in
1 charge of arrangements are An
i tonio Polet, Richard Webb and
! Chris Roust.
The dinner is planned for next
Friday evening at the Pioneer
Hall.
Briton Derides
Anieriean Attitude
(By Sam Dawson)
ST. LOUIS, i/Pi—Britain’s Am
bassador to the United States hit
back today at “a widespread im
pression” that Britons “are not do
ing enough, that we are sitting
back on our hands with our
mouths wide open waiting for you
to fill them.”
“This is not so,” Lord Invercha
pel said in a speech prepared for
“Europe Luncheon Session” of the
opening day of the national for
eign trade convention.
Whilst indeed we received large
credits from you and the Canadi
ans. we have paid out to Europe
and war shattered areas of the
east some three billion ‘dollars.
“This sum. measured on the
basis of national wealth, is equiv
alent to some 14 or 15 billion dol
lars paid out by you.”
BECAUSE OF THE DIFFER
ent usages of the word mist—in
the official British meaning, a
light fog, and in the United States
I vernacular, a synonym for drizzle
; —the weather services of the
i United States have not used the
term in official observations and
, reports since 1939, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
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vegetables, that includes this
year’s Delicious Apples and other
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