Fur Flies In Alaska
With Trapper Joe in
Middle of War
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down the street.
If the second fur ibuyer could
offer ten dollars more the sale
was closed. Wassilie took his cash,
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paid off the trader who had grub
stakes him and went home to his
squaw.
“It was a fine old competitive
spirit,” decalres C. S. Heed, who
operated a store at Dillingham.
Now things have changed.
Many Eskimos have begun mail
ing their furs to the big money or- ■
der companies in the States. Air- ;
mail being what it is they soon
have their checks in hand.
Local .raders have res-rted to a
new strategy. When Wassilie
Snowball or another trapper
turns up to cash his check the
trader tells him nothing doing.
“No good?” queries the Eskimo.
“Sure, it’s good. Send it to the
mail order company and let them
cash it for you,” the trader re
tc rts.
Af tei a few such experiments
the hapless trapper is happy to
deal with the trader on the old
competitive scale, if he can get
Soldiers To Get
New Style Uniform
WASHINGTON, (yP) — Front
line soldiers are going to look
more like that rival outfit the Ma
rines.
The army announced yesterday
it has ordered new combat uni
forms of dark olive green to re
place present olive drab ones as
they wear out.
A spokesman, without the flick
of an eye toward the Marines*
greens, said the new army uni
form has a better design and bet
ter camouflage properties than
the present battle dress.
The army is also working on a
new garrison uniform for inspec
tions, parades and desk work. It
hasn’t made up its mind on whe
ther to have blue-grey or grey
green.
credit for the winter.
“I’ve got plenty of trouble keep
ing the names straight,” a Bethel
storekeeper said. “Why, one man
worked in the cannery several
years and ended up with three
social security numbers, With so
many names my books are a mess,
and now I have *a compete with
the mail order firms and cash
iheir check to boot!”
The trader, who has to pay high
air freight costs on the marchan
dise and supplies flown into his
remote home must make a higher
profit on the furs to get by.
The Outside mail order firm
has no such problem. But if they
want western Alaska pelts they
may have to dispense with checks
and send the Eskimos hard cash
for their furs.
More important to Wassilie
Snowball than high prices is his
winter grubstake. That’s one thing
he can’t get by mail, no matter
how many beaver he traps.
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Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
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Demand Reduced
Spending Before
Adding More Taxes
WASHINGTON, (j=P)—'The U. S.
Chamber of Commerce called on
Congress yesterday to cut govern
ment spending for non-military
purposes by at least six billion
dollars before it considers taxing
excess profits of corporations.
Ripping into administra t i o n
proposals for a 75 per cent tax on
abnormal business profits, Ells
worth C. Alvord, chairman of the
chamber’s finance committee, de
clared it was impossible to devise
a workable excess profits tax to
produce the four billion dollars
yearly asked by President Tru
man.
Alvord set forth the chamber’s
views in a statement for the
House ways and means commit
tee, which is winding up hearings
on the profits tax proposal which
Mr. Truma nsays is necessary to
finance the expanding defense
program.
As business wheeled its biggest
guns into the hearings, Democrats
on the tax-writing ways and
means committee continued to
hold firm rein on Republican ef
forts to discuss substitutes for the
administration plan.
GOP committee members are
plugging for a rise in the corpo
rate income tax rate or a combin
ation of that with an excess pro
fits tax. But the Democrats are
sticking by a mandate from the
House to draw up an excess pro
fits tax bill.
Originally competitors, the ra
dio and the phonograph were first
combined into a single instrument
about 1925.
Sound Film at the Federated
Church tonight at 7:00: "The Mir
acle of 54th Street."
I_ _
Drop 3,500,000 Fire
Bombs on N. Korea
WASHINGTON* {JP) — The air
force reported today that B-29 su
perfortresses dropped 3.500,000
fire bombs on ground support tar
gets in North Korea during inten
sive air preparation for the cur
rent United Nations offensive.
I An air force spokesman said
the long-range bombers had pre
viously eliminated strategic tar
gets in Korea. Like other United
Nations planes, they are forbidden
to cross the Manchurian-Korean
border to reach more distant
sources of communist military
I supplies.
Since Nov. 5, the air force
spokesman said at the regular
Pentagon briefing, the B-29*s have
eliminated 18 tactical targets,
i These including enemy supply ;
I centers, troop concentrations and
j command posts.
I The 3,500,000 incendiary bombs
j dropped by the superfortresses
j weer 10 pound bombs, dropped in
clusters which are scattered by an
! explosio non their way to the
ground.
j
! The Finance Committee of the
: Boy Scouts have announced the
: collection of over $800.00 in Nome.
The collections are about com
pleted Mr. Force announced be
fore leaving for Fairbanks to be
with his family for Thanksgiving. I
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77 Killed In Long
Island Train vWreck
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plowed into the rear of a stalled
train had passed through one
warning signal and one stop sig
nal at full speed of (between 60
and 65 miles per hour. #
The warning signal was a mile
and a half from the scene of the
accident.
“Whatever the causes, human
or mechanical, the situation on
the Long Island'Railroad is utter
ly intolerable,” Dewey said.
One hundred and ten people
have died in the two Long Island
wrecks this year.
In the latest disaster one elec
tric train plowed int the rear ol
another, which was stalled aboul
ten miles from Times Square
With a deafening roar and a blind
ing flash from the third rail, the
front and rear cars of the twc
12-car trains telescoped.
Death and terror struck the
2,100 passengers, many of them
crowded in the aisles.
Vast rescue forces were on the
scene minutes after the crash.
But it took nine hours to get the
last mangled body out of the sick
ening death trap of twisted steel
The motorman of the second
train was killed.
Martin Luke, seven months ole
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Luke, passed away yesterday.
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