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VOL. XL1X. No. 67 N0ME7~ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE, (iP) — Alaska’s
first streamlined train went into
s'rv ce yesterday between An
chorage and Whittier, Alaska rail
* road officials said today. The train
includes a diesel engine with a
streamlined coach and a combina
tion baggage and coach car.
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COLUMBIA, S. C., (A*)—Sheriff
T. Ale Heise said that a “mass
^ man hunt” was underway in his
area for a negro man who this
morning slashed and stabbed a
white woman. The woman told the
sheriff her assailant was the same
man who attempted to assault her
last Wednesday.
“Residents on the suburban
Edgewood area have turned out in
a mass to hunt the man, and I
have all my deputies searching for
him, he added.
MANILA, (/P)—Northwest Air
k lines announced yesterday that its
first commercial flight to New
York from Manila lefi Nichols
Field this morning. The plane will
fly via Shanghai, Tokyo, the Aleu
tians, Seattle, Minneapolis and
Detroit. Dr. Frank Crossman,
chairman of the joint Philippine
American financial commission is
on the passenger list,
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SEATTLE, (/P>—Norton Clapp,
president of the Alaska Transpor
tation company, said yesterday it
has filed an application- with the
Civil Aeronautics Board for a per
mit to operate air service between
Seattle, Tacoma and Portland and
points in Alaska.
Main line service would be pro
vided to Ketchikan, Juneau, Fair
banks and Anchorage. Connecting
6 service would provide air trans
portation to southwestern Alaska
♦points served by the company’s
ships, including Cordova, Valdez,
Homer, Seldovia and Kodiak.
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Sen
ate armed services committee to
day unanimously approved legis
lation to put the nation's military
and naval forces under a single
secretary of national security.
The bill specifies that the army,
navy and a separate air, force are
to be under "unified direction" to
provide for their "authoritative
coordination," but are not to be
merged.
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KETCHIKAN, (>P)—The United
Trollers of Alaska, ClO-affiliate,
today declared Ketchikan fish
buyers “unfair” because they re
fused to sign a contract recogniz
ing the UTA as bargaining agent
and urged all union fishermen to
sell their catches at other ports.
EDMONTON, Alta. (/P)—Clos
ure of the Alaska Highway by
. floods between Watson Lake and
Whitehorse, Y. T., was ordered
i yesterday by officials of the nigh
way control office. The closure
will be in effect about six days.
Officials said floods washed
away the bridge at Mile 670 near
the British Columbia-Yukon bor
der and inundated several other
sections of the road. The bridge
spans the Vancheria River.
Britain To Give Up
Power In India
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LONDON, </P) — The British1
government announced yesterday
that it would transfer power in In
dia to the Indians almost immedi
ately and let the Indian people de
cide whether there shall be one or
two governments.
The announcement was made
simultaneously by Prime Minister
Attlee in the House of Commons; j
by the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten,
in a broadcast to the Indian peo
ple; and by the British govern
ment in a white paper.
Legislation will be introduced
during the present session of par-,
liament for the transfer of power
this year—on a Dominion status
basis—to one or two Indian gov
ernments, depending on which
system the Indian people sub
scribe to.
Thus until the absolute with
drawal of the British, scheduled
for July of 1948, India will be
composed of one ro two self-gov
erning countries which will be
long to the British Commonwealth
of Nations..
Former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill threw the backing of the
Conservative opposition behind
the principle of temporary Do
minion status for India—whether
as a united country of 390,000,000
or as a separate Pakistan (Moslem)
and Hindustan (Hindu)—75 re
served the right to oppose details
of the plan.
Churchill said a "blood bath” j
for India "may stand very near.”
He added that the partition pro
posal might "offer to India some
prospect of escape from one of
the most hideous calamities that
has ever ravaged the vast expans
es of India.”
Communist Willie Gallacher of
fered the sole opposition to the
plan. He said he was “the more
suspicious of the solution because
Mr. Churchill, who has a bad rec
ord in connection with India,
gives it such support.”
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ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL
ANNUAL PENNY DRIVE
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The Eastern Star chapter is
sponsoring the annual Penny
Drive for the Orthopedic Hospital
as it has done in the past. Jars
have been placed in the business
houses in town.
Open your Heart—Heal a Crip
pled Child—has become a well i
known slogan, as this is the six- i
teenth year the Penny Drive has;
been held.
Last year $65,000 was raised and
this year the goal is double that
amount. 45,000 children have been
treated since the seven bed ward
was founded in 1907 by 24 women
who pledged themselves for $20.00
each to help crippled children.
The. present hospital has 145 beds
and many more are needed.
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PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE
BOSTON, (£*)—Patrolman John
McMorrow is a man of under
standing-even for a dog that bit
him.
He accepted the young master’s!
plea that the pet once was kicked j
I by a man in uniform.
U. N. Tries To Solve
Atomic Control
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. iff)—
The United Nations struggled to
reconcile American and Russian
differences on atomic control yes
terday in the face of a warning
that the United States intends to
maintain and increase its supreme
position in the field of atomic en
ergy and atomic weapons.
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the U. S. atomic energy commis
sion, told the United Nations Mon
day this would remain the pur
pose of his country until interna
tional machinery for control was
established by the world agency.
With this warning before them,
delegates of the U. N. atomic en
ergy commission met to continue
their efforts at bringing Russia
and the United States into agree
ment on whether or not the veto
can be used in the security coun
cil if a country commits an atomic
crime.
Lilienthal told the commission
delegates that their task of chart
ing a program for international
control was of “supreme import
ance to the peace of the world.”
“You can have no security—but
only fraud—without international
cooperation,” he declared during
a closed session of the commis
sion at which he had been invited
to speak.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
Andrei A. Gramyko was absent.
ACTIVITIES ALONG
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NOME’S WATERFRONT
Much activity is evident the
past several days along the water
front. The harbor is being dredged
in readiness for the first boat of
the season which is reported to
sail from Seattle on Thursday. Lo
men Commercial tugs and barges
are being launched and tied up in
the river in preparation for the
lighterage season.
Bulkheads along the shore • of
the Bering Sea, particularly be
hind the Northern Commercial
Company store and the Bering Sea
Club, are being repaired and re
built. N. C. now has completed the
reinforced concrete wall at the
rear of the building. The property
owned by Joe Wallace, the Wal
lace Hotel and the Bering Sea
Club, will be protected by a series
of several rows of sand-filled oil
barrels, which Joe states will keep
his buildings safe from the storms.
At the same time Joe is com
pleting the remodeling of the Ber
ing Sea Club, in that the building
will have a front room with the
cocktail bar and the back room
for dancing and cards. Joe says
he is planning a new front, brick
siding and a*new roof for the club.
THOMPSON OPENS
NEW OPTICAL SHOP
W. Thompson, the optical re
pair-man, who has been operating
his shop qp the second floor of the
Polar building, has moved into
new quarters next to the Nevada
Grill. Mr. Thompson states that
he hopes to be able to serve his
public better in the new location.
Truman To Delay
Income Tax Action
WASHINGTON, i/P)—Preside:!.
Truman will not act on the four
billion dollar income tax cut bill
before he leaves for Kansas City
Friday morning. Secretary Cias.
G. Ross said today.
Ross told reporters he did not
know whether Mr. Truman would
act before he leaves for Canada
next Monday after his return from
the midwest. In Kansas City, he
will address the meeting of the
35th division with which he served
in the first world war.
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\ The tax bill, he added, has not
yet reached the President’s desk
although Congress comp 1 e t e d
work on it yesterday.
Mr. Truman has 10 days, not
counting Sundays, to veto or sign
the bill.
Ross said the President will
hold a news conference at 10:30
a.m. tomorrow and a regular cab
inet meeting tomorrow afternoon.
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Truman Can’t Veto
Income Tax Bill |
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Taft of Ohio, the Republican pol
icy committee chairman, declared
yesterday that President Truman
can’t afford to veto the $4,000,
000,000 income tax cut bill “be
cause it would put him definitely
on the side of high taxes and high
expenses.”
Taft declared in a statement
that “all the spenders want to
keep the tax receipts up to $40,
000,000,000 in order to maintain a
high standard of government
• spending.”
“The quicker we can revise our
sights downward, the lower we
can keep expenditures,” Taft
said.
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I Will Hold Military I
Training Hearings
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
, House armed services committee
yesterday ordered public hearings
I on universal training after Karl
T. Compton termed the interna
tional situation “too serious to jus
tify delay.”
Compton, who headed President
Truman’s advisory commission
which recommended universal
military training, telegraphed the'
! committee:
“There is no certainty that in
trigue backed with force has been
i abandoned as an instrument for
national aggrandizement and un
happily the present actual evi
dence in some quarters points
otherwise.’
Chairman Andrews (R.-N. Y.)
told reporters hearings will start
in “a week or ten days” before
the full committee with Compton
as the first witness.
. The docket of the present ses
sion does not provide for a train
ing bill since measure of such
controversial nature would re
quire long debate, and Congress is
slated to adjourn next month.
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Floods Do Much
Damage In States
'By The Associated Press)
Torrential spring rains brought
flash floods to nearly a score of
communities in Northwestern
Pennsylvania and Ohio, forced
well over 100 families from their
homes and caused the derailment
of a passenger train, injuring
eight persons.
A washed out portion of road
bed near Cambridge, Pa., caused
derailment of a Pullman car of
an Erie roilroad New York to Chi
cago train. None of the eight in
jured was seriously hurt.
Fifty families were driven from
their homes at Springville when
water reached the second-floor
windows. Families were evacu
ated at Conneautville.
At least 80 families were driven
from their homes in Ohio. Thirty
families were removed by boats
north of Dayton.
In the Columbus zoo, some of
the animals stood in two feet of
water, and boxes were placed in
cages of small animals to keep
them high and dry.
With one missing and upwards
of 500 persons homeless, Rutland.
•Vt., today staggered toward re
covery from a roaring flood that
caused damage estimated at more
than $2,000,000. .
National guardsmen patrolled
the flooded residential area and
emergency kitchens were set up
to feed the homeless in Vermont’s
second largest city. Clearing wea
ther indicated the worst was over.
Business virtually was suspended
as everyone went to work to help
the homeless and clear debris.
Rutland was the worst hit of
several communities struck by
flash floods that followed torren
tial rains in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York and New England.
Another dam burst 18 miles up
the Moose River from Lyons Falls,
N. Y., wrecking a bridge spanning
the main highway in the Adiron
dacks and flooding farmlands, but
the village itself escaped major
damage.
In Oneida, N. Y., Oneida Creek
receded after spreading over a six
block area and flooding 300
homes. A fourth of Elmira, N. Y.,
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Air Freight Rates
Greatly Reduced
SEATTLE, (/P)—A new air car
go tariff schedule drastically re
duces rates and charges on all
commodities carried over its
routes in Alaska, some as much as
75 per cent, A. G. Woodley, Pa
cific Northern Airlines head, an
nounced yesterday.
“This is another indication of
our desire to help the business
men and residents of Alaska meet
their daily needs,” Woodley said.
Pan American World Airways
also announced in newspaper ad
vertisements Monday a reduction
in Clipper express rates on many
commodities, the reduction range
from 24 to 56 per cent on such
goods as fresh foods, movie films,
sea foods, and on southbound
household goods.