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NEWS 1JN BRIEF
: , JUNEAU, (jP)— The Alaska
Board of Fisheries called a meet
ing to be held here April 2 to
talk over the coming biennium’s
operations since the Legislature
adjourned.
The Legislature appropriated
$409,672 for operations, plus $50,
.000 for seal predator control. The
last appropriation when the De
partment was created totaled
$250,000.
NEW YORK, <iP)—The Ameri
can Labor Party has asked Presi
dent Truman to remove William
O’Dwyer as Ambassador to Mexi
co. The leftist party backed O’
Dwyer when he first was elected
mayor in 1945, but not when he
was reelected four years later.
ALP state chairman Vito Mar
cantcnio said yesterday he wired
the president that O’Dwyer’s role
in the Senate crime investigation
shows violation of “the moral
standards expected by the Ameri
can people of any public official.
CHICAGO, (iP)—The threat of
an immediate serious strike by
more than 200,000 workers against
the nation’s meat packing indus
try eased Saturday.
A F L and independent union
workers have promised to stay on
the job for at least six weeks past
the threatened strike deadline of
midnight Sunday.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., (/P)—
The condition of Sen. Vanden
burg (R-Mich.), long ill at his
home here, was reported un
changed today.
NEW YARK, </P)—Juan Santi
ago attended a party in upper
Manhattan early today; then went
with several others to the roof of
the six-story building to cool off.
Police said the 28-year-old sea
man wandered a bit too close to
the root ledge and toppled off. On
his way down he hit two fire es
capes and a clothesline before
crashing into a courtyard.
Injuries: not even a broken
bone.
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DENVER, (/P)— When a boy
ran into the side of Melvin Myer’s
**. car yesterday, Myers stopped
promptly. Complying with the
law, Myers asked the boy his
name, address and whether he
. was hurt.
“Mind your own damn busi
ness,” the youth growled, ahd ran
’ away.
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RUSSELL, Kas., (^P), A 52-year
; old mechanic was held today in
the pre-dawn Easter slaying of
two brothers.
The brothers — Joseph Rabas,
* 49, and Henry Rabas, 42—were
shot to death while talking to
two women in a parked car near
Luray, Kansass
County attorney John Woelk
said murder charges would be
filed against William T. Engling,
the former husband of one of the
women, fugling surrendered sev
eral hours after the incident. He
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Nenana Ice
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Since 1917, when the pool was
started, the ice has gone out at
Nenana as follows:
1917—April 30.11:30 a.m.
1318^-May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11. 10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a.m.
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1922— ^May 12...... 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9... 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
11926—April 26. 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 pjn.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
j 1932—May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30. 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30.12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29. 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20. 3:27 pjn.
1941— May 3. 1:50 ajn.
! 1942—April 30. 1:28 pjn,
1943— April 28. 7:22 pjn.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 pjn.
1947— May 3. 5:53 pjn.
1948— May 13.11:13 pjn.
1949— May 14.12:39 pjn.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
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Defense Dept.
Estimates More
Billions Needed
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WASHINGTON, (/P)— The De
fense Department is still trying
to estimate exactly how‘ much
morfe than $41,791,000,000 ttv will
need this fiscal year tp carry out
its regular operations and' the
armed forces expansion program
ordered by President Truman, last
December.
its formal request to Congress
for a third supply of funds or
authority to spend in the year
ending June 30 was expected in
March but probably won’t be
ready before next month, offi-1
cials said today.
When President Truman an
nounced on Dec. 15 the plan to
build the armed forces up to a
3,500,000-man goal, guesses were
that this would require another
$10 billion. Whether these initial
estimates finally will be reflected
in the third supplemental appro
j priation is not clear.
The regular appropriation bill
with which the Defense Depart
ment started out the fiscal year
was a modest sum, compared with
the point at which it now stands.
Approved by Congress shortly
before the Communist invasion of
south Korea compelled a quick
and huge upward revision of mili
tary spending, the regular 'bill
provided $13,272,000,000.
By September, the first supple
mental bill added another $11,
724,000,000 to meet the require
ments of the Korean war and get
started on a general armed force
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8 File, 91 Register, \
For Nome Election
To Date
Considerable interest has de
veloped with the coming city elec
tion with, three candidates filed
for mayor to date: Lester .Bron
son, Mrs. Joe Hunt and Charles
Jones.
One councilman has filed—Wal
lace Melvor. Three more ' are
needed.
For City Treasurer A. A. Daue
has filed fr re-electoion; Carrie
McLain for City Clerk.
For the two vacancies on the
School Board Ray Tveter has filed
to replace John Hudert who is
going out of office and Clem
Boucher to complete the two-year
term of Charles Fager strom, who
resigned.
To date, ninety-one have reg
istered for city election. Anyone
wishing to file for any office must
have their petition in by 5 p.m.
on Thursday, stated the City Clerk.!
SENATOR FRANK BARR
NOMINATED FOR' MARSHALL
WASHINGTON, March 22. {JP)
—President Truman today sent
to the Senate the nomination of
Frank Barr, to be U. S. Marshall
for Division No. 4, District of
Alaska, succeeding Stanley J.
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Nichols, resigned.
Barr is now in Juneau attend
ing the Alaska Legislature as Sen
ator from the Fourth Division.
Several months ago when it was
announced he was a candidate for
the marshalship, Barr stated he
; would not be nominated until the
| legislature had completed its 60
day session.
IN A SHOWDOWN, DON’T LOW - RATE TURKEY
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(/P) New siea lures
Turkey could be tough for any
aggressor seeking control of the
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Balkans.
Traditionally some of the fierc
est fighters in Europe, the Turks
could put a well-trained army of
2,000,000 into the field. They have
been strengthened ever since
World War II by considerable U.S.
equipment, and their air force
now is regarded as modern.
In defending their country, they
would be favored by terrain. The
approaches to Turkey from the
Balkans are hilly, heavily
berCd, and have only a few roads j
which can easily be defended.
Still farther east are more for
idable mountains, terrain made to
order for a prolonged defense.
Turkey holds a strategic posi
tion in relation to the Kremlinized
Balkans and to Russia herself.
Her air bases are modem- well
equipped — and easily within
striking distance of such prise
targets as the Ploesti oil fields,
Bucharest Budapest Safi® end
other important industrial cities.
Turkey is only $50 miles from
Russia, across the Black Sea.
Although difficult to invade,
Turkey is in a good position to
move against the Balkans. Her
borders touch on Bulgaria and
Greece at a 150-mile wide corri
dor that served as an ideal inva
sion avenue during the Middle
Ages when the Ottomans poured
through the Balkans up to Vienna.
Pnccia av&s Turkev hungrily
because the Turks command the
Dardanelles, the only Soviet direct
water route from the Black See
to the Mediterranean. As long as
the Turks control Turkey, Rus
sia’s dream of an outlet on the
Mediterranean seems likely to lie
thwarted
Administralion
M’Arthur Dispute
At Fever Heat
WASHINGTON, (/P)— The dis
pute that rages between General
Douglas -MacArthur and the Tru
man administration over how to
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win the Korean war has reached
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fever heat again. The administra
tion may Shortly ask the general
to clear* with Washington any
thing he says involving - bropd
foreign policy issues.
This may, or may not prove ac
ceptable to MacArthur, but State
Department 'officials as well as
some others with great influence
at the White House privately say
something must be done to pre
vent a repetition of last week’s
exchange of shocks and haj^h
words between Tokyo and Wash
ington.
President Truman circulated
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Easter Weekend. '
Death Toll 221
By the Associated Press
Traffic and a variety of other
accidents caused 224 deaths over
the weekend as the nation cele
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brated Easter.
Between 6 p.m. (local time) Fri
day anc^ last midnight, the known
traffic fatalities had climbed to
159, and deaths from miscellane
ous causes to 65.
The latter group include^ three
brothers and a sister who appar
ently died of suffocattion during a
fire in their four-room cottage
home in Toledo, Ohio. They were
Barbara Root, 7, and her brothers,
Donald, 9, Edward, 6, and Mich
ael, 3.
AVA Starts
Membership Drive
KETCHIKAN, (#)—'The head of
the Alaska Visitor’s Association
said today the organization will
begin a membership drive at once
following the legislature’s appro
priation of $40,000 for travel pro
motion in the coming biennium.
The AVA head, acting Presi
dent Robert E. Ellis, pioneer air
line operator here, also reported
that one of the first projects will
be to publish an Alaska directory
of lodges, game, guides, resorts,
and events of interest to visitors.
The directory would ;e In- with
publicity in the States.
Ellis said membership cards
and posters are being printed for
the membership drive, which* will
include Seattle and' Canadian
transportation cbmpanies. L' The
goal is a budget of more ihah $50,
000 each year for thij next two
years. The figure-, would include
half of the Territory’s appropria
tion.
Ellis plans a flying trip through
Alaska to arrange with lead dir
Kfeois Of file AVA for a no lber
fdp qoota under s hich each loam
will bo worked.
No said the No. \ aaoxfote
member In Alaska is Qeprge Arm
itage, long tbS director <rf the
Hawaft Visitors 9mm who
helped otgai&o the AVA.