Northwest Airlines
Leads In Safety
“Northwest Airlines leads all
domestic airlines in its safety
record, a special citation by the
National Safety Council, disclosed
yesterday.
Adding another fatality-free
year—1946—to four others which
preceded it, the Airline has flown
831,514,233 passenger miles since
its last fatality, which occurred
May 12, 1942. During 1946, it
flew 391,678,003 passenger miles
without a faltality.
In recognition of this outstand
ing safety record, Ned H. Dear
born, president of the National
Safety Council informed Croil
Hunter, president and general
manager of Northwest Airlines,
the airline is receiving two honors.
As one of 16 United States air
lines to complete the 1946 sched
uled passenger operations without
a single fatal accident, it is re
ceiving a certificate of safe oper
ation.
In addition to this, it is one of
seven airlines receiving special
citations from the council for sus
tained safe operations for periods
of more than one year. North
west’s fatality-free record, in fact,
goes back five years.
During 1946, the latest among
the five, the airline started one of
its longest operations, consisting
of flights to Anchorage, Alaska,
by the “inside” route from Minne
apolis-St. Paul through Edmon
ton, Canada, and by the “outside
route” from Seattle-Tacoma.
At present it operates 70 regu
lar flights a day, consisting of 32
eastbound, 34 westbound, and four
on the Alaskan route. These com
prise a daily schedule of 59,474
miles.
In addition, it has operated safe
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November Parley
Vital To World
LONDON, (/P)—Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin said Thursday
that if relations between the east
and west are not improved at the
November conference of foreign
ministers, “no one can prophesy
what course the world will take.”
“I regard the London conference
in November, with the issues now
pretty clear before us, as probably
the most vital in the world’s his
tory,” Bevin told the House of
Commons.
“On behalf of this nation, I will
certainly work hard to try to
reach conclusions, but this settle
ment doesn’t lie in the hands of
the British government alone.”
The creation of a new Germany
“will take a long time to realize,”
Bevin said, but “by undue delay,
difficulties will get worse rather
than better.”
“I am not one of those who
wants to turn down the Potsdam
agreement,” he added. “I am one
of those who wants to carry it out
in all its phases without equivo
cation.”
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dles on their birthday cake for?
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ly a number of survey and famil
iarization flights to Alaska, the
Aleutians. Japan, Korea, -China
and the Republic of the Philip
pines, in preparation for the start
of regular service to the Far East
within a few weeks.
In his letter to President Hunt
er, announcing the awards to
Northwest Airlines, Mr. Dearborn
declared, “The directors and staff
of the National Safety Council
join me in extending to you our
heartiest congratulations on this
fine contribution to safe air trans
portation.”
Negotiate Maritime
Contracts
SAN FRANCISCO, (A3)—A five
ur.ion CIO maritime committee
'a as called to meet here Thursday
L » discuss negotiation of contracts
a replace that with Pacific ship
owne which expire June 15.
President Joe Curran of the na
tion..! maritime union was desig
nated to preside. CIO seamen, en
’.ncers, cooks, radiomen and
longshoremen are concerned.
The waterfront employers asso
ciation. in a press statement pre
ceding the conference, advocated
that present contracts be extended
to Sept. 30 “to avoid the series of
disastrous ahd unnec e s s a r y
strikes” which tied up shipping
last fall.
Girl Scout News
The Girl Scouts of Nome will
go trail hunting through the town
on Saturday, May 16, from 1 to 3
p.m.
Group No. 1, headed by Doro
thea and supervised by Frances
Rickford, will lay the trail, start
ing at 1 p.m.
Group No. 2, headed by June
Dunbar and supervised by Mrs.
Mandeville, will follow at 2 p.m.
. and attempt to pick up the trail
laid by Group No. 1.
The starting point of the trail
has not been definitely fixed, how
. ever, it is safe to assume that a
difficult trail will be laid, to in
elude most of the town. The trail
will eventually lead to refresh
-nents at the home of one of the
Girl Scouts. Sh-h-h can’t tell who!
Wilma Stephenson,
Troop Scribe
LONDON OP) — Fire swept a
Waterloo Road brewery Thurs
day. exploding 480,000 bottles of
beer.
Aid Bill Goes
To President
WASHINGTON, OP)—Congress
sent to the White House yesterday
lcg-slation authorizing a $400,000,
000 program of financial and lim
i:ed military aid to bulwark Tur
ey and Greece against Commun
ism.
The House, and then the Senate,
quickly approved the bill com
promising minor differences be
tween the House and Senate mea
sures.
On another bill to provide funds
for relief of six countries in Eu
rope and Asia, President Truman
urged Congress again to vote the
full $350,000,000 asked, saying
* the peace of the world can be
realized only when people are free
from the fear of hunger.”
Mr. Truman’s appeal was con
tained in a letter transmitting the
tenth quarterly report of UNRRA.
It reached the Capitol as Senate
and House conferees sought to re
solve differences in their respec
tive bills.
The joint committee failed to
reach a compromise at initial
talks, then scheduled an after
noon session. The House voted to
cut the fund to $200,000,000 but
the Senate favors providing the
full amount.
The Senate approved Wednes
day, 79 to 4, a bill to provide gen
eral relief for Austria, Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Poland, the Free
City of Trieste and China. This
version, however, does not specif
ically name the countries. The
House bill does.
The Senate refused on a 64 to
19 vote to go along with the House
in trimming $150,000,000 off the
$350,000,000 which the President
and the state department request
ed.
Chairman Vandenberg <R
BRONSON AND SOHA BRING
SUPER-CRUISER TO NOME
Lester Bronson, and Louis Soha
returned from Anchorage Thurs
day, bringing with them a new
Piper Super-Cruiser to be used
in training work at the new Nome
Flying School, which they have
just opened. Brynson states they
are now all ready for business
and have a permit to train veter
ans under the G.I. training law.
Both civilians and veterans who
are interested in learning to fly
should contact either Lester Bron
son or Louis Soha.
Congress Will Com
promise Labor Bill
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Rep.
Hartley <R.-N. J.) predicted Thurs
day that the labor legislation fi
nally approved by Congress will
not include a ban on industry
wide bargaining.
The chairman of the House la
bor committee made this predic
tion to reporters after the first
meeting of a committee of House
members and Senators trying to
compromise differences in bills
passed by the two chambers.
He said he expects this group
to decide also against including
authorization for private employ
ers to seek court orders against
jurisdictional strikes and second
ary boycotts.
Mich.* of the foreign relations
committee said the House ap
proved amount wouldn’t meet
basic needs in Grece. Italy and
Austria until the next harvest.
“It would be the same as throw
ing a ten-loot rope to a man
drowning 15 feet offshore,” he
said.
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