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NEWS IN BRIEF
CHICAGO, <#»)—Sears, Roebuck
and company said yesterday it is
mailing its mid-season spring cat
alogue featuring “many price, re
duction in all lines.” The 282-1
page book, a supplement to the
general catalogue issued in Janu
ary, includes for the first time a
flat-bed utility farm wagon, an
aluminum summer lawn house,
vinylite plastic floor coverings,
and a seven-horse power twin out
board motor.
OTTAWA, </P)—Canada’s House
of Commons endorsed principles
of the North Atlantic pact Monday
night by a vote of 149 to 2.
The principles next will be pre
sented to the Senate for its ap
proval. The treaty itself will be
placed before parliament for rati
fication after it has been signed in
Washington next week.
BOSTON, (/P)—Henry Ford, II.
' president of the Ford Motor Co.,
sees a “possible” reduction in
Ford prices.
“Material prices are coming
down somewhat and a price re
duction is possible,” he said Mon
day night in an interview, Ford
was here to address the Harvard
School of Business administration.
He emphasized that when he
said “possible” he did not mean
“probable.”
WASHINGTON, </P)—1The coast
guard cutter “Northwind,” man
ned by a crew of 135, will begin
its five-month patrol of the Ecring
Sea off Alaska on May 1, coast
guard headquarters announced.
The icebreaker, which spear
headed Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s
Antarctic expedition in 1947, will
handle all assignments alone as it
did in 1948.
OMAHA. (/P)—Forty-four resi
dents of Alaska, seeking confir
mation of the appointment of Er
nest Grucning as governor of the
Territory and boosting Alaskan
statehood, arrived here last night
enroute to Washington. Their
chartered plane, “Ship of State”
took off for Washington this
morning.
Heading the party is Stanley J.
McCutcheon, speaker of the House
of Representatives of the Territo
rial Legislature.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman approved today the re-1
tirement of Admiral Dewitt Clin
ton Ramsey, commander in chief
of the U. S. pacific fleet, effective
May 1. .. !
Admiral Ramsey also is high |
commissioner of the trust territory
in the Pacific islands.
BOISE, Idaho, (IP)—'The West-j
ern States Council may invite
Alaska and Hawaii chamber of
commerce* members to join the or
ganization.
A special projects committee of
the Council so recommended at
concluding sessions of the group
here yesterday. The council also
adopted a resolution urging more)
private ownership of land in Alas
ka.
The organization adopted two
resolutions opposing a Columbia
Internationi News
At A Glance —
Tuesday, March 29, 1949
(By The Associated Press*
Italy’s foreign minister, Count
Carlo Sforza, visits the U. S. state
department today to announce his
country’s readiness to join other
western nations in a tight defen
sive alliance.
Sforza reached Washington last
night well ahead of the parade of
nine—and possibly 11—other for
eign ministers converging on the
United States to sign the North
Atlantic defense treaty April 4.
The official business i* sched
uled to get underway Saturday
when the foreign ministers meet
in a secret session intended to
smooth out details leading up to
the signing on Monday.
Britain’s foreign secretary Er
nest Bevin, en route to the U. S. to
sign the pact, is expected to ask
the American government for a
precise statement on its views con
cerning a Mediterranean defense
treaty, linked to the North Atlan
tic Alliance.
Informants aboard the liner
Queen Mary said Bevin has held
several conferences presumably
on the Mediterranean subject,
with Belgium’s premier foreign
minister Paul-Henri Spaak. Hol
land’s foreign minister D. U.
Stikker and Premier Joseph Bech
of Luxembourg.
State department experts hur
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ICE POOL NEWS
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NENANA—The ice on the Tan-'
ana river was forty inches thick
several days ago but there is an
overflow of about six inches un-1
der the snow which is about froz
en solid, which will make the ice
that much, thicker. This is caused
by water running off the hill dur
ing the short warm weather we'
had not lrnig ago, but the weather!
we are having now, I don’t think i
will have anything to do with the
breakup and I am hardly weather !
prophet enough to tell just what
the weather conditions will be at
that time.
SLIM AVERY
TWO CERTIFICATES OF IN
CORPORATION ISSUED
FOR NOME FIRMS
Issued by the Auditor’s Office
in Juneau this week were two cer
tificates of incorporation for this
Division. They are:
To do business in Nome, Arctic,
Cab, Inc., has been issued a cer
tificate, with 100 shares at $100
par value as authorized capital. In
corporators are Axel Edman, Al
bert Pasquan, Clyde Kammerer
and Larry Galvin.
Also doing business in Nome is
the Silver Dollar Mining Com
pany, capitalized for 100,000
shares at $1. Incorporators are
Neal W. Foster, J. F. Macumber,
Woodrow D. Spagnole, C. F.
Goedde, and J. T. Brice.
Valley authority. Gus Backman,
secretary of the Salt Lake City
chamber of commerce, was re
elected president.
Bar ‘Red’ Delegates
From U. S. Tour
NEWARK, N. J. I/P>—Stripped
of its Russian star attractions by
state department action, a project
ed nation-wide tour of “world
peace conference” delegates fal
tered today.
The state department ruling in
effect told 18 iron curtain visitors
to go home, now that they have
completed their mission to last
week-end’s cultural and scientific
conference for world peace in New
York City.
Despite the decision, author
Millard Lampbell said last night
“This tour will go on.” Lampbell
acted as master of ceremonies at
the first of the proposed series of
“no more war” rallies here. Other
speakers indicated the tour will
be carried out.
A proposed itinerary listed New
Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Detroit, St. Louis, Denver and
Los Angeles.
The state department said the
U. S. visas of the communist dele
gates wrere good only for the New
York meeting.
A conference spokesman in New
York said a telegram had been
sent to secretary of state Dean
Acheson asking him to revoke the
order.
The council of the arts, sciences
and professions, sponsors of the
tour, hastily reshuffled last night’s
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Aleutians Again
Have Mail Boat
SEATTLE. (/P)—A government
mail contract to serve Unalaska
and Aleutian outposts has been
granted to the Berger Transporta
tion company, of Seattle, J. Lael
Simmons, secretary of the firm
said yesterday.
This will provide the area with
regular freight and passenger
service, which it has been without
since a previous mail contract was
terminated in December, 1947.
A. D. Lawrence, general super
intendent of railway mail service,
said the new contract will expire
June 30, 1950. And calls for pay
ment of approximately $156,000 a
year. ;
Mail service to the area from
Seward, has been supplied by air
plane since the previous mail boat
run was suspended. Residents
have complained of shortages of
supplies and lack of passenger
service due to absence of a regular
vessel on the run.
The motorship Garland is being j
overhauled at Lake Union dry
dock. Simmons said the company
hopes to start the service by April
20, although the contract current
ly provides for May 1 opening. |
Communication
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Washington, D. C„j
March 30. 1949j
Common Council,
City of Noma,
Noma, Alaska.
Saawall Harbor llama paaaad
Housa yastarday without change.;
CARL J. LOMEN,
Gigantic Cosmic
Ray Machine
Dedicated
(By Howard W. Biakeslee)
((/I1) Science Editor'
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (/P)—One
of two machines in the world that
produces man-made cosmic rays,
the University of Rochester’s giant
cyclotron, was dedicated yester
day.
The machine is essentially an
enormous magnet, as high and
wide as a dwelling house.
It is a mass of steel weighing
1,100 tons. It is painted red except
the two poles of the magnet, which
are shining steel. The horizontal
poles are round and their ends
flat. Each is the size of a big din
ing room table. In the gap between
them is space enough to sit on one
pole without bumping your head
on the other.
In this gap energies of 250,000,
000 electron-volts are created. In
the gay heavy particles of matter
called protons swing ‘round and
’round at velocities near the speed
of light.
The speeding particles are let
fly, like stones from a sling, and
when one of these particles hits a
bit of solid matter it knocks loose
a particle called a meson.
Exactly what a meson is scien
tists do not know. But both the
250,000,000-vote protons and the
mesons are the same pai'ticles
which rain down upon the earth
from an unknown source in the
sky and are called cosmic rays.
The world’s other known meson
making machine is at the Univers
ity of California. The Rochester
machine was built with funds of
the United States atomic energy
commission, the office of naval re
search and the university.
Czechs Sentence
Two American
Soldiers As Spies
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (/P)—
Two American soldiers have been
sentenced to prison terms of 10
and 12 years on charges of spying
again Czechoslovakia, the official
press bureau said yesterday.
The two men, under arrest since!
Dec. 9, were convicted at a secret |
trial last Saturday.
The men. were arrested when!
they wandered across the border
last December. American authori
ties in Germany said they were
absent without leave from their
units.
Czech authorities insisted the
two GI’s were on a secret mission
and refused the American embas
sy officials the right to see or talk j
with them.
% The press bureau announce
ment said Alexander Jones, alias
Hunter, was sentenced to 10 years.
Clarence Hill was sentenced to 12
years. The men previously had
been identified as Clarence R.
Hill, 31, of Jackson, Miss., and
George R. Jones, 22. of Owens
boro, Ky.
U. S. embassy officials were
considering today what steps they
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Johnson Protests
Budget Slash For
Alaska Railroad
ANCHORAGE, </P) — General
John P. Johnson declared last
night the Alaska Railroad rehabil
itation program will be knocked
into a “cocked hat” if the proposed
$8,000,000 slash in appropriations
recommended in Congress is al
lowed to stand.
He said the appropriation cut
would eliminate many vital im
provements on the line.
“Half a railroad is better than
none, though.” Johnson said, as he
tried to determine what projects
must be eliminated if recommen
dations of the interior committee
are accepted.
First indications were that there
would be insufficient funds to
complete laying of new rail and
ballasting of right of way.
“We have 200 miles of new
track ties with ballasting com
pleted. We were planning to call
for bids for 218 additional miles
to complete the main line. The
proposed cut makes it impossible,”
Johnson said.
Other construction projects in
jeopardy by the proposed cuts, he
said, would be:
1. Contsruction of a power plant
at Anchorage to serve as a central
heating and power generating fa
cility. A contract has been award
ed for moving steam and diesel
generators, boilers and other ma
chinery to Anchorage from Carls
bad, N. M., much of it on its way.
Johnson said it would be impossi
ble to construct buildings to house
the facilities.
2. Construction of a steam lo
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New Tornadoes Do
Much Damage
CANTON, Okla., (/P) — Torna
does struck four times in north
west Oklahoma today, killing two,
injuring 18 and causing heavy
property damage.
Canton, Longdale and Black
well were hit. A tornado also dip
ped down five, miles north of
Enid, and wrecked a small airport.
The greatest damage was to the
first two—Canton, a town of 1,200
and nearby Longdale, 400.
The dead were in Canton and
Longdale.
In Canton the storm hit hardest
in the northwest residential area
and the business district, but the
entire town was damaged. Streets
were littered with trees, boards,
bricks and wrecked autos. At least
16 residences wore detroyed and
more than 25 others were very
heavily damaged.
At Longdale the damage was
not as great as first feared. Two
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NENAMA ICE POOL
CLOSES SATURDAY. APRIL 2
With only three days left before
the closing of the Nenana Ice Poo!
for 1949, many have chosen their
favorite date and can dream and
hope for the next month or so in
anticipation of the annual biff
event. The contest closes at mid
night on Saturday, April 2.