Drink; See Lizard;
Sue Bottling Co. !
LOS ANGELES (ffl-Two mar
ried couples assert that ever since
they mixed a drink known as a
“Moscow mule” their dreams have
been troubled with visions of
“mules and lizards which leer at
them from the necks of ginger
beer bottles.”
The loursvime has no complaint
about the Moscow mule, as such,
but in a suit filed in superior court
yesterday they contended that a
very live “lizard or salamander”
popped out of a ginger beer bottle
while they were making the
drinks with ginger beer, vodka
• and lime .juice last Sept. 10.
All four claimed in the suit that
they became violently nauseated
and have been unable to sleep
properly since. Mr. and Mrs.
George Horsman and Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin White, asking $10,000
damages, filed the action against
the Cock ’n Bull Products, Inc.,
1 and Arrowhead Beverage Co., de
scribed as bottlers and distributors
of the ginger beer.
Food Prices Steady
Or .Higher .
• By The Associated Press*
A three weeks slump in hog
prices was halted, at least tempor
arily, at major livestock markets
> today but most other commodity
prices made little headway in
either direction in early trading.
Steady prices prevailed for
grains on the Chicago board of
trade, cotton futures opened 25
cents to Si a bale lower in New
York and prices on egg futures
were mixed at Chicago.
The Chicago hog market opened
fairly active with early sales of
good and choice 190 to 250 pound
Dr. Leo J. Gehrig To Take
Course In Chest Surgery
Dr. Leo J. Gehrig, who was
loaned by the U. S. Public Health
Service to the Territorial depart- ,
ment of health as acting director
of the division of tuberculosis con
trol, was selected by the public
health service for a two-year
course in chest surgery.
He left Alaska recently for Bos-;
ton, Mass., where he will become
the assistant to Doctor Oberholt, j
well-known chest surgeon. The
fellowship will enable Doctorj
Gehrig to serve a two-year resi- i
dency in chest surgery at medical
centers around Boston.
Dr. Gehrig arrived in Alaska in ,
January, 1946, and built up the,
tuberculosis division of the health
department. His loss is keenly felt !
by the Territorial health depart
ment. According to commissioner
of health Albrecht, Dr. Gehrig ,
was more instrumental than any
one in the establishment of a J
worthwhile tuberculosis control
program for the Territory. “His
energy,” states Doctor Albrecht,
“and his practical analysis of our
serious situation were prime fac
tors in the establishment of an ef
fective tuberculosis program.”
Doctor Gehrig's successor has
not yet been arrounced. Dr. Don
ald J. McMinimy, tuberculosis
consultant. is temporarily in
charge of the work.
butcher grades about 25 cents a
hundred pounds higher. The mar
ket top was 25 cents higher at
Omaha.
Near the end of the first hour
' on the Chicago board of trade
wheat was Vi cent lowrer to lA
higher with December selling at
t $2.9934. Corn was Vi to 1 cent
higher, December S2.25 and oats
were ’« to Vs higher, December
$1.16V«.
JUST
UNPACKED
Men’s Wool Whipcord Pants
Forestry Cloth Cruisers and Pants to Match
Leather Field Boots
Shoepace - Overshoes - Comfort Slippers
Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes
Carpenters and Painters Overalls
Heavy Wool Cruisers
Men’s All Wool Dress Slacks
Ladies Rayon Hosiery
Children’s Long Cotton Hose
Beautiful, Warm Stadium Boots for Ladies
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Northern Commercial
i
Company
Everything for Everybody
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Britain Concludes
Trade Agreements
With 15 Countries
(By Tom William#)
LONDON, i/P)—Harold Wilson,
president of the board of trade,
announced today that Britain has
negotiated tariff agreements with
fifteen nations, including the
United States.
Details of the new trade pacts,
ho told the Commons, would he
published simultaneously in the
various countries in about three
weeks.
“We have been particularly con
cerned to secure reductions in the
tariffs of other countries, includ
ing the United Stated, which
would provide an immediate op
portunity of increasing our dollar
exports,” Wilson said.
He declared the United States
had made concessions in return for
concessions which we consider
equivalent in terms of the trade
thereby opened to us.”
The new trade pacts will be in
cluded in a final act of agreement
at the Geneva trade conference
tomorrow, Wilson disclosed, add
ing:
“I have given special attention
to the need for the easier access of
colonial products to the United
States market.
Prominent Organizations
To Sponsor Sale of
Christman Seals
The Kiwanis Slub ol' Juneau re
cently voted to sponsor the 1947
Tuberculosis Christmas Seal sale
in that city. In accepting this re
sponsibility for the Alaska Tuber
culosis association, tTiey join a
worthy group of organizations and
individuals sponsoring seal sales
in other Alaskan centers. Other
j sponsors and their localities are
! as follows:
The teachers of the Alaska Na
| tive Service Schools in small
towns and villages; Cordova Wo
' man’s Club in Cordova; Fairbanks
| Woman’s Club in Fairbanks; Idit
arod Woman’s Club in Flat; Mrs.
Retha M. Young in Haines; Ketch
ikan Lion’s Club in Ktechikan;
Rotary Club of Kodiak in Kodiak;
High School Student Body at
Nome; Mrs. Harold I. Thuma in
Palmer; Petersburg Rotary Club
in Petersburg; Mrs. Susan Eng
lish in Seldovia; Seward Junior
Woman’s Club in Seward; Beta
Sigma Phi Sorority in Sitka; Mes
dames Frolander and Rapuzzi at
Skagway; Girl Scouts at Valdez;
American Legion Auxiliary at
Wrangell; John F. Chalker, Chap
lain, (Lt. Col.) U.S.A. for the U.
S. Army; Commanding Officers
for the U. S. Coast Guard and the
U. S. Navy; and construction
camp managers in outlying camps.
Nearly all of the sponsors in the
larger towns are joining the De
centralization Movement of the
Alaska Tuberculosis Association.
When they join, 20% of the re
ceipts may be retained for local
use in tuberculosis welfare and re
habilitation work, the same to be
administered by a committee act
ing under the direction of the or
ganization. In these days of ab
breviated welfare funds, it has
been found that this welfare emer
gency fund meets a vital need.
Near a certain monastery in
Tibet, where gold is worked by the
monks, large gold nuggets are im
mediately replaced in the earth
when found. People there reputed
ly believe that the large nuggets
germinate in time and produce
the small lumps for which they
are privileged to search.
Survivors Watch Plane's Destruction
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An unidentified group of survivors watch as the Bermuda Sky
Queen is destroyed by gunfire in mid-Atlantic after the last of the
09 passengers and crew had been rescued. The group wear dry
clothes donated by crewmen of the rescue ship Bibb.
<oP> Wirephoto'
I
If grease in a frying pan catches
, fire, neyer put water on it, as this
i will simply spread the flame. Just
i sprinkle a handful of baking soda
on the burning grease. Baking
soda smothers a fire by generating
carbonic acid gas, which tempo
rarily envelopes the flame, shuts
off the supply of air and thus ex
tinguishes the fire.
ANCHORAGE TO MINNEAPOLIS
Nov. 2 $120.00 PIus tax
NOME TO KOTZEBUE
$35.00 Pll,s *ax
NOME TO SEATTLE
$130.00 Plus tax