their command to oppose freight
rate increases, the Attorney Gen
eral has assumed full charge in
such cases. Out of that appropria
tion $5,183.07 has been spent on
the recent rate investigation, in
cluding fee of Special Rate Coun
sel, Malcolm Miller, 50% of fee to
Economist Don O’Connor, travel,
printing of briefs, etc. Although
the Maritime Commission’s exam
iners, markedly pro-carrier, have
reported in favor of the interim
contract rates, the case is not yet
over. Petition recently filed by the
Attorney General (which does not
call for another steamship inves
tigation because it is a mere fol
low-up on the recent Seattle hear
ing) asks for cancellation of the
present contract because of breach
es thereof, and institution of new
arrangements. The commission
well knows after just hearing
Alaska Transportation compa n y
charges against Alaska Steam
Northland, in which case the At
torney General backed up Alaska
Transportation company, that new
arrangements could consist of
consolidation of jointly owned
Alaska Steam-Northland for elim
ination of one overhead, and real
location of ships on that basis wil
permission to Alaska Transporta
tion company to compete all the
way to the Westward. Such ar
rangements could also require the
'wo newly authorized carriers to
enter into workable conference
agreement for economical routing
and sailings of their respective
vessels.
“To follow the advice of the
Daily Alaska Empire would put
the Territory in the position of
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U. S. Hockey
Teams Banned
From Olympics
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, (JP)
Dr. Alebrt Mayer, member of the
international Olympic committee
and the Swiss organizing commit
tee, announced yesterday that the
I.O.C. voted 16 to 10 to ban both
U. S. hockey teams from the win
ter Olympics and added that the
Swiss would reject the decision.
Mayer made the statement to an
Associated Press reporter as he
left a meeting of the international
committee at which he said the
vote was taken.
The executive board of the in
ternational committee had ordered
the banning of both teams Wed
nesday in a decision which the
Swiss also rejected. Swiss officials
in charge of the games accepted
the entry of the amateur hockey
association as the official United
States representative, resulting in
a bitter protest by the U. S. Olym
pic committee, which has entered
a team of its own.
lying down and letting the steam
ship companies have whatever the
Maritime Commission lets them
take away from the public. It
would put the Attorney General
in the position of doublecrossing
the public by letting its case be
lost by default. It would also put
the Attorney General in the posi
tion of pleading with Congress
each year for higher steamship
subsidies to support the carriers’
uneconomical operations on a
cost-plus basis so that rates could
be lowered sufficiently to encour
age Alaska’s development. Such a
picture would be ludicrous, and to
follow such advice would be trai
torous, especially in view of the
fact that removal of discrimina
tion against Alaska under the
Jones Act would enable the Terri
tory to get along without a sub
sidy. Then if the carriers needed
higher subsidies to stay in com
petition with foreign ships, thev
could fight the Congressional ap
propriations battle each year on
their own behalf, while the Terri
tory went ahead in tbe world.”
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“Exercise Yukon”
Teaches Army
Many Arctic Facts
BIG DELTA. (^P)—Training in
Alaska has dispelled the "fear of
the Arctic" in the mind of the av
erage soldier, Brig. Gen. Henry J.
D. Meyer, second division artill
ery commander, told 250 men of
Exercise Yukon on their return
here Monday after a five-day
problem at Galena, 300 miles east.
The general and men returned
here in C-82 "Flying Boxcars”. In
cluded in the group were 60 artil
lerymen and 30 medical corpsmen
who will finish 24 days of Arctic
training here this week.
“All of us have become one
third sourdough,” the general
said. “We lived in the field and
used nothing not considered as
standard ordnance.”
Gen. Meyer said the general
health of the men is “excellent.”
“More than anywhere else the
ground soldier in the Arctic must
become ‘foot conscious’,” the gen
eral said. “It’s a must up here.”
The "buddy” system in which
two soldiers team up for mutual
protection also is an Arctic ne
cessity, he said.
Speaking frankly of problems
still facing the ground forces in
combatting sub-zero weather, the
general said there is need to de
velop a system of evacuation for
i wounded to “cut down radically
the time lapse from the wound to
the time the man is brought to
a heated shelter.” *
He criticized footwear, stating
that “felt shoes won’t stand up,
mukluks wear out, and shoe packs
sometimes leak at the seams.”
The sleeping bag and five-men
tent used on the problem proved
satisfactory, Meyer said. The tent
is similar to the Yukon tent with
the stove adapted to gasoline.
The general said he doubts the
sufficiency of either snowshoes or
skis as a method of travel. The
army’s cross-country skis are too
narrow, he explained. The man
drawn sled also was described as
impractical for military use.
Either a motor- or animal
drawn vehicle \&ould be prefer
able, Meyer suggested.
Although telephone equipment
performed satisfactorily on the
five-day problem, the general said
the battery radio was of little use
in the extreme cold.
“As the temperature goes down,
transportation develops more and
more trouble,” Meyer said.. Forty
degrees below zero was tabbed as
the “critical” temperature “for
borth vehicle and airplane en
gines.”
The weasel, full-tracked am
phibious vehicle, “seems to be
good,” as were the winterized
jeeps although the latter was com
pelled to stay on beaten trails.
* Meyer praised the work of the
twelfth air force, Alaska air com
Meeks Denies
Killing Campbell
JUNEAU, (/P)—An out-and-out
denial that he killed Clarence
Campbell, 28-year-old Seattle con
struction worker, or that he even
knew him was made by George
Meeks Wednesday at his first de
gree murder trial.
In his previous trial, at which
he was convicted and sentenced to
life imprisonment, Meeks did not
take the stand. The slaying was in
mand, which he said “proved it
can trapsport us a long distance
in a comparatively short time.”
The tests will be completed this
week with firing of infantry and
artillery weapons, after which the
men will return to Fort Lewis.
I’m Going A-Milking,
Said The Truck
DUBLIN, Ark. {&) — A farm
truck is doing the milking for Ro
land Faulkner, partially disabled
World War II veteran, near here.
Faulkner has 13 cows and a
milking machine but no electricity
is available to operate the ma
chine. He overcame this difficulty
by—
Tapping a half-inch hole in the
truck’s intake manifold attaching
a vacuum tube, connecting it with
the milker and the milker to the
cow's then stepping on the starter
He reports he now milks his
herd in 32 minutes
December, 1945. Cross examina
tion w’as planned for yesterday
and the case will probably go to
the jury this week.
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