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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, — (JP) — The
House yesterday passed a com
promise bill designed to build
up a 70-group Air Force.
No dissent was heard to the
voice vote.
The compromise was drafted
yesterday by a Senaie-Housecom
mittee after the two branches of
Congress had passed different
bills.
Only Senate approval is need
ed !. 4 ’ i ad : ’ ■ .
the president.
WASHINGTON, — Pi—Georcge
T3. Kclez, S -attic, has been ap
pointed Fisheries Sup -rvisor for
Service a *icl today.
Ktlez will bb responsible f<>
roller hr ; information on which
the annual commercial fishery
regulations for Alaska will be
based.
Dun H. Ralston, wildlife agent
at Ketchikan and' Seward, has
been appointed Supervisor of Law
Enforcement, in charge of 30 .full
time enforcement agents and GO
seasonal stream guards and patrol
agents in Alaska..
SEATTLE, —(/P)— Charles Mar
tin Vick, f’fi, retired sea captain
who followed the sea for 72 year
made his last port of call Sunday.
Vick, who died at his home at
Battle Point on Baingridge Is
land, was a Washington Stale Pio
neer and took part in the Alaska
gold rush. ,
For many years he was em
ployed by the Libby. McNeill and
Libby and for the Alaska Pack
trip :• a * ca toil at the age
of 8(1 in 1912. At his death, he
still had mining interests in Al
aska. He was a member of the
Alaska Pioneer Club.
Two sons, William Hans. Ta
coma, and Paul A., of San Fran
cisco; and a daughter, Mrs. Agnes
Vick Petroff, survive.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., —(/P) —A
javelin hurled by a classmate yes
terday killed midshipman George
J. Eliopolus, naval academy ath
lete.
Capt. E. B. Taylor, navy ath
letic director, said the 23-year-old
victim “was ' ■ +
by a javelin that slipped from the
hands of midshipman George B.
Stone.” Eliopolus pulled the spear
from his own neck, but collapsed
•and died within four minutes.
Taylor said Stone was “hospital
ized suffering from shock.”
The two boys had been working
out together at the Thompson
Stadium when the mishap occur
red.
SAN PEDRO, Calif., — (/P)—1The
atom-bombed cruiser Salt Lake
City rode at anchor near San Ped
ro today, reportedly marked for
sinking by naval gunfire later
this month.
Naval officials would not com
ment on the fate of the 19-year
old ship which compiled a form
idable fighting record in the Pac
ific war and which was battered
in the Bikini atoll atom bombing
in 1946.
However, harbor reports indi
cated the Salt Lake City would be
BREAKING UP TRIESTE DEMONSTRATION
Trieste police grapple with a womc1 erronslrator .. ring a pro-1
celebration on May Day. Police used water hoses, night sticks and motor
cycles to break up gatherings throughout the Allied zone. (AP Wirep’o n
House Will Hold
»
Hearings On
Alaska Shipping
i John J. 1 Jr.,
-
| on transportation problems said
I today he hopes California ship
! operators will show interest inj
I providing steamship service to the :
I Territory.
Allen announced in a statement
that his committee will hold a
hearing May 18, on proposals to j
extend present service to Alaska
until Dec. 31/ 1949.
He said he “hopes that such
operators as the Coastwise Line,!
! of San Francisco and Portland,
i who have considered establishing,
a service from California. Ore-1
gon and Washington to the Terri
tory, particularly to carry pulp
wood southward, will appear.
The present service is operated j
i by three Seattle companies under
an arrangement in which the gov
ernment grants them charter on
government ships at $1 a year
and pays part of the insurance
on the vessels. The lines are the
Alaska Steamship Company, the
Northland Transportation Comp-,
any and the Altska Transportation
Company.
Allen said only recently a ves
sel of the Alaska Steamship Co., j
was used for a cargo from San
Francisco to Alaska.
Neither the members of the
committee nor the Maritime Com
mission fully support the proposed
extension of the temporary ser
vice, Allen said. The proposal
was introduced by Rep. Tollefson
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towed 50 miles to sea about May
25 and sunk by gunfire.
‘First Boat" Sails
For Bering Sea Vml
Nome, June 3rd.
SEATTLE, — (JP)—'The first ship
sailing for Nome each summer
season h is lost much of its glam
or since the airplane horned into
tne picture.
But it is stdl an important
event to the residents o:' Nome,
after a long, ice-bound winter.
Nome’s first arrival this sum
mer will be the freighter Reef
Knot of Alaska Steamship Com
pany, scheduled to sail from Se
attle June 3. The ship, skippered
*
also will call at Unalaska, Solom
on, Golovin, St. Michael and Una
lakleet.
U.S. Not Hostile
To Russia, Says
Pres. Truman
WASHINGTON, —(^—Presid
ent Truman said yesterday that(
the American bid to Soviet for
eign minister Molotov for “de
cent and reasonable relations be-1
tween’ the two countries ‘repre
sented no new departure in Am-1
erican policy.”
Its purpose, Mr. Truman said
in a formal statement, was to
make it “unmistakably clear that
the United States has no hostile
or aggressive designs whatsoever
with respect to the Soviet Union.”
The pupsident’s statement d’d
not indicate whether the note of
ambassador Walter Bedell Smith
to Molotov May 4 might be con
strued as an American proposal
for discussion and settlement of
existing differences between the
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Railroads Rim
"As Usual* Today
Army in Charge
WASHINGTON, — i.P> —The
.
eminent direction today and the
Army lift ; the emerg
ba rgo o n
goods.
Tiie action restoring lTciglit Ser
vice to normal came after the
government, forced the engineer -
firemen and switchmen to call
off a strike set for Tuesday mor
ning.
Eighty-eight lines had banned
shipments of perishables during
the week-end to prevent hem from
being stranded in event of a wclk
out. Many cancelled the embar
goes Monday night, however, in
advance of the Army order.
The rail unions called off the
threatened strike in compli mce
with a court order from Jujib.e
T. Alan Goldsborough—the fed
eral judge who twice fined John
L. Lewis for contempt of court in
mine strikes.
With the Army in charge of
rail operations, the Whitehouse
withdrew from direct attempts
to get the unions and management
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HOSPITAL NEWS
The Emergency Hospital Fund
continues to climb closer to the
$10,000 goal. This week’s receipts
are:
Covenant Ladies Aid $ 10.00
Bertha Ellinger 10.00
Albert Heinrich 15.00
Jack Anderson 10.00
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
' Fairbanks, 100.00
.TOTAL TO DATE $9,455.70
VI an shall Replies
Russian Statement
WASHINGTON,, — <A>> — Sec
■::*y of S4 .to Marshall 'aid to
day that if Russia is seriously in
sled in tving v i con
litions there is urcent need for
action through the Unite 1 Na
In : n*'\vs conference s‘: dement,
Marshall ruled on- tin- sibil
t te
rn ml r o’ . m ’. ween
the United States
ment
. for
v > bitter
e
to the
- ‘s ; ■ ■* h * O' nts.
'on’ .uied on P; . .* E:;*ht)
2.001) •Fisliermen to
To A or
Bristol Bay Co’s*
■
pur. I; a >y . • f \r- <_• than
to the
is
a Airli ■ its
ght.
.
Th ■ . ),000
contract u : a e f; 1 packing
and canning comp nics.
Four flit • . will > v ‘h next
week and d( irtures tl re ex
l up to 1 vo a
day in order to m >ve 7 ( *n a
week.
Th1 fishermen are specialists
1,000
Cor th A1 :a s< ason,
Transocean said.
i The air line hope, t * oh tin car
go in Alaska for t' e r- urn trp.
Sumarains; 181
Cliena Break-up
FAIRBANKS, % Su
mara, a Fairbanks cement mixer,
and his wife pocketed $5,481 yes
terday for guessing within a min
ute of the time of the ice breakup
in the Chena River.
The contest sponsored by the
Fairbanks Fire Department, is a
miniature version of the big Al
aska-wide Nenana stakes which
this year have $150,000 in prize
money.
Mr. and Mrs. Sumara estimated
that the Chena river ice would
go out toward the sea at 9:54 a.m.
May 10. The ice pack started
grinding out at 9:55.
The Nenana contest hinges on
the time of the Tanana River
breakup, usually 24 to 48 hours
later than the Chena. _