Chrysler Boosts
Price Of Cars
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DETROIT*, (/P)—Chrysler Corp.
Saturday announced price increas
es ranging from $49 to $143 on
passenger cars and trucks effec
tive August 18.
The lirm followed the lead of
General Motors Corp., Packard
Motor Car Co., Hudson Motor Car
Co., Kaiser-Frasier Corp., and
Nash-Kelvinator Corp. in boosting
car prices this month.
A Chrysler statement estimated
that increases would average $87
on Plymouth, Dodge, De Soto and
Chrysler passenger ^cars, and $65
on most model Dodge trucks.
Increased labor and material
costs wer blamed by the company
for the increase.
Earlier this week, Chrysler an
nounced a net profit for the first
six months of 1947 totalling $36,
122,457, equal to $8.30 a share on
outstanding stock. It compared
with a profit of $24,065,381 in the
same period of 1946.
Sign in a maternity ward: “No
children allowed.”
Soldier Killed At
Ft. Richardson
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A Fort
Richardson soldier was killed and
an Anchorage taxicab driver was
wounded critically today in a
shooting incident at the military
post.
The soldier’s name was with
held. The wounded cab drived is
Bertram C. Rick. 36, father of two
children and a former member of
the Anchorage police force.
1 The shooting occurred after
! Rick had been summoned to the
! post to pick up the soldier at the
service club. Maj. Leonard A. Ol
son, provost marshal, said Rick
told him that the shooting occur
red when he fought to wrest a
German Mauser from the soldier.
CALIFORNIA EDITOR
WEEK-ENDS IN NOME
Mabel Barkow, editor of the
Banning Record, of Banning, Cal.,
was a visitor over the week-end
with the Arctic Alaska Tour Serv
ice, which brought in twenty-one
tourists on Saturday. The group
was headed by James Wallace.
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Ten Regarded Dead
In Plane Crash
Near Honolulu
HONOLULU, \!P)—The death of'
Ambassador George C. Atcheson,
Jr., along with nine other persons
in a plane crash at sea just west i
.of Honolulu Saturday midnight
was regarded as a virtual certain
ty today by military authorities, \
but air and surface search con
tinued.
Atcheson, chief U. S. political
adviser in the Japanese occupa
tion and chairman of the four
power council for Japhn, was one
of four still missing.
Five bodies were recovered yes-1
terday, a sixth was seen to sink
a/id three injured army men were
rescued.
The Hawaiian Sea Frontier, di
recting the search, reported there
still was no trace of the missing
men in the rough sea, and their
chance of surviving 36 hours were
so slender that almost no hope re
mained.
Three ranking officers from
General MacArthur’s strategic and
operations staff also were among
ten passengers and crewmen lost
when the B-17. inbound from
Tokyo, crashed into shark-infest
ed waters after running out of
gasoline only 65 miles west of
Pearl Harbor.
'Diplomatic sources in Washing
ton said that despite Atcheson’s
vast knowledge of Japanese prob
lems his apparent death probably
would not delay arrangements for
drawing up the peace treaty with
Japan. Preparations for writing a
preliminary draft already are well
advanced, they saidP
Three men of the 13 aboard were
rescued yesterday from the choppy
sea and five bodies were recover
ed.
Those rescued were Capt. T. L.
Rider of Ponca City. Okla., who
suffered a broken arm. Col. Har
vey Huglin of Fairfield. Iowa, and
a Sergeant Holland of Colmesneil,
Tex.—probably Dee Chapman Hol
land. 20—who suffered head in
juries.
Huglin. who related in a radio
Interview that he kicked sharks
away during his long night in the
water, reported Atcheson said
nothing as the big plane plunged
toward the sea and destruction—
“He only smiled very quietly.”
The five bodies hauled up from
the sea included those of naval
Capt. Randolph B. Boyer of Audu
bon, Minn., or Portsmouth. Va.,
and Col. Randolph Darr. Water
town, N. Y. Identities of the others
were not announced.
• The Army newspaper Stars an 1
Stripes in Tokyo said Allied head
quarters sources had confirmed
thaf the other victims included
Col._ Carl A. Russell of Richmond
Heights, Mo., and Capt. K. R. Still,
who the paper identified as the pi
lot. An unofficial source said army
Capt. Cecil Sigmon—no address
given—was a member of the
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
DIES IN FAIRBANKS
• FAIRBANKS—Mrs. J. W. Pro
vonsha,# 23, wife of Rev, Provon
sha, pastor of the local Seventh
Day Adventist church, died at 9
a.m. today in the St. Joseph’s hos
pital here.
Mrs. Provonsha gave birth to a
daughter, Linda Cheri, on August
15, through caesarian section.
The body will probably be taken
to the home of her parents in
Provo, Utah, for burial.
Mrs. Provonsha has been very
active in civic *and youth move
ments in the community.
Conference Starts .
Studv Of Mutual
J
Defense Treaty
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QU1TANDINHA, Brazil, </P) —
The Inter-American conference’s
first working committee began to
day a study of principles and other
dispositions of a hemipshere mu
tual defense treaty.
The committee, which elected
the Uruguayan foreign minister,
Mateo Marques Castro, chairman,
met soon after the Panamanian
foreign minister, Ricardo Joaquin
Alfaro, charged that "every Com
munist party in Latin America is
a Russian fifth column.” Alfaro
declared growing conference senti
ment ‘‘favors joint measures to
protect the hemisphere against
subversive influences.”
Mariano Fiallos Gil presented
credentials as a representative of
the deposed Arguello government
of Nicaragua, which was over
thrown recently after 25 days in
office. His action posed the thorny
question of seating a Nicaraguan
delegation.
The 20 nations conferring at the
Quitandinha hotel near Petropolis.
45 miles north of Rio de Janeiro,
were seeking means of joint action
against aggression under a hemi
sphere defense treaty.
Alfaro gave his views on Com
munism in an interview.
“Russia today is a world enig
ma,” Alfaro said. "Its policy is one
of expansion. Its creation of Euro
pean satellites is proof of this pol
icy.”
His statement that Latin Amer-j
lean Communist parties were fifth i
columns was in reply to a question
whe her he thought Russia sought
satellites in the Western Hemi
sphere.
‘‘This excludes the United
States, where the Communist party i
is composed principally of North
Americans sharing the ideology of
Lenin and his disciples,” he said.
“However, throughout Latin
America Communist parties re
ceive financial and other aid from
States Still Sweat
It Out In Grip
Of Heat Wave
'■By The Associated Press)
Midwesterners and their parch
ed corn broiled from the heat to
day after the third consecutive
torrid week-end and there was lit
tle relief in sight before Wednes
day at the earliest.
The U. S. weather bureau fore
cast continued high temperatures
for the entire country today with
the exception of the West Coast
and parts of the Rockies and toe
eastern seaboard. Slightly cooler
weather was expected in northern
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Mon
tana, but it was still warm.
A new cool air mass was expect
ed by Wednesday in the midwest.
The thirsty corn group received
little moisture over the week-end
and there was none in prospect
until after midweek with only lo
cal showers predicted then.
States from the Rockies through
Ohio and from Texas to southern
Minnesota sweated it out Sunday
while both coasts enjoyed a pleas
ant sabbath.
Hottest point in the count, y
Sunday was Yuma, Oriz., with 103
degrees, and Lacrosse, Wis., Min
neapolis. Lincoln. Grand Island
and Norfolk. Nebr., Sioux Falls,
S. D„ and Sioux City. Iowa, right
behind with 100’s.
ALASKA AIRLINES OFFICIALS
VISITED NOME SATURDAY
J. C. Wooten, president of the
Alaska Airlines, accompanied bv
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Marshall of
the board of directors of the com
pany visited for a short time on
Saturday before returning to An
chorage headquarters.
abroad.”
Alfaro said Panama and “many
other delegations” would sup >ort
the inclusion in the treaty o' a
definition of “subversive influ
ences.”
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