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NEWS IN BRIEF
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. I/P)—
Seattle will host the 160th general
assembly of the Presbyterian
church at its 1948 session.
* The city’s bid, presented by the
Rev. Paul McConkey of Seattle’s
First Church, was accepted Mon
day. It will be the fourth time the
national conclave has assembled
on the Pacific Coast, but the first
time it has met on Puget Sound.
KETCHIKAN, (JP) — Gustaf B.
Soderblom, 76, retired Fairbanks
placer miner, collapsed on the
street in the heat Sunday and
died. He was a padfcenger on the
northbound steamer Alaska, which
had stopped here. A note in his
wallet asked that Mrs. Gust Car
los, Renton, Wash., be notified
and added: “My watch and chain
belongs to Mrs. Carlos.” He was
a Mason.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The Nica
raguan congress has declared
president Leonardo Arguella "in
capacitated” and named Benjamin
Lescayo Sacasa as provisional
president, the stale department
was advised Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (JP)—1The rural
electrification administration no
tified Delegate Bartlett of Alaska
today it hap approved three loans
to Territorial cooperatives for in
stallation of electric service and
generating facilities.
They are* $217,000 to the Homer
cooperative; $230,000 to the Gla
cier High cooperative, Juneau,
and $270,000 to the Golden Valley
Electric association at Fairbanks.
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LONDON (#*)—The British gov
ernment has called in a crew of
Italians to dive for “buried treas
ure”—3,000 tons of copper in the
steamer Alaska 250 feet below the
surface of the English Channel off
the Sussex coast. The ship was a
war-time casualty.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—R. E. Mc
Cardle, assistant chief of the U. S.
forestry service, said today there
are “very favorable opportunities”
for expanding newsprint pfoduc
tion in the southern states—“par
ticularly for supplying local mar
kets.”
He told a special House com
mittee, investigating . the news
print and paper supply, that this
expansion hinges “on better forest
management on all classes of for
est properties, and particularly
those in small ownership.”
WASHINGTON. (fP) — Here it
the complete text of one of the
day's shortest speeches in the
House, as delivered by Rep. Mat
thews (R.-N. J.):
"What this country needs is a
foreign policy that is less foreign
and more policy."
MARGATE, England, (tfV-For
eign secretary Ernest Bevin won
a vote of confidence from Britain’s
ruling labor party by more than
two to one In a preliminary skir
mish on foreign affairs at the
party’s annual conference today.
What a Lovely Way to Spend a Sunny Afternoon
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These "water scooters" are fascinating to every Army Regular who visits this delightful French resort
while on leave from his occupation duties in Germany. The soldier vacationist can relax and fully enjoy the
sunshine and cool sea breezes as he glides smoothly over t!:e rippling water. Travel and recreation are among
the advantages of a career in the new Regular Army offered to young men between the ages of 18 and 34.
inclusive.
Portland May Have
Alaska Service
PORTLAND, Ore. (IP)—A Port
land to Alaska steamship service
awaits only a formal application
by an operator and proof of need
for the service, Admiral William
W. Smith, chairman of the U. S.
Maritime commission, told busi
ness men here last night.
Admiral Smith said the present
interim contract granting fou»
Seattle firms exclusive contracts
for the Alaska trade could “be
thrown out at any time” and run
only to July 1, 1948, at the longest.
“We (the commission) don’t be
lieve in exclusive arrangements,
but we had to approve something
to provide Alaska with service be
fbre it was too late,” he said.
Formal commission hearings
must be conducted before another
service linking Alaska to other
coast ports can be certified, Ad
miral Smith explained. He also
noted that no formal applications
for suclj service has been filed by
any but Seattle firms.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
EXECUTIVE HERE
Volney Richmond, executive of
, the Northern Commercial Co., ac
companied by Mrs. Richmond ar
rived on the P.A.A. last Monday
evening on a survey of company
business throughout the Territory.
BASE TO HOLD
MEMORIAL SERVICES
All military and civilian per
sonnel of the Base, as well as pa
triotic groups from Nome are in
vited to attend the Memorial Day
services at the Base.
At noon the national salute of
21 guns will be fired, at the con
clusion of which the flag will be
hoisted to the top of the flagstaff
from its position at half mast,
while appropriate music is played.
Chaplain Darling will then give
I the Memorial Day address.
The ceremony will be concluded
! with patriotic music.
Schedule of Alaska
SS. 1947 Sailings
(Special to The Nugget)
SEATTLE — Following is the
schedule for Bering Sea season of
1947: June first, Reef Knot, Una
laska, Nome Solomon, Golovin,
Ungalik, Unalakleet, Saint Mich
ael.
June fifteenth a vessel for Nome
and other Norton Sound ports if
sufficient cargo is offered.
July fifteenth, a vessel to Nome,
Teller Wales, Shishmaref, Deer
ing, Keewalik, Kotzebue, Saint
Lawrence Island.
August fifteenth a vessel to
Nome, Saint Michael and other
Norton Sound points if sufficient
cargo is offered.
September fifteenth a vessel to
Saint Michael and Nome.
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MRS. CARRIE RUSSEL TO
START BUSINESS HERE
Mrs. Carrie Russel, who plans
to go into business here returned
to Nome on the P.A.A. last Mon
day evening.
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MR. AND MRS. VINCENT
MODER, PROUD PARENTS
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Moder
are the proud parents of a baby
daughter born Monday morning.
Vincent Moder is manager of the
Nevada Grill.
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STORES TO CLOSE
MEMORIAL DAY
* Friday is Memorial Day and
Nome will pay tribute to those
who died in the service of their
country by closing all business
houses and Federal offices.
For many it is a day of rest
i and relaxation as well as for the
remembrance of those who gave
their lives in our four great wars.
Boy Scout Troop 666 will have
appropriate graveside services for
departed member. Jerry Seiden
verg.
American Legion members have
been Invited to the Post for the
services there Friday morning.
Kidnap Banker
In Robbery Try
TRACY CITY, Tenn. (/P)—Al
vin Henderson, bank cashier, was
kidnaped from his home, tied in
his automobile and his aged
nioiher was bound in the attempt
ed robbery of the First National
bank here early today.
The cashier told officers he was
tied up in his automobile about
seven miles from here on the Se
quatchie Valley road but escaped
onharmed after his abductors lied.
G undy county sheriff D. E.
■joms launched a search for two
or more men reported involved in
the abduction after Henderson’s
mother, Mrs. Ida Henderson, 70.
said her son was taken from their
home four blocks from the bank
about 1 a.m.
She said a man carrying a pistol
tied her with strips of sheet rip
ped from a bed.
Russia Abolishes
Death Penalty
LONDON, (JP) — A Moscow
broadcast announcing abolition of
the death penalty in the Soviet
Union was acclaimed Tuesday by
Russian sources in London as evi
dence of an increased feeling of
security within Russia and a sign
that drastic measures were no
longer necessary to preserve the
State.
The broadcast — recorded here
Monday night by the Soviet moni
tor—said the presidium of the su
preme Soviet had decided that the
death penalty was “no longer
necessary under peacetime condi
tions in the Soviet Union” and
that 25-year sentences in labor
camps would be substituted. „
The presidium is an executive
and directive body which acts be
tween sessions of Russia’s parlia
ment, the supreme council of the
union.
Longshore Discuss
Work Stoppages
SAN FRANCISCO, f/P)—A la
bor relations committee ruling
was studied today by CIO long
rhorr uff.c'als planning a series of
work stoppage meetings up and
down the coast to discuss contract
problems.
Clark Kerr, chairman of the
committee, ruled that all such
meetings must be held during ov
ertime or holiday hours. He re
commended that Seattle’s ILWU,
which had planned a meeting to
morrow to start at 3 p.m. postpone
it until 5 p.m. Indications were
the ILWU would comply. He also
suggested that the San Francisco
Bay area ILWU choose another
opening hour than 10 a.m. Thurs
day.
ILWU officials called meetings
tonight and tomorrow at all Pa
cific coast ports to vote on a “no
contract—no work” policy when
their contracts with the water
front expire June 15. Portland
members already have voted but
the vote has not been tallied.
Kerr said that none of the meet
ings can last longer than six con
secutive hours and that union hir
ing halls must remain open.
He made the ruling after M. G.
Ringberg, president of the Wash
i n g t o n waterfront employers
wired a protest of plans for the
Seattle 3 to 7 p.m. session Thurs
day. Gingenberg called it a “con
tract violation” and asked Kerr to
call off the meeting.
Los Angeles-Long Beach and
Portland dock workers planned
meetings tonight.
The ILWU has rejected water
front proposals to extend the con
tracts three months and countered
with proposals to extend them by
a year.
Marshall For St.
Lawrence Seaway
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Marshall testified today
that completion of the St. Law
rence seaway would aid “immeas
urably” in U. S.-Canadian defense
of the North American continent
• Marshall appeared with former
President Herbert Hoover and
others before a Senate foreign re
lations subcommittee considering
new legislation providing for the
authorization of the Half-billion
dollar international development.
Marshall said four advantages
of the project would:
“I. Enable us to build ocean
going vessels in the relative secur
ity of inland waters;
“2. Create a vital new line to
the industrial heart of the United
States and Canada;
“3. Create a tremendous source
of electric power in an area that
does not have enough and would
be comparable to that generated
by TVA, and in the Columbia and
Colorado River systems;
“4. Provide this, nation with
overall economic advantages.” ,