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NEWS IN BRIEF
JERUSAL»E>M, (£>)—'The British
army announced that two soldiers
of the Sixth Airborne division
were injured severely today when
a mine blew a three-ton truck off
a road in the Hadar Hacarmel sec
tion of Haifa.
The announcement said the
mine, disguised as a milestone,
had been detonated from a nearby
apartment building.
MOSCOW, (/P)—Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov said today
he saw a danger that American
proposals for the political organ
ization of Germany would lead to
Germany's dismemberment.
ROY AN, France, (/T*) — Twelve
men died today when the 1,777-ton
British steamer Willodale, out of
Cardiff, sank at the mouth of the
Gironde river. Ten other men
were rescued.
NEW DELHI, (/P)—Twenty-six
persons have been killed and 15 in
jured in Hindu-Moslem rioting in
the Gurgaon district of the south
eastern Punjab in the last 24
hours, it was officially announced
today. Roving bands were reported
to have burned 100 houses in Re
wari and destroyed a dumber of
villages in a 300-square-mile area
entending into Alwar state.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Progress was
being made today in the efforts to
obtain a new contract for work
ers in the Alaska salmon industry.
Conciliation commissioner Albin
L. Peterson said he will meet to
morrow in separate sessions with
the machinists union and the Alas
ka cannery workers’ union. An all
day meeting between the employ
ers groups and the Alaska fisher
men’s union Wednesday made the
picture look brighter, he reported.
LEGISLATIVE HIGHLIGHTS
(By Mildred R. Hermann)
• “THIS WAS YOUR LEGISLATURE ’
The eighteenth session of the
Alaska Legislature came to an end
Friday morning, March 28, 1947, as
the sun was coming up over Jun
eau’s mountains, twenty-two hours
after it had been called to order on
the 60th and last day of the ses
sion. Its bowing out was attended
with some ceremony in the House,
where, with all members present,
according 'to long established cus
tom, the House’s youngest mem
ber, Harry F. Newell, made the
motion to adjourn sine die and
speaker Gill officially proclaimed
the end of his regime as presiding
officer.
Less formality attended its pas
sage in the Senate, where three of
the Senators had been absent all
night, two others had left just be
fore dawn and several more were
milling about in the corridor, leav
ing a bare majority to attend to
the formalities of adjourning sine
die.
Most of the legislators perhaps
f *
expect to be back next year for
another extra-ordinary session. At
any rate, they provided the funds
in their general appropriation bill
for an extra session, and they left
much unfinished business behind
them in the form, principally, of a
deficit, amounting to just about
enough money to cover the operat
ing expenses of the Territory for'
1 one year.
The chief flaw in their thinking,
however, lies in the fact that the,
right to call a special session re
sides in the Governor of the Terri-!
tory, and he may decide that a leg
islature that would make appro
priations almost four million dol
lars in excess of the highest estim-;
ated income, is too irresponsible to
be called into an extraordinary j
session, which would enable them
to whitewash their own record of
futility.
He may, in other words, decide
to let the members of the legisla
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A Herd of Alaska Reindeer
A herd of Alaska Reindeer grazing on “tundra grass” near Nome. The herd is part of the rein
deer planted in Alaska more than 50 years ago to provide meat and clothing for the Eskimo. Rein
deer and products will be featured at the Northwestern Alaska Fair April 17th through the 20th,
i at Nome, Alaska. (Richter Photo*
; Wolves Ravage
Reindeer Herd
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The Golovin reindeer herd
which has been grazing between
Golovin and White Mountain this
i winter was attacked by a pack of
wolves which killed a number of
deer and scattered the herd across
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a wide expanse of territory, within
the past few days.
Parachutist Saved
In Mid-Air
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FAIRBANKS, (JP) — One para
chutist jumper saved the life of
another during a task force frigid
paratroop jump by snatching his
collapsed chute in mid-air and
holding on until both reached the
earth safely, the army disclosed to
day.
The army report said the inci
dent occurred Tuesday. Pfc. Ray
mond G. Kenyon of Greenwich, R.
I., the rescuer, and Cpl. Charles A.
Harris of Waltonville, 111., was the
man rescued. Harris’ chute collaps
ed when a crosswind blew the two
men together about 100 feet above
the ground.
The paratroopers were making a
routine jump over a dairy farm
two miles north of Fairbanks. The
amy said the only similar rescue in
its records was in April, 1944 at
Long Island, N. Y.
Freak RR. Wreck
Near Chicago
CHICAGO, (/P)—One passenger
was killed and about 35 persons
were injured when the Burlington
railroad’s speeding train City
Zepyr was derailed by a tractor
and crashed into the railroad sta
tion at suburban Downers Grove
last night.
The tractor had fallen off a
westbound freight train that had
just passed on an adjoining track
and into the path of the stainless
steel streamliner, eastbound from
Minneapolis to Chicago.
EASTER SEAL SALE
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Mrs. Donald Lyle, chairman of
the Easter Seal Sale wishes to
thank Mr. Wm, Angell, the high
school children, the girl scouts, and
the businessmen for their coopera
tion in making the drive for the
Alaska Crippled Children’s fund a
success. The fund collected to date,
flocal) is $363, and should be ma
terially increased by receipts in
the mail and collections until Sat
urday night.
Magnuson Introduces Seawall For
Nome Bill As Emergency Measure
WASHINGTON. April 3. (/P)—A request will be made to
Senate and House appropriations committees to provide S500.000
at once for building a seawall at Nome, Alaska, Senator Magnu
son (D.-Wash.) said today.
Magnuson told a reporter he had just conferred with Grant
R. Jackson. Nome banker, and Carl Lomen, a businessman there,
and that he felt the seawall should be built quickly as a protec
tion against Bering Sea storms.
He said he would ask the money committees to add the
funds to the war department appropriations measure so as to get
immediate action, rather than wait for consideration on bills in
troduced by Delegate Bartlett and Senator Thomas (D.-Okla.)
authorizing the construction.
"Beach erosion and heavy Bering Sea storms have placed
Nome in a dangerous position." Magnuson said. "The sea now
is close to business buildings and another severe storm could
easily wipe out the town.
"Nome is the closest American city to Siberia and the army
has defenses there and the government a large investment in
buildings.
"The Army engineers will approve the construction as an
emergency matter if the Senate and House appropriation sub
committees will add the amount to the appropriation bills they
now are considering.
"The sea now is up to the town's main street and we should
act at once to protect Nome."
Truman May Seize
‘Phone Industry
m
WASHINGTON, UP) —Attorney
general Tom Clark said today
President Truman has the right tj
seize the telephone industry in the
current labor dispute.
Clark told reporters at the White
House, after a cabinet meeting,
that seizure authority exists under
tne FedeYal communications act.
He said Mr. Truman did not ask
his opinion, but that secretary of
labor Schwellenbach did ask him
to say whether the government has
seizure power.
President Truman told his news
conference yesterday that he had
asked the labor department to de
termine whether a legal basis ex
ists for taking o^-er the industry in
the event of a strike of 287,000 tel
ephone workers Monday.
The attorney general said the
authority will continue until six
months after the official “termin
ation of war.”
That leaves the date of expira
tion indefinite. Laws expiring six
months after “termination of hos
tilities”—a technically different
matter—will go out of existence
June 30.
John J. Moran, chairman of the
national federation of telephone
workers policy committee, said
yesterday the phone unions would
“obey” a legal seizure, although he
knew of no existing authority for
One.
“If they seize, and there’s a law
against striking,” Moran told re
porters, “we'll obey the law.”
COMMUNITY SUNRISE
SERVICE EASTER; 7:30 A.M.
I
There will be a Community Sun
rise Service Easter morning at
7:30 a.m. The Army Base will co
operate in this service. Chaplain
York will speak. Everyone is in
vited to attend.