Mystery Shrouds
Farben Plant
Explosion
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lin asserted the factory, a main
stem of the once-great I. G. Far
ben Industrie trust which oper
ated 400 plants in Germany and
100 elsewhere in the world before
the war, was making war mate
riel illegally.
German investigators who were
at last able to approach the cen
ter of the destruction said pre
liminary findings indicated the
disaster was touched off by ethyl
chloride, an industrial chemical.
No Americans were believed
killed in the explosion.
Police said the plant’s big ad
ministration building was de
stroyed so quickly that its occu
pants had little chance to escape.
Guarded comments of some
Farben workers cast an air of
mystery around the explosion.
When French soldiers blocked
German reports from the plant,
several survivors commented:
“No wonder. They’ve got some
thing to hide.”
Marine Cooks
And Stewards
Hailed Into Court
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Rep
resentatives of the marine cooks
and stewards union were to ap
pear in federal court yesterday to
answer charges that the union de
layed sailing of three ships in vio
lation of an injunction forbidding
a strike.
The charge was made by the
Pacific American shipowners’ as
sociation Wednesday in a peti
tion asking that the union be
found in contempt of court.
(In Seattle, the union’s dis- 1
patcher, Charles Nichols, said it (
has “no knowledge of the SS
Alaska being delayed on that
date ‘July D.”
(Of the George Washington, he
said the steward department bud
! a “legitimate grievance” concern
i ing the shipboard conditions and
could not sail “until they had
some assurance they would be
corrected.” This dispute occurred
June 20.)
Federal judge Michael J. Roche
said he would talk with union
i representatives before ruling on
! the order.
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Nome To Receive
Federal Grant
For Hospital
JUNEAU — Nome will receive
the first $100,000 federal grant
for local hospital consfruction
in Alaska, Dr. C. Earl Albrecht,
commissioner of the Alaska de
partment of health, reported.
These funds recently became
available with the passage in
Congress of Delegate Bartlett’s
hospital construction bill.
The new structure, the May
nard-MacDougall Memorial Hos
pital, will replace Nome’s former
hospital that was totally destroy
ed by fire in March. Built of re
. I
inforced concrete, the new hospi
tal will be of modern fire-proof
construction. Ground was re
cently broken and oiftside con
struction will be completed by
this fall.
The new hospital will have a
capacity of thirty-four beds, ten
of which will be reserved for tu-!
berculous patients. To be built at
the cost of $526,000, the May
nard-MacDougall Memorial Hos
pital will provide hospital, serv
ices for the entire Seward Penin
sula.
A local construction fund was
made available by a grant from ,
the Methodist Church Mission !
Board and the estate of Captain ■
MacDougall, a former Nome res
ident. To this will be added the
$100,000 of federal monies, allo
cated by the Alaska Department
of Health to the area in greatest
need of hospital facilities.
In keeping with the require
ments of the original hospital
construction act, the hospital
must be non-profit and have no
discrimination as to race, color,
or creed. The building and oper
ation of the hospital will be ad
ministered by the Methodist
church.
The Carson Construction com
pany of Helena, Montana, is the
contractor for the project. This
company is qlso constructing the
Alaska Native Service hospital at
Sitka.
ALASKA SEEKS COAST
GUARD DISTRICT
JUNEAU, //P) — Capt. Alfred
Richmond, chief of coast guard
planning control, said yesterday
that reestablishment of the Alas
i ka Coast Guard district is being
j considered.
The district was merged during
ithe war with the 13th Coast
Guard district, which had head
quarters at Seattle.
Capt. Richmond said Juoeau
and Ketchikan are seeking to be
named headquarters for the Alas
ka district, if it is reestablished.
The planning chief was here
1 with Rear Adm. Joseph Stika,
| commander of the Seattle coast
guard district.
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SEEK APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM IN ALASKA
JUNEAU, {&)—The possibility
of establishing an apprenticeship
training program in Alaska is be
ing investigated by Edward Ge
shen, assistant director of the bu
reau of apprenticeship in the de
partment of labor.
Geshen was here with Walter
Lee, supervisor for the bureau in
Washington and Alaska. They
will go on to Anchorage and Fair
banks.
Any apprenticeship progr a m
WASHINGTON, (&) — James
Eli Watson of Indiana, Republi
can leader of the Senate during
President Hoover’s administration
died yesterday at the age of 84.
The colorful Hoosier served in
Congress under eight Presidents,
but was swept out of office by the
Democratic landslide of 1932. He
was stricken with internal hem
orrhages on Oct. 12.
would be carried out in coopera
tion with the Territorial depart
ment of labor.
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