NERLANDS TELL OF VISIT
* WITH EMILY MORGAN
Mrs. Andrew Nerland of this
City, writes from Seattle where
•he is staying at the Claremont
Hotel, that she had a fine visit
with Miss Emily Morgan, at El
dorado, Kansas. Miss Morgan, who
was in charge of the Maynard Col
umbus Hospital for many years,
as well as nurse at Point Barrow
and well-known throughout the
territory, is now well along in
years but enjoys driving her Olds
mobile, visiting friends in the
farming country where she liven
with a widowed sister.
She lectures frequently and is
still keenly interested in every
thing about the north.
Mrs. Nerland states that it was
a hard winter to travel as she has
never seen so much snow.
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» ALASKANS VISIT WITH
f DELEGATE IN WASHINGTON
»
Tex Zeigler of .Igloo and Orrin
j. A. Scovill of Anchorage have cal
led on Delegate Bartlett while in
s Washington together on business.
Mr. Zeigler heads the Igloo Com
r mercial Company and Mr. Scovill
(until recently was a civilian army
employee.
Freedom Train
tA Salem, Ore.
SALEM. Ore., —{PP)—The Free
dom Train was here today at the
half-way mark on its tour of the
nation.
Train director Walter H. S. O’
; Brien reported the Oregon capi
tal the 154th city on the schedule
j of 308. He estimated 1,420,000
persons in 31 states have viewed
the historic documents on the train
I since it started its trip at Phila
delphia last September 17.
j The train has traveled an estim
ated 33,000 miles.
Oregon officials took the occa
j sion of the train’s arrival here
1 to open a display of state docu
ments at the capitol building. The
Oregon constitution adopted in
1859 and other important papers
are on display.
MRS. CHESTER MILLIGAN
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. Chester Milligan, gracious
1 and accommodating manager of
the Wallace Hotel, is in the Army
j Hospital receiving medical care.
Snakes must swallow their food
| whole, being unable to chew.
Nat’I Fisheries
Meet in Frisco
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SAN FRANCISCO,—(/P)-*-World
development of fisheries in the
i Pacific will be discussed by the
I National Fisheries institute which
| opens its first west coast conven
! tion tomorrow.
“International fishery develop
ments have moved so rapidly in
I the past few months that this will
be by far the most important
j topic considered by the institute,”
i said O. L. Carr, of Kansas City,
president of the institute.
“This is particularly interesting
to the west coast because its im
portant fishery industries, includ
ing tuna and salmon and the pos
sibility of world development of
fisheries in the Pacific.”
The billion dollar American fish
ing industry had about 700 dele
gates here today for the conven
tion which will continue through
Saturday.
Directors’ meetings were on the
pre-convention program for yes
terday.
Carr said the convention would
cover every phase of the fishing
i industry from production to the
J housewife’s table.
1 The institute membership is
Barge Co., Gets
Insurance Rate Cut
SEATTLE, —Effective April 1
marine insurance rates quoted by
Lloyd’s of London through Han
sen and Rowland, Inc., of Tacoma
and Seattle on cargo carried by
the Alaska Freight Express Corp
oration will be reduced from $1.40
to $1 per $100 valuation, it was
announced yesterday by T. A.
Thronson, Alaska Freight Express
traffic manager, in a report on the
barge line’s first four months of
operations as a common carrier
in the Alaska trade.
“With a reduced insurance rate
to $1 or 1 percent per $100 of val
uation through Lloyd’s of London,
we have now more than proved
our operations. We can continue
to make further savings for Alas
kan shippers over and above our
freight rates and attendant sav
ings offered by tug and barge ser
vie.
made up of producers, procssors,
canners and distributors.
Convention guests will include
experts from Canada and Mexico.
Tollefson of Washington, chair
man of the house subcommittee on
salt water fish and shellfish prob
lems.
OH, DIANA! Temper, Temper!
IT'S ABOUT TIMS I TAKE IT EASY,
YOU SHOWED UP UK1K. REMEMBER
YOUNG MAN .rTS I WHAT THE DOC
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MY COAT. I M GETTING OUT l
OF THIS HOUSE BEFORE
ANYTHING SERIOUS
-HAPPENS 1
*
GOOD NIGHT S'LONG ID SHAKE HANDS
Diana ill I homer. with vtxi dean, if
GIVE YOU rY I HAD 1 WASN'T S'BU^Y
A BUZZ- f I FUN ^ HOLDING MV HAT
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>K IN THE HOUSE!!
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BOARD ISN'T BlG SCREEN TO CARRY
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DO BE CAREFUL.
ELMER!.'
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WHAT HAPPENS TO fAY LOVELY
\ SCREEN THEY ARE CARRYING
YOU on.
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SCORCHY SMITH Wishful Thinking
T3 i LOOKi WE'RE
_— -— CONVICTS 1
SWMO, BRINGING ‘mOCEX I SERVING TERMS,
TERRIBLE TUAREGS IN AS GENIES J
HERE IS GONNA GET ^ ^W^^RIGHT ? T(
US IN TROUSLE J /TT <
P ¥T^uVcS?caN
IF WE HEAR ANYBOP\ MAKE
A WISH AND SNAP HIS FINGERS,
WE GOTTA TOSS A WISH t—
BOMB/ WHILE THE VAPOR \
KEEPS HIM UNCONSCIOUS, WE ]
GOTTA FULFILL HIS WISH...^
SQ WE GIVE 7VIESE TUAREGS 'V
WMAT THEY WANT_ANP OUR M
SUEIK IS FACE TO FACE WITW^
ENEMIES ME MIGHTN'T MAW^»
THE SMEIK'LL BE GORBEP W. PHEW.' EVENl
WITH GRATITUDE.' WE'LL IF YOUR ^
PARDON US.' WEtL BE FREE.' WsCMEME WAS 1
PRES.' AND WE CAN GOOP, I 4
WASHINGTON. — (yP) —Tie
sum of $1,038,400 voted by the
House for Wrangell Narrows pro
ject in Alaska remained unchanged
yesterday when the Senate sub
committee handling flood control
and rivers and harbors funds re
ported on the country’s waterways
construction program for the year
starting July 1.
It must now be acted upon by
the full Senate appropriations
committee.
Vote for
I BEN F. GILLETTE
REPUBLICAN
For Senator
—
I
48 Years an Alaskan
“I will do my duty”
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