Montana Protests
Overland Mail
Route To Alaska
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in Great Falls yesterday charged
that the Seattle route “means that
85 per cent of Alaska-bound mail
from the States must travel more
than 1,000 miles out of its way.”,
Flaherty said postmaster gener
al Jesse Donaldson has been in
vited to attend a meeting in Great
Falls to discuss the mail-hauling
contract.
The Montana official added:
“If this situation cannot be cor
rected, it is ample justification for
Montana to ask that it be trans
ferred out of the supervision of
the Seattle postal district and be
placed in the inter-mountain dis
trict with Denver.”
The post office department in
Washington, D. C., however, said
that Seattle was picked because 75
per cent of Alaskan mail origin
ates on the western coast. The de
partment has facilities in Seattle
that are lacking in Great Falls, it
was explained.
Aiken said the Alaska Freight
Lines, a Fairbanks concern, now
is hauling return mail from Alaska
at ~>1.2 c ns a pound and the
trucks can opera'e for all except
six weeks in the year. The con
Special Operating
Permit Continued
WASHINGTON, (/!’)—The civil
aeronautics board has extended
for another 15 days a special op
erating permit for airlines serving
Alaska.
The action will permit Pan
American and Northwest Airlines
to continue to operate between
Seattle, Wash., and Alaskan points
not on their regular route certifi
cates.
It also will allow the air carri
ers which operate in Alaska to
continue to fly between territorial
point and Seattle, regardless of
certificate limitations.
The extension, until midnight
Dec. 15, was authorized yesterday
in connection with the Pacific
coast shipping emergency caused
by maritime work stoppages.
The special authority originally
was granted Sept. 24 on the re
quest of Governor Greuning and
the interior department. It has
been extended several times since.
The last extension expires at mid
night tonight.
tract for hauling the mail north
from Seattle calls for the firm to
deliver mail to either Fairbanks
or Anchorage for 10 cents a pound,
Aiken said.
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Electric Toasters
Pressure Cookers
Table Lamps
Congolium Rugs
Deep Freeze Unit
Hamilton Beach
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Corn Poppers with Hotplate
We also have the Best Bicycle in
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Army Stages
Grand Party
For Draftees
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tion centers. But yesterday, they
headed lor Fort Ord, Calif., and
the realities of basic training.
The party was all a part of the
army plan to prove there’s a new
look in soldiering. But it still was |
by the numbers. The 22-page
script for the affair was big
enough to swallow a D-Day field
order. As one inductee put it, “We
weren’t exactly invited. We were
not exactly ordered. They told us
very nicely we had to go. It was
all part of the things we had to do
the day we were inducted.’
There was a little of the old
hurry-up-and-wait. The group was
told to be on hand at 7 p.m. The
party got underway 35 minutes!
later.
A sergeant lined them up and
paired them off with their dates.
USO and YWCA hostesses in for- ;
mal gowns. Sixty-one men were
slated for induction but six were
turned down at the last moment.
Nobody remembered to tell the
girls so there were six spares.
The couples marched in. The
program called it a “grand march
... a slow stately march to left of
dignatry guests table down center
aisle in a column of twos up to the
stage and from there to their des
ignated tables.”
The men pinned corsages, also
courtesy of the army, on their
dates. The girls pinned stars on
the men and gave them printed
commissions as general for the
night.
While 30 sergeant:; sat on the
dance floor and ate C rations, ho
tel waiters served orange juice,
prime ribs, rissolle potatoes, peas,
salad, rolls and but er, ice cream,
cake and coffee.
There was a floor show. Then
there was dancing.
At midnight, the band gave out
with a roll of the drums and 12
loud bangs with the cymbals. The
party was oyer. The g ris went
home. Two sergeants lined the
men up, shouted “forward march”
and took them back to their rooms.
Marshal Petain,
92, Very Weak
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PARIS, </P> — Imprisoned Mar
shal Henri Philippe Petain, 92,
has weakened to a considerable
extent, minister of information
Francois Mitterand said today.
Rumors circulated that the cab
inet might decide to remove him
from the lie d’ Yeu off the Bay of
Biscay to Villeneuve-Loubert in
southern France, where Petain
once owned a house. Mitterand
said nothing has been decided.
Petain headed the Vichy govern
ment after France fell. He has
been serving a life sentence since
his trial for treason in 1945.
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Cordova. Alaska
Russia Sought
Ecuador Fishing
Rights Last Year
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (A*)—Rus
sia askd Ecudaor for fishing rights
a year ago but nothing happened,
Dr. Wilbert M. Chapman, special
assistant for fisheries to the un
dersecretary of state, said today.
He told San Pedro fishing indus
try leaders that “nothing more has
been heard of any further Soviet
move there <Ecuador* or elsewhere
in this hemisphere, even in Alas
kan waters.”
Dr. Chapman said it would be
possible for Russian fishermen to
ply L^atin American waters be
cause the Soviet Union has at least
nine mother canning ships. When
a reporter asked if the United
States would be concerned over
such a move, he said “What do you
think?”
Dr. Chapman, on leave from the
University of Washington, has vis
ited fishermen in San Diego and
San Pedro and leaves for San
Francisco tomorrow. He is discuss
ing a projected fisheries treaty
English Traiii in
“Rough Going9
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SEATTLE, f/P) — C«j t. M.iu y
Ashurst, veteran Alaska mariner',
was back in Seattle yc <,« »-!«/ *f
ter a four-month visit 4 tie: native
England, his first trip f .no i t- 1)
years.
The captain, who he*- • !»*•.♦ f< r
Alaska Steamship c rr.i >.y < nt of
Seattle for 3k years, r<*i • -11* t‘.I
riding those English ■'ran'" >i
rougher than sailing <•/,• • \ t.f o
Alaska line’s ship.- 4V i uge tf.o
Gulf of Alaska.
Captain Ashurst was j • t«-t of th*j
Denali before he left *« '"'ngl.m f 4
last summer. *
The captain and h;^ d* made *
the crossing to England • i tf..;
Cunard White Star’s IV!.mi* fit. n|
and returned on the Medn.
with Mexico.
One primary purpose /« u'd ho *
‘o establish a commissi t< i rtorfy
of the tuna population ;. . .d
The United States, he •' v. • •
furnish the explorati- i ..'Is
[ and most of the fccier.•'t■'• *• t i i
' extended study.
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