Weather Still
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(By the Associated Press)
Warm and humid weather over
spread much of the eastern half
of the nation today although scat
tered thundershowers brought a
measure of coolness to some local
ities.
Temperatures in the high eigh
ties were general from the Great
Plains eastward to the Atlantic
seaboard. Showers dotted numer
ous points within that area, the
Chicago weather bureau said.
The Rockies also had showers
and cool weather continued in the
Pacific Northwest.
Among the heavier amount of
rain recorded were 4.60 inches at
Jacks Creek, Tenn., 1.44 inches at
Bimidji, Minn., and 1.17 inches at
Evansville, Ind. The readings Were
for the 24 hours ending this morn
ing.
The downpour wa£ so heavy in
Hibbing, Minn., that storm sewers
packed up, flooding dwellings and
marooning motorists in their auto
mobiles. Railroad ore trains were
stopped by track washouts. The
six-hour rain was accompanied by
violent lightning.
The highest official tempera
ture in the nation yesterday was
102 degrees at Clinton, Mo.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT ~~
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT AND ADJUDI
CATION OF HEIRS
Notice is hereby given that Eu
gene Tetinek, ADMINISTRATOR
of the ESTATE OF JAMES
DOUGLAS, Sr., Deceased, has
filed with the PROBATE COURT
of the WADE HAMPTON PRE
CINCT, SECOND DIVISION,
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, his
final ACCOUNT in said ESTATE
and that October 1st, 1947, at the
hour of ten HO-* o'clock a.m. in the
COURT ROOM of said court, has
been fixed as the time and place
for a hearing and settlement of
said FINAL ACCOUNT for the
ADJUDICATION and decree as to
who the heirs of said decedent are,
and for the distribution of said ES
TATE. accordingly at which time
and place, any persons interested
therein, may appear and file ob
jections, thereto and contest the
same. Dated at Fortuna Ledge,!
Alaska, this 1st day of September,
1947.
EUGENE TETINEK, ,
Administrator.
Publish Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24, 1947.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT ~~
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT,'
TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
SECOND DIVISION
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF ROBERT PETER
SON, Deceased.
No. 748
NOTICE OF THE TIME AND
AND PLACE FIXED FOR THE
HEARING AND SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT OF EX
ECUTOR AND THE ADJUDI
CATION AS TO WHO ARE
THE HEIRS AND DISTRIBU
TEES OF DECEASED’S ES
TATE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
all persons that Luther Dunbar,
Executor of the estate of deceased
above named, has filed his Final
Account and Report of his admin
istration of said estate, and that]
this Court has by its Order made
and entered on August 25, 1947,'
fixed the 20th day of December, i
1947, at ten o’clock A.M., and the,
Court Room of this Court in Nome,'
Alaska, as the time and place for
the hearing and settlement there
of; and
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that at said time and place this
Court will determine and adjudi
cate who are the heirs and dis
tributees of said deceased and his
estate, and in what amount and
proportion they are entitled to re
ceive and, share in the estate of
said deceased.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August
25th. 1947.
JAMES ADAMS.
(SEAL) Probate Judge
Cape Nome Precinct. '
Pub. Aug. 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 1947. 1
'Alaska Nearing
! Great Development
Savs Win. Warne
J
By Charles D. Watkins
<</P> Special Washington Service**
WASHINGTON, —(TP)—Alaska |
is on the threshold of T‘great dev
elopment,” with its opportunities i
for settlement by sturdy people,
William E. Warne, assistant sec
retary of the interior, said today.
Warne is just back from a
four- week airplane trip to all
sections of the Territory.
‘‘It it the most challenging thing
I have seen,” he told a reporter.
‘‘Alaska needs people, but it must
be a determined people who are
willing to undergo hardships to
build their homes in our last
frontier.”
Warne said that the pressing
needs of the Territory now are
housing and transportation, and
predicted that air travelers will
help the settlement.
He said that the land from the
Kenai Peninsula to Fairbanks af-i
J fords an opportunity for home-!
i steading of farms.
“Alaska today is the crossroads j
! to the Orient and to the northern j
j trade routes,” he said. “It is i
! a pioneer country with the air-1
plane replacing the pony express
j and the covered wagon,
j “The airplane is the principal
means of communication and I'
believe always will be.
"There is opportunity for min
ing development and trade in raw
materials but Alaska needs to lick
its transportation problem and \
needs railroad extensions and!
i i
j highways.
. “I hope that such a program of j
| development can be worked out (
prior to the coming of the needed '
inhabitants and break the viscious j
circle which insists that the in- j
habitants must be there before
the developments can be made.
“The improvements would open j
the way for an influx of a new •
population.”
He found the housing situation
in the Territory more acute than
in any other place he knew ofj
in the nation, Warne said. He
related that the interior depart-J
ment had obtained many build
ings from abandoned army posts j
for use as housing but that they
are not nearly enough to meet the!
needs.
“The winters are severe in Al- •
aska,” he said. “You can’t campi
out there.”
• |
The assistant secretary said that
around Anchorage about 5 0 0
homes are being built by per
sons who expect to occupy them
but they are facing a shortage
of materials. He said Alaskant
builders are trying to use native1
materials and still cannot get
enough.
The fishing industry and the
big game of the Territory need
closer supervision, Warne said,
with the department regulations
more effectively enforced. He
said the department does not have
funds at present for this.
“Alaska contains our last big
game and it must be closely sup
ervised if it is to be preserved,”
he said. “If big game is not j
protected it can easily be wiped
out, and protection is inadequate
now?” .
i
He added that the department
was going ahead with its plans to
lease timber tracts in the Tongass
Natiohal Forest to paper compan- j
ies for establishment of several
large paper mills.
Warne said the Territory lacks
adequate shipping and added he
hoped a solution will be worked
Army Helicopter
R^ senes Stranded
Alaska Trapper
WASHINGTON, i/P>—’The first
rescue by helicopter in the far
north, in which a marooned Alas
kan trapper was plucked out of a
tough situation, was reported to
day by the army air forces.
A ’copter piloted by 1st Lt.
Charles O. Weir of Bloomington.
Ind., member of the 10th rescue
squadron, flew recently to the in
terior of Alaska to bring out
fieorge Plucinski, who due to a
series of misadventures, had been
living on a diet of berries and
small animals for two weeks.
The trapper had been flown to
a point near Betties, 185 miles
northwest of Fairbanks by a civil
ian pilot. Arrangements were
made to re-supply him with food
dropped from the air, but animals
got to the food first and when he
arrived at the spot it was gone.
He was to have been picked up
bv a float plane, but low water
conditions prevented that.
He then fashioned a crude sign,
“Get Army” as a call for help. A
civilian pilot saw it, notified the
rescue squadron and the helicop
ter was dispatched from Ladd
Field at Fairbanks.
Wier located the trapper despite
oncoming darkness and rain
squalls, landed his R-5 helicopter
on a sand bar and then took off
with his passenger.
Army hlicopters have been used
at several other spots in the world
for rescue work, but this was the
first Arctic case.
out.
The interior department is
working on plans for solving the
Territory’s housing situation, he
said, but declined to go into de
tails.
U. S. Dollar
Shrinking From
Price Advances
CHICAGO, 111., —(#*>—Amer
ica’s shrinking food dollar was
being dragged through the wring- -
er again today by a somewhat
general advance in staple com
modity prices.
Except for a reduction of five
j cents a popnd retail for marger
ine in New York, the general
trend was upward in the faster
moving race for economic adjust-1
ment.
For the fourth consecutive day
the Associated Press index of 35
wholesale commodities reached
another new all-time high yes
terday at 192.26, compared with
the 1926 base year of 100.
Included in the continued ad-;
vances were meat, coffee, butter.:
tallow, eggs and corn. More-|
over, the whole dairy outlook was
far from a pretty picture as des- (
cribed by Russell Filer, executive
secretary of the American Butter
i Institute.
The dairy industry, Filer said,
, is going into the winter with an
; exceptionally low supply of but
ter and cream in storage and with
two percent less milk cows than
a year ago. Since the peak milk
production in 1944, he added, the
number of milk cows has dropped
seven per cent while consumer
population since the start of the
war has increased 10,000,000,
| many of them now “in heavy,
milk drinking ages.”
Butter climbed another cent n
pound on the New York and Chi
cago mercantile exchanges Mon
day to open new peaks for the
year. Eggs advanced to 60 cents
a dozen wholesale here, and por
terhouse steak hit $1.00 a pound
Many Killed In
w
Ship Explosion,
Fire At Pittsburgh
n
PITTSBURGH, (VP) — Firemen
today resumed a grim search
among the blackened embers of
the once proud steamer “Island
Queen” for victims of the explo
sion-fire whose toll of dead and
missing is counted at 21.
Thirteen of the 17 persons in
jured in the blast which rocked
Pittsburgh’s “Golden Triangle”
yesterday were still under treat
ment in hospitals.
Efforts to recover the bodies
were tempered with caution as
the charred hulk of the five-deck
steamer sank deeper into the mud
died waters of her Monongahela
river berth.
Once, firemen were ordered
from the boat because the hull
was shifting and threatened to
break sideways as it slipped into
deeper water. Only the top deck
was still visible and it was re
lieved many of the victims would
remain locked in the river’s bot
tom.
Firemen expressed belief the
hull would have to be raised be
fore all the bodies could be recov
ered. River patrolman Louis Mor
gan announced he would drag the
river today for bodies, while
county officials and the coast
guard start investigations,
at New York retail outlets.
Probably foreshadowing furth
er retail pork hikes, hogs hit a
new all-time high of $31.25 a
hundredweight at the Denver
stockyards, and a record top of
$31 at the South San Francisco
stockyards. Traders at Omaha,
Sioux City. Iowa, and East St.
Louis, 111., snapped up the offer
ings there at $30 a hundredweight.
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