Find Two Army
Planes Near
Kotzebue
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Two F-5I
Mustangs, the object of an 18
hour search by a score of planes
from three Alaska bases, were
sighted yesterday forced down on
the shores of a remote lake.
The air force’s Yukon Wing
headquarters said radio reports
from rescue planes advised that
the pilots appeared to have made
successful emergency landings
with their fighters.
The announcement came as the
Yukon Wing disclosed the iden
tity of a pilot who died in the
crash of a jet P-80. He w’as Lt.
James Lane, 30, Cleveland, Ohio.
His wife, Irene, and 10-month-old
daughter Janet, live at Anchorage
where he was permanently sta
tioned.
His plane caught fire in the air
as he was returning from a gun
nery training mission and crashed
10 miles south of Fairbanks’ Ladd
field. 9
The two missing planes, which
had been the subject of a search
were part of a flight of six Mus
tangs enroute from Elmendorf
field, near Anchorage, to Marks
Air Force base at Nome. They
No “Official”
Alaska Population
SEATTLE. (/P)—Weary of Alas
ka’s shifting population, Uncle
Sam announced yesterday that,
officially, apparently there just
aren’t any people in Alaska.
In “census P-25, No. 11,” a for
mal estimate of the population of
territories and possessions, the
bureau of the census deliberately
omitted any guesses about Alaska
listing only Hawaii, Puerto Rico,
the Panama Canal Zone and the
Virgin Islands.
“It has not been possible to pre
: pare a reliable estimate of the
population of Alaska for any date
since the last census,” the bureau !
I
announced. #
The notice added that its post
war estimates of the people there
were based on “inadequate data.”
Alaska’s “official” population
according to the test census—as of j
October 1, 1939—was 72,524. Then
the war came, thousands of troops j
and thousands of workers flood
ed the Territory. They left, others
came. So Uncle Sam gave up.
|
landed on the shores of Selawik
lake, 40 miles south of the Eski
mo village of Kotzebue.
An amphibious plane was senti
to the scene to return the pilots to
Elmendorf field. j
THE MARKS AIR FORCE BASE
Post Exchange
Has the following excess merchandise that
civilian wholesale or retail dealers may pur
chase in 200 case lots:
9000 Cases BLATZ BEER
24 cans to ease . . . 82.78 per case
4500 cases COCA COLA
36 Lotties to case . . 82.29 per case
For additional information contact the Ex
• change Officer, Marks Air Force Base.
COASTAL RAMBLER sailed
August 29th for Nome.
•
All other sailings cancelled
until further notice.
W. R. WOOD, Agent
Phone Main 68
I
Truman Starts
Slugging Fest
Willi Republicans
(Continued from Page One)
never has heard oi any search for
former German and Japanese
spies.
Declaring that he is standing
behind his previous “red herring"
description of the Congressional
c o m munist investigations, the
President said he will prove his
charge before the election cam
paign is over.
He scoffed at a statement by
Dewey that communists will be
cleared out only when a Republi
can President is elected.
He thinks Dewey is mistaken
about the number of comrpunists
in government, the President
went on. He said only a few had
been found and they had ^een dis
charged long ago.
He Ridded with a smile that he
thinks Dewey’s intentions must be
to eliminate Democrats, not com
munists, from the government.
Mr. Truman’s news conference
statement supporting a national
health insurance program put him
squarely at odds with Dewey on
that Issue.
The President said in a state
ment that “no health program, of
course, can stand alone and apart
from the economic and social cir
cumstances of our citizens as in
dividuals and families.”
Dewey in a May 1 speech at
Portland, Ore., declared that
“compulsory socialized medicine
is no good,” adding:
“Accordingly, I have spent the
last two years of my life knocking
down every proposal that any
body has made to regiment .the
medical profession and the people
of America through any program
of socialized medicine.”
Mr. Truman said he probably
will close his campaign in his
home state of Missouri, though
possibly not at Independence, his
home town.
MRS. F. H. ZEUSLER
ENDS VISIT IN NOME
Mrs. F. H. Zeusler, wife of Ad
miral Zeusler of the Alaska
Steamship Company, retur n e d
south today on the Pan American
plane after spending the past few
days visiting and getting ac
quainted in Nome. The Admiral
flew south last Monday on the
Alaska Airlines via Anchorage.
MRS. HARTFORD AND
GIRLS FLY SOUTH
On the Pan American plane to
day, enroute for their home in
Seattle, were Mrs. A. M. Hart
ford, and daughters Dorothy and
Helen. They have spent the sum
mer here with their father who is
manager of the U. S. Smelting
company here.
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NLRB Asks Court
To Settle “Hiring
Hall" Dispute
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The na
tional labor relations board said
today it has asked the circuit
I court of appeals in New York City
to enforce its recent order against
use of the hiring hall by the CIO
national maritime union.
This the the first time the board
has had to ask the courts to back
up an NLRB order under the Taft
Hartley act. The board has no en
forcement power of its own.
The new labor-management re
lations act prohibits the closed
shop. The board held Aug. 17 that
the practice of clearing jobs on
the Great Lakes through the un
ion’s hiring hall was discrimina
tory against non-union job appli
; cants. In effect, the union enjoy
ed a closed shop, the board ruled.
The same hiring practice is fol
lowed on the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Gulf coasts. The Great Lakes
I case was the first to be acted on
by the NLRB.
A trial examiner has handed in
a report covering the Atlantic
ship owners and the NMU, sim
ilar to the board’s finding on the
Great Lakes.
Contracts have been entered
into on the Atlantic, Gulf and
Great Lakes continuing the hiring
Strike Ties Up
Fish Freighters
SEATTLE, (/Pi — The Alaska
Steamship company reported yes
terday that four of its ships, laden
with canned salmon from Alaska,
were tied up on Puget Sound by
the CIO longshore strike. They
were the Ring Splice and H. D.
Whitehead at Bellingham and the
R ose Knot and itvjmond Mallet
here. Members of the crews of
these vessels packed up their gear
and went ashore, * while sailors
remained aboard for maintenance.
Company representatives said
all crew members of these vessels
were ashore by last night.
The Aleutian of the Alaska SS.
company was due in Seattle at 7
a.m. this morning with more than
300 passengers including many
tourists. Some of them have auto
mobiles with them aboard ship.
The longshoremen will discharge
the passengers’ baggage, but may
refuse to put the automobiles
ashore.
hall practice pending a final court
decision.
The hiring hall now is a big
issue in the west coast dispute
where Harry Bridges’ internation
al longshoremen’s union began a
work stoppage along with other
seafarers’ unions yesterday.
AN
ECONOMIC SURVEY
IS UNDERWAY
IN THE
SECOND DIVISION
Read About Your Division
in the following Alaska Books
Alaska The Last Frontier
By H. W. Clark
Opportunities In Alaska
By George Sundborg
Alaska Now
By Herbert II. Hilsclier
NOTE—You may also borrow a copy of the
Preliminary Survey held in 1940 for study
purposes.
KNOW YOUR DIVISION!