ALRUS CLUB HOLDS
:COND MEETING
The Walrus Club held its sec
d meeting last evening and the
llowing item has been submit
*d by the reporter who shall be
town as “Mr. Walrus.”
The second meeting of the Wal
s Club is a pleasure to report as
> who came to look and listen
t as members.
Much was accomplished in the
y of organization and fees and
es were established. One new
le limited the Grand Council to
•n members with a proviso that
?re must be at all times a na
e on the board.
The organization is in its in
icy and still in the planning
ge, but committees are starting
function.
>rder is assured at the ment
is by the . appointment of Mr.
Mgger” Jones to the post of
Tighty Bull-at-arms.”
\S. Commissioner's Court
oe Pleasant has been commit
■ to the department of Public
alfare.
-V civil suit has been entered by
Reader Bros .vs. Olaf Piscoya
?r an unpaid debt.
Denny Ost, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Ost of Council, who held a
series of services here about
Christmas time returned from the
north yesterday, having carried
his message to villages through
out Seward Peninsula.
He has had services at Council,
Elim, Golovin, White Mountain,
Shaktoolik and Koyuk.
Today he is scheduled to hold
services at Solomon and will also
have several services here at the
Native Church over the week end.
Mr. Ost and his family, who are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Town
er, plan to leave for the Spates on
Wednesday.
BEWARE
THE IDES OF MARCH
THAT’S
INCOME TAX DAY
AND IT’S ALSO
THE LAST DAY OF
PANAM’S
BARGAIN FARES
PHONE MAIN 12 _
{Russian Taught To
Fear United States
Aggression
NEW YORK (i^P)—Two runaway
Russian fliers say that in the event
of a Soviet-American war, the
Russian people would bo con
vinced that they were the defend
ers and not the attackers.
The pair, Anatole Barsov and
Peter Pirogov, toldl a news con
ference Wednesday that the Rus
sian people have received such a
steady stream of reports of Amer
ican power and unfriendliness
that they believe was is inevi
table.
The fliers, who fled their home
land in a stolen plane, have been
in this country two weeks as
guests of the state department’s
“Voice of America” and the Vir
ginia chamber of commerce.
Asked what he thought would
happen if they returned to Russia,
Pirogov said:
“First, we would be used as
weapons of propaganda to write
reports of the United States, show
ing all the bad things. After a few
months of freedom, we would be
transported to Siberia.”
He paused, then added: “MAybe
they would skip the first part.”
i Industry Asks
Retention Of
Taft-Hartlev Law
tr
(By Max Hall)
WASHIN GTON, (Ah — The
truck ,today asked Congress to
keep the Taft-Hartley Act as a
means of protecting American cit
ies against strikes of truck driv
ers.
Edgar S. Idol, general coungel
of American Trucking Associa
tions told the Senate labor com
mittee that “our labor is organ
ized to a point where the team
sters union can, by a strike, close
down motor transportation in arty
metropolitan area.”
He said the present labor law
“works.” He gave instances.
Fo rexample, Idol said that for
merly in New York City, Local
807 of the AFL teamsters union
“consistently sidetracked the em
ployer bargaining group and or
dered a city-wide strike, simul
taneously making favorable agree
ments with individual employers
who were willin gto sacrifice their
long-term interests.”
A spokesman for the retail store
industry also testified in favor of
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SEARCH CONTINUES FOR
MISSING SCHOOL BOY
SEATTLE. (A*)—Searchers are
1 combing a wooded, marshy area
I northeast of Sea'tle today for
seven-year-old Jeffrey Shields,
missing since yesterday afternoon.
Approximately* 100 sheriff’s
deputies and volunteers resumed
the hunt Kt dawn after an unsuc
cessful night-long search in the
suburban Lake City region. A
bloodhound was used in an effort
to pick up the lad’s trail.
The child, son of Mrs. M. A.
Shields, failed to return home
from a parochial school where he
is in the second grade.
Antonio Pole! left yesterday for
Juneau to attend the meeting of
the Grand Igloo of the Pioneers
of Alaska, of which he is past
grand president. After the meet
ing he will go to the States on
business.
visions. This industry with its mil
lions of non-union employees is
faced with big organizing drives
by CIO and AFL unions.
S. J. Fosdick, Chicago retail ex
ecutive. speaking on behalf of the
national retail dry goods associa
tion, testified that this drive “re
solves itself simply to a contest be
tween management on one hand
and the labor organizations on the
other for the loyalty of employ
ees.”
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