Hearing On Alaska
Freight Rates
Next Month
(By Charles D. Watkins)
((A*) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/Pi — Repre
sentatives of Alaska are heading
for Seattle to oppose present
steamship rates to the Territory at
a hearing next week before a mar
itime commission examiner.
The commission granted an ov
erall 35 per cent increase in rates
to Alaska shipping last summer
over the protest of the Territory.
Alaska contended the rates al
ready were the highest in the
world and rapidly increasing the
cost of living in the Territory.
The increase was granted after
the commission had worked out an
interim service plan under which
the government chartered ships to
the Alaska Steamship company,
the Northland Transporta t i o n
company and the Alaska Trans
portation company for a dollar a
year to get them to take over the
service the government operated
during the war.
The interim service ends next
June 30 and the maritime com
mission hopes the Seattle hearing
will develop information from
which it will be able to draw up a
plan for permanent service.
Malcolm Miller, of Washington,
attorney for the Territory, and
Donald J. O'Connor, economist for
the Territory, are on their way to
take part in presenting the Terri
tory’s arguments.
Meantime, the Alaska Steam
ship company has entered a pro
test against the rate schedule filed
by the Alaska Freight Express
corporation, which plans to inau
gurate a barge service from the
Pacific Nc ’thwest to the Terri
tory.
The steamship company says
the proposed barge service will
drain away from the steamship
lines enough traffic so they will
have to revamp their rate sched
ules, with a possible increase.
The rates for the new barge
service became effective yester
day. The commission announced it
has declined to suspend them. It
said its action is without prejudice
to the rights of the Alaska Steam
ship Co., to file formal objections
to the tariffs.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN OF
ancient Europe often placed a
lump of highly-scented ungent on
their heads to wear at festivals,
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
Fires Spread In
New England;
Millions in Damage
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Light sprinkles are the best
' that can be expected before at
least Saturday, and probably
longer—in the view of meteorolo
gists—to wet down baked wood
; lands as the dry spell went into
| its 24th day.
i While the raging flames were
checked in Bar Harbor, fears were
expressed that perhaps it was only
temporary.
• “All we’ve done is stop the fire 1
in the town,” said Selectman Seth I
Libby. “A little more wind would :
raise a lot of hell.”
Three New England states— j
Maine, Massachusetts and New j
Hampshire—were virtually on a t
war-time footing as national
guardsmen, legionnaires and other •
agencies were called out to fight:
the flames and care for the thou
sands of refugees.
Just before noon, between 12
and 15 fires were reported still
roaring out of control in Massa-1
chusetts, where the loss already is
placed at well above $500,000.
In New Hampshire, shifting
winds were driving the flames di
rectly- at the heart of the industri- ;
al city of Rochester at the foot of
the White Mountains With the
edge of the fire within two miles I
of that city of 16,000*. school chil- '
dren were being kept concentrated
in the event they have to be evac-1
uated.
Massachusetts’ state forester,
Raymond J. Kenney said “our fate
depends a lot on the weather and
the winds—but if we held during
the night in the teeth of those
winds I think we can hold any- 1
thing.”
Meanwhile, the coast guard cut- 1
i ter McCullough bucked mountain
I ous seas during the night after
leaving Boston to drop anchor at
Bar Harbor at 9:15 a.m., prepara
j tory to landing special crews and
medical supplies.
REBEKAHS MET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The Midnight Sun Rebekah
Lodge met at the Odd Fellow Hall
Wednesday evening for meeting
and social. Committee in charge
were Mrs. Christie Waldheim and
Mrs. C. Mickelson.
Winners of the card games were
Luella Grant, Mrs. Sam Huxley
and Mrs. H. Hagen.
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Gruening Outlines
Alaska’s Needs
CHICAGO, i/P)—Ernest Gruen
ing, governor of Alaska, declared
today that Alaska’s strategic im
portance is not sufficiently real
ized that only through state
hood can it become a “bulwark
of defense for the Northwest, the
United States and the Western
Hemisphere.”
Addressing the Chicago wo
man’s club, Gruening said “Alas
ka is the only part of America
which extends into the Eastern
Hemisphere. And it is the only
part of the United States which*
fronts on the Arctic Circle. If we
had two Senators and a Congress
man, we believe we could be bet
ter heard in Washington.”
The governor said the Territory
needed a stronger coast guard
service, $90,000 annually for agri
cultural research, lower freight
rates and more settlers.
He said the Soviets are develop
ing Siberia, with “agricultural ex
periment stations every 100 miles”
and are "pushing agriculture fur
ther and further north, tieing it in
with industry, mining and the mil
itary.”
Ivory is obtained from the ele
phant, the walrus, the hippopota
mus and the narwhal.
WARNING TO
DOG-TEAM DRIVERS
Dog sleds shall be equipped with
a bell or some device to warn pe
destrians of their approach. Com
plaints are being made at the Po
lice Station -by pedestrians of
careless dog-driving. Violation of
this regulation shall be punishable
by law.
A. C. BROWN.
Chief of Police.
Publish Oct. 22. 24. 1947.
BADMINTON
All persons interested in play
ing badminton this winter call
Gordon Osborne at his shop next
to the Dream Theater.
Games start Tuesday night 8:00
p.m. in the High School Gym.
Classified Ads
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Chev. Coupe, good condition.
Heater. $400. Call Black 8. 127-tf
FOR SALE—Stinson 4-place plane
No. 15114. Call Alaska Airlines,
Main 66. 126-tf
FOR SALE—Man’s Spotted Seal
parka, large size, ski pants, size
sixteen, pair skis. Call Black 89.
DREAM
THEATER
—•—
2 Shows, Oct. 24, 7:15 & 9:00 P.M.
Friday
"SINGING ON THE TRAIL"
Kenn Curtiss - Jeff Donnel
Also "Gabriel Church Chicken"
And "Dick Tracy," Chap. 12
—•—
1 Show, October 25, 7:30 P.M.
Saturday
"FRENCH MAN'S CREEK
Joan Fontaine
Arturo de Cordova
Also "Unusual Occupations"
—•—
2 Shows, Oct. 26, 7:15 and 9 P.M.
Sunday
"OUT OF THE DEPTHS"
Jim Bannon Ross Hunter
Also "Hare Tonic"
And "Plantation"
I No Poultry On
! States* Tables
Starting Thursday
(By The Associated Press)
Poultry was off the menu yes
terday in homes and restaurants
which have joined in the govern
ment’s emergency food conserva
tion program as the citizens food
committee delayed a decision to
eliminate poultryless Thursdays.
The committee also was con
fronted with another major prob
lem in its campaign to save grain
as AFL distillery workers made
a new demand to consider post
ponement of the proposed 60-day
shutdown of the distilling indus
try.
Charles Luckman, chairman of
the citizens food committee, did
not indicate wher\ a final decision
of the two matters would b-:
given. It was reported, however,
no change is planned at present
in the liquor holiday, which is
scheduled to start at midnnigh*;
Saturday.
Luckman, in a broadcast Wed
nesday to mayors of cities all over
the country, asked them to set up
local conservation committees. He
urged “full cooperation” by agri
culture. industry and the consum- |
er in the campaign to save 100,
000,000 bushels of grain for \ve^‘
ern Europe.
In his experiments to develop,
the incandescent light, Thomas
Edison tried .cardboard and the
whisker of a man’s beard for fila
ments.
England Must Cut
Expenditures To
Ease Economies
LONDON, (/»*) — Sir Stafford
Cripps, minister of economic af
fairs, served notice yesterday that
Britain immediately must cut ex
penditures on housing, factory
construction and new capital ma
chinery by $800,000,000 a year to
help ease a deepening economic
crisis.
Sir Stafford declared the labor
government expects to balance its
overseas accounts by the end of
1948.
Beginning a review of Britain’s
critical economic position in the
House of Commons, Cripps added
that the problem of balancing
trade with dollar countries was
far more difficult than that of bal
ancing “total overseas payments.’’
Cripps said it was impossible to
make a fully accurate forecast
but, allowing for various contin
gencies, “we calculate that we
should arrive at an approximate
balance of our total overseas pay
ments by the end of next year.”
“The problem ... of our dollar
balance of payments is very much
more stubborn of solution and is
indeed the central problem with
which we in this country, like so
many other countries, are today
faced," he said.
Funds have been appropriated
and type, capacity and general lo
cation have been approved for 74
new Veterans Administration hos
pitals.
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ALSO
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Merchants and individuals from
outlying sections are requested
to ship to us.
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