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VOL. XL1X. No. 25 NOMETXlASXA, WEDNESDAY7fEBRUARY 26. 1947 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate approved today a pledge to lop
$4,500,000,000 off President Tru
man’s $37,500,000,000 budget for
Hie fiscal year beginning July l.:
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WASHINGTON, </P)—President;
Truman today signed legislation
continuing the authority of the
Maritime commission to operate
shipping vessels until July 1.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today nominated Warren
R. Austin, United States degelate;
to the United Nations, as this j
country’s representative on the U.i
N. commission for conventional;
armaments.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Revised sched
ules on flights to Anchorage, were
announced today by Northwest
Airlines, with planes leaving Seat
tle early in the day so passengers
can view the rugged scenery of the j
Alaskan coastal range.
Flights will leave Boeing Field j
at 7 o’clock, arriving in Anchorage j
at 12:50. Return flights will leave j
Anchorage daily at 2:25, reaching
Seattle at 11:55.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A House
public lands subcommittee ap
proved today legislation to permit
sale of 35 acres of land in Alaska
to Victory Bible Camp Ground,
Inc., at $1.25 an acre for use as a
recreational camp.
The subcommittee postponed ac
tion for 30 days on another bill to
sell 320 acres at $1.25 an acre to
the Catholic Bishop of Alaska for
use as a mission, pending investi
gation of whether the land is
claimed by a nearby Indian vil
lage.
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NEW YORK, (£>)—'The tanker
Royal Oak, 10,296 gross tons, wasj
reported sinking in the Pacific 30
miles from Talara, Peru, this af
ternoon and her crew of 40 aban
doned ship, the operators, Ber
nuth, Lembcke & Co., announced
here.
PULASKI, Tenn. (/P) —Seven
year- old Toby Malone was burned
to death last night in a futile at
tempt to rescue his 70-year-old
grandfather from their blazing
apartment.
The child and his grandparent,
Pete Malone, were the only casual
ties of the fire which routed and
left homeless 33 persons.
Firemen said Toby, a first-grade
pupil in the city school, was out
side the building when the fire
was discovered, but ran into the
basement apartment of h's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Malone, in
the fatal attempt to save his in
valid grandfather.
LUECADIA, Calif. (/P) — Mrs.
Edward Fehrensen, noting smoke
pouring from the back seat of the
family car, filially, succeeded in
extinguishing the blaze with buck
ets of water.
Only then did she discover her
two-year-old son, Douglas, suffo
cated on the car floor. Deputy Cor
oner Lloyd Jones said the child I
apparently started the fire, play-1
ini? with matches.
CAMERA AIDS SURCERY —The “surgiscope,” a specially designed camera that takes
pictures of operations, is demonstrated at the Army’s Cushing General Hospital at Framingham, Mass.
Exposure, control is coupled with the focusing device and a built-in light tube flashes at 1/25,000th
of a second to make the photo. Operation is termed virtually fool proof. The camera, which makes4
either black and white or color pictures, is reported to be the only one of its kind in use in the
co'ii l-y rrtsent.
Green Says Labor
Legislation Would
Destroy Unions
* WASHINGTON, (/P)—AFL pres
ident Willliam Green declared to
day that the “real purpose” behind
most labor laws proposed in the
new Congress was to destroy un
ions and wreck collective bargain
ing.”
He contended in a statement
prepared for the House labor com
mittee that none of the legislation
deals with “the causes of industri
al unrest that has swept the coun
try since V-J day.” The main cause
Green insisted, was inflation.
“The record, which no one can
dispute,” the 72-year-old leader of
the American Federation of Labor
said, “shows that during the most
critical period following the term
ination of hostilities, 86 ouV of ev
ery 100 workers who engaged in
work stoppage did so only because
they were caught in the economic
vise of rising prices and declining
postwar income.
“These postwar strikes did rot
take place because of a breakdown
of collective bargaining. They did
not occur because of the failure of
unions to carry out the peaceful
purposes and procedures to which
labor is dedicated.
“The record shows that one
basic cause of that unrest was in
flation. The other major cause was
government intervention into la
bor-management relations. Not
one of these bills relates in any
manner to the problem of inflation
and all of them increase, rather
than remove, government inter
vention.”
As he did before the Senate la
bor committee last week. Green
singled out for opposition bill*
on Ps«w»
LIFTING THE LID
[ AT JUNEAU
I JUNEAU, Feb. 25, (JP) — The
! House hustled through a long cal
endar Monday, passing seven
House measures and tabling or
killing four others.
House joint memorials passed
were asking an investigation of
the agricultural possibilities of the
Second Division; thanking Secre
tary Krug for his interest in Alas
ka fisheries; asking for a railroad
from Prince George to Anchorage
and Fairbanks to Nome.
Bills passed give veterans pref
erence in Territorial jobs, but
must have a year’s residence be
fore applying; amending the law
relative to vetearns’ housing at
universities; require election of
magistrates in cities over 3,000;
To put the commissioner of labor
on the board of administration in
place of the commissioner of edu
cation.
Tables the bill to create a
Territorial board of liquor control;!
also prohibit persons convicted of
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Unification Bill
Sent To Congress
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman sent to Congress today a
draft of a proposed bill calling for
the unification of the armed forces.
The legislation would set up a
national defense establishment,
under a civilian secretary of na
tional defense who would have
cabinet rank.
The legislation would bring un
der the defense establishment
equally-important departments of
Mr* army, the navy and the air
fnrpo
Second Alaskan
B-29 Lost; Search
On In Aleutians
ELMENDROF FIELD, (/P)—'The
second Alaskan Air Command B-29
lost in less than a week on train
ing missions was feared down to
day somewhere on or near the
Alaska Peninsula, possibly in the
vicinity of the Valley of Ten Thou
sand Smokes,
Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
commanding general, announced
the last report from the missing
ship placed it near Bruin Pass, on
the mainland area of the Penin
sula north of Kodiak Island. The
number of men aboard and their
names were not disclosed.
The Pass is also about 100 miles
southeast of Naknek, fishing com
munity on the arm of Bristol Bay,
near the famed Mount Katmai
area.
The plane’s gas supply should
have been exhausted at about 5:30
a.m. 'Nome time) yesterday and it
was declared missing as of that
hour, General Atkinson said.
Normally, a plane on a training
mission carries approximately 12
men. The Superfortress from Ladd
Field, Fairbanks, which was forced
down in northern Greenland last
Friday had 11 men aboard.
Improved flying weather was
hoped for today to aid in the
search of the rugged, little-inhab
ited area. All Alaska air search
agencies were alerted.
The Bruin Pass area is about
300 to 350 miles houthwest of El
mendorf Field.
The heroic rescue two days ago
of the Ladd Field fliers in north
ern Greenland after their 46th
long range reconnaissance squad
CPontimiprl on Pana Fiw»>
Legislature
Meirv-( rO-Rouiid:
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From The Gallery
(By Mildred Hermann)
The House has laid on the table
its own bill to create the office of
administrator general, but has yet
to consider the Senate bill cover
ing the same question.
Also laid on the table was the
McCutcheon bill which sought to
tighten the regulations relative to
the sale and enforcement of liquor
laws.
Two bills of interest to vetearns
passed yesterday. One of these pro
vides for preferential employment
of veterans of any war in public
employment, and the other seeks
to provide better housing facili
ties for veterans attending institu
tions of learning in Alaska.
Tne bill to repiace the commis
s'oner of education on the board of
administration with the labor com
missioner also passed the House
yesterday.
Carl Anderson created a lot of
fun in the House yesterday when
he amended the McCutcheon me
morial facetiously introduced ask
ing that the capital be moved to
Palmer to provide for its being
moved to Nome instead. The House
passed the amendment but imme
j diately tabled the entire measure.
Interesting line-up in voting
seen on the bill for administrator
general office. Ail Fairbanks men,
c.arl Anuerson and Laws voting
against the tabling of the measure.
They were supported by Hoopes
and Egan. Barnett and Newell
were the only Democrats to vote
for the measure, as did Republi
cans Vukovich and author GilL
Lining up to table the measure
were all other Democrats and First
Division Republicans, supported
by Snider of the Third Division.
The vote was 13 to 11. Unlikely
it can be called from the table, but
a switch in two votes could put
the Senate bill across.
Jones has introduced a bill to
amenql the banking bill, and Munz
i and Coffey jointly have introduced
| a bill to provide for the creation
1 of an aeronautics commission and
! promote the development and reg
i ulation of aeronautics in the Ter
1 ritory.
The Ed Anderson memorial ask
ing for the Territorial department
of agriculture to make a survey of
agricultural possibilities of the
Second Division has passed the
House.
The Almquist pension bill passed
the House this moning, hotly con
tested by members who opposed
making it applicable to aliens as
well as citizens.
No important revenue bills as
yet.
WASHINGTON. (VP)—Advances
were made today by Major Gener
al Philip B. Fleming, federal
works administrator, to finance
the preparation of drawings and
specifications for local public
woiks in Montana, Oregon and
Alaska.
Funds for planning will be made
available through the bureau of
ronvtriirtinn