ASK ACTION ON
RAILROAD RATES
The Interior Department was
called on this week by the Alaska
Development Board to take actio:
on recommendations made during
194G by a special committee which
reviewed the rates and policies
of the Alaska Railroad.
Benjamin W. Thoron, formerly
Director of the Division of Terri
tories of the Interior Department
was chairman of the rate review
committee. The committee's report
was made after a complete study
of the government-owned railroad’s
operations and after hearings on
rates were held at Seward, An
chorage, Palmer and Fairbanks.
The Development Board, noting
that the success of innumerable
enterprises in the railbelt area
and along the Yukon River de
pends directly on the level of
transportation rates, asked Secre
tory of the Interior J. A. Krug to
make the Thoron committee’s re
port public and to take appropri
ate action on its recommendations.
It is understood that the railroad
management is awaiting review of
the report in Washington before
taking further action, although a
few of the committee’s recommen
, dations as to lower petroleum
rates have already been put into
effect.
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British Ambassador
To Poland Faces
State Charges
WARSAW, (/P)—The British am
bassador to Poland was named to
day before a military tribunal as
having received state and military
secrets from the outlawed under
ground organization, accused of
attempts at a coup d’etat against
the Polish government.
1 The charge was disclosed nine
days before the scheduled parlia
mentary elections. Both Britain
and the United States have pro
tested that arrangements for the
elections did not insure free vot
ing. The British Ambassador is
Sir Victor Cavendish-Bentwick.
The key figure in a sensational
high treason trial, Count Grochol
ski, told the military tribunal that
he had delivered to the ambassa
dor information obtained by the
underground and through a former
employee of the Polish foreign
ministry who also is a co-defend
1 unt.
The indictment charged Gro
cholsky and three others specific
ally of conspiracy to overthrow
I the government in supplying state
secrets to a “foreign ambassador”
i in Warsaw.
One of the co-defendants, Wald
m:r Baczak. 24, formerly attached
to the Polish foreign ministry,
identified in his testimony the
“English ambassador.”
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0
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Sports, Courts
Writers Write
Society News
MEXICO, Mo.—With Miss Lau
rene Miller, society editor, absent
from her desk due to illness, the
Mexico (Mo.) Evening Ledger
faced a problem. News of dinners
and card parties, as essential as
the masthead, had to be written.
But nobody was handy to substi
tute.
With two writers more accus
i tomed to handling sports and court
house news called into service,
I the result made their readers rub
their eyes and read again.
The bridge party covered by the
sports editor read:
"Mrs. Kronish Edges
Out Lem At The End
“It was a fast finish « at the
George Tisbrock home last night,
as Mrs. Edgar Kronish romped
home with high score, outplacing
Lemuel Murry in a whirlwind
last hand to win.”
j “Time out was taken in the final
I heats for coffee and crullers, with
;Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Odenkamp
using the time to switch from Cul
bertson to Odenkamp system in a
futile effort to come up from be
| hind.”
Appearing alongside the sports
editor’s contribution was the effort
of a writer familiar with court
house and city hall reporting:
"King-Queen Issue
Stalls Club Decision
“With several hours debate end
ing without a decisive vote, mem
bers of the 52-20 Pinochle club
last night failed to agree on the
question of counting the king and
queen as five each, or only count
ing 10 for the king.”
“The question was raised when
Oliver Conover, a new member,
challenged the rules after the first
few rounds of play, put the dis
cussion ended without a decision.
The long debate forced postpone
ment of the question of melding
to a marriage in a straight.”
“The meeting was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jewell As
gram, with a quorum of members
in attendance.”
The copy was passed as written,
but the editor, used to editorial ad
monitions, added a note to the col
umn, to the ailing society girl:
“Hurry Back, Laurence—please!
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PICTURED AS A REMOTE ISLANO
BEYOND THE WESTERN OCEAN,
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HEAOEO WATCHDOG, wwch
ALLOWED SOULS TO ENTER,
BUT NONE TO LEAVE ....
SOULS WERE BROUGHT
TO THE ISLANO ACROSS THE
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PARAMOUNT TO FILM
GOLD RUSH DAYS
■
Skagway of the gold rush days
is to furnish background for a mo
tion picture now in preparation by
Paramount Pictures, Inc., accord
ing to an announcement today by
the Alaska Development Board.
The studio has begun its search
for information and material on
early-day Skagway for use in the
film which has been given the ten
tative title “Alaska.”
Recently George Sundborg, gen
eral manager of the Alaska De
velopment Board, established con
tact with the major studios to of
fer assistance of the Territory in
preparing any motion pictures
which might be produced with an
Alaska background. It was real
ized that good publicity for Alaska
could be obtained by seeing that
the material presented aborn the
Territory in motion pictures was
authentic.
The Development Board is as
sisting the research department of
Paramount at the present time in
gathering photographs of Skagway
*
in the early days. Sundborg is
working with Edward Keithahn.
curator of the Territorial Library
and Museum and with Mayor C.
A. Carroll of Skagway on the
project. Sundborg invites Alaskans
who may have photographs which
they think might prove informa
tive to the studio, to send them to
the Alaskan Development Board,
P. O. Box 50, Juneau Alaska, for
forwarding to Paramount. All pho
tographs will be returned to their
owners in good condition.
A new sound recording machine
makes records on a cellophane
tape.
SEALED BID SALE ON
S "plus Trucks
AT ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
(previously offered to
priority claimants)
26—2Vz ton GMC CARGO TRUCKS
(without winch)
1— 2Vz ton GMC CARGO TRUCK, with winch
2— 2Vz ton GMC DUMP TRUCKS
(without winch)
2—2Vi, ton GMC TANK TRUCKS—750 gal. capacity
Sealed bids on any or all of the trucks, with a 10% deposit, will be
accepted until 2 P.M., on February 7, 1947.
To obtain sales lists, write, wire or call
Surplus Property Office
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office Hours:
Phone Box 2466, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Army 3101 Anchorage Monday thru Friday