CORDUROY — Lush chen
ille corduroy is fashioned into a
three-piece lounging outfit with
college girls especially in mind.
The unusual fabric is soft pink
in color.
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Transport Strikes
Floating Mine .
PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 19—
UP)—The transport Colbert, car
I rying liberated war prisoners from
Dairen struck a floating mine one
hundred miles west of Okinawa.
One man is missing and two in
jured by the explosion. The ship
is being towed to Okinawa, Fleet
j Headquarters reported today.
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MR. ESKIL ANDERSON
LEAVES FOR MARSHALL
Mr. Eskil Anderson of the Ter
ritorial Bureau of Mines, who left
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for Marshall, announced today
that as soon as the local assay
office is closed for the winter,
anyone may send samples of ore
or minerals to the University of
Alaska, where they will be as
l sayed or identified free of charge.
The samples shoilld be addressed
I to the Territorial Assay Office,
i College, Alaska.
MISS CLARA GADDIE
RECEIVES CITATION
Miss Clara Gaddie, government
nurse at the Kotzebue hospital for
several years has been given a
citation and a promotion for her
work in sustaining the hospital
during the war despite the short
age of help, equipment and only
infrequent visits of a doctor. She
is now doing field work, and two
new nurses have been sent to as
sist her.
They Roll Again
TO SERVICE
PEACE TIME INDUSTRY
All restrictions have been removed on
ALLIS-CHALMERS and allied equipment.
Our factories assure us of prompt deliv
eries on orders now being placed.
We solicit your inquiries
for price quotations and descriptive information.
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Navy Reconverting
Merchant Marine
SEATTLE, Sept. 19—i/P)—The
Navy is taking its guns from mer
chant ships in Seattle and prepar
ing them for the return to peace
time travel in the Pacific waters.
Three vessels familiar in Puget
Sound waters in prewar days, the
SS Silverado, the SS Alaka and
the SS Taku, were de-armed to
day.
Purposes Of New
Housing Measure
George W. Coplen, Regional
Representative of the National
Housing Agency, called attention
of construction leaders to the
Wagner-Ellender housing bill, in
troduced in the National Senate
just before Congress took its sum
mer recess.
Mr. Coplen declared: ‘‘This leg
| islation establishes clearcut na
j tional housing objectives. It is de
signed to unleash the pent-up en
ergies of both private and govern
ment enterprise. It proposes.
“1—To leave the traditional cus
tom-built housing field entirely to
private enterprise.
“2—To help private enterprise
reach as far down as possible into
the housing of low income Ameri
cans.
“3—That the Federal govern
ment aid local communities in
providing for inadequately housed
low income families; and
“4—To aid local communities in
abolishing slums and redeveloping
slum areas largely through pri
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
TO RECEIVE TREAT
The Volunteer Firemen are go
ing to be treated tonight to a very
pleasant surprise after their meet
ing. Last week one of Mrs. Bock
man’s houses caught fire and
through the fine co-operation of
the Volunteer Firemen was quick
ly extinguished without any seri
ous loss. In appreciation and rec
ognition of their voluntary serv
ice Helen Bockman is treating the
firemen to homemade lemon pie.
vate enterprise.”
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