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VOL. XLVII. No. 13. NOME. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1946 PER COPY^lic
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, Jan. 30 — tfP) — The
Coast Guard said large icebergs
have been noted in the Stephen’s
Passage area between Point Hugh
and the Midway Islands on the
Alaska route. The report said a
drifting mine had been sighted at
the entrance to Prince William
sound and sunk by gunfire. Mar
iners are warned to watch care
fully for mines along the coast of
Alaska.
' SEATTLE, Jan. 30 —- UP) — The
Chamber of Commerce board of
trustees recommended a federal
appropriation of $75,000 to estab
lish a forest range experiment sta
tion in Alaska to survey the re
sources of Alaska’s forests and
grasslands.
WASHINGTON, Jaa. 30—f/P)—
A far-reaching strike control bill
has been sent to the House floor
by the rules committee. Debate is
scheduled to start tomorrow. The
measure is proposed as a substi
tute to the watered down version
of fact-finding legislation ap
proved by the House Labor com
mittee.
TOKYO, Jan. 30— (IF) —Allied
ocupation of Japan should con
tinue for ten to twenty years to
insure full democratization and a
peaceful future for Nippon some
members of the Far Eastern Com
mission said. “I believe occupation
should last twenty years,” said
Col. Cosgrave, Canada’s chief .del
egate, as the commission prepared
to sail Friday after three weeks
survey of Japan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—(/P)—
President Truman asked Congress
to vote the three billion seven
hundred fifty million loan to Brit
ain, saying it would lead to ex
panded “production, consumption,
employment and rising standards
of living everywhere.” Urging
prompt action on the agreement
which also includes an additional
credit of six hundred fifty million
settling lend lease obligations.
President Truman said the loan
would permit United States and
Britain to “move side by side”
toward the goal of expanded
world trade.
LONDON, Jan. 30 —(^ — For
eign Secretary Bevin of Britain
charged that Russia had conducted
what appeared to be “a war on
nerves” in Iran. He indorsed the
Iranian demand, opposed by Rus
sia, for the Security Council to
take control of the Soviet-Iranian
dispute. Edward Stettinius, Jr.,
American member of the council
FUN ON CAPITOL HIL L—Taking advantage of a seven-inch snowfall, sled-riding
children coast down a drive on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C. Schools were closed. t
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
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The continuing labor disputes
throughout the country keep idle
approximately one million, three
hundred ninety thousand workers.
Major developments are:
Automotive — Top officials of
General Motors and CIO United
i Auto Workers plan to begin wage
negotiations with a special federal
| mediator as the government at
tempts to end the seventy-one day
| old strike of 175,000 employees in
General Motors plants.
The new strike control bill, a
| substitute for the fact-finding leg
islation, wins widespread support
in the national House of Congress.
* The measure calls for national la
bor management mediation board
and includes restrictive provisions.
Steel—The government to have
proposed the “last word” to the
steel industry on what price in
creases it would approve in the in
terests of settling the strike of
nearly 750,000 CIO steelworkers,
and more than 43,000 workers in
allied industries, who have been
made idle by the 10-day walkout.
Shipping—A tieup of nearly all
shipping in New York harbor, j
world’s busiest, is threatened by j
a strike on Monday of thirty-five
hundred AFL tugboat workers in j
support of wage and hour de
mands.
supported the British view as ex
pressed by Bevin. Stettinius said
he believed the 'council should
keep the Iranian case in its agenda
and a certain jurisdiction over it.
Iran Will Again
Try Direct
Negotiation
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LONDON, Jan. 30 — (/P) — Iran
announced she is prepared to try
direct negotiations again in her
dispute with Russia, if the United !
Nations Security Council recom
mended such action, but insisted 1
the council retain jurisdiction in
the case.
The Iran position was stated 1
shortly after it was announced at
Tehran that the Rusians were re
turning key railway lines in the
northern part of the country to
the control of the Iran State Rail- j
ways. Iranian officials said, pri- j
vately, that the Russian move
should bring prompt basic im
provement in the relations be- j
tween the two countries, and
might affect significantly the case
now pending before the UNO.
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Families May Join :
Soldiers Overseas
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—(/P)—
The War Department announced
that families soon may join sol- j
diers in all overseas theaters, pro
vided there is adequate housing;
and medical care available. Travel
to the soldiers depends; to Europe
will begin sometime in April. The
first movements to the Philip
pines, Japan, Korea and Ryukyus
will begin after May first. Soldiers
families are already authorized to
go to Alaska and the Aleutians.
Crew From Ship
Grouned On
Amchitka Safe
SEATTLE, Jan. 30 — f/P) — The
officers and crew of forty men of
the fifty-one hundred ton refrig- j
erator ship Crown Reefer, aground
on rugged Amchitka island in the
Aleutians is safe. The vessel’s fate
is in doubt. The Thirteenth Naval
District said that Capt. M. Rock
ower of New York, and several of
hia men are still aboard.
Navy tug pilot Edward Stornich
and twenty-one crew members
came ashore with Army troops
from Amchitka.
The double bottom of the ship
is apparently torn open and water
flooded the engine room to within
two feet of the engine tops, after
the ship hit rocks Sunday night.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
MEETING POSTPONED
The Volunteer Firemen will
postpone their meeting called for
tonight until tomorrow evening,
due to conflicting dates.
HARWOOD WILL
BE HERE TONIGHT
Word was received by the office
of the City Clerk, that Boyd Har
wood, recent purchaser of the
Nome Drug Store, will arrive in |
Nome tonight via the Pan Ameri- j
can plane from Fairbanks. He
plans to open the drug store with
in the next few days.
Fairbanks Druggist
c“
Buys Nome Drug
At the regular City Council
meeting Monday evening much
business was transacted.
Vernon Hilliker, of the Surplus
Property division of the Depart
ment of the Interior, spoke before
the Council, stating that in the
next few weeks much property of
the government would be declared
surplus in the Nome area, and that
the City would have priority to
purchase whatever is needed. He
also stated that sales were being
conducted on equipment in the
outlying areas of Seward Penin
sula.
The mayor asked Councilman
Glavinovich to took into the mat
ter.
Elmer Straub and Earl Towner,
representing Hyde, Straub and
Towner, a transportation and min
ing company, made request of the
City Council for a franchise to op
erate a sanitary garbage disposal
service. Straub stated that Fred
Hyde is in the States getting plans
drawn for the complete outfit.
City Attorney Tanner stated that
the City was not in a position at
present to grant such a franchise,
inasmuch as there are now two
operators in that line of business.
Earl Towner took the floor and
stated he though that under the
circumstances the City should
make the proper ordinance to take
advantage of the offer of a com
pletely modern sanitary garbage
disposal service, which includes
keeping the beach at the city
dump cleared of refuse.
The mayor stated that the Coun
cil should take the matter under
advisement until the next regular
meeting, Monday, February 11.
Bids on the sale of the Nome
Drug Store were opened and read.
Ihe first was from Stanley F.
Thompson, of Nome, $15,328.00.
Second: Boyd Harwood, Fairbanks
druggist for $17,500.00. Third:
$16,300.00, from Neill-Clark &
Company of Fairbanks for Mrs.
Virginia M. Huff. Fairbanks, and
Fourth: Madsen & Hedreen of
Nome tA> $14,350.00, or <B>
$2,300.00 plus laid down cost of
inventory and supplies, <$i 4,983.80).
Following due consideration of
the bids received, Councilman
Guy Mish moved that the city ac
cept the bid of Boyd Harwood for
$17,500.00, as said bid was the
highest received and was in the
main a fair offer, for what is
known as the Nome Drug Store.
It was seconded by Joe Wallace.
The motion passed unanimously.
Mayor Seidenverg stated that
Boyd Harwood would be notified,
that his bid had been accepted.