AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Pilot Bronaugh arrived from
Kotzebue with OPA official Mau
rice Sucrow yesterday. He also
made a trip to Shishmaref and
Teller taking John Oakie to his
home in Shishmaref.
On Monday another Wien plane
arrived from Fairbanks, bringing
Carl Neilson of the C.A.A., and
took Margaret Rae, Alice Good
man, Neva Patterson, Margery
Bogart and Rex Langham to Kot
zeubue.
From Kotzebue to Fairbanks
the ship took the seven members
of the C.A.B. party. Mr. and Mrs.
Eric Neumela were taken to Fair
banks enroute to Barrow.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Incoming passengers from Seat
tle by the Pan American last Mon
day evening were: Lloyd Holt,
George Bencom. Ralph Ulrichson,
Axel Werner, Chris Simeon, C. C.
Tanner, Louise and Anne David
son, Don Stewart. Rose Bronson,
Lester Bronson. From Fairbanks
were Paul Stockard, Kamini Gup
ta, Col Gross, John Stef fan. Out
going passenger was Leon Bagiev.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers from An
chorage Monday with the Alaska
Airlines were D. Walluk, K. La
Belle. D. R. Harris. W. E. Donald
son, Jack Anderson, A. J. Kins
man. Departing for Anchorage on
Monday were J. L. Hightower.
Vance Bonnier, H. Samuelson,
Dinty Moore, Leona Franklin, M.
J. Sucrow, Pauline Fischer. Yes
terday M F. Blake arrived from
Anchorage, and A J. Kinsman,
Jean Eberhardt and Col. Gross
departed.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL—
Karl Ueilson, W. M. Davies, W.
Hanson, Anchorage; W. E. Don
aldson, Portland; K. LaBelle, D. R.
Harris, Anchorage; A. K. Kins
man, Seattle; R. Schaefer, An
chorage; J. D. Steffan, Paul E.
Stockard, Fairbanks; Don Stewart,
Louise and Anne Davidson, M. F.
Blake, Seattle
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SPOUTS
OWNERS SEE TEXAS LEAGUE
CLICKING 1.000.000 TIMES
DALLAS—The storied old Texas
League, silenced by the drums of
war for three years, breaks out in
all its glory April 16 and those
eternal optimists — the baseball
club owners—are predicting one
million clicks will be recorded at
the turnstiles.
It was generally admitted that
when the Texas League suspend
ed operations it was a pretty sick
affair. During the war years some
clubs made more money renting
out their parks than they did
while playing circuit baseball.
Only about a half-million fans
paid their way into the eight parks
in 1942.
But the absence of baseball
makes the heart grow fonder. The
fans were more anxious for the \
game to return than the club own
ers. A little squabble with the of
fice of Judge William Bramham,
president of the National Associa
tion of Professional Baseball
Leagues, over the rights of sus
pended leagues in obtaining play
ers brought things to a head. The
club owners got peeved and said
they’d start up and show 'em what
they could do.
All the clubs not owned by ma
jor league clubs formed working
agreement and President J. Al
vin Gardner says the circuit is as
sound as at any time in its 51
years of operation.
Since 1888 the league has func
tioned all except eight years. It
survived the Spanish-American
War and didn’t shut down in 1918
until July 7. This came after the
famous work or fight order. John
J. McCloskey, father of the league,
went to California and took a
group of the top players with him
in 1891 and the league did not op
erate that year. McCloskey re
turned in 1892. But the loop was
out in 1893 and 1894 and also 1900
and 1901, but the league history
does not say why those seasons
were skipped.
The Texas League has produced
some of the real greats of big
league baseball and for years sent
as many or more players to the
ICE POOL CLOSES
TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT
Completing its thirtieth year,
the Nenana Ice Pool will close to
morrow, April 4, at midnight, with
speculation running high, as it has
been an unusually cold spring.
Flocks of curlew, going north
months ahead of schedule, would
indicate an early spring, accord
ing to native observers. The denth
of the ice at Nenana seems to in
dicate the opposite, so it's any
body’s guess.
The following is a list of the
official dates on which the ice
moved at Nenana:
1917— April 30 11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11 . 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30. 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29. 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20. 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30. 1:28 p.m.
1943— April 28. 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
The pit viper derives its name
from the pits on its face.
majors as any other minor loop in
existence.
Some of the outstanding stars
developed by the Texas League
were: Dizzy Dean, Bill Hallahan,
Babe Herman, Carl Hubbell, Sam
Grey, Wiley Moore, Red Lucas,
Ernie Orsatti, Willis Hublin, Art
Shires, Pepper Martin, Gus Mar.
cuso, Flint Rhem, Pat Malone.
Elon Hoggsett, Smead Jolley, Ray
Hayworth, Andy Cohen, Fred
Frankhouse a:.d Ducky Medwick.
Hi! Ho!
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Special Rates to the Fair - April 4 to 15,1946
Russians Train
Kurds For *T rc*e
Kurdistan**
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TEHRAN. Apr. 3. </P)—A Kurd- j
ish chieftain said Russian techni
cians had arrived at Mehabad, in
northwestern Iran, to train Kurd
ish in what he termed a “general
drive for a free Kurdistan."
A lormer Kurdish member of
Iran’s Fat declared in Hamadn
"the Kurds in Iran, Turkey, Iraq
and Syria, are meeting in Meha
bad and have proclaimed a new
and greater Kurdish state, center
ed in Iraq oil city of Mosul.
Neither of these informants
could be identified by name. The
chieftain, who said his life would
be in danger if his presence :n
Tehran were disclosed, said the
military forces of Ghazi Moham
med, head of the recently pro
claimed "independnt Kurdish re
public,” seated in Mehabad, had
“obtained twenty tanks, four
trucks and a number of mortars
from the Russian unit in Miyan
duab,” northwest of Mehabad.
The chietain’s interview with
</R) was arranged through an
American friend of the Chief, who
lived twenty years in Kurdistan.
Sea water evaporates more
slowly than fresh water.
Francis Bowden *
Anchorage Mayor
ANCHORAGE, April 3, i,p, .
Francis Bowden, president of the
retail clerks union, was elected
mayor over Winfied Ervin, Jr.,
who has been holding office since
John Manders’ resignation, by 61
votes. William Geyser and Marion
Smith, running with Bowden,
were elected to the council, also
Edward Dodd.
Voted in the twenty year fran
chise for a transportation system
to Matanuska Valley lines, and x
city manager plan by a landslide.
The counting of votes was halted
frequently last night by power
shutoffs.
RALPH ULRICKSON
RETURNS TO NOME
Ralph Ulrickson, formerly of
Nome, and recently discharged
from the Army, arrived Monday
night via the Pan American Air
ways, to work for the Lumen
Commercial Company.
Ralph served most of his time
in the Aleutians. He informs us
that he recently married Margaret
Beeber, who taught school in
Nome last year. Margaret is teach
ing in Washington, and may come
to Nome on completion of the
present school term.
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