OREGON MEN
PUNNING TRIP
THRU ALASKA
PORTLAND, — (/P) —Oregon’s
flying businessmen are planning
a 7,000-mile round trip to the
Arctic Circle to better their mass
flight distance set on a trip to
Mexico.
A squadron of about 25 planes
is scheduled to take off here
July 31. The planes will stop at
Spokane Washington, Great Falls,
Mont., and then over the Canad
ian border to Lethridge and Ed
monton. Then the group will wing
over the Alcan Highway to Fair
banks. They move across the Arc
tic Circle to the end of their north
land travels at Fort Yukon.
Side trips to Mt. McKinley Na
tional Park and to Anchorage are
also planned before the planes
swing southward toward Oregon
home ports.
L. S. White tour director, be
lieves the air jaunt will take 12
days. The group successfully com
pleted a mass flight of civilian
single and two engine planes to
(EARLY REPORT
SALMON PACK
THIS SEASON
SEATTLE, — (iP) —The U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service reported
'Saturday a 1948 Alaska salmon
| pack total of 74,629 cases up to
June 19. It was the season’s first
preliminary report.
Of the total, 70,636 was in the
central Alaska district. The total
included 32,495 cases of reds and
29,984 of kings.
Forty canneries were operating.
Thirteen of them were in the Cook
Inlet area, where most of the
king pack — 24,862 cases — was
made.
The heaviest red salmon pack
ing areas were Copper River and
Kodiak. Their figures were: Cop
per River—five canneries, 8,806
cases of reds, 1,198 of kings, 10,
004 total; Kodiak—8,682 of reds,
14 of kings, 60 of pinks, total 8,
756 cases in seven canneries.
the Mexican State of Sonora last
February.
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| Allies May Demand
Russia Lift Its
Blockade Of Berlin
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ing food and necessities into Ber
lin. The U.S. sent 39 more C-54
i Skymasters to Germany to ease
the growing shortages. But all the
air transport could handle but
a fraction of the 2,000 tons of food
daily the Western Powers former
ly moved into Berlin by rail.
The .'Russians blocked railway
traffic through their zone to Ber
lin after the Western Powers re
j fused last week to accept Rus
| sian occupation money as the sole (
currency for Berlin.
Moscow
Moscow asserted through the
! Tass News Agency the Western
j Powers were to blame for the
i reductions in coal, steel and food
supplies in Berlin.
Rhodes
Count Folke Bernadotte ,U.N.
i mediator for Palestine, said his j
l proposals for a “basis for further
! discussion” toward peace will be
| handed Arab and Jewish officials
I shortly.
Damascus
i Syria’s premier said the Arab
! League would not modify its at
' titude against partitioning and ag- j
ainst establishment of a Jewish
state.
Jerusalem
Israel had its army swear al
legiance.
Hong Kong
Floods in South China drove
j up to 300,000 persons from their
homes in the Swatow region.
Tsinglao
Shantung University pupils to
! day started a three-day strike in
; Tsingtao in protest against U.S. j
aid for Japan.
Singapore
Communist disorders continued
in Malaya.
Rome
Italy was the first of the 16
nations benefitting from the Mar
shall Plan billions to sign a long
range aid agreement with the U.S.
Communist-led strikes be-deviled
the country’s efforts to recover.
Prague
The Communist Party in Red
Czechoslovakia absorbed the So
cial Democratic Party.
Berlin
Communist papers in Berlin
j kept chanting that the Western
allies must leave that city, even
though the Four Powers have
equal rights under the Potsdam
accord.
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Coast Guard Aids !
Three Vessels In j
Alaska Waters
SEATTLE, — </P) —One small
vessel and two others disabled and ;
in need of help in Alaska waters ,
today, the Coast Guard reported.
A fourth craft, previously reported
overdue, was sighted, however,
making its way to port.
The Coast Guard said the miss
ing craft was a 26-foot cabin;
:ruiser manned by Mr. and Mrs.!
W. S. Upson, believed to be of j
Seward. It left Seward June 22 (
for Homer. A PBY from Kodiak l
and other planes searched the j
area yesterday without success.
The 65-foot purse-seiner, Minah
H. drifted helplessly in the water
off Cape Clear, northeast of Kod
iak after losing its rudder. A sea
going tug from Kodiak was en
route to its aid.
The fishing vesel Lynn Ann,
which lost her shaft and was
beached in a sinking condition at
Delta Point in Cold Bay, was taken
in tow yesterday by the Cutter
Bittersweet. It is expected to
reach Kodiak June 30.
The fishing boat Fagan, con
verted 125-foot landing barge, al
so had been reported missing af
ter sailing from Ketchikan June
15 for Bristol Bay. It was sighted
yesterday, the Coast Guard said,
by a sister fishing craft, the La
Merced. The report said the Fag
an was proceeding toward Bristol
Bay at nine knots.
MR. AND MRS. PAUL IVANOFF
VISITING DAUGHTER HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ivanoff were
passengers to Nome from St. Mi
chaels where they have been teach
ing school the past year. They
are visiting here with their daugh
ter Myrtle, who is with the U.S.
Weather Bureau.
IMMIGRANT BILL
SIGNED BY PRES.
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Austria and Italy between Sept.
1, 1939 and Dec. 22, 1945. “By
this device,” said Mr. Truman,
“more than 90 per cent of the re
maining Jewish displaced persons
are definitely excluded.”
And, he said, it “also excludes
many displaced persons of tne
Catholic faith” who fled into the
American zones after Dec. 22,
1945, in order to escape persecu
tion in countries dominated by a
Communist form of government.”
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