Out With The Old,
In With The New
Pilot Bob Long is on his way
Outside to bring Alaska Airlines’
first new DC-3 to Alaska. He will
ferry out the company’s Stinson
A to be sold in California. Stin
sons have been the backbone of
Alaskan aviation for many years.
This particular one has seen hard
service in the Territory—all the
way from St. Lawrence Island to
Whitehorse. And now it is being
sold, to be replaced by the most
modern instrument ship there is.
The Douglas has been converted
from an Army transport into a
passenger ship at Atlanta, Geor
gia, under the supervision of the
company’s new superintendent of
flight operations, George C. Perry.
From California, Long will go to
Atlanta, whence he and Perry
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will fly the Douglas to Anchorage.
Long is an Alaskan pilot of long
standing. He flew for Wien Air
lines out of Nome, and made
many trips down the Chain for
ATC before coming with Alaska
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Airlines. Perry is one of the early
air mail pilots, and has been in
the airmail business since 1924.'
The new ship will be the first
21 passenger plane to be used
commercially within Alaska. She
will be christened ‘‘Starliner
Juneau”, and will be in service
early in May. Every department
of Alaska Airlines is busy prepar
ing for her arrival. Operations
and Maintenance are working out
new schedules. Purchasing has a
drawer full of orders for Douglas
parts, and the Merrill Field stock
room is being enlarged to accom
modate them. The Engineering
Department has designed loading
platforms for passenger and bag
gage doors which are 4 feet 4
inches and 10 feet 1 inch from
the ground respectively.
With two instrument ships in
operation, Alaska Airlines will
make six weekly trips to Juneau,
with north and southbound con
nections for Seattle. And there
will be three trips to Nome a
week.
Two Loans this year, but need
as much as three last year.
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SECURITY CONFER
ENCE OPENS
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print machinery toward prevent
i ing World War Three on this day
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| which millions of people all over
the earth have waited and worked
for through years of fighting to
j the verge of victory, dawned with
j the bright expressions of the hope
for a lasting peace. Yet it was
darkened by one cloud, the Anglo
American dispute with Russia
over Poland.
Barring some dramatic move by
Stalin the dispute on Polish rep
j resentation at the conference is as
deadlocked today as ever, split
| ting the Allied powers in the mo
ment when they strive for unity.
Otherwise there is an evident i
close big power cooperation.
Members of the American group
interpret that it means Russia is j
determined to help the conference
succeed and is already makingj
concessions to that purpose.
The city is abustle with activ- j
ity. The American delegation in a i
scheduled pre-conference caucus J
with Stettinius and Russian mem
bers met Molotov, who arrived
yesterday afternoon, and British
delegates to the conference and
Eden who arrived early today.
The conference opens at four
thirty p.m.
Highlights for the scheduled
half hour program to be broadcast
around the world will be a speech
by President Truman from Wash
ington after Stettinius raps for
the session to come to order and
delivers the initial address intro
ducing President Truman. After
President Truman the program
calls for addresses by Governor
Warren and Mayor Lapham.
The President began work on
his address last night after talk
ing for an hour with Secretary
Hull. The meeting is taking place
in San Francisco’s opera house
auditorium.
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Standing Committees ot
The Common Council
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The folowing standing commit
tees of the Common Council- bf
the City of Nome as apointed by
Mayor Edward M. Seidenverg are:
Finance and building, Baldwin
and Kitzmiller; Police and Jail,
Kitzmiller and Mish; Fire and
Water, Roust and Wallace;
Streets, Alleys and Lights, Wal
lace and Reader; Health and Re
lief, Mish and Baldwin; Laws, Or
dinances and Printing, Reader
and Roust.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for Harry Leon
Oumauk will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday at the Lavinia Wallace
Young Mission.
He was the grandchild of Mr.
and Mrs. Perry Konukpeok.
Baguio Is In
American Hands
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By FRED HAMPSON
1 MANILA, April 24 — </P) —
Smashed, bloody Baguio, the Phil
i ippine summer capital, around
which the Japanese are making
the Pacific war’s most desperate
struggle, is all but in American
hands today. One Thirty-Third
division column is driving down
the highway from the northwest
to within twenty-five hundred
yards of the once attractive city
and consolidating for the final
push are meeting only slight re
sistance.
Other Thirty-Third troops are
pushing from the west and have
seized a five-hundred foot tunnel
on the Baguio road. After two !
days of hard fighting Mount Mir-1
ador, the mile-high site of the
government observatory, over
looking Baguio plateau is also in
American hands.
General MacArthur announced
that American troops on Mindan
ao, only other remaining Japanese
stronghold in the Philippines, are
driving northeastward toward Da
vao from captured Kabacan and
meeting only ineffective resis
ance.
Philippine based bombers
struck again at Formosa and raid
ed the Japanese-held naval base
of Saigon in French Indo China.
Installations in Swaton, Hainan,
China were also attacked.
DRIVE SHOWS ABOUT
HALF QUOTA
The Red Cross drive to date has
neted $534.05 with several of the
local committees unreported. Out
lying districts also are slow in re
porting their part in the quota of
this district.
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