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VOL. XLIX. No. 26. NO~ME~ALASKAr FRIDA Y,‘ FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PER COPY—15T
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO (Ayi — The Northwest
Airlines DC-4 “Trailblazer,” sched
uled to leave tonight for Minne
apolis-St. Paul, will try to make
the one-stop 6,500-mile trip in 26
hours flying time, airline officials
announced today.
The big plane, returning from a
Far East survey flight, will stop at
Anchorage, on the great circle
route to the twin cities.
Aboard will be airline presiden'.
Cro 1 Hunter and representatives
of the U. S. weather bureau and
civil aeronautics authority. *
Northwest plans to begin com
mercial service between the United
States and the Orient within sev
eral weeks.
SEATTLE, (/P)—The 13th Coast
Guard district headquarters today
announced Capt. Charles P. Walsh,
pilot of the steamship Alaska
which went aground south of Cor
dova Feb. 2, had been found negli
gent in navigating the vessel. His
license was suspended three
months, one month effective im
mediately and the others to be part
of an eight-month probationary
period. Notice of an appeal was
given.
SEATTLE, (/P) — One native
child is dead in an outbreak of in
fluenza at Point Barrow, the Alas
ka Communications System sa d
today. A navy doctor is on the
ground and apparently has the
contagion under control.
SEATTLE, </P>—With no whole
sale sales reported in the past 3
days, the Seattle butter market
leaped two cents a pound today,
third such advance in the past
week.
Dealers offered producers 7
cents for AA and A grades; 72
cents for B grade and 71 cents for
C grade Putter in bulk. Prices to
retailers also advanced.
WSAHINGTON, (#>)—-The Sen
ate appropriations committee voted
8 to 5 today to allow the office of
price administration $17,991,815 to
continue rent, rice and sugar con
trols until June 30.
LONDON, GP)—All electrically
powered industry in Britain will
be back in production Monday, the
government announced tonight.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Legisla
tion setting up legal barriers
against about $5,785,000,000 in j
portal-to-portal pay suits was ap- '
proved by the House today and
sent to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen-1
ate public works committee voted
7 to 5 today to reject the nomina
tion of Gordon Clapp as a director
of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman sent to the Senate today,
with a request for ratification, the
protocol signed at London last Au
gust 30 extending until Aug. 31,
1947, the international agreement
regulating the production and
marketing of sugar. The agree
ment has been in force since 1937.
SURFACE fvH N I N C DELUXE — A huge electric shovel at Oakland, Ind., removes the
earth's cover from a soft ccal seam many feet below the surface.
Search Still Oil For
Missing B-29
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Improving
weather conditions over the Bruins
Bay Pass area of the Alaska Pe
ninsula early this morning indi
cated a large aerial armada will b
able to take off at dawn fr
mainland and Aleutian islan
ba^Ca in the search for a B-20 an
its crew of 13, Searchers, howevt
reported that poor visibility han.
pered their efforts, *
Weather observers predicted to
day would bring the best eondi
tions for observing since th.
plane disappeared Monday whil
on a training flight over the Ala.
ka Peninsula. Light snows we
forecast for the mountain are:
around the 12,066-foot high vo
cano, Ilimna, but only variable
cloudiness in the principal searc.
areas.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Atkinson,
Alaskan air command, said yester
day the plane carried emergency
rations for approximately 10 days.
With the break in the weather,
General Atkinson alerted all po -
sible services which might be
called upon in event the plane i.
located. Aerial rescue equipment,
including a parachute team of a
medical officer and two medical
corpsmen and two woodsmen, is
being held ready, snow- isel.s,
dog teams and other land rescue
personnel also are being held on
the alert.
ANCHORAGE SCHOOL BOARD
CAN'T TAKE OUTSIDERS
The Anchorage School Board
has notified the parents of over
400 children, who live just outside
the city limits that due to the lack
of appropriations they cannot ac
commodate them in the Anchorage
School next year.
Seeing The
Legislature From
The Gallery
(By Mildred Hermann)
The Johnson bill providing for
the election of national committee
men and delegates to national con
tention was defeated yesterday by
i 10 to 14 vote, all Second Division
Republicans voting for the mea
suie. Ed Anderson voting against
it. The general feeling of those
noting against it was that this was
i matter that should be decided
.vithin the confines of the parties.
Johnson presented an able de
jnse of his measure, but was un
mle to stay the tide of Democratic
otes, plus three First Division Re
publicans who voted against.
Johnson read a resolution passed
ast week by the Gram! Igloo of
.oneers favoring legislation that
assists in promoting self govern
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Cordova Game
Goes Overtime
ANCHORAGE, (#►)—'The Wed
nesday game with Eklutna gave
| the Nome team the short end of a
49-34 score.
Anchorage, seeking its 18th con
1 secutive high school basketball
victory of the season, was instal
led a favorite in tonight’s meeting
with Palmer for the All-Alaska in-,
! terscholastic cage championships, i
In other games tonight Eklutna'
meets Fairbanks for fifth and
sixth places, and Sitka and Seward j
battle it out for third and fourth.
Cordova edged out Nome 27-25
in overtime last night to take its;
first tournament win, and Sheldon
Jackson of Sitka staged a second'
half rally for a 53-31 win over
Fairbanks.
No Contract; No
Coal After March .‘il
WASHINGTON, </P) — John L
Lewis wrote Senator Japeat.nl
<R.-IndP today that no overtures
toward a new contract to operate
the nation’s soft coal mines havi
been made to the United Man
Workers of America.
Answering a series of questions
put to him by Capcheart, Lewis
said the negotiations of any new
contract which would keep the
mine workers on the job alter the
March 31 deadline he fixed last
December in calling off the strove
depend “solely upon the govern
ment and the mine operators.”
“Since December 7, last,” Lewis
wrote Capehart, “the United Mine
Workers have been publicly on
record as willing to negotiate a
new wage agreement for tlTe bi
tuminous industry, either with the
government or the associated coal
operators.
“During the period from Decem
ber 7, last, the date, no overtures
of any character on this subject
have been made to the United
Mine Workers of America.”
Balkan Treaties Up
For Katifieation
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today sent to the Senate
for ratification the peace treaties
with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, and
Hungary which were signed at
Paris February 10.
Mr. Truman’s message on the
treaties follows:
“With a view to receiving t *.c
advice and consent of the Senate
to ratification, I transmit herewith
copies of the treat:es of peace witn
Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Hun
gary, signed at Paris on February
10, 1947.
LIFTING THE EH>
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 26. i/P> — Non
resident commercial fishermen
must pay a license of a hundred
dollars annually according to a
o ii passing the Hou e, seventy
f ve of which goes into established
fund for relief and care of sick
and disabled fishermen. Local
fishermen pay six dollars, five of
which goes into the fund.
The House kills its own measure
which would have provided for
el.ction of national committeemen
and committeewomen, also dele
gates to national convention.
Bill passed by the House Tues
day raised the assistance for old
agers from S60 to S75. An amend
ment making it only S65 w.r killed.
Tne Senate had a ou»y aay Wed
nesday passing six bills designed
to clear the dead wood and clarify
exiting statutes in preparation
for recodification.
The Senate killed the House bill
providing who shall perform mar
riages, and limiting the privileges
to mmisters and priests.
Senate killed the bill requiring
police officers to be bonded for
$2,500.
For the first time the Senate
take, a bill from one committee to
send to another. Coffey secured
the transfer of the measure re
pealing the gross gold tax and sub
stituting a net tax on mining from
live Judiciary to taxation commit
tee.
The House kills the measure
prov ding for absentee voting
through postmasters in isolated
areas; also for a summer school at
the University of Alaska; also to
buy cars for marshals, but passes
House bills providing for a Pioneer
memorial fund; filing of vacancies
in Legislature; creating the office
of assistant to prospectors; abate
ment of nuisances, including places
where liquor is sold illegally.
Hep. Edward Anderson intro
duces memorial asking Congress
to appropriate $125,000 to build a
vessel to carry out an investigation
of fishery possibilities in the Nome
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I)uloll Give U. S.
Vessel Orders
BATAVIA, Capt. F. J. Kist,
>.chief of staff of the Netherlands
Indies navy, declared today there
would be “most disagreeable con
sequences” if the crew of the U.
S. liberty ship Martin Behrman,
now loading at the nationalist port
of Cheribon, refused to obey Dutch
orders.
An Indonesian Republican gov
ernment spokesman said 30 armed
Dutch marines had boarded the
vessel while she was taking on
rubber, sugar and quinine in defi
ance of a Dutch warning that she
would be seized if she tried to sail
for the U. S., and had ordered the
Behrman to go to Tanjong Priok,
Batavia’s harbor.
| Capt. Rudy Grey of Southport,
1 N. C., th:s source said, refused the
j order and instructed his crew to
j ignore Dutch commands to start
I the engines.