SUCCESS STORY
George N. Apostol
Is Appointed Assistant
Attorney General Alaska
SEATTLE, (IP) — George N.
Apostol, who less than two years
ago was picking apples in Omak,
Wash., to support his family while
he conducted a “good govern
ment” crusade, has been sworn
into office as assistant attorney
general for the Territory of
Alaska.
Apostol was much in the news
while practicing at Omak. In his
f brief law career, the 32-year-old
attorney has won five of six ap
peals to the Washington State
Supreme Court.
For the past six months he has
been practicing in Seattle work
ing nights as a traffic clerk at the
Seattle Port of Embarkation to
offset costs of building the new
practice.
The 16-hour-a-day schedule was
interrupted this week with the an
nouncement that Apostol had been
chosen from scores of lawyer ap
plicants from Los Angeles to Seat
tle for the $7,000 a year Alaska
appointment. j
Price Stabilization to Open
Anchorage Branch Office
JUNEAU—Branch offices of the
Office of Price Stablization will
be opened in Anchorage during
the week of April 30, Fred G. Han
ford, Territorial Director, said this
week. Hanford will go to Anchor
age April 29 to organize the new
branch office. He will be accom
panied by Stanley J. Friese, busi
ness analyst for the CXP.S. They
plan to hold meetings in Anchor
age to explain regulations to the
merchants.
The Anchorage office will be
the third to be established in the
Territory, the second one having
been opened in Ketchikan early
this month. The fourth and last
office will be opened in Fairbanks
about May 10. Hanford and
Friese will go to Fairbanks from
Anchorage.
Neil S. Miller will be in charge |
of the Anchorage office. Miller
has been with the Veterans Ad
ministration in Anchorage for the
last five years.
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GOP*S MOVE FOR BROADER
PROSECUTION KOREAN WAR
WASHINGTON, (ZP) — Amid
fresh Democratic attacks on Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s proposals,
Republicans moved to present in
dependently their side of the row
over President Truman’s Far East
ern policy.
Taft, who heads the Senate Re
publican Policy Committee, has
given general support to the de
posed Pacific commander’s pro
posals for blockading Red China,
operating United Nations planes
over Manchuria and using Chinese
Nationalist troops.
DULLES RETURNS FROM
TREATY TALKS WITH JAPAN
WASHINGTON, <£>)—Ambassa
dor John Foster Dulles returned
from a week. of conferences in
/
Tokyo cm the proposed peace
treaty with Japan. He made a
stopover of about an hour and a
half in Anchorage Monday.
The next step in the treaty pre
parations will be further consult
ations with 13 other nations tak
ing an active part in framing the
treaty.
The burrowing owl is the only
land bird nesting underground.
RITA HAYWORTH IS
CONSIDERING DIVORCE
NEW YORK, (/P) — Rita Hay
worth’s attorney indicated today
she is considering a divorce from
Prince Aly Kahn. “No decision
has been reached yet,” Attorney
Bartley Crum told a reporter.
This statement contrasted with
earlier denials by the film star
and her associates that she was
considering a divorce. When rfhe
returned to New York on April
2 from Europe, she was asked
about reports of a rift between
her and the prince and replied:
“There is no truth in that."
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