Will lag Halibut;
Seek Fish Vessel
SEATTLE, (£>) — The interna
tional fisheries commission wants
to charter a halibut fishing vessel
and a crew of seven fishermen to
carry on halibut tagging work in
Alaska waters.
Bids will be received until the
end of this month, said H. A. Dun
lop, director of fisheries investi
gation for the commission.
The tagging program was start
ed in 1946. Its purpose is to study
migratory habits of halibut to de
termine if all sources are being
fully exploited, Dunlop said.
The commission seeks to char
ter a vessel, with a crew of seven,
to work between Kodiak Island
and Unimak Pass in Area 3. Four
members oft he commission staff
will go along to do the tagging.
The work is scheduled to start
The Answers
1. House, 262; Senate, 54.
2. House, 169; Senate, 42.
3. Vice-President Alben W.
| Barkley.
4. John W. McCormack, House;
Scott Lucas, Senate.
j 5. Sam Rayburn, <D) Texas.
6. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan.
7. The United States of Indone
.
sia.
8. The U. S. I. is composed of
about 3,000 islands, with a land
area of 735,000 square miles.
9. William McKinley—inaugur
ated in 1897.
10. South Carolina.
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early in July.
Dunlop said the commission
i hopes to get a boat equipped with
j sonic depth finder and radio-tele
I phone.
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ANCHORAGE, </P) — Thurman
VV. Arnold, former head of the
government’s anti-trust division,
is scheduled to represent the Alas
ka Steamship Co., before a federal
grand jury here, The Anchorage
Times reported Friday.
The steamship line is one of
nearly 200 firms being investigat
ed by the jury to determine whe
ther any shall be indicted for vio
lations of the Sherman anti-trust
' act.
I Arnold now is a senior partner
I in a Washington, D. C., firm of
corporation lawyers.
The newspaper did not disclose
the source of its information other
than to say the reports came
“from Stateside.”
The grand jury, which has been
in session seven days, subpoen
aed 13 Anchorage taxicab com
I panies Friday ordering their ap
! pearance for testimony.
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$16,300.
Work planned at the harbor in
i eludes construction of a 150-foot
1 float.
PALMER, (#*) — Colony Day,
coming to the Valley on May 27
j and 28 this year, is to be complete
; with frontier costume and enter
! tainment, program chairman A1
Hagan announces. He has asked
all merchants support the program
with appropriate frontier decora
tions in their places of business
and with costumes in the general
theme.
At the Calico and Jeans Dance,
which opens this year’s celebra
i tion, patrons who come in proper
costume will be admitted for
$1,50, while those who do not
wear the accepted garb must pay
$2.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. </P>—
| The FBI tracked down one of its
ten most wanted men through a
bit of information gleaned from
the check of a slain fugitive’s au
tomobile license.
Lee Emory Downs, 43, sought
in connection with the $10,800
burglary of a San Jose, Calif.,
telephone office in June, 1948,
and his 25-year-old wife Patricia,
were seized at their luxurious
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| housy trailer in nearby Holly Hill
Friday.
They are charged with unlaw
• ful flight to avoid prosecution for
' the San Jose burglary, the FBI
said. Downs was a known associ
ate of Walter Lennon who was
killed Wednesday near Mojave,
Calif., while resisting arrest by
the FBI and the California high
way patrol, according to the FBI.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (/Pi — An
avowed communist was denied
Saturday the privilege of debating
“communist versus capitalism”
on the University of Michigan
campus.
The university’s lecture com
mittee refused to clear a debate
set for April 25 between Dr. Her
bert J. Phillips, dismissed Univer
sity of Washington professor and
a communist, and Dr. Phillip
W'ernette, of the University of
Michigan.
Carl Brandt, chairman of the
lecture committee, cited a rule of
the board of regents barring “sub
versive talks” on the university
campus in denying permission
for the debate. He did not com
ment further.
Parish priests once blessed po
tato crops in Ireland.
GI. Broke, Owes
Government $*>,680
NASHVILLE, Tenn. [A*)—A for
mer GI who had been expecting
an army insurance check got the
surprise of his life when he open
ed a letter from the government.
The letter said: “You owe the
| United States $5,680.”
Arthur Washington, a hotel
1 porter, read on.
Seems the army had been pay
i ing Washington’s estranged wife
$80 a month family allowance
from the day of his discharge in
October, 1943, to Sept. 30, 1949.
The letter from the army fi
nance center at St. Louis added
that the situation had “created an
indebtednedd of $5,680."
Washington, who said he and
j his wife had separated six years
ago, took the letter in stride,
j “I haven’t got 80 cents," he
said.
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7> Killed In Auto
Train Collision
COEUR d’Alene, Idaho, \/F)—.
P'ive young people were killed in
a train-automobile collision early
Saturday.
The sixth youth escaped with
minor cuts and shock.
Sheriff’s officers reported the
automobile in which the six were
riding crashed into the engine of
a Spokane International Railway
train. The accident occurred at a
crossing three miles from nearby
Rathdrum.
The automobile was demolish
ed. Bodies were strewn along the
right-of-way.
Dead are Edward Dutro, 21; Al
len Manweiler, 21, and Le Roy
Banks, 21; all of Rathdrum; Betty
Griggs, 17; Coeur d'Alene, and
Betty Buckenberg, 16, Trentwood,
Wash.
Kay Olson, 17, Post Falls, Ida
ho, walked away from the wreck
age.
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