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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
j^j^^y^JII-No.25N O M E, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FERBUARY 2 7. 1946 PER COPY_15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, Feb. 27, (A>)—U. S.
District Attorney Edward Connel
ly said four men had been arrest
ed in Tacoma, Toppenish and
Seattle, and six others were being
sought in connection with “the
biggest black market in meat ever
uncovered in this OPA district.”
Connelly said the black market
has been going on for a year. The
arrests climaxed four months of
investigation.
TEHRAN, Feb. 27, UP)—A Sov
iet embassy official gave assur
ance that Russian troops will be
withdrawn from northern Iran,
but an Iranian foreign ministry
military observer said there was
no apparent sign of Russian evac
uation. An American officer said
^ believed it would be “impos
sible” for the Russians to with
draw by March 2, the date agreed
upon for the evacuation of all for
eign troops from Iran.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, (fl5)—
A bill was introduced today by
Senator Thomas (D.-Utaht, which
would give the court of claims
jurisdiction over claims by the
Aleutian Livestock Company, Inc.,
of Utah, for any losses sustained
to its business through the evac
uation of the civilian population
from Umnak Island, Alaska, dur
ing the war.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, UPV—
President Truman said American
food consumption must be reduced
to meet the acute needs abroad.
He called former President Hoov
er and others to confer on the
problem Friday. The conference,
Truman said will be asked to
work out an “aggressive volun
tary program on the part of pri
vate citizens to reduce the food
consumption in this country.’
SEATTLE. Feb. 27, f/P)—Mayor
Devin, and Lt. Gov. Victor Mey
ers, Democrat serving his fourth
term in Olympia, face each other
in the mayoralty run-off election
March 12. The Mayor topped
Meyers by 9,200 votes in yester
day’s primary city elections. Non
partisan, but political observers
said the question of where the
bulk of the heavy Democratic vote
goes in the finals will play a large
part in deciding the winner.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, f/P)—
'Acting secretary of the interior,
Oscar L. Chapman removed one
bf the most substantial barriers to
Alaska’s development by author
zing action on the present shore
pace regulations, Delegate Bart
ett said today.
The department has heretofore
efused to consider applications
or setting them aside, although
fee law provided it could do so,
Me said. Under an order signed by
'hapman all applications will be
nnsidered immediately, and will
. e "acted unon nrmnntl*»»
Lucky dog
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Edith Fellows, screen and stage star seen recently on Broadway
in “Marinka,” and Nanette Fabray, the lead in “Bloomer Girl,” relax
between performances in their New York City apartment, while
“Bloomer Girl,” their cocker puppy seems to be trying to think of
something she can do besides reading or crocheting. Edith and
Nanette have learned that living in a city apartment need not deny
them the pleasure, loyalty and devotion that their dog bring*.
To Study Alaska
Land Settlement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, (/T*)—
Congress has asked for $20,000 for
| investigation to determine what
| sort of land settlement studies
should be made in Alaska. The
House appropriations committee
turned down “numerous items”
asked by several bureaus of the
Agricultural research administra
tion, and instead included them
in the department’s 1947 financ
ing bill, $20,000 for expenses of
| scanning a survey.
The war department told the
appropriations committee it con
templates permanent installations
in Alaska costing several million
dollars. The construction contem
plated includes: Ladd Field,
$1,194,000; Nome, $495,000: Fort
Richardson, $717,000: Juneau, half
million, and others unidenitfied,
$265,000.
Armed Forres
Seek Pay Hike
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, (/P)—
The armed forces put in a bid to
day for a 20 per cent pay hike and
found Congressional reaction fa
vorable, although the boost would
probably cost $100,000,000 a year.
To many lawmakers, reluctant
about continuing the draft, the
proposed increase in pay and al
lowances for all military person
nel represented a fresh induce
ment for voulntary enlistments—
and the more volunteers, the less
demand on selective service.
The increase was recommended
jointly by Secretary of War Pat
terson and Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal, who said the objective!
was to bring the pay schedules
“more in line with the increased j
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Julius A. Krug
Appointed Interior
Secretary.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27, {&)—
President Truman announced the
appointment of Julius A. Krug, 38,
former War Production Board
chairman, as secretary of the in
terior. He told a news conference
the appointment was a personal
one, which he didn’t disclose to
members of the White House in
ner circle until this morning.
Krug, former power manager of
Tennessee Valley Authority, suc
ceeds Ickes. Krug is now in New
York as a business consultant. The
President said Krug was a very
able administrator.
Earlier in the day Delegate
Bartlett suggested to Truman that
Oscar Chapman be named to take
Ickes’ place. He said chapman’s
appointment would create “an at
mosphere which would be helpful
to Alaska.” Chapman has been
serving temporarily.
_
N.W.A. Fair Notes
The board of directors met last
Monday night, Feb. 25, with the I
members of the Arctic Club to
discuss plans for the sport events
during the Fair Week.
Chairman Rev. Amundsen re
ports that the Native Potlatch will
be held and that the natives are
enthusiastic over this. Plans will
be presented soon.
The natives have a good string |
band that they will use during
the Fair.
Rube Cremer reports having se
cured for his department, the gon
dola door of the old Norge, also
Looking At
Asiatic Situation
BOMBAY, Feb. 27, —A tel
ephone message to Nagpur said
that 2,500 Indian soldiers revolt
ed today and marched out of their
barracks at Jubbulpore, a military
center in the central provinces.
The Sepoys, members of the In
dian signal corps and the Indain
electrical and mechanical engin
eering corps, carried Congress
party and Moslem league flags in
a parade through the streets of
Jubbulpore. The message said
lathis <bamboo sticks,’ bayonets
and revolvers were brought into
play to stop them.
In Bombay, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru told a news conference
^that “India would prefer a peace
ful solution of her problems to
one entailing loss and suffering
which might delay her progress
in the economic field later on.”
The Congress party leader was
referring to prospects for success
of the British cabinet ministers,
who are to visit India next month
in an effort to settle the outstand
ing political differences between
India and Britain.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 27, hP>_High
Chinese military circles in Chinh
sien reported today that Russia is
landing additional thousands of
troops in Dairen and Port Arthur,
indicating an intention to remain
in Manchuria indefinitely. This
was not confirmed officially.
From the Manchurian capital,
Changchun, a Russian Tass news
agency dispatch quoted the Soviet
high command as saying all Rus
sian troops would be gone from
Manchuria, at least no later than
American troops withdraw from
China, probably before.
Public demonstrations in China
(Continued on Page Five>
Planes Go Berserk
Over Kotzebue
KOTZEBUE, Feb. 27. (Jt*)—'Two
army Norsemen planes, dived low
over Kotzebue Monday in a fare
well gesture following the takeoff
from that airport.
The two planes, according to
eye-witnesses, flew berserk,
“straffing” the town, breaking an
tenaes, and power lines with their
skis. One power line was broken
between Magids Store and an air
plane nose-hangar.
The wire trailing from the ski
of one of the planes caught a
watching Eskimo on the neck, the
man’s parka cushioned the wire
and he escaped with minor lacer
ations on the face. 'One plane,
straffing the runway with a dang
ling wire caught Bill Lund, Alas
ka Airline spilot, atop his plane,
gassin^-up. Bill would have been
hit had he not the presence of
mind to drop to the ground and
run quickly to shelter.
The planes then soared off on
Demand America
Match Russia*
Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. (/P)
Senator Vandenberg 'R-Mich.).
called today for a vigorously plain
spoken American foreign policy
that will match Russia’s in firm
ness.
Reporting to the Senate on his
work as a delegate to the United
Nations meeting in London, the
chairman of the Republican Sen
atorial conference told his col
leagues that the world today is
asking: “What is Russia up to
now?”
Without attempting to answer
that question specifically, Van
denoerg said in a prepared ad
dress that upon the answer may
depend the future fate of world
efforts to keep the peace.
It would be entirely futile, the
Michigan Senator said, “to blink
at the fact that two great, rival
ideologies—Democracy in the weat
and Communism in the east—here
find themselves face to face witli
the desperate need for mutual un
i derstanding in finding common
ground upon which to strive far
peace for both.”
But he said the United States
and Russia “can live together in
reasonable harmony if the United
States speaks as plainly upon aJJ
occasions as Russia does; if the*
United States just as vigorously
sustains its own purposes and its
deals upon all occasions as Russia
does; if we abandon the miserable
fiction, often encouraged by our
fellow travellers, that we some
how jeopardize the peace if our
candor is as firm as Russia’s al
ways is: if if we assume a moral
leadership which we have too
frequently allowed to lapse.”
“We need but one rule,” Van
denberg added. “What is right?
Where is justice? There let Amer
ica take her stand.” Along with
that, Vandenberg said the United
States must make it plain that
"there is a line beyond which
compromise cannot go.”
“I have the feeling it is the best
way to win Soviet respect and
Soviet trust. Respect must precede
trust and both are indispensible
to peace.”
No Landslide
For Peron
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 27, ./P)
Early returns from two small
provinces gave Argentine presi
dential candidate Jose Tamborini
a two to one lead over Col. Juan
D. Peron today, as five other
provinces made ready to tally the
vote of Sunday’s elections.
The only significance political
observers read into the scene tram
the first returns was that there
had been no Peron landslide, bat
the fact that only two western
provinces—San Luis and San Juan
—had rpnnrforl