Hope To (latch
Much King drab
SEATTLE, i/Pi—1The new 140
foot trawler Deep Sea, designed
and equipped to catch, process,
quick-freeze and package king
crab, was scheduled to depart last
night for the Bering Sea haunts of
the giant Alaska crab.
During the two months’ trip, it
is hoped to catch 200,000 pounds of
which 95 per cent will be king
crab and the remainder sole and
lemon sole, according to Lowell
Wakefield, president of the Deep
NEED FOR BREVITY
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. <>P>—
William Thomas Goodwin plans to
shu.ien his telephone calls to his
girl friend.
After completing a conversation
in a drugstore telephone booth, he
emerged to find the store closed.
Only after a call to the police, who
got the proprietor out of bed, was
Goodwin able to leave the locked
store.
Sea Trawlers, Inc., owners.
The craft was constructed by
Birchfield Boiler, Inc., of Tacoma.
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WASHINGTON, (Ah—A bill to
repeal a 1902 law requiring ship
pers sending goods to Hawaii and
Alaska to list the items for statis
tical reports was introduced Tues
day by Delegate Farrington <R
Hawaii*.
The law. Farrington told report
ers, calls for detailed statements!
from shippers and the information
is published by the commerce de
partment.
"A shipper sending something
from New York to California does
i not have to make this declaration,”
Farrington said, “and we think Ha-|
waii and Alaska should have the
same treatment in this respect as |
any State.”
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Alaska ship lineups were being
bolstered yesterday as operators
awaited arrival of maritime com
mission contracts for resumption
of private service.
Additional freighters have been
allocated the three companies serv
ing Alaska. The vessels will be op
erated under general agency of
the companies until the new pro
gram goes into effect; then they
will be used in the companies’ pri
vate charter fleets.
, Meanwhile, Alaska Steamship
company has taken delivery in
Portland of the SS. Harold D.
Whitehead, a liberty ship, and is
scheduled to bring up the Cape
Victory from Olympia today. The
latter was operated by Alaska
Steam last summer.
The MS. Grommet Reefer, one
time Alaska “relief” ship during
the Maritime strike, has been al
located to Alaska Transportation
company. She’ll go on berth Thurs
day, loading army cargo.
Northland Transportation com
pany has been assigned as general
agent for the freighters Coastal
Rider and Flemish Knot. Both will
be brought up from San Francisco
and fitted out for the Alaska run.
The Harold D. Whitehead, ex
pected to be in Seattle, is tentative
ly set to start loading early next
week for Bristol Bay cannery
ports. The Cape Victory will make
her first trip of the season about j
May 20, going to Kodiak Island
ports.
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New Air Letter
Mailing Sheet
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The post-'
office department today brought
out a new international “air let
ter’ mailing sheet.
The “air letter” is a thin sheet of
letter size paper with a gummed
flap. You write on the sheet and |
when it is folded and sealed it i
forms its own stamped envelope.
It sells for 10 cents and will be
given air mail handling to any
country in the world. The sheets
went qn sale at the postoffice here
today and will go on sale through
out the country tomorrow.
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EXCITING BIRTHDAY PARTY
SPOKANE, Wash. (/P) — The
young guests figured seven-year-1
I old Mike Leffel’s birthday party
was a huge success.
Three fire engines and about 15
firemen arrived mid-way of the
party to put out a blaze in a kitch
en cupboard at the H. E. Leffel
: home.
] The loss was not great and the
I firemen rescued the birthday cake,
i and other refreshments.
Approve $30,000 To
Collect Two Billion
WASHINGTON l/P>—The House
appropriations committee approv
ed a $30,000 fun:i today for a Jus
tice department attempt to collect
perhaps $2,000 000.000 of freight
efunds from 964 railroads.
The money was included in a
$9",478,658 miscellaneous appro
priation bill to meet deficiencies in
various agency funds for the fiscal
year ending June 30.
Toe bill provides $600,000 to in
stall temporary radar landing sys
tems at 20 airport terminals.
Other allotments approved in
cluded: Indian health service,
$500,000; United States participa
Nenana Ice Due To
Break In 7 Davs
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"JIN 'M '.--Total ticket sales ex
ceect $139,00?. and *.he amount of
pay off to winner will be at least
$14\(T0. The river is -till ho fling
solid with some water running on
‘on of the ice on either side f the
• iver.
Some small holes wore through
but a”0 ve~v scattered The Ne
nana river is open at the mouth
but not cutting much. Old timers
claim it will last at least seven
mo"e days, as the river is very
low.
tion in United Nations organiza
tion, $4 195,347; postoffice depart
ment 560.382,000.
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