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VOL. XLIX. No. 30. NOME ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1947. PER COP'Y — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (A3)—Jack J. Wilson,:
59, died here yesterday after a!
short illness. Born in Lawrence,.
Kans., Wilson came to Seattle in •
1905 and spent several years in the!
mirwng industry in Alaska. IJe was
well known throughout the west,
and Alaska in the mining, logging!
and contracting industries.
Since 1920 he has been associa
ted with the John A. Roeblings
Sons company, of Trenton, N. J.
and for many years has been man
ager of the Alaska and Northwest
branch of that firm.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (A3)—Vic- \
tor P.otel, 57, pioneer film actor,
and one of the original Keystone
Cops, died Saturday night. He was
born in Lafayette. Ind.
SPRINGFIELD, III. (A3) — Don
Rooertson, Chicago salesman, told
police on his arrival at headquar
ters with an overtime parking
ticket that he was prepared to pay
up to $15 fine and take the usual
tongue-lashing “I get up north in
Chicago.
Police politely told him to put
away his billfold. Because n° had ’
responded so promptly they tom
him he would have to pay only
five cents—the amount he had for
gotten to put in the parking mete \
Robertson was so surprised he
paid the nickel and donated $10 to
the policemen’s pension fund.
LONDON, l/P> — Lord Anthony
Ashley-Cooper, 46, son and heir
of the Earl of Shaftesbury, died
last night.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (/!»)—
Thomas Andrew Gill, 6U, former
football coach at the University of
North Dakota and the University
of Kentucky, died last night.
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WASHINGTON, (JP)—Margaret
Truman, the President’s daughter,
was under treatment today for an
attack of laryngitis which forced
postponement of her radio singing
debut.
There was no immediate White
House announcement of her condi
tion. Miss Truman retired to Wash
ington by plane yesterday from
Detroit where she was to have
sung last night. She is expected to
take part in the broadcast program
next Sunday night.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Many rats
in the Los Angeles area, turning
up their noses at traps baited with
cheese or bacon rind, are being
caught with lures of carnations,
gardenias, roses and other flowers.
City health officer George M.
Uhl said rodent control crews dis
covered the rats developed a taste
for 1 lowers by eating decaying
bouquets discarded in business
districts.
LONDON, (/P)—Foreign Minis-j
ter Molotov told his American,,
British and French counterparts
today the four powers faced a task
that was not easy but had a “reli-,
able basis for joint work,” the!
Moscow radio said.
POPE BLESSES NOBLE GUAR D—Pope Pit’s XII gives his blessings to member
the noble guard at a reception for them at the Vatican. The reception is an annual event.
Crash Kills Two
Near Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, l/P)—The bodies
of Arnold Lorentzen, 37, part own
er of a flying school, and Tech.
Sgt. Mac Olin Martin, 34. Jack
sonville, Fla., were recovered late
yesterday by an army weasel expe
dition to the scene of the crash of
the School plane 12 miles south of
Fairbanks Saturday during a
check flight.
The crash was located yesterday
by a student getting solo time.
Lorentzen whose wife gave birth
to a daughter here Thursday, was
a former navy instructor pilot and
is survived by a mother and two
brothers and a sister in Seattle.
Martin was stationed at Ladd
Field 46th Reconnoissance squad
ron. His wife is living in Fair
banks.
Indians Almost Ate
Salmon Industry
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BERKELEY, Calif. (/P) — The
fish-eating Indians of the Ameri
can Northwest consumed so much
salmon before the coming of the
white man that there might not
have been a salmon industry now
except for the fact that the new
comers were mainly meat eaters,
says Dr. Gordon Winant Hewes,
University of California anthro
pologist.
The primitive indians for cen
turies utilized a substantial part of
the salmon runs, until the fish no
longer was abundant, says Dr.
Hewes in a study on the aborigin
al use of fishery resources.
The Whites, coming in the late
18th and 19th centuries, caused a
drastic decline in the Indian popu
lation, Hewes said. This resulted
in a suspension of large scale fish
ing for several decades during
which the salmon regained status
as an abundant resource.
This in turn accounted for the
phenomenal growth of commercial
salmon fisheries after the introduc
tion of canning in the 1860’s, I
Hewes said.
Seeing The
Legislature From
I le Gallery
(By Mildred Hermann)
Teachers salary increase passe:
the Senate Thursday afternoon
with only Scott and Rogge of Fair
banks voting against it. It will add
approximately 8450,000 per bi-en
nium to the present salary roll. It
provides a minimum increase of
8000 per year over present mini
mum in each Division, with provi
sions lor teachers of higher schol
astic attainments to go up as high
as 81400 per year over present
minimums.
Passing of this bill may mean
that the Senate will help pass suit
able tax measures.
There is great resentment on the
part of labor over the passage of
Senate bill authored by Collins
and Cochran providing for a refer
endum on the closed shop. Labor
has held masts meetings in all parts
of the Territory protesting this ac
tion and other action of the legisla
ture in refusing to make necessary
appropriations for various func
tions of the government.
The crippled children’s program
with higher allotments for the
care of depenedent children and
higher old age pensions are being
urged by citizens in public mass
meetings.
Labor is particularly irate be
cause it was denied the right to
be heard in reference to the closed
shop referendum. Ketchikan labor
groups have sent a delegation
here with the announced intention
of fighting their way to the floor
of the House.
Many new measures were intro
duced Friday in both Houses, as
this was the last day that measures
could be introduced without the
consent of two-thirds of the mem
bers of each House.
Included in the important bills
introduced in the Seate was the
Walker bill to promote industrial
peace. This is apparently an effort
to establish some controls and
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Senate Confirms
Lilienthal
WASHINGTON, {A3}—The Sen
ate atomic energy commission to
day voted 8 to 1 for confirmation
yf David E. Lilienthal as chairman
of the atomic energy commission.
The committee also approved
the nominations of W. W. Way
mack, L. L. Strauss, Dr, Robert
Bacher and Sumner T. Pike as
members of the commission, and
Carrol Wilson as general manager.
Senator Bricker <R.-Ohio> cast
the only vote against Lilienthal.
His Ohio colleague. Senator Taft,
chairman of the Republican policy
committee, already had declared
against the former chairman of the
Tennessee Valley authority.
Senator Connally tD-Tex.) and
Vandenberg (R.-Mich.>, who were
attending a White House confer
ence, voted by proxy.
All the names now go to the Sen
ate floor fQi' consideration.
Connally was recorded only on
the Lilienthal nomination. Chair
man Hickenlooper <R.-Iowa> said
the Texas Senator explained he
did not know enough about the
nominees to cast a vote on them.
Bacher, Strauss and Waymack
were approved by a vote of 8 to
0, with Connally abstaining.
FBI Arrest
Two Bank Robbers
KANSAS CITY, (/P)—'Two men
sought for bank robbery at Battle
ground, Wis., have been arrested
and have signed statements admit-;
ting the robbery, Dwight Brantley,
special agent of the federal bureau
of investigation, said today.
The two men are Raymond Bob
bie Tillery, 24, and Marcon Parry,
both of Kansas City. A third man,
identified by agent H. G. Maynor
in Seattle as Anard Lahto, 24, was
arrested Friday in Tacoma and
charged with participation in the
robbery.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU,, Mar t>, l/P)—Among
the last day bills introduced in the
Senate were appropriations for
$350,000 for the construction of
schools; $105,000 for construction
u. hospital facilities; $250,000 for
t ie constructi n of nirfeld.-, and
landings.
At the labor mass meeting Sena
tors N. A. Walkei 'D.-lst' and D.
C ’Jrnwnel! 'D.-3n.l defended the
referendum on the closed shop bill,
-v majority of the labor .speakers
held the proposal was not one for
the people to vote upon. No men
tion was made of the stop work
demonstration.
Rep. Steve Vukovich < R1 st> in
troduces a bill outlawing strikes,
slow down; employers to hire
union labor, but when not avail
able to hire non-union; provides
for maximum employment to dis
charge vessels at Alaskan ports;
encourages settlement of disputes
”v conciliation.
Reps. Walter Huntley (3rd) and
Steve McCutcheon <D.-3rd> intro
duce appropriation bill calling for
Si0,000.347. It follows closely the
figures of the budget with changes.
It is understood the ways and
means committee later will intro
duce a measure to supplant the
other one.
Many of the bills introduced in
the Senate are for recodifying pur
poses.
The House passes the bill for a
two cent a gallon tax on motor
fuel.
Rep. W. W. Laws <R.-2nd> in
troduces a memorial making it le
gal for the whites to own the rein
deer herds.
A Senate memorial introduced
by E. D. C'offey, <D.-3rd) urges that
Russia be warned not to extend
fishing expeditions into the waters
under jurisdiction of the United
States. It points out the President
has proclaimed the entire contin
ental shelf as part of U. S. terri
tory, claims have been reported
that Russia plans expenditions for
crabs, fish and salmon.
Both Houses have now passed a
graduated net tax of four to eight
per cent on all mining, replacing
the three per cent gross tax on
gold and platinum.
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Woman Suffrage
Leader Dies
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NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. UP) —
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88,
who entered the fight for world
peace after her unflagging crusade
for women’s suffrage had succeed
ed, died yesterday of heart disease
at her home here.
Only two days before, she had
told her biographer, Mary Grayo
Peck, that she hoped to live to see
the United Nations become a “go
ing concern.”
“With the passing of Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, on era in our na
tional life comes to a close,” Pres
ident Truman said in a telegram
delivered yesterday to the Catt
home. ”... She will be widely
mourned and long remembered.”