22i NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peace Will Not
Be Permanent
^ajs Legionaire
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 13, —(£»)—
National vice Commander H. Du
dley wim told the Alaska American
Legion Convention yesterday that
peace will not remain permanent
while part of the world is “en
slaved under dictatorship.”
The iron boundaries around
Russia must be torn down so that
its®people can intermingle with
the rest of the world and then
“We can throw diplomacy out of
the window,” the Twin Falls, Ida.,
Legionaire said.
“Russia does not dare to let
its people travel through the world
to see how well we live, or how
much we have,” he commented.
Past National Commander War
ren Atherton, Stockton, Calif.,
starting a 10-day tour af Alaska
fb^report to the forthcoming Leg
ion Convention at San Francisco,
called Alaska “One of America's
defensive frontiers in another ad
dress.
He said he was working to aid
the cause of Alaska statehood.
He is accompanied by Colm
perry Brown, Beaumont, Texas.
^)elegates from all over Alaska
are attending the convention. The
morning opening was postponed
until noon awaiting the arrival
of planeloads of legionaires.
Alaska Steam Sells
SS Columbia To
Foreign Flag
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—(/P)—'The
Alaska Steamship Company pas
senger steamer COLUMBIA has
been sold and delivered to Socie
dade Continental Atlantica Lim
itada of Oporto, Portugal, G. W.
Skinner, Alaska Steamship Com
pany president, announced yester
day.
(fc Delivery was made in Vancou
ver, B. C.
The 5,270-ton vessel, in the Sea
ttle-Alaska passenger trade more
than a decade, was known as the
Dorothy Alexander while oper
ating coastwise for the Pacific
Steamship Company, and was
launched in 1907 at Camden, NJ.,
as the PRESIDENT.
The Columbia is the latest of
a growing list of old-time Alaska
$kips to leave North Pacific wat
ers. Other veterans sold recent
ly to new owners, both foreign
and American, include the North
Haven, North Coast, Sutherland,
Taku and Tyee.
Nome Crash Which Claimed Four Lives
Four people, including John W. Campbell and Lee Chesterfield, well-known Anchorage men, lost
their lives in the crash of the above Mt. McKinley Airfreight plane on Anvil mountain near here,
last Saturday. The other two occupants of the plane were Marvin Pratt, pilot of the plane, and
his wife, Roberta, of Bellingham. —(Richter Photos, Nome.)
Land Hearings
Postponed Month
JUNEAU, Sept. 13,—The hearings
on land withdrawals for desig
nation as “Native Reservations”
near Klukwan and Barrow have
been postponed for a month, it is
announced by the Governor’s of
fice. The Klukwan hearing or-,
iginally set for Juneau on Sept
ember 16th has been advanced to
October 15th and will be held at
Klukwan. The Barrow hearing
will be at Fairbanks October 10th,
advanced from September 20th.
Secy. Wallace Boo'd
In Rally Speech
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—(/P)—Sec
retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal
lace, was interrupted by booing
and heckling in a White House
approved speech at a Madison
Square Garden rally last night
where Senator Claude Pepper,
(D-Fla.) was applauded by attack
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George W. Hill,
Famed Tobacco
Merchant, Dies
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, —ifP)—
George Washington Hill, 61, who
rose from a $5-a-week helper in
his father’s tobacco firm to presi
dent of the American Tobacco Co.,
died here today at his fishing
camp in Matapedia, Quebec Pro
| vince, Canada.
Hill, whose company popular
j ized Lucky Strike cigarettes, made
the tobacco business his life work
and rose to become one of the
highest paid corporation execut
I ives in the nation.
He earned $5 a week when he
joined the company at the age o'
20 and once disclosed that his
salary and bonuses netted him
$6,500,000 between 1926 when he
became president of the firm, and
1939.
An advertising man at heart, Mr.
Hill reputedly spent more money
adveritsing a single product than
anyone in history—around $200,
000,000 by 1944. In a single year
the advertising outlay was $20,
000,000.
“As a result of my years of
NW Airlines Asks
Reduce Air Fares
SEATTLE, Sept. 13, —i/P)—!Seek
ing to bring an increased flow of
air tourists through Seattle via
Alaska, Northwest Airlines will
apply to the Civil Aeronautics
Board for reductions in fares for
routes affecting Seattle, W. R. Eng
land, Seattle Traffic Manager, re
ported last night.
‘‘We are asking to reduce our
Alaskan fares to a level compar
able to airline fares within the
continental United States,” he said.
England disclosed the Douglas
DC-4 transports now being used
by Northwest on its Alaska runs
would be replaced by faster Boe
ing Stratocruisers, probably about
the middle of 1947.
experience in advertising I sin
cerely believe it to be a very
great yet a very simple science,”
he once said. “Reduced to its
simplest terms, advertising is real
ly nothing but “salesmanship in
print” and during these more re
cent years, with the introduction
of the radio, “salesmanship-in-per
son” as well.”
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—i/p)—The
National Maritime Union <CIO>
Port Agent, Jack Smith, early to
day dispatched 600 men to picket
ships manned by CIO crews here,
in support of a demand for “uni
formity of pay for all the indus
try, at the highest prevailing
scale.”
The Independent Union of Mar
ine Firemen also was to start pick
eting in behalf of substantially the
same wage demands as those ap
; proved yesterday to end the strike
of the AFL Sailors Union of the
Pacific.
Smith said the AFL Seamen
would be asked for “the same sup
port we gave them.”
The CIO Maritime leaders here
said that Puget Sound lumber
mill docks, where struck ships
are berthed, would be picketed
but that efforts would be made
to work out with AFL-Lumber and
Sawmill workers arrangements to
j continue operations.
| AP Survey Shows
Meat Scarcest Item
Nation's < Cupboards
UNDATED. Sept. 13, —(#>)—Meat
is the scarcest food in the nation's
cupboard; hundreds of thousands
of workers are unemployed in
strike-hit cities, and the housing
shortage has reached critical pro
portions in many communities.
These facts were disclosed to
day in a nation-wide survey con
ducted by the Associated Press.
Samplings of conditions in cit
ies from coast to coast also showed
that the family larder was short
of sugar, soaps fats and oils.
In the housing field, public
housing authorities said they had
long waiting lists from applicants
for practically non-existent liv
ing quarters, and that apartments
were “impossible to find” in some
places.
This is how the situation stack
ed" up in the various cities be
fore the end of the AFL Maritime
strike on the West Coast and be
fore the start of the nation-wide
strike of the CIO National Mari
time Union:
Seattle—strikes, three, involv
ing 2,750 persons. Unemploy
ment: State agencies show 60.000
out of work in the entire state;
housing: Public Housing Author
ity Director said his body has
a list of 2,400 applicants for pro
ject homes each month this year.
Portland, Ore.—strikes: mari-.
time affecting possibly 5,000 per
sons. Unemployment: USES es
timated 17,000 jobless. Foods:
Pork, lard and honey scarcest it
ems. Housing: scarce with apart
ments “almost impossible to find.**