CAB Refuncs
Portland Permit
PORTLAND, (VP)—1Two opera
tors of non-scheduled airlines
linking Portland-Seattle and Alas
ka reported last night their bid for
unlimited flights to the Territory
during the shipping strike has
been refused by the civil aeronau
tics board.
Hal Higgs of General Air Cargo
and Joseph Dobbins of Columbia
Air Cargo said their applications
were rejected along with 10 oth
ers. The CAB recently authorized
scheduled lines to increase the
number of flights to Alaska.
Soldier Killed As
Truck Jumps Bank
ANCHORAGE (/P) — One Ladd
Field soldier was killed and an
other injured seriously Thursday
when their army truck hurtled
400 yards down a Caribou Moun
tain embankment, about 80 miles
from Anchorage.
The truck was one of a convoy
heading to Fort Richardson. Ice
road conditions were blamed.
Names of the men were withheld
until next-of-kin are notified.
A Tenth Rescue unit helicopter
flew the men to the 183rd general
hospital here. One died enroute.
The injured man was flown to the
Slates Friday for further treat
ment.
It is estimated that about one
in 15 persons bitten by poisonous
snakes has been handling the rep
tiles intentionally.
Communist Killed
Gt‘orge Polk
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SALONIKA, Greece, (/P) — The
Greek government says a top com
munist killed George Polk, corre
pondent for the Columbia Broad
casting system, last May.
Topping off a five-month inves- 1
ligation of the slaying, the govern- ,
ment yesterday named three oth
ers charged with complicity in Ihe
murder. Two of them are under
arrest.
One of the persons under arrest
was quoted as believing the mur- j
der was plSnned by the Comin- J
form (communist international in- i
formation burean> to discredit the '
Greek government abroad.
The government said the actual
shooting of Polk was done by
Adam Mouzenides, member of the
central committee of the Greek
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communist party. He was alleged
to have shot the correspondent in
1 the back of the head as Polk lay
blindfolded and trussed in a boat
i in Salonika last May 8.
The other three charged with
complicity in the murder were
Evangelos Vasvanas, still at large;
Gregory Staktopoulos, communist
; newspaperman, and his mother,
I Anna, both under arrest for the
i past two months.
Polk was formerly a student at
the University of Alaska.
—
Joe—I told her that each hour I
spent with her was like a pearl to
me.
Ted—Well, didn’t that impress
her?
Joe—No. She told me to quit
stringing her.
Alaska Airlines
NOW
NOME To
EVERETT WASH.
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STARLINER
DC-4
Scheduled Daily
FROM ANCHORAGE
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FREIGHT RATE
NOME to EVERETT
22 Cents per pound
“It’s Fun To i
Gather Rattlers”
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Says Educator
DENVER, —Sam Hill, who by
profession is principal of West
high school, hunts rattlesnakes for
recreation. He says he finds it re- |
laxing.
Hill took three of his snakes
with him to a luncheon meeting
of the Denver Lions club in the
Albany hotel, as living illustra
tions for a lecture on his hobby.
His fellow Lions did not appear to
find them so relaxing.
Rattlesnakes, and hence rattle
snake hunters, have practical im
portance Hill said. During the
war he and his hunting compan-!
ions George Heywood and Dr. !
Everett G. Peterson of Denver,
shipped hundreds of live Colorado
and Wyoming rattlers to the Phil
adelphia zoo.
There their venom was extract
ed for use by the Sharp & Dohme
pharfaceutical company of Phila
delphia in making a antivenin, a
snakebite remedy, and, Hill sus
pects in two other semi-secret
drugs, one of them used for the
reduction of shock.
Hill began hunting rattlers when
he was a young schoolteacher in
Wyoming in 1912. He estimates he
has captured between 10,000 and
20,000 of the snakes without suf
fering a single bite.
To capture them alive he uses
a snare consisting of a straight
metal rod three feet long, with a
wire noose at one end. The noose
is slipped ove rthe head of the
snake, which can then be handled
with perfect safety if it is held
directly behind the jaw, Hill said.
Hill regularly visits twenty-two j
snake dens in Colorado and Wyo
ming.
“The biggest one used to be in
Fortification rocks, near Craig.
Colo.” Hill said. “Between 3,000
and 5,000 snakes used to spend the
winter there and it was not un
usi^^l for us to collect 600 snakes
in a single day’s hunting in the
spring or fall.
“Once I saw a cave the size of
two living rooms, with its floor
covered with a solid mass of
snakes. It looked as if it were
carpeted with an orietnal rug.”
Heywood demonstrated Hill’s
statement that rattler venom is not
poisonous to drink by “milking”
the fangs of one of the snakes Hill
had with him, dipping his finger
in the venom, which resembled
lemon juice, and then sucking the
finger. The Lions shuddered.
Lady Astor, at a banquet which ^
was predominantly masculine, ex
pressed the opinion that men were
as vain as women. This brought
a storm of protest.
“And another thing,” Lady As
tor went on unperturbed. “It’s a
pity that some of our more learned
men are so careless about their
dress. Why right here tonight the
most cultured man in London has
a messily knotted tie.”
Instantly, every man in the
room began straightening his tie.
DREAM
THEATER
—•—
1 Show, Mon. and Tues., 7:30 p.m.
"HIGH BARBAREE"
Van Johnson - June Allyson
Also "People On Parade"
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1 Show, Wed. and Thur., 7:30 p.m.
"CALENDAR GIRL"
William Marshal - Gail Patrick
Also 'Old McDonald Had A Farm'
IWA. Says Alaska
Should Make
Timber Not Pulp
PORTLAND, (JP) — The CIO
inter national woodworkers of
America suggested at the:r con
vention that Alaska timber might
be better used for saw logs and
peeler logs than for paper.
The convention called for a re
survey of Alaskan timber resourc
es to determine whether it would
be wiser to abandon the projected
pulp program and establish in
stead “an integrated Alaskan wood
industry making lumber and ply
wood as well as pulp and paper.”
The delegates criticized “divert
jpg potential lumber and plywood
into pulp.” They suggested utiliz
ing waste woods in both Alaska
and the continental United States
to meet the paper shortage.
Chinhsien Falls
To Communists
NANKING, (/P) — The govern
ments key Manchurian base, Chin
hsien, Saturday was in the hands
of the Reds.
Its fall was confirmed by the
ministry of defense. Chinhsien was
the second major government base
to be captured by the communists
in less than a month. Tsinan, cap
ital of Shantung province, fell into
Red hands late last month.
The defense ministry said the
reds were aided by Russians, Ko
reans, Japanese and Mongolians
in capturing Chinhsien, supply
base for Mukden. i
Col. Lintner Plans
Memorial to Wife
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A plan by
' \ Col. A. L. Lintner to provide a
mortal scholarship for a rr.em
of the Royal Canadian Air
ores para-rescue group was re
>o ted here Friday,
t t would be a memorial to his
v'fe, who was killed in a plane
crash near Fort Nelson, B. C., last
month. Their son, Michael, 11, was
rescued by the R.C.A.F. men after
he was trapped 42 hours beside
his dead mother, hanging head
down.
A let'er received by a friend
said Col. Lintner decided on the
medical scholarship in “apprecia
tion for the service, facilities and
courtesies extended by the R. C.
A. F.
29 Drown In
English Storm
PORTLAND, Eng. (^—Twen
ty-nine crewmen from the British
aircraft carrier Illustrious were
officially reported missing after a
gale swamped their liberty boat in
Portland harbor late last night.
According to the navy report to
day, a number of men in the
swamped craft swam to the car
rier and others were picked up by
passing boats.
Swamping yf the liberty launch
came during gales and rainstorms
that swept southern Britain
throughout the night, ripping off
roof tiles, leveling fences, and
flooding low areas.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
Winter Is Coming
Take Out Your Furs And
See If In Need of Repairs
Let Us Do It Now
Before We Get Too
Busy On Our
Winter Production
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