CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
HELD NOON LUNCHEON
urn
The Chamber of Commerce m^
at a nW>n litrtch*on Tuesday for
its regular weekly meeting.
Following reports by various
committees on work done during
the past week, president Mitro
vitch called on the guest speakers,
Mrs. Annette Kitzmiller and Miss
Esther Bock, who were asked to
speak to the chamber on matters
of public health.
Mrs. Kitzmiller stated that since
March was chosen as Public
Health Month, she would say very
little other than answering a few
, questions printed on the pam
phlets which were distributed
around the tables.
“We want to consider how we
can built better health in our
community”, said Mrs. Kitzmiller,
“for ourselves and our children,
and to that we must think of the
immediate problem ahead.”
“Some of our problems,” she
said, “are of Territorial propor
tions, but other phases of the
problem are purely of local
scope.” “The control of venereal
diseases and the conditions which
contribute to their spread stands
today as the most urgent, most
difficult problem of social hy
giene.” Mrs. Kitzmiller added,
“The organization of necessary
^health, social and educational
services are required in order to
combat this social problem.”
Miss Bock spoke of the social
problem in conjunction with al
coholism. She stated, “I wish to
bring out the connection of liquor
in the spread of the venereal dis
ease rate in Alaskan communities.
The increase in alcoholism and
venereal diseases are closely as
sociated, and it is proper and fit
ting the subjects should be talked
about as one problem.”
Mrs. Kitzmiller said during dis
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Six and Seven, measures seeking
to double homestead lien exemp
tions. The House unanimously
passed Senate Bill Eight, tuber
culosis control measure; also
House Bill Twenty, providing
i savings penalty clauses lacking in
| previous health legislation,
i New bills: By Hanford, appro
; priating $1561 to cover the defic
i iency in eagle bounties. By Peter
! son and Hanford, regulating li
quor hours Monday to Friday 10
a.m. to midnight, the same as for
Saturday, but closed all day Sun
days. By Peterson and Hanford,
fixing excise taxes on liquors, in
creasing hard liquor sliding scales.
By McCutcheon and Gill, to es
; ing outside the Territory must ob
tain permission from the Board of
Administration.
By McCutcheon and Gill, to es
, tablish a Territorial board of ex
! aminers to regulate the practice
j of healing. By Huntley, by re
| quest, providing for licensing of
; motor vehicles on a sliding scale
i for various kinds. By Huntley, to
■ provide a highway patrol vehicle
inspection. By Huntley, defining
the offense of using vehicles with
out the consent of the owner, and
prescribing penalties ran g i n g
from thirty days to $100 fine or
both.
A garment dyed with natural
indigo, a vat color, was found in a
tomb in Thebes, where it has lain
since about 3,000 B. C.
cussion that the Territorial Health
Department program of control of
venereal disease is working in co
operation with local physicians,
police and public health nurses.
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Pravda Attacks
Presence Of
American Troops
. MOSCOW, Mar. 13, (^—Arti
cles attacking “American busi
nessmen politicians” in Korea and
the continued presence of U. S.
troops in Egypt were printed in
Soviet papers. In an article in
Pravda, Communist party paper,
V. Smolensky, described Dr. Syng
man Rhee, who recently returned
from Korea, after 33 years as a
Jap-imposed exile , as leader of a
group of Korean landowners and
industrialists seeking to grab gov
ernmental powers in Korea, and
control over mining enterprises
there.
Smolensky said Rhee “directed
his main effort toward establish
ing contact with anti-Soviet feel
ing in American circles that seeks
American support and help.”
“When will American troops
leave Egypt,” was the title of an
article by Kerim Thatbet Bey in
the Cairo magazine El Musavvar,
which was mentioned in the Sov
iet government paper Izvestia a
; Tass dispatch from Cairo quoted
| the article saying high British and
American politicians are compel
ling Americans to remain in
Egypt.
Russian Troops
Moving Into Iran
TEHRAN, Mar. 13, <yP) — Rus
sian troops in full combat kit are
declared by British and other of
ficial sources to have closed to
within twenty miles of this capi
tal, and to be moving southwest
across northern Iran close to the
borders of Turkey and oil-rich
Iraq.
The reports caused Byrnes to
announce in Washington last
night the dispatch of another note
| to Moscow, demanding an explan
ation. (/P) correspondent Joseph
Goodwin flew over Karaj, twenty
miles from Tehran and counted
fourteen Sherman tanks and a
score of other vehicles. He saw
half a dozen Red fighter planes at j
Kazvin to the north.
Premier Saltaneh just returned j
from inconclusive negotiations in j
Moscow over the continued pres
ence of Russian troops in Iran
and declared no agreements had
been reached. The Premier de
scribed as “ridiculous” the reports
circulated during his visit in Mos
cow that he had agreed to six
Soviet demands which were re
ported including the incorporation
of Azerbaijan into the Soviet
Union oil concessions, Russia di
rection of the Iranian army.
A British foreign office spokes
man in London said the Russian
troop movements increased the
gravity of the tense situation.
E. H. MAHAN ON j
ROAD TO RECOVERY
Emory, Mahan, who has been
seriously ill at his home for the
past few weeks, is on the road to
recovery and is up and around a
few hours each day. He recovered
rapidly under penicillin treat
ment
MRS HENRY BERNIER
RETURNS TO NOME
Mrs. Henry Bernier, of the
Northern Commercial Co., who
has been in Fairbanks for medi
cal attention, returned home last
Monday evening via the P.A.A.
Red Army Leaving
Manchuria?
CHUNGKING, Mar. 13, (/P)—
Russia has not yet informed China
when the withdrawal of Soviet
forces from Manchuria will be
completed Vice Minister of For
eign Affairs Liu said. He told a
press conference the government
has received no information of the
Soviet evacuation of Mukden,
which denoted the general with
drawal from Manchuria.
Chinese dispatches repor ted
government soldiers w’ere stream
ing into Mukden and said the
Russians had withdrawn from
points east of the Railroad town
of Tiehling. about 50 miles north.
These dispatches gave the impres
sion that part of Mukden is in
Communist hands, but chronicled
no large scale fighting.
Ten government policemen
were reported killed and more
than seventy others taken prison
ers in a clash with Communists
in the northern suburbs.
The perfect soldier doesn’t
drink, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t bor
row money, doesn’t hand out a
line—doesn’t exist.
GALVIN TAKES OVER
PHILCO RADIO LINE
Charles Griffin of the Charles
R. Griffin Co., of Seattle, exclu
sive Alaska distributors for Philco
Radio Corp., announced today that
Larry Galvin is to handle the
Philco radio line in Nome. A sam
ple shipment will be flown in by
air and a complete stock will ar
rive on the first boat in the
spring.
SMALL FIRE AT
M. P. STATION
Yesterday morning the fire de
partment was called out to ans
wer an alarm from the M. P. Sta
tion. The stove had become over
heated and had started to smoke.
Little damage was done.
NOME CITY COUNCIL
MET MONDAY EVENING
The Nome City Council met
last Monday evening for its regu
lar session, and held a very short
meeting.
A resolution was passed ap
pointing Norman Stines to repre
i sent the city of Nome at the
freight rate hearing to be held in
Washington, D. C., before the
Maritime Commission.
STORES Sell
Alaska Decal Transfers and Stickers
Large Vavrieties Send $1.00 for Samples
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AN INCOME TAX AFTER THE
WAR BEOAN AS BEFORE_
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