CALL FOR BIDS
The following items of equip
m*nt are offered for sale by the
Alaska Department of Public Wel
fare at Nome and sealed bids, in
d duplicate, will be received at the
office of Miss Frances Schoenig.
District Worker, Federal Building.
Nome, Alaska, until 11:00 A. M.
Monday. April 28. 1947. and then
publicly opened:
1 EXECUTIVE DESK AND
CHAIR (STEEL)
1 STENOGRAPHER'S DESK
AND CHAIR (STEEL)
1 FILE CABINET.
4-DRAWER (STEEL)
1 2-DRAWER METAL CARD
FILE
4 1 STAPLER
1 PENCIL SHARPENER
1 2-HOLE PUNCH
1 WOODEN CABINET; 6’ high.
6' wide, 10" deep, with adjust
able shelves and constructed
of 3/i" frame and masonite.
Award of the purchase of the
equipment to the successful bidder
will be made by the Office of the
Director at Juneau, Alaska.
Said awards will be made on the
basis of the highest bid and may
be for the entire lot or individual
item.
The equipment must be removed
by the successful bidder not later
than Noon, April 30, 1947, from
its present location.
Within 24 hours following the
award of the bid. the successful
bidder shall deposit with the Dis
trict Worker of the Department of
Public Welfare at Nome, Postal
Money Order or Certified Cashier's
Check in the amount of the bid.
Inspection of the equipment mav
be arranged for contacting Miss
Frances Schoenig, Federal Build
ing, Nome, Alaska.
RUSSEL G. MAYNARD. Director
Alaska Department of Public
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Andy Anderson. Sec.
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Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
Deauthorize Flood
Control Projects
(By Johq Chadwick)
<(/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (>P>—Chairman
Dondero <R.-Mich.*, of the House
public works committee has start
ed what he says is an unprecedent
ed move to de-authorize many
flood control and navigation pro
jects.
His first step was the introduc
tion of a bill to recall authority
given by Congress for 81 survev
projects by army engineers. They
all involve rivers and harbors im
provements.
Legislation to de-authorize ad
ditional projects W’ll be offered
later, Dondero today told a re
porter.
ne objective, he said, is to
clamp down on unjustified re
quests for army engineers to sur
vey and report on proposed flood
control and navigation projects.
Army engineers have advised
the committee that about two
thirds of these surveys turn out
“negative,” Dondero said, but the
cost of making them amounts to
about $4,000,000 a year.
The projects listed in Dondero’s
bill include:
Harbor at Hydaburg, harbor at
Angoon, channel to connect Olivet
Inlet and Seymour canal, Tenakee
harbor, harbor at Pelican, harbor
at Gustavus.
Communication
UNITED STATES SENATE
April 17, 1947.
Mr. *Murlin W. Day, Secretary
Northwestern Alaska Chamber
of Commerce
Name, Alaska.
Daar Mr. Day:
Thank you for your letter of
Huge Flight Starts
For Tokyo
FORT WORTH. Tex. Eight
B-29 and four C-54 transports
roared off Fort Worth army air
field Thursday on the first leg of
a flight that will take the largest
formation of very heavy bombers
to To’cvo since wartime.
The squadron will undergo
training in Japan and will opera!'
under simulated combat condi
tions, including long flights over
*he Japanese home islands and the
Pacific to perfect radar, electron
ics, bombing and navigational
techniques.
The B-29s are from the 436th
squadron of the 7th group, 8th air
force, headquarters here, and the
C-54s are from the 1st air trans
port unit at Roswell, N. M.
Lt. Col. Joseph D. White, squad
ron commanding officer, is in com
mand of the B-29s. Capt. Chant?
W. Slaughter of Roswell is com
manding the transport planes. Co’.
William S. Rader, deputy com
manding officer at Fort Worth
army air field, ig in over-all tacti
cal command.
April 11 in connection with HR
2865, which provides for the con
st! uction of a breakwater at Nome.
I have discussed this with Mr.
Bartlett and with the members of
the sub-committee who have it un
der consideration and have assured
them of my cooperation.
Hearings have been held before
the sub-committee and I am in
formed the bill will be reported to
the full committee within the next
few days.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Warren G. Magnuson,
U. S. S.
Floating Cannery
Being Investigated
u.'f’i Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, I/P) — A House
sub-committee called witnesses to
day to tell of the operations of the
Pacific Exploration company’s
Moating cannery, which was built
with government funds.
Rep. Tollefson <R.-Wash.) chair
man of the sub-group on the mer
chant marine and fisheries com
mittee, said testimony was wanted
on charges that the boat, the Paci
fic Explorer, was engaged in com
mercial tuna fishing in South Pa
cific water in violation of an agree
ment to engage only in exploration
work.
The boat was constructed by
the company with funds advanced
by the reconstruction finance cor
poration and Tollefson said the
fish and wild life service of the in
terior department, the state depart
ment and the agriculture depart
ment had participated in the pre
liminary arrangements for the fi
nancing.
Nick Be/, of Seattle, president of
the company, representatives of
Southern California canners, tuna
fishing interests, the RFC and the
l'i ~>n and wildlife service were
called as witnesses.
U. Police Report
To Be Published
NEW YORK, (7P»—The United
States delegation to the United Na
tions announced Thursday that it
favored a lull and open discussion
of the forthcoming report of the
highly secret military staff com
mittee, charged with setting up a
Government Seeks
Telephone Peace
WASHINGTON, (A3) — The gov
ernment today went after a new
formula for settling the 18-day-ol(l
telephone strike amid reports that
long distance lines have been sabo
taged in at least 11 states.
The striking national federation
of telephone workers quickly ac
cepted an invitation from Edgar L.
Warren, federal conciliation direc
tor, to renewed bargaining talks
with three strategic units in the
Bell system.
The only immediate acceptance
by the other side came from the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
The government hoped to bring
peace through the new negotia
tions by establishing a settlement
wage pattern which might be ac
ceptable for the entire chain of 29
Bell units.
But even officials of Southwest
ern Bell, in agreeing to be repre
sented in the new parley, said "we
are going with the explicit under
standing that no cash offer will be
made.”
Joseph Beirne, president of the
NFTW, has said repeatedly that it
will take a pay increase to get the
union members back on the job.
global police force.
The American delegation issued
an official statement to deny that
the United States had joined with
the Soviet Union in efforts to block
publication of the long-awaited re
port and bar public discussions on
it in the security council.
The military committee, com
posed of the chiefs of staff of Rus
sia, the United States, Britain,
France, and China, met Thursday
to complete drafting of the report,
due to reach the council April 30.
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