Army To Improve
Wrangell Narrows
SEATTLE, m—The Seattle dis
tict office of the corps of enginec* • •
foday jnnounced it would open
bids Frid ty to launch a $2,700,000
project of improving navigation o.
famed W angell Narrows—the tor
tuous, 20-mile waterway connect
ing Sumner Strait with Frederick
Sound, west of Metkof Island and
serving I’etersburg and Wrangell.
It is part of the “protected,” inside
route fr<>m Puget Sound to the
Gulf of Alaska through which
passes virtually all the water com
merce between Alaska and por
tions of British Columbia and the
Yukon.
Strong tides and severe climatic
conditions made difficult the loca
tion of the mafay uncharted ob
structions in the passage* which
ranges bom 380 yards to a mile in
width and has a natural dept of
about 24 feet. Its strong tidal fluc
tuation , ranging to 24 feet, pro
vince current velocities up to 7
miles an hour.
That portion of the project for
which funds are available is ex
pected o be completed by July.
1948. If sufficient funds are appro
priated by Congress during the
next f i - cal year, it is anticipated
the presently authorized project
will be completed by July, 1949.
LAST OF B.L.G. EMPLOYEES
TO LEAVE NOME SOON
The last of the group of Birch.
I-yte1 id Green employees who
have b en working on a contract
at the Air Base this winter are
scheduled to leave today for An
chorage. It is understood that the
work - not completed but materi
al needed has become unavailable.
“Russia Looks At
Alaska With
Covetous Eyes*’
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The State
Department said today it knew of
no question being raised by the
Russians as to America’s right to
Alaska, either officially or unoffi
cially.
The subject of Russia’s possible
renewed interest in the Territory,
acquired by purchase from her in
1367, had been broached by Rep.
Gearhart <R.-Calif.>.
He said both in an interview and
again in the House yesterday that
“Soviet Russia is looking at Alaska
with covetous eyes."
The Californian also suggested
that possibly Russia plans “to
claim a much greater price for
that territory than was originally
paid"—Alaska cost this country
ST,200,000—and asked:
“Or does she plan to repossess
herself of that treasure house of
the Far North?”
In the face of state department
disclaimers, Gearhart suggested a
possibility of secret talks, and of
a tie-up with slow Russian lend
lease settlements.
Gearhart urged that the Alaska
question be brought out “into the
open.”
“The American people,” he said,
“have a right to know what, if
any, secret conversations have
been held between our diplomats
on this important question.”
Gearhart said he had been in
formed that the Russian newspaper
Pravda claimed the Czar acted
without the consent of the Russian
people when he sold Alaska to thei
United States in 1857 for $7,200,
000. He said further that a report
er for “a great American news
Nationalists Enter
Communist Capital
(By Harold K. Milks)
NANKING, (£>) — Fast moving
Chinese Nationalist troops took
over the Chinese Communist capi
tal of Yenan today at the end ut'
a 200-mile forced march from
Sian.
The first of the government
forces at 10 a.m. today entered the
Red capital—virtually a ghost city
since its evacuation by the Com
munists and the removal of prac
everything that could be removed.
Dispatches announcing the cap
ture mentioned no fighting and it
was presumed that Communist
Gen. Ho Lung’s defense troops
had faded into the Shensi province
mountains. Party chieftain Mao
Tse-Tung and other CommunLt
leaders earlier were reported to
have left the city.
The occupation, following swift
ly behind an announcement by
minister of information Pen Hsueh
Pei that the government column
was within sight of Yenan, indi
cated that the Communists had
made good their planned evacua
tion and carried out their decision
not to defend the city.
The announcement from Peng
had placed the troops of Gen. Hu
Chung-Nan within sight of the
service” which he did not name
wrote that the Russians never had
conceded that the Czar had a right
to make the deal with the Ameri
can secretary of state Seward.
Gearhart coupled his remarks
on Alaska with Soviet delay in re
plying to requests for a lend-lease
accounting.
“Does it mean,” he asked, “that
Russia is preparing a counter
claim arising out of old controver
sies of yesteryear?”
REDUCED FREIGHT RATES
Effective February 1st
ANCHORAGE TO NOME
FREIGHT .14c per lb.
(25 lb. minimum)
PERISHABLES .12c per lb.
(100 lb. minimum)
FREQUENT AIR FREIGHT SERVICE
Between
Seattle and Nome
at the following rates:
25 to 100 lbs.....44c per lb.
(One Dollar minimum)
100 to 3000 lbs.36c per lb.
3000 lbs. up. 34c per lb.
- . . /
Perishables (100 lb. minimum)..32c per lb.
Deliver Supplies to
ALASKA AIRLINES OFFICE, BOEING FIELD, SEATTLE
Fire Razes
Clallam Bay, Wash.
CLALLAM BAY. Wash. (T*> —
Only four business build in •< re*
%
niained standing in this small
Olympic peninsula loggin * com
munity (pop. 200' t^ilav after fire
and firemen’s dynamite levelle 1 10
-tructures yesterday during a
blaze believed to have started
from a discarded cigarette.
One man Paul Sine, 44. die 1 a*
the Port Angeles hospital Pom
burns received in the fire which
started in the Clallam hotel where
he was a roomer. Damage was es
timated unofficially at upwards of
9
city’s outer defense towers, about
13 miles from the heart of Yanan.
$100,000.
Destroyed by the flames were
the hotel, theater, drugstore, res- ^
taurant, meat market, tavern, cold
o! .1 ;c* locker, taxicab office,
m id ware store .and one unoccu
»:td residence. Dynamite was used
>v the fire fighters to destroy sev
v*r:i! buildings in the flames’ path
.m l create a belt from which they
battled the blaze for nearly three
nours before bringing it under
control.
The brown pelican has an un
usually large throat pouch which
t uses as a container for food
when carrying it to its young. tl
AT POLET'S—Received today.
Cucumbers, Lettuce, Radishes.
Bananas, Tomatoes, also Pansy
plants in bloom.
A. & A. GARAGE
Phone MAIN 85
(Formerly Larry Galvins)
NO JOB TOO LITTLE — NO JOB TOO BIG
Automobile and Tractor Work of AH Kinds
If We Can't Fix It, You May At Well Junk It)
AXEL EDMANAL PASQUAN
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
LEWIS CAB CO.
_ *
Phone MAIN 144
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Red 153
100-GAL. OIL TANKS FOR SALE
#
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
BEN YOUNG
NOME HIGH SCHOOL
presents
“He Couldn’t Marry Five
a 3-act Comedy
High School Gy 111
March 21,1947
8:15 P.M. Admission 75c
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