, Congress To Act
* Quickly On
Atomic Problem
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—(A»)—
The House Military committee
urged Congress to proceed quickly
on atomic energy control legisla
tion and leave “international
problems” until later for settle
ment.
In a formal report the House
committee asserted the legislation
it approved last week is “entirely
neutral on international issues,
* about which so many people are
now concerned.” The bill is slated
for House consideration late this
month.
Diner—Look here, waitress,
what I have found in my soup.
* Isn’t that a bobby pin?”
Waitress—Oh goody, I’ve been
looking for that in the hash.
Col. Smith Dies
In Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 5—UP)—
Col. Lowell H. Smith, who led the
Army’s first round the world
flight to it scompletion in 1924, |
died here today after he was in-1
jured in a fall from a horse Sat
urday.
The round the world flight be
gan April sixth, and ended Sep
tember twenty-ninth of that year,
with Smith assuming command in
Alaska after all but two of the or
iginal planes had either crashed
or been forced down.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL—
Chas. Traeger, Unalakleet; John
Cross, Kotzebue; W. Morgan Dav
ies, Anchorage; H. R. Henchel,
Anchorage; J. L. Connors, An
chorage; Kaurin Olson, Vashon
Island, Wash.; Capt. Frank Wil
i ligms of the Meteor.
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COAST GUARD PILOTS
HANDLED 120,000
WAR ASSIGNMENTS
WASHINGTON — The nation’s
650 State-licensed harbor pilots J
who have been in Coast Guard !
uniforms since December, 1942,
are returning to civilian garb on
November 30. It will be a quiet,
swiftly effected demobilization,
and the pilots will take with them
a commendatory “well done” for
the job they have done in the war.
During 1944 the pilots handled
120,000 asignments without a sin
gle major casualty. In one month
at one east coast port 2,800 ships
were handled by 110 pilots; at a;
west coast part 1,200 ships were |
handled by 30 pilots; and a South j
Atlantic port 400 vessels were
handled by 9 pilots.
Back in August, 1942, Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox, asked
the Commandant of the Coast
Guard to make a study with a
view to bringing the pilots at all
ports in the country under mili
tary control. To make this study,
a commission consisting of Army,
Navy, War Shiping Administra
tion, and Maritime Commission
representatives was appointed.
The Commission’s recommenda
tions that the pilots be inducted
into the Coast Guard Temporary
Reserve, to serve without pay
while continuing to collect their
regular fees, and that the pilots
charge only half the regular fee
for vessels taking refuge, were ac
cepted immediately by the pilot’s
associations.
Most of the pilots were com
i missioned as lieutenant command
ers. To head all pilots during their
tour of military service, the com
mandant appointed John S. Del
ano, president of the American
Pilot’s Association, with the rank
of captain.
American pilots on the eastern
seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico
are the products of long and tough
apprenticeships, and many of to
day’s apprentices are the sons and
grandsons of pilots. Only on the
West Coast do the pilot’s associa
tions lose some of this family at
mosphere.
During peacetime the pilot car
ries a heavy responsibility, be
cause on his skill and intimate
: knowledge of navigation hazards
depends the safe passage of a ship
to its berth.
BULLET BOY — Leon Ray |
W iliams, 3 (above)., of Salt Lake
I Ciiy smiles happily although he
has carried a bullet in his brain
for more than a year. Surgeons'
feared to attempt removal of
slug, which ricocheted when
lad’s father fired a rifle.
U. S. To Create
Oil Reserve On
Continental Shelf
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—UP)—
Creation of a large oil reserve
from submerged deposits on the
continental shelf may be the key
to United States remaining a
world power, Secretary Ickes said
Saturday. With new discoveries of
oil in United States declining
sharply, Ickes said the nation will
draw more and more from foreign
sources, and it is vital that suffi
cient supplies be retained in this
country for self protection in a
future emergency.
President Truman issued a
proclamation two months ago
claiming United States’ jurisdic
tion over natural resources on the
continental shelf, which extends
seaward from the coast to a depth
of six hundred feet.
“History will record,” Ickes
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
OPENS NOVEMBER 12
The annual sale of Tuberculosis
Christmas seals will start in Nome
Nov. 12. The sale has been placed
in charge of the students of the
Nome High School, as they did
I such a fine job last year. The
seals will be sold to the public in
the lobby of the U. S. Post Office
from Nov. 12 to Nov. 17.
The people of Nome do not
have to be urged to buy these
stamps, as they have always given
generously to the cause.
Colombia is the only South
American country with both a Pa
cific and a Caribbean coast.
predicted, “that asertion of juris
diction of United States over the
natural resources of this area, was
one of the nation’s great advances.
The continental shelf adjacent to
the coasts of United States and
Alaska may well be the site of our
totally unexplored great domestic
flight to its completion in 1924,
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