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Anchorage Group
Seeks Route
Direct To East
Playing role of aerial explorers,
local men to make good-will flight
to Chicago and four other cities.
New records for good-will
travel by an Alaskan community
will be established when an
Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce party flies from Anchorage
to Chicago in search of what
Christopher Columbus sought
454 years ago—a direct trade
route to the East.
The group will fly approxi
mately 8,400 miles to publicize
the need for a direct air route
„ to the middle west, meet the
civic and business leaders of the
chief cities on the proposed
route and enjoy lively parties
as guests of' the chambers of
commerce.
Besides extilling the glories of
Alaska, and particularly Anchor
age. the party will visit cities
which have striking similarity to
Anchorage. These are Edmon
ton, Alberta, Fargo, N.D., Chicago,
III., Minneapolis, Minn., and
Great Falls, Mont.
Depart June 16
Departing from Anchorage ear
ly Sunday morning, June 16, the
group will spend Sunday night
in Edmonton, Monday night at
Fargo, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights at Chicago, Thursday night
at Minneapolis, Friday night at
Great Falls, and Saturday night
at Edmonton. Arrival in Anch
orage is scheduled for Sunday ev
ening. •
The Chicago Association of
Commerce has scheduled a lunch
eon in that city at noon on Wed
nesday. The request has been
made that the Anchorage party
present thirty minutes of speech
es. Subjects suggested are the
trade prospects between Alaska
and the Chicago area and the
commercial importance of the in
terior air route.
The Minneapolis Civic and
Commerce Association has sched
uled a dinner for Thursday night
as have Edmonton, Fargo, and
Great Falls chambers in those
cities.
Great Fall* Eager
Enthusiasm has marked com
munications with Great Falls, the
chamber there urging that the
party remain a full day and a
night so that the hosts can “show
them the city and entertain them
properly.”
While the Anchorage travelers
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Black-Jackson
Have Open Feud
In Court
!
WASHINGTON, June 14. —(£>)— j
President Truman said Justice
Jackson issued a statement criti
cizing Justice Black despite the.
President’s request prior to con
sultation.
At the same news conference
i
he declined to comment when j
asked if he thought both should
resign “for the good of the coun
try and court,” As the reporter
phrased it he said there was no
indications whether they are plan
ning to do so.
The President told the reporters
Jackson wired him Sunday be
fore release of his statement in
Nuernberg on Monday, and said
he suggested to Jackson that he
talk the matter over with him
before acting. He did not do so
and Jackson’s statement was
brought into open feud in court.
Jackson told of his objections
to Justice Black’s participation in
the case in which Black’s former
law pertner represented the Uni
ted Mine Workers who won the
Five to four decision.
FLAG DAY
One hundred and sixty-nine
years ago, on June 14, 1777, the
Continental Congress, sitting in
Philadelphia as the duly elected
representatives of the United
States - then a Nation in name
only - formally adopted the Stars
and Stripes as the national em
blem.
Unfortunately there is no clear
record as to when the new em
blem was first raised. One auth
ority claims that the banner of
thirteen stars and thirteen stripes
was first unfurled at Bound Brook
New Jersey. It seems fairly cer
tain, however, that on at least four
important occasions during the
year 1777, the new flag was flown.
First at the siege of Fort Stanwix,
New York, in August; second, at
the Battle of Brandywine on Sep
tember 11; third, at Germantown
on October 4; and at the surrender
of the British under General Bur
goyne on October 17.
The Flag of the United States
is not idly referred to as "Old
Glory.” Though it is the emblem
of the youngest among the major
nations, it is among the oldest
flags in existence today. It is
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Rampant Senate
Clips Wings i
From OPA Bill
WASHINGTON, June 14, —(tfV-1
A rampant Senate passed a bill j
, cutting the OPA down to a shadow i
of its wartime power, taking price
ceilings off items such as meat,
eggs, milk, butter, and chickens.
The vote was 53 to 11. •
The bill, which extends the life
i
of the diminished price control
for one year beyond June'
30, amounts to a major defeat
for the administration, now’ goes
down to the House, which passed |
its own price control bill, dif
, ferent in form but equally unac
j ceptable to stabilization officials.:
The conference committee will
probably get the job of reconcil-1
j iation of the differences in the
| measures.
Chester Bowles, Stabilization
Chief, and Paul Porter, head of
the OPA, say that they and their
associates report they are ready
to resign if they don’t get what
they consider a workable price
control bill. i
WASHINGTON. June 14. — i/p)—
President Truman today reported
that he was informed there is
good prospect of settling the
maritime fabor crisis in time to
prevent a shipping tie-up tonight
as he gave reporters a news con
ference on capitol hill.
Captain Granville Conway, War
shipping chief said Bridges had
agreed to accept the wage increase
of 22 cents an hour for CIO long
shoremen, and told that the House
subcommittee on Labor was in
vestigating the threatened strike
and in view of this “it seems
reasonable to me that it will be
settled” this afternoon.
Bridges objection to the 22 cent
figure has been one of the big
gest and perhaps the last stumb
ling blocks separating the unions
2nd operators and the government
agreement.
Bridges gave ground bitterly
with the threat of another mari
time strike about three months
from now. He hinted that he
would take the 22 cents figure
only until September thirtieth.
A reporter asked the President
flatly whether he believed there
would be a walk-out and received
no answer.
Conway told the House Com
mittee the only thing to be worked
out was the agreement on retro
active pay of West Coast seamen.
U.S. To Destroy
Own Store Of
Atomic Bombs
NEW YORK. June 14. —</P>—
The United States’ history-making
pronouncement which offered to
destroy its own store of atomic
bombs and to stop manufacturing
them if adequate control of atom
ic energy is established under the
proposed International authority,
as simultaneously the U. S. made
clear to the intently listening
world, that there must be no veto
power in any part of the frame
work. It is proposing it for dev
elopment of peaceful use of atomic
energy.
The statement was made by
Bernard Baruch, the U. S. rep
resentative to the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission at its
first session, and gave to the world
the American plan for harnessing
for peaceful purposes, the giant,
force unleashed by science.
Baruch was chosen temporary
chairman and read before his ad
dress, the message from President
Truman, wishing the Commission
Godspeed.