Committee Will
Survey Alaska
Railroad’s Needs
WASHINGTON, (/P>—'The inte
rior department said yesterday
Carl R. Gray, Jr., St. Paul, Minn.,
railway executive, has been ap
pointed special adviser to Secre
tary Krug on the rehabilitation of
the Alaska Railroad.
The department also reported
the railroad has acquired from
war surplus holdings 17 locomo
tives and 285 pieces of rolling
stock, including freight cars, gon
dolas, twin hoppers, balast cars,
troop sleepers and hospital cars.
The latter will be converted into
freight cars. Most of this equip
ment was placed in service early
last month.
Gray, vice-president of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway
system, as a major general head
ed the war department’s military
railway service during the war.
He left Chioago for Alaska Sat
urday. He was accompanied by
William R. Irvin, assistant to the
vice-president of the Great North
ern railroad, and E. F. McFadden,
general storekeeper of the Union
Pacific railway.
The three will survey the Alas
ka Railroad’s needs with regvfcl
to a proposed five-year $34,000,000
rehabilitation program.
GRAYCE BURLEY INJURES
FEET IN FALL
Grayce Burley of the Arts and
Crafts department of the Alaska
Native Service had the misfortune
of falling from a ladder in her
apartment and injuring both feet.
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Gov. Dewey Wins
In Secret Poll
For President
SALT LAKE CITY, (7P» — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
won first place by a wide margin
yesterday in a secret-ballot poll
of Republican governors express
ing their preference for the 1948
GOP Presidential nominee.
Democratic governors showed a
wide variance of opinion in the
same poll that only one potential
candidate got as many as two first
place votes for the vice presiden
tial nomination. He was former
secretary of state James F.
Byrnes.
In a poll conducted by the Asso
ciated Press in cooperation with
the Desert News and the Salt Lake
Telegram, Dewey received 10 first
place votes and his nearest con
tender, Gov. Earl Warren of Cal
ifornia, two.
The remainder of the total of 17
first place votes cast by the Re
publican governors were distrib
uted one each to Senator Robert
A. O. Taft of Ohio, former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota,
Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois.
| Senator Leveratt Saltonstall of
Massachusetts and Senator Ed
ward Martin of Pennsylvania.
The indecision of Democrats
about a vice-presidential runner
with President Truman was dem
onstrated by single first place
votes for nine possible candidates,
following the two for Byrnes.
This field included secretary of
state Marshall, who addressed the
annual governors conference here
Monday night.
Others are navy secretary For
restal, commerce secretary Harri
man, Gov. Mon Wallgren of
Washington, Senator Scott Lucas
of Illinois, Senator Harry Byrd of
Virginia, former Gov. Robert S.
Kerr of Oklahoma, former Gov.
Arnall of Georgia and Senator
Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyo
ming.
NEW YORK CITY TOURISTS
VISIT IN NOME
William S. Glazier, who with
his wife and daughter are tour
ing Alaska, arrived from New
York City where Mr. Glazier is
connected with Lehmann Broth
ers. They state that they are en
joying their trip immensely and
are looking forward to catching
some greyling and rainbow trout
which they heard about in New
York.
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SS. TERMINAL KNOT sailed from Seattle lor Nome, Teller.
Wales Shishmaref, Deering. Keewalik. and Kotzebue.
July 15th.
SS. ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seward for Valdes,
Cordova. Juneau, Ketchikan, and Seattle, July 17th
SS BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan,
Juneau, Cordova, Valdes and Seward July 19th.
SS BARANOF Scheduled to sail from Seward for Juneau,
Ketchikan and Seattle July 25th.
SS ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau and Seward July 29th.
Reservations made through Anchorage or Nome Agent.
Farmer Held For J
Wife’s Murder
WILMINGTON, Del. (JP) — A
26-year old tenant farmer was
held without bail for grand jury
action on a charge of murdering
his 23-year-old wife early today.
Major Herbert Barnes of the
Delaware state police said the
i farmer, Berlin Thomas Cain, of
| Clark’s Corner, near Delaware
City, admitted the brutal slaying
; of his wile. Her bruised and bat
I tered body was found in a ditch
beside a highway 14 miles south
1 of here.
i
1 Cain first told police he found
j his wife’s body while walking
home from a Delaware City tap
room. However, Major Barnes
said Cain later signed a statement
i admitting the slaying.
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Reasonable Doubt
—
(The Postage Stamp)
History records no sadder typo
graphical error than that which
occurred in a California mining
newspaper edited by Bret Harte.
Harte penned an obituary for
the wife of a prominent citizen,
i “She was known far and wide,”
; he wrote, “for her charity.”
I The printer set it: “She was
known far and wide for her chas
tity.” Harte, determined to make
the compositor check back on his
copy so he’d be less careless an
other time, marked a huge ques
i tion mark in the margin of the
proof.
The paper went to press and
was mailed during the night. In
the morning Harte found, to his
sick horror, that his correction
had been faithfully executed: “She
was known far and wide for her
chastity (?).”
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day evening at eight o'clock at
the City Hall for the purpose of
completing the organization under
the Territorial Law.
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ATTENTION
—
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nesday, July 15, at 8 o'clock. City
HalL Preparation for moving
buildings also plans for participa
tion in Army Air Forces Day on
August 1.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Novel one
inch classified display ads for the
Southern Pacific railroad are
causing “considerable comment”
here. They are inserted to boost
daylight train service from San
Francisco to Los Angeles:
Typical copy reads:
“Driving to Los Angeles, Engi
neer will drive you on stream
lined daylight for only $6.60 one
way.
“For rent—comfortable seat on;
streamlined daylight from rubber'
cushions.
“Personal—will the gentleman i
who drove to Los Angeles last
week recall how tired he was . . ”
The railroad’s representative,
Herbert Reynolds of Foote, Cone
and Belding agency, says the ads
are getting results.
MISSING PERSON
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Anyone having information con- i
| cerning the following person is!
asked to communicate with the
t Governor’s office in Juneau,
i Dillard D. Harper—Worked for
construction company in Fair
banks in 1944. 39 years old, brown
hair, blue eyes, about 6 feet tall.
MRS. VI MITROVITCH
RETURNS FROM FAIRBANKS
Mrs. M. Mitrovitch, owner of
“Vi’s” returned home after spend
ing a week in Fairbanks with herj
husband who is employed at 26
Mile for the summer.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHI NGTON, (/P) —’ Rep
Keating (R.-N. Y.) proposed yes
terday that Congress allow work
ing wives to deduct the cost of
baby sitters in computing their
income tax.
The proposal was embodied in
a bill submitted to the House ways
and means committee which is
considering revision of tax laws.
Keating .told the committee the
purpose of his bill is to ease the
tax burden on persons with small
incomes.
WASHINGTON, (^>) — Britain
has withdrawn another $100,000,
000 of the $3,750,000,000 advanced
to her credit by this country just
one year ago, treasury records
showed today.
The new withdrawal brought
total funds used the $2,300,000,000
and left Britain only $1,450,000,000
to go.
JUNEAU, (/P)—John Donini, 52,
a machinist, who had been under
going hospital-treatment, fell from
a waterfront dock yesterday and
was drowned. Letters indicated
his wife lives at Seattle.
WASHINGTON, (^P)—A House
public lands sub-committee re
ported favorably to the full com
mittee today a bill to permit
United States commissioners in
Alaska to retain $5,000 annually
of their fees in lieu of salary. The
present law permits them to re
tain only $3,000 a year.
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