All Quiet At i
“Southern
White House”
KEY WEST. Fla. (/P) — Com
pany comes and goes at the South
ern “White House” with no one
outside any wiser about adminis
tration decisions or the makeup of
the new cabinet.
There was no statement from
President Truman on a suggestion
by Trygve Lie, United Nations
secretary-general and Her b e r t
Evatt president of the U. N. gen
eral assembly, that the four “Big
Powers” resume negotiations look
ing to ending the Berlin stalemate.
Nor would the President com
ment on reports from Paris that
secretary of defense Forrestal had
lef: it to the chief executive when
he should resign from the cabinet.
Senator Alben Barkley, vice
president-elect; Senator H. How
ard McGrath, Democratic national;
chairman and Leslie L. Biffle, di- |
rector of the Democratic national
committee in the Senate, would
say nothing as they moved out of i
Mr. Truman’s vacation retreat.
Matthew J. Connelly and Chas.
G. Ross, Presidential secretaries,
were moving in from Washington. \
Also coming down was Gov. Mon
C. Wallgren of Washington State,
a Presidential pal, who was de
feated for re-election in Novem
ber. It’s reported he will be offer
ed a top administration post.
The three were flying here by
plane with David K. Niles, admin
istrative assistant in charge of
problems of minorities.
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FAIRBANKS, (/P)—An inquest
is scheduled today to determine
the identi y of human remains1
remains found in the ashes of a
burned roadhouse at Suntrana, a
coal-mining camp 115 miles south
of here.
A carpenter who discovered the
fire said he presumed Martin Er
eeg, part-owner of a Suntrana bar,
was asleep in the building at the
time of the blaze, but the heat pre
vented a thorough search.
Erceg was indicted and later re
leased for lack of evidence in con
nection with the fatal shooting of
an Alaska coal Viiner in 1946.
Blast, Fire Kills 2
On Swedish Ship
TACOMA, (/P) — Investigators
are seeking today the cause of a
blast and fire which killed two
and injured six aboard the swift
Swedish motorship Los Angeles
Saturday.
Fire chief Charles Eisenbacher
said earlier the explosion was set
off by a short circuit in a gener
ator.
The Los Angeles, on her maiden
voyage, was at her moorings at
Port Tacoma pier No. 2 pre
paratory to a scheduled Sunday
departure. The 9,000-ton vessel
l^ad been loading 7,000 tons of
general cargo for Scandinavia.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)—After twice
meeting with near disaster on
Alaskan legs of their globe-cir
cling journey, a British aviatrix
and her navigator planned to take
off from here yesterday in their
single-engined light plane.
The two, Mrs. Richard Morrow
Tait and Michael Townsend, land
ed at Elmendorf Field Friday
nigh- with the help of the air
force’s ground-control-approa c h
(GSA> system which was used to
talk them down.
They brought in their second
hand former RAF plane "Thurs
day’s Child” on the third pass over
the field. Only a 20-minute supply
of gasoline was left in the tanks.
Runway lights'had failed and
fog had cut visibility to one-eighth
of a mile and reduced the ceiling
to 300 feet.
Crash wagons and an ambulance
stood by during the landing as
buses, jeeps and cars beamed their !
i lights on the runway.
Townsend said hea d w i n d s
drained their gas supply on the
700-mile flight from Cold Bay
near the western end of the Alas
ka Peninsula. The fliers previous
ly hacP finished the 1,500-mile hop
from Japan o Shemya, at the end
of the Aleutian chain, with only a
half hour supply of fuel left.
They have been 87 days enroute.
Their stop here was the 20th of
the journey.
Select New Site for
Fairbanks Airport
| FAIRBANKS, (Ah — Abandon
ment of the Chena Ridge sites for
Fairbanks’ proposed municipal
airport was announced this week
end by Frank Gray local CAA
manager.
He said word of the change of
plans came from Washington, D.
C. At the same time, he announced
the selection of a new site near
the end of Fairbanks’ present
Weeks field, the location original
ly considered by CAA officials
and the City Council two years
ago.
The Chena Ridge site was picked
by the CAA after the closing ses
sions of the P>0ih Congress voted
$12,500,000 for construction of air
ports at Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Building a field there would
mean bridging the Chena river,
but the “new site” lies on the same
side of the river as Fairbanks.
Air National Guard
Battle Over Penna.
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' HARRISBURG, Pa. (/P) — Air
national guard staff officers today
, examined gun camera film to de
termine the outcome of a mock air
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battle waged by 140 planes over
Pennsylvania.
Bolling Field, Washington, D. C.
was the target in the maneuvei
yesterday as planes took to the air
from bases in eight states.
One B-26 from Fort Bennett, N.
Y., was forced to make an emer
gency landing at the Baltimore
airport after a bird crashed into
the plane's plexiglas nose. The
bombardier. First Lt. J. F. Clark,
who was in the nose at the time,
sustained arm injuries.
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Railroad Unions
Settle Their
Wage Disputes
(Continued from Page One)
that the 10 cent hourly boost now
accepted by the five operating
brotherhoods may set a pattern for
ending two wage-hour disputes
between the railroads and the 16
non-operating unions.
The engineers, firemen, and
switchmen, whose threat to strike
last May was blocked by govern
ment intervention, had asked a
pay raise of 18 per cent in their
third round demands. This would
amount to about $1.76 a day, the
difference between the 15Vfe cents
hourly boost accepted last July
and original second round de
mands for a 30 per cent raise with
a minimum raise of $3 a day.
Engineers now receive between
$88.80 and $128.66 a week; fire
men $78.83 to $103; conductors
$77.40 to $117.34; trainmen and
switchmen $71.58 to $96.50. The
pay varies with the class of serv
ice.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DINNER TOMORROW NIGHT
Tomorrow evening the Cham
ber of Commerce have schedule*
another of their incresaingly pop
ular dinner meetings, at seven
o’clock.
In addition to the meeting at
which time several important
matters will be discussed, a binge
game is scheduled for about an
hour.
The proceeds of the bingo game
are for the Boy Scout fund, to as
sist in the maintenance of the pro
gram outlined for the young peo
ple of our community. Many inter
esting prizes have been gatherer*
by Mrs. H. F. Harper who is plan
ning the program.
PIONEER LADIES MET
FRIDAY EVENING
Pioneer Ladies met last Friday
evening with President Ann Walsh
presiding.
Lillie Lewis, Emma Lyle and
Mabel Walsh, hostesses for the
evening, served a delicious lunch
following cards.
Winners of the card game were
Carrie McLain, Emily Boucher
and Ann Walsh.
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tend to maintain the BETTER SERVICE
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Mail service four times a week speeds
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Alaska Airlines maintains a Shopping
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