A Gl Fishing Boat Takes Shape in Iceland
Building their own fishing boot gives these soldiers something to do in
their off-duty time ond will afford them lots of pleasure. The Regular Army
now offers qualified men 17 to 34 years of age, inclusive, security now and
for the future with retirement benefits of up to $155.25 a month for the
rest of their lives.
Right Wing Ahead
In Belgium
BRUSSELS, Feb. 18—(/P)—The
final results of the Belgian elec
tion Sunday, gave the right wing
► Catholic party, pledged to the re
turn of King Leopold to his throne,
92 seats in the chamber of depu
ites, but left it short of a major
ity of 200 members. Premier Van
Acker’s Socialist party ran second
with 70 seats. The Communists
won 23.
Catholic leader Baron De Wiart
will be asked to form a govern
ment. The question remained
whether De Wiart will be able to
form a coalition with one of the
minority parties to gain a working
majority.
TRADER TRAVELS WITH
SPEEDY SNOPLANE
Jack Westfall, owner and man
ager of the trading store at Golo
vin arrived yesterday afternoon
from Golovin. He left yesterday
morning in his Snoplane, and
made several stops on the way, in
cluding a couple of hours at Bluff
and some time at the Carlson
plane, grounded near Spruce
Creek. .Jack says that even with
poor visibility and a frosting
windshield it was easy to get in
town in time for dinner. This is
not his first experience with the
snoplane, as he brought it from
Galena to Golovin this fall. Last
year he covered over 7000 miles,
and says it‘s the only way to
travel.
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CONGRESS EXPOSED
WASHINGTON—Congress sud
denly has become television con
scious. And^incidentally is discov
ering that the twentieth century’s
latest communications wonder is
not unmixed in its blessings.
The occasion of the awakening
was the selection of three mem
bers of the House to initiate
3XWT's “News-Views” program.
They were Reps. Esetes Kefauver,
Chattanooga, Tenn., Cla rence
Brown, Blanchester, O., and Fred
Bradley, Rogers City, Mich.
In the Hotel Harrington studios
of 3XWT, operated by Allen B.
DuMont, the legislators were in
formed they needn’t worry much
about their Washington audience,
i there being very few receiving
I sets here yet, but that if they
i wanted to get nervous, they could
; fret over the potential audience a4
the sight-and-sound end of 6,000
sets in New York City.
The jitters didn’t bother the
Congressmen. Bob Coar, who op
erates the Congressional radio re
: cording studios in the House office
j building, was on hand to officiate,
which gave the lawmakers the
feeling that they were doing no
more than making their periodic
recordings for the folks back
home. That is, until the lights
were turned on. Then they admit
tedly nearly went crazy with the
heat.
Rep. Bradley says that phase of
the “not too pleasant experience”
reminded him of the Republican
; convention halls in Philadelphia
and Chicago when the big kleigs
! were turned on for the moving
: picture news men.
“We Congressmen, tired after a
day’s work here on the Hill,”
dreamed Mr. Bradley for the ben
efit of some of his colleagues, “will
not have to worry about attending
1 a prizefight, a baseball game—or
opera. All we will have to do is
press the magic button and have
i it in the living room.
“There is one thing about this
television future I don't like,” he
dreamed on. “When television is
, installed in Congress, I fear it is
going to cause more of us to be
on the floor more often. How are
I we going to take care of our com
i mittee meetings and our corres
pondence?
i “As of tomorrow, we will all
i more or less be radio actors and
I
will have to preserve our appear
ance and decorum. Yet, that prob
ably will be a good thing. Our
constituents will know just what
their Congressman looks like.”
Which conclusion left some leg
islative brows creased with wor
ried furrows.
* A
Best guess of the Department of
Agriculture sugar experts is that
the sugar rationing will end some
where between July and the end
of the year. It won’t end until the
supply is very close to the de
mand unless, of course, Congress
kicks OPA out the window.
* * *
It is estimated that discharged
veterans this year will get about
five billion dollars in various cash
benefits. Is it any wonder that the
con-men, gyps, racketeers, shys
ters, mail frauders and blue sky
| operators are giving them their
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Japan Planned To
Use American
Ships For Fishing
TOKYO, Feb. 18— t/P) —Allied
headquarters announced it had
j spiked an audacious scheme by
Jap interests to recapture Nip
pon’s lost pre-war fishing business
under the American flag with
American ships. The Jap company
j was promptly denied the request
to enter American fishing areas in
American vessels, manned by Jap
crews.
Headquarters said the firm
planned to can crab meat aboard
I the ships and send it to United
States duty free “because it would
j come from American ships, it
FOX BAR DREDINC
COMPANY SOLD
New owners: Waldo Coffman of
Houston, Texas, and C. A. Sher
man, will reopen the Fox Bar
Dredging Co., an the Kougarok, in
operative since 1942. The mine
was formerly operated by Graham
Llamers, who left the organization
to mine in the Kobuk. It was pur
chased recently from Reigel Bros,
for $80,000, and operations will
start soon, it was learned.
would be the product of American
fisheries and could enter the
American market without duty.”
Lt. Col. R. H. Fielder, fisheries
expert of the headquarters nation
al resources section said the firm
also proposed to resume the can
nings of salmon under a similar
plan.
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