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VOL. LIII. No. 29 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951 __PerCopy—15c
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
Thursday* March 8* 18S1
By Jim Hutcheson
JUNEAU, {/P)—Bills poured in
to the Alaska legislature at a rec
ord pace yesterday as the 20th
session reached its 45th day.
Yesterday was the deadline for
introduction of all but revenue
measures.
More than three dozen -bills
and memorials flooded the Senate
and House of Representatives to
raise the unmber of bills intro
duced far above the last session.
Some legislative observers said
it was an all-time high.
Some bills were introduced by
title only to get under the wire.
Their bodies will be added later.
House bills ran to 161 compared
with 119 on thes same day in the
1949 session. Senate bills totaled
101 compared with 79 two years
ago. The 46 memorials offered in
the House doubled the unmber in
troduced in the last session.
On the legislative front, the
Senate passed five bills and three
memorials, while the House
pushed through two bills, both re
vising banking laws.
One bill clearing the House was
a small loans act allowing a sharp
increase in interest rates on loans
under $400. Proponents said the
present law allows only a few
cents interest on a $25 short term
loan and banks won’t offer them.
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Sponsors said the new act would
allow as much as 36% in maxi
mum cases.
The vote was 20 to 3.
The second banking measure al
lows interest to be collected in ad
vance. Sponsors said this would
facilitate automobile loans.
The Senate voted 14-1 for a bill
to enable the Veterans’ Affairs
Board to boost the commissioner’s
salary from $8,000 to $10,000.
Other bills winning Senate ap
proval were routine. The chamber
unanimously approved a memori
al by Sen. Ed Anderson (D-Nome)
asking federal authorities to sur
vey strategic mineral resources
and the water power potential of
the Second Division.
The Senate also approved a
memorial by Sen. Gerrit (Heinie)
Snider <R-Anchorage) asking the
Territory to improve the Wasilla
airport, and another by all Third
Division Senators for territorial
improvement of Wasilla streets
and connecting road links.
The House had a flurry of de
bate over Senate amendments that
cut the heart from the 40-hour
week bill by inserting numerous
exemptions. By a 12-12 dead-lock,
the House refused to concur in the
Senate amendments. ,
Rep. C. Chester Carlson (D
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Cordova"), original sponsor of the
bill, labeled it “only a skeleton.”
Rep. Wendell P. Kay said it was
worthless.
The House action means the bill
probably will go' to a conference
committee.
All bills approved today still
must go to the other chamber.
The Senate rejected a bill to al
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low the attorney general to quail
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A Test For Curves_
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PITTSBURGH, PA.—Newly perfected methods for curving and
bending glass, plus functional qualities imparted to automotive glass
now make it technically possible to create the designers* bubble type
dream car with an all glass enclosure, according to Dr. J. Hervey
Sherts, product development director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
company. *
The girls in picture see-sawing on the curved automotive glass
demonstrate the strength of the heat tempered glass. This has four to
five times the impact resistance of piate ^lass of the same thickness.
It retains crystal clarity to provide maximum vision.
FOUR RESCUED AFTER
17 FOODLESS_ DAYS
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Four Eski
mos, stranded for 17 virtually
foodless days after their isolated
Alaska peninsula cabin burned
down, were rescued Wednesday
by plane, it was learned today.
Their plight was discovered
when a single-engine sixth radar
calibration unit plane on a routine
mission spotted an SOS on the
ground.
The pilot, Maj. Herbert Kent,
and two crewmen landed the ski
equipped plane after seeing the
group signal them to land.
They reported the Eskimos near
starvation as all their food and
belongings had been destroyed in
the fire.
Since Kent’s plane was too
small for the whole group, he
left rations and notified the 10th
Rescue Squadron at Elmendorf
Air Force Base and the CAA.
Within 90 minutes a bush pilot
picked up the four Eskimos and
flew them into Nondalton, north
of lake Iliamna on the peninsula.
ZONE 3 REPORTS
AT CIVIL DEFENSE
MEETING
Zone 3, under John Fults, War
den, with his staff of workers, re
ported in full at the regular meet
ing of Civilian Defense last Wed
nesday.
Dr. Holland was introduced by
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Dr. Langsam to take over the
work on defense during his ab
sence.
Director . Carl Glavinovich ap
pointed Frank Johnson as a spec
ial liaison-officer for the .group
and Les . Bronson . reported tlie
CAP Cadets would, sopn* be ready
with their walkie-talkies.
The next meeting is scheduled
at call of the Chair, as the organi
zation is now well in hand and
weekly meetings were not consid
ered necessary.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, (/P>—The Sen
ate today passed Administation's
big manpower bill providing for
the draft of all 18-year-blds.
The eventual program calls for
NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE, <^P)—Seven new
buildings are scheduled to rise
in Alaska railroad yards here in
a $4,500,000 construction program
to replace losses in a fire which
destroyed major mechanical in
stallations this winter. .
John P. Johnson, ARR general
! manager, announced the program
yesterday on his return from a
trip which took him across the
United States in search of mach
inery and equipment.
SEATTLE, (&}— Ships of the
Alaska Steamship Co. will serve
the Good News bay and Kuskok
wim river districts of Alaska this
year, the Santa Ana Steamship
Co. announced today. It will act
as agent for the Alaska line in the
Good News bay district and at
Bethel.
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RANGOON, (iP)—The Burmese
court of appeal today ordered the,
release of Dr. Gordon Seagrave,
famed “Burma Surgeon” who was
sentenced Feb. 17 to six years in
prison on a charge of aiding reb
els in this country.
The appeals court confirmed the
forced labor sentence against Sea
grave, but reduced the term to
the nearly six months he already
has spent in jail. The reduction in
sentence was made in view of, his
age and in gratitude fen* the ser
vic.es he had rendered to Burma.
SEATTLE, Army engin
eers will open bids here March 27
on £j#ska’s “largest^ building”—
a.n $8 nullipn Arm# housing and
recreation center at Whittier.
The “composite building” was
designed by architect John Malor
ney of Seattle, whose office de
scribes it as -the Territory’s larg
est structure. .
It will h$use Army personnel
and offices at the Army port of
Whittier, where more than 15 ft.
of annual precipitation is record
ed. The building will be of rein
forced concrete.
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compulsory training of all young
min. Thi roll call Toil was 79-5.
Special
Price Ceilings
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For Territories
WASHINGTON, (JP), Goods sold
in U.S. territories and possessions
but not actually produced or man
ufactured in those areas were tak
en out from under the general
price ceiling regulation today by
Price Director iMichael V. Disalle.
Instead, goods shipped into the
areas for sale are being placed
under actual dollars and cents
markups.
The Office of Price Stabilization
said the action was taken because
of the long time lag in making
deliveries to the territories and
possessions. As a result, OPS offi
cials said, many commodities are
being delivered to sellers at prices
above the sellers* ceiling prices
under the general freeze order, or
at prices which would show a loss.
“Prices are being quoted for
future delivery of some essential
commodities to sellers in the ter
ritories and possessions substan
tially above the sellers* ceiling
under the general price control
regulation,’* Disalle said.“ Theflow
of many commodities has almost
stopped.”
He mentioned as an example
that “practically no rice is njow
being shipped to Puerto Rico. Rice
is a basic mood of Puerto Rico
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and, with the exception of an in
consequential amount grown on
the island, all of the rice cdn
sumed there is shipped from the
United States.
The new regulation establishes
ceiling prices on goods brought
into Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and
the Virgin Islands.
Goods manufactured or pro
duced in the territories or posses
sions remain under the general
price control regulation.
Strandberg, of
Fairbanks, Dies
SEATTLE, OP)— Charles J.
Strandberg, 72, well-known Fair
banks building contractor, died
yesterday He came here in De
cember, 1949, after suffering a
stroke earlier that yeat.
Strandberg, a native q»f Sweden,
joined the gold rush to the Klon
dike in 19QD. Five years later, he
went tq Fairbanks, and then in
1909 he headed for the Jditarod
country of southwestern Alaska
for a nine-year stay.
He engaged in joining until 1018
when he came to Seattle, making
his home here until 1932. Then
he returned to Fairbanks where
he -was in the building contracting
business until his stroke.
Strandberg was a past president
of Igloo No. 4, Pioneers of Alaska,
and a member of the Elks Lodge
1552, both in Fairbanks. .
Survivors include his widow,
Semman Sonmole, and three sons,
Herbert V. and Arthur F., Seattle,
and Charles J., Fairbanks; and 6
grandchildren.
Funeral services and burial will
be here tomorrow.
17,000 Connmunist
Casualties on
70-Mile Front
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By the Associated Press
Thursday, March 8, 1951
Troops of seven U.S. divisions
and seven allied nations drove
hard today in their new general
assault along a 70-mile front, in
flicting a reported 17,000 Chinese
Communist and North Korean cas
ualties.
The surprise offensive, in which
the U.S. 25th Division crossed the
Han river with tanks in three pla
ces, caught the Reds flatfooted. A
fake crossing attempt by South
Koreans near Seoul diverted the
enemy attention while the main
bridgeheads were being effected.
South Korean Troops on the
easterh end of the line near Ami
dong recovered some of the ground
they lost yesterday to some 13,000
counterattacking North Koreans.
Friday, March 9, 19S1
Allied troops ripped gaping
holes in Communist lines as they
drove ahead as much as 4 miles
today in their big new Korean of
fensive.
Thousands of e d casualties
were added Friday to tfce more
than 17,906 killed or wounded i$
the firsts two days of the Allied
northward push*^- ‘
A' U.S. Ninth CarpS '^po^esmah
sai^ “4he eneipy. seems to l^. highr
tailing it” along the entire \jast
central fropt.
With air and artillery support,
the 25th Division doughboys drove
small pockets Of enemy from high
ground five miles north of - the
river crossings. Red desistance
was described as moderate. Am
erican casualties were slight.
Thirty prisoners captured Fri
day said they were short of food
and ammunition. They said also
that other Chinese soldiers were
eager to surrender, mainly be
cause their officers almost invari
ably fled when artillery barrages
hit their defense positions.
P. Rican Assassin
To be Electrocuted
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WASHINGTON, i(iP)—The little
Puerto Rican Oscar Collazo has
begn doomed to death in the elec
trig. chair following conviction fpr
nu^d^ dating :a%ntte^t to as
sassinate PresipLenk, Truman.
... It took a fedgral tgfy only
hour and 42. jninutes yesterday
to convict the 37-year-old Collazo
pn two 1st-degree, murder counts.
Each, qarries a mandatory sentence
pf death, although thf* formal sen
tencing was delayed.
Collazo’s companion in an at
tempt to storm Blair House last
Nov. i paid with his life on the
spot.
Grixelio Torresola, like Collazo
a Puerto Rican nationalist, was
shot to death by Leslie Coffelt, a
member of the President’s body
guard, after Torresola fatally
wounded Coffelt.
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