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Eye is the name of an ancient
town in England.
Palmer Wants
Police Protection
PALMER, Alaska, </P) — The
Matanuska Valley Chamber of
Commerce wants more police pro
tection.
, In a resolution passed last week
the group requested a second dep
i uty marshal be stationed in the
! valley.
The town of Palmer is unincor
porated, and the entire valley is
without protection except for a
highway partolman.
When the present marshal is off
duty or absent from the Valley on
duties, which may take him as far
away as the Aleutian Chain or the
States, the Valley is left without
a representative of the law for
long periods.
The chamber requested the sec
ond dputy be assigned to night
duty.
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Search for Overdue
Italian Flyers
NEW YORK. .(/P)—Coast guard,
I air force and Canadian aircraft
1 were thrown into a widespread
( hunt Saturday for a small, single
engine plane long overdue on a
I projected 2000 mile non-stop flight
i from the Azores to New York
; City.
The little plane, a Beechcraft
Bonanza, reportedly was loaded
with fuel for 29 hours of flying
! when it took off with two Italian
; aviators from the Azores Friday.
I Under normal conditions, its gas
supply would have been exhaust
ed at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The search planes started from
American and Canadian bases
shortly after dawn, about 10 hours
after the plane last made radio
; contact with shore.
At that time, the fliers, John M.
Brondello and Camillio Barioglio,
gave their position as about 940
miles east of New York City and
180 miles due south of the naval
1 base at Argentia, Nfld.
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OPEN UNTIL 8 P.M.
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PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
For BETTER EFFICIENT
WATER SERVICE
CALL MAIN 24 or MAIN 70
BERING SEA CLUB
Announcing
POOL TABLES
SNOOKER TABLE
SHUFFLEBOARD
Come In and Play
Many Die When
Canadian Vessel
Burns At Pier
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aboard could be established.
Two women died in a hospital.
One of them was identified as Mrs.
Eunice Dietrich, Cleveland, O.
All except about 20 of the pas
i sengers were said to be Americans, j
The vessel arrived here Friday
night from Cleveland and Detroit
j for her last cruise of the season to
Prescott and the Thousand Islands.
The cause of the blaze was not
known, but firemen said they had
i established that it started in state- j
i room No. 462 on the starboard
I side, two cabins aft of the cocktail I
i bar. Within three minutes after it .
I started, witnesses said, the whole j
! of C-deck was afire.
' A pier watchman turned in the
first alarm after seeing “a glim
mer of fire near the stern.” Not two
minutes after he telephoned, he
said, the whole ship seemed
ablaze.
As daylight came, firemen
worked with pike pole and shovel
in the wreckage, bringing out the
' bodies. Sometimes there were
three or four bodies, sometimes
only broken, charred parts of bod
ies.
Hundreds, awakened by the
flames, escaped by jumping to the
pier, into the water, or clamber
ing over rails to ships tied up near
by.
Captain William Taylor, of Sar
nia, Ont., the ship’s master, smash
ed in cabin doors to waken many
| passengers and carried at least
one woman to safety. Crew mem
bers said he leaped over the bow
as flames closed in on him.
The fire broke out in the after
section and then roared through
the wooden deck structure of the
36-yeur-old vessel.
It was the worst Great Lakes
disaster since 12 crew members
died when the Canadian freighter
Emperor rammed into the Lake
Superior rocks and sank June 4,
|1947.
Organize Defenses
Against Possible
Attack By Russia
WASHINGTON, (A*i — The At
lantic pact powers agreed in one
hour Saturday on organization of
Western powers against any pos
sible attack by Russia.
Ministers of the 12 pact coun
tries met in mid-forenoon for a
session that was expected to last
two or three hours, possibly spill
over into a late afternoon meeting
or even a meeting here today.
They elected secretary of state
Acheson as their presiding officer.
Then they went to work in un
expected harmony of plans for de
fense machinery which already
had been laid out in complete de
tail. Their deputies had been busy
PALMER, Alaska, (/Pt — Total
enrollment in the Palmer school
serving the Matanuska Valley
reached 508 pupils last week, with
more coming. Sup'. W. T. Zahrad
nicek said he expected 550 pupils
before spring.
Additional classroom quarters
weer provided in a former chick
cnhouse standing nearby.
at the state department for the past
several weeks on that task.
The ministers approved the pro
posed plan, evidently without any
controversy and 'hen adjourned at
11 a.m.
Thus tney completed in an hour
the most important joint action
since the treaty was signed here
April 4 to tie together under a sin
gle strategy the war plans of the
United States, Canada, and the na
tions of Western Europe.
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Phone Ma. 55 - For Finest Liquors
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4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickelson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 9f>
POLARIS COFFEE SHOP
Open Under the
Management of Alma Fitch
Breakfasts - Lunches - Dinners
Junior’s
Meat Market
For That Special Occasion
Serve The Best
SERV-U MEATS
You’ll Find Them At
Junior’s Meat Market
For Your Convenience—NEW STORE HOURS
9:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M: