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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, Jan. 4—(/P)—Appli
cation by Petersburg and the Ter
ritory of Alaska to build a sea
plane port in Wrangell Narrows
to serve southeastern Alaska was
granted by the War Department.
John Paget, chief of the permit
section, Seattle district Army En
gineers, announced it would be
known as the Petersburg Seaplane
Port. It will include a nine hun
dred eighteen foot approach and a
twenty-eight by forty foot wharf,
*and a twenty by sixty foot float.
BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan.
4—(/Pi—The two-headed baby girl
born to the English wife of a
former U. S. soldier, died last
night after fifty hours, thirty-five
minutes of life. The infant was
born New Year day to Mrs. Joseph
Govro, 21, whose husband, a for
mer U. S. army private lived on
a farm near Festus, Mo., thiryt
miles south of St. Louis.
^ WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—(/Pi
Machinery to aid veterans in pur
chasing surplus property, is being
set up in Hawaii, Alaska and
Puerto Rico. Counselling units
will begin operations soon, the In
terior Department’s Territorial
Surplus Office, Anchorage depart
ment said.
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ANCHORAGE, Jan. 4 — (/P) —
The City Council approved send
ing a bill to Delegate Bartlett
which was passed by Congress to
permit the city to ask voters to
4 authorize bond issues of more than
$7,500,000. The money to be used
for public improvements.
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 4—(£»)—A
new Union Bank opened here to
day. Stockholders announced are
Frances Hassman, Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, Paul I. Reed, John Ba
lious, Emil Pfeil, Edward Craig,
John Ryan, and Andrew Hassman.
The latter has been named presi-|
dent. Mrs. Hassman and McCutch
eon are on the temporary board
4 of Directors.
PAUL MANDEVILLE
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
Nome welcomes back one of its
merchants from the U. S. Army,
Paul Mandeville, owner of the
Modem Cleaners. His business has
been carried on during his four
years’ absence by Mrs. Paul Man
deville, who, though handicapped
by insufficient and unskilled la
bor, served the public and ren
dered fine service during these
years.
FILIPINO GREETING Filipino natives, paddling
out from shore in their outrigger canoes, called banca boats, hail
t. S. Coast Guardsmen aboard an arriving LST. Every American
ship is greeted enthusiastically by natives.
Judge Kehoe To
Try Cases In 4th
And 1st Divisions
Judge Joseph W. Kehoe an
nounced today that he had re
ceived a request from Henry
Chandler, Director of Courts,
Washington, D. C., to assist in
both the Fourth and First Divi
sions. and that he had accepted.
Judge Kehoe will fly to Fair
banks on January 11 to try a dis
barment csae against attorney
John Lathanan of Fairbanks, for
Judge Pratt, U. S. District Judge
of the Fourth Division, who is dis-'
qualified.
In the First Division, Judge Ke-i
hoe will conduct a term in Juneau
for Judge Alexander, who is now
in Portland, Oregon, about to un
dergo a major operation. On Jan
uary 21, Judge Kehoe will call the
Calender and arrange to try cases
which require disposition.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TO HOLD LUNCHEON
The NWA Chamber of Com-;
merce will hold a regular meeting
Saturday noon in the Nevada
Lounge. Special guest speakers
will attend, and the meeting will
be of interest to all members.
Luncheon will be served at 12:00 ^
Noon.
Bombing Range
Endangers Buffalo
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— f/P) —
Concern for Alaska’s buffalo herd
caused Delegate Bartlett to protest
the army’s plans to double the air
corps bombing range south of
Fairbanks. The air corps bombing
range, taking in hundreds of miles
of public land south of Fairbanks, j
now extends from Tanana river;
on the north to Birch Lake on the j
south.
Delegate Bartlett said the plans j
for extending the range to carry.
it south and east to the Big Delta!
river added territory, Bartlett
said, which includes plains where'
the Territory’s buffalo herd roams.
The herd now numbers four hun
dred fifty animals, which have in
creased from the twenty sent to
the Territory in 1927.
NOME DRUG STORE
PLACED ON SALE
The Nome City Council has
placed on sale the property of
“Cappy” McDougall, which was
willed to the city when the owner
died. The proceeds of the sale are
to be placed in a special fund in
the Miners and Merchants Bank,
and are to be used only for pur
poses as designated in the will,
pertaining to health and civic im
provement.
STRIKES - - - '
AT A GLANCE i
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New and continuing labor dis
putes keep idle more than four
hundred thousand workers. Major
labor developments: President
Truman urges the people to press
Congress for action on legislation
aimed to curb strikes and labor
unrest. Communications—The pos
sibility remains for a nationwide
walkout of two hundred sixty
thousand telephone workers, and
a sympathy strike by seventeen
thousand employees of Western
Electric plants in New York and
New Jersey over a wage dispute.
The new stoppage would affect
four hundred fifty thousand tele
phone employees.
The trend of balloting by fifty
thousand APF employees of .the
Western Union Telegraph com
pany, outside of New York City,
indicates, say union officials, that
they will accept the War Labor
Board wage directive to call off
the strike set for January 7. How
ever seven thousand CIO Western
Union employees in New York
plan to walk out Tuesday. Min
ing—CIO Mill, Mine Smelter
Workers union in Salt Lake City:
call a strike for January 21, af
fecting five thousand members.
Rubber — CIO United Rubber
Workers of America, Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co., plan a strike
vote Sunday in line with action of
other locals in the nation in sup
port of increased wages.
NOME NUGGET
RECEIVES TELETYPE
The plane from Anchorage yes
terday brought several hundred
pounds of new teletype equipment
for the Nome Nugget, which will
be installed soon. This new type
of service was made available to
Anchorage and Fairbanks news
papers last August by the ACS, I
and as soon as the machinery was
available, the Nugget asked for the
same service. This installation i
will give us faster and more news!
service, in keeping with the mod-i
ern high speed sei
papers throughout
Alaska.
Last night the fire department
was called out at eleven o’clock
to answer an alarm from 4th and
B street. Eugene Killigivuk, who
has been living in one of the cab- j
ins owned by C. F. Jansen, had
built a coal fire and left for town, j
The stove became overheated and j
the building caught fire. It was
out of control before the fire de
partment could reach there, and
the building was a total loss.
Truman Appeals
To People For Law
To Control Strikes
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4—(/P)~
President Truman Thursday night
appealed directly to the “most
powerful pressure groun in the
world.” the American people, to
put the heat on Congress for str;ke
control legislation, and other mea
sures which he said were designed
to avert economic “disaster.”
Handfuls of men in strategic
Congressional committees, he said,
have stymied the action of his
legislative program designed to
steer the country between infla
tion and deflation toward a goal
of “full production and full em
ployment.”
In the “fireside chat.” he urged
the people to “tell your public
servants your own views concern
ing the grave problems facing the
country.” He emphasized he want
ed no quarrel with Congress, but
said if Congress doesn’t like his
program, it should formulate one
of its own.
“What the American people
want is action,” he declared. He
led off the demand for legislation
setting up fact finding boards
equipped with power to examine
the employers books and make in
quiry. He also urged a new so
called “full employment” bill and
greater unemployment conpensa
tion, extended authority to impose
price controls, permanent fair em
ployment practices commission,
a higher minimum wages bill, in
crease of payments to people out
of work.
He said he was sure the over
whelming mass of citizens favored
and wanted Congresmen to vote
for the measure to make fair em
ployment practices committee per
manent.
Mr. Truman spoke once more
for comprehensive scientific re
search legislation and universal
training, the health and medical
aid program, an “adequate salary
scale” for government employees,
develoj^nent of rivers and valleys,
establishment of a line of Presi
dential succession.
The President said he was ask
ing only that Congressional com
mittees give the representatives of
the people a chance to vote “yes
or no” on vital issues. He noted
that Congressmen are now home
on vacation, and asked the people
they serve to contact them.
“From personal experience I
know that contact with the peo
ple back home helps every public
servant in this free country. The
voice of the people must be heard.
We cannot face 1946 in a spirit of
irresolution,” the President de
clared.