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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVIII. No. 17 ^ * ' ' <’r FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946_PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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SEATTLE, Feb. 8 — f/P) — A
drifting mine has been sighted off
the Washington-Oregon coast the
Coast Guard said. It gave the lo
cation of the mine Wednesday as
latitude forty-six degrees, twelve
minutes; longitude one hundred
twenty-four degrees, eleven min
utes, two seconds west.
BEVERLY HILLS, Feb. 8—(/P)
His army service over, Will Rog
ers, Jr., humorist, is planning an
other excursion into politics. He
said yesterday he is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Junior Senatorship of California.
William Knowland, Republican
incumbent, was appointed to fill
the term of the late Hiram John
son.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8— (/P) —
The Senate banking committee
* voted 14 to 5 to give a favorable
report to Truman’s nomination of
George Allen, Presidential advis
er, as director of RFC.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 8—(/P)
Adolf Berle, Jr., U. S. ambassador
to Brazil, announced he had sub
mitted his resignation to President
Truman. Berle disclosed that Tru
man agreed to release him after
the new government of President
Dutra was installed January 31.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—(£>) —
The War department announced
that President Truman decided to
take no action in the clemency
plea from Lt. Gen. Yamashita,
Jap leader, condemned to death.
Truman’s decision apparently puts
Yamashita’s fate again into Gen
eral MacArthur’s hands.
LONDON, Feb. 8-(ff)-The
United Nations Security Council
interrupted debate on the Indo
nesian dispute to study the state
ments of interested nations, in
cluding the Dutch declaration for
a “very liberal” settlement of In
donesian independence aspir a -
tions hoped for. Shortly the coun
cil will meet to try and arrive at
a solution, satisfactory to Soviet
Ukraine, which charged that Brit
ish troops in Indonesia were en
dangering world peace.
ICE POOL TICKETS
NOW ON SALE
The Nenana Ice Pool tickets
are again on sale, as the annual
event gets under way for the sea
son of 1946.
Back in 1917, the original pool
of $600, was raised in Nenana,
which had at that time about one
thousand residents.
The first winner of the now fa
mous pool was Joe Mills, a barber.
He is now in the Pioneer Home at j
Sitka.
Engineers have tried to figure
the correct dates many times, but
nature has defied them all.
Tickets are on sale at the Nome
Drug Store, Nevada Bar, Polar
Bar, and the Board of Trade.
GERMAN FAMILY DIED HER E—Hans Schroeder, a Wermacht soldier, places
some greenery on the rubble of his Kassel. Germany, home beneath which are buried his father,
mother, three sisters, wife and son. Schroeder served on the Russian front.
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
Approximately 460,000 workers
are idle in the continuing labor
disputes. Major developments:
Steel—Settlement of the nine
teen day steel strike, the country’s
biggest work stoppage, affecting
more than 850,000 workers ap
pears imminent. Government and
union officials express hopes for a
quick end as Truman cancels his
planned vacation to Florida, to re
new efforts to settle the wage dis
pute, reoffering the proposed 18Vfe
cents hourly wage hike. The gov
ernment is reportedly ready to of
fer industry a price increase of
about five twenty five a ton, the
White House statement said. “Im
mediate critical situation involv
ing problems requiring his per
sonal attention,” led to the cancel
lation of Truman’s trip.
Meat—The government’s fact
finding board recommends a 16
cent hourly wage increase in set
tling the meat industry’s wage
dispute; eleven cents to be cov
ered by price increase or federal
subsidy. The proposal is termed
“unfair to industry” by American
Meat Institute.
Shipping—AFL union leaders
predict the thirty-five hundred
tugboat men will ratify the terms
of a proposal and end the five
day walkout which has crippled
shipping in New York harbor and
sharply curtailed the city’s fuel
and food supplies.
DEATH REPORT
MUCHLY EXAGGERATED
Word has been received from
Grant Jackson of the Miners and
Merchants Bank, that Don Stew
art, who was reported dead some
time ago in Idaho, is well, in Seat
tle, and still interested in mining
in Alaska.
Ickes Would Settle
Alaska With
Immigrants
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8— (JP) —
The proposal of Secretary Ickes
to settle selected European immi
grants in Alaska will “never get
first base” in Congress, Delegate
Bartlett predicted in a recent
statement.
Ickes advocated the setting up
of Alaskan development corpora
tions to finance them through
commercial channels of bringing
European immigrants to Alaksa.
Under Ickes’ proposal they would
receive aid from the corporation
in getting settled and would have
to remain in Alaska until they be
came naturalized citizens.
Ickes predicted his plan would
bring “screams of protest.” Bart
lett replied he was not going to
scream because he knew there
was no chance of Ickes’ proposal
being approved. He said it was
about the same proposal Ickes
made before the war. Alaskans ‘
hoped it had been “decently bur
ied long since.”
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THIRD GAME IN CARD SERIES
HELD WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The third game of the series of
card parties being held by the;
Pioneers of Alaska was held last;
Wednesday evening in the Ma-1
sonic Temple, with the following
players the lucky winners:
Mrs. David Mazen, Mrs. A.
Dodderige, Mrs. Florence Wass
man. Mr. Aimer Rydeen, Ole Hay,
Pearce Walsh.
Leaders for the trophy are Mrs.
Minnie Brix, Mrs. Pete Reader,
Mrs. James Hewitt. The men in
the lead are Aimer Rydeen, W. J.
Dowd, and C. J. Woofter. s
Trap Site
Limitation Would
Bankrupt Alaska
SEATTLE. Feb. 8—f/P)—-W. C.
Arnold, managing director of the
Alaska Salmon Ind’ suj, Inc., said
the proposal of Secretary of the
Interior Ickes to limit each cor
poration or individual to twenty
fish traps in Southeastern Alaska
this season would “bankrupt the
Territory and retard postwar de
velopment, and prospects for
Statehood.”
Arnold said the salmon packers
operating traps in Alaska waters
would appear at the hearings
called by the secretary for Febru
ary twenty-first. “We have no
fear of the outcome.” The state
ment issued by Arnold “We are
convinced when the secretary of
the interior hears the true facts he
will not issue the proposed regu
lation.”
Arnold’s statement said the reg
ulation also would “disrupt the es
tablished channels of production
and trade, and render valueless
the millions of dollars of capital
invested in Alaska, and would
throw out laws and administrative
policies of long standing, and put
Seattle and Pacific Northwest
concerns, which played a promin
ent part in the development of
Alaska, out of business, and great
ly curtail food production at a
time when the entire world is fac
ing a critical food shortage, as re
vealed by President Truman.
MARGERY BOGART
ENROUTE TO KOTZEBUE
Miss Margery Bogart, secretary
to Archie Ferguson at Kotzebue,
arrived in Nome from Fairbanks,
enroute to Kotzebue. While wait
ing for transportation she made a
side trip to Cambell yesterday.
Eleven Still
l naeeoiinl(‘fl For
In \ ukon Disaster
KETCHIKAN. Feb. 8 — I/P)
The number of persons rescued
from the wreck of the Yukon
stood at 486, the Alaska Steam
ship Co. said in Seattle. Its list of
those unaccounted for totaled 11.
Barney O’Connor, of Northwest
Medical Supply Co., Seattle, said
the city’s supply of penicillin was
exhausted by the demands of the
Seward hospital. Penicillin was
found invaluable in the treatment
of various exposure ailments suf
fered by the men, women and
children who were saved from the
broken Yukon, O’Connor said.
The Coast Guard said it was not
releasing figures until the work of
checking was completed, but Alas
ka Lines information tallied with
its knowledge. Leslie Baker,
spokesman for the line said those
not accounted for were six mili
tary personnel, two crewmen and
three civilian passengers, and that
he wouldn’t release the names as
long as there was a possibility the
people could be located among the
survivors in Seward.
Word was received today from
Ken Rank that his mother is in
the hospital, suffering from shock
and bruises, and that his father
was safe in the hotel with him.
Word was also received from to
day from Ed Seidenverg, that the
plane he was on was forced down
at Hope, between Anchorage and
Seward, and he had to take a car
on into Seward and did not arrive
there until this morning. He found
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Seidenverg, were safe, and was re
turning with them to Anchorage
this afternoon.
Applications Filed
By Fisheries
SEATTLE. Feb. 8 — (&) — The
Seattle District U. S. Army En
gineers announced the receipt of
the following applications from
the Pacific American Fisheries.
Inc., Seattle, to construct a wharf
addition at Kasaan Bay on the
east coast of Prince Wales Island.
Anderson Dock Company. Seldo
via, two additions to the main
wharf in Seldovia Bay. 98 by 3(H)
feet and 45 by 143 feet. Liblx*y
Seattle Cannery, structures in
Monti Bay at Kakatat; Dr. George
E. Dickinson, Ketchikan, exten
sion of time permit for a float in
Ward Cove, north of Ketchikan,
Nels Ludwigsen, extension of time
permit for a marine way wharf
float in Tongass Narrows. Ketch
ikan.
PRATT AND WHITNEY
ENGINEERS IN NOME
Robert Baer and Sidney Perry,
airline engineers for the Pratt and:
Whitney aircraft engines in Con
necticut, are visiting in Nome for*
the first time. Mr. Perry was for
merly stationed in South Africa.