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VOL. XLIX. No. 18 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAYTFEBRUARY 10, 1947 PER COPY—15c'
NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, (A*)—An official an
nouncement said today Prime
t Minister Stalin was renominated
unanimously to the Supreme Sov
iet of the Russian Soviet Federal
Socialist Republic; the largest in
the the Soviet Union.
The announcement said there
were 110,691 votes in Stalin’s dis
trict and that every one of them
voted for the generalissimo.
The announcement said the re
sults of the elections for the Su
preme Soviet (parliament) in seven
^£>f the all-union republics and in
the 15 autonomous republics were
sweeping approval of present gov
ernment leaders.
SEATTLE, </P)—Clyde Ellis, 51,
widely known Anchorage attorney
died here early Sunday of a heart
attack. Ellis, who had returned re
cently from a trip to Washington,
D. C., suffered the attack unex
- pectedly Saturday night. He died
early Sunday at the Seattle Ma
rine hospital.
Ellis was a former district attor
ney at Anchorage, and was prom
inent in veterans’ and civic affairs
Survivors include his wife, a
daughter, son, father, sister and
three brothers. Funeral services
will be Wednesday at 1 p.m., at
Butterworth’s Funeral home, Seat
tle.
WASHINGTON, (^—Chairman
Thomas <R.-N. J.) of the House
committee on un-American activi
ties, wrote Attorney General Clark
today that a “crack-down” on “tht
Moscow-directed fifth column” in
this country is “long overdue.”
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (/P)—
The United Nations security coun
cil by a 9 to 0 vote today approved
a United States resolution instruct
ing the council’s Balkans commis
sion to keep hands off death sen
tences of nationals of the countries
it is investigating.
JUNEAU, (JP)— Juneau voters
will ballot in the April municipal
election on whether the city should
purchase the electric light and wa
ter systems now serving the resi
dents. Decision to place the ques
tion on the ballot was decided by
the city council Saturday.
SEATTLE, (£*) — Statehood for
Alaska was urged today as a mea
sure of national security by Dr.
Warren S. Moore of Bellingham,
state commander of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
“As an air base, Alaska has be
come one of the key strategic areas
of the world,” he said, pointing out
also that the territory offered a
new frontier of war veterans.
PORTLAND Ore., (/P)—A three
week study of Alaska merchandis
ing methods, warehouse facilities
and credit will be made by a rep
resentative of the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce beginning this
week.
George M. Henderson, assistant
manager of the foreign trade and
^ shipping department of th^ cham
ber, leaves today for the Territory.
He will visit Anchorage first, then
plans to go to Fairbanks and then
to Juneau.
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N E W NAVY DESTROYE R—Against a backdrop of lower Manhattan skyscrapers, the
USS William M. Wood steams from Its “birthplace”—the Federal shipyard at Pt, Newark, N. J.
Bering Sea Fish
; Possibilities To
Be Explored
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Fish
and Wildlife Service disclosed
| plans today to dip into one of the
greatest remaining untapped reser
voirs of seafood, the Bering Sea.
If the experiment north of the
! Aleutians next Spring and summer
is successful, U. S. private enter
prise may move into the Central
Pacific.
The core of the experiment, and
the center of close observation by
observation by other governments
and the entire American fishing
j industry, is a fantastically com
I plex floating factory, the first of
its kind.
The 410-foot “Pacific Explorer”
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! CAA Recommends
Airports for Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The Civil
Aeronautics Administration recom
mended today that 25 airports in
Alaska be constructed or improved
within the next three years.
They are among 4,431 airports
in the entire country which ad
ministrator T. P. Wright said
should be built or improved in
that period.
The list summarizes the national
airport plan which the administra
tor is required to prepare and re
vise annually unde terms of the
federal aid airport act.
From it will be selected the pro
jects to be included in the con
struction program for the 1948 fis
cal year, starting July 1, depend
ing upon the amount of money ap
propriated by Congress and the
relative urgency of each project.
The airports are located at the
following points:
Anchorage, Candle, Circle Hot
Springs, Craig, Dillingham, Fair
banks, Fort Yukon, Haines, Healy
Cross, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak,
Kotzebue, Fortuna Ledge, Naknek
Village, Palmer, Petersburg, Sel
dovia, Seward, Stoney River, Val
dez, Wainwright and Wrangell.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 7, 6:30 P.M.—
The House passed bills 14 and 15,
relating to the type and construc
tion of barns for livestock, also
transferring the jurisdiction of the
Governor over veterinarians and
livestock inspectors to the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The Governor signed the first
legislation of the present session,
Senate Bill 6 appropriating $5,000
to the Department of Public Wel
fare for old age assistance during
the remainder of the biennium
ending March 31.
Pollard introduces a memorial
! asking for another judge in the
j Third Division.
The Senate passed the Walker
Bill terminating on March 31,
1949, the special World War II
veterans tax.
Sen. Norman D. Walker (D.-lst
Div.) introduced a bill providing
for a uniform system of public li
braries in Alaska, setting the ap
propriation at $100,000 for the set
up.
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Griffin Elected
Alaska Labor Head
JUNEAU, (/P)—H. Felton Grif
fin, Anchorage painter, was elected
head of the Alaska Territorial
Federation of Labor here Sunday
at the concluding session of the
five-day labor gathering.
Lauri Johnson, Fairbanks, cu
linary workers representative, wa?
elected to the newly-created office
of executive secretary, and Doro
thy Plum, president of the Juneau
central labor council and also a
culinary workers representative
was named to the office of treas
urer. Permanent headquarters will
be set up in Juneau.
Fairbanks was chosen by the 150
delegates largest ever to attend a
Territorial labor gathering, as the
site of the 1948 convention.
A resolution opposing repeal of
the equal rights act by the legisla
ture was adopted.
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Power Shutdown
Closes Half Of
Britain’s Industry
LONDON, (TP)—The gravest fuel
famine in British history closed
down more than half the King
dom’s industry today, throwing
more than 4,000,000 workers into
idleness ahcl restoring the wohle
sale dole.
Prime Minister Attlee said he
could not forecast how soon the
industrial crisis would end, and
indicated spring might come be
fore homes in the affected areas
could return to normal power con
sumption. The homes, many o
them dependent in part on elec
tricity for heat, had to forego the
use of electricity for five hours
daily beginning today, while in
dustries in 38 of the 64 English
and Welsh counties had to suspend
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Portal Cases To
Supreme Court
DETROIT, (/P)—With the bless
ings of federal district judge Frank
A. Picard, the multi-billion dollar
portal pay dispute appeared des
tined today to return to Congress
and the Supreme Court for linal
settlement.
Labor attorneys planned to car
ry Judge Picard’s decision dis
missing the Mt. Clemens Pottery
co. to the nation’s highest court
and maintained it would have lit
tle or no bearing on hundreds of
other portal suits on file in other
districts.
Spokesmen for American indus
try, from which some $4,800,000,
000 is sought in portal claims, gen
erally commended the ruling.
Many felt, however, that revision
of the faiF labor standards (wage
hour) act still was “urgent.”
As fo^Picard himself, he has ex
pressed on numerous occasions a
wish that the case would be ap
pealed once again to the Supreme
Court, which injected the portal
to-portal theory in the original dis
pute over alleged unpaid overtime.
Legislature Busy
With Taxes And
Liquor Business
(By Mildred Hermann)
A bill by Huntley and Pollard
from Third Division and laws, and
most from the First would put the
Territory in the wholesale liquor
business by requiring all retail
dealers to buy only from the Terri
torial commission set up to handle
the matter.
Bill by McCutcheon of Anchor
age, introduced yesterday would
put the Territory in the retail li
quor business. This would estab
lish Territorial stores operated
without profit which would be the
j >ole source of supply to the public
for liquor. It would put all present
liquor establ'shments out of busi
ness. This bill will have consider
able back as it has been requested
by a large number of organizations
, and individuals as a remedy to the
present deplorable situation due to
the handling of liquor. It should
smoke out some liquor lobbyists.
_
Boyle, Territorial auditor yester
j day sent a list of registered lobby
ists to both houses. Will cover in
detail in my next newsletter. It
contains mostly the names of can
nery and mining lobbyists and
representatives of organized labor.
Senate bill 16 was up for con
sideration yesterday and it held
the Senate busy until late in the
afternoon, introduced by Walker.
It would give the speaker of the
House and the president of the
Senate appointing power for the
tax commissioner, taking that
power away from the Governor.
An attempt was made Saturday
to prove the incompetence of the
present tax commission, M. P.
Mullaney in the hearing on the
bill. Also to show that Greuning
had thumbed his nose at the Sen
ate in the matter of the appoint
ment.
Mullaney was called to the stand
and closely questioned. The ques
tioning revealed a great deal of de
linquents in the matter of paying
[ the sales tax especially in the Sec
ond Division, which paid only
about $14,000 last year. Senators
believe much more than $140,000
worth of business was done in the
Second Division and sharply ques
tioned Mullaney regarding this.
Mullaney admits many delin
quents in all parts of the Territory,
including the Second Division, but
says he does not have sufficient
staff to handle the situation. He
seemed entirely able to handle the
situation here and met the Senate
inquisition with flying colors.
The Governor was called to the
stand to explain why he had failed
4n ^nno’^t another tax commis
sioner after Mullaney was not
J confirmed by the Senate last
I Marc'\ Gnienn” "ead a mass of
correspondence showing details re
the Mullaney appointment on the
j recommendation of the previous
tax commissioner under whom he
had worked and said that he had
j no one else w:th the oualifications
j required by the law to offer as a
candidate. That he either had to
retain Mullaney as a holdover or
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