AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Wien Airlines arrived from
Fairbanks yesterday bringing John
Herbert and Lou Hanake, both of
whom are enroute to Candle.
Bertha Stedje was taken home
to Teller.
Frank Glasier of the Biological
Survey was brought to Nome from
Teller.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Pan American arrived Monday
night bringing Ed Dahlman, Har
vey Gilverson, Stan Bartlett. Mary
Hodgman was a round trip pas
senger. Passengers from Tanana
were Belinda Creamer and Rosa
Enaruk.
Departing were B. B. Mozee,
Chas. Petmakalick, A. Polet and
Mary Buck for Galena.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Frank Glasier, Teller. Paul
Puckett, Anchorage.
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Investigate Two
Ship Accidents i
SEATTLE, UP) — The Coast
Guard started a preliminary in
vestigation today of recent acci
dents to the steamships Alaska en .
North Sea on the Alaska run.
Comdr. J. W. Malen, senior in
vestigating officer, said the in
quiry by the merchant marine in
vestigating unit would determin
whether'there was negligence o-j
inattention to duty on the part o"
officers on watch and whether a;
formal hearing is necessary.
The Alaska, which went ashore
near Cordova February 22, arrived
here yetserday with a six-foot ce
ment patch covering two holes n
her hull. After discharging cargo,
the vessel will got on drydock lot
survey.
The North Sea has been on a
reef near Bella Bella, B. C., since
last Thursday. Salvage operations
are proceeding.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Need More Money
For Air Safely
WASHINGTON, t/P)—Increased
federal appropriations to promote
tfe flying were recommended to
day by the House commerce com
mittee. It sharply criticized ‘‘too
much delay in adapting wartime
developments to commercial and
private flying.”
The comAiittee’s recommenda
tions were contained in an interim
eport, covering the first month of
its study of the causes and cures
of plane disaster. It called for a
number of steps to be taken im
mediately.
The committee did not specify
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the size of the increases it wants
for air safety.
SON OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES
PIERCE BURIED TODAY
The young son of Mr. and Mrs. j
James Pierce aged five weeks, who |
died yesterday, was buried today j
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission, with Rev. R. Amundsen
reading the service.
/ALASKA'S. ^ FIRST^i AIRLINE-"^7
Announces
NEW FAST AIR CARGO SERVICE
SEATTLE-NOME
Any and All Classes Freight
40c lb.
RATES ON POUND BASIS
NO CUBIC MEASUREMENT
NO LIMITATION TO SIZE OR WEIGHT
Wien Alaska Airlines has united with Alaska
Air-Cargo Consolidators, a new Alaskan Com
pany organized in Fairbanks to provide top
flight air freight.
Now and In the Future - - -
Address supplies “Ship via Alaska Air Cargo
Consolidators, North Gate *Boeing Field.”
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BLANKET INSURANCE COVERAGE
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(Full Protection at No Extra Cost)
For Further Information Call Wien Alaska — MAIN 46
Alaska SS. Co. Aids
Anchorage Obtain
Needed Machinery
The Alaska Steamship Company
has been instrumental in removing
a tangle of red tape which had
prevented shipment by rail from
North Carolina of brickmaking
machinery urgently needed in An
chorage, according to an announce
ment today by the Alaska Devel
opment Board.
Acting oh a suggestion from
Board General Manager George
Sundborg in Juneau, J. D. Nelson
traffic manager of the steamship
company, arranged to have th”'
Seattle representative of the Asso
ciation of American Railroads
wire to North Carolina a permit
which will remove an embargo
placed on the shipment because of
crowded dock conditions in Seat
tle.
The plant manufacturing the
.machinery has started it roll in"
toward the Pacific Coast to con
nect with a sailing about Febru
ary 25. The Southern Railroad had
previously refused to accept the
shipment. The machinery is to be
used at Anchorage in a small brick
plant which has been receiving en
couragement and assistance by the
Territorial Commissioner of Mines
and the Alaska Development
Board.
U. S. manufactures about 90,
000,000 tons of steeel every year.
(PILOT COPLIN BRINGS
! AIR FREIGHT TO NOME
Pilot Harry Coplin arrived from
Elim this morning with freight
and will return to Elim this after
noon with freight for that point,
je fore returning to Haycock, his.
home.
VI'S DRESS SHOP
ENLARGED
Vi’s Dress Ehop has recently
oeen enlarged for additional dis
play of new dresses and such, ar
iving on each plane.
EMERGENCY OPERATION
FOR APPENDICITIS
Robert Lewis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Norvin Lewis, had an emer
gency operation for appendicitis
Monday night in the M. C. Hospi
tal. He is reported to be doing very
nicely, and expects to be home in .
a few days to recuperate.
CLUB TOURNAMENT
NEARING CLOSE
The Bering Sea Club bridge
tournament is nearing a close with
only one more party scheduled for
the series. Those now holding the
high scores are Hank Miller with
21,840 points, Mrs. Nels Swanberg
20,900, Roger Johnson 20,660, and
Mrs. Paul Mandeville with 19,170.
A tournament game is scheduled
for the near future.
Before 1939, most of the world’s
optical glass was produced in Eng
land, Belgium, Czechoslavakia and
Germany.
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