New Company
lowers Freight
Rates To Alaska
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are being established with the
Alaska railroad for through serv
ice to Interior Alaska points, “to
give residents of those areas the
benefit of the new low Puget
Round-Alaska freight tariffs.”
It said a lease has been made
with the railroad for the site of a
dock to include barge and ship fa
cilities, at Whittier. Alaska.
“Construction has begun,’ the
statement added, “and when these
facilities are completed, cargo for
Anchorage, Fairbanks and other
interior points will move through
Whittier with additional savings.
t
“Interior-bound freight now
moves through Seward from
which rail-haul rates are sub
stantially higher than those on the
shorter Whittier route. Cost of the
Whittier installations may exceed
$1,500,000 and they will be con
structed in stages with barge-un
loading facilities to be completed
first. These will include provision
for unloading barges under
cover.”
“The lowest possible freight
rates for Alaska are the goal of
Alaska Freight Express corpora
tion,” De Long said. “The com
pany has great confidence in the
future of Alaska and feels that
low freight rates are essential for
its development.”
As “typical savings” the new
company listed rates on automo
biles and canned goods. It said
present freight rates on automo
biles, Seattle to Anchorage, are
$142 a ton, while the new com
pany’s rate will be $92 a ton. Pres
ent freight rates on canned goods,
it said, are $52 a ton for the same
distance, compared with the tug
barge rate of $43 a ton.
De Long said barge operations
on a large scale have proved suc
cessful.
“During the past year,” he said,
“over 600 pieces of railroad roll
ing stock including cars and loco
motives have been moved by tug
and barge from Seattle to Whittier
for the Alaska Railroad. We are
convinced that a barge operation
to Alaska is not only feasible but
it the answer to Alaska’s cry for
economical freight transportation.
De Long is president of the De
Long Engineering and Construe-;
tion company and vice president
of Ocean Tow, Inc. he was a con-!
struction superintendent for Mor-,
rison-Knutsen Company, Inc., in
Alaska before the war, and during
the war he was a colonel in the
Alaska Becomes
Tourist Mecca
SEATTLE, (/P) — The tourist
trade is an appreciable item these
days in the storied Yukon, about
which Robert W. Service wrote
many of his virile ballads, said T.
C. Richards in Seattle yesterday.
Richards is building an $80,000
addition to his Whitehorse Inn,
main hotel in that Yukon Terri
tory town, in anticipation of the
growing numbers of tourists vis
iting the scenes where Service’s
lusty characters lived their rugged
and adventurous lives. Richard’s
expansion consists of a three-story
addition containing 50 rooms, a
dining room and a banquet hall,
capable of seating 400 persons
each. The tourists will have it con
siderably less rugged than did the
heroes of Service’s strenuous stan
zas.
Placer mining is becoming in
creasingly important since open
ing of the Alcan highway, over
which machinery can be shipped,
Richards said. He flew here Sat
i urday night by Pan American
i clipper, with Mrs. Richards, to at
tend the Kiwanis conference to be
held this week.
Robert Price Rowe
, Sports Promoter
i Passes On
PORTLAND, Ore. (.^—Robert
Price Rowe, 60, veteran Oregon
sports promoter in fields ranging
from auto racing to tennis, died at
his home last night.
“Bobby Rowe, as he was known
in the sports world, introduced
auto racing to this area about the
time of World War I. Only two
years ago, when illness forced
him into semi-retirement, did he
stop handling the midget auto
races which he inaugurated in
1938.
Canadian-born, Rowe entered
promoting via the ice arena, play
ing defenseman with ice hockey
teams of Toronto, Windsor, Ontar
io, and Seattle, from 1906 on.
After retiring from active par-1
ticipation, Rowe organized a pro- J
fessional ice hockey team here,
leading it for many years.
MISS IRENE COE SPENT
SUMMER IN COUNCIL
Miss Irene Coe, who has spent!
the summer with Mrs. L. E. Ost of
Council, arrived yesterday enroute
to her home in Seattle.
Engineer Corps, Alaska depart
ment.
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SPECIAL NOTICE— The last sailing for Nome and St. Michael
This year. The MS JUMPER HITCH September 20th.
SS ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seward for
Valdes, Cordova. Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle, Sept. 25th.
SS DENALI scheduled to sail from Seward for
Yakut at, Ketchikan and Seattle, Sept. 29th.
—
88 BARANOF Scheduled to tail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdes and Seward Sept. 27th.
—
Reservations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent '
!
Irish Setters Heirs
To Fortune
LOS ANGELES. </P(—A pair of
Irish Setters named Pat and Gun
ner, designated heirs to a $30,000
estate, and their benefactor, the
late Carleton R. Bainbridge. led a
companionable life, the coil'd was
informed.
Attorney Harold A. Fendler,
representing Sherman Bainbridge,
brother of Carleton, said Friday
that the dogs went to the movie;
with their master, slept ir. the
| same bed and ate off the tame
plate with him.
i “And he read them bedtime sto
ries.” declared Fendler, arguing
that Bainbridge, one-time promin
ent attorney .suffered from illu
sions after a long illness. The
brother is contesting the will on
those grounds.
NOTICE
Written applications for the fol
lowing positions in the Nome Fire
Department shall be received in
the City Clerk’s Office until 5:00
o’clock p.m., Monday, Sept. 22,
1947:
I Chief of Fire and Police Depart
ment . $400.00 per mon'h
Utility Man.$300.00 per month
CITY OF NOME,
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk.
Pub. Sept. 10, 12. 15, 17, 19, 22.
Classified Ads
FOR SALE—One Emerson port
able, battery electric radio, like
new $40; one electric radio-pho
nograph combination with rec
ords $50; one Hamden 17-jewel
man’s pocket watch, completely
overhauled, $35; one new set
power tools with case, (Casco)
$25; one new Sessions electric
aeroplane clock $20; Thompson,
The Eye-Glass Man, Nevada
Building. 114-tf
FOR SALE — 9-Room Residence
and furniture, $3,000. Timbers
and building sections, ,15 percent
below market. Also Trailer and
Go-Devil. Edw. Horen. 114-2tp
FOR SALE—Single garage, good
condition. See Mrs. Emma Lyle,
569 King Place. 114-3t
WANTED—Capt. and Mrs. Harry
Strong are looking for a good,
warm, 4-room house to rent for
about two years. Will be entirely
responsible for property. Call
Nugget. !ll-3t
FOR - SALE—New, never used, 8
MM Eastman with leather car
rying case, one magazine film,
used Kodascope Projector. Call
Black 133 evenings. 112tf
FOUND—Pair glasses in case near
west end of town. Call at Nug
get office and identify. Ill-tf
FOR SALE D-4 Caterpillar Dozer.
See Grover Andre at Glacier
Creek. 112-6tp
DREAM
THEATER
—•—
1 Show, Sept. 22 and 23, 7:30 P.M.
Monday and Tuesday f
"INCENDIARY BLONDE'
Betty Hutton
Arturo de Cordova
Also "Bronjr and Brands"
—•—
1 Show, Sept. 24 and 25, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"LETTER FOR EVIE" '
Maria Hunt John Carrol
Also "Congo"
Jury Acquits In
“Mercy” Slaying ,
READING, Pa. (JP) — “Thank
! you—ph, thank you very much,”
a wan-faced middle aged spinster
sobbed to a jury of seven men and
i five women in acqutting her of
murder in the “mercy” slaying of
her invalid, 71-year-old mother.
Friends and neighbors who had
i stood with Ella M. Haug in the
courtroom as she waited through
the two and a half hours the jury
1 deliberated last night, rushed to
congratulate the weeping woman,
and several invited her to their
homes to rest.
The state charged that Miss
Haug gave her mother, Mrs. Katie
Latshaw, an incurable invalid. 12
barbiturate tablets last July 20,
and then took 15 herself in an un
successful suicide attempt.
A signed statement in which
Miss Haug admitted administering
the tablets to her mother “to end
her suffering” was introduced in
I evidence.
The defense contended the bar
j biturate tablets did not cause the
| mother’s death.
STAN THOMPSONS RETURN
FROM PROSPECTING TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Thomp
son, formerly operators of the
Snack Shack, returned from the
Noatak where they have been all
summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and
Walter Dowd were brought to
town late Saturday by pilot Seeds.
Two native hunters were the only
other people they chanced to see
during the whole season.
They state that they had a won
j derful time, spent mostly at the
1 headwaters of the Noatak. where
the scenery was gorgeous. They
explored and prospected around
that area and lived off the coun
try, as game and fish were abun
dant.
Mrs. Thompson stated that they
didn’t find the rich gold mine but
“next time” they would. Stan is
i leaving for the Outside today by
Alaska Airlines and Mrs. Thomp
son will follow in about a week.
MISS ARLENE ANDERSON
I VISITING AMUNDSENS
Miss Arlene Anderson arrived
from Unalakleet yesterday to visit
» with the Amundsens for a week.
SALE
To reduce stock
SEVERAL GROUPS OF FUR PARKAS
ARE BEING OFFERED
AT DRASTICALLY CUT PRICES
One Group
Spotted Seal Jackets
Reduced
From $95.00 to $67.50
From $75.00 to $47.50
1 only Squirrel Jacket ,
From $90.00 to $49.50
Reindeer Jackets
From $05.00 to $49.50
Children's Fur Garments
Several Sizes
Now $25.00 and $1«.50
Ladies Rabbit Coat
Reduced from $125.00 to $75.00
Ladies Spotted Seal Coat
Reduced from $125.00 to $85.00
A.POLET
Specializing in
GENUINE ALASKAN ARTCRAFT
Carved Ivory - Curios - Model Baskets
Handmade Fur Garments - Native Footwear
Raw and Dressed Furs
Wholesale and Retail