Climbers To Study
Cosmic Rays
EDMONTON CP)—Ahe ascent of
Alaska’s 20,300-foot Mt. McKinley,
•lighest peak on the North Ameri
can continent took off today on the
first leg of the expedition.
Objects of the two-months Alus
can expedition, which will have a
personnel of 12, will include cos
mic ray research, glacial motion
■ es earch photographic records,
irmy clothing and equipment tests,
md weather observations on the
ipeak—known as “the cradle of
evil weather.”
The party, which will include
Hugo Victoreen, university of Chi
cago physicist and cosmic day re
jearcher, will remain on the huge
mountain from early April through
May described by the 36-year-old
Washburn as “the best months of
the year.” Washburn who climbed
McKinley in 1942 with a U. S.
Army party when he was an air
forces consultant, said, “It gets
mightly cold on the mountain." He
explained three thermometers cal
ibrated to 129 degrees below zero
had been contributed by the Amer
ican Alpine Club of New York.
He said the party, which plans
to use ski-equipped planes to as
sist in moving supplies, would be
in Alaska on Friday but added, “If
conditions are difficult, none of us
may get up the mountain.” He said
the group would fly to Anchorage
from Minneapolis.
The party expects to have a base
camp at 6,000 feet on Muldrow
glacier with “five projected ad
vance camps at heights of 7,500.
11,000, 12,000, 15,000 and 18,000
feet,” Washburn said. “It’s hard to
say which of the phases of the ex
pedition are the most important,”
he added, “but the cosmic ray re
search, first of its type in extreme
altitude and far northern latitude,
takes a prominent place.”
University of Chicago equip
ment for this research will be
dropped by parachute by the Alas
ka air command of the army air
forces—possibly in the loft saddle
between McKinley’s two summits.
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Chalmers Stike
Ends; Unsettled
MILWAUKEE, {#)—The longest
major strike in the nation, UAW
CIO local 248’s bitter and spas
modically bloody struggle at the
home plant of the AllL-Chalmers
Mfg. Co., ended without a settle
ment today as lines of production
workers filed quietly into the vast
works.
A company check showed
“slightly less than 5,000” produc
tion workers reporting on the first
shift. On Friday, the last working
day before the strike ended, 4,300
production workers reported. A
company spokesman said other
workers “probably would trickle
back” as they left temporary jobs
held elsewhere.
West Allis police capt. Harvey
G. Dieckhoff said there were no
clashes between union men and
employees who remained at w'ork
or returned to their jobs during
the 328-day-old strike. \
NOTICE OF ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the annual Municipal and
School Board election will be held
on April 1st, 1947. at the City Hall.
| Nome, Alaska, for the purpose of
electing the following officers, viz:
Mayor; three members of the
Common Council; City Treasurer;
City Attorney; City Clerk and a
member of the School Board.
Polls will open at 8:00 AH and
close at 6:00 P.M.
Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish Mar. 21 and 24.
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man's shop on Second and B
streets Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
NOTICE
Petitions circulating for the
forthcoming Municipal Election,
must be filed in the City Clerk's
office no later than March 25th at
5:00 p.m.
Carrie M. McLain.
City Clerk
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compensation act, also cutt ng
waiting time for filing claims lo
benefits; revise the law relating U>
the election of municipal utility
boards; empowering auditor as ap
proving board for all claims
against the Territory.
Introduced during Saturday by
Almquist, Ost, Burnett, Nolen,
Egan, Frank Johnson, Hope, IV
i lard, Ed Anderson, Huntley, Eng
. strom, Garnick, and Newell was
I a bill to levy a general net income
j tax. This is the same bill intro
j duced in the Senate by Rivers and
Walker, which the Senate killed by
a 7 to 9 vote.
Among the major House joint
memorials passed Saturday by the
Senate were: urging public roads
administration and Congress to al
lot Alaska her full share of fores;
road funds to carry through pro
jects authorized; urging Alaska
be refunded fifty per cent of the
income tax money collected lr m
Alaskans; urging the designation
of the Alaska Highway for Emer
gency transportation of mail to the
Second and Fourth Divisions; ask
ing Congress to repeal the laws re
stricting whites from owning rein
deer.
The Senate killed House bills,
requiring public utility companies
to pay the legal interest rate on
vide pay raises for Territorial of
ficials; to establish a system of ex-'
perience rating credits for employ-;
ers coming under unemployment'
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.iH, by t ie high school children.
Contribut.on boxes will also be
found in the business houses for
voluntary offerings.
Everyone is urged to do their bit
for this fund, the tot.nl of which is
ir.atc ’ed by federal funds for the
care of the unfortunate children
rnd adults of the entire Territory.
Through the efforts of the Terri- .
tonal department of health and *
the Alaska Crippled Children’s As
sociation. seven crippled children
are leaving Nome tonight to enter
the new orthopedic hospital at
Sitka.
WASHINGTON, -(/P)—Rep. Nor
man (R.-Wash.), said today House
debate on the sugar control bill
‘ made it clear” Washington State >
would receive enough sugar this
year for home canning.
meter deposits; also authorizing
federal officers to enforce liquor
laws. Both indefinitely postponed.
Governor Gruening was given
another tantalizer Saturday after
noon when the House by a vote of
18 to 6 overrode his veto of the net
tax on production for mines. The
Senate overrode the veto several
days ago by a vote of 13 to 3. Alm
quist, Barnett. Garnick, Huntley,
McCutcheon and Gill voted to sus
tain the veto.
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