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WASHINGTON, (/P) — The Su
preme Court today upheld the con
stitutionality of the so-called
“death sentence” clause of the
public utility holding company
act.
NEW YORK, OP)—'Three mem
bers of Army’s regular backfield
—Arnold Tucker, Glenn Davis and
Felix Blanchard—are on the Asso
ciaeed Press’ all-eastern college
^football team announced today af
ter consultation with coaches,
scouts and reporters.
Along with that trio on the first
team is another of their cadet
playmates, Henry Foldberg, at
end.
Anthony (Skip* Minisi of Penn
sylvania, completes the first team
4frackfield.
MANILA, (TP) — Stricken with
poliomyelitis, seaman first class
Lee Clark, Seattle, was enroute to
the States today in an iron lung
flown acros sthe Pacific after an
improvised lung at the Samar
naval base broke down. Clark is
due at Moffett Field, Calif., Wed
nesday.
^ ST. PAUL, (/P) — A strike of
union teachers went into effect in
St. Paul’s public schools today a
few hours after an eleventh hour
offer of higher salaries had avert
ed a similar walkout in Minne
apolis. Picket lines were estab
lished at each of St. Paul’s 74
grade and high schools.
A
MIAMI, Fla. (UP)—Rice Institute
of Houston, Tex., will play Ten
nessee in the Orange Bowl New
Year’s Day, the Orange Bowl com
mittee announced today. The de
cision made it a certainty that Ar
kansas, only team to defeat Rice
in the southwest conference,
would be the conference host in
the Cotton Bowl.
OLYMPIA, (UP) — Governor
allgren said today that negotia
tions to purchase coal for heating
Washington State institutions from
private Canadian firms are pro
ceeding satisfactorily after the Ca
nadian government granted per
mission for such purchases during
the fuel emergency.
Vets Sell Five Tons
l%)f Food At Cost
SEWARD, (/P)—Ten thousand
pounds of meat, butter, eggs and
other staples, sold at cost by the
local Veterans of Foreign Wars
post, partially relieved the critical
food shortage here over the week
end after the community had been
declared a disaster area by the
Red Cross and acting Territorial
^ Governor Lew Williams issued a
Proclamation declaring a food
^shortage emergency existed.
V ^Williams’ declaration cleared
the way for the VFW post to se
cure more than two tons of army
surplus food from Kodiak and
seek similar supplies from An
chorage.
GERMAN GUNS PREPARED — German crew members of the Nazi cruiser Prinz
Eugen clean one of her forward eight-inch guns before the ship left Boston for firing tests.
Lewis To Stand
Trial for Contempt
Of Court
i
WASHINGTON, i>P) — John L.
‘Lewis today was ordered to stand
trial Wednesday on charges ol
contempt of court in the soft coal
; strike.
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds
boro ugh directed the trial after
! ruling that Lewis had not purged
! himself of contempt charges on
which he was cited Nov\ 21.Golds
! borough overrode objections of
1 counsel for the United Mine Work
j ers and their boss that his court
lacked jurisdiction,
i While Lewis sat silent in a
jammed courtroom, UMW counsel
^ Welly K. Hopkins argued that
Goldsborough lacked jurisdiction
! both to issue the order requiring
Lewis to rescind his no-contract
notice to the government which set
off the coal shutdown and to issue
the contempt citation which fol
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SS. Companies To
Ask 100% Increase
On Alaska Freight
JUNEAU—The Seattle Termin
al Association proposes to file new
terminal tariffs with the Maritime
Commission asking for one hun
dred percent increases on Alaska
shipments, according to word re
ceived Saturday by Attorney Gen
eral Ralph Rivers and George
Sundborg, general manager of the
Alaska Development Board, from
Governor Gruening in Washing
ton.
The new terminal increases
would apply to Alaska only. The
Territory and Development Board
are expected to make emphatic
protest, and to work actively for
maintenance of lowest possible
transportation costs.
Cordova Fighting
For Life; Strike
Shuts Off Food
’ORDOVA—It isn't very pleas
an. to watch a man slowly strangle
to death.
It is far worse to watch an en
tire town gasping for life, to see
the expedient- to keep on func
tioning, which would be amusing
if they weren’t so pathetic. If you
want drama in the jaw, come to
Cordova.
Cordova is in dire circum
stances, even worse than Sitka, its
transport and supply virtually cut
off for nearly thi'ee months due to
the maritime strike. Right now it
is fighting to keep alive until the
1 relief ship Grommet Reefer from
! Seattle arrives, next Monday or
Tuesday, they hope.
Take a brief look at this help
! less town as William Schulze,
i Seattle Post-Intelligencer corres
pondent saw it this morning:
I There are two groceries in town.
Both are closed, because they have
| nothing to sell. Nothing, that is,
I except such items as a few cans or
jars of such things as olives or
maraschino cherries, or a few
packages of paper napkins and the
like, items which don’t spell food
in any language. Grocery shelves
here are virtually bare.
The only supply has been by
i transport plane at $300 « ton.
Lines form at grocery doors when
these driblets come in, lines that
rival those for nylons in Seattle.
Merle Smith’s Cordova Air
Service, which has managed to
save the town thus far, brought in
three and a half tons of potatoes
the other day at 1 p.m. The stores
were sold out by 3 p.m. and no
| purchased got more than 10
pounds.
Ottawa Not
Interested In
Alaska Highway
VANCOUVER, B. C„ (/P.—U. S.
Senator Warren G. Ivlagnuson <D.
WashJ, struck out today at what
he termed the “backwardness” and
“traditional disinterest” of the
Canadian government at Ottawa
in development of the Canadian
west and said there is “a great
danger in this Ottawa attitude for
the people of the State of Wash
ington . . . becoming less import
ant in the Alaska supply picture.”
Magnuson, here to attend the
Pacific Northwest Trade associa
tion meeting today, said attitude of
the Canadian government “places
an almost insurmountable difficul
ty in the way of joint American
Canadian construction of a direct
highway through British Colum
bia linking the Pocific Northwest
states with Alaska.”
The Senator said he sensed a
feeling “they didn’t want to open
up the Canadian north.”
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Now Its Checkers
Dispute Holding
Up Alaska Freight
SEATTLE, (A1) — Representa
tives of the Washington Water
front Employers’ Association and
the AFL checkers’ association were
to meet with federal conciliators
today in an effort to iron out a
dispute over responsibility in hir
ing checkers, supervisors, and su
percargoes. Thee new dispute con
tinued the tie-up of Seattle ship
ping.
Also scheduled for today was a
meeting of the Alaska Relief
committee with officials of the
AFL sailors union of the Pacific
to select ships to carry relief car
goes to the Territory.
Town Meeting
Firings Out Many
People And Ideas
At the “Town Meeting,” called
by the City Council and held in
the Hi-School Gym Friday night
last, much in the way of ideas for
and against moving the townsite
of Nome was brought out. The
meeting was presided over by
Mayor Luther Dunbar, and aided
in the gathering of information by
members of the City Council.
Mayor Dunbar explained in
brief the purpose of the meeting
and then called upon M. S. Mitro
vitch, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, who then explained
that under the Chamber of Com
merce, two committees were work
ing on fact-finding—first on the
breakwater proposition; and sec
ond on the moving of Nome. G. R.
Jackson, president of the Miners
and Merchants Bank was called
upon by the mayor, but he had
’ nothing to say.
John McNees, member of the
committee to find all the facts
about the “possibility” of moving
the town, stated that although the
cost was bound to be great, the
.advantages to be had from a new
location were plentiful. We could
expect more healthful, enjoyable
and comfortable conditions, free
from major fire and storm catas
| trophes. Definitely the govern
ment should be called into the pic
ture, as the government holds the
greatest interest in the commun
; ity‘
Garnet Martin, owner of the
North Pole Bakery, pointed out
that although there were also
many objections to pulling up
stakes and moving he would favor
the move.
A. Polet said he was in receipt
of a letter from George Sundborg,
j manager of the Alaska Develop
ment Board, and that he would be
in Nome on the 29th of this month,
j to remain for several days, study
! ing the problems confronting
Nome at this time. He further
stated that before any concerted
action could be taken, the fact
finding committees of the Cham
1 ber of Commerce should continue
to function until all of the neces
sary facts are available and to be
presented at a subsequqeqnt meet
ing of the public or to be given to
the City Council.
Tommy Martin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Garnet Martin, stated that,
unless something was#begun in the
early part of next season of navi
gation, businesses on the south
side of Front Street would be
forced to move for self-pi eserva
tion.
Father A. Anable, pastor of St.
Joseph’s Catholic Parish, stated
his point rather well: “We must
ask the government for assistance,
but first we must know what we
are asking for. We have no sewers,
nor adequate drains, but we dn
have forests of rusty smoke pipes,
little or no fire protection, muddy
streets, swamp holes in all parts
of town, and very unhealthy and
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