AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Saturday a trip was made to
White Mountain, bringing back
Ray Foster. Passenger from Golo
vin was Abbot Moses.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers at noon
today on the Alaska Airlines plane
were Glenn Jefferson and Dave
Dishaw from Anchorage, Mrs.
John Dahlstrom from Unalakleet,
and Mrs. R. L. Hladky from Moses
Point. There were no outgoing
passengers.
At The Hotels
WALLACE HOTEL
Gus Brusilus, Anchorage. J. M
Ferguson, Juneau. I. J. Thomas,
Anchorage. John Cross, Deering.
Greg Ewing, Cape Nome.
PATERSON HOTEL
Lydia Berry, Kotzebue. Mabel
Neilson, Kotzebue.
To Help Other
Nations In Atomic*
Research
LONDON, </P) — The British
atomic scientists association un?** '
today that the United States, Brit
ain and Canada immediately give
other nations help in setting up
atomic research plants “of little
use for military research.”
“It would be a generous and
helpful measure if the nations
now possessing the most advanced
knowledge of atomic energy were
to offer to other nations collabora
tion in setting up small atomic re
actors,” a 2,400-word statement by
the association’s council said.
Atomic reactors are ovens which
produce heat, radioactive rays and
new atoms. The association said
i they “are of little use for military
purposes, but are valuable for the
purposes of scientific research and
for the production of tracer ele
ments for research in medicine and
other fields.”
Italian Premier
Gasperi Resigns
ROME, (>P)—Premier Alcide de
Gasperi said late today that he was
submitting his resignation to pro
visional president Enrico de Ni
cola.
ite made the announcement in
clarifying a prepared statement he
read to a news conference in
clarifying a prepared statement he
lead to a news conference in
which he had said he was putting
it up to the provisional president
whether his six-month-old, four
power government should continue
; in office.
A newsman asked:
“Does this mean that you are
‘opening the crisis’?”
The premier replied:
“It seems to me perfectly clear.
I am submitting my resignation to
President de Nicola.
He said he had decided it was
“opportune to apepal to the au
thority of the president of the re
public and have recourse to gen
eral consultation.’’
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PIONEERS HELD v
HOUSE WARMING
Last Saturday evening the P.o
j neers held a house warming and
farewell for the Delegates to the
Grand Igloo convention, with leg
islators of Second Division as the r
special guests.
Chairman Rube Creamer in
troduced Mike Walsh as toastmas
ter who praised president Aimer
Rydeen for the many hours of
work he has put into the prepara
tion of the new meeting place.
President Rydeen responded
that he had enjoyed the work he
was doing but that it could no.
have been accomplished had it not
been for the co-operation of the
other members of the order.
Grand president, Antonio Polet
told of the arrangement he had
made for the meeting of the Grand
Igloo while he was in Juneau last
week.
The program was then turned
over to Father Anable who showed
some very fine movies of King Is
land, Holy Cross and life of na
tives around Nome.
Dancing to the music of Helen
Nordlind on the piano and Aimer
Rydeen on the violin followed af
ter which a buffet lunch was
served.
During the lunch Senators Chas.
Jones. O. D. Cochran, Bill Munz
and Tolbert Scott told of their
plans and hopes for the coming
legislature and Representatives
Ed Anderson and W. W. Laws
also responded. C. C. Tanner was
also called upon for a few words
After the lunch the crowd clam
ored for more dancing.
LEFTERIS RIGHT
CAPETOWN (/P)—Omiros Elef
theriou Ierodiaconou said his name .
was a handicap in business and
asked to have it changed to Left
eris.
Byrnes Signs
Peace Treaties
WASHINGTON, I/Pf—Secretary
of State Byrnes, as a final official
act, signed the World War II peace
treaties with Italy, Hungary, Ro
mania and Bulgaria.
Chair man Vandenberg <R.
Mich>. of the Senate foreign rela
tions committee and Senator Con
nally (D.-Tex.), who took part in
the 16 months of negotiations on
the compacts, were at Byrnes’ side
in the ceremony at the state de
partment.
There will be a second signing
of the treaties at Paris, Feb. 10,
when representatives of the enemy
satellite states will affix their sig
natures.
Other Allies will sign the treat
ies at the same time. Ambassador
Jefferson Caffery will act then
for the United States.
Today’s ceremony was arrang
ed chiefly to permit Byrnes to sign
the treaties before turning over his
office to General George C. Mar
shall.
Bark Beetle Threat
To Sitka Spruce
PORTLAND, Ore. f/P)—A bark
beetle threatens extensive loss of
Sitka spruce stands in Alaska and
the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon
Academy of Science heard today.
Robert L. Furniss of the U. S.
Burean of Entomology and plant
quarantine, said a survey last
summer on Kosciusko Island, 100
miles west of Ketchikan, disclosed
35,000,000 board feet of timber de
stroyed in Alaska’s best stand of
(Sitka spruce.
They warned of the danger ofi
similar outbreaks in the Pacific
Northwest.
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