STRIKE ON
RAIL LINES
IS CRITIC A!
Scores of Freight Trains
Cancelled in Switchmen's
"Sick Call" Walkout
(By Associated Press)
Rail links between New York and
the rest of the country were break
ing apart today.
Elsewhere, the crisis caused by
the switchmen’s “sick call" strike
was growing more critical.
With the nation's economy threat
ened. the government pressed to
end the walkout. A Federal Court
hearing was scheduled in Chicago
in one of the legal actions against
the rail union and its officers.
Twenty-five major trains connec
ting New York with the West were
cancelled.
Both the New York Central and
the Pennsylvania shut off vital
commuter service between New
York and many suburbs.
Other cities had similar prob
lems.
Passenger Service Hit
Cincinnati, a Union terminal of
ficial said, will be without passenger
train service within 24 hours unless
the strike ends. Normally, 111 pas
senger trains daily move in and out
of Cincinnati.
An Army spokesman said that
only the Rock Island and Chicago
Great Eastern roads are operating
normally at Chicago. Others, he
went on. are ‘‘hobbling along with
supervisors throwing the switches.
A shutdown of eight Ford Motor
Company plants because of parts
and materials shortages resulting
from the freight tie-up threw some
12.500 Ford employes out of work.
Closing of the Kansas City plant
wTas caused by both the rail strike
and a power failure. If power is [
restored, the plant probably will be '
reopened tomorrow.
Communters Hit
Millions of long-distance pas
sengers and big city commuters
were hit by railroad curtailments.
Bus strikes added to the trans
portation tie-up. The worst of these
was in New Jersey where 1.600,000
bus and trolley riders were without
service.
The way was paved, however, for
early settlement of the one-day-old
strike on the vast Public Service
i.ran portation sy tern. which has
been seized by the state of New
Jersey.
Officials of the company and
AFL Union leaders reached a con
tract agreement.
RUSH FOR AUTO TAGS
There was a i ash at the City
Clerk's office yesterday for auto
license plates. C L. Popejoy said
today. Approximately 1.000 tags for
the Gastineau Channel area have
been sold to date. This is still about
half of the •normal yearly total.
Be on Time or Else
Formal drtss isn't required at this Marine (.'orp galley in Korea hut the tardy leatherneck will be a
hungry one. Sgt. William Mack (left) of St. Louis, Mo., and CpI. Louis Watteau, Eicknell, Ind., past
chow !iour> above Marines’ gibe about President Truman’s reference to their corps. UP! Wirephoto.
Radioactive
Minerals Ire
Found in Terr
Prospectors in Alaskr may have I
the opportunity to cash in on a
bonus of $10,000 proposed to be i
awarded by the territory for the
discovery of qualified amounts of
uranium within its bounaaries.
A press release issued vrorn the
' office of the Territorial Department
i of Mines reveals that samples com
; ing to its offices have indicated
, radioactive minerals to have been
discovered in three widely separated
j mining districts in the territory.
Uraninite has been recognized in
samples submitted from the Hyder
i area in Southeast Alaska, from
Medfra in the Kuskokwim area, and
] from the Haycock area on the Sew -
\ ard Peninsula.
Leo H, Saarela, Commissioner of
Minos, said that from what is l ow
known, it is certain that Alaska
contains uranium in the same geo
| logic setting as elsewhere in the
I world.
In his message to The Alaska
Legislature, Gov. Gruening called
attention to the possibilities of dis
* coveries of uranium in the terri
tory. He recommended that an ap
propriation of a $10,000 bonus bo
made for a discovery of uranium
j which would meet certain specifi
cations to be designated. I' is un
derstood a bill to provide a bonus
1 for uranium discovery will be prr
1 sented to the Legislature.
In Southeast Alaska uranium
minerals have been identified in
the dikes of the Hyder area which
are genetically related to the igne
ous rocks of the Coast Range b^th
olith. A great deal of prospecting is
necessary here before the true econ
omic value of the area can be esti
mated, Saarela said.
In the Kuskokwim area near
Medfra, uranium minerals have
been identified in a lode adjacent
to an area of instrusive rocks. The
rue economic value of this locality
is ye to be determined.
In the district north of Haycock
on the Seward Peninsula, ptucer
concentrates have been found 10
contain uranium minerals.
Saarela said that for some time
I uranium-bearing concentrates have
been found in the sluice boxes oi
j the placer miners in that area, in
dicating a probable lode source
nearby. Other locations are ah >
known to contain radioactive min
erals in insignificant quantity,
j The Mines Commissioner said
that information on the geology of
radioactive minerals, and a recapi
tulation of the work of the Depart
| ment w'ill be published in pamphlet
form by the Department shortly.
The Department of Mines and the
Atomic Energy Commission have
been working in close cooperation in
■ exchanging information, and the
AEC is endeavoring to interest as
many prospectors and mining ccm
I panies as possible in the explora
tion for radioactive minerals. The
AEC has for some time offered a
$10,000 bonus for discoveries cf
uranium in accordance with cer
tain qualifying measures it has
set up.
Saarela said that in order that
prospecting activities in Alaska
i may be encouraged, information
relative to uranium geology will be
made public by the Territorial De
partment of Mines from time to
time. He said prospectors and min
ers wishing analysis of sample
should send them to the Depart
ment for appraisals.
Passengers totaling 48 were car
ried on Thursday flights by Alaska
Coastal Airlines with 8 on inter -
port, 19 arriving and 21 departii’
Departing for Angcon: John
Stewart, Major D. W. Dean, Betty
M. Taylor; for Tenakee: Henry
Wornos; lor Sitka: Robert Camer
on. Ole Taug, Jr., Peter George,
Elizabeth Dubois, Louis Simpson.
Major Donald Cameron, M. Hum
phrey,' V/anneta Underwood.
For Haines: Car! L. Carls:?: fcr
Ketchikan: T. Smothers, Fred. Cm.
ar, Bill Baker; for Petersburg: Knot
Thompson, Bernice Demmert; for
Hoonah: Anita Tunohun. Mr. and
Mrs. H. Gray.
Arriving frc:r. Koonah: Sadie!
Billis. Alt Shaflestad; from Pelican: j
Joe Sadlier; from Excursion Inlet: |
Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Johnson; |
From Petersburg: F. Trones; from
Wrangell: B. Erickson,
From Haines: Susanne Smith,
Mrs. Arlene Smith; from Skagway:
John P. Morgan: from Sitka: Sid
Thompson, A. Peratrovich, Mrs.
Stoneman and two children; Rev.
Nevue, L. Johnson, Wilbert Har- j
old; from Fick Cove: LaVerne
Wells.
NO EARLY SPRING,
HR. GROUND HOG
SEES HIS SHADOW
Old Mm Ground Hoy made a I
quick turn about after peerirv I
caution ly from his winter hiberna
tion today and burrowed into the |
dark r< " -.es of hi.-; home in the i
ground for another six weeks before j
spring will rail him forth. The
around hoy can't b? fooled old
legend has it and does he come
out each February 2 “Ground Hog
Day" and see his shadow on the |
snow fields of his mountain abode j
he hightail into his home again
for hr knows winter will linger .
on.
Early morning in Juneau had r.n i
overcast sky and had Mr. Ground j
Hog not seen his shadow he would i
have stayed out-of-doors knowing j
spring was on the wav’, hilt the sun
broke throu) h long before noon
and long shadows were in order.
Oldtimers can't be fooled either,
they know spring won't come to
I these parts until late March any
[ way one looks at It.
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have arrived in Juneau to attend
the annual meeting of the Board
which has opened for a three day
session. Homer G. Ncrdiing, t’.ec
trieal engineer and Victor C. ILvers.
civil engineer, came to Juneau from
Anchorage and Frank H. Mapleton.
mechanical engineer is here from
Fairbanks.
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