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The Nome nugget., 1947-02-10
Senator McMahon Changes His Mind

Seattle Post-Intelligencer) SEN. BRIEN MCMAHON of Connecticut, who wrote the law which opened the way for Soviet Russia to ob tain the atomic secrets, has had remarkable and commendable change of mind.
 Apparently Senator McMahon has had most illumi- hating and diSilluSionng experience member of the atomic energy commission, which created by the law he wrote for he says:
 Since writing the law which provided that Russia and the world should get the of atomic energy time, events have forced me to change my views.
 Il am convinced that Russia is not to be trust ed =.
 "Why should we trust them with the most priceless secret in the wOrld?"
 It would be interesting to know what specific "events" have influenced Senator McMahon to this change of viewpoint.
 The duplcy of Soviet Russia in international rela- honshp is so well known and of such long standing that new events are hardly necessary to convince any but the most naive among sincere observers.
 1t certainly does not come under the head of "neW events that Soviet Russia exposed conspirator against the United States in the Canadian espionage dis closures the requirement of the atomic and theft then being the Russian purpose.
 Likewise 1t is not information that the Russian government on at least one occasion attempted to pur chase mechanical instruments essential to atomic pro- cesses from American manufacturer
 Nor is 1t anything new to the American people to know, kiril M. AeXeiev former commercial attache to the Russian embassy in Mexico City, has reported that Russian secret agents active throughout North America in espionage relating to all matters important to Soviet Russia, including the atom bomb.
 Since all of these familiar and established facts were unimpressive to Senator McMahon and failed to divert him from his be patient with Russia attitude the persuasive facts which finally shocked him of his
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-10

complacen attitude must have been of extraordinary nature.
 There are still powerful elements in the country ad- vocating American surrender of atomic secrets in inter- national authority and thus to Russia.
 These elements the apostles of the trust Russia political creed in America and the facts which have shown Senator McMahon that they not to be trusted are of vital public interest and should be made public property.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
SAY SHIP LOST PART
 PRIOR TO FATAL CRASH

PORT DEPOSIT, Md. - Inyesti- gators of the Civil Aeronauties Board tentatively established this week that part of a giant airliner came off shortly before it crashed last Friday night with a loss of 5a lives, a CAB spokesman said.
 Written statements from 20 eye witnesses agreed that fragments became detached from the Eastern Air Lines DC-4 as it went into it's final dive into a densely wooded area three miles east of here, the spokesman said.
 Meanwhile, the slow process oi identifying the charred and maLs- led bodies of the planes B occu- pants who died in the nations worst commercial aviation disaster continued at an improyised morgue at the Navy base.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
VETERAN PURSER
 TO LEAVE s.s. ALASKA
 ON RETURN TO SEATTLE

Dave Doran, one of Alasla's best known pursers on steamship lines is leaving che S.s. Alaska on ita return this week to the Queen City port.
 The Alaska has been transferred to the Northland Transportation Company and it's next sailing from Seattle. scheduled for June n, will be under the Northland banner.
 Doran, for 21 years aboard me Alaska, without missing a trip, s is the employ of the Alaska Steamship Company and will be as- signed to another berth During his 21 years in sailing on the AL oska, Doran said he has handled personal matters for approximate ly 171,O0O passengers. All Alas,g friends of whom he has scores. are sorry to see Dave go but are wish ing him the best of luck wherever Alaska Steamship places him.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
 OPENS SMALL TRACTS
 IN ALASKA FOR HOMES

WASHINGTON = The Intericr Department has opened the war for private purchase of thousands of small tracts of Federal public land in the western states and AL aska
 Secretary Of Interior Julius Krug, in a prepared statement, said the small tracts will be sold as sites for homes. camps, cabins and small businesses.
 None of the 169.OOO, 900 acres Of vacant public lands in the Unitel States and 25O.O00 acres in Alas ka has yet been classified for sale. Krug said. He said there is no es- innate of the location or amount of land to be made available.
 Classification of available land and the determination of prices vii bs left to the regional offices of the Bureau of Land Management al Portland Oregon, San Francisco. California; Billings, Montana: Salt Lake City, Utah. Albuquerque. New Mexico and Anchorage, Alas ka.
 The Bureau of Land Manage ment said there will be no direct sale of lands. Tracts must be leased for a year. with an option to purchase, and the land must be used and improved before sale is 
 When a sale is authorized, the applicant will be allowed 50 days in which to deposit one-fourth or more of the purchase price. The balance may be paid in equal semi-annual installments, but the total must be paid within two years. Rentals paid for the lease period will be credited against the purchase price.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
PACIFIC NORTHERN
 REDUCES FREIGHT RATES

SEATTLE = A new air cargo tariff schedule drastically reduces rates and charges on all eommod- ities over it's routes in Alaska. some as much as 75 per cent, A. q. Woodley, Pacific Northern Airlines head announced this week.
 The changes include:
 loo pound shipments = Juneau to Anchorage; old rate, $35, new rate, SIS; Juneau to Cordova, old rate, S37.5O, new rate, SIP; An chorage to Naknek, old rate $25, new rate, $9; and Anchorage to Kodiak, old rate $25, new rate, $9.
 This is another indication Of our desire to help business men and residents of Alaska meet their daily needs" Woodley said.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
TO GET GOSPEL
AT 100 -MILES PER HOUR

a@ AeR -aA=A=aaA=ia A aA=AAa AAaA A Aa
 SEATTLE-Starting next week. the Rev. Franklin J. Smith will spread the gospel in western Alas lla at more than 100 miles an hour.
 Smith, missionary wi churches at Dillingham; and Ekwak on Bristol Bay, was to leave Ol ympia for Alaska flying his own plane. He recently acquired h e craft to speed his task of conduct ing services in more than a dozen towns and isolated villages in the Bristol Bay area.
 The plane has been equipped with pontoons and other equipment essential to Alaska flying.
 With this plane I can cover in 15 minutes what it used to take me a day to travel with a dog team" he said
 Smith, a minister in the Chris tian church. Is a former sawmill man and logger who went to AL aska with his wife and baby son in 1885 and built two churches, cutting the trees and squaring them himself.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
48O DEATH TOLL
 OVER MEMORIAL HOLIDAY

The Associated Press reported that the nations two worst air plane crashes and two disastrous tornadoes automobile mishaps a. gain headed the list of violent holi- day deaths over the Memorial Day weekend.
 The total of 214 traffic fatalities was far ahead of the 164 for the same holiday weekend last year but well under the 275 predicted by the National Safety Council for the period up to Sunday night. The total from all causes was 4S0, compared with 292 last year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
BRUEGER HIGH BIDDER

A. R. Brueger was high bidder last Sunday afternoon at a meet Ing of the Stikine Gillnetters As sociation when the Association s catch of sockeyes for the coming season were put on the blok. Brue- ger bid 1S1a cents per pound.
 Other bidders were Norman Nel- son of the Nelson Bros. of Prince Rupert and Chris Dahl of Peters burg.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
BAILEY HERE

Ernest Bailey, Assistant District Attorney for the First Division, flew up from his headquarters in Ketchikan Wednesday and return ed to the First City Thursday He was accompanied by his small daughter Jean. who enjoyed her first plane ride.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
IKE MAY COME TO ALASKA

that in Washington there is a well defined rumor that the General Of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, War Department Chief of Staff will make a trip to Alaska in July.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
HOME FOR SIMMER

Miss Yolanda Ferguson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Ferguson, flew in from Seattle Wednesday to spend the summer at home Miss Ferguson has been attending High line High School in Seattle and will return south in the fall to finish her senior year at the same
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
RETURNS HOME

Mrs. A. LemieIX, WTangeIl piOn- eer woman, returned home on the Alaska Thursday morning. She has been in Juneau several months visiting her son Ned Lemieux.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
DFvIN COMING NORTH
ON GOODWILL TRIP

SEATTLE - Mayor William F. Devin. ineompany with several Seattle civic and business leaders, win leave June 20 for a three week Goodwill trip to Alaska it was an uouneed this week
 The party, travelling by steamer, will go 10 Seward and to Fairbanks by railway and highway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
KETCHIKAN FISH BUYERS
 DEnIAREn nIINEA

KECHIKAN - The United Trol- lers of Alaska, CIO-affiliate, this week declared Ketchikan fish buy CTS unfair because they refused zu sign a contract recognizing the UTA as bargaining agent and urged all union fishermen to sell their catches at other ports.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-06-06
IN ON ALASKA

Lee Considine, Wrangen big game guide, returned to Wrangel on the Alaska yesterday from Ju- neau where he has been on buei- ness.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
TRANSATLANTIC
AIR RECORD IS
cut ONCE MORE

SHANNON, Fire, April 29.--R--
The United States held the COM
mercial flight speed record be-
tween Gander, Mild, and Shan
non Airport again after an Ameri-
can plane cut by five minutes the
one-day-old mark made on Satur-
day by the British. The new rec
ord of five hours and % minutes
was set by the Pan American Con-
stellation Invincible.
Eight days ago speed record
of five hours and SIS minutes was
established by Pan American Air.
ways. Saturday three trans
Atlantic planes bettered that time,
with a British Overseas Always
Constellation, piloted by o. P. Jones
setting a mark of five hours and
% minutes.
Strong tail winds helped set Sun
days record, said the pilot, Alpheus
o. Powell, 30, of New Hyde Park,
N. Y.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
HOUSE PUTS CURB
ON RELIEF FUNDS,
SOME COUNTRIES

WASHINGTON. April 2s.-tR-
The House voted tentatively to-
day to deny American relief aid
to all countries whose govern
ments are under Russian DONNA
ton unless they agree to strict
United States supervision. Men,
bers voted tentatively to cut the
$3.50 100000 fund to $500, 900 900.
The money is intended for use
in six European areas and China
in 1947 and 1948.
The House accepted an amend
ment by Rep. Jonkman R-Mich)
to trim the total and limit its
use to l947
The Senate Foreign Relations
committee unanimously approved
legislation authorizing $3.50. 900 900
relief for five European areas and
China.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
8 HATCHERIES TO
BE CL05ED;;FUND5
HAVE Been cut
Employees TO Be Dis
charged : Kefthikan
Lab May Remain
BY VERN HAUGLAND

WASHINGTON, April 29-lP-
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice estimated today it will have to
close eight instead of Is fish hatch
cries under House-proposed appro-
priations for 1948.
Albert M Day, Director of the
Service. told reporter the hatch
cries to be closed will not be de-
termined until after Senate action
upon the House Appropriations bill.
The alternative to closing some
hatcheries, Day said, would be to
operate all of them on a custodial
or token basis-"a wasteful and in
efficient action we do not propose
TO take"
Other Fish and Wildlife Service
officials said that the agency also
will have to close two mobile trail
er laboratories based at Seattle,
and that the laboratories at Seattle
and Ketchikan, Alaska, announced
last week as facing closure, pro-
badly will be retained.
Day estimated that the agency
will have to dissolve three of its
10 cooperative units for training
personnel in wildlife management
and research, and will have to dis
charge "a employees in the field of
wildlife management, including %
trained technicianS.
Because the appropriation for AL
aska fur seal migratory studies sti-
pulates that the work be completed
within year, that project will
have to be discontinued altogether,
the Director added. The study area
involved is so great that nothing
conclusive could be accomplished in
a year, he explained
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
Vets Won't
Get Checks
May First
No Funds Now Available
But Delay Will Only
Be Few Days

WASHINGTON, April 29.--R--
The Veterans Administration said
today it will be unable to send out
monthly checks due tomorrow to
more than 2,780,000 veterans re-
ceiving unemployment or educa-
tional allowances. 1t said the funds
Congress appropriated for that pur-
pose are exhausted.
THE delay is expected to be of
short duration since additional
funds for this purpose are carried
in the deficiency appropriation
bill currently before Congress and
should be available within a few
days" an announcement added.
The payments have been averag-
ing $3.50, 0000 600 or more a month.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
y. S. Serves Sharp Notice On Soviet Union
$40 (oI0neIs
To Be Denoted

WASHINGTON, April 29.-tRl-
The Army today ordered GAO col
onels denoted to lieutenant colonies
effective July /.
The wholesale reduction in rank,
applied to both air and ground Of
ficers, but not including the medi-
cal or chaplain corps, is designed
to lower the number of colonies
during the fiscal year 1948 to
$500.
OF the total to be denoted, 538
will be regular army and So nom
regular army. Forty-three will be
air officers.
A general exception to the de-
motion order will be made in cases
of officers who previously were
reduced in the general reduc-
ton last year.
The names of the colonies al
fected will not be ready for pub
LEGATION until about the middle OF
June
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
Giant Alaska Crab
Gamer Coming North

SEATTLE, April 29.-tR-The new
140-foot trawler Deep Sea, designed
and equipped to catch, process,
quick freeze and package king crab,
is scheduled to depart tonight for
the Boring Sea haunts of the giant
Alaska crab.
During the two months trip, it
is hoped to catch 100000 pounds of
which 95 percent will be king crab
and the remainder sole and lemon
sole, according to Lowell Wake
field, President of the Deep Sea
Trawlers, Inc, owners.
The craft was constructed by
Birchfield Boiler, Inc, of Tacoma.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
BILL
INTR0DU(ED;F0R
LARGE AMOUNT

WASHINGTON, April 29.-lR-
The House Appropriations Commit
tee approved $4,000 fund today
for a Justice Department attempt
to collect perhaps $2,000,000,000 of
freight refunds from 964 railroads.
The money was included in a
sos, 478,658 miscellaneous appropria-
ton bill to meet deficiencies in
various agency funds for the fiscal
year ending June 80.
The bill provides 100000 to in
stall temporary radar landing sys-
TENS at 20 airport terminals.
Other allotments approved in
cluded:
Indian Health Service, 100000;
United States participation in Unit
ed Nations organization. $4,l95, BAT;
Postoffice Department, s60,382, 900.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
WRONG LABEl50N
Texas CITY SHIP
LOADS, IS CLAIM

GALVESTON, Tex, April 29.-lR
William T. Butler of Washing
ton, civilian advisor to the Coast
Guard on explosives, said here to-
day that, in his opinion, ammon-
ium nitrate handled at Texas City
was not labeled in accordance with
water shipment regulations.
Pointing out, that ammonium
nitrate comes under the class of
oxidi2ing material, Butler said 100
pound sacks were labeled as fer
tilizer and then as ammonium nj
trate. These words should have
been reversed, he said.
Asked by a reporter if ammon-
ium nitrate is explosive, Butler
shrugged and answered. This is
the first time in history that it has
exploded on a ship. In view OF
what happened at Texas City, ]
can't say it isn't an explosive"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
The W ashington
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - Today John L.
Lewis and the coal operators tee
off to a discussion which will decide
whether the nations industry, just
after escaping steel, motor and
rubber strikes, will suffer para
lying coal shutdown.
Lewis goes into the conference
very much on the spot. First, the
Government is now doing exactly
what he has long urged-turning
the mines back to private industry
effective June 30
Second, Lewis is not in good
shape with his own men. They
have lost total of around 5000
per man in the past year through
three strikes called by him. The
miners lost SO days last spring; II
days in November and December
and about two weeks this spring.
IN other words, they lost all they
could have made by increased wag-
eS-and then some.
Lewis, therefore, has to stage a
dramatic move to recapture the
complete confidence of his
men. To that end he is demanding
a program the operators will never
grant: l, ten cents royalty on each
ton of coal mined with the 5
cents present royalty, the welfare
fund is now $2O000,0OO); 2, con-
tinued mine safety committees;
3, present pay of S75 for a 54-hour
week to be continued for a 40-hour
week.
While the operators will give the
same IS cents an hour raise now
granted in steel, motors and other
industries, they won't yield on the
heavy increase demanded by Lewis.
Yet Lewis influence is slipping
SO badly that he is certain to try
to stand pat for spectacular new
gains. Result may be that the min
ers again will lose more while on
strike than from increased wages
while the country suffers another
deadly paralysis.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
MORE Ships
ASSIGNED TO
ALASkALINES
Operators Are Now Await
ing Contracts from
Maritime Com.

SEATTLE, April 29.-IR-Alaska
ship lineups were being bolstered
today as operators awaited arrival
of Maritime Commission contracts
for resumption of private service.
Additional freighters have been
allocated the three companies serV-
ing Alaska The vessels will be OPP
Grated under general agency of the
companies until the new program
goes into effect then they will be
used in the companies private
charter fleets.
Meanwhile, the Alaska Steamship
Company has taken delivery in
Portland of the S S Harold d.
Whitehead, a Liberty ship, and is
scheduled to bring up the Cape
Victory from Olympia today. The
latter was operated by Alaska
Steam last summer.
The MS Grommet Refer, one
time Alaska relief" ship during
the maritime strike, has been allo-
Gated to Alaska Transportation
Company. She'll go on berth
Thursday, loading Army cargo.
Northland Transportation Com
pany has been assigned as general
agent for the freighters Coastal
Rider and Flemish Knot Both will
be brought up from San Francisco
and fitted ont for the Alaska run.
The Harold d. Whitehead, ex-
pected to be in Seattle today, is
tentatively set to start loading early
next week for Bristol Bay cannery
ports. The Cape Victory will make
her first trip of the season about
May 20, going to Kodiak Island
ports.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
NICK BEE TELLS
ABOUT OPERATION
OF CANNING Ship
Declares He Is Right in
Middle Of DedI-Two
Sides Shooting

WASHINGTON, April 29.-tR-
Nick Bee of Seattle declared yes
terday he is right in the middle
on his deal to operate the govern
ment-financed floating cannery
Pacific Explorer"
On one hand, he told a House
Fisheries Subcommittee, is the Re-
construction Finance Corporation
insisting on getting $1.04 back for
every dollar invested" On the other
is the Fish and Wildlife Service
wanting all kinds of scientific in
formation needed in the fish bust
ness.
They're both right he asserted
"hut I come right in the middle
with people shooting at me from
all directions in the country
Bee was the last witness in a
four-day hearing by the subcom-
mittee on complaints of southern
California tuna fisheries that the
Pacific Explorer is operating in
well-explored waters off Costa Rica
in unfair competition with existing
private industry.
Max Hersh, attorney for the Re-
construction Finance Corporation
told the House Fisheries Subcom-
mittee that Bee has agreed to an
amendment in the contract to pro-
vide for operation of the ship "pri-
marily in the Boring Sea and ad-
jacent waters of the Pacific ocean.
The amendment substitutes the
term adjacent waters" for "other
waters"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
Resolutions Adopted

Leading among the Is resolutions
which had come up before the ses-
sion are several on vital Territorial
issues. Unanimous passage was &C
corded resolution urging immed-
late construction of 5000 units OF
permanent housing in Alaska, to be
financed by the Federal govern
ment and managed by city govern
ments or local housing authorities.
Also unanimously passed was a
resolution requesting the National
VFW legislative committee to work
against the discontinuance OF the
Alaska Railroad between Seward
and Portage, and to ask that it be
rehabilitated and reconditioned.
Outside Labor Hit
The practice of transporting out
side labor to Alaska for military
construction projects, without first
properly screening the available
local labor market, was also urged
altered. This resolution was to be
sent to the Secretaries of War,
Navy, Interior and Labor, to Dele
gate Bartlett, to the various con-
struction unions, and to contrac-
tors.
Another resolution, with an add
ed emergency clause, was directed
to the u. S. Senate Subcommittee
on the Department of the Interior,
asking that funds to operate the
Seward Senatorium be restored to
the bill from which they were cut
last week.
More Defense Bases
Urging greater National attention
to Alaska as the key to the defense
of the United States in any future
war was a resolution endorsing
further efforts in the establish
ment of mere permanent military
and naval defense bases in the
Territory. This resolution was also
passed unanimously.
Universal military training was
endorsed in resolution which re-
commends minimum of six
months minimum service for all
CONTINUED on fQqe Ej0htj
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-04-29
Nenana River Is Still
Holding Solid; Water Is
Running on Either Side

NENANA, Alaska, April 3D.
Especial Dispatch to Empire)
The river is still holding solid.
Some water is running on top
of the ice on. either side of the
river. Some small holes are
worn through but they are very
scattered.
The Nenana river is open at
the mouth but not cutting
much.
Oldtimers claim 1t will last at
least seven days more as the
river is very low.
The pay off will be at least
$4,000.