$78 Million In Alaska
Defense Construction
Still Open For Bidding
ANCHORAGE, (#)—A total of
78 million dollars worth of author
ized defense construction for Al
aska remains for contract bidding
during the present fiscal year.
The figure was announced Mon
day by the Alaska District Corps
of Engineers. The fiscal year ends
next June 30.
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, acting dis
trict engineer, said the figure does
not include approximately 50 mil
lions in projects for which bids
have been opened and contract
awards are pending. This latter
(group includes the big Haines-to
Fairbanks oil pipeline project, for
which bids now are being studied.
The planned program embraces
66 projects throughout Alaska.
The largest elements of it were
listed as follows: Elmendorf Air
Force Base, over lOVfe million;
Fort Richardson, 9Vfc million; in
the Fairbanks area at Ladd and
Eielson Air Bases and the Big
Delta Arctic Training Center, over
65 million.
William Hutcheson, 79,
Labor Union Leader,
Dies Of Heart Attack
INDIANAPOLIS, UP) — William
L. Hutcheson, 79, general presi
dent of the AFL Carpenters Union
for 36 years and a towering figure
in the American labor movement,
died in Methodist Hospital here
Tuesday of a heart ailment.
The veteran labor leader was
brought to the hospital Oct. 12
for a stomach examination and
suffered a heart attack Oct. 15
before the stomach tests were
completed and he had been in
critical condition since.
Hutcheson, one of the few Re
publicans among top union offi
cials, stepped down from the ac
tive presidency of the 822,000
member union Jan. 1, 1952, and
was succeeded by his son, Maur
ice A. Hutcheson. The elder
Hutcheson was named general
president emeritus.
During colonial times a shipload
of iron pyrites, a comparatively
worthless mineral, was shipped to
England from the United States in
the belief that it was gold.
Cecil Wells’ Death Delays
Alaska Chamber Meeting
FAIRBANKS, UP)— Cancellation
of next week’s scheduled meeting
of the Alaska Chamber of Com
merce because of the death of
President Cecil Wells has been
announced by Secretary Ralph
Bailey.
Wells was slain by two men
who broke into his Fairbanks
apartment early last Saturday.
The Chamber of Commerce ses
sion was scheduled for Oct. 26-29
at Mt. McKinley Park.
Alaska Fishboat Building
Lags Behind Last Year
SEATTLE, UP)—Alaska fishboat
construction is lagging almost 50
per cent behind last year, latest
figures released by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service have dis
closed.
Through August, federal statis
tics show, only 43 fishboats were
built this year for Alaska. At
the same time last year 80 boats
had been completed. The Fish
and Wildlife records include boats
of five net tons or more.
Figures for the Pacifc Coast
also reflect a drop, from 187 last
year to 139.
Pan Am Applies For
Tourist Fare Service
Tokyo To West Coast
TOKYO, W) — Pan American
World Airways Tuesday applied
to the Japan Aviation Bureau for
permission to begin tourist fare
service Nov. 15 between Tokyo
and Honolulu and West Coast
cities.
The tourist fares would be 30
percent lower than first class
fares.
Tourist fares between Tokyo
and Seattle, Portland, San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles would be
$450 one way and $810 round trip.
First class fares are $650 one way
and $1,160 round trip.
Northwest Orient Air Lines re
cently announced a similar tourist
fare service to begin Nov. 8 be
tween Tokyo and the West Coast
cities. Fares are the same as those
asked by Pan American. North
west does not fly from Tokyo to
Honolulu.
Engineers say that a tempera
ture difference of only one degree
between the walls of your home
and the warmer air in the room
will cause dirt and dust to settle
on the walls.
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SOUK NEW CAMOUFLAGED
CANTILEVER LANDING AREA
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Ex-Partisan Says
U. S. Lieutenant
Killed CO for Reds
NORVARA, Italy, UR—A former
Italian Partisan testified Tuesday
that a United States lieutenant
engineered the slaying of his com
manding officer “in order to be
free to favor the Reds.”
The Partisan, Aminta Migliari,
took the stand at the second day
of the trial of two Americans and
three Italians charged with the
cloak and dagger murder of Maj.
William Holohan of New York
City behind Nazi lines in northern
Italy in 1944.
The Americans, former Lt. Aldo
Icardi of Pittsburgh, Pa., and for
mer Sgt. Carl Lolce of Rochester,
N.Y., are being tried in absentia.
U.S. courts ruled they could not
be extradited for prosecution in
Italy.
Migliari and two other wartime
Partisans, Giuseppe Mannini and
Gualtieri Tozzini, are on trial in
person.
Migliari testified that prior to
his death Holohan had instructed
the Allies to cease parachuting
arms to Italian Partisans “because
he found out the Communists
were getting most of them.”
After Holohan’s death, Migliari
continued, Icardi radioed his head
quarters “to parachute arms al
most every day.” At times when
the arms were expected, Migliari
testified, Icardi entertained non
Communist Partisans while the
Communists collected the supplies.
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