Alaska Steamship Co.
Will Add New Vessel
To Its Fleet of 13
SEATTLE UPi—The Liberty ship
Volunteer State, which the Alaska
Steamship Co. is purchasing from
the States Marine Corp. for Alas
ka service, was drydocked at Pu
get Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
Monday after its arrival in Seattle
from the Orient.
Purpose of the drydocking is for
an inspection prior to acceptance
of the vessel by Alaska Steamship
Co. Addition of the ship boosts
the company’s privately owned
fleet to seven vessels and its fleet
to 13. Six of the vessels are under
charter.
In line with the company’s pol
icy, the Volunteer State will be
renamed after an Alaskan body of
water. Its first voyage, probably
later this week, will see the vessel
assigned to haul canned salmon
from the territory to Puget Sound.
Fire Guts Danish Sub
But All Seamen Escape
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, (tf)—
Fire made a hollow shell out of
the Danish submarine Saelen yes
terday. Several men trapped be
hind a wall of flames in the en
gine room escaped through an
emergency hatch.
Three sailors suffered burns in
the fire, which destroyed most of
the interior installations of the
submarine, a naval spokesman
said. He said a short circuit in the
power cables set fire to a bundle
of cloth and other inflammable
material in the engine room.
Other crewmen aboard the sub,
which was moored to a wharf in
the Copenhagen navy dockyard,
escaped through the conning tow
er.
The Canadian goose mates for
life, and of all the birds is most
faithful to its mate.
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with mittens and mukluks.
A wonderful gift or souvenir.
Right size for doll collections.
Hand made faces.
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Red China Radio Repeats
Need for Negotiation
On Formosa and U.N.
TOKYO, —Peiping radio yes
terday broadcast repeated insis
tence on the need for negotiation
on the questions of Formosa and
Red China’s admission into the
United Nations.
The broadcast of Red Chinese
newspaper editorial comments
followed a Communist Chinese
correspondent’s report from Ge
neva saying that these questions
should be “settled through con
sultation among the countries con
ceVned.”
The Geneva report of the New
China News Agency, broadcast by
Peiping, said U.S. obstruction pre
vented discussion by the Big Four
conference of Formosa and Red
Chinese entry into the U.N.
“After the Geneva conference,
there is every reason to demand
that these questions be settled
through consultation among the
countries concerned and in ac
cordance with the spirit of Ge
neva.”
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McDavitt Fired
For Unauthorized
Statements
WASHINGTON, l#u-George V.
McDavitt, whose performance as
security director of the Small Bus
iness Administration has been
under congressional scrutiny, has
been fired, the agency said Tues
day.
An SBA spokesman confirmed
reports that Administrator Wen
, dell B. Barnes notified McDavitt
that he was discharged as of 5
p.m. Monday for making “unauth
orized statements” to his staff in
SBA’s Office of Compliance and
Security.
The statements reportedly were
made last week when McDavitt
called together his 13 subordinates
and told them the office would be
abolished and their jobs along
with it.
McDavitt’s security program has
been under investigation by a
Senate Civil Service subcommit
tee.
Former employes complained
that McDavitt told them to submit
only “derogatory” information
about certain persons they were
checking on.
The senators also inquired into
an alleged “liaison” between Mc
Davitt and a “Miss X”—a German
girl whose immigration to the
United States he later sponsored.
McDavitt formerly was with a
unit of the Displaced Persons
Commission in Germany.
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Dolls Ike Bought for
Grandchildren Bring
Blast From U.S. Firms
NEW YORK, IA*)—'Those dolls
that President Eisenhower bought
in Geneva for his grandchildren
have brought an “official protest”
from the National Assn, of Doll
Manufacturers.
The entire American doll indus
try is “shocked” by such “spot
lighting of foreign dolls,” said
association president David Ros
enstein in a wire to the White
House Monday.
Rosenstein said he is sending
the President some 100 percent
American dolls “as gifts and con
stant reminders.”
Among the American dolls is
one that drinks, wets, cries and
blows her nose. Others are a walk
ing doll with “mink coat rooted
hair impossible to pull off the
head,” a talking doll that recites
“Now I lay me down to sleep,”
and a remote-controlled boy doll
that walks, talks and has eyes
that light up.
Alaska Blue Cross Plan
Will Care for Health of
1,200 Territorial Employes
SEATTLE OP)—The Washington
Alaska Blue Cross plan announced
Tuesday that a new health care
program for employes of the Ter
ritory of Alaska will become ef
fective Sept. 1.
Thirteen Alaskan hospitals are
members of the Washington-Alas
ka Blue Cross plan.
The program will provide
hospitalization, surgical benefits,
medical care including home and
office calls, and a special $2,500
supplemental polio benefit.
Each territorial department will
pay half the cost of the program,
as authorized by the 1955 legisla
ture. About 500 employes and
their dependents will be covered.
Blue Cross was chosen to han
dle the program by an interde
partment committee, and on the
basis of competitive bidding.
The program is voluntary. The
family cost per month will be $9;
for the individual, $4. A Blue
Cross spokesman said it is be
lieved around 1,200 persons will
be covered under the plan.
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Dick Benson, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
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