Seatrain Issue Will
Be Decided Soon,
Says RR. Manager
WASHINGTON, UP)—Frank E.
Kilbaugh, general manager of the
Alaska Railroad, said today “the
question of whether seatrain op
erations are to be started between
the Pacific Northwest and Alas
ka’s railbelt area should be re
solved within two weeks.”
Kalbaugh said in an interview
that pending proposals for inaug
uration of such operatins are the
primary reason he is here at this
time.
Three “prominent operators”
are apparently very much inter
ested in the possibility, Kalbaugh
said.
“The Army’s Transportation
Service has had an independent
study made of the feasibility of
seatrain service,” Kalbaugh said,
"but the report has not been made
public.” He added that it is now
under consideration and this is a
factor upon which future action
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largely hinges.
The Alaska Railroad is very
much interested in the decision,
Kalbaugh said, for several rea
sons. A major one is that inaug
uration of seatrain service would
require an entirely different type
of dock from the one now under
design for construction at Seward,
Kalbaugh said.
Handling of loaded freight cars
from the States to points of desti
nation in Alaska without having
to unload and reload their con
tents as is required when cargo
vessels are used for the ocean
transportation should result in a
big savings in handling costs, Kal
baugh said.
Kalbaugh said military ship
ments now account for more than
50 percent of the traffic the rail
road handles and expressed belief
this ratio would continue indef
initely.
Japan prduces about 70 percent
of the world’s silk.
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SEEKS SECOND TERM experience as a legislator and
_ has worked for the best in
LIFE-LONG ALASKAN terests of the 2nd Division and
FOR 42 YEARS the Territory as a whole.
Vote For A Man
Who Understands The Problems of Alaska
Churchill Warns
Against Provoking
U. S. Isolation
BLACKPOOL, England, UP)—
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill Saturday warned the western
woTld—including Britain’s left
wing socialists—to avoid taunting
the United States into a policy of
isolationism which he said would
condemn all Europe to Russian
conquest.
The 79-year-old statesman, ad
dressing the Conservative Party
annual conference, pledged him
self to work “while I have life
and strength” for a system of
peaceful coexistence with the So
viet Union, ending rumors that he
intended soon to retire.
Churchill said the Russians
could readily overrun the whole
of Europe but for America’s su
perior strength in atom and hy
drogen bombs.
“That superiority, while it is
maintained, will be a decisive de
terrent against a Communist ag
gression,” he said.
The old war leader said the
west’s decision to free and rearm
West Germany to buttress the
Atlantic alliance “may well be
come a monument and a mile
stone in our march toward . . .
peaceful coexistence” with the
Soviet Union.
Of the United States he said:
“There is no other case of a
nation arriving at the summit of
world power, seeking no territor
ial gain, but earnestly resolved to
use her strength and wealth in
the cause of progress and free
dom.
“Had this conception been visi
ble to the American governments
50 years ago we all, themselves
included, might have escaped the
two fearful world wars which
have brought such misery upon
our generation . . .”
THIEF CAUGHT BY
PIG IN A POKE
DALLAS, (Ah—A pig in a poke
squealed, and a thief got caught.
E. Clark hired a man to feed his
pigs. Saturday night he heard a
pig squealing and squealing.
Clark found the hired man had
put a shoat in a burlap bag and
had started off with it. He held
the man until police arrived. And
the little pig was sent home.
Search On for Survivors
Of Sunken Freighter;
Seaplane to Try Rescue
NORFOLK, Va., (41—Five men
and one body from the 48-man
crew of the ore freighter Mor
mackite had been picked up by
the Greek freighter Macedonia,
the Coast Guard reported Satur
day.
Meanwhile, one of the Coast
Guard search planes over the
area, about 150 miles east-south
east of Cape Henry, Va., reported
that survivors are scattered over
a wide area, making recovery by
the vessels in the vicinity diffi
cult.
The pilot reported he was afraid
some of the men were going to die
and for that reason he asked and
received permission to land his
seaplane and attempt to recover
some of the survivors.
The Coast Guard 5th District
Headquarters at Norfolk, which
granted the pilot permission to
land, described it as a dangerous
operation.
Eleven seamen, survivors of the
capsized freighter Mormackite,
were safely in port today with
harrowing tales of two days float
ing helplessly in stormy, shark
infested waters. Lost in the dis
aster were 37 of their shipmates,
including the captain.
The Thursday sinking was ap
parently caused by shifting of the
ship’s iron ore cargo in the gale.
The vessel capsized so quickly
there was no chance to send a
distress message and crewmen
were unable to get lifeboats into
the water. The ship carried no
life rafts.
Said one of the survivors:
“On the last day we started to
think how we could take our lives
away the easiest. When you’re
drinking salt water and taking it
into your lungs, it is terrible. Yes
terday (Saturday i morning the
three of us decided to do it. Then
we saw a Navy carrier and then
there were planes. Another hour
and we would have been dead.”
WEST GERMAN WORKERS
OPPOSE REARMAMENT PLAN
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP)—
The West German Trade Union
Federation, representing six mil
lion West German workers, voted
Saturday to oppose the London
Agreement on the rearmament of
West Germany.
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GOP Steps Up
Campaign Tempo;
Demos Get Boost
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land of California told a news
conference the political confab
produced a unanimous view that •
the GOP must step up the tempo
of its campaign.
The party leaders got a boost
Friday from a statement by Vice
President Nixon that Eisenhower
likely will add a midwest farm
speech to the two' talks he now
plans before the Nov. 2 balloting.
The Democratic cause got a lift
Friday from the Nevada Supreme
Court. The jurists ruled the state
must vote Nov. 2 to fill the vacan
cy left by the death of Democratic
Sen. Pat McCarran.
Republicans had tried to block
a vote, hopeful that the appointee ,
of Nevada’s Republican governor
would serve the remaining two
years of McCarran’s term.
Democrats wanted a vote be
cause they hold a 3-2 edge over
the GOP in the state registration
lists.
Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic
Presidential candidate, stopped at
Oklahoma City briefly Friday, en
route to Los Angeles. He was in
stalled as an honorary chief of
the Kiowa Indians.
Nixon, who introduced Eisen
hower at Denver, spoke at Gree
ley, Colo., earlier in the day. He
told a GOP rally that the “Eisen
hower cause” is “bigger than the
Republican Party” and “is one
all Americans can and do sup
port.”
John Roosevelt, a son of the
late Democratic President, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, made a Chicago
appearance Friday in behalf of
the GOP.
“I’m backing all Republican
candidates,” Roosevelt said.
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