Alaska Constitution Making Opens At University
A capacity crowd filled the University of Alaska gymnasium now Convention Hall as Gov BE Frank Heintzleman opened a constitutional convention. Delegates Bartlett Ernest Gruening attended with a Eskimo pastor Rev Roy Ahmoagak delivering the invocation and Bartlett delivering the second keynote. The convention debated public access to committee meetings with a watering down approved rule allowing open or closed proceedings per committee decision.
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University of Alaska
Convention Hall
BE. Frank Heintzleman
Congress Bartlett
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Roy Ahmoagak
Wainwright
del. Bartlett
Y. Heiitzleman
Hawaii
Mildred Hermann
Juneau
Bartlett
United States
Congress
Fairbanks
Victor Fischer
Anchorage
Frank” Barr
University of Alaska Gymnasium
B. Frank Heintzlemann
News-Miner
Jim Douthit
Army Chief Brucker to Inspect Far East Installations
Secretary of the Army Brucker will depart November 29 for his first inspection trip of Army installations in the Far East. The tour will cover Alaska and the Aleutians as part of the mission.
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Washington
Brucker
Far East
Alaska
Aleutians
Egan Heads Alaska Constitutional Convention Presidency
Senator William Egan of Valdez was elected president to preside over the constitutional convention. The vote occurred Wednesday in a spirited election with Tom Stewart of Juneau chosen as permanent secretary. Delegates debated whether a top Statehood Committee official could serve as secretary.
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College
William Egan
Valdez
Tom Stewart
Juneau
Statehood Committee
Tug On Rescue Of Greek Freighter Makedonia
The diesel tug Sudbury battles forty mile headwinds in the Pacific en route to aid the crippled Greek freighter Makedonia, adrift over ten days after propeller loss near Nigata Japan. The 3200 mile voyage from Victoria or Canada aims to tow the 8200 ton vessel back to Victoria with a crew of thirty aboard.
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Sudbury
Pacific
Nigata
Japan
Victoria
B. C
Makedonia
Aleutians
Woman given thirty day sentence in fish theft case
Flora Saracoff appeared before the U.S. Commissioner's Court on a larceny charge for stealing a barrel of fish from Thomas R. Clampfter's home. She pled not guilty and received a 30 day sentence with 15 days suspended. Florence Clark and William M... also faced the same charge and were given 15 days suspended.
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Flora Saracoff
U.S. Commissioner's Court
Thomas R. Clampfter
Florence Clark
William Mathis
Pacific American Fisheries Declares 50 Cent Dividend
Seattle AP reports the board of Pacific American Fisheries declares a 50 cent dividend on common stock to be paid January 3. Directors approve the distribution as part of the company’s shareholder return plan.
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Seattle
Pacific American Fisheries
Suspension of Stock Sale Rights Hits Alaska Venture
The Pacific Alaska Land Livestock Co. had its right to sell stock suspended by the SEC amid claims of fraud and deceit. President Cline S. Koonz of Fairbanks organized the venture to raise funds for beef cattle marketing on islands off the Alaskan peninsula. The offering, under $300000, faced a temporary exemption withdrawal. The commission may hold a hearing and has not received a reply from the company. Peter Gruening, 32, United Presser and son of former Alaska governor Ernest Gruening, was found dead in his car near Sydney. He had been U.S. Air Force bomber pilot in WWII and was cremated in Australia. ashes to Washington, D.C. will be transported by his brother Hunt.
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Securities Exchange Commission
Alaskan
Pacific Alaska Land Livestock Co
Commission
Cline S. Koonz
Fairbanks
Orval Dubois
Koonz
Sidney
Australia
Peter Gruening
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Gruening
South Pacific
United Press
Denali Legend Inspires Music Professor’s Song
University of Alaska music professor Lorraine F. Donoghue announced a copyrighted piece titled Legend of Denali to be heard at the November 20 campus fall concert. She collaborated with Walter J. Arron, who adapted the Denali Indian legend into poetic form for her musical setting.
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Se Fadley
Denali
University of Alaska Music
Alaskany
University of
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