Haines Cutoff Will
Be Kept Open
JUNEAU, </P) — Plans to keep
the cutoff between Haines and the
Alaska highway open throughout
the winter months were disclosed
yesterday by Mayor Leonard King
of Haines.
The mayor said seven truckers
nave agreed to maintain traffic
over the road and have asked the
Alaska Road Commission to pro
vide them with extra equipment
for the purpose.
Winter maintenance of the cut
off, King said, would enable
trucks to haul from Haines to
Fairbanks and to Whitehorse, Y.
T., and avoid additional high
steamer transportation costs.
—
CHARLES YAEGER
SLOWLY IMPROVING
Friends of Charles Yaeger will
be glad to learn that his condition
is improved, although he is still
confined to his bed, where he has
been since last Saturday.
_______________ ___________
T. TJERNAGEL LEAVES
FOR STATES
T. Tjernagel, who has been em
ployed by the Lomen Commercial
Co. during the summer months,
left last evening for the States.
Alaska Must le
Developed Says
Secretary Warne
HAVERFORD, Pa., t/Pi — Wil
liam E. Warne, assistant secretary
of the interior, said yesterday the
United States must “occupy and
develop" Alaska on a bigger scale
for the sake of national defense.
The interior department, Warne
added, may ask Congress next
spring to set up "an adequate !
group settlement program" for the
Territory.
That program and all efforts at 1
Alaskan promotion he said in an'
address prepared for delivery at j
Haverford college, will be “based '
upon the assumption that the Ter
ritory will become one of the
United States just as soon as its
people, its resources and its pace ,
of development permit it to as
sume the obligations of state
hood.”
Absentee control and the dis
pute over Indian land-ownership
rights are major obstacles to Alas
ka’s growth, Warne declared.
But already, he added, the Ter- J
ritory has become the crossroads1
of aerial world trade routes, and
air travel has become a permanent
substitute in many areas for road
MR. AND MRS. JOHN McNEES
RETURN FROM STATES
Mr. and Mrs. John MeNees of
the U. S. Weather Bureau, return
ed Monday on the Alaska Airlines
after spending a month at their
home in Wenatchee visiting John’s
mother who had been very ill, but
is now much improved.
MAIL SERVICE INCREASED
TO THREE VILLAGES
The U. S. mail service has been
increased to three of the outlying
villages it has been announced.
Airmail will now be taken twice
a month to Teller, Wales and
Shishmaref instead of once a
month.
and rail transportation.
The interior department has
proposed a road construction pro
gram for the areas that are favor
able for settlement, Warne said,
and although there is no rail con
nection with the 48 States now “in
a relative few years I think there
must be one.”
“Development of the Territory
will enlarge our national oppor
tunities and enrich our commerce
at a time when our national obli
gations are very great both here
and throughout the world,” he
said.
“The population of Alaska is es
sential to the defense of the Ter
ritory and of the United States.”
• Tiny Girl Lost In
Open Manhole In
Seattle Drowns
(Continued from Page One'
a three-way branching of the
pipes a short distance below the
i scene.
SEATTLE, (/P)— Little Sherron
Rothrock’s words, “Mother, I’m
afraid of the water,” seemed to
her parents like a remembered
prophecy today.
Late yesterday, the five-year
old girl’s body, still clad in her
new green coat and new over
shoes, was found on a beach near
Fort Lawton. She had been car
ried approximately 8.6 miles
through underground sewers after
falling down a manhole Monday
night.
Battalion fire chief James L.
Carey found her body. He acted >
on a “hunch,” he said, after
checking on Puget Sound tides.
There was a low tide Monday
night about the time the child fell
into the manhole while walking
with her father and aunt to a bus
in a heavy rainstorm near First
Hill.
Carey estimated yesterday
morning’s high tide might have
floated the body to shore. So he i
walked the beach near the north
trunk sewer outlet. He found her
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: Massachusetts
I Elects GOP
Congressman
NEW BEDFORD, (/P) — Massa
chusetts’ newest member of Con
gress is Donald W. Nicholson of
Wareham, a veteran of 23 years in
the Massachusetts legislature.
Nicholson. 59, Republican pres
ident of the Massachusetts Senate,
had no trouble winning yester
day’s special election, rolling up
a total of 28,912 votes in unoffi
cial returns in this dominantly
Republican district to defeat his
Democratic opponent, State Rep.
Jacinto Diniz, of New Bedford.
Diniz polled 21,164 votes.
Nicholson’s victory followed the
pattern predicted by political ob
servers.
He carried 53 towns in the dis
trict with the city of New Bed
ford, the town of Acushnet and
the one ward in Fall River going
to Diniz.
body near the high water mark,
about 300 feet from the outlet.
Rothrock and his sorrowing
wife, Irene, recalled how the little
kindergarten girl watched the
heavy rain as they sat down to
dinner Monday night.
“Mother, I’m afraid of the wa
ter,’’ she said.
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