House Passes
Alaska Bills
(By Mary Lee Council)
WASHINGTON—Three bills in
troduced by Delegate Bartlett have
been passed, by unanimous con
sent, in the House of Representa
tives.
Establishment of a 35-acre re
creational camp for young people
on Index Lake, 45 miles east of
Palmer on the Glenallen High
way, is provided in one of the
measures sanctioned by the lower
house. The land would be made
available to the Victory Bible
Camp Ground, Inc., a non-profit
interdenominational corporation,
at a purchase price of not less than
$1.25 an acre as set by the Secre
tary of the Interior. t
Petersburg will obtain a portion
of a block within its townsite, to
gether with the school building lo
cated on the property, for school
purposes, if the Senate follows the
lead of the House in passing Dele
gate Bartlett’s enabling legislation.
The land embraces lots 9 and 10
of block 14 with an old building
in possession of the Alaska Native
Service which would be transfer
red if the bill becomes law.
The third measure passed by the
House would allocate 37V2 per cent
of the income derived from miner
al leases on public lands within
Alaska to the Territory for con
struction and maintenance of pub
lic roads or for the support of pub
lic schools or other public educa
tional institutions.
SON BORN TO REV. AND
MRS. LEWIS HUDGINS
Rev. and Mrs. Lewis Hudgins
are the proud parents of a son,
Victor Lewis Hudgins, born early
on March 25th. His weight was
nine pounds, thirteen ounces.
ALLEN LEE ENROUTE
TO SOLOMON
Allen Lee, of the Lee Dredging
Co., who is in business in Fair
banks arrived Monday evening en
roll te to Solomon for a few days.
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Alaska Veterans In
Mental Hospitals
Specialized treatment for the
mentally ill veterans of Alaska
will be available in the same in
stitutions now open to war veter
ans in the continental United
States, following negotiations be
tween the Interior Department and
the Veterans Administration.
Previously, Alaska war veter
ans, legally adjudged insane, could
! be admitted only to the Morning
side Hospital at Portland, Oregon,
federally-operated and adminis
tered by the department of the in
terior. The recent action urged by
Interior Department afficials and
I approved by the Veterans Admin
istration, will open the doors to
1 Alaska war veterans of all hospi
tals in the United States which are
designated and maintained by the
! Veterans Administration for the
j Care and treatment of psychotic
I patients.
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r ire nazes Mental
I Hospital
STEILACOOM, Wash. (/P) — A
■ four-ward wing at the western
state hospital, a mental institu
tion, was destroyed by fire before
1 dawn today but all of the 2*79 pa
; tients in the building were believ
ed to have been removed safely.
' The superintendent said the escape
of inmates from the “firetrap"
without casualties was miraculous.
An accurate estimate of the cost of
the fire in the fifty-year-old wood
and brick structure jould not be
obta:ned, but the superintendent
estimated replacement at $750,000.
At elast one of the patients is
known to have been picked up a
short distance from the hospital
and it was believed possible that
others might have escaped cus
tody. All patients in the building
were men.
In the Middle Ages, the title pro
fessor was synonymous with the
titles Master and Doctor.
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PENCIL SETS
NEW NUGGET JEWELRY
MINIATURE WHAT-NOTS
IN COPPER
OTHER NEW ITEMS
JUST RECEIVED
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Policemen In
The News
FITCHBURG, Mass. t/P), Prank
sters filched a sign from a nearby
parking lot and placed it on the
front steps of the police headquar
ters.
The sign read: “Closed 5:30 p.m.
to 9:30 a.m. No trespassing."
Police said it worked fine, “not
even a drunk disturbed the prem
ises."
ALBANY, N. Y. iTPi — Even
tramps are costing the state more
money these days. Governor
Dewey today approved a bill in
creasing the state’s allowance for
maintenance of tramps in jail
from 60 cent sto SI a day.
NEWCASTLE, Del. (^i—Patroi
! man Francis J. Hewlett, Newcas
I tie’s one-man night police force,
can lay claim to having “the eyes
of the law.”
1 Seated at his desk, he telephon
ed Delaware state police headquar
| ters five miles away.
“Listen,” he said, “two guys just
1 broke into a grocery store right
; across the street. They can sec me,
so if I make a move they’ll scram.”
For 10 minutes Hewlett “stayed
put.” Then two state troopers
rushed into the grocery. The burg
lars ran out the back way—right
into the arms of two policemen
covering that end of the building.
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STOCKTON, Calif. (JP)—Up to
a downtown cocktail lounge roared
two patrol wagons loaded with po
lice. A large crowd gathered ex
pectantly as the officers pushed
their way inside.
“No raid” was the word sent
: out, “just peace officers from
northern California counties re
, laxing between sessions of their
annual regional meeting.” The
paddy wagons were the only con
venient transportation.
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Many Formosans
Ecexuted For Riot
NANKING, pF)—More than 70
Formosans, constituting the self
! styled “people’s government” of
Formosa during the recent rioting,
were executed by national govern
ment authorities Monday, press re
ports stated today,
j The Central News quoted an ol
| licial Taman garrison communi
que adding that more than 100
person suspected of subversive ac
tivities had been arrested.
TEARFUL TIME
EL PASO, Tex. (/■P)—Police an
; swering a* call on White Oaks
street found the neighborhood lit
erally crying for help.
Investigation showed that boys
playing on a vacant lot had stum
bled across more than a dozen tear
gas canisters, presumably old army
equipment.
The boys broke several, and the
wind did the rest.
DELAYED HONEYMOON
CHICAGO, (/P) — Edward W.
Predl, 28, fell downstairs at his
home and suffered a broken leg
while en route to his church wed
ding, but he arrived in a wheel
chair only two hours late.
The bride, Miss Betty Conway,
21, and 150 relatives and friends
waited at the church Saturday
without knowledge of Predl’s mis
fortune.
After the wedding the bandaged
bridegroom returned to the Evan
gelical hospital in an ambulance.;
The bride went alone to the wed
ding dinner and reception.
ARCTIC CIRCLE EXPLORATION
CHANGES HANDS
The Arctic Circle Exploration
Co., recently purchased by the
Glenn Carrington Co., changed
hands again on March 20.
Th'c new directors of the com
pany, now known as Arctic Enter
p: isos, are Russell Havenstrite,
president, of Los Angeles: John
Havenstrite, vice president; John
Gillham. secy, and director; Wil
liam Dieppe treasurer and direc
tor; Jaek Allen, d:rector. Nor am
Stines is consulting engineer fo"
the company.
SOME POLYNESIANS AT
tach great importance to the <hape
of the head, according to the En
cyclopaedia Britannica, that the
head of every baby is moulded
either into flat-backed, dome-top
ped, sloping-browed or round form
by massage.
REV. C. HIRSCHY SPEAKS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
Rev. C. Hirschy, pastor of the
Gospel Tabernacle at Fairbanks,
accompanied by Rev. Sherman
Dunkley piloting his own airplane,
arrived yesterday from Kotzebue
where they held services. Last
evening Rev. Rihschy spoke at the
Assembly of God Church here and
Rev. A. Capener states that he will
speak tonight again at 7:45 p.m.
From there the plane will go to
' ■; and McGrath before return
er* to Fairbanks.
- A LIGHTER BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. JOHN SOLON
Mr. and Mrs. John Solon of the
S'-vice Barber Shop, are the
n»*oud parents of a baby girl born
Tuesday by caesarean section, at
the hospital. Both mother and
daughter are doing well, it is re
ported.
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