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tion expected to total above $17,
000,000,000 to strengthen the de
fenses of this country and its al
lies abroad.
Another conference group has
tentatively agreed on an anti
communist bill.
Chicago (/P)—The Chicago Jour
nal of Commerce in a copyright
story Saturday said the Ford Mo
tor company is soon to start man
ufacture of B-36 aircraft engines
in a huge Chicago plant.
The newspaper said Ford will
start making a “substantial quan
tity” of engines for the air forces
big bomber “just as soon as possi
ble."
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Marine
Pfc. Raymond Charles Perkins of
Sitka, Alaska, was listed by the
defense department among the
wounded in Korea. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Per
kins, Sr., of Sitka.
MANILA, {/P)—Mighty Hibok
hibok volcano Saturday sent vil
lagers scurrying for cover from
red hot ashes after killing an es
timated 84 persons in its latest
eruption.
The southern Philippines vol
cano continued to erupt.
The estimate of 84 dead came
from the Manila Bulletin's cor
respondent on the scene. The Red
Cross estimated 60 to 70 dead.
VANCOUVER, B. C. (/P)—The
International Pacific Salmon com
mission has closed the Fraser
River and adjacent waters to all
net fishing until Sept. 25.
The order, issued Saturday, was
to protect the migration of the
few remaining Adams River sock
eye now on an upstream run.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alfred J. Lo
men, pioneer Alaska businessman,
who died here May 17, left his
share of a community estate val
ued at $96,843.79 to his widow,
Mildred Grace Lomen. This wasj
disclosed when an estate inventory j
was filed with county clerk Nor-1
man R. Riddell.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate has approved the nomination
for postmaster of Isabella D. Hume
at McKinley Park. Alaska.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, (/P)—
Nearly 100,000 American, British
and French troops wound up a
big, eight-day training maneuver
in triumph today by chasing an
“enemy” invader back to the east
ern borders of West Germany.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, chief of
U. S. field forces, who watched
part of the maneuvers, said the
American troops showed them
selves “superior” in their fitness
{ for combat.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman signed today a bill allow
' ing Gen. George C. Marshall to
become secretary of defense. The
White House said Marshall’s for
mal nomination to the post would
be sent to the Senate for confirm
ation at once.
With U. S. 2nd Division, Korea,
(/P)—Units of the U. S. Second Di
vision captured 38 North Korean
nurses today.
It was the largest number of
enemy service women seized in
one day since the Korean War be
gan.
ASHLAND, Ky. {!■P) — Former
Rep. Andrew J. May was released
on parole from the Ashland fed
eral correctional institution early
today after serving nine months
and 13 days for wartime conspir
acy and bribery.
May had been sentenced to eight
to 24 months,
WASHINGTON, (/P)—’The navy
said today the 45,000 ton battle
shop New Jersey is being de
mothballed for return to active
duty in the fleet.
She will be the second battle
ship in operation.
Her sister ship, the Missouri,
arrived in the Far East last week
to start shooting duty in the war.
LAKE SUCCESS, (£>)—General
Douglas MacArthur was reported
today to have informed the United j
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| Appropriations
Funds appropriated for Alaska
I roads in the amount of $20,400,
1 000 in cash and $8 million in con
tract authority represents a large
part of the $82,413,633 in cash and
contract authority set aside in the
t general appropriation bill for the'
Interior Department’s functions in!
; Alaska. In addition, Congress al
' lowed $2,600,000 for road main
tenance work in the Territory.
The road appropriations, $8 mil-1
lion of which will go to liquidate,
last year’s contract authority, will!
allow continued work o n the j
Turnagain Arm road, the Kenai
Lake-Homer road, the Eagle-For
ty Mile-Alaksa Highway road, the
Richardson H i g h w ay-McKinley
Park road. Funds for asphalt sur
1 facing of the Richardson High
way, Glenn Highway, Tok Cutoff
and Alaska Highway are provided
with money earmarked for local
farm and industrial roads and
preparation of further road plans.1
The road appropriation represents
a full restoration to the Presi
dent’s budget estimate which was
temporarily cut when the Senate
acted on the general appropria
tion bill.
The construction program of
The Alaska Railroad will be al
lowed $30 million, $17 million of
which will be used to liquidate
last year's contract authority. The
President had asked for $31 mil
lion, a sum cut by the Senate to
$28,700,000 and almost totally re
stored in conference to $30 mil
lion.
The Senate and House confer
Nations he had positive evidence
that Russia supplied munitions to
North Korea in 1949 and 1950 and
that communist China supplied
“trained manpower.”
Soviet deputy foreign minister,
Jakob A. Malik has insisted that
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Russia has given the Korean com
munists no military supplies since
1948, when the Soviet army was
withdrawing from North Korea.
ROME, (/P)—Rome’s independ
ent Kiornale D’ltalia said today in
a London dispatch that North Ko
rean authorities are seeking to ne
gotiate for peace.
The dispatch attributed the in
formation to non-official Indian
circles at London and said it came
from New Delhi. According to it
China and India would serve as
mediators.
Giornale described the dispatch
as its own special service. There
was no confirmation from any
other source.
GREENVILLE, Tenn. (/P) — Al
fred Dean Slack, pleaded guilty in
federal court today to charges of
wartime spying for Russia.
Assistant U. S. Atty. James
M. Meek immediately recommend
ed a 10-year prison sentence for
the 44-year-old Syracuse, N. Y.,
chamist.
Meek said Slack had admitted
passing on to Russian agents se
crets in the manufacture of RDX,
a high explosive.
“In view of the fact Slask re
sisted in giving information to the
Russian agents when he realized
it was for Russia, the government
is willing to accept the ten-year
sentence,” Meek told the court.
WASHINGTON — The special
agricultural reesarch program for
Alaska will be continued during
the 1951 fiscal year with the $280,
000 appropriated by Congress in
setting aside $4,385,18 for depart-!
ment of agriculture activities in
Alaska. '
ees eliminated the Senate-ap
propriation of $12,893 to be used
as partial payment on claims of
Alaska Road Commission employ
ees for overtime compensation.
The third largest Interior De
partment agency appropriation
goes to the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs in the amount of $13,151,600
and $1 million in contract author
ity. This will be applied as fol
lows: $6,499,000 for health, educa
tion and welfare; $451,500 for In
dian resources management; $4,
376,500 plus $1 million contract
authority for construction; $1,122,
000 for the revolving loan fund
for natives; and $202,600 for gen
eral administrative expenses.
The Geological Survey will
have $1,577,000 for its 1951 Alas
ka activities, including $800,000
for topographic surveys, $500,000
for geologic and mineral surveys
and mapping and $239,000 for
water resources investigation.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
total of $2,670,587 includes $855,
815 for administration of the fish
eries and $265,731 for adminis
tration of the game laws, plus
$468,975 for the operation of the
Pribilof Islands.
The Bureau of Reclamation re
quest for $250,000 was cut to
$209,000. The supplemental bill
now before the Senate contains
$1,100,000 to start the Eklutna
hydroelectric project authorized
CROWDS VISIT EIFFEL TOWEBi
PARIS, (jP)—More people than
ever are visiting the Eiffel Tower,
Paris’ famed landmark.
The big steel cloud-scraped at
tracted 1,143,000 visitors last year.
This beat the 1948 total by 185,
000 and the previous post-inaugu
ration record of 1,025,000 visitors
set in 1900. The 985-foot tower
was inaugurated in 1889 during
the Paris International Exposition
when a total of 1,968,000 visitors
were counted.
All Paris grammar school chil
dren can take a free ride to the
tower’s observation platform—
provided they bring along a certif
i icate showing they passed their
i yearly examinations.
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this year through enactment of
Delegate Bartlett’s bill.
The remainder of the Interior
Department’s appropriations goes
to the Office of Territories for the
, Governor’s and Secretary’s offic
| es, the insane of Alaska, and leg
, islative expenses, $653,378; the
Bureau of Mines, $503,710; the
1 National Park Service. $741,508;
and the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, 906,850. Congress added an
appropriation of $75,000 to the
funds requested for survey work
under the Bureau of Land Man
agement bringing to a total of
$233,680 the money available for
this undertaking.
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