Alaska T.B. Death
Rate ^ Times As
High As In U. S.
FAIRBANKS, 1/P) — The death
rate from tuberculosis is nine
times as great among Alaska’s na
tive population and twice as large
among its white residents as it is
in the United States, Dr. Arthur
Bernstein, chairman of the five
man team of medical specialists
from Cook County Hospital, Ch
icago, said today.
He said he based his statement
on personal observation and a
study of Territorial records.
The doctors came north as rep
resentatives of the American Med
ical Association at the request of
interior secretary Krug.
Since their arrival in Anchorage
July 19, the group has visited
Seward, Bethel, Unalakleet, Nome,
Gambell on St. Lawrence Island,
Barrow and Tanana.
The doctors told the Territorial
Medical Association’s annual con
vention here that funds for hos
pital beds and segregation of tu
bercular patients were necessary.
Simultaneous with this report, the
convention received a telegram
from Washington, D. C., advising
that a supplemental appropriation
for such funds had been defeated
in the Senate.
The doctors will return to Chi
cago about Aug. 10, after visiting
Sitka. Juneau and Ketchikan.
The Territorial convention con
cluded its meeting with the selec
t'o ) A ’charage as the site of
nex* year’s convention. Offi
cers elected were: A. Holmes
Johnson, Kodiak: president; Ar
thur ,T. Schaible, Fairbanks; and
Raymond Coffin, Anchorage, vice
presidents; William P. Blanton,
J u iiea u. s ecrct a ry -1 reasu rer.
Capehart To Hold
Hearings On
Alaska Airports
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Capehart <R.-Me.» who will leave
Aug. 27 for Alaska to investigate
prospects for development of a
newsprint indus*y, also will hold
hearings on proposed airports at
Anchorage and Fairbanks.
He said yesterday he has been
authorized by the Senate inter
state commerce committee to hold
the hearings in connection with
pending legislation calling for con
struction of class 4 airports at
both cities.
The fields would be built with
federal funds but be owned by the
cities.
The airport hearings, he said,
will be held immediately after a
six-day investigation of Timber
lands in Southeastern Alaska by
the Senate newsprint sub-commit
tee, of which he is chairman. They
are scheduled tentatively for Sept.
4 at Anchorage and the next day
at Fairbanks.
Capehart and other members of
the newsprint sub-committee, Sen
ators Cain <R.-Wash.», Ellendec
<D.-La.), and Murray D.-Mont.>,
are planning to leave Seattle, on
August 27 and start their tour of
the Tongass National Forest in
the vicinity of Ketchikan.
Alter two days there they w’ill
proceed to the Petersburg area on
Aug. 30 and 31 and then inspect
the Juneau area on Sept. 1 and 2.
Ail the Senators except Capehart
plan to return to Seattle on Sept.
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To Hold Talk Fest’
Alaska Hearings j
UA*) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (A>) — A Sena-'
torial committee is going to hold>
open house for Alaskans who want
to discuss their problems—right
in Alaska.
That is what chairman Butler
<R.-Neb.» of the public lands com
mittee said he intends to do.
He left today on a trip that will
take him into Alaska for three
weeks, where he will study the
problems confronting the Terri
tory.
Butler said he did not intend to
hold any formal committee hear
ings in the Territory but at each
stop, he and other members of the
committee will hold open house
and visit with all who wish to talk
with them. We want the folks up
there to realize they can just drop
in and talk with us.
“We want them to tell of their
problems, unburden themselves if
, they have objections to particular
things this government is doing or
I is not doing and in fact get their
complaints ‘off their chests’.”
The committee’s schedule was
announced recently.
Butler will be accompanied by,
Senators Ecton <R.-Mont.), Wat
kins (R.-Utahi and McFarland <D.-^
Ariz.) and committee clerk Hugh I
Butler. Their families will accom- i
pany the Senators.
Prior to going to Alaska the last
• of this month, Butler will attend
a hearing to be conducted Aug. 19
at Klamath Falls. Ore., by Senator
Watkins on bills to liquidate the
Klamath Indian tribe.
After that, the committee will
go to Olympic national park in
Washington. It has pending before
it legislation to rearrange the
boundaries of the park and possi
bly turn over some of the unneces
sary area to the forest service for
selective logging.
In Alaska Butler said he wanted
to investigate the proposal to es
tablish a newsprint industry
through sale to paper mill com
panies of timber from the Tongass
national forest. The committee ap
proved legislation to permit the
agriculture department to sell the
timber to pulp mills and hold the
receipts until the right of Indian
claimants to some of the land is
decided.
The Senator said he was partic- j
ularly interested in the bill pro- j
posing statehood for Alaska and
! that it is highly important from a
national defense standpoint.
He did not say that he favored
the legislation but said he would
study the situation closely from
the viewpoint of Alaska’s strategic
position in world affairs.
Democratic Party j
Must Stay Liberal
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WASHINGTON. OP) — Senator
Pepper (Fla.) said yesterday he
will make his own cross-country
sneaking tour this fall in an effort
to “keep our Democratic party
liberal.”
The Florida Senator told a re
porter he has not been asked to
speak for the Democratic national
committee but will follow in the
wake of such Republican Presi
dential candidates as Senator
Taft (Ohio) and Governor Dewey
of New York.”
Noting Taft’s call earlier last
week for Republican leaders to
speak out “frankly” on foreign
and domestic issues. Pepper said
“Dewey has been imitating the
Sphinx to date but I thin’r
Taft is going to smoke him out.”
Bahy’s Cry Shows
Woman’s Death
PITTSBURGH i/Pi—A milkman
learns a .lot of things about his
customers—such as which babies
are in the habit of crying in the
early hours.
Robert Roteman. 26, decided to
investigate yesterday when he
heard one-year-old Louis Weaver
wailing as though his heart would
break.
Inside the Weaver house, milk
man Roteman found Mrs. Martha
Weaver, 36, unconscious on the
floor. She died on the way to a
hospital where doctors could not
determine immediately the cause
of her death.
Hellcats Beat Adak
By Mere 66 To 3
J
ALAMEDA, Calif. (^—Alame
da naval air station’s Hellcats
slugged out a 66-3 victory over
the Adak, Alaska, navy team yes
terday in the Navy’s Pacific Coast
softball championship tourna
ment.
Joe Perri, Hellcat pitcher,
struck out eight while temmates
Ba”nev Poole and Bill Morris hit
three homers. Poole got two of the
four-sackers, one with the bases
loaded. The Hellcats are unde
feated.
In an earlier game, El Toro,
Calif., marines edged Bremerton,
Wash., naval barracks, 2-1. The
tournament ends tomorrow.
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