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Nome, Alaska, Monday, March 26, 1951
FOR EVERY 30 INDIANS
(June&u Empire)
Now that the government is busily engaged in cre
ating bureaus, etc., requiring large personnels to handle
them, the following editorial in the Seattle Times makes
intresteing reading:
Last June, the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs
had no less than 13,565 employees on its payroll. At that
time, the Indian population of the United States totaled
at>$ut 400,000. That makes in the neighborhood of one
bureau empoyee for every 30 Indians in the land. At
that rate, the affairs of the American Indians should be
right well administered — too well, one is tempted to
suspect, for their o„wn good.
FEDERAL HOUSING IN ALASKA
(Ketchikan News)
Alaskans would like to know just what the score
is on Federal Housing in Alaska. For nearly two years
now, we have seen scores of engineers, architects, con
sultants, economists and other title individuals travel
ing about the Territory, issuing statements of vast
SHRINKING FROM THE POJCGAZE
wordage concerning vast sums of money to be spent to
provide Alaskans with homes. But so far as we can
learn, very few Alaskans are living in these fine homes,
or are likely to be in the foreseeable future.
Two hundrd fifty thousand dollars was appropriated
by the territorial legislature, and the federal matching
funds are undoubtedly much greater. So the taxpayers
are footing the bill, and to date have been shown
darned little for their money. We believe it’s time an
accounting was made, if only in receipted airlines bills.
! U.S. Health Dept.
Studies Arctic Bear
To Keep Warm
WASHINGTON, (yP)— To find
how many may live more com
fortably in cold areas, the govern
ment is studying the life processes
of Alaskan caribous, bears and
foxes.
The work was described to the
House Appropriations Committee
recently by Dr. J. W. Moruntin,
associate chief of the Public
Health Service’s Bureau of State
Services. The Committee was con
sidering the Service’s budget re
quest. Printed transcripts of the
hearings were released today.
Keeping Alaska’s tremendous
strategic importance in mind, Dr.
Mountin said, the urgent aim is a
short-cut to the secret of living
and working in cold temperature
areas.
To that end, he said, scientists
are studying the native animals,
observing what insulation they
put on in cold weather, and how
they maintain their body tempera
tures out on the tundra.
“There is a tremendous animal
population that resides in Alaska
all the time,” he said. “Some of
the fowls can keep their feet
down in freezing water without
apparent discomfort or damage.
' There are sea animals in the very
cold waters that get along very
well and make a good adjustment.
“Whether they will give the
necessary leads we are not sure,
but such studies at least will add
to scientific information and it is
entirely possible it may have very
immediate and practical applica
« t on.’4 4
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Morris, who
have been ith the Alaska Road
Commission: have been trans
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ferred to the Juneau office.
‘ **’ Replacing Mr. Morris here is
Mrs.’Axel Edman.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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told officers he had no recollec
tion of the shooting.
NEW YORK, (JP)— James J.
Moran, resigned!New York City
Water Commissioner, was indicted
on perjury charges today growing
out of testimony before Senate
crime investigators.
Also indicted on charges of ly
j ing under oath to the Senate
committee was Louis Weber, ac
knowledged Brooklyn numbers
bookmaker. The indictments were
returned by a federal grand jury.
Moran, a long-time political
protege of ex-Mayor William O’
Dwyer, was accused of falsely
telling the committee that Weber
visited his office no more than
six times between 1946 and 1950.
BERLIN, (IP)—The Communist
controlled “European Labor Con
J ference” adopted a resolution to
day urging all workers to resist
the rearming of western Europe.
| The resolution climaxed a week
end meeting of delegates from
Soviet-sphere nations.
Search Continues
For Missing Plane
SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland,
(IP)—Ships and planes swept the
north Atlantic for the fourth day
today seeking a trace of the van
ished U.S. Air Force Globemaster
and its 53 American airmen. Spec
ulation that the giant plane had
been sabotaged appeared in the
British press.
Officials, their hopes virtually
dashed that any of the missing
airmen would be found alive, re
! mained silent concerning what
might have happened to the big
transport. But there has been
speculation in British newspapers
that it maght have exploded in
flight. The newspapers said they
considered it odd that so few clues
Costello, with 1 Conviction
Cannot Be Deported
I WASHINGTON, (/P)— Attorney
general McGrath told Senators
today there is no way under the
law to denaturalize or deport
I Frankie Costello, New York rack
eteer.
McGrath testified before the
.Senate Crime Investigating Com
j mittee that Costello has been con
| victed only once of a serious
crime — carrying a concealed
weapon in 1915 — and for that
j reason is not subject to deporta
I tion.
The attorney general said the
law states an alien must have
been sentenced twice for a serious
crime which occurred within five
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years of his entry into the coun
tary before he is subject to depor
tation.
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He noted that Costello, bom in
Italy, became a naturalized citi
zen in 1925.
Even if he were denaturalized,
McGrath said that would not be
sufficient for his deportation.
McGrath charged that some
newspapers he did not name were
“deliberately trying to make it
appear that the Department of
Justice has some means it could
I use to denaturalize and deport
• Mr. Gostello.”
McGrath said this was not true.
KEN SLY MANAGES
PET AND FLOWER SHOP
Kenneth Sly, formerly of Nome,
i has recently shipped in a big re
frigerator to Fairbanks built es
specially for handling fresh flow
ers. Kenneth Sly, who has been
manager of Clark’s Pet Shop,
states that he will feature wed
ding and funeral floral arrange
ments now.
have been found in the relatively
well-traveled area of the Atlantic.
A giant U.S. Navy aircraft car
rier and two destroyers were jpih
i n r* he a iru-sea h unt for the GlobC
master.
—I
Washington News - Letter j
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, I
Delegate in Congress from Alaska
ALASKA ,PUBLIC WORKS
MAY GET $2,000,000
Unconfirmed reports indicate
that the Bureau of the Budget will
soon release $2 million for the
Alaska public works program
which were frozen last year short
ly after being appropriated b y
Congress.
Congress allowed $9 million for
the Alaska program for the 1951
fiscal year, $5 million in cash and
$4 million to liquidate contract
authority allowed in the 1950 fis
cal year. The $5 million cash fig
ure first suffered a $1 million cut
by the Bureau of the Budget and
an additional $2 million were fro
zen, this latter figure now antici
pated to be released. In January
the Interior Department allotted
the remaining $2 million for pro
jects in Seldovia, Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Fairbanks, Petersburg and
Ad:inistration
M’Arthur Dispute
At Fever Heat
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last December a firm, govern
wide directive declaring that any
statement on foreign policy by
any official or employe of the
government in a speech, article
or other public utterance, should
be cleared with the State Depart
ment. Informants said today that
order was called to MacArthur’s
attention at that time.
Friday night, Washington time,
MacArthur left Tokyo for the 38th
Parallel area of Korea to order
United Nations forces to cross into
north Korea as tactical require
ments made necessary. Before
leaving Tokyo he issued a state
ment to the press.
In this statement he mode a
bid for peace talks with his oppo
site number on the Communist
side, said the Chinese Reds were
licked and incapable of waging
modem war and warned that if
the United Nations launched at
tacks on Chinese bases and coast
al area the Red nation would
probably suffer military collapse.
This statement, a check showed,
caught the State Department com
pletely unawares. It apparently
also caught President Truman
without advance notice.
The key MacArthur clause
which set off the alarm here was
that the United Nations could
probably succeed in forcing a mil
itary collapse of Red China by a
limited coastal-attack and base
bombing war. A Tokyo dispatch
yesterday suggested MacArthur
probably was trying to divert the
Chinese Reds’ attention from Kor
ea to the danger of a coastal at
tack.
Whatever his abjective, - any
statement he makes—even hedged
in with “ifs”—about extending the
war in the Far Bast always sends
huge shudders among the Cana
dian, French, British and other
friendly governments. When the
Europeans come into the State
Department wanting to know
“what does MacArthur propose
to do,” Acheson and his aides get
upset about the problems of hold
ing together the political side of
the coalition of which MacArthur
is military commander.
Hoonah.
The Interior Department re
quests for the 1952 fiscal year
contain $10 million for the Alaska
public works program.
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