Chile Claims Area
In South Polar
Region
. SANTIAGO, Chile Chilean
President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
headed home yesterday alter for
mally setting up two military
bases in disputed Antarctic terri
tory—which he called a “land of
tomorrow.”
The bases were established at
Chilean weather stations in defi
ance of long-time British claims,
recently reiterated.
Gonzalez inaugurated the first
on Tuesday at the weather station
at Port Sovereignty on Greenwich
Island in the South Shetlands,
some 500 miles south of the south
ern tip of South America.
He dedicated the second Wed
nesday at another weather station,
60 miles to the south, on a penin
sula of the Antarctic continent
known to Chile as O’Higgins Land
and to Great Britain as Graham
Land.
Dispatches to this Chilean capi
tal told of the ceremony. The cor
vette Covadanga anchored among
icebergs. The president went
ashore with other officials, 20
army cadets, 20 midshipmen and
a navy band.
Chile, Argentina and Great Bri
tain hold overlapping claims to
pie-shaped sections of Antarctica
and to south Atlantic islands, and
the Argentine and Britain both
claim the British-administe red
Falkland islands and their depen
dencies.
The Chilean President landed
at Greenwich Island Wednesday.
Addressing Chilean troops there,
he declared that any attempt by a
foreign pq.wer to seize territory
claimed by Chile in the Antarctic
will be considered an “aggression
against all the nations of the
Americas.”
In Canberra, Joseph Abbott, a
member of the Australian parlia
ment, asked Prime Minister J. B.
Chiefly whether Australia would
send a warship to stand by Bri
tain. Chiefly replied no official
suggestion to that effect had been
made, but if it were, it would be
given consideration.
The British have protested both
Chilean and Argehtine activities
in the Antarctic and have an
nounced they will support British
governor Miles Clifford of the
Falklands in these issues.
The British have sent the 8,000
ton cruiser Nigeria into the Ant
arctic to “show the flag.”
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
TONIGHT AT t:00 P.M.
The Ladies Aid of the Federated
church* who are sponsoring the
World Day of Prayer at the Fed
erated church tonight at eight
o'clock have a fine program work
ed out through the co-operation
of the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission, the Nazarene Church and
the Federated Church.
Although the ceremony is en
tirely in the hands of the ladies
they wish to call attention to the
fact that both men and women are
eamesstly invited to attend.
Krug Insists
Indians Must Have
Reservations
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WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
of the interior Krug said today
Alaska’s Indians will be doomed
to “virtual destruction” unless
they are protected in the use of j
ancestral lands.
In identical letters to Senator!
Butler iR.-Neb.» and Rep. Welch
<R.-Calif.', Krug opposed legisla
tion which would abolish Alaskan
Indian reservations set up by the
secretary of the interior under an
act of May, 1936. Butler and Welch
are chairmen of committees
studying such legislation.
Krug said the reservation’s act
is needed to protect the economic
and social welfare of the natives I
by enabling them to set up local
self-government.
“Unless the natives are protect
ed in use of their ancestral areas
and are permitted to establish
their local governments, the vir
tual destruction of these people is
almost sure to result,” Krug said.
“They must be assisted in their
efforts to become self-supporting
and to combat the introduction of
intoxicating liquor within the na
tive communities. Liquor has ad
verse affects upon their economic
moral and spiritual life.”
The six reservations already
designated include 1,540,600 acres,
less than half of one per cent of
the Territories land area, prac
tically all of it tundra with little
vegetation or other resources,
Krug said. He added:
“Some of the areas such as- the
' Ventie reservation are located in
the interior where the soil and cli
matic conditions are not suitable
! to the growth of vegetables and
! the usual farm produce.
“These lands will not support a
j large population and are not suit
able for settlement and develop
1 ment.
“There are thousands upon thou
sands of acres of land better suited
to settlement by non-natives
I which are not occupied or claimed
by natives.”
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Demands On Aus
tria Must Be ‘Sane’
LONDON, {IP)—The three west
ern powers insisted separately to
day that big four demands in Aus
tria be kept within the country’s
ability to pay.
The United States, Great Bri
tain and France made their posi
tions plain at a meeting of deputy
foreign ministers. They were seek
ing with Russia, a peace formula
for the landlocked republic freed
from Hitler’s Germany.
The deputies sat for two hours
trying to sound out each other.
American observers said that
Russia offered no statement on
the western powers plan to guard
Austrian economy against “exces
sive demands.” Russia has listed
payment of $200,000,000, a big
share of Austria’s oil and virtual
control of shipping on the Danube
as her price of settlement.
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Man Dies, Trying
To Save Boy
NEW YORK, f/P)—A fuel com
pany worker’s efforts to save a
school boy failed last night as both
died under 20 tons of coal cascad
ing into the hopper of a Brooklyn
coal yard.
The youth was identified as
Timothy Schcmpp, 13, and the
man who died with him was Jack'
Apollo, 33.
Apollo was working in the yard
when he saw the boy perched atop
a load of coal about to be dumped
from a railroad car into the mouth
of the hopper. Apollo scrambled
up on the car. But at that instant
the load was released. It disap
peared into the pit with a roar,
carrying Apollo and the boy with
it.
Appointed To
Alaska Airlines
SEATLE, t/V) — Appointments
of Enard S. Hudson and Robert L.
Stewart as vice president and di
rector of engineering and mainten
ance of Alaska Airlines, Inc., re
spectively, were announced today
by president James A .Wooten.
Both Hudson and Stewart will
be based at Paint Field, near Ever
ett, where the company is opening
an overhaul and maintenance
base.
Pribr to his new position, Hud
son was employed by the Boeing
Aircraft company for 10 years.
During the war he was general
manager of Boeing’s modification
center in Denver. He was manager
of Boeing’s service center in Seat
tle at the time of his resignation.
Fire Alarm Lands
Plane; No Fire
NEWARK, N. J. (£>)—Six min
utes after a New Orleans-bound
DC-4 passenger plane of Eastern
Air Lines took off from Newark
airport, its fire alarm system indi
cated presence of a blaze.
The plane returned to the air
port safely. First pilot, Capt.
Charles E. Fisher, checked the
plane but no fire was found. The
passengers were unaware of the
reason for landing.
Airline officials said a new fire
alarm system was overly sensitive
and was set off by smoke from a
lumber yard fire near the airport.
The plane resumed its trip 51
minutes after its first departure.
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