Veterans Affairs
Commission Makes
Annual Report
JUNEAU, (/Pt—Members of the
Territorial Board, appointed to ad
minister the loans and bonuses for
Territorial veterans provided for by
the 1946 special session of the Ter
ritorial legislature, met in Juneau
last week to review the accom
plishments of the agency during
the eleven months in which it has
been in operation and to formulate
such new regulations as the expe
riences of the past months might
^ prove advisable.
The report of Noman Haley,
Territorial commissioner of veter
ans affairs who was appointed by
the board last year to administer
the provisions of the act, shows
that in the period of less than a
year since the agency began oper
ations, 231 direct loans with out
standing balances totaling $1,134,
$13.24 have been made and 933
bonuses paid. The average of bo
nuses paid is $380.
In addition to the direct loans,
banks in all Divisions of the Terri
tory have participated under the
loan guaranty provision of the act
to the extent of 155 loans totaling
$922,975. This makes a total of
386 loans, totaling $2,560,988.24,
negotiated by the agency.
Of the direct loans, a recapitula
tion indicated that the loans made
ncluded 84 for homes, 77 for small
businesses, including mining, 38
for boat, 22 were personal, and five
for farms.
Administration of the act has
been accomplished by a personnel
of fourteen, which includes the
commissioner, four regional direc
tors, three secretaries for the re
' gional directors, and an office
force of six in the Juneau regional
and head offices. Thus it will be
seen that the agency has but one
employee for each forty-twro thou
sand square miles in the Territory
of Alaska.
District offices are located in
What To Do With
hots Of Jade
SEATTLE, I/P)—After recover
ing approximately six tons of val
uable jade boulders, stolen from a
storage lot recently, a representa
tive of the owners Saturday said
he was awaiting orders from his
head office in Los Angeles regard
ing disposal of the semi-precious
stone.
Norman C. Stines, consulting
engineer for the Arctic Circle Ex
on, Inc., said his firm lo
c.i v 1 the iade in a vacant lot near
.o idiawn avenue and North 66th
street shortly after noon Friday. It
w s taken from a fenced-in lot
Elliott avenue and West Mer
cer Place within the past two
weeks.
Valued at between $20,000 and
$60,000, in its present rough form,
the jade was mined along the Ko
luk river in the northern part of
the Seward Peninsula, and ship
ped here in November.
No police action was contem
plated on the case as no official
report was filed with the depart
ment. Stines said his firm knew
who had taken the jade from the
storage lot, but that he did n >i
know whether or not any action
would be taken.
We give more thought to what
is due us than to what *s due from
us.
Fairbanks serving the Second and
Fourth Divisions, Anchorage serv
ing the Third Division, Juneau
serving the northern half of the
First Division, and Ketchikan serv
ing the southern half of the First
Division.
All members of the board were
present at the meeting. They are
Robert E. “Bob” Ellis, chairman of
the First Division; John Cross of
the Second Division; John Hellen
thal of the Third Division; Paul
Solka of the Fourth Division; and
L. Embert Demmert of the First
Division, member at large.
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President Airman
Addresses U. N.
NEW YORK, i/P, — President
Miguel Aleman of Mexico told the
United Nations assembly in extra
ordinary session Saturday that in
ternational cooperation vva; the
only way to prevent mankini
from falling into another conflici
which would wipe out the present
form of civilization.
Taking the rostrum after as-en
bly president welcomed him i
one of the greatest contributor' to
peace in our generation, Aleman
said:
“Only this cooperation can suc
ceed in overcoming the difficul
ties that have arisen at the close
of the war and must, finally, con
vert into a state of peace—a true
peace—the. uncertain period in
which we have been laboring for
several months.” t
He was given a tremendous ova
tion as he began to speak.
Aleman drove to the assembly
hall at Flushing Meadow over
rain-swept streets to appear be
fore the 55 delegates as one of the
highlights of his New York visit.
“Nothing indeed would be more
disturbing than to acquiesce,
either by convenience or fatigue,
iu a mere fiction of peace,” Ale
man said, "because peace is not
an equilibrium of conveniences
but rather a firm determination of
the spirit.
“And in order that such deter
mination may, at all times, vital
1 ize the action of the United Na
tions, it is indispensable for this
o ganization never to defraud the
hops of free men everywhere.”
Heat tablets, which look like
peppermint candy, are impreg
nated with a bitter substance to
prevent soldiers from eating them
by mistake.
Japan Adopts
New Constitution
TOKYO, i,Pi — Japanese wel
comed their new "no war” consti
tution Saturday happily mobbing
Emperor Hirohito in Imperial
plaza while their band played the
famed U. S. military march "Stars
and Stripes Forever.”
Without uttering a word, the
Emperor who become-; a
"symbol of state” under the Me*
Ai thur-approved constitution w>
the star attraction for 5,000 I in m
ese at the constitutional rally.
The little emperor arrived at
11 u.m. in a chill rain. He wnt’-ed
solenmly and jerkily to the frorr
of the platform. He wore a brown,
battered hat. a tan overcoat, an *
carried an old-fashoined bine1'
umbrella.
He stood there a moment. Em
peror and subjects faced each
other in mutual silent embarrass
ment. Then Hirohito started to lift
his hat, thought better of it, and
put it back on his head.
That brought a roar from the
crowd. The Emperor smiled, re
moved his hat like an awkward
suitor and bowed slightly.
This gesture from the man be
fore whom all Japanese once
bowed brought another roar from
the crowd.
Premier Shigeu Yoshida stepped
' > ‘he microphone and proposed
three “banzai” 'literally. “10,000
years.”), the thousands raised both
hands skyward and shouted as
they always di 1 in the past.
The principles of the hand gren
ade, parachute, flying machine and
poison gas were originated by the
famous Italian painter and invent
or, Leonardo Da Vinci, more than
450 years ago.
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