behalf, therefore, the War Ship
ping Administration has petition
ed the Maritime Commission for
increases. The hearings on this
petition were commenced on very
short notice despite the protests
of the people of Alaska, and of
various Government agencies con
cerned with Alaska, including
this Department. At the first ses
sion of these hearings . . . the
president of the Alaska Steam
ship Company testified that if
freight rates alone were to be in
creased, his company would re
quire an increase of 161 percent
over 1939 rates or 108 percent
over present rates, but that if pas
senger rates as well as freight
rates were increased, the increase
would need to be only 99 percent
over 1939 rates or 65 percent over
present rates. It is obvious that
any such increase would send the
cost of living in Alaska to such
heights that it would stop com
pletely the development of the
Territory and would cause the
withdrawal from Alaska of many
of the people now living there . . .
“I am convinced that the time
is particularly opportune for the
enactment of H. R. 4731 inasmuch
as the development of Alaska,
which now more than ever before
is a matter of real importance to
the national defense and economy,
would be promoted by such legis
lation. Moreover the availability
of a great number of surplus ships
built during the war would great
ly reduce the cost of carrying out i
the purposes of the bill, and the
enactment of the bill, in turn,
would afford an unusual oppor
tunity to put some of these sur
plus vessels to good use.”
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SPORTS
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PITTSBURGH — The largest
indoor fight gate in Pittsburgh
history $53,047 was recorded at
the Garden as Ray Sugar Robin
son, No. one welter weight con-I
tender registered his third straight
victory over veteran Sammy An
gott, former lightweight champion
CHICAGO — Heavyweights Le
Savold and Arturo Godoy of Chile
have been suspended by the Illin
Nome Directory
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ois Athletic commission for an
“indefinite period,” following a
“no contest" bout here last Fri
day.
MIAMI—rTropical Park opened
its annual racing season and track
officials looked forward to the
same boom that set a record of
forty consecutive “million dollar”
betting days at Hialeah.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—
Commissioner A. B. (Happy'
Chandler promised he would
make a complete investigation—
"even if I have to go to Mexico
myself”—into every case of a ma
jor league player who jumps to
Bernard Pasquel’s eight-team
Mexican league.
SANDFORD, Fla. — Negroes
Jackie Robinson and John White
were just a couple of guys trying
for regular jobs as they went
through the second day of drills
with the Brooklyn Dodger farm
club players.
CHICAGO — Basketball scores
really soared in the recent world
professional tournament here.
In 14 games, there were 1,552
points an average of almost 111
per game. In but one game, a first
round contest in which the Day
ton Acmes beat the Gruman Hell
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27, was the total score less than
100.
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can Gears, 80 to 51, to establish a
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Hugh <Shorty> Ray, football
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