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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, — (IP) — The Am
erican Association for United Na
tions said today $2,200 has been
raised in Alaska for the crusade
for children campaign.
Mrs. Ruth Prine, executive sec
retary of the AAUN, said more
than $1,600 was collected at Fort
Richardson alone, largely % through
the efforts of Mrs. M. Monroe, a
member of the association, whose
husband, an army colonel, is with
Alaska Command headquarters
there.
KANSAS CITY, —(IP)— Presi
dent Truman signed 16 bills upon
his arrival in Independence late
Wednesday.
They included:
S.1025, providing for construc
tion of shore protective works at
Nome, Alaska.
JUNEAU, — (IP) —Sir Hubert
Wilkins .noted explorer, arrived
here yesterday to join an expedi
tion of the Arctic Institute of
North America which will explore
Seward Glacier north of Yakutat.
After the party has established
its camp at the glacier, Wilkins
is to go to Ladd Field to work
with the Army on further cold
weather experiments.
JUNEAU, — </P)—'The Juneau
Chamber of Commerce endorsed
the proposed construction of a
railroad throguh Canada to Alaska
yesterday.
The chamber telegraphed Sen
ator Lodge (R-Mass) chairman of
the Senate Foreign Affairs com
mittee urging passage of any mea
sure looking toward negotiations
for such railroad extensions.
• JUNEAU, — (/P) —The Alaska
district office of the department
of commerce has been closed be
cause of a budgetary curtailment
enacted by Congress, district man
ager Wilfred Goding said today.
The office here has been func
tioning only 15 months.
SEATTLE, — (/P) — Oscar Ni
cholson of Seattle, who died May
29, in Petersburg, Alaska, left
an estate valued at $190,000 pro
bate proceedings disclosed yes
terday.
About $65,000 is under the jur
isdiction of Washington courts,
and the balance—a salmon can
nery and residence near Peters
burg—will be probated in Alaska.
He left the entire estate to his
wife and two children.
WASHINGTON, — </P) —Mari
time Industries, Fields Landing,
Calif., recipient of the nation’s
first and only post-war whaling
license, has renewed its license
today again for another year,
the fish and wildlife service said
today.
Before the war there were two
whaling stations in Alaska and an
American whaling ship in the
Antarctic, in addition to the the
northern California station. Now
Maritime Industries is the only
U.S. operator.
NEW CASTLE, N.Y., — UP) —
The National Governors Confer
ence today adopted a resolution
urging Congress to give Hawaii
and Alaska statehood.
Delayed Action
Draft Bill Passed
House 283 to 130
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WASHINGTON, — (*») —The
House today passed a delayed
action draft bill which would not
draft anyone before next Feb. 1.
The roll call vote on final pas
sage was 283 to 130.
The amendment-loaded meas
ure now goes to the Senate. There
it faces a possible filibuster that
may kill it unless Congress re
turns after the political conven
tions. '' /
The Senate passed a different
bill last week. It provided for an
immediate draft for two years of
service. *
The House bill calls for one
year of service, with nobody to
be inducted before next Feb. 1.
Then they would be drafted only
by order of the President. In
duction ages in both bills are
19 through 25.
The threat of a Senate fili
buster—talking the bill to death—
came from Senator Glen Taylor
(D-Ida), who is a running mate
with Henry A. Wallace on a third
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Navy Gets Fiscal
Appropriation
WASHINGTON, —<£>)— The
Navy will have about $3,749,000,
000 in the year beginning July
1, under a compromise reached
lant night.
Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass)
said Senate and House members
had agreed in conference on the
appropriation. The bill still must
go to both houses for approval.
The Senate and House are expect
ed to accept it.
The Navy asked $3,927,738,
700. This figure was cut $250,
005,450 by the House.
The apropriation includes $6,
000,000 to start construction of a
65,000-ton super-aircraft carrier
and $9,000,000 to make oil ex
plorations on the Elk Hills reser
vation in California.
M-S ROSE KNOT
Returns From Trip
To Bristol Bay
SEATTLE, — (/P) —The M/S
Rose Knot of the Alaska Steam
ship Company which arrived here
Tuesday was the first vessel of
the season to complete a round
trip to Bristol Bay. Her master,
Captain Gus Goetz, reported the
Bay was still quite congested with
pack ice, retarding the vessel
several hours.
Northbound the Rose Knot was
laden with cannery supplies for
Bristol Bay. Southbound She car
ried a load of surplus equipment
from Attu.
The vessel will sail again June
30, for Kodiak, Ouzinkie, Shear
water Bay, Chignik, King Cove,
Squaw Harbor and Sand Point.
United DC-6 Crash
In Pennsylvania
Kills 43 Persons
MT. CARMEL, Pa., — (/P) —
Charred pieces scattered over a
coal-blackened hillside were the
only visible remains today of a
huge airliner that carried 43 per
sons to fiery death.
Investigators scratched through
the wreckage of the United Air
lines DC-6 that plunged earth
ward yesterday afternoon in an
attempted emergency landing. One
of its motors had caught fire.
In New York City, the Airline
said it still “had not the slight
est inkling” as to the cause of the
crash.
Victims included famed Holly
. wood-Broadway theatrical produc
ler Earl Carroll; Mrs. Jack Oakie,
divorced wife of the motion pic
ture actor; actress Beryl Wallace:
star of Carroll’s theater restau
rant show, 'and Henry L. Jackson,
men’s fashion editor of Collier’s
1 magazine.
Witnesses said the giant air
craft, manned by a crew of four
; for its 12 hour flight from San
! Diego, Calif, to New York, ap
| parently tried to pancake safely
on a black hill of coal dust and
water near the eastern Pennsyl
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Int. Dept. Seeks
Legislation Group
Settlement Alaska
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —The
Interior Department has asked leg
islation to encourage group set
tlement of public lands in Al
aska.
Acting secretary C. Girard Dav
idson said in a letter to the Sen
ate yesterday that national se
curity requires a “strong and ex
panding population” in the nor
thernmost Territory.
He submitted a draft of pro
posed legislation which he said
would facilitate settlement of ab
out 2,000,000 acres. •
It would encourage family size
farms in agricultural areas but
would allow a settler to lease 16
acres of grazing land for each
acre of cultivated or pasture land
in his homestead.
A farmer would be entitled to
a dwelling site in the group com
munity contemplated for each
area.
Veterans or groups with a size
able veteran membership would
have preference in taking up the
new lands.
The legislation would author
ize agricultural loans for at the
same interest rate by the recon
struction finance corporation for
business properties.
Access roads and community
docks would be built by the gov
ernment “in aid of settlement,”
without cost to the community
and a “limited amount” of the
farm land would be cleared and
leveled without cost to give the
homesteaders a start.
jU. of W- Glee Club
To Give Concert
Here Sunday
The University of Washington
Glee Club, sponsored by the bus
iness men of Seattle in commem
oration of the 50th anniversary j
of the gold rush to Alaska, is
scheduled to arrive here Sunday
from Fairbanks.
The group has been on tour of
Alaskan cities arrived at Ketchi
kan on June 12. The singers are
in Fairbanks today and Saturday
and will proceed to Anchorage on
Monday after giving a concert in,
Nome on Sunday evening at 8:00
p.m. in the Nome High School
GLEE CLUB LEADER
Prof. Charles W. Lawrence
will direct the University of
Washington Men's Glee Club
on its tour of Alaska which
began in Ketchikan Saturday.
The club will give at least 17
concerts during their tour of
the Territory. Professor Law
rence has been a member of
the faculty of the University
of Washington School of Music
since 1926. He is a graduate
of the Oberlin Conservatory, J
Cleveland, Ohio, and the Uni
versity of Washington.
auditorium.
A committee of the City Coun
cil, appointed by Mayor Luther
Dunbar, comprised of Keith Hed
reen and Gordon Osborne. This
committee will work with other
committees of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Nome Rotary
Club, to arrange for transportation
and act as a reception committee
to meet the group on its arrival.
Through the courtesy of Col.
Harry Burkhalter, the members
of the Glee Club will be housed
in quarters at the base while the
officers and directors accompany
ing the group will be placed in
local hotels.
The Glee Club has been ex
ceedingly well received in other
parts of the Territory and it is
believed Nome is truly fortunate
in the opportunity to hear them
sing, as our cultural opportunities
are very limited in the field of
music.
It was announced by the com
mittee in charge pf the enter
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Invitational News
At A Glance
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL.
— i/P) —American officials ex
pressed deep interest in what
appeared to be a Soviet peace
offensive breaking out over east
ern Europe.
They were skeptical that the
Russians and their Communist
allies intend to make any im
portant concessions on problems
splitting the west and east.
Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
Russian military governor for
Germany, said a four-power ag
reement on German currency re
form is “completely possible.”
Other “peace offensive” moves
came from Yugoslavia and Bul
garia. Yugoslavia offered to set
tlee U.S. claims. Bulgaria said
she is willing to talk about swap
ping diplomats with Greece, ag
ainst which the Red Balkan states
have been snarling. Russia’s ac
ceptance of an American proposal
for a ten-nation Danube shipping
conference also was regarded as
part of the Soviet plan.
American officials guessed Rus
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Alaska S S Servise
Extended Feb. 28.
WASHINGTON, — MVA bill
to extend the present subsidized
steamship service to Alaska un
til Feb. 28, 1949 was approved
today by the Senate Commerce
Committee.
Its chances of passage before
Congress quits Saturday aren’t
very good. If the Senate passes
the bill, its supporters hope it
may also be passed by the House
over opposition of chairman
Weichel (R-Ohio> of the House
Merchant Marine Committee. He
has refused to permit his commit
tee to consider similar legisla
tion.
The present service is operated
by three Seattle companies with
government owned ships chartered
to them by the Maritime Commis
sion at a dollar a year. The law
authorizing this expires June 30.
Fritz Kuhn, Bund
Leader Captured
MUNICH Germany, — (JP) —
Fritz Kuhn, German-American
Bund leader, was recaptured to
day, Munich public safety offi
cials disclosed.
Kuhn escaped from the German
internment camp at Dachau under
mysterious circumstances Feb. 4,
the camp director, Anton Zir Gizl,
was dismissed as a result.
Kuhn had been waiting trial
before a German denazification
court. He was convicted in ab
sentia April 20 and sentenced to
10 years hard labor as a "major
Nazi offender.”
Kuhn was captured in the
French zone town of Bemkastel,
near Trier, by German police.
Suspicions were aroused when
he applied for a chemist’s license.