Timber Opponents
JJnable To Visit
U. S. Bright Spots
(i/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Four
Alaskans will be homeward bound
Saturday with hoped-for tours of
Washingtons historic spots and
visits to New York City and Hol
lywood denied them by govern
mental delays.'
The men — Territorial Senator
Frank Peratrovich of Klawak,
Jtepresentatives Frank Johnson of
rCake and Andrew Hope of Sitka,
and Fred Grant of Hydaburg—ap
peared before the House agricul
ture committee last week in oppo
sition of legislation which would j
permit government sale of South-1
eastern Alaska timber to paper
f mills. ;
Theodore H. Haas, chief coun-!
sel for the Indian Service, said the i
men since their arrival from Alas
ka—at the expense of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood which they
represent, and in the midst of the
fishing season when they are
needed at home—have spent much
of their time awaiting the outcome
of conferences between govern
ment agencies on the legislation.
“These men came a long way,
and they had hoped to squeeze in
a visit to New York and Califor
nia,” Haas told reporters.
“They had arranged a trip to
New York, only three hours away
by train over the week-end, but
when they heard there was a pos
sibility of an agreement, they can
celled the trip. They spent the
week end in hotels and anterooms,
instead.”
The four hoped for plane con
nections which would get them
tdfrome early in the week. Mean
while, the likelihood of satisfac
Truman Asks For
Law To Admit
Displaced Persons
WASHINGTON, (A*)—President
Truman today asked Congress to
admit a “substantial number” of!
Europe’s displaced persons into J
the United States as immigrants. |
In a message, Mr. Truman told
Congress “special legislation lim
ited to this particular emergency”
would be necessary if the United
States is to share in offering “an
opportunity for a new life to these
people.”
The President said Congress
would be dealing “solely with an
emergency problem growing out
of the war—the disposition of a
specific group of individuals, vic
tims of war who have come into
the hands of our own and other
western allied armies of occupa
tion in Europe.”
Since the end of the war, Mr.
Truman said, the armies of occu
pation have been able to return to
their homes approximately 7,000,
000 people.
There are no bakeries in Lib
eria; homemade bread is a house
hold staple.
tory settlement of the disputed
legislation appeared remote.
The Alaskans objected to the
bill before the committee, which
would authorize the government to
sell timber from Tongas national
forest in Southeastern Alaska and
place the money in a fund until
forest ownership is determined by
Congress or the courts. They ask
instead that their aboriginal use
and occupancy rights be recog
nized and their claim be negotia
ted in advance of the sale of the
timber.
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Many Escaped
Prisoners of War
Still At Large j
Forty-five escaped prisoners of
war were still at large in the
United States at the end of 1946,
according to J. Edgar Hoover, di
rector of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and author of a re
port on the FBI written for the
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1947
Book of the Year.
He reveals that between Octo
ber, 1942, and December 31 ,1946,
2,802 prisoners of war escaped. Of
tnese, 2,757 were located or re
turned to the custody of military
authorities by the FBI.
Ninety-seven and three-tenths
per cent of the people brought to
trial by the FBI in the fiscal year
of 1946 were convicted, the Bri
tannica Book of the Year reports.
The FBI sent 11,873 criminals to
prisons for terms totaling more
than 26,000 years and collected
over $68,000,000 in fines, savings
and recoveries during the fiscal
year ended in 1946. More than
$31,000,000 was recovered from
anti-trust cases alone. The FBI
obtained 140 convictions for anti
trust violations during the 1946
fiscal year, when it assumed re
sponsibility for the investigation
of such cases.
All of the 13 kidnapings that
occurred during the fiscal year
were solved, Hoover points out in
his article. No demand for ransom
was made in any of these cases.
Kidnapers were sentenced to a to
tal of 207 years, plus one sen
tenced to a life term.
Of 292 kidnapings investigated
by the FBI since the enactment of
the Federal Kidnaping Statute in
1932, 290 have been solved, Hoo
ver states. The two remaining
cases continued under active in
vestigation.
The Britannica Book of the Year
reports increases in the number of
convictions for extortion, bribery
and theft of motor vohicles. Al
most 11.500 automobiles were re
covered in cases investigated by
the FBI, Hoover says.
Therf were only half as many
convictions for violations of the
White Slave Traffic Act as in the
previous fiscal year, figures in the
Britannica Book of the Year re
veal.
On June 30, 1946, the identifica
tion division of the FBI had a to
tal of 101,578,578 fingerprint
cards in its files, Hoover states in
his article for the Britannica Book
of the Year.
FORMS NEEDED FOR
BOND ASSIGNMENT
Check with the Veterans Ad
ministration before sending in
your terminal leave bond as pre
mium payments on your NSLI is
the advice to veterans from
Geroge LaFray, director of the
VA’s Northwest insurance service, i
Merely endorsing the bond is1
not enough, LaFray told veteran.:, j
The VA needs to know what use i
the veteran wHshes to make or’ h-si
bond.
Bonds may be used in convert
ing insurance, in paying premium;
ahead, or in reinstating lapsed pol
icies. Assignment forms and in
structions are available at any
Veterans Administration office.
More than 10,000 terminal leave |
bonds from Northwest veterans ]
have already been received by the j
VA to be applied on their G.i. in- i
surance, LaFray said.
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SPORTS
ROUNDUP
(By Hugh Fullerton. Jr.)
NEW YORK UP)—Lew Burston,
head of Mike Jacob’s foreign de
partment, pulled off quite a feat
when he got both Olle Tandberg
and Jae Baksi to sign contracts to
fight Joe Louis. . . . But Jersey
Jones maintains that Lew has been
doing a bigger job in Europe, lo
cating new talent to build up the
foreign department and boxing in
general. ... As Jersey explains
it, Burston looked over about lb
prospects and Jack Solomons, the
London promoter, told him to
bring in a^ many as he wanted
for tryouts. . . . Out of that, hoy
expect to find eight or ten boys
worth further investigation and
schooling and maybe three or foir
good enough to bring to the
United States. . . . “They’re all
kids about 18 to 19 years old who
never got near London where
Solomons would see them,’ says
Jones. “We’re providing him with
some new attractions and if we
find some good ones, we’ll use
common sense about bringing
them along instead of tossing them
! right in against headliners. It may
take several years, but now our
1 foreign department is down to just
Marcel Cerdam.’’
Mrs. Rita Shaw, secretary to
basketball coach Harry Good of
Nebraska U., never has seen a
basketball game and only one
American football battle. . . . She’s
a British war bride who came to
this country only six months ago.
Nevertheless she has definite opin
ions about football. She likes Brit
ish rugby better: “It’s more excit
ing because the players don’t stop
Support Stassen
For President
ST. LOUIS, OP)—E. W. Brom
wich, treasurer of the Missouri
Republican Committee, said today
he disagrees with T. Mattingly’s
prediction that Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York would get
this state’s 33 votes for the Pres
idential nomination at the nation
al convention next June.
, Mattingly, national committee
man from Missouri said he had as
sured the governor of the state’s
support during Dewey’s brief
stop here Saturday.
Bromwich told reporters, “In
c o n t a cting Republican leaders
throughout the state I have found
considerable support for former
Minnesota governor Harold E.
Stassen. Many of us feel that he
would be an excellent candidate
because of his autstanding record
as governor, his service in the
navy and his frankness in meeting
issues squarely and openly.
P.A.A. EDUCATION DIRECTOR
HERE FOR FOURTH
Frank Howe, assistant educa
tion director of the Pan American
Airways with offices in New York
visited Nome over the holiday
taking uictures and gathering data
for his company.
M. S. MITROVITCH SPENDS
FOURTH IN FAIRBANKS
Mrs. M. S. Mitrovitch left for
Fairbanks last Friday to spend the
holidays with Mr. Mitrovitch who
is working on an electrical project
at 26 Mile. She plans to return
this week.
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