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0 gary of Josef Cardinal Minds
zenyt on similar charges.
. Two Hungarians who fled their
country shortly after the Minds
zenty trial, said in Vienna that
they helped forge documents re
flecting on the Hungarian primate
on orders from the Hungarian po
^ lice.
They are Laszlo Sulner and his
wife, Hanna, now in custody of
American authorities.
Recurrent reports that Pope
Pius XII will create new cardin
als to fill 14 vacancies in the sac
red college were revived in Vati
can City today by news of a secret
consistory to be held next month.
There are now 56 cardinals, in- >
eluding Mindszenty. Fourteen car
dinals have died since' January, |
'1946.
Friday. February 18. 1949
The Senate foreign relations
committee puzzled today over how
far the United States should com
mit itself under the proposed At
lantic defense treaty.
The committee called in secre
tary of state Dean Acheson for a
study of just how to word the pro
1 posed alliance.
Thus far unsettled is the word
ing of a defense clause—the prob
lem of what to promise if one of
the member states of the security
system is attacked.
President Truman re-affirmed
at a news conference yesterday
that American policy calls for the
agreement to provide: “unmistak
able proof of the joint determina
tion of the free countries to resist
armed attack from any quarter.”
The treaty proposal is expected
> to be submitted at once to other
nations in on the negotiations, if (
the Senate committee approves the
wording of the pact. The coun- i
tries include Canada and five,
western European nations—Great
Britain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Some of the other European na- '
lions are openly worried as to just
how far the United States intends
to go under the alliance.
Norway’s latoor party newspaper
asserted today Norway must ad
here to the Atlantic Pact, instead
of “an isolated neutrality which
we cannot defend.”
The United States expected U.
N. approval today on its proposal
for investigation of slave labor in
Russia.
\
In view of Russia’s opposition,
however most delegates acknowl
edged there was no chance that U.
N. investigators would ever get
behind the iron curtain.
Some 30 persons were wounded
in Isola Iri, Italy, yesterday when j
police clashed with about 1.000
paper mill workers in the coun
try’s worst outbreak of labor vio
lence since July.
Selden 'Chapin, American min
ister to Hungary, who has been
adjudged prsona non. grata by that
country’s communist-led govern
ment, said in Paris today that life
in Hungary “is beyond imagina
tion and defies description.”
En route home to report to the
United States government on the
case of Josef Cardinal Minds
zentv, Chapin told newsmen the
arrest of Catholics in Hungary is
continuing.
A multiated body found in a ra
vine near Karpenis, Greece, has
been identified as that of Lt. Col.
Selden R. Erner, American air
force officer.. Edner was an un
armed observer aboard a Greek
Royal Air Force plane which made
a forced landing in Karpenisi Jan.
21.
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Communication i
Minfield Home,
Box 763,
Juneau, Alaska.'
Depb of Public Welfare,
Juneau, Alaska.
Dear Miss Brandebury and
Mr. Maynard:
I have before me a camouflaged
copy of the same bill you tried to
put through during the last ses
sion of the Legislature.
I feel just the same this year as
last. Several of the statements in
your questionnaire concerning the
bill I know' to be false statement
of fact.
It is the first time I knew the
Department of Public Welfare has
been such a “Haven” in the eyes
of owmers or supervisors of Homes
or institutions. Why should these
individuals, after receiving $17 a
month for a child, accept your
terms w'ith open arms?
Let me tell you, and the rest of
your so-called w'orkers when I
teel that any such legislation will
help the children and people of
Alaska, I’ll put my heart behind
it and push as hard as I can, but
as it stands now, with your cor
rupt department behind it, I’ll do
my best to see it does not pass.
Instead of wasting the appro
priation pushing such bills as this,
crying for more workers, travel
ing around the country on Terri
torial money, fight for more
money to give to these unfortun
ate people and children, who have
to sign away this lives for a pal
try $17.
You should get down on your
knees and thank these people who
try so hard on so little to give the
children so much.
Yours truly,
Minnie Field.
\
Minfield Home,
Box 763,
Juneau, Alaska.
Senate Chambers,
Territorial Legislature,
Juneau, Alaska.
Gentlemen:
• • • •
Looking over the Legislation the
following facts stand out:
1. The Department of Public
Welfare again want complete
control.
2. No institution at the rate of
$17 a month could do all the Re
quirements and be satisfactory.
3. The owner or Supervisor of
the Home would be constantly un
der the “Eagle Eye” of the De
partment.
4. There, is no financial benefit
to the child dependent on the De
partment.
5. The Department can hand
out licenses and take them away
whenever they feel like. They
answer to none except their *£ood
judgment.
6. If we poor misguided Home
owners answer back or disagree
with their policies, we’ll be put in
jail or fined $500.
; *i i
Gentlemen:
You’ll have a situation where
the superviSbr or Home owner
will be so busy keeping in with
the Welfare worker, the children
will be forgotten. I am enclosing
a copj| of my answer to the De
partment of Public Welfare. That
is just exactly how I feel.
When the Dept, of Public Wel
fare, stop worrying about how
much authority they can wield
and start concentrating on better
ing the financial condition of the
Homes, then I feel is the time to
start correcting the regulations,
but until that time, whom do they
think is going to make a fortune
Sen. Lain Says Mon
Wallgren “Lacks
Requirements”
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Cain <R.-Wash.» told the Senate
armed service committee yester
day Mon C. Wallgren “conspicu
lously lacks requirements de
manded” by the* job of chairman
of the national security resources
board.
Opposing the confirma'ion of
the former governor of Washing
ton State for the $14,000 a year
job, Cain said Wallgren is “per
sona non grata” to him.
Wallgren has been a close friend
of President Truman since both
served in the Senate. He was beat
en for re-election in 1948 while
the state generally was going
Domecratic.
Cain reminded the committee
that the chairman of the security
resources board advises the Pres
ident on both defense and domes
tic matters, and is a member of
the national security cou n c i 1
which has direction over defense
organizations and the central in
telligence agency.”
‘‘It shouldn’t be necessary for
me to state that both jobs call for
an individual possessed of great
character, courage, capacity and
knowledge,” Cain said.
at taking care of children for $17
a month?
Very Sincerely,
s/Minnie Field.
NOME HIGH BASKETBALL
TEAM TO ANCHORAGE
Tuesday the members of the
Nome High Basketball team took
off for Anchorage to enter the
All-Alaska basketball meet being
held as one of the features of the
annual Fur Rendezvous. Members
of the team who went were Clar
ence Willoya, freshman; Vincent
Ahkalik. sophomore; Harold Bell,
and Dean Bronson, Juniors; Aar
nout Castel, Gary Longley, Ed
O’Connor and Robert Rose, sen
iors. They were accompanied by
coach Harold Peabody.
Also going to the tournament as
cheering support were June Dun
bar. Juanita Fagerstrom, Irene
Gray and David Bowen.
Word was received by the Nome
High School today that the Nome
team will play an exhibition game
tonight and finals will be played
on Saturday.
PAA DOUBLES CARGO
TONNAGE TO ALASKA
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1G2 tons of cargo to the Territory
and 1 8tons “Outside” last month,
D. E. McMorran, regional traffic
manager, said today.
The northbound figure is more
than twice the amount flown to
Alaska during January a year ago,
an dthe southbound load is four
times greater for the same period.
More than 2,000 passengers
were flown between the States
and Alaska during January of this
year by PAA, a 50 per cent in
crease over the same month last
year.
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