AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
The delayed trip of the Pan
American plane arrived early this
morning with two passengers:
George Bayer, deputy marshall,
returning from Seattle, and Mrs.
Violet Endres, passenger from
Juneau.
The plane returned immediate
ly with Mr. and Mrs. Allan DeLay
as passengers for Fairbanks, en
route to Anchorage; and Rev.
N. Harry Champlin for Fairbanks.
ALASKA AIRLINES
The plane arrived from Anchor
age yesterday with Mr. J. A. Jes
sup and Frank Glaser. The plane
departed for Anchorage with Mr.
and Mrs. Otis Rank for Anchor
age.
Steve Martino, pilot, made a
trip yesterday to Kotzebue with
John Payden, Superintendent of
Stores for the Alaska Native Serv
ice and Miss Grayce Burley of the
Arts and Crafts Division.
At The Hotels
WALLACE HOTEL—
Mr. Frank Glaser of Anchorage.
PATERSON HOTEL—
Warren Haines, Juneau.
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Harry Hopkins
Dies In Washington
Harry Hopkins, 55, former spe
cial assistant to late President
Roosevelt, died at Memorial hos
pital. Hopkins entered the hospi
tal in November. He has been in
iU health for several years. He re
signed his White House post July
3. A hospital attache said the na
ture of Hopkins’ illness was unde
termined.
$780 For Old Atlas
LONDON— (/P) —One of the
earliest British atlases, “The The
atre of Great Britaine’’ by John
Speed, was sold here for $780.
Published in 1614, it contains 68
uncolored double-paged, engraved
maps.
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COMMITTEES
ON THE PAN
“Let me make it very clear that
when I speak of bills not getting
any action, it is not the Congress
! as a whole which is responsible
... it is the committees which
; hold up action on bills . . . often
a bare majority of a committee—
a handful of men—can prevent a
I vote by the whole Congress on
| these measures of majority pol
icy.”
With those words in his “year
of decision” speech, President
Truman raked his former col
leagues over the coals as only a
Chief Executive who had served
in Congress could.
Coming as it did shortly after
the report of Sen. Robert LaFol
lette’s joint committee on the re
organization of Congress, the
President’s blast highlighted the
fact that the committee system is
sadly in need of overhauling.
There are 33 standing commit
tees in the Senate; 48 in the
House. In addition, there are 15
special committees, cone e r n e d
with everything from sheep to the
skylight of the House chamber.
For several years Sen. LaFol
lette and Rep. A. S. “Mike” Mon
roney, co-author of the Reorgan
ization Bill, have been trying to
streamline the committee system.
“No person familiar with the
situation today,” said LaFollette
when he introduced his resolu
tion to reduce the number of com
mittees to 13 in each chamber, “can
deny that there is a pressing need
for committee reorganization.”
Nobody argued with the senator
on the floor nor has anyone pub
licly taken sides against Rep.
Monroney, but their resolutions
have suffered the some fate as
President Truman’s domestic pro
gram—bogged down in commit
tees.
In each two-year session of Con
gress, there are approximately
20,000 bills introduced. Congress
couldn’t consider anything like
that number. Nor could even the
U. S. Agreed To
Support Russia’s
! Kuriles Claims
i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—(A*)—
Secretary Byrnes said a secret
' agreement at Yalta for United
States support of Russia’s claims
to Japan’s Kuriles was reached
with full knowledge of this coun
try’s military leaders, when the
Japs launched their assault against
the Aleutians from the Kuriles.
In response to a question at his
; news conference as to whether the
I agreement was entered “into with
full knowledge of the military
chiefs of staff,” he replied, yer.
but added that he himself had no
knowledge of the agreement until:
a few days after the Jap surrehder.
Cession of any territory, such as
permanent Russian possession of
both southern Sakhalin and the
Kuriles would have to be formal
ized in a treaty.
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more active committees give due
deliberation to all the bills as
signed to them if it weren’t for.
two factors:
(1) Several thousands of the
bills weren’t introduced with any
idea that they would be passfed
(these are for-the-record use so
members can go back to their con
stituents with the argument “I
did everything I could”).
(2) Hundreds of the bills are ob-,
viously acceptable or at least so
favored by the majority that the |
minority doesn’t bother to object, i
In neither of these categories!
falls any of the controversial leg
islation, which includes all of
President Truman’s proposals on|
which he hasn’t had a vote from j
“the whole Congress.”
The President knows whereof,
he speaks. As a Senator he served
on six standing committees: Ap
propriations, Enrolled Bills, Inter
state Commerce, Military Affairs,
| Printing, and Public Buildings
and Grounds. He also was chair
man of that “Truman Committee,”
officially titled the Committee to
Investigate the National Defense
Program. He served, too, on the
special committee to investigate
the Civil Service system.
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BASEBALL PRACTICE
BEGINS TONIGHT
The Big Four teams will get into
shape tonight as the first practice
periods get under way this eve
ning in the High School gymna
sium.
The teams, Alaskans, High
School, Commercials, and Feder
als, will each have practice peri
ods and subsequently, practice
games, before the main series
starts.
The dates for the series sched
ule will be announced later.
Lady Godiva took her famous
ride in Coventry, England.
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