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Alaska Shipping .
And Housing
Worry Officials
WASHINGTON, —>(/P)— Offic
ials of the interior department’s
Alaskan division are considerably
worried over two conditions aff
ecting Alaska; shipping and hous
ing.
C. I. O. longshoremen jurisdic
tional strikes at Juneau and Ket
chikan have tied up shipping at
a time the department is trying
to get winter supplies to the Ter
ritory. A third strike at Seward
has beeen settled and officials
here hope the other two will be
settled during this week.
The housing situation, however,
has officials worried about how
people who have gone to Alaska
are going to get through the win
ter. One department official
said that more than 1,000 persons
had gone to Fairbanks during the
summer and are living in tar-pa
per shacks and tents, while the
housing at Anchorage, the Terri
tory’s biggest city, is acute.
Persons going into the Terri
tory during the last few months
traveled over the Alaska highway
through Canada and only work
men and those who intend to
settle in the Territory are permit
ted to travel the road by the Can
adian government. It prohibits
tourists from using the road be
cause of inadequate accommoda
tions.
Opening of land along the Alas
ka highway on August 1, has
given an impetus to the Alaska
bound veterans and by next sum
mer the department expects they
will have set up tourist camps
and gasoline stations along the
highway.
"Many of the people who have
come into Alaska this summer are,
veterans who served in Alaska
during the war,” an official said.
"They ‘griped’ about it while serv
ing there but are coming back
now to settle permanently.”
Officials refused to discuss the;
housing plans, saying it now is
being given consideration. The
Alaska housing authority has re
commended to president Trumen
that about 5,000 housing units be
constructed there.
“The housing situation in Al
aska is worse than anywhere in
the nation,” an official said. “We
must find some sort of solution
before cold weather arrives. We
are working on it but cannot dis
cuss our plans now.”
William E. Warne, assistant
secretary of the interior, who has
been in Alaska, is expected to
return today and officials here
hope he will have some solution
of the problem. Joseph Flackne,
chief of the Alaska division also
is in the Territory and will re
turn about October 1.
Officials said that people who
went to Alaska this spring and
summer had no difficulty getting
jobs but that now is a bad time
for others to start for the Terri
tory as seasonal employment ends
with the coming of cold weather.
Condemns Russian Action in Hungary
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Soundphoto)—Sladar Szegedy-Maszak, left, Hungarian Minister to the
U. S. who refused to recognize his new government, is shown at a legation news conference as he elabo
rated on his outspoken views in condemnation of Russian interference in Hungarian national affairs.
The minister declared the communist seizure of power in Hungary must be made a United Nations test
ease.
Congressmen Seek
Statehood, Harbor
Gold Information
The House committee headed
by chairman Fred L. Crawford,
<R-Mich>, arrived in Nome late
Friday afternoon on an ATC air
plane from Fairbanks via Barrow.
The group consisted of Chm.
Crawford, Rep. J. J. Y. LeFevre
<R-N.Y.>, Rep. E. H. Jenison <R
111.\ Rep. W. A. Dawson (R-Utah>,
Delegate E. L. Bartlett <D-Alaska,
Joseph T. Flakne, director, Alas
ka branch, division of territories,
E. L. Howe, editor of the Denver
Post, Lt. Col. M. Irvine, air trans
port command, and Capt. Huck
ins, naval aide. Several other
members of the party remained
in Fairbanks.
The group was met at the air
port by Col. John E. Bodle, com
manding officer of the base, Mr.
G. R, Jackson and Mr. Carl Lo
men, who escorted the group to
a dinner given by the NW Alaska
Chamber of Commerce at the
Bering Sea Club.
At eight o’clock the called meet
ing was held in the courtroom
in the federal building at which
Chairman Crawford stated the
committee was interested in any
thing which would benefit Alas
ka, such as mining, the water
front, erosion, breakwater, ship
ping, homesteading, lands, and
even the Russian situation, and
including statehood.
The first questions were on the
problems of mining in the Nome
area and were directed mainly
to Art M. Hartford, general man
ager of the U.S.S.R. and Mining
Company, which has four dredges
in the immediate vicinity.
Mr. Hartford explained that the
company’s dredges not operating
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Rioters In India
: Will he Captured
Placed In Camps
NEW DELHI, India, -^/Pi
Members of armed groups in ter
ror-torn regions of the eastern and
western Punjab will be captured
and placed in concentration camps
the new dominions of India and
Pakistan announced today.
Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Ne
hru and Liaquat Ali Kahn made
this announcement jointly as pol
ice gunfire echoed through the
streets of New Delhi itself. The
death toll in this riot-scarred cap
ital of the dominion of India
climbed into the scores as groups
of Sikhs, Hindus and Moslems
■ continued communal clashes.
One hundred thousand copies
of the statement of the two prine
ministers will be dropped in af
fected areas in the Punjab, center
of some of the most bloody com
munal disturbances.
! The prime ministers said that
members of armed groups would
be shot down if caught engaging
in disorders and asserted that the
governments of India and Pak
istan would take all steps to see
that their officials carried out
the orders.
ROELL GIRLS RETURN HOME
FROM TRAVELING VACATION
Mary Margaret and Phyllis Roell
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Roell of this city, who have
been ^traveling this summer, re
turned home Friday from a won
derful vacation. They visited in
Texas, California and Oklahoma
by bus and plane and made a trip
into Yellowstone Park with the
| Mandeville family, a high light
1 on the trip. They saw many for
mer Nomeites and also made new
friends along the way.
I Pope Pius Says
uTiine for Action**
I Has Arrived
VATICAN CITY. —(Ah—Pope
Pius XII told a throng of 250.000
Catholic worshippers gathered in
St. Peter’s Square yesterday that
“The time for reflection and plan
ning is past” in religious and
moral fields and the “Time for
action” has arrived.
“The opposing fronts in the
religious and moral fields are
becoming even more clearly de
fined,” the Pontiff told the assem
blage, which included 50,000 dele
gation to the Italian convention
of men of Catholic action. “The
time of test is here. Are you
ready?”
Vet Is Improving
After Nail Removed
DENVER. Colo., —(/P)—Surg
eons at the Fort Logans Veterans
Hospital reported early today that
Virgil Gomez, 27, Cerro, N. M.,
veteran who underwent an oper
i ation Thursday for removal of
a nail from his head, continues
“to show steady improvement.”
They said Gomez is regaining
use of his paralyzed right hand,
and fingers. But they said it i
would be “two or three days yet” !
before he would be out of danger, j
Gomez believes the two-inch
nail was driven into his skull
by a Japanese captor while he
lay unconscious in a prison camp
after the Bataan death march.
GEORGE HELLERICH. A.C.E.
MANAGER, IN ON BUSINESS
George Hellerich, manager of
the Arctic Circle Exploration Co.,
| is in town on business for the
company.
U. S. Relations
With Russia Enter
Rougher Phase
WASHINGTON, ——Diplo
matic officials predicted today
that American relations with Rus
sia are likely to enter a new and
rougher phase at the United Na
tions general assembly session op
ening in New York next week.
A whole series of dramatic dip
lomatic developments heightening
the RusSo-American conflict and
bearing critically upon related
problems of the European econ
omic crisis are in prospect be
fore and after secretary of state
Marshall leads the American dele
gation to the assembly meeting.
Foremost among these will be
the Truman administration’s de
cision on whether to call a special
session of congress to consider a
. temporary aid fund for Europe.
This would be an advance against
the billions which the adminis
: tration hopes congress will pro
j vide early next year for the long
term Marshall recovery program. 1
State department experts gave
up their week-end holiday to work
on the largest facts and figures
American officials brought back
from the current Paris economic
conference seeking to translate
th mutual-help idea into concrete
terms.
While it has not been empha
sized in recent state department
pronouncements on the subject,
one of the main considerations
in official thinking on the Europ
ean situation is this: If the United
States does not take some meas
ures to help hard-pressed Eur
1 opean countries exist until the
Marshall plan can become effect
! ive, Russia will take advantage
I of the resulting political and soc
! lal upheavals to push commun
ism aggressively in Western Eur
ope.
Atomic Energy
Report To U.N.
Approved Today
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., — (/P)—
The main sections of the second
report of the United Nations At
omic Energy Commission were ap
proved today by a majority of
10 countries in the commission’s
political committee. Russia vot
ed against all sections.
• The vote on five of the six
main sections was 10 to 2, Rus
sia and Poland in the negative.
On the sixth principal part of
the report Russia stood alone in
the opposition to th£ 10 countries
and Poland abstained.
The political committee thus
completed action on broad pro
posals for setting up and oper
ating an international atomic con
trol agency. The delegates have
worked steadily at this task since
early in May.
The opposition of the Russian
and Polish delegations was shown
quickly when the first section
was approved by the 10 to 2 de
cision. It was the first time the
two delegates had formally voted
against an atomic report.