CAB Hearing Of
Annette Island
Crash Is Recessed
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his tanks, and that later the field’s
traffic controller radioed him: “I
have you in sight over the field.
You are parallel to the runway at
1,100 feet. You have 3 degrees
crosswind with gusts up to 50.”
The log of Charles F, Stack,
CAA aircraft communicator who
was the last to talk with the plane,
showed that the pilot radioed that
he was proceeding to Juneau “be
cause of extreme turbulence.”
Three minutes later, when the
field again attempted to contact
the plane by radio, there was only
silence. The plane with its crew
of five and its thirteen passengers,
including a baby, had smashed in
to the 3,596-foot mountain.
Captain Monsen’s son, Wesley,
himself a co-pilot for Pan Ameri
can Airways, for which his father
was flying at the time of his death,
sat listening to the testimony.
Ralph W. Hester, U. S. weather
bureau staff forecaster, testified
that on that day conditions were
favorable for icing at over 5,500
feet, north of Vancouver Island
But there was testimony that the
plane’s de-icing equipment was in
ordedr, and Monsen had mention
ed no trouble.
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Sen. Butler Offers
Law to Curb Power
Of Interior Dept.
(Continued from Page One)
The resolution syys that, acting
under the Wheeler-Howard act of
1936, the interior department has
created a number of reservations
and plans to create others and that
such action is retarding the settle
ment and growth of Alaska. The
uncertainty as to the status of
lands in the Territory, which has
retarded its development, it con
tinues can only be removed by an
nulment of the orders of the inte
rior secretary and repeal of the
section of the law granting him
the authority to create reserva
tions
It adds that the Indian claims
commission and the court of
claims are available for adjudica
tion of any claims arising from
the Indians.
The iegislation provides that the
orders creating the reservations of
Akutan, Karluk, Wales, Unala
kleet and Venetie or any other In
dian reservation in Alaska “are
hereby rescinded” and repeals the
grant of authority to create reser
vations.
Butler said the law gives the in
terior secretary “a dangerous
grant of authority” under which
“the secretary may at his own dis
cretion set aside vacant and unoc
cupied public lands (for reserva
tions) . . . limited only by his own
conscience and a requirement that
30 per cent of the tribe must ac
cept the proposal.”
Six reservations have been cre
ated, he said, totaling 1,540,800
acres for a total population of 1,428
Indians. They are: Akutan, 72,320
acres for 68 Indians; Karluk,
35.200 acres for 185; Shishmarel,
3.200 acres for 247; Wales 21,120
acres for 194; Unalakleet, 960
acres for 334; and Venetie, 1,408,
000 acres for 400. Another reserva
tion, White Mountain, of 1,200
acres, was rejected by the natives.
“Proposals for the creation of
additional Indian reservations in
Alaska by virtue of the power and
authority of the said Wheeler
Howard act,” the memorandum
said, “totaling millions of addi
tinal acres, are now under consid
eration by the interior department.
“The Wheeler-Howard act as
administered by the interior de
partment has not only retarded,
but actually has prevented the de
velopment of Alaska. The Indians
have exclusive use of the reserved
lands but are not limited to them
under existing law. Other citizens
are strictly limited to lands out
side the Indian reservations.
“Further more the secretary of
interior may under the authority
of the Wheeler-Howard act reserve
practically all of Alaska for the
exclusive use of the Indians. That
he has set out to. do this is evi
denced by the many millions of
acres already set apart for Indian
use by him and the many millions
of acres now in process of being
set aside for Indians.”
LADIES AID MEETS TONIGHT
AT FEDERATED CHURCH
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Federated Church is meeting this'
evening at eight o’clock in the
club rooms of the church for a
Christmas party. A special pro
gram has been planned appropri
ate for the occasion. Committee in
charge are Mrs. Conrad Yenney.
Mrs. A. Darling, and Mrs. Robert
Bladwin. All women of the com
munity are invited to attend, es
pecially newcomers who would
like to get acquainted. Mrs. M.
Day is in charge of the program.
Mother, Baby
Found Dead
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,
i/P)—A mother and her 10-month
old son, principals in a broken
marriage and a custody dispute,
lay dead yesterday.
The body of little Neil Ellis
Wartnik, born last Jan. 24, wa
found in bed Wednesday in the
blood-spattered nine-room Wart
nik home in the exclusive Toluca
Lake district. Thirty miles away
attendants of a Hermosa Bead
hotel found the body of his mother.
Mrs. Lena Mae Wartnik, 30, a far
mer model.
The estranged husband and
father, Sam H. Wartnik, 45 sports
wear manufacturer, was in Sm
Francisco and is believed en r >o' ■
here. The Wartniks were married
in Las Vegas, New. May 19, 1940.
separated last Nov. 9 and he filed
suit for divorce Nov. 24. alleging
that Mrs. Wartnik drank to ex
cess.
i Wartnik had obtained an order
on Mrs. Wartnik to appear in su
perior court to show cause why he
should not be given custody of the
child. In an accompanying affida
vit he alleged that his wife threat
ened him and threatened suicide
herself at various times.
Detective Lt. Edward W. Smith
Soviel Whaling
Program Expands
MOSCOW, l/P) — The present
whaling season in the Far Eastern
waters has been the best yet re
corded by Soviet whalers.
Reporting this by radio to Mo?
cwo, Captain A. Polyakov, hea l
of the flotilla, gave these figure-:
Since the beginning of the yea
—505 whales have been caugh ,
150 more than last year.
The record catch for one day
was 20 whales.
The biggest whale brought on
board the whaling .ships weighe I
90 tons.
The Far Eastern Whaling Fleet
which is under the management
of a trust at the Ministry of Fish
ng Industry of the Eastern Area
of the U.S.S.R. is being steadily
expanded and its operations ex
tended far afield.
said there were no cuts on th *
child’s body and he may hav *
been smothered or strangled. P< -
lice chief Jack Harlow of Hermo!- »
Beach said there were superfici: I
cuts on Mrs. Wartnik’s wrists an I
body and that he found an emp:;
pill box and bottle in the hotel
room closet. Autopsies were orde. -
ed.
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