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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Governor
Gruening of Alaska discussed
statehood and other matters per
taining to Alaska with President
Truman Wednesday.
Gruening declined to give re
porters details of his White House
visit.
SAN DIEGO, (i*P) — Striving to
complete the job before expected
Arctic storms strike, a 1,000-man
navy-marine expedition this week
began surveying an uninhabited
coastal section of the northern
Alaskan Peninsula, Pacific am
phibious force headquarters here
reported yesterday.
A marine reconnaissance unit
from Camp Pendleton, hampered
by heavy fog, is mapping beach
and inland areas picked for larg
er-scale amphibious exercises
later this year.
The marines are living ashore
to test latest military development
in cold weather clothing and
equipment.
Underwater demolition person
nel have been sent into the icy
Bering Sea surf to chart tide and
wave conditions, depth of water
'and configuration of the landing
beaches.
More than 46,000 persons were
homeless and other thousands
faced possible evacuation from
rising flood waters in seven cen
tral and southern state today.
But the flood-causing rains
have ended and skies were clear.
Some swollen rivers reached
crests at upstream points, but
barring further rain, flood dan
gers seemed likely to decline over
the weekend in several critical
zones.
The homeless included 22,000 in
Arkansas, 12,000 in southeast
Missouri, and 12,000 in Ken
tucky.
Surging streams, including the
Ohio River, blocked many high
ways and forced some schools to
close.
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
and Tennessee also had flooded
areas. Three persons have drown
ed in West Virginia.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman declined to say yesterday
whether the refloated battleship
Missouri will be taken out of
service.
The President told his news
conference that secretary of the ■
navv Matthews has the power to
order the ship into mothballs. But
Mr. Truman added, he assumes
the secretary would discuss it
with him before issuing any such
order.
The batleship was pulled out of
the mud of Chesapeake Bay Wed
nesday morning and towed to
Norfolk for a survey of any dam
age caused when it went aground
January 17.
Rep. Vinson fD.-Ga.), chairman
of the House armed services com
mittee, and Adm. W. H. P. Blandy
retired commander of the Atlan
tic fleet, both have proposed that
the Mighty Mo be replaced by
one or two aircraft carriers.
Welfare Office to
Here Open Mar. 6
Mr. Henry A. Harmon, direcor
of the Alaska department of pub
lic welfare, announces that the
district welfare office in Nome,
headquarters for the entire Sec
ond Judicial Division, will be re
opened early in March.
The department had planned to
open the office on or about Febru
ary 1st but, due to the delay in
the meeting of the board of pub
lic welfare, now set for February
27, it is necessary to postpone the
opening of the office.
Miss Eileen Uttech, recently
promoted to the district worker
position, will arrive in Nome the
first week in March. Miss Erma
Wainner, who has been in charge
of the work of the district through
the central office in Juneau, will
accompany Miss Uttech to Nome
to assist in setting up the new of
fice. Miss Utech will be ready to
open the office to the public
Monday, March 6th.
The department of public wel
fare wishes to extend sincere ap
preciation to the various people
in Nome who have acted as agents
for the department during the
past three years that the district
1 office has been closed. Special
! thanks are extended to Mrs.
Helen Olsen, who has worked dil
igently for the past six months in
handling the Nome work. The de
partment also wishes to thank
Senator Howard Lyng for his de
voted interest and the fine coop
eration given to the department
during his years of service as a
member of the board of public
welfare from the Second Judicial
Division.
It is anticipated by the depart
ment of public welfare that the
establishment of the Nome dis
trict office will result in addition
al social services to the people of
the area. The department will
need the full cooperation and help
of the citizens in making this
service a success.
Areas Proposed
For Reservations
Due to the interest shown lo
cally in the proposed reserva
tions at Barrow and Shungnak the
following information was com
piled for us by the U. S. Land
office explaining in detail the de
scription and location of the
reservations.
Village of Barrow Reserve sub
ject to Native vote: *
Beginning at a point on the east
end of Peard Bay on the Arctic
Coast of Alaska, 100 yards west
of a cabin, in approximate lati
tude 70°50' N., longitude 158°20'
W.; thence south 2 miles; thence
northeasterly following a line
parallel to and 2 miles distant
from the shore of the Arctic
Ocean to a point due east of a
point on the shore 2 miles north
easterly of the Village of Sinaru;
thence due east to the west shore
of Dease Inlet; thence northeast
erly, westerly and southwesterly
along the shore, at extreme low
tide, of Dease Inlet, the Arctic
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Weather Slows
Down Seareh For
Missing C-54
(By Ray F. Harvison)
WHITEHORSE, Y. T., (/P) —
“Operation Mike” was weathered
down to second gear today.
As the farflung Arctic hunt for
a missing U. S. air force C-54
transport and its 44 occupants
went into its second week virtu
ally the entire area was “socked
in” by poor flying weather.
Only six planes got into the air
here yesterday.
Ten were expected to take off
today for the northern portion of
the area where clear patches
were expected to permit occa- j
I sional visual contact with the
' ground. But air commodore Mar
tin Costello, search coordinator,
ordei'ed pilots to take no chances
of crack up themselves and to re
turn if conditions became too j
bad.
At Great Falls, Mont., weather I
permitting, a score of B-29’s plan
ned to make a mass sweep along i
the 2-100-mile route of the miss
ing plane. Five planes searched
| unavailingly yesterday.
Meanwhile, officers in charge
of the joint U. S.-Canada search
were losing hope that faint radio
signals picked up on the distress
band will be of help. Efforts to
get a “fix” on their origin have
been unsuccessful.
Another report—that of a Bea
ver Lake, B. C., settled that a
large plane flew low over his
cabin late last Thursday—was
checked by five planes *out of
Vancouver, B. C. They reported
nothing but were to cover the
area again today. Little connec
tion was seen, however, between
the report and the missing plane
as Beaver Lake is some 200 miles
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Will Stop H-Bomb
If International
Control Is Assured
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WASHINGTON (/P)—President1
Truman made plain yesterday the
U. S. stand by its demand for
tight international control inspec
tions before outlawing atomic
weapoons, including the projected
new hydrogen bomb.
Mr. Truman also told a news
conference he sees no reason for
formal notification to the United
Nations on his order for the atom
ic energy commission to continue
its work on atomic weapons, in- '
eluding the hydrogen bomb.
Senator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.),
the Republican foreign policy
leader has suggested that the
President let the world know this
country is ready to stop work on
the H-bomb if all such weapons
can be outlawed definitely. Van
denberg said the President could
act through the United Nations.
A reporter asked Mr. Truman
about that suggestion.
Mr. Truman said he does not'
believe a separate notification to
the U. N. is necessary.
Also, he said, he does not pro-'
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S'hungank Election
For Reservation to
Be Held Saturday
(By Charles D. Watkins)
((/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—An elec
tion on proposed creation of an
Indian reservation at Barrow,
Alaska, has been postponed by in
terior secretary Chapman, Sena
tor O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) said to
day.
An election on the proposed Hy
daburg reservation previously
had been deferred, to give Chap
man an opportunity to study the
needs of the Indians further.
O’Mahoney, chairman of the
Senate interior affairs committee,
told a reporter that an election on
a third proposed new Alaska
reservaion. at Shungnak. has
been set for tomorrow and can
not be postponed.
The committee demanded late
yesterday that Chapman postpone
the elections until the committee
has time to study the depart
ment’s policy in creating Alaskan
Indian reservations.
The committee said it also
wants to study the rights of the
natives to land or payment for
land that formerly belonged to
the tribes.
Former secretary of the interior
Krug on his last day in office is
sued orders creating three Indian
reservations in the Territory sub
ject to favorable action at an elec
tion to be held at each place by
the Indians.
The proposed reservations were
at Barrow, where it was planned
to set aside 750 square miles; at
Shungnak, to cover 2,300 square
miles; and at Hydaburg, where
100,000 acres would be set aside.
Chapman told the committee
January 16 he would order a
postponement of the Hydaburg
election, set for Feb. 6, and later
ordered it held April 24.
At that time some committee
members understood Chapman to
testify that he would order all
three elections postponed, but the
next day the department ordered
those at Shungnak and Barrow
to he held on Feb. 4 and 8.
A hurried meeting of the com
mittee wras called yesterday after
Senator Cordon (R.-Ore.> and
other members insisted that
Chapman be called to explain
“why he changed his mind” about
Barrow and Shungnak.
Governor Gruening of Alaska
and Delegate Bartlett of the Ter
ritory urged the committee to
have the elections postponed, say
ing it would do much harm to re
turn them to reservation status.
They were joined by Cordon,
Senator Butler (R.-Neb.) and Sen
ator Cain (R.-Wash.). Cain is not
a member of the committee but
has pending with Butler a bill to
take away from the interior de
partment the right to create Indi
an reservations in the Territory.
The decision yesterday to re
quest Chapman to postpone the
elections was reached after assist
ant secretary Wailliam E. Warne,
told the committee the secretary
felt he did not have the power to
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News of the W orld
At A Glance - - -
Thursday, February 2. 1950
<By The Associated Press)
The French upper house of Par
liament today ratified an accon
giving the Bao Dai regime of Ind'
China partial self-govemmen’
This paved the way for earl
recognition by the United State.*
Britain and other Western pow
ers.
East and West were thus linin
up on opposite sides on the ex
plosive case of Indo-China, poter
tial communist doorway to south
east Asia.
Western recognition of Bao Dc
would counter Russia’s action i
recognizing the regime of th
rebel elader Ho Chi-Minh.
Britain, acknowledged shewoul
offer recognition of French- suj
ported Bao Dai within a wee
and the United States is expectc
to follow suit.
In Bangkok, Thailand, the Vie
nan-* news service said troops «
Moscow-trained Ho Chi-Minh hr
killed and wounded 4,000 oi 2f
9G(i Chinese 1 ; tionalist toldie
fleeing from China into Ind'
china.
American commanders in J
pan today urged the U. S. joi
chiels of staff to retain for a loi
1 time the big naval base of Yok
suka on Tokyo Bay.
With the troubled Far East
mind, the visiting military chie
were urged to increase America
i army, naval and air strength
this part of the world. They i
spected Yokosuka, only U. S. n
val base west of Hawaii capat
of handling and repairing maj
warships.
Commented Adm. Forrest
Sherman: “It is our best base
this part of the world—a ve
useful base.”
In Washington officials sa
the U. S. will reject a Russi
proposal that Japanese Em per
Hirohito and four other top J
panese be tried on criminal char
es involving the use of gei
warfare. Other Pacific allies
the U. S. are also expected to tu
down the surprise Russian prop
sal made yesterday.
In Tokyo American officii
i said he latest Russian move is
| smokescreen to cover allied c
mands on Russia to account 1
376,000 Japanese prisoners t
lieved to have perished in Ri
sian prison camps.
Friday, February 3. 1950
A top British atomic scient
has been arrested in London ir
case involving leaks of atomic
crets to Russia.
Claus Fushs, 38-year-old G
man-born physicist employed
a top job at Britain’s Harvv
atomic research plant, was cha
ed with two violations of the ot
cial secrets act.
Fuchs worked on the a-bo>
project in the United States fr
late 1943 to June, 1946.
In Washington the FBI s
“the case involving Dr. Fuchs v
developed by the British on
formation originally furnished
them by the FBI.”
Fuchs arrest is the first of
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