Committees Study '
Immediate Needs
Of Europe
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WASHINGTON, </P> — Senator
Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) said yes
terday that in the matter of emer
gency aid for Europe “the imme
diate question is one of elemental
human survival in a free society.”
Vandenberg, the recognized
Senate Republican spokesman on
foreign policy matters, made that
statement in announcing he has
called the Senate foreign relations
committee to meet Nov. 10 in ac
cordance with a request from
President Truman. Vandenberg is
chairman of the group.
Noting Mr. Truman’s request
that key Senate and House com
mittees explore western Europe's
urgent winter needs for food and
fueV’ Vandenberg added:
“This proposal is submitted sep-*
arately from plans dealing with
long range economic recovery on
a self-help basis althought they
have factors in common.”
Mr. Truman asked Monday that
four Congressional committees
study a $580,000,000 fund for Eu
ropean winter aid before he de
termines whether to summon a
special session of Congress.
Explaining why he had not
called his committee to meet until
Nov. 10, Vandnberg s$id the state
department “will not be ready
with concrete proposals until No
vember 1st.”
He added that “other essential
reports, including findings of Con
gressional committees visiting Eu
rope and also the report of the
Harriman commission, will not be
available until that time.”
Secretary of commerce Harri
man is directing a study into the
question of how much aid the
United States can give Europe
without injury to its own econo
my.
With Vandenberg’s call for the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee to meet, three of the four com
mittees Mr. Truman asked to
study European aid have now
been summoned to convene in
early November. The others are
Senate appropriations and House
foreign affairs.
The fourth committee is House
appropriations. Rep. Taber <R.-N.
Y.», chairman of it, is now in Eu
rope and is not expected back un
til late next month.
Since his return from visiting
Brazil, President Truman has
Rival Seward
Power Companies
In Court Fight
SEWARD (/P)—This city’s rival
ry between privately and muni
cipally-owned power systems will
be brought into court next Satur
day when the privately-owned
Seward light and power company
will appear in magistrate’s court
on charges of replacing telephone
poles without a franchise.
The action was preceded by an
August 4 city council resolution
calling upon the company to re
move all poles and other light and
power equipment from the city
streets by August 1 of next year on
the grounds that the electorate
voted in 1940 against renewing its
franchise.
The Seward light and power
Company was purchased last
March from Mrs. E. W. Knight by
a group of veterans—Orin Welch.
T. P. O’Brien and A. H. Matson,
who also operate the Anchorage
electric company.
While the municipally-owned
Seward electric system furnishes
power to twice as many custom
ers, the older private concern de
rives additional revenue from its
telephone system.
In a proposed bond issue to be
voted upon in the October 20 spe
cial election, $90,000 is earmarked
for expanding the municipally
owned’ power plant. Property own
ers will vote on whether the city
shall be bonded for $300,000.
Issues to be decided at the elec
tion include: $90,000 for expansion
of the generating plant and exten
sion of the distribution facilities
of the muincipal power system;
$100,000 for acquiring and improv
ing the Sew-ard water company,
now owned by V. Hoban and Edly
Davis, and $40,000 for acquiring
the government-owned Seward
marine ways dock and small boats
harbor.
Benjamin Franklin was the first
postmaster general of the United
States.
given most of his time to the ques
tion of aid for Europe, and made
two major moves:
1. Called for a campaign against
waste of food in this country and
appointed a committee to devise
ways of increased saving.
2. Asked the Congressional com
mittees to meet and study the mat
ter of European aid.
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
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ERIC NELSON
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BEAR CLEANS OUT
WALLACE McIVER CAMP
Council, Alaska.
We left our camp on Thursday
evening to be gone until Monday
morning, and while we were away
we had a visitor and from the
amount he ate, a very hungry one.
The things he couldn’t eat or did
not want, he destroyed. Pots and
pans were bitten through and
through* dishes were all broken,
tables and chairs demolished.
The bear couldn’t get in the
door at the cook shack, so he pull-!
ed the side of the wall down, in
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eluding a big window. He cleaned
out the cook shack. Then he found
his dessert in the spring. Lois 'my
wife) had put around 15 big cof
fee jars full of blue berries. The
jars were under water but Mr.
Bruin found every one of them,
broke them in half and cleaned
out the berries Then he left but
he wasn’t satisfied.
Sunday or Sunday night he
came back to get in our ware
house, this time he merely pushed
the door open. We had all our sup
ply of groceries in there and boy
did he go to town. “He cleaned us
i out.” He sampled every thing we
had, even opened the canned
goods, and the ones he didn’t like
he just bit through. He was es
pecially fond of butter and dried
eggs. You should have seen the
■ butter tins after he finished with
, them.
Everything that he didn’t eat
ran together in the middle of the
i floor. He cut himself seevral times
! on the cans, this just made him
more destructive.
The way he so quickly demol
! ished everything shows he must
be an experienced housebreaker.
There was one place, the old
. man’s wannigan, he didn’t get into
so he broke the window and
reached in and knocked down ev
erything in reach, but he didn’t
get in; but he’ll be back and if he
does I hope I have another bear
story to tell you. I would like to
| send my wife some bear steaks
in place of her berries.
Monday night he came again,
this big grizzly. Twice he had vis
, ited our camp while we were
gone, and practically demolished
two buildings and eaten or ruined
all our supply of groceries.
But Monday night was a differ
ent story. I came back to town,
after supplies and left Mr. Ost
there, ready for the bear.
About 8 p.m. the bear came
back, the lights were on and the
fire going, but he came up to the
back of the warehouse, gave it a
real hard slap and proceeded to
push in the wall, but he didn’t
finish that job—a slug from a
Winchester rifle stopped him cold.
Mr. Ost was preparing to go to
bed in that building, so all he did
was raise up and shoot through
the wall. The first shot hit him in
the chest and went through, so he
won’t came back anymore or
“clean anyone else out.’’
He looked to weigh around 600
pounds or more. He had a reach
of 9 feet from toe to toe and ap
parently was a killer, as he was
going right in, knowing a man was
in the building.
Wallace Mclver.
BEN YOUNG BUYS PART OF
BON MARCHE LOT
Ben Young, owner of the Arctic
Oil Co., has purchased part of the
Bon Marche lot on Front Street,
the balance of the lot having been
sold to Howard Green and the
Glenn Carrington Co.
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“Sixteen Billion Is
Too Mueh For
Europe” Says Taft
Enroute to Boise, Idaho, with
Taft, (/Pi—Senator TaTt <R.-Ohio»
said yesterday “This country must
do something to restore normal
economic stability in Europe” but
called a proposed $16,000,000,000
outlay for this purpose too large. |
The Ohio Senator, traveling
eastward on the last leg of a west
ern political pulse-taking tour,
discounted the possibility of Con
gressional action before next Jan
uary on any European aid pro
gram.
As head of the Senate’s Repub
lican policy committee, Taft said
he doubts that a majority of mem
bers of Congress could be assem
bled in Washington from various
parts of the world where they are
on tour before December, even if
President Truman calls a special
session.
He said, however, that he ex
pects to call the policy group to
gether next month to discuss the
matter.
In response to a question by a
University of Idaho student at
Moscow’ Monday, Taft said he
thinks a $16,000,000,000 outlay,
possibly spread over all four
years, is too much for Europe to
expect from the United States.
(Early speculation on the
amount needed from the U. S. un
I der the Marshall plan has placed
i one figure at $16,000,000,000 but
the proposal from European na
tions set the total needs at $22.
400.000. 000, of which the United
States was asked to supply $19.
330.000. 000).
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
REPORTED IN NOME
The Division of Communicable
Disease Control, of the Territorial
Health department reports lhat
for the month of August there was
one new’ case of tuberculosis, and
seven cases of gonorrhea reported
in Nome.
“GOP Will Win;
Public Fired Of
Regulation”—Taft
(By Jack Bell)
Enroute with Taft to Cheyenne,
Wyo., (flh—Labeling the Demo
cratic opposition as “an unnatural
party,” Senator Taft <R.-Ohio>
predicted today that the Republi
cans will win full control of the
government in 1948 because the
people are tired of “regulation."
The Ohio Senator, invading
Wyoming today in a quest for sup
port in his possible bid for next
year’s GOP Presidential nomina
tion, carried along a scorching in
dictment of what he called the
“totalitarian" aspect of the Tru
man administration.
"The philosophy of totalitarian
ism is still more taxes levied by
the government, more spending by
the government and more regula
tion by the government,” he de
clared.
That, Taft told an audience of
Republicans in the Boise, Idaho,
high school auditorium last night,
indicated three reasons why “the
Republican party is going to come
back to power in the United States
in 1948.’.’
Taft said there had been so
much “regulation” of the lives of
i the people by “Washington bur
eaucrats” that local government
had almost disappeared. He said
that citizens going to Washington
got only a perfunctory hearing
from federal officials.
“These bureaucrats are not go
ing to change their views because
of some hicks from the sticks,”
.
the Ohio Senator declared in a
surprising departure from the for
mal language he usually uses in
addressing audiences.
N. LAUDERMAN
VACATIONING HERE
N. Lauderman, who designed
I the sleeperettes for the large Pan
American planes flying across the
Pacific, is visiting in Nome for a
few days, on vacation.
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