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EXTRA SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
JUNEAU, Mar. 25—Failure of
the conference committee to agree
on the Veterans act, a free confer
ence committee named of Senators
Walker, Shattuck and Whaley, and
Rep resentatives Peterson, Mc
Cutcheon, and Taylor named in
the conference report. The House
amendments agreed to by the
Senate conferees were the veter
ans board shall include a majority
m World War Two veterans, in
terest rate on vets loans shall be
four percent, that a vet may qual
ify for a loan by returning any
bonus received, that vets injured
in line of duty with less than one
year’s service is qualified for a
loan. That vets qualified for bon
uses shall have returned to Alas
ka with intention of remaining, or
shall have had five years residence
in the Territory previous to induc
tion.
The House amendments which
the Senate conferees would not
^ agree to were: increasing educa
tion loans to $5,000, top limit for
business loans to $20,000, top in
creasing total of all loans to one
vet at $20,000, although it was
agreed $10,000 would be top limit
which would automatically limit
business loans to that amount.
Confirmation of board members
by joint session, deletion of provi
sion that neither home, farm nor
business loans may be made to
more than eighty percent of ap
praised value of the security of
fered. That all provisions for rev
enue raising, gross sales and ex
port tax be stricken, and that or
iginal appropriation of three and
a half million be made.
The Seante passed the bill for
vocational rehabilitation of per
sons disabled in industry, also the
joint memorial for the widening
the highways for aircraft strips.
After a forenoon of oratory the
Walker bills for a university in
Southeast Alaska failed to pass by
a ten to six vote. Also the Senate’s
fish trap bill with section ear
marking that when three and a
half million had reached the vet
* erans revolving fund the remain
der would go to the treasury. Also
appropriating $20,000 for the de
partment of health surplus prop
erty fund. Also appropriating
$20,000 for carrying out land reg
istration program.
The Senate refused to accept
the House bill on motor and fuel
oil levy as past the deadline.
JUNEAU, Mar. 26—The Senate
joint memorial, introduced under
suspension of rules by Whaley,
Scott, Lyng, and Cochran asks the
secretary of war, U. S. Engineer
SJNRRA Passengers Will Fly “Bee
Line" Boole to Orient
This globe, with its marked-in air routes, shows the great varia
tions in distance between the San Francisco-Honolulu-Midway
pre-war route to the Orient, and the great circle route from the
Seattle gateway (center black line), over which Pan American
Constellation clippers will be flying special charter UNRRA
meeting passengers.
Brituin To Bay Up
By Year 2002'
WASHINGTON, Mur. 27, (/Pi
United States and Britain have
announced a nine agreement set
tling of Lend Lease and other
wartime obligations, under which
United States will be paid about
six hundred fifty million dollars, |
plus interest, by New Years Day,
2002. The memorandum cover
ing the agreements was signed in
Washington by Acting Secretary
of State Acheson, and British Am
bassador Earl of Halifax.
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DINTY MOORE IN NOME
ON REGULAR TRIP
Dinty Moore, representative of
the National Grocery Co., arrived
in town Monday on a charter
plane with Oscar Winchell. He is |
on his regular business trip to the
Seward Peninsula.
ing deparmtent, and Deelgate
Bartlett to urge the repair of the!
Snake river harbor improvement
to accommodate the growing com
merce on Bering Sea. Another
memorial by the same authors
asks the appropriation for suffi
cient money for the Fish and Wild
life to build an eighty foot boat to
carry out a three year survey of
the fishery possibilities in Bering1
Sea in the Nome area.
Russian Troops
Leaving Iran
TEHRAN, March 27, t/P) —
Prince Firouz, political undersec
retary of state and director of
propaganda, said the Russian
evacuation of Kazvin, 80 miles
northwest of Tehran had “begun
and should be completed within
three or four days.”
U. S. and British diplomatic of
ficials said, however, despite Rus-;
sian troop movements northward, i
they were not yet sure the Red j
Army intended to withdraw com-1
pletely from the semi-autonomous
Iranian province of Azerbaijan.
Firouz denied any “secret agree
ment” existed between Iran and
the Soviet Union concerning the
Russian evacuation.
Russians Find New
Magnetic Field
MOSCOW, March 27, (/P)—The
newspaper Evening Moscow, said
a second magnetic field had been
discovered in the Arctic by Soviet
magnetic specialist Prof. Orlov.
The field is located on the north
ern shore of the American con
tinent, Orlov said. He declared
the new discovery presents great
practical possibilities, including
development of polar flying.
Iran (Question May
Cause Deadlock
In UNO Meetings
NEW YORK, March 27, UP)—
The possibility of a deadlock be
tween United States and Russia
over the United Nations hearing
on Iran is reported causing seri
ous concern among American of
ficials, as the subcommittee, in
cluding representatives of United
States, Russia, and France began
the meeting in an effort to find an
acceptable compromise formula.
Secretary Byrnes, Ambassador
Gromyko, and French Ambassa
dor Bonnet went into session in
Bonnet’s hotel suite to try and
reach some decision in time to re
port to the meeting of the secur
ity council at noon <PST.».
One possible way out of the dif
ficulty, which American officials
appeared willing to accept was the
proposal that Iran Ambassador
Ala should be called bv the Se
curity Council, merely to present
his views on whether his govern
ment would suffer if the Iratvan
case is delayed, as Russia de
mands, until April tenth.
Even this may not be acceptable
to Gromyko, whose instructions
from Moscow evidently call for
him to get the delay or else boy
cott all council meetings in which
the Iranian subject is discussed
with the Iranian representative
participating.
Coal Miners To
Strike April 1
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27, </P)—
Government agencies moved
swiftly to soften the blow due to
fall April first, when John Lewis
calls upon his four hundred thou- j
sand soft coal miners to take a!
“rest.” However a spokesman of
the bituminous operators predict
ed the steel industry, core of the
nation’s recovery program would
be affected immediately. Some
mills will be shut down by April
tenth.
These predictions followed
Lewis’ decision to terminate his
present contract with the soft coal
producers. The Administration'
disclosed an order “in works” to;
freeze coal shipments until some
form of industrial rationing can
be worked out.
MRS LEILA SIMMONS
RETURNS FROM VACATION
• Mrs. Leila Simmons, supervisor
of the Maynard Columbus Hospi
tal, returned to Nome via the
P.A.A., after a vacation of several
weeks spent in the East.
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Russian Naval
Officer Arrested
In Portland, ()rc.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27, <,P)—
A puzzling but spine tingling spy
mystery confronted atomic bomb
conscious Americans as FBI agents
snared a young Russian naval of
ficer preparing to flee by ship
from Portland, Oregon.
On the record, Lt. Nicholai Gre
gorovich Redin, 29, member of the
Soviet purchasing commission in
Seattle, was arrested last night on
espionage charges involving plans
and information regarding the
U.S.S. Yellowstone, destroyer ten
der, assigned to take part in the
scheduled atomic bomb test this
summer.
The formal charge was dis
closed late last night by assistant
FBI agent Bernard at Portland,
hours after FBI Chief Hoover an
nounced that Redin was seized as
he was about to board a Russian
canning vessel for home.
Arraigned before U. S. Com
misioner Robert Leedy, the Sov-*
iet officer was wearing the uni
form of his rank, and was asked
whether he understood English.
Thumping Leedy’s desk. Redin
cried “I will not talk. I will not
talk.” He then demanded to see
the Soviet Consul, who was not
present at the hearings. But Leedy,
fixing bail at $25,000 ordered the
officer held in Multnomah County
jail in default of the bond, until
another hearing could be set.
Redin is a graduate of the Rus
sian Naval Academy, who came
to United States four years ago,
and has been under ‘‘intensive
FBI scrutiny” for several months.
Chief Hoover said State De
partment officials and the Russian
Embassy were silent.
SEATTLE, Mar. 27, (£>) —- Mrs.
Galin Redin, attractive wife of the
Russian naval officer charged
with espionage, said the Russian
Consular agent had told her the
Soviet government had already
been informed of the case and to
take what steps it deemed neces
sary.
She said the agent told her he
was unable to find out what spe
cific charges Redin had been ar
raigned. Mrs. Redin maintained
her husband must be innocent.
“Of course we are Russians and
Communists, but we are not Reds
and spies as the papers always
say.”
She declared her husband only
attempted to do his duty here.
The barn owl, whose diet con
sists mainly of rats and mice, will
eat its own weight in food in a
single night.