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Nome, Alaska, Monday, November 5, 1951
RISING TO THE OCCASION
CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON ABORIGINAL
LAND RIGHTS BILL TOMORROW EVENING
A public hearing before a Congressional party is
scheduled for tomorrow evening in the Jury Room of
the Federal building for the purpose of hearing claims
relating to land claims by the Eskimos in this area.
This matter of land claims has not caused much
concern in this part of the territory but has caused
considerable disturbance in southeastern Alaska. The
bill suggested by Delegate Bartlett would settle once
and for all these claims of natives, if they present the
proper evidence, by giving them other land in ex
change for that which they claim or pay them cash for
the loss of their land. Once settled, another step for
ward will be made in the development of Alaska.
Another phase of the bill will be discussed at the
hearing before the Congressional party and that is the
feasibility of appropriating $40,000,000 to be used as
a loan fund to natives Of Alaska to help them estab
lish themselves in business. The bill provides that they
have 40 years to repay the government.
Anyone wishing to state their views on both parts
of HB 4388 may do so at the meeting tomorrow.
Soviets Assert Japanese
Island Being Transformed
Into Military Base
MOSCOW, (JP) — The Soviet
news agency Tass said today the
northern Japanese island of Hok
kaido—200 miles west of Siberia
— is being “feverishly trans
formed” into Japan’s largest mili
tary base.
A Tass dispatch from Shanghai
said great attention is being at
tached to the recent visit of U.S.
Army chief of staff Gen. J. Law
ton. Collins to northern Japan.
The dispatch said Collins’ in
spection trip to Hokkaido was
particularly interesting and “re
veals the intensification of Am
erican military preparations in
north Japan.
Japanese police reported sev
eral weeks ago that sounds of
Soviet gunfire on the Habonai is
lands off Hokkaido’s northern
tip were creating mounting fears
among Japanese. One official said
Iranians Operate Major
Oil Unit Abadan Refinery
TEHRAN, Iran, {£>)—Iran an
nounced today that “with the help
of God” it has begun temporary
operation of a major unit of the
Abadan oil refinery, from which
the British were expelled *at the
height of the British-Iranian oil
quarrel.
The official government an
nouncement said pridefully that
Iranian engineers and workers,
without foreign help, started up
“apparatus No. 70,” one of the
major refining units of the vast
installations.
The government said present
plans call for operating the unit
only^ a month, to refill storage
tanks with oil for domestic con
sumption.
I
Japanese police reserves were
training with bazookas *and mor
tars on Hokkaido, but added that
this use of heavier weapons was
| not related to difficulties with
| the Russians.
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Sen. McCarran To
Try Again Lift
Gold Restrictions
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Pat McCarran (D-Nev) is ex
pected to try in 1952, for the
fourth time since 1948, to per
suade Congress to lift govern
ment restrictions on the sale of
gold.
First, of course, he’ll have to
win a fight with ill health. The
75-year-old veteran lawmaker
suffered a heart attack Thursday
; and is expected to be hospitalized
several weeks at Reno, Nev.
McCarran’s recent speeches
show he has been considering the
introduction of a bill aimed at
freeing the nation’s gold miners
from a “straight jacket” which he
said was “clamped” on them in
1934.
McCarran would restore to
miners the right to sell gold in
open markets around the world
: and to buy, possess, import and
I export the precious yellow stuff.
Miners in this country have had
to sell their gold to the U.S. mint
| for the past 17 years, at $35 per
fine ounce.
This situation, McCarran be
lieves, should be changed in order
to increase production of gold
needed to build up Uncle Sam’s
stockpile both in peacetime and
wartime.
Military Cautioned
To Cut Spending
To Fit Income
WASHINGTON, (JP) —Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) said today
he has cautioned Secretary of
Defense Lovett and Pentagon of
ficials to cut next year’s military
spending to fit the pattern of tax
revenues.
O’Mahoney got immediate sup
port in this move from Senator
Flanders (R-Vt), who told a re
porter Congress must inform the
Defense Department: “Here is
how much money we are going
to allow you to spend and you
shape your budget accordingly.’’
President Truman will go to
work on the over-all budget, in
cluding the military items, at his
winter retreat in Key West, Fla.,
after his conference this week
with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
O’Mahoney, who heads the Sen
ate-House Economic CommitTee,
and Flanders, a member of the
group, agreed that any additional
tax increases are unlikely.
“We have reached the limit on
taxes, so far as rates are con
cerned,’’ O’Mahoney said.
Western Union Bans
Money Order Bets
NEW YORK, (&)—The Western
Union telegraph company has
ordered a nationwide ban on use
of its wires for sending money or
ders relating to bets.
The company action, announ
ced Friday, followed conviction
Thursday of the firm and its
manager at Bridgeton, N. J., on
misdemeanor charges.* The state
contended the Western Union
office there handled $300,000 a
year in horse race bets.
A seven-man, five-woman jury
returned a verdict of guilty
against the company and the
manager, Charles H. Frake, 40,
for “accepting money orders ad
dressed to alleged gamblers.”
The ban on “wager messages,”
the company said, w*as issued to
protect its employes from possible
criminal prosecution-. It will not
affect sending of other money
orders.
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AFRS Heard from Barrow
To Gulf Of Alaska
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local programs and for short
wave broadcasts of stateside spe
cial events which include all
major football games and other
important sporting events.
Combining 17 years of civilian
radio experience, an Air Force
staff of six men presently man
the new station. Station manager
Staff Sergeant Robert E. Brown
in civilian life was heard in a
number of midwestern states as
an announcer and newscaster,
leaving a position as News Editor
for an Illinois station to enter the
Air Force in February of this
year.
Program director, Corp. C.
Blaine Chisam, of Los Angeles,
Cal., was active in theatre and
radio work on the west coast and
left a position with the Pasadena
Playhouse to join the Air Force
in August, 1950.
Corp. Dudley Hall, music li
brarian, was associated with radio
work in the southwest and also
participated in various theatre
productions prior to his assign
ment at Nome.
Pfc. Roy Leonard, staff an
nouncer, has done extensive the
atre work on the east coast and
was active in the first non-com
mercial FM station in Boston,
Mass. Leonard, before entering
the service in February of this
year, had his own network tele
vision show originating in Bos
ton.
Rounding out the staff are Pfc.
A1 Howard and Pfc. Don Bryant,
staff announcers. Pfc. Howard,
before entering the service, work
ed with various western bands,
travelling throughout the south
west. Pfc. Bryant, since his as
signment to Nome, has acted as
an announcer and assistant music
librarian, and is a well known
musician here in Nome.
Chief engineer Staff Sergeant
Curtis Carter comes tc^ AFRS
from Alaskan Air Command
headquarters at Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska.
SMOOTHING IT OVER
BOZEMAN, Mont., iff) — A
Daily Chronicle subscriber com
plained she didn’t like the way
the paperboy was folding her
paper. This made it too wrinkled
to line kitchen shelves, she said.
Now her paper is delivered un
folded.
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U.S. Troopship
Rams and Sinks
Argentine Ship
BREMERHAVEN, Germany </P)
—The $4,000,000 motorship Mai
pu — pride of Argentina’s mer
chant fleet—was rammed by a
U.S. troopship and sank in the
foggy North Sea yesterday. The
transport and German rescue
craft saved all 238 persons aboard
the Argentine vessel. 4
The troopship, the Gen. M. L.
Hershey—her bow stove in by
the collision—limped into Brem
erhaven last night with many
Maipu survivors aboard. A spe
cial train was chartered to take
them to Hamburg, the Maipu’s
port of call.
The fact that the usually rough
North Sea was calm under its
fog was said to have played a
large part in the 100 per cent
successful rescue.
The 12,000-ton Maipu and the
10,000 - ton transport, groping
through early morning fog, col
lided 15 miles offshore, near the
German island of Waneroog. The
crash tore a big hole in the Mai
pu’s port side.
Witnesses said the Argentine
vessel began to list immediately,
but stayed afloat for three hours
—another big factor in the suc
cessful rescue. Passengers aboard
the stricken vessel included 38
women and eight children.
Officers aboard the Hershey,
carrying U.S. 43rd Division troops
to Germany, refused to discuss
the collision.
Sinatra and Gardner Plan
Marriage in Philadelphia
NEW YORK, (/P) — Crooner
Frank Sinatra and actress Ava
Gardner plan to get married in
Philadelphia. But they’re sitting
out the three-day Pennsylvania
waiting period in New York.
The couple applied for a mar
riage license Friday in the Quak
er City. They tried to get a judge
to waive the 72-hour wait re
quired by state law before a lic
ense is issued. But the judge said
no. They returned here by train
Friday night.
The crooner and Miss Gardner
applied for the license less than
24 hours after Sinatra was award
ed a divorce in Nevada from Mrs.
Nancy Sinatra, mother of his
three children.
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