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WASHINGTON
NEWS-LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
Responsibility of Disposal Agencies
For Surplus Properties Postponed
The four government agencies
designated as surplus property
disposal agencies for the territo
ries and possessions in a recent
order of the Surplus Property
Board will not assume the care
and handling of such property un
I til arrangements can be made to
prepare fully for this undertak
ing, according to an order signed
recently by Board Arministrator
Howse.
The original order designated
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, the United States Mari
time Commission, the War Food
Administration and the Depart
ment of the Interior as disposal
agencies for surplus property in
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. Until the time
that each agency can assume re
sponsibility for the disposal of
surplus property when facilities
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and personnel become available,
the disposal of surplus property in
Alaska will continue under the
supervision of David Browne, Spe
cial Representative in Fairbanks,
Alaska, for the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation in charge of
disposal of surplus property.
Order Withdrawing Land Along
Alaska Highway Reduced
Through an order of the De
partment of the Interior, the forty
mile wide strip of land in Alaska,
twenty miles on either side of a
center line extending from Big
Delta to the Alaska-Yukon Bound
ary, and twenty miles on either
side of a center line extending
from a point near Gulkana to the
Tanana River, has been reduced
to a ten-mile wide strip, five miles
on either side of the right of way
of the Canadian-Alaskan Military
Highway as constructed from Big
Delta to the Alaska-Yukon Bound
ary, and from its junction with
the Richardson Highway, near
Gulkana, to the Tanana River.
The vacant, unreserved and sur
veyed public lands affected by
this order will be opened to home
steading on June 7. For a period
of ninety days, qualified veterans
of World War II and persons hav
ing preference rights have prior
choice in making applications for
homesteads. One the ninety-first
day, any of the lands remaining
unreserved and unappropriated
will be open to public application.
The lands affected by this order
are situated in the Anchorage and
Fairbanks land districts, and ap
plications should be filed in the
district land office having juris
diction over the lands.
Senate Passes Bill to Allow Pur
chase of Five-Acre Lots In Alaska
The Senate has passed the bill,1
S. 497, to allow persons to pur
chase small tracts of land in Alas
ka, not to exceed five acres in size,
for home, recreational and con
valescent purposes.
The bill will also allow employ
ees of the Interior Department
living in Alaska to participate in
the purchase of such land.
The purchase of small tracts of
land in the United States, exclud
ing Alaska, was authorized by an j
Act of Congress in 1938, and S. 497
w!U extend the benefits of that
Act to the Territory.
S. 497 is a companion bill of H.
R. 2135 introduced in the House
by Delegate Bartlett.
Honors Bestowed on Late
"Billy" Mitchell
The man who foresaw the
power of the airplane in combat,
the man who said, “He who holds
Alaska holds the world,” the late
j Colonel William Mitchell, has
been authorized to receive post
humously the highest award of the
Government of the United States,
the Congressional Meda lof Honor.
At the same time the Senate
voted to give him a permanent
commission in the army as major'
general.
Billy Mitchell predicted Alas
ka’s strategic position following a
flight he made from New York to
Nome in 1920. As the result of
ihat flight, he hoped air bases
would be established in Alaska
and airlines would be extended to
the Territory.
Delegate Bartlett And Secretary
Wallace Discuss Alaska
In a conference held with Henry
A. Wallace, Secretary of Com
merce, on the general subject of
Alaska’s development, Delegate
Bartlett found the Secretary sym
pathetic and deeply interested in
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the Territory. He expressed a spe
cial interest in the possibilities for
agricultural development of Alas
ka and referred often to a conver
sation he had had on that subject
with Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Pres
ident of the University of Alaska
when he was in Alaska last year.
Captain Neuberger
Attends Conference
Captain Richard L. Neuberger,
well-known in Alaska as an au
i thor of numerous articles on the
Territory, and formerly aide to
; General O’Connor who headed the
Northwest Service Command in
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the construction of the Alaska
Highway, is attending the San
Francisco Conference as a repre
sentative of the State Department.
Visitors
James T. Huchison of Fair
banks, was a visitor at Delegate
Bartlett’s office on his trip east
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pollock,
who were in Washington for a
short time.
The Rev. and Mrs. John E.
Youel, formerly of Fairbanks,
called on Mr. Bartlett on a trip to
Washington from their home in
Prattsburg. New York. Mr. Youel
was Presbyterian minister in
Fairbanks for thirteen years, and
they left the Territory in 1941.
D. W. Herron has been in Wash
ington for several days conferring
with Treasury officials and called
on Mr. Bartlett. Mr. Herron is dis
bursing officer, with headquarters
at Juneau, for the Treasury De
partment.
LADIES AID TO MEET
The Ladies Aid of the Federated
Church will hold their regular
monthly meeting Friday, June 1,
at 2:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Paul Galloway. Everyone is urged
to attend.
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