Foreign Aid Bill
Passes Senate
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Ad
ministration's big foreign aid au
thorization was safely through the
Senate Saturday, shorn of a quar
ter of a billion dollars but other
wise fairly intact.
There weer prospects, however,
that the $3,122,450,000 figure ap
proved by a whopping 60 to 8
vote Friday night will be subject
ed to a determined economy drive
when voting starts on a latter bill
providing the cash.
President Truman’s $45,000,000
“Point Four” program of aid to
the undei'developed areas of the
world squeaked by on a margin of
one vote— 37 to 36, and only a 40
to 40 ties—which in the Senate is
a losing #vote—prevented a $500,
000,000 cut in the European re
covery program, instead of the
8250,000,000 slash eventually ap
proved.
The administration's $3,100,000,
000 request for a third year of the
Marshall Plan was the only one
of several programs in the bill to
suffer a cut.
These tight votes—plus a bitter
economy speech by Senator Mc
Kellar <D.-Tenn.), chairman of the
powerful appropriations commit
Barron Natives
Kill Three Whales
FAIRBANKS. (^—There’ll be
feasting and rejoicing and blan
ket-tossing galore soon in the lit
tle Eskimo village of Barrow,
1,100 miles from the North Pole.
It will start as soon as the hew- i
ing and hacking and distributing
of three whales'among the 500 in
habitants is completed.
By killing three whales out in |
; the icy Arctic the village hunters
1 have presaged an area of prosper- j
ity not experienced for many ;
years. Measuring 26 feet, 35 feet ,
and 59 feet in length, the trio of
seagoing mmamals will supply
the villagers with meat, oil and
blubber for some time to come.
Thomas Akottchook, Barrow |
; Eskimo, brought the good news to
Fairbanks yesterday. He said the
j opening in the ice where the
whales were killed is only about
half a mile from shore—an im
portant factor in the operation.
“Many people get lost when ice
breaks off under workers and
takes them out to sea,” said
Akottchook.
tee—heralded trouble when Con
gress gets around to supplying
! the money for the aid programs.
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Profits Show
Strong Advance
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NEW YORK, (IP) — Profits of
American corporations in the first
quarter of this year show a strong i
upward trend from a year ago.
A compilation made Saturday i
by the Associated Press of 508
corporations in all fields of busi
ness and industry show first quar
ter profits were six percent ahead
ahead of the first quarter of 1949.
That earnings power came de
spite cut backs in postwar expan
sion programs, general price re
ductions, and strikes.
It was due in great part to the
wide demand for automobiles and
television sets by the public and
to industry’s need for chemicals,
the raw materials that go into a
long list of products.
In this year’s first quarter prof
its of the 508 companies amounted
to $1,402,783,143 as compared with
$1,326,901,330 a year ago.
Significant advances were made
by automobiles, air transport and
aircraft, chemicals, drugs and cos
metics, food products, pulp and
paper products, utilities, radio
television, and building.
Among the groups, with losses
were brewing and distilling, coal,
machinery and tools, non-ferrous
metals, oil and petroleum products,
raidroad equipment, iron and
steel, and railroads.
Alaska Is “Blind
Spot” (In Mineral
Wealth Map
WASHINGTON, f/P)—Alaska is
described as the nation’s biggest
“blind spot” in the mapping of
mineral wealth in a U. S. Geolog
ical Survey report.
Dr. William E. Wrather, direc
tor of the survey, added in his an
nual report to the Secretary of In
terior, however, that notable
progress is being made in Alaska
studies in the interest of contin
entral defense.
He said there is a “pressing
need” for geological survey work
in Alaska in the search for coal,
platinum, chromium and other
minerals.
"Only about 49 per cent of the
Territory has been geologically
mapped by reconnaissance meth
ods,” he said, “and only a fraction
of one per cent has been mapped
in detail.
"The area in which petroleum
may be found is more than 250,
000 square miles and yet only
11,000 square miles have been
mapped on an adequate scale.
In topographic mapping of sur
face features such as hills, lakes
and rivers, a long-range program
is being coordinated with the na
tional military establishment ci
vilian agencies and the Aleskan
field committee, the director said.
Southeastern Alaska was covered
completely by mapping photog
raphy in cooperation with the U.
S. navy.
Cooperating with the defense
department, the geological sur
veys branch of military geology
last year conducted an intensified
study of Alaskan permafrdst, Dr.
Wrather reporter. This is ground
perpetually frozen and thawing
occasionally for only a few inches
on the surface.
Fred Hagglund, well-known old
timer passed away April 24th at
the Pioneer Home from a heart
attack, according to advises re
ceived by the Territorial Welfare
Office here.
Senators Charge
Britain Does Not
Cooperate \\ itli I s
WASHINGTON, >A'> — Three
Senators assailed Great Britain
Saturday for withholding full co
operation from the United States
in the Klaus Fuchs atomic spying
case.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson <D.
Colod, a member of the Senate
House atomic committee, told a
reporter he is shocked at reports
that Britain has agreed to give the
FBI only limited opportunity to
question Fuchs, convicted of pass
ing atomic secrets along to Soviet
agents.
Senators Bridges <R.-N. H.) and
Ferguson (R.-Mich.) said informa
tion the FBI might get from Fuchs
might be vital to defense plans
under the North Atlantic pact and
ought not to be denied this coun
try.
There has been no official state
ment but reliable reports are that
the British insist on fixing condi
tions under which FBI agents can
talks to Fuchs—an arrangement
the FBI is said to regard as inade
quate if it is to get at the bottom
of the atomic spying system.
A Senator who asked that his
< irippletl Plane
Lands Safely
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SEATTLE, UP)—A badly crip
pled Trans-Canada Airlines plane
made a smoky, screeching landing
at the Booing Field late Saturday.
None of the 40 passengers aboaid
was injured.
The emergency landing follow
ed the breakdown of the ship’s
hydraulic pressure system short
ly after the plane took off from
Vancouver. B. C., to Edmonton,
Alta. The failure left the plane
without the use of wing flaps and
regular brakes and left the nose
wheel unsteorable.
Capt. Donald J. Lawson of Van
couver. the pilot, said he flow
around for two hours and five
minutes, burning up 3.000 gal
lons ol fuel, before heading for
I Boeing. He said he picked the
Seattle field because of its long
i runways.
\ name not be used publicly said
| even these unsatisfactory arrange
ments were not agreed to by the
British except under pressure ex
erted by high Aemrican officials.
Johnson said he thinks this
amounts to “very shabby treat
ment of the security problem” by
the British.
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