Alaska's Mental
Health Conditions
To Be Studied
Alaska’s mental health condi
tions will be studied by a Federal
investigative team which will visit
Alaskan communities to gain first
hand information from officials |
and individuals whose work
touches upon the subject of mental
health.
Dr. Winfred Overholser, super
intendent of St. Elizabeth’s hos
pital, heads the group consisting
of Dr. Dale Cameron, national in
stitute of mental health; Dr. C.
Earl Albrecht, Alaska department
of health; Dr. James Googe, Alas
ka Native Service and Mr. M. W.
Coding, division of Territories
and island possessions. Represen
tatives of the department of jus
tice and bureau of the budget will
also accompany the team.
Objectives of the task group
will be to study the need of a com
plete psychiatric hospital in Alas
ka to take the place of Morning
side hospital and the possibility of
setting up and operating one or
more modern mental health clin
ics to reduce the number of men
tal patients.
Following a meeting with Ter
ritorial and federal officials in the
Senate chambers, the group will
visit Sitka, Anchorage, Palmer,
Fairbanks, Kotzebue and Nome.
PROBATE COURT
The following people have been
convicted of drunkenness five
times within a twelve month peri
od and placed under guardianship
by the Probate Court on account
of excessive drinking and added
to the list previously published:
Norman Esenituk. James Kaingin
zinia, Harry Komonoseak, Elmer
Soosuk.
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Connally Tries For
Full Atlantic Anns
Aid Program
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON (/P)—Captained
by Senator Connally <D.-Tex.) the
administration began an uphill
fight in the Senate Saturday to j
salvalge its $1,450,000,000 foreign
arms program.
Connally, adopting a no-com
promise attitude, came out for
restoration of the full amount of
$1,160,990,000 for military supplies
for North Atlantic treaty signers.
The House cut that total exactly
in half.
But Connally seemed unlikely
to be able to muster a majority of
the Senate foreign relations and
armed services committees, over
which he is presiding, for rein
statement of the full fund.
Senators Vandenberg <R.-Mich.>
and Dulles (R.-N. Y.> stood firmly
on their demand for a reduction
to a round $1,000,000,000, and
even chairman Tydings 'D.-Mdh
of the armed services group talked
in terms of the same amount.
Critics of the program applaud
ed the House action.
Senator Byrd <D.-Va.> called the
slash "a step in the right direc
tion.”
On the other side Senator Gur
ney 'R.-S. Dd said he wants an
adequate amount made available.
But he said he wasn’t wedded to
any particular figure.
Connall.y, whose commit* e e s
will start writing up a bill next
week, .-aid he knows the Senators
he is working with don’t want to
scuttle the arms program.
“Testimony before our commit
tee reveals it is a carefully plan
ned program,” he said in a state
ment.
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Shift Seven Govt.
Agencies In
Reorganization
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Seven
federal agencies were shifted or
streamlined Saturday. That just
about completes government reor
ganization for this year.
No more major changes are
likely until 1950.
Congress and President Tru
man, by means of five laws and
six reorganization plans have gone
part of the way in carrying out
the recommendations of the com
mission headed by former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover.
Robert L. L. McCormick, direc
tor of the Washington office of the
citizens committee for reorganiza
tion—an outfit created to work
for the Hoover commission’s pro
posals—told a reporter:
‘‘The accomplishments up to
now have far exceeded our ex
oectations, but some of the most
import-ant legislation is still before
us and the road is long.'’
Here is the score for 1949:
Six reorganization plans took
effect (technically at midnight Fri
day night*. The U. S. employment
service and certain other l'unc- i
tions moved into the labor depart
ment. The bureau of public roads
moved into the commerce depart
ment. The No. 1 officials in the
post office department, civil serv
ice commission, and maritime
commission got more administra
tive authority. The national secur
ity resources board and national
security council became parts or
the executive office of the Presi
dent.
Military Aide And
The Battle < >f
Grain Rationing
(Continued from Page One)
could be used for making alcohol
ic beverages.
Anderson, now a U. S. Senator
from New Mexico, is understood
to have said no change was indi
cated at that time.
Subsequently, however, the ra
tioning order was made more
stringent. An official familiar with
the incident gove this account of
what followed:
“I understand that Vaughan got
a call from Milwaukee from some ;
one representing the brewery in
terests there. The call is supposed
to have come from Harry Hoff- j
man.
•Vaughan last week named t
Harry Hoffman, Milwaukee ad
vertising man, as one of the donors
of the seven home freezers pre
sented to him in 1945'.
“Vaughan’s caller prote s t e d
about the change in the rationing!
order. Vaughan then tried to1
phone Anderson, but he was out j
of town. So Vaughan talked to
Nate Koenig.
• Koenig then was executive as
sistant to Anderson. He now is an
assistant to secretary of agricul
ture Brannan).
“Vaughan gave Koenig particu
lar hell about the rationing or
der.”
There was no comment on the
episode Saturday from Senator
Ancie son. Koenig, on his way
home from a.trip to Puerto Rico,
could not be reached.
In Milwaukee, Hoffman said “It
was not I who made the call; I
know no‘hing of the incident."
Anderson and Koenig are un
derstood to have conferred after
the Vaughan call, and to have de- 1
cided to stand pat. There was no
change in the order.
Denies Tokyo Rose
Made Propaganda
Statements
SAN FRANCISCO. </P)—A for- ,
mer Filipino army officer who tes
tified ‘‘I would have trusted Iva
Toguri d’Aquino with my life.”
was vigorously cross-examined by
a government prosecutor late Fri
day.
Lt. Norman Reyes, third defense
witness in Mrs. d’Aquino’s treason
trial, told the court he was cap
tured in Corregidor and forced to
broadcast for the Japanese until
the end of the war.
He said he worked with Mrs.
d'Aquino, charged with being the
*
Howard Beymer of the Beymer
Lower Yukon Flying Service op
erating out of Marshal came to
Nome over the weekend bringing
in Roy Hunter, commissioner of
Marsha] who is here on court
business, and F. A. Goodbrod a
mining man who is making a
short visit.
“Tokyo Rose” who broadcast pro
grams the Japanese hoped would
damage the morale of allied
troops.
But Reyes denied ever hearing
some 40 different propaganda
statements, which defense attor
ney Wayne Collins read to him
and which had been attributed to
Tokyo Rose by ex-GI witnesses
for the government.
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