TO SELL ALL MATERIALS
FROM ALASKA SCHOOL LAND
WASHINGTON, (£>)—President
Truman signed a bill yesterday to
authorize the Interior Department
to sell all materials taken from
school lands in Alaska and to put
the proceeds in the Territorial
treasury.
The income from these materi
als would go for school purposes.
Under a law already on the
books, the department was au
thorized to sell timber and dispose
of minerals from the school lands, j
The bill signed today extends
that authority to cover revenue j
from all materials, including
gravel and peat moss.
It also includes a provision al
lowing the department to dispose
of sand and gravel from the beds j
of navigable streams and to ear-;
mark the proceeds for Alaskan
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The wife who drives from the
back seat is; no worse than the
husband who cooks from the din
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Employment Goes
Up During August
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — Employ
ment jumped 1,153,000 in August
to reach a new record high of 62,
367,000, secretary of commerce
Sawyer said today.
It was the first time the 62,000,
000 mark had been crossed. The
August total for those with jobs
was 752 above the previous record
61,615,000 in July, 1948.
Secretary Sawyer commented:
“The economy was gradually
moving toward full employment
before the Korean crisis. With in
creasing defense preparations, it
may be expected that this trend
will continue at an accelerated
pace.”
Factory hiring was chiefly re
sponsible for the upswing in jobs.
This sent the number of persons
in non-farming work to an unpre
cedented 54,207,000 last month.
Unemployment, a bugaboo just
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a year ago, dropped 713,000 last
month to 2,500,000, the lowest
since the start of 1949.
A full size violin constructed of
bamboo in place of conventional
wood materials is being manufac
tured in Japan.
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Over Alaska Again
An interest . in Alaska has
brought ex-school teacher Jane
Robbins to Alaska twice in the
past five years, and is likely to
bring her winging north again in
the very near future, according to
a story printed in a recent edition
of the Christian Science Monitor.
The one-time music teacher,
who is a member of the Ninety
Nines, a woman’s flying organiza
tion, and who flew for the U. S.
Wasps during the war, originally
came north to do a ^job of house
keeping. She came in 1946 to over
see her brother’s family of three
during a summer’s mining season
at Candle. In her spare time, she
was recruited to fly freight and
passengers, for the firm, the Arctic
Circle: Exploration Co.
Miss Robbins next' returned in
1949, when a fellow pilot of her
summer’s bush pilot days, called
her at New York to hop north in a
hurry and help him find a polar
bear for a couple of Arctic hunt
ers. That was her first experience
in ski-equipped planes and with
winter flyiilg conditions in the far
north, where it is often difficult
not to confuse snow-covered tun
dra with wintery grey skies. Janei
managed it all right, though, and
while she was wheeling north
along the Arctic coast on polar
bear reconnoitering expeditions,
she also was enlarging her film
collection of Alaskan scenes.
With bear hunt chores com
pleted and movie film exhausted,
she turned south again, expecting
to settle down to a humdrum ex
istence of music-teaching. Then
one day the lady pilot happened to
read an advertisement about a
new type of plane, that seemed to
her just made to order to meet
Alaskan flying condiitons.
She felt so enthusiastic about
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the plane’s future that she wrote
its manufacturers. They decided
they could use a lady with Jane’s
enthusiasm, so now she’s selling
airplanes. And deep in the bottom
of her heart is the hope that not
too far in the future she’ll be sell
ing that “made for Alaska” plane
to Alaskans.
TRUMAN ADDRESSED THE
WORLD THIS AFTERNOON
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman tonight will tell the na
tion—and the world—that the
United States had no alternative
when it sent its troops into Korea.
He ordered this step, the Presi
dent is expected say, in the inter
ests of world peace.
Mr. Truman speaks from the
White House at 9 p.m. (EST) (3:00
p.m. Nome Time) over all the ma
jor radio networks and television.
His address is described by thei
White House as a ‘'report to the i
people.”
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Checking Cause Of
Hospital Ship
Crash and Sinking
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — The
navy says the death tool in the
sinking of the hospital ship Benev
olence may total 23.
Eighteen are known to have
died after the Benevolence was
rammed by the freighter Mary
Luckenbach in dense fog offshore
last Friday.
1 A statement issued Wednesday i
said five persons are still missing '
and presumed dead. It said the'
figures were based on coordinated
reports from civilian and navy;
sources. The navy raised the num- i
ber rescued from 492 to 505.
Meanwhile, a coast guard board
investigating the collision con tin-1
ued to examine members of the
freighter’s crew.
Capt. Leonard C. Smith, Tam
pa, Fla., skipper of the Mary Luc
kenbach, spHnt his second day as
a witness. Tuesday he testified
the Benevolence was making 15-17
knots and the Luckenbach Had
slowed to 9Vfc.
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Asked why his bell book—on
which orders are recorded as soon
as given—did not show an order
for reducing speed, Capt. Smith'
pointed to the initials S.B.E. (stand j
by engines) in the book and said
that automatically meant slow i
down.
Mrs. H. F. Prewitt of Coolidge,
New Mexico, is visiting with her
daughter Mrs. David Hopkins for
a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. David Hopkins are
with the U. S. Geological Survey
party who have been working in
the railroad area this summer.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Grand Jury Vote In
Anti-Trust Suits
To Be Published
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Filing of
the grand jury vote in all 10 in
dictments of the Alaska anti-trust
case today may determine whe
ther the 136 individuals and 23
corporations must stand trial for
price-fixing conspiracies in re
straint of Territorial trade. . q
Judge Anthony Dimond has or
dered publication of the vote on
each of the indictments handed
down last June.
Defense attorneys challenged
one unnamed juror’s eligibility on
the grounds of a felony convic
tion. They said that should the ac
cusation prove correct and he be
disqualified, it would alter the
status of any case in which his
vote had decided the issue.
Fairbanks liquor dealers who
requested a transfer of their case
to Fairbanks did not appear in
court yestrday and their align
ment has been set for a later date.
A government attorney indicated
the transfer will not be contested.
A motion for transfer • by coal
companies to Fairbanks as a re
sult of alleged prejudice and pub
licity here was denied by Judge
Dimond yesterday. ^
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