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44 Million For
Interior Dept.
Program in Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
House Appropriations Committee
recommended Friday that the De
partment of Interior be given
more than 44 million dollars to
carry on its various programs in
Alaska.
But the committee - approved
measure cut sharply into funds
for the government-owned Alaska
railroad and for the territory’s
4 proposed public works program
during the 12 months beginning
July 1.
Public works was chopped back
from 20 million to seven million.
The Alaska Railroad slash was
almost as deep—from a requested
16 million to but $3,906,000.
The commitee looked favourably
upon the Bureau of Reclamation’s
Eklutna project, approving the
entire 13 million dollars asked.
It approved 17 million dollars
for road construction and recom
mended appropriation of $1,318,
000 for operation and mainten
ance of roads.
The approved bill also contains
$720,360 for administration of the
territory. This includes $48,000
for territorial legislative expenses
and increased costs of care and
custody of Alaska’s insane.
* In denying funds of improve
ment of the Alaska Railroad, the
committee said it did so because
of differences existing within the
department over the relative mer
^ its of the railroad and highway
systems in Alaska development.
Soviets Repeat
Charges of Germ
Warfare in Korea
MOSCOW, {JP)— The campaign
against alleged U.S. germ war
fare in Korea is being whipped to
a high pitch here.
Izvestia, the Soviet government
newspaper, Friday published a
declaration by Patriarch Alexei of
the Russian Orthodox Church and
three leading metropolitans con
demning alleged bacteriological
warfare in Korea.
Soviet press reports repeated
4 previous charges in Peiping that
the United States is now using
poison gas on the Korean front.
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Russia refused in the United
Nations Disarmament Commission
yesterday to support a United
States proposal for an impartial
investigation by the International
Red Cross of the Communist germ
warfare charges. The United
^ States has repeatedly denied the
charges.
Power Company Warns
Skiers of Snow-Covered
High Voltage Lines
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>)—Snow
drifts on California’s northern
mountains are so unusually deep
— 20 feet and more — that the
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is
sued warnings to ski fans to
watch out for buried high volt
age lines. The company warned
•that apy skier would be killed if
he came within seven feet of any
Ike May Change
His Mind About
Campaigning
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
Allied Power Europe, {JP) — Gen.
Eisenhower said Thursday “the
mounting numbers of my fellow
citizens who are voting to make
me the Republican nominee” may
cause him to change his mind
about refusing actively to seek
nomination to political office.
Gen. Eisenhower issued an in
formal statement at his headquar
ters in response to requests by
reporters for comment on the Min
nesota primary Tuesday in wl\ich
more than 100,000 voters wrote
in his name in the Republican
preferential primary.
The statement said:
“You gentlement probably re
alize how astonished I was by
the results of the Minnesota pri
mary.
“I did not imagine that so many
voters in Minnesota would make
me a write-in candidate and, ac
cording to newspaper accounts,
some of them had trouble with
my name.
“I count it an additional com
pliment that some refused to be
dismayed by the long Eisenhower
name and simply wrote in ‘Ike’.”
Humphrey Bogart and
Vivien Leigh Win Motion
Picture Academy Oscars
HOLLYWOOD, <£>)—Humphrey
Bogart, Vivien Leigh and “An
American in Paris” won the prin
cipal Oscars Thursday night in
Hollywood’s annual Academy
Awards festival.
Bogart was an obviously senti
mental selection for best actor
award as the gin-loving skipper
in “The African Queen.” Miss
Leigh was a pre-award favorite
for the best actress Oscar for
her portrayal of a faded beauty
in “Streetcar Named Desire.”
The biggest upset of the night,
was the victory for “American
In Paris.” Most experts figured it
last in their selections. A good
musical, it was not classed in the
same breath with “Streetcar” and
“A Place in the Sun.”
Karl Malden, the disillusioned
lover of “Streetcar,” won the
award for the best supporting
actor and Kim Hunter, the wife
in “Streetcar,” won the best sup
porting actress plum.
Alaska Railroad Rates
To Be Raised April 15
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—Five fun
damental changes in freight rate
tariffs of the Alaska Railroad are
to be effected April 15 under re
visions now being studied, it was
announced today.
Rail officials said the rate re
vision is essential if the road is
to keep operating as members of
Congress have indicated a reluc
tance to subsidize it through ap
propriations in the federal budget.
The road showed a deficit of
$400,000 in operating revenues
since the start of the current fis
cal year last July 1 despite a
heavy increase in business. The
$500,000 increase in revenues may
not be enough and further up
ward revisions are contemplated
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How To Help
The Red Cross
Just about everybody in town
is a Red Cross volunteer this
week and next, helping the na
tional and international organiz
ation with such vital tasks as
blood banks, field directors at the
army bases, communications with
families of servicemen in cases of
serious illness, floods, fires, and
inspection of prisoner camps. It
is a mighty big job, but the eleven
women’s organizations of Nome
committed to womaning the Red
Cross booth at the Federal build
ing next week to receive contri
butions, are doing their part. So
are the men’s organizations who
are talking it up at their meet
ings, the telephone girls who are
putting all the calls in working
out the schedules, and the busi
ness houses who are sponsoring
the advertising for next week’s
drive. The local AFRS will be
broadcasting Red Cross stories
and information regarding the
drive.
Townspeople are to make their
contribution? at the Federal build
ing and servicemen will have
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Submarine V olcano
Push'es Rocks 250
Feet Above Pacific
MANILA, (iP) — A submarine
volcano, coming to life after a
90-year sleep, pushed a moving
mass of volcanic rock Wednesday
250 feet above the surface of the
Pacific Ocean 315 miles north of
Manila. ^
The turbulent pile of rocks en
compassed an area of at least five
acres. For 15 acres around it the
ocean boiled and bubbled like a
witch’s brew.
A 10,000-foot column of smoke
and sulphurous steam towered.
Huge black boulders, some of
them five stories high, were tum
bled about.
Off to one side of the growing,
crater-shaped island, a needle
pointed black rock stuck up stark
ly.
The rock and the island both
appeared to be surrounded by
breaking surf.
But as a C-47 piloted by Maj.
Gen. Ernest Moore circled to
within 200 feet of the surface it
became apparent the white water
was the ocean boiling from con
tact with the hot rocks.
The new volcano island is ap
pearing at almost the identical
spot where almost a century ago
an undersea eruption created
Didicas Rocks and pushed them
700 feet above the surface.
The first close inspection was
made Wednesday from the plane
piloted by Gen. Moore, command
er of the ILS. 13th Air Force.
Biggest Gas Well In B. C.
CALGARY, Alta., (JP) — Offi
cials of Pacific Petroleums said
Thursday night the company and
its associate have brought in the
biggest gas well ever drilled in
British Columbia.
The well was drilled near Ft.
St. John and obtained gas flow
at the rate of nine million cubic
feet dailv with a spray of high
Air Force Sets Up
Weather Station on
Polar Ice Island
THE NORTH POLE, March 20
(AMNS)—The successful landing,
of an Air Force C-47 on a floating
island of ice approximately 60
miles from the North Pole was
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announced today by Maj. Gen.
Wm. D. Old, Alaskan Air Com
mand. ,
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This completes the first phase
of a small expedition to estab
lish a semi-permanent four-man
observing station of the 2107th
Air Weather Group at this polar
location. The floating ice “island”
is irregular in shape with a dia
meter of approximately 7 miles.
The surface is relatively flat.
The expedition is being carried
out by Lt. Col. Joseph O. Feltcher.
For two years Col. Fletcher com
manded the 58th Weather Recon
naissance Squadron, famous for
its regular non-stop “Ptarmigan”
flights to the pole from Eielson
Air Force Base.
Formerly weather data from
the Arctic region has been limited
to the observations made on al
ternate days by weather recon
naissance flights. This station will
provide continuous observation
and reporting at the surface from
an area which vitally affects wea
ther throughout the northern
hemisphere.
Recommends F & W L
Get 25 Per Cent of
Pribilov Is. Revenue
WASHINGTON, (fl>) — The
House Appropriations Committee
recommended Friday that the
Fish and Wildlife Service be given
25 per cent of the receipts of the
Pribilof Islands’ seal fishery for
use in Alaska game law enforce
ment.
On the basis of current Pribilof
operations, the committee esti
* mated this would mean approxi
mately $807,500.
In recommending that the
agency be given a portion of the
Pribilof receipts, the committee
said it “has, for some time, been
aware of the inadequacy of the
management and protection pro
gram in Alaska with particular
reference to the conservation of
salmon resources.”
Because of population increases
and the influx of military person
nel, the committee reported, “fish
ing and hunting as a principal
recreation has become no less a
problem than the increase in com
mercial interests in salmon.”
Appropriations for this purpose
have been inadequate to support
“a fish and game enforcement
staff even as big as is maintained
in the state of Rhode Island.”
TV Shortchanges Coal Customers
LONDON, (IP)—A coal dealer
cited television Friday as the rea
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son he short-weighted six cus
tomers.
Said counsel for the defense:
“The men who filled the sacks
did the jobs hurriedly, as they
had accepted an invitation from a
housewife who was a customer to
watch the king’s funeral on her
television set.”
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Generous Japanese
Peace Treaty Waits
Truman Signature
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The Sen
ate has overwhelmingly approved
a generous peace treaty with
Japan six and one-half years after
the surrender in Tokyo Bay ended
World War II.
President Truman is expected
to sign it promptly.
The document provides that it
must be approved by at least
seven of 12 nations, all with vital
interests in the Pacific.
So far it has been approved by
five of these, in addition to the
United States. They are: Great
Britain, Australia, New Zealand,
Cylon and Japan itself. Yet to act
are Canada, France, Indonesia,
the Netherlands, Pakistan and the
Philippines.
The Japanese peace treaty re
stores the full sovereignty of
Japan over its home islands. But
she renounces title to Formosa,
Korea, and a number of other is
lands. Japan agrees to apply for
U.N. membership and live peace
ably in accordance with U. N.
charter principles.
Her obligation to pay repatri
ations is recognized; but the
treaty says that because of limited
resources these payments should
be confined to assets she has in
surplus—excess labor and unused
plant capacity.
Japan also agrees not to grant
any military bases to a third
power without UJ5. consent.
Sen. Taft Angrily
Withdraws From
N. J. Primary
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Sen. Taft
announced Thursday he is with
drawing from the contest in New
Jersey’s ‘Republican presidential
primary.
In an angrily worded statement,
the Ohio senator said he had been
done political dirt by Gov. Alfred
E. Driscoll of New Jersey, who
has announced for Gen. Eisen
hower.
Taft said Driscoll waited until
after the deadline for formal
withdrawal from the April 15 pri
mary to abandon a position of
neutrality and then had thrown
the weight of the New Jersey
state Republican organization
against Taft and to Eisenhower.
Since the deadline has passed,
Taft’s name will remain on the
ballot.
But, Taft said: “I am instruct
ing my national committee to
withdraw from all activity in my
behalf in the state of New Jersey
and to close the state headquar
ters there.”
Taft accused Gov. Driscoll of
having “obviously taken steps to
corrupt the intent of the prefer
ence primary.”
Britain Gets U.S. Immigrants
LONDON, {/P}—During the first
nine months of 1951, 6,532 U.S.
citizens immigrated to the United
Kingdom, an increase of 57 per
cent over the previous year, the
Board of Trade journal reported.
Emmigration from Britain to
the UJ5. was 14,471, an increase