Alaska Faces
“Unprecedented |
Crisis”—Gruening
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struction by firms whose workers
took the bulk of their earnings
back to the United States.
One of the principal purposes
behind the Governor’s visit here
was to seek a solution to the Uni
versity of Alaska’s f inane i a 1
plight which threatened to pre
clude reopening its doors next
I
September.
Gruening disclosed that Capt.
Austin E. Lathrop, Fairbanks in
dustrialist and member of the
university board of regents, had
agreed to match a $25,000 non-in
terest loan previously offered by
James Wooten, president of Alas
ka Airlines.
Lathrop has promised, Gruen
ing said, to urge other Territorial
leaders to join in the effort to
make available $250,000 cash ne
cessary to assure reopening of the
university this fall.
Announcement of Captain La
throp’s contribution was made on
the 70th birthday anniversary of
the school president, Dr. Charles
Ernest Bunnell.
“If the University of Alaska—a
land grant college—could be as-'
sured of federal allotments it
would receive under statehood, it j
would not be necessary to pass the
hat to save it,” the governor as
serted. “The university’s plight is,
only one instance of discrimination
against American citizens living
under Territorial system of gov
ernment.”
A second example, he said, was ;
abolishment of the Alaskan head
quarters of the coast guard al
though the Territory has twice the
coast line of the entire United
States. He cited operation of coast
guard administrative and opera
tional headquarters at Seattle, San
Francisco and Long Beach and de
clared:
“If Alaska was represented in
Washington by two Senators and!
one Representative. This would j
never happen. In time of peace
even national defense follows the
pork barrel system.”
He said that two years before
the war, Alaska’s only defense in
stallation consisted of 200 infan
trymen at Chilkoot barracks with
out machine guns or anti-aircraft
weapons—and that Alaska was
the only part of the United States
invaded by the enemy.
“Even today,” he said, “though
the military command of Alaska is
Gruening Not To
Run With Wallace
FAIRBANKS, (&)—Gov. Ernest
W. Gruening described as “too
silly for words” today a rumor
that he might be considered as a
vice presidential candidate with
Henry Wallace on a third party
ticket.
“I am completely out of sym
pathy with Wallace and most of
the things he is trying to do,” the
Governor said. “There is absolute
ly no foundation for any such ro
mor.”
Abandon Army
Transport On Fire
In Atlantic
NEW YORK. (JP) — The army
transport Joseph V. Connolly,
which brought the first war dead
back from Europe, caught fire
early today and was abandoned
by its crew of 45 in winds of gale
force about 900 miles east of New
York.
The ship was en route to Ant
werp with about 5,000 empty cas
kets aboard.
The coast guard said the liberty
ship Morrison B. Waite reached
the transport’s last reported posi
tion shortly after 7 a.m. and was
searching for the Connolly’s life
boats. Almost three hours later
the coast guard said the Waite had
not sighted either the lifeboats or
any wreckage.
The New York port of embar
kation said earlier no injuries or
deaths were reported among the
Connolly’s crew. The weather
bureau said, however that winds
of up to 40 miles an hour were re
ported in the area and that the
area had been hit by showers.
The first call for help from the
Connolly was intercepted here at
about 4:30 a.m. (EST>. The mess
age said the 442-foot, 7,176 gross
ton ship was adrift and out of con
trol as a result of a fire which
started in the engine room.
The last report from the Con
nolly said the fire was spreading,
but the full extent of dam&ge was
not known because the ship’s ra
dio went out of commission before
it was abandoned, the coast guard
said.
The port of embarkation said
the ship’s master was a Capt. Bos
fully alert, the army has not got
the stuff to repel a full scale mod
em invasion.”
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Committee Will
Probe Deeper Into
Pauley Activities
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Royall, as a speculator.
Although Pauley was not in
the government last August, Stas
sen said, he was not only an in
sider but was “in the very center
of the inside.” Pauley took the
army department job Sept. 3.
Stassen declared Pauley’s rec
ords show that he bought 100,000
bushels of wheat last Aug. 2 and
sold it at a $6,000 profit seven
days later, when Anderson and
Hannegan were guests at his Ha
waiian estate, Coconut Island.
Under questioning by Senator
O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) Stassen said
he did not mean to imply that An
derson advised Pauley on the
transaction. He noted that when
the wheat was bought, Anderson
was aboard ship enroute to Ha
waii.
ODDFELLOW INSTALLATION
JANUARY 16. 1947
Elaborate preparations are be
ing made by the I.O.O.F. lodge
in Nome to make this year’s in
stallation a successful event, both
in attendance and performance.
As in previous years, whoever
can make it, shows up on this oc
casion to give the new officers a
start for the new term, by taking
part in the installaiton itself, fill
ing the various offices for the eve
ning.
The hall itself is ready now,
having undergone extensive alter
ations and additions to make it
suitable for proper lodge proced
ure. Also a separate kitchen. It is
understood that the social com-!
mittee is at work already provid- J
ing refreshments, to be served fol-1
lowing the installation.
In some of the newest steam
turbines the "buckets” move faster
than a rifle bullet.
If Junior wears his coveted
football letter on his sweater,
make sure it is colorfast or re
move it before washing his
sweater.
telman. The transport commander
is Capt. Charles V. Etlins of Camp
Kilmer, N. J.
The army, coast guard and air
force cooperated in directing res
cue efforts.
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tion of seal, sea otter and other
Alaskan fisheries, including the
construction of an airplane base
at Anchorage. Other requests in
clude $420,000, compared with
$175,000 this year, for game law
enforcement and $69,300, the same
as this year, for fur seal investi
gations.
The geological survey seeks
$400,000 for investigation of min
eral resources, compared with
$250,000 it received for the pro
gram this year.
The budget proposed $2,000,000
for airport development, even
though the prpgram is not yet au
thorized by Congress. Legislation
has been introduced to establish
airports at Anchorage and Fair
banks.
The Signal Corps of the army
seeks $1,804,000, the same as this
year, for operation and mainten
ance of its Alaska Communica
tions system.
Other items include $18,000 for
relief of the indigent, $23,950 for
cooperative agricultural extension
work, and $144,940 for agricultur
al research.
E. P. WOOD HERE
ON BUSINESS TRIP
E. P. Wood, auditor for the Lo
men Commercial Co., arrived from
Seattle yesterday on company
business.
Mihai And Anne
Not To Wed
“For The Moment'
LAUSANNE, Switzerland ffl
Maj. Jacques Vergotti, aide to ex
king Mihai of Romania, decalre
Saturday that ‘‘for the moment
there is not going to be any wed
ding for Mihai and Princess Ann
of Bourbon-Parma.
He said in an interview that tin
former monarch might “eventual
lv” marry Princess Anne, whon
he “reallly loves” and who i;
ideally suited to be his wife—“bu
no wedding for the morfient.”
He hinted broadly that the for
mer monarch’s advisers are op
posed to the marriage, at least foi
now. ’ •
Vergotti said Mihai’s unoffi
cial engagement was “another
reason” why he was forced from
the throne, because the Commun
ist-dominated Romanian govern
ment wanted to forestall an “up
surge of the King’s popularity"
which would have followed
royal wedding and make his re
moval more difficult.
Marriage while he was king
would have been in his favor, Lho
aide said, but marriage now would
“give the wrong impression.”
Princess Anne, who was an
route to join Mahai in Switzer
land, left her train at Liege, Bel
gium, Saturday morning and set
out by automobile for Luxem
bourg, where she said she would
spend some time to “have a little
i rest.” She gave no explanation of
| the apparent change in plans.
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