Large Sum Asked '
For U.'N. Refugee \
Organization
WASHINGTON, (/PI—-President
Truman today asked Congress to
authorize the United States to par
ticipate in an international refugee
organization.
Mr. Truman said in a message
there are more than 1,000,000 dis
placed persons still in Germany,
Austria, and Italy, and told Con
gress:
“Almost two-thirds of 4hese are
under United States care and con
trol. The allied military victory
over the Axis power brought with
it a practical and moral responsi
bility with reference to victims
of the Axis.” f \
Mr. Truman recalled that the
general assembly of the United
Nations agreed that (1) the prob
lem of displaced persons was in
ternational in scope, (2- every ef
fort should be made to facilitate
the repatriation of displaced per
sons desiring to return to their
homes and <3) those with valid ob
jections to returning home should
be cared for by an international
agency until new homes are found
for them.
Immediately after the Presi
dent’s message reached the capitol,
Senators Vandenberg (R.-Mich.)
Connally <D.-Tex.> introduced a
resolution to give Congressional
approval to participation in the or- j
ganization agreement. Vandenberg1
is chairman of the foreign rela-1
tions committee, and Connally the
ranking Democratic member.
The resolution called for the ap
pointment of the American repre-1
sentative to the organization at a
$12,000, yearly salary, with provi
s on for two alternatives. Any Con
gressman who served would re-.
ceive no additional pay.
At the state department, it was
said the President financial bud
get listed $75,000,000 for the U. N.
organization on refugees, trade and
health. The bulk of this sum, an
official told reporters, would ko
to refugees.
Brazil began as a Portuguese
colony, became an empire in the
early 19th century, with the son of
the King of Portugal as emperor,
and then emerged as a republic in
1889.
Stunt Ace Killed
In Plane Crash
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. uP)—
Air stunt ace John G. “Tex” Ran
un, who in the early days of his
flying feats taunted fate in a num
bered “13” airplane and often car
ried a black cat in his cockpit,
was killed yesterday in a plane
crash in which two others died
uui a fourth was critically in jured.
The famous aviator, who at age
53 still held two world air stunting
championships, was piloting a
four place single engine amphibian
when it lost power just after tak
ng off from an airport here and
struck a powerline.
Witnesses said Rankin maneu
vered the plane away from the
residential area toward open fields
.outh of the city but did not have
enough altitude as it flipped on1
i4s back after snagging the power
line.
The others killed were Cy Wal-1
!an and Jack Elie, Klamath Falls,
service operators here. Injured
was Milton Thompson, Klamath
Falls, veteran of air transport com
mand flights over the C-B-I
“hump”, who is in a coma at the
• ---suffering concussion.
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SEATTLE, (4h — Room service
in a comfortable hotel room over
looking her beloved “home town*
of Seattle was a marvelous con
trast yesterday for Mrs. Della Hill
who had just come down over the
Alaskan highway in the voided
weather recorded in the northern
hemispere.
Mrs. Hill, who lived in Seattl
23 years and still has a home here,
operates the Alaska Market with
her brother in Fairbanks.
As everyone knows, the people
up there have had a lot of trouble
getting produce' from the States
during the past winter months.
Recently, when she couldn’t get
her products by boat, Mrs. Hill has
been having them delivered by
truck. $
“When you pay three or four)
thousand dollars for a load of
stuff, you start wondering what
those truck drivers go through,”
Mrs. Hill said. “So I decided to
make the trip by automobile and
I’ve learned that those drivers
earn every penny!”
' Mrs. Hill made the trip with Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Worden, who oper
ate a cleaning business in Fair
banks. The temperature up there
was 58 degrees below zero when
they made preparations for the
! journey.
! When it rose to 50 below, they
started. A hundred miles out, it
was 72 below, and at Snag, it
dropped to 82 below.
“The car doors buckled, and the
motor would stop a bit and start
up again every little while,” Mrs.
Hill recalled. “We would look at
each other and get scared but no
body said anything.”
They saw buffalo running to keen
Bauer Ski Champ
At Juneau
JUNEAU (/P>—Hugh Bauer, for
merly of the University of Wash
ington, captured the Southeast
Alaska ski championship with
firsts in the downhill and slalom
run, and third in the jump,
Bauer turned in a 2.36.3 time
over the mile and half downhill
course, fastest ever made on the
run.
Close behind Bauer in the final
standings was Chuck Patrick, for
mer Rocky Mountain skier, with
third in both downhill and slalom
and first in the jumps.
Both were competing with the
nine-man western Alaska ski club
team from Anchorage. The two
! lay meet was sponsored by the
Juneau ski club.
warm. Little red foxes, huddled at
the side of the road, peered at
,hem sympathetically. A trapper (
told them that hundreds of rabbits
.iad .died. At Tok Junction, where
they “stopped over,” the kept the
motor of the car running for two
days before daring to proceed.
Worden’s ears were frozen when
he looked under the hood.
“The Alaskan Highway is well
kept up and the scenery is beau
tiful, but not for this time of the
year,” Mrs. Hill added. “You take
your life in your hands. I’m going
to fly back.”
Mrs. Hill is still trying to trace
a carload of apples from Wenat
chee—purchased and paid for but
never delivered.
“They’re probably in a ship at
Seward,” she said, “and undoubt
edly rotten. They will be my loss.
Another merchant from Fairbanks
lost a thousand dollars worth of 1
mayonnaise like that. He was told
that it was an act of God and
~o*hing could be done about it.”
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