Indians Against
Sale Of Timber
WASHINGTON. (TV-Efforts to
work out a proposal acceptable to
both sides in the controversy ovu
legislation authorizing the lores'
service to contract for pulp timber
cutting in Southeastern Alaska
continued today. Alaska Indian
leaders are against the proposal.
A hearing before the House ng
riculture committee has been ten
tatively set for tomorrow.
Delegate Bartlett told a reporter
that a first draft of a resolution
giving the Indians’ views of th *
situation was rejected by repre
sentatives of the Interior, Agricul
ture and Justice departments par
ticipating in the conference.
The Indians claim the timber
lands, said to contain 85,000.000
board feet of pulp timber.
The resolution before Congress
would authorize the forest service
to make contracts with logging
and pulp mill concerns, with the
money to be held in escrow pend
* ing a final determination of the
Indians’ rights.
The position of James Curry,
counsel for the Indian villages of
Southeastern Alaska, is that if the
Indians own the lands they should
be permitted to negotiate their
own contracts and fix the terms.
Govt. Agencies
•Mav INot Be Able
To Meet Payrolls
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WASH. NGTON, t/l‘>— Congres
; sional fiscal experts went into a
muddle today over way of financ
ing federal agencies as the fiscal
year neared an end with only one
of 12 regular appropriation bills
cleared by both the Senate and
the House.
Only two of the departments
will have cash with which to op
erate past midnight unless some
thing is done quickly. The two are
the treasury and postoffice de
partments, whose appropriation
, bill for the year beginning tomor
row is on President Truman's desk.
Both Senate and House have
passed a stop-gap measure allow
ing unfinanced agencies to incur
expenses in anticipation of their
: pending appropriations. But there
is a question whether they can ac
tually meet their ^payrolls.
A Senate resolution permitting
them to make actual expenditures
is before the House appropriations
committee. Some members of
that committee are reluctant to
accept it because it permits ex
penditures at the rate contem
plated in the President’s budget
estimates, which the committee
1 hopes to reduce.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, {IP)—A House
armed services sub-committee to
day approved legislation to per
mit holders of GI terminal leave
bonds to cash them immediately.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska Airlines
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announced today it has added
three four-engine DC-4’s to its
fleet and taken over the American
Airlines, cargo schedule to the
Territory.
Bert Kindsman, Seattle sales
manager, said two of the DC-4’s
were purchased from American
and the third leased from Capital
Airlines, an eastern concern. With
the new equipment, the Alaska
line will have five DC-4’s and
seven two-engine DC-3’s in serv
ice.
JUNEAU, (/P)—Barring unfore
seen legal action, Austin Nelson,
27-year-old convicted Negro slay
er, will be hanged at the federal
jail here early Tuesday morning,
United States Marshal William
Mahoney said today.
He was convicted in April of
the murder of Jim Ellen, grocery
store proprietor, last Dec. 22. A
plea of executive clemency was
Refused by President Truman on
June 9.
| SEATTLE, (/P) — Funeral serv
i ices for Mrs. Beth Simon Hyner,
43, former Seattle resident who
! died in Ketchikan, Alaska on
i June 21, will be held at 4- p.m.
Wednesday, followed by crema
tion. Mrs. Hyner left Seattle for
Alaska 12 years ago.
SEATTLE (/P)—The destroyers
Buck and Bole left for Ketchikan
today carrying 300 naval reserv
ists on a two-week training cruise.
The destroyers are due at Ketch
ikan July 3. the 13th naval dis
trict said. During a four-day in
formal visit in Ketchikan the re
servists will be given two days
shore liberty. Leaving Ketchikan
July 7, the ships will return to
Seattle July 12.
ANCHORAGE (>P)—Mayor Wil
liam F. Devin and other members
j of a Seattle goodwill tour were
! scheduled to leave here Saturday
for Fairbanks. In an address at a
, joint Lions-Rotary luncheon Fri
day, Devin pledged Seattle’s sup
port in Alaska’s bid for Statehood
. and promised his city’s help in de
| veloping the Territory.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)-Jimmy
Coombs, Anchorage, and Frank
Kruskie, Fort Richardson, will
meet in an eight-round Alaska
middleweight championship bopt
Wednesday night, with the winner
scheduled to later face A1 Hostak
of Seattle.
Boston Mayor Must
Serve Sentence
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Judge
James M. Proctor refused yester
day to suspend Boston Mayor
James M. Curley’s mail fraud sen
tence and ordered that Curley be
gin serving the six to 18 months
in prison immediately.
The 72-year-old mayor, who
had asked for a suspension on
grounds of ill health, rose from his
seat and cried out:
“You are sentencing me to die.”
Adamantly, the judge refused to
allow Curley even a few days to
handle some pending city matters.
He said Curley can take up such
things as that “with his keepers.”
| Becomes Chinese
Millionaire
j CLINTON, III. (>P)—A cne„*k for
i $709,63 has been sent to Hong
J Kong, China, to Miss Vella M
Wilcox, the amount of her share
of a Clinton woman’s estate.
The check in United States air
rency was mailed to her by the
Dewitt county treasurer, finally
settling the estate of'Martha E.
Hall. O'her heirs received their
shares five ye'.rs ago blit the war
made it impossible V send the
money to Miss Wilcox in Ch na.
When he gets the check she’11
have $7,096,300 — in Chinese
money.
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