Washington News - Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartletti
Delegate in Congress from Alaska |
Electrification Loans—
Loans totalling $1,390,000 were j
granted last week to two Alaska
cooperatives, according to infor
mation given Delegate Bartlett
by the Rural Electrification Ad
ministration.
The Matanuska Electric Asso
ciation at Palmer will receive
$1,040,000 as a loan to finance
construction of 88 miles of distrib
ution line to serve 332 rural consu
mers and the Buffalo’ Mine. The
funds will also be used to make
system improvements, including 24
miles of new tielines and for ad
ditional headquarters facilities.
The second loan will go to the
Kodiak Electric Association at Ko
diak for increased service to rural
consumers. These funds will be
added to funds previously made
available to build 11 miles of dis
tribution lines to serve 315 addi
tional persons and for a new 650
kilowatt diesel generating unit
and additional system improve- !
ments.
Water Resource Studies—
Legislation which would author
ize continuing investigations of
the water and related natural re
sources of Alaska was introduced
in the House last week by Dele
gate Bartlett.
The bill would give the Secre
tary of the Interior authority to
make such investigations for “en
couraging and promoting the de
velopment of Alaska” followed by
appropriate recommendations
from time to time to the President
and the Congress. Any specific
project recommended by the Sec
retary would have to be author
ized by the Congress followed by
appropriations for the construc
tion of the project.
Reservations—
Senator Butler introduced legis
lation last week similar to that
sponsored by him in earlier Con
gresses seeking to repeal existing
law which allows the Secretary of
the Interior to create native res
ervations in Alaska.
In addition, the Nebraska Sen
ator’s bill would abolish the pres
ent reservations at Akutan, Kar
luk, Wales, Unalakleet, Venetie
and any o’thers in existence.
The Secretary of the Interior
would be authorized to issue pat
ents for lands actually possessed,
used or occupied for townsites,
villages, smoke houses, gardens,
burial grounds, or missionary sta
tions to native tribes and villages
or individuals. Patents to lands
Seattle Fighter Scores
First Round Knockout
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, (/P)—
Harry Matthews’ stock as a con
tender for Joey Maxim’s light
heavyweight boxing title was at
a peak today after a sensational
first round knockout of San
Francisco’s Grant Butcher.
The Seattle bomber floored the
heavier Butcher after only two
minutes 13 seconds of a scheduled
10-rounder last night. Matthews
weighed 176 and Butcher, 183.
A right to the jaw ended the
fight—immediately after Butcher
had been dropped for a six count
with a left hook to the chin.
Last month in Seattle, Mat
thews scored a four-round tech
nical knockout over Butcher, but
Butcher wanted another match,
claiming the referee had acted too
hastily in stopping the fight.
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ALLIED TROOPS IN GERMANY
ASSAULT MOCK AGGRESSOR
SCHAFFENBURG, Germany, (TP)
— Reinforced Allied troops
launched a full-scale counter-at
tack at dawn Tuesday to drive a
mythical aggressor out of west
Germany.
Tired, grimy American soldiers,
on the defensive since the mock
war broke out a week ago, sprang
out of the shadows of frosty wood
land and made amphibious assault
crossings of the main river.
within the national forests of Al
aska would be issued only after
the Interior Secretary obtained
the concurrence of the Secretary
of Agriculture.
Defense Works & Appropriations
The House Appropriations Com
mittee is expected soon to report
a money bill to the House to carry
out the naval and military public
work projects authorized in the
$6 billion authorization bill signed
by the President last week.
The basic legislation provides
for expenditure of $337,717,430 in
Alaska for Army projects in the
sum of $104,455,130, Navy con
struction totalling $19,424,300
and Air Force projects in the
amount of $213,838,000.
In addition, the House and Sen
ate conferees submittted their con
ference report this week on the
$56 billion plus defense appropri
ation bill for the 1952 fiscal year
with Alaska Communication Sys
tem activities in the Territory.
Alaska’s share in the $24 million
appropriation for the Army Na
tional Guard has been estimated,
in accordance with preliminary
figures given Delegate Bartlett, at
$229,200.
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Golfer Kills Self
In Freak Accident
SEATTLE, (/P)—A Seattle golf
er, apparently accidentally wound
ed by his own golf club, died of
loss of blood yesterday while try
ing to reach help, the coroner’s
office reported.
Ed M. Harrison, 22, was the vic
tim of the freak accident at the
Inglewood Country Club course.
A young golfer seeking a lost
golf ball found the body just off
the ninth fairway.
Investigators backtracked and
found Harrison’s golf bag, caddy
cart and clubs at the tee more than
300 yards away. One of the clubs,
a No. 1 wood with a hollow steel
shaft was broken in two and there
was blood on one of the pieces.
Investigator officers said Harri
son apparently took a hard swing
at the ball, the club hit something
solid and broke in two and one
section struck him in the right
groin. He apparently bled to death
while running to the clubhouse
for aid, officers reported.
Defendant In Los Angeles
Paternity Suit Pleads
30 Years Sterility
LOS ANGELES, (/Pi—“Me a
father?” asks wealthy Edmond
Herrscher. “I’ve been sterile the
past 30 years.”
Thus the Los Angeles and San
Francisco food chain operator
yesterday answered the paternity
suit of Mrs. Ann Jackson, 35, of
Beverly Hills. Mrs. Jackson, says
Herrscher, 61, is the father of a
child she expects next December.
She asks $5,000 medical costs,
$5,000 attorneys fees and $1,000
a montfi support. She estimated he
is worth $7,000,000.
Herrscher countered with a suit
for $100,000 for damage to his
reputation. He denied her claim
they had been intimate.
Wallace Questioned By
Security Subcommittee
On 1944 China Mission
WASHINGTON, UP) — Former
vice president Henry A. Wallace
was questioned behind closed
doors Tuesday by the Senate In
ternal Security subcommittee
about his 1944 mission to China.
Chairman McCarran (D - Nev)
told reporters that Wallace was
subpoenaed to appear at the hear
ing, and would testify at an open
session later.
The former vice president, lug
ging a bulging briefcase, was ac
companied by George Ball, a
Washington lawyer.
Ex - Communist Louis Budenz
told the Internal Security sub
committee last week that recom
mendations Wallace made from
China to the late President Roose
velt in June, 1944, helped the Com
munists and were in accord with
the party line at the time.
Wallace, in a letter to President
Truman last month, contended
that his recommendations were
“the opposite of prcf-Communist.”
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WELL ACQUAINTED
A young teacher substituted for
a friend who was taking a week’s
honeymoon. A month later at a
party someone started to1 intro
duce the groom to her.
“Oh,” he naswered brightly, “I
know Miss Royal very well in
deed. She substituted for my wife
on our honeymoon.”
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East Germany Ready
To Talks Unity With
Western Germany
BERLIN, (^P)—The parliament
of Soviet-occupied East Germany
adopted a resolution today ac
cepting much of West Germany’s
conditions for unity talks—but in
dicated it still rejected the West’s
demand for international controls
in any all-German elections.
The communist parliament’s
move came as West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and
the Western Allies went ahead at
Bonn with their schedule of talks
on a peace contract which would
integrate West Germany in the
Atlantic Pact defense system.
The East Germans, with Soviet
prodding, have been directing
their biggest propaganda guns at
Western moves to bring West
Germany into the Atlantic de
fense setup.
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