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NEWS IN BRIEF
BULLETIN
BERLIN (P)—The Western Ber
lin railway strikers decided to
night to restore interzonal freight
movements to normal without
calling off their walkout.
FLINT, Mich. (P) — Bongo, a
ringtailed monkey, is a hero in
town here.
VV’hen a second floor fire broke
out in the Joseph Potvin home,
Bongo was rescued by his master.
But he wouldn’t stay rescued. Pot
vin said. As soon as he was free
outside. Bongo dashed back into
the house.'
Potvin, though clearly outdis
tanced, re-entered in pursuit. He
met Bongo sliding down the bal
uster. in his arms his prized pos
session, a black cloth lamb. ,
SEATTLE (P), The hard-work
ing freighter Diamond Cement
Monday night on her last voyage
of the season in the Alaska lime
rock trade.
The ship, with Capt. Howard L.
Larson as master, is expected to
return from View Cove, Alaska,
next Sunday with a load of crush
ed lime rock.
Plans for her summer service
• are not definite. The operating
agents, Olympic Steamship com
pany, said. The vessel is owned
by Permanente Cement company.
LOS ANGELES, (P)—An Alas
kan pioneer, who spent a half
century in the far north, died
Monday. He is James Holman
Newman, 70, who succumbed at
his home here. A native of Phila
delphia, Newman went into the
Klondike in his teens, packed over
the Chilkoot Trail, later operated
dog sleds. He was a close friend
of Jack London, Rex Beach and
Alexander Pantages in the gold
rush days. A year ago, he sold his
general store at Ketchikan and
mo%ed here.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (^(—Pres
ident Charles Seymour asserted
yesterday the university will not
“impose an oath of loyalty upon
our faculty.”
At the same time, Dr. Seymour
said in an address prepared for
the annual alumni luncheon, “we
w \
shall appoint no communists to
our faculty, their presence here
would mean the negation of aca
demic freedom.”
‘But we shall permit no hyster
ical witch hunt,” he declared.
WASHINGTON, (^ — Legisla
tion to repeal provisions of the
Alaska railroad retirement act and
the Panama Canal Zone code and
extending benefits of the civil
service retirement act to the em
ployees in those agencies was ap
proved yesterday by the House.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Five eastern
mountain climbers, headed by
William L. Putnam. 24-year-old
geology instructor at Tufts Col
lege, Medford. Mass., left Boeing
field yesterday on a Mount Mc
Kinley Airways plane for Yaku
tat, Alaska. They will try to climb
15,760-foot Mount Vancouv e r,
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Navy Starts Its
Annual Trek To
Point Barrow
SAN DIEGO, Calif. f/P)—Eight
ships of the navy’s annual Alas
kan Arctic supply expedition left
Monday—following a landing ship
which sailed last Wednesday.
Those underway—with loading
stops at Port Hueuene, Sun Fran
cisco and Seattle—are the trans
ports George Clyder and Arvhe
nar, cargo ships Seminole, Union
and Oberon and three landing
ships.
The ice breaker Burton Island
and tanker Neches, now engaged
in exercises at sea, will join the
expedition at Seattle.
PORT HUENEME, Calif. </P>—
Six vessels of the navy’s Pt. Bar
row, Alaska, resupply expedition
reached here yesterday and start
ed loading for the 3,700-mile
northern cruise.
Eleven ships under the com
mand of Cmdr. R. M. Scruggs will
carry 45,000 tons of^upplies to the
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Dopsters Ponder
Who Will Win
Heavyweight Bout
CHICAGO. (/P) — For the first
time since Joe Louis cornered the
heavyweight boxing market 12
years ago and whipped all comers,
a real even-Stephen contest for
the title has shaped up in the Ez
zard Charles-Jersey Joe Walcott
scrap tonight.
Although the bout has been
dubbed the “slim pickins’ ” heavy
weight championship, it sincerely
presents two fired-up contestants
who are not afraid of each other
and appear evenly matched.
Louis, before he retired and
tossed up his crown for the
Charles-Walcott winner, always
was an overwhelming favorite
who usually came through right
on schedule in cut-and-dried fash
ion.
About the nearest he came to
being dismantled was by Walcott
in December of 1947. Jersey Joe
floored him and carried the attack
through 15 rounds only to lose a
decision which still is mighty con
troversial.
Walcott, the 35-year-old family
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Is Vitamin A \
In Seal Liver
Worth Savings?
(By Vern Haugland)
((/P) Spacial Washington Service)
WASHINGTON (/P)—Male fur
seals, in Alaska, have more vita
min A in their liver-oil than fe
males do, the fish and wildlife
service said yesterday.
Generally speaking, it said, the
older the seal, the greater the vit
amin A potency of the liver oil.
And while most seals have lit
tle old maroon-colored livers
worth about two-bits each, per
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CONGRESS
HIGHLIGHTS
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Tuesday. June 21. 1949
(By Jack Rutledge)
WASHINGTON, i/P)—Congres
sional committees pushed off on
two new investigation trails today.
One involves reported missing
atomic materials and the other re
ports of fees paid for claimed in
fluence in getting government
contracts.
Chairman McMahon (D.-Conn.)j
said the joint atomic energy com
mittee is investigating an “inven
tory discrepancy” at the Oak
Ridge, Tenn., atomic plant. Some
material apparently is missing or
misplaced.
Chairman Hoey <D.-N. C.) said
1 the Senate investigating commit
tee will look into reports that
$1,000 was paid as a fee to a for
mer army officer to help get a
government contract.
Hoey noted that the New York
Herald Tribune quoted Paul Grin
dle, Massachusetts businessman, as
'saying he paid $1,000 to James V.
Hunt, “management councellor.”
Hunt was identified as a former
lieutenant colonel in the army
quartermaster corps, and Grindle
as president of the C. W. Laing
Woodworking Corp., of Farming
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Alaska Timber
Resources Not
lieiiif* Utilized
n
M/P) Special Washington Service1
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Timber
rich Alaska ought to be making its
own furniture, building its own
boats, turning out its own red
cedar shingles, says the reclama
tion bureau.
And there’s a tremendous world
demand for pulp for newsprint, !
for rayon and for plastics that the
Territory could be—but is. not—
helping to satisfy.
“Canadian efforts fall far short
of supplying pulp and paper de
mands within the United States,”
the bureau’s report, in support of
proposals to extend the reclama
tion laws to Alaska, said this
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Joe Crosson Dies
In Seattle
SEATTLE, (/P) — Joe Crosson,
famed Alaska pilot died yesterday
in his office in Seattle at Boeing
Field. Crosson was a famed bush
pilot who flew many mercy mis
sions to widely scattered isolated
spots in the Northland.
In 1935 he flew the bodies of
Will Rogers and Wiley Post from
Barrow, where they were killed
in a crash of Post’s plane. Between
1934 and 1944 Crosson was Alaska
division manager for Pan Ameri
can Airways. He resigned in 1944
and moved to Seattle to manage
Northwest Air Service.
Crosson’s death was attributed
to a heart attack. Associates said
he had been in good health re
cently. He is survived by his wi
dow and four children.
Predict Board
Will “Freeze”
More Funds
JUNEAU, (/P) — Alaska’s board
of administration opened a ses
sion here Monday to consider
what other funds to “freeze” be
cause of the Territory’s financial j
condition.
A treasurer’s report last week
showed the Territory’s funds
$879,032 short of meeting obliga
tions at the end of May.
The first big “freeze” was ap
plied last week to $1,774,063 in
school construction and repair
funds, which had been appropri
! ated by the 1949 Legislature.
In addition to the treasury defi
cit in the face of outstanding war
rants, the Territory’s financial
' pinch has been accentuated by
j court challenges of three major
tax measures enacted by the leg
islature — the income tax, the
quadrupled fish trap tax and the
| non-resident fishing license levy.
House Stages
()ne-Rouncl Bout
Between ()ldsters
WASHINGTON. (/Pi—A punch
swinging encounter between 33
year-old Rep. Sabath <D.-Ill.» and
Rep. Cox 'D.-Ga.i took place on
; the House floor today, touched off
1 by dispute over the administra
tion’s housing bill.
An eye-witness, Rep. Walter D -
Pa.'. said Cox. who is in his 60’s
slapped Sabath in the mouth and
knocked off his glasses.
He said Sabath countered with
a one-two right and left to Cox'
face before they were parted.
The unbilled one-rounder came
during a quorum call to get more
members to the floor for thd start
of debate on the housing bill.
Walter said it began in an argu
ment over whether Sabath would
give Cox time to talk.
There had been a bitter previ
ous debate, with Sabath jumping
on the “real estate lobby” and
pleading with the House to help
“deserving American citizens”
who are crying for housing.
STANDARD OIL REPRESENTA
TIVES ON TOUR OF ALASKA
Representatives of the Standard
Oil Company of California, on a
tour of Alaska, arrived in Nome
early this afternoon in their own
plane, piloted by Dwight Hanson,
with Leslie Walker as co-pilot,
and Arnold Horton mechanic.
Standard Oil officials making
the tour consist of T. S. Petersen,
president; Paul Pigott, member of
the board of directors; Hillyer
Brown, vice president and direc
tor; E. J. McClanahan, vice presi
dent; S. E. Stretton. district man
ager; and Larry Hagen. District
manager.
The tour itinerary includes:
Ketchikan, Annette Island, Jun
eau, Cordova, Anchorage, Seward,
Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Nome,
Whitehorse, and Skagway.
News of the orld
At A Glance —
Tuesday, June 21, 1949
'By The Associated Press*
The communist government of
Czechoslovakia stepped up its feud
with the Roman Catholic church
today. In the largely Roman Cath
olic province of Moravia numer
ous clergy and prominent laymen
were reported arrested.
According to one source Josef
Matocha of Moravia’s second city,
Olomouc, is under police surveil
lance. A closer police guard was
, reported around the palace of
A r c h b i s hop Josef Beran in
Prague.
Churchmen describe the events
i as a government move to exterm
1 inate the hierarchy in Czechoslo
vakia and cut off all ties with the
i Vatican. The government has set
, up a “Catholic action” organiza
| tion which Archbishop Beran has
! denounced.
| The Vatican decreed yesterday
that those voluntarily joining the
government-sponsored “Catholic
action" group would be excom
municated.
The Big Four foreign ministers
, are en route home after complet
ing for weeks of debate at Paris.
They have agreed in principle on
a treaty of independence for Aus
tria and have decided on a policy
of "live and let live" in divided
Germany. These results were de
scribed as steps forward in the
long stymied east-west relations.
One observer said the ministers
had a' least taken steps to see that
the cold war remained cold. Dep
uty ministers will continue to
study ’he problems of Austria.
Another meeting of the ministers
is to be arranged in September.
Austria expressed some satisfac
tion over the result. Russia jetti
soned a Yugoslavia claim for a
si ice of Austrian territory. Previ
ously Russia had supported the
Yugoslav claim. By dropping the
claim. Russia has again slapped
down the Yugoslav government of
Premier Marshal Tito.
The Chinese nationalists have
begun aerial bombing of commun
ist-held Chinese ports. The Bri
tish freighter Anchises was dam
aged by nationalist bombs and
four of her crewmen injured at
Shanghai. Britain protested. An
other bomb started a fire in the
Shell Oil company warehouse.
Twenty thousands tons of petrole
um products were destroyed.
The bombing followed a warn
ing from the nationalist govern
ment that it will establish a block
ade of communist ports. The
blockade was to begin June 26.
In Manila, the United States
navy announced that some U. S.
warships will base indefinitely in
the Philippines. Units of the west
ern Pacific fleet will rendezvous
in Philippine waters for the July
4 celebration.
A typhoon struck Okinawa. Po
lice said 40 persons were killed
and 563 were missing in the storm
which is now sweeping up the
coast of Japan.
Revolutionaries reported by ra
dio they had captured three cities
of the Dominican Republic. Radio
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