India#! ti^nd Claims
Must Be Settled
WASHINGTON, (>P) — Settle
ment of Indian land claims is one
of Alaska’s most pressing prob
lems, Warner W. Gardner, assist
ant secretary of interior, told a
House public lands subcommittee
today.
Gardner urged approval of a
bill to permit the secretary of in
terior to negotiate with Alaska In
dians to establish their land
rights.
He said that no one now can be
sure what valid claims the Indians
may have. In some instances, In
dian villages hunt and fish over
thousands of square miles of terri
tory and then claim they have a
right to the entire area, he said.
Gardner described the situation
as one of “great confusion,” wh’ch
threatens to hold up development
of the Territory. •
He said the interior department
is “not at all sure” that the pro
posed land negotiations would be
successful, but feels it best to at
Officers Inspect ,
Monuments
rj ^ 4 ' I * |
JUNEAU, (/P)—Four officials of
the United States national park
; service have arrived to begin a
two months’ inspection survey of
' las kan national monuments.
They will go first to Glacier Bay
national monument to make im
provements for making it an out
; standing tourist attraction, then to
Mt. McKinley national park and
possibly to Katmai national mon
ument on the Alaska peninsula.
The four are Robert Hall, chief
of the landscape division; H. L.
I Crowley, regional engineer; Sco
field DeLong, regional architect,
and A. C. Kuehl, landscape arch
itect. Hall is from Chicago and the
others from the regional office in
San Francisco.
i
Early culture of the Indians liv
ing in Mexico dates back to
around 200 B.C.
tempt this negotiation rather than
litigation.
Hawakita Charged
With Treason
LOS ANGELES (A*}—1Treason
punishable by a possible death
sentence—was the charge on
which a federal grand jury in
dicted Tomoya Kawakita, 25,
American-born Japanese accused
of torturing American war prison
ers while he was their Japanese
prison camp foreman.
The indictment was returned
Wednesday after a number of
witnesses described Kawakita’s al
leged brutal and degrading treat
ment of American servicemen in
the Oeyama prisoner of war camp
from Aug. 8, 1944, to Aug. 24,
1945.
Kawakita recently was arrested
by FBI agents after one of the
former prisoners, William L.
Bruce of San Luis Obispo, Calif.,
recognized him in a department
store here. He had returned to this
country upon representation that
he attended a Japanese school
during the war and had no part in
the war effort.
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China To Adopt
Stronger Policy
Toward Russia
NANKING, (A*) —A short-lived
Chinese-Mongolian border foray
by a band of cavalrymen from
pro-Soviet outer Mongolia brought
demands on the government of
China yesterday to adopt a strong
er policy toward Russia.
' The incident last week was dis
cussed at a closed meeting of the
legislative Yuan, members said, as
some sources viewed the fighting
as the first open manifestation
that China is in danger of losing
Sinkiang province under possibly
Sovietistimulated demands for its [
autonomy.
Foreign minister Wang Shih
Chieh told the legislature that he
was “not unsympathetic” to their
demands for a firmer attitude in
relations with the U. S. S. R. as
soon as the government deter
mines its policy, he said, “it will
be carried out with fortitude.”
I Meanwhile, a spokesman for the
i national defense ministiy reported
i that government troops had re
captured Peitashan. Sinkiang city
' where the Mongols and Chinese
forces clashed. It was retaken Sat
u"d£y. a day, after the Mongol in
cursion 0 miles into Chinese terri
: tory.
, Russian sources here confirmed
. that the Soviets had trained and
equipped a “modern army” in
; outer Mongolia, including a small
“but surprisingly efficient” air
i force.
WCTU Says U. S.
Will Again Go Dry
1 ASBURY PARK, N. J. (JP) —
! Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of Evanston,
111., president of the national Wo
man's Christian Temperance Un
ion, says the United States is
headed back to national prohibi
tion.
Addressing the opening session
Wednesday of a two-day meeting
of the national WCTU, Mrs. Col
vin said the nation was now in
; an organized “revolt against al
coholic beverages.”
“One-quarter of the area of the
. United States, having 28,000,000
population, is now dry or bans
hard liquor,” she said, predicting
that “eventually entire states will
| go dry and ultimately the nation.”
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Alaska SS. Co. Now
Under Private
Operation
After more than five years of
service as general agents for the
War Shipping Administration and
nearly eight years of "war serv
ice,” the Alaska Steamship Com
pany returned to private opera
tions, effective with the sailing of
the S. S. Baranof from Seattle on
June 6.
The S. S. Aleutian followe 1,
sailing from Seattle today, June
13, and a sailing of either the
Baranof or the Aleutian is sched
uled for every following Friday
from Seattle. Regular ports of call
will be Ketchikan, Juneau, Cor
dova, Valdez and Seward. The
Baranof and the Aleutian will
carry passengers, mail, baggage,
express and a limited amount of
cold storage and cool room
freight.
In addition, beginning June 26
and every third Thursday there
after, the S. S. Denali is scheduled
! to sail from Seattle on the Seldo
via-Kodiak Island route. Freight
vessel schedules to all parts of
Alaska will be released soon, L.
\V. Baker, vice president and gen
eral manager, explained.
As early as September of 1939,
many of the facilities of this pio
j neer Alaska shipping firm were
1 already involved in the war ef
fort, being used to supply navy
contractors working at Sitka, Ko
: diak, Dutch Harbor, and other
points in the Aleutians,
i In May of 1942, all vessels of
I the Alaska Steamship Company,
along with others flying the
American flag, were requisitioned
by the War Shipping Administra
tion, and their operation has been
under governmental control since
then. During this period the Alas
ka Steamship company, which
had been operating 17 vessels to
and from Seattle and Alaska
ports, was soon operating 56 ships,
sailing to all parts of the world on
; war business.
“Despite the limitations neces
sarily placed upon us during the
past years by military and war
time needs, we have always done
everything possible to give the
l transportation needs of the people
of Alaska first attention,” Baker
' said today. “Now, with the return
! to private operation, we are look
i ing forward to a progressive pro
‘ gram of expanding service to
Alaska.”
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