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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— UP) —
Delegate Bartlett has been in
formed that the Army has made
no request for an extension of its
bombing range south of Fairbanks
and that there is no need for con
cern about the buffalo herd in that
area.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— UP) —
The navy disclosed that the thir
ty-two hundred ton SS Carolyn
disappeared without a trace three
^ hundred miles east of Norfolk in
March, 1942, after radioing she
was afire, on a shakedown cruise
as a “Q” ship. Sh^carried a crew
of forty-two. Q ships are camou
flaged as merchant vessels and
appear easy prey for a sub attack,
but they actually carry heavy
armament. The navy said it be
lieved the ship was sunk by a:
u-boat.
JUNEAU, Jan. 9—(JF)—Alaska’s
bank balance for the fourth
* straight year topped a million dol
lars at the close of business on
December 31, Territorial treasurer
Olson reported.
SEATTLE, Jan. 9— UP) — Allen
Noel, business agent for the Seat
tle Street Railway employees lo
cal said he felt there was not the
remotest chance for a settlement
of the wage dispute before the Fri
day deadline set by the union.
Noel said the union and the Seat
tle Transit commission will meet
tomorrow afternoon, but the out
look was very gloomy. The strike
^will begin officially when the last'
bus reaches the barn at 5 a.m. Fri
day.
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JUNEAU, Jan. 9 — (/P) — G. E.l
Cleveland, associated with B. M.;
Behrends Bank for twenty-five
years becomes president of the!
National bank here the organiza-i
tion announced. He succeeds El-1
wood McClain who has resigned.
Flood waters, raging at the
highest levels ever recorded in
" some sections of the south, have
brought death to at least twenty
two people, multi-million proper
ty damage, and left thousands
homeless. The death toll stood at
8 for Tennessee, 6 for Kentucky,
6 for Arkansas, and 2 for Georgia.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— (^) —
Congress will receive President
Truman’s annual state and union
message January 17, the White
House said. It will be followed
later, probably January 21, by the
President’s budget message.
MAS CO T— Marine Corporal Georre R. Hassle of Korth
Charleston, S. C., holds a leopard kitten at a Pacific base where
the not-so-meek kittle is mascot of a platoon of the Sixth Marine
division. Marine Corps Photo. , \
Crippled Children
Association Being
Incorporated
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 9 — (JP) —
Articles of incorporation are being
filed in Juneau for the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association,
with headquarters in Anchorage.
The1 purpose of the association will
be to raise money for the benefit
of the Territory’s native and white
cripples.
Mrs. Marshall Hoppin, wife of
the president of the Alaska Air
lines has been named president of
the board of directors. Contribu
tions will continue to be sent to
orthopedic hospitals in the States,
Mrs. Hoppin said.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 9—(£>)—Police,
possessing evidence they said had
found the apartment basement in
which the tiny body of six-year
old Suzanne Degnan was dismem
bered, pressed relentlessly for a
showdown in the uninterrupted
forty-eight hour hunt of the sadis-!
tic killer. Two janitors, both em
ployed in apartment buildings on
the north side of the Edgewater
Beach district, where the Degnan j
family lives, have been seized for'
questioning in connection with the1
kidnapping and killing. Police
i Wants Organic Act
Left As It Is
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— (JP) —
Delegate Bartlett will withhold
the proposed bill to revise the
Territory’s Organic Act until af
ter the people vote next fall on
whether they want Statehood. He
made the announcement in a let
ter to the Alaska Miners Associa
tion, which criticized the bill.
Delegate Bartlett said if the
Stateshood referendum fails he in
tends to introduce the bill for a
new Organic Act. He told the as
sociation he didn’t believe it had
authority to speak for the people'
of the Interior of Alaska, and
he added he didn’t believe “your
views are truly representative of
any substantial number of min
ers.”
President Andrew Johnson was
christened Andrew Jackson John
son.
Sergeant Jack Hanrahan accused
one of the janitors, 65, a native of
Belgium, with the crime. “He’s the
man who did it,” Hanrahan as
serted, after a police squad seized
him yesterday in the basement of
a twelve-story apartment build
ing less than a block from the
child’s home. *
Japan Looks To
U. S. For Cue For
Her Actions
YOKOHAMA, Jan. 9 — (JP) —
American ocupation forces are
warned that “subversive forces
will take their cue for sabotage
plans from our future actions,”
after Provost Marshal Col. Charles
Mahoney reported he had broken
up a “hothead demonstration” of
soldiers protesting the demobili
zation slowdown.
Lt. Gen. Charles Hall, acting
commander of the Eighth Army
sent this message to his troops
through the army paper “Stars
and Stripes”:
“The Japanese people watch
with interest for the first indica
tion of a general breakdown of
morale and discipline, which is
beginning to show up in the occu
pation forces. Subversive forces
are quick to sense the dissension
in the ranks, and will take their
cue for their sabotage plans from
our future aciions.”
Mahoney, who said he scattered
protesting soldiers on the arrival
of Secretary of War Patterson is
quoted by a mimeographed paper
as saying: “If you want lace pant
ies, I’ll get them for you.”
Anchorage Man
Being Held On
Kidnap Charges
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ANCHORAGE, Jan. 9 — UP) —
' Henry Jensen is being held here
on charges of kidnapping the three
month old daughter of Mrs. Eve
, lyn Dulak early Sunday. The baby
was left in care of a 10 year old
boy while the mother was away.
She returned to find the child
gone. The b<jy said a man came to
j to house and said the mother
wanted him to take the baby to
her. Later he returned for a nip
ple to keep the youngster quiet.
^ checkup of cab drivers dis
closed that the baby had been
taken to the neighborhood of 12th
and East G. Police searched that
area and the bars and a man was
found in one bar answering thei
boy’s description.
He confessed taking baby to 14th |
and East G, where the baby was)
left with a man named Harry. The
baby was found at the address
given, and was cold and untended.'
Bail has been set at $1,000. The
case is in Federal hands.
Jensen, part native, is held on
kidnapping charges and will be
arraigned today. Enmity between
the mother and the baby and the
GIs All Over Globe
Protest Slowdown
In Demobilization
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Capitol
Hill woke up Tuesday morning to
the GI global cries of SNAFU
over the army’s proposed slowup
of demobilization. Doughfoots
demonstrated under Congressional
noses at Andrews Field just out
side the Capital, while in Manila
more than twenty thousand sol
diers jammed one of Manila’s
plazas Monday night protesting
the demobilization slowdown and
demanding a Congressional inves
tigation.
There was no disorder and the
audience was dispersed five min
I utes after the speechmaking had
i ended. It was the third big mass
! meeting in two days, demanding
the demobilization program be
taken out of the hands of “vested
I interests” in the War Department
1 and placed under Congressional
I control.
The soldiers carried placards
declaring “Japs go home, how
about us?” “Lincoln freed the
slaves, who will free us?”
A speech by Lt. Gen. Wilhelm
Styer, commanding general, was
i interrupted frequently by boos
| and jeers.
Press services report “We want
to go home” demonstrations were
held at Guam; Camp Boston near
La Harve, France: and several
camps in the United States.
The GI demonstrations brought
these Congressional repercussions:
One—Demands for Congression
al investigation of entire demob
ilization program.
Two—Possibility of a rush of
signatures when Congress recon
venes next week to the House pe
tition that would force immediate
action on demobilization legisla
tion.
Letters, telegrams and petitions
demanding action have started
piling up in Washington, and one
Congressional member commented
privately, that because this is a
Congressional election year “they
are likely to receive some atten
tion.”
Meanwhile the White House
said Monday that President Tru
man had no action under consid
eration in connection with demon
strations by army enlisted men in
protest of demobilization slow
down.
Three American presidents died
on July 4—John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson and James Monroe.
Jensen family is believed by au
thorities to be the motive. The
baby is now o.k.