t ind $10,000,000 In
Texas City Ruins
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(By Hal Boyla)
• TEXAS CITY, (/P) — He might
fiot even have stooped to pick it
tip. Yesterday he found $10,000,
©00.
• Stokes, a Houston, Texas, man,
lias been putting in 24 hours a day
fts a rescue worker. He was prob
ing the ruins of the Texas City
Terminal Railway company when
tie came aero .s the company safe.
It looked like a safe cracker had
used too large a load of nitro on it.
It was a messy job, but efficient.
Inside was a mass of paper.
Stokes lo<A them to W. H. Sand
berg, vice president of the com
pany.
“Thank God for this/' Sandberg
said. “This is seven million dollars
in company fire insurance poli-1
cies.”
He gave Stokes the keys to other
rooms and asked him to look
around again. This time Stokes
took a sheet with him. He entered
j-oom after ruined room.
When he came back, he had more
paper. They were 500 individuals
policies of workers, and Sandberg
said they amounted to over $3,000,
000. “I had a sheet full of them,”
Stokes said. Hemoving his tin hel
■nen and wiping his forehead on
the sleeve of a white jacket.
Sandberg said their recovery
would speed up steps in recovering
insurance tremendously.
Alaska Has Too
Many Churches
SEATTLE, (A*)—Alaska is both
"irreligious and over-churched,”
the Rev. Dr. Mark A. Dawber of
New York, executive secretary of
the Home Missions Council of
North America, said today on his
return from a survey of the Terri
tory. •
D. Dawber made the survey with
two other prominent eastern
churchmen, the Rev. Dr. Earl
Jackman, Presbyterian, and the
Rev. Dr. Earl Brown, Methodist,
with the idea of organizing a coun
cil of churches in Alaska.
Such a council probably will be
organized in the fall, Dr. Dawber
reported.
Dr. Dawber said there is a “ter
rific problem in the matter of or
ganized evil” in Alaska.
“The weather isn’t the only han
dicap to living there,” he said.
“People with children are leaving
because of the organized vice.”
Dr. Dawber, who last visited
Alaska 34 years ago and who made
this trip under quite different con
ditions — entirely by air — said
Alaska is-“over-churched” through
a “racket” being conducted by “in
dependent” groups who go “Out
side with sob stories” to raise
money. He said there are six of
these church groups in a settlement
of 700 natives.
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Before Permitting i
Statehood
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JUNEAU, (>P)—Territorial Sen..
Edward D. Coffey urged today that
members of Congress make first
hand, factual investigations of con
ditions in Alaska before acting on
statehood for Alaska.
Declaring that he personally is
“definitely” for statehood, the vet
eran legislator said he believes
much of the testimony offered last
week before the House sub-com
mittee in Washington was for “po
litical and publicity purposes.”
“Alaska is being represented at
the present hearings in Washing
ton by a privileged few, mostly
government officials, who can
spend public funds to travel to
Washington while people of Alas
ka are hardly represented.
“These public officials, and their
representatives,” he continu e d ,
“are for statehood under any cir
cumstances, and have little regard
for provisions that Alaskans want
in the enabling act.
“What we need is a few common
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sense Alaskans to poirtt out to Con-1
gress the fact that our economy is
based today primarily on vast
amounts of money spent here by
federal bureaus and for national
defense work.
“Our industrial production is
less than half of what it was be
fore the war. It cannot recover on
higher taxes, increasing costs of
production and poor steamship
service. Fewer mines will operate
in 1947 than operated in 1946. Our
fisheries production is halved.
Costs have soared to the point
where nobody can build homes,
industrial enterprises or anything
beneficial to our basic economy.
Without federal expenditures,
many Alaskans would have to seek
their livings elsewhere.”
Coffey said he is not certain
that Alaska is ready for statehood
“at this time.” He recited that vot
ers in two of Alaska’s four Divi
sions voted against statehood at
the referendum vote, and suggested
it may be more than people can
bear under their present limited
industrial system.
“Alaska is a frontier land,” said
Coffey. “No frontier land was ever
developed on high taxes.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, i^») — Rolling
stock for a narrow gauge railroad,
oxygen generating plants, and
searchlights were listed by the war
assests administration today among
, items on which bids are being ac
cepted. All the equipment is lo
| cated in Hawaii, except the rail
road stock, which is at Skagway,
Alaska.
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>) — Pan
American World Airways today
announced the appointment of Jo
seph D. Fessio, formerly regional
traffic manager for its headquart
ers in Seattle, as sales manager for
the airlines, Pacific-Alaska divi
sion. His new headquarters will be
here.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Eleven of the
1 nations’ outstanding crews will be
invited to participate in the sec
ond running of the Lake Washing
ton regatta scheduled for June 28,
Harvey Cassill, University of
; Washington athletic manager, said
| today. The 2,000-meter event will
I be a week after the Poughkeepsie
regatta. Cassill said competitors
probably will fly here for thei
event.
Slash Would Hall
Wagner Act
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Chairman
Paul M. Herzog said today a pro
posed 50 per cent slash in funds
for the national labor relations
board would “virtually destroy"
administration of the Wagner Act
during the fiscal year beginning
July 1.
The board already had a back
log of 5,’307 undecided cases on
March 1, he told members of a
Senate appropriations subcommit
tee, and the cut voted by the House
would force dismissal of about 50
of the 738 staff members after
June 30.
He said the board is so busy now
that a contested Wagner Act case
filed today “could probably not be
decided by the board until Novem
ber, 1948, at the earliest.”
The world’s largest oil refinery
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Texas City Starts
Digging Out
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iay listed 580 persons presumed
dead, but at Red Cross headquar
:ers in Galveston yesterday an of
ficial said 19 of the names listed
had been found alive.
HOUSTON, Tex. </P)—1The ex
plosion disaster will not affect the
overall industrial future of Texas
City in the slightest, said Don J.
Smith of New York, president of
the Pan-American Refining com
oany and several associated con
cerns.
“I have always had a great deal
of faith in Texas City as an indus
trial site,” Smith said, “and the
disaster there does not change my
mind. Such explosion could have
occurred anywhere.
“There is no reason to be afraid
of the future. It looks as bright to
me for Texas City as it ever did.”
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