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Alaska Commercial
Company Records
Go To University
One ton of documents, all deal
ing with the early history of the
Territory are now enroute from
Seattle to the University of Alas
ka as a gift of Volney Richmond,
Jr., of the Northern Commercial
Company, Dr. Terris Moore an
nounced recently.
“The ton of documents are the
existing records of the Alaska
Commercial Company that reigned
supreme from Kodiak westward
down the Aleutian Chain and in
I the Bering Sea from the 70’s to
the turn of the century,” Dr.
Moore said. “The University of
Alaska is most grateful for this
gift of great historical importance.
“The shipment consists of 29
cases of ledgers, invoices, inven
tories. records of sea otter catches,
annual reports of traders to the
head office, diaries of store man
agers, reports on whaling, census
data taken by traders of the old
Alaska Commercial Company,” Dr.
said.
In giving the ton of records to
the University of Alaska, Volney
Richmond, Jr., stated, “My father
and I are happy that these old
papers may be of value to the |
University. We sincerely hope
that they will add light to that
dim era in Alaska’s hsitory be
tween the purchase of the Terri
fy tory and the heyday of the gcrtd
stampedes.”
The work of sorting and classi
fying the documents might well be
a year’s work for a history major,
Dr. Moore indicated.
“Combining these papers with
the superb library of Alaskana
given to the University by Mr. D.
E. Skinner of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, the University of
Alaska can now declare that it
has undoubtedly the finest col
lection of research material in ex
istence on the affairs of the Terri
tory,” Dr. Moore stated.
Volney Richmond arrived in
Nome yesterday on his annual
trip to visit the company stores.
ONLY ONE BID SUBMITTED
F & W BUILDING, KOTZEBUE
As only one bid was submitted
for the new Fish and Wildlife
building for Kotzebue, another
call for bids has been made.
According to advices bids will
be opened at Juneau on June 22
for this office building with liv
ing quarters for two families.
MacArthur and Acheson
Clash at Long Range
WASHINGTON, (ff) — General
MacArthur and Secretary Acheson
clashed at long range Saturday
over Far Eastern policies.
MacArthur denounced as a “pre
varication” any intimation that he
favored, in December 1945, a move
for a coalition of Communists and
I Nationalists in China.
Acheson, testifying before Sen
ators for the eighth day on pol
icies in connection with MacAr
thur’s dismissal, challenged a con
tention by MacArthur’s aide that
Washington wanted U. S. troops
withdrawn from Korea last win
ter “and made a scapegoat for
some political advantage.”
MacArthur said in a telegram
from New York to Senator Know
land <R-Calif> that U. S. efforts to
“force” the Nationalist govern
ment in China “into a political
alliance with the Communists”
was “one of the greatest blunders
in American diplomatic history,
for which the free world is now
paying in blood and disaster.”
Acheson has defended the 1945
46 efforts by Secretary of Defense
Marshall to bring about a coalition
government in China. Acheson
gave the committee a Dec. 7, 1945
message signed by MacArthur,
Adm. Raymond Spruance and Lt.
Gen. Wedemeyer urging U. S. aid
for China as a basis for negotia
ting “to bring togehter and effect
a compromise between the major
opposing groups in order to pro
mote a unified China.”
MISSING MAN . . .
Robert Earl Tidrick, light brown
hair, blue eyes, 5 ft. 4 in., age 39,
wears glasses. He is a skilled
mason by - trade, does carpentry
work, pipe fitting work. He served
four years in India during World
War II.
He has aged mother on her
death bed, praying he will come
home. Sister: Mrs. Jesse Roberts,
2722 Upshur Drive, San Diego,
Calif.
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Italian Police Accuse
“Lucky” Luciano Of
Currency Smuggling
ROME, 0*P)— Italian police ac
cused Charles “Lucky” Luciano,
deported czar of the U. S. under
world, of currency smuggling Sat
urday.
Officials said the exiled vice
lord, who was released from pri
son in thb United States and de
ported to Italy in 1946, fell into
a police dragnet, fishing for a nar
cotics gang.
Police said, however, they had
not established any definite con
nection between Luciano and the
gang. They did, however, discover
that he had smuggled $57,000 and
an American automobile .into
Italy, a police announcement said.
Luciano must pay five times the
amount of the currency and the
value on the automobile as a fine.
If he does not pay this fine, police
said, he will be arrested.
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