The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” 7 EMPIRE = VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,505 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. [ EBRUARY 17, 1947 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Delegate Bartlett Calls For Alaskan Fortress _ SENATORS HOLD ACTION ON HIM FOR STATEHOOD British Royalty Is Jackson Is (Given Tremendous i Crifical of 'Welcome, Capefown TERRITORIAL LIQUOR SALE S3KILLED IN WORST Room for 640 On Alaskan Land Management Bureau Families RUSS STRIDES Farms Says (ROSS BERING 4 H After spending a long Saturday | Multitude of 200,000 Sees‘ Ig our | behind locked doors, the Alaska 5 . ] . . | {Senate was content with a session | | By VERN HAUGLAND i o, * King, Queen, Princess- | s of less than un hour today, ad- (OH:EY ( AI.I.S M b g v . | f . | ‘e . journing then until 10 o'clock to- P $ . S | _ At ST ey . House Receives One New | esforFirst Time - Capricions Decisions Cen- icriow” i "io kees this ai-(Plane Hits Peak in South Bureas of Land Menssement - Not - Enough o Station . | —— . ternoon free for committee work. . iy o s 2 | f Bill, Starts Work on by nosseir taspsrron | SUred-No Ruling on o™it s et "heen recarmea - America-Seven Aboard FEllow SOI_ON farm fomilies could make a g0 of 1t} Trogps — Mus} Build Up CAPETOWN, South Africa, Feb : from the Saturday executive se: : \ e A Bt o) . . Long Calendar | 17 Joyous ‘multitude of 500000 Lewis Case | from United States st il ot them 0 el Industries Now, Claim T | patked Canetown Strest ocey; and teE = ? During “lieir brief meeting thi| AREDR | Matanuska project on the Kenai : A bill which would place the |roared a friendly welcome to King| WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — SU- morning, (he Senators considered | By CARLOS VILLAR up ON (A p Peninsula, the Bueau reported. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Deie- Territory in the wholesale |George VI, Queen Elizabeth and|preme Court Justice Jackson took | two memoiiale. passing one of them| BOGOTA, Colombia Feb. 17. — Simultaneously, ths Bureau of gate Bartlett of Alaska told the liguer business and give it a | their daughters. It was the youn 41111» colleagues to task today for their ayq continuil the Statehood | 8earch parties labored in mountain . Mines estimated that Alaska has House today “false ideas of econ- monepoly in that field was laid | est Dominion's first sight of a Bri- | “elastic and somewhat unpredictable | Memorial in second reading. The, to the Northwest today to RS added also $2,000,000,000 to Nation-!omy” should not be allowed to on the table by a 15 to 7 vote, |tish Royal Family. interpretations™ of the wage-hour pamg, passed, unanimously, was|bring in bodies of 53 persons killed Rivers' Wire for Pressu{e al wealth, in 80 years as a U. S. stand in the way of Alaska pro- two absent. The bill carries an | The Royal party stepped ashore law. one of them the portal pay g j M. 5 by Victor Rivers ,"’ the worst commercial airplane | possession, and still contains vast|gram” while Russia is building up appropriation of $50,000. | into the sweltering South African | case $ 5 It urges that Alaska be put onjerash on record. They recovered Againsts B 4]erm. |unexplored resources its territory across the Bering Sea. In a two-hour forenoon session | heat from the battleship Vanguard | In an obinion, he declared the)even pasis with the states in dis- | three of the bodies before darkness S Oscar L. Chapman, acting S | “Now as perhaps never before it teday, the House cf Represen- |after a 6.000-mile cruise from fri- |court’s decisions have made col- | rjhyiion of forest road monies and | Stepped their work last night ed RepfeheHSIble tary of the Interior, said Alaska’s!is essential for us to build in Al- ASRTROL IRoeivdil: 'ons . uew: bill, | gid, coal-shy England. Blacks and |lective bargaining agreements M yna¢ jmmediate increased Federal| Th victims—49 passengers and a {mineral resources are sufficiently! acka a mighty fortréss capable of passed one jeint resolution, laid whites stood side by side, yelling some cases not “worth the paper’|,,.,.onriations be made to the Pub-'€réw oi tour, including at least S varied to form the basis for & much | withstanding any onslaught which one bill cn the table and re- |and waving South African and Bri- | Written on f'“d necessitated “In- | ;0" posds Administration for re- | Seven persons < from the United| In a tieged” staiement more general industralization than!mioht be made against it,” Bartlett ferred ancther back to commit- | tish flags. Nowhere was there terminable lhlm\tt(uj. L was hand.. | babilitation and new road construc- States—wer on a four-engine sharply critical of activities by has yet taken place. | said in a speech. “Only in that $he, and. sent five ills thipBeh . |gign of disdain The portal pay decision was hand- |5, ), National Forest areas of |Douglas DC-4 of “the Colombian fellow Senator Victor C. Rivers, An-| pe Land Management Bureau,|manner can we be reasonably sure second reading. Remaining on The family rode in motor carsed down by the court last summer |, .. Avianca airlines ‘that plowed into|chcrage Senator Edward D. Coffey | o listing of Alaskan areas sult-|that the United States can be pro- the day's calendar when the |from the docks to Government | When Jackson was in E "ll’l’*’!l"";“"" Author Rivers stated that Alaska|clcuded EI Tablazo cliff, 30 miles this morning declared he “resents’|ipl. for agricultural —settlement, tected from the horrors of war as it House recessed at noon were five | Hcuse, evincing interest in all along | Cuting Nazi war criminals. 1t 305 |15 10t now getting iis fair percent- | MOrthvest of here, Saturday on a Rivers, or any other members gqiq’ Alaska now has less than 650| will be in the future.” House and six Senate measures | he three-mile route. jled to suits for nearly $5.000000000 o0~ "¢ et road funds allotted|flight to Bogota from Barranguilla, |Soliciting pressure on the Legisla- | fgrms, , | " Bartistt 'suld ) tRA. chpibEL e Ui for second reading and 11 House | The Queen was the most animat- 1 bAck portal by anc, 10 WONES | yqtionaiy. The memorial carried|about 500 miles nortn i The Land Management report es-| to the United States whether Al- measures for third reading. ed of the party. She was dressed | COnBress to outlaw such suits SSChUE BrishE AL " The plane struck about 2 pm.,| Coffey referred to an article ap- B s} aakic can'lse: Bindess THRIEC 0. Dot A bill to reimburse St. Ann’s e Sl A e o Jackson made his comments in a Without ame i ot : m. | e i the. Anchorage Time, |timated that the 640 proposed new |aska can be made a region to pro g in her favored blue, with fluttering iy o hse where TWo amendments were written|near the top of a 1000-foot pre- P s 4 S, | milies would have “reasonable ex- | tect the country or one irom which Hospital in the amount of $L- | ociicn feathers in her hat and a | CONCWTINg opinion in a case where e ninice climaxlfz an elsvation of | February 18, yeporting a wire from . T gk i R e 20830 for hospitalization and | o L AL S the court held unanimously that|inte H. J. M. l-—the Statehood | ¢ipic : ARG AN elove 3 S8 S rator SRRMIEIRTY. . A1 charane pectatiod of, establishing successful | an enemy can reach it : aervioes. rondorey to tive inai. | mell umbrella protecting her from | oy trainees for railroad ‘jobs | Memorial—both proposed by Sena-iSbbut 0000 feet ahove sea level.|o . “CoCe erce According|{ATm enterptisest in specitied local-| e LN o NaEs, SHAD Wi gents was intrcduced by Rep. f the a\lltl‘).-L.lll) 3 i ava] | Were not covered by the wage-hour tor N. R. Walker and adopted|The wreckage ihlwv WPy & "‘"""”““_ to quotations in the story from|ities: It said that 640 is a “con-; troops and Warships and build bas- Tiia Nen B Rkt ae - | o P CRECLROISIE W RAVE 1o without objcction. The first chang- |bedies and debris of the plane over| i WOWTRIS (B B0 O TR servative minimum” which under | es there,” Bartlett continued. “We referred to the Ways and Means o B Wk n):’p('““v;‘ l.U ‘t;‘ The court concluded its opinion €S from “two to ene” to “three m|the cliff facetand a steep rayine| =" Anchorage Chamber to “ex- |{2Vorable conditions i several ar-|must build up industries We must Committes. jery show of good will and seemed | .o Gynout a decision on the appeal WO the majority shown to have | below i e o Vo o, & porn, cas might be doubled, and added: | establish farmers there. We must ! touched as his limousine passed !, "y "1 Tewis and the United favored statehood when he issue| Those from the U. S. aboard o des AEoEE 1'; 14‘ R via , “Assuming that each new farmdo these things not at some far off (Continued on Fage Eightj | Siowly by long lines of former Mine Workers from the $3,150,000 Was submitted to Alaska voters on|were identified as i i ““,h ‘X;f’fkf‘(]‘,‘ft“,;"”‘ family would cultivate the minimum future time, but now. o - D3 vice men, some of them N""“d"m‘m fines imposed on them for dis- referendum. The second amendment Capt. Kenneth Newton Poe, pllot, m ';l( ll;()"lly’x} b i o i acieage required by the homestead “We l\)\l-\“ build roads. We must % at attention. |vegarding a U. S. District Court |inserts the number, H. R. 206, of; Who recently took the plane on a "7 PEOK oo quoted as stat- | 14W—20 actes of each 160-acre tract jmprove, and at once, the Alaskn The washlngton Princesses Elizabeth and Margar- rier against last fall's coal strike. the statehood bill which Delegate | European tour g The Steamshin fiherie, and @ total of 12800 additional acres Railroad. We must expand civil et Rose were on their first trp!The high court’s next opinion day E. L. Bartlett has introduced in| Capt. F Kaye, copilot and ra-|p. o0 Nomthwest lobby groups would be brought into production.’ gyjation and see to it that there dx"‘b""“‘d and appeared to find nov- g March 3 Congress and for which the mem- |dio operator. et 19 e patking i oroubs @PT| “This would mean at least @l a strong merchant marine.” MerrY' 0- Oun |elty and stimulation in all they ->oeo oriai would urge passage. . Henry Bakerton of St. Charles, | oo & 75 i 0 e express doubling of the present cultivated' pgitlett said few Americans real: aw. The “ageant was unrivalled in The memorial was held over in!Mo. coordinator of North Ameri-| .o 0o dfaion to mm? humf’\ {1 acreage, reported to be about 11000 6 the tremendous strides made in amendment stage to give the sena-! tors opportunity to peruse the Bart- lett bill Senate Bill No. 44 was introduced ' By DREW PLARSON |5 Afrien blw. jB u l l E 'I' I N S \WWASHINGTON-- A group of Cum-‘ DGET (UI b ;:::al:;::i li:fle\';xl‘lli‘ur}}mmzl.mg:;j?atf{:1‘ A report recelved IS momiug by Senator Walkertired Army Colonel and veteran of |Rivers is 8. B. 4, calling for re- party’s secretary general, are flee \from the Coast Guard Cutter Hem-|20d immediately afterward = the| wartime service in the Caribbean |peq) of the act creating the Devel- ing the country just ahead of a, ilock, standing by the North Sea, Ketchikan lawmaker withdrew his| With the Air Transport (_.'nmmu‘nd {opment Board. S. B. 4 was passed sweeping Justice Department-Cox MAY BE All isays the craft may -never get off'S: B. 42. He stated that No. 42 had _Carl Slesin of New York City,|py the Senate on Friday.) aressional probe of the Soviet poli- {tko reef near Bella Bella. The hull been improperly drawn and that!United Artists moving picture dis- Senator Coffey particularly took tical network. | lis so badly damaged that it is the NO- 44 is a corrected redraft of the | tributor 3 exception to Rivers' statement that Here are the developments thus| {Lelief the North Sea would sink if measure to increase thetax on mo- "I'hv dr-fl(l‘:\lbn included .Ilmjold lobbies of outside interests were far q OR NOTH'NGIWHUM.WL tor fuel from one to three cents Coward of Calgary, Alta., Tropical backing the Eill introduced by Cof-| 1.—Foster sailed ten days ago on | ! o el per gallon. The new bill replaced Oil official fey and Senator Joe Green. Cof a passport visaed for sk coun-i’ | PITTSBURGH — Appointment of the old in Taxation Committee. { - - g pointed out thay no one represent- try from France t~ Ru BT | oy Walter S. (Mike) Milligan as head| It was announced that House and I-'ONS SHOWN H'.MS' ing any non-Alaskan group, person, 2. —Morris Childs, former head ””GOP leaders Wam Ban on football coach at Pitt was announc-: Senate conference committees on v |or agency had either appeared be- the Communist party in Illinois and' ‘ed”today. Milligan had been line H,‘ J. M. 3 were to meet at 11:55 (AIRNS erES -I-AlK fore t?n- Senate on the measure or! now. a key official of the Commitne Amendments to $6 4 icoach under head coach Wes Fes- this morning to endeavor to iron| v 'had dispatched any communications ist )lublit. tion, The Daily Worker, ¥ iler, who shifted to Ohio State. out the impasse over wording of. p: S to vhv‘ body regarding it has secured a passport for a similar 000 000 000 Slash i il that measurc. It is considered a' AL today's luncheon, Lions viewea| Coffey’s feeling of “resent” con- trip. l ’ ’ WASHINGTON—The house pass- unique occurrence that a mere a Territorial Health Department cérning Rivers :\L‘\l\{l\‘ was strong- 3_FBI agents have two New.| > ed and sént to the Senate today memorial has gone to conference. film on early diagnosis of veneral Iy Sur}purlvd by Semator N. R. York night clubs under surveillance, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Repub- jegisiation extending until July 1/ Institutions Committee Chairman | disease. Welknr, BB aBtated - that . good checking reports that they are|lican leaders decided today to Pre-the guthority of the Maritime Com-Don Carlos Brownell's statemenf, Among today's guests at the |taste” should govern actions of 2 ®isent the proposed $6,000,000,000 | micsion to operate its merchant|that at present plans for the in- | meeting was Laurence B. Cairns, Members. He acknowledged that “message drops” for Sovict agents.' 4 A essage drop Sov EENLS: “glash in President Truman's budg(‘t!nee;_ The original authority grant- spection trip to the Pioneers’ Home representative of the department, can personhel of the Tropical Oil' CGompany. Fred L. Wohn, chief of Tropical | Oil's eonstruction re-| National ,regard to th measure. Prompt laction by .wire is necessary by Thursday.” (“This measure” referred to by Scnator Rivers has the privilege to 4—The Justice Department iSty, tpe House in a form requiring|eq during the war will expire on at Sitka are “up in the air”|Board of YMCA. He spoke briefly |50 &ct if he chooses, but termed prepared to support a Congressional ftho ‘members to accept it Without|arch 1. prompted President Andrew Ner-|regarding his official visit to the the action Rivers had taken “re- d”f"" » 'outlaw the flcmnmumr‘“gqhange or vote it down completely. el land to pun that they likely will be | Territory. He stated that his trip Prehensible, as a matter of good party in the United States. Lists, " gpajrman Taber (R-NY) of the! wASHINGTON — The Republi-'left there. " 'here was a reply to the many in- |tAste” f’f k;y bc"mm‘_m‘:“t officials have | oppropriations ~ Committee, an-:can.controlled House Appropria-| Brownell said that there is alquiries the National Board received iatols Rivers replied vt already been drawn up by the FBI |pounced after a meeting with g itte nng B ki) ibility tha i e f e . Coffey that he fcels himself free to for possible apprehension. it X tions committee ung a legisla- possibility that the trip might be regarding possible organization of i ? 5 iR |Speaker Martin and other G.OP.itive meat axe today at President'made aboard the steamer Denali| YMCA branch associations in Al- ©XPress any opinion Le may hold -*[A group of onetime COmINtern | chieftains that he will seek a rule|Tyyman's first money request for| The jaunt had been planned for, aska |and that he intends to continue to agents, many of whom worked ac- | forpidding amendments from the|;947 chopping it more than in two: ' the next scheduled voyage of the' Other guests at the luncheon|d0 €0 In further defense, Rivers tively with the anti-Nazi under-'fioor. If he succeeds, his would; 4 360,000, faarse PR 4 i |expressed distaste for the “washing! 3 ; {from $315,546,000 to $139,360, now wrecked North Sea. were Joe Shofner, band dire of | gmu_nd h? Germany, have left for head off moves to reduce the slash | G g D o 1J“" Higl Tac Mediiie. > Tadk of dirty linen on the floor of the Mexico City after a premature tip- | from $6,000,000,000 to $4500,000000. NEw YORK One thousand {Hay:‘“;“d ’;_‘ 5 I\;'luu]\;‘r:;l o0 'V‘I‘“ Senate.” oft that they were wanted for| metal lathers today began a strike \ncit;md with iy F;’n 3 a8 questioning by the House Commit- | TAX CUTS HELD UP which was expected to force im- i AL A tee on un-American activities. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Post- Government investigators have | ponement of any consideration of also learned there is a distinct pos- |tax cuts until Congress determines sibility that William Z. Foster will how much to slash the 1947 spend- | mediate suspension of work on half {the construction projects in New | York City and result in complete shutdown of tuilding work within Bound South not rct_um to the United States|ing budget was announced today by g few days if it continued ‘The from his visit to the Kremlin. Fos- , Chairman Knutson (R-Minn), of|grikers are demanding $2.50 an ter was elevated to power after the [the House Ways and Means Com-|pour and a seven-hour day. The 0wn power American Communist party deposed Earl Browder last year because he | o maintained that capitalism and | communism could live side by sidc.\'wIRE woRKs A Browder journeyed to Moscow af-; ter his ouster, was . cordially re-“ KET(H'KA“ |S I“ end from food poisoning and or- ceived at the Kremlin by Foreign {dered an examination of cream pies| Minister Molotov. i wAGE Dlspuri‘sold in bakeries and restaurants throughout the city. RESTLESS ADMIRAL NIMITZ | mittee present wage is $2:10 an hour. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 17 Steamer Alaska arrived here Sun- day from Cordova, under her own power and with full speed of 14 knots. She left for Seattle at 4 p.m and is scheduled to arrive at Sc- attle at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Skipper Roy Selig gives credit for DETROIT— The Board of Health reports that at least 65 persons {had been made, ill over the week Admiral Nimitz, who was much| KpTCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 17—| WASHINGTON — Rep. Rankin saving the ship to hard work and more at home in the Pacific than |ppne Incernational Longshoremen|(D-Miss) —demanded today that efficiency of the crew members and in politically minded, socialiteanq warehousemen, Local 1-61.|United States diplomats stop “lick- salvage men from the Navy in Ko- Washington, was questioned lhe‘CIO‘ took unanimous action here!ing the boots of Joe Stalin” His diak. other day by a friend as to how he |Sunday’ to call a strike vote if aladdress was one of several in thel Capt. Selig said that strong liked the Nation's Capitol. ! catistactory wage agreement is not|House and Senate calling for a northeast woolies swept the ship g “It's a lot tougher than the Pa-|yeacked within 30 days with the|firmer attitude in dealings with sideways on the rocks for a six cific,” replied Nimitz “Out there all g H Edwards Wire Company. | Russia. foot tear in No. 2 hold on the star- of your enemies wore idemilymg‘ Union president Al Wright said ud board side of the keel. The ho! uniforms. !that the present wages, $1.05 an| WASHINGTON — The Supremc|was patched up and is holding. hour, are the lowest in any indus-|Court today recessed for two weeks ey ‘ Edwards | Without ruling on the contempt| of court case against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. This | NEBRASKA'S ACE LOBBYIST 'ty in Ketchikan. The He manages to keep completely! Wire Compllny 'manufactures wire STEAMER MOVEMENTS out of the limelight, but the|netting for fish traps along the en-i i 2 smoothest lobbyist in Washington tire Alaska coast {meant that a decision in the Lewl‘a Square Sinnet in port. { these days is George Johnson, head | sy - — ‘case will be delayed at least until Princess Norah, from South, duc of the Central Nebraska Public | SQUARE SINNET HERE March 3, when the court will hand at. 4 o'clock this afternoon and Power District and the Farm Crops| Freighter Square Sinnet, of the |down its next opinions. Processing Corporation of Omflha"Nm?'hlm_ld Transportation Company, | - —— Jobnson has just succeeded in do- | 81Tived in Juneau Sunday morning ! VISITING FROM SITKA is supposed to be almost At 8 c'clock with an approximate ' James L. Brightman, Chief Stew- sails for Skagway at 11:30 tonight Aleutian, from west, due south- ibound late tomorrow or early Wed- nesday. ing what | g impossible-—he got a private bank-|600 tons of freight. Included in the ard of the Sitka Moose Club and| Northern Voyager, from Seattle ing loan given first priority over CAIg0 are two Willys Jeeps for | member of the City Council of the due Thursday. a Government loan, In other words, [Jor8enson Motor Company, a new | Baranof Island city, arrived here| Sailor's Splice scheduled to sail W(Cnnlimlrd‘nn Page Four) neau, and other vehicles. gistered at the Gastineau Hotel. |of North Sea. Freight only. at The ‘Alaska Siatehood Wendell Berge Hearing Date Sef Quits Position hearings later pl - of the Hous ans to h STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK quotation stock today 927, Anaconda 40 International 487 Kennecott Northern Pound $4.02 870,000 shares.|is most vital are 'must be continued with Steel 77's, Sales today Dow, Jones as follows: industrials 18220, rails; 51.66, utilities 37.23 Mr. of and have returned plane after a visit alon as far south af California. HERE C. 8. Cain of Seattle is a recenf|row night at 7 130 ton grader for the City of Ju- by plane cn Saturday and is re-|from Seattle’ Pebruary 21 in place arrival in the city and is registered ' home of Mrs. James DeHan the Hotel Feb Alask: is Pacifi were WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Chair- 'man Welch (R-Calif) Public Lands committee, announced | Berge, assistant hearings on the Alaska statehood|in charge of the Anti Trust divis- bill will be held here April 8. committee in the Territory. old e WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Wendell Attorney General ion, has resigned, effective May 1 This was announced by Attorney General Tom Clark, who expressed |regret at Berge’s departure resignation was submitted to Presi- dent Truman January 30 Berge will become a partner in a 17—Closing Washington and New Y law Juneau mine firm, In charge of the Anti-Trust 2 o 2 rages 1%, U. today -, — — LUCASES RETURN Mrs. Ha - FROM Juneau. r to Junea A 81, 5. American Can |division of the Department of Jus- Curtiss-Wright 'tice since Harvester New York Central, August 28, 1943, Berge first joined the department in 1930. President Truman in a letter to 'Berge said that the work which you have recently been engaged in to the nation and Clark wrote Berge that “your {long service of seventeen years in the department is a record of which you may be proud | - B 1. ‘.ucas! 1+ ¥2% (HAPELADIES MEET TLE ON TUESDAY NIGHT The Chapeladies will meet tomor- 30 o'clock .at the All J members are asked to attend The | than 7,500 acrzs, of which less Soviet Russia in the way of set- acres were harvested , tlement and industrial expansion in In the Mines Bureau report, form-| i aveo™ gimilar to Alaska. This er Bureau Director H. Foster Bain yy6q he said, has a population of said that since the U. 8. purchased’ o9 509 000, Alaska in 1867, fur trapping and Bartlett read a telegram from fishing have contributed about $1,- ., . Anchorage Chamber of Com- 000,000,000 and mineral interest 1\1-”“”.(,‘. saying the Alaskans “are in most $1,000,000,000 to the nmmn‘s} a sorry plight” and a full scale de- i | iense program is necessary for pro- Mining Declinc , tection of Americans and their in- Mireral production declined from “ stments, $28,724, - - 11941 to $7,032,000 in 1 in 1940, and $26,809.380 in 1944, the low- est since the' turn of the century US(G WA(HUSETI ithe report said Gold production, formerly two- IS '" poR' AFTER |thirds of the annual value of min- s, declined to one-fourth of the total in 1944, Copper, form-| EXTENDED (RUISE erly second to gold in production valte, since 1939 has teen produced in Alaska cnly incidentally in the| mining of other ores | USCG Cutter Wachusett, after an 81 day cruisearrived back in her Ot 310 families which the report home port of Juneau Saturday eve- estimated could be established on|ping at 7:17 o'clock. On Novem- Kenai Peninsula farms, 100 would |pey 27, Comdr. E, V. Carlson took |settle in the vicinity of Homer. pig ship out for a tour of duty in 100 at Kenai, 75 at Kasilof, 20 al western Alaska and Bering Sea Ninilehi and 15 in the Anchor ywaters pervicing Coast Guard sta- Point area |ticns and replacing personnel in The report said “there is muchiyps prifilof Islands and the Aleut- good agricultural land” on Kenal'jane Peninsula. The other areas | Matanuska |some “fair setblanant Before the Wachusett tied up again in Juneau, she had covered approximately 7500 miles of ocean, had teen heavily iced in below-zerg weather in the Gulf of Alaska, took tidal waves over her bridge, rode out an estimated 189 mile per hour gale at Attu nchored safely in a cmall protected bay proposed Valley—T75 families; gricultural land west of the colony toward Wasilla, and Goos= Bay; very little of it inf large contiguous tracts The re- port said the public lands in the| Anchorage area are insufficient for additional group settlement | The Captain's gig was lost at- tempting a landing in heavy weath- er at Scotch Cap. The cutter stood by the steamer Alaska after it had torn a hole in its bottom neat | Cordova, then escorted it as far as Tanana Valley—160 families, in- cluding 25 along the Steel Creek road and elsewhere within a 10-| mile radious of Fairbanks; 50 along | the railroad from Fairbanks to, oot e R Nenana, . particularly in the Dunt PRIvARE thl Aotnke of Bar mealan srea; 50, truck ‘and; Pouliny” farmal, £VTES KSR O along the Richardson Highway; 20' 5 ° B0 CHETIO0- & SOV PR 1 T o sy &0 passengers, and 60 tons of frelght 11 the Blg Deltil ared ‘Whéte’the| S RO0E the cargo were medical sup- land is suitable for livestock and Ples and clothes transported from A ; a4 geward to Valdez for the children to L burned out of their home at the The report said the upper part| oot R of the Tanana Valley offers little Eays prospect for group settlement | Arriving in Juneau on the Wachu- isett were Miss Helen Cummins, Other Areas Alaska Native Servica nurse from Kodiak Island—25 families on Unalaska, and a sick man brought Kodiak and Afognak principally to!from the Capt St. Elias Light House produce livestock; processing and!to the hospital marketing plants required before The Wachusett is expected to re- any material expansion feasible main in Juneau for veral weeks ‘The 40-mile area, near the Yukon|while she is overhauled by the border northwest of Fairbanks—10|crew. She will be painted and have families. Mining area, largely un- her boilers scraped. Officers and surve! for agricultural possibil-|crew members are. some of them ities. |seeing their families for the first Haines—10 families; limited acre-'time since tefore leaving the age on the peninsula south of | States last fall. Lt. (jg) Arthur Chilkoot Barracks |A. Fontaine had not seen his new | Ruby-Nulato area on the Yukon. daughter, born in Juneau while Nakanek, on the Alaska Peninsula.|the Wachusett was somewherz ia and McGrath on the Kuskokwim—!the Bering Sea 10 families each; relativesly isolated| Lt. (jg) Carl A. Heintz, execu- sections. itive officer, will be relieved while Southeastern Alaska—20 families,'the ship is in Juneau by the new chiefly near the Stikine River! executive officer, Lt. Comdr. George i mouth, | Playdon