Maw Nearly Loses ’Simps’
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For Anti-Submarine Patrolling
WASHINGTON—All hands are keeping quiet about
it, but there was a hot fight in the elosed-door session
of the Senate Naval Affairs committee over the bill
authorizing the Navy to acquire an “unlimited num
ber” of blimps for off-shore patrolling.
Secretary Frank Knox strongly approved the mea
sure. So did Navy air chiefs and other experts. But
despite these endorsements and the fact that the ser
ious shipping toll continues unabated, a clique of non
air-minded brasshats fought the bill so strenuously
that they almost succeeding in wrecking it. The battle
raged around a brasshat-inspired amendment to limit
the number of blimps the Navy could acquire.
To the surprise of everyone the amendment was of
fered by Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, who usually is
an outspoken foe of the brasshats. But on this occasion
he rushed into the secret meeting with a breathless
announcement that he had just conferred with “some
high Navy officers” who were of the opinion that
blimps were ineffective against submarines.
These officers, Gillette continued, felt that pending
further study the number of blimps should be limited.
This argument was immediately recognized as an old
brasshat dodge that has been repeatedly used to block
development of Navy air power.
The Navy has been experimenting with lighter-lhun
air ships for many years and probably has the best
experts in the world in this field.
“Who are these high Navy officers to whom you
refer?” Gillette was asked. The Iowan hemmed and
hawed for a few minutes, finally declared “I am not
at liberty to disclose their names.”
“Why not?” a committee member demanded.
“It might embarrass them,” Gillette replied.
It unquestionably would have embarrassed them be
cause the Navy air officers present promptly and blunt
Jy refuted the attacks on the blimp. They asserted that
contrary to being ineffective, the blimp was the “nat
ural enemy” of the submarines and has been highly
successful in eliminating the sub danger wherever
used.
finally, alter a heated argument, the committee took
a vote on the brasshat amendment. The result was a
3 to 3 tie, which under the rules defeated the scheme
and saved the bill from mutilation.
The three voting for the brasshats were Gillette,
Peter Gerry, Rhode Island socialite, and Hirma John-1
son, California’s petulant isolationist. The antis were
Senators Ralph Brewster of Maine, Charles Andrews of;
Florida and David I. Walsh of Massachusetts'.
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Note:-During the argument one Navy officer brought
gasps from the committee when, in reply to a question
as to when the Navy had decided blimps were effective
against submarines, he said blithely, “When enemy
submarines came to our shores.”
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Australia. Reported in today’s news are indicates that the Japs arc massing an ar
mada for another attempt at invading Australia (4), a continued drive up the Bur
ma road toward China, massing of Jap ttroops and planes for a drive aimed at
knocking Chiang Kai Shek’s armies out of the war, and Allied bombing of the 1
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for the invasion of India.
Packers Oppose Hill
Of ' nee1 r'1! Fi f :n«
Rights, Natives Here
SFATTT K, May 11 -Alarmed
over the first move of Ala-ka In
dians to establish ancestral fi-h
ing rights in A1n■ka under the
TP-12 on, no regulations i'-«ti*d bv
Secretary of th® Interior Harold
L. !■"' -s, Seattle labor lenders
are n-enaring to .join Alaska
packers in opposing the new reg
ulnt :nns
T,r,der the new rules. Alaska
Indians mav ano’v to Ickes for a
h'-ato "stabl’sh ancestral or
inherb, d ft«bing rights with a
Pr!or ty over white operators’
rights.
The action was deeded on
when it was learned that a peti
f on for such a hearing had been
fib-l Wbh Ickes by William L.
Po'.’l. of Petersburg, attorney for
the Aln-'ka Native Brotherhood.
P' es petition asks the removal
of t- Colnoys Point fi h trap,
owned and operated bv Pncifi"
A eo-dcan Fisheries ■ n behalf of
the T< e Hit Ton tribe.
Joseph J. Jurich, president of
the International Fishermen’s
and Allied Worker®’ Union said
that while no definite ac‘ on has
been decided on vet. a p cinl
meeting of the union’s executive
hoard will he calk’d itnm< diatelv
to select representative to go
to Wa .hington. D C. "It is ob
vious that we can do nothing
from h in.” Jurich sai l.
Bill Proposed
Will am L. Paul, Jr., attorney
for the Alaska Native Brother
hood, submitted a memorandum
to Gov. Ernest Gruenng Satur
day in which he proposes an act
of Congress which would set up
procedure for the settlement, fix
ing of, and compensation for
land titles of Indians.
Paul pointed out that until Sec'
rotary Harold L. Ickes set up
procedure for the settlement of
such claims in the recent fishery
regulations, no administrative of!
ficial had provided for any such
settlement before.
Said Paul: Clarification of
land and water titles by present
legal means at this late date in j
the development of the Territory j
will tend to create a highly cha
otic situation.”
His proposed act reads as fol
lows:
1. Where conflict is with pri-'
vote occupant: Whites' improve- j
meets may be set off against In- j
dian owner’s value of loss of use
and title, and if any deficiency
ex ts in favor of the Indian he
may be paid by the Federal gov
ernment.
2. In the public domain: In
the broader areas where Indian
title should be made public do
main (fisheries, timber, mines),
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present condemnation will nec
essarily be accompanied by com
pensation for loss of title.
3. Past loss of use; At the sarm
time some arrangement sbouH
be made to ascertain the los- of
use, fix a value on it and pay the
same This is not strictly a fi -hi
of future condemnation proceed
mgs; hut private or public taking
resulting in Indians’ loss of use
is covered by the 1935 Claims
Act, as well as it is covered bv
a multitude of civil actions t r
accounting and ejectment.
4. A traveling administrative
commisinner with clerical assist
anee, with counsel from the At
torney General’s office for de
fense, and counsel under the In
terior Department approved con
tract for prosecution, is the b- ,-t
method to detemine tin; facts of
each case.
Nome Chamber Meets
And Fleets Officers
TIm* Board of Directors of the
NW:\ Chamber of Commerce
me: n the \ rfh P"le Bakery
Tuesday noon with directors
Whaley and Hurley ab-ent.
Secretary P'let called tfie
nice mg to ord< r whereupon he
dc-ciarcd nominations for Prcsi
dcnt open. V'c** president C A.
Siiold was nominated and ununi
mou ly elected. There was a spir
iti d contest for Vice president,
with the result of' W L. Slack
p coving the majority of votes
and declared elected. Minutes
were dispensed with, correspond
erice read and reft rred to the pro
per committees.
Vice president Slack brought
up the matter of priorities, and
as Mr. Slack conduct.-* tin- on y
public machine shop in thi- s c
lion, his services extend to ;•'!
, industries and to all defens-*
work.
On motion thi secret; ry was
directed to write to the Nome
City Counc:! and inquire nto the
j status of the proposed street im
provement project which was net
•id upon last fall and presented
t i the Public W u'k- Admuvstra
tion.
NOTICE
Beginning April 1st, 1942, Tes
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