•. House Passes 20-3 Bill to Create
Bicameral Investigation Committee
JUNEAU, OP)—The House passed■
a bill Friday afternoon to create
a legislative investigating com
mittee with broad powers to probe
into every phase Of territorial gov
ernment activities.
The vote was 20-3, with Demo
crats Theodore Duffield of Nome,
Richard Greuel of Fairbanks and
• Wendell Kay of Anchorage oppos
r ing the measure.
Republican supporters described
it alternately as creating sort of a
junior Hoover Commission and as
a bloodhound body on the trail of
wrong-doing wherever it may be
found.
The bill carries an appropria
tion of $75,000. The Democrats
failed in an attempt to whittle it
to $25,000. The bill, introduced by
Rep. Herald Stringer (R-Anchor
age>, now goes to the Senate.
The investigating committee bill
provides for three members from
each house. Kay failed in a bid to
make the committee bi-partisan.
In addition to the power to probe
all agencies and offices, the bill
provides that the committee can
“suggest resignation or removal of
any and all members of boards,
commissions and bureaus and all
officers and employes of the terri
tory, where this is deemed in the
•best interest of the territory.”
Stringer said the bill is a follow
up on party pledges in both the
national and territorial level to
make a thorough examination into
the governmental affairs in the
search for wrongdoers.
Rep. Alden Wilbur (R-Fair
banks» told the House “it was not
intended as any Gestapo,” and
Rep. Dorothy M. Prior (R-Anchor
age) contended the graft-hunting
aspects of the committee* were
overemphasized; that the main
aim was to study the whole scope
of government and suggest chang
es to meet the needs of an ex
panding society.
The Senate passed unanimously
a bill by Sen. William Beltz <D
Haycock) to increase aid to the
blind to $100 from $80.
The measure now goes to the
House, where the pension in
crease bill is still awaiting final
action.
Both houses passed bills to in
crease allowances for territorial
service. The House approved and
sent to the Senate a bill to allow
a $20 per diem allowance for
board and commission members.
In other actions, the Senate ap
proved a bill by Senator Charles
Jones (R-Nome) for a bounty on
wolverines after cutting the boun
ty from $25 to $15 and passed a
bill by Sen. Mike Stepovich (R
Fairbanks) for validating defec
tive legal documents.
The. Senate also approved, by
voice vote, a memorial authored
by Jones asking for extension of
the railroad from Nenana to the
Seward Peninsula and the build
ing of road links there to open
mineral resources to development.
Malenkov’s Swift Rise
Brings Doubt that Change
Will Bring New Purges
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP — U.S. ex
perts wondered Saturday whether
Georgi Malenkov’s swift rise to
power in Russia will be followed
eventually by purges of gevern
ment officials and political figures.
There had been advance specu
lation that such a purge might
come soon after Stalin’s death.
But the speed and apparent order
liness with which Malenkov
emerged as the potential new
strong man raised, at least, some
doubts whether the group which
put him in power was in fact
divided in any important way.
The two other strong figures
from the Stalin administration —
V. M. Molotov and L. P. Beria —
both have posts in the new Coun
cil of Ministers. Beria is in direct
control of the powerful secret po
lice forces as minister of the in
terior, and Molotov has the key
foreign ministry which puts him,
under Malenkov, in the spot of
cold war director.
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Mercy Flight Brings Aid
To Stricken Villages
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A mercy
flight has brought medical aid* to
isolated Lime and Whitefish Vil
lages and disclosed a critical food
shortage in the two communities
some 200 miles west of Anchorage.
Capt. Carl M. Russell of the
39th Medical Group at Elmendorf
Air Force Base treated 23 persons
—the entire population of the two
villages.
All but two, a couple known as
old Mr. and Mrs. Bobby, are re
ported recovering.
The Territorial Department of
Health is to study blood samples
in an effort to determine the exact
nature of the disease affecting
the villagers.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with patches of fog to
night. Increasing cloudiness Tues
day. Gentle, variable winds. Low
temperature expected tonight -10,
high tomorrow 12.
N6me data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
14, low -14. Max. wind 10 mph
from the NE. Sunrise at a.m.,
sunset at 5:44 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 27, low 21. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 40 in 1947,
low -42 in 1949.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -25 Clear
Kotzebue -14 Clear
Gambell 6 Snow
Nome -14 Fog
Unalakleet -11 Clear
Bethel 2 Part cloudy
McGrath -8 Cloudy
Anchorage 3 Clear
Fairbanks 8 Snow
Whitehorse -3 Snow,
Edmonton 43 Cloudy
Juneau 34 Cloudy
Ketchikan 38 Part cloudy
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NOME TO FAIRBANKS BY WIENS 9
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