Forest and Brush
Fires Raging in
Interior Alaska
ANCHORAGE, UP) —More than
a score of forest and brush fires
in the interior of Alaska con
tinued out of control today after
having ravaged upwards of 400,
000 acres.
Twenty fires were reported
burning around McGrath, 300
miles northwest of here, and
Holikachuk, 150 miles to the west
of McGrath.
The 200,000-acre blaze north of
Holikachuk is the largest of the
conflagrations. Another at Skeet
mite, 225 miles west of here, has
swept over 150,000 acres.
Smoke was reported so dense
in the McGrath area Monday that
plane leaving there were unable
to return, and incoming flights
with supplies fbr the firefighters
had to turn back.
The wind-borne smoke also
cast a pall over Anchorage, cut
ting visibility to about two miles.
Plane service was not affected,
however.
Thick clouds of smoke rolled
into Fairbanks today and yester
day, covering the city.
The smoke shut down all flights
in and out of the city.
There was a ceiling of only 200
feet at International Airport yes
terday and visibility of only one
eighth of a mile at cne time.
The weather bureau said smoke
from forest fires in the middle
Yukon and Kuskokwim areas will
continue with no relief until this
afternoon.
House Passes Bill for
Leasing Native Land
Reservations in Alaska
WASHINGTON, OPt—A bill to
provide for leasing of native
land reservations in Alaska was
passed by the House yesterday
end sent to the Senate.
Aimed directly at clearing the
way for possible iron develop
ment near Klukwan, the bill
would permit leases of more than
°10 years duration.
In additon to authorizng lease
of all Indian, Eskimo or Aleut
reservations in Alaska, the bill
specifically revokes a 1913 regu
lation which reserved a 320-acre
tract near Klukwan for adminis
trative purposes. The acreage
now would be included in the
„ Klukwan reservation and avail
able for mineral leasing.
U.S.C.G. BITTERSWEET
REPAIRS HARBOR LIGHT
The U.S.C.G. Bittersweet re
turned to port yesterday and re
paired the light on the west jetty
at Snake River. There are now
lights on both jetties at the en
trance of Nome harbor.
LAST MINUTE KIDS
YAKIMA, Wash., WV-The Last
Minute Kids tried it once too
often last night in a Yakima
midget baseball league game.
In fact, they didn’t show up
at all and forfeited to the Ter
race Heights Midgets.
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| Oregon Union Official
! Acquitted of Conspiracy
To Accept Bribe
PORTLAND, LP)—The head of
the Oregon Teamsters Union last
night was acquitted of a charge
of conspiracy to accept a bribe
while serving on a Portland city
commission.
Tall, handsome Clyde C. Crosby
dropped his head on his chest
when the verdict was anounced
at the end of the eight-day trial,
closed his eyes momentarily, then
flashed a broad grin at the jury.
Thus came to an end the fourth
major trial stemming from Port
land’s lengthy vice investigation.
Two of the four trials have
ended in verdicts of innocent for
the defendants. Earlier, Mayor
Terry Schrunk was acquitted of
a perjury charge.
Crosby had been charged with
conspiring to place the site of an
$8,000,000 sports center here.
Eisenhower Says Much
Damage Would Result
From Opening FBI Files
WASHINGTON, UP>—President
Eisenhower said today incalcula
ble damage could result from
opening up confidential files to
defendants in court cases. I
Eisenhower made that com- !
ment when asked at his news !
conference how the administra- '
tion squares its attitude on FBI :
files with its action in disclosing '
a confidential statement made by !
William Girard, Army specialist j
turned over to Japan for trial in j
the killing of a Japanese woman. j
Eisenhower said the govern- j
ment has always been willing to !
make available specific secret |
FBI papers to defendants who j
could show in court the state
ments of a trial witness differed !
from evidence he had previously i
given.
What the government opposes, |
Eisenhower said, is the opening j
up of confidential FBI files. He i
said as many as 15 people might ;
be mentioned in a single file, and |
some of them might be described i
as skunks or worse.
SQUASHED WATERMELON
MAKES GOOD EXCUSE
NORFOLK, Va., —Squashed
watermelon figured in the acquit
tal of Edward S. Ferebee on a
charge of disregarding a red i
light.
Ferebee, an attorney, told the1
judge the watermelon was scat- j
tered across three traffic lanes j
at the intersection and wasn’t
pink, but “blood red.”
His first thought was that there
I had been an accident, Ferebee
| said, and his attention strayed
] from the red light momentarily.
Case dismissed, the judge said.
James H. Cox,
Former Governor
Of Ohio, Dies
DAYTON, Ohio, (JR—James H.
Cox, whose long and varied ca
reer carried him from a small
Ohio farm to the threshold of the
presidency, died in his home here
Monday night at the age of 87.
Cox, three-time Ohio governor
and a newspaper publisher for
more than half a century, was
Democratic presidential candi
date in 1920 with Franklin D.
Roosevelt as his running mate.
Warren G. Harding, another Ohio
publisher, won the election by
inore than seven million votes.
Cox’s death came after several
years of failing health. Thursday
afternoon he stumbled and fell
while working at the Dayton
Daily News, one of his news
papers, and that night suffered a
stroke. He went into a coma the
next day and never regained con
sciousness.
Although James Cox Jr., was
chief executive officer of the
newspapers, the elder Cox re
mained active in publishing the
Dayton News, the Dayton Jour
nal Herald, the Springfield Sun,
the Springfield News, the Miami
Daily News, the Atlanta Journal
and the Atlanta Constitution. Cox
also operated station WHIO and !
WHIO-TV in Dayton and WSB j
and WSB-TV in Atlanta.
His formal education ended j
after two years of high school,
but age 16 he took a teacher’s
examination and passed it. He |
taught for a few terms and then !
joined a brother-in-law who was 1
editor of a newspaper at Middle
town, Ohio. Cox worked as a
printer's devil, part-time report
er and general handy man. .He
later joined the Cincinnati En
quirer where, within a few years,
he became a political writer.
Ooodles of Poodles
Is Grounds for Divorce
LONDON, (JR — O o d 1 es of
poodles were blamed by 46-vear
old John Lintern for the breakup
of his marriage.
Lintern told the judge yester
day his wife Nancy had 50 of the
animals, gave them the run of
the house and told him to get out
when he protested that the place
“smelled like a kennel.”
The judge granted the divorce.
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Expanded Educational Program
For Indians Will Result From
$109,410,000 Congressional Grant
WASHINGTON, UP) — An ex
panded educational program for
Indian children and adults' will
result from congressional appro
priation of $109,410,000 for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs for the
next 12 months, Secretary of In
terior Seaton said Monday.
The new appropriation com
pares with $87,737,500 available |
for the fiscal year ended June 30.
All but a small portion of the
increase will be spent to initiate
a new adult vocational training
program, construct and rehabili
tate school facilities, and to pay
for the education of Indian chil
dren in local public schools.
The adult vocational training
program, authorized by Congress
a year ago, will be started with
an initial appropriation of $1,500,
000. Designed primarily to assist
reservation Indians 18 to 35 years
old to enhance their earning cap
acity, the program contemplates
enrollment of Indians in regular
vocational schools and “on the j
job apprentice training in indus
trial establishments.
Seaton said the major share of
the 17 million dollars provided
for construction will be spent to
build, renovate end enlarge
school buildings to keep pace
with the increasing Indian school
age population and to relieve
overcrowding.
The adult literacy training pro
gram will be expanded to estab
lish units on 12 additional reser
vations, at 39 trailer locations on
the Navajo Reservation in Ari
zona and New Mexico and at 10
locations in Alaska.
Additional funds also have
been provided for increased wel
fare service to reservation In
dians, largely to dependents of
Indians hospitalized for tuber
culosis.
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