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Road Commissioner Johnson Refuses
Refund Travel Expenses To Territory
J UiNlr.AU, Ur\ — territorial of-<
ficials declined comment yester
day on a letter received by Terri
torial Finance Director John Mc
Kinney from a rejected member
of the Board of Road Commis
sioners in which the writer re
fused to refund expenses received
in performance of board func
tions.
The letter was written by
Maurice Johnson, one of five
members of a road board ap
pointed by Gov. Heintzleman but
rejected by the 1955 legislature.
It was in reply to a request from
McKinney that Johnson refund
$266 McKinney said he received
as expenses to attend a meeting
of the board in Juneau May 23,
1955.
McKinney’s request was based
on an attorney general’s opinion
that the board had functioned
without proper sanction and the
five members were not entitled to
expenses. Treasurer Hugh Wade
also had requested the attorney
general’s opinion.
Johnson questioned the $266
figure, in his letter to McKinney,
and charged the attorney gen
eral’s opinion was “twisted to suit!
the purposes of the Democratic
treasurer and the Democratic at
torney general.”
“I don’t understand,” he wrote
“where you get the figure $266
since the only voucher issued to
me and signed by me the last
session of the legislature called
for payment of $120, which I re
ceived.” Johnson said the remain
ing $146 was paid by Territorial
Road Commissioner Irving Reed
and “should be refunded by him.”
Johnson said he will consider
the refund request “when and if
the attorney general is successful
in recovering monies paid to
members of the 1949 legislature
for services rendered in an il
legal special session.”
The letter added:
“Until a court of competent
jurisdiction orders me to refund
the money, I shall do nothing
about it.”
Heintzleman said last week he
would take full responsibility for
the continuance in office of the
road commissioners. He said the
laws says appointees shall serve
until their successors are appoint- j
ed and qualified, and “I take the
law to mean what it says.”
JAMES RYAN NAMED
CHAIRMAN OF GROUP FOR
OBSERVING U.N. DAY
James Ryan, superintendent of
the Fairbanks Public Schools has
been appointed as the 1955 chair
man of the Alaska Committee for
the observance of United Nations
Day.
This Alaska Committee is part
of the nationwide organization for
the observance of the birthday of
the United Nations. October 24th
has been observed as United Na
tions Day throughout the world
since 1947.
Materials for this observance
are being sent to Wm. Angell,
superintendent of the Nome
School, to plan for Nome.
Molotov Walks Out
On Nationalist
Speech In U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP—
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov and other top Commun
ist delegates stalked from the U.
N. assembly chamber today when
Nationalist China’s foreign min
ister, George Yeh, took the floor
for a policy speech.
Indian delegate V. K. Krishna
Menon also left the room as Yeh
began his declaration in which he
told the assembly that any im
provement in East-West relations
is not due to Soviet goodwill. It
is due, he said, “to the policy of
strength adopted by the free
world.”
It was recalled that last year
when assemby delegates paid
tribute to the late Soviet delegate
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Nation
alist Chinese were absent.
Only the heads of the Soviet,
Polish, and Czechoslovak delega
tions—and Menon—left the room.
Other members of each Soviet
block delegation remained in their
seats.
Yeh told the assembly that col
lective security measures in Eu
rope and Asia have served as the
main block to the advance of
world Communism.
Speaking in Chinese during the
assembly’.s annual policy debate,
Yeh urged the free world to
weigh carefully the Communists’
latest peace offensive.
“Let us be sure that the Soviet
motive is not a calculated effort
to capitalize on the world’s long
ing for peace and its abhorrence
of war as a means of further ex
tending Communist rule over the
world,” he cautioned.
CAB Studies Cut
Rate Fares For
Military Overseas
WASHINGTON, W — The Civil
Aeronautics Board has drafted
and is studying a proposed new
rule to permit airlines to offer
reduced - fare vacation travel to
U.S. military personnel overseas.
“It appears that the availabil
ity of reduced-fare transportation
to members of our armed forces
desiring to visit their homes and
families would, by improving
morale, clearly aid the national
defense,” the CAB said in an ex
planatory statement.
It added that Pan American
World Airways and Trans-World
Airlines recently expressed a de
sire to make “substantial rate re
ductions” for furloughed military
personnel.
The reduced fares would be
limited to bona fide military per
sonnel traveling at their own ex
pense on official furlough, leave
or pass between their home in this
country and stations outside the
I United States, or in a U.S. terri- j
| tory or possession.
Warn Fishermen
Against Deepsea
Salmon Fishery
JUNEAU, — The Fish and
Wildlife Service today warned
fishermen against developing a
deepsea salmon fishery off the
coast of Alaska on their own
initiative.
Don McKernan, FWS commer
cial fisheries administrator, is
sued the warning in connection
with a report that two FWS biol
ogists have found evidence of sal
mon beyond the three-mile limit.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service
is in a position to prevent the
development of an offshore fish-'
ery,” McKernan said. ‘Today we
are drastically restricting our own
fishing throughout Alaska so as
to rehabilitate the salmon runs.
“We will not permit the devel
opment of an additional fishery
that would cause a drain of more
fish.”
McKernan said the FWS is em
powered to regulate offshore fish
ing through recommendations by
the American section of the Inter
national North Pacific Fisheries
Commission, which includes
Japan and Canada. The FWS is
working closely with the commis
sion in an effort to solve the prob
lem of declining salmon runs, he
said.
Potent Hurricane Janet
In Gulf of Mexico
MIAMI, Fla., UV—Vicious Hur
ricane Janet roared across the hot,
thinly-populated Yucatan Penin
sula today and forecasters said
she would still be “tightly wound
and potent” when she slashes into
the Gulf of Mexico about noon.
There was no way of telling
immediately what happened in
northern British Honduras and
southern part of Mexico’s Quan
tana Roo province, the area which
took the full fury of Janet’s 115
mile-an-hour winds.
Chamber Hears Ralph
Lomen On Tin Prolbems
The Chamber of Commerce en
joyed an interesting talk on tin
and its current problems as out
lined by Ralph Lomen. Mr. Lomen
has spent much time in the na
tion’s capital this past winter,
working to establish a price on tin
that would not fluctuate for sev
eral years so that domestic tin
would be able to be properly fi
nanced and individual companies
could risk the investment into the
necessary equipment for develop
ment of this important industry.
Mr. Lomen’s conference with
the Subcommittee on Mines and
Mining of the Committee on In
terior and Insular Affairs in
Washington in May of this year
has been published and copies are
available from Washington D.C. It
shows what a thorough study he
has made and the vast amount of
information he has gathered on
the tin potential and its possibili
ties in the placer field.
His presentation to the commit
tee and that of A. W. Ramstad
have resulted in an amended bill
which will be before Congress
this winter, Which should set the
price of tin for a 10-year period.
Rep. O'Brien Recommends ‘Omnibus
Bill* As Steppingstone To Statehood
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President Will Be
Fully Recovered
In About 30 Days
WASHINGTON, (JF>— President
Eisenhower’s administrative team
was described today as confident
that within 30 days at most the
President himself will again be
able to guide the nation.
The opinion was based on con
tinued optimistic medical reports
on Eisenhower’s progress in re
covering from a heart attack
which struck him last Saturday
in Denver. j
One presidential aide said that!
if a matter of transcendental im
portance should arise immediate
ly, it could be taken to the Presi
dent even now.
Meanwhile, however Eisenhow
er’s top aides were reported to be
settling down to a 30-day “hold
ing operation.”
During this period, the source
said, the by-word in the govern
ment on major policy matters will
be “leave it where Ike last saw
it.”
For the time being at least, the
problem of how, if at all, essen
tial presidential policy making
powers could be delegated to
others, a prime topic in Washing
ton on Monday, has been pushed
into the background.
Cabinet officials were reported
to feel that the administration
could—and should—roll along for
at least the next 30 days on policy
decisions already made by Eisen
hower before he was stricken.
Eisenhower’s Illness
Interrupts Spain Vacation
Of Atty. Gen. Brownell
NEW YORK, UPV—Atty. Gen.
Herbert Brownell Jr., his vacation
interrupted by President Eisen
hower’s illness, flew back from
Spain Tuesday.
Thirty minutes after he landed
at I die wild Airport, he took off
again for the 90-minute run to
Washington.
Brownell told newsmen a de
cision would be made as quickly
as possible on the question of del
egating the powers of the Presi
dent during his illness.
“It is my understanding that the
White House staff asked for an
opinion,” he said. “Preliminary
work has been done by my staff
members.”
Ivory Carver Shot in
Attempted Break-in
FAIRBANKS — Dan Singyke,
Nome ivory carver, was shot in
the right thigh Sunday when he
attempted to break into the cabin
of Mrs. Travis Ward in Big Delta.
Mrs. Ward fired four shots from
the .25 automatic but missed three
times. Singyke had allegedly beenj
drinking.
Singyke was rushed to St. Jo
seph’s hospital by territorial po
lice for treatment of the flesh
wound. He is still a patient at the
hospital.
r JUNEAU, l/P)—An overall “om
nibus bill” as a steppingstone to
statehood for Alaska was sug
gested yesterday by the chairman
of the House subcommittee on
Territorial and Insular Affairs.
Rep. Leo W. O’Brien (D - NY>
made the proposal at opening
sessions of the subcommittee’s
public hearings on Alaska devel
opment. He said it would be an
intermediate step before state
hood and would grant Alaska
many of the privileges as a state
prior to passage of a statehood
bill.
A supporter of statehood,
O’Brien said he saw a “good
chance” for passage of an omni
bus bill which would include
many of the points included in
past statehood bills.
“The suggestion is not made as
a substitute to statehood,” O’Brien
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Yankees Take
First Game Of
World Series 6-5
NEW YORK, I*—A bright sun
shone down on Yankee Stadium
today as the New York Yankees
and Brooklyn Dodgers clashed in
the opening game of a World
Series before 68,000 spectators.
Heavy showers last night and
in the early morning left the
stadium outfield a bit soft and
the ground along the foul lines
soggy, but the covered infield was
in top condition.
The starting lineups:
Brooklyn New York
Gilliam If Howard
Reese ss Rizzuto
Snider cf Noren
Campanella c Berra
Frakullo rf Bauer
Hodges lb Collins
Robinson 3*b McDougald
Zimmer 2b Martin
Newcombe p Ford
Ed Note: The Yankees won the
first game from the Dodgers by
the score of 6-5.
Walla Walla Convicts
Call Off Hunger Strike
After Only One Day
WALLA WALLA, UP>—'Trouble
makers at Washington State Pri
son called off their hunger strike
today after a single day of refus
ing food in protest against condi
tions.
A majority of 37 convicts who
refused all food yesterday asked
to be fed during the night. The
request was denied but they were
to be given food after the regular
breakfast was served to the pri
son’s other convicts.
The 37 included ringleaders at
two uprisings in July and August
when hostages were taken and
then released in protest against
conditions at the prison which
holds 1,700 men.
Yesterday’s short-lived hunger
strike, prison sources said, pro
tested their confinement in num
ber-one wing, an old cell block
which does not have modern sani
tary facilities.