Two Committees Prepare }
For Next Week Hearings
On FHA Housing Scandals
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Senate
Banking Committee Thursday set
public hearings for Monday cm
multi-million-dollar housing scan
dals.
Chairman Capehart said the
first witness would be Albert M.
Cole, federal housing chief; then
T. O. Hollyday, resigned head of
the Federal Housing Administra
tion; and Clyde L. Powell, assist
ant FHA commissioner.
The banking committee thus
moved in ahead of Sen. Byrd,
chairman o-f the Senate - House
Committee on Reduction of Non
Essential Expenditure. Byrd had
already had summoned Cole to
appear before his group next
Tuesday.
Shortly after Capehart’s an
nouncement, Byrd said his first
witness Tuesday morning would
be T. Coleman Andrews, chief of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
President Eisenhower was re
ported to be ready to open gov
ernment tax files for the banking
committee. By law, income tax
returns are kept secret even from
Congress, but the President has
authority to let Congressional in
vestigators look at them.
Fourteen Men Feared Lost
In Sinking Canadian Tug
JUNEAU, l.?>i -— Fourteen men
were feared lost last night in a
si":' ing P nadian tugboat at the
en ranee to Summer S rait, about
lei miles on h of Juneau.
Last word from the Vancouver
^ tug Chelan was a cryptic S-O-S:
“Sinking.”
The Coast Guard reported its
aerial searchers spotted wreckage
in the area this morning but saw
no sign of survivors. Weather was
foggy and seas were rough.
MMM HOSPITAL
Discharged: Willie Angnaboo
gok of Wales and Emma Kugzruk.
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Agriculture Dept.
Gets More Money
Than Requested
WASHINGTON, (/TV—1The Agri
culture Department held the dis
tinction Thursday of being the
first big federal agency in recent
years to win House approval of
more money than it asked.
House action in making addi
tion after addition to the bill rec
ommended by its appropriations
committee brought an angry de
claration from Rep. H. Carl An
dersen (R-Minn) that Secretary of
Agriculture Benson sought to cir
cumvent the committee through a
secret White House meeting.
It’s not the Congress of the Uni
ted, States writing this bill,” said
Andersen, head of the subcom
mittee which wrote it. “Here we
are turning over to Mr. Eisen
hower and the secretary of Agri
culture . . . the right to write the
agriculture bill.”
The measure, carrying $1,040,
602, 654 in cash and loan author
ity for the year starting July 1,
was passed by the House Wednes
day and sent to the Senate. The
amount includes $720,102,654 in
cash and $320,500,000 in lending
authority—$21,360,841 more cash
and 45 million more loan author
ity than the department requested
through the Budget Bureau.
Never before in the memory of
appropriations committee veter
ans had a big government depart
ment been voted more cash than
it had requested. The customary
procedure is for Congress to cut
budget requests.
Humphrey Says Tax
Overhaul Bill Will Help
National Economy
WASHINGTON, UP—-Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey yes
terday urged speedy Congression
al action on President Eisenhow
er's big tax overhaul bill, saying
much business expansion is wait
ing for it to become law.
In a speech prepared for the
American Society of Newspaper
editors at the opening of its three
day annual meeting h6re, Humph
rey also said the nation’s economy'
is withstanding the downturn of
military production “remarkably
well.”
“I am confident of the future
and that we are not now headed
for a depression,” he told the 400
editors.
But he said fast passage Of the
broad tax revision measure now
before the Senate Finance Com
mittee would have “a tremen
dously helpful effect upon the
economy.”
The 875-page tax measure, al
ready passed by the House, now
is the subject of hearings before
the Senate committee. As now
worded it would ease the tax load
on business and individuals by an
estimated 51,400,000,000 the first
year.
Easter Day activities at the
Evangelical Mission Covenant
Church will commence with a
program entitled, “Remembering
Jesus Christ” given by the chil
dren of the Sunday School at 10
a.m. The morning worship hour
will follow immediately at 11
o’clock. In the evening, the choir
and other musical numbers will
further carry out the Easter
theme. A cordial invitation of
welcome is extended to attend.
The 40-hour week has been es
tablished as standard in only two
countries—the United States and
New Zealand.
Flock of Nearly Extinct
Crane Migrates to Canada
AUSTWELL, Texas, MV—'The
world’s only flock of whooping
cranes has started its migration to
summer breeding grounds in arc
tic Canada.
Sixteen of the flock’s 24 huge
black and white cranes have left
Aransas Wildlife Refuge on the
south Texas coast.
Careless or malicious hunters
along the whoopers’ flyway to
the arctic are considered the big
gest threat to the nearly extinct
birds. Wildlife authorities have
asked game wardens to assure the
whoopers of safe conduct.
NOTICE OF
PRIMARY ELECTION
To the Electors of the Town of
Nome, Division No. Two, Terri
tory of Alaska
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that, pursuant to Section 38-7-1,
Alaska Compiled Laws Annotat
ed, 1949, and all subsequent Ter
ritorial Laws and all Federal Leg
islation, and in conformity there
with, a PRIMARY ELECTION
will be held on
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1954
between the hours of 8 o'clock
A.M. and 8 o'clock P.M., of said
day, for the purpose of nominat
ing candidates of the various poli
tical parties of Alaska for the
following offices, to wit:
Delegate to Congress
Territorial Treasurer
Commissioner of Labor
2 Territorial Senators
3 Territorial Representatives
National Committeemen
National Committeewomen
The Common Council of the
Town of Nome, having heretofore,
by ordinance, duly designated the
polling place of said Town of
Nome, the Electors are hereby
notified:
That all duly qualified voters
residing within the Town of Nome
will vote at City Hall, located on
Front St., between Blocks G and
H, which is owned by City of
Nome, the same being the duly
designated polling place.
Dated this 8th day of February,
1954.
The Common Council of
the Town of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
Clerk.
Publ. Apr. 16 and 23, 1954.
NOTICE
Ordinance No. 365, entitled "An
Ordinance of the City of Nome,
Alaska, Prohibiting the Use of.
Addiction to, or Possession of
Narcotics in the City of Nome,
Alaska, Except When Adminis
tered Prescribed by or in the Pos
session of a Licensed Person, and
Prescribing a Penalty for Viola
tion."
and
Ordinance No. 366. entitled "An
Ordinance of the City of Nome,
Alaska. Pledging All Funds Now
in the Possession of, or Payable in
the Future to the City of Nome
from the Tobacco Tax Fund Es
tablished by the Laws of the Ter
ritory of Alaska (Chapter 42, Ses
sion Laws of Alaska, 1942) To
ward Payment of Indebtedness
Incurred by Construction in the
City of Nome of a School Addi
tion, Now Known as Project Num
ber 50-A-18S, Until Such Time as
the Full Indebtedness Has Been
Paid."
have been passed by the Nome
Common Council, April 12, 1954,
and are posted in the U.S. Com
missioner's Office, U.S. Post Of
fice and City Hall for your fur
ther reading and clarification.
By Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk.
£>ubl. Apr. 14, 16, 19, 1954.
You are invited to
BREAKFAST
Easter Sunday
at the
Community Methodist Church
Served by the men of the church
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Price: $1 Preschool Children: 50^
Time: 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
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"Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
... He was buried, and ... He rose again the
third day according to the scriptures."
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