Alaska Housing Program Has Reached
‘Limit Of Usefulness,’ But Remote
Dwelling Program Will Continue
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP>—1The head
of the Housing and Home Finance
Agency feels the Alaska hoxising
program “has reached the practi
cal limit of its usefulness in solv
ing the housing problem in Al
aska.”
The view was expressed by Al
bert M. Cole, housing administra
tor, before a House Appropriations
subcommittee last month. His tes
timony was made public Thurs
day.
Cole said there are “evident
signs of a slackening demand at
the price levels at which housing
has been made available,” and
added:
“It is the present intention,
therefore, to bring this program
to a close as rapidly as present
loans can be liquidated.”
He said the last loan to be made
under the Alaska Housing Pro
gram will be that for the Aleutian
Homes Project at Kodiak, where
344 single-family units now are
Sea Food Firm Stops
Buying Japanese Seafood
Pending Radiation Check
SAN PEDRO, Calif., UP—The
Van Camp Sea Food Co. says it
will buy no more Japanese tuna
until assured that it is radiation
free.
The company also announced
Wednesday that it has cancelled
an order for 200 tons of the fish
from Japanese waters. Govern
ment officials are checking all
shipments of tuna to American
ports, and so far none of the tuna
received is believed to have been
near the area of the recent nu
clear test explosions, said Gilbert
Van Camp, Sr.
Van Camp said only 5 percent
of his firm’s tuna receipts come
from Japan.
Head Of French Military
In Washington To Discuss
Defense Of Indochina
WASHINGTON, UP— France’s
top military leader, Gen. Paul
Ely, has postponed his departure
for 24 hours to continue high
level strategy talks about the In
dochina War with American de
fense.
A tight secrecy curtain has
been thrown around the meetings
thus far but informed officials
reported long-range prospects for
victory over the Communists in
Indochina were being talked
about as well as immediate supply
problems.
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Since 1949, he said, 1,472 units
of housing have been started with
loan assistance under the program
and another 5,538 units, princip
ally in multi-family projects, have
been assisted by liberalized FHA
insurance terms.
Although the government ex
pects to step out of its regular
housing program in Alaska, Cole
punned that the end of the Remote
Dwelling Program is itself “re
mote.”
This is the program undertaken
to improve native housing as a
means of cutting down the tuber
culosis incidence. Limited to $500
per individual, the loans were
largely for putting on floors and
impermeable roofs in native quar
ters.
Of some $329,000 spent on this
program, there was $218,000 out
standing as of Dec. 31. Most of
this, the subcommittee was told,
is in default.
Pere F. Seward of the Division
of Community Facilities and Spe
cial Operations indicated he was
dubious about the extent of fu
ture repayments.
You loan it to' an Eskimo on his
personal note, which he cannot
sign in the first place—he makes
an X,” he explained. “If the fur
trapping season is good, or if the
fishing is good, he will pay it
back, maybe.”
Asked the rate of interest on
loans to natives, Seward said it
was four percent but added that
“the Eskimo doesn’t know any
thing about interest . . . we have
had numerous occasions where he
has paid the principal but not this
interest business. Nobody told
him anything about it. It doesn’t
understand it.”
Court Upholds
Court-Martial Law
Valid For Civilians
WASHINGTON, UP—The U.S.
court of appeals here Thursday
upheld a law giving the armed
services the right to court-martial
civilians for serious crimes com
mitted while in service.
The decision applied specific
ally to Robert W. Toth of Pitts
burgh, an honorably discharged
Air Force man, who is accused of
murder in the slaying of a South
Korean civilian.
The appeals court reversed a
district court ruling by Judge
Holtzoff and directed that Toth
be turned over to the Air Force
authorities for court-martial.
The three appeals judges who
heard the case agreed unanimous
ly that a provision of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice, giving
the armed services authority to
try former servicemen for serious
crimes, is constitutional.
Counsel for both Toth and the
government have said the case
would be carried to the Supreme
Court.
Toth, 24, a Pittsburgh steel
worker, was arrested May 13,
1953, at his place of employment
and flown to Korea to stand
court-martial. He was returned to
the States under Judge Holtzoff’s
order.
Toth is accused of premeditated
murder allegedly committed in
South Korea Sept. 27, 1952, while
he was in service.
Soviet Newspaper
Charges Spying
By U. S. Embassy
MOSCOW, W)—The newspaper
Trud charged four members of
the U.S. Embassy’s military staff
Thursday with spying on Soviet
airfields and other important in
stallations on a rail trip from
Moscow to Vladivostok.
The embassy refused to com
ment on the charged.
Trud, the trade union news
paper, claimed the alleged espio
nage was revealed in military in
telligence reports the Americans
left behind in their compartment
on the trans-Siberian express. It
said the chief conductor found
the papers at the end of the run.
The documents, it continued,
“constitute an intelligence report
on the main towns and stations
between Moscow and Khabar
ovsk,’’ an industrial and transpor
tation center of 300,000 persons
north of Vladivostok on the Man
churian border.
The four accused by the paper
were Lt. Col. Howard L. Felchin,
Maj. Walter McKinney, Maj. Mar
tin J. Manhoff and S/Sgt. Eugene
Williams.
The accusation bore a striking
similarity to other such Soviet
charges in the past. It was not
explained why the reported inci
dent was not publicized immedi
ately after the Americans com
pleted their trip, about six months
ago.
Recent Freight Rate Hike
Not Reflected In Wien’s
Seattle-Nome Service
Wien Airlines Manager A1
Branson stated today that in the
Seattle-Nome service by boat,
truck and plane there is no raise
in any part of the rates except
that of the Alaska Steamship Co.
There are weekly sailings each
Wednesday, with freight to be
delivered at the dock by 3:00 p.m.
on the Friday before sailing.
Refrigerated cargo should be
booked, he said, with Mr. Donadel
of the Alaska Steamship Co., and
the time of delivery will be indi
cated to the shipper.
The minimum charge, previ
ously $6.50 as far as Fairbanks,
has been reduced to $1.86.
There is now an additional
charge on refrigerated cargo of
$1.61 per hundred.
For further information and
details of the thrcmgh service it
will be necessary to call the Wien
office.
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