lUSM ITEMS OF
INTEREST IT THE
IUTIMIIL CAPITOL
<By W. A. S '
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 9. —
From telegrams and letters re
ceived by the Delegate it is evident
that various sections of the Terri
tory are very fearful lest the Wash
ington-Alaska Military Cable and
Telegraph System should be sold
by the government to some cor
poration. Many may be interested
in knowing how this agitation
started. On September 23, 1930,
an interdepartmental communica
tions Committee was organized with
a personnel that included repre
sentatives from the State, War,
Navy and Commerce Departments
and the chief engineer of the Fed
eral Radio Commission. This com
mittee submitted various reports, I
one of which recommended the sale
of the Alaska communication sys
tem, and such report was markec
approved by President Hoover earls
in 1931. As a result, the Legislative
Commission of the War Depart
ment drew up a bill providing foi
the sale of the system, which wa*
introduced in both Senate and
House on February 18, 1931. These
bills were referred to the Commit
tee on Military Affairs in the re
spective branches of Congress, but
no hearings were had and no re
port was submitted, and when
Congress adjourned on March 4,
the bills died.
The bill provided for the sale of
the system, in part or as a whole,
after due advertisement, "to the
highest responsible bidder." The
latter term, the bill prescribed,
"shall mean any person, corpora
tion, partnership, or association
who will agree to maintain and op
erate a system of communication
by cable, radio, telegraph and tele
phone between the continental lim
its of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska, so as to give
service which, in the judgment of
| the Secretary of War, shall be sat
11 isfactory to the people of the Unit
ied States, including the Territory
i of Alaska, and who, in the judg
I ment of the Secretary of War, Inis
! the ability to perform the contract
| of purchase and to maintain the
,service desired and proposed to be
maintained.”
Recent inquiry at the War De
| partment elicited the fact that in
preparing bills to be submitted to
the Secretary of War, the Legisla
tive Commission included a bill
identical with the one presented
last year for the sale of the Alaska
| communication system. This par
| ticular bill, at this date, has not
I yet been endorsed by Secretary
Hurley. Seeking to avert that ac
tion, Delegate Wickersham, on No
vember 2, addressed a plea to the
Secretary, setting forth the present
'value of the system and the gen
jeral satisfaction it gives, and ex
j pressing the hope that the bill
j would not be introduced in the
j coming Congress. A reply to this
' letter has not yet been received.
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AMERICAN WOUNDED
] WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9. (/P)
• —Miles A. Borges, an American be
lieved to be from New York City
1 was wounded slightly in the shoul
der by a stray shot in the street
fighting incident to the Salvador -
■ ean revolution, American Minister
' Charles B. Curtis reported to the
1 State Department.
APPROVED BY BOARD
j WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9. (/P)
—The Shipping Board approved the
offer of the United States Lines
Company for the ships formerly
owned by the United States Lines.
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! COMPETES WITH TELEPHONE
; NEW YORK, Dec. 9. (/P)—Postal
and Western Union united their
teletype services, directly connect
ing 9,059 customers in cities thru
out the United States. The new
! system is in direct competition with
the Bell Telephone System.
Why not Christmas Cards of
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WALK OUT ORDERED
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9. UP) ~ All
members of the International Al
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ployees and Motion Picture Pro
jectionists at Warner Brothers'
First National studios were to walk
out on the order of Lew Blix, presi
dent of the Hollywood local, in pro
| test against the Him company’s
jsalary cuts this week.
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