Yanks Set Up Gun Battery On Leyte
Above—Amid buildings ruined by retreating Nipponese, an American anti-aircraft battery
■ets up its guns on Leyte island in the Philippines. (■& Wirephoto from Signal Corps)
Above right—General Douglas MacArthur (left) embraces 1.1. Gen. Walter Krueger, com
mander of ground forces in the Philippines, after successful operations on Leyte.
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Pat On The
Claims May
Increase
The threat to Alaska involved
in the plan to take a substantial
part of Alaska from the white
people and turn it back to In
dians already encompasses one
third of Southeastern Alaska,
the most populous section of the
Territory, including 2000 miles
of coastline, streams that flow
into it, fisheries, forests, water
power, mineral resources and
even cities
Alaskans are making vigorous
protest against this stand and
are seeking cooperation of cham
bers of commerce and others in
registering protests against it.
In 1943, under an Act of Con
gress of 1936, the Interior De
partment created six Indian re
servations. One of these in
cludes Karluk, on Kodiak Is
land, one of the most famous
fishing districts in Alaska; and
another, the Chandalar, lying
north of Fairbanks, contains
1,408,000 acres for the use of less
than 50 Indians. It is reported
the Department has additional
reservations in contemplation.
A provision in the Alaska fish
eries regulations, issued by the
Bureau of Fish and Wildlife of
the Department of Interior, pro
vided that if any natives
thought that fishing operations
interfered with their aboriginal
rights they should file claims
with the Secretary of Interior.
Following this the Indians in
the villages of Hydaburg, Kla
woc and Kake filed claims. Af
ter the claims were received the
Secretary appointed an examiner
to hold public hearings in the
three Indian villages. A subse
quent hearing was held at Ket
chikan. These took place in Sep-1
tember, 1944. A final hearing is
scheduled for Seattle this
month. At the Alaska hearings,
new petitions were filed on be
half of Alaska Indians laying
claim to large additional areas,
even including the city of
Juneau.
2 Resign
City Jobs
Two resignations and a
plication for each were not
the city council meeting
day night.
Jack Allman, who has
the combined police an<
chief job, tendered his re
tion as of December 1 f<
police job, to derote hiins
private businss. Mr. Allmi
cently purchased half inter
the Cheechako club. A pi
retain him as Sre chief, at
ary of $50 a month plus
quarters in the fire hall, w
animously passed by the co
An application for the poi
of police chief made by
King, former member of th
lice department and depu
S. Marshal’s office here, a
present on leave of absenci
the Fairbanks police depalj
to visit his son who has II
was referred to the ccen
for action.
The second resignatk
take effect as soon as a su<
can be named, was submit
City Magistrate Cat
Blankenburg. An applicati
the latter position was mai
Ray W. Lang, local bool
er, and was also refened t<
mittee.
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