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...Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill (TIME, Aug. 30); a bill to permit exports of helium in ''non-military" quantities; a bill authorizing $2,760,000 to be appropriated for restoring U. S. wildlife (see p. 48); a bill providing $2,000,000 to purchase reindeer herds for Alaskan Eskimos and Indians. He also issued an order to all Federal employes to celebrate Sept. 17, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, as a half holiday...
Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
...Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra...
Four free public lectures on Alaskan exploration, baroque and rococo music, political theory, and various aspects of the world's climate, head a busy day for rostrum mounters here this afternoon and evening...
Aerial mapping in cooperation with the Navy and the results of systematic surveys from 1898 to the present come under the ken of R. H. Sargent, of the United States Geological Survey. Profiter from 25 years of Alaskan experience, he is scheduled to give an illustrated lecture at 2:30 o'clock in the Geographical Institute...