, Griffis Okeyed
As Ambassador
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WASHINGTON. i/P)—1The Sen
ate foreign relations committee
yesterday approved on a voice
vote President Truman’s nomina
tion of Stanton Griffis to be am
bassador to Poland, succeeding
Arthur B),iss Lane.
Griffis’ n o m 1 n a non, made
March 31 by the President, has
been held up while the committee
checked the 59-year-old New
York investment banker’s back
ground.
* Senator Barkley <D.-N. Y.>, the
minority leader, told reporters
there was no objection to approv
al.
Barkley said the committee, be
cause of a misunderstanding, had
not yet discussed the nomination
* of Francis Biddle to be American
representative on the United Na
tions economic and social coun
cil. Barkley said Biddle was to
have appeared, but was notified
not to come when it was believed
undersecretary of state Dean Ach
eson would discuss other matters
with the group. However, Acheson
d d not appear.
Senate Democrats had indicated
in advance of the committee meet
ing they would seek a showdown
on the long-pending appointment
of Biddle.
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN
WARS TO HOLD MEETING
Attention veterans. There will
be a meeting at the City Hall, 8
p.m., Thursday, May 15., for men
eligible to join the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Members of other
posts are cordially invited to at
^ tend as well as those who are in
terested in organizing a post at
Nome.
Soviets Order
Salvation Army
To Leave Russia
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The Russian ban on The Salva
tion Army aroused editorial com
ment across the nation. To quote
a few: Nampa, Idaho, Fret Press
and Salem, Ore., Oregon States
man used the same editorial: “We
who know the Salvation Army,
know that its work is centered j
among the poor and lowly. . . . For (
weapons they carry Bibles . . .
f r orders they strive to carry out
tho.-e of the Great Commander.”
Holland, Mich., Sentinel—“The
Salvation Army is no more mili
taristic than was Jesus Christ
himself, who on occasion also
used the rhetoric of battle.”
Buffalo, N. Y., Courier-Express
—“It would be a dark day, indeed
when a Salvation Army group at
a street corner failed to radiate
cheering light.”
Tacoma, Wash., News-Tribune
—“The good men and women who
wear the blue of the corps have
j never forgotten the prime pur
pose is that of spreading Christ’s
work, the welfare work proving
effective in the task.”
Other comments were made ed
itorially in newspapers in Florida,
Indiana, Kansas, Mass., Ohio,
Penn., and Washington.
PLEASANT DISCOVERY
SALINA KANS. (JP)—A letter
I with four cents postage due ar
i rived at Kansas Wesleyan Uni
versity.
School officials, busy conduct
ing' a drive for $110,000 to help
build a memorial library in hono
of war dead, opened it to find $270
in cash—the gift of an anonymous
donor.
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Witnesses Differ
On Cost For
Statehood
The cost of statehood brought
sharply diversified estimates by
two witnesses who testified at the
recent statehood hearings in
Washington, D. C., it has been re
vealed.
H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney
who said he spoke for residents
who voted against the proposal
last October, put the figure at
$15,359,614 a year. George Sund
borg, general manager of the
Alaska Development Board,
thought $3,944,000 was closed to
it.
Faulkner considered eleven
items. Sundborg thought seven
would cover it.
Both men agreed that a court
system would cost $1,100,000: that
care of the insane would cost
$546,000, and that the expenses of
the governor’s office would come
to $50,000.
From here on viewpoints differ
ed. Sundborg thought a police sys
tem would cost $500,000. Faulkner
omitted this item.
Faulkner, however, included a
$300,000 fund for county govern
ment. Sundborg omitted this point
because he said there was no need
for the country system until pop
ulation increases greatly.
Faulkner put fish and game ex
penses at $1,638,614. Sundborg’s
figure was an even million. He
said Faulkner did not take into
consideration revenue from the
Pribilof Islands.
Legislative expenses were put
at $75,000 by Faulkner and $48,
000 by Sundborg.
Sundborg estimated state capi
tal buildings at $700,000. Faulkner
did not mention this expense.
However, Faulkner put road
maintenance at $1,700,000. Sund
borg did not mention this fund.
He said that under the Federal
Aid and Highway Act, the state
would pay in the same amount as
appronriated now by the Terri
tory for roads.
This ended Sundborg’s table of
expenses. Faulkner went on with
four others. He said construction
of roads would cost $2,000,000;
that it would cost an additional
3500,000 if the government gave
The Alaska Railroad to the state;
another $7,000,000 if the state of
Alaska had to take care of Indi
ans, Eskimos and Aleuts; and
$450,000 for administration.
Sundborg rebutted Faulkner’s
arguments on these four expenses j
taking each point up in order. He
said the state’s share under the
highway act would equal the pres
ent contribution of the Territory
for road maintenance and con
struction.
He maintained that there was
no reason for the government to j
turn the railroad over to the state |
since it was a military asset and I
that no state owns or operates a |
railroad.
He claimed that the care of na-j
fives was not a question which,
should be tied to statehood, Sund-;
borg said the government main-|
tains these citizens in the States, j
Finally, he concluded that as for
administration, the Territory now!
bears the cost of Territorial offi
cials and the state should not
have to increase the figure.
MRS. BESSIE SMITH
RESIGNS FROM A.N.S.
Mrs. Bessie Smith, teacher in
the upper division of the Native
School, has resigned her position.
She states she will remain in
Nome, and will have charge of the
playground during June and July.
Italian Premier
Resigns
ROME, iaP)—Premier Alcide de
Gasperi handed his resignation
yesterday to provisional president
Enrico de Nicola as Socialists and
Christian Democrats charged each
other with responsibility for the
collapse of his coalition govern
ment.
A communique from the Chris
tian Democratic premier’s press
office said de Gasperi was resign
ing because of Socialist attacks on
him Monday. The three-partv co
altion has been torn with dissen
tion over Italy’s debt problem.
De Gasperi’s public works min
ister, Giuseppe Romita, said after
a 50-minute extraordinary cab
inet meeting that the premier’s de
cision was taken because of a So
cialist charge that he was delib
erately fomenting a political cri
sis.
De Gasperi, who has presided
over a coalition of Christian Dem
ocrats, Communists and Social
ists for months, was expected to
inform the constituent assembly
of his action in a speech last night.
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Yugoslavs Take
Embassy Camera
WASHINGTON. OP)—The state
department said Tuesday that the
American charge d’affaires at Bel
grade was stripped of his camera
and embassy identification cards
during a visit to the Yugoslav
town of Pec May 2.
Camera and cards were return
ed to John M. Cabot, the Ameri
can official, after a formal pro
test to Marshall Tito's govern
ment.
A spokesman said the state de
partment has now' instructed the
Embassy to ask “appropriate dis
ciplinary action” against the local
officials responsible for the inci
dent.
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