2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday, March 29. 1950
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ASSESSMENT WORK MUST BE DONE BY JULY 1
Territorial Commissioner of Mines, Leo H. Saarela,
warned today that there is considerable confusion and
misunderstanding regarding assessment work among
miners and claimholders. It si apparent in letters and
inquiries to the Juneau headquarters and field offices
of the Departent that claimholders are assuming that
they will merely have to file Intentions to Hold as they
have done during the War, Mr. Saarela said. There is
no legislation pending in Congress to extend the essess
ment exemption, and Delegate Bartlett has indicated
that no legislation is contemplated because of opposition
to continuing the exemption. Therefore, it will be neces
sary for persons holding mining claims in’the Territory
to do the required $100. improvement per claim as re
quired by law, and that work must be completed before
July 1, i 950 to count for the assessment year 1949 to
1950.
The yearly assessment work as required was waived
during the War years by legislation introduced each
year by Delegate Bartlett and passed by Congress. Af
ter the war, hardships in the industry resulted in strong
appeals from the industry, and exemption was granted
by Congress to and through the assessment year of 1948- j
1949. The past year has seen desire by a predominant
number of claimholders to return to the assessment
work requirements and a stiffening of the attitude of
Congress against such legislation. It will therefore be
necessary for each claimholder, whether lode or placer,
to do the necessary assessment work at $100, per claim
as required by the Mining Laws, and that work must be
done by July 1, 1950.
NEW “GETTYSBURG ADDRESS’ FOR
EMBATTLED TAXPAYER
(Daily Alaska Empire)
One score and sixteen years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in despera
tion and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
fair game.
Now that we are engaged in a great mass of calcula
tions testing whether that taxpayer or any taxpayer so
confused and so impoverished can long endure. We are
met on Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large
portion of our income to a final resting place with those
men who here spend their lives that they may spend
U. S. Ambassador
Killed In Plane
Crash In Canada
OTTAWA, (/P) — Laurence A.
Steinhardt, U. S. ambassador to
Canada, was killed with four oth
er persons yesterday in the crash
of a Washington-bound U. S.
transport plane on a farm near
Ottawa.
The two-engined U. S. air force
C-47 crashed 11 miles southeast of
here shortly after taking off from
Ottawa’s Rockcliffe airport. The
craft was demolished.
The victims, as listed by the Ca
nadian press:
Steinhardt, Once ambassador to
Russia and Czechoslovakia and
for 17 years a career diplomat.
Allan Harrington, son of U. S.
Minister to Canada, Julian Har
rington.
Capt. Thomas Archibald, U. S.
army air force pilot.
Lt. Col. W. F. Trueblood, U. S.
army air force, an exchange offi
cer attached to R.C.A.F. head
quarters in Ottawa.
Lt. Mark Belanger, U. S. army
air force, a former U. S. air at
tache at Ottawa who was in Otta
wa on an exchange basis.
The lone survivor was Master
Sergeant Gwyn A. Long of the U.
S. army air force, ci'ew chief of the
flight. He was reported to have
walked away from the wreck and
was taken to a hospital.
The plane took off at 8:20 a.m.
Witnesses at the scene on the
Gould far three miles southeast of
Ramsayvillc, said the craft seemed
to explode about 50 feet from the
ground.
Wreckage was scattei'ed over a
wide area of the flat, cleared
farmland.
Cause of the crash was not im
mediately determined. The wea
ther was clear and visibility good
when the aircraft took off.
Steinhardt, 57, became the
American envoy here in August,
1948. He previously served in
Sweden, Peru, Turkey and Czech
oslovakia.
Steinhardt was ambassador to
Moscow during a critical period of
U. S.-Russian relations.
A New Yorker, Steinhardt gave
up a profitable law and business
career to enter the diplomatic
service in April, 1933. He worked
for the election of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he
had known for seevral years, and
was made minister to Sweden.
He stayed in Stockholm until
1937, then was made ambassador
to Peru. The Moscow assignment
followed in February, 1939.
Steinhardt saw the war begin in
Moscow. He was bombed and
nearly captured by the Germans
after they turned on their Russian
Mining Course to
Open Tonight
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of the Nugget, the course will
continue for four weeks, with
classes on five nights each week.
There will be twelve lectures and
eight laboratory periods. The
lectures are two hours in length
of the lab periods are three hours.
” e Mining Extension Course
is a function of the University of
Alaska, and is taught throughout
the Territory by members of the
University faculty. It is designed
to give elementary knowledge in
geology, mineralogy, prospecting,
and mining to anyone interested
in those subjects.
A lecture on mining law will
be given and another on radioac
tive minerals, both of which
should be of widespread interest.
In conjunction with the latter a
Geiger counter will be demon
strated.
| Methods of prospecting and
j mining, both placer and lode, will |
j be covered, and an excellent film
on large scale placer mining will
! be shown.
i The work in mineralogy will
consist of lectures and laboratory
work designed to create familiar
ity with minerals of known or
likely occurrence in the Tervi: -p”.
Fundamentals of physical geol
ogy will be covered which are ap
1 plicable to the problems of the
prospector. These geologic princi
ples are of prime importance in
the search for minerals as well as
in the development of mines. A
study of ore forming processes
| will be included.
No fees are charged for this
course. Appropriate certificates
are given to those who .satisfac
torily complete the course.
James Williams arrived from
Kotzebue last evening to conduct
the classes. In Kotzebue he had a
class of forty taking the course.
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allies.
Because one German officer he
knew sent a pet dog home by
plane four days before the Ger- 1
man invasion in 1941, Steinhardt
I was able to call the turn on the
1 German’s decision to figh} Russia.
He flew home just before Pearl
Harbor and was immediately
posted back to Istambul. There he
matched wits for three years with
Hitler’s ace diplomat, Franz von
I Papen. He helped hold the Turks
from wavering into the German
ranks and then cinched their aid
for the Allies.
His last European post was in
Prague. It was a difficult assign
ment, especially after the com
munist revolution and victory of
February, 1948.
our money.
Is it altogether anguish and torture that we should
do this. But in the legal sense we cannot evade—we can
not cheat—we cannot underestimate this tax. The col
lectors, clever and sly, who computed here, have gone
far beyond our power to add and subtract.
Our creditors will little note nor long remember what
we pay here, but the bureau of internal revenue can
never forget what we report here: It is for us taxpayers
rather to be devoted here to the tax return which the
government has thus far so nobly spent. It is rather for
us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us
—that from those vanished dollars we take increased
devotion to the few remaining; that we here highly re
solve that next year will not find us in a higher income
tax bracket.
That this taxpayer: underpaid, shall figure out more
deductions; and that taxation of the people by the Con
gress, for the government, shall not cause our solvency
to perish.
llanson Challenges
Sen. McCarthy To
Waive Immunity
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Haldore
Hanson challenged Senator Mc
Carthy (R.-Wis.) to waive his Sen
atorial immunity and repeat his
charges that Hanson is pro-com
munist.
Hanson, 37-year-old state de
partment official, told a Senate
foreign relations sub-committee
that he is not a communist, has
never been a communist and never
belonged to a communist-front or
ganization.
McCarthy, in testimony to the
committee, said Hanson had “pro
communist proclivities.” He also
described Hanson as a man “with
a mission to communize the
world.”
McCarthy cannot be sued for
libel for any statements he made
to the committee.
But Hanson said that if McCar
thy would repeat the charges
"without benefit of Senatorial im
munity, I assure him. that he will
be called upon to answer to me in
a court of justice at the earliest
practical moment.”
Asserting that he had been
cleared after a thorough investi
gation by the FBI, Hanson con
tinued:
“I deeply resent this attack up
on my loyalty. I wish to state now,
under oath that I am not a com
munist. I have never been a com
munist.
"I have never belonged to an
organization cited by the attorney
general as being a communist
front organization. I have never
knowingly associated with an es
pionage agent of a foreign power.”
Hanson was the fourth person
to come before the committee and
deny charges made against them
by McCarthy. The others were
Dorothy Kenkon, former Ameri
can representative on a United
Nations commission; Ambassador
at Large Philip C. Jessup, and
Mrs. Esther Brunauer, who is on
the state department’s U. N. rela
tions staff.
All had been named by McCar
thy in detailing his charged that
the state department is shot
through with communists and
communist sympathizers.
'•Statehood Or
Separate Republic”
Asks Peter Wood
.JUNEAU </P), Peter Wood, Jun
eau real estate agent, said yester
day he had wired Trygve Lie, sec
retary-general of. the United Na
tions, for information on Alaska’s
joining the U. N. as a “non-self
governing territory.”
Wood, who formerly published
a monthly newspaper here, said
he had cabled Lie as follows:
“Unless we get statehood this
session of the United States Con
gress, I will consider organizing
a party to seek separation and cre
ate the independent Republic of
the United States of Alaska
through the United Nations.
“We have oil, iron, coal, copper,
tin, wood, fish, fur, waterpower,
agriculture, and gold. We would
be one of the richest nations.
“If this seems absurd, so does
taxation without representation.
“Request you refer this to com
mittee for admission of non-self
governing territories and forward
details necessary to a formal peti
tion.”
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