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OPEN EVENINGS
UNTIL 10 P.M.
Opposition To
Statehood Grows
Rapidly In Senate
(Continued from Page One)
The sergeant at arms finally was
sent out to round up absentees
and assemble a quorum. There
appeared to be little prospect of a
vote in even taking up the bill be
fore Thursday, and maybe not
then.
O'Mahoney had told his col
leagues that defeat of the state
hood bills would bolster the
Kremlin’s claims that the United
States is a colonial power. Their
passage, he said, would be “a com
plete answer to Soviet propagan
da.” He said the Reds are spread
ing the world the U. S. is mainly
interested in making money in
Alaska and Hawaii and that “all
our talk about self-government is
so much delusion.”
O’Mahoney told a reporter he
thought a filibuster was likely.
Senator Butler (R.-Neb.) rank
ing GOP member of O’Mahoney's
interior committee charged that
statehood for the two Territories
would pave the way for “left
wingers” to enter the Senate.
He told the Senate the people
of Alaska and Hawaii “are not
their own bosses,” that theii* elec
tions are controlled by “radical la
bor groups.” And with statehood
he said, these groups could send
radicals to the Senate.
Butler argued there was not
“the slightest need for haste” on
Statehood ond that instead of
helping Alaska, the statehood bill
would hurt the Territory.
Senator Russell told the Seante
that “If ever there was a time
from a military standpoint” when
statehood should not be granted
to the Territories it is now.
He said it would be a mistake
to place Alaska in the hands of “a
new, untried state government”
when there “is danger of attack.”
Senator Stennis (D.-Miss.) en
dorsed what Russell said and call
ed the drive for Alaskan statehood
at this time “shocking.”
Of Alaska’s 500,000 square mile
area, he said all but 1,500 square
miles is owned by the govern
ment.
Senate recessed later in the day
without any action.
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FOLK GAMES AT
THE GYM TONIGHT
The Young Adults of the Feder
ated Church are sponsoring an
other folk game group at the High
School gym tonight at 8:00 o'clock.
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Storms Damage
Much Military Sea
T ransport Property
(By Lachlan MacDonald)
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—Bering Sea
storms have claimed more than a
dozen 'barges and millions of dol
lars worth of Military Sea Trans
port Service cargo this fall and
winter.
Reports received here several
days ago, but delayed pending a
check with the remote seacoast
villages, indicates that one barge
is believed to have fallen into
Russian hands. Laden with lum
ber, construction steel and fuel
oil, it became separated from its
tug during a gale and drifted
steadily toward the Siberian
shore.
Nine barges leased by a Seattle
construction firm were ripped
from Anchor at one project loca
tion and scattered along 500 miles
of coast line. Four others were
separated from tugs, two ground
ing in isolated places and the
other two foundering in the high
winds.
Contractors have hired bush pi
lots at from $40 to $80 an hour to
find the grounded barges and fly
salvage crews to the scene.
All of the losses apparently
have occurred since Sept. 15, al
though military officials wcruld
not say so because of security.
. In part the losses stem from the
military necessity of defying an
age-old tradition which has closed
the Bering Sea to navigation each
year on Oct. 15. That is the date
on which marine insurance ends
on vessels in the Bering Sea and
the U. S. Coast Guard officially
declares the treacherous waters
closed.
This year, however, when the
deadline arrived vessels of the
MSTS were bringing cargo from
the deactivated airase at Nome.
Others were heading north with
vital construction materials for
new installations being built along
the coast line.
A raging storm on Nov. 10, with
gusts up to 85 miles an hour,
caught many of these vessels at
their moorings and others at sea.
SEATTLE, (/P) — All Military
Sea Transportation Service barges
are in safe ports, and none were
lost in the recent Bering Sea
storms, the deputy commander of
MSTS's North Pacific operations
said yesterday.
Capt. M. E. Eaton said undis
closed number of the barges are
in Kodiak and Whittier, Alaska.
Two others are enroute to Whit
tier.
A navy spokesman added that
it was possible MSTS cargo might
have been aboard some of the
stricken barges, but that no MSTS
barges were involved.
Reports from Anchorage earlier
told of millions of dollars of cargo
being lost from barges during an
85-mile gale off the Bering Coast.
The female phalafrope takes the
initiative in courtship.
H-Bomb Plant
Will Be Erected In
South Carolina
~ WASHINGTON, <(£>) — A Con
gressional source said yesterday
the Atomic Energy Commission
and the E. I. Dupont company
have selected South Carolina as
the site for the hydrogen bomb
plaift.
This informant, asking not to
be named, said the location
chosen is in Aiken and Barnwell
Counties about 15 miles from the
town of Aiken, S. C., and about
20 miles from Augusa, Ga. It is
adjacent to the Savannah River
and there are about 250,000 acres
of land in the site.
The Dupont company had a
hand in the decision because it is
chosen as contractor for the plant.
Dupont set up the Hanford, Wash.,
plant to produce plutonium, used
in making of the atomic bomb,
but withdrew from its operation
after the war.
U. S. Charges Red
China With Aggres
sion In Korea
(Continued from Page One)
pariment press officer, said in a
statement that the intervention by
Chinese troops is 'aggression by
the Communist Chinese regime."
'The United Nations should
take immediate action on the
draft resolution before the Secur
ity Council," McDermott said.
In response to a question, he
said, "We are prepared to charge
them with aggression." •
Chinese Communists have been
in Northern Korea more than a
month. During all that time, the
United States Government has re
frained in statements before U. N~
or even informal statements to the
press, from branding them as ag
gressors.
The charge is regarded by this
Government as having a formal,
| legalistic meaning—like charging
an individual with "murder."
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