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Senate Insular
Committee Passes
Statehood Bills
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((/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Sen
ate insular committee approved
today House-passed bills to grant
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii.
Chairman O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.)
announced the committee vote
was eight to two in favor of the
Alaskan statehood bill with three
JL committee members refrain i n g
from voting.
The Hawaiian bill was approv
ed nine to one with three mem
bers present but not voting.
The pending Alaska bill would
give the new State control of its
fisheries and 20,400,000 acres of
land, with 20,000,000 acres to be
selected by the State at the end
of five years. The statehood bill
passed by the House would have
given Alaska four sections in each
township.
Alaska would assume all debt^
of the Territory, take over the
courts and schools and retain all
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Truman Advised
To Speed Decision
On Assessments
WASHINGTON, (fl>) —An aide
to the Senate interior committee |
said today the President will be ]
advised of the need for early ac- j
tion on the mine assessment bill j
now on his desk. It if is not ap- i
proved before midnight Friday !
some owners of claims on public
lands may lose their locations.
The bill went to the President
June 2'. He has 10 business days
after receiving the bill to act on it.
The deadline for assessment
work, which the measure is in
tended to extend, expires June 30.
the end of the present fiscal year.
The owner of a mining claim
on public land is required to per- 1
form $100 worth of work on the |
property each fiscal ysar. The i
pnding bill would extend the pe
riod—for this year only—until
Oct. 1, if the miner has given no
tice he intends to use the extra
time.
The bill is not retroactive. If '
the President's approval should
be delayed beyond Friday mid
night, claim owners who have not
done the work would find their
titles in jeopardy.
President Truman has been re- I
luctant to sign one-year extension
bills in the past. However, it is
understood no veto message has
yet been prepared and Congres
sional sources feel that since the
pending measure still requires that'
the work be performed, the Chief !
Executive may approve it.
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Eskimo Sports
|To Feature July
4tli Celebration
Eskimo Sports are to be fea
tured for th? Fourth of July, ac
cording to the manager of the
program for that day, James Mc
i lean.
Due to the popularity of the na
Uive sports and dances and the de
jmand of the tourists the commit
j tee has decided to devote a bigger
portion of the day’s entertain
ment on this field as at least two
hundred visitors are expected to
arrive to help celebrate the occa
sion.
Some groups are expected to ar
rive early in the day from An
chorage and Fairbanks and others
are slated to arrive from Kotze
bue where they will have spent
Monday evening.
Albert Anderson and Axel Ed
man, councilmen who are the fi
nance committee have appointed
A. C. Brown, former Chief of Po
lice to collect funds from the
M. A. F. Base, while “Red” Klein
heads the finance committee in
town, and Raymond Tveter is
covering the Federal Bldg.
Lud Urick, former athletic in
structor of Nome School, will have
charge of the races and games
and Sammy Mogg and Joe Ama_
rok will have charge of native
sports.
Something new will be added to
the native sports it is reported by
chairman McLean in the way of a
rope contest, an old game played
by Eskimos for generations and
a game which has never been
demonstrated to the public before. ^
Further announcements will be j
made Friday, as well as the full
Carpenters Deny
Their Strike Is
! Unpatriotic*
ANCHORAGE, —An official
of the striking AFL carpenters’ ;
union, singled out for criticism by !
Secretary of Defense Johnson, as
serted Monday there is nothing!
unpatriotic about his workers’ ac
! tion.
Johnson said he was “much dis- :
turbed” by the walkout which
has shut down virtually all mili
tary and private construction pro
jects in Fairbanks and Anchor
; age.
Speaking in Norfolk, Va., Mon
day he said that “unless some
thing happens in the next few
days it (the strike) must become
a matter for national action. If it
continues much longer it could
border on the unpatriotic.”
The defense secretary said he
learned of the strike Saturday
while en route back to the States
from Far Eastern conferences. He
spoke during a military orienta
tion conference aboard the carrier
Midway at the naval base in
Norfolk.
Business agent for the Alaska
union, Peter Kappelle, said the
carpenters realize the strike is of
vital national importance in de
laying of military construction.
But he added:
“Wage demands were presented
in an attempt to re-balance wages
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program of events.
The airlines are co-operating
with the tourist program by of
fering special sightseeing tours
and one taxi company is planning
special sightseeing trips.
U. S. Plants And
W arships Ordered
To Aid So. Korea
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman yesterday ordered United
States planes and warships to the
aid of South Korean forces.
He laid down a policy of stand
ing firm against communist ag
gression in the far Pacific.
As a pact of the broader policy,
Mr. Truman directed that the U.
S. Seventh Fleet be prepared to
intervene to prevent any com
munist attack on Formosa, the is
land refuge of the Chinese Na
tionalist government.
At the same time, he asked that
Chiang Kai Shek. head of the Chi
nese Nationalists, cease attacks
on the mainland as a contribution
toward the pacification of the
whole area.
He also announced he is step
ping up aid to the Philippines and
Indo-China.
Mr. Truman announced his ac
tions in a statement which de
clared:
“The attack upon Korea makes
it plain beyond all doubt that
communism has passed beyond
the use of subversion to conquer
independent nations and will now
use armed invasion and war.”
It was learned that Mr. Tru
man’s historic decisions were
reached at a high policy meeting
at the White House Monday night.
Before announcing them in a
statement yesterday, he called
both Democratic and Republican
Congressional leaders to the
White House to review them and
explain the background.
The United States actions were
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Keels Take Seoul;
IJ. S. Planes, Guns,
IVlen iu Action
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Red Korea’s battering advance
has overwhelmed Seoul, and
American planes and guns were
I thrown into the breach today in an
attempt to turn the tide of war in
favor of embattled South Korea.
Swift jets and bombers slashed
at Red troops and installations.
Two American B-26’s were lost in
crashes. American jets and Mus
tang fighters shot down six Rus
sian-made North Korean planes
interfering with evacuation opera
tions.
As the first detachment of U. S.
group troops—a Signal Corps unit
—entered the Korean shooting
war, President Truman said “we
face a serious situation,” but ex
pressed hope his decision to use
armed might in this conflict will
lead ultimately to peace in the
world. The President addressed
the Reserve Officers Association
in Washington.
American political factions clos
ed ranks. Herbert Hoover said the
United States must have unity of
purpose and action in such a sit
uation. This, said the former Pres
ident, is “not the time to argue
origins, mistakes, responsibilities
or consequences.”
President Truman’s hope for
peace was re-echoed in Britain,
where qualified sources said the
LONDON, (,/P)—Prime Minister
Attlee announced Britain has de
! cided to place its naval resources
in Japanese waters at the disposal
of the United States to support
American action in South Korea.
Attlee said the British naval
forces were offered for immedi
ate use. He made the announce
ment in the Houes of Commons.
"I need scarcely say the Prime
Minister speaks for all parties in
the House when he makes this
announcement,” Winston Church
ill, leader of the Conservative op
position, declared.
"We shall do our best to give
him any support he needs in what
seems to me an inescapable duty."
American challenge to Commun
ism’s advance might yet swing
the balance in favor of peace.
Prime Minister Attlee said Britain
is giving close consideration to
moves to support the action of the
united States—backed by the 7 to
1 action of the United Nations Se
curity Council last night—to repel
the Communist invasion of South
Korea.
But in Moscow, the authorita
tive communist party newspaper
Pravda accused the United States
of direct aggression against both
Bed Korea and communist China,
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