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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 6, 1952
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The Big Question
W ill Truman Run,
Still Left Dangling
(By the Associated Press)
The big question — will Tru
man run? — was toyed with but
left dangling still, by the Presi
dent last night when he talked
politics briefly with some veter
ans.
Addressing the Veterans of For
eign Wars’ annual congressional
dinner in Washington, he touched
on the 1952 presidential campaign
With a smile he said:
“When the time comes, I am
going to try to tell you what the
right result is. That is not an
announcement.”
Earlier, the President had said
he will, after all, oppose Senator
Kefauver, (D-Tenn) in New Hamp
shire’s March 11 presidential pre
ference primary.
Frank McKinney, the Demo
cratic party’s national chairman,
said he hopes the President will
decide “within 60 days” whether
B.C. Mourns Death of King
VANCOUVER, B.C„ (/P)—Brit
ish Columbia today mourned the
I death of King George VI.
Flags were lowered to half staff
through the province and schools
were ordered closed.
“His majesty has been a won
derful example to us all, said
acting Mayor Halford Wilson of
Vancouver.
Word has come of the death of
Miss Ann Bannan on Jan. 19th,
in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where
she made her home after retire
ment from missionary service.
She spent many years in Alas
ka, working under the Presbyter
ian Church in Wales and near-by
villages and also on St. Lawrence
Island.
to stand for a new term.
In Washington, the party Exec
utive Committee agreed speeches
and demonstrations should be
briefer lest TV viewers get bored.
The committee a-pprcrved a $2,
800,000 budget for the national
convention in Chicago July 21.
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Magnuson Urges
Alaska Statehood
By Frank W. Vaille
The Senate resumed its debate
on Alaska statehood Tuesday
while opponents prepared for
their first attack on the proposal.
Advocates of the statehood leg
islation monopolized debate al
most exclusively Monday with
only an occasional question by the
opposition.
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) was
ready to resume his pro-state
hood arguments when debate re
sumed.
The Washington senator told
colleagues Monday that Alaska
has all the economic potential
needed to support statehood.
In addition to the territory’s
vast timber stands and mineral
potential, Magnuson asserted that
the continental shelf of the Ber
ing Sea “has a greater fishing
potential than all the great banks
of the world.”
“That resource alone will bring
in enough revenue to handle state
hood,” he declared.
Granting of statehood, he as
serted, would open the door for
industrial development by remov
ing “bureaucratic instability.” He
said he knew of “example after
example” .where investors have
held oft' Alaskan developments
because of the necessity of nego
tiating yearly agreements with
government agencies.
He compared Alaska with the
Scandinavian countries and said
the territory “has all the econ
Parliament Member Sees
Russ;a a Threat to Fishing
In Canadian Waters
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., (/P)—
E. T. Applewhaite, liberal mem
ber of parliament for Skeena,
said Sunday he believes Russia is
a potential threat to Canada’s
fishing industry.
Speaking to a meeting of the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union, he discussed the
proposed Canada - Japan - United
States fishing treaty which he had
a hand in negotiating.
“Frankly,” said Applewhaite, “I
am a little surprised that, in the
interest that has been taken in
protecting ourselves from the Jap
anese, many people have lost sight
of the very real danger of Russian
penetration into the fisheries of
the North Pacific Ocean.”
There has been only one real
fear on the Pacific Coast—the fear
that the Japanese would enter into
and disrupt our halibut, herring
j or salmon fishing. That fear we
have completely removed for the
duration of the treaty.”
The treaty is to run 10 years.
It still must be ratified by the
three nations.
omic possibilities” of those coun
tries “and possibly more.”
Referring to arguments that Al
aska should not be granted state
hood because it is not contiguous
to the United States, Magnuson
declared: “It was harder to get
from California, at the time of
its admission, to the seat of gov
ernment than it is now to go from
Alaska to Siam or Tibet.”
“Heat Wall” Supersedes
“Sonic Barrier” In
Aviation Frontiers
CLEVELAND, (/P)—A new hur
dle for airplane designers, a “heat
wall,” has been mentioned by
John F. Victory, executive sec
retary of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics.
He did not detail what he meant
by a “heat wall,” but it possibly
is the speed at which planes would
be slopped by the danger of fric
tion from the air.
Victory declared in a talk to
the Cleveland chapter of the Am
erican Society of Metals that
planes capable of speeds better
than twice the speed of sound
were “within the foreseeable fu
ture.”
He said the “sonic barrier”—the
speed of sound — was once the
goal, but that now getting through
the “heat wall” was the problem.
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Because of the centrifugal force
otf the earth’s rotation, an object
weighs slightly less at the equator
than it would at the poles.
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