Committee Urges
Statehood For
Alaska and Hawaii
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ened rather than weakened by the
serious economic situation” result
ing from military and naval cut
backs and the six-months strike of
longshoremen last year, it added.
“The emphasis given to local re
sponsibility by the federal admin
istration and the Congress in
meeting these problems has caused
people in Hawaii to feel more
strongly than ever that the addi
tional local authority and greater
representation in Washi n g t o n
that would come with statehood
should be granted at once.”
The committee said prompt en
actment of the Hawaii statehood
bill, now’ pending on the House
calendar, “would strengthen the
position of this country among
people o fthe Pacific islands and
the’Far East.”
Signing the report, besides Miles
were Reps. Crawford <R.-Mich.>,
"Lemke R.-N. D.», Fefevere <R.-N.
Y.>, Miller <D.-Calif.), Jenison <R.
111.) and Delegate Farrington <R.
Hawaii*.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Delegates j
B.'.rtlett of Alaska and Farrington
of Hawaii expressed pleasure at
yesterday’s action by the full ,
House public lands committee on i
the statehood bill for the two ter- |
ritories.
The committee voted to try to
force the bills out of the rules
committee so the full House can
act on them.
Farrington commented: “It is
important from the standpoint of
the situation developing in the Pa
cific that action be taken at once
on the bills to grant statehood to
both Hawaii and Alaska.”
He expressed the belief that the
committee action also should be
“very reassuring” to people in the
Far East.
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Will Congress Use
Axe Or Talk On
Truman’s Budget?
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man keeps asking for. A tax boost
would help blot out some of the
$5,133,000,000 in red ink that’s in
prospect for the year starting next
July 1.
Sentiment seemed to be running
the other way, toward a cut in
taxes, if anything.
Furthermore, it looked as if that
$5,133,000,800 deficit might be big
ger than Mr. Truman counted on.
He based his estimate partly on an
idea that Congress would up mail
rates by $35,000,000.
If Congress fails to provide part
or all of the increase, the deficit
will go up by just that much.
A bill to raise postal rates by
$131,000,000 has been okayed by
a House committee while a $113,
000,000 bill has been approved by
a Senate committee. But backers
asys they expect trouble in get
ting either one all the way through
Congress.
NEW X-RAY EQUIPMENT
INSTALLED AT HOSPITAL
Mr. Berger D. Martinsen of the
General Electric X-Ray Corp., and
Seattle branch field representative
and technician who has been at
the M-M-M Hospital installing the
new X-Ray for the past several
weeks left today by Pan American.
Before leaving he stated that
Nome now has X-Ray equipment
that compares favorably and
equally to any hospital in the Ter
ritory, with the latest and most
modern target tube, which is the
same type that is used in the fin
est and most modern laboratories
in the world. This equipment, he
stated has an automatic type of
control with 200 milli-amperage
and a tilting table making it pos
sible to be used at any angle.
The equipment is now fully in
stalled and several interesting ra
diographs have been made.
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Einstein Advances
New Theory
Of Gravitation
NEW YORK, (iP) — Dr. Albert
Einstein, whose theory of relativ-.
ity helped open up the whole vast |
field of atomic research, has put
forward an even more sensational
theory.
He calls it ‘‘a generalized theory
of gravitation.”
It is a mathematical description
of the mystery of gravity—the
common force that keeps our feet
on the floor and rules the move
ments of the stars.
If it can be proved, it will be
come a “universal law” and, in i
the view of other scientists, will
stand as the highest scientific
achievement of all time.
It would explain every physical
motion in the universe, from the
inside of an atom to the enormous
galaxies of outer space.
It would crown with success the
life work of Einstein, who has
spent the last half of his 70 years
looking for the answer to this ul
timate problem, known to science
as the “unified field theory.”
It was revealed to the world
here Wednesday on 20 mimeo
graphed pages—a mixture of type
written words and squiggly math
ematical symbols that even scient
ists hesitated to interpret. It was
the English translation of Ein
stein’s original German.
Einstein describes it as an ex
tension of his relativity theory,
and was quick to point out that he
has “not yet found a practical way
to confront the results of the the
ory with experimental evidence” j
—or in short, to prove it.
When he published the “general
theory of relativity” in 1915, Ein
stein suggested several actual
tests that could be made to prove
his ideas—and which did prove
them in 1921.
23 Stowaway
By Accident
NEW YORK, (£>)—Headed out
to sea with 23 pretty girl stow
aways-by-mistake aboard, the
skipper of the liner Italia last
night radioed a distress call to the
coast guard.
“Through a misunderstanding,”
said the message, “we sailed with ,
‘Kiss Me, Kate’ cast aboard. Can’t
put back now. Can you send craft
to remove them?”
The musical show performers
had gone aboard the vessel to I
stage a benefit for the March of j
Dimes.
While waiting for rescue, the
girls sold kisses to passengers for
from $20 to $50 a throw. Alto
gether they raised about $7,500
for the infantile paralysis fund,
before the coast guard sent a cut
ter to whisk them back to New
York.
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Developing New
Helicopter For
Use In Arctic
DETROIT, (/P)—A helicopter in
tended for rescue mission work
in the Arctic currently is under
development, the Society of Au
tomotive Engineers was told yes
terday.
Opening their annual five-day
midwinter meeting here, the en
gineers heard much about aircraft
and advances toward greater saf
ety of operation.
Dietrich W. Botstiber, of the
Piasecki Helicopter Corp., Mortdn,
Pa., described helicopters capable
of operation from land, water and
on ship’s deck and of being used
under either Arctic or tropical
conditions.
He told of one such craft de- |
signed for Arctic rescue missions
that could be towed to the location I
by an airplane, then could de
scend and rise under its own
power, and, finally, to be towed
back to its base.
Today the engineers were to be
told how as much as 150 miles to
the gallon of gasoline is being ob
tained with teSt automobiles. R. J.
Greenshields, of Shell Oil Co., will
outline numerous things that were
done to the test cars to get the un
precedented mileage.
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Bob Emmons and Dorothy Gor
don, both of Nome, have made an
application for marriage license
with the U. S. Commissioner.
Two Escape Death
Bv Freezing After
Plunge In Yukon
DAWSON CITY, Yukon Terri
tory, (/P)—Two frost-bitten men
told yesterday how they escaped
death in the Yukon wastes after
their truck plunged into a river
and their clothes froze hard as ar
mor.
The men, Edward J. Kimbel and
Fred Harper of Mayo, Y. T., are
in a hospital here.
Kimbel told how they scram
bled out of their truck after it fell
into the Stewart River and added:
“We started to run the four
miles down to a sawmill. There
was a vicious wind blowing and
it froze our heavy clothing until
it felt as if we were packing heavy
suits of armor.”
Kimbel’s frozen clothing be
came so heavy he had to crawl the
last quarter mile to a logger’s cab
in where a rescue squad found the
two unconscious.
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