newal of his prior service agree
ment. Comptroller General War
ren has told Delegate Bartlett that
the law in question specifically
provides that the phrase of “Con
tinental United States” shall be
•construed to mean the “48 States
and the District of Columbia, thus
constituting Alaska as a place
“outside the Continental United
States.”
ALASKA STATEHOOD
Two additional proponents in
public life have announced their
strong endorsements for Alaska
statehood.
In a conference this week, Sen
ator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode
Island, Chairman of the Democrat
ic National Committee, informed
Delegate Bartlett that he will do
all possible in support of statehood
looking toward favorable enact
ment of the enabling bill in the
81st Congress.
A recent visitor to Alaska as a
member of the House Committee
on Education and Labor to inves
tigate communist infiltration into
Alaska, Charles J. Kersten, re
MRS. SAM HUXLEY
RECUPERATING AT MAYO'S
Friends of Mrs. Sam Huxley
will be glad to learn that she is
recuperating from her recent op
eration at Mayo’s and is reported
getting along satisfactorily.
cently stated i nthe Congressional
Record:
“I w’ould like to state that it was
my privilege this past fall to visit
our Territory of Alaska. A visit
there will convince any reasonable
person of the advisability of ex
tending statehood to it.
“The new importance of the
polar region/ the proximity of
Alaska to the Soviet Union, the
fact that the great circle air route
t othe Oriet lies along the Aleutian
chain, these and other reasons re
quire the strengthening of Alaska.
Statehood will be the first import
ant step in the strengthening of
Alaska. It will then be able to re-1
tain a just portion of its natural
wealth for its own development.
The days of its exploitation shoqld
be at an end.”
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Tuesday. January 11. 1919
Chinese officials poured from ;
Nanking today leaving lit le more
than a symbol of government
there ns communist troops in
creased their assaults on trapped
armies 150 miles north.
The communists also were re
ported battering into the commer
cial city of Tientsin in the north.
Peiping was besieged. The fury of
the fighting above Nanking, which
pilots called the “heaviest we have
seen at any time in China,” signal
led a dismal failure of Chiang
Kai-Shek’s peace feelers to the
communists who have bested his
government armies.
Claire L. Chennault renewed
his offer to form again the Flying
Tigers to fly again the commun
ists.
Israel was reported preparing
a new blast at Britain in the
mounting tension of Palestine.
Washington and United Nations
officials both tried to beat down
the bitterness.
Israel shot down five British
planes near the Egyptian-Palestine
border last week. The small state
expressed chagrin that the British
were moving troops in Trans-Jor
dan, bordering Palestine, and call
ed this a “repudiation of the se
curity council truce regulations.”
Britain and Trans-Jordan have a
mutual assistance pact.
Israel and Egypt are scheduled
to start armistice talks on the Is
land of Rhodes tomorrow.
Moscow newspapers made
much of President Truman’s huge
budget requests. They pointed up
that more than half the billions go
to what the Russians said the “mil
itary purposes and financing of
economic expansion of the United
States abroad.”
The Dutch rejected for the mo
ment a United Nations request for
permission to visit Indonesian Re- j
publican leaders held in the East'
Indies. The security council takes
up the Indonesian question again
late in the day.
The Allied airlift started mov-1
ing 1,500 seriously ill tuberculosis j
patients from Russian-blockaded'
Berlin. The Nena news agency
said the Russian head of a big tool
factory at Chemnitz fled to West
ern Germany to escape a return to
Russia in custody of the dreaded
secret police.
The cost of living in Belgium
reached a level four times greater
than before the war. i
The United Nations special com
mission for the Balkans asked
Russia and Poland to resume their
seats, but there was little likeli
hood they would.
A Panama government spokes
man said Panama has changed its
mind and now is ready to cooper
ate with the United States in de
fending the canal. U. S. troops
were pulled from the bases in the
little counrty a year ago because
Panama objected.
Wednesday, January 11, 1949
The British cabinet was called
into tsession today to study the
Palestine crisis which the foreign
office terms a grave threat to
peace in the Middle East.
The British foreign office said
Israel repeatedly has violated
United Nations truce orders. The
statement said the present crisis
is the result of Jewish aggression.
The Jews were accused of still oc
cupying a Lebanese area. The Bri
tish said “the possibility cannot be
excluded of further Jewish attacks
n violation of the truce, in Jeru- !
alem or elsewhere, against forces I
)f Trans-Jordan or Iraq.”
Israel charged before the secur
y council that Britain is using
ler might to enforce military and
political moves. The council was
isked to investigate British troop
ind naval movements. Israel as
serted RAP' planes violated the
Palestine frontier. British arms
.vere said to have gone to Egypt,
traq and Trans-Jordan—Arab al
es of Britain and foes of the
lews.
Radio reports from the great
north China industrial city of
Tientsin said the garrison of 60,000
national troops had rejected a
communist demand for surrender.
Chinese officials in Nanking, also
imminently threatened by the
:ommunists, already have written
'he city off as lost.
Reports from Shanghai said
peace pressure is mounting
throughout China and is being ap
plied to President Chiang Kai
Shek, rather than to the victori
ous communists.
The U. N. security council, after
receiving the Jews’ complaint
against Britain, heard an Ameri
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones, for
merly of Nome are now enrolled
in the Colorado State College of
Education.
Mr. Jones, formerly a teacher at
the Nome School states he is look
ing forward to returning to Alaska
when he has finished with his col
lege work.
can attack on Holland for her
“political action” in Indonesia.
The U. S. demanded a timetable
for elections and for the Dutch
surrender of sovereignty to a pro
jected United States of Indonesia.
The U. S. accused Russia of ob
structing a peaceful settlement by
stirring up Indonesian commun
ists.
Another Berlin airlift plane
crashed killing three American fli
ers. Since the Russians blockaded
the city last year 26 Americans
and seven British fliers have been
killed on the run.
American authorities in Ger
many arrested again a former state
department employee. Herb e r t
John Burgman. who was accused
of making wartime broadcasts
for the Nazis. Burgman was a
1 Berlin embassy clerk 20 years.
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