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Nome, Alaska, Monday, April 24, 1950
THE CASE OF THE VANISHING $500
(By Fred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy)
Where the the hidden taxes?
They are hard to see because there are many hun
dreds of them and most of them are tiny.
But put them all together, and they will take at least
$500 of your money,
That amounts to about 25 cents for every hour you
work.
Every time you buy a pack of cigarettes, you pay
IIV2 cents federal tax.
A $3.75 bottle of whiskey is $1.69 worth of whiskey
and $2.06 worth of taxes.
When you buy a $2,000 car, the Government gets
about $400.
A 21 cent quart of milk is 13 cents worth, plus 8 cents
tax.
A 15 cent loaf of bread is 10 cents worth.
A 70 cent pound of meat is 50 cents worth.
A $60 rent bill is $40 worth of housing.
The $3.00 alarm clock that wakes you up is a $2.00
clock.
A 47 cent can of powder is 29c worth.
A $9.00 pair of shoes is a $6.00 pair.
A new $10,000 house is a $7,000 house.
This could go on forever, but you get the idea: put
them all together and they make at least $500 of your
money.
And during the coming year it will be worse.
AID FOR ARAB REFUGEES
A bill is pending before Congress to appropriate $27,
450,000 to a United Nations agency for the relief of
some 700,000 Arab refugees in the Near East.
The measure is supported by the American Jewish
Committee which urges members of Congress to do
something for these unfortunate people who were
ousted from their homes in the Palestinian war.
Already the U. S. has furnished $16,000,000 for the
refugees now living in Arab Palestine, Hasemite Jor
dan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza strip. Jewish
leaders in this country assert that there was no real rea
son for the Arabs to flee Palestine but, in the name of
“humanity,” asks that an international fund take care
of them and prevent suffering.
After all, it might be worth discovering the circum
stances under which the Arabs fled from Palestine and
what became of the land, and other property, after they |
THE INTERLOPER
^POLITICS'
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For Statehood
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discriminations, for example, as
the non-application to Alaska of
the Federal highway act, despite
Alaska’s great need for roads.
‘‘The smallest State has two
representatives in the Senate and
one in the House. The citizens of
the United States who live in
Alaska are entitled to like repre
' sentation.”
Chapman said that until re
! cently virtually all development
in the Territory was carried on by
absentee capital “which did Alas
ka almost as much harm as build
ing up of industries did good.”
| The secretary told of the work
being done in the Territory by his
department and said that Alaska’s
present population is well over
100,000 persons. But, he said,
Alaska needs and wants a larger
permanent population “and the
way to provide for it surely and
I speedily is to grant statehood.”
“As a nation, we have an inter
est in a strong Alaska,” Chapman
said, “especially in this period of
the cold war. Alaska is just 56
miles across the Bering Strait
from Russian Siberia. It once be
longed to Russia and recently the
official Soviet press organ has
charged it was acquired by fraud
and that the Czarist government
had no authority to dispose of it.
“We are told there is consider
able military activity in Siberia,
near and beyond the border,” he
added. “We cannot afford to ne
glect Alaska, to give any indica
tion that it is not just as import
ant a part of the United States as
any one of the present 48 States.
“We must provide for Alaska,
in the speediest and most efficient
manner, a strong political and
economic system, to bind it even
more closely to the mainland than
it is now bound by ties of blood
and ‘kinship, political heritage,
commerce and community inter
est in national and international
affairs.”
Chapman said Alaska has been
asking Statehood since 1916 when
the first statehood bill was intro
duced in Congress. He said House
committee hearings conducted
here and in Alaska left no doubt
Alaskans are “overwhelmingly in
favor of statehood” and added
that Alaska is too far away to per
mit effective government from
Washington.
He said approval of the State
hood bill, which President Truman
favors, “is a step we cannot af
ford not to take.”
The hearings brought to Wash
ington a delegation of approxi-1
mately 60 Alaskans seeking to
testify in favor of the statehood
bill. There was no assurance that
the committee would hear all of
them.
The group, which flew here
Saturday, is headed by Robert B.'
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the Constitution and to the princi
ples of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. This demand for the ul
timate measure of self govern
ment is in complete harmony with
that loyalty.”
The Judge said the “great nat
ural and constitutional freedoms
of complete self-government now
exist in Alaska, but the final mea
sure—Statehood—is lacking.”
“It cannot rightly be denied
us,” he said.
“Alaska is ready for statehood,”
Dimond continued. “Its citizens
by substantial majority, have
voted for it and by so voting have
understanding^ expressed their
full willingness not only to ac
cept the benefits, but to undertake
and carry out manfully and perse
veringly 'the substantial burdens
that come with statehood.”
The jurist told the committee
the Territorial citizens now pay
federal inconje and all other fed
eral taxes, and serve in the mili
tary forces. He said he did not
know of a single persons who
served in the last war who is not
in favor of statehood.
“It is a poor answer to those
former service men and women to
say that they arc fit to affer all
they have for the nation but that
they are not fit to govern them
selves,” he said.
REFUGEES WORRY KASHMIR
SRINAGAR, Kashmir, (/P) —
Some 600 persons who trekked
through 18,000-foot mountain
passes to escape from Sinkiang
pose several problems for Kash
mir authorities. Officials say the
refugees are unwilling for the
present to return to their home
land, now controlled by Chinese
communists, and do not wish to
go a Formosa, held by Chinese
Nationalists. The government of
India originally proposed to re
patriate the refugees in October,
but Kashmir officials asked a
postponement.
Meanwhile, many refugees have
become destitute. The Indian
Red Cross plans to give relief
and refugee leaders are trying to
get aid from the United Nations.j
Atwood, editor and publisher of
the Anchorage Times.
His delegation held a two-hour
meeting yesterday with Delegate
Bartlett <D.-Alaska) mapping
plans for the hearings.
Atwood said the 60 persons who
came here for the hearings have
birthplaces in 7 States, plus Alas
ka, Canada, the District of Co
lumbia, Russia and Austria.
Those born in various States, he
said, will visit Senators from the
State of their birthplaces in an
effort to line up votes for the
statehood bill if it should come to
a Senate vote.
left. Surely, the United States had nothing to do with
the circumstances that precipitated their flight and
which now cause them to be in dire need of assistance.
CANNIBALISM IN CHINA
It is especially difficult to ascertain conditions in
China, but recent news dispatches from Hong Kong tell
of starving peasant bands in North Central China, with
the assertion that hunger-mad peasants in China’s’great
famine area arq resorting to cannibalism.
While no confirmation of the report is possible at this
time, Dr. F. L. Chang, Shanghai vice chairman of the
World Federation of Churches, admits that the reports
are prabably true. He says that the famine is showing
signs of becoming the greatest scourge in Chinese his
tory.
Eivch Election
Predicted Por
Tomorrow
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posed for the Republican nomina
tion.
Henry Roden of Juneau, a
Democrat, is the only candidate
for treasurer.
Some lively contests are in the
offing for seats in the Legislature.
Five members of the 1949 House
of Representatives are seeking
nomination for the Senate.
They are James Ovolan, of
Wrangell and G. E. Almquist, of
Juneau, Democrats, in the First
Division; William E. Beltz, Nome,
Democrat, and Percy Ipalook,
Wales Republican, in the Second
Division, and Warren Taylor,
Fairbanks Democrat, in the
Fourth.
The Third Division Senate field
is without a contest. There are
only two Democrats—Sen. Victor
A. Rivers and Senate President
Mayor Z. J. Loussac of Anchorage
—and two Republicans — Senate
President Gunnard M. Engcbreth
and Gerrit Snider—seeking the
two spots for each party.
The Second Division (Nome)
has prospects of a lively race for
two Republican nominations for
the Senate. The two incumbent
Senators, Charles D. Jones and
William Munz, are opposed by
Rep. Ipalook, an Eskimo mission
ary who may poll a big native
vote in the Division with the big
gest Eskimo population in the
Territory.
In the Fourth Division (Fair
banks) the Senatorial contest is
on the Democratic side. Democrats
Robert Hoopes, Jesse D. Lander
and Warren Taylor are running
for the two nominations. Neither
of the Fourth Division incum
bents, whose terms expire, are
seeking re-election. Both of them,
Andrew Nerland and E. B. Col
lins, Republicans, decided to re
tire from the Senate.
A full new Second Division
slate in the House is a certainty
for the next Legislature! None of
the Representatives from the Di
vision are seeking re-election to
the House.
The contests for the House line
up this way:
First Division — 14 Democrats
and 11 Republicans, with eight to
be nominated by each party; Sec
ond—five Republicans and four
Democrats, with four to be nom
inated; Third — 21 Democrats
• headed by House Speaker Stan
ley J. McCutcheon) and 11 Repub
licans. with seven to be nomin
ated; Fourth—10 Republicans and
seven Democrats, with five to be
nominated.
PACIFIC FISHERMEN FEAR
JAP FISHING INVASION
VANCOUVER, VP) — Pacific
coast fishermen, both in Canada
and the United States, fear a new
Japanese invasion of rich salmon
and halibut fisheries.
To Canadian fishermen the
main threat, they claim, is the re
turn to the coast of Japanese fish
ermen who were sent beyond the
Rockies during the war for secur
ity reasons.
Along the United States coast,
the fishermen fear a return of
Japanese fishing fleets which be
fore the war made the “long sail”
to Alaska and coastal waters.
They harvested rich catches.
Hundreds of Japanese have re
turned to the British Columbia
coast from their war-time homes
since the ban was lifted last year.