Statehood And
Civil Rights
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(By Mary Lea Council)
WASHINGTON — Less than a
month after urging upon Congress
immediate statehood for Alaska
and Hawaii in his State of the
Union address on January 7, Pres
ident Truman reinforced his be
lief in presenting to Congress on
February 2, 10 points for a mini
mum program of civil rights legis
• lation including a recommendation
for statehood.
“The present political status of
• our territories and possessions,’’
the President stated, “impairs the
enjoyment of civil rights by their
residents. I have in the past re
' commended legislation granting
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii,
and organic acts for Guam and
• American Samoa, including a
grant of citizenship to the people
of these Pacific Islands. I repeat
' these recommendations. . . . The
- legislation I have recommended
for enactment by the Congress at
‘ the present session is a minimum
' program if the federal government
is to fulfill its obligation of insur
ing the Constitutional guaranties
Commission Asks
Extension of Time
To Sell Ships
WASHINGTON </P)—The chair
man of the maritime commission
asked the House merchant marine
committee yesterday to approve
an extension of the commission’s
ship sales authority until July 1,
1949.
William W. Smith told the com
mittee the commission should re
tain power to sell ships of the laid
up merchant fleet, and to operate
merchant ships in trade that pri
vate operators have not yet en
tered. The present authority ex
pires at the end of this month.
Smith said the commission has
sold approximately 1,700 ships
and has received $1,700,000,000 for
them. It still has 2,258 on its
hands.
The commission still is operat
ing 111 ships. Included are eight
passenger vessels and 95 tankers.
All of the tankers have been sold,
or are being sold, Smith said.
of individual liberties and of equal
protection under the law.”
Kersten Asks U. S.
Military Use Of |
Alaska Highway
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Ker
sten (R.-Wis.> proposed yesterday
that the United States and Canada
immediately work out an agree
ment granting this country mili
tary use of the Alaska Highway.
“The United States presently
has no legal basis for the use of
the Alaska Highway for military
purposes should the necessity
therefore arise,” Kersten said in a
speech prepared for House deliv
ery.
The 1,500-mile highway—which
cost some $130,000,000—was built
and paid for by the United States
during the last war.
“However,” Kersten said, “that
portion of the highway lying in
Canada—1,257 miles of it—was,
under the basic construction
agreement, completely turned
over to Canada on April 1, 1946.”
This agreement provided that
the Canadian portion of the land
link to Alaska “become an inte
gral part of the Canadian highway
system subject to the understand
ing that there shall at no time be
imposed any discriminatory con
ditions in relation to the use of the
road as between Canadian and
United States civilian traffic,”
Kersten said. I
“The Alaska highway was built
by us for the military defense of
Alaska and now we may use it
only for civilian purposes.”
Kersten introduced a resolution
proposing an agreement between
the two countries to assure the
United States military use of the
highway both as an overland and
an air route.
He contended that in event of
a future war between the United
States and another country — in
which Canada was not involved— ■
it would save Canada from the
embarrassment of having to de
cide at that time whether the
United States should be permitted
the military use of the highway.
“Among the most strategic
points of dynamic defense is our
Territory of Alaska. As an air and!
sea base it commands the north
ern Pacific and is an outpost of1
protection to our entire west coast
and the western hemisphere.”
Kersten said he did not want a
situation to develop similar to the
one in Panama where “the Pana
manian government has told the
United States to ‘get out’ of cer
tain strategic defensive positions
in their protection of the Panama
Canal.”
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UNALASKA VOTES ON
LOCAL OPTION
ANCHORAGE—Citizens of Un
alaska were granted permission by
Judge Anthony J. Dimond to hold
an election on local option of li
quor sales. Judge Dimond said
the vote on local option will be
the first ever held in the Third
Division.
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