Father Hubbard
D< ‘iiies He Favors
Alaska Statehood
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favorable to those who already are
on the federal payroll than it
would be to the average citizen.
“I would favor a military gov
ernment there until this tension
between ourselves and the Soviet
Union has been settled.”
He said he had privately asked
a great number of Alaskans how
they felt about statehood. ‘‘For
the most part—those who are not
on the government payroll—they
were either indifferent or against
statehood. I found most of those
who favor statehood are in the !
political field.”
He said Alaska should have
statehood “when it has an ade
quate population commensurate
with its area”—tho or three mil
lion.
For Alaska to carry out its du
ties under statehood, Hubbard
said, there would have to be “ex
cessive” taxation of such interests
as the salmon, pulp and mining
industries. This, he said, might
doom an industry like the salmon
business, and it would highly in
creasc costs to the ultimate con
sumers, besides.
Also, he said, it would be “dis
proportionate” under this coun
try's system to grant two Sena
tors to Alaska, with its estimated 1
30,000 voters .
Father Hubbard is here on a
lecture tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Dewey left ■
Sunday on a three months’ vaca
tion and plan to spend most of
their time in the northwest visit
ing friends and relatives. * |
“Unmitigated Lie,”
Lattimore Calls
McCarthy Charges
WASHINGTON, (/P) — With a
fresh denial of any communist
ties, Owen Lattimore returned to
the United States Saturday to re
ply formally to charges by Sena
tor McCarthy «R.-Wis.) that Latti
more is the top Soviet espionage
agent in this country.
Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins uni
versity professor, landed by plane
in New York as a new storm ap
peared brewing in the Capitol
over whether a Senate committee
has a right to force McCarthy to
surrender documents in the case.
Two Republican Senators —
Bridges of New Hampshire and
Hickenlooper of Iowa—took ex
ception to a suggestion by Demo
cratic Senator Green ((R. I.) that
if McCarthy declines to turn over
his papers in the case he should
be ordered to do so.
iviccarmy nas saia ne can pro
duce proof that Lattimore (1) is a
Soviet agent and (2) is or has been
a member of the communist party.
Lattimore, an American expert
on Far Eastern affairs, already
has labelled McCarthy’s charges
“on unmitigated lie.”
Returning from a United Na
tions mission to Afghanistan, Lat
timore told reporters in New York
he feels “unutterable contempt”
for McCarthy, whom he called a
“base and miserable creature.”
“Of course I an not a commun
nist, nor a fellow traveler, nor
have I ever been,” Lattimore de
clared. He added that he is “glad
to be back in America where I
can get a fair hearing.”
Lattimore tentatively has been
scheduled to testify Tuesday be
Estimate 135,000
Now In Alaska
SEATTLE (/P)—Alaska’s census
director estimates that the Terri
tory will show a population this
year of 135,000 permanent resi
dents, nearly double that of 1940,
the Post-Intelligencer’s Washing
ton D,. C., bureau said today. The
dispatch said that Clarence E.
Keating, Seward, made that esti
mate for Territorial Delegate E.
L. Bartlett.
If the Senate approves state
hood, growth will be greatly ac
celerated, Bartlett said.
The 135,000 population figure
would not include armed service
personnel stationed in Alaska
nor the thousands of fisheries and
mine workers who go there each
spring to engage in seasonal work.
In 1940 the census was 72,524.
Alaska’s fast-growing metrop
olis, Anchorage, has increased
from 3,488 in 1940 to 25,080. Other
cities have doubled or trebled,
Bartlett said.
This year’s census will be the
most complete ever taken in Alas
ka.
Bartlett hopes to have consider
able data on the Territory’s pres
ent population to present to the
Senate committee on interior and
insular affairs when hearings on
the Alaska statehood bill open
April 24. He said:
“Despite our limited and re
strictive Territorial laws, Alaska’s
permanent population has in
creased rapidly since the war.
“U. S. history shows that when
ever Congress conferred statehood
upon a territory its population
boomed. That will be true in
Alaska.”
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fore a Senate foreign relations i
sub-committee investigating IVJC*
Carthy’s charges.
Urges Seattle To
Support Non
| Schedules’ Fight
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| tie’s interested public has no con
ception of the business Portland
is taking over from them with
Alaska.
, “The Portland chamber of com
merce and Senator Morse (R.
jOre.> have backed the independ
! ent carriers 100 per cent. Portland
i will reap the benefits if Seattle
doesn’t get on the team now'”
Later he said:
The Governor of Alaska has
asked Mr. Truman to appoint a
fact-finding board free of the
biased attitude of the CAB, for
the purpose of determining the
needs of the Territory in air
transportation.
“Fairbanks, Anchorage and the
Portland Chamber of Commerce
are supporting this program 100
per cent, and it would behoove the
Seattle chamber of commerce to
concur in this request.
“Seattle has enjoyed the posi
tion of being the stepping stone to
Alaska. However, there is a strong
indication that this prestige may
in the not too far distant future
be lost if the demands of Alaska’s
citizens are not fully supported
by this great shipping point.
“Alaska will welcome with
open arms any fact-finding board
that comes to the Territory with
an open mind as to the needs of
the people . . .
“The great American pioneer
ing spirit which today is still ac
tive in our famous Alaskan bush
pilots’ everyday lives is fast be
ing rubbed out by the board’s en
forcement proceedings. Today it
is the Alaskan bush pilot and the
Alaskan non-scheduled airline op
erators that the CAB is regulating
out of business.”
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POLICE CHIEF NOEL
ROBINSON RESIGNS
The City Clerk has announced
j the resignation of Chief of Police
| Noel Robinson and P. Clinton
Morgan of the police department.
Until another officer is named
Councilmen Albert Anderson and
Gordon Osborne, assisted by Lou
Healy, will handle the police de
partment for the City'.
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Northern Gun Shop
NOME. ALASKA
MUSIC STUDIO
Tillic Stangroom
Teacher of Piano
Call MAIN 108
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. 343
An Ordinance of the City of
Nome, Territory of Alaska,
amending Ordinance No. 335 com
monly known as City Sales Tax by
adding thereto Sections IX and X.
BE IT ORDAINED AND EN
ACTED BY THE COMMON
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NOME as follows:
Ordinance No. 335 commonly
known as City Sales Tax is hereby
amended by adding to the Ordin
ance Sections IX and X to read as
follows—
SECTION IX
All taxes imposed on the buyer
by Ordinance No. 335 shall be due
and payable to the seller on all
cash sales at the time of sale and
on all credit sales at the time the
account is due and payable.
srrTinN v
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
RETAIL SALES as applied to
Ordinance No. 335 shall include
every sale made to a consumer or
to any person for any purpose
other than for resale in the orig
inal form of tangible personal
property and regardless of the
quantity purchased or the sale
price.
RETAIL PRICE shall mean and
shall be construed to mean sale
price.
PASSED by the Common Coun
cil of the City of Nome in regular
Session Assembled and approved
by the Mayor of said city the 27th
dav of March, 1950.
STEVE ANDERSEN,
Mayor
Attest:
CARRIE M. McLAIN,
City Clerk
Pub. Mar. 29, 31, April 3, 1950.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Stanley R. Morgan, Pres.
Ron Brousseau, Secy.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and
Third Thursday
each month
STANLEY R. MORGAN, W. M.
NORYIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
ORDER OF THE
• WALRUS
NOME, ALASKA
WES WELCH, Pres.
A. L. WALKER, Secy.
MEETS EVERY THURSDAY
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
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