Hawaii Elects
Delegates To Draft
State Constitution
HONOLULU (JP)—A middle-of
the road group of 63 convention
delegates will draft a State con
stitution for Hawaii next month.
Final tabulations from Tues
day’s voting showed candidates of
both the extreme left and right
were rejected. Forty-five dele
gates were named. Eighteen were
elected outright in the February
primary.
Racially, the convention will
have £7 Caucasians, 20 Japanese,
11 Hawaiians and five Chinese.
The elections were non-partisan,
but 29 Delegates are registered as
Republicans, 23 are Democrats
and 11 were not clearly identified
with either party.
The convention opens April 4.
It will draft a Constitution which
will be ready if the Senate ap
proves Statehood for Hawaii. The
House already has approved the
Statehood bill.
A total of 97,373 voted in the
run-off, or 79 per cent of those
registered. It was the second heav
iest vote in Hawaii’s history, ex
ROTARY PAN AM'S
TO SOUTH AMERICA
Through the medium of sound
film the Rotary Club members
did a take on South America at
their noon luncheon Thursday.
Pan American Airways took off
on flight Rotary and when the
colored film came to the notation
“End” the Rotarians had not on
ly been to church, to fiestas, mar
ketdays and on the site of ancient
excavations, but they had had
the company of an American
blonde, and so had been wel
comed at the airports of several
South American nations. Not the
least of their half-hour adven
ture was a visit to Mexico City’s
bull fighting arena, and all the
fellows agreed that fellow Rotar
ian Jim Walsh had really put on
the “Bull”.
Ben Young’s birthday was rec
ognized with the presentation of
a worry bird for coming days
when warmer weather would re
quire less of his product.
Guests of the club were Bob
Rose and Jack Frost, the latter
of Seattle and both crew men on
the Pan Am flight.
ceeded only by the 1948 general
election.
New Engine Works Under Water, Too
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The new 13,500,000 Reo Gold Comet gasoline engine can do more
than pull a truck fast —it’s not afraid of water, either. The photos
above show three stages in an unusual water test conducted in the Com
pany’s plant. While running, the engine was completely submerged in
a six-foot tank of water, shut off while below the surface, and started
again, several times. Air intake and exhaust pipes were the only parts
above water level. Reo engineers report that the engine ran under
water at speeds ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 revolutions per minute.
The engine was equipped with aircraft-type, waterproof spark plugs,
and waterproofed distributor, generator and start-'
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U. S. Will Survey
Bering Si rail
SEATTLE, (A*)—The coast and
geodetic survey said today two
ships would be sent to the Bering
Strait this summer to make the
first United States government
survey of waters between Alas
ka’s Seward Peninsula and Si
beria.
Information used in charts of
this area heretofore was obtained
years ago from Russian surveys,
officers of the coast and geodetic
survey said.
Bering Strait is used by ships
sailing to and from the Arctic, in
cluding the navy’s annual expedi
tion to Point Barrow.
The survey ship Explorer will
sail from Seattle and the Pioneer
from San Francisco April 17. Af
ter operating in the western Aleu
tians during the early summer,
they will go to the Bering Strait
in July to begin the new survey
project.
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Many Jobless Draw
Compensation
ANCHORAGE, </P)—More than
$600,000 will be paid jobless
workers in Alaska during March,
Robert C. Sheldon said yesterday.
Sheldon, executive director of
the employment security commis
sion, said he believed the load
would ease by mid-April when
hiring for construction projects is
expected to start.
Employment office offi cials
here said between 1,800 and 2,000
now are unemployed in the great
er Anchorage area.
"Local construction during the
coming season will be able to take
care of that number,” an official
said, <‘but if more people keep
coming to the Territory, many
may not be employed.”
Sheldon came here this week to
revise the advisory council of the
commission for the Third Divi
sion. The council would help the
commission in formulating poli
cies relating to administration of
the security act.
Industry and labor each would
have two representatives and the
public, one. Industry and labor
would name their own representa
tives while the commission names
the other.
About three-fourths of the Indi
ans in North America in Colum
bus’ time lived in the present U. S.
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prove 3(51 to 10 a $4,000,000,000
plus expansion of the existing pro
gram.
The Senate turned thumbs
down on the co-op plan last week,
43 to 38. A House-Senate confer
ence committee will now work
out a compromise housing bill—
without the co-op program.
But the President’s lieutenants
in Congress served notice that co
op housing forthwith is a political
issue for the November Congres
sional elections. And it may get
high billing in Mr. Truman’s rear
platform speeches when he makes
a swing to the West Coast fhis
spring.
Oveu jeers rising from the Re
publican side of the House, Demo
cratic leader McCormack of Mas
sachusetts shouted:
‘You may fool the public today,
but not next November. This is
going to be a live issue—an issue
which I hope will be used advan
tageously next fall.”
He accused Republicans of ‘‘vot
i ing one way and talking the
other."
In the House showdown 31
Democrats joined 137 Republicans
to strike down the co-op proposal.
Supporting the plan were 141
Democrats, 13 Republicans and
Sen. Downey l r^en
Karlv Statehood
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i(/P) Special Washington Service;
WASHINGTON, <A‘) — Senator
Downey >D.-Calif.' today urged
early Senate consideration of
statehood for Alaska #md Hawaii.
“As a sponsor of statehood for
Alaska,” Downey said in a state
ment, “I hope it will be possible
to get Senate action on these
measures before the end of the
sessions.”
Downey said chairman O'Ma
honey <D.-Wyo.) of the Senate in
terior committeefi had assured
him a hearing on the two House
passed bills will be held “as soon
as possible and an early report
submitted to the Senate.”
The California Senator said
“Alaska is ready for statehood.”
“The arguments against state
hood for Alaska are chiefly that it
is so far from the mainland and
has too small a population,” Dow
ney added.
“However, in these days of
swift communication, Alaska is
much nearer the mainland by air
routes than Los Angeles is to
Washington. Its present popula
tion,” about 100,000 is small in re
lation to its area, but I am certain
statehood would prove a great
stimulation to new settlement.”
the one American Labor party
member.
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