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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
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March 3, 1879.
Friday, August 31, 1945
RUSSO-CHINA PACT
This week history was again made in
the Far East between Russia and China,
in that these two vast countries have
signed a 30-year agreement of mutual
friendship, and binding Russia to assist
China through the Chungking govern
ment, and providing for complete Rus
sian recognition of Chinese sovereignty
in Manchuria.
This agreement should put an end to
the internal differences between the
Chungking government and the Chinese
Communists.
The main points of the pact are:
1st—Russia will support Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Shek’s government.
2nd—Russia will withdraw from Man
churia within 90 days after the formal
surrender of Japan.
3rd—Russia will keep out of China’s
internal affairs.
4th—The Manchurian city of Darien
will be established as an international
free port administered by China.
5th—Port Arthur to be used jointly by
Russia and China.
6th—The Chinese eastern and south
ern Manchurian railroads to be operated
jointly by Russia and China.
7th—China to recognize the indepen
dence of Outer Mongolia if a plebicite
there confirms the people’s desire for in
dependence.
8th—Russia to respect Outer Mongol
ia’s political independence and territo
rial integrity.
9th—Russia will avoid interference in
the internal affairs of Sinkiang Province,
between Mongolia and Tibet, which em
braces Chinese Turkestan.
The agreement is hailed in China as
“an epoch-making accomplishment,” and
is viewed as “an appreciation of reali
ties,” based upon “the relations of the
two countries as military allies.”
The treaty provides for it’s own re
newal automatically, and can be termin
ated, after the thirty-year period, by one
year’s notice by either nation.
This agreement is truly the beginning
of a greater understanding of these two
great nations, and possibly the forerun
ner of many such agreements bewteen
other nations of the earth.
LIQUOR ORDINANCE
It is with pleasure that we call to
j your attention, the new Liquor Ordin
ance passed by the City Council last
Monday evening, and published on Page
Five of this issue.
This Ordinance brings up to date, the
city regulations in reference to intoxi
cating liquors and beverages.
A serious impediment to marriage
nowadays is the increasing difficulty in
supporting the government and wife on
! one income.
IATKT UNB _
WASHINGTON
NEWS-LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secre'ary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlat*.
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
DIFFERENTIAL
*
Rescission of the administra
tive orders of the War and Navy
Departments affecting wage dif
ferentials paid to resident Alas- j
kans in the classified Federal j
service employed by those depart-,
ments seems certain, and the
threat of similar orders affecting
employees of other government
agencies has been averted.
George J. Schoeneman, Admin
istrative Assistant to the Presi
dent, has today released the con
tents of two letters he has written
to the Secretaries of War and
Navy informing them it would be
desirable to return to the differ
ential policy in effect before July
1 and retroactive to that date. The
orders of the two departments,
which have been in effect since
the first of July, continued the
25% differential policy for per
sonnel recruited in continental
United States for work in the
territories and possessions but dis
continued the differential for new
personnel recruited in those areas.
An additional stipulation provided
that any resident hired prior to
July 1 would continue to receive
the differential until such time as
he received a raise in basic pay at
which time the dollar rate of the
differential would be reduced by
the rate of such increase. Since
Schoeneman is Administrative As
sistant to the President, it would
appear that his letters are tanta
mount to orders and that the War
and Navy Departments will com
ply immediately with the contents
of those letters.
Schoeneman s letters also stated
that the President has approved
that studies by the Civil Service
Commission and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics be made within
the next three months to deter
mine the cost of living in the
territories and island possessions
in order to reach a policy on dif
ferentials which will be binding to
all departments. This statement
eliminates the threat of the pro
posed executive order which
would have applied in general the
administrative orders of the War
and Navy Departments to all gov
ernment agencies having classi
fied Federal service employees in
Alaska and other territories and
possessions.
Delegate Bartlett has continu
ously fought, since their incep
tion, the War and Navy adminis
trative orders and the proposed
executive order, believing they
constituted unwarranted discrim
ination not only against Alaska
residents but residents of the other
areas affected.
SURPLUS PROPERTY
An office for the disposal of
surplus property in Alaska, Puer
to Rico and Hawaii has been es
tablished in the Division of Ter*
ritories and Island Possessions of
the Department of the Interior,
and it has been announced that an
office will be opened in Alaska
about September 1.
The new office will function un
der authority from the Surplus
Property Board and will dispose
of all types of surplusses ii
above-mentioned areas excep
craft and aircraft parts, boat
maritime equipment and agi
tural commodities and food
April, four government age
were designated as surplus i
erty disposal agencies for the
ritories and possessions, bul
rangements could not be mad
the Interior Department b<
now to undertake the care
handling of such property as
now come under its jurisdic
The order under which the
terior Department will now f
tion designated the Reconstru<
Finance Corporation as disp
agency for aircraft and ain
parts, the United States Mari
Commission for dispiosal of s
and maritime equipment and
Department of Agriculture as
posal agency for food.
WARTIME COST OF
LIVING IN ALASKA
Over the two-year period f
March 15, 1943, to March 15, 1
Anchorage experienced the gr
est increase in living costs as c
pared with Fairbanks and J
eau, according to studies just e
pleted by the Bureau of La
Statistics.
The indexes, covering aver
changes in the retail prices of
lected goods, rents and serv
important in the purchases
wage earners and clerical wc
ers in the three Alaska cities,
dicate that Anchorage has exp<
enced an increase of 4.3 perc
during the two-year period m
tioned, Fairbanks an average of
percent and Juneau an incre
of 2.6 percent.
Delegate Bartlett has been
formed that copies of the co
I plete tabulation of the Bureau
' Labor Statistics may be obtair
j from Mr. William A. Bledsoe,
! gional director, 1355 Market J
San Francisco, or from Miss Ri
Sawyer, Alaska representative
the Bureau at Room 204, Fedei
Building, Juneau, Alaska. It
therefore, suggested that anyo
interested in the details of t
study request a copy from one
the two persons mentioned abo\
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