Governor Warren
Urges Statehood
For Territories
FAIRBANKS, (TP) — Governor
Earl Warren of Alaska said Mon
day that statehood for Alaska
would remove all doubts as to
whether the United States intends
to defend distant areas of the
territory.
“We are told,” said Governor
Warren, “that Russia is building
up her Arctic and subAretic terri
tory and cities, that Archangel,
Murmansk and Igarka are becom
< ing militarily and economically
stronger by the hour with popu
lation increases that would dwarf
the claims of the Chamber of Com
merce of many of our American
cities.
“It is difficult to understand
how some members of Congress
fail to see the necessity of doing
the same thing on our side of the
International Dateline.”
Governor Warren said he also
urged statehood for Hawaii be
cause he does not believe there
is a place in the life of the nation
for two kinds of citizenship.
California, he said, has a great
interest in the Alaska statehood
problem because the welfare of
Californians is involved in what
happens to Alaska.
Warren, who has been vacation
ing in Alaska, flew back to Seat
tle Monday night for his return
to California.
General Nathan Twining, vice
chief of staff for the Air Force,
told the graduates the Air Force is
establishing its facilities in Alaska
to support the maxim that “he
who controls Alaska controls the
world.”
Referring to the nearness of
Russia, he said:
“Let us recall that we as a
nation were born of revolution
aries and we are still the true
revolutionaries. We are today en
gaged in that revolution in con
trast with the reactionaries across
the Bering Strait which would
turn back the clock to the dark
ages, darker ages than the world
has ever known.
“Let us proclaim that truth to
all the world by proving it here
where the two systems stand face
to face.”
Gruening said the present gov
ernment of Russia does not ack
nowledge the validity o*f the sale
of Alaska to America in 1867 and
said this stand by Russia calls
for a “clear and categorical reply”
from Alaskans.
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Mount McKinley
Best Spot for Study
Of Cosmic Rays
FAIRBANKS, <ff) — A well
known explorer said Monday that
Mount McKinley and other high
peaks in Alaska are being mapped
for use as radar stations, weather
observation points and centers of
nuclear research.
Bradford Washburn, director of
the Boston Museum o*f Science,
made the statement at commence
ment exercises at th? University
of Alaska which awarded him an
honorary doctor of philosophy
degree.
The 40-year-old explorer came
to Alaska on his current trip to
climb 20,257-foot Mt. McKinley.
It will be his third ascent of the
mountain. This time he plans to
climb it from the west side, which
has never been approached on
foot.
Washburn said the summit of
the mountain is “without the
slightest doubt the world’s best
spot for the study of cosmic ra
diation.”
He said this is true because the
mountain is near the North Mag
netic Pole and tiny charged nuc
lear particles are attracted to the
pole in infinitely greater quuftti
I ties than to the equator.
He termed Alaska's mountains
her most dramatic heritages.”
OPIUM IN LOVERS LANE
SINGAPORE, (JP) — Police re
cently made the biggest opium
haul this year—500 pounds of it,
worth $250,000.
They found it in a station wagon
in a section of Singapore known
as “Lovers’ Lane.”
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House Suggests Alaska
Stop Paying $1 Bounty
On American Bald Eagle
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A House
subcommittee suggested yesterday
'that Alaska stop paying a $1 a
head bounty to killers of the Am
erican bald leagle.
“This is our national bird and
' not many of them are left in this
country,” Chairman Boykin of the
House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries subcommittee said.
The group shelved a bill by
Rep. Angell of Oregon to extend
to Alaska the protection that is
given the bald eagle in the United
States. There is a maximum pen
alty of $500 fine and six months
imprisonment for killing a bald
eagle in the continental United
States.
“We don’t want to tell the Al
askan legislature what to do,”
Boykin said in an interview. “We
merely agreed to suggest that it
: stop the bounty.”
A. O. Lundberg, mining oldster
of the Candle district who win
tered in that mining camp last
year, is visiting with his friends
! in Nome for a few days before
j returning to Candle.
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