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VOL. LII. No. 38 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
COVINA, Calif. (JP) — Kermit
Wilson wants to change an old
White House tradition. He said he
has sent this telegram to Sen.
Knowland (R.-Calif.):
“Respectfully request you inter
cede with President and suggest
rolling of oranges on White House
lawn this Easter instead of eggs.
This would be in line with govern
ment’s recommended crop rota
tion principles and obviously a
fair deal for all. Also, it will help
take spotlight off administration’s
embarrassing egg surplus. ...”
Wilson is the owner of a 40-acre
citrus grove.
Wilson could have saved him
self some effort: the White House
egg rollings were dropped during
the war and haven’t been revived
yet. '
SEATTLE, (P) — C. Howard
Blatzo, formerly of Seattle, was
named to a new post of assistant
regional director of the United
States fish and wildlife service in
Alaska
Peter Hammer, Baltzo’s father
in-law said yesterday Baltzo will
move to Juneau about June 1. He
has been serving as assistant chief
of the service’s branch of fisheries
in Washington, D. C.
Baltza graduated from the Uni
versity of Washington School of
Fisheries in 1935.
PARIS, (jP)—Leon Blum, veter
an French Socialist leader, died
yesterday.
Blum, veteran of France's tur
bulent between-war pol i 1 i c s ,
would have been 78 April 9.
Thrice Premier of France, he
was active in France's govern
en to the end. He was vice pre
mier under Andre Marie in 1948
and was a leader in the European
Unity movement.
A bitter foe of the Nazis before
and during the war, Blum was
just as vehemently an enemy of
the communists who made him a
constant target of their attacks.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Gen- I
eral Services Administration ap- j
proved the allotment of $1,797,660
for construction of six public
works projects in Alaska yester-1
day. The allotments:
School additions at Wrangell, j
$300,000; additions to Eielson Me
morial building, University of
Alaska, $327,000; storm sewer ex-;
tension and street regrading at,
Juneau, $30,000; and these pro- j
jects at Anchorage: $590,000 for
additions to Spenard, Mt. View
and Park View schools, $305,160
for repair and two storage build
ings, and $245,500 for storm sew
ers and street improvements.
FAIRBANKS, (^)—An Alaskan j
couple and their 14-month-old
daughter arc going to complete
their journey by air after having
spent 24 days on the trail with j
their dog team.
Mr. and Mrs. Judson Hughes
and the child left Old Crow, Yu
kon Territory, March 6 for Fort
Yukon, some 300 miles away.
They planned to arrive about 10
days ago and fear foi< their safety
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0
“Ike” Says More j
Funds Necessary
For Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Members
of the House armed services com
mittee disclosed plans yesterday
to add about $647,000,000 to next
year's defense budget.
This development followed tes
timony by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower that a half billion dollars
more—at a “guess” — could be
used to strengthen this country’s
defenses.
The House next week will be
gin consideration of a bill which
calls for $13,911,127,000 in cash
and contract authority for the
armed forces in the 12 months
starting July 1.
Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of
the armed services committee an
nounced that when the bill comes
up he will make a “strong
speech” pointing out the grave
situation confronting the United
States now that Russia has the
atomic secret.
He said he will call upon the
House appropriations committee
to sponsor amendments to
strengthen this country’s arma
ments. If that group won’t do it,
he said, he sill.
The bulk of the additional funds
proposed by Vinson would be
used to strengthen the nation’s
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Chapman Looks
For Early Action
On Statehood
EVERETT, Wash. (^—Secre
tary of the interior Oscar L.
Chapman asserted Wednes day
that he “anticipates reasonably
early action on Alaska statehood.
An advocate of statehood for
the Territory for the past 15
years, Chapman said the Alaskan
people are “(entitled to full fran
chise rights” and are willing to as
sume the responsibility that would
go with admission to the Union.
Chapman expressed pleasure
that the House already has recog
nized the need for Alaskan state
hood, and voiced confidence that
the. Senate also would see it the
same way.
“Statehood for Alaska is im
portant to the people in the Terri
tory, to the Pacific Northwest and
to the entire nation,” he said.
He pulled out the statistics
Wednesday night in an address
criticizing administration critics
who charge that the United States
is drifting toward Socialism.
Bringing his subject close to
home for the audience of Jeffer
son-Jackson banquet goers, Chap
man referred pointedly to the con
dition of Washington farmers.
“The cash income of farmers in
the State of Washington, having
reached $208,000,000 in 1929, had
dropped to $88,000,000 by 1932.”
he said. “I am proud to remind
you that in 1948 this income for
farmers amounted to over $570,
000,000.”
WASHINGTON, (Editor’s Copy)
—Potatoes represented four-fifths
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Nine File For
City Council
The official ballot for the forth
coming City election to be held
next Tuesday offers a wide vari
ety of choice for the office of
Councilmen.
For the other offices there is no
competition to the present offi
cials who are up for re-election.
The ballot is as follows:
Mayor, Steve Andersen for his
second term; City Clerk, Carrie
McLain for her seventh term;
Treasurer, A. A. Daue, second
term; School Board, Charles Fa
| gerstrom, second term.
Candidates for councilmen are:
J Fred Cavota, H. W. Edwards,
Keith Hedreen, Robert Oliver,
1 Charlotte Paterson, Arvo Saario,
Elmer Straub, Axel Edman, Joe
Hunt.
Councilmen who complete their
terms of office this year are Gor
don Osborne, Joe Hunt, Keith
Hedreen, and Fred Cavota. Three
j of the four are seeking re-election.
—
Senate Sure To
Confirm Two Key ;
Defense Posts
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Quick
Senate approval seemed likely to
day for President Truman’s ap
I pointments to two key defense
posts:
Secretary of air W. Stuart Sym
ington to become chairman of the
National Security Res o u r c e s
Board.
Budget director Frank Pace, Jr.,1
to become secretary of the army.
Both Republican and Democrats
I on the Senate armed services com
mittee were loud in their praise of
the nominees.
This was particularly signifi-1
cant in the case of Symington,'
since the committee previously!
had blocked Mr. Truman’s effort
to appoint his old friend, Mon. C.!
Wallgren, to the resources bqard .
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Republicans Elect
Latbrop Chairman;!
Adopt Platform
JUNEAU, (/I1)—Republican con
vention committees — particularly
the nine-man platform group—
worked hard overnight Wednes
day and early Thursday morning
to prepare reports fo rthe Terri
tory’s first united Republican
gathering in 16 years.
The platform committee pored
over recommendations until 1:30
a.m. yesterday, and went back to
it again at 9:00 a.m. The group in
eluded Julian Hurley and John
Butrovich of Fairbanks; Dr. Will
Chase, Cordova; Mrs. Helen Bro
sius, Seward; Albert White, R. E.
Robertson and Howard Stabler of
Juneau; Charles Jones, Nome, Sid
Charles of Ketchikan.
Comprising the campaign com
mittee were W. E. H. Cremer of
Nome, William Olson of Anchor
age; Albert White, Howard Stab
ler, Anita Garnick of Juneau and
Lester Gore of Ketchikan
With their two factions welded :
together for the first time in years, I
the Republicans leveled a double- f
barreled attack at the national
and Territorial Democratic ad
ministrations.
Keynote speakers joined in at
tacking alleged corruption, gov
ernment spending and what one
of them called “the siow poison of
the welfare state."
John Manders, Anchorage at
tor who was elected permanent
convention chairman, declare:
“We are now witnessing under '
the Democratic administration a
closing out sale of liberty for the
slavery of Socialism."
He was the keynoter for the
Third Division.
Howard Stabler of Juneau key
noted for the First Division.
The keynoters from the Second
and Fourth Divisions, Territorial
Senators Charles Jones and An
drew Nerland, made only brief
talks.
The “unity" convention ended
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SPEAKING OF RAIN-MAKERS
News of the \\ orld
At A (dance - - -
Thursday, March 30, 1950
<By The Associated Press*
Secretary of State Acheson told
Congress today that any cut in the
$45,000,000 asked for President
Truman’s “Point Four” program
would have unfortunate results
on efforts to check communism in
Asia.
“It would undoubtedly be inter
preted by the peoples of the free
countries of Asia, the Middle East
and other underdeveloped areas
as indicating a lack of interest in
a program upon which they have
been putting very great hopes,” he
said.
Acneson went betore me senate
foreign relations committee to ar
gue for the proposed program of
American technical aid to raise
production methods and living
standards in backward areas of
the world. The plan got the name
"Point Four” from President Tru
man’s listing of it in his inaugural
address last year.
The Senate group is considering
the proposal at a time when Ache
son is reported to be trying to
draw Great Britain and France
into a united front against the
spread of communism in Asia.
Acheson told the Senators that
the $45,000,000 figure is a careful
estimate of what is needed for the
12 months beginning July 1.
Acheson and roving ambassa
dor Philip C. Jessup gave a confi
dential report to the Senate for
eign relations committee on the
Asian trouble center yesterday.
At a recent British Common
wealth foreign ministers confer
ence at Colombo, Ceylon, British
countries worked out a similar aid
program and urged American sup
port.
The Truman administrate n,
seeking to fit Point Four pro
gram into its overall anti-com
munist global plan, has asked
Congress for $45,000,000 to get the
ball rolling. Thus far the Congress
has shown no great enthusiasm
for the idea.
Britain’s wobbly Labor govern
mcnt has been dcieatea on a
minor issue in the House of Com
I mons. The Conservatives who
, baited the trap caught the Labor
ites with their minority showing
and won a 283-257 victory on a
motion to adjourn. Since it was
, not a major issue the Attlee gov
j ernment will not resign, But it
I was a blow to the government’s
| prestige.
Labor now has only a majority
i of three.
Anti-Laborite newspapers
chuckled over the successful Tory
stratagem and forecast an early
I election but not before the spring
| budget is put through.
In Taipei, Formosa, Chinese Na
tionalists revealed they have
seibed four ships in tightening
their blockade of communist-held
Chinese mainland ports. The ships
I were identified as two British
| and two flying the Panama flag.
Friday, March 31, 1950
Atlantic pact military advisers
today were reported leaning tow
I ard the idea of leasing air bases in
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