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VOL. HI. No. 65 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1950 Per Copy—15c
Sen. Lyng Reports
On Statehood Bill
'The second of three articles*
Correction: Last week’s article
stated "Fifty per cent of the pro
ceeds from sales of public lands
lying within the State which shall
be sold by the United States sub
sequent to admission of the state,
etc.,, The percentage should have
read “five,” not “fifty.”
The State of Alaska will pos
sess and exercise, within its terri
torial limits, including adjacent
waters, complete control over the
fisheries and the wildlife of Alas
ka under its jurisdiction, except
ing fur seals, sea otters, and such
other fish and wildlife resources
as are protected under interna
tional agreements. Toward this
end all real and personal proper
ty of the United States in Alaska
which is used in connection with
the conservation and protection
of the fisheries and wildlife of
Alaska, is transferred to the State
of Alaska. '
This transfer does not include
lands already withdrawn or set
apart as refuges or reservations
for the protection of wildlife, or
in connection with general re
search activities relating to fish
eries or wildlife.
The Bill provides for the estab
lishment and maintenance of a
system of public schools which
shall be open to all children of
the State and free from sectarian
control. All schools and colleges
shall remain forever under the
exclusive control of the State, and
no part of the proceeds from the
sale or disposal of any lands gi an
ted for educational purposes shall
be used for any sectarian or de
nominational school, college or
university.
It .also provides that the Stale
of Alaska and its people agree
and declare that they forever dis
claim all right and title to any
lands or other property, the title
to which is retained in or ceded to
the United States by this Act.
Furthermore, all provisions of
this Act reserving rights or pow
ers to the United States, as well
as those prescribing the terms or
conditions of the grants of lands
or other property made to the
State of Alaska, must be consen
ted to fully by the State and its
people. The portion of the pro
ceeds of the sales of public lands,
of sales of fur seal or sea otter
skins, of oil royalties and other
such revenues derived by the Fed
eral Government from the sale or
lease of resources within the
State of Alaska, which are not
paid over to the State, shall be
deposited in the Treasury of the
United States in a special fund
which shall be devoted only to the
retirement of the public debt of
the United States.
This re-written Statehood Bill
does not say very much concern
ing the structure of the courts for
the new State, leaving that large
ly for the determination of the
Constitutional Assembly when
they meet, subsequent to passage
of this Act by Congress, to write
the Constitution for the new State.
The presumption is, that when
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Crime Inquiry
Made by Senate
—
WASHINGTON, </P)— A sen
ate investigation of crime and
j gambling appeared to be snow
balling today into the biggest
government crackdown on the
underworld since prohibition
days.
With the full support of presi
dent Truman—reaffirmed a t a
press conference yesterday— a
special Senate committee moved
: toward a series of fast-breaking
inquiries stretching all the way
from New York and Florida to
California.
In the latest move, chairman
Kefauver iD-Tenn.- asked the
, federal communications commis
sion to “freeze” all eastern union
1 message files to prevent them
from being discarded.
The FCC has ordered such a
freeze on telephone toll slips at
the request of the Kefauver com
mittee. Normally the telephone
companies destroy toll slips after
| holding them for six months.
Western Union keeps its message
files for the same period.
The investigators hope, through
these communications records, to
* establish that big-time gamblers
and racketeers are using inter
state communications to conduct
I their operations.
At his news conference. Mr.
Truman pledged his personal sup
port—and the full cooperation of
federal agencies—to the Senate
committee.
He opened up a whole new field
of inquiry by promising to give
the Senate information which is
usually highly confidential mat
j erial.
I
Progress Hut
No Settlement In
Cannery Dispute
SEATTLE. <7Pi — “Some pro
gress” has been reported, but no
immediate settlement is in sight
in the Alaska Salmon Cannery
controversy, federal conciliator
William G. Hosie said today.
Hosie met with officials of the
Alaska Salmon Industry. Inc., and
Local 7-C of the International
Longshoremen's and warehouse
men’s union (CIO) late yesterday.
He said agreement was reached
on establishing seniority for hir
ing cannery workers who were
employed last year. Both sides
agreed on a central non-partisan
hiring procedure with appoint
ment of an impartial labor arbi
ter to rule on questionable se
niority cases.
They agreed on appointing I.
A. Sandvigen, business agent for
the independent machinists union,
subject to his acceptance.
Hosie set the next meeting for
Friday noon.
The dispute is over granting to
Local 77 of the packinghouse
workers union (CIO- the contract
for this year’s cannery work. Lo
cal 7-C, ejected from the CIO
with its parent food ajid tobacco
workers union, was signed up by
Harry Bridges’ longshoremen,
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400 ARMY ENGINEERS HERE
TO SURVEY BERING COAST
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE—
An advance contingent of Army
engineers from Fort Scott, San
Francisco, arrived at Marks Wed
nesday to prepare for the immi
nent arrival of a company of ap
proximately 400 surveyors.
This contingent, a part of the
first of an indefinite number of
yearly relays, will begin a com
plete survey of the Bering Coast
and other surrounding strategic
points in mid-June.
The site of a separate tempor
ary base for the Army personnel
has been selected a few miles
east of Marks.
quota of surveyors will be sta
tioned in this area for three
months each year until the survey
is completed.
Bishop (Beeson
Visits Nome
| His excellency. Bishop Francis
D. Gleeson, vicariate of Alaska
for the Catholic Church, arrived
yesterday from Anchorage on his
second visit to Nome.
\ Bishop Gleeson made his first
, visit here two years ago and made
many friends during his stay.
A confirmation class has been
i announced at the St. Joseph
Church for 7:30 Sunday evening.
\
Baseball Scores
'By The Associated Press)
Thursday Games
National League
New York 8-2, Cincinnati 7-5 •
(twilight doubleheader*
Philadelphia 8, Chicago 4
Boston 14, Pittsburgh 2
American League
New York 6, Chicago 5 'night 10
innings)
I St. Louis 5. Washington 4 (night.
12 innings)
i Cleveland at Boston, wet grounds
Detroit at Philadelphia 'night*
rain.
Pacific Coast League
Portland 2-9, San Francisco 0-3.
Sacramento 4, Hollywood 3.
Los Angeles 7, Seattle 4
San Diego 3, Oakland 1.
NAT'L GUARD OFFICIALS
HERE ON ORIENTATION TRIP
Major General Cramer. Chief
of the National Guard Bureau;
Colonel R. C. Ervin, Executive
Officer; Colonel Edward V. Con
don, Chief Administrative Offi
cer ;and Colonel Alexander ar
rived yesterday for an orienta
tion trip of the National Guard
units in the territory. They are re
ported to have been favorably im
pressed with the progress the
■ Guard is making in this area.
Before coming to Nome, the
I group made a trip to Barrow and
Kotzebue and planned to tak'' in
Bethel and Unalakleet on the re
turn trip.
General Cramer was appointed
as Chief of the N G in 1947 for a
four-year tour of duty, having
served with distinction with the
43rd Infantry Division in World
War II.
lie is president of the Cramer
: Coal Co. of Hartford, Conn.
"MUKLUK TELEGRAPH"
TO GIVE NEWS OF
KOTZEBUE AREA
The “Mukluk Telegraph”, a
twice-monthly publication of the
Aero Trading and News Service
of Kotzebue, will be rolling off
the presses of the Nome Nugget
tonight, the first issue of the first
newspaper for Kotzebue.
Managing Editor Gene Joiner,
well known bush pilot who oper
ates out of Kotzebue, is familiar
! to many Nomcites. having been
flying his own plane for the past
six years in and out of Nome. He
will be gathering his news from
remote villages served by Kotze
bue.
This is a worthy enterprise that
I will help educate and unify the
i scattered peoples of this area. Our
i congratulations are extended to
| him and his associates.
i
Rev. Wesbrooke of the Friend's
Church of Kotzebue, one of Sew
ard Peninsula’s flying mission
aries, arrived yesterday and is
scheduled to take off today for
Kotzebue.
WE DON’T MIND IF NOBODY SHIRKS!
News of the \\ oriel
At A (ilanee - - -
By the Associated Press
Thursday. June 1. 1950
Militant communists in occu
pied Japan today called for a gen
eal strike on Satuday and police
all over Japan wee alerted for
1 new outbeaks of red violence.
The strike was ordered by the
communists in reprisal for the oc
cupation's rush trial of eight Jap
anese accused of kicking and sto
ning American soldiers Tuesday.
It was the first serious Japanese
American clash since Gen. Mac
Arthur's troops took over control
of that country.
The communists have recently
become openly defiant of Ameri
can authoity after being taunted
by international communist cahr
ges of timidity. Gen. MacArthur
in the past year has twice sugges
ted in speeches that Japan may
be forced to defend her new con
’ stitutional liberties by outlawing
the communist party.
The party’s order for a reprisal
strike coincides with general
strikes Saturday in the automo
bile, metal trades and heavy in
dustry. The party strategy is to
influence the elections Sunday for
the upper house of parliament.
While communist disturbances
came to a head in Japan on the
, far eastern periphery of the Sovi
et Union, at the other extreme, on
the borders of Soviet-held east
Germany tension caused by com
munist youth decreased.
Ten thousand sleepy communist
teenagers en route to their west
German homes gave up their sit
down strike against west Ger
many medical examinations at
Luebeck and crossed the east
i west line. On their way home
from the weekend east Berlin red
i demonstrations, the blue-shirted
youths have camped two nights
just inside the Soviet zone rather
than submit to inspection and
• give their names to border police.
Elsewhere on the world news
front:
Korea--South Koreans dumped
major parties overboard in Tues
day’s elections and gave indepen
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Talks Rt'simieri In
Fairbanks Strike
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Negotia
tions have been resumed between
officials of Local 1550 and the
Fairbanks exploration Co. in an
attempt to settle the two-week
old strike which has stopped the
Company’s operations and cut off
two-thirds of the city’s electric
power.
Neither side has issued a state
ment. The official sources have
said the union shop clause which
w a s the initial reason for the
walkout has been by-passed in
discussions and other phases of
the working agreement taken up
first. The union shop issue is ex
pected to come up today.
Of 375 men who walked off the
job, only about 80 remain avail
have taken other jobs while the
balance have left for the states or
other points in the Territory.