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NEWS IN BRIEF
VALDEZ, </P)—More than three
times as many motor vehicle li
censes have been sold in Valdez as
there were at this time last year,
Mrs. Margaret Harrais, U. S. Com
missioner, reported.
This year’s license total is 106,
while last year’s figure was only
31. She credits it to the keeping
open of the Richardson Highway.
BREMERTON, Wash. (/P)—'The
light cruiser U.S.S. Juneau will
sail from here to lead naval forces
assigned to the Far East Com
mand. Extensive repairs and over
haul in the past two month* have
just been completed on the power
ful warship at the Puget Sound
Naval shipyard.
Dispatches from Washington,
I). C., said the Juneau will bo the
flagship of Rear Adm. John H.
Higgins, commander of Cruiser
Division 5.
BALTIMORE. (/P) — The Arctic
Institute of North America an
nounced Monday, 21 grants-in-aid
for the study of physical, biologi
cal and social problems of the
North American Arctic.
Dr. M. C. Shelesnyak, director
of the Institute’s research office
at the Johns Hopkins University,
said the grants are for research
ranging from a pollen analysis of
peat sections along the Alaskan
Highway to the language of the
Nuniwagamiut Eskimo.
The latter project is being con
ducted by the only foreign recip
ient of a 1950 grant, Dr. Louis L.
Hammerich of the University of
Copenhagen.
Other recipients include: Tom
my J. Cabe, University of Alaska,
College, Alaska; and Wendell Hill
man Oswalt, University of Alaska.
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WASHINGTON, </p» — Rep. O'
Sullivan 'D.-Neb.' offered two
bills yesterday to prevent any but
bonafide residents and voters of
Alaska and Hawaii becoming
United States citizens when these
Territories are given statehood.
The bills would prevent any
one acquiring United States citi
zenship solely by virtue of being a j
resident at the time of admission.
These could become citizens only
by resorting to the naturalization
laws.
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WASHINGTON, </P), The House
passed three bills Monday affect- j
ing Hawaii.
The bills, all introduced by Del- i
egate Farrington (R.-Hawaii):
would:
1. Permit women to serve on
juries in the Territory.
2. Permit the Governor of Ha
waii, instead of the President, to
appoint the adjutant general of
the Territorial National Guard.
3. Authorize the commission of
public lands of Hawaii to issue
land patents under a 999-year
homestead lease of public lands
where the lands have been im
proved and occupied as a place of
residence by the lessee for 10
years or more. •
The bills were sent to the Sen-!
ate.
CAB Wordy Battle
Brought To Close
(By Charles D. Watkins)
WASHINGTON, (/?)—'The civil
aerontuaics board ended a hearing
yesterday on the adequacy of air
service to Alaska with one mem
ber asserting the agency “has al
ways wanted to act as fair as it
could to develop Alaska.’
The assertion was made by com
missioner Oswald T. Rvan after
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska
charged the board with aggravat
ing the Territory’s air situation by
requiring independent carriers to
maintain infrequent and non
scheduled service.
Gruening said this created a
void in air service which would
have to be filled by the board cer
tifying additional air carriers and
providing more mail pay. The
Governor expressed the belief the
non-skeds had not received fair
treatment.
Commissioner Harold Jones
took exception to Gruening’s
statement and asserted the board
is required by law to prohibit non
scheduled lines from providing
regular and specific service unless
they obtain a certificate of public
convenience and necessity.
Gruening had argued the non
scheduled lines had aided in build
ing up Alaska, have given a vital
service and should have a place
in the air service of the Territory.
Jones said independent Alaskan
carriers have resisted the law and
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Uranium Lecture
Ericlav Evening
A lecture on uranium ores and
the use of the Geiger counter will
be given at the Friday class of the
IT. of A. Mining Extension Course,
according to Jim Williams, the in
structor. This lecture should prove
of general interest, and all are in
vited to attend.
A study of the types of rocks
and how they are formed is now
being carried on, and on Thurs
day evening a lecture on the for
mation of the various types of ore
deposits will be presented.
The course now has an enroll
ment of forty people, with new
students entering the class nearly
every evening. The classes are be
ing held nightly, Monday through
Friday, between the hours of 7:00
and 9:00 at the High School, and
arc open to anyone who is inter
ested. No fees are charged.
BULLETIN |
SAN FRANCISCO. </P) — The
Federal Court Jury yesterday con
victed CIO longshore leader Harry
Bridges and two other defendants
of perjury.
NOTICE
—
In observance of Good Friday
business houses in Nome will be
closed from one o'clock until three
o'clock.
Announcement of special serv
ices for the churches appear on
another page of this issue.
290 Votes Cast In j
Citv Election
There were two hundred ninety
votes case yesterday in the City
election with the highest vote go
ing to Chas. Fagerstrom as mem
ber of the school board.
The ordinance for vacating Wa
ter Street lacked nine votes for
ratification.
Following are the results of the
election:
Mayor—Steve Andersen, 238.
Councilmen <2 year term)—Ca
vota, Fred, 89; H. W. Edwards,
153; Keith Hedreen, 132; Robert
Oliver, 51; Charlotte B. Paterson.
49; Arvo Saario, 88; Elmert C.
Straub, 173.
Councilmen tl year term)—Axel
Edman, 142; Joe Hunt, 119.
City Clerk—Carrie M. McLain,
| 238.
City Treasurer — A. A. Daue,
1 228.
Member of school board—Chas. I
Fagerstrom, 248. (
Ordinance for vacating River
Street, For Ratification, 149;
Against Ratification, 66. The or
dinance lacked nine votes for rati
fication.
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Pan Am. Asks
Direct Seattle To
Anchorage <Charter
WASHINGTON, (#>)—The civil
aeronautics board heard argu
ments Monday in its investigation
into adequate air service to
Alaska from counsel for nine air
lines operating from the United
States to the Territory and with
in it.
Eleven companies are involved
in the case.
Henry P. Friendly, counsel for
Pan American World Airways,
told the board his company wants
to serve Anchorage in addition to
Fairbanks and other Alaskan cit
ies and to establish co-terminals
at Portland, Ore., San Francisco
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Five Million Now
Available* For
Alaska Housing
r
F',ivre million dollars have been
deposited in Juneau, in the Fed
eral Disbursing Office, for the use
of the Alaska Housing Authority
I
in connection with its new housing
program which was approved by
Congress last year, it was an
nounced last week by E. Glen
Wilder, executive director. “This
fund, together with the recent ‘un
freezing of a portion of the Alas
ka Housing Authority Territorial
funds by the board of administra
tion in Juneau puts the A.H.A. in
a position to proceed with its
broad new housing plans," Wilder
stated. “We are now ready to do
business and invite all prospec
tive housing sponsors to contact
the AHA for further information,”
he said.
Approximately two years ago
the AHA initiated its legislative
program seeking to obtain the
means to alleviate the acute hous
ing shortage throughout the Ter
ritory, and to assist in the encour
agement of a home building in
dustry. During the year 1949, the
Territorial Legislature passed au
thorizing legislation and the Con
gress approved an enabling act
known as the “Alaska Housing
Act;" the direct result of the ef
forts of the AHA, and which has
already resulted in a quantity of
housing units in the major com
munities of Alaska to be planned
for early construction as soon as
the building season opens this
Spring. The 67- unit Turnigan
Arms Apartment building in An
chorage, and the 682 unit apart
ment project for the Alaska Rail
road and Fort Richardson also in
Anchorage, is already well under
way, and occupancy of these two
projects is expected this spring
and summer. Construction of a 132
unit, 12 story apartment building
is now getting underway in Jun
eau. These projects were made
possible by the provisions of the
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WE CAN DREAM. CAN T WE ?
PEACE
ANO
CO-OPERATION
RUSSIA *
News of lhe W or id
At A (ilancc - - -
Tuesday. April 4, 1950
(By The Associated Press*
A Nationalist Chinese air head
quarters spokesman said today
Russian-built and Russian-manned
war planes are now operating on
the communist-held mainland.
The spokesman at Taipei, For
mosa, said Nationalist fighters
during a raid Sunday on Red ship
ping near Shanghai met their
first air opposition in four years
of civil warfare.
He said the planes “definitely
were of Russian manufacture.”
And from the way they were
flown, he said, “they most cer
tainly were manned by Russians.”
Observers say this development
as an ominous forerunner for Red
air attacks on Formosa and said
it probably means communist
armies will have the protection of
an air umbrella when they invade
Chiang Kai-Shek’s island bastion.
A communique quoting intelli
gence reports from the mainland
said a large number of Russian
planes had arrived at Suchow, 160
miles north of Nanking. Here, the
communique said, Russian insig
nia was painted over with the in
signia of the communist Chinese
Republic.
Iii Moscow, the communist par
ty newspaper Pravda made it
clear that the Soviet union has no
intention of ending her boycott of
the United Nations as long as Chi
nese Nationalist representatives
sit in the U. N.
In a dispatch from its New
York correspondent, Pravda said
the United Nations is in a state of
‘paralysis” and “desolation.” It
blamed this on the “Anglo-Ameri
con bloc.”
The United Nations trusteeship
council in Geneva approved a sta
tute setting up an international re
gime for Jerusalem. The U. N.
has no actual power to enforce
internationalization. Both occupy
ing powers in the Holy City, Isre
al and Hashemite Jordan, are op
posed bitterly to an international
regime.
Wednesday, April 5, 1950
Nationalist China's foreign min
ister, George Yeh, today instruct
ed his representatives in the
United Nations to protest “defin
ite Soviet participation in China's
civil war.”
This action followed statements
by Nationalist spokesmen yester
day that two Soviet airmen, flying
Russian planes, shot down two
Nationalist pilots. A Nationalist
commander called the attack “a
flagrant act of Soviet aggression.”
Yeh claimed that Soviet fliers
and technicians are streaming to
the aid of the Chinese commun
ists in north and central China. He
contended this “definite Soviet
participation” violated the United
Nations charter and the Chinesc
Russian treaty of 1945.
The Indonesian Republic an
nounced the jailing of the alleged
mastermind of last January’s re
volt in West Java. At the same
time a new uprising flared in
Makassar, the Celebes, capital city
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