The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1947, Page 4

AGE FOUR . . D(lll)’ Alflsk(l E'nl}lrc fjords laden with glacier ice. would. be astronomic. Published every evenine except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second a Main Juneau, Alaska s - President ce-President nd Manager naging Editor Alaska was not HELEN TROY MONSE DOROTHY TROY LINGO . WILLIAM R_CARTE} - - - ELMER A FRI - - Ma Business Manager ALFRED ZEN 6 misinformed member of Congress is to be deplored. e JUNE 25 . Entered {iee In Juneau &s Second Class Matter. Nothing at this time would muddle the Alaskan de- | ® Dr. Isaac Knoll . Detivered by ar.’er T.'\'}:?.5‘,'.'.?.:.’,‘:7'133&? for $1.50 per month; feNse situation more thoroughly than its premature e Jennie McRob! ° siy months, $8.00; one year, S15.00 conversion to statehood. . Pauline Coke . One B3 T Bostage pald B AN athe, in advance, $780;| Even if the question of defense were not in-|® Kenneth Cole . e mont® 1o advance 8180 i sromptly notity | VOIVEd statehood for Alaska would not be financially (® Batbura Stante 1d ] the Bu' ness Sffice of an e PO bt etivery | feasible at this time because of its sparse population. | ® Emily Long . of their >cv.r ¢ Of its 75,524 residents (1940 census), only 45000 are | ® Jimmy Coie . s Ofice, 802; Business Office, 3. | Chivec the rest are Indians, many still primitive and | ® Robert Kelly . EVBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS without taxable property or income. This tiny popula- | ® . ss s exclusively entitled to the use £0 | G0 %000 iog an emire of 600,000 square miles, most/e e o e o o o o o re local news published | of i centered in the seaports of the southeastern —— e {panhandle and at Anchorage, Valdez, Seward and ! Last October the voters of Alaska expressed them- | celves, 9,630 to 6,822, in favor of statehood. With | SPANNING pUGEI i of remote control ment of “carg by revenue in pended by the “Bushwah" on the Alaskan Issue not supply Richmond Times-Dispatch) ; g ing, canneries, etc. would drive them out that Alaska may become the target of a ing, mining, canneries, e cor B i et i . | Harbor" sneak attack, Representative Of the Territory and deprive the population of its "‘“_L"["l‘ ‘z]"“fil"“‘“‘;’:{qff:f" "‘““l‘"‘c‘“! g L AEHN s s md T ey reroy to hon Island; @ La H. Smith, of Wisconsin, recently proposed live nighway across the nine-mile north- precipitous mountain ranges, cut by wide and (](‘(‘p’ Worst blunder of all, however, was made by Rep- | resentative Smith when he urged that statehood for vitally needed for defense purposes.” The wide publicity given to the utterance of this statehood as the ultimate hope of every Alaskan tired executive pésitions, is it not reasonable to suppose | that the 6 who voted against statehood—at this SEATTLE, June 25—(P—Assert- time—had a potent reason for doing so? (i $he entire Olympic peninsula | That large minority comprises the intelligent con- % kg h - isolation Leor ltingent of Alaskans who realize that, deprived of |7re% I8 faced Wit oD O ol large Federal appropriations, a “State of Alaska™ 2 0 b oo ncil esterday asked simply could not make ends meet. Opponents of a preliminary engineering survey House Bill 206, pr mate that the moneys which would have to be raised addition Territorial $15,350.614 per year. They point out that the “little man” simply could even a sizable fraction of this sum and that increased taxation of Alaskan corpo Alaska’s wide-flung ports of entry are connected WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1947 The cost of bridges alone only possible at this time, but “is and bitterly resenting the appoint- ggers” to high administrative and SOUND PROPOSED it 4 r ska statehood, ti- oviding for Alaskan statehood, estl | g ", %500 highway plan to span | Puget Sound | The plan was prepared by C. L. Newstrom, Harper engineer, and vould cost an estimated $10,000,000 | to earry out It envisions four and a half mile floating bridge, similar to that to sums now annually ex- government would total tions (fish- - Iturned this day on the steamer Alameda. 20 YEARS AGO 7%z ewmeire s JUNE 25, 1927 Announcement was made that the new Red Onion Inn would be opened this night at Auk Lake, by Earle Hunter and Albert White, who bad been busy arranging counters and tables in the former Fish and Game Club. They planned to have anv number of things for the | motorist, including gas, oil, tires, sandwiches, cold drinks, picnic lunches, and boats and canoes for exploring the lake. ' Halibut sales at Prince Rupert this day totaled 150,000 pounds. Am- erican halibut sold for six and 11 cents, Canadian for six and 124 cents. | After three days spent in Srettisham Inlet and Seymour Canal, Robert Kinzie, engineer for George T. Cameron of San Francisco, who was | inspecting power sites in the vicinity had returned to Juneau. He was accompanied by B. F. Heintzleman, Assistant District Forester, and Emil Gastonguay, local manager for the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining Company. Severin Swanson and Olaf Swanson had purchased the Peter Ham- | mer Store on lower Front Street, and were to cverate it under the name of Swanson Brothers' Grocery and Fishermen's Supplies. | Mrs. Charter W. Carter, who had been visiting in the States, rc-% | Weather: Highest, 68; lowest, 53; clear. i —~——— Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox || WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, for me.” Say, ‘She TYPED the letter for m OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Laocbrer. syllables, not lay-brer. OF=EN MISSPELLED: Pseudonym; observe the PSEU and the Y. S e ) “She typewrote the letter | | Pronounce lab-er-er, three | ss a seven-point program for the eguard- f our Northern frontier Three of his points with the United States only by boat and plane; all freight and most passenger transportation is by water. Even under Federal wartime control, however, with 1) A campaign to induce civilians to migrate to € war expense no cbject, shipping was disrupted by stril | suspension bridge across East Pas- ern tip of the island; a mile-long sage from Vashon to a point south of Harper, and a new east-west ta to develc natural resource: X ¢ ¥ h;“ I:x‘\"r:rn\)-filnl\‘e’;\: ‘;;"x‘;]n;(m:z; t:u(-k facilities to to a point where the people of the Territory ‘\\rrc‘:’\lill\ry'fl.\ 0SS !fl\;g;w l(.Zf)unl;‘)The ‘he area. “This means,” said Representative Smith, threatened with starvation. Alaska is not a self- | latter segment vvu';_l' ] ui»sHl ll ex- 1struction of two or three hard-surfaced roads sufficient area. It must import practically all its isting Bremerton-Tacoma Highway. 1e maintenance of a- modern railroad.” food except a nominal quantity raised near Anchorage Lo, G2 o 3, Statehood for Alaska. This, he said, is vitally and in the much-ballyhooed but vastly n‘\'er-ral.ed o R R S TR s SR il 2 -‘ needed for defense purposes.” Matanuska Valley. With mining and fishing crip- ® e i . We don't know who sold Representative Smith pled by Communist-dominant strikes, a “State of e TIDE (ABLE . this bill of goods, but it is reminiscent of a Congress- Alaska,” vitiated by confiscatory taxgtlon. would soon | @ . man who some years ago addressed a letter to “The be drained of all, or most of, its white population . JUNE 26 . Governor of Alaska, Dawson.” Dawson happens to —_— e Low tide 2:22 am., 35ft e be in Canada. Another Congressman once inquired At present the inclination ¢ the Interior D2part- | ® High tide 8:27 am, 128 ft. e about the cost of the “Lynn Canal” which happens ment to throw open to pulp and paper development ® Low tide 14:28 pm, 28 ft. e to be 4 watural fjord, 100 miles long and six miles the billions of board feet of virgin timber in Alaska’s| ® High tide 21:05 p.m., 152 ft. o wide coastal forests offers the most plausible hope of in- @ . TR, e R e B A Representative Smith's plan to “induce ska to develop its resources” is obviously assumption that the fishing and mining hich are its only major industries at can be “developed” by any Tom, Dick or migrate to based on the industries, present Federal present Harry “cheechako” with a few thousand dollars in his jeans The facts are that the fishing industry has nearly reached the saturation point and the mining industry has practically ceased to function, except for a few high-value ore bodies, because of the high cost of labor and ore-concentrate shipping. There are no smelters in Alaska and it would take millions of dollars to build smelters and to operate more low- grade ledge mines, even during normal-cost periods exceptionally As to “improvement of rail and truck facilities to the area,” apparently Representative Smith is un- fact that there are no “rail facilities to right wher aware of the area.” The only railroad worthy of the name in Alaska is government-owned (at an annual loss of some $250 0000 and connects Fairbanks in the interior with Anchorage, a port about 2,500 miles northwest of Seat The “Alcan Highway,” much of it in Can- the tians by Seward Peninsula be gression can adian territory, was a temporary wartime strategic highway for military use, and its “improvement” or the building of “two or three hard-surfaced roads” over this immensely difficult terrain (which could not be accomplished without Canadian consent) would cost possibly billions of dollars, and Winter mainte- nance would likewise be prohibitive Nor could a coastal highwayv be built from Seattle Anchorage. via Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway, his Alaska. to the Territorial to creasing its permanent population, but this prespect is beclouded by Indian aboriginal claims which, under mining or homestead claims already established by white men. The pulp and paver prospects are further stymied by refusal of the government to protect pros- | pective paper mill investors against excessive stumpage charges, which might make large-scale manufacture unprofitaole after expiration of the initial five-year contract period. The estimated $20,000,000 needed for a paper mill probably will not be invested on so hazardous a gamble# The restoration of the public domain now with- held from piospective sidered as a prerequisite to more rapid development and eventual statehood. Repreyentative Smith, he points to the possibility of invasion of Alaska by a potential enemy. the Japs tempting stepping stones. from Soviet Siberia Federal control of Alaska—as a unit—and by the | establishment there of adequate naval and air bases. | collaboration in a plan designed to An easing of Federal control, in certain directions, | meet army criticism. However, he however, might apnease the resentful Alaskans. Governor of Alaska should be an Alaskan who knows |the “Colossus of the North” and More home rule could easily be granted |ousted Velazco. And, just to under- four judicial districts could, perhaps, be felected from | General Bertollo as chief of police its able attornevs. to defense, that, as Alaskan sourdoughs used to say, | because every inch of the way would be along or over is just so much “bushwah.” -ee "Pioneer of Nome Is Deqd in South SAN FRANCISCO, June 25— Funeral services were held here ye: jterday for John Lightenberg, 80, pioneer Nome hardware dealer. He died here Fridav. He went to Alaska in the gold rush days. He retired and came to San Francisco four years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Gladys Solvin, lives here. laws, have priority over all land, Alaskan settlers is also con- of Wischnsin, is quite Invasion of the Aleu- | proved that those islands are The westerly tip of the . north of Nome, is only a few miles But protection against such ag- ! by more, not less, s0 enjoys important personal sup- port within the army. E Peron has had plenty of reason to worry over his own standing with the military, and only a few weeks achieved only x jago was seeking Velazco's close The | gambled on his new friendship with Legislature. Federal judges for its|score his motives, Peron named in Velazco's stead. This, of course, was adding insult to injury in the nationalists’ eyes. But as for statehood being an aid Eé—fia;lfinglon Merry-Go-Round (Comtinued frum Page Onej lina, at 9 pm. June 7 and the two set out on an unheralded tour of all military headquarters in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area So far as is known, no one was L AR, SoESLE i GO SELNY S o uneid caught openly conspiring, but the like @ hurry-up job of trying to State of nerves which prompted <hove Latin America in line for Peron to make such a junket has L le conflict with Russia been the subject of amused com- ] motive behind the first MENt Among ar qu as expressed privately by | R PERON GC various editers, legislators and 2 prominent civie leaders, is fear that Perhaps the mast significant move the red under the pro- by P:iesident Peron in his WOl e the United States entire career was the firing of anti- econon stranglehold on the U.S. Gen. Filomeno Velazco as chief hemis nere. This attitud: is of federal police and his replace- ulariy narked Argen- ment by pro-U.S. Gen. Arturo Ber- whose conclusions can be follo, former Argentine Military At- red up as follows tache -in Washington “You people have never gotten to General Bertollo holds the “le- first base with us in -a regular gion of merit,” highest award the business way, so now you hope to United States can give any foreign- move in through the back door by er not a chief of state, is 0 on getting us to mortgage ourselves for close terms with many American a lot of your surplus war goods. my officers, and in Argentina is point of view was formally s regarded as very “pro-Yangi.” ssed in a resolution presented The job which General Bertollo Argentine congress by fills as head of federal police is Radical party bloc, which oppcsed the most powerful in the country President Juan Peron and backed His well-trained troops run the he US-supported candidate in Federal District of Buenos Aires (an last year's elections. The resolution area similar to the District of Col- cited the alleged dangers to umbia) and have considerable pow- ional econom; nd sovereignty” in- er to make or break presidents. herent in the lan and called, The man who has just been oust- on the governme have no part ed from this post, General Velazco,' of it was the only member of Peron’s of- ilar sentiments have been ticial family who clearly and open- *d by legislators in Uruguay ly#epresented the nationalist point Chile. As for the second con- of view—a passionate Latin version »n—that the United States is of Chicago Tri e isolationism r to Latin America This relatively small but noisy in its quarr Russia—the im- element applauded Peron’s moves pression ex: t nothing was to diminish Britain's influence on done to push the armament project Argentine ecconomy urged him - until relations between Washington to remain militan standoffish and Moscow became severely strain- with the U. S ed When dispatches from Wa “A year ago, this program could ton announced that Truma have been put over much more ready to shake hands with Argen- gracefully,” commented a wellknown. tina, th ationalists demanded an Peruvian politiciar | efficial statement couched in terms which would I rejectir Tru Such st e meant practically an’s olive branch have been issued r similar pressure PERON FEARS REVOLT Signs the times in Argentina President Juan Peron summoned n the past Bl e 30l o e |As one of their youthful leaders ais minister of war, Gen. Sosa Mo- but not this time. | commented: Confident of his position in fu-| “Bertollo is a renegade. We're !regard as his boldest political ges- ture Western Hemisphere relations, | Watching him and Peron like hawks, Peron decided to make what many|2nd if this turns out to be the be- ginning of a full ‘surrender’ to the United States, we’ll fight it all the ture to date by dropping the na- e e way—and I mean die fighting it, tionalists entirely. 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