The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950 BN Pehiends Ca QuaItYy SINCE 1587 DESIGNED 17! Shepherd check, very soft spoken in its dattern for the discriminating woman. Gilbert executes this coat with crisp shoulder detail, fullness so very casval and a waist slashed by o wide leather belt. in Black "CAMPAIGN OF TRUTH' PLANS ASKEDFORU.S. (Continued irom Page Cne) for partisan presentation. The facts about Europe or Asia should not be twisted to conform to one side or the other of a political dispute. Twisting the facts might change the course of an election at home, but it would certainly damage our country’s program abroad.” Mr. Truman called “absurd” the line taken by Russian propaganda, saying: “Soviet propaganda constantly re- viles the United States as a nation of ‘war mongers’ and -imperialists. You and I know how absurd that is. “We know that the United States is wholly dedicated to the cause of peace. We know no purpose of going to war except in defense of free- dom.” AERONAUTICS COM. DISPUTED VOUCHER IS DECLARED LEGAL (Continued from Page 1) technical services to any munici- pality or person desiring them . ..” “From this language,” Williams said, “it appears the legislature in- tended them to have their own staff of legal advisors.” If the attorney general's office had been called upon to render its services or contract for legal advice, the costs would have not been re- fundable, he said, with the Terri- tory having to foot the full bill, he explained. This type of contract enables the commission to get its 75 percent “kickback” from the government, as *“The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW*? PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A YELLOW CAB it does in the cost of airports them- selves or other funds expended. Engineering fees themselves have amounted to around $50,000. Of thif, $37,500 will be returned by the CAA. WE'VE GOT 37,921 NOSES COUNTED SO FAR; MANY T0 GO SEATTLE, April 20—(®—The first two weeks of the decennial census brought a count of 3,057,929 persons in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska . Nearly half of them were in Washington. Gene H. Harris, census supervis- or for the entire Pacific Northwest- Alaska district, said he thought the figures represented ‘“between 55 and 60 per cent” of the district’s population. . The two-week breakdown cluded: Alaska—37,921, in- VOTE FOR Waino E. Hendrickson Juneau, Alaska : ) ¢ Alaska Born and Alaska Booster PAY Tk Mayor of Juneau 4th Term w Republican Candidate HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For First Division (Paid advertisement) COMMITTEE HAS| MORE TO CONSIDER THAN A-H STATEH00D The Senate Committee on In- terior and Insular Affairs which opens hearings Monday on Alaska and Hawaiian statehood, will have more on its mind than just those two Territories of Uncle Sam’s. ‘This was revealed in an interview with Mills Astin, chief clerk of the committee who returned to Juneau yesterday after making a survey in the north and interior of Alaska on statehood and reservation matters. Senator O’'Mahoney of Wyoming is chairman of Interior and Insular Committee and will ask his com- mittee to consider, besides Alaska and Hawaiian statehood, an Or- ganic Act for Guam, Samoa and the trust territories of the Pacific, a Constitution for Puerto Rico: and a bill to allow the Virgin Is- lands to have a resident commis- sioner in the United States. As a matter of background, Astin related that Guam was taken by force from Spain during the Span- ish-American war and for the last 52 years has been ruled under a letter of authority granted by Presi- dent McKinley to the U.S. Navy. The Secretary of the Navy appoints the Governor and has permitted a Congress with only advisory powers. The Navy Secretary is the supreme authority in enforcing the laws ol the island. Now the President has ordered the Division of Islands and Territories of the Department of Interior, to take over the admini- stration of Guam. In the case of Samoa, Astin pointed out, the Kings of the East- ern Islands petitioned some 50 years ago to be annexed to thc United States. It was a voluntary act on their part. Through a letter from President McKinley the Navy took control of these voluntarily- offered islands and has had, tor the past 50 years, complete author- ity in all matters pertaining to exec- utive, legislative and judicial gov- ernment. At the time that the United States conquered Guam, Astin said, and took over Samoa, it was no longer interested in the islands of the Pacific which resulted in the col- onization by the Germans of some 2,000 islands located in three mil- lion square miles of water with some 56,000 people. At the end of World War I, these German islands were placed under the protection of Ja- pan by mandate of the League of Nations. Better known islands of the group are Yap and Truk. During World War II, by the method of ordinary naval opera- tions, all of these islands, which had been exploited by the Japanese, | were seized by armed forces of the | United States and have been under | military government as the repre- | sentative agency for the U.S., by a trust agreement with the United Nations. President Truman has ordered the Navy to relinquish its civilian government functions over Samoa, | Guam and trust territories of the Pacific, so the committee next Mon- day will have before it, three bills which would give each of these three areas a legal foundation to their existence as compared with a regulatory existence as they are presently controlled by the Navy Department. The people of Samoa and Guam are American nationais but are not American citizens. Also pending before the commit- tee is a bill which would allow Puerto Rico (also taken from Spain) to have its own constitution. Puerto Rico at the present time, Astin ex- plained, has the status of being an organized island possession of the U.S, and has its own Organic Act. It now elects its own governor, who is Munoz-Marin, the first Puerto Rican to hold that office. Governor Munoz, in a recent ap- pearance before O'Mahoney’s com- mittee, stated that Puerto Rico had no desire for statehood, but that his people would like the authority to have their own constitution to replace the Organic Act. People of Puerto Rico are American citizens. A bill introduced into Congress| by Congressman Mercantonio ot New York, would grant Puerto Rico independence such as was granteu: the Philippine Islands. Marcantonio has 250,000 Puerto Ricans in his district in New York. Puerto Rica itself has a population of 2,025,000. As to the Virgin Islands, Astin said they were purchased from Den- mark, similar as Alaska was pur- chased from Russia. There are only; 30,000 people on the three princi- | pally populated islands, Astin ex- plained. Pending before the com- mittee are two bills effecting the Virgin Islands, one of which would | grant the Virgin Islands a resident ommissioner in the Congress of| the U.S. and the other would have the resident for Puerto Rico take| the responsibility for representing the islands in addition to his regu- lar duties. { Astin was leaving shortly for Hydaburg where he will investigate the question of an Indian reserva- tion in that area before returning to Washington, D.C., to report back to the O'Mahoney committee his findings on his trip through the ‘Territory. FLEMISH KNOT BACK | IN ALASKA SERVICE SEATTLE, April 20 — (# — The, Alaska Steamship Company’s mot- orship Flemish Knot will sail from Seattle tomorrow on her first voy- age this year. The Flemish Knot, which has been laid up since October, will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, | Juneau, Hawk Inlet, Tenakee, Hoonah, Pelican, Sitka and Hood Bay. Two other Alaska Steam vessels also will leave tomorrow. The Pali- sana will sail for Kodiak Island, and the Square Sinnet for South- western Alaska. One-fifth of the traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1947 involved child- ren. ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 Telephone-319 so easy, 50 Plumbing © Healing Oil Burners Harri Machine Shop, Inc. serve ice-cold Nights-Red 730 welcome; Ask for it either way ... both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA 'COMPANY,BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE CO. © 1950, The Gosa-Colg Company to attend. There will be a feed. GOLD RUSH CHARACTER PASSES ON BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 20— {M—One of the most colorful char- acters of the Alaska gold rush of 1898, William (Willie) Howard | Jones, died last night at the age | of 76. “Willie,” as he was known from! |the gold fields of the Yukon to | Seattle, died in his sleep. He had| | lived here four years. Back in '98, Willie Jones entered the gold territory over the Dyea Trail from Skagway. Settling first at Dawson, he established one of the richest claims in that section, on Hunker Creek. That claim is still being mined today by sons of the Stranberg family which pur- chased it from him about 1900. Willie worked the claith with pick and shovel, taking only the most accessible gold. From what was left, the Stranberg family established a large fortune. Willie Jones was a personal friend of the late Jack London, writer of Northland tales, and was featured | in one of his novels. His widow, Pearl, said his ashes will be forwarded to Fairbanks and spread over the surrounding area in which he spent so many years. BIG DEFENSE FORHAWAII IS PLANNED SEATTLE, April 20 — (® — The! Navy announced today its patrul' Squadron Six, consisting of nine long-range Neptune planes, will be transferred to Barber’s Point early in May “as a strengthening of de- fensive forces in the Hawaiian Is- lands.” Squadron Six, npw based at Whidby Island Naval Air Station, northwest of Seattle, has been op- erating on patrol duty over Alaskan points including Fairbanks, An- chorage, Nome, Barrow and the | Aleutian chain. No plans were an- | nounced for its replacement at | Whidby. The Navy said the Neptunes ot | Squadron Six would be the first of | this type based in the Hawaiian {area. It described them as the Navy'’s most modern operational air- | eraft designed to detect and destroy \lthe Snorkel-type submarine. | Fifty to 60 families of Navy per-| | sonnel attached to the squadron will join the Navy airmen at Bar- | ber’s Point, leaving Seattle May 16 on the military service transport ship General Aultman. llnjured Alaskan Miner Has 0dd Experience FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 20— {M—Miner Ben Jokela fell down a |mine shaft at Pedro Dome Creek, |about 20 miles from here. | Before reaching a hospital here the following types of transporta- tion were used: He was pulled from the mine shaft with a windlass bucket. Then he was driven several miles by jeep. Then by sled. And final- |ly by tcboggan, before an ambul- lance picked him up. His condition today was reported satisfactory ELKS ATTENTION Meeting of Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. Elks, TONIGHT at eight o'clock. Initiation to be conducted by the visiting delegation of Offi- cers and Members of Skagway Lodge No. 431. All Elks are urged ihe had to rely on reports of high LATTIMORE "(ELL" MEMBER SAYS BUDENZ (Continued from Page One) isteditor, named Owen Lattimore as a “Communist cell” member, he said he did not regard him as the “top Russian espionage agent” in the United States. i Budenz was testifying on charges of Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) that the State Department is infiltrated | with Communists and Red sympa-' thizers. McCarthy had named Lattimore, Johns Hopkins University profes- sor, to the committee as the “top Russian espionage agent” in the! United States. . | Lattimore, under oath, denied the | charge flatly and said he had never been a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. Not Accurate Edward P. Morgan, committee counsel, asked Budenz if McCarthy’s | charge that Lattimore was the “top Soviet espionage agent” was cor- rect. “To my knowledge that statement is technically not accurate,” Budenz replied. “From my own knowledge, I would not say that he (Lattimore) was the top Soviet agent.” But he had testified that during his own Communist party member- | ship he had consideréd Lattimore to be a Communist. He said too that Lattimore was party to a con- spiracy to help the Communists take over China. i No to Question Lattimore’s lawyers passed to! Morgan a series of written ques- tions. In response to these, Buden| testified that he had not given the FBI any information regarding Lattimore ‘“until very recently.” Budenz was pressed for an answer to this question: “Do you of your own personal knowledge know whether this man (Lattimore) was a Communist?” Budenz replied that he never had | ecn Lattimore at a meeting but | that he did know of many reports that Lattimore was a Communist. “Without relying on what you've been told, do you know whether this man was a Communist?” | Budenz said no, he did not, that Communist officials. Alaska Seftlers Must File Record| WASHINGTON, April 20—®— The Senate approved a House bill vesterday requiring settlers in Al- aska to record notice of their set-| tlement claims in the land office| of the district in which the lands are located. Under present practices land claims are registered with United States Commissioners but not in land offices. The bill now goes to the White House. ELKS ATTENTION Meeting of Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. 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