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SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition 3 " it VOL. LXXIV,, NO. 11,491 " BRIDGES DENIED USE OF 2 HALLS, ABERDEEN, WN. ABERDEEN, Wash,, April 29 — +} —Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO longshore leader convicted recently "*"of perjury, has been barred from two halls for a speech here tonight. Both the Croatian Fraternal Union and the Eagles Lodge have voted to deny Bridges the use ot s their buildings. Local longshore union officials said that as a re- 4:50}& their own hall with limited seating facilities, may have to be , (used for the meeting. * A Federal court jury founc » Bridges guilty of perjury when he said in taking his naturalization oath he was not nor ever had been a Communist. He has appealed. *HOME RUNS HIT IN MANY GAMES LAST NIGHT, PCL By JIM HUBBART (Associated Press Sportswriter) » The tmosphere was full of homc runs at Pacific Coast League parks » last night. Bullpens swarmed with * activity. Thirteen pitchers, harried and care worn, marched on and off 's the field’ in solemn procession. 5 Especially at Oakland, where the Acorns used five twirlers in a futile effort to staunch the flow of hits from the booming bats of the San Francisco Seals, who won 8 to 3. At Los Angeles, Jack Salveson + came on in a relief role for Holly- wood in the 10th inning with the Jscore tied at 6-all and with two men aboard. Salveson threw just {one ball. Pitcher Bob Muncrief, also a reliefer, was the batter for Los Angeles. And he tagged that one pitch for a clean single that scored the winning run. Angels 7, Holly- wood 6. Muncrief was the fourth Los An- geles hurler to see action. Hollywood's defeat, combined witi. San Diego’s fourth s it triumph [ Over Seattle 6 fo 4, lofted the Padres to within half a game of the lead. At Sacramento, Joe Marty drillec aDick Drilling, Portind’s secon¢ pitcher, for a home run in the nintr with one man on base. It broke * up the. baligame and gave the Sacs a 7 to 5 verdict. I I . [ . d « MRS. HOMER PLANS TO OPEN CHILKOOT INN MAY 16; ON ON WAY THERE ¢ Mrs. Signe Homer, who with her son Steve Larsson Homer owns anc ' operates the Chilkoot Inn at Port Chilkoot, Alaska, returned there t't.hh week after spending the winter in Seattle. = Mrs. Homer visited . friends and her son in Juneau be- fore returning to Port Chilikoot on Alaska Coastal. She expects to open the hotel May 15. Steve Homer, who has. been in Juneau readying his motor-ship ! ferry, the Chilkoot, for the season , expects to open service from Tee Harbor to Haines and Skagway 'lbout May 3. . FROM ANCHORAGE R. Kinsey, from Anchorage, it registered at the Baranof. e Washinglon erry - Go- Round "Bv DREW PEARSON tht, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) JASHINGTON—A private Re- publican cocktail party, called tt chart a new liberal policy, got al messed up when some non-liberals were invited by mistake. Charming Mrs. Robert Low Ba- con, widow of the late Congress- man from New York, and the Perle Mesta of the Republican party, had invited a few Republi- cans to her home to discuss a new Progressive policy of the Teddy Roosevelt variety. Though she i the daughter-in-law of a J. P. Morgan partner-former Secretary of State Robert Bacon—she repre- sents a group of Republicans who believe the Democrats should not have a monopoly on liberalism. When her guests started arriv- ing, however, they included such Senators as Karl Mundt of South Dakota, Homer Ferguson of Mich- igan, Alex Smith of New Jersey and Leverett Saltonstall of Mass® achusetts—charming cocktail com- panions, but not crusading liberals. This disturbed the real liberals who suggested —in whispers—that they call off the meeting. Ignorant of this dissention, Mrs. Bacon bliss- fully herded her guests into a room where folding chairs had been set up and bade them listen to Russell Davenport, editor of For- :g magazine, spearhead of the .(Oonunued on Page Four) »l g | i et i et ALASKA STATEHOOD [MUN! BUILDING The Indian Claims Muddle By BOB DeARMOND It was accidental but ironic that upon the very day an Alaska state- hood hearing opened in Washing- ton a small group of citizens of Alaska were voting whether to ac- cept or reject an exclusive reserva- tion for themselves, the proposed Hydaburg Indian Reservation which would deprive the new state of some present and perhaps great po- tential revenues and would set the people on the resesvation apart from the other citizens of the state. It was not accidental, on the other hand, that the Interior De- partment injected the Indian claims issue directly into the statehood question when it wrote HR. 331, the statehood enabling bill pre- sently under consideration by Con- gress. This bill, authored by the Interior Department, provides: “That said State and its people do agree ana declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to . . . all lands lying within its boundaries owned or held by any Indians, Aleuts, or Eskimos hereinafter called natives, the right or title to which shall have beeni acquired through or from the United States or any prior sover- eignty, and that until the title . .. of such natives shall have been dis- posed of or extinguished.ghe same shall be and remain subject to the disposition and under absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States; . .. but nothing herein . . . shall pre- clude the said State from taxing, as other lands and other property are taxed, any lands and other prop- erty owned or held by any native outside of a native reservation un- less otherwise prohibited by Con- ress.” Deplorable Confusion ‘The present deplorable confusion regarding Indian claims in Alaska has been laid at the door of the Interior Department by many in- formed people including - Ernest Gruening, governor of the Terri- tory and himself an official of that department. “The issue of aboriginal claims did not exist in Alaska,” Governor Gruening wrote to a United State. Senator a couple of years ago, “un- til a former Secretary of the In- terior created it, thereby obstruct- ing pulp and paper and other de- velopment and reviving interracial hard feeling and friction which was on its way out.” That is a severe indictment, but I believe it is a just one. The In- terior Department clearly intends to retain control of virtually all ¢I Alaska by one means or another. As one of these means it proposes to create an Indian reservation wherever and whenever possible, since such reservations are con- wolled and administered by one ot the bureaus of the Interior De- partment. In the language of H.R. 331 the Indian lands in Alaska “shall be ana remain subject to the disposition and under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States.” That in itself seems fair and ade- quate, but Congress has made an honest effort to provide for a settle- ment of the Indian claims in South- east Alaska at least, and it has met | with little success. The reason for this lack of success, I believe, is in- terference on the part of the In- werior Department. Fifteen years ago Congress passed what is known as the Tlingit and Haida Claims Act. This provides that the Indians of Southeast Alaska may sue the US. govern- ment for any losses or impairment of rights they may have suffered, with the U.8. Court of Claims to determine the monetary value oI such losses. Up to Secretary Interior This method of settling the In= dian claims has been completely by- passed. Instead, the Secretary ot the Interior is determining the value and validity of the Indian claims, thus usurping a function of the judicial branch of our government, and is attempting to settle the claims by creating reservations. Congress some years ago gave the Secretary of the Interior the author- ity to create Indian reservations in Alaska, and efforts to repeal that portion of the law two years ago were unavailing. It is true that the Alaska Indians are not forced to accept the reser- vations; they may go to the polls and reject any such proposition the Secretary of the Interior may make. But it will be neted that the In- terior Department’s statehood bill, the bill now being considered by Congress, offers the Indians a strong inducement to accept the reservations. Property on the Indian and other government reservations could not be taxed by the proposed new state. But the statehood bill says: “noth- ing herein shall preclude the said state from taxing any lands and other property owned or held by any native outside of a native reserva- tion, unless otherwise prohibited by Congress.” Everybody, Indian or white, is in favor of escaping taxes whenever possible. The statehood bill, then offers the Indians of Alaska a clear- cut proposition: Get on a reserva- tion and escape taxes, or stay oft the reservations and pay taxes. This could lead from the pre- sently deplored taxation without representation to the absurdity ot representation without taxation, provided, of course, that the re- servation Indians are allowed tc vote. Status Question The status of Alaska Indians on reservations will be -determined partly by the Indian Bureau and partly by the constitution of the proposed state. Whether they couid vote for state officials and for rep- resentatives in the state legislature would be decided first by those who draft the state constitution and then by the people of Alaska as a whole when they vote on the constitution. In Washington, Idaho, and New Mexico the Indians on reservations cannot vote because of constitu- tional provisions forbidding suff- rage to Indians not taxed. They can- not vote in Arizona because of a law denying the ballot to “persons under guardianship.” What the out- come will bg in the proposed State of Alaska it is'impossible to say, but it is easy to forsee that there will be a great deal of bitterness and hard feeling on both sides before the question is finally settled. The handling of Indian affairs in the states has been a national disgrace and a blot upon our his- tory from September 17, 1778, when the first Indian Treaty was made, to the present day. One erroneous policy has been followed by another that was worse and the result has been discrimination against and hardship for the Indians, enormous burdens for the taxpayers and a legal muddle that will perhaps never be entirely clered up. The Indian problem in Alaska has heretofore been of relatively minor proportions. The government never made a treaty with any tribe of Alaska Indians, so we are clear of the legal tangle created by the hundreds of Indian Treaties thai were made throughout the states. Few people doubt that Alaska’s Indians have just claims and rights to some of the lands of this country. A high United States court has declared that any “aboriginal rights” they may once have had were extinguished by the treaty with Russia when we purchased the country, but that they do have rights, equal to those of the whites, to any lands in their use and pos- session when the Act of May 17, 1884, was passed by Congress. Up to Claims Court If they have been deprived of “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1950 Still More | Reservafion Areasi Arnold By ALICE FREIN JOHNSON SITE IS PROBLEM FOR CITY COUNCIL The new municipal building pro- posed for Juneau may not be built near the Juneou Memorial Library after all. This became apparent when the City Council, meeting in special Special to the Empire session at the City Hall last night,| WASHINGTON, April 20—Eight decided to look over some other |reservaticn areas not yet ordered property before deciding definitely [by the Secretary of the Interiof where the building will be con-|but ‘blocked out on a map, werc THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE &) PRICE TEN CENTS || HR331 MAY BE | REWRITTEN T0 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 1|Anderson Would Gef Al- aska Out of “"Pauper State”’ Class structed. presented today by the Interior Original plan was to construct | Department at the request of the the new municipal building on the | committee. They were pointed out Juneau Memorial Library property |by W. €. Arnold at the conclusion at Fourth and Main Streets, direct- | of his testimony on statehood yes- ly across the street from the pres- | terday morning. ent City Hall This would mean| Arnold said the fact the areas, that the library would be construct- [ which he estimated totalled more ed on Fifth and Main Streets and | than 100,00 square miles, “at least it would be possible to heat and |indicateéd” the.Interior Department maintain both buildings with one |planned to set them aside. heating plant and one mainten-| Sites of the new reservations were ance staff. shown to be at Tanana Crossing. But the available space on the Doth North and South of the pres- iibrary property would make it ent Tetlin reservation; Dunbar near nearly impossible to put all city | Fairbanks; Icy Cape, Wainwright, departments in the planned muni- | Ti8ara, Notak, Kivalina, Kaltag, sival building, preliminary sketch-|3nd Nulato. es, drawn up by Foss and Malcolm, [ Yesterday's testimony was given architects, showed. by Arnold, Edwrad W. Allen, Se- The sketches, closely inspected attle lawyer and chairman of the by city councilmen at last night's International Fisheries Commission meeting, showed a two-story build- |and Rear Adm. (retired) Ralph ing with city offices and council | W0od, former Commandant of the chamber on the main floor and |{17th Naval District. jail, police offices, and health cen-l Sen. Clinton Anderson, acting No fire hall could be included jthe proposed state to have. full con- in the building. trol of its fisheries in view of the “The space on the library prop- mreat importance of selmon as a Hendrickson said. “The council {Cuntry. teels a fire hall, jail, health center,| “While ter on the upper floor. chairman, questioned the right of rty is limited,” Mayor Waino food to the people of the entire the Tongass National By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, April 20—#—A House-approved bill to make Alaska a state may be rewritten by the Senate Interior Committee to meet objections that have arisen. Acting Chairman Anderson (D- NM) indicated this yesterday after opponents of the measure sald it would not provide the kind of state- hood proponents want, that it wowd create a “pauper state.” 5 “This committee,” Anderson sald, “wants to write as good a bill as we can.” ¥ He referred particularly to testi- mony of Edward W. Allen, Seattle lawyer who called provisions of the bill to transfer control of the Alaska fisheries to the proposed state “utterly ambiguous” and said they would create “a situation of.abso- lute confusion.” The Interior Department already has asked the committee to amend the section of the bill which would The halibut season opens at 12:01 a. m. Monday and already Juneau’s large fleet of boats is on the way to the banks or preparing to leave during teday., RICHARDSON BIDS | PERCY'S DISHES UP ON HOUSING UNITS | $109 IN CABBAGE BELOW ESTIMATES| FOR LIBRARY FUND s, coniet ot e fibers o T the Federal government. Anderson sald the most import- ant thing to the people of Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 28— | Lots of Juneauites drop into Per- be in one building for economy in construction.” Mayor Hendrickson and City En- gineer J. L. McNamara were chosen by the council to look for other possible sites for a municipal build- ing. “We haven't given up the original idea,” Mayor Hendrickson said. ‘We may have to build at Fourth and Main” He said the $60,000 to be paid by the Territory for the City Hall property and the vacant lot ad- joining it has not yet been re- ceived, but he will make an effort to complete the deal as soon as possible. He pointed out that the new ordinance, voted into effect by the citizens of Juneau April 20, did not provide for selling the Arctic Brotherhood Hall propertly. “The ordinance provided that the A. B. Ha/l property would be given to the Territory. It was the prop- erty originally requested by the Territory. The money payment will be made for the City Hall property and the vacant lot ad- joining it, because the Territory jecided more property would be needed as a site for a new Terri- torial Building. “There has been some misunder- standing - about this, especially to he Westward,” he said. “It am- >unts to the Territory’s providing 1 site for a new city hall in ex- B SRS e Bt S L5 S0 o B B TS IR il 0, B8 B SR e -2 VSRR 0 T A SIS o IS s S SR S5 50 i any of their rights and of anyschange for the present site.” property to which they are entitled, the U.S. Court of Claims is the proper agency to determine a fair and just compensation for those losses. They should be fully com- pensated, either in cash or in lands, or partly in each. If they elect tu take lands, the lands should not be in the form of reservations but in grants to individuals with full title thereto, so they can hold it individ- ually, sell it, bequeath it to their children or other heirs or otherwise dispose of it as they see fit. The Alaska Indians will be able to do none of these things with the {land being set aside for them as reservations by the Secretary of the Interior. If the handling of Indlan affairs in the state has been a national scandal, it will be a national crime to impose the same tangled and sorry pattern upon Alaska, either as a territory or a state. It will cer- tainly not be a good thing for the proposed state and I do not believe it will be good for the Indians. Alaska’s Indian problems, such a¢ they are, were well on the way tc settling themselves before the In- terior Department moved into the picture, and the program of that department can only set back the eventual settlement by fifty or a hundred years. It is widely doubted that the Alaska Indian groups which vote for reservations are fully aware of what they are getting into, and there appears to be no provisipn for them to get out of it once they are in. Once having voted to accepl a reservation, it is probable that they ‘will never get rid of that re- servation, although presumably they can escape it by picking up and moving away from their ancestral homes to some second-rate bit of Tax Writers Start Search for Levies To Ba_la’nte Cufs WASHINGTON, April 20—(P— House tax writers started a search today for almost a billion dollars in new taxes to balance cuts they have voted in present excise levies They weren't too optimistic. Unless members of the House ways and Means Committce can strike such a balange, they are courting a Presidential veto of the proposed ~ $967,000,000 excise cut they came up with yesterday after Jays of chopping. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE The following, registered from Mt. Edgecumbe, are guests at the Bara- nof Hotel: Amelia Frazier, Mary F. Shaw, Dorothy Bryant. A NS e ® o 8 0 0 & TIDE TABLE APRIL 30 18.0 ft. -1.6 ft. 16.7 tt. -0.1 ft. 0:07 am,, 6:28 am., 12:39 pm.,, 18:36 pm., High tide Lo wtide High tide Low tide MAY 1 0:46 am., 7:11 am., 13:26 p.m., 173 1t. 19:19 p.m,, -0.1 1t. e e ~ o 19.2 ft. High tide -32 ft. Low tide High tide Low tide e o o o o ® 600000000 cs0oe \ purpose of its own. and city offices should, if possihle[ Forest with its potential pulp and timber weaith is very important,} (P—Low bids for 50 eight-family [cy's Cafe constantly—some to eat, housing units at Fort Richardson |some to drink coffee, some to ob- what is to become,” Anderson asked, | aT¢ reported to be $2,000,000 below | tain ice cream and sodas—and so ‘of the salmon industry which ex- ports far more wealth from Alaska than ' other industries there?” Salmon is of great national im- portance, overshadowing all else concerned hers, the Senator con- tinued. “What are we giving away? The common good of the entire nation must be guarded by Cengrese. ' Anderson inferred the bill would not be acceptable with- out amendment when he said “We may be interested in writing a new bill which will clarify these am- biguites and questions so that Al- aska may derive its just benefits.” ELEVATOR STRIKE GIVES NEW YORK RESIDENTS PAIN NEW YORK, April 20—#—Nearly a quarter-million New Yorkers were back to primitive cliZf-dwelling today as Manhattag’s apartment elevator strike headed into a long and wegry weekesd. Garbage was deginning to collect —and spoil—¢n the upper floors ol the city’s skyscraper apartments. Mail lay unsorted in the foyers. Grocery boys refused to deliver food to the higher floors were whale families vere marooned. And tetants, short of breath ana with aching feet and legs, ploddec up flight, after flight of stairs. Some d the 1,000 struck build- ings have 30 floors or more. Meanwlile, the striking memberb of the AL Building Service Em- ployees International Union and the apariment house owners still werc deadlocked over the major issue— wages. The striers, who included servicc men and jenitors as well as eleva- tor operators, want $2.75 more & week, a +0-hour instead of a 48 aour week, and a pension plan. 'The union, says present. wages averagc $46.50 to £60.32. MAN ESCAPES DEATH IN FALL FROM SKIFF Nearly unconscious after escap- ing drowning, 2 man was found on the beach at Tennock Island near Ketchikan last night. Reports reaching Coast Guarn headquarters here said the man, Christophér Nelson, was found on the beach at pm.-by a Dr. Went- zler. Nelon had fallen fromh o skiff and nearly drowned before reaching the beach where Dr. Went-~ zler found him. He wa: taken to Ketchikan aboard & Coast Guard cutter and hospitalized, ‘ MRS. HENRY HARMON'S PUPILS TO RECITE TONIGHT | ‘The plano ¢nd voice pupils of Mrs. Henty Hurmon will give their annual spring recital this evening at 7:30 oclock at their teacher’s home at 804 510 Street. Parents anc | friends are invited Alaska’s industrial development,|to attend. F.ifreshments will be Imnd that has not yet been reurved]wz and future, will be discussed in | served folowig the performances,’ by the Interior Department for some the next article of this series, © Mrs, qum said, g the government cost estimates. today the popular 'eating place Patti-MacDonald Construcuon | overwhelmed the Juneau Memorial Co., of St. Louis and Kansas City |Library fund with a big heap of apparently led the field of 18 bid-|cabbage. ders. Specifications were so compli-| It was good cabbage, too. Well cated, however, that three other|done and tasty. In” fact, there firms might have an edge in the|was $100 worth of it. A check final . evaluations of the bids in!for that amount came from Percy Washington, D.C. E. Reynolds, owner of the cafe, to The Patti-MacDonald bids on fivel D, James C. Rysfi, types of designs for the bulldings|of education and members of the ranged from $4,253422 to $4,718,140 | library board. for the 50 biuldings to house mifi-| Coupled with this, B. D. Stew- tary personnel. art acting drive chairman was giv- The government estimate was!en $25 for the fund by Joan Walk- around $6,800,000. Authorities said that if a study er of the Ferry Way Rooms. This sum, plus Percy’s pile of of the bids shows that the row-|cabbage, adds up—as anyone can type units for eight families can|see—to $125, ' bringing the needed be built at a reasonable figure, the|amount for the drive down below government may cancel tentative|that ol’ thousand mark, to Just plans to build 3,531 dwellings under | $822.19. the Wherry Housing Act at An-| To Percy goes the honor of chorage and Fairbanks, Buildings | knocking the last big corner off the under this act are limited to $12,000 | long-sustained drive and putting it per unit. safely into third base—and Joan The bids on the Fort Richardson | Walker’s contribution gives it 8 project averaged about $10,000 to lead toward home plate. $11,000 per unit. bid on buildings of their own de- sign. Bids were accepted on the|the fund dropped $553. whole 50-building job or on units of 10 buildings each. Gals Quicker on - Drawstring Than (ops Are olflaw NELSON, B. C., April 20—®— Doukhobor women, bent on shuck- ing their clothes, were quicker on the drawstring yesterday than pol- ice were on the draw. As a result ohe managed to do a complete strip-act and others bured. themsleves to the waist at their rial here before blushing bobbies sould cover them with blankest. The police by a new surprise disrobing tech- azique. The women had alterec heir garments so a quick pull on |V leave | will also feature special music. 1 hidden drawstring would them in Eve's ensemble. The un- dressing took only five seconds. Anticipating an outbreak of nud- ism, the coppers had come equip- ped with a big supply of blank- |as The only trouble was the new | 2: 2ts. zip-and-it's-off maneuver. As the week ends, the amount Contractors also were invited to|collected adds up to $590—much better than the week before, when In fact, the drive, which is aimed for the $70,000 mark to get federal match- ing funds to erect the structure, is zooming faster toward the end now than it has for months past. At the rate things are going— and we're keeping our fingers crossed when we say this—there's less than two weeks to go before that zero mark will loom up and stare us in the face. And of course, there's that 19 cents to worry about, too. P L et SALVATION ARMY WILL - HOLD SPECIAL SERVICES The Salvation Army's popular Saturday night program will fea- ture a film “Answer to Ann” which were caught flat-footed | tells of the life of a girl from a displaced persons camp during the last war. The public is cordially in- ited to attend this service which The service will commence at 7:30 tonight in the Salvgtion Army citadel on Willoughby Ave. The 11 o'clock service Sunday will have its speaker, the Rev. Nelson. At 30 the service will be in charge ot the women of the corps under the All of which overshadowed the | leadership of Mrs. Mamie Bacon. erious business of the trial Thirty In the evening at 7:30, Alfred An- men and women, all members of | drews, with the men of the corps, the Doukhobor extremist branch, |will take a leading part in the serv- The Sons of Freedom, each werc|ice. Capt. Henry Lorenzen invites sentenced to three years in prison |all who wish to attend these serv- They had been charged with parad- | ices. ing in the nude. o8 The Douks have traditionally dis- robed as a symbol of protest and FROM SEATTLE Visitors from Seattle registered contend their nude demonstrations|at the Baranof Hotel are: Everett are signs of equality. Mayor Has Dream; Just See-Resuls Nowell, R. Faragher, J. R. Hanson, Mr, and Mrs. A, R. Munger and R M. Steele. MANILA, Apiil 20 — (9 — Mayor | Freighter Flemish Knot from Jose Cabalfin of dreamed that Communist-led -Huk- Leon said he|Seattle due 7 tonight. Baranof from Seattle due Tues- balahap guerrillas cornered him on | day. the edge of a cliff. Princess Louise scheduled to sall His family found him beneath his | from Vancouver 8 tonight. bedroom window — with fractured! Denali scheduled southbound at ‘ribs and a sprained ankle. 1 | 2 a.m., Monday. L is what happens to the fisheries. He sald the committee must de- termine what “we are granting by this legislation” and “if we may need to keep some measure of Fed- eral control over the fisheries.” Balled Up : Allen contended that the bil would transfer to the new state facilities for protection and opera- tion of the fisheries while power to iy, Yhe, He said one such example of con- fusion is the international fur seal agreement, covering the catch of seals on the Ppibilof Islands. The bill originally gave control of the catch to the state, but the Interior t asked that it be amended to give Alaska 50 percent of the net proceeds from the sale of seal furs but to leave control with the federal government. Rest Are Entitled “Washington and Oregon,” Allen said, “are just as much entitled to @ share of the proceeds of seal fur sales as Alaska. I should think the Senators from those states would look into that.” W. C. Arnold, managing director of the Alaska Salmon Industries, Inc., opposed the bl He testified that his association feared taxes on the salmon indus- try, the only fully developed indus- try in the Territory, would become prohibitive under statehood because there would be nothing else for the Territory to tax. He said this was true because the bill would give the state only 1273283 acres out of a total of 368,000,000 acres ot land in the Territory. “You know, the constitution pro- vides that new states shall be ad- mitted on an equal footing. No state was ever admitted to the union under such conditions as are pro- posed here, and I think no state would want to be. “If the equal footing clause means anything at all, it means that if and when Alaska becomes a state it should receive a percentage in quan- tity and quality of its public land resources comparable with that re- ceived by other public land states. “Statehood on any other basis is a mockery.” Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska will be the last witness today at the final session of the week-long hearing. e o 0 0 0 % 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 50; FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional showers tonight, cloudy with rain Sunday. JLow temperature tonight 37, high Sunday near 48 it PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.74 inches; since April 1 — 445 inches; since July 1—64.82 > 40 inches; inches £ Alrport April 1 July 1—42. e9Bheee®e000v00%00s0 E}i Ld 5