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Roads, Not Colonies Is
Great Need Of Alaska
Declares Delegate Dimond
WASHINGTON — The follow
ing excerpts are taken from the
Alaska Colonization bill now be
fore Congress, which he will pre
sent to the subcommittee:
“My special objection to the
•bill is based on those provisions
which seek to admit non-quota
aliens to Alaska and at the same
time bar them from the United
States. I wish my position on this
be made clear. I am not here con
cerned with any changes that
Congress see fit to make in our
immigration laws so as to take
care of some of the people of
Europe who are deserving not
only of our sympathy but of all j
the help that we can give them
consistent to our own people.
“But I shall oppose to the full
measure of all my strength any
proposal which will admit any
body to Alaska who is not elig
ible to enter the United States.
Alaska is a part of the Nation
and we decline to have it set off
from the rest of the Nation as a
sort of special land where people
may reside who are not citizens
and who are not permitted to be
in the remainder of the United
States. In the long run to permit
anything of that kind would be
disasterous for the Territory. My
views on that matter have been
more fully expressed in a letter
dated March 20 addressed to Sen
a. or Tydings in answer to his in
bitation to state my views on the
b. 1 under consideration.
“If it is really desired to in
crease the population of Alaska,
r. ,hin% additional is needed, ex
cept transportaton facilities, prin
cipally to consist of roads in the
T rritory. As fast as roads are
built in the Territory in suitable
regions, people will settle along
th m and will make use of the
agricultural and mineral lands
.1 of the fisheries of the ad
j> - ing seas. Without roads, how
ei .r, life in the more remote re-j
g ,s is hopeless, particularly for,
vv nen and children.
' * -f Congress will provide, in
addition to present appropria-,
ti. s, SI.000,000 a year for the
nor : ten years for road construe- J
Uon, and if Alaska is connected !
w:th the States by highway, it is
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my considered judgement that
we shall get at least 5,000 new set
tiers a year which are probably
about as many as can be absorb
ed safely under the present ec
onomic set-up of the Territory.
Of course, if our potential pulp
industry is developed, we may
confidently look forward to a
substantial additional increase in
population.
“For sake of emphasis I must
say again that our principal re
quirement for the settlement and
the increase in population and
the development of Alaska lies
in roads, roads within the bound
aries of the Territory. It would
be helpful, of course, and great
ly helpful, if a way could be
found to complete the highway to
Alaska from the States, a plan
that is now under consideration
by the Alaskan International
Highway Commission. Airfields,
too, are necessary, and air trans
portation facilities, but for the
permanent settlement and devel
opment of Alaska, the first and
most important thing needed is
roads.
“In this connection I am not
unmindful of the suggestion of
the secretary that some of the
people of Alaska prefer Federal
subsidies to private financing and
that they condemn the plan on
that account. The exact language
of Secretary Ickes in this respect
is as follows:
‘There are other Alaskans who
are so used to crying for and ex
isting on Federal subsidies that
any plan that would depend on
private financing will be viewed
as a substitute for Government
spending (which is true enough)
and they will condemn the plan
on that account.’
"1 regret exceedingly that any
such statement was made as an
argument in favor of the bill or
made at all, for I know Alaska
intimately and I do not know of
any Alaskan, and I have never
heard of one. and I do not be
lieve there is one, who prefers
Federal subsidies to private fin
ancing. In fact, the ardent desire
of all of us is to be able to live
without the Federal subsidies of
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any kind at the earliest possible
moment.
“Therefore, while I have sug
gested for the settlement of Al
aska what is desirable and what
is needed is an extension of roads
in the Territory and have further
[stated that the sum of $1,000,000
a year could be well and profit
ably spent upon that work for
the next ten years, may 1 invite
the attention of the Committee
to the fact that under the plan
proposed in the bill it will be ab
solutely necessary, in my judge
ment, for the government to un
dertake the building of roads and
the expense of that construction
will be at least as large as the
sum I have suggested. So even if
the bill is passed I anticipate, and
I have good grounds to believe.
1 that the government will be call
ed upon to spend at least $1,000,
000 a year for ten years in the
construction of roads in order to
make life tolerable for the set
tlers. And if the government
spends that amount of money on
roads it is not necessary to pass
the bill at all because Alaska will
be populated just as fast as roads
are built to take care of the need
of the settlers.
‘In fact, the principal reason
why we in Alaska are obliged to
call for aid from the Federal
Government for the construction
of roads and for other public
works is largely because more
than 99 per cent of the area of
Alaska is still in the public do
main and the Government is
proprietor and landlord. The
roads to be built run through the
public domain and open it up to
settlement and development. If
the Federal Governments will
give to the Territory of Alaska
the title deed to all of the public
domain in Alaska, both reserved
and unreserved, the Territory of
Alaska will never call upon the
Federal Government to give a
single dollar in subsidy or hand
out or any expenditure whatever
except as to those functions like
the Office Department, which
are monopolized by the Federal
Government.
“The people of Alaska are not
to blame for existing conditions
' in the Territory. It is obviously
to the national interest to have
1 more p iple in Alaska and since
the national interest is served bv
i the increase in population of Al
aska it is not unjust or unfair,
nor should it be considered as a
“crying for existing on Federal
subsidies' if we suggest to the
Federal Government that as the
great landlord of Alaska that gov
ernment may well provide a rea
sonable amount of money for the
construction of roads in the Ter
ritory.”
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SIDNEY, May 31 —Prime Min-j
ister Menzies told a huge “win -1
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Notice of Hearing and Settlement
of Final Account, Estate of
Thomas Gaffney, Deceased
Notice is hereby given, that
Father Joseph McElmeel, S. J.,
the undersigned, executor of the
estate of 'fhomas Gaffney, de
ceased has filed in the Probate
Court for the Cape Nome Pre
cinct, Second Division. Territory
of Alaska his final account and
report of the administration of
the estate of said deceased and
his petition for the distribution
of said estate and that Monday,
the 2tith day of July, 1940 at the
hour of eleven o'clock a.m. of
said date at the Courtroom of
said Court at Nome, Alaska has
been fixed by the order of said
Court as the time and place for
the hearing of the same and ob
jections thereto and the settle
men thereof, and that at said
time and place the said Court
will adjudicate and determine
who arc the heirs or distributees
of said estate.
Dated this the 25th day of
May 1940.
Father Joseph McElmeel. S. J.
Executor of the estate of
Thomas Gaffney, Deceased
Publish May 27, June 3, 10, 17 1
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ARMY JOB —With increased
emphasis on defense needs.
Maj. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory,
the new quartermaster general
of the army, has his hands full.
Major General Gregory is Iowa
born. was graduated by the
army war college.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies and slightly cooler tonight and
Tuesday. Some risk of light showers Tuesday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 65 t Lowest temp — 42 Precipitation — 0
Total Precip this month —T Total since Jan. 1, 1940 — 2.50
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight .... ~ 46 74 NE-7 Clear
8am ... .. 50 74 W-7 Clear
12:30 p m . . .. .. 55 69 S-5 Pt Cldy
One Year Ago Today
Highest tentp — 60 Lowest temp — 28 Precipitation — 0
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1:38 a. m. Sunset 10:19 p. m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering . .... . 38 SW-15 Clear
Council __— - -- - 47 NW-15 Pt Cldy
Golovin - -- -- 58 NW-8 Clear
Kotzebue.. _ 44 W-8 Cloudy
Solomon ___ 50 NE-18 Clear
Teller__ „ 40 N-6 Clear
Wales. .... 32 NE-30 Cloudy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage ..—- 46 S-3 Cloudy 0.00
, Bethel...-.. 48 SE-10 Rain 0.09
Cordova . 45 NE-3 Rain 0.56
Dutch Harbor ._... 42 SW-3 Cloudy 0.11
Fairbanks . 50 NE-5 Pt Cldy 0
Juneau.. 48 E-10 Rain 0.55
Pt. Barrow ..-_ 18 SE-7 Cloudy 0
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