Administration Urges
Action On Alaska and
and Hawaii Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Eisen
hower administration feels both
the Alaska and Hawaii statehood
bills should be acted on in this
session of Congress, Sen. William
F. Knowland (R-Calif) SSid Tues
day.
The Republican Senate leader
made that comment to reporters
after President Eisenhower’s
weekly meeting with GOP con
gressional leaders.
Knowland said he is prepared
to support taking up the Alaska
bill alone, but with the assur
ance the Hawaiin measure is
considered for action immediately
afterward. «
If such an assurance is not
given in advance, he added, he
will move to tack on a Hawaiian
measure as an amendment to
the Alaska bill.
“I would prefer,” he said, “to
take them up in sequence, and
not discriminate against Hawaii,
because all standards of statehood
applying to Alaska also apply to
Hawaii.”
Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
(R-Mass) told newsmen the House
Insular Affairs Committee has
voted out an Alaska bill, but it
is doubtful if an Hawaiian meas
ure will be reported by that com
mittee.
The Alaska bill now is snagged
in the House Rules Committee.
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Advent of Supermarket
Repeals One Of
Yukon’s Celebrated Laws
WHITEHORSE, Y. T., UB—The
supermarket has come to the
north country and has repealed
one of the Yukon’s celebrated
laws—never buy anything for
cash when you can get it on
credit.
Hardly anyone ever paid for
groceries or anything else until
Bruce Sung came up from Van
couver last winter and opened a
glittering 60 by 120-foot super
market.
In the stores and trading posts
throughout the Yukon customers
have been carried on credit,
sometimes for years.
“Friend or stranger could get
all the credit he wanted,” said
store manager Jim Smith.
“A man’s word was as good as
his bond, because that was the
law of the Yukon—or else. It
was quite a departure to put
buying on a cash basis, and it
was a gamble.”
The supermarket persuaded the
customers to foreswear their
ancient prejudice against paying
cash by flying in fresh fruit and
vegetables, and hustling in fresh
milk twice a week.
Before the supermarket ar
rived, the only fluid milk sold in
this Yukon capitol was made
from powdered skim milk and|
unsalted butter.
Only the Indians are still put
ting up resistance to the super
market. They haven’t got any
thing against fresh fruit and
vegetables. They’re just suspi
cious of this newfangled trading
post where the law of the Yukon
was buried.
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'Two Schooners Sail .
For Summer Study
Of Salmon In Pacific
SEATTLE, UP) — A pair of
halibut schooners set sail from
Seattle today to harvest salmon
over a IVz million-square mile
beat.
The schooners Pioneqr and At
tu will return in early Septem
ber with a cargo of salmon
caught not to eat but to study.
This will be the second year
for both boats in North Pacific
salmon investigations of the U. S.
FisR and Wildlife Service. They
will range through much of the
Central North Pacific and Ber
ing Sea from the west coast of
North America to 172 degrees
east longitude.
The 172nd parallel lies 75 miles
west of Attu, 450 miles east of
the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Besides conducting oceanograph
ic studies, the boats are expected
to return with 8,000 samples of
red, pink and chum salmon.
Those salmon will go under
the, knife and the microscope
and into the test tube. Their
scales will be counted, their blood
will be analyzed, even the para
sites they carry will be noted
by scientists trying to pin down
the frontier, if there is one, where
American-spawned salmon leave
off and Siberian-spawned salmon
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Ike’s Defense Plan
Receives Boost From
Democrat Cannon
WASHINGTON, UP> — Chair
man Clarence Cannon (D-Mo)
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee Tuesday called for prompt
Congressional approval of Pres
ident Eisenhower’s Defense reor
ganization plan.
“The President asks for this
legislation and Congress should
pass it and start this reasonable,
sensible, long-delayed, much
needed revision at the earliest
date possible,” Cannon told the
House. '
“It is high time we put an end
to this insane bickering between
the services and eliminate bil
lions of wastage and begin to de
velop sufficient military strength
to keep us out of war.”
Cannon’s endorsement of the
President’s proposal brought in
to focus a sharp split among in
fluential House Democrats. Chair
man Carl Vinson (D-Ga) of the
Armed Services Committee is
one of the plan’s principal foes,
his committee is conducting hear
ings on it.
Vinson’s group heard an argu
ment Tuesday that Congress
would not be signing a blank
check for 40 billion dollars if it
gave the Secretary of Defense
the spending leeway Eisenhower
asks. It came from Asst. Secre
tary of Defense W. J. McNeil
who as comptroller of the depart
ment is the Pentagon’s top money
man.
McNeil said there had been
no decision as to exactly how the
defense budget would be pre
sented to carry out the Presi
dent’s purpose of providing more
flexibility. But he said none of
the methods under consideration
“involve any new or particularly
novel principles as far as we can
see?’
Cannon argued the legislation
is needed to eliminate overlap
and duplication in spending.
“When it comes to military af
fairs involving the safety of the
people and the survival of our
form of government,” Cannon
said, President Eisenhower “is a
general and I take off my hat
to him with heartfelt alacrity.”
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Dennis Crosby, On His
Honeymoon, Named As
Father of 5-Months Baby
HOLLYWOOD, MP) — A pretty
Hollywood brunette says Dennis
Crosby is the father of her 5
month-old daughter.
Dennis, son of Bing Crosby is
honeymooning in Las Vegas,
Ney., with a blonde show girl he
married Sunday night.
Twenty-five-year old Marilyn
Scott yesterday told her story
when newspaper reporters pro
duced copies of Denise Michelle
Scott’s birth certificate, listing
the father as Dennis Michael
Crosby.
I’m sorry this had to come out,’’
she said. “All the more sorry
for the effect it will have on my
baby’s future.”
She said she met Dennis in a
Sunset Strip restaurant, began
dating him and went with him
for a couple of months.
“When I first told him I was
pregnant he made no offer to
marry me—nor did he offer to
support the baby,” she said. “So
I went to an attorney. The at
torney took care of everything.”
When newsmen asked Dennis
about the report, he phoned his
family’s attorneys in Los Angeles
and later told reporters:
“On my attorney’s advice, I am
not going to comment on the
situation. Until I can straighten
some things out with a few
people, I cannot make any fur
ther statements.”
There was no word on the mat
ter from Bing, who was reported
on a fishing trip. Reporters
have been trying to locate him
since Dennis married Pat Shee
han.
Mrs. Scott, a divorcee, is a
former model and switchboard
operator. She said she received
a settlement from the Crosby
family, but wouldn’t say how
how much.
“I saw no reason to say any
thing to .anybody,” she said.
The Crosbys have been fair and
square with me.”
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