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RED HANDED
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ONLY IN AMERICA
(Juneau Empire)
Those who have seen the newsreel reporting of j
the Eisenhower inauguration probably received the
same chuckle we did from the cowboy who, while
riding past the reviewing stand, tossed a lasso noose
squarely around the shoulders of President Ike; and
probably an even heartier chuckle from the friendly
smile the cowboy received from the President.
The lasso act was one of the most spontaneous of
the entire inauguration—almost as spontaneous as the
buss the new First Lady received from her husband
after he had taken the oath of office.
But it was also a very significant act—and that
newsreel should be shown in every country in the
world, especially behind the Iron Curtain, if possible.
Where else in the world could this have happened?
Where else is the Chief of State so close to the people,
and false pride so absent that a cowboy from the plains
can win a smile after lassoing the President? We would
like to see it tried with Stalin, or Tito—or, for that
matter, with Queen Elizabeth!
A WORD FROM F.D.R., JR.
We see where Representative Franklin D. Roose
velt, Jr., member of Congress from New York, recently
took a pot shot at the defense efforts of several Western
European nations. While we do not necessarily go along
with Mr. Roosevelt’s views on many things, he seems
to have uttered a rather pertinent statement here.
Young Roosevelt has been a member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee in recent years and made
an unofficial tour of Western Europe recently to gather
information concerning the Atlantic Defense area and
pact. After conferring with leaders for some time in
Europe, he issued the following statement:
“If Europe and Britain are not as worried about
defense as they were formerly, and can stretch out
their defense effort, why should the United States
push Western Europe at a pace faster than it wants
to go?”
This seems to be the same question many mem
bers of Congress are going to ask before they vote the
large foreign aid requests included in President Tru
man’s budget message. Western Europe must answer
this question satisfactorily, it seems, if foreign aid is
to be kept on the scale intended in the January budget
estimate.
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More On Seventh
Fleet and Formosa
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Atty. Gen. Brownell, to' protect
the government from “false ser
vants” and “to clear the atmo
sphere of that unreasoned sus
picion that accepts rumor and
gossip as substitutes for evi
dence.” In an other apparent dig
at the Truman regime, Eisenhow
er said an administration which
leaves its policing to' Congress is
only asking for “disorder and con
fusion.”
Studies to straighten out the
complexities of the defense es
tablishment, revamp the tax laws
to give small business a better
break, and map legislation to re
place the farm price support laws
which expire at the end of 1954.
He said the present 90 per cent
of parity farm program will be
enforced faithfully and a new
program drafted to reduce “gov
ernmental interference in the
farmers’ affairs.”
Early statehood for Hawaii. He
didn’t mention Alaska.
Serious Talk on National Debt
Eisenhower spoke with ex
treme gravity on the subject of
finance.
Already, he went on, the na
tional debt stands at more than
265 billion dollars, with another
80 billions committed for future
spending.
He asked Congress for a good ;
bit of legislation — “corrective
action” on the Taft-Hartley Act,
for one thing, and an extension
o'f the government reorganization
act.
He didn’t touch at all on one
controversial subject — the off
shore oil lands claimed by Texas,
Lousiana and California.
He postponed, too, any recom
mendation on war veteran legis
lation.
Navy May Soon
Get Out Of
Oil Business
WASHINGTON, lit —A poten
tially explosive question — whe
ther the Navy should get com
pletely out of the oil business—
may come up soon before the
House Armed Services Commit
tee.
With some congressional tem
pers still simmering from Harry
Truman’s parting presidential act
putting offshore oil lands into a
naval petroleum reserve the ques
tion immediately set off a dis
cussion.
The Navy seems in no hurry to
take over the controversial off
shore lands.
Though no definite hearing date
has been fixed, the subject likely
will be reviewed within the next
three or four weeks, along with
questions about the Elk Hills
naval reserve in California and
the Pt. Barrow reserve in Alaska.
Chairman Short (R-Mo) of the
committee said in an interview
that it will go into the problems
of the naval reserves as soon as
possible.
He called particular attention
to criticism that has been directed
at the Alaskan oil venture. He
said that no matter how much
oil is there, it might be unfeasible
economically to continue expendi
tures because of transportation j
difficulties from that frozen
northland.
There are only about six weeks
of the year when crude could be
brought out by tanker through
normally ice - locked harbors,
Short said and an alternative 600
mile pipeline would have to be
heated by some sort of hot water
circuit to keep the oil fluid.
Three Members Dispute
Recommendation Of
Reeves For Governor
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sions, the statement continued,
“minority members opposed his i
endorsement because he had been j
rejected by the voters of Alaska
because he ran far behind the
Republican ticket in the territor- |
ial election and failed of election
in the Republican landslide in !
the territory, and because these j
members did not feel he is the j
choice of the people of Alaska but :
that he was merely the dictated I
choice of Albert White.”
The statement concluded:
“We feel that continued control \
of party organization and policies j
by Albert White will rapidly re- '
turn us to the position of minority j
party in Alaska, a condition main- ;
tained fo'r many years under the i
‘leadership’ of White.”
Committee chairman Elton Eng- |
strom disputed the minority con- J
tention of the majority voting as j
a bloc. “Reeve had the nomination
on the first ballot,” Engstro'm de
clared.
Battleship Missouri
Bombards Wonsan
SEOUL, UP)—Planes from three,
U.S. carriers and the big guns of]
the battleship Missouri — the!
Mighty Mo — Saturday dumped j
destruction on the northeastern '
Korean port of Wonsan, already
rubbled by the longest siege in
American naval history.
The Navy said that Vice Ad
miral James Clark, U. S. Seventh
Fleet commander, planned and
was watching the big attack from
the Missouri.
Two destroyers joined the mas
sive bombardment against the
once-great east coast metropolis.
The Air Force reported five U.
N. warplanes, including a B-29
Superfort bomber, were lost last
week over North Korea as against
six MIGs. A Superfort normally
carries a crew of 11 men.
One F-86 Sabre jet was shot
down in a dogfight with Commun
ist MIGs, and enemy ground fire
knocked down an F-80 Shooting
S.ar jet. A Sabre and an Austra
lian Meteor jet were lost to
“other causes,” probably mech
anical trouble.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Stanton Katchatag of
Unalakleet, Dora Hess, Raymond
White.
Discharged: Gerirude Kugzruk
of Teller, Christine Carpenter and
nfant, Mrs. Komokhuk and son,
Thora Thunas of Lost River, and
Robert Mayokok.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
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Alaska Legislators
Increase Own Pay
$5 Per Day
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP)—The House whip
ped through a resolution Friday
‘o appropriate $157,370 fo'r legis
lative session expenses, including
increase to $20 in the living ex
pense allowance for members of
the Territorial Legislature.
The $20 a day allowance repre
sents an increase of $5 a day. The
vote was 21 to 2, with two mem
bers of the Republican majority,
William Boardman of Ketchikan
and Edith Bullock of Kotzebue
voting against it. The measure
new goes to the Senate.
The member of the House to
speak against the measure was
Boardman, who admonished his
fellow legislators that they might
be putting themselves on the spot
by action which might draw pub
lic criticism.
Several House members argued
in favor of the bill, contending
it was not a pay increase, but
only fair compensation for high
living costs in Juneau during the
legislative session.
They cited the $7.50 a day
charged for an average hotel
room and argued that voters sent
them here for an important job
and wouldn’t expect them to do
it without adequate per diem al
lowances.
Ted Duffield of Nome voiced
assurance the Republican-control
led legislature will give the public
“its money’s worth.”
Legislators’ pay, in addition to
the per diem allowance, is $15
per day, it is paid by the federal
government, which also pays a
mileage allowance for travel to
the session.
The $157,370 is $20,000 above >
the 1951 session expenses, which
included a $13,000 deficiency ap
propriation request this week be
cause the original $125,000 bill
of the 1951 session didn’t cover
expenses.
The largest item in the measure
introduced Friday is $55,000 for
printing daily journals and ses
sion laws and binding them as
books.
Officers' Unions Would Merge
WASHINGTON, (*>—1Two ship
officers’ labor unions, One AFL
and the other CIO, said Thursday
they will merge into a single or
ganization if they can get “clear
unencumbered charter rights”
from either the AFL or the CIO.
Combined membership of the
two unions is 25,000.
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