Congressmen
Hold Hearings
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but we do ask for an adequate
airfield to be in operation for our
defense as well as an economic
necessity.”
Wm. Angell speaking on educa
tion brought out indignant and
somewhat dismayed questions
from the committee when it was
revealed that every school child
is not x rayed every year for
tuberculosis as is done in their
states. Preventive care, they said,
was most important and urged
that something be done about TB
Seal Sale funds being used for
this purpose as annually 80 per
cent of the local drive funds are
sent stateside.
The committee took time to ex
plain their work to the Junior
and Senior classes from Nome*
High School, which were present.
James Walsh explained how
Pan American Airways is desir
ous of re-establishing its direct
flight from Seattle by DC-6B to
give Nome the best and most
economic service, but cannot do
so until Congress makes possible
a safe landing field here by ap
propriating the necessary funds
for the CAA. He further explained
that Nome bush fliers serve the
entire area and all of Northwest
ern Alaska is dependent on Nome
for passenger and cargo service
from the states.
Ben Young spoke clearly on the
road situation, stating “We don’t
want a Federal hand-out, but just
our fair share of the moneys ap
propriated.” He explained how
part of the territory shares in
Forestry Department funds for
roads and part of the territory
in military road funds, but that
out of $17,000,000 appropriated
the Second Division only man
ages to get $60,000. And the Sec
ond Division needs the money
more than all the other divisions
put together because we have no
roads — no highway transporta
tion.
He evaluated the Nome-Fair
banks road as first in importance,
the Nome-Teller road second, and
the Unalakleet-to-Kaltag road as
third.
Dr. Langsam discussed health
and mental health problems. He
said the local hospital serves an
area of 10,000 square miles and
works with the Alaska Depart
ment of Health on field trips. He
brought oirt the deplorable con
dition of mental health patients
by asking the committee mem
bers to try to imagine the predica
ment of local residents who must
put mentally ill members of their
families in jail in order that they
may get care. He offered as a
partial solution the use of one
COMING TO
THE THEATER
SUNDAY and MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 25 AND 26
Russia to Return
Military Base
To Finland
MOSCOW (#1—Premier Bulgan
in said Saturday the Soviet Union
has decided to return Porkkala
Military Base, near Helsinki, to
Finland.
The Russians have held the 152
square-mile enclave under a 50
year lease as a military base since
the Soviet-Finnish armistice of
1944.
A Finnish delegation headed by
President Juho K. Paasikivi and
Premier Urho Kekkonen came to
Moscow last week to try to get
Porkkala back.
, Bulganin announced the new
decision to Kekkonen at the open
ing of Saturday’s working session
in the Kremlin. Reporters were
told about it at a news conference
in the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
“The declaration of Porkkala
fills our hearts and the hearts of
the Finnish people with great
joy,” Kekkonen told Bulganin.
Bulganin said the Soviet Union
was returning the base because of
the “friendly relations existing
between Finland and the Soviet
Union and the favorable prospects
for their future development.”
room at the hospital for the ob
servation of these patients.
His report and recommenda
tions brought a tribute as one of
committee said: “You represent
a dedicated man and have come
up with a practical solution. I
commend you.” Another member
of the committee stated “I’m in
favor of putting up money for a
man like this, who is practical.”
Carl Glavinovich gave a full
account of the sick mining in
dustry and again the building of
roads was stressed as paramount
to^ healthy development. He also
recommended the rescinding of
the Public Lands closure in the
Arctic where much- mineral is
known to exist.
Delegate Bartlett called atten
tion to the fact that he has re
peatedly asked that miners be
allowed to sell their gold on the
open market to aid the present
low price of gold.
Phil Holdsworth talked briefly
on the tin mining industry. He
said that a more detailed account
would be on hand for the Anchor
age hearing later in the tour. He
said that no real tin development
could take place until the price
was stablized for at least a 10
year period.
He also recommended that a
depot be set up here for small
producers of sheelite, bismuth, ’
etc., with a revolving fund to
partially pay these individuals
who are in reality prospectors, so
that they may have some revenue
while they are operating and
making it possible t6 carry on.
Paul Tiulana, King Island Es
kimo, answered questions about
King Island and its floating pop
ulation and explained why more
and more of the people want to
stay on the mainland.
The hearing adjourned at noon
as the party was to leave by mili
tary plane immediately after
lunch. #
Senate Group
Holds Hearing on
Basic Freedoms
WASHINGTON MV-Citizenship
rights of Negroes are being denied
in defiance of the Constitution, a
Negro leader Saturday told a Sen-1
ate subcommittee searching for
perils to civil liberty.
The occasion was a Constitution
Day meeting in the old Supreme
Court chamber at the capitol. The
Senate subcommittee on constitu
tional rights heard from citizen
spokesmen ^for a cross-section of
American life as it began an in
vestigation to determine whether
basic freedoms are being eroded.
In an opening statement, Chair
man Hennings (D-Mo) said that in
recent years there have been signs
of “a lamentable indifference—a
carelessness, as it were—about
the individual rights guaranteed
to us by the Constitution of the
United States.”
Spokesmen from all walks of
life represented the subcommit
tee petitions for “a redress of
grievances” in the form of state
ments surveying the status of con
stitutional rights on the 168th an
niversary of the signing of the
Constitution.
Complaints ranged from meth
ods employed by the House com
mittee on Un-American Activities
and guilty by association or kin
ship to compulsory unionism, ex
pansion of federal power and the
suppression of news.
A representative of the Ameri
can Legion also warned against
letting Communists wrap them
selves in the folds of the Constitu
tion and “by subversion destroy
us within.”
Hoy Wilkins, executive secre
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, declared the nation is con
fronted with “a constitutional cri
sis.” He said that “practically
throughout the country, Negro
citizens are denied in varying de
grees the full citizenship rights
envisioned by the Constitution.”
Japanese War Criminals
Released on Parole After
Serving 10-Year Term
TOKYO, UP)—Three of Japan’s
remaining seven “Class Z” war
criminals were released on parole
Saturday from Tokyo’s Sugamo
Prison.
They went immediately to the
Imperial Palace grounds to bow
in the direction of the emperor—
a symbolic “reporting” of their
freedom. Then they went to the
nearby Yasukuni Shrine, the
memorial for Japan’s modern war
dead, to bow to the spirits of the
deceased.
Their release was approved by
the Allied powers last week after
each had served 10 years of a life
sentence.
The three are: Okinori Kaya,
66, finance minister in Japan’s
wartime government; Teiichi Su
suki, 66, former lieutenant general
and wartfme cabinet minister, and
Kingoro Hashimoto, 65, former
ultra-nationalist army colonel.
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