Seaton Says Alaskans Had Better
Accept Administration’s Plan for
Statehood or Give Up Hopes
FAIRBANKS UP)—Alaskans had
better make up their minds now
to accept the Eisenhower Admin
istration’s forthcoming statehood
bill or give up hopes of obtaining
statehood in this session of Con
gress. That’s the word brought
here by Secretary of the Interior
Fred A. Seaton.
In an address before a meeting
of business and civic leaders at
the University of Alaska Monday,
Seaton urged Alaskans to back
the Administration’s bill even tho
they may not find it “entirely
palatable.”
Seaton recalled the President
has said he supports statehood
for Alaska providing certain de
fense requirements have been
met. It is generally believed in
Alaska this means military reser
vations will be set apart from the
State of Alaska.
“I am not saying that you are
going to have partition,^^Seaton
said. Then he added, “You may
Mail Theft at
Kotzebue Probed
The theft of a mail sack at Kot
zebue was recently solved, ac
cording to a Territorial Police
report.
The sack, containing over nine
pounds of both registered and
regular mail, was reported to the
police by A. E. Hagberg, of Wien
Alaska Airlines. Hegberg report
ed that Cliff Morrison, acting
Wien station manager at Kotze- j
bue, reported the missing sack, j
On investigation, Harry Ballot,
15, admitted taking the mail sack
and was helped by Percy Shel
don, 13. Sheldon admitted help
ing Ballot open letters, but said
he didn’t take anything, but Bal
lot got $7.
All the mail has been recovered
but much of it was opened and
mutilated.
No disposition of the case has
been made. Post Office inspectors
were also at Kotzebue investigat
ing the crime.
i get something that approximates
i it.?’ He promised the “complete,
; unequivocal support” of the
I President, himself and the Ad
ministration for Alaska statehood
unless Alaskans themselves “split
this unanimity by complaining
about defense measures deemed
i necessary in Washington.”
Seaton declared: “You will be
waiting until tomorrow, or per
haps scores of tomorrows unless
you take what you can possibly
get in this Congress.”
; Seaton said he has learned a
i great deal on his visit to Alaska
which he did not get from “the
cold black and white data in
Washington.” He said he has
been especially impressed with i
the kind of people who live in the
territory and the large percentage
of young people and children.
He told the gathering: “This is
the land of tomorrow, and could
very easily be the land of today.”
American Fishermen Got
Record Catch in 1956
WASHINGTON, [fft—American
commercial fishermen had a rec
ord catch of 5,200,000,000 pounds
during 1956, the Fish and Wild-1
life Service said Monday.
The total included 2,058,000,000 j
pounds of menhaden, the first'
two billion pound catch of any
one variety in a year by Ameri
can fishermen. Menhaden is
abundant along the Atlantic
coast, is used for bait or convert
ed into oil or fertilizer.
. The catch of food fish ran to
only 2,800,000,000 pounds and
was 400,000,000 below the aver
age for 1947-50.
With, a population increase
since 1950 of about 20 million
persons and a fairly constant rate
of consumption of 10 to 11 pounds
edible weight per capita, the ser
vice said large imports have been
required to meet the demand.
Imports supplied about 35 per
cent of the domestic supply of
edible fishery products last year,
compared with an average of 21
percent from 1947 to 1950.
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Chou Says China
Ready to Consider
Prisoner Exchange
KATMANDU, Nepal, (—Pre
mier Chou En-lai said yesterday
Red China would consider nego
tiating >an exchange of prisoners
with the United States.
At a news conference, a re
porter asked Chou’s opinion of a
“proposal” to exchange 10 Amer
icans imprisoned in China for 33
Chinese Chou said the United
States is holding.
Chou replied Peiping would
consider such a proposal “as a
•basis for negotiation.”
He said “they may be released
before serving their full terms if
they behave properly.”
Saying he was renewing his in
vitation to meet U.S. Secretary of
State Dulles to discuss Peiping
Washington relations, Chou of
fered to meet Dulles in “friendly
Nepal” or any other friendly
place.
He said Dulles’ insistence such
a meeting should come only after
the 10 Americans were freed was
strange. The U.S., he said, wanted
Peiping to make concessions, but
would not make concessions itself.
Senate to Review
Policy in Midi-East
In Last 11 Years
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Sen
ate Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees voted unan
imously. Tuesday to conduct a
complete review of U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East over
the last 11 years.
The vote was 30 to 0.
The White House and State De
partment were said to have no
objection to the inquiry.
The action apparently cleared
the way for ultimate Senate
adoption of a resolution giving
President Eisenhower authority
to use U.S. forces to combat any
Communist aggression in the
Middle East. The Eisenhower res
olution would also authorize $200
million of aid to Mid-East nations.
After the- vote by the Senate
committees, Sen. Green read a
letter from Secretary of State
Dulles, setting up certain condi
tions under which confidential
documents would be made avail
able to the senators.
Dulles wrote it was his under
standing that in its review of
documents the committee will not
seek to breach the confidence of
other friendly governments.
Several members of the two
committees said they wanted
clarification of what that meant.
But it was generally agreed the
committee would not be bound
by Dulles’ language.
Soviet Union Expels
Two U.S. Military
Attaches From Moscow
LONDON UR—The Soviet Union
today ordered the expulsion of
Maj. Hubert Tansley and Capt.
Charles Stockell, assistant U.S.
military attaches ha Moscow.
In the past three weeks two
Russians, one of them an assistant
military attache, have been ex
pelled from the United States.
A Moscow broadcast said a
Russian note handed to U.S. Am
bassador Bohlen said the two
men were “engaged in activities
incompatible with their status as
accredited diplomatic officials
and that their further stay in the
U.S.S.R. was therefore undesir
able.”
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