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Barlett Reports
Statehood Bill
Unlikely This Year
<AF Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)— Delegate
Bartlett cast some cold Arctic
water Tuesday on the chances of
Alaska statehood being voted by
the coming session of Congress.
He talked with reporters after
a meeting with Sen. Hugh Butler
|R-Nebh whose position as chair
man of the Senate Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee will
give him virtual control over
statehood legislation following the
the January reorganization.
Bartlett quoted Butler as saying
he does not believe Alaska should
be given statehood until legisla
tion is enacted transferring to the
western states the bulk of public
land within their borders.
Presumably Alaska would be
affected also by any such legis
lation.
As a result Bartlett reported
Butler’s belief that the question
of Alaska statehood will not be
brought up during the coming
session. An Hawaiian statehood
bill, however, probably will get
consideration.
The delegate said Butler assur
ed him he plans to introduce
shortly after Congress resumes a
bill to' permit Alaskans to elect
their own governor. The bill
would, if passed, be effective for
• the 1954 elections.
He said he plans to submit a
statehood measure early in the
next congress similar to that
which came before the Senate last
year and was returned to com
mittee for further study.
“However,” he added, “if Sen.
Butler’s views reflect those of the
, administration and it appears
statehood is doomed for another
four years, I will join with him
in support of the elective gover
nor bill.”
ELMIRA, N.Y., (^>)—Cpl. John
ny Costley, 20, is one of the mem
bers of the Tenth Rescue Squad
ron searching for his lost brother
aboard a missing transport plane
that vanished with 52 persons off
• the Alaskan coast.
He is stationed in Alaska and
learned from his parents here that
his brother, Sgt. Eugene Raymond
Costley, 24, was aboard the giant
C-124 Globemaster which disap
peared Saturday.
32 Palmerites Accompany
Basketball Team to Nome
Forty eight people are sched
uled to leave Palmer Friday
morning for the basketball games
here Friday and Saturday be
tween the Nome and Palmer
High School teams.
Sixteen members of the team
and school are in the group and
32 adults, it has been reported by
i the superintendent of the Palmer
school, who is accompanying the
group.
Following the Saturday night
game a party limited to the stu
dents of the Nome School and to
those from Palmer, will be held
I at the school.
The Palmer team will be hous
| ed at Nome Field, and the rest of
j the group at the hotels in town.
Air Force Party on Ice
Island Invites Anyone
I For Thanksgiving Turkey
| ANCHORAGE, (/P) — An Air
Force party on a lonely ice island
next door to the North Pole wants
the folks back home to know it
will celebrate Thanksgiving with
turkey -and all the trimmings.
And if you want to drop in for
dinner, you’re “invited to make
use of the best runway facilities
for wheeled and ski aircraft in the
; Arctic Ocean,” Maj. Herbert G.
Dorsey messaged Elmendorf Air
Force Base here yesterday.
Dorsey, of Los Angeles, is com
manding officer of a station on
the floating ice island. This seven
man group is gathering weather
data where the weather is made
for use by the Air Force and fore
casters around the world.
Sharp Differences Among
Price Control Planners
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Michael
V. DiSnlle, former price adminis
trator, has been summoned to
Washington for high level dis
cussions on what to do about the
nation’s controls program, Econ
omic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam
announced today.
There are sharp differences of
opinion among the •administra
tion’s top planners. Some want
wage and price controls strength
ened and extended beyond their
present expiration date, April 30.
Others want all controls to be
lifted.
President Truman has the pow
er to end the controls if he desires.
Eisenhower Names
Two Women to
Top-Level Jobs
NEW YORK, ,(JP) — President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
neared the end of his designations
for top-level government offices
Wednesday, declaring that more
high positions will be assigned
to women administrators.
He has named the seventh mem
ber of the normally nine-man
cabinet.''
And along with that designa
tion, he announced that he will
propose the names of two women
—Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, of
Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Ivy
taker Priest, of Bountiful, Utah
—for administrative offices in the
government he is forming.
Mrs. Hobby was named to head
the Federal Security Agency, and
Mrs. Priest as Treasurer of the
United States.
These, he said in a formal an
nouncement, are “the first of oth
er appointments of women in thg
coming administration.”
The designation for the cabinet
was Arthur E. Summerfield, of
Flint, Mich., for Postmaster Gen
eral. Summerfield is chairman of
the Republican National Commit
tee.
Only two cabinet posts now re
main: the Secretaries of Com
merce and Labor. There has been
no' indication at the general’s
headquarters as to his choices.
Russians Turn Down
Indian Compromise Plan
On Deadlocked POW Issue
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP)—
Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky an
nounced today that Communist
China already had turned down
India’s compromise plan for end
ing the Korean priscmer-of-war
deadlock.
Vishinsky addressed the U. N.
Political committee shortly after
that 60-nation foody had voted to
give priority to the Indian pro
posal, which Russia already had
rejected.
The Soviet foreign minister said
the Peiping government had been
given a copy of the resolution by
the Indian government and had
given its negative reply two days
ago. For that reason, he said, the
committee would foe merely wast
ing time to pursue its present de
bate on the Indian plan.
Second Ship Sails For
Alaska From Seattle
SEATTLE, (/P)—A second ship
with supplies for Alaska sailed
from Seattle this morning, under
special clearance from picketing
AFL waterfront unions.
It was the freighter Susitna of
the Alaska Steamship Co. It is
heading for westward ports.
The S. S. Rambler sailed yes
terday for southeastern ports.
The company reported a third
ship will sail with cargo for Val
dez and Seward which the Su
sitna was unable to take.
Weather Station
Built for Danes
On Greenland
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Air Force
planes flew more than two million
pounds of equipment to a remote
corner of Greenland, only a few
hundred miles from the North
Pole, for the building of a Danish
weather station, the U.S.A.F. dis
closed today.
Although existence of the new
weather station has been known,
details of Jts construction came to"
light only today in a news an
nouncement by the Air Force.
It said 26 Fairchild C-119
“packets” — big twin-boom cargo
carriers — toted in a total of
2,051,600 pounds of equipment
over a six-month period, rang
ing from bulldozers to pre-fabri
cated buildings.
The only way to reach the base
site was by air, flying from the
new American base at Thule, on
the northwest coast, 600 miles
away. An advance party of Danes
and Americans landed first in
a ski-equipped plane and marked
out an area in the snow and ice
on which two C-119s landed with
initial construction equipment.
The start on “Station Nord”
began April 5 and by July 25 a
permanent air strip was ready
for use.
The C-119s used in the airlift
were from the Tactical Air Com
mand’s 435th Troop Carrier Wing
of the 18th Air Force, a former
reserve wing based at Miami, Fla.
Many of the group’s C-119s
currently are in Alaska in con
nection with winter airborne troop
training. Two of them have
crashed this month while ferrying
troops out o>f Elmendorf Base.
Blizzards Block
Roads in States;
Storms Kill Six
Wind-whipped snow clamped an
icy grip over wide sections of
the midlands today, stranding
travelers, closing schools and
blocking roads.
At least six deaths were attri
buted to storm conditions. Almost
a foot of snow was recorded in
some towns.
Kansas and Nebraska, where
blizzard conditions prevailed in
some areas yesterday, apparently
felt the greatest impact of the
storm.
But parts of Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas
also got their share of snow. The
snow eased off during the night
in most of the states but the
Weather Bureau said it probably
would continue in Minnesota and
Iowa throughout Wednesday.
A six- to nine-inch blanket
of snow covered a section 150 to
200 miles wide from southeastern
Minnesota southwestward into
northern Texas. A four-inch car
pet of white covered most of Kan
sas and Nebraska and northwest
ward into Wyoming and central
Montana.
Winds of 30-35 miles an hour
with gusts of 45 to 50 mph created
blizzard-like conditions in some
areas. The drifting snow made
snow depths vary. Traffic was
impeded in many areas and high
way travel was virtually halted
in some, places.
Temperatures were below zero
early today in the northern Rock
ies and in the low teens as far
south as northern Texas and in
the plains states.
U.S. Ambassador to
Canada Resigns After 25
Years in Foreign Service
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Stanley
Woodward today submitted his
resignation as ambassador to
Canada. It is effective Jan. 15.
Woodward, former State De
partment protocol chief, is widely
known in diplomatic circles
around the world. In his resigna
tion sent to President Truman, a
close personal friend, he said:
“After 25 years in the Foreign
Service and State Department,
the time has come to return to
private life and to assume the
responsibilities and privileges of
citizenship in our great country.”
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