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VOL. LVI No. 87 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 26. 1954 Per Copy—15^
McKay Promises To Try To Effect
Resumption of Passenger Ship Service
JUNEAU, li'P'—The Interior De-<
partment is going to try to effect
resumption of passenger ship ser
vice to Alaska if the Alaska
■Steamship Co. goes through with
its announced intention to aban
don it.
That was the promise of In
terior Secretary McKay Saturday
night in a Baranof Hotel banquet
speech to 350 Alaskans, sponsored
■by the Chamber of Commerce.
McKay said he recognized that
the announcement has been made
by Alaska Steam since he has
been on the present Alaska trip
that it would discontinue pas
senger service to the territory at
the end of the current summer
season. He called it a “heavy blow
to the tourist industry.’ ’
Speaking at a banquet after his
arrival from Fairbanks, McKay
said Alaskans were a “confident
people, facing the future with
courage and vision. I share your
optimism.”
“We hope to toe able to help
private capital to develop the
Skagway project (Tayai), one of
the great water power sites of
the world, to its fullest capacity
for use by the people of both Al
aska and Canada,’ ’ McKay said.
“We are keeping close watch
on one of your major potential
resources, your water and water
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power, which is perhaps the great
est of all, and also on your very
substantial mineral resources.”
McKay said a great new in
terest has been aroused in the
timber resources of .southeast
Alaska and that his department
will lend every possible assist
ance in bringing about the full
est development of the timber re
sources in the area.
The Interior Secretary also said
the eventual success in his de
partment’s farsighted program
for restoration of the depleted
Alaska salmon runs is assured
and it will not be too long until
the Alaska fishing industry re
gains its “prime vigor.”
McKay said his department re
cognizes the need for a mental
health bill for Alaska.
“These are hard and trouble
some times,” McKay said. “When
Dwight Eisenhower speaks on
terms of the best interests of the
United States he means it. He is
a great patriot and a great Am
erican.”
He said he was referring to a
recent statement made by the
President on the military import
ance of Alaska in regard to state
hood. McKay said he would not
quarrel with President Eisen
hower on military questions.
Stevenson Again Advocates
Statehood For The Territory!
Sign Makes McKay Grin
JUNEAU, (JPl—Secretary of the
Interior grinned when he saw a
sign in Juneau on his return here
Saturday night. The sign, read:
“We ain’t mad at nobody.”
This apparently was in refer
ence to recent differences ex
pressed by Alaskans and Interior
Secretary McKay.
So when McKay spoke to' a
Chamber of Commerce gathering
Saturday night, he referred ob
liquely to the sign. He said:
“I ain’t mad at nobody, too.”
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 7, New York 5
Brooklyn 2, St. Louis 1
Pittsburgh 4-2, Cincinnati 2-3
Chicago 6-2, Philadelphia 1-1
American League
New York 4, Cleveland 3
Chicago 5-4, Boston 2-2
Philadelphia 9-8, Baltimore 4-4
Washington 11, Detroit 3
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 13-1, Sacramento 6-8
San Diego 5-0, Portland 3-8
Hollywood 5-1, Oakland 1-0
S. Francisco 5-3, L. Angeles 3-4
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Statehood
for Alaska was again advocated
yesterday by Adlai E. Stevenson,
the 1952 Democratic party presi
dential candidate.
In a speech sprinkled with hu
morous touches, Stevenson told
an Anchorage gathering of Demo
crats that both President Eisen
hower and Interior Secretary Mc
Kay were for Alaskan statehood
in earlier speeches.
Eisenhower has advocated state
hood for Hawaii, but has avoided
expressed support for Alaskan
statehood. McKay, currently in
southeast Alaska, has told Alas
kans they are not ready for state
hood “under present conditions.”
Concerning President Eisen
hower, Stevenson said that in
1950 Eisenhower, then president of
Columbia University, said at Den
ver: “Quick admission of Alaska
and Hawaii to statehood will show
the world that America practices
what it preaches.”
He continued that in 1953 Eisen
hower, as President of the U.S.,
strongly recommended statehood
for Hawaii, “but said not a word
about Alaska. Later he said your
territory was not ready for state
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President of All
Alaska C of C Meets
With Nome Group
' A special meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce was called
this noon to meet with Tormod
Bie, president of the All-Alaska
Chamber at Commerce, who is
fulfilling his pi-omise to visit all
of the 19 chambers in the terri
tory.
Bie said he hopes that he can
soon announce that all chambers
will be unified under the All
Alaska Chamber in time for the
annual meeting to be held at
McKinley Park November 11.
He stated that in addition to
the Alaska groups the financing
will come through associate mem
bers in the states, such as banks
and wholesale firms doing busi
ness in Alaska. The chamber will
represent more than 2,000 private
business organizations when com
pletely organized and will be a
non-political organization.
He also said that he has con
ferred with officials of the Inter
ior Department and they have
pledged their cooperation and
would appreciate having a cen
tral agency with which to work.
Wm. Moran, special investigat
or for the Legislative Investigat
ing Committtee, was also a guest.
Nome is represented on the All
Alaska Chamber of Commerce by
Dewey Goodrich, who is second
vice president at the group.
Syngman Rhee Says
Thailand “Undoubtedly
Next” Victim of Reds
McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE,
Wash., (ff) — Thailand “undoubt
edly will be the next victim” of
Communist aggression, President
Syngman Rhee of South Korea
asserted here Sunday night.
Rhee predicted the anti-Com
munists will lose more of Asia,
but when asked if he was writing
off all of Asia replied:
“Im not a prophet. Who can
say how much or how little we
can save?”
The gray-haired president, ob
viously tired, held an impromptu
press conference here enroute to
Washington for an official visit
with President Eisenhower. Rhee
was accompanied by his wife and
a party of 12.
Rhee described the Indochina
truce as “an unfortunate thiing”
and said he hoped that something
might be done to save the south
ern tip of Asia.
He would not comment on the
possibility of renewal of hostil
ities in Korea.
On arrival in Washington he is
scheduled to go directly to the
White House as a guest of Presi
dent and Mrs. Eisenhower. Rhee
will speak before a joint session
of Congress Wednesday.
Two U.S. Carrier Planes Shoot Down
Hostile Red Chinese Fighters While
Searching For Survivors Of Airliner
WASHINGTON, Wt —Two U.S/j
carrier planes shot down two Red
Chinese fighters which jumped
them as they were searching over
the weekend for survivors of the
British airliner downed by the
Communists on Friday.
The American fighters were
from the two United States air
craft carriers ordered into the
area Saturday to “protect further
rescue and search operations”
launched after Chinese Commun
ist fighters shot down a British
Cathay Pacific airliner on a
flight from Bangkok to Hong
Kong.
The Communist radio announc
ed today that the Peiping gov
ernment was apologizing to Brit
tain for the attack on the airliner.
It said the Red pilots thought the
plane was Chinese Nationalist.
Ten persons, including three
Americans, apparently lost their
lives after the airliner crashed
into the sea.
The State Department announ
ced the incident today with a de
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nunciation of “Chinese Commun
ist brutality” in attempting to
interfere with a humanitarian
rescue.
In a quick follow-up, Admiral
Felix Stump, commander-in-chief
of the Pacific Fleet, told a news
conference U.S. fliers are under
instructions to be “quick on the
trigger” if a hostile pass is made
at them.
Stump said the policy is this:
“If any U.S. plane is attacked
or approach with obvious hostile
intent, it will fire back. In other
words, you don’t have to wait and
get your head blown off to shoot
back.”
In Congress, there were prompt
expressions of support for the ac
ton of the U.S. airmen.
In response to another ques
tion as to whether he thought the
Communists would be more care
ful about plane incidents in the
future, Stump said:
“I hope so but I don’t know
how much trouble they want.”
Stevenson Charges GOP Appeasement
In The Indochina Peace Settlement
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CAB Recommends Eight
Changes In Civil Airline
Operations In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (jW—Francis W.
Brown, chief examiner for the
Civil Aeronautics Board, today
recommended eight important
changes in civil air operations be
tween Seattle and Alaska. They
are:
1. Elimination of the Alaska
Airlines service between Alaska
and Seattle, leaving the company
with its intra-Alaska service.
2. Renewal for seven years of
the Pacific Northern Airlines’ cer
tificate between Seattle and An
chorage.
3. Permanent certification for
Northwest Airlines, allowing un
limited service between Seattle
and Anchorage.
4. Termination of Northwest’s
route from St. Paul, Minn., to An
chorage.
5. Denial erf Pan American Air
ways’ request to fly to Anchorage.
Pan American will retain its Seat
tle-Juneau-Fairbanks route.
6. Interchange of equipment at
Anchorage between Pacific North
ern and Alaska Airlines territorial
service as a move in the “public
interest.”
8. Denial of all cargo service
proposed by Air Transport Asso
ciates as “not in the public inter
est.”
> ANCHORAGE, UPi — Adlai Ste
venson, breaking a 5-day silence
on the Indochina peace settlement
signed in Geneva last week, yes
terday charged that right wing
Republicans have “successfully
identified negotiation with ap
peasement.”
In his first and only major
speech on an Alaskan vacation,
the unsuccessful Democratic stan
dard bearer in the 1952 presiden
tial campaign said of the Indo
china settlement:
“This is the sorry sequel of all
the foolish, boastful Republican
talk about liberation of the en
slaved nations, about unleashing
Chiang Kai-Shek, seizing the in
itiative, a new look on foreign
policy, no more little wars as in
Korea, and, finally, that threaten
ed talk by the Secretary of State
and the Vice President about mas
sive atomic retaliation which
scared out allies half to death, if
not our enemies
“All these bold words and
ringing slogans of the past two
years sound a litle hollow now.
The ‘new look’ collapsed at the
first test. The administration was
not prepared to fight, nor could
it negotiate, because the right
wing Republicans have success
fully identified negotiation with
appeasement.
“Unable to fight, unable to
negotiate, unable even to speak
with a coherent tongue, U.S. for
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