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THE REAL SUMMIT
Worth The Price
/TODAY IS A DAY SET APART by Alaskans to
-l honor Secretary of State William Seward, who
was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from
Russia for the sum of $7,200,000 in 1867.
There was bitter opposition to his plan to purchase
this vast part of North America, and he was ridiculed
by his friends and associates, who called his act
“Seward’s Folly,” and termed Alaska “Seward’s
Icebox.”
History, time and again, has vindicated his action,
and as the world looks forward to the future of the
new State, his wisdom and foresight gain still greater
respect. •
Alaska’s wealth of fish resources still attracts its
former owners, as they hover today in fleets, as close
as they dare, near our shores; yet these same people
deny American ships the same privilege near their
shores; and they forbid free passage in the skies above
their shore line.
Yes, Alaska was worth the price — And Alaskans
are grateful to William Seward.
Jerusalem Responds In Solemn Sorrow
To Prince of Peace’ Burial Anniversary
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
JERUSALEM, Jordan Sector,
W — Easter week ceremonies
approached a joyous climax with
solemn Holy Saturday rites in the
Basilica of the Hoily Sepulchre at
the altar near the scene of Christ’s
burial and resurrection.
Hundreds of pilgrims and tour
ists .crowded the church within^the
©Id walled city of Jerusalem short
ly after dawn -broke on a clear
bright day.
Outside, warm spring sunlight
flooded the basilica courtyard as
Christians of many creeds from
all corners of the globe prepared
to celebrate the anniversary of
Christ’s resurrection.
The Roman Catholic Patriarch
of Jerusalem, the Most Rev, Al
berto Gori, entered the church at
6:30 a.m. to preside at the rites
of the blessing of the fire —
symbolic of Christ as the Light of
the World — at the Stone of
Anointment where Christ’s body
is said to have been anointed after
his death on nearby Calvary.
The Patriarch then proceeded
to the altar at the sepulchre, where
he offered Pontifical High Mass.
The Basilica was jammed until
late Friday night, when the Pa
triarch conducted the traditional
“burial” service in the series of
chapels within the church mark
ing the final Stations of the Cross.
At the ornate Byzantine altar
of the Crucifixion, which marks
the traditional spot of Calvary,
the figure of the crucified Christ
was taken from thte cross. While
the choir, priests and altar boys
sang hymns, priests lifted the
crown of thorns and withdrew
the three nails.
A priest raised the crown and
each nail aloft for the congrega
tion to see, then kissed each nail.
The figure of Christ’s body was
carried in solemn procession to the
Stone of Anointment, then into
the sepulchre.
Legislators - Come Home!
FUTURE OF ALASKA is in the hands of'the
~rst State legislators. The whole free world is
watching their progress. In some ways they are to be
praised for what they have accomplished so far.
On the other hand, there are several very impor
tant measures pending that require careful study and
thorough digesting before they become law. This
includes the Employment Security Bill. We know
the lawmakers do not wish to cause undue hardship v
on the people. We know they arc being pressured to
hurry. It is time for the lawmakers to come home
and review matters as they stand — time to come
home and think about, and talk about these matters
with the people who will have to pay the taxes and
carry out the laws.
To fashion sound employment security policies
requires careful study, and that takes time. Alaskans
don’t want to be the highest taxed people of the
United States.
The alarming unanimous actions of our first
State Legislature indicate clearly that there are
such pressures at work — So many good Alaskans
certainly don’t think alike on so many controversial
issues — of their own free will!
The current financial distress in the State govern
ment of Michigan should be a warning to the new
State to go slow !
Red China Stills
Tibet Uprising;
Installs New Lama
TOKYO, (jfPt—Red China claimed
Saturday it has smashed an up
rising in Tibet and installed the
Panchen Lama — pro-Communist
rival of the rebellious Dalai Lama
— as head of a new regime.
An order by Premier Chou En
Lai abolished the Tibetan govern
ment nominally headed by the
Dalai Lama. Peiping said the
Dalai Lama “under duress by the
rebels” tore up the treaty he
signed in 1951 with Red China.
A broadcast by Peiping said the
23-year-old Dalai Lama had been
abducted by rebels who rose
against the Red Chinese overlords
last week.
Peiping charged the rebels had
been armed by supplies air
dropped by the Chinese Nation
alists. The supplies included radio
equipment.
The rebels attacked Lhasa on
March 19, and were defeated in
two days of battle, Peiping said.
It listed rebel casualties at
4,000 captures. The Red Chinese
troops seized 8,000 small arms, 81
machineguns, 27 mortars, 6 moun
tain guns and huge amounts of
ammunition, the broadcast said.
Peiping carefully refrained from
assailing the Dalai Lama, the liv
ing Bhudda of Tibetans and the
most popular man in the land of
the Lamas.
The revolt was blamed on the
“Tibetan local government and an
upper strata reactionary clique”
back by imperialists.
Chou said the 21-year-old Pan
chen Lama will be chairman of a
committee set up for what he
called the Tibet autonomus region.
Committees in so-called self-gov
erning regions of Red China take
orders from Peiping.
But the broadcast made it clear
that the Chinese Red military will
j be in charge.
The Dalai Lama presumably is
with the rugged Kampa tribesmen
who have been in revolt against
the Chinese Reds for three years.
Peiping Radio in announcing the j
shakeup acknowledged for the
first time the Tibetans had re
belled against their Red masters.
When the Dalai Lama proved
hard to handle after the Chifrese
Red invasion of 1950, there was
much speculation that the Panchen
Lama was being groomed by Pei
ping to take over in Tibet.
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Shemya Flights Asked By
Reeve Airways, To Fill
New Transportation Need
WASHINGTON, [ff\ — Reeve
Aleutian Airways has asked the
Civil Aeronautics Board for au
thority’ to carry passengers and
cargo, as well as mail, between
Adak and Shemya.
Early last year, the C.A.B. eli
minated the Aleutian points of
Amchitka, Shemya and Attu from
Reeve’s certificate because of in
sufficient traffic.
The airline said the situation
has changed since then, however,
and service is warranted once
again to Shemya. At the showing
by the Post Office Department
that there was need for mail serv
ice to Shemya, the C.A.B. last
March authorized a mail opera
tion by Reeve. The airline now
wants this broadened to include
passenger and freight traffic.
Airines Asks C.A.B. For
Change in Ruling, To
Stop BOAC Tokyo Flights
WASHINGTON, W — North
west Airlines has asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board to reconsider
a March 18 order which opened
the wajr-for British Overseas Air
ways Corp. to serve Tokyo.
BOAC has proposed to extend
its London-New York-San Fran
cisco route to Hong Kong by way
of Tokyo, and has argued that its
right to do so is granted under
terms of the bilateral air agree
ment between the United States
and the United Kingdom.
Northwest contended that Tokyo
is far off a San Francisco-Hong
Kong Transpacific route and can
not be added to the route without
a separate proceeding.
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Nations Capitol
i The Weekly Newsletter from the
Office of Senator Ernest Gruening)
By GEORGE SUNDBORG
Administrative Assistant
WASHINGTON, March 21 —
Responding to an appeal made by
Senator Gruening on behalf of
many Alaskans who live in iso
lated sections of the 49th state
where there are no doctors or
dentists, the U. S. Public Health
Service has announced its willing
ness to provide routine medical
and dental services from its hos
pitals in such areas to persons who
are not Natives and do not qualify
for free care under existing law.
This broadening of the function
of government hospitals in Alaska
would be contingent on coopera
tion by the Alaska Department of
Health, the Alaska Medical So
ciety, the Alaska Hospital Asso
ciation and the Alaska Dental As
sociation, according to a letter ad
dressed to Senator Gruening by
Dr. James R. Shaw, assistant sur
geon general and chief of the Di
vision of Indian Health.
“To the extent that our physical
resources and personnel will per
mit,” Dr. Shaw wrote the senator,
“We will be happy to cooperate
in the solution of some of the
health problems in isolated areas
of Alaska where we maintain
facilities.”
Alaskans living in communities
where U.S.P.H.S. doctors and
dentists are stationed have long
complaind about thir having to
travel long distances to obtain me
dical and dental care in cities with
private practitioners. Senator
Gruening pointed up the problem
in a letter to the surgeon general,
which stated:
“We have, as you perhaps know,
a rather special situation existing
in Alaska. Our larger communities
have competent medical and den
tal practitioners but, in the vast
areas in between, there are many
villages without such service. In
most of; these communities, a
large proportion of the population
is Native — the Alaskan word for
people of Indian, Eskimo or Aleut
race. They receive gratuitous
health services from the Public
Health Service.
“The dilemma that we confront
is that in these communities the
white people are denied such serv
ices, although willing to pay for
them. Their alternative is a grave
one. They have to take themselves,
or their children, to a city — often
quite distant — pay the plane
fare, lodge themselves in a hotel,
and incur, in connection with se
curing medical or dental treat
ment there, very substantial addi
tional, overhead costs.”
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Johnson, Dorothy Emmons.
Discharged: Leslie Dean
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