THE NOME NUGGET
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FOREIGN AMERICANS ARE WE
We are indebted to Delegate Bob Bartlett for
these gems recently aired in Congress over Statehood
for Alaska—
Senator Daniel of Texas says:
“ . . . Frankly, I believe that if the Territories
of Hawaii and Alaska and the other Territories were
admitted as States, we could teach their inhabitants
the ways of America . . (Senator Daniel is opposed
to statehood for either territory.)
It looks as if Alaskans are foreigners to Senator
Daniels, who needs to be taught a few things about
Alaskans. Alaska is made up of Americans who
migrated to an American frontier, who teach th°ir
children with American teachers graduated from
American colleges and, in turn, send their children to
American colleges. They even speak the American
language very well.
Senator Smathers of Florida (also an opponent of
statehood) says:
. . Although they might learn abcuj. the United
States by reading books, anyone will agree that much
learning of that sort is acquired by actually living
among the people of the United States, in the United
States itself.”
Learning of this sort is acquired by actually
living among people of the United States, Senator
Smathers, because Alaskans are people of the United
States, just the same as those people of the State of
Florida. They know no other allegiance nor do they
seek other allegiance. All they ask is what the Con
stitution of the United States provides—equality.
Senator Malone of Nevada says:
“I say to the distinguished Senator from Texas
that I have spent some time in this area. For instance,
I have travelled all over Alaska. . . I did not like what
I saw there, from the point of view of the admission
of Alaska as a State. Alaska is a wonderful area; and
as an engineer, I realize that Alaska can be effectively
developed . . . On the other hand, Alaska is not well
adapted to become a State—any more than Hawaii or
Puerto Rico are ... So I say to the junior Senator from
Texas that I have had an opportunity to study those
areas, and I realize that the people who live in them
simply do not think along the same channels as do the
people of the mainland areas of the United States. The
atmosphere and surroundings and communities of these
Territories are different from those in continental Uni
ted States.”
We challenge Senator Malone to state how the
Alaskan Americans think if they do not think Ameri
can as he implies, since they go to the same kind of
schools; study from the same books; by the same teach
ers; honor the same flag and respect the same Presi
dent.
We correct Senator Malone insomuch that Alaska
is a mainland area of North America just as the other
forty-eight States, using the same currency, paying the
same taxes, but denied the right to vote as American
citizens. Would the people of Nevada stand for that?
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued clear with easterly
winds 15-20 mph. Lowest temper
ature expected tonight 20, highest
Tuesday ’8.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
38, low 16. Max. wind 18 mph
from the NE. Sunrise 5:23 a.m.,
sunset 6:51 pm.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 9, low -16. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 38 in 1926,
low -28 in 1920.
C-119 Boxcar Crashes
Into Army Mess Hall
FT. BRAGG, N.C., M—A C-119
Flying Boxcar, carrying nine men
crashed into a mess hall on this
army post Tuesday. The plane
and mess hall burst into flames.
An officer said there “will be few
survivors.”
A witness said the plane, flames
shooting from an engine, hit an
officers quarters, snapped off a
power pole, skidded across a pa
rade ground and crashed into the
mess hall, setting it aflame.
Sen. Magnuson Charges Railroads
With Discrimination Against Alaska
C
WASHINGTON, UP—Sen. Mag
nuson iD-Wash) charged Ameri
can railroads with “discrimina
tion against Alaska.”
“When shipments of materials
are made to Alaska,” he said
Tuesday in a statement in the
Congressional Record, “that part
of the rates which covers the
portion of the rail shipments
within the United States are
higher, as much in some instances
as 100 per cent, as the same
portion of the rates on similar
shipments to Hawaii, Japan and
Korea.”
He said the shipments cover the
same routes within the United
States, and arrive at the same
Seattle terminals.
Mixed freight from Chicago to
Alaska via Seattle costs the ship
per, he said, $4.26 a hundred
pounds for the rail portion of
the trip.
The same freight when destined
to Japan, Korea and other for
eign countries and to Hawaii via
Seattle,” he said, “cost the ship
per S2.77 per hundred pounds
from Chicago to Seattle.”
Magnuson said he found the sit
uation “difficult to explain, dif
ficult to believe,” adding:
“I can’t believe the discrimi
nation for no one has ever been
able to' explain it to me. The
rates are set by the railroads.”
He asked:
“Is it any wonder that costs of
living are high in Alaska and is
it any wonder that the cost of
shipping materia] to Alaska h^s
cost our government substantial
sums of money that have gone
into the pockets of the railroads?”
When Alaskans ship goods to
the United States, he said, “the
railroads calmly reverse the dis
crimination and charge more on
the part of the trip made by rail
within the United States . . . than
they do wh<*n the shipments orig
inate in Hawaii, Japan or Korea.”
Magnuson said the discrimina
tion has been investigated at the
behest of Edmund F. Mansure,
General Services administrator.
“He has concluded that the
basis used by the railroads for
this practice is contrary to the
Interstate Commerce Act and has
said he is ready to bring a pro
ceeding to stop it before the Com
mission, Magnuson declared.
He said Mansure also has taken
the matter up with the Trans
continental Freight Bureau on an
informal basis to “give the rail
roads a chance to voluntarily el
iminate the discrimination.”
Convicted Woman Communist
Conspirator Renounces Party
And Tells FBI All Her Activities
SEATTLE, The Post-Intel-,
ligencer, in a front-page copy
righted story, said Tuesday that
convicted Communist conspirator
Barbara Hartle has renounced the
Comunist party, and has told the
FBI of all her party activities.
Mrs. Hartle was one of five per
sons convicted by a federal court
jury here last October of conspir
ing to teach and advocate the
violent overthrow of the govern
ment. All five have appealed the
conviction.
During the trial the five were
described as the top echelon of
the Communist party in the Pa
cific Northwest.
Mrs. Hartle, a former Eugene,
Ore., waitress, voluntarily gave a
complete -account of her party
activities during secret sessions
with local FBI agents, the P-I
said in a story under the byline
of Traynor Hansen.
Richard D. Auerbach, agent in
charge of the Seattle FBI office,
commented:
“I can confirm the fact that
Index of Wholesale Food
Prices Up To $7.42,
An All-Time High
NEW YORK, UP) — Wholesale
food prices as measured by Dun
& Bradstreet climbed this week
to their highest point since the
agency started keeping records in
1916.
At $7.42, the index was up 17.4
per cent from the same week of.
1953, when it stood at $6.32. It
compared with $7.34 last week
and with the previous high of
$7.35 on July 13, 1948.
The index represents the total
cost at wholesale of one pound
each of 31 foods in common use.
Up this week were corn, hams,
bellies, lard, coffee, cottonseed
oil, cocoa, raisins, prunes, steers,
hogs and lambs.
Down were wheat, rye, eggs,
and butter.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Mrs. Hartle has come in. Other
wise I have no comment. The
FBI is always ready to receive in
formation from anybody.”
The Post - Intelligencer story
quoted Mrs. Hartle, 45, at length
on her reasons for splitting with
the Reds. She said:
“I no longer want to be a Com
munist or associated with Com
munism. To put it bluntly, I’ve
discovered that Communism is a
phony movement, politically, mor
ally and in every other way.
“For almost 20 years I thought
I was a free agent, doing what I
did because I believed it and
thought it was correct. I now
realize you can’t be a free agent
in the Communist movement.”
Hansen said Mrs. Hartle, who
faces a five-year prison term and
a $1,000 fine on her October con
viction, had been a member of the
Communist party’s 12th district
(Washington state) secretariat and
has held at least a dozen key
jobs in the party.
The P-I reporter added that
Mrs. Hartle was “the highest
ranking woman Communist in the
Pacific Northwet” and that her
split with the party was a “matter
of major importance to the Jus
tice Department in this area.”
Senate Statehood Vote
Expected Tomorrow
(Continued from Page 1)
Sen. Anderson (D-NM), leader
of the pro-Alaska forces* pre
dicted the combined Hawaii-Alas
ka measure would pass the Senate
by at least a dozen votes.
He and other statehood support
ers were less certain about what
might happen to it in the House,
which has approved legislation
calling only for Hawaii statehood.
Anderson said the fate of the
combined bill “is purely a ques
tion of what the administration
wants to do.”
President Eisenhower has urged
Hawaiian statehood, but has said
he feels Alaska is not ready for
admission into the Union.
A close final vote is anticipated
by both sides, with present indi
cations that the combined Hawaii
Alaska statehood measure will be
supported by about half of the
Senate’s 48 Democrats and a
scanty majority of the 47 Repub
licans.
Opponents of statehood for both
territories supported the success
ful Democratic sponsored move
tying the Hawaii and Alaska bills
together, in hope that the man
euver would result in killing both
measures in the House.
In Senate debate Tuesday, Sen.
Robertson <D-Va> opposed the
statehood bill as a departure from
“the heritage which we received
from our founding fathers. We
cannot afford now to create fears
that we have an empire complex
and that we will extend our
boundaries into the Orient and
elsewhere,” he said.
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N O M E
By HAROLD SALISBURY
Far to the west and northward of places we include
In sections called the Northwest, —in a distant latitude,
Far to the north and westward is the rugged, brawling coast
Where Bering Sea’s bleak monarchy dominates with deed
and boast,
Where man, the potent forces of the North, eternally
Combats in the arena of the mighty Will To Be!
Where seal and walrus, wolverine ^nd whale and polar bear
Are stalked by hardy Eskimos in danger’s glistening glare!
Where Arctic vastnesses of sea are stretched with Arctic ice
And leagues of tundra snow complete the scene of white,
precise,
Where bitter blows the blizzard blast and foul is
winter’s wage,
Where tide-born icepacks crunch and grind and wrench
a furious rage!
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