The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-24
VARIED VIEWS GIVEN TODAY ON STATEHOOD
Governor Warren Flies 10 Washington dt Request
 of Governor of Alaska
By ALICE FREIN JOHNSON

By ALICE FREIN JOHNSON
 WASHINGTON, April "A = Evi- dences of the strategy to be em ployed by both opponents and pro- ponents of the Alaska Statehood Bill CHR. 33D were revealed this morning, as hearings on the House passed measure began before the Senate Interior and Insular Af- fairs Committee with Sen. Clinton Anderson Dem-NM) acting as chairman.
 Achievement of statehood at any price with subsequent remedy oi defects seems to be the theme c; proponents. Statehood's benefits were stressed but little was said tc prove the bill would provide the benefits it is purported to contain Opponents on the other hand em- phasized that they have no quarrel with statehood but that statehood under the measure in question would start the new state off as . "pauper" chained to federal restric- tions and Interior Department dom- ination and control.
 Gruening Summons Warren
 Gov. Earl Warren of California said he flew here at the request o. Alaska's Governor Ernest Gruenins to testify solely for immediate state hood for both Alaska and Hawaii He said he had not read the bll and was not aware of it's provisions but appeared as a spokesman fol the national and the western con- Fferences of Governors, both o1 which unanimously passed carefully considered resolutions favorine statehood for the two Territories.
 Not for H.R. 331
 Warren said the resolutions were not for H.R. 331 as the means n1 achieving statehood. Warren saic Western States favor statehood be- cause, what builds up one area oi the west helps all of the West Alaska is an integral part of the, West" the Gov. said. '"The last de- fense of Alaska will come from the civilization which is built there, not alone from arms and armament Residents of Alaska cannot develop in acordance with their rights as American citizens when 98 percent of the land there is federally owned and when resources are managed by far off Federal bureaus.
 Twining's Statement
 It. Gen. Nathan Twining, Chic, of the Alaska Command. appealed for statehood on grounds that na- tional defense would be aided, but he did not argue for the bill as the best method of achieving statehood
 Father Bernard R. Hubbard an nounced he was for statehood pro- vided guarantees to insure legiti- mate profits for legitimate indus tries were provided in the state charter. Father Hubbard said he believed maintenance of surfacc transportation over the vast area oi the Territory would result in toc great tax burdens to Alaskans and that they might find themselves with "too much representation and not enough taxation meaning monies to support their state.
 The glacier priest" also appealed for aid to young college trained ex- CTS in seeking to pioneer in Alaska These lads are the ideal kind ot residents for the north" and meet only with rebuffs and warnings that they must come with a backlog oi $2,0O0.
 Father Hubbard asserted he couldn't get much out" of the bill's legal language but that he did not see how the status, Territorial or state, would affect the national de- fense.
 Interior Secretary Oscar Chap man, lead witness for proponents inserted his prepared statement ir the record and gave instead an ex- temporaneous defense of statehood emitting almost all references tc the bill under consideration.
 Chapman said charges that the Interior Department is grasping al and seeking for more power wert ridiculous. T want to get rid oi that power and turn over tc Alaskans all responsibilities as fal as is feasible"
 Land Question
 The Secretary declared, "absen. tee government control is as bae as absentee landlord control"
 Later in his testimony. however Chapman said he believed the gran
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