The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1945, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA And Fashion History Also Being Made! In Qur New Coll Exdusive in the World Originals JUVENILE BILL GETS APPROVAL Indian omfi Let Public Handle Problem e most important pages in Alaskan IS rncon before the House of Rep- esentatives—an official spokesman )f a Federal Bureau was not only eard to decry “duplication” of offi- ial fields of endeavor, but went urther to offer relinquishment of, ureau functions to a Territorial of-\[ lice. The occasion arose during the, sassage: of . Representative , Bess‘ Cross’ juvenile delinquency measure | lesigned to include Indian, Eskimo| 1nd Aleut children as well as white. In offering Office of Indian Af-! fairs funds to aid in the extended Territorial control of the Territory’s delinquent children, General Super- intendent Don C, Foster made the statement “Duplication of effort ection, of by Welfare Office : | 1t is entirely possible that one of Quiet, Please! Alaska Senate But Not Agriculture Laboratory Bill 'Alaska’s Senate tidied (to come. ! furore, but fairly considerable ac- ccmplishment were totalled up at the end of the session of routine | legistation. The Senators led off again vot- ing down—by that same old 7 to 9 count—Senator N. R. Walker's Ag- ricultural Experimental Laboratory Bill, Senate No. 34. Wading down the calendar, the Senate then right in order disposed of: Senate Substitute: for House Bill No. 31 by the Senate Finance Com- mittee—a special appropriation mea- surz for reimbursement for care of destitute children. proposed were stated to fLiave the ap- proval of the Territorial Public Hard _a_i Lahor Mess of Measures Passed- Yesterday afternoon members of up ~ their history was unfolded Tuesday at desks in anticipation of major issues Little fuss, practically no The payments; Mr. Philip Mangone does not make sense.” | Welfare Director, but could not be law and st THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945 labor” from the imprisonment pen- alty. The bill was unanimously‘ AMERI(A"S 2 passed by the Senators. ‘ g 5 / 1 had been explained by Juneau AL-( b i torney H. L. Faulkner. The bill, he| [——— said, has particular application to! . . \ mobile equipment used on mmmg‘CI'OSS Rlvef in Darkfless— claims and purchased on conditional | Germans Taken by sales contracts. Such purchases, he stated, are difficult to make under H ‘ Surprise (Continued from Page One) Senate Bill No. 68, by Senator Howard Lyng—concerning the post.] ing of notices with relation to liens| for labor performed upon mining | claims, The measure was approved by a 14 to 2 vote after its intent the Territory’s existing law. | P One brief flurry of excitement was occasioned in the Senate yesterday jafternoon when Senator Walker moved to “jerk” his Senate Bill No. |27 from the Judiciary Committee, | where it has been, he claimed, since | February 17. The hill authorizes the Territorial Treasurer to invest sur- plus funds of the Territory in in- terest-bearing United States Bonds Senator Cochran, chairman of the | committee, Treplied - | sure had rece?ved h‘r:ten:h‘eie;xl‘ ezr enemy was in confusion and fleeing consideration by his group—that from the ashes of Cologne before there was danger that passage of Hodges' hard-driving divisions. the measure might impair the bona _ The First Army infantry spanned posted by the Treasurer. |the quarter of a mile river against Senator Walker wanted to know light opposition before the startled how anyone could doubt the value Germans could grasp what hap- of bonds of the United States. Un- Pened, Associated Press Corre- ider protest, he withdrew his motion spondent Wes Gallagher sald. after the Judiciary Committee had o R G said it would report the bill out to| bridgehead out of artillery range of the enemy. Cologne is in about the same lati- tude as Newfoundland, and the days at this season of the year are extremely short, During the first 24 hours, there was little artillery "or mortar fire on the bridgehead, indicating the As the law is written at present, paid by his department because of| the Senate immediately. It did o Hanna Asks (mtess | those children with one-quarter or some certain yards of red tape had | —Without recommendation. | i more native blood are taken care of The Senate adjourned until this| Mangone—dean of ‘America’s designers— does a glorious new collection of his superb coats and suits, exclusively ours in the world . . . . They’re important coats and suits, replete with nerve and dash, they’re high fashion and yet functional . . . . their materials, and workmanship unquestion- ably and typically Mangone . . . . Here are the new tunic length Renisance coats, full length fitted models, swash- buckling swagger toppers . . . sleeved suits Cape in fine gabardines and twills, beloved checks and stripes in de- lightful new treatments, faille with yarn or embroidcred with jet beads. Yes, here indeed, aie the loveliest new coats and its of the season . . E. 44/(. Bzé'zmcz{t 80. ‘ QUALITY SINCE /887 CITIES GIVEN MOREPOWERS BY SENATORS Pass Companion Bills to Allow Acquiring Prop- ties Outside Limits Companion measures municipal powers won the Territorial Senate afternoon. Senate Bill No. Senator Frank Whaley “party vote” 14 Democrats record- ing in its favor, two Republicans ¢ opposed. Senate Bill No. Grenold Collins, counted 15 favor- ing votes, with one Senator absent. Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson, who framed the two measures, the request of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. peared before the Senalc at R r{ == ; behalf. Both measures, he declared, 'to the Juneau. Airport is held by are intended to enable cities to the Civil Aeronautics . Authority, cooperate to greater extent with which operates theé port for the plans of the Alaska Development Federal Goverhment. There is a Board, now in process of creation possibility, he ‘said, that when the by the Legislature. |state of war permits, the CAA will 47 would give Alaska cities cease to operate the airport. In that the power to acquire lands outside event, it would, Be necessary for their corporate limits that could be the City of Juneau to have such held 2s potential sites for indus- powers as are offered in the bill tries that might be attracted to in order to take over and operate establish themselves and which | the vital airport facilities, Robert- determined would promote the son concluded. . welfare. City councils could| Both measures were passed with- ind sell or lease such sites Out amendment or discussion, ex- | by the Office of Indian Affairs. “We have been limited in funds,” Foster said, “and we have only one social worker. It has been impos- sible for us to do as good a job as the Department of Public Welfare.” Foster declared funds are expect- ed to be made available to his office {for the mnext fiscal year beginning July 1, and discussed plans to con- tract with the Territory for care of native delinquent children. Something Fishy A Senator who had heard the House session during an upper house recess declared, “The biggest bur- eau in the Federal setup turning over some of its office to us who have been crying for more home controls — it doesn’t sound possible. {TF.T diAn't know Foster for a man , of ‘practicalities I'd say there’s some- wuug 1sny.” Some House members, taken aback by the proposal, also questioned the deal temporarily, but when the mea- sure came up for final vote, there was but one dissenting vote. Representative Alaska Linck, vot- ing affirmative, however reconsider- ed her vote, seeking an opportiunity to gather more information on poss- ible costs of the change and to reg- he measure through second to third {reading in one day. | Minister’s Views eran - Church in Ketchikan = was (also_heard on the House floor in Isupport of the measure. Rev. Ol- years in the States on juvenile de- | linguericy work, much of that time with the FBI and lecturing through | thirty-three of the forty-eight | states. \that something be done about ju- | venile delinquency. | “Since 1942" Olson declared, | “there has been an increase in sex delinquency of girls under 16 years of 130.6 per cent,” and added “Some- thing must definitely be done - in | Alaska.” | Citing specific instances of juven- ile troubles in Alaska, the Ketchi- kan pastor however declared, “The ‘Temmry has a good Juvenile Code, but it is hard to make it work be- |cause of the duplication of con- trols. Under that system, some { children are left without guidance or icontrol on the street,” Importance Stressed Stressing the importance of the legislation, the Rev. Olson declared that strengthening juvenile delin- quency .controls is “essential to a | postwar era in which we will be glad to invite home-builders to Alaska.” Territorial Department of Public | Welfare head Russell Maynard was also on the House floor during dis- cussion of Representative Cross’ equal-rights bill. Maynard explain- ed that the Johnson-O'Malley Act of 1935 creates the enabling legislation to make possible transfer of Indian {Office monies to Territories for such functions as the bill is concerned with. FLIER'S BILL 1S KILLED BY custom ore milling plant at Anchor- age for sample runs of prospectors’ ores, reférred ‘to the Mining and Finance committees; House Bill No. 27, to create an office for improve- ment of salmon spawning areas, res ‘i!é‘rred to Fisheries and Finance; House Bill No. 48, 4 legal measure to provide for recovery of attorney fees in appeals of civil actions, re- | ferred to Judiciary; House Bill No. 5, to establish a Real Estate C¢m- | missioner’s office and license Alas- {ka real estate dealers, referred to| Taxation and Pinance, and House approval by the voters in cept Mr. Robertson’s testimony. Properties thus acquired . 1e city limits would not| ceided o " become a part of the cities. "mw £ IN SENATE'S No. 48 would cities to cbtain mstruct parks, enable for and | ounds, air- | improvements situated out- boundaries. Expendi- 48, by Senator ! would have to be approved era! or special elections. The iction of roads and trails ing to such improvements would be included among the powers ities. pecific condition existing with d to the City of Juneau was dvanced as additional argu- nent in favor of No. 48. Mr. Rob- rtson stated that at present title an Standing Committees of Alaska's Senate gained but ‘slightly on their |piled-up work Tuesday afternoon. | Six measures were reported out of |the -investigating groups, but five | additional measures passed by the House were received and veferred to committees. | Received from the House were: House Bil] No, 22, to set up a $25,000the Senate for its substitute, |Joint Memortal No, 2, to ask ~the| | Public Roads Administration for a | survey for a trunk highway system | linking cities in the Kenai Penin- | sula area, referred to Transporta- tion. HOUSE BALLOT The Territorial Legislature will not require Alaskan pilots to have instrument licenses. taken yesterday afternoon by the ‘Toe ‘Hepste Sugoasing . Oc g House cf Representative on Repre- | tee handed back Senate Bill No. 21, | as being correctly enrolled, and Sen- | ate Bills Nos. 43 and 49 and Senate Joint Memorial No. 5, as being cor- rectly engrossed. demanding instrument rating. Before final defeat of the measure by a 19 to 5 vote, three Alaskan' fliers had testified that the measure was “of no value” and would “work | The Finance Committee put a “doj v pass” recommendation on its own @ hardship” on many Alaskan fliers. Senate Substitute for House Bill No.| Testifying were Clarence Rhodes 31. Judiclary entered a Senate Sub- and Alex Holden of Alaska Coastal stitute for House Bill No. 32, ting the measure in correct I tive form, and secured adonti: /dent Fairbanks fier. Empire Ciassineds Pay: not been properly wound up. A un- |animous vote passed the bill, with |an emergency clause. P Senate Joint Resolution No. 6, by Senator Edward D. Coffey—an in- |vitation to Congressional Territor- |les Committees members to visit Alaska. This measure evoked the most action of the afternoon when Finance Committee amendment was | proposed to strike the $15,000 ap-! | propriation that had been provided in the measure to help defray the expenses of the Congressional visit- ors. The amendment was adopted, but not until three amendments to the amendment had been voted down. The sub-amendments had prcposed three different sums— $5,000, $100 and $10,000—at which the uppropriation should be set, in- stead of eliminating it entirely. ; President Coffey backed his res- olution by declaring it had been introauced in response to a message from Alaska’s Congressional Dele- gate, E. L, Bartlett, who had sug- gested that such a gesturs might help to influense House Members who had already expressed a de- sire that the Houce Committee on Territories of Congress visit its northern charge. stricken, it was suggested that the | measure would be in more correct {form as a memorial. Attempts to | witheraw the resolution failed, how- The Rev. R. E. Olson of the Luth- cy.. 55 qig a motion to advance its | pessage under suspended rules. | Senate Bill No. 62, by Senator Joe | s 3 ph N 4 scn has spent most of the past tén reen_aythorizing the Territorial | | Boar¢ of Road Commissioners to/ spend $5,000 to acquire 9.48 acres of land near the town of Haines. The \bill was passed by a 15 to 1 vote, i together with an emergency clause, | | Olson confessed a “burning desire” on%:e its purpos> had begen e{(pmnedl by the author. | “The parcel of land to which the! bill relates, Senator Green stated, is the site of a group of buildings, including shops and warehouses, whick have been turned over to the Alaska Road Commission by the U. S. Army Engineers. The buildings are located, how-ever on privately- owned, leased ground which the Alarka Road Commission has not Leen able to purchase. It is desired that the Territory acquire the land. It is expected that the Federal agency will compensiate the Terri- tory. s 8 | “Senate Bill No. 38, by Senator Frank Gordon—to transfer title from the Territory ‘to the City of | Pairbanks of a plot'of 1and near tHat Interior city. The land had been granted to the Territory to serve as & landing place for the Graf Zep- \pelin, at the time it was expected that the airship might come to Alaska. The bill passed the Senate | by unanimous vote. | . . ! Senate Bill No, 39, by Senator O. 'D. Cochran—making several tech- nical changes in the Territory’s Un- employment Compensation Act, to make the law applicable to the liber- alized coverage under the act, en- acted previously in the current legis- {lative session; also setting up more |stringent ‘penalties and provisions (qr employers in default, and defin- ing the “uneniployable” period for pregnant women., After several amendments providing longer per- iods in which contributing employers ‘may obtain redress and striking prevision which would have barred taking disputed claims into the {ccurts, the bill was passed by the | Senate, 16 to 0. « o .. | | _Senate Substitute for Senate Bl |No. 54, by the Judiciary ‘Committee Such was the effect of a vote —rcplacing Senator Walker's bill for, a legislative counselor, the bill charges the Attorney-General of sentative Bess Cross’ House Bill ’171‘51351(9 with the duty of preparing; acasures for introduction in the Legislature. It was passed unani- mously, without amendment. o oe Cenate Substitute for House Bill No. 32, by the Senate Judiciary Committee—putting in correct legis- lative form Rep. Maurice T. John- ! Alrlines, and Jim Dotson, indepen-'son’s minor legal bill amending the |1aw relating to receiving stolen |erty, the measure inserts “embezzled” prap- property under the provisions of the al morning at 10 o'clock. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS BILL UP IN SENATE The Territorial Senate this morn- ing devoted the major share of its attention to the Consolidated School | Districts Bill, Senate No. 64, and was still in the middle of second reading of the measure when it came time to go to lunch. Recess | was taken until 1:30 o’clock this | afternoon. Effort is being made to get Senate | action on the bill before the Terri- | torial Board of Education closes it: | session here late today. The mea: ure is endorsed by the Education Board and was intreduced at its Pe- quest. Attorney General Henry Rod- en, the Board Members and Com- missioner of Education James C. | Ryan were on hand to answer ques- | tions put by the Senators. | Voice vote killed a motion put t) i ter her disapproval of speeding up, Once the expense account was, the chamber by Senator Don Carlos Brownell this morning, to require all | Senate Committees to return all | Senate Bills now in committee pos- | session, in order that the Senate might act on them before next Mon- day, the fiftieth day, when falls the deadline for moving bills over to the House except under a two-thirds vote of the House for suspended rules. Senate President Edward D. Cof- fey and Senator O. D. Cochran strongly opposed the motion. Sen- ator Cochran declared it would re- sult in the dispensing with the leg- islative protection afforded by com- mittee functions. Senator Coffey avowed that he would feel himself forced to vote against any bill that was forced onto the floor without proper com- mittee consideration. “The Sun,” concluded Senator Cochran, “will continue to rise and | set even if this Legislature docsn’t do anything with any of its bills.” MERCY KILLER IS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MANSLAGHTER Seven Colonels on Court- marfial Decide Officer Was Not to Blame KUNMING, China, March 8—An officer of a forward American air base, who fired two mercy bullets into the nead of a flier, hopelessly trapped in a wrecked and burning plane, has been acquitted of vol- untary manslaughter by a General Courts Martial of seven Colonels, drawn from the U. S. Fourteenth air Force and associated service or- ganizations, They returned the verdict after hearing 10 witnesses piece together one of the most soul-searing epi- sodes of the war. The defendant was a 3l-year-old Lieutenant-Col- onel, commander of a fighter ‘group, and a veteran of 80 air missions. base. ‘The accident victim was a 20- gen,r-ohi Sergeant, -gunner on a B-25 Bomber. No names were given in the dispatch. Presumably, censorship withheld the incident, as it happened Janu- ary 18. Two other members of the five-man bomber crew were Kkilled in the crash that occurred when the craft overshot the runway while returning to its base from & bomb- ing mission. — . —— MRS. STUTTLE BACK Mrs. Stuttle, wife of Walter Stuttle, local contractor, returned to Juneau on the Northland after _spending a brief vacation in the States, He was the ranking officer of the | Pay Indians, or Else Ickes Give Them Land (Continued from Page one) | to extinguish all such rights upon lpnyment of adequate compensation !therefor by the United States.” | The Hanna report continued: |“How far the Indian rights have been impaired or’ may ‘become in- |volved doesn't appear from the evi- dence, but the conflicting interests should be settled once and for all by some solution to the problem without too much delay. “In this connection, it might also |be said that the largest industry in Alaska, commercial fishing, now lis laboring under real difficulties through lack of a solution to the |aboriginal rights of the Indians. “It is clear from the eviderice as -.'a whole that these claimants do possess extensive aboriginal rights, |only in part abandoned, and that no extinguishment of such rights otherwise had been had.” | Four Recommendations The report made the following recommendations: “That the Interior Department shall adequately respect all abor- liginal rights of use and oceupancy of Indian bands or tribes which have not been extinguished or abandoned, and so far as possible refrain from leasing, recognizing | homestead locations or granting |other rights to non-Indians until |the Indian title fs first extin- | guished. “That. .appropriaf legislation be recommended _to. Congress by the Secretary of the Interior to au- thorize a thorough investigation |of the extent of land or water rights lost to the Indians by wrong- ful taking of the same, a survey of such lands and waters and an appraisal thereof to determine the amount of damages resulting there- from as well as the present value of such lands and waters and rights, should Congress elect to ex- tinugish all such rights upon pay- {ment of adequate compensation | therefor by the United States. “That Congressipnal action, failing for correction of the present sit- uation, the Secretary of the Interior shall set aside for bands of Indians kere involved enél -other bands who may be in similar_circumstances, and those who join with them, a reason- able portion of the area claimed by them where continued use or occu- pancy is shown. “That such protection of said In- dians take into consideration their ‘present economic situation and pres- ent numbers and be a consideration for the cession and release of all ab- original claims or those to be claim- ed by other Indians under approval by an affirmative vote of the ma- jority of each band involved.” ——————————— S61. J. ‘BASILONE GUADALCANAL HERO Is KILLED ON IWo Had Chance to- Stay in United States But Vol- unteefiei Again WITH THE FIFTH MARINE DIVISION ON IWO JIMA, Feb. 21 —(Delayed) — Sgt. John' Bastlone, first enlisted Marine to win the | Congressional Medal of Honor in |this war, was killed by Japdnese artillery fire on the beach in the first day of the battle for l.wu ! Jima. | ‘Basilone, 27, a hero of Guadal- canal, is from Raritan, New Jersey. Je was leading his machine gun 'platoon through heavy fire when |he fell on the black sands. Although Basilone could have 'stayed in_the United Htates’ alter the Guadalcanal campaign, e vol- unteered for another tour E His duty énded in death, | The men of his platoon 'praised his aggressive courage, L i