The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1945, Page 2

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M, Behrends Co QUALITY SINCE /887 TRIALOF | QUISLING STARTED Former Puppet Premier Faces Charge of Trea- son in Norway (Centinued from Page One) Norway’s plight—underscored again fand again his contention that the was fought with “Bolshevism” as the main issue. The state is expected to try to prove that Quisling had advance was Norway before they launched their invasion on April 9, 1940. Quisling steadfastly has denied this. - eee Betty Lou Chappell WedsAllenE. Rice In Sunday Service Miss Betty Lou Chappell of Comp- ten, Calif., and Mr. Allen E. Rice, Jr., of East St. Louis, Tll,, were united in marriage yesterday morning at 9 c'clock, in a ceremony at the Knob Hill home of Evangelist and Mrs. Boyd W. Field The attendants were Miss Annelle Tigrett, of Memphis, Tenn., as bridesmaid, and Mr. J. T. Johnson of Wallowa, Ore., as best man. The bride chose light blue crepe for her wedding gown th brown accessories.” Her showder corsage was of white gladiolas and pink tea roses. The bridesmaid wore gold crepe with black accessories, and had a corsage of salmon-colored gladolias * The rooms of the home were beau- tifully decorated for the occasion with garden flowers In the couple’s honor, a dinner for eight was given at the Field’s home. The centerpiece for the table was a!' three-tiered wedding cake, topped by the traditional bride and‘ groom. Guests included the honor guests, My. Mrs. Allen Rice, Miss Annelle Tigrett, Miss Jewell Risley, Miss Lu- lle Goetz and Mr. J. T. Johnson . Mr. Rice is a graduate of George Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, alif., and Mrs. Rice also attended at college ":‘ Johnson are members of SubJ\ dine. The bride and groom will make their home in Craig, Alaska, follow- ing a honeymoon at Lena Beach. | Both will be employed by the Terri- torial Government as teachers in the Craig school. > | Visiting Official | Of OES Honored | With Many Affairs of Many members the Juneau Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star are planning to attend the meeting | of the Nuggett Chapter in Douglas this evening, at which time the work of the Order of Eastern Star will be exemplified for Most Worthy Matrcn Mrs. Mamie Lander. | Tcmorrow evening an officers’ re- | ception complimenting Mrs. Lander | wiil be held in the Scottish Rite | Temple. Since her arrical in Juneau Mrs. Lander has been the guest of honer at several dinner parties giv- | en by members of the O. E. 8. - eee ASSEMBLY OF ROTARIANS IN | MEETING HERE The members of Juneau's local Ro- tary Club are hosts today and to- night to the District Governor of Retary Clubs for this district, W. Harold Hicks, and Presidents and Secretarys of Anchorage, Sitka, Ketchikan, Fairbanks and Petersburg clubs, who are here to attend a dis- trict assembly. Tonight in honor of the visiting Rotarians a Rotary Club Ladies Night will be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. - This willl be an informal banquet only. Visiting Rotarians, including Gov. Hicks, are: from Anchorage, R. B.| Atwood, president, and F. E. Mc- Dermott, secretary; from Sitka: E.| M. Goddard, representing president, T-16 Px'.arermt‘,\' of George Pepper-‘ | | and Al Dietz, secretary; from Fair- nks: Harry Champlain, secretary, and Tony Schwamm, president, and Carroll Clausen, secretary, of the Petersburg Chapter The regular noon meeting of the' Rotary Club will be held tomorrow. - > MR., MRS. TAYLOR HERE Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor, of Long-| view, Wash,, arrived in Juneau re-| cently and are guests at the Gas-| tineau Hotel. .- STUTTON HERE S. E. Stutton, of Seattle, repre- | Police Court sentative of the Standard Oil Com- | the Baranof Hotel. ’ Sadisfic Slayer Hunted Killer by Knife Subject 0 Search by Hundred Policemen WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 20 Hunt for a sadistic killer, blamed for at least two knife slayings in 10 days, was intensified today by more than 100 Windsor policemen and . Provincial authorities. Windsor residents locked them- selves in their homes in fear the killer would strike again soon. Police worked 12-hour shifts in the hunt for the slayer, called by De- tective Inspector Duncan MacNabb a “sadist of the worst type — a maniac.” Tension was heightened by the discovery of a note scrawled on the wall of a downtown public building and signed “Civilian-Sergeant.” It said the writer was discharged from the U. S. Army for killing a Germany prisoner, was known as “Slasher Evans,” would never be caught, and would choose a girl for his next victim. It bragged that| the killer had talked to police at the scene of the latest slaying. Police believed the note might be the work of a crank, but it was communicated to U. 8. authorities for further investigation. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatares for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 0'Clock This Morning. e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 50; minimum, 47. At Airport—Maximum, 47; minimum, 44. ® o FORECAST o o Light rain showers this evening. Cloudy, with sun- shine Tuesday. Tempera- tures continued mild. ® o 000000000 A IN POLICE COURT Fined $50 for speeding, in City here, William Hart elected to serve out the fine and is piling up time in the city jail at the rate of $2 per day. Fined $25 each on drunk and dis- Both Mr. Rice and|pany of California, is a guest at orderly charges were Thomas Rob- ertson and Chester Shockey. hat, as cited in your opinion, there are a few casual references in laws and cases, as well as' in the Treaty of Cession, to ‘Alaska ‘tribes’. Tribes RIVERS DENIES e FOUNDATION OF TRIBAL RIGHTS A"omey General Protests! or bands claiming dominion of large Ickes Withdrawal on Behalf of Territory (Continued jrom Page One) upon which the conception of ab- {1t only showed that groups have | streams. This is' one good reason why Congress has never made | treaty with any Alaska Indians, or tion in setting aside reserved areas put them on reservations as wards for the Indians has created a 10g- of the Government, as has been jam in Territorial affairs: |the case in the States. There were “]—It confliéts with the Terri-|no tribes in the usual sense to war |suade such a view. The terms of |tor | tinguished aboriginal rights. On :this phase it merely said that— 1884, in the light events, deter settlers and industry of subsequent hcldings and general use of the |sea, unencumbered by aboriginal rights of exclusive use and occu- pancy. Neither did the act itself charge the Department of the Interior with making any in- vestigation regarding the Alaska Gene |the treaty neither affirmed nor ex- | conclusion: It should al Rivers declared, also MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1945 in be noted that the Thlingit and Haida Claims ment prevails in a policy of ation gation mandate from Congress. Alaska gcne on record ag tions.” tives and Native and resery: Br thereby lived in villages and that families f ek 2 have been worked jupon them |have claimed places (not areas) | _;""“ ’“a‘l‘"“’ :‘P reasonable €On-| rter i these years, an admin lcuch as the mouths of particular clusion that they were acquiring|i;,iive department of the Goverl {or bands are, of course, the basis|‘The uncivilized fribes will be sub-|Act of 1935 postulates the loss of !ject to such laws and l‘egulations‘lhdinn rights with indemnity |original rights is founded. But the as the United States may, from | cast evidence adduced at the hearing|time to time, adopt in regard to|for in instead of recreating exclusives turning fails to show the existence of tribes ' aboriginal tribes . . .’ | back the clock of history 75 years. ot J | “The foregoing shows why the |areas, as was the case in the States.| ‘Neither did the Act of May 17|05t majority of Alaskans feel at a monumental fraud would e- without a the has Even torial policy of eliminating racial discrimination. . . . Leaders (among Alaska natives) are trying to lift the bulk of their people to in-! dividual responsibility and free citizenship, not to restore them to ,aboriginal status. . . . Let us not Iset them apart to the curtailment |of industrial development which | will, in the long run, deprive them ‘and their children of jobs and the, best features of our modern civi- lization, while at the same time | generating discord to the degrada-| tion of all concerned. | | “2_Let us not set aside lands for them to their confusion. If an In- *dian wanted to cut timber on such |1land, who would advertise it, grant |a permit, limit an amount, make | the rules? Will the Department of the Interior do it in an area al- ready covered by the Forest Ser- vice land administration? Please note that Ccngress has set up no law for administering Indian lands in Alaska, especially as to areas the precise bounds cof which the examiner was unable to determine from the evidence, however ‘clari- fied’ by a busy secretary who never heard the evidence. Development Board - Stymied “3—The last Territorial Legisla- ture also created a development board which is working hard so that Alaska can meet its share of the responsibility in the post-war world. However, the board finds its program undermined, and such will continue to be the case unless the present confusion is cleared up. To deny the Indians exclusive fishing rights as in your present ruling, is no reassurance. God alone can tell what attempted grants will be made in the future. To allow their claims to hunt, fish and trap in common with other persons is just window-dressing. They have always had that right under the law since we took over Alaska, subject only to the same general conservation laws as/ pertain to all persons. Furthermore, from a development standpoint, the land situation is bad enough without loading on generally undefinable aboriginal encumbrances, or the fear thereof. “4—Taxes levied by the Territory on the fisheries produce the bulk of 1all Territorial revenues. Taken teo- !gether, the waters and shorelinés claimed by the three native v lages embrace principal commer- cial fisheries of Alaska and plenty | of upland. Cannery operations by ! natives, as at Metlakatla, cannot !be taxed by the Territory . . . the wedge attempted to be driven by these cases is regarded as just a . beginner. At least eight other vil- {lages could be prodded by the de- partment into starting similar |claims and the turmoil go on in- | definitely. No new cannery sites Alcan be acquired with assurances of | unericumbered title. Even existing | patents are made to look question- able, because the basic concept of tribal rights to large areas is that the Indians never ceded their land jor shore line for incorporation in |the public domain. The corollary {would be the Land Office had no (right to grant patents in such areas, and that the exemption of ipatenbed lands by the secretary in this particular proceeding is just ta gratuity beyond his power to allow. As is well known, uncer-| tainty of legal status is a great deterrent to the investment of new capital and the maintaining of old | investments. Tco Many Bureaucrats “Extending the program of ad- ministrative withdrawals, if al- lowed to stand, would lead to a fishing industry in Alaska exclu- sively for Indians, financed by Fed- eral money and supervised by too many bureaucrats. This would pro- duce no taxes for the Territory of Alaska.” Attorney General Rivers offered further observations to make clear that the “administrative attempt in question has put the political and economic entity known as ‘Alaska’ in_a disastrous position from the standpoint of Indians and whites alike.” “Further extension of such a pro- gram, if allowed to stand,” he af- firmed, “could embrace the waters and uplands of the Yukon and the Kuskokwim riversheds and their orincipal tributaries, and thereby complete a stranglehold by the Bureau (of Indian Affairs) in be- half of the Alaska natives. “Now the important point is that sven if such fears should prove !Indians, as a result of which, to quote your (Secretary of the In- terior’s) decision, ‘Only now, 60 vears after enactment of the mea- ure, is the Department of the In- terior attempting to ascertain what their claims were’.” inst or make treaties with EGUALIZATION BOARD HEARINGS ARE T0 END Juneau's City Ccuncilmen today were in the throes of winding up their business as a Board of Equal- ization, after two wecks of listening to a steady stream of taxpayers' “Congress has not recognized such families as tribes, or if it did, the tribal rights were extinguished at distances from the villages. When restrictions were put on placing barricades and nets at the b Touths 7ot eirwaihy dthe. Dhdiiva| « TUR8 ry's. Clock were deprived of their aboriginal| Citing successive Acts of Con- fishing methods, and were arrested Tess down to the present day, At- the same as whites for violations| ~ of the law. Instead of dealing with them as ward groups, Congress made them individual citizens with equal rights. “Congress,” the Attorney General cites, “has carried out a basic pat- tern of complete dominion over the lands and waters of Alaska in laws applicable to citizens generally, and adverse to the retention of exclusive aboriginal tribal use and occupancy of large areas of water and land. The Metlakatla Reservation . . . is no exception on the subject of aboriginal rights, as it was especially considered and cstablished upon an uninhabited island by Congress for Canadian Indians who were allowed to move there and take over. No Treaty Provision “We are all aware that the na- tives have been pushed aside by the onward rush of civilization, without their wishes having been consulted. This was not so be- cause of moral dereliction on the part of individual white pioneers, but because of the social forces and necessity that made white men surge with aggressiveness into new country. The white man’s predominance soon came to be taken as a matter of course, and he soon came to regard the many phases of his economic and indus- trial activity as founded on vested rights. There was nothing in the Treaty of Cession (1867) to dis- Rach W APP Ll == < —~mxs The Baranof Hotel's Bubble DANCING EVERY NIGHT e 87 years at fine whiskey-making “ make; this whiskey good Regular inspection of the barrels of awhiskey aging at the distillery, There’s nd short-cut to whiskey-wisdom —it must be learned as Hiram Walker has learned it through all the years since 1858. But it’s easy to tell the difference it makes—just taste Imperial. IMPERIAL Rag V.5 Pt OF. sroundless, the fact remains that rolonging the extra-legal admin- strative struggle will continue to nurture such fears and freeze Al- iska development at a time when he United States needs a vigorous :xpansion of activity in Jts last ‘rontier.” No Alaska Tribes Turning directly to the “tribal ights” question, Mr. Rivers stated: “I do wish to acknowledge Hrom Wedkers Blondded Whirkoy It takes barrels of money lo win a war. It takes all the money you can put into war bonds. Buy more . . . hold them! complaints to property revaluations. All complaints seemingly ' have now been received, Mayor Ernest Parsons said today and the Board is completing a general survey of the assessment rolls. Tomorrow evening the Board is to hold its final session for the year and at that time will approval of the adjustments e been made. Following conclusion of the Board meetings, a special Council session is to be called by Mayor Parsons, at which time the Common Council will set the mill rate of taxation for the year. e o CAREY IN TOWN Ti Carey, of Fdirbanks, guest at the Gastineau Hotel. - - KUSCHERMANNS HERD Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kuschermann, of Bakersfield, Calif., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. ———,—— SULLIVAN IN TOWN Frank Sullivan, of Skagwgy, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. is a i - o> Empire Want-ads bring results! EARING NIGHTLY ALASKA'S N~ PO <> Room NO COVER CHARGE PEORIA - 1LLINOIS R K gt 504 94 Proof. The straight whiskies in this product are 4 years or more old. 30% straight 'whisl:ey. 70% nevutral spirits distilled from grain; Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, lllinois “