The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1946, Page 1

ICKES COLO . Amold Says Ickes Propos-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRERR SERIAL RECORD MAR2 7 1946 e e e e VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,189 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e FISH TRAP REDUCTION al Would Mean Bank- ierans jdent BULLETINS SANTIAGO—The general 'YAMASHITA which has gripped Chile for four| E x E ( U'I' ION days has come to an end. The Chil- ean labor confederation declares it has wor concessions from the gov- nment. WASHINGTON—The House to- i day passed, without a record vote, | legislation appropriating $500,000,- 000 for payment of pending vet- adjustment benefits. Pres; Truman asked Congress for the addition fund for the Veter- Administration only { IS DELAYED [Appeal Is Sent fo White House-War Department PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946 TRUMAN, ICKES IN SPLIT REGARDING EDWIN . PAULE President Defermined fo . Stick on Nomination * Int. Sec. Opposes | Presi- to WASHINGTON, Feb. dent Truman's determination stick to his choice of Edwin c.| | ans’ o Orders Stay of Hanging | } M. H.SIDES CRITICALLY . SHOTTODAY of Rifle - In Hospital ¢ this season * nears the true facts he will not| L4 rupting Territory SEATTLE, Feb. 8—W. C. Al’noldi Director of the Alaska Salmon In-| dustry, Inc., says the proposal of Secretary of Interior Ickes to limit each corporation or individual to 20 fish traps in Southeast Alaska would “bankrupt the Territory and retard its postwar development and prospects for statehood.” Arnold said salmon packers op- | erating traps in Alaskan waters would appear at a hearing called | by the Secretary for Feb. 21 “We have no fear of the out- come,” said a statement issued by Arnold. “We are convinced that when the Secretary of the Interior | issue the proposed regulation.” Arnold’s statement said the re- | gulation also would: 0 Cripple production of Alaska canned salmon in the first postwar year and deprive hundreds of work- ' ers and returning service men of | their usual peacetime employment. ! days ago. } WASHINGTON The House Banking Committee approved to- day emergency legislation providing for wrice ceilings on new homes and for continuance of government al- loeation of scarce building mater- ials. TAMPA, Fla., — The Army crash boat P-247 reached the distressed yacht Alliantia, five days overdue with eight persons on board, and reported that all on board were ‘safe.” SHANGHAJ--A Ciinese ment controlled newspaper in Shanghai has predicted that the next President of China’s legisla- tive Yuan wilt be Communist leader Mao Tse-turg. The prediction we contained In a dispatch from Chungking govern- NUERNBERG The Russians have opened their case ‘against the BULLETIN Washington, Feb. 8.—President Truman to- | day spurned a plea for clem ency from Lt. Gen. Yomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese military | leader condemned to death for atrocities. The President’s decision to | take no action on Yamashita's last-minute petition left the General's fate to Gen. Doug- | las MacArthur, War Depart- ment officials said. MacArthur, | Yamashita’s adversary. in the | Philippines campaign, already | has upheld the sentence impos- ed by a military commission. | White' Hovse Press Secretary | Charles G. Ross told reporters | the President had informed | Secretary of War Patterson of his dec hortly after noon today. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.- Lt. Gen. Pauley as No. 2 boss of the Navy, ispurred Congressional speculation | |today that Secretary Ickes soon| might quit 1 | A number of Legislators wonder- | ed privately whether Ickes' posi- | tion might become untenable as|, Myiven H. Sides this morning [ the ilt of Mr. Truman's action was taken to St. Ann's Hospital in seemingly siding with Pauley here, in very critical condition as| jagainst his Secretary of the Inter-ia result of a bullet wound from al {ior in the year's hottest political rifle discharged by himself—possibly | dispute .‘nc('idvnl],\ Ickes himself brushed aside re-{ At noon today, he was reported | porter’s queries on the point with |“sinking fast” and was not expect- a terse, “I haven't anything to ed to survive more than another hour. The soft-nosed bullet, from As an aftermath of Mr. Tru- an 8-mm German Mannlicher rifle, man’s news conference comments entered the lower portion of Sides’ ton the Pauley-Ickes dispute, ad-|face, damaged the brain and caus- ministration lieutenants who de- fed considerable immediate loss of clined use of their names said the blood ! White House asked them to 0| The shooting occurred in the {down the line to what many think |gjdes' apartment in the Assembly| is certain defeat for the Californ- |hepe. at about 8:20 o'clock this {lan’s appointment to the Under-!morning. Mrs. Sides, in another {secretary of the Navy Iroom of the apartment at the time,; BULLETIN M. H. Sides | passed dway in St. Ann's Hos- pital at 1:27 o'clock this after- noon i boat i tween Eleven Persons Are Sill Missing from Yukon Wreck; Penicillin Stock Exhausted SURVIVORS LANDED AT SEWARD, WEARY FROM EXPERIENCES zRescued-f'ro_m Yukon! Wreck Record Horror on Faces-Dramatic Scenes BY DAISY CONRIGHT Reporter on staff of Anchorage Daily Times and also Associated Press Representative. ANCHORAGE, aiaska, Feb. .- I stood on the Army dock in Se ard and watched as boat after arrived with survivors from the wrecked liner Yukon, and it was impossible to distinguish be- the rescued and the rescu- ers, Weary, «sheveled passengers emerged from the rescue ves: and were assisted inside the dock buildings, the horror of their ex- | | SEATTL | Ste | following of the w 8—~The Alasl s missing as the resu't k of the Yukon Missing Passengers ship Company announces tie | NIZATION PLAN IS OPPOSED BARTLETT ~ WANTSNO REFUGEES Delegate Declares Plan Will Not Get to First e o --;_'14--— Base in Congress By C. D. Watkins WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—A pro- posal by Interior Secretary Ickes to settle selected European immigrants in Alaska “will never get to first base" in Congress Delegate E. L. Bartlett of Alaska predicted today In a recent statement Ickes ad- vocated setting up Alaskan Devel- qpment Corporations to finance through commercial channels the oringing of European immigrants to the Territory. Under Ickes' pro- posal they -would receive aid of the corporation in getting settled and they would have to remain until they became naturalized citizens. Ickes predicted his plan would bring “screams of protest.” Bart- lett replied he was not going to scream because he knew there was no chance of Ickes' proposal being approved. He said it was about the same proposal” that the Interior Ralph Fitzsimmons, Anchorage. James Donovan, Arlington, Wash John R. Lintner, Rensselaer, Ind., Missing Crewmen Warren J. Hines, Juneau | Ray Smith, Kennydale, Wash military personnel, names to | be released following notification of next cf kin The Alaska Line office here iden- | |tified Smith, one of the missing crew members, as a cook, whose wife, Dora, lives at Kennydale, and Hines as a steerage waiter, whose wife, Gayle F., is at Juneau 11 UNACCOUNTED FOR KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 8.— The number of persons rescued from the wreck of the liner Yukon stood at 486 today and the Alaska | Steamship Company said in Seattle its list of those unaccounted for totaled 11 At the same time Barney O'Con- | ) | \ | [} i | top Nazi leaders. The Chief Soviet Tomoyuki Yamashita. staked his{ Some Senators said they thought iife today on a last-chance clem- | ckes might regard the reported ency plea to President Truman, “White House ""fi""‘“ AB B e signa }*{s\_xrd the shot, hurried into Uw“,‘;,‘;,.,m,S plainly recorded on their living room of the apartment, where | fages. Anxious relatives and friends she saw her husband lying upon|crowded in, seeking news of those nor of the Northwest Medical Sup- ply Company in Seattle said the city’s supply of penicillin was ex- Secretary made before the war and | that - Alaskans had hoped it had been “decently buried long since.” < “Disrupt established channels of production and trade and render valueless millions of dollars of cap-| ital invested in Alaska pursuant to canmibals and the greed of burg- | laws and administrative policies of | long standing. “Put Seattle and Pacific North- west concerns which have played a | prominent part in the development of Alaska out of business. 1 “Greatly curtail food production ' at u time the entire world is facing ! a critical food shortage, as revealed by President Truman.” ] D Woman Scalped; Whirling Drill (alches Haiifi i PHILADELPHIA, Pua, Feb. 8—| A whirling drill caught the hai ‘of Mrs. Freda McKeith, attractive | 36-year-old brunette, and wrench- | ed four square inches of scalp from her head. H Surgecns at Bryn Mawr hospital ! sent to the Autocar works at nearby | Ardmore yesterday and got the! Prosecutor said the Nazi defend- ants had developed the morals of of lars in entire generation Germans. an WASHINGTON—The Washington telephone operators have voted ap- proximately ten to one in favor of a strike for higher wages. The wo- men are members of the Independ- ent Washington Telephone Traffic union. They will strike within two weeks. SEATTLE—The 13th Naval Dis- trict Headquarters has disclosed that the Navy will dump all obso- lete and useless Naval ammunition in deep water. The announcement says the Navy considers ammuni- fion unserviceable when any doubt exists as to whether it can safely be handled and fired. WASHINGTON — Pearl Harbor nvestigators were told today cop- ies of highly secret intercepted Japanese messages were delivered to the late Harry Hopkins in 1941 while ne was a patient in a hospi- tal here. Naval Capt. A. D. Kramer | Commasnder-In-Chief of his con. querors. The erst-while “Tiger of Malaya’ is seek.ng to escape an ignomin- |ious death on the gallows as a war !criminal, and his appeal to the White House won him at least a | temporary reprieve. Cen. Douglas MacArthur was in- istructed by tHe “Waf Department {o hold up execution of Yamashit death sentence until further advi ed Yamashita's plea was filed by his | defense counsel, the War Depar ment disclosed last night, adding that it already had been sent to the White House. It was accompan- (ied by an opposing statement from presecution counsel, which Mr. Tru- man aiso will study. - — RUDOLF HESS IS TAKEN ILL DURING NUERNBERG TRIAL NUERNBERG, Feb. s i title | confidence” Ickes and Pauley are at odds {about a conversation between the {two in Ickes' office Sept. 4, 1944. ‘Ickes, terming it “the rawest pro- position ever made to me,” said Pauley suggested $300,000 in Dem- | ccratic campaign contributions {could be raised from interested oil men if they could be assured the government wouldn't try to win to off-shore oil lands now !claimed by the states. { Pauley,. former Democratic Na- tional Treasurer, said Ickes was I"nllslakexl," that he didn't ask for the floor of an adjoining bed- | closet and immediately called the; City Police » | Still Conscicus Sides still pelice arrived. conscious when | He was able to, who had not yet arrived. Haggard, their eyes bloodshot from long sleeplessness, crewmen 'irom the rescue ships gulped hot coffee, then slumped to the floor of the Army building, grateful for move and, though appallingly | wounded, was ' able to understand i words spoken to him. The rifle butt | was oetween his knees and muzzle . was clutched in his left | band. Doctors W. P. Blanton and | W. M. Whitehead, responding to] police call, ordered immediate re-| moval to the hospital. { Sides apparently suffered Dis! { 4Dy “gpntinkent conisibntions.” wound while in the dressing closet | | The President told his news con-| JE0 WS 0 L e in the | {ference yesterday that Ickes, Who 1y ‘o Gustoms Office here, He {said he made a memorandum of |y, aiiired in trousers, shirt and . the conversation within a few days The Sides had risen earlie ! | after it occurred, might very well 60 s inade thSIF beds, Mrs. | jbe mistaken. |Sides reported her husband seemed : TSGR A i in a cheerful mood this morning. | ' ‘There was no note or other indica- |(RUISER AlASKA 3 tion of intention to take his own i life H The Mannlicher, owned by Sides| 8.—Rudolf | ' MAY BE LAID UP; . USEFULNESS GONE # skin. Then in an emergency op- testified he took the so-called “ma- eration, they sewed Mrs. McKeith’s scalp back to her head. i “She will be quite all right,” sur-! geons said. : B — v The Washingion Merry - Go - Round i | 1 gic” messages to Hopkins on in- structions from Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of Naval Opera- tions. WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee voted 14 to 5 today to give a favorable report on |President Truman’s nomination of | George E. Allen, a Presidential ad- viser, as a Director of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. The Hess, one of the defendants at the | war crimes trial, was taken il} dur-{ ing the noon recess today and was' removad from the.court building td| a cell for medical examination. | Hess was stirred to unusual ex-| citement yesterday by the Briush| presentation of the case against! him. The British prosecution said | |Hess flew to England in 1941 wnh| 'the avowed purpose of overthrowing | Ithe Churchill government and pav-l WASHINGTON, Feb, 8. — The Navy is sending its three new and mighty battlecruisers to the limbo of laid-up ships. ‘There chances of emerging for active duty ave slim, Navy men said today. The 27500-ton ships—the Alaska, Guam and Hawaii—were built to match the punching power of com- parable enemy vessels such as Ger- many’s Scharnhorst. N But the changing mode of war- By DRFW PEARSON {nomination of the former Secretary ling the way for a German-dictated | peace. ! - L3 v » WASHINGTON—Last week Pres- | ident Truman ‘held an nnporv,aml conference with the members of the steel fact-finding panel. Here's what happened: The President asked the panel what their figures showed regard- ing the need of a wage increase, pane! chairman Nate Feinsinger replied: Mr. President, you are very much | on the conservative side. The gov- | ernment figures and the figures provided by the steel industry completely support your 18'% cent | proposal.” “I'm glad that your facts con- firm my decision,” replied Truman. “I'm not going to change it.” | i Truman then asked about the need - for a steel price increase. ‘The panel suggested that other government agencies which have explcred the question in greater [portant developments and believe it detail should stand up and be| couated. & Truman agreed, but said he| tnought the figuring was fairlyl simole, 1 “It looks to me like I can do a| little horseback arithmetic on that | count myself.” He then began calculating on a pad of paper to the effect that if! of the Democratic National Com- mittee now goes to the Senate. e e STRIKE SITUATION SERIOUS; TRUMAN CANCELS VACATION (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A showdown in efforts to settle the vast steel and other major strikes appeared imminent today iwhen President Truman canceled his planned Florida vacation be- utes of his opening statement to cause of “the immediate critical situation” requiring his attention. At the same time, a mass meeting called in Balitmore Sunday, Dis- trict USW Director Albert Atallah announced because “we expect im- will be necessary to call the mem- Eership together at that time.” | He read a book during most of this morning’s court session, while ;the Soviet chief prosecutor was making a 20,000 word statement. Officials said Hess had suffel jed a minor attack of abdominal Icmmps and would be allowed to rest in his cell during the afternoon. | Demanding the certain punish- |ment of Hermann Goering and 20 gother Nazi leaders, a Red Army {general, earlier, charged before the |tribunal that the defendants had |developed “the morals of cannibals and the greed of burglars in an entire generation of Germans.” , Twice within the first five min- the tribunal, Soviet Chief Proescutor |Lt. G. Roman Andreivich Ruden- ko called for “just retribution and who directed “a mechanism for the extermination of millions of inno- ‘cem people.” — e | PELICAN COUPLE WED | Ethel B. Roberts and Robert i fare and manpower limitations has | headed them for obscure anchor- |ages long before the time when i fighting ships usually become ob- solete. With emphasis on air-sea battle, the Navy decided the need !for men to man the carriers of the postwar fleet was greater than for | crews to keep the battlecruisers ,in commission. | The Alaska was commissioned in June 1944, the Guat in September of the same year. Plan Bringing Back America’s ! of 20,000 striking steelworkers was severe punishment” for the men world war Dead ! SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.—The [Army has completed detailed plans ‘Iol’ bringing home America's World War II dead beginning this spring, if Congressional authorization is White House aides said the labor Hartley, both residents of Pelican, | granted, the San Francisco Chron- crisis and related wage-price policy questions were involved in the President’s decision. As governor and labor sought to bring a quick end to the steel strike, telephone operators in Washington, D. C., voted 10 to 1 Alaska, this morning were marrieg in his office in the Federal Build- {ing here by U. S. Commissioner othy Bigelow and J. B. Bigelow. | T e | WASHINGTON — Delegate Bart- the idustry produces 60,000,000 tons (in favor %of a strike for higher lett of Alaska said the Interior with a four-dollar-a-ton increase, they will have an extra $240,000,000. | wages. .- | Department’s division of territories |assured him it does not intend to Against this, ey estimate that| Nearly 40,000 ships were piloted renew toll charges for freight moy- an 18'c cent increase would cost|in Scotland’s River Clyds in 1944.|ing over the Richardson Highway dead has passed the House and|Immigration Service, |They had a gross tonnage of about SR B £ (Continued on Page Four) % 120,000,000. to Alaska. They were discontinued Iut the outbreak of the war. icle said today. ‘The Chronicle said its informa- tion was based on official but un- leaders Felix Gray. Attendants were Dor- | restricted plans. The paper did not | disclose the source of its informa- tion, except to state the information was contained in documents now being submitted to high War De- | partmient officials for final approv- al. ¥ A bil dealing with return of war Affairs Committec. for a long time, had rested in its case in the closet, undisturbed dur- | ing the past 12 years, to his wife's! knowledge. 3 “Tricky” Weapon The weapon, described by law officials as “tricky”, was found to have a single, exploded mrmdgc; in the firing chamber. The mag-: azine of the bolt-action rifle wa empty. A recess in the butt dis closed one unfired cartridge and empty space provision for a second. | The weapon is fired by a “set, hair- trigger.” A s2cond trigger activates the “safety” mechanism Mrs. Sides related that her hus- band had for some time been suf- fering from and worried by a stomach disorder, but had refused! to seek medical advice. He has| been in a highly nervous state and | frequently has paced the apart- | ment floor through long hours of the night, unable to sleep. 1 In Customs Service | Myrven Harvey Sides, one of Juneau’s most respected citizens, |has served with the U. 8. Customs Office here continuously since nis| first appointment to the Service,| |January 1, 1916. During that time} he has received progressive ad- vancements until he recently took over the duties of Assistant Col- lector of Customs as the recom- mended successor to M. S. Whittier, retired. Sides was born at Roslyn, Wash- ington, February 7, 1894. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sides,| who at present are residents of Ta-| |coma, Washington. Active in local affairs, Mr. Sides; for 17 years was secretary of the| local Elks Lodge and currently| holds the lodge office of Leading, Knight. A veteran of World War |7, Sices has also been an active| member of the American Legion| 'nd until recently was an officer of | the American Red Cross, in Alaska.| He is an honorary member of the |Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, |having retired from active service with that organization. | He came to the Customs Office | hereson a transfer from the U with which C. and in the Hawailan Islands. {and gallons a few minuted of rest. The survivors were dressed in a variety of clothing. I saw a man the {wearing Army trousets and a Na- vy copt; some women were in Army parkas, others had only light swea- ters over their dresses, One of the last rescue craft to dock, the USS Curb, came in with ts skipper, Lt. Arnold L. Larson, wearing a ragged pair of tan trou- . “This,” he apologized, “is a hell of a way for a captain to look, hut I gave all my clothes away.” Injurics minor geveral men were carried from the ship, but I was told most in- juries were minor. One of the smaller vessels was converted into a hospital ship to relieve pressure on the overcrowded Seward Hos- pital. A woman wept with joy when ner daughter came ashore; another screamed when told her husband was, not in the group. Little Mich- uel Sherin, 5, remained at the | dock all day, waiting for his mother, trying so hard to board each ship. 1t took severai persons to keep him inside the warm building. His mo- ther, Mrs. Gilliard Sherin, was iamong the late arrivals. Survivers Fed-Checked Busy Seward housewives, Army nurses and Red Cross workers met the incoming boats. The survivors were 1od and given medical check- ups before -being sent to town. Hundreds of thick meat sandwiches of ‘hot coffee were servad. It was difficult to convinc: one mother that her chiidren had ar- rived safely in an earlier group. A smaller “mother” had st her doll and ‘was inconsolable until a stranger appeared suddenly with a new one*fresh from the store. A cab driver told me he had driven steadily for the Red Cross, without sleep, since the Yukon was reported aground. Sam Stojanovich of Anchorage, cne of the passengers transferred from the Yukon to shore by breeches buoy, said he spent the night huddled near a bonfire, that it was snowing and everyone was miserahle, but he was “glad to get ’my fect on the ground.” Sven Holm of Anchorage said he made the trip from the Yukon to the Curb on a rubber life raft, as did many others. The high wave tossed the rafts and women were secured with ropes, but many men fell off in the water and had to be pulled ba ck aboard e DIVORCE DECREL Fayma O. ¥norr, Juneau, morning was granted a decree of divorce in U. S. District Court here from Marvin A, Knorr. The plain- tiff also was granted restoration of her former name, Fayma O. Baber. i b The Greek philosopher Demoeri- tus in 400 B. C. developed an this ture of all matter. hausted completely by the demands | Territory Locked Un of the Seward Hospital for treat- ment of survivors. Penicillin_ was found invaluable in the treatment of the various ex- pesure ailments suffered by the men, women and children saved from the broken Yukon, O'Conmor said. “We 'shipped 400 vials of 100,000 Ickes complained the United . States was slow in developing Al- laska, which the United States pur- chased from Russia ingl867 for $7,- 1200,000. Bartlett repli that was ‘because the government, starting | thirty vears ago, had locked up the i’rernmry’s natural resources with ! government ‘regujations -which still units each by air Tuesday and keep the door of opportunity lock- Wednesda; he said, “and, thén area's reserves were drained.” He added that an additional supply was being sent by alr to Seward direct from the supplier. fed. Bartlett ment: | Bureaucratic Control “If the refugees which the Sec- continued in a states The Coast Guard, which directed ' retary would”take to Alaska have the rescue work from the time the as much difficulty in obtaining liner ran aground Sunday nigm,‘homestond land as a few Americans said it was not releasing figures settlers have experienced, 'they until the work of checking was; would insist on going back home if completed, but that the Alaska they had to walk all the way. Bu- Line’s information tallied with lls;reflut‘mflc control, long-range gov- knowledge. iernment from Washington, sub- Lestie W. Baker, spokesman for stantial denial of local self-govern- the line, said those not yet ac-|ment—these are the things in the counted for were six military per-|forefront of the impediments in sonnel, two crewmen and three civ- | Alaska’s development. Once remov- 1lian passengers. One body has been recovered and taken into Seward, where the 486 rescued were brought, led, my prediction is that Alaska . will progress in the normal Ameri- {can manner.” ( Vet's Settlement { Bartlett recalled that last year The Coast Guard said the TP-}Ickcs had sent to Congress propo- 123, a small Army boat, found the |sals for settlement of war veterans body but that identity had not:in Alaska been established “While thoroughly approving |such settlement Congress did not FITZSIMMONS WITH 8. 0. |subscribe to the manner in which TACOMA, Feb. 8.—Ralph Fritz-|the Interior Department intended simmons, one of the passengersjto do the job,” Bartlett said, “and listed among the missing in the my personal opinion is that the Yukon shipwreck, left Alaska to Housc Appropriations Committes vieit his two daughters at Washing- |acted wisely in refusing to grant ton State College. ‘any money.” The 46-year-old Standard Ofl | Refugee Idea executive Anchorage was headed for a visit with his daughters Bar- bara and Colleen and a meeting at Portland. Fitzsimmons started with Stand- ard Oil at Tacoma in 1919. Later he went to Olympia and Eatonville for the firm. | His wife accompanied him from Anchorage to Seward, where Fitz- simmons boarded the ill-fated Yu- kon, bound for Seattle INSPECTION BOARD KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 8- The four man Merchant Marine Inspection Board which will probe the Yukon shipwreck includes these members; Lieutenant Commander John Clark, officer in charge of merchant marine inspection at Ketchikan; Lieutenant Commander Arthur Bickert, in charge of the Eeattle office, and Lieutenant Ver- non Gould of the Seattle District. - STOCK QUOTATIONS [ NEW YORK, Feb. 8. — Closing lauotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday is 11%, American Can 98'i, Anaconda 51, Curtiss-Wright 11%, International Harvester 95%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 51%, Kenne-: cott 57%, New York Central 32%, Northern Pacific 33'%, United Cor- poration 6%, U. S. Steel 95%, Pound $4.03'¢. Sales today were 1,260,000 share: Dow, Jones averages today are now is before the Senate Military /ageney he served at Vancouver, B. atomic theory to explain the struc- as follows: industrials 204.38, rails 6643, utliities 40.44. | The Delegate said that now that {the Interior Department’s plan for settling veterans in the Territory !was overruled by Cengress, Ickes nad returned to “the refugee idea." “The basic fault of the Secre- | tary’s argument is that it is di- ‘vorced from reality,” Bartlett con- !tinued. “He assumes that Ameri- cans are no longer pioneers and since that is true all economic | problems of Alaska can be solved overnight by importing plenty of | people from Europe. That simply i inot so. American labor will cer~ ! tainly go anywhere under the Am- erican flag where opportunity for | work is found. Alaska is no excep- tion to that rule” Rigid Control | Bartlett said the Secretary stated the pulp industry is awaiting de- | velopment in the Territory. But, the Delegate asserted, everyone {knows the pulp is there and that [there is plenty of private capital in the United States awaiting the | epportunity to establish a pulp in- !dustry in the Territory. He said rigid enforcement of gov- ernment controls over Alaska, en- forced by the Interior Department, made orderly development out of the question. “I salute Secretary Ickes for his interest in the development of Al- aska but I deplore the manner in which he seeks to accomplish it,” ! Bartlett concluded. . \ i | JOSEPH H. MATOEKA HERE Joseph H. Matoeka of Willam- ina, Ore., is a guest at the Baranof.