The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1946, Page 1

| i i | HE DAILY ALASKA EM “_/2LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,222 ' JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1946 MEMBI 'R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE IN CANADA BARED McCuicheon Is Challenged On Voting Record Unseating fie—aring High- lighted by Walkout of Senator Butrovich Third Division Senate seat-hold- | er Steve McCutcheon was not pre- | sent in the Senate Chamber here | Jast evening when evidence was taken by the Senate's Judiciary| Committee to support a challenge of solonic status—but, evérybody | else who could squeeze into the | peewee Senate galleries was there. | The Chamber was choked with | anticipation of drama as the hear- | ing got under way shortly after 8| o'clock, with Senator O. D. Cochran, | Judiciary Committee Chairman, presiding. Also present, besides his committee colleagues, Senators | Grenold Collins, Allen Shattuck | and John Butrovich Jr., were sev- | eral other members of the two houses. The hearing opened with Chair- man Cochran affirming the Sen- ate’s right to pass upon the qual- ifications of its own membership. In answer to a contrary opinion re- | geived from Alaska’s Attorney Gen- eral, Ralph J. Rivers, came views from former Third Division District | Court Judge Simon Hellenthal and | from lacol attorney Norman C.Ban- | field. Hellenthal’s Viewpoint i The Hellenthal interpretation was that every legislative body is| Qualified to, and it is its duty to,| pass upon the qualifications of its own members. Banfield went a bit further. He drew upon’constitution- al law authorities contending that; | TAKES MUSCLE TO BOUNCE HER NOW ONE OF THE HUSKIEST BABIES ever born in the U. S.—she weighed 18 Ibs. at birth—little five-months-old Jean Marie Strohl of Montrose, Pa., already weighs 32 pounds in the lumberjack arms of Papa Francis Strohl and is still growing. Fifteenth child of the family, the Strohls’ latest pride znd joy was delivered by her experienced dad. (International) WAGE INCREASE IS 'MANDERS QUITS DEMANDED BYMEN JOB AS MAYOR ALASKA CANNERIES ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 19. —Mayor John Manders, in a sur- prise move last night, resigned just <wo weeks before a city election. Alaska Salmon Industry, | Inc., Served Notice-54 OF ANCHORAGE ' COMPENSATON BILL UNDER DISCUSSION IN HOUSE TODAY| j The Green-Shattuck Workmen's Compensation Bill sailed into the; | uneasy waters of second reading iin the House this morning despite (attempts by .- some legislators to; (drop anchor and postpone consid- | eration pending word from the | Senate, which is reviewing the same | | measure now Rep. Warren A. Taylor, who ia- 1troduced his rival compensation | imeasure late last week, almough; he assertedly agreed to support the Green-Shattuck bill at a joint CIO-AFL mecting here March 8, spoke against “duplication of the Senate’s effort.” He mentioned that !the Green-Shattuck bill is 42 pages long. | “We have lots of important bills Ito consider,” Taylor added. His| compensation proposals are contain- ed in H.B. 50. : Rep. Curtis answered | “We're rushed a lot less impor-! Shattuck promptly | | tant bills through this House. The {reason we lost this bill last yem" jwas delay Rep. Steve Vukovich asked i ! “Why can't we pass the bill as is? iLabor's on record for it. We; |shouldn’t waste five minutes!” ! Thus, progressively, the antithe-) s of Taylor's postponemen‘ move | as reached in a motion by Rep. {Cscar Gill, to susped rules and{ iput the bill up for final passige | without second reading . Gill's motion failed when Shat- ‘tuck spoke against shooting his own i bill through, urging “orderly pro- (cedure” for which he has stood | consistently throughout the session. Reading Staris i | eriticizing postwar use of a large | i lages in and about the Bering Strait ATG ABOLISHING | BILL GETS AXE | FROM SENATORS Nomeites Get in Line for, Pork-Governor SetUp | as Target Again Of Alaskan WASHINGTON, March 19.—Dele- | |gate Bartlett (D-Alaska) has intro- |duced legislation to transfer from Alaska's Senate was occupied with |the Interior Department to the amending the Green - Shattuck Territorial Legislature control of all Workmen's Compensation Act today | Alaskan salmon and other fisher- when the lunch bell sounded, but | the Senators had previously whet- | ted their appetites by richochetting | their daily quota of harpoons at| Gov. Ernest Gruening off Senate| Bill 18, the Coffey measure designed | to strip away all unspent appropria- tions of the Alaska Territorial Guard. BARTLETT RESENTS | DELAY IN OPENING tensively extolled the good done by | WASHINGON, Marc ‘ A | A arch 19.—Dele- | :llle Guard in his Division and its|gate Bartlett of Alaska sald today | rtues in arming the town of Nome. |the Interior Department’s action in {He submitted a letter from Maj.|qelaying the opening of the deep Otto Willlam Geist, ATG Quarler-|gap fishing in Alaskan waters from master at Nome. The Gelst letter | March 15 to May 1 “is shocking.” labelled “misleading and unfair” an| Bartlett said deep sea fishing in editorial originating in The Empire | Alagka always opened March 15. | “The Department notified fish- amount of ATG funds for the pur- ermen on March 14, Bartlett said, chase of Army buildings and erec- |«that it had decided to delay the tion of them as supply shelters and opening of the season untl May drill quarters in remote Eskimo vil- |1 a5 a conservation matter e : “The tion was shocking, for Geist included an itemization of the fishermen had no previous |expenses of transporting and re-|waring that such action was con- assembling the structure; including‘lcmplawd and no heerings had a total labor cost of $11,082.15— heen held. Some already had start- | which contained, as Senator N. R.|edq from Southeast Aleska to the Walker pointed out, an item of $3.- | fishing grounds and the other deep 15250 to Gelst himself. |sea fishermen were ready to start “Embarassing Quetsions” |the next day. There is no justice Senate Bill 18 sprinted through in such an arbitrary action. | second reading without amendment | e and was moved ahead under sus-| pended rules. Delegate Wans Conirol Hands of Legislature (gation . . ( KING GIVES DETAILS OF SPY SYSTEM Fisheries in | | | | | The bill would leave to the In- terior Department control over the | Adtivities Were Extended fur-seal and sea-otter industries. tat Another bill introduced by Bun-‘! Thfough DOmIHIOH ln'o lett would permit public utility and 8a school districts within the Terri- | U. S. and Britain tory to issue bonds. ‘ i » ~ | OTTAWA, March 19.—Prime Min- {ister W. L. MacKenzie King told | Parllament last night that his gov- ernment was gravely concerned Russlan espionage activities he said had extended through the Deminion into the U. 8. and Britain, but he frowned on the idea of an open break between Canada and Russia. Volcing his belief that General- issimo Stalin was ignorant of the sspionage activities, King empha- sized Canada’s desire for “only the best of relations with the USSR." A tense House heard the 90-min- ite address in which the Prime dinister reviewed the course of his | zovernment’s investigation into an alleged Russian spy plot, the first nkling of which was given by King CHURCHILL HAS GREAT HOPES OF 2-NATION UNITY NEW YORK, March 19—Win- | ston Churchill held out the pros- pect today of America and Great Britain rendering unprecedented services to humanity “at this junc- ture” by “walking forward together with no aims of conquest, subju- . or advancement of the sordid interests.” The former British Prime Min- ister, after being awarded an hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws at| nimself last Feb. 15 in a public Columbia University yesterday, also | statcment ‘that caused a sensation phasized the importance of Eng- | in Britain and the United States lish and history, and added: | as well as Canada. ; “Even our Communist friends Canada Used As Base should study this. They should, He told Parllament that docu- study the admirable modern works | ments selzed In the espionage in- on the life and the soul of the|quiry and acceptéd by the govern- white ant. That will show not only ment as being of undoubted au- a great deal about their past bultthenuclty. “disclose among other will give a very falr indication of i things that Canada was being made heir future.” |+ base to secure information on Churchill did not expand upon | matters of very great and grave is allusien. , concern to the United States and { The first section was read to the | tht the measure might be voted | {faint but unmistakable clanking of At first it appeared | SPAIN |1 REPLIES | (The ant quip brought this ex- | planation from Dr, Howard E. An- | thony, Dean of the scientific staft 4lso to Britain.” The Prime Mihister said further Lat these documents showed “that information upon without discussion, but oppon- | ‘armor. As the House clerk puus-‘ent Frank Gordon rose to ask if | Taylor moved military authorities had been con- | of the American Museum of Natur- was being sought He gave as his reason the recent 'ed after Section 1, 3 court ruling in a suit for backthat the compensation to widows i tacted for their approval of the| | salary by the city engineer against |Of employees killed on the job bejmeasure. This led President Ed- | UN"ED SIAIES Fiaia 70k e ek Lax _lupped from $4,500 to $6,000. The|ward D. Coffey to comment that he | e he individual ant has absoluts tne Mayor which states.such au-iUPP | | lutely | 1o cced States and the United King- {motion passed. {did not want to get roused up about| MADRID, March 19.—The Span- no say. They all work for the| dom.” He did not elaborate except to a legislative body, Banfield con- |cr's demands for a 30 percent wage | il and not the mayor. Then Taylor moved that maxi- |this'measure of his, because if he|ish government, meeting charge community and they have probably # - | wi ¥ to repeat previous officlal an- tinued. The courts have no power|increase “and other conditions™,| Manders said the decision made 'mum payments to surviving re did, he would ask some ‘“very em- with counter-charge, declares the been in this communal fix for mil- nounoep:)enupm“ S SRRt { 5 4 | S o 4 barassing questions.” | United States planned an invasion lons of years. t a dead to remove a member from a legis- |Cannery Workers and Farm Labor- | his job “about as important to the [tives be upped from $9,000 to| ! years. . . . at a dead end. e e Bt e Ml ot oy o e e | city governmatit s ' totem. pols.”{$13000. Ebatbick Immediately-fueé- | .Galfay indiésten whab, s had in|of (he IbeikiiReRipsuls {n 1004 W 1 besing 10:hei A TAE M due And s e municipal council, once he has tak- |voted to strike, C. N. Briones, Un.\ —_—— ;mmed the feasibility of upping pay- |mind when he questioned Cochran |and carried on espionage in Span- dividuals are concerned, that's not{ King said that oper:nuom dons . vy /At | W en his seat. Only the legislative ion business agent, says. | B u l l E T l N S‘"‘”‘“ scales, stating that the many |on the legality of a Federal official [1sh North Africa in 1943, |a very desirable state g 5Ly i i legislative bodies always have that H power in the absence of Express‘ Compaflles |nVO|Ved provisions of law to the contrary.! Qualification of its own member- | SEATTLE, March 19.—If em- 1 ship is one judicial power reserved‘pxoyers refuse to negotiate in work- | thority is vested in the city coun- al History: l‘lhrough agents here with respect 'he white ant 1s & termit io many matters that were of the = et Bndlutmost concern to Canada, the | body itself has that power. | He said notice of the Union’s in- {laborites with whom he reportedly jdrawing per diem from Territorial| The Foreign Ministry, in a 5,000- —————— The groundwork laid, Senator tent to strike in 30 days has been! ‘has disclissed the bill would rather funds. Coffey pointed to a break- | word reply to the U. S. State De-| ::;J?:;l‘::nm:"?uf:r“: ::l | Cochran opened the real action by sent to the Alaska Salmon Industry, ‘have a lower compensation rate|down of ATG expenditures furnish- | partment’s White Book of March . { noting thep:bsenne of Senator Mc): Inc., an employers’ ,.m,a“m“,i',,y.i become law than have a higher ed by the Auditor, showing items of |4 accusing Spain of cooperating with lcoun b;. situation as I'A'l;uhcxlz)ud in | Cutcheon, whereupon ' Anchorage resenting 54 salmon packing com-! 3 i compensation rate block passage of | travel expense and per diem for Gov. | the Axls during the war, flatly de-’ ¢ an Bt" any time,” having po- | attorney Stanley McCutcheon,|panies | ANCHORAGE—The Awe Mining [the bill in the Senate. He seid not | Gruening. Cochran answered that |iied the charges and added: “The encln"lly far-reaching repercus- | conduct of Spain toward the United AEDR, he thinks such payments legal, if ! J #House Member brother of the chal- | lenged Senator, rose to inform the chair that he and legislative cohort Warren A. Taylor, Fairbanks at- iorney, were appearing for the absent defendant. Rogge Deposes Called forward by the Chair,| challenger Leo W. Rogge, Fourth| Division Senator, was sworn as a| (Continued on Page Three) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round| that there's been considerable talk The Union claims & membership | Company has announced at An- ione union man had asked him for a |met today to clear the decks of a of 3,500 and Briones .said the present. minimum wage was $15! monthly. The employers said a 17, Steamship ~Yukon last month. percent increase had been offered, Charles Awe of the company says First of the union cannery crews are scheduled to leave for Alaska in early May. pokes were insured. o e | tonight named Generalissimo Stal- BELROACTIVE BAY. 138K {in Chairman of the Council of SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.—| . . ¥ CIO Longshoreman ~officials and "o the HUe filthe liean ot Pacific st wi i i Coast waterfront employers 4 winister of the Armed Forces, the Moscow radio said. The vote {was unanimous. V. M. Molotov, | Premier before the war and who retroactive pay issue which had been holding up 1946 contract nego- tiations. An agreement on payment | chorage that $11,000 in gold dust: 5 went down in the wreck of thel he owned $9,000 of it, and that his | | LONDON — The Supreme Soviet| of has been Foreign Commissar, was | rate raise. Taylor Questioned At this point Rep. Aimer Fcter- {son thundered: “Mr. Taylor: if you ’for subsistence. In his plea for coninuance of the Guard, Cochran cited the good ac-| complished by erection of an Army building in Nome which has been made available to the Pioneers of | Alaska and as a community center. !He also referred to a large Army | {structure Geist had reported was| transported to Serpentine Springs | at ATG expense and made available | for public use. ithink this rate's too low why does {your bill (HB. 50) set a $8,000 maximum?” | Over Taylor's vehement and re- {peated protests, Peterson continued talking about H.B. 50. Taylor's {amendment failed, 16-6, shortly af- Iter Peterson sat down. Taylor then amended all figures Gift from Governor | in Section one relating 'o IDJUIY| genator Walker followed Cochran| compensation to be raised 25 DI~ |y, express his views: That there is| {eent. To emphasize his reint he ;, jonger need for ATG training ' demanded: {with 18-year-old youths being in- | 1) " States during the war and post-war S | years has been irreproachable.” { The document asserted that Gen- i ! eralissimo Francisco Franco first| SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.— avoided and later refused a German The airways communication sta- | request that Spain participate intion at Donner Summit, in the the European war. |High Sierras, reported a large nlr-‘ Nevertheless, it is said, Spain had plane “exploded” in the air near “to present complaints to the North 'Hobert Mills in a snowstorm to- American nation because of acti- day. vitles of its officlals and secret ser-| Searchers are attempting to make vice agenu.”'lt. said these ncnvmes;their way to the mountain, but it is| were related “to certain subversive enowing and there is three feet of | attempts to Spanish territory, es- srow on the level. The area is in pecially in Malaga and Melilla.” |the mountain country near the Malaga, in southern Spain, is di- Nevada line. rectly across the Mediterranean| Army Air Force spokesmen nld, |that the first checks would be ready | taining troops on Iranian seil in Taylor's second budget-jumping been political rather than military; | {men. He drew a distinction, however, netween the Soviet agents; who he sald, had conducted the espionage, and Generalissimo Stalin and the Russian people. 4 “I know,” he said, “or have learn- ed of Mr. Stalin from those who have been closely associated witin him in the war, that which causes us to believe that he would not countenance action of this kind on the part of his country, and I be- Jieve that when these facts are nown to him and to others in po- sitions of full responsibility, we shall find that a change will come that will make a vast difference indeed.” ANOTHER BILL 188,000,000 in back wages was reach- | hamed Deputy Premier for Foreign | “Mr. Shattuck, would you S€ll|guctad into the Army; that he had |‘rem Melilla, in Spanish Morocco. the plane could not have been a ed yesterday. Today's meeting was; Affairs. your arm for $27002" I'seen signed letters on the desk of | e B-20 missing on a flight from By DREW PEARSON icalled to work out the mechanics,! I Shattuck shot back: | Anchorage Mayor John Manders| (Hawall to San Francisco Bay,! A | with the Longshoremen’s and Ware-| WASHINGTON—Iran today for-i “Would you sell yours 10Y | showing the principal activities oHFREE MARKEI FoR which was last reported over this "A WASHINGTON — It's no secret|phousemen’s Union seeking assurance Mally charged Russia with main-gszz,oom" at least one Guard officer to have | |area last night. It carried seven! | i among the brass hats in the Pen-|py june 1 and the last paid by violation of an international agree- on Building about war with Rus- | july 1. imeng, and with interfering in sia. ‘Some of this comes from men| A war Labor Board decision lastf Iranian affairs “through the me- who'honestly feel war is inevitable!fa)] awarded the retroactive wages and favor getting it over with right now. Others chiefly favor a little war talk because of-its help in pas- sing military conscription. However, there can be no doubt about the views of the top military man in the War Department— Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Two or three weeks ago Eisen- hower_was attending a Washington dinner party when people began to talk about war with Russia. Irked by the conversation, he remarked that he was “amazed that so many people should suddenly be seriously considering the idea of war with Russia.” Then the Chief of Staff proceed- ed to give a pointed lecture on the foolishness of this war talk, which can be briefly summarized as fol- lows: “People who want war should only think a few minutes about the sacrifice Russia has made in the past five years—a loss of life and property so large we cannot con- { f it. A people who have suf-|ces Gregory, iy 2 |bert Olsen, Orrin Freeman, fered such a loss will not tum tail before any military force in the world today. But at the same time r&mfinurd on Page Four) | | | ,dium of Soviet agents, officials and for the period from Octiber 1, 1944, armed forces.” to August 18, 1945. The union later | accused employers of stalling. WASHINGTON — Secretary of Federal conciliators are expected' States James Byrnes says the Unit- to call both sides back to contract| «d States is telling France again negotiations after the back pay, that we are opposed to putting the issue is removed. The ILWU has Franco Government in Spain on authorized a strike unless employ- trial before the United Nations Se- ers boost the hourly wage rate from | curity Council. $1.15 to $1.50 by April 1. { ———.—— —— v | DARNELLS COME BACK | 7iCciion o i matuon! agreement ABOARD PLANE OF PAA | with General Motors which settled Pan American Airways yesterday| {the 113-day strike. tew the tollowing passengers: | NEWSPAPER WOMAN IS VISITING ALASKA mia Darnell, Austin E. Lathrop,! Lawrence Blakeley, Thomas Ferrel, | James Baird, Eugene Chase, George | Nagengast, Hermand Sandvik, So- phie Sandvik and Clifford Fred- Home Economics Institute of the erickson. New York Herald Tribune and This To Seattle: Fay Peterson, Gary Week magazine, will arrive in Ju- | Kauslerich, Elbert Kauslerich, Fran- neau March 20. She is visiting the Robert Stanley, Her- Territory to obtain information for | Arthur ' 2 story on vacation trips to Alaska. Beaudin. Miss Davison flew from Seattle to The Darnells have been on an Fairbanks March 17, stopping over extensive tour in the States for tke|a day at Juneau before returning past several thonths, 'to the States. DETROIT—The CIO United Auto Miss Eloise Davison, head of the} amendment failed, 15-8. OKs I'mpeachment Bill Earlier the House passed H.B. 19, the impeachment bill, after Attor- Iney General Ralph Rivers testified as to its legality. Rivers also told House members that He considered the referendum and recall method of removing erring officials imprac- tical in Alaska. He refused tc com- mit himself on the wisdom of *he !biu. although queried several times in different phraseology, content- {ing himself with “It's legal.”. Also passed was H.B. 27, to pro- vide housing for veterans attend- ing educational nstitutions in the feountry. The following bills were receiv- ed from the Senate and referred to House committees. SB. 22, to establish a health department surpls property fund for purchase of medical supplies and equipment; to Ways and |Means, and health centers. in the Terri- itory, to Health. |, Way and Means. .- — JOSEPH ROSENZWOG HERE { Joseph Rosenzwog of Baltimore, Md., has arrived in Juneau. He is registered at the Baranof. ithat 95 per cent of the Guard| | RO SB. 21, to survey all hospitals] imoney is spent in the Second Divi- | !slon. and that each Eskimo Guards- man has been told the rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition furnished | him is ‘a gift from the Governor.” The Ketchikan Senator declared he is confident not a single Guard shot has been fired at a foreign enemy in the past four years, since i Attu. Motion for indefinite postpone- ment, made by Senator Gordon and ! seconded by McCutcheon, saw Sec- {ond Division solons rise in defense of what Walker had termed their “pure pork” and go down the line in favor of killing the bill. Indefinite postponement was voted, 11 to 5, the ‘;or.ly “nay"™ votes coming from But- {rovich, Collins, Green, Rogge and |Coffey. Notice of reconsideration, Iby Walker, delayed eventual dis- (posal of the measure until tomors | TOW. Green-Shattuck Bill Previous to sounding off on the| ATG abolishment measure, the Sen- | ate unanimously passed, with emer- | { S.B. 3 relating to land ownership, | gency clause, Senate Bill 11, a tech- [this week to Alaska to continue its | hearings, the Coast Guard sald yes- Mrs. Glenn Oakes, Vice-President, ‘-uIcnl legal measure by Cochran. 8. B. 11 was introduced, the author isaid, with the endorsement of the Bar Assoclation nad came out of his Judiciary Committee with an un- ! animous “do pass.” It amends pres- (Continued on Page Eight) ebm—n | REDDING, Calif., March lD.—The‘P TA L E H Western MlnimI Ocuncai;cnnnouncedl ® as' Venlflg | today it would seek the backing oti ' r all mining groups of the west fo H l establishment of a free mnv;ket la:; ears n eres lng gold. A resolution adopted by the Coun-‘{ Talk by MTS. SU(h | cil advocates repeal of the gold act | —_—r 5 cf - 1933 restricting movement of | gold on the market. The resolution ' Education which tends to develop SEATTLE, March 19.—The four- man Board of Inquiry looking into the February 4 wreck of the liner Yukon in Johnstone Bay will move sald the average gold price in 11 & deep, inner understanding of ounce in American money. |their mne¢ds and problems which TR are fundamentally the same the, world peace and fellowship, Mrs.| Georglana B. Such told an inter-| YuKoN WRE(K IS iJ\meau Parent-Teacher Assoclation | | meeting last night. | many though-provoking ideas to take with them. ness session on the Scholarship Fund, as Mrs. Ralgh Williams, foreign countries is now $80 an other people and other nations, of BOARD pROBE“G world over is the real basis for ested and receptive audience at the (OM'"G "oRTH\ A forceful and compelling speak- | |er, Mrs. Such gave her listeners | No action was taken at the busi-| President, was unable to attend, terday. The locale was not disclos- capably presiding in her absence. ed. Hot coffee and cookies were serv- The board members were expect- ed in the Domestic Science rooms| ed to leave for Alaska Wednesday. by Mrs. Herbert Arlowe, Mrs. Nor- ‘The formal hearing, held behind man’ Cook, Mrs. George Folta and! closed doors, began Feb. 15. Mrs. Charles Forward. One new BSenate Bill, No. 33, crawled in over the deadline in the upper chamber this morning. The measure, by Senator N. R. Walker, is a special emergency act author- izing the Commissioner of Educa- tion ta travel to Washington D. C. and return at Territorial expense, for the specific purpose of con- tracting with the Office of Indian Affairs for payment of tuition to the Territory for native pupils in Territorial schools. Unanimous consent that the mea~ sure might be introduced today was given by the Senate yesterday, sus- |pending the rules for that purpose. The bill was referred to the Rules Committee, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, Alleghany Cor- poration 6%, American Can 92%, Anaconda , Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 88, Kenne- cott 52%, New York Central 28%, Northern Pacific 28%, United Cor- poration 6, U. 8. Steel 82%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,050,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 194.09, rails 62,57, utilities 40.57.