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

f f ! @ .~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,343 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —.-.. PRICE TEN CENTS SELF-GOVT. I3 ISSUE AS INQUIRY EN ing Season Limited To 45 Days Fibre - Glass Lining in Army Clothirg Will Be Tried Out in Northland Duck BAG LIMIT, POSSESSION CUT DOWN Drastic Rules Are Issued| by Secrefary Krug- Seasons Given WASHINGTON, Aug. 8— A 45- day duck hunting season—a reduc- tion of 35 days from last year—was announced today by Secretary of Interior Krug. Hunt MOLOTOV IS GRUESOMEPLAN MAKING BIG ‘\uEehaces ek SWAT AGAIN Collection of Skulls, Skele- | tions of All Nations | Throws Plenary Session Revealed in Lefters | Info Concusion Today- | o Tangles with Evatt NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug a} —Lctters exposing a gruesome Ger- | man plan to collect skulls and| | skeletons of all races for an ana-| PARIS, Aug. 8—Soviet Foreign | tomical institute at Strasoourg were' Minister Molotov told the peace |read today at the War Crimes trial.| conference today that Soviet Rus-| The International Military Trib- | sid could not agree to committee- |unal was hearing a defense witness, | DS KRUG PARTY LEAVING ON NEXTSUNDAY Representatives Cooley, Poage to Accompany Secretary on Trip WASHINGTON, Aug. .—Interior Department officials id yester- day that Reps. Cooley (D-NC) and Poage (D-Tex) would accompany |adopted rules cn voting—and ran | bearded Wolfran Sicvers, a high SS| Secretary J. A. Krug on his forth- The regulations for the1946hunt- |, """\ o0 by Australia’s Her- |officer, but he would mot acknow-coming Alaskan inspection trip. ing season also reduce the daily bag limit from 10 to 7, and the possession limit from 20 to 14. Shooting hours for waterfowl, coot, rails, and gallinules will run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour before sunset. ?ffffnm REVENUE TAXES IN ALASKA SHOWING DECREASE Collector Clark Squire of Tacoma Is Now on Trip bert V. Evatt that the Russian ledge the letters. As ranking members of the| f N 1h| d leader was attempting to dictate| Maj. F. Elwyn Jones of the|House Agriculture Committee, the| 0 Norihian to the conference. British prosecution staff, produced|pair were invited by Krug to make i Molotov threw the plenary ses-|a letter he said Sievers had wril-| the trip and check into agricul-| Internal revenue collections in sion into confusion by reopening l2n to a Dr. Brandt saying: | tural possibilities of the Territory Alatka dropped 235 percent during the once-settled question on voting| “We have nearly a complete col- and to visit the Alaskan farm ex- the fiscal year ending June 30, ac- procedure. Molotov said the United lection of skulls of all races and periment station. cording to announcement here to- l)u_stic Rules | States and Britain had repudiated | People at our disposal. Of the Jew-| he Krug party is leaving Wash-day by Collector Clark Squire of In announcing the regulations, 't/ o T TR eian Ministers | ish race, however, only a few speci- |ington Aug. 11 and will return Aug.|Tacoma, who is visiting the four Krug called the duck-hunting rules| ., 051 ge then accused Evatt of |mens are available. The war in the gy, |revenue officcs in the Territory. the most drastic since 1938. By way of explanation, Krug said in a statement accompanying the regulations: | “The poularion of most species of wild ducks has declined within the past two years from a peak of “geting to create opinion against’'East now presents us with an cp- Soviet interests.” | portunity to overcome this deficien-| Evatt, Australian Minister of Ex- ¢V- By DTUCU_Xi“g th_ skulls of ternal Affairs, has been active in |Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who' promoting the cause of the small Feprecent the prototype of a repul-| nations before the conference. In|Sive but characteristic sub-human, ery reply to Molotoy, he said!We have a chance to obtain a pal- A Jen i | pable scientific document.” .- SIX NEW CASES OF DIPHTHERIA The total for all internal revenue (taxes in Alaska for the 1946 fiscal |year was $15,183,647 as compared to |$19,856,149 for the preceding fiscal (year, a decrease of $4,672502. The 11946 toial also was less than that |for 1944, collections falling off of 192 percent. 0j550,000 in < 1944 o 30,000,000‘”)8 Soviet leader was trying to en- birds—a dangerous level, 11 i b ¥ orce before the peace conference ‘Drought conditions in the north, he same veto he enjoyed in the central states and the prairie pro- vinces, together with overshooting, last season when more ducks were shot than were hatched and raised are contributing factors. | Disaster Invited | “With a 36 percent decrease in ducks coupled with a 50 percent increase in the number of hunters from 1944 to 1946, we invite disaster if we dig any deeper into our breeding stocks. American sports- men must take a smaller portion of | ducks and geese during the 1946 season so that more breeders will be left to fly north in the spring of 1947." The open season for wild ducks, geese, and brant include: Alaska, in fur districts 1 and 3 as | defined in the regulations govern-| ing the taking of game in’Alaska, | October 1 to November 14; in the| remainder of Alaska, September 1| to October 15. | ——e—— FROM THE STATES i Arrivals from the States regist-| ering at the Baranof are Mrs. M. M. Moletor, Shambo, Mont.; Larry{ Hagen, Seattle; S. G.. Tanant, Bel- lingham; Vernon L. Keins, Chan Hughie Keins, Seattle; Mrs. Ger-| trude Sweet, Portland, Ore.; Wil-| lard W. Dean, Wash. D. C.; ‘Robert | M. Weimer, Anchorage. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON PARIS—(by wireless)—Thousands of words have been cabled across the Atlantic about the peace con- ference debate over a two-thirds or a majority vote. At first blush this debate sounds like arguing how many angels can stand on the peint of a needle. You wonder what it has to do with future peace. The real fact, however, is that the voting procedure is the essence and the heart of the peace confer-| ence. In other words, it is the! whole works. And the thousands of words regarding the two-thirds de-| baté actually can be boiled down to just twenty-four words: | Russia has managed to write | what she wants ifito the pre- | liminary treaty drafts and’ two- thirds vote enables her to keep | what she’s got. It's just as simple as that. Un- Foreign Ministers Council. Evatt said Molotov’s effort to re- cpen the voting quéstion smacked of filibustering and ‘“has the sug- gestion of intimidation.” “What we have got to face is, whether we will give in to de- mands of that sort,” Evatt de- clared. The Soviet statesman renewed his attack on the press, asserting he had read in the newspapers their interpretation of the rules committee’s decision all said “the western powers have won the up- per hand over the USSR.” >-ee — | Third Quake - 'ARMY WAC WILL FACE CHARGES OF THEFT OF JEWELS | FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 8.— The U. 8. Army announced today that WAC Captain Kathleen B. Nash Durant has been charged with larceny, embezzlement, conspiracy and being away without leave in connection with the theft last win- ter of the Hesse family jewels from Kronberg Castle. Mrs. Durant will be the first to iface trial of three officers arrested. Maj. David F. Watson, and Col. Jack W. Durant, the WAC’s hus- band, will be tried later. The glittering collection of gems % § B !is expected to be brought into the n a l I“lourtroom for Mrs. Durant’s trial, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug.: 8—Another earthquake shook Haiti at 8:30 a. m. today, causing some | damage. i It was the third earthquake ex-| perienced in Haiti in three days,’ the first one reverberating for an hour. SHOCK IS BAD ONE scheduled to start about Aug. 17. The charges said Mrs, Durant conspired with her husband and Watson to “take, steal, and carry away” jewels possessed by Princ2 Wolfgang von Hesse and property owned by Prince August Wilhelm von Prussia. Officials have valued the jewels at $1,500,000. Capt. Glenn V. Brumbaugh of Los Angeles, the Durant’s counsel, said: “I think we have a defensz for NEW YORK, Aug. 8. — A newithe charges.” earthshock in the Caribbean area | “alimost as bad as the original shock on Sunday” was recorded on the Fordham University seismo-! graph at 5:33:21 (PST) today. The time of the recording coin- cided with reports of Dominican residents in- New York who said |friends and relatives told them in long distance telephone conversa- tions that a new and intense earth- quake was hitting that Caribbean island. One informant said he was speaking at 6:30 am. (PST) with a friend in San Pedro Macoris who said a new tremor “perhaps more | intense than the last one” had be- gun there this morning. Inhabitants of the town, hard hit by last Sunday’s quake were flee- ing to nearby hills, he said. A few' seconds later the com-| munication was suspended. gy s i FISH LANDINGS The following fish landings are reported today: the Nuisance III skippered by Stanley Thompson, 40,000 pounds salmom, sold to Se- bastian Stuart; the Tundra skip- pered by Peter Oswald, 14,000 pounds black cod and halibut; Ole Bransdal’s Ford, 2,000 pounds king der majority rule the anti-Russian nations could rewrite the peace treaties; under two-thirds rule Rus- sia keeps the treaties as they are. That’s why some of the smaller countries are so irate at patient Jimmie Byrnes for not backing them on majority rule. They know that under the two-thirds rule Europe will be partitioned the way (Continued on Page Four) salmon, sold to Sebastian Stuart; and the 31A464 skippered by D. Mercado, 3,000 pounds of kings, sold to Alaska Coast Fisheries. Seine boats Tango and Barney were in with seine fish for Booth Fisheries. .- George Grottle from Todd re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel yes- terday. 'NEW EQUIPMENT FOR ALASKA R.R. SEATTLE, Aug. 8—L. F. Roberts, assistant engineer of the Alaska Railroad’s maintenance of way de- partment, arrived here - yesterday to arrange delivery of new: equip- ment ordered for the line’s 356-mile road between Seward and Fair- banks. The new equipment, consisting of ilightweight coaches, a “snack” car and a business coach for govern- ment officials, will make the trip a one-day ride. An overnight ‘stop in Curry is requireq under, the cur- |rent schedule. . |OLDTIMER AUGUST BUSCHMANN HERE August Buschmann, a true old- {timer in Alaska salmon canning circles, left today by plane for his home in Seattle after attending the congressional hearings held the past three days in Juneau. Mr. Buschmann, who came to Alaska in 1893 and has been in- strumental in spreading canning plants from Ketchikan to Cook Inlet since that date, was here in the interests of the Cook Bay Salmon Co., the Alaska Pacific| Salmon Co., and the Sitka Cold Storage Company. He plans to return to this city with his daughter later this month for a two weeks vacation. 1 | | | AT ANCHORAGE *~" Most Income Tax Decline of the decline in revenue ‘No Indication Situation Is Under Control, Says Dr. Albrecht ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 8.— Six new cases of diphtheria were reported here yesterday bringing from Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Terri- torial Health Commissioner, the | statement that “there is no indica- tion that the situation is under control.” With the number of clinically active cases now totaling 18, Al- brecht extended the city's restric- ticns on travel and public gather- 1ings to include the entire Matan- i | | | i discovered in the Valley. | (In Seattle, the 13th Naval Dis- trict Public Information Office an- nounced receipt of a dispatch from diphtheria outbreak at the Aleu- tian base was ‘“completely under control.” It quoted the Alaska Dis- trict medical officer, Capt. E. F. Lowry, as saying there had been no new cases in six days and that hospitalized cases were not serious.) IMMUNIZATION FOR DIPHTHERIA GIVE Immunization clinics for diph- theria will be continued tomorrow, { Friday, 9-11 am, 1-2 p.m,, 7-8 p.m On Saturday there will be clinics 9-11 am. and 1-2 p.m. Children who have been immun- ized several years ago are getting booster shots. People who have not been immunized before are getting the first of three required shots. Community response has been excellent; 96 children and aduits were treated this morning. All of the doctors are giving time also assisting, il S COURT CALENDAR IS BEING ARRANGED BY DIST. JUDGE KEHOE | The District Court, with Judg J. W. Kehoe presiding, went o jthe motion and civil calendars yes terday and set several cases for | trial. wo divorces were granted: Violet (P. Aubert vs. Charles W. Aubert, and Tsabel A. Chandler uska Valley. One active case was the Naval base at Adak stating the | last year was represented in in- jcome tax collected from individuals. \'The difference between . the = two |years was $3,243409, or 204 per- {eent. Individuals paid $12,638,746 |in fiscal year 1946 as compared with $15,882,1556 in 1845. These figures in- cluded the amounts collected withholding taxes. Corporation taxes .amounted to $799,082 as compared to $2,033351 (in 1945 and $1,610514 in 1944, Re-! peal of the excess profits tax ac-' |counts for a portion of the decreas>. | Employment taxes fell off only slightly during the year. Amounts collected in 1944, 1945 and 1946 were $531,512, $492,913 and $490,426, respectively. | Cabaret Tax f ‘The tax on cabarets is the only major one showing an increase in revenue for fiscal year 1946. Col- lections for the last three years were $73,723, $124,851 and $139,456. Jewelry taxes for the same years amounted to $139,937, $166,081, and $136,067. For admissions the pub- lic paid $131,735, $197,482and $173,- 769. The tax on fur sales preduced $27,151, $29,826 and $28,805. All other forms of taxes resulted in coll $753,991 for the three years. | Ralph C. Granquist, in charge of ;Lhr newly established accounts and collections supervisory division with headquarters in Tacoma, is making |the trip with Collector Squire. This supervisory division embraces Ore- gon, Idaho and Montana as w=ll as Washington and Alaska. ! — et —— Public Dance ~ Given Tonight | of the | B ‘The enlisted personnel a 2000-hp diesel road engine, six|for this project. Nurses Aides are CGC Haida and MP detachment |here will be honored at a public |dance tonight at 10 o'clock in the Elks ballroom. | A cordial invitation is extended |to the general public and Mayor Hendrickson has expressed the wish that everyone turn out for this ‘r(;mmunlty affair. | Members of the BPWC will act as hostesses and music will be pro- jvided by Buddy Hunter’s orches- tra. —— - - 'PIRATES ARE SOLD; ections of $789,706, $595,471 Elndv Chandlef. vs. John L‘ Two additional petitioners were | naturalized: Percy James Shanks,| a British citizen of Juneau, and| Olaf Emdahl, a Norwegian of Peters- burg, who took the name of Olaf| Dahl. i e um— FROM PETERSBURG i " BING CROSBY ONE OF CLUB'S 0WNERS4 PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8—Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis banker, said today he had purchased the Pitts- burgh Pirates baseball club in a WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.--Army clothing and boots lined with fibre- | glass will be tested in Alas] and the Aleutians this winter as a pro- tection inst extreme cold. The War Department said today the material is expected to prove much warmer and lighter than pre- sent wool and cotton garments. * An Army cbserver who wore an experimental parka lined with fibre | glass in last winter's “mnsk ox” ex- pedition in northern Canada re- ported it afforded comfort even when the temperature dropped to 40 degrees below zero. Army field jackets, parkas, boots and mittens will be tested by task forces “frigid” at Fairbanks, Alaska, | and liwaw” at Adak in the Aleutians. These groups of about 1,500 men each also will carry out other experiments for the ground for perimental types of Arctic ap- parel designed by the Quartermas ter Corps employ a one-inch la of fibre-glass batting wool and pile linings. TERMINAL LEAVE PAY BILL SIGNED; " NOT LEGISLATION 1 | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—Presi- in place of 431,708,000 » for terminal leave pay. ‘The President has not yet sign- ed the terminal leave pay legisla- Ition itself. This is on his desk| for action. ‘The bill signed today also carries $30,000,000 for the purchase of es-' pecially-fitted automobiles for vet- erans who have lost their legs. It also provides $26,000,000 for OPA, in addition to $75,000,000 ap- propriated earlier. The terminal pay bill awaiting action would make an estimated 15,000,000 past and present enlisted men eligible to be paid for fur- lough time they didn't receive. As it went to Mr. Truman, the legisiation contained the “bottled- in-bonds” provision which House members have announced they will try to knock out early next year. e ee— ROSE ZABLODOWSKY GUEST HERE OF MISS SUE STEWART Miss Rose Zablodowsky, ex-WAC Tec 3, arrived recently from San Antonio, Texas, and is the house guest of Mrs. Irene Stewart. While stationed at Brooke Gen- cral Hospital in San Antonio Miss Zablodowsky became with Miss Sue Stewart who was 'also a psychiatric social worker "lhere‘ She is a graduate of Hunter | College in New York and received ‘hcr M. A. degree in Psychology at Columbia University. | Miss Zablodowsky was doing so- |cial work in New York City, her ! home, before she enlisted in the Army. After her brief visit here, she plans to return there. e ONLY WOMAN MAYOR IN | ALASKA IS VISITOR HERE Mrs. Frank <arnes, nayor of Wrangell and the only woman mayor in Alaska, arrived Monday | to represent Wrangell in the re- ,cent hearings and to attend to city and personal business. Mrs. Barnes served on the City | Council for two years before her election to the office of Mayor. | Along with the present job of bal- ancing the city budget, Mayor | Barnes manages time for her in- | surance business and the tasks of (n housewife. { While in Juneau she is visiting her daughter, Dorianne Barnes. She plans to return to Wrangell the ‘end of this week. e | MARTINSON RETURNS | Erling Martinson has returned to T. O. Hanson has arrived here four-way deal which included Bing|Juneau after working on an Ein- from Petersburg. He is staying at Crosby and two others as hig asso-|stoss scow on the Ahnklin River the Baranof. ciates, {for the last two months. " of yesterday acquainted | { INTL. ANGLE [TRAP LiMIT FiSH DREAM ECannery Ofi}étors Land | Blow to Chin of Terri- | torial Control |ka fisheries in tke Territcrial | ernment—Alaska's fishermen. 1 Against vesting manaeoment | Alaska fisheries in the Ter | government—The canred | industry. The industry delivered what is likely a knockout blow to hopes lor gOvV- salmon ito Territorial control at the t afterncon’s when Edward W. Allen, appe in the capacity of attorney for the | Association of Pacific Fisheries and inot in his dual ofiicial role as Chairman of the International Fisheries Commission and member of the International Pacific Salmo:n Commission, painted a broad ple- ture of international complications involving Alaska fisheries, sointica of which could be prejudiced by transfer of jurisdiction over thes: |fisheries from the Federal govein- In gent Truman today signed into 1aW{ment to the Territory. |an appropriation bill carrying $2,-! enlisted men's| Earlier, Managing Director cf the Alaska Salmon Industry W. C. Arnold had expresscd the indus- try's opposition to Territorial con-' itrol, argued upon basis of conser- vation and Territorial government limitations. Advisory Board What management concessi | Territory is likely to obtain by leg- |islation developed from the current Congressional inquiry was indicated during the forenoon session by Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland (D-Va). pow- erful and sagacious Chairman of the full Merchant Marire and Fish- eries Committee. Rep. Bland intor- jected into the morning proceedings fand expression of his view that there is “considerable merit” to & bill at one time introduced in Con- igress by former Delegate Anthony {Dimond which would have created an advisory Alaska Fisheries Com- {mission with similar function to that now exercised by the Alaska {Game Management Commission in jregard to game management. The ionset of war in Europe halted full consideration of the Dimond pro- {posal, Bland said in indicating that the feels it worthy of revival. Arnold argued for the industry against Territorial control because: 1—Job-lot extension now of juris- diction over the Territory’s princi- pal industry to a territorial legis- lature of limited powers might pre- judice attainment of the goal of full Statehood. , i 2—1It would cut Alaska's relation- ship with the Fish and Wildlife Service and its background of ex-| perience in management of the| fisheries which, he claimed, has now | put that agency in a position wher> it can solve many of the fishery problems—given adequate appro- priations by Congress. The benefit |of all that has been accomplished 3—It is uncertain that the Terri-| tory could finance the program that | is needed. 1 Discriminating Trend 4—There is an accellerating trend | within the Territory which might divert the purpese of Territorial control to discrimination against ‘non-resident capital and workers, to| |the detriment of development of the resources. 5—National policy tends toward removal of conservation authority as far as possible from local pres- sures. Bulk of Arnold's testimony be- |fore the committee yesterday was |devoted to giving answer to those |who had called for abolition of fish For vesting management of Alas-| by that service could be lost, he asserted, and it would take the Territory years to build up anp equivalent personnel. . IS SPIKE IN | DEAL AIMED - T0 APPEASE 1Congressional Fishery | Hearing Concluded Here ‘ This Afternoon | Philip MeBride, Chairman of the } Yesterday's hearing here before the Jackson Subcommittee of the Board of Pacific American Fish- |House Merchant Marine and Fish-|eries toda described the canned eries Commitice on issu pertain- | salmon industry’s = acceptance of |ing to Alaska's commer fish- | Interior Department proposals to |eries developed these line-ups of|cut trap ownership by individual |opinion on the question of Terri- | operators 25 percent, as an effort | torial control: appease rather than take a “con- tinual beating.” He reiterated, at the concluding | hearing before the Jackson Con- onal Subcommittee here this morning a statement made by W, C. Arnold, Managing Director of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., that the canning industry is “too <mall to carry on a running fight” with the government of the United States. | Under discussicn before the Sub- comn.ittee were numerous steps ta- ken by the Interior Department— reservations, regulations, aboriginal claims—which have been very cost- ly to the packers and have pre- vented the industry from placing itself on a permanent peacetime footing. McBride outspokenly de- clared for legislative acfion by Con- gress to bring about stability. Neot Up 1o Conn‘u The Governor of Alaska and Al- aska’s Delegate in Congress both viewed the Interior Department’s lcgislative proposals as not being the correct answer. The Governor deciared Congress should not legislate on the matter at all. Bartlett declared the pro- posals present no solution of “the heart of the problem” of trap own- ership, but would bring a generally detrimental result, Both the Governor and Delegate strongly advocated that solution of all fishery problems into which the Subcommittee was inquiring here be left to the government of the Territory by transfer of control over the Alaska fisheries from the Federal government to the people of the Territory. The Governor pointed to what he termed “the very striking re- cord” compiled by the elected re- presentatives of the people of Al- aska over a period of 25 years in consistently urging such transfer of control. The Governor said he expressed only his own views. He also opposed any and all reserva- tions whether on land or on sea. Aboriginal rights, he held, should be dctermined as soon as possible and compensated for, Restriction Was Concession Relating the background that re- sulted in Federal retention of fish- ery control when the Organic Act of the Territory was formed, Bartlett said that restriction on self-government was conceded by the people of Alaska then in or- der to gain their own legislative bedy. Since that time they have again and again expressed a desire, uni- versal throughout the Territory, for control of their fisheries. Bartlett conceded that local pres- sures would affect administration of the fisheries under Territorial control—but maintained the effect would be “entirely beneficial.” After running more than a full |day longer than anticipated, the combined transportation and fish- eries hearings conducted before the Congressional Subcommittee here finally were concluded at 1 o'clock this afternoon; with adjourned hearings on both matters to open at Seattle next Monday. Congress Must Act Before taking off to enjoy some | Alaska fishing at Lake Hasselborg, | Subcommittee Chairman Henry M. {Jacksen (D-Wash) declared it is ,apparent that some form of Con- gressional action is necessary— | whether it be a transfer of fish- | eries management to the Territory or in another diyection. In refer- ence to creation of reservations— which he sald he opposes in prin- ( Continued on Puge’ fiuel 1c;ont7nued on Page Five) e i # N