The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1947, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXVIIL. NO. 10,509 JUNLAU ALASKA, FRIDAY, FF.BRL/\R\ 21, 1947 ALL THE TIME” “PRICE TEN CENTS Seek Outlawing Po SENATE GIVES NOD TO CHIEF EXEC. OFFICE MIKE HAAS ISINNEW | LABOR JOB AdminiStra'or Ge“era' Bi“|Conferenccs looking to establish- Passed in Morning {ment of a labor administration pro- | ject in the Territories is under way l.ong Session at the Labor Department Attending are three newly ap- |pointed Territorial representatives One of the half dozen top rank-| ing measures of the precent sessiom passed the Alaska Senate this morn- | ing—the bill to create the office! of Administrator General. Twelve| atfirmative votes put the measure over, complete with emergency clause making it effective immed- fately it is approved. Voting “no” on the bill were Senators Brownell, Butrovich, Peratrovich and Ner-| land. Under the terms of the measure, which is a Judiciary Committee Substitute for the bill introduced| of the Department and Department |officials. The Territorial represen- |tatives are Michael J. Haas of Alaska, A. M. Bucker of Puerto Ernest Norback of Hawaii. seek to draft a program for clos- ‘er cooperation and an overall labor program in each of the Territories. |He said he hoped such a program !would bring about closer co-oper- ation with the Territorial Depart- ments of Labor. “Instead of waiting for the other by Senator Joe Green as Senate! 3 i { arte V. i e ult- Bill 1, an Administrator General ! E°% s B g ‘:l‘]f;l‘l“ o would be elected for a term of four|, ©\ o o\ g close working agree- years, at the General Election in | it e Territorial Demn- 1948. He would take office on Ap-|Ment With the Te L p |ments that both can step in qui ril 1, 1949, until which date the ly and, I hope, bring about Auditor of Alaska would serve in s 98 . Administrator| tion of the difficulties quickly.” G‘"‘ lca"’,"?‘f}:’L as Administrator) “orpe three Territorial representa- | b sl ot tives are department career men Among qualincations for the| A “chief executive” post are 10 years residence in Alaska and over 40 years of age. The Administrator! General would be paid a salary of $7500 per year and would exe:- cise powers now wielded by the! Governor under acts passed by lhe\ Legislature—such as appointive | authority, service upon territorial| |S FAVORED tions with regard to the Territor-, ial Board of Education and the| (\sHINGTON, Feb, 31.—P—| Board of Regents of the Umvermty‘thbeXg of the House Armed Ser o’ Alaaks |vices Committee today promised' No Disruption speedy action on army proposals' Any disruption of the presentifor changing the Articles of Warj territorial government is avoided to meet criticism that military jus- boards and as a member of the| Board of Administration. The Gov-| by a provision that all GOVEl‘l‘lDl"txce is loaded against enlisted men.| appointees now in office shall con-| gacretary Paterson said the War! \nlu- ernor would retail all present func- tinue to serve until expiration of | Demnmem favors amendments their terms. ‘which would (1) legalize appoint- Though labelled by some quarters ment of GI's to serve on courts as a “spite bill" the measure is marital, .now the prerogative of | similar to ones that have appear-|officers only; (2) end the manda-' ed at most recent legislative ses- tory sentence of death or life im-; sions, even before any apparent|prisonment for rape, and (3) protect; schism between the Legislature and courts martial from high ranking the Governor developed. outside pressure. Argument preceding passage was| Chairman Elston (R-Ohio) of me prolonged, with the keynote of pro-|Armed Services legal subcommittee | ponents being: “We want Alaska [gaid the changes appear to embody for Alaskans,” that the bill repre-| sents a first step toward ‘“self-gov-! ernment” and is a foundation for| critical report by the House Mili- tary group which investigated !he statehood. “This bill has that pur-{court martial system last year. Els- pose,” declared original authoriton told a reporter he will try to! Green. |get them before Congress as quick- Those sponsoring the bill stress-|]y as possible. ed that no personalities were con-| ———,o—— Gecmse: i does ot maxe 40| AUDITOR'S FIGURES i UPHELD BY COFFEY: difference who the Administrator General is — the particular thing is to have an Administrator Gen-| eral. [He continued: * . I do not think the Governor, as such,| is at all concerned.” Gov. Tnomas Riggs, in an open letter publi.shed Senatee session, Senator Edward C. in 1921, “favored vigorously every-| Coffey referred back to considera- thing provided in this bill” the tion of the bill to abolish the Al- Nome sage declared. aska Development Board. At that Speaking under “special privilege” at the close of yesterday afternoon’s Declaring he does not see “how time, ADB General Manager chal-f anyone can oppose the transfer of|lenged figures Coffey had’ obtained powers on principle,” Cochran con-|from the Auditor's Office. cluded that he firmly believes all| In particular, Sundborg showed territorial duties and obligations|a difference of approximately $4,000 created by the laws of Alaska between what the Auditor should, in their performance, be|shown and his own figures on the placed in the hands of a man|amount of salary paid out to the elected by and responsible to the' General Manager. Coffey explained people of Alaska. yesterday that Sundborg’s figures The Governor is a Federal offi-|did not include $452667 paid to cial, with duties prescribed by Con- | Rokert Henning, who though head gress, he emphasized, adding that| of the agency for a time was never he, personally, is among the many|technically the General Manager. who always has resented that the| correy stated he did not believe Governor is not necessarily &N there should be any reflection al- Alaska resident. | lowed to remai the Auditor’s Prejudice Statehood Bl e Declaring the bill “stinks,” it was opponent Don Carlos Brownell who insisted that there was a persunal‘ reason back of the measure’s being | introduced “at this time.” He as-]’ sgried its. pasaAgn RO WOMId PR |ing quotation of Alaska Juneau e o Peraurovich. . |ine stock today is 57, American Can 94, Anaconda 41} curt lican Sen- 3 4y Jcaling woen AL e enaor, Wright 6, International Harvester William Munz read an endorsement 81, Kennecott 47%, New York Cen- h sure from the “white” | t¥al 20%, Northern Pacific 21%, U, 96.43oh ig moep S. Steel 77%, Pound $4.02%. Republican party platform adopted | at pAnchornse That immediately| Sales today were 860,000 shares. . Dow, Jones averages today are raised the hair of “black” Repub- b 3 as follows: ' industrials 182.26, rails ans & An- lici John Butrovich, Jr., and 151,64, utilities 37.42. drew Nerland, though another| Fourth Division GOPer, E. B. Col- lins, said he considered the mea- sure under discussion to be above| politics. At one point, a m (Continued on Pan Two) R FROM KETCIHKAN Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Banta of Ketchikan are guests at the Hotel ove came frém|Jufieau. He is attending the Alaska Game Commission conference in this city. |Rico and the Virgin Islands, and, | Haas said the conferences would | most recommendations of a sharply‘ had { STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—(.‘?1~Clos-! GAME COMMISSION | HOUSE HEARS - NOW CONSIDERING SEASONS FOR GAME As the Alaskz\ Game Commission closed its fourth day of conferences | :yesterda}u Chairman Earle Ohmer | eveals that all correspondence and l recommendations received from: all | over the Territory had been ais_'VUkOVi(h Memorial ASk' posed of and taken into considera- | tion for recommendations wl;ere\'sri ing MOfe EnfOl’(emOm i warranted. The program under way A"a(ked on HOOI’ : today was discussions and study for | Whether or not a Legiulnture open and closed seasons on game in ! | each of the eight districts. | All recommendations made at|Memorial should point out the num- close of the Game Conference will |ber of fishery regulations violation cases that were brought before the |Alaska Court in one year, and the ibe sent to the Fish and Wildlife | "office in Chicago and then to the Secretary of the Interior before |lightness of the penalties that were becoming laws. nssessed was the main subject in Gary Banta, thc House of Representatives during Ketchikan, arrived yesterday and this morning’s two-hour session. | according to' latest report, Albert, The matter under discussion e M. Day, Director of Fish and Wild- {contained in House Joint Memorial | life, who is enroute from Chicago: 13, introduced by Rep. Steve Vuko- for the Juneau conference, is due|Vich. Yesterday the Comittee on in from Annette Island as soon as|Fisheries handed the memorial back the weather clears. Several cthel|’° Rep. Vukovich with the request agents from other parts of the|that he revise it This morning he Territory are also due to arrive to- | handed it back to the House un- i day. revised and by a suspension of the! e l.mm it was placed at the head of ! ’ lof the calendar in second reading. | The fight against some portions | {of the memorial was lead by Reps.! Andrew Hope and Frank Johnson, | both fishermen from the First D1-! vision. wildlife agent from 'STORM DELAYS TWO HEARINGS, {must he constructed for the hand= | Al ling of the upstream movement | snowstorm which crippled transpor-|SPawning salmon and - the d"“"' !tation in the capital caused a post- Patvesin mpYEpEOL S fingerlings,"| .pnncmcm today of a Senate Inter- | was attacked and stricken from the | {state Commerce hearing on the|text by a vote of 21-3. \ i {nomination of former Mayor Joseph, Rep. Frank Johnson said that| Carson of Portland, Ore. to be ajthe fish runs of many \’VASHINGTON Feb. 21— streams ! imember of the Maritime Commlsub"‘e been ruined by placing weirs sion. in them and cited Klawock Stream Chairman White (R-Me) order- ias an example. The welr, he said led the postponement because of' does not permit the salmon to go the lack of a quorum of committee P and down the stream in a nor- \members. A new hearing date will | mal manner until such time as they be announced later. ;m- ready to spawn. | Also delayed was action by the| Rep. Vukovich remarked that | committee on the ‘House-approved Johnson did not give the Fish and Wildlife Service credit for its years leglslauon to authorize the Mari- ltime Commission to set up an!Of experience in the matter, and {Alaskan steamship service for ayR\p Engstrom said that she uould {16-months period beginning March | prefer to take the word of the | first { fishermen on matters relating to - Ry ! fisheries, to that of the Fish and ‘Wlldll!e Service which uns our vnsheues from Washington.” DIRE(]’OR NEGRO e uaherman 15 Heard | Carl Wiedman, representing the ’_Ummd Trollers of Alaska, CIO, | GEIS SENTEN(E 'on fish weirs, but wound up with a discussion of the whole measure l Wiedman said that he has had 20 years of experience in fishing, ATLANTA, Feb. 21—P—Colum-!ang that he is familiar with condi- bian President Emroy Burke Was tiong not only in Alaska but in sentenced today to three years Im-|gawaij and around the Sacramento |prisonment for usurping police| Rjyer jn California. He indicated [powers in direction of his Nero-jthay ne represented the views of hmmg, Jew-baiting organization. |somc 25,000 CIO fishermen as to Superjor Court Judge Carl CYOW|ine memorial under consideration jimposed the sentence after a me “Never in the history of Alaska (returned guilty verdicts last night | nave there been more violations of .on three counts of an indictment. | fishery regulations than in the past {The court ordered Burke to serve‘yeal " Wiedman said, “and if it 12 months on each of the three!gqniinyes for three more years, we ‘counts, the sentences to run con-iywon't need any regulations because | secutively. — et 114 Arrested in Lynch Slaying of there won't be any fish left.” i For Big Business ! The Fish and Wildlife Service is | strictly for the big corporations,| ! not for the people of Alaska, Wied- | !man charged. He said both traps {and movable gear have been violal-' ing the regulations and called at-| S( (o'ored Ma“nennon to Canada where, he said, there are few traps and many | watchmen in closed areas. The, GREENVILLE, S. C., Feb. 21.—(® |small fishermen there make good —Sheriff R. H. Bearden announc-|catches without violating the regu- ed today that eleven men had ad-|lations, he said: mitted taking part in the lynch-| Rep. Andrew Hope said that the |slaying of 4William Earle, 25-year-|memorial points a finger at the old negro, near here Monday. small fishermen and not at the Bearden said a concentrated|traps and that there should he a search was being pushed for “the|limitation of the catch by traps. trigger man” in the , case. The reason there has not been Earle, arrested a$ a suspect in|more enforcement of the regulations the fatal stabbing of a Greenvilleiis that they are not popular with| taxi driver, wass taken from the|the general public and many of the \nearby Pickens county jail by a|officials, Rep. Frank Johnson said mob estimated at 25 men. A|He compared the situation with that ‘short time later his body, bear-ior the whole country at the time ing knife and gunshot wounds, was|the Volstead Act was in force. found beside a Greenville county Records Are Wrong | road. The section of the memorial found Up to noon today, Federal, state,|objectionable by Reps. Hope, F xc"_y and county authorities workmg‘Johmon and others points out that {on the case had taken 14 men in-|in 1943 there were 67 cases before {to custody. the Justice Courts, involving 234 S e~ — persons, two traps, 36 purse seiners 121 gill netters and one beach sein- TWO FREIGHTERS HERE o Rep. Hope said that some of thes® cases were not actual violations and cited one instance in which a boat crew entered a plea of guilty rather| than to fight the case in court dur- ing the best part of the fishing season. The amendment to delete the sec- tan regarding violations had not | Two freighters of the Alaska | Transportation Company are in iport today. The Northern Voyager larrived at 3 am. with a cargo of igeneral freight. At 10:30 a.m. the | Palisana arrived and docked at the | Juneau Cold Storage. She is ex-{ | pected to remain in port for two o three days, loading 26 carloads of ! frozen fisa. I "(Continued on Pnye Two) 4 airplane hunting. (the qualifications | which requires enrichment of bread — ] 4 A quartet of pretty skaters take a spill on the refiecting pool ice in Washingten, D. C. Left to right: Jean Konchalski of San Francisco; and Jean Liston and Ellen Allquist, both of Portland, Ore. SOLONSHAVE "White Paper’ LAW MILL IN Issued Today FULL ACTION For Brifish N'in'é Measu_re? Are Passed Labor Party Governmenl Upon by Senators at Gives “Working Pal- Afternoon Session | fern for Nahon Back from lunch with a full head By WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS of steam, the Alaska Senate drove: LONDON, Feb. 21.—(®—The La- through nine measures at its yes- 'bor party government issued today | terday afternocci session: passing @ grim white paper called “a unrk- most of them unanimously. Last!/ing pattern for the nation.” Tt told measure on the calendar was S. B. the austerity-weary Britons they 34, 16-page measure by Senator O. must increase production or risk the D. Cochran, designed to revamp the | “foundations of our national Alaska criminal code into conform- | ity with recent acts of Congr important official documents and Federal Court regulations. The |by the government—said many amendments proposed merely} The nation needs coal put the law as 1t is now being prac- |tion and foreign currency ticed into the Alaska statutes. | The private individual must con- : ¥ v Itinue rationing, forego hopes of THEC Avgnaey (f“"'ml was O ghorter hours, gm(‘x'ku&l hi nlull\'ld- hand to ‘help the Senators through ual output in mine, mill and fae- the unwieldy meas (»xpl‘umnu‘!"} each provision as it was read. Af-, Dodanind Tabor ' must abandes ter the bill was adopted by a ""d“" “industrial arrangements which Te- imous vote, the Senators considered |giyjop production, prices or employ- that a full day’s work had been po.e» well done. Previously they had| passed favorably upon six nthu produc- Industry must export one-fourth of its products and accept a stern | bills and two memorials. :syslrm of priority allotments of One of the memorials was intro- manpower and supplies duced only yesterday morning, but; Sir Stafford Crmp,\ Board of when it came out of Committee in Trade President, told a news con- the afternoon was immediately fuonre the plan is not “totalit jumped to the head of the calen- ian.’ dar. That memorial, S. J. M. 12, by| “Wz2 do not Frank ‘Peratrovich, conveys the you like it or r Legislature’s endorsement of the o into the coal say that whether t you have got to mine, or a steel Alaska game conservation program [factery, or whatever it may be” he outlined by the Alaska Game Com- said. mission. An amendment by .St'nalur. “Instead, we try to induce em- ®dward D, Cofiey made for more: |ployers and employees to conform acceptable reading, without altering to a pattern of industrial produc- the purpcse. Passage was accom- |tion in order to get the greatest panied by considerable side com.lbeneflls ral the nuuun as a whole. ment regarding the need for action' inst di ~includis th o -l ::t;i;tu;“;.:m;"‘hum:’::. Young A ( I ress Is by airplane. Raped then Robbed, Thrown Info Snow ator Cochran expressed willingness | to enact legislation that the AGC, NEW YORK, Fe l) 21.—(M—An at- For a time, the body considered) hearing Game Commission Chair- might require to back up a ban on!tractive young actress in a Broad- ‘\my show was raped and then rob- man Earl Ohmer, but decided to go | on with the business at hand. Sen-! Candgidate's Oath ibed at knife point by the negro Senator N. R. Walker sped pnx-!dnvn of a stolen taxicab, police sage of his S. B. 19, which wquflresfinid today, and then thrown candidates to file oaths concern-/from the cab into a snowbank as ing their. qualifications for the the man drove away. elective office sought, with a state-| Police identified the woman as ment that the bill is designed to|Miss Biruta Ramoska, a Russian correct situations like that which singer and dancer in the musical arose in the Third Division last,“Street Scene.” They said the at- year, concerning the election to the tack occurred last night on one of Senate for a special term, of now |New York City's busy residential Rep. Steve McCutcheon. His bill,|streets. he said, would definitely establish| Miss Ramoska gave police the ub's number and it found to ke reported stolen — e SEATTLE — The Commanding ‘Geneml at Fort Lewis has warned and flour to minimum standards of that the United States should pre- vitamin and mineral content, was|Pare for a surprise air attack over ~,th2 top of the world in the event ‘of a third world war. of a candidate. was Wednesday's controversy on House ' Bill 26 was carried over and he~‘ gun anew yesterday. The measure,! m{zofiunum on Page lereé) life,”! The white paper—designation of | issued | ' the time, wv front of the Lincoin Memcrial in Sarah Honeycutt of Dallas, Te (P Wirephoto) FIFTEEN ARE KNOWN DEAD INL. A. BLAST Ruins Are Searched During [ Night Under Glare l of Searchlights ANGELE | Los 1S, Feb. 21—M | After a night spent probing beneath glaring searchlights, police today fixed the death toll frém the city’s | ;\u,x\l explosion in 37 years Of the 158 injured sufficiently to | require hospitalization, several were feared dying The scene, as police shifted the blasted rubble of an | eleatro-plating plant, resembled | | somewhat a ghastly lit night- Ilnh and firemen ! movie set, except that there w: nothing fictional about the car- nage. The one-story brick plant of the' |J. J. O'Connor Corp. at 932 East ‘Picn Blvd, a mile from the center of downtown Los Angeles, blew apart, in a blinding flash of chemicals at 9:45 am. (PST) yesterday, but it' was hours before a clear picture of the disaster could be pieced togeth- | er. Police and fire agreed that it was caused by the detonation of perchloric acid, an extremely unstable substance under pressure in refrigeration be- cause at room temperature it'is a seething, hea liquid. How the was sct off remained a mystery. O “we were officials findlly “onnor told reporters doing something for the govern- ment.” This, he later amplified, was the aluminum-plating beds and chairs trade process. Not in the plant at he was reported in col- lapse at his home last night, Most of the victims of the city's worst blast since Times’ dynamiting killed 20 in 1910 were in the plant or adja- cent heavily damaged buildings, al- though a 10-year-old negro riding his bicycle several blocks away died of under a secret (Continued on l;xae Eight) PR B N el HALIBUT SEASON SEATTLE, Feb. 21.--/P—Halibut fishing, a big business in the Pa ific Northwest and Alaska, will r open May 1 after the longest closed | season in history, Harold E. Lok- ken, manager of the Seattle Fishing Vescel Owners Association, nounced today. The 1946 season, during which 52,500,000 pounds were caught, clos- €d last August 19. Because usually large number of boats were fishing the quota set by the In-| ternational Fisheries Commission was reached in the record time of 111 days and an early closure sulted, Lokken explained, kept | id | hospital | the Los Angeles men | 1IXI~‘ an un-| re-| rtal- o-Portal Pay Claims Prefty Skaters in a aPile-Up MEASURE IS GOING T0 HOUSE Judiciary C;Emmee Vir- ' tually Complefes Leg- islation on lssue WASHINGTON, | | Feb. 21.—P— | The House Judiciary Committee A measure outlaw- all portal-to-portal approved today ing virtually pay claims, The bill would also let employers advance as a defense against claims | the contention that they acted in “good faith.” They could offer it in controversies involving the Wage- Hour Act, the Walsh-Healy and | the Bacon-Davis Acts. The Walsh-Healey and Bacon- ; Davis Act establish working stand- (ards which must be observed on government contracts, The burden of proof in claiming “good faith” would rest with the | employer. Chairman Micheneer (R-Mich) [said the Committee approved the | bill “by a very large majority." | Questicned further, he said thats there was not a formal vote—‘not ! even a show of hands.” ! He said that, under present plans, the measure is scheduled to reach I'the floor for action next Thursday. i The Senate Judiciary Committee | met separately on its own versicn (of a measure to ban portal pay ‘(lumh, kut failed to take final ac- tion. Members indicated questions had arisen concerning the consti- tutionality of some terms of the | measure. SNOWSTORM HITS EAST: " THREE DIE ;Schools Arefi&sed, Traffic ¢ Snarled-19 Inches of Snow in Virginia (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) At least three persons were dead as the heaviest snowstorm in years anpud the East today, -closing schools, snarling traffic ‘and slow- {ing up business and industry. ! Snow depths ranged up to 19 tinches in Lee county, Virginia. In New York City, where the weather bureau anticipated a 12-inch fall by noon, one man died of a heart attack after shoveling snow. Two deaths attributable to the storm jwere reported in Pennsylvania. | Snow, whipped by strong winds, :continued to fall through the morn- ing in most sections, drifting across (highways and raflroads, which were heavily blanketed during the night. The storm extended from Maine into North Carolina, but hope of | abatement for® the Middle Atlantic |States came with reports that the storm was reduced to flurries in Western Pennsylvania. In New York City the weath- er bureau said the snow was ex- pected to be a foot deep by noon. It is the worst storm since March 7-9, 1946, when eight inches of snow fell | Work to Clear Streets i A task force of 8,000 workers struggled to clear New York streets, working in 35-mile-an-hour iwinds that whipped among the skyscrapers. The experience of those who wan- |dered outside was dramatically | highlighted in Nottingham, N. Y. | where two boys, three and four |years old, were found sound asleep 'last night in deep woods by 250 |{rantic searchers after they had wandered from their homes. In New England the storm gain- |ed in fury during the night, lock- ing highways in drifts that brought out all road-clearing equipment Outdoor construction work on | vitally needed housing was virtu- lally at a standstill. Offices and |factories reported “light days” with | employees arriving late or not at all | In New Jersey two main high- ways were blocked. Nearly all trains | throughout the northeast were run- ning behind schedules. Everyone had a story to tell of difficulties. One of the most har- (Continued :}n Page ’.'u;d.l