The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1947 VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,530 ALASKA'S EXPENSE BILL INTRODUCED LABORBILL | — ALASKA SHIP 1S KURILEIS. | Champion Skaier Refurns BILL WOULD VOTED DOWN eI o 1 MwpR Ml Ml%l R \S ()( l \fl I) l’RLhS PRICE TEN CENTS = o = s i | I 1 | | i | SEATTLE, March 18.—(P—Assert- i "ing the motorship Rose Knot is not " properly, members of the th 's Union of Pacific today | refu et 1o it e el r N Soviels Have Taken 0ver | House Ways and Means Committee Cuts $3 Mil- lions from Budget Final Action on H. B. 110 Held Over for Today on | Reconsideration Notice | Final action on H. B. 110, de- signed to provide for 24-hour load- ing and discharging of ships in Al- aska, was held over for this after- noon’s session of the House of Re- presentatives when Rep. Harry { fered from the cold at Seward dur- H [fored from i v ne et in Yalfa Agreement !is operated for the Maritime Com- mission by the Alaska Steamship, WASHINGTON, March 18.—(® ‘Cu, { State Department officials said to- { The Port Committee today was day the United States has conced- \m.md(nm the union demand for ed in advance that Russia will keep {a new heating boiler and the seal- the Kurile Islands under the peace ing of the messrooms and crew ' treaty with Japan which Gen. Ma The House Committee on Ways land Means has returned its owr version of a general appropria- tions bill for the coming biennium | -~-Cemmittee Substitute for House Bill No. 13. Appropriating $7,978,- : 1 il \rters, Arthur has urged be negotiated Newell gave notice of intention to i quarter 4 * - it ‘ | ga Hoe of fnte i Bl aiicidy {62040, the bill lops nearly three reconsider his vote after the mea | e 1 miliion dollars from the approv- sure had been turned down by a i e L L TS ed estimate submitted by the 10-14 poll of the House members { $945 Yalta agreement which trans= Board of Budget and approximate- ly $2.500000 from the general ap- propriations till submitted by Reps. McCutcheon and Huntley, which lit replaces. The appropriations are for the biennium beginning April 1, 1947, land ending March 31, 1949, except for schoels. The school bisnnium covers the period commencing July 1, 1947 and ending June 30, 1949. Appropriations for Territorial offices and departments are cov- ered in. Section 1 of the bill. Section 2 provides .that all ap- propriations made prior to Janu- The vote came after a prolonged discussion of the merits of the bill,| curing which Jack Talbot, Ck man of the Board of the Transportation Company, Faulkner, attorney for the A Steamship Co., and several repr sentatives of organized labor were heard Talbot reiterated the statement he made to the Senate on Satur- | Russia i i Since V-J Day the Soviets have | i MEASURES taken over administration of the ‘hm: a chain of 47 islands ex- —_— tending northward f{rom the Jap- i3 anese homeland to Russia’s Kam- 50U "DAX, IRAROR' 17 !¢hatka Peninsula, with the obvious (Passed) assumption that the final peace H. B. 106—To prov&e oI & greqry will validate the claim stak- bounty on ecagles, amended to make day that passage and enforcement j:)‘“‘w';"“;’}_ o “'l‘-‘_'l‘c*:: H“‘Mi; U“’L‘: Tokyo dispatches have reported of this bill would enable the ship-| e, u-‘ L “‘r‘l” “Nd;_l_‘”_‘ i withcut official confirmation that 1, 8 nofice.of, TSCOHMIREALID t least one airfield has been for- o 3 C 0 3 n ping companies to hold down C IRL GETS N EW PET — Donna Butterfield, 11, | H B. 53 To appropriate funds'gisieq and that the Okhotsk Sea ed out and accepted at Yalta freight rate increases. Delays of of hitog ; : e ) i go pets her newly acquired cocker spaniel puppy, Jiggs, ifor assistance in the construction .oniained by the island chain has ar se . ' ships in Alaska ports waiting to be gift of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin railroad, whose train killed [and equipment of Community pec converted int jod e ary 1, 1947, except those for Terri- jischarged cost his company $44,- ooy 3 N i een converted into a oviet lake torial School ard for the Univer- discharged c pany Donna’s pet year-old cocker, Abner. owned non-profit hospitals. : 000 last year, Talbot said. | Al e and el Some of the Japanese inhabitants sity of Alaska, shall revert to the Th. anawer b alGuestion: by Fepl - - 1 ) HERCRD. SUYa have fled since the Russians moved General Fund upon passage and n-answer & -ques B: + for uuml work for women employ e’ e ¥ _ McCutcheon, Talbot said that dur- | e scd 10:5. 1 Al bt B in, joining the exodus from the o approval of the Act. 3 8 pes. Passe al 2 S g 162 Sak o ing the war the Alaska longshore- k L over: fhe vedoraidaiating southern portion of nearby Sak- gurpara Ann Scott, the werld's champion figure skater, waves from Bicakdown of the appropria- men did a splendid job and often 1T T a Bh Recieatine Congeass ’“‘_‘“‘l 11;““(:1 Y PR the decl of the liner Queen Elizabeth on her return to the United | tions by departments is ns follows worked until they were exhausted. | | N o 5 ° awarded to the Soviet at Yalta. States, dive New Y Miss Scott, whose home is Ottawa, 0 Substitute for H. B. : {to_appropriate runds and. the In-{"S0 (ool the agreement on Feb- |- States, 1anding in New s 5 : individual appropriations are, of in order to keep the ships moving i Fhimie Eritor 3 : ‘ ; PO It is only since the war ended, he UI.D I.l plu“ er { terior 1').|>(n‘1|m 'lln 1'1; (‘nl(‘u THL,)A ruary 11, 1645, Prosident Roosevelt, Canadi wen the werld uitle in unnplll(u n a¢; Stockholm, Sweden. | o0 amendment on Mo G S R contract with the Territorial De-ipyyme Minister Churchill and Mar- | e e e ~ Ithe floor of the House or Zenate. said, that slowups have occurred. { partment of Education to pay $100 o & a shal Stalin said Attackea By Labor { tuition for each Native child being fically that the ), All aspects of the bill were at- { b ol ot coneessions were tne price of Rus- (AN (“‘“ BAR FAST IRAIN Total Gm’e.m“-" i 4.074.40° ! AlASKA BA(K I S D e a d't‘dum(rd in the Territorial schools. | giurs entry into the fighting against AT AGE OF ONE otal appropriation, $14,074.40; tacked by the labor representatives. | Passed but held over on a notice TaguR SHLHIN GhPes - HoRLAL glter cut from $29,941 in the budget es- T e timate. Main cut is in the elim- Verne Albright, of the Keichikan jof reconsideration for final abtion Germany's surrender lnngshzyr‘:mo:. cl':aufid kLh;u 1]!] re- SR | today. The Russians also obtained cer-' Hl S SllDEn ination to salaries for two steno- presented a direct attack on all or- e i i ey s also obtair - g I s ¢ ‘which an estimate H. J. M. 36—Askidg for immed-|(ain raflyay and other rights in f .. ¢ ] graphers, fap bioh -An esiiciNes sanized lnbor in the Tersitory and Conarecsman Charges So-| William C. Duranf, Who i consuruction of a"sman boat vncura. of $1258560 was submitted. and that some 300 men are being ac- | st R 2o i g : AsIRT harkor at Sitka. Passed 23-1 Stretching along the great circle gutting. ort ARREE-of the Srienan cused in it of delaying the develop- yiafe [OOking afTerri?ory Won IWi(e, lost General (detinitely. Postponed) uibing slons the preaty oy [ 6 INJURED&:?&«:HM and $1,026 for special ment of Alaska. ' b : : H. B. 101-To provide for li- . 7 EETANED © Longshore work, | I ..:‘d Japan, the Kuriles were in the Attorney General | Total appropriation, $35450. The awrigh said is - yith Covelous Fyes Motors, Passes On lcensing and reguiation of soster \ouiight of the early stazes of TN budget estimate was $59,200. The afmi-eIetl g Sigiiad ot a0 g inomes and children’s institutions worq War IT when control of the the poor stowage and breakage that oy R L G W ontro NEW YORK, March 18- (@ |by the Depe north Pacific was still at stake FOUf cafs Upse' as Mud present bill cuts off an estimated item of $20,000 for paying special would result from hiring inexper- ~WASHINGTON, March 18—(@— i i 74 [V s ienced men would be more costly The State Department said tod: “/‘lfk“‘f("_ o D'.J“"‘_(' ; ’\““'“(1 lbx;l: H. B. 94—To appropriate funds 3 2 Shgus mar operator who twice held | Struck Near Bank :Lun:,:‘(ll in mlu- henrmgs‘ uudr sx,aou or additional compensation for the than the delays now charged to it knew of no question being rais- | om . : ” q contro! Jeneral | 1or the dissemination of informa- the unions. The 48 members of the ‘ed by the Russians as to America’s 410 tWice lost control of General, b B0 [ By oy Ghambers of f ‘ Ketchikan Longshoremen’s and right to Alaska, cither officially or MO'ors, dled today in his quiet} = ° : ¢ ley R Attorney "General as Legislative , Gramercy Park Apartment Comermee. 0 (y wer ' Ccunsel. Warehousemen's Union, he asserted, uncificially. | (Tabled) i now make a fair annual income,; The subject of Only his wife and a nurse were; H. B. 116 To provide for a sales MISSOULA, Mont, March 18 . Sudhibe but if a large number of men en- mu.,»p:.l ,y‘, the presént when he died at 2:15 am.!tax to raise an estimated $3,000,000 HEARING E‘ P—Six persons were injured late' Total appropriation, $64,320. Re- j «Contmum on Page Five) ”l\bzrg:;";i,‘:y‘,}shé(’l‘“fiv" x He had been ill since October,:for the support of schools. TS yesterday when the Chicago, Mil- Jucsted in budget, TRON. B . : 1942, | H. B. 38—To set up a Pioneers waukee and St. Paul’s cast-bound o 3CDUCGRL,. . ST G0 NEED > $3,000 for salary as Commission- | ‘Ill‘. '\Rmffl}lll‘ N Olympian passenger train struck Th w h t el R a mud and rock slide 25 miles wast e as ]_ng 0N and ac n th of here, upsétting four cars a few feet from the bs of the icy Clark Fork River Most seriously hurt was Express Clerk Harry Gale of Spokane, who suffered several broken ribs and corious s when he was caught Leneath shipping crates and oth-| AT in an express car. Injured less seriously wi En- gineer V. Roterts, Deer' Lodge, Mcnt.; Firemah Frank Demmons er, $1,000 for contingent office ex- pense, $3,000 in the payments for recording fees, and half of the $6,000 requested for carrying into effect the provisions of the in- surance laws. Treasurer Total appropriation, $45330. Re- quested in budget, $67,400. The Lill cuts the pnppropriation back 'to 1945 in all lary brackets ex- cept “extra clerical assistance,” which is eliminated entirely, at a aving of $7,200. Also pruned is ing plunger in investments, Durant! H. B. 107—To provide for the Soviet Russia is looking at Alaska Was also an able judge of the au- ' election instead of the uppmntmvm b vetous eyes.” | temotive industry, knowing the 0f the Board of Education. with e , 5 MGTTY-GD-ROU.H "\ The Californian also suggested.trade from its earliest transition| (Introduced) SEATTLE, March 18, @ For- | that possitly Ru from wagon manufacturing 1 H.J. M. 36, by Reps. Hope, Gar- > o AR claim a much great Il and in reduced circumstances,!nick and Engstrom—Asking that By DREW PKARSON [ than was origir though far from impoverished, Dur- the U. S. Engineers start work on this country -lant retained an active interest in'@a small boat harbor at Sitka. In- asked: { Amerjcan business. On his 8v)lh|~”'d“‘Ced read and passed within “Or does she plan to reposses'birthday last Dec. 8 he said he saw \five minutes. r Bella Bella, B. C., 13, the herself of that treasure house of | a big future for American indust Coast Guard said today ey G o i thmosc. aeening. | AUTOMOBILE PLATES T e, rilbwed i = a plans “to, mal hearing will be held tomorrow ior George Hansen, pilot of the 5>< North Star, on a char inattention to duty” as a result the vessel’s ground on a reef WASHINGTON—Harry Truman will probably be known to posterity as a President having the best in- tentions in the world and the worst friends. Unfortunately some of G iens e Tow rhnaving the ml~:1 ‘J;wl‘fi:‘: :)1 (u‘ .l:l‘nu l))\l;:hyn(lll::llt(;\‘ :s bvn:;:( important today | tion by the C Guard Merchant Dccr Lodge; dining car waitel tia it Pk Giniing tnah hawt Wrbeh dbfeeard to the Bresidents 11000 € P T T e ke A eubersatcsins i £ SHOU[D BE 0" (ARS Marine investigating unit, spokas- Aridrew Fuller, Chicago; Mrs. Louls| 't [€% “F PEi B, Bosage E00 S tpbitany brogran (6N Turkey | Sl @ DosSIDIIE of euitl talke e A isuperpalesmant of | ldesiy R men said. Bright, Bremerton, Wash, and; % 1% SebB oy 1 ol N Giaed and of a tie-up with slow Russian Durant was the pivot on which| 2 The North Sea, operated by the Coleman, Portland, Ore, duested $12,000 to al 3 If your autcmobile is not yet % & 1 Schools lend-lease settlement wung the most spectacular turnj Northland Transportation Company | On his first birthdny, B it brought to hospitals in Every administration has its ¥ wea itor . earha ha 3 - he ’ earing the new <1947 Territorial | 5 . > appropria , % o hangers-on, who love to bask in the kka:)":thn Df(:”.“i‘,‘,.lll, [x)x:‘m .Al, md ‘LL_ sty ot Sk AEmIOREM ljcemcbplales at front and rear, [0 the Maritime Commission, has Marik, Chicagd, whe checks in at [this western Montana community.| lr‘ .!‘]‘ ;Fp’s";%éga’;‘ tor “";ngé; limelight focusing on the Whi[e‘gpe; Aue i ; “‘H“ H e ! conspicuously placed, or if they|U¢eR Written off as a total loss af-| thirty-four pounds and three feet | Roberts said the 12-car train, ‘1'1_“1“‘ m-\w('i&ez e -lma‘:l? $ s Honse. Bub pne.of HHe whirdest gt ] e was organizer of the General | ter repe;ued efforts to refloat her.| as the corn grows, demonstrated cnroute from Seattle to Chicago, B! . “The American people,” he said,| Motors Corporation in 1908. Start-|have not even been purchased as schools inside incorporated school ellites seen in Washington since upaye right to know what, if!ing in 1886 with a capital of $1000, YEt, it would be a fine idea to get e gk oz bis muscular abilitics. Mrs, Frank Va5 ““T"‘ ng 80 miles an hour) ol bhe il would. aphropriate the Harding Administration is a any, secret conversations have been ! part of it borrowed, he built mmlxhp job done right away. ¢ | Marik, shewn, claims he “chins | When ;uv first saw 1? e mud falling £3.104,000° 58 acainal a DB ARk ok Qreek-bom | ex-bootblagk. -~ 10.miyeig hetween our diplomats on this| lost successive fortunes which at| Juneau City Police and the Ter- BARILETT BI.I- ! himself on anything, moves all the | O ¢ ! ”","L“.‘“ |timate of $1,784000. For schools furniture round, except the | cutside incorporated school dis- Eansas Oliy pawmed Johil Maragon, |important. question.” jone time amounted to $90,000,000.{Yitorial Highway Patrol are stop- who despite an interesting police Gearhart said he had been in-; 1, Februar 1936, however, m,‘pmg and warning all motorists this pRoleEs FUNDS piano, wears size 6 cveralls and | |tricts the bill appropriates $810,~ list- | week who have not as yet displayed ize 7 adds, with ill- RESERVES OF 1009, as against a budget estimate record bobs in and out of the formed that the Russian news-'filed a petition in bankrupt size 7 shees.” She ul $650,000. Increases in these two White House like a shuttlecock and | paper Pravda claimed the CZar jng assets of $250 against ,,A{h,mm\‘the new licenses. g even enjoyed the unique privilege acted without the cons®t of the|of 914231 City Clerk Jack Popejoy has a FOR TERRITORY‘ are due largely to increased ncealed pride. that he has ¢ ‘éf ‘;“““““g to the famed Potsdam Russiamr people when he sold Al-{ it L <o © icufficient stock on hand to take ! :““' ";‘I‘ has ':‘I"’ & e nmuw for teachers. Budget items onference. jaska to the United States in 1867! i care of sales, which he reports are P he was 812 months cld. ' for tuition, $25,000 for . . i i ¢ { sales, ports are 5 sy Hi . 825 0 WASHINGTON, March 18— s retirement and - $150,008 Possibly more significant inview for $7200,000. He said further| !still being made in considerable of the current Greek crisis, Mara- that a reporter for “a great Amer UNION MAN IS numbers to late late comers. Theisigusg h aed g0d seno A gon also was sent on a special mis- jcan news seryice” which did Senate a bill g . 3 05 ol ok ‘A‘“““” "i‘“:“ 1?““" p .I. Inot touched, but $300,000 is lopped Sie to reece. il ecaus 1S ha e S: S 3 per o money: receives IOl p o1 for he O ey ot s e e e WOUNDEDSWIFE | STEAMER MOVEMENTS <t e i i Pefersburg Geis Two ON DECLI NE | or transportation of pupils are passionate devotion to the King of never had conceded that the Czar lic lands in_the Territo ing an appropriation of $50,000 Greece and the unique position he had a right to make the deal \\nh i ek ey is.to be used f o or &t ISSHO]’DOW" e r e § 1. | The money is.to be use l' Sh Ip orthern Vovager, from seatte it SR L T b LOIS, JCOOK PUIPOSES — (for this purpose. INGTON, March 18.—®- Education enjoys around the executive offices, the American Se this so-called “Greek adviser” is Seward. | scheduled to arrive at 6:30 o'clock sing a lot of Congressional| Gearbart coupled his remarks A tonight. ads and schools, and will be ap- People ate 29,000,000 pounds of the| The appropriation for the Office curiosity. on Alaska with Soviet delay in re- | CHICAGO, March 18—®—James | princess Norah scheduled to sail portioned by the Alaska Legisla- N o : iy Sli2 , | nation’s frozen fish reserves during of the Commissioner of Education In more ways than one, his his- |plying to requests for a lend-lease' Crowley, 44, President of the Chi- ron vancouver 9 tonight. ture. WONSINCEON, March P~ Pebruary, the Fish and Wildlife is cut back $10,000 from the bud- tory is unique. laccounting. |cago Bartenders' Union, was shot! aloutian scheduled te sail from| The bill was introduced by Dele-|A Dill transterring two in the| govice said to It was the get request, to $73.180. Salary ap- Tt was less than an hour after! “Does it mean he asked, “that|and seriously wounded and his wife 'geattle March 20, Due in Juneau| “At€ Bartlett. It would put Alaska lOWnsite of Petersburg, AlSKd, 10V g jargest one-month decline on |propriations remain at the 1945 . 48 states so far |5chool purposes has passed the Franklin Roosevelt died that John Russia is preparing a counter- was Kkilled b, Maragon arrived at the White!claim arising out of old contro- shotgun b! House to console and congratulate Versies of yesteryear?” bile in front of their south side ynq Seward. Southbound calls at C¢red. The states get road and, The land was acql gunmen who fired wmareh 23, Going west will call| V" & Par with the o : ; record, level, while some cuts are made s into their automo-ia¢ Cordova, Valdez, Port San Juan ‘¢ icome from public lands is con- ouse and gone to the nate Frozen fish stocks in public cold!in requests for clerk hire, travel red by the /gt plants went down from'and printing funds. his old friend, Harry Truman R ol 4 !'home early today Valdez, Cordova, Juneaw, Ketchi- ‘chool allotments and another por-'Indian Service in 1904 for a school.) 127,000,600 pounds Feb. 1 to 98,000,-| Vocational Rehabilitation will re- Thereafter he was given a special POLICE DOINGS | Crowley's w Elizabeth, 44, who kan, tion for reclamation the House Public Lands Committee go0 March 1 ceive a $5000 appropriation under White House pass, plus a reservei Juneau Police arrested Wilbur' was in the driver’s seat, was shot| Tongass scheduled to sail from rster S r reported, but Indian children now > oo the bill. The requested amount parking place for his car just out- i Moore last night for drunkenness. in the left temple and was dead Seattle March 20. AWVS TO MEET attend the town's public school NEIDERHAUSER RETURNS was $54.000. side the executive offices. He ‘,C_,‘Ernust Paddy, arrested the previous when police arrived. Crowley, who' Sailor’'s Splice scheduled to sail The Juneau chapter of the AW The Ihdian Service approved the William Neiderhauser, who has| University companied the Roosevelt funeral Night, was iined $25 in Police Court | was struck by six shotgun pellets from Seattle March 21 VS will meet at the Governor's|transfer to the town of Petersburg. | been south for medical attention,| The University of Alaska will against a request 30. The budget on the :rm being under the influence of, in his right shoulder and arm, was Denali scheduled southbound | House tomorrow at 5 o'clock p.m,!The bill was sponsored by Delegate |has returned to Juneau via PAA jhave $562,800. a (Continued on Page Four) ‘alcohol, and released tremoved to a hospital. from westward akout March 25 it is announced today Bartlett (D-Al ) clipper of $1321 \