The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1947, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e} — ———— - — "VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,536 ~JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947 __ MEMBER ASSOCI PRICE TEN CENTS Truman Makes Statement On Support Of U.N. FRSTTOETN | NewSiylelnirodued AFUAND ASI PROPERTY TAX MESSAGEIS ol 'NEGOTIATING FAILS TO PASS MADE PUBLI(, WAGEISSUES SENATE TODAY WHITEHOUSE Headed by Mayor Hen- | > drickson, with Nielsen, | | £ } Is Significant Because of \ . Proposal to Help Thibodeau, Johnson Greece, Turkey The People’s Ticket, the first in the city election, was filed this WASHINGTON, March 25.—(#— | President Truman said today that forenoon in the City Clerk’s of- | “the United States, in all its acts, fice. The ticket is headed by Mayor | ! seeks to add strength to the Unit- ed Nations and to give effect to the Waino Hendrickson, incumbent, | seeking re-election, with the fol-| siowing for City Council: ; Edward S. Nielsen, present | “councilman, for re-clection; J. A.| principles and purposes of the Thibodeau and W. Burr Johnson, | | United Nations charter.” the latter two prominent business- Mr. Truman made the statement 1in a message to Trygve Lie, Secre- {tary General of the UN on the | anniversary of the international or- | ganization’s first meeting in the men. Judge William Holzheimer is United States. It took on more than !routine significance, however, be- jA"emptMad?o Effect Set- | Second Section of "Basic. 1 tlements So Men May | Tax Program” Heav- \ ] Start for North ed Into Discard 1 SEATTLE, March —P—Offi-| The Al ate this morning |cials of the Alaska Fishermen's killed off three most controversial {Union CIO, and the Alaska Salmon |measures of the current | Industry, Inc., met again today in|The General Property T: jcontract negotiations with Albin!{“Bill for Industrial Peace |L. Peterson, Commissioner of the “Equal Pay for Equal Work." A United States Conciliation Service.|fourth disputed measure was to; ! Peterson has been attempting to come before the upp house the leffect cettlements between the'first thing this -afternoon—S. B. ‘vrulmon cannery employe! and sev- 82, a uniform trade license fee jen unions so that men can be dis-|act patched to Alaska as soon as pos The Secnate voted down S. B |sible for the 1947 season 80, the property tax, 6 to 10, fol- | Meetings were held yesterday lowing a very able exposition of| !between Employers and the Fis| also on the ticket for City Magis-/ trate. | i ax RESIGNATION OF EXOTIC DESSERT_wmovie actress Nina Foch helps !the measure by Senator Victor C. !Whno House made the message 'ermen’s Union and the District!Rivers, which was defaced only Frank Romersa, New York hotel chef, serve baklava, the dessert (cause of his proposal to help | |Council of Carpenters, AFL [by his habitual allusions to big prepared for a luncheon opening the drive of the Greek War !(-xm-ur and Turkey resist Com- | JOHN D BISHOP IS | | “Peterson said “some progress”|interest control of the Senate., Relief Association for funds, munist aggression. : L] | was made | Senator Rivers seems unwilling to! = R o S ~1 Only a few hours before the i JesenE | concede honesty of conviction to! anyone opposing his own views. H i bublic, Warren Austin, American ‘ : fiencr veparimen prescative s * ANNOUNCED TODAY | s (after a conference with a prope tax is unworkable in| i |man that he will make a statement | ! Alaska because of the requirements " A o g i he said, is of major importance an :the Jack ROQICINTRI MA | tions. | 1 will be passed not too far distant- Leaving. the President’s = oftios, il | !ly; adding, the only reason one; |sland from Bro nle the former Republican Senator told Bv FlAMES has not yet been passed is be- w »H'nm'm» 1 Has for Past 8 Years Been ‘ , with B. M. Behrends Co. ‘ Im the Territory and undoubtedly | i —Going o Seattle : cause of the “crocodile tears shed| “I am going to make a statement by . ., Alaska land hogs,” who v ———r in the first meeting that the Se- - hold thousands of acres of the, WASHINGTON, March curity Council holds after my re- 2 i . Territory’s land out of circwstion. ! The Interior Department has been 'Urn to New York. dise Manager of the B. M. Beh-| the design by Lois-Paul Originals. Bu||dmg Des"oyed by Fire Bokbe iyery, DAY i asked by Jack McCord of McCord,| -1 ¢an only say that it will deal rends Company’s Department store,| —— : . Statements of the “untaxability | Alaska, to take one of Al thoroughly with the item in our i but 279 Patients Make ot mining ciaims have not been| is announced today by J. F. Mullen | ; W garderd ‘spots’ away from the Security Gounctl business which re- President of the B. M. Behrends| Hughes laies! ) : tried Atk a8, ogteds» MDA Wi Company. . brown bears and give it to settlers. 1ates to disturbances on the north- ; Miraculous Escape b txea evervaay tnroughout| McCord told a Teporter today e border of“Greece.” Mr. Bishop pians to leave shortly | 28 the world. Claims have been ap-| i i ! | he had placed before Warner Ga Austin nodded affirmatively when ' ; yimsiad i BULLETIN — Steilacoom, Praised and taxed in the mining after April 1 to become a part o N IDERIN | Wash, March 25—P—One pa- :States; alsc, operators who pur- | | Hent was found dead after fire |chase claims are able to find out | i "% The resignation of John Doyle| The feminine trend for play clothes is emphasized, scmewhat graphi- Bishop, who ior the past cigm| cally if not overwhelmingly, in this ruffied, one shouldered play suit, years has been General Merchan-| medeled by NBC's Ge Ge Pearson. A washable broadcloth is used in |ner, Assistant Secretary of the sked whether he would include | Intetior, and the Fish and Wild-'the Turkish problem. G | g' in Helen 130‘(’, Ix;cmposr:(ed, of life Service a proposal that Ko-; One of the key issues which has ‘Seattle. The Helen Igoe op, 'es- how muc p jiak TIsla 3 p1e sttle- developed in Congress over Presi- : 4 i » & . ich to pay for them. Un- dia sland ke opened to settle- O gress € & tablished thirty-eight years ago by destroyed a four-ward wing of I3er . thie BbosasearAlaaRy, 506 o ¢ ment. It was withdrawn from! dent Truman's proposal for $400,- cettlement in 1941 and made a'000,000 in aid to Greece and Tur- refuge for brown bears, except for key is whether such action would a strip along the coast in effect by-pass the United Na- “Kodiak is one of the garden'tions. spots of Alaska,” McCord said. “It; Senators Pepper (D-Fla) and is affected by the Japanese current' Taylor (D-Idaho), who contend it and the temperature in winter would, proposed today an alternate does not get below f it is|plan for aid to Greece through the an ideally loca United Nations, and will make settdement by veterans and : iz 27 LSS N interested in getting homesteads < in the Territory.” \ McCord said a Navy air base al-| ready is established there, along| with theatres and stores, and it| L] is visited three times a week by‘ [] arge airliners, ! “I have discussed the plan witlw _i Interior Department officials and! ¥i9 T am encouraged by their atti-| IS AT woRK { tude that ultimately the island HUNTER — Acior Gary may be opened to settlement,” Mc- ~— the Western State Hospital be- | ers would appraise their own TOBA((O TAX 230 cthers were removed safely |OWnines and it would require only fcre dawn this morning but { by attendants whose calmness imudvrate expense to set up the ! averted a panic. amfr-nl boards in each Division The House Representatives ofl I The roads and airports asked by th ing, fighting its w EARLY MORNING FIRE owners of mining Fl;xilm to bene- throu; cloud of smoke over| STEILACOOM, Wash, March 25_‘m their pl'operllf‘s account for the McCutcheon bill to levy a taX|__(p—A four-ward wing at the |- mmxd;erah]e gowtion . oc dho K~ isso and delayed by the' western State Hospital, a mental ! " 8 ailigine, . the. Terriloty and age of Senate’ ; 2 " !Rivers emphasized. He said he ; institution, was destroyed by fire| g A g Substitute for House ie see no better way to close before dawn today but all of the' i . Committee Subsitutz for House' g ; ; < the Territory’s income-out go gap, pt . - >t 230 patients in the building were I ¢ oty Joint Memorial 34, by the Senate! oy the * @euned seimon -industry NIP9 ! believed to have been removed . o Committee on Education, Public’ ; alone would pay $600,000 per year Health and Morals and Veterans | rcy: The Superintendent sald the o, i $60/000,000 investment in the e o Wb iti1. | £scape of inmates from the “fire-'epritory, Affairs, was able to make little, "o i a z Gt .z 4 progiess o its short but meaty| eh Without casualties was “mir-, o suburbs Larger Than Cities | | calendar. 1 aculous.’ ; i Rivers also stressed that corpor- ! An accurate estimate of the cost te limits of Alaska cities are One other measure, Senate Com- | of the fire in the 50-year-old wood generally* small" and that residen- mittce substitute for H. B. 19iand brick structure could not be!tial and industrial fringes have | amending the law relating to costs|ontained, but the Superintendent'now grown up about them which ' and disbursement in civil actions, estimated replacoment cost at $750,- |contain the finest homes and are , former "T,«? ‘g"“ém prropHstiong hm"m‘ g ~lsometimes larger than the citizs ~ Cooper brings back a wildcat Cord said. “I have received no di- | The Grand sury vegan iis regular ity beauty |was held m_';x, mmnhné end ot thet least one of the patients is themselves. Those fringes are not . Which he tracked through deep rect promise it will be done, but]business today of hearing evidence $ iknown to have been picked Up a 'now taxed, as they should be “in Smow and finally bagged in the they have listened to my argu-(in criminal cases presented by the Miss Helen Igoe is one of Seattle’s | gldest specialty shops, in the exclu- | sive retailing of ladies ready-to-| wear. Mr. Mullen states that Nr. Bish- ops’ services will be retained as res- ident west coast and eastern buyer | for The Behrends Company and the fine lines which have been in- | {roduced during the past years will | all be retained. | No successor to Mr. Bishop is announced for the present and the | various Department heads now thh‘ B. M. Behrends Company will have charge of the merchandising in their departments. | i | - [ { | Millionaire Sportsman Howard The w aShington Hughest' laiest Hollywcod ro- Ohie¢ State Unive | i | { | By DREW PLARSON | contest winner, is “serious.” This |calendar, and it was expected at! g o” gieinie” fom the hospital'all fairness” to residents living Mountain country a few miles ments in a most cooperative man-|U. S. District Attorney’s Office. =y ‘ | was learned recently when the noon that a night session might | i it e ltaved ible that ! wi B ikt o from Sun Valley, Idaho. it {The. ury . was Aworhiis iy . Bedlval WASHINGTON—The fur is fIy-| o4 ecc appeared before Super- be in prospect for this evening. |og 10 Was beueve POGRINAY, within thpccliles and now carrying ¢ J H gt o Y e ing backstage over another fast! . i, {others might have escaped custody.!the entire burden of supporting ————————— — The island comprises about'Judge Harry E. Pratt at 10 o'clock housing deal the big real estate| i°f JudscF.G.SvainofLosAn- | rhe topaceo tax bill was also|All patients in the building were’the facilities used by all alike. AlASKA Io GEI wwo million acres of land [in U. S. District Court and then lobbyists have put over in Congress| Selcs, for approval of her 20th helq over in second reading after|men. | Previously, Senator N. R. Walk- 1f the government wants to|immediately retired to its own —and on the veterans. Y studio contract. .several amendments had been‘ Cause of the blaze was undeter- | er—Rivers’ co-author on S. B. create a brown bear refuge, it' chambers in one corner of the fifth . The deal involves a resolution,! Asked about the remance, she adopted. An amendment by Rep. mined although it was thought to;80—had opened the discussion by] HUNDRED (ASES should be on the Bering Sea”| floor of the Federal Building. McCord said. “It is a clima Although all cases, heard by the said “It's serious.” | McCutcheon, author of the bill,"have originated in a clothes room , pointing out that there is a _'cut the tax on cigarettes from,on the top floor at about 1:40 a.m. property tax in every State. TI six cents per package of 20 to! Ten fire companies from Tacoma bill before the Senate was so writ- adopted behind closed doors by the | House Banking and Currency Com- | — - it and Grand Jury, are secret until an in- better suited to the bears OF OYSIER SEED would te far removed from set-|dictment has been returned, it is mittee and, by an appropriations; . . 1 ¢ : o jo n subcommittee, whereby surplus war | -Ivo WED four cents, and was adopted. A and surrounding communities bat-ilen, Walker held, that the prop- & . fi'(lncr S < rxg_(-cted that the mf)st important housing can be sold only for cash.! subsequent amendment offered by tled the flames for three hours be- erty tax could be collected IN| AgTORIA, Ore, March 25.—® i g, S 00 00,8 ened 0| business on the Jury’s docket will Innocent on its iace, this means| ==~ |Rep.' Newell made a further cut to|fore bringing them under control. |Alaska, without working hardshib.\ _Tne Preighter John Mary Oden cCord's gwnx?.‘ll and »f:mlld look be concerned with four cases of a big advantage for the big real ; two cents a package on cigarettes| Flames at times reached as high Senator O. C. Cochran replied o cehequled to arrive here March f':“‘ l}ld enerally, he said there| yiolent death occurring in Juneau ¢state operators. who can afford to and with comparable cl_ns on the as 300 feet. !tg Walker by pointing out a great s iy g deckload of J panese & f\' lif“ -H-\Of;h tfl.h) such pro-j dquring the past few months. U. S. | put up spot cash for the multiple- proposed taxes on cigars and; One hour after the main build- |distinction between the States and|;yiter geeds from the port of x::).‘an.l lc?(: o ‘:’) lx‘m'!’\!?dr’ bgl }W; District Attorney P. J. Gilmore said | unit surplus housing project. It| tebacco and was also adopted. | ing had become a mass of flames a this Territory, in that county oF|gginohomo and to discharge 9,225 :"‘L u)nul . ";\ l”,use' ‘"L‘ ‘:}‘“'um he expects this jury session to also means a swift kick-in-the-! | How To Collect | patient was observed pounding on!other sub-divisional Qmemments‘mw for “planting” in Tillamook \u‘hjm be had gone Into the|pe priefer than in previous years fants for war veterans who have | The question of method of col-|? Parred window of the top floor. are lacking in Alaska. In "?fi;Bay ? i S0 because of the new Federal statute been bidding for the same housing ‘ecting the tax finally stalled the A C2ble was carried up a ladder and |States, he continued, it is hei pnyg wijj e the first foreign ! permitting defendants to waive | |fastened to the window bars but|countics that levy and have the N e L Grand Jury indictment. Because cargo received here since the war P ' 1 slipped off, and a second attemptmachinery for collecting Property)anq marks resumption of trade be H re |taxes. When Alaska is organized . Rty 5 Rive Collection by means of stamps|Was necessary before the entire ¢ y tween the lower Columbia River y PR oasting could Be pulled out, |as the States are, with county|ani japan, affixed to each container: collec- o d BN e 4 tion by the retail dealer, Wwho - | governmeggEanA, machinery. _L:)e“| Willipa Bay, which is ' only will Alaska be in a posi “’“;mg production center on t! would file quarterly returns, sub-; to levy & e s i ies 5 v a general property taX.lific Coast, will get 20750 stantiated by copies of purchase! WAGE SCALE OF HOTEL, - | .chvan " conciucea. Bl S b invoices, with the Tax Commis- Gt Disort G | ioner, or i ire 4 { i Mail, delivered 6,000 cases at the wholesalers shipping c - s 3 ey L s Sunday /)1 s property td show that the Termi-| “pyitjsn Columbia is to receive ghgts to the Tf"‘f:”' m»Lllwlxame BE DE(IDED IOMGH {tory's government cannot Single|s1gn cases and A‘la. Gnaerewiog Jahner “as - the TenlbaSlhaue fout and tax only patented hold-ii.. Acsociation reported projects under “mutual ownership” | J credit plans. ' Since most of the projects are! bill in second reading with three! |alternatives suggested: 1 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending T:sv 0'Clock This Morning. | of this statute, Gilmore said, many | cases, which would have ordinarily occupied much of the Jury’s time, | have already been disposed of. Victor Power of Juneau was ap- y pointed foreman of the Grand Jury by Judge Pratt. The other 21 mem- bers of the jury, approved by the , Court, are: Mrs. H. C. Aase, Olaf | Brensdal, Willlam C. Donaldson, Emil Henrikson, Susan H. Kennedy, Mrs. Lillilan Nyman, Burke Riley, big ones, ranging from 100 up to 3,000 units in size, veteran purchas- | er groups cannot compete on a cash basis with the big real estate | syndicates. The latter would be in | a position not only to put up theK #money, but, decause of the limited | cash. bidding on such large trans-| actions, could force down sales pric- | In Juneau—Maximum, 43; minimum, 34 At Airport—Maximum, 42; minimum, 31, WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) es. | tax is now collected. e any 3 FPHA experts estimate that one| he Eiouse this. morsig setelved) © Thd" Jufiean Local of ‘the Hojel nes—t & MA% s levied on any S o Cloudy with occasional e ! Edith Robestson and A, T. Thorn- 2,600-unit war housing project | notica from the Governor that he|and Restaurant Workers Union will |Pa! P“’pn s 3 )O)MILLER RETURNS HOME; light rain and not much dahl, Juneau; Madeline Bonnett, Which would normally sell for about | has sent H. B. 4, to regulate the|Meet tonight to take action on re-|levicd on al, Th-[fl"“‘““' e SIX MONTHS IN STATES e change in temperature to- | Anna Holm, Mrs. E. L. Erwin and commendations of their negotiating declaied non-refutable. | Ben C. Miller, Custodian of the s night and Wednesday. In- e|Mrs. Kathleen McCormick, Doug- $8,000,000 (at the rate of $3,000 insurance business, and S. B. 34,: average per unt) would bring Onlyl i to the Secretary of Alaska for per-|®C I $4,000,000, or a 50 percent loss to manent filing. The measures will! tiations between the union and Robert Falkenburg, 21, tennis star |thys Lecome law without the ex-|Juneau restaurant and hotel oper- brother of Jinx Faikenberg, movie pressed approval of the Governor. | ators. The union has previously ; " . . 4 o . | States. Miller, who left here Octo- actress, dances with Loudres Velga | On the calendar for considera-|asked for a 82 per day wage in-| Moy 10 acconpieh e 1% | ber 1, 1946 to attend a National n the tion this afterncon were the bill|crease in their negotiations for agma(!:mery, Sj B 80 . carinot m“F'ark Service Conventton at Mam- g . | Every piece of property from g o h: committee regarding - currer - | Sitka National Monument has ar- garding current nego-|, . ‘marrow to Ketchikan would! { % asioal jrived in Juneaud enroute to Sitka |have to be appraised and assesS-|gjir gimost six months in the led. The Territory has not the creasing southeasterly winds becoming 20 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) In Juneau — .19 inches; since March 1, 992 inches; 'las; J. J. Culbert, Sitka; Mrs. Davis, Elfin Cove; Mrs. Cyril George, Angoon; Albert H. Kadake, Kake; John R. Kolstrand and Alma Sis- son, Petersburg; Vivian Williams, Hoonah; and Karl Meier, Lynn the Government, in a straight-out! cash sale. " Yet this is what Congress pro poses to do. The action was taken Machado, Brazilian heires e®ececcesececsecenencssceee0 v @0 0000000000000 0® 1000000000 0 without anyone’s knowing about it[ Stork Club, New York City. An- im create an A!ghka Ae’“"““““i",ev,' .cumract but the operator.s“m'kl.“ upon as a revenue measure @1lh C?YES' Ky.‘ u;f;l.( :\xf;}: with since 'Ju‘l\ "1. 77.25 inches. Canal. in committee resolutions nddl‘essEdE nouncement of their engagement Commission, a bill to revise and! have “offered a _sl per d;‘ay lmns&.“ah it would cost more to set up pul monmyy} tuberculosis while in At All])jl.l 1u inches; ey = RS | to Dillon Myer, chief of the Fed-| L. = 0" 4 they will be mar- - ~Mend Teiritorial statutes per-| Tonight, the union will either @c- |\, = conection forces than the !the States and has been recel since March 1, 537 inches; ANCHORAGE EDITOR IN eral Housing Authority. e £ o*s taining to the Department of|cept or reject this last figure, whlc}”nw.mlu't‘ would Teturn. medical attention at the Vete since July 1, 49.65 inches. Bob Atwood, publisher of the An- | ried in the Rio de Janeiro home of geaith and a bill to amend the according to the operators is their| e .. . |Hospital at Grand Coulee, Wash., chorage Times, is registered at the (Continued on Page Four) the bride-to-be. ) Photo. /Territorial banking laws. tinal offer. | (Continued on rage Zight) since that time, ® ¢« o ¢ e » o o e Baranof Hotel