The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS —_——— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,538 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH ALL THE TIME” 27, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — > T FAST SHUTTLE TRIP FOR UCC/ CREDITS BILL L Governor Doesn’t Like, Way Measure Passed | ” . House-Senate Does | The labor lobby which has been bitterly bucking S. B. 105, the “em- ployer relief” measure setting up a system of ‘“experience rating cre- dits” for employers contributing to the Unemployment Compensation | Fund, apparently succeeded in roll»i ing another rock into the enact- ment road of that important mea- sure. ! The Alaska Senate returned from | lunch yesterday to be confronted | with a message from the Governor returning the bill to that body,| neither approved nor vetoed. The | Governor explained that “a group | ns” had brought to his at- | tention that the measure did not receive final consideration in the House before it was transmitted to | him. He referred to a notice of in-, tention to move for reconsideration | of the passage vote in the House.‘ given by Rep. Glen Barnett, a stout | pro-labor legislator. | Senators, however, could not see where Barnett had any valid ¢laim | to a reconsideration, for at least! two reasons: (1) the bill was no longer in possession of the House when he gave his notice and the rules require in such circumstances that the notice be preceded by a motion to have the bill returned to the body; (2) Immediately upon Barnett's notice, Rep. Maurice Johnson moved for reconsideration right away, but the' motion failed to obtain two-thirds to carry. The Senators hold that vote effectually blocked any further action upon reconsideration. Send Bill Back Upon that reasoning, the Sena- tors sent the bill back to the Gov- ernor immediately, maintaining that its passage had been entirely | valid. Too, they pointed out, the Senate had never received a re- of cit MAY MAKE CEMENT AT SELDOVIA ‘Plant with GTpa(in of 600 Barrel Per Day May Be Moved from Idaho By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, March 27.—®— Four operators of an Alaskan coal mine have informed the Interior Department they contemplate the |construction of a cement plant ‘on tidewater a mile north of Sel- The w a s h i n g' ion ‘dovia. Alaska. ‘The plant would . - (Continued on Page Two) e » a . l l y 500,000 tap ton limestone bed, known as Grey errY- 0-D0UNMP (citr, discovered by . Parker A. Lyle and Charles B. Abbott of b P 3 |Anchorage two years ago. By DREW PEARSON | Lyle, Abbott, Basil Sinclair of |Anchorage and Dean Peterson of sions of the tax bill by his Ways the Alaska Cement Company, with and Means Committee. Were the a plant capacity of 600 barrels of public present, they would Will]essycemgnt a day. the same mockery of Democratic; They said military construction procedure for which we criticize now planned in Alaska would de- Russia. imand the entire output of a plant When the amazing new tax bill 'of that size for the next five or came before the last closed session |10 years. of the Ways and Means Commit-! A civilian pre-mixed concrete tee, the only thing the Demucrats‘plam in Anchorage now uses 18,- knew about it was what they had C00 barrels a year, 10 percent of read in the morning hewspapers.‘the proposed plant's capacity. And ,they didn't know much more| The operators propose to ship when the meeting was over and the |gypsum from Seattle, and they es- bill approved. . |timate they would need 800 tons a Rep. Aime Forand, forthright vear. They also contemplate pos- Rhode Island Democrat, asked |sible development of a bed of high Chairman Knutson if the Commit- 8rade gypsum on Chichagof Island tee majority would permi his ap- |west of Juneau. pearance before the House Rules' They estimate they would need Committee to argue,for a chance |60 to 75 tons of coal a day for the to offer his own bill as a substi- kiln and to produce electric power. tute for the majority bill. Forand's|This, they say, the Homer Coal tax bill increases individual ex-|Corporation, across the bay on the emptions and those for dependents Kenai Peninsula, could deliver by to $700. |barge. Chairman Knutson promptly! The Alaskans have been nego- shook his head. |tiating for more than two yea “But,” remonstrated Forand, for the purchase of the Orofino, ‘ “that is what we did for the Re- Idaho, cement plant of the Wash- minority in 1943, When |ington-Idaho Lime Products of |Spokane, Wash. The plant’s 600- \barrel a day capacity could be doubled with the addition of an- |other kiln and tube-mill. They |saild most of the operating em- |ployees of the Orofino plant have publican ‘ the Ruml plan was offered in op- position to the majority bill, we let Republican members argue be- fore the Rules Committee.” “Well,” Knutson replied impa- tiently, “we had a coalition govern- D | signified their willingness to ment then. | g “Yes,” muttered muley B°b!::n;£ to Alaska should the plant Doughton, North Carolina Demo- i A crat and former committee chah--i man. “We had.a coalition in the| MRS. DAVLIN RETURNS + sense that both the Republican and | the Democratic members of the| Mrs. Maxine Davlin, who has committee worked on tax legisla-'been on a short trip to Seattle, has tion.” :returned to her Juneau home via “When -will my bill be taken up PAA. by the committee?” pressed For-| - e and. A millio nand a half gallons of (Continued on Page Four) ‘wegian fishing each year. EXTRA LIGHT_pee Balla, 19, holds up a new mod; metal wheelbarrow, displayed in Chicago, weighing only 16 pounds. Use of magnesium cuts down weight appreciably. } WASHINGTON—It is easy to un- 'portiand, Ore., partners in the Ho- , derstand why tax-czar COngress- mer, Alaska Coal Corporation, in- man Knutson of Minnesota bars formed the Department, officials the press and public from discus-isaid, that they wish to establishi 'NO PROGRESS 'BEING MADE ON TREATIES ‘Marshall Displeased-For- eign Ministers Meet- ings Are All Talk By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER i MOSCOW, March 27— U. S. Secretary of State Marshall was g \rcponed today deeply displeased 'with the lack of progress in the Council of Foreign Ministers de- ‘liberations on the German and on | with last night's talk-filled s { which accomplished nothing. Criticisms in the American dele-| gation were aimed as much at the| '}work of the Four-Power Coordinat- | ing Committee as at the - tangle | within the Council itself i The Committee was supposed to| ave completed listing the Council ! agreements and disfgreements on ' i Tuesday, but it still was struggling | | with the job this morning. Ameri- 'can and British informants blame ! that situation on Andrei Vishinsky, { the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister. | | They say that he has been tieing ——.'up the meetings deliberately in an! :attempt to wring concessions from | !the westerners. UN SPEECH - MAY START FIREWORKS fi LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., March 127 —P—The possibility arose today . that Warren R. Austin’s major Am- ‘erican policy speech in the United { Nations Security Council tomorrow might touch off a bitter wrangle ‘on an official level with Russia ot COLD WAVE, ~ SNOW HITS EAST AREA Storm Movi—ng—from Cen- fral States Toward Atlantic Coast ASSOCIATED PRESS) (By THE A new snowstorin moved rapidly , eastward today from eastern Okla- i OVel President Truman's plans to homa toward the Hatteras region #id Grfiecevan:’l T}xrkev VA dhe of the Atlantic coast wher | ' ‘An ‘ihformed - -gource said . the (her Bureau forecasters at Chicago S€t-up for the speech certainly said it would center Friday morn- Would not preclude a Russian re- ing ply, although it might not come ©iimmediately. Some observers be- By late morming, it Was SNOWINg | jjoueq Russia would use this oppor- m}“ 3 g‘en‘exal “fl bmwee(} ea;t- tunity to launch another attack ern Kansas and Southeastern Ne- here against Greece. braska on the west to central Ken- ! )0 “souree speculated that any tucky and x\t:rthel'l] Tennessee. !decision to break Russia’s top- ‘The St. Louis area reported six . > level silence on the American aid inches of new snow overnight, and ;i G program, designed to halt the accumulations of up to four inches o004 of Communism, would be were reported in southern Illinois made in Moscow only after careful And MBI Indigha. examination of Austin's statement. The violent wind and snowstorml However, this source did not ex- | which earlier this week spread over clude the possibility of a Soviet |the eastern half of the country reply .in the Security Council, pos- | causing widespread property dam- ). agrer an initial statement is age and at least 16 deaths, moved .o, i Moscow by the Russian {into northern Quebec today. | ! government. | Wind had diminished, but cem-‘g | peratures dropped, Caribou, Me., > TR reporting the nation’s minimum of , one above zero last night. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures in the north cen-; ® Temperatures for 24-Hour tral region generally were below | ® FPeriod Ending 7:ou v'Clock !freezing today, with the mercury|® This Morning. dropping to 12 above in Gludwinl-° |and - Pellston, Mich, to 14 at Du-;® | | i i -ee In Juneau—Maximum, 40; minimum, 33. At Airport—Maximum, 40; minimum, 31. [luth, Minn,, and to 21 at Minnea-.: | polis. ! Yesterday’s temperature of 22 in | New York City came within lwoi' | degrees of being the coldest March | ® WEATHER FORECAST 126 on record. The mercury was|® f_""" ¥ “;‘ :f"“"" . expected to climb to the upper 30's Variable cloudiness an ' today. ;® colder tonight with morning | { Temperatures in the Rio Grande!. fog. Increasing cloudiness ! Valley hit 92 yesterday while in|® :Ir:::i]oo‘:nh rain by Friday { Caliiornia ‘and Arizona the mercury , i soared into the 80's [ PRECIPITATION L e (Past 24 hours endirg 7:30 a.m. today) WANTS BO FREED In %uneau — 64 inches; since March 1, 11.12 inches; since July 1, 7845 inches. At Airport — .35 inche: since March 1, 5.80 inches; since July 1, 50.08 inches. e e ®o s e & o | M. E. Monagle, attorney for Del- ;hert F. Brown, Hood Bay, today | asked the court to free the $1500 (bond originally posted by Brown. sece0ce®ss0000® 000000000 O Brown is now in jail, unable to, | raise the additional $2,000 required | T TR 'to meet the new amount of bond SwoRD DUEI. | placed in his case, $3,500. ! | | Brown is awaiting trial oncharg-| HAVANA, Cuba, March 27— ;es of assault with intent te kill, (#—Two Cuban Senators were ! wound or maim the person of Ro- wounded slightly today in a sword! !bert Zuboff. He will enter a plefl'duel in the national capitol’s fenc- | ’a'. 10 am. tomorrow. iing room. They had crossed swords | i —_—————— tover charges arising from the re- | TONGASS IN, OUT 'cent stay in Havana of the New | Alaska Transportation Company's York gang chief, Charles (Lucky) | freighter Tongass arrived in Ju- Luciano. | |neau at 1:30 a.m. today with ap-: Senator Francisco Prio Socarras proximately 150 tons of general was wounded in the right arm and cod liver oil are supplied by Nor-|cargo. She sailed again this morn- Senator Eduardo Chibas received arrived in Juneau yesterday and i ]ing at 9:30 o'clock. a wound in the right side, { Austrian treaties — and especially | | LOADING FOR MANEUVERS_The escort carrier, aboard at Norfolk, Va., preparatory to leaving for Atlantic HOUSE VOTES |FLOOD WATERS ONSPENDING “ciao, wal MORE MONEY ;Hundreds Remain in Re- L | fugee Centers or Maroon- ed in Upper Home Rooms After considering a long string of amendments, most of them to| inerease appropriations and most of iiem offered by Rep. McCutch-| LONDON, March 27.—(i—Flood eon, the House of Representatives, waters regeded slowly throughout yesterday afterncon by a 16-6 vote, | England and Wales today but many with two absent, passed the \‘Vflys!hlmdn‘ds remained in refugee cen- and Means Committee’s substitute!ters or marooned in upper floors of general appropriation bill | their homes Approximately half the amend- e i | Rellef agencies prepared a na- ments offered were rejected, but o, ywige relief program and the enough were adopted to raise thely,q payor of London, Sir Brace- total appropriations covered by the! bill to $9.008415, This was $1,029,- 78560 more than the substitute; tributed $4,000,000. Lill called for, but still nearly two “Thir Ys e s 4 million dollars below the original| THiIty airplanes were due today figura K. B¥ B 13 3 introduced by nging American Red Cross con- mfi & McCuteheon and Huntley. | |L1ibutions of 50 tons of soap, 1,000 /‘"x'n'ong appropriations upped by, Prushes and 1,000 gallons of disin- the amendments adopted were feSDL e those for vocational rehabilitation,! FUMPINg operations were plan- wolf and seal bounties, airfields, ned, but scme officials said it would and " construction of rural schools, b€ “at 1“‘_5" two months with the Attorney General Ralph Rivers best of circumstances” before all appeared to inform House members inundated farm land would be : ; !cleared. that he could get along with only $10000 for the expenses of fight-| T well Smith, appealed for donations The National Government had con- ing rate increases instead of the $20,000 originally requested, but the House was in a mood of economy at the moment and he came away withort a dime. Stricken from the bill was a section which provided that all ‘Io AlASKA po!"]ls unexpended department balances to revert to the Treasury, ex- are - s cept those for schools and the . PORTLAND, Ore, March 27— University. (®—Portland is applyir - twice- In quick succession the House monthly steamship ser to Al- voted to pass S. B. 40, which elim- aska. inates thes hali-ci-one percent tax The Chamber of Commerce, in on wholesale transactions, and to discicsing the move, asserted that kill H. B. 30, Speaker Oscar Gill's enough cargo is assured, measure for a gross income tax. northbound and on the return The House received, but did not act on, a message from the Gov- ernor giving notice of his veto of H. B. 108, which provides that Territorial boards and agencies hall hold open sessions when they adopt regulations relating to the general public. The General Appropriations bill| went to the Senate this morning,! where it was expected to x'ecoive‘ some rough treatment. Final re- vision of the bill will probably be made by a Committee on Confe ence simetime tonight —— e — WALDEN DIES vice profitable, The Chamber has filed notice with the Maritime Commission. .. FBI Investigating Conspiracy Among Newsnrint Makers WASHINGTON, March 27.—(#— The Justice Department disclosed jtoday the FBI is investigating “complaints of a conspiracy among |pewsprint manufacturers operating !in Canada™” and said it expects “to WONALANCET, N. H., March. proceed further by means of® Grand 27.—P—Arthur Walden, 76, dog Jury subpoenas. team trainer for Admiral Byrd's| Attorney General Clark ordered Polar expeditions, died Vt’slerday‘the investigation and it has been in a fire that destroyed his farm underway “several months" the home, |Department said. Mrs. Walden, about 86, suffered| News of the investigation first severe burns. came from Senator Hill (D-Ala), A native of Minnesota, he went|who released a letter from Assist- a youth to Alaska. He was ant Attorney General Wendell one of the first to bring out news Berge, anti-trust chief, saying that of the Klondike gold strike, and Grand Jury action is expected “in wag the hero of . Jack London’s|the near future.” “Burning Daylight.” | - - ROM G HAINES WOMAN At ey Mr. and Mrs. Fred Matson and Mrs: Lois I. Short, of Haines,|A. Tufresen, from Gustavus, ar- ! ived in Juneau yesterday and are at the Gastineau Hotel. — AVUS b i THREE F HERE ‘ staying at the Baranof. trip, to make direct steamship ser-, FOLTA NAMED JUDGE OF FIRST DIVISION _ SUCCEEDS & ALEXANDER ON BENCH WASHINGTON, March 27—# | George W. Folta of Juneau, Alaska, | was nominated today by President Truman to be U District Judge ‘I(H' Division I of the Territory. He | was named to succeed George F. Alexander, whose term has expired. George W. Folta is perhaps one {of the best known court men of the First Division. For years he | was court stenographer. In 1927 he was named Assistant District At- | torney and retained that position until 1940 when he became Coun- | sel-At-Large for the Interior De- | partment Folta is a Juneau property owner, | having resided here for years, is |married and has two sons and a daughter. ¢ il - USS Salerno Bay, loads planes fleet amphibious exercises. S ;BROKEN BODIES URE OF MINERS ARE BEING REMOVED 'Seventy - eight Men Be- lieved Still Trapped, Dead in Mine Pit LEGISLAT NOW ON LAST 'WORKING DAY | The Eighteenth Legislature % started this morning on its 60th' By. CRARLES WHALEN and last day of regular session, A CENTRALIA, ., March' 27— day which may legally continue _rpe twisted and broken bodies until 10 o'clock tomorrow fore- noon, according to Attorney Gen- eral Ralph J. Rivers. It appeared at noon today that the two houses of 16 miners were brought to the surface from the Centralia Coal Company's No. 5 mine this morn- T o) . Ing, increasing to 33 the number :‘.élzl ]lilzf?dl(ren:lll‘llx‘:»m“ until very .or gnown dead in an explosion 1 s b {Tuesday and leaving 78 still trap- n a half<hour forencon session d in tHe DIS d » today the House received soveral:bpo M Flabegty A AR committee reports and placed a | CR¢¢ at All" by a mine rescue number of measures on its calen- aguad leadfe. [dar but did nothing about those A DBeavy snow fell over the grim already there. An effort by Rep. Se!ing @8 .rescue = squads, after Pollard to have H. B. 47, which .kall\',! thigugh the early morn- would place the Territory in the N8 hours, brought the second wholesale liquor business, brought!&'oup of dead miners from 540 jout for action, was voted down. f€¢t below the ground. «There The House then recessed for a Were only a few persons at the pit as the bodies were placed in ambu- joint session with the Senate on| |confirmations, after which it re- lances and taken to a temporary cessed until 1:30 p. m. {morgue in a nearby bus garage. Last night 16 bodies were removed i In Senate |to the garage. Earlier one miner i The Senate marked time this removed from the mine on Tuesday morning while waiting for the gen-!died eral appropriations bill to come; An unidentified rescue worker over from the House, meanwhils'said that the bodies of the 16 carrying on at times heated dis- brought from the pit today were cussion of the Pioneers’ Home re- twisted and bruised and clothing port. |en some were burned, indicating Findings of the committee, asthey had been nearer to the explo- £et forth in the report, were up- sion than the 16 miners who were held by Senator Brownell and sup- found last night. ported by Senator Collins. Henry pe Roden, member of the Board of ghowed: Trustees, took the stand and plead- ed that vet had latest company tabulation e ot 3 g Men in the mine at the time of ’“‘j»;fi;‘e‘x‘“ "(‘:}‘r‘)" [h-*d 1Ot the explosion—142. 2 e to make pogies recovered—33. Men still entombed--78. Rescued alive—31. The first body recovered was brought to the surface Tuesday night, shortly after the explosion ripped through the mine corridors 540 feet underground. Poisonous gas \ Appropriation Bill was s0 thick that not until 7 o’clock | The Senate was expected to startlast night were any more bodies re- {work on the appropriations bill | covered. Sixteen were removed from when it convened again at 1:30 the mine then. ‘and to be occupied with that dur-' B g o i ing most of the afternoon and perhaps on into tke evening. wAR DEPARIM . The House has yet to act on the - PLANS NATIONAL sired changes and that the new rintendent had by s been handi- hortages of both help als. | Neither House nor Senate had lacted on the Pioneers’ Home re- ‘pm't up until noon. salmon case tax and has the bill to create an Acronautics Commis- ision at the head of its calendar Also still alive are a couple of general sales tax measures which might possibly come up for action ? before final ndynn‘nmt_'m. WASHINGTON, March 27—(® Each body was working short- The War Department plans. t handed today, Senator Frank Pera- | vy, V" ‘: i pat"" o trovich and Rep. L. E. Ost both A B i f g z S Juneau, Alaska. being absent because of illness. | Del 2 St 8 clegate Bartlett (D - Alaska) | |quoted Maj. Gen. T. B. Larin, TR 7 Quartermaster General, today as | SIO(K OUO'A'IONS !saying the cemetery will be for | World War II dead and all Alaska NEW YORK, March 27.-—Closing | veterans and members of their fam- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | ilies who request burial in a na- stock today is 5's, American Can tional cemetery. 93'2, Anaconda 40%, Curtiss-Wright | Larkin told Bartlett the new cem- ‘2, International Harvester 86, etery will not change the status | Kennecott 48';, New York Centrul‘ol the national cemetery at Sitka 118’4, Northern Pacific 19%, U. S.|which will be maintained on a | Steel 747, Pound $4.02'% permanent basis. Sales today were 1,140,000 shares.| Bartlett said he submitted plans Merrill-Lynch averages today are|for the establishment of the Ju- as follows: industrials 179.19, rails|neau cemetery to the War Depart- 149. utilities 36.01. "ment several months ago.