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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY . " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,559 APRIL 21, 1947 ANTI-STATEHOOD ARGUM Rising Living C PRICES MUST Declares AlaskalsNow 'MONEY FOR e ] - HIGHWAYS COMEDOWN, 'Over Churched’; Rackel ! ! HE DECLARES By Independent Groups IN ALASKA IB'G Sl. ASH o irrengious. ang over.| Imporfance of System Is ' ];‘2.“;5?5"';;, ew o, execarve Emphasized-Road Con- ing Held in New York I:UNDS FOR 123522‘2[‘" é‘ e e st struction Approved i J:; a}‘wor} eri; (l:'_:'um e e SHING X ril 21 —(P— ef-| M u | churchman, the Rev. Dr. Earl Jack- to national security emphasiz- alarm today against rising living iman, Presbyterian, and the Rev.led today by the House Appropria- Makes Address at Associ- ated Press Annual Meet- | | | | riculture and labor to prevent a disastrous depression. ‘U _ “ 0 iUnprecedented Cut o cil of Churches in Alaska ment appropriation bill to the b ol theg, snnAL S TIChaON p | "Such a council probably willl House, the committee recommend- Percent Recommended ve organized in the Fail, Dr. Daw-'ed expenditure of $4353000 for by private enterprise and asked R o con . o He o] rific problem in the matter of or-|erating standard.” The commit- = 25 in Alaska tee also recommended that contract WASHINGTON, April 21L—®—|"wrpe weather is not the only authorization be allowed for an- o i ¥ y ' authorization be allowed for an m?‘:y is “over the hump” of in-!ap unprecedented 47 percent bud-|pandicap to living there,” he said. other $15,000,000 worth of work on. lget cut was recommended for the .people with children are leay-| The report said the committee i 'iAm,:“.c,an ’esl‘s""m't i Lm?]. _ Slashing vigorously in his prom-gsk, 34 years ago and who made fon with development of new re- ‘"‘"’h“‘ and E!B"e t:eef;fl’l’e:fi‘nwd “meat axe” drive to ChOD this trip under quite different | sources of strategic raw materials, i e R 1$6,000,000,000 from President Tru-|conditions—entirely by air—said vital requirements to national de- The President praised the ser-, 3 A 2 i Ccastruction appreved vises. of the American press ini oy o oo 8 e paled by ‘independent” groups Who| Roud construction approved by wartime. Then he said: e G e e;;: “igo “outside with sob stories” tolthe committee for congressional jpartment for the 12 months start- rajse money. He said there are six'action: t Alarm Sounded ENTS HEARD By Truman TAXISSUE COMES UP IN SENATE Important -Subjecl to Get Overhauling - Many { = Points Brought Out | - April 21—(®— | The Senate raises the curtain to- | morfow on the first act of its tax- jeutting performances ‘with the | icash customers waiting to see: Whether they will get a refund jon part of the taxes they've al- ready paid this ar, or | Whether the new lower rates will | ibe delayed until July 1 | { The third possibility—that no| {cut will come this year—appears' i remote despite these two weekend i developments | 1.—President | tion that declara- | already Truman’s higher prices ;ha\'e “inflated the entire economic i structure” and that lower taxes now ‘would only promote further intla- tion | ! The Chief Executive coupled this | prediction with a forecast that the government’s hudget for the cur- rent fiscal year ending June 30 will show a $1,250,000,000 surplus— ‘the fixst since 1930 costs and called for a united P by poremment, IHUSVY; 98- | Dr. Earl Brown, Methodist, withitions committee |the idea of organizing a Coun-| Reporting the Interior Depart- meeting of the Associated Pres.si B elcas e he BICUENGIAQERY 0 z ber reported. ‘toad work in the Territory, and by House' Committee Dr. Dawber said there is a “ter- $4,000,000 “to bring it to a safe op- asked all-out farm preduction andi o - e resistance to tax cuts until the gan s v o lege alt ]co«;;;erntve: s ha'S'HirfiI"‘e“m' Department today by the jng pecause of the organized vice.”!was advised that the highway con- SRS 10l DIOHCH B PR Y: House Appropriations committee. | Dr Dawber, who last visited Al-!struction is necessary in “‘connect- Sla ternial pressures and alien ideolog- imans §37,500000000 federal bud-|(nat Alaska s “over-churched”|fense.” les. iget for 1948, the committee Sent|ihyouch a “racket” being conduct- “We are now at a stage in our 1 national economic life when the American press can render similar|pregident’s budget estimates, $101.- service. “The manner in which the American press makes clear to our citizens the problems that we face in maintaining our prosperity—and the reasons why it is essential to advance that prosperity—can help graphy will be abolished, the oil| determine the future welfare of every family in the United States.” “I take comfort in the know- ledge,” he concluded in his pre- pared address, “that the press of this country will accept this re- sponsibility for service in the same high spirit with which it has al- ways served this nation.” Mr. Truman tied in his proposals for bolstering the economy at home with his program of helping free people abroad maintain their free- dom. “Many of these (free) peoples are confronted with the choice between totalitarianism and democracy. This decision has been forced upon them by the devastation of war whi has so impoverished them that thi are easy targets for external pre sures and alien ideologies.” - e — Virtually all of France's railway more than half of which were de- stroyed during the war, have been reconstructed. ———-——— {ing July i This is $138,881,907 below the 362,173 under current appropriation jbut $26,860,053 above the Depart- !ment’s last prewar fund in 1938 ! If Congress follows the commit |tee's recommendation, the division 1of powe. and the division of ge and gas division will be cut down .“’ “hot oil” act enforcement a tivities, and thousands of Interior | Deparement employees will be look- iing for jobs. { ‘The committee approved $3,750,- 000 for road work in Alaska—a jeut of $603,000—after hearing army yoflicmls stress the importance of ;highways to support military bases {in the northern territory. iduction in the bill was applied to ‘the Reclamation Bureau. | - e - INDIAN SERVICE APPROPRIATION FOR ALASKA CUT All Increases for Twelve| Well over half of the entire re-| of these church groups in a settle- ment of 700 natives. e e — 295 PERSONS ARE STILL MISSING IN DISASTER IN TEXAS {Over 130 Victims Uniden- ! tified-Death List Now | Stands at 421 TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 21— (#—Roy Wade, official of the De- partment of Public Safety, an- inounced today that the explosion- dead in this sorrowing coastal city now totals 421 and said the death []xst will total not less than 575, Wade, administrative assistant to | Col. Homer Garrison, chief of the Texas agency, said 295 persons still are missing and 132 victims remain unidentifjed. Mayor J. C. Trahan Texas City that there was no dan- ger of new explosions from leaking naptha gas. Earlier Trahan had criticized the Red Cross for its handling of re- | cross reassured Maintenance and improvement| ik At i of existing roads, $1350,000; new| 2~ e T Construction: Fairbanks o Livens | Lot of linols to cuf taxes next good, $600,000; Kenai-Kake Homer|J2NUary 1 on a somewhat differen §625.000; Fagle-Forty Mile Tana-itasis than the 30-20 percent slash S $600,000; i ! retroactive to last January 1 al- Anchorage-Potter | 3 $100000; Farm Roads: Palmer,, Fe2dy voted by the House Fairbanks, Homer, $50000. Im-| The Democratic whip said his provement of Anehorage-Palmer, Substitute, besides delaying the cut road $130,000; construction of shops|until next year, would: and headquarters at Anchorage,{ A—Hike exemptions for depend- $160,000. Surveys and plans: Rich-|ents to $600 and thus remove 3,- ardson Highway-Mt. McKinley,| 200,000 persons from Federal tax $58,000; Livengood-Wiseman, $61,-|rolls. 90C: Fairbanks-Chena, $15,000. | B.—Cut each surtax nextincome bracket by two percentage RR Condition Bad { C—Permit husbands and The committee said it was ad- j, g1 states to split their income vised that the Alaska Railroad isifor tax purposes. The government now in such condition “that it islycymits this now by residents of difficult to operate without manyiony nine so-called community serious derailments, de{ays in traihn:‘ property states. Tha effect in many “}‘d :l;‘?m:““al;i':d;l"'lm“:;:f:‘; wdi?l“'f:l | instances is to avoid higher surtax 0L & ser s i i i Fe rates. EISIh gt ot 116 ! The House bill would cut low Wx'ml.)eg:;‘(.mx:,u };é"‘:;;"lifl;’: t['-)l‘:l bracket income taxes by 30 percent the. committee that in the opin-| "¢ M08t others D‘;”“”“"“' jon of the War Department the! = present condition of the road “jeo-| ! pardizes national defense.” | 5 | Rehabilitation Program | “In order to bring the railroad | i to a safe operating standard, the| committee is advised that a re-, hatilitation program must be un-; dertaken at an ultimate cost of'! . ment : i Months Starting July | The Washingion, 1 Are Denied Merry -»[-;9: Round i WASHINGTON, April 21.—(®— (The House appropriations com- Imittee recommended today an ap- ;propriation of $3.250,000 for the {Indian Service in Alaska, a cut WASHINGTON — The Trumani‘)f $819,000 in the budget estimate policy of loans to Greece and Tur- |2nd $469,008 less than last year. key comes up for a final vote in The committee explained in its; d, | G the Senate at 4 p.m. tomorrow. For report to the House than the In-|but at Red Cross headqu:}rters in ss,wo._opo—bemg provided for the the sake of a unified American|dian Bureau proposes to discon-|Galveston yesterday an official said | rehabilitation program.” foreign. policy, the loans will be np_nflnue operation of the elemen-|19 of the names listed had been oo T4 Y A ) !tary school at Fort Raymond, near found alive. ‘( . . - Confirmation of ed. t prg:xnulunwusly. however, Con-igzi:::sé fifikzhai“dp;}:;t)s:msx:g; i y PHONE STRIKE IS | Folfa fo Be Judge | ‘ONLY MAJOR BLOT, | - Is Recommended gress and the Americarr people BlfninG e WASHINGTON, April 21.—® Mg tknow]r lgfmr:lik‘c':u‘f;: :; All proposed increases contained| e exieiely in the estimates for the 12 months which we embark. Once Presidentpeoinning guly 1 were denied. | d the State Department | @ R Truman an The entire budget request of| U. 5. LABOR SCENE R | The Senate Judiciary Committee The Fish and Wildlife Service, A | today recommended confirmation of ing the peace of the world. |received approval of $850,000 for| waSHIfiGTO"' April 2L—P—| George W, Folta as United States A study of the state papers of Alaska fisheries, $69,300 for Alaska| Purred DY new peace pacts Infpjgrict judge for Division No. 1 John Quincy Adams, Marquis de and other industries, Labor| e ajacka He would succeed George e 1 | tionwide telephone strike. ! S‘EAMER MOVEMEHIS a loan from the United States, also Although these ace government princess Louise, from the south, was harassed over the question of trouble shooters declined to out-ischequled to arrive tomorrow af- retaining a monarchy, also was a} Leo H. Saarela, who has been |line their next step publicly at this|ternoon or evening. pawn between Russia and Bmsmv.conducnng classes here in recent|ume. they told a reporter they feeli Sailor’s Splice, from Seattle, due also was the battleground for Rus- weeks for the Mining Extension,the strike has reached a ‘“crucial|about next Sunday. sfan-inspired revolutionaries. ‘_Qourse of the University of Alaska,|stage.” Northern Voyager scheduled The situation then was almost!is leaving here tomorrow for An-| Entering its third week, the 340.- |sail from Seattle April 24. identical with that of today, even |chorage. Mr. Saarela reported that| 000-worker phone tieup stood as; Square Sinnet scheduled to sail including the fact that Great Bri- the Juneau classes were highly suc-|the only major blot on an other- from Seattle May 5. |cessiul with attendance averaging | wise placid U. 8. labor relations| Alaska, from west, scheduled (Continued on Page Four) over 35 students. picture, southbound next Sunday afternoon : 3 “The program would extend over lief activitics in the blast-torn period of five years in view |town. An official of the Red Cro: the military necessity for the | however, assured him that the or- program as submitted to the com- ganizaticn was doing everything|mittee, the total estimate of $4,- | possible to aid victims. 1000,000, together with a contract i Thirty five bodies were recovered 'gythorization in the sum of $15,- yesterday, the majority from the 00,000, has been included in the torn steel and debris in the 70-|kill. Of the direct appropriation acre blast area. ;of $4,000,000, $600,000 is required A Red Cross list posted Saturday ;for operating cost during the fis listed 580 persons presumed dead,/cal year of 1948, the remainder— By DREVW PEARSON are granted the $400,000,000 it Will|s250000 was allowed to the Geo-| be up to them to use it in such logical Survey for investigation of | a way that the perennial problem,minera] resources in 'Alaska. | of Greece does not keep on plagu- | fur seal investigations and $175,000! *¢€! 4 8, .1 Lafayette, and James Madison {for enforcement of the Alaskn Department conciliators mdlca_ted F. Alexander. shows that Greek history is now|Game laws. itoday they may be ready to spring | A repeating itself all over again. Just !a new formula for settling the na- 120 years ago, Greece also sought MINING COURSE ENDS to $34,000,000,” the report ccntinued.‘BY pRESIDENT | WASHINGTON, April 21 President Truman declared S: tday night that a ‘“sharp increase !in prices” had “inflated the entire economy” and took a new, stand against any income tax cuts now. He issued a statement predicting a surplus of government receipts over - expenditures of $1,250,000,000 {for the present fiscal year which | ends June 30. Mr. Truman had an- |nounced in a Jefferson day speech | April 5 that a surplus was in sight, .but did not disclose the amount | until Saturday night. { The President attributed the re- | vision in estimates since his budget | message “went to Congress in Jan- uary to administration economies |as well as to a sharp increase in prices “since the removal of con- trols.” He declared that now, when a | balanced budget is being achieved, |he wants to emphasize the need rorI ‘reducing the public debt “while; | times are good.” i | “It is natural for taxpayers to (wish to see taxes reduced,” the' i President’s statement continued. ;“But to do this now would pro- |mote inflation, so that the bene- |fits of any reduction would be | largely dissipated.” g .- I LEONARD SMITH RETURNS | Leonard Smith, Territorial High-| way Commissioner returned to his |office today following a vacation trip to Seattle. (P 'assets in Austria, which have been Factual Investigafion by FAULKNER, (ongress Urged by Coffey LEWIS SAY Before Ading on Sfafehood NOTREADY STEEL MEN legislature- H;ld Unfit fo Run State — Appropria- GET RAISE, DOLLAR DAY tion Deficit Criticized Agreement-l;ieached for 140,000 Workers-Two . Sides Are Satisfied in appropriating $10,974,000 and en- acting revene laws to produce $3,- 736,000 less was criticized today at a hearing on a bill to grant the Territory statehood, Two witnesses, H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney and a registered | ‘obbyist for fishery and mining in- terests before the Legislature, and R F. Lewis, of Piedmont, owner of the Juneau Water PITTSBURGH, April 21 (P | Washington, while the people ystem, opposed statehood in tes- Agreement on wage increases of $1|Alaska are hardly represented timony before a House Public Lands a day for 140,000 U. 8. Steel Corp., and their | Subcommittee. workers today cheered the entire industry with the prospect of a year of strike-free production |little regard for thé provisions Al- The pay hikes—agreed upon yes-|aqeans want in the enabling act. terday by Philip Murray, President | .what we need.” said Coffey, “Is of the CIO and the United Steelly oy common sense Alaskans tc Workers, and J. A. Stephens, “Bg | point out to Congress the fact that Steel” Vice President — won quick | gy economy fs based primarily to- approval by the union’s executive!gae oy the vast amount of money | board. The raises aifect employees|c,ong here by Federal bureaus and Senator Edward D urged that members of Congress “make a first-hand factual investigation of conditions ) in Alaska” before acting on state- | hood for the Territory The veteran Alaskan legislator stated that he is definitely in favor of statehood for Alaska in 'prin-| | ciple, but believes that most of the | testimony offered last week before| the House Subcommittee in Wash- ington was for “political and pub- licity purpos | Said Coffe “Alaska is being re- | presented ‘at the present hearings |in Washington by a privileged few, | mostly government officials, © who {can spend public funds to travel to| Territorial Cofiey today hard it.; oi | “These public officials, representatives, are for under any circumstances, and have | the action “appropriation of a de { tieit,” adding it does not appear to me there is a responsible legis- ature in Al#ska. I can't imagine i+ legislature passing such a bud- get and sending it for all people to see.” Territery Not Ready Faulkner said the same legisla- ture would operate under state- hood. He opposes statehood, he added, because he does not be- | lieve the Territory is ready for it. statehood| Rep. Engle (D-Calif) termined of five major producing subsidiar- {for national defense werk. fes and are expected to set the| .oyp jndustrial producticn is less wage boost. pattern for other steel 4y, naif of what it was before thé companies as well as other indus-|wor 1 cannot recover on higher tries | taxes, increasing costs of produc- He expressed the opinion, how- The agreement comes before lho"m“ and poor steamship service | ever, that later the Territory should union’s 175-man wage and policy Less mines will operate in HMTEIM' made a .\N.\h‘. and agreed that c(.mmuuje luda:\v for final am)ruva].“h““ operated in 1946. Our fishe Ithr- majority of Alaskan voters want The union said signature of the ;.. production is halved. Costs have atehood. : pact could be expected mmm'mw,‘m‘”.fll to the point where nobo Fqulklxen- .~m‘d hf- is not repre- U. S. Steel put the direct cost of | ..\, puild homes, industrial ente (sommg the fisheries and_ mining the wage increase at $75,000000, | brices or dnything beneticial to m“_imm-ms at the hearing being con- including pay boosts for fabr iNg | hagic economy. V4thout the Fed- ducted by the Committee on legis- companies expected to sign similar|g..; expenditures, many Alaskans lation to grant Alas_ka statehood pacts. The steel workers announce- ' would have to seck their living|PUt 18 representing himself estimated the cost at more|yoqhore Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) read than $42,000,000 but explained that tinto the record a report which said figure applied only to the five sub-| Coffey said that he is “not sure|Alaska’s goods and services are val- sidiaries involved in the present|that Alaska is ready for statehood |ued at $100,000,000 a year and could agreement, j,m this time.” He pointed out that|produce $20,000,000 in taxes. - |the people of two of Alaska’s four | Only 50,000 Bear Burden divisions voted against statehood| Under questioning by members |at the recent referendum vote. The|of the Committee, Faulkner said Icost of statehood, he stated, may only about 50,000 taxpayers would Ibe more than the people can bear | have to bear the burden of in- |under their present limited indus- | creased statehood costs. "trial enterpri which must be| JLewis who said he has offices in developed. | 8an Francisco, declared Alaska's | “Alaska is a frontier land,” said|annual resources amount to about TREATY MADE great many Alaskans would appre=ja year. L |ciate a first hand investigation of | He said that if Congress liber- F & M' 5 ' W S ., |cenditions in Alaska by members | alizes the land acquisition policies oreign Minisiers in yemi- Coifey, “and no frontier land wu«-f&GS,GDU 000 and that the additional ‘ Secret Session Attempt ever developed on high taxes.” |costs of state government would Coffey said that he is sure afamount to approximately $11,000,000 of Congress before they pass onj and those governing the cutting of this important legislation. | timber and lets Alaskans elect their e, jown government “the urge for | statehood will be greatly reduced.” Alflj"AN HERE fROM | Both Faulkner and Lewis warned | Congress should go slow in acting to Break Deadlock ; | WEST, SEATTLE BOUND | csisiation to permit veterans to MOSCOW, April 21. — (® — The | biem. . 0" TERIIL: . VARPRI Council of Foreign Ministers went |, {ssttle in Alnska,ijle fokoes shying : ailipt 5 . |it might prevent establishment of into semi-secret session today in a| Alaska Line Steamer Aleutian | i v Rt . large paper mills in the Territory desperate final effort to breaklarrived in Juneau southbound at!ie tpo’ forest tracts were ‘“carved deadlocks on the Austrian treaty. |4 o'clock Sunday morning, and sail-| up” to give’pm'l ot then. 46 vem"_ It was the second semi-secret meet-jed for Ketchikan and Seattle at|, .o ing of the conference. 9:30 a. m. e o MRS i ERERIEEED “was taken . on MIGSI X CRithound, passerigers’ tor ety LETD 881 “tis: ubt Incompie it i - s " |the Juneau waterworks is about gestion by Secretary of State Mar- jkan were Mrs. Francis G. Vaara, ., . . $35,000 year and that he paid shall. It iollowed a declaration by |Judith, Areline, Alice and Mable taxea aontiER a0 i Russia’s V. M. Molotov renewing!Vaara, and W. R. Tonsgard. | # i'- - his opposition to including in the! Bound for Seattle wore Birdie I Austrian treaty a clause guarantee- McNeill, Mr. and Mrs. Nels: SAIloR’S SPLI( ing Austria’s integrity |Maurer, Mrs. Anna Jensen, F Previously Britain's Ernest Bevin|Klitza, R. Brust, Jerry Fitzgerald, | had said with a laugh, “It looks'I. A. Webb, H. W. Sneed, Mrs. Ed as though we could get a treaty if|J, Orala, M. Weiss, Leo Hall and s v we coulg agree on 111‘?1«'les four )and Arnold Maki. | SEATTLE. Apni 21.—The Sail- Splicc, Northland Transporta- Company’s freighter, held up for' several days on acccunt of a labor dispute, finally sailed for five and thirty five.” These articles | % PRy | deal with Yugoslav claims for Car- Juneau and wayports last Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock | 1 inthia and a definition of Germun‘junv SflEUIoN IN SE ALASKA FAIR CAS fits | Four cows, expected The jury selected Saturday after- soon, are on the deck. The deck e STOCK QUOIAHONS {noon for the case of the U. S. crew assigned Mike Chismar to Government vs. the SE Alaskalwatch them. He Qopes the ship T | Fair Association is as follows: Ar-|will get to Ketchikan socon enougin NEW YORK, April 21.—Closing|yo1q Austin,. Claudia Brown, Ed but was worried owing to the de- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine wejle Eq Bacb, James Reed, Mat- lay in sailing. stock today is 4'c, American Can|tie payis, Willlam L. Jack, Hattie, 92, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-Wright peterman, Henry Straigier, D. G.| 5, International . Harvoster 82%,iTaylor, Mrs. H. S. Waldemar and & Kennecott 44, New York Central|john H. Williams. | Hearing of the motion for a new 157%, Northern Pacific 16'c. U. S.| The case is now in its second|trial for Delbert F. Brown was Steel 89%, Pound $4.02 day and involves condemnation!| Postpened teday until tomorrow in Sales today were 1,150,000 shares.|proceedings against the SE Alaska|U. 8. District Court. Brown was Merrill-Lynch averages today are|Fair Association building in Juneau/ convicted two weeks ago of the as follows: industrials 169.50, rails for use by the U. S. Army d\lringl(‘sl‘t‘le-,\& pointing and discharge of 4477, utilities 34.10. 'the war. La tirearm. a blocking the treaty since the first day negotiatians started } to calve D DELAYED BROWN CAS]