The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1947, Page 1

. R T I ————————————————S y THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,583 . JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — TAX REDUCTION IS NEAR SAYS SNYDER Heading - XRUGBOOSTS FOR ALASKA PULPTIMBER Nants legis_laTion fo Bring | About Immediate De- velopment in Territory WASHINGTON, May 19— (®— Immediate deveiopment of South- east Alaska's vast timber resources for production of paper was recom- mended to Congress today by In- terior Secretary Krug. | He asked for passage of a reso-| Jution to authorize the Agriculture| Department to sell timber in the Tongass National Forest. | In a statement filed with a copyi the resolution, Krug said: { “For 25 years it has been the‘ very strong desire of all persons | concerned with the development of | Alaska to put the rich timber re-| sources of Southeastern Alaska to use, upon a sustained yield basis, | for the production* of newsprint| and other paper products. | “This potential development is| now of great general interest be-! cause of the acute shortage of paper pulp.” | The legislation, Krug 'said, would | provide a temporary way around difficulties that have held up this, development. Chief among these, ' he explained, is the uncertainty of native and government claims to the timber lands. The resolution provides that all proceeds from sale of the timber‘ would te held in a special account of & £ ago. f:ndlmidsemmem of all claims 0. meyas Miocese of the Methodist Episcopal Church. s | i eFt Lewis B - for. Tiat. sbttiment | NAEnEES Rebert Lewts; of all Alaska timber claims will be {ikey : e, = recommended to Congress next yeat, Krug sale. PICKETS ARE SENT Krug Wanis — - BACK TO LINES IN TELEPHONE STRIKE Service in Some Sections Are Placed on Emer- gency Basis By MAX HALL BENSON TO TRY T0 ARBITRATE STRIKE, COOK INLET FISHING The Territorial Commissioner of Labor, Henry A. Benson, will go to Anchorage Wednesday to partici- pate in a meeting between repre- sentatives of two unions and the fish packers, in the Cook Inlet re- g“f"é.”."’ alrel."’fwo’;wgls‘;zgmw_ WASHINGTON, May 19— jurisdictional tieup 8 8L Striking installations workers of tivities in that area. | The meeting will decide the time and place for the election which the Western Electric Company to- day re-established their picket lines, 1 o forcing curtailment of telephone vi metime in i “I~|:1111e by=bandiioted LAg . |service again in some areas. A In New Jersey, the Bell Tele- ions nd one i1 Hoth {flotis, yope SO & phone Company reported several AFL, claim bargaining rights for| i vill ?fs}fr:i: fi::‘szlg‘rzi::e::;fltb:fw\c‘:n1Cte(l’" Service was placed on all parties, to abide by the results|CMerEency basis at points of the election which is being run | OPerators refused to cross the pick- by the-Territory. main exchanges were “heavily pick- et lines. Some curtailment also was i ported in Illinois, but in New York |other workers ignored the pickets and went to their posts. The Association of Communica- The Washington o) iback to their beats pending the By DREW PLARSON |outcome of negotiations here for a strike settlement. The lines were : WAeS::"gTfi’:e"f:d fl:figfilfll‘:';wlthdmwn temporarily last week. ism seems . =, An 18-hour negotiating confer- juvenation in Ohio judging by a re-|ence failed to beat the 6 am. (lo- cent meeting of the Klan held 8t]ca) time) deadline set by ACEW TlBT:‘BSKhMBrKflbS”ee‘v Akron.r % ! for restoration of the lines. ough members were carefully, john Murray, a Labor Depart- scrutinized n Or%ef fto ban OU‘S’d; ment conciliator, announced only ers, here is a brief summary of thjs. . what hapened at the meeting. | “At 4:30 am. the company sub- Chief Klansman Sheakley was in pittedq a wage proposal. The con- Can;d?, so Perry B:lcclensefi acbeg ference recessed at 5 a.m. until as chairman. Sixty-two people Were .30 pm, today, at which time the ar‘esenr: fox; lau]xlwl:. ingl\;g:ntzh:‘:::::‘v union will make a reply to the com- ough nof staye P - pany’s offer.” . ing afterwaid. Klan affairs and| Nejther the Labor Department, business' wer: not dis.cussed at the | western Electric nor the ACEW table. 4 jwould say what the proposal was. McClensey, after _ opening the previously the company had offered meeting, asked for discussion from pay increases of seven, eight and the floor. Mrs. Higgs staz_ed that npine cents an hour, to be applied in on the previous Sunday night she three areas. The union demgnded had heard Drew Pearson attack l:t‘ |15 cents across the country. Klan and thet she wished to make a motion that Klapsmen boycott | - Pearson. She also suggested that all Klanspeople, their friends and re- qaxnes M. Allen Jr,, 1st Lt., (AC), latives, talk against Pearson, and) William T. Howard, 2nd Lt, (AC), start the rumor that he is a'Jew!and crewmen Thomas L. Stephens, or a Catholic. The motion was sec- Earl C. Guutridge, N. T. Walther onded and passed 3kto 0. {and R. L. Bishop, all with the 10th Roy Waldron said that he had Air Rescue Squadron stationed at been gratified to note that adverse Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, flew publicity given the Klan had disap- 0 Juneau over the weekend and peared from the newspapers. Hef“e staying at the Gastineau Hotel. said he believed Americans now AT B T Y Electronic microscopes can mag- (Continued on Page Four) "nify 100,000 times. i AIR FORCE CREW HERE Screen Actress Joyce Reynclds holds her eight-month-old daughter, Joy, whom she’ll take from Hollywoed to Houston, Tex. soon for chistening by the same minister who christened the actress 21 years The minister is now Bishop A. Frank Smith of the Southern former Marine pilot. (AP Photo) an| points where | re- forTexas FREEDOM & OFPRESS UPHELD " Highest Court Knocks Out - . Contempt Case Against | | Newsmen 4 1 i | WASHINGTON, May 19—, |The Supreme Court today ruledi three Texas newspapermen Wwere | improperly convicted of contempt of court for publication of several . news stories and ‘an editorial. { Justice Douglas wrote the court’ 6-3 majority decision. Justice Jack= fison wrote 2 dissent and Justiced | Frankfurter wrote another. Chiel | Justice Vinson concurred in Frank-§ | furter's dissent. J | The decisinn was given in an ap-, | peal by Conway C. Craig, publisher | jof the Corpus Christi Caller- Times; Bob McCracken, manaqing! editor, and Tom Mulvany, reporter. | Judge Joe D. Browning of thel Neuces Couaty Court in Texas ad-, judged them guilty of contempt af- ter the publication of items denliug with an eviction case which hé tried 1 Justice Douglas for the majority wrote that “the law of contempt is ! GOES (RASH not made ior the protection of 1 judges who may be sensitive to the | winds of public opinion. Judges are supposed to be men of iortitude, able to thrive in a hardy climate.” PLANEOUT Three Aremed, Six In- jured by Debris, Flam- ing Gasoline Shower - LURLING'ION, Ia., May 19 —(P— ¥is BN g A i Navy when a fighter plane careened out . neiotion KNOCKED OUT i wreckage, debris and flaming gaso- Elect Governor 4 [ Y {ahéwered tie’ neigHboEant (plane, one of a Corsair fighter right to elect its own govern- squadron from Lambert Field, St. or. i of control at an air show and plow- At S lover a four-block area. All of the asmNGToN, May 19—4— JEWish Underground Lays !Louis, which was putting on the In a statement prepared for the Miss Reynolds’ Two ball-playing schoolboys and a ed across a. school playground injured were improving today. Secretary of Interior Krug urged Down Condifions A( | Naval air show plummet behind a PR Sy IN HOlY lAND ! pilot were killed yesterday Six other vouths were injured as | More than 3,500 persons saw the Congr today to give Puerto Rico | ceptance Impossible ! clump of trees north of the airfield. House Public Lands committee, Krug said the right to elect & By CARTER L. DAVIDSON | The dead school boys were iden- chief executive is & “minimum]| JERUSALEM, May 19.—(®—Con-| tified as Roland Hagemeier, 16, and | privilege” which should be “grant-|ditions laid down ed now as a token of our earnest intention to settle as soon as pos- sible thé more perplexing problem of permanent status.” e -— CUTTER WACHUSETT by the Jewish underground as the price of peace in the Holy Land appeared today to have virtually killed all hopes of a truce urged by United Na- ‘licus members pending settlement Ethel Peeler of St. Louis. {of the Palestine problem. | The injured who were hospitaliz- In a clandestine radic broadcast|eq were identified as: yesterday, Irgun Zvai Leumi and Harry Darrah, 19, head cuts and ithe so-called Stern Gang declared|pryises, \they would not halt their campaign jackie Brunat, 5 year old girl, jof violence until the British lay|gevere arm and leg burns from down their arms, “end the m"'25'/5:!lammg gasoline which sprayed on ARRIVES YESTERDAY A. M. FROM SEATTLE o) |of Jews in Palestine, cease de-|pner ag she stood acros the street porting Jews to other countries!;.om the playground. USAG Cutier Wachusett returned and respect the right | ghts of Jewish 'ns ar to its home port of Juneau yester- |citizens in their homeland.” | Norbert Dunn, 18, cuts, burns and Richard Charles Grant, 14. The pilot was identiled by Lt. Comdr. Bar: Slattery, Public Re- lations officer at Lambert Field, as Lieut. (jg) John Peeler, son of Mrs. y bruises. > day morning at 8 o'clock, after| The announcer asserted thac! 7 . 2 overhaul in drydock at Seattle. Britain had shown her "unwiuing-?,useg:;n §ocnie, 20, burmed ‘back Comdr. E. V. Carlson reported that ness to keep a truce” by deporting about 50 percent of the ship’s en- to Cyprus Saturday night, 1,141 un-! QIR EERY, 15, hepd 1 ury; bums and laceraticns. listed personnel had been discharg- certified Jewish immigrants inter- "y "y Ll e ed in Seattle, and replacements cepted as they neared the Pales-|, M¥1e Lewis 14, head and am taken on. [tine Coast aboard the 1200-ton "¢ S Asst. Surgeon Lewis G. Allen Jr., |vessel Trade Winds after a 13-day’ USPHS, was assigned to the Wa- voyage from Genoa. | chusett as medical officer, relhev-l e g Lt. (jg) Bond (MC), USNR, who was transferred to San Pedro | Navy Dispensary. | Accompanying Allen to Juneau on | board the cutter was his wife. Also aboard as passengers were the wife and two children of Pay Clerk B.| E. Brune. New Role WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning CHICAGO May 19.—(®—Clarence Comdr. Carlson stated that in In Juneau—Maximum, 60; e Tilling’s persian cat, Squeaky, step- Seattle the Wachusett was dry-|® Minimum, 38 pediipto the role of a family docked, her bottom painted as well At Airport—Maximum, 60; e “Watch dog.’ as the rest of the ship, all sea ® Minimum, 35. The .60-year old Tilling said he valves checked, the main propul-l' WEATHER FORECAST was awakened by Squeaky licking sion plant inspected. Several stand- | ® {Xman and. Vistaity) hisitage. A man's hang was;reach- ard ship changes were completed,: ® Cloudy with rain and ing through a window toward the and a new Cuptain’s gig was picked | ® Southeasterly winds 10-20 e chain.of a nearby door of his | up to replace the one lost during mph. tonight and Tuesday. apartment. A moment later the e Little change in temperature. 'man walked in but by that time | the winter cruise to the westwa; The Wachusett is due to sai Tilling had 45 and .25 caliber guns ready. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 v.m. today) either Thursday or Friday for | Seward, where she will pick up|® In Juneau — None; since Instead of firing, however, he put caurt personnel for the annual U. May 1, 340 inches; since the weapons down and told the in- July 1, 86.22 inches. truder, “I'm going to beat the stuf- S. District Court Cruise. At Airport — None; since e |fings out of you.” Police, sumiuon- e — May 1, 256 inches; since e ©d by. neighbors, took a badly HERE FROM STATES ! July 1, 56.66 inches. o | bruised 23-year-old prowler into - ‘e . :( ustody. Among the guests registering at'e o o e o © o o o - the Baranof Hotel over the week- | el ‘ STEWART ON TRIP end from the Outside wire Mr. and | GARDEN CLUB TO MEET | B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- Mrs. Walter E. Holtz from Chicago,; The Juneau Garden Club will|Missioner of Mines, left here today Mrs. Allie Lister from Honolulu.:meet at the home of Mrs. Sara|lorFairbanks and Anchorage. He isharpe at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow af- | Will be abscnt for several weeks ternon, it is announced. All mem-!surveying mining activities in the bers are urged to be present. T. H, Clem Pace from Everett, Wash., Cliff Richmond and C. A. ' Abbott from Oakland, Calif. Interior, AUTOGCRAPH SESSION _ Leo Durocher, his actress wife, Laraine Day (at left) sign autograp For Kitty suspended i : i i i CHINCHILLAS Geral- dene Du Bois, Chicago enter tainer, holds two live chinchillas, rarest of all fur-bearing animals, from a chinchilla ranch near the Windy City, PUBLIC DEBT | WILL BE COT ONE BILLION WASHING'ION, May 19.—®#— ,Another $1,000,000,000 in public debt certificates will be paid off in cash next month, the Treasury announcéd today. T redemption will lower the Federal debt below $257,000,000,- ©00. The June 1 redemptions will kring to $29, 900,000,000 total cash payoffs of one-year certifi- cates since Feb. 28, 1046 - >> - New Aviation Plan s Under (glsideralion WASHINGTON, May 19.—P— iW}lham Patterson, President of the {United Air Lines, declared today {the “only intelligent way” for the | United States to compete with foreign air lines is to create single |or regional companies “to operate lin specialized fields.” | Patterson appeared before a Senate Interstate and Foreign |Commerce subcommittee consider- ing legislation to establish a single | Amer {eign routes. | He made clear he was not en- |dorsing the proposal, to limit U. S. | participation in international air travel to a single company be- {cause, he said, “it may be that one {or more chosen instruments should be designated.” “For example,” Patterson ex- !plained, “I could divide the inter- |national field into three parts — Europe, South America and Latin | America, and the Orient—which to !me represent separate and distinct problems requiring special under- standing and treatment. About half the known coal re serves of the world are in North American continent. ‘Compromis;,hSays fafl, can flagline to operate for-| ing westward thei TREASURER GIVES TALK T0 CONGRESS %Secrecary Makes Recort- mendations Without Definite Details | By FRANCIS M. LEMAY WASHINGTON, May 19—®— Secretary of Treasury Snyder told | Congress today that “a period of tax reduction is approaching.” But ‘he made no recommendations as |to what taxes should be cut or [when Snyder told the House Ways and Means committee that Congress |should “consider” how to reduce taxes at some later—and unspeci- | fied—time. ; ‘The 5,000-word prepared state- (ment by the Treasury head made ino mention of the $4,000,0000,000 itax reduction bill passed over- | whelmingly by the House despite | administration opposition. ‘The bill is now awaiting Senate action. Nor did Snyder's statement say whether President Truman might veto this tax-cut bill if it reaches him. manager of the Dodgers, and his hs for youthful Brooklyn fans at a dinner. | | He did not elaborate on his ref- Qe erence to an approaching period |of tax reduction, saying simply: “We are nearing lower peacetimg levels of government expenditures and continuing high levels of na- Tax Reduction Period Ball, Expected Before (tional income and production. A Efld Of week 'period of tax reduction is ap- | proaching.” & | Snyder's statement contained WASHINGTON, May 19— = 2 . Republican Senators Taft (Ohioy, {NUMBHAIl" spetolies of 20 *levies which have been under treasury and Ball by i study, but made no recommenda- (Minn) said today Sen- ate-House conferees may complete 5 work on a compromise labor bill | tions concerning them. this week Income Tax Rates | Snyder said of individual income At the same time Democraiic| tax rates: Senator George (Ga) predicted the | “The rates must be re-examined ’(;“:‘!Lh"n',‘?“"r ble iy ke i ;’“’ to determine their effects on in- F"_"’d ‘t '(l: Lo -‘E"“‘u “’l“ I( ?tmenlives to work and invest and TeL AR e vl A0y their effects on living standards “difficult to veto. bor leaders have bitterly attacked oo’ with other changes in the 23 g ¢ U7 emptions and the treatment of :{:;) '::f'l':'l‘;l‘:‘d‘:;;‘dl';l;' restrict un- rumily incomes and with changes Voiding _confidence ‘that ‘the fi-|' OWIER taxess ¥ i ‘ g8 (A bill to revise the rates, in- nal version will be much closer . ..... personal exemptions, and the Semate bill than the one .,y the gplitting of family in- the },1”"'7" phdved, She Ge‘z'g'“ comes along the lines mentioned lufmakex added to a reporter: by Snyder has been introduced by It may not even be as StoNg. gonaior Lucas (D-II, but Snyder because in rewriting its terms in did not refer to it specifically.) conference, some of its provisions L e T X may be diluted. In fact, it proh-; ably won't be as drastic as the Case bill that the President vemefi!BA"D pkA(TI(E last year. It will be difficult to veto.” The House sustained Mr. man’s veto of the Case bill. o i R ! The Juneau City Band will hold a regular practice tomorrow night 'at 8 o'clock in the High School igym. Marches and selections for | Memorial Day will be placed on the Rear Echelon of Iask For(e F’igid ‘slands by,,[,)‘_"cwr Joaepishomen Landed at Seaftle. STOCK QUOTATIONS SEATTLE, May 19.—(®—The U.! S. Army transport Thistle is ex- pected to dock at the Seattle Port of Embarkation tomorrow morning, 86%, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss-Wright bringing from Alaska 119 enlisted 4%, International Harvester 78%, men, 42 ofiicers, 81 War Depurt-:l{ennecou 42'4, New York Coentra. ment dependents and 36 War De- 12%, Northern Pacific 14's, U. S. partment civilians. | Steel 6312, Pound $4.02% Tru-| NEW YORK, May 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4'¢, American Can Yesterday, the USAT Marshall. Sales today were 1,860,000 shares. Victory, which sailed from Whit-| Merrill-Lynch averages today afe tier, Alaska, berthed here. The as follows: industrials 163.56; rails Rear Echelon of Task Force Frigid, 41.17, utilities 32.29. which has been maneuvering mf Stocks were irregularly higher cold weather tesls near Fairbanks, in moderate trading with bonds and 555 soldiers debarked. The Task |and U. S. Government bonds low- er. In the last hour of rally there Force included 148 enlisted men and ‘was increased activity and some four officers. —_—————— stocks rose to net gains ranging SI‘EAMER MOVEMEN'S to more than 2 points. This ad- |vance came after further selling Aleutian, from Seattle, due to ar- had sent the general average to a rive at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn- new low for 26 months. When the sel- ing and will probably remain in|ling had run its course small port about one hour before sail- amount of buying appeared and prices rose easily over a broad list. Northern Voyager, from Seattle,| —_———e —— due Wednesday. | from Seattle May 20. Alaska scheduled to sail from . Seattle May 23, calling at Ketch-| Two halibut boats landed cheir ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau,|Catches this morning at the Juneau Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Sew- Cold Storage dock. The Avona, ard. under Martin Brandahl, brought Grommet Reefer scheduled to|in 25,000 pounds, and the Spencer ail from Seattle May 23 'had another 3000 pounds. Both Princess Louise scheduled to sail|craft sold to Alaska Coast Fisher- from Vancouver May 24. ies at 15 and 13 cents.