The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1949, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,090 Russia Is Aiming at War ES Budgef Brake On Air Force Is Resenfed President Calls for 48| Combat Group But 70 Wanted for Security Engebreth, Republican, fo Be Picked as President for Regular Session By BOR DeARMOND Shooing the spectators out of the galleries and the messenger and WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—®—] President Truman's budget brake | on Air Force expansion plans stir- Secretary pro tem off the floor,|red up a Congressional hornet's sixteen Territorial Senators—eight |nest today. Both Democrats and | Republicans and eight Democrats— |Republicans joined in. locked themselves in the Senate; Mr. Truman recommended a! Chambers at 2:30 p. m. yesterdaylmimmum 48-combat group AIrI for a final showdown on the elec- {Force in his budget message yes-| tion of a Permanent President. terday. Rep. Vinson nD-Gm,; Groups of Senators emerged | prospective chairman of the House grimly from time to ‘time to cau- [Armed Services Committee, dis- cus in one of the committee rooms |agreec. but it was not until 5:07 p. m. that the doors were again thrown open. & The Republican side of the Sen- ate, it was soon learned, came out | of the battle in which the Senate | has engaged during the first five |V days of the special session, with the | ™ “I am thoroughly convinced an overwhelming majority of Congress will vote for the funds to put into being a 70-group Air Force over a period of three or four years,” 1 e must have for security.” “ALL THE NEWS S ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e NO INCOME TAX CUTS INSIGHT Low, Middltxalary Groups Will Probably Pay as Much as Usual By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —®-— Low and middle salary groups ap- peared likely today to escape any general income tax boosts this year in spite of a record $41,858,000000 peacetime budget. But there was fairly general agreement in both Democratic and Republican ranks that if President Truman's spending program for the fiscal year starting July 1 is to be followed, someone is going to have to ante up more money. Also, if his social welfare propos- als are enacted millions of workers and their employers will have larg- er payroll taxes. Republicans shouted for economy, inson said. “It is the minlmum;they pointed to the spectre of a‘pncg revisions and a general in- deficit formed by the budget the NewEraof | Lower Prices | Is Indicated Post-Christmas Sales Gives| i Trend According fo Re- failers of Nation NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—(®— The| rush of people attracted by post-i Christinas sales has convinced re- tailers the nation is headed for a new era of lower prices. They voice this conviction with certain reservations, of course-— and in some cases with crossed fingers. Right now some 6,000 re- | ‘tailers are attending the 38th an- nual convention of the National iRetail Dry Goods Association in ! New York, and their main objec- WEST HIT BY BLASTS Snow, lce Kiéfikeis WideL STATEHOOD BILL T0 Section-California Con- | . . ' BE PASSED ASSERTS tinues Iq"Shlver | DELEG A_TE_B ARTLETT (By The /\Z;nciuled Press) Weather's wintry elements un- leashed further damaging blows to HaS con(eren(ew"h Presi_ dent - Indicated Gruen- ing Be Renominated stormy-weary states over most of the western half of the nation to- day WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-—#- Approval of statehood for Alaska by the 81st Congress was predicted by Snow, ice and sleet storms hit { | | Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) today in tive is to increase sales, lower their costs and maintain profits. The experts don't look for a general price break, nor for a busi-'i iness recession, but they do look) -for a general selective downward | crease in value and style where | President sent to Congress' yester- prices aren't reduced from present | an area from the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle to the Pacific Coast. after a conference with President Truman. California shivered again The Delegate said wne President eezing temperatures. Los Angeles suburban areas were “took it as a matter of course tha. the Alaska Statehood Bill will be blanketed with up to six inches of snow in probably the worst snowstorm in Southern Califcrnia passed.” He added that Mr. Truman said Congressional leaders 11 back enactment of the Statehood Bill and history. | ibecause it is part of the admin a- and ice from resort spots to There wais Snow the state’s winter the mountains. Many highways were closed because of ice and Snow. The fruit and vegetable Governor Ernest Gruening pro- pesed to a special séssion of the Alaskan Legislature today a three- pronged basic tax program in the face of an Alaska deficit which he said exceeds $2,000,000. He sald in a message prepared for a joint House-Senate session that recommendations of taxation | experts are: A graduated net in- rcome tax for corporations and in- dividuais, property tax and equit- able trade-license tax. Income and property tax mea- |sures have already been introduced in the House. The Governor declared: Tt ery clearly the responsibility is of his legislature to tackle the situa- | That mandate was | tion vigorously unmistakably ©ven 1o you by people of Alaska System 1s Fatchwork Criticizing the Territory's tax- ation system as patchwork, he said :xperts’ studies dating back to 1938 found them ‘“pretty well igreed” on basic measures. Gruen- the Says Robert Lovett Three - Pronged Basic Tax Pregram Urged by Governor OF WINTER, In Message fo legi_slalors FOREIGN OUTLOOK TANGLED Undersecréfary; of State Testifies Befora Sen- ate Committee . By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 11— The tangled foreign situation, with jemphasis on Russia, engaged né Senate Foreign Relations Commit? tee today and held up a decision on when to start hearings on Dean !Acheson's appointment as Secre: tary of State. : The committee met for two and a half hours to hear a review of the foreign situation from Under? cretary of State Robert A. Lovett? | “We didn't have time to finish {all the matters we wished to dis* fcuss,” Connally told reporters. . He added there was “no signifi~ cance to any particular foreign situa’ ticn” in the meeting of the com< mittee—its first since the organi# zation of the new Congress. Other Senators said Lovett de- { i 1 presidency for the regular 60-day '’ session which commences on Janu- | ary 24. Democrat Frank Peratrovich, Senator from the First Division, Senator Tydings (D-Md), chair-iday. Hovaln srop was further endangered by the g said the analysts found the scribed the Russiad Politsuro as man of the Senate Armed Services| The Democratic heads of the Sen- Committee, said he didn’t think the late and House tax-writing commit- President’s recommendations “rul- |tees, Senator George of Georgia followed of damag; wintry blasts. which caused The freezing weather week's killing frost millions of dollars e to crops. last {tion program passage is certain, Bartlett said the President indi- cated the nomination of Ernes! Gruening to continue as Governor was selected during the executive session as President for the re- 2 A e i | tinct victory, although Democratic and Republicans Senator Andrewi members stated that they did not | feel that they had lost any ground. | Fepberday's afternoon etk 09 |Nerland of Fairbanks and Gunnard ened with the 18th roll call on the Engebreth of Anchorage. H election of a president and the vote | e H at that time was eight for Lyng, Senator E. B. Collins, Rotarian! seven for Jones and one for Enge- ifrom Fairbanks, and a member of | breth. jthe Alaska Legislature in 1913, ex-| Immediately following this vote, tended greetings from the. interior! John Hedde, Chief Clerk of the'club to Juneau Rotarians. ! House, appeared in the Senate; Other guests at the meeting in- chambers with a message from the {cluded John E. King of Duluth,| House containing House Resolu- iMinn., Speaker of the House James | tion No. 1 by which the lower:Nolan of Wrangell, Bob Elis url body was attempting to intercede |Ketchikan, D. P. Scudder, new field | in the election of the Senate Presi- [director of the Boy Scouts from dent. Ketchikan, and Capt. August Engel, from ACS headquarters in Seattle. | - Rotary President Charles Carter: announced that plans for a Valen-| ized and unable to receive a mes- tine party February 14 were in the | sage from the House. He dismissed jmaking, adding that all members the messenger, after which, on mo- | Will be allowed to bring a couple as tion by Senator Nerland, the Sena- | their guests to the party. tors voted unanimously to receive| Rotarians and guests had a few and read the message. istartled minutes when lights blncked' The resolution, after an opening |out in the Gold Room shortly aner! tear-jerker on the plight of the|the meeting was called to order. 4 Tenllt;‘o:y. asked that ‘the Senatej o i <37 2 INLRB INVESTIGATORS et o s | WILL STUDY DOUGLAS | don| CANNERY SITUATION 1 | Miss Armene E. Bostanian, Field Examiner for the National Labor: Relations Board and Hubert Mer-| rick, NLRB attorney, arrived on the‘ Baranof for a week’s investigation] in the Juneau area. 1 Miss Bostanian said today that! they are concerned with requests of certain unions to be certified by the Federal Government as collec- tive bargaining agents for resident workers in the salmon industry. The two officials will also inves- tigate the charges filed by the Unit- ed Alaska Fishermen and Cannery | Workers, Local 24359, AF of L that the Douglas Canning Company dur- ing the past operating season re- fused to bargain with the union within the meaning of the Taft- Hartley Act. The investigation of this case is preplnntory to a public hearing. Miss Bostanian and Merrick plan| to leave for Sitka this afternoon v.o| confer with AF of L officials, who| tare attending the Sitka conven-; ‘tionaThey will spend the remainder vof the week in Junmeau after their retwrn from Sitka. Ruled Out Senator Engebreth in the chah’{ ruled that the Senate was unorgan- | Py AV Bv,DREW PEA] 1Copyright, 1948, by . Ine. MMGmN — Those w0 sat with President Truman as he wrote his resounding State of The Union message .noticed an' all-im- portant change. No longer does he defer to Sec- retary of the Treasury’ r or to other conservative ad . He listens to them, but ddes not defer. He-makes his own decisions, re- gardless of their advice. In the old pre-election days before the nation turned the poll- sters, the predicters and the, poli- ticians upside down, John Snyder, long-trusted and conservative Tru- man friend, was the effective chopper-upper of messages. He waited til the time was ripe—usually outsid€ the Exe- cutive Office door—and popped in (Continued on Page Four) i | | ed out” an ultimate 70-group force, |and Representative Doughton of but intended to study the matter; very closely. | maining 12 days of the special ses-{ Mr Truman took the stand that sion and received 16 votes when |the number and size of planes is a ! the roll was called. This was the |petter way to measure Air Force 18th time the office had been bal- Igtrength than by the number of loted upon. igroups. Senator Gunnard Engebreth of! the Third Division, President pro tem of the Senate since last Thurs- day, will be President during the regular session under the terms of SENATORS GUESTS e s e| OF ROTARY CLUB | S ke Long ¥ | AT NOON MEETING: Picked Long Term Democratic and Republican Sena-'x Senator Anita Garnick, serving tors joined Rotarians at the speak-! her first term in the upper house, may be said. to have won the day ler's table this noon when the club! met at the Baranof Hotel for i for the Republicans when, in draw- weekly luncheon meeting. ing lots for the long and short ses- sions, she drew the longer term for the GOP crowd. . ® Introduced by Program Chairman| Republican members of the Sen- !Elton Engstrom to speak briefly be- ) ifore members were Democrats Sen-‘ ator Howard Lyng of Nome and! ate considered the outcome a dis- Senator Victor Rivers of Anchorage, | North Carolina, maintained a cau- tious position. They said they want- ed to see how much money Con- gress votes to spend before consid- ering tax raises. . As a result, there is a strong pos- sibility that the legislative budget; provision of the Congressional re- organization act will be suspended. This provision requires Congress to set an estimate on appropriations and incomé by February 15 each iyear. It hasn't been effective ini past years and the congressional in- come-outgo goals have not been binding. . Rep. Cannon (D-Mo), who will head the House Apprgpriations Com- mittee, said B Vask the com- mittee to take) lative to sus- g requirement. .’ Cannon told the newsmen. “You can’t tell with accuracy by February 15 what you are going to do ‘in the following months.” Cannon said he would work to cut off every possible dollar from [FOUR DELEGATES | ARRIVE_TODAY; | (10 CONVENTION 1 Four more delegates arrived this I:ncrmng to attend the CIO Terris ) torial Convention, which opened session here Monday morning. The! delegates have Tteen four days en route to Juneau from Anchorage via Pacific Northern Airlines. They stopped at both Whitehorse and Gustavus on their southbound trip. More delegates are expected from iof the Territory will be sent to the The Rocky Mounain region and Senate shortly. parts of the midwest got another IR N blast of sub-zero temperatures. ¢ Jold weather in the Pacific North- west threatened a severe i w FISH BUYERS IN shortage. ! While winter's icy blasts dealt SEA“lE OPPOSED severe blows to the west, Dixieland was basking in summertime tem- To EARlY SEMO" peratures. The mercury shot up! 0 into the 70's and 8U's yesterday e o irom Louisiana to the Atlantici gpATTLE, Jan. 11.—®—Efforts seaboard and from Florida to eastl,¢ the Deep-Sea Fishermen's Union Tennessee and most of Virginia. {(, open the Alaska halibut season The freezing rain and sleet cov-|April 1 instead of May 1 may be :red an extensive area of the cen- jzalked by Seattle fish dealers. tax structure “bore no relation ither to 1iinancial capacity of a l4-member group, glominated by (one man-—Stalin. he Territory, to its needs for rev-# They quoted Lovett as saying enue or to possible fluctuation in its income.” In estimating the two-million deficit, he said it took into ac- sount not only a general fund de- deit of $785,209, “but also expendi- (ures which were frozen and re- Jayments which ‘had been demand- 2d from the World War II Vet- arans’ Fund.” He said it did not nclude over a million dollars in cars and bonuses to which vet- ans are entitled uvrder the vet- srans’ act of 1946. Session Justified Schools, the university, publicf welfare and social services are all | |that in his opinion the Politburo (will take any course necessary to retain power; including war. | Within the Politburo, Lovett is |reported to have said, war is re- {garded as an instrument to per- ‘peutate Communism, a method to |ke used whenever the members .agree that fighting is necessary to gain their ends, and that they can win, B 'WOMEN VOIEIE’ LEAGUE HEARS ] Sitka, Ketchikan and Anchorage.|tra] and southern plains as far: The union, Agent Harold Grotle suffering from the financial pinch | Committee meetings were sched-) astward as Iowa, Missouri and {said, will bring their request before juled for this afternoon. This morn- ing the meeting was recessed at 11} o'clock and the delegates attended :lhe Legislature to hear the Gover- nor's message. ‘Those arriving today were Nels Nordine, Alaska Fishermen'’s Untun‘ representative from Cook Inlet, Mrs. Emma Samuelson, President of lhei Cordova Cannery Workers Union, l,.mn of northern Texas got tife western Tllinois. ithe annual conference of the In- Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and ;ternational Fisheries Commission. iopenlng today at the University ot worst of the storm. Many com- | ‘Washington. munities were blacked out as heavy! Grotle said the union prefers the ice-crusted power Jines shapped. iearlier rate because of more favor- table price structures before heavy {salmon landings are placed on sale. B AR A"or BRI“GS The fish dealers object to the earl- :ier date because they wish to re- { the President’s budget, half of; which Mr. Truman has earmarked for the cold war with Russia. ALASKAN FILM TO BE SHOWN AT NFFE MEET ON TOMORROW NOON Members of the Nauonal Feder- | 'o AID (AA (RAFT ation of Federal Employees meeting | i at the Baranof tomorrow noon will | have an opportunity to view the| The 48-footer CAA boat P-6 was premier showing of an Alaskan |reported in distress early this after- film issued by the Forest Service, [noon after losing its rudder at} entitled “Timber and Totem |Courverden between Funter Bay and Poles.” The picture is in color |Swanson Harbor. and was taken before the war! Coast Guard Cutter Storis an- during the CCC program. The (swered the craft’s call for assistance project was shelved during the|proceeding to the scene of the mis- war and was only lately revived. ‘hap at 3:15 today. The scenes pictured are all in| The craft, according to CAA re- Southeast Alaska and show fotem |Ports here, had rigged an ol drum| carving by native Indians from the {astern to act as a drag as it at-{ log to the finished product. Many |tempted to maintain position m‘ striking totems are shown, to- rough waters. | gether with representative scenes l With Skipper A. V. James and of the country. The film is said ‘three crew men aboard, the P-6 left to be a valuable documentary rec-here Sunday on a trip to survey ord and will receive wide circula- |8€ronautical lighting equipment tion throughout Alaska and the |between here and Gustavus. The States. Harry Sperling of the Re- [Craft put up in Auk Bay until this gional Office prepared the scen- [morning, according to the CAA of- ario and Joe Yolo of Yakima,|fice here, leaving at an early hour Wash., was the photographer. to continue its trip. Innovations in a get acquaints| Marine and weather conditions at ed program and otherwise light|both Pt. Retreat vand ‘The Sisters entertainment activities will be a|Islands were missing Mrs. H. J. Lannen, delegate from {the Cordova Cannery Workers, and H. J. Lannen, Executive Secretary of the Cordova District Fishermen's Union. | i —————— I ICGC STORIS GOES | from 1 part of the order of the day under |Weather Bureau reports. A short giscussion on cost of liy-| STREET CLEARING TONIGHT ing allowance will constitute the| Members of the Juneau Police sion. ' ¥ {Department ask the continued co- ————— operation of Juneau citizens in the “m "Wms ion which clearing equipment will be working. to arrive 6 p. m. Wednesday. Tonight at 9 o'clock, 3 crew will Princess Norah scheduled to sail |start operating a snow plow and a Alaska schetiuled to sail from{and Second and Third Streets. Seattle January 15. G Seattle January 15. Application for a marriage li- Baranof from Westward due|cense has been made in the U. 8. ———eeeo iPau]lne Lois Daroff and George FROM SISTERS ISLAND Edward Pleasants. Sisfers Island registered at the! HACKWOOD IN TOWN ! Baranof Hotel last night after ar- the direction of Bill Twenheofel. A i - serious side of the monthly ses- | Department and of the City Street ‘removal of vehicles along streets Denali, from Seattle, scheduled ' from Vancouver January 13. scarifier along Gastineau Avenue Victoria scheduled to sail MARRIAGE LICENSE southbound Sunday. | Commissioner's office by Miss Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Curry of LR, 03 S riving hege on he S. S. Baranof. Calif., is at the Baranof Hotel. | | 25 FROM SEATLE; | DOCKS AT7P. M. Steamer Baranof, captained by J. Ramsauer, docked here last night at 7 o'clock from the South :rmg-t ing 25 passengers ‘from Seattle and 9 from Ketchikan. 1 Seven passengers for the West-| ward boarded the vessel which sailed at 5:45 this morning. Chief Purser| akoard is E. A. Tracy. The Baranof will sail direct to Seward and re- turn here Sunday, January 16. Passengers included: . From Seattle: Miss A. E. Bos- tanian, Miss Orah D. Clark, John| Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. John F.I Curry, S. M. Dore. Mrs. Gle"i Franklin, Ina Franklin, Glenna Franklin, Harold Hansen, A. W. Hackwood, John E. King, Bert Ly- beck, D. D. Marquardt, Caryl J. Martin, F. Meek, Mrs. Charles Mer- ! ila, Joseph Merrick, Mrs. E. R. O'Neal, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Steven- son, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Thompson, Flora Wagrter, H. L. Faulkner. From Ketchikan: Don Atkinson,} Mr.'and Mrs. A. Burrell, Emily Cool, Mabel Holty, Pete James, Mrs. E. Olsen, Mrs. J. H. Sadlier, W. ‘Townes. 1 To Seward: Miss Christine Heller,j ar Henslee. e o 50-STAR FLAG IS PRESENTED, ATF OF L MEET SITKA, Alaska, January 11.—D. B. Erickson of the Anchorage Cen- tral Labor Council, presented an {American flag embellished with 50 |stars at the ATF of L convention “here today. The flag will be present- ed to President Harry Truman. | {representatives {Prince Rupert, :March 8. duce stocks of frozen fish before the fresh catch is placed on the market. The dealers’ opposition will prob- bly prevent the earlier opening, ecal al Lecause a Commission regulation i—provmes that all branches of the industry must agree beforé a change an be made, Commission members said.” All major halitut ports will be represented in the conference, with from Vancouver, Ketchikan, Peter: burg, and Juneau. Commission Chairman is G. W. Nickerson of Prince Rupert. Dan Tweidt is representing the Juneau Vessel Owners at the Fish- eries hearing in Seattle. e e COURT LEAVES FOR TERM AT KETCHIKAN Members of the U. S. Distriet Ccurt went today to Ketchikan, where court will convene tomorrow. Judge George W. Folta left this morning, a® did P. J. Gilmore, Jr., District Attorney; Stanley Baskin, assistant D. A, and Mrs. Rose McMullen, administrative clerk. J. W. Leivers, clerk of the court, nd Mrs. Peggy Mclvor, deputy in today's|Pete Carson, Mrs. Julia Ann Even-|ujci were on an Alaska Coast-{With the American son, Marion Evenson, Miss Julia AnD |41 Ajvlines flight this afternoon. |99m is strongly entrenched and Evenson, A. McDonald, Dr. Y. N.i wmarshal William T. Mahoney, re- | turning aboard the Baranof, got off at Ketchikan. District Court will reconvene here March 1, when a grand jury is called... Trigl jury ,will follow oo STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK:; 11.—(M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- | Wright 8%, International Harvest- er 27'%, Kennecott 56'%, New York {Central 12%, Northern Pacific 16%, A welcome address was given by | Dr. W. W. Charterts, Mayor of Sit- ka, and D. R. Doyle, Vice-President ' A. W. Hackwood of Berkeley, of the Alaska Territorial Federation industrials 180.76, rails 53.57, ul of Labor at the opening session. U. 8. Steel 72%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 710,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: til- ities 34.23. ind the special session was juml-k Yied as a means of bringing the 2arliest possible remedy, the Gov- rnor declared. Gruening continued: “Those rev- :nues which are procured by ac- don of this Legislature will start tlowing into the treasury at the arliest possible moment. With the short special session rectifying past ymissions, the 19th Legislature can ipply the qualities of statesman- ship throughout the regular session ‘0 the problems and opportunities of Alaska's future.” Credit Impaired The Territory's credit and repu- tation, he serted, are impaired {oy a wide array of bills which| cannot be paid. “Some organizations and indivi- duals represented by these claims are facing actual hardship bécause of the inability of the Territory to pay its bills,” the Governor said. Emergency Grows The emergency is still growing, jhe centinued, “although Territorial agencies have held their spending to a bedrock minimum.” The sit- uation is aggravated by the fact are rising, Gruening said. He declared the responsibilities of approaching statehood and the that government costs, like others, ; 2 LEGISLATORS Progress in both houses of the iAlaska Territorial Legisfature was 'reported by a member of each branch at -today's luncheon meet- ing of the League of Women Vot- (ers. Forty-four members and guests igathered in the Terrace Room of the Bdranof Hotel, Mrs. Ernest ! Gruening presiding. | Mrs. Anita Garnick, sole ‘woman senator, spoke briefly on the diffi- jculties of organization in the Sen- jate, hinting at measures of strat- jegy and stressing party loyalty. Rep. Stanley McCutcheon of An- (chorage pointed out the smooth or- iganization of the House “where harmony prevails.” He urged his |feminine listeners to attend the | sessions, mentioning the influence their presence might have, espec- tdally in legislation on welfare and | education. Mrs. Gruening introduced womesy' representatives: Mrs. Doris Barnes, !former Mayor of Wrangell; Mrs |Amelia Gundersen of Ketchikan and Mrs, Essie Dale of Fairbanks, also Mrs, James Nolan of Wrangell, whose husband is speaker of the House. Mrs. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, wife of proximity of Russia make it doubly important that the legislators putithe Alaska Delegate to Congress, Alaska on a sound financial basis|expressed her regret at leaving Ju- and increase its public services. [neau for two years, as well as her i Cold War cager anticipation of attending her The Governor concluded: iirst Presidential inauguration. “Alaska should become a shin- | Miss Alice Brandebury, director ing example in these northern lati- |of the Division of Soclal Services, tudes of what the American way {Department of Public Welfare, urg- {of life should and can be. That re- {€d careful study of the proposed lm.m to be done. iegislation for licensing foster i “Across Bering Straits another homes and institutions caring for |way of life which contrasts wholly |¢hildren. ideals of free- 1 active in the pursuit of its goals.|® WEATHEK REPORT “In the cold war of ldeulugles_l‘ (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Alaska should become the bulwark ; ® This data s ¢or 24-hour per- not merely of physical deiense, but | ® iod ending 6:3° am. PST. of the American idea.” ¢ In Juneau— Maximum, 40; The Gggernor's messuge was de-:® minimum, 36. livered before a crowd that filled |® At Alrport— sMaximum, 38; the small House chamber and over- | ® minimum, 34. flowed into corridors. After hear-|® FOiECAST ing the message, both houses ad-|® (Juncau and Vieinity) |journed until 2 p. m |® Cloudy with rain and south- First reaction from legislators|® easterly winds as high as 25 ‘lrom both parties was that mucn" miles per hour tonight and {of the Governor’s message was a|® Wednesday. Lowest tempera- | reiteration of Gruening's previously |. tuffe tonight near 36 degrees. taken position, but that there is|® PRECIPITATION a strong prospect of the Legisla- @ (Past24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today 'ture following his suggestions this ® In Juneau — .93 inches; time. |e® since Jan. 1, 829 inches; { SN {e since Julyf, 8442 inches. i The Allied Airlift started moving .® 11,800 seriously ill tuberculosis pa- ® since Jan. 1, tients from Russian-blockaded Ber- ; since July 1, 5249 inches. lin, e e 0000000 |