The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,091 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Truman’s Propo WINTER BLASTS KEEP UP Snow, Sleemld Prevails Many Sections—Schools Close — Power Off (By 'The Associated Press) Winter continued to play favor- ites today. It slapped the far west, the Pacific Northwest, West Texas and the Panhandle with chilling snows, sleet and cold, and it car- essed the South with balmy breezes that brought flowers into bloom. Snow—the fourth straight day of it—was predicted for onet:me Sun- ny Southern California. However, the forecast was that it wouldn't be 80 cold in the orange and lemon growing belt—a minimum of 26 in comparison with the frosty 19 of early Monday. Most of the snow melted from Los Angeles’ downtown area but there was eight inches of the white stuft in Orange County's Silverado Can= yon. Sheets of ice and sleet gripped much of West Texas and the Pan- handle and large sections of east- ern New Mexico also were coated. The ice—inches thick—felleq tele- phone lines and closed all roads in the Amarillo area. 8chools were shut down and bus schedules cancelled. Power and telephone lines by the hundred were downed in West Texas and two deaths attributed to the weather were reported there. Prolongd cold brought a new prob- lem. to the Pacific Northwest—a power shortage. A voluntary brown-out went into effect in Oregon for outdoor light- ing to conserve electricity. "Alaska’s Biggest Liar” Lands in Los Angeles Snow LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12—®— “Alaska’s biggest liar” flew into town today, took one look at the snow and said: “They won't believe me home when I tell them about this. Herman Rinear won his title, a trip here and $500 in Fairbank’s annual whopper-spinning contest last week. —— e back SNOW SLIDE NEAR CURRY BURIES TWO Traffic Stopped on Alaska Railroad, Wires Down, Airports Closed (#—Two trainmen were buried for two hours ceneath a snowslide yes- terday before tellow workers, fight- ing the slide with bare hands, dug them free ¥ Conductor Joe Axe and Brakeman Fred W. Bims were chilled but un- hurt. They had been walking along- side their stalled train when caught in the slide ' of Cu and several others along the route, stopped all traffic on the Alaska Railroad. The stream- {liner “Aurora” was forced to stay at Curry and the port of Whittier was cut off from Anchorage. Cnly radio communication was possible along the rail belt, with telephone and telegraph wires down. {Road officials blamed rains for the slides and said their snow fight- (ing forces were working at top speed 'to clear the lines. | The Anchorage airport was closed Ito traffic and Elmendor{ Field per- !mmed only essential flying as rain turned snows to slush. e i | NURSE DELIVERS FIRST BABY BORN . ATPORT CHILKOOT ' | A former sergeant in the English WAFS who married a U. S. Army {Air Forces sergeant in England and came to Alaska to live, gave birth over the weekend to the first baby |to be born in the veterans commun- ity ot Port Chilkoot near Haines. Parents of the offspring are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stelting, who have been in Alaska since the sum- mer of 1947 ‘The first stork to put in at Port » Chilkcot since the veterans organ-ipublic institutions. ized the community, came a month prematurely with 14 feet of snow piled between houses and the near- est coctor at Skagway. { Luckily for the young mother, the !wife of another veteran, Camilla i ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 12.— ‘The slide, a mile and a half south { JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT$ (COLUMBIA RIVER CLOGGED BY ICE: | power is shorr FIRST BILL fSubnormaltdn_diiionsPre- OF SESSION vail in Various Sec- | 34 tions of Oregon Senator Jones Authors; “ore, Measure to Levy License Tax on Contractors By BOB DeARMOND Senate Bill No. 1, authored by Senator Charles D. Jones, of Nome, ers and brought the region its fhit the hopper this morning. It is most critical power shortage inja revenue measure and another! vears. {Senate revenue measure is sched- SIS Upriver movement of ocean ves- iuled to be introduced tomorrow b)‘i ANCHORAG Alaska, Jan. 12, |Senator Gunnard Engebreth. (M—Planes searched today for the This will bring to seven the num-|Rey, Franklin Smith, Dillingham ter of revenue bills introduced IN(minister, who has been missing Ithe special session of the 19thlsince Saturday on a flight from Legislature, and others are said t0|Naknek to Anchorage. ;be in the offing | The search was hampered by hea- area were cut off from some power | The Jones tax bill is aimed &t yy snows the last four davs. The service, other industries have cur- large contracts and contractors, in|mnister is celieved to have been tailed late da ime operations the Territory and would levy a basic |ajone in his ski-equipped Cub “Super land scores of offices have started license fee of $15 plus one per cent!crujser.” early closing hours. of the gross amount of the contract| The Rev. Smith has served at A voluntary brown-out appeal on all contracts exceeding $50,000 'Djljingham since 1936 and at Palm- for outdoor lighting throughout for work, services or materials. ey ang Fairbanks previously Oregon was winning cooperation,! A separate license would be re-| worked to maintain essential sel 0l sure M - . ske I \per cent gross tax. The Commis-| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 12 Seaon lc WESTWARD MINISTER IS MISSING I PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 12— (# Floating ice clogged the Columbia River approach to this inland port city today. | The prolonged freezing weather | already has ldled several thousand | lumber and logging industry work- 1 Isels was slowed and barging ope: ations stalled Ferry operations | {at The Dalles were halted when the river froze over in the slack water above Bonneville Dam. Aluminum reduction mills in this Airlines pilot, 1 i i | { The bill was referred to the Com- s mittee on Taxation i ‘Pacific Narthern adopted | 11ing over the area. {ton, Mon C. Wallgren, heads for publican organizations in the An-;Available, which caused the con- ! Washington, D. C., today and an chorage area and would levy a li-uson. |delivered his farewell address to Banks would pay on net mcmm-} !the state legislature. He was si- only but all business establishments' ixem about his future, but left little doing business in Alaska, would se {doubt he will join Mr. Truman's subject to the tax. T ‘-‘AUHEI of Taxation would issue the (®— Failure of the Rev. Franklin \Waligren Off for | The Senate this morning i the 19047 rules with two mingrl Friends in Dillingham revealed 10 'the minister had planned to visit ’expecled job in the administration cense tax amounting to four pfs {official family. o 4 ! Wallgren told newsmen he will G E N E R Al o I: ( H I N \British Cabinet Called Into " Question to Consider {licenses, which would expire at the Emith, Dillingham pastor, to file a end of a calendar year. The Act ilight plan led (o the bellef his | would become effective next July 1. Plane was miss E & l I. Be plane was s! ast; Langlie Inaugurated Today :: > ruc, i i, ol 5 o'clock tomorrow morning friends near the lake, and sat his OLYMPIA, Wash,, Jan. 12—®— Senator Engebreth’s bill, expected Plane down without further word. The retiring governor of Washing- tomorrow, has the approval of Re- | There was no radio communication ——,e—— 1of his old friend, President Truman. cent of net profits or one miill on | & | Wallgren officially ended his net assets, whichever is greater, on {four-year term as Washington's Lusin done in the Territory or chief executive yesterday when he assets located in the Territory.! i | itake two of his aides with him ! !lo Washington. They are Jack ¢ i Gorrie, his executive assistant, and {Jack Ballew, his director of state ! Wallgren ill be succeeded as | governor by Republican Arthur B. i i 3 ‘Langlie, the man he defeated in . Present Situation 1944. Langlie’s inauguration is| | | (By The Associated i The British Cabinet scheduled for this aiterncon. % { e was Laughlin, who graduated fromj LANGLIE NOW GOVERNOR STOCK QUOTATIONS inurses’ training at €t. Louis cefore |coming to Alaska in October, wé { OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 12.—#— {Repuklican Arthur B. Langlie took NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—(#-—Clos- |able to take over the situation. The ]umce as Washington State's Gov- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau2l-year-old nurse delivered thelernor today and began looking for mine stock today is 3%, American (Laby alone. Mother and child are new tax revenue to meet an expect- Can 87%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- reported to be doing nicely jed deficit. Wright 814, International Harvest- | The father of the vet community's{ Langlie succeeded Democrat Mon er 271%, Anaconda 56, New York first child is a disabled veteran whoC. Wallgren, who left the legislature Central 12%, Northern Pacific 167, | fought with the Fifth Rangers inia $682,600,000 budget for the next U. S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%;. the European war theatre. His home Itwo fiscal years—a figure that in- Sale stoday were 710,000 share {was formerly in Oregon. The Stelt-|dicated a $16,627,000 general fund - Averages today are as follo industrials 180.69, rails 5335, util- itles 34.32. ' S S The Washington Merry - @ -Round Bv DREW PEARSON 1Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine) W\sxmcrou One of the most highlighted witnesses ever to | appear before the Un-American Activities Committee was glamorous Robert Taylor, star of “Escape,” “Stand By For Action,” “A Yank At Oxford.,” “aBtaan,” “Billy The Kid” and many other pictures. His lings have one other child. The young nurse, who delivered the baby, and her husband Harry D. ;Laughlin, both come trom' Butler, nL. e §500 FINES GIVEN TWO BASEBALL MEN 12 —(M—Leo New CINCINNATI, Jan. Durocher, manager of the York Giants, and Freddie Fitz- simmons, former Boston Braves coach, were fined $500 each by Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler today. The men were found guilty of negotiatiig a contract for 1949 while Fitzsimmons still was a mem- deficit without considering school and institutional construction re- quests expected to total $120,000,000. { Langlie suggested unspecified new land increased taxes to bring in $75,- 1000,000 to $100,000,000 extra. Both {he and Wallgren opposed increasing the state’s three per cent general sales tax. ——————— CAA CRAFT FOUND DRIFTING, STORIS . TAKES UNDER TOW CAA boat P-6, which lost a rudder near Port Courveden in Icy Strait| yesterday, was krought into harbor this morning under tow by the | S3AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12— into session today to study the The Communist radio said today|Palestine crisis which the Foreign ‘Gen. Tu Li-ming, commander of the | Cffice terms a grave threat to peace iEast China armies trapped whilejin the Middle Ehst trying to escape from Suchow, has; The British Foreign Office said {been captured. IIsrael repeatedly has violated United A broadcast heard by the Associ- | Natiens truce ord; ‘The statement iated Press at San Francisco said the present crisis is the result ‘serted General Tu was seized “at|of Jewish aggression. The Jews were dawn of the tenth (of January) |accused of still occupyinz a Leban- just before the annihilation of some ese area. The British said “The pos- 25 divisions under his command r,.m,xibilily cannot be excluded of fur- been completed ither Jewish attacks in violation of The radio said Tu “was attempt-{the truce, in Jerusalem or else- ing to escape disguised as an ordi-jwhere, against forces of Tra nary soldier when he was A»A;J:m»ldnn or Iraq.” ed.” Israel charged before the S - 1ity Counc’l that Britain is menacing her with military and political i WOMAN HA"GED l‘mOVEs. The Council was askad ' investigate British troop and naval , 'IN ENG[A“D; 1ST {movements and Israel asserted RAF IN TWELVE YEARS planes violated the Palestine fron- jtier. British arms were said to have MANCHESTER, Eng, Jan. 12— (P—Miss Margaret Allen, 43, gone to Egypt, Iraq and Trans- Ji spinster who dressed like a man foes of the Jews. Undersecretary of State Lovett was hanged today for murder. She was the first woman to be executed said today the U. S. had expressed concern to Britain over troop move- in Britain in 12 years yments in the Palestine area She was convicted of Killing a 70-year-old Lancashire woman in s-Jor- to to tke British reinforcement of the Trans-Jordan port of Agaba ordan—Arab allies of Britain and prior | sal on Taxes Starts Tr SENATE GETS Three Natives from King Island Village Swept fo e Floe; No Trace ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 12.— P—Three natives from an unnamed King Island viliage 40 miles the Seward Peninsula were swept to sea January 7 on an ice floe and have not been found, the Al- |aska Air Command reported today The three were hunting seals and walrus tor food when the ice broke away from the solid pack off | INCOME TAX BILL SPEEDS INTO HOUSE Committee Exbeds Meas- ure Will Be Whipped ; Info Shape by Thursday By JIM HUTCHESON special legislative 1 revenue measure, the income The |No session's uble TAX BOOST BATTLE IS " TOSTART ;Combination (:f Republi i cans, Democrats Will Make Drive Against WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—(P— A stong combination of Republicans Very strong easterly winds pre- [tax bill, speeded today toward the and Democrats was taking shape vailed that day and the next, the Weather Bureau said, makinz it possible that the natives were swept across the 120 miles of water to Siberia. The winds and Arctic weather delayed aerial search until Col. Harry Burkhalter, command- ing Marks Air Force Base, Nome, said a daylight search would be kept up as long as hope remains - BENSON OUTL (CONVENTICN TODAY Five speakers were presenied at | he morning session of the CIO Ter: |t . |ritorial Convention; iarry Lewis of the Federal Mediation Service, Hen- ry Benson, Territorial Commission- er of Labor, and Chester Carlson, Abel Anderson and Marcus Jensen, {members of the Territorial House of Representatives. | Legislation the Territorial Depart- jment of Labor will introduce in the regular session of the Legislatur2 |was outlined by Henry Benson. He advocated an amendment to the | present Unemployment Compensa-+ for| Ition laws which will provide ‘x‘nmpel ation to persons unemployed |due to sickness. A second amend- ment woeuld provide for increased compensation for unemployed work- men with families. A wage collection bill will be in |troduced and it will include lien |laws against property for the pro-! |tection of wage claims, To protect | the non-resident workers legislation iwill be proposed to prevent the em- ployers from leaving outside work- ers stranded in the Terr_tory to :e 'a burden on Territorial, municipal, |or private charitie | RETIREMENT PLAN | To provide retirement for munic- lipal and Territorial employees, who | do not receive Socal Security bene- , it will be reccommended that a retirement plan be put into effect. An employee would be eligible for retirement after years of service jor after he has passed the age of 164 years. Minimum retirement would Ite $100 a month | Thre> bills will be re-introduced |in the Legislature by the Depart- iment. They include: a Territorial Wage-Hour Law, providing for a minimum payment of $1 per hour with time and one-half after eight ours in one day or 40 hours in one |week; child labor law requiring the issuance of work permits for all _ /minors under 18 years of age and employment of | will regulate the |minors to non-hazardous ments; and Women's :Mll. Benson stated that he was re- commend'ng the enforcement of the Alaska Weights and Measures law be transferred from the office of the (Continued on Page CONGRE employ- Equal Pay Two) GRESS TAKING RECESS, 24 HOURS INES LEGISLATION AT (i0 House ; Rep. Warren Taylor, Fairbanks | Democrat and chairman of the Way and Means Committee told the |House at its brief session this morn- ing that the committee would have | the bill whipped into shape for the iHouse within another two hours’ |consideration. It is expected to {come onto the floor for second reading and debate tomorrow The bill's basic provision is for a Territorial income tax of 10 per cent of the federal income tax of a person or corporation One major point of the bill re- mained to be settled by the com- mittee this afternoon. Tt is the pro- {vision for a $45 cxemption for per- |manent residents ot Alaska. That would mean they would not be subject to the tax unless they pay least $450 federal income tax Exemption Clause There have been indications that the legislators might run into con- isiderable more difference. of opin- lon on the exemption clause than ion the other basic provisions of the ibill | Taylor said the changes made by the committee so far in the in- come tax bill are of a technical nature. He s Attorney Ralph Rivers had estimated for the committee that the bill in present form could be expected to produce in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 yearly. It was emphasized that the figure was only a rough estimate. Territorial Treasurer Oscar Olson also has appeared before the com- I mittee. | floor. lat 1 Property Tax The Ways and Means Committee still has to tackle the general prop- [ (Continued on Page Two) - RENT CONTROL General |today for a drive against the $4- billion tax boost, requested by Pres- ident Truman Senator Byrd (D-Va), a longtime cconemy advocate, predicted the President will get less than half of what he asked for--if he gets any increase at all, Vith incr reasonable economies, no at all would be nec- v," he told a reporter. As a step in that direction he proposed dropping 210,000 of the 2,100,000 federal workers from the govern- ment payroll. Senator Robertson (D-Va) ex- pressed a similar view. “T feel the most prudent course would be to balance the budget by economy in spending rather than through an increase in taxes,” he said. And Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) told a reporter, "It is going to be very, very diificult to get as much of an increase at the President re- quested.” Rep. Taber (R-NY), who was chairman of the House Appropria- tions Committee in the Republican 80th Congress, said in a state- ment he was ceftain the Presi- dent’s spending estimates can be shaved “very substantially.” And Taber's Senate counterpart, Senator Bridges (R-NH) echoed that view with a call for “sound cut in government spending.” The President submitted a $41,- 900,000,000 federal budget estimate for the year starting July 1. Pre- dicting a deficit of almost $1,000,- 000,000, Mr. Truman asked Con- gress to cover it and help pay off the $252,000,000,000 national debt by passing the $4,000,000,000 tax boost. tax cessa POST OFFICE INSPECTOR IS 10 BE ASKED spor Lt : By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH i WASHINGTON, Jan. {Legislation to extend rent 27 months and put thousands of Idwelllng\ back under rent control will be introduced by Senator My- ers’ (D-Pa), probably tomorrow Senator Maybank (D-SC), ¢ ceilings ! CKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 12— ~Postal Inspector E. M. Harkins was slaln today in the lobby of the main post office. This is the second slaying here in two days. Attorney Earl Pruet was |shot and killed late yesterday. man of the Senate Banking Harkins was 51 years old. He had mittee, told a reporter the measure been a postal inspector since Sept. might become the administration’s |30, 1931, During the war, Harkins rent bill. Mr. Truman hy u.\ked!w,—\r[‘d overseas as a postal inspec- ifor tightening of controls and ex-tor tension for at léast two years The slayer surrendered to postal H - eee {employees. They heard the shot | INHOLIDAY CAMP 1 i Imyself u “I shot him and want to give ! id not identity the man | CHATEAU DOEX {Jan. 12—®—Twelve boys and six girls—and died today in a fi Oisillons children’s camp where they had been spending a holiday Most of the boys and girls were rom 7 to 14 ! Persons living near the chalet| said the nurse, Anne D'Martir > Switzerland,| 772+ MINER 15 TRAPPED | UNDER ROCK SLIDE; | DIES AFTER RESCUE | | a robbery. The jury rejected herh plea of insanity -o Bagpiper Playing Again af Trappers’ han three hours over the crisis, (By Associated Press) 2 ; a which the -British Foreign Office| Important Business is scheduled|Vas trapped while il calls a grave threat to peace in the jon Capital Hill in Washington, D, |0 help some of the children to safe- Middle East. !C., today even though the Senate |- A dispatch from Tel Aviv quoted | | - | William Wallace, 27, was crushed and House are in recess until noon,‘ f the five British RAF pilots |t V. . B O o R | Coast Marine Case Is Kear Settlement i s, & oo, mock side yester: The chairman of the Senate La-{ his plane crossed from Egypt into|bor Committee, Elbert Thomas of Israeli territory when it was hit|Utah, will hear the AF of L's pos and set ablaze by rifle fire from [tion on the handling of labor legi. Jews on the ground. A spokesman | unconscious when freed. .1 The rescue workers had been forced to labor one at a time be- jcause of the threat of further rock ber of the Braves club. Coast Guard Cutter Storis. The New York club was fined! Tow was dropped on the craft’in! $2,000 for violating the tampering |Gastineau Channel shortly after 10 io'clock and the Storis' motor-pow- testimony made front-page news across the country. l What never was published, how- ever, 'is that witness Taylor also |rule. wrote the Un-American Committee{ That rule prohibits any club |ered landing craft was lowered to a scorching private letter blasung{rrom dealing for a player or{take the P-6 into the Small Boat its tactics and accusing it of mere- {coach’s services while he still is;Harbor. ly being interested in publicity. iunder contract to another team. { The CAA craft was drifting help- Taylor’s letter is something Con- {lessly in 40-mile winds and a heavy snow storm, when picked up by lhei ! The British cabinet met for more | | | was CAIRNBROOK, Pa., Jan. 12.—(# A rand of miners worked more ithan 15 hours in one-man relays to escue a fellow worker trapped in ia rock slide, but he died shortly fterward today o | i Denali, from Seattle, scheduled’ ise | ival;Dogs Howl gress may want to consider in rela- ‘ Fes"va L Ogs ow Hoh ‘to, the ‘Ohmuinigiee's’ procodure SIEAMER MOVEME"'S Storis at 9:30 last night, according | e o |lation. The AF of L plan calls first in the future. |to Coast Guard Commander J. R., FORT WILLIAM, Ont., Jan. 12.|at the air ministry in London said for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley! SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 Taylor was asked to testify re- Kurcheski. !—dLrThv dogs will get their chance |the pilot's statement is being con-|law and second for restoration of A remnant of the recent West Coast garding the picture “Song of Rus- Following a distress call from thelto howl again. Bagpiper Alex |sidered at “a very hizh level.” |the old Wagner Act before Congress {maritime strike appears to be near |Ca sia” in which he acted. His testi- |t0_arrive at 7 tonight. i48-foot craft yesterday, Pacific|Simpson today accepted a bid to{ Lovett said American policy is di- turns its attention to the changes settlement. Shipowners and the CIO|slides. As they worked, Wallace mony, taken in private, was later| Freighter Coastal Monarch, from |Northern Airlines sent a plane to!Play a return engagement at this 'rected toward securing an affective |President Truman wants in the|Marine Cooks and Stewards Union|Whispered to them: published, following which Taylor |Seattle, due here Monday. leircle the area, and Alaska Coastal |vear's Northern Manitoba Trappers (armistice between the Jews and the |Wagner measure. ihave agreed tentatively on a $14.80| “Please, please, please, get some wrote this blistering letter: | Princess Norah scheduled to sail Airlines diverted a plane from its Festival scheduled for Jan. 19-22{Arabs. He said the U. S. is trying| The two-bill approach also is/monthly inc for stewards em- Of this weight off me. Hurry up, “I've never cared a wnole hellua from Vancouver January 13. {Gustavus run to check on the po- in the Pas. ; to exercise a calming influence. fbacked by the CIO. However, thelployed on coast steam schoon- | fellows. T can hardly stand it.” lot for politicians, whether they be | Alaska scheduled to sail fromsition of the disabled boat. | The doughty Scot said he wasn't | R |evidence seems to indicate that|ers. | ~—tm . Republican or Democrat. And I've Seattle January I15. | With Skipper A. V. James and disconcerted a bit by the way the The Sons of Norway will meet Congress won't go along with the, Agreement on overtime scales is; FROM CORDOVA certainly never believed it inherent + Victoria scheduled to sail from three crew men aboard, the CAA trappers’ dogs followed the pipes Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in|methods urged by the unions. Ac-lthe principal obstacle to be cleared Rezistering at the Gastineau Ho- in my job as a motion-picture ac- Seattle January 15. boat was enroute to Gustavus to and started howling whenever he the Odd Fellows Hall. Heading the cording to Thomas it looks now as'away before the schooners return tel m Cordova yesterday were Baranof from Westward due sufvey aeronautical lighting equip- Played last time. “They've got mu- meeting will be Sig Jackson, presi- |though ary labor bill passed will be to operation after being tied up for Mr. and Mrs. #€. J. Lannen and southbound Sunday. ment, sic in their voices,” he said. dent. scmething like a one-package bill. 135 days. Emma Samuelson. (Continued on Page Four)