The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ————————" VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,098 1949 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 'COMMUNISM IS DENOUNCED BY TRUMAN President Takes Oath of Officefor4 Year Term HOUSE PASSES BILL TO LEVY PROPERTY TAX Ten Mill Rate Is Set with $2500 Exemption on Personal Property The seccnd leg of the basic tax program was whirled through the legislative grist mill in the House of Representatives shortly before 6 o'clock last night despite the protest of Rep. Marcus Jensen against ‘“steamrollering” and h plea for more time for considera- | ticn because of the “magnitude of this Bill.” The vote on passage of the mea- sure was 21-3 with Reps. Percy Ipalook of the Second Division and Marcus Jensen and Andrew Hope of the First Division casting the opposing votes. House Democratic leaders Stan- ley McCutcheon and Warren Tay- lor cracked the whip to rush the bill through before today's dead- line for transmission of measures to the Senate. The income tax measure brought the first floor debate in the House during the week in which a whole series of tax measures have been trotted docilely on their way toward the Senate. Both Reps. Ipalook and Jensen asked that the House spend more time considering ‘the measure and pointed out that its passage might mean hardships for communities where business setbacks are being felt. Opposed To Tax In answer to a question Jensen said flatly that he is opposed to the general property tax. He said he believes other tax measures will raise all the money needed. “The economy of the country as! a whole can’t stand this kind of a tax,” Jensen said. “The intent has been to get it on the books at any cost instead of determining the best way of raising the requir- ed revenues.” Jensen contended that the tax will be too costly to collect. Rep. Stanley McCutcheon took an opposite view of the revenue- raising powers of bills introduced thus far.. “If we pass all revenue measures proposed so far plus one not yet proposed—a tax on cigar- ettes—we will still be a million dollars short of the $17,000,000 bud- get needs,” McCutcheon declared. In Party Platform Although Rep. Taylor acknow- ledged the bill has no chance of getting through the Senate before the special session ends on Satur- day, he urged passage of the mea- sure by the House. “This Demo- cratic House will have done its duty even if the bill dies in the Senate,” Taylor said. He cited the Territorial Demo- (Continued on P;geis;\'en:' e The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— A lot of Wash- ingten's high-sgciety is pretty sore about this inaugural. They're not being invited to the big parties, This includes quite a few promin- ent Senators, Congressmen and lobbyists who take a lot of pride in being seen at all the right so- cial functions. This time they have been left completely out in the cold. This omission wasn’t because they | were Republicans—a lot of Demo- crats were left out, tco. It was because Mr. Truman laid down the law that most of the invitations were to be reserved for the folks back home—the little folks who came a long way to see the in- augural. That's why the rental clothiers in Washington are swamped right now. You can't rent a dress suit for love or money. All the folks from out of town are in town rent- WOULD RAISE FUELS TAX Rate WouId_B_e Doubled- Committee Approves Double Mileage Pay BULLETI | i — By a vote of 9 to 7, the Senate this after- noon defcated the proposal made by Senator Barr to raise the fuel tax. | A bill doukling the motor fuels tax, increasing it from the present two cents per gallon to four cents per gallon, hit the Senate hopper this morning with Senator Frank | | Barr's name on the heading. | The bill, Senate Bill No. 3, was |shoved inte second reading, amend- led to exclude from taxation the Ifucl used by stationary power plants jowned by municipalities or non- | profit organizations providing pub- lic power, and its progress toward an immediate third reading was blocked only by failure of a motion ito suspend the rules. The exemption amendment was {offered by Senator Rivers who _pointed out that stationary power plants make no use of roads, air- fields or water facilities and that the effect of the tax on fuel used by public power plants is to in- | crease utility rates. Scnator Jones contended that the same thing applies to stationary Ipower plants used to produce power (for mining operations and thought that these should also be exempt. i Senator Jones, however, voted for | éthe adoption of the amendment, {only Senators Garnick and Munz | voting against it. The vote on sus- pension of the rules was nine in fayor, seven against, with a two- ||hirds majority or 11 votes requir- ed. Restore Mileage Payment | The Senate Committee on Print- ing, Purchasing and Contingent Ex- penses this morning turned in its report on the special session pay measure amounting to more than | $56,000. The four members of the | |committee, Democrats McCutcheon | and Peratrovich and Republicans | | $1,000,000. it was one of the worsti New Secrefary of Stale Dean Acheson poses for a smiling closeup photograph in Washing- ton, following his appcintment to succced George C. Marshall as Secretary of State. Acheson is a former undersecretary of the de- partment. Marshall resigned because of ill health. () Wirephoto. HOMETOWNOF PEACE TALK PRLLON § Fo OF CHINESE 1S HOCUS POCUS INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Jan. 20. (M—A pre-dawn fire in near zero weather raged through a half That Is View of Some For- eigners-Deals Reported Being Made, However block of business buildings in President Truman’s hometown this | inauguration day. | The fire was only l eight the summer White f Fire damage may e (By The Associated Press) downtown klocks from House. Chief D. A. Kincade run as high said | as fires in the more than 100 years| .pn, chinese governing party, the |Jones and Nerland, unanimously | approved restoration of “portal to | portal pay” in the form of mlleage“ |for the special session. | The amendment endorsed by the | |committee would provide up to ’315,000 to pay mileage coming and going at the rate of 15 cents per mile. The legislators will also re- | |ceive mileage for the regular ses- | sion which commences next Mon- day. Two members of the commxt-! tee asserted that the legislators are | [entitled by law to collect mile- | age and should have it. ‘ “When the foreman calls you | | | | | 1 cut on a special job, you expects to get the regular pay for it,” Senator Jones commented. Senator | Andrew Nerland cited high living | costs in Juneau as a reason for | asking for double payment of mile- | ge. House Members Opposed Several members of the House, | which knocked payment of mileage | for the special session out of the | measure, expressed themselves this morning as opposed to its restora- | tion in the pay bill and it could | be that the two bodies will dead- lock on the issue and fail to ap-| propriate funds to pay themselves | for the special session. | Two amendments were offered | for the Net Income Tax Bill in the Senate this morning. One of them was voted down, the other was withdrawn after some discus- sion. Senator Barr offered the first amendment for the purpose, he said, of simplifying the provisions of the bill regarding the tax on| transportation companies doing business between Alaska and the states or Canada and their em- ployees. From, a reading of the amend- ment as offered it appeared that it would haye exempted such firms as Alaska Steamship Company, Pan American Airways and Northwest Airlines entirely from taxation, and | | | ACuntu;ed on Page Foxu';_ (Continued on Page Two) {all p land an inaugural ball {Gomez and Maria Pulido, both in land Mrs. Joseph M. Lisiak, who ar- of Independence’s history. Kuomintang No one was reported injured b“":day behmdv 30 persons were evacuated from a residential building. 1she MR Independence’s 40,000 residents | U Communists. pated to celebrate its famous | A ScParate peace deal was on in \uguration as President, To- | P€iPINE for the surrender of that s a holiday. A big pflrade:\‘{"‘f” city and the rest uf‘ North had been .(,Jmm l.u the Reds. In the field of battle, the masses of Chi | hek had been beaten | everywhere they had met the Com- | munists. The Nationalist posi HELD FOR MURDER OF YOUNG WOMEN &0 s SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 20.— | Which Communist armies & P—Twice 48-year-old Victoriano [€d, to Canton. Corrales returned to his native! Some foreigners viewed the peace ¢ Mexico and each time he returned :!alk as some more Chinese politi- here with a girl after filling hel‘5C:‘l hocus pocus, to giye the govern- head with tales of luxurious liv-|Mment a chance to rise from the ing. {floor and fight again. It wasn't And twice, said Sheriff's dep-i”“‘““’ just what th would fight uties, he killed, in the same way With, however for the same reason: Each girl! threatened to leave him for her SoLnges ok R “‘ STORIS PICKS UP | down with a hammer and an ax, then butchered her body and threw | the pieces into a river. DRIF"NG lAUN(H threw its weight to- the Cabinet's effor to make peace with the victory day scheduled. e ! The Communists kept silent. So | |did Chiang, whose approval is need- yed unless he is ousted or unless |he resigns. The Nationalist gov- ,ernment prepared to move at 1 - Tcday a charge of murder in both deaths was on file against the | slight, greying day laborer. I He isaccused of killing Alberta A drifting Coast Guard launch, spotted by the S.8. Alaska enroute to *he Westward, tock the Coast |Guard cutter Storis on a run to | Pt. Retreat yesterday. |" “The launch from the Pt. Retreat Coast Guard light station had brok- en away from moorings and was {adrift about 25 miles from its dock !Wwhen sighted by the Alaska Steam- 1 at 6:30 o'clock yesterday No one was aboard the their twenties and both irom the same town in Mexico, Irapuato. The sheriff’s office said he made state- ments admitting both slayings. ARG/ 4 NEW RESIDENTS New residents of Juneau are Mr. iship vess morning launc A to Commander J. R. Kurcheski, the Storis took the Jaunch in tow and delivered it back to its moorings at 3 o'clock yes- rived last week to make their home in Alaska. He worked for two years with Displaced Persons in UNRRA at Bayreuth, Germany Lisiak was graduated from the University of Oregon and later at- cording {hours before the oath-taking cere- | House. TRUMAN, BARKLEY SWORN IN Sun Shines on fiappy Scene | at Inauguration View- ed by Thousands President Inauguraled e WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(®— Harry 8. Truman took on leader- | ship of the nation for four years | more today with a pledge to strive | for world-wide “peace, plenty and freedom.” I In a fighting inaugural speech, he branded Communism the chief threat to those aims and the breeder of war. | It was the climactic moment of inauguration day for the 64-year- cld, one-time Missouri farm boy who, over all odds, had won a White House term in his own right. He accepted that term by plac- ing his left hand on Bibles open- | ed to the Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments, raised his right hand to Ged and swore to serve | the nation raithfully in the uncer- | tain years ahead. | Chief Justice Vinson adminis- | iered the oath. The scene was the | east front of the Capitol, bamed; in the brilliant sparkle oi a bright winter sun. i Barkley Sworn In i 4 Just before Mr. Truman, Alben | W. Barkiey, 7l-year-old veteran Kentucky Senator, was sworn in as Vice President Within immediate range of Mr. Truman’s voice from the steps of the Capitol were thousands of Am ericans, By radio, millions of oth- | ers in this country and abroad heard him, Television carried the scene as far west as the Mississippi. Stretching along Pennsylvania Avenue to see the after-ceremony parade were an estimated million people of more. His farm boy-to-President career | brought him his “great day” today: The acclaim of hundreds of thous- | ands of fellow citizens and the | start of a White House term won in own right. Air Of Carnival From all over America, his back-‘ ers and well-wishers came to share | the excitement and glory of in- auguration day. | They packed along the national | capital's bunting-draped broad | avenues to cheer every glimpse of the President. They ate hot dogs ! and drank pop from stands which , sprouted on corners. An air of carnival reigned. For a few moments, Mr. Truman | turned his back on it all. Two| mony, he went with Mrs. Truman | and their daughter, Margaret, to | St. John's Episcopal Church across | Lafayette Park from the Whilei Bows Head In Church There, he bowed his head and heard the Rev. C. Leslie Glen pray for him, for the Congress, for social justice, for the family of nations and for “those we love.” St. John’s is the same church where the late Franklin D. Roose- velt used to worship on his inaug- uration days Mr. Truman was up with the dawn for this day of days in his| 64-year-old life. Sun Breaks On Scene He found the skies clear and the sun breaking out with unusual winter strength, belying the weath- er man’s prediction of partly cloudy. (Cun’lin'n;d mr Page Six) e New Government Formed in Greece | ATHENS, Jan. 20—®— Greece| has a new cabinet. The coalition government was formed by Premier ! Themistokles Sophoulis and was sworn in today in Athens ‘The vice premier is Diomedes, former governor of the national bank and a liberal. Con- Alexander tended the School of Social Work terday afternoon, returning to Ju- at the University of Buffalo, r ineau about 10 pm. stantin Tsaldaris remains as foreign | minister, | cour: \TOM PETRICHS ARE | was Inew MAJOR COMMENT ON ADDRESS BY COURSES PLANNED' PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, -Jan. 20.—(®— | Mcmbers of ngress seized on President Truman's proposal for Here, in brief, are the four “major os of action” for the’coming years which President Truman out- government-guaranteed U. 8. invest- lined in his inaugural address to- ments abroad today as ther target day: |for widely divergent early comment 1. “Unfaltering support” to the on the inauzural addres United Nations | At the two extremes Senator O'- 2. Continued programs for world Mahoney (D-Wyo.) saw it as a economic recovery | “pr mation of economic free- 3. Support — including military |dom” and Senator Byrd (D-Vi aid—to strengthen “freedom-loving saig it would “not be wise or natons against a; tical.” 4. bold new program” to help| Just about mid-way between those the world's needy areas with Ameri- ideas, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said can scientific and industrial skill, IMr., Truman's world trade propos- T als were ery deneral” and he MINUE PRESIDENT |would have to study them before WISHINGTON, Jan, 20.—®—For making any dstailed comment. But 29 minutes today, the United States he saw “nothing particularly revo- had no President. lutionary” at flrst glance. The constitution says the presi- Representative reaction: dential term shall end at noon on Senator Magnuson (D-Wash,)— January 20. “The President gave the United Na- Technically, then, Harry tions one of the best boosts it has man’'s term ended at nocn had in a long time. In effect, he was only a President-elect said: ‘It's going to work—we are a President, going to make it work He officlally Senator Mcrse (R-Ore.) “The upon taking the oath at 12 President obviously talking PST. akout the principle Atlantic No on Charter. I detected new con- concerned cept.” , Jan. 20.—® 8. Tru- and he and not began his new term 29 pm.,, g of t in official Washi no about the lapse. on was -+ ® o 008 000000 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU ‘This data is ¢or 24-hour per- iod ending PST. In Juneau 25; minimum, At Airport minimum, FOR (June Decreasir cloudiness and colder tonight with lowest temperature near 25 degrees. cloudy Friday. 3 TA AGAIN GRANDPARENTS ord of the birth of a baby son erday, to Lieut. and Mrs. Paul Coke at Jamestown, California, received by her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. T. (Tom) Petrich. The arrival joins a three and a half year old trother Gary, who was born in Juneau. The baby has been named Stephen Douglas, Lieut. Coke is now oned with the Army Air Forces at Na- goya, Japan, where his family ex- pects to join him in a few months. Both he and his wife were raised in Juneau, where they were graduat- ed from hign school. He is the 0 of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Coke, for- mer Juneau residents. Mr. Coke wa. one time connected with the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company. 6:8% Maximum, am E 13 Maximum, 27; 4 AST Vieinity) c a 16 14.22 88.18 In inches; since since At June Jan July Airport u 1 1 inches; inches. Trace only; since Jan. 1 6.92 inches; since July 1 70 inches ® ¢ 0 " 0 0 0 0 90 at GLOBAL ~ (RUSADE ~ PLANNED President Hit?(ommunism | in Announcing Bold Program by U. S. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(P— | President Truman today pledged a global crusade for “peace, plenty and ircedom” in a blistering inaug- lural speech denouncing the “false philosophy” of Communism and war, The chief executive keyed his ad- dress to the quickening struggle between the democratic west and the communist east. While he cautioned that Ameri- ca’s material resources are limited, Mr. Truman promised to draw deeply on the “inexhaustible” re- sources of this country's technical know-how to help free peoples ev- erywhere. Communism “holds that war is inevitable,” Mr, Truman told mass- ed theusands in the Capitol Plaza immediately after taking his oath of oftice for an elected four year term. And even now, he said, it is “endangering attempts to keep world peace.” But he declared that as a result of American efforts “hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us that we need not have war.” Bold New Program These efforts must now be ex- panded, he said, to include a gi- gantic “bold new program” of for- eign eccnomic development, aimed at wiping out misery, hunger and despair in backward areas all over the world. Mr. Truman listed that as one of ‘four major courses of action” to be stressed in coming years, Security Pact He also called for a security pact with Western Europe, which he nopes to send to the Senate “soon,” and he promised to strengthen non- Communist countries cooperating with American security plans by providing them U. S. miltary ad- /ice and equipment. His proposed new program for improving conditions in the areas which might cfier a breeding place for Communism amounted to a call for a new front in the cold war. In this endeavor the cooperation of allied nations would be “warmly welcomed,” the President said. World Conditions “More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery,” Mr. Truman declared. “Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their econ- omic life is primitive and stag- nant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas.” To combat those conditions he proposed enlisting American capi- tal investments and industrial skills —plus any assistance which might come from other sources, American Aim “Our aim,” he said, “should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efiorts, to pro- duce more food, more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to lighten their burders. We invite other countries to pool their technological resour- ces in this undertaking.” Truman Plan The “Truman Plan” for world betterment constituted the only new point in the President's four main courses of foreign policy ac- tion. Under the other three this nation would: 1. Continue “unfaltering support to the United Naticns” and search for ways to strengthen it. 2. Continue programs for world economic recovery; first, through the European Recovery Program; second, by increasing world trade. 3. Strengthen “freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggressipn.” Mr. Truman flatly promised: “We ill provide military advice and quipment to free nations which (Continued on l;ageflsix)