The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1949, Page 1

SATURD 1 P.M. Editi | TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e—————— VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,100 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ PRICE TEN CENTS — T TWO S AIR FORCE CRAFT GOES INTO CRASH Surviving Cre—wman Walks| 5 Miles Through Snow fo Give Information GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. 22.! —(M-—Four of 12 crewmen were kill- ed last night when a B-29 crashed into a snow blanketed field minutes after taking off from the Great Falls Air Base. Three were dead in the wreck- age when rescuers arrived nearly four hours later. The fourth died in | the base hospital. Of the eight in- | jured ons is in a critical condition. | The 15th Air Force plane was on | a flight to its home base at Spokane, | Wash., from the Smoky Hill base atl 8alina, Kans. i A crewman who was thrown clear ; trudged five miles through heavy snow back to the base to notify of- ficials of the crash. Four-wheel- drive trucks were used to plow through four-foot snowdrifts to! evacuate the injured. There was no fi after the crash.| Planes wer sent aloft irop flares to locate the wreckaze. The dazed crewman was unable to guide | the rescuers back- to the scene. The nose section was snapped from the fuselage and hurled 100 yards away. The four engines and dezris were scattered for 500 a)ds to £ Summerlike weather br almost two monti sult, with Dot Smitt The 12-fool"Righ bush is a bead as an t out somz of Mobile, - Alabama’s famed of their normal biocming period. added attraction, is \'\‘)‘\n hore, s of pink bleoms, TAFLHARTLEY ACT |EGISLATURE smcu FOR REPEAL WILL START NEXT WEEK, SENATE, nen | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—®— Republican Senator Morse, (Ore) | today proposed an April target date | for a Senate vote on repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law. But Senator Lu- cas (II) the Democratic leader, called for a “much faster” pace. Morse told a reporter he will ask the Senate Labor Committee Mon- day to start hearings next week on a repeal bill and on restoration and revision of the old Wagner Act. Lucas called the Morse timetable toc slow, but declined to name a different date for a Senate vote. The Washington, Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON = | (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— While Wash- ington concentrated - on making Harry Truman the 32nd President of the United States, a lot of im- portant things habpened in the rest of the world just the same. ! Here are some of them: Bevin scolds U. S. Ambassador— While President Truman was bawl- | ing out British Ambassador Shl Oliver Franks, Foreign Minister | Bevin was doing the same to U. S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas. Douglas called on Bevin with a protest against the movement of British troops around the Palestine-Egyp- tian border. The Ambassador’s call was on the direct instruction of the White House, but Foreign Min- ister Bevin told him Britain would move troops as it pleased regard- | less of advice from the USA. i Secret decal with Tito—At long last, the American Embassy in Belgrade is closing a trade deal with Marshal Tito to wean him further away from the Iron Cur-| tain. Tito himself suggested the deal shortly after Moscow announc- ed it planned to cut Russian-Yugo- | slay trade by 90 per cent. Delight- | — ed with the Tito overture, the| State Department authorized the American Embassy in Belgrade to proceed rapidly, and we will soon trade American copper machinery | and oil for Yugoslav copper, lead | and zinc. This may be a big lep1 toward a new frendship with the once-belligerent and anti-American (Cnmlnued on Page Four) {was some doubt that {from Vancouver NEARS (LOSE OF SESSION Chances that the General Prop- erty Tax Bill will pass during the special sess'on dwindled almost to nothing this morning when the Senate voted 8-8 not to suspend its rules to advance ths bill. The spe- cial session is expected to end this afternoon or evening The Senate did pass the House Bill to increase the per diem allow- si jance for legislators from $7 to $15 per day, Senators Collins, Jones and Munz voting in the negative. The vote of these Three Muske- teers drew the commeant from Sen- ator Andrew Nerland that presum- ably the three would refuse the checks for per diem as illegal “They will ke able’ to go home and tell the voters that they opposed the bill to increase their own p: Nerland said. ‘Is the senator now trying uare himself with the voters to of ithe Fourth Division?” Senator Co.- lins wanted to know. After considerable debate, the Senate also passed HJR 1, to ex- mpt legislative employees from the law wh'ch prohitits payment of compensation to non-citizens. The greater portion of the morn- ing session was devoted to the Gen- eral Property Tax Bill and to the Taxation Committee’s report, which recommended the adoption of sev eral amendments. The proposed amendments would, among other things, cut the personal property exemption from $2500 back to $200 and would place a valuation of $500 instead of $100 on unpatented min- ing claims. Scheduled for Eenate calendar the House Bill to increase taxes on fish traps, althou 1 d th ce on the afternoon is license h there es car rule be secured to su (Contunued on Page Two) - e - STEAMER MOV EXTS | Baranof, from Seattle, to arrive Tuesday Princess Noral scheduled to sail | January 27. | Alaska scheduled southbound on Mcnday. scheduled LOST PLANE INTENSIFIED FAIRBANKS, Alas‘{fl Jan. 22— —The entire Yukon River Valley was under scrutiny by air today as Ladd Field Air Force fighter planes continued their search for a F-80 jet fighter missing since Wednes- day. Yesterday nine planes searched the Nenana area, with no results. Last heard from there, air field authorities believed perhaps he might have crash landed on a lake or river far from the area. The pilot’s name is being withheld pend- ing d:scovery of his whereabouts. GOPPARTY MAY PLAN REBUILD WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—P—A plan to rebuild the Republican Par- | ty from the grass roots up, through State and regional conferences, may be proposed to the GOP National Committee at Omaha, Neb. next! week. Senator Brewster of Maine told a reporter the idea of sectional meet- ings has been discussed by the Sen- ate Republican Policy Committee. The Senate group yesterday de- manded that the national committee consult with the lawmakers before calling any national policy-drafting conference such as suggested by GOP Chairman Hugh D. Scott, Jr. It instructed Brewster and Sen- ators Capehart of Indiana, Wherry of Nebraska and Butler of Nebraska to urge the party group to name a committes at its Omaha meeting to |g study the national conference plan, but to delay any actual call until later. “There sems to be quite a bit of sentiment for starting the work of rebuilding the party on a State level, followed by regional confer- ences,” Brewster said. B H. H. Guuden and J. J. O'Don- nell of the U. 8. Navy are register- ed at the Baranof Hotel. URVIVE GRASH 0 ALASKA PLANE ‘Move Toward = Statehood Is Devised Here ‘Ihird Division Legislalors| to Ask Convention in March By JIM HUTCHEION A group of Third Division Legis-: lators disclosed today a plan for a storteut to statehood. They decided at a caucus Friday night to introduce a bill at the opening of the regular legislative |sess’on Monday which would set up machinery to beat out Hawali as : 4yl state. A convention would be provided | to draft an Alaskan state comst.tu- tion without waiting any longer for Congress to cpen the statehood gate. 1.e legislators said that records show 14 states drafted constitutions | tefore Congress enacted enabling acts for tiem. | Rep. Stanley McCutcheon, Demo- cratic iloor leader who described 1949 as the year of “golden oppor- tunit; r becoming the 49th State, said the tentative pian calls for the helding of a convention and the election of two congressmen and two senators. | in effect it would tell Cungress |“here we are" when it convenes for | |1ts second session next Jamud¥y, ##o- i Cutcheon explained The tentative strategy is this: A'reterendum vote for a conven- tion would be held promptly. It |would authorize a constitutional ,u;m:‘nt.on to meet immediately upon the legislature’s adjournment !ln March. Legislators would choose nine others to sit with them in { convention. Four of the nine would |be federal judges, to continue the| ! numerical scheme that would total | | | | 1 | | ' 49, | The draft of the constitution then | would be submitted to the voters for rdtification at a special election jand a plan would be outlined for elec'mg senators and congressmen. McCutcheon said that Attorney General Ralph Rivers will assist in drafting the bill over the weekend. He added that Governor Gruening, endorsed the idea when it was pre- sented to him this week. Others in the caucus were Reps. Alfred A. Owen, Jr., Willlam A. Egan, C. (Red) Carlson and C. A. Pollard, and Sens. Walter Huntley and Steve McCutcheon, all of the ’Thud Division. ;IN(OME TAX | ACTIS NOW ALASKALAW The Alaska Net Income Tax is: now a law. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the taxable year beginning January 1, 1949, and is applicable {to the entire current year, includ- ing that part which has elapsed | | prior to the effective date of tne | Act. ~ Every employer making pay- | | ment. of wages or salaries slmll' deduct and withhold a tax in the | amount of ten per cent of the fed- eral income tax deducted and with- held from salaries and wages. Every employer making a de- duction and withholding as out- lined above, shall furnish to the employee upon request a record of the amount of tax withheld from | such employee on forms to be pre- scribed, prepared and furnished by | the tax commissioner. | Every employer making pay- | ments of wages or salaries earned in Alaska, regardless of the place | where such payment is made; (1) {shall be liable for the payment of | the tax required to be deducted and | withheld under the Act and shall | not be liable to any individual for the amount of any such payments; (Continued on Page E‘Jl i) s This aerial view shows cars and trucks gfl!h!‘red around the only yme 343 travel rs were crowded into the buildings at Reckport, Colo., r's worst blizzard trapped them. plane which dropped blankets and fcod to the marsomned travelers brought in this photograph. (P Wire- swept nerthern Colorado highway. for several days. pnote. MERCY PLANE HEADSNORTH WITHDOCTOR Epidemic Reported Three Months Ago Raging in Canadian Village | TRENTON, Olh - Juu 22.—M—A | | mercy plane took off for Winnipeg | today on the first leg of a flight to save a tiny Eskimo village in the Arctic from being wiped out-by a mysterious epidemic. The ski-equipped, twin-engined transport was dispatched after the Royal Canadian Air Force head- quarters here received word that a plague was ravaging the hamlet of Cresswell Bay in the Fort Ross area, approximately 1000 miles northwest of Churchill, Man. News of the epidemic, carried part lof the way from the north by dog team, was three months old. By November, nine of the 17 inhabitants of the village had died. The rescue plane is scheduled to pick up a doctor at Winnipeg and then go on to the village. The plane started for Winnipeg late yesterday but technical difficulties forced it to turn back then. D First Truck Brings Mail To Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 22.— (M—A glant 18-wheeled truck and trailer, carrying seven tons of mail, rolled into Anchorage today to Her- ald the beginning of overland service from Seattle. The trip was made in six days over the Alaska Highway. The big 12-ton capacity was the third to leave Seattle, but the first two were waved on to Fairbanks when deep snows at Tok Junction prevented their coming here The fourth truck is due to bring mail Saturday. ‘The service, under the Railway Mail Department, will be a five-day-a-week schedule, the trip to take five days. Deep snows delayed the first arrival The trucks are especially built and each is manned by two driv- ers. ANl were stranded when the ye: FOR IHIS WEMHER' pE A(E IN s theughs turned from cold and snow. for minute when Betsy Croft modeled this three- piece swim suit and skirt ensemble a at a California Apparel Creators annual Market Week showing in It's made of Tahi- top and Los Angeles. tian-printed cotton, witk: skirt added it's a patio dress fii for these lenged-for days of sum- mer. Cole of Califernia designed. ® Wirephoto. YOUNG PEOPLE T0 CONDUCT SERVICE, MEMORIAL CHURCH We-mmn.sw Fellowship, a church organizatibn primarily for young people, is conducting the Sunday evening service in Memorial Church. The Rev. Walter A. Sobo- leff is pastor. Sponsors of the fel- lowship are Mr. and Mrs, George C. Everest and Miss Jean Williams. The public is cordially invited to attend the program starting at 7:30 o’clook. The habitation in miles along a blizzard- | 'nayigation rules | | | | | | | | TWOALIVE, WRECI(AGE Passenger -Ha‘ngs Upside Down for 20 Hours-Pilot lsSurvwor—HospuaIued ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 22— | (M—Two survivors of an Alaska Air- |lines DC-3 plane crash were hos- An Army Air Force CHINAUP T0 REDS | passenger, | pitalized here today after being cut free from the wreckage. One, a had hung upside down against his safety belt for 20 hours. Four others died when the trans- | port smashed into a hillsite on the Kenal Peninsula Thursday night. Th2 man who dangled head down- ward in the shattered plane was | Peter Palmero, of San Francisco, the other survivor was Capt. R. D. Land, -pilat of the ill-lated craft. Rescue crews reported the body of Etewardess Lucina Nims of Ever- ton, Wash, had not been found. Fem'nine clothing was seen in a tanzle of debris in the middle of the wreckage ang it was assumed her tody was there. Also abcard were co-pilot Robkert Stevens of Seattle, Roscoe Speacs of Dillingham, Alas- ‘kl, and Stanlvy Hillman ol Anchor- | age. Palmero was in a critical condi- ition and Land, whose home is An- | chorage, is in serious condition at a ;hospltu here. Both had frozen feet and other injuries. BHOUT SHOWS LIFE ,The rescuers, who at first thought there were no survivors, had {started to hack thelr way into the wreckage when they heard a shout. They found Paimero hanging up- side down, unable to unfasten his sarety belt. The two surv.vors .were brouzht out by a ski-equipped plane. Re- | Tottering Nationalist Gov-| ernment Names Dele- | gates to Make Terms NANKING, Jan. 22— China's| tottering government tonight an- nounced the appointment of five! delegates to negotiate peace with the Communists. Heading the delezation will be Shao Li-tze, a veteran advocate of | peace between the Nationalists und" the Reds. | Appointment of the peace mission cam2 a few hours after Acting President Li Tsung-jen assumed the powers of Chiang Kai-shek, who| retired yesterday after 22 years at the helm of Nationalist China. (There apparently was still no in- dication that the Communists would deal with the Government on any- thing except Red terms. Li's intention to send a peace delegation was announced carier in the day at a tea party of govern- ment officials. Appointed with Chih-chung, Gove mander in Northwest China, and three relatively minor officials, | Huang Shro-hsiung, Peng Chao- hsien, and Chung Tien-hsing Chang was one cf General Mar- | | o were Chang 1ment com- (Continued on Page Two) CHARGED WITH | LAW VIOLATION SEATTLE, were on file Court against Reefer King, Jan v in Federal the fishing ve Ll| saying it violated | in hauling cargo to Honolulu in October The action, filed by the U 22 Charges | Distriet S. At-| ; torney’s office, sought condemnation and sale of the craft to pay a $1.- 000 fine assessed in November Coast Guard headquarters report- ed the Reefer King did not cumply, with inspection, load line and man- ! ning requirements in making the Hawail trip with general cargo. W. D. Suryan, el manager, said such trips were “customary in the Alaska trade” and the owner thought them ' permissable for Hawailan vovages. er, | turning for bodies, it flipped over in landing, but its crew was unhurt. The airliner had stopped at Hom- Alaska, on a scheduled ilight, and was due at Anchorage at 10:59 p.m. (PST) Thursday. A searching | B-17 from the Tenth Rescue squad- | ron sighted the wreckage at 4:20 am. and shortly before noon yes- (terday a ground party from Homer reached the scene, CRY ETARTS APPEAL When the rescuers heard Paimero’s cry they sent out an appeal for cars, saws and axes, relaying the message through a B-17 cruising overhead. The rospital here at frst had a report Spears was a survivor, but it was Land who was brought in ior treatment. Palmero was the first man taken frcm the crait and flown to Anchorage. It was not known if cither of the two had tfemained conscious all through the 20-hour ordeal. Donald E. Brown, squadron sur- ;con, and a madical technician, ac- ompanied the rescue crew. It was Brown who sent back word that only the two had survived the crash, The word that there were sur- vivors came after a ground party from Homer reached the scene and radioed that all were dead. The airline started not'fyinz relatives to that effect. Then came the second | report. ALASKA VESSEL | D 'LAWMAKERS INVITED 10 MINFIELD HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON Members of the Nineteenth Legis- | lature will visit the Miniield Home near Juneau tomorrow, it was an- nounced today in both houses of the Legislature. A special bus will leave the Baranof Hotel at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afterncon for the home, which is on Eagle River Highway. The invitation to visit the home was issued by Miss Minnie Fields, who ‘operates the institution, and arrangements were made by the Territorial Institutions Committees of the House and Senate. IS AR FROM FIRST CITY Frank Melang, Jr., of Ketchikan is staying at the Gastineau Hotel,