The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TI.’llE_'” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949 VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,105 House Again Passes Fish Trap Judge Parts Bride, Groom HOUSE PASSES PROPERTY TAX SECOND TIME Four Representatives Switch to Opposition in Yesterday's Voling By JIM HUTCHESON A one per cent property tax bill was through the House yesterday,| virtually in the same form in which it was passed by the special | session. It includes a $2,500 exemption | for personal property but no real! property exemption. It went on to the Senate be-| hind a 17-7 vote after hours of, wrangling, including efforts to send the measure back to the Ways andl Means Committee. Five Democrats and two Repub. licans opposed the bill. The main controversy was over; what exemptions should be allow- ed. Marcus Jensen, Democrat from | Douglas, challenged the whole} property tax proposal as one not based on ability to pay. Democratic Leader Stanley Mc- | Cutcheon left the Speaker's chair to reply: “It's time we' remember the people at the pols sajd they, wanted a property tax, "We've gone | over it thoroughly and it is thel best bill be can arrive at. The little man must put his shoulder. to the wheel, too.” i Appropriate §%,5(> The Senate received §wo bills, one | resoluation and one Memorial. The major bill would appropriate $7,500 for Public Welfare relief for | the biennium ending , March 31| ‘The ‘Memorial,-inteodtced by Barr and McCutcheon, requests that Civil Aeronautics Board control | over small commercial aircraft in Alaska be “abolished or greatly limited.” The property tax bill in the spec- | ial session passed the House with only three negative votes, but died | in the Senate. Voting against it yesterday were ‘Democrats Franklin, Hope, Jensen, Rydeen and Taylor and Republi- | cans Miscovich and Frank L. John- | / MEMBER ASSO CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Billie Don Adams, 18, and his 14-year-old bride, Jeannette Johnson » hold hands in a Los Angeles court as Superior Judge Thomas Adams Cunningham ordered them to part Ariz., and Jeannette’s mother, Mrs. Mary Canter, asked the court to separate them. # Wirephoto. BUZZBOMBS BE TRIED OUT ARCTIC TESTS {"Tarzons” and "'Razons’” Will Be Dropped by Air Force Next Month WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, ‘The Air Force will begin Arctic t WELLES NOT LI SEEKING PEACE TALKS; (CHAOS REIGNS Two Nationalist “Officials Missing-May Be Con- ferring with Chiang (By The Associated Press) Acting President Li Tsung-jen of China appealed today to the Com- munists to name the place and negot ators for peace talks. Meanwhile chaos, a condition fav- ored by Communism, spread through | the sprawling country. g Premier Sun Fo and Foreign Minister Wu Te-chen, regarded as| the main advocates for fighting on,! were stranzely missing and perhaps in conference with Chiang Kai- shek. Friends said they feared Li . - * - i e mugat nand them over to the Com- | munists as war criminals. One re-| port was that a move was afoot to| establish a fugitive government in | revolt against Li, with Chlang prot ably again at the head. ‘A regiment of Nationalist trozps| revolted at Peiping when ordered into Red territory. Their com- mander, Gen, Shih Chuch, had op-| posed bitterly giving up Peiping with hardly a battle. The City apparently | is to be taken over by a joint com- | | mittee of four Communists and three Nationalists. H | —— e | company. They eloped to Yuma, W LABOR LAW RULES HELD BACK WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—P— The administration today delayed | \telling Congress what it wants in, |8 new labor law. 1 . Secretary of Labor Tobin had| |arranged to give the Senate La- \bor Committee a blueprint this i morning, but the meeting was post- !poned “until further notice.” | Tobin had been called as the first | | T0 LOSE HIS . HANDS, FEET i | New Treatment for Frost- bites Developed - Is Used by Specialist WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—®— A recently developed treatment for son of Neme. Taylor argued vigor- {of radio-controlled bombs and V-1 ously against critics of the bill flying buzz bombs in Alaska next severe irostbite was credited today 'witness at public hearings on pr during the debate—although he said | he thought the personal property exemption should be only $200— | but on the final vote he said “nay.” Jensen said passage “will it} many people who can't pay and will make the Territory look like a sec- ond hand store with -many proper- | ties on the auction block.” Deter New Industries He also argued it would deter new industries, with special refer-| ence to proposed Southeast Alaska ! pulp mills. Taylor asked Jensen and Glen Franklin, Fairbanks Democrat who also opposed the bill: “Does any community become exempt from property tax payments because of inability to pay? It is based on the possession of worldly goods.” Franklin declared “we can raise as much by adding five or six per cent to the income tax. That would be on ability to pay and would bring no squawks. This is aimed at big industries but will | (Continued on Page Eight) 1 The Washington! |with saving Sumner Welles from posals to repeal the Taft-Hartley | month. | ! jare dropped It was announced today that tests at Ladd Air Base will involve use of the 12,000-pound “Tarzon,” the 1,000-pound “Razon,” and the American model of the buzz bomb used by the Germans against Lon- don in World War Two. | The “Tarzon” and the “Razon” from planes in the, conventional manner and are class- ed as “free falling” However, through radio devices operating the fins their fall can be affected and the tomb steered toward a target. The buzz bomb is powered, has! rudimentary wings and can be launched from ground installations, or from a plane, and flys to its tar-, get. | The Air Force saia that in the Alaska tests the radio-controlled’ bombs will be dropped from B-29 bombers and the buzz bombs will be, launched from the superfortresses., .- | CARLJ.LOMEN " INWASHINGTON possible loss of his hands and feet. Law. The 56-year-old former Undersec- ; President Truman already has| retary of State was found uncon- tgld Congress he wants the Taft- | scious and frostbitten early Dec. Hartley Law repealed and the! 26 in a snow-flecked field that wagner Act restored with “cer-| bordered a stream near his Oxon tain improvement.” Hill, Md,, estate. | The Air Force threw full support Now, after use of the treatment pehind President Truman’s 48-group | by a epecialist, he is reported ap-iAir Force plan but said the: parently free of any danger of !strength should be increased to 70| amputation and about ready togroups when the nation can afford leave the hospital. | the extra expense. { At the hospital, Dr. R. J. Veal, 8| The endorsement came from Air | vascular surgeon, prescribed this | Secretary Symington, who testified treatment: !beiorc the House Armed Services Welles was placed in an unheat~ | Committee. Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden- ! ed room. Cold packs were applied |berg, Air Force Chief of Staff, to his frostbitten limbs; whirlpool |said the 48 group force would cost baths were used to massage affect- | between $4,500,000,000 and 35.000‘-5 ed muscles. and joints; and peni- /000,000, compared with 57,500.000,-' cillin was injected to prevent blist- |000 for a 70-group establishment. ering. The drug heparin also was| The President’s $14,268,000,000 de-: used to prevent blood clotting, and'(ense budget for the fiscal year| encourage circulation. This wards |starting July 1, appeared safe fmml off gangrene that might make am- major cuts, but the Air Force may! putation necessary. jget & bigger slice than he propos-; FISHERMEN MAY [ . i JOIN BRIDGES' that the Senate should kill the; '!i]lbuster because there is danger it might be used some day by‘ | communists. H Lodge told the Senate Rules| Baled hay goes out the 65 miles northeast of Ely tecn C-82¢ are dropping feed to s Nev. » Starving sheep huddled about the carcasses of cther sheep dead of exposure and hunger on ranchs near Ely, Nevada, were found as snowplows and horses finally fought their way to the snowbound livestock. Sheep and cattle in the Ely area are being f:d hay dumped from planes of the Air Corps “Qperations Haylift.” (® Wirephoto. Hay Dumped for Starving ack door of a C This R ome 185,000 animal: on sn Starving Nevada Shéep SHIPS CRASH 1M DARKNESS; OVERGOODIE Two Companions Perish SHANGHAI, Jan. 28—@—Virt- ually all hope was abandoned to- day for more than 600 passengers and crewmen of two Chinese ships that collided 100 milese from Shanghai. Survive On NOME, Alaska, Jan. 28.—(P—The prayers of his two companions, both of whom died, enabled Gregory Ayac to survive 17 days on an Arc- tic ice floe, the 24-year-old Esk'mo saia from his<hospital bed. i Livestock 82 to feed starving catile marosned on eastern N articular dron, cne of many was for isolated cattle ranch. whbound ra Prayers Aid Eskimo fo Tax Measure N " HOUSE, SENATE IN ABSREVIATED SESSIONS TODAY Fish Trap Bili Again Pass- esby Vote of 2310 1 —Nglan No a brlei .lorenoon session today the House of Representatives !passed two Lills and ieceived one while the Senate, in an carlier but even shorter session, heard com- jmittce reports and communications. HB. 4, to increase the license | taxes on fish traps, quadrupling tt § jcost of the basic license and great- i1y Increasing the levy on fish caught went through the House by a 23-1 vote. It was unchanged in text from the specia: sess:on, when it also passed the House but died in the Senate. James Nolan voted against the bill, House members unanimously ap- | proved a $1500 appropriation for the office of the Territorial Treasurer. | The amount covers extra clerical help and printing and postage from Januvary 1 to March 31 of this year. Rep. Warren A. Taylor of Fair- banks introduced H.B. 21, amend- i ing the law relating to jury serv- ice. The Senate received a letter of | protest from Deep Sea Fishermen and Vessel Owners organizations protesting any increase in the motor fuels tax that would apply to fish- i ing vessels. A protest from Igloo 16, Pio- neers of Alaska, at Ketchikan,’ against allowing aliens to receive old age assistance benefits and against cutting the length of resi- 'dence required from five years to one was also received in the Sen- .ate. The disapproved features are {amendments to H:B. 1, and aré contained in the Biil as ft comes !trom the House. In the Senate yesterday after~ inoon Sehator Charles D. Jones of | Nome introduced 8.J.R. 2, which di- .rects the Department of Public y Welfare to cease payments to the Maynard Columbus Hospital at Nome for the care of Axel Werner. “This is the kind of bill that ! makes a man's face red,” Senator {Jones commented as he introduced ,the measure. * Two years ago Senator Jones in- troduced a resolution directing the Welfare Department to make pay- ments, at the rate of $10 a day for the care of Werner. The Senate at that time passed the Resolution af- jter Senator Jones had explained ;that Werner was in such condition ithat he could not live more than a month or two. “Now he is livelier than I am,” ired-faced Senator Jones told his jcolleagues yesterday. ; | The senators eased his embar- Irassment by suspending the rules tand passing the Resolution by junanimous vote. l ‘The Senate also passed a bill to {appropriate $7500 for the Depart- ment of Public Welfare to expend for relief of destitution during the !remulnder of the current bien- nium. Introduced by the Finance ;Commmee. the bill was supported iby Senator John Butrovich, Finance ICmelnee chairman, who said that Irellet payments would have to te lcut 25 percent if the appropriation ‘were not made. | Senator Edward Anderson intro- [duced S.B. No. 7 which would amend ithe anti-discrimination Act, by elim- inating the provision that “each day !shall constitute a separate offense.” The section refers to the display of signs glving notice that only some classes of customers are not Durine ranges, Seven- nges. (M Wirephoto. Ice Floe as ed from spray as i- drifted on the ice. “Our parkas were frozen stiff,” he sald. “We jumped from one ice cake to another, building ,\hvltersl at night, huddling together until daybreak. We lived on raw meat jdesired in an establishment. | —————— 'ooo---.nococ le from two seals we caught.” ———ee | Io GET SEAWAll[ I.ONGSHOREME“P"""““”* there ds.00 guarantee| The Australian destroyer Wara- : i that Communists might }:‘D‘swme'mungn picked up 35 survivors, in- L i in a foothold in the Senate g " s of 4 SEATTLE, Jan, 28—(P—A move day gain cluding some crew members Of WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—®—l¢; aefiliate 26,000 West Coast and Carl J. Lomen, Alaska businessman, | ajaska commercial fishermen with{ Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON He finally drifted to ety at a fishing camp near Shishmaref, 500 |miles from where the three were and be able to tie up legislation|peth ships, the collier Kienyuan by unlimited debate. land the 4,000 ton freighter-pas- (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Certain Demo- cratic Senators are boiling mad at the State Department and even! irked at the White House for try-| ing to tell them not to support | United Nations policy regarding the Dutch in Indonesia. The incident is extremely sig- nificant. It may indicate what some diplomats have suspected, that the State Department was talking loud about forcing the Dutch to pipe down in Indonesia, while playing footsie with the Dutch under the table. Here is the inside story of what happened. Last week, twelve Sen- ators drafted a resolution vigor- ously supporting United States’ and United Nations’ positions regarding Dutch highhandedness in Indone- e e (Continued on Page, Four) R st has arrived to push for appropria-: g, » Y ) 1Ty Bridges’ International Long- i g: tion qf $1,020,000 for starting con-|shcremen and Warehousemen’s un- struction of a seawall to protect jon (CIO) was announced by a un- Nome, Alaska, from storms. That amount was recommended by President Truman in his tudget for the year starting July 1. ) {Princess Margaret Boss of Girl OQutfit| T ) ion official today. i Joseph Jurich, president of the International Fishermen and Allied | Workers (CIO), said under the |senger ship Taiping ‘The survivors, including some of the 500 war refugees aboard the Taiping, were landed in Shanghai tonight. Surviviors said the two ships crashed off the Island of Chu Shan in piich darkness. The Kien- yuan went down in five minutes. Lomen, President of the Lomen|pian his unicn would lose its pres- Commercial Company of Nome, said | ent identity and become fishe! he would urge the House A] ro- | s Sl 3 B PP men’s division of the longshore un- priations committee to allow the|jon, full amount. The affiliation m X ove, he said, The $2,250,000 project was au-|would be made at the annual con- thorized by the last Congress in its|vention of the IF.A.W., now under closing days. No appropriation has|way in Bellingham, Wash. Jurich been made. ; said the plan must be approved | Lomen said he is anxious to see|finally by members of the fish- iwork get under way in time to pro-|ernmen’s union in a referendum. | |tect Ncme from fall storms. A ST g g | The project has been approved by j POLARIS-TAKU MAN HERE | the Army engineers, who will con- struct the seawall. They have said| W. J. Nelson of the Pclaris- that $1,020,000 is all they can use!Taku mine at Tulsequah is ac the during the next fiscal year. Baranof Hotel. LONDON, Jan. 28—(P—Princess Margaret became boss of the Girl Guides' Sea Rangers section today. Her sister, Princess Elizabeth, had the job from 1945 to 1946, when she became Chief Ranger of the British Empire. —————— FROM SKAGWAY Mrs. Hal Johnston of Skagway is in town for several days and is staying at the Baranof. g MONTANA MEN HERE W. A. Carson and S. H. Harding are here from Helena, Montana, and are listed at the Baranof. Badly crippled herself, the Taiping picked up those struggling in the water and raced to go aground on the island, 10 miles away, but sank before reaching its goal STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver ischeduled to arrive Sunday after- (noon or evening. | Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle 10 a. m. tomorrow. Baranof scheduled southbound Sunday or Monday from swept to sea, and was flown (o Nome by a weather observer H | Hig fect are frozen, but he would | inot have suffered even this injury had his mukluks not been torn by Jjagged ice, Ay id. ' | He told his story to Emily Bouch- er of the Nome Nugget Ayac said the first to die was the |30-year-old father of three. He| !succumbed four days out. The other was the yrungest of the group, who jlost his ¥ ina and finally froze to | death Ayac said he saw air force search I planes overhead but was unatle to catch their attention. The Air Force gave up the search several days ago. S | A devout Catholic, he attributed his survival to the prayers of his | comp: | i ree were drench- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan, 28.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau g mine stock today is 3%, Americunl‘ Can 86%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-! Wright 8%, International Harvest-{g er 26, Kennecott 51%, New Yorkgq Central 12, Northern Pacific 16,4 U. 8. Steel 77, Pound $4.03%. e Sales today were 840,000 shares.|gq Averages today ar follows: industrials 178.62, rails 5263 ities 34.70. WEATHER REPORT i . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU |® This data i or 24-hour per- fod ending 6:3° am. PST, In Juneau— Maximum, 32; minimum, 18. At Airport— Maximum, 32; minimum, 6. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy witlp rain occasion- ally mixed with snow. Low- est temperature just above, freezing tonight. South- easterly winds occasionally as high as 25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION. (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® In Juneau — .18 inches; since Jan. 1, 1509 inches; since July 1, 89.05 inches. At Airport — 04 inches; since Jan. 1, 723 inches; since July 1, 56.11 inches. e vVEN LT - NEW STENOGRAPHER Mrs. Mary Carter, who Is a sten-; e ographer, has joined the staff of the Territorial Rent Office. Mrs. Carter was formerly with the Navy Department in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Mr, Carter is em- ployed by the C at the Juneau Municipal Airport,