The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1949, Page 1

VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,109 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ luminum Co. Is Considerin PULP PROJECT IS OUTLINED BY TURCOTTE|: The president of a firm plan-i ning at $32,000,000 pulp plant in Ketchikan told the Senate Taxa- tion Committee here yesterday he believed a proposed one per cent property tax on full value would “put any proposed project right out the window.” £ The statement was made by Law- i son Turcotte of Bellingham, Wash.,, president of the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Co, in a discussion with the committee on plans for the big industrial project and the pos- sible eifects of the tax bill which' passed the House last week. He told the Senators the cost of building an Alaska plant and get- ting an adequate water supply would compare to a $20,000,000 lay- out in the southeastern states. “And if taxed on one per cent| of full value, no one would come ; into Alaska on that basis,” he de- | clared. { “It's a question we have to settle before we go ahead.” He said such a tax would add $3.20 per ton to extra Alaska costs | which he described as “already formidable.” Cost $18 Per Ton Extra He estimated the total Vernile Adams, 15, bottle feeds extra a two-day-old calf found on the range, abandoned by its mether in snowbound eastern Nevada. The Adams ranch is near Lund, Nevada, and its battle is being fed with hay dropped from Air Force planes. (# Wirephoto. and | o via - costs of financing, shipping Canadian rail transportation Prince Rupert, B. C., would make u the cost about $18 per ton above orway In similar Mississippi production. b “To offset this partially we hope { we can put bigger logs into the! li n e 'or mill cheaper than in the states | or British Columbia.” Mississippi, he said, offers sites tax free for 10 to 15 years. George Sundborg, Alaska Devel- | opment Board Consultant, said the; President of an Alaska industriali corporation considering a Sitka | pulp project had wired that tne:Nation Is Expected fo Join new Territorial taxes would “alto- ' . Group Supporting No. gether jeopardize our flnnncialf Atlantic Plan ed that there would be no income ! to exempt pulp and other major}NOrth Atlantic Pact would lose Turcotte estimated the proposed |note asking about her position on| schemes.” or property taxes. (By the Associated Press) new industries from the property D time in making Norway one of | mill at Ketchikan would employ the Atlantic Alliance sa‘d Norway DEATH TOLL OFBLIZZARD ~ RATED HIGH [Millions of Dollars Dam- age Done to Cifrus and Vegetable Crops (By The Associated Press) | Weather's wintry elements lashed jout cver states from Texas to Cali- fornia in January, causing at least |112 deaths and millions of dollars to citrus and vegetable damage crops. But the finat aeath toll, property | amage andelivestock losses remains ymale in any occupation in this Ter-1 Labor Bills Bogged Down | This Morning| Minimum W;g_é and Wom- en’s Pay Bills Are Sent Back for Rebuilding By BOB DeARMOND Labor Bills struck sandbars in both the Senate and House this morning and were finally backed off and sent to the respective Ju- diciary Committees where they will be put on the ways for overhauling. The Senate had under considera- tion Senator Anita Garnick’s S.B. 12, to provide equal pay for women employees. ‘The Bill provides that “no. em- ployer shall discriminate in any way in the payment of wages as between the sexes, or shall employ any !e-l ritory at salary or wage rates less than the rates paid to male em-! ployees for work of comparable| character or work on compnrablel operations.” The Bill in addition provides ma- chinery for collection of unpaid wages, and this feature brought the first objection, from Senator Frank e Barr. The Bill states that employers who are defendants in it e When a Rock Island freight train Marble Rock, Ia. than 20 feet into the air. cle for costs of the action should he lose the case. Senator Barr wanted to know who would pay the costs in the event that the plaintiff lost the action. ONCE AN EMPLOYER [ Senator Barr said that e had| at one time been an employer but that he quickly saw the light and tecame an employee. “This Bill” H he said, “is designed to protect em<{] K ll ployees against unreasonable em-} ployers but there is nothing in itl to protect the employer from un- AMERI(A“ IN MEXICO reasonable employees.” Labor Commissioner Henry Ben-: son was called in to answer Sena-; tor Barr's question and the gques- tions of other senators. | Benson said that he would have| no objection to a change in the Bill to clear up this section and another change to eliminate the re-| o, e v e Truman-$falin Proposed Conference Must Be Held In Washingfon; U. S. Firm quirement that employers make such reports as the Commissioner of La- bor may require. Senator Charles D, Jones objected Government Livesfock In- spector, Companions The wire added that in solicit-; ing financing it had been stress-, Sundborg proposed to the Sena-| Western diplomats predicted to- tors an amendment of the bm:day the nations negotiating the tax for their first ten years of i their group, despite Soviet pressure. operation. | The Norwegian reply to a Soviet | 400 men, with at least 350 more |f€lt it necessary to seek “increased in the woods. Stevedoring, tow- !security” through defensive cooper- ing and other work, he said, would {ation, such as ties with the West-| bring the total to 1,000 or more, {€rh powers. with all employed the year around.| Norway added, however, that she Want Industries ‘would not grant bases on her soil Senator Rivers, committee chair-|to foreign powers, unless she is at- man, assured the hearing that the tacked or threatened with aggres: legislators were anxious for new sion. undeterm'ned as the storm-battered | western section of the nation still (reeled from the January blizzards. { A survey today unfolded to some !extent the widespread damage over the storm belt from the worst weather in several years. The death toll in 15 states hit by | blizzards, sub-zero temperatures and Aftacked, Mexicans | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2.—(M—Rot- ert L. Proctor, foot and mouth com- | STATEMENTS CONFLICT mission inspector of Tucson, Ariz., In his general statement on the|yw,q yilleq py a native mob Monday features of §.B. 12, Commissioner, oy o mountain village 75 miles north- Benson asserted that if women areiyect of pnere, paid less than men the men Will be| " procior was thought to have es- to the requirement concerning thef filing of reports and pointed out that this might become a great bur-} den to the small employer. industries and would try to evolve lice and sleet storms was at least the last hired and first fired on ;caped after he and three others were a satisfactory solution. Willliam Baker, Ketchikan edi- SITUATION IN CHINA Acting President Li Tsung-jen of ‘China may fly to Communist terri- (tory to Yry for peace, Nanking in formants s; but only if all other peace efforts collapsed. (Continued on Page Eight) 1112, { The damage to citrus and vege- table crops runs into the millions of dollars—$30,000,000 in California ‘alone. The livestock loss still is undeter- |mined and probably will not be any job that can b_e performed tyigtiacked by about 600 men and women. This, he said, would result|yomen a5 they rode horseback into in a breaking downm in our Work|ga.n pedro Del Alto, five mles from | standnrds_, 5 _ Temascaltzingo. Canneries are especially discrimi- Proctor, the commission learned natory in employment, Bensonii,qay was killed and burizd at the | charged, and resident women work-nvillnge and later that night his The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Administration spokesmen on Capitol Hill are be- ginning to wonder whether Presi dent Truman’s program may be an- { other victim of “government-by- crony.” In this case the crony is good old John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury. The re-enactment of a modified excess-profits tax on corporations ! was recommended by Truman in both his 198 message on the State of the Union and in his address to the special session of Congress last July. It was recommended, how- Chiang Kai-shek’s plan to tight known until spring. The job of sav- on in South China, if peace efforts;ing the thousands of cattle and fail, appeared to be getting snarled 'sheep which were snowbound on the in a tangle of intrigue. All parties Western rangelands by January appeared bent on trying to split the blizzards still is not finished. Neith- others into factions. \er is the huge task of bringing re- lief to the thousands of marooned The formal inclusion of the mod- |ranchers and Indians. ern part of Jerusalem within the/ Some communities in the western sovereign boundaries of Israel may 'tlizzard area were isolated for days be announced soon. |—some for weeks. i | The Federal government joined In Berlin the German Commun- With western blizzard states in the ists People’s €ouncil called upon the relief and rescue work. Planes and German people to stage a mass SDOW-moving equipment moved in. demonstration against the Western Bulldozers and snow plows opened Powers. 1 f |the snow-locked highways and sec- jondary roads. Planes carrying tons In Buenos Aires the majority Per-|0f hay flew over the isolated re- gions, dropping their cargo to the starving livestock. Planes also took food and medical supplies to snow- onista party decided in favor of re- taining a constitutional provision which would prevent President Juan ever, despite the violent objection |D. Peron from succeeding himselt.;‘ of John Snyder, who was so op-| Reversing their previous stand the} posed that the President had to|party agreed to continue in force| turn to his Council of Economic|a provision of the 1853 constitution} Advisers for tax advice. providing the President may not| This year, with corporate profits |serve consecutive six-year terms. 1 at an all-time high, such admin- —————,———— | istration stalwarts as Rep. John D. 3 Dingell (Mich.), Rep. Herman Eb- ! LUCAS GOES SOUTH H erharter (Pa.), and Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (Wyo.) came to the Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lucas are conclusion that another excess- |enroute to Seattle aboard the Baranof. Mr. Lucas will attend profits tax recommendation was bound communities and Indian res- ervations. In Wyoming out of an estimated 775,000 cattle and 1,500,000 sheep, the estimated losses run from 50,000 to 60,000 cattle and 105,000 to 110,- 000 sheep. {C. OF C. TO HONOR MEMBERS OF HOUSE ers are not given the same work opportunities and are paid less than imported male workers. Senator Victor C. Rivers pointed out a discrepancy in Benson's state- ments and the Commissioner repeat- ed his assertions regarding can- nery labor. Local women cannery workers have a chance for employment when but when the runs slack off the low-paid women workers are the first to be laid off. $5 AN HOUR Questioned by Senator Frank Peratrovich on the effect of this bill on women cannery workers do- ing work comparable with that per- formed by men who have a seasonal guarantee, Benson said that the guarantees would be taken into con- sideration in calculating the wage rate. “If a male cannery hand had a guarantee of $400 for the season and performed only 80 hours of labor during the season, the wage rate for women performing the same job would automatically become $5 an hour,” Benson said. Senator Collins wanted to know whether he would be required to pay a female stenographer the same wage as a male stenographer if the certain to come from the White 2 10-day Federal Housing Author-| Members of the Territorial House [ ja¢ter performed 20 percent more louse. So repared bills for |ity conference while Mrs. Lucas :ln excess-pr:ffis puf to be intro- Plans to spend a full month on duced early in the 81st Congress. Much to their amazement, how- | Visit their son Harry Ll._lcas, Jr., ever, they ' were left out on 'the in Seattle. Mrs..Lucas will go on of Representatives will be honored |as guests of the Juneau Chamber of {the West Coast. The couple will Commerce, at the weekly luncheon|y;;iting the payment of a production ! meeting tomorrow at the Baranot | onys,” Benson said. | Hotel. work during the same time. “There is nothing in the Bill pro- fish runs are heavy, Benson said,| body was taken into the hills and| ireburied. Today, Mexican troops ‘Lrought the body here. i Proctor was 23 and spck2 Spanish lfluently and apparently got along {well with the Mexican peasants. He joined the joint U. S. Foot and lMout.h Disease Commission here on Nov. 11, 1648. * | This is the third clash in which| men of the joint U. S.-Mexico com- mission {fighting the livestock di-} sease have been killed. Opposition to vaccination con- tinues in some isolated districts but the commission generally finds the farmers cooperating. The slaughter of an'mals was abandoned a year| ago except in extreme cases and vaccination sutstituted. l — e ——— STEAMER MOVEMENTS | i Baranof scheduled to sail from 1Seattle Saturday. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Monday. Alaska scheduled southbound on Monday. S P MR. AND MRS. JEFFREY ARE ) ARRIVALS, BARANOF HOTEL Arrivals in Juneau on the Alaska from Ketchikan were Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Jeffrey. They will remain in Juneau until the sailing of the Baranof for the westward next Plani In Alaska Streamliner in "'Triangle” o and the WASHINGTON, ... Feb. | 2.—~#— An unofficial gesture by Premier Stalin for a get-together with President Truman behind the Iron Curtain found the White House standing pat today on its Wash- ington-only terms. Offer was not made to Mr. Tru- man directly. It was contained in a second exchange of messages with jan American newsman, Stalin’s published reply suggest- ed Russia, Poland or Czechoslovakia as the locale for a meeting. It said the Premier’s health would not permit any long trip by sea or air. This was the same reason Stalin had given previously to both residents Roosevelt and Truman In rejecting invitations to come to the Unived Stute/s. As for today's gesture by Stalin, White House Press Secretary C. G. Ross said that all Mr. Truman had on it was from newspaper stories and radio broadcasts. Standard White House response to such feelers has been that the President is willing to talk peace eny time but that the place to do it is Washington. Implicit also has been the suggestion that acts by Russia, rather than talk, would be the best proof of Soviet in- tentions. Ross told a news conference that Mr. Truman has not received any Minneapolis to St. Louis Z: the impact caused the streamliner to buckle, and pushed the cab of the engine more The Marble Rock Fire Department removed the injured fireman and engineer by means of a ladder. (® Wirephoto, IPLANS ARE ANNOUNCED " BY WARNE Assistant SecTefary of In- terior Gives Qut His Information WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—P—A |government official told a Senate today the Aluminum | committee Company of America is consider- ing construction of an aluminum plant in Alaska. | The testimony came from W. E. | Warne, Assistant Secretary of In- terior, at a hearing before the {Senate Interior Company. Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) ' asked the witness if ALCOLA is iplanning a plant in Alaska. Ans- wering in the affirmative, added that the plans have ot igone far enough for any public statement as to the details. | Warne went on to say the plant iwould be in Southeast Alaska, | north of Ketchikan, and would re- iquire a treaty between the United |States and Canada, as it will “in- | volve international waters.” i | He sald he thought plans were Warne earlier had told the com- { . . i Legislation Would Put:, Visme *eid that trucking servics SRS ~--— 1to have part of the aluminum mak- mittee, which is studying the con- {tant to the Territory. { Tax fo Pre-War Levels- |t the Territory i | s, s aphyr-Rocket collided headon near ithe company was attracted to Al- laska by the availability of a pow- {er supply. |of the natives. He urged early ac- |tion by Congress to settle the prob- ! lem. ing process in Alaska and part in {Oregon or Washington. He said EX(ISE TAXB | servation, development and use of q . 'natural resources, that Alaska's | development is being retarded by . 2 failure to settle aboriginal rights “Through such services,” he said, " “Montana has becol the gat Announcement Made |, cutans has become the gateway | He also urged that Congress ap- WASHINGTON, Feb. 2@ prove a railroad connection be- House Republican Leader Martin!tween Canadian railroads and the (Mags.) today proposed that con-lAlaskn Railroad. Warne . “luxury” taxes on theatre( and movie tickets, railroad !ares.l |furs, luggage, cosmetics and tele-| phone bilis, i Martin announced he has drawn | llegislation to cut back these taxes. | He issued a statement saying, “Con- gress and the Administration can no longer justify the maintenance of high’ war-time excise rates on a few products of industry.” Martin’s bill skips whisky and to-{ bacco in the list of excises he would | |slash. The liquor levy would remain; gress cut most excise taxes back to, R 5.0 2 o5 AT | pre-war levels. ! ‘These are the levies, somcllmes'umAK lsl‘un called i LIVESTOCK GETS AIRLIFT FODDER SEATTLE, Feb. 2—(®-- Cows, horses and sheep on trgeless Um- nak Island are munching fodder again today thanks to the Coast Guard. District headquarters here report- ed the buoy tender Bittersweet's |at $9 a gallon, instead of reverting [haylift to the snow-covered island ito the pre-war $4 a gallon. Tobacco|Was completed yesterday with the taxes would stay where they are. }delivery of seven tons of oats, 10 Martin made on estimate on howjtons of timothy and three tons of Imuch government revenues would|alfalfa, fall if the cuts he asked were mude.' They will go into the mouths of ——— 13,000 sheep, six Guernseys and a dozen horses. ® 0000600000 000 | jlong e » * WEATHER REPORT ° ;v;)‘;fi’c(l..nm Stalin himself on the| g (U.'s. WEATHER BUREAU @ His conference with reporters to- : 3‘1;: S:;?nls ;9;02:2:’";?‘: : day began with a question about|g n June‘m.:;—— sy i the report by the International|g minfmum, 24 B ™ News Becyiops |® At Alrport— Maximum, 30, ® vy E |® minimum, 14. . REPORTED INVITATION le S e T 2 NEW YORK, Feb, 2.— (Juneau and Vicinity) . National Broadcasting Co. reported | ® Increasing cloudiness to- -‘ from Paris today that Prime Min- |® night and Thursday with e ister Stalin has invited President|® Snow flurries by Thursday e Truman to meet withshim in Rus- ® night. Lowest temperature e ! sia, Poland or Czechoslovakia. | ® tonight near 24 degrees. In- e NBC Correspondent Henry €. ® creasing easterly winds on o Cassidy sal { Thursday. o) “In a second message to Kings- ® PRECIPITATION o bury Smith, European manager of | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ the International News Service,|® In Juneau — .01 inches; e Stalin today has invited the Presi-|® ‘since Feb. 1, .01 inches; e dent to come to Russia or to meet|® #ince July 1, 89.27 inches, him in Poland or Czechoslovakia. ® Af, the Airpor Trace; o Stalin says his doctors forbid him|® since July 1, 5625 inches. e to make the long trip to Washing- ton where President Truman has expressed willingness to receive the Russian leader. Stalin dots all the | i's and crosses the t's of this in- vitation by naming the specific | — cities in which President Truman, NEW YORK, Feb. 2 would be welcomed.® The include ing quotation of Alaska Moscow, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, mine stock today is 3%, American Odessa and Yalta.” !Can 887%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- “Stalin recalled it has long been | Wright 8%, International Harvest- | his wish to meet the President er 25%, Kennecott 51'i, New York again and he told Mr. Truman so |Central 12, Northern Pacific 16%, ago as 1945 in Potsdam.” U. 8. Steel 75, Pound $4.03%. ® 8o e e s s s 900 00 — e STOCK QUOiATIONS | ~(P—Clos- Juneau l The Bittersweet also put ashore 20 barrels of stove oil, eight bar- rels of gasoline, eight pouches of mail and a ton of miscellaneous sup- plies, including a diesel block and fuel for the Umnak LORAN station. "LADY SECTION GANG” REPCRTED ON ALASKA RR WASHINGTON, Feb, 2—#— Col. J. P. Johnson, general man= ager of the Alaska Railroad, re- ported today “a lady section gang” cn his railroad “has the best kept section along the railroad.” Johnson explained to the Sen- ate Interior Committee that eight Indian women comprise the sec- tion gang at Cantwell, about half- way between Anchorage and Fair- banks. “That section,” he said, “is the best kept section along the railroad. It is a rugged country.” ' P B DGS fo SHR WAMCAT DELAYED Weather hazards have stopped the A.CS. workboat Wamcat on iits way to Sentinel Island, Eldred Rock and Skagway to check and repair repeater stations. The Wamcat lelt Juneau early | senator Rivers thought that the!Tuesday, and plan to return here limb when the Truman State of i (Continued on Page Four) ¢ to Portland to visit other friends Introduction of guests and regular business is expected to occupy the \moon hour, | and Mr. Lucas will return to Ju- neau. (Continued on Page Two) minimum wage bill, now before the‘for a longer stay in the spring. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey are staying at the Baranof Hotel, - -oes Of the world’s states, Russia i the largest, with 8349999 square miles, 3 Sales teday were 720,000 shares. this merning, and when last con- Averages today are as follows: industrials 180.27, rails 52.85, util- rities 35.06 tacted was fighting it out at Tee Harbor, where it was expected to remain most of the day.