The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY I'P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,112 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Demands Death Penalty for Cathoizc Cardmal HOUSING PROGRAM PASSES Miss Australia |RETIREMENT SYSTEM HAS SENATE 0. K. | Gratitude Cars | | I [ £ | A TREASON ~ TRIAL IS NEAR END il e ‘ H A | A vetirement system for Terri- - House Bill Carries $250,- torial employees, and in which ‘ 000 Appropria"on_Air municipalities may participate 1f | VICeS'em World Waf(heS eir ers so decide, was approv- i ici M ial Introduced 1 by the Senate yesterday aftdtak ase with Skephusm, emorial Iniro | wen and is expected to have little | ShO(ked Amazemen' ouble in passing the House. | (By JAMES HUTCHESON) All Territorial employees except | AN Legislation to clear the way for cachers, who have their own re- | (By The Associated Press) large-scale housing program by | irement system, will come under | The prosecution asked the death the Alaska Housing Authority he plan and will contribute five | | penalty today for Josef Cardinal R passed the Territorial House yes- | sor cent of their wages to mefi ;Mlnnszemy and the six other men terday, 23-1. The bill carries a| | etivement fund. ; ‘be!ng trlgd with the Roman Catholic $250,600 appropriation | | A total of 375 Territorial em- | {?Nmflm in a tiny Budapest court- The measure authorizes and di-| | “loyees will come under the §ys- room. rects the Housing Authority to| em, Arthur A. Hedzes, director of | The w g ; build, operate, rent and sell facil- | Territorial ‘Employment Kis i'rln:‘seixesct::m‘fx;rx]::'1:,:;]’?;:;:; o fo. ogst 6. Matal. | ice, told the Senate yesterday, with skepticism and shocked amaze- Other major yesterday afternoon | They will be compelled, under the | HiahE, legislative developments includes: | rovisicns o1 S.B. 4, to retire at, 1. The Senate passed, 15-1, a, | be age of 65 and will draw pen-1 Under Hungarian judicial pro- Bill is establish a public em-| | ions amounting to from $120 to! g 5 . . jcedure the prosecution does not B, ployees' retircment system | n estimated $150 a month, des} Cars of the French Gratitude Train designated for tihe Siites of Washingten (foreground) » .recommend a sentence in so many Air Memorial | Cnding upon 1ongth of service ana | re usloaded frcm the frcizhter Magellan at Wechawken, N. J. Cars for each of the 48 States and the words. But Prosecutor Gyula Elapi 2. The House passed, 22 to 2| | vages they received. | + District of Columbia are loaded with gifts from the p zople of France. (P Wirephoto. meant death by hanging when he a House Memorial advocating ex- Employees with 10 years of ser- | called on the five-man court to re- . emption of non-certified Alaska | | ice could retire at the age of 60 o turn a verdict lm:d and inexorable” air carriers from tightening of a | ‘nd those with 20 years of serviza ,l" verdh:L_ that “should stigmatize Civil Aeronautics Board regulation | | ‘ould retire at the age of* 55 unde, epar men o n e rlor s the traitors. governing irregular flights. | he system. Hungary's Communist-dominated The air memorial, offered by | Six Are Eligible i . ;l:;;:r;l’;em":as charged the de- crat, said Alaska’s non-scheduled . | he Territory will be 65 years of oo ‘::;Yd den. n:& The carriers needed special, consideration | . e by next January 1 when the [ng sl :lou i vz;dlcm. |+' because flying plays a unique and | L Tl T nes poses at the ccean’s edge near Sydney, Australia, | YSem is to go into effect, Hedges be resched bt MEONEA el o indispensable role in the Territory. | 4 fi 4 old the Senators. Six of these by y, perhaps to. Tt was changed Into & strajght | her home after being chosen ss Australia of 1948" on January 27. | A U SOOI LE o dons | urvey’ o as a night. House Memorial instead of a Joint | With the title goes a complete wardrobe of clothes and a six months | /o eino 40" o total of $780 a) P;mecuwr Elapi said the Hun- Memorial to avoid delay in await-| luxury teur of the worid. She is 24 and a photographic model. nonth. i Ailinls 'Z‘:!;‘v:;l ol()wg:.ifl::;“m:d d“:t:z re- ing Senate approval. It will be| Nearly 200 other girls cumpetcd L4 “’ircphol:n The 375 persons on the Territor- WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—M—Rep. . . 44 Y. e sent to Washington for presenta- | O L. al paymul TecalvE. i it ’ r Jackson (D-Wash), member of the P”(es Repo"ed Iumbhflg ‘”‘:o of s‘he kll.“ remnants of re- tion Feb. 15 at a hearing on the | 51529,811 a year, of which $617,946 House Subcommittee on Interior | ‘: u:‘ peaking ‘l“’nfi the lines | regulatians. liouok MEASURE cmes from the Territory's general | Department Appropriations, has fO Some EX'GM—FU l ‘t)h 2 KO::rnments -"“o? book on | Reject Revision und. and - the ‘remainder fromd | asked the Department to start im- i e case, the prosecutor attacked the 3 Fosid | mediate planning for a survey to Poln’ Drop United States government and its The Memorial petitions the CAB “ederal matching funds, Hedges | e b 8 ey representatives, Card i that if it can't exempt Alaskd |S AITA(KED BY r said. e FRsBer i U ool o S o i Speliman ofm ana others. | _carriers from the regulation that The employees would contribute connection: to “Alaska " WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — M = et P dai ity 'CAB reject the revision. Only FAIRBA“KS GROUP 76,590 a year to the fund and the Jackson and Senator Magnuson Tumbling prices and a sharp rise two voting against it were Reps. Territory, it is estimated, will pay A ([,,. V_Vf’sm_h_fl" '“tm_d“CEd bills di- !in the number of jobless brought Amelia Gundersen, Ketchikan, and | e n $18,000 to $30,000 a year. recting President Truman to au-lyoqihing official reagsurances today B Doris Barnes, Wrangell, “Not since the Klondike Rush has The Bill carries an appropriation thorize a . study of the route of ypov Anorica’s economic situation Mrs. Barnes haa said previous- |there been such a golden opportun- f $20,000 to start the fund and e the proposcd yailroad from Prince y . 0 o1arming. ly she favored retainingyall pre- ity for a chosen few,” said the Fair- »rovide pensions for employees due Underwater De mo l i “on George, B. C.. to Alaska. | 4 cautionary regulations rbp’ safety’s | banks Junior Chamber of Commerce - lo retire within the next few Jackson said he planned to ask " There is even a silver lining in ! RAS“ sake. of the Liguor Control Biil now Lefore SEATTLE, Feb. 5.——The sec- | years. 'I'eams of Nav Sw"n that funds for the survey and what, to some people looked like ] George Sundborg, Alaska Devel- |the Legislature ond group of 71 Air Force, Army,| Labor Commissioner Henry Ben- Y plar_ming of rhns_raurund be- includ- | a dark cloud on the economic hori- cpment Board consum told the| “Fhe statement was contained in Navy and Marine Corps officers to ion, Deputy Auditor Neil Moore, Ihfough |(Y SeaS ed in the Interior Department ap- zon; the dollar will buy a little House that safety regWlations were |the telegram received by the House Participate in Arctic familiarization | Harry M. Olsen of Ketchikan and priation bill for the fiscal year more than it did just a few months not involved because the CAA gov- |of Representatives this morning. COUrses at Big Delta, Alaska, left|Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissioner i 19 begmning July 1. ago. erned them. The telegram was addressed to both Boeing Field in Pan American World | »f Education, spoke on the Bill in By RALPH DIGHTON ‘The need of a railroad con- | These are the developments: Housing Plans sodies of the Legislature but endeq ; Alrways planes yesterday. ddition to Hedges. KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska, Feb. 5. nem?n with the Territory ns hovur- The New York 'tm_-k Market, the e \ The lone vote cast ‘against Rep. |in the House wastepaper basket. The officers will stay at Big Delta | Nect For Teachers —P— Navy “frog men'—members He:" IJacksonl t}uld x.\ .xg;um.er, Barometer that prodncth the 19207 npw ORLEANS, Beb. -l Essie Dale's Housing Authority | on behalf of its membership, the |for 30 days to study field work in | Dr. Ryan explained the mechan- of Underwater Demolition Teams— hat, ":‘“mh‘ g ‘I"_"?““l' epart- | collapse, vesterday took its sound- | pyo’ podies and bits of wreckage - Bill was by Almer Rydeen, Nome | junioy Chamber of Fairbanks ap- | noweraft, tactics, life in extreme| cs of the Teachers’ Retirement are praving the near-freezing waters mt?m].xlm ; the I\«ntlf:)ua Pe,l;;"se est beating in many months, With | ;16 a1 that have been sighted af- Democrat. It passed without floor |piied for the job of Administrator |cold weather and the effect of the | “und, which started in 1945 and of Alaska Stth this sunie AR ey l;b A; .mtmt ol hn"’i} PV;;U‘? ing 61 stocks selling at the lowest price | .oy o plaging B-25 tember with debate after E. Glen Wilder, gxecu- |created by the Bill, “at a salary of | cold on morale of men. 5ays teachers $100 a month UPOD ygsed in the South Pacific. it deibliiads fae T eight men aboard crashed into Lake tive dircctor of the Alaska Hous- | 115900 plus $15 a day plus whatever | The first group of officers re- | ctirement. He said that it may myuo oiq o, weather chosen for e e Also in New York, bond prices | Ponchartrain. inz Authority, explained the ini-| ;) o made on the side.” | \urned from Alaska last week. The | >2 desirable to combine the WO \\ "o v oomin, “battle of, Kodiak ckson safd (he survey 1S NeC- | epeaq one of the sharpest declines| CAPt. M. R. Rotk, public relations tial appropriation was Weeded for | Tne telegram urged the Legisla- | ravelers were outfited with Arctic| ystems at some future time, bul yao,4u means” nothing to these sary to decide the most feasible ooy 1% o yonenc with nearly | dfficers at Keesle: Alr Forse Base, surveys, for studies @f possible |ie not to “dilly-dally in gettin: | ear ‘at the Seattle Port of Em-| hat he woud want to see how the . o 04 ooy in . T“eg e s S€ route to connect the Pacific North- yoe "y oo™ o oino “some as much | Biloxl, Miss, said after a search sources for cheaper Alaska buflding | phjs jegisiation passed because there | barkation. iew system works out before [ eacc YOURE HER i piie, ok i Alaskn Andtor deraming QETESTRE it the crash scene late yesterday: ] materigls, fof partial ptelNE |will be many arrangements fo make R i e : in ‘2:ldévr"e lwxa‘ter ‘that Il‘ozeJ(:; ki The Chicago grain market was| “All eight men are presumed to o funds and toconvince CONEIesS|,, got ready for tie har ) Harry Olsen, business agent for .. °. fl“':_ moved throngh it ? hit by a storm of selling, with corn, | be dead.” Alaska is “trying to help itself.” Speaker Staniey McCutchcon ie | ™ he Electrical Workers Union and |°U5% 88 they g i oats, rye and soybean falling so| He sald the plane was from He sald the project might be|qowoq the telegram to the Commit- | x‘%@pER AYS nunicipal employees at Ketchikan,' Garbed from head to foot in arce: WAM(AI {)N WAY switily that one trader described the | Keesler with base personnel and able to get started by summer|,.. on py:lic Health, QuzuunlilL“ I s 1d that his group is very much rubrer suits, the “Froz Men” have market as “demoralized.” ir student aboard. Names were and that the Budset Bureau had|,n, norals. Then, upon request of | ntereated .1 the Bl and hope el Sl e tendingl o o o The Associated Press index of 35 | ¥ithheld until casualties are de- approved $10,000,000 Federal Grant| e, Ameliz Gundersen, chairman | o come under the system. At a each of the three jce-rimmed beaci- AF’ER Et[ fiARBOR wholesale commodities dropped| ¢mined definitely. [ (Continued on Page Five) ¢ that commitice, the telogram wac | || F% cent meeting, attended by 46 ¢s which naval amphibious forces nearly a full point, reaching 108.46, oy oo f — =2 pulled back and s he Com- | nembers, there was a unanimous plan to attack. WEAIHER “E.up the lowest since Feb. 6, 1947. i 1 Public Wel ., which ha ; ! Jote to urge the City of Ketchikan i | : . ; i 3 . the Liquor Bill i o participate in the system, Ol-| Their plan of operation is much The Pennsylvania Railroad said it as a eam The waSh]_ngion\ Rep. Warren T ‘| [ sen said. the same as it was in World War On a frustrated voyage which Was laying off 2500 of the 45350 a | then moved to t | Membership in the retirement II. Rgl_linzbmlo the water ‘I)'HU began at 4 am. Wednesday, the :i::tl:; lutmalrtne;:nu- ;‘nlr beq\rnp- L 1 Yie waste k | ASHING J vstem would be compulsory for a speeding boat or rine, l‘lLV A.CS. duty boat Wamcat now is lepartment. They wi e fur- I Merry - Go = B_Oundl i “‘ "“’”“; 7?:\"7 F,f .fim‘::n;' inplo}e s of municipalities voting |swim beneath the su . on the way to logging “Mission loughed for an indefinite period p'a ns Io Bld | : 4 i o s e Y| 10 participate. 'When they encounter reefs, mines, compieted.” ! . L By DREW PEARSON ; et peaisin Do oo Hales Suspended lor man-made osstacies which woud _ Atter being _weather-bound at g " 11 10 o 2ol § ot PR S manib Ins) BOUNTY UEPE , most of the Tafz&;artley% The Bill imtroduced by Senator |damage landing craft, they seturn Tee Harbor, the Wameat went out i e [] fouss this morning T Aot provisions 15 “hacpuraty | Anita Carnick, went to third [i0 the spot with explos vesterday afternoon, to check and | proconsurom o me ove) “bears n al argo ASHINGTON— A. F. Whitney, | Rep. Amelia Gundersen's Bill 1004 eryoneous.” | “eading and passed by a vote of i Although tne navy lists this as repair repeater stations at Sen- oopepy) watehing” but he added bustling chief of the Ra)lwa\‘ e the I:lounl; on \u‘rl‘, :-l from $3( | Pepper said at a Sena!e.Labor 15-1, Senator Munz voting against !‘extra-hazardous duty” and accepts ::_:1:1 }:sland a_mdl fildz‘;ed Rock, u::d that the “lnuntox; 18 not alarming.” Trainmen, assured President Tru-|.© 550 and to raise the bounty of|gommittes hearing thal ShAS: only volunteers for the work, they aines installation, en route |y Bagsn G Nourse, Chairman of man ha; abhar, Huet it nrgarxz~=d1 oyotes from $25 to $30. | Tatt, GOP policy leader, “p;m,g::_ ‘Senator Collins announced, when |receive no extra pay. A UDT ap- to Skagway. the Presidbits Cu:ncll(;;r conomic | o SEATTLE, Feb. 5.—.The Alaska labor will support nis “Fair Deal” | > Committee on Fisheries hand- | 0 the fact that he no longer is o Y Pnge S prentice seaman, for instance, re- ~Matt K. Gromley was put off Advisvs Buld meither the census Steamship Company has announcegd § legislative program as vigorously as‘l‘fl in a substitute for HB. 12, s~ | ynning the Senate.” “"“""90“ 2 ceives $75 a month. at Sentinel; Sgts. Jst. cl. John goiiCr® SAQ BERher T GOt s determination to meet competi- it backed him in the recent elec- |/ a beunty of $6 each on hail| Tnis was a reference to. Demo- UDT men are chosen for stam'na Lloyd and Mario Sodini, at Eldred gjarmaq nim. He said, however, that | o, Fores from Portland ‘n trans- tion. seals. The present bounty is $3 {cratic majorities replacing Repub-|® o © o ¢ o ¢ © o o @ eland courage, rather than flashy Rock. Returning, the ‘Wamcat “these months “"'w“ Haslatie sorting Alaska Railroad locomotives “Naturally, there will be some |the original bill, by Rep. C. C. Carl-|jjcans in control of the 8lst Con- | ® o jswimming ability. Not one of the took off Lloyd and Sodini, bub popeg o the north. L - things about your program that son, would have raised it to $9. | gress. |+ WEATHER REPORT o nine officers and 50 men taking & snowstorm prevented their pick- | Conflict over the diversion of rail- some labor groups will object to’ | Rep. Doris Barnes, chairman ol|. garlier, Senator Elbert Thomas | e (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU « | part in this exercise has been a pro- N3 up Gormley. road cargo from Seattle to the Co- said Whitney, “for we all don't|the Territorial Institutions Com-| (D -Utah) also disputed Taft's pre-'. This data is for 24-hour pe- e |fessional athlete. Successful on a. later try, zne lumbia River was disclosed recent- see eye-to-eye on everything. How- |Mittee, announced this morning that | giction. ® riod ending 6:30 am. PST. | Lt (jg) Robert J. Sadler, 24, of Wameat proceeded to H-fl"es I_D Ml"ERS MAY ly by J. T. Flakne, chief of the ever, in the over-all picture, labor |the trip to Sitka to inspect the Pio- | Mk » In Juneau— Maximum, 20; e |Vicksburg, Miss, who has swum in Lt. Delbert P. Applegate is th Alaska branch, Division of Territor- will be solidly behind you in |neers’ Home is planned for about IERMIM[ st 12 o | South Polar waters, says he didn't anking member of the pm-w. GEI pAID I.OSSES es in the Interior Department. I carrying out the liberal pledges of |March 6. The trip will be made by KNOT Is e At Airport— Maximum, 16; e {even participate in high school Rty oma e 3 - HE sl R i e g 50 i the. Democratic platform.” steamer and will require arout three S(HEDU[ED ‘o SA“, o minimum, 9. |swimming meets. | MALAYA PLANS NAVY w" Wiy 0. cinv i Pl i APzr:‘luu.l Truman replied he could ask for |days. | I FORECAST e! “You don't have to be fast for| e G 14 |WM $2.000 cheaper than f Be. no more, since “no living man cowd | The Business License Tax Bill, on| Freighter Terminal’ Knot of the | e (Juneau Vicinity) ® ;this work,” he says. “You just have| SINGAPORE—(®— Malaya is on | T pere e 4 PO, v o write a legislative program” thai|the House calendar this morning | Alaska Steamship Co., is schedul- | e = Cloudy with snow flurries @ |to be careful” | wa. ing it L g A g v However, what the Trainmen’s}House passed three Senate measures,| 12. Calls will be made at Met- |® Decreasing cloudiness Sun- @ |to keep them warm in the water. Jishment will be put before the approved lch»l;al;::n I'u n-unuur;e bcr; W. Skim S flm?l ; boss didn’t reveal was that he had |Memorials and Resolutions, in ad-|lakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, | » day. Highest temperature e [The rubber suit keeps them dry, and | Singapore Legislative Council soon. owners and op.('mlm.\ of dold mu\.ea i lof pl:“u’m:’fl;a:"‘amh p com- heard a loud objection to one part |dition to the bounty bill. Petersburg, Juneau, Yakutat, Whit- | e near 27 degrees. Lowest to- e long underwear helps retain wdyl Enlistment in the force will be who incurred losses because the| “Had we b”n ivel; - e of e pumrem L8 Hinntr. e SENATE INACTIVE .~ Uer and Beward. e night near 20. # [Deat Ty get s tablaspoon of hon<open to. British subjects’ Andbelile Wovkbnment: forced them 1o shut| PTkIBlY T4 betitthnia wookd night before, attended by several| The Senate started the mornng e PRECIPITATION o,ey before entering the water, and zens of the Federation of Malaya. down during the war have met the mit‘f” l;ien vou0 by . Democratic Senators and represen- |session with two measures for con- “EAMER MOVEMENTS | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® |two ounces of brandy after they|Size of the force will be determ: They would be permitted to file |the Coastwise Line i et tatives of all the big labor organ- |sideration and quickly disposed of f e In Juneau Oity — Trace; @ return. {ined by the Governor of Singapore.'claims for the amount of loss|ance with past polic m; B aml s X Rt both of them. SB. 9, it was dis-| Baranor from Seattle due Tues-|e since Feb. 1, 01 inches; o R | Singapore will provide funds for including the costs of placing the |‘na comy K ittve Bosition o s1f shige John L. Lewis' top lieutenant, |covered, had not yet come from the | day. e since July 1, 5625 inches. ‘o' IIERE FROM S ATRRANKS the Navy. TR e 1 erating conalie a!co rpe NOIposiiaan o pl) folp Vice President Tom Kennedy of the | Engrossment Committee. S.B. 14,| Princess Norah scheduled to sail|e At the Alrport — Trace; o Sl ' 1 compited Tawkiee hants: °_<_Bivjmm=nfi tonnage. United Mine Workers, raised cain |Senator Garnick’s Bill relating col"rflAl;l znncu)\:;:r Monday. e since July 1, 89.27 inches. ® Glenn B. Walker of Fairbanks M On the eve of World War II, could not include lost pmduct!on‘ More than four times as much e — | laska scheduled southbound on | . . ® in town for several days and Is{iutcmobile registrations totaled or loss of profits during the shut- i (Coplinuca g Fage. Foum (Continued on Page Eight) ~'Monday night. le e s e e s o e o o o staying at the Baranof Hotel. ]az.soo.oou 0 Ttne Unithd' iaseatiiden T i- 'é’rfu‘e'é’“é?féi g ke