The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1949, Page 1

¢ HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,117 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949 MhMBLR ASSOCIATED PR[fiS PRICE TEN CENTS Protestant Leaders Now To Be Prosecuted '} WAGE-HOUR BILL VOTED | BY HOUSE Measure G@r Approval | by Represenfatives | by 22 10 2 Vote By JAMES HUTCHESON ‘ The House passed the Wage-Hour | Bill yesterday, 22 to 2, but Rep. Marcus Jensen, who voted for it, ! moved for reconsideration today. i In other action, the House passed a strongly worded memorial | against sales in military commis- | saries to any but military person- nel and a l'mited number of civil- jans attached to military posts. It was addressed to Congress and | military department heads. Speakers declared the competi- tion was unfair to tax-paying busi- ness since the military is not sub- ject to freight and sales costs or taxes. COMMISSARY SALES The charge was made that at Fairbanks the general public can; buy freely of military supplies, and} 1 Mrs. Essie Dale, Fairbanks Demo-! crat said: |8 “I didn't telleve commissary sales were available to outsiders,! but T've got three cuts of meat in! my locker now for evidence.” The present military sales prax:-, tices also brought blasts from Reps.; Jack Conright of Anchorage and; Warren Taylor and Glen F‘rankhnl of Fairbanks, all Democrats. Tflylcr said he had studied the situation extensively and “I thought from Vienna. Ermw r’%ss Sen ne 0 Az e Jeseph Cardinal Mindszenty (left), Hungary's primate, clasps his hands before him as he stands in the Peoples’ Court in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 8 and hears himself sentenced to life imprisonment. At right is Professcr Justin Baranyay, Professor of Church Law at the University of Budapest, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Seated between them is a uniformed guard. (P Wirephoto via radio PROPERTY TAX HEARING SET NEXT MONDAY {Tonnage Tax on Vessels Voted Down — Women's Home Bitl Postponed the Kodiak situation, which led to} B e s o ngLen | in protes was bad, until’ I feund| out whi happening at Fair-| banks.” The vote on the memoflfl was { 23-1. Rep. Percy Ipalook, Republi- can from Wales, cast the lone vov.e against it. 40-HOUR WEEK The wage-hour bill provides Ior. a 40-hour week for industry and business in the Territory, wahnmer and a half for time worked above | 40 hours. It also sets a mini mum wage of $1 an hour. Jensen fought a throughout yesterday get an exemption for t industry on the same s that it is exempted from the Federal fair| labor standards act—the \muvr—] tainties of weather and salmon! runs. He never could muster more | €1 than 10 votes out of 24 The two House members voted against the wage-hour Eillj"f on final passage were Frank G l‘»“ Johnson of Kake and George Mis-i° covich of Fairbanks. Both are R publicans. Just before the final vote, Rep. James Nolan, Wrangell Democrat, | who had supported Jensen's pro- posed salmon industry amendments throughout, declared “the intent uil the bill is good and it is going to] =0 ld b en o brlng i charmg_es fjgeder lm'l give them a chance to come (Continued on Page Six) jor send representatives from dis- itant places in the Territory.” Senator Lyng predicted to re- orters that the Property Tax will ass the Senate by a vote of 10-6. Two fishermen's representatives | | spoke regarding Senator River's Marine Alternate Clause before it | was voted down. losing battle| n trying to canning ! Y DeARMO! who {mercial I esterday actior ral hearing on the > of the three b " said Senator How . who suggested holdir hearing on the Bill I “Every ody who wants to be heard g The Washmgion‘ Merry - Go - Round, By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Drive Boats Below Andy Barlow, executive secre- /ASHINGTON— Not since the |tary of the United Trollers of Al- pigs got out and mussed up our aska, admitted that the tonnage tax Jawn has my wife been so irked at;is a fair cne but said that too me as last week when I stood in l).rgh a rate would have a |,endency front of the Argentine Embassy |to drivz boats to the States. checking oh admirers of Gen. Han—yl “The fishing industry is not in Vaughan, the President’s Military : 3o0d shape and conditions are bet- | Aide, when he received his medal |ter below,” he said, adding that if from dictator Peron. boats go below to register, the She said it was undignified, that |owners may decide to live there. I made a spectacle of myself and “If this tax is too high and is that T should save my energy for 'added to all the other taxes the| more important things. {tishermen pay—license, fuel tax, | Probably she is right. She usmal- iraw fish tax and income tax— ly is. Of course, Mrs. P. has al- /it may lead to a Jlie-up of the ways wanted me to be a pundit fleet because the expenses will be | than we can get for our| like Walter Lippman, even though {more I tell her that I've been a working |fish,” Barlow warned. reporter all my life and can't geti He felt that the $4 per net ton over it. Maveover, she has to put ' proposed by Senator Rivers was too up with a lot of ribbing about me |high. from all sorts of people and even In Weghington State, gome snubbing from the social big- wigs with whom my name is mud. So I don't blame her for being Barlow per cent on full fair valuation. Not Trying To Evade said, the rate is one-tenth of one | Royall Says Mlaska Rugged For Soldiers, Also Asserts U. S in Posi-; tion in Japan fo Meet is to meet all| it war in of in his opin- Far East in- that the not like route lL.) \Vasnrng-‘ wces with General Tokyo and an in- S. defenses in the in 1 of U. Pacific. Royall said that “it is really rug- ged” for army troops stationed in a. | he great problem there,” he ‘\01 wed, “is the great lack of i facilities for the men and offi- \Lms and I am hoping that ean | be remedied. I deliberately chose [ to go there in the dead of winter to see what condilions were, “We hate to have men living | under those conditions and I don’t | think we can ask them to con- | tinue. | “Alaska is an extremely impor- |tant place, and we feel that we have there reasonable designs take care of any situation.” STOCK QUOTATIONS f NEW YORK, Fcb. 11.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 84%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss- Wright 94, International Harvest- er 25%, Kennecott 47, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, | U. 8. Steel 71, Pound $4.03%. Averages today are as follows: industrials 171.93, rails 48.70, util- ities 34.11. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle due to arrive Sunday. Alaska scheduled t: sail from Se- attle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- Sales today were 880,000 shares] MARINES HIT KODIAK ISlE‘S ROCKY SH()IIE’S~L ‘Brown Bears Surrender J‘ Leathernecks Move In and Take Control | By RALPH DIGHTON | KODIAK, Alaska, Feb. 11——1| | Two thousand marines are sched- | uled to go ashore at Kalsin Bay today in the second landing ol' the Battle of Kodiak. r Fifteen hundred leathernecks | stormed the beaches at Portage | tBay yesterday. They didn't 'get | heir feet wet and that is why tbl' | Navy is unhappy, though it conced- {ed the landing was made perfeetly |to a split-second sechdule. j “We still don’t know the things, iwe came here to find out,” said 'Vice Adm. G. F. Bogan, “ 'how effective the men would be In { this weather if they had made a wet landing. | “W dont know how many cases! jof chilblains and so forth we would have to cope with in addi tion to casualties inflicted by t.hcl | enemy.” He said the landing today might ! bring on more difficult conditions. The marines landed in Portage iBay under covering fire from ! ships and carrier planes. H Sncw-covered Beaches ! Waves of landing craft left the mother-ships on schedule and spill- led men and vehicles on the snow- | | | r | Discussion o i r [ r Rocket-firing carrier pl{ulr\ ted an interior target area. Keating, former is author of the ir-overed beach. | i It was the first of two landmgs ‘ designed to ‘“recapture” xodhk ] Tsland frem. 8 - mythicel mku 1 force. The assault originally was ‘o have taken place in the -motn- { mz, but was postponed because of pRoposED FOR. leavy . seas and below-freezing | emperatures. | Live ; ammunition was used hyq |phnes and ships in the climax of | I l ER | s the mock “Battle of Kodiak Is- land,” a Navy cold-weather exer-r cx<e Although strategically more ; rmpmuxnt the land:ing in Kalun. By BOB DeARMOND | |Bay will be less spectacular. That! A change in the date for munici- { portion of the island is inhabit- ‘pnl elections, from the first Tues- | ed by trappers and fishermen, $0 day of April to .the first 'l'ut‘siayr ull firing will be simulated. of October, and longer terms for| Firing at a desolate area to “‘(':masors and council members are {seft of the landing beach, a cruis-! iproposed in a Lill scheduled for jer and a destroyer solremd de- 'introduction in the House of Rep-' esentatives during the afternoon sion today. Rep. Clarence Rockets Steal Show mayor of Seward, { Stealing the show were |hrnr‘,blll |LSMR's (Landing Ship, Medium,| It Wwould enable city councils, by | Rocket) which launched five-inch |Ord:nance, to establish mayoraity | rockets against the shore with nw"'“'ms of one, two or three year:| speed of machine guns. land terms of three years for City It was an eerle sight. Not o |councilmen. In the latter instance, man to be seen on the decks "\l.wa councilmen would te electec {the rockets were sent on their;ach year instead of three, as a way. Loading and firing of the}Present. ‘nultiple launchers is done auto-| Main purpose of the proposals, mmicany controlled by crews be- |Rep Keating told reporters this ow decks. {morning, is to decrease the turn- Not one casualty was rouoxuvr‘r""“ in city admini: tions. Three in the exercises. Later the ma- pn(nuers of the council and the | ines returned to their ships. They | !mayor of a c.ty now go out of of will be joined by 500 more in m_‘nte each year, he pointed out, leav- day's assault, in which they wili ing only three holdovers to carry move enough equipment ashore to,on a previously adopted policy. set up a beachhead. The October election- coinciding Scanning the island with binocu- {in even-numbered years with the lars from one of the vessels in|General Election—would also bt the task force, one officer swore|beneficial, Rep. Keating feels. The | ne saw a Kodiak bear come run-{newly elected council would have| {ning down the mountain slope with |the winter months, normally slack | nis paws raised high in the air.[periods in construction and other‘ “I guess, he said, “they've sur-|activities, to plan and finance mm\ rendered.” programs to be carried out during | the summer months. The samc| council that made the plans would | l BROW" RESIGNS also continue in office through the | H summer construction period. | by the House yesterday, was before | the House agan this morning on a | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—®—imotion for reconsideration, mad John Nicholas Brown résigned to-|py Rep. Marcus Jensen. | day as Assistant Secretary, of thei «while lakor has a definite prmr Navy for Air. Dan A Kimball of lin our way of life and should be| _os Angeles was appointed to suc-|protected, I think this bill is being | ceed him. promoted a little too fast for the| The White House also announc-'.ooq of labor itself and should| i»d President Truman has named|pave some more work done on i John T. Koehler, now Assistant|pefore re ng sent to the Senate,’ 'Gcnora] Counsel for the Navy, 85) Jensen said. an Assistant Secretary of the Navy.' Denying that he was trying to| He succeeds Mark E. Andrews, \sion pagsage of the bill, Rep. Jen- |whose resignation was announced|sen asked permission to call wit- | earlier this week. ! nesses. | Kimball is executive vice presl=! ;... g MeClellan, painting ,.,,n.r dent of the Aerojet Engineering {ractor, took the stand and ex-| Corporation f" Azusa, Calif, .plained that the 40-hour week and WAGES, HOURS AGAIN SUCCESSOR "AMED The Wages and Hours Blll, passed | Mitchum and Lila Leeds Sentenced This was the scene in Los Angeles court.a moment after Superior Judge Clement D. Nye sentenced Movie Star Robert Michum and Actress Lila Leeds to 60 days in jail on charges of conspiracy to possess mari- juana cigaretes. Mitchum (second from right) turns with a quizzical expresson to his attorney, Jerry Giesler (right) whose face seems to mirror disbelief at the sentence. Miss Leeds (left) seems astonished. Her attorney, Grant Cooper, is between her and Mitchum. (® Wirephoto. (onlerence Called for f Rail Link Belvreen (anada, Alaska WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—@—A conference to discuss plans for a 1!0193@ _copnection between the | United - States and Alaska, called [Alt | by ‘Senator’ Magnuson (D. Washl.' is scheduled for late today. Invited to confer in Magnuson's office were Benator Butler (R.- | Neb.), Willlam E. Warne, Secretary of Interior; Gen. Frank Heilman, chief of the Army Trans- | portation Division; Delegate Bart- lett of Alaska, and Reps. Jackson and Mitchell, Washington Demo- | crats. Up for discussion was the bill in- ioduced by Magnuson and Butler t0 authorize the Pres.dent to nego- ate with Canada for onnecting Prince George, British| Columbia, and The Alaska Railroad. The measure provides for cooper- tion with Canada to construct the onnecting link and for a survey o . select the most practicable | ‘oute. Magnuson sald there now is a ailroad from Seattle to Prince yeorge which could be ut.lized as art of a direct route to the Terri- >os — — e 00 000 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 12; minimum, 8. At Airport— Maximum, 13; minimum 9. FORECAST (Juncau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy and not so cold tonight and Saturday. Lowest tonight near 15 de- grees. PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau City — T since Feb. 1, .18 inches: since July 1, 89.54 inches. At the Alfrport— None since Feb. 1, .44 inches; since July 1, 56.93 inches. e s 0 & o 3 - V. O'CONNOR ARRIVEH FOR HOUSING SESSIONS Delayed by weather hazards af- er reaching Anchorage early the week, the Rev. | nor of Hooper Bay reached Juneau esterday afternoon. Father O'Connor is chairman of the Alaska Housing Authority which opened its week-long meet- ng with two sessions Tuesday, hen suspended official operations until arrival of its chairman. Members have met in informal mssions nd service club meet ng:. - GIRL SCOUT NEWS Girl Scout Troop No. 11 met in assistant | a railroadd ° . . . . . . L& . . . . . . ° . in| Paul O'Con- | and been guests at civic | sore. Furthermore, I did feel foolish standing out in front of the Argen- (Continued on Page Four) “We are not trying to eyade tax- |Tive Sunday morning at 7 o'clock es, but the only way we can pay ! 2nd sails south cne hour later at the taxes on property we own in 8 o'clock. Baranof scheduled southbound (Continued on Page Eigh late Sunday or early Monday. HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Fere from Anchorage and at the Baranof Hotel are H. P. -Noggle, CAA attorney, and Frank Irick. {8-hour day would Work a hardshib | ihe Resurrection Lutheran Church on the paml.{nx_ business DeCAUSE| gor their annual Valentine’s Day painters can't work in the ran.|n,wy Thursday, Feb. 10. We play- | | —Ruth Ann Bloomquist, Reporter. (Continued on Page Eight) ed games and had refreshments. NEW COLD WAVE HITS WEST AREA (By The Associated. Press) A new cold wave moved into sec- tions of the snuwbound western tes "loday. Strong winds continded ‘to swirl the mountainous snow in the west- ern plaing, hampering the reopen- rail lines. An army troop train remained stalled at Rawlins, Wyo, But the Army, Red Cross and other agencies planned no letup in the fight to save the lives of hu- mans and livestock. The Red Cross at Rawlins had planes ready to make low level flights to drop ‘rations to isolated ranch families. Town Isolated By Slide | he, was reported isolated by a 300- foot snow avalanche which buried roads, rail and communications lipes. No homes were in the path_of the slide, which was esti- mated 150 feet deep in some places. | Other snowslides in western and northern Idaho' yesterday, as tem- peratures rose, closed several high- ways. A short wave radio and trans- mitter was to be dropped today to a constryction camp at Ander- |son Ranch Dam in Idaho where | slides have cut telephone com- munications and blocked roads. Slides in some areas buried several nomes, but no_one was injured. Rivers Swollen U. S. Highway 30, 30 miles east of Portland, Ore., was cleared of a snowslide yesterday but a huge rock tumbled from a mountain cliff, burying itself four feet into the roadbed @nd reclosed the franscontinental route. e Minor floods from swollen riv- ers in the Pacific Northwest and | slides harassed highway travel | throughout Oregon and southeast- ern Washington. Some homes were cvacuated -but damage was not heavy. Colder weather in Washington | checked flood conditions. In Day- ton, Wash., three miles of city | streets turned to muddy rivers of ice last night as temperatures | dropped. Earlier, children waded {home from school in knee-deep water, Marocned Train Released One hundred and five westbound ;Mllwnukee passengers, after be- ing marooned two days and nights ’ln Snoqualmie Pass in Washington | State, were removed by buses to Easton, where the crack Hiawathan was waiting for them. The train will go over Pacific tracks into Seattle Two Milwaukee rotary snowplows were caught by slides in the vic- | inity on Wednesday. It took five hours to dig them out, A. M. Os- borne, Garcia scction foreman, re- ported. Northern >ee — - FROM SITKA O. A. Colby and Mr. and Mrs, N. E. Thempson of Sitka regis- tered yesterday at the Gastineau. | mg of highways and clearfng of | The mining town of Burke, Ida-! NEW ACTION TAKEN BEHIND IRON CURTAIN Bulgarian Commumsts fo Place Ministers, Offi- cials on Trial Soon (By the Associated Press) Protestant leaders behind the Iron Curtain came under Commun-~ ist pressure today. Communist-led Bulgaria an- nounced she will place 15 Protes- tant ministers and officials on trial soon on charges of treason, violating currency laws and spying for Britain and the United States. Deputy Foreign Minister Viadi- mir Topencharov said the echurch- men already had “fully confessed” to the spy charges, | The government named 12 Ameri- can and British churchmen; educa- tors ang officials who it said act- ed as “‘contacts” in the spying ac- tivities, A Baptist official in New York said the charges were a ‘“terrible thing” and linked them with the treason trial of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic' Pri- mate of Hungary. It is part of a Communist persecution of all reli- glons, he said. The 15 indicted are leaders of the United Evangelical Church. :Represented in the church are the Methodist, Baptist, Pentacost and Congregational faiths. WITH KING lMerger wit]r_Eire Turned Down by Vofers in Elec- fion on Thursday BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 11 .— (M — Supporters of continued partition of Ireland clinched control of Northern Ireland'’s Parliament to- day in an election fighton the lasue of King—or—Republic. Victory of the “King’s Men" over proponents of a merger with Eire had been a foregone conclusion, but returns from yesterday's balloting indicated political forces which want to stay in the United Kingdom did even better than they had hoped. Candidates of the pro-British Union Party won seven of the first eight districts reporting, including an upset gain In the Belfast dock district. Results of the election, except for mail ballots, are expected to bhe known tonight. About 80 per cent of Northern Ireland’s 459,744 regist- ered voters were reported to have cast ballots. The Unionists, who want to re- main under the Crown, and the op- position, who want the six countles of Ulster to join with the 26 in Eire, made conflicting predictions of the result. | ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS TO MEET TOMORROW B. D. Stewart, President, has post- poned the meeting of the Board of Engineers and Architects’ Examin- ers from today until tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock, due to delay in mem- bers’ arrival. ‘The annual meeting, with election of officers, will be in Room 408, Federal Building. Frank Mapleton, Fairbanks me- chanical engineer, sent word he will be unable to attend. B g FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dawson and family of Cordova stopped in Ju- neau overnight enroute to their home after spending the winter in the States. -They arrived aboard the Princess Norah and were to leave this afternoon by Pacific Northern Airlines,