The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1949, Page 2

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Met- | . relating to the 750-foot Eagle ! JAP-US. SPY, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FILES SHOW & AASKAR, MISSING IN COURT FLORENCE, Ore, Feb. 11.—® EX- POLICE CHIEF, |EISENHOWER - i IN NEW JflB ‘:;i\'e school districts financial m-‘; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949 told| The Anchorage educator said that that he has no | a bill which is now in the draft- !r|um'r:’l with individual ecity 'gov-{ing stage proposes that school crnments, or with any city council- i hoards be allowed to submit bud- inen. He emphasized that his aim | gets to city counclls which can- a correction of legislation to|not be rejected by the councils, and that maximum budgets allow- able be an average of past three year amounts and in addition to the 100 per cent of this average, a up in scheol adm dependence. : Landing Road, the construc- | |tion of which, with Territorial | {unds, by the Territorial Board | of Road Commissioners, has led to | misioners, has led (@ | American Commitfee members of ¢! Digs Out Chamber’ Last Years’ Testimony r Olson and By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Feb. check of files in the Congres onal spy hunt shcowed today two | slender threads linking Russian es- pionage in Janan and in the Unit States. Whittaker Chambers, who (he was a one-time courier for & Red spy ring in America, told the House Un-American Activities Com- mittee last year he helped obta recruits and money for an “ap atus” in Japan in the mid-§0’s. And one person Chambers says al action he two other Treasurer Os st Gruening. f's release contains some able and misleading infor- The taxpayers are entitled | fact, unvarnished. rd ard There are a tota. of oniy 3 lots touched or served by this 750-foot road Lot C is cwned outright by Gov. Gruening; Lot A is held under s} al use permit from the Forest rvice by Gov. Grueping; Lot B is held under special use permit from the Forest Service by Huntington Gruening. This is matter of public record, as is the Ifact that Gov. Gruening is also Chairman of the Board of Road Commissioners which b_um tvhe was in contact with thé Jeaders of read with motor fuel tax funds. |ngy gpparatus is mentioned in a | Metcalf stated that the rund- IS report the Army released yester- {rot now and never has been a Pri- g5y The report told of a big Soviet vate road in any sense of the W td. | espjonage ring in Tokyo that op- but on a par with numerous other [orateq from 1933 to 1941 and stole roads bu.iAlt for lhc’bm’sfit .Sf _'\l‘e‘sp;crets from the Japanese cabinet public with allocated funds fr land German Embassy. the motor fuel tax.” If therc have| Leen other roads “on a par” road built at a cos: to the Terri-lerean ring he served and the net- tory of several thousands each, 10|wane descrived by the Army as serve Territorial officials and mflrlprobably the all-time boldest and relatives, then it is high time that | ,oc Metcalf published a list of such N expenditures so that the public can see where the motor fuel ta:| ney really is going. IPRA pRojE(Is PP G Metealf also states that tne road “was initiated by a petition of | r interested parties not includ- the Governor.” Signatures oni FORESI AREAS ion of this type have little! ue unless they are those of per-| cons who will be served by the| It is announced today by H. A. ysed construction. In this case,|Stoddart, Division Engineer of the only persons who would have Public Roads Administration, and use for the road would be | Charles Burdick, Acting Regional > of the Gruenings or one of |Forester, that the following projects - guests. It is hard to under-|in Southeast Alaska have been ap. ; an expenditure of over proved for construction during the ! d have been approve oming season: of a petition signed by Replacement of the north pier of none of whom would |the Carlanna Creek Bridge, which y the road. {was undermined by flood in 1940, Metcalf also states “The Fores vith a permanent pile bent. (This Service was sufficiently interested |is near the northern city limits of in the project to make the original | Ketchikan.) £ cut cost to the Terri-| Placement of bituminous wear- opened up numerous |ing surface on 2.628 miles of the and gave ier Highway.” Met- |south to Bugge Beach. |calf must bave known that the| Resurfacing of 4.9 miles of the rohd “opened up” exactly two'for- |Mitkof Highway ~south of ers- est homesites (already taken up by :burg. together with minor work at the Gruenings) and one tract of private land owned by the Gover-)l'rom sea action. nor; and that access by highway| Surfacing of the ‘Wrangell High- was already available to the south |way from 1.0 miles north of Wran- end of the private tract and one|gell to 49 miles south of Wrangell of the two forest homesites by an}This project also includes removal existing road, so that the new |of a 19-foot timber span and re- road provided access to only onel\?lncemcnt with a concrete box forest homesite, held under special | culvert. use permit by Governor Gruening.| (The road ends where the Governor | is now building a private summer | home on this one forest home- | site.) In view of the facts, it is incon- | ceivable that the Forest Service| made the survey because “it open- ed up numerous forest homesites | ¥ and gave direct access to Glacier | B I G (H l EF celf states in another section of | TOKYO, Feb. 11— —An over- his release. & whelming Conservative majority has The Forest Service normally ! reelected Shigeru Yoshida as Prime makes such surveys only when re- Minister of Japan. Yoshida, who i. e, that it was not built “at the — instance” of the Forest Service. H It is difficult to understand, too, | (OMMUNICMION how a petition could have been| Editer, Daily Alaska Empire: Is it not a fact that if the General Property Tax passes and additional >-os - Highway,” as stated by Metcalf,! or that the road was built “through ! the instance and cooperation with the U. S. Forest Service,” as Met- quested to do so, and if it made|resigned this morning to comply this one, particularly in view of with constitutional procedure, re- the circumstances, then it is a safe ceived 350 of 451 House of Repre- bet that somebody asked them to, sentative votes. passed around, survey made, project i approved, bids called for, bids re-; | ceived, an award made, and a 750- _ " |foot road built, all, according toltaxes are put upon the property | Metcalf, without Board Chairman | Gruening knowing anything about |section in Alaska, that the proper- ;it until “his return after the road |ty owners might apply to the {was completed.” It must have Office of Rent Control for a raise {been quite a surprise to the Gov-|in the rents of the tenants? This | ernor. additional tax will be put upon s, the tenant in an increase in rent. l In other words it will go upon the | FARMERS NEED HELP consumer and will make his cost | lof living higher and put his rent | SHREWSBURY, England —P— |gradually beyond his capacity to |J. K. Knowles, general secretary |pay. of the National Farmers Union,| !said in a speech here British! farmers can reach in 1952 their| |target of 150 percent of their pre- | war cutput if they get enough help | from the government. | He said they need new capital | | investment, more labor and a big- | ger allocation of animal food-| ‘atu(ls. owners in the cities, or any other CURTIS G. SHATTUCK. R Yours truly, ALBERT WHITE, e MRS. McCORMICK HOME Mrs. John (Betty) McCormick, who has been at 8t. Ann's Hospital for two weeks, was able to return home yesterday afternoon, but she will be confined to her bed for a while. Plumbing © H:afing Oil Burners [elephone-313 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. 11—m—Aj el There is nothing in the Chambers’ g “,"j[testimony to show any definite or | the 750-foot Eagle River Landini|ioce connection between the Am- | Jest direct | Tongass Highway from Ketchikan isolated points to protect fill slupes' Former Police Chief A. R. White d to appear in justice court oon to face trial on | erly conduct charge, and; {:orf $100 bail. He had plead- | cent. F. Carlson, Justice of the nd Hale G. Thompson, | torney, had no comment | | on White's failure to { sppear in court. { "White was discharged January 13 by Mayor Paul Womer and thet Council after various dis- s climaxed by a flare-up when White lodged several local resi-} dents in jail. i The former chief left town the | izy before he was ousted and his wife was fired as pelice matron., Their whereabouts are not known here. ¢ White formerly lived at Anchor- :ge, Alaska, where he was with the police department. — e, — City PHILDAELPHIANS | THUMB GR WALK; | TRANSIT STRIKE| 11. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. transit | Detoured by a strike workers, Philadelphia’s 3,200,000 ; bus, subway and trolley ders | scrambled into the eity today on «fcot, by thumb-flagging of pass- ing cars and by fighting their way aboard sardine-can packed su- | Lurban railway trains. The massive operations of the Philadelphia Transportation Com- pany ground to a halt at onel minute past midnight, throwing workers in the nation’s third larz- city to their own resources. The strike of 11,000 members of the CIO’s Transport Workers Un- {ion was in support of a demand for a fourth round wage increase. | The wor riginally demanded | a boost of cents an hour, later reduced this to 20 cents i company’s initial offer was | cents, Locsted to three cents short ly before the strike deadlin Workers now saverage from $1.09 tc $1.63 an hour. LINCOLN'S of BIRTHDAY TERRITORIAL HOLIDAY How to observé Lincoln's Birth- | | day tomorrow seems to be a que icn which eacn Territorial de- partment head must solve for him- celf and his staff. February 12 is a Territorial holi- day, and a majority of Terr offices will be closed. { Banks will not be open tomorrow. The City Hall will be open for | business tomorrow, but wil close lon February 22, i his knowledge.” icouncils, C. C. Caldwell, Supex'in-’ n observance of | | f r “Under present situations,” Cald- ' mi well pointed out, “school boards | | which were elected by the poeple ‘;to set up schcol policy are not in a WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—P— nosition to carry out their func- President Truman announces that|tion. They can make policies, but General Dwight Eisenhower will when policies are transferred into serve temporarily as ehairman of | Jollars and cents in school bud- | the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | gets, the City Councils have the | The White House }v ght to chop up the budget into | planation of the announcement, what the and said the assignment will be Caldwell short duration. The anncuncement was made cne of the White House Ebe who to men Eisenhower has beern ed temporarily as Chief Mili President and Secretary of D fense, and will sit in at meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Stafl a presiding officer. He is on tempor: President of Columbia A asked “any worse! situation,” and Ayers said “not t council sees fit.” told Jaycses that he | control which in effect nullified the work for which the school boards were elected by the people. ics, RS S DUAL CONTROL i ALASKA SCHOOLS SAYS EDUCATOR School ¢ t school boards in the Territ are being hamstrung | by laws which turn over control‘ of school budget sures to city | tendent of Anchorage Independent | id in effect this| before the Junior, Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Baranof Hotel. ' Cald who is in Juneau to| initiate legislation to correct what he described as a dual trol set | | | WE KNOW YOU'LL AGREE Next Auci Color Phase Fox . Color Phase Fox . Mutation Mink . Mink—General . always a pleasure | Washington’s Birthda: IPNA Is Starfing Gusfavus Service SEATTLE, Feb. 11.—(®— Pacific Northern Airlines has started ser- vice to Gustavus, Alaska, which is {at the head of Icy Strait, Harold Olsen, the firm’s general traffic manager, announced today. H Gustavus is 52 miles west of Juneau and in an area where a great deal of agricultural expan- sion is expected. The airport there H has the latest long-range radio-!| navigation equipment as well as a | Civil Aeronautics Administration weather station. Pacific Northern will serve Gus- tavus through a special exemption issued by the Civil Xentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Aeronautics | nottled' in bond N g LW.HARPER it 1872 FOREMOST' FUR BOTTLED IN BOND, 100 PROOF. 151 West 30th Street BERNHEIM DISTILLING (0., INC., LOUISVILLE, KY. Board. —————————— % RHODE RETURNS ' Clarence J. Rhode, Alaska di- rector of the U. 8. Fish and Wild- life Service, returned today from an extended trip Outside. He was in Washington, D. C., later San Francisco and Seattle. | 909-12th. St. Small Boat Harbor Good Coffee Short Orders—Lunches Chow Mein—Chop Suey [ Opcn Weekdays—7 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sunday Hours—11 a. m: to 6 p. m. lee wi cel He neau, graduation said. Jaycee President Dean Goodwin introdueed the speaker of the day. Jaycees | have been askad to act as judges for Boy Scout displays in connect- icn with Scouting Week. Robert Aste, new atiorney in Ju- John announced also that introduced by T0 THE WORLD'S FOREMOST FUR SELLING ORGANIZATION i for BEST RESULTS Sales By Public Auction and Privaie Treaty throughout the year on: Sales Dales General, Inc. Mink, Silver Fox, March Tth General, Inc. Mink, Silver Fox, .. Bpril 18tk . May 4th . May 23rd New York, 1. 7 of 15 per cent be allowed. A proposal for the relaxation of high school ments is dwall require- so sought in the bill,