The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1949, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LXXII., NO. 11,126 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Second Action Against Alaska’s Income Tax PENSION BILL IS APPROVED BY SENATORS Top Limit Set af $15-Ap-| prenticeship Training Bill Is Defeated By. BOB DeARMOND The Senate passed the penska increase bill by a 15-1 vote yester- day afternoon after halving the amcunt of increase and restoring the requirement that recipients must be citizens and must have lived in Alaska for five years out of the preceding nine. The pension ceiling is set at $75 and the bill now goes back to the House, where there may be a battle over both the cem{]g and the citizenship pro- vision. The bill was originally introduced in the House to provide a top pen- sion figure of $75 but the House, after a good deal of juggling, set the figure at $90. The House also knocked out the requirement that recipients be citizens and reduced the length of time a person must have lived in the Territory before e receiving the benefits to one year. Russell G. Maynard, Director of the Territorial Welfare Department, told the Senators that the Terri- XFRITZ KUHN tory would save from $25,000 to¢ $40,000 a biennium by eliminating 1 FREED MAN New tle. into position. the citizenship requirement. | Federal Aid 1 ‘The Federal government contri- } butes’ substantially to the old age | assistance program and has no citi- l zenslip requirement, Maynard ex-] plained. Many aliens, on the other | hand, are presently cared for en- tirely with Territorial Funds. Maynard said that 28 states have a residence requirément of less than MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 22.—(®—| Fritz Kuhn, former leader of thel German-American Bund, was freed | today by a German appellate court. five years and 20 do not require {He said he would try at once to re- that pensioners be citizens. He 'g:un his American citizenship, lifted doubted that there would be any during the war. great influx of potential pensioners A denazification court had sen- from the States if the one-year |tenced him to ten years as a major residence were put into eflect.]uazn_ The appeals court reduced the Alaska, he pointed out, is now near iterm to two years and took into the bottom in individual pension |consideration the 25 months he al- grants and all of the Pacific Coast |ready has served in prison camps. states provide larger pensions. The judgment avtomatically freed “On the basis of population, We inim except for minor formalities probakly have the highest rate in isuch as getting his papers. the country,” Senator Jones con-; The court ordered 20 per cent of tended. lms property confiscated. Kuhn, Wider and Thinner {however, said he had no holdings Senator McCutcheon felt that [, Germany. lowering the residence requirement e L and knocking out the citizenship available funds more widely and more thinly so that “the real pion- eers will get less.” Senators Garnick, McCutcheon and Munz voted against lowering requirement would tend to spread | the maximum pension from $90 to $75. Senator Huntley voted alone against the citizenship and five- year clause, and Senator Munz cast the lone vote against passage of the bill. After finishing with the pension bill, the Senate went back to the «)f)enticeship ‘training program bill, on which it heard testimony during the morning. Nothing that Commissioner of Labor Benson, Labor Department Representative Evans or Commissioner of Educa- tion Ryan had to say about the proposed program had convinced the majority of the Senators that (Continued on Page Six) 'I:he Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) GRAND CANYON, Ariz.—Per- haps I shouldn't admit it, but in all my wanderings about the USA I have never been to the Grand Can- yon, and it finally took the French Gratitude Train to get me there. The Santa Fe RR invited the French Merci Train visitors to be its guests at the Grand Canyon for a day, and since they have been trav- | BOLIVIA (By The Associated Press) The Republican Socialist cabinet of Bolivia resigned yesterday to permit President Enrique Hertzog| to form a coalition of all groups which- supported the revolution of 1946. ¢ Such a cabinet is believed to have a better chance of meeting renewed threats of an extreme coup d'etat. Bolivia has been under an official “state of siege” since Saturday when ' lthe government claimed to have thwarted a plot by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement to seize! power. KIWANIS TO SEE | FIRST SHOWING OF EXPEDITION FILMS Color pictures of the Juneau ice cap taken during an American Geo- graphic Society expedition last sum- mer will be shown for the first time here tomorrcw noon at a meeting oi the Kiwanis Club at the Baranof Hotel. right-wing eling all hours of the day and night ¢ Slides will be shown by Tony and needed a rest, I urged them to |Thomas of the U. 8. Forest Service take the day off and see America’s ]who accompanied the six-man ex- greatest scenic sight. My advice (pedition up Taku Inlet onto the was selfish, because I wanted the |glacier fields in the Twin Glacier excuse to go; too. area. There are no inside stories to Arrangements for the showing be written about the Grand Canyon, | were made by Kiwanis member Fred so I am the wrong person to tiy {Dunn of Pan American Airways. to cescribe it. It lies stark and’ ———eo —— open in its azure magnificence, and posed AT BARANOF Jgdonciment-one who. s sup George W. Schmidt of Anchorage is at the Baranof, (Continued on Page Four) Slylghljomve;— [prAIas!(a- PRESIDENT'S P Telescoped homes may meet Alaska’s housing shortage for construction workers. with heating, refrigeration and sanitary facilities comprise the introductory movement north from Seat- They are to be loaded on the Alaska Steamshin Company steamer Abigail Adams. Thees units are fully insulated against Alaska winters. They are built by Wingfoot Homes, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona. For shipment each measures approximately eight feet square by twenty-six feet. Bed- room sections are nested within the main structure to faciltate handling. These may be easily slipped This ]lre]u.rallon.lar occupancy takes but a few hours. When completed each home has two bed- rooms, a kitchen-living-dining rcom combination and a bath. The kitchen equipment includes a range, ice box, hot water heater and ventilating fan with suit- able cupboards. Bright linoleum covers the fleors. The built-in beds are ready for use. Anna Louise 5 StrongIs Sent Oulgy Russ American Journalist De- ported — Desfination Is Not Disclosed WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 22 —(®— Anna Louise Strong, American jour- nalist deported from Russia, left Warsaw today for an undisclosed destination. A Warsaw hotel reported she ar- rived secretly Saturday. The arrival was not mentioned in Polish news- papers, which a few months ago had splashed her articles favorable to the Communists. She was deported having been a spy. — . by the Soviet Union on charges DI[AXIS SAllY At Moscow the Soviet press car- ried a brief announcement this morning, saying “the arrested Am- erican woman journalist, A. Strong, was deported from the U. S. S. R." Th> brief announcement did not state where she was deported. Miss Strong’s arrest was announc- ed in the Moscow Press Feb. 15. ! . — H e 00 ¢ o0 00 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 25; minimum, 20. At Airport— Maximum, 23; minimum, 6. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight near 25. Gusty northeasterly winds. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City — None; since Feb. 1, 127 inches; since July 1, 90.63 inches. At the Airport — None; since Feb. 1, .92 inches; since July 1, 5745 inches, Charges Are Made | In Moscow Against U.§. Em_bassy Men (By The Assoclated Press) The Moscow Literary Gazette has published a book by Annabelle Bu- car, resigned U. S, Embassy em- ploye2, in which she charges that high embassy officials have engaged in black market operations in the Eoviet capital. The book is titled “The Truth About American Dip- lomats.” — e AT BARANOF Walter C. Petersen of Petersburg is at the Baranof. | SSPROGRAM SCRUTINIZED £ | tncreased Benefits, Wider| i Coverage, Higher Taxes | Requested by Truman 22.—D— WASHINGTON, = Feb. resident Truman’s request for| expansion of the social secur-| ity system: Some of it may pass— but' not the whole thing. The bill Mr. Truman sent to Cap-| itol Hill yesterday proposed 4A|' providing direct “home relief” to; all needy persons; (b) blanketing! 20,000,000 more persons under old age insurance; (c) greatly increas- ing the benefits; (d) raising — inj some cases, tripling-—the tax on paychecks and payrolls. It was the “home relief” idea which ran into the closest scrutiny in Congress. Six units complete curity legislation—Chairman Dough- ton (D-NC) of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Chairman George (D-Ga.) of the Senate Fi- nance Committee—took no position on the bill. RUSS ROCKET Top Democratic managers of se-| Off to Three Gold Medal Tournament Is - Game Start: Six Games Scheduled 'Ioday LAST NIGHT'S SCORES Sitka ANB 62; Petersburg Mer- chants 50. Juneau Hish School 57; Kake Black Cats 23. Metlakatla Vets 82; Mike's Night lowls 52. Lawmakers gave this answer today| The Lions' Gold Medal Basketbail |2 Tournament got off to a triple game start last night in the Juneau High School gym cefore a crowd of spec- tators that almost hung onto the rafters. Fans went early and when the doors were.opened the crush started and kept up until the sign SRO was hung up and many failed to gain admittance. The first game of the evening was fast, that between the Sitka ANB and Petersburg Merchants. The other two were practically walk aways for the Juneau High School Crimson Bears and the Metlakatla i Vets, although exciting in spots. High point man for Sitka ANB !was H. Didrickson with 21 points {and high score man for Petersburg {Merchants was Ed Hagerman with {13 followed by Tom Thompson with 112, Score: First quarter, Sitka 19, ‘The program calls for an increase in payroll taxes from the present $1,800,000,000 for old age and sur- vivors, insurance, to about $6,000,- 000,800, JUMPSFENCE, | | 1t would boost individual pay- roll taxes 100 per cent or more. The | gy tax on a person making $4,800 or Tmore could be increased from a top | Petersburg 14; second quarter, Sit- ka 28, Petersburg 24; third quarter, {Sitka 44, Petersburg 39; fourth Iquar(er and final score, Sitka 62; (Petersburg 50. [ SUMMARY =} o | Bitka ‘Walton, f " S o | e e e off to a slow start with Mickle of the Bears making nine of the 18 points for his team during the first |quarter. Kake was badly outclassed |by a rangier team. Their shots showed that they were used to play- |ing in a low-ceiling room and pos- |sibly this was the explanation for eir slow game. | High point man for the Bears was | Mickle with 14 followed Ly B. Graves and Hanson with 13 points each. High point man for Kake was George Martin with eight points. Score: First quarter, Bears 18, Kake 8; second quarter, Bears 27, Kake 10; third quarter, Bears 43, Kake 14; fourth quarter and final score was Bears 57, Kake 23. . UNIONTAKES CASETO U. §. DIST. COURT Temporary Restraining Order Issued Against ' Deducting Tax SEATTLE, Feb. 22.—(®—In a sec- ond action testing Alaska's new income tax ‘law, U. S. District Judge John C. Bowen has signad a temporary restraining order en- joining employers feom' deducting the Alaska tax from the deck per- sonuel's payroll on the S. 8. Dia- mond Cement. The action was brought by Bon Dombroff, Seattle agen of the Sail- fors Union of the Pacific and C. W. Barnhart, agent for the Masters, {Mates, and Pilots and others f $30 to $96 Johnson, f % ke g Perkins, f 8 (By..The Apsacinsed “Ryeen) The expanded insurance program iy, 1 3 American authorities in Berlin| o oo R0 o 50 000,000 per-i asa, f .. disclosed an incident today that s+ Nielsen, . ¢ [ has been top secret for some time.}' S ‘,Dldrinkson. H ¢ 21 The authorities said a Russian v (Benson, g 0 rocket fired in practice during ma- (Land, g g 15 neuvers, landed some.time ago in 1Truitt, g i [] !Didrickwn, (sl A j the American zone without causing| = "‘°>°‘~’°""‘Nv-lasm|wo*o@eubuog n'o~o~o~owuofl;]~°4°ug_coa: = 3 any demage or injuries. l “It was a rocket of the ordinar,\'l Totals ... type and nothing unusual in itsy | petersburg TP construction,” a high American of-! ‘!Enge. | <l e 4 ficer said. ] {Thompson, f 12 The officer said the incident had| | Otness, , 7 been filed away in the top secret Thomas, { 2 category because it would have’ Lee, ¢ . 3 served no purpose to make it pub-i {Johnson, ¢ 0 lic at the time. I WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 _<,M_1Drahns. g s 7 | the House and the Senate|Pederson, g e 0 imeet today, they will observe an| Hagerman, g .. 13 {21 custom in observance of Wash- | Norheim, g :‘: ington’s Lirthday. Lhie % In the upper chamber, Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine will read Washington’s fare- well address, and Republican Con- gressman Robert Corbett of Penn- 10 TESTIFY WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—(P— Axis Sally’s trial has been recessed sylvania will do the same in the| House. | for Washington’s Birthday. But 48-year-old Mildreq Gillars may be on the witness stand to tell her story when the trial resumes to- morrow. However, three witnesses are ex- pectea from Germany. If they ar- rive in time, Miss Gillar's appear- ance on the stand will be delayed [OWA 61 HAS CHAT | WITH BRIT. QUEEN l KING'S LYNN, Eng.; Feb. 22— j HIGH SKIERS 'I'O}——An Towa GI broke the ice with x Queen Elizabeth. ! LRE S i IN AMERICAN wni | JUNEAU-KAKE The Juneau High-Kake game got BILL GETS HOUSE OKEH Prohibits Legislators on Doing something no English su-| - Bogrds Commissions- E“TER COMPET"ION ;enc‘n;gfi;?!y:?mfilf etos*;‘:ex‘:mfii Members Hit AI WHIEHORSEI Y' I"esg:rxefint Charles Smith, of Ceda’rl : Rapids saw her touring King’s Lynn, 800-year-old fair, last Saturday. J-Hi skiers will have an oppor- tunity to square off in competition against prepster skiers from other Alaskan high schools this weekend. Decision to send a four-man team to Whitehorse for four-way ski races there February 26-27 was an- for a snapshot, and she did, smil- ingly. ‘Then they had a little chat. “A very charming person,” Smith decided. nounced today by Juneau High e School Seven student skiers are named Coach Dwight Dean as by Ski peing eligible to take the trip. Is "ow lAw Whether all seven will be going to compete is not definite, due to transportation difficulties. Plans are to send the skiers to White- horse via Pan American. Named by Dean as eligible to {€F go are Bob Sommers, Dick Keith- ahn, Fred Wyller, Bill Keep, Sheila MacSpadden, Mary Thibodeau and Elsa Johnson. ———,,—— The Territory’s first general prop- ty tax is law today. Signed yesterday by Governor Ernest Gruening, the 10-mill prop- erty tax became law immediately because of an emergency clause in the bill that passed both houses of {the 19th Legislature. HE GOT IT IN THE NECK ‘The tax is levied on all real and ROCK ISLAND, IlL.—/P— When |personal property in the Territory, IN TERRITORY| By JIM HUTCHESON A bill to bar legislators from serv- Nnabashed, he asked her to pose |ing on boards or commissions while, Totals they remain as members of the leg- islature won House approval by a 14 to 8 vote yesterday afternoon. It was amended by its author, Rep. Jack Conright of Anchorage, to also work in reverse: no member of a territorial board or commission lcould serve in the legislature as long as he remains on the toard or commiission. While presumatly aimed primarily at political appointments, a post mortem on the effect of the bill showed that it probably would in- volve several members of the pres- ent legislature if the Senate passed Pollard and Senator R. M. MacKen- (4e, members of the Board of Den- itistry; Rep. Warren Taylor, on the Board of Law Exgminers, and Sen. Howard Lyng, of the Board of ‘Publi: Welfare, and possibly even Sen. Andrew Nerland chairman of James G. Winters drove into a fill- [with a refund to municipalities and the University Board of Regents. ing station, his auto bumped into [school districts of the revenues col- s Sylvester's car. Sylveswr‘lened within their boundaries. | wasn't in the machine but he was |’ injured anyway. When he leaped the bill quadrupling the license tax out of the way and looked back on fish traps and imposing a stiff to see what was going on, he got a leyy on trap catches of salmon. It crick in his neck. also carrieq an emergency clause, The bill will be up in the House again Wednesday, however. Rep. consideration after the bill's pas- sage, The House is in recess today. (Continued on Page 2) SUMMARY !ugalnst the Permanente Steampship Juneau High FG FT TP|Cerporation and the Olympic Graves, B, f 4 5 13 |Steamship Corporation, owners and Hansen, f{ 6 1 13 |agent, respectively, of the Diamond Sperling, f 1 0 2 | Cement, Magorty, f 3 0 &6 A previous action testing the Mickle. ¢ . 0 e ITemtm-ml law, also brought the Graves, D, ¢ 1 0 2 Sailors’ Union and involving the Adams, g 1 0 2 | Alaska Steamship Company is now Sunderland, g [] [] 0 |pending in Federal Court. Schuliz, g 2 1 5 Rl i 1 Pegues, g 0 0 0 we x5 | RECOMMEND Kake b FG FT TP * Cavanaugh, f : SO 5 S 777 DRAFT LA Martin, f 4 0 8 ' Grant, 0o o o Davis, ¢ X S 1 3 .. 11 UPRESERVES Austin, g e 3 0 6 Rose, g 0 0 0 Jackson, g 0o 0 o VAT e, [hsucre - oo o1Milifary Asks for Increase Totals ... .11 1 23 - m meed Armed METLAKATLA—MIKES S"eflg'h The Metlakatla Vets had little] WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—(P— A competition and slowed down in|committee made up of civillan and the last half of the game against|military members has recommended | Mike's Night Owls in the third game | that the draft law be used to in- {last night, The Vets were sinking |crease the country’s reserved armed baskcts any place and getting in|strength., The committee wants the close for set shots. Mike's Night|National Guard and the Army Re- Owls were not hitting though they | serve boosted to over one million tried close in shots most of the|men. evening. The committee is headed by The Vets kept the ball moving all | former Secretary of State Jamos duriny the game and the Owls|Byrnes. It was appointed by Pres- seemingly could not get rid of it|ident Truman. teing too closely guarded. Little) The committee notes that the cost effort was wasted by the Vets for [0f the proposed reserve program |they had three men down the fioor | Would be high. But it claims that and under the basket every. time |the country cannot afford a cheap- they got the ball. er program. Hign point man for the Vets was| Says the committee: “Our full Jeff David with 21 and Mike's hign | Strength must be maintained to scorer was L. Bonnett with 18. preserve the peace of the world.” LIMITATION | it as it stands. They are: Rep. C. A.' — e DEAN WILLIAMS, BONNIE RANDALL Score: First quarter, Vets 27, Mike's 11; second quarter, Vets 45, Mike's 22; third quarter, Vets 63, Mike's 37; fourth quarter and final score was Vets 82, Mike's 52. Also signed by the Governor Was | .o games gave notice of re-jMike's Night Owls vs. the loser of # SUMMARY Metlakatla FG FT TP SKI MEE'I' Bou" Atkinson, R., 5 3 12 D Hayward, J., 1 .. 2 0 4 | — Atkinson, T, f 8 1 17| Boarding PNA this afternoon, |Hayward, K., f .. 3 1 7 {bourd for Anchorage and Fur David, ¢ 9 3 21 |Rendezvous Week ski competition, Leask, g .. 0 0 0 jare two of Juneau’s top-notch skiers Fawcett, g ... 0 [ 0 [—Dean Willlams and Bonnie Ran- Hudson, E. g 5 0 10 |dall Hudson, M., g ... 0 0 [] Dean, expert on the slalom trail, |Booth, g ... 0 0 0 |and Bonnie, Juneau Ski Club's | - — - |woman entry, climb aboard the 37 8 82 |planes for the Westward loaded iMfl:e‘n FG FT TP|with ski equipment and intent on | McCormick, f 4 1 9 |making their mark in the wezekend ‘Buh. s T 1 0 2 |ski races. | Bonnett, H., { 1 0 2 The swo ski club inembers will |Pmslch. B 0 0 0 |be competing in downhill and sla- !Bonnett, L., ¢ .. 6 6 18 |lom racing Friday and Saturday. Cashen, ¢ 0 1 1 Juneau 8ki Club’s four-way con- Bavard, g 3 1 7 [tender, Lelf Thorkildsen, left yester- Hickey, g 0 4 4 !day to make his bid for top man Blanchard, g 3 0 6 |in cross-country. downhill, slalom Russo, g 1 1 3 |and jumping competition. e e, Totals 19 14 52 ’ GAMBLING, LOCAL GAMES TODAY | Games this afternoon start at opT'o" IS KIllED 1 o'clock with three scheduled as ’ follows: Haines Town Team Vs, BY "Ev ADA Hous[ Columbia Lumber; Wrangell Town {Team vs. Sitka AN.B.; and Juneau —_— High Crimson Bears vs. Mt. Edge-| BOISE, Feb. 22.—(®—The Idaho cumbe Grads. House of Representatives has tabled Starting at 7 o'clock tonight the |33 to 25 the Senate-approved bill first of three games will be played.|to legalize gamtling on a local op- Games for tonight are: Petersburg | tion basis. Merchants vs. Kake Black Cats;| The House action made it appear urlikely that the bill could be re- the Haines-Columbia Lumber game; |vived during the last' nine days of winner of Sitka-Wrangell game vs.|the session as it takes a twWo-thirds the winner of the Haines-Columbia | game, majority to get the tloor, it back on