The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1949, Page 4

s * ground crews, PAGE FOUR THE DAIL\ ALASKA EMPIRL—JUNEAU ALASKA D Al k |ary Senators were ngm all of the time. However, the al, ASKdA ‘Emplre action in the House’ yesterday speaks for ‘tself. hmuched every evening except Sunday by the ! Mr. Egan is taking no chance, he says, that the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Mo ¥ o ¥ g Second snd Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Income Tax might be declared illegal, that the ex GELEN TROY MONSEN - ¥ e 2 President | pected revenue might therefore not find its way into DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - Vice-President ;. WILLIAM R, CARTER - - - Féttor and Manager | the Territorial treasury. Of course, he isn't ques- ELMER A FRIEND - - = - Manacing Bditor | yioning the Attorney General's opinion. He just isn't ALFRED ZENGER - - v . Business Manawer | fice in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | taking any chances. &;owd Class Matter. % Senator Collins, who predicted lawsuits over Extr e B i o T [xe 0% boc muwtht | grigarys Sesslon Dbills apparently knew wheseof hs By mail, postaze paid. at the following r spoke as to the legality of the session. With the One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in - o g , ene month, in advance, $1.50 5 reintroduction of the Income Tax Bill, it looks as if little Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notifs } was ace .d by the special session except pre- 18s Susifbes Diios OELRF Iailire or frrerulerity 1n the dalivery | WO |40gomiDlished by the s 43K 3 their papers. | limina hearing on the Income Tax and General Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. iz MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Property Tax bills The Associated Press 1 exclushiely entitled to the use for Frankly, we think that prelimingry hearing, the republication of ull news dispatches credited to it or not other- | discussion and study that went into the bills during wise redited In this paper and uiso the local news published | . berein the special session, may have been worth it. However g — | we think Senators Collins, Jones and Munz were right NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldz Beattle, Wash. THE It would appear that members beginning to realize that Senator Collins knew he was talking about when, during the special session of the Legislature, he questioned the legality of the session and the consequent legality of any bills by it. Reference was especially to the tax bills considered and Senator Collins when he voted for the bill, served notice that he was doing so against his better judg- ment, and only because an Income Tax Bill had been people of the Fourth Division asked by Jones and Munz voted against the only ' major measure passed by on the basis of its illegality. Yesterday, Representative William Egan, of Valdez. reintroduced the Income Tax Bill with the purpose. he said as did Speaker Stanley McCutcheon, to insure court challenge of the legality original enactment by the special session. The question of the legality of bills pas: special session was argued time after time by Senator Collins, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, against any and Senator Jones, both of whom there could not be an extraordinary had been a regular session Legislature; that the whole ordinary session was a waste of the in spite of an opinion of the Attorney General which (2 established to the satisfaction of most the legality of this irregular procedure. Probably neither !he Washmglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON iContirued from Page OL2) mailing agencies in New York City for distribution under Gwinn's free Congressional frank. The rest is clogging & corridor in the basement of the House Office Building, wait- ing to be mailed However, what the people on the receiving end of this propaganda typhoon do not r is that they —the taxpayers—are footing a good part of the bill. The estimated firsi-class mailing cost to the Post Office Department of Gwinn’s 900,000 political letters is $27.000. In addition, the taxpay- ers are paying $1,755 for the 900,000 free envelopes he is using, plus an estimated $3,000 expense of stutf- mg the envelopes with Gwinn's speeches—a service provided with- out cost to the Congressman by the House folding room. In other words, Gwinn is sock- ing the taxpayers more than $31,000 for his political letter lobby. Under the law, Gwinn must pay the Government Printing Office for reprinting the speeches he is send- ing out. This came to $7,828.97, plus an additional sum for print- ing speech titles on the envelopes. The New York Congressman paid this by personal check, but he re- fuses to say where he got the v, except that it came from Note—Not even in the heat of an election campaign has anyone mail- ed out 900,000 propaganda speeches, Significantly Gwinn has only 280,- 000 constituents in his district FRENCH COMMIE CLEANUP The attempted Communist hous cleaning of the French armed fo! ces is much more significant than meets the eye. It also goes to the heart of the question now under debate by the U. S. Congress as to whether European armics are worth anything under the North Atlantic Pact as a defense bulwark for the USA. What most pecple have forgotten is that Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader, was once Vice Premier of France. At that time Communists also held the vitally important posts of Minister of Air and Minister of National Defense This was the equivalent of jobs hav- ! new and ing Communists in the held by James V. For Stuart Symingten in the USA At that time—from about through 1946 ist Ministers of Air and Defense loaded up their establishments with Communists in such key spots as arsenals, SENATOR WAS RIGHT the special session, of this business of the extra- Representatives Egan or Cutcheon would concede that these so-called reaction- 1945 | -the French Commun- | and com-can be granted. age of the tax should have that if more time w measures, a special session been after the re necessary for pa required, it ession not before. What's In Truman’s Labor Bill What's Out, Times) During disc Congress of the administration’s labor bill, a summary of its princ features is of general interest. The bill in guestion would repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and Wagner Act of 1935, with but | minor changes (Seattle ussions in Truman ipal restore the It would continue a 5-man Labor Relations Board | with power to delegate certain decisions to 3-man panels, as provided by the Taft-Hartlev measure. Two types of secondary boycotts are designated unfair labor practices. They -are prohibited, except when “justifiable.” of the House are The Labor Conciliation Se: e is placed under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Labor. Labor-man- | agement committees are authorized to advise the sec- retary on the Conciliation Service Political contributions by national banks porations are prohibited Important provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act have been omitted. These include non-communist affi- davits; the ban on the closed shop—State laws against the closed shop are superseded; union-shop elections the ban on political expenditures by unions; the inde- sendent status of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel; the ban on strikes by government employees and the free speech guarantee to employers. The bill would again require employers to bargain with foremen. Mass picketing is not prohibited. Employers are required to bargain—unions are not. There is no provision against “featherbedding.” There is no legal limit on initiation fees unions may charge. Unions are not required to file financial reports. " The Taft-Hartley provision permitting employers to sue unions is omitted. Jurisdictional disputes still are prohibited. The bill originally contained a clause invoking the injunction against strikes endangering the national welfare, but it was deleted before the measure was sent to Congress. The President since has contended he aready has that powe The question is debatable. what and cor- passed Senators Income Tax Bill of its d by the maintained that sion until there or any other Territory’s money In view of ihe reports from southern California, it eems nec ry to revies the American idiom. Here- after the star salesman is the fellow who can sell refrigerators in Los Angeles—'(‘lumgo Tnb\mc- Gemands that Mc- munications. “To clean them all out | Recently Eaton | now by force or loyalty tests would |the public inter come first in {be almost impossible. {new financing caused the SEC | However, the cicansing has been |order the Oklahoma Gas and Elec- made somewhat easier by the fact [trice issue and the Ohio Public [that many Frezchmen who once |Service issues to be sold competi- | hopped on the Communist band- | tively. wagon have now voluntarily hopped | The investment-banking frater- off. There has been a considerable nity. which hates Eaton because change of sentiment in France lof his long-time advocacy of com- away from Russia and toward the petitive bidding and of reglonal fi- USA. Inance, now wants to fight back— The recent Frencn Gratitude |but only under cover through some- Train, which represented a gigantic |on€ With a university name. job of organization and to which | Note—A. F. Whitney, sagacious 6,000,000 Frenchmen contributed, is ©ld president of the Brotherhood a graphic illustration of how the of Railroad Trainmen, has also French people are trying to show come out strongly in favor of com- their true sentiment—cven though Petitive bidding. “A federal law President Truman didn’t have the Yequiring competitive bidding,” says courtesy to welcome the Frenchmen Whitney, “would go far in solving or travel three block to see them America’s serious monopoly present their Merci boxcar to the lem.” District of Columbia. For when you have the railroad workers of France and the back- | bone of the French people sending a train all the y to the Amer can people, it's a lot more signifi- cant than internal purges —— e — HERE FROM KETCHIKAN Dale B. DeArmcnd, wife of Bob DeArmond, legisiative reporter for + the Empire, arrived on the Denali last night from Ketchikan for a 10-day stay in Juneau. The De- Armond's will make the trip to Sitka with members of the Legisla- ture, leaving here probably late to- night and returning the first of the week on the Alaska. The Congressmen concerned prob- ably don’t want it published. but some revealing conversation took to prob- from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO MARCH 4, 1929 The Ninth Biennial Session of the Alaska Legislature was convened o at noon, the Senate organization being completed almost immediately. MARCH 4 7ill A. Steel of Juneau, senior First Division Senator, was elected ° X e President of the Senate. Cash Cole was chosen for the secretaryship and b M)f"cfi_'u_i:"‘;‘i::k 5 ¢ |Mre L. B. Adsit was made his assistant. Joseph H. Murray, dean of 5 Carol :,““{ Blasn o |the House, was unanimously elected Speaker pro-tem, and the House o Marcus Carlson o |adjourned until the next afternoon. Both houses had been called to ° Betty Clark o |order by Karl Theile, Secretary of Alaska. ° Mrs. W. A. English °f AT AR K] Chris Larsen . In the “want ad” section A. Forsythe had hatching eggs for sale, ° A, M. Delaney : jand O. N. Olsen of Lemon Creek, Douglas, offered a skiff for $20 or 325. ° o 0000 e e o 00 00 RN —p e PROGRAM TONIGHT - WILL CONCLUDE [ Those who have not been able to participate in either of the daytime programs of today's World Day of : may share in a fine inspira- vening. ship service Prayer, tional program this The 8 o'clock in the Northern Light Presbyterian Ch\.xch cenclude the Juneau began with a an concert in the Twen- Theatre. will | noon ory tieth Centu A community junior choir of 52 voices, the young singers repre |senting various churches, will sing tonight under the direction of Mrs ,Robert Treat. The inter-church roup will give three. anthems: Master, the Tempest is Raging” “We Give Thee But Thine Own,” and “Lord, I Want To Be A Christ- ian.” Vocal solos will be My Shepherd,” sung by Miss Fran- ces Paul, and “Lord, Speak To Me,” with Mrs. Denald Burrus as the singer. ! Four Juneau ministers make up the quartet which will participate, and an unusual part of the pro- eram will be the showing of slides depicting Chinese artis concep: ti of the life of Christ. This ies is called “Each With His yn Brush.” Mrs. Wilda Faunce Husted gave the hour-long “drop-in” concert this noon to open the Day Prayer observance. This afternoon’s the Northern Light O program _ in Presbyterian Church opened with devotions and , featured a “television” pla Day of Prayer on the Air, tizing the projects made possik by contributions at these serviges. Dnuled by Mrs. HaE. Beyer, the ctresses e Mrs. J. A. Alter, Mrs. Lert Wagner and Mrs. Anna May derson. Miss Florence Cather gave a solo ;umber and joined in a trid din which Mrs. R. E. Baker and Mrs. Ncrman Sommers were the other singers. After the program, there was a shert business meeting of the Uni- ted Council of Church Women, which sponsored today’s observance here. Mrs. C. E. Warfield, presided. All those attending the program were invited to remain for the tea it which the Martha Society of he Presbyterian Church entertain- ed. Mrs. Hugh Antrim and Mrs, Baskin were in charge, her members a president, Stan- with BASIC SCIENCE BOARD PLANS TWO-DAY MEET The Board of Basic Science will meet in Juneau Sunday and Mon- day at the Territorial Department of Health, Board members to be present are < N. Bredlie of Fairbanks, Dr. A, 5. Walkowski of Anchorage, Dr. C. Earl Albrecht. Dr. Howard Vance and Don W. Skuse of Juneau place inside the House Banking Committee when they debated rent control this week. i write a “I hope you fellows tough bill,” remarked GOP Con- gressman Albert Cole of Kansas, ““‘L’wss 9 l“”""“"‘ during the rather heated debate on |y hore” Beite rent control. “Go ahead and make = § Bark of the landlorde B . Vocal it tough on nw} landlords—the :‘.\“()II;IA-ny composition tougher the better . Room'in a 8- Dulls harem Democratic colleagues couldn’t be- ' lieve their ears Ecclesiastical court Town in So may it be Other’ Masculine “Dces that mean you are going Portugal to vote for the bill inquired R ol wped Y 8 )hor 3, | Democrat Frank Buchanan of " Thinanad 40 ! Pennsylvania. 4 vibrant - 3 % | 20. Nothing more ~ 49 ‘Certainly not,” answered Cole, C‘lmn»v holes “but the tougher you iellows make 21 Quantity of 53. Informal dance utaibe, Loug 90 fellorws Sl matter 51, Regiment in this bill, the more votes you are 23. American the Turkish 2 s REDH Indian army going “to meke for us Republicans yq gialc 55. English river in the next election.” WOLVES OF WALL Wall Street's investment ban quietly shopping around for grade A university financial I pert with a national name to wi dow-dress a blast against comy tive bidding. Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland trialist and banker, has been fight- ing for competitive bidding on stock and bond issues for years, claiming that it was the only way vent inside deals interlocking directorates, which bilked the pub- lic, the cempanies and non-Wall | Street underwriting firms Eaton's efforts made competitive bidding a SEC responsibility. But lit is legally required only in the |case of public-utility securities, and even then all kinds of exceptions indus- to pre- z Im[a[> NREDEED DR Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 56. Commune in Holland Gape DOWN Atad Greek mytho- Attitude lozical queen Short-lived 69. Turf 4. Pulverizes cal AMinute particle opelled one. self in water ‘uts an end to raps Hurried Salary . Old musical note neanked . Bushy clump DAY CF PRAYER “The Lord Is | An urgent plea was made for Juneau and Douglas citizens to “buy “even half a log or a few shingles,” so the Boy Scout cabin at The fund still lacked $200. log,” or gle River could be completed. In Douglas, Guy L. Smith was made Deputy Clerk Clerk, to facilitate registration of voters during the absence of City Clerk Felix Gray, who in St. Ann's Hospital. was i W. P. Mills, prominent Sitka businessmen, while the steamer Queen was in port. visited W In Douglas, Mrs. J. O. Kirkham was honored on her Lirthday with {a surprise party in the Gallwas home. Prizes went to Mrs. Rese Davis ‘un(l Mrs. W..F. Snyder. Musical entertainment was by Mrs. R. R. rown and Mrs. Glen Kirkham Weather: High, 36; low, 33: sno | ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It sounded like she intended to go.” Say, “It sounded AS IF she intended to go.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Transit. Pronounce either tran-sit, or tran-zit. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Naphtha; observe the two H's. SYNONYMS: Careless, heedless, thoughtless, negligent, unconcerned, inattentive. { WORD STUDY: se a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: FIDELITY; faithfulness; one is bound. (Pronounce both I's as in IT). “The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with.duty.”—A. Hamilton. MODERN ETIQUETT Q. When a man and a woman enter a fashionable restaurant and near the door to show them to a table, what should they do? ROBERTA LEE {no waiter of | A. Merely stand near the door for a few minutes until the head- waiter approaches. ; Q. Is it necessary that a business woman stand when callers come ! linto her office? A. No, it is not at all necess ate a sincere pleasure over ry. But in certain cases it does indi- the call A. As soon as possible after receipt of the wedding invitation. LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ cornox — | ]: 1. When is the most rapid period of growth in a human being? { 2. What country leads in the number of divorces? ! 3. What animal, along with the maple leaf, is the national emblem |of Canada? | 4 What Spanish explorer first saw the Pacific Ocean? i 5. What is “decalcomania”? i ANSWERS: H During the first year of life. The United States. The beaver. Vasco Nunez Balboa (1475-1517) 5. A process of transferring pictures® and. lprepmcd paper to china, glass, etc. RN designs from specially ] ELLIS AIR LINES || DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN | via Pelersharg and Wrangell | With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg. Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 Oldest Bank in Alaska ; 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. 1. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS GEORGE SOHN as a paid-up subscriver 10 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING * Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “WILD HORSE MESA" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN 10U to your home with our compliments, WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! » Goddard | adherence to a person or party to which: Q. How scon before the wedding should a gift be sent to the bride? | FRIDAY, MARCH 4, I949 Mom mflnn me: No. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month IPRA CALLS FOR BIDS ON HIGHWAY |==:idt St gfy NEAR KETCHIKAN|S:25 temeee JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €¢» B.P.0.ELKS Meeting ~very Wednesday at 8 P. M. visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalied Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. H. A. Stoddart, Public Roads Administrative Division Engineer, | announces that bids are invited for materials and construction work on 2628 miles of road near Ketchikan, | This project on the Tongass High- \way calls for bituminous surfacing. { Besides this section, there soon will be another project about 1.5 miles long involving grading, sur- i facing and a bridge in the vicinity f Ward’s Cove, also a project to reconstruct the north pier of the Jarlanna Creek bridge , near the north city limits of Ketchikan.' Bids for these two projects will be .ssued within a month, e KRUG IS PLANNING TOURIST CAMPS ON - ALASKA HIGHWAY | , 557 s | ! 2:15 — 4:00 2. M WASHINGTON, Mauarch 4,—(?»——5 "'The Rexall Store” Secretary of the Inter:or Krug has Your Reliable Pharmacist Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN i “ Bert’s Food Center Grocery Phones 104—175 | asked Congress for authority to es-{ tablish lodges, camps, garages and other accommodations for munsts! H lusing the Alaska Highway. BUTLER-MAURO | Krug said in letters to the Homs| {and the Senate that it is planned to DRUG . CO. | establish four units for accommoda- tions of tourists. He did net indi- icate where the lodges would be 10- | cated. The Secretary told Congress cha: the tourist business promises to be one of the largest in the Ton'ltory' 1if not its greatest petential indus-{ | try. “ ———————— 1 Alaska Music Sapply Artour M. Uggen, Manager Planvg~Mdcsl Instrumentu and SBupplies Phone 206 Second and Seward ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant | CASH fo: serap lead and old | storage batteries at Madsen’s. 22 tf ————— h Fried Chicken and T-bone Steaks —§250. Country Club. 19 tf‘; Auditor Tax Counsefox {| Stmpson 8idg. 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