The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY A VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,149 Senate Pass 'Wage Boost HOUSE IRE FADES OUT ON SUNDAY Non-Communist Oath Bill| .Is Rejected, Then Vote | Reversed (By JIM HUTCHESON) The House went into the final four-day home stretch today after a stormy Saturday night with the Senate and a calm day of recanting Members of the lower House re- versed themselves at the Sunday session and accepted two bills from the Senate after having given them a hefty thumbs down as tempers flared Saturday night. One was the Munz bill to require a “non-Communist oath by all ter- ritorial officials and employees be- fore assuming their jobs. The other was a bill to allow a| buffet car liquor license for the Al- | aska Railr8ad, to legalize what al- ready is being done by the rmlrond,i It was passed quickly Sunday. | The Saturday night House rebel- | lion was a clash over politics, pro- | cedure and nersonalities. | The vote on receiving the non- | Communist oath bill was 12 to 12. A two-thirds vote was needed for sus- pension of the rules to accept the bill after the deadline upon which there had been previous inter-house agreement. Arguments against receiving the bill were based on various reasons —actual opposition to the oath, mounting tempers over Senate tabl- ing of House bills and over con- tinued transmittal of Senate bills after the deadline, and spite against Author William Munhz, who has Sun- been ' lambasting House Democrats{erage hourly wage is raised from regularly in the column he writes for a Ketchikan paper. Votes against accepting the oath bill were by Democrats Almquist, Anderson, Angerman, Beltz, Con- right, Franklin, Gundersen, Hope, Jensen, Owen and Taylor and Re- publican Frank G. Johnson. FIGHT RESUMED SUNDAY At the opening of the Sunday session, Mrs. Gundersen promptly moved for rescinding of the Satur- day night action, commenting: “We were tiredq and mention of Munz' name was like waving a red flag at us.” The vote to rescind was 18 to 3. The three who voted again against receiving the bill were Anderson, of the “labor bloc,” and Rydeen and Franklin from the conservative Democrat ranks. Franklin said he objected to somei persons having to take an oath and | others not having to. In comment- | ing on the Saturday night rejection| Rep. Angerman declared: | “We stood only on the rules. We e grees. collision | r To Be Given ! Railroaders 11-Month Bi;;;uie Settled ~Most Momentous in American Industry CHICAGO, March ~#—Final | terms on a $040,000,600 a year wage e been reached in the 11-| dispute between the nation’s and 16 non ating 21 roads ettlement, worked out on a formula recommended by a presi- dential fact-finding board, was de- scribed by a union spokesman as the “most momentous” wage and hour movement in the history of! American industry. It extends the tasic 40-hour week to the railroads for the first time, and affects 1.000,000 employees. The 40-hour week at the same pay the workers received for 48 hours becomes effective next Sept. 1, but an additional wage boost of seven cents an hour is retroactive to last Oct. 1. Excepted from the general terms of the “third round” wage boost are the yardmasters, who will continue on a six-day week with an increase of 10 cents an hour. Overtime in excess of eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week wills be paid generally at the rate ox’l time and one-half. Although Satur- days and Sundays will be considered ordinary work days, the carriers must arrange for a maximum num- ber of employees to have those days off.; However, they have the privi-, legé of staggering the work weekI where necessary to avoid overtime rates for thobe days. On & straight time rate, the av- $1.18 to $146. The unions’ original demands were® for a 40-hour week, Monaday through Fridays at no pay! reduction, time and a half for Sat- urdays, double time for Sundays,! and an increase of 25 cents an hour. The roads refused the shorter work week ang overtime rates and offered a 10-cent pay hike. ————— ° o o e & WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau—Maximum, 42; minimum, 33. At Airport— Maximum, 44; minimum, 24. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with occasional e light rain Tuesday. Lowest ® tonight near 30 degrees, and ® highest Tuesday near 41 de- . . . . . . . . L . . . . un-, f | Campbe —— = ———— e AVIATRIX WILL FLY, Free Hand On SHE SAYS Crash-Halted Round-the- World Flight fo be Re- sumed-Plans Made SEATTLE, ar P less Mrs. Ri Morrow-Tait says she has plans for finishing her crash-halted round-the-world i back | to Br . Dr. Daunt- m attle dentis er H , announced he and other friends dare helping the auburn- haired airwoman raise the $600 she | needs to finish the trip. | Mrs. Merrow-Tait and Dr. Camp- bell have found an all-metal mono- plane they said, which will do the | job. The comely aviatrix added she has found a navigator to take the place of her original chart-shuffler, Michael Townsend, who left atter | an Alaska crash-landing Nov. 21 to return te scheol. He is Jack Ellis of Seattle, a wartime R.A.F. flier. Mrs. Morrow-Tait says she plnns! to fly back to Tok, Alaska, about | 150 miles south of Fairbanks, where her first plane was wrecked in a forced landing, and resume her globe-circling flight from there—by way of Canada and the North At-| lantic. ENGINEER SPEAKS ON PAVING WORK FOR JUNEAU AREA Paving of Juncau streéts and the | Glacier Highway should be complet- | ed by the first part of August, Chris Wyller, district engineer of the Public Roads Administration, told members of the Juneau Lions Club this noon at their luncheon meeting at the Baranof. The PRA engineer and his new staff member, District Construction Engineer William A. Wood, were special guests of Lions today to dis- cuss the construction projects which are to get under way here within a short time. Paving of Juneau streets will probably precede the highway con- struction work, Wyller said. There will be no closing down ot the highway while work is going on, ‘e assured Licns. Plans are to have the road open at all times, al- though one-way traffic will be nec- essary at times. All preparatory construction work, such as grading, drainage problems | :nd widening of ditches, has been! ! sublet to R. J. Sommers ccnstmc_":ommissmn. Commissioner of Veter-|iater in the morning to ask the tion Co., Wyller said, and work on | within a very short time. i | opposition to the pact. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO Truman Seeks Arms’ Plans Proposals will Be Made Congress About Mili- tary Aid Program (By The Associated Press) President Truman is expected to ask Congress for a free hand in al- locating arms to Western Europe under the proposed billion dollar muliary aid program. The program is expected to go to the U. S. Capitol about the same time as the North Atlantic Security (reaty. Mr, Truman will send the' Atlantic pact up for Senate approv- al immediately after it is signed in Washington by an expected 12 nations, two weeks from today. The Senate alone—by a two- thirds vote—must approve the new treaty if America is to take part, iue treaty allies the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Nor- way and possibly other western na- tions in promises of mutual aid in the event of an attack on any one of them. The full text of the treaty was published in all Muscow newspapers yesterday. Moscow radio stations broadcast it to all provincial papers which are certain to print it. Several big Moscow papers carried dispatches from abroad reporting Russia has argued that the proposed allience is “aggressive” in nature, PREAE S XD TRy PAY INCREASE FOR OFFICIALS PASSES SENATE By BOB DeARMOND A Senate Finance Committee sub- titute bill raising the pay of all Territorial officials and employees. oxcept school teachers, was passed by the Senate on Saturday by 13-3 vote, the three negatives bc- | ing cast with an eye to posman.‘ on the conference committee in the event that the bill should reach that stage. The bill provides the foliowin pay schedules for Territorial offi- tials: Attorney General, Highway En- gineer, Commissioner of Mines Commissioner of Taxation, Directo: of Unemployment Compensation ans’ Affairs, and Ccmmissioner of fqms is expected to get under way | fducation, $8,000 a year each. Auditor, Treasurer, Comm:ssioner Approximately 80 men will be em- | of Labor, Commissioner of Agricul- . ASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NDAY, MARCH 21. 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALIBUT TAX BILL PASSES BOTH HOUSES Cold Storage Measure Wins, 20-4-House Has Flareup By JIM HUTCHEZON Legislative action was completed by the House this morning on the one percent cold storage tax on raw fish. 4t passed, and headed toward the governor’s desk, by a 20 to 4 vote. | An estimate was made in the Sen- | ate last week that it was expected to raise about $75,000 a year. | kep. Alfred Owen Jr. tried un-| successfully to get the levy lowered | to one-half percent. He contended the higher tax might lead the hali- tut ileet to by-pass Southeastern Alaska ports, with resulting loss to cold storage plants and other busi- nesses. He said it might be reflected in losses to the territory in antici- pated income and property taxes. He pointed out that most of the halibut fishing is by large non-resi- dent boats. The four votes against the bill were by Doris Barnes, Amelia Gun- dersen, Frank L. Johnson and James Nolan. | Most of the House morning ses- sion was taken up by arguments over the National Guard bill, with its opponents contending it was trought into the House irregularly as a Senate substitute. The argument brought one sharp personal flareup in which Owen |tossed a threat in Frank Anger- !man’s direction. Angerman wds hecklffig and ¢hal- lenging Speaker Stanley McCutch- con when Owen rose and told An- erman hotly: “I'm getting damn tired of a mem- ser impugning the motives of the| speaker. Cut it out or you're going o0 have to settle with me personal- ly.” He called Angerman’s tactics ‘back-handed slaps” and said, with- {out further explaining his implica- ions: “It reminds me of what I've read in some of the congressional ecords.” The House majority failed to poll i" two-third vote to suspend the |rules and receive from the Senate | the Dbill setting territorial officers | :olaries at $7,500 and $8,000. It also |carried a proviso for employees’ in- creases ranging from 10 to 15 per- ent. However, the salary increases wre expected to be provided for in the budget. The bill which the House fused would have set them on a | statutory basis. The Senate voted | e | House to reconsider. | -o o — all are opposed to communism. I'l¢e PRECIPITATION will always fight it. But we o-jected | @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today to the Eenate sending us a new bill. e In Juneau City — Trace: every 10 minutes and asking us 0| e since March 1, 245 inches; suspend the rules.” e since July 1, 9445 inches. Final House action on passage e At the Airport — Trace; of the oath bill was held over until e since ,March 1, 1 inch; today after several amendments e since July 1, 59.30 inches. were offered to it. Memberssaidthey o o o @ © 0 ¢ © o o o wanted to see it in final' written ~— form before voting on it. | ec0ece00ce00000c0es 000 ol . L | o lis not available. i1 Frank G. Johnson amended it to make it include reference to all (Continued on Page 2) 'The Washington Merry - Go- Round; By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—Secretary Ache- . son of State is boiling mad at John Foster Dulles ‘for making speech- es ol the North Atlantic Pact. Acheson bléw up when he read Dulles’ speech in Cleveland be- fore the Federal Council of Church- es lambasting the State Depart- ment for inviting Norway to join the Pact while under Russian pres- sure. He warned that this might provoke Russia into attacking. When Acheson read this he re- marked: “Dulles just can't get over the fact that Dewey lost the elec- tion and he isn’t now Secretary of State.” CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES T Senator Morse—The Democrats have tried to tempt in- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Mar. 21.—{®—Clos- ing quotation on American Can today is 89'%2, Anaconda 31%, Cur- tiss-Wright 9%, International Har- vester 24%, Kennecott 45%, New Yosk Central 10%, Northern Pac- ific 14%, U. S. Steel 72%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 620,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 175.61, rails 47.54, util- ities 85. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle in- port and scheduled to sail westward at 8:30 tonight. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle Saturday. Syt TWO LEAVE FROM ANS Jessie Bledsoe, former employee of the Alaska Native Service ad- ministrative assistant office, and| Mary Louise Duvall of the ANS na- | i (Continued on Page Four) tive resurces division, left Juneau ployed on different phases of the work, said, adding that local | : used In all cases, ex- >ept where highly trained personnel; Program Chairman Pete Wood in- | troduced the speaker. Reports were made by Bfll Math- | :ny on Licns participation in the | Junior Chamber of Commerce ini- | tiated drive for an ambulance, by Frank Hermann on bringing the Mt. Edgecumbe choir to Juneau, and by Harry Sperling on the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. Hermann announs that the Mt. Edgecumbe choir would be com- ing to Juneau for presentation of a concert here the weekend of April 29. Sperling reported that the bas- ketball tournament was a real fi- nancial success with proceeds $750 higher than last year, and with ex- penses $350 less than last year. For visiting teams, $2 a mile was sent to team nfanagers for expenses and 3135 was left over for next year's tournament. 1 Val Poor suggested Lions get busy on their Douglas beach project and President George Danner agreed to‘ appoint committees. Special Lions Club prizes were| presented to Milton Furness, A. W. Blackerby, Pete Wood, Joe Shofner and Bill Matheny for bringing in new memers during the January| memership drive. Guests gvere. John Dimond and Clarence Keating, of Anchorage and Seward. - FROM MOOSE PASS Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rhode of Moose Pass registered yesterday at -llast week to return to the States. 'the Gastineau Hotel. ture, Director of Public Welfare, and manager of Alaska Develop- ment Board, $7,500 a year each. Commissioner of Health, such sal- ary, commensurate with his profes- sional or specialized abilities. as the Board of Health sees {it to al- low, not to exceed $12,000 a year. Curator of the Museum, Director of the Alaska Aercnautics and "Communications Commission, Sup- erintendent of the Pioneers' Home | Director of the Fishery Products Laboratory, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral and Deputy Commissioner of Education, $7,000 a year each. Deputy Auditor, Assistant Treas- urer, Deputy Commissioner of La- bor and Territorial Assayers, $6,500 a year each. Other Territorial employees will receive percentage increases as fol- lows: Receiving $400 a month or over, 10 per cent increase; $375 to $400 a month, 11 per cent increase; $350 to $375 a month, 12 per cent increase; $325 to $350 a month, 13 per cent increase; $300 to $325 a | month, 14 per cent increase, and |under $300 a month, 15 per cent | increase. Amendments offered by Senator McCutcheon to increase the pay | raises of the Commissioner of Edu- | cation, Manager of the Develop- ment Board and Commissioner of | veterans’ Affairs, to pay the Super- | visor of Education a salary of $6,000 and to increase by five per cent the pay increases in'each bracket, were 111 voted down after Finance Com- mittee Chairman John Butrovich told the Senators that the entire salary scale had been given careful consideration by the committee, which had agreed upon the bil! un- animously. - REPORTED SELECTED FOUR MEMBERS OF FISHERIES BD. ARE Informed sources said today Gov-! ernor Gruening has made tentative | selections of four of the five mem-| cers of the Territorial Fisheries| Board under legislation which he is expected to sign shortly. These sources say the men ap- pointed are Karl Brunstad, of Ko- diak, William Walton of Sitka, Peter Tandstad of Cordova’ representing fishermen of the three Alaska areas, and Howard Wakefield, Kodiak Is- land herring processor. All are now in Juneau for confer- ences. The fifth member, who will | represent the public, has reportedly not been named. e CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER JOINS PUBLIC ROADS STAFF | William A. Wood, formerly of | Billings, Mont., recently joined the | staff of the Public Roads Adminis- ‘ration as district construction en- gineer. Woods comes to Alaska following a several-year tenancy as assistant regional road engineer for a five- state area in the U. S. Indian Ser- vice, including North,K and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana. The new PRA staff member is married and has a 15- year-old daughter. His family plans to join him as soon as living quart- ers are available. ———— “+ IN FROM FAIRBANKS Joan M. Kovaleski of Fairbanks has registered at the Gastineau. National Guard Bill, 16-0 Vote Five Alaskan Youngsters - MEASURE IS Reunifed Affer Death of Father; 6 SENATE ACTS ON 22 BILLS, 18 APPROVED Many Measures Cleared; from Calendar During Saturday, Sunday By BOB DeARMOND Holding sessions on Saturday af- ternoon, Saturday evening and Sun- day afternoon, the Senate spurred by another deadline, passed five of its own bills, passed 13 House bills and tabled four House measures, oringing its calendar pretty well down to the bedrock of appropria- dons and revenue measures which, under a joint rule, have the spot- ight during the last tour days of the session. Twe new bills were introduced in the Senate Saturday afternoon and quickly passed. Senator Gunnard Engebreth, at the request of Col. J. P. Johnson, general manager of he Alaska Railroad, introduced a uill to authorize liquor dispensary licenses for common carriers, in- luding rajlroad cars.” Sénator En- sebreth told his colleagues that the { till ‘merely legalizes the butfet car service which was - inaugurated by lie Alaska Railroad several years 120. The bill passed 14-2. Senator Victor C. Rivers intro- duced S.B. 85, to provide for termi- nation of the Territorial Land Reg- istration Program on July 1 of this year. NO LONGER NECESSARY The registration program jis no ionger necessary, Senator Rivers ex= plained, as the work will now be performed by the Boards of Assess- nent under the new General Prop- rty Tax Act, and by the 'Commis- sioner of Taxation. Secnator Lyng objected to the early ‘ermination of the program, assert- ing that since there have heen more than 10,000 registrations of owner- ship under the program and much of toe land will be foreclosed and old, it should.be carried out by the Treasurer’s oifice. The bill passed by.a 10-6 vote. The main section of the two-part raw, fish tax bill passed the Senate )y a vote of 11-5 Saturday after- noon, the cold storage portion of the kil having passed Saturday Jorencon. 200-FOOT LAW H.B. 61, introduced as a broad measure to specify the method by which the 200-foot “dry” zone around churches and schools is to Je measured but generally under- stood to have been inspired by the desire of the Ketchikan Eagles Lodge to erect a new club building within 200 feet, airline measurement, of a church. An amendment offered by Senator MacKenzie of Ketchikan and adopt- ed by the Senate gave the measure an extremely narrow application, however, providing that only a na- tional fraternal organization chart- ered in at least 36 states, with at least 500 lodges and organized for at least 20 years could operate under a club dispensary license within the 200-foot zone. The Fraternal Order of Eagles and two or three other fraternal organizations could quali- fy under the amendment. Senators Nerland, Huntley and Anderson vigorously opposed both the MacKenzie amendment and the final passage of the bill, but both carried 10-6. OTHER BILLS PASSED) Other House bills passed by the Senate were: H.B. 81, increasing the minimum ! compensation for wrongful death to $15,000. H.B. 95, to amend the Veterans’ lLoan Act relating to security (or‘ ‘oans. ? H.B. 90, to require the licensing 4nd bonding of both certified and uncertified public accountants, H.B. 117, amending the law re- lating to Public Utility Districts, | H.B. 106, pertaining to the pow=! | | 4 "7 (Continued on Page 6) i ' 0 fo Mooseheart DENVER, March 21—®— Five youngsters, whose Alaskan home was broken up by the tragic death| of their father, are reunited after| a year's separation and have start- ed on the way to a new home. ‘They are Thomas Woods, 12; Ve-| nita, 10; Johnny, 7; Michele, 7, and Diane, 6. Accompanied by their aunt, Mrs. Arthur Crow of Denver, they | have boarded a train for Mooseheart, 1 ‘Their mother Mrs. Melbina Woods, ill in a Portland, Ore, hospital, is expected to join them in a few months. ‘Their father, Thomas A. Woods, a native of Dodge City, Kans., {drowned on a fishing trip near %s“k“’ Alaska, in January, 1948. He had operated a taxicab cusiness there 20 years. Mrs. Woods col- lapsed and was taken to the Port-| land hospital. Mus. Crow went to Alaska for the children. Johnny and Venita went to live with relatives in Dodge City. The other three live with Mrs. Crow and her niece. But Mrs. Woods didn't want the! family broken up, she wrote Mrs.| Crow. The aunt arranged with the Denver lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose for the children to live at the Fraternal Order’s “Child's City"” at Mooseheart where their mother will join them later. e - - TWO TAX Bl ARE. TABLED BY. SENATE ACTION Petroleum Tax, School Tax Increase Shelved-Other | Bills Not Considered By BOB DeARMOND Two more tax bills joined the growing pile of House measures re- posing on the Senate table this morning, while three additional House bills falied to achieve the suspension of Joint Rule 28, neces- sary for their consideration. 3 The Rule provides that none ex- cept appropriation and revenue measures shall be considered after the 56th day- of the session, whiclt was yesterday. L4 H. B.-114, to levy 4 tax on petrol- eum production in the Territory, was tabled by a 9-7 vote and sub- stitute H.B. 60, to increase the school tax to $10 accompanied it by a 14-2 vote. | _Unconsidered by the Senate were H. B. 110, to reorganize the Unem-; ployment Compensation Commis- | sion; H.B. 102, to set up laws re- | lating to cruelty to animals, and| H.B. 119, to provide for the ap- pointment of liquor enforcement officers under the“Attorney Gener- | al's office, | Passed by the Senate this morn- | ing, both by unanimous vote, were PRICE TEN CENTS UNDER FIRE FROM HOUSE Opponents fl allenge Regularity of Act for Alaska S(outs By a surprising 16-0 vote, the Na- tional Guard bill sailed through the Senate Sunday and ran head-on into a new House controversy. . Obpponents of the measure in the House continued this morning their attempt to block further considera~ tion of the bill on the basis of pro- - cedural technicalities. Rep. Frank Angerman leq the at- tack with a charge of “irregulari- tes." The bill was under fire for coming back as a Senate commit~ tee substitute for the original House bill. That, the opponents claimed, made a new bill of it and suspen- sion of the rules ty a two-thirds vote should have been necessary for the House to receive it. When it came back to the House Sunday, it was read by title before any objection was raised. Speaker Stanley McCutcheon ruled that the reading without objection consti- tuted House acceptance of the bill. Angerman charged today that the speaker’s friendliness toward the bill ‘nfluenced the ruling. i Rep. Glen Prankiin failed in an attempt to get in &’ motion to have the House rescing the Sunday action {and throw out the bill, The arguments and jockeying over the measure consumed an hour or more. When it was all over, the bill docket ‘of the Ways and Means Committee. In the Senate yesterday, several opponents of the bill apparently changed their minds after hearing Lt. Col. J. D. Alexander testity on it and others subscribed to the “if you can't teat 'em, join 'em” theory. Senate Vote 16-0 Col. Alexander, who said that he had been assigned by the Army to set up the National Guard in the Territory on the basis of Alaska’s needs, described the proposed pro- aram and sald that the Guard will be insurance in the present world situation, strictly for defense pur- poses only.” For the time being, the Guard will consist of Eskimo Scout Bat- tallons on the Bering Sea Coast of Alaska, Col. Alexander tcld the Senetors. He said that the Federal government will spend some $680,000 on the Guard during its first year and approximately $200,000 a year thereaiter. The bill carries an ap- propriation of $92,000 from the Territorial Treasury. No Conflict . In answer to questions from Sen- ators Collins and Rivers, Col. Alex- ander said that there will be no conflict between the Guard bill and a Territorial Militla Act in the present Alaska Code. “Is politics absolutely divorced from this organization,” Senator Jones wanted to know. “Yes. The Guard will be the same as the Army in that respect,” Col. Alexander assured him. Senator Munz had some questions Was. just. where -it.-started—on the % | H.B. 105, amending the law relating | Senator Jones. The Jones amend- to the distribution and sale of | [EATANE & section e peeae narcotics and H.P.M. 20 urging that | Y. PAKS . 0 a wildlife i g gy i thlsu.:lnn National Guard be used tablished at the University of Al- 253inst any labor organization or aika. ;Ior the purpose of strike breaking H.B. 88, to provide financial as- i“"g“l" 2,‘" Territory of Alaska.” sistance for the operation of com- |, 001 Alexander admitted that he munity hospitals, and H. B. 79, w‘dld not know of any State National " (Continued on Page Eights ———— provide Territorial funds for the| proposed Wildlife Research Unit,| went through second reading but | failed to attain advancement by| "Ew ‘I‘RI ‘l “Mm suspension of the rules H. B. 92, the re-enactment of the | Net Income Tax Act, was held uver‘)u w m G“m‘(" in the Senate this morning when wo98® . Attorney General Ralph Rivers could not be located to testity re- garding an amendment offered by SEATTLE, March 21.—P—Super- for Judge William J. Wilkips has ;demed a new trial to Dr. Ralph ment would strike out the section |CGundlach, former University of of the bill relating to the collection | Washington philosophy - professor, of the income tax from the person- |Who was convicted in a contempt nel of ships, planes and trucks op- | hearing last week. erating to Alaska. | ~ Judge Wilkins tentatively set April Final action of the forenoon Sen- |2 for sentencing. Conviction is ate session was on a request, from |Punishable by a year in jail, a $1,000 the House to untable H.B. 68, |!ine or both. which would amend and, its oppon-| The charge grew out of Dr. ents contend, nullify the Blanket|Gundlach's refusal to answer ques- Primary Election Law enacted two |tions of the legislative un-American years ago. Although a motion to|Activities Committee last summer. table or untable is undebatable,| Dr. Herbert J. Phillips was ace Senators Rivers and Collins each |quitted on a similar charge more got In a few words by requesting [than a week ago. Four other eommit- special privilege of the floor. + tee witnesses remain to be tried.