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

> . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLXII,, NO. 11,150 New Bounty on Eagles in A NLRB MAKES DECISION IN ALASKA CASE Ruling Involves Control of | 3,600 Alaska Salmon Cannery Workers SEATTLE, March 22.—(®— Over the protests of Nathan Witt, New York Attorney, a National Labor Re- | lations Board hearing officer refused today to permit a CI.O. union to | intervene in a case in which an A. F. of L. union seeks to gain con- trol of 3,600 Alaska salmon cannery workets. | Witt, former secretary of the N. L. R. B, came to Seattle to repre- sent the Food, Totacco, Agricultur- al and Allied Workers (C.LO. at the hearings. The hearing was on a petition of | the Alaska Fish K Cannery Workers | of the Pacific, an affiliate of the In- ternational Seafarers’ Union (A. F. of L.), for an election to determine collective bargaining rights for the workers. ‘The workers now are represented by Local No. 7, Cannery Workers' | Union, an affiliate of the C.I.O. union. Milton Boyd, hearing officer, de- nied Witt’s motion to intervene on the grounds that the C.I.O. union had not complied with the Taft- Hartley Labor Act by filing non- Communist affidavits. He based his riling on a ruling made by the board last year in a similar case in the same industry. Witt and C. T. Hatten, co-counsel for the F.T.A.A, said they based their motion to intervene on grounds that their client-union had repre- sented the workers in contracts with employers for 10 years. They said .an overwhelming number of the workets in the industry belonged to the CI.O. union. John Geisness, attorney for the A. F. of L. union, objected to the intervention because the C.I.O. un- ion had not complied with the Taft- Hartley Act and because “suffi- clent facts to warrant an interven- tion had not been shown.” A later attempt ty Joseph Holmes, who said he represented a large group of individual employees in the industry, also was denied by Boyd. Holmes argued that the in-| tent of Congress in the Taft-Hart- ley Act was “to protect the rights of individual employees.” Holmes said exceptions. to Boyd's rulings will be filed when the case comes before the N. L. R. B. itself for a decision. Should the Board grant an election, workers would have a choice between the A. F. of L. union or no union, the C.LO. union not appearing on the ballots. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Mar, 22.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American can 89%, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss- Wright 9, International *Harvest- | er 23%, Kennecott 45%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel T1%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 840,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 174.87, rails 46.92, util- ities 34.98. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1949 ME MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Child Groom-Bride ki # Carl Blake, Jr., 13, and his 16-year-old wife, Winifred, are shown with their three weeks old son, in Lakeview Hospital at Paw Paw, Mich. The teen-age parents, married last fall, live with her parents and six other young children in a tiny two-room house. appealing for help in locating a working limit in Michigan. (® Wirephoto. The young father is job. His age is below minimum HOLLY ASHBY. EARLY MINER, DIES AT 86 First Came fo Alaska in '83 -Survived by Brother in Juneau TACOMA, March 22 —(#— One of the fabulous figures of the Yukon gold rush days, Holly W. Ashby, died at the age of 86 at his home here Sunday. Ashby was just 21 in 1883 when he and his brother, Thomas H. Ash- by, now living in Juneau, left their Missouri’ home and headed north for Alaska in search of adventure and fortune. They found both. They crcssed Chilkoot Pass to be- come one of the earliest pioneers of that rugged country. In 1886 they went into the Yukon River country*to mine the bars of Stew- art River, and from then on for several years the two prospectid successfully on most of the Yukon tributaries. He came “Outside” in 1898 and established a home in Tacoma. But in 1900 news came Of a big strike at Nome and with a nondescript vessel, the Skootum, he took a mil- lign feet of lumber from a Tacoma |mill to that far northern outpost. While there he acquired mining interests and became one of Alaska's | HOUSE INJECTS NEW LIFE INTO 1 TABLED BILLS Measures Revived Affer Having Been Side- fracked Last Night ‘The House spent today's hour-long morning session reviving the bills | it tabled last night. | It brought back from the table |of the doomed the library board | bill, with its $2,000 appropriation. | The vote to “un-table” on motion of | Rep. Amelia Gundersen, was 17 to 7. Then the measure passed on a 116-8 vote. The *Senate bill for appropriat- ing $20,000 to assist community fairs was brought off the table by a 15-9 vote after Sen. Walter Hunt- ley, one of its sponsors, appeared tefore the House. It was amended to cut the figure to $10,000 and to provide repayment to the territory in case of later profits from a fair. A final vote on the measure was not reached before the noon recess. The library board bill, introduced in the Senate by Dr. R. M. MacKen- |zie, was passed after appeals were made for it for the benefit of small communities. It would be the agen- cy for accepting any available fed- eral funds. Pleas for it were made by Reps. Doris Barnes, Marcus Jensen, Essie Dale and Percy Ipalook. Meanwhile, the National Guard | the United States Conferenct ot | quent. ings in the Senate.” | ATLANTIC Proposed Alliance ls Most Important Stepin U. S, Foreign Policy By OLIVER DeWOLF WASHINGTON, March 22.—#— Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) says the Atlantic Pact is the “best bet to keep the present cold war from getting hot.” He called it the most important step in American foreign poiicy since the Monroe Doctrine, and & step to be taken only with the “solemnity of a national convic- tion.” Vandenberg discussed the propos- ed alliance in a speech prepared for Mayors. He is the ranking GOP member of the Senate Foreign Re~ lations Committee and leading par-l Defense Unity He said the ultimate value of the pact, negotiated by the United States, Canada and six Western European nations, will depend PACTBEST | PEACE BET laska Now Law A5 INUNDATED WHEN RUSSIAN largely upon the extent to which the nation “wholeheartedly accepts its concept of defense unity.” Therefore, Vandenberg continued, “I believe the pact and any subse- | legislative lmplementauon; must be the subject of total ex- ploration and complete public hear- Public Hearings Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, has declared there will Le “wide open” public hearings by that group. He said they will begin soon after the precedent-breaklng, alliance is signed on April 4. The State Department can sign the treaty for the United States but it will not be binding upon this | country until the Senate approves ! it by a two-thirds vote, Would Enter Conflict Vandenberg, reviewing events leading up to World War Two, not- ed that the 1939 neutrality pact told Hitler the United States would | keep out of conflict. He added:, “The North Atlantic Pact—wholly | to the contrary—will tell any ag- gressor in 1949 that from the very moment he launches his conquest in this area he will face whatever united opposition, including that of the United States, is necessary to] beat him to his knees, “I re-assert that this is the great- est war deterrent ever devised. No itching conquerer will lightly view such odds. Aggresscrs Warned “Yet no other nation on the face; of this earth needs spend one sleep- | less night over any sort of menace | from this pact unless it is plotting armed aggression against neighbors whose only aspiration is peace with | justice and honor in a free world of free men.” Vandenberg said he reserved h's -position regarding any details of the administration’s plans for mili- tary aid to Western Europe. But he unequivocally endorsed the pact itself. FOR ADM. COMES UP Differences Between President, Congress Be- lieved fo Be Clearing By JACK RUTLEDGE WASHINGTON, March 22.—#— President Truman’s new be-kind- to-Congress strategy faces a quick test in bath House and Senate. Will the nice things he said about the lawmakers encourage them to go along with the administration on rent control, foreign aid, the labor program? Southern Senators, rebelling ageinst a civil rights program and still elated over ‘their filibuster vic- tory, are wary. Republicans are openly skeptical. Administration leaders are enthusiastic. Three Setbacks The -Democratic-controlled 81st Congress. in recent weeks has given the administration three setbacks: the filibuster defeat, mauling of the rent control bill, refusal to con- firm a major nomination of the President’s. But yesterday the President prais- ed the lawmakers and said “basi- cally the Congress and the Presi- dent are working together.” GOP sentiment was summed up by Senator Knowland (R-Calit) who asked: “Is he kidding?” Democrats Hopeful But Democrats felt differently. Some said they believed the South- erners would lean over backwards for a while in trying to cooperate. Leaders expect to put over such Truman proposals as rent control extention, foreign aid, low rent housing, a revised reciprccal trade program. The labor program is in doubt and so is a plan to boost | taxes. Big Test First big test of the let's-be- RIVER OVERFLOWED B, ty spokesman on foreign affais, | Bomes are perched on banks. Additional rain is expected to cause new floods. 949 'St 1 amp Girl' | | | | I I ! | [ | | MEET Pat Hal', film actress | California’s American Legion be- | lieves might help sale of stamps ! in annual drive among members for welfare funds. (International) ARCTIC STUDIES 16 BE MADE BY . UNIV. SCIENTISTS ANKS, this home near stands deep in flood waters. Scene is typical in lower reaches of river where thousands of summer FLOOD SWEEPS CALIFORNIA RESORT AREA & Guerneville, Cal.,, (International) STATEHOOD ' COMMITTEE ACTPASSES Appropriation Fail in House-Other Matters By JIM HUTCHESON legislative barrier last headed for the Governor’s desk. The House passed the Senate-ap- proved measure 21-2 after critics of the $80,000 appropriation were able .| to muster only six votes in an at- tempt to slash the amount to $30,000. The bill provides that the Gov- ernor appoint 11 members to a committee to study all phases of statehcod and submit a chart for statehood to the constitutional con- vention, Appointees are subject to con- firmation by the present legislature, Governor Gruening, Delegate E. L. Bartlett and his Judge Antheny Dimond, would be ex-officio membets. by Republican George Miscovich and,Demacra't Almer Rydeen. . Debate Appropriation Dcbate on ‘the appropriation brought figures from the Ways and Means Committeeman Glen Frank- lin that' prospects are for barely balancing the budget on the ba- sis of new taxes. He sald the Eenatc Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means subcommittee figured revenue prospects and revised the estimate downward to $18,600,000 with the present prospect of $18,- 000,000 in appropriations, “which leaves us sledding on thin ice.” He said reports indicate the Sen- Attempts to Cut $80,000 A bill creating an Alaska State- hcod Ccmmittee sailed past the last night and predecessor, The only dissenting votes were HOUSE BILL UNAPPROVED BY GOVERNOR Senafe Passes Bill fo As- sist Community Hos- / fals’ Expenses By BOB DeARMOND The new $2 bounty on Alaska | cagles will become law in the Terri= tory tut it will do so without the approval of Governor Ernest Gruen= ing. . The Governor concluded a lengthy message, read in the Senate this morning, by saying that he will al= low the bill to become law without his signature. ‘The message, which quoted Albert M. Day, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as saying that the bounty “is a waste of Territor=- ial funds,” set forth the belief that the final results of the bounty will be to extend the national Act for the protection oi eagles to the Ter- ritory. Also quoted in the Governor's message was a letter from a woman in Denver, Colorado, who charged that “Alaska hopes to become the 40th state under the wings of the eagle, yet has placed a bounty on those wings.” The unanimity of the vote on the bill in both the House and Senate, the Governor's message said, is his reason for not vetoing the bill. HOSPITAL 'ASSISTANCE . The Senate this morning unani- mously passed a House bill appro- priating $50,000 to assist community hospitals Wwith their operational ex- - perises. Tt voted down 4-12 another House till appropriating $40,000 for a wildlife research unit at the University of Alaska and refused to suspend the rules for consideration of Rep. Taylor's bill to create a Real Estate Commissioner and re< quire licensing of real estate brokers. Introduced and passed by the Senate this morning was H.B. 86, drawn by Senators Rivers and Jones at the telegraphic reguest of Delegate Bartlett. The bill makes certaln amendments to the Alaska Housing Act to bring it into con- formity with the requirements of a prqpoaed Federal housing appropria=~ tien for the Territory. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON House Bill 92, to amend and re- enact the income tax law passed by the special session in January, was the only measure to come before the Senate during a short afterncon session yesterday. An amendment offered ty Senator Jones for the section pertaining to the collection of the income tax from personnel on planes, ships and trucks operating in the Alaska trade was debated at some length and fin- ally defeated on a 7-9 vote. The Jones amendment would have exempted non-resident personnel of carrfers from the tax except for those based in Alaska for two weeks or longer. 4 Attorney General Ralph J. Riv- ers, called to give his opinion on the proposed amendment, said that the present Act does not specify that seamen shall be taxed and that ‘in)uncunm have consequently been |tiled in Seattle. “There has been nothing but con- KAZE GETS 5 MOS,, ate may raise the Generai Appro- | priations Bill totals and impair the | bill waited for action near the bot- Iusion under the present law be- tom of the day’s calendar. 1t was - friend. ) biggest contractors, heading the # polloy will come on' rent cause of lack of specific language,” FAIRBANKS, March 22— controls. ‘ b The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Under current | debate in the Senate is a relatively obscure amendment to the Marshall Plan appropriation which happens to be of vital interest to every American who may' have to should- er arms. In brief, it boils down to the fact that the United States opposes ag- gressen by words while feeding ag- gression with money. Specifically the amendment states that an aggressor nation which blocks the peace efforts of the Security Council of the United Na- tions shall not continue to draw cash from the Marshall Plan. The State Department opposes this amendment. It wants an aggressor to ‘continue to get Marshall Pian mcney. Not many people—or Senators— (Continued on Page Four) Topkuk Ditch Company. He would have been married 55 years in June. His survivors in- clude Mary E. Ashby, the wife who accompanied him on one of his trips across Chilkoot Pass. That was in 1896. N. (. MANAGER I INVOLVED IN SALE OF ILLEGAL MEAT Arraigned in a Fairtanks court Friday, J. W. Steele, manager of the Northern Commercial Com- pany store at Fort Yukon, was found guilty of illegal sale of cari- bou meat, and fined $500. Some 500 pounds of the meat was seized. The same day H. E. Carter, a Fort Yukon merchant, was fined $500 on a similar charge. Louis Soha, pilot, was given a four-month suspended jail sentence for aiding and abetting. . likely to be reached this afternoon. The Guard bill, originally intro- duced by Mrs. Gundersen, passed the House once. It was re-written by the Senate judiciary committee to incorporate numerous amendments and put the emphasis on Eskimo Scout units, and was passed by the Senate unanimously Sunday. ROTARY T0 ENTERTAIN SOAP BOX DERBY BOYS Soap Box Derby car builders have a treat in store for them Thurs- day night, when the Rotary Club derby committee will entertain all boy builders at the high school gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock. According to Dr. Wm. P. Blanton, committee chairman, all boys in the Gastineau Channel area will te treated to a movie, hot dogs and soda pop. ! ———————— FROM GUSTAYUS Raymond R. Slade of Gustavus is at the Baranof, KELLER IS FINED Charles Nelson Kaze, brought into the U. S. Commissioner's Court yes- terday, is a “resident” of the Fed- eral jail today. Kaze had taken a car without per- mission of the owner, the Yellow Cab Company, early Sunday morn- ing. He was arrested for driving an on the city streets and ier Highway, while drunk. He pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to five months by Judge Felix Gray. Arraigned in the same court yes- terday, Lucius B. Keller was charg- ed on two counts: of killing a deer out of season, March 10 at Oliver's Inlet, and possession of same. On his plea of guilty, Keller was fined $100 on the first count, which | he paid, and given a 30-day jail sen- | tence, suspended, for possession. |Gun and deer meat were confis- | cated. ——eea | FROM CHATHAM Erwin Foldoe of Chatham is registered at the Gastineau, The present law expires March 31, just nine days from to- day. Speed is vital. The House has approved a rent bill that falls far short of what the President wanted. A bill now before e Senate also slashes into many of his requests. Passage by tomorrow night was pre- dicted in the upper house. Plans of Dixieites Dixie lawmakers and party lead- ers who fought them in the mmusn-} er have united to push through a- bill which would continue tontrols 12 to 15 months, authorize some rent increases, pave the way for de- control. Majority leader Lucas of Illinois called the measure a compromise but said he considered 1t a “very good bill.” - e e ‘ F. KIRK JONES HERE F. Kirk Jones, Washington Lab- oratories, Inc., representative, arriy- ed here yesterday for a brief busi- ness trip prior to his return here in April for the fishing season. He | came in on Pan American, and is staying at the Baranot Hotel, First known studies of the effect of the frigid atmosphere over the North Pole on bacteria and funzi will be made this week by th scientists from Montreal's McGill University. The flight, authorized by. the U. 8. Air Force, is scheduled for i the latter part of the week. The trio will "be carried over the pole in a B»29 of the 72nd Photo Re- connaissance Squadron. The scientists are Dr. Nicholas| Polunin and Dr. Stuart M. Pady, of the McGill Botany Department, and Dr. Clifford Kelly of the bacterio- logical department, ' e i MRS. KRISTAN AND FAMILY BACK FROM STATESIDE TRIP Mrs. Marvin Kristan, accom= panied by her two children, Dennis and Diane, returned yesterday from |a four-month visit with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Green of! Beverly Hills, Calit. Mrs. Kristan land children came in aboard Pan balance. He sald another tinancial problem is a likelihood of a court | challenge of the property tax whiclr | e | Is now figured to bring $2, 0 500,000 to the Territorial general fund atter the cities get their shart. The re- sult might be court impounding ot receipts, he sajd. Democrat Warren A. Taylor chal- lenged the figures as being Frank- lin's personal estimate, but Ways and Means chairman James Nolan confirmed that the revenue figure s a joint committee estimate. Surplus Predicted Taylor predicted a $3,000,000 sur- plus in arguing for a full $80,000 appropriation. Clarence Keating sald Hawall is starting i's state- heod campaign with a $2 000 ap- propriaticn and is adding more. Speaker Stanley McCutcheon sald statehood would mean hundreds of thousands more in federal funds, “and if we oply pay $80,000 tfor the 48th star in the flag, it 1s the best $80,000 we ever spent.” Yesterday the lcgislation set a record for the current session by | American Clipper. |the Attorney General sald. “The present bill spells out the liability of ships’ personnel under |the Act. It may have to be fought jout in court, too, but we will never ‘v;huve a specific point to fight out in court unless we write it into the |bill,” he added. | OVERREACHING | The Attorney General admitted | that he might be “overréaching” in | stretching the Territorial Loundaries |to the edge of the continental shelf. | “It ‘might te hard to make it stick,” he said, “but there is no harm in trying.” Senator Frank Barr, in support of Senator Jones' amendment, argued that the collection of the tax from | traveling personnel would create a | “bookkeeper’s nightmare,” that the | Territory would lose little if any revenue under the amendment and that litigation would be avoided. Senator Victor C. Rivers opposed the amendment. “I have no desire to exempt anyone earning money in Alaska from this tax,” he said. {*“The Tax Commissioner assured us l.Conrlnuvdvnn Page 6) (Continued on Page 2)