The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,152 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THU‘SDA\'. MARCH 24, 1949 Territorial Budget OLD AGE PENSIONS for Workers WASHINGTON, March 24.—(®— A new “stamp-book” tax-paying | system was suggested today by the administration to help make possi ble a vast expansion of Socfal Se- curity. The stamp system is designed principally for farm workers and household help who would be amons the 20,000,000 new workers blank- eted under old age insurance i Congress approves the expansion. Arthur J. Altmeyer, Social Secur- ity Commissioner, projected the tay | plan as he laid before the Housc | Ways and Means Committee the de- | tafls of President Truman's pm-' gram to: : 1. Increase the coverage of ol | age and survivors insurance from | 80,000,000 to 50,000,000 workers; 2 Boost the insurance benefits about double; 3. Create a new insurance program for disabled workers; anc 4. Reduce the. “pension age” fol women from 65 to 60. | .Stiff resistance already has form- #d against Mr. Truman's proposa to increase the security tax take from the present $1,800,000,000 = year to around $5,000,000,000. As part of the battle to preven: “gestitution,” Altmeyer said, the in- surance program should be expand- ‘e to include 6,000,000 farm operd- fors; 7,700,000 urban self-employec (lawyers, doctors, businessmen, etc.) 3,000000 domestic or householc workers, and 4,700,000 hired farm workers. ALASKA COASTAL BRINGS 18; TAKES 19 ON FLIGHTS Yesterday’s flights by Alaska Coastal Airlines totaled a full schedule with a total of 37 passen- gers being carried. To Sitka, passengers were Edward Baty, Ersie S. Shields, Max Rog- ers, Harry Lucas, Presco T. Andrita Ray Dennis, O. Paxton, Donald Husford. To Wrangell: Miss McKay. To Ketchikan: John Brillhart. To Petersburg: W, Trent. To Tulsequah: J. G. Jorgenson, C. A. McKenzie, Charles Watson, 1. G. McEacher. To Pelican: Bud Phelps. To Hood Bay: Clifford Siirela. From Sitka: Mr. and Mrs. Nick, Pelayo, Clifford Stirela, Mr. anu( Mrs. Jack Schaefer and child, D. P. | Scudder, Harry Bastel. From Funter Bay: Cliff Joseph | Harold Hargreave. From Haines: A. F. Ghiglione, Michael Young, Karl Ward. From Skagway: Larry Lindstrom. | From Wrangell: Zalmain Gross | Roy Shangin, George: Semptin, Mir- jam Semptim. From Petersburg: Walter Austin. The Washington| Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON -~ One of tne neatest ways of reducing your in- come tax, while simultaneously operating a powerful lobby has just been disclosed on Capitol Hill. It is the Foundation for Econ- omic Education, run by some of the biggest corporations in the USA, and which has been flood- ing the country with propaganda aimed at undermining the Marshall Plan, rent control, aid tq educa- tion and social security. The list of contributors has been kept a closely guarded secret. This column, however, has secured a copy, and can reveal the fact that the backers of this lobby include General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford, General Electric, Mrs. R. McKay. NENANA ICE | off the hills. STILL THICK Ice on the Tanana at Nenana is 40 inches thick now instead of 38 as it was some time ago, according !lhi advices received by The Empire rom Floyd W. (Slim) Avery, in| narge of the classic. | There has been some warm | weather but not enough to melt | now on the river or any to run| It still looks like | winter at Nenana, says Avery, Further advices are that if it tays cold until April and then | yvarms up “we will have spring; ill only turn cold later, which will ectard the breakup in my opinior In further advices Avery wrii o The Empire that: “As the manager of the Nenana‘ lassic, I am supposed to give out 11 the dope on conditions of the ce in the Tanana River and just wvhen it should go out. 1 have ask- 'd these men listed below, all of 60 AHEAD ON PLANS REARMING Administration Told fo! Help Friendly Countries Extent of Two Billion By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON, March 24.—(P— Top economic officials have told the | Sut if it turns warm or hot now, it | administration it can go ahead with plans to ask Congress for 52,000,000,000 to rearm ountries, The National Resources Boafd and other key government agencies re- ported after a careful study of all factors, officials disclose that an arms program of that scope will not upset the nation’s economy. ‘The study iouna that the United up to friendly Veferans Pensions Shelved {Friends of Rankm Measure Hope, However, fo Get Another Vote The House voted today to shelve but friends of the measure immed- iately sought a new vote. ! It adopted, 171 to 168, by a teller {vote, a motion by Rep. Teague (D- Tex) to strike out the bill's enacting clause. Ordinarily, that is a Kkilling ac- ticn, but Teague said he intended it only as a preliminary to a mo- ition to send the bill back to the ! Veterans' Committee for further vhom belong to Pioneer Igloo No.|States possesses enough resources,|study. 17, Pioneers of Alaska, and have | >ut many years in Nenana and \ave seen the ice come and go| nany times—so if anyone should | mow, I believe they do. Wil also | ive a short history of each man. “Let's start with Tommy Jones, x-mayor and ex-ice pool manager »f Nenana, and about one ot our ldest residents. He was raised in | Johnson county, Wyoming, and 1 now that he left there on his >wn accord. His father won the irst pool in 1917. There was $600 n the pot that year, but as he had | old half of his ticket to a man| \amed Hoey, he had to split the | ot. That is as close to winning s Tom has ever come, however. He eems to think the ice wil go -arly in May, nossibly late in April. “Charley Shade is anowier man | Jafts. Hardly a bar on the 'l‘an-; nonth, day, hour and minute that | should go out. He is a long- ime resident of Nenana, carried nail for years and is about one f the best river man in these ars. Hardly a bar on the Tan- ‘na or Yukon River that he does 10t know just where it is located. {e predicts the ice will go in May “Adolph Nelson, better known as i'wo Cord Nelson, came here a long ime before the railroad and has een the ice come and go for the Jast 45 years, and seems to think hat it will go out late in April | *erhaps he does know. He has fol- | owed mining for a good many | sears, and is one of the best arpenters in these parts, and a airly good wood cutter also. He | vas cutting wood one winter anc | vhen he came in fromi the woods it night, the boys would ask him | 20w much wood he had cut that ‘ay. His answer would always be | Two cord,’ hence the name Twou sord Nelson, “Now comes the daddy of all the ourdoughs, Sidney J. Sheldon. Sid, is we all call him, worked for the ailroad and was foreman of a| ridge gang for a good many years, jut is now retired. He came over he Chilkoot Pass in 1898 with his | * sed roll, tent, stove and grub stake | n his back, his sourdough pot m me hand and his whip saw in the | | sther. His guess is late in April | or early in May. % “Now I will give you my own| [ | 7iews of when the ice will go. Wili | et someone else give my history, ut will say this: that when I came ‘0 Alaska my hair wasn't pearly as | vhite as it is now. The river froze |- *_° ‘he lowest last fall that ever was tnown and the ice is about 40 nches thick at the present time. Chere is about four feet of snow which will make lost of water to ‘aise the ice and break it loose, so { am playing late in April very strong. Here's hoping that you all ait the jackpot.” Objedtion fo Vels' Homesfeads,Alaska SEATTLE, March 24. —®— A measure tefore Congress allowing seterans to take big homesteads in parts of Alaska would complicate Alaska’s infant pulp industry, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce says. The Chamber announced it op- posed the measure, House Resolu- tion 1549, which would allow veter- ans to homestead on tracts from 320 to 2,560 acres per person. John Perry, chairman of the chamber’s Alaska division, said if the measure passes, pulp compan- ies would have to deal with hun- dreds of small timber owners in- stead of with one government agen- cy. manpower and industrial capacity | to undertake such rearmament of Europe without resorting to govern- ment controls such as rationing and allocations— and without causing {any further inflation. The American weapons wouid go W the foreign nations participat- ng in the North Atlantic alliance, | plus Greece, Turkey and Iran. Officials said the cost study now is being revised to take into ag- count continuing price drops in the United States, which are expected to increase the “margin of safety” noted in the earlier conclusion. Assistant Secretary of State Er- nest Gross currently is drawing up a foreign military aid program call- |ing for Congress to appropriate rom $1,250,000,000 to $1, 3| jox the North M‘nufi’m he year starting July 1. SEVEN WITHDRAW PARTICIPATION IN: 'WORLD PEACE MEET| NEW YORK, March 24—P— Withdrawal of seven more promi- aent persons from the Controversial Cultural and Scientific Conference| or World Peace is reported. Americans for Intellectual Free- Jom, a group opposing the confer- 2nce, listed seven headed by Frank- in Pierce Adams, the newspaper | "olumnist known as FPA. Sponors of the three-day confer- :nce, the National Council of Arts, 3ciences and Professions, said, how- ver, that only two on the list had ent them notices of withdrawal. | They said the two were Adams and :abzi Modrecai M. Kaplan, of the Jewish Theological Sem!nary. Russian delegates to the confer- | >nce were invited to inspect major american factories, as opponents ~vent ahead with plans to picket | ‘ue weekend meetings. The invitation to tour this coun- iry’s industrial areas was extended | to the Soviet group by the Nationai Association of Manufacturers. Routed through Soviet Ambassa- | jor Alexander Panyushkin, the in- itation expressed belief that such ours would further world peace “as he peoples of the world come to | znow how one another work and live Sponsors of the controversial ‘World Peace” parley which opens | tomorrow charged the State De- . | partment with “deliberately misrep- esenting the conference in the syes of the American people” as protests against it mounted. The State Department has claim- ed the international meeting, which opens at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel tomorrow, will be devoted largely to Communist-inspired attacks on U. 3. foreign policy. 'FIRE SWEEPS HOTEL; TWO PERSONS KILLED WAVERLY, TENN, March 24— (m—Two persons were killed when fire swept through the Dixieland Hotel here early today. One man was killed in a leap; from the second floor of the two- story frame structure, and the oth- er was found dead in his room froin | smoke and ‘fumes. Some 20 persons escaped from the | blazing structure without injury. | The deputy identified the dead as G. B. Reed of Goodlettsvilie, and Aniel Lewls of Memphis. | After the teller vote on which the members are not recorded, Teague committee. A roll call vote was ordered on that motion, In the debate before the first vote, Rep. Rankin (D-Miss), auth- of the bill, shouted that Teague |“need not kid himself.” “I1 this motion is adopted, that kills this legislation for this Con- gress,” Rankin: said. i % SHELVED BY 1 VOTE WASHINGTON, March 24.—(®— By a one-vote margin, the House shelved the Rankin Veterans' Pen- sion BIL A roll-call vote nl 208 to 207 sent the measure | Veterans Committee for further study. It is possible for the Veterans' Committee to write a new bill and send it kack to the House at a later date. But Chairman Rankin (D.-Miss.) told the House the vote to recom- mit meant that the bill is dead. “That kills this legislation' for this congress,” Rankin said. Rankin's bill already ‘had been so amended that it bore little re- semblance to his original proposal| Ifor $90 a month pensions at agc 165 to all World War One and World |War Two veterans. ,—-——— RIP-ROARING OIL WELL GAS FIRE IS CONTROLLED, MUD Weary workmen smothered a rip- roaring oil well gas fire with mud arly today, more than nine: hours after it burst into flame. The klaze shock South Houstor liomes late yesterday, lighted up he night sky and tied up traffi. : 'n the area for hours. The fire began in a bursting| flash shortly after 6 p.m. Witness- »s ‘calleq it “a heck of a startling sight.” The bright yellow glare sould be seen more than 20 miles. The fire was thought to have been ! subdued twice, but came roaring yack to life, hissing its way into the air. ———————— RUTH W. ALEXANDER RETURNS FROM TRIP THROUGH WASHINGTON After an absence from Juneau for several weeks, Mrs. Ruth W. Alexander returned from Seattle via PAA on March 20th, following a sheckup at the Mason Lee clinic. During the time away from Ju- aeau, Mrs. Alexander visited her son, who is dean of dramatics at the Whitman College at Walla Walla. She left Juneau February 29nd, traveling via PAA. Mrs. Alexander is director of the shoir of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Mar. 24.—(M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American can 90%, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss- wright 9%, International Harvester 247, Kennecott 46%, New York Cl‘l)lrfll 10%, Northern Pacitic 15%, U. S. Steel 73%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 920,00 shares. Averages today are -8s. .folows industrials. 17641, rails 48.15, util- lmes 35.32. WASHINGTON, March 24.—#— | the Rankin Veterans' Pension. bill, moved to send the bill back tof{ HOUSTON, Tex., March 24.—(®— | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ears Eighteen Million \Communists Planned fo Overthrow Govt.of U.S.; Manual Is Read at Trial (ONTROLOF " RENTS GETS BIG BOOST Senate Approves Bill for 112 fo 15 Months’ Exten- sion-To Conference By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH | WASHINGTON, March 24.—4M—i ocratic leaders today called the Senate-approved Lill to extend rent| gontrols 12 to 15 months “a pretty | * However, they didn't like | sion allowing ‘“home rule” decontrol any time. | | The Senate passed the bill last inight, 68 to 10. It permits some | %ent increases up to 10 per cent. Senate action sent the bill back | to the House, which already has | dpproved a measure to continue rent controls 15 months beyond March 31, when the present ren. aw expires. ”, UP TO CONFEREES | The House bill differs in several | respects from the Senate’s, so con- ferees from the two branches of Congress have to work out a com- promise before the legislation can go to the White House. ‘The Senate-House conference group plans to get together w-i morrow. Twenty-three Republicans joined; 48 Democrats in ramming the Sen- | {ate bill through. All the 10 votes q-lnst it were cast by Republicans —=including Sen. Cordon (Ore.). Administration leaders succeeded n batting down most amendments hey contended would cripple rent . But, they came out on the short. end of a couple’ of counts, | too. | TURN DOWN TRUMAN In one case, the Democrats de- serted President Truman in large| | numbers. That was on an amend-| | nent Ly Senator Magnuson (D- | Wash.) to continue rent controls | two years as Mr. Truman asked. That proposal was swamped, 75 to 10. Among others, Senator Lucas (D.~-IIl), the majority leader, vot- | °d against it. So did 38 other Demo- rats and 36 Republicans. The 10 otes for the amendment were all Democrats. 11-Year-Old Girl . Admits, Describes Murder of Father SEATTLE, March 24—(®—Sheriff Harlan 8. Callahan says he has a | statement from 17-year-old Loretta Minneker admitting the fatal stab- oing of her father, and descrlbinsl the slaying and the events which preceded it. Willis E. Minneker, 54-year-old | shingleweaver, was clubbed with a |milk bottle and stabbed with a | outcher knife in his north end home Luesday night. Callahan said he had this version rom the 180-pound high school girl: Feeling faint after four tooth ex- | tractions, the girl had gone Wwith | .er father and mother to a tavern on Minneker's suggestion that wine | might brace her up. She had some double sherries and beer. | ‘The three returned home and a quarre] started. The girl hit her | tather on the head with a bottle, then drove the tutcher knife into his chest. Callahan said he had a similar} statement from Loretta’s 10-year-old sister Judith who was also in the aouse at the time. Both Loretta and her mother said Minneker had been quarreling with them over a period of about two| months. Some of the argument, they said,| W centerec. about Rodney Harold Carl- | son, 29, described as Loretta’s “boy friend.” | - STEAMER MOVEMEHIS Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive at 4:30 o’clock this afterncon and sails for Skag- way at 11:30. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Bunnof scheduled southbound fl\mdfly or Monday. - ee—— AT THF GASTINEAU Larry Lindstrom ‘of Ketchikan 18 registered at the Gastineau Hotel. f from i [ of! ECONOMIC BLOCKADE DEPLORED Brifain's Foreign Minister Says Plan Against East Germany Means War — (By The Associated Press) i Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ernest | Bevin feels a total economic blocks ade of Soviet-controlled eastern Germany would lead to war. H Bevin told the House of Commons he did not want to see East-West trade broken off completely. Such a shut-otf, he warned. “means sanc- tions and sanctions mean war.” The Foreign Minister contended, however, that materials which could be used for war against the Western powers should not be ship- ped to. eastern areas. Politicians on both sides of the | Atlantic have suggested a complete counter-blockade of Eastern Ger- many in retaliation against the Russian blockade of West Berimn. The Russian zone of Germany still_does bunnul with efland, The Nemrr.ms, Nmfl’v Sweden, Belgium and Denmark. The Western allies’ counter-block- 'de has stopped the movement of 300ds through their zone to the Soviet area of Germany, but East Germany siill gets supplies trom several Western countries over oth- °r routes, mostly by sea. ————— MINERS. ARE ORDERED T0 60 T WORK PITTSBURGH, March 24—(#— John L. Lewis today ordered his 163,00 idle coal miners to return to work Monday. An executive order to district offi- ors said: “The present memorial period will erminate Monday, March 28. Pro- duction may then be resumed in all mines and all members should nake themselves available for work n that date.” i 'BEST DOCTORS IN COUNTRY T0 COME NORTH; FOR SITKA WASHINGTON, March 24.—(M— The American Medical Association plans to send teams of experts among the Western Indians and Alaska Natives this year to conduct clinics and perform surgery. Secretary of the Interior Krug disclosed the program today. He described it as a new phase of the Interior Department’s health efforts. He sald the first clinic weculd be “as soon as possible” on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona | and New. Mexico, and another pro- bably at Stika, Alaska, in June. In the last two years the de- partment has sent out eight medi- cal teams to Western Indian reser- vation, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. “That survey is fairly well com- pleted,” Dr. Roy Sexten, spokesman for the doctors, told a news con- ference. “We know what the problem s, and now our goal 1s to give treat- ment and further diagnosis.” Krug told reporters the teams will be composed of the “best doc- ‘ors in the country.” For Alaska, he said, specialists in tuberculosis, tye diseasés and orthopedics will be' most needed. NEW YORK, Mll‘ch 24— (D final objective of the Amencan -‘Cnmmunlst Party {s to establish “a| Soviet socialist republic in the United States,” said a part manual iintroduced by the Government to- day in the Communist conspiracy | I trial. The manual, read to the jury by U. S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, | said such a republic was to be es- taklished through revolution in| which party members ‘“must be ready to sacrifice their lives." The “manual of organization of | the Communist party” was admitted into evidence after vociferous de- fense objections. Louis F. Budenz, prosecution wit- ness, identified the manual as a duplicate of one given him by Jacok Stachel, a defendant. Defense counsel said the publica- | !tion was issued in 1935 and should be excluded because the indictment covers a conspiracy alleged to have taken place between 1945 and 1948 Federal Judge Harold Medina overruled the objections. He then added a warning on such points, he would restrict them to a few words| in making oZzjections. TR I Y e G The Communist vonspnacy trial Jury was told today that Russian 1 Premier Joseph Stalin once said ‘violent destruction” was essential to proletarian. revolution - in the United States. The statement -was- in a book, “Foundations of Lenin’* by Stalin. Excerpts from it were read to the Jury: by U8 Attorney John.F. X. MeGohey. ik PAA BRINGS IN 20, 26 LEAVE ABOARD WEDNESDAY TRIPS Pan American Airways brought in 20 passengers and took out 26 on /@sierday’s 1lights. Passengers were as follows: From Sgattle: Orville Paxton, Arthur Hedges, H. E. Poye, R. G. McEachren, P. McDonald, C. Peder- sen, D. Hosford, Tone Willlams, Free- man Schultz, Floyd Singyyake and Francis Eben. From Annette: Jack Ranken. From Fairbanks: John Easly, Melvin Jole, Ernest Lincoln, Olen leynolds, R. Arvidson, G. E. Bas- sett, Earl Hickok. To Whitehorse: Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Pelletier. ‘To Fairbanks: Jeanette Lee, Eu- sene Falk, Frances Amarok, R. C. Wood, Dr. James T. Ggoge, George Smith. To Seattle: Frank Calkins, Milton Furness, George Kelez, Robert Johnson, James L. Houston, Vic Power, Mr.-and Mrs. Jack Schaetfer and infant, Pred Bluckens, F. A. Lahtonen, Christihe Hadverson, 8. 2. Thorpe, Stuart Williams, R. Xrueger, H. F. Hargrave. —_————— ® 06 s 000 000 WEATHER REPORT (U. B. WEATHER BUREAU ‘This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST. In Juneau— mximum 45; minimum, 35, At Alrport— Maximum, 43, minimum, 36. FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with light raln showers occasionally mixed with snow tonight and Friday. Lowest tonight near 35 degrees. Highest Fri- day near 40 degrees. PBECIP‘ITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todny In Juneau .19 nches; since March 1, 3.12 inches; since July 1, 95.12 inches. At, the Airport ‘I'race; since March 1, 109 inches; since July 1, 59.39 inches. . ® 0 0 00" 0 0 0 0 00 e CLASS INSTRUCTIONS. CHURCH MEMBE! 1y, BE HELD ON FRIDAY ‘The class of Instruction for mem- bership in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church will mect kri- day afternoon at 4 o'clock st the Church, All members of the class are urged to be presenc and on time. Anyone else desinng to join the class are cordiail 900000 eeve 0000000000 OR "0 ESTIMATED REVENUES ADEQUATE \Appropnahon for General | Expenses Will Be Close to $13,000,000 | The Territorial budget for the ‘commg biennium how hovers close to the $12,000,000 mark, according to preliminary estimates made this morning by Senator John Butrovich, Achmrmnn of the Senate l"lmnel | Committee. This is in addition w such spec- ial earmarked funds as the motor fuels tax for the construction of roads, awfields and marine tacil- ities and the fobacco tax for the constructicn of schools. General fund revenues .ior tie biennium, gccording to Senator Butrovich, will amount to $20,502,- 022 if the Federal Mercantile Li- | cense Act is repealed; $19,655,000 | £ that Act is not repealed. In addition to $6,000,000 in esti- mated revenues under previous tax | Acts, the ¥Finance Committee, con- sisting of Senators Butrovich, Jones, Peratrovich and Rivers, estimates the following revenues under Acts !pnssed during the present session: Business - License Tax—$1,142,022 1 the Federal Mercantile Act is re- Dealed; $205,000 if it is not. Fish Trlp lnd cmn Tax—8§3,- 500,000, " Property ns—umm atter making refunds' to municipalities, Income “Tax—$4,000,000, Pishetmen's 8 Tux-—8450,000 Special Apm&- Senator Butrovich said this morn- ng that -there have been special appropriations amounting to $4,- 322,274 during the present session. To this total will be added the general appropriation for operation Jf the Territory durh( the coming Sfennium. This is m w :ome close to $13,000,000." As approved by ‘the ‘House, zm General Appropriations bill totals 51244516382, Amendments pro- sosed by the Senate Finarce Com- nittee, most of which, were adopted 2y the Senate this morning, lft the ‘otal to ‘lflm.?’lsflu 3 fifes A few additional amendments, Jifered from the Senate floor, were 1dopted this morning and there was \ prospect of additional amend- ments this afternocon. Only two of the Finsfice Commit- ee amendments met. sérious wpnl dion this morning. The first eliminated an appropri- ition for vocational rehabilitatioh. Senator McCutcheon objected to the adoption of the amendment on he grounds that the vocational re- 1abilitation program brings Federal matching funds to the Terrftory and that it has never been lfi- juately tried out. Senator Rivers contended that here is not' a clearly defined need for such a program in the Terri- tory. The amendment was adopted by a 9-7 vote. Another Pinance Committee | 1mendment to cut the Alaska De- velopment . Board | trom the $150,000 approved by | House to $80,000 was being | when the Senate M {0F lunch | Mter working: nearly wl an hour | oast the usual noon. deadline. ; Senator Howard Lyng, who auth- |ored the: bill creating .the Develop- | ment Board in the 1945 special ses- 'alon, delivered a prepared state- | ment regarding the activities and accomplishments of the ADB dur- ing the past three years. A vote on the amendment was ex- ' }necled soon after the Senate re- convened at 2 o’em this after- | noon. The Oenfinl Approprlnuom bill, | after the Senate agrees on all of | the various ftems contained n it, |must go back to the House for | concurrence and is expected to wind |up in a Conference Committee, | To Conference Committee ' this | morning went the salary schedule bill after the Senate refused to accept a House amendment which would place most Territorial em- ployees except teachers and the University faculty members under the Alaska Merit System. Present salary scales of many Territorial ' employees would be trimmed if they were to come under the Merit Sys- tem, according to various depart- nvited. . ment heads.