The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,259 Nonresident Fishermen’s Tax is He ' Truman Signs Pad Raification EARLY HOUR FISHERMEN BY HUNDREDS Salmon Derby Off with a Bang-Good Weather, | Fishing Reported Starting Lombs burst over the! fishing area at 6 o'clock this morn- ing, and with calm seas and fair weather overhead, the Golden North Salmon Derby entered. the first day of the three-day event.; Fishermen threw in their lines ready to hook any unwary salmon and win any of the many prizes offered. Several hundred checked out at Auk Bay and Tee| Harbor floats before the opening green flares were: sent skyward by two Coast Guard boats on patrol in the fishing area. Judges began| checking entry blanks at 5:15 and| continued through the morning as; late risers checked in until noon.| Fishing is good with a Lig catch | reported by noon today. Weather was good also, with no| wind, no rain . . . and no sun. | The Salmon Derby weather com-| mittee, in cooperation with the/ U.S. Weather Bureau has the situ- ation well under control for the weekend with even better weather predicted for the next two days. TEXAN DELAYED D. H. McCrory, Amarillo, Texas Fish Rodeo winner, scheduled to| arrive yesterday by private p!nne; to fish in the Derby, had not ar- | rived by noon today. Reports were that the plane was delayed at An- nette Field due to weather. Mc- Crory and two companions were to go aboard the Leota this morning to try their special'brand of Texan fishing. A system of flare signals will be| used to begin and end the days’ fishing. Coast Guard crafts, USCGC | Storis and the 83-footer, on patrol| in the area, will send up green flares at 6 a.m. yellow flares at; 3 pm. as an hour before closing warning, and a red flare at 4 p.m. each day to mark the deadline for arriving at the judges floats. PLAN AWARD DANCE | Derby entrants will have al chance to win any of more than 50 prizes totaling thousands of dol- lars in value. Two more awards were added to the list today with th Daily Alaska Empire and the Alaska Sunday Press each offering a- year's subscription. Plans for a| dance Monday night in the Elks Ballroom to award prizes were an- nounced yesterday by Derby co- chairman Keith Wildes and J. 8im MacKinnon. Dancing will begin at! 9 pm. and end at midnight. A special bus to be operated from Juneau for the three days arrived at the float at shortly after 6 a.m. today with a good load aboard. Hot coffee, hot dogs and ham- burgers will be available for fish- ernmen at Tee Harbor, according to the chairmen. Tom Selby, boat (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WASH!NéTON — No one be- grudges the President of the Uni- ted States a White House jokester to relieve the strain of office, and General “Happy” Harry Vaughan | is not the first to hold such a job. FDR also had a military aide, Gen- eral “Pa” Watson, Whose great asset was a gorgeous sense of hu- mor. However, “Pa” Watson didn’t meddle in Army contracts . and backstage lobbying. Pa did put in| his oar to get George Marshall | appointed Chief of Staff, but on the whole he kept out of politics, and | stuck to his chief function—relax- ing the President of an evening. General Vaughan, his successor, also has a contagious sense of humor which brings healthy relax- ation to his chief. But the public| has little conception of how deep- | ly Truman’s military aide had dab- bled in things that were no busi- ness of his, and how powerful his influence has been in obtalning-‘ favors for interesting people. Take, for instance, export licen- 27 DEATHS, HEAT WAVE, NO LET UP Thousand séfi Home in| Washington Because | of Temperature | (By the Associateq Press) Deaths from effects of a late July heat wave mounted today,| with at least 27 fatalities in East-| ern cities. No_immediate break in| the hot and humid weather was in | Corporation, has just completed al COMPANY OFFICIAL IS HOPEFUL FOR | SITKA PULP PLANT Such a big development as the Sitka pulp project may seem to be moving slowly but definite pro- gress has been made, according to an informed Juneau visitor. B. B. Mullen, Vice President and Treasurer of the Alaska Industrial three-week stay in Juneau and Sitka on inspection work relating| to the project. { After conferring with Forest | Service official here, additional | meetings were held in Sitka on matters pertaining to establishment of a 200-ton dissolving pulp mill JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1949 ¥ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.TROOPS NOT GOING T0 EUROPE No Additional Force to Be Sent Under Aid. Pro- gram, Says Johnson WASHINGTON, July 29— Defense Secretary Johnson Congress today that no additiopfl American troops will be sent to Eu- rope as part of the militaty aid program. | | |on the Medvetcha River delta six | [FRlG dor T axon. | miles from the town. In a statement prepared for the ! |the same at San Diego. San Fran- | |east of Hawaii, the Coast Guard (Continued on Page Four) But some relief come to parts| of the Midwest. A mass of fresh tures into the upper Mississippi| and Missouri valleys. { Tne outlook for further move-|tion has acquired 23 acres of land | this program no ment sweltering east and good, hawever, Federal Bureau forecasters said. | Temperatures—in the 90s over| most of the area from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast for the last| week—hit record marks for the| day in several -cities yesterday. | Readings of 100 were common throughout New England. Boston'sx 99 was a record for July 28. ! Nine persons died in Washington from the heat as the Capital baked;‘ in 96 degree temperatures. Some 83,000 Federal and District of Co- lumbia government employees were sent home early because of the op- pressive heat. The hot weather claimed the/ lives of five persons in Pennsylvania as.the heat wave extended for the 11th day. The 952 reading in New York City yesterday was the second highest for the date in the city's history. The Pacific Northwest had pleasant weather. Yesterday’s tem-| peratures included 75 at Senttle.i Weather | cisco’s top was 7T1. i NEW YORK SWELTERS i NEW YORK, July 29—(®—The temperature hit 97.4 at 2:30 p.m., today—the highest mark ever re- corded here on this date. ‘The previous July 29 high was 95.5 in 1892, It was the hottest day of the year here, eclipsing the 96.7 of July 4. | The all-time high for any date| in New York City was 1023 on July 9, 1936. ‘The July heat wave has causedl 37 deaths in Eastern cities, ac-| cording to afternoon reports, and| no break in the wave was sighted today for the sweltering area. The Midwest, however, was| cooled by a fresh air mass from| Canada. Thunderstorms and rains | pushed the mercury lower, too. Yakima, Wash.,, was among the hottest places in the country yes- terday with a high of 104. BRISTOL BAY PACK IS HALF | OF LASTYEAR SEATTLE, July- 29— (®— With Bristol Bay salmon operations vir- tually completed, the Fish and Wwildlife Service reported today the 1949 pack there through last week is considerably less than half of | last year’s. The Bristol season has closed since the date covered by the re- port. The July 23 report was final| for three of the Bristol Bay areas, but the small scale Ugashik opera- tions were still continuing. ‘The July 23 pack for Bristol was 556,148 cases, compared with 1,306, 524 on July 24 last year. Other figures as of July 23 are: Central Alaska — 604,340 cases compared with 616,507 last year. The pack of reds was higher but pinks were lower. Southeas}—25,639 cases compared with 30,359 last year. In the Pacific, 1000 miles north- cuter Irogquois is speeding on a mercy mission toward the Army transport General Darby. The Coast Guard ship is taking an iron| lung to a sick toy on the trans-| port. ) At this time, particular emphasis | was placed, said Mullen, on the| future construction and | operating periods. ; The Alaska Industrial Corpora-| of the cool air into lhe’wi!hm the city limits for the pur-|scldiers will be sent abroad to em- south is not pose of furnishing the basis of a|ploy the equipment we will pm— 100- to 200-unit program. The company seeks to stimulate local | nterests in undertaking a develop- ment at Sitka. i “It is difficult at this moment,”| commented Mullen before he left today for New York City, “to fore-| tell the date at which the Sitka| project will enter its next phase. | “Preliminary local engineermg! has, for the most part, been com- | pleted over the past year, and| definite announcements on con- struction rest with future negotia-| tions on financing. i “Inasmuch as the nation has en- tered a period of economic read- justment, prudence has dictated the neeq for exerting extreme caution by industrial and financial lead- ers during the transition period. “Pending further clearing of thei national economic scene, it is be-| lieved the Sitka project will move into its constructign phase.” | Mullen was joined here by Roy W. Johnson of Seattle, who par-| ticipated in the meetings, and who expects to return to Juneau and Sitka within the next 80 days. ; Business Aid | ‘Com.Named | By President WASHINGTON, July 29—(®— President Truman today establish- | ed an advisory committee on man- agement improvement to assist him in improving the government setup. Thomas Morgan, president of the Sperry Corp., heads the group. In a statement, the President said the committee “will assist me in planning an effective manage-| ment improvement program on a government-wide basis and in re- viewing progress and accomplish-“ ments under it.” | Those named to serve with Chairman Morgan in this new step in the Administration’s reorganiza- tion program include: Lawrence A. Appley, another New Yorker, president of the American Management Association. Vincent Burke, First Assistant Postmaster General. Oscar Chapman, Under Secretary of Interior. Herbert Emmerith, Chicago, di-| rector of Public Administration Clearing House. Edward Mason of Cambridge, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, ® 0o o0 00 00 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAG (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 58; minimum, 50, At Airport—Maximum, 57; minimum, 48. FORECAST (Jun 8 Vicinity) Variable cloudiness with oc- casional rain ' tonight and Saturday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight 48 with high- est Saturday 60 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 26 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .31 inches; since July 1, 4.73 inches. At Airport — .13 inches; since July 1, 253 inches. | | ol . o . .| . | ® 00 0 v i o v oeoe | advise the participating countries ;Whlle the Alrita House Foreign Afiairs Qommittee setting forth the National Militaly | Canadian cool air moving south- | housing problem expected to arise| Establishment’s view on,the legisla- fishermen | eastward brought lower tempera-|during i tien, Johnson said he wanted to make one point “absélutely clear.” “That he safd, that under United States vide. "“This military assistance pro=- gram is solely an equipment and a technical and training assistance program. The only United States personnel involved will be a strict- ly limited number of technical and training specialists to assist and Support Truman's Plan Johnson led off a parade of the Armed Service's big guns support- ing President Truman's drive for the $1,450,000,000 progrim to help |arm friendly nations. Republican members of the com~ mittee opposing the arms program talked about dountering with Ber- nard Baruch. X “I think it would be a splendid idea if we called in Mr. Baruch,” said Rep. Jackson (R-Calif). “Mr, Baruch recently toured Europe ana looked into the general situation there and should be very helpful.” | While Baruch's position with re- spect to the arms aid proposal for Atlantic Pact and other nations is not known, he has been critical of the way some foreign countries | have been handling the economic aid given them under the Marshall Plan. SENATE LOG JAMMED ON U. . FUNDS Approprial%rfiills Pile Up| ~Irimming Process Is Underway WASHINGTON, July 29—(#—A total of $26,809,282,632 in appro- priations piled up today behind a plodding Senate and there appeared |little chance of a quick break in this log jam. A Dbipartisan bloc- of economy advocates is challenging almost every expense item in an attempt to chip off a few millions here ang' there. A Senate-House committee meanwhile worked on a compro- mise to keep the government’s vast machinery rolling with emergency funds until the cash can be pro- vided by appropriation. The House and E£enate passed a stop-gap measure yesterday—the second time this year—to provide a| part of the money which should have been available by July 1. The House voted to keep the money flowing to agencies through August. But the Senate put the cut-off date at Aug. 15. Conferees are trying to work out this difference. Not only the domestic govern- ment agencies but the huge forgign recovery program was caught in the jam. But an extension of emer- gency spending will keep the aid program going. FISH LANDINGS Landed today were a total of 63,000 pounds of salmon and 17,000 pounds of black cod from three boats. Elfin II (E. O. Swanson) landed 48,000 pounds of salmon going to the Alaska Coast Fisheries, (Albert Wallace) landed 15,000 pounds going to Eng- strom Brothers. The Sunmore (John Winther, Jr.) landed the black cod going to the Co-op. # - & \. & s 4 — ceremony. photo. HAWAII GOVT. INTERVENESTO END STRIKE {Cl0 Longshoremen Threat- en Entire Pacific 1 Coast Tieup i | HONOLULU, July 29—(#—Legis- |strike by putting the Territorial government in the A stevedoring business today appeared set tfor | enactment saturday. ! CIO longshoremen countered | with a call to spread the tieup to |the Pacific coast | A special session of the Hawaiian |legislature came out of a closed . session laté yesterday with Senate- House agreement on what it be- lieves is a precedent-smashing bill: | government entrance into a strike- ;bound industry without seizing | struck firms. i The measure would simply em- | power the Territory to start its jown stevedoring business. Hiring |of any of thé 2,000 striking mem- !bers of the International Long-| |shoremen’s and Warehousemen's |Union would be prohibited. So !would use of the seven struck firms' Iemployeef; and equipment "unless‘ necessary.” ILWU stevedores, who struck May 1 for a 32-cent hike in their $1.40 hourly basic wage, responded quickly with a move to carry out their threat to extend the tieup to the west coast. They approved a resolution call- ing on all maritime unions—Ilong- shore and seafaring—to prevent | Matson Navigation Co. from sail- ing its ships from Pacific Coast ports to Hawali. Matson is the bigget mainland-islands carrier. The legislature’s bill was labelled | “clearly strikebreaking” by ILWU | Regional Director Jack Hall. said the government would be hi ing “scabs.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 29 (#—Clos- ling quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 3, American Cam 91, Anaconda 28's, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- er, 25%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 19, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel 23%, Pound $4.03% Sales tcday were 640,000 shares. Averages foday are as follow: industrials 175.92, rails 44.77, util- ities 35.72. The Dutch and Indonesian Re- publicans today announced that on a cease-fire order for the which has plagued Java Sumatra since last December. war and (lation to end Hawaii's 90-day dock : He they have reached final agreement | | President Truman signs the instrument of ratification of the North Atlantic pact in a White House | Standing (left to right) are: Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Sen. Scott Lucas (D.-1lL), Sen. | Tom Connally (D.-Tex.), Sen. William Fulright (D.-Ark.), Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Sen. Claude E Pepper (D.-Fla.), Vice-President Alben W. Barkley and Sen. Arthur . Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) (® Wire- ToAlaska ~ NOMINEES GelsBoost FAVORITE ‘Senate Committee Moves| Clark for Sd;feme Court, for Building 1200-Mile , McGrath for Atty. Gen. Link, South to North Gain A;)i)roval WASHINGTON, July 20— By JACK BELL The Senate Foreign Relations! WASHINGTON, July 29—(P— Committee has backed a move w!PresldenL Truman’'s surprise choice (build a 1200-mile railroad to link of Attorney General Tom Clark | Alaska, Canada and the United|for the Supreme Court and Senator ! States. J. Howard McGragh for Attorney General gained approval of Sena- ’1 | The committee approved a re-|iorg today. sl A ’Thms‘de"i“ Lol Although the President told his open negotiations with Canada news conference yesterday that of the project. Senator (D-Wash), sponsor of said the rail line Alaskan de- la study Magnuson the resolution, would help bolster fense. A similar proposal passed the Senate last year but failed to gev House approval in the final legis- lative rush. The President would be autho-|{ rized to cooperate with the Cana- rdian government on surveys and Clark and McGrath hadn't finally agreed to the shift, there seemed |little doubt the two will announce their formal acceptance next week. Clark, 49 year old Texas lawyer, would fill the court place left \vacant by the death of Associate Justice Frank Murphy. Moving into Clark's place as the nation’s chief legal watchdog would be McGrath, 45-year-old Chairman| of the Democratic National Com- studies :The railroad would r““|mme& former Solicitor General from Prince George in British Co- and former Governor of Rhode lumbia to connect with the Al"‘s'!xslnnd | kan Railroad at Fairbanks. The American railway system would te tied into the Canadian- Alaskan link by a connection at Vancouver with the Canadian Pa- cific and the Pacific and Great Eastern railroads. \ If arrangements can be mads Imls weekend for appoiatment of 1 his Senate successor, McGrath is expected to agree to accept the cabinet post. NEW DEMO CHAIRMAN Friends said that once he is con- .’hrmed, McGrath will resign as IDcmocratic Chairman, That would ssoo ooo DAMAGE leave the post open for Willlam M L Boyle, Jr., formerly of Kansas SUII FA[SE ARREST City, who has been serving as ) [} g | executive assistant at a $30,000 IS FILED BY SINGER| s i Clark indicated in a statement Py gy LOS ANGELES, July 29—(M— Operatic Soprano Vivian Della Chiesa hit a high note in anger as she filed a $500,000 damage suit i charging false arrest. ‘The singer, taken into custody on a warrant obtained Ly Concha V. Savage for an alleged unpaid debt, told the court yesterday it was the same old case of mistaken identity. Two years ago the singer suce cessfully maintained in court that she was not the Miss Della Chiesa, also known as Vraie Diva, to whom | princegs Kathleen from Vancouv- Miss Savage, a former voice| o geheduled to arrive Saturday teacher, loaned money 25 years ago.|,¢ 3 pm She obtained a restraining order| prince George scheduled to ‘sail against further prosecution. from Vancouver 8 tonight. Superior Court here ruled that! aleutian scheduled to sail from any further action against Miss|geattle Saturday. Della Chiesa would be construed| princess Norah scheduled to sail as contempt of court. ’rmm Vancouver Saturday. She contends she was taken from! princess Louise scheduled to sail her hotel and forced to make bail|from Vancouver August 3. ‘o avoid being locked up in county Baranof scheduled southbound y Sunday. post. Observing that the President had| bestowed a great honor on him by | offering the place, Clark said: g “It is with humility that I ap-| proach it. Such a position is the| greatest challenge that can el placed before a lawyer. I hope I/ - | (Continued on Page 2) | STEAMER MOVEN™TS Square Knot due Saturday. |jaily . l]a that he is ready to take the court Id Invalid FOLTA RULES AGAINST NEW LICENSE FEE Opinion Given in Case of Two Seattle Masters, Kefchikan Firm Alaska's non-resident fishermen's license fee, as increased from $25 to $50 by the 1949 Legislature, is | ruled invalid in a decision by | Judge George W. Folta filed today. | Judge Folta holds that the tax fs | unreasonably discriminatory be- | tween residents and non-residents, |and thus contravenes the Civil Rights Act and is therefore invalid. The opinion is in the case brought by Attorney A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, a “controversy with- out action” in which plaintiifs are Kristian Martinsen, Seattle owner of the halibut vessel Tatoosh; Ed- ward Wick of Seattle, master of the halibut vessel Mary R., and Polar Fisheries, Inc, a Ketchikan firm which buys, processes and ships fish, Attorney General J. Gerald Will- iams and Assistant Attorney Gener- | al John H, Dimond represented Tax | Commissioner M. P. Mullaney and the Territory of Alaska, against whom the suit was brought. As Chapter 66, S.L.A. 1949, con- | tained a clause repealing the pre- vious $25-a-man fee and substitut- ing $50, it is presumed that the earlier law s in effect as a result of Judge Folta’s ruling. To what extent will Territorial revenue be affected? While a number of fishermen have not yet come in, Tax Collector Mullaney reports that, in round figures, his office had collected $83,000 in non-resident license fees jup to last night, and $24,000 fromi resident fishermen. Railroad TRUMAN'S | . oome Several points in Judge Folta's opinion are of legal interest: “When a vessel loaded with hali- but taken from the high seas by residents or non-residents,” he says, “enters Territorial waters and un- loads its catch, it falls into the category of ‘floating equipment used in the handling of fish' and is subjeot to tax.” “When the crew of a vessel en- ters Territorial waters enroute to the high seas or returns to unload a catch from the high seas in a Canadian or state of Washington port, it s not subject to tax, not only because no taxakle event takes place within the jurisdiction of the Territory, but because the vessel would be engaged in forelen or | interstate commerce. Another Point “On the other hand, when such a vessel catches or unloads within Territorial jurisdiction, the crew becomes subject to taxing power re- gardless of whether the halibut was taken in Territorial waters or lq the high seas. - “The question remains as to whether imposition of the $50 fee on non-residents. is valid . . . Plain- tiffs’ contention that it is dis- criminatory under Article 4, Section 2 of the Pederal Constitution and under ‘the 14th Amendment can- not be sustained because neither s applicable to the Territory . . Then, as has been stated, Judge Folta ruled its invalidity on the third contention—that the tax con- travenes the Civil Rights Act. Plaintiffs also had challenged the validity of the measure in contentions that the Territory can- not tax the taking of halibut in the high seas and that the fee does not apply equally to all non- residents. (Under the International Halibut Twgaty, Canadian subjects can fish beyond their three-mile limits and land their catches at Alaskan ports of entry without paying the license.) Concerning the ruling, Gov. Er- nest Gruening said today, “I have not yet read Judge Folta's opin- ion, so I cannot comment on it. “However, I feel that the fish- ermen’s license tax was not im- portant from a revenue standpoint. It was no part of a basic tax pro- gram.” The Presbyterian Church Synod of California is expected today to endorse the idea of Federal aid to public schools only, and to com- mend Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Representative Graham Barden in the bargain, ¥