The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,309 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949 estward Alaska Rocked By MONTHLY PAYRATES EXECUTIVE WARNE'S PROGRAM IS GIVEN Tells of Federal Govern- | Principals i in Slaying FOR ARMED SERVK! IN SENATE MEASURE WASHINGTON, Sept 1'1-00- The following table typical monthly pay rates, includ- | ing allowances, that would go into effect for married members of the armed services under a Senfte bill: fhustrates | | MPIMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTH PAY RAISE TAKEN UP | Upper - Bracket Officials | Train Wreckage Sharp Quake ANCHORAGE 15 SHAKEN BY QUAKE Dishes Broken at Seward- Plaster Is Knocked Off (Except for General Officers, Me‘ Nex‘ on I.IS' FO"Ong Walls in Cordova men' S Plal'l fOI’ Devel' {rates are the same as thase pro- | Cabinet Boost opment of Alaska vided in a House-passed bill. The| | different figures in the House bill in those cases are in puremhem- | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 27—! (®—The Federal government is pre- pared to “build, lease and sell in- dustries considered vital to Alaska, william E. Warne, Assistant Sec-| : retary of the Interior, said at a public meeting held in the Univer- sity of Alaska. Warne said the program is pos- | sible under the proposed Almknl’ Development Corporation bill. said the act is patterned after the | Puerto Rico reconstruction project Hel | The Assistant Secretary oumned\ | a four-point program for Alaska. It includes: (1) Statehood, (2) the| project settlement bill, (3) the Alaska Development Corporatxon‘ bill, and (4) settlement of nauve‘ claims. | Warne, with C. C. Staples, direc- | tor of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration for Alaska, and other | government officials, are here to| meet with farmers, housing officials | and others to find out public { opinion on Interior Department | projects for Alaska. Soviets Will Refurn Naval (raftto U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—#— Russia agreed formally today to re-| turn 30 American Naval vessels! loaned to the Soviets in World| War II The ships are to ze given back by Dec. 1. They include three ice- breakers and 27 frigates which are small patrol craft. The United States has been try-| ing to get them back for four years.; Soviet Ambassador Alexander S.| Panyushkin and Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State, signed | an agreement at the State Depart- ment today after negotiations which started early last month, The ice-breakers will be returned to U.S. Naval authorities at the| Port of Bremerhaven, Germany,| and the frigates will be returned| to Yokosuka, Japan. There were originally 28 of the| frigates, but Russia‘ advised that | one had run on’ the Tocks. Re-! porters were told by Press otflcer1 Michael J. McDermott that more specific information has been | promised. FROM FISH BAY Roy Kister of Fish Bay is al guest at the Gastineau. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ICanvright, 1940, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON — Last news that Russia ‘had unloosed her own atom bomb caused this writer | to do some digging into his own columns written during the Christ- mastide immediately after the first A-bomb was exploded. We have all become a little more calloused, a little more hard-boil- ed, a little more weary than in those breathtaking days when the war was just over in 1945. But the ideas set forth at that time pro- " Palm Springs, Calif., police say they have a signed statement from Mrs. Sophie Perillo (shown right, with her husband, Peter) that she killed him because she was jealous over his meeting with Mrs. Alma Ross Prima (left), 28, diverced wife of band leader Louis Prima. Mrs. Prima denies tha affair with Petrillo. P wlrephow ARMS BILL PROFITSTAX | senate bill.) Rank Service tMaj. Gen. .. 32 I Maj. Gen. 27 Brig. Gen. “Erig. Gen. | Colonel Colonel { Lt. Col. | Lt. Col. | Major Major | Captain E Captain +1st Lieut. ‘ 1st Lieut. yznd Lieut. 2nd Lieut. (The figures in Present Proposed | The Pay ance $895 $895 $712 $712 $693 $657 $616 $584 $511 $484 $396 $385 $327 $327 $282 $282 parentheses be- Leside the rates proposed in the | Pay Years Of &Allow- &Allow- ance (SenBill) $1,146 ($1,006) | sLlie, ($1,089) 81,018, ($975) Ofllo 1) | 3831 $803, $717| $660 | $603| $560 8474 $402, $388 | ‘ 8345 $330| By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—(®—| Senate, having agreed to| | raises in military pay, turned more critically today to President Tiu- ‘mnns idea of boosting salaries for | | top federal executives. w A House-passed bill increasing the | pay of cabinet members and other upper-bracket officials is the next | major legislation on. the Senate| ¥ schedule. It was listed for action | !late in the day after some omcr, matters are disposed of. | MINOR DIFFERENCES { 1t follows in the wake of Senate passage Ly voice vote late yester- |day of a bill giving pay raises to members of the armed forces in 1nlmmt, every grade at a cost of | about $300,000,000 annually. | A similar military pay bill passed | | the House earlier. House and Sen- | ate conferees now will attempt to iron out the differences, which are ! minor. Raises in the Senate bills range from about $5 a month for recruits with five months service to | IS GETTING |Senafe- House Commlllee Acting Fast as U. S. An- swer fo Russ A-Bomb By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—#— Swift agreement in a Senate-House committee on a $3,314,010,000 over- seas arms program sped along today —one U. S. answer to Russia’s A- {bomb claims. The news of an atomic blast in Russia served to speed agreement among the lawmakers that friend- ly nations must be strengthened ;against the threat of Communism. A Senate-House conference late ‘yesterday sidetracked a House econ- omy move and agreed, in three hours, on the higher cost program voted earlier by the Senate. The discarded House figure was $869,- 415,000 or $444,595,000 less than the agreed-upon Senate figure. Finai1 Action The conferees worked on final small points today. This will clear ithe war for final Congressional ac- tion, first by the House and Sen- ate. Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of i the Senate Foreign Relations com- mittee told reporters the Russian atomic reports “have given the jarms program new strength.” Republican Senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Knowland of California agree. Usually, conferees appointed to settle Senate-House differences reach agreements by an in-between ccmpromise. In this case the House members dropped any pre- week's | tense of fighting for the lower fig- ure, and as the authorization bill now stands it contains: $1,000,000,000 for thé North At- lantic Pact nations; $211,370,000 for Greece and Tur- key; $27,640,000 for Iran, Korea and the Philippines; $75,000,000 which may be spent by the President—as he sees fit— in the China area; Permission to ship $450,000,000 bably apply just as much as ever, | and with apologies they are re- printed herewith: “Sometimes it takes the abyss of pessimism and hopelessness to arouse people to new and xevolu- tionary measures. i “The atom is a revolutionary weapon, the most revolutionary in all history. It needs revolutionary | diplomacy to combat it. Old-fash- of surplus arms. House members insisted on only h-elnively minor changes in the !arms plan voted by the Senate. PAVING ACCEPTED Ike P. Taylor, Alaska Road Com- mission chief engineer, returned yesterday from a trip on which final acceptance was made on a | paving job completed this summer, The section of road accepted was joned talks between three or four| diplomats, who sit for a few days|°D the Alaska Highway between GETS UPPED JKIRHMN Chant eIIor of Exchequer| Also Issues Warning | to Business ' LONDON, Sept. 27—{®—Sir Staf- ford Cripps raised Britain's profits| tax by one fifth today to offset the | inflationary effect of cheapening the pound. The tax on profits now is 25 per- | cent. Cripps told the House of| Commons he is increasing it “as| from today” to 30 percent. ‘ At the same time Cripps re-| peated his stand that personal in-| comes, including those from wages,‘ must stay at present levels. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also warned British businessmen: ! “If there is any further lcreaking away from the voluntary limitation of dividends I shall consider myself | at liberty to introduce legislation to | restrict dividends in the next fl-} | nance bill.” DEBATE IN HOUSE Cripps opened the crucial debate | in the House of Commons on the| devaluation of the pound. He was fortified by a Labor party caucus which, informants said, decided to stand behind the government on\ the currency issue. A treasury spokesman said Cnpps, has authority to raise the tax on business and industrial profits at| once. Later, the spokesman said,| the Chancellor presumably will sub- mit some sort of formal motion asking House of Commons approval, which would be virtually automatic in view of the heavy labor majority. ACTION IS SOP Informed observers saw the ac-| tion as a sop to rank and file la‘or which has been complaining that| the little people will suffer most| from the cheapening of the pound from $403 to $2.80. The Trades Union Congress has| been insisting that even a slight| rise in the cost of living would' prove unbearable to the lower paldx British workers. The TUC has not, yet given the government, of which it is the most powerful pillar, its public support on the devaluation policy. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 2'1,—(M—Clos-] ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 3%, American Can 94%, Anaconda 26%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 13, ; low show the pay grade of the dif- '.zz.s_s‘gz,s,se tRecruit (1) NNON - UNION ferent ranks.) *W.0. 4 @ ... . (@) L . @) . . (@ L (2) . R ¢ - mal' $550 $612 $598 $495 $481 $415 $3 $303 $363 | $334 $304 $275 | . $268 Sgt.1stCl. (6) sgt. (5) sgt. (5) Corp. (4) ki * Warrant Officer, (The following rates do not in- clude allowances since personnel in | these ranks normally are furnished | quarters and subsistence. They are for both single and married per- sonnel ) | Corp. (4) Pvt.1stClL Pvt.1stCl. Pvt. (2) Recruit (1) 5 3 $105 $94 1% $90 1 $80 5mths $75 $80 imth - $75 $75 (The rates apply to corresponding anks in other branches of the service which are not listed in the table.) i $132 $102 $95 ¢ $82.50 3) 3) MINES OPEN; IDLE WEEK Miners Carrmns‘lo Work Pits-Seventeen Are Arrested PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27 — ® — Western Pennsylvania’s non-union bituminous mines reopened today despite the nationwide strike of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Work- ers and State Police quickly arrested 17 pickets to block violence. Heavy state police forces invaded the four-county Clearfield area where some 35 operations resumed after a week of idleness due t%0 i picketing by unionized bands. Lieut. Frank L. Garnow reported 17 arrested for mass picketing around the Wingert mine near Sligo in Clarion county. A court injunction issued recently prohibits mass picketing. Eleven hundred non-union kitum- inous miners defied the striking United Mine Workers and went back to the pits.. The state troopers brought re- inforcements into the four-county Clearfield area. MEN CARRY ARMS Miners went to work carrying rifles and shotguns. Armed guards $300 and up for Generals with over | 30 years service. Much more controversy has de- veloped over the executive pay bill, for which Mr. Truman made an-| This urlel vl«v lhows cars and diesel enllno of lmuwfll pas- senger train No. 15 which was wrecked near Newton, N. C. Between forty and fifty were injured. Two were trapped in the dinner and ssudt 35 { Democrats and szmfsmle down the pay raises Mr. Tru- | | ments today and sent to Presxdem‘ { Truman a bill raising the pay of | 000,000-a- year other plea yesterday in a letter toJ died. (™ Wirephoto. Vice President Barkley. COMPROMTSE * After a huddle of Senators in the office of Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois, Senator McFarland (D- | . Ariz) said that 34 Senators—20 14 Republicans— have offered a compromise wmch" “ijs being accepted.” McFarland is leader of a group which wants to ! man asked, ! McFarland said that under the | ———— compromise no government officials | except cabinet members and a few | White House aides would have their pay raised above $15,000 and none | would receive more than a 50 per- cent increase. For catinet members, that would‘ mean a boost in pay from 315000‘ to $22,500 instead of the $25,000 pro- vided in the pending Presidential | backed bill. 'Miss Stardust’ AMENDMENTS OKEHED WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—P—! The House accepted Senate amend- personnel of the armed forces. | The Senate changes in the $300,- | measure were 50| minor that Rep. Kilday (D-Texas),' who headed the committee that| drafted the original House mea- sure, said there was no disagree- ment worth sending to conference. The House action was by voice vou with only Rep. Hoffman (R-| Mlchn announcing that he wanted to be recorded in opposition. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) \ (This data 1s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) e e e ve o INTRODUCING Judy Tyler, 17 Teaneck, N. J., selected as “Mis: Stardust of 1949” from 35,001 entries in contest. (Internatwonal GOVERNOR RETURNS FROM NeKINLEY MEET Governor Ernest Gruening re- o turned to Juneau yesterday to open |the meeting of the newly-created e |Alaska Water Pollut.on Control o | Board today. tl He had been at the meeting of the Alaska Field Committee at L3 Mount McKinley National Park. L3 | The meeting, also attended by . A.ssm.am Secretary of the Interior ® e 0 0 v e o o e o o Wilam Warne, ended Saturday. | After the meeting, Gov. Gruening | went to Fairbanks. He returned to HE‘MER MOVEM!"YS | Juneau by way of Anchorage. Aleutian from Seattle . scheduled | In Juneau—Maximum, 60; minimum, 47. At Airport—Maximum, 55; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Funeau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy and cooler to- night with lowest tempera- ture 45. Fair and warmer on Wednesday with highest temperature near 50. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—58 inches since Sept. 1, 10.10 inches; since July 1, 21.11 inches. At Airport .35 inches; since Sept. 1, 6.90 inches; since July 1, 1439 inches. around a green baize table md\’rok Junction and Johns River, 67 then issue brief communiques to| the public aimed to cover up what they didn’t accomplish, will not —_— (Continued on Page Four) | miles. CALIFORNIA VISITOR W. E. Larson of San Pedro, Cal., is a guest at the Baranof. to arrive 7 tonight. U. 8. Steel 23, Pound $2.80%. ced near entrances to mine worke, Sales today were 1,070,000 shares. ,z s or stalked in underbrush Averages today are as follows: | { nearby. indusfrials 179.63, rails 47.02, util-| ities 37.92. (ContMued on Page 2 Princess Louise scheduled to sall| trom Vancouver 8 p. m. Thursday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. FROM CHICAGO Major T. D, McGinnis and M- Sgt. J. T. Napier of the Fifth Ar- my Headquarters, Chicago, are guests at the Baranof, Urged by General Bradley in Reporl Made fo Secy. Johnson WA%HINGTON SEDI 27— Genera] Omar N. Bradley said to- | day that the Joint Chiefs of iStaif are ‘“very much concerned” re- | garding military housing in Alaska, | particularly in the more important | defense areas. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs |and the military heads of the three | Armed Services returned Septemcer 116 from a 10-day inspection trip ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 27— (M—A sharp earthquake rocked this area for about a full minute today at 7:31° (PST). Chief U.S. Weather Bureau Fore- caster Roy Fox said that it was the “most severe in the five.years 1 have lzeen here.’ He sald that the bureau has no way of measur- ing the severity of the quake.’ A recording of the tremor at 5:31 a.m. local time (7:31 am., PST). | Officlals who estimated its center roughly within 500 miles of Fair- \banks said it was téo close to allow the recording of uy.oom dary shock. Cordova, south east of here lfl the Gulf of Alaska, reported feels ing a mild shock at about. the time. The quake rattled ‘dishes. knocked off mmn-w dunmmw P was felt there. . WATER MAIN BROKEN LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27-P—An Alaskan earthquake broke a water main at Elmendorf Field, US. Army Air Force bas2 at Anchorage, the Herald-Express was informed | today by telephone. The newspaper said the Army’s Alaska Communications System re- ported the tremor lasted a minute, jbut that initial reports listed no | deaths or injuries. | NO TREMORS HERE Evidently no tremor was felt in * Juneau as no reports have i:een re- ceived by The Empire. It is undegstood here that the Coast and Geodetic Survey station at Sitka registered the quake early | to America’s northern strategic out- | (hjs mornln' ) kpost. which is close to Russia. Bradley's statement of the Join t Chief’s’ concern was contained in| | his report to Secretary of Defense| | Johngon. Johnson released it for publication. “As your military advisors, | cannot emphasize ivo strongly the | necessity for quick actlon in secur- | ing authorization appropriations for construction in Alaska,” Bradley reported. Bills providing for $62,000,000 for military housing have been ap- proved by the Armed Services Com- Mmittees in both House and Senate but no action has been taken on the floor. Bradley said the present deploy- ment of troops in Alaska is based on housing capacity rather than the size force considered necessary for adequate defense. Army plans alone call for 13,200 troops in Alaska, but only about 3,000 are there now, largely because of lack of adequate barracks and family quarters, “Not only is there inadequate housing to take care cf the troops and their dependents but a large part of that in use now Is suc- standard,” Bradley said. “Many of the troops are living under very crowded conditions and !in buildings without plumbing,” he said. i 'FLOODS IN CORDOVA AREA BY RAIN POUR CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept. 27—# —A lashing rain storm with near hurricane winds for the past two days have brought unseasonal floods throughout this area. mer cabins and flooding the Cor- dova airport. FROM MONTREAL Mrs. Plerre Tisseyre of Montreal is a guest at the Baranof. ‘ we Lake Eyak has flooded its banks, | washing out some half dozen sum- | RUSS PLANE I00MSNWA ON FLIGHT {Incident Occurred Saturday on Flight from Orient fo Anchorage * ANCHORAGE, Sept, 27—®— A passenger flying here from Tokyo |is quoted by the Anchorage Times as saying a Russian fighter nhnc zoomed close alongside a Northwest Airlines transport last Saturday over the Kuriles. The Times said its information came from, Bruce Aichison, Tokyo attorney and a director of the Jap- |anese Chamber of Commerce Amer- lican Club. ~Aichison's story, told in an interview with a Times re- | porter, was: | .Making his 22nd flight in the Great Circle route over the North Pacific, Aichison glanced from a | window of the NWA airliner and | noticed a huge airport on an island |in the northern Kuriles. | Moments later a fighter plane | with Russian insignia, apparently ‘an American type given the Soviets during World War II, shot up, flew for some time beside the big | U. 8. commercial plane and look- \ed it over carefully. No “Passes” Made The fighter pilot did not try to change the course of the airliner, and made no threatening ‘“passes” with his plane. After following alongside for several minutes, he turned back and dluppelud (Continued on Page w i