The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Bmseasane. EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,390 JUNEAT, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS HAPPY NEW YEAR, SAY JUNEAUITES; EVENTS PLANNED Juneau will see (ho ulrl and usher in the infant numercus club celebrations, a large fireworks display, and church watchnight services. The Eugene, Ore., high school band, which played to standing room only in Ketchikan when it began its Alaska tour, will play in the High School gymnasium at 8| o'clock—not as a portion of the New Year celebration, but because of their schedule in touring north- ern communit.es. The New Year ushering begins| officially at 7 pm., when a fiery pyrotechnical display begins to shower down over Gastineau Chan- nel from a barge tied up at the Government Dock. It will continue for slightly less than an hour. The band concert begins at 8 o'clock. Also at 8 pm., the Juneau Shrine Clut: begins its New Year Party at the Baranof Hotel. Later, the anual Elks Hi-Jinks gets under way at their ballroom. The Douglas Eagles hold their New Year's dance at their hall across the channel. At the Parish Hall in Juneau, a square dance party answers the calls to see the old year out. Numerous churches will hold serv- | ices for their congregations to watch the New Year approach. Only scheduled event for New Year's Day itself is a get-together of the Shrine Club at the Scottish Rite Temple from 2 to 4 p.m. on Monday. Stores, offices and _drug stores will be closed Monday. On Sunday two drug stores will be open. No Ewmpire will be published on the offi- cial holiday of January 2. Happy New Year! VETS CHECKS TO ROLL JAN. 1§; 200,000 A DAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 31— @ — Millions of World War II veterans will start slicing the $2,800,000,000 GI insurance refund Melon Janu- ary 16. The Veterans Administration sald that on that date checks will start rolling out at the rate of 200,000 a day. June 30 is the target date for completing the operation. The checks, ranging from 90 cents to $528, will average about $175 per veteran. The Washi?gion Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copvright. 19s. nv Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—John L. Lewis has announced with considerable fanfare the new contracts sizned by independent coal mines and his union. But he has not announced —in fact, doesn’t want known— the tactics used to get these small companies to sign new contracts In at least two cases, Lewis clos- ed down mines completely, not even permitting them a 3-day week, be- cause they refused his terms. The mines in question are the Cove| Fork Coal Company and the fa- mous Elkhorn Coal Company, both in Pike County, Kentujy. A sworn affidavit by Pack Pickles- imer and Fon M. Johnson, cpeiat- ors of the mines states: “We were called to attend a meeting at the United Mine Work- ers’ headquarters of the Truck Mine operators on ‘Decembers 2, 1949 at six o'clock. We attended, and Sam Caddy, President of Unit- ed Mine Workers, District 30, pro- posed that we sign a contract with the mine workers which was to extend to September 1, 1951. “A part of the terms were dis- closed to us. Included in the terms about which ‘we were told was a 95-cents per day increase in wages, a 15-cents per ton increase in the welfare fund - payments, and a broadening and alteration of the ‘willing and able’ clause which we were told was to enable the mine workers to control the production Rearing 40s Now Whisper: "Hello, 19507 (By Associated Press) The tired old “Forties,” having| run their stormy course of life and death, bow out tonight, and | turn the world over to a brand| new decade, | At midnight, men and women | around the world clasp hands wiih | a new year, and a new era. It is an occasion of cherished hopes and promise, of new determination, of cptimism mingled with a tremb- ling fear, of echoes of the past sounding a future of good or evil, of an end and a beginning. And of all of this, men celef.ate in many ways. {hey will kneel to pray in fl:c‘ churches of Rome and Tishomingo, Olka. They will sing in the streets| of Rio, clink wine glasses in the sidewalk cafes of Paris, and on West 52nd Street in New York. Chorus girls will prance across | stages in glittering Hollywood night | spots, and a Moscow orchestra will blare a symphony of weicome to the 1950s. To some, it is a time for count- ing the hours of the decade that| is done, for remembering the re-| cord and studying its lessons. In high places of government and | in humble homes of the earth, men did that today. And what was written in the history of the “Forties?” mostly, it was a story of war, of many dying, of a bomb, and of a mnew bloodless - but menacing - kind - -of conflict between two ideologies. But it was also a story of -To- mance, or more money for most, of a million men coming home in ships to hunt their dreams, of a| new international kind of charity,| of brides brought from across the| scas, of new hope for the perse- cuted of Europe, of the birth of an uncertain thing called the Uni- ted Nations and of a new develop- | ment called television. These were a few of the things born in the “Forties,” and many of them must find their maturity | and their success or failures in the “fifties.” The outlook was not all good, but it was better than it was 10 years 230, when that period was ushered in to the fury of marching armies and sounding cannon. ® 0 e v 0 e e 2 2 WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 2; minimum -1. At Airport—Maximum minimum -17. FORECAST (Juneau ana Vieloity) Continued cold and clear tonight and Sunuay, occa- sional fresh northeasterly winds. Low temperature to- night about 5 below. High temperature Sunday about 5 above. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—None; since Dec. 1—5.06 inches; since July 1—53.94 inches. At Airport—None since Dec. 1—2.37 inches; since Judy 1—3549 inches. 0 0 & & o 2 0 o o PARTY HONORS RETIRING TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS A party was given yesterday after- noon in the office of the Territorial Department of Education in the Federal Building in honor of three retiring Territorial officials. Honored guests were B. D. Btew- art, Commissioner of the Territorial Department of Mines, Mrs. E. J. (Josephine) White, assistant cura- tor and librarian of the Alaska His- torical Library and Museum, and Norman Cook, accountant for the Territorial Depanment of \Educa- tion. The party was arranged by mem- bers of the staff of the Department 2: 00000 e0%00000000ec 0000 cC0s 0 ®000cv0cccc00000 000 of the various mines in the country (Continued on Page Four) of Education and the Department of Mines. wiil | | his | Cole Porter and $73,000 SUIT WON AGAINST P. J. CUTTING ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 31— (M—Oregon investors suing the Kougarck Dredging Corp., to knock out a contract won a $73,000 court y in Judze Anthony Dimond’s Federal District Court yesterday. Dimond ordered the dredging cor- poration, headed by Percy J. Cut- | ting Anchorage, to return to Kougarok Consolidated Placers Inc., | 349,556 shares of stock valued by | the placer firm at $73,000. The judge denied the Oregon in- | vestors a cla'm for $20,000 advanced | to the dr g corporation on the roeunds at I part of the money for operating expenses, Neither party is to recover costs |of the action except Audrey Cutting, the delendant’s wife. The court |ruled she was not properly a de- fendant, and is entitled to recover ‘L\)\l\ from the Oregon group which brought the suit against the dredg- |ing corporation and Cutting. Cutting currently is serving an | unfinished portion of a year's sen- | tence at the McNeil Island Federal detention camp near Tacoma, Wash. Ultimate decision in the five weeks long case rested with the ;.reqdmg judge. But an advisory | jury heard the testimony and re- |turned a verdict Oct. 27 azainst Cutting on five issues up for de- | cision, Bailey Bell, Cutting’s attorney, in= |ceated he would file a motion for |a new trial and, that failing, would appeal the judgment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The Oregon investors who make up Kougarok Consolidated Placers | include: The president of Oregon Motor Stages and part owner of Yellow Cab in Portland and Seattle; Al Schneider, general manager of Oregon Motor Stages, Portland; Douglas )%. Owens and Charles C. Stearns, partners in a Medford, Cre., construction firm; Earl Mc- Nutt, former mayor of Med brother John MeNutt Thomas Chapman. d; and EUGENE BAND IS HERE TONIGHT IN MUSICAL EVEN) This cvening ai 8 o'clock in the nigh school gym the Juneau public will have an opportunity of hear- ing one of the best school bands |in the northwest, the Eugene, Ore., idigh School Band, directed by By- |ron Miller. A varied program will be present- ~d. including well known overtures | such as Rossini’s “Barber of Sev- ille,” popular selections such as “South Pacific.” DOCTORS PRESIDE ATBIRTH BY WIRE; SAVE MOTHER'S LIFE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31— —Mrs. Fred Pete had a baby by aph this week. Mrs. Pete, wife of an Alaska Rail- road section worker at Berg, was measles and a JAP RIGHTS SET FORTH: " MacARTHUR (By the Associated Press) The Japanese people were told fcrtically ill with today by Gen. Douglas MacArthuf | throat infection when birth of a in his' New s message that|premature five-month infant they still have “the inalienable | neared. right to seli-defense against un< Nurse Dorothy Vinson of the St. provoked attac Marks Mission at Nenana, bundled At the san time Gen. Mac-|up against the 40-degree below zero weather and traveled 50 miles Arthur backed (he Japanese no-war consttution and the prohibition|down the railroad in a fiange- against Japanese :n'med forces. i| wiecled “gasmobile” Thursday. Does the combination of thes¢| Jack Swift, Nenana railroad agent two ideas—the right 01 self defensd|kept telegraphic communications by a nation without nmed forcesa-| opcn from Berg to Fairbanks while mean the United States will des|doctors Owen Cranmer and William mand bases in Ja Smith of Fairbanks passed along Japanese peace treat | instructions to the nurse. Officials at the State Dejuri Foday doctors said Mrs, Pete n Washington declined to ¢iy bably would have died had it peen for Nurse Vinson's work immediate answer. But the nition’s . ks four top military men will go o ;. Pete was in “much improved }Japan in February, probably tocondition. discuss with MacArthur a proposed! In .the excitement, Swift appar- new American policy for Asle ty forgot to telegraph the sex CHIEFS NAMED | 9f ‘the new-bern ch The Defense Department las ! night announced the Far Eact would be made by the Jo'nt €1 of Staff, consisting of Gen, Omar N. Bradley, chairman, the Armiy's! Gen. J. Lawton Collins, POLITICAL PARTY S s conee 't BRAWLS FORESEEN Navy Adm, Forrest P. Sherma | BEFORE EI-E("ONS They will not visit Formos, lost| lNaMona.lm Chinese stronghold, | which is considered vital to Amen- WASH’INGTON Dec 31— A — pped up today from op- Joan' defenses 1 sgus Sen., Connally (D-Texas) of the | rosite sldes of the continent that Senate Foreign Relations Commit re will be some tough brawling ! tee urged the United States to send vithin both the Republican and a military mission to Formosa ‘1]\~.L|L cratic Parties before the Nov- help hold it against Chinese ( ¢ elections. om- | ety Gov. James H. Duff tossed his The plan was also backed by hat into the Republican Senatorial Taft (R-Ohio) who favored ke ontest in Pennsylvania with a ing Formosa out of Commuy nted challenge to the forces of hands even if the U.S. Navy were |Senator Martin (R-Pa) and Joseph oo St 8. | Grundy, long a big voice in GOP | counc | In California Welburn Maycock, UNIVERS"Y or Ausu 1 friend of President Truman, an- nounced he will enter the Demo- INS'R““OR Io HEA;‘* ratic California Governorship race gainit James Roosevelt, eldest son DEPT, OF AGRICULTURE ", 2 e n‘ Maycock, former Chief Counsel of the Democratic National Com- Clyde G. shzxman, 49, an in- |mittee, will be running without structor at the University of Alaska,|any outward blessing from his was appointed yesterday to replace |friend Mr. Truman. George W. Gasser, 74, as Territorial | But it's a poorly-kept secret that Comissioner of Agriculture. [the President hasn’t forgiven James Gasser is retiring January 1 under | Roosevelt for the latter's opposition the terms of the Territorial Legisla- | to Mr. Truman’s nomination at ture’s retirement act. the 1948 Democratic Convention. Appointment of Sherman was made by Gov. Ernest Gruening. . . Sherman was born in Muhall,‘Navy Is Slgh"ng !or Okla. He was graduated from Okla- y homa Agricultural and Mechanical N ( h Wh ' School in 1927 with a bachelor of ew oa( o s science degree. He received his HH (] master of science degree at the Famlllar Io problems University of California in 1930. be a “The |A featured number will | trumpet trio in swingtime, Three Jacks.” Solos include the clever “Child Prodigy” for piano with band; “Stars in a Velvety Sky” for cor- net with band; and “Cubana” solo for violin with band. For a stirring finale Juneau's own popular 45 piece concert band will join the visitors for the per- formance of two numbers. Follow- ing the concert the nine piece dance orchestra of the Eugene band will play for the De Molay dance at the Scottish Rite Temple. Gov. Gruening Goes To Fairbanks for lce Bow! Game Mon. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31— (P—Goy. Ernest Gruening is ex- pected here today. He probably will stay at Ladd Air Force Base Sunday and attend the Ice Bowl game as guest of the University of Alaska. FROM FAIRBANKS S. R. Waite of Fairbanks arrived yesterday and is registered at the Baranof Hotel, Sherman has been a field agent for the Indian Service, a major in the U. 8. Army Air Force, and a ministration. He has also been produce exam- iner under the agriculture commis- sioner and production and market- ing specialist in the University of Alaska’s extension division. Most Powerful Jet Engine Approved, (By Associated Press) The Civil Aeronautics Admmis- tration has cleared for commercial use the most powefdl jet engine now produced in the United States. The action means that if and when jet transport plares are built, they can be driven ty the type of engine which propel America's m:tesl military planes. The jet engine—buitt by General Electric—produces about 52-hun- dred horsepower. It's used jn the Air Force's F-86 Sabre, the world’s fastest fighter plane, says it already had approved other jet engines for commercial use. FROM SEATTLE Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson of Seattle registered today at- the Baranof. Hotel. board member of the Veterans Ad- Commercial Planes, The CAA| ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 31.—{P— Navy scanned the horizon today for a new football coach—the job tossed overboard by George Sauer in a “One-For-All” gesture when his two assistants were fired. Sauer’s sudden resignation yester- |day left Naval Academy athletic bigwigs with an early New Year's Eve hangover. | Looking for a pilot to replace him “shapes up as a real headache, par- ticularly at this time of the year,” lamented Capt. Howard Caldwell, Director of Athletics. So unexpected was his move that Sauer himself later admitted he hadn't “even thought” of the future yet. But the 39-year-old head coach indicated wherever he goes he’ll take the two assistants—Bob Ingalls and Vic Bradford—right along. During their tenure Navy won three games, lost 13 and tied two. All three of those victories were | registered in 1949 and one of the ties was the memorable 21-21 dead- lock w'th highly favored Army in 1948, | Sauer was the first civillan to | pilot. Navy's football team in 15 | years, and Caldwell said his suc- cessor also will be a civilian. He added the Academy Athletic Asso- \clatlon—gov erning body of the in- | stitution’s sports affairs—is looking for someone familiar with the w“pwull.lr problems” associated with | Navy football. Caldwell didn't ex- plain the “problems.’ SECURITY TAXTO JUMP; PENSION . BOOST PENDING WASHINGTON ,Dec. 31—(P—At ,midnight tonight the Social Secur- | ity Tax on the paychecks of about 39,000,000 workers will jump from 1 percent to 1'2 percent. The rise, first in the i3-year his- tory of Federal Old Age and Sur- vivors’ Insurance, will bring a tax of $45 a year on each worker who zets $3,000 or more in annual pay. Employers, an estimated 2,700,000 of them, will increase their con- tributions to match. The 50 per- cent rise will take about $700,000,- | 000 more each year from the in- come of wage earners and manage- ment, For the present, Old Age Pensions won't be any bigger. They start at $10 a month minimum. The av- erage is $26. The maximum now is $45.20. Pending in the Senate is a bill, already appvoved overwhelmingly by the House, to increase the pen- sion and insurance benefits by an average of 70 percent. If approved by tha Senate—as most legislators say it will be—this measure will boost the minimum pension to $25. The maximum ben- efits for an aged man and wife would jump from $85 to $126 a month, PONCE DE LEON DRUG AIRED AT SCIENCE SESSION By Hovird W. Blakeslee (Associated Press Science Editor) NEW YORK, Dec. 31—(#—Man's oldest dream, an elixer for longer life, was revived today at the elesing sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The new hope came from studies of cortisone made at the Univer- sily of Utah. Cortisone is a new hmmone that stops the pain of rheumatoid ar- thitis, and helps half a dozen other diseases. + The report that it might be a key to keeping certain body tissue younger and lengthening the life span was made by Dr. Thomas F. | Dougherty. | He is an histologist, a student of the specialty of minute struc- ture of tissues. His work is sup- ported by the American Cancer Society. One of the very few known facts about growing old is a change in those parts of your body known as connective tissues. These tissues are fibers and sheaths, which are in cffect the walls and girders of all the body's organs. They per- meate the skin, vital organs, bones and form the covering of blocd ves- sels, Leather is a good example of connective tissue. In aging, these tissues become more fibrous, a process called fib- l Longest Troop Trek fo Join Unitsin Yukon COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Dec. 31—(®—What officers describ- ed as the longest motorized troop | movement in American military | history is underway with forces leaving here for Arctic maneuvers. U. 8. ski troops and other winter | specialists will join units of the Canadian Army and U. 8. and Canadian Air Forces at While-| horse, Yukon Territory, more than | 2,000 air miles north of here. ‘The combined task force will op- erate against a ‘“‘common aggres- sor” in the frozen Arctic waste- land, The exercises are designed to test men, clothing, equipment and tactics under Arctic conditions. The first unit—the Fourth Field | Hospital—left here yesterday. The 229th Signal Operations Company heads north Wednesday. Other Units of the combat team formed arcund the First Battalion, 14th/ Infantry, will leave Camp Carson here Jan. 8. Infantry units which just com- pleted training at Camp Hale, Colo., will go to Whitehorse' in| two airlifts late in January. Motorized units are following U. 8. 87 to Great Falls, Mont. From there they’ll go by way of Ed-| monton, Alberta, Dawson Creek | and the Alcan Hizhway to White- horse. - TRUMAN WILL ASK EXCISE TAX CUTS, WANTS NEW LEVIES WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—(P—A| top adviser said today President Truman wili ask Congress in a special message to cut some ex- cise taxes, then enact new levies to get the government out of the| red. This Presidential confidant, who asked not to be named, said Mr, Truman feels the time has come to eliminate at least some of the “luxury taxes” levied during the' war on such items as jewelry, lug- | gage, transportation tickets and telephone bills. | He said the State of the Union message Mr. Truman will deliver in person to Congress Wednesday will give a “picture of the Presi- dent’s broad objectives” in the| field of taxation. 80DY FOUND AFTER BEHM CANAL SINKING The body of Ernest W. Peterson, who drowned Thursday when the ‘roller 31A414 sank in Short Bay in Behm Canal after hitting m ice berg, was recovered yesterday. Neill W. Reed, also aboard the rosis, This fibrosis process, Dr. < Douglterty . sald, appears to be troller when it sank, survived. ' slowed down by cortisone. The Coast Guard culter Thistle,; which went to Behm Canal yester- ‘day, was returning to Ketchikan' today with Reed and the body of Peterson aboard. Juneau Woman Is Connective tissues are by no means all that must be kept youth- ful if we are to live longer. But they are apparently one of the key structures in long life. POLICE CAPTAIN STEPHEN MIKULAS DIES IN FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31— —Stephen A. Mikulas, 31, former police department captain, died of a heart attack early yesterday. EStanley Nichols, United States Marshal, termed his death “a great ioss to the city and territory.” SIHMER MOVEME"“ Mikulas was a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’ Princess Norah from Vancouver Academy in Washington, D.C. He|scheduled to arrive at 7 o'clock: attended an annual Boy Scout this evening, sails for Skagway at Christmas party as cubmaster 11:45 and due southbound Tues- shortly before his death. day morning. He was born in Struthers, Ohio,| Denpali from Seattle due Tuesday. | in 1918 and came to Alaska in| Freigliter Square Sinnet from 1941, | Seattle due Thursday enroute to His widow, Helen and daughter, | Skagway. Connie, 3, now are visiting rela-| Baranof from west scheduled tives in Youngstown, Ohio. * southbound 5 p.m. Sunday. To Wed in South SEATTLE, Dec. ax—un— Marriage | license applications issued here yesterday (Dec. 30) included: John H. Matheson, Seattle, and June Longeran, 35, Juneau. H. Raymond Reynolds, 37, Eucha, | Okla., and Marie G. DiSalvo, 25, Anchorage. l PRICE TEN CENTS "MERCY'DEATH STIRS DEBATE; DOCTOR FREED GOFFSTOWN, N. H., Dec. 31—® —A country doctor resumed prac- tice today as spirited debate rose over his part in the “mercy killing” of a mortally-iT cancer patient. After spending one night in Hills- boro County Jail, Dr. Herman N. Sander, 40-year-old former Dart- mouth ski champion, was freed yes- terday under $25,000 bonds. Dr. Sander is charged with mur- der in the death of Mrs. Abbie Bor- roto, 59, of Manchester, wife of an oil salesman, last Dec. 4 The gov- ernment accused the young physi- cian of injecting 10 cubic centi- meters of air into her veins with a syringe Experts explained that air bub- bles in a blood vessel find their way to the heart or some other part of the system and stop circulation —a fatal condition, “I am not guilty of a"legal or moral wrong,” Dr. Sander ®Id newsmen after he was released. “Ultimately, my position will be vindicated,” he said. The case which has stirred wide- spread discussion will be presented to the January session of the grand jury scheduled to open next Tues- day. Strong mppon for Dr. Sander came fr band, wmg the doc.or as a m man,” Borroty declared. “I cannot believe that he is in any way to be blamed for my wife's passing. He has my com- plete confidence.” Mrs. Borroto's three brathers were divided in their opinions. TERRITORIAL TAX STATEMENT SOON With books closing for the year today, Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney and his staff will be hard at work early next week preparing the annual statement for publica- tion, A to Title 48-2-17, ACL.A. that office is required to publish | statistics annually as to revenues derived under the laws administered by the Tax Commissioner. 3 Commissioner Mullaney reports that approximately $900,000 was jturned over to the office of the Treasurer of Alaska in December. This figures compares with ap- proximately $651,000 in November, and $574,000 in October. January is an important month in tax circles. Mullaney has cir- culated virtually everyone on the tax register in regard to due taxes. Anyone who has not received ap- plication or tax forms may obtain |them from the Taxation Depart- ment office in the Simpson Bulld- ing, Juneau, or in the Department’s offices elsewhere in the Territory. Of the new Territorial taxes now in effect, the average person is most. concerned with two: the busi- ness license tax formerly collected for the Federal Government through the clerks of court, and the net income tax. In cases where income tax with- holdings are not made by employers, | perzons should make declaration Xmmedhwly. and pay the estimated tax not later than January 15, 1950. REA LOANS $200,000 70 KODIAK ELECTKRIC WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—(®—Tae Rural BElectrification Administra- tion has announced a loan of $200,- 000 to the Kodiak Electric Asso- ciatien Inc., Kodiak, Alaska. A. L. AUXILIARY TO MEET An Tuesday, January 3, at 8 pm., the American Legion Auxliary will hold its first meeting of the year in the Legion Dugout. It will be a regular business meeting and all members are requested to be pre- sent. Members of the Executive are asked to be there at 7:30, one- half hour earlier. admitted ¥ € — T | | | | | i 5y ok i 1