The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1950, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,451 PRESIDENT IS SEASICK, OCEAN TRIP ABOARD THE USS. WILIAM. C. LAWE, March 14—(®—Messages from the White House yacht Wil- liamsburg, buffeted by rough seas, indicated today that President Tru- man is suffering from seasickness enroute to Key West, his Florida vacation retreat. Presidential Secretary Charles G. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950 FEDERAL AID, EDUCATION, IS SHELVED NOW WASHINGTON, March 14—(®— The House Labor Committee today shelved Federal aid to education but immediately turned to consid- eration of a school construction program. e Committee members leaving a closed door session reported the committee voted 13 to 12 to reject Ross didn't come right out and say so in reports to newsmen on board this escorting destroyer. But Ross did say that the Presi- dent, who has remained in his cabin since Sunday night, felt a little better today. And, he predict- ed without consulting Mr. Truman, that the President may frown on taking another trip to Florida by sea. Asked whether Mr, Truman— who often has flown to Florida— would undertake another trip by ship to Key West, Ross replied: “I will say it will not be one of his favorite ways.” The Secretary, who has been un- available himself at times to make periodic reports to newsmen by radio-telephone, added that Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn, the Pre- sident’s Army aide, has been pros- trate most of the time. DIVORCE IS FILED AGAINST WIFE NOW IN NEW CALEDONIA A sujt for divorce against his South Seas-born French wife was filed today by Stanley P. Freeman, employee of tThe R. W. Cowling Co. of Juneau, charging incompatability. The complaint, filed by his at- torney, N. C. Banfield, with the clerk of the district court, states Freeman married his wife, Lucienne, now 32 years old, in New Caledonia Novem- ber 13, 1945, and brought her to the United States in April of the following year. The couple have a two-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Marie. After residing a short time in Seattle, the suit declares his wife expressed dislike for the city, so Freeman brought her to Juneau. He the Senate-passed bill providing $300,000,000 for school assistance to the states. The committee had been trying for nearly six weeks to crack the deadlock which had blocked House action on the measure. The big stumbling block to an agreement was a dispute over| whether church and private schools | should share in the federal funds. Making its action even more con- clusive, the committee backed by a 14 to 10 vote the refusal of Chairman Lesinski (D-Mich) to sidetrack school construction for other general aid measures. Lesinski, in effect, was ruling that the committee rejection of the Senate bill ended the aid wrangle for this session. 4 2-PIANO NUMBER ON PROGRAM FOR SCHAPIRO CONCERT ‘ Music lovers attending the piano dedication concert Thursday in the 20th Century Theatre will have the opportunity of comparing the new Baldwin concert grand piano with that on 'which Maxim Schapiro gave his previous concerts here. Schapiro has been Geep in plans for a special surprise of his own. He longed to play the Chopin ‘ Con- certo in E Minor,” which he per- formed as soloist with the Van- couver, B.C., San Francisco and Hartof Hartford, Conn., Symphony Orchestras since appearing in Ju- ! neau. But that takes either an or- chestra for the score as composed, ! or performance of the arrangement for second piano. Miss Shirley Jones, who was an; artist-pupil of Schapiro in South- states she made no effort to learn|ern California, has been in Fair- English or qualify for citizenship, | Panks since late fall. She appeared They arrived here March 12, 1948. as entertainer at the Fairbanks His wife disliked this city, also,{Country Club with Royal O'Reilly, the complaint declares, “making it difficult for plaintiff to enjoy ac- quaintance of other persons or to enjoy the ordinary entertainments available in Juneau.” The filing states his wife left here April 12, 1949, to visit her par- ents in New Caledonia, taking the daughter with her. Neither have re- turned, the complaint said, and his wife has indicated ‘“on numerous times” she does not intend to re- turn to live with him, although able to do so at all times. He charged his wife with also be- ing quarrelsome and unable to keep sufficient money for security and welfare of the family. The Washington Merry - Go - Round ICopyrisht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—The Air Force is now designing a supersonic B-36 that will be able to accomplish what hitherto was considered the impossible—a nonstop flight to Rus- sia and back at the speed of sound This may be one answer to the debate over the super airplane and remained to do radio work. She has played the Chopin con- certo with Schapiro, and will do so| Thursday. Miss Jones arrived from Fairbanks yesterday via Pan Ameri- can Airways. The Chopin will be Schapiro’s concluding number on the scheduled + program, several Juneau musicians rounding out the evening with a sort of classical “jam session.” Schapiro will open his program with the “Appassionata” sonata of Beethoven. His other numbers in the first group wil be two preludes by Rachmaninoff; the 14 short and | charming romantic ‘“pages” from; “L'Album de Madame Bovary” by Darius Milhaud, and Liszt’s briliant | “Polonaise in E Major.” The Schapiro piano-dedication concert will be the opening event in the Juneau Concert Association series for which membership tickets are available. They may be obtained at the Baranof Hotel and other downtown locations. CATHOLICS MAY EAT MEAT, GOOD FRIDAY SEATTLE, March 14—(®—Irish- men who like to celebrate St. Pat- carrier, for the Navy has contend- |rick’s Day in style and still observe ed that U. S. bombers would fly so slowly that they could be knock- ed down by enemy fighter planes. Therefore the Navy urged a float- ing airplane base to approach the enemy. What this new bomber means, however, is that the Air Force will now be able to make hit-and- run attacks against Russia at tre- mendous speed from home bases in the United States. For example, a squadron of supersonic B-36's, based in Maine, could fly half wayj around the world, rain atomic bombs on Moscow and get back home in less than 10 hours. The plane, still on the drawmg boards, is to streamline the present B-36 by giving it swept-back wings and a turbo-prop engine. Most important of all, however, will be a supersonic propeller, already de- veloped by Air Force technicians. Hitherto only jet planes have been able to fly faster than sound. But the new propeller will permit (Continued on Pu; Four) Lenten restriction may do so thisi year; A special dispensation permit- ting Catholics in the Diocese of Seattle, which includes all of west- ern Washington, to eat meat on the Irish Saint’s Day was announc- ed here yesterday by the Most Rev. Thomas A. Connolly, coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese. The dispensation will release celebrants from fasting and ab- stinence from meat Friday. The Bishop himself is going to attend two dinners that day in paying respects to St. Patrick. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Friday, Baranof scheduled to sail from .Senme Saturday. i Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled southbound i 1 Sunday evening. Coastal Monarch due SCORE INDICTED FOR CHEATING ON PAYMENT OF TAXES NEW YORK, March 14—(®—Fed- eral prosecutors went to work to- day on a stack of indictments ac- cusing 34 persons and nine firms of cheating the government ous of more than two million in wartime income taxes. A special feders rand jury re- turned 23 indictments yesterday— almost on the eve of tomorrow’s| deadline for payment of 1949 m-! come taxes. More indictments were expected today. 1 The defendants allegedly failed to report income totalling an esti- | mated $2,819,081 between the years 1942 and 1946, thereby defrauding the government of $2,032649 in taxes. The individuals, most of them| New York business men in the high income brackets were scheduled for arraignment tomorrow. PROBE IN ALL SECTIONS WASHINGTON, March 14—(P— Federal Grand Juries sat in all sec- tions of the country today to return | eleventh hour indictments for in-| come tax evasions for the big war- profit year of 1943. Justice Department officials said the cases before the juries involve‘ many millions of dollars and a num- ber of operators of wartime racxet‘sl as well as business men who tailed to report all of their gains to the government. Under the law, indictments based on 1943 income must be returned | before midnight tomorrow, March| 15, in order for the government to| prosecute. In the absence of action before the deadline, 1943 income cases are automatically washed out by the statute of limitations. The actions expected today and tomorrow represent the cleanup of about 180 cases on which the Jus- tice Department’s tax division has| completed work since the start of this year and sent out to the dis- trict attorneys in every state. The evasions allegedly involved are “conservatively” estimated by the tax division at $15,000,000. Indictments have been obtained in about 120 of these cases since Jan. 1, leaving about 60 for the last minute clean-up. COASTAL FLIGHTS BRING 19; TAKE 27 Alaska Coastal Airlines flights| yesterday brought 19 persons to| Juneau and carried 27 from here to points in Southeast Alaska. To Hood Bay: C. C. Hickey; to Haines: W. Seebart, E. Murphy, George Sink, and H. L. King; to| Skagway: Julia Marino; to Peters-) burg: Bob Erickson, Dave R. Hoag, Bud File, and Jack Zimmerman; to Ketchikan: Paul Owen and Dave Andrus; to Fish Bay: Wally West-| fall and Robert Murray; and to Sitka: Nellie Pickell, Joe Moralis, Bud Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. O. Pax- ton, Miss Toner, Miss Stevens, Ra-! chael Carlson, Egbert Field, Ken-| neth Mieir, Charles Burg, Bruce Parker, and G. E. Brabaw. From Hoonah: M. Bryson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jodon, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hanlon; from Ten- akee: Mrs. G. Atkinson; from Hood Bay: R. E. Owens; from Haines: Melvin Daroff, Alec Daroff, Karl Z. Nielsen, L. L. Whitaker, and Mabel Nielsen; from Petersburg: Ed Hagerman; and from Sitka: Bert Parker, Jim Rinehart, Mrs. Coddington and infant, George Sink B. M. Bensin, and Mrs. Hoffman. Federal Aid fo Non-Ferrous Mines To Be Up in House WASHINGTON, March 14—(#— The House has agreed by voice vote, to consider a bill to authorize federal aid to non-ferrous mines. The measure, authorizing an ex- penditure of $80,000,000 a year for three years, would permit a new minerals conservation board to con- tract with mine owners for aid in search for new ore bodies. It also would allow the Interior Depart- ment to contribute toward the cost of keeping valuable mines open. The bill has passed the Senate. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 14—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 113%, -Anaconda 287, Curtiss- ‘Wright 8%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 51%, New Yérk Central 13%, Northern Pacific 15%, U. S. Steel 31%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,140,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 204.70, rails 54.96, util ities 43.11, | ; Presbyterian Church will ROBESON IS RULED OFF, TELEVISION NEW YORK, March 14—(#—Paul Robeson’s scheduled appearance on Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tele- vision show has been called off. A National Broadcasting Company spokesman said the left-wing Negro singer’s scheduled appearance Wwas “indefinitely postponed”. and prob- ably will be cancelled. The Progressive Party, which Robeson was to have represented on Mrs. Roosevelt’s weekly forum next Sunday, called the action “censor- ship of the air.” It had been, announced at the close of Mrs. Roosevelt's program last Sunday that Robeson wouid be a guest next Sunday in a discussion of “the position of the Negro in American political life.” An NBC spokesman said yester- day “an influx” of telephone pro- tests followed the announcement, and that Elliott Roosevelt and Mar- tin Jones, co-producers of the show, had decided to postpone the racial program indefinitely. COURT OF HONOR FOR CUB SCOUTS AT ROTARY (LUB Fifty members of the Juneau Rotary Club entertained 50 guests lat the weekly luncheon meetingl today in the Baranof Gold Room, and the honorees provided interest and entertainment of the first order. They were members of the six | Cub Scout dens sponsored by the Rotary Club, with their Den moth- ers. Den by den, cub by cub, the boys explained requirements for first-year wolf badges, and for suc- ceeding bear and lion awards. % With the Rev. G. Hillerman pre-1 siding, Cubs were awarded honors representing individual achieve- ments for the year. Neil Fritchman, chairman of the Rotary Boy Scout committee, was introduced and lauded for the spiendid accomplishments in this activity. Other committee members are Capt. Svend C. Hansen, Vern Metcalfe, Stan Grummett and J. B. Burford. With the comment that “they do 99 percent of the work,” the Rev. Hillerman introduced these Den mothers: Mesdames Roger Bailey, George Bryson, Henry Harmon, Cur: tis Shattuck, Carl Rusher and Oscar Pearson of Dens 1 through 6, respec- tively. Den 6 is at Thane, the only pack outside Juneau. Also introduced Wwas Boy Scout Bill Baker, who is a sort of “liaison officer” between Cubs and Scouts A special feature which delighted the young guests was the appear- ance of a huge birthday cake in honor of March “birthday Rotar- ians.” Expertly cut by President| Bob Akervick, the cake was divided] among the visitors. Rotarians hav- | ing birthdays this month are Vern Metcalfe, Carson Lawrence, George: Sundborg and Ralph Mize. Guests were Curtis Shattuck, Carl Heinmiller and Frank Crosby, a newcomer from Seattle, who came to take a position on the sales and g finance staff of the Columbia Lum- ber Company. Ellis Reynolds announced that the first turnout for the 1950 Soap Box Derby, sponsored by The Daily Alaska Empire and the Rotary Club, ¢ will be Friday at 8 p.m. in the A.B. Hall. COFFE AND CAKE SALE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON The' Missionary Society of the hold a MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LONG ALASKA NAMES HOLD G. 1. CHECKS WASHINGTON, March 14—#— The Veterans Administration said today the payment of the G.I. in- surance dividend to war veterans in Alaska and the Philippines is about to begin. The agency said it has been un- able to make such payments here- tofore because the long addresses involved could not be handled by tabulating machines. The administration has sent more than 8,878,000 checks totaling $1,587,000,000 as dividend payments on World War II life insurance policies. A spokesman for the agency said names or addresses containing more than 15 letters are too long for the tabulating machines and must be prepared by hand. This has prevented the mailing of che to the 9,000 veterans in Alaska and the estimated 12,000 in the Philippines, he said. He added a special group of work- ers is being set up to handle this job by hand and that the checks will start out “soon.” He said the same delays have ap- plied to U.S. veterans living in most foreign countries. APW PROGRAM GIVEN OUTLINE TO BPW BY JOHN D. ARTSINGER Eighteen projects under the new Alaska Public Works program have already begun this season, John D. Argetsinger, district engineer with the General Services Admin- istration, told members and guests of the Business and Professional Women’s club regular luncheon meeting yesterday where he was guest speaker. Schools were ready to take ad- vantage of the Community Facil- ities bill provisions for Alaska, he said, and of the 18 projects, 11 are applications for school buildings, 5 for sanitation projects, one library and one storage and public building. | Many other communities have in- dicated that they are desirous of tuking advantage of the GSA pro- visions, the speaker said, but due to lack of organizations to date which are able to assume respon- sibility for the project, their pro- gress in making plans has been retarded. The Community Facilities Bill carries appropriations for $70,000,000 over a five year period for com- munity projects in Alaska, from which up to 50 percent of the cost of a community development will be paid, the other 50 percent being guaranteed by the community or organization within the community. Mr. Argetsinger urged commun- ities who wish to take advantage of opportunities for improvement projects under this act to also take full advantage of the consul- tant services offered by membars of the Alaska Department of Health, the Education Department, architects and engineers. Certain specifications in planning must be met, he pointed out, and much time and effort can be saved by ascertaining these in advance from persons who are in position to have the information. Object of the community bill he said, is set forth in the as “to better living conditions in Alaska, increase residents, stimu- late business and industry and de- velop community life.” Five guests at the Monday meet- ing of the BPW club brought atten- dance to 42. Guests present includ- ed Mrs. Inga Miller, Mrs, Elizabeth Lockridge, Mrs. Harriet, Botelho, Mrs. Dorothy Oldham and Miss coffee sale, at which coftee and|Helen John. A surprise program cake wil be served, at the church|was promised for the next meet- parlors Wednesday, March 15, be¢-ling by President Bertha Ellinger ginning at 3 o'clock. who presided at yesterday's lunch- ‘The general public is cordially in-leon, vited to attend. * 0 o r o @ o & o WEATHER REPORT . DORCAS SOCIETY MEETING . In Juneau—Maximum 37; e The Dorcas Society of the Se¢v-!e minimum 22. . enth-day Adventist Church Wwillle At Airport—Maximum 39; ® meet at the home of Mrs. Arthir|e minimum 29. e Walther at 414 W. Ninth St. this|e FORECAST . evening at 7:30. All are cordially|e (Junesn snd Vieinity) ° invited. . Mostly cloudy tonight and e After the devotional period the¢|e Wednesday with light snow e ladies will spend the evening scW-|e flurries Wednesday after- ing for a sale to be held later. |e noon. Lowest temperature to- e ® night near 32. Highest Wed- ® ® ® oo 0o s v o ® » ®°le pnesday about 39. . . e PRECIPITATIONS® . TIDE TABLE @ | ® (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. tod ] ole City of Juneau—Trace . o MARCH 15 ele since March 1272 inches; o e High tide 0:22 am., 145 ft. 'la since July 1—60.63 inches. @ e Low tide 5 am., 371 ® e At Airport—Trace; L4 ® High tide I pm., 159 ft. ®je At Airport—None; . ® Low tide :35 pm., -06 ft. ®|e® since March 1--.72 inches; 2 ® e since July 1—39.41 inches. . ® 00 000 0 0 0 000 . ’Epoth-MakiTg’ Basic Tax Laws Enable Plow-Back of Alaskan Wealth: Gruening PLANTER OF TIME . BOMB ON PLANE T0 HANG JUNE 13 QUEBEC, March 14—®—A jury | found J. Albert Guay guilty today | of murdering his wife by planfing | a time bomb on a plane that killed | her and 22 others. He was sentenced | to be hanged. ‘The court set June 23 for Guay’s march to the gallows. The jury returned its verdict 17 minutes after Chief Judge Albert Sevigny delivered the fate of the 32-year-old Quebec jeweler into its hands. Judge Sevigny had asked the jury to return a verdict of guilty or in- nocence. The judge was weeping as he concluded his three hours ol in- structions to the ¥rench-speaking Jury. He reviewed the evidence pre- sented by the prosecution, which had said Guay was guilty of a “dia~ bolical” crime in plotting to get rid of his wife to collect on a $10,000 life insurance policy and clear the path for a romance with a pretty young waitress. Throughout the entire trial the court had sought to prove that Guay had caused a time bomb to be placed aboard the Canadian Pa- cific Airlines plane which crashed at Sault Au Cochon, 40 miles from here, last Sept. 9. The victims of that crash in- cluded three New York officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation —President E. T. Stannard, Presi- dent-designate. Arthur D. Storke, and Vice Prélident R. J. Parker. SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL ON TONIGHT A special meeting of the city council is called for tonight at 7:30 o'clock to pass an ordinance in tinal reading which provides for the con? veying of lots 3-4-5-6 in Block 7 to the territory for the site of a terri- torial office building. The session will be a short one, over by 8 o'clock to permit the Sportsmans club to meet and also permit those councilmen who desire to attend the basketball game. 17 ARRIVE HERE ON | DENALL; 13 DEPART The Denali arrived at Juneau from the south this morning at 8 and sailed at noon for Sitka and Seward. Disembarking here from southern ports were 17 passengers; 13 em- barked here for Sitka and Seward. From Seattle: Mrs. Lorna Blanch- ard, Mrs. Gordon K. Chappel, Frank Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fas augh, Mr. and Mrs. I. Goldstein, James M. Harper, R. Laughlin, Sgt. W. T. Lewis, Mrs. John F. Liddle, and Victor Martin. From Ketchikan: Baxter Felch, Leal Miller, and Robert Hartley; gnd from Petersburg: Henry Ad- sero and Jim Ohmer. To Sitka: Elizabeth James, B. F. Kane, Elizabeth DuBois, Nick Mose, Mrs. Helen Moses, Gil Rich, James Ryan, and Charles Burdick. To Seward: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Akey, Jess Ison, J. W. Williams, and David Williams. SCHAPIRO IS T0 BE | INTERVIEWED AT 5 TOMORROW, KINY | Maxim Schapiro wil be inter-| viewed over KINY tomorrow atter- noon at 5 o'clock. This broadeast will give the public an opportunity | to become acquainted with the personality of Schapiro, whose sup- erb piano artistry has thrilled Ju- neau audiences on several occa- sions. Mrs. Elton Engstrom, Business and Professional Women’s club radio chairman, will be in charge of the program. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Sam Hanlon of Hoonan and Mrs, William Belinski were admitted to St. Ann’s hospital yesterday. Mrs. Stanley Tyler and Frank Bru- By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, March 14- 's Governor said today the rial Legislature wrote an “epoch-making chapter” last year setting up a basic tax system. corporations 'affected” therenpon obtainéd injunétions - against col- lection | of ' the new levies, | Gov. Ermest Guiening said in his annual report to the Secretary 'of ‘the In- teridr. ; “Because of this and the open invitation it comprised to other tax- payers to flaunt the new laws, Ter- ritorial tax collections immediately suffered,” Gruening added. “However, the first court battle went in favor of the Territory. when the U.S. District Court in Juneau upheld the legality of the Territorial income tax.” The 19th Territorial Legislature, in a T7-day session early in 1949, adopted an income tax equivalent to 10 percent of the federal income lax, a 1 percent property tax, and a business-license tax. 30 Percent Liquor Gruening said these were basic measures long recommended by him, since Alaska previously had only a “patchwork of miscellaneous taxes,” and in 1947-48 derived al- most 30 percent of its revenue, or $2,209,500, from an excise tax on liquor. Governor Gruening said the lsthl Legislature “wrote a record of legis- lative achievement unequalled since the first Tegislature assemblea in 1915 “What the 19th Legislature ac- complished, apart from acting to provide income to support the vital public services, was to make a be- ginning of plowing back a small fraction of the wealth that for eight decades has been, is being and will continue to be derived from Alaska's resources,” Gruening said. “This wealth has contributed to our national economy. It has played a substantial part in building up the city of Seattle. Nothing Remained “But hitherto only an infinitesi- mal part of the proceeds of Alaska's natural resources had been retained for Alaska’s own development, and for the services of its own people.” Gruening said the reed for state- hood for Alaska became “increas- veral of the “largest absentee| PUBLIC WORKS SUMS T00 BIG FOR ALASKA? General Services Adminis- fration Per Capita Cost Termed Too High’ By Charles D. Watkins WASHINGTON, March 14—(#— The General Services Administra- | tion has asked the House Appro- priations Committee for $12,000,000 cash and contract authorization of $13,000,000 to carry forward Al- aska's public works program dur- ing the 1951 flscal year starting July 1. In testimony made public today officials of General Services said that $4,000,000 of the cash would be used to pay contract authority sranted for this year, Committee members sharply ques- ‘oned them about the Community Facilities program for Alaska, point- ing out that large sums were be- ing asked for towns with small populations. P. F. Seward, Commissioner of Community Facilities, told the com- {mittee its criticism was based on what Alaskan communities said hey wanted. ‘That does not indicate in any sense the approval of the Adminis- trator or anyone else in General Services,” Seward said. “You spoke 1 moment ago of Fairbanks, Fair- | banks has voted and sold $4,500,000 in tonds right now and they have jthe cash money ready to go.” Per Capita Cash The law which set up the Al- aska Community Facilities program Icontempln!ed total expenditure of { $70,000,000. of which the recipients must repay 50 percent. Rep. Gore (D-Tenn) called at- tention to the Fairbanks program, with its building costs of $9,425,000 lnnd the data saying the 1940 popu- lation- was - 8,600. - “That is more than $1,000 for every man, woman and child,” gore ;faid. “If you expect this committee to approve anything like that, I think you have another thought coming.” GS officlals explained that this was the general overall program which Fairbanks had under consid- eration, Gore continued his criticism of 'the proposals for Community Fac- { llities for other towns, including ingly apparent throughout 1949,|iomer, which was listed as having particularly so in view of the inter-} national situation.” ‘The Territory’s most critical ob- stacle to population growth and de- | velopment, he added, is a lack of housing. He added that Alaska may look toward relief of the severe housing shortage in legislation enacted by Congress which: 1. Authorized a one-third increase in the limit of Federali Housing Administration insurance in Alaska. 2. Allowed the Federal National Mortgage Association to make real estate loans secured by property in} Alaska. 3. Authorized a $15,000,000 revolv- ing fund loan for the Alaska Hous- ing Authority. Building Spurts Gruening said that as a direct result of the act, a 67-unit apart- ment building was started at An- chorage, about 800 additional apart- ment units were proposed for FHA insurance and 68 home-building projects were prepared for financ- ing. oy He added that Anchorage needs 3,000 housing units, Fairbanks 1,000, and other Alaskan towns 1,000. The report said that due to in- sufficient funds schools in eight native communities—aAlitak, Beaver, a population of 325 in 1940. The program calls tor $270,000 for Homer for sewer and water facilities and a boat harbor. Harbor Important “I want to register my protest against a program that is so im- practicable and unreasonable as that,” Gore said. Seward replied that Homer is a fishing village and that the pro- posed harbor “is the most import- ant thing to that community.” He told Gore that the program ‘ls what the people think they need” and “there has been no ap- oroval by the Administration or any one else.” Jess Larson, General Services Administrator, told the committee ‘he program was presentca “for the purpose of informing the com- mittee as to the type of projects and estimated costs, among which certain ones will be no doubt aprroved if they meet the standards we have set up.” Gore insisted on inserting in the record details of programs sug- ted by 29 public bodies in Al- 1ska, calling it the “most imprac- licable program I have seen sug- zested to this committee.” OVER FIFTY ATTEND Chalkyitsik, Chaniliut, Kaltag, Ki- valina, Nondalton and Eagle—re- mained closed “even though build- ings, equipment and children were available in each village.” “Schools in nine native communi- ties were operated with one less room-unit than enrollment justi- fied,” it added. “The savings resulting made it possible to operate eight one-room schools which would otherwise have been closed entirely.” The report also disclosed that for the first time ring rot, a bacterial disease of potatoes, has been found in the Matanuska Valley farming community. It was first noted in the Tanana Valley two years earlier. “An effort is being made to con- trol the disease by encouraging the production of certified seed pota- toes,” Gruening said. FROM TULSEQUAH Mr, and Mrs. MacDonald and Mrs. Imogene Kyle of Tulsequah, B, C, are registered at the Gas- man were dismissed. tineau Hotel. Juneau 500, Ketchikan 500 to 1,000 LEGION-AUX. DINNER Over fifty members of the Am- erican Legion and its Auxiliary >njoyed a pot-luck dinner at the Dugout last night beginning at 6:30 o'clock. The dinner, cele- brating the thirty-first birthday an- niversary of the American Legion was furnished by Auxiliary mem- bers. One of the main features of the med] was a beautifully and appro- priately decorated birthday cake, made and presented to the Legion by Mrs. Ray Day, in honor of the loccaslon. | After the dinner pinochle was played with Mrs. H. 9. Waldemar { winning high award for the women ':md Mrs, Gertrude Jewell, consola- i tion. Al Zenger, Sr., won high score for men with John Tanaka tak- ing the consolation award. E. L. Clemans and Ed Hager- man of Petersburg are guests at the Baranof Hotel.