The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,453 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Millions Are Requested for ' Reservations Denounced As Funds Denied Indian Bureau for Pending Plans JOBLESS MOVE IN ONNORTH Unions of FzTirBanks Issue Warning-Local Men fo Get First Favors FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 16— | (A—Winter is no time to sweat it out in the Far North. That was the warning sounded by spokesmen for every trade union in Fairbanks as hopeful but jobless construction workers continue to check into town from the states. “There are millions of dollars al- located for work in this area, but no contracts have been let and there are no prospects of any early start of work,” the union spokesmen stressed. But although the ground still is frozen solid and the construction season is at least a month away, hundreds of construction workers| from the states are arriving daily, intent on getting in on the ground | floor, so to speak. However, the union spokesmen declare that hundreds of jobless| local men who have waited here ail | winter will get job preference wnen | work starts. During the past two weeks 959 jobless have applied for work at the employment office here. During that time 637 filed claims for un- employment pay. Seatile Mayor Is Stafehood Booster| SEATTLE, March 16—®—Mayor | William F. Devin declared yesterday Alaska should be given statehood as | quickly as possible. The mayor, Who has made sev-| eral goodwill missions to the North- | ern Territory, pointed out thal he has been advocating Alaskan state- hood for the past two years or more. The Washingion Merry - Go - Round| iCopyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—With economy the watchword on Capitol Hill, Senators and Congressmen might be better off criticizing the bur- eaucrats less and paying more at- tention to how Congress itself | handles the taxpayers’ money. The power to tax and spend rests | squarely on Congressional should- | ers, and by juggling the pur:e‘ strings Congress can control thel federal government. Yet, believe it or not, Congress appropriated twenty-nine bnluons| last year without so much as a record vote. In other words, the; taxpayers had no way of de-! termining how their representa- tives voted. In many cases, the majority of Congressmen didn’t even show up to vote when expenditures runmng into millions of dollars were ap- | proved. This is clear from the Con- gressional Record which shows that a quorum wasn’t always present to vote on appropriations—though the Constitution clearly provides that “a majority (of each house) shall constitute a quorum. to do business.” Because this is a careless waY, to handle the taxpayers’ moneyl conscientious Congressman Dwight | Rogers of Florida is urging a re-| solution to require a rollcall vote on all appropriations. This would | help remedy the slipshod method m] which some appropriations . are handled. Note—Hete ate some of the ap- propriations approved last year, without a rollcall vote: $7; 617,739,- | 361 for independent agencies; slz- 949,562,498 for the military estab- | lishment; $3,090,528,903 for the Treasury and Post Office Depart- ments; $2,387,779,885 for the Labor| Department and Federal Security Agency; $715,601,607 for the Ag~| riculture Department; $584,098,797| for the Interior Department; $100,- 000,000 for Palestine refugees. Soviet vs. Paurson i The Soviet-controlled press re- cently launched a diatribe against yours truly, calling among other b i S B B B (Continued on Page Four) Mrs. Lester Hardie, 36-year-old right) Judy Mae, seven-pound da PEACE PLAN SET UP; RUSS ‘CHALLENGED Acheson Proposes 7 Points to Soviets-We're Loath fo Play "Sucker” BERKELEY, Calif., (M—Secretary of challenged Russia today to demon- | | strate her desire for peace by ac- | cepting a new seven-point program to free the world from “destructive tension and anxieties.” Boiled down, the seven Acheson proposed call for an end to Russia’s aggressive diplomacy, {boLh in her dealings with satellites and with the western world, and ‘rur new moves to conclude peacc fisherman’s wife looks at (left to ughter born March 9; Julia Fae six pound daughter born March 8; and Jodie Lee, five-pound son born March 7. Mrs. Hardie, mother of seven other living children, was reported doing nicely at the Nasif Clinic at Jonesville, La. (P Wire- photo. Arguments In Bridges' (ase Starl SAN FRANCISCO, March 16—(® | —Interrupted frequently by defense objections, F. Joseph Donohue be- gan his summation of the govern- ment’s case against Harry Bridges today. Bridges, West Coast longshore leader, is accused of perjury in ob- taining United States citizenship. ‘The government charges he swore i alsely that he had not been Communist. Five times in the first half hour, James MacInnis of defense counsel, leaped up with objections to Dono- hue’s arguments. Each time he was overruled. Donhue recalled that when the trial started about four months ago, Vincent Hallinan, chief deferse at- torney, had spoken of Bridges as “our hero.” “God help America,” said Dono- hue, “if Bridges is the standard of heroism in this country he would destroy.” Donohue said he was assigned to | the Bridges trial because it is usual practice to give local United States attorneys aid in long cases because they are under-staffed. He said he accepted the assignment knowing | very well that he “might be ex- pected to be baited, belittled, be- rated, villified, and abused by coun- | sel for the defense.” ELECTION DATE TO BE SET AT COUNCIL MEET Setting a date for a special elec- tion will the main item of business to come before the city council when it holds its regular meeting tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the council chambers of the City Hall, according to C. L. Popejoy, city clerk. The special election will be called so that voters can either ratity or reject the new ordinance calling for the transfer of city property to the Territory as a site for a new Territorial Building. The ordinance, which proposes the outright grant- ing the Arctic Brotherhood Hall property to the Territory and the sale of the City Hall property and the vacant lot adjoining it to the Territory for $60,000, was passed by the council at a special meeting Tuesday. Other business to be attended to by the council includes the second reading of the new traffic code for | Juneau and the consideration of two applications for card table licenses. FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. Joseph W. Mountin of Washing- ton, D.C, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. 'TRUMAN NOW AT WINTER WHITE President ST(I ns Bill Re-| pealing Federal Tax on Oleomargarine President Truman today signed the! | bill to repeal the federal tax on oleo- } | margarine. It was Mr. Truman’s first ncuun’ after his arrival here for a vaca-| tion after a sea voyage from Wash- | ington. Charles G. Ross, Presidential sec- was done at the “Winter White House.” Under the new law all federal taxes on margarine are wiped out.| But it does not interfere in any way with taxes or restrictions placed | an oleomargarine by any state gov- | ernment. The President arrived at this va- | cation retreat saying he had a fine trip “but lost four pounds.” “It was a fine trip,” he said. “The first night and day were pretty rough, then it was smooth as a mill| pound.” AFTER SARCASTIC SUMMARIES, TAX CASE TO JUDGE Following caustic summaries by | attorneys on both sides of the Haines Independent School District versus Vacco, in which the veterans’ corporation is asked to be sold for non-payment of school taxes, the case went to Federal Judge George W. Folta, for an optmon yesterday afternoon. The school district, represented by Attorney Howard Stabler, pe- titioned the court for permission to sell the property, located on 386/ acres of land, the old Chilkoot Bar- racks site, taken over in 1947 by a group of veterans for homesites and business locations. Vacco protested the tax on the ground it discriminated against its property, compared to those '.axes levied in the town of Haines. Felix Toner, Juneau civil engineer, evalu- | ated both properties in late 1948. The Veterans' Alaska Cooperative | Company was represented by At- torneys Simon Hellenthal and R. E. { Robertson. 2 Carl Heinmiller, witness repre- senting the corporation, said an offer was made to pay taxes on the purchase price paid for the prop- | erty in early 1947, that being a “fair economic value.” Assessed taxes were $2,300, and they offered to pay $1,500, a dif- ference of $800. It was believed that the judge would deliver an opinion later this week, 'HOUSE, KEY WEST KEY WEST, Fla., March 16—‘(11"—’ © ATHALFPAY | retary, said the signing of the bill | { treaties and to find some solution | | to the problem of atomic controls., Bluntly, he predicted Russian re- March 16— | State Acheson | steps | National Defense STATE DEPT. DEFENDED ON RED CHARGES WASHINGTON, March 16—(P— Deputy Underseeretary John E. Peurifoy declared today that Sena- tor MecCarthy’s “techniques” of charging pro-Communist influence the State Department have med the foreign relations of the government. Peurifoy hit back in a statement | at the Wisconsin Republican Sena- Us. | [ By C] IIARLILS D. WATKINS ‘ WASHINGTON, March 16 | | | | A House subcommittee was .~md to- | day to have denounced the Interior Department’s plans for setting up native reservations in Alaska. ‘The question came up in closed sessions of the subcommittee on In- terior Department appropriations at which a witness told the commit- tee that one election had been held | land two others are pending The committee was reported understand that additional vations were to be sought and w said tQ have decided that such ac- tion was devoid of merit, retr - sive, unnecessary and indefensible from the standpoint of settling na- tive land claims. The subcommittee decided, it was learned, that none of the funds ap- | to points of “greatest difference” be-|°f Reds or Red sympathizers in the| starting July 1 should be used in '| tween the East and the West. | But he insisted that they “must| | department. He pariicularly defended John S. connection with the pending reser- vation orders or reservation order: Ibe identified and sooner or later| Service, the foreign service officer| that may be signed later. | to live together, if not with mutual | Otherwise, he said, | aggression where it finds it, and to a free world.” “We are always ready to discuss, | to negotiate, to agree,” Acheson de- clared, “but are undersv.andnblyl {loath to play the role of interna- | tional sucker.” Acheson’s address—a major smbe-f |mem of American policy said to! ¢hwe taken three months to draft— | | was prepared for delivery at the| .Umversty of California, in con- | | nection with a conference on inter- | ; nomic development. i FURLOUGHED Continued In;bordinalionj Makes Necessary for | Navy to Punish WASHINGTON, March 16—(7—| Admiral Forrest P. Sherman *md\ today that continued insubordina- tion made it necessary for the Navy | to punish outspoken Capt. Johu G.| Crommelin by furloughing him in-, | definitely at half pay. i The disciplinary action announced i last night against Crommelin, a per- | for the Naval war hero at the : ‘el | of 47. ' | Crommelin blamed it on the Army | |and Air Force General Staffs. He| | has been blaming them all along| for what he called a serious W ening of the Navy in the Army-Air| Force Navy unification setup. } Sherman, who is Chief of Naval iOpetnnons. recently ordered the | Captain to stop publicly criticizing the Defense Department. The Navy held that Crommelin, in his | utterances since had disregarded “the intent” of that order. reconciled if the two systems are|™V en route to India who was ordered back to the United States redited, dis- Peurifoy said Service was ordered “press ahead with the building of | recalled from India in part to give | 1is is $4,000,000 less {him a chance to appear in person !'before the Senate subcommittee in- vestigating McCarthy’s charges. The Civil Service loyalty review board recommended Service's recall. On Tuesday, McCarthy had named Service as a pro-Communist. Peurifoy declared Service has been cleared three times in the last five years in loyalty investigations. Earlier, McCarthy said the Civil Service Loyalty Board delayed ac- | of Service. McCarthy announced he | had asked Seth Richardson, chair- fmnn of the board, for an explana- CROMMELIN 33 ARRIVE, 19 60 BY PAN AMERICAN Pan American World Airways carried 52 passengers in and out of the Juneau airport yesterday, besides bringing 8 persons from Seattle to other points. Inbound, Pan Am brought 33 passengers, Maurice Oaksmith from { Annette Island, and these persons (rom Seattle: Harry Djulk Cecile Chappell, O. U. Foss, A Harris, F. J. Hollum, J. Hozgan‘ Clarence, Ardyce and David Haglin; Lewis Kelsey, E. A. Lanstra, H. L. Mann, Lee Mathews, Harry Mildan, Dr. | H. W. Mountin, Mary Megnin, Wil- lard Paul, William Peterson, John W. Rowe, Harold Rodenbaugh, Floyd and Ann Severson, | Sharp, Bruce Stromme, Sam Shau- rauloff, Francis Smith, F. M. Ty- voli, Hugh Tyler, Richard Vasquez, William Wilson, and S. and Kath- leen Whitely. £outhbound, Art Osenay went to | Ketchikan, Walter Moylette to An- nette and these persons fo Seattle: Dr. and Mrs. James T. Googe, MIs R. Hope and Hazel Hope; Mrs. F. Kessler, C. L. McBride, Mrs. Don Abel and infant James; A. E. Koski, R. C. Johnson, Laura Spencer, Joe Jurich, Peter Bond, Irvin Curtiss, John Wallace, Bruce Parker and Capt. Kotmeier. . . ® 0 s r o= o . WEATHER REPORT L4 In Juneau—Maximum 36; ® minimum 26. . At Airport—Maximum 32; ® minimum 19. . FORECA . (June and 'l.vl {® Mostly cloudy tonight and | ® Friddy with intermittent rain |® and snow tonight and rain e showers Friday. Lowest tem- |® perature tonight 32 with |® highest Friday 42. CPRECIFPITATION ’ (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m tods L4 City of Juneau—0.1 inches ® since March 1—2.39 inches; ® since July 1—60.64 inches b At Airport .01 inches; ® since March 1—73 inches |® since July 1—39.42 inches /o @ o o o 0 o o o During World War II, some U.S. military manuals pointed out that men stranded in the wilderness might sometimes get food by catch= ing and eating insects. PACIFIC NORTHERN TAKES 22, BRINGS 9 With virtually a capacity load, yesterday’s Pacific Northern Air- lines flight to the westward car- ried 21 adults and an infant. Going to Yakutat were Mrs. A. T. Weed and baby, and Tommy Weed; Floyd and Ann Severson, Walter and Peler Wood, and Wil- liam Mildan. Anchorage-bound passengers were Arthur G. Woodley, D. E. Thomp- son, W. B. Burkheimer, G. R. Jack- cont, Harold Foss, Frank Rowley, Maurice’ Oaksmith, Lewis Kelsey, Harold Rodenbaugh and Sam Shau- rauloff. Nine passengers arrived here by |PNA. FROM VICTORIA A. A. C. Harris of Victoria, 2.C., is registered at the Baranof Hotel. \Vlllmml Appropriations The subcommittee, it was learned, \ respect, at least in mutual security,” | Yésterday. Peurifoy said McCarthy | approved the United Dad revived “dead, d States can only continue to resist|Proven charges against” Service. appropriation of $20,- | 400,000 cash and $8,000,000 contract authorization for construction of | roads in Alaska next fiscal year sh and the | an contract authorization a last year. Another $2400,000 wa approved for operation and main- tenance of the roads. President Truman asked $20,400,000 cas contract authority for road con- struction, plus $2,800,000 for main- tenance and operation. Truman’s Request An appropriation of $31,000,000 was decided on for the Alaska Rail- e 's budget had | national cooperation for worid eco- j tion more than a year in the case| roaq, the budget request and the same amount that was voted for this year. However, the subcommit- tee approved no contract authority though Mr. Truman had asked for a $14,000,000 item. This year con- tract authority amounted to $17,- 000,000. The subcommittee action must be approved by the full committee, which will act some time next week, after which the bill will be made public. Decision on Salmon Union UpfoN.L.R.B. SEATTLE, March 16—®—A de- cision on whether an election will be held this year to determine union jurisdiction over some 3,000 non- resident Alaska salmon cannery rxers rested with the National Labor Relations Board today. Patrick Walker, NLRB hearing fficer, completed a one-day hear- ng last night on a petition of Tocal 177, United Packinghouse Workers (CIO), for an election. Walker said the transcript of the| hearing was being sent to Wash- ington immediately for the board to make its ruling. The United Packinghouse Work- ers filed the petition in an attempt| to wrest control of the workers| from Local 7, Cannery Workers Union, an affiliate of the Food, To- bacco, Agricultural and . Allied Workers. The FTA has been ex-| pelled from the CIO. One issue developed at the hear-| ing was whether the salmon can- ning season would be curtailed and to what extent. Testimony indicated | there might be about 600 fewer non- resident workers sent north this year for the canning season. The Alaska Fish Cannery Work-| ers' Union (AFL) was an intervenor in the case. It was unsuceessful last year in an attempt to gain juris- diction in an NLRB election. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Friday. Seattle Saturday. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail | from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled southbound Sunday evening. reser- | Sled a priated for use by the Bureau of | fusal of any attempt to settle these | '°F who contends there are scores! Indian Affairs in the fiscal ymr' and $8,700,000 over the cannery workers | Coastal Monarch due | Baranof scheduled to sail from| BILLION CUT OFF TRUMAN PROPOSALS |"Central Commlflee Ham- mers Spending Requests in Single Bill WASHINGTON, March 16—(#— | The House Appropriations | mittee has tentatively worked out |a $1,200,000,000 cut in President | Truman’s spending proposals for the ‘12 months beginning next July 1 The committee has not formally {taken final action, but it was learn- “central committee” has re- commended the cut. The committee is working on an omnibus bill embracing items for {which Mr, Truman asked $30,326- ‘000.000. Members of the committee said | these have been trimmed to roughly |$29,113,000,000. The President’s overall budget| requests for the fiscal year start- | Com- | | (D-Ga) 70 MILLION SERETWAR FUND ASKED |Armed Forc? Ask Large Sums for Alaska De- fense in Westward WASHINGTON, March 16—M— Requests for about £70,000,000 worth of highly secret military installa- tions—described by the armed forces as imperatively needed—came :rider | new study on Capitol Hill today. Military witnesses have told the House Armed Services Committee that these projects should have “high priority.” They are part of a $187,142,000 amendment to the De- fense Department’s $477,974,000 public works bill which the com- mittee previously had under con- ideration, 2 In addition, Chairman Vinson instructed the Marines to | submit two amendments for $27,- ing next July 1 were $42,439,000,000.! This included approximately s:x.‘ 000,000,000 for Marshall Plan foreign | aid and $9,000,000,000 in 50-(‘“]]80} permanent appropriations and trust funds. These two items are not |with in the omnibus bl | The foreign-aid money is not in-| cluded because separate h-glsm-} tion legalizing it has not cleared Congress, The so-called permanent appropriations are not subject to cuts, They include such things as interest on the public debt. | The “central committee” recom- mendations will be presented to the full committee next Monday. The following week the omnibus bill is scheduled to go before the House for debate. It will be the first time in modern history that Con- gress has wrapped up all depart-| mental funds in a single bill. KIWANIANS, GUESTS IN IRISH MOOD AT ST. PATRICK'S PARTY| Kiwanis wives took over the de- corating for the special “ladies’ right” dinner and program last| night, and created an effect that had some 50 members and guests oh-ing and ah-ing. “You never saw anything so green and s0 beautiful,” said one guest. { dealt | {in | for 476,000, bringing the grand total in | requests for public works to $692,- 592,000. The classified (secret) installation | requests are very hush-hush but they - indicate intensified activity radar, special weapons, guided missiles, biological and cheraical warfare. Considerable attention is given to the defense of Alaska. Navy Largest The largest single request is by the Navy. The Navy is asking $23,- 316,000 to develop Naval faciiities, including housing, at a secret loca- ion “outside the continental United States.” An intensified buildup in Alaska’s defenses—by both the Army and their combined request for $61,- 849,400 for that northwest ouipost area. The Army alone asked $53,823,400 Alaska projects—chiefly for troops to guard air fields—thus in- dicating that the military high command intends to make a pow- erful defense of bases in Alaska in the event of war, Alaska Center The Army's largest single item is for $24416,500 to build power plants, barracks, family quarters, engineer shops, and depots at Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, which is described as the “nerve center” of all Army activity in that theater. It sald troops stationed there would be for defense of El- mendorf Air Force base. Another $12,560,000 Army request “ In a bow to St. Patrick’s Day,| yreen shamrocks, large and small, | were placed about the Baranof| Gold Reom, and individual place | cards were lettered in white ov ;reen shamrocks. Emerald-colored | streamers ornamented the long tabl- | >s, and pots of trailing ivy mamd‘ oy Marian’s Flowers decorated the | speakers’ table, Receiving congratulations thefr. artistic work were Mesdames| for | 3tanley Baskin, John Montgomery, D. D, Marquardt and Larry Parker, President Stanley Baskin wel- -omed the guests, with a special sreeting to Kiwanian Martin Vic- tor Jr, who is in Juneau for a few days. Baskin also introduced| the program numbers. | Edward L. Keithahn had a fas- cinated audienee as he told in- formally of the migration theories n Gladwin's book, “Men Out of Asta,” which places the first move- ment to this continent 25,000 years ago. Keithahn's informal talk de- veloped logically to th status of | .he American Indian today. Mrs. Roland Burrows sang several | trish songs, among them “When frish Eyes Are Smilin’,” and “How | Ireland Got its Name.” She was| \ucnmmmed by Mrs. Don Burrus. Guésts were Dr. and Mrs. George | Gibson, Miss Janice Busswall, and Messrs. and Mesdame$ Keith Wild- 5, Roland Burrows, Harvey Starl- vu, Wesley Turner and John Tan- | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 16—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today 1is 3, American Can {116%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- ‘w“gm 8%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 52%, New York | Central 13%, Norlhem Pacific 15%, | . Steel 317, Pound $2.80%.| today were '2,060,000 shares. ages today are as rnllows mdustn“ls 207.89, rails 56.42,°util- ities 43.74. is for the construction of facili- ties for troops to defend Ladd Air Force base, near Fairbanks, the northernmost bomber and fighter base. Today’s requests by the Army, Navy and Air Force were in addi- tion to the $13.5 billion budge! for fiscal 1951 starting next July 1. SALVATION ARMY BOAT IS LEAVING ON SPRING TOUR The Salvation Army missionary boat M.V. Willlam Booth leaves the Juneau small boat harbor, Fri- day morning, March 17 on its spring tour, visiting the cities and {villages in southeast Alaska. On this trip the crew of the William Booth will meet two of the Salva- tion Army leaders for the Western area of The Salvation Army, Lt | Commissioner Claude E. Bates and Lt. Colonel A. J. Gilliard, at Met- lakatla. Public meetings will be conducted at Metlakatla and Ket- chikan. The party and a large number |of delegates from Salvation Army centers in the vicinity of Ketchi- kan will then proceed to Wran- gell for the annual Salvation Army convention. Aboard the vessel at the time of its departure from Juneau will be Sr. Major and Mrs. Eric Newbould, Sr. Captain Henry Lorenzen, Fld. Captain Georgina Atkinson and David Andrews. BOY SCOUTS TO MEET ZENGER HOME TONIGHT Boy Scout Explorer Troop will meet tonight at 7:15 at the home of Chester Zenger and not at the Dugout. Gospel Services are to be held at the Dugout at 8 p.m, the -Alr - Foree—was indiested by = |