The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,454 Says Lewis Double Crossed Mi DEVALUATIONPUTS FISH TAX SPREAD DOWN, SAYS JUDGE The $45 difference between fish- ing license fees for resident and non-resident fishermen now uvnder dispute in federal court, nowadays is “not as much” as the $2¢4 differ- Judge George W. Folta. Judge Folta brought this when arguments in the tax dispute now before him were started by William L. Paul, Jr., attorney for| the Alaska Fishermen's Ufiion, who claimed the difference between $50 for non-residents and $5 for resi- dents was too great a spread. The 19th legislature raised the tax from $25 for outsiders and $1 for Alaskans to the present figures challenged as “discrimatory” by the union. The Territory is defendant in the case, and is represented by J. Gerald Williams, attorney general, and John Dimond, his assistant Paul, following conclusion of testi- mony given by Thomas S. Parke enforcement officer and special deputy for the tax commission, who appeared for the defense, began his summarizing argument by striking at the spread between the fees. He said the old licenses of $5 and $1 were reasonable and the later :axes of $256 and $1 were the same, be- cause they had been okehed in & court case some years ago. Dollar Down “But now this spread is too much,” he said. At this point Judge Folta broke is to say: “But the $24 difference in those days was much more than the $45 difference now. The purchasing power of the dollar has certainly depreciated more than 50 percent.” Paul quoted from court cases of states, making a discriminatory tax valid, but said the territory does not own its fish or control them as a state does, because here the fed- eral government only controls them. “Cause No Effort” Outsiders have no contact with the Territory, he pointed out, and do not require any efforts on the Territory’s part. Only contacts are in the Southeast area, where more populous towns are located than in the Bristol Bay district. Parke, testifying for the Territory, | enumerated roughly a number of tax evasions called to his attention last season, saying that 31 fisher- (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go - Round (Copyrisht. 1960. by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—For some time | there has been a runnming, private debate between the White House and the State Department over the all-important question of whether the United States should make a new, dramatic peace overture to Russia. This dates back even to the days when Gen. George Marshall was Secretary of State. Recently, how- ever, with the advent of the hydro- gen bomb and Winston Churchill’s demand for a meeting with Stalin, the debate has become more acute. President Truman has long felt and expressed himself in private that if he could sit down with Stalin, they could thrash out a lot| of the world’s proklems, Yet he can't help ‘being irked at Stalin for being aloof, and for ignoring repeated hints that he, Truman, would be glad to talk to him if he came to the United States. Overriding this, however, is Mr. Truman's mystic- sense of his own destiny as a peacemaker. To old| friends and members of his staff he speaks of this again and again. During the visits of White House callers he will sometimes walk to the world globe at one side of his desk and say with deep emotion: “The nearest thing to my heart is to, do something to keep the world at peace. We must find a way, or civilization will be des- troyed and the world will turn back to the year 900.” Last Christmas the President car- ried out the same thought when he gave friends a bookmark inscribed: “I would rather have peace in the world than be President, Harry Truman.” Marshall Said No This sentiment was behind Tru- man’s move for a conference with D hererbit (Continued on Page Four) - {No Menfiofll—ade of Rus- ence of the old law, according to| out | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES! PRICE TEN CENTS PEACE TERMS PUT ON LINE BY ACHESON sia But Remarks Di- rected fo Kremlin (By the Associated Press) U. S. Secretary of State Achecson has laid down America’s peace terms | for ending the cold war with Russia He predicted in advance they would not be acceptable to. the Soviei | Union. | In two west coast speeches, Ache- son outlined a seven-point program to span major difference between the East and West. His speeches, though delivered tc the American people, were really directed at the Kremlin. They must | be taken as an answer to recen | kites flown by Russian leaders whc said Communism and capitalism can live peacefuliy in one world. Acheson laid American terms on | the line in tough, blunt language. The seven points he offered the| | Russians, if accepted, would mean Communist surrender without firing a shot. In effect he asked the Com- | munists to stop being Communists. Although the leaders of the two most powerful nations in the world are talking to each other by means of political speeches in their home territory there is historical sig- nificance in their remarks, The terms for peace are high but there is an indication the bargaining has begun despite the fact an ocean and a continent separate the nego- tiators. Acheson held out gloomy prospect for those wishing an early end to terms he outlined were the only ones on which he could negotiate with- out betraying the principles of the American people. SHEMYA AIRBASE TO CLOSE SEATTLE, March 17— (# —The Post-Intelligencer’s correspondent in the national capitol reported today that the Air Force plans to close down its base at Shemya at the tip of the Aleutians, It quoted Senator Magnuson Wash). ¥ The island is a vital link on the great circle air route from the| states to the Orient. The dispatch said the Civil Aer- onautics Administration said it has| no funds to keep the Shemya air base open. “If we are going to spend 14 to 16 billion a year for defense of the country, and can’t spend $1,- 500,000 to keep the Shemya base open, something is wrong with our security thinking,” Magnuson was quoted. He took the problem up with| military authorities yesterday. The dispatch said Magnuson con- tended Alaska would be in a better position to take care of the prob- lem itself if it were a state. Defense Department Asks for More Cash| For Housing Purposes WASHINGTON, March 17—(®— ‘The Defense Department today re- quested a $187,142,770 increase in its | pending $477974,410 public works | bill for construction of. high prior- ity military, projects, some of them closely guarded secrets. This makes a total of $665,117,181] which the . Army, Force now want. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 17—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 118%, Anaconda 287 Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester| 26%, Kennecott 51%, New York} Central 13%, Northern Pacific 15%, U. ©. Steel 317%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,600,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 207.57, rails 55.70, util- ities 43.69, (D- Navy and Air| .| O'Flynns. 1to the costly cold war. But he said the | | roof-tops ‘'was in 1916, but it set- i was bathed in brilliant sunshine as | JUDGE'S PEN SIGNS | the home of the guild president, tho later left for a visit in Sitka is Greenltls For This Foin Day NEW YORK, March 17.—(®—| Flanagans, Hannigans, O'Tooles and boys from Cork, Kerry, Dublin and Limerick swing up Fifth Avenue today in the world's greatest Patrick’s Day parade, Murphys, Kell, Sullivans and O’Briens. planted Irish {rom Gaelic fishing vil- ages, from mountain cottages, from Jubiin’s fair city will march proud- y past St. Patrick’s cathedral in| honor of their beloved Saint. Raffertys, Muldoons, Hogans and | Morans. . They and their dark-| eyed colleens will get tha daj iestivities started when the two- and-one-half mile marcn gets un- Jder way at noon. It will last at least five hours, aind if the marchers were all in one dne it would stretch over 15 miles —more than the length of Man- hattan Island itself. Always the world's ade on the Sain it is the “bigg surpass even vious efforts. There are more Irish in New York Zity than in Dublin. A good share of them will be on hand. IRISH QUESTON $15 JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 17— (M—The Irishmen were arguing in a tavern yesterday about exactly what the angle of slant was. of the rooftops from which riflemen fired in Ireland’s Easter Monday rebellicn of 1916. The pre-St. Patrick’s Day argu- ment grew hot. When a fight seem- ed imminent, the bartender put in a transatlantic telephone call to William Sweetman, editor of the Irish Press in Dublin. It is not recorded just Sweetman said the slant of th king { bizgest par- Day, this year ever”—expected New York's pre- what el tled the dispute. The phone call cast the bartender $15. All over the world Irishmen cele- brated St. Patrick’s Day. Dublin Irishmen wearing the green cele- brated their first St. Patrick’s Da), in their wholly independent repub-\ lic. In a holiday statement, PflmeJ Minister John Costello called for| the Union of Ireland by the inclu- sion of the northern counties now attached to Britain. HIGHLANDS AREA INTO JUNEAU CITY LIMITS With a stroke of his pen, Federal | Judge George W. Folta today offi- cially enlarged Juneau to include the Highlands, and the city’s census went up to include some 80 more families. A recent special election by both Juneauites and Highlanders indi- cated an overwhelming desire by property-owners in both locations to get together. To make it official, the order of election had to be signed by the federal judge, and that does it. Street maintenance begins imme- diately in the new northern suburb, but no taxes will be collected yet, because that season has passed for the nonce. SPECIAL COMMUNION, BREAKFAST, WOMEN OF TRINITY GUILD A Corporate Communion for the women of Trinity Guild will be celebrated at the 8 o'clock service at the church Sunday morning, and will be followed by a breakfas® at Mrs. W. M. Whitehead. This is the second in a reries of Lenten Corporate Communions. Members of Trinity Altar Guild were the first celebrants and a breakfast followed at the apartment of Mrs. Helen Roff, Altar Guild president. Others present at this breakfast were Dean and Mrs. C. E. Rice, the Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Mec- Phggres and Mrs. Wm. A. Thomas of Port Clinton, Ohio. Mrs. Thomas the wife of the former priest-in- | trust funds which cannot be trim- GOP 'CIPHER CORPS' AIMS ATBUDGET Three Billion Cut Wanted Plus One Billion Cut Al- ready Made in Bill WASHINGTON, March 17—(#— House Republicans aimed a new $3,000,000,000 cut today at a lump sum $30,300,000,000 appropriation bill already tentatively trimmed by $1,200,000,000. The bill carries most of Presi- dent Truman’s budget recommenda- tions for federal agencies for the 1951 fiscal year, starting next July L. It is due to be considered by the House Appropriations Committee starting next Monday and is slated for floor debate March 27. The tentative reduction was re- ported by members of the powerful “central” subcommittee of the ap- propriations group. The cut does not affect foreign aid funds, nor does it apply to the so-called permanent and indefinite appropriations and med. All together they account for $12,000,000,000. The committee action would make the federal deficit for the fiscal year 1951 about $4,000,000,000— assuming that Congress sticks to its apparent determination not to raise taxes this year. Another cut of $3,000,000,000 in the omnibus measure would lower the anticipated deficit to $1000,~ 000,000, and that it what GOP fiscal leaders are driving for. “If we are going to get close to 2 balanced budget, this bill ought to be around $26,000,000,000," Rep. | Taber (R-NY) told newsmen. Taber, top Republican on the appropria- tions group, would not comment on | the reported cut of $1,200,000, 000‘I already tentatively made. i SRGEEET - R | \ ALASKA AIRLINES ASKS ROUTE HERE; 'SIDESHOW’ FOR PAA WASHINGTON March 17—(®- Alaska Airlines, Inc., asked the| Civil Aeronautics Board yesterday for authorizatioin to serve Seattle, i Portland, Ore, and the midwest with flights to and from Alaikn} The line already operates from | Chicago via Minneapolis and Great Falls, Mont., to Alaska. | Pan American Airways and the, Northwest Airlines now serve the Territory from the United States |but Alaska Airlines said in its ap- | plication that “Alaska is small sideshow for them.” The petition said Alaska Airline: now serves all of the largest places ! but iin the Territory and all the strat- | | of evidence,” MacInnis replied to egic areas. NAVY NETTENDER MISSING, PACIFIC PEARL HARBOR, March 17—# | —Air and sea searchers today con- | tinued their hunt for the Elder, a missing Navy net tender enro\u.-j to the Eniwetok atomic pruvmsj grounds. The main search centered acout | 400 miles north of Kwajalein, where | the craft with 40 men aboard, was last reported by a transport. When last seen the tender was in no ap- | parent trouble, { Fears have been expressed the tender may have struck a floating | mine and been sunk. ® 0 o v 0o oo s | WEATHER REPORT . In Juneau—Maximum 39; @ minimum 29. o At Airport—Maximum 36; minimum 29. L4 FORECAST (Junean ana Vielaity) Cloudy tonight and Sat- urday with intermittent rain and snow tonight and rain showers Saturday. Lowest @ temperature tonight near 34 degrees and high Saturday near 40. PBECII’IT.\TIU\ (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today ® | City of Juneau—.31 inches; ® since March 1—2.70 inches; ® since July 1—60.95 inches; . At Airport—.10 inches; L4 since March 1—82 inches; ® since July 1—39.51 inches. . charge of St. Peters'-by-the-Sea, ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | The What the Flag May look Like Kk ok K kAR Xk ok Wk ok ******** * o ek R pre ST S ad % Dot Carley (left Jand Ann Kingsley hold sample flags with 49 and 50 stars designed at a Verona, N. J,, flag-making plant to show what the American flag may look like if Al a or Hawaii or both become States. The flags show (left) how two additional stars can be added on top stripe; (center) possible arrangement of 49 stars in the field; and (rlghl) a possible arrangemetn of 50 stars. () Wirephoto. ATTORNEY IS GIVEN CALL DOWN Judge Adm_onishes De- fense Counsel in Argu- ments in Bridges Case SAN FRANCISCO, March 17—(® AFedeml Judge George B. Harris sharply admonished a defense at- | torney in the Harry Bridges peijury trial today not to interrupt the pro- secution’s talk to the jury. Judge Harris told attorney James MacInnis that prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue was entitled “in ordinary courtesy” to proceed without inter- ruption, except for crucial obhjec- tions. MacInnis several times yesterday was admonished by the court not to | interrupt Donohue. Today the defense lawyer broke in when Donohue was attacking Bridges’ alibi which attempted to show he could not have been at a Communist party central commitiee meeting at New York City June 27, 1936, as prosecution witnesses had said he was. “I don’t think that latitude in argument allows for, misstatement the court’s admonition. “When our turn comes I hope we won’t impose on the court by mi: quoting testimony,” MacInnis con- tinued. “If we do, we'll invite cor- rection.” Donohue is expected to conclude his summation to the jury today, and then the defense will begin its arguments. CANADIAN SHIP 1S REFLOATED; NO SERIOUS DAMAG VANCOUVER, March 17 — Canadian Pacific Coastal freighter Nootka was refloated to- day from Thurlow Island, 140 miles northwest of here. The pulp-laden ship grounded during a dense fog Wednesday night | while enroute to Vancouver from Port Alice. Eighteen tons of rayon pulp were unloaded before the ship was re- floated at high tide. The vessel struck bow on, but damage was not serious, and the | 3,000-ton ship proceeded here. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sall from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled southbound | Sunday évening. TANANA ICENOW ABOUT 44 INCHES THICK, IS REPORT The ice in the Tanana river now about 44 inches thick according to a report to the Empire from Slim Avery at Nenana. Nice weather has prevailed since February 18 with rather a stitf wind but it is not believed this will have any effect on the break- up. General opinion is there will be an early breakup but it is still any- one's guess. INGRID'S HUSBAND STARTS SWINGING; TO MEET IN COURT LOS ANGELES, March 17—(P- Ingrid Bergman is coming back to the United States and her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, is preparing to‘ meet her headon in the fight for custody of their 12- year-old daughter Pia. It will be the first face-to-tace showdown between the couple since the actress went to Stromboli, fell in love with Roberto Rossellini and had a child by him. The stage for a tense courtroom Idramu was set yesterday as: 1. Miss.Bergman’s attorney, Gr son Bautzer, said the actr will {be a witness when the case comes to trial, will leave Italy as soon as the trial date is set, and “is determined to make the fight of her life for Pia.” 2. Dr. Lindstrom, the quiet brain jsurgeon, finally came out swing- I ng with an announcement, through counsel, that he will charge Ingrid unfit to have custody of the child. Moreover, the Swedish doctor will counter with a demand for a di- vorce here. ATOM-FORECASTER AT IT AGAIN WITH ‘TRUE’ PREDICTIONS De Courcy, editor of the “Intelli- gence Digest,” claimed today Rus- sia has touched off a series of experimental atomic blasts in cen- tral Asia as predicted by him. He sent out a press release which said (uum explosions occurred between {March 5 and March 10. De Courcy previously had fore- cast that there would be 11 blasts }in all near the border of the Sov- | iet Asiatic Republic of Kazakhistan {and the Chinese province of Sink- iang ‘ De Courcy, who has no known connection with British official, in- telligence, clalms to have a pipe- line intc Russia. He came into prominence as an atomic forecaster by predicting correctly that the Soviet Union would bring off its first . atomic explosion in 1949. LONDON, March 17—(®—Kenneth | IBARROW OIL SEARCH ASKS MORE MONEY Seven Test Wells Down- Five More fo Begin- Down 11,400 Feet WASHINGTON, March 17-—M— The Navy has asked an appropria- tion of $10,695,000 .to continue its oil exploration in Arctic Alaska during the fiscal year starting July : £ Commodore William G. Green- man, director of the Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, told a House Appropriations sub- committee that as of December seven test wells had been drilled and another was under way. He said five new tests are to be started this year and next. His testimony was made public today. Greenman said the Navy's pre- sent plans call for completion of the project after the summer of 1952 if no substantial oil discovery made by that time. Col. Ottman F. Kotick, deputy director of Naval Oil Reserves, told the committee that drilling in one of the wells has reached 11400 eet and there is some evidence, though meager, that it will reach a Mis- sissippi limestone formation be- tween 13,000 and 14,000 feet down. “We are anxious to get to the top of that limestone to see whether it is permeable, to see if it has any oil in it because it is petroliferous in the outcrop section,” he “Incidentally, that particular well has been developing some very high as pressures of a reasonably wet as. Whether that is going to mean | anything I do not know. We have ot tested 1t yet.” HOUSE TURNS DOWN MINE SUBSIDY BID WASHINGTON, March 17— Congress has turned down a bid for a $240,000,000 federal subsidy | for the country’s metal mines. The House voted 166 to 144 against a bill to put up $80,000,- 000 annually for three years. The Senate passed it last fall. Under the measure, the would have been given for the conservation, exploration and de- velopment of the nation’s metal and mineral resources. Supporters blamed the bill's de- feat on several factors, opposition by economy-minded Congressmen and ' lack of expected support by some southern members. The Irish Guards were honored today in London by the King him- self. King George, their Colonel-in- Chief, presented the guards with real Irish Shamrocks from County Cork at a regimental parade. The Queen and Princess Elizabeth look- rd on. g money including | he testified. |" ner Court Order SECRET ORDER GIVENMINERS; ONE T0 PUBLIC Ousted President of llinois Local, UMW, Makes Charges Against Lewis CANTON, Ill. March 17-—(®—The »usted President of a United Mine Workers Local Union said today John L. Lewis secretly ordered his miners not to heed the Feb. 11 court injunction which directed hem to return to work, Uloyd H. Sidener, 44, former Pre- sident of Local 7455, Canton, said n an interview that Lewis, while rublicly ordering his miners to end the strike, used a system of secret signals down through the anks which ordered them to con- inue the strike. # £idener filed unfair labor prac- tices in Chicago Wednesday against he UMW before the National La- bor Relations Boatd. He alleged the Union fined him $50,000 for at- empting to return to work Feb. 24, and fixed an additional penalty of $25 for each additional day he might try to work. He said he also was ousted as President of the Local Union. He said Lewis sent telegrams or- dered the miners to return to work our hours after he was served with 1 Federal District Court injunction. But Sidener asserted Lewis also sent the secret signal orally down ‘hrough his “chain of command.” This signal, “the whistle blew one,” meant that the miners were o continue their walkout despite he telegrams, Sidener said. He added that he, as local union president, - received the siznal in a telephone call from . BHernard Beasley of Canton, chairman of sub district 2 of the Illinols UMW dis- trict. Accordingly, he said, he pass- ed the word on to the local union members. John Lakin, Jr., who replaced Sidener as Local 7455 President, told a reporter “I never knew nothing about the signals if there were any. At that time I was Vice President, and all orders were re- ceived by the President, Lloyd Sid- ener, or the Secretary-Treasurer of our local.” In Washington, Lewis himself was unreachable. CHARLES JONES JOINS A.N. 5. T0 HELP SOLVE NATIVE LAND PROBLEMS The first trained land officer to join the staff of the Alaska Na- tive Service has arrived in Ju- neau to begin his work of untang- ling complicated native land prob- lems in the Territory. He is Charles H. Jones, who arrived here today. His last post was as land fleld agent with the Billings, Mont., area Indian Office, where he worked on problems sim- ilar to the ones he will encounter here, he said. One of his major problems here will be the promulgation of rules and regulations which will be fol- lowed in changing the status of some native lands in towns and cities from restricted title to fee simple. Jones- has 23 years of experience with the Indian Service behind | him. CITY COUNCIL TO SET SPECIAL ELECTION DATE At the regular meeting of the Juncau city council tonight at 8 o'clock in the City Hall a date will be chosen for the special municipal election at which voters will either ratify or reject the proposal to transfer certain city lots to the Ter- ritory as a site for a new Terri- torial Building. ‘The new city ordinance, stating the conditions under which the transfer of property would be made if voters approve, was passed in its final reading at a special meeting of the council Tuesday. Other business to come before the council tonight includes the second reading of the new traffic ordinance for Juneau and the consideration of applications for two card table i- ~ censes, Britain’s Labor government has #jected a demand by Winston Churchill for a secret session of Parliament on defense questions,