The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1950, Page 1

e ) e ma THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,489 State Would Tax Salmon 'UnbErablyf 6 Says Arnold - Propon- ents Quiet While He Speaks By ALICE FREIN JOHNSON WASHINGTON, April 27—Alas- kans who flew here to support the Alaska statehood bill before the Senate Interior Committee at this week’s hearings were quiet this morning as they listened with con- centration to arguments against the bill presented by W. C. (Judge' Arnold, managing director of the Alaska Salmon Industries, Inc., who is spearheading the attack on H.R. 331. Arnold said he was not against " the principle of statehood but be- lieved the bill “would make Alaska a state in name only doomed to per- petual pauperism and bureaucratic control.” In testimony*of proponents con- cluded yesterday except for rebut- tal, Alaskans almost to a man enun- ciated unequivocal support of the bill “as is” saying it is the only measure which they believe can be passed immediately and immediate statehood is more important than a perfected measure. Fear Gov. Ernest Gruening and Alas- kan Delegate E. L. Bartlett, both actively supporting the bill as the best which can be obtained, are known to fear administration op- position to other possible measures which might curtail Interior De- partment authority in Alaska, which the measure under consid- eration would allow. Interior offi- cials had a hand in drafting the measure. , Democratic Senators on the com- mittee—there are seven Democrats and six Republicans — scoffed at this idea. Sen. Clinton Anderson, acting chailimian, said he believed the administration would listen to the committee majority with as much attention as to the Indian Service or any other division of the Interior Department. ' Several prominent Alaskans here for the hearings, all of whom askéa that their names not be used, told this reporter points raised by Arnold led them to believe the bii should be amended to insure against clouding of land titles by unextin- guished Indian claims and to re- quire more rapid land. surveys in the Territory. Committee Sympathetic Committee members agreed they were sympathetic to appeals for statehood now. They said they were impressed by the passion and fervor of both supplicants and demanders referring to the various methods o1 address employed by Alaskans yes- terday, but that too little attention had been given to HR. 331 as the vehicle for delivering statehood. Arnold’s arguments revolved for the most part around the questions of clouded titles resulting from un- settled Indian claims, and lack ot (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON {Copyrisht, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'NGTON—Today’s column {s going to make my name mud with a lot of my good friends, the newspaper publishers of Florida. For one of the most interesting Senatorial campaigns in the nation is going on in their state, with 90 per cent of the newspapers batting hard for one candidate. And when you see all the boys ganging up on one side, I can't resist the good old American custom of seeing what’s to be said on the other side. The Florida election battle is not only a lollipaloosa, but it has all the earmarks of another Dew- ey-Truman campaign . On one side, and fighting for his life is gnarled, weather-beaten Senator Claude Pepper with 14 years in the Senate at stake, with his chief financial support from labor, and waging an effective, tire- less, whistle-stop campaign almost identical to Truman’s, Like Tru- man’s, it is aimed at offsetting the solid wall of bad publicity giv- en him by by the press. On the other side is popular, handsome Congressman George Smathers, with four years in Con- gress, whose chief financial sup- port has come from big-money Re- publicans who spend their winters in Florida and register as nominal (Continued on Pw? Four) ICONTROVERSIAL VOUCHER BRINGS DENIAL OF DENIALS WASHINGTON, D, C., April 25— Questioned here regarding the pay- ment to him of $5600 for legal services for the Alaska Aeronautics Commission and stories published in Alaska newspapers regarding the transaction, Stanley cCutcheon teday said the Anchorage News had retracted its recent story about his payment for services but the Fair- banks News-Miner had not. Asked about Auditor Frank A. Boyle's reason for returning the voucher, McCutcheon said: “No comment. I haven't read the stories.” Earlier, he said, have been retracted.” “These stories ANCHORAGE, April 25—Reports from Washington that the Anchor- age News has retracted a story about payment to Stanley Mc- Cutcheon for services with the Aeronautical Commission are en- tirely unfounded ’ The Anchorage News published the same story last Saturday as several other Alaskan papers telling of Auditor Boyle’s rejection of a voucher for some $5600 for legal services to the Territory. The following day the Anchorage News published what purported to be McCutcheon’s side of the story as furnished by Buel Nesbett, his law partner. This story was given almost identical space and play as the first story, but was in no way a retraction, according to Norman C. Brown, editor of the Anchorage News. A radiogram from the Fairbanks News Miner to the Empire said “The News-Miner has not retracted. Thefe is nothing to retract. “This is the first time in my experience,” William Strand, editor of the News-Miner said, “that a newspaper has had to deny a de- nial.” Territorial Veterans Tax funds will be increased by $22,000 this week if Alaska Airlines, largest de- linquent taxpyer on the Veteran’s Tax delinquent lists, pays its taxes.{ _ 2 The Veterans Tax expired in|Juneau No.1 .. June, 1948, and disposition of the|JuneauNo.2 ... Alaska Airlines’ final return has| Juneau No.3 been subject to frequent attempts|Salmon Creek to collect since that time. Another ten days in which to{Mendenhall pay the money was granted Alaska|Metlakatla Airline by Attorney General Gerald | Douglas Bridge williams when Stanley McCutch-)Lynn Canal ... con, president of the company, was| Ward Cove, Wacker, Clover Pass, Pennock . in Juneau a week ago. If the money is not received with- | Ketchikan No. 2 in ten days, the Territory will sue, | Skagway the Attorney General said. However, he is hopeful the tax{Douglas #ill be paid, he told the Empire | Wrangell McCutcheon assured him jAnnette ‘hat if he didn’t have the $22,000§ Tenakee .. to pay the tax within the allotted } Ketchikan No. 3 time, he “would resign as president | Haines scday. »f the company.” Mr, McCutcheon is in Washing- | Sitka ... on at present appearing before the | Petersburg Senate Committee hearings statehood as a proponent of H R|}Angoon It was one of Mr. McCutch- | Craig eon’s company’s planes that took|Hydaburg :he pro-statehood group to Wash-{Kasaan ngton on its present junket at 2|Klawock ceputed round trip fare from Alas- | Hoonah 381, ka of $125. Token payment on account of the | Point Baker .. Veterans Tax account is on its]| Goddard Hot Springs way to Juneau, atcording to a wire | West Petersburg .. received today by the Attorney General's office from R. W. Mar- shall, Alaska Airlines executive, it was learned by the Empire early this afternoon. The wire said: “Discussed with McCutcheon in Washington account Veteran's Tax. Will arrange remittance per letter mailing today check for token pay- ment.” No mention of the amount of the payment was made. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1950 ‘ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNOFFICIAL RETURNS-FIRST DIVISION-APRIL 25, | 1950 PRIMARY FOREPRESENTATIVES 3RD DIVISION RETURNS HERE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 27— With 36 of the Third Division’s 75 precincts reporting here, totals of ithe results of Thursday’s primaries SOAP BOX DERBY MEETING FRIDA ' All boys interested in entering the are as follows: Delegate Bartlett 2473, Peterson 512. Treasurer Roden 2642. Labor Commissioner—Beach 284, Benson 844, Kimball 782, Owen 1116. Senate—Engebreth 1485, Loussac big national Soap Box Derby Tace|,.gq pivers 1744, Snider 1276. are requested to be at the Grade School Auditorium at 7:30 o'clock House—Appleton 271, Armstrong 423, Bailey 722, Baldwin 656, Call tomorrow evening. Various PIARS |57 Gannon 543, Carlson 813, Chase will be announced and a general|qgy conrignt 960, Cutting 700, Day instruction meeting is to be held. 374, Dougherty 405. Egan 1180, Gill 868, Gorsuch 628, A visitor in Juneau from HAines |y o) 33 Irving 386, Ka: j , Kay 1120, is Walter H. Graves, Who 15 Te-|yjnjemyth 390, McCracken 780, Mc- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. [ ® o 0 8 0 06 & . ° TIDE TABLE APRIL 28 ® . Low tide 4:54 am., 28 ft. High tide 10:57 a.m., 14.4 ft. Low tide 17:06 p.m., 08 ft. High tide 23:28 p.m., 163 ft. e o 00 00 0 0 LRI ) Cutcheon 1179, McKinley 606, Mc- Lane 471, Maze 384, Mears 499, © {Norene 712, Osbo 480. Pollard 846, Scaveniaus 1032, ® | Snodgrass 862, Warwick 406, Whit- taker 243, > Totals include all incorporated e |{towns of Third Division. Balance still to be heard will be e smaller towns whose results are expected to trickle in for the next two weeks. ¥ 9’2’[9?"‘52‘{!" 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[2757(1497/1207| 930[17931030] 911[2192| 524'2191(1473(2052| 974 92421111135 2133(1637|1563)1213 145012671361 | 893( 1110 | UNOFFICIAL RETURNS, FIRST DIVISION PRIMARY, TERRITORIAL OFFices, senaTor, NO REDS IN STATE Delegate Treasurer Commissioner of Labor Senator DEPARIME“I SAYS 7 ez EE(7 235 [z 7| FORMER COMMI, g & g ElE| 8| B[E|B|2||2|8B(5% s 18 - by 5o - g : 8 s S} g & 0 8 9| & | WASHINGTON, April 21— (b — i T | S N AR Bl 3 f . | Earl Browder, former Communist ' ¢ Y b H e O | party. chief, told Senate investiga- i i 1 LS| 25 t 7 tors wdz that “to the best of my ¥ knowledde and belief” there are no | 362| 144 423 125] 65| 94 323 341] 138 : : |32 127)| 407 | o1 48 47| 26| 278 151 Communisis in the State Depart - 3‘:56 “1‘: | 5252 2‘;: 7g ?; v l:: 32; 3%( i Browder, who was expelled from hane ! 21I ¢ | 4] i 8 0 ol aa 12' Communist party in 1946, said that | 22l 14 31\ 15 P4 2‘ ul 21 21 1 if he knew of any Communists in 5/ 70‘ 7 0! 37 28! 9 8 9 55 73 the Department he would say so 2 st a1l 12 ‘1 1 16 13 7 but that he doesn’t know of any. 0| 24 87 w1l 18] oll vasl cssl ey capjr AR Marean; ogyneal b0 & Ben | 89 27 o4/ 3 28 11 10| 54| 74| 45 ate Foreign Relations subcommittee, ‘ { Ketchikan No. 1 ... 174] 86[| 202 127 4 ;|| so| 132 50| 01[asked nim It he would give names _____ ii: ;: };; l:} i: :?, :; ;Z g: B Browder said: “No, I would not *| Revilla, Mountain Point . 60 30 4 aal 6l gl i e on el SIS PR IBARINEEE 129 35 153 66| 38| 19|| 38 124 108 and gmm'n m{s L el o - 8 4 i go) 19| (aRL). 0 partment would you tell me that?" : 1: g: fi 3: 1; g} 3;’ :; g: Browder: “Yes. To the best of my 291 101 334|| 64| 208 18| 43|| 154 153 217 213 "‘:;“’;’"&’e 's';:wb'“)‘:’m;"‘x‘;‘:nf? Rot ...... 43| 18 66 5 27 18] 7| 14 32 33 32 3 Mt. Edgecumbe o6l 16| 108/ 10/ 52 31 14| 30| 28] e sz| Browder aio iold the commiies 261 113 324|| 105 159| 77| 33{| 130 161) 216 ol A it | 263 64 201/ 56| 125\ 80| 18| 82 164| 238 7|7 Myucow Ray e a 4 4 5 2l bt ;: 1: vlu:w:olp:r::rx; :rlolo‘:x::igf:":cu;? :,'2 ;: Z: 1; Z; 12 g : 20/ 37 Specifically and flatly, Browder MI 31 “1 2l 61 5 4 27 sl 31 91 contradicted testimony from Louis 6 5 19| 2" 8 " 2‘ 3 5 11 F. Budenz that Lattimore’s name 7| 15 GZH | a4l 11 2 4 18 33 came up at a meeting of Com- 83| 18| 86)‘ 1l 64 8 14/ 26 23 40 m munist leaders in New York City Chilkat . 8 2| IR e L | e} o8| m e Cetober, SN Port_Chilkoot 1 8 2| 4 8 3 S .5 1 13 ¥ 21 13 32| 8 16 7 4| 18] .25 13| 13 4 o 4| o 0 4 0 4 1| 3 0 DOUBLE Ru sl o -4 siisloW 3 8 & VSICHN RSN GRS (SSE (JISRAR | S (R SEREE SRS Totals ... 4414)| 1226| 2059| 899| 537|| 1588| 2502| 3014| 2345 To COME FROM 20% TAX ON CLUBS - HOLDS ITS OWN IN COMMITTEE VOTE WASHINGTON, April 27 — ® — The House Ways and Means Com- mittee voted today to keep the 20 percent excise tax on night clubs and also the imposts on coin op- erated . devices, bowling alleys, bil- liard and pool tables. Slowing down its excise trimming process at least temporarily, the committee also voted to continue the 20 percent tax on club dues, initiation fees, and safe deposit box leases. The committee thus held the line at about $578,000,000 in cuts of excises so far. But when it turns to the, levies on travel tickets, freight and long distance telephone and telegraph the total may be boosted above $1,000,000,000. President Truman has proposed a $655,000,000 limit on excise cu's and, unless the committee finds new revenue in other taxes to cover the excise loss, the bill may bump into a Ve';q. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE Clara A. Gerstinson, 1s registered at the Baranof from Mt Edgecumbe. | Baranof Hotel. | MI. EDGECUMBE ‘The Edgecumbe chonus definitely will present a concert, in Juneau, May 9, at the 20th Century The- I“ pAF EAR“ING atre, Thirty-two boys will arrive poic AR on the M/8 Mt. Edgecumbe on SEATTLE, April 27—P—Heavily|May 6, and take part in the Ju- SEATTLE, April 26—(P—Heavily | €3 Music Festival, May 6-7-8th. curtailed earnln::fl because of shar: Thirty-five girls will arrive by increases in Alaska Territorial taxes |Plane on May 9, in time for the and license fees and a drop in the |°0nCert on Tuesday evening. pink salmon market price were re-| Concert is to be 8 p.m. Tuesday rted yesterday by Pacific Ameri- | €VeRing, May 9. Admission will be o uerday by Pacific AmeTl- ig) “plus tax for . adults, and 42 In a report ;covering the fiscal plus tax for students in order that ALASKA FEES AND ear ended Feb. 28, com| Pres- | 85 many as possible may take the i o 4. | oPportunity to hear them, Michael Ossorgin again will be the director. Juneau will remember the concert given by the 17 boys from Mt. Edgecumbe last year. Mt, Edgecumbe with its 600 stu- dents represents 112 communities in Alaska, from Metlakahtla to Atka, to St. Lawrence Island, to Barrow, No other school in Al- aska draws its students from so wide an area, or represents such a cosmopolitan Alaska group. Ju- neau is afforded & rare privilege to hear these students in concert. Group is sponsored by the Lions, with proceeds to be used to meet its pledge for the Juneau Mem- orial Library. ident J. A. Green listed consolid- ated net earnings at $631,240—equi-* valent to $1.67 a share—as com- pared with $1,748,681 and $4.64 a share last year Green said efforts to reduce costs prompted joint operating ar- rangements in the Petersburg and Kasaan plants in Alaska. Both will be in operation this year. “The Bellingham plant is ready to run,” Green said, “and the Pu- get Sound area is expected to pro- duce a substantial pack of sock- eye salmon.” FROM BETHEL Walter V. Knape, registered from Bethel, Alaska, is staying at the Program numbers are from boys 1-nd girls separately and combined. [ STATEHOOD FOES FEAR Baix AN ONFISHTRAPS’ Bartleit Filens“I—Brief - Op- ponents Live "Off Al- aska, Not “In” WASHINGTON, April 27-(®— Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told a Senate committe yesterday the Al- aska salmon industry opposes state- hood for the territory because it fears the new state would abolish fish traps. Bartlett appeared before the Sen- ate Interior Committee, which is considering House-approved legis- lation to grant statehood to Alaska. He filed his statement, saying he would not testify verbally in order that the time he would have used might be given to other Al- askans who came here %o appear. Bartlett said he was propably the only member of Congress to intro- duce so important a bill and then not testify verbally for it. Chief opposition to the bill comes from the salmon industry, Bart- lett said. The industry is against statéhood for Alaska, Bartlett’s statement said, “Why should this opposition come about? “Partly because of fear of higher taxes under statehood. “But I submit the chief objection of those principally concerned with taking Alaska’s salmon is that they fear the people of Alaska with statehood would promptly act to remove the fish traps from Al- askan waters, “In that fear they are undoubt- edly correct, The people of Oregon and Washington have already done that. The people of Alaska, under the present system, are powerless to act.” “Off Instead of In” George Sundborg, _consultant to the Alaska development board, tes- titying in favor of statehood, looked around the committee room as he concluded his testimony and said. “I see that the opponents of statehood are those who live off Alaska instead of in Alaska. Those who live in Alaska are overwhelm- ingly in favor of statehood.” ° Sundborg testified that if state- hood is granted there is no in- tention of increasing the tax on salmon. Bartlett urged approval of the legislation as a defense move. Must Run East He reviewed troubles facing bus- iness men in the territory who must come to Washington to get de- sisions +irom government depart- ments and asserted that every ar- sument now being advanced against statehood for Alaska was made ag- ainst statehood for other territor- ies now states. “We are ready for statehood,” he said. “We can support ourselves. We seek no special lavish favors. “So we ask you to report this bill favorably. Statehocd is Alas- ka’s right and destiny. “The time for this committee and for the Senate to act affirmatively with respect to Alaska statehood is now.” Previously Gov, Alfred E. Dris- s0ll of New Jersey spoke for the bill, The question of giving Alaska more than the four sections of and in each township, as provided in the bill, came up briefly during the testimony of the Republican President of the Territorial Senate. Looking at Senator Butler (R- Neb.) the witness, Gunnard Enge- breth, sald “Proposals to amend this bill to give us all the land we want is sabotage.” Butler has introduced an amend- ment to give the new state every sther section of land STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 27 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 116%, Anaconda 30%, OCurtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 52%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 17%, U.S. Steel 32%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,060,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 21244, rails 5520, utilities 4264, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Flemish Knot from Seattle due Saturday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled southbound at 2 am. Monday. PRICE TEN CENTS SALMON MAN CLASTS 331 AS 'GREAT HOAX' W.C Arnofiasses Elab- orate Pamphlets fo Sen- ators Knocking Bill WASHINGTON, April 27 - - (B -- The Senate Interior Committee was told today that advocates of Alaskan statehood “are perpetrating a great hoax upon the people of Alaska and the nation.” W. C. Arnold, of Seattle, repre- senting the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., was the second witness in the current hearing to oppose the House-passed statehood bill. The first was Father Hubbard, the “glacier priest,” who said Mon- day he was against statehood at this time. Arnold described the salmon in- dustry as the largest in Alaska. He said it is Alaska's heaviest tax- payer. “Our opposition,” he said in a prepared statement, “is not directed at statehood but at H.R. 331, which we believe would make Alaska a pauper state on admission.” HR. 331 is the Alaska statehood bill passed by the House. Arnold outlined these four spe- cific objections to the bill: 1. Control of the fisheries, he said, either would pass to the new state or would be retained in the | Interior Department, as the Secre- etary of Interior may decide. Arnold said the decision when made would not be final. He compared control of the fish- eries to -control of oil-rich lands along the coasts of California and Gulf states “found below low tide.” “The only difference,” he said, “is that in Alaska the Federal govern- ment is already in possession and Jjust now trying to take possession and control of the oil resources.” 2. The bill, he said, would allow Alaska to “take nothing” of its land resources, which he described as minerals, oil, forest and agri- cultural products. He said the bill “purports” to give Alaska four sections in each township plus 1,000,000 acres. Less Than 1 Percent “Examination reveals that neither the grants of sections nor general grants are given . . . until rectan- gular surveys are made and ap- proved by the Interior Department.” Only the Department, he said, can make and approve official sur- veys. Less than one percent of Alaska’s total 365,481,600 acers have been surveyed to date, he said. “The Department can compleie and approve surveys at its leisure,” he said, “thereby controlling the location and extent of lands pass- ing to the state.” The Department, he said, has been surveying an average of 27,500 acres a year in Alaska. At that rate, he said, it would take “approxi- mately 15,000 years for the state to obtain full benefits of the grant.” 3. He said the bill would subject “every acre of land in the new state to the cloud of Indian title.” 4. The bill would retain Federal control over the Tongass National Forest, Arnold said. He said that area embraces most of Southeast Alaska. “Under the terms of the bill,” he said, “the new state receives no lands in this vast area until the lands are no longer useful for forest purposes.” Perpetual “Inaction” “Since the Forest Service has a perpetual cropping plan for the Tongass forest,” he said, “the state will never receive any of the lands.” (Continued on Page e RS B SR R o bl S B S S b U, 2485 Two) . . . ° . e L3 ® . (] WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 49; minimum, 31. At Airport—Maximum, 48; minimum, 26. . L] . ® . . . . . . FORECAST . (Junesu and Vieinity) . Fair tonight with increas- e ing cloudiness becoming ® cloudy Friday with intermit- e tent rain in afternoon. Low ® temperature tonight about ® 35 and high Friday about 46. ° CSPRECIPITATION © (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.01 inches; since April 1 — 3.71 inches; since July 1—64.12 inches. At Airport — Trace; since April 1 — 1.68 inches; since July 1—41.71 inches. ® 0 00 00 00 0 ® 900000 ® 0000000000000 00%000000000