The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1950, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950 ENDS TONITE! .. the Seattle Orpheum Ve, ONE WAY FORTUNE! A STOLEN WOMAR! AND ONE MAN T0O MANY! Axc R Berre Ever AN Screen Snapshots Shows at 7:25—9:30 Comedy and News [Feature at 8:05—10:10 Here TOMORROW! RIS DOUGLAS “ "The FIGHTING cB-starring HELENA CARTER Screenplay by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Robert Thoeren From a novel by Justin Huntly McCarthy f Call 416 when in need of a— BASEMENT, FIREPLACE or CHIMNEY Receive the benefit of 26 YRS, EXPERIENCE FARL CRASS & SON GENERAL CONTRAC?ORS PHONE 357 . Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Plastering — Concrete Pouring Sand and Gravel Hauling Fares Reduced One Way Round Trip 63.00. 113.40: 98.00. - 176.40. . Homer 80.00., 144.00. Naknek A.B.. . 104.50. 188.10. Naknek Village 114.50. - 206.10. 10% Reduction on Round Trip *Plus Tax . ‘Anchorage Kodiak Daily Flights — Passengers, Mail _and Air Cargo Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points Tickets and Reservations BARANOF HOTEL Phone 716 Prcrrre NORTHERY TIRIINES TX( SHE FOUGHT to give her man a second chance at life! SHOWPLALE or Cfu APITUL = "ONEWAY STREET' IS BILL TONIGHT, CAPITOL THEATRE. | “One Way Street,” at,the Capitol | :Theatre is a feature offering thrill- | packed suspense and romance with | James Mason, Marta Toren and Dan | | Duryea' in the leading roles. | Mason, as the gang doctor who tries to steal money and his leader’s girl to make a new life, gives the most restrained and exciting per- formance of his illustrious career. Miss Toren, as the girl who is not | certain she-is loved-until it is nearly | too late, proves in “One Way Street” | that she has the tremendous emo- tional depth necessary to play a bad {woman sympathetically. Duryea i registers his usual excellent per- formance cast as the ruthless gang leader who goes soft when he dis- covers he cannot hold his girl. Swiftly paced, the story concerns a mob doctor who steals $200,000 from his leader, who had in turn { stolen it from a bank, and takes off for Mexico City with the gang lead- er's girl friends to find a new life. THE STATEHOOD HEARINGS No. 7 By BOB DE ARMOND “The people of Alaska s‘and to gain much from statehood: voting | representation in Congress, equal |treatment in grant-in-aid pro- grams and the end of discrimin- ation and neglect by Congress and XFederal agencies.” | So said the Honorable Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interibr, the first witness at the statehood hearing. All of these things, other wit- nesses stressed, are important to Alaskans. Voting representation in Congress, they said, is especially important. There are now an esti- mated 130,000 people in Alaska who pay Federal taxes but who have no representatien and no voice in the making of the Federal tax laws. mine just how many of Alaska’s| 130,000 people have a burning de- sire to “be so represented. Such a determination is, of course, im- possible, but the recent Primary Election returns may have some clues. Voters Are Few The Primary, among other things, selected candidates for the next Territorial Legislature. Members of the Legislature are called upon to consider tax legislation. They are the representatives of the people on questions of taxation. More spe- cifically, they are the represent- atives of the majority of the peo- ple who vote in the elections. The people who do not bother to vote are, quite justly, not repre- sented. The total vote in_the April- 25th Primary Election whs between 15,- 000 and 16,000. If -the estimate of 130,000 total population is cor- rect, this means that around 87% percent of Alaska’s people either could not meet the legal qualmca-l tions of voters or‘were not suffi- ciently interested in repreSentation to go to the polls, The most. populous section of the Territory, made an even poodrer showing than the whole., | Anchorage- now has ‘a population of "25,000, Mr: Zacharias Loussac, “The thinkin Calls a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Mayor of that city, told the Sen- ators. The Third Division, ac= cording to preliminary census es- timates, has between 55,000 and 60,000 people. The Primary Election vote in Anchorage was 1,027, or approxi- mately four percent of the popula- tion. For the Third Division the total vote was 4,313, or around eight percent of the population. “Real” Alaskans For It But regardless of their, lack of interest in exercising the ballot, all “real” Alaskans, according to witnesses, are for statehood. “I think vou will find in almost every instance,” said Mrs, John |Ryan of Anchorage, “that, individ-! |uals who are not sympathetic with | statehood now or are fearful of the consequences are not actual residents of Alaska.” Mrs. Ryan did not explain the 6822 people who voted against statehood in the referendum of 1946, although under .her theory of non-resident opposition this was surely one of the greatest election frauds ever perpetrated. Opposition to statehood, many of the witnesses asserted, comes nuairte ly from the “absentee ¥nterests.” “Until very recently, virtually all development in Alaska was carried on by absentee capital, which did Alaska almost as much harm as the building up of industries did good,” said Secretary Chapman. “The greatest opposition to state- hood comes from the canned sal- mon industry corporations and from the large mining interests, also absentee corporations,” said Mr. Warren Taylor in a written state- ment. Change Not Wanted Delegate Bartlett, who echoed this idea, explained chat the reason the “interests” are against state- hood is that they do not want a change in the status quo. On the cther hand, according td ‘the same witnesses and others who appeared at Washington, investors will come to Alaska as soon as it becomes a state. “We believe that capital will come into Alaska if it has to do business with a state, rather than with a bureau in Washington,” said Mayor Loussac of Anchorage. Said Secretary Chapman: “My department has been actively en- gaged in plans for a development program for the Territory, and we know the resistance that we en- counter from industry because Al- aska, as a Territory, does not have complete power to carry on its own affairs, and because indusirialisis grow impatient at the delay occas- ioned by tke necessity of imple- .nenting plans by Federal action or by congressional legislatioi.” Capital Hesitates Mrs. Ryan told the Senators: “We have found a hesitation on the part of capital interest due to the fact that they are not assured of the laws and the rules and the regulations under which they would cperate under territorial status.” Now one of the main objectives of statehood, as put forth in tfie testimony of various witnesses, is that it would give the Legislature power that it does not presently have to change the laws, rules and regulations. And giving the Legis- lature this power, it appears, would assure prospective investors of the laws, rules and regulations under which they would operate. It is quite apparent from these statements that there are two kinds of capitalists, so far as Alaska is It would be interesting to deter-;com:emed. There is the kind that | has already made investments in Alaskan industry This kind is op- posed to statehood because it does not want a change in the status quo. The other kind have not yet made investments in Alaska but are only waiting for statehood.and a change in the status quo to do so. Unfortunately, the pro-statehood people did not produce a single capitalist and prospective investor to tell the Senators that he will not make investments in the Ter- ritory of Alaska but would make them in the State of Alaska, i Results, of Hearing As a result of the week-long hearing at Wasbington on H. R. retard industrial development than the lack of state government, were left unsettled. Several of the Sen- ators expressed the belief that something should be done about these questions in the statehood jbill. Pro-statehood witnesses op- posed any attempt to settle the claims in the biJl. The net gain here was the elimination of word- ing that acknowledged the exist- ence of such claims. The question stands exactly where it did before. The land grant provisions were changed but whether they have been improved has been questioned. They are still not satisfactory to many Alaska residents, percent of Alaska in the hands of Federal bureaus. will play in future control' of off- shore fisheries has not been en- tirely cleared up and may lead to controversy should the State of | Alaska jbe created by this Will. Ultimately, if a new state is !crcated by H. R. 331, as amended, the pattern of state government ‘wfll be determined in great part {by the delegates to the constitu- tional convention and by the peo- {ple who vote on the constitution jdrawn by the delegates. If the bill is passed, an election frame the state constitution. It will be held to select delegates to iwill be the most important election ever held in Alaska. DOUGLAS " NEWS | SCOUTS FROM CAMP ‘The six Boy-Scouts of the Douglas Volunteer Fire Department Troop 610 who attended the scout encamp- ‘ment at Eagle River for the past {two weeks returned Saturday eve- ning full of enthusiasm and praise for the smooth way in which the |camp was run. Second Class rank was attained | by Joe Garrett, Richard Pusich, ! Melvin Duncan and Bob Reiss, who together with Walter Andrews also received Cheechako camp emblems. Patrol Leader Tom Cashen was pre- sented with his Life Scout Awarc |and was elected to the Order of the Arrow. At the Court of Honor held at leamp on Friday evening Scouts {John Jensen and Pat Wellington aftended and received their Star Scout . Awards. Merit badges for Pathfinding and Stamp Collecting were presented to Pat Wellington. Scout Master Tom Cashen i grateful to the many friends o! seouting in this area who have beer 50 generous In providing transpor- tation and otherwise assisting tht scouts during this session at the Eagle River Camp. JULY 4th OFFICIALS Mayor Mike Pusich called a meet- ing of his Fourth of July Committee and interested citizens last week to plan for a Douglas celebration this year. | On the Fourth of July Committee are Mayor Pusich, President; and A. J. Balog, Secretary-Treasurer. Appointed as other officers by | Mayor Pusich were: Grace Russo, and Arne Shudshift on the finance committee; Guy Russo, Rex Her- mann and Leonard Johnson, sports | committee; A. J. Balog, decorations; 331, the bill has been somewhat im- | proved, in the viewpoint of many Alaskans, Others, while admitting these gains, believe that there was | insufficient improvement to make | it generally acceptable, | By an amendment proposed by | Secretary Chapman, the new state would not get 50 percent of the| net proceeds from the Pribilof Is- lands sealing industry. This was | a net gain of around a mlmonf dollars a year for the state treas- | ury. The old bill providéd no ln-{ come from this souree. | The Indian claims and Indian| reservations question, which many Alaskans feel are doing more to | g fellow YELLOW*” AW@A W ‘ : ”mf(.)Nx‘ 22 or 14 vor 2 YELLOW CAB and they still leave control of more than 95 thought murdered, after answering The part the Federal government | DOUBLE THRILLER FEATURE TONIGHT AT 20TH CENTURY | Something new, stirring und sen- sational in screen entertainment i¢ promised when the psychological mystery-romance, ‘“Personal Col- umn,” shows tonight at the 20tk Century Theatre. The story concerns an American show girl working in London, whose best friend disappears, and Is an ad in the personal column of ¢ daily newspaper. Lucille Ball plays the fast-talking alert American girl to perfection She is willing bait when Inspector Temple (Charles Coburn) of Scot- land Yard elicits her aid to round up a dangerous maniac responsible for this and many similar crimes. During the course of Lucille hair-raising adventures, she meets up with many strange, suspicious characters, like Boris Karloft, Joseph Calleia, George Zucco and Sir Cedric Hardwick. Even George 3anders, with whom she has a swift, | overpowering romance, does not 2vade suspicion. But it would be unfair to give away the denouement of this in- triguing nystery at this point. You must see this fascinating whodunit ind find out for yourselt! ' Mrs. Fred Endres, Mrs. A. Bonnenl ind Mrs. Mark Jensen, children’s rarade; Chuck Werner, announcer; Bill Dore, starter; Val Poor, Leon- ard Johnson and Douglas Gray.' judges; A. J. Balog, “paymaster; Helmi Bach, scorer; Marshal of thel Day, Alex Gair Sr. ‘ H Activities planned will include a firemen’s hose race, softball game, parade and field sports. VISITING HERE Miss Andrea Fleek has arrived from Petersburg, and is visiting at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Dore and family. She is the daugh- ser of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Fleek. DUGGIE RUSTAD HERE Young Duggie Rustad, son of Mr ind Mrs. Norman Rustad, former resident here, arrived yesterday, by PAA from Paulsbo, Wash., to spend the summer with friends and his fisherman father. He is staying in Douglas with Mr. and Mrs. Arne Shudshift and ‘ater will spend some time with his father salmon trolling. Last year, his older brother Skipper, was the lucky lad wh visited here during school vacation e e 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 TIDE TABLE JUNE 15 High tide ” Low tide L High tide 14:25 p.m., 14.2 ft. Low tide 19:56 p.m., 4.3 ft. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Downtown waterfront business property for sale. Reasonable. Call 674. 17-12. FIREPLACE WOOD—$20.00 a cord delivered. Phone 333. 29-1mo TONIGHT d (20 ENTURY THURSDAY DOORS OPEN 7:00 COMPLETE SHOWINGS — 7:25 and 9:30° w Just o tlny ficle ad'in che Pes Mt ” gopal Columa . . . but if you i) snswer it you'll wind up desd: She’s lovely, ahe's luscious . < o and when it comes to trapping a killer . . . LUCILLE's righe oa the BALL! HUNT STROMBERG precons GEORGE SANDERS LUCILLE BALL CHARLES COBURN 80R/S ‘{(ARLOFF '‘PERSONAL " COLUMN Ovoced by DOUGLAS S + Seroenpioy by LOO SOOTEN roduend by JAMES NASSR oot Producer, HUNT STROMBERG MEXICAN BASEBALL ALSO WORLI]‘)‘:\’ITE)SI:IT_ NEWS DR. ROBERT SIMPSON DR. TED OBERMAN Optometrists Simpson Bldg. Phone 206 sar appt. Weekly V. F. W. meetings at 7:30 Thursdays have been discontinued until the first Thursday in Septem- ber. There will be meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month and Council of Administration. meetings at Jeep Club on the first Thursday of each month until September. Next Thursday 15 June will be the regular meet- ing for June. Special games conducted by the V. F. w. will be discontinued until fall. Your patronage has beén appreciated. All Members Plan to Attend the Meeting on 15 June at 7:30 P. M. at C. L. O. Hall The Suit that Goes Everywhere! Looks Well Everywhere! The understated man- tailored suit you're always sure of! 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