The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1950, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950 ESTIMATES ON [ELECTRICIANS 'RUSS ATOMIC| ""'Semie stk 1 BOMB SUPPLY PAGE EIGHT MAYOR EXPLAINS VOTERS' CHOICE IN SALES TAX ELECTION Tells Chamber Revenue,cm Federal Grand Jury today Must Be In(reased " cleared government officials and DETAILED AMERASIA , REPORT ASKED:; JURY!SE(OND PLANE 0KS mvrsmnons,GOES DOWNIN | | Electric Association ended yesterday | ! with union acceptance of a 10-cent | | agencies of any shortcoming in the Sales Tax Beaten | | Juneau voters will choose between | a one percent special-purpose sales tax and increased property taxes when they go to the polls Tuesday, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said to- day. Speaking at the noon meeting ol the Chamber of Commerce, he' saio | it will' be. necessary .to raise prop- | erty taxes' 50 percent to egual the | incomé” which would have comc from a one percent sales tax, shoulc | voters disapprove ‘of the sales tax at the special election Tuesday. He said the added revenue, from | returned & | Amerasia stolen documents case. At the same time, however, the jury called upon the Department of Justice to issue a detailed report on the case. The panel has been investigating subversive ‘activities for the past 18 months. During its sessions, it perjury indictment against William W. Remington, former Commerce Department econ- omist, and espionage indictments against Juaith Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev. ‘The action was taken in a pre- sentment—grand jury notice of an offense or unlawful state of affairs. The presentment charged that BAHREIN ISLAND, Persian Gulf, June 15—P—A big Air France plane crashed in the Persian Gulf last nignt and 40 of the 52 persons it carried are feared dead. The craft plunged into the gulf at almost the| same spot where another Air France‘ plane crashed two days ago with a loss of 46 lives. Officials said 12 persons had been | rescued by early afternoon, in- cluding four of the crew of eight. | Twelve infants were reported to, have been aboard the plane. Only | one is known to have been saved. This plane and the sister C-54 Skymaster which crashed two days’ ago were enroute from Indochina to Paris. Officials have not dis-: | William T. Greenhalgh, quoted an NEW YORK, June 15—{M—Re- ports that Russia may have six atom bombs on hand by next fall, and soon may be producing them at the |rate of 25 a year, were quoted by a military expert yesterday. The expert, Navy Commander hourly wage boost, shop to job pay and several changes in working conditions, The union had asked 12': cents an hour more, The strike, which began on mil- | night May 14, had tied up electric- al work on the Fire Island mil- tary project, the $4,000,000 Alaska Native Service Hospital, and the | @84-unit Alaska Railroad Military | Housing Project on Government | Hill. unidentified authority in giving his figures before 350 selected civilians and reserve officers at a session ot the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He said other authorities may have other ideas on the matter. He offered no conclusions of his own. “The Soviets cannot keep their secrets forever, although they are MURAL DECORATES | PAN AMERICAN OFFiCE NEW Persons visiting the office of Pan| Phone 704 MEAT PHONE 60 Juneau Deliveries Douglas Delivery 10a.m., 2and 4 p. m. 10a.m: Boat Orders Delivered Any Time FRESH PRODUCE FOR SUMMER MEALS precautions against the theft of gov- ernment papers had been “entirely nadequate.” But it said that the jury had found no evidence tha .he Department of Justice was re miss in its prosecution of the Am- >rasia’ case, or that any officia acted improperly by attempting tc delay arrests. The grand jury began probing che Amerasia case two weeks ago The case involved the 1945 thett ot 1,700 government documents, some of which were recovered by the FBI in the New York office of the nagazine Amerasia, now- defunct. Critics have charged the Justice Department with Jaxity in its hand- !ing of the six persons arrested after the papers were seized in the maga- one form of tax or another, must Bht mastars 4. Die SEYE 08 ViATAS be taken in to finance further im- provements for the city. The bonded indebtedness incurred by the city over the past two years has financed street improvements and now Juneau has better streets | than any other city in the Terri- tory, he declared. | “But we're not through improv- | ing the city,” he said. He pointed out the need for a nev municipal building and for furthet street. improvements. § : Future. city projects will be fi- | nariced with. the help of Federal funds provided by the Public Works Bill for Alagka. Under the provi- sions! 6f the Dill, the city must pay one-half the cost of the project and must assure the Federal gov-| ernment that that 50 percent will be_paid, Mayor Hendrickson said. Bonds issued to assure payment of the city's share of the cost of the projects will be held by the government, unless the city de- faults on payment, when the bonds will be marketed, he stated. Bing Cherries Seedless Grapes Bananas Plums Oranges Apples Lettuce Cabbage Celery Parsley Green Peppers Green Onions Parsley Radishes Cucumbers Cantaloupes Tomatoes Watermelons Green Beans Fresh Corn Zuchinni Squash Fresh Peas Cauliflower Danish Squash American World Airways in the Baranof Hotel, are admiring the| new mural map which appeared on the south wall this morning. | Against an ocean background of deep blue, Pan American routes are | shown as they extend from this continent, with an interesting pat- tern of buildings overlaid on land portions. Due to lack of wall space, terminals in the Orient and Australia are not shown. “But they’re out of this world, anyway,” commented one PAA staffer. carded the possibility of sabot.age'md delaying facts abeut them- by adherents of the Indochinese|gelves,” he said. Communists who are fighting the| Greenhalgh said Soviet aviators French. who fled Russia have told of 44 air Air France officials in Paris said | fields in East Siberia—a likely take- the plane carried 44 passengers and|off point for an attack on the eight crew members. The of!icxalsl“Amer‘cfln northwest. said the search of the area was| ,Russia, he said, may have 19,000 continuing with more than 100 small } war plane capable of use in combat, fishing boats scouring the area. | plus a reserve of 10,000. The Soviet American and British Air Force| factories might be able to turn out planes based in the gulf area joined | 0,000 aircraft a year if necessity the search, sweeping low over the|arose, he said. area, but a low ceiling hampered| e estimated the Russian fac- their efforts. High winds and choppy | tories are turning out about 200 jet water made it unlikely that lfle'}fighwrg a month and about 20 rafts from the plane could stay; pombers. afloat for long. The Navy officers said Russia’s The survivors all were: reported ' gujded missile and rocket program zine’s office. to be French citizens. is about equal to America’s. He said Amerasia’s editor, Philip Jaffe, |the Red Army has 40,000 tanks to pleaded guilty to possessing secret | our 17,000. Jovernment documents ‘and Was EXIE"D AlASKA"‘ Greenhalgh said he did not be- fined $2500. Emanuel S. Larsen, |lieve war ‘is either imminent or in- SHIP-CHARTER LAW, "= -l [ specialist in the China division of tshe State Department, was fined ‘ He said Russia lacks facilities for a global war and hasn’t know-how 3500. The case against the four for mass production of big bombers. WATERMELONS - Cul, 13¢ . - Whole Melons, l1c | Large : Garden Fresh | d s ‘ ." Bunch 7c CANTALOUPES . Ib.17c | RADISHES . RUTH: Sorry you didn’t keep appointment again. Was ,better JUICE — F ANCY SUNKIST. 5 . {4 perhaps. .Snake Pit packed with on NGES mutual friends. J. 30-1t Miracle ardinary sterees | VHIP NUCOA . 2% e - 101h. shopping bag 1.39 PICKLES . . Quarijard5c Sioux Bee HONEY . . 21h. jar 63c . "« . Quartjar fic . 2 Pounds 63¢ Far easier to use! >thers was dropped. “The city’s present income is not sufficient to take care of these ob- ligations,” Mayor Hendrickson said “Even those people who are opposed to the sales tax want to see con- tinued improvement.” The present city income is about $264,000, of which forty percent goes to pay the city’s share of the Juneau Independent School District expenses. | Mayor Hendrickson pointed out| that the sales tax ordinance states that the tax money received must be used for retirement of the city's general obligation bonds and that the rate canrot be changed. The ordinance also states that! the sales tax will be discontinued when the city’s bonded indebted- | ness has been paid off. The bonded indebtedness of the| ecity at present amounts to §956,000, including school, streets, and sewer | bond issues, but not including the| city’s share of the recently ap-| proved $750,000 school district bond ! issue. When asked what income could be expected from such a one per- cent sales tax, Mayor Hendrickson said the income in Juneau from the Veteran Sales Tax amounted to| $140,000 per year. | He said that at present about $55,000 per year of the city’s in- come goes toward paying on its bonded indebtedness, $20,000 of that amount to pay the interest. “You know that it is more econ- omical to pay off debts” he said. “The sooner the bonds are retired, | the less interest must be paid.” The sales tax ordinance must be approved by 55 percent of the city's voters before it becomes law. RED ATTEMPT T0 INVASION FORMOSA SEEMS IMMINENT (By Associated Press) In Hong Kong, observers said the Chinese Communists have | moved 200,000 troops from the Indo- | China border to the east coast opposite Formosa, indicating an in- vasion attempt may be imuminent. SITKAN HERE Louis Eliader of Sitka is at tne Gastineau Hotel. +LD FITZ’ Kentucky's Favorite gond GENUINE OLD STYLE SOUR MASH KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BONDED 100 PROOF CLEAN-UP CREW IS WANTED TONIGHT FOR DOUGLAS BEACH Volunteers are asked to turn out in large numbers tonight at 7 o’clock to help brush up the Douglas bath- ing beach. George Megrath of the channel community is chairman of the clean-up crew, and said that the city. has volunteered use of its trucking and other equipment to haul away debris as fast as it can be collected. The beach abuts the causeway to Mayflower Island, and has suf- fered greatly during the winter sea- son, with children already having received numerous cuts from broken bottles and other junk laying around on the property. The clean-up is in preparation of the Lions Club picnic there next weekend. Everyone is urged to get on their old clothes and pitch in. Megrath promised he'd look dirtier than anyone else when the work was all done. FROM TULSEQUAH Four men from the Polaris-Taku Mine at Tulsequah, B. C, are en- joying the first part of their vaca- tion here, stopping at the Gasti- neau Hotel. They are A. Beay, J. Halot, John Filipachuk and G. To- hosz. SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattleites registered at the Baranof Hotel are Paul G. Mag- nusson of the H. J. Heinz Com- pany; Don 8. Davis, F. A. Grimsdell and Homer M. Hadley. URGES TOLLEFSON WASHINGTON, June 15 — ® — Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash) says that unless Congress extends the law permitting charter of war-built vessels to private operators 11 cargo vessels serving Alaska must be re- | turned to the government in 16 days. The special law under which the; Maritime Commission chartered | vessels to operators of Alaska ship- | ping lines expires June 30. i Tollefson urged the House Mer- chant Marine Committee to approve | legislation to extend the law. | “I'm supporting this extension of authority to charter vessels operat- ing in the Alaska trade because I realize there is a shortage of this| type of cargo ship used between the| United States and the Territory,”; Tollefson told the committee. “I firmly believe that regular service between continental United States and Alaska is absolutely essential in the interest of our na- tional security. “If these ships are withdrawn' from service on June 30 it will im- | pose a hardship upon the residents | of the Territory and will stop the! flow of supplies to canneries in| Alaska.” i FROM BREMERTON | Mrs. Frank Bart Barber of Brem- | erton, Wash,, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FRQM.PORTLAND i Frank, C." 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