The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE " “ALL-TLUE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI,, NO. 11,718 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS One-Two Punch Is Delivered by UN forces At Alaska Airport Hearing HIGH LEVEL TAIYATALK DISCLOSED Since newspaper releases on the | proposed Kitimat project in Brit- ish Columbia by Aluminum Com- pany of Canada, correspondence is rapidly heing exchanged on high levels between U. S. Government of~ ficials and aluminum company, it was learned in Juneau yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce. | A Washington offitial has im- plied that the newspapers were ahead of themselves in announcing the imminence of a large aluminum contract with the Canadian Gov- ernment and said that the relative merits of the two projects (Taiya | and Kitimat) would be discussed with Defense Minerals Administra- tion. This was in a reply to a letter| from an executive of an alumin- | um company who quoted a Dec- ember 31, 1950 story from the New York Times. The Times story was headed “Canada Renewing Alumin- um Offer” and stated that C. D. Howe, Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, in a recent confer- ence with Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce, was seeking to obtain for a Canadian aluminum produc- er a contract for the future pur- chase by the U. S. a quantity of al- | uminum in the neighborhood of ! one billion tons. | The aluminum company indicated a real interest in the Alaska Dev- elopment that would produce ap- proximately 750,000,000 pounds of aluminum per year with the pos- sibility of even greater production. | It recognized that such develop- | ment would be of great benefit | to the region. It was pointed out that Taiya lo- cation was more desirable from a strategic point of view than the| Kitimat location and the company | indicated willingness to undertake | the Alaska project and carry it through to an early completion. i A willingness to discuss the mat- | ter on high levels was expressed by the aluminum company. BANFIELD-HARSHBURGER REPORTED WED IN CALIF. Norman Banfield, prominent Ju- neau attorney, and Mildred Harsh- burger who is with Columbia Lum- ber Co., were married at Las Vegs Nev. Wednesday, January 24, ac- cording to a wire received today by Mr. and Mrs. A, F. Ghiglione. No further details were given. H The news came as a supprise to Banfield’s law partner, H. L. Faulkner and also to the officials of the Columbia Lumber Co. | TEACHERS HELPED i ORANGEVILLE, Ont. —(#— Tea- chers helped build Orangeville's $350,000 high school to be officially opened on Jan. 1. Principal H. Cline and four teachers worked as laborers, bricklayers and electricians to help out during a shortaze of labor. The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Beil Syndicate, Inc.) morning yse-VBGKFYY ASHINGTON — Every Wed- nesday morning, a handful of Sen- ators gather quietly in the Senate| dining room for prayer and wor- ship. They try to keep this meeting secret between themselves and their Maker, and the words they speak usually are more poignant and straight-from-the-heart than their‘ speeches on the Senate floor. Such were remarks last week of Virginia’s Democratic Sen. A. Willis Robert- son. “A cynic has described the old Testament as being a history of wars wrapped up in a prayer for peace,” Robertsan told the little band d} Senatorial worshipers. Then he outlined the wars that have raged over tiny Palestine, the cradle of Christianity. Robertson thoughtfully added: “History teaches and science con- firms that human nature in all races and in all ages has been very much the same, with a percen- | tage of good people and a percen- tage of evil ones. History likewise teaches us that no nation has ever &y e kb (Continued on Page Four) Internal Security Promised President NTm_eS Commit- | fee with Powers to Probe Secret Files WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 President Truman’s plans for his new Internal Security Commission PRICE, WAGE CONTROLON SHORT NOTICE Freezinz Proposal Delayed by Wage Stabilization Board Vofe WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 —{P— Th nation teetered again today on | the verge of all-out price and wage controls. | touched off strong protest in Con- The latest information from |gress today — especially regarding harassed and haggard officials was | policy on access to secret files. that: Mr. Truman late yesterday named 1. Saturday afternoon is the|the eight other “distinguished cit- likeliest time for issuing the two | orders, but don't count on it. They may come later. They could come | today. 2. Officials now are considering | izens” who will serve on the com- mission under Fleet Admiral Ches- ter W. Nimitz, who was appointed chairman earlier in the week. ‘The commission will study the a price rollback to the highest levels | of the period Dec. 15 to Jan. 15,| but they are waiting until the last | problem of protecting the nation’s internal security without sacrific- ing the people’s freedoms. Part of | | freeze with it — because the Wage 1 Connecticut; Harvey Firestone, Jr., possible moment to insert the roll- back date. Wage Formula 3. A general wage formula, which | would permit lagging wages to come up to a certain standard, cannot be completed this week, and therefore the presidential assignment calls | for an anlysis and report on the loyalty program covering govern- ment workers. The eight other members are: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former | president of the League of Women a temporary flat freeze of wages |Voters, as vice-chairman; the Rev. may be ordered as a stopgap. | Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal bis- 4. But the flat freeze of wages hop of California; former Repub- has been delayed and the price|lican Senator John Danaher of Stabilization been unable vote. Board (WSB) has|of Akron, Ohio; William E. Leahy, to get a unanimous | Washington, D. C., lawyer; Charles | H. Silver, vice president of the Freeze Vote | American Woolen Co., New York. The three Labor members of the| The Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, co- nine-man board hesitated to vote for | adjutor bishop of Youngstown, O.; a freeze. Chairman Cyrus 8. Ching | and Russell C. Leffingwell, former felt that it would disturb Labor- | Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Management peace if he ordered 2 |and former Morgan Banking House freeze without a unanimous vote. | partner. This led to the possibility that & In naming them, Mr. Truman told higher authority. Economic Stabil- | his news conference the group will ?zfl' Eric Johnston, would have to have access to confidential files on issue the wage freeze himself. Federal employes on. exactly the | That's the current status of the|gsame basis as that afforded Con- off-again-on-again effort to check | gressional Committees which have the rising cost of living. | looked into the records of govern- Officials weren't kidding them- iment jobholders. selves: Everything was subject to| e S e B e 1A GGED BY FRED WETCHE CAUGHT NEAR KETCHIKAN JAN. 11 Controls Must Come The government’s economic chiefs, from Johnston up to Defense Mo- | prices and wages must be brought| The tag from a 26-inch, 6% under immediate controls, and sim- | Pound salmon which was tagged ultaneously if possible. by the late Freq Wetche of Peli- were apparently determined that | bilizer Charles E. Wilson, and from | Wilson up to President Truman, | The Office of Price Stabilization | (OPS), headed by Michael V. Di- Salle, was ready with its price freeze — or practically ready. The impact is expected to fall upon all goods except new automobiles and cowhides, and except those things that cannot legal'y be controlled un- der the Deferse Production Act, like pork 2nd most ofner farm products. WINTER OPERATIONS MOVE SMOOTHLY ON WESTWARD HIGHWAY | i Operations have been moving smoothly on the 90-mile highway from Seward to Girdwood this win- ter, according to Hugh A. Stoddart, | Division Engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads who has returned from the westward. With the Divi- sion Engineer was Morton Flint, Division Construction Engineer, and the two made a trip over the high- way to inspect the winter work. Stoddard said the snow removal work on the Seward-Girdwood road has been entirely successful and the road is in fine shape. It is to be kept open all winter. The BPR officials went to An- chorage to consult with Col. J. P. Johnson on construction work of the Seward-Anchorage Highway where the designs place the road close to The Alaska Railroad in several areas in the vicinity of Moose Pass. In Anchorage Steddart and Flint also attended the conference to determine means for a no-stoppage building construction program in the coming season, between govern- ment inter-departmental agencies, contractors and unions. o e i <o MO BOY FOR CARPENTERS A 7 pound 11 ounce boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Carpenter of Sitka, at the Government hos- pital at 8 o'clock this morning. He has been named Thomas George. |can at Cape Fairweather August| |26, 1949, has been returned to the Alaska Department of Fisheries, { Bib Parker, bologist said today. | The fish wa scaught by Ingvold Myking at Mary Island south of Ketchikan January 11. Parker says, “at the time of tagging the fish | was an estimated 18 inches and ac- cording to our studies was prob- ably in its second year. Since tag- ged, it haq wandered approximate-; {1y 370 nautical miles and was free ifor 503 days. During this time it ‘grew approximately 8 inches and 31 pounds.” Wetche and his 54-year-old son Fred, were lost at sea last Novem- ber when his boat, the Dixie, went on the rocks at Yakobi Rocks off Yakobi Island, He was interested in the fisheries research and was | helpful to the program, Parker said. THOMPSON PASS OPEN Thompson Pass on the Richard- son Highway was open to traffic at 4 am. January 24, according to ad- vicex received at the local head- quarters office of the Alaska Road Commission from its Valdez office. The Pass was closed January 18 because of high winds and drifting Snow. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 26 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 3%, American Can 99, IAmerican Tel. and Tel. 150%, Ana- conda 40%, Douglas Aircraft 102, General Electric 53%, General Mo- tors 49, Goodyear 71%, Kennecott 74%, Libby, McNeill & Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 34%, Standard Oil of California 92%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 21%, U. S. Steel 45%, Pound $2.80 1-6, Canadian Exchange 94.87% Sales today were 2,230,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 24451, rails 8286, utili- | ties 42.01. | o 1 SLEUTH BILL INTRODUCED BY FRANKLIN Would Crea—le—lnvesligal- ing Committee, Two from Each House A Legislative Investigating Com- mittee of four members would be created by a bill introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by Rep. Glen D. Franklin. The committee, which would re- main active between sessions of the Legislature as well as during sessions, would have broad powers. The membership would include the Chairman of the Ways and and Means Committee of the House and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate. The other two members would be appointed, one by the Speaker of the House, the other by the Presi- dent of the Senate. The Committee would be auth- |orized and directed to: Investigate into the conduct of any of the departments, boards or agencies of the Territory; Arrange for prosecution or remov- al from office of anyone deemed guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance of office; Use the power of subpoena to call witnesses to testify or to col- lect data necessary to carry out a thorough investigation; Employ such additional help and incur such other expense as may be required to carry out the pur- poses of the Act; Report its findings to the Sen- ate ‘and House when the Legisla- ture is regularly in session and make such press releases as are deemed necesary by the Commit. tee. The bill carries an appropriation of $7,500 for carrying out the pur- poses of the Act during the next biennium. It was referred first to the Judiciary Committee, then to the Ways and Means Committee. Cordova Highway House Memorial 2, by Rep. C. C. Carlson, seeks an appropriation of $3,000,000 by Congress. Two mil-; lion of this would be used for the Cordova highway to the Interior, the other million for an extension of the road into the Katalla- Yaku- taga area. Rep. Jack Conright introduced House Bill 8, to transfer the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture from Fairbanks to Palmer and ap- propriating $2,500 to cover the ex- The bill was penses of transfer. referred to the Agriculture Com- mittee, then to the Ways and Means Committee. The House passed a committee substitute for Rep. Conright's H.B. 5. The bill as passed will permit the Territorial Attorney General to transfer funds from one item to another within his budget— spec- ifically, a total of $3,800 from the appropriation for “compensation for special and associate counsel in rate cases and other expenses in such matters.” Of this total, $2,000 would go to the Attorney General’s salary ac- count; $1,200 to the salary of an additional assistant, $500 to the purchase of law books and $100 to contingent office expense, The House adjourned shortly af- ter -4 p.m. yesterday to reconvene at 10 o'clock this morning. WEATHER REPORT ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 14; minimum, 9, At Airport — Maximum, 14; minimum, 3. FORECAST Continued fair with an oc- casional gusty northeasterly wind. Not so cold with lowest temperature tonight near 8 e degrees in Juneau and as low e as 0 in outlying areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau — None; e since Jan. 1 — 395 inches; e since July 1—4194 inches. . At Airport — Trace; e since Jan. 1 — 225 inches; ® e since July 1—30.25 inches. . PRUNING OF BUDGET IF NECESSARY Slate of 16 S;nale Com- mittees Approved—Key Men on Finance Com. (By Jim Hutcheson) ¢ A tight rein on the Senate’s end of the legislature’s budget-framing job was assured today as the up- per chamber approved a slate of 16 committees, The key finance committee will be headed again by Sen. John Butrovich (R-Fairbanks), and the two Democrats named to the com- mittee were James Nolan of Wran- gell and Howard Lyng of Nome. The fourth member is Gerrit Snider, Anchorage Republican. Nolan showed himself to be a sharp wielder of the budget-prun- ing knife as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee last session and Lyng is an outspoken foe of Gov. Gruening. Lyng also drew the chairmanship of the Rules Committee. Dr. R. M. MacKenzie (D-Ketchikan) will head the Taxation and Revenue Commit- tee. A minor squabble developed in the Senate over the approval of the committees in toto, but the approv- al finally was by a vote of 10 to 6 vote. After approval of the committees the Senate received its first bill of the session. It was a minimum wage act by Sen, Frank Barr (D- Fairbanks). Minimum Wage 1t would raise the minimum wage; law from 75 cents an hour to 81,[ It omits any provision for maxi- mum hours of work, an issue that | aroused a big fight over a combined { wage-hour bill last session. It al- so provides exemption for babysit- ters (for which a legal definition is included), paper boys and pnrl-, time delivery boys and allows the: Commission of Labor to make ex-} emptions in cases where $1 an hour scale would mean loss of jobs for physically handicapped per- sons. The full list of Senate committee, with the chairman listed first for The Senate investigating subcommittee holds a public hearing into allocation of Federal funds for an airport at Palmer, Alaska. A map of the section (top) is displayed at the session held in Washington. Left to right: Sen. Clyde Hoey (D-NC); Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark) ; Delegate E. L. Bartlett, Alaska; Stanley McCutcheon, counsel for Alaska Aeroautics Communication Commission. McCutcheon ) below) explains his testimony while waiting to take the stand at the hear- ing. ( Wirephoto. Commenison | Message by legjslalorst i By JIM HUTCHESON Governor Gruening's message to the legislature yesterday was the first in recent years to draw plaud-|{ its from many political critics as well as from his supporters. each, is: Banks and banking—McCutcheon, Butrovich, Anderson, Nolan. | Election, public health and mor-* als and veterans affairs—Lhamon, Engebreth, Beltz, Engstrom. Elections, election laws, per dlem' and mileage—Beltz, Engstrom, En- gebreth, Barr. Engrossment and enrollment— Ipalook, Engebreth, Lhamon, Nolan. Finance and corporations—Butro- vich, Snider, Lyng, Nolan. Fisheries and game—Engstrom, Ipalook, Engebreth, Lhamon. Agriculture and forests—Nolan,| Snider, Butrovich, Ipalook. Judiciary and federal relations— Huntley, Garnick, Barr, Lyng. Labor and cnmmerce—(}nrmck,l Beltz, McCutcheon, Barr. Mining and manufacturing—Snid- er, Coble, Anderson, Garnick. Municipal affairs and public util- ities—Anderson ~MacKenzie, Snid- er, Coble. Printing, purchasing, contingent expenses and permanent help— MacKenzie, Beltz, McCutcheon, Coble. Rules—Lyng, Butrovich, MacKen- zie, McCutcheon. Taxation and revenue—MacKen- zie, Anderson, Lhamon, Huntley. Territorial -offices and institutions —Coble, Garnick, Lyng, Huntley. Transportation, highways and : navigation—Barr, Huntley, Ipalook, Engstrom. The committee on committees, which named the other committes included Anita Garnick, chairman, Ed Anderson, Snider and Butro- vich, —_— The Port of New York has 550 miles of developed waterfront and employs 250,000 persons in handling all phases of its export and import { husiness. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Seattle 4 p.m., today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail g hasis on the importance from Vancouver, 8 p.m., January 31. ::n:r:;:‘ie:s:u:g“ 0 SpRE R | Denali from west scheduled to| . -iarrlve 7 a.m. Sunday souchbound.l Most Democrats lauded the gov- ernor’s message as a good over-all |- review of territorial problems and needs. Republicans like the recommenda- NEWBILLS INCREASE BENEFITS Maximum mmploymem Payments Would Be £30 Per Week By BOB DeARMOND Weekly unemployment benefits would be increased to a maximum 3 IMPORTANT TOWNS ARE TAKEN NOW Enemy Terril?y Penetrat- ed with Push Made Toward Seoul (By the Associated Press) Allied armored columns with strong air support swept through two strategic cities within com- muter distance of Seoul today. They took and then went beyond Suwon, 17 air miles south of the burned out South Korean capital, and Kumyangjang. Kumyangjang is 15 air miles east and slightly southeast of Suwon. AP Correspondent Jim Becker said it was a “one-two punch” by battle-tested and renowned outfits. They found the streets of Suwon virtually deserted. The walled city was a heap of smoking rubble. There was no resistance inside the city. But the patrol aimed at Suwon had some trouble before it got there, Field dispatches said the patrols, |feeling out Communist strength, will go as close to Seoul as they can. Intelligence officers suspect the Chinese command has pulled out 90,000 men formerly massed south of Seoul. Seoul Area Pounded For 36 hours all news of allied activity in the western part of Korea had been blacked out by the U. S. Eighth Army. The patrol activity pointed to- ward Seoul was preceded by a na- val pounding of TInchon, Seouln port. Guns of the U. 8. heavy cruiser St. Paul and U. 8. and Ca-~ nadian destroyers pounded Red shore batteries. Navy, Marine and | Air Force planes pounded the whole {Seoul area. i Why have the Chinese Commun- ists pulled back from the approaches jto Seoul? Reds Withdrawing United Nations Intelligence of- ficers said the apparent large-scale |w1thdrawnl was because of a short- Isge of supplies — and possibly be- cause of political reasons on orders {from Peiping. The Chinese are awaiting results of Arab-Asian bloc efforts in the United Nations ‘o work out a cease-fire. Indian sources at Lake Success said that without calling a cease- of $30 by a bill introduced in the | fire the Communist Chinese were House of Representatives this fore- |holding off fighting to create a tions for a revised auditing system, | years Baranof scheduled to sail from good over-ali message.” Butrovich balanced budget and no new taxes. Some observers commented on the omission of any discussion of school, labor or fisheries problems. The governor explained in the clos- ing phase of his message that he had omitted detailed discussions of such problems because the legis- lators would be able to get full facts and advice on them from depart- ment heads as the session proceeds.l Many legislators described the hour-long speech as the most con- ciliatory and non-controversial in or that they ever had heard the governjr mak?. i Good GOY Material Rep. Mike Stepcvich (R-Fair- banks) commented: “I think he took all the Republican campaign material and if he practices what F.e¢ preaches we will be all right.” Sen. Steve McCutcheon (D-Anch- orage) said: “As he indicated, the message wa&i not as specific in various recom- mendations as in past years. I be- | lieve his recommendations toward government functions should be| seriously studied. It is quite possible | legislation will be introduced to re- | tain one of several firms who have | gone over state constitutions to make suggestions for making our government more modern and ef- ficient. The need is there. The temper of the message was the least controversial I ever heard him make, which may very well point to a harmonious session.” | For Audit Report Sens. James Nolan (D-Wrangell) and John Butrovich (R-Fairbanks) who were closely linked with thej between-session audit activity ez« pressed pleasure at the governor 3 agreement with suggestions in the; audit report. Nolan said it was “a said he was pleased also by the gov- | the Labor Committee, (Continued on “Page Two) noon by Rep. Wendell P, Kay. Another bill introduced by Rep. Kay would extend the benefit per- iod for persons who receive de- pendency allowances as well as the basic weekly benefits. The presemt law sets a limit of $625 on the amount that can be received by an unemployed person in one year, including dependency allowances. Rep. Kay’s bill removes this limit, permitting ar unemployed person to draw weekly benefits plus dependency allowances for as long as 25 weeks. Both bills were referred first to then to the Committee on Ways on Means, M~“utcheon Present Rep. Svanley J. McCutslieon, An- chorage Democrat atd Speaker of the House in the 1949 session, took his seat in the House this riorning. Rep. McCutcheon has been, absent during the opening days of the ses- sion, first attending hearings in Washington concerning the Palmer Airport, then receiving medical at- tention. He reported himself “feeling fine” this morning, and ready for the stress and strain of the session. Rep. McCutcheon this morning asked for personal privilege of the floor at 3 p.n. next Tuesday and the request was granted by unani- mous consent. At the end of a lengthy recess this morning, Rep. Wendell Kay re- portéd to the House that he had requested the recess in order to pre- pare a telegram. The telegram, he said, was sent to the Director of the Census, call- ing the attention of that official to {his duty under the Organic Act. Apportionment An amendmewn' to the Organic Act, approved Novemwe: 13, 1942, provides, “The United States Di- rector of the Census shall, within " (Continued on Page Eight) cease-fire status pending a UN de- cision. STATEHOOD BILLITEM IS CHANGED WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—(®—An amendment to the pending Alasko statehood bill to ban addjtional native reservations “unless and un- til” the Territory becomes a state was offered today by Sen. Butler (R-Neb). The amendmen is identical with one adopted by the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee last year, but not included in the cur- rent version of the bill. “If Alaska is to grow and develop teither with or without statehood,” Butler said in a statement, “this problem of Indian reservations must be solved. Under the present policy of the Department of Inter- jor any development of Alaska resources policy of the Department of Interior any development of Al- aska resources is stymied by the threat that private property will be confiscated in effect, in order to create new reservations.” ORDER OF DEMOLAY INSTALLS OFFICERS DeMolay officers will be publicly installed Saturday evening at 8 in the Scottish Rite Temple. After the installation, dancing will be — |bheld in the ballroom until mid- night.