The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,739 ALAS “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1951 U N Forces Lunge on Reds Who Won’t Fi LEGISLATIVE MATTERS AT MARCH 1 (( There will be no meeting of the morrow, Washington’s birthday. Thursday, Washington's birthday. The next regular meeting will be March 1, at which time the Ter- ritorial senators will be guests of the Chamber. At that time the legislative com- mittee will present recommenda- tions, including a “Do P4 tag on Senater Butler’s bill to provide for the election of the Governorj of Alaska. | Other recommendations will clude: 1. A letter be written to Warren A. Taylor, chairman of the con- stitution committee of the Alaska Statehcod Committee, saying that the Chamber would welcome an op- portunity of studying the constitu- tion when drafted and then making its suggestions upon the draft. 2. No action be taken regardingj statehood bills now in Congress ex- cépt to protest the basis for appor-; tionment of constitutional delegates on an erroneous census report. 3. Oppose inclusion of medical and dental services in the City sales tax. 4. Additional time be given to devise recommendations for the re- apportionment of the house of representatives of the Territorial legislature. 5, Reconsider action to be taken on Bartlett bill not requiring large bank reserves in bank vaults as during the dog team days due to improved transportation. 6.-“Do Pass” on Bartlett’s pro-| posal regarding loans by Secretary of Agriculture to bona fide fur farmers. . 7. “No Action” Bartlett bill re- garding repeal of Alaska Railroads tax. I 8. “Na -Action” on, Bartlett re- gardinge,appointment of . district judges fqvperiod of good. behavior. 9. “Do PRa: on Bartlett bill to provide transportation on Canadian vessels from the points of Skagway, Haines, and Hyder Alaska to other points in Alaska or the continental United States. 10. “Do Pass” Bartlett bill make workmen's compensation laws of Alaska applicable to land and premises of the United States in such Territory. 11. To change Bartlett bill for ul second judge in the Third Division | to provide for a fifth Alaska judge to be assigned tg the division hav ing the most judicial business. 12. “No Action” on Bartlett reso- lution authorizing the Bureau. of Labor Statistics of the Dept. of Labor to report periodically on{ labor conditions in the Terrimry! “Refer to Chamber Fisheries Committee” action on Bartlett bill transferring - control of fisheries from Interior Dept. to Territory. 14, “No Action” on Bartlett hill to exempt cost of living allowance paid to federal employees from federal income tax. Members of the committee were: G. E. Cleveland, Clayton Polley, F. 0. Eastaugh and Jerry McKinley. Curtis Shattuck is chairman. in- 1 ] TAN ICE LODGES AGAINST DOCKS FROM DOWN CHANNEL Large sheets of pan ice from down tie channel came in on high tide | tion PLANS FOR 30-UNIT JUNEAU APT. HOUSE BY ELROY NINNIS Plans are being drawn by Earl Morrison, Seattle architect, for a 30-unit, reinforced concrete, five- story, elevator-type apartment house for Juneau, C. C. Staples, director of Federal Housing Administration, said today. The project is to be FHA insured. Staples returned this week from Washington, D. C., Seattle, and California after over two months outside on FHA business and for medical attention. The new Juneau apartment house is to be located on the corner of Second and Gold Streets and is to be constructed by Elroy Ninnis of Juneau, Staples revealed. Another important announcement by Staples is that the Allied Build- ing Credits Corp. plans to open an office in Anchorage ' within 60 days to launch a building program in. the Territory. In addition to a large apartment house, the company plans 150 single family housing units for Anchorage. The Lewis Construction Co. of Seattle has four Anchorage hous- ing projects comprising 792 apart- ment units costing $8,711,300 com- mitted by FHA. Also the Pioneer apartments at Palmer by Rourke and Sandvik for 24 units at a cost of approximately $275,000 has been committed, For Ketchikan there are two housing projects, Wingren Court of 36 units at the cost of $427,000 to be built by the Baldwin Construc- Co., and the 3C-unit rein- forced concrete Louise Apartments by George Brink at the cost of 1$260,000. Still in the contemplated stage is a 20-unit, reinforced concrete apart- ment building to be located between the present bank and Elks Club, by Kaylor and Dahl Fisheries at Petersburg. While in Washington, = Staples conferred with FHA commissioners with reference to the Alaska hous- ing program and suggested a 50 per cent increase be allowed in censtruction costs for Alaska for the 1951 season. At present 33 1/3 is allowed. Bills in connection with the defense program for housing and community facilities are now being considered by committees of the house and senate. After leaving here last Decem- ber Staples underwent a major operation in Seattle, recuperated in California, and visitedq FHA of- fices in Los Angeles, San Francis- co, Portland and Seattle. 'SENATE TAX GROUD OPPCSES ANY NEW ALASKA AUTO LEVY The Alaska senate taxation com- mittee has ‘advised the Juneau school district board 'it does not favor any new territorial tax ‘on automobiles. The committee advised the board in response to a letter from Dr. Joseph O. Rude, president of the board. The board had included a resolu- tion urging exemption of motor vehicles from property taxes, while the territorial tax commissioner he empowered to collect an excise tax on all vehicles as a substitute. It proposed that the excise tax should be collected at the same time as the regular license fee; that JENSEN'S - HEARING AT END No Evidence Presented af 11-Hour Session fo War- rant Action, Is Report By JIM HUTCHESON Alaska’s legislature ended its third afternoon of closed-door hearings on Territorial affairs last night with a short statement that “no evidence has been presented that warrants action by this body.” The brief statement was issued by Senate President Gunnard M. Engebreth (R-Anchorage) after au- thorization granted by the joint session. He added: “The above action was taken unanimously by all members that were present.” Gruening, Roden In It came after an afternoon ses- sion of more than four hours at which Governor Gruening and Ter- ritorial Treasurer Henry Roden ap- peared. Both officials were behind closed doors with the legislators more than two hours. ‘When the governor emerged he said he could not comment on the | proceedings of the legislators’ exe- ecuuve session. ¢+ Former Democratic Rep. Marcus Jensen of Douglas also was in the chamber for the third day. His re- quest to report some investigative findings to the legislature precipi- tated the closed joint sessions. Blasts Not Revealed : There was no disclosure of the nature- of Jensen’s report,ar- what chatges he théy’ have made, in the past.he Hasblasted at the Tersi- torial administration and Rep. Stanley » McCuteheon, /(D-Anchor- age) in parficular. . [ A sAuthoritakive ./ sources Feported I that McCutcheon also was on the stand during the session. There were reports, too, of ‘con- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Russia Fears |SENATE FOR |"EGG AND I" |Annexation A-BombRaids | LEAVINGOUT | WRITER IS | Bill Passed, EXCESS TAX| EXONERATED| Lower House Saysie May By Oliver W. De Wolf WASHINGTON, Feb, 21—®—Lt. Gen. Curtis E. Le May, who com- mands the U. S. fleet of long-range atom-bomb planes, said today their threat rather than any ground forces in Europe probably will deter Russia from starting a general war in the next two or three years. But Le May said he favors the administration’s plan to send U. 8. Army troops to serve in a combined European defense force. Specifically, he opposed at Sen- ate hearings a resolution by Sen- ator Wherry (R-Neb) which would declare the Senate opposed to send- ing any troops without prior com- gressional approval. Le May explained he did not think the hands of the military should b8 tied by Congress. Under such restriction, he said, “I would be handicapped very much in where I could place my wings and groups after war started.” Le May, head of the strategic air command, testified at Senator Wherry's request at Senate hear- ings on the troops-to-Europe issue. The hearings are being held by the Senate Foreign Relations and Arm- ed Services Committees. Le May called his big bombers the “only effective weapon” this | country now has for dealing with Russia in event of war. When Wher- ry asked if they could knock out Russia by long-range bombardment, the general replied: “I don't know. That’s my job to try aud achieve | that end.” ’ $80,000 FOR A. J. | CRUSHED ROCK; | MAYBE, YET, SOON WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 —(P— The senate voted today to omit federal excess profits taxes from consideration in the computing of territorial income taxes. The vote on Sen, Gunnard Enge- breth’s bill was 11 to 5. The Alaska tax is 10 per cent of what a person or firm pays in federal income tax. The bill ap- proved today specifies that the federal tax on which the territorial tax is based will be only the normal tax and the surtax. It specificallly excludes the excise profits taxes which were enacted last month by congress. The bill now goes to the house. Four new bills were introduced in the senate today before it voted to recess this afternoon to allow committe hearings. It adjourned over Washington’s birthday holiday tomorrow. One bill proposes allowing the board of education to set the educa- tion commissioner’s salary up to $12,000 a year. The present figure is $8,000. Sen. W. L. (Dan) Lhamon (R-Fairbanks) introduced the bill Education Some board of education members have expressed the opinion a higher Salary would be required to attract an experienced school administrator to take over the job of running the territory’s far-flung and “grown like topsy” school system. Dr. James C. Ryan’s resignation is effective at the end of the present school year. A deficiency bill dropped in the senate reflected the high rate of hair seal bounty payments. The bill proposes $233,520 for funds which ran short daring the present bien- nium ahc -$198,202; of it is for the seal bounties, That is -1," addition to the $100/000 te py the 1949 lefistature. 2 ing) Elton {Engstrom and He ifi’éafzwnm ‘the bill Lhamon also introduced & bill to i reimburse the veterans affairs office Did Not libmen Persons Who Sued for Alleged $500,000 Damages SEATTLE, Feb. 21 —(®— Ten persons who contended they were libeted in the humorous novel “The Egg and I” have lost their suit to recover $500,000 in damages. A Superior Court jury, which was out more than 24 hours, decided unanimously in favor of the defend- ants, Betty MacDonald, who wrote the best seller, her husband, Don- ald and her publisher P. Lippincott. The jury of nine men and three women took only one ballot. The many hours before' they reached a verdict was spent in listening to “The Egg and I” being read aloud. This was a literal interpretation of Superior Judge Willlam J. Wil- kins' instructions to the jury that the book be considered in its en- tirety. The half-million dollar suit was brought by nine members of the Albert Bishop family of Northwest Washington and Raymond H. John- son, Seattle. The Bishops held they were portrayed as the “Kettle” family of the novel which had the rugged Olympic Peninsula wilder- ness as its locale. AUTHORITIES PROBEDEATH OF NICHOLS KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 21 —(#— State and local authorities began New Memorial Urges Ac- tion by Congrass on Indian Claims By BOB DE ARMOND The Scavenius bill to- amend and ease the law pertaining to annex- ation petitions and elections passed the House this morning after the adoption of one amendment. Where present law provides that a majority of the property owners in an area to be annexed must sign the petition for annexation, the Scavenius bill requires the signa- tures of only 30 per cent of the property owners. And approval of only 55 per cent of the voters in the area to be an- nexed would be required by the bill as it passed the House, instead of two-thirds of the voters under present law. An effort this morning to increase the - percentage of favorable ballots required to 61 was defeated this morning on an 11-13 vote. Rep. Franklin offered the amendment and urged its adoption as a pro- tection to owners of property. Sales Tax Amendment The House spent some time this morning on Rep. Hendrickson's bill to clarify the present municipal sales tax enabling act. The bill was held over until Friday to give mem- bers an opportunity to write a satis- factory amendment regarding ex- emption of sales made for delivery outside of the taxing municipality. Several amendments were adopted to the bill setting up a Department of Territorial Police, which was un- der consideration when the House PRICE TEN C rht lidd TS COMMIES INFLIGHT, FAST PACE Leaving Eqflment Dead in Snow—Chunchon Cap- fured-Planes in Action By Associated Press United Nations forces, pushing a renewed initiative, lunged north- ward 10 miles today through hasti- ly vacated Red positions and capt- ured the town of Chunchon on the Central front. ¢ The Chinese and North Korean Communists were withdrawing so fast they were leaving their equip- ment and their dead in the snow. Their massive bid to break the Al- lied defense line between Wonju and Chechon was broken. Some 40,000 Reds, however, ' were still scattered in an arc north of the Wonju sector which guards the vital iUN supply line from the south to the perimeter of Red-held Seoul in the west. Newly captured Chunchon is 10 miles north of Chechon, which a few days ago was a Red objective on the East Central front. The Allies had met no enemy troops in the no-man's-land between Chun- chon and Chechon. The only setback was on the Western front around Seoul, where two Allied patrols crossed the Han River Tuesday night but were driven back by Red mortar and au- tomatic weapons fire. U. S. Fifth Alr Force planes were out in strength again today, strik- ing enemy positions near the front and ranging far north to hit rail and highway targets on the east coast with heavy bombs. The Battleship Missouri bombard- { just before noon today and lodged gy per cent of the receipts should against piling of docks besinning’g, 5 the municipality, school dist- with the Cold Storage and across, ei or puplic utility district in to and including the subport dock-} whier, the motor vehicle belongs. A landing” craft” from the Coast] .ppa jetter in reply from Dr. RiM Guard Storis worked the ice away} MacKehzie, chairman of the senate from the Alaska Coastal Airlines| ;.. .cio committee, and signed by floats so that planes could take off| gonc pqward Anderson, 'Walter and put in at the floats. One flight Huntley and W. L. Lhamon, adas was delayed coming in, taxi-ing in| = wppe committee, after due con- the channel until ice had been|gqgeration, has unanimously ' deci- | troversy over what kind of a state- [The House has approved payment ment should be issued before thejof $80,000 to the Alaska Juneau brief one agreed upon. Gold Mining Co. Sens. Howard Lyng (D-Nome), It is to repay the company for John Butrovich (R-Fairbanks) and |financial sacrifice suffered by it in lw' L. Lhamon (R-Fairbanks) left |furnishing the military with crushed ibefore the statement was agreed jrock and other services during upon, and Sen. Heinie Snider (R-(World War II. The rock was pro- Anchorage) refused to participate in ;vided at the written request of the proceedings on the com.crmonIArmy Engineers without determina- they should be public. tion of price. No payments have The executive session lasted un-|been made. til nearly 6:30) pm. It raised: the| The company said its claim was three-day total for the closed door{prompted by a War Labor Board sessions to more than 11 hours. sldecision in March, 1844, granting 1Y employes a 14-cent hourly increase l 1 in base pay retroactive to April 1943, SPE(IAI. lu"(“Eo" In pushing its claim, the com- any said: [ WEDHBDAY "oo" p“l’t’, Has not been’ contended by oF wom's (lu the company at any time that any A lagency of the government: has promised payment for any of the The social-program meeting off material, services or. facilities fur- the Juneau Weman's Club this week | nfshed . . . but’ the claim is based will take the form of a luncheon jupon ‘the fact that the company in the Gold Room of the Baranof|furnished the crushed rock, services Hotel tomorrow at 12 o'clock noon.{and facilities mentioned at con- February is Legislative month on |siderable sacrifice to itself and on the club program and in the yearsia certain basis of operating cost when the Territorial Legislature is]which was changed by the War La- in session, the socidl meeting tra-|bor Board after the materials were ditionally compliments women legis- | furnished. lators and the wives of legislators who are in Juneau. Mrs. Mildred APPROVE THIRD TIME R. Hermann is Legislative Chair- News was received from ‘Wash- man for the Juneau club and the|ington this morning that the House Alaska Federation of W. C. and|had passed HR. No. 586, which is with Mrs. Wm. L. Paul, president of |a bill to reimburse the Alaska Ju- the Juneau club and treasurer: of |neau Gold Mining Company for the AFW.C., in charge of ar-)certain services and material fur- rangements. % 5 nished during the recent war. At the Wednesday luncheon, Gov.{ This is the third time this bill Gruening ~ will be the. principsl|has passed the House in the past Speaker and a musical program has|five years, but it has never received been arranged. Members ‘may take {the approval of the Senate. guests and reservations should he' Before any relief is obtained un- made by calling Mrs. Paul.or Mrs.|der the bill it will, of cours2, have Hermann before 10 o'clock, Wed- [to pass the Senate also ary be ap- nesday. proved by the President 1 for the $9,469 it expended from :‘sl an investigation today into the revolving fund for an audit pridf)geqen, of stanley J. Nichols, 53, to the legislative session. former U. S. Marshal at Fairbanks, recessed for lunch, and a nu’mber{ed the Tanchon area in far north- of other amendments were in pros- (eastern Korea all day ' yesterday pect. while other big Naval gun§ rocked The House adopted an amend-|{both coastlines. Some Naval units ment setting the top salary of the|were running into sttong shore fire proposed Superintendent of Police|around Wonsan on the Sea of at $10,000 a year. Rep. Kay, one|Jjapan. » of the authors of the bill, offered the amendment and explained that cleared from the airline’s floats. LUTHERAN LENTEN SERVICE TUESDAY All interested persons are cord- jally invited to the Lenten Service which will be held in the Lutheran Church, corner of Main and Third! Streets, at 8 o'clock Thursday | evening. The general theme foi these ser- vices, ‘That I Might Be Whole,’ will be developed by Pastor Hiller- man under the title, “Who can do this for me that I might be whole.” Special music for the evening will be a duet by Mrs. Mary Peter and Mrs. Winifred Hanna. ded that in view of the recent declaration of congress that excise taxes on motor vehicles would be raised from the now existing 7 per cent to 20 per cent, that-the automobile industry is being taxed by the federal government to the extreme limit possible, and that it is inadvisable to add any terri- torial taxes.” CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW Municipal offices will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, Washington’s birthday, C. L. Popejoy, city clerk repeated today. Legislative women invited to he guests of the JWC are Miss Anita Garnick of the Senate, Mrs. Doris Barnes and Mrs. Amelia Gunder- sen of the House, Mrs. Frank Barr, Mrs. C. Chester Carlson, Mrs, Wm. Egan, Mrs. Elton Engstrom, Mrs. Glen Franklin, Mrs. Waino Hen- drickson, Mrs, Frank Johnson, }Mrs. Wendell Kay, Mrs. Stanley Mc- Cutcheon, Mrs. J. 8. MacKinnon, Mrs. Vern Metcalfe, Mrs. James No- lan, Mrs. J. F. Scavenius and Mrs. Alden Wilbur. FROM WHITTIER Lyman Young of Whittier is at the Baranof Hotel. NO CHILDREN’S HOUR AT PUBLIC LIBRARY with the Public Library closed to- morrow in observance of Washing- ton’s Birthday, there will be no children’s hour, it is announced by Mrs. Edna Loman, librarian. MRS. KAY VISITS JUNEAU Mrs. Wendell P. Kay, wife of the Representative to the House of the Alaska Legislature from the Third Division, arrived in Juneau over the weekend after visiting in the states, from her home in Anchor- age, to spend some time in Juneau while the Legislature is in session. Sens. Snider and Walter Huntley introdcced a bill to require the ter- ritorial treasurer to surrender $500 in bonds of the Valley Hospital at Palmer. They came into the Trea- sury from an escheated estate. Lobby Bill The senate also passed, 12 to 4, an amendment to the lobbyist re- zistration law. It previously was ap- proved - by -the house. 1t, calls for registration of persons who are at. the session while in their regular jobs for associations, corporations or others. The senate passed the excess pro- “its. exemption tax bill after Tax Commissioner M, P. Mullaney testi- fied that he did not think it was 1dvisable to try to apply the terri- torial tax against them. He said ne had been advised that such an attempt might lead to extensive liti- zation. He said the attorney general had sxpressed an opinion that the Alaska tax could not be assessed ; against excess profits tax payments under the present law, although Mullaney has not received a written opinion on it yet. Excess Profits Tax In arguing for his bill, Engebreth said it was primarily for clarifying the legislature’s intent. He described the excess profits tax as “a war tax” intended by the federal goy- ernment to siphon Off excessive wartime earnings. He said 1t was questionable whether the territory should ‘try to be a partner in the {Continued on Page TWwo) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW. YORK, Feb. 21 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Canfl 106%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%, Anaconda 43%, Douglas Aircraft 105%, General Electric 54%, General Motors 49%, Goodyear 3%, Kenne- cott 6%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 10, Northern Pacific 36%, Standard Ofl of California 96%, Twentieth Century Fox 22%, U. 8. Steel 44%, Pound 280, Canadian . Exchange 95.62. Sales today were 1,670,000 shares. -Averages today were as follows: Industrials 25225, rails 86.69, utili~ ties 42.99, Alaska. g A warrant was issued yesterday| for the arrest of a man seen with him Feb. 11, the day before he was found unconscious in a motor court. § Nichols died in a hospital Friday. apparently of a cerebral hemor- rhage. State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester told a coroner’s jury holding an inquest that “I am not satisfied that there was not any criminality in the case,” 215300 Peace Justice Roy .Hamlin . fs- sued the warrant. for the arrest of Nichols' cothpanion; identified vari- ously; as; Tommy - Moffat, Tommy Hutt ‘and L. A. Mosely. " He was charged with stealing Nichols' au- tomobile. Note Left in Room Hamlin told the jury the man left 1 note in the room saying he “knev Nichols would be too ill to drive’ and that he was taking the car tr Miami. Mrs. Stanley Nichols arrivec! from Fairbanks Monday and saic she was not satisfied with circum- stances surrounding her husband's death, She told police that $600 in trav- elers checks, a wrist watch, a new portable typewriter and a tear gas pistol were missing from her hus- band’s effects. She said he came to Key West as sdvance salesman for a Seattle firm. Chief Deputy Sheriff Frank Web- ber said Saturday that he had found no evidence of foul play. Dr. Ralph Hertz conducted an autopsy and said Nichols died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He said there were no marks on the body. Nichols resigned as marshal in Fairbanks last September. Mrs. Nichols said his body would be taken to San Francisco, where he was born, for service and burial Saturday. STEAMER MOVEMENTS 1 Freighter Square Knot from Seat- tle due to arrive tomorrow morning. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 pm. Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Feb. 28. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive Sunday isouthbound. it is hoped to secure the loan of an FBI man to set up the new depart- ment and that these men are paid $10,000 a year or more in Alaska. Financing Question When the question of referring the bill to the Ways and Means Committee for study arose, Chair- ma# Glen Franklin told the House he saw' o neéed of such study. “It_is, obyious . to -every member of the’ Ways and Means Committee that this new department cannot be ‘financed from the ~General Fund,” Franklin said.’ “Money for it must come from the gas tax.” One new bill and two memorials made their appearance in the House this morning. House Bill No. 65, by Laws and Kay, amends the law relating to penalties under the provisions of ‘he Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. The bill would make mandatory & two-year jail sentence for a first conviction, five-year imprisonment for a second conviction and not less than 10 years in prison for a ‘hird conviction. The bill further provides that except for a first offense the exe- cution of sentence shall not be suspended and that parole shall not be granted until the minimum im- risonment has been served. Indian Claims A joint memorial by Rep. MacKin- a0n urges Congress “to take prompt action to investigate, and to settle equitably to all parties in interest and to the general welfare of the Territory, the question of Indian or aboriginal title to all jands in ‘he Territory of Alaska.” Another memorial by Rep. Mac+ Kinnon urges Congress to ' enact legislation ~ exempting corporate sross income tax all income derived from the active conduct of a trade or business in Alaska that is not presently being conducted in the Territory, to induce the investment of private capital in the Territory. The House this morning heard a lengthy protest from the Territor- ial Board of Education on the pro- posal to place Tobacco Tax reve- nues in the General Fund. The Board of Education letter cited the use that has been made of these revenues for construction of schools, " (Contiuued on Page TwC Divorce, Barbara ‘ Sl;;mwyck LOS' ANGELES, Feb. 21 —(M— Barbar Stanwyck today obtained a divorce from Robert Taylor — a divorce which, she testified, he re- quested. Composed and low-voiced, the movie star, smartly attired in a cocoa brown wool suit and matching straw hat, told Superior Judge Thurmond Clarke: “Shortly after Mr. Taylor's return from Italy in December” — where he had been making a movie—" he came to me and asked for a divorce. “He said he had enjoyed the free- dom during the month he had been in Italy and he wanted to continue to be able to come and go as he pleased without the restrictions of marriage.” JUDY FILES FOR DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 —(®— Judy Gariand filed her long-ex- pected divorce suit today from Vin- cent Minnelli, Hollywood director. The actress charged cruelty and asked custody -of their four-year- old daughter, Liza. Miss Garland, 28, and Minnelli, 37, were married in 1945 and sep- arated last Dec. 22. Kepner Says America Must Be Charifable ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 21— (A— Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepner, com- manding general of the Alaskan De- fense Command, said last night America must be charitable with {its neighbors but still “maintain its self respect.” He spoke at Fur Ren- dezvous ceremonies. | Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Collins of Fairbanks are at the Baranof Hotel,