The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,753 EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951 Allied Forces Ri SCHOOLBOND BALLOT, DOG TAGS OKAYED school bond y won Senate aprp and unanimously. The vote was 15 to 0 for the Enge- breth bill for a referendum on the next Alaska general election ballot The question on the I be whether voters desire th tory to issue up to construction and building: Cong would be required could be issued. The bill now goe which already has posal by Jack Conright to ask Con- gress for the right for the Te wory to issue up 1o $9,#0,000 in bonds for schools. The Senate twice before rejectec direct, proposals for aski to allow bondi vich (R-Fairbanks) today’s vote. Now to the Do After the school ho Senate went to the dogs — literally. ‘The dogs won one decision and lost another. The senators turned down by ar 8-7 vote a bill by Sen. Walter Hunt- ley (D-Palmer) hich bran A issue proposi al tod th Touse oDI a pro- to was 1y that it will bite or & being.” The senators decided a dog's eye is a bit diffic down by statute. Then the Senate approved, 13 to 2, another Huntley bill f 1 ing roaming dogs, wi come a major problem in cities. Senate President Eng of Anchorage s the amount mail received fr his division on the dog nuisance, or been exceeded only S school teachers’ salary increases. He said the trend has been 50 to 1 for a crack-down on the roving dogs. Bill Modified The bill, which now goes to the House, was modified sharply from Huntley’s original stringent version It would set the licenses for dog which are not licensed by a munici- pality or kept on a leash or in dog team at $5 a year for a male and $10 for a femaile, The original proposal was §25 for a female The bill was modified to provide impounding of unlicensed animals for five days, instead of three, be- fore they could be executed. For retrieving them from the pound within that period, the penalty was reduced to $5 from the original pro- posal of $50. Elton Engstrom proposed the drop in the penalty from a committee recommendation of $15 to the $5. Sen. Joe Coble suggested $15 would be too steep for a Kic that hap- pened to run out of the house or yard and get picked up. ’ “Make It Stiff” Sen. Frank Barr, who may already be developing the heart of a U. S. marshal, argued: “Make it stiff. breth of (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc. (Ed. Note: Drew Pcarson is on a flying tour of Eurcpe and the mid- dle East, surveying the world situ- ation.) BELGRADE. — If Russia follows the doctrine of the famous Ger- man war strategist, Count Karl von Clausewitz, as it has in the past, it would seem likely that Moscow would order an attack on Jugo- slavia some time this spring, fo: Clausewitz taught that the time to make war is when you are strong- est and your potential enemy is weakest. The moment your enemy bezins gaining strength, accerding to the war theory followed by the Germans and Russians for the last hundred years, then it's time to strike. 3 A careful, cold-blooded diagnosis of Russian strategy in the past shows rather definitely that they expected ‘the United States to fall he- | | Appeal Is Made fo The Pgople 111 — which g to mest of red that HB 141 nization Bill that wil business in the Heuse Bill No, mean a us until it is expla lis the be the Reo e — is a 41-page- long biil that would reorganize the whole set-up of the Territorial gov- ersment. Why is this biil being down the throais of the y Alaska before tiey have an oppor- tunity to read and digest it Who is it who desires to give the Federally appointed governor of Alaska more power than he has ever had, in the face of his own suggestion in his message to Legisla the beginning of this sessio t he be removed from ail | Territorial Boards? | The by rammed | { the governor, powers ‘1 given him in this bill would be the czar, the dictator, of the Territory. Here in Section 6, subsection (b) of the HB 141, we find: (b) In executing the powers and | duties prescribed hercin, the Com- missioner (the Finance Commis- sioner) shall be subject to the exe- cutive direction of the Governor. The Governor may in his discretion seek the advice of the Board of Ad istration but shall not be bound | : ided by law; | How such a biil could secure the, support that it has in the House of Representatives after the Governor has asked to be removed from the present beards on which he ing, we do net w ! told during the he ! rings on-his reap- | itmeni in Washington in 1919 | | to leave the legislature alone, Somebody is behind this move to | completely reorganize the Territorial | government. The bill abolishes the elected posi- I tio of Territorial Treasure and | Territorial Auditor. Why should the people of Alaska | important gevernment als? | Until the next session of the Le: { lature, the Board of Administrat} will be composed of two men elec | from each House of the Legislature iand the Gevernor, and they in turn appoint a Finance Commissioner. After the 20th Session of the Zeg- islature, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House; the { chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee will, with the Governor, be the Board of Administration. The Finance Cemmissioner wiil be the treasurer after the present term of Henry Roden is concluded. The Auditor is elected by the e of | | the| denied the right to elect these|friendsa f gis- | jon [ the south since early last January, teq | and spent most of the time in fl“‘l,changin\; his vote at the L SKAGWAY MADE BY McCHORD AIR FCRCE Residents of Skagway credited the air force with another assist Thursday when a twin-engine car. {go airplane from McChord ai force base near Tacoma, W {rushed a lifesaving drug 1100 mi !from Seattle to the Alaskan town The drug, an anti-toxin for bot- ulism, was ordered by Dr. Alar Bledsoe for Mr. and Mrs. George | Villesvik, who suffered oning Wednesday night Miss Bledsoe, doetor, sent tracers ove Alaska in search of the drug which could prvent it evel- Failing in her food pois- s only most © precic the 1soning's being fatal oped into botulism. | search, she telegraphed a { pharmaceutical house = Thursda ng. She explained that if the did not arrive by Thursday night it might be too late, for t poison is usually fatal within 24 hours, While two bottles of the anti- toxin were being hurried to Mec- Chord air force the 1705th air Seattle airplane. The mercy against time. Skagwa, airport has no night landing facilities, Captain Myron E. Kelly, pilot of the airplane, landed, or slid, the craft on the icy runway just at dusk. A few more minutes would have been too late. A score of Skagway's ~grateful citizens rushed to the airplane to echo the town’s gratitude. Captain Kelly's reply was that it was just a routine flight, but he and mem- kers of his crew were proud to have been of help. was s mission a race ART JUDSON VISITS ON WAY TO INTERIOR Art Judson, son of Mrs. F. N. Schindler of Juneau and old-tim Channel resident, arrived here yesterday by Pan Amerjcan plane | from the states and is visiting with | his family and oldi of ew days before returning s for the mining season. has been vacationing in members to Fairl Judson near Mexico City. ' STEAMER Mo:vfims Seattle 4 p.m. today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver March 14. Denali from westward scheduled e at 11 a.m. Sunday south- | bound, Legistature for a term of six years. He will be an Auditor in fact, ac- countable to the Legislature. tor of the whole works — with the exception of the Audtor. prove the budget. We find this in Scetion 7 of the bill: “It shali be the cuty of the Commissioner to prepare the budget for all Territorial agen- cies, subject to the approval of the Governor.” Why any bill that provides se¢ many changes in our government should not be subject to a referen- dum to the people, we don’t un- derstand. Or, why it sheuld be forced before the Legislature for a guick vote. We wonder if all of the members of the House who wili be voting on at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning ve read HB 141. We wender if they are aware that they will be turning the purse strings of the Territory over to the governor, 2 Federal official, not responsible to any of the voters of the Territory. You the people: Do you approve this Reorganization Bill (hat is granting away your elective m:nts?i i I KETCHIKA! Jason and Eunice Hunsperger of Ketchikan are registered at the Baranof Hotel. _— FROM PELICAN James Liva of Pelican is at the Gastineau Hotel. PELICAN VISITOR Donald E. Chase of Pelican is 2 guest at the Baranof Hotel. $TOCK OUOTATIONS General Motors 52%, Good- year 176%, Kennecott 74%, Libby, McNeil and Libby, 9%, Northern Pacific 347%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 94, Twentieth Century Fox 23, U. S. Steel 44, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95.56%. Sales today were 1,610,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 252.75, rails 84.85, utili- ties 43.38 . 55%, ® 6 0o 0o 0 2 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'cluck this morning In Juneau Maximum, 19; minimum, 13. At Airport 21; minimum, 13. Maximum, FORECAST e0ceeeec®e0ene Continued fair, cold and windy tonight and Saturday. Jowest temperature tonight near 15. Highest Saturday near 22. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; Since March 1 — 32 inches; Since July 1 — 5121 inch At Airport — None; transport wing readied a crew and 1 Beltz. i “You are, in effect, not following | NEW YORK, March 9 — Closlngl o v i irec- | The Gevernse js CReCiTe Aireo {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine i stock today is 3%, A {107%, American Tel. and Tel. 1567%, It is the Governor Who must 8P| ;. 00n4q 4214, General Electric American Can | Fuling th p Gapin MERCY FLIGHT TO/INCREASE IN SALMON TAX APPROVED By JIM HUTCHESON The Territorial Senate voted late vesterday for a 50 per cent increase in the canned salmon tax and then wound up the day with one of its liveliest scraps. The vote for the boost in the salmon tax was 10 to 6. Indications were that, if approved by the House and enacted into law, it would add 700,600 or more a year to the Ters ritorial treasury on the basis of he 1950 pack. It is the second tax-boosting bill to pass the Senate. e the bill to hike the cig; five cents a pack reached the Hous: floor yet. The Senate's closing clash came over the controversial 40-hour-week= and-then-overtime bili that has been bourcing around like a hot po- | tato for a couple of weeks. It ici House Bill 12, | The Senate received a message the House had refused, by a| 2 split, to concur in the long | list of exemptions the Senate had X written into the Carlson bill. | Sen. Anita Garnick started the; ball rolling again with a motion ' that the Senate recede from its amendments. The move was blocked. | After a squabble over whether a i conference committee should be| named at the same time a message | was sent to the House on the Sei- ate’s refusal to recede from i amendments, President Gunnard Engebreth ruled that the committee should be named. He named Senators Garnick and Howard Lyng, from the ranks of |those who voted for the bill, and William Beltz, representing the nay” minority. Pot Boils That set the pot boiling. It meant two opponents of the Senate amendments, Miss :} and Beltz, would compose a majority of the Senate committee, although the Senate majority had voted for the bill. Beltz got on the “nay” ment, after having voted “y ing the rollcall. He obviously did it with an toward getting on ’ihc conference committee as a “nay” voter. Sen. James Nolan bobbed up to Baranof scheduled to sail fromip..est without mentioning Beltz by name. He said the representative of the losing side “should be som one who had voted the way he! actually thought.” H Sen. John Butrovich also leaped | into the fray with an objection to | the rule of the Senate,” the Fair- banks Republican told President | Engebreth. “I disapprove heartily, although I voted to sustain your | at a conference committee should be named.” : Engebreth suggested Lyng was in he same boat with Beltz, was doing | as Beltz did, but on the opposite | side, with an eye on the conference | committee, Lyng immediately re- | torted that he had said at the time that his vote was being influenced | “only in part” by that consideration. Complaints Made Sen. Steve McCutcheon came to | the support of Engebreth and Beltz with the contention that it was nothing new for a legislator to| switch his vote as a conference committee tactic; that it had been done often before. After Elton Engstrom had added | Lhis complaint to Nolan’s and Bu- trovich’s, Engebreth cracked the gavel, cited a rule against a sen- ator maligning the presiding of- ficer and declared: «The chair will not tolerate any more criticism of its action.” A motion to adjourn broke up the scuffle. (If you wonder why the senators spend so much time sparring at the | opening of the session about elec- tion of the president, there’s a good | ;| was reported out of the Ways and MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES S PRICE TEN CENTS ——— | i Neither bill has § PROPERTY TA REPEAL BILL IS g Holes: eady for l}qqlher Hi a vantage point atop a hill they have just captured on the central Korean front as they The Ieathernecks climaxed their hill-sweeping job (Mar. 3) by capturing Hoensong and surrounding enemy hill pisitions. (® Wirephoto. t objective. SURV e — IVES CRASH o STILL ALIVE } A motion to indefinitely the bill to repeal the Alas] erty Tax Act was defeated in the House this morning by a vote of 8-16. k Voting to kill the bill by indefinite postponement were the seven Third Division members of the House and Rep. Metcalfe of Juneau. A motion to advance tne bill to final passage by a suspension of the rules failed on a 14-10 vote, two short of the necessary two-thirds. The bill to reorganize the Terri- tory’s financial control structure tpone | Means Committee this morning with a “Do Pass” recommendation by all members except Rep. Barnes, who put -a “without recommendation” tag on it. An amenament to make the Com- missioner of Taxation also the ex- officio Commissioner of Corpora- tions instead of placing those duties in the office of the Secretary of Alaska was defeated by a vote of 8-16. Rep. Miscovich offered an amend- ment to provide that the reorganiza- tion provided by the bill would not become effective until approval by a referendum vote of the electors was also defeated, but not until it had stirred up a lengthy debate. Too Complicated Rep. Andrew Hope expressed the view that the bill is too involved to be submitted to the voters as 2 whole and that the entire issue| would be confused by a referendum. Several other members of the House agreed with him, * N Speaker Egan took the floor dui ing the debate to tell the Hous “T feel that the only question that could be put on the ballot would be ‘Should there be a reorganiza- tion?’ and I think that question has already been answered by the vot- ers.” “We would be shirking our jobs by submitting this bill to a refer- endum,” Rep. Kay asserted, “The people have expressed their desire| for g reorganization — it is up to| us as their representatives to pro- vide the machinery for it.” Good Outweighs Bad | “I have been apprehensive about | this bill since it first came to us,”| said Rep. Franklin. “After study-| ing it, however, I believe that the good points outweigh the bad ones and I think we stand to gain by it | inthe long run if it is well admin- | istered, which is the main thing with any law.” 'NUMEROUS BILLS | amended to prohibit the sale Marilyn Woodbury (above), host- ess aboard the Mid-Continent plane which crashed at Sioux City, Ta., was listed among the survivors. At least 14 persons were reported killed, and at least nine otfers survived. The plane, a DC-3 went down in a cornfield north of the airport as it was coming in for a landing enroute from Kansas City to Minneapolis. /// Wirephoto. BEFORE HOUSE, DEADLINE NEAR By BOB DE ARMOND The House of Representatives in a three-hour afternoon and a two- hour, evening session yesterday, did something toward clearing it: calendar of bills that must go to the Senate by next Monday but no much, In brief, the House passed four| bills and one memorial, killed on bill, and heard two bills read in full and continued them in second read- | ing. Rep. Doris Barnes’ bill to provide for Territorial licensing of sports fishing in both fresh water and salt water was approved by a vote of 18-4 in the House. 1 The bill been of any sports fishing e for perpetual for haa previously fish taken under license and to p! personal use fishing permils Indians, Eskimos and Aleu One of the purposes of the bill, Rep. Barnes explained, is to bring in revenues that can eventually be appropriated to match Federal funds in.a program of stocking lakes and streams with fish. She said she hopes the program can a - n Red Lines NEW KOREAN DRIVE NOW UNDERWAY By Associated Press Allied troops ripped gaping holes in Communist lines as they drove ahead as much as four miles today in their big new Korean offensive. Thousands of Red casualties were added Friday to the more than 17~ 000 killed or wounded in the first two days of the Allied northward UMT WINS TEST VOTE I SENATE WASHINGTON, March 9. — (P— Universal military training today won 63 to 20, a test vote, in the senate. Turned down by the roll calli count was an effort to strip tae| proposed long-term program from the pending draft-manpower bill. The provisions aim for an even- tual system under which every) youngster, on reaching 18, would have at least six months of mili- tary training. It is part of a measure to expand land extend the existing Selective | Service Act, due to expire July 9. With this major issue out of the | way, leaders expected to beat down a number of other pending amend- ments and then finally complete passage of the broad Universal Military Training and Service Act. Senators Edwin C." Johnson (D- Colo.) and Bricker (R-Ohio) spon- sored the amendment to knock out the universal military training fea- tures. hey argued that it would start the United States down the road to militarism which had caused the downfall of Germany and many European nations. push. A, U. S. Ninth Corps spokesman said “The enemy seems to be high tailing it along the entire West~ Central front. He indicated a general withdraw- al from the U. S. Eighth Army's major offensive was in progress. Ninth Corps troops pushed north- ward up to four miles Friday thru rough country. They met little re- sistance. This was described as rear guard action, U. S. 25th Division troops killed Chinese in gaining a bitter mile on the western end of the thundering 70-mile Korea front. The gain deepened the 25th's Han River bridgehead to five miles. The division made three assault cross- ings Wednesday about 15 miles east of Seoul. With air and artillery support, the 25th Division Doughboys drove small pockets of enemy from high ground five miles north of the river crossing. Red resistance was described as moderate. American casualties were slight. Thirty prisoners captured Friday said they were short of food and ammunition. They said also that other Chinese soldiers were eager to surrender, mairly because their officers almost invariably fled when artillery ba*vages nit their defense positions, 'CORRUPTION, ROTTENESS” IS SHOWN UP WASHINGTON, March 9 —(P— Senator Capehart (R-Ind) says the Senate investigation of government loans has turned up ‘“corruption and rottenness” for which President Truman should “apologize and take appropriate action.” “A scandal that makes the Teapot Dome scandal look like Sunday school stuff,” Capehart told re- porters. ’ Capehart is a member of a Senate Banking Subcommittee which has been looking into charges of in- fluence in lending by the Recon- Earlier the senate refused to knock out a plan for draft defer- ments of 175,000 young men each year to study to be doctors, scien- tists and technicians. It was beaten |68 to 21. HiLLERS PUT T0 DEATH IN CHAIR | OSSINING, N. Y., March 9.—(#— | Lonely hearts killers Martha Beck, 181, and Raymond Fernandez, 36, | died last night in Sing Sing Prison’s | electric chair, calm and dignified and pledging an undying love for | each other. | The 200-pound murderess, her fat bulging under the straps, was the ast of four persons executed in the space of 24 minutes. She entered the high, bare death chamber unassisted, squeezed into the tight-fitting chair with diffi- | eulty and smiléd ever so faintly at |the two attending matrons. “S6 long” formed on her lips, |but her voice was silent. : Four minutes earlier, the prison | doctor had muttered “I pronounce man dead” over the body of | this example. It's his power in ap-| “No matter what bills we put also be extended to the stocking|p.. partly bald Romeo,. her partner | 7 2 pointing conference which are weighted one way or the | other that makes both factions wary | of the opposition getting the clair. | 1t was Beltz' vote at the start of the session that broke the deadlock | and gave the presidency tc Enge- | breth for the second straight ses- them, they're bound to have some bugs in them,” asserted Rep. Carl- son. “As for this bill, I'm willing to take a chance on it. “The people of Alaska should | have a chance to study and vote on a matter so vital to all of us,” said | Tax Department Bill By a 20-3 vote the House ap- proved a $50,000 deficiency appro- priation for the Territorial Depart- ment of Taxation. Rep. Franklin told the members that $27,000 of the deficiency was caused by equipment purchases not made until a previ- committees | through or how long we work on|of game and fur-bearing animals.|; murder-for-profit. It was Sing Sing's first quadruple | execution in four years. FROM SITKA D. C. Bradshaw of Sitka is stop- ping at the anof Hotel. struction Finance Corporation (RFOC), Hhe said the-inquiry shows “mil- lions upon millions of dollars” of public funds have been loaned on a basis of political favortism “that traces right back to the White House itself.” “It's time now,” Capehart added, “for the President to speak out and act.” President Truman last month des- seribed as asinine a subcommittee report to the Senate charging the RFC has been guilty of influence and favoritism in which White House Aide Donald Dawson had a hand. ‘The committee’s inquiry was in recess today but the members had new trails to follow from a clue- filled diary of an RFC director. One entry in it said President Truman once intervened through an aide in behalf of an applicant for a big loan. ARABIC PROMOTED KARACHI. —®— A resolution passed by the East Pakistan Moslem League Council urging that Ara- bic be adopted as the official lan- guage of Pakistan has been en- dorsed by the English daily, “Eve- ning Times” of Karachi. ‘The papér said that Urdu is not spoken by the majority of the peo- ple of Pakistan and that provincial languages are widely spoken in rural areas. “We should insist that Arabic be provided full opportunity |for dissemination and that efforts be made to allow Arabic to grow into the system of our life,” the paper said. | sion). Rep. Barnes. “This bill was put fo- The salmon tax bill is a substi- | gether in a very short time and the apart at the seams economically after V-J Day in 1946. The depres- FROM KETCHIKAN Soiled paper lamp shades may be Maxines Moore of Ketchikan is|cleaned with wallpaper cleaner. | stopping at the Baranof Hotel, ,‘ Radiant floor heating is obtained Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bailis of e Ketchikan are at the Baranof Hotel. | @ | Since March 1 — 41 inches; Since July 1 — 3238 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ous appropriation for the purpose| i . SR 1 5 . L (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Four) (C;t;tl;ued (I Page Eight) (Co;fim;e'd»on l”age" Two)