The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1951, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIL, NO. 11,756 JUNEATU, ALA%KA TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951 STATEHOOD BILLS NEAR (OM. VOTE WASHINGTON, March 13 —(P— The Senate Insular Affairs Com- mittee virtually completed w day on the Alaska and Hawaii state- hond hills. A vote was sei for next ‘Tuesday. Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) announced after a closed-door meet- ing of the committee'that technical details of both bills have been agreed upon. A final vote was postponed, O'Ma- honey said, because Senators Butler (R-Neb) and Millikin (R-Colo) were engaged on finance committee business and could not be present today. O'Mahoney said the ques tion of possible additional hearings on the | Alaska bill has not been decided. Up Next Week Both bills will be submitted to a vote at next week’s meeting, he said The vote may turn on the simple question of “a state or not a state,” he said. Although, he added, a de- sire for further hearings may in- fluence the vote. The committee voted | weeks ago not to conduct any more | hearings on Hawaii statehood The Hawaii bill was amended to ratify the action of the pecple of Hawalii in holding their state consti- tutional convention advance of congressional authorization Mere Time for Alaska Congress would still have to ap- prove the constitution before Hawaii could become a state. The purpose of not providing for | automatic statehood for Hawaii upon the passage of the statehood bill, O’'Mahon said, is to g:\c Alaska a little time to catch up.” “It is our desire,” O'Mahoney said, “to have Hawaii and Alaska 3 hand in hand into the Union 49th and 50th states.” O'Mahoney said the committec| would vote next week on an amend- ment to the Hawaii bill to prevent transfer of jurisdiction over com-| merce between the United States and the Islands from the maritime| board to the Interstate Commerce, Commission. | The change is opposed by the peo- ple of Hawaii, O’Mahoney said, while it is desired by the peop: Alaska. The Alaska bill was amended to change apportionment of delegates to the constitutional convention in accordance with the recommenda- tions of the Alaska Legislature. ‘ STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof from Seattle in port and| scheduled to sail westward at 3. o'clock this afternoon. { Princess Norah scheduled to sail! from Vancouver 8 p.m. Wednesday.| Denali scheduled fo sail from Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. as the | 1 FROM ANCHORAGE | | Joe J. Jisiolek, with the Alaska! Road Commission at Anchorage, is! registered at the Gastineau Hotel.l The Washington, Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., (Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on a flying tour of Europe. and the middle East, surveying. the world situation.) ROME.— The real, background reason why the governments of France, the Netherlands and Italy are having trouble staying organ- jzed today is that the fear of Com- munism is vanishing. For a long time the middle-of-the-road and rightist parties in these countries banded together to form cabinets only because they had to do so to prevent the Communists from or- ganizing a government in their place. With Communist stre: ln| disintegrating, these anti-Commun- ist coalitians are now falling to] pieces. This is a real danger. For, des pite the lessening threat of the| Communists, they still have by all odds the largest blocs of votes in both the French and Italian parl-| iaments. In fact, Italy, with Jeast 2,000.000 card-carrying l.-om—\ several | |of court for | Fund j tion for the credits which had been ! was not 15 minutes af (arrow) () Wirephoto. .ESC ORDERED 10 | HOLD FUNDS FOR ALL CREDITS DUE and Wards Cove Packing Company won a point in its case against the Employment Security Commissioner in court this morning when Judge George W. Folts ordered the de- fendants, the Employment Security Commission, to hold certain funds on hand, which they represented amounted to $471,581.10, and to im- | total amount rea the | by | the court’s judgment of January 18, that the plaintiffs will be protected <5 a motion filed by iact Friday asking (hv cov 4” to enter an order ad- judging the defendents in contempt not having complied with the court’s Judgment and Decree of January 18 of this year occupied most of the morning sion in the U. S. District Court Atterney H. L. Faulkner repre- aintiffs and the de- Iendams‘ argument was made by Assistant Attorney General John Diamond. The action evolved from the case ;last year of the fish companies against the Commission concerning the payment of “Experiense Ratinz Credits” for employers. The Court in its judgment had ordered the Commission to compute and assign to employers in the Territory cer-| tain credits due them under the law for the credit year commencing July 1, 1950. This point was brought out by the attorney for the plaintiff in the argument heard today. In his opinion at the close of the arguments today Judge Folta said that it appeared to him that the whole course of the defendants had been with a view of circumventing the judgment and decree. The plaintiffs claim the Employ- i ment Security Commission has not complied with the decree and order tof the District Court and last Fri- day filed the motion asking a con- tempt order. Hs L. Faulkner appeared for the plaintiffs, and he represented to the court that the defendants had | pursued a steady cotrse of delay in compliance with the court’s judgment, in the meantime requir- ing all employers to pay contribu- tions to the Unemployment Trust in full, without any deduc- ordered by the court. It was represented to the court that the plaintiffs and all other employers had been obliged to pay the contributions in full at the rate of 2.7 per cent of their pay- rolls for the Septembér and Decem- ber quarters, and that unless the | plaintiffs were protected by some such order of the court, they would be obliged to pay for the March and June quarters, in full, and the | judgment of the court would have become a nullity. The Commission argued that it in contempt of court as it has been working to recompute all the credits. John McLaughlin, | director of the Unemployment In- surance Division of the Commission, was in court. It was agreed that Messrs. Faulk- (Continued cn Page Two) (Conf inued Voinfi_APage Four) Two men died north of Warm Springs, Calif., protrudes from the wreckage. | service | While questioning him about the | of shattered glass in his pants cuffs | House Appropriation , Bill Totals $13,31 SENME SAYS The dead were s, 28, a College of Paci Two unidentificd Fatal Glider (rash (Mar. 10) when their powerless glider dived into a knoll r being cut free from the tow plane. Oakland (Calif.) attorney and William L. Bowe: | vietims identified as Ed Connors, 32, an c student. The foot of one of the e officers examine the wreckage. Fesiwai Nears The New England Fish Company| | pound all receipts from now on until’ -y | the | amount of the credits ordered With the annual Pll\allllp '\Vnyh) \a“ev Daffodil Festival less than a month away, Queen Elaine Chipps makes a hurried inspection of one of the fields near Tacoma, Wash,, and finds plants blooming despite a blanket of snow. (P Wirephoto. The festival is scheduled for the weekend AUK BAY lEGION (LUB 70 RECEIVE | OFFICIAL CHARTER Auk Bay Fr)\t No. 25, The Ameri- | can Legion, will receive its official American Legion charter Thurs- | day night directly from the hands | of Herald A. Stringer, of Anchor- age, Department of Alaska Com- | mander for the Legion. | At the same time, Post officers | will be officially installed and new Legionnaires will be initiated. The Auk Bay charter meeting will also feature Department First Vice Commander John Van Horn, of Sitka, Commander Vernon P. Harris of Juneau Post No. 4, Past Department Commander Harold A. Dawes and other Alaska Legion celebrities now in Juneau. The presentation, installation and initiation will take place at 8 p. m., Thursday, in the temporary meeting place at Dehart’s Store in Auk Bay. Families and visiting Legionnaires are invited to attend, also the gen- eral public. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. CUFFS PROVIDE EVIDENCE GLEND LE, Calif (A—Because he wore cuffs on his trousers, a station attendant faces a burglary charge. Police said he ad- mitted entering the station where he is employed by means of a pass key and taking $88. He then broke | a window with a brick to make it appear that a burglary was com- | mitted. | He was arrested later asleep in| his car nearby on a drunk charge broken window, police noticed bits Gecssccescscccccscsessccccscccsecs STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 18 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'4, American Can 106, American Tel. and Tel. 153'%, | Anaconda 397, Douglas Aircraft 97, General Electric 54%, General Mot- ors 51%, Goodyear 72, Kennecott 721%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 32%, Standard Oil of California 45, Twentieth Century Fox 22, U, S. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.62. Sales today were 2,330,000 shares. Ave: s today were as follows: | Industrials 245.88, rails 81.42, utili- ties 42.65. WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'cluck this morning In Juneau Maximum, 35; minimum, 31. At Airport 34; minimum, 22. Maximum, FORECAST Mostly cloudy with oc- casional snow showers tonight and Wednesday. Increasing southeasterly winds Wednes- day. Low temperature to- night near 28 and high Wed- nesday near 35. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — .31 inches Since March 1 — 96 inches Since July 1 — 51.89 inches At Airport — .12 inches; Since March 1 — .80 inches; Since July 1 — 33.18 inches. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 o Twins are born about once every 87 births. 0000 00e00c000000 00 "000C00000 .| posed with telling effect while she MlaMl ER ASSOCIATED PR I-L\\\‘ PRICE TEN CENTS — | Another school bond issue pro- posal failed to pass in the Senate this morning. The vote was 8 to 7 for Rep, Jack Conright's measure, but nine votes were needed. It was a request to Congress for the right to issue up to $9,000,000 in Territorial bonds for school purposes, provided 60 per cent of the electorate approves such action at the polls. It also carried a jon for Federal matching fun The senators have talked up and down the issue so many times that they dispensed with debate this morning and got nght down to the rollcall. Voting for the measure were Democrats Anderson, Beltz, Mac- Kenzie, Huntley and McCutcheon and Republicans Garnick, Ipalook and Engebreth. Against were Republicans Butro- vich, Coble, Engstrom, Lhamon, Snider and Democrats Lyng and Nolan. Sen. Frank Barr was absent because of illness, It was a quiet morning in the Senate after the pell-mell 50th day deadline pace that lasted until 10 o'clock last night. i Children’s Home Bill ‘ ‘The Senate this morning com-‘ pleted legislative approval on the bill for licensing of children’s homes by the Territorial Department of| Public Welfare. 1t is a modified | version of a bill that has been be- fore the legislature for several ses- sions, and which Minnie Field op- was running her home. The Senate voted 11 to 3.for the Amella Gundersen-Doris Barnes- sponsored bill, Welfare Director Henry Harmon | said there was no desire or inten- | tion of clamping down on existing} homes, but authority over them was desirable to enforce minimum | standards. He said new homes are needed, but the department wants to keep an eye on what they are like. / The Senate approved Rep. J. S.| MacKinnon’s memorial to Federal | authorities for an income tax ex-. ezlpuon for new industries coming Alaska. The memorial cited the desirability of such a concession in the attempt to draw new capital to the Alaska high risk area The Senate.tabled Rep. George Gasser’s anti-cruelty to animals bill and passed Rep. Vernon Met- calfe’s bill to provide time off for Territorial or city employes for summer training with a military resérve unit. Eight Bills Passed The Senate passed eight bills and tossed five overboard in the long Monday afternoon and night ses- sion. The evening session brought some! lively arguments over banking, a' pointed jab by Sen. Howard Lyngj at the continuance of a regular Army officer as acting head of the Alaska National Guard, and 2 whirl-around between Dr. R. M. MacKenzie of Ketchikan, and some of his fellow senators over whether the Alaska dental examining board is too tough, The latter scrap came over a bill MacKengie had introduced, with the dental board’s approval, to exempt military and U. S. public health service dentists from exams in Alaska. An amendment to put Territorial public health dentists in the same category stirred up the MacKenzie hornets’ nest. There were prospectors’ aching teeth, figuratively, all around the chamber before the senator-dentist won his point by an 8-8 vote on the attempt to write in the amendment. Senators were arguing that depart- ment of health dentists, in roving around the Territory, should be able ‘0 pull a prospector’s tooth in an emergency. Heated Argument MacKenzie argued heatedly that the gates should not be let down in any regard; that the high stand- ards of the dental profession in Alaska should be kept inviolate by the examining board. Senators who were arguing that Alaska needs more dentists, And contending that the examining board is too tough, drew from Dr. C. Earl Albrecht the testimony that any dentist coming to the Health Depan.ment must be x graduate of (Continued on Page Eiat) (CHALLENGE Mlssmg Girl Gels Spankmg NSO S— - Joy over the return of his missing daughter, Viola, 8, quickly turned to exasperation for Roy Wehrle. Seven Venice, California, police cars searched for her through the night when she failed to return home from school. The next morning (March 10) she was found at the home of a playmate a few blocks away. This is what happened at her reunion with her father. (P erephuto. RESISTANCE RED FORCES ISSUED BY COSTELLO Demands Investigators Produce Evidence Runs Crime Syndicate NEW YORK, March 13 —(®P— Gambler Frank Costello today chal- lenged Senate crime investigators to produce evidence that he runs a national crime synd The committe has accused Cos- tello in recent reports of ruling such an organization. Demanding, in effect, that the committee put up or shut up, Cos- tello said through his attorns "l‘ am a witness and not a defendant.” | He said he wanted to see the evidence, and then have a chance to make “proper reply.” Dressed immaculately in a blue suit , and maroon tie, the suave, reputed underworld leader took his place under the television lights be- side his attorney, George Wolf. By Associated Press American troops stormed into Yudong today and talion of Chinese Reds, Yudong is 11 miles southeast tion area. A U. 8. Second Division first entered the town Monc night but withdrew after fire fight. | allel. as Costello entered. | South Korea. Reds Withd National Arch-Criminal avls Wi AT In his statement, he charged that of the the committee had named him as | mountain a national arch-criminal in a re- port prepared before he even ap-| peared at an excutive of the group previously Yielding to Costello’s request, the committee agreed not to televise his | chon. appearance. All of the open hearing | More than 1,500 trucks were yesterday was televised. redoubts where yard. Some front line office for a stand at prepared front in this sector Monday Former Mayor Involved His appearance came shortly after [ ¢ -half months. a deputy New York attorney gen- { eral had testified that he was intro-| duced to underworld chieftain Joe | heayy vehicular traffic i Adonis by former Mayor William | porth from Seoul: Some sources O'Dwyer and others | this indicated the Reds migh Jerome G. Ambro, taking the wit-| pulling out of the rubble ness stand as the second day of the | gouth Korean capital. committee’s New York public lw.u--; In the drive on Hongchon, ings opened, said that when he met |and Canadian troops spearing the gambling figure, O'D other prominent men were present.| road hub. Ambro, one-time under-sheriff of | Kings County (Brooklyn), said the | west to east: others included State Assembly | Fm,een miles east Democratic Leader Irwin Steingut, |y, former City Fire Commissioner | bnd;,ehend ACTOS: Frank Quayle and the late Frunkng bridgehead is almost Kelly, former Brooklyn Democratic| geep leader. The introduction to Adonis, Am- bro said, occurred at a Brooklyn Spear Headed Drive of Seoul the Han Town Is Taken On the East, front, IS MELTING Americafioops Keep Storming On-No Explana- tion of Red Withdrawal |y back wrested | Last biennium, $250,000; control of the village from a bat- | $100,000. of Last Hongchon and less than three miles ' $214,800. southwest of a Chinese concentra- patrol ed, 1y a briel Last biennium, $79,406.40; requested Elsewhere along the 70-mile front UN forces were chasing strangely Last biennium, $20,000; ‘elusne Chinese and North Korean ' $25000. soldiers back toward the 38th Par- Probing spearheads of the three Allied columns closing in on Hong- The crowded room in the Federal | chon were within 25 miles of the lcourthome became perceptibly tense | old boundary between North and | There was no ready explanation: Red withdrawal from the same as request and last appropria- they tion, | previously fought bitterly for every sald same as last appropriation and re- the Reds were possibly pulling back | quest. defense positions on ridges north of Hong- | $500, same as last appropriation and re- | ported moving up toward the Red nignt, | the largest number seen in two and Allied air observers also reported 3ritish the er and | center were but four miles from the Also along the 70 mile front from the 25th Division consolidated its River. 11 miles the junction town of Changpyong fell to the U ,558 SSMIfiION MORETHAN LAST TIME Ways and Means Slashes Two Million from Budget Requests The House Committee on Ways ‘nnd Means, headed by Rep. Glen D Franklin, yesterday afternoon brot in its General Appropriations bill for the coming biennium. The bill appropriates a total of $18,319,558.50 for the two-year per- iod, This compares with a budget re- quest of $20,128,311.28, submitted by the Board of Budget Two years ago the Legislature passed a General Appropriations bill totaling $13,041,656.80. | The present bill does not include special appropriations in bills pend- ing before the House or Senate or already enacted, but does include allowances for teachers’ salary in- creases and some other pay in- creases. Appropriations by departments £s provided in House Bill No. 162 are: Aid to Public Libraries: $5,000, the same as last biennium but $2,500 less than was requested. Alaska Communication Division: | $73 652. Two years ago the appro- priation was $42,610. The request | was for $104,928. Department of Agriculture: $95,- 290.84. Two years ago, $75,000; re- qumtvd for the next biennium, $98,- Depnr(ment of Fisheries: $3850- 672. Last biennium, $250,000; re- quested for next biennium, $400,000. Alaska Development Board: $90,- 000. Last biennium, $80,000; request- £120,000. Historical Museum: $39.824, Last $37,750; requested, $38,500. Alaska Housing Authority, $80,000. requested, Library and biennium, Alaska National Guard: $175,100. biennium, $75,000; requested, Office of Attorney General: $91,- 932. Last biennium, $64,450; request- $89,500. Office of the Auditor: $105880. $125,000. Biennial Territorial Audit: $15,000. requested, Banking Board: $8,000. Last bien- nium, $5,000; requested, $10,000. Board of Accountancy: $4,400. Last biennium, $1,000; requested, $4,400, Board of Alaska Soil Conserva- tion: $4,690, same as request. NoO appropriation last biennium. Board of Alaska Libraries: $2,000, Board of Basic Sciences: $1990, Board of Chiropratic Examiners: request Board of Cosmetology: same as before, Board of Dental $3,000, same as before. Board of Medical same as before. Board of Optometry: as before. Board of Pharmacy: $3,000, same as before Bounty on Eagles: $15,000, same as last appropriation and request Bounty on Hair Seals: $100,000, same as last time. Amount request- ed, $£300,000. Bounty on Wolves and Coyotes: $100,000. Last appropriation and r2- quest, $125,000, Delegate from Alaska: $2,500, same as last appropriation and re- quest. Department of Education: $182,- 096. Last biennium, $132,858.60; re- quest, $163,624.80. Emergency Appropriation: $5,000, same as last biennium and request. Fisheries Experimental Commis= $1,850, Examiners: Examiners: $1 $395, same y tY eputed p ig) restaurant operated by the reputed | s geventh Division without a fight.| o) “esg 619 Last biennium, $50.- racketeer. | Republic of Korea troops Soksa, some 25 miles from Parallel. FOOD At Sears, Friday, A. M. Catholic Daughters. ! There is no internal mail system the among the 5,000 people on the is- land of St. Helena, but a large part of the government revenue comes from the sale of postage stamps to collectors. LE |Also on the extreme Eastern front. | g, occupied 38th March 16, 10:00 At : request, $59,000. General Election: biennium, $14,500; request, $15,000. Office of Governor: $40424. Last biennium, $37,600; request, $37.600. Health Department $1,009,000. $15,000. Last (Continued on Page Two)