The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI,, NO. 11,764 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951 Americans Shot Way Out of Comm:e EMPIRE - — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - * STATEHOOD FUND BILL IS TABLED By a 13-11 vote this morning the House of Representatives laid or the table a Senate approved bill to appropriate $35,000 for the Alaska Statehood Committee during the coming biennium. The bill, as introduced in the Senate, called for $75,000. This wa: whittled down by the senators after it was pointed c that the £ hood Committee has $40,000 remain- ing in its 1949 ap; is now “frozen” by the Board of Ad- ministration. There was no debate on Rep Franklin’s motion to table 'the bill The House this morr adopteo a Conference Committee report which patched up the Hous differences over H., B. 27, the Territor: Retirement Act A new Conference Com: sisting of Reps. Barnes, Gunc and Kay, was named to Senators Lyne, MacK 1 Honey with Bunny Bonnet Huntley regarding Senate amend- || ments to H. B. 48, relating to aid to dependent children, Salmon Tax Rep. Doris Barnes offered an amendment to the Senate bill in- creasing the raw fish tax on canned salmon from the present 4 per cent to 6 per cent. Her amendment would make the rate 5 per cent. “T dislike increasing the taxes of our main industry by 50 per cent\ at this time,” Rep. Barnes said ir offering the amendment. “I hope Mrs. Barnes is prepagec to introduce a bill to raise the in- come tax or to provide some other additional revenue,” said Rep. Franklin. “We need the $1,400,00C this additional tax bill will bring in.” Peter F. Gilmore, local represent- ative of the Alaska Salmon Industry Inc, was called to make a state- ment before the House and answer questions. Gilmore pointed out that people in the salmon canning business pay all taxes paid by other businesses except the business license tax, and in addition. pay two special taxes The 1949 Legislature, he said, in- creased the tax revenues from the canneries by more than 10¢ per cent. { Paid $4,000,000 ! During the past biennium, Gil- more said, the industry paid the Territory more than four million dollars under two special tax acts— the raw fish tax and the trap tax In addition, he said, fishermen alsc | pay a special tax. “The fisherman | is the only person who works with | his hands and his back in the Ter- ritory of Alaska who is required tc pay a special license tax in order to work for a living,” he commented. Gilmore outlined the difference in the methods for computing the raw fish tax on canned salmon and on salmon processed by other methods and gave figures to show that the levy on salmon placed in a can is 1 | | | (Continued on P;Ee Two) The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. (Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is making a tour of the middle East and Europe, surveying the world situation.) BERLIN.—This is the extreme northern end of the Iron Curtain. I started this trip at the southern end where it begins, between Bul garia and Turkey—a long line of barbed wire extending north—and have now reached the other end, where it isn't even barbed wire but fans out into the east zone of Berlin, One of the most important con- clusions I've reached on this trip is that Winston Churchill did the Democratic world a disservice when he talked' about the border be- tween Russia and the western world as an Iron Curtain, because the border isn't as impervious as the word “Iron” indicates. Not only is Stalin’s curtain between the east and the west not even marked by barbed wire in many places, but it can be crossed fairly easily. X The border between Czechoslov- (Continued on Page Four) e LEGISLATURE DUE T0 END AT MIDNIGHT By JIM HUTCHESON Alaska’s 20th Legislature was in its final 24-hour stretch today. ‘The session ends legally at mid- night although there is a good chance clocks will be covered while the early hours Friday are consum- ed winding up the chores of getting the last appropriation and revenue measures in their final form. The final day found these top priority bills remaining for action: In the Senate — Government Re- organization and record $18,300,600 General Appropriation Bills; both passed the House. Here's one of the fi agents far and wide. topped with rabbit ears effect. Wirephoto. st of the annual crop of Easter poses from press June Anderson holds her favorite bunny—and oh yes, that's supposed to be an Easter bathing bonnet she's wearing, The location? In the House — Civilian Defense Bills, a 50 per cent increase in the canned salmon tax and a measure for the control of roaming dogs, which may be secondary in import- ance but draws first ranking in cor- Miami, Florida. ® PLEA DENIED [HISS GOES 10 COLLAZO, FACES DEATH WASHINGTON, March 22 —(®— Oscar Collazo today lost his plea for a new trial and will be sentenced to death April 6 for his part in the Nov. 1 shooting in front of Presi dent Truman’s Blair House r dence. In denying a defense motion for a new trial, U. S. District Judge T. Alan Goldborough banged his hand on the bench for emphasis ‘and said: “If ever & human being on the face of the earth had a fair trial, this defendant did.” ENIWETOK BOMB TEST TOTOP ALL By Associated Press Congress continues to mull over the needs of far-flung American defense against possible aggression. Indicatbns were that new atomic tests being prepared for Pacific proving grounds at Eniwetok Atoll probably would be the biggest yet. Conceivably the tests could involve early-stage type of hydrogen bomb— the dread Hell bomb. Statements of the Atomic Energy Commission and the U. S. Air Force indicate the tests will involve the use of structures, materials and air- craft. At the least, the bombs being tested will represent a long advance over 1938 STOCK 0UC:ATIONS NEW YORK, March 22 — Ciosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 111!z, American Tel. and Tel. 154%, Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft 96, General Electric 54!, General Motors. 52%, Goodyear 74, Kenne- cott 73%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 34, Standard Oil of California 45%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U. S. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80', Canadian Exchange 95.50, Sales today were 1,290,002 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 250.52, rails 81.99, utili- ties 43.04. ANCHORAGE VISITOR Robert J. Williams of Anchorage | is at the Baranof Hotel. | | i i i | | respondence received by the legisla- | | The Senate also approved a House i bill for the care of sick and dis- {abled fishermen. The measure pro- vides that 30 per cent of fisher- men's license fees will go into a fishermen’s fund. The bill carried by a surprising 12-4 vote after Fairbanks’ Senators Dan Lhamon, Frank Barr and Joe Coble contended it was class legis- {lation. Sen. John Butrovich joined jthem to make a solid Fourth Di- | vision vote against the measure. ! First Division senators carried the | ball for the fishermen, Lhamon, Fairbanks Republican, even offered an amendment to in- clude auto salesmen, contending they were entitled to such benefits as much as the fishermen. Barr sug- :geswd the same for ailing pilots. | The Senate also approved Rep. Vernon Metcalf’s bill for creation of a veterans’ service council com- ! posed of veterans’ organizations’ leaders to aid in pressing claims with the Veterans’ Administration. Also approved, unanimously, was a bill to provide $40,000 for advertis- ing for tourists, if private interests mateh it. | The Senate defeated 12-4 a bill | proposing that 50 per cent of the | wolf bounty money be turned over ® \to the Federal Fish and Wildlife | Service. Phyni’;“s",:'uf“";'g‘zmut cayig | The bill provided one o the live- Ty “'1 a s nt, . Cal | llest_arguments of the night, with b the Baranof Hotel. | the Senate arrayed into pro-trapper | and pro-wildlife service camps. Bu- > MF::?{M SKAGWAY ‘Hrovich was the most outspoken - M. Ackerman of Skagway iS | critic. He declared a Federal agency 8} the ‘Barenat Mo | “has a lot of nerve asking us for |a few dollars” for such a job. FROM SKAGWAY | The Senate failed to reach a vote V. V. Cooper of Skagway is at on the controversial Government the Baranof Hotel, | Reorganization Bill last night when Ancient e | it could muster only 10 votes toward 3 e had standard | the 11 needed to suspend rules to ;‘8;:850;0?:!125:? ma sl:‘g'-; :‘S:i:;‘]advance the bill to final passage. " It was due to come up again to- tors. Behind the scenes is the ominous | shadow of the prospective new tax | bill. To pRlSON ' Chairmen of budget-framing com- mittees of both Houses say a budget "y Idellclt of severa’ million dollars is | loomi e, FIVE YEAR | Tvice duri : debate on bills in | the Senate y:iterday the necessity | of voting for new taxes, if appro- | priations were made, was empha- NEW YORK, March 22 V(m_wsized by Democratic Floor Leader Alger Hiss, one-time bright young | Steve McCutcheon of Anchorage. star of President Roosevelt’s New | Th.e possibility of raising the Deal, surrendered today to besm;Temwrial income tax from 10 per serving a five-year prison term for | °€nt of the Federal income tax to perjury. 312 or possibly 15 per cent has been The 46-year-old former high ‘ mentioned. The possibility of a sales State Department official his | t8X also was mentioned in the Sen- appeals to the higher court rejected | ¢ yesterday. —gave himself up to Federal Judge The Senate last night approved Henry W. Goddard. | unanimously a bill raising teachers’ Hiss was convicted Jan. 21, 1950 | salaries $300 yearly in the First Di- on two counts of perjury. The con- | Vision, $400 in the Third, and $500 viction, in effect, branded him a |in the Second and Fourth Divisions. liar and a traitor who betrayed his; Senators estimated the increase country by turning over Government | Would cost over $500,000 additional secrets to Whittaker Chambers, ad- | for the biennium. mitted courier of a Communist spy | ring. The courtroom proceeding lasted less than half a minute. e o 00 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'cluck this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 35; minimum, 27. At Airport — Maximum, 38; minimum, 27, FORECAST Cloudy with snow and southeasterly winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour tonight becoming cloudy with rain and decreasing Wwinds Fri- day. Lowest temperature to- night near 31 degrees. High- est Friday near 37 ®* PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 ours ending a.m. today ® City of Juneau -- .08 inches; Since March 1—4.65 inches; Since July 1-—-556.56 inehes. At Airport — .05 inches; Since March 1—2.61 inches; ®j Since July 1 — 35.09 inches. ® o 0 0 000 0 0 0 'Consolidated System for Recording Mineral Claims. By FRANK W. VAILLE ! WASHINGTON, March 22.—(®— Legislation to suspend the required annual assessment work on gold mining claims and set up a con- solidated system of recording all mineral claims has been introduced by Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska). | ‘Several bills, including one by Bartlett, have been introduced to suspend assessment work on all min- ing claims, but this is the m'stl to apply only to gold claims. Bartlett told a reporter the new proposal was introduced to meet the objections of the Atomic Energy Commission and others who felt the blanket suspension would halt development of sites contain- ing strategic and needed minerals. The suspension would be effec- tive until July 1 of the first year after the end of the national emer- gency declared by President Truman December 16, 1950. | { | Her Legs Are Pelei 15 s The bill also would require filing | within 180 days aiter its enactment of a record of all claims in the nearest district office of the Bureau of Land Management. Future claims would have to be filed within 90 days of location. The time limit in both instances would be doubled for Alaska. A record of assessment work nlsol would be filed each year. ‘The bill, however, would permit a claim holder to credit an excess |of work one year onto the assess- ment for the succeeding year. Similarly, in cases where no more than contiguous claims are held in common ownership, the assessment work for all claims could be done on one. Failure to record either the claim or the assessment work for one year would- leave it open to entry by another party. Failure for three suc- | cessive years would leave the claim subject to withdrawal from mining for other purposes under the Public Lands Act. TRIBUTE 10 - PARKS FOR | CONFESSION WASHINGTON, March 22 —(P— Film Star Larry Parks, self-con- fessed one-time Communist, was praised in the House today as a “great actor” and “loyal American.” The praise was for his testimony yesterday before the House commit- tee on un-American Activities. The unusual tribute was paid Parks by Rep. Velde (R-Il). It fol- lowed an expression by Rep. Potter (R-Mich) vojcing the hope the movie industry would not take re-l prisals as a result of Parks’ ad- mission he.was a member of a party cell from 1941 to 1945. Both Velde and Potter are mem- bers of the Un-American Activities committee. Parks was the lead-off witness in its renewed investigation of Communism-in-Hollywood. After a one-day session, the committee re- oessed the main body of its hear- ings until April 10 when new sen- sations are promised. Another committee source, who asked that his name be withheld, disclosed meanwhile that Parks named “about a dozen” film figures as members of his cell. Several of them were described as well known film figures. Parks, who starred in “The Jol- son Story,” told the committee he joined the party in an idealistic search that “didn’t work out” and quit when his interest faded. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle at 4 p.m. Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail jfrom Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive Sunday morning south- bound. | | l ) John Vn‘elv. a portrait painter who says he’s searched 20 years for a perfect pair of feminine legs, thinks those pictured at left are the most perfect in America. They belong to Hollywood Movie Actress Juia Adams, For the rest of Julia, see picture at right. Artist Vogel, a brave man, says “90 per cent of American women are either knock- kneed or bow legged and that goes for Hollywood, too.” (P Wirephoto. IN THIS CORNER WEHAVE-WELL, WHO HAVE WE! In the middle of such serious problems as reorganization and budgets, the senate got a chuckle ‘Wednesday night out of three sets of boxing gloves. The gloves were miniatures, just about the size of a thimble. They appeared on the desks of three senators who have done a lot of sparring during the session, Helnie £nider, Gunnard Engebreth | anG Houward Lyng. Altached to them were these inemos: THE WASILLA WILDTAT (Fighting weight 17" Comes out fast; breaks riean, but inclined to. wander after a few fast rounds. Trains on milk. THE KOUGAROK KILLER (that's Lyng) (Fighting weight 178) Slow starter; strong finisher; re- markable endurance. Wins many bouts with sheer weight of adjec- tives, Trains on vodka. THE COOK INLET COUGAR (that's Engebreth) (Fighting weight 185) Gets groggy, but never gives up. ‘When on verge of defeat resorts to ivory sledge hammer (the gavel). PS—Since the gloves showed up shortly after Sen. Dan Lhamon’s return from Seattle, the Fairbanks senator was open to suspicion. Be- sides, he’s chairman of the senate committee on education and extra- curricular sctivities. JUDY GIVEN HER DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, March 22 —(®— Judy Garland divorced Movie Di- rector Vincente Minnelli today with testimony that he “secluded him- self and wouldn't explain why he would be away and leave me alone 50 much.” Calm and composed during an eight-minute witness stand appear- ance, she told the court: “When we were first married we were very happy. We had many in- terests together — our work and friends. We enjoyed living.” A property settlement approved by the court gives the couple’s five- year-old daughter Liza “freedom of locomotion and casual choice” be- tween her father and mother. SOURDOCEYS TO MEET The Sourdocey Square Dancing a mill for a bakery and a bunch | of grapes for a wine shop. i When Caesar conquered Egypt, *part of the tribute was paid in glass. day but some senators expressed the belief it might get lost in the closing day and night confusing (Continued on Page Two) FROM KENT ‘Club will meet Saturday March 24 Wayne C, Morgan of Kent, Wash.|at 8:30 p.m. at the parish hall. CIVIL DEFENSE, SALMON TAX, BEFORE HOUSE By BOB DE ARMOND The House of Representatives moved into the 60th and last day of the session with only two major bills remaining on its calendar — the Civil Defense Bill and a bill to increase the raw fish tax on canned salmon, Due to he received f.om the Senate to:ny was a bill appropriat- ing $35,006 for the Alaska Statehood Committee, and remaining from yesterday’s segsion was a bill provid- ing for the licensing of dogs un- licensed by a municipality. During yesterday's long session, the House passed, among others, Senate bills levying a tax on fish processed in floating cold storage plants and adopting a comprehen- sive vehicle licensing and registra- tion code. Argument on the freezer ship tax hinged on the difference between floating and shore based plants and whether one could leeally be taxed at a higher rate than the other. Shore plants pry a tax of 7 per cent on the fish tary process Sufficient Differences Attorney General J. Gerald Wil- liams, called before the House for an opinion, said that he thought there are enough differences be- tween shore and floating cold stor- ages to establish them in separate classes for taxation purposes. * believe this bill, if enacted, will be sustained in the courts,” Williams said. The bill passed by a vote of 20-4, with Reps. Johnson, Laws, Misco- vich and Barnes voting “no.” The vehicle registration bill was amended to scale down the license tax rates set by the Senate. Tax rates under this law will be based on the weight of the vehicle and the Senate bill set them at $10 for a vehicle under 3,500 pounds and on up to $400 for a vehicle over 20,000 pounds. New Rates Set The House upped the minimum tax to $15 for a vehicle up to 3,500 pounds and set three other brackets: $25 for a vehicle weighing between 3,500 and 15,000 pounds; $50 for a vehicle of 15,001 to 18,000 pounds and $75 for vehicles over 18,000 pounds. Speaking in favor of the amend- ment, Rep, Glen Franklin asserted that the higher tax rates might force the young and budding truck- ing industry out of business. Franklin pointed out that the truckers, generally speaking, have a one-way haul, from the coast to arrived here yesterday from the|There will be election of new of- South and is registered at the Gas-| ficers. A good attendance is re- tineau Hotel. quested, Interior points, and that since they (Wx;dx’:’fie&r on Fage Two) Ambus US. FORCES NEAR BIG PARALLEL - Americans Wfik Info Red Trap in Forward Push, Then Fight Way Out By Assoclated Press An American tank-infantry pa- trol with mine-hunting engineers today shot its way out of a Com- munist ambush less than three miles from the Red Korean border. ‘The tanks were moving up one side of the Pukhan River north of Chunchon and the infantry were plodding along the opposite bank when the Reds opened fire. From high ground they poured - | machinegun, rifle and mortar fire |on all sides of the patrol. “They let us walk into the trap rand then they sprang it said Cp. Charley Hamilton, Virginia City, Va. “Enemy fire was all around us jeverywhere we turned. We finally scrambled across to the tanks and | they kept the Chinese down on one side while we moved out.” The tanks pulled back to Chun- chon, carrying the wounded. Along this Central Korean sector, the bulk of the Communist troops |appeared to have slipped north of Parallel 38. The Central Korean advance drove through the former Chinese Red base at Chunchon, occupied yester- day without a fight, and lit out after the retreating Communist troops. Chunchon s eight miles from the parallel. Field dispatches said United Nations forces seemed in po- sition now to strike across the Par- allel, but there has been no definite word that the political border would be crossed once again. North of Seoul, a UN tank patrol fought a sharp battle with Com- munists at Uljongbu, south of the area in which the Chinese were be- lieved massing a defense 15 miles {in depth below the Parallel. | Senafor Barr Is Nominated For Marshall ‘WASHINGTON, March 22.—(fw President Truman today sent to the senate the nomination of Frank iBarr, to be U. S. marshall for Division No. 4, District of Alaska, succeeding Stanley J. Nichols, re- signed. Barr is now in Juneau attending the Alaska Legislature as Senator from the Fourth Division. Several months ago when it was announced he was a candidate for the marshal- ship, Barr stated he would not be nominated until the legislature had complete: jts 60 days session. ' REORGANIZATION BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE, 11 -5 With the numerous amendments made last night, the Senate this | afternoon passed the Government's Reorganization Bill by a vote of 11 to 5. BPR SUPERINTENDENTS CONFER ON HANDLING CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Clarence Baumgarner, Equipment | Superintendent with the Juneau of- fice of the Bureau of Public Roads, went to Portland, Ore. this week to participate in ‘a conference on | the overall program for handling | and reporting of equipment for the coming road construction season. Equipment superintendents from | the Bureau's western division and representatives from the Washing- | ton, D. C. office will meet to dis- Ecuss a program aimed at obtaining | greater uniformity and efficiency | of operation. Baumgarner plans to return to Juneau at the end of the .week.