The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1951, Page 1

[ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,765 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS > Terr. Legislators Leave Prospect of LARGEU.S. PLANE IS DOWN, SEA Globemaster with Report- | ed 52 Aboard, Including Brig. Gen., Is Missing WASHINGTON, March 23 —‘/P*‘ A big Air Force transport plane with 53 aboard is missing on a flight over the Atlantic from the United States to England, the Air Force reported today. One of those aboard was identi-{ fied by the Air Force as Brig. Gen. Paul T. Cullen, deputy commander at Barksdale Field near Shreveport, La.,, who was enroute to an undis- closed European destination. The missing plane, a C-124 or Globemaster II, last reported its po- sition in a routine radio check about 1 am. as 800 miles southwest of Ireland. It was enroute from the Lime- stone, Me., Air Base to the Amer- ican base at Mildenhall in Suffolk. Brig. Gen. Aboard The Royal Air Force control sta- tion directing the search operations said the plane carried a brigadier general Cullens. This report aroused belief that he was Brig. Gen. Paul; T. Cullen, deputy commander at Barksdale Field, near Shreveport, La., who left there Wednesday for a European destination. The U. S. Third Air Division headquarters here and the Royal Air Force said they had no informa- tion about the number of persons aboard, The British Press Associa- tion did not announce the source of its information on the number. No Signs Seen Air Force Headguarters here and in Washington also would not con- firm that Gen.'Cullen was on board. | American and British search and rescue planes, some carrying life- boats, combed the area where the| plane was last reported, but saw no signs of the missing Globemaster even after it was presumed to have exhausted its gas supply. i That type plane normally carries its own life rafts, equipped with am- ple food, water and clothing to en- able its passengers to survive for; some time. Hopes Held Out | The Air Force said in mid morn- ing however, it still held hope for, the plane because it could have reached Iceland or the Azores. An Air Force spokesman said the giant transport had about eight hours of fuel left when it last re- ported. “It was® then within six aours flight of Ireland, Iceland or} the Azores.” Another big plane, a military air{ transport was temporarily reported overdue on a flight from Iceland to this country. It later landed safely at Argentia, Nfld. Also aboard are Col. Kenneth N. Gray, budget officer; Lt. Col. E. A. McKoy, assigned to SAC's director- (Continued on Page Two) The Washington; Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. BERLIN.—Here are three pictures I have received of Berlin—the rhost controversial city in the world— during “ne last three decades. Berlin in 1923 was a city of des. , pair. ‘People waited in the alley’ behind the Hotel Adlon ready tof pounce on rbage cans immedi- ately they were placed outside the hotel's kitchen. Inside the hotel women waited, willing to sell their souls for a cup of coffee that cost one million marks one day, a mil- lion and a half the next and two million the day following. Inflation ran riot at the time, with bragga- docio foreigners burning marks to light cigatettes ‘and the working- man’'s wages lagging miles behind! | the daily depreciation of the print- LEGAL FIGHT IS PREDICTED ON p Jel Bomber for At The Air Force has announced in Washington, D. C.. that three types of bombers—one the B-47 all-jet medium bomber like this one soaring just above the clouds on a test flight—will be used in the atomic The B-47 is a six-jet-engine powered, swept- tests in the Pacifi hour speed c¢ P Wirephoto. American Parafroopers Jump Behind Red Lines; 20,000 Commi REORGAN.BILL Albert White, General Counsel of the Republican Party of Alaska, expressed the opinion the Reorgan- ization bill passed in the closing hours of the Alaska Legislature is illegal and no doubt will be con- tested. He said the Republican objec- tion to the bill is that it takes away the rights of the people to vote for Auditor and Treasurer and places the authority in the hands of the Governor and members of the House and Senate. He cited Senate Bill 16, passed by the leg- islature and now law. He said it forbids the Governor and members of the legisiature from serving on any Board or Commission. He declared: “More and more the rights of the voters of Alaska are being taken away. “Republicans did the best they could. Senator Engstrom, I am in- formed, refused to vote on the senators for the board of admin- istration. Senator Snider was not in the senate chamber. It was ap- parent that no Republican was to be on the board, and it was at its final passage without a Republican on the hkoard.” (Senate President Gunnard Engebreth, Anchorage Re- publican and foe of White, was named to the board, but White said he did not consider him to be a Republican). FRIESE ARRIVES 0 BE ANALYST, OPS Stanley Friese of Alameda, Calif., arrived in Juneau yesterday to as- sume his duties as business an- alyst for the Office of Price Sta- bilization. Friese has ‘spent’ several weeks working in the Seattle of- fice of the O.P.S. Friese recently resigned his po- back es Beat It By Associated Press American paratroopers bolstered by tough rangers jumped today be- | hind Communist lines north of Seoul and shocked some 20,000 Red troops into hasty flight. The paratroopers filled the sky with their brightly-hued parachutes like a massive Easter bouquet. But the Communists rallied later and were fighting desperately to sur- round and wipe out the 3,300 out- numbered American jumpers. An armored column spearheading | a fresh Allied drive by three di- visions north of Seoul linked up with the paratroops near the drop area south of Munsan. Ridgeway In Fight Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway landed in a light plane only 29 min- utes after the first paratrooper jumped. A field dispatch said he was in the thick of one fierce fight. In Central Korea, an American armored patrol pushed within two and one-quarter miles of Parallel 38 north of Chunchon without op- position The air assault was made behind 15,000 to 20,000 Communist troops, possibly the rear guard of a 60,000~ man force reported earlier in the area, Cargo Plane Explodes The only mishap of the landing was the explosion of a C-119 cargo plane in the air after it had deliv- ered its paratroopers. It was the second airborne land- ing of the war. The first was made north of the Red capitol of Psyong- yang last Oct. 20 and 21. On the Central front, tank pa- trols of the U. S. First Cavalry di- vision pushed within a few miles of the 38th Parallel. Some 6,000 Chinese Reds dug in about five miles north of Allied-held Chunchon were attacked by U. S. fighter- bombers. DR. WHEATLEY HERE Dr. R. E. Wheatley of Sitka a guest at the Baranof Hotel. WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Junean - Maximum, 36; minimum, 28 At Airport — Maximum, 33; minimum, 26 LIQUOR CASH ®Seceeecoeone sition on the staff of the superin- tendent of schools of Alameda County. His wife and daughter will come north to jein him soon. Both Friese and his wife have lived in Alaska previously. Friese was with the Alaska Communica- tions System during the war, with FORECAST | . ° Cloudy with occasional light ® rain or mixed rain and snow o tonight and Saturday. Lowest ® temperature tonight about 34 e and highest Saturday near e 37. |duty in the Aleutians, in Wrangell ing-press money in which he was paid. . . . I interviewed President Friedrich Ebert, the onetime saddle maker who, after the World War I armistice, suddenly had found. himself at the helm of the new German Weimar republic. The Kai- ser and the Prussians of Potsdam (Continued on Page Four) and here in Juneau. MINNEAPOLIS GUEST Margaret Doran of Minneapolis is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Frank L. Friedman of Seattle is ®» PRECIPIT)ILTION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e, City of Juneau — .20 inches; ® Since March 1—4.85 inches; e Since July 1 — 55.75 inches. Al est wing plane in the “600-miles-per- EVIDENCE IS GIVEN SENATE An auditor’s findings of a $27,- 000 shortage in the Territorial Liquor Stamp fund was aired in the Senate's final night session. Attorney General J. Gerald Wil- liams told senators in concluding | lengthy testimony that the case is | “A dead duck,” so far as any rem- edial action is concerned. Williams said none of the persons involved are covered by bond al- though “I can't understand why not,” and the three-year statute of limitations had outlawed any action against individuals. Williams also said “Most of them now are dead.” “Actually,” said Willilams, “I'm not sure that these men didn't turn the stamps in. I think all of them are innocent.” Liquor stamp shortages were re- ported by the Arthur Anderson Company after a 1949 audit. Williams was called to discuss the situation by Sen. John Butro- vich, who scrved with Sen. James Nolan =s & scecial auditing com= mittee from rhe 1949 legislature. Defalcations Disclosed Butrovich and Williams related how the audit back,to 1935 disclosed defalcations of $43,851 in funds un- der former treasurer Oscar Olson, | who now is serving a term at Mc- Neil Island penitentiary. Before citing names of persons, from the auditing firm’s report, Williams prefaced his remarks: “I assume all are innocent. I don’t mean to imply any crimes.” He told the senators the biggest liquor stamp item was listed for E. D. Webb of Seward, from 1945. He quoted the auditing report as $17,292, plus a $1,500 check. He cited the auditing reference: (Cuniinu}d on Page Two) PATON TAKES DEATH LEAP SAN FRANCISCO, March 23— P—Mental strain and ill health were advanced today as the prob- able causes of Longshore Chieftan Eugene Patron’s suicide leap from Golden Gate bridge yesterday. The 38-year-old president, for year: close working Lieutenant |of Harry Bridges, was the 121st | person known to have leaped to! his death from the span, Paton was president of Local 6 of Bridges’ International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s Union. a | erirpled children No note of explanation was found. |it to Peter J. Nichols last fall. HERESNUTSHELL [HOUSE HAS [3rd Division REVIEW OF 1951 APPROPRIATIONS Main items in the general appro- priations bill passed by the legis- lature after a conference committee bruug.ht it out early today are: (With 1949-51 comparative appro- priation listed in parentheses.) Fisheries dept., $409,672 ($250,- 000).. Development board, $70,000 ($80,- 000). Alaska housing authority, $50,000 ($250,000). National guard, $150,000 ($75,000). Auditor, $105,880 ($79,406). Attorney General, $80,932 450). Hair seals bounty, $100,000 ($100,- 000 plus $200,000 deficiency appro- priation). ‘Wolves and coyote bounties, $100,- 000 ($125,000). Education department, $178,096 ($132,858); senate boosted salary of commissioner of education to $16,- 000 a year to meet board of educa- tion request for salary described as sufficient to bring administrator on whom board had agreed, but conference committee cut it back to $12,000. Governor’s emergency appropria- tion, $5,000 ($5,000). Fisheries experimental sion, $59,612 ($50,000). Office of governor, $40,424, includ- | ing $6,000 entertainment fund ($37,~ 600). Health ($934,000). Highway engineer, $64,250 ($42,- 620). Labor dept. and industrial board, $118,160 ($112,632). “'Mines dept., $230,370 ($280,500). Pioneers’ home, $517,170 ($450,- 100). School building construction and repair of rural schools, $500,000 ($2,250,000, much of which was frozen); school buildings also will get an estimated $1,200,000 to $1,500,000 from earmarked tobacco tax monies. Taxation dept., $608,440 ($500,000). ‘Treasurer, $83,100 ($74,100). University, $2,241,655 ($2,155,730). Support of schools within incor- porated towns and schools districts, $5,241,336 ($3,741,513). Support of schools outside incor- porated districts and payment for compiling Alaska Listory, $1,450,656 ($1,261,440). Over-all total schools, $7,907,592 MINNEE FIELD FUNERAL T0 BE ON WEDNESDAY In accordance with the express wishes of the late Minnie Field, she will be buried here, in the Odd Fellows plot of the Evergreen Ceme- tery. The funeral services will be held in the Odd Fellows Hall on Franklin Street at 2 p. m. next Wednesday. Services willbe con- ducted by the Perseverance Rebek- ah Lodge 2-A, of which she was a member for many years. She had specifically requested that the lodge conduct these services. | ($64,- commis- department, $999,000| for support of ($5,386,953) . I She had also instructed her clos- est friends that she wanted no flowers. In her memory, however,| the Rebekah Lodge is sponsoring a fund for crippled children to which donations may be made. She had stated that donations to the Alaska Crippled Childrens Associa- tion would be more appreciated by her than flowers. Anyone wishing to make such a contribution may { forward it to the Alaska Crippled Children’s Association, Box 1539, Juneau, Alaska, and the money will be used to provide assistance to in the vicinity of Juneau and Sitka. Minnie Field, a long-time resi- dent of the Channel area, was first employed here by the U. S. Mar- shal's office and gradually took over a number of orphaned and neglected children. She founded the Minfield Home, which she oper- | ated for many years before selling o |Union spokesmen said Paton's|A short time ago she went ‘to e health had been failing since his} Seattle for medical attention, where o | discharge from the army in 1945.| she passed away at the Virginia e That year, Paton was decorated|Mason Hospital last Monday morn- ® At Airport — .11 inches; ® Since March 1 — 2.72 inches; ® Since July 1 — 3520 inches. at the Baranof Hotel. battlefield commission, He had entered the army as a private. His body was recovered yesterday 0120 minutes after the death jump.|ping at the Baranof Hotel. . } for valor in battle and was awarded | ing. ela FROM ANCHORAGE H. Bittner of Anchorage is stop- Red Ink * 2 MILLION CLAMOROUS | Gets 3 of 4 DEFICIT IS LAST HOURS Trouble OEr— Memorials Plagues Representa- fives fo Session’s End By BOB. DE ARMOND An unruly and at times almost riotous House of Representatives adjourned sine die at 6 o'clock this morning, with the youngest mem- ber, Rep. Vernon Metcalfe, making the traditional motion. The Senate had adjourned a quar- ter of an hour earlier. The closing hours in the House were marked by a joint session that got so out of hand that it was ad- journed to save some semblance of order, and by a touch of the old malady of the 20th House session— memorialitis. The latter was brought on by & relatively simple Senate joint me- morial seeking funds from the Highway Engineer for maintenance work on Nome’s small boat harbor. Under ordinary circumstances the memorial would have been disposed of quickly, but between the weari- ness of some of the House mem- bers and the high spirits of others in the wee hours of the morning, consideration of the measure turn- ed into a near flasco which the memorial barely survived. Action Taken In its final afternoon and eve- ning, the House took the following action: Passed without amendment a Senate bill providing a 50 per cent increase in the raw fish tax on canned salmon, The increase is ex- pected to bring an additional $1,- 500,000 or more into the coffers during the coming biennium. Tassed by a 17-6 vote the Civil Tiefense Bill with an appropriation of $100,000 for administration and $200,000 for purchase of equipment and materials. Later the House ap- proved a Conference Committee re- port. upping the appropriation to $150,000 and $260,000. Unanimously concurred in Senate amendments to H. B. 141, providing for reorganization of the financial control system of the Territory and elected two of its members to the newly created Board of Adminis- tration. Rejected Senate amendments which cut the $18319,658 House General Appropriations Bill to $17,- 894,645. Adopted a Conference Com- mittee report increasing the total to $17,973,645, Approved a Senate bill for the licensing and control of dogs un-% licensed by a municipality after amending it to reduce license fees for male dogs from $5 to $2 and for female dogs from $10 to $3. Saw the wages and hours bill die in committee after the third Con- ference Committee to receive the measure had reported itself hope- lessly deadlocked. Revenue Bill The canned salmon tax increase passed the House by a 16-8 vote after an amendment to halve the increase had been defeated 9-15. . The vote came shortly after the noon recess and after Tax Commis- sioner M. P. Mullaney had answered questions regarding the raw fish tax. Mullaney explained the discrep- ancy between his report and the Pacific Fisherman Yearbook con- cerning total Alaska fish landings by the statement that his figures are not complete. “They were put in for reading purposes, not for computation of the tax,” he said, adding that the tax is based upon the value, not the pondage, of raw fish. “Some of the buyers didn’t report the poundage of fish purchases at; all,” he sald, “It's easy for the buy- ers to make a mistake regarding their poundage, but when it comes to dollars and cents figures, it's a different matter.” Suggests Other Taxes Rep. Frank Johnson warned that all of the burden of taxation should not be loaded on the fishing indus- try and suggested that some atten- tion might well he given to increas- ing income taxes and taxes on min- ing or other industries. “It is aw- fully easy to vote for appropriations “(Continued on Page TWo) Board Seals Legislators from the Third Di- | viston won three out of four places | on the reconstituted Board of Ad- ministration, as provided in the Government Reorganization bill that passed the Legislature last night. In the wee hours of the morn- ing, the following were named by the weary legislators: House — Glen Franklin, Fourth Division Democrat, and Speaker William Egan, Valdez Demoerat. Senate President Gunnard Engebreth, Anchorage Republican, and Steve McCutcheon, Anchorage Democrat. The House selections were made | after a Democratic caucus that lasted more than an hour. George | Madsen, Nome Democrat, was nam- ed alternate for Franklin and An- | drew Hope, Sitka Democrat, was named as Egan's alternate. . In the Senate, Engebreth said he | had intended to name Elton Eng-| strom as his alternate because of | his residence in Juneau, but. that he would « designate someone else | because Engstrom boycotted the | whole procedure. Then he named Anita Garnick, Juneau Republican, | as his alternate, after first desig- | nating Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue Republican. He switched to Senator | Garnick after Ipalook demurred to| the selection. McCutcheon named | Dr. R. M. MacKenzie, Ketchikan | Democrat, as his alternate. | Other Senate nominees were | James Nolan, John Butrovich and PREDICTION By JIM HUTCHESON Alaska’s 20th Legislature wound up its work at 6 am today after passing record appropriations total- ing $19,544,136 and approving a Governmental ; Reorganization Bill. Heads of budget-framing com- mittees of Senate and House esti- | mated the deficit at the end of the 1951-53 biinnoum will be slightly above $2,600,000. The two legislators, Sen. John Butrovich, Fairbanks Republican, and Rep. Glen Franklin Boundary Democrat, said however that the expected deficit might be reduced by a large salmon pack or a likely increase in income tax collections. Actually, expenditures outlined for the biennium are in balance with expected revenue, but $2,662- 000 in frozen appropriations from the current biennium accounts for the threat of red ink over the com- ing two-year period. Threat Facts The threat of a major new gen- eral tax bill at the 11th hour failed to develop The only major new rev- enue measures passed at this session were a 50 per cent increase in the salmon pack tax and a boost in the cigaret tax from three to five cents a pack. In the final hours, the two Houses agreed on a general appropriations bill of $17,978,6564 which includes 8 per cent salary increases for teach- ers, and for Territorial employes | earning under $5000 a year; agree Howard Lyng. Butrovich declined on a compromise Oivilian Defense to be a candidate because, he said, | appropriation of $400,000; and he had not been feeling well. LYng | whooped the Reorganization Bill refused to leave his mame up be-!through the House by unanimous cause he had opposed the bill Vig-| yote after the Senate had amended orously and insisted to the end that /it to make the proposed powerful legislators could not legally serve ! Commissioner of Finance responsi- on the board. Nolan was nominated | ple directly to a revised Board of by Butrovich in a bipartisan ges- | Administration instead of the Gov- ture. McCutcheon offered to Wwith- | ernor, draw from the race to give the spots | New Board to Nolan and Engebreth, but stayed | The new Board of Administration in as MacKenzie emphasized that|wi have two members of each he had not actually refused to be | House on it, but there was wrang- a candidate. {ling over it in the Senate to the In the House, the Republican pjtter end The bill, drawn by Ken- nominees for the board posts were tucky Revenue Commissioner H. J. 8. MacKinnon and Waino Hen- | gjyde Reeves, now goes to the Gov- drickson, both of Juneau. The vot- | ernor. His approval is expected. ing was on party lines, by rollcall- | oer gotions in the final hours (In the Senate the vote Was Ly yciuded agreement of both Houses secret ballot). !on ald to dependent childien — a Then Hendrickson moved to make ‘ compromise at $60 monthly from the House choices unanimous. He | the present $50 after the House had drew a second from MacKinnon. - |yoted for $70 — and burial of the In the House both Senators Eng- |4o-hour work week bill after three strom and Howard Lyng cut 100se | Conference Committees failed tu with blasts after the election and | preak a deadlock over exemptions. the designation of the alternates. | Legality Challenged Lyng challenged the right of 1eg- | Even before the shade was dropped islators to serve on a board. He cited | over the legislative clocks at mid- a bill passed m‘@way in the session | night, there were challenges of the to forbid it. | legality of legislators serving on the «T assure you, he declared, “that Board of Administration. one day after we leave here it wlll,\ be in the courts.” He criticized acid- ¢ ly those who he said had been in | such a rush to push the bill through. The other members of the board, under the bill, will be the Governor, the Tax Commissioner and the At- | torney General. Should there be a Engstrom refused to vote for any enate members of the board. In angry protest against the Sen- ate choices, he declared: I voted against the bill. I smelled a deal cooking. wThe senator from Ketchikan told me ‘we will cram it down your throats; He has. We should have killed the bill instead of getting ourselves into a deal like the one pulled here tonight.” As the final gong sounded to end the session, Lyng was trying to get the floor to read a section from the organic act prohibiting legislators from holding or being appointed to any government post. EASTER SERVICE The annual ceremony of Relight- ing the Lights will take place in the Scottish Rite Temple Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The ad- S 1coun test as some critics predicted, !and should a court rule against the | legislators’ membership, there would remain and elite board of three. I New Territorial Set-up | The financial Reorganization Bill | went through the Senate late yes- | terday by an 11 to 5 vote; then was | returned to the House for action | on amendments. The bill, in effect, | would set up a Territorial general | financial manager, accountable to the Board of Administration | The bill will eliminate the present }omce of auditor and the treasurer’s | office. This elimination is to be ef- | fective at the end of Treasurer | Henry Roden’s present term In its | place will be provided an independ- | ent auditing office. The new “aud- | itor” would be elected by the legis- | lature but the lawmakers did .noth- | ing about it before adjourning. Critigs of the bill objected to the dress will be made by Howard D.| Stabler, 33rd degree, and intro- duction and welcome by K. G. Mer- ritt, Wise Master. The Girls' sex- tette will also be heard on the pro- gram. The public is invited to the service. legislature taking action which would eliminate the offices of treas- urer and auditor, both of which are | elective . | ‘Those voting against the bill were Senators Ed Anderson(D-Nome); A. F. Coble (R-Fairbanks); Engstrom, Lyng and Gerrit Snider (R-Wa- silla). STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle late today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive Sunday morning south- bound. | | Civilian Defense The other principal final night | contest came over Civilian Defense. | After the House cut the defense ap- | propriation to $300,000, Sen. Frank Barr told the Senate “apparently a (Continued on Page TWo) i