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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P)—The chamber of
4 commerce's Alaska committee an
nounced today the bureau of land
management at Washington had
been asked to resurvey the Kenai
peninsula on the ground that much
of it has not been homesteaded be
cause of a lack of information on
the geography of the area.
SEATTLE, </P> — Picketed by
Sailors Union of the Pacific mem
bers, the Alaska motorship Gar
• land shifted her moorings bu.
pickets followed her today. Ed
Coester, union business agent, asid
the vessel will not be permitted to
load until the Berger Transporta
tion Co., agrees to contract with
the union for deck crew members.
He said Heinie Berger was “trying
to operate with a nonunion crew
and had set up a ‘phony’ coopera
tive.’’ Berger said the crew mem
9 bers owned shares in the vessel.
NEW YORK, OP)—John H. Gal
breath, vice president of the Pitts
burgh Pirates of the National
League, said today that his club
had persuaded Hank Greenberg to
reconsider his retirement and that
the home run king would play
with the Pirates in 1947.
• GREENVILLE, S. C., (ff)—With
29 Greenville taxi drivers and two
other men held in jail, Sheriff R.
H. Bearden reported today 26 of
them admitting participation in
the lynching of a Negro near here
Monday.
SEATTLE, (./P) — The Smith
Cannery Machines Co., yesterday
filed a complaint in superior court
asking $400,000 damages from the
Nakat Packing Corp. It accused
the latter of wrongfully appropri
9 ating a patentee
process, during
the Nakat company be restrained
from manufacturing and selling
the machines, an automatic be
header and a fish-feeding table.
W. A. Fonken, general foreman of
0 the Nakat Cannery at Waterfall,
9 Alaska, is made a co-defendant.
ATLANTA, (/P) — Columbian
President Emroy Burke was sen
tenced today to three years im
prisonment for usurping polic
powers in direction of his negro
hating, Jew-baiting organization.
Superior court Judge Carl Crow
imposed the sentence after a jury
returned guilty verdicts last night
on three counts of an indictment.
The court ordered Burke to serve
^ 12 months on each of the three
counts, the sentences to run con
currently.
CAMDEN, N. J., f/P)—A $25 fine
has been imposed on Thomas B
Stables on a charge of unlawfully
stirring up migratory waterfowl
by means of an aircraft. Federal
district judge Thomas M. Madden,
in sentencing the 23-year-old for
mer army fighter plane instructor
* yesterday, declared that “some
times I think there are not enough
people left who are close enough
to nature.”
Any similar defendants, said
Judge Madden, “will get the
book.”
Demonstration in Athens
ATHENS, GREECE — (Soundphoto) — This huge demonstration of Greek civil and ^public
employees took place here in front of the United States and British embassies. Posters ^read “What
hfls become of the promised reparations?,” “Greece is mourning and Bulgaria rejoicing,” “You have
cheated us, we won’t be deceived again.” In general the crowd was aroused over action of Allies in not
suDDortine Greek claims at UNO Conference.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Feb. 20, 1:30 a.m.—
A Senate joint memorial by Sen.
Edward D. Coffee <D.-3rd and Sen.
E. B. Collins <R.-4th> urges imme
diate rehabilitat on of the Alaska
Railroad.
Another memorial by Sen. Vic
tor C. Rivers (D.-3rd> and Sen.
Gunnard M. Engebreth (R.-3rd'
urges the rehabilitation and con
struction program of the Alaska
Railroad as proposed by Col. John
son, be promptly commenced.
The Senate passes the Sen. O. D.
Cochran (D.-2nd) bill to repeal the
law p: oh.01.mg the export of ra
tioned merchandise.
The House passes the Senate bill
wh'ch ends the sales tax March 31,
1949, defeating all amendments by
20 to 4. Those against it were
Reps. Anita Garnick <R.-lst>, An
drew Hope <D.-lst>, and Walter
Huntley (1st).
JUNEAU, Feb. 21, 2:20 a.m.—
The House kills by a 12 to 12 vote
a measure that would have pro
vided maximum hours and mini
mum wages because of giving too
much authority to the commission
er of labor; also that a one dollar
minimum was greater than many
businesses could afford.
The House tables a bill that
would have prohibited retailers
from adding vets tax to sale price
of all commodities.
The Senate passes a bill placing
a sales tax on rentals, entertain
ment, professional services; also a
b'll exempting Alaska wholesalers
from collecting half of one percent
tax on goods sold on which tax
will be collected at retail in
Alaska.
The Senate kills off by the in
definite postponement route Rep.
Carl Anderson’s (R.-2nd) House
joint memorial 9, asking for fav
orable applications for licenses of
private communications network
in Alaska.
Soviets Debate
1947 Budget
Not Interested In Lend
Lease Debt To U. S.
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, (/P)—Delegates to the
Supreme Soviet (parliament) de
bated today a 1947 budget calling
for a decrease in expenditures for
the Soviet armed forces and in
creases for industry, public health,
sport, communication and agricul
ture.
Total income for 1947 was esti
mated in the budget at 391,500,000
000 rubles and expenditures at
371.400.000. 000 rubles, of which 18
per cent would be assigned to the
armed forces as against 24 per cent
last year.
The budget, submitted to a joint
1 session last night by finance min
ister Arseni G. Zvrerev would as
! sign the armed forces 67,000,000,
000 rubles this year, as against 72,
600.000. 000 in 1946.
(The ruble is not quoted in for
eign exchange trade. The official
exchange rate is 5.3 to the dollar
The diplomatic rate is 12 to the
dollar. Russian government fi
nances include many items which.
I in the United States, are handled
by private capital. Russia’s esti
mated expenditures would total
about $70,075,000,000 at the “off
cial” rate; or $30,950,000,000 at the
“diplomatic rate.”
(President Truman’s budget fo
the fiscal year starting July 1, n^>
under scrutiny in Congress, cal c
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Asks Rcjief For
Freed Countries
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Pres i den'
Truman asked Congress tod'1,F ‘
vote $350,000,000 for relief a’d *
! people of liberated country
abroad.
Indian Problem
For United Nations
NEW DELHI, (/P) — A highly
placed official predicted today that
the whole Indian problem would
be dumped into the laps of the
United Nations the moment that
Britain drops the reins of govern
ment in June, 1948.
Few observers believed it pos
sible that the disputing Moslem
league and Congress party could
smooth over their differences in
the next 15 months to a point
where they could unite in forming
a central government.
Moslem league sources declared
there was not the slightest possi
bility that anything short of com
plete separation from Hindu-dom
inated parts of India would satisfy
the Moslems.
Conflict over which part of In
dia would be included in the pro
posed independent Moslem state
seemed likely to send the problem
to the U. N.
At present Moslem league m:n
isteries control Sind in the west
and Bengal in the east, the latter
containing Calcutta, second larg
est city in the British Empire.
Halibut Fisheries
To Reopen May 1
SEATTLE, I/P)—Halibut fishing,
vv*r business in the Pacific North
west and Alaska, will reopen May
1 after the longest closed season in
History, Harold E. Lokken, man
ager of the Seattle fishing vessel
owners association, announced to
day.
The 1946 season, during which
52 500,000 pounds were caught,
closed last August 19. Because an
unusually large number of boats
?~e fishing the quota set by the
:"»*e~nat'onal fisheries commission
----- reached in the record time of
’ 11 days and an early closure re
sulted Lokken explained.
Legislature Dull
With Routine
Activities
(By Mildred Hermann)
The House defeated the bill pro
viding for maximum hours and
minimum wages for Alaska work
ers. Members speaking against it
thought the minimum wage as set
was too high. The original bill pro
v.ded for one dolar per hour. As
amended it was eighty-five cents
per hour. Opponents of the bill
also objected to a provision of sec
tion five which they claim gave
too much power to the labor com
missioner to make and enforce
regulations. Reps. Ost, Carl An
derson and Laws of the Second Di
vision voted against the measure,
with Edward Anderson for it.
Yesterday the House passed the
child labor bill after removing
several sections which they claimed
gave too much power to the labor
commissioner.
The Senate laid on the table on
motion of Coffey, Ed Anderson’s
bill establishing an isolation ward
in the Arctic for tuberculosis pa
tients. It will require a two-thirds
vote to take it from the table.
Jones declared it to be special leg
islation. He and Scott voted for in
definite postponement but when
that motion was lost a new motion
to lay it on the table was made
and carried. Scott and Jones both
voting for it. Munz voted against
both motions. Cochran was absent
during the afternoon session so did
not vote.
The bill calling for the abolition
of the Alaska Development board
has not yet been considered by the
House. If opinion is desired to be
expressed about it to the House it
should be addressed to Ost or Ed
Anderson. Laws and Carl Ander
son are lined up with the group
that will favor abolition.
A bill introduced yesterday to
make the commissioner of mines
elective instead of appointive. Sev
eral other bills of minor import
ance. Sessions in both houses dull
and unenlivened.
A bill establishing the office of
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Radio Stations
Fight For Air
ANCHORAGE, (K>)—Philip M.
Bnker, attorney at Washington
for the Alaska Broadcasting Co.,
announced that, on behalf of Wil
liam J. Wagner, licensee of radio
station KFQD, Anchorage he had
protested to the federal communi
cations commission against the
proposed location of A. E. Lath
rop’s new radio station at Anchor
age.
The FCC issued a conditional
permit to Lathrop January 30.
Wagner contends the two sta
tions would interfere with each
other because they would be across
the road from each other.
Lathrop owns a station at Fair
banks. Wagner has filed for a sta
tion at Fairbanks. He also has
filed for a station at Seward and
a relay station here to feed pro
grams to other Alaska stations.