joint resolution to stop the pay
ment of ten dollars daily to the
Nome hospital for the pare af
Axel Werner, elderly prospector.
The 1947 legislature ordered Wer
• ner to be cared for until death. The
resolution said the care was now
unnecessary.
(Monday, February 7. 1949)
JUNEAU, (iT*)—A third bill cov
ering the three-point basic tax
program recommended by G >vei -
nor Gruening. comes before the
House today.
It is the catch-all business li
cense tax bill.
The other recommendations by
the governor were the income tax,
which was enacted into law at the
special session, and the general
property tax bill which passed the
House and now is being consider
ed by the Senate finance commit
tee.
The business license tax bill
provides a basic $25 license fee
and a levy of one half per cent on
gross income above $20,000.
It was introduced by Rep. War
ren Taylor, Fairbanks Democrat,
during both the special and reg
ular sessions. It has been on the
House calendar for two days run
ning without ever being reached
before adjournment. ✓
The House voted Saturday tc
make it a special order of business
^ for today. It is unlikely it will be
reached until late however, be
ft
New Budget Will
Force Navy To
Make Drastic Cuts
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ment levels at naval shipyards,”
will be necessary .
Under the President’s $15,000,
000,000 military budget for the
next fiscal year, the navy was
given $4,600,000,000. This year it
had nearly $5,100,000,000.
Sullivan said the following cut
back would be made in man
power:
Navy enlisted strength.21,700
Marine Corps, enlisted 6,605
Navy and Marine officers.1,195
Sullivan listed nine stations to
be shut down as including: Naval
Air Facility, Adak, Aleutian Is
lands.
cause the House does not convene
until 11 a.m. and a joint rules ses
sion with the Senate is scheduled
first.
| The Senate meanwhile is still
working on major bills in commit
tees.
The finance committee under
John Butrovich, Fairbanks Re
publican, has taken the key role.
It started calling in department
heads for a minute study of re
quests in the record $17,000,000
budget, and is also considering the
property tax bill, around which
greatest interest centers.
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Two Sergeants
Charged With
Anchorage Murder
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was still alive when he left her.
Armagost, who is married, lives
on the outskirts of town, across
the street from where the body
was found in the culvert. He has
been in the service five years.
Bashlin is a veteran of nine years
service, eight of them overseas.
Both are stationed at Elmendorf
Field near here.
The victim formerly lived in
Seldovia and Cordova and worked
in a Bristol Bay salmon cannery
during the summers. She had rel
atives at Tatitlek, Alaska, a small
village on Prince William Sound.
Police said she was known as a
heavy drinker and had served a
year in a federal jail on a larceny
conviction.
When found her bod:/ was clad
only in a T-shirt and an Arciic
boot.
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ANCHORAGE, i/P)—One of the
two air force sergeants charged
with first degree murder in con
nection with the slaying of a na
tive woman was on the list from
| which a coroner’s jury was picked
. to investigate her death.
Anchorage police made this dis
closure. They also said that the
soldier, Lester I. Armagost, was
among the onlookers when they
! arrived at the culvert in which the
1 nearly nude body of Bertha Sick
' les, 29, was found yesterday. Arm
agost’s home is about 100 feel
from the scene.
As a prospective coroner’s jur
I or, the sergeant went to the
i morgue where he viewed the dead
woman’s body.
Both Armagost and Bashline
' have maintained she was alive
when they left her.
The coroner’s jury ruled at an
inquest that the woman froze tc
death after a severe beating, but
was not strangled.
Dr. James O’Malley, city phy
sician who performed the autopsy,
testified that “she could have died
of acute alcoholism, exposure or a
beating, or all three.” He said the
woman’s face, arms, thighs, hips
and legs were bruised and there
was a half inch cut on the back
of her head at the base of the
neck.
A blood sample is being sent to
the FBI laboratory for tests to de
termine the alcohol content.
Unemployment In
States Increases
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Unem
ployment jumped 700,000 in Janu
ary-one of the biggest leaps since
the end of the war, the census
bureau reported Saturday.
Simultaneously, total employ
ment plunged 2,000,000 below the
December level, the bureau add
ed.
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1. Total unemployment rose to
a level of 2,650,000 in the first
month of 1949, and stood 600,000
higher than in January, 1948.
2. Total employment fell to 57,
500,000 but wound up 265,000
higher than ayear ago.
Part of the rise in unemploy
ment was attributed to normal
seasonal factors—the usual mid
winter reduction in outdoor work
and in trade activities.
But cutbacks in factory output
were important, too, the bureau
said.
“Most of the additional unem
ployed were men, including many
veterans of World War II,” it re
ported.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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lishers again tomorrow.
Ray Summers, chairman of the
union scale committee, announced
the meeting after the union held
two meetings yesterday.
The pressmen, who seek wage
increases and a shorter working
shift, had set a strike deadline for
last Wednesday, but postponed it
in the hope of reaching a settle
ment.
WASHINGTON, l/I5)—President
Truman is considering a flight to
Key West in early March for a va
cation.
While there has been no White
House announcement, persons
close to the President say he wants
to get away for a rest. They add
that it will not be possible for him
to leave for the naval submarine
station at Key West until some
time early in March.
DARLING, Pa., (/P)—Darling’s
tiny, unpainted post office <8^ by
lOVfe feet> is doing a rush business
these days.
That’s because it has a "Darl
ing” post mark.
Darling’s post office serves a
! rural community of 170 persons,
j 30 miles southwest of Philadel
phia.
The coming of Valenitne’s Day
heralds a boost in the mail trade,
and the postmistress — Martha
Darlington—is glad to oblige the
sentimentallv-inclined.
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SEDRO WOOLLEY, Wash. <;p)
Mitzi, a pregnant cat, has been
sitting on two fertile chicken eggs
j for nearly three weeks.
Her owner, Lester Stephenson,
had the eggs but no chicken to
sit on them. He gave them to the
cat. Mitzi didn’t squawk.
They should hatch 'any day now,
he said.
Donaueschingen, Germany,
Thirty German skiers were killed
last night whene a bus in which
they were returning from a Black
1 Forest ski center skidded on an
icy road and tumbled down a 60
foot crevice.
Police reported 17 were killed
Warne Explains
Alaskan Resources
To Committee
WASHINGTON, UP;—Assistant
interior secretary, Wm. E. Warne,
used colored lantern slides in a
several-hours description of the
resources of Alaska for the Senate
interior and insular affairs com
mittee.
Warne said a prime need is to
attract both industries and popu
lation to the Territory, and that
both these moves can be aided
through the development of hy
droelectric power projects. At
least eight paper pulp mills could
be built in Alaska, he said.
Warne was questioned closely
concerning the status of some 150
families of Pribilof Islanders off
the western Alaska coast.
He explained that the islands
are the breeding ground for seal
herds. The government furnishes
the natives food, clothing, houses,
hospitals and schools, and pays
each family several hundred dol
lars a year for work in the taking
of seal furs.
Asked if the islanders could not
! be placed entirely upon a “wage
j basis,” Warne said: “You would
be likely to liberate them right
[ out of existence.”
instantly and 13 others died in a
hospital. Thirty-seven persons still
are hospitalized with severe in
juries.
Donaueschingen is near Frei
burg in the French occupation
zone.
TULSA, Okla. i^P>—Six persons
were killed instantly in an auto
mobile-train collision Sunday and
a 10-day old baby died later of in
, juries. Three other survivors re
mained in a critical condition to
day. The baby, Jimmie Eugene
Litterell, suffered a head injury.
He was the son of Mrs. Wanda Lit
terell, 14, one of the victims.
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