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EXTRA SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
The right of Steve McCutcheon,
specially elected Third Divisioner,
to sit in the Senate was officially
challenged by Senator Leo Rogge.
It was prefaced by the judiciary
committee report on Senate Bill
Five, introduced by Walker, which
would require candidates to swear
qualifications for office sought
five days prior to election. Rog^e
charges that McCutcheon has not
•been a resident of the Third Di
vision for two years prior to elec
tion. Hearing will be held Monday
night, opened by judiciary com
mittee.
New bills introduced by the
Senate would abolish the present
Board of Trustees of the Sitka
Home, and appoint a new board,
with the Governor not a member.
By the committee on territories,
creating a Territorial loan com
missioner to bond the Territory
for veterans loans and bonus
needs, road improvements, etc.,
%.. with an appropriation of twenty
thousand dollars. By Brownell,!
appropriation for the department
of public welfare, for the remain-1
der of the biennium, $75,000 for
relief of destitution, fifty thousand
dollars for administration. By
Gundersen, appropriation of ten
thousand for a survey of hospitals
and thirty thousand dollars for a j
revolving fund for the health de
partment by health committee.
The House passes a pinball and |
slot machine control, primary
blanket ballot referendum, also
Hennings-Krause unemployment
^ compensations bill. Senate ad-;
jonmed for the afternoon to at
tend the funeral of Senator
Green’s wife. House adjourned
during services, then resessioned
on the request of Linck to hear
doctors testify of basic science
measure.
Legislature adopts the rule
deadline of March 23 for introduc
tion of bills, and March 23 for
interchange of legislation between
the two bodies.
House passes bill twenty-three,
non-allopathic healing co n t r o 1
6 measure after Dr. Lee Stagg, of
Ketchikan, testified; and then put
over to Saturday bill thirty-nine, |
the basic science measure which
Dr. C. A. Doleker, Juneau chiro
practor, denounced as “hypocriti
cal, illogical, monopolistic, biased
and un-American,” that would
foster a medical dictatorship and
establish the medical profession to
use for “annihilation of drugless
healers.” The House unanimously
passed the Hope-Henning mini
mum hour and wage bill, provid
ing a basic forty hour week and
a basic hourly scale of one dollar.
U.S.WARSHIP IN HONG KONG — Framed by Chinese junks, the CSS Los Angeles,
new heavy cruiser of the U.S.Seventh Fleet, lies at anchor at Hong Kong, China, harbor.
Must Furnish Food
Or Sow War Seeds
ATLANTIC CITY, Mar. 18, (/P)
Director General Lehman, of
UNRRA, speaking at its fourth
council session, said the failure to
furnish relief to the world’s hun
gry millions “can well sow seeds
for further armed conflict.”
Lehman told the delegates of 47
nations that UNRRA had accom
plished to following: One—By the
end of March more than seven
million tons of supplied had been
shipped. “The scale of our opera
tions is increasing daily.”
Two—Since the first of Sep
tember, approximately 725,000
displaced persons had been repa
triated with the help of military
authorities of the United States.
The acting delegate issued a state
ment saying United States didn’t
contemplate UNRRA should con
tinue beyond the end of this year
in Europe, and the middle of 1947
in Asia.
The House unanmlously passes
the basic science bill, also the bill
authorizing city council’s to pro
vide for garbage disposal systems,
zones, planning commissions, also
upping salaries for election judges
and clerks to fifteen dollars by
liquor licensees similar to the pre
vious bill, except it adds penalties
for minors falsifying their ages.
By Huntley to regulate the
Peterson.
Hanford introduces hours for
grading, inspection and labeling of
potatoes. Veteran act in the Sen
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STRIKES
At A Glance .
A Rack to work movement cuts
the idle to 558,000. Another d**oo
of 175,000 is in prospect w’ith the
expected early return of General
Motors employees. Major devel
opments:
Automobiles — The early re
sumption of auto production by
General motors is anticipated af
ter CIO auto workers of thirty
union locals vote overwhelming
approval of the strike settlement
Electrical Appliances— 100,000
CIO united electrical workers are
returning to their jobs in General
Electric plants, the union an
nounces the ending of the walkout
which halted General Electric pro
duction of electrical goods since
January fifteenth.
The reopening of 150 San Fran
cisco machine shops in shipyards,
employing 50,000 workers was set
for today, after a twenty-week
strike of 12,000 machinisst.
Coal—Lewis is to get the mine
owners answer today to United
Mine Workers contract demands.
Only two weeks remain to nego
tiate a contract before the April
first date set by Lewis for a pos
sible strike.
TACOMA. Mar. 18, (/P)--Three
hundred drivers halted city bus
service here as negotiations be
tween representatives of the mo
tor coach employees union, AFL,
and the Tacoma Transit Company,
with the U. S. Labor conciliator,
broke down. The union demands
$1.32 an hour wage rate, the com
pany offered $1.15.
Statehood Body
Elects Officers
Representatives of the Alaska
Statehood Association met in Jun
eau on March 12, and elected offi
cers for the coming year. Elected
were: Mrs. Evangeline Atwood,
Anchorage, President; Mrs. A. H.
Nordale, Fairbanks, Vice-Presi
dent; Rev. Roy E. Olsen, Ketchi
kan, Vice-President; and J. L. Mc
Crary, Anchorage; Secret ary
Treasurer.
It was voted that all officers will
be ex-officio members of the As
sociation’s Territorial Cen t r a 1
Committee.
The meeting also voted to en
gage George Sundborg to do a fac
tual study on the statehood mea
sure sponsored by the association.
The immediate purpose of the
organization, Mrs. Atwood said, is
the obatining, compiling and dis
semination of facts pertaining to
statehood for Alaska for the ref
erendum vote next fall.
The membership at present, she
said, is about 350.
YAKIMA, Wash., Mar. 18, (ZD
Three men were killed when a
cabin plane crashed at Zillah,
Wash. State patrolmen identified
the dead as Les Glenn, pilot,
James Wurtz, Shirley Melby. The
plane was returning to Yakima
on a flight from Prosser, Wash.
Leroy Lamb, a farmer, who wit
nessed the crash, said the plane
was at about two hundred feet,
and the motor apparently failed.
The men were killed instantly.
Iran Situation
! ivcreasinglv
Tense
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18, t/PV—
With a single week remaining un
til UNO’s Security Council meets,
the Iranian crisis neared the
breaking point. Russian and
American relations tensed percep
tibly as a steady stream of reports
of new difficulties and sensation
al incidents in the strife ridden
middle eastern country brought
these latest top developments:
Onn—An American vice Consul
at Tabriz. Robert Rossow, was de
ta'ned half an hour at a Red Army
post Friday. This was three days
after United States told the world
that instead of pulling out of Iran
Soviet forces were moving
through Tabriz deeper into Iran.
Russians expressed regret ter
the State Department here. It said
;t attaches no significance to the
incident.
Two—While little of what is
’Happening in Tehran squeezes
through the tight light of secrecy,
one report was officially forward
ed here. It came to light that a
Russian diplomat in Tehran warn
ed Premier Sultaneh that Russia
would consider it an unfriendly
act if the Iranian government
should reopen its case before the
United Nations Security Council.
There is no evidence however
that the Iranian Premier in any
way modified his earlier word to
the United States that the govern
ment of Iran will present its case.
Three—American officials best
estimate of the possibilities at the
moment are that the Russians
may try either to break the Pre
mier’s resistance, or pull off a
, coup d’etat, and put a new gov
I ernment in power. The immediate
Soviet objective will be to get of
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Communists In
i Key Army Places
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HONOLULU, Mar. 18, UP) —
: Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, in
, telligence officer for General
i MacArthur throughout the war,
! said last night he w’as convinced
that Communists were infiltrating
key positions in the United States
army. He discussed the recent
transfer of two newsmen from the
Pacific “Stars and Stripes” for
a “negative report” on a loyalty
check.
Willoughby told reporters the
placement of certain individual*
“started in Washington, and went
all the way down.” How and
where they were placed was prob
ably by a prearranged plan.”