U. of W. Professor
Is Communist
SEATTLE, i/P> — University of
Washington Professor Herbert J.
Phillips declared in a Jet*er to the
University Daily Monday that he
has been a member of the com
munist party for 13 years.
“There is no hing : .out com
mitment to such a program,” the
assistant professor of philosophy
wrote, “that makes a person unfit
to teach American youth m any
field in which he is qualified.”
Philipps later personally con
firmed authorship of the letter.
He said the American commun
ist party does not adv .-cate f
doctrine of force and violence as
a means of social change, and the
party’s constitution forbids over
throw of the government by force.
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Official Canvass ofi
Alaska Election
‘Wrangell Sentinel)
Alaska in its October general
'lection cast approximately 6,000
•'ore votes than ever before in its
history, official tally compiled by
he Territorial Canvassing Board
n Juneau reveals. The final figure
hr wed 23.054 ballots as compared
/ith 1 ,979 in the 1946 election.
T l'y shows the First Division
cast 8,536 this year as against
6,028 two years ago. The Tihrd
DAision cast 8,848, a jump from
*\778 in 1946 nad the Fourth 4,195
s conjpared with 3,287 two years
;go. Second Division dropped
from 1,886 in 1946 to 1,821 this
year.
Although the First still proved
- be the largest from point of
voters, the Third made the biggest
)in, jumping its total more than
’.TOO over two years ago while the
First made a 2,500 gain.
If Alaska had registration of e’i
•*,lble voters as do the States, it
probably would reveal that tne
23.000 figure is considerably more
than 50 per cent of the eligible
vote, probably closer to 75 per
cent on the basis of an estimated
90.000 population, many of whom
are under voting age and others
workers who have not established
residence.
No doubt the controversial fish
trap issue had much to do with
bringing out the voters. In every
Division there was a huge vote on
this referendum. Virtually every
precinct exprsesed itself on the is
sue, many in place where the fish
trap was an unknown quantity.
The vote against traps was ap
proximately seven and a half to
one. The tally shows 19,707 against
traps as compared to 2,614 for
continuing their use. The First Di
vision cast 7,179 against traps and
1,113 for continuing them. The
Third was 7,727 against, 552 for;
the Fourth 3.650 against and 423
for traps; the Second 1,151 against
and 521 for traps.
WASHINGTON, (/P>—The bur
eau of mino^ said today an unex
pected decline in mining put Alas
kan production last below the 1947
figures.
The 1948 output was 226,323
fine ounces of gold, 58,097 fine
ounces of silver, 19 short tons of
c jpper. 3 f9 tons of lead and 12
nrs of zinc. The values were list
d as: gold $7,921,305 for 1948,
• -mpared with $9 799,580 for 1947;
silver, $52,940 and $59,866: copper
$8,322 and $5,040; lead $108,150
and $76,032 and zinc $3,192 and
$6,050.
Now We Have A Complete Line
Of FRESH Airborn
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doubt of the legality of the action.
Observers viewed passage of
the code over the Republican mi
nority as indicating a better
chance for the income tax bill to
pass.
The fate of the tax measure is
still in doubt, however, and any
other tax bills apparently have no
chance of passage.
Legislative action was complet
ed on another bill when the House
approved a Senate amendment to
include two previously purchased
mimeographed machines in a bill
for the purchase of five typewrit
ers from a $750 appropriation.
Action on the memorial came af
ter lengthy legal dueling between ;
Atty. Gen. Ralph Rivers and R. E. j
Robertson, an attorney in Juneau |
for the past 35 years.
Rivers argued that new legisla
tors are qualified to serve in the
special session after a canvassing
board last month certified their
election.
Robertson contended that under
terms of the basic Alaska organic
act they are unqualified to serve
until after they are sworn in for
the regular session the fourth
Monday in January—next Mon
day.
Though she voted wtih the ma
jority, Senator Anita Garnick,
Juneau Republican, and the first
woman ever to serve in the Alas
ka Senate, said she still felt new
legislators could not legally serve
in the special session. She added:
The memorial served its pur
pose in calling the issue to the at
tention of the people of Alaska. I
voted against it because there is
no point in taking the complaint
before Congress. Nothing could be
gained.”
The memorial was addressed to
President Truman and Congress,
asking disapproval of any acts of
the special session on grounds
tht it is illegal and there is nA ur
gent public necessity for it.
Robertson said on the witness
stand that he drafted the memori
al at the request of “s >me Sena
tors.”
‘‘I think this is a serious mat
ter,” he said, “because we assume
that the special session is going to
pass some laws. I: could be very
damaging to have a session whose
legal status might be open to ques
tion for the next few years.”
Robertson was asked by Sen.
Rivers, Anchorage Democ rat:
“Does the memorial serve any
useful purpose,”
He replied: “Yes, it calls atten
tion of the public to the fact that
fhe session is not legally seated.”
Sen. John Butrovich, Jr., of
Fairbanks, one of the Republicans
who voted against :hc memorial,
interjected:
“I arrived at my opinion this
morning when the attornel general
assured us we are within the law. 1
•
We almost have to abide by his
opinion as legislative counsel, I
don’t we;”
To this Robertson replied: “No.”
AUSTRALIA CHECKS
IMMIGRANT RACKET
CANBERRA, .T'i—The Austra
lian p /vernmcn plans a new law
to halt a racket in steamer fares to
Australia.
S »me agents have charged Euro
pean migrants as much as $812
for a passage to Australia. Fares
usually are under $422, and the
agent pockets the difference. The
new law, forecast by government
officials, will compel to regis cr
with the Immigration Department. •
Five-Year-Old
Preaches Sermon
LONG BEACH, Calif, i/P), Stay
home. Read the Bible. And "quit
running around so much,” is five
year-old Reverend Marjoe Gort
ner’s advice to today’s parents.
"You know brothers and sisters
—what America needs is better
Christian mothers,” the young or
dained minister of the Old Time
Faith church preached yesterday
in the Masonic Temple. "I thank
God for my Christian mother.”
The occasion was the tot’s first
serman since his fifth birthday
last Friday.
PAPER ADVERTISES
FOR ADVERTISER
ATHENS, Tex. <VP;—The Athens
Daily Review advertised for an
advertiser.
The advertiser walked into the
Review office and took out an ad.
offering his house, rent-free, to
anyone who would take care of it.
But he failed to leave his name,
address or phone number.
The Review office was deluged
with applicants.
"As the days wore on, the clam
or increased. We were getting des
perate," says H. M. Kemp, pub
lisher. So the Review ran a three
'Charles Ponzi.
Financial Hoax
Wizard, Dies
RIO DE JANEIRO (/Pi—C nark -
Ponzi, whose financail swindle
rooked Americans a generatw
ago, died Saturday in a hospital
charity ward. His body 'till laj
unclaimed in a public morgue.
When death came, he was -em
paralyzed and partly blmc. H«
was unable to move his le:*. am
or leg. Most of the sight had gonr
from his right eye. He was 71.
Ponzi’s colossal financial hoaa
was perpetrated in 1920. He prom
ised 50 per cent returns on money
within 45 days. When he nnally*
was brought to book on charges cl
using the mails to defraud, federal
investigators estimated he had
bilked 40,000 Americans oi more
than $15,000,000.
He was deported from tK*
United States to his native Ital,
and.he came to Brazil in aboul
1930.
Doctors said hardened ; 'em
and a blood clot in the bram caus
ed his death.
column, front page story, head
lined:
“Wanted: One Advertiser “
i And the story fetched the adve -
tiser. He came in grinning.
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