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VOL LXXVlTnO. 11.727 _JUNEAU. ALASKA, FRIDAY. FEI.KUARY 2, 1951_ MEM RE R ASSOCIATED PRESS pRK'E
Strengthened UN Forces Press Closer to Seoul
FIVE CENT TAX
ON CIGARETTES
IS PROPOSED
Senator McCutcheon Intro
duces Bill-Liquor Li
cense Bill Also in
A 5-cent a pack cigaret tax bill
landed in the territorial senate to
day.
Sen. Steve McCutcheon (D-Anch
orage) introduced the bill to amend j
the 1949 3-cent a pack tax law.
McCutcheon predicted passage of j
the cigaret tax increase. He said j
many legislators who oppose any |
new tax measures have expressed |
favor for boosting the ci;aret levy;
because most retailers boosted the
price an even nickel when the 3-cent
tax was put on. \
All tobacco tax revenue would
still go to an earmarked school con
struction fund. The amendment j
makes no change in that provision
of the present law. The tobacco tax |
raised $442,000 last year, according ;
to tax commission office reports.
The bill filed today would raise
the tax on packs of 50 cigaret j
from 8 cents to 10.
It held top interest among three i
bills filed in the Senate. One of the ;
others was a tax enabling act and 1
the other was a liquor license law ;
amendment.
The former, by McCutcheon also,;
would allow an increase to 3 per
cent (30 mills) in the tax on real |
and personal property for municipal
and school district* purposes. The
present maximum allowed under the
law is 20 mills (2 per cent).
McCutcheon said the 30-mill ceil- ;
ing is asked by the territorial Mu- j
nicipal League. He said Congress |
authorized the legislature several;
years ago to boost the tax ceiling i
to 30 mills.
Sen. R. M. MacKenzie (D-ICetch- I
ikan) dropped in a bill to relieve :
liquor dealers outside of incorpor- !
ated towns from the necessity of j
circulating petitions for residents’ j
' signatures for each annual renewal j
of their license, providing they have |
not been found guilty of any law j
infractions.
The petitions still would have to ;
be circulated before a dispenser
could get a license to open a new i
spot, but thereafter the license re
newals could be obtained from year
to year by merely paying the re
quired fee.
MacKenzie said the purpose was
to equalize the situation for dealer:
inside and outside incorporated
towns. He said the petition-circu
lating for renewals in towns is NOT
required because a dealer can go
before the city council for his re
newal.
The Senate received a sheaf of
correspondence today from Ross
Kimball of Fairbanks, Democratic
nominee for labor commissioner
last year, asking that he be sum
moned to air officially his com
plaints against the territorial veter
ans affairs office.
He enumerated several allega
tions in strong language.
The Senate sidetracked the matter
by referring the correspondence to
the education committee.
Sen. Howard Lyng (D-Nome)
picked up the chance to put in a
plug for the legislative investigat
ing committee that has been propos
ed in a House bill.
Lyng said he didn't think the in
dividual complainant should be
called before the Senate "but this
is one more revason we should have
such a committee. It could handle
such complaints as this. There are
many rumors and reports flying
about and such a committee could
look into them.”
(The investigating committee bill
was still land-locked in the House
judiciary committee, to which it
was referred a week ago).
Sen. Frank Barr (D-Fairbanks>
suggested that if the Senate should
be inclined to start calling in indi
viduals to air their complaints about
government or government agen
cies, "perhaps we should engage a
psychiatrist, too.”
Sen. John Butrovich (R-Fair
banks> suggested that any person
with a grievance can receive a
hearing from legislators, but declar
ed "we can’t call them in here by
subpoena. If we did we would be
paying transportation” for a parade
of them.
The Senate adjourned before noon
until 10 a.m. tomorrow. •
Her 18th Child
Sirs. Arthur Ocircr of Pittsburgh, Pa., and her 18th child, new born
girl, arc visited by eight of the Oiriscr children. Agnes flriser, 16,
stands with arm on bed. Other children (left to right): Samuel, 11;
Thomas. 2; twins Deloris and John, 10; Dorothy, 7; twins (leaning on
bed) Joseph and James, 4. ilf) Wircphoto.
■
Ambulance Operalicn Dis
cussed at Monthly Meet
ing-Personnel on Ca'ls
The Juneau Fire Department held (
its monthly meeting last night at i
the Fire Club and teams were as
signed for the annual solicitation
of funds by the club.
The committee handling the Fire
men’s Ball, February 10. at the
Elks ballroom, reported everything
in readiness for a big blowout.
A long discussion was held over
the operation of the ambulance. It
was pointed out that calls are
handled by firemen immediately
available on a non-reimburseable
basis.
Chief Minard Mill announced the
scheme of dispersal of fire equip
ment in case of an air raid and the
action to be taken by the depart
ment.
Guests at the meeting were Miss
Kay Kennedy, Elmer A. Friend, Ed
ward Sweeney and Bert Caro.
, Chef Sorenson officiated with his
usual professional style over a lunch
of Alaska shrimp.
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SEATTLE VISITOR
J. R. Hanson of Seattle is s*op
I ping at the R?t:anof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Hound
Ry DREW PEARSON
| Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
i UPaSHINGTON—The two men
who rule the Chicago underworld to
i day are Tony Accardo and Jack Gu
i :-ik. Not only have they taken over
| the vast and profitable domain of i
j A1 Capone along the shores of Lake \
j Michigan, but they have spread out
i into the lush crime lields of Flor
! ida and California.
Four years ago Accardo and Gu
zzik, long operating informally as a
! team, legalized their partnership I
and notified the government that
for the year 1043 they had earned
: a total of $130,000.
j Ihe source of this profit they!
! listed merely as ‘other income,’’!
1 which poses an obvious problem for
; Uncle Sam’s tax collectors. Intern
al Revenue solved it that year by
writing the following notation at
the bottom of Guzik’s and Accardo’s
tax return: '
"The partners refused ’o divulge
the source of this income. Inso
much as the partnership reports a
substantial amount, the correctness
of which is impossible to check, it
opined that further investigation is
impracticable.—(signed) Ned Klein,
Revenue Agent.”
This was about the best Agent
Klein could do under the circum
stances. However, if Secretary of
the Treasury Snyder wanted to set
up a special tax squad to watch
i (Continued on Page Four)
CITY FATHERS TO
FACE HOYiNG DAY
PROBLEMS TONIGHT
It Is likely that the Juneau City
Council will be racking its collect
ive brains at a .regular meeting
tonight to find housing for var
ious city departments when it is
necessary to move to make way for
the new Alaska Office Building
which will be built ou the present
si*e of the City Hall and AB Hall.
Notification was given to the City i
January 31 that bids for the pro- |
jecu are scheduled to be opened
February 28.
Possible locations for the Fire
Department are at the subport or j
in a Juneau Young warehouse to]
the rear of the store. The building (
which houses the Juneau Health |
Center will have to be moved. Of-,
fice space will have to be found
for the city clerk, city engineer and
library.
Arrangements have already been
made with the U. S'. Marshal’s of
fice to house city prisoners in the
Federal jail.
The problem of moving the Sturm
cold storage lockers will also be
considered.
Other business pending includes
a decision regarding a hearing to
raise rates by the Juneau-Douglas
Telephone Co.; publication of the
city budget and audit; possible pur
chase of the Myhre property ad
joining the city dock; an oil stor
age tank for city vehicles; results
of an application to the Territorial
Highway Engineer for a new ap
proach to the small boat harbor;
and report on clarification of city
wiring code which has been re
quested by the electrician’s union.
STUDENT OF US EYES
TO B ID OFFICIAL
CAIRO. — (Jl—An Egyp' ian law
student has offered his eyes to
replace those of Education Minister
Taha Hussein Pasha, who has been
totally blind since early childhood.
The student is Abdel Hadi Heikal,
who is enrolled at Egyptian Uni
versity’s School cf Law. Friends of
the blind minister say the offer
probably will be turned down with {
hanks. A similar offer came from,
a Spanist student durina the mini- !
ster’s recent trip through Europe.
Taha Hussein Pasha is Egypt’s j
most prominent writer and scholar I
despite his handicap. His crusade j
to spread education in Egypt has1
won him great popular support. j
ACS STAFF MEN FROM
SEATTLE IN ALASKA
Enroute to their Alaska Commun- |
ieafion System headquarters office:
in Seattle after a two weeks visit
to major stations in Alaska, Capt. ]
Brook C. Yden, Assistant, Adjutant,
and SFC George Y. Jenick were in
Juneau yesterday and today.
■ The ACS staff men left this aft
ernoon and will visit the stations
at Petersburg and Ketchikan con- !
tinuing from the latter city to
Seattle. , j
I
Marine Union
Bargaining
Rights Taken
NLRB Finds Two Coast Ship
pers, Three Ship Com
panies Guilty
SEATTLE. Feb. 2 —4/PI— A rec
ommendation that the Marine Cooks
and Stewards Union (Ind) be
stripped of its collective bargain
ing rights in all West Coast ports
was announced -today by Robert L.
Piper, trial examiner for the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
Piper found the union, two coast
wide shipping associations and three
Seattle steamship companies guilty
of violating the Taft-Hartley Act
by operating under a contract in
which union members are given job
preference through a hiring hall.
Other defendants in addition to
the union were the Pacific Ameri
can Steamship Owners Association,
the Pacific Maritime Association,
the Alaska Steamship Co., the
American Mail Line and Pope and
Talbot, Inc.
Seattle Attorney J. H. Geisness,
who filed unfair labor practice
charges against the defendants, said
Piper’s decision ordered the union
and the shippers to make up all
wages lost by stewards since Dec. 2,
1948. when the contract became ef
fective.
Geisness said restoration would
cost more than $400,000.
The Alaska Steamship Co. was
directed to offer reinstatement to
stewards and to offer employment
to nearly 100 stewards who the N.
L.R.B. trial examiner held had been
victims of discrimination.
The defendants have 20 days in
which to notify the N. L. R. B. of
i compliance or to file an appeal with
I the board.
BLAST
Explosion Has Force of
Earthquake - Felt 400
Miles-Sky Lit Up
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Peb. 2—tB—
Concussion from another atomic
blast some 75 miles away hit this
sou'hern Nevada city today with
the force of an earthquake.
It shattered a glass window in a
downtown department store and
brought a flood of calls from alarm
ed citizens to police.
One observer on a downtown
street said:
••Windows in the big scores bulg
ed in and out like balloons. I
thought thev were all going to do.”
It was the first damtige reported
here in the series of shocks.
The fourth atomic flash in less
than a week lit up the pre-dawn
sky wi'h noontime brilliance and
was visible in a radius of more
than 400 miles throughout the west.
It was reported seen as far away as
the San Francisco Bay area.
Brilliance of the light' and the
force of the explosion, which rock
ed downtown buildings, touched off
1 new speculation about what the
{ Atomic Energy Commission is test
j ing at its big new range in the
I desolate desert northwest of here.
Tne AEC. as customary, confined
[ itself to confirming that a test had
! taken place.
| Most witnesses agreed that today's
; concussion came in three waves—
j a small one, then two with stiff,
I jolting punches.
j As dawn broke, darkish brown
I clouds were visible in the clear
I morning air in the direction of the
range. They were stretched widely
I across the horizon in a sort of
j cirrus pattern.
Both the flash and the concus
sion today seemed to last longer
| than in either of the three previous
tests.
FROM SKAGWAY
Mrs. E. H. Richter of Skagway
j i6 a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
I
The Sabre Strikes
I Bate1 " I — » .--—- -■—— —
A„ F86 Sabre jet peels off for a screaming attack on a Communist troop and supply concentartion in the
now covered village below. I!. S. Air Force photo via (/PI YVIrcphoto.____
QUICK TAX
INCREASE
IS SOUGHT
Only Ten Billion Requested
by Truman-Another
Boost Expected
I WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 — OP) —
President Truman today asked Con
gress for a quick $10 000,000,000 tax
increase and said he will ask still
another increase later.
In a message to the Legislators,
Mr. Truman set out this program
for raising the $10,000,000,000:
1. A $4,0C0,000,000 increase in in
dividual income taxes, already
scheduled to yield a record $20,000,
000,000 in the fiscal year starting
July 1.
2. A $3,000,000,000 increase in
corporation income taxes. These
with excess profits taxes included,
are scheduled to hit a record $20,
000,000,000 next year.
3. A $3,000,000,000 increase in ex
cise (sales) taxes — to be “concen-;
trated upon less essential consumer
goods.” These taxes are estimated
to yield $8,222,000,000 next year, un
der present tax laws.
The schedule outlined wrould mean
a total tax take of $64,200,000,000.
This is nearly a third more than
the record collections of World War
II when the take reached $43,000,
000,000 in 1945.
The understanding among Con
gress members is that the furthei
increase Mr. Truman is to request
later would raise government rev- j
enues to more than $71,000,000,000.
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SOROPTIMISTS WILL
BE ADDRESSED BY
(OL. ALEXANDER
At the business meeting of the
Juneau Soroptimists in the Baranof
Terrace room today. President Dr.
Grace Field announced that speaker
at the meeting Friday will be Col.
Joseph D. Alexander.
Reports were made by Dr. Field
and by Alice Schnee and, on mo
tion of Mildred R. Hermann, Alice
Thorne was appointed by Dr. Field
to be a club liaison officer to handle
correspondence and reports from
the regional and national Soropti
mist organization. ’
It was announced that Soropti
mist Laura MacMillan had been
elected finance officer and a mem
ber of the board of the Alaska Di
vision of the American Cancer Soc
iety and other Soroptimists on the
ACS board were Priscilla Parker
and Helen Monsen. Soroptimist
Mildred R. Hermann is commander
of the Alaska Division. ACS. The
club has been active in sponsoring
Cancer Society activities in the
. j Territory.
SRiDGES LOCAL IS
WINNER IN VOTING' j
ALASKA SCW ISSUE
SEATTLE, Feb. 2 —l/PI— The Har- |
ry Bridges Longshoremen’s Local j
7-C rolled up almost a 6-1 margin |
yesterday in its fight to regain j
domination over more than 2,000
non-resident Alaska Salmon Can
nery workers.
Local 7-C polled almost six times
as many votes as Its nearest op
position in a National Labor Re
lations Board union authorization
election for the industry.
Local 7-C tallied 1-64 votes, with
the CIO United Packing House
Workers drawing 167 votes and the
AFL Alaska Fish Cannery Workers
66. Six voted against any union af
filiate and 158 challenged ballots
were not counted when Field Fx
aminer Julius Draznin found they
would not affect the result.
Workers voted in the election last
summer when they returned from
their Alaska jobs. However labor
practice charges delayed the count
until yesterday. Voting was light
among the 2,060 workers eligible.
As results were announced, the
defeated unions readied moves to
block certification of the election
which would restore Local 7-C to
the position it held before it lost
union authorization rights last
year.
The election was an effort to
unsnarl a maze of conflicting claims
which followed when the CIO ex
pelled 7-C’s parent union, the To
bacco Cannery and Allied Workers,
for leftist leanings. The leaders re
taliated by forming 7-C and joining
Bridges’ International Longshore
men and Warehousemen’s Union
and picketing Alaska salmon can
neries and shipping last spring un
til it won equal bargaining rights
with the other two unions. The CIO
also expelled the I.L.W.U.
PETERSBURG VISITOR
Finney Trones of i-itersbuif; is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24 Hour Period •
• ending 6 20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 36; minimum, 22. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 27; minimum, 12. •
• •
• forecast •
• Continued fair with occa- •
• sonal gusty northeasterly •
• winds tonight and Saturday. •
• Low temperature tonight •
• near 18 in town and 5 to 10 •
• in outlying areas. High •
• temperature Saturday near •
• 22. *
• •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
j City of Juneau — Trace. •
• since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches; •
• since July 1—41.94 Inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• since Jan. I — 2.25 Inches; •
! • since July 1—30.25 inches. •
EISENHOWER
DIDN'T TELL
EVERYTHING
I Opposes Limit to American
Troops to Europe But He
Doesn'tSay How Many
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Ml —
Gen.Dwight D.Eisenhower’s opposi
tion to a limit on the number of
American troops to be sent to Eu
rope split the ranks of lawmakers
demanding such a ceiling today.
Senator Taft (R-Oliio) told a re
porter he has not changed his posi
tion that Congress ought to tie down
the number of foot soldiers who
could be dispatched to help man
Western Europe’s defenses.
However, Senator Douglas (D-Ill),
who has advocated that Congress
fix a ration of American to Eu
ropean troops, said he is surprised
at Eisenhower’s opposition and will
have to "think the whole matter
over.”
Radio Talk Tonight
Eisenhower has an opportunity
tonight to explain more fully his
position on this point when he re
ports to the nation by radio on his
survey of Western Europe’s de
fenses. His address will be carried
on all radio and television net
works.
There were indications, however,
that the Pentagon does not want to
| disclose with any exactness the
i probable U. S. contribution. The
| reasoning is that Eisenhower’s
| hands should not be tied.
The general will report to the
House Foreign Affairs and Armed
Services Committees In closed ses
ion earlier in the dav.
40-Division Force
Eisenhower was quoted by sc.’
ators who heard him in a closed
session yesterday as fixing his sights
on a 40-division land force by the
end of next year to help guard Eu
| rope against possible Communist
I attack.
j Some senators said Eisenhower,
Supreme Commander of the North
Atlantic Defense setup, estimated
that Western Europe could be de
fended successfully by a future land
force totaling 1,600,000 men.
He gave no estimates on the
American contributions to such an
Army, his listeners said, but insist
ed that all the Atlantic Pact part
ners should contribute proportion
ately to the growing defense he has
in mind.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
1 Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle, 4 p.m. today.
Baranof from westward sched
uled to arrive southbound Sunday
morning.
RED FORCE
RESISTANCE
WEAKENING
Allies Using Deadly Fire
Power-Trapped Unit, En
circled, Makes Escape
(By Associated Press)
United Nations forces in strength
pressed relentlessly closer today to
the Han River which skirts the old
Korean capital of Seoul, chiseling
away at the main Communist de
fense lines.
Added to the deadly fire power
of the Allies was a report of wide
spread typhus among North Kor
ean troops and serious losses by
frostbite and trench foot among
the Chinese Reds. Enemy will to
resist was noticeably weakening, al
though military experts would not
say whether the Allies had cracked
the main defense lines.
Enemy Death Toll
An Eighth Army spokesman esti
mated enemy killed by ground ac
tion at 6,650 since the U. N. limited
offensive started Jan. 25. Air re
ports listed an additional 1,442
! killed in the same period; but there
I may be some duplications.
Responsible authorities in Wash
ington reported a decision has been
made to stop the U. N. drive at the
38th Parallel in the hope that some
diplomatic solution to the Korean
problem can be found. But com
manders in the field would not com
ment on whether or not they had
received such orders.
Trapped Unit Escapes
On the Allied right flank, a
French-American combat team
which yesterday was trapped by
j two enemy regiments totalling about
I 6,000 Banzal-screaming men, had
1 fought its way out with the aid
of Allied air power and reinforce
ments.
The main body of the encircling
enemy had jumped out of hideouts
to squeeze the U. N. outfit on three
sides. To the rear, a strong enemy
roadblock was set up near Chip
yong. But Allied reinforcement ele
i tnents coming up from the south
virtually wiped out the roadblock.
Aggressor Move Blocked
The United Nations, having put
the brand of aggression on Mao
Tze-tung’s Peiping regime, faced a
bigger internal struggle on what to
do now. The battle was shaping up
behind the scenes, with many of the
nations which supported the U. S.
showing strong reluctance to take
collective measures against China
tual Insurance Company,
before all avenues toward a nego
The United States is eager to
have the committee on collective
measures — sanctions — get to work
quickly.
FIRST AID COURSE IS
ANNOUNCED BY AWVS;
TO START ON MONDAY
A First Aid course, sponsored
by the American Women’s Volun
tary Services, will start next week,
it was announced today by Mrs.
Ernest Gruening, and first meet-'
ing of th,t 30-hour course will be
at 8 o’clock Monday, February 5
at the Governor’s House.
New and revised First Aid books
that cover new techniques includ
ing atomic bomb first aid will be
used for the course, Mrs. Gruening
said.
All interested, whether AWVS
members or not, are invited to at
tend the course.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Feb. 2 — Closfhg
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3 S., American Can
107, American Tel. & Tel. 153>4.
Anaconda 41 ■», Douglas Aircraft 104.
General Electric 54'». General Mot
ors 50'-, Goodyear 72Vi. Kennecott
76, Libby. McNeil & Libby 9, North
ern Pacific 35'i, Standard Oil of
California 97, Twentieth Century
Fox 21 Si, U. S. Steel 47'i, Pound
2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.12'a.
Sales today were 3,030,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 252.78, rails 89.12, util
ities 42.47.