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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,764
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
A mericans Shot Way Out of Commie A mbush
STATEHOOD
FUND BILL
IS TABLED
Ey a 13-11 vote this morning the
House of Representatives laid on
the table a Senate approved bill to
appropriate $35,000 for the Alaska
Statehood Committee during the
coming biennium.
The bill, as introduced in the
Senate, called for $75,000. This was
whittled down by the senator i after
it was pointed cut that the State
hood Committee has $40,000 remain
ing in its 1049 appropriation, which
is now “frozen” by the Board of Ad
ministration.
Thero was no debate on Rep
Franklin’s motion to table the bill
The House this morning adoptee
a Conference Committee report
which patched up the House-Senate
differences over H. B. 27, repealing
the Territorial Retirement Systen
Act.
A new Conference Committee con
sisting of Reps. Barnes, Gundersen
and Kay, was named to meet wit!
Senators Lynv, MneKenzie ant
Huntley regarding Senate amend
1 ments to H. B. 48, relating to aid to
dependent children.
Salmon Tax
Rep. Doris Barnes offered an,
amendment to the Senate bill in
creasing the raw fish tax on canned
salmon from the present 4 per cem
to 6 per cent. Her amendment
would make the rate 5 per cent.
"I dislike increasing the taxes oi
our main industry by 50 per cent
at this time,” Rep. Barnes said ir
offering the amendment.
“I hope Mrs. Barnes is prepasec
to introduce a bill to raise the in
come tax or to provide some other
additional revenue,” said Rep ,
Franklin. "We need the $1,400.00(
this additional tax bill will brint
In.”
Peter F. Gilmore, local represent
ative of the Alaska Salmon Industry
Inc., was called to make a state
ment before the House and answer
questions.
Gilmore pointed out that people
in the salmon canning business pay
all taxes paid by other businesses
except the business license tax, and
in addition pay two special taxes
The 1949 Legislature, he said, in
creased the tax revenues from the
canneries by more than 100 per cent
Paid $4,000,000
During the past biennium, Gil
more said, the industry paid the
Territory more than four million
dollars under two special tax acts—
the raw fish tax and the trap tax
In addition, he said, fishermen alsc
pay a special tax. “The fisherman
is the only person who works with
his hands and his back in the Ter
ritory of Alaska who is required tc
pay a special license tax in order
to work for a living,” he commented.
Gilmore outlined the difference in
the methods for computing the raw
fish tax on canned salmon and on
salmon processed by other methods
and gave figures to show that the
levy on salmon placed in a can is
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. Dr Bell Syndicate. Inc..
(Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is
making a tour of the middle East
and Europe, surveying the world
situation.)
BERLIN.—This is the extreme
northern end of the Iron Curtain.
I started this trip at the southern
end where it begins, between Bul
garia and Turkey—a long line of
barbed wire extending north—and
have now reached the other end,
where it isn't even barbed wire
but fans out into the east zone of
Berlin.
One of the most important con
clusions I’ve reached on this trip
is that Winston Churchill did the
Democratic world a disservice when
he talked about the border be
tween Russia and the western
world as an Iron Curtain, because
the border isn’t as impervious as
the word "Iron” indicates. Not only
is Stalin s curtain between the east
and the west not even marked by
barbed wire in many places, but it
can be crossed fairly easily.
The border between Czechoslov
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Honey with Bunny Bonnet
Here's one of the first of the annual crop of Easter poses from press
agents far and wide. June Anderson holds her favorite bunny—and
oh yes, that's supposed to be an Easter bathing bonnet she’s wearing,
topped with rabbit ears eflect. The location? Miami, Florida, (ff)
Wirephoto.
PLEA DENIED
TO COLLAZO,
FACES DEATH
WASHINGTON, March 22 — MV
Oscar Collazo today lost his plea for
a new trial and will be sentenced to
death April 6 for his part in the
Nov. 1 shooting in front of Presi
dent Truman’s Blair House resi
dence.
In denying a defense motion for
a new trial, U. S. District Judge T.
Alan Goldborough banged his hand
on the bench for emphasis and
said:
“If ever a human being on the
face of the earth had a fair trial,
this defendant did.”
ENIWETOK
BOMB TEST
TO TOP ALL
By Associated Press
Congress continues to mull over
the needs of far-flung American
defense against possible aggression.
Indications were that new atomic
tests being prepared for Pacific
proving grounds at Eniwetok Atoll
probably would be the biggest yet.
Conceivably the tests could involve
early-stage type of hydrogen bomb—
the dread Hell bomb.
Statements of the Atomic Energy
Commission and the U. S. Air Force
indicate the tests will involve the
use of structures, materials and air
craft. At the least, the bombs being
tested will represent a long advance
over 1938:
STOCK OOCIATION5
NEW YORK, March 22 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
Lll'a, American Tel. and Tel. 154%,
Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft
96, General Electric 54%, General
Motors 52%, Goodyear 74, Kenne
:ott 73'1, Libby, McNeil and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 34, Standard
Cil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, U. S. Steel 42%,
Pound $2.80'b, Canadian Exchange
95.50,
Sales today were 1,290,002 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.52, rails 81.99, utili
ties 43.04.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
Robert J. Williams of Anchorage
,s at theBaranof Hotel.
HISS GOES
TO PRISON,
FIVE YEARS
NEW YORK. March 22 —(if)—
Alger Hiss, one-time bright young
star of President Roosevelt’s New
Deal, surrendered today to begin
serving a five-year prison term for
perjury.
The 46-year-old former high
State Department official — his
appeals to the higher court rejected
—gave himself up to Federal Judge
Henry W. Goddard.
Hiss was convicted Jan. 21, 1950
on two counts of perjury. The con
viction, in effect, branded him a
liar and a traitor who betrayed his
country by turning over Government
secrets to Whittaker Chambers, ad
mitted courier of a Communist spy
ring.
The courtroom proceeding lasted
I less than half a minute.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o cluck tbls morning i
In Juneau — Maximum,
35; minimum, 27.
At Airport — Maximum,
38; minimum, 27.
FORECAST
Cloudy with snow and
southeasterly winds of 20 to
30 miles per hour tonight
becoming cloudy with rain
and decreasing winds Fri
day. Lowest temperature to
night near 31 degree'. High
est Friday near 37 '
PRECIPITATION <
(Past 24 fcours ending 7:30 a.m. today <
City of Juneau -- .08 inches;
Since March 1—4.65 inches;
Since July 1—55.55 inohes.
At Airport — .05 inches;
Since March 1—2.61 inches;
Since July 1 — 35.09 inches. ■
FROM CALIFORNIA
Phyllis Smith of Belmont, Calif,
is at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SKAGWAY
D. M. Ackerman of Skagway is
at the Baranof Hotel
_' i
FROM SKAGWAY
V. V. Cooper of Skagway is at
the Baranof Hotel.
--
Ancient Rome had standard j
signs for many of its shops such as j
a goat for a dairy, a mule driving ;
a mill for a bakery and a bunch
of grapes for a wine shop.
When Caesar conquered Egypt,
part of the tribute was paid in glass.
Consolidated System for
Recording Mineral Claims
Is Now Proposed by Bartlett
LEGISLATURE
DUE TO END
AT MIDNIGHT
By JIM HUTCHESON
Alaska’s 20th Legislature was in
its final 24-hour stretch today.
The session ends legally at mid
night although there is a good
chance clocks will be covered while
the early hours Friday are consum
ed winding up the chores of getting
the last appropriation and revenue
measures in their final form.
The final day found these top
priority bills remaining for action:
In the Senate — Government Re
organization and record $18,300,000
General Appropriation Bills; both
passed the House.
In the House — Civilian Defense
Bills, a 50 per cent increase in the
canned salmon tax and a measure
for the control of roaming dogs,
which may be secondary in import
ance but draws first ranking in cor
respondence received by the legisla
tors.
Behind the scenes is the ominous
shadow of the prospective new tax
bill.
Chairmen of budget-framing com
mittees of both Houses say a budget
deficit of severe’ million dollars is
loom*
Trice duri' • debate on bills in
the Senate j :>terday the necessity
of voting foi new taxes, if appro
priations were made, was empha
sized by Democratic Floor Leader
Steve McCutcheon of Anchorage.
The possibility of raising the
Territorial income tax from 10 per
cent of the Federal income tax to
12 or possibly 15 per cent has been
mentioned. The possibility of a sales
tax also was mentioned in the Sen
ate yesterday.
The Senate last night approved
unanimously a bill raising teachers’
salaries $300 yearly in the First Di
vision, $400 in the Third, and $500
in the Second and Fourth Divisions.
Senators estimated the increase
would cost over $500,000 additional
for the biennium.
The Senate also approved a House
bill for the care of sick and dis
abled fishermen. The measure pro
vides that 30 per cent of fisher
men's license fees will go into a
fishermen’s fund.
The bill carried by a surprising
12-4 vote after Fairbanks’ Senators
Dan Lhamon, Frank Barr and Joe
Coble contended it was class legis
lation. Sen. John Butrovich joined
them to make a solid Fourth Di
vision vote against the measure.
First Division senators carried the
ball for the fishermen.
Lhamon. Fairbanks Republican,
even offered an amendment to in
clude auto salesmen, contending
they were entitled to such benefits
as much as the fishermen. Barr sug
gested the same for ailing pilots.
The Senate also approved Rep.
Vernon Metcalf’s bill for creation
of a veterans’ service council com
posed of veterans’ organizations’
leaders to aid in pressing claims
with the Veterans’ Administration.
Also approved, unanimously, was a
bill to provide $40,000 for advertis
ing for tourists, if private interests
match it.
The Senate defeated 12-4 a bill
proposing that 50 per cent of the
wolf bounty money be turned over
to the Federal Fish and Wildlife
Service.
The bill provided one of the live
liest arguments of the night, with
the Senate arrayed into pro-trapper
and pro-wildlife service camps. Bu
trovich was the most outspoken
critic. He declared a Federal agency
“has a lot of nerve asking us for
a few dollars” for such a job.
The Senate failed to reach a vote
on the controversial Government
Reorganization Bill last night when)
it could muster only 10 votes toward
the 11 needed to suspend rules to
advance the bill to final passage.
It was due to come up again to
day but some senators expressed
the belief it might get lost in the
closing day and night confusing
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By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, March 22 —<A—
Legislation to suspend the required
annual assessment work on gold
mining claims and set up a con
solidated system of recording all
mineral claims has been introduced
by Delegate Bartlett < D-Alaska i.
Several bills, including one by
Bartlett, have been introduced to
suspend assessment work on all min
ing claims, but this is the first
to apply only to gold claims.
Bartlett told a reporter the new
proposal was introduced to meet
the objections of the Atomic
Energy Commission and others who
felt the blanket suspension would
halt development of sites contain
ing strategic and needed minerals.
The suspension would be effec
tive until July 1 of the first year
after the end of the national emer
gency declared by President Truman
December 16, 1950.
The bill also would require filing
within 180 days alter its enactment
of a record of all claims in the
nearest district office of the Bureau
of Land Management. Future claims
would have to be filed within 90
days of location.
The time limit in both instances
would be doubled for Alaska.
A record of assessment work also
would be filed each year.
The bill, however, would permit
a claim holder to credit an excess
of work one year onto the assess
ment for the succeeding year.
Similarly, in cases where no more
than contiguous claims are held in
common ownership, the assessment
work for all claims could be done
on one.
Failure to record either the claim
or the assessment work for one year
would - leave it open to entry by
another party. Failure for three suc
cessive years would leave the claim, i
subject to withdrawal from mining
for other purposes under the Public
Lands Act.
TRIBUTE TO ,
PARKS FOR
CONFESSION
■ > I
WASHINGTON, March 22 —l*V—
Film Star Larry Parks, sell-con
fessed one-time Communist, was
praised in the House today as a
“great actor” and "loyal American.”
The praise was for his testimony
yesterday before the House commit
tee on un-American Activities.
The unusual tribute was paid
Parks by Rep. Velde (R-Ill). It fol
lowed an expression by Rep. Potter
(R-Mich) voicing the hope the
movie industry would not take re
prisals as a result of Parks’ ad
mission he.was a member of a party
cell from 1941 to 1945.
Both Velde and Potter are mem
bers of the Un-American Activities
committee.
Parks was the lead-off witness
in its renewed investigation of
Communism-in-Hollywood. After a
one-day session, the committee re
oessed the main body of its hear
ings until April 10 when new sen
sations are promised.
Another committee source, who
asked that his name be withheld,
disclosed meanwhile thp.t Parks
named “about a dozen” film figures
as members of his cell. Several of
them were described as well known
film figures.
Parks, who starred in "The Jol
son Story,” told the committee he
joined the party in an idealistic
search that "didn’t work out” and
quit when his interest faded.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 4 p.m. Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday morning south
bound.
FROM KENT
Wayne C. Morgan of Kent, Wash,
arrived here yesterday from the
South and is registered at the Gas
tinea u Hotel.
Her Legs Are Perfect
John Vogel, a portrait painter who says he’s searched 20 years for a
perfect pair of feminine legs, thinks those pictured at left are the
most perfect in America. They belong to Hollywood Movie Actress
Juia Adams. For the rest of Julia, see picture at right. Artist Vogel,
a brave man, says “90 per cent of American women are either knock
kneed or bow legged and that goes for Hollywood, too." UP) Wirephoto.
IN THIS CORNER
WE HAVE-WELL,
WHO HAVE WE?
In the middle of such serious
problems as reorganization and
budgets, the senate got a chuckle
Wednesday night out of three sets
of boxing gloves.
The gloves were miniatures, just
about the size of a thimble.
They appeared on the desks of
three senators who have done a
lot of sparring during the session,
Helnie Enider, Gunnard Engebreth
«rd t-Urr/ard Lyng.
Attached to them were these
memos:
THE WASILLA WILDCAT
(Fighting weight )' V
Comes out fast; break/ /lean, but
inclined to wander after a few fast
rounds. Trains on milk.
THE KOUGAROK KILLER
(that’s Lyngi
(Fighting weight 178)
Slow starter; strong finisher; re
markable endurance. Wins many
bouts with sheer weight of adjec
tives. Trains on vodka.
THE COOK INLET COUGAR
(that’s Engebreth)
(Fighting weight 185)
Gets groggy, but never gives up.
When on verge of defeat resorts to
ivory sledge hammer (the gavel).
PS—Since the gloves showed up
shortly after Sen. Dan Lhamon’s
return from Seattle, the Fairbanks
senator was open to suspicion. Be
sides, he's chairman of the senate
committee on education and extra
curricular activities.
JUDY GIVEN
HER DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, March 22 —W—
Judy Garland divorced Movie Di
rector Vincente Minnelli today with
testimony that he "secluded him
self and wouldn’t explain why he
would be away and leave me alone
so much.”
Calm and composed during an
eight-minute witness stand appear
ance, she told the court:
“When we were first married we
were very happy. We had many in
terests together — our work and
friends. We enjoyed living.”
A property settlement approved
by the court gives the couple’s five
year-old daughter Liza "freedom of
locomotion and casual choice” be
tween her father and mother.
SOURDOCEYS TO MEET
The Sourdocey Square Dancing
Club will meet Saturday March 24
at 8:30 p.m. at the parish hall.
There will be election of new of
ficers. A good attendance is re
quested.
CIVIL DEFENSE,!
SALMON TAX,
BEFORE HOUSE
By BOB DEARMOND
The House of Representatives
moved into the 60th and last day of
the session with only two major
bills remaining on its calendar —
♦he Civil Defense Bill and a bill to
increase the r aw fish tax on canned
salmon.
Due to received f.rm the
Senate to >ny was a bill appropriat
ing $35,000 for the Alaska Statehood
Committee, and remaining from
yesterday's session was a bill provid
ing for the licensing of dogs un
licensed by a municipality.
During yesterday’s long session,
the House passed, among others,
Senate bills levying a tax on fish
processed in floating cold storage
plants and adopting a comprehen
sive vehicle licensing and registra
tion code.
Argument on the freezer ship tax
hinged on the difference between
floating and shore based plants and
whether one could lpeally be taxed
at a higher rate than t’iP other.
Shore plants ppy a tax or 1 per cent
on the fish they process
Sufficient Differences
Attorney General J. Gerald Wil
liams, called before the House for
an opinion, said that he thought
there are enough differences be
tween shore and floating cold stor
ages to establish them in separate
classes for taxation purposes. "I
believe this bill, if enacted, will be
sustained in the courts,” Williams
said.
The bill passed by a vote of 20-4,
with Reps. Johnson, Laws, Misco
vich and Barnes voting "no."
The vehicle registration bill was
amended to scale down the license
tax rates set by the Senate. Tax
rates under this law will be based
on the weight of the vehicle and
the Senate bill set them at $10
for a vehicle under 3,500 pounds
and on up to $400 for a vehicle
over 20,000 pounds.
New Rates Set
The House upped the minimum
tax to $15 for a vehicle up to 3,500
pounds and set three other brackets:
$25 for a vehicle weighing between
3,500 and 15,000 pounds; $50 for a
vehicle of 15,001 to 18.000 pounds
and $75 for vehicles over 18,000
pounds.
Speaking in favor of the amend
ment, Rep Glen Franklin asserted
that the higher tax rates might
force the young and budding truck
ing industry out of business.
Franklin pointed out that the
truckers, generally speaking, have
a one-way haul, from the coast to ^
Interior points, and that since they
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US. FORCES
NEAR BIG
PARALLEL
Americans Walk Into Red
Trap in Forward Push,
Then Fight Way Out
By Associated Press
An American tank-infantry pa
trol with mine-hunting engineers
today shot Its way out of a Com
munist ambush less than three
miles from the Red Korean border.
The tanks were moving up one
side of the Pukhan River north of
Chunchon and the Infantry were
plodding along the opposite bank
when the Reds opened fire.
From high ground they poured
machlnegun, rifle and mortar fire
on all sides of the patrol.
“They let us walk Into the trap
and then they sprang It,’ said Cp.
Charley Hamilton. Virginia City, Va.
“Enemy fire was all around us
everywhere we turned. We finally
scrambled across to the tanks and
they kept the Chinese down on one
side while we moved out."
The tanks pulled back to Chun
chon. carrying the wounded.
Along this Central Korean sector,
the bulk of the Communist troops
appeared to have slipped north of
Parallel 38.
The Central Korean advance drove
through the former Chinese Red
base at Chunchon, occupied yester
day without a fight, and lit out
after the retreating Communist
troops. Chunchon Is eight miles from
the parallel. Field dispatches said
United Nations forces seemed in po
sition now to strike across the Par
allel, but there has been no definite
word that the political border would
be crossed once again.
North of Seoul, a UN tank patrol
fought a sharp battle with Com
munists at Uljongbu, south of the
area in which the Chinese were be
lieved massing a defense 15 miles
in depth below the Parallel.
Senator Barr
Is Nominated
For Marshall
WASHINGTON, March 22.—{ffU.
President Truman today sent to tha
senate the nomination of Frank
Barr, to be U. S. marshall for
Division No. 4. District of Alaska,
succeeding Stanley J. Nichols, re
signed.
Barr is now in Juneau attending
the Alaska Legislature as Senator
from the Fourth Division. Several
months ago when it was announced
he was a candidate for the marshal
ship, Barr stated he would not be
nominated until the legislature had
complex-; its 00 day." ;ession.
REORGANIZATION
BILL IS PASSED
BY SENATE, 11-5
With the numerous amendments
made last night, the Senate this
afternoon passed the Government’s
Reorganization Bill by a vote of
11 to 5.
BI’R SUPERINTENDENTS
CONFER ON HANDLING
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
Clarence Baumgarner, Equipment
Superintendent with the Juneau of
fice of the Bureau of Public Roads,
went to Portland, Ore. this week
to participate in a conference on
the overall program for handling
and reporting of equipment for the
coming road construction season.
Equipment superintendents from
the Bureau’s western division and
representatives from the Washing
ton, D. C. office will meet to dis
cuss a program aimed at obtaining
greater uniformity and efficiency
of operation. Baumgarner plans to
return to Juneau at the end of the
week.