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VOL. LXXVI~ NO. 11,765 _JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TKN_cKNTS
Terr. Legislators Leave Prospect of Red Ink
LARGE U. S.
PLANE IS
DOWN, SEA
Globemaster with Report
ed 52 Aboard, Including
Brig. Gen., Is Missing
WASHINGTON, March 23 —OPt—
A big Air Force transport plane
with 53 aboard is missing on a
flight over the Atlantic from the
United States to England, the Air
Force reported today.
One of those aboard was identi
fied by the Air Force as Brig. Gen.
Paul T. Cullen, deputy commander
at Barksdale Field near Shreveport,
La., who was enroute to an undis
closed European destination.
The missing plane, a C-124 or
Globemaster II, last reported its po
sition in a routine radio check about
1 a m. as 800 miles southwest of
Ireland.
It was enroute from the Lime
stone, Me., Air Base to the Amer
ican base at Mildenhall in Suffolk.
Brig. Gen. Aboard
The Royal Air Force control sta
tion directing the search operations
said the plane carried a brigadier
general Cullens. This report aroused
belief that he was Brig. Gen. Paul
T. Cullen, deputy commander at
Barksdale Field, near Shreveport,
La., who left there Wednesday for
a European destination.
The U. S. Third Air Division
headquarters here and the Royal
Air Force said they had no informa
tion about the number of persons
aboard. The British Press Associa
tion did not announce the source of
its information on the number.
No Signs Seen
Air Force Headquarters here and
in Washington also would not con
firm that Gen.1 Cullen was on board.
American and British search and
rescue planes, some carrying life
boats, combed the area where the
plane was last reported, but saw no
signs of the missing Globemaster
even after it was presumed to have
exhausted its gas supply.
That type piano normally carries
its own life rafts, equipped with am
ple food, w'ater and clothing to en
able its passengers to survive for
some time.
Hopes Held Out
The Air Force said in mid morn
ing however, it still held hope for
the plane because it could have
reached Iceland or the Azores.
An Air Force spokesman said the
giant transport had about eight
hours of fuel left when it last re
ported. “It was' then within six
jours flight of Ireland, Iceland or
the Azores.”
Another big plane, a military air
transport was temporarily reported
overdue on a flight from Iceland
to this country. It later landed
safely at Argentia, Nfld.
Also aboard are Col. Kenneth N.
Gray, budget officer; Lt. Col. E. A.
McKoy, assigned to SAC’s director
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
BERLIN.—Here are three pictures
I have received of Berlin—the rfiost i
controversial city in the world—
during .ne last three decades. i
Berlin in 1923 was a city of des-j
pair. People waited in the alley',
behind the Hotel Adlon ready to
pounce on garbage cans immedi
ately they were placed outside the
hotel’s kitchen. Inside the hotel
women waited, willing to sell their
souls for a cup of coffee that cost
one million marks one day, a mil
lion and a half the next and two
million the day following. Inflation
ran riot at the time, with bragga
docio foreigners burning marks to
light cigarettes and the working
man's wages lagging miles behind
the daily depreciation of the print
ing-press money in which he was
paid. ... I interviewed President
Friedrich Ebert, the onetime saddle
maker who, after the World War
I armistice, suddenly had lound.
himself at the helm of the new
German Weimar republic. The Kai
ser and the Prussians of Potsdam
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Jet Bomber for Atomic Test
The Air Force has announced in Washington, D. C.. that three types of bombers—one the B-47 ail-jet
medium bomber like this one soaring just above the c'ouds on a test flight—will be used in the atomic
tests in the I’aeifie. The B-47 is a six-jet-engine powered, swept-back wing plane in the "600-miles-per
hour speed class.” (/PI YVirephoto.
American Paratroopers
Jump Behind Red Lines;
20,300 Commies Beat It
i
LEGAL FIGHT IS
PREDICTED ON
jREORGAN.BILL
I
i -
| Albert White, General Counsel of
! the Republican Party of Alaska,
expressed the opinion the Reorgan
ization bill passed in the closing
hours of the Alaska Legislature is
i illegal and no doubt will be con
tested.
He said the Republican objec
tion to the bill is that it takes
away the rights of the people to
vote for Auditor and Treasurer and
places the authority in the hands
I of the Governor and members of
I the House and Senate. He cited
| Senate Bill 16, passed by the leg
I islature and now law. He said it
forbids the Governor and members
of the legislature from serving on
any Board or Commission.
He declared: “More and more the
rights of the voters of Alaska are
being taken away.
“Republicans did the best they
could. Senator Engstrom, I am iiv
formed, refused to vote on the
senators for the board of admin
istration. Senator Snider was not
in the senate chamber. It was ap
parent that no Republican was to
be on the board, and it was at its
final passage without a Republican
on the board.” (Senate President
Gunnard Engebreth, Anchorage Re
publican and foe of White, was
named to the board, but White
said he did not consider him to be
a Republican).
FRiESEARRIVES TO
BE ANALYST, OPS
I Stanley Friese of Alameda, Calil.,
! arrived in Juneau yesterday to as
sume his duties as business an
alyst for the Office of Price Sta
bilization. Friese has spent several
weeks working in the Seattle of
fice of the O.P.S.
Friese recently resigned his po
sition on the staff of the superin
tendent of schools of Alameda
County. His wife and daughter will
come north to join him soon.
Both Friese and his wife have
lived in Alaska previously. Friese
was with the Alaska Communica
tions System during the war, with
duty in the Aleutians, in Wrangell
and here in Juneau.
MINNEAPOLIS GUEST
Margaret Doran of Minneapolis
is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Frank L. Friedman of Seattle is
at the Baranof Hotel.
r -
By Associated Press
American paratroopers bolstered
by tough rangers jumped today be
hind Communist lines north of Seoul
and shocked some 20,000 Red troops
into hasty flight.
The paratroopers filled the sky
with their brightly-hued parachutes
like a massive Easter bouquet.
But the Communists rallied later
and were fighting desperately to sur- j
round and wipe out the 3,300 out- I
numbered American Jumpers.
An armored column spearheading
a fresh Allied drive by three di
visions north of Seoul linked up
with the paratroops near the drop
area south of Munsan.
Ridgeway In Fight
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway
landed in a light plane only 29 min
utes after the first paratrooper
jumped. A field dispatch said he
was in the thick of one fierce fight.
In Central Korea, an American
armored patrol pushed within two
and one-quarter miles of Parallel
38 north of Chunchon without op
position
The air assault was made behind
15,000 to 20,000 Communist troops,
possibly the rear guard of a 60,000
man force reported earlier in the
area.
Cargo Plane Explodes
The only mishap of the landing
was the explosion of a C-119 cargo
plane in the air after it had deliv
ered its paratroopers.
It was the second airborne land
ing of the war. The first was made
north of the Red capitol of Psyong
yang last Oct. 20 and 21. •
On the Central front, tank pa
trols of the U. S. First Cavalry di
vision pushed within a few miles
of the 38th Parallel. Some 6.000
Chinese Reds dug in about five
miles north of Allied-held Chunchon
were attacked by U. S. fighter
bombers.
DR. WHEATLEY HERE
Dr. R. E. Wheatley of Sitka is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
• ••••••••a*
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature for 21-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this mornlqg •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 36; minimum, 28 •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 33; minimum, 26 •
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with occasional light •
• rain or mixed rain and snow •
• tonight and Saturday. Lowest •
• temperature tonight about 34 •
• and highest Saturday near •
• 37. • I
• FRECIPIT 1. T I O N •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7.30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .20 inches; •
• Since March 1—4.85 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 55.75 inches. •
• At Airport — .11 inches; •
• Since March 1 — 2.7? inches; •
• Since July 1 — 35.20 inches. •
LIQUOR (ASH
EVIDENCE IS
GIVEN SENATE
An auditor’s findings of a $27,
000 shortage in the Territorial
Liquor Stamp fund was aired in
the Senate’s final night session.
Attorney General J. Gerald Wil
liams told senators in concluding
lengthy testimony that the case is
“A dead duck,” so far as any rem
edial action is concerned.
Williams said none of the persons
involved are covered by bond al
though ”1 can’t understand why
not,” and the three-year statute
of limitations had outlawed any
action against individuals.
Williams also said "Most of them
now are dead.”
“Actually,” said Williams, “I’m
not sure that these men didn’t
turn the stamps in. I think all of
them are innocent.”
Liquor stamp shortages were re
ported by the Arthur Anderson
Company after a 1949 audit.
Williams was called to discuss
the situation by Sen. John Butro
vich, who served with Sen. James
Nolan as a RDecial auditing com
mittee from 'he 1949 legislature.
Defalcations Disclosed
Butrovich and Williams related
how the audit back to 1935 disclosed
defalcations of $43,351 in funds un
der former treasurer Oscar Olson,
who now is serving a term at Mc
Neil Island penitentiary.
Before citing names of persons,
from the auditing firm’s report,
Williams prefaced his remarks:
“I assume all are innocent. I
don't mean to imply any crimes.”
He told the senators the biggest
liquor stamp item was listed for
E. D. Webb of Seward, from 1945.
He quoted the auditing report as
$17,292, plus a $1,500 check.
He cited the auditing reference:
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PATON TAKES
DEATH LEAP
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23—
HI—Mental strain and ill health
were advanced today as the prob
able causes of Longshore Chieftan
Eugene Patron's suicide leap from
Golden Gate bridge yesterday.
The 38-year-old president, for
years a close working Lieutenant
of Harry Bridges, was the 121st
person known to have leaped to
his death from the span.
Paton was president of Local 6
of Bridges’ International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union.
No note of explanation was found.
Union spokesmen said Paton’s
health had been failing since his
discharge from the army in 1945.
That year, Paton was decorated
for valor in battle and was awarded
a battlefield commission. He had
entered the army as a private.
His body was recovered yesterday
20 minutes after the death jump.
HERE’S NUTSHELL
REVIEW OF 1951
APPROPRIATIONS
Main items in the general appro
priations bill passed by the legis
lature after a conference committee
brought it out early today are:
i (With 1949-51 comparative appro- '
i priation listed in parentheses.)
Fisheries dept., $409,672 ($250,
000).
Development board, $70,000 ($80,
000).
Alaska housing authority, $50,000
($250,000).
National guard, $150,000 ($75,000).
Auditor, $105,880 ($79,406).
Attorney General, $80,932 ($64,
450).
Hair seals bounty, $100,000 ($100,
000 plus $200,000 deficiency appro
priation).
Wolves and coyote bounties, $100,
000 ($125,000).
Education department, $178,096
($132,858); senate boosted salary of
commissioner of education to $16,
000 a year to meet board of educa
tion request for salary described as
sufficient to bring administrator
on whom board had agreed, but
conference committee cut it back to
$12,000.
Governor’s emergency appropria
tion, $5,000 ($5,000).
Fisheries experimental commis
sion, $59,612 ($50,000). ;
Office of governor, $40,424, includ
ing $6,000 entertainment fund ($37,
600).
Health department, $999,000
($934,000). I
Highway engineer, $64,250 ($42,
620).
Labor dept, and industrial board,'
$118,160 ($112,632).
I Mines dept., $230„370 ($280,500).
Pioneers' home, $517,170 ($459,
100).
School building construction and
repair of rural schools. $500,000
($2,250,000, much of which was
frozen); school buildings also will
get an estimated $1,200,000 to
$1,500,000 from earmarked tobacco
tax monies.
Taxation dept., $608,440 ($500,000).
Treasurer, $83,100 ($74,100).
University, $2,241,655 ($2,155,730).
Support of schools within incor
porated towns and schools districts,
$5,241,336 ($3,741,513).
Support of schools outside incor
porated districts and payment for
compiling Alaska history, $1,450,656
($1,261,440).
Over-all total for support of
schools, $7,907,592 ($5,386,953).
MINNIE FIELD
FUNERAL TO BE
ON WEDNESDAY
In accordance with the express
wishes of the late Minnie Field,
she will be buried here, in the Odd
Fellows plot of the Evergreen Ceme
tery. The funeral services will be
held in the Odd Fellows Hall on
Franklin Street at 2 p. m. next
Wednesday. Services will be con
ducted by the Perseverance Rebek
ah Lodge 2-A, of which she was
a member for many years. She had
specifically requested that the lodge
conduct these services.
She had also instructed her clos
est friends that she wanted no
flowers. In her memory, however,
the Rebekah Lodge is sponsoring
a fund for crippled children to
which donations may be made. She
had stated that donations to the
Alaska Crippled Childrens Associa
tion would be more appreciated by
her than flowers. Anyone wishing
to make such a contribution may
forward it to the Alaska Crippled
Children's Association, Box 1539,
I Juneau, Alaska, and the money will
be used to provide assistance to
crippled children in the vicinity
| of Juneau and Sitka.
Minnie Field, a long-time resi
dent of the Channel area, was first
employed here by the U. S. Mar
shal’s office and gradually took
over a number of orphaned and
neglected children. She founded
the Minfield Home, which she oper
! ated for many years before selling
| it to Peter J. Nichols last fall.
| A short time ago she went to
Seattle for medical attention, where
she passed away at the Virginia
Mason Hospital last Monday morn
ing.
FROM ANCHORAGE
H. Bittner of Anchorage is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
HOUSE HAS
CLAMOROUS
LAST HOURS
Trouble Over Memorials
Plagues Representa
tives to Session's End
By BOB DEARMOND
An unruly and at times almost
riotous House of Representatives
adjourned sine die at 6 o’clock this
morning, with the youngest mem
ber, Rep. Vernon Metcalfe, making
the traditional motion.
The Senate had adjourned a quar
ter of an hour earlier.
The closing hours in the House
were marked by a Joint session that
got so out of hand that it was ad
journed to save some semblance of
order, and by a touch of the old
malady of the 20th House session—
memorialltis.
The latter was brought on by a
relatively simple 8enate Joint me
morial seeking funds from the
Highway Engineer for maintenance
work on Nome’s small boat harbor.
Under ordinary circumstances the
memorial would have been disposed
of quickly, but between the weari
ness of some of the House mem
bers and the high spirits of others
in the wee hours of the morning,
consideration of the measure turn
ed into a near fiasco which the
memorial barely survived.
Action Taken
In Its final afternoon and eve*
ning, the House took the following
action:
Passed without amendment a
Senate bill providing a 50 per cent
increase in the raw fish tax on
canned salmon. The increase is ex
pected to bring an additional $1,
500,000 or more into the coffers
during the coming biennium.
I assed by a 17-6 vote the Civil
nefense Bill with an appropriation
of $100,000 for administration and
$200,000 for purchase of equipment
and materials. Later the House ap
proved a Conference Committee re
port upping the appropriation to
$150,000 and $250,000.
Unanimously concurred in Senate
amendments to H. B. 141, providing
for reorganization of the financial
control system of the Territory and
elected two of its members to the
newly created Board of Adminis
tration.
Rejected Senate amendments
which cut the $18,319,558 House
General Appropriations Bill to $17,
894,645. Adopted a Conference Com
mittee report increasing the total
to $17,973,645.
Approved a Senate bill for the
licensing and control of dogs un
licensed by a municipality after
amending it to reduce license fees
for male dogs from $5 to $2 and
for female dogs from $10 to $3.
Saw the wages and hours bill die
in committee after the third Con
ference Committee to receive the
measure had reported Itself hope
lessly deadlocked.
Revenue Bill
The canned salmon tax increase
passed the House by a 16-8 vote
after an amendment to halve the
increase had been defeated 9-15.
The vote came shortly after the
noon recess and after Tax Commis
sioner M. P. Mullaney had answered
questions regarding the raw fish
tax.
Mullaney explained the discrep
ancy between his report and the
Pacific Fisherman Yearbook con
cerning total Alaska fish landings
by the statement that his figures
are not complete.
"They were put in for reading
purposes, not for computation of
the tax," he said, adding that the
tax is based upon the value, not
the poundage, of raw fish.
"Some of the buyers didn’t report
the poundage of fish purchases at
all,” he said. "It’s easy for the buy
ers to make a mistake regarding
their poundage, but when it comes
to dollars and cents figures, it’s a
different matter."
Suggests Other Taxes
Rep. Frank Johnson warned that
all of the burden of taxation should
not be loaded on the fishing indus
try and suggested that some atten
tion might well be given to increas
ing Income taxes and taxes on min
ing or other industries. “It is aw
fully easy to vote for appropriations
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3rd Division
Gets 3 of 4
Board Seals
Legislators from the Third Di
vision won three out of four places
on the reconstituted Board of Ad
ministration, as provided in the
Government Reorganization bill that
passed the Legislature last night.
In the wee hours of the morn
ing, the following were named by
the weary legislators:
House — Olen Franklin, Fourth
Division Democrat, and Speaker
William Egan, Valdez Democrat.
Senate — President Gunnard
Engebreth, Anchorage Republican,
and Steve McCutcheon, Anchorage
Democrat.
The House selections were made j
after a Democratic caucus that I
lasted more than an hour. George j
Madsen, Nome Democrat, was nam- !
ed alternate for Franklin and An
drew Hope. Sitka Democrat, was
named as Egan's alternate.
In the Senate, Engebreth said he
had intended to name Elton Eng
strom as his alternate because of
his residence in Juneau, but that
he would designate someone else
because Engstrom boycotted the |
whole procedure. Then he named j
Anita Garnick, Juneau Republican, i
as his alternate, after first desig- !
nating Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue j
Republican. He switched to Senator
Garnick after Ipalook demurred to j
the selection. McCutcheon named
Dr. R. M. MacKenzie. Ketchikan j
Democrat, as his alternate.
Other Senate nominees were j
James Nolan, John Butrovlch and ,
Howard Lyng. Butrovlch declined;
to be a candidate because, he said, |
he had not been feeling well. Lyng :
refused to leave his name up be
cause he had opposed the bill vig
orously and insisted to the end that
legislators could not legally serve i
on the board. Nolan was nominated j
by Butrovlch in a bipartisan ges- ,
ture. McCutcheon offered to with
draw from the race to give the spots |
to Nolan and Engebreth, but stayed
in as MacKenzie emphasized that j
he had not actually refused to be
a candidate.
In the House, the Republican
nominees for the board posts were
J. S. MacKinnon and Waino Hen
drickson, both of Juneau. The vot- j
ing was on party lines, by rollca'l j
(In the Senate the vote was i.y
secret ballot).
Then Hendrickson moved to make j
the House choices unanimous. He,
drew a second from MacKinnon. j
In the House both Senators Eng
strom and Howard Lyng cut loose
with blasts after the election and
the designation of the alternates.
Lyng challenged the right of leg
islators to serve on a board. He cited
a bill passed nrrjfway in the session ;
to forbid it.
"I assure you, he declared, "that
one day after we leave here it will
be in the courts.” He criticized acid- '
ly those who he said had been in
such a rush to push the bill through.
Engstrom refused to vote for any
Senate members of the board.
In angry protest against the Sen
ate choices, he declared:
“I voted against the bill. I smelled
a deal cooking. I
"The senator from Ketchikan told
me we will cram it down your .
throats.’ He has. We should have
killed the bill instead of getting |
ourselves into a deal like the one
pulled here tonight.”
As the final gong sounded to end
the session. Lyng was trying to get
the floor to read a section from the
organic act prohibiting legislators
from holding or being appointed ;
to any government post.
EASTER SERVICE
The annual ceremony of Relight
ing the Lights will take place In
the Scottish Rite Temple Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. The ad
dress will be made by Howard D.
Stabler, 33rd degree, and intro- j
duction and welcome by K. O. Mer
ritt, Wise Master. The Girls’ sex- >
tett'e will also be heard on the pro- |
gram.
The public is invited to the service.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday morning south
bound.
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2 MILLION
DEFICIT IS
PREDICTION
By JIM HUTCHESON
Alaska’s 20th Legislature wound
up Its work at 6 am today after
passing record appropriations total
ing $19,544,136 and approving a
Governmental, Reorganization Bill.
Heads of budget-framing com
mittees of Senate and House esti
mated the deficit at the end of the
1951-53 bimnoum will be slightly
above $2,C90,000.
The two legislators, Sen. John
Butrovlch, Fairbanks Republican,
and Rep. Glen Franklin Boundary
Democrat, said however that the
expected deficit might be reduced
by a large salmon pack or a likely
increase in income tax collections.
Actually, expenditures outlined
for the biennium are in balance
with expected revenue, but $2,662
COO in frozen appropriations from
the current biennium accounts for
the threat of red ink over the com
ing two-year period.
Threat Facts
The threat of a major new gen
eral tax bill at the 11th hour failed
to develop The only major new rev
enue measures passed at this session
were a 50 per cent increase in the
salmon pack tax and a boost in the
cigaret tax from three to five cents
a pack.
In the final hours, the two Houses
agreed on a general appropriations
bill of *17,973,664 which includes 8
per cent salary Increases for teach
ers, and for Territorial employes
earning under *5000 a year; agreed
on a compromise Civilian Defense
appropriation of $400,000; and
whooped the Reorganization Bill
through the House by unanimous
vote after the Senate had amended
It to make the proposed powerful
Commissioner of Finance responsi
ble directly to a revised Board of
Administration instead of the Gov
ernor.
New Board
The new Board of Administration
will have two members of each
House on it, but there was wrang
ling over it in the Senate to the
bitter end The bill, drawn by Ken
tucky Revenue Commissioner H.
Clyde Reeves, now goes to the Gov
ernor. His approval is expected.
Other actions in the final hours
included agreement of both Houses
on aid to dependent childien — a
compromise at $60 monthly from
the present $50 after the House had
voted for $70 — and burial of the
40-hour work week bill after three
Conference Committees failed to
break a deadlock over exemptions.
Legality Challenged
Even before the shade was dropped
over the legislative clocks at mid
night, there were challenges of the
legality of legislators serving on the
Board of Administration.
The other members of the board,
under the bill, will be the Governor,
the Tax Commissioner and the At
torney General. Should there be a
court test as some critics predicted,
and should a court rule against the
legislators' membership, there would
remain and elite board of three.
New Territorial Set-up
The financial Reorganization Bill
went through the Senate late yes
terday by an 11 to 5 vote; then was
returned to the House for action
on amendments. The bill, in effect,
would set up a Territorial general
financial manager, accountaoie 10
the Board of Administration
The bill will eliminate the present
office of auditor and the treasurer’s
office. This elimination is to be ef
fective at the end of Treasurer
Henry Roden’s present term In its
place will be provided an independ
ent auditing office. The new “aud
itor” would be elected by the legis
lature but the lawmakers did noth
ing about it before adjourning.
Critics of the bill objected to the
legislature taking action which
would eliminate the offices of treas
urer and auditor, both of which are
elective .
Those voting against the bill were
Senators Ed Anderson (D-Nome); A.
F. Coble (R-Fairbanks); Engstrom,
Lyng and Oerrit Snider (R-Wa
silla).
Civilian Defense
The other principal final night
contest came over Civilian Defense.
After the House cut the defense ap
propriation to $300,000, Sen. Frank
Barr told the Senate "apparently a
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