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Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle. Wash. _
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Friday, July 13, 1951
ON THE “REORGANIZATION ACT”
If the stormy sessions of the new Board of Admin
istration are any indication, there should be more
fireworks forthcoming on the highly controversial
"Reorganization Act.”
Wednesday and Thursday saw Attorney General
J. Gerald Williams holding the fort single-handed
against the Governor and his new Board.
From the time of its introduction in the House
March 6, the "Reorganization Act” has been under
steady and intense fire. Two major legal points have
provided the ammunition.
First is the question whether members of the
legislature (who. with the Governor, the Attorney
General and the Tax Commissioner, comprise the
Board i can legally hold office as members of the
Board of Administration. The language of Section
'll of the Organic Act specifically prohibits legislators
from holding other offices. We quote Section 11
verbatim:
“That no member of the legislature shall hold
or be appointed to any office which has been
created, or the salary or emoluments of which
have been increased, while he was a member,
during the term for which he was elected and for
one year after the expiration of such term; and
no person holding a commission or appointment
under the United States shall be a member of the 1
legislature or shall hold any office under the
government of said territory.”
Second point is that both houses of the legisla- j
ture elected members to the Board of Administratien ;
under the provisions of an Act which was not yet law.
Election of Board members was accomplished on
March 22 — and the bill authorizing the election was
l -not~siffBe«i until March 27. ( ,
Interesting, too, is the fact that Governor Gruen
ing, a staunch supporter of the "Reorganization Act,”
apparently had his own doubts as to the Act's legality.
At any rate, he requested an opinion from the
attorney general as to its legality. He was advised by
the attorney general that the bill was in conflict
with the Organic Act, as pointed out above, and that
the Board was illegally constituted. He was further
advised to refrain from signing the bill, thus exercis
ing his veto power. However, for reasons best known
to himself, Governor Gruening chose to ignore this
counsel and signed the bill anyway.
Just why the Governor rejected the advice of the
Attorney General is something we may never know.
We won't even hazard a guess.
However, the events leading up to the signing of
the "Reorganization Act" make us wonder whether
Governor Gruening made his decision solely on the
merits of the bill or whether political considerations
were involved.
In timetable form, here's tvhat happened:
March 22 — Senate passes HB 141 (Reorganiza
tion Bill i by vote of 11 to 5.
12:00 P.M. Legislature adjourns
sine die.
March 23 — Forenoon. HB 141 received at Gov
ernor's office.
March 26 — 4:00 P.M. HB 141 remains unsigned.
Board of Administration meets in Governor’s
office. Order of business included a resolution
authorizing construction of the Territorial
Office Building in Juneau which passed unani
mously. It was then moved that the Board
unfreeze $10,000.00 for the Alaska Development
Board. Motion failed 3 to‘2.
March 27 — Forenoon. Governor confers with
Attorney General on legality of HB 141. Bill
still unsigned.
Afternoon — Governor receives writ
ten opinion from Attorney General confirming
oral discussion of forenoon. Attorney Gen
eral recommends veto.
4:00 P.M. — Board of Administra
tration meets in Governor’s office. Motion to
unfreeze S10,000.00 for the use of the Alaska
Development Board. Motion failed 3 to 1.
Meeting adjourned.
4:15 P.M. t— Board of Administra
tion meets in Governor’s office. Motion to
unfreeze $10,000.00 for use of the Alaska De
velopment Board Jigain jmade. Motion failed
3 to 2. Meeting adjourned.
Sometime after this meeting and before 6:00 P.M.
Governor signed HB 141.
March 26 — 2:00 P.M. New Board of Administra
tion as constituted by Reorganization Act
(HB 141), now Chapter 133, Session Laws of
Alaska 1951, held first meeting in Governor’s
Office. Present: Governor Gruening, Senators
Engebreth and MacKenzie and Representatives
Egan and Franklin. Board appointed Trea
surer Henry Roden ex—officio Commissioner
of Finance at no increase in salary. Motion
made and unanimously adopted that members
of Board will claim no salaries or per diem
during the remaining portion of the present
biennium or during the ensuing biennium.
Motion made to unfreeze $10,130.00 for the
use of the Alaska Development Board. Motion
passed 3 to 2. MacKenzie, Egan and Gruen
ing for and Engebreth and Franklin against.
Further business included unfreezing $71,000.00
for the use x>f the Health Department and
$5,000.00 for the Statehood Committee. Meet
ing adjourned.
And so’the Governor finally managed to have
unfrozen the $10,000.00 for George Sundborg’s Develop
ment Board and the Territory has a shaky law on
the books. And how much of the taxpayer’s money
will be spent in a court determination of the Act's!
legality is anybody’s guess.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
parttime for me, in addition to his
other chores.
Canadian Spy Ring
Andy was a nice boy, worked hard
and I never dreamed at first he
had any links with the Commun
ists. But as time passed and I wrote
more and more critical stories about
Russia I became" suspicious. He
frequently argued against the col
umns which criticized Russia.
I recall especially the column 11
wrote exposing the Russian spy
• ring in Canada. At that time—1946
»—a great many Americans still were
devoted to the idea that we could
and must cooperate with Russia,
and the critical mail I received
calling me a liar and a warmonger
was heavy. Older was among those
who deprecated this column.
Later a friend reported that he
had seen Older with both a member
of the Soviet Tass News agency
and the editor of the Soviet Infor
mation Service, which was publish
ed by the Russian Embassy. As a
result, I went to J. Edgar Hoover,
told him of this report and asked
whether he had any information
regarding Older and a possible af
filiation with Communism.
Mr. Hoover reported a week or so
later that Older was listed as a
member of the Communist party
in Washington.
Next day I called Older in, fig
uring that in conformity with
standard Communist practice he
Would deny membership in the par
ty. But he didn’t. He told the truth.
Dazzling Authoress
In a way this made things more
difficult. If he had lied, it would
have been easy to fire him. But
when a man tells the truth you cer
tainly owe it to him to listen to his
story.
So we had a long talk, during
which Older said he had joined the
party early in 1940 largely through
the influence of Ruth McKenny,
author of “My Sister Eileen," and
editor of the New Masses from 1937
to 1946, who later broke with Com
munism. The counsel for the Sen
ate Internal Security Committee
states that Miss McKenny broke
with the party at the same time
Browder had his difficulties.
Older’s father was born in Rus
sian Poland, and Andy had been
ardently anxious for peace between
the United States and Russia He
said, however, that he had had a
few tough policies to swallow which
had jarred him—one of them being
the party line against preparedness
at a time when Stalin and Hitler
were allies in 1939, and later the
sudden party switch to all-out pre
paredness.
He said that he had been trying
to get away from the party, hadn’t
attended meetings since 1944 and
was fed up with highhanded Com
munist tactics. However, he said
that it was hard to get away when
you were once a member because
the comrades blackmailed you by
threatening to expose your mem
bership.
He said he gradually had come
around to my point of view that
Russia was the chief disrupter of
the peace and that her tactics un
der the Kremlin were just as Im
perialistic as under the Czar.
Lippmann Had Communist Secre
tary
At first I thought I could wean
Older completely away from Com
munism and had some talks along
this line with J. Edgar Hoover. I
figured that if I could get Older
to do a budenz and take a militant
stand against the party, he would
become a highly useful citizen.
However, I also had heard that
the Communists had planted a sec
retary on Walter Lippmann and
that it was standard Communist
practice to put men in key spots
where they could influence public
opinion. So, figuring there was no
use making life difficult by sitting
on a continual keg of dynamite, I
let Older go.
I saw him occasionally after
that and have reason to believe he
threw his old associates overboard
and straightened himself out po
litically. In fact, he bacame some
thing of a small-scale capitalist,
and in addition to his trade journ
als, operated a laundry.
And since he cannot be here to
defend himself, I would like to say
that Andy Older was one of those
unfortunate youngsters who, thru
the influence of persuasive person
alities, got off to a bad start, but
who saw things in a far clearer
light, before he died.
“.Stop Eisenhower”
A full scale "Stop Eisenhower"
campaign is being cooked up back
stage by the Chicago Tribune and
backers of Senator Taft.
Taft himself probably doesn’t
know about it, but a rou^h smear
job to discourage General Eisen
hower from going after the GOP
nomination for president is being
|conducted as part of the regular
four-year warmup for picking a
president.
Initial move was a Chicago Tri
bune syndicated story of July 7,
which inferred that Eisenhower, as
president of Columbia University,
is friendly with Communists. Sim
ilar stories are due to appear later.
Another and more kindly facet
of the campaign, credit to Taft’s
unofficial campaign strategist, Sen.
Owen Brewster, is to spread the
story among delegates that the
General is too busy organizing
Europe's defenses to "play politics.”
This is now being told Republi
can grass-roots leaders by Taft or
ganizers.
Koreafl Truce
Gen. Matthew Ridgway sent an
extremely encouraging telegram to
the joint chiefs of staff during the
first day of top-level truce talks.
He stated that he expected all
shooting in Korea to stop within
48 hours.
This optimistic report was sent
after the first four hours of Com
• July 13
• Linda Gene Lockridge
• Alf J. Nygren
• John P. Eouchen
• Sylvester T. Nadeau
• Mrs. Charles G. Warner
• Arnold Swanson
• Mrs. Cleo Cominers
• Mrs. Eva Mackey
• Mrs. George Osage
• Mrs. B. L. Holbrook
• Beth Daigler
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7 p.m. — Soap Box Derby trial
ruxis.
July 14
Second section Girl Scouts return
from Eagle River.
July 15
10 a.m. — No-host Scout breakfast
at Baranof hotel for Mildred
Kerschner and staff.
At noon — Start of annual Elks
picnic at Auk Bay Recreation
beach. Busses for those without
transportation leave Elks club at
12 noon and 1 p.m.
July 16
At noon — BPW meets in Terrace
room, Baranof.
At 6:30 p.m. — Annual picnic of
Lions club on Douglas beach. No
meeting at noon.
At 7:30 p.m. — Creative Writers
meet in office of KINY.
At 8 p.m. —American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
July 17
At noon — Rotary club, Baranof.
July 18
At noon — Kiwanis Club. Baranof.
At 8 p.m. — Rebekah Drill Team
practice, IOOF hall.
July 19
At noon — Chamber of commerce
meets in Baranof.
Nt 6:30 p.m. — Juneau Rifle and
Pistol club shooting on Menden
hall range.
At 8 p.m. — City Council meets in
regular session.
July 20
At 8 p.m. — Rebekah’s special meet
ing for Ethel Smith, president
ARA in IOOF hall.
ATTENTION TOURISTS
For a n intimate acquaintance
with S. E. Alaska with the mailboat
Yakobi for a 600 mile 4 day scenic
voyage. Sailings once a week. De- j
parts Wednesday a m. 816-tf j
munist-U.N. conferring on 'Poes- j
day.
However, Ridgway warned that J
the negotiators still had many dit- i
ferences to reconcile. He added j
that the differences were largely
technical, and agreement seemed j
certain on basic points.
It would seem apparent from
this cable that Ridgway has sur
mounted the most important point
he was instructed to make with the
Communists; namely, that U. N.
I truce observers were to patrol both
north Korea and south Korea to
[prevent any further import of
troops and arms.
Both Secretary or State Acheson
and Secretary of Defense Marshall
had cabled Ridgway that a trace
not supervised by U. N. observers
would not be worth the paper it is
written on. They did not want a!
huge Communist army to be built
up in north Korea during subse
quent long drawn out talks for per
manent peace.
U. N. supervision on Communist I
territory was expected to be>, quite
a hurdle, inasmuch as Moscow for
a long time vetoed the Baruch
plan whereby international obser
vers would inspect arms plants in
Russia, the United States, and
other countries to report on atom
ic defense.
ACROSS
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9. Pronoun
12. Vain
13. Scent
14. Plaything
15. Spare
16. Detract
18. Fell behind
20. Pitcher
21. Always
23. Stalks of
grain
26. Flesh of hogs
30. Fodder pit
31. Make leather
32. At no tima
34. Fish
35. Formerly
37. Ate
39. Noblemen
41. Remainder
42. Holds a ses
44. Epistle
48. Fabric
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62. Gone by
62. Sea ea^le
64. Ceremony
65. By
56. Travel
67. Winter
vehicle
DOWN
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whole of
Solution of Yesterday's Puzzlo
2. Notion
3. Rebuff
4. Tighter
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sutlix
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amount
8. Bows
9. More stark*
ling
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20 YEARS AGO the empire j
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JULY 13, 1931
The Alaska-Washington Airways seaplane Wrangell, with pilot
Anscel C. Eckmann and mechanic John Selby, left Seattle July 11, with
: ur. W. W. Council of Juneau and Ed Kendall of Seattle as passengers.
It arrived here yesterday /morning. The Wrangell returned to Seattle
t iday with Wendall, J. L. Freeburn, and Michael McKallick, mining
operators, as passengers.
Salmon in the amount of 99,147 pounds was unloaded at the Juneau
Cold Storage Co., dock. Boats and Captains selling were:
Wilson, Capt. Martin Holst, 247 pounds salmon trout and 17,700
pounds chums; T3768, James Young, 2.000 kinds and 600 pounds silvers;
:-.idie, Sandy Stevens, 4,500 pounds kings; T27, Capt. Andrew Palmer,
,00 pounds kings; T632, James B. Benson, 1.500 pounds kings; Alms,
\. Bartness, 5,000 kings and silvers; Elfin, E. O. Swanson, 600 pounds
, mgs and silvers; T3380, John Pademeister, 1,500 pounds kings and
silvers.
Judge and Mrs. Justir. yarding and Mrs. K. Zynda, who left Juneau
la- t Thursday on the boat Widgeon, returned after visiting Haines and
Port Althorp.
Twelve passengers were brought to Juneau by the Yukon which
docked here from the westward. They were: R. E. Lawrence, Maj. L.
r; Atkins, Mary M. McGuire, Rica Niemi, H. N. Curd, A. Finlayson.
From Valdez: D. W. Beattie, E. Foster, George E. Lewis.
At El Paso, Texas, Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior,
received calmly the news that the one year jail sentence given him
in Washington, D.C., after conviction of accepting a bribe, will not be
suspended.
Weather: High 71; Low 41; Fair.
! Daily Lessons in English w. l. cordon j
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There aren’t but five
books on the shelf." Say, “There are but five books.’’
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Frequent (adjective and verb). Accent
the adjective on the first syllable, the verb on the second.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Temperament; observe the a.
SYNONYMS: Narrate, relate, recite, recount, describe, tell.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.’’ Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
AMITY: mutual good will; friendship. “He was affected by the amity
of the neighborhood.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
Q. When a man is dining alone in a public place, and another man j
stops at his table for a few words, should he rise?
A. This is not at all necessary when there is no great difference
in age. However, if the man who stops is elderly, it is courteous for j
a young man to rise.
Q. Are relatives and friends obligated to send gifts to a girl who j
has just become engaged?
A. No.
Q. What would be appropriate gifts to give a couple on their twen
tieth wedding anniversary?
A. This is the China Wedding.
LOOK and LEARN c.GORDON
1. What is a toscophilite?
2. What name is given to the states in the Swiss confederacy?
3. In what sport is the Davis Cup an international trophy?
4. What is the science of reasoning called?
5. What does the word “diurnal” mean?
ANSWERS:
1. A lover of archery.
2. Cantons.
3. Tennis.
4. Logic.
5. Daily.
dr. ted oberman
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30'
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows' •
Anchorage . 56—Partly Cloudy
Annette Island .. 53—Fog
Barrow . 34—Drizzle
Bethel . 59—Fog
Cordova . 52—Fog I
Dawson . 53—Partly Cloudy '
Edmonton . 50—Rain
Fairbanks.54—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 59—Partly Cloudy ]
Havre . 52—Clear
Juneau . 55—Cloudy i
Kediak . 50—Fog
Kotzebue . 54—Partly Cloudy
McGrath . 54—Partly Cloudy 1
Nome . 55—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 52—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 50—Clear
Portland . 56—Partly Cloudy
Prince George .... 60—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 57—Partly Cloudy
Sitka . 53—Fog ,
Whitehorse . 51—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat ... 53—Cloudy ,.
WSCS Business
Heel Held
Mrs. I. J. Montgomery led de
votions in the chapel of the Meth
odist church at the regular business .
meeting of the Woman's Society of I
Christian Service Wednesday eve
ning.
Mrs. Harold Schultz, president,
conducted the. business meeting in .
the parsonage, immediately follow
ing. A letter was read from Mrs.
Bud Phelps, telling of their new
home in Spokane, also a card from
Mrs. Florence Thornton, who has re- 1
cently returned to her home in
Ketchikan after a year with the
Coast Guard in Juneau.
Reports were given oy Mrs. Andy
Robinson, program chairman, and
by Mrs. John Argetsinger on the
progress of the bazaar work. The
society voted to renew the material
on the screens in the social room,
which is having a new coat of paint
and the floors re-done. It was also
decided to replace the nursery equip
ment and all members were asked to
bring things suitable for entertain
ing the children to the next evening
meeting. A folding play-pen is espe
cially needed.
The president appointed a "proj
ect planning” committee of Louise
Argetsinger and Carlie Turner, co
chairmen: Ethel Montgomery, Har
riet McGinnis, Dorthy Ebbett, Mar
garet Wood and Virginia Johnson.
Mrs. Wallace Sharpies accepted
the office of publicity chairman, and
also will be on the “calling commit
tee" with Mrs. Ruth Popejoy.
A “come as you are” morning cof
fee hour has been started, and a
good laugh and a wonderful time
was had by those caught at home
on Wednesday morning.
At the close of the business meet
ing, Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, president
of the Alaska Mission WSCS, gave
an interesting report of the confer
ence day at Seward. She told of the
Lavina Wallace Young Mission at
Nome, and of the sanatorium and
General hospital at Seward, insti
tutions of the WSCS. Mrs. Fred Mc
Ginnis told about the Jesse Lee
Home, where she and Rev. McGinnis
stayed while attending the confer
ence.
FROM ANGOON
Elmer Games of Angoon is reg
istered at the Gastineau hotel.
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Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wm. A. Chipperfield,
Worshipful Master:
JAMES W. LEI VERS, Secretary.
© B.P.O.ELKS
Meeting Second and Fourth Wed
nesdays at 8 P.M. Visiting broth
ers welcome.
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Noose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
LOREN CARD
Secretary—
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Meeting every Thursday in
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JUNEAU, ALASKA *
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