THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME* ____
VOL. LXXVI.. NO. 11,756 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951 . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICK TLX CKNTS
House Appropriation Bill Totals $18,319,558
STATEHOOD
BILLS NEAR
COM. VOTE
WASHINGTON, March 13 —!/P)—
The Senate Insular Affairs Com
mittee virtually completed work to
day on the Alaska and Hawaii state
hnrd hills. A vote was set for next
Tuesday.
* Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo)
announced after a closed-door meet
ing of the committee that technical
details of both bills have been j
agreed upon.
A final vote was postponed, O'Ma
honey said, because Senators Butler
(R-Neb) and Millikin (R-Colo)
were engaged on finance committee
business and could not be present
today.
O'Mahoney said the question of
possible additional hearings on the
Alaska bill has not been decided.
I’p Next Week
Both bills will be submitted to a
vote at next week’s meeting, he said.
The vote may turn on the simple
question of “a state or not a state,”
he said. Although, he added, a de
sire for further hearings may in
fluence the vote.
rne committee votea several
weeks ago not to conduct any more
hearings on Hawaii statehood.
The Hawaii bill was amended to
ratify the action of the people of
Hawaii in holding their state consti
tutional convention in advance of
congressional authorization.
More Time for Alaska
Congress would still have to ap
prove the constitution before Hawaii
could become a state.
The purpose of not providing for
automatic statehood for Hawaii
upon the passage of the statehood
bill, O’Mahoney said, is to “give
Alaska a little time to catch up.”
“It is our desire,” O'Mahoney said,
“to have Hawaii and Alaska walk
hand in hand into the Union as the
49th and 50th states.”
O'Mahoney said the committee
would vote next w'eek on an amend
ment to the Hawaii bill to prevent
transfer of jurisdiction over com
merce between the United States
and the Islands from the maritime
board to the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The change is opposed by the peo
ple of Hawaii, O'Mahoney said,
while it is desired by the people of
Alaska.
The Alaska bill was amended to
change apportionment of delegates
to the constitutional convention in
accordance with the recommenda
tions of the Alaska Legislature.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail westward at 3
o’clock this afternoon.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Joe J. Jisiolek, with the Alaska
Road Commission at Anchorage, is
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDyrlsnt. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
(Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on
a flying tour of Europe and the
middle East, surveying , the world
situation.)
ROME— The real, background
reason why the governments of
France, the Netherlands and Italy
are having trouble staying organ
ized today is that the fear of Com
munism is vanishing. For a long
time the middle-of-the-road and
rightist parties in these countries
banded together to form cabinets
only because they had to do so to
prevent the Communists from or-1
ganizing a government in their
place. With Communist strength
disintegrating, these anti-Commun
ist coalitions are now falling to;
pieces.
This is a real danger. For, des
pite the lessening threat of the
Communists, they still have by all
odds the largest blocs of votes in
both the French and Italian parl
iaments. In fact, Italy, with at
least 2,000.000 card-carrying com
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Fatal Glider Crash
Two men died north of Warm Springs, Calif., (Mar. 10) when their powerless glider dived into a knoll
15 minutes after being cut free from the tow plane. The dead were identified as Ed Connors, 32, an
Oakland (Calif.) attorney and William L. Bowers, 28, a College of Pacific student. The foot of one of the
•victims (arrow) protrudes from the wreckage. Two unidentified police officers examine the wreckage.
OP) Wirephoto.
ESC ORDERED TO
HOLD FUNDS FOR
ML CREDITS DUE
The New England Fish Company
and Wards Cove Packing Company
won a point in its case against the
Employment Security Commissioner
in court this morning when Judge
George W. Folts ordered the de
fendants, the Employment Security
Commission, to hold certain funds
on hand, which they represented
amounted to $471,581.10, and to im
pound all receipts from now on until
the total amount reaches the
amount of the credits ordered by
the court’s judgment of January 18,
1951, so that the plaintiffs will be
protected.
Arguments 03 a motion filed by
the plaintiffs 1 Friday asking
the court to enter an order ad
judging the defendents in contempt
of court for not having complied
with the court’s Judgment and
Decree of January 18 of this year
occupied most of the morning ses
sion in the U. S. District Court.
Attorney H. L. Faulkner repre
sented the plaintiffs and the de
fendants’ argument was made by
Assistant Attorney General John
Diamond.
The action evolved from the case
last year of the fish companies
against the Commission concerning
the payment of "Experiense Rating
Credits” for employers. The Court
in its judgment had ordered the
Commission to compute and assign
to employers in the Territory cer
tain credits due them under the law
for the credit year commencing July
1, 1950. This point was brought out
by the attorney for the plaintiff in
the argument heard today.
In his opinion at the close of the
arguments today Judge Folta said
that it appeared to him that the
whole course of the defendants had
been with a view of circumventing
the judgment and decree.
The plaintiffs claim the Employ
ment Security Commission has not
complied with the decree and order
of the District Court and last Fri
day filed the motion asking a con
tempt order.
H.< L. Faulkner appeared for the
plaintiffs, and he represented to
the court that the defendants had
pursued a steady course of delay
in compliance with the court’s
judgment, in the meantime requir
ing all employers to pay contribu
tions to the Unemployment Trust
Fund in full, without any deduc
tion for the credits which had been
ordered by the court.
It was represented to the court
that the plaintiffs and all other
employers had been obliged to pay
the contributions in full at the
rate of 2.7 per cent of their pay
rolls for the September and Decem
ber quarters, and that unless the
plaintiffs were protected by some
such order of the court, they would
be obliged to pay for the March
and June quarters, in full, and the
judgment of the court would have
become a nullity.
The Commission argued that it
was not in contempt of court as
it has been working to recompute
all the credits. John McLaughlin,
director of the Unemployment In
surance Division of the Commission,
was in court.
It was agreed that Messrs. Faulk
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Festival Nears
With the annual Puyallup (Wash.) Valley Daffodil Festival less than
a month away, Queen Elaine Chipps makes a hurried inspection of
one of the fields near Tacoma, Wash., and finds plants blooming
despite a blanket of snow. The festival is scheduled for the weekend
of April 5-~. <ff) Wircphoto.
AUK BAY LEGION
CLUB TO RECEIVE
OFFICIAL CHARTER
Auk Bay Post No. 25, The Ameri
can Legion, will receive its official
American Legion charter Thurs
day night directly from the hands
i of Herald A. Stringer, of Anchor
age, Department of Alaska Com
mander for the Legion.
At the same time, Post officers
will be officially installed and new
Legionnaires will be initiated.
The Auk Bay charter meeting
will also feature Department First
Vice Commander John Van Horn,
of Sitka, Commander Vernon P.
Harris of Juneau Post No. 4, Past
Department Commander Harold A.
Dawes and other Alaska Legion
1 celebrities now in Juneau.
The presentation, installation and
initiation will take place at 8 p. m.,
Thursday, in the temporary meeting
place at Dehart’s Store in Auk Bay.
Families and visiting Legionnaires
are invited to attend, also the gen
eral public. Refreshments will be
served following the meeting.
CUFFS PROVIDE EVIDENCE
GLENC LE, Calif. — (#)—Because
he wore cuffs on his trousers, a
I service station attendant faces a
■ burglary charge. Police said he ad
mitted entering the station where
he is employed by means of a pass
key and taking $88. He then broke
a window with a brick to make it
appear that a burglary was com
; mitted.
He was arrested later asleep in
i his car nearby on a drunk charge
While questioning him about the
broken window, police noticed bit:
of shattered glass in his pants cuffs.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. March 13 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
106, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
Anaconda 39 .. Douglas Aircraft 97,
| General Electric 54 >, General Mot
ors 51%, Goodyear 72, Kennecott
72%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 9%,
Northern Pacific 32%, Standard Oil
of California 45, Twentieth Century
Fox 22, U. S. Steel 42%, Pound $2.80,
i Canadian Exchange 95.62.
Sales today were 2,330,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 245.88, rails 81.42, utili
ties 42.65.
• WWW — — — — — -
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6 20 o cluck this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
35; minimum, 31.
At Airport — Maximum,
34; minimum, 22.
forecast
Mostly cloudy with oc
casional snow showers tonight
and Wednesday. Increasing
southeasterly winds Wednes
day. Low temperature to
night near 28 and high Wed
nesday near 35.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .31 inches;
Since March 1 — .96 inches;
Since July 1 — 51.89 inches;
At Airport — .12 inches;
Since March 1 — .80 inches;
Since July 1 — 33.18 inches.
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Twins are born about once
every 87 births.
SENATE SAYS
NO AGAIN ON
BOND ISSUE
Another school bond issue pro
posal failed to pass in the Senate
this morning.
The vote was 8 to 7 for Rep. Jack
Conright.'s measure, but nine votes
were needed. It was a request to
Congress for the right to issue up
to $9,000,000 in Territorial bonds
for school purposes, provided 60 per
cent of the electorate approves such
action at the polls. It also carried a
suggestion for Federal matching
fund3.
The senators have talked up and
down the issue so many times that
they dispensed with debate this
morning and got right down to the
rollcall.
Voting for the measure were
Democrats Anderson, Beltz, Mac
Kenzie, Huntley and McCutcheon
and Republicans Garnick, Ipalook
and Engebreth.
Against were Republicans Butro
vich. Coble, Engstrom, Lhamon.
Snider and Democrats Lyng and
Nolan. Sen. Frank Barr was absent
because of illness.
It was a quiet morning in the
Senate after the pell-mell 50th day
deadline pace that lasted until 10
o’clock last night.
Children’s Home Bill
The Senate this morning com- j
pleted legislative approval on the j
bill for licensing of children's homes j
by the Territorial Department of |
Public Welfare. It is a modified
version of a bill that has been be
fore the legislature for several ses
sions, and which Minnie Field op
posed with telling effect while she
was running her home.
The Senate voted 11 to 3 for the
Amelia Gundersen-Doris Barnes
sponsored bill,
Welfare Director Henry Harmon i
said there was no desire or inten- |
tion of clamping down on existing j
homes, but authority over them was ,
desirable to enforce minimum j
standards. He said new homes are |
needed, but the department wants j
to keep an eye on what they are like, i
The Senate approved Rep. J. S. i
MacKinnon's memorial to Federal |
authorities for an income tax ex
emption for new industries coming
to Alaska. The memorial cited the
desirability of such a concession in
the attempt to draw new capital to
the Alaska high risk area.
The Senate tabled Rep. George
Gasser’s anti-cruelty to animals
bill and passed Rep. Vernon Met
calfe’s bill to provide time off for
Territorial or city employes for
summer training with a military
reserve unit.
Eight Bills Passed
The Senate passed eight bills and
tossed five overboard in the long
Monday afternoon and night ses
sion.
The evening session brought some
lively arguments over banking, a
pointed jab by Sen. Howard Lyng
at the continuance of a regular
Army officer as acting head of the
Alaska National Guard, and a
whirl-around between Dr. R. M
MacKenzie of Ketchikan and some
of his fellow senators over whether
the Alaska dental examining board
is too tough.
The latter scrap came over a bill
MacKenlie had introduced, with
the dental board’s approval, to
exempt military and U. S. public
health service dentists from exams
in Alaska. An amendment to put
Territorial public health dentists in
the same category stirred up the
MacKenzie hornets’ nest.
There were prospectors’ aching
teeth, figuratively, all around the
chamber before the senator-dentist
won his point by an 8-8 vote on the
attempt to write in the amendment.
Senators were arguing that depart
ment of health dentists, in roving
around the Territory, should be able
o pull a prospector’s tooth in an
emergency.
Heated Argument
MacKenzie argued heatedly that
the gates should not be let down
in any regard; that the high stand
ards of the dental profession in
Alaska should be kept Inviolate by
‘he examining board.
Senators who were arguing that
Alaska needs more dentists, and
contending that the examining
board is too tough, drew from Dr.
C. Earl Albrecht the testimony that
any dentist coming to the Health
Department must be a graduate of
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Missing Girl Gels Spanking
—win i —--- " ~ 'HR^K'VT>
Joy over the return of his missing daughter, Viola, 8, quiekly turned
to exasperation for Roy Wchrle. Seven Venice, California, polic e cars
searched for her through the night when she failed to return home
from school. The next morning (March 10) she was found at the
home of a playmate a few blocks away. This is what happened at her
reunion with her father, OP) Wirephoto.
CHALLENGE
ISSUED BY
COSTELLO
Demands Investigators
Produce Evidence Runs
Crime Syndicate
NEW YORK, March 13 —MV
Gambler Frank Costello today chal
lenged Senate crime investigators
to produce evidence that he runs
a national crime syndicate.
The committe has accused Cos
tello in recent reports of ruling such
an organization.
Demanding, in effect, that the
committee put up or shut up, Cos- j
tello said through his attorney: “I
am a witness and not a defendant.”
He said he wanted to see the
evidence, and then have a chance
to make “proper reply.”
Dressed immaculately In a blue
suit and maroon tie, the suave,
reputed underworld leader took his
place under the television lights be- ;
side his attorney, George Wolf.
The crowded room in the Federal
courthouse became perceptibly tense [
as Costello entered.
National Arch-Criminal
In his statement, he charged that
the committee had named him as
a national arch-criminal in a re
port prepared before he even ap
peared at an excutive session of
the group previously.
Yielding to Costello’s request, the
committee agreed not to televise his
appearance. All of the open hearing
yesterday was televised.
Former Mayor Involved
His appearance came shortly after
a deputy New York attorney gen
eral had testified that he was intro
duced to underworld chieftain Joe
Adonis by former Mayor William
O’Dwyer and others.
Jerome G. Ambro, taking the wit
ness stand as the second day of the
committee’s New York public hear
ings opened, said that when he met
the gambling figure, O'Dwyer and
other prominent men were present.
Ambro, one-time under-sheriff of
Kings County (Brooklyn), said the
others included State Assembly
Democratic Leader Irwin Steingut,
former City Fire Commissioner
Frank Quayle and the late Frank
Kelly, former Brooklyn Democratic
leader.
The introduction to Adonis, Am
bro said, occurred at a Brooklyn
restaurant operated by the reputed
racketeer.
There is no internal mail system
among the 5,000 people on the is
land of St. Helena, but a large part
I of the government revenue comes
from the sale of postage stamps to
j collectors.
RESISTANCE
RED FORCES
IS MELTING
American Troops Keep
Storming On-No Explana
tion of Red Withdrawal
By Associated Press
American troops stormed back
into Yudong today and wrested
control of the village from a bat
talion of Chinese Reds.
Yudong is 11 miles southeast of
Hongchon and less than three miles
southwest of a Chinese concentra
tion area.
A U. S. Second Division patrol
first entered the town Monday
night but withdrew after a brief
fire fight.
Elsewhere along the 70-milc front
UN forces were chasing strangely
elusive Chinese and North Korean
soldiers back toward the 38th Par
allel.
Probing spearheads of the three
Allied columns closing in on Hong
chon were within 25 miles of the
old boundary between North and
South Korea.
Reds Withdraw
There was no ready explanation.
of the Red withdrawal from the
mountain redoubts where they
previously fought bitterly for every
yard. Some front line officers said
the Reds were possibly pulling back
for a stand at prepared defense
positions on ridges north of Hong
chon.
More than 1,500 trucks were re
ported moving up toward the Red
front in this sector Monday night,
the largest number seen in two arid
one-half months.
Spear Headed Drive
Allied air observers also reported
heavy vehicular traffic moving
north from Seoul: Some source - said
this indicated the Reds might be
pulling out of the rubble strewn
South Korean capital.
In the drive on Hongchon. British
and Canadian troops spearing the
center were but four miles from the
road hub.
Also along the 70 mile front from
west to cast:
Fifteen miles east of Seoul, the
U. S. 25th Division consolidated its
bridgehead across the Han River.
The bridgehead is almost 11 miles
deep.
Town Is Taken
On the East front, the junction
town of Changpyong fell to the U
S. Seventh Division without a fight.
Also on the extreme Eastern front,
Republic of Korea troops occupied
Soksa, some 25 miles from the 38th
Parallel.
FOOD SALE
At Sears, Friday. March 16, 10:00
A. M. Catholic Daughters. 756-3t
1 ■■ i
$5 MILLION
MORE THAN
LAST TIME
Ways and Means Slashes
Two Million from
Budget Requests
By BOB DGARMOND
The House Committee on Ways
and Means, headed by Rep. Glen D.
Franklin, yesterday afternoon brot
in its General Appropriations bill
for the coming biennium.
The bill appropriates a total of
$18,319,558.50 for the two-year per
iod.
This compares with a budget re
quest of $20,128,311.28, submitted
by the Board of Budget.
Two years ago the Legislature
passed a General Appropriations
bill totaling $13,041,656.80.
The present bill does not include
special appropriations in bills pend
ing before the House or Senate or
already enacted, but does include
allowances for teachers’ salary in
creases anu some other pay in
creases.
Appropriations by departments e.s
provided in House Bill No. 162 are:
Aid to Public Libraries: $5,000,
the same as last biennium but $2,500
less than was requested.
Alaska Communication Division:
$73 652. Two years ago the appro
priation was $42,610. The request
was for $104,028.
Department of Agriculture: $95.
290.84. Two years ago, $75,000; re
quested for the next biennium, $93,
534.84.
Department of Fisheries: $359
672. Last biennium, $250,000: re
quested for next biennium, $400,000.
Alaska Development Board: $90,
000. Last biennium, $80,000; request
ed, $120,000.
Alaska Historical Library and
Museum: $39,824, Last, biennium,
$37,750; requested, $38,500.
Alaska Housing Authority, $80,000.
Last biennium, $250,000; requested,
$100,000.
Alaska National Guard: $175,100.
Last biennium, $75,000; requested,
$214,800.
Office of Attorney General: $91,
932. Last biennium, $64,450; request
ed, $89,500.
Office of the Auditor: $105,880.
Last biennium, $79,406.40; requested
! $125,000.
Biennial Territorial Audit: $15,000.
Last biennium, $20,000; requested,
$25,000.
Banking Board: $8,000. Last bien
nium, $5,000; requested, $10,000.
Board of Accountancy: $4,400.
Last biennium, $1,000; requested,
$4,400,
Board of Alaska Soil conserva
tion: $4,690, same as request. No
appropriation last, biennium.
Board of Alaska Libraries: $2,000,
same as request and last appropria
tion. '
Board of Basic Sciences: $1,990,
same as last appropriation and re
quest.
Board of Chiropratic Examiners:
$500, same as last appropriation and
request.
Board of Cosmetology: $1,830,
same as before.
Board of Dental Examiners:
$3,000, same as before.
Board of Medical Examiners:
$1,200, same as before.
Board of Optometry: $395, same
as before.
Board of Pharmacy: $3,000, same
as before.
Bounty on Eagles: $15,000, same
as last appropriation ana request.
Bounty on Hair Seals: $100,000,
same as last time. Amount request
ed. $300,000.
Bounty on Wolves and Coyotes.
$100,000. Last appropriation and re
quest, $125,000.
Delegate from Ala: lea: $2,500,
same as last appropriation and re
quest.
Department of Education: $182,
006. Last biennium, $132,858.60; re
quest, $163,624.80.
Emergency Appropriation: $5 000,
same as last biennium and request.
Fisheries Experimental Commis
sion: $59,612. Last biennium, $50,
000: request, $59,000.
General Election: $15,0CO. Last
biennium. $14,500; request, $15,000.
Office of Governor: $40,424. Last
biennium, $37,600; request, $37,600.
Health Department: $1,009,000.
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