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ARMY WILL
TAKE OVER
RAILROADS
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strike came after President Tru
man ordered the Army to “take
appropriate action” to return the
railroads to full operation
At the same time, the Army put
into effect hourly wage boosts ef
fective as of last Oct. 1, for men
who have had no increase since
September, 1948.
It said the wage hike would be
temporary, pending final settle
ment of the wage-hour dispute be
tween rail management and the
unions.
15 KILLED,
20 INJURED,
EXPLOSION
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 8 —iff)—
At least 15 persons are reported
killed and another 20 injured in an
explosion that ripped through the
Minerals Building of the Minnesota
Mining and Manufacturing com
pany plant today.
The Ramsey County coroner’s of
fice said there were ’eight dead in
hospitals and six or seven more
bodies that we can’t get out."
Ancker (city) hospital said it had
at least 20 injured persons and that
ambulances were "bringing them in
by the load.”
Persons at the scene said “at
least 40 persons” were taken from
the building. Faces of the victims
were blackened and several were
screaming and moaning in pain.
The explosion occurred in the var
nish plant, located in the Minerals
Building, a six-story structure. Fire
broke out.
The blast occurred in 12 below
zero weather.
Minnesota Mining and Manufact
uring Co., manufactures, among
other things, abrasives, cellophane
tape under the trade name of
“Scotch Tape,” and undercoating!
materials for cars.
The blast blew out two sides of
the Minerals Building.
TAFT DEMANDING
9 T01 RATIO FOR
TROOPS, EUROPE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—UR—Sen
I ator Taft (R-Ohio) demanded in
'. the Senate today that the United
! States contribute no more than one
division to every nine raised by
western Europe for its defense.
Taft, who heads the Senate GOP
Policy Committee, challenged the
Truman administration to submit
a definite program for sending
troops to Europe.
He said reports made by Gen*
Dwight D. Eisenhower since his
survey of Europe have only made
the project for shoring up defenses
against possible Communist attack
“more hazy and indefinite and un
certain in outline than it was be
for his return.”
For his part, Taft said, he will
propose an amendment to any leg
islation under which no more than
20 percent of American ground
forces and no more than 10 per
cent of U. S. airforces could be
stationed there.
ARC CHIEFS DIST.
OFFICES 10 MEET
HERE FEB. 12-14
Chiefs of the Administrative Di
vision in the Alaska Road Commis
sion districts in the territory will
come to Juneau before the end of
the week to attend a meeting of
office administrators to be con
ducted at the ARC local head
quarters office from February 12
through the fourteenth.
Main business on the agenda for
the meeting will be discussion of
general administration matters for
the coming season and a reorgan
ization of the Commission account
ing operation.
Attending the meeting will be
Earl C. Simmons of Anchorage, H.
B. Gunderson of Fairbanks, W. V.
Morris of Nome and Lewis Taylor Of
Valdez. Taylor is the son of Ike
P. Taylor, former longtime head
, of the Alaska Road Commission, re
tired. He lived in Juneau and is
wellknown here.
The sessions will be conducted by
A. F. Ghiglione, Assistant Commis
sioner'and Don Mill, Chief of the
Administration Division.
O. E. S. MEMBERS
Requested to attend funeral cf
Sr. Dorothy Durgin. Carter's Mort
uary, Friday, 2 o’clock.
By order of Worthy Matron
MINIMUM
WAGE ACT
IS PASSED
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It noted that the principal recom
mendation was for a general ac
counting office. Its job would be:
To develop standardized account
ing procedures for operating terri
torial departments; to maintain
general accounting records; to pre
pare periodic financial statements
for the territory.
"If. at the current session of the
legislature, legislation could br
snacted to establish this agency and
provide it with authority to do the
things enumerated, we believe the
major step will have been taken
toward accomplishing the desired
objectives.
Competent Head
"The success will depend to a
large degree upon securing a com
petent administrative head for thi •
agency and providing him with ade
quate appropriations, personnel and
authority. He should be divorced
from political considerations."
The letter suggested, for that
reason, that the new officer be ap
pointed rather than elected.
Butrovich expressed regret that
a representative of the firm will
not be in Juneau until March. He
said that will make it too late for
the legislature to do much confer
ring with him because of the pileup
of legislation during March.
Butrovich said many provisions
for auditing have been ignored or
violated. He said some audits which
should be available to legislators
now have not been possible because
funds were exhausted in the long
and detailed audit that was re
quired to finish the job in the
treasurer's office — an audit which
he said showed a total of about
137,COD in defalcations between 1938
and the time of the checkup.
Introduced Today
Two bills and two joint memorial
were introduced in the senate’s
morning session, before adjourn
ment to 10 a.m. Friday.
They were:
By Steve McCutcheon (D-Anch
orage) — to provide that no person
shall be eligible to appointment to
a territorial board or commission
while a member of the legislature.
By Gunnard Engebreth (R-Anch
orage) — to empower directors of
iKKependent school districts to levy
a sales tax up to 2 per cent in school
districts if it is first approved by
popular referendum vote of the dis
trict’s residents.
Senate joint memorial 2 — (by
Engebreth) — to ask the Secre
tary of Interior and the heads of
congressional land committees to
investigate the recent controversial
staking of a claim on valuable
school gravel land at Anchorage,
with an eye toward preventing "pri
vate exploitation and gam” from
lands which were set aside for sup
port of common schools.
SJM3 (by Engebreth) — asking
the President and Congress to al
low the Territory to issue bonds up
to a limit of $12,500,000 for school
buildings. A similar memorial in
the house proposes a $9,000,000 bond
issue. A similar proposal was de
feated in the 1949 senate.
LEND - LEASE
TO RUSSIANS
IS UP A6 AIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 —UPt—'The
United States has formally demand
ed that Russia immediately return
672 lend-lease naval and merchant
shops loaned her during World
War II.
The State Department disclosed
that the demand was made in a
note handed yesterday to Soviet
Ambassador Alexander S. Panyush
kin. Panyushkin is representing his
country in the latest of a series of
so-far fruitless lend-lease talks.
The U. S. is asking Russia to pay
$800,000,0C0 in settlement of a war
time account of §10,803,030,000. Rus
sia reportedly has made a “final
offer” of $210,000,000.
Officials said Russian representa
tives have refused to discuss return
of the ships, insisting their gov
ernment wants to buy the vessels.
They include 87 merchant ships.
The U. S. refuses to sell them un
less the Russians settle their over
all lend-lease account.
These developments were made
public after the Russian newspaper
Pravda accused the U. S. of trying
to sabotage the talks. The paper
said Britain was given a better deal
than that offered Russia.
SALT LAKE VISITOR
Mrs. Alida C. Dixon of Salt Lake
City, is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
FROM MARYLAND
Douglas West of Silver Springs.
Md„ is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
3RD DIVISION
LOSES FIGHT
ON DELEGATES
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discriminates against the Third
Division.”
He warned against sectiona’i n.
and said the First Division, if i
gets its pulp mills and other Indus
tries, may find the other division;
“ganging up against you.”
The motion to make it a joint
memorial lost, 7 to 17.
Rep. Kay then moved to amend
;he memorial to ask for six dele
gates from the First Division, three
from the Second, 10 from the Third
and five from the Fourth, with
seven delegates-at-larpe.
This, he claimed, would be a fair
apportionment and the First Divis
ion with its big vote would have
(he advantage in electing delegate; -
at-large.
The First Division Representa
tives declined to rise to this It rc
and the amendment was defeated
7 to 17.
Rules Suspended
A motion by Rep. Barnes to move
the memorial into third reading
carried 17-7, and a motion by Rep.
Conright, of the Third Division, to
table the memorial lost, 7 to 17.
Rep. McCutcheon charged that
the memorial disregards the prinri
ples of proportional representation,
is an encroachment upon the rights
of the Third Division and take
representation to that division to
the enrichment of the other three
divisions.
Rep. Barnes said she felt nothin;
is being taken from the Third and
that the memorial only asks for
proportional representation for the
other divisions.
Rep. Franklin pointed to the 1>.
representatives guaranteed the 3rd
Division in the memorial, as against
a guarantee of only 10 in the pres
ent statehood bill.
Will Not End Here
Rep. Kay again issued a warning
ci dire consequences. “This matter
will be carried into the constitu
tional convention and will result in
denying the rights of the people in
some parts of Alaska,” he said. "It
will leavd a mark forever on the
future state,” he asserted, but he
failed to scare off a single propon
ent of the memorial.
Speaker William Egan turned the
chair over to Rep. Scavenius and
took the floor to teil the House that
the memorial, as written, mnkes it
appear that all military personnel
in Alaska are in the Third Division.
He asked that this portion be
stricken, but no action was taken.
“All of Alaska will suffer if the
delegates-at-large are omitted,”
Egan warned. He said many people
might wish to run in the election
for delegates-at-iarge who would be
unable to run as divisional dele
gates because of party considera
tions.
The vote on passage of the meas
ure, when it finally came, was al
most an anticlimax. It also was
17 to 7.
“Rockingchair" Bills
Two bills having to do with what
has become known as “rockingchair
: money”— unemployment compens
! ation benefits and dependency al
lowances — were passed by House,
one unanimously, the other by the
narrowest of margins, 13-11.
With no argument in opposition,
H. B. 9. which extends dependency
allowances to as long as 23 weeks,
was quickly passed.
It was H. B. 9, to increase maxi
mum weekly benefits to $30, that
had a narrow squeak.
Favoring the bill. Reps. Kay, F-ca
venius, Metcalfe and Carlson point
ed to it as justified by the pre. ent
status of the fund, an overdue
catching up with the cost of living
and a guardian against a dwindling
labor supply in Alaska,
Rep. McCutcheon, asserting that
the “fund belongs to the workers,”
said the fund should have been al
lowed to grow. Growth was stopped,
he claimed, by the experience rating
credit law, “enacted by the canned
salmon industry.”
He advocated repeal of the ex
perience rating credit law if the
fund is too small.
Reps. Franklin ' and Stepovich
opposing the bill, felt that the fund
should be allowed to grow' until
there is a real need for it in time
of depression. Since a boom con
struction year is predicted for Alas
ka, they felt, there Is no need for
boosting benefit rates at present.
Wolverine Bounty
A new bill introduced by Reps.
Laws and Madsen would provide a
bounty of $50 apiece on wolverines,
with an appropriation of $-1,000.
A bill by Reps. Carlson and Egan
would boost maximum old age as
sistant benefits from S80 to $90 a
month.
WYOMING VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Grant of
Cody, Wyoming, are stopping at the
Hotel Juneau.
FROM Tt LSEQL AII
Visitors from Tulsequah, B. C.,
include J. Choenegko, C. Robinson,
and A. C. Jacobson, who are guests
at the Baranof flotel.
RIGHT TO
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Asserting that Alaska had bce:i
exploited first by the Russian no
bility, then by United State. Sen
ators and a U. S. President, 1
blamed the statehood delay on ti -
Republicans, Dixiecrats and t’r ■
Alaska Salmon Industry.
Telegrams Read
Rep. Doris Barnes read a tele
gram from the Anchorage Republi
can Club, William H. Olsen, pre 1
dent, urging repudiation of tht
morial.
“We consider tlie proposal im
mature and irresponsible, ref lectin
a lack of judgment, and emberras
ing and disgraceful to the people
of the Territory and damaging
prospects for early admission of
Alaska to the Union,” the telegr . .
said.
Another telegram, signed by th.
Common Council of the City of
Kodiak and Mayor Lee C. Bettinger.
who ig also a menxber of the Alaska
Statehood Committee, was read b;>
Rep. Stepovich.
This telegram expressed shock
and anger “that members of the
Legislature should dare to suggest
treason.”
It continued: “We cannot expect
i full measure of freedom when we
refuse to follow democratic proce
dure to attain that goal. The
‘rength of the Union of State
lies in acceptance of majority de
cision. If we cannot attain state
hood by following that rule we can
not expect to be accepted.”
The telegram urged the- defeat
of “this expression of immaturity
and disloyalty by a body of men
who do not represent the moral;
and thinking of the loyal America::
citizens of Alaska.”
Other Telegrams
Rep. Ifay said he had received a
number of telegrams, including one
from (he Democratic organization
of Anchorage, approving the me
morial, but he did not offer to read
them.
Rep. McCutciieon said he resent
ed the word “treason” and asserted
that nowhere in the memorial is
anything that could be construed
as treasonable.
No action had been taken/on the
motion to strike the “independence"
section of the memorial at the time
the House recessed for lunch.
Ollier Action
Another controversial measure,
Rep. Franklin’s bill to create a
special investigating committee of
the Legislature, went through sec
i ond reading in the House tnis
j morning but generated no fireworks.
Several amendments were adopt
ed, most of them limiting the ac
i;cn.; of .the proposed committee,
'rcr.klin said he did not entirely
pgree with the amendments but
was willing to go along in order
to save the bill.
Membership of the committee
would bo changed by one amend
. cut. The bill originally provided
hat the committee consist cf the
Speaker of the House, President of
he Senate and two appointive
members. The amendment provides
for the election of two members
hi the House and two in the Sen
ate.
Wants Substitute
Rep. Kay urged that no action be
jp.ken on the Franklin bill until his
own bill to create a legislative coun
t'd comes before the House. He
■,aid this bill will do all the things
■he Franklin hill will do. and many
other things.
Hep. Franklin contended that the
Kay bill »s too broad in its Scope
and will be too costly.
A bill introduced this morning
by Pep. Scavenius seeks cn appro
priation of $150,000 for expenditure
by the Department of Health to
assist in the purchase, construction,
repair and operation of facilities to
improve and protect community
health.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8—(•■Pi—Convict
ed perjurer William IV. Remington
today was sentenced to a maximum
term of five years in prison and
fined $2,000.
Ti p 38-. ear-old former govern
ment economist was convicted by a
Federal Court jury last night which
decided he lied when he swore
he never had been a Communist.
The jury deliberated less than five
hours.
Sentence was imposed cn the tall,
handsome defendant by F’ederal
Jut! ;e Gregory F. Noonan who pre
ided over the 32-day trial.
Remington heard his fate pro
nounced with grim-faced compo
sure. Then in a brief address to the
court, he once again denied that
he never had been a Communist
and asserted he was “confident that
1 will be vindicated.”
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
Victor R. Davis of Anchorage is
a Juneau visitor.
SEATTLE VISITOR
Baxter Feich ofjc'eatUe is at the
Baranof Hotel.
KETCHIKAN VISITOR
A. L. Florence of Ketchikan is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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