House Won't Let
Truman Operate
Defense Plants
WASHINGTON, July 13 — !/Pi —
The House today defeated an ad
ministration proposal that Presi
dent Truman be given broad new
power to acquire and operate indus
trial plants for defense purposes.
The vote was 159 to 139. It was a
teller count, the members marching
by tellers who do not record their
names.
The administration wanted the
provision in the new economic con
trols legislation.
Republicans and southern Demo
crats teamed up to deny it. They
■ contended the authority would give
Mr. Iranian "life and death” power
over private Industry.
It was another major setback for
.administration Democrats in the
continuing House struggle over new
controls legislation.
With leaders stalling for time,
AFL President William Green earlier
told a gathering of House members
that organized labor “will not and
cannot” accept wage controls if
Congress fails to enact strong price
controls.
House Holds Firm
On Replacements
In Federal Jobs
WASHINGTON, July 13 — UP! —
The House stood pat today in its |
insistence that as a general rule
only one out of every four vacan
cies in Federal jobs be filled dur
ing this fiscal year.
It sent back to a Senate-House
conference the $2,510,000,000 Labor
Department-Federal Security ap
propriation bill with instructions to
its conferees to insist on retaining
the job-cutting plan in the final
version.
The Senate had junked the House
proposal in favor of one of its own,
and Senate-House conferees recom
mended that the House provision,
known as the Jer.sen amendment,
be left out of the bill.
High Officialdom
In Low Brawl;
Mayor in Bucket
HAVERILL. Mass. , July 13
—The mayor punched the police
chief and the chief locked up the
mayor—all because, the mayor said.
"He called me something which
President Truman called Drew
Pearson.” it
Mayor Joseph Willett, 45. pleaded
innocent today to a charge of as
sault and battery on police chief
William J. Collins, 57, after yester
day’s fracas in the mayor's office
when the mayor punched the chief
and they both rolled around on the
floor until a couple of aldermen
separated them.
A discussion of police assign
ments led to an argument. Willett
raid Collins called him a liar, "not
once but three times. He then
called me something which Presi
dent Truman called Drew Pearson
(Washington columnist i and I
punched him."
Collins promptly arrested the
mayor, who'asked to be treated
“like any other prisoner.” Collins
obliged by locking him up until he
paid $25 bail.
Both men are athletes well able
to take care of themselves.
'Secretary Dewey'.
Rumor Unfounded,
Says White House
WASHINGTON, July 13 — iff! —
The White House reported today
that President Truman "has no plan
to make any change in the office
of secretary of state."
That was the comment of Mr.
Truman's press secretary, Joseph
Short, when asked about a Chicago
Tribune story ‘hat "diplomatic cir
cles were buzz!:'. with reports that
Governor Dewey of New York would
succeed Acheson.
Seattle Bank
Executives South
After Arctic Trip
To Kotzebue and back is the trip
that two Seattle bankers and their
wives just completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Larson and Mr.
and Mrs. Chester M. Latimer, who
were northbound passengers with
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
tour extended their trip to the Arc
tic to visit in Nome, Fairbanks
and Anchorage.
Both men are executives of the
Seattle First National Bank. Lar
son, vice president, was in Juneau
15 or 16 years ago and Latimer,
vice president and manager of the
bank's Alaska department, is a
frequent Alaska visitor.
The Larsons left for Seattle
Thursday and Mr. and Mrs. Lati
mer will make a trip t i Sitka be
fore leaving Juneau at the end of
the week for the south. Perfect
weather has accompanied the trav
eler; throughout their journey.
I
War on rats has been declared at
Kodiak. That’s official. In fact, it
is several times official.
The Territorial Department of
Health reconnoiterrd t'.ic battle
area and reported that the enemy
is there in force. Then Lieut. Gen
eral William E. Krpner commun
icated officially with Hear Admiral
C. A. F. Sprague of the Mask; Lea
! Frontier.
“Naval Station Ordered to Join
iFight on Rats." he’d'.!' I 'h r*o
jdiak Mirror. And t': Kolia ■: City
jCouncil ordered a supply of a rat
poison called Warfarin. A repre
sentative from the Fisli and Wild
j life Service will sn;: .h Lanci
| lin: of the poison
Thus far C! a h - I.T rrvthv and
his Rat Slugger ha;.' nt.i hern
called in.
Kodiak' animal, pests seem to
come in rxlrein. with brown rats
j at one end of t'v .'■cal’ and br avn
(bears at the othe” end n it much of
| anythin'; in between.
But while a mult1!ud'? of official
agencies arc engage 1 in ho till tics
against the rats, the Kodiak Live
stock Growers As: oriaLon stands
pretty much alcre in the battle of
the brown bears.
t’nited Stales Senators Butler,
Malone, Watkins, Long nnd Sma
thers looked at the very conserva
tive side of the ledger when they
figured the cost of statehood for
Alaska in their minority report.
They said statehood is expected
lo double the cost of government
for us, adding approximately 10
million dollars to our annual tax
bill.
Then the Senators put the ten
million dollar (at least) question;
"Is this a proper burden with
which to saddle Alaskans so that
a handfuf of ambitious politicians
may realize their dreams of becom
ing Senators. Members of the House
of Representatives, judges and
other officials of the proposed new
State?
"That is the only direct benefit,
for a handful of Alaskars, that
passage of the pending bill can
hope to convey.
"The question answers itself.”
The Senators then point out that
Alaska has only 108.000 inhabi
tants aside from military and naval
personnel and that many of these
are nonproducing and contribute
li: tie revenue to the Territorial
government.
"The effect, of course,” the min
ority report declares, “is to increase
the burden on that segment of the
population that does produce.
“To grant statehood at this
time,'’ the Senators conclude, “is
to fail utterly in our obligation to
guard the welfare of those who
have ventured to the Territory to
make their homes and who are
striving to lead normal lives there
in the face of a harsh combina
tion of climatic and geographical
handicaps.”
A hundred years will be required
to complete the charting of Alaskan
waters, according to estimates of
Coindr. Robert W. Knox, recently
named assistant Director of the j
Const and Geodetic Survey.
7 hi. seems like no time at all '
when compared with the 17,000
years Senator Clinton P. Anderson j
figured it will take to finish sur- |
veying the land area of Alaska at j
the present rate i f progress.
A railroad link between Alaska,
and the States seems to be out of
the picture for the nresent. The
proposition got a thumbsdown from j
both I he Canadian government and
tin' Permanent Joint Board on De- ;
fense. I
The Joint Defense Board, heavily
loaded with Navy and Air Force
men from both sides ot the bound- j
ary, could see ncmilitary justifica
tion for the road. And the Canad- \
ian government feels that a joint
economic survey of the proposed
road would serve no useful purpose, j
The road has been urged ip the I
Pacific Northwest, Alaska and parts j
of Canada. George M. Murray, j
Canadian member of parliament
Irom Cariboo is one of its staunch j
supporters.
Murray, who publishes the Alaska
Highway News, asserts that the
military is aware of the necessity
for such a read but that there is
a concerted effort both in Ottawa
and Washington to discourage its
construction.
"To supply an army of 150,000
men in Alaska would require trucks
running bumper to bumper on the
highway,” Murray says, “with al
most as many men on‘road main
tenance as in eombat.”
Speaking of railroads — One of
the editors who recently toured
the Territory commented while
riding on the Alaska Railroad: “If
the railroads in Siberia are any
thing like this one, we have noth
ing to fear from the Russians.”
!
Maj. Cameron Gets
Advancemenl io
Lieulenen! Colonel
Major D. N. Cameron, executive
officer of the Alaska National
Guard instructor detachment, has
received an advancement in grade
I to lieutenant colonel.
I.t. Col. Cameron has been with
j the guard headquarters since Aug
ust 9. 1950, arriving here from the
infantry- school at Ft. Benning.
| Georgia. During World War II, he
eived in the States and Philip
j nines and has been in the army
j tor the last 12 years.
FROM PROSSER, WASH.
Harold N. Nelson and Loren A.
! McClure of Prosser, Wash., are
| registered at the Baranof hotel.
MYF.R LI RIF. IIERF,
Mycr Lurie, Seattle contractor, is
registered at the Baranof hotel. He
! - here in connection with his com
pany's Federal Housing Administra
; tion insured contracts in Anchorage.
No Fire Permits
Needed This Season,
Says Armstrong
Permits for burning brush or
other fires in the Juneau District
of the Tongass National Forest,
will not be required this season,
according to Division Supervisor C.
M. Armstrong.
When weather and fire conditions
are severe, however, burning may
be restricted or prohibited as need
ed, he said.
“Most fires ore caused by care
less use of cigarettes, matches and
camp fires while in the woods," he
declared. "If a fire gets away, or
you find one unattended, you will
be doing a public service bj; putting
it out. If a lire gets out of con
trol, contact the Forest Service in
the Federal Building immediately.”
Due to dry weather, danger of
forest fires is high, Armstrong said.
For this reason he requests that
no burning of brush, stumps, logs
or other debris be done until the
dry spell is ended.
EVERYONE ASKS FOR
DARIGOLD
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MILD
TEMPTING
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Scattering ot
New Defense
Plants Rejected
WASHINGTON, July 13 — P
The House today voted down a pi'
pcsal that President Truman 1 ve
authority to “disperse" new deff
plants built or financed by the
eminent.
It was rejected 134 to 79 on a
standing vote.
The dispersal plan was advanced
by the House Banking commit
as a scheme to assure that i
plants were located away from he > y
population centers and at pi
where there would be at a maxim in
advantage from the standpoint
security.
The scrap over it developed la
ly along sectional lines.
Both Democrats and Republii n
from the industrial east, openly
fearful of losing heavy industry to
the south or west, assailed the pi •
posal as “socialistic” and as “n -
mentation” of industry.
Southerners were the chief >
porters.
Bail Reinstated
For 15 Reds
NEW YORK. July 13 — (/PI —Eail |
of 15 Communists, cancelled yes-!
terday by Federal Judge Sylve .er
J. Ryan, was reinstated today by
Judge Learned Hand of the United
States Court of Appeals.
The reinstated bail was posted
by the bail fund of the Civil Rights
Congress of New York. Ryan had
ordered it revoked after describing
the fund’s trustees as “unworthy
of trust.”
Ryan had sentenced three of the
trustees to jail for contempt of
court when they refused to reveal
records showing who contributed tc
the bail fund. .
Judge Hand also set hail of $10,900
each, pending appeal, for Dashiell
Hammett, mystery story writer, and
Dr. W. Alphaeus Hunton, secretary
of the Council of African Affairs
both trustees of the bail fund,.
Ryan had sentenced them to six
months for contempt.
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, a third
trustee and secretary of the fund,
sentenced to 90 days by Ryan, earlier
had obtained $10,000 bail from his
wife.
Ryan had specified that the Civil
Rights Congress and Field pers n
ally would be ineligible to post bail
in any case n his court.
Anchorage Road
Open After Flood
ANCHORAGE, July 13 — [&—'The
Anchorage-Palmer highway, thh
city's only road connection with the
outside, was reopened to passenger
car traffic today.
The road commission erected a
temporary Bailey bridge, which was
loaned by the Army Engineers.
The Eklutna river bridge went out
Monday night, and again Tuesday,
under pressure and undermining of
a torrent from the Eklutna glacier.
Warm weather has brought the
rapid runoff.
Fishing Boat,
Owner Dead,
Breaking Up
ASTORIA. Ore., July 13 —Uft— A
fishing boat, whose owner died of a j
heart attack after his rescue by that
Coast Guard Iasi night, was break
ing up in heavy seas on Clatsop
Spit near the mouth of the Colum
gia river today.
The uu said Teter Peuhkurinen.
GO, Astoria, died while being taken
> the CG station at Point Adams.
He and his so,:-in-law, R. Adolph
on, were aboard the 43-foot fish
r : vessel Snark when it went
. round on Clatsop Spit. A CG
picket boat, unable to get along
id«> the Snark, put a line aboard
and hauled the two through 75 to
ICO feet of water to safety.
Transfer lake?
!=m Ogg io Mew
Am Pssllisii
After several years in Alaska with i
Pan American World Airways, Ian
Ogg, station operations manager in
Juneau left today for San Francisco
where he has been transferred.
Ogg came to Juneau from An
nette Island station a year and a
half ago and will .be in company
operations at the San francisco
airport.
The Oggs have lived on Douglas
Island, where Ogg has been active
in community affairs and a member
of the new Lions Club on the Is
land.
Mrs. Ogg and the three children
of the family will follow the Pan
American man to San Francisco
later.
trashed Car in
Flames; Family
Of Four Victims
BRIDGEPORT. N. J., —(JFI— A
car, crushed between two trailer
trucks, burst into flames last night
burning to death a naval jet plane
pilot, his wife and two children.
A fifth victim, 15-year-old June
McBride of Hopkinton, Mass., died
today.
The crash occurred on the ap
proach to the Bridgeport slip of the
Chest-Bridgeport ferry. The dead:
Lieutenant (jg) Albert Karch, 29,
of East Greenwich, R. I.; his wife,
Evelyn, and their children, Susanne,
5, and Deborah, 2'-.
SEATTLE GUEC f MINISTER
AT NORTHERN LIGHT CHURCH
Tile Rev. A. Taylor Dunlap of
Seattle will be guest preacher In
the Northern Light Presbyterian
Church next Sunday morning, July
15. Mr. Dunlap is the minister of
the Northminster Presbyterian
Church of Seattle, and with Mrs.
Dunlap is enroute to Haines, Al
aska, where they will visit for two
weeks.
The Northern Light Church in
vites the public to hear him at the
11 a.m. service.
Hi better wiH)
butter
Hi best wilh
DARIGOLD
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BUTTER
CELLOPHANE WRAPPED TO PROTECT FRESHNESS AND FLAVOR
Beef Rolfs Info Yards;
Now If We Could Jus!
Gef a Mortgage!
FORT WORTH. Tex., July 13 - .7
Beef on the hoof was pouring in
at the Fort Worth stockyard- yes
terday in what appeared to be the
heaviest run of the year. Within two
hours after the market opened near
ly 9.000 head of cattle and calves
had been unloaded.
Pens were filled for the first time
since announcement of government
freezes and rollbacks on beef but
commission men were mainly of the
opinion that the influx by 4 a.m.
of 608 trucks bearing livestock oi
all kinds, was due more to sea
sonal than poliiical factors.
‘■When the cattle are fat they go
to market." said J. C. Weaver, vice
president of a leading concern, the
pa; sidy Co.’iuni. sion company.
LIGHT STATION'S
HAVE WATER SHORTAGE
The prolonged dry spell has
caused a water shortage at Print;
Retreat and Five Finger Tight sta
tions, U. S. Coast Guard headquar
ters said here today. -The cutter
Sweetbrier left this morning to take
20,000 gallons of fresh water for
Point Retreat and is also scheduled
to service Five Finger Light station.
Seven Air Fields
For U.S. Use in
French Morocco
WASHINGTON, July 3 — IJPI —
The Air Force announce 1 today it
will have the use of seven air fields
n French Morocco, at the northwest
corner of North Africa.
Three bases are now under con
struction and preliminary work is
under wa\ ;t *v.o others.
In acicuicr-i a command head
n’.ariers f.,j* strafe ic bombers w 11
be set up <>t cne coastal ciiy rno
nterim use of riothcr base is pro
dded.
Gen. FVyt Vends..here,, who re
turned from an inspection trip yes
terday, said construction work on
the North African bases is being
rushed.
B. E. Berry of Fairbanks is stop
ping at the Gastineau Hotel.
NOISY MUFFLERS
BEING CHECKED
A number of car owners have
checked with city police regardinf
their noisy car mufflers. Assistant
Police Chief Cavanaugh said today
No arrests have been made to date
following a previous warning, but
police are on the- lookout for un
duly noisy cars, he said.
ENROUTE TO HAINES
M. V. Raney of Haines arrivec
here yesterday on PAA from Seat
tle and'is stopping at the Baranol
Hotel.
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