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ELECTIVE
GOVERNOR
■ APPROVED
House Memorial Seeking
Action by Congress,
Passed 14-0
By BOB DE ARMOND
Hotly contested House Memorial
36, seeking action by Congress to
allow Alaskans to elect their gov
ernor, won final approval last eve
ning. The vote on passage of the
memorial was 14-10.
When the memorial goes to Con
gress it will, at the request of Rep
McCutcheon, carry a letter giving
the vote on its passage. And, at the
request of other members of the
House, the letter will give also the
name, party affiliation and the Di
vision represented, as well as the
vote on the memorial, of each mem
ber of the House.
Only one of many amendments
offered from the floor was adopted.
The amendment deleted from the
memorial a reference to an elective
governor bill now before Congress.
Opponents of the memorial objected
to the reference because a bill was
introduced by Senator Hugh But
ler of Nebraska, whom they had
labeled "the greatest foe of state
hood.”
Democratic members of the House
who had said earlier that they
would probably vote for the me
morial changed their position when
Rep. McCutcheon read a letter from
Delegate E. L. Bartlett, addressed
to Curtis Shattuck of Juneau.
“This memorial would be a mortal
blow to statehood,” the Bartlett let
ter said.
Republican Support
In the final vote, the memorial
was approved by all 10 Republican
members of the House — Reps.
Barnes, Johnson, Locken, Hendrick
son and MacKinnon from the First
Division; Laws from the Second
Division, and Gasser, Miscovich,
Stepovich and Wilbur from the
Fourth Division — and by all of the
Democrats from the Second and
Fourth Divisions — Reps. Degnan,
Franklin, Madsen and Wells.
Voting against the memorial were
the Third Division members of the
House — Reps. Carlson, Conright,
Egan, Kay, McCutcheon. Pollard
and Scavenius — and three mem
bers from the First Division — Reps.
Gundersen, Hope and Metcalfe. All
are Democrats.
Veto Sustained
After hearing from Attorney Gen
eral J. Gerald Williams, former At
torney General Henry Roden and
attorney William L. Paul, Jr., in
support of the Governor’s veto of
H. B. 63. and attorney Robert
Boochever and banker Marshall j
Crutcher in support of the bill, the
House sustained the veto.
The vote on passage of the bill i
notwithstanding the Governor's j
veto was 9-13, seven short of the re
quired two-thirds. Rep. Stanley Mc
Cutcheon led the opposition to the
veto in the House, as did his brother,
(Continued on Page Five)
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
"M^ASHINGTON. — Capitol pqlice
were alerted the other day to expect i
a mob of imported Communist agi- j
tators on Capitol Hill. But the'
police weren’t the only ones who
prepared for them. The Rev. Fred
erick Brown Harris, Senate chap
lain, also got ready for the Com
munists — by writing a special
prayer for their benefit.
The chaplain was all set to de
liver the prayer on the Senate
floor, as an answer to the phony
peace petitions that the Commun
ists intended to circulate. But when
it came time for the invocation,
the Communists still hadn’t arrived.
So Reverend Harris tossed aside
his special prayer and delivered an
other invocation.
However, here is the heart of
the prayer the chaplain wrote but
never delivered: “Open the eyes of,
the duped. who would follow false
leaders who cry peace, peace where
there is no peace; who use the cry
(Continued on Page Four*
Civilian Defense System
Urged by LI. Gen. Kepner;
Is Vital Necessity to All
Lt. Gen. William Kepner told the
Alaska Legislature yesterday after
noon that a civilian defense system
is vital to the Territory and cities
should seek the aid of the military
“only as a last resort.”
He said the Alaska command
wants a strong civilian defense or
ganization to (U minimize the di
version of military forces that "will
have their hands full against the
enemy and (2t a pood civilian de
fense organization probably would
be able to lend valuable aid to mili
tary bases.
“A sound civil defense organiza
tion is a vital necessity to all," he
declared, and concluded with the
quotation: “So much to do, so little
time.”
Kepner mentioned specifically
among the problems the evacuation
of women and children, principally
from areas where the enemy may
make a paratroop attack.
“It would be best, of course, to
accomplish this limited evacuation
beforehand if our intelligence
sourcBs gain information that such
an attack is pending. This would
permit a greater saving of civilian
lives.
“As an example, if we assume that
enemy troops have dropped on
Anchorage and later they drive the
civilians ahead of them as shields
when attacking, this furnishes a
peculiar and distressing problem.
We know this could happen if no
preparations have been made.”
He :aid correspondents had re
ported such tactics by Communists
in Koi-ea.
"We must clear the decks be
forehand, if possible, ip a critical
area,” he continued. “The proper
authority to undertake this move
ment is the local civil defense or
ganization. My principal interest
lies in ascertaining that the high
ways our forces will use in defensive
operations are not clogged by evac
uees.”
Chow Hound
One mess (ray is big enough for two when Pvt. Dick Powell. Findlay,
Ohio, and his pup “Fuzzy” sit down for chow. The ”5th Division
Cil and his pal share dinner on Korea’s western front. </W Wirephoto.
COSTELLO
DEFYING
PROBERS
Tells of Splotchy Career
But Refuses to Give
Exact Total of Wealth
NEW YORK, March 21 — (tfl—
Frank Costello today sketched for
Senate probers his splotchy career
varying from rum-running to mak
ing kewpie dolls, but refused to tell
what they demanded to know—the
exact total of his wealth.
Admittedly a jack-of-many rack
ets in the past, Costello argued
earnestly he is now a legitimate
businessman.
“I have a few investments,” he
said simply.
But defying direct orders of Com
mittee Chairman Sen. Estes Ke
fauver (D-Tenn), the alleged boss
of a national crime syndicate re
fused — for the fourth time — to
state his npt worth.
“This makes us suspicious,” said
Sen Charles Toby tR-NHt.
Costello also was tight-lipped
about his debts. Conceding only
that he owed convicted big-time
bookie Frank Erickson $30,000, and
some others, but he wouldn't say
whom, or how much.
He shook " the bright-lighted
jammed hearing room with laughter
w hen he denied he had any personal
interest in an upstate gambling
casino, and then said he financed
it on a 50-50 profits pact.
The hum of newsreel cameras
sounded only intermittently during
today’s session, which was the last
of the tense, drama-packed New
York open hearings.
Prior to Costello’s appearance,
the committee issued a second in
vitation to New York Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey to appear before it about
gambling at Saratoga Springs, New
York.
DUTIES OF BUSH
PILOTS INCLUDE
DENTAL SERVICE
EAGLE, Alaska, March 21.—UP)—
The bush pilot is the handyman of
the Arctic and its southern suburbs
Don Emmons landed his Alaska
Airlines plane here yesterday in the
course of a routine flight, but his
departure was delayed for two
hours.
Bad weather? Engine trouble?
Nope. Frank Ofo had a tooth
ache. Emmons removed the ailing
molar.
DON GOODMAN HERE
Don Goodman, Anchorage con
tractor, is in Juneau for a few days
on business. Goodman formerly
was a bush pilot and is well known
throughout the Territory. He is
at the Baranof Hotel.
Limestone is used in blast fur
naces to combine with and carry
off the 'lag.
CURRY NOW
GOING OUT
IS REPORT
Legal Contract with Three
Indian Tribes to Be Can
celled, Says Myers
PORTLAND, Ore., March 21 —UR
—Dillon S. Myer, commissioner of
Indian Affairs, announces through
the Portland office that he intends
to cancel a legal contract between
James E. Curry, Washington, D. C.
attorney, and three Western Indian
tribes.
The contracts are with the Mes
lareo (Apache tribe), Mescalero,
N. M., the Jicarialla (Apache),
Bulge, N. M., and the Klawock Co
operative Association, Klawoclt,
Alaska.
The Apache Indians contended
that Curry “failed to prosecute
claims." The Klawock Association
said his services were no longer
needed.
Col. Morgan Pryse, area director
of the Indian Commission, said that
Myer’s cancellation of the contract
should not be interpreted as an ef
fort to dictate the Indians’ selection]
of an attorney. J
Myer added that the Klawock!
group told him its contract with I
Curry would impose a heavy fi-!
nancial burden, and that the legal I
services pr* no longer needed.
Earlier this month Secretary of
the Interior Chapman approved
three other tribal contracts with
Curry, and one contract extension
all of which Myer previously had
declined to approve.
The contracts on which Chapman
overruled Myer included one with
the native village of Unalakleet,
Alaska.
Curry told a reporter the Indian
groups asked for contract cancel
lation "because Myer told them to, |
not on their own behalf.”
He said the Indians have been
under “all kinds of pressure to dis
own me — the Indian Bureau even
flew a goon squad from Albu
querque to Mescalero to get the In
dians to take the action they did.”
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period i
ending 6 20 o clock this morning i
In Juneau — Maximum,
41; minimum, 30.
At Airport — Maximum,
40; minimum, 30.
forecast
Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday. Lowest tempera
ature tonight near 25 degrees.
Highest Thursday near 35.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau—.55 inches
Since March 1—4.57 inches;
Since July 1—55.47 inches.
At Airport — .33 inches;
Since March 1—2.56 inches;
Since July 1—35.04 inches.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. March 21 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3’4, American Can
,110'i, American Tel. and Tel. 155,
Anaconda 39%, Douglas Aircraft
95 •,, General Electric 531*. Genera!
Motors 52'i, Goodyear 13%, Kenne
cott 72, Libby. McNeil and Libby
9'i, Northern Pacific 34>4, Stand
ard Oil of California 45%, Twen
tieth Century Fox 21%, U. S. Steel
42•*, Pound $2.80'4, Canadian Ex
change 95.58’ i. Q
Sales today were 1,310,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 249.37, rails 83.30, utili
ties 42.90.
home from vacation
Mrs. Minnie Monroe is back at
her job as elevator operator at the
Federal Building having enjoyed a
several weeks’ visit with members
of her family in Fairbanks on her
annual vacation leave. In the in
terior city Mrs. Monroe visited with
her two sons, Gilbert Monroe and
Howard Sparks and her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thom
as E. Olson, and their families. She
was at the Olson home to welcome a
new daughter born to the family
earlier this month.
Congresswomen Show Drop in Dollar
Five Republican women members of the House of Representatives display these baskets of groceries in
the House to point out loss of value of the dollar. They are (left to right): Representative Marguerite
S. Church (R.-Ill.), Cecil M. Harden (R.-Ind.), Frances P. Bolton (R.-Ohio), Rulh Thompson, (R-Mich.),
Katharine St. George (R.-N.Y.) UP) Wirephoto. . ' !
TEACHER PAY
AMENDMENT
FAILS, 8 TO 8
An amendment to boost proposed
teachers’ salary increases above the
House-approved scale failed In the
Senate at noontime on an 8-8 vote.
The tie vote came after warning
of a looming $5,000,000 budget de
ficit and a possible new major tax
proposal.
Sen. John Butrovich, finance
chairman, cited the $5,000,000 hole
in the budget prospect.
Sen. Steve MeCutclieon, Anchor
age Democrat, tcld his fellow sen
ators that “anyone who votes for
the increases in this amendment X
have proposed should be bound to
vote for any revenue measure that
is proposed.”
“That’s exactly the way I feel," in
terjected Sen. James Nolan, “and I
am not going to vote for any new
revenue measure."
McCutcheon estimated the propos
ed teachers’ salary boosts — the
combination of the House bill and
the amendment proposals — would
cost about $1,000,000 for the bien
nium.
Increases Carried
The House-approved bill did not
come to a final Senate vote before !
the noon recess. It carries increases
of $300 yearly for the First Division,
$400 for the Third and $500 for the
Second and Fourth. The House bud
get framers figure those raises will
cost about $520,000 for the two
years. Butrovich said he thought it
would be higher.
The rejected Senate amendment
proposed raises of $500 a year in
the First Division, $650 in the Third
and $800 In the Second and Fourth.
When McCutcheon suggested the
new tax possibility, President Gun
nard Engebreth asked:
“Are you speaking of a sales tax?”
“No," replied McCutcheon. “I’m
not speaking of any particular tax.”
The rollcall on the $500-$650-$800
increase amendment was:
Yeas — Anderson. Beltz. Garnick,
Huntley, MacKenzie, McCutcheon,
Snider, Engebreth.
Nays — Barr, Butrovich, Coble,
Engstrom, Ipalook, Lhamon, Lyng,
Nolan.
In a quiet morning session, after
the long grind to nearly 2:30 a.m.,
the Senate passed two other meas
ures.
For Uranium Discovery
One, previously passed by the
House, proposes a $10,000 bonus for
discovery and development in the
Territory of uranium ore which is
sufficient to qualify for the Atomic
Energy Commission reward of the
same size.
The other was a Senate bill for
$35,000 for the statehood commit
tee. It was cut from $75,000 by the
finance committee, with the ex
planation that $40,000 from the 1949
appropriation is still “frozen.” and
might be available if the right kind
of a spring thaw ever comes.
Feuding Again
The Senate president and Sen.
Howard Lyng were back to their
feuding game this morning.
Engebreth left the chair to ask
(Continued on Page Five)
Was Commie
10 Years Ago
Says Parks
WASHINGTON, March 21 —(£>—;
Movie Actor Larry Parks said to
day he was a Communist 10 years
ago but later quit the party.
Parks was the first witness in
a renewed hunt by the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
for Communist influence in Holly
wood and movie making.
Parks is best known to movie
goers for his lead role in "The
Jolson Story."
In voluntarily admitting to party
membership a decade ago, Parks
said he considered there was a
great difference in being a party
member in 1941 and being one in
1951.
“I think that being a member of
the Communist party 10 years ago
fulfilled certain needs of a man
who was a Liberal,” he told the
committee.
"There are variations in political
party affiliations of which the com
mittee should be aware,” Parks
went on. For instance, he said,
some Southern Democrats actually
vote and act like Republicans.
There arc variations, too, he said,
among Communists.
He said it was sympathy for the
"little man” that caused him to
Join the Communist party in years
gone by.
At the outset, Parks told the com
mittee his only loyalty “is to Amer
ica and the freedoms for all Amer
icans.”
THREE TYPES
BOMBERS IN
ATOMIC TEST
WASHINGTON, March 21 — W—
The Air Force said today three types
of bombers — one the B-47 all-jet
medium bomber — will be used in
the atomic tests in the Pacific.
Performance records of the Boe
ing B47 are secret but it is reported
to be the fastest A-bomber in the
world with a speed of over 600 miles
an hour.
An Air Force spokesman said that
in addition to the B47 the tests will
employ the older B29 Superfortress
and its modernized version known
as the B50. This left out the Air
Force’s recognized intercontinental
A-bomber, the B36
The spokesman said the Air
Force is interested in the effect of
atomic explosions on all types of
planes and possibly fighters would
be included in the tests based on
Eniwetok Island in the Marshall
group.
He declined to say whether an
A-bomb has yet been actually ex
| ploded in the tests, or to comment
■ on published reports that a B-47 has
j carried an A-bomb thousands of
j miles over water and its target at
j the Eniwetok proving grounds.
SENATE FOR
OVERRIDING
VETOED TRIO
— i
By JIM HUTCHESON
A rebellious Senate voted twice ’
last night to override Governor,
Gruening vetoes of finance bills, j
It raised the Senate’s overriding!
votes to three straight in two days, j
In the only one the House acted |
on, however. It refused to go along j
with the Senate. The House voted 1
9-13 against overriding the mort- i
gage bill veto that the Senate voted
to override Monday night.
The Senate voted late yesterday
afternoon to override the veto to a
second mortgage bill, then last night
voted 4>y the same 11-5 count to J
override a veto of an Alaska Bank- j
ers’ Association bill which would al- ,
low payment of interest in advance j
on de°ls under $3,500.
Sponsors had explained the bill
was intended for such deals as auto- i
mobile purchases in which interest i
was figured in advance into equal j
monthly payments.
Governor’s Views
In his veto message, the Governor j
said the bill would allow- raising of
rates on many loans above the pres- j
ent legal rate.
Gruening called the bill "decep- i
tive” and “an apparent G per cent
rate that requires closer examine- j
tion.” He said the bill hits the j
small borrower and “make:* borrow
ing unduely costly.’’
The Governor also suggested that ^
legislators were indulging in “too j
hasty" action on legislation.
After Sen. Walter Huntley, Third !
Division Democrat, arguing in sup- 1
port of the veto, also referred to :
the Senate's acting hastily and
then repenting, Sen. Steve Mc
Cutcheon (D-Anchorage) cut loose j
with a blast.
Hasty Action
"It seems like charges of hasty
action are sort of a shotgun ac- ■
tion," McCutcheon said.
He declared there was good au- j
thority for the bill which the Sen
ate had passed unanimously.
“The Governor apparently has
adopted the idea we are trying to
penalize the underdog Just because
we recognize you have to pay an
interest charge when getting a
loan.” he said.
Sen. W. L. (Dan) Lhamon. <R
Fairbanks), an auto dealer, added
! that the bill actually would reduce
the interest rate by 2 per cent in
Fairbanks’ automobile deals.
It was the third straight time
that McCutcheon. Democratic' floor
leader, had made a successful mo
tion to override a veto.
Against overriding were Republi
can Senators Garnick, Ipalook,
Engebreth, and Democrats Huntley
and MacKenzie.
Midnight was the deadline for
either House to consider non-ap
propriation bills. The Senate con
tinued until 2:15 am., however,
while pretending the clock stopped
at midnight. Weary senators, down
to shirt sleeves, even helped the
, flu-ridden secretariat in reading
long bills. In all, the Senate passed
(Continued on Page Two)
CHUNCHON *
TAKEN OYER
BY ALLIES
Thousands of Soldiers
Move Up Behind Spear
heading Tanks
By Associated Press
An American tank force today
rumbled into the former Chinese
stronghold of Chunchon. It met
only flag-waving Korean civilians.
The Chinese, who had made the
Central Korean road center their
troop massing point in South Korea,
apparently had withdrawn north of
Parallel 38.
Chunchon is 8' L- miles south of the
Red Korean border.
It was from Chunchon that the
Chinese mounted their two massive
offensives in January and February
against Wonju, deep in Central
Korea.
Bitter Red Resistance
On-the Western front, South Kor
ean and American task forces rang
ing up the historic invasion route
of Korea bumped into bitter Com
munist resistance north of Seoul.
“The small arms and mortar lira
were so intense that it was impos
sible for the men to leave the tanks
and remove the mines," an opera
tions officr said.
Bomb-Gutted City
At Chunchon, thousands of sold
iers moved up behind the spear
heading tanks. AP Correspondent
William C. Barnard said they found
the city a bomb-gutted ruins.
On the east coast. South Korean
troops were within 8’{- miles of the
border, Other UN units across the
peninsula were only a few miles
farther south of the border.
Pose Serious Threat
Fresh Chinese troops were re
ported digging in on the Western
front north of Seoul. This may in
dicate the Reds are trying to slow
the advance on the center by posing
a serious threat on the UN’s west
ern flank.
General MacArt.hur’s ban on the
mention of the 38th Parallel was
lifted Wednesday. Such bans usual
ly signal a pending military opera
tion, but no new operation has been
reported.
Red Korean Plans
On the propaganda front. Red
Korean Premier Mlm II Sung as
sured Prime Minister Stalin that
his people intend to fight the war
to the bitter end.
The Communist New China news
agency said Mini sent the word to
Stalin March 17 to mark the second
anniversary of the economic aid
pact between Russia and North
Korea.
REV. JAMES COX
1932 LEADER OF
UNEMPLOYED, DIES
PITTSBURGH. March 21. — (*>—
The Rev. James R. Cox, one of the
most striking figures of the de
pression years and one time nominee
for the Presidency on a short-lived
ticket, died Monday night.
The 65-year-old Catholic priest,
nationally famous as a leader of a
job-seekers' march to Washington
in 1932, was stricken by a cerebral
hemorrhage.
Nation-wide attention first was
focused upon him in January 1932
when he set out from Old St.
Patricks at the head of an "army of
the unemployed.” More than 20,000
men made up this army, and they
traveled to Washington — in ja
lopies and trucks and on foot — to
petition President Hoover for relief.
"It is jobs these men want — not
charity," Father Cox declared.
5Tt AM ERMO VEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 4 p.m. Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday morning south
bound.
About three-fourths of all the
world’s letters are written and
about half the newspapers are
printed in English, says the Na
tional Geographic Society.