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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-14

sulting in emr. yer-iapor discord, had cropped IF in some of the earlier systems involving charge backs" but it i believed the pro- posed Alaska and Washington plan, based upon employment decline, would evade those difficulties.
 Benefits to employees would in no way be affected under S. B. l05 ne asserted. Keep answered Senator Don Carlos Brownell that the To- cal study has shown that maximum benefits could be paid to every presently covered employee in the Territory without exhausting the fund now piled up; though any such occasion of total unemploy- ment could hardly exist
 Fund Be Maintained
 It is estimated, Keep continued, that approximately $6O0,o00 would be distributed to employers if the plan were put into effect this year. That distribution could be made and still maintain the fund at it's present S9,OO0,OOO level Study has also indicated that even those busi- nesses showing a 70 percent decline in employment, over the base three year period, would entirely escape the Territorial tax of 27 percent of total payroll. Businesses that have maintained a steady level of en- ployment could expect to be free of payment for probably 10 years.
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GRIZZLY BEAR BACK;
 DEER CONDITION OK.

The Grizzly Bear arrived in Ju- neau yesterday after completing a ten-day patrol trip through the Haines, Skagway, Hoonah, etc. areas. John Likens, Fish and Wild fife agent in charge of the trip reported that the deer were in ex- cellent condition every place touch- cd along the patrol and the food situation good as the heavy snows have melted. Likens stated that only one deer seen by the patrol looked as if he would not survive the winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-14

The words calculate" and "cal- culus" are derived from the Latin word for pebbles.
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DYE DEPT. MEETS

A good turnout was at the Doug las Volunteer Fire Departments regular monthly meeting last eve ming.
 Ways and means of raising funds for badly needed hose and equip ment was the main topic of the evenings business. It was also de- Cided to hold another Home Night two weeks from Saturday evening on March 29, since the last one proved so popular.
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Keep said the way the proposed Alaska system is framed it would put seasonal employers on the same basis with those operating the year around: if they maintain high level Of employment from year to year they would be entitled to maxi mum credits.
 Other Action
 Following rassage or 5. B. l05, the Senate whipped through s. B. 92, calling for a s10,000 loan to set up the Second Injury Fund provid- ed under the Workmens Compen- sation Act passed at the l946 spec ial session No appropriation to start the fund was made at that time, author Joe Green explained. The bill carried unanimously.
 Attorney General Ralph Rivers was called to explain s. B. l02 and lO3, a pair Of measures by Sena- tor o. D. Cochran to eliminate in- equities under export exemptions of the Veterans Tax and Motor Fuel Tax laws. The two bills would put foreign buyers taking delivery in Alaska and toting wares into Canada in their own equipment on the same footing as those taking goods out by common carrier For example, he compared the situation of mine operators in the Yukon Territory, under the present law do not pay tax on goods bought in AL aska and shipped out by the White Pass and Yukon Route, with the Taku Mining Company, which now has to pay tax on anything bought in Juneau and carried to its work ings in Canada aboard its own ves- sels.
 Both bills passed by Al count, with Senator Brownell opposed and Senator Charles D. Jones absent.
 The Senators read through Rep G. E. Almquist's H. J. M 19, call ing for extension of the Social Se- curity Act to Territorial and muni-
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SEATTLE PEOPLE HERE

MT. and Mrs. M. A. Parker of Seattle are registered at the Gas tineau Hotel At the Baranof Hotel are John H. Gaffney, and L. r. Blake, a salesman, both from Se- attle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-14
CANNERYMAN HERE

Hans Floe, superin;encent of Hawk Inlet Cannery, arrived in Ju- neau yesterday from Seattle by Pan American Airways and is re- gistered at the Barancf Hotel.
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cipal employees. At Senator Golf fey's request, it was continued in second reading until today
 With it's calendar cleared, the Senate then went into Executive Session" again, to finish out the day.
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CANADIAN COUPLE VISIT

Sgt. Horace R. Macaulay of the Royal Canadian Army and Mrs Macaulay have arrived in Juneau by air from Whitehorse, Y. T. and registered at the Gastineau Hotel. Sgt. Macaulay is stationed at Brook Brook, Y. T.
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MORE BILLS GO
 TO CONFERENCE
 IN LEGISLATURE

discharged from further duty by action of the House of Represen- tative yesterday afternoon, but four new ones were set up before the afternoon session ended. ! On motion by Rep. Maurice Johnson, the House reversed it's prevous action and adopted the Conference Committees report on ! House Bill 21, which provided that i bids shall be called for on service contracts as well as purchases by the Territory The Senate had i previously adopted the report, which recommended putting the emergency clause back into the bill and deleting a portion haviiiy to do with professional services. , The House voted to concur in Senate amendments to H. B. 75, which increases motor vehicle li- cense tax rates in some classifi- cations, but refused to recede from it's own amendments to four Senate bills, as follows:
 s. B. 29, amending the Act re- lating to the practice of law in Alaska.
 Reps Maurice Johnson, Laws and Newell were named to the House Conference Committee and were given free conference powers on this measure.
 s. B. IT, making changes in the membership of the Territorial Board of Administration. Mem i bers of the House Conference Com mittee are Reps. Egan, Barnett and Hopes, with free conference powers.
 s. B. 35, which clarifies the veterans tax Act Reps McCutch- con, Huntley and Snider will serve as the House Committee, also with free conference powers.
 s. B. 57, amending the law re- lating to costs of juries in justice courts. Reps. Coble. Almquist and Joy were named to the House Con- ference Committee, with free con- ference powers.
 Memorials hang Up
 Two House memorials failed to muster sufficient votes for a sus- pension of the rules after a minor lclash over an amendment to H. J. M. 33, which askes that the law prohibiting ownership of reindeer by white persons in Alaska be re- lpealed. Rep. Ost protested a sec- tion of the memorial which stated : The Natives are natural fishermen, trappers and hunters, but have proved their inability to become herdsmen such as the Lapland- CTS who helped introduce and nur- ture the industry in Alaska" and the section was deleted after some discussion.
 Rep. Laws said that the failure to maintain the herds it not en- tirely the fault of the Natives, and cited wolves and inexperienced whites from the outside" placed in charge of the Natives and of the herds, as partly to blame.
 This is a measure which would give whites in Alaska some equal rights and we ought to hurry ur and pass it." Rep. Vukovich said Both this memorial and HUM 32 asking that improvements be made in the Nome harbor, were helc over for third reading at latel date.
 A letter from the Skagway Chamber of Commerce, suggesting that the hospital buildings re- gently vacated there be utilized for a Southeast Alaska branch o! the University was read and or dered filed, as was a letter iron the Seward Woman's Society fol Christian Service asking that H. B 53, to provide assistance to hos pitals, be passed.
 An effort to lift H. B. l. Oscal Gills Administrator General bill from the table failed by a 10-1+ vote early in yesterdays afternoon
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DOUGLAS
 NEWS
MRS. HOOVER HOME

Mrs. Harold Hoover returned this week from a business and pleasure trip to the States, where she took care of property matters. She made the return trip by PAA.
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GOODIE SALE

A Goodie Sale will be held to- morrow beginning at l o'clock at the Feusi and Jensen Grocery Store sponsored by the Douglas Ladies Altar Society. There will be pies, cakes and homemade breads to choose from.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-14

About 100000 people are engag- ed full time in the U. s. fishing industry.
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ESTES LOCATE

MT. and Mrs. E. V. Estes are now residing in the living quarters of the Douglas Inn and have their two young daughters with them. The couple are the popular musicians at Mikes Place.
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S0l0NSpASS
 EMPLOYERS
 RELIEF" BILL

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Evening star., 1947-04-04
Parking Firm Upheld
In tenancy Of Site for
Downtown Building

Construction OF a new parking
building west Of the Trans-Lux
Building ON New York avenue NV,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets NV, is expected to be
started soon by the Service Parking
Corp, whose occupancy Of park
ing lot on the site was upheld yes
terday in Municipal Court.
Attorney Godfrey Munter, repre-
senting the corporation, said the
work will begin "as soon as possible "
A permit already has been obtained
for a basement parking garage, TO
be erected at an estimated cost OF
$40 900, and additional stories are
contemplated.
Meanwhile, the owners Of the
property, the Trans-Lilx Radio
Corp.. which earlier had been
granted Judgment for possession for
nonpayment OF rent, will appeal
JUDGE Aubrey Fennells ruling yes
terday. He held the Judgment is
satisfied with the deposit Of $75,779
back rent in the court registry.
Attorney Louis M. Denit. who an
nounced an appeal would be taken,
| has contended the parking firm Is
not entitled to possession under the
circumstances of the case. The
rent paid, he said, does not include
| interest on overdue irlstallments. He
added it is felt the payments should
Evening star., 1947-04-04

be Ii fulI up ID the date Of disposi-
tion OF the case.
The $75.779 Is said to represent
the amount OF arrears from l941
until August, 1945. Mr.. Munter said
the parking Arm had rendered the
owner corporation nearly $3s, 900 in
additional rent which has accrued
since August, 1945, but that the own
ers have refused to accept it.
Mr.. Denit said the owners did not
consider the amount represented
payment in full.
Mr.. Mmter explained that, at the
time the property was leased orig
inally, it was owned by Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean. A rental of $27, 500
a year was fixed then, predicated
Evening star., 1947-04-04

upon the income expected from :
parking building which, because OIL
war restrictions, could not be erected
by the parking firm. Consequently,
he said, Mrs. Mclean agreed to q
reduction In rental to $l6,500 q year.
but this was never put In writing.
Mrs. Mclean subsequently sold the
DroDerty.
Evening star., 1947-04-04
Astronomers to Meet

Miss Leah B. Allen, director Of
Williams Observatory. Hood Col
lege, Frederick, Md, win discuss
Men, Women and Stars" at 8 pm.
tomorrow IN the Commerce Depart
ment auditorium at meeting Of
the National Capital Astronomers.
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WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WOOD

nUR nation is practically built of wood.
~ Out of % million homes, % million are
made of wood. Wood enters in some way into
the manufacturing, processing or delivery of
practically everything we use. Yet we've been
allowing our saw timber - trees big enough
to cut into lumber - to disappear one and
half times faster than it grows. We cut or lose
81 billion board feet year - enough to build
$500, 900 houses.
Wood is one of the materials that give us
an economy of abundance. The way things
are going now, we are heading straight
for scarcity, at least in timber. In Sc years,
we have cut it so recklessly that we have
reduced the nations woodpile by 43 per cent.
If we 60 on for another 20 years without
putting our forest lands back to work, we'll
be down to the very dregs of our timber.
So many kinds of timber will be in short
supply that wood will lose its place as an
industrial product. Then it will cost so much
that only the rich can afford it, The place of
wood will gradually be taken by substitutes
- aluminium, steel, stone and synthetics -
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lumber frontier after another have swung
their timber scythes through virgin forests
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Over the
nation, rs million acres of timber land are 50
denuded as to be economically worthless.
Deserted towns dot these cut-over areas, and
often even the birds and animals have gone
Ten large sawmills in Au Sable and Oscoda,
Mich once turned out 324 million feet of
lumber year and 5000 people found work
plentiful and wages good. Then the timber
gave out. Hundreds of families had to sacrifice
homes and find jobs elsewhere Wasted by
logging and fire, the land is slowly being
rebuilt as part of the Huron National Forest
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BY Lyle F. Watts

all non-renewable and all of them more costly.
We need 100000 homes Dealers must
scratch for yellow birch to make veneer. The
cedar-pole industry faces radical curtaitment
Hickory and white oak are scarce
We're Getting The Bills
LUMBER prices have scared much faster and
higher than those of other commodities be-
cause of the underlying scarcities. We are the
prodigal sons of a rich timber inheritance,
already being handed the bills for our follies.
We are beginning to feel the effects of de-
structive cutting practices that 60 back to
Colonial days. The Paul Bunyans of one
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but it supports less than 1000 persons.
In the new logging country of the Far West,
ghost towns are already appearing Hobart
Mills, Calf, once hummed busily as 1000
people worked at the ponderosa pine belt of
the Sierras 1t was abandoned in 1898.
Cutting on 81 per cent of all private lands
- and they make up three fourths of our
commercial FORESTS still classed as poor or
destructive. And to the person interested in
quick dollar, these days of high prices are
greater temptation than ever to ruthless
cutting.
don't want to give the impression that all
forest operators are selhshly exploiting their
land A good job is already being done on
almost third of the big holdings Instead of
just one third; however, I'd like all of the
large operators to see the light.
Il Can BE Done Right
HE happy contrast between short-sghted
cutting and good forestry is illustrated by the
numbering community around the town of
Goodman, Wis, where the r. B. Goodman
Lumber Company keeps the woodlands -four
ishing and diversifes its milling to use every
part of the tree. In earlier years, the Goodman
area had been victimized by the same unre-
stricted cutting which left millions of acres of
tax-delinquent rural slums throughout north
ern Wisconsin. Now 5000 prosperous people
enjoy the best in local government schools,
recreation and social activity. The town of
Goodman operates in working circle of
perhaps quarter of million acres of land -
two thirds forest and one-third agricultural
The people divide their time between the
farm and the woods and no slump has
ever caused shutdown in the last 20
years.
The Goodman community and dozens of
others like it prove that we don't need to keep
on heading over the hills to the timber poor
house: A third of Our country is forests
6N million acres. Of this land, 46l million
acres are commercial timber - an area almost
as great as that devoted to food and textile
crops. The Forest Service has suggested that
we set up timber growing goal which would
produce every year between IS and II billion
board feet of saw timber. This is twice rs much
saw timber as we are growing today but well
within the limits of what the land can produce.
A Txiple-Thzeat Program
l O reach such goal we need to put into
effect Immediately a comprehensive national
forest program which would help us grow
more timber and make what we have last
longer. This program should be three sided in
action. 1t should:
N Furnish aids to the private forest owner
- advice on how to cut his trees, how to
protect his timber from fire, insects and
disease and how to replant denuded land.
(2) Set up public control of forest practice
on private lands to stop destructive cutting
and keep the lands productive.
~ Increase the output of national, state and
community forests and expand the acreage.
The crux of the whole problem is the
small landholdings. Three-fourths of our
commercial forest land is i'm private
hands. Large operators are responsible for
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Unless now, Chief Forester warns, we'll face
real scarcity. And prices will continue go up
BY Lyle F. Watts
Chief, US Forests e,pice to Philip Custefson
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29
U. $. To Strengthen Military Forces In Greece

WASHINGTON, (P) - Govern ment officials are considering an increase in the American military mission to Greece as a means of helping the Greek army prepare for a cleanup offensive against the Communist guerrilla forces.
 Authorities said the present mission, totaling 40 officers and men, now appears to be too small to do an adequate job. The mis- sion's assignment has been to help the Greek forces assemble United States equipment being furnished them under the Truman doc trine" aid program and to train the Greeks in the use of this equipment.
 These authorities flatly denied, however, that there is any thought now of sending American troops to Greece or of having any Amer ican officers participate in Greek combat operations, as was report ed from some European capitals last weekend.
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Communists Kill Many U. s. Soldiers In Trieste

WASHINGTON (P)-Rep. Mar ion T. Bennett CR.-MoD declared yesterday that many" American soldiers have been killed or wounded by Communists in the Trieste area behind a "brass cur tain of American military censor ship"
 The Missouri laWmaker, recent ly returned from a six-Week tour of Europe and the Near East, said there have been "63 incidents of armed aggression by the com munists" against United States
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Bartlett Attacks Hydaburg Indian Reservation
(By Charles D. Watkins)

CAP Special Washington SerVice)
 WASHINGTON, (P) - Bitterly attacking a proposal to create an Indian reservation at Hydaburg, Alaska, Delegate Bartlett of Alas ka has informed interior secretary Krug that some interior officials who favor the reservation tried to defeat legislation which Krug ap- proved.
 A law to permit establishment of newsprint mills in Alaska and provide that some of the income from the forests be held in the treasury until Indian claims can be finally settled was supported by Krug but Bartlett says other interior officials opposed it.
 "I am fully aware" Bartlett wrote Krug, "that certain officials of the department of interior worked valiantly against your an nounced support of the legisla- ton" The Delegate did not name the officials. He made the letter public today.
 The officials who op pos e d Krug's stand on the resolution au thorizing the sale of timber to pa per mills "are the kind of people who are in favor of reservations whether the Indian people and the white people want them or not" Bartlett said.
 Referring to the recent an nouncement by the interior de- partment that Krug had proclaim ed the reservation into existence which was later retracted by the department as having been a mis- take-Bartlett said:
 "To say that I was astonished that the reservation proposal had reached such stage without con sultation with interested individ- uals in Alaska or with the Alaska Delegate in Congress is gross un-
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ELIZABETH, N. J., (P)-A 38- year-old Newark lawyer today faced sentence for twice stealing cigars from the stand of a blind man.
 Harry Lieb of Newark, wept yesterday when a jury of eight women and four men found him guilty. He testified that he forgot to pay for the cigars through a "gross mistake" z
 Union county judge Walter L. Hetfield released him in $500 bail pending sentencing in two weeks.
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WASHINGTON, (P)-Gen. Al

WASHINGTON, R)-Gen. AL exander A. Vandegrift, command ant of the Marine Corps, annouhc- ed today he has asked to be re- tired from active duty Jan. |, 1948.
 He said in a statement he is certain secretary of the navy Sul- siivan will grant the request, made by letter.
 Vandegrift, the first four-star general in the history of 172-year- old Marine Corps, was appointed commandant on Jan. 1, 1944. He said he has been considering re- tiring for the past year.
 Vandegrift told reporter that he bought house near Lynch burg, Va, a year ago. He said he would go there to live when he is placed on the inactive list.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29

BERLIN, (P) - Gen. LuciuS D. Clay, U. $. military governor said yesterday he has asked the war department for retirement during 1948.
 His retirement, he told news conference, is an event of quite a few months away" and he would continue in Germany as military governor flor a substantial time" !"
 Gen. Clay, who has spent 33 years in the army, said his retire ment will be full and complete so that I can go catfishing in Georgia"
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29

WASHINGTON (P)-California regained its position as the na- tion's leading producer of gold during 1946, with an output O. 356,824 fine ounces, the bureau of mines reported yesterday.
 South Dakota and Alaska were second and third with 312,247 and 226,781 ounces, respect W e l. y . Fourth was Utah, the 1945 leader, with 178,533 ounces compared with 279,979 in 1945.
 The bureau said 1946 domestic gold mine production was l,574,- 505 ounces, 65 percent greater than l945, but, except for the war years 1943-44-45, the smallest since 1885.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29
NEWS TN BRIEF

BOSTON, (P) Samuel Crow ther, 67, of Sunapee, N. H., na- tionally known author and econo- mist and collaborator with the late Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone in turning out several works, died Monday at New England Baptist hospital.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29

WRANGELG, P)-A coroner's jury decided yesterday that Frank Fitch, Canadian customs agent, shot himself accidentally while aboard. the river boat Hazel B 8.
 Five companions reported that Fitch went below deck alone. A short time later shot was heard and he was found dead.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-29
Cub Planes Take Off From Tokyo; Land At Shenya

TOKYO, (P) - The globe circ- ling cub pilots, George Truman of Los Angeles and Clifford Evans of Washington, D. C., left Nemuro for the AleutianS Tuesday night on the most dangerous leg of their trip.
 Their goal was Shemya, about 300 miles away in the Aleutians.
 The Far Eastern Air Force, talk ing every precaution, dispatched two flying forts, fully equipped for rescue work, to accompany the little Cubs on most of the flight to Shemya, the longest lap of the globe circling journey.
 Truman and Evans finally had arrived at Nemuro earlier yester- day after a flight of a little more than two hours from the U. s. army's Chitose air base on the other side of Hokkaido. Favorable winds cut their time for the trip by nearly an hour from their es- timated schedule.
 The filers had been delayed by adverse weather in their short hop jorney across Japan from south to north.
 They left the east coast of the United States three months ago on their leisurely trip.
 ADAK, (P) - The treacherous North Pacific crossing lay behind globe-girdling pilots Cli f or d Evans and George Truman and their tiny planes today and the long Aleutian island chain, the "cradle of storm" lay ahead.
 The two former army fliers and their 10O-horsepower cub planes landed at Shemya at 5:35 pm. P.S.T0 last night after flight of 13 hours, 28 minutes from Nemu- TO airfield, on northeastern Hok- kaido island, Japan. The distance is about 1,5OO miles. Shemya is APO
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