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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Ex.pREMIER NAGY IS ON
 WAY T0U.5.
Troubles of Communist Controlled Hungary Be
 Told 10 American People
(By The Associated Pressl

Ferenc Nagy, deposed by the Com munists as Premier of Hungary, was enroute to the United States today in what diplomats said apparently was an effort to draw attention of the U s. public to events in that central European republic
 The United States accused Rus sia earlier this week of "a most fragrant interference in Hungarian affairs in the alignment which placed the Communists, who boiled IT per cent of the last free vote. in charge
 Dezo Sulyok, who denounced the Communists yesterday in the Hun garian Parliament, said today his Freedom Party would refuse to take part in national elections scheduled for September unless they were supervised by an international board.
 Trumans Denouncement
 President Truman, who denounced the Communist coup in Hungary as an outrage, said on leaving Canada the U. s. foreign policy had but one objective-peace in the world and friendship with every nation. His words were interpreted as an effort to oil troubled international waters. Earlier, MT Truman told the Can adian Parliament the United States intended to help nations who want to live in peace without intimidation or coercion. |.
 British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said Secretary of State Mar shall's proposal that the United States finance joint program for Europe's economic recovery was "a bridge to link the East and West" " The State Department advisor, Ben jamin Cohen, estimated SPA, ,000 000,- 900 would be needed in six years to succor Europe.
 Bevin said it would be disastrous for theological or other reasons to frustrate that great endeavor" He welcomed the fact that Russia whose controlled press continued caustic criticism of the United States, was included in the Ameri- can proposal
 A subcommittee of the United Ma tions Balkan Investigating Commis- sion was drafting report in the Greek port of Salonika telling why it could not go into Bulgaria, re- gently an Axis satellite but now in the Russian sphere. The U. s. rep resentative accused Bulgaria of fail ing to fulfill its obligation to pro- vide the U. N. with full facilities to investigate Greek charges that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania were assisting Greek leftist rebels. The Russian representative defend ed the Bulgarian action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
TRAP SITE GIVEN
 CONGRESS
Limiting, Licensing Legls' Iation Submitted by
 Interior Secretary

WASHINGTON, June 13.--lR- Legislation limiting and licensing salmon trap sites in Alaskan waters has been proposed to Congress by Secretary of Interior Krug of the Interior Department.
 Krug. in submitting a draft ot the proposed law to Speaker Martin, said it was the result of long ne gotiations between the Department and the salmon fishing industry Hearings on the subject were held two years ago.
 The proposed legislation would take effect Jan. l, 1948. It would require that trap sites be leased by the Interior Department and a royalty be paid the Department by each trap site operator of five per- cent of the first 500,000 salmon caught and seven percent of all ad- ditional amounts
 The measure would provide that operators of 20 trap sites could keep all of them; those having 2l to 29 trap sites could retain 9C percent of them; those having 3t to 39 trap sites 80 percent, and those with 40 or more 75 percent
 Lease Trap Sites
 The bill also would provide that trap sites be leased to the operators for a Is year period, and the leases would have no renewal or extension privileges.
 The measure would provide that trap site owners may keep under ten year. leases sites that are ap- purtenant to an ''optioned" can nery. An optioned cannery is defin- ed as one the operator is willing to sell with all appurtenant trap sites at the appraised value of the physical assets.
 Provides For Auction
 Surrendered trap sites, newly opened sites and those on which the leases have expired would be auctioned by the Department with preference to Alaskan communl- ties.
 Of the royalty fish, up to one half could be used to offset Terri torial taxes and half of the re- mainder would go to the Territory Royalties on sites owned by natives would be paid to them.
 Krug said two companies have offered to sell one cannery each He said that the present allocation of sites is; F. E. Harris Co.,, 64 Pacific American Fisheries 56, Lib- by, McNeill and Libby 35, Nakat Co.,, 27, and the New England Com pany, 23.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Two GI ESkimos Now Training 10
 Be Bush phots

SEATTLE, June 13. = LR = Two
 young men from Alaska, who have
 moved into the final period of their
 CT pilot training program, here,
 are believed by Veterans Admin
 istration officials to be the only
 full-bloded Eskimos enrolled for
 flying training.
 Tom Richards, 23, Kotzebue, AL aska, and Reginald Joule, 24, Hope Point, Alaska, planned to become bush pilots and have already been offered jobs hy one Alaskan oper- ator.
 The training is being conducted at Northern Aircoast Co. here, and includes stiff ground course, pri- vate pilot study in Commonwealth Skyrangers, and commercial flight training in Fairchild PIPES. Instructors said the two men stood above. average in their classes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
BARTENDER5 OF
 ANCHORAGE ASK
 RAISE, WALk0UI
Carpenters on Veterans Housing Project Hold
 Out, Higher Wages

ANCHORAGE Alaska, June 13.- R - Anchorage bartenders walked off the job at midnight Wednesday and carpenters are holding out for higher wages on a veterans housing project, but a strike by plumbers has
 ended and the men returned to work
 after settling for wage of S260 per
 hour, plus time and half for over time and Saturday work.
 They had asked $275, with double time for overtime and Saturdays, The AFL bartenders are asking
 $20 day, a raise of $5. The An chorage Retail Liquor Dealers Asso- citation has offered S16.
 The carpenters baked after the go-ahead was received from Wash ington for construction of 96 units in the housing project. They in- sist they be paid the $2 25 per hour scale being paid in the city and the contractor is offering Sl88, saying that was the amount agreed upon
 when the contract for the project was obtained last year.
 Construction of veterans homes
 was held up when funds were ex-
 hausted. Alaska Housing Authority officials who will direct the com
 pleted project say they have more
 than 750 persons signed for housing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
CONDITIONS OF
 LASTING PEACE
 ! IN U. }. HANDS
U. N. Delegate Austin Claims Study and Discus
 sion Will Bring Results

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 13.- R-Warren R. Austin, Chief U. s. delegate to the United Nations de- clared today that the United States, with half the productive power of the world, has decisive power to create the conditions of permanent peace"
 Making the first formal American pronouncement on the new Soviet proposals for atomic control, Aus tin said in a commencement ad- dress at Massachusetts, Institute of Technology
 Tt may be that we shall make little apparent progress for some time to come in these (atomic) negotiations and i'll the related ne- gotiations on the regulation and reduction Of conventional arma- ments. But even if this proves to be the case, continued study and discussion will, in themselves, I am certain in the end, bear fruit"
 Commenting on the new Russian atomic control plan offered We'd nesday at Lake Success by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, Austin said all the basic disagreements' remain unaltered but expressed hope that progress could be made
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Coastwise Shipping 7ieup May Be Auerted
GREAT C0NFU5I0N' IN ALASKA, RESULT
 OF INDIAN CLAIMS
Settlement Pressing Prob. lem, House Sublom-
 mittee Is Told

WASHINGTON, June 13.-tR- Settlement of Indian land claims is one of Alaska's most pressing prob lems. Warner w. Gardner, Assist ant Secretary of Interior told a House Public Lands Subcommittee today.
 Gardner urged approval of a bill to permit the Secretary of Interior to negotiate with Alaska Indians to establish their land rights.
 He said that no one now can be sure what valid claims the Indians may have. In some instances, h. dian villages hunt and fish over thousands of square miles of Terri tory and could possibly assert a right to the entire area, he said.
 Gardner described the situation as one of great confusion" which threatens to hold up development of the Territory.
 He said the Interior Department is mot at all sure" that the pro- posed land negotiations would be successful, but feels it best to at tempt this negotiations rather than litigation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
The w ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON n The man who has done more to block the Taft Wagner -Ellender housing act and low-cost housing is shrewd eager beaver lobbyist Morton Bodfish of the U. s. Savings and Loan League.
 Able lobbyist Bodfish has issued 8 confidential bulletin to savings and loan members which the gener- al public isn't supposed to know about. For it gives away one of the secrets as to how he gets legisla- ton introduced in Congress. The confidential bulletin also discloses the fact that Senator John Bricke1 of Ohio has a personal motive be- hind some of the bills he has ln- troduced on housing loans.
 After telling how Bricker had in- troduced four bills affecting savings and loan associations, Bodfish goes on in his confidential bulletin tc reveal this significant fact:
 Senator ,Bricker, who is director of one of our largest savings anc loan institutions, is naturally g staunch believer in the fundament- als of thrift and home ownership and his introduction of these bills carries with it an unusual interest in their passage"
 Note-Versatile lobbyist Bodfisf did not mention two other Con.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
NEW YORK VIEW

NEW YORK, June l3.--tR-A na- tionwide shipping tieup, effective at midnight Saturday, was threat ened today by leaders of five C1O maritime unions who charged ship operators on both coasts with stall ing and lockout tactics in contract negotiations.
 Joseph Curran, President of the CIO National Maritime Union, said 100000 marine workers would take suitable steps" if an existing con- tract between the Pacific American Shipowners Association and the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union was permitted to run out at mid- night tomorrow.
 Curran said the Pacific Shipown- CTS had decided to cancel or ter minate the contract. He said that action constituted lockout and that all five maritime unions had agreed that "shipowners will have to fight all the unions, east and west and vice versa, if lockout develops.
 Curran said last night at joint press conference with CIO west coast maritime leader Harry Bridges that the Department of Labor has been notified of the threatened national walkout
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
TAX BILL
 DEADLINE
 I5M0NDAY
Truman, Jokingly Says He
 Will ACt 30 Minutes Before Time Out

BUFFALO, N. r., June 13>-lR- President Truman, happy to be home again, returned to the United States today from what he described as "a grand visit in Canada.
 The President was fresh from an automobile tour of Niagara Falls, where he remarked I'm glad l don't have to go over them in a barrel"
 His decision apparently made on what he plan to do about legisla- ton to cut Federal taxes by S4,000,- 100000, the President declined to tell reporters whether he would veto it Monday, the deadline for action.
 Jokingly, he told them he would act about 30 minutes before the deadline" when they pressed him for comment last night as he pulled out of Ottawa after a three-day good will visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
pR0p05ED VET J0B5 FIN ALASKA KAY0ED

WASHINGTON, June 13.-R- l The House Public Lands Subcom-
 mittee has rejected a proposal to
 create five new jobs at S600O a year to help settle war veterans in Alaska
 The provision, contained in a bill introduced by Reps. Lemke tR-ND) and Peden tD-Okla), was eliminat-
 ed on motion of Rep. Crawford tR- Mich). It provided for five settle ment directors.
 The Committee also knocked out of the bill provision which would have required the Alaska Rural Re mobilization Corporation to make loans to veterans for improvements
 on their homesteads and to loan up to $3,5O0 to veterans on their
 claims before they had secured title i The action also was taken on Craw- i lords motion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
OPTIMISM
 PREVAILS
 ON COAST
0ffshore Unions Meet with Employers in Effort to
 Make Settlement

SEATTLE, June 13-tR-A spokes- man for the Waterfront Employers of Washington was optimistic today that final obstacles could be ironed out to avert a coastwise shipping tieup at l2:01 am. Sunday
 The memo of agreement signed June between the coasts CIO longshoremen and employers, which would extend the present contract without change until June IS, l948, is basis for settlement with all other affiliated unions, he said.
 Despite delays in negotiations with the offshore unions and the California clerks and checkers, em- ployers will be available continu- cusly to meet with any or all of the unions at any time." he said. He was notified from San Francisco. The longshore m e n s-employers agreement contains cancellation clause which voids it, if other union agreements are not reached.
 Situation Serious
 The Regional International Long, shoremens and Warehousemen's re- presentative's office said 1t was in- formed. however, that negotiations had broken off or were at stand still in San Francisco and that the situation was serious. The office has contacted various persons and groups, including the Governor Of Alaska, trying to bring their influ- cnce to bear on negotiations to reach a settlement
 The spokesman said that should walkout occur because of the small differences" between the two sides it would be too bad
 Alaska CIO longshoremen are not bound by the coast contracts. he said, but attempts are being made to work out individual con tracts and settlements there. The union is sending representative to Alaska to help in such nego- tiations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Poll of Alaska
 Indians Suggested On Timber Sales

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 13.- R-The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce wired Delegate Bartlett yesterday offering to poll leaders of the Alaska Native Brotherhood to determine whether that organiza- tion officially opposes the Congress ional House resolution which would authorize the Forest Service to sell Alaska timberlands to pulp and paper industry leaders
 A Chamber spokesman said the opposition apparently arose from one member of the Brotherhood in Juneau, who wired Bartlett in April demanding that half of all timber sale revenues be turned over to AL aska Indians.
 Other Brotherhood leaders did not approve such demand and seem to favor the proposal, on which hearings are being held be- fore Washington Senate commit tee, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
FOREST FIRE ON RENAL PENINSULA
 UNDER CONTROL

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 13.- R-Fire which levelled an estimat- ed 10000 acres of timberland in the Hidden Lake area on the Kenai Peninsula was being brought under control slowly today and the men who have been fighting it rested for the first time in eight days.
 Alaska Road Commission crews and fire control service men who battled the blaze said much fine wild game reserve land had been burned out.
 Another blaze which razed more than 800 acres of timber on the Anchorage Palmer highway seemed to be burning itself out. Volunteers, soldiers from Fort Richardson and fire control service crews have been fighting series of fires in this region.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
ATOMIC ENERGY FOR COMMERCIAL
 USE YEARS AWAY

WASHINGTON. June 13.-lR-- The Atomic Energy Commission says half it's plants and equipment are obsolete because of startling improvements" in processes but that commercial use of atomic power still is probably 10 to Is years away.
 The information was made pub lie by the House Appropriations Committee today in report recom- mending that the Commission be given only $175,O0O,0 ,000 of the s250,- 100000 it asked for the fiscal year starting July 1.
 The Committee said it had no desire to retard development in connection with this most import ant project" but that it had been unable to lind out how the agency plans to spend its money or how many people will be on it's payroll.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
House Clips
 1.8 Per Cent
 Off vAFunds
Pairing of Agency Requests Brings Budget Saving
 to 8, 580, ,000, ,0OO

WASHINGTON, June 13.-IR- The House Appropriations Commit tee trimmed $130.384, ,220 from Vet erans Administration funds today in approving an S8, ,498. .409,759 bill tc finance B independent government agencies next year.
 The total cut amounted to S330,- 540,732, or 39 percent below the amount President Truman asked This brought to approximately $3,- 580 100000 the claimed savings of House Republicans in their drive to chop $6,000,000,0O0 from MT. Tru- mans 1948 budget of $37 500, ,080, 900.
 The Veterans Administration, however, was pared only l.8 percent in getting $6 ,944, ,457 080 for its work during the 12 months beginning July 1.
 Among major recipients covered hy the bill are the Office of the President, not cut at all, the Atom ic Energy Commission, reduced 30 percent; the Ciyil Service Commis- sion, cut less than one percent; the Federal Communication Com mission, trimmed IT percent; the Federal Power Commission, cut 12 percent; the Federal Trade Com mission, reduced almost one third the Federal Works Agency cut F percent, and the Interstate Com merce Commission, trimmed 10 per cent.
 Even the Presidents own budget bureau was cut, receiving $03,39s less than the $3,470,000 it had asked The Maritime Commission drew z stern rebuke from the Committee for it's accounting and general ad- ministrative practices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
BUTTER G0E5 UP

SEATTLE, June 13. - lR - The wholesale price of the two top grades of print butter rose cent a pound here yesterday and Grade B print butter jumped two more cents today to GA cents. Wholesale price of grade-A IA reached 67 cents in print and Grade-A went to 66 cents. In most cases the rise was passed on to the retail consumer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
URGES GE0pHYSICAL INSTITUTE AT UNIV. OF ALA5kAAN WHY
Scientist Declares United States in Midst of Keen
 Competition

WASHINGTON, June 13.-lR- The United States is "in the midst of keen competition" for geophys- ical supremacy with all the world and particularly Great Britain Finland, Norway and the USSR, Congress was warned today by a Carnegie Institution scientist
 They all have established a large number of geophysical ob- servatories and institutes" said Dr. John A. Fleming, and it is up to us to carry our share, it seems to me, of investigations so that we may provide against the future not only as regards progress, but as regards protection"
 His statement, in support of the geophysical institute being built in Alaska, was published in hear ings released as the House Appro- priations Committee introduced the l948 money bill for independent government offices.
 "Geophysics involves the natural phenomena of the earth concerned with meteorology, rainfall, flow of rivers, underground waters, earth quakes, volcanoes, oceanography the earth's magnetism, and radio communication" he explained. The Alaska institute, a S975 ,00( project, will be given to the Uni versity of Alaska when it is finish ed, tie committee was told. It was authorized by Congress last year and the Federal Works Agency asked S100,000 to begin work on it
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
500 Fishermen of
 California Cominq

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13-tR- The CIO Alaska Fishermen's Un- ion membership in California ports voted to accept 12la percent wage increase from Alaska Salmon h. dustries, Inc, the union announced today.
 Under the proposal, voted on yes terday, the contract is extended for one year.
 Six hundred California fisher men are affected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
XXX TURNS BACK
 GEORGIA CHARTER


 ATLANTA, June 13.--tR = The hooded Ku Klu Klan surrendered today it's parent charter but State Attorney General Eugene Cook said it could continue to operate as a national organization under the constitutional rights of free assem- bly,"
 The Klan, in a surprise move, voluntarily turned back it's Georgia charter as it appeared to defend a State Superior Court suit for revo- cation. The suit was based on a contention the white-robed order operated for profit in violation of charter provisions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
STEAMER MOvEMENTS

Nortnesr voyager, from Seattle, due tomorrow morning.
 Southeastern, from Prince Rupert. due Monday morning.
 Aleutian, from Seattle. due Mon- day
 Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle today.
 Sword Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle today.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle June IT on Southeast Alaska route.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 18.
 Baranof, from west, scheduled southbound ' pm. Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
5T. LOUIS E TIED UP AS TRANSPORT
 DRIVERS STRIKE

ST. LOUIS, June 13. - tR-Vir- tually everything on wheels that would run was pressed into service today as thousands of St. Louisans sought a way to get to their jobs after an early morning strike of street car and bus operators tied up public transportation in the St. Louis area of more than 100000 population.
 The strike vote came after union members had unanimously rejected the company's offer to sign a new wage contract on the basis of a decision made last Tuesday by an arbitration board.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. June Enclosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 53i, American Can 94a, Anaconda 347s, Curtiss- Wright Az, International Harvester 88, Kennecott 44ls, New York Central IA, Northern Pacific 17A, U. $. Steel 671s, Pound $4.02%.
 Sales today were 960,l10 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 1850; rails 45.42, utilities 3418.
 The stock market staged brisk rally in a more active volume of trading late today.
 Gold stock issues climbed on Wal Street rumors of an impending rise in the U. S. buying price, which some said would be advanced as much as 40 percent or $l4 an ounce to $49.
 Although official sources vigor- ously denied that any such develop ment was forthcoming, Wall Street. CTS pointed to 1884 when official dom denied any administration in- tentions to raise the gold price only to have the price boosted to $35 an onuce from $20.67.
 Gains in gold ranged to more than in Homestake and U. $ Smelling. Alaska Juneau, Howe Sound, Hudson's Bayimine, Dome and McIntyre-Porcupine all rose a point or more.
 The main list was slow to ad- vance, but around the start Of the last hour buying developed.
 Iceland's hotels are heated b.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
Rotary Headquarters To Remain in Chicago

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.-R- Rotary International winds up the annual convention with general get-together today after voting by secret battle to keep it's international headquarters at Chicago, where it was first organized in 1905.
 Members voted 1862 to 1,230 to reject Denvers long standing bid The Denver Rotary Club has been maintaining an option on a $l35,- 900 site in the hope headquarters would be moved there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-13
VETO EXPECTED

WASHINGTON, June 13. - R- Chairman Taft (Ohio) of the Senate Republican Policy Committee indi- cated today that he is expecting President Truman to veto the in come tax cutting bill
 And he told reporters the chances presumably are against" Congress being able to override a Presidential dissent.
 Earlier, Democratic Leader Bark ley {Ky) predicted after Senate Minority Policy Committee meeting that the Senate would sustain a veto of the tax bill, if one is forthcon- ing.
 Taft's views on the prospect for a veto were expressed after meeting of the COP policy group.