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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
PAY BOOST PROVIDED IN
 SENATE BILL

Territorial officials and employees would receive a boost in pay under he provisions of Senate Bill l3, introduced yesterday afternoon by Senator Steve McCutcheon.
 The Bill provides that the fol- lowing officials shall, after April i, 1949 receive $8,000 year. At torney General, Auditor, Treasur- CT, Highway Engineer, Commission er of Labor, Commissioner of Ag- riculture, Commissioner of Mines, Commissioner of Taxation, Director of Public Welfare, Director of Un- employment Compensation Commis- sion and Territorial Commissioner of Veterans Affairs.
 The annual salaries of chief deL uties or chief assistants of the officials listed above would be set at STOOD.
 The annual salaries of all other Territorial employees except those working for quasi independent agencies administering lump sum appropriations, would be fixed at a rate Of 20 per cent over their respective salaries in force on April l, ls47
 The General Property Tax Bill R.B. 2, was reported out by the Senate Taxation Committee yester- day with a lengthy schedule ol proposed amendments. Most irnpor- tant of these is an Industrial In- eentive Clause designed to encour- age the establishment of new in dustries in the Territory by pro- yiding for moratoriums on tax es on their property for periods up to 10 years after production is started.
 Referred To Finance Upon the suggestion of Senator Howard Lyng, the Bill was refer red to the Finance Committee and this brought an immediate protest from Senator Victor c. Rivers chairman of the Taxation Commit | tee.
 | Senator Lyng announced that he would not. vote on a single tax measure until it has been checked by the Finance Committee.
 Senator Rivers thought that the Taxation Committee amendments should be adopted or rejected be- fore sending the measure to the Finance Committee.
 Tn that way the committee will have the Bill before it in final form and can act accordingly, 1 the Senator said.
 Senator John Butrovich said that he had no particular objection tc the suggested procedure but that il was highly irregular.
 Tt is illogical to send this bill to Finance before it is amend ed as the amendments may make a great difference in the revenues, Senator McCutcheon said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
TWO ARRE5T5, MUnDER CASE, 4 N GRACE
Air Force Master Sergeant Charged with Brutal
 Staying of Woman

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 4.--aP- Two Air Force master sergeants were charged with first degree mur- der last night in the brutal staying of Bertha Sickles. 29-year-old na- tive. whose battered, nearly nude body was discovered in culvert by dogs near the outskirts of town yesterday
 The accused sold CTS were Master Sergeant Lester L. Armagost, g, formerly of Brookville, Pa, and Staff Sgt. Thomas M. Bashline, 27, Port Allegheny, Pa.
 Anchorage police lieutenant Virgil Barkdoll, and Lieut.. John Goddard of the Army's office of special in- yestigatlon, issued statement that Armagost signed a confession ad- hitting beating the woman but ab- solving Bashline of complicity. They said Bashline had denied having anything to do with the death. The officers said Armagost ad- mitted arguing With the woman be- fore beating her, but that she was still alive when he left her
 Armagost, who is married, lives on the outskirts of town, across the street from where the body was found in the culvert. He has been in the service five years. Bashline is veteran of nine years service eight of them overseas. Both are stationed at Elmendorf Field, neal here.
 l The victim formerly lived in SSs- dovia and Cordova and worked in a Bristol Bay salmon cannery dur ing the summers She had relatives at Tatitlek, Alaska, small village ion Prince William Sound | Police said she was known to them as a heavy drinker who had served year in federal jail on a larceny l conviction.
 When found her body was clad only in T-shirt and an arctic boot.
 Armagost was a lumberjack and Bashline a welder in civilian life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
SAILORS TO
 FIGHT TAX
 ON INCOME
Other Marine Unions 10 Join in Seeking Restrain
 inc Order from Courts


 SEATTLE, Feb 4.--P Protest ing taxation of Seattle seamen on Alaska trips under a new Alaska income tax law, the Sailors Union Iof the Pacific declared yesterday it will carry the fight to court. The American Federation of La- tor union, however, indicated last night that its members would resume signing on Alaska ships pending outcome of court action. Union members earlier had refused to sign on the freighter Palisana because of the law.
 Bob Dombroff, newly y-elected Se- attle agent for the Sailors Union said the union had received assur- ance from the Alaska Steamship Company that tax money collected from seamsn in the interim will be held up until April l. This will give the union time to clarify the laws effect on merchant mariners, Dom- broff said.
 Other maritime groups, including the masters, mates and pilots and marine firemen's union, declared they were solIdly behind the SUP.
 SEEK RESTRAINING ORDER
 Dombrcff said SUP. attorneys would seek restraining order to prevent withholding of 10 per cent of federal withholding taxes paid Ity seamen in the Alaska trade under the new law The union will establish a test case to determine legality of the tax measure, which Dombroff as- serted, takes unfair advantage of merchant seamen whose sll ps touch Alaska ports.
 F A. Zeusler, executive assistant to the president of Alaska Steam ship Company, said the ship line has asked the Alaska Attorney Gen. eral for a ruling on the tax law as it effects merchant seanan
 J. N. Greathouse. port agent for the marine firemen's union, joined with Dombroff in protesting addi- tional taxation of crew members. Its rotten Greenhouse declared. under this setup man could sail on two-year voyage to the Orient and be taxed ty Alaska for the en- tire voyage if his ship happened to touch Alaska on the return trip"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
TRIAL OF CARDINAL
 WEARS END
Fascination, Skepfleism is Result of Hearing Be-
 hind Iron Curtain
(By The Associated Press)


 The Hungarian Government closed in inexorably today on Josef Cardi- nal Mindszenty, one of its last real opponents. The world outside the iron curtain locked on with fasci- nation and the skeptcism it reserves for those strange trials which occur in Communist lands
 Today. the Cardinal stood up be- fore his five judges in Budapest and recansed a letter he wrote be- fore his arrest last Christmas time in which he said that if ever he admitted his guilt to government charges against him it should be put down to weakness of the lleSh."
 Yesterday, he entered a plea of partly guilty" to charges of trea- son, espionage and black market dealings, with a special reservation that he did not plot to overthrow the government.
 His letter, disavowing guilty pleas beforehand, has been dinned into Hungary by the Voice of America radio.
 In Chicago, Samuel Cardinal Stritch designated Sunday as ''Mindszenty Day" He asked all priests in his archdiocese to set aside the day for prayer for the Hungarian religious leaders 'libera- tion."
 The British Foreign Office pro- tested to Hungary against that gov ernmenr's refusal to admit official British observers to the trial.
 Even the demise of Hungary's op- position Catholic party was linked to the Mindszenty case.
 The party's leader, Istovan Baran- kovics, who fled his country. said in Vienna yesterday the Communists tried to get him to tie the end o1 the party with the Mindszenty trea- son trial.
 The sudden death of the party apparently ended the last vestige of organized political opposition in Hungary.
 One of the Hungarian primate's six co-defendantS-D Paul Ester hazy-pleaded guilty today to the charges against him. The Duke, one of pre-war Hungary's richest men was the fourth defendant to plead
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
51 CRASH
 IN PLANE;
 1 KILLED

CAIRO. Feb. 4.@tR- Forty-fo passengers escaped unhurt when a four-engined Skymaster ca Try ng British Army technicians crashed and caught fire at Castel Benlto Arport in Tripoli, airmen arriving here said.
 The plane, chartered to the Brit ish War Office by Skyways, ltd'' took off from Khartoam, Anglo Egyptian Sudan.
 In London, Skyways, Ltd., sad the captain of the plane was killed put that 51 other persons a-oard A passengers and seven crewmen-es- caped. The dead captain was ,den- tified as R. w. G. Kipeley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
|RU55IA'5 SECRET
 WEAPON E ALASKA, DECLARES HERRING
By RALPH DIGHTON

KODIAK, Alaska, Feb. A. H-- Russ as secret weapon, relieves U. lS Dep. Marshal Paul Herring, is Alaska.
 Herring, "the law" in these parts,
 has been busy for months telling all who will listen that the fate of the world will shortly hinge on how well the United States can defend AL aska.'
 Admittedly no military expert, Herring bases his concern lon what II have observed in the territory since came here out of the Navy in World War I, and on simple logic"
 "Alaskans are among the best read people on earth" says Her. ring, because of long winters and lack of entertainment. Up here you yearn to think, and think straight, or you don't last long.
 T honestly believe my fear of Russia is sober reflection of the thoughts of most thinking people in the area"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
TRAPPED IN
 BLAZE, (AA
 MAN KILLED

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. A. tR-While his roommate fled their burning apartment clad in under clothing, jammed Bathroom win dow prevented Marshall R. Thrash from escaping death in a blaze that svept their civil aeronautics ad- ministratlon quarters at Naknek on Wednesday.
 CAA officials here disclosed the tragedy. They said Thrash, 25 years old. had been stationed at Nak- nek. on Bristol Bay, since 1945.
 The roommate, Harry J. Burton, told officials Thrash's bed was un- occupied when he went past it on the way to freedom.
 The victims body was flown here today. Thrash is survived by his father, George w. Thrash, of Lake, Miss.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
Josef SiaIin Is Invited 10 Confer With President H. }. Truman al Private Holle in Independence
INDEPENDENCE. Mo. Feb. A.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo, Feb. A. R-Soviet Prime Minister Stalln is going to get surprise invitation when he checks in at the Kremlin today; an invitation to meet Pres dent Truman in the home of an ordinary American citizen.
 The invitation was cabled by James w. Stobaugh, 53, an em- ployee of Western Union Tele- graph Company. It read, in part:
 May I respectfully invite you to meet with President Truman in my home at 1928 Cedar Avenue, independence Mo, a typical Ameri- can home in the most typical of all American communities?
 Here in this home town of our honored President, away from gilt ter and pomp where the only armed force in evidence is the traffic patrol on the highway, I believe any and all differences may be solved"
 Stobaugh said he sent a similar invitation to President Truman, quoting his message to Stalin.
 Conlidentially, Stobaugh says he doesn't think the invitations will be accepted. The cable cost him S16.l2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
Bill
 Gets Swat,
 Alaska TEL

Alaska's Territorial Federation of Labor charged today that the Liquor Control Bill introduced in the Le2islature this week would set up it's S12, ,000-a-year administrator as a czar with dictatorial powers.
 It declared in printed comments that the bill creates the most pow erful political board in Alaska"
 Tt will have the final say over millions of dcllars," the comment continued Tt will dish out poli- tlcal plums. With this unlimited power the liquor czar could con- trol night entertainment, gambling and vice. It could become a board of vice payoff"
 The Federation statement said licensing Of persons handling liquors would put organized labor under dictates of a czar." Il added. "Basically, all that is wrong with our present laws on liquor is that they haven't been enforced due to gutter operators playing local politics and because the 194T Legislature failed to appropriate funds for enforcement"
 It termed the new bills provis- ion for only four enforcement officers for the Territory shock ing, and argued that restrictions in the bill stille competition anc free enterprise and tend to raise prices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
n IN ON PAN AM
 THURSDAY FLIGHTS

Pan Americans flight from Se- attle yesterday brought in 22 pas sengers and took il southbound-
 Passengers from Seattle were {: John Bertoson. Clyde Wood, Otis Jackson, Reuben Gaines, Ralph Newbury, Hubert Merrick' Bill Wilson, Gordon Burlington, Walt Rottluff, Donna Ellis, Sandra Ellis, Linda Ellis, Mack Harrington, Pauline Harrington, Solo Gregor, George V. Green, Marie Green, Mrs. Bazil Rhode. Willard Shaef- fer. Don Shellhorn, Anita She'll horn, Dickie Shellhorn.
 To Seattle: Walter Cooper. Flor cnce Cooper. H. J Lynch, Harold Grcnroos, R. Koah, MT. and Mrs. Don Bachen, S H. Dore, Helen Suttich, Howard R. White. Chris Hanson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
.5TRI(TER TERMS
 LAID DOWN BY U.S., BERLIN CURRENCY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.---tR-The United States was reported today to have laid down new and stricter terms for settlement of the dispute with Soviet Russia over Berlin cur rency.
 Diplomatic informants said that the terms are contained in an Am erlcan proposal submitted to a United Nations group of experts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
The Washinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Copyright. ls49 by Bell syndicate, Inc

WASH1NGTON-February has been marked on the State Depart ment calendar with a red circle. This is the date the diplomats are going to watch to see whether the Russians really want to get along with the USA.
 On that that the United States, France and Britain begin negotia- tions with Russia for an Aus trian peace treaty, and the State Department has decided to let these negotiations serve as a barometer of the cold war.
 So far the Russians have been talking peace but acting tough. While Togliatti in Italy and Com munist leaders in France have been announcing that Russia can get along with the west, and while Stalin has said he would be will ing to meet Truman, actually there has not been the slightest change in Russian policy.
 But when the big powers sit
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
2-Year-0Id Juneau Boy Is Taken South
 To Be with MotheI

SEATTLE, Feb. 4.-tR-TWo-year- old Robert Larson of Juneau, Alas kan native boy whose mother is a patient in Cushman hospital in Ta- coma, arrived here by plane yester- day in care of Donald Foster, head of the Indian Service in Alaska The lad will stay with family nl Salem, Ore, while his mother is ln the hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
FW5 ASKS PUBLIC
 EXPRESSIONS AT
 MEETING MONDAY

The Fish and Wildlife Service has arranged to hold a public meeting at 7:30 o'clock on Monday evening in the City Council Cham bers.
 The purpose of this meeting is to give all interested sportsmen and others an opportunity to offer suggestions or recommendations re- garding changes in the hunting, trapping and sport fishing regu- lations for the coming year.
 With the greatly increased and ever-growing population of Alaska, the protection and perpetuation of Alaska's wildlife has reached the point where the general public must participate and cooperate in the management of this great nat ural resource if it is to be saved from extinction, according to Dan H. Ralston, acting director in the absence of Clarence J. Rhode. He urgently requests all inter ested persons to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 4-tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 39s, American Can 90, Anaconda 33, Curtiss- Wright 89s, International Harvest CT 25A, Kennecott 49. New York Central 1lM, Northern Pacific 15ss U. s. Steel 73ia, Pound S4.03A.
 Sales today were 1,060,000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials 177.92, rails 5l.86, util- ities 35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
POWER BOAT
 TAX PASSED
 THIRD TIME

House Bill 24. which passed the House yesterday afternoon, occupied the attention of the Representa- lives again this morning when It yas dragged back into second read ing, corrections were made in grammar and punctuation and 1t vas passed twice more by roll call vote
 After the patching mad been done ard the Bill again moved into third reading, it passed by l5- r with two absent, with the same vote on adoption of the emergency clause. This was one short of he two-thirds needed for passage ol the emergency clause, which
 uts the provisions of the Bill into effect immediately upon approval oy the governor.
 Speaker Stanley McCutcneon in- mediately announced intention to move for reconsideration of hls vote and Rep Frank Angerman asked for call of the House to bring in the absent members.
 Speaker McCutcheon then an- nounced that he will be absent to- morrow and unable to move for re- consideration, explaining that he plans a short trip to Anchorage. He asked suspension of the rules and an immediate re-vote upon passage of the Bill and emergency clause The vote was taken and the Bill was passed, for the third time, and the emergency clause adopted by TIT vote.
 Power Boat Tax
 Lively discussion preceded the IT. IT adoption by the House yes terday of bill aimed at pre- venting Alaska canneries from de- ve,cping their own ower-driyen fishing fleets.
 The measure would impose tax of $5.00o for each 30-foot or larg- CT boat above total of nine boats by a single owner. Its sponsor, Rep. Alfred Owen. Jr., said the purpose of the bill is ito spread boat ownership among the citizenry for the benefit of the Territory"
 Supporters contended that curb ing the development of cannery- owned fleets would check trend of Seattle and San Francisco crews taking big payrolls out of the Ter ritory.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04

RULING EXEMpT5
 OUTSIDE SAILORS
 FROM INCOME TAX
Attorney General Inter. Drets Provisions for
 Steamship Co.

delayed sailing from Seattle of the MS. Palisana is given in an ex- change of cablegrams between att torneys for the Alaska Steamship Company and Ralph J Rvers, Ter ritorial Attorney General.
 From Stanley B. Long, Of Bogle Bogle and Gates, Seattle law firm the Attorney Generals yesterday re- ceived the following telegram.
 Tn accordance with Section 5-E of the Alaska Net Income Tax Act Alaska Steam withheld the amounts required by said act in paying off the crew of the S.S. Chief Washable February ?.
 To-day sailors refused to sign or MS. Palisana unless Alaska Steam agreed in writing that, at termina- tion of voyage, the Company would not withhold any sum under the Act.
 "Palisana scheduled to sail with full load of urgently nesded Army cargo.
 We therefore request your im- mediate telegraphic opin on and ad- vice whether Section 5-B is appli- cable to seamen employed by Alas ka Steam on its vessels operating between Seattle and ports in Alas ka."
 Attorney General Rivers answered as follows
 Section 5-B of the Alaska Income Tax Act levying tax on employ ees provides :. which tax is to be withheld under the provisions .oi Section B. Section 8-D, which inn poses withholding .on wages earned Fin Alaska regardless of the place where payment is made requires in- depreciation as it might affect ships personnel who earn part Of their voyage pay in Alaska waters.
 We hold that such language is designed to cover seasonal workers who are paid in the states at sea- sons end, and does not apply to resident ships personnel on vir- tually continuous travel
 An Associated Press dispatch re- ceived by the Empire th.s afternoon concerns the above and is as fol- lows:
 Alaska's new in eom Q tax law threatened to h alt water-borne shipments from Seattle northward when ships crew refused to sign articles, but things were ironed out today when the Alaska Steamship Company promised to put the pay roll deductions in a special fund and not pay it to the Territory.
 The law, retroactive to January l, provides tax be levied against all persons gaining their livelihood from Alaska, whether they are resi- dents or not. The tax is 10 per cent
 
 of the federal withholding tax.
 First ship to come under the new law was the Chief Washable, which arrived Monday. Crew of the Pali- sana, refrigerator vessel fully laden with Army cargo and due to sal tomorrow, refused to sign articles when they learned of the deduction. They agreed to sail today when the company promised they would set aside the money until test of the laws constitutionality is made,
 In addition to the income tax, ter ritorial law provides taxes on all properties of the steamship com panies in Alaska. including docks and warehouses. They plan an carry test of this law, too. The income tax law was passed in special session of the Territorial Leg stature, whicn is now in regular session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04
WEATHER REPORT

(U s. WEATHER BUREAU
 This data is for 24-hour pe-
 riod ending 6:30 am. PSF.
 In Juneau-Maximum, 2l;
 minimum, 12.
 At Airport Maximum -2'' minimum, l. F. 0 R E C A 5 T Duncan and Vicinity Mostly cloudy and not so cold tonight and Saturday
 with light snow by Saturday
 night. Lowest temperature tonight near 20 degrees. PR E c lPl A T l Q N (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am. today In Juneau City Trace;
 since Feb~ 1, .01 inches;
 since July l, 56.25 inches.
 At the Airport Trace,
 since July l, 89.27 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-04

Chicago averages about 58 snow falls year while New York has an average of about 35.
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Evening star., 1949-04-20
Mundt Urges Inquiry
To Determine il u. n.
Is Haven for Spies
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Senator Mundt. Republican. OF
South Dakota proposed today that
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities try to learn
whether spies and saboteurs are
being funneled into the United
Nations organization.
Senator Mundt said he has been
pushing committee members to
start an investigation and they
seem "favorably disposed"
The South Dakotan was mem
ber of the committee before shift
ing from the House to the Senate
this year. The present members
were not available for comment
because the House is taking an
Easter holiday until Monday.
Mentions Gubitchev Case.
Senator Mundt mentioned the
case of Valentine A. Gubitchev, a
Russian on the u N. payroll.
The FBI has arrested Gubitchev
and Miss Judith Coplon, Justice
Department employe. and accused
them of conspiring to steal secret
information from the Govern
ment. They are awaiting trial.
The fact that arrests were made
in the Gubitchev case, Senator
Mundt told reporters, suggests the
need for a complete checkup by
Congress to determine:
/. Whether U. N. headquarters
at Lake Success is q hiding place
for Soviet espionage agents and
other undesirables."
2. Whether u. N. Is issuing
"superpassports" that have more
authority than those of the United
States Government.
8. The Shocking extent" to
which he said former Government
workers fired for security reasons
promptly get good jobs with U. N.
Stefan Assails U. N. Group.
Several members OF Congress
have been hitting that last point
hard in recent weeks. Represen-
tative Stefan. Republican, of Ne
brasa told the House the U. N.
Educational, Scientific and Cul-
tural Organization has become
haven for Communists and their
sympathizers booted out Of United
States Government jobs"
Apparently. he said, they are
received with open arms into
that international agency which
American taxpayers are support
ing to the tune of $2,928,773 an
nually."
Representative Hoffman, Re-
publican. of Michigan picked up
the same theme in q news letter
to his constituents back home.
Senator Mundt said the State
Department ought to have the
right to pass upon any Americans
hired by U. N. Other countries,
he said, should have the same
right to screen their nationals
who go on the United Nations
payroll.
Taxi drivers must realize they
do not own the public highways"
said Judge ]. Connolly, in Dublin.
in giving judgment of $225 TO a