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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
NLRB MAKES DECISION IN
 ALASKA CASE
Ruling Involves Control of 3,600 Alaska Salmon
 Cdnnery Workers

SEATTLE, March 22.-tR- Over the protests of Nathan Witt, New York Attorney, National Labor Re- lations Board hearing officer refused today to permit a CLIO. union to intervene in case in which an A. F. of L. union seeks to gain con- trol of $500 Alaska salmon cannery workers.
 Witt, former secretary of the N L. R. B., came to Seattle to repre- sent the Food, Totacco, Agricultur- al and Allied Workers (CIO) at the hearings.
 The hearing was on a petition of the Alaska Fish Cannery Workers of the Pacific, an affiliate of the h. ternational Seafarers' Union GA. F. of L), for an election to determine collective bargaining rights for the workers.
 The workers now are represented by Local No 2, Cannery Workers Union, an affiliate of the CLIO. union.
 Milton Boyd, hearing officer, de- nied Wits motion to intervene on the grounds that the CLIO. union had not complied with the Taft Hartley Labor Act by filing non Communist affidavits. He based his ruling on a ruling made by the board last year in similar case in the same industry.
 Witt and c. T. Hatten, co-counsel for the FT.A.A., said they based their motion to intervene on grounds that their client-union had repre- Sented the workers in contracts with employers for 10 years. They said ,an overwhelming number of the workers in the industry belonged to the CI.O. union.
 John Geisness, attorney for the A. F. of L. union, objected to the intervention because the CI.O. un- ion had not compiled with the Taft Hartley Act and because "suffi- cient facts to warrant an interven- ton had not been shown"
 A later attempt ty Joseph Holmes, who said he represented large group of individual employees in the industry, also was denied by Boyd. Holmes argued that the in- tent of Congress in the Taft Hart ley Act was ito protect the rights of individual employees"
 Holmes said exceptions. to Boyd's rulings will be filed when the case comes before the N. L. R. B. itself for a decision. Should the Board grant an election, workers would have choice between the A. F. of L. union or no union, the C.1.O union not appearing on the ballots.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
ARCTIC STUDIES 10 BE MADE BY
 UNIV. SCIENTISTS

FAIRBANKS, March 22-R- First known studies of the effect of the frigid atmosphere over the North Pole on bacteria and fungi will be made this week by three scientists from Montreal's McGill University.
 The flight, authorized by the U. S. Air Force. is scheduled for the latter part of the week. The trio will be carried over the pole in a B729 of the 72nd Photo Re- connaissanee Squadron.
 The scientists are pr. Nicholas Polunin and Dr Stuart M Pady. of the McGill Botany Department, and Dr. Clifford Kelly of the bacterio- logical department.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
BIG TEST FOR ADM.
 COMES UP
Differences Between President, Congress Be-
 Iieyed 10 Be Clearing
By JACK RuTLEpGE


 WASHINGTON, March 22.-lR- President Truman's new be-kind- to-Congress strategy faces a quick test in both House and Senate.
 Will the nice things he said about the lawmakers encourage them to go along with the administration on rent control, foreign aid, the labor program?
 Southern Senators, rebelling against civil rights program and still elated over their filibuster vic- tory, are wary. Republicans are openly skeptical Administration leaders are enthusiastic. Three Setbacks
 The Democratic 81st Congress in recent weeks has given the administration three setbacks the filibuster defeat, mauling ot the rent control bill, refusal to con- firm major nomination of the Presidents.
 But yesterday the President prais- ed the lawmakers and said "basi- cally the Congress and the Presi- dent are working together"
 COP sentiment was summed up by Senator Knowland R-Caht) who asked: 'Is he kidding?"
 Democrats Hopeful
 But Democrats fels differently Some said they believed the South erners would lean over backwards for a while in trying to cooperate. Leaders expect to put over such Truman proposals as rent control extention, foreign aid, low rent housing, a revised reciprocal trade program. The labor program is in doubt and so is a plan to boost taxes.
 Big Test First big test of the let's-be- friends policy will come on ren, controls. The present law expire. March 3l, just nine days from to- day. Speed is vital. The House has approved a rent bill that falls far short of what the President wanted. !, A bill now before s..1e Senate also slashes into many of his requests Passage by tomorrow night was pre- dicted in the upper house. Plans of Dixieites Dixie lawmakers and party lead- CTS who fought them in the filibust- CT have united to push through a bill which would continue controls l2 to Is months, authorize some rent increases, pave the way for de- control.
 Majority leader Lucas of Illinois called the measure a compromise but said he considered it a very good bill"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
HOLLY A5HBY, EARLY MINER, DIES Al S6
First Came 10 Alaska in '83 Survived by Brother
 in Juneau

TACOMA, March 22.-LR- One of the fabulous figures of the Yukon gold rush days, Holly w. Ashby, died at the age of 86 at his home here Sunday.
 Ashby was just 21 in 1883 when he and his brother, Thomas H. Ash by, now living in Juneau, left their Missouri home and headed north for Alaska in search of adventure and fortune. They found both.
 They crossed Chilkoot Pass to be- come one of the earliest pioneers of that rugged country. In 1886 they went into the Yukon River country to mine the bars of Stew art River, and from then on for several years the two prospectsd successfully on most of the Yukon tributaries.
 He came Outside" in 1898 and established home in Tacoma. But in 1900 news came of big strike at Nome and with a nondeScript vessel, the Skootum, he took a mll- lion feet of lumber from a Tacoma mill to that far northern outpost.
 While there he acquired mining interests and became one of Alaska $ biggest contractors, heading the Topkuk Ditch Company.
 He would have been married 55 years in June. His survivors in- clude Mary E. Ashby, the wife who accompanied him on one of his trips across Chilkoot Pass. That was in 1896.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
HOUSE INJECTS NEW LIFE INTO
 ! TABLED BILLS
Measures Revived After Having Been Side-
 tracked Last Night

The House spent today's hour-long morning session revivlng the bills it tabled last night.
 It brought back from the table of the doomed the library board bill, with its $2.000 appropriation The vote to "un-table" on motion of Rep. Amelia Gundersen, was IT to IT. Then the measure passed on a l6-8 vote.
 The Senate bill for appropriat- ing $20,0O0 to assist community fairs was brought off the table by 15-9 vote after Sen. Walter Hunt ley, one of it's sponsors, appeared before the House.
 It was amended to cut the figure to $10,000 and to provide repayment to the territory in case of later profits from fair A final vote on the measure was not reached before the neon recess.
 The library board bill, introduced in the Senate by Dr. R. M. MacKen- zie, was passed after appeals were made for it for the benefit of small communities. It would be the agen- cy for accepting any available fed eral funds.
 Pleas for it were made ty Reps Doris Barnes, Marcus Jensen, Essit Dale and Percy Ipalook. Meanwhile, the National Guare bill waited for action near the bot. tom of the days calendar. It wa. likely to be reached this afternoon The Guard bill, originally intro. duced by Mrs. Gundersen, passed ths House once. It was rewritten by the Senate judiciary committee tt incorporate numerous amendment! and put the emphasis on Eskimo Scout units, and was passed by ths Senate unanimously Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
STATEHOOD
 COMMITTEE
 A(T PASSES
Attempts 10 Cut SS0,0OO
 Appropriation Fail in House Other Matters
By JIM HUTCHINSON

A bill creating an Alaska State hood Committee sailed past the last legislative barrier last night and headed for the Governors desk.
 The House passed the Senate-ap- proved measure 21-2 after critics of the ssO,OoO appropriation were able to muster only SIX votes in an at tempt to slash the amount to 10000.
 The bill provides that the Gov ernor appoint II members to a committee to study all phases of statehood and submit chart for statehood to the constitutional con- vention.
 Appointees are subject to con- firnation by the present legislature.
 Governor Gruening, Delegate E. L. Bartlett and his predecessor, Judge Anthony Dimond, would be ex-officio membets.
 The only dissenting votes were by Republican George Miscovich and Democrat Amer Rydeen.
 Debate Appropriation
 Debate on the appropriation brought figures from the Ways and Means Committeeman Glen Frank lin that prospects are for barely balancing the budget on the ba- sis of new taxes.
 He said the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means subcommittee figured revenue prospects and revised the estimate downward to S18600, ,O0O with the present prospect of sl8,- O00,0oo in appropriations, which leaves us sledding on thin ice.'
 He said reports indicate the Sen- ate may raise the General Appro- priations Bill totals and impair the balance. He said another financial problem is likelihood of court challenge of the property tax which is new figured to bring s2,50OOOO to the Territorial general fund after the cities get their share. The re- suit might be court impounding of receipts, he said.
 Democrat Warren A. Taylor chal- lenged the figures as being Frank Inns personal estimate, but Ways and Means chairman James Nolan confirmed that tho revenue figure IS a joint committee estimate.
 Surplus Predicted
 Taylor predicted a S3.0c0,000 sur plus in arguing for full S80,000 appropriation. Clarence Heating said Hawaii is starting its state- hood campaign with a $2Oy 900 ap- propriaticn and is adding more.
 Speaker Stanley McCutcheon said statehood would mean hundreds of thousands more in federal funds, and if we only pay s80,000 tor the 18th star in the flag, it IS the best $80000 we ever spent"
 Yesterday the legislation set a record for the current session by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Mar. 22.@R-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is SIS, American can 89A, Anaconda 31A, Curtiss- Wright g, International Harvest CT 23K, Kennecott 457s, New York Central 101s, Northern Pacific 14B U. s. Steel 71ss, Pound $4.03A.
 Sales today were 84O,000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: industrials 174.87, rails 46.92, util- ities 34.98.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
N. {. MANAGER E INVOLVED IN SALE
 OF ILLEGAL MEAL

Arraigned in a Fairbanks court Friday, J. w. Steele, manager of the Northern Commercial Com pany store at Fort Yukon, was found guilty of illegal sale of cari- bou meat, and fined $500. Some 300 pounds of the meat was seized.
 The same day H. E. Carter, Fort Yukon merchant, was fined $500 on a similar charge.
 Louis Soha, pilot, was given four-month suspended jail sentence for aiding and abetting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
The w ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
tcopyrlsht. is4s. by Bell syndicate. Inc.

tCopyrlght. 1s49, by Bell Syndicate. Incl WASHINGTON - Under current debate in the Senate is relatively obscure amendment to the Marshall Plan appropriation which happens to be of vital interest to every American who may have to should CT arms.
 In brief, it boils down to the fact that the United States opposes ag- gressen by words while feeding ag- gression with money.
 Specifically the amendment states that an aggressor nation which blocks the peace efforts of the Security Council of the United Ma tions shall not continue to draw cash from the Marshall Plan. The State Department opposes this amendment. It wants an aggressor to continue to get Marshall Plan money.
 Not many people-or Senator's
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
ROTARY TO ENTERTAIN
 SOAP BOX DERBY BOYS

Soap Box Derby car builders have treat in store for them Thurs day night, when the Rotary Club derby committee will entertain all boy builders at the high school gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock.
 According to Dr. Wm. P. Blanton, committee chairman, all boys in the Gastineau Channel area will be treated to a movie, hot dogs and soda pop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
F. KIRK JONES HERE

F. Kirk Jones, Washington Lab- oratories, Inc, representative, arriv- ed here yesterday for brief busi- ness trip prior to his return here in April for the fishing season. He came in on Pan American, and is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
MRS. TRISTAN AND FAMILY
 BACK FROM STATESIDE TRIP

Mrs. Marvin Kristan, accom- panied by her two children, Dennis and Diane, returned yesterday from a four month visit with her par ents, MT. and Mrs. sam Green of Beverly Hills, Calf Mrs. Krlstan and children came in aboard Pan American Clipper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
ATLANTIC
 PACT BEST
 PEACE BET
Proposed Alliance Is Most Important Step in U. 5.
 Foreign Policy
By OLIVER DewOLF

WASHINGTON, March 22.--tR,-- Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) says the Atlantic Pact is the best bet to keep the present cold war from getting hot
 He called it the most important step in American foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine, and a step to be taken only with the 'solemnity of a national convic- tion.'
 Vandenberg discussed the propos- ed alliance in speech prepared for the United States Conferenct ot Mayors. He is the ranking COP member of the Senate Foreign Re- iations Committee and leading par ty spokesman on foreign affairs.
 Defense Unity
 He said the ultimate value of the pact, negotiated by the United States, Canada and six Western European nations, will depend largely upon the extent to which the nation "wholeheartedly accepts its concept of defense unity
 Therefore, Vandenberg continued, T believe the pact and any subse- quent legislative implementation must be the subject of total ex- ploration and complete public hear ings in the Senate.'
 Public Hearings
 Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, has declared there will Le wide open public hearings by that group. He said they will begin soon after the precedent breaking alliance is signed on April 4.
 The State Department can sign the treaty for the United States but it will not be binding upon this country until the Senate approves it by a two-thirds vote.
 Would Enter Conflict
 Vandenberg reviewing events leading up to World War Two, not ed that the 1889 neutrality pact told Hitler the United States would keep out of conflict He added
 The North Atlantic wholly to the cOntrary-will tell any ag- gressor in 1949 that from the very moment he launches his conquest in this area he will face whatever united opposition, including that oi the United States, is necessary to beat him to his knees.
 T re-aSSert that this is the great est war deterrent ever devised. Nc itching conquerer will lightly view such odds.
 Aggresscrs Warned Yet no other nation on the face of this earth needs spend one sleep less night over any sort of menace from this pact unless 1t is plotting armed aggression against neighbors whose only aspiration is peace with justice and honor in free world of free men,
 Vandenberg said he reserved h.s position regarding any details of the administrations plans for mili- tary aid to Western Europe. But he unequivocally endorsed the pact itself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
FROM CHATHAM

Erwin Foldoe of Chatham is registered at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON


 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
 House Bill 92, to amend and re- enact the income tax law passed by the special session in January, was the only measure to come before the Senate during a short afternoon session yesterday.
 An amendment offered ty Senator Jones for the section pertaining to the collection of the income tax from personnel on planes, ships and trucks operating in the Alaska trade was debated at some length and fin- ally defeated on 7-9 vote.
 The Jones amendment would have exempted nonresident personnel of carriers from the tax except for those based in Alaska for two weeks or longer.
 Attorney General Ralph J. Riv- CTS, called to give his opinion on the proposed amendment, said that the present Act does not specify that seamen shall be taxed and that injunctions have consequently been filed in Seattle.
 There has been nothing but con- fusion under the present law be- cause of lack of specific language" the Attorney General said.
 Tine present bill spells out the liability of ships personnel under the Act. It may have to be fought out in court, too. but we will never have specific point to fight out in court unless we write it into the bill" he added E
 OVERREACHING
 The Attorney General admitted that he might be "overreaching" in stretching the Territorial boundaries to the edge of the continental shelf.
 Tt might te hard to make it stick" he said. but there is no harm in trying
 Senator Frank Barr, in support of Senator Jones amendment, argued that the collection Of the tax from travelling personnel would create a "bookkeeper's nightmare" that the Territory would lose little if any revenue under the amendment and that litigation would be avoided.
 Senator Victor c. Rivers opposed the amendment. T have no desire to exempt anyone earning money in Alaska from this tax he said. "The Tax Commissioner assured us
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
FROM GUsTAvUs

Raymond R. Slade of Gustavus is at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-22
H 0USE BILL .UNAppR0vED
 BY GOVERNOR
Senate Passes Bill 10 As- sist Community Hos-
 tdIs' Expenses
By BOB DeARMOND

The new s2 bounty on Alaska eagles will become law in the Terri tory tut it will do so without the approval of Governor Ernest Gruen- ing.
 The Governor concluded lengthy message, read in the Senate this morning, by saying that he will al- low the bill to become law without his signature.
 The message. which quoted Albert M. Day. director of the U. s. Fish and Wildlife Service as saying that the bounty lis waste of Territor- ial funds set forth the belief that the final results of the bounty will be to extend the national Act for the protection oI eagles to the Ter ritory.
 Also quoted in the Governors message was letter from woman in Denver, Colorado, who charged that Alaska hopes to become the 49th state under the wings of the eagle. yet has placed bounty on those wings"
 The unanimity of the vote on the bill in both the House and Senate, the Governors message said, is his reason for not vetoing the bill.
 HOSPITAL ASSISTANCE The Senate this morning unani- mously passed House bill appro- rriating $50,0O0 to assist community hospitals with their operational ex- perises. It voted down 4-l2 another House Fill appropriating $40,o00 for a wildlife research unit at the University of Alaska and refused to suspend the rules for consideration of Rep Taylor's bilk to create a Real Estate Commissioner and re- quire licensing of real estate brokers.
 Introduced and passed by the Senate this morning was H.B. 86, drawn by Senators Rivers and Jones at the telegraphic request of Delegate Bartlett. The bill makes certain amendments to the Alaska Housing Act to bring 1t into con- formity with the requirements of a proposed Federal housing appropria- tion for the Territory.
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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13
Rev. Brennan To
Sbeak In Seattle
During October

The Reverend Joseph D. Bro
man, superintendent of the Swe-
dish National Sanatorium in Den
yer, Colorado, will visit Seattle
and the Northwest during the
month of October.
He will arrive in Seattle on Oc-
tober 9th, and stay here through
the 18th. He will appear before
the Scandinavian Churches and
Organizations who contribute to
the support of the Sanatorium
through their purchases of May
flowers and Christmas Seals and
describe the work at the Sana-
forum. Reverend Broman has
with him the Sanatorium's sound
film entitled THE Right To Live.
He is known as dynamic and in
teresting speaker.
Any organization wishing to
make arrangements to have him
appear on their program can do
so by calling the Secretary of the
Seattle Foundation for the Swe-
dish National Sanatorium, Ejnar
A. Elfstrom at Dexter 1857.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13
Norway's Largest
Luxury Liner Will
Soon Arrive In US

Norways largest and fastest
luxury liner, the 16,000-ton Oslo
ford, will sail on her maiden voy-
age from Oslo to New York on
November 26th, according to an
Oslo report.
The new motorship, now under
construction in Amsterdam, Hol-
land, will arrive at New York on
December 5th and sail again for
Norway on December 10th, thus
completing a round trip before
Christmas.
The ship will carry 600 passen-
gers in two classes: 200 in First
Glass and 400 in Tourist Glass.
The minimum First Glass rate will
be $4,000, while the Tourist Class
rates will be $4,000 minimum and
1925 90 maximum.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13
Drop In Swedish
Industry Returns

STOCKHOLM, August. In
creased production costs, scarcity
of imported raw material, and
higher corporation taxes account
for an estimated all over decline of
about four per cent in net profits
earned during 1948 by Swedish in
dustry, according to figures COM
piled by the Swedish Institute for
Industrial, Economic, and Social
Research on the basis of prelim-
mary data supplied by 10 enter
prises in basic and secondary in
dustries.
This compares with an actual
drop of twenty-eight per cent in
1947 and an estimated decline for
the same year of eighteen per
cent
Increased profits for 1948 are
expected only for the forest indus
tries, which were able to main
tain a fairly remunerative export
until toward the close of the year,
when a weakening in the overseas
markets began to be felt.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13

Two Stockholm girls, twenty
five year old BERT Myren and
twenty-five year old Ingrid Wick
man, who both hold commercial
pilot licenses, have started in a
sport plane on a ten thousand mile
air trip which in easy stages will
take them through Europe TO
North Africa and the Canary Is
lands and back to Sweden via
Spain. They expect to be away two
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-09-13

The number of radio licenses in
Sweden at the turn of the year
was 2,O25,099. This means that
every third Swede, or every fam
lily, has radio receiver T h e
increase in 1913 was 65,S74.