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made on the then Attorney General, MT. Rivers, to intervene on behalf of the Territory and take charge of that suit He declined to do and the governor declined to intervene.
 The Federal Court in Seattle then issued an order which enjoins the company from paying any With holding taxes on the of seamen to the Territory The Tax Commissioner demanded payment of the tax The court ordered the company not to pay the tax The company then forced to come into court m Alaska and file suit to test the validity of the law
 The record shows that the company found itself in trouble because collected the and not because it refused to collect.
 The record also shows that the company itself, on its behalf in position to contest the tax, because operates at deficit and has tax to pay It's quarterly statement published in the press quite recently and the published record shows sub stantia loss far this year
 Next to the litigation over the fisher mems license Again the record of the shows that there suits pending validity of that tax
 The first suit brought by Kristian Martinsen and others against the Tax Commissioner. It involves halibut fishermen.
 The second suit is brought by man named Oscar Anderson and Alaska Fshermens Union, which is described in the complaint a labor union chart cred by the International Fishermen and Allied Work CTS of America affiliated with the Congress of Indus trial Organizations"
 This brings us to the fish trap license case. The record in this case brought by P E. Harris and Co., corporation. which no doubt is cassed by he governor among the unnamed and unspecifed certain interests he condemns.
 However when the legislature passed the fish trap icense law challenged in the courts, it was an bounced that the purpose of the law to eliminate fish traps
 Elimination was to be accomplished by the im- position of a tax high it could not be paid. The court record shows that the law is opposed for that eason It is asserted that the legislature in pass ing law to abolish fish traps exceeded the limitations placed on it by the terms of the Organic Act.
 We have listened to the court proceedings in that ,ase and we fail to see where Territorial revenue is involved at all The issue seems to be whether the traps are to be operated either under the old license law not at all
 Who then are the certain interests holding back by litigation the collection of Territorial revenue Is it The Sailors Union of the Pacific, MT. Martlnsen and the halibut fishermen's union or MT. Anderson and the c. I. O.?
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visitors The Rt Rev Rt T. Shahan, Catholic Bishops Of Washington here several days Bishop Catholic Church the of the Rev Gabriel Menager while here Titus Lowe Bishop of the Northwest District of the Metho addressed the largest congregations special Dr. Walter Bishop conducted morning the Presbyterian Church
 Harry all records the 50yard dash at his mining Montana where Tom Conrad and the artillery rifle stopped the bear temporarily then he charged aing pile rampaged into the bushes
 the Dorothy Alexander Capt o. these Juneau Mir and Mrs Fred Jensen Misses Martini Walker; and Mrs c w. Crosby H. Lusk
 biologist of the scientific branch of the Fisheries Southeast Alaska pink salmon fisheries here until late fall
 Kechkan burned to the water Lianski Straits and made effort to save the boatb pumping the fire.
 Weather: High 63; low, 52 rain
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CAMOUFLAGED LOBBY

A bloc of prlvate power compan- ies, carefully camouflaged under the high sounding name of the North west Development Association IS now active in lobbying against its own name-development in the northwest.
 Inside fact is that the Assocla- tion is nothing more than a front for the private power lobby to propagandize against the Columbia Valley Authority. This would bring to Oregon, Washington and the Columbia Valley what the Tennes- see Valley Authority has brought to Tennessee, Mississippi and Ala banla
 Positive proof has now been dug up by the Senate Public Works Committee that the utility compan- ies have been pouring money into this so-called Development Asso- ciation."
 Here is the roll call of major contributors since l945: Washing ton Water Company, s8,600; Pacific Power and Light Company, $500; Portland General Electric Company s5,5O0: Puget Sound Power and Light Company, s3,250, Northwest Electric Company, S2,560, Idaho Power Company, Sl,885 Mountain States Power Company. SLIGO.
 As samples of the hysterical pro- paganda this money pays for, here is what the Northwest Development Association declared in recent press release:
 "(The Columbia Valley Authority will gradually create ;. govern ment monopoly with broad power which would eventually regiment the entire economy of the Pacific Northwest. The creation of this new order would be the beginning of the end of free government in the Pacific Northwest and the rest of the nation.
 The same power companies, now opposing CVA, also opposed build ing the Bonneville and Grand Cou- lee Dams. which provided the powd needed to produce aluminium, planes, ships and atomic bombs during World War II. Yet they
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In a letter to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, Green has urged a nationwide check-up on these state agencies to deter mine why employers who are allow ed reductions for maintaining steady employment are not now giving steady employment
 Between 1889 and 1948 the net reduction in revenue to the Un- employment Trust Fund totalled S4. 709 COG. .00O," the labor leader pointed out in his letter. This amount is equal to 826 per cent of all benefits paid to unemployed workers from the beginning of the program to the end of 1948.
 During the year 1948 the net loss to the trust fund due to tax reduction and rebates on employ CTS alone was $l,161 100000 This is 46 per cent more than the total amount paid in benefits to unem- ployed workers during that year The loss during the first six l months of 1949 brings the total to more than s5,000, ,0OO,000."
 While the American Federation | of Labor does not share the pessi- | mistic view held by some that the
 slackening of economic activity in- dicated by the current rise in the number of unemployed is neces- sarily a sign of serious depres- sion,' the Green letter adds. we feel that it is a storm warning that should not be ignored
 Specifically it calls for an ap- praisal of the effectiveness of the various state unemployment com pensation programs as means of tiding over wage earners who are involuntarily unemployed"
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B0TANl5T JOINS
 JIRp EXPEDITION
 GLACIER STUDY

The story of glacier advance and
 recession of three Southeast Alas kan glaciers may be determined
 this summer by investigations of University of Minnesota botan- i ist
 Dr. Donald B. Lawrence, profess sor of botany, arrived here aboard | the Baranof, to join the American Geographical Society's Juneau Ice
 Research Project expedition which is in the field for a full summer
 of glacier study.
 Dr. Lawrence's studies will be concentrated on the low level mar gins of Mendenhall, Herbert and
 Eagle glaciers. Observations of plant growth on terrain recently
 exposed by receding glaciers can to a great extent tell the story of glacial action, according to the bot anist.
 Age of tree growth on moraines will be determined with the use of a Swedish increment bore.
 By determining the age of trees [ growing on successive deposits of the glaciers in their recession, we should be able to judge the rate of
 withdrawal" according to Dr. Law i renee. He added that the type of
 plant life found on the glacier margins is also an indication of when the area was covered with ice.
 Dr. Lawrence, who spent a pre- l vious summers similar work here
 in 1941, will go to Muir Inlet in | Glacier Bay for two weeks to make observations of plant growth in gla- i ciated areas plotted for specialized
 study in 1916.
 According to Dr. Lawrence, ob- i servations have been taken every eight to five years since 1916 to
 determine types of new growth | found on terrain which has been freed of ice cover. The project was begun by Dr. William Cooper, U. of Minn. botany professor. | Mrs. Lawrence, on her first trip I to Alaska, will assist her husband i in his work. For the Lawrences, J Juneau's cool 60 degree tempera- 1 ture is relief after coming from 90 degree temperatures in Min ! neapolis.
 ! A University of Minnesota grad
 uate botany student, Richard Ward, has also joined the JIRP expedi- ton. He will work in the high level camps on Juneau Ice Cap"
 leaving for Taku Lodge to climb ] the Taku Glacier ridge to the cen
 ter of the ice field
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ish consumer will not be able to import as much food for his money though Cripps wants the food to be imported from the British Do- minions and Argentina, not from the U. s. A.
 Backing up Snyder against the three Cabinet members is Paul Hoffman, head of ECA, who fears the collapse of his Marshall Plan unless the pound is devalued. In fact. Marshall Plan Averel Harrl- man has been pressuring the Brit ish so vigorously, even before Shy der arrived that lanky Sir Oliver Franks. the British Ambassador Tn Washington, was rushed to London by air to help take the heat off.
 Despite the strong differences within his own Cabinet, Truman gave Secretary Snyder a completely free hand in dealing with the fin ancial crisis.
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KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

We read few days ago statement of the governor about Territorial finances. The governor said that
 The present situation is the inevitable consequence of the opposition of certain inter- ests, which for years fought every effort to establish sound, normal tax program" and
 Now those same interests, defeated by the public will, making their final effort to avoid this taxation and embarrassing the Territory and its people by litigation which postpones payment of their taxes and gives every aid and encouragement to those who wish to escape their civic duty"
 The governor does not name the interests, who are embarrassing the Territory in its collection of revenue Therefore it might be well to examine the record.
 Who has instigated the litigation now pending to challenge the laws sponsored by the governor? The record shows that the suit brought to test the validity of the income tax law brought in Seattle not by the Alaska Steamship Company, but against it.
 It was brought by the Sailors Union of the Pa- cfc to enjon the company from collecting the with holding tax wages of its members.
 The record shows that immediately demand was
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CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES

Aftermaths of the Taft Hartley Battle Senator Virgil Chapman of Kentucky, who owes his election entirely to Albin Barkley, voted against Barkley and the Adminis- tration right down the line There was a lot of fuss over Sem ator O'Connor of Maryland, who was brought back to Washington for the Taft Hartley vote. O'Con- nor lived up to his advance billing and voted with the Administration. However, when the heat was off, he quietly switched over to Taft's side and voted for the injunction he had earlier opposed. This was also true of Tydings of Delaware, Frear of Delaware tDemocrats) and Lodge of Massachusetts Republican, . . One vote would have changed the entire Taft-Hartley picture, thus creating a tie and a chance for Vice President Barkley to break the tie. Three Senators, according to Senator Lucas, were pledged to vote with Labor, but switched at the last minute-Capehart of Indiana, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, and Hendrickson of New Jersey Senator Lucas skillful handl- ing of the Taft-Hartley fight, even though he lost, will help his diff cult reelection chances in Illin- ois The man who really de- feated Lucas was Byrd of Virginia who had promised Senator Taft to deliver the votes of l4 southern Democrats, and did
 Stalin's SuccessOr-State Depart ment cables report bitter feud raging within the Politburo over who shall succeed Stalin as the dic- tator of Russia. One Politburo group supports Molotov, another Georgi Malenkov, who is emerging as the new strong man in Russia Malenkov has burst in prominence by succeeding Andrei Zhdanov, re- gently dead under mysterious cir cumStanceS.
 SeadOg Gets Bored - Admiral Chester Nimitz is fed up with med iating the India and Pakistan dis pute and wants to come home Neither side has made the slight est move to come to terms and Nimitz has cabled the State De- partment that he's tired of twid- ding his thumbs under the hot h. dian sun.
 Hard On LObbyists-The lobby ists are complaining the loudest about the remodeling on Capitol Hill While the Senate chamber is closed down, there won't be room in the temporary chamber for vis- itors-or lobbyists. Incidentally, the temporary chamber will be so cramped that the Capitol architect has secretly ordered a supply of lumber to remodel larger room in the Senate office building-just in case the Senators won't put up with the inconvenience.
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7 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
The Fairbanks School District,

The Fairbanks School District, an independent school district corpora ton, acting by and through the President and Clerk of the Board of Directors, will receive sealed bids at the office of the Superintendent of
 Schools, Fairbanks School Building. Fairbanks, Alaska, until 500 o'clock PM, August IS, 1949, at which time said bids will be publicly opened. Said bids are to be for the con-
 struction of new high school build- ing and civic center according to plans and specifications heretofore prepared by Manley Sz Mayer, Archi- tects, Anchorage, Alaska, which plans and specifications may be seen and examined in the office of the
 Superintendent of Schools in the Fairbanks Public School Building,
 Fairbanks, Alaska, or copies thereof
 nay be obtained from the architects
 lpon deposit of $5000. Prospective
 bidders are hereby directed to read carefully and consider the plans and specifications and to visit the site )f the work so that they may thor ,ughly familiarize themselves with the conditions, particularly the dif- .iculties, existing at the site; no consideration will be given to any ,laim that bid was made without full comprehension of the conditions % be encountered. The Board of Directors of the Fairbanks School District reserves the right to reject
 my and all bids.
 DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this 7th day of July, 1949.
 ] FAIRBANKS SCHOOL DISTRICT By FRANK CONWAY
 Clerk of the Board of Directors.
 First publication, July l2, 1949.
 Last publication, August ?, l949.
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COCA COLA REPRESENTATIVE
 HERE ON FIRST ALASKA TRIP

Paul E. Kelhofer, of Coca Cola Fountain Sales Department, is in Juneau on his way on trip through the Territory.
 He will remain in town for about a week, doing promotional work with soda fountains dealing with his company's product.
 This is MT. Kelhofer's first trip to Alaska and he expects to cover all the centers of population as north as Nome.
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Daily Lessons in English v |. GORDON

say T wish be free of obligation" Say any obligation"
 MISPRONOUNCED: Pronounce syllable not the second
 OFTEN Blonde; feminine
 maxim order
 three times and it yours Let us Todays word quantity eternity There would limit the Walter Raleigh
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LOOK and LEARN S%y c. GORDON

l. What the three primary human emotions? g. Whose portrait the U. s. two-dolar bill? From country which rich port? Who the pioneer American journalist? ANSWERS: ].
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MODERN ETIQUETTE &y ROBERTA LEE

When setting dinner table where should the water glass and the glass be placed? beyond the glass
 widow for and is going o color should she wear?
 A white Usually delicate pastel shade, light, S in good Should assist ascending streetcar 
 A. light touch her elbow.
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BILL GREEN PROTESTS

AFL President Bill Green is on the warpath about revenue losses to the governments Unemployment Trust Fund. This is the kitty for Unemployment Compensation, and Green is worried over payroll tax reductions and credit rebates to employers hy state employment services.
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JULY IA

pr. c. c. Carter
 Jean Kibbe John Scott Elkins Fred Anderson Martha Osborne Mrs. Fife Covell
 Peggie Gary Mrs. F. T. Irvine Eleanor Taggart Mrs. T. F. Berry
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20 YEARS AGO TIT fME EMPIRE
JULY IA. 1929

of to of the pret The victory the Paps within half game Gastneau Channel League Manning the mound
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE: NO. l47 SECOND and FOURTH o |:::;; ::;: ]: ;';: : ; : 5: j: ::: ::: Worshipful Master;
 JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary.
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Kansas lies in the exact geogra- phical center of the United States
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Ray recently produced Petersburg where they had presented two home talent productions
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call their front organization" the
 Northwest Development Company.
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The Washington Merry-Ge-Round
By DREW PEARSON

tContinued from Page D
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Weather: High, 63; low, 52; rain.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Brewster, Bricker, Bridges, Butler,
Cain. Capehart. Gordon. Donnell,
Ecton, Flanders, Gurney, Hen
erickson, Hickenlooper. Jenner.
KEN, Knowland, Martin, Nc
Carthy, Millikin. Mundt, Reed,
Saltonstall. Schoeppel, Smith
(Me), Smith IN. j., Taft, Thye,
Vandenberg, Watkins. Wherry,
Williams, Wiley and Young.
Against the compromise (23):
Democrats (15) - Anderson.
Douglas, Downey, Gillette, Green,
Humphrey, Kilgore, Lucas, Mag
nuson, McGrath, Mcmahon, Ny
ers, Neely, Pepper and Thomas
(Utah).
Republicans (S)-Aiken, Fer
guson, Ives, LANCER, Lodge, Ma
lone. Morse and Tobey.
Not voting because Of what
the Senate describes as pairs
for and against the bill were Nc
Clellan, Democrat, Of Arkansas,
for, and Murray, Democrat, Of
Montana, against; Fulbright,
Democrat, Of Arkansas, for, and
Taylor, Democrat, of Idaho,
against, and O'Conor, Democrat,
of Maryland. for. and O'Mahoney,
Democrat, Of Wyoming, against.
{ Absent and not voting but an
nounced as against the COM
promise were Senators Chavez Of
New Mexico, Thomas Of Okla
homa and Wagner Of New York,
all Democrats.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Robert F. Hoy Dies;
Chalk Talk Expert

Robert F. Hoy, IS, well known
for his Chalk talk" drawings for
charitable organizations here. died
yesterday at the Houston Hotel
after an illness of two years.
Mr.. Hoy, who was employed by
the National Cash Register Co
until the time of his illness two
years ago, had done cartoon work
as hobby. Through his men,
bership with an Elks' Lodge here
he cartooned for youngsters in
homes for the aged and sick ever
since he Joined the lodge 81 years
ago.
A sidelight Of his cartooning
was to draw pictures of buildings
in old Washington and then have
them made into colored slides.
Born and educated in Wash
ington, he was the son Of Robert
(Tip) Hoy, who was in the hotel
business here. Mr.. Hoy was a
member of the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants, the Society of
Natives and the Eagles. He had
lived at the Houston Hotel for
the last IL years.
His only survivor is his wife,
Ethel Hoy.
Funeral services will be held at
g pm. Sunday in the Lee funeral
home. Fourth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue NE. Burial will
be nriVate
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Aggressive us. Stand
Charged by Hungary
BY the Associotsd Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary. Mar. 18
The Hungarian government
charged today that Official Amer
ican attitude toward Hungary has
been aggressive lately"
The statement, in an official
communique, aSsailed the United
States Governments refusal to
permit five Hungarians to enter
the country as delegates to q
world peace conference" (The
State Department denied them
Was in retaliation for Communist
Hungary's treatment Of American
oficials.)
The communique charged that
"the American authorities do not
dare" to admit the Hungarian
delegates lest they show the
truth in the Mindszenty case"
(The reference was. to the
recent treason trial of Josef
Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman
Catholic primate of Hungary.
The United States and other
Western countries contend the
cardinal was convicted on
trumped-up evidence. He was
centenced to life in prison.)
The communique continued:
I'm America, where people are
deliberately misled, they appar-
emily cannot bear that indepen-
dent democrats should frankly
tell their opinion about war
mongering. The world condemns
the arbitrary step of Americas
Foreign Office"
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nority Leader Wherry OF Ne
braska.
On the other hand, Senator
Wherry declared the compromise
opens the way as never before
for action on the civil rights pro-
gram.
Wherry Calls for Test.
During the heated debate pre-
ceding final adoption of the new
rule, the Nebraskan challenged
Senator Lucas to bring before the
Senate a bill such as abolishing
poll taxes as a requirement fol
voting in Federal elections.
Let him stop talking about
this substitute rule being no good
and come in here and give it g
test" Senator Wherry shouted
We'll soon find out just who il
for civil rights around here and
who Is just talking"
Senator Lucas agreed that thu
new rule must be tested but addee
that the test would come "in Iut
course" That was taken as in.
dicating the administration will
seek to dispose Of other important
Legislation before returning to the
civil rights issue, possibly this
summer.
Senator Russell Of Georgia, who
directed the Southern filibuster
said his side did not claim victory
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Hotel Opening Crowd Disrupts
Dorothy Lumour's Broadcast

libbed a bit and joked at and
with the crowd.
Never mind. Ed, there's a bet
ter crowd on the air." Miss
Lamour was reported as telling
him.
One Of two would-be radio am
ateur performers attempted to
grab the microphone. The shows
cast experienced a rugged time
fighting of the guests and trying
to keep the show on the air. Miss
Lamour said no profanity was
aired.
The show started at 9:30 pm,
but due to one thing and another
it didn't hit the air waves until
IA minutes later. In the mean
time, a standby piano program
was put on.
A faulty public address system
prevented the throng in the
Emerald Room from hearing what
was going on. once the show
| started.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Continued From First Page.

Mr.. Truman's' civil rights pro-
gram.
The rule adopted after pro-
longed and bitter wrangling pro-
vides that two-thirds of the en-
tire Senate membership-or 81
Senators-may shut off debate at
any time on any matter before the
Senate except changes in the Sen
ate rules. The previous rule pro-
vided that two-thirds of those
voting could shut off debate on
pending measure"
But it was held that the ole
rule, unlike the new compromise
one, did not apply to motions te
take up a measure and it was or
this point the Southern Senators
conducted their filibuster.
Majority Leader Lucas. bitterly
assailed the compromise rule anc
predicted there will be no anti
poll tax, anti-lynching and anti.
Job discrimination legislation
points of Mr.. Truman's civil rights
program-passed now because de-
bate cannot be stopped under the
new provision.
He described the new rule as
"the Nebraska compromise, since
It was engineered by Senate Mi
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the House cut it to $25,00O. Faced
with another cut, Gallinger off,
cials don't know how they're going
to feed their patients.
The fuel request was cut. too.
Gallinger asked an increase of
$47,110 for fuel. The House cut
that item to $36.500. Another cut
will make it just that more diff
cult to keep the wards warm
enough for sick people.
Largest of the House slashes for
next year in the Gallinger budget
was a 1882 900 request for equip
ping the proposed new crippled
children's and pediatrics building.
That means the building needed
so long at Gallinger will stand
idle once it is completed because
the hospital won't have the money
in time to order all the equipment,
DR.. Sweeney said.