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The Nome nugget., 1950-03-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
 SECOND DIVISION,
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA IN THE MATTER OF TIE ES- TATE OF ROBERT WALLACE LEDGERWOOD, Deceased
 No. 780
 Notice of Hearing on Administra- tors Reports and Accounts and
 Determination of Heirs Notice is hereby given that A. POLET, Administrator of the foregoing estate, has filed his Fi- nal Report and Account and that by order of the Court duly made a hearing on such Reports and Accounts will be held before the above named Court on the 2lSt day of April, 1850, at the hour of 1O:OO am., and that at such time and place the Court will also de- termine who are the heirs and beneficiarieS of this estate.
 All objections to the Admins trator's Reports and Accounts and proof of heirship will be heard at such time and place.
 DATED this 17th day of Febru- ary, 1850.
 A. POLET,
 Administrator. Pub. Feb. 20, 27, Mar. 6, 13, 1850.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-06
SCHOOL NEWS
(Too late for last iSsue) EIGHTH GRADE

CTOO late for last lSSue) EIGHTH GRADE
 The eighth grade has been working hard. They had to make up poems and read them to the class. While MT. trick was at An chorage Mrs. Glavinovich taught us. The seventh and eighth grade are giving a debate on Statehood for Alaska. One side will be for Statehood and one side against it. They are having lot of fun doing it.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-06

Assembled the 27th day of Febru- ary, 1850.
 APPROVED the 27th day of February, 1850.
 STEVE ANDERSON,
 Mayor. Attest: CHAS. D. JONES,
 Acting Clerk. Publish March l, 3, 6, 1850.
The Nome nugget., 1950-03-06

The United States must import most of the fibers used in making rope.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
SCIENTIST FLIES
 NORTH TO JOIN
 RESEARCH GROUP

SEATTLE, June 201R-Froelich Rainey, University of Pennsylvania archeologist. will leave here tonight by plane for Fairbanks, Alaska, to join fellow workers in renewed eff forts to trace the origin of Ameri- can Indians and Eskimos.
 Rainey said the group will look for a link between Europe, Asia and North America through a crossing of the Boring Straits perhaps 10000 years ago.
 Rainey will join John Helge Lar sen, of the Danish National Mu- scum, Copenhagen; Louis Giddings of the University of Alaska and a group of Danish and Alaska stu dents.
 The Universities of Pennsylvania and Alaska together with the Dan- ish Museum are undertaking the research financed by the Viking Fund, New York.
 Rainey said the group will con- duct further research into the origin of the Eskimo, now believed to date back 1000 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
SOCIAL SECURITY
 pRo6RA AM CHANGE
 E AGREED BY COM

WASHINGTON, June 20 - R - The Senate financing committee today agreed to increase to $3.6OO the maximum annual wages on which social security taxes gre collected to finance old-age pen sions.
 The effect of the change, If &C., cepted by the Senate and House, would be to boost to $50 month the top retirement benefit pro vided in a bill to liberalize the Social Security Program.
 The bill, as now drawn and on which the Senate is to start voting at pm. (EST), retains the pres ent wage base of $3,000 and pro- vides for a maximum pension oi $72.50 a month.
 Chairman George D-GaD told reporters after a closed meeting of the finance committee that he had been authorized to accept an am- endment ir?,1asing the wage base to $3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
.(0NTEMpT CASE AGAINST JAFFE
 RECOMMENDED

T WASHINGTON, June 20 - tR - Counsel for Senate investigators to- day recommended that Philip Jaffe be cited for contempt for refusing to answer questions about the 1945 Amerasia case.
 Jaffe was editor of the magazs..e Amerasia when government agents raided its New York offices during the late stages of the war and found hundreds of secret Navy aiid State Department documents.
 A Senate foreign relations sub- committee now is digging into the old case as an off-shoot of its general investigation into charges of Senator Mccarthy (R-Wis) that the State Department harbors Communists
 Edward P. Morgan, counsel for the subcommittee, told news con- ference his recommendation for contempt proceedings against Jaffe already has been approved by Sen ator Tydings (D-MdD, the commit tee chairman.
 Morgan said that the other four members had not yea acted on the proposal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
DEFENSE COUNSEL
 CAUGHLIN QUIT5 IN
 DEPORTATION CASE

SEATTLE, June 20-tR-Surprise withdrawal of John Caughlan as defense counsel forced postpone ment Monday or deportation hear ings involving ten aliens.
 All are charged with belonging to an organization which advocates overthrow of the government by force.
 Two are officers of Cannery Workers Local 7-C, International Longshoremen's and Warehouse mems Union which recently tieo up much of the Alaska canned salmon industry by its picketing They are Ernesto Mangaong, busi- ness agent, and Chris Mensalyes 7-C president.
 Caughlan's action came as the consolidated hearing, called to heal the testimony of an expert gov ernment witness was about to con- vene.
 Caughlan objected to the con- solidation, then withdrew as counsel for all respondents except Mike Garph.
 "The reason is," he said. "that with good conscience I don't be- lieve I am able to represent them adequately in the type of hearing that has been proposed"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
EXTENSION MINE ASSESSMENT BILL
 GOES TO TRUMAN

WASHINGTON, June 20-lR-A bill for a three-months extension of mine assessment work was sent to the White House today.
 On the recommendation of Sena- tor Gordon (R-Ore). the Senate ap- proved House amendments extend- ing it's provisions to Alaska and making minor technical changes.
 Under basic mining law, $l0C worth of work must be done each fiscal year on innings claims on public lands. The fiscal year ends June 30. The bill would let the claimant have until Oct. to com- plete the work on his claim if he has filed notice by July that he will use the extra time.
 The extension is effective only for the 1949 work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
HEAvYv0TE
 BEING CAST
 IN ELECTION

By pm. today, 535 Juneau voters had cast ballots approving or re- jecting a one-percent municipal sales tax ordinance.
 City officials at that time de- scribed it as "a good vote for a one question election"
 The polling place in the City Council Chambers of the City Hall will remain open until 2 o'clock this evening.
 Mayor Waino Hendrickson fore cast this morning that the ordi- nance would be approved if the vote exceeded 500.
 Strongest opposition to the sales tax ordinance has been from locai labor organizations, which object to consumer taxes.
 The ordinance must be approved by 55 percent of the voters before it becomes law.
 It sets up one-percent special purpose sales tax on sales and Serv- ices of more than 35 cents. The rev enue from the tax would be used only to pay off the present and fu- ture bonded indebtedness of the city.
 City officials have pointed out that the sales tax, if passed, vii! end in the quarter in which the bonded indebtedness of the city is paid off.
 This will, in effect, give to the voters of the city the power with which to end or continue the tax: if they vote in favor of further gen. eral obligation bond issues, they will be voting in favor of exter ding the sales tax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
Father of Five
 Drowns, E fairbanks,
 In Boat Accident

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 20- R = William Apple, 44-year-old father of five children, drowned Sunday in nearby Birch Lake. the US. marshals office said yesterday, after being struck on the head when two companions overturned their small boat.
 The marshal's office said Apple remained in the boat while his companions went swimming. When the men sought to climb back in the boat, it overturned, striking Apple in the back of the head.
 Unconscious, he was dragged to the surface by the other men.
 Another small craft hastily dis patched from the shore also over turned when it occupants tried to pull Apple aboard.
 He was finally taken to shore by a small plane, but efforts to revHe him were unsuccessful.
 Surviving him are a son, Robert and a sister, Esther, both of Fair banks; his widow, now in Lewiston Mont, and four other children whose present address is not known Apple came here from Parker, Colo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
pENTAG0N USED FOR INSURANCE
 GROUP, REPORT

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- R = House investigators received testi- mony today that private insuf- ance group was organized at the Pentagon and operated from there making use of government tele- phones.
 The witness former Maj. Gen William H. Kasten, said the group was founded in 1946 with the ap- proval of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover, then Army Chief of Staff.
 Kasten. retired Army Chief of Finance, is now the 2,000-a-yeaI secretary treasurer of the insurance organization, known as the Armed Forces Mutual Benefit Association { The association's membership | limited to Army officers. It is now a $44,3O0,000 concern.
 Kasten testified before a House armed forces subcommittee check ing into the organization and oper- ation of the association as part of it's investigation of alleged irreg- ularities at the Army finance cen- ter in St. Louis.
 He denied he used his regula. duty time for its management, but said he did work at nights and over week-ends.
 The association moved from the Pentagon in Jan. 1949, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
HOOVER REQuE5T 300 FbI AGENTS
 MAY BE APPROVED

WASHINGTON, June 20 = R = J. Edgar Hoover's campaign for 300 additional FBI agents to hunt down Communist spies appeared to- day to be tabled for victory.
 The House appropriations com- mittee and a Senate appropriations subcommittee were reported to have agreed to approve the FBI direct or's request.
 The Senate subcommittee's 1oc- ommendation is expected to be ac- cepted in turn by the full appro- priations group and the Senate.
 Hoover told the Senators t1- months ago in secret session that there are 54.0O0 known Communists and some 50o,00O Red sympathizers in the United States who form a potential fifth column of traitors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
GIVE US CROWN,
 WE'LL FREE MAN,
 SAY HUNGARIAN5

VIENNA, Austria, June 20-tR- Communist-ruled Hungary has of fered to swap imprisoned American businessman Robert A. Vogeler for one of her most venerated religious relics, the Allied-held crown of St. Stefan, it was learned here today.
 Reliable sources said progress ot negotiations between the US. and Hungary indicated Vogeler, sent enced to IS years imprisonment last Feb. 21 for spying and sabotage, might be released within a few weeks.
 The crown, which dates back 70 Hungary's 11th century King Stefan 1, was taken from Hungary by the Nazis and found by American troops in Germany. It was last reported held by the Western Allies in 1947 at Wiesbaden. in Western Germany.
 (Army authorities and the prop critics division of the high commits sion for Germany said at Frankfurt this morning that they do not know the present whereabouts ot the crown)
 The United States, reportediy at Vatican urging. has refused re- peated demands by Hungary's Red government for the crown.
 Return of the crown, the sources here said, was the only ransom price set for Vogeler by the Hun garians.
 Many Hungarians attribute miraculous powers to the crown and believe that no government holds power legitimately unless it has possession of the relic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
Property Tax Held L1ualid; To Appe
MOVIE STAR JUDY GARLAND CUTS HER THROAT; HY5TERICAL

HOLLYWOOD, June 20 = R = Judy Garland, movie actress, cut her throat in fit of anguish, hel studio disclosed today. The wouno is not serious.
 After Miss Garlands husband Vincent Minelli. earlier denied such a report. Ralph Wheelwright studio publicity aide, made the fol- lowing statement to reporters who gathered at the distraught actress palatial pink mansion on Sunset Boulevard:
 Miss Garland was in conference last night at about six o'clock al 8850 Evansview Drive (anothei house of Miss Garland's) with hel husband Vincent Mineli, her busi- ness manager. Carlton Alsop, ano her secretary. Myrtle Fully. They were discussing Miss Garland's flu. ture. At one point in the discussion Miss Garland who has been under strain and ill became very despon- dent and hysterical and rushed from the living room through tht bedroom and ipto the, bathroom locking the door behind her. Sht broke a drinking glass and with the broken glass made superficial laceration on her throat.
 'Minelli got her to open the dool and she was immediately very re- pentant and weeping. They sent fol Dr. Francis Ballard who treated the wound. He said it was very minor and attributed it to an i'm pulsive, hysterical act.
 Miss Garland is now resting under her doctors care. She k asleep. I saw her and she has z slight bandage on her neck. Nt stitches were taken"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
STATEHOOD
 FOR ALASKA E TAKEN UP

WASHINGTON, June 20 - R - The Senate Interior Committee will start work tomorrow on legislation to grant statehood to Alaska. It hopes to finish it's study late this week.
 The committee concluded its ten tative study of bill to grant state : hood to Hawaii yesterday. Final ac- ton on the bill was deferred until the amendments on the Alaska bill are completed. Then the committee will vote on each of them.
 Chairman OMahoney D-Wyo) has said previously he hopes to send both to the Senate for action this week. Other members of the committee. however. say they do not believe such speedy action will be possible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
BULLETINS }

The Republican National Com mitfeeman from Connecticut, liar old Mitchell, was found dead today at his home in West Hartford. The coroner says it was heart attack. Mitchell was 48 years old.
 In speech at Corvallis, Oregon. last night, Assistant Secretary ot the Interior c. Girard Davidson said that President Truman's Point Four program will lay the groundwork for lasting peace.
 The Supreme Soviet Parliament has voted unanimously to continue in office the government of Premier Josef Stalin. The vote was taken last night = as Communist party members cheered and applauded.
 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is sight seeing in Holland today. Her itin- erary includes visit to the Roose- welt ancestral home, on the Dutch island of Tholen.
 A veteran forest ranger in Den yer says the forests of Colorado and Wyoming are ready to roar into wild infernoes at the drop of a match. They haven't had rain in weeks, and they're dry as finder.
 Cloudbursts accompanied by winds of tornado force deluged East and Central Kentucky last night. In some areas the water was four feet deep in the streets. A two-year-old boy drowned at Rush, Kentucky.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
WALk0UI lT0p5
 WORK ON 11-5I0Ry
 ApARMENTT BLDG.

Work stopped on the Mendenhail
 Apartment project yesterday after noon as carpenters, supported by
 other workers, struck in protest te
 certain employment practices.
 The strike was called at noon, but
 necessary work was continued into
 the afternoon. The 38 men employed
 on the job were idle today.
 The dispute arose when the An
 derson Construction Company
 which is building the l2-story
 apartment at Fourth and Franklin
 Street, refused to pay for the trans
 portation of carpenters from the
 point os hire to the jobs.te.
 Erwin Hill. business agent for the
 United Brotherhood of Carpenter
 and Joiners of America. Local 2247 (AFL). charged today that the con- struction company had withheld
 from carpenters paychecks the
 cost of transportation from Seattle, which had been advanced to them. He said that 1t has been the practice here for the past l2 years for contractors to pay the trans portation costs when workmen are brought in for jobs and to pay their return passages if they stay until the job is completed He said this provision was in- cluded in the locals 1949 contract with the Associated General Con- tractors.
 Anderson Construction Company agreed verbally to accept the provi- sions of the 1949 contract, Hill de- clared.
 A. K. Eskestrant, superintendent of the apartment project for the Anderson Construction Company, said no agreement had been signed with the carpenters.
 "The only verbal agreement I've 1 heard about is verbal wage agree ment." he said.
 The local wants the transporta- ton costs paid to the men immedi-
 ately, and the company wants tc ] pay the carpenters transportation costs both ways If they stay for I the duration of the job" The carpenters business agent said the objection to this plan is:
 "They say they will pay transpor- | tation here and return if the car penters stay to the end of the job but it is at the discretion of the l construction company that a worker /. is fired"
 1 We are not trying to force any I thing new on the contractor" Hil continued. We are trying to make him live up to past practices" Spokesmen for both the contrac- i tor and the carpenters were hope | full that negotiations leading to q 1 settlement of the dispute would be- gin soon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Aleutian from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail westward at 3:30 pm.
 Princess Norah from Vancouver in port and scheduled to sail for Skagway at ll:30 tonight.
 Chilcotin from Vancouver sched- uled to arrive pm. Thursday.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver tomorrow.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday.
 Baranof scheduled to sail frox> Seattle Saturday.
 Princess Kathleen scheduled ' sail from Vancouver Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20

 Agreement
 LA. Strike

LOS ANGELES, June 20 lR - Tentative agreement to end the four-day Los Angeles transit strike was announced today by Federal conciliator Harry c. Malcom.
 Negotiators, after a meeting which lasted into the early morning hours, agreed on terms which will be sub mitted to the union membership at pm. (PDT) today.
 Terms of the settlement were not disclosed pending a vote by the strikers. If they approve, streetcars and buses will start roll ing again at 4 am., tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
Atomic Submarine
 pIanf Site Given

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, June 20- tR-The power plant for the Navy's planned atomic submarine will 0e built at the eastern Idaho project now under construction, the atomic energy commission says.
 Approval was given the Navy's construction plans by the Senate armed services subcommittee yes- terday.
 The multi-million dollar AEC plant now is well underway It is located southwest of Idaho, Falls.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
Chiang kai-5hek Is Moi in Japan
 Nor 0kinawa, Report

TOKYO, June 20@R-Top Amer ican military authorities today de- nied emphatically that Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kali Shek was in Japan or Okinawa.
 The rumors popped up in Hong Kong and Formosa, Chiangs re- treat from the Communist main- land of China.
 The dispatches from both. places said Chiang had gone to' confer with U. s. Defense Secretary John- son on defense of Formosa. listed by the Chinese Communists to DC invaded this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
The W ashington Merry Go Round
Bv DREW PEARSON lCopyright. 1850, py Bell Syndicate. Inc.

iCopyright. 1850, py Bell Syndicate. Incl WASHINGTON = Senator Mo- Carthy is now demanding that the full text Of Emmanuel Larsen's testimony in the Amerasia case be published. Obviously, however the Senator does not know what's in the full text or he would not be urging publication.
 For, in the secret testimony, he Mccarthy, is called "fool' by his fellow Republican. Senator Wherry of Nebraska
 Wherry was anxious to know in advance what Larsen was going to testify to; also not averse to influencing Larsen's testimony Therefore, he sent for Larsen and told him: Mac (McCarthy) has gone out on a limb and made kind of fool of himself, and we have to back him up now"
 Three other Republicans also conferred with Larsen in the at tempt to get some help for Mo Carthy-Congressman Dondero ol Mich, who brought him to Sen- ator Wherry's office; Senator Fer guson, also of Michigan, who hac a separate secret talk; and Mo
 lContinI1ad on Page Eol1rl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
GILLIS-NAOMOFF

Ralph Buster Gillis, taxi driver, and Marion Virginia Naomoff, waitress, both of Juneau, made ap- plication yesterday for marriage license before U. s. Commissioner Gordon Gray. Both are AlasAa born-he in Ketchikan, she in Cor dova.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
FROM ANCHORAGE

Among Anchorage residents stop ping at the Baranof Hotel are Tony Schwamm, Territorial aero nautics director; E. G. Fisher, CAA engineer in charge of construction; MT and Mrs F. H. Fuqua, also with CAA; MT. and Mrs. E. M. Skousen, c. c. Darlington, William J. Craig. L. P. Halverson, D. K. Joselyn and D. M. Kantolo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
HITS MINE(LAIM
 PROVISIONS
Organic Act Violated, Says Detision-No Uniformity
 in Law Noted


 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 2O-- R-Alaska's new one percent prop erty tax law has been ruled illegal by Federal Judge Harry E. Pratt.
 In a memorandum opinion filed yesterday in District Court. the Judge held that two sections of the law enacted at the last session of the Legislature violated the Terri tory's Organic Act. Consequently. he said. the entire law is invalid.
 The decision was the outgrowth of a suit brought last December by Luther Hess and the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.,. asking that the law be declared void and a perma- nent injunction be issued against further property tax collections.
 Judge Pratt issued a temporary injunction January 28 pending a final decision.
 His ruling today said that the section dealing with the taxation on mining claims violates the Or ganic Act which requires taxation according to the true and full value" of the property.
 Lacks Sameness
 Another section giving cities the right to assess property within tneir boundaries and collect taxes had resulted in lack of uniformity as required by the Organic Act. As examples he cited the 2 percent re- bates allowed delinquent tax lpayers in Juneau and Douglas. whereas no rebate is ,grantsd &s Fairbanks.
 He held further the plaintiffs had submitted evidence proving that taxpayers lack adequate remedy under the new law for recovery of taxes paid under protest. as re- quired under certain circumstances by Section 48-7-1 of the Alaskan Compiled Laws.
 Will Appeal Attorney General J. Gerald Will Hams gave notice of appeal through his assistant. John Dimond. Will Hams is at present on six-week vacation in the states. but told Di- mond before he left that in case the decision went against the Ter ritory that appeal would be filed. Attorneys for the co-pIaintiffs were Edward F. Medley. Seattle; Charles J. Clasby. Fairbanks. and H. L. Faulkner, Juneau. With the Territory as defendants were the city of Fairbanks and the Fairbanks school district.
 The judge ruled against the min- ing claim section. basically. on the ground that an owner has to pay the same tax for one acre or 2O-- and twice as much for 20h acres as for 20.
 Arbitrary $500 The law sets an arbitrary $500 valuation as the assessed value of unimproved. unpatented mining claims which are not producing. and non-producing patented claims. upon which Improvements orig inally required for patent have be- come useless through deterioration. removal or otherwise" for leach 20 acres or fraction of each such claim"
 Under that provision. such min- ing claim of one acre would be valued at $500 for tax purposes. So would claim up to. and including 20 acres. That makes the tax rate range from $500 an acre to s25 an acre. the judge noted.
 The tax on 20 l /l0 acres, which is the maximum area of a quartz claim, would be a valuation of $1,OO0-or just under $50 an acre.
 The judge held the two sections of the law to be clearly invalid"
 He said the whole law is built
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-06-20
HANSEN Is YisITOR

On his first trip to Alaska, H. Carl Hansen of Everett, Wash, arrived Saturday to visit his son, Capt. $. c. Hansen, and family for several weeks.
 Captain Hansen is sector con- mander of the Alaska Communica- ton System.