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off seasons, causing loss Of time
and money to those engaged in
the trapping business.
Game Fish Limits
Dean Goodwin presented a re-
quest that limits for game fish be
raised from the present is fish or
10 pounds and one fish to % fish
or 25 pounds and ons fish. 1t was
his belief that a greater limit
would induce Lore interest in
game fishing.
Lester Mangle. who said he spent
10 months at the Seward Sana-
torium, appeared before the hear
ing to enter complaint of the
practice of the Fish and Wildlife
Service of giving the meat of
moose confiscated when killed out
of season or by accident, as some
times occurs on The Alaska Rail
road to charitable institutions. To
the amazement Of his listeners
Mangle SAID he maze his oDJec-
tions to this practice because the
inmates of such institutions grow
tired of eating only moose as the
meat dish in their meals.
The public hearing was brought
to a close during the testimony of
Karl Brunstad of Kodiak who asked
for a year-round open season on
Kodiak bear, declaring they pre-
vent the successful raising of cat
tie on the Island, when he and
Rhode were called to appear be-
fore the House in the Alaska
Legislature On the Ca~lson-Scav-
enius Joint Memorial seeking Il
months open season on Kodiak
Island bears and a removal OF the
bag limit.
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the public good. and if so all legis- e
lators would want to hear it," ~
Barr said it should be an execu- %
tive session ito prevent any inno-
cent person from being injured.
We don't know who may be &C 'L9
cused, or of what"
Butrovich Immediately responded, III
Il object to that line of thought. %
Nothing in the letter Tin which OF
Jensen asked for the chance to APP III
pear said he would make any 90
charges
Senate President Gunnard Enge- d
breth (R-Anchorage) interposed: 81
Il think we all know what the %
score isl ~
Butrovich shot back: what is o.
the score? l don't know And 1 don't
know what Jensen will talk about"
He remarked about house mem d
bers who had voted against hear 2s
ing Jensen in their own chamber ial
were almost falling out Of the gal 9o
leries to hear him. when it looked
like he would take the stand in the Is
senate yesterday. %
Sen. Elton Engstrom (R-Juneau 81
was another who spoke against e
joining with the house. He said the la'
house had turned Jensen down
once land made show of the g
whole thing" 50
The rollcall on the proposal to e.
meet with the house showed: Il
In favor-Barr, Beltz, Butrovich,
Garnick, Huntley, Ipalook, Mac 1t
Kenzie, McCutcheon and Enge- III
breth. d
Against - Anderson, Coble, Eng q
strom, Lhamon, Lying, Nolan, Sni- 81
der.
The only new bill introduced in
the senate today was by Engstrom, Il
to shift the inspector of weights s
and measures job from the treasurer y
to the highway engineer. g
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Nineteenth of a Series

Nineteenth of Series
This departments recent casual
mention of bourbon as an adjunct
of government" brought us a Num-
Der of letters, none of which is
f,,sttering to bourbon, to government
c. - ourselves.
One of these, rambling but
high-proof affair of several pages,
can be distilled down to:
l. A categorical statement that
liquor and government should never,
repeat never, be mentioned in the
same sentence or even the same
paragraph.
Q. : request for documented evil
dencc as 20 the amount of drinking
". legislative and administrative
.-..~cles.
3. A demand that something be
done about IL.
Skipping over items one and
three for all time, we can report
that the Goth Legislature, as COM
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that the funds will be made avail
able only ii the wolf control work
in the designated area is assigned
to FWS predator control agents
Frank Chaser, Maurice Kelly or
T. B. Burkholder.
In letter to Clarence Rhode,
Regional Director of the Fish and
Wildlife Service setting forth the
Offer O'Connor states This is a
forr>al request for a cooperative
arrangement satisfactory to both
yo-.r organization and to the
Sportsmen.'
Wolves have been reported re-
Gently to be increasing in numbers
in the Juneau area and at the
present time the Fish and Wildlife
Service does not have available
funds for an extended predator
control program in this district.
At the Game Commission hear
ing and in his letter to Rhode,
O'Connor also called attention to
the fact that the Sportsmen have
provided food for the past two
winters in an effort to preserve a
deer breeding stock in this district.
He Sid it is the hope of the
Sports. nen TIT some means can
be wo9's I'd out to assist in this
work x the Ga: lie Commission.
Feeding Program
O'Connor expressed the belief
that the Fish and Wildlife Service
should engage in more extensive
program for feeding the deer in
the winter months.
The Sportsmen have put out l0C
sacks of grain for deer in the Ju-
neau area SO far this winter. Home
steaders in isolated localities also
feed the deer. O'Connor expressed
the belief that the Fish and Wild
life Service should engage in a
more extensive program for feed
ing the deer in the winter months
At present it carries on an unor-
ganized program whereby agents
when in the field, cut down cedar
and spruce browse for the animals
Dick Harris, pioneer Alaskan and
woodsman, who attended the meet
ing, said that he opposed feeding
the deer in the winter because OF
the belief it tended to reduce the
resourcefulness of the animals for
/ living in the wilds. He said it was
I his belief the control of predators
bears and wolves, was more impor-
tant toward saving the lives OF the
deer and that they could shift for
themselves as far as feeding was
concerned if they could be saved
from being killed off by predatorS.
Changes in trapping regulations
to eliminate the alternating OF
marten and mink season were
sought by Ralph Reischl, Kenneth
Martin and Howard Kresge. A
similar request by trappers in
other sections of Alaska was made
at hearings held prior to the con-
vening of the Alaska Game Com
! mission. Trappers say that in this
Division TOO many mink and mar
ten are caught in the traps il
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IN T H E
SEN AT E
Bills Introduced

S.B. II, by Engebreth, to empower
Boards of Directors of Independent
School Districts, pursuant to refer
endums, to levy sales taxes within
their respective districts.
S.B. 10, by Garnick, to expand
facilities and services of the Uni
versity of Alaska, including the es-
tablishment and operation of a
Southeastern Branch making an
appropriation of $5oO,OoO
S.B. 10, by Mackenzie, increas-
ing the rate of per diem for Of
ficials and employees when away
from home on Territorial business
from $40 to SIS.
S.B. 20, by Engebreth, to add two
members-at-large to the Territorial
Board of Education, making the
total membership seven.
S.B. 81, by Engebreth, to amend
the Alaska Net Income Tax Act and
specifying that the Alaska tax shall
be computed on normal taxes and
surtax on net incomes, but not on
excess profits taxes.
S.B. %, by Engebreth, imposing
tax on canned salmon amounting
to SO cents a case on kings and
reds, "a cents case on other yarie-
ties, with all revenues to go to the
School Fund for school construction
SD. %, by Lying, to amend the
law relating to discrimination by
extending it's provisions to employ
ment
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20 gallons of liquor and .82 gallon
of wine.
The population IS SHOWN by the
census C128,643 does not, however,
include a good many thousands of
fishermen, cannery workers, tour
lists, construction workers an
other transients, most of whom
work fairly steadily at boosting the
Territory's liquor consumption.
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According to the biennial report
of the Territorial Department OF
Taxation. 1.992,O65 gallons of beer,
380,681 gallons of distilled liquor
and 106,352 gallons of wine were
consumed in Alaska during the
year 1850.
On the basis of the 1850 census,
this figures out to per capita
consumption of 15.5 gallons of beer,
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All of this was expended in
Alaska except $127.99, which was
spent in Washington, d. c., between
April 7 and June is, 1949.
TIL entertainment fund purchases
included six cases of beer, one case
of MADEIRA and Claret and three of
Burgundy; six gallons, two cases
and a couple of bottles of Sauterne;
six bottles of Creme de Menthe
and eight of Creme de Cacoa; five
bottles of Bacardi, one of cordial
and eight of brandy; II cases and
16 bottles of gin; seven cases and
rs bottles of Scotch; six cases and
eight bottles of Yarmouth; seven
gallons and one fifth of Sherry;
eight cases and 81 bottles OF as
sorted WHISTLES and Is bottles OF
unidentified liquors.
We took this inventory to a bar
tender friend with the request
that he translate it into some kind
of a common denomination.
After converting gallons to fifths
and fifths to jiggers. he scratched
his head, examined the labels on
half a dozen bottles, poured some
samples into a cocktail shaker
sock soundings. made calculations
on the hackbar mirror with piece
of soap and came up with an
answer.
The whole assortment churneo
up together would, he estimated
provide 1852 average bar-sized
drinks. He wasn't sure what the
combination would taste like OF
what it would do to anyone who
tried more than a small shot Of
it, but he thought Totem Pole
Special might be an appropriate
name.
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FOOT inside
HOUSE DOOR

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STATEHOOD
Once MORE
CONSIDERED

Continued from Page One)
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Crime in America
CHAPTER IA
By Estes Kefouver
Former Chairman of Senate
Crime Committee

An alarming aspect in the pat
tern of crime in America is that
certain manufacturers have delib-
erately allied themselves with
racketeers as a means of con-
trolling labor relationships.
In Detroit, the Senate Crime
Committee turned up four in
Evening star., 1951-07-31
New Witness Arrested
In Louisiana Mystery
BY III. Assoeiatsd Pres.

NEW ORLEANS. July 31.-Part
lof the mystery surrounding a mar
found dead in a Louisiana swamp
is cleared UP, but his identity re-
mains puzzle.
Sam Jones. the one first identi-
fed as the victim, gave officers
his version of how the man died
Jones said that Donald Easter
wood, once tried and acquitted or
a charge Of numbering Jones
knew the mans name.
Easterwood, 26, was arrested al
his Baton Rouge home after this
disclosure by Jones yesterday ano
jailed at nearby Gretna on q
charge of investigation of murder
He refused to say anything be-
cause his lawyers were not pres
ent.
| Easterwood had been free on
bond as a material witness. He
was first arrested last week after
Jones was found alive in Denver
Colo.
John Faulkner, chief deputy
criminal sheriff, said the 40-year-
old Jones signed a statement in
which he said the man fell on a
knife and killed himself during a
fight. Mr.. Faulkner quoted Jones
as saying he put the body In the
swamp.
Under subsequent questioning
while under the influence of q
truth serum, Jones said that Eas-
Iterwood knew the mans name.
Jones is being held under a mur.
der charge in connection with
the unidentified John Doe"
Evening star., 1951-07-31

hostile and difficult witness
When we asked him about tn,
gang factions in Detroit, he snap
ped: do you want me to get my
head blown OFF,"
Bennett admitted that, although
he was a key man in one of tht
largest plants in the world, HI
kept no files, records or memo
Iranda of any kind.
In fairness to Ford, our re-
port observed that the company
lis taking vigorous steps to disas.
Sociate itself from these racket
|eer-held contracts" It now is at.
tempting to terminate by some
legal means its deal with Adonis
Sought to Buy Up Stock.
Also in Detroit, the committed
cleared up the mystery of how
Cleveland gamblers acquired ar
important block of stock in &
Vital industry. the Detroit Stee
Corp. Max J. Zivian, president
of Detroit Steel, told us that ir
1914 Detroit Steel merged with
Reliance Steel Corp. of Cleveland
Zivian undertook to purchase
the Reliance presidents stock fol
approximately $580,O00. He sale
he was in Cleveland when gam
bier businessman Morris Dalitz
whom he had known slightly
bumped into me in the street.
zivian said he told him that he
was attempting to close a biz
deal but was short 100000
Dalitz. without even looking at 8
balance sheet, arranged a bank
loan for the necessary money. Sc
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Boronet's MARRIAGE
To Tontofzing Wife
'AnnuNed by Court
BY the Assoeiai.d Pres.

LONDON, July 3l.-A British
baronet whose lovely bride posed
for nude honeymoon snapshots
but SHE'D away from the nuptia
bed is entitled to his freedom, the
Court Of Appeal held yesterday.
The court granted Sir Francis
Beaumont, 27, a decree Of nullity
of his marriage to blond Barbara
Singleton Beaumont, 23-year-old
actress. The ground was her will
full refusal to consummate the
marriage.
A lower court had tossed out
Sir Francis suit March /, along
with Lady Beaumont's cross-peti-
ton for divorce on cruelty
grounds. Sir Francis appealed.
The young baronet testified the
nude snapshot sequence and its
aftermath occurred during their
honeymoon on the Isle of Capri
in June, 1949.
He said Barbara stripped and
posed for him on the balcony of
their hotel, but rebuffed his hus-
bandly advances.
One thing led to another, Sir
Francis related, and eight days
later they parted.
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Sylvan Theoter to Show
Film on Muunu Loo

The mighty Mauna Loa volcano
will erupt Thursday night-on
film.
The fire-and-lava display, in
color, will highlight q free-admis-
sion National Park Service pro-
gram, "A Visit to Hawaii National
Park" which starts at S:15 pm.
at the Sylvan Theater on the
Washington Monument Grounds.
In case of rain the program will
be housed In the Commerce De-
partment Auditorium, Fourteenth
street between Constitution ave-
nue. and E street NV,
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Chrysler-Ply1 Dealer

WE ARE to be associated with this outstanding organiza
w tion for certain that CAPITAL GARAGE will
conscienousy and well The staff wequafied
to present-and servcehe smart Plymouth and odays
style classic, the beautiful 1851 Chrysler.
We put service outstanding facilities
factory designed tools actoytraned mechanics
ently located in the heart Of downtown Washington
You cordially invited to drop in and the will
sell and service the Chryers and Plymouhs THE
CAPITAL GARAGE.
Evening star., 1951-07-31
1851 Traffic Death Toll
May Increase 10 $1,000
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 31.-The Ma
tons traffic death toll for 1851
may reach $1,000, the fourth
highest in history, the National
Safety Council warns.
In the first six months this
year, the council reported. l6.32O
persons lost their lives in traffic
accidents, 8 per cent higher than
for the same period in 1850.
The June total of 5000 was 18
per cent over June. 1850. 1t was
the biggest increase for any
month since July, 1916, and the
second highest June toll on rec
ord.
The council said heavier travel
was responsible for much of the
increase.
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Levin Named to Post
In Public Health Bureuu

Gilbert v. Levin, of Baltimore
has been appointed stream pol
luton engineer in the Bureau OF
Public Health Engineering, DR.
Arthur E. Cliff, acting director OF
public health, announced today.
Mr.. Levin was graduated from
Johns Hopkins University with q
master of science degree in sani-
tary engineering in 1948 and has
been employed in the Maryland
State Department of Health and
the California State Department
of Public Health.
He is a member of several en-
gineering societies and lives at
4845 Kansas avenue NV.
Evening star., 1951-07-31

fancss in which large industrial
concerns awarded lucrative con-
tracts to gangsters or men who
had underworld connections.
Typical was the link between
Santo (Sam) Perrone and the
Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. The
bespectacled, balding Perrone once
served a Six-year sentence for
violating the prohibition laws, and
both he and his brother, GaSpar
had been arrested for questioning
on murder charges, though later
released. Ironically, Santo had a
license to carry a revolver at the
time we questioned him. It was
promptly revoked by Detroit au-
thoritieS
Started in Stove Works.
Perrone barely can read and
write English. He went to work
more than 40 years ago as a core
maker for the stove works, per-
haps the largest non-union plant
in the area. Perrone insisted he
never even had discussed labor
problems with John A. Fry. COM
pany president, and Mr.. Fry teS-
titled he never had heard of any
labor difficulty or any physical
violence at the plant.
Around 1884, however, there
was a serious strike when a union
made a strenuous effort to or
ganize the stove works. Twelve
years later, Fry told grand jury
investigating labor rackets that
during the dispute "I talked with
some of the fellows in the plant.
including the Perrones, and I
wanted to know whether or not
we could get some help to come
in, and they said they thought
they could.
There was some fights outside
the gate on the part of the pick
cts attacking the men when they
came in to lunch. / think after
the first day we had rs or 80
policemen around the plant"
Melted Over $4,000 a Year.
Shortly after this violent strike,
Santo Perrone, the coremaker,
was given contract to purchase
and haul away the scrap from
the stove works. Thus, the litter
ate manual laborer acquired an
income which in recent years has
netted him between $4,000 and
$65,000 a year. He lives in a lux
uriouS mansion. drives a costly
car, and has been able to lend
large sums of money.
The company also took care of
Santos brother, Gaspar, changing
its coremaking department to
SubcontractorShip. Using COM
pany materials and the same
company-owned equipment with
which he had worked as an en-
ploye, Gaspar became the con-
tractor who supplied the factory
with sand cores.
Later, Santo and Gaspar were
sent to the penitentiary for il
legally manufacturing whisky.
The company kept Santos scrap
contract in effect for him while
he was in prison. Also, while the
PerroneS were imprisoned, the
United Auto Workers, CIO, which
previously had been kept out of
Detroit Michigan Stove, was able
to organize one of the plants. A
UAW organizer said, though, that
when Mr.. Perrone got out of jail,
"the organization disappeared"
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Business and Underworld Link
Noted in Detroit by Probers

Ization Service inspector told us
that, while investigating aliens
illegally in the United States, he
learned that 20 such violators
were working at the Detroit
Michigan Stove Co. Gaspar was
questioned by the committee
about a Speedboat which he owns
and operates on the Great Lakes
between Michigan and Canada,
but he denied that he ever
Ismuggled in any aliens.
The Stove Works story
fits neatly with that of a larger
plant, Briggs Manufacturing Co..
makers of auto bodies. President
Fry of the stove works and Presi-
dent William Dean Robinson of
Briggs are close friends.
Son-in-Law Gets Contract.
For approximately 20 years,
Briggs had contracted with an es-
ItabliShed firm, Woodmere Scrap
Iron, for removal of ferrous scrap
from the Briggs plant. In 1945,
ISanto Perrone's son-in-law, Carl
IRenda, %, suddenly applied for
the contract.
The contract was taken away
from Woodmere and awarded to
IRenda, despite the facts that he
had no knowledge of the business,
no equipment and not even tele-
phone or Office where he could
be called.
Then Perrone'S son = in law
turned around and made a sub
contract with Woodmere. the old
contractor. whereby Woodmere
kept right on doing the work.
But Woodmere paid Renda $3.50
a ton more than he had paid
Briggs for the scrap. giving him
an income which has reached
$101 900 a year. As our report
commented: "the inference is in
escapable that what Renda was
being paid for was the service
CmuScleD of his father law,
Perrone."
Six Officials Badly Beaten.
Six prominent officials of the
Briggs union were badly beaten
by unknown persons in the year
that followed granting of the
Renda contract.
Before going to Detroit, the
committee explored in the New
oYrk-New Jersey area the tie-up|
between the Ford Motor Co. and
the notorious gangster, Joseph
Dota, alias Joe Adonis. Adonis is
a principal stockholder of the
Automotive Conveying Co. of New
Jersey, which transports automo-
biles away from the Ford plant at
EdgeWater, N. j.
Because of this, the committee
looked into possible relationships
between Ford's plants in the De-
troit area and other racketeers.
We found that the principal haul
away operator was the E & L
Transport Co., in which one An
thony D'Anna. ex-convict and for
mer sugar supplier to bootleg
gers. was a so per cent stock
holder. D'Anna drew a $27, 1000
salary from E & L but apparently
he did nothing to earn it.
Got 500 Share of Agency.
Before acquiring his E & L
stock. D'Anna, through negotia-
tions with Harry Bennett, labor
boss for the late Henry Ford, Sr.,
had obtained a so per cent share
of a profitable Ford agency in
Mich.
Bennett, now retired, had as
the committee noted, employed
virtually a private army recruited
from ex-convicts and criminals
to engage in battles against labor
and in other anti-social activi-
ties" Subpoenaed from his Cali
fornia ranch to- testify, he was a
Evening star., 1951-07-31
Gregory Peck in HospituI

LA JOLLA, Calf, July 81 (P.-
Gregory Peck has entered Scripps
Memorial Hospital here, for rest.
He has been playing in summer
theater here. MIR. Peck, IS, was
ordered yesterday to undergo a
thorough checkup. His August
tour through the East and Mid
west was Cancelled.
Evening star., 1951-07-31
--AP Photo.

the Cleveland syndicate acquired
10000 shares of Detroit Steel
stock.
Zivian subsequently became
friendly with the Cleveland gam
bier and once took a trip on
Dalitz' yacht.
TOMORROW. Philadelphia
Police tactics in the City OF
Brotherly LoUe.
Condensed from book. Crime In
America" by Estes Kefauver. Cpr 1851
Published by Doubleday, Inc. Distributed
by General Features Corp.
Evening star., 1951-07-31

This is the 18th Of q series Of 70
orticles condensed from the book,
Crime in America" by Senator
xefouyer.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-28
Federal Reserve Bank Of PhiLadel-
Phia Reports On Current Trends

Banking and business activity in
the Third Federal Reserve District
eased of slightly during July ex-
cept for construction which rose
substantially. The general slow
down was due, in part, to inventory
indigestion and also seasonal fac
tors such as the beginning Of Yaca-
tiOns and the arrival of hot wea-
theT.
Activity in Pennsylvania factories
was affected by the usual summer
letdown. Operations were curtailed
by both nondurable and durable
firms and industrial production
dropped a few notches. Work fore
es and payrolls were also reduced,
with most major industry groups
reporting declines. Despite the
various decreases for the month,
total physical output, wages and
employment were above a year
earlier.
The lag in consumer buying con-
tinued to be evident even though
income and the number employed
remained very high. Department
store sales managed to advance
lust slightly from June to July
/ However, they were considerably
below the war-scare level OF las
year when they topped 1s4s Dy q
per cent. Sales in August also WeC'