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Fish and Game Bill
Offered For
Governor’s O-K
JUNEAU, W) — The House con
curred yesterday in Senate
ehanges to the Alaska Fish and
Game Resources Bill and sent the
measure to acting Governor Hugh
Wade.
Wade is expected to sign the
bill and send it to Secretary of
the Interior Seaton for his approv
al. If Seaton agrees to the meas
ure, Alaska would realize its long
awaited hope of controlling its
fisheries.
Transfer of control of the re
source could come next January
1 if Seaton agrees to the bill and
certifies it to Congress 90 days
before it adjourns. If certification
is not made, it would take another
year for the transfer to be made.
The bill was sent to the Gover
nor despite a legal question
raised by the Attorney General
and Rep. John Hellenthal, chair
man of the House Judiciary Com
mittee.
Hellenthal contended the com
mercial fishing license schedule in
the bill may be held in violation
of a provision in the U. S. Consti
tution guaranteeing all American
citizens equal rights.
The measure called for non-res
ident commercial fishing license
fees totaling three times that
required for residents.
“It looks like an immature bill
and totally disregards the U. S.
Constitution,” Hellenthall said.
“It is a built-in insult to fisher
men.”
Taxing of Freezer Ship
Cateh Will Be Done By
New Legislation, Says Gov.
JUNEAU, — Acting Gover
nor Hugh Wade said yesterday he
decided, on the advice of the State
Attorney General, not to seek a
rehearing of a recent court test
which left a loophole in Alaska’s
raw fish tax law.
A circuit court decision March
17 ruled the four per cent state
tax could not be applied to the
catch of freezer ships supplied by
Independent fishermen. The ruling
said the tax was applicable only
to the take of catcher boats be
longing to the company which op
erated the freezer ship.
Freezer ships haul raw fish,
taken in Alaskan waters, to Puget
Sound ports for processing.
Wade said he, Attorney Gen
eral Gerald Williams, and State
tax officials would propose legis
lation to close the tax gap.
PARTY-LINE TRAGEDY
SAN CARLOS, Calif., — For
17 agonizing minutes after her
husband had suffered a heart at
tack Thursday, Mrs. Emma Dobert
pleaded for a party line before a
caller would relinquish it, she
told police.
Firemen reached William Do
bert, ©6, just four minutes after
Mrs. Debert’s call got through,
but he was dead.
Police are investigating Mrs.
Dobert’s complaint of party line
hogging in the emergency, a mis
demeanor under California law.
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Up for Amendment
JUNEAU, (J*) — A controversial
bill to amend Alaska’s employ
ment security law was restored
to life in the Senate yesterday.
The measure was killed late
Wednesday but the Senate voted
to reconsider. Before the bill could
be brought up for another roll
call vote yesterday, Sen. Hubert
Gilbert, Fairbanks Democrat,
moved to return the bill to ser
ond reading, a stage in the legis
lative process where measures
undergo amendment from the
floor.
The bill was then ordered held
i until today to become a special
order of business when the Senate
resumes work.
A large increase in jobless in
surance taxes levied against em
ployers and employes is contained
in the measure.
California Jury Decrees
Hired Slayer Must Die
VENTURA, Calif., W — A jury
has decreed that hired strangler
Augustine Baldonado must die in
the gas chamber for murdering
Olga Duncan.
He confessed that he and Luis
Moya beat and strangled the
daughter-in-law of Elizabeth
Duncan, 54, whose jealous attach
ment for her son, Frank, 30,
drove her to arrange the slaying
last November.
Mrs. Duncan is under a death
sentence. Moya’s trial starts April
20. He has pleaded innocent by
reason of insanity.
A psychiatrist called Baldonado,
26, a defective human and a men
ace to society.
KENI Phones U. S.
Moscow Envoy For
Info, on Seaman
ANCHORAGE, UR — The first
commercial telephone call ever
completed between Alaska and
Russia was made from here last
night.
The call was placed by Radio
Station KENI to the American
Embassy in the Soviet capitol and
lasted approximately five min
utes.
Ty Clark, news director of the
Alaska station, talked with an
embassy attache, Sgt. Lee King of
Columbus, Ohio, regarding the
critically injured Russian fisher
man undergoing treatment in an
Anchorage hospital.
Clark said the call was made
to arrange a tape-recorded radio
“feed” on the seaman’s condition
to Moscow Radio. The report, in
both English and the Russian lan
guage, will be relayed by tele
phone in a second call scheduled
today.
Clark said he also asked King
to contact Russian authorities re
garding the man’s family status
and background, information
about the fishing fleet off Alaska,
and what arrangements, if any,
have been made to get the man
back to Russia if he survives his
injuries.
The phone call, described as re
markably audible, was arranged
by the Alaska Communications
System through the long lines
division of American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. in White
Plains, N. Y.
Ancient Shinto Rituals Observed In
Marriage of Japanese Crown Prince
By JAMES CARY
TOKYO, UR — Millions of jubi
lant Japanese rejoiced with pa
rades and picnics today over the
precedent-breaking marriage of
. Crown Prince Akihito to a beau
tiful commoner who will one day
share the ancient chrysanthemum
throne.
Celebrating throngs walked the
streets of flag-bedecked Tokyo
long after a gold-encrusted car
riage had carried the radiant
bride, Michiko Shoda, and her
prince to their suburban residence.
Only an unemployed youth,
Kensetsu Nakayama, 19, marred
the day-long celebration. He elec
trified the throng along the newly
weds’ processional route — and
millions more watching on tele
vision — by hurling a stone at
Akihito.
When it missed, he leaped onto
the moving horse-drawn carriage
in a desperate lunge at the
prince.
Police seized him immediately.
He told them: “I am opposed to
the emperor system, and have
been since childhood. But I had
no intention of killing.”
The prince, 25, and his new
princess, 24, reacted with tradi
tional royal aplomb. They gave no
sign of noticing the incident and
continued to nod smilingly and
wave to the crowd.
The sun-filled day touched three
ages symbolic of the new Japan
that blends democracy and age
old tradition.
With a sip of sacred wine at a
holy Shinto sanctuary deep within
the Imperial Palace grounds, the
heir to the throne wed the gra
cious girl he met on a tennis court.
Origin of the ceremony is lost.in
dimmed centuries of Japan’s past.
With the union Michiko was
transformed from a commoner
daughter of a wealthy flour mil
ler — into Her Imperial Highness
Crown Princess Michiko. Her rise
from commoner status to the sec
ond reigning woman of the nation
— unprecedented in Japan’s 2,600
year history — was held by Ja
pan’s youth as a sign of the na
tion’s emergence as a democracy.
Present for the ceremony in the
Shinto shrine were only the bridal
couple, the aged chief ritualist of
the Imperial family, lesser ritual
ists and two chamberlains, one
of them holding over Akihito’s
head the 700-year-old jeweled
sword symbolizing the heir to the
throne.
Emperor Hirohito and Empress
Nagao were not present, in keep
ing with tradition. They waited
inside their palace quarters, 250
yards from the shrine.
Air Force Doctors Ply Skill To Save
Life of Injured Young Russian Seaman.
ANCHORAGE, W* — The life
of a young Russian fisherman |
from Vladivostok, injured in a
fall aboard a Soviet boat six days
ago was in the hands of a team
of skilled Air Force doctors today.
Evenij Ivanovich Gneushev^ 23,
partially paralyzed and still un
conscious, was listed as being in
critical condition by Maj. Woosley,
chief of surgery at the Elmen
dorf Air Force Base hospital.
Gneushev suffered brain dam
age in a fall aboard the Russian
ship Pischavaya Industria. The
seaman’s right arm and both legs
were paralyzed. Woosley gave
Gneushev a 50-50 chance to live.
The Pischavaya Industria is a
large factory ship operating with
a fleet of some 50 Russian fishing
vessels in the Bering Sea and
Bristol Bay.
The U. S. Coast Guard cutter
Storis, acting quickly after a plea
for help issued by the Russian Em
bassy in Washington, took Gneu
shev from the Soviet boat at an'
Aleutian Island bay Wednesday.
The Storis steamed to Cold Bay,
where Gneushev was transferred
early yesterday to a Coast Guard
plane for a 650-mile flight to An
chorage.
When the plane reached An
chorage, one of those who helped
to lift the Russian from the plane
to a waiting ambulance was Lt.
Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, com
mander of all U. S. military forces
in Alaska.
Lt. Cmdr. Joe Osnic, a Navy in
terpreter, said the master of the
Russian ship, a converted passen
ger and cargo ship of about 10,000
tons, expressed his thanks over
and over again after Gneushev
was taken aboard the Storis.
After Gneushev had been shifted
carefully from the Russian life
boat to the U. S. lieboat and had
been taken aboard the Storis, the
U. S. cutter hauled anchor and
started the run for Cold Bay.
The Russian ship turned north
to rejoin the Soviet fishing fleet.
Valdez Facilities Offered
As Center For Care Of
Alaska Mental Patients
JUNEAU, m — Two bills to
transfer part of the state’s mental
health care responsibilities to fa
cilities at Valdez were introduced
in the House yesterday.
One measure would authorize
the mental health authority to
acquire existing facilities, with
out naming the facilities by name.
The other would appropriate near
ly $500,000 to pay for the start of
custodial care at Valdez.
The appropriation bill called
for a total allocation of $533,400,
of which $379,600 would be used
to convert the Harborview Apart
ments at Valdez for mental patient
care. Another $18,800 would cover
the cost of transferring patients
from Morningside Hospital at
Portland, Ore.
The Harborview facilities would
be purchased by the state for
$150,000, to be paid in five equal
installments.
The London Stares . . .
LONDON, Ut — Two chauffurs
raced their big black limousines
along the wide highway into Lon
don Thursday night.
In the back of each auto sat
a beautiful young woman, appar
ently oblivious to speeds up to 80
miles an hour.
The cars slowed for a traffic
light and halted alongside.
Princess Margaret and Brigitte
Bardot stared at each other.
The lights changed, and the
royal limousine swept ahead. It
beat the next traffic light, and
Brigitte’s lost the race.
“I don’t know if she knew me,”
said the sexy little French film
star later. “But she looked at me
very hard. I was presented to her
two years ago at a royal film
performance in London.”
The Princess was returning to
London from Windsor Castle. The
actress is in England from Paris
to make a film.
’58 Coastal Quake
Submarine Effects
Studied By C.G.S.
WASHINGTON, l* — The vio
lent earthquake that shook the
Alaska coast last July 9 has been
rated as one of the four greatest
in the history of North America.
This appraisal has been given
by earthquake specialists, the
Coast and Geodetic Survey said
Thursday.
The other three greatest were
listed as the San Francisco tem
blor in 1906; one at Charleston,
S. C., in 1886, and a series of
quakes at New Madrid, Mo., in
1911-12.
The ratings were mentioned by
the agency in a report that said
one of the survey’s ships soon
will make a study to determine
what the Alaska quake did to the
bottoms of Yakutat and Lituya
Bays.
“Oceanographers know that the
fault, or line where the quake
[ fractured the earth’s crust,
crosses the head of Lituya Bay and
that great quantities of loose
rocks, earth and trees slid into
the harbor from as high as 1,700
feet on the mountain sides. There
are known to be fissures also at
Yakutat Bay, 120 miles to the
northwest.”
Another survey ship working
on a different job will seek to
check on the accuracy of reports
that a section of the Southeastern
Alaska coast near Haines has
risen nearly five feet since the
survey installed its tidal bench
marks in 1890.
“The investigation should go
far,” the service said, “to explain
the cause of the reported upheav
al, which is apparently local. The
shift is believed to be seismic in
origin, as ‘mountain-building’ is
still going on along the Alaska
coast, but it may be related to
the release of presure following
the melting of glaciers.”