The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1947, Page 1

g VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,502 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY }~f~:BIzOARy' 13, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIA [ED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Urges Strengthening of Alaska’s Defenses SOLONS PUT OK ON TRAP REFERENDUM Amended Bill Wins 11-5 Approval-House Must Concur fo 10 Years The Alaska Senate this morning blocked out a place on the 1948 General Election ballot for a fish trap referendum. Only House ac- ceptance of a Senate amendment to House Bill 8 now, plus approval by the Governor, stands in the way of the trap abolition issue’s being submitted to the voters. H. B. 8, amended by the Senate after a lengthy session Tuesday af- ternoon, was reported correctly en- gressed this morning and, at the request of Senator was immediately advanced to top position on tos calendar Moderate discussion preceded an 11 to 5 vote that stamped Senate approval on the bill as it now stand: However, a bitter fight in onference” could follow if the Hous> refuses to accede to the Senate change which calls on the voters to express their opinion on elimination of traps over a 10-year period. The bill, as it passed the House, had set the period of grad- ual elimination at five years. Voting for passage of H. B. 8 were: Senators: Butrovich, Coffey, N. R. Walker,| STUDIES OF FISHERIES ~ AREURGED i House Memorial Points to | Need for Research i and Enforcement i A memorial urging immediate | | measures to restore the salmon in- |dustry to its former productivity, | including appropriations for re- search into various phases of con- vation and propagation, was in- Girl from Naknek in Parka and Hood Makes 4 KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE | troduced in the House of Repre-| sentatives this morning by Rep. | Vukovich of the First Division. | | Addressed to Congress, the | partment of the Interior, the De-: | partment of Justice, the Governor | | and the Delegate from Alaska, the | Imomona] points out that for the | past three years there has been al nid and continuous decline in the | jsalmon taken in the waters of| 1 Southeast Alaska, with the result! that earnings of the fishermen have !been seriously affected. | The Fish and Wildliie Service, | the memorial scates, an adequate rch program for | accumulating facts necessary {a rehabilitation of the industry ! While other problems of similar { magnitude have been solved, it con- | | tinues, such as that of the halibut ! fisheries and the sockeye run does not have | for | on | Earth, Burns MEDFORD, Ore, Feb. 13.—Two survivors of the crash of a Coast Guard PBY plane that killed four crewmen told today of how they g Jonesome that their husband and| guy crawled from the twisted. burning wreckage after it plowed into Dia- .mond Rock on Mount Richter north this southern Oregen city. | Bodies of the four killed were be- |ing brought out of the rugged snow |bound area today over an eight mile !trail by a Coast Guard search crew led by U S. Foresters and Oregon State Police. The survivuis are Seal 1-c Melvin C. Savage, Plymouth, Mich., of Craft Hits Oreidn Mount in| ve-| Fog - Plummets {o SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—The strang- est thing happened to tiny Carol Sandvick from Naknek, Aalska, yesterday afterncon Just because she was wearing & fawn-skin parka and a wolverine- trimmed hood, she found herself facing a newpaper camera. It seems that people around Seattle don't as a general rule, wear parkas. It seems equally certain that they are a popular article of iclothing in Naknek, on Bristol Bay, !where it does get cold ler, Mrs. Sig Sandvick, flew to Eeattle two weeks ago for a vaca- ‘Uon “Outside.” It was Carol's sec- ;ond long plane trip. {in Scattle and flew north with her parents when they went to Naknek a year ago | Naknek must have been lonesome | with Mrs. Sandvick and Carol gone. | Seattle two d ago to spend the rest of the vacation with them. t's nice here,” . “but we aren't going to very long We're going back Naknek where Carol can wear her parka without people stopping to stare at her. | - D CANADA IS Stassen for IMPROVING New Tariff People Stop and Stare, ALCANROAD Carol, 15 months, and her moth-!soon." ! She was born| Creck father showed up unannounced in|Board as to their ne Mrs. Sandviek| shortage of food, gasoline and ser- St&Y| vicing facilities along the route, he | ciproes | | | Adjustment IMPORTANCE SIKES MAKES OF ARCTIC STRONG PLEA IS STRESSED FOR DEFENSE Fred Ayer; on New Job,ilafl Disagrees, Says Re- |Canadian Prime Minister Says Northland May Be Talks Qut-Goding Is Coming fo Juneau By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — Fred | Great Falls, Mont, new ant Chief of the Interior De: partment’s Alas Branch, looks for removal of travel restrictions' along Alaska highway “fairly | the Aver speaks with a familiarity bred of 40 trips on the 1521-mile | len of the road from Dawson B. C. to Fairbanks. During the war he was stationed on the highway as an Army Public Rela- | tions Officer. ‘Would-be have to be by users of the road now screened rather care- Canadian-American | ssity for told reporters today. reason for this is a travel, Ayer The_primary said { “But Canada is improving the| situation right along, and she may | be able to permit unrestricted tra- vel fairly soon,” Ayer commented. ! “It’s a wonderfully scenic road.: | pledges criprocal Agreements Permit Free Trade By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. E. Stassen’s declaration that the Republican party must make a ‘major adjustment” in taritf poli- cies to avoid a “slide backward into economic isolation,” today pointed up policy differences among pos- sible GOP presidential candidates Appearing in New York City, Harold ! Stassen had top billing last night on a Lincoln Day eircuit that took Republican orators into every sec-| ul tion of the nation with gene to cut government taxes and enact labor co: lower legis- lation Senator Taft of Oldo, who dis- agreed in a Charleston, W. V peech with Stassen’s declaration that the Republicans ought not “obstruct” the administration’s re- trade agreements program may step into the Republican spot- light today. Taft was invited to a luncheon at Columbus by his colleagues, Sena- tor Bricker, and Ohio politicians were predicting the result would be to| | Points to Need for | Northern Defense . "Pearl Harbor of Third World War” By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —Rep. Sikes (D-Fla), a member of the eed on Armed Servi committee, said intelli- {o4ay Alaska may be ths “Pearl | gence—information on what other parpor of the Third World War” hations .are up - £o, Jand called for immediate strength- The provision is one of a series|ening of its defense of point-by-point agreements un-' ge told the House that hundreds derlying a general accord to extend|of planes were deliversd to Rus ‘incefinitely the wartime collabora-|quring the war, via -Alaska, and [tion of American and Canadian| aqded: “There is nothing to keep armed forces, persons familiar with!ihem from coming back the other the year-long negotiations said The formal statement made SLDON C | w ON, | United and \disclosed today to have |a full exchange of military FAY Feb ‘The were 13 ada | wa no ; Sike's address followed by a day ‘“‘r"“'”‘"‘ to this background. But u;, announcement that the United |the disclosure of a compact for gtates and Canada have agreed on ‘mlvu’ll:n\ur of lew intelligenc2 | jgint, Jpeacetime defense measures. |has deep significance for at least:’ gikds said he was not among VI, LEARON those who consider a third world Canada’s geographic position | war inevitable, ‘but pript oy s along the Polar Cap &ir route over|(ime he decried the practice of |which an attack from Europe of upurving our head in the sand.” {Northern Asia might come. He said the War Department has 2. Canada herself is a recent vic- » plan for the defense of Alaska tim of an atom bomb espionage plot | iy event of attack and that ha is |involving Soviet Russia ‘reasonably familiar” with it. In | While remaining officially silent yegponse to questions from the jon thesz points, both governments fioor. he declined to discuss its stressed two others in announcing getails. a at | Within a few year: . @ joint statement leaving the way i it should be- g Y the plan to continue their six-ysar come a great tourist attraction,” |open for Taft to become the State's () poation for “the defense of Ayer said Canadians are bufld- | faVOrite son candidate for the 1948y "\ haif of the Western ling hotels at mile 635—Watson | Presidential nomination. | Hemisphere.” |Lake—and at Teslin- Lake. During| . Makes No Commitment Prime Minister W. L. Mackenize |the war, the army had camps or| Bricker however, told reporters g emphasized significance of the stetions at 50-mile intervals. Peace- | &t Toledo last night that “I havein, . iy o report to the Canadian time faclities probably will have (o Made no commitment and I won't the Fraser River, and the FWS long recognized the need for has an Al- not - e - PICKETS ARE SET AROUND SQUARE KNOT longshorefne?CIaim Dis- pute with Alaska Steamsh‘irp Co. Pickets today were patrolling be- fore the gates of the Army En- gineers Depot (Subport) here for "the second day today, placed by the Juneau Longshore local in what it terms a “lockout.” The union brings its complaint nst the Alaska Steamship Com- {who was badly burned, and Seu—‘CAA AND ju“EA“ iman 1-c Randolph M. Creasy, of| (I.I,v OFH(MlS Dawes, Engebreth, Green, Jones,; Munz, Peratrovich, Rivers, Walker and Nerland; opposed to the pas- sage were Senators Brownell, Coch- ran, Collins, Rogge and Scott. Debate Opened Senator Frank Peratrovich opened the debate with a simple declurn-; Alaska in the past were discourag- tion that all the facts concerning!ing, the memorial says, but consid- the measure had already been ably!eration should be given to their re- presented and in his view delega- establishment in view of the know- tions from the Second and Fourth |ledge obtained in their operation s ’“d"quale research program in | Lynchburg, Va., who was suffering| | aska, lhe‘npcessar,\' funds have lonly from shock and exposure i been available. They were passengers. | Hatchery Study Urged The dead and next of kin are: | Dlscuss AIRPORI ! Experiences with hatcheries in, Lieut. Comdr. John MacIntosh, | formerly of Spokane; wife Virginia, s " % " VO | parliament at Ottawa yesterday |a son, Bruce D., 8, and two daugh-| FoOur executive represeniatives of |pe pqually numerous to accommo- today, tomorrow or this week on: .r¢ js apparent to anyone who ters, Bonnie J. 5, and Beth J, 2, the Alaska Division, CAA, have|Juwie tourisis in convenience and| “NeEther he will be a candidate for|pngg reflected even casually on the all of Port Angeles, | failed to reach any conclusion with | safety., Already they are ,,Fm]y'“"' nomination, « technological advan of recent Lieut. (jg) Ralph E. Osterberg; the City of Juneau dn the quESll(m}..dequm» for more than 900 miles, , [ an address Bricker praisediyeqys that new geographic factors Divisions should now be sufficiently | during recent years. {wife, Frances, and two daughters, Of the future status of the Juneau|qas far north gs Whitehorse fT“” as “my colleague, who, by hisihaye been brought into play,” King informéd to express opinion. He! The inadequacy of enforcement|Ida L. 5 and Gertrude S, 3, of Alrport duing a two day visit he Opétilng: Land iintelligence and energy, has risen|geclared, adding asked a favorable vote so that the]of present regulations isalso point-|Port Angeles, and his mother, Mrs.| The visiting officials, Ben Jacobs,| ey aqded that Canada is mr;w a position of leadership thati wThe Polar regions assume new people may decide the issue once.ed out in the memorial, which|Amanda Osterberg, of Shelton, Assistant Regional Administrator; | \eaq of the United States in opcn-’ex;tm et {importance. as- the. shortest Tquses and for all. | draws attention to the Juneau Dis- | Wash. K. S. Perry, Chief of Airports| oty oo B Bl hij e qe(_! Stassen, an avowed candidate, en-!petween North America and the 3 Senator Don Carlos Brownell ex- | trict, comprising the northerly half | Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate Branch; H. P. Noggle, Regional| oo o gl thft i‘f. Cun’qdnfdmsed in his New York address a|pyincipal centers of population of plained his intention to cast a of Southeast Alaska. {Roy Mason; wife, Selma K. and Attorney and H. L. Newman, Re-| o0 " pioo g o ooncnoion e ‘nm‘comprcmlsp proposal by Senators the world. When we think of the (Continued on bage Eight) 1 There arc 1,500 miles of coastline daushter Harriet E, 15, of Port glonal Exeoutive Officer, sPent | ronoced ropd from Whitehorse 10| g wrmoty wentnd b Leen the |GCiENSe of Canada, we must, in ad- — o |closed to fishing in this district, |Angeles, and his mother, Mrs. Amje Tuesday evening in a meeting With | go 00, for g link with the cm“_(ikin (R-Colo), designed to keep the dition to looking East and West as i i the memorial states, but these Meas'F. Mason, of Atlantic, N. C. members of the Juneau City Coun-| hlglmv}ny SEaT ihewill up'm ' administration’s reciprocal trade|in the past, take the North into The waShln ion'are scattered through the 4,500 Aviation Radioman 1-c Ruffin E. cil a great triangular route to touristl gy o g operating another year. |consideration as well.” g {miles of coastline in the district,|Crosby: wife, Pauline, of Port An-| For some months, Mayor Waino ... > The former Minnesota governor - ¢ {The FWS is now patrolling the |ECles. and a brother, D. M. Cros- Hendrickson and the Council have | thus sided with Vandenberg, widely | ; MerrY' O-Boun V! area with two boats, two aircraft|PY. of Walterboro, 8. C. | been attempting to clear the way! RUSSIAN M VE By DREW PLARSON highway from the United States, andidate, against Taft. The latter the motorist must traverse 500 miles | hag termed as “unsatisfactory” the- of improved roads from Sweetgras andenberg-Millikin proposal to give | Mont., through Calga | Sgt. L. H. Harrell of the State Police headquarters here said the {four men were probably killed out- for acquisiticn of land on the air- port for construction of an Ad- ministration Building by the City of | | which are both in need of repair, and about five stream watchmen, ., the memorial says. In order to reach the Alaskaiyegarded as a potential presidential : WASHINGTON—During the re-| construction days following Abra-! ham Lincoln’s Proclamation of { Emancipation, negroes lrequenuy} were invited to the White House. After this there was a lapse, and the question of White House enter- | tainment seldom arose until the’ days of Herbert Hoover, who in-' vited Oscar De Priest, colored GOP Congressman from Chicago, to tea.! This caused a tremendous furor,! and, significantly it was largely, Congressmen from the party of Abraham Lincoln who made the most comment. Since then, Mrs. Roosevelt fre-! quently invited colored guests to the White House and the Trumans have done the same. No longer is there public comment, but it re- mains a fact that a lone negro guest frequently looks conspicuous ! and ill-at-ease. Such was the case when Presi- dent and Mrs. Truman entertained for the armed forces last week. As the President and the First Lady made their grand entry down | the main staircase, a large assem-i i blage of three-and four-star gen- erals plus the highest admirals in! the Navy stood on either side. Gen- eral Eisenhower, the Chief of Staff, and Admiral Nimitz, the highest ranking officer of the Navy, were in the group, together with every other general and admiral sta- tioned in Washington. It was the greatest conglomeration of silver stars and gold braid Wnshlngton' has seen’in decades. On the fringe of this glittering constellation stood Brig. Gen. B. O. Davis—the one negro general in the United States Army. Seeing him, the new Secretary of State, General George Marshall, left the Presidential party, ignored General Eisenhower, passed by Admiral Nimitz, paid no attention to all the admirals and three-and four-star generals, while he shook hands with General Davis. Many others in the room would have given their eyeteeth to have been singled out by the most color- ful and famous member of the (Continued on Page Four) Five boats, three airplanes and about 50 stream watchmen e this district, the memorial claims. Little Prosecution There has been little prosecution | in cases involving violaticns or the fishing regulations, according to the memorial, which says: “A study of the violations in Al- aska during the years 1943, 1944 and 1945 shows that in only one case involving two persons has there been imposition of jail sentences. | In these three years only two jail sentences of thirty days each were imposed, and both were suspended. | The year 1943 is typical in this re-| spect. There were 67 cases before the Justice Courts. They involved 234 persons, two fish traps, 36 purse seine 21 gill netters and one beach seiner. As a result of these cases, fines were imposed in the amount of $14,405.70, or an avefage of $61.56 for each person.” The memorial continues: “Since ! 1941 there is no record of any boat having been forfeited under the | law, as is required by an Act of Congress in all cases. There is no minimum fine or term of imprison- | {ment which is mandatory. It has| been suggested that individual li- censes be provided with space for | (Coni m’;ed-;m i’age Fne)— Soviet Pr?s?ii ' i Still Harping on Germany's Future MOSCOW, Feb. 13.—The Soviet press and radio drums are beating out stories and broadcasts concern- | ing the future of Germany. Associated Press correspondent |Eddy Gilmore says the opinion is [being built up that the United| | States, Britain and France are not | taking steps that will guarantee what is called a peaceful and demo- cratic Germany—or at least a Ger- 'tht when the plane roared into (the mountain needed to prevent illegal fishing in | 21eroOn: side Creasy told the police officer ¥Lhe plane was flying in a fog when suddenly the mountain loomed out the mist. The pilot swerved the plane, but one wing was torn off and the plane plummeted to earth. It burst into flames. The Coast Guardsman said he and Savage tumbled out of holes ripped in the side of the plane and smothered the flames on their clothing with snow. Savage was kadly burned about the body, arms and face, but at the Sacred Heart Hospital his condition was describ- jed as not critical \FORMER JUNEAU OFFICIAL IS T0 BE FAIRBANKS C. M. SEATTLE, Feb. 13. — Louis D. late Monday Juneau. However, said the Mayor this | morning, the CAA is proposing that Juneau take over title to the entire airport. This would mean, of course, that the City would be responsible for management, operation and maintenance of the field, although the CAA would continue to main- tain its weather and radio facilities there. Mayor Hendrickson asked the CAA officials for clarification of the title to the airport land, and for accurate infotmation as to its extent; for definite reports on the costs of maintenance; and for in- :lcrmation on what equipment could be turned over to the City along with the airport and its actual fa- cilities. Rumors to the contrary, Hen- | drickson reported, he has been as- sured consistently by various offi- {cials that there is no foundation for believing that the DC-3 tran |port now in general use in Alaskan 1 airlines would becothe obsolete on January 1 of 1948. If true, this | would necessitate a longer runway Kelsey, Sr., advised friends today he|on the Juneau field, to accommo- was resigning as City Manager of|qate larger ships. The present 2,500 | STOCK QUOTATIONS {lar position at Fairbanks, Alaska. Kelsey was an engineer for the Federal Works Administration at Juneau, Alaska, from 1935 to 1940 :and Resident Enginéer in charge of the 'Sitka Naval Base from 1940 to 1943. Previously he was City Manager of Aberdeen from 1915 to 1917 and of Raymond, Wash., from 1920 to 1922, Air LTS NEW YORK, Feb. 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 95%, Anaconda 41, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 79%:, Kennecott 48%, New York Central 20%, Northern Pacific 22, U. S. Steel 77'4, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 1,340,000 shares. | many that cannot make war on, | Soviet Russia. > Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 182.18, rails 52.08, utilities 37.23. Milwaukie, Ore., to accept a simi-| | foot runway is not considered suffi- | ciently long for ships such as the | DC-4. Resurfaced last year at a jcost of $75,000 the present runway is expected to last for five years | face. oo jAmendmenls- fo Wagner Ad May SHARON, Pa, Feb. 13.—Rep. |carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa), a mem- ber of the House Labor Committee, said the committee is “willing to | meet every night to prepare a {bill in time to prevent John L Lewis from calling another coa! strike in the spring.” Act would be ready fcr House floor action by March 15. 1300 in Alaska, he said: | highway as you could ask ior. | ter or summer, |at 50 miles an hour. You can drive | the length of it in five da |a Juneau commerce office to stimu- | before it again requires a new sur-, Prevent Strike Kearns predicted that a bill to' amend the Wagner Labor Relations J. Rivers, Attorney General of Al-ithe month Friday at 8 o'clock injof bridge, Alberta, to Edmonton, and | 457 miles of poor roads from Ed- | monton to Dawson Creek. As for the Alaska highway itself, of which 1,200 miles is in Canada and only “In winter time it's as fine le: “In the summer, it's dusty, as is any gravel-surface road. But win- | you can travel it} easil Ayer, former Juneau newspaper- | man and son-in-law of former' Judge Simon Hellenthal, succeeds Alaska-born M. W. Goding, who has transferred to the Commerce Department. Goding will establish | late small business, D s Legislation for Unification Armed Fortes_@ Up Soon| WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Presi- dent Truman will send Congress legislation early next week to carry out his compromise plan for unifi- cation of the armed forces, accord- ing to informed. quarters. The legislation was worked out by Maj. Gen. Lauris Norstad, War| Department Director of Plans and Operations, and Vice Adm. Forrest Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval| Operations. | A spirited fight is in prospect in | the Senate over which committee | will handle the bill | Both the Armed Forces Commit- tee and the Committee of Executive Expenditures claim jurisdiction RIVERS AT BPWC The BPWC will hold their regu. lar business-luncheon meeting Fri day in the Gold Room of the Bar-! anof. Guest speaker will be Ralph: aska. Topic will be “How a Bill Becomes a Law.” | Richfield, Union, land Texas. and Leth-{the president authority: to over- | rule tariff changes that threatened American industry. At Charleston, Taft told a Lincoln ; Day audience that while he is op-| posed to a return to Congressional tariff-making with its “inevitable logrolling,” the present reciprocal pregram “permits the President to establish almost cocmplete free trade.” Conciliators Work To Averf Sirike in Pelroleum Industry LOS ANGLLES, Feb, 13 conciliators today started a of new meetings in the Los An- geles and San Francisco areas in efforts to avert a strike Saturday in the petroleum industry. Adolph Hoch, former head of the State Federation of Labor, was add- ed yesterday to the conciliation panel headed by Frank E. Wenig, Wenig said daily meetings would be sought with both union spokesmen and company officials. Ernest U. Marsh, regional di- rector of the U. S. Conciliation Service, announced that three con- ciliation commissioners who have been conducting negotiations in the oil dispute have been summoned to San Francisco for a conference. The 15,000 members of the CIO International Oil Workers union have voted 5 to 1 to strik? if new wage demands are not met by Sat- urday at which time their present contracts expire. Union men are asking 25- cent hourly cost of living wage in- crease. The dispute, is between 14 TOWU locals and seven major oil compan- ies—Standard, General Petroleum, Associated, Shell Fecaral round a - VFW AUXILIARY MEETING The VFW Auxiliary will hold their regular business meeting of the Jeep Club. All members are urged to attend. pany, which answers that is is “not i UNIIED SIAIES involved.” At issue is who shall H lond the freighter Square Knot, now taking 3,500,000 feet b. m of lumber here for the Army's con- struction program at Fort Richard- son and Ladd Field. Likely to be affected is operation of regular |Alaska Line vessels scheduled to call here United James W. Huston, Area Engin- Russian'eer for the Army Engineer Corps, situa- Efforts to Wfi% in Propa- | ganda Clause, Austrian | Peace Trealy, Stalled { LONDON, Feb. 13-—The | States today blocked a 'attempt to write into the forth- has given this outline of the ,coming Austrian pea treaty a tion: iclause prehibiting Pan-German pro-| The Square Knot is under [paganda in any form and “propa- 'per diem charter from the U. 8. !ganda hostile to the United Na- Maritime Commission to the Army {tions.” Engineer Corps, to be used for an | 1l diract The issue, cropping up a szcond extended period in shuttling lum- me at the Four-Power Loputy ber from Juneau to Seward. The | Fereign Ministers conference, was Squar? Knot is under orders of the irefirred to the Foreign Ministers'; Army Engineers and is not subject March conference in Moscow, Brit-|to direction by the Alaska Steam- sou s cald, after U. 8. dele- ship Company, \gates expressed fear such a claus The only connection the Alaska iwould justify future interference in Line has with the operation of the Austrian internal affairs Squars Knot is in the capacity of Gen. Mark W. Clark, U S. bookkeeper and purchasing agen® deputy, sald the question was one for th2 Maritime Commission which of frecedom of speech, He was owns the vessel. The Army Engin- lsupported by the British delegate. eer Corps is chartering the ship Russia has dropped objections to in manned and provisioned condi- active - participation of 12 Europ- tion. The Alaska Steamship Com- fean “little allies” in drafting Ger- pany keeps payroll accounts, buys |man peace treaty, but would limit|provisions and will pay the crew, Curopean nations as Can- but will be repaid its expenditures and Australia to sec-|/by the Maritime Commission Not Commercial O. Adams, local Line agent, stated that he has been advised by the company’s Seattle headquarters that the Square Knot is not operating on a “commercial basis.” Adams stated that he has not talked to resentatives of the loca! longshoremen. The longshoremen here base their action in placing pickets on the fact that the steamship company is paying the sailors that makes the Square Knot a company ves- sel, in their view, and the fact that the Alaska Steamship Com- pany is Leing compensated as agent makes it a commercial operation. International Longshoremen’s and | Warehousemen’s Union, Local 1-16 sald) (010), Juneau, Alaska, today is- 4 B”""h”‘_‘”‘ sued the following press release— was Killed after algaing jts position he ordered Mead to; isuch non |ada, Brazil ondary roles. - Horace Alaska 'Son of Prominent . ManIs Now Facing " (harge of Murder | IPSWICH, Mass., Feb. 13—Donald | IP. Mead, son of a well-to-do Pes |bedy manufacturer, was charged iwith murder today in the death of a conductor after an argument last inight aboard a Boston train Mead, Dartmouth College [sophomore, was ainged in Ips- ! wich District Court and held with- | lout bail for a by | Police Chief | Conductor R: Portland, scuffle when stop smoking a (Continued on Page Two)