The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,734 ABORIGINAL RIGHT WARREN S CANDIDATE, PRESIDENT Calif. Governor Throws Hat Info Ring-Two Reservations g SACRAMENTO, Nov. 4.—#— Governor Earl Warren, only chief executive of California ever to be elected as the nominee of both the Republican and Democratic parties, was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Presi- dent today. Warren entered the race with only two reservations. He will not| make an active personal campaign and he will not seek delegates in| other states. Under the circumstances, he told a press conference, he is willing to have his name presented by the| California delegation at the Re- publican convention as a candi-| date. Further, he told news men, he hopes the California voters will approve the delegation pledged to him. Nobody in authority, he said,| has proposed to him that he take a second place on the ballot and he “would not be interested” in the Vice Presidential nomination if it were tendered. Warren's decision had been fore-| cast except that some of his close associates believed he would not so! quickly make up his mind on the JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Big Russian Fis Outfitted, Maybe fo Operate | CONVERSE IS IN CRASH hing Fleet Is BODY OF SAM In Waters of North Pacific RECOVERED RIVERS SUBMITS REPORT ON RATE HEARINGS TODAY Presenting arguments by the Territory at recent water carrier freight rate hearings before the U. S. Maritime Commission in Seattle, Territorial Attorney Gen- eral Ralph J. Rivers today releas- ed his report on what transpired at the conferences. His report is as follows: “The purpose of the Territory as an intervenor at the hearing was to show that the setup establish- ed by the Maritime Commission under the interim contracts was uneconomical and unnecessarily burdensome on the people of Al- aska who pay the freight bill Points brought out by the Terri- tory’s witnesses at the hearing |were as follows. “l. Due to National Defense ac- tivities in the rail-belt area, the center of population in Alaska has shifted from Southeastern Alaska to the rail-belt, which now gen- erates the greater volume of traf- fic; that nevertheless ferent carriers still compete in Southeastern, with a monopoly three dif-| 1 | SEATTLE, Nov. 14—P—Rep. | Thor Tollefson (R-Wash), chair- man of a Congressional Deep Seas | Fishing Committee, submitted to Secreta of State Marshall today a list of Russian fishing | refitted under lend lease at a cost in excess of 21 million dollars, the Post-Intelligencer said in a dis- patch from its Washington, D. C. bureau. The Congressman then asked about the fleet, the dispatch said: “Is it active in those waters of the Pacific to which our own in- dustries rightfully look for a share in developing? “Is the Russian fleet active in the Bering Sea area, which has been traditionally American fishing grounds?” Tollefson is chairman of the Deep Sea Fisheries subcommittee of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries committee. His com- munication listed the names 18 large craft refitted, and yards and cost of the work of each, and said that five other smaller ones had also been fitted out, the dispatch said. “They form the nucleus of one of the most modern and best equipped fishing fleets in the world,” he wrote. cannery and refrigerator vessels in- dividually was about 3,000 to 4,000 vessels | of the ‘The gross tonnage of most of the Juneau Yoflg Man Be- lieved to Have Been Lost . in Storm, Crashed SUSANVILLE, Calif., Nov. 14— The body of Sam Converse of Juneau, Alaska, was recovered yes- (terday from the wreckage of a small airplane which crashed and burned near Pison Lake, about 35 miles northwest of Susanville. Motorists heard the crash yes- terday morning and notified the Lassen National Forest Black Mountain Experimental Station. Logging Superintendent Donald Carlton of the station found the wreckage. Converse had flown Phyllis James of Burney, Calif.,, from Susanville to Fall River Mills Wednesday and was believed lost in a snow storm on the return flight from Susanville Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Converse, parents of Sam Converse, who crashed to his death in a private trainer plane yesterday, have been notified by long distance call of the location of his body. The youth was killed in his own plane, the wreckage of which was discovered near Grass Valley Lake, about 20 miles northwest of Su- FIVE KILLED - OF BOMBER i | | ' Craft Hits Mountain, Burss. By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Nov. M. —#P— Preparing to fight the proposed sale ? Info Flames — Two Men |by two Alaskan Indian villages of [ H $20,000,000 worth of Tongass A~ ! AboardL SE[VIVO[S, " tional Forest timber, Forest Service | | officials said today they were | awaiting a report from the Re- | SPOKANE, Wash,, Nov. 14.—#— i ' fonal Forester on the reported sale | Pive men were killed last night in|® i 4 2 and contract terms, | Frank Heintzleman, Rgglonal orester in Alaska, was asked for the flaming crash of a B-29 Sup-| erfortr on Mount Spokane, but F {two enlisted men survived the ac- Forest Service fo Fight - SaleofTongass Timber; To Take Issue to Courls I by S AGAIN IS BIG ISSUE TIMBER ACT IS ATTACKED AT ANB MEET Declared Unconstitutional getting an answer in a day or so. The Forest Service said yester- |day it will gg into the courts ufi bY Detelga'eS-A"OfneY necessary to block the proposed sale the villages of Kake and Ka- saan, which was anncunced here by the Congress oi American In-| dians, & private ofgSnisGon. | Officials of the Alaska Native Forest Service officials said the Service were to go to Hydaburg to- sale will not be permitted and the day to discuss “ancestral rights” Indians will not ke allowed o CUt|wiin delegates attending the 34th the timber, which is in an area in jajaeq Native Brotherhood conven- Curry Gives Talks (By The Assoclated Press) an immediate report, the officials cident when the tail section Ol\sm . and they expressed hope of | ‘the plane was knocked loose by! trees just before the plane plowed ‘into the ground. ‘The two men are Tech. Sgt. Mar- shall F. Pine, who suffered a, probable neck fracture and cuts, ,and Sgt. ‘Truman W. Haley, who had cuts and lacerations. The, condition of both was described as | good. | , Three deputy sheriffs suffered severe facial burns two hours af-| ter the crash when an explosion roared out from the still burning | bomber. ! ! Frank J. Dunton, Superintendent ' lof Mt. Spokane State Park, said a terrific snowstorm was raging on the mountain at the time of thel laccident. He said the ship struck ' |atout 800 feet from the top of | ! Bald Knob, a promontory on the| mountal. The tail section land- ed 300 feet away from the rest of _the ship. H Gen. Meyers Wanis Court ew York (once;n Plansfo Cut Timber Per Contract; To Go fo Courls If Necessary which the Service is trying to get!iion there. a series of paper mills established. | Tne major subject this year is - g " [the controversial “ancestral or ab= original rights” question under | which natives of Southeast Alaska are claiming title to a large part |of the land in the vast Tongass Forest. ‘The | first official of the !brotherhood was approval of a | resolution calling the Tongass Tim- jber Act unconstitutional because it did not provide “any manner for payments to be made out of the fund to parties concerned.” The Act, passed at the last session of Congress to-enable the estab- lishment of pulp and paper mills in the Territory provided that day the concern planned to go|stumpage payments go into an ahead with its contract to purchase [escrow fund until the aboriginal $20,000,000 worth of timber ifrom rights question is finally settled. two Alaskan Indian villages. | Secretary of Alaska Lew Will- Asked for comment on a Forest iams passed through Ketchikan last Service statement in Washlxxgmn"night on the way to Hydaburg to yesterday that the agency would deliver a message to the Brother- act NEW YORK, Nov. 14 —(#®—Rich- ard G. Green, attorney for the Timber Development Corp., said to- He contract as to commercial traffic tons, with the largest having a sanville, California. 1 He said the plane caromed along| gross tonnage of 10,079 tons, his | communication said. Steam-North-!| “He also said he had learned there question of permitting his name:for the Westward granted to Alaska to be entered in the Presidential| Steamship Company. primaries of other states. | 2. That~ Alaska Mrs. Converse was advised by the the mountainside and came to a| ; mortician in Susanville, where the Stop anly 100 feet from where John | | boy's remains were taken, that Linder, accompanied by Tom Kin- g0 into the courts if necessary to Food from Alaska’s Governor. block the deal, Green said: |eald this address would be “main- “We believe the Indians' title to 1y 'anti-reservation. the t'mber lands is better than! “ swurry Tailks 'To Natives ‘When he made his announcement land, jointly controlled, should b€ had been “great activity” on the sler, was operating a snow plow Investigators Bring fo Ithat of the government. We'll fight | Reports reaching here from the however, he had resolved this ques-|consolidated to avoid the double tion and reached a decision not to overhead now incurred under their compete in other primaries. |cperations as separate entities. Warren declined to elaborate his| Wasteful Competition reasons but associates said his de-! “3. That the present organiza- cision was based upon the belief tion of the trade in Southeastern his best prospects of obtaining the Alaska leads to wasteful competi- nomination rested on the chancetion between Alaska Steam-North he might emerge as the compromise‘land and Alaska Transportation candidate—as a result of a dead- Company. That if Northland were lock in the convention balloting— ' merged with Alaska Steam and and that this possibility would be Alaska Transportation Company al- enhanced if he had not antagonized | lowed to operate to the Westward other candidates by competing| with a fair allotment of ships (in- with them in their own states. stead of being resricted to South- part of the Russians on the north- east coast of Siberia, |for what purpose it might be. { — e 'BOYLE EXPLAINS WHY TERRITORY 15 MONEY SHORT | Respcnding to many inquiries i over the Territory's financial plight, and asked cremation would be preferable as his body is badly burned. Mrs. Converse will fly south on Pan American tomorrow to attend ! the cremation, and will bring her |son’s ashes back to be scattered here by some pilot. Since quitting high school four ' years ago, Sam had been employed on the fishing boat, the Explorer. He left Juneau about two months ago. e RN i |along the park roads. If the plane, 'had plunged 100 feet farther, he| said, it would have hit the two men. Light New Facts on | War Confracts i The two, he said, were “scared | —_— | | to death.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, — #—| | Dunton quoted the two survivors Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers dis- as saying the plane was flying on closed he has asked for a court instruments when it crashed. The martial after Senate investigators ship was from the Spokane Army developed testimony today that $1,- | airfield and was on a routine train- 053,000 of wartime contracts went , ing flight. {to a firm in which he once ac- | The two men were carried out knowledged a financial interest and :'v.hrough 30 inches of snow and!later said was owned by friends.g { then taken to the Mt. Spokane :ese developments came in quick | PRESIDENT A resolution adopted by the Re- eastern with four vessels), the re- Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle publican State Central Committes sult would be a bona fide, although declared Warren possessed “all at-limited, competition along the en- tributes which command respect!tire route. At this point I wish to and confidence, and is eminently tress the words ‘limited competi- fitted in character and accomplish-!tion." Steamship companies, oper- ent, in experience and capacity ating with identical rates approved to fill the high office of Presidenr.."]by the Maritime Commission, are SlomA—TI—ONS imot in position to compete in the |commercial sense of the word, kut !must be regarded somewhat as a NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Closing ;public utility. They are only in quotation of Alaska Juneau mine position to compete as to quality stock today is 4%, American Can jof service, unless they engage in Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright |such wasteful practices as schedul- International Harvester 88%,|ing departures on the same day, 5%, Kennecott 48':, New York Central and otherwise unnecessarily dupli- fre- This can 13%, Northern Pacific 19, U. S.|cating service by unneeded ete. Steel 73'%, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 780,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | industrials 178.15, rails 46.79, utili- ties 34.20. e —————— AT THE JUNEAU R. B. Clifton, Post Office In-| spector, is staying at the Juneau! Hotel. | The Washington| Merry - Go-Round by LAEW PEARSON i Abvard The Friendship ‘lrain— This train of freight cars which pulled out of Los Angeles recently enroute to New York and Europe represents something basic and im- | portant in the American system.| Its a symbol of the participation ! of the average American in the for- | eign policy of his country. For a long time, foreign policy | has been scmething ethereal and distant which the man in Bakers- field or ‘San Bernardino could do absolutely nothing akout. He had to | leave it to ambassadors abroad, the State Department and the Senate. | All he could do was vote to kick | out the Senators and the President who let the country in for a bad fereign policy. But that takes time and in the interim a lot of people have stood on the sidelines, feeling helpless, futile, frustrated. (Continued on Page Four) !the summer quency of trips be avoided only by a so-called con- ference agreement under which both carriers cooperate in schedul- ing service along economical lines. Such conference agreements are {common in the waterborne trades. Present agreements between the three carriers operating in South- eastern Alaska do not include a conference on the subject scheduling, and economy along that line has not been observed. No conference on scheduling as to; the Westward is possible because Alaska Steam has a monopoly there and can do whatever it wishes. Revise Fares “4. Passenger vessels do not pay their way except at the peak of season. Therefore, passenger fares should be revised upward so that shippers of freight do not have to pay the losses of passenger operations. It is felt that full bookings: would bte en- |joyed during the summer time for the next several years even if fares were upped so that tourists and seasonal workers would pay their way. “5., The Westward trade should Lte separated as far from the Southeastern trade, with ships going to and from theg West-| ward routed on the short outside passage with full loads. Thus {the many delays and incidental ex-( by ipense of stopping at Southeastern ports and passage across the Gulf taken with reduced loads could be obviated. Steamer Schedule “6. Scheduling of vessels should (Continued on Pag:— Six) Of‘ as possible today issued a partial explanation of the shortage of iunds in the | Territorial Treasury. He said that incoming revenues were consider- ably less than had been anticipated by the 18th Legislature and are in- | sufticient to meet authorized ex- | penses. | Monthly expenses, said Boyle, | amount to $70,000 for salaries, $50,- 1000 for teachers in Territcrially | administered schools and approxi- | mately $135,000 per month for pay- | ments to independent and incor- porated school districts for salaries { to teachers and other expenses. This is a total of $255,000 per month which does not include nor-' mal administrative and overhead | expenses and travelling expenses of all government ofiices. It also | excludes the health and welfare | program which also brings on a | severe drain on the Treasury. | No accurate estimate can be made of other expenses, Boyle ex- plained, because of the Territorial Board of Administration “freeze | order” which ordered all expenses held down. There is no rule to gauge these expenses which pro- | bably run, at the very least, an ad- ditional $50,000 per month. PO \PICTURES OF ALASKA ARE WANTED BY KAY FOR MODERN FILMS , Allen Kay, representing Modern ‘Films of Berkeley, Calif., is look- 'ing for pictures of Alaska. He in- |vited hunters, fishermen, trappers and outdoorsmen to submit excep- tional photographs of wildlife or scenery which he says he will take to Disney Studios in Hollywood for possible use in their forthcom- ing Alaska production. If the pictures are { i in pictures, says Kay. 'guarantee that the photographs will be returned. No negatives are |should be mailed to P. O. Box 50. jlodge by truck to await arrival of succession at the Senate War In-| : the ambulance. | vestigating Committee’s inquiry into | ‘Q Dunton said the ship burned financial affairs of Meyers, a war- [sfll the timber rights in the Ton- ! violently after the crash and quot- time Air Force Purchasing Officer: gass National Forest in Alaska to jed the two enlisted men as say-' | ing it had “5,000 gallons of gaso- Bell Aircraft Corp. testified his | puly mills there. line aboard.” : Twe of the more éeriously in- jured deputy sheriffs, M. : Mitchell and Dave Keppel, were Lesiin ! removed immediately to a Spokane WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — (#— hospital for treatment. The third | President Truman declared today deputy, Robert Browning, remained that “disloyal and subversive” em- (on the job for a time to make pho- ployees must be removed from the!tographs of the crash. Federal payroll, but promised that; e no one will be the object of a “witch ;| nunt” {JAIL BREAK AT SITKA In a statement after his first . LOYALTY BD. B.' | Lawrence D. Bell, President of | (firm awarded $1,053,000 of subcon- tracts to the Aviation Electric Com- | pany, Dayton, Ohio. He said Meyers | told him it was owned by his (Meyer's) friends. Oliver P. Echols, retired Major General and General Meyers' im- mediate superior for many years, ' testified that Meyers told him “about 1940” that he owned stock | in the electrical comvany but either* had or would dispose of it then. | At that point, the Senate group | {a contract to make some money ! \wanted and the prints which are' sent should not be larger than Trelford of the boat 31-G-249, re- drunk charge and Sheridan Gre-| /5 by 7 inches. Pictures submitted Ported missing yesterday, are regis-!gory was sent to jail for 10 days view Board, the President said: not be sufficient to lead to the dis- missal of any employee for disloy- alty}' He added: , “They are not being spied upon; jthey are not being restricted in , their activities. They have nothing ,to fear from the loyalty program, isince every effort has been made to guarantee full protection to those who are suspected of disloyalty.” He made no reference in his state- i ment to the recent dismissal of a | number of State Ilepartment em- ployees. e e—— | GARDEN CLUB MEETS NEXT WEDNESDAY P.M. { Christmas arrangements will be featured at the Juneau Garden Club meeting at 1:30 o'clock next i Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ernest Gruening. Mrs. B. D. ' Stewart will be assistant hostess. Mrs. E. L. Keithahn and Mrs. Floyd Fagerson will be in charge of the program. As this will be the last meeting accepted Until January, Mrs. Joseph Boyd, ' after friends had made restitution Disney, they may be included President, urges all members to of the amount involved, He was, a traveling exhibit of Alaska'attend. The officers for the 1948 | however, fined $25 on a drunk He does not term will be installed at this time. | charge. Baker was arrested by Cnyl ' > 1 HERE FROM HAINES Edward Cheatham, Jr. and James tered at the Gastineau. meeting with the new Loyalty Re-' “Rumor, gossip, or suspicion will ! recessed and Meyers announced to | reporters that he had asked a court | martial trial. | BUT MAN RECAPTURED James Carpenter, 29, of Sitka, rne retired general said he made was arrested there yesterday and (o rejuest to W. Stuart Syming- | “c:(’;:“efobb";‘::‘ héea':k“:)gmr-'““ “"“‘i ton, Secretary of the new separate | Paki e JalPefouowie:C”:i | Air Forces and General Carl Spaatz, | i y ‘ 8 hiS| 5jr Force head, two or three months ! on the robbery charge. Ac"ago cording to U. S. Marshal William| : ik e | T. Mahoney, he was re-arrested by| | |8 Special Deputy U. S. Marshal, | iwho was replacing Deputy M‘“'J“NEA“ (IIY BA"D' shal Rogers while the latter was| e 'PRACTICES NUMBERS Carpenter was just recently re-" 1 leased from the Federal Peniten-| |tiary at McNeil Island, Wash., ac-i‘FoR CON(ERI I“ jA" cording to Mahoney. He had been| ol I sent there in 1944 to serve a five! year term for a 1940 burglary con-| Twenty-one members of the Ju- viction. The original sentence neau City Band turned out for a ’carried a suspension which was re- lively practice last night in the' {voked in 1944. The Marshal is Grade School Auditorium. Several| chécking with the penitentiary to/numbers for the concert to be giv-| ilearn 1f Carpenter was on parole.'€n in January, under the sponsor- "He said Carpenter had been con- ship of the Rotary Club were on | victed eight times during the pq““.he rack and the band was gi\r'en al (ten years on various counts. 2-hour practice by Director Alfred - — Ventur on the new selections. Next week, Director Ventur an-! POLICI:: COURT NEWS nounced, he expects to have sev- | 3. Baker 'was released from 8|era] novelty numbers from the bad check charge today by City|publishers which will also be giv- Magistrate William A. Holzheimerien the once over in preparation for the coming concert. The band s recruiting new play- lers at every practice and anyone with an instrument and who can Police on Wednesday. read at sight are eligible for mem- I ‘Wilfred Nicholson was given a,bership in the band. 15 day suspended jail sentence on a | ——————— HERE FROM SEATTLE Willard R. Grace, Jr., of Seattle (un a similar count. is regisered at the Baranof. i A it out on that basis. As far as we convention said 100 delegates rep- are concerned, our deal stands.” |resenting Indian villages from St. C. M. Granger, assistant chief of Paul Island in the Bering Sea to the Forest Service, said yesterday ' Metlakatla, south of Ketchikan, the Indians would not be permit- | were enthusiastic over a talk by ted to cut the timber because the!James Curry, Washington, D. C. Service believes they have no right | attorney. He told them of the to sell it. present status of land suits now in The Service does not believe a !the Court of Claims and discussed 1945 ruling Secretary of the Inter-|present and future proposals to icr Harold L. Ickes that the Indians establish logging, lumber and pulp had established possessory rights to mills on reservations. some 300,000 acres of land gives| ‘We hope to obtain some real prosperity for the people of our them possession ot it, Granger fldd-{ = ed. |communities,” he told an honorary The government agency, under idanauet. recent legislation, is planning to| CUrry i1 leader of the Jndian aberiginal rights fight. He has already held meetings with Hyda- |burg Councilmen and delegates of ]rnenrly all the native villages. Against Reservatons Two years ago, the Alaska Na- tive Brotherhood went on record against the establishment of reser- vations in Alaska, Secretary Will- iams pointed out. Meanwhile, Ketchikan business out of property that we believe X;S?e::c::s !R\eu?::f::"tfi?,::::::rg rightfully belongs to them.” the pulp and paper industry from The contract calls for the timber ‘en\egn: Aluk: s L4 to be cut by the Indians and deliv-| «phe effect can already be felt ered over a five-year period. !in Lusiness here,” one Ketchikan firms wishing to establish large Green asserted “for many years the Indians in this country have been robbed of valuable lands wllh! timber, oll and other resources. Now a group has come along and | dealt fairly with them, giving them | er explanation. Details of the contract of the re- |ported sale pf Kasaan and Kake |timber rights for $§20,000,000 to a Is FORE(ASI president of the Indian Council at |Kasaan. He was on the way to {the convention. IN M'DWESI‘ Identifying the concern as the | Development Corporation of New :York, Young said the:company will Temperatures modified over the tract.” mid-continent cold belt today but Stumpage Payments a wet weekend was in prospect for, he money, paid the Indians the area with forecasts of SDOW jn the form of stumpage pay- QNS k& | business man said, without furth- New York concern were disclosed at Ketchikan by Walter Young, |“finance and provide equipment (By The Associated Press) for logging on a five year con- and rain. 3 |ments,” he said, “will go to the In contrast to yesterday's sub- Indian @ouncil in each town, to jzero marks in parts of the mid-|pe apportioned out as the Couneil west, the lowest early morning may decide in the future.” reading was 9 above at Pellston, The contracts, he said, states Mich. North Dakota's coldest spotithat title to the vast timber areas was Fargo, where the mercury was near the two communities was 12 above as compared to a low of 'confirmed by ‘“representatives of T below in Grand Fords, N. D. the Interior Department in a re- yesterday. _|port dated October 3, 1947." This Rain fell from Texas to Louis-|ywas pelieved to refer to the Han- iana northward into parts of Kan- ngh report. Under the seven-point sas and Missouri and is spreading|contract, the Development Corpor- northward. Light snow fell in the gation will “explore and develop a upper Great Lakes region, in the commercial market for Alaska tim- Northern Rockies and in Northern|per.» New England. A new mass of cool Scale For Pay air was predicted to move into, The villages will be paid $3 per Minnesota and Iowa tonight and thousand feet (log scale) for spread over the mnorth central spryce, he said, $1.50 per thousand states tomorrow. |feet for cedar, $2 per thousand The mercury was near normal in|feet for hemlock, one cent per lin- most of the Soul‘hwesl and Pacific| era] foot for piling or poles 95 feet Coast states. Highest reading on|or yunder, and 85 cents per 100 yesterday's weather map was 83 _ _ i 522 in Miami, Florida. . (Continued on Page SIx)