The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1947, Page 1

' THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,751 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS T0O |More Legislation Planned EXPAND FISH By Sen. Butier o Setile Issue INDUSTRIES RegardingAborigin_aflkighls; | | | said today he plans to offer addi- tional legislation next year design-| | 4 o WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.— State Dept. Says Russia Ohalrman Butler (R-Neb) G0 the, ‘ Public Lands Committee, Plans Expansion in | | | senate | i Pacific Fisheries | § L Shile tt aation ar ) | original rights in Alaska | | He and Senator Watkins (R~ Utah), proposed yesterday that the! ! law giving the Interior D:'parimen(,‘ | the right to establish Indian res-! lervations in the Territory be re-( pealed and that those already es-| SEATTLE, Dec. 5—~In a dispatch from Washington, D. C., the Post- Intelligencer said today the State Department advised Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash) today that Soviet Rus- sia plans by 1950 to expand its A T tablishe be rescinded. | ac s an Pq;ml; (Ocmn .£‘Shem.s .l:?, y D d B k 0 ; in‘ Butler said it was the intent of, /i s m e it Isorders brea u the legislation to aid in the settle-| The information was given in re- en '*“‘ HeTiAal Fghte - e ply to Tollefson’s recent protest| Egyp', Lebanon Over |ment ‘lpREELE ‘ over the United States converting| o i 5 P o ¢ 26 1a ¥ H “It is my feeling,” Butler said| fishing vessels at a cost of more 3 A | th $21,000,000 der lend-lease, | ginal rights question in the Terri-/ ,h‘:“d,; Fri a,d‘m Sl‘he' includ.| (By The Associated Press) [tory of Alaska must be settled once, i e gy o Arabs, inflamed ty the impend-'and for all, as Alaska must have; ed floating canneries, whalers, re- frigerator craft and sealing vessels ing partition of Palestine, attack- an opportunity to develop its re-; Hi§ mmmumcm‘on e SS¢ 1 ed the Jews twice today in Tel sources and it is impossible for| ; : Aviv and the resulting combat any individual or organization to, The planned expansion is part of a proposed five-year plan and the '® four riotous days in the Holy Land ed to 44 the number slain in'get title until the native rights are settled.” | catch by 1950, with new fishing Ot MO ys in the X e« e bases on the Kamchatka Peninsula,| 1he dead were 23 Arabs and 21 e b kL fostnsokons. thiAlk uonb=thini 1 J6WS:o, Hundreds weré. wounded 7 El r t reply said. It estima apers @ o e more than $4,000,000 Angered again in of the seven Arab countries whose! Egypt and Lebanon, two, FOR wJAEE Boos.l.; velopment of new fishing areas, representatives will confer Monday | an improvement of the quality and'j, cairo on means of “defending! ! an increase in the variety of fish-i.nq liberating” Palestine, Which SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 —i ery products . . . and the use Of {h. United Nations voted to cut' Coast longshore arbitrator Arthur ment both for fishing and for can- puitich are to abandon their demands of CIO longshoremen for, ning,” Marshall's assistant said. Ipeague of Nations mandate next|an 18 cents an hour .increase to! r |their present basic wage of $1.57.) The CIO-ILWU said the demand | | As to Tollefson’s inquiry uboul.‘yem.. the present operations of the re-\" gpecryjts for an Arab expedition- was signed by Florence K. Kirlin, 4 a special assistant to Secretary of State Marshall. Plans in the Pacific include “de- » more modern and efficient equib-|inc, Jewish and Arab nations. The C. Miller has opened hearings ong fitted lend-lease fishing fleet, the|apy force started basic training on'is based upon increased cost of liv- 4 dustry letter said:, |grounds of Syrian schools. Money|ing, increased production and| “The Department haslbeen ;"'}donanons and volunteers poured "lcd:lnclogx(u] improvement and| deavoring to keep watch on de-j, | speedup.” { velopments in the Soviet Union| gome 50000 demonstrators met| The longshore demand, the Un- which might affect the fishing in- i, the center of the Lebanese ion said, was formulated last} of this country. However.‘cap,m of Beirut protesting the weekend at a coastwise meeting orf no information on the present ac-|parition decision. Arab sources|delegates in Seattle. The matter| tivities and location of the vessels|caiq 3900 men and 53 women from goes automatically to arbitration in question has been received. |Tebanon had volunteered to fight/under a Dec. 15 clause for re-j “Moreover, no information has|parijtion. jopening of the longshore agree- been received which would indicate! felding police were unable! ment Letween the union and thej | Club- that the Soviet Union is operating i, gisperse demonstrators in Cairo,| Waterfront Employers in waters fished by the American'gespite a government prohibition | of the Pacific Coast. The demand for the incr Association ase was Fishing industry.” |against such manifestations. Mos- Tollefson’s comment, the dis-|jem protherhood leaders later call- been rejécted by the employers. P“‘C-‘k" said, }“”:O 'ed off the demonstration. | S | “The Pacific Ocean is one area, gomo 200 police with rifle and i ; ‘ quiraed tne v 5. [NJURED SHIP WORKER | mendously interested for their ru'.Embassy in the Iraq capital o IS FLOWN FROM PELICAN | FOR HOSPITALIZATION Jim Church, agent for the Alaska; | Transportation Company, made the| only flight with Alaska Coastal} yesterday on an emergency hop to ture development. What will be paohdad to protect it from an at- the status of American fisheries lyack such as was visited upon the, in that area by 1950 if our govern-{y; s Information Service offices| ment has no concern in the mxat-,yE erday. Trade union leaders! - ter in the rx;(eannme? i o jcancelled a demonstration planned | “I would like to see a little com-'for Jater in the day at the insis- ! mon sense used .‘ror American “"h"tence of the Iraq government. eries protection. ! Jerusalem and Haifa were re- e {latively quiet. 4 FROM CALIFORNIA Mrs. Garrison Turner of | lv\' in which our own fisheries are tre-|p, .chineguns | Pelican. { Church left with Pilot Ray AL Renshaw in answer to a radio £ 101 TROOP SLEEPING dnealmoy; Callioimip 10 | message that two workers on the o e o e | lfreighter Grommet Reefer had been ‘(ARS ARE ORDERED injured, and were confined to | '!stl‘etchers awaiting transportation | Juneau. The two men had fallen into the hold of the ship during loading operations at the Pelican Cold CHICAGO, Dec. 5—M—The!storage. The accident occurred |Chicago Regional Office of the around noon when the men tried | War Assets Administration says it|to ride the hook out of the hold, Washimgien Yestorday thic|has been instructed to provide 701 contrary to company rules, and column gave (he inside story cf|trcops sleeping cars for use on the|poth had fallen and been knocked Lt. Col. David Laux, the man who|Alaska Railway, a government- unconscious. tried to prevent the furtier kill- owned property operated by the, Church and Renshaw took of ing of American paratroopers after Department of the Interior. |from Juneau at 1:15 o'clock and some 40 U. S. transport planes| The sleepers, now located at the‘made the round trip’ in two hours, carrying about 800 paratroop(’rs!sangamon Ordnance Plant, Illiopo-arriving here with one patient, were shot down by our own Allied|lis, I, originally cost $8,651,286.35. | Nels Doskeland, at 3:15. naval gunners over Sicily. When Transfer to the Interior Depart-| Col. Laux wrote a letter to Secre- ment will not involve exchange of rived at Pelican, the men had al- tary of War Stimson about Ary money, the Regional Office said. iready been administered to by the failures to protect paratroopers, he; The cars, equipped with both!doctor on the M. S. Hygiene. One was immediately sent to Alaska for|steam and hot water heating sys-iof the patients was treated for [ the war's duration. tems and washrooms, provide ac-!shock, and was sufficiently recov- |to : {};fi,‘,‘,’f‘ g o ALASKA RAILROAD by LREW PEARSON Today follows another unpleas-| commodations for 30 persons each.lered to remain in Pelican. ant chapter regarding Army crack-|The Chicago office said the trans-| Doskeland was brought back to downs on younger officers who try|fer was authorized by the Wash-i,yungflu and is undergoing treat- ment at St. Ann's Hospital for a | broken hip and shock. Dr. John to clean up mistakes at the top. ington office of the WAA. This is t}& story of Brig. Gen. —————————— {and civilian and military grounc TTLE S’I'YLE LEON JONES 'Adequate Public Health CONVICTED OF MURDER Av Slayer of—Two Men Is Found Guilty by Fair- banks Court Jury FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 5.—# —A District Court jury last night convicted. Leon - Jones, 43-year-old carpznter from Vancouver, Wash., on two counts of first degree mur- der for the ax slaying of two men at a little Gerstle River In- dian settlement on July 20. The jury recommended the death penalty. Jones was captured 10 days af- ter the killing after one of the most intensive manhunts in Al- an history, in which aircraft against parties participated. The vctims of the kiiiings were Donald Harris, 33, a fellow con- struction worker of Jones' at the Big Delta military project, and Carl -Ahnstrom, 68, a trapper and prospector who was a bystander at the scene. Officers said the double tragedy followed a prolonged drink- ing party. At the time of the crime, Jones' wife and four children resided at Vancouver. e {CAUSE FOR FIRES ON DC-6 PLANES NOW EXPLAINED WASHINGTON, Dec. 5L T. P. Wright, Civil Acronau Administrator, says an investig tion shows overflow gasoline run- ning into the cabin heating sys- tem caused fires aboard DC-6 ‘type airplanes which recently were grounded voluntarily. Wright said an industry-govern- ment committee has “determined to Jits. satisfaction” that this was the cause of a series of blazes sboard this type of plane, one of which crashed in Utah =fter a iire broke out. He said the committee, repre- When Church and Renshaw ar-[senting airlines and manufactur-' ers along with the CAA and Civil Aeronautics Board, has about com- pleted its study of the steps which must ke taken before the big Douglas transports are returned to service. President Truman's new plane, the Independence, which is a DC-6, also was grounded pending out- come of the inquiry as to the causes. MODELS — Child models from two (left) to 10 (right) years old wea~ latest creations of California designers at a children’s fashion show in Los Angeles. | | | | Program Is Proposed for Alaska's BIG BARGE SERVICETO ALASKANOW First Craft, Under Tow,| Leaves Seattle with Cargo for Seward | SEATTLE, Dec. 5—(®—The 240- | cargo cavacity of 4,000 measurement | tons, has left for Alaska in tow of | a powerful tug as the Alaskau Freight Corporation started a new | kind of common carrier rreightl transportation service north. The first cargo, for Seward and | interior points, was loaded here and } at Tacoma, Traffic Manager T. A. | Thronson said. The Shinn is com- | manded by Capt. Martin Guchee, veteran wartime skipper. The companv operates with a! fleet of tugs and barges chartered | from Ocean Tow, Inc., Seattle | Preparations are under way to| handle refrigerated cargo after the | first of the year. The barges are former Navy YF | vessels rebuilt to meet Alaskan | shipping needs. . i The tug and barge system is not | new, officials said, but this is the | first time that it has been employ2d | between Puget Sound and Alaska as | a common carrier service. J. E. Kearney, Jr., formerly of Juneau, is Booking Agent for the ! new line, and Everett Nowell also | former Juneau man, is Traffic Rep- | resentative. | | Adress Going to i Anchorage fo Wed | | | SEATTLE, Dec. 5.—®— Miss Dorothy Kontich, Seattle-born ac- tress, has left by plane for Anchor-| age where she is to be married Saturday to Milan Raykovich, civ-% ilian maintenance engineer at Fort; Richardson. | | Miss Kontich returned here from! an overseas tour in which she! plays in shows sponsored by the Office of Special Services in the| Worst Problem v | WASHINGTON, Dec 5.—D— The Association of State and Territorial Health Officers recom- mends that the Federal government give “special attention” to con- trolling tuberctflosis in Alaska. At the end of a four-day meet- ing with the Public Health Service and Children’s Bureau yesterday, the group declared that the Alaska death rate from tuberculosis is 369 per 100,000 population and con- stitutes the Territory’s worts health problem. Terming Alaska a “strategic area! of the North American continent, the Association also recommended that the government provide it with “adequate public health programs to meet the menacing dangers ur‘ communicable disease, unsafe wat-| ; foot all-steel “Barge 719, with ajer supplies and inadequate gener- al sanitation.” - - AUTHORITY TORATION (OAL ASKED Congress Hears Plea to Give President Right fo | Ration Commodities |* weatHER REPORT | | WASHING'ION, Dec. 5—MP— Oscar L. Chapman, Undersecretary of the Interior, pleaded with Con- gress anew today to give President ‘Truman authority to ration and fix| prices on coal and oil should the| need arise. Voluntary conservation may be all that the petroleum in-| dustry will require, Chapman said.! But as for coal, “We believe lhfil' transportation and export controls are necessary as a minimum,” and | “allocation and price controls should be available in reserve.” Chapman’s testimony, before the Senate-House Economic Committee. followed similar pleas from othe:| administration officials. | - e | HEARINGS ON PROPOSED SALE OF WRANGELL SAW MILL TO BE HELD IN JAN.| A hearing will be held in U. S. and Edward Dmytryk » headed |e WEATHER FORECAST lo measures |® Dec. 1, .72 inch; since July 1, what happened to him when he )" * bucked the top brass. Mike Dunn is a square-jawed, sharp-tongued, persistent Irishman, whose habit of speaking out does it but who has spent a large part of his life working on airborne infantry. Long before Hitler drop- per paratroopers on France’s alleg- 1 edly impregnable Ft. Ebensmasl £ and thus. turned the Maginot Line, | _TGunn had argued that dropping ‘troops behind enemy lines could (Continued on Page Four) i : g Ray Aloysius (“Mike”) Dunn, and| ! not help him with his superiors, | | Clements is the attending physi- ;INIER"A."O"AL Rou"D Ech}-‘[: reports that Doskeland is do- ' TABLE IS POSTPONED izs = wen ing as well as may be expected, | but that he will be in a cast for : several months. The International Round Table | SRR T RS | which was scheduled for Tuesday g | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | evening, December 9, will be post- poned for one week in order that Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive at 7 tonight. members may attend the showing of the film “Alluring Alaska” being sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association for a scholarship fund.| Baranof scheduled to sail from The round table will be held at|Seattle tomorrow. the Governor’s House the following | Denali, from west, southbound j Tuesday, December 16. December 11 European Theatre. 1 ! More than 80 planes were (grounded after an American Air- lines ship landed with a serious fire in its belly at Gallup, N. M., last month. No one was injured’ {12 to hear arguments on the pro- —————— | District Court here at 10 a. m., Jan SIO(K | posed sale of the bankrupt Alaska | QUOTATIONS sty | Asiatic Lumber Mills, Inc, at NEW YORK, Dec. 5. - Closing | Wrangell. An order for the hearing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |was signed today by Federal Judge | CLARK NAMES COMMIE ORGANIZATIONS TEN INDICTED |ATTY.GENERAL “IN CONTEMPT |SSUES LIST OF OF CONGRESS SUBVERSIVES Movie Writers, Producers,;Many Organizations Nam- Directors Must Now ' ed-Information Given | Face Court Trials 5 Depts. for Checking WASHINGTON, ~ Dec. 5—®—| WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—(P— Ten movie writers, producers and Attorney General Clark has issued directors today were indicted for st of some 80 organizations Contempt of Congress in Tefusing labeled as subversive or otherwise to say at a Communism-in-Holly- | syspect. wood investigation whether they, clark got out his list last night. are or have teen Communists. |1t named, among others, the Com- The 10 now must stand trial to mupist Party, the German-Ameri- determine their guilt or innocence.!can Bund. the Ku Klux Klan, Col- I‘hus:‘»named in separate Indict-|ympjans, American Youth Congress, ments returned by the Federall smerican Youth ‘for Democrsey, grand jury, are Albert Maltz, Dal-ine civil Rights Congress, the Joint ton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, John| Anii-Fascist Refugee Committee Howard Lawson, Ring Lardner, Jr. and the now disbanded Hollywood Herbert Biberman, Robert Adrian'riters Mobilization for Defense. Scott, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessiem., rne list is to be used in checking on the loyalty of government work- Eight of them also were indict- It was relayed to heads of ed on an additional count alleging all government agencies by Seth they refused to say whether or W. Richardson, chairman of the not th belonged to the Screen administration’s Loyalty Review Writers Guild Board. All ten had declined to answer The Attorney General said the specilic questions about Commun- list is not “complete or final” and ist affiiiations during hearings held may be expanded as investigations by the House Committee on Un- warrant the addition of other or- American Activities in October. ganizations They contended that the commit- ~ Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R-~ tee was violating their constitu- tional rights by inquiring iiio their political beliefs Dmytryk is a motion, picture di- rector, Biberman a director-pro- ducer, Scott a writer-producer, and the others are scenario writers. Dmytryk and Scott recently were dismissed by R-K-O Studio, Lard- ner by 20th Century-Fox, and Cole Un-American Activities will supply and Trumbo by Metro-Goldwyn- a list that .will just put his to Mayer. The others have no regu- shame. There are - hundreds of lar studio contracts. |Communist and Communist front At the request of the committee, organizations alone.” by Rep. Thomas (R-NJ), NJ) of the House Committee on Un-American Activities described as “utterly farcial” the list of some 80 organizations labeled by At- torney General Clark as subversive or otherwise suspect. “If the Attorney General can't do any better than this,” Thomas told a reporter, “the. Committee .on the House overwhelmingly voted contempt citations inst the 10 on Nov. 24. The citations then were taken over to U, S. Attorney General Morris Fay for sukmission to the grand jury. | The maximum penalty on con-, viction for each count of contempt is $1,000 fine and a year in jail The minimum is $100 and a one month pail term. i Separate trials are expected to be held for each of the 10 defen- dan Those named in a secona count! ITUMAn Honored for Und- for refusing to say whether they | A " belong to the Screen wiiters cund| erwater Trip-He Gives Out Awards were Maltz, Trumbo, Ornitz, Lard-| ner, Biberman, Scott, Cole and Bessiem. Lawson and Dmytryk At were indicted on only the one, ggy WEST, Fla., Dec. 5—(®— Icount alleging they refused to say president Truman, already rated | whether they were Communists. a “deep sea dunker,” qualified | 2 i ol 3 {today as a sub mariner in one of o the brief formal appearances of his vacation at this tropical naval o 00 006000 000 . He was summoned to the sur- rendered German submarine, the XU-2513, to receive his scroll and ! plaque as a sub mariner by virtue lof his experience here in Novem- ber, 1946, when he went down 450 |feet under ‘the sea in this same | undersea craft. | The President seized upon the opportunity at the same occasion to present medals to four naval officers. One of these, Command- er George L. Street of Richmond, :an. got a gold star in lieu of a second silver star. The President ‘and Street met before, at the White {House, when Mr. Truman pinned the Congressional Medal of Honor on the naval officer. Gthers honored were Commander I. S. Hartman, who got his gold istar in lieu of a second silver star; |and Commander G. H. Whiting |and Lt. G. W. Clarke, who received bronze star medals. 2 |will deliver Saturday dedicating Gives Approval fo | i New NLRB Members STRATEGIC ALASKA ® Temperarure ror 24-Eour ® Perlod Ending 7:30 o'Clock . This Morning . In Juneau—Maximum, 40; ® minimum, 36. . At Airport—Maximum, 39; ® minimum, 35. . . . . . . . . . (Juneau and Vicinity) . . Variable cloudiness tonight e e and Saturday, slightly cooler e . . . . . . . . . . . o tonight. . PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) . In Juneau—69 inch; since ® 5428 inches. . At Airport—.43 inch; since e Dec. 1, 49 inch; since July 1, ® 3253 inches. . « o o o o e o o ilhe Everglades National Park. - 5. | agmmoroy o< v. NEED T0 BE STUDIED BY 15-MAN OUTFIT unanimously recommended the con-| in that accident, but 52 'SONS fi { I boen killed. previgusly when a Stock today is 1%, American Can |George W. Folta upon the receipt | e s s {United Airlines DC-6 crashed in 0% Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright jof an application for sale of the|Natjong) Labor Relations Board. | l(lames at Bryce Canyon, Utah. 4%, International Harvester 86%, company’s assets by Col. Otto F.|The committee also has recom-! WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—P— i e Kennecott 44%, New York Central Ohlson woh is acting as receiver. |mendeq confirmation of Rotert Creation of a 15-man board by the H 1124, Northern Pacific 18!z, U. S.| Ohlson, who was appointed Ye~ipenham as general counsel for Secretary of Defense to investigate FROM SEATTLE Steel 73';, Pound $4.03% | ceiver by the court earlier this year, | . NLRB- | strategic needs in Alaska and the i | Sales today were 1,290,000 shares. declared that sale of the company e PRI, Panama Canal Zone was proposed Fred A. Tubb and D. L. Rey- Averages today are as follows: |appears to be the only manner in nolds of Seattle are registered at Industrials, 176.10; rails, 42.28; utili- | which its creditors can realize their the Baranof. | ties, 32.63. money \ |today by Rep. Sterling Cole, R-NY. The U. S. war effort reached its The committee would report to peak in 1944, Congress 'by January, 1949.