The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Statehood Bill | COMMIES IN CONTROL PRAGUE, Feb. 26.—{P—Czecho- Because of Disagreement (Continued on Page Thres) s B 40 3NATIONS Regarding Communistic Government teday jointly condemned as a "dxs-‘ guised dictatorship” of Commun- governments also said the Com-| munists seized power through “a S'a'emenf 10 |nSU|aI' Affairs Committee such as in Hungary, crisis served as a cover for “the development of the Tongass National! use of certain methods already ! Forest unless their land claims are parliamentary institutions and the;Timber Development Corp., of New| establishment of a disguised dic-| York has filed suit to stop sale of| slovakia is completely under Com-| No bids were -x-ucer.'ed and Curry munist control today and the way | tlamed it on the fear of Indian The pattern for the minority tablishment of new ones, and turn parties will be to purge their ranks | OVer all duties of the Indian Bureau The weapon is ready—the charge contracts with the Indians to buy up of conspiracy against the govern-|to $10,000,000 worth of timber. press and propaganda outlets, the|that Secretary of Interior Krug Communists have all means at'and Under Secretary Chapman be Palace last night to see President later decision. | The Washington | Curry said he once worked for the s Held Up Granfing Lands By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(P— Subcommittee approval of Alas- ka's statehood bill was held up today because of disagreement be- tween the House Territories Sub- committee and the Interior De- partment over the amount of land the new state should receive. The subcommittee was about! ready to recommend the bill to the House Public Lands Commit- tee when Interior Department| officials told it they favored giv-' ing the new state just half of the| amount of public lands the com-| mittee believed the bill called for.| Witnesses had testified for the! Department that the bill would! give the new state two sections of | land in every township in addition | to two sections it now has rights to under an cld law. Misunderiteod Proposal | J N. Wasserman, representing the Department, told the commit- tee as it was about to act that it misundersood the proposal. He said that instead of getting four | sections in each township the state would get addition, get one section in the Tanana Valley The Forest Service agreed terdsy to give the new state ceipts from four sections in each township in National Forests, and that prevision remained in the bill. When Wasserman made his state- ment Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said he would not consent to the new state getting less for each township than four sections of pub- lic lands now under the Interior Department’s jurisdiction. cnly two sections. In said, Alaska would in each township he yes- For Land Blocks Rep. Miller (R-Neb) insisted the new state should have half of all public lands in the Territory and YeRorted today five or six Korealioiori were aliowed oh the -high-1 Rep.. Peden (D-Okla) agreed with him, adding the land should be in blocks and not checkerboarded with government controlled hold- ings. The lett to committee instructed Bart- try to work out a solu- BABE RUTHS ON B Ruth relax in the sun in front where the former baseball grea DISORDERS IN KOREA GROWING Trouble Inspired by Com- munists Against United Nations SEOUL, Feb, 26—The U. S. Army, civilians and a policeman were killed | in a renewal of Communist-inspired | agitation against the United Na-| tions. Thirteen Koreans were in-| jured seriously. | Saboteurs also destroyed a bridge, cut telephone wires and placed ties| across railroad tracks. NELSON'S ~ PETITION ~ ISDENIED Convicted Slayer Will | Meet Death on Gallows ! Here Monday | The last door of escape for Austin I Nelson was closed today on the re- | ceipt of a telegram by U. S. District Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr, from U S. Attorney General m Clark. {Clark told Gilmore that a petition for executive clemency on behalf {of Nelson would not be submitted to President Truman because a prev- lious petition had been rejected by | !the President last year | Clark told Giimore that no new | reasons for consideration of the pet- {ition had been submitted by des| ifense attorneys Joseph A. McLean | fand Henry Roden. The petition was | {1iled last week | A similar plea was also filed with | the Governor of Alaska and his of-| fice said today that it would not re ceive action tecause of the Presi-| dent’s decision | Nelson is scheduled to hang at, ithe Juneau Federal Jail sometime ‘next Monday for the 1946 murder i and robbery of groceryman Jim El- len in Juneau. His convicted ac-| ,complice has been sentenced to die ! on April 30 but an appeal is pend-; {ing in his case which may either de- | Alaska Highway; Open fo All iby ot prwal i ecoatii e ] McLean said this afternoon that PORT ST. JOHN, B. C. Feb fh(- will attempt to persuade both the ¥—No red tape barred tour-President and the Governor to re- s today along the Alaska | consider their decisions. He says llml! Highway The road is open to all|he will continue trying to save Nel- ccmers. |son’s lite right up to the last min- A Royal Canadian Mounted Po-|ute lice 'detachment was removed | - SHOOTS MAN WHO I ATTACKS MOTHER! The Mounties were stationed there ck travelers' credentials, é handled travel permits { EVERETT, Feo. 26—@—A 15" During the war only military (78 s | year-old boy was being held in tech- EACH _ wr. and Mrs. Babe | of their cottage at Miami, Fla., | t recovering from an illness, i Red Tape Removed, ..o to hicles connected with the war | ve H way. A joint U. S.-Canadian board | nical custody today after, Snohom- ‘ish County Sheriff Tom Warnock; 0 A U To |said, he shot and fatally wounded a, !man who was beating his mother.| tion with Wasserman and a rep- Indian Bureau and that his legal residence is Puerto Rico. ! Everyone connected with the op- a1d report the new bill, Fosition to development of the Al-, @mendments already adopted, ska timber seems to be connected or| theé committee as soon as possible. ¢q, to have been connected with the In-| The Interior Department offi- dian Bureau,” Malone declared. | ¢ials said their v | The meager Army | report uald‘ resentative. of the Forest Service groups of from 50 to 1,000 attacked| with police boxes last night at widely| 10 scattered Kor- points in southern The incidents were similar to those plan would give of Feb. 7 in which 47 persons were Malone charged that Curry under| the new state 21,930,000 acres of killed, Rioters at that time carried his contracts would get up to 10/ land. placards demanding the withdrawal VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,821 Set Up Is Called "Dis- ! guised Dictatorship” | BLO(K DEAI.S ists the new government set up in Czechoslovakia. crigis artifically and deliberately instigated.” reference to L power grabs,| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—®—A tested in other places.” settled. As a result, the statement said,| James E. Curry, Counsel for In- tatorship of a single party.” {lands the Indians claim The Forest Service had planned is clear for transformifig the re-|claims. public, modeled at birth after the Curry opposed legislation that of all persons who have fallen in- |of Alaska to Communist disfavor. Communist| Curry said he did not know tae ment by “agents of reaction.” This| He told the Committee, however, was provided by Communist Pre-!be advised the Indians to go ahead their disposal to drive home this|called as witnesses, He said the law, campaign. inever contemplated that a sub-| i Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON {percent of what the Indians make £ jon their timber. | (Copyright, this. He said he (ZECH COUP WAHINGTON, Feb. 26.—#— The FOR TIMBER In a declaration issued at the ‘ With an apparent the three Senate Commiitee was told today Czechoslovakia has suffered “the |dians in Southeast Alaska, told the ito sell large tracts of timber to pa- United States, into a copy of So- Would end Indian reservations a sympathizers now are in control ' inccrporators of the Timber Devel- mier Klement Gottwald himself. #ith the deal Columns of Czech students at- ©rdinate approve anything but min-| | 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | Curry denied (ONDEMNED [ United States, Britain and France State Department here the (hu-(-'counsel E‘I’Y MakeS earlier Communist western powers charged that the that Alaskan Indians may block| suspension of the free exercise of [Insular Affairs Committee that the | per mills. viet Russia. ready in the Territory, forbid es- ui those parties. ,opmeni Corp., which he said had Now in compléte control of the| Senator Malone (R-Nev) urged tempted to march to Hrdcany % routine. His request was left for Inc) ASHINGTON — Texas' shiny- pated Sam Rayburn, Democratic; ex-speaker, nearly staged a rebel—i lion within a rebellion when he! got wind of southern plans for al “rump caucus” to protest the! President’s civil rights program. | What made Sam most sore was: an attempt to wean the Texas! delegation away from him and: sign it over as a body to the! rebels. Leader of the rebels was| Rep. Ed Gossett of Wichita Falls, | who championed the cause of the! National Association of Manu-| facturers when it came to Kkilling the OPA. Gossett was trying to' pledge the Texas delegation in ad-' vance to the southern stand against/ civil rights when Rayburn sudden- ly discovered what he was up to.| Quickly calling Texas Congress- | men to his office, Rayburn re-| minded them that it was long-| standing practice for the delega-| tioh never to commit itself as| a group. If any individual wish-! ed to sign the resolution against' civil rights, they should do it on] their own, he argued. | Wright Patman, Paul Kilday, andi J. M. Combs sided with Rayburn, and urged the Congressmen to have} more consideration for their lead- er. Combs warned that the ques-| tion is an explosive one, invnlvmg! human rights, and made an ap-i peal for tolerance. | But Gossett wouldn't budge, and | later took a leading part in the! rebel conference. He was join-| ed by Olin Teague, Tom Pickett, Lindley Beckworth, and W. R.| Poage, plus representatives from | ten other southern states. ! i BACKSTAGE STEERING i COMMITTEE 3 Working behind the scenes two weeks, a “steermg committee” | headed by Mis: ssippi's Wll]iam‘ Colmer has been drafting anti-civil rights resolutions and tearing them up again. Finally they settled on (Continued on Page Four) timber will be paid for “at a fair value.” “If they sell $1,000,000 worth of| timber,” he said, “I will get a sub-! stantial amount.” | Mrs. Ruth M. Bronson, Secretary to the National Congress of Ameri- can Indians also opposed ‘he bill. e FLOATING CRAB CANNERY GOING 10 BERING SEA i i ASTORIA, Ore, Freb. 26.—(P— ‘The experimental fisheries vessel Pacific Explorer will head for the Bering Sea in about 30 days in quest, of King Crabs and bottom fish, Ed-| ward W. Thompson said today. The vessel will be operated by the Pacific Exploration Company, Seat- tle, which last year used the RFC- financed vessel off Costa Rica as mother ship for tuna boats. Thomp- son is President of the Columbia River Packers Association, an af- filiated company. He said the vessel now is under- going repairs at Todd Shipyard, Se- attle, ‘The Pacific Explorer will ke equip- ped with a crab cannery, filleting lines for dressing bottom fish and storage space for 3,500 tons. PEARS s L STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Clove Hitch, from Se- attle, due at 8 tonight. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday. Baranof scheduled to sail from| Seattle 5 p. m. Sunday. Aleutian, from West, southbound Sunday. .- — YAKUTAT VISITORS Cal Ward, Mary and Marilyn Angall, of Yakutat, are registered at the Baranof- Hotel scheduled ceceeccssccscsnccnsccsss e The committee accepted yester- day amendments which would give the new state the right (1) to tax | would receive up to 10 percent only| property and land of Indians out- {on claims adjusted. He said his ser-, side o1 reservations, (2) to require | vices to the Indian in handling the all court records to be turned over to the proper state or fed-! eral courts, and (3) reduce the| number of federal judges from | two to one, o . . . . ® o s 9 0 v 00 0o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 39; minimum, 29. At Airport— Maximum, 38; minimum, 28, WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness tonight e becoming mostly cloudy with e/ occasional snow {flurries Friday. Little change in tem- perature. 3 PRECIPITATION (Past 24 Hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau, City — Trace; since Feb. 1, 233 inches; since July 1, 75.14 inches. At the Airport— Trace since Feb. 1, 1.09 inches since July 1, 44.27 inches. ¢ o 00 0.0 0 0 ¢ - JURY IS SEECTED IN BATES, FRAGNER CASE A jury of six men and six women was selected in U. 8. District Court this morning to hear testimony and arguments in a law suit brought by Harold H. Bates against Lester C. Fragner over an alleged settlement of their former partnership in the 20th Century Grocery. | The jurors are: Kenna Adams.f Don A. Baker, Mrs. Ethel W. Baker,| Hefmann E. Beyer, Margaret Car- ter, Gus H. Gissberg, Ray H. Hager- | up, Mae Howell, Mrs. George M. Moore, Robert G. Prather, E. C. Robinson and Mrs. J. A. Sofoulis. Bates is represented by attorney Norman C. Banfield and Fragner by Howard D." Stabler, of the UN Commission for Korea. | Paralyzed Seward Youth Dies, Result 0f Shoofing Case SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 26. - Morris Gilbert, 18-year-cld youth paralyzed since Jan. 23, 1947, when he was shet in the back, died yes- terday. Last July, Lester Rafter was innocent by a Seward ju charge of assault with a dangerou weapon in connection with the shooting. Testimony at the trial wa to the effect that Rafter adm firing the shot from his bedroom window, claiming that Gilbert w peeping into a bathroom window at Mrs. Rafter. The boy's mother, Mrs. Elizabet! Wood, was awarded $8,500 last Oc- tober in a civil suit in District Court against Rafter. - Vitamin B-1 Now (ause_; _Dissension BAGUIO, P. 1, Feb. 26— A proposal to add Vitamin B-1 to Asia’s rice was opposed by Bur- ma and the Philippines today at found of a |the United Nations Food and Ag- riculture organization meeting India proposed increasing cereal's vitamin content means of combatting beri beri and other diseases arising from food deficiencies. Philippine represen- tatives contended that each rice producing nation should decide whether rice should be enriched The meeting is preliminary the opening of the World Rice Conference here Monday. - MacPHERSO! the as HERE Frank H. MacPh.son ol the Taku River Mining Company 18 staying at the Baranof Hotel WORKERS ARE OUT OF JOBS Kaiser - Frazer Corp. An- The Sheriff identified the vietim as Thomas G. Vreeland, 27, a lab- forer. He died last night from effects| of a 22 caliber rifle bullet fired into his chest. Warnock said the Loy, jRimer, and his mother, Mrs. Allyne iLarson, 35, told him the shooting; {followed a party at a neighbor's| home. Warnock said they told this Charles| | I."ibl(- incidents staged by irrespon- == ] SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—-®— Three MORE plEDGES unions face charges of unfair la- bor practices today for refusing to FOR OPERATION iy The unions named in the Indus- u OF AlASKA | try statement are the International * | Association of Machinists (Inde- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 26.—UP| men's Union, and the CIO-Cordovs Pledges of money to help keep District Fisherles Union. the University of Alaska operating| 'The three labor groups refused with the announcement that the pargaining right claims made by Standard Oil Company will contrib-| Local 7, C1O-Cannery Workers Un- ute $25,000 jon. of $200000 in private, non-interest| i the Alaska Salmon Industry, loans to assure reopening of the Un-| e sajd last night he considered iveraity in September. this refusal an unfair labor prac- ;xué\lro;:.‘ l-‘ug'bn‘x::b ;;Ix":wn:ajm S.!fjled with the National Labor Re- Biretion, Beatile District NSRS aslony- RO er of Standard Oil, pledg H ;“:l”;’zl;g‘;;o“l':“ skarnlentt vl the 14 said, that the three uhjons RETES pY aing 1asods have attempted “to restrain em- Earlier pledges for $25,000 each ployees of the Salmon Tndustry in fif\l-,‘ii\p Steamship Company and ' porono™ 0" o Jabor organization of their own choosing. Pledges of $10,000 each were made A union spokegman, 1. A. Sand- First National Bank of Fairbanks o chinists' Uunion, countered that and Andrew Nerland, Fourth Divi- © ; X S the unions “belleve the Alaska sion Senator and Fairbanks furniture Swmon Industry, not us, has been Lathrop and Nerland are 1 { the members of the University Board of g:m‘l’;:;!“;""“”;s ¥(‘;$;n1 b Regents. Lathrop had been asked by S0 (8 ‘”fi"“cwu M won da solicit rivate pledges soliciting priv hie Ek‘:gt\ workers, i 1038 A second group of cannery work- B Ly h . ery imye formed the Seafoed Work- rifish Cruiser = e ; Afnold' stid " the Industry Fe- fused - to negotiate with Local 7 the provisions of. the ’Pngt.-Hnruty Labor . Act ,¢alling for, hon-Com- . 4 Brif. Honduras s i smenmiss v L 3 | not, g0 10 e open canner- . ies for the season until the Dl dispute * has" settled. This miralty announced today the Brit- de horal conditions union mern- ish cruiser Sheffield has salled from . jeqye Jate in March to pre- Colombia for British Honduras, | pare machinery for the season. negotiate with the Alaska Salmon | péndent), the CIO Alaska Fisher- were boosted Lo $120000 yesterday to negotiate récently in support of Alaska’s Governor has set a goal, “w. C. Arnold, managing airectot In a letter to Capt. Austin E.'tjce. He said the charges were $25,000. " pyg Tuaustry also contends, Amn- were received from Alaska Alrlines, the exercise of the rights . . . to Ly E. H. Stroecher, President of the vigen, ‘business agent of ihe Ma- dealer. i v 0 g v refusin pott I violation of the law by g Gruening to use his influence in NLRB ¢lection among the canmery ers Utilon and ate seeking an NL- [ s 'spa'c e ' beeauge it ‘has nhot compled with munist afudayits, LONDON, Feb. 26-—P--The Ad- would tie up the Industry as un- An authoritative source said the Sandvigen said unfon members ship was dispatched “because of POS- it eot Saturday to discuss wage sible elements in neighboring Guate- pr:x?“:::lared machinists had no n;n'l:’."!’rne informant refused t0 o iion of going north “only to g i 'find the canneries shut down be- A Foreign Office spokesman said v o+, her. S Tk i cause ‘of picket lines in a jurisdic ther: recently had been a “virulent tional dispute.” campaign” against Britain in the Al Guatemalan Press “ " 5 | Information received by the lo- No doubt,” the spokesman said, cal oftice. of the Alasks igacs annoying Mrs, Industry, Ine,, indicates that nego- tiations are presently underway with AFL unions for contract terms | | diive i auto raise > f.xtory: {“It has its origin in recent events " " | ' i nounces E(Onomy Cut- Larson and she left to escape his at-| The Guatemalan Press and Gov , tentions. Several hours later Vree- back of Operations Vreeland struck Mrs. Larson and' DETROIT, Fel 26.—i#— The |the boy warned him to leave or hej Kaiser-Frazer Corp., announce: ) s ; Ri- cutback , of | Vreeland then swung at young Ri-, cperations, ~ including : i the night shifts at its Willow Warnock said ] yoff of 3,200 ! workers. I The move will mean an "apprc—;M h "S d T p | Marshall Sends Top | production, now nearing an aver- | . H H i e seerams| R@nKimg Officer fo ¢ 1 F. Kaiser, vice president, ind general manager, said the cut- { in the face oi mounting| WASHINGTON, Feb, 26—P— .that have forced several|Secretary of State Marshall has sent| prices.” rge F. Kennan, to confer with Gen. - i Douglas MacArthur in Japan. | MAY HolD KOREA" today, Marshall said Kennan will| l!amillarlze himself with the B“.ufl-{ ElE(TIo NS; wll aback by way of the Philippines. Marshall said Kennan's mission| {work on over-all American Policy,| LAKE SUCCESS, Feb, 26.—P—(ing ¢ Japanese Peace Treaty, and| The Little Assembly recommended|to Japanese reconstruction, Ken-! ceed with nationwide elections in{ment’s Planning Board. Korea in defiance of a Soviet boy- - 5 Australia and Canada opposed me] | propesal, submitted by the Uni-} NEW YORK, Feb. 26-—Closing| Eleven countries abstained. The|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine and no official record of the bal-|Anaconda 31%, Curtiss-Wright 47%.' loting by countries was made. Internaticnal Harvester 85'i, Ken-, with five satellites, under her con-|Northern Pacific 17%, U. S. Steel tinued boycott of the activities of '69's, Pound $4.03%4 I was the first major vote taken | Averages today are as follows: In- in the Little Assembly, created at,dustrials 167.52, rails 4875, utilities Marshall, | - -—>o— ! POLICE COURT NEWS Les Whistier and son of Tena-|day on a drunk charge by Mayor kee Springs, are registered at the W. E. Hendrickson, as Acting City i Vreeland began !in the Antarctic.” Iland appeared at her home. 4 | would shoot. | today - an conomy” e ¥ ‘_“mmammimer and the boy fired one shot,! Run plant and the e { ciable” lowering of the plant's aute) ccmpany spokesman. M A"h 4 l 1 uited from “an economy | e manufacturers recently to[his top policy planning officer, Geo-! i | Telling a news conference about it i tion in Japan and plans to come D E F Y R U S S I A N S !ls related in a general way to his ito the problem of eventually writ-j today that the United Nations pro-|nan is Chief of the State Depart- cott. The vote was 31 to 2 ! | STOCK QUOTATIONS | ted States. ‘ vote was taken by a show of hands|stock today is 4, American Can ki | Russia was absent as usual, along !necott 43';, New York Central 12%, the Little Assemtly. | Sales today were 620,000 shares. the suggestion of Secretary of State31.63. FROM TENAKEE SPRINGS | Paul Jackson was fined $25 to- Gastiieau Hotel Magistrate, or Argentina and Chile to the British | Navy said Haeberle served as he S ernment have supported the clalms {o cover the 1048 season. ‘At the present time the Industry is hav- ing discussions with representatives of Cannery Workers unions as well as the Trap and Tendermen unions. claimed Falkland Islands off the southeast coast of Argentina - EX-NAVAL OFFICER FOUND STRANGLED SPREADING OF TODEATHINN.Y. COMMUNISM Was Traveling Under Ord- ) EW[“ED ers - Fierce S'I'Uggle (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) . Before Hitler's Germany went to Put Up Evidenced war, she redched out and took con- trél of more than 100,008 neightor- NEW YORK, Feb, 26— P—An ex- [DE square miles and upward of 28,- Naval Officer, traveling under ord- "7 & ers from the Navy Department, was m‘g“"md ‘n:;"::“izm‘:‘e r"‘:‘;:‘ :.“:e found strangled in his ransacked > Wes: 57th Strect.hotel room yester- SPread Over Mofe ”"_‘;‘:‘:”m o day. The 35-year-old victim was T :",‘m:‘;fii! and West of the bound hand and foot and strips of people ” - a bedsheet were knotted around his neck. Soviet Union. Hitler and his Nazis won most of The man was identified as Harvey Haeberle, Falls Church, Va., a civ- their territory by sending in troops or by threatening to do so. ilian employee of the Navy's Photo- Russia and Communism got theirs graphic Division at Anacostia Air Efinv:(::f{::s C:én:;nls"m;yc::;h:: Station in Washington, D. C rzi oncessions tyont thia Westati <Al lies, who needed Russia’s help in contact man with commercial stud- Sy # i0s filming training movies. the war; of, by the methods ot Com The victim was bound In a ver- [URISt Darties in neighhoring cous- aon of the old Chinese strangle '¥ies: With' Ogechoalovakis farnikl- knot, police said. ing the newest sample. "The disordered: hotel room Indi-. .07, iese Methods, Rimsts has S nexad more than 240,000 square miles cated that Haeberle had put up a and 24,000,000 16 edichink “an fierce struggle for his life before 2Nd 24000000 peopre, & being overpowered. .the West into Germany and on the The victim’s suitcase had been Enst into islands North of Japan. opened and its contents scattered. Haeberle’s wallet was missing. e AAC MEETING Police Commissioner Arthur Wal- lander said robbery apparently was the motive for the slaying D g e A meeting of the Alaska Arts and Crafts, Inc., will be held Pri- day night at 7:30 o'clock at the Territorial Museum to continue plans for the Arts and Crafts ex- hibit to be held March 12 to 14 in the Scottish Rite Temple. All committee chairmen and interest~ ed persons are requested fo at- tend HIGH RIVER, Alta—Fire on a ranch owned by the Duke of Wind- sor at Pekisko, 25 miles west of here, killed 24 head of purebred Shorthorn cattle yesterday. The loss was esti- mated at between $15,000 and $20,000.