The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,863 Plane Crashe ACS fo Spend $23 Million on Civil Communications This Year: Construction Approved CITY BOND ISSUE WON'T NEED EXTRA TAX, SAYS MAYOR Mayor W. E. Hendrickson Explains Proposed Bond Issue to JuneauC. of C. | Mayor W. E. Hendrickson told the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today that the proposed $275,000 bond issue will not require addition- al taxes for the City of Juneau. The Mayor had been invited to attend| the regular weekly Chamber of Com- | merce luncheon meeting. i Mayolr Herdrickson explained that present tax levies will be suffi-| cient to pay for the bond issue. The | issue will be decided at a special| election here on April 29, two days, after. the Territorial primaries. | Voiers will have an opportunlty,} he said, to vote “yes” or “no” on two propositions at the election. Orie proposition will ask for a $150,-| JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MAGIDOFF DENOUNCED | AS U. 5. SPY Moscow Correspondent for NBC Is Turned in by Own Secretary 15.—(A—Robert MOSCOW, April | bout five million dollars. 000" hond issue to be used for 5"“‘1Msgldoff. Moscow correspondent for | improvements. The other will ask/ine National Broadeasting Com- for $125,000 to be used for construc-| pany was denounced as a spy for tion of a new City Jail, Fire Hall| (o United States today by his for- and central heating plant. |mer secretary, a native of Michi- 69 Blocks To FPave gan. 5 The street improvement project| In a long letter published in the would' include 10 blocks of resurfac-|Soviet government newspaper Iz- ing and 59 blocks of new paving | vestia, the secretary, Cecilia Nelson, in~asphalt. The work would also|accused Magidoff of using his posi- consist of moving light and. tele- ghone poles, installation and repairs tb ‘Manholes, water mains, sewers and street drains. | Phe street improvements, said the Mayor, would be made where the traffic is the heaviest, He declared that. the installation of these im- provements would bring about a considerable reduction in costs of | street maintenance. The conbined Fire Hall and Jail, explained the Mayor, would be the fitst part of an yved .City cen- ter. Later, he said, a new City Hall will bie erected to replace the present 35 year old outmoded structure. The Citv now has $35,000 in U. 8. Gov- wonunued Ou rage TWo) ——————— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, ' Inc) ASHINGTON — John L. Lewis has a cute habit of playing one political party off against the oth- er. it backfires. Therefore it will be interesting to watch the repercus- sions from his use of Speaker Mar- tin and Senator Bridges. Will it heélp or hurt their political fu- tures? In 1936 Lewis put up half a mil- lion dollars of his union’s money to elect FDR. Then, four years later, he went on a nation-wide broadcast to. urge labor to defeat Roosevelt. That broadcast backfired. The public, of course, didn’t know it was paid for by W. R. Da- vis, who sold oil to the Nazis and whom German officials, captured after the war, said had been paid to defeat Roosevelt. Goering even méntioned Lewis by name as one of: those wused to try to defeat Roosevelt. But though the pub- fic. didn't know these things il Inger, : they distrusted Lewis' turn- o'o}xrt advice. and voted the other v . Again Tin 1946, Lewis threw his welght against the re-election of Sehdtor Kilgore of West Virginia ~which also backfired. West Vir- ginia miners ignored Lewis' advice —voted for Kilgore. . ' LEWIS AND DEWEY Again last ; June, Lewis staged another backstage maneuver. Cud- dling up to Governor Dewey's friends, he was able to pull one of the biggest wage boosts in re- cent history, plus welfare fund, plus almost everything else he wanted from both the J. P. Morgan steel | interests and the Mellon umil* coal interests. The U. 8. Government, previous- ly in control of the mines, 'had been trying to keep wages and prices down. But the minute the mines were turned back to private opera- tion, the Mellons and Morgans gave Lewis a big wage hike, and smaller coal operators had to do likewise. An inflationary increase in the price of both coal and steel follow- ed immediately. According to coal-industry in- (Continued on Page Four) Sometimes it works, sometimes | itlon Lere to collect information for lan” American espionage service. | 8h2 said Magidoff, also correspon- dent here for the British Exchange | Telegraph Agency and recently for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Com- (pany, has been sending intelligence ;l‘cports in U. S. diplomatic pouch- es. (Magidoff formerly was on the As- |soclated Press Staff in Moscow). | The former secretary, who also is |a former employee of the U. 8. Em- bassy in Moscow, wrote Izvestia: “Several days ago, while I was in Magidoff’s office, I began to look jat a.letter which I needed and in- | voluntarily discovered in Magidoff's papers many documents that Ma- gidoff has been systematically re- ceiving from the United States as- {signments for the collection of es- | pionage information in the USSR and that in the McGraw-Hill Pub- {lishing House, whose official station- ery was used for all these letters, !there are some employees who- are jutilizing their employment in this | publishing house for purposes of es- pionage.” The writer said she went to work {for Magidoff in 1944. She said he tWas married to a Russian woman and she was sure “he was a progres- | sive person and had €n objective at- | titude toward the Soviet Union.” until he established close relations with “the personnel” of American military and naval attaches.” Richardson Highway Not Open for Month: FAIRBANKS, Alagka, April 15— (M—J. B. Shepard of the Alaska Road Commission, sald yesterday | there was little possibility of open- !ing the Richardson Highway within 'a month. | Shepard said long stretches of the road along its 375 miles be- tween Valdez and Fairbanks are still impassagle because of snow. His statement contradicted a re- port from Valdez that the road would be reopened to through traf- fie: i * 9900000000000 0000000000 v I { | i Dave Doran, Veferan: Purser of Alaska $. 5., Is Back in Old Position SEATTLE, April 15.—®—Dave Doran, senior passenger ship purser for th Alaska Steathship Company, returned to active duty today after a six-month lay-off due to ill health. Doran who has been with the line| since 1919, is to go out as purser on the Aleutian, scheduled to sail at 9 am; Saturday for Alaska. SCHOOL DISTRICT GETS COURT OKAY Incorporation papers for the new Juncau Independentr School District, have been signed in U. 8. District Court here by Federal Judge George | W. Folta, A . SEATTLE, April 15—(®—The Al- aska Communications System plans an expenditure for civil communi- cations during the coming fiscu. year of $2,500,000, an increase of 25| percent over this year. The figure was supplied by Maj | Gen. W. O. Reeder, Deputy Chiet €ignal Officer for the United States Army. Gen. Reeder is in Seattle on a two-day official inspection trip oi| Seattle installations. At the office of Col. J. T. Tully, Commanding Officer of the ACS, Gen. Reeder said communications n Alaska would keep up with in- 'reased army defense installations. Total funds for alt purposes will be. A new cable from Ketchikan to| Petersburg will be laid this summer, 1e said, using “wartime” telegraph | ‘able that has been adapted at Se-| attle shops of the system to tele-! >hone and teletype uses as well. | Other construction in the north,| will include three new telephone 'epeater installations to cost $150,- )60 apiece. They will be located on the Alcan highway at Big Delta, Jathedral Bluffs and Northway.| Materials will clear through Seattle. Gen. Reeder said the arrangement o provide land line telephone ser- 7ice along the Alcan is now perfect- ed. Improved ship-shore teléphone service terminals will be installed ! t Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Valdez, | ind Cordova this summer at a cost | of $6,000 affording improved service! ‘o canners and fishing vessels, he| said. | Gen. Reeder, has been transferred ‘o the General Staff as Deputy Di- | ‘ector of Logistics, Hé will return to' Washington by train today. | . —— PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIS DEAD, MANILA | | i | MANILA, -Friday, April 16.—®—| President Manuel Roxas Y Acunda died last night at the U. 8. Clark| Field Airbase, where he became ill| shortly after making a world broad- | cast against Communist aggression. Elpidio Quirino, 57, Vice-President and Foreign Secretary, will become | President. B ® 0 0 v v 0 O & 0 & WEATHER REPORT (U. 8 WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau—Maximum, 29; minimum, 32. At_Airport— Maximum, 49; minimum, 24. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vickity) Mostly cloudy with light rain showers, occasionally mixed Wwith snow tonight and PFriday. Lowest tem- perature tonight above freez- ing. | i PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City— ’None; since April 1, .02 inches; since July 1, 80.89 inches. At the Alrport— None; since April 1, .11 inches; since July 1, 46.51 inches. - { 1 e 0 e v e e e 8 m vy TWELVE PERSONS FLY WITH ALASKA COASTAL Alaska Coactal yesterday flew 12 passengers as follows: From Sitka: I. J. Cunz, F. Bremer, G, S. Millice end M. M. Stocker. To Sitka: Dr. Sherwood, William Sterling and Henry Moy. . To Tenakee: Tom Hill, Mrs. L. Reynoldson, Mrs. Blackstorm ‘and Jim Hickey. v To Ketchikan: Tom Dugan, To Tulsequah: Mrs. Schomdahl. e e———— HARTUNG RETURNS Isabel Hartung, local police- woman, returned yesterday via Pan American Airways after’ spending several weeks in the states on vacation, \lently out of the rcom. 'NEW COUNCILMEN s In Flaming Wre Damage Scene in Bogofa | DECISION IN[ LEWIS CASE NEXT MONDAY Arguments—ifiontem pt & Trial Made Today—Court | Takes Adjournment WASHINGTON, April 15.—@®-- Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today heard arguments in John L. Lewis contempt trial and put off any de- cision until Monday. Assistant Attorney - General H. Graham Morison argued for the government that Lewis and the United Mine Workers were clearly in contempt of court for continuing a coal mine stoppage for a week af- ter a court order was issued Tov it to end. Attorneys for Lewis made oniy a one sentence argument: | “The government has failed to| prove its case.” ! That came from Welly K. Hop<| kins, chief of the eight-man battery | of counsel Lewis has. | Goldsborough then adjourned! court until Monday. | Now the only thing left in the' contempt case is the judge’s ruling —and the punishment if the ruling is for conviction. - When court was adjourned, Hop~ kins and Lewis went into a whisper- ed hvddle. Then the mine chief and his small army of lawyers filed si- In his argumens:, Morison hit hard al Lewis’ position that no coal stiike ever was called, The government attorney said that contention was an “affron: to ccmmon sense,” e o BIG AIR FORCE IS MORE IMPORTANT UMT, SAYS SECY. President Truman Differs Argunient Made by Symington WASHINGTON, April ¢ 15.—#— President Truman said today he does not know why Air Force Sec- retary Symington is differing with the Administration’s recommenda- tions on size of the air forces, Asked whether he plans to “spank” Symington for proposing a 70-group air force, Mr. Truman said he will have to answer that later. Defense Secretary Forrestal: pre- viously had asked for a smaller force, along with universal military training and a draft. Mr. Truman had ‘called this a balanced program which the nation can afford. The President told a news confer- ence he is supporting to the limit the defense program outlined by Forrestal i Symington told the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday that an N w i o Warning, - ; air force of 70 groups is more impor- e o'a I o ' tant to the country’s security than ’ UMT. | [] favor a larger air force than pro- Make Inqulry House members have shown they posed by Forrestal. They have be-| gun legislation looking to a 70-] group force rather than a 55-group force the Defense Department has | suggested. WASHINGTON, April President Truman said today that he was as surprised as anyone else about the uprising in Bogota, Col- ombia. Mr. Truman told a news con= iterence he was very sorry that the To BE SwoR“ 'N | rioting did happen but that he ? |had no warm:ag of it. | | cies had advance word of the rev- Newly elected City *Councilmen ‘ olution and warned proper officials. will be given their oaths of office, A reporter asked Mr. Truman at the regular meeting of the| whether he considered the revolt Council tomorrow night in City|as a warning to the Americas of Hall. The list includes James the Communist danger in this Larsen and George Jorgenson, wnolhelmspherm were re-elected, and J. P. Chris-| Mr. Truman replied that Secre- tenson who is a newcomer in Lhe{!ary of State Marshall had com- Council Chambers. {mented on that, adding he did so In | other Council business | very well, scheduled for tomorrow, Mayor W.| Marshall, who is attending | the E. Hendrickson is expected to ap-|Inter-American conference in Bo- point chairmen for the varicus|gota, has blamed international standing committees. An election | Communism for the uprising boa'ni will be appointed by the —— Council, also. In New York City, a fire alarm Reports from last year's com-'was transmitted on the average of mittees will he heard, every nine minutes throughout 1946 has heen siariec 1o find out wheth- ~ SITUATION ckage; 30 Die NINETEEN AMERICANS ARE DEAD ' Ship Bound from Calcutta to New York Goes Down | in Landing in Eire SHANNON AIRPORT, Eire, April 15—M—A Constellation flying from Calcutta to New York crashed today almost a half mile short of its land- ing runway here and all but one o! the 31 aboard perished. Pan American World Airways said the plane, “Empress of the { Skies,” was making a routine instru- !ment approach. It crashed into | flaming wreckage 2400 feet from !the runway, the air line addgd. : | The dead included 19 Americans and Sir Homi Mehta, wealthy In- dian industrialist. None of the Am- | ericans killed were from the Pacific | const. Marc Worst, 38, of Burbank, Cali- |fornia, was the sole survivor. He ' said the force of the crash threw | him out through the baggage com- | partment. His wife, waiting at the | aitport to meet him, witnessed the | tragedy. Worst is manager of Lock- heed Aviation Corporation base at :l Smuking and burning cverturned street cars in Bogita, Colcmbia, April 9, testifies to the violence of the mob which teok over the city within two hours after the death of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, Liberal Party leader. (P Wircphoto. More Mob Scehes Here is ancther scene of the meb gathering in Bogota which later sacked, burned buildings and street cars in downtown part of city. 15, —P— A Congressional inquiry already . er Unitea states intelligence agen-1 & IS UNEASY Inernational Conference| Resumes—New Russian Roadblock in Austria (By The Assoclated Press) Bogota, Colombia, remained un- easy as the Ninth- Intermt(onnl; Conference of American (ltates ontinued deliberations, interrupted ! by the bloody rebellion last week. The widow of Jorge Eliecer Gai- e 1 Shannon. Lockheed builds the Con- stellations, four-engined craft cost- ing ubout $1,000,000 each. (The passenger list released in IN BOGOTA |New York contained the name of George Henderson, care of the Am- erican Legation in Damascus. In Wasrington, the State Department said it bad no official word but as- sumed the dead man was George D. Henderson, recently transferred to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, as an American dilomati¢- official, , (Henderson formerly was second | Secretary of the Embassy and Con- {sul in Rome.) Basil Warnock, American overseas airlines stationmaster at Shannon, said weather observers reported three-mile visibility at the time ol the crash—2:34 am, GMT (6:34 p. m. Wednesday PST). Other sources ain, Liberal leader whose assassin- .tion touched off the uprising, said she would refuse to permit his| surial until Conservative President | fariano Ospina Perez is deposed. ' Fighting apparently continued in Costa Rica’s civil war, despite re- | ports from San Jose that rebel-| dictated peace negotiations were | nearing completion. ! Iialy’'s Campaign Ending Italy's bitter election campaign icared its end, with the govern- | ment on guard against any last| minute leftist maneuvers in the north. The campaign ends tomor-! row -night by government decree. | Voting begins Sunday noon and| ¢nds Monday noon. | New Road Block Russian troops in Austria set up a roadblock isolating the U. 8. air| | kase at Tull, 14 miles west of! | Vienna, in a new move hampering | | Allied communications. The Rus-! ’slnns demanded four-power identi- | fication cards which have not been - | needed heretofore by American | . | personnel. | Tanks Move To Berlin | | Unccnfirmed reports attributed i {to British sources said Russians| imoved more than 100 tanks into | Berlins southeast outskirts, but a| | (00K INLET tour of the Russian-occupied su- | | burbs disclosed no unusual activ- | | ity. | American and British officials | | cxpressed no concern at the re- i | ports. | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 15— In Frankfurt, Germany, Gen.| | "—The pilot of an Air Force P-51 Lucius D. Clay, U. 8. Military| plane was missing today, more than Governcr, ordered two Hungarian 124 hours after his craft plunged missiens to leave the U. S. zone| nto the water of Turnagain Arm, within 48 hours. ' | 144 miles southwest of here. | Foreign Ministers' deputies of the | The plane was one of three from 16 Marshall Plan nations studied | | Elmendorf Field on a routine flight. in Paris a charter setting up, a| | The flight leader said the pilot, Eurepean organization for econo- : vhose name was withheld, radioéd niic cooperation. | | that his engine had cut out and ' In China, the National Assembly hat he planned to parachute. tentatively approved a constitu- Nothing was seen of the pilot tional amendment giving Chiang | after his report | Kai-shek virtually dictatorial pow- It was the second P-51 crash ers in the republic’s war against the Chinese Communists. St ST L LT | near here in four days. Memorial services were conducted yesterday | |for Lt. Garpet Johnson, Casa SIEAM_ OVEME“]'S { | Grande, Ariz., killed last Friday/ | when his plane fell into Cook Inlet; tR M | waters. S 2 | Northern Voyager scheduled to | sall from Seattle Priday. FURNESS RETURNS | Aleutian scheduled to sail from | | Seattle Saturday. Milton J. Furness, Sr., Adminis-| Princess Louise scheduled to sail trative Officer of the U. S. Fish from Vancouver April 20. and Wildlize Service, returned here: Alaska scheduled southbound at yesterday from a month’s conlfl'-‘s o'clock tonight. ence in Washington, D, C., with Baranof scheduled southbound superiors. | Sunday. said the ceiling was about 400 feet. Worst told reporters: “We had come around once and we were making our second ap- proach when the crash occurred. to this everything appeared to be ncrmal. 1 was slung out throush the baggage compartment but I was only slightly injured on the rizht hand.” Witnesses sald the plane appa:- ently hit an obstruction, skidded along the ground for a ways and then burst into flame. The wreck- age burned more than three hours B g e FOURTH DIVISION DEMANDS BROAD PROGRAMONTAX FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 15— (»—Twenty-one candidates for Al- aska legislative posts from the Fourth Division demafided =« broad program of Territorial tax- ation at an open public forum here. . Most speakers took ya strong stand for statehood. Charles Her- bert, Democratic candidate for the Senate, urged confirmation of Pres- ident Truman’s nomination of Er- nest Gruening for a third term as Governor of the Territory. He said: “I want no votes from those op- posed to Gruening.” Bother parties were represented at the forum where candidates sub- mitted to questioning by the aud- jence. A total of 36 candidates are seeking nominations for the two Senate and five house seats in the April 27 primaries. —————— PAN AMERICAN FLIES SIXTEEN IN; 7 LEAVE Sixteen passengers came in and |seven left from Juneau with Pan American {lights yesterday. From Seattle, passengers were: Howard Hilbun, Emma Tuttle, B. Pettygrove, M. S. Boles, Charlotte Kirchofer, Isabelle Hartung, Alice Dalziel, Robert Killewich, Flossie Watkins, Pat Reid, Krist Pederson, Obert Peterson, Oren Kunley, Guy Halferty, Harry Burke and George ‘Turner. To Seattle: J. Boyd, J. Keller, H. G. Hungate, H.- C. Wilkipson, Helen Martin, Frank Brewer and Wilson Ramsey. »