The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1948, Page 1

JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1948 'FIRST ALASKA PULP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS TIMBER SALE MADE Western Diplom BLOCKADE OF BERLIN TAKEN UP Russuan Premier Agreesto Conference Over East- West Crisis (By The Associated Press) Western diplomats in Moscow | have asked for an interview with Prime Minister Stalin and may see him shortly, qualified sources said “today. | Three London newspapers re- ported Stalin had agreed to talk tonight with the American, Brit- ish and French envoys over the East-West crisis that includes blockaded Berlin. There were hints in the German Capital, the Russians were ready to talk business. MOSCOW— Moscow reported the Western diplomats and Russians already have made progress and “derinitely contributed toward eas- ing the tense international situa- tion.” ' The Ambassadors were standing by for a call from the Kremlin and keeping- their mouths | shut. Purposes of the Moscow talks were reported to be the easing of the Russian blockade of Berlin and estabilshing a _basis for futuze thority in Moscow pears to the a good chnnce both objectives will be worked out. The Berlin blockade started in June., The Russians barred access through their surrounding zone by railway, road and canal. The Western Powers have been flying in enough food for their 2,000,000, or more Berlin Germans, but coal has become increasingly short. | " GIVES FUND BERLIN— Russiun newspapers in Berlin said the squeeze will con- il Seaich - 10 COMMIES S For Vanport Flood Vidims | PORTLAND, Aug. 2—(P—A crew ats I(mg George Opens Olympic Games AFTER A TWELVE-YEAR PAUSE, the Olympic Games were revived July 29 as 84,000 spectators watched colorful ceremonies in LondongEngland, where King George VI solemnly opened the 14th Olmypiad of the Modeérn Era. Led by athletes from Greece, where, on Mount Olympus, the first Olympiad was held long before the Christian era, the parade of 6,000 athletes was a classic event. seundptote) - (International Radio- \PROPOSED PROGRAM: Will Not Call Second Spec- ial Session-Votes To- morrow in Missouri FOR TURN DOWN OF Bys 'Much?r—e—cious Time' #Wasted in Considera- tion of Program ASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (A—Paul the ' administration's anti- @fl1ation chief, said today Congress 5 been wasting “much precious e in its consideration of Presi- nt Teuman’s economic program. & Perhaps it is Utoplan to assume | t there is any prospect of elim- | ting partisanship from the econ- ic issues now before Congress,” irter told members of the Senate nking Committee. Un a prepared statement the ‘mer Price Administration chief During the past week efforts Bave been made by representatives | i the executive branch of the vernment to present to commit- ies of Congress facts about infla- m and high prices. “"“I think is is appropriate to re- !jfdn to this committee that in my judgment much precious time has been wasted, At least during my yn experience on the other side the Capitol, commitlee consider- on was confined principally to tract economic seminars, at- 0 fix- hiame and-sheer palts Only twe members of the Senate committee were present when Port- er started his testimony. They were . Senators Capehart (R-Ind), ‘Aulng Chairman in the absence of Senator Tobey (R-NH), and Cain, (R-Wash), Capehart observed that no Dem- ocratic members of the committee were there “yet Congress has been called back by the President into extraordinary session” to consider He added: THOMAS E. DEWEY, who will November, meet for the first time respective parties at Philadelphia. Airport, N. Y, July 31, world’s bannermen forget politics for the brace of American men would do (International Soundphoto) 24 YOUTHS ! T0 JUNEAU I SEATTLE, Aug. 2—M--Twenty- |four Seattle boys, ranging from 11 ito 17 years of age, left yesterday on a two-week Alaska yachting cruise. They will serve as the crew of the 85-foot, diesel-powered Twanho. Stops on the voyage north will in- PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN AND NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR demonstration of air power featured the dedication. fight it out for the Presidency in since they were nominated by their Occasion was opening of Idlewild largest airport. Mighties postwar The Presidential time being and chatted like any at a great public service function. HUGE FRENCH ARE.BOUND. . FLYING-BOAT ;% IS MISSING | with Fifty-two Persons Reported Aboard PARIS, Aug. 2—M- Air France Vanishes on South Atlantic! PULP TIMBER BIDAPPROVED 15 15T OF KIND Ketchikan EJE and Paper Co. Will Purchase Bil- lion, Half Cubic Feet By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—(P—The Forest Service today accepted the bid cf the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Co. to establish a paper industry in Alaska, The company agreed to buy 1,500,000,000 cubic feet of pulp tim- ber near Ketchikan. The action announced by C. M. Granger, Acting Chief Forester, will result in establishment of a pulp mill costing $20,000,000 to $30,000,- 000 at Ward Cove, six miles north of Ketchikan. Efforts have been made for 30 years to establish paper mills in Alaska, The compliny, an affiliate of the Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co., of Bellingham, Wash., submitted the only bid for the timber. Prices To Be Paid It agreed to pay 85 cents per hundred cubic feet for timber cut {for’ pulp prior to July 1,-1862; $3+ per. thousand board feetfor mu cut for other purposes besides $1.50 per thausand board tm g» leet fér saw l”s of henuock and other species. ‘The Company's contract, runs un- tit June 30, 2002, and the agreed lumbex prices will be re-examined 1A 1962 and every five years there- after to determine if they shall be changed. Planned Production While the contract calls for con- struction of a mill that will pro- duce 150 tons of pulp a day with- in three years, 300 tons a day in | Repen'ed Membef Of OI'- 5"vfarzfim‘xp“'i:&?‘;g;e:'e“b;fi:;mlgg price controls. clude Prince Rupert, Alert Bay and | five years and 525 tons a day ulti- tinue unless the anti-Communist, elected city government yields toj the minority Communist demand: that accounts held in banks in the Russian sector by Western Ber- liners may never be released ex- cept at the pleasure of the Econ-| omic Commission of the SOVIeL' Zone. U. 8. and British Zone rations; increased to 1,990 calories a day, about a fourth higher than at| the start oi the year, because of good crops, money reform and the Marshall Plan. LONDON—The London Star said the Western diplomats will tnlk’ ganjzation Gives Im- porfant Testimony WASHINGON, Aug. 2 —m—! financial- take” from Hollywood. The former managing editor of or, testified in a Senate Expendx- ture subcommittee inquiry government. with Stalin about the blockade (Continued. On Page Two) He described the Cummunist par- ty of the United States as “a fift] column: of Soviet Russia.” He named the late Jacob Golos | : head of highl; t C The Washingion r::m:: G TSI | Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Copyricht, 1948, W Th. Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON — “"Most encour- iin this country—an agency he said | was used to discipline party mem- bers and keep them in line. Golos was the chief contact with lbhe party for Miss Elizabeth Bent- i {Louis Budnez, repented Commun- | ist, told ‘Senators today that Lhe’nm Sheriff Martin T. Pratt. The Wwill pin his hopes for election on + Communist party gets “a very big mile-square area, which housed 18,- ' his differences with the Republican ( waterlogged board, today for the 13/ persons still missing from the Me-, .monal Day flood. | “I want to satisfy myself there {are no more bodies in Vanport be-, fore the Housing Authority opens kids Aug. 16 on the razing contract,” {700 persons, is going to be cleared. | i The first two of cars trapped in |the Communist Daily Worker, who |the slough Leside the wreckage of a| quit the Communist party and now Vanport shopping center were hoist- | ‘to scnd any further message to the is a Fordham University profess-|ed out yesterday. Officials think ! present extra session. It assembled some cars may contain bodies. Communist infiltrations into the recovered from Vanport since the every request. Its leaders said hxs] tdisaster of more than two months 20. STEAMER AlASI(A IN THIS MORNING; BRINGS NINETEEN| With 128 rouna trip passengers ley, admitted one-time Soviet spy, akoard, the steamer' Alaska docked who has testified that she got!'in Juneau at 8 o'clock this morning military secrets from government With 19 for here and is to leave for otficials and workers which were | Skagway at 4 o'clock this afternoon, aging sign .on thé* atomic-energy horizon is what the Russians are| now doing in Saxony. Low-grade uranium deposits uein.m;e committee were highly secre found in this Southern German|organizations, even within the par- state, and the Russians have been|ty. working- feverishly to mine them. They have been using a great deal of labor, and going to great lengths to scrape up this uran- jum, which is so low grade that in Canada it would be ignored. The fact that the Russians are are taking all this trouble over! such poor quality urgnium in Ger- many obviously means only one thing: They don’t have any worth- while uranium of their own in Russia. channeled to Moscow. Budenz said that the control Money From Hollyweod Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich) asked how the Communists got| money to finance their operations. Budenz said that dues accounted for some funds, gifts from weal- thy persons for others, adding: “There was a very big take from Hollywood.” The slight, balding former Com- munist editor said that Golos, Clarence Derba and - sometimes lexander Biddleman, were mem- bers of the control commission. He said this commission had complete information on’Commun- ! ist party members—including who! they associated’ and talked with, TENNESSEE'S YOUNG CORDELL HULL Tennessee's egsy-talking, hard- fighting Congressman, Estes Ke- fauver, wore a coonskin cap stumping the state sgainst Boss !klilnd what their relations were with Crump's political machine. their families. This they used to “My coonskin may have three|“blackmail” any members who gave — e (Continued on Page Four) | (Continued On Page Two) {commmission and the party’s fl-! inwho they borrowed money from/| scheduled. to return to Juneau some- time Friday on her sputhbound trip. From Petersburg passengers were: ‘Rabert Thomas, Aivert Sackamoto,| |Mrs. Vernon Counter, Mrs. Blanche ! 'Counter and Gail Counter. { From Wrangell: Judge George |Folta, P. J. Gilmore, Jr., J. W. Lei- |vers, Mrs. S. W. Jinkins, Margaret { Talcott and George Murray. From Ketchikan:: Mrs. Jeanne Churchoich, Michael Churchoich, Mrs. B. Taylor and J. T. Petrich. From Seattle: Jack Meyers, M. J. Plum, Vic Sellers and wife. ko STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 817%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- { Wright 10%, International Harvest- ler 38%, Kennewuu 58%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 22%, {U. 8. Steel 18'%. Pound $4.08%. Sales today were 710,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 181.13, rafls 59.83, util- ities 34.65, b INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Aug. 2—® —A close associate said today that | Presidlent Truman has no intention |of calling Congress back for a sec- ond extra session. This official, who declined to be iquoted by name, said the President {leadership over pflce control, hous- | |ing and other domestic issues. He said Mr. Truman js not likely | {at his call last Monday apparently mto! Thirteen flood victims have teen'determined to deny him virtually |and assigned it to meet at Anchor- motive was “political.”” Members of the President’s party said he is canvincesd that Congress { will turn down his program, and that | la second call would add hothing| ito the record on which he will base his stumping campaing this fall. f The Pregident is here to vote 1m | Tuesday's Democratic primary. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska from Seattle, in port and | scheduled to sail on Triangle Route at 4 p. m. today, returning southbound Friday. Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive tomorrow afternoon. George Washington, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive 10 a. m. tomor- {row, sailing at 3 a.m. Wednesday. { Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver August 4. Square Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle August 5. Aleutian scheduled to sall from “Seattle August 7. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 8 a. 'm. tomorrow, sailing south tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. Corsair scheduled to arrive at 10 a. m. Thursday, sailing south at 11:30 p. m. Sailors Splice due | Priday. i | | southbound ———————— | CANNERY MAN HERE lingham, is registered at the Bar- anof Hotel. ————— FROM TENAKEE Sam Asp, annefy man, of Tena- kee, is in town, stopping at the Baranof Hotel. |own parf.y would be interested.” | Alaska Raflroad; Col. John R. Noyes, | | Juneau, D. B. McKinnon of PAF, Bel-] “I would think members of his ALASKA FIELD COMMITTEE IS NAMED BY KRUG WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—4M—-Sec- retary of the Interfor Krug has ap- pointed an Alaska Field Committec age Aug. 10. The committee will advise the| newly appointed Director of the Alaska Field Staff, Kenneth J. Ka- dow of Juneau, in coordinating the Alaskan activities of the various; bureaus within the Interior Depart- ment. Committee members: Aleska’s Governor Ernest Gruen- ing, Juneau; Col. J. P. Johnson ot Anchorage, General Manager of the Commissioner of Roads; ! General Superintendent Don C. Fos- ter of the Alaska Native Service, Ju- neau; Lowell M. Puckett, Regional Administrator, Bureau of Larid Man- agement, Anchorage; G. D. Jermain, Chief of the Bureau of Mines, Alas- ka Division, Juneau; Joseph H. Mor- gan, Reclamation Bureau, Juneau; iClarence Rhode, Regional Fish and Wildlife Service Director, Juneau; John C. Reed, Territorial Staif Geo- logist for the Geological Suivey, Washington, D. C., and Alfred C. Kuehl, National Park Service, Ju- neau. DR. J. P. ANDERSON BACK IN JUNEAU | the Icwa State University, Ames, Ia., is back in Juneau and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. Author of several tooks about Alaska flowers and for- mer owner of the Juneau Florists, he holds the honorary degree of Doctor from the University of Alas- matey 24 ymfl in Juneau. e m'n'u: WOMAN HEIE Vivian Bernard of Seattle ‘,su\yln’ at the Gastineau Hotel. is Dr. J. P. Anderson on the staff of | ka. Dr. Anderson has spent approxi- | Bella Bella, B. C., and Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska. Sidney |and Victoria, B. C., will be visited | on the return trip. All of the boys are members of ithe Seattle Y. M. C. A, which ar-! ranged the cruise. Gk P . S. Supers Japan Bound MANILA, Aug. 2—(M—Two globe | {girdling U. S. B-29 bombers took ! ff from Clark Pield today for Japan. The planes landed here this morning after 4 non-stop flight from Ceylon, They will land at Yokota Field in Japan POLICEMAN'S WIFE 1S KILLED HELPING QUELL BAR BRAWL liceman’s wife was fatally wound- ed yesterday as the young woman ling to quell a tavern brawl between |four men. Detective Sgt. John Warren re- ported Mrs, June Buzzell, 22, the mother of & 20-months-old son, was shot in the forehead. He said the gun was discharged when Officer Ress Buzzell was grabbed from be- hind after drawing the pistol. The victim's parents witnessed the shooting. Buzzell was on vacation at the time. He was dressed in civilian clothes, but carried his pistol in occordance with city police regula- tions calling for duty at any hour, ngL Warren explained. police seek two others. men fought wnh Buzzell after the’ ;shootng PORTLAND, ‘Aug. 2—(®—A po-! joined her husband in attempt-' Two men are held in jail and’ One of the’ flying boat which vanished in the ’houth Atlantic early Sunday with 52 persons aboard. None was | American. { "We must consider ' the plane missing, but not lcst,” a spokesman |for the airlines said. ‘““The search |is continuing.” Warships and planes scouted the erea. The 73-ton craft was en- | oute from Martinique to West Af- irica, and was 1,200 miles off Da- | kar when its last signal was heard { shortly after midnight Saturday. It is believed the six-engine| |Lnteco»rc plane could remain afloat | {ior several days in a moderate sea. The Latecoere has a 175-foot wing spread and is 132 feet long. The size of the flylng boat can II:e appreciated by comparison with ithe U. S, B-29 Supérfortress, which ‘has a wing spread of 141 feet, three inches, and is 99 feet ‘long. If all aboard were lost, the crash .would be among the worst in civil laviation history. An air crash at ’Pmt Deposit, Md.,. on May 30, 947, claimed 53 lives, as did two othera in Colombia in 1938 and | 1947 e —— ommunist Parfy Convenfion Will Be Held Tonight NEW YORK, Aug. 2—M-The |Communist Party will hold its first { National Convention since 1945 to- night at Madison Square Garden. The meeting is expected to bring together a dozen members of the Party’s National Board, ‘who were released on bail recently after teing indicted on charges of planning overthrow of the government by Iorce B | AWYS 15 T0 ELECT NEW OFFICERS WEDNESDAY Members of the AWVS are re- quested to meet Wednesday after- noon at 4:30 o'clock for the purpose of electing officers. The meeting will| ibe held at the Governor's House. |held out hope today for its huge' mately, Forest Service officials said the company planned to con- struct a mill that will produce 500 tons of pulp a day at the start. It turned over to Forest Service officlals today a check for $25,000 and within seven days must pay another $75,000. The company said it will employ 1,200 workers when the mill 1s completed. Other Timber For Sale The sale is the first of five or 6ix forest units in the Tongass National Forest the government plans to sell, calling for construc- tion of mills in Alaska to establish a stable industry there. The mills would work the year around. . The service said the total timber which will eventually be disposed of will amount to approximately 8,000,000,000 cubic feet and all of it will be €15 on a sustained yleld basis, furnishing timber for the mills in perpetuity. Where Timber Located The bulk of the timber bid on by the Ketchikan Company is lo- cated on Prince of Wales Island, north of Hydaburg, Craig and Kla- wock. About 75 percent of it is hemlock and the balance mainly Sitka spruce. The Forest Service will supervise the cutting and the contract pro- vides for the safeguarding of the salmon spawning streams, preserva- tion of scenic areas and preven- tion of stream pollution. The company must qualify for a Federal water power license with- in one year and show assets to en- able it to build the mill. Officers of the company, all affillated with the Puget Sound |Co, are Fred H. Stevens, San Francisco, chairman of the Board; Lawson P. Trucote, Bellingham, President, and Robert T. Evans, Bellingham. Vice-President, | PRODUCTION ESTIMATED BELLINGHAM, Aug. 2.—(P— The 1,500,000,000 feet of timber in the Tongass National Forest of South- cast Alaska which was awarded to Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Com- pany today, will produce approxi- mately 8,000,000 tons of dissolving pulp, Lawson P. Turcotte, Presi- dent of the fizm, said today. l ———— ‘Continued on Page Six) ‘