The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,967 BALTZ0 EXPLAINS CLOSING A Case ofa—er-fishing," Says Fish and Wildlife Service Official By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Aug. 17,—P— Howard Baltzo, newly appointed Assistant Chief of Alaska Fisheries for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said today that the week's shut- down of Territorial fisheries was necessitated by a crisis in the in- dustry. Baltzo slld it is the first such action ever taken by the Federal government. The shutdown of all but a small segment of the fishing was ordered Monday by Service| . Director Albert H. Day, now in Alaska. Virtually all Alaskan canneries, traps, seine boats and gill nets will remain idle this week. If a late run of salmon develops, the fishing season may be extended a few days beyond the Sept. 3 dead- line to make up for the current week's loss. A series of Interior Department | hearings on next year’s commercial | fishery regulations for Alaska will begin at Kodiak, Sept. 15 and end at Seattle October 18 and 19. “But the situation has become $o serious that a mere change in fishing regulations may not be enough,” Baltzo told a reporter. “Something drastic must be done! or ‘the industry may pass out of! cxistence within a:few years'@ | The current shutdown invulve,s‘, chiefly the lucrative pink salmon pack of Southeastern Alaska. The pink salmon season, :which used to start as early as June, began Aug. 9 this- year. Last year the pack was at an all- time low cline 'in’ "pro companied by & price increasé that long. ago. took. out .ol the cheap-enough-1o N 9& “anmlly its a ‘of 9ver- fishing - too much rl all kinds of gear,” said Baltzo. “It takes the big ones to pro- duce little ones — and it's the 'big | ones that are being kil Baltzo, who arrived = this week from Alaska, said the sockeye or red salmon fishery, which has also been declining, was better than ex- pected and about the same as last year. The sockeye catch, an early- season industry located largely to the west of the pink salmon areas, in Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet, pro- bably will outweigh the pink sal- mon catch this year, as it did last year. Baltzo, a University of Washing- ton graduate, has returned to the Pish and Wildlife Service after more than a year as operator of a store at Wrangell, Alaska, where he had been fishery agent. Working out of New Orleans and Brunswick, Ga. Baltzo took part in the shrimp research a decade ago which resulted in vast expan- sion of the Gulf of Mexico shrimp industry. Uranium Ore Find May Be Pitchblende laboraiory?e;s Are Made on Discovery of Last Saturday VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 17— (A—Dr. F. F. Walker, Deputy Min- ister of Mines for British Colum- bia, said today the uranium ore found. in Northern British Colum- bia “may be” pitchblende. He made the announcement after conducting laboratory tests on the ore which was reported last Sat- urday by prospector Ernest John- son, Uranium is found in many com- pounds, but is usually at its high- est concentration 'in pitchblende, | officials said. Johnson’s claim is located about 120 air miles north of Vancouver in ‘the Bridge River district near Gunn Laké. —— - THREE FROM PETERSBURG Mrs. Frank Wooten, Mrs. Nell Ohmer and Mrs. Verne Israelson of Petersburg are Juneau visit- ors and are registersed at the Bar- mloooooo The do—h_ P HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Truman of LT. ROBERT DREHER The State Department charged in Washington that Russian authori- ties framed up an espionage case against U. S. Navy Lieut. Robert Dreher (above) whom the Moscow press and radio accused of serving as an American spy. Dreher is a former assistant naval attache at 4 Moscow. (@ Wirephoto from U. S. Navy. — - FIRE AT KODIAK (AN KODIAK, Aug. 17.—®—A suong off-shore - wind aided volunteers early today in controlling fire that broke out last night at the Kodiak | Fisheries cannery at Port Bailey, 40 miles northwest of Kodiak. A Coast Guard PBY plane which flew to the scene reported there were no casuaities. requested aid lage ' residents and cannery work- ers. Extent of the fire's damage was ed here. The pier area on which in {lames, but late the blaze was dying down and un- der control. Fuel tanks and bar- racks were spared, it was indicated. Fishermen coming from the Bering Sea to Kodiak, reported that smoke and flames were vis- ible several miles at sea. The Wasnlngton lMenry - [53 -Round By DREW PEARSON Martin and Senator Alben Barkley are on the opposite sides of the political fence, but, meeting by ac- cident at a social function the oth- er day, Speaker Martin went up to Barkley and said: “Senator, I am sorry I have not had the opportunity to congratu- late you on the high honor that your pnrcy has seen fit to bestow upon you.” of the story of the man who had two sons,” replied Senator Barkley. “One of them became a sailor and went to sea, the other became Vice President and he hasn't heard from either one of them since.” ' NAVY'S OBSOLETE COURT MARTIAL Eifective Feb. 1, the Army will revamp its system of military jus- tice—thanks to - a last-minute amendment which Congress tack- ed onto the Draft Act. But the medjeval naval code, which metes out separate justice for the gold| braid and the bellbottoms, still remains unchanged. tered basically since the and-tumble days of John Paul Jones. Even among the gold braid, Annapolis-graduated officers get preferred treatment before naval anof Hotel, (Continued on Page Four) «|yesterday. First reports of the blaze had in evacuating vil-| not clear in sketchy reports recelv-_} the cannery is located was reported | reports said) Iabolished or retained. (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | Inc.) ' ASHINGTON — Speaker Joe ! “Well, you know (it reminds me | Actually, Navy justice hasn't al-| rough-| Longressman Accuses Concealing Facls on Communisls WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — (B — Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R.~N.JT| today accused President Truman 1" of trving to “conceal” from the peo- . ple the facts on Communist spying. In a statement, Thomas also said the House Un-American Activities Committee has reports of “still an- other espionage ring” not yet men- tioned in Capitol Hill hearings. Thomas’ statement said the com- mittee already has made “shocking disclosures” about “the activities of Communist agents who have been funneling vital and secret informa- tion or our government to Moscow for the benefits and advantages of a foreign power.” He added: “Why the people have not been informed of these espionage activi- ties can be answered only by Presi- dnt Truman, for I happen to know that there is locked in the files of lthe executive branch of the gov- ! ernment, the complete story and full facts of this sordid chapter in our history.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—#— House Un-American Activities Com- mittee seethed today with a be- 'hmd-the -scenes row over what one | member called “a violation of an |oath” by a committee member or | staff aide. It seems that a solemn promise | |not to talk was exacted from ev- |eryone present when Alger Hiss, | former | testified at a closed-door session Yet morning papers published many details of what i went on. One angry member told reporters today that he will demand that the committee investigate the {“leak.” He asked them not to use his name until he makes his form- al demand at the committee’s next session. members, who ' could be reached would not comment. The committee has recessed its general investigation of alleged Communist spying for three weeks, but plans a meeting next week to bring Hiss and Whittaker Chsm-; ! bers face to Ince Ads About Krug Not | Misquoled KETCHIKAN, Aug. 17—®— A spokesman for salmon trap opera- tors said today official Congress- ional records ‘“clearly substantiate® their use of Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug’s name in an election | controversy oyver fish traps. Fred Gunderson, chairman of the Committee of Alaska Trap Op- erators, replied to criticism by William E. Warne, Assistant Secre- tary of Interior, in connection with newspaper advertisement by opera- tors prior to the Oct. 12 election. Alaskans will vote at that time| on whether they want salmon traps i Gunderson said Krug wrote Sen- ator Vandenberg on June 11, 1947, that “the Fish and Wildlife Service is convinced that the trap is an efficient form of fishing gear and is no threat 'to the conservation of salmon.” Saying the operators “did not pretend to have Krug’s blanket en- dorsement of salmon traps,” Gun- derson’s statement added: “In the advertisements publish- ed in Alaska newspapers we claim that Krug believes traps do no% threaten future salmon runs. Our source material is clearly a mat- ter of public record.” Warne had contended the ads were misrepresenting l(mg's stand. RR RATE INCREASE ADDS 10 FISH BILL, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17—! Freight rate increases granted to the railroads by the Interstate Com- merce Commission on July 27 will result in additional costs of about 16 million dollars per year to the fishing industry, Milton C. James, acting director of the Fish and Wild- life Service, estimated today. — -, WINSTEADS HAVE SON Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winstead | became the parents of a new son/ at 12:41 o'clock this morning. The | baby weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces.! | Winstead is a mechanic for thel Yellow Cab Co. State Department official, | “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESD. RUSSIANS HAVEFOOD TROUBLES By RICHARD KASISCHKE BERLIN, Aug. 17—(P—Increas- ing economic troubles were reported today in the Russian Zone of Ger- many as a boomerang of the Soviet blockade of Berlin. Workers at the Krupp plant at Magdeburg were reported to have struck to protest food shortage. ALL THE TIME” AY, AUGUST 17, 1948 MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS |INTERIOR DEPT. | ADMITS IT WILL GRAB MORE LAND Whereabouts of New Land! Withdrawals fo Be Kept Secret , WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(®—In CREDITBILL SIGNED BY WASHINGTON, Aug. A President Truman signed mln ]n\\ last night the credit curbs he called only “a tiny fraction of what we| need” to fight inflation. confirming an Interior Department proposal to withdraw additional Alaska agricultural lands from set- | tlement, the Director of the Bureau | of Land Management declined tn- Some strikers were arrested. The British licensed newspaper, and commercial shutdowns in the Russian Zone because of lack of supplies which formerly were ob- tained from Western Germany. The supplies, chiefly coal and steel from the Ruhr, were shut off when the Western Powers stopped trains from entering or leaving the Russian Zone. This was a counter measure to the Soviet land block- ade of Berlin, started late in June. The newspaper said the Magde- burg strike protested Russian re- quisitioning of occupation zone toods for Berlin. The Russians have not denled | persistent reports of food shortages (in their part of Germany. Short- ages were said to be aggravated by seizures of stocks to support the Russian promise to feed the entire city of Berlin, including the blockaded Western areas. ‘The American Zouc of Germany had food trouble aslo. A crowd of 110,000 demonstrated at Hof in Bav- aria against high food prices, and shouted approval of a resolti- tion calling for a buyers’ strike, American and British planes sup- plying the 2,050,000 Germans in Western Berlin started freighting in shoes and cigarets, as well as food and coal. The planes took in 9,790 pairs of shoes made in Western Germany and 1,620,000 | cigarets from surplus U. 8. Am;y stores. ‘The . British-licensed mmwér Telegrat - said “the- Russians i sealed off an area of the Sovlet- British border near Salzwedel nnd erected rogket guns tnere. - i STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive northbound at 7 tonight. Leav- ing at 10:15. 1 Sword Knot arriving northbound | today. Baranof arriving northbound at| 2:30 p. m. today, leaving at 5 p.m e, ® & o o @ o o o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 77; minimum 55. At Airport— Maximum, 75; minimum 48. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with light rain shower tonight and Wednesday with decreasing cloudiness Wednesday aiter- noon. Not much change in temperature. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 &.m. wasy In Juneau City — Trace; since August 1, 2.68 inches; since July 1, 9.83 inches. At the Airport ‘Trace; since August 1, 1.77 inches; since July 1, 6.61 inches. | | e o 0 0 0 o ) 0 0 STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORM, Aug. 17.—(#—Closs ing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 85%, Anaconda 37, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvest- er 29'%, Kennecott 57, New York Central 17', Northern Pacific 22'%, U. S. Steel 77%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 680,000 shares. | Aven\ges today are as follows: industrials 182.15, rails 59.54, util-| ities 34.74. SET UP TRAIL CAMP Social Democrat, told of industrial; |ley Act. “Harry Dexter Whife, | Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, | recent Congressional jof Communist spy tlay to disclose the location or ex- tent of the areas. (The Alaska Development Board | reported last week it had been ad- | vised of a plan for three new with- | drawals) Bureau Director Marion Clawson | said the withdrawals are proposed | to aid future settlement if Congress | approves legislation suggested by | the department. | Clawson said they will be {tential agricultural areas.” At present, he told a reporter, the | details are in the recommendation stage and subject to change. Clawson said the restrictions on| settlement will precede a classifica- | jtion of the lands for future coloni- zation. | The department, he explained, is | sponsoring legislation to waive E«lme‘ of the usual homestead ments in the case of Alaska. Congress is being asked, he said, to provide some government aid to | isettlers for clearing farm tracts an to eliminate the requirement that| settlers live on their farms. Waiving the residential require- ment, he said, would permit settlers to group their homes, buildings, and power and water facilities and thus | |eliminate.some of the hardships at- | tendant to periods of severe wlmer weather when farming operations are not possible. NLRB WILL RULE IN LABOR CASES 'Board Expecled fo Reach Decision This Week in Several Disputes By MAX HALL “in po- WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — (A — The National Labor Relations Board soon will issue its most important ruling so far under the unfair labor practice sections of the ‘Taft-Hart- | It concerns maritime “hir- ing halls.” This decision, which may be handed down this week, will mark the first time the five-man board has dealt with the labor law’s bnn’ on discriminatory hiring practices. | Two NLRB trial examiners have | lifted the hiring hall issue to the !cle” | Gov. But when the new on time payment buying and bank reserves go into effect mains to be determined Some version of the old one-third- lo\\ n-and-only 15-months-to-pay |vule probably will return some time next month. The Federal Reserve Board said |it will lay down all the rules and |fix and effective date later this week, probably Friday. The Board will administer the anti-inflation bill passed by the | special session of the Republican- dominated 80th Congress earlier this month, Mr. Truman accompanied signature of the bill with his prom- ised blast of criticisnr at the law- | makers. The GOP chiefs came right | on re- |back at him. There was a familiar| {ring to the arguments from both | sides. The President said the bill repre- sents only a “feeble response” to the demands of the people for |u( living. rong way ‘to fight inflation The right way, he insisted, would | to| |have been to give him power reimpose price, wage, rationing 'pmm and olher \\mume controls. BULLETINS AMMAN, Trans-Jordan— Jewish + forces' heavi gion positions at Deir Abu Tor ln! Southern Jerusalem today and were throwp back with “several hun-!| dred killed,! am official statement said ‘today.” WASHINGTON Count Folke Bernadotte has appealed to the| United States for emergency food | supplies to help 337,000 from Jewish-A:ab fighting in Pal- | estine. as says it will be “close to a mira- if Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren President. WASHINGTON— President Tru- day cruise to rest and work on plans for a country-wide campaign ior the Presidency. CHICAGO— Twenty-four thous- tional Harvester Corhpany plants to- day under a last-minute change in board level by announcing their findings on the subject: 1. On June 24, Examiner Howard | Myers held that the CIO National | Maritime Union violated the law by | demanding a continuation of its hir- | ing halls on the Great Lakes. It is this case the board is expected to rule upon shortly. 2. Yesterday, Examiner Wallace E. Royvster held that the same union and also the CIO American Radio, Association violated the law by dc-[ manding a continuation of their hiring halls in Atlantic and Guif ports. Former Asst. Sec. 0f Treasury, Dies FITZWILLIAM, N. H, Aug. 17— (M—Harry Dexter White, 56, former | died here yesterday. | White was a Treasury Depnxt-I | ment monetary expert for a dozen | vears before he became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. White's name came up during the | investigation rings in the A trail camp has been establish- ed at Eagle River by the Admir- al!y Division of the U. 8. Forest| Service. An eight man crew, un-| der the direction of Eugene Hulk, [ is working on all the trails in that area. | —————— KEARNS FAMILY COMING The family of William H. Kerns of the U. S. Bureau of Mines will arrive in Juneau on Saturday af-* ternoon via Pan American Alr-, ways. Mrs. Kerns and her son and | daughter, Billy and Susy, have been living in Reno, Nevada. The Kerns will live in Douglas. | Crown Lite United States. Elizabeth T. Bentley testified that he had given informa- tion to Red agents. White denied the accusauon ->o JOle INSURANCE FIRM Joe Mangan has accepted a position as salesman with the Insurance Company of Canada, which opened an office in Juneau last month. Mr. Herb Rowland is general agent for the firm, - VISITOR FROM VALDEZ Mrs. P. L. Dean-and child are in { signals. MANILA— The Philippine gov- | ernment today asked Ambassador Joaquin Elizalde in Washington to make representations to the United States for speeding the delivery of advance reparations from Japan. WEISBADEN, Germany — An American Air Force fighter pilot| Lv reported Kkilled today when is parachute failed to open after | bolt about 30 miles | Munich. SHANGHAIL— Three soldiers and | two civilians were killed today in the spectacular explosion of a large Chinese army ammunition dump on the edge of Shanghai. RUGBY, N. D—— About 60 per- sons were injured when ten cars of the Great Northern Railway's westbound Oriental Limited left the tracks near this northwestern North Dakota town last night. NEW YORK-— The bodies of 5864 American war dead, includ- ing many who fell in the bitter fighting for 8t. Lo, are scheduled to arrive at the Brooklyn Army Base Thursday aboard the U. Army transport Lawrence, Victory. SPOKANE— of B-29 A group nawa to spend three months over-water operational officers said today. SEATTLE— Funeral services for Capt. Max Garski, retired master | mariner who died Saturday, wiN town from Valdez and are stay- ing at the Gastineau Hotel. ship. PRESIDENT restrictions | his | Mt strong auire- | peasures to restrain the rising cost| He said there is a right way and a 1 refugees | LOS ANGELES— Norman Thom- | aren't elected | as Republican President and. Vice | man will leave Friday on a nine- | and CIO auto workers were called, out on strike at sevent Interna-| he bailed out of an F-47 Thunder- | northeast of | 8.4 'ALASKA RAILROAD WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT SEATTLE President ()f_(;real North- | ern Railway Says Project Unjustified Economically SEATTLE, Aug. 17—(P—Enthusi- lasm in Seattle for a railroad to a, is “misplaced” Frank J. Ga- vin, President of the Great North- ern Railway, said in Seattle yester- day | "He said a railroad to Alaska from Prince George, B. C. would in- | evitably adversely affect the busi- ness Seattle now does over its water- front. The opinion W given in response ito the question: “What eifect would {a railroad to Alaska have upon éattle business generally and up- on the cross-country business the |Northern Transcontinental {roads do particularly?" The, Great Northern President| |said he doubted American raflroads ould successfully compete for trans- | fcontinental business consigned to| Alaska “The southern terminus of such; |a road would be at Prince George | where it would connect with the{ | Canadian National's Prince Rupert | Branch,” Gavin said. “The Cana- dian National, if it desired, could |set up a rate structure wi would |require all ffeight originating, say, | in_the east and middle west to be | delivered to the Canadian National ( at Windsor, Ont., Winnipeg, or sim- | ilar other eastern and ern exchange point. Gavin said he was not opposed to a railroad if it were built for rea- sons of militery security, but he said it, conld not be justified on| economic grounds. He cited the im- | mense volume of traffic which| |comes across the United States on IhL umlhem lmnsmn'memala to as- kn and he salrl much of that volume | jeould be expected to fall off with {a railroad built Northward. “I was in Seattle at the time of the _Alaska Gold Rush,” ~he said, and I saw Seattle start to become a |city at that time. It has become a |eity because it is the outfitting {point for the Territory.” - | (CHARLES B. HINES, CANNERYMAN, DIES AT METLAKATLA Charles B. Hines, manager of the Metlakatla Cannery, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday after- |noon. Advice of his death was re- iceived by Doy Foster, Superinten- |deny of the Alaska Native Service, | who will leave today for Metlakatla. Mr. Hines is survived by his widow and young daughter, who reside in Seattle. He was formerly assistant Imanager and bookkeeper for the ‘Mel]’lkdlld Cannery for seven years ‘und this year assumed nmm\glrsmp (of the cannery. Mr. Foster and A. E. Walker, Credit Officer for the ANS will meet with the Metlakatla Council to | discuss the employment of a mana-| ger. > Rail- | middle-west- { | | BABE RUTH, THE SLUGGER BABERUTH HITS LAST HOME RUN 'Famed Baseball King Dies from Throat Cancer Last Night By M. L, STEPHENSEON NEW YORK, Aug. 17—(M-—Babe Ruth is dead. The all-time Yankee home run king, wasted by two years' iliness land almost constant pain, died ot cancer -of sthe throat. at 7:01 p.m. (EST) last night. He was 53 A priest who administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church said “the Babe has been prepared since July 21 for his ' death.” ' Ruth never knew he had cancer, however, More than 100 children who were gathered outside Memorial Hospital Center for Cancer and Allied Dis- eases walked sadly away when the end came. They were representative of the thousands of young and old who had stood virgil in relays outside the hospital where their stricken idol lay suffering. Millions of others all over the world had kept rooting tor the Babe. A Mass for Ruth Thursday morning in St. Cathedral. President Truman led the nation in paying tribute to the Babe, who batted his way to Major League Baseball immortality during 22 playing years. The President’s message of con- dolence—the first of many received at the Ruth residence at 110 River- side Drive—said: “A whole generation of boys now grown to manhcod will mourn the passing of the home run king of the baseball world. will be held Patrick’s THIRTEEN ARRIVE ABOARD BARANOF THIS AFTERNOON' The Alaska Steamship passenger | vessel Baranof arrived in Juneau aU |2:30 o'clock this afternoon Mxh‘ [twelve passengers for here as fol-| |lows: From Seattle: H. O. Adams and wite, Mrs. Mary Carter, Mrs. D. H.| Drew, Mrs. T. Dyer, R. A. Hugum Mis. H. C Leege, Donald Lecgc. Nancy Leege, Miss L. T. Quivey, Schwab and wife and Utfllml} Schwab. The Baranof was, scheduled to |leave for the Westward at 5:30 o'-| | clock this afternoon. D T0 RE-NEGOTIATE BETWEEN ARMY AND WRANGELL SAWMILL ") aid in re- neyrlhtnm the U. 8. i I \ | | | | | | Roden will meet Col. Otto Oblson, | |who is receiver for the Wrangell ‘Mlll The Army contract will be re-ne- gotiated and some disposition made | be held here tomorrow. He sailed |of the U. S. Army propertv, which Baranof Hotel are J. E. Nepple, A. for many years in command of the|is now in the Wrangell Mill W‘J Kennedy, Peter Capowsky, L. N. Libby Maine, an Alaska mnnelylmm receivership a year ago and has|Olsen, Roy A. Rutherford, Lynn inot been in operation since then, “Babe Ruth had all the qualities of a hero, and as an example of |clean sport was an inspiration to | tens of ‘thousands of rooters of all (Continued On P\qfi Two) PREDICTS END OF GREEK WAR ATHENS, Aug. 17—® -Govern- ment spokesmen said today there is little doubt the Grammos cam- paign against Communist rebels will end soon, and successfully for the Greek army. A General Staff spokesman said the defense line along the whole southwestern sector of the front had crumbled and War Minister George Strates told the Cabinet last | night the guerrillas were abandon- ing war material and wounded in unorganized flight. Spokesmen said the rebel peri- ! meter in the north had been whit- | bombers will leave Friday for om-,va contract with the w:angeu\"“‘ down to 22 miles and Strates In|Sawmill, Henry Roden, Juneau at-|S&id the army had captured the training | torney, flew south yesterday via Pan | highest peak missions, Spokane Air Force base| american Airways to Portland, Ore.| Mountains, once a major strong- in the Grammos hold of the rebel chieftain, Markos Valiades. EUSTEREBITI RS/ di b SEATTLEITES Among the Seattle guests at the Lighete and Dorothy Foreman,