The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1948, Page 1

Fms) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE[#EI] VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,971 LASK SE A Charges Are Filed JOINT CHIEFSOF BULLETINS SOVIETS KIDNAP POLICE BERLIN, Aug. 21.—M—Russian soldiers kidnaped four more West- ern sector German policemen today —two with violence—in a continu- ation of raids which Americans fear may grow into a serious in- ternational incident. The Soviet forces struck again after the Americans had announced they would seek face-to-face talks with the Russians to try for a truce in the conflict involving Berlin's divided police force, Headquarters of the Westérn sector police announced a large party of Russian soldiers. halted two German plain clothes men from the American Zone near the sector border, stabbed one, beat the other with a mifle. butt, and carried them into the“Soviet. Zone, bodily when they refu: the line. > British sector were the naped. One escaped an F ish are demanding returm of U second. %0, (cross ' v il'r" SOVIET CONSUL | BOOKS PASSAGE FOR TRIP HOME | NEW YORK, Aug. 21—(®—Soviet Consul Jacob M. Lomakin, whom the | State Department has expelled, has booked passage aboard the Swedish- i American liner Stockholm, sailing next Saturday. The steamship line said that Lomakin had made reservations for himself and his wife and two children. It said it could not dis- {close when the discredited envoy had booked his passage. A line spokesman said, however: “We have no record of the book- ing here. It was done in Europe.” The Stockholm plies between New York and Gothenburg. Lomakin's| return to Moscow presumably will{ ke made via Finland. Lomakin, accused by the U. S. of misrepresenting the facts in the case of Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, has re- fused to comment on the U. S. de- mand to the Soviet Embassy in Washington that he be recalled r.ol : | kit bad elaimed tie “rescued | t fam: setreat, operated by ) v;’bea'fif"h;nn the Consulate window, however, police The Russians yesterday seized five policemen from the Ameri- can Zone. Two of them have es- caped. The Americans have asked return of the others, %flr no reply. Thus, of tfi hine men_.taken, the Russigps s! six. 2 Fawiy ¢ Tension mounted hafirly in th divided four-power city. Russian soldiers, tommyguns at ready, pa- trolled their side of the sector border., A short distance away, under the Russians' cold stares, British and American patrols were on the alert. Western sector police have ord- ered motorized reserves to stand by, ready to speed to the boundar- fes at a sign of trouble. The Russians have made a series of lightning raids into the Western sectors, ostensibly against black marketeers. quoted her as saying she had been ‘neld a prisoner. Consulate officials however, claimed she was trying to commit I Yeasine of e sctlons beeause of [ e e | " The U. 8. demand for Lomakin's ouster was the latest in a series of charges and countercharges in the case between Washington and Moscow. Meanwhile, Dr. Grant Pennoyer, nog?xul resident physician, said Mrs. Kasenkina, who suffered multi- fractures and internal injuries in| her plunge, is ‘“improving right | 1along.” [ MOSCOW, Aug. II—AIL—SOVXGLI papers have not yet carried the news that the U. S. State Depart- | ment has asked for the recall ofj the Soviet Consul General in New “ALL THE NEWS U Subpoena Ready for Hi_g_h Red WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.— M—A House committee subpoena will be ready today for J. Peters, the man named as the head of the pre-war Communist underground in this country. Right now, Peters is out on bail while awaiting a de- portation hearing, and it is not; known just where he is. But Immigration Commissioner Watsorr Miller has promised an early hearing in the deportation case, and then the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee will be able to tag Peters with its subpoena. STAFF HOLDING SECRET MEETING WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—P— A closed-tight gathering of U. 8. Joint Chiefs of Staffs worked in the quiet of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I, this weekend on military defense secrets. Meeting with Secretary of De= fense Forrestal, the nation’s war chiefs were billed to take up & broad study of weapons and con- sider problems of strategic = air warfare. ALL THE TIME” NEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1948 _ FISH CLOSURE IS EXTENDED MOSCOW,—U. §. Ambasador Wal- ter B, Smith, French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau and Frank Rob- erts, Special British Envoy, con- ferred at the British Embassy late toddy. Seurces in the U. 8. Em- bassy indicated there would be no meeting of the three with Foregin Minister V. M. Molotov tonight and that there is little chance for & four powfr meeting tomorrow. LAKE SUCCESS,—A British spol an’ sald today his govern-| merit can not approve Israel's ad- jmission to the United Nations un- | | der present conditions. } Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE'TEN CENTS NLRB Charges ILWU Violating Provisions OI_IaII-HaEIey Ad NUGLAS l.ABOR must appear before a National La- DISPU‘E Io BE {bor Relations Board trial examiner INVESTIGATED, Ken Bowman, AFL Internatianal | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—(P— complaint charging them with vio- lating the Taft-Hartley Act. ‘The complaint was issued yester- day by Regional NLRB Director Gerald Brown. It cited the Inter-| | Harry Bridges' CIO Longshoremen! here Sépt. 1 to answer an NLRB| Chief of Statf, was there fresh from observing the Berlin air lft. Forrestal was prepared to report on his talks last week with Can- adian defense chiefs. Such meetings will be held every from an:enti-Com- 1 i ! Il NAVY SHIP IS DUE | IN SEATTLE WITH PRIBILOF CARGO SEATTLE, Aug. 21. — ® — The Navy cargo ship Thuban is due in Seattle today with a $4,000,000 load tof seal skins and by-products from the annual sealing expedition to Ithe Pribilof Islands north of the | Aleutians. Seal skins will go to St. Louis for auctioning. The proceeds, under an international agreement for con- Lroled sealing operations, will go to Russia, Canada and the United Ismes. SOUTH T0 SUPPORT MOVEFORPOPULAR —————— SITKAN HERE Sgt. Harry Wallace of Sitka is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. ———————— FROM WISCONSIN Arthur C. Lewis of Racine, Wis., is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. —_———— The Washington Merry-Eg—Round BY ROBERT S. ALLEN | mc.:mu;:;nwmm (Editor’s Note — While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington - Merry-Go- Round is being written by his old partner, Robert 8. Allen.) ASHINGTON Robert R. Young, scrappy head of fhe Chesa- peake & Ohio Rallroad, is return- o PRESIDENTIAL VOTE In an exclusive intervi 4 ASHI! N, Aug. = 21—P— the Washington Merry-Go-Round, Eo:lmlrn “g::oe}-m :uwort ap- the truculent little Texan Annauhc-‘m today for a move by Sena- ed his intention to make a new lm Lodge (R-Mass) to put presi- fight to gain control of the New|ae,tia) elections on a popular vote York Central system, took & 1ustyp,gje {in his monthly report to the Boller- poke at the Association of Ameri- can Railroads, blasted both Demo- crats and Republicans, and de- nounced- pouring taxpayers’ money “down the vast China rathole.” Young was tripped up on his plan to become the leading railroad tycoon of the country when the Interstate Commerce Commission, last spring, blocked his taking over the New York Central. The ICC held the consolidation would be harmful to the Virgin- ian Railway. This carrier, a com- petitor of Young’s C. & O. has large contracts with the New York Central. Young now has it all figured out how to meet this ICC objection. He proposes to take over the Virginian. “We will refile our application with the ICC,” he said, “and in- clude the Virginian in our plans. (Continued on Page Four) Senators Sparkman (D-Ala) and Olin D. Johnston (D-S8C) told a: reporter in separate interviews they will back in the next session of Congress a proposal to change the present system by which a state's entire electoral college vote is cast| for the candidate who tops the popular ballot test. Lodge offered in the last session and intends to revive a proposed constitutional amendment under which each candidate would share! in the electoral vote on the precent-| age of his election day total. ‘Thus an aspirant who lost out by only a few popular votes to his presidential opponent would get nearly half of the state's support in the electoral college, instead of none at all, Sparkman said he thinks Bonthemi Democrats generally will support the proposal. because it would “go a long way,toward doing away with minor- ity rule in this country.” Of course, even Wwhen the com-| oy months, the Defense Depart- mittee does get hold of Peters, it'mem said, away from the PN:M may not learn very much about the | 4 yneiruptions of official Wash- Communist underground. Peters ington may refuse to talk, just as several S other witnesses have done. However, | committee members point out that Peters. might be willing to name names in exchange for immunity from deportation. District Atiorney Conduds Gambling Raid af Anchorage Anchorage City Council cangdidate Walter B. Orr was arrested . early (ONSMR “AMB AT GLACIER BAY yesterday morning and charged with maintaining and operating &/ gambling house here. He was re- leased on $1,000 bail. The urrestl By VERN HAUGHLAND District Attorney,. Deputy U. S.| WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—®—An Marshal, Chief of Police and a Police [inlet created by the gradual melt- Captain. ing of an Alaskan glacier may be was made by a party of leading law ———-eo——— ¥ [nnmed for the University of Wiscon- > —— AIR FORCE MAN DROWNS, AUG. 15 WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—#— The U. S. Air Force said yesterday that Cpl. Herbert Lee Linville, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Linville, Val- rico, Fla. was drowned in Alaska on August 15. No other details were immediately available. His parents have’ been notified. Y el enforcement officials including the It is one of 32 places in Glacier Bey National Monument, Southeast {Board on geographic names. ; The National Park Service is pre- iparing a new map of the area, and has asked the Board to designate {otficially the names for various fea- {tures, including those created by the year-to-year recession of the glaciers. Many of the names proposed are ONTOBACCO, PACK OF CIGARETTES 70c LONDON, Aug. 21.—(®—A trade union leader threatened the Labor Government today with a "rvvolt"l unless taxes on cigarettes and beer | are cut. “It should be clearly understood,” said General Secretary E. J. Hill ,lt.o Alaska. { ~The feature which has been shown |on sonfe maps as .Cushing Inlet ;would be named Wisconsin Inlet, in makers’ Union, “that the WOrkersi,ne nroposal before the Board, be- in heavy industry do not intend t0|.ayse of the many University of give up beer drinking and smOK-|wisconsin scientists Wwho have ing and the sooner the tax onisiygieq the Glacier Bay area. The them is reduced the better. Other- ynjet was formed in recent years wise they will revolt, and their|yy the recession of Plateau Glacier.| profound loyalty to the !.:ub‘or Guv-i rnment will to hostility.” e The Govcn:n“l:nnt mcreue: zhelwe*'v s.l'non tobacco tax drastically last spring Pack Report Shows Decrease in an effort to compel a reduction in consumption which would save SEATTLE, Ang. 21.—(®—Alaska’s salmon pack totaled 2,745,994 cases dollars for other imports,, A cig- arette shortage has resulted. The price has risen to 70 cents for a package of 20. through August 14, compared with 3,388,897 cases at about the same date last year, the.Federal Fish and Wiidlife Service reported today. The pack was lower this year in all major districts. Figures for Aug. . Princess Margaret Is 18 vea" o” 'oda' 14 this year and Aug. 16, 1047; g o Western Alaska, 1,373,443 and 1418, LONDON, Aug. 21.—P—Princess|sgs. Central Alaska, 1,187,919 and Margaret, officially of age, aban-|;gggg87; /Southeast Alaska, 195,- “Alaska, under study by the U. S.! ‘connecu.-d with early expeditions in-; dons her role of little sister today. It is her eighteenth birthday and a solemn occasion for the merry Princess whose wit and nat- uralness have endeared her to the entire ‘commonwealth. All her life, Princess Margaret has been overshadowed by her old-! er sister Elizabeth, the heiress pre- sumptive to the throné of Britain. But now Elizabeth, expecting her first child in the fall, has virtual-| ly discontinued public appearances, and it falls to Margaret to should- er some of the duties of state. Actually, Margaret's coming of age in this case means only that in the event of her succession to the throne she could rule without | a regent and that her“social re-| sponsibilities henceforth will be! greater. Otherwise, however, she! 632 and 301,744. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof arriving here south- bound 4 p. m. Monday. Square Sinnett sailed north from Seattle at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. Coastal Monarch sailed north- bound from Seattle Thursday. George Washington due north- bound at 3 p.m. Monday. Princess Norah arriving north- ‘bound this afternoon or evening. '® Aleutian leaving Seattle todny.l Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail northbound August 26. FISH BAY Mrs. Kenny Westfall and Allen Westfall from Pish Bay are visiting in Juneau, and staying at the lumalm a minor until she is 21. 'lnannol Hotel, NEW YORK,—Gen. Jonathan M Wainwrigh¢, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, has been elected Na- tional Commander of the disabled American veterans. RAPID CITY, S. D.,—Seventeen men died late yesterday when a B- 29 erashed and burned a few seconds after taking off from a 15th Air | Force base near here. y ———— SPOKANE,—A group of B-29 Su- perfortresses winged toward Okina- wa ‘today for an extended period of over-water training missions. | Moge’ will follow during the weekend. i & \ HIGHWAYS NOW - OK, ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Aug. 21—Full land fcommunication to the rest of the world was -restored to Anchorage Iyesterday after disastrous floods, | learlier this week, had washed out {highways and railroads. IPAYMENT DUE ON VET INSURANCE, | REINSTATED, JULY! Alaskan veterans who reinstated' their G. I insurance just betore| the July 31 ‘“easy reinstatement” deadline should pay another month- ly premium to the Veterans Admin- \istration Branch No. 11, Exchange| |Bldg., Seattle, Wash., immediately: to prevent the policy lapsing again, the VA said today. | Most veterans who reinstated their National Service Life Insurance last month paid only the required two- months’' premiums, the VA ex- plained. Under G. I. insurance regu- lations, one premium covered the 30-l day grace period hetore the policy . lapsed and the other the month of | reinstateméent. | G I. Insurance premiums may be ,paid monthly, quarterly, semi-an- nually or annually. Advance pay-| ments, other than monthly, are dis- {counted by the VA and result in even greater economy to the G. I.| policy holder. ¥ { e FROM; DILLINGHAM Mrs. Fern Rivers and children and Mrs. Muriel Spears and chil-i dren, all of Dillihgham, Alaska, are stopping at the Gastineau Ho- tel. | | | | 1 { i ————— e e 0 0000 %0 00 . . ¢ WEATHER REPORT o @ (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) . | Temperature for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning. e In Juneau— Maximum, 67; minimum, 50. At Airport— Maximum, 68; minimum 43. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Considerable high thin cloudiness this afternoon and Sunday. Highest tem- perature near 70 degrees to- day. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m. today) In Juneau — 0 since August 1, 2.77 inches; since July 1, 992 inches. At Afrport — 0 inches; since August 1, 1.89 inches; since Juiy 1, 6.73 inches. 1 inches; e | ol | L] b ® ® o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 o R R R ) . . . B . I |ted Alaska Fishermen and Cannery | Representative for Alaska, return- ed here yesterday afternoon from Ketchikan in order to investigate' the dispute between the AFL Uni- Workers Union and the Douglas lnnnona] Longshoremen's and Ware- housemen’s Union and two affiliated} groups with “refusing to bargain in good faith and by insisting upon | a hiring hall arrangement which is illegal.” l desired direction, Cannery, The Waterfront Employers Asso-| Bowman said this morning that | ciation filed unfair labor practice: he is still investigating all angles charges against the ILWU last June of the dispute and will be unable (10, a few days before a scheduled | to give a report until his investi- coastwide strike by five maritime| gation is complete. |unions. i The union claims that it had The strike was averted by a feder- reached an agreement with thejal court injunction which expires company but that when the con- Sept. 2, A secorid injunction to ex- tract was presented for formal sig- tend the strike ban could result nature, found that the compnnyflrum the Sept. 1 b had already signed up with the CIO = The employers, in Food, Tobacco and Agricultural by the NLRB thi Workers Union. | taified that ¥ SHDEEWL 5 CRIN | dispatchers are L ! They have insisted @ ,third parties” for d Y PIONEERS. NEW -5 o rew comtraet’ Flvm m |night a coastwide caucus of the IL- WU declared settlement of the hir- The long way around is sometimes ing hall issue would not settie the That's what Pan American Air- The caucus rejected a “final off~ ways master pilots, navigators and er” by the WEA which included a weathermen can show prnctlcally‘,rlve percent wage increase, tic flights. Iclined to follow the lead of At-) It's a newly perfected scientific lantic and Gulf Coast shipowners; method of navigation called “pres- who have agreed to continue a weather men forecast the windsirangement with the National Mari- | along flight routes in advance and |time Union unless the Supreme the captains of the planes shop ! Court rules it illegal. { 'illegal under the PAN AMERICAN - | whi¢h expired. June 15. But h,.lt the shortest line between two points. projected Sept. 2 strike. any day in the airline’s trans-Paci-, West Coast employers have de- sure pattern flying,” in which the union dispatcher hifing hall ar- around for favorable currents, ! The old yankee clipper captnms,f piloting their rakish craft across the Pacific in the China tea trade used EAST COAST INJUNUTION NEW YORK, Aug. 21—{®—The |Federal Government today obtained to §eek out the “prevailing wester-|g temporary injunction barring a lek™ i thelr way back. strike of 45000 East Coast dock And so today master pilots ofiworkers set for midnight tonight, PAA Clippers seek out the winds| pederal Judge Harold R. Medina that will help them along their way |jssyed against the AFL Interna-) by boosting the plane’s speed in the!tiona) Longshoremen’s Association. {1t will be effective until Aug. 31, ° —————— ALBERT FISK, FORM JUNEAU MAN, KILLED IN MINING ACCIDENT Albert L. Fisk, 40, former Juneau regident, was fatally injured in a mine accident at Republic, sWash., These favorable air currents make an important difference in Pacific flights where a plane crosses 2,000 miles ocean without stopping. They can také hours off flight time, de- creasc gasoline consumption, enable the planes to carry greater loads. In the opposite sense, if the pilots and navigators of the plane are not forewarned, and strike air currents| blowing them, they are delayed, use more fuel and decrease the pos- | Wednesday, according to a wire re- sible passengers and cargo loads. ceived here by Willlam H. Biggs, As he goes along in flight the|Secretary of the Elks Lodge, from pilot’s instruments, altimeters, baro- [ Fisk’s brother, Roger L. Fisk. meters and such, show him where: Funeral services will be held Mon- he is in relation to the weather day at Valley, Wash. Mr. Fisk, be- pressure pattern map. He regulates lieved to have been an employee his course accordingly. But since of the Alaska Juneau Mine many pressure areas are constantly chang- years ago, had been a member of ing, the captain may find that the Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. Elks air currents have changed somewhat | since 1931. He was born December lin the short time since the weather ' 31, 1908, in Valley, Wash. PSS A R A ST Greek Army Reporied reports were incorporated into his map. He can then figure the possible | path of the currents, shop around in the upper reaches of the air until| he finds the winds he wants. | He can nls? receive adjusted wea- | ther reports‘by radio while in flight that help him in plotting his course, | Gaining Against Reds ATHENS, Aug. 21.—®—Uncon- icraft navigation. It sounds simple, The resulting course sometimes rep- | firmed press reports said the Greek | resents a deviation of a,couple of | Army today closed giant armed hundred miles from a straight line. | Pinchers in the Grammos Mountain Pan American Airways p‘onee,m‘sector cutting the Communists this new and scientific form of air- | forces in two. | ‘The General Staff could not con- but it is no game for amateurs, firm the report but said the long they point out. Only experts can, awaited ‘uncture of two Greek get results In pressure pattern fly- | Armies in that area was possible. ing. The men who master-mind jt| Casualty figures indicated the are not only fliers and navigators, | Greek Army is paying a high price they are weather specialists in ad- | for victory as their armies roll on. dition. A |A communique said 22 men were The technique is being steadily | killed and 148 wounded in the Nes- developed and improved as exper- torian sector alone vesterday. It said fence and training grow. PAA, al- |57 dead guerrillas were counted. though it is their own development, | T are not selfish about the thing. | FROM ILLINOIS They are sharing their knowledge of | A visitor from O'Fallon, Ill., Em- flying’ with master pilots and navi- | ert Jarvis is staying at the Baranof . - Against Longshoremen NEW CLOSING OBJECTIONS Delegation Coming Here 1o Protest-Day Is Criticized Albert M. Day, Director, Fish and Wildlite Service, announced this afternoon that the Eastern Dis- trict, Sumner Strait District, and the northern, central and south- west sections of the Clarence Strait District would be closed to commer~ cial fishing for salmon, except by trolling, in the period from 6:00 a.m. August 23 to 6:00 a.m. August 27. The closure will not apply to the use of gillnets in Taku Inlet and Port Snettisham, Sections opening for ‘commercial fishing on August 23 at 6:00 a.m. will be the Western, Icy Straits, Southern, West Coast and a por- tion of Clarence Strait. Day stated that extensive observations during the past week which has been closed and latest reports indicate that fish- ing can again be permitted. P will remain ige of abundance sections, they will be allowed continue open. The Fish and M’ e Service will announce either on Saturday or Sunday, Day stated that the critical stream conditions, due to the unusually short water supply In southeastern Alaska and the poor showing of fish to date may necessitate fur- ther curtaflment in any or all dis- tricts, but future action will depend upon the circumstances, No Snap Judgment Far from being snap judgment on the part of a “vacationing” public officlal, the decision on closure was reached by joint agreement of the entire staff of the tisherles division of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Clarence J. Rhode said today. He declared, “the matter of ex- tensions and closures was consideréd in joint sessions with our agents. During the last week we have had every agent travelling steadily tbrough his district checking stream escapement and reporting to us ddily on changes. “In addition to that we have made three trips this week by plane with personnel from the regional office checking key spots. “With this information and with statistical information supplied by Dr. Rich, we sat down in joint ses- sion, yesterday atternoon, with Se- ton Thompson, chief of branch of Alaske fisheries, George Kelez, su- pervisor of fisheries, Frank Hynes, assistant supervisor of fisheries and myself as regional director, with Mr. Day, director of F & WL ser- vice, went through records and agreed on recommendations for opening the season where warranted and re- taining closure where insufficient escapgment was apparent. Objections Ruised Referring to the additional closure, W. C. Arnold, Managing Director of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc, said in Ketchikan today that “the fisheries of Alaska are be- ing treated as a plaything by va- cationing officials of the Depart- ment of the Interior.” He charged, in a signed statement made to the Ketchikan Daily News, that “orders have been issued with- out rhyme or reason by Albert M. Day, Director of the Pish and Wildlife Service,” now here from (Continued on Fage Six) GLACIER PLANE CRACKS UP BUT NOT SERIOUSLY Reports reached here yesterday that a special ski-wheel equipped Norseman airplane cracked up last Tuesday on Seward Glacier, where it was being operated by the Arctic Institute of North America glacial expedition. The plane was not ser- iously damaged and has returned gators of other air lines. Hotel. 4 to its base at Yakutat. ]