The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,974 $750,000 BUILDING T0 BE ERECTED HER Russia Chop SUDDEN MOVE IS MADE BY SOVIET GOVT. Expulsion of Consal Gen- eral, Kasenkina Affair Is Cause of Action By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW, - Aug. 25—P— The Russian government, reacting sharply to the expulsion of the Soviet Consul General from New York, chopped off all consular ties with the United States today. The action entails the closing of Russian consulates in New York and San Francisco, the closing of a United States consulate in Viad- ivostok, and the voiding of an agreement granting the United States the right to open a con- sulate in Leningrad. MARSHALL COMMENTS, Action Is R;g—reilable But Not Serious-May Re- call Soviet Citizens By EDWARD E. BOMBAR WASHINGTON, Aug. 25:(P— Secretary of State Marshall said today the United States will ac- cept Russia’s order for closing the Marshall told a news conference the Soviet action, announced last night as a climax to a dispute over {runaway Russian school teachers, is regrettable but not a very serious matter. The American consulate in the RUSS MOVE “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1948 Territorial, Munidipal Employees Retirement " Plans Discussed Here To discuss a retirement plan for | Territorial and municipal em- Iployees, a meeting was held yes- | terday in the Senate Chamber of the Federal Building. Attorney General Ralph Rivers, in his cap- MURRAY CLEARS HIMSELF; DENIES s Off Consu ALL THE TIME” LONGSHORE Holel Jump WORK OFF | Nof Suicide - ON COAST Press Told Stoppage for 24 HoursiKasenkina Jumped fo Pre-| While Men Go fo Union | vent Return to Russia— Meefings—Rumors Afloat | Newsmen Conference American consulate in Vladivostok. CHARGES MADE. | | | 1 Doctor Lost 17 Days in Canadian Bush After | - Crash, in Edmonfon EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 26—(®— Grimy and wan from 17 days in the bush, Dr. V. B. Murray, 61, re- turned to Edmonton last night, vow- | ot acity as Legislative Counsel, called , the meeting pursuant to circulation | Longshoremen stop-work meetings a petition by Territory and municipal employees addressed to the Legislature calling for a retire- ment system. Attending the meet- ing were Territorial officials and employees. An outline of a plan based on standard provisions found in var- ious state laws was discussed and numerous suggestions made which will be reflected in the draft of a | | i SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25,_m_; idled Pacific Coast waterfronts to- day amid rumors employers may enter new negotiations over the hiring hall dispute. The stop-work holiday, called for union reports to the member- ship on an impending strike Sept. 2, began at 6 p. m. yesterday in San Franeisco and is scheduled to end at 6 p.n. today. - Work stoppages ‘ for union meetings in bill for introduction at the next|other ports were called for varlous By MARTIN ROGART NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—(A—Mrs. Oksana Kakensina said today she jumped from a third floor window of the Russian consulate because she wanted to escape. She said in“an interview from her bed in Roosevelt Hospital, I jumped to escape, not to kill my- self.” teacher added she did not want to g0 back to Russia. Mrs. Kasenkina told reporters | i The 42-year-old Russian school ! It grew out of what has become 'Pacific port was so circumscribed known as the Kasenkina affaifilin his activities that he was able ing that his flying days are over. session of the Legislature. the case of a Russian school teachs et, now in a New York hospital,| who has been the subject of an international tug-of-war on the; highest diplomatic levels. g Move By U. S. The U. S. State Department, on August 19, asked the Russian gov- ernment to recall Jacob M. Loma=| Kin, the Soviet Consul General New York, because of his activ- ities in the %&e X (Lomakin s’ schi ‘to” start iy to accomplish very little, Marshall said. Moscow also. cancelled a 1947 agreement to permit reopening of @ former American consulate in Leningrad. Marshall told report- made toward opening the consul-'Grand Prairie, Alta. But two weeks| General; ate . there. Along with this action, the Soviets -ordered the closing down of the Soviet consulates in New York and San Francisco. The move ‘The Washington, D. C., doctor- pilot has satisfied RCAF officials that his crash in the wilds of Inorthern Alberta was an accident and that no desire to escape from civilization prompted his crack-up at lonely Chip Lake, 80 miles south~ west_of his announced destination, of wandering through the bush has cured his zest for air travel. The twin-engined Cessna aircraft that Dr. Murray overturned in the bush when he ran out of fuel, miles home Saturday. The U. S. note{speeded up a steady recall of So-ioff his course, Aug. 7, now is the informéd the Russlan government that Mrs. Kasenkina would not be turned over to Russian author- ities against her will and rejected contentions that she had been kid- naped.) The Soviet reply, as published by Tass, categorically rejected the United States contention that Lo-| makin and other Soviet officials' had exceeded their legal rights in viet citizens from this country. Carefully choosingi - his words, Marshall noted that the Russians still have the Amtorg Trading Or- ganization with headquarters in New York for conduct of business aifairs in this country. He also said consular sections presumably will continue to be maintained in the Russian embassy in Washing- ton. property of J. MeCullough, the trapper who found him at Nose Creek, a few miles from the scene lof the crash, and brought him batk ito safety by pack-horse. The doctor explained he planned to ferry the plane to Fairbanks, |poor eye-sight for the 10-degree de- viation of his course that landed thim in the northern Alberta wilder-; A study group to assemble facts and figures from all Territorial ! departments and agencies, as well as from incorporated cities, was |formed. Persons named on the study group are as follows: Henry Benson, Department of Labor, {Chairman; Ralph Rivers, Attorney James Ryan, Depart- }ment of Education; Jack Popejoy, City of Juneau; Neil Moore, Office {of the Auditor; Arthur Hedges, Territorial Employment Service: | An interpretation group was also | formed to distribute an explana- iticn of the plan to all interested | persons as soon as drafting is com- | blete. Perséns named on this i group are as follows: Mrs. Pauline | washington, Alaska Merit System, Chairman; Edward 'Keithahn, Ter- that when she was . returned to ithe Soviet consulate here from the |White Russian refugee farm at| +Valley Cottage, N. Y.: | “I knew that since they did not | permit me to leave the consulate, I weuld not be able to escape in Russia either. “Therefore I jumped out of the an’- hisen "he!window to escape. 1 didn’t waat| lto kil myself. I wanted to es- | cape.” She said that Soviet Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin and Consul General Yakov M. Lomakin *“both: told me what to say to reporters” at a press conference held in the Russian consulate on the day she was taken there irom the farm, | They told her, she said, that) “through my message I would be-| come a heroine.” The interview lasted 21 minutes. | tihes today. Rumors were current that water- front employers would negotiate further on the basis of allowing the hiring hall to continue with a unipn dispatcher—pending a Su- préine court decision on its legal- ity. The hiring hall maifi issue. Employers have con- tended the present system violates the Taft-Hartley Act and have in- |sisted ‘on an impartial dispatcher. The vion demands eontinuance of the "unijon dispatcher. | Harry Bridges, President of the : International Longshoremen’s and | iWarehousemen’s Union, met for two hours with employers' repre- ! \sentatives last night. After |he' jconference he said it concerned a i“special situation in Hawaii." Thel Alaska, and sell it there. He blamed | iritorial Museum; Lois Jund, De- [ILWU announced no meetings with partment of Health; M. P. Mul- laney, Department of Taxation; Henry Benson, Department of La- the cases of Mrs. Oksana Kasen-| kina and Mikhail I. Samarin, an- other Russian school téacher in the United States. (Continued on Fage Six) e ——————— The Washington Merry - Go - Round BY ROBERT S. ALLEN {Copyright, 1048, h&c'l;hfi Bell Syndicate, (Editor's Note — While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington Merry-Go- Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen.) ASHINGTON— Supreme Court Justice Willlam O. Douglas had a very close brush with death the other day. Vacationing in Washington state, the brilllant jurist accompanied a friend who was trucking four horses across the Cascade Moun- tains. While ascending a steep canyon road, the rear wheels of |aboard the Williamsburg last night{is at the Baranof Hotel. - .- the truck began slipping on loose dirt from a recent slide. TRUMAN CANCELS CREDENTIALS OF - RUSSIAN CON. GEX. ]Presidem Takes Action in Lomakin Case-Order Is Flown fo Washington YORKTOWN, Va., Aug. 25.—(®— President Truman today canceled the credentials of Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin. Mr. Truman's action. was an- nounced by Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross as the White House yacht, Williamsburg, docked at the Navy Mine Depot near here. The President also said the Na- | tional Security Resources Board has recommended the continuance of voluntary allocations of petrol- eum and steel. Ross said the President signed the formal revocation of the ex- quatur issued to Lomakin, the So- Before the friend and Douglas|viet Consul General in New York. could do anything about it, the|He said it is being flown back to heavy truck had skidded out of control and was hurtling backward wildly. After some distance, the truck finally crashed upside down against some trees, scattering the Cecupants over the landscape. Miraculously, neither the men nor the animals were injured. After he had regained his breath, Douglas punned, “in legal parlance, that's what would be called a ‘vio- lent discent’ (dissent).” EYE-POPPERS The preliminary budget estimates submitted by the Army and Navy for next year are eye-poppers. The two services are asking for approximately $5,000,000,000 more than the $16,000,000,000 Congress voted them this year. The Navy wants over $11,000,000,000 and the Army more than $10,000,000,000. This stupendous $21,000,000,000 total does not include Air Force es- timates. They are still to come and are sure to be not less than PO e P b s . . (Continued - on Page Four) Washington this afternoon. The United States several days! ago asked Russia to recall Loma-| ikin for “highly improper” activ- {itles in the case of three refugee {Soviet school teachers. PORTLAND-ALASKA SHIP RUN STARTS PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 25.—(#— The steamer Henry D. Lindsley, due to start regular direct Portland- to-Alaska shipping service, berth- ed here yesterday. H. H. Wrightson, manager of the coastwise line, said departure would be delayed until next Monday be- cause of the reavy outbound car- g0 to be loaded. Francisco and will sail for Seward and Whittier. A second Alaska- for cargo about Sept. 15. The vessel came here from San| bound ship is expected to call here | {bor; Burke Riley, Governor's Of- { | o= Ifice; Ronald Stewart, Department | He was at a loss to explain the i rumors of an abandoned airfield|Of Mines. 100 miles from the nearest road, or. Other persons who attended the «trail where he was said to be seeking meeting were Miss Catherine Mack, !a back-to-nature holiday. |Alaska Development Board; Miss ! RCAF officials claimed the i_nror-|l“mlccs Regan, Treasurer’s Office; mation was contained in a letter{Miss Dorothy Whitney, Depart- he had written to a Washington |ment of Health; Emmett Botelho, | friend. They had planned to charge Highway Engineer’s Oftice; Tom ‘him with filing an incorrect flight jswwm. Attorney General's Of- |plan, causing a search which cost fice; and Al Daniels, City of 1$35,000. ¥ ,Ketchikan Employees ‘ Still limping from a knee injury,: e |suffered in the crash, Dr. Murray Isaid he had been “misquoted” and:(om AIR S | denied any intention of departing | . f from his Edmonton-Grand Prairie g 4 JUNEAU SECTION “I guess they just didn’t under-! stand writing,” he said. Sqdn. Ldr. J. T. Arnold, North-' A mass of cold air which pene- west Air Command flying officer, trated the Interior of Alaska is [who returned with Dr. Mutray afte: oving southeastward across Cana- questioning him about the flight,'da this morning. said he was convinced that the' Yesterday the cold air succeeded | Ipllot strayed from -his course acci- in penetrating south of the Coastal dentally. ST ition in the dry air the temperature AT BARANOF iat the airport fell to 27 degrees dur- W. E. Peet, Howard-Cooper Co. !ing the night. Seattle, arrived in Juneau from| On the roof of the Federal Build- Anchorage by PNA Tuesday, anding thé lowest was 37 degrees. { The 37 degree temperature in Ju- |neau. was the coldest ever recorded |so early in August. The coldest Au- is ! gust temperature ever recorded was 136 ‘degrees which occurred on Au- |gust 28, 1904, and August 31, 1922. i / | PETERSBURG MAN HERE James E.. Parks, Petersburg, a visitor at the Baranof Hotel. L —,——— o e 0000 9 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperature for 24-hour period e ending 7:30 this morning. In Juneau— Maximum, 57: minimum, 37. At Airport— Maximum, 56; minimum, 28. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair tonight and Thursday. Not so cold tonight with low- Consumer Sirike Reduces Price of Pork-on-the-Hoof (By The Associated Press) retail , Consumer resistance at grees. ® nation's big stockyards. PRECIPITATION e For the second day in a row, the (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 @ price for pork-on-the-hoof has de- 8. m. today) ! ® clined from the record highs set In. Juneau City — Trace; © last week. Prices dropped from since August 1, #.41 inches; ® ;25 cents to one dollar per hun- since July 1, 1156 inches. ® |dred pounds. At the Airport — None; ———— At Airport .06 inches; KETCHIKAN VISITOR since August 1, 293 iaches; esaoviss since July 1, 17.77 inches. Lauren G. Duncan, insurance . i@ © @ » » @ o o @ o o and at the Baranof Hotel. s {Mountains and due to the radia-| Three = reporters, including the pute were scheduled. writer, who represented the news Union leaders took before mem-‘servlces. were present. bership meetings a coastwise cau-i cus recommendation that an em- | ployer offer of a five-cent-an-hour | employérs.on the West Coast dis- HOLLANDS RETURN| i 1 |wage hike be rejected and that a 1 iNnMnnnl Labor Relations Board!FRoM 'l'wo MON'I'H‘ election on the offer be boycotted. | )I sinaacar VACATION IN STATES| 16 AIRMEN | After a two month’s tour of the | western states by automoblie, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Holland retumedl {abonrd the Aleutian, They visited | {with their son Dale at Fort Ord,' ‘Cnslh‘. Dale, who enlisted in the Army ! FoRI (RASHIM.;L summer, was transferred to' 'Fort Riley, Kansas, just before the {Hollunds left the States. bapacs e et G 4 The Hollands drove as far south VI(flms D|e n TW|Sted, as Tia Juana, Mexico, and then |visited Arizona, Grand Canyon and Bu[nedW[e(kage—-Boun Yellowstone Park. In Hbollywood, p Ithey visited with Don Harvey,| . okmawa from Spokane |brotiier of Hal Sheldon of Juneau.{ { ;Den Harvey is a free-lJance actor and is associated with the Screen Children’s Guild. Holland s with the Alaska Electric ight and Power Company here. By LEIF ERICKSON HICKAM FIELD, Hawaii, Aug. 25.—(P—Sixteen airmen - died las(.iL !night in the twisted, burned wreck- lage of an Okinawa bound Super- S {fortress that crashed in one of the !uhnda' worst peacetime air du.!WAR DEAD ROM asters. i «-| ALASKA GO SOUTH| Four othérs were burned One of the big bomber's four) | engines conked out three minutes|gttle' Port of Embarkation reported after it took off from Barber's|the Army transport Honda. Knot Point on another leg of its Far|pas left Whittier, Alaska with bodies :Easwrn hop from the 98th Bomb-|o¢ approximately 1,500 military per- :er Group's base at' Spokane, Wash. |sonnel and civilians who were killed iously. SEATTLE, Aug. 25. (®-The Se- " ® butcher shops is credited vmh[ est température near 40 de- ® pulling hog prices down at the!concrete power substation and ex-|sail irom Vapcouver 9 tonight. ® man from Ketchikan, is in Juneau | [ The pilot was ordered to land!or died in the Alaskan theater dur-. at the municipal Airport, which jadjoins Hickam Field. The Superfort came in at an alti- tude of 150 feet and missed the Municipal Airport.* The piiot bank- ed the plane’ in an attempt to circle and bring it back In but a wing caught a transport plane park- ed on a Hickam Field taxiway. The Superfort crashed into a ploded. Witnesses said the four survivors | either jumped or were thrown free| 'from the wreckage. They were '‘rushed to Tripler Army General Hospital where ‘doctors said their condition was serious. The plane was one of 28 from | the 98th Group enroute to OKin- ! ion unit there. It was one of 14 Superforts scheduled to leave yes-! ‘terd-'y.- 4 ] ing the war. The Honda Knot will arrive at Sitka Wednesday, then go direct to San Praacisco. She is due there Sept. 2. i STEAMER MOVEMENTS scheduled Princess Louise to! Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle 10 a. m. tomorrow. . | Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. George Washington scheduled to from MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PROPER Charges of Perjury in - Spy Hearing Announcement Made by Thomas Today as Hiss, Chambers Meet WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—(P—Al- ger Hiss and his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, confronted each other in the congressional spy hearings today and were told that “certainly” one will be “tried for perjury.” The statement came trom Chair- man J. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Slowly, solemnly, Thomas said: “As a result of these hearings cer- tainly one of these witnesses will be tried for perjury.” Perjury is lying when under oath carry a possible jail sentence. Hiss, former State Department official, and Chambers, now a senior editor of Time Magazine, have told the Committee widely varying stories. What Thomas' statement implied was this: The Committee intends to make a decision which one is lying and seek action against him | in the courts. i The 43-year-old Hiss was sworn in as the first witness immediately | after Thomas' statement, Riss then publicly admitted for the first time that he once had known Chambers, but said it was under the name of George Crosley. At previous hearings, Chambers has accused Hiss of being a member of a Red underground in Washing- ten in the 1930's. Hiss has denied it. Hiss once testified publicly !that he never knew Chambers. But since then, Hiss has told the Com- mittee in a closed door session that he did know Chambers under the name of Crosley. "REDDEAN" BARRED ON COMING 10 U. . LONDON, Aug. 25.—M As far as Canterbury’s “Red Dean” is con- cerned the United States can either receive him as a friend of Soviet Russia or do without his presence. The Dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, disclosed last night that he had been refused a visa to enter the United States because American authorities disapprove of the Na- tional Council of the American- Scviet Friendship Society which had invited him to ke its guest. An American official subsequent- ly said in Washington that Dr. Johnson probably would be admit- ted if he came “on his own work.” “Oh, dear, no,” the 74-year-old churchman exclaimed today as his plane left for Poland, “I do not go as a split personality,” In Poland, Dr. Johnson will at- tend a meeting at' Wroclaw of the “Congress ot Intellectuals in the Defense of Peace.” e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—(P—Clos- Ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 817%, Anaconda 36'%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvest- er 29'%, Kennecott 58%, New York sall from Seattle Tuesday. Prince ' George scheduled to ar-| south at 10 a. m h Aleutian . scheduled southbound' Monday. ! Central 17!, Northern Pacific 224, U. 8. Steel 77's, Pound $4.03';. awa to relieve the Pirst Air Divis-'rive Friday at 7 a. m. sailing! Sales today were 520,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 18241, rails 61, util- ‘Mu 34.56. to-tell the truth..Conviction. would PRICE TEN CENTS o ] lar Ties With U. S. GOLDSTEIN ANNOUNCES BUILDING PLANS: OLDS TY PURCHASED | Evidencing again his faith in Juneau and its future, Charles Goldstein announced today = the purchase or the Olds’ property on Front Street between Main and Seward and his lans to erect there a six or seven story building. It will be the biggest private building project Juneau has seen. The property, formerly occupied by the Occidental Hotel, was pur- chased by Goldstein from the heirs Int John Olds, for an unannounced sum. Necessary papers have been signed by Harry Olds, Juneau; Ly- {da Sinclair, Seattle; Klonda Ma- thews, Long Beach; Clarence E. Carpenter, Dolly and Clarice Car- penter of Seattle, and Howard D. Stabler has been appolinted admin- istrator to handle the unprobated Olds estate. Plans are being prepared for the construci fon of ‘an all-fireproo: building, 75 by 100 feet. The street floor will be occupied by stores &nd the upper 1loors wiil be for office space. building eatly next year, and to Mr. Goldstein hopes to start have the new structure ready for | occupancy in the fall of 1949. “I am doing' this because I have complete confidence in the future of Juneau. 2 and com- mercial agencies have been giving as an excuse for not g to {Juneau the fact there is no office |space avallable, It js to bring | these agencies to Juneau that I have purchased this property,” said the Juneau pioneer. “I have been here since 1885 and every penny I have earned since ' that time has gone right back into Juneau's developmient. Juneau must go ahead. And we people in Juneau must advance with our town. We ¢an't let agen- cles, government or otherwise, tail to come here because we have no office space for them." The new bullding will be handled - ;as a separate incorporation from 1the Goldstein Improvement Com- pany which owns the Goldstein ! Building on Seward Street. { Most of the new office” space . has already been spoken for. i “It will be the most modern { building in Alaska,” according to - , Goldstein, “not just up-to-date. It {will be ahead of its time by ten \years. And it will cost perhaps $750,000." Most. of the money has been ar- (ranged for, but a certain amount | of the investment involved will be lon‘ered to the people of Juneau, BALKAN STATES, RUSSIANS BEGIN ABUSE ON TIT0 (By The Associated Press) Diplomatic officials in Washing- ton believe that Russia and her Balkan satellites are doing their best to fire Marshal Tito as boss of Yugoslavia. To back up what they say, these authorities point out that Tito is being donounced by’ every top @ommunist official in Eastern Europe outside Yugoslavia. In Addi- tion, party leaders in Italy and France had lined up with Moscow in condemning Tito as a traitor to the Communist cause. This torrent of abuse kept up even while to was playing host to the recent Danube River confer- ence in Belgrade and voting with the Boviet bloc. Washington government officials now believe that there is little chance of compromise between Tito and the Russian brand ot Commu- nism. ‘This increases the chance that Tito may, in desperation, turn to the west for support, but there is not real sign of such a move yet. R s RGN CAB INSPECTOR HERE F. J. Powell, CAB Anchorage, ar- rived in Juneau on Pacific Nor- thern Airlines Tuesday and regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel. 1 { |