The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,975 WATERFRONT STRI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 1948 MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS E MAY BE AVERTED Hot Wave Closes Factorles In Eastern States 100 DEGREES EXPECTED IN SOME AREAS New Hot Weather Records| Are Made-Two Persons Stricken in New York (By The Associated Press) Hotter weather hit the east and northeast today, forcing some fac- tories to shut down. Record high temperatures of 95 to 100 were re- ported and there was no early re- lief in sight. The late August heat wave con-| tinued intense in the Ohio Valley | and the Lower Great Lakes, but subsided shghtly in some midwestern state.. g New recardihigh temperatures for the day were reported or expected in Detroit, where 16,500 auto work® ers were sent home; in New York, where it was 95 at noon; and in; Philadelphia, where it was 96 at: noon “and -expected -to--reach 100 | later. Cleveland had 96. In Bath, Me., 1,200 shipyard work- | ers were dismissed for the day when the temperature hit 110 degrees in- side ship hulls. HOT IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Aug. 26—®—The températiire. soired t5.:100.8-degrees at 2 p.m. here today, second highest reading ever recorded in New York! City. At least two persons were dead and a third hospitallzed from heat prostration in the Metroplitan area. Only hotter day simce 1871, when the Weather Bureaw started keep-| ing records, was July 9, 1936, when the temperature reached 102.3. —_————— EXEC. BOARD OF | {for village sites and construction | {amilies in ! A'Fl (o"(luDEs loi the entire villages and roads! townsite nearby. 3-DAY MEETING | The bi-annual meeting of the Executive Board of the Alaska Ter- | ritorial Federation of Labor con- cluded yesterday and the delegates left for their homes today. Lou Tay- lor, President of the ATF of L will remain in Juneau for a few days. At the meeting yesterday, Henry Benson, Commissioner of the Terri- torial Department of Labor, out- lined his Department’s program for!| the next session of the Legislature. A report from Russell Maynard, Director of the Territorial Depart- ment of Welfare was read. The Washingion‘ Merry - Go- Round BY ROBERT S. ALLEN (Copyright, 1948, I;v The Bell Syndicate, ne.) (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— The U. 8, js still shipping vital ‘war material to countries behind the iron cur-|{ tain. i And these shipments are still be- ing made with the approval of the Commerce ‘Department’s Office of International Trade. This is the agency that was formerly headed by William Remington, leading fig- ure .in the Russian “spy” dis- closures of the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee. This astounding trade is still go- ing on despite the administration’s announced policy of banning’ it, de- spite the warlike aggressions and provocations of Russia, and also despite the world-wide furor over the Cengressional revelations and their attending fantastic ramifica- tions. | This column has definitely esv.ab-‘ lished the following facts regard-| | ing the continued export of war iplan,* | the third floor assembly hall. They | |party announced SERIES OF NEW COLONIES PLANNED FOR WAR IN ALASKA TERRITORY By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. (#— The Interior Department is plan- ning a seriss of “New Matanuska Colonies” for Alaska, Assistant Sec- retary of the Interior William E. Warne said today. Almost 200,000 acres of land al- ready have been withdrawn for the first two communities, on the Kenai Peninsula between Kenal and Kasilof villages, and west of Fairbanks in the Dunbar area, he said. Three other tracts are under con- sideration at sites which the De- partment is not ready to dis- clcse. Settlers are planned in groups of 50 or more iamilies each. The plan is not part of the Displaced- Persons Program, Warne said. Up to 2,000,000 acres—only a small fraction of the land avail- seli,” able in Alaska—is contemplated for | ultimate withdrawal from the pub- | lic domain and assignment in set- tlement: tracts, Warne told report- | ers. | Homesteader Villages | And if Congress approves the;| he said, a complete village! will be laid out for each home- stead aren. Homesteaders and villagers mlike will receive this{ government assistance: b ' 1..A. Jimited ..amount.of.. free] land-clearing (up to five acres onm; each jarm, to meet the home-! steader’s immediate needs). 2. Reconstruction Finance Cm-\ poration loans not exxceeding $7,500,000 for the entire 2,000,000~ acre program. The loans, for up‘ to 40 years at 3': percent inter-| est, will be for land clearing, the construction of farm buildings and far purchase of feed, fertilizer,| equipment and supplies. 3. Government clearing’ of land! Pro-(ommles | Stage Rally in Berlin Area {Force Way Into City Hall,; Take Over-Thousands Demonstrate By RICHARD KASISCHKE | BERLIN, Aug. 26—(®— Backed ! by a howling mob, pro-Communists | forced their way into Berlin's city | hall today and took over the assem- | bly chamber for a propaganda bar- rage against the anti-Communist | city government. While 10,000. or .more persons | !shouted and surged outside, some | 500 pushed through police lines in- ! to the buildings and took seats in remained there long enough to} hear tirades against the city gov-| ernment and then left to join the! huge crowd outside. | The city hall is in the Russian! sector of Berlin. The Socialist| it is nlanmngl a counter-demonstration outside the | burned-out German Reichstag| building, which, though it is in (he< British sector, is only a stone’s; throw from the Soviet sector bor- der. During the wild demonstration, | the Communist leaders shouted | | demands for “an end to this bank- | rupt city government.” ’!’he}i called for formation of an admin-| istration in Berlin “which wiil work hand in hand with the great Soviet Union and countries of east- | ern Europe.” While the Communists met in-| side, the crowd outside chanted| the Red anthem, the “Internation- ale.” No casualties were reported. By ) | (Continued on Page Four) crowd had disappeared. i ‘a back-breaking job, |scheduled to arrive Saturday after- | Seattle Saturday. VETERANS OF and docks, the actual cost to be re- paid by the settlers over a 20-] year period. 4. Interior Department contracts with government or private carriers for the transportation of settlers by sea, land or air, from and with- in Alaska. For War Veterans The entire project, primarily for! war veterans and their families, is designed to hasten = Alaskan de- velopment and at the same time “take the curse off pioneering,” said Warne, who returned from | Alaska this week. { “We put in 200 farms at Mata- nuska in 1935, and 250 have since been added. Thus we have learn-| ed from the Matanuska operation that if we can once get a settle- ment started it will grow by it< Warne said, 1 “We hope with the Dunbar and ! Kenai-Kasilof areas to plant the seed of a similar development that, once started, will have a natural growth.” Congress must act before the program can be started, Warne, said. No Displaced Europeans | Alaskans have expressed concern that the program might bring to _Territory. large numbers of the 205,000 displaced Europeans to bev’ admitted to the United States; { within the next two years. “I told the Alaskans no, this land is not being withdrawn inl connection with any Displaced Per-: sons Program—and I say that not in d)spanaaemem of the DP Pro- gram,” Warne said. “The settlers will be our veterans, who are interested Alaska.” The plan own | in i is to get 50 to 100 each group, assign; them farms, and lay out a small Town lots would be sold to the settlers, emblinxI them to live in their communities | rather than on the land during the winter months. 1 Fede-al Farm Aid Warne said Alaskan farmers are ! eager to be admitted also to' what- | ever Federal aids—in the form of loans, land-clearing and construc- tion—are made available to' set- ! tlers. “Our reaction to proposals to ex- pand legislation to include them is favorable,” he said. “Clearing the land in Alaska is and if we can| | get big machinery in there on "l pmjecl we can accomplish "hl imuch in one season as a farmer could by his own means in 10 | years.” Ii Congress fails to approve thel iy program, he added, the withdrawals will be cancelled and the land re-; opened for. the old-fashioned | homesteading by individuals rath- er than by groups. Settlers have been taking up homesteads in the Anchorage area! jat the record-breaking rate of 100 a month this summer, Warne said. In the Fairbanks district, they have been averaging 50 or 60 a month. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver noon of evening. Alaska scheduled to sail | Seattle 9 a. m. tomorrow. Baranof scheduled to sail from from Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. George Washington scheduled to, sail from Seattle Tuesday. Prince George scheduled to ar- rive at 7 a. m. tomorrow, sailing south at 10 a. m. Aleutian scheduled Monday. ————————— soumbound! Fishermen ggy_Firsi City b | I principal factors which will det ‘last Monday {longer trip to Seattle advisable. INICK BEZ HAS [ Goose. (of his 8000 hours flying time tfollowing in ‘owner of West Coast Airlines, SPY PROBERS AREHUNTING 1929 JALOPY Attem;rto Prove Whether Hiss or Cham- .+ bers Just Plain Liars H 3 !‘ By DOUGLAS B, CORNELL "WASHINGTON, Aug. 26— Qengressional spy probers gave ase to a 1929 jalopy today in a mewed attempt to prove whether ger Hiss or Whittaker Chamb- Hauling Tuna To Ketchikan Saves 30 Hrs. Logical Center, Weath- er Permitting KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 26— (P—Weather and prices are the i mine whether Ketchikan will be- come a tuna landing center in coni= petition with stateside ports, fish- ermen and packers said today. | What was believed to be the first | tuna landed in Alaska came in here 8t underground. iThey also started writing a re- Fishermen said the tuna grounds where they were caught are 30 hours running time closer to Ketchikan than Seattle. However, they said weather conditions often make the so far. A closed meeting was called to discuss the report No hearings were scheduled for the day. In a drama-packed encounter be- ifore the House Un-American Activ-| Buyers and fishermen also P"‘““uues Committee yesterday, Hiss and ied out that prices are also expect-! ghampers told widely different ed to be lower than the $600 a ton |giories mbout themselves and rela- paid in the Pacific Northwest tons. Ray Gilder, reurasgntuuve of the They traded charges “liar” | |Point Adams Packing COMPANY, |,y 4 hearing that ran all day and who flew here to arrange for buy-|;n., the night. Each stuck firmly' ing of tuna landed yesterday, ssid.w his main points, in the face of he will be unable to announce a € | warnings that one or the other is piice - immedintaly, He suig7ue ix sure to face a perjury trial. studying cold storage charges, hand- ling and transportation charges be- old * seilibt” titor ‘of . Fline Maga- fore setting a figure. k. & ermen said some 200 boats , insisted that Hiss was a mem- i 2 ‘3‘.'*,&1 of a Red upderground in Wash- the tuna grounds would sell in % i | lington a dozen years ago. He said Ketchikan if prices and weather are he: kiiow Besatice ‘16" Ba o bo & satisfactory. Three boats urloaded tuna here Communist himself and served in yesterday—the Galveston with nine | 1€ undefground. tons, the Danube II with 11 tons| pye insisted it wasnt so and| and the Sunup with four. The three | (.t nhe doesn't even have nny boats were icing up today for a|,riengs who are Communists that return run to the tuna grounds. |pe know of. b | Formerly a policy-making offi- cial in the State Department, Hiss now is President of the Carnegie Il-:ndowment for International Peace. He is tall, wiry and more hoyish- looking than ‘his 43 years. For nearly seven hours, | committee put him through PRIVATE PLANE, B u S I " E SS USE {grueling grilling. For an hour (and 37 minutes, it questioned Most Tecent addition to the pri-j Chambers. \ vately-owned plane fleet in the| When it was all over, Chief In. Juneau area is Nick Bez, Grumman | Vestigator Robert E. Stripling turn- led to reporters with one more ques- tion and answer: “Who was lying? of the Purchased from Harry K. Coffey, Portland insurance man and a gov- ernor of the National Aeronauticsi Association, the new plane is piloted (€d Chambers a “self-confessed by Capt. Forrest N. Bird whose en-!liar, spy and traitor” and asked: thusiasm for the plane has not( “Indeed, is he a man of sanity?”: waned since he first bought the plane from the War Assets Admini- stration for Coffey. Painted a canary yellow for ex- tra visibility in case of forced land- ing in Alaska., the Bez plane ha: all of the special equipment avai |able for a craft of its type: very {high frequency radio, automatic| direction finder equipment, all types | of blind flying equipment and 9- {hour fuel capacity. It has “the safety and comtort of a rocking chair in the front room,” according to Capt. Bird who explains | that this is the first Grumman i X o5 ! Goose sold as War Surplus and “the| TO TURN OVER TESTIMONY best of all the Geese.” ‘Washington, Aug. 26.—®— The Its executive-type interior is ”House Un-American Activities Com- special job, too, with lavatory, galley, mittee announces that all testi- seats that can be rearranged for|mony in its spy probe will be turn- cards or conversation. ed over to the Justice Depart- Capt. Bird, who has logged 1,500 ment “with appropriate recommen- in | dations.” Alaska, mostly with the Army,! What these recommendations will “grew up in an airplane.” He soloed at 14 and has been flying ever since, the footsteps of his flying father who was a World War 1 pilot. ers the old Ford had become “a vital piece of evidence in this whole inquiry.” “we have the motor number and we are going to trace it down,” he said. “It might take a year, but we'll do it At various times, Hiss has told the committee he sold, gave or loaned the car to Chambers back in 1935. Finally he settled on a statement that he had let Chamb- ers have the use of the car. mittee session. Thomas said the committee will issue a progress report Saturday Though interested in commercial {on its spy investigations to date airlines since he organized Alaska|and will resume the hearings on Southern Airways in 1831, this is| September 7. Bez' first private plane. Bez is now - a | FIREMEN EXTINGUISH OIL BURNING STOVE Juneau firemen turned out about 2 o'clock this afternoon in answer > {feeder line operating DC-8's on (scheculed runs from the Coast of Washington and Oregon to Port-| land and Seattle. Bez will use the new plane in the operation of his cannery inter- ests in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. ,menw on Calhoun Avenue. IKE TAYLOR LEAVES Ike Taylor, Chief Engineer of the! Alaska Road Commission, left yes- | | midafternoon, a large part of lhe‘terdny for an inspection trip to the gona, marking the first mineral dis- ‘m\ex) in the wnimry Interior, igrims landed at Plymouth Rock, R Thirty-seven years before the le-‘ ! white man named Antonio Espejo €xtinguished before any damage found silver ore in what is now Ari- the stove was lighted in the apart- ment of Stan Thompsen, lied about a pre-war Commun- | port on what they have tound out| Chambers, short, pudgy 47-year-’ i a, I don’t know.” | In a formal statement, Hiss call-| Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) told report- | be, Chairman Thomas (R-NH) re-| 1used to predict after a closed com- | to a call at the Knight Apart- The fire, believed to have been caused by a flooded oil stove, was, could be done. It was started when High Grade Pul COLUMBIA RIVER FISHING SEASON DECLARED POOR iFishermen ‘Blame June Floods-Also Late Start of August Run - i | | ASTORIA, Aug. 26.—(®—A “very poor” Columbia River commercial tishing season ended at noon today fand fistermen mostly put the blame cn June floods which devastated parts of the northwest Despite a surge of good catches |during the last week, fishermen sald the salmon take for the year Wwas poor. Goced 1ish escapement at Bonne- ville indicated that the fish were entering the river, but gillnetters said debris and muddy waters that followed the flood made fishing impossible until recently On top of this, the August run was late in starting, thereby cut- ting own the money-making month of the surmer. Commereial fishing resumes Sept 110, but usually only a small num-| ber of fish are taken during the |tirst ten dnys afte: r the opening. ‘ { BIG THREE ARE GOING - T0 KREMLIN iLast Powwow on Berlin| Blockade, German Prob- lems Is Indicated (By The Assoclated Press) American, British and French {diplomats met at' the U. S. Em- bassy in Moscow today to prepare perhaps for their last pow-wow in1 the Kremlin on the Berlin blockade | and German problems. A Moscow dispateh said the con- | iference migint be held today. A four-power announcement on the course oi seven other Kremlin talks since July 31 may dlSl) be forth- ccming. | 1 | Russian consular officers are leav- ing the United States. Russia severed cqusular relations over the U. 8. demand for the re- call of Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin from New York because of his part in the refugee school; teachers' cases. Lomakin’s creden- | tials were cancelled yesterday by President Truman and he salls Saturday. : R STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau imine stock today is 3%, American Can 815, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- Wright 97, International Harvest- er 297,, Kennecott 59';, New York , Central 17%, Northern Pacific 224, {U. 8. Steel 78'«, Pound $4.03%, Sales today were 540,000 - shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 182.52, rails’ 60.75, util- ities 34.63. - BERLIN LEAVING Leonard Berlin, Regional Cad- astral Engineer for the Public Sur- \vey Office, will leave cn a two weeks inspection trip tomorrow. Berlin will visit Anchorage and Fairbanks and will inspect the areas that the Department of In- (terior have proposed for coloniza- ition projects. ! p Planf Now Planned, Kefchikan Area, by Big Concern; PIenIy of Waler That there is sufficient, water in the Ketchikan area for the op- eration of a high-grade dissolv- ing pulp mill was stated by B. F. Heintzleman, Regional Forester, who has returned to Junecau from Ketchikan, Heintzleman spent four days in Ketchikan examining the area for water resources with old Caven, Chief Designing gineer and Willlam Shannon, dro-Electric Engineer, with the Ketchikan Pulp and Timber Co., an afiiliate of the Puget Sound >ulp and Timber Co. of Belling- am, Wash. | Hy- Verification of sufficient water n' the Ketchikan area gives the ;0-ahead signal to the pulp com- any's plan to install a_ high-grade fissolving pulp plant rather than! he standard sulphite pulp mill,| vhich was originally planned for he area. High grade pulp is not used in paper making but is the sasis for rayon, cellophgne, wood slast photographic film, and sther cellulose products. This type of operation requir more than | wice as much iresh water in pro- -essing operations than in a stan- Jdard sulphite pulp plant. It is believed that the American Jiscose Company, one of the two argest companies in' the United states engaged in the manufacture )f raycn, has become associated with the Ketchikan Pulp and Tim- sr Co. in this new project. Thc‘ peration will assure the American | Viscose Co. of an uninterrupted ind long continued source of dls-( solving pulp, which goes into its roducts. The Celanese Corporation of America, the principal competitor of the American Visccse Co., has already started construction on a Julp mill at Prince Rupert, B. C., ibout 100 miles from Ketchikan. Heintzleman stated that the new class of material which is to be manwactured does not require ex- wensive power as the process is ilmost entirely a chemical one. The pulp company has dropped its former intention to develop a lavge | water power site in the vicinity of Ketchikan. As the new mill will| cecover and re-use all the chemi- cals used in the manufacturing op- 'rations, there can be no question af the pollution . of tidal waters through mill wastes. Heintzleman further said that it is his understanding = that the nitial eapacity of the mill will be between 300 and 400 tons of pulp daily and that under the contract; with the Forest Service, the cap- acity of the plant must be raised to 520 tons daily within tén years. The contract further stipulates that construction must be started by August 2, 1949, one year after the| signing of the contract. { Heintzleman' estimates that the| plant will be two years under con- struction and cost of initial in- stallation will bBe between 25 and 30 million dollars, " 118 {ed by the injunction. BRIDGES T0 HAVE TALK WITH WEA Peace Ne&)?iations An- | nounced Although Walk- out Warning Is Given SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26— —~-Longshore chief Harry Bridges, * armed with solld support from his CIO union for a West Coast strike Sept. 2, prepared today to meet waterfront employers in negotia- tions that may avert the walkout. Bridges announced the expected resumption of peace talks at a meeting of 6,000 longshoremen here yesterday. The meeting voted un- animously for the strike and also to boyeott a National Lakor Rela- {tions Board election next week on | the otficial hourly employers' last of a five-cent wage offer in- crease. Similar votes were taken at stop- work meetings in Seattle, Los Angeles and Portland. There was a possibility the nego- tiations would get undzrway today. At the longshore gathering, how- ever, Bridges cautioned against “over optimism” and counscled the membership to’ “keep in readiness to hit the bricks Sept. 2 unless your - negotiating committee re- ceives a snmlnetory ,ofter ;fla‘ Talk persisted that ti;e employ- bers hud expressed a willlngness to - go along with the union dispatcher system subject to a Supreme Court decision en whether it violates the Taft-Hartley Act. That Wage Increase The San Francisco Chronicle sald the major issue remaining !concerned the amount of a wage raise. There were upofiicial re- ports the WEA ‘had offered a ‘10- cent an hour increase. The Inde- pendent Marineé Piremen's Union unofficially reported to have been offered $12.50 a month more, plus 23 percent to equalize West Const rates « with other 'coasts. Three other unfons are involved in the dispute. The longshoremen voted to stop waork at Pacific Coast ports at 12:01 a. m. Sept. 2 to hear reports on | contract negotfations. The Sent. 2 date marks the end of the 80-day “cooling off period” prescribed by Federal Court under the Taft-Hartley Act. The con- tract expired last June 15 and a strike at that time was forestall~ Longshoremen were back at work today after yesterday's - layoff to permit the mass econtract discus- sion meetings. SEATLE WALKOUT PLANS SEATTLE, Aug. 26— Se- attle longshoremen plan to walk ioff their jobs at 12:01 a. m. Sept. 2 for a “stop-work” meeting which will' continue until the wiion reaches an agreement with the Waterfront Employers’ Association. William Gettings, regional repre~ sentative of the CIO Longshore~ men and Warehousemen's Union, said members voted last night to The Ketchikan Pulp and Timber'!turn down an employers' five-cent Co. has bought cutting rights on a 50-year supply of timber for a 520 ton daily capacity mill. All cut- ting will be done under Forest: Service supervision ,and must be done in such a way ‘as to keep the| land productive, Heintzleman stat- ed that in the more scenic areas, cutting will not be permitted be- cause the Porest Service feels that recreation, as well as pulp, has a place in the economy of Southeast Alaska. Likgwise, the Forest Ser-| vice will require all salmon spawn-| ing streams be fully protected so that Alaska’s canned salmon in- dusTry will not be jeopardized. Heintzleman stated that there are a number of other companies that have been investigating poten- tial pulp and paper sites. Juneau! is one of the proposed sllesAi Hintzleman will go to the States{ in September to interview lnter-. ested parties. R d It takes 3,000 coccons to make a pound of raw silk. The werm which | spins each cocoon eats fifty times its | own weight in mulberry leaves \Slammed a three run homer, hourly inorease and to boycott an NLRB elecnon n( the ufler RED SOX RALLY IN EIGHTH HEAT; INDIANS DUMPED BOSTON, Aug. 26.—#—Breaking out ‘with five runs ‘in the eighth inning, in which Bobby Doerr Bos- ton’s Red SBox once again regained first place in thé American League today by defeating the Cleveland Indians, 8-4. GAMES THIS P. M. National League (First game) Pittsburgh 11: Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 7; New York 2, Chicago 5; Boston 1. American League Boeston 8, Cleveland 4. New York 6. Chicago 2 Philadeiphia 4; Detroit 3. ¥