The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,976 “ALL THE NEW. U ALL THE TIME” NEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY AUGUST 27, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS f’RICE TEN CENTS NO NEGOTIATIONS IN MARINE WALKOUT New Coast Guard District For Alaska Planned PROPOSED UNIT WILL BE STRONG Snyder Anno_u;ues Survey Has Been Made, Report Made "Short Time™ WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—(®— Secretary of the Treasury Snyder disclosed today that consideration is being given to the re-establish- ment of a separate Coast Guard district for Alaska, as it had during | ‘World War IIL Snyder said Coast Guard chiefs are now studying a survey of Alaska’s defenses and will submit their report “in a short time.” The report is expected to recom- mend a strongly increased fleet and FARM DEAL ENTERS IN . SPY PROBE I iss, Chambers Repdrled| in Odd Transaction-In- vestigotor at Work By WILLXAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, —M— The House Un-American Activities Committee assigned an investigator today to track down a new report that Alger Hiss and Whittaker | Chambers once were interested in the same old farm near Westmin- ster, Md. The committee also brought in a | handwriting expert in an attempt to get to the bottom of the widely different stories the two men have told about their relationship Native Scout Unifs in Alaska, with Batfalion Of National Guard, Plan| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 27. —(#—The Anchorage Times says Mhat the Army and the Territorial yGovemmem are making plans for | establishment of Native Scout units | in Alaska as well as a battalion of | the National Guard. The Alaska Scouts, the Times said, will be made up largely of Eskimos in the more remote sec- tions of Alaska. Their training, | the newspaper added, will be simi- |lar to that for Guard units but ‘wlll have unique features to adapt |the program to the native cuse toms. Guns, uniforms and other equip- ment will be made available to | both native and white companies, i the account said. Under the reported plans the LONG TOUR IS PLANNED BY TRUMAN Will Campaign in More States than Any Other | Candidate in History (By The Associated Press) IDAY MAKES HIS REPORT ONFISHING h) tAlaskasHlstory Dis- | cuss Game Situation By VERN HAUGLAND | i WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—#— Alaska is experiencing its poor- | Lst salmon fishing season in his- tory, Director Albert M. Ddy of the Fish and Widlife Service said today. Through the thira week in August Southeast Alaska had can- ined only 80000 cases of pink |salmon, compared with 340,000 on | the corresponding date a year ago 'nnd 160,000 at the comparative date 'i1171946, Day said. | almon Ca—tc_h— Poorest in | | STRIKE IS STILL SET FORSEPT. 2 ' Rumors Current There Are Good Prospects, How- ever, for Settlement SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.-® Officially the Pacific Coast wat- erfront dispute was without pros- pect of settlement today. A strike has been scheduled for Sept. 2. Both employers and CIO long- shoremen spokesmen maintained {that no negotiations were being First Picture of Leap Vidim I | { held, nor were in prospect. Nevertheless, rumors, along the waterfront persisted that there were good prospects of settlement, that the employers would go along on the present hiring-hall system supporting ‘shore installations fof, 3 H using a union dispatcher until the proposed Alaskan district, alonm. dOZel} years flfw- A President Truman is said to be National Guard battalion would Pe The sockeye salmon catch in the the - SUpreme Oukire p' 1 e with establishment of' LORAN sta-| The latest story the spy invest-) oy g campaign in which he|made up of four companies in|Bristol Bay area was somewhat i the Supreme' ‘Court rules on the ‘ 1gmtm‘s are trying to run down is p various cities of Alaska. ketter, he added—1,350,000 cases . question and that a . 10-cent-an- tions—used in wartime to detect the approach of enemy ships and planes. Snyder, whose Department has peacetime charge of the Coast Guard, also disclosed that he went to Alaska about a ‘month ago to: confer with Governor Gruening on the project and to take part in an on-the-spot Survey: of -Alaskan de- fenses. Proposed Setup The personal, tip. Indicated thel importance attached to the plan by Snyder and left little doubt that a strong Alaska district will be set up. Both the Army and the Navy have maintained strong establish- ments in Alaska since the start of World War II, reflécting their view that Alaska is one of the nation’s “front lines of defense” and a focal roint in the event of a war. Alaska Defense Important T Alaska’s importance would be greatest if hostilities develop with Russia. The Army has made increasing use of Alaska in recent times as a training and maneuvers area. It | has also obtained large appropria- tions for building permanent in- stallations there for troops and am- munition storage. The Coast Guard maintained & separate district for Alaska from 1939 to July 1, 1947, when it merg- ed that district with the one hav- ing headquarters at Seattle. The merger was attributed to economy. Recently, the Congress reversed matters by increasing ap- propriations for the service. Alaska’s Governor ‘Gruening and : Congressional Delegate E. L. Bart- lett have long urged re-establish-|— ment of the district, pointing out | that Alaska has over 25,000 miles| of coast line and that more than two-thirds of its people derive their livelihood” from the sea. that Hiss made a down-payment to a real estate agent on the Mary- land farm but lost interest in the property and didn't complete the purchase. Then Chambers was re- ported to have bought the farm later and his family was said to have lived there for a while. _ Seek. Another Link. i Rep. Nixon (R-Canhr) v6id report-i ers the committee intends to see if “this is another link in the chain of evidence or just pure coincidence.” The committee. members searching for a key to crack Hiss-Chambers riddle. They claimed some success: Al sworn statement by ex-Communist | |Louis Budenz that he always had| | considered Hiss to be under party discipline. i Hiss, former top-level State De-| partment official, has heatedly de- nied any Red tinge. He called Whittaker Chambers a liar Wed- nesday for telling the House Un- American Activities Committee tbatl ! Hiss had a leading part in a pre-| war Communist underground here. | Budenz, who renounced Com- (munism several years ago, and is inow a professor at Fordham Uni- versity, said he knew Lee Press- {man, Nathan Witt and John Abf as Communists, and knew Edwin Smith, a former member of the National Labor Relations Board, “to be a member of the party.” Budenz made it clear that he did not know personally. i i arel the EVIDENCE DISCOVERED BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.—(®— The News-Post said today it had dis- lcovered a “Jay Chambers"” boughc (contmued on Pnge Eight) | | The Washlngionl ! ington on INATION TODAY -Go-Round/? IMerry BY ROBERT S. ALLEN NEW JERSEY POLICE SEEK NEW YORK MAN IN SHOOTING CASE| GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 27— (A—Police Chief John Gleason an- nounces that Mercer County, N. J., Prosecutor Mario H .Volpe has ask~ | ed him to arrest Henry Morgan Brooks, New York financier, for the slaying of Joseph R. Watkins, 53, his business partner. Watkins was found shot to death optside the Princeton Inn, at Princeton, N. J. Gleason said Volpe told him to hold Brooks on a charge of mur- der. Brooks, about 61 years old,| could not be found on his estate, Gleason said. He lives here with his wife and; one daughter. The police chief said he under- stood Brooks and Watkins were| partners in the Standard Founda- tion, an investment corporation in New York City. ——eeo—— HEYWOODS, KODIAK, HERE Mr. and Mrs. James E. Heywood, of Kodiak, Baranof Hotel. are staying at the| (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (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— When General! Lucius Clay quits as U. S. Com- mander in Germany, the memoirs he intends to write will be very: pungent reading. He has no present thought of leav- \ing either his job or the Army. (Clay intends to stick until relieved by Washington. But he is carefully preparing for the day when he will be free to tell his story. And when he does, certain high- placed knuckles are due for caus-; "itic rapping. | Intimates of the hard-working occupation chief say he is keeping a detailed account, including docu-{ ments, of what is happening at( his end and in Washington. They report Clay is doing this for the express purpose of making his irecord glear on certain major pol- iicies for which he has been widely criticized. '!'hese friends represent Clay as| I (Continued on Page Four) igreatest water consumption in its 'THREE FISHERS HERE Wwill. visit more stales than BnY| Ty Times said that while an he‘omcm} announcement is expected later, it had learned that Lt. Col. Joseph D). Alexander of Washing= ton had been visiting Alaska in other President in history. comes from close associates of t President, and they add that his cross-country tours will extend in- :):h:?eseietz]n sz‘f"’t‘h:n:at?;;o oy connection with the program. added that he is to meet with Gov. Mr. Truman will make the first| . cning gt Juneau. of these mps soon after his five "o’ onoount said that supervis- speeches _in - Michigan _on Labor ;. .. equipMént of the runits Day. The ma}or address that dy gy pe furnished: by the Ammy will be made in Detroit. TRHIS yooayce the Territory lacks funds speech is just about written, except ¢ . pe project. ior final touches to be made after ! The Times said native units are consultations with D‘"“’:"auc considered desirable in Army cir-| Chairman J. Howard McGrat “l:' cles because of the success of the ter the President returns to Wash-| 1. c0 Territorial Sunday. The de“’sslme last war in supplying valuable iwill be delivered from notes rath-|; ¢, mation. er than from a prepared manu-| y quoted Col. Alexander as say- seript. {ing that the Guard program is still Mr. Truman held a news confer- | in the formative stage and will take ence at Yorktown, Virginia, yester- | several months to set up day. The President talked for an hour with newsmen and made lL HURRI(A“E | plain that he is confident of de- feating Governor Thomas Dewey in the November election. WEATHER Hot FOR MOST OF MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 27—@— Aj Navy hurricane hunter banged its; way into the 100-mile-on-hour hur-( mi today and lost radio contac lwim land. Storm warning headquarters said the hurricane apparently was con- tinuing its northwestward course at about 15@miles an hour. While (By The Associated Press) | The weather was extremely hot ! again today for most of the nation. And a hot, muggy week-end was predicted by Federal forecasters.| . (oo it in the general direction| jof the Florida-Georgia coast, i was emphasized that the storm was istill far away and could easily change its course. Steamships were i storm’s path. One vessel, the John Howland, broke down about 250 miles east of Brunswick, Ga., in the present path of the storm and asked the Coast Guard to stand by in case a tow { was needed. The ship reported lat- er, however, that repairs had been made. They said they didn’t know when cooler weather would come. While the temperatures climb- ed around 90, and even beyond in some spots, humidity - was | rising to make the weather un- e fleeing comfortable. Yuma, Ariz., brushed off its 107| maximum yesterday as a minor nuisance, but in the East and Midwest, the steamy weather was! much more serious. New York City reported the history yesterday—1,524,500,000 gal- lons. And transportation com- panies added extra facilities vodny’ ito accommodate workers going' home early because of the heat. | At noon today, Boston reported 97 degrees, six degrees above the all time record for this date, set in 1881. Portland, Me., had an all time August peak of 100° yesterday. e STOCK QUOTATIONS ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 81%, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss- Wright 10, International Harvester 29%, Kennecott 59%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 540,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 183.21, rails 6143, util- ities 34.82. — o KETCHIKAN COURT SET The Ketchikan term of court has been set by the U. S. District Court and the jurors have been drawn. The Grand Jury will meet on Monday morning, October 4 at 10 o'clock and the Petit Jury will open session on October 13, EASts E X HERE FROM OAK HARBOR Frank Green of Wash,, is at the Gastineau Hotel. WITH SALMON CATCHES Three boats were in at Juneau Cold Storage the past two days with catches as follows: The Wanderer, skippered by San- dy Stevens, tied up with 5,000 pounds salmon taken in the Swanson Har- bor area; Jim Sharp brought the Sophia in with 15,000 pounds salmon taken around Chatham Straits and Mat Haro and the Stampede docked with .a 1,000 pound cateh from Stephens Passage, Guard during OFF COAST, ricane about 900 miles east of Mia-| tr it | this season against 1,800,000 cases last year. | “The salmon pack gsource of income in Alaska,” {tuld a reporter. “A lot of communities are af- fected by the poor catch. It's pretty serious for the whole Terri-| tory £ Diy had" rétlified tom "’ plare- automobile-boat tour of several week-x throughout Alaska. is the chief: Day Reports On Game He said the Territory’s moose . jherds are “holding up pretty well.” |But the caribou and mountain sheep populations are decling no- ‘ ticeably. E “There is a crying need, regard- | ing Alaska’s commercial and sport fish and big game, for better man- agement, stricter law- enforcement, | |greater knowledge, and more man- ;power and equipment to do a de- cent job," said Day. | “Alaska’s rapid population grow-| “th, the expansion of her highway {system and the wider use of air- i planes is making great inroads on' ifish and game resources.” 4 1 Staff Too Small { “We have only ‘eight full-time | game law enforcement officers and 10 fishery agents for that vast| {area—a smaller staff as far as |game management is concerned 'than that of the state of Delaware. 'It’s almost futile to try to con- Atrnl hunting and fishing under such circumstance: Day sald the service predicted two years ago that 1948 would be a poor year for Alaska salmon. The | basis for the prediction was the poor run in 1946, which represented the parent cycle for the 1948 fish- {ery. i 1 Severe Regulations | The 1948 fishing regulations ac- icordingly were more severe than: last year, the season opening Aug. 9 compared with June 25 last year. {An unusually dry summer, which MRS. OSKANA KOSENKINA'S since she leaped from a window York, was taken in her room at the hospital. fied. (International Soundphoto) condition is reported to be improving by officials of Roosevelt Hospital in New York. This picture, the first hour pay raise was in the offing. The Waterfront Employers Asso- ciation refused to comment. Longshore leaders advised union members to prepare for a strike. However, generally informed | sources believed that although for- ! mal negotiations have been lacking, of the Russian Consulate in New ‘The nurse is unidenti- Commies Hit Berlin Hall Second Time| Defeated l;;rTy Hopes fo! Stop City Government- Mob Gives Warning (By The Associated Press) Communists stormed the Berlin Cnv Hall today and broke up a {meeting of the elected, anti-Commu- nist City Council while Russian dominated Police looked on. The mob yelled they will come back | “again and again,” This meant| the Communists, beaten in elec-| tions, hoped to stop the city gov- | ernment from functioning, force it ' to abandon the City Hall and per- | haps set up a rump government in | the divided and blockaded city. The Berlin City Hall is in the Russian Zone. The Communist; tactics, for the second straight day, | were remjniscent of the coup in Czechoslovakia last February, when | the minority Communists took over that 1epublic. The men who in- vaded the Council Chamber de~ manded that the elected council be| replaced by members of labor unions the Communist dominate. | Prime Minister Stalin informal discussions have cleared | the aiv to the point that last ‘min ute’ negotiations may avert a West 3 ENVOYS Coast shutdown. 1 e /o e o 060606 6 7 0 0 0 . . {* WEATHER REPORT ° | { & (U. 8 WEATHER BUREAU) o ® Temperatures for 24-Hour Period o b g [ ® Ending 7:30 0'Clock This Morning @ ® In Juneau— Maximum, 55; e , ® minimum, 36. . s ® At Afrport— Maximum, 56; e |Western Diplomats Go fols A 5 n . . . FORECAST . { Kremlin-Stalin Will 1o Guncsw ana viewies | ® Mostly cloudy with rain e . Not Be Present o showers tanight becoming e i oSal ® partly cloudy Saturday. Low- | S ® est temperature tonight near o MOSCOW. Aug. 27—#— The; three Western envoys went to the : ::‘r.t:::“:o:;’;:::y? in tem- : ! Kremlin today for an nppulnlment, o = ; PRECIPITATION o Iv\;‘mMr:l‘?t‘n:lvl Forelgn Minister V.| o (pyy 24 hours anding 1:30 s.m. today & P! !e I Juneau City — Trace; e Informants say this session might e since August 1, 441 inches; o Ibe the crucial one in negotiations.e ince July 1 11.56 neken. o lon the German crisis. They have'q At the Al’rpor( . Trafat ia jehanged forecasts on chances of |g ‘gnce August 1. 293 fuches: o fan agreement on procedure rrnml. since July 1, 777 hxches.' . “lair” to “good.” 1.....,,.,.. The envoys, U. S. Ambassador | { Walter Bedell Smith, French Am- ;bnssadm’ Yves Chataigneau and STEAMER MOVEMENTS | special British representative Frank | vaep— { Reberts, all appeared in good spir-: Princess Loulse from Vancouver lits. Each left for the Kremlin | due tomorrow afternoon or evening. |f|'0m his own Embassy. | Alaska scheduled to sail from Rain fell in the Soviet Lapltaliscflme today. ’nlrly steadily all day. 4 Bll;unol scheduled to sail from will not ' Seattle tomorrow. niulend tonight's conference, offi- Ir Prin%ebs Norah ;cheduled to sail | clals announced. Stalin has at- ' from ancouver p.m. tomorrow. !tended two of the long series of | George Washington scheduled to conrerean | sail from Seattle Tuesday. has lowered most of the spawning streams, aggravated the situation, Day said, and it was necessary to “It is now questionable whether the city parliament will stay here, | LR | CONFERENCE 3 HOURS MOSCOW, . Aug. 21.—M— The| Prince George scheduled to sail .n-om Vancouver Sept. 1. Aleutian scheduled muthbolmd NEW YORK, Aug. 27—(®—Clos-; Oak Harhor, | close Southeastern Alaska fishing' entirely for the week of August 16-22. Fishing has been resumed. season ends Sepv.ember 3. ANCHORAGE VOTING ON BOND ISSUE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 27— (P—Anchorage voters will decide !today whether the city should pur- chase a diesel electric generating plant to prevent rationing of pow- er this winter. The proposal is to issue bonds; up to $300,000 to finance purchase |of a new or used diesel plant. City officials said present facilities pro- jduce a maximum ‘of 6800 kilowatts jbut that 8,300 kilowatts will be needed to meet peak loads during the winter. The jsure under a situation where the police!three Western envoys conferred ' Monday. refuse to grant it protection against/ahout three hours tonight with So- the constant danger of being dis-iyiet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo- | turbed by a small minority pres-'toy on the German crisis. group,” said acting Mayor| The envoys motored from the Ferdinand Friedensburg. | Krewalin to the British Embassy,! o Just across the Moscow River. They ' left the Kremlin, the seat of the Soviet govrrnmem M, 8:05 p.m. SALMON PACK ISUNDER 1947, e | ANCHORAGE NIMRODS SHOOT FISH, FINED Two Anchorage nimrods are poorer by 8100 after a shooting expedition. Charles M. Rogers and Arlie E. Winters were discovered taking pot shots at the salmon that had entered Sheep Creek to spawn. Holger Larsen, Fish and | Wildlife enforcement officer, ar- rested the men. ' Taken before the U. S. Commissioner’s Court for Ernst Reuter, the Socialist wh: was elected Maydr of Berlin but \\fls‘ vetoed by Russia, put it “The Communist = cripples who stand in front and debate with us,, we don't fear. But behind them ! stands an aggressive, ruthless and | imperialistic Russia, which seeks to force us to our knees." Against this background, the Dep- uty Russian Commandant of Ber- ] | trial, the two men were fined $100 lin, Col. Alexis Yelisarov, criticized | each and forfeited the shotgun. Col. Frank Howley, U. 8. Comman- At R A A ey hé supported the| SEATTLE, Aug. 27—(PM—Alaska's| MISS FORy RETURNS elected administration. The|salmon pack reached 2,866,392 7 Russian rted the Council’s pol- | cases on August 21, the Federal icy aimed at a division of the city. Fish and Wildlife Service reported|Prince George dollowing a vaca- “There really is no point in answ- | today. The figure is about 800,000 | tion in Vancouver and Seattle. She ering that sort of stuff,” Howley cases under the pack recorded at!is secretary in the Boy Scout office said. “Nobody in Berlin believes it the syme time last year. | here. because city dant, Miss Hazel Ford returned on the anyway.” } The figures by districts as of! — e, — - - - | August 21 this year and Augusti DIVORCE FILED FROM WASHINGTON 23, 1947: Western Alaska (final) | — 11373272 and 1418,266; Cenlrfll} Mrs. Elsie Remley has filed suit E. L. Rountree, Department of Alaska 1243115 and 1673,600; for divorce from Walter Remley 250,005 and'on the grounds of non-support. The jccuple married In Reno, Nevada, Interior, Washington, D. C., the Baranof Hotel. is at|Southeastern Alaska, 569,594,