The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,992 New CAMPAIGN TOURS ARE TO START Truman Hits Road Tomor-| row on 16-Day Trip- Dewey, Warren Busy (By The Associated Press) President Truman and Govern- or Thomas E. Dewey jotted down new stop-and-talk dates today as they put finishing touches on their cross country campaign plans. Mr. Truman, who leaves tomor- row on a 16-day transcontinental trip, scheduled a three-day stay in Texas on the way back from| the Pacific Coast. He will return to Washington by way of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and West Vir- 'HE DATLY ALASKA EMPIRE Offer Hangar Fire At Fairbanks; Loss 5190,000 Two Airplanes Also Lost in Given as Cause | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 16. { —#—Fire destroyed the main hangar of the Wein Alaska Airlines at the Municipal Airport along with two airplanes late yesterday. Estimates of loss ranged up to $200,000. Lost in the fire were a four- place Cessna and an eight-place Norseman, stockroom supplies, a ‘machine shop, engine overhauling !depot and freight and, waiting rooms. | A Douglas DC-3 Airliner parked ginia—all key states in his presi-| dential election drive. ed to safety and one light plane Dewey's Plans iwas pulled from the hangar be- Gov. Dewey meanwhile disclosed | fore it was enveloped in flames. plans to take in the northwestern| A< the 95-by-200afoot hangar states of Montana, Idaho and Wyo0- ‘went up in flames, fire departments ming on his way back to AIbany,|srom the city and from Ladd Alr N. Y. {Porce Base kept it from spread- near the hangar was hastily tow- Both men are due to make ma-' jor speeches a day apart in Los! Angeles. There a_Controversy de- tee in Los Angeles, said the Presi- dent will have to use Gilmore Stad- vel - E. % Luckey, chairman of “Muyucmmmw-l jum for his September 23 talk be-| cause the Republicans had tied up the larger Hollywood Bowl “to re-| effects” for Dewey’s: appearance the next night. Charges Made 4 Democratic National Chairman J. Hi d MeGrath promptly charged tne BOP with “Toasin 4~ 6mp stadium” just to deny it to Mr. Truman. Calling that action '‘Un-Ameri- can,” McGrath said in New York: “I am sure that Gov. Dewey on sober second thought will disavow the action of his team-mates on the so-called Dewey team.” Gov. ‘Earl Warren, man. on the Dewey team, mean- while headed east from California on the start of his 30-state tour.| He will spend most of the next two days campaigning in Utah. “Senator Alben Barkley, the Dem- ocratic Vice-Presidential nominee, was due to return today from Rome, where he has been attend- ing the Interparliamentary Confer- ence. Wallace In Chicago Henry A. Wallace joined the word battle over farm. price sup- ports following a Chicago session with 40 third party workers from 15 states. The former Agriculture Secretary said he will make “special appeal to the farmers that the ever-normal granary was my baby, and now it is their baby.” Both the Republicans and Dem- ocrats, said Wallace, are destroy- ing the system of government grain storage facilities by reducing the number of bins operated by the Commodity Credit Corporation. e New York harbor and the lower Hudson river . were discovered by a Frenchman in 1524; Henry Hud- son explored the river and laid the Dutch claim to the region in 1609, The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Brndicate, ASHINGTON— An insignifi- nt news item appeared in the recently to the effect that ron Heinrich Von Einsiedel, the at-grandson of Bismarck, had n arrested in the western zone \f Germany. Behind that news ityms is a story that goes to the At of our trouble In Germany. Achally US. and British intelli- gend* had been trying to catch ‘Von Einsiedel for months. For this descendent of Germany’s great hero has become one of Rus- sia’s most effective Communist agents. The story has never been fully told, but Von Einsiedel, captured at Stalingfad, is considered the real genius behind the “Pree Germany SR s o e e o (Continued on Psge Four) B the No. 2| ing to the adjoining hangars of the Alaska Airlines and the North- em Commercial Company. Officials said an exploding fi pot in a nearby “nose hangar’ ia hangar which can accommodate lonly the nose of a plane—was re- | !sponsible for the fire. The fire- lengine parts. !I‘M smoke billowing high into the air, drawing hundreds to the air- lflfl runway. i 1 ) HITTING IN JAPAN Sept. ) | 'TOKYO, central 16.—A— Ten t |jured and 23 missing in the 10 ed. Torrential rains deluged sections {north and west of Tokyo, sending | | to engulf their homes. Fears were expressed for the ripening rice crops. Residents of Shimizu, south of here, cringed with terror four storm-loosened Japanese vessels were tossed about the har- bor where the American freighter, Governor Bibbs, was trapped as it loaded explosive ammonium nitrate, the type of cargo that wrecked Texas City last year. The center of the storm passed west of the city at 8:30 p. m. g THREE BOATS UNLOAD (0D, SABLE, SALMON More than 30,000 pounds of hali- but and sable and nngly 14,000 pounds of salmon were unloaded at Juneau Cold Storage this morn- 1 ing. Boats docking were: The Oceanic, skippered by Ole Fuels and lubricants stored in I | i l pot was being used in gleaning . |i ¥ f s 1 By Bridges To Move A BIG STRIKE, HELLO MEN, IS AVERTED Western Eiédrit Reaches Blaze - Explosion Is | Agreement with ClO Com. Equipment Men NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—P— A coast-to-coast strike of 25,000 tele- phone workers was averted today when the Western Electric Com- pany reached an agreement with representatives of the CIO Com- munication Equipment workers. Federal Mediator Thomas R. Steutel said the pact had averted the strike set for 5 am. (EST) to- morrow. The agreement, subject to mem- | bership ratification, provides hour- ly wage increases of nine to 15 lduction will remain in effect until “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” U PlaneFares . [CAASURVEYS AreReduced | FOR AIRPORT By Pan Am! EXTE!SIO'N SEATTLE, Sept. 16—(P—Two air lines, Pan American World Alr- ways and Pacific Northern Airlines announced a 25 per cent reduction in their Seattle-Alaska fares yes- terday. The reduction becomes effective October 15. On Pan American planes the re- Engineers McDaniel and| Martin Completing Eval- uation, Juneau Field The survey as to the feasibility of lengthening Juneau airport landing strip by approximately 2,000 feet to accommodate six- motored airplanes is sufficiently Pacitic Northern Airlines said it|near completion to elicit an opti- would keep the lowered rate in ef- Imistic report from W. R. McDan- fect until March 15. tlel, Civil Aeronautics Administration At the same time, Pan American fengineer in charge of paving and said it would cut children's farei ading who, with Lyle L. Martin, to 50 per cent of adult fares ane [ICAA soils engineer, has spent the permit infants free travel. {past week investigating the project- | extension to the local airstrip. April 15, Willis G, Lipscomb, vice president, said. l B. Fred Dunn, District Trafficy NEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPPTEMBER 16, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = =TT Waters off Alaska Coast and Bering Sea as Producers of Fish, Boosted by Dr. Marr ANIA RAISING TROUBLE Four Members of Ameri- can Legation Recalled -Charges Made 16.—P— | Stanford University, cents in some sections of the. coun- try and eight to 14 cents in oth-|reduction in plane fares, says the ers. new. rates will be valid for one The settlement affects telephone!way as well at round trip pas- equipment workers in 43 states andI“B“- the District of Columbia. They in-] “The seasonal fare reductions in clude Washington, Oregon and Ida- |Alaska are part of a comtinuing ho. program to give the public low 4 Manager in Juneau, in confirming First purpose of the survey is| WASHINGTON, Sept. to evaluate the present field, find |The State Department disclosed to- whether it will stand up under day that four members of the weight of larger planes, before:American legation staff in Bucha- extension of the strip is considered Eres!. Rumania, have been recal_led and McDaniel and Martin, working (on the demand of the Rumanian with a CAA crew and assisted by |government. men provided by City Engineer| Rumania had accused the four the ' PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 16.—(®— The Bering Sea, the central Pacific and the waters off Alaska could provide enormous amounts of fish for the nations running short of land-produced protein, Dr. John C. Marr, U. 8. Fisheries expert at reported to- day. ‘The Alaska-Bering Sea area of- fers the greatest possicilities for fishery expansion adjacent to North America and probably is the most promis.ng production area of the entire Pacific, Dr. Marr told the Americah chemical society Oceania, which is the area from the equator to Hawali and trom the Eociety Islands to New Guinea and the Philippines, is another area ot ereat potential fish resources, Dr. Marr said. Up to now the North Pacific has broduced 47 per cent of the world's fishery products and the South Pacific only one per cent of the total, Dr. Marr reported. This does not mean the southern ocean is & poorer fishing ground. It re- {flects the fact that many more | | cost plane travel when and where|James L. McNamara, have been Of taking photographs in a forbid- ——————— ! den zone. 7 essionnl. has' been a communist than 25 years. o " for more possible,” said Dunn. “PFor in- stance, Pan American has already jannounced a winter excursion iround trip rate of a fare and a |thlrd to Europe. In addition the i lumher 24 a tourist | %eflecnve between Seattle, .Ketchi- service be- tween New York and Puerto .Rlca;um operation. 1 “The Alaska reductions will be| of 46 cents a mile or $75 for the one way trip,” Dunn said. ikan, Juneau, Whitehorse, Fairbanks | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—@—jand Nome from October 15 to April| Ben Gald, president of the CIO Fur!15. Half fare passage for children Ibet._ween two. and tygve years of' 1 8¢ will-#1t0" be reduced:: ) | their yate 50 percent of adult win- ter tiekethi. Infants will travel .“My political affiliation is a mat-, free. ter of public knowledge,” he shout- i “The new rate on the Seattle- ‘ed. “I never have denied it and I|Juneau system will be $56 one way v never will.” He protested that the question by {the old fares of $75 one way andlexlenslon is concerned, the matter Fisher, Rep, Lucas (D-Texas) as to his political affiliation was an . in- and $100 round trip ‘as against !.llfi round trip. “This reduction is ‘in keeping company plans to inaugurate Sep- | {slon have been concluded and are {running load tests during the week. i The United States rejected the Tests on the airport’s short run-jaccusation and declared that the way have been completed and re- Rumanian government’s complaints sults surprised the engineers, they|“do not eonform to the facts.” sald. Indications are that this; This assertion was made in a strip would hold the heavier note which was delivered by Min- i the Rumanian foreign ministry yes- iterday, ‘The note, released by the State the 10ad,” |pepartment today, accused Ruman- fan police in the city of Giurgiu “It is not the paving, but the sub-base that takes McDaniel explained. Soil tests of the proposed extel p Istaff for 17 hours “incommunicado now subject to tests in the CAA 5 ¥ ¥ tory in AW‘B’-. % ¥ énmsr the l!lnld phote .‘P?‘Q" 5 1 Indications are that:an “m”’m; It charged that “for 16 hours no |of 1800-feet to the 4968-f00t Strip \member of the group was allowed {would be the maximum addition fgod or water. iposstble. and would be sufficlent| The four members of the lega- | length for larger planes. ition staff involved in the incident So far as construction of the were named in the note as Wayne third secretary and vice is simple, but the expense, due to,consul, of Glidden, Iowa; Paul ithe . quantity of fill required Green, an attache, of Newark. O.; (fringement of his constitutional :with Pan American “tradition of ;will be considerable, the engineer |Miss Ruth Virginia Garr, a clerk, ! - ;Communist party’s national execu-|geattle. prefectures, early reports indicat-ltive committee, testified earlier 'his g 25 per rivers on rampages. Thousands of | o Japanese fled as rivers threawnedl. ll !. 80 miles’ o 00000000000 c0e0coo e rights, but he said he would an- swer gladly. His declaration came near the Honshu prefectures Were|end of more than two hours of ilashed by a typhoon tonight asltestimony before a House Labor;within Alaska on a round trip ywinds up to 60 miles an hourigybcommittee headed by Rep. Max|or Snuaion basis zipped west of metropolitan Tokyo. :gchwate g 1At least two were dead, three in.‘ (R-Mo.). gt Gold, who is a member of the union is not dominated by Com- munists. —— e — e o o o R WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAD) Temperatures for 34-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 63; minimum, 42. At Airport— Maximum, 63; minimum, 32. FORECAST (Juneaw and Vicinity) Rain beginning this eve- ning and continuing Friday. Slightly warmer nights with the low tonight around 50 and the high tomorrow near 56. Southeasterly winds 10- +20 mph, occasionally in- @ . . , . . . 3 © . . . . . . L] lofleflng every possible stimulant to {Alaskan business during the Terri- tory's off or winter season. “In ‘1946 we reduced winter fares | In 1947 win- ter excursion rates ‘were expanded to include the gateway city of Now we are able to offer cent reduction within the Territory and round trip passage 1in both directions and the period i i | i said. McDaniel's ,of San PFrancisco; and Miss Peggy to Walter Maggard, a clerk, of Kansas City, the feasibility of the project and estimates as to the cost of the| extension, should it prove feasi- HERO'( RB(UE IS { ing the completion of the present ) Mm o“ ‘IlA“"( report (Plett's regional CAA office as to Mo. planes contemplated in future air-(ister Rudolph E. Schoenfield to’ n- Of having detained the two men and | :two women clerks, of . the legation : Daniel, making no promises. ! Appreciation of the cooperation ‘of winter reductions has been ex- !xended to six months. To meet| {eificiently the seasonal travel infurnished by City Engineer Me- (Alaska, Pan American will use DC- |[Namara, the Army Engineers and: i4 equipment. Air cargo rates, u]-;the Public Roads Administration | {ready sharply reduced, will remain Was expressed by Mr. McDaniel, | ,unchnnged}‘ who also expressed his esteem of; ] e, Lyle L. Martin, soils engineer, who’ is working with him. i .wmm" mll “The Territory is fortunate _in IN WASH. STAT ihaving a man of his capacity ' here,” McDaniel said. Martin, | By The Associated Press Three Washington governors in who came to the CAA a month ago from Foy, Spofford and Thorndyke, | was responsible for the evaluation | ,work on Ladd Field and Mile 26, near Fairbanks. A graduate of the University of Maine, he has; worked with private concerns in- creasing to 35 mph by Fri- b ® 'a -political stew, one was eliminated ®iand now there are two. cluding. Haller Engineering Com- pany that has done extensive work ble, will be the next step follow- survey. | “Then it is up to the regional | office and Washington, D. C., lorl approval or disapproval,” said Mc- Thirty-Eight Members of British_Ship Saved-4 Crewmen Missing NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—(®»— Thirty-eight crew members of an abandoned British freighter were rescued today by two ships in the hurricane-lashed North Atlantic, but four others were lost. Coast Guard headquarters said the American rescue ship Cecil N. Bean reported = saving 20 crew members of the freighter Leicester from mountainous waves about 400 miles southwest of Cape Race, New- PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau — None; since o Sept, 1, 9.16 inches; since July 1, 2148 inches. At Airport — None; since Sept. 1, 6 inches; since July 1, 1431 inches, Westy, with 2,500 pounds of hali-|y o ¢ o o 06 0 @ & » but and 28,000 pounds sable. The Thelma, skippered by Bernt Olstead, with 1,500 pounds salmon. The Isis, headed by J. C. Mar-l tinson, with 12,000 pounds salmon. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—P—Clos- |ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | DRAFT REGISTRATION DEADLINE SATURDAY Deadline for Selective Service registration of 18 to 25 year old men is Saturday, John L. McCor- mick, Territorial Director of Selec- tive Service reminded men in this mine stock today is 3!, American|area today. Can 82%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- Wright 10, International Harvester 28%, Kennecott 55%, New York Central 17, Northern Paclfic 21%, U. 8. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. Persons born in 1929, final group on the registration schedule which began August 30, were being regis- tered yesterday and today.* After September 18 there will be Sales today were 580,000 shares.|continuous registration for all men Averages today are as follows:|within five days after reaching industrials 180.69, rails 60.94, util-|their eighteenth birthday, accord- ities 34.70. - An embryonic stock exhance was intugurated on Wall Street in 1792 ing to McCormick. ———————— FROM'HOOD BAY Mrs. Ken Drake of Hood Bay is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel That was the way the race for governors stood today. Former Governor Martin was eliminated Tuesday, leaving Gover- nor Wallgren and former governor Langlle to fight it out in the No- vember general election. Martin wired his congratulations to . Governor Wellgren today, say- ing: “Congratulations on your con- tinued leadership of a great party. Best personal wishes.” Late tabulations showed Wall-| gren defeated Martin for the Dem-|{ ocratic nomination for Governor by 132,285 to 72,507 Langlie won the Republican gub- ernatorial nomination by 166373 votes to 23,679 for John T. Mc- Cutcheon, his nearest rival. - PARKER IN HOSPITAL The Fairbanks News-Miner of September 13 says Larry Parker, of Juneau, is ‘in St. Joseph's Hos- pital with an attack of the flu. He is from Juneau and is engineer= ing aide for the division of sani- tation and engineering ‘for the Alaska Department of Health with! headquarters at Juneau. He will' probably be out of the hospital in a couple of days. ,ln the evaluation and construction Jed since the armistice, according foundland. . of airports in South America. The Bean reported that 18 other McDaniel and Martin completed | CréW members were rescued by their work on the paving of <the|the Argentine steamer Tropero. The 7500-foot strip at Annette begorelremnlnder of the Leicester's 42- they came to Juneau on the 8th,jman crew were reported lost. land leave here .this week for Fuh‘-! The Leicester, a 7226-ton New banks. York-boynd freighter, was caught lin the path of the northward sweeping mid-Atlantic hurricane. » Ishe has now been completely Remmina fms abandoned, the Bean messaged. A brief 'message received by wm (omunis's j Coast Gunrd‘heudqunr(ers said the remainder of the Leicester's crew —_— were lost during the hurricane HELSINKI—(®— Approximately | Tuesday night. The New York 400 former Finns who left Plnlnnd[agenz said she carried a 42-man for the Soviet Union in the early |crew. thirties when the Communist par-; Coast Guard officers said the ty was banned here have return-; Atlantic hurricane which swept north from Bermuda had “cut a to the best estimates. Political|swath” through the area where opponents are watching their activ-{the Leicester was abandoned. itles closely. Strong winds churned up heavy Few, if any, have asked to re-(seas in the region, they said. new their Pinnish citizenship, re-| The Leicester left London Sept. liable Finnish sources said. The 4, for New York. Her owner is Communist party machine—which |listed as the Federal Steam Navi- numbers between 40,000 and 45,000 | gation Co., Ltd., of London. members or one percent of the S e population—has absorbed them.| The barracuda, ‘They have scattered throughout' pike-like fish of tropical seas, is a large savage |people Jive in the northern hemis- phere than in the southern hemi phere, he said. Foremost among the possibili- ties for increasing the food supply, Dr. Marr reported, is the potential supply of tuna. The present sardine season has been no more encouraging than the ‘preceding one, with its record low catch, Dr. Marr reported. There (has not been an outstanding sar- dine year since 1939, he added. A - ' { DEMANDED BY GOV, (By The Associated Press) ‘The' mition’s four major meat packers “appen ready for a fight to the finish with the government because it is trying to dissoive and reorganize them into 14 sep- arate companies. A civil anti- trust suit was filed in Federal | court yesterday in Chicago. | 'The suit charges that consumers ‘had to pay higher prices because ‘of monopolistic practices by the | packers—Swift, Armour, Cudahy {and Wilson. But spokesmen for three of the four packers have denied the charges, one (Cudahy) calling them entirely false. And the Ameri- can Meat Institute describes the charge that the companies sup- pressed competition as “just plain nonsense." 'HYDERABAD WAR IS 10 BE INVESTIGATED BY UNTTED NATIONS PARIS, Sept. 16.—(P—The United Nations Security Council voted 8 to 0 today to’ look into the war situat’on in Hyderabad. China, Sov- iet’ Russia and the Ukraine ab- stained in the vote placing the Indian invasion of the princely state on the agenda. The council met in the Palais de Chaillot. Hyderabad is seeking a cease- fire order, withdrawal of Indian troops and mediation by the U. N. Sir A. Ramasfami Mudaliar, rep- resenting India, told the press his country contends “this is strictly a domestic affair” and is outside the province of the council because Hyderabad is a soverign state. Hyderabad, attempting to remain| free despite its position inside ter- ritory of the Indian dominion, was represented by foreign minister Na- wab Moin Nawaz Jung. STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tied up by coastwide strike. Princess Louise, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon or evening. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. The French people contributed $250,000 to pay for the Statue PRICE TEN CENTS —m——me rmy Cargo PROPOSAL IS GIVEN T0 ROYALL longshoren;e; o Work af Pre-Strike Rafes- Pickets Qut SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16—/ —Harry Bridges' striking CIO long- shoremen made a new proposal to- day to Army Secretary Royall who has threatened to use troops, if need be, to get army cargo move ing. { The new offer—to work at pre- strike rates through a Seattle stevedoring company with which the longshoremen have a new con- tract-—came as the union increased its pickets around army dock fae- ilities. One thousand pickets appeared today around the army's Port of Embarkation at Seattle in protest against the army attempt to hire dock workers at the pier instead of through a union hiring hall. Another 500 made their initial {Appearance today at army dock { facilities in Oakland. ! Other throngs of pickets were iactive for the third day in San Francisco. Bridges has accused fthe army of ‘“strikebreaking” in (not using union hiring halls. | The longshoremen, who have |been on strike since Sept. 2, said they had signed a contract with ! Griffiths and Sprague, stevedor- 1ing tirm with prineipal offices in Seattle. The company has soffi- " Ich:nh equipment and facilities to chandle all army cargo in: San !Francisco and Seattle ports, the {union told Royall. 1 1 | | sociation against M-fi ||.- striking. < WEA has. withdrawn jall wage offers by its. members’ {until ofiicers of Bridges' union sign { non-Communist affidavits under | the Taft-Hartley Act. ) e — i |FLARES DROPPED | ON LIBERTY SHIP | OFF COAST, SIBERIA {Erroneous Report Circulal- ed that Craft Had Been Fired Upon « TORYO, Sept. 16—®— Flares !dropped over the Liberty ship Moses Brown by two unidentified Iplnnes resulted today in an erron- jeous report that the Russian- ‘churtered vessel had been fired on. Capt. Kenneth D. Frye, skipper of -the 7,176-ton frelghter, radioed the ship's operators, the Shep- ard Lines, that the flares were dropped Saturday night in the Sea of Japan, off Russia’s Siberian coast. Because the Moses Brown Iis owned by the U. 8. Maritime Com- mission, copies of the message were relayed from San Franeisco to the Commission and to the com- pany’s Ne# York offices. In Washington the Maritime Commission said it received the report from the Shepard Lines’ Boston office and that it mention- |ed “an explosion 100 feet above the vessel,” but that it wasn't elear whether 1t was a star shell or para- chute flare. (Anyhow, the Commission relay- ed the report to the State Depart- | ment, which said it had a report Ithe Moses Brown was fired upon, but that the Department had no details.) 4 Skipper Frye, still proceeding smoothly from the port of Toro on Sakhalin Island to a port in Russian-occupied North Korea with la cargo of coal, reported the ship |was not tirea upon. A spokesman for the Far East Ailr Force said emphatically that no American planes had dropped flares over the ship. Which would indicate they were dropped by Russian | planes. (In San Francisco, the Shepard {Lines West Coast manager, F. C. ! Ninnis, boiled the whole thing down to a “routine report.” He !said the Moses Brown was in an 'area where illuminating a ship for the country, working as organizers more apt to attack man than the of Liberty in 1884 and Americans purposes of identification happens or propagandists, these sources said. shark. .raised $280,000 for the pedestal. often.