The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA voL. LXVIL,NO. 11,002 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1948 TN MI ‘MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — merican-Soviet Relations Reported Serious U.S. ARMY TUG SINKS; HITS REEF Craftd owinfiydock from| « Juneau in Accident- Crew |s Taken Off SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—®—An Army thg was reported in sinking con- dition today on a reef about 100 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska. The Coast Guard said a ship at_ the scene, off the Canadian coast, 'messaged in mid-morning: “She- is sinking now; full stern un- der water.” All but two mem- bérs. of the crew were removed. The Army's Port of Embarkation | identified it as the Tug LT822. Its| normal = complement is about 20 men. Oakland Turns Out for Dewey { 1 1 iThree Crewmen Repor%edi ispld there: was reason to believe U.S. SUPER IN CRASH AT SHEMYA Russians Could Break Up Berlin Air Lift in 20 Minutes Declares Correspondent Now in Juneau A foreign uvxu'~\h|l!'i1'x\l who rode | the Berlin air lift only four weeks ago said in Juneau today that the Russians are in a position to treak up the lift in 20 minutes if they want to - Frank L. Kluckhohn, for 18 years Alaska, Sept. 28. a foreign correspondent for the (@, Alaska Air Force headquart- {New York Times and now doing a ers ‘announced . today that a B-29|story cn Alaska for a national Superforivess crashed last night in|maga e, sald in an interview that a Shemya Island landing. Berlin has become a symbol of the The Information Officar Western position, a symbol that the West really means business, dibectly ‘morth, It is his “If we are forced out of Ber-!to Alaska although he has lin we might as well get out ofethe ynueh of the Pacitic arvea rest of Europe,” he said. | During the war he was Kluckhohn told of flying up and|first troops to land in Africa. He . down the corridor in' ‘a plane with [later transferred to the Southwest oificer said the number aboard!Gen pycius D. Clay, commander of |Pacific area and was attached was not known. 1American for in Germany. He General MacArthur's headquarters. Shemyf' is at the extreme west-|.iq the Russians hava 4,000 fighter |He also was among the first to land ments alco in strategic positions, “The Russians are making oLyious demons tion of their fense strength,” he said. He told of Russian moves to break up the German police force in Berlin by making raids into tb Ametican, British and French tors and stealing the police un forms, even {rom their homes The tall, veteran correspondent, aceompanied by his wife, came to an de- Missing, Ten Others Said to Be Safe ANCHORAGE, here tirst trip members meager that most of the 'survived thé crash, Only details were available he said. There would normally be about nine crew members aboard, but the crew Juneau from New York and will go! covered ! with the| to] CRISIS OF BERLIN 1§ | UP T0 UN {Russian Blba(éde Is Con- | demned as Threat fo World Peace The Assoiated Press) United Nations squared off today for the most severe test in |its three-year history—an attempt Ito settle the Berlin dispute. On the embly platform, France (Joined Britain and the United States n condemning the Russian block- 'ade as a threat ts world peaco. Ex- perts of the three Western Powers |finished drafting the note to be {rent to Secretary General Trygve Lie late today or tomorrow for ref- jere; to the Seecurity Council Robert Schuman, French Foreign { | | i (By The The' Coast Guard dispatched the ! tenders - White Holly and. Thistle irom_ Ketchikan. The tug hit Herbert Reef, In Arthur Passage, while on “stand by”. duty with another tug that was towing a 200-foot floating steel drydock from Juneau to Se-‘ attle for repairs. Original reports. were, that the other tug, the LT156, ! was on’ the reef with its drydock tow. e Coast Guard. said t.he frejghter’ Western Trader advised | that it ‘had taken the dryrock in, towfrom the LTI56 so it co\lld remain . at the scene. — (conun'm “on. Page Five) Tlle Washmgton Mamf -Go- 'By DBEW PEARSON :jem end of the Aleutian Chain. It|pjanes many of them jets, jamming | in Japan and covered the surrender Minister, asked that the U. N. end !{was being built into a major air g fields in close proximity to Ber- ceromony for The Times aboard the|the blockade because the three west- base for long range B-20%s at the|)in. They have 500 gun (‘m}vl’we ip Missouri. ern powers have “exhausted every ‘iwm":. end. It is now utilized as a! pessibility of direct agreement.” Al- ‘ibase on United States-to-Japan |though France is traditionally op- ;:flm]m. iposed to a rise of German power, ihe said “a renewed Germany must itake her place in Democratic Eu- lrope.” ; Many diplomats feared the strain ‘of the East-West dispute might crack up the United Nations. ¢ British Foreign Secretary Ernest ‘Bevm's speech was sharply criti-* jcized in the Soviet Press. Moscow .new\-pfipers charged he was trying |Iu smash the United Nations. The ' foviet newspapers did not say what ,Russia might do. The London Dally Herald, how-' jever, quoted Andrel Y, Vishinsky, {leader of the Soviet delegat'op.agy saying thefSoviets will nog “aban= _do;x Lhm he #fifld" Vishinsky was quoted as saying in an interview. The U. S. Ambassador to Moscow, ‘Walter Bedell Smith, conferred with President Truman on the President's ,campclgn train, ‘and told reporters Ilater that American-Soviet relations uere "never nwre serioud” - THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ARE RUSS VICTIMS tAre Being Sent fo Concen- fration Camps on ‘Trans- ports of Misery’ BERLIN‘ Sept. 28. (P—The So- cialist, Press claimed today the Rus- ians are throwing thousands* of new victims into concentration {camps in Eastern Germany's inten- wmcu purge of anti-Communists. The official “Sozial Demokrat’ described what it called “transports of misery” hedded for Buchenwald, the former Nazi concentration camp Dewéy (ampalgmng m Wes! Theusands of Oakland citizens listen to Gov. Dewey of New \ork Republican Presidential candidflte (at rostrum, center). Dewey arrived at Oakland, Calif., from Los Angeles enroute to San Francisco across the bay where he delivered a political talk. (P Wirepholob THREE CREWMEN MISSING FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 28 1 'm—An Force officials announced | mday three crew members were re- | ported missing and 10 others safe | ,nfl.o) a B-29 crash early today oni ‘a landing approach at Shemya Is-| |land at the western end of the| !Alebhnm The Ladd Field Information Of-| ;fice said the plane of the 3‘15Lh i 1 u‘ O (Copyright. 1948, IK‘ The Bell Syndicate, | gt . c.) ASHINGTON— Yesterday this column published an extraordi- - WILL |.0AD arhse wames . FOR ALASKA crat, to Senator Homer Ferguson ‘ of Michigan, Republican, threaten- reuso Square Sinnet Is Going fo | | i I 3 l DEFENDING the 80th Congress as he pressed his campaign through- out the West, Governor Thomas E. Dewey greeted by a huge crowd as he toured California. The Republican Presidential candidate is shown with his wife a§ they left Union Station in Los Angeles. (International Soundphoto) . ( i | | f | | i | ! g the war. G The penalty for conviction on :’(ih"ryslel; Ag:eo:: sp‘g;tco;:‘:::; eithey charge, spying or conspiracy " al 3 Mich.,, a lucrative sales agency which the Chrysler Motor Company tdssed into the lap of Ferguson's young * son-in-law, Charles R.| Beltz. With the public clamoring! to. by air-conditioning units, this| p g p Weathu Reconnaissance squudrom Dewey Ia Mural our‘es OF SUSPE(IS ibage when the crash occurred. ; It was the first major accident SESAARNL v o{ a plane of the 375th from Ladd! ysfenous Suenhst X | e lahoma today 1or a’major cam- .M,nch 1947, | paign ~speech on €Communism—a topic - néwly headlined by Con-} nn record with a promised gov-! By BOYARIDOSNON ‘ ernment “housecleaning” of Soviet- | WASHINGTON, - Sept. 28— | minded workers, carried his GOP | Congressional spy probers pressed { Mr. Truman's handling of the mediate trials for four persons they i i 51 duubxe‘dccumd of tampering with 1mmlc| i to expose Perguson if he did Communist issue came under x:‘o{ call off his f:vesugauon of fire last night. secrets. The House Un-American Nome-Southeastern for son, who the committee said should | hat letter last: | pletely inexcusable” what it called : Fe?’olr; '::h:;nontse :e:t his cam- Seward and Valdel | the administration’s failure to!be tried as an outright _wartime AlaSka woman Hymg cra' n' m P | risccue persons ked to s "sa. 0%, Neson is o Communii vty yith Her Son Fails fo 43 Year OIdR 0ld Recor s of Peary vestigate Fer- | lln;w:? \lv);itl?“tm?mz mu,:,:]( ,,emmluska in Seattle yesterday to re-! GOP candidate, fired yesterday's, lel)mt last night also declared that Rea(h FO” Ne|50n 1 Sch;clgo Together they cullect-'“"’c shortages threatened by lhe second volley at Mr. Truman on , Dr. Clarence F. Hiskey, his former % i Found |n Ardl( by Expedl'lon i Ika, were being loaded aboard the! «In spite of the fact that some 'cuted on charges of conspiring to|aska woman and her son was over- “h:dm snd l‘lhesu‘;fiw‘:imfisgx:f,Alaska Steamship Gompany freight- | people. have talked about red herr-|hand over atomic secrets to Soviet|due on a flight in Northern Brit- ::nchh;hngas threatened to makel€T Sauare Siunet at Pier 42 yester- ings, there are a lot of Commun. | agents. Hiskey and Chapin were ish Columbia and a snowstorm | upp y'ng ea er a lons 14 gate as master, is scheduled to sail/ gegttle address a nine-point pro- ! The Stinson aircraft piloted by a | Thursday, the company said. gram to develop the nation’s nat- A United’ Btateyial E pedition to the ‘The Square Sinnet is being "“‘d‘!uml resources to provlde “more | t0 SPY, is death or up to 30 years “jlm :o reach Fort ljelilon t_]BC ecith Tast el s recordn xmpnwnmen( {last night on a 250-mile ight 3 % {from Watson Lake, Y. T. It is be- l€ft there about 43 years ago by jwas néaring the end of a 10-hour | ond 4By TM | Field since the Arctic weather re-f gressional spy investigators. Presidential drive hnmewmd)‘he" hunt today for a mysterious’ Thomas' commodity-market specu-; The House Un-American Actw—‘ACuV“l&\ Committee linked the un-| ty Heflin, the : Dhigamangger, -Magty SEATTLE, Sept. 28., (P—Sea and | viet espionage conspiracy.” {otganiger in Pennsylvania. i k ed the “pertinent facts, the memo | West Coast ship tie-up Ithe “red herring” score. He tuld‘“”“ Marcia Sand Hiskey, and Dr., EDMONTON, Alta., Sept. ; blic. day. | ists ‘at work in this country” atomic bomb project scientists dur- |prevented the RCAF from launch- | public. ed and manned under a ‘V”“‘Lpowex to wage the peace.” icved the woman was taking her Cmdr. Robert E. Peary, discoverer! company and the unions on strike.| g, 4qiq America’s power-produc- North Pole. Unions agreed to load and sa’l, (ing capacity will have to be boost- | jthe ship under pre-strike wages and oq gimost 20 percent to meet in- | »n to school in the United States. °f the The RCAF will put an air search into effect as soon as possible. jroutine mission from its Ladd Field , Fmsdem'x‘rwunnendéd into Ok- onnaissance missions _ began in | Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, already | | through the northwest. ; “Scientist X" after demanding im- | lation ities Committee described as “com- | identified scientist with Steve le— S a . tor Van Hef- 3 4 bectes <o Savie, 45 'air cargoes were being lined up for' ~Gov. Earl Warrén, the No. 2/ The House group's preliminary of the stockholders, the number o{' Winter supplies for Nome, Alas-'ga Syracuse, N. Y. crowd: \Ju}m H. Chapin should be prose- #—A light plane carrying an Al-; This reference pertained to the The ship, with CapL A. W. HOW-| pewey, meanwhile, outlined in a L g an air search. Mrs. Lintner of Anchorage, Alaska, WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—4M— emergency agreement between the! Dewey’s Program ‘This was disclosed today by Gov- | ernment officials who said the rec. | i1 H | i | i Kkind’ of agency could be nothing short of a’ gold ‘mine. hum"l‘hm,ms' “pertinent” facts! though unpublished, also showed that sqn-!n-hw Beltz, though pres- ident of Amy Béltz, owned five shares and Sehafr “Ferguson's wife, owned 125 ~shares. According to Sén. Thomas' information, they were the’ sole stockholders. Thus it was possible for Sen. l'engmson'sx wife and. daughter to outvote the President of the firm. Thus, also, Mrs. Ferguson ap- peared to be the largest benefic- iary. Thomas also collected informa- tion purporting to show that Myr- tle. Ferguson, the Sentor'’s wife, had been designated as the resi- dent-agent for Airtemp in Wash- ington, which indicated that the company either did business or tried to do business with the Gov- ernment. (A Senator is not sup- posed to profit from any fee' or business transaction with the Government.) Sen. Thomas also said in his letter to the Michigan Senator that he had reports as to “where you have spent your summer vacations, whom with, who paid the bills, or when and how you have entertain- ed here in Washington . . . Swanky ! R «Continued on Page Four) Myrtle, | conditions, with provision that any' final increases granted in West Coast negotiations be made retro- iactive for the voyage. The 445-ton M.S. Southeastern also is scheduled to berth here to- of the company, owned only|morroy to load for, Valdez and| 129 sharés of stock, while his w!fe,! Seward. She will carry 500 ‘tons of imeat and other cold storage cargo’ when she sails Thursday. The Southeastern formerly operated be- tween Alaska and ‘Prince Rupert, 'B. C. Meanwhile, ' the first {food flight on the “overhead pas- sage” to Alaska took off last night.| The Civil Aeronautics Board last {limited Seattle-Alaska flights dur- ing the shipping tie-up. Alaska Airlines plans four flights! daily from Seattle to Anchorage and | Fairbanks, officials announced. Robert C. Jones, Alaska Airlines’ | operational manager, said one An-| |chorage flight would be made this iorenoon, another starting at 8 p.m. tonight and a third two hours later to Fairbanks. D e IVIKING DOCKS WITH | 5,000 18S. HALIBU = Thet Viking, skippered by John {Sunderland, |Storage this morning to unload 5,0000 pounds of halibut, emergency : week granted 18 certificates for un-| creased demands. Dewey however, that in ‘the development of the nation’s rivers, home rule sheuld apply and not the sweeping | federal controls he ascribed to the | Tennessee Valley Authority. “It is imperative that we h) America remain strong and grow stronger,” Dewey said, at a tim {“when the shadow. of serious con- !ilict again hangs over the meet- ings of the United Nations.” Wallace Chips In In Dallas, Henry A. Wallace is- ued a statement' terming “this | latest crisis (over Berlin) an abso- | lute necessity” for the Republicans {and Democrats. |lact said, “must heap crisis upon crisis” in order to justify the draft' luw and military outlays. Mr. Truman told his Texas audiences that the Democrats are i pledged to unite the nation fér the ' |benem of the “ordinary folks,” ‘noz for the benefit of “big busi- ‘ness which he said is the Repub-' |lican aim. Barkley Campaigns Senator Alben Barkley, his run- | ‘mng-mate told an Alhevflle N. C, {rally that a vote for any other can- | didate than Mr. Truman “is a vote ' i for the Republican noniinees.” The Kentuckian said it would ke a ‘tragic thing if the partner- docked at Juneau Cold |ship between the Democratic party | {and- the states of the South werg! to be destroyed.” | said, ! Both ‘parties, Wal- | Pounds (argo | Flown by PAA SEATTLE, Sept. 28. (#— Pan yAmerican World Airways announced yesterday that it has flown a half million pounds of cargo to Alaska during the 26-day-old strike. Airline officials said 19 flights) had been added to regular DC-4 schedules to meet the emergency Flights will be revised Oct. 1 to iincrease the amount of space {available to some sections of the | Territory, and fares will be cut 25 percent during the winter months. { ( Since the maritime strike began : Sept. 2, PAA has hauled 450,000 {pounds of cargo to Fairbanks and 100,000 pounds to Whitehorse. Nome, Juneau and Ketchikan. Ship- {ments to Fairbanks were 100,000 pounds higher than in August. | Bulk of the September cargoes jwere fresh produce, meats, eggs tmd machinery. - | | ' | | | | | | i | FROM CRAIG i Thomas Lane of Craig is a guest 'at the Gastineau Hotel, ords were found, but indicated 1'. was on Cape Sheridan, about 4:;0 S. miles from the North Pole. Peary made several trips to me R DIVORCES GRANTED Judge George Folta of the U. | District Court has granted twu divorces. Harryet Dominquez was' | Arctic, finally reaching the pole 287 Five more, persons have granted a divorce from Antonio|in 1909. Presumably, the papers been arrested in the alleged plot to Dominguez on the grounds of de-|found by the Navy-Coast Guard kil President Juan D. Peron and sertion. expedition were left by Peary onihjs wife, bringing the total in cus- James Loseth was granted a di-|a trip in 1905 and. 1906. tody to 22. vorce from Dorotay Loseth on the | The content of the Peary records grounds of* cruel and inhuman,was not disclosed. Evidently, he| treatment. LA PLAN1A, Argentina, Sept.; former cultural attache at the U.S. plot. Griffith, Montevideo, now in Uruguay, ler of the a navy | business in !in the area. The expeditionary ships, icebreaker, breaker and a navy cargo 4 lhuv returned to Boston e | The main purpose of the task o force was to. supply four weather ® |stations In the area and to scout| e |sites for additional stations to! o {be established next year. ® | The expedition was led by Navy {Capt. George J. Dufek. He com- manded the navy icebreaker, Edis- to. The other vessels were the| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept. 28. Coast Guard ficebreaker East Wind,| (s _Business sessions of the 82nd | and the navy cargo ship Wyandot.| Anpual Encammpment of the Grand Canadian ' naval officers Wwent Aymy of the Republic has opened |along since the weather stations here with the gavel being taken ® were jointly set up by Canada and ogver by the youn: of the six ® |the United sStates. ® | Helicopters carried aboard the The presiding otficer ® |three ships are reported to have old Theodore A Penland, © [helped spot the Peary papers and |land, Ore., eito have helped in navigating e through the ice-choked waters of ing the reunion is James A. Hard, the Aretic, 107, of Rochester, N. Y e o o [} a . “detective story.” - GAR ENCAMPMENT 1S OPENED; PRESIDING WEATHER REPORT \hlp (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 53; minimum, 33. At Airport— Maximum, 53; minimum, 28. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Increasing cloudiness to- night and Wednesday with light rain by Waednesday. Local areas to have frost to- night. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — None; since Sept. 1, 17.58 inches: since July 1, 29.90 inches: At the Airport — None; since Sept. 1, 1199 inches; sinee July 1, 2034 inches. ® ¢ ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 is 99-year- of Port- . ) . . . . . . . . . . PERON, WIFE'. Peron has charged John Grllfl(ll.‘ | had left them to show he had been Embassy here, with being the lead- | Coast Guard ice- has bpanded the accusations as a OFFICER AGED 99, Civil War veterans in atfendance. | Senior Vice Commander. ! Cldest of the half dozen attend-! huringia, The newspaper described one such (railroad transport of 40 heavily- {guarded freight cars which it claim- ed was crowded to suffocation with Germans being sent to continement, {The train was escorted by heavily im-med Soviet soldiers outfitted with {search lghts. - Harlan Bushfield Dies, Long lliness MILLER, S. D, Harlin Bushfield, funior U. S. Senator from South Dakota and that state’s Governor jfor two terms, died in Community Hospital here yesterday after a long illness Bushfield, a Republican, 66, died ’ur a cerebral hemorrhage. > STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. Zu.—(P—Clos~ mg quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'i, American |O#h 81, Anaconda 35 Curtiss- Wright 10', International Harvest- er 27, Kennecott 55's, New York i Central 16's, Northern Pacific 137, |U. 8. Steel 78':. Pound $4.03'.. Sales today were 910,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 17754, rails 5817, util- ities 34.06.