The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY A VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,004 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948 —————————— " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Soviet Blockade Of Berlin Called Up Debate DEWEY PLANS MAJOR TALK IN SALT LAKE Will Touch tfioreign Pol- icy-Truman Emphasizes | Efforts for World Peace By The Associated Press Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will de- liver a major foreign policy speech tonight in Salt Lake City. President Truman meanwhile al- tered his campaign travel methods to make a 141-mile automobile tour | through southern Illinois. In advance of his nation-wide Lroadcast address, Dewey sent this message abroad—"Let no dictator or trigger-happy militarist any- where” mistake campaign argument in America as a sign of disunity here, “The Republican Party is engaged in this campaign for the express purpose of bringing our people | | closer together so they can realize their great future and find peace with honor in the world,” the GOP! presidential candidate sald last] night at_Great Falls, Mont. Truman For Peace Mr. Truman also*spoke on world | peace and America’s future in the | 100th talk of - his un--m!xyl campaign trek. He told a railside gathering at Eufagla, Okla, yu-i terday that he s making “every| effort possible that the President is capable of to get peace in’ mema‘ 50 that the next generation will nee‘ 1 test 4 5 9 hgfifl'; mmMT*.um.| Gav presid . wark, | N. J., rally that this country must' prdve to the world it can “achieve| an economy that will be stable and | that we are not a nation of boom} and bust.” “To round out our democracy,” Warren said, Americans face a job “in which labor, management, ng-! H (Continued on Page Flve; i Six Attend Eighty-Second GAR Encampment * OF THE 28 Union Army veterans in the United States who are members of the Grand Army of the Re- public, six attended the GAR’s 82nd Encampment,and sat down together at Grand Rapids, Mich., where they were greeted by well-wishers. They are, left to right: Charles L. Chappel, 102 years old, of Long Beach, Calif.; William H. Osborn, 104, Joplin, Mo.; Jehn H. Grate, 103, Atwater, O.; Theodore A. Pen- land, a youngster of 99, Portland, Ore.; Albert Woelson, 102, Duluth, Mnin., and James A. Hard, 107, of Rochester, N. Y. (International Soundphoto) Boy Found Alivein Wredkage of BARGES ARE PlaneFlownby His Mother Who TO OPERATE, Was Killed Wh_gn_ II @_lashed ALASKA RUN MONTON, Alta.. Sept, 30— i 11, AF flfers today praised tne|ion”in courage of a seriously injured 12-| o, year-old boy who was rescued from a wrecked piane after hanging head-downward for 42 hours beside | the body of his mother. The koy, Michael Lintner, suffer- ed a compound skull fracture, a broken right arm and frozen feet. He underwent surgery at an Ed-| monton Hospital last night and his condition is reported critical. ks cony m ne Essential ‘Suppies to B | Brought North—Railroad EDMONTON, Alis., Scpet. 50.—® ] W|" Supervise —-The condition of a 12-year-old boy who was rescued from a wreck- SEATTLE, Sept. 30.—(#—John P. Johnson, general manager of the ed plane after hanging head-down- | Alaska Railroad, is due in Seattle ward for 42 hours, was described to- day as “satisfactory.” Attending physicians at a hos- | today to work out a contract for |pital here, however, added that he ! barge shipment of essential food |was “not out of the woods yet.” |supplies and construction materials gl { Michael was on the plane, piloted | The Washington Merry- E_q -Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, oy 'l"ne Bell Syndicate, Ine. | { ithe states, age, Alaska, enroute to school in| which crashed in rug-| ;of Fort Nelson, B. C. | ‘ The wreckage was sighted yes-| 1 te {led a ground party to the scene. _Two of the rescuers, Sgt. Larry | Poulson and Leading Aircraftsman | ASHINGTON— Mps. Eleanor | K. W. Clark, said the boy was R. C. A F. fliers who found him {by his mother, Mrs. A. L. Lintner, jy yo yreckage Wednesday beside | courage. The boy, Michael Lintner, suf- .ged country 65 miles northwest fereq a skull fracture, a broken right |to ease the impact of the arm and frozen feet. Doctors said the fracture tion was performed last night was rday by an RCAF plane which|eompound with- broken bones de- ! | to Alaska. Acting Secretary . of the Interior irom the family home at Anchor-'ine poqy of his mother, praised his|C. Girard Davidsoi yesterday or- ydered the railroad to operate the | barges out of Seattle and Tacoma | West | Coast shipping strike on Alaska. ‘The railroad will operate three arges, capable of carrying about |pressed into the skull. An opera-!2000 tons each, R. Rex Lee, Assist- lant Director of the Interior's De-|firm has not yet | partment’s Territories Division, said. | more space than could be supplied Lee said the barges were towed Roosevelt has indicated to friends she will not be speaking in sup-! port of President Truman's re—i election. { This is going to be a big dis-| appointment to Mr. Truman. For,| way back when the United Na-} tions was first founded and he de- cided to appoint Mrs. Roosevelt as a delegate, he had in mind getting sypport for his re-election. At lease, he told Jimmie Byrnes, then Secretary of State, that he hoped this would keep the Roosevelt tam-l ily in his camp. H Mrs. Roosevelt, howeyer, has told | friends that she will remain in! Europe at thé United Nations Gen- | eral Assembly until around Decem- ber 1, will take no part in the election campaign. Note—Mrs. Roosevelt was private- ly opposed to Truman’s nomina- tion. NAVY’S ONE-MAN LOBBY The Navy has an unofficial press| agent on its payroll who bombards cditors and Congressmen with let- ters, telling the Nayy's side in its feud with the Air Force. He is Hugh L. Hanson, $9,000-a- year engineer for the Navy's Bur- eau of Aeronautics. Allegedly as a “private citizen,” he writes what the Navy would dare not say offi- cially. This one-man letter lobby, if it doesn’t actually violate the lobby-| ing act, certainly is contrary to Secretary of Defense James l"or-l restal’s directive against bickering | among the services. Yet Forrestal,| instead of rebuking Hanson, has been conferring with him in pri- vate. _Hanson claims he composes the létters in his spare time, as “sort of a hobby.” Yet the letters are| filled with technical information that obviously requires on-the-l job research. They are also turned out on a such.a mass scale that it would take ‘considerable “spare’ time.” In subject matter, the! (Continued on Page Four) conscious when they reached him. | EMERGENCY IN ALASKA NOT SEVERE Economy D;fi;ged But Ex- tra Demand for Plane | Cargo Overestimated SEATTLE, Sept. 30.-4P— The maritime strike has damaged the ‘economy of Alaska but has not yet icreated the expected extra demand [for plane cargo space, airline offi- ‘cials said today. { | Leaders of aviation firms serving | the Territory, both on scheduled and non-scheduled flights, said, fthe emergency nature of the pres- | ent air lift has been greatly overemphasized.” “To the best of our knowledge, there is no critical emergency or shortage of necessities in Alaska,” | D. E. McMorran, Pan American | §World Airways traffic manager, | said. | “Although the amount of cargo increase is above- a normal level, we estimate only a 15 percent in- !crease in the volume of food car-| iried in September. Our cargo i {normally 50 percent food and the past month it increased to 65 per-' | cent.” i | i i No Large Shipments (. Henry Frances, regional manager! fof Mount McKinley Airways, onet |n£ the largest non-scheduled car- I riers notth, said: i “We have not had any requests| ?1:\ a NO CHANGE IN CHUM SEASON IN SE ALASKA The chum sedson in Southeast {Alaska will open on October 15 it was announced today by Seton ‘Thompson, Chief of the Branch of Alaska Fisheries. Numeroms re- quests and inquiries have teen re- ceived by the Fish and Wildlife Service on whether an earlier open- ing date would be allowed. In a statement, Thompson said jfor large shipments of food.' ! Freight volume is increasing, yes, ibut so far we have not had to (schedule any extra sections.” Under _present ArT heduled -and 1on-scl : can' lift 1,500,000 ipounds of air freight a month. Ap- {proximately 800,000 pounds were |carried during September. | Many air-line officials rapped ‘the Civil Aeronautics Board tor | announcing an exemption for irregular carriers to meet the ‘“emergency” in Alaska. No Emerxem.:y “There is no emergency in most icities in the Territory,” declared ments, . riers probably ‘one official, “and there won't bel «for many weeks in many towns and| many months in others.” Much of the air-freight business to Alaska now consists of machin- ery and parts, mail-order goods, dry goods and beverages. Arthur G. Woodley, president of Pacific Northern Airlines, said his had calls for quickly. Charter Small Boats order | | to INEW FLIGHTS ARE ](o ltween New York, Pittsburgh and {Chicago. Free meals aloft, reser- that the Fish and Wildlife Service realizes that the present season opening of October 15 is not a prop- er one to make best use of the chums, He said, however, that we (do not propose..an. opening beforf\ ‘that date d¢ thereare a continuing numker of pink salmon in uw' mouths of streams, which would be | itaken along with the chums if an ‘earlier opening date was allowed. In concluding, Thompson stated “the pinks are desperately needed seed the spawning grounds.” PLANNED TO MEET RAILROAD RATES By The Ascociated Press) An airline has announced plans r new, low-cost night flights be- | vation service and other luxury accommodations will be cut out to SALMON GOING BIG ISSUE TAKEN UP NOW BY UN .[Russian Soldiers Again Pull Off Stunt Adding fo Tense Situation (By The Associated Press) The Soviet blockade of Beriin —the United Nations' most explo- sive issue—today was called up for debate in the Security Council on Monday. ; U. 8. Delegate Warren R. Aus- tin, the Council chairman- for Oc- tober, ordered debate to begin at |3 pm,, Paris time (9 am. EST) on the Western Powers' charge that Russfa is endangering world peace The above churt demonstrates the | P her continued blockade of di- appalling decline of a resource that | Vided Berlih. can ke worth 10 million dollars a 'r'onisht, American Military Police year to Southeast Alaska's fisher-|j, Berlin reported another in a men and 40 millions a year to its|jong series of ,incidents along the packers. It reveals an alarming | American-Soviet sector borders. drop in the industry that has been | Russian soldiers, thé® Americans the chief support of the region. charged, made a foray into the lf During the last two years, when|s gector and shot and wounded the Southeastern salmon fishery two German eivilians. American has been subjected to the heaviest! police said the Russian patrol was pressure by vessels and other gear,four blocks within the U. S. zone. the lowest packs in history hflvelThe matter is under invenluutlun. been recorded. The economy of | Reasons for the foray were mof the entire Territory has been ser- immediately clear, iously affected, and unless some-| whep Lhé Security Council meets thing is done to restore the pink'Monday to consider the entire salmen fishery of the Panhandle|Berlin dispute, Austin will be in to a healthy, fully-productive con-|the chair as the October President. dition, the various communities' However, he fs expected to stfl; will suifer immeasurably. tdown, since his country is so This fall the Pish and Wildlife closely embroiled in the case and Service will once again hold public | surrender the chairmanship to Ar- hearings in Alaska’s fishing vil-;gentina, next in line. .. . ogks, Kocal sebyle Wi by BN -2 facs B s to advise on how the fisheries can| Earlier, Austin blamed Russla be more effectively managed. They for plocking intefnational control will be counseled to look ahead, of the atorsic bomt probably to make temporary sacri- ! lices, in order to bring the pink Oorifiiiiet tou salmon back to former levels. | the ontfisi ‘°‘c°:l“ are again on In previous hearings, effective|o o - Nflnk:;gnme ‘é‘:l D‘llc':';i:ll action has been hampered byl contrasting and conflicting opin- | *4id Chinhslen, impottant gaver- P Kt iment air Jift center in Manchur- jons. This year, the gravity o(“. Wik Mg teack the situation demands constructive | o Yot r attack by 120,000 etion. {Communist troops. The increased DOWNSTREAM | Fish Alrert M. Day, Director of the says: i “No one can be more interested | future of the salmon In-{ and Wildlite Service, in the {dustry than the people who make No group qualified to recommend means of bringing the runs back. We must not| minimize the fact that the heavy; pressure on the pink salmon fish- the their living from them. should be better salmon ery since the beginning of 'Red pressure on all fronts hurried Generalissimo Chaing -Kai-shek to Peiping. { In Java, the Red upsurge seem- |ed halted. An Indoneslan spokes- Iman in Batavia said Republican government forces had recaptured Madioen, third largést city, which was selzed by Communists Sept. war, the inadequate biological and "As the delegates in Paris de- “The boy was one of the braves{f I have ever seen in my air force! experience,” said Clark. ‘“‘He knew his mother was dead, but neve mentioned it.” H The boy’s father, Lt. Col. A. L.! Lintner of the Army Reserve, sta- | tioned at Great Falls, Mont., flew to meet the boy at Fort Nelson.| “It happened just like that,” th boy told his father on the plane trip to Edmonton. The plane was found, mantled in snow, on Steamboat Mountain. RCAF iliers said the spot was, particularly dangerous territory Iypho;;M Towari]apan TOKYO, Sept. 30.—(®—A typhoon | towns are out of fresh provisions with winds expected to increase|Now and capned goods, lgradually to 97 miles an hour was|mMeats, hardware and dairy suppl {moving toward Japan teday from a will be exhausted in a month. Es- northeast of Iwo Sential construction is being slow- {point 50 miles JJima. ‘The storm, designated as is expected to be 475 mile: oves | from Pearl Harbor and recently re- i conditicned. They are not power| Some produce firms are chart- | { 1 |road coach fares. |barges, he indicated, and it willlering small boats to carry cargo : {northward, while others are con-: The new plane fare between New 1 { il i York and Chicago will be $29.60 or !ing. :!lnums ause of air freight as they!j.m $2.30 mor:gv.hln the ‘raflrond | The Department’s order followed have the past several years. iroach fare fob fbe same tehy. |a message from Alaska's Gov. Er-| Suppliers pointed out the relief | o The president of the airline says, | nest ' Gruening that most Alaska |Ship Square Sinnet will be far less - 3 1 | g Ithan half loaded when it sails for he believes the experiment starting October 15 will open “a mass travel ! clothing, ::::’:w:?:m"m“ Norton Sound i tial that is not possible un- James Wooten, president of Al- ?e' presim 7‘ Iass - rates. aska Airlines, said the Civil Aero- pany to.enarge the same vrice for |METLAKATLA 1§ UNDECIDED ABOUT Imake rates comparable with rail-| | ! ! (be necessary to contract for tow- i i Governor ‘ed by said, shortages, the William Gettings, regional repre- |C8rTying passengers to Alaska as do oy _[the certified carriers. The firm; | Staff. d K o ’ Isouth of Yokohama tonight. It is|sentative of the International Lor ror_ light aircraft. ’“?e exmessea:nrogressing northwesterly at a rate|shoremen’s and Warehousemen's belief was that the ship had been | o op, ¢ 19 miles an hour. | Union, said the union has advised caught in a downdraft. & “5; BN 2y | the Interior Department that long- B 1:2'5"9;-1”“3;0 i ol | shoremen will load the barges un- & i !der “prevailing” wages. Lake, Y. T., about }2100 X;’flei t°Hf°;f,BREAD RA"O"ING | The Interior Department said it nelsen, following the Alaska High-| Io E“D I“ pOlA ,was taking the action because fur- way. |ther delay in moving suppl BB 5205 | She was chief of the fiscal unit !wotld add to the cost of Fede MONTGOMERY IS | WARSAW, Sept. 30—P— Thejmic development of Alaska as well Polish Council of ministers an-ja5 endanger the welfare of citi- {nounced today bread rationing will yenc of the Territory. lend November 1 because of g00d| .we expect the Alaska Railroad harvests, approximately 8000000 ¢, pe gelective in its choice of workers holding ration cards will bejcargo and to give priority to affected. | "A'lo“s Posll'o“ 4 % z | essential supplies,” Lee added. “We | It was disclosed approximately|pgye not idea yet as to how soon 4111000000 tons of wheat, rye, bar- inev will be loaded and ready to ley, and oats are being harvested : (By The Associated Press) | depart.” A British government source |this year, compared with 4,000,000 says that Field Marshal Montgom- iin 1947. ery has been selected to head the! —— : armed forces of the five nations! HIGH SCHOOL BOYS } SEATTLE, Sept. 30.—#— First in the Western European Aumnce.i EXCUSED TOMORROW barges of a new emergency freight Reports of Montgomery’s new posi- | FOR DUCK SHOOTING service to carry essential food and tion have been circulating in Lon- | 'supplies to Alaska should start don and on the continent, but this' Intrepid duck hunters of Ju- north within a week, Col. John J. British source declares that the'r.eau High School have been Johnson, general manager of the official announcement of Montgom- |spared from .a day of looking out Alaska Railroad, said today. ery’s new command will be made in | the classroom window and won-| “We'll have them moved into Paris wishin 48 hours. |dering how many ducks their docks to start loading right away,” The five nations in the Western|fancy free elders were getting on | he said. Alliance are Britain, Prance, Bel-|the first day of the season. Contracts for the towing jobs, gium, The Netherlands and Lux- With permission from their par-for which several firms are bid- embourg. Right now Montgomery|ents, all duck hunters will is Chief of the Imperial British ¢ LOADING AT ONCE in Europe during the war. ' son, for two or three days. | | programs for strategic and econo- | 'has been quoting lower fares thnn' the scheduled air lines. ' “With the air lift and barge service, Alaska can get by for |from two to three months,” Wooten }snld. CONSULATE OF " RUSSIANS IN NYCISCLOSED NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—P— The | Russian consulate here closed to- day. Four men and two women left the building with several pieces of luggage, locked the doors and |drove off in a consulate car. ! The closing came as a result of |the case of Mrs, Oksana Kasenkina, !Russlan school teacher who leaped from the building last August 12. She said -+ she had been held 1against her will. 5 Events caused the United States to demand the recall of Soviet Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin, who sailed for home later. The Soviet Union broke off consular relations with the United States. The staff of the other Soviet con- sulate in this country—in San | | be|ding, will be'let here as soon as|Francisco—also closed its doors yes-'son are expected to arrive on the tomorrow. He He headed British forces, on the first day of the duck sea- ful bidder may not be announced route to New York presumably to will join the staff of the Alaska George Prescott will lead the devo- scheduled to arrive Friday afters exempted from classes tomorrow, they are studied but the success-'terday. Consulate members are en-: Princess Loufse board ship for Russia. FISH TRAP ISSUE/ ol KETCHIKAN.—Metlakatlans are| divided, as are residents of many other coastal towns, as to the fish, trap referendum on the Ortober 12 ballot. Mayor Rod Davis says there is no great feeling of resentment against traps on Annette Island because! they are locally owned and con-| tribute to the welfare of the entire community 4rstead of enriching outside interests. Therefore, he feels | that each 'Alaska cannery should be assured two or three fish traps for each operating line “wiin no dummy lines allowed.” At !least. such a system would work weil here, he believes. Herbert Murchison, former iay-; or differs a little but not much. He| says the canneries will have to fi-| nance many seiners if ‘fraps eare; abolished. “A lot of the bovs have been telling me they'd like to have| new boats,” Murchison said, “but I think it would be too mueh of a, hardship ali at once.” .o ) HENDRICKSONS CO! | Mr. and Mrs. Lance Hendrick- Road Commission. } enforcement staffs that have been|:“c(;i av;omlc control, a - qualified available to the Service, and lhels:“l 03‘ nformant said Field Mar- public apathy which has led toi al Viscount Montgomery would violations of the regulations have ‘fgmmnnd the combined forces of e Western Alliance—Britain, all combined to brigg about the! present sorry plight. This fishery |France, Belglum, The Netherlands can be rehabilitated, but only if sugd Lusmbours. we squarely face the situation. A Adequate spawners must reach thei Canada’s streams, even at the price of]| temporary losses. This can be ac- complished only through the close cooperation of the packers, the fishermen, and the Fish and Wild- life Service.” 4 Gen, A. G. L. Mc- Naughton raised the atomic issue. He asked who is to blame for the Atomic Energy Commission’s fail- ure to wipe out the bomb after three years of wrangling. Austin said the Soviet Union {had blocked real control of the o o ofitom by refusing to sacrifice any o | 0f her sovereignty to permit inter- {national inspection and control of , |sources of -atomic energy. .l ‘McNauglmon presented a- resolu- 0 ? itlon calling wupon “all nations i ieau’ Maximum. 48; ® ¢ fuifil their responsibiities to At Airport— Maxtmum, 49; e I the world community by accepting” mintmum, 3. effective control of atomic energy. FORECAST Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky ob- (Snsss a8 VEKRRY). jected that the proposal was a new one, and no Russian text had been Cloudy skies and rain to- provided. He wanted ti s night and PFriday. Continued ' e il g y. inu study it. Action was deferred. cool with temperatures in the middle forties. South- easterly winds occasionally as high as 30 mph tonight, decreasing slightly Priday, e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. toda e In Juneau 01 ® since Sept. 1, 1759 inche: ® since July 1, 2091 inches. ® At the Airport ‘Trace; ® since Sept. 1, 11.99 inches; ® since July 1, 20.34 inches. e o o o > e e o 0 o & o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8, WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period { The Soviet Union has started a new propaganda war, a Washing- ton diplomatic authority said. A study of recent Moscow radio emis- sions disclosed the Kremlin's pro- paganda guns again have opened ofUP on Iran, Russia’s southern o jReighbor. - There was speculation .’ln Washington that Russia might .|try pressure on that oil-rich area o |to divert attention from the Ber- lin_ crisis. In Berlin, German newspapers said the Soviet occupation force is preparing for big maneuvers start- ing in early October. A gt MARTHA SOCIETY MEETS The business meeting of the Martha Society will be held in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church parlors at 1:30 p.m. Priday, Sm"fl mvmms with Mesdames Roland Burrows! All American steamers tied up and Stanley Baskin as hostesses(by coastwide strike, for the dessert luncheon. Mrs,| Princess Louise, from Vancouver, tions. noon or evening.