The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 5, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL ,NO. 11 ,008 Maritime Strikers Offer to Load Alaska Shi Truman Greeted, West Virginia HURRICANE HITS EARLY AT HAVANA Cuban City Is ‘Is Lashed This Morning - Several Hun- dred Persons Injured By JOSE ARROYO MALDONADO HAVANA, Oct. 5—UP—(By tele- phone to Mhmi)—l’relirmnury re- ports indicated several hundred persons were injured by a hurri- cane which lashed Havana around 5 am. (EST) today. Communications were out be- tween Havana and Piner Del Rio in the western Cuba cigar tobacco area, which apparently was in the path of the storm. It appears there were several hundred persons injured in Havana alone. Property damage in Havana was heavy, and glass litters Aven- ida de Italia, better known as Galeano, in the heart of the busi- ness district. In the tin and cardboard com- munity of Havana known as Llega Y Pon (arrive and settle down), loss of Jife was avoided because the inhabitants were warned well in . advance. (Llega Y Pon is a section in the. Havana industrial district where several hundred of Havana's, extremely poor have erected shan- ties ‘of whatever material avail-| able.) So far, of deaths. We have been unable -to .com- municate with Piner Del Rio, or other place in western Cuba. The Presidential palace reported at 7:30 am. that President Ramon Garu 8an Martin was on a tour of the city to inspect damage. “At 9 am. the blow was over,| but we sure do have lots of water. It's been raining, very, very hard.” FORMER ALASKA there are no reports| LEGISLATOR, DIES WEST HARTFORD, Conn. Oct. 5—P—Oliver P. M. Hubbard, 92,’ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBEIiS 1948 MIAMI 1S ALSO HT, HURRICANE lFIood Produtmg Rains, Wind as High at 132 MPH, Strikes Florida ' MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 5.—P—A severe hurricane packing flood-producing rains and winds estimated as high | as 132 miles an hour hit the Florida {Keys and moved on Miami today. The storm Kkilled six persons and injured more than 200 others in ipasslng over Cuba during the night keys after hitting Havana with 132- mile winds. The Weather Bureau was unable to substantiate a Key {Weat report that it had registered winds of the same velocity in the island city. Communications with the keys failed. smack Miami, Palm Beach and other cities and towns along its way {this afternoon. It headed toward the rich Lake Okeechobee farmlands where many acres already are under water from {car evacuation trains were asked to ibe sent to the area immediately. Miami, as well as the rest of; south Florida, was drenched. Streets nlong the Biscayne Bay waterfront were flooded and driving was be- coming more precarious by the minute, l Miami felt its first strong gusts | early in the afternoon. Rain was [blown in solid sheets. { The winter resort city boarded up ‘quickly. Shelters were thrown open. 'People Are §till Seeing i i i { i Iflymg disc business shows no signs fof iading out. People still are “seeing things in! The storm beat a path up the! The hurricane was expected to: the September hurricane. Two 25-; Flying Discs: DAYTON, O. Oct. 5—®— The( once a United States attorney in-he air” in all sections of the Alaska, where he was the second country, and whether its a case president of the Territorial Senate.lor jitters in an atomic age or died here yesterday at the home;illu.sxons of aerial “phenomena” of his granddaughter. something Wriglht-Patterson Hubbard, a graduate of B“fl"mem officers would like to know and Georgetown universities, also Today, Col. C. H. Welch, public practiced law for many years ‘“‘relations off¥éer of the Air Mater- Chicago. He leaves his daughter, Mrs. De- White B. Libbey, and three grand- children, e ———— - CLAIRE FOLTA PLEDGED Clajre Folta has been pledged to the Delta Zeta at the conclu- sion of rush week on the University of Oregon campus. The 16 houses pledged 254 zlrl.s The Washin-yion Merry- Go ound By DREW PEARSON jiel Command, said he wanted the public to know that the army is | investigating such 'reports, regard- iless of the place or type of occur- !QHCE | “That way,” he said, “the public tcan be assured there's nothing go- ing on we don‘t. know about.™ TA(OMA DOCK}E: IS PICKETED BY STRIKERS Is Reported NEW SERVICE FOR HAWAII IS CERTIFIED { | Airlines Are fo Fly Out { from Northwest { WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—(®—Pac- ilic Northwest businessmen, after | months of effort, found themselves today with two airlines certified to fly between the Northwest and Hawali. The sudden aerial prosperity re-| sulted from yesterday’s Civil Aero~ nautics Board action approving, at President Truman’s direction, Pan American World Airways service. The new authorization varies from that recently given Northwest i Airlines in one regard. Pan American may operate be-| Itween the Northwest and Hawaii jonly on flights that continue be- yond t he island stop. It cannot operate a local service. Northwest Airlines is authorized to operate a local service. Pan American company officials indicated in Seattle and San Fran- cisco that the new gservice is pre- | pared to get under way just as Pan Ameri;n, Northwest | Radioactive Pitchblend Discovered InNorthwestern Alaskal NOME, Alaska, Oct. 5.—(®—A vet- eran prospector announced today the discovery of radioactive piteh= blend-:. a source of atomic power, in northwestern Alaska, just across the Bering Sea from Siberia. ‘The finder was Louis C. Stringer, Alaska prospector, whosa home now is Newark, N. J. He' said Geiger counts of the mineral and tests in New Jersey laboratories were “ex= ceptionally high.” Stringer said the deposits, located [less than 100 miles from Nome, were “consicerakle” but he did not ese i timate their size (Pitchblende is a source of uran- ium, the basic mineral used in achieving atomic energy). Ralph Browne, consultant for the |Alaska Development Board %ald‘ “discovery of the world’s most strategic ore in Northwestern Alas< ka, makes it apparent that m«, United States can no longer ignore; dewelapmcnt and settlement reeds! |of America’s northern froxtier® The reported find was accompan- {led by a statement from H. F.} |Harper, president of the Nome Chamber of Commerce, that the prospecting season is over for the year and “there is no need for ouc- !side prospectors at the present {time.” Stringer also said he had discov- ered tungsten and cobalt in the | Nome area this summer, and had in- vestigated deposits of high gmde. anthracite coal in the Cape Lis- |burne area, 386 miles by water from | |Nome. He sald coal mining opera-‘ |tions would be started next sum- ,rnex Stringer said he and associatis now hold claims on 12,000,000 ton! i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PRESIDENT, DEWEY ARE RESTING UP Truman Starts Campaign" Again Tomorrow-N. Y. Gov. Talks with Dulles (By The Associated Press) President Truman and Gov. Thomas E.- Dewey let their run- ning mates carry the campaign ball today as they prepared for the next go-round in the Presi- dential contest. Mr. Truman stuck close by the/ White House and added new touch- es to the speech-making he is: scheduled to resume tomorrow with ' a foray extending into his Repub- | jlican opponent’s home state, Dewey ‘arranged to spend most | of the day in closed-door sessions at Albany with John Foster Dulles, | his foreign afiairs adviser, who made a special flight from Paris to report on United Nation's de- liberations of the Berlin crisis. Vandenberg Talks \ In advance of that huddle, the! Republicans put Senator Arthur H. | Vandenberg, their chief foveign| policy spokesman on Congress, on a nationwide broadcast last mghtl Vandenberg said this country’s hi- partisan foreign policy leaves lhe] voters free to switch administrations | “without affecting the continuity” | 1of that policy. The Vice Presidenial candlda!es‘ ymeanwhile headed their cross-) - country caravans into sections, trail blazed ecarlier by Mr. Truman | and the New York Governor. Barkley To -Colorado Senator Alben W. Barkley, 1 the | tquickly as planes and crews can'coal deposits and that more than|Democratic nominee, planned to: .be made ready.. They ]lhat woyld be soon. | Various ) .carried out a lengthy campaign to {secure the original authorization |for a Seattle-Portland to Hawaii idirect service. Northwest was selected over Pan American and two other applicants ifor the original run. Pan Ameri- ;can and United already operate i between Calitornia and Hawaii. CYANIDE GAS PUMPED INTO TACOMA HOME | Attempt Mfiion Life ofi Mother and Daughter -Both Survive TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 5—(#P—A chemical analysis today revealed that cyanide gas was the deadly ,agent pumped under the door of @& Tacoma home in what is believ- ed to have been an attempt on the ll!e of a mother and her daugh- The report was furnished by Dr. R. D. Spreinger, professor of chemistry at College of - Puget Sound on request of Chief Deputy Sig Kittleson of the Pierce County sheriif's office. Kittleson said the report indi- Northwest organizations | TACOMA, Oct. 5.—(P—Picketing{cated the cyanide was administér- lumllm. 1048, - 'l)'lu Bell Syndicate, | by striking maritime unions be-|ed into the hose in crystal form 'ASHINGTON — This is the|fee and newsprint-carrying ships lethal gas. story of how one Republican bucked . a lot of other powerful Republicans in the state of Mich- igan. It's an important story because it throws light on the question of who really pays the bills and pulls the strings behind the GOP scehes. It happens also to be a story where this columnist sat backstage. One Michigan newspaper recent- ly waved its editorial pen under the nose of U, S. Attorney General Tom Clark and accused him of leaking certain inside facts about the Michigan scandal to this col- umnist. The “leak,” however, was the other way around. This column leaked to Tom Clark, not Tom Clark to the column. In fact, this column’s readers may ‘recall that for more than a year it has been delving into the Senator Hooper murder case and other strange go- ings-on in Michigan. The alleged leak pertained ‘to’ e (Continued on Page Four) gan today at two docks where cof- were being unloaded. It was the first spread of picket- ing to this port, in the current i West Coast maritime tie-up. AFL 1longshoremen have been working ships here while major CIO-man- ned ports have been strike-bound. William Gettings, regional di- rector of the International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, CIO, said at Seattle the S. S. Abraham Rosenberg and the Danish motorship Erria were being picketed because the striking un- ions contend they were diverted from closed California ports. An employer spokesman said the AFL longshoremen were observing the picket lines of the striking un- ions. He said unloading of the Rosenberg, which has been pro- ceeding about 10 ‘days, was stopped, and that the Erria was pulled away from the dock “to await develop- ments.”, Unloading of the Erria’s l 'gun yesterday. 7,680-ton newsprint cargo had be-{ The Rosenberg jcargo was labeled for Los Angeles, industrials 18121, rails 59.42, util-!which have been threatening Al- neau after a hunting trip in this sail from Vancouver Saturday, Oc-! | newspapers. and water then added to form the The hose, similar to that used in hospitals, was forced under the rear door of .the home of A. E Lindstrom, Southeast Tacoma, Sat- urday night. Lindstrom’s wite, Shirley, 27, told officers she was| | aroused by the cry of her pet cat. Neither received any ill effects from the gas. The husband and an older son were at work at the time. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 5—(P—Clos-| ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 81'2, Anaconda 36, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennécott 58%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 21, U. 8. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 550,000 shares. Averages today are as follow: | ities 34.75. 2 10 HUNT | she nor her daughter lin the area. The prospector said his ecompany, not yet incorporated, plans te sup-!{ 'ply demands of northwestern Aias- | |ka communities and to tap the oriental 'markets. He estumated| about 100. persons would be employ- ed in the Cape Lisburne coal oper- ations. Harper, in commenting or ‘pltchblende find report noted that lnppronching winter is closing min- mg activities for this year. “Due to the severe winters md ishort food supplies here this vear, he said, “there is.little likelihood ‘that any prospecting will be uncer- taken until early next summe: “It is hoped that there wil! e} no influx to add to the hn/,udsl iof our comlng winter.” the, i i i i ( %800 KILLED BY TYPHOON CANTON, China, Oct. 5-— Press dispatches reaching hm‘ tos | day said 800 persons were killed when a typhoon' struck Lenhow { Peninsula and the Pakhoi, Kwang- | ‘;;IDIIWBN and Hothow areas Sept. The reports said 600 persons pm-f ished when the typhoon sank more than 100 fishing boats near Lei-| chow. Another 200 were killed when 170 salt laden snflmg Junksl were destroyed near Pakh .Heavy damage and Cflsflfillles also were inflicted by torrential rains which inundated the area around | Hainan Island. l ALASKA WOLVES WASHINGTON, {The Alaskan wolf can expect trouble this winter keeping the man away from his door. The Government’s Pish and Wild- life Service said .today it plans to send 10 wolf-hunters into the northern territory to reinforce the single full-time hunter it has there now. Besides increased supplies of guns and traps, the agency will use 26 small airplanes in the fight against both wolves and coyotes,' oct. 5—A— askan game animals. indicated 20 billion tons are estimate! to l,pxtly to Colorado for a speaking date‘ at Greeley tonight. The Kentuck- ian toured the Iowa and ane- scta grain belt yesterday, stress- | ing his party’s agriculture record.| He said the national farm income' had been increased from $5,000,000,- 1000 in 1932 to a current figure o(| $30,000,000,000. Accusing the Republicans of try- | ing to stir class division between agriculture and labor, Barkley call- | jed this “reprehensible tactics.” | Warren Jn W. Va. | Gov. Earl Warren, the No. 2w RUSSIANS MARY CAUDLE, eight-year-old polio victim of South Carolina, West Virginia, greeted President Truman flag on his lapel as he arrived in the last on his Western (":Il'fl))\.\illll STEP UP INSULTS | Announce Parachufe Prac-| fice on Corridor fo Blockaded Berlin (By the Awncmm Press) The Soviets notified the Western U.N. WILL Ips FIVE UNIONS MAKE OFFER " ON LOADING Inferim A—greemenfs Would Be in Effect-Seat- tle Mayor Has Conference SEATILE, Oct. 5—®-- Local leaders of the five striking West Coast maritime unions have offered to £ail all Alaska v 1s. William Gett ngs, regional. repre- | sentative for the CIO International 'Longshoremen's and Warehouse- men's Union, said after a meeting |with Mayor William F. Devin yes- terday that: “The unions will sign interim agreements to work every ship in ithe Alaska fleet under the same |mrms as the Nome supply ship. If there is any more we can do, we'd {like to know what it is.” | The Nome relief ship, the freight- ler Square Sinnot, sailed last week under a special agreement ketween ithe unions and the Alaska Steam- Ish!p Company. It provided retro- thty on any wage increases and iother benefits obtained in a final | West Coast settlement. ! Officials of the three major Al- ‘ankn shipping companies said they “had not been notified of the union's joffer. They have, however, signed contracts with the Waterfront Em- |ployers Assoc.ation which has re- Charleston. This city was one of | fused to negotiate with unions tour. (International Soundphoto! ‘whose officials have not signed the — Tnfl ~Hartley law's non-communist 'affidavits, The mayor met with officials of ‘the Northwest joint action commit- tee, representing tie wunions en sm /at Tequest.of the unions in- by pinning a miniature American mlud he sald. {shore union chief, and Frank P. Foi- Blo(KADE ‘sie, head of the Waterfront Employ~ ,ahka Taking No Sides Russians Refuse 16 Partici-| sayer Devin made. t picn hat would ‘like very much to 'see both ‘employers and unions sit down to PARIS, Oct. 5-UP—The United| Mayor Devin recently wrote iden- ers' Association, asking both sides vhe is “taking no sides" the pres- pate, Stalk-from Meeting iron out their differences.” Nations Security Council voted 9|was setting up emergency shipping DISCUSS | itical letters to Harry Bridges, long- to work out shipping relief for Al- -enc controversy, adding that he -2 Sessions Wednesday Meanwhile, the Alaska Rallroad + production 1need.” !GOP contender, carried his “unity” “>me today they will hold para-{to 2 today to admit the Western campaign to Charleston, W. Va.,'chute prictice in the air corridor|powers case against the Soviet| for 4 major talk tonight. The|yhich American and British planes | blockade of Berlin and Russia im- Californian told a Pittsburgh rnlly,uqe to supply Berlin, The British|mediately announced she would: {last night this country could-armprotested a new case of a Russian|not take part'in the debate. itself against inflation and threats|fighter Luzzing a British air 1ift{ Deputy Foreign Minister An- |from abroad only through “nll-ouzwh“m |drei Y. Vishinsky demanded the equal to our every rfloor and declared: “The Soviet Union considers that | offices at Pier 50 and going ahead ‘with plans to operate three govern- mem owned barges in Alaska nerv- Hee. Foss Launch & Tug Cumpnny of Seattle will be awarded the con- tract to mw the Government barges between Puget Sound and Seward, L. A. Moore, assistant to the Gen- Henry Wallace, party’s Presidential candidate, who {has been attacking the bi-partisan| foreign policy, last night switched lto a new theme. The, former Secretary of Agricul- lure said the Democrats and Re- __ | publicans are “sniping away” at | the 1arm program developed dur- 'ing his tenure in the Rooseveit ad- ministration. et A s i COL. ANDREWS INCOMMAND OF AC SYSTEM Succeads Col. Tt Tully Who Is Transferred fo Fort Monmouth SEATTLE, Oct. 5—(®—Col. Fred P. Andrews assumed command yes- | terday of the Alaska Communica- fon system, relieving Col. T. J. ‘Tully, who had been in charge oi the system since June, 1846, Colonel Andrews commanded the A. C. 8. during World War II He entered the Signal Corps in 1917 and was in charge of the Alaska Communication System's engineering - division from 1927 to/| 1932. He was commanding officer from 1941 to 1946. Colonel Tully was transferred to Fort Monmouth, N. J. lar duty. i AR HUNTERS IE‘I'UIN Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Procunier | of Elmhurst, Illinois, are in Ju-| | vicinity. They are at the Baranof, | the Progressive BERLIN.—Gen. Lucius D. Clay U‘ iS. military governor, said the West the Security Cour by agreeing eral Manager of the Alaska Rail- '(un kezp the air lift going m(o\m put the Berlin question on its |road, announced. Berlin indefinitely and supply the ageilda, has violated the charter of | Barge Loading Contracts 12,600,000 Germans in the Western,the United Nations.” ‘The contract for loading the 2,000 zones of the city with minimum| Only Russia and the Soviet|ton barges will gc to Griffiths and needs in food and coal. Since the!Ukrain® voted against discussing|Sprague Stevedornx Lompany, Llockade was imposed in Jun2, U. S, '!hfi Berlin crisis. A majority of |Moore added. The company, an in- and British planes had flown in' ,seven affirmative votes was re- dependent firm, has signed with the 231,191 tons of supplies and now | quired, Vishinsky declared that longshore union. are delivering 4,500 tons a day. §thc adoption oi the agenda was a| Cargo booking for Scward and Clay said recovery in Western|viclation of the United Nationsthe Alaska rail belt is scheduled. to iEurope eventually will break the, charter, specifically of Article 107.|start today, Moore said. The Gov- blockade since Russia and her iron; Dmitri Manuiisky of the Uk-|ernment agency expects to start Icurmn satellites will have to trade raine then announced that he aiso |receiving emergency freight at Pier eventually with the West. The would refuse to participate in the |50 ty Thursday. Llcckade has worked two ways, ldebalc on Berlin, “for the reasons| The first barge will not load any squeumg also the East. toutlined by the Soviet delegate.” |CArgo in Tacoma, but Tacoma — | Council President Juan Atilio|freight will be given equal consid- Bramuglia of Argentina then ad.lmntlon if loaded in Seame, Mioore journed the Council at 5:30 p.m.} LONDON~Thc chiefs of staff of the five Western European Al- 1Conm;u‘ed o, Pngé m") liance countries met in London to (8:30 am. PST) with the announce- | ment that there would be (WO[ meetings tomorrow, coordinate defenses. U. S. officials Isaid the appointment of Field Mar-, {shal Lord Montgomery |as military chief of the nations— of Britain' Britain, France and the Low Coun- tries-—was one of the key moves necessary beéfore the U, S. can ‘associate” itself with the defense un‘on. The United States is ex- facted to finance the strengthening of military power of the alliances. WASHINGTON.~U. §. authori-| ties considered retaliatory moves to, the Russian order limiting the: movement of U. S. and other foreign diplomats in Russia to the ecity| limits of Moscow. The 290 officials| and employees of Russia have (ree‘ movement anywhere in the U. S. Some Washington officials said| Moscow might keep tightening re- | strictions to the point of breaking: off formal diplomatic relations. e i STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tied up, by coastwide strike. Princess Louise is scheduled to, | i tober 9. Dr. Philip C. Jessup of the United States announced that el would speak at the session tomor- row morning. Vishinsky, followed by his aides and a crowd of newsmen, stalked : out of the great hall of the Palais de Challlot immediately after the adjournment. “We shall see,” he said, when MIAMI, Fla., OC‘ 5—-4M—'Nenly- two persons were saved yesterday by the resourcefulness of a pilot who brought his transport plane to a skillful landing in pitch darkness asked whether he would attend temorrow’s sessions. on the beach of a lonely Bahaman island. He gave the same answer when asked if Russia would consider her- @eli bound by any Security Cuun-| cil decision on the Western charg- es that the Soviet Union was menacing world peace with her| mpe nineteen Puerto Rican pas- |blockade of Berlin sengers, somewhat confused by the The red-faced, white-haired R““'-umchednlea stop early Monday on slan leader appeared iif good spirits |5 tiny strip of sand in the Atlantic {.He smiled and laughed as he Chflt-'ocgnn about 125 miles east of Mi- ted with his assistants. ami, continued to San Juan aboard Manuilsky. the Ukrainia forelgn|anotner chartered plane. minister, left the hall behind| Running out of gasoline and grop- V\Em“bk‘/ |ing its way through the tropic night, B i %, twin-engined DC-3 made a FROM ANCHORAGE crash landing on Haines Cay in is the Berry Island group, 60 milss northwest of Nassau. Leonard Hopkins, Anchorage, at the Baranof Hotel,