The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,015 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = | PRICE TEN CENTS DEMOCRATS LEWULTS UNOFFI(IA[ RETURNS-FIRST DIVISION-TERRITORIAL GENERAL ELECTION-OCTOBER 12, 1948 AIR HEARING SCHEDULED, ANCHORAGE Investigation Info Ade- quacy of Service Between U.S. and Alaska Made By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—#—An investigation into adequacy of air service between the United States and Alaska will be opened by the Civil Aeronautics Board Oct. 25. The first hearing will start in Anchorage that day, the Board said, |s to receive testimony of Alaskan In- terests. Later an extensive hearing is planned here. William F. Cusick, examiner for the Board, will leave for Anchorage Oct,_22 to preside at the session ALASKA'S. S, 10 GOVERNOR Asks Gruemng fo Use In-| fluence on Labor for Set- flement of Troubles | { SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—#—The Al- |aska Steamship Company turned‘ down today a second suggestion | from Governor Ernest Gruening of| Alaska for operation of ships to the | Territory. | Gruening telegraphed the firm |after CIO longshore leaders here aid they stood ready to load ships; under conditions in existence be- fore the strike, provided that Alas- kan companies agree that any wage gains in a new contract be made { retroactive. F. A. Zeusler, assistant to the president of the Alaska Steamship GIVES REPLY Jurdld I Juneau No. 1 | Juneau No. 2 | Juneau No. 3 uneau Bridge Sheep Creek Douglas | Salmon Creek Lynn Canal Mendenhall Mountain Point . Wacker Clover Pass Haines Klukwan Chilkat Annette Pennock Ward Cove Stikine Revilla Kimshan Cove Skagway Metlakatla urh*e @) NS l T (¥) uosideg [{s4] summgM" "(GJ PreUOqOe N 243! 248| 301|| 334 2211|238 279] 341 377) 2461|217 6 21 17 12/ @ 8 18/ 21 14| 16! 90/ 137| 113] 135! 68 41 55 54| 42 50 46| 51 54 45| 50| 28 25 26/ 26/ 32| 24| 37| 42| 19 25 20( 31 26 22 21 24, 34/ 34| 24/ ' 307 26| 49| 46 24| 28 290 12)| 13/ 26)| 16 14 19| 13)] 19 32 34 16 16 231 21 15} 23 29| 28 26| 30 49 51 32 32/ 71| 59| 39| 5/ 1ff 6 A 103] 160,| 176/ 88 17) 121| 18] 23 33 45 54 69 23 26| 4“4 31 41 66/ 9 6 220 133 26, 15 191 14 27| 28| 32 0| 88 16| 53 219‘\ 344; 200/ 238/ 301 8| 2 188 102! 125 Senators (@ ysmbury yoruren (@ () wonssug (@) NZUIHIEIN @ JoNrem () uoslapuy | 144 213 244 18] 10 6 37 42 34| 24 23/ i 29 38| 1 10{ 22| 33 401 64] 4 153 50, 256 304 271 202 | 318] 321 14 9 1) 197 121 87 39 48 50, 53 19) 2| 42) 33 20| 23 31 30 50, 37| 8 4 1) 19 37) 35! 28 11 9] 43 60 3 153 107 0 18| 57 1 12 Representatives | - | | ) uoyus | soureg (d) 0199g (@) uasuap (") U0 (@ ueN () uumm anunuon a @) unysdnop | () uosuyop (@) uIsIAPUND | | | 156 190 220 10 6 62! 25 34 21 27 24 29 37 40 10 20 19 17 36 68 2 106 88 5 266 239 274 8 14 89 32 36 32 29 20 20 15 20 12 15 15 17 45 20 5 85 17 12 167 413 173!] 484 167! 530 4 27 1y 27 52/ 216 24/ 83 87 50 51 7 5 4 3 3 4 9 4 27 10 1) 31 24/ 31/ 58 66| 6 114 o4 15 24/ 48/ 63 4 132 153 m 19| 36! 49 1 132/ 90/ 52 226 18 53 27 33 118 46! 0 57| 119 115 59 82 134 | 90 | 107 | 71 Fourth Divisions Delays 15 | e FISH TRAPS GET SWAT, HUGE VOTE Record Vote in Third and Count-None from Second Democrats were leading for practically all Territorial offices on fragmentary returns from yester- day's Alaska election. With inconclusive totals. Demo=" crats also were leading in the race for seats in the Territorial | Legislature. The early returns indicated the Democrats might win back control of the lower House from the Re- publicans. The advisory vote was running | more than seven to one in favor of abolishing fish traps. The pro- 4 14 7 83/ 20 101 41 329!/ 230 358|| 183 57| 82 91 228) 255 268| 34| 3|posal in the measure is for liqui- 9 |dation of the traps over a 10-year | period. Any actual decision on aut- lawing traps, however, would have | Company replied to the Governor! Ptt 124 389 432 13| 67/ 55/ 18 40 81/ 82 34| 232| 227,| 303 140 166| 343(| 361| 123/ 21| 36] 153 160, there. i The investigation stems from a(that the firm is “striving to achieve Board order for an inquiry into|a shipping condition for Alaska's adequacy of freight air service be- future, free from turmoil and work |Hydaburg Craig | Petersburg Sitka 46| 176! 267 279| 446 118| 128 99 193 60! 192 287 15, 67 173] 208, 33 121/ 173 0 0/ 228 [ 57 169 282 195 90 233 265 24| 408 150 265 64 178 249 16 108 100 || llf) 476 125 0 1057 366 0 36 | tween the United States and Alas- ka, which was expanded to include, passenger service. i More than a dozen airlines have, indicated intention to participate in the Anchorage hearing. These in-| clude Alaska Airlines, Mount Mc-| Kinley Airway, Northern Airlines,| Wien Alaska Airline, Alaska Coastal | Airline, Ellis Airlines, Northern Con- stoppage.” He said there could be no as-| surance of this “until contracts can | be made with responsitle union 1leadership.” “You can render a great service. for the people of Alaska,” he tele- graphed the Governor, “by study- ing all the facts in the current| problem and then using your good solidated, Western Airlines, and tory. Chambers of Commerce of Chlcl-' go, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Was., |k& may b' “"“‘““d A and K and Juneau, Alaska, | have filea™ part in the hearings. The Alaska Development Board, | the Territorial Government and the | Interior Department also will par- ticipate. Cusick told a reporter the Alsskal hearing is being held to make it easy for the Alaskan lines to xur- nish . their testimony. e (10 - IWA IS TO TAKE CONTROL OF LOCALS, BIRTISH COLUMBIA PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13,—IM—; Officers of the CIO International Woodworkers of America have, been authorized to take control of British Columbia locals. Two resolutions pushed through| the convention here yesterday un- der special floor privileges grant-- ed to the British Columbia dele- gation are aimed at blocking a re-| volt by some Canadian members. They followed lengthy reports by a special IWA investigation com- mittee, which included a charge that Canadian Union funds are | short about $153,000, and by dele- | gates from the New Westminster, | B..C, local. The resolutions directed IWA officers to. seize the union assets,; order new elections and protect Canadian members in their con- tract relations with employers. The Washmgion, Merry - Go-Round | | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | — Sen, ASHINGTON ‘When Homer Ferguson of Michigan first came to Washington, he was wide- ly acclaimed as the great prosecu- tor. This reputations now is sad- ly ‘tarnished. For though Homer heads one of the most important investigating sub¥eommittees of the Senate, it begins to look as if he runs in the opposite direction when either he or his friends get their toes slight-} ly stepped on. After Senator Thomas of Ok- lahoma wrote Ferguson a letter, threatening to expose certain ex- tra curricular activities, Ferguson promptly dropped the Thomas probe. Ferguson, of course, denies this, says he still is investigating. And here is something else he will doubtless deny, too: In the spring ‘of 1947, the Sena- tor had a young army of sleuths| R R S (Continued on Page Four) | | | | notified U. S. Commissioner Felix ! Hellan and Commissioner influence to assist in eliminating {leadership so that the future sta- bility of shipping'to and from Ahs- T B0DY OF PHYLlIS TTHOMAS IS FOUND IN (GASTINEAU CHANNEL 'Mystery Apparenlly Sur- rounds Case as Resulf of Aulopsy Not Revealed The body of Mrs. Phyllis Thomns, age 34, was found in Gastineau Channel yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Jean Perry at Norway Point sighted the body from her upstairs window yesterday after- noon at 2 o'clock and immediately Gray. 1 Deputy U. S. Marshal Walter | Gray | went to the scene immediately af-| |ter the call and took the remains| to the Charles W. Carter Mortu-, ary where identification was made. Mrs. Thomas had apparently been in the water between 10 and 12 hours. | An autopsy was performed this morning at 8 o'clock by Dr. Joseph O. Rude and Dr. John Clements,| but the results had not been an-i nounced at press time. The Com-! missioner’s office will call for a coroner’s inquest. Mrs. Thomas has lived in, Juneau for the past three years. For the past year she has operated the Bus Depot Restaurant and het; lease expired last month. She is| the mother of four children, a daughter, Phyllis, Jr., who resided with her mother in Juneau, and two younger daughters and a son in California. Her daughter, who is 15 years of age, reported to the Marshal's of- fice that she had last seen her mother on Monday night at 11 oclock. According to her daugh- ter, Mrs. Thomas planned leaving Juneau in the near future. Mrs. Thomas is ‘survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Norris, of San Francisco. She was born in England'and went to California when she was a young| s girl. Previous to operating the; Bus Depot Restaurant, she was employed as a cashier at the Baranof Hotel, as manager of| Fishface Sam’s, and with the Al-| aska Native Service. U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray notified her parents today of her| death. | o FROM EAST COAST L. C. Stringer of Newark, N. J., is at the Baranof Hotel. 1 —————— ‘ In the tomb of King Tutankha- men were found jars of cold cream still fragrant after 3,000 years. | Wrangell | Ketchikan TOTALSS .. small lines operating in the Terri- [irresponsible dominance in labor|, 181 156/ 102/ 162 660 935 900| 657 | | 220 1269 167 391 | 161 201 674] ’IDS 615: 113 901 11 48 283} 164] 105] 122 895| 915 735 llB 4| 308/ 81| 119| 5 1103 509, 817 181 911! 868 793 840 665 83 579, 526 731 456//1392) 286 1 50851607 | 2675 3700 3905 2410 12666 «uz 3055 3049 350612761!/3521 Al Eyes On the Ball- Warren Spahn, Boston pitcher, twists off mound af ter missing bail (|"wer left) as batter Eddie Robin- son, Cleveland first baseman, drops bat and heads for first base in the sixth inning of the fifth Woorld Series game at Cleveland. at first by second baseman Eddie Stanky. 11-5. ® “Ir-phoin. OIL REFINERS AKSED 'T0 INCREASE OUTPUT {OF AVIATION GAS LOS ANGELES, Oct. !3.—M—Oil refiners have been asked to cut the octane rating of automobile gaso- line so that production of aviation gas can be increased. The request came yesterday from the West Coast oil industry alloca-| tion committee. Chairman Arthur C. Stewart said the industry must produce between now and January| I as much aviation gas as would nor- mally be supplied in four months. In renewed strike violence yes- terday, the Los Angeles sheriff’s of- fice reported that a refinery work- er was kidnapped and beaten by four men as he entered the Stand- ard Oil refinery at El Segundo. Police said - drivers of two oi trucks in the Los Angeles area es- caped injury when their wind- shields were smashed by flying rocks. ¥ e Five Filipino Legislators Are (alled from U.S. MANILA, Ogct. 13—(P—Senate { President Jose Avelino has radioed five Filipino legislators now in the United States to return at once. Avelino declined. to say whether the urgency for their return was Icnusefl by domestic problems or the international situation. The reason, ‘he said, “is confidential.” WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Pertod In Juneau— Maximum, 45; minimum, 40. : At Airport— Maximum, 47; minimum, 41. FORECAST (Juneaa and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain showers, and not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday. Southeasterly winds occasionally as high as 20 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION (Past 2¢ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .73 inches; since Oct. 1, 588 inches; since July 1, 35.79 inches. i At Airport — .24 inches: since Oct. 1, 3.20 inches; since July 1, 2385 inches ®0000000®000000000e c00e NOME JAIL COOK 1S FOUND DEAD IN BURNING HOME NOME, Alaska, Oct. 13.—®—Lu- ella Grant, cook at the Federal Jail here, was found dead Mon- day in her burning home. Author- ities said foul play is suspected. An autopsy was conducted yes- terday and a coromer’s jury was to return its verdict teday. The first was discovered by a | catholic priest making calls on sick ! parishioners. | | | {will be an estimated Catcher is Bill Salkeld a nd umpire is George Barr. Robinson was thrown out Spahn pitched beautiful one-hit relief ball as Boston won R G ”ANNE"E ISLAND AIRFIELD ISSUE IS T0 BE DISCUSSED (By The Associated Press) METLAKATLA, Alaska— A dele- gation will fly to Washington, C., to present Matlakatla's claim against the government for use of the airfield area on Annette Island. The town council authorized Mayor Rod Davis to head the group which will present its case to the Bureau of the Budget. METLAKATLA, Alaska The Metlakatla council has voted to pay the Territory the per case tax on salmon packed in the Annette Island’s canning company plant here. The community has been exempt because it is on a federal reservation. The tax for the year $12,000 or more on about 76,000 cases of pinks. D e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 13—/®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 81%, Anaconda 36, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 28':, Kennecott 59'x, New York Central . 16':, Northern Pacific 21%, U.S. Steel 81%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 830,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 18384, rails 60.48, util- ities 35.12. D. ing-up 3111 2048/3677/2496 2835 3166 3352 3464/ 2931 2868 2701 235_) 3204 2265 1782 5322 "WALLACE WELCOME" ‘FORDEWEY fkepublltan Candldate Tar get for Tomatoes-Train Backs Info Crowd By JACK BELL EN ROUTE WITH DEWEY TO OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 13.-#— {Southern Illinois gave Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a “Wallace welcome” of | llylng tomatoes and rotten eggs' I1ast night as he headed for Okla- homa with 13 speeches on his pro- gram. ! Besides the flying groceries, Dew- ey was beset by a mishap at Beau- ,coun, .11, where his special train 'tacked up into a crowd of about 1,00 persons who had turned out to hear the nominee in an after dark speech, | 1 ! “Thats the first lunatic I've had for an engineer,” the Repubiican! presidential candidate commented. At Mt. Vernon, IIL, in a southern Illinois sector generally regarded | as friendly territory, Dewey was the‘ target of two flying tomatoes. The candidates security patrol said youngsters lobbed the vegetables! from a nearby roof and prompny' ran. R. L, Biles, porter on the seventh HEAVY VOTE IS CASTIN THIS CIT Juneau cu‘s’[ an i vote in Tuesday General election, the three pre- cincts totalling a vote of which exceeds the ‘vote cast the General election in 1946 408 votes and also exceeds by the | vote cast in the April Primary this year, 1848, by 231 votes. The Juneau vote in the 1946 gen- | eral elections was 1391 and there | were several sharp contes ed in, the election. The Juneau vote i the April primary this year was 1568. By precincts, Juneau cast fellowing votes yesterday: First precinct, 556. Second précinct, 590, Third precinet, 653. The vote was as follows: Bartlett 1252; Stock 505. Peterson 770; Willlams 921, Boyle 1055; Goetz 666. MacDonald 753; Metcalf 994. Engstrom 940; Garnick 601; Mac- Kenzie 845; Walker 917. Almquist 1017; Anderson 661; Bach 640; Barnes 987; Couglin 812; Feéro 797; Gunderson 653; Hope. 715; Jensen 1123; Johnson 566; Locken 779; Lockridge 747, Mac- Kinnon 1154; Nolan 838; Sheltdn 581; Winn 507. Fish Trap— Abolish, tinue, 331. the 1427; Con- car away from Dewey’s, reported the train also was pelted with €ges | at Beaucoup where the train back- | incident occurred. “They were rotten, I know be-r cause I could smell them told reporters. Dewey, in his speeches, continued ! on his theme that only the Repub- lican party can convince the world that the United States is not “fal- | tering” in its search for peace. ! He urged that the American peo- ple “cast off tke shackles of con- fusion and defeatism and despair” | by electing a Republican adminis-! tration in November D EXPERIEN(E (REDITS T0 BE ISSUED PENDING OUTCOME OF APPEAL . Judge Anthony J. Dimond of the Third Judicial Division granted a| stay of judgment pending the outs; come of the appeal in the case of Felt Griffith vs. R. E. Sheldon and the Unemployment Oompensnnonl Commission. 1 The Attorney General’s office has advised the Unemployment Com-| pensation Commission to go ah‘sd. and isspe experience rating credits to employers for the coming year. The validity of the credits will be tontingent upon the outcome of the appeal. | permitting, 1 20-foot BOM IS MISSING 'WITH THREE ABOAR ./OUT FROM M SEWARD = SEATTLE, Oct. la—lm—wedlher a Coast Guard, PBY! from Kodiak will search waters near Seward, Alaska, today for a boat and three persons overdue on a charter trip to Mon- tague Island, 60 miles east, The area has been twice hit by} storms since last weekend. New Move Made for Hawaiian Statehood WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 - (P—The Hawaii Statehood Commission fig- ures it has thousands of church- women throughout the United States preaching the gospel of statehood for Hawaii. Within the past month, Commission's Washington office has mailed, by request, 12,000/ pieces of literature on Hawali and its statehood ambitions to mem- bers of the Women's Society ist - Church. 915 | involy- the! of | Christian Service of the Method-' to be taken by Congress, which . holds full authority over the Terri- | tory. The fish trap vote from 31 pre~ cincts, 19 of them in the Juneau vicinity, was 5225 to abolish them land 697 to continue them. | The traps were a major issue in ‘one of the hottest election cam- paigns Alaska has had in a couple - of decades. Voters went to the polls in record numbers, with the vote at Anchorage doubling the 1946 total. ‘The total vote cast | was 3893, The early returns | notcon- tain. g -the ad- j-cent thinly populued Second DI- ume ‘record vision territory. 's Territorial Approximatly half of the early returns were from the First Divis- 17:’ fon in Southeast Alaska. n The fish trap vote was one-sided in favor of abolishing them in all three of the early reporting | divisions. The , early returns, by ' Divisions were: Pirst, 2428 to 460; Third, 1128 to 92; Fourth, 1669 to 145, The Senatorial race, aside from the first Division, is as follows, ac- cording to early returns: Third Division— Steve McCutch- eon (D) 1332; Huntley (D) 1181; Morris (R)* 757; Olson (R) 688. | Fourth—Butrovich (R), incum- | bent, 314; Barr (D) 236; Lander ( (D) 183; Woofter (R) 142. House leaders, exclusive of the | First Division, are as follows: | Stanley McCutcheon (D), 1374; |Conright (D), 1264; Snider (R) 11096; Pollard (D) 1150; Keating | (D) 1166; Carlson (D) 1111; Egan ( (D) 1109; Owen (D) 949; Betting- er (R) 916. Fourth— (Five Franklin (D) |An¢ermnn (D) 237; Calhoun to be eleeted)— 276; Dale (D) 255; 247; Taylor (D) (R) 217. FROM ANCHORAGE | The Empire, shortly before press | time, recelved the following' from Bernard J. Kosinsky, Managing | Editor ‘of the Anchorage Times: Thirteen of 69 precincts Third Division: 1095 abolish ‘fish traps, 0 to continue. Bartlett 1686, | Stock 414; Peterson 650, Willlams 1352; Goetz 595; Boyle 1391; Mac- | Donald 945, Metcaif 1118; Morris | 767, Olson 688, Huntley 1181, Bteve Cutcheon 1332, Conright 1354, 1Eg|m 1109, Keating 1166, Stamley ! McCutcheon 1374, Meyers 496, {O'Harra 373, Olson 757, Osho 511, |Owen 949, Pollard 1150, Snider | 1096, Snodgrass 836, Bettinger 916, Carlson 1111 Two main precincts of Anchor- ‘age are not expected to be count- led until late this afternoon. ? RETURNS JUNEAU The heavy vote in Juneau de- {layed early count of the returns from the three precincts but partial figures were revealed during the evening to the Empire reporters. {KINY set up in the newsroom of the Empire and kept broadcast- ing all returns, both local and from points outside as received over: the teletype. At 3 o'clock |this moming when 1t was seen local reports would be late, Dick Peter went to the mike, gave the final returns thén said good night. The first precinct completed the {count about 4 am., third precinet at 6:15 and second precinct at 7:15. oM S sy CAA MAN HERE R. K. Morgan, CAA man from { Gustavus, is at the Baranof Hotel,