The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,020 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” yeyvyeEvev wery weryvyyrery yTYVYYyYYyYry yYrrvrvvevyvyyryveyryr THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1948 Offer by Bridges 4 DROWN OFF BARGE IN STORM Only Pilot Er_vives—Crafl Grounds 100 Miles from Yakutat | | | SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—® -The pllot! of the gale-torn power barge Skar- stone_awaited rescue today on a beach 22 miles west of Cape Yaka- taga, Alaska. Four other crewmen: who abandoned the vessel when its seams . operied during a weekenfli‘ storm, are feared dead. L The lone survivor is G. A. Skarbo | of ‘Seattle. A ‘bush pilot from Yakutat, 100 miles east of the grounded barge, | plans to pick him off the beach when the weather clears. Winds drove the craft ashore yesterday. On a walkie-talkie dropped by a rescue plane, Skarbo told how his companions, fearing the Skarstone would sink, went over the side and were lost when their dory swamped in high waves. The Cape Douglas Canning Cor- poration, operators of the 105-foot draft, identified the others as Capt. Bjron P, Stone, 47, master, Hal Im- | brie, engineer, and Keith Moore, a crewman,, all of Seattle, and Jack | cunningham, of Port Townsend. {The barge ,was enroute trom Se- attle to Anchorage with general cargo for strike<bound Alaska. > FORTY DEAD, IN ERUPTION Volcano Villarrica Pours Out Lava fora Eight Hours Is Report SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 19.—(P—. Forty persons are reported dead and ! 200 missing in a violent eight-hour eruption of the Villarrica volcano ot Cautin province, 400 miles south ot here. Provincial Governor Augustin Pa-j rada sald the volcano, which hasj been spouting smoke since April, erupted yesterday morning and poured out lava for eight hours. Damage may reach 50,000,000 pe- | 508 ($1,500,000). Reports indicated the lava flowed to a point between the resort town of Pucon and Villarrica, both on the bank of Lake Villarrica and about! six miles apart. Farm huts were en- | gulfed. Pucon was_ isolated except by boat. Inhabitants of the moun- tainside fled as fire-fighters and medical crews were rushed to the area from nearby communities. * - e All American steamers tied up by coastwide strike. Princess Louise is scheduled to sail from Vancouver at 9 p. m. to- MOrrow. i The-_Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON The Bell Syndicate, ; c.) i | i | i i | { i | i i ( { i { | (Copyrisht, 1948, by In ' i IWASH!NGTON — It isn’t hard understand—when you know all te inside facts—why Governor Dewey has So carefully steered ~slear of helping Republican Sena- tor Chappy Revercomb of West Virginia in his re-election fight. Not only did Revercomb ram/ ‘hrough Congress the Displaced Dersons Act discriminating against Jews and Catholics, but on July 6,! 1948, he telegraphed the Justicel Department asking that some of | the worst Nazis in the U. S. A. be kept in this country. | The Justice Department had or- dered these Nazis deported, but for; reasons best known to himself.! Senator Revercomb demanded that the deportation order be canceled.| Here are some of the Nazis the| Republican Senator from West Vir-' ginia wanted kept in the USA. i S K TR 5 L ST (Continue op Page Four) NEWMOVE German War ~SPLITBALLO g and Washington !the Seattle Chamber of Commerce said von Brauchitsch, 67, died of| iproblems that previously had been|hours before. {labor, IALASKA RR BARGE, [SOUTH GETS | PLEA MADE BY TRUMAN for Support fo Demo- cratic Parly or ""Ride on Hoover Cart” (By ERNEST B. VACCARO) ALEIGH, N. C, Oct. ident Truman called upon the h today to stand by the Demo- tic party in November or face ther ride in a Hoover cart” o# depression. n an unvarnished appeal to dis- isehters to return to the party fold which they fled when he sub- d his civil rights proposals, President said the Republicans 1 “#ope they can fopl enough of the i péople this time to capture the ie_hctlon by wasted Democratic vate: MWithout calling by name the | sttes’ rights ticket headed by Gov. {J% Strom Thurmand, the President \s#id the only choice in the cam- was between the Republican | plgn %‘1& Democratic parties, and added: #oth parties don't stand a Truman's Townsmen Boost Dewey Residents of President Truman’s home town, Independence; Mo., hoist pro-Dewey signs as they sit in packed auditorium waiting for Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York to begin major campaign speech. The Binaggio referred to in one sign is Chares Binaggio, leader of one of factions of Demo- . ® Wirephoto. chance. | Mr. Truman described the “Hoo- —— |Ver cart” as a North Carolina farm cratic Party in Kansas Ci | invention”--“the remains of an old itin lizzie keing pulled by a mule I Lecause you couldn’t afford to buy 'a new car or the gas for an old one.” “He made his remarks in an ad- idress prepared for delivery at the T other Raleigh audience to avoid being “blinded and prejudiced” in INALASKA Criminal Is IS FEARED ON PROBLEMS Dead, Prison NOVEMBER 2 =:. =i Dewey Follmrs Siudying-;.WAS OF F ERED Probabilifies-Land- HAMBURG, Germany, Oct, 19.— (#—Former German Field Marshal Walther von Brouchitsch died last | night in the British Military hos-| Creation of Permanent 12- Member Advisory Com. Proposed e e ey el s ¥ slide Predicled ~REAT inal. | —_— i 3 e ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 19—P—| _Von Brauchitsch had faced trial| pp, possibility that -ballot split- with three other leaders of the Ger-| ting may reach an All-time high man Army of World War II—Field |, (1o Nov. 2 election was studied Marshals Gerd von Rundstedt and| g ;.o o the followers | Erich von Mannstein, and Col. Gen. | o poanibing :‘;fi}_‘ Strauss—all in British cus-| "y pepublican Presidential nom- A British army :mnou;)cemenl,mee Worked:/ lipte s@pily on his ¥ . next major campaign speech, to be delivered tomorrow night in New York City before the Herald-Tri- bune Forum. He is expected to . { discuss plans for development of Von Rundstedt,” von Mannstein| e yation’s resources. iand Strauss also are in the military | Sl b i Suae the. cothumibess | BosItRL; 401 1G1i¥ ere taken /there| THUA ST SLERBIESERPE EF 1D SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—#-—Creation of a permanent 12-member advisory committee to work on joint Alaska state problems, has been proposed by Rep. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) and Alaska Delegate E. L. Bartlett. | The two members of Congress told of Gov Witness Tesfifies in Case Against Carl Bolton in Defroit DETROIT, Oct. 19.—P— Carl Bolton, 39, was held for trial today under $75,000 bond | in the shooting of Walter P. Reuther, President of the CIO- United Auto Workers. No date for trial was set. Alaska committee yesterday that|coronary thrombosis. He had ‘been | such a committee would solve many [placed on the critical list only three “thrashed out” in congressional de-| bate. i Under their plan, would consist of representatives o industry, and the govern- ments of the territory and gtate. “The major problems facing Alas- a today are transportation, devel-| ol opment of resources and defense,” ! a DETROIT, Oct. 19.—#—aA wit- ness testified today that Carl Bol- ton, 39, offered him $15,000 to kill Walter P. Reuther, president of the. CIO-United Auto Workers. The witness was John Miller, 45, who testified at Bolton's examina- tion on a charge of assault with intent to kill. The witness said also that Ken- neth Bannon, director of the Un- ion’s Ford department, was sched- )- (By The Associated Pr The United Nations unanimously ordered Jews and Arabs today to stop fighting at once in the Negev Desert of South! Palestine. Even as the peace agency act- Security strategists don’t think their um»lwmkfl. ST Riag” besr i - prion didates' will have a landslide in|most of the time since he was 17 b popular'vmg_ vears old. He served three terms, lvE:;:uize :;1. ng they are lrunk-van for burglary. A UAW-CIO 3 a a ewe; margin in, ed, Israel’s air force bombed thelg oo oo = 0o arge el I |spokesman sald he had never been Arab capital of Gaza for the four-' ates will not be large enouthja member of the Auto Workers : h“l "l:m e e pull through some Republican | ynjon ae 4 ; '~ | Senators, who are under hot fire.| 7 { ers were reported “to have struck & B, e 1o | His testimony was backed up in |part by 43-year-old John Pantella, + [last month, and placed in ccmxorl—jb_em_"d 'l“_’“- Pf:wey and hi_“ ’““"““"\ | able quarters under constant guard. | gists were said to be convinced [Previously they had been held in a|that there is going to be a lot o | possibly more than ever before ‘This apparently is due to inter- 4 est that has developed in Senate ‘kals?“ tsmd' "Bffiauselse:;fl‘eo aAn'd!JEws . A RABS:and House races and, in some - ashington are the gatew: il aska, the solution of these proh-i ’ | ernorships. | | The Dewey camp’s. feeling is that Bastlett,. here to canfer with ”‘EJ‘T lD Io STopuzs candidate will win by whal Everett congressman, said d.evemp-l \migh! amount almost te a landshide ment problems now confronting the | [t e1bntorg] | ¥otas: ! Some of his more’ optimistic st} | 1 ? et his S tee would enatle Alaska and Wash- ;3{));‘]}:’1 5gthe::t:;:lle ‘("rfi:“dv;“““ > uled to be assassinated later. ington to go before Congress with feaae Aot . Reuther was shot in his home unified programs and obtain spead- | ant eve“' Sl ‘_\“n‘lflst VAprIl 20, but is recovering. jer action on such maters as pulp | a top-heavy result| Miller, in cross examination, des- Jackson is a member of the House | ‘Appropriations Committee and of the Interidr Department subcom- mittee which controls Alaska funds. | prisoner-of-war dispersal center. | of ticket splitting this year—in fact stances, in close contests for Gov- lems is important to this state.” territory center on fishing, pulp oth sai eir S - | expansion and Indian affyirs. | ki | | - settlements. 19.—(B— | ! State Fair here. Earlier he told an-; BIGSUMTO KILL REUTHER in electoral votes, most of Dewey|cribed himself as a former nuto‘ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= . to Settle Strike Turned Down Officers, Members, Anchorage ‘ . . . Labor Unions Give Testimony CHIEF GETS ‘A Commie Adivities Hearing TE Pl i Ao u "o | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 19.—| d e | (- Seven members and otficers ot H ‘(lARK TEllS Anchorage Lakor Union locals told'Emp'oyers w'" Make No B congressional investigators yester- H | iy they mever nave peon momvers| CONFact Under His Lead- | (of the Communist party. 2 -3 " OF COMMIES ic communis e e| - ership, Which Worthless 1 Rep. Charles Kersten (R-Wisc.) and| —— | .RCDA O. C. Fisher (D-Tex.) of lhl.“j SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19.—(#— House Committee on Education and| West Coast Waterfront Employers . ',Lmor. They were to go to Juneautold CIO longshore chief Harry today Lefore returning to the states.| Bridges today that it considered PRTIRC T Kersten said his committee was| “any contract which you and your - “glad to accept” suggestion by leadership are ultimately to admin< Declares There Are 74,000 s T 0k Obssabes of b |the Alaska Junior Chamber of Com- ister . . . is worthless." > statement was made in a i : ! merce that it investigate the activi- = The Card-Carrying Members [ic e bucksromnd of Harry letter written by Frank P. Polse _Ma" in N Y Callf Bridges, West Coast CIO longshgre- | President of the Waterfront Em- Y hey . men’s union head ployers Association, to Bridges. P The Junior Chamber wrote its/Folse rejected the latter's latest MIDDLETON, Oct. 19.—~P—At-|request for an investigation to the Proposal for reopening negotiations torney General Tom Clark says|House Committee on Un-American ' in the 48-day old West Coast ma- there are 74,000 “card-carrying | Activities and then turned it over | ritime strike. | Communists” in the United States’;lso to the two congressmen here, Bridges had offered to allow --52 percent of them in New! | strikers to select a rank and file Request For Inquiry | York state and California. Ralph Westover, J. C. C. Vice Pres- | negotiating committee by secret He asked a Democratic rally last | ident, said his organization’s writ-| Pa1ot f [night what Governors Thomas: E.|ten reguest for a congressional in- | Future Involved Dewey and Earl Warrén have “done | quiry said that if any striking! Foise Wrote: |about Communism in their own|maritime union leader is a Com-| The problem, as you well know, | states.” munist, “he should be exposed as: the future administration and | Clark answered that the Repub- |such. If not a communist, em-|ObServance of any contract between ficah standnrdcbosiars ha ployers should withdraw the issue:vurselves and the ILWU, under fts [ “nothing but talk” about it. from negotiations. While the J.!Present leadership.” . | He said 30,000 Communists “are | C. C. is not able to find any concrete . He accused the union leadership | walking the streets in New York [evidence that striking maritime un- of 14 years of irresponsibility. The | state,” and that “New York sla(e*"—'““ are under communistic duml-;w"t"““"'n" employers have refused is No. 1 and California No. 2 in hation,” circumstantial evidenceand {10 negotiate with unions whose | Communist population.” |the pattern of the strike make fll]:leadex~s have not signed non-Com- Clark declared he had urged |investigation “imperative.” | munist affidavits which are requir- that Dewey and other chum,u.,,l Witnesses called at the hearing ¢d by the Taft-Hartley law for leaders name any Communists on here included John Wiesc, Presi- services of the National Labor Re:| he Federal, paytoll, and they had |dent of the CIO Westward Alaska | latlons- Board. Bridges has not not done so. !Fisheries Council; John Montrone, ' sighed such an affidavit. The Attorngy General praised business ageit of the AFL painters’ The longshoremen demand a 15- President Truman's program for UWIon; Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Edle- cent ralse from a base pay | loyalty in governiment service, {man, a member and secretary,.re- 3167, a .Fhe..cmployers |spectively, of the CIO Alaska Fish- ered * ~but withdrew - all ermen’s Union; Karl Pennington, | 0iférs wl negotiations broke off. member AFL carpenters’ union; Ei- |} % ' Four Uniens. Involved ner Huseby, former member of the! Four seafaring unions are allied > 'ALEX TASSELL OF (carpenters’ and fishermen's un- ' with the longshoremen in the DouGlAS DROWNS |ions; Nels Nord'n, fishermen’s union | strike, {member. - At the same time, Alaska gov- I" BOAI WRE(K Wiese On Stand ernment officials again urged Se- done Wiese was on the stand an hour 'attle operaters of Alaska’' shipping and a half. lines to accept a union offer to | | | | Wiese testified that he once was | release: strikebound vessels. | 1 ifa. connected with two groups which The plea was contained in an ‘we"known _Nahve' L’fe bave sometimes been described as,‘“open letter” signed by Alaska | “Communistic-dominated”—the Ak- Gov. Etrgest Gruening, Delegate |'ong Resldent' Dles jrabam Lincoln Brigade . h and the E. L. Bartlett, Atty. Gen. Ralph J. |King-Ramsey Counter-detense Com- \mittee. Rivers and Commissioner of Labor ‘Henry A, Benson. ’ on Hunting Trip o ! Kersten asked Wiese: The letter asked e Alex Tassell, 35, wellknown na-| «“would you object to communism ! to mon:rdur their t::nd:::am; tive and lif2-long resident of Doug-|in a union?” {the unfons’ willingness to sail all las, was drowned when his 9-foot| «Not it they advocated good,! Alaska ships under pre-strike con- skiff apparently was wrecked on aistrong labor policy,” Wiese replied. ditions, with terms of any West reef of Admiralty Island while onj«y wouldn't object if it came from | Coast agreement becoming retroac- a hunting trip for deer and hair-'Catholic, Mason, or anyone else tive. v seal. “II an agent of the Soviet Union In reply, M. G. Ringenberg, issued you instructions in connec- ' president of the Waterfront Em- ition would | Wreckage of the splintered craft, lits motor and other gear, ‘were with your union, d_you ployers of Washington, termed the |strewn about the beach, indicating follow orders” the Congressman jetter “the “same old pious plea the force of the crash, One of Tas- @%ked the fisheries council head. of appeasement that has issued sell’s guns was found under the T take orders from the executive from some politicians in Alaska in {seat of the canoe, another, ”“ashml‘hourd of the union, not from any other forms in recent weeks.” lon the beach. agent of any country” he declared. | Ringenberg reiterated the oper- | ! “If an agent issued orders coh- ators' determination not to deal | Tassell was the younger brother ot ‘trary to the policy of the United ‘striking unions that he said |Joseph Tassell and of Elizabeth |States, which would you follow?” |, Haren ? Y re under esponsible léader= Edwards, both of Douglas, The| Wiese replied :“That of the Unit- guum i ot 1 coponsible leader ibody was brought to Juneau by U.led States, of course.” “The letter Is writieh 19 the :S. Commissioner Felix Gray, who| Other witnesses were quizzed "““'iwrnng people,” he said. "It should went gn the Coast Guard patrol ly. Hata” HAMY. ndrvesse’ to. i Ramk boat yesterday to investigate. | H. T. Olson, who lives nearby,'to arrive by Army airplane at 3 | discovered the hody Saturday, on o'clock this afternoon from Anch- |the shore of Admiralty Island, orage. No interested official in Ju- slightly south of Horse Island. He neau would say whether a hearing sent word out ty leaving a note on communistic activities would be aboard the troller Aurora, owned held hefore the party leaves for | by Albert Schramen. | Seattle. The group is scheduled| - e -* —— only for an overnight stay here. JOE LOUIS o ba The Congresslonal party was due. ang fjle of the unions who have | it within their power to throw out | their irresponsibie leaders ” CONFERENCE TODAY SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—P— Mayor William F. Devin scheduled a con- ference this afternoon with Wiil- | iams Gettings, regional CIO Long- shore Union director, for discussion lof the possibilities for restoring | shipping service to Alaska. IS LEAVING SEATTLE at two Jewish / The graver issue of blockaded jwho with Miller is awaiting sen- | tence in Pontiac, Mich, on a Berlin was up before the Security S | burglary conviction. Council again. i 1 v The Russians tightened their Ber- | | Earller, Reuther himself, testitied all| that as far as he knew there was no 0il Strike On Coast May Be that ;3 More Eggs - WILLFIGHT ' For Wallace The Mayor asked for the confer= |ence to talk over the umion's pro- | pesal for loading and manning | Alaska ships if any later agree- [ment is made retroactive to cover IOMOngw' NORT ‘;lln blockade by - ruling enmity tetween himself and Bolton. D { The cargo includes groceries, flour, S ends s1 100 m i feed, building materials and the! p ’ y SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—(P—The first|road traffic entering the city must | Senled Shor“ of the Alaska Railroad’s barges is! pass through the Soviet zone for y scheduled to leave Seattle for Sew-;inspection. | ard late tomorrow with 2,200 tons! - | (By The Associatéd Press) of “urgent” freight. ! H An early settlement of the West i 1 Coast oil strike is possible, says Di-; Irector Paul Scharrenberg of lhe| jCalifornia department of industrial s'age 'o pay B“I:l‘elations, He sald state conciliators | {have been meeting separately with | R loil companies and strikers and joint ot . barge, which will begin loading Sat-| LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.—(— bargaining meetings are being ar-| TOKYO, Oct. 19.P—Belated re- urday. The equipment is for a sup- Francis G. Gorman spent $1,100,000 ranged." iports from Hokkaido today said one plementary lighting system. | postage to send a $1,000,000 bill to! Meanwhile, the Texas company’s American airman was burned se- The barge, ARR-754, is one of | Municipal Judge .O. Benton Worley nationwide council of the CIO oil|velely and 10 others slightly Satur- et (CHITOSE AIRBASE DESTROYED, FIRE;: AIRMEN BURNED first carload of a diesel generatingl plan; for the city of Anchornge.!po The second carload of the Anchor—l A age equipment will go on the second | five transferred to the Depnrtmemgto pay a speeding fine on a ticket|workers union is threatening a na- day night when a $250,000 fire of Interior by the Navy. An Ocenn[he received just before he went to|tionwide strike of the Texas com- swept Chitose airbase. Tow, Inc.. tug will take the first|Shanghai. pany. Destroyed in the blaze, caused by barge under agreement with the! The million dollar Chinese blll, ———— o ifaulty wiring, were the theatre, Edward M. Repetti of Haines is mess hall, laundry, library, service Foss Launch and Tug Company,|was worth about two bucks, Amer-/ the Gastineau, glub and the central heating plant. which has the towing contract, i fean, ) | | | them. Operators have rejected [ H —— | the proposition. i (By The Associated Press) - - | i Henry Wallace was the target| | —_ of an egg-thrower again last night. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—//- Heavy- This time it happened in Pitts- SIO(K ouo""ous weight Champion Joe Louis said|burgh. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—(P -Clos- today he “definiely” will defend! his title in an outdoor show next ~Commented Wallace: “This looks ing quotation of Alaska Juneau {June, {familiar, folks. There must be some mine stock today is 3's, American | The Champ, who announced his|{Southerners here. Can 81%;, Anaconda 377, Curtiss- « Wright 10';, International Harvest- ier 28%, Kennecott 59':, New York | Central 16'i, Northern Pacific 20%, * 'U. S, Steel 83'i, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,030,000 shares. ret‘rement after knocking out Jer- - ] None of three eggs hit Wallace, sey Joe Walcott, in Yankee Stadium | gyepough one spattered the speech last June 23, told newsmen of hisipe wac reading. Wallace was dis- {new decision after holding a 1ong|.ging the world situation when confab today with Mike Jacobs,|ihe eggs fell from @ ventilating hole | president of the 20th Century Sport- i, the ceiling above him, Averages today are as follows: ing Club. industrials 186.18, rails 60.67, util- Louis said he intended to give the| The third party candidate had | lties 35.46 “Joo Baskl-Ezzard Charles fight, just accused Mr. Truman of being! D Dec. 10, the once-over and if itlresponsible for the international! Alf Bye of Ketchikan is at the looks good I will fight the winner,’ L erisis, | Gastineau Hotel v e Yoal e