The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1948, Page 1

\ L] |COAST M Berlin Police, Hecklers Grapple THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,060 T0 PROBE RED SPY NETWORK Shocking Proof Evidence Discovered-Grand Jury Action Is Asked By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—® - The House Un-American Activities Committee is handing a grand jury today what it calls definite and shocking proof that a Red spy network operated in the State De- parument before the war. At the request of the Justice Department, the committee sent one of its investigators, William A. Wheeler, to New York. His mission: To turn over copies of secret papers to a . grand jury which has been investigating Com- munists and espionage for nearly a year and a half. Underground Proof These are papers which the committee says a member of the Communist underground in the State Department turned over to another member on the outside for relay to Russian agents. The outside man was Whittaker Chambers, new a Time magazine editor who admits he was a cou ier for the Communist underground in Washington before he broke with the Reds in 1938. ‘The committee is hanging on to another set of copies of the docu- ments, for use when it starts its own spy hearings going again to-| morrow—but perhaps behind clos- ed doors. Prinis Obtained ‘The prints were made from mi- crofilms obtained by subpcena from Chambers last week. At the time, Chambers had them cached in a hollow pumpkin on his Maryland farm. Chambers has said these par- ticular documents never reached the Russians because he got them while he was in the process of splitting with the Reds. Rep. Nixen Brought Back Robert E. Stripling, chief inves- tigator for the House committee, has said the hearings starting to- morrow will establish who fed the papers to Chambers from the State Department. The committee regards those hearings as so important that it enlisted the help of the Coast Guard and the Navy to bring one of its members—Rep. Nixon (R~ Cal) back from a ship at sea. Damnably Important Immediately after his arrival last night Nixon went inte a huddle with Stripling to go over the documents. His first reaction was (Continued on Page SIX) The Washington Merry- Eg -Round Bv DREW PEAKSON {Copyright, 1948, i;yn The Bell Syndicate, c.) (Ed. Note—Drew Pearson’s col- umn today takes the form of A lefter to Secretary of State Marshall.) . ‘Washington, D. C. December 5, 1948 My Dear General Marshall: You possibly recall a conver- sation I had with you shortly af- ter you became Secretary of State the order to fight well, must have the will to you said, talked about n in which you t fact that a soldier, fight. Weapons alone, don’t make a good soldier. I remember the with such great eloquence feeling and described various cases during the war when well-trained, well-armed troops did not put their heart into battle because they did not understand why they were fighting. I havé thougit oi this conver- setion many times since then. I thought of it a year ago, when, traveling through Europe, I had a chance to get acquainted with some of its war-weary people. And I have thought of it more recent- ly as you have proposed a policy of arming these war-weary people as a bulwark of American de- AR P A ST I8 RS (Continued on Page Four) conversation most vividly because you talked and | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" S— JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 _MMEMBER ASSOCIATED PBESS_ PRICE TEN CENTS g : : - goli wple with Communist heckler [ i of Spandau in British zone of Ber ard pelice in attempt to aid comp: n. A in mouth) pushes way to nic on hecklers and, with aid of police, ejected 15 of them. SUP APPEALS JUDGE HOLZHEIMER DECISION IN Susnat AeRNo0k ALASKA € ASE Prominent Oldfimer Dies £ | of Heart Ailmeni-Was Question Over Employees in Stewards” Union 18 Years of Age Joining AFL Group o SEATTLE, Dec. 6.—(®—The Sail- ors’ Union of the Pacific (AFL) con- tended Saturday that 75 per cent iof the employees in the stewards’ I departments of ships of the Alaska | i Steamship Company want to be; represented by the union. The SUP | made the contention in appealing) :rom a ruling by Thomas P. Gra-| ham, Jr., Regional Director of the| National Labor Relations Board, in| iwhich he dismissed the un‘on’s pe- tition for an election. It asked a hearing on the issue. The stewards are now represented | by the CIO Marine Cooks and Stew- | ards’ Union. Graham held that the Stewards do not constitute an ap- nropriate bargaining unit. He sa'd. the Alaska firm is a member ol the Pacific American Shipowners Association, which deals with unions jon a coast-wide basis. | { The appeal, sent to Washington| Judge William A. Holzheimer, one today, said that because of the de-|of Alaska's most respected pio- pendency of Alaska on water trans- |neers and oldtimers, passed away on rortation, Alaska shipping shouldisunday afterncon in St. Ann’s Hos- be able to negetiate agreements|pital of heart trouble. He has teen apart from those reached on aconfined to the hospital far the past I,oast-wlde basis. {month. Judge Holzheimer was a 4 —— | well-known attorney, Federal judge, and enthusiastic baseball fan. He H jwas 78 years of age and has lived | a es Ip lin the Territory for the past 33 | Missouri Is u S S mboawvxdmg the city with the Firemen's L L | Baseball Park. He was president of Standing on the deck of the war- “Arb:u in 1896. He opened a law of- ship where the Japanese signed fice in Pocatello, Idaho, i@medh service to the battleship which ijs(Judge of the United States District named for his home state. |Court, Second Division, with head- vate practice two years ago, he was appointed City Magistrate and { vears. 2 the Gastineau Channel Baseball surrender papers in 1945, Mr. Tru- ately after he received his degree. EEa quarters at Nome, Alaska. (Continued on Page Five) | | | 1 JUDGE HOLZHEIMER ~ Judge Holzheimer had been a ipmminent citizen of Juneau for many years and a leader in its life jand progress. He was always a lover of sports, especially- baseball and |was largely instrumental in pro- NORFOLK, - D P Presi-‘L"Mue for a half dozen years. dent Truman last Saturday called| GRADUATE OF MICHIGAN U. the historic battleship Missouri not| Judee Holzheimer was born in only a symbol of America’s might | Saginaw, Michigan, on Septembey in war, “but a symbol of might 29, 1870, and was graduated from in peace.” | the University of Michigan at Ann Imen told a gatherimg of high- Later he practiced in Seattle. {ranking Navy officials and other In 1915 he hung out his shingle guests that “this is a great day in Juneau. Two years later he was for me.” {appointed Assistant U. 8. District The President took part in the Attorney at Ketchikan anqd six presentation of a '281-piece silver months later was named Federal He served until 1922 when he -TABI AN LR WEDDRRG | resumed private practice. In 1933 {he became U. 8. District Attorney Priday afternoon in the U. 8. 4. ine First Division and served Commissioner’s Courtrooms, with £ T Commissioner Felix Gray officiat- lfirhgltyhem.;sf't N;‘shintz bef;“f“’fl:_ |ing, Edith Grant Tabler became & S Yo peurned to ‘the bride of Albert Charles Smith. Witnesses were Mrs, Leila Lane, llnd Joe H. McNallen, 1 right center, bare-headed), at Christian Another demonstrator (right, cigarette phote via radio from Berlin) — - AIR FORCE | Abduliah Tours Jerusalem TRANSPORT DOWN, SEA Craft Difched Mid-Pacific { When Engines Fail - Res-, |cue Planes, Ships fo Scene . ’ = ¥ | | | BULLETIN— JOHNSON IS- LAND, Dec. 6. —P— Daylight cver the mid-Pacific disclosed ne trace today of 37 Air Force men missing in a ditched C- 54 transport. Three separate search planes sighting flares ors during the cne olane dropped a koat; another circled the spot. however, showed an ng ocean, mocking y optimism of Air Force vy searchers that the missing men, or at least some " of them, had been found. By DOUGLAS LOVELACE JOHNSON ISLAND, De¢. 6.— An undetermined number of surviv {ors from an Air Force C-54 trans- 'porl. forced down in the mid-pacific, were placed under constant air | ‘watch today while a rescue ship sped towards the scene. | The plane, enroute to Spokane with 37 Air Force personnel acoard, i was ditched early Sunday 478 mles | | southwest of this tiny island ahd| jakout 1.200 miles southwest ofi | Honolulu. ! The Navy patrol craft PC-1141,1 {from Johnston Island, was due to {reach the survivors about 1 p.m. *Johnston Island time (4 p.m., PST). \The escort aircrait carrier Rendova ! | fand the Navy freighter Zelma were JAP TRIALS : et f e senri et Russia, Communisim Given {Grant Appeals for Gen- iume. : Flares were sighted late Sunday | g . M 1t by a B-17 search plane which errl i( ow in e( 'on -Communists in crowd pounced 2, A fi? Lo SR s SRR Surrounded by members of his Arab Legion, King Abduliah (center), wearing long headdress) ¢f Tra ordan, tours old city of Jerusalem recently. In background is a window of tomb of his father which he had just visited. ‘Fhe Trans-Jordan legation in London an- nounced that a group of Palestine Arabs has asked King Abdullah to rule over a proposed union of his kingdom and Arab Palestine. # Wirephoto. U.S.COURT | FAIRBANKS, Dec. 6—M— Fire that spread rapidly after a cellar {explosion of undetermined origin lsunday destroyed the home of Loren | T. Oldroyd, Director of Extension ‘Servtces at the University of Alas- ka. l Frozen water pipes and 37 below !zero weather prevented volunteer fire fighters from the faculty and student body from saving the dwel- iling. Fairbanks and Ladd Field fire idewrtmems prevented the blaze Three Chinese Army groups thrust from spreading to nearby structures. No estimate of the loss was im- south from abandoned Suchow in an | mediately available. The house, effort to break a Communist quck-'Ieased to the universty, was the| A ade in the developing battle for property of The Alaska Railroad. | Freighters Victoria and Termin- annihilation. Chinese newspapers! ‘al Knot scheduled to sail from <aid 20,000 Communist troops with | Seattle about Deec. 17. artillery are fighting within 60 miles FAIRBANKS, Dec. 6.—M®— An| Princess Norah scheduled south- of Nanking, the Chinese capital. overheated stove was blamed for|bound sometime tomorrow, possibly A major offensive appeared to beia fire which destroyed a home uc-Eln afternoon. Nothing definite at shaping up for Peiping in North|cupied by Mr. and Mrs. B. T, 3 p. m. today. China. American military aid to Chi-'Eaton and their month-old daugh- M i na totaled about $63000,000 during|ter yesterday. P-TA BOARD MEETING the last 18 months, or a little less | e The Executive Board of the Par- than a third of the stuff given to ACCIDENT REPO | ent-Teacher Association will hold Greece and Turkey in the same a meeting this evening at 8 period. Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek is to In an accident report made yes- oclock in the Superintendent’s cce President Truman early this' terday, Ed Shaffer said his car had office. Rev. H. E. Beyer will be week. She,is expected to put on tne slid on the icy street Saturday chalrman of the meeting. All bite for a billion a year for three night, about 10:15 o'clock, hitting committee heads are also asked to years. ia house at 324 Willoughby Avenue. meet with the Executive Board. erals Sentenced fo Hang nic: A dropped a 27-foot boat. —Hearing on Dec. 16 - | Otficers airecting the rescue oper-| . S {ation said flares seen later indi-. - 8 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—® Theic““‘d that at least some. of t.he‘. e !" er ln @n u ay supreme Court agreed by a 5-4 vote CASlaways had managed to board the today to review the cases of twoP0al: i SR AR . L wartime Japanese offic'als sentenc-| The B-17, which made the first| : (By The Assoclated: Press) d to die s war criminals, It set sighting was damaged in dropplug.JOHN v,N(EN]’ S B R ek S the hearing for Dec. 16. e N : ’ Doromipis s sk optng, reciiy o= The High Court also granted! O JOnnStan T&On B uselage. | FAERBARKS BOY lday in rolling up a great clection hearing on appeals filed by fivel ™ Ti0 OOt v ieol rellocated the) y jlriumph Sunday for anti-Soviet So- other Japanese convicted of crimes men carly today and took up a vigii ! i alists. against peace and given prison sen-. oo .ponq | SPEE(H wi“NER { Complete returns showed 86.2 per ences. Relays of planes were to maintain | ‘ ent of eligible Western Berliners All the Japanese attacked legal-ithjs watch until the surtace craft | AT |voted. The Social Democrats got ity of their trials and contendedaryived. i _|an abeolute majority of 64.5 per the International Military Tribunal| The Cc-54 one of five en r,,me|Chosen Over Juneaur An {cent; the Christan Democrats 19.4 was illegally established by General|from Okinawa to Spokane, with (homge Gms ifl "| | per cent; and the Liberal Democrats Douglas MacArthur, the American ;yoind personnel of the 98th Bomb ! S k 4 .Xlfil per cent. Every one of the 1,- occupation commander. Group. It was ditched at 4 am. | 1330,820 votes cast was a protest T:;e ;‘wo J:Fflnfli}und:‘ l');ltg;e. (10:06 am., EST) Sunday after two' pea fOf Democra(y y‘(‘(‘):)’m‘li::‘:l’" L to be hanged are Gen. Ken, - engines failed. s s o | nmunists, know 1y face hara, 64, and former Premier Kokij 1ts e:,,di,,v locked on the atstress | . PAIRBANKS:: Do/ 6~ John | certain defeat, boycotted the elec- Hirota, 70. | cigmal, continued to operate for eight | VInCEnt: 16, Fairbanks high school|tion and ihrentened to punish any They will not have to be brought;minutes afterward. This indication | Jun'or student. has been named Germans who voted. They set up @ here personally for the hearings.ithat the plane did not sink immed:- winner of the Alaska-wide ‘I rump city government in the Soviet Their attorneys waived a personaliately was the basis for hopes that Speak For Democracy” contest,|zone of Berlin—a government whic appearance for them. a large numkber of the 30 passenger: "PU"-WX'Pd jointly by the United|the three Western occupation pow- Four of the five Japanese Seh-|and crew of seven escaped into m“wh(mes unior Chamber of Com-|ers asked Russa in Paris yesterday tenced for crimes against peace!pafts merce and the National Association !to disown. The Russians forbade the were given life imprisonment. They S VL ‘of Broadcasters. ‘election in their zone are Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the The board of judges chose Vin-, Any way one lcoked at the result, Privy Seal and Adyiser to the Em- (] cent after hearing his recorded |it was a blow to the Communists. peror; Admiral Takasumi Oka, Gen-,olDROYD s HOME five-minute address along with They polled 19 per cent in the 1946 eral Kenryo Sato, and Admiraly those of Jean Mallory, Anchorage election. Even the 13.8 per cent of Shigetdro Shaimada. The fifth man, | AI U AlASKA IS high school, and Patricia Oakes, the Germans who did not vote was Shigenori Togo, formr reign min- . |Juneau, A ;n big cut under that. ister, was sentenced to 20 years. i Thegrecord of young vmcem’sfl The Russians tried to explain it ——————— DBIROYED’ FlRE'speech will be sent to Washington, jaWway with a barrage of invectives. D. C., to compete in the national 'Newspapers they controlled spewed oA |rmals there where four university OUt such stuff as “mass arrests in scholarships will be awarded for the West” “shameless election com- the best speeches from 48 states, edy,” and “great election swindle.” Hawail and Alaska. The Fairbanks The Russian news agency, Tass, as- 3 is the som of M. B, Vin- Serted the election was held in an ] company manager. Five 8tmosphere of military and police [ } parents and business people were Lerror. - COURT RULES WASH. .mpartial judges. AP et I STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduied to sail fram Seattle 10 a. m. Friday, Dec. 10. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday, Dec. 15. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday, Dec. 18. (By The Associated Press) from [NTO FERRY SYSTEM OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 6.—M— Washington’s Supreme Court has turned down a plan to put the state into the ferry business on Puget Sound. The state court held unconstitu- tional a law under which the State Toll Bridge Authority sought to build a bridge-ferry system. A spokesmun for the State Toll Bridze Authority said the decision killed a plan to float a $10,500,000 bond issue to-buy 21, ferries from the privately-owned Puget Sound Navigation Company, and build a | cennecting bridge. ANOTHER FIRE RT h | STATE NOT GOING| ARITIME STRIKE COMES TC END BACKTO WORK IS * ORDERED \Big Walkout Setfled After 95 Days’ Negotiations. -Shipping Resumes SAN FRANC | After 95 days of i Pacific Coast | Liggest busines | Tiwe last obstacles to maritime | peace were removed yesterday when the non-striking AFL Sailops’ Union Pacific received " al written antee from shipowners the ttlements with CIO unions would not invade its jurisdiction. Five striking unions with member- 1;')11)\ of about 23000 made peace in the Coast's second longest strike, last week, but the AFL Sailors blocked a return to work uptil they |20t the guarantee. | CIO longshore gangs ‘called to {the docks * today began "working cargo on some 280 ships tied up in |the strike. STRIKE COST MILLIONS Employers estimated the t'eup has cost atout $380,000,000 in the ship- ping industry and many millions more in industries affected by it. ,Only Army cargoes, tankers and a i few exempted ships were worked in | strike-bound ports. These included ‘all major U. 8. port c'tles on the coast except Tacoma, Wash., wher: cargoes were handled by non-strik- ing AFL longshoremen. RR. EMBARGO LIFTED A railroad em:argo, imposed to prevent cargoes from piling up on western. docks, - has been lifted. Major ports will be congested with cargoes for two to three weeks, em- ployers said, but no delay in cargo handling was anticipated, STRIKE BEGAN SEPT. 2 The strike began Sept. 2 when ‘the Waterfront Employers ‘Assoc.a- ‘non and the Pacific American Ship- Dec. 6. (P e idleness the owners Association refused to meet .demands of the unions. = The tive unions—Longshoremen, |Marine Cooks and Stewards. Radio |Operators, Marine Engineers, all | CI and the Independent Marine Frremen—walked out together end ! ve) (Continued on P-;'—.-.-. >oo ! ALASKA 5§ ~ RESUMING ~ SHIPPING i | Schedule of Sailings An- nounced - One Steamer Be Loaded This Week SEATTLE, Dec. 6.—M—Res.mp- tion of a full-scale shippinyg ser- vice to Alaska was announced to- day by the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, the only shipping line still iserving the Terpitery. | The passenger steamer Barauof iis scheduled to leave Friday for !Southeast Alaska ports, the first sailing since the West Coatt mari- time strike began Sept. 2. During the tieup, the number of chipping lines was cut from three to one by the indefinite suspen- sion of the Alaska Transportation | Company and the merger of the Northland Transportation and the Alaska Steamship companies. The present schedule calls for the passenger steamer Denali to cail Dec. 15; the Alaska, now turn- ed back to Alaska Steamship Com- pany, Dec. 16, Two freighters—the Victoria and Terminal Knot—are scheduled to sail about Dec. 17 for Alaska ports. | | | | | | { i | SHOPPING DA 611 chrisTmas