The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1948, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” W.\Ibl R ASSOCIATED PRP_SS — PRICE TEN CENT$ In On Peiping VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11.067 Chinese Red Forces JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1948 Closin er (ommie Survivor of (-54 itching Gels Aid LABOR SEEKS Confessed Form REPEALOFTH LEGISLATION Strategy M"egéiings Called by Both AFL and (0 Groups ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—P—| The AFL and CIO called separate strategy meetings today with two immediate goals: Repeal of the| Taft-Hartley Act and a bigger poli- tical role for organized labor. The CIO's nine vice-presidents were summoned into conference as instructed at the recent conven-| tion in Portland, Ore, to demand SURPRISE Courier Chambers Asseris Life Was Once Threalened WITNESS | IS MUM, Woman Won't Testify on Anything Before Grand outright repeal of the Taft- Haruey‘ law. | Three CIO leaders officially, advised Secretary of Labor Tobin of that decision yesterday. They are Secretary-treasurer James B. Carey, General Counsel Arthur Goldberg, and David J. McDonald, secretary-treasurer of the CIO steelworkers. i Tobin Says Nothing They planned to report to the vice-presidents today on what To- bin told them. The secretary was tight-lipped to newsmen about his | two-hour parley with the CIO offi- | cers. CIO spokesmen said today's clos-. ed-door meeting would draft apro- gram of action for the next few | months when the drive for repeal ! of the 1947 iabor law will be at its height. The CIO wants immed- iate restoration of the Wagner Act, which went unchanged for 12 years until it was supplanted by the Taft-Hartley measure. AFL Meeting The AFL's meeting today was mainly to set up a 14-month pro- gram of political education, fi- nanced by 10-cent contributions from each AFL member. Joseph | D. Keenan, Director of the AFL Political League, expects to raise at least $650,000. He said that in the three weeks since the conven- tion, a total of $125000 has been | collected. GAS EXPLOSION DEEP IN MINE GOODY, Ky., Dec, 14—P—A gas| explosion deep in a drift coal mine| last night, killed one miner and injured four others. About 70 others in the mine escaped injury, com- pany officials said. The mine, operated by the Pond Creek Colleries Co., is located near this small Northeastern KentucKL town a few miles from Williamson, | i « W. Va. | ‘The cause of the blast has not| been announced. e TO CALH"ORNIA FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Leaving Thursday for a two- week vacation in California, is sta Elsie Burke, desk clerk at the tineau Hotel. She will go via PAA to spend the holidays with her family in Oakland. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round| Bv DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1948, b! The Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON— Unlike the Su- preme Court, the real estate lobby does not believe in noting the election returns. Working diligent- ly and secretly the real estate boys have now recruited an army of 3,300 amateur lobbyists to bom- bard Washington with a last-di stand against public housing andj rent control. This new lobbying force has been] handpicked on the basis of person-; al friendship with influential Con- | gressmen. They are scattered | throughout the grass-roots so as to make the movement appear, spontaneous, and their names are| carefully guarded until housing D-| Day before Congress. Meanwhile, Cal Snyder, chief lobbyist for the National Associa-! tion of Real Estate Boards, is boasting that the lobby will defeat President Truman’s housing pro- gram agdin—by at least 30 votes in the House. The coalition of Republicans and (Continued on Page Four) itell ‘committee members Jury in Spy Case WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(#—A surprise woman witness refused to Congressional spy investiga- tors today whether she is or has been a Communist or knows any of the witnesses who have testfied tat previous hearings. She is Marian Bachrach, 50, who identified herself as a writer in the national office of the Communist party for the last few years. Mrs. Bachrach was put on the witness stand at a public hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee after a brief session with behind closed doors. Presumably, she was the mystery witness that the committee mem- bers had told reporters would ap- pear and be “a very important” one in their sifting of charges that a Red spy ring operated in Washing- ton and obtained secret state de- partmem papexs in the 1930s. CAB REPORT, ALASKA CASE IS FAR OFF WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Civil Aeronautics Board officiak d"(h'wd today to predict when an examiner'’s report on the overall hearing into Alaskan air service may be expected. The hearing closed December after se ons in Alaska and here. | More than 4,000 pages of testimor were taken and a ¢ Various interests were granted 2° jand 30 days after the hearing clo: ed to file William Cusick, examiner who (heard the case, sa.d there is no way |in which he can estimate when I TEPOt to the board_ w will be ready.! ARMY FLARES USED | T0 DRIVE HERD OF ELK FROM FARM YAKIMA, Wash.,, Dec. 14.—P— Army flares were used to drive away 200 elk that invaded the Tie- on farm area to escape heavy snow m the uplands. The animals had forded the icy Tieton River to reach greener pas- tures last weekend. After state game department employees drove the animals back, the men placed pot flares along the main trails to hold the elk in the Oak Creek Refuge Area. ' BOTIOM OF BARREL {REACHED EUROPEAN RECOVERY FINANCES WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.—P-- The Marshall Plan hit the bottom of its foreign aid barrel today af- ter earmarking $536,600,000 for Eu- |ropean recovery during the first quarter of next year. With the allotment of these funds, the Economic Cooperation Administration said it has used up the $5,055,000,000 first year appro- priation from Congress. Since then, ECA officials have said they will ask Congress for $1,125,000,000 to carry the program through April, May and June. arge number of | |exhibits were introduced additional exhibits aud | this time will not expire until ea-lv| |next vear. | NEW YORK, Dec. 14—(®—Whit- take: Chamcers said today “an im- rlied threat on my life” was made in 1938 by & woman whom he de- *(ln»l‘d as a long-time Commun- (‘!‘.unl)rx's. confessed former Com- vmunN courier, made the assertion to newsmen at the Federal building where he is a key witness before the espionage-probing grand jury. | Adolf A. Berle, Jr., former as- s'stant secretary of state, was sum- moned to appear before the jury today. Chambers said the person who nade the threat is “a white-haired, ery venerable, handsome woman” | who was a witness at his wedding in 1931. After he left the Communist par- ty in 1938, he said this woman visit- brother-in-law, Rubin She- an attorney. She told Shemitz, | aid, that if the attorney lose Chambers’ abouts, rty” would guaran ee the s Mrs. Chambers | ind the two Chamters children. RECORDING BAN TAKEN OFF TODAY, Five-Year Con'raci Be-| tween Musicians, Record ! t Companies Is Signed NEW YORK, Dec. l47~1|’l-—vThO members of James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians will end their 11'c month record- ng ban this afternoon. The signing of a new five-year contract between the union and the phonograph record companies' will be followed immediately by ! he first recording sessions since | January 1 for the AFL mwunnn- alists. mitz, “hambers would dis The formality will put into effect n agre: sut held in abeyance pending a overnment ckay on the legality f a union welfare fund financed by royalties on records. The government gave its bless- ings last night. Attorney General Fom C. Clark and Solicitor William S. Tyson cf the Labor Department |said the welfare fund, to besad- ministered by an impartial trustee, s legal under the Taft-Hartley Act. The $25000 a year trustee will be Samuel R. Rosenbaum. The § iund is expected to produce $2,- 100,000 a year and will be used to hire jobless musicians to give free concerts and for other union wel- fare purposes. There was doubt whether many of the post-ban recordings would find their way to store shelves in time for the Christmas trade. e KIDNAPED MAN OF PORTLAND IS LONDON, Dec 14.—(M—A report broadcast today by guerrilla “free Grecce radio” said Carl A. Graess- ner, Portland, Ore, engineer, has been released by Greek guerrillas who captured him Dec. 8. The broadcast said Graessner was released “after inquiry established that he is not an officer, and there- fore does not bear responsihility for lamn)cxues and crimes committed by the Monarcho-Fascist army at or- ders of American officers.” Graessner is an equipment super- visor for Atkinson, Drake and Park, American contractors doing work in Greece. ‘ He was kidnaped in the vicinity of South Kozane and was last reported was abducted. AT BARANOF EXTR where- | ment reached last October | FREED, GREECE! = seen Dec. 10, in guerrilla- contrulledl territory near the place where hcl NEW SPY CASE IS ~ SPRUNG i Secrets of “Great Milifary, Significance” Stolen \ af Aberdeen, Md. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—®— Congressional investigators said to- |day they have information that secrets of “great military signifi- (cance” have been stolen from Ab- erdeen (Md. proving grounds where army weapons are tested. | The assertion is made in a for- mal statement from the House Un- American Activities Committee vhich also declared Soviet agents have been aided and abetted by officials and employees of our own 1government” whose “crime in effect is treason.” ! The committee said it hopes the ! New York grand jury “will come out with indictments of all guilty !]Jmtlu ! Beginning tomorrow, (he cnm-l {nmlee said, it will start releasing v all secret documents it has obtain- '¢d which the State Department says may ke published. The statement was issued after a lcl( sed door session during which i members went over progress of ‘lhe inquiry ansoner Is " Decapitated - In Mess Hall; ‘Head of Notonous Inmate Cut Off by Unknowns- Weapon Unknown | ANGLETON, Tex., Dec | notorious prisoner was s | mess hall of the Retrieve | Farm near here last night, de ated by a person or persons un- inown and with an unfound weap- n. O. B. Ellis, prison sysiem gener- il manager, said details of the laying of Ciarence William Red- wine were sketchy. He said Redwine was decapitated while inmates of the farm were in the mess hall for the evening| | meal. “He was one of our most notor-| lous inmates,” Ellis said. “His rec-' ord for making trouble is among the top half-dozen for the entire system.” Redwine was serving five terms | ranging from five to 15 years for. robbery by assault. ! Ellis said there was so much! confusion in the mess hall that it was impossible to learn full details of the slaying immediately. “All we know is that his head cut off by an unknown in- mate and that the type of weapon used also is unknown. Z. E. Harrelson, assistant war- den at Retrieve, said Redwine's jhead was found lying on a table {about two feet from his body. - ICOLONEL NOYES TO| 1 i l FAIRBANKS HEARING ' Col. John R. Noyes, Alaska Road Commissioner, and H. A. Stoddart, Public Roagds Administration division engineer, went to Fairbanks today, accompanied by Miss Lois C. Smith, | 1AR.C. secretary. The road experts will participate in the hearing tomorrow called by Col. Noyes, with Miss Smith re- cording it. The hearing is to investi- gate winter maintenance of Alaska 'highways. i L e Some of the largest kangaroos i<killed workers {unions in A littler with an injured survivor cf the (‘ 54 ditching in the I‘.\cllh' Ocean, 5) is lcwered from the Jeep aircraft carrier USS Rendova to a avy dispensary at Kwajlein Island. Of the 37 perse Honolulu (Dee. removal to the N PEACE TALK IS RUMORED, BUT DENIED |Forming of Coalition Gov- ernment Also Spread in Besieged Nanking i i (By The Associated Press) | Talk of negotiated peace and a | coalition government spread through Nanking today as Chinese Com- |munists increased peril to that Cap- |ital and Peiping Obiang Kal-shek, whose country |is on the brink of disaster, sternly ! denounced “peace mongers.” Many {who talked peace and a deal with |the Reds were among the highest cfficials and generals of Chiang's | regime, | A usually reliable source said the |liberal leader Shao LI Tze and the northwest commander Chang Chih ‘Chung have been otfered posts in (& new calinet. The strategy—if it 1,200 miles southwest of waiting Higgings boat for aboard the plane at the time it went down, 33 were picked up by the Rendova after they had been sighted from the air to climax a dramatic search. ® Wirephoto from U. 8. Navy. Former Manager of Alaska FLOOD STAGE, Housing Projed Is Under OREGONRIVER® Arrest; Two (harges Made PAY BOOST TOSAILORS IS OFFERED IProposal fo Be Submitted to Membership-Other Agreements Made SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—P— An employer offer of a $16 to $35 2 month increase in pay will be presented to the mem:ership of the AFL Sallors Unicn of the Harry Lundeberg, union executive secretary, received the offer yester- day in negotiations with the Pacific American Shipowners Association | land called it “insufficient.” But he fagreed to submit it to a vote. The $16 raise to $186 a month would be for ordinary seamen. More would get larger $35 to bring some ins up to $325 a toosts, with the iclasses of boats jmonth. The union had asked ‘rom $20 to $60 a month. Lundeberg has said the $21 a month average increase won by the CIO marit'me the recent West Coast Pacific. | increases | strike, was not enough for the SUP.| Meantime the CIO marine cooks and independent firemen reached a tentative agreement with shipown- ers.on wages, hours and conditions aboard vessels engaged in the coast- wise-Alaska service The cooks also reached an agrel ment on wages and working condi- tions with steam schooner opera- SPOKANE, Wash., Dec The former mana, Housing project, was arr last night on fraud and emb ez ment charges, U. 8. Marshal Wayne Beiona said today. Bx/(m.\ said Pershing J. Fai as “n\ermm-nl embezzlement of lic money and embezzlement o ernment funds. He w ‘a grand jury in Anchorage Bezona said A Bond was set at $2500 on each of! the three chal immediately F was scheduled (o afterncon before United Cnmmis.sioner Mmh.ul J. Ke ges. It was not | ed with fraud against ndict Is, the pub- [ gov- laska posted appear this | States rley 30, ed by |V {Willamette Falling Rapid- | ly-500 Persons Moved | fo Higher Ground | | ' SALEM, Ore, Dec. 14. Fluu(h ers of a Willamette river ml d-, winter freshet moved into this Ore-| '|gon state capital area today without ! ny threat of serious damage { Tle river is falling rapidly at ail | up-river points. The main part of ths city will be | | untouched, but some suburban and ! i tural roads are expected to be under + | water, BUSHPILOT'S FROZENBODY - FOUND, TRAIL FAIRBANKS, Lec. 14 report said searchers have A radio| phone lines, found | | At Eugene, near the headwaters of the Willamette, the trailer famil- ies evacuated from subuiban Gien-| {wood, have started to move back as| ithe river returped to its channel. | About 500 persons moved to higher | {ground when the Willamette and! ! McKenzie rivers overflowed their! banks Sunday morning. l Flooding rivers and a Pacific |etorm claimed four lives over the {weekend, disrupting power and} caused earth slides onj mcuntain roads and irundated scores icenter REACHED NOW jcould be called that—of Gen. Fy 1Tso-yi at Peiping was so puzzling ‘(hnl most people saw it as political. 'P» has been reported negotiating ifor proposed coalition govern- ment The Communist formed a semi- circle around Peiping, the cultural of China, and largest city in the north, Red troops were seven to 15 miles away. Nationalists tried agan .o dis- lodge the 12th Army group from the Communist trap north of Nan- ‘king. The Suchow garrison, which +left that city with 250,000 men and ecame trapped, still was stalled 100 miles from Nanking. The Communists appeared to be itired and short of supplies, for the:, intensity of the battle around Nan- king has dwindled in the last two \days. PEIPING ISOLATED PEIPING, Dec. 14.-(P— Chinese Communists completed the isolation lot Peiping today. They cut the railway to the sea after the government itself closed the city's siefields. Authorities disclosed that all traf- fic to Tientsin was cut when the Reds attacked and destroyed sec- tions of the railway near Langfang, 30 miles \uuthenst o( Tientsin, PLANEDOWN IN INTERIOR; NO INJURIES Pilot Makes_Sh(cessiul Forced landing on River, Somewhere: FAIRBANKS, Dec. 14.—(#—An air |‘H.r(h is scheduled today for a the kody of Clyde McLaughlin, Yu- of highway routes throughout thelC-47 which reported its six pas- kon River bush pilot, frozen sleepinz bag on 4 trail northw the village of Beaver. He has been missng on a since Nov. 26. Searchers theorized he may been attempting to tr crash. The plane found. BN 17 OUI ON in a est of flight | have ACAMONDAY TRIPS Alaska Couastal Alrl'neg carr] passengers Monday with 28 coming putn Farnsworth tors. The firemen balked on the of- {into Juneau and 17 departing fer and still were negotiating alks called for a $21 per wage increase and general improve- The Cooks' coastwise-Alaska peace | month | Ol gers included: From Chatham: G. 1, Albert Peterson | Christensen. ment in living and working cond!- | tions. EXCUSED el ‘I)(,, From Tenakee: Velma James Stalba, Jim Paddock. From Sitka: Hinberg. From Gustavus: C. A. Irwin. From Haines: Mrs. D. E. Walter Short, From Ekagway: B. Johnso ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 14— | andr: (#—District Judge R. F. Deacon Arledge was drawing names for a Irwin. jury to hear the murder trial of Tranquilino Otero, which starts to- 4G(fle\hn day. One of the first names out of the box was that of Tranquilino! Ray Zahrobsky of Anchorage is are seven to eight feet high and Otero. registered at the Baranof. weigh 200 pounds. “Not qualified,” ruled the judge. To Gustavus: Bert Parker To Sitka: Peggy To Tenakee T> Angoon: Peter Jack To Skagway: Dave Ram: and Mrs. Swanson Peterson, Robert Lou Pilloy, fed 45 Pas- P. White Roy Bailey, Hannah Schom- ' R. Gray.* on, D C. A Fred , Dr western part ot lhe state. RAPED GIRL in from the| 5 DIES, GUAM: ONE CLUE GUAM, Dec, died today of and a beating administered S€X manlac. shock by a Search for the killer—or Kkill- ers— who kidnaped and raped the 27-year-old San Francisco woman | was intensified with discovery of a pair of paratroop boots in the jungls near the spot where she (had been left to die Naval officials said the boots| ‘bore possible blood stains, and the of the owner boots and other evidence are being sent to the FBI in Wash- ington for study, the Navy said. Miss Farnsworth was kidnaped from the shop Saturday night. She name The Sam Asp, A. Jiminez. | was found unconscious yesterday in {a jungle thicket 200 yards away. Her clothing was torn and dishey- eled. She died early this morning 14.—& —rAl\l'BCll\“L" sengers were uninjured after the plane made a successful forced landing on a frozen river in the Northway reg.on of the Upper Tan- ana River Valley. The weather bureau sald the tem- perature is about 20 below zero in ithe area. Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gafiney, wing commander, said C-47s, C-54s and B-20; will fly a 200-mile radius around Northway, near the Cana- dian border, where a tentative radio fix indicated the ship may have ‘anded. The plane was returning Ifrom a routine flight to Barrow. The pilot radioed first he had lost his bearings and was attempt- ing tc land on a stretch of frozen river At 8:05 p.m. yesterday, he mes- caged the landing was successful, but he was unable to determine the plane’s exact position R SIEAMER MOVEMENIS Princess Nerah, from Vaucouver. |scheduled to errive Thursday of- ternoon or evening. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle 11 a. m. tomorrow, Victoria scheduled to sail from Seattle December 16. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Friday, December 17. Baranof, from west, scheduled seuthbound Saturday. | from from