The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,068 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1948 ME MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Chiang Now Asked to Resign or Make Peace NEW LEAD REVEALED, SPY CASE Civilian Emfiee of War| Department Reported Under Suspicion WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—®—! A member of the House Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee said to- | day it has a report that detailed information on the Norden bomb sight leaked out to Russian repre- sentatives as early as 1938. i This member, who would not per- mit the use of his name, said the report was obtained orally by a committee investigator and thel committee is now pursuing it. In 1938, the Norden bomb sight! was one of the United States’ big- | gest military secrets. Some army men boasted that bombadiers could ! hit a pickle barrel from three miles up, using the sight. l In actual combat, it never DFOV-‘\ ed that good, but was a highly | successful sight by comparison | with what was available to other W I N N E R—Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone, Salt Lake City, Demo- cratic _police court judge, was elected to the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives from Utah’s second congressional district. EXTRA GIFT FORTRUMAN, ALASKAN ; | been BIG FIGHT LOOMS IN GOP RANKS INDUSTRY LINED UP Five Eskimos Go fo Mexico for Training - Full Plans Announced By VERN HAUGLAND | | | | | | ¥ for Seat of National Chairman By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— -A struggle for control of Republican party machinery loomed today with reports that Carroll Reece may chal- lenge National Chairman Hugh Scott in a comeback attempt Scott, a Philadelphia Congress- man, replaced Reece s chairman last June when Gov. Thomas E Sitka, Alaska. Dewey of New York won the par Don C. Foster, chief of the In- - 3 : | presidential nomination | jan Bureaw's Alaska Native Ser- : ; : | Although Scott has given every, ice, explains it this way: s # indication he intends to fight to! William Spratling, who made a hold his job, Dewey’s November de-' | fortune in building up a native | feat has produced a crop of pros-! ! silver-working industry at Taxso, pective opponents. | Mexico, over a number of years, signed a contract with the Indian Bureau last summer to promote | S B8 {native arts and crafts in Alaska. | b | Spratling hedge-hopped his own | plane from Taxco to the Mount WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—P— Five Eskimos who have never south of Alaska are gomng | to spend the winter in sunny Mex- lico learning to be goldsmiths and silversmiths. Their journey wipes out of five Mexicans to winter plans | | near i ! la OTHER CANDIDATES Besides Reece, others mentioned include Rep. Everett M. Dirksen of Illincis, who is retiring from Con- gress; Tom Coleman, former Wis-| “ Reece May @lenge Scott SANTA CLAUS nations. However, yesterday, the commit- tee said that highly important and detailed information on secret weapons had been channeled out of the Army’s Aberdeen (Md.) prov- ing ground in the late 1930s. The committee informant said the iniormation reportedly leaked out through a civilian employee of the War Department still believed to be in Government service. Commitiee sources also said a man suspected of stealing military secrets and handing them over to Playing President Truman will get'zng the Diomede Islander whom the Russians may be haled before 2% extra Christmas gift this year—!ine Russians locked up in a Si- the spy hearing later this week. e ARMY HOSTESS AT NOME GETS PLEA ANSWERED Request forfils for Eski- mo Children Replied to by David Tewkesbury SEATTLE, Dec. 15.—(#—The ap- peal of an Army hostess for gifts for Eskimo children brought a prompt response. David Tewkesbury, publisher of the Alaska Almanac, went shopping, bought $150 worth of gifts and ship- ped them off by Alaska Airlines to the city in the far north. The appeal had come from Jane Sniffen, who plans a Christmas party for 300 Eskimo children. Writ- ing to Seattle friends, she explained gifts are scarce in Nome for chil- dren and gosts of shipping them in are high. Tewkesbury sent a good variety aboard the airliner for children, ages 2 to 6—doll buggies, plastic toys, windup toys, fruit cakes and other treats. The Washington Merry - @ -Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—The latest Lat- in-American military coup, which overthrew the government of pop- ular President Romulo Gallegos in Venezuela, can be laid directly on the doorstep of the State De- partment. On Oct. 30, less than twenty-four hours after a similar army uprising had started in Peru, the State De- partment formally agreed to hold joint consultation with Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile be- fore any of them would decide whether to recognize the new Peru- vian regime. A promise to this effect was giv- en personally by Paul Daniels, chief of the State Department’s American Republics Division. The ambassadors of the four countries named above, who talked to him, immediately transmitted this word | to their respective capitals. But three days later, without any warning to these governments, ' “(Continued on Page Four) | [ i CHRISTMAS ?Spe(ial Rec;rding Is Made * for President by ""Mil- lion Dollar” Cast NEW YORK. Dec Piano- ,a special record made for him to mark the end of the Petrillo récord- .ing ban | The record features a “million dol- lers. The tune, by coincidence, is |“I'm Wild About Harry.” The con- .ductor is James C. Petriilo. | The recording was made immedi- |ately after Petrillo, president of the {AFL American Federation of Musi- ‘cians, and the phonograph record fcumpanics signed a new five-year agreement late yesterday, ending {a 11%-month halt in recording by { union members. As Petrillo waved a baton, the |tune was sung by opera stars Gladys | Swarthout, Dorothy Kirsten, Ferru- !cio Tagliavini, Lawrence Tibbett, Hayward and Leonard Warren, and {Popular singers Perry Como and «Fran Warren. | Tom Dorsey was in the act, too, \'but he didn't do much conducting —Jjust acted as a sort cf standby for Petrillo. H An RCA-Victor official said the ifirst recording, “Missouri Waltz,” and “Far Away Places” Lty Perry Como was stamped from a master (Disc at its Camden, N. J., plant at {7:50 am. (EST), today. A copy of ithat, too, was set aside for Presi- |dent Truman and the next 100 copies jwent to a Broadway music shop in INew York for sale this morning. -, —— {ON ALASKA COASTAL Fifteen persons came into Ju- neau yesterday aboard the Alaska Coastal Airlines. Eight left on 1lights. Passengers included: From Haines: John Schnabel, Lou Jacquist, Alice Sitton. From Tenakee: Bob Offenbacker, Wayne Plumley. idge, W. Williams, Helen Little, For- rest Jean Fraedy. From Colby Camp: Earl Lane. From Funter Bay: D. Ainsworth, ‘W. T. Hargrave. To Sitka: Henry Lutoc, Peter | Outstegoff, Don Williams, C. P. Ir- win. | To Tenakee: J. Stalba, Glen John- {son. ‘To Hoonah: Chaney. e Final scores of games played in -Llhe Pacific Coast Hockey League |last night are as follows: New Westminster ‘Tacoma 2. Portland 4; Vancouver 2. Fresno 3; Oakland 1. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. lar” cast of opera and popular sing- | Jan Peerce, Marilyn Cotlow, Thomas | TUESDAY FLIGHTS| Edgecumbe school and medical cen- ter, near Sitka, and made plans to | import five Mexicans later this year as teachers. 1 Plans Are Changed Restrictions on Mexicans working in Alaska, and regulations against use of federal funds in such a | fashion, forced a change in plans. The Indian Bureau arranged fori !spratling to teach the Eskimos | in Mexico, instead. * Accordingly, two Eskirios from King Island, two from Kdtzebue— berian school house last summer— are journeying to Juneau for the !air movement to Taxco this week. | All are veterans of army service the Aleutian Islands. Training Program Spratling already has flown his {little plane back to Taxco. | “When they return to Mount Edgecumbe, six months hence, we'll choose 20 young men from among i the Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts for training,” Foster said. ! “When they have become master |craftsmen in the use of silver |and gold, ivory and jade and !leather, they in turn will teach ‘others, and a second training center (will be set up at Kotzebue. New -Alaska Industry “We're going to go ahead slow-! |ly with this, but we plan for it { eventually to become an impor- |tant Alaskan industry, giving live- {lihood to many natives.” Foster said the leather to be| ;employed will come chiefly froml {reindeer and hair seals. | As for the financial outlook—well, Spratling’s Taxco silverworkers built their production of bowls, saltshakers, tea services and | Jewelry into a $1,500,000-a-year enterprise. - e RUSSIA CASTS | ITS 29TH VETO (By The Associated Press) Russia has cast her twenty-ninth veto in the United Nations Security Council—this time to keep Ceylon! out of the UN. It is the second time jthe Russians have voted against lin i {Former Manager Alaskan consin state chairman and a sup- porter of Harold E. Stassen, and Senator John Cooper of Kentucky, 'defeated for re-election. | Backers of Senator Robert A. Taft jof Ohio were credited with having |engineered Reece’s election to the iparty helm in 1946. | TAFT'S RETURN AWAITED "‘ So Taft’s return from a European Itrip is teing awaited not only for his ;views on the party chairmanship | ;and possible reorganization of the |GOP Senate leadership, but on a ‘purty policy conference suggested | ,vesterday by Scott. | +8cott told reporters he will lay| .kefore the National committee— ! probably late in January—a pro- :posal to have representative Kepuh—; ,Jlicans meet and draft a statement iuf party policy. | H FAVORS PROPOSAL i | He said his idea is that the com- | {mittee should set up the machinery for a meeting of its own members !with GOP lawmakers, former can-| !didates, representatives of Labor and Housing Under Arrest _ ipossibly state chairmen. | SPOKANE, Dec. 15—#—An Al-| Immediate reaction among Repub- aska man charged by the Federal|lican Senators who could be reach- Government with fraud and (*m-fed wac mostly favorable. bezzlement is expected to choose to- ! e, e day where he will stand trial. - who advised him of his right to choose trial in Spokane or Alaska,l i Fails was taken into custedy Mon- i # day night by U. S. Marshal Wus’n:el (HAMBERS Bezona. A grand jury m Anchorage, Aln:;-l ka, returned an indictment against Fails charging him with fraud against the U. S. Government, em- bezzlement of Government money and embezzlement of public funds. A bond of $2500 on each of three counts was set, but had not been posted late yesterday. .o CITY CLERK DOES BRISK BUSINESS IN LICENSE PLATES SWIMMER _Barbara Bates of the movies is ready for a swim in her new blue and grey striped bathing suit. FAILS WILL CHOOSE HIS TRIAL CITY | Pershing J. Fails, 50, former man- | ager of an Alaskan Housing Pro-l ject, appeared yesterday before U. S. Commissioner Michael J. Kerley | ( | ¢ iformertommunisflalksio‘ I Reporfers About Aber- ‘ deen Secret Thefts | 1 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—(#—Whit- taker Chamoers, avowed former| {Communist told reporters today that |in 1939 he warned then Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle of the “urgent necessity” of removing a civilian from the Army proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. | Chambers talked to reporters as 1Ceylon. The vote came up at today's council session. Russia’s Jakob Mal- ik and the delegate from the Soviet Ukraine first argued strenuously against reconsideration of Ceylon’s From Sitka: A. Mack, B. S. Sav- |application for membership. Then|2'tived ‘they cast the only two votes against Ithe application. The 9 to 2 vote |was the same as that cast on the issue at Lake Success last August. Before turning to the vote on Ceylon, the council put off action on Israel’s application for UN member- | ship until Friday. The motion to' postpone action in Israel was spon- sored by the French delegate. After the Russian veto on Ceylon | the Security Council adjourned, with the next* meeting scheduled for Fri- {day morning. ——————— NORTH STAR DUE FRIDAY The MS North Star, supply ship for the Alaska Native Service, is jdue to arrive here sometime Fri- ;day. The vessel is unloading car- g0 at Mt. Edgecumbe today and | will stop at Angoon and Hoonah | industrials 176.20, rails 5331, util- he had testified before the grand of Scattle are stopping at the enroute to Juneau ( City Clerk Jack Popejoy reports!the current spy-hunting Federal this as a busy day, the first on]Grand Jury, in its final day's ses- which Territorial license plates were } sions, called a new witness accused released for sale. of being a member of a pre-war First of the morning’s 35 custom- { Commun'st underground in Wash- ers was Mrs. Irene McKinley, who|ington. shortly after the office opened, and was issued license No. 801. Licenses 802 and 803 went to Robert H. Rowland and Dr. D. D. Marquardt, respectively. Popejoy reminds Juneauites that, while city driver’s licenses do not expire until June, the Territorial ones are good only through this month. e - NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 27, American Can 81%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er, 27'%, Kennecott 56%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 18%, |the House Committee in reply to U. S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%. |Miss Beniley, declared he was in-| Sales today were 920,000 shares. nocent and characterized her charg- | Averages today are as follows: es as “incredible slanders.” He said! | His statement came after the House Un-American Activities Com- mittee indicated a man suspected | of stealing and handing over to Rus- sia pre-war army secrets of “great military cignificance” from Aber-| deen, may be heard later this week. | A new jury will take over the in-/| vestigation tomorrow. ‘ | The new witness is Georg? Silver- man, one-time Air Forces employee. Miss Elizaketh Bentley, confessed Soviet agent, testitied last July be- | fore the Eouse Un-American Activi- ties Committee, that he supplied her with information on Govern- ment secrets. Eilverman, who testified before; ities 3320, jury here last year, | North Pole. 'southbound Sunday. GLIDER PICKUP RESCUE Six Occupafiof Crashed| C-47 Transport Snatch- ed to Safety FATRBANKS, Dec. 15.—(MP— Six occupants of a crash-landed C- | 47 transport were snatched to E s today to resign isafety from the frozen crust of jang s save the pieces of the Stewart River yesterday in a his Chinese Government, crumbling - ! glider pickup rescue. [swiftly before Communist Army .| The pilot of the C-54, which!successes , dropped and picked up the glider,! From the ancient Capital of Pei= | described the maneuver as ex- | ping, which Communists slowly are | tremely hazardous. The pilot, Lt.|encircling, came word that there r. | Col. Eugene ‘Strouse, explained that longer is doubt that peace talks al= the curvature oi the river, trees and ready are in progress with the Reds. | terrain afforded less than a 500- There was no indication Chiang yard straizhtaway run at 10 feet might quit the helm of China, a altitude for the snatch 'job he has held more than 25 years. He sald the real rescue wus His resignation would mean peace [tuugher than any practice pick-'negotiations with the Communists lup he has ever made. and a coalition government. The C-47 made a belly landing | TROOPS IN TRAPS jon the river in 20-below-zero| The Communists had most of j weather aiter its radio receiver Chiang's effective troops in traps. (failed and the plane drifted far Some 350,000 of them were being 'off its course. It was returning stamped out north of Nanking. That |to Ladd Field here from the Bar- capital was much like a ripe plum row area at the northern rim of Which the Communists could pluck the Territory. The pilot said a Whenever they choose. The Peiping 'dwindling gas supply forced him armies of Gen. Fu Tso-yi have lost w l T H G I F T S;ln land. |thelr last chance to escape. Search craft located the plane: CPIBDE's decision probatly will be . 11 d 1 - Jolly Old Fellah Is Aboard Denali - Presents for : 4 d military operations in North !was down 15 miles upstream from e Wl the Yukon territory mining camp Kiangsu Province, where the viteh Children in Alaska PYRICE it g Yangtze river area is affected. Mrs. CHINATS FALLING T0 REDS Peiping Slo—w—l; Encircled- Nationalists Trapped— Fight Near Nanking (By The Associated Press) advisers urged President ) g THRUSH — poris radio singer, dons bathing suit to demonstrate that her figure is pleasing as her voice. Chiang has a resounding failure in Washington. President Truman and his advisors appeared convinced Chiang can no longer rally China, ' . FU CAN'T ESCAPE The C-54 tcok off on the rescue ‘mission. The glider was cut loose and its pilot circled to a landing {within 75 yards of the transport.: ¥ m‘rTh [S;fl‘]'y“' A snatch frame was erected The Reds have Peiping in an iron “{across the river. The C-54 made Mutcracker. What change General eifour passes before contact was TU Might have had to escape a week Imade and the seven men were 280 D€ has lost now. !jerked into the air. | One strong force of Communists is moving toward the paralyzed Pei- { The glider was towed to North- ping-Tientsin railroad from the Listed simply as “S. Claus” on|way and made another landing, East. the passenger list, the jolly St. There the six rescued fliers were Auother Red force, also from the Nick will sail on the steamer De- ';yt ahoard the C-54 for the rest ot |East, has by-passed Peiping and is nall. He'll distribute Christmas ! (e flight to Ladd Field. .striking gouthward. It apparently stockings fuil of candy, fruit ard| Tpe glider was piloted by Lt Intends to swing eastward to form nuts and other treats to more|Richard A. Hopkins of Sturgis, & junction, which probably will be than 8,000 Alaskan youngsters dur- | Mich. Col. Strouse is from the effected near Langfang, on the rail- ing the voyage. 'peka, Kansas. road 30 miles southeast of Peiping. He'll make a lot of stops— Meanwhile, smaller Red forces are Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, @ Aboar< the crash-landed plane striking at different points nearer | Juneau, Skagway, Haines, Yakutal.‘WBS Lt. Charles E. Daly, Torrance, Peiping—particularly on the north Kodiak, €eldovia Seward, Valdez| Calif.,, the pilot; ‘Lt. Martin O. and northwestern outsk'rts. Several and Cordova. The ship will spend | Geodyear, New Albany, Ind., co- ‘vlllages near the famed summer pal- Christmas Day in Seward. i pilot; Lt. Edward C. Whalen, Fall jace were under attack during the How can Santa be in Seward on | River, Mass, navigator; Sgt. Wel- night. Christmas Day and still take care|don G. Johnson, Cleburne, Texas,| Sporadic gunfire again was audl- of his duties in the States? engineer; Pfc. Richard D. Leppla, ble inside the city.’ Well, uh. The North Pole isn't | Lima, Ohio, assistant engineer; and | far away. Maybe Mrs. Clans will |Lt. Comdr. Norman C. McLeod, of | plecakatl o AL bring his reindeer down to meet Clarkston, Wash, passenger.s h him. Anyway, papa’s busy. Go ask| Others in the rescue ship were your mother. i Capt. Herbert W. Ritter, New York, 1co-pilot and Capt. George A. Accas, ! New York, navigator, - - { . | OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 15.—(P— Joseph A. Whetstone, former Klnl' County Commissioner, had a full pardon today, the day he was to * WEATHER REPORT p R | N E Is - (U 8. WEATHER BUREAU) This data is for 24-hour per- 3 { (HIRSIENED- Legin serving a 10-year maximum | J [sentence for bribery. Governor Wallgren pardoned him icd ending 6:30 a.m. PST. In. Juneau— Maximum, 20; minimum, 11. At Airport— Maximum, 19; minimum, -8. \last night. Wallgren said he was acting-in response vo a petition for clemency signed by eight of the jurors who sat in the trial. 'w}:o:g?:;m?e:;, l]fé k"x‘:xfi:f g:bf Whetstone was convicted in July, Iand ekl chrlne’r’:ed 15) 5 ng 1947, on two counts of bribery and iname todayePrnse Charles pn:n;g;’g:" sanvicflan, was ”lphem by ;h“ Arthur George of Edinburgh. | Bhate; Supmme: Qauct 1 SORE He took the whole strange affair, his first taste of the ceremonious life he was Lorn to, like a little man, - e An official deseription said Prince Charles behaved beautiful- 3 e ly throughout the christening.” WASHINGTON, Dec. ‘16—l The baby—already “Prince Char- W W. Waymack resigned today lie" to most Britons—is the first|?S @ member of the Atomic En- . AWy S child of Princess Flizabeth and|€8Y Commission. SIEAMER MovEMEms Prince Philip, the Duke of Edin-{ The White House announced the {burgh. ‘reslglmuon by making public an Princess Norah, from ‘'Vancouver,| e js second in line for the throne | ©Xchange of correspondence bew scheduled to arrive Thursday "(‘,now held by his ailing grandfather, | tWeen Waymack and President ternoon or evening. King George VI. { Truman, Denall, from Seattle, scheduled | Charlie was carried to the cere-| Waymack, former editor of the to arrive Sunday. Is Christmas mony by Helen Rowe, his nurse. Des Moines Register and Tribune, ship. She handed him to Princess Mar- | told Mr. Truman in a letter dated Victoria scheduled to sail from garet, Elizabeth's sister. | November 9, that he wished to rest. Seattle December 16. { When the Archtishop of Canter- The resignation becomes effec= Alaska scheduled to sail lrom‘nury‘ conducting the ceremony, call- | tive Dec. 21. Seattle Friday, December 17, ied out: “Name this child,” Margaret | e i o5 Baranof, from west, scheduled answered “Charles Philip Arthur UNITED TROLLERS MEET |George of Edinburgh.” | At the United Trollers meeting & Tl AT Then Margaret handed her little tonight at 7:30 in the CIO Union FROM SEATTLE inephew to the Archbishop, Dr. Hall, a report will be given on the and Mrs. Ernest Jefferson Geoffrey Fisher, for christening. delesates conference, which was The ceremony was held in the big held in Juneau last month, music room of Buckingham Palace, m:mbers are urged to be present. S SEATTLE, Dev Claus is heading That's right—north. Certainly, Santa lives at But this is a special trip he makes every year for the, Alaska Steamship Company. | FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Partly cloudy with some light snow flurries tonight and Thuisday. Lowest temp- erature tonight near 15 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 houss ending 7:30 a m. today In Juneau City — Trace since Dec, 1, 44 inches; since July 1, 66.91 inches. At the Airport Trace; since Dec. 1, 43 inches; since July 1, 46.30 inches. Mr, Baranof Hotel