The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMF™ VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,069 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948 — Mi \ABLR ASSOCIA’ l'bD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DRASTIC FISHING REGULATIONS PROP Federal Jury Indicts Hiss on Perjury C Charges T'WO COUNTS SPY HUNTERS " RETURNED;HE GOING AFTER LIED, CHARGE NEW EVIDENCE h Promise More Sensations— Climax Comes fo 18-Mont Probe of Alleged Com- mie Espionage NEW YORK, Dec 16.—(®—Alger Hiss today pleaded innocent to a|promised new and up-to-the-i mm-\changed his opinion of the Congres- | pleaded with charge he| ute sensations, Federal Grand Jury’s lied when he denied giving secret government papers to ex-communist agent Whittaker Chambers The indictment was returned last night as a climax to an 18-month jury probe of alleged communist espionage. Hiss, 44-year-old former high- ranking policy adviser in the State Department, made his plea in 2 firm, clear voice. Federal Judge John W. Clancy fixed Jan. 24 as the tentative date for the trial after ordering that Hiss | be fingerprinted and photographed. ‘The judge set $5,000 bail. Hiss, now on a paid leave of ab- sence from a $20,000-a-year post as head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was charg- ed on two perjury counts. Maximum penalty of each is a $2,000 fine and five years imprisonment. The indictment said H'ss “unlaw- fully, knowingly and wilfully” swore falsely that (A) he did not slip confidential State Department docu- ments to Chambers, and (B) that he did not talk to Chambers in February and March, 1938. Chamters is a confessed pre-war courier of Red intelligence. Following his indictment, Hiss is- sued this statement through his attorney. “My testimony before the Grand Jury was entirely truthful,” he said. The indictment came at the end of the grand jury’s 18-months term A new panel was to be formed to- day, prepared to take over any un- finished work from the released jurors. e Marines Are In Shanghai SHANGHAI, Dec. 16.—®— The United States Marines are back in Shanghai for the first time since 1941, Nearly 700 leathernecks of the Ninth regiment have arrived on the navy transport Bayfield from Tsingtao. The marines are here to protect American citizens ‘a‘n an emergency. Except for shore patrol and liberty parties, they are to remain aboard the transport—unless needed in force in the city. ., The Washingion Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON Madame Chiang Kai-shek, now 56 but still beautiful, is the victim of a diffi- cult Chinese circle. In China she is unpopular be- cause she is considered too pro- American. Yet she remained pow- erful because she was able to wangle munitions from the USA. When American munitions were found in the hands of the Japa- nese and later the Communists, however, the flow stopped, and with this stoppage then MadameI Chiang’s popularity dropped—in both the United States and China. Several days ago she embarked on a frantic, hopeless mission to woo back the Chinese supply line by securing aid from the U. S. Her only asset in this lobbying battle was charm. Of this she has ample, though her effectiveness has | | satisfied the House Un-American | fof the spy case. Red Herring’ Incident Is |President St_at:as Position Again at Conference on Spy Probing WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Presi- dent Truman said today he has not Indicate Espionage s Still Going On WASHINGTON, Congressional s Dec. 16.—(®— hunters today | now that the cele- brated Hiss-Chambers case shifts from Capitol Hill to a Federal| Court room. sional inquiry into Communist spy | activities. Mr. Truman repeatedly has called | the inquiry a “red herring” design- | Yesterday's Federal Grand Jury |ed to divert attention from what he indictment of Alger Hiss, former | has called the short comings of high State Department official, on |the Republican controlled 80th Con- two counts of lying under oath, |8Tess. The President was asked at his it h“‘news conference whether his opin- |lon has chahged as a result of the Unmctmem of Alger Hi former Activities Committee that nailed down evidence of a pre-war Soviet espionage ring. Now the committee intends to|State Department official, on two prove, members insist, that Red |counts of perjury. spying is still going on in thm That brought a big laugh, in which | government. ‘lhe President joined. They claim that a man still | When the laughter subsided, Mr, working for the Army as a C,v,\T:uman said he had made his posi- ilian stole secrets of the iamnus‘“’" perfectly clear on the matter and that he would have nothing :;;01:: o i Pasend m(m}moxe to say. Then he added that| his position has not changed and | Top Secret Information ‘l at he regards the matter as a But even as the committee | closed mcumt switched its main efforts aw’q\ - irom the Hiss-Chambers case, 1t turned loose 26 more documents it said were among those Chambers | claimed he got from Hiss. These covered such then top- | secret information as a possible | trade treaty with Germany, Japa- nese troop movements, efiorts of some top Nazis to persuade Hitler | not to move prematurely against Czechoslovakia and Japanese ef- forts to raise money in the United States. Only two of the documents were reproduced from the microfilm | Chambers fished out of a pumpkin on his Maryland farm two weeks Chinese Ct;fii;iunisls Are Swarming Info Sections ago. | . ; | —Chiang Is Alarmed Papers In Libel Suits | The rest were among papers - = Chambers turned over to altomeys‘ By, The As0ualed Fise) Chinese Communists swarmed through the suburbs of Peiping, the anclent capital and great city of the north. The old walls of the city were encircled and rifle fire could be heard within. The news that the .Government preparing for the trial of Hiss' $75,000 libel suit against him. The paper dealing with a possible German trade treaty—a memoran- dum which referred several times to the approaching 1938 and 1940 elections—was cited by Rep. Mundt ‘R-SD). acting committee chair-|commander in North China, Gen. man, as an example of hoW|py Tso-yi, has allowed the Com- American foreign policy is some- | munists. to reach Peiping’s walls, stunned the Chiang Kai-shek regime in shaky Nanking. Nearly everyone believed Fu had isome sort of understanding with the Communists. Fighting around Peiping still was small scale and Red forces engaged were small. The Communist squeeze on Nan- king became tighter when the Reds cut the railroad to Pengpu in 20 places about 70 miles from Nanking. The encirclement of 350,000 gov- ernment troops appeared to Le tighter and tougher. — e - Rainbow Girls Ball Saturday Evening; Initiation for Four Initiation of four candidates M- to the Rainbow Girls will precede the annual Rainbow Christmas Ball Saturday evening at the Scottish Rite Temple. Initiation will be held at 7:30 o'clock with the ball beginning in times influenced by domestic poli- tics. Mcre Probing Right now, Mundt told newsmen, the committee has two objectives: 1. To determine “the full part of that the Communist party in America plays as an adjunct of foreign espionage agents.” 2. What new laws are needed to | make continuing espionage “and the employment of disloyal people impossible.” Mundt took back some of sthe nasty things he had said about the Justice Department’s handling “I congratulate the Attorney General's office and the Grand Jury on their diligent devotion to duty,” he said. Dig At Truman But he took a fresh dig at Pres- ident Truman, who long has been critical of the committee. Mundt wound up a statement on the in- dictment last night with these words: “In conclusion may I express the hope that nobody will ever again refer to this case as a red herring.” Candidates who are to be taken into the fraternal organization are Marion Jackson, Elizabeth Peter- son, Beth Fleek and Eloise De- land. All friends of Rainbow are in- vited to attend the affair. Re- freshments will be served follow- ing the dance. ——————— WHERE IS NEWTON? NEW EVIDENCE UNEARTHED WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—#— Diagrams of some Navy airplane | devices, it was disclosed today, were among the documents Whit- taker Chambers says he got from | government sources when he was a Communist courier in the 1930s. This came to light when the| chse Un-American Activities | Committee made public two sets of | the secret papers secured from | II George Newton will call at Chambers in its investigation of |the Empire office, he will receive | |8 letter addressed to him in care “(Continued on Page Four) T (Continued on Page Five) "of this newspaper. Now (Closed UNDER FIRE the main ball room at 9:30 o'clock. | HIGH COURT INSTRUCTED ‘Asked Not o "Tamper”’ with Int. Tribunal Verdict on Tojo, Six Others WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—P— The United States government the Supreme Court }mh_\ not. to “tamper” international tribunal which doom- |ed former Premier Tojo and six other Japanese war lords to death. | A brief filed in advance of | today’s historic war crimes argu- ‘ment. cited ¢he government's “deep | concern lest irreparable “amage be would be a blow to peaceful and | judicial settlement of 1‘11 disputes and “the continued growth of world law,” but: “Other cooperative endeavors . . . |such as United Nations activities, also will suffer.” The high court set aside three hours for today's arguments—an !hour more than customary. After listening to the debate, the Justices likely wiil take up the cases in their regular closed conference on Saturday. Their decision may. be announc- ed Monday or, if not then, on the court’s next . opinion-reading day, January 3. the top Japanese leaders convicted - eee NOME GIRL TELLS OF EXPERIENCES IN ROLE IN MOVIELAND SEATTLE, Dec IG. na, which is one w: the Eskimo word for is the —Quian- uf spelling “Thank you,” name Hollywood hung on| Mrs. Wilma Bernhard Munz, Teller and Nome. “I can't remember my own Eski- mo name,” the beautiful half- Eskimo girl admitted here. “When I can remember it, I can’t pro-/ nounce it.” Quianna is the daughter of a gold rush sourdough who joined the great stampede in '98 and has not been Outside since. He married an Eskimo woman, and when she died, married another. There were 13 children, 10 of them still alive.| The father now lives in Anchor- age. Hollywood beckoned a few weeks ago at Nome when Universal-Inter- national needed a good looking Es- kimo girl for movie purposes. Wien- Alaska Airlines was asked to choose a pretty girl and chose well —choosing Mrs. Munz. Yesterday, en route back Nome, the Eskimo girl told of her adventures: “No lines,” she giggled. “They just wanted me to be in the pic- ture and rub noses with the lead- ing man No kissing. Just nose rubbing.” The studio, said Mrs. Munz, was wonderful to her. were paid, plus a fat nine-day pay- check. The studio bought her beautiful clothes, introduced her to all the stars, took her to dinner at Ciro’s. The studio also had Mrs. Munz | spend hours posing for publicity pictures, some in furs and some in shorts. It was all Munz. and Deanna Durbin and a flock of other stars gave her autographed pictures and the studio told her to keep in touch with Hollywood because she might be needed again. “I would like to stay here all my life,” Mrs. Munz said. 1 Instead, sne will return to Nome | Saturday. g delightful to Mrs, BY U.S. GOVT. with the | | done” if the American court “ar- |rogates” to itself power to review | the Tokyo tribunal's actions. Solicitor General Philip B. Perl- | | man said any such move not only | internation- | The decision will affect all 25 of | by the Tokyo tribunal, even though only seven of the 25| appealed. Tojo is not one of the seven. of | to} All her expenses | Charles Boyer angd Sabul SHIP STRIKE THREATENED May Adopt_THard Way” Unless Demands for Wage Boosts Granted SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.—M |The AFL Sailors’ Union of the Pa- lcific, demanding wage increases, has raised the possitility of a new West Coast strike if its demands are The union filed a routine 60-day |strike notice with the Labor De- |partment, Monday. Harry Lunde- |berg, SUP executive secretar: i the notice was presented “as feguard—just in case we have to take the hard way.” The sailors have asked monthly increases ranging from $20 to $60 to a top rate of $350 for boat- swains, and the Pacific American Ehipowners’ Association has offered $16 to $20. No meetings have been {held since Monday, although nego- tiations are subject to resumption {on call of Federal Conciliator Omar | Hoskins. The SUP was not & party to the |95-day strike of five unions ending | December 6. But with its conclu- |sion, Lundeberg announced that [“the faucet is open” and his union intended to get wage boosts. ->> RUSS TOWER BLOWN UP BY FRENCH |Soviet's Berlln Radio Sta- tion Knocked Out-Ti- rades May Cease (By The Associated Press) The French blew up today the lwwexs of Russia’s Berlin radio, | which has been broadcasting long tirades against the Western Allies. The towers were in the French | sector. The French said they no- ;tmed the station managers Nov. 120 the towers would have to come | down because they endangered air- | 11ift planes : The Russians have another tower {outlet 20 miles east of the city, |but it is-vastly inferior to that the French d: the Russians’ troyed. Radio Ber- lin, most eifective | propaganda outlet, remained off (the air since the Reds apparently | were unable immediately to set up lalternate towers. The Russians said the moment. nothing for ;Seldowa Woman Passes On, Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 16. — Mrs. Barkara Wick, 56, who came here five months ago from Seldovia, | Alaska, died yesterday at her home. | Rosary will be sung tomorrow night and Requiem Mass at noon Saturday, both at the St. Nicholas Russien Orthodox Church. She was a native of Kodiak, Alaska. Her husband, Ane, a brother, JRufus, and two nephews and a niece, all {of Seldovia, sunl\«e STOCK OUGMTIONS NEW YORK Dec 16.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine” stock today is 3, American Can 81%, Anaconda 327%, Curtis: Wright 7'z, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennecott 56's, New York | Central 13'« U. 8. Steel 70%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 175.83, rails 53.06, util- ities 33.18. { | BY SAILORS , Northern Pacific 187%, | Defense Sysiem Needs OQerHauIing De- clares Hoover Com. ‘Task Force’ in Report WAS:! HINGTON Dec. 16. —P— This country’s national defense sys- tem is “enormously” costly ‘and its machinery needs overhauling, a Hoover Commissicn “task force” re- ported today A 211-page critique said the uni- {led m’litary establishment set up by law last year “is, on the whole, cundly constructed, but is not yet working well.” A 14-member advisory committee to the commission on organization ot the executive branch of the Govern- ment, headed by former President Herber Hoover, cautioned that Rus- ian strategy may be to keep Amer- ican defense costs mounting in an effort to gain “victory by bank- ruptey.” RECOMMENDATIONS outlays within bounds and improve the operations of the security set- up: 1. Give the Secretary of Defense more direct control over the three armed forces because his present ‘d’fficulties lle in vague authority.” 2. Take steps to assure a “fuller measure of teamwork” among the offices and services which compose the national military establishment and the top-level national security organization. Overhaul the military budget em because the “military serv- ces are far too prodigal with Gov- ernment funds.” 4. Relate scientific research mbre closely to strategic planning. (Forrestal y esterday announced the creation of a joint chiefs-re- search toard group cn weapons cval- uation.) MOBILIZATION 5. Speed up plans for civilian mokbilizat'on in case of war, includ- ing economic industrial and man- power mobilization. In another sec- tion, the committee said the condi- tion of the nation’s stockpile of strategic materials needed for a war is “deplorable.” 6. Make adequate provision for use of and protection against “un- conventional means of warfare.” This includes “not only the atom bomb, but otber radiological and biological and chemical weapons that have ap- the horizon of warfare.” GLIDER RESCUE IS THREATENED BY SEVERE WEATHER WESTOVER AIRFORCE BASE, Mass., Dec. 16 {#— Fierce Arctic weather today threatened to delay a daring glider attempt to rescue nine U. 8. fliers isolated on a bleak, snow-clad Greenland plateau. Goose Bay, Labrador, reported a blinding snowstorm klanketing much of the north country as rescue egquip- ment was assembled at Narsarssauk, 100 miles from the stranded air- men. Officers said weather reports were “sketchy” and it could not be de- termined immediately if the storm would delay the rescue mission, > CHURCHILL APPEALS An appeal from the judgment of the Municipal was filed in terday, in th of Juneau vs. On December 4 William L. Paul, Jr., ill $50 and costs, taxed at $12, for District Court yes- case Robert Churchill Acting Judge Costly The committee recommended this | six-point program to hold dollar, peared, definitely and terribly, upon Magistrate’s Court | of the City| fined Church- | FORUM ON ALASKA 1S | | | Ten-Day Session for Dis- cussion of Problems of Terntory Bemg Held By VERN HAUGHLAND WASHINGTON, Dec. 16— The Interior Department is con-| ducting a 10-day forum on Alaska, | first of its kind All Interior Department officials and bureaus interested in the T¢ tory are represented at the meet- | ings, which started Dec. 8 and are to continue through next Friday. The purpose, said Department spokesman Carlton Skinner, is to | solve various administrative prob- lems and to provide for more close- ly coordinated action in the future, Assistant with Alaskan affairs, is presiding. The day-long conferences are con- sidered so important, however, that Secretary Krugz and Undersecretary Oscar Chapman have heen sitting in on many of them. Statehood Bill Skinner said Alaska Delegate E. L, Bartlett told the gathering he is zeing to reintroduce bill at the next session of Con- gress He added that Bartlett is op~ timistic about approval Alaska Governor Ernest Gruen- ing had also told the meet~ ing, Skinner said, that he saw no opposition within the Territory to statehcod. However, some Alas- kans have opposed statehood on the grounds the Territory lacks population and financial stability needed to support a state govern- ment. Gruening’s Nomination President Truman nominated Gruening for a second four-year term this year, but the Senate failed to coniirm him. The Presi- dent is expected to repeat the nomination to the new Congress. Other Alaskan officials in Wash- ngton for the meeting include Kenneth J. )adow, director of Interior’s Alaska Field Staff, and Col. John P. Johnson, general man- ager of the Alaska Railroad. Skinner said subjects under dis- cussion at the closed sessions in- clude: What should be done about Indian land claims, about proposed Indian and Eskimo reservations, and about Native rights in general, Industrial development, including the establishment of pulp mills. Railarod rehabilitation and road building Possible export of Al- askan coal. Possible establishment of a synthetic fuels plant in Al- aska coal areas. VESSEL OWNERS 10 ELECT DIRECTORS ATFRIDAY MEETING Edward J. Krause, secretary for ors will be held and a delegate will be chosen to attend the Interna- tional Fisheries Commission meet- ing In Seattle on January 12 At the present time, there are 36 members in the Juneau Vessel Owners’ (,l’,lululdlhm >ee - STEAMER MOVEMEHI Princess Nuruh. scheduled to from Vancouver, arrive at 7:30 o'clock speeding. | tonight bound for Skagway. A jury of six men had found| Denali, from Seattle, scheduled | Churchill guilty on this count, not|to arrive Sunday. Is Christmas | guilty of crossing an intersection | ship. | without adequate visibility. Viet scheduled to sail from | 5 SISO e | Seattle today | Communist dominated Italian la-| Alaska scheduled to sail from I bor unions decided to call a strike|Seattle tomorrow. |of pgovernment workers for more' Baranof, from west, scheduled | pay. southbound Sunday, INDERWAY lx‘x\-hing gear q Secretary William E. | Warne, who is particularly charged | .| the method by which his statehood | the Juneau Vessel Owners, Inc. announced today that there will| be an important meeting of the| organization held on Friday eve- | ning at 8 o'clock in the Fisher- | men's Hall. | Members of the Board of Direct- | FWS WOULD REGULAVE ALL FiSHING GEAR F:shermen s Reactions | Sought on Limitations, | License, Lottery Limitation and licensing of other ating in Alaska is being proposed as a basis for legis= lation, in connection with' that to follow out the ‘Territorial referendum for abolition of fishtraps. The prcposal originates with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and i§ outlined in a telegram received to- day by Clarence J. Rhode, regional director, from Albert M. Day, di- rector. The same message was sent to {representatives of the Alaska Salmon industry and to fishermen’s groups. ‘The proposed salmon control legislation,” commented Director Rhode today, “spells out a wide de= parture from anything ever advo- cated for management of the sal= mon resources in Alaska.” Regarding fishtraps, Rhode said, | “No details were received regarding the traps would be eliminated, but it is con= sidered likely by officials that the abolition of traps might be accoms= plisited in less time than specified in the referendum.” (Note: This provided for gradual a%olishment over a 10-year period.) Fishermen's views, and those of Alaska packers and business men are urgently desired by the FWS, ac- cording to Loth Drector Day and Regional Director Rhode. These five principles would fofm the basis for the new Congressional act which would be necessary: 1. Every person or cempany en= gaged in fishing would be required . to obtain a license or perm't prior to engaging in such operations. 2. The owner of every Loat em- ployed or engaged in fishery would be required to obtain a license or ' permit covering its use in salmon fishing. 3. Licenses or permits would be - granted to all persons and companies actually engaged in fishing in Al- aska during the years 1946, 1947 and 1948, 4. In sutsequent years, issuance of additional licenses cr permits would be to applicants by lottery, as authorized for each area. 5. License or permit would be subject to revocation or suspension for violations of the fishing regula= tions. Il these dmsuc changes proposed for management of Alaska salmon runs, are urged to make their views known by a‘rmail or wire to the FWS Re- gional Director, Juneau, Alaska, or® to the Director, Pish and W.dlife Service, Washington, D. C. (Any communications on this pro= posal sent to The Empire will be | promptly turned over to the FWS), R WEATHER REPORT (U 8 WEATHER BUREAU) This data is for 24-hour per- jod ending 6:30 a.m. PST, In Juneau— minimpm, 19, At Alrport. minimum, 15. Maximum, 25; Maximum, 24; FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Cloudy with snow tonight and PFriday. Slowly rising temperatures with lowest to= night near 25 and highest tomorrow near 33. South- easterly wind 15-25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION \ (Past 24 hous endlug 7:30 am. today In Juneau — .14 inches; since Dec. 1, .58 inches; since July 1, 67.05 inches. At Airport .16 inches; since Dec. .59 inches; since July 1) 4646 inches. 1, 90000000000 00000000000000000r000