The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1948, Page 1

L SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,071 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY DhCFMBkR 18 19 48 MEMBFR ASSOC]ATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Im STIFF TESTS ON LOYALTY NOW SOUGHT Applies tomon Leaders on Strategic Govern- ment Contracls WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—(®— Stiff loyalty tests will be recom- mended to Congress for union leaders in plants working on strate- gic government contracts. Rep. Kersten (R-Wis) said the suggestion will come from his Labor subcommittee. Emphasizing the importance to national security of having trust- worthy men heading such unions, Kersten noted that the Armed Forces have dozens of contracts with private companies, many in- volving highly secret equipment | or processes. “People of doubtful loyalty should not have access to information about these things,” Kersten said. “Just think of the damage they could do.” He said the Atomic, Energy Com- mission already has set the pat- tern for strict government surveil-| lance of labor union leadership in| a case involving the General Elec-' tric Co. and the CIO Electrical Workers. ROBBERS AS SANTAMAKE §2,200HAUL ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 18.— P—Three men wearing Santa Claus masks visited Eli Hackeney, opera- tor of the Hackeney Boat Yard, last night, but they left no gifts for him. s Instead, he told State Police, they drew guns, forced him to hand over $2,200 from a small safe and escaped in automobile after ripping out telephone wires. | THOUGHTFUL ROBBERS MEDICINE HAT, Alta, Dec. 18— (P—Safecrackers robbed a lumber: company safe here yesterday of $300. They used a welding outfit stolen from another company to do the job. Then they returned the weld- ing tools, remembering also to nail up the door they had broken open to get them. BARBER RITES Funeral services for Chet Barber, longtime resident of Auk Bay, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Chapel of the Charl-| es W. Carter Mortuary. Adjt. Henry Lorenzen will conduct the | services and interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. For the past 15 years, Barber had | lived in a cabin on the Ralph! Reischl property on Fritz Cove.i The Washington Merry - g_q -Round Bv DREW PEARSON 1048, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | 1Copyright. ASHINGTON — It isn’t being advertised, but one high official who frowned on the prosecution of Jap war lords was the top man in the Army Department—Secre- tay of the Army Kenneth Royall. When Joesph B. Keenan, patrio- tic attorney who spent two years: of his life as war-crimes prosecu- tor in Tokyo, reported to Royall| the other day, the Secretary of ! the Army stated flatly that he was dead opposed to war-crimes prose- cution. “Suppose something should hap- pen in Berlin to cause a war,” ar-j gued Royall. “The Russians might | shoot General Clay as a war crim- iings, jon a cr ‘gie Thomas, |last ‘Espionage activities § { i IN SUN _ The glare causes Actress Esther Williams to squiut as she sits in the sun at her HoHywood home. MRS. CHAMBERS OUT ON BAIL FOLLOWING PEDESTRIAN'S DEATH. BALTIMORE, Dec. 18.—#"—Murs Whittaker Chambers, wife of the key witness in the current spy hear- | was free in $1,000 bail tod: arge of causing the death: of a pedestrian. She was booked when Mrs. Mag- 70, died in a hospital three hours after being | an automobile in North night struck by Baltimore. Chambers, confessed ex Comm\u\- court with his wife. He had just arrived here from New testifying before a Federal Gr July prohing charges of Communist in this coun- try. Mrs. her way station when the accident occurred. After bond was arranged the couple left for their Westminster, Md., rm. WOMEN OF MOOSE. PLAN HOLIDAY EVENTS| The Women of the Moose held their social “meeting with initiation of four candidates at their regular meeting hursday evening. Initiat- ed were Eva Ihle, Rose Wolf, Mar- garet Voiles and Ann Herbstrith. Chambers said she was on The Chapter voted to give money | The Lodge| to five needy persons. ‘will also give aid to a family of 12. Any children’s clothes, ranging from one to 15, and adult’s wearing ap parel is being collected. Two big events are coming up on the Moose social caiendar for the Christmas season. Tonight there will be a dance given by the Moose Le- gion. All members and wives arej tinvited to the party. On the evening of December. 23, the children of iGastineau Channel will be enter- tained at the annual Christmas par- ity. Women of the Moose will pro-} vide cookies and sandwiches. e e————— HORTH STAR DOCKS; SPECIAL SUPPLY TRIP 10 EIGHT 5. E. CITIES A cargo of food supplies and hay was discharged frem the North Star, Alaska Native Service supply ship, this morning The vessel docked here at 6 o'clock on a special supply trip to eight Southeast Alaska towns. Pre- | vious to stopping here the North Star has put in at Hydaburg, Kle- wok, Kake, Sitka and Hoonah, and will return to Seattle via Wrangell and Metlakatla. The ANS boat will be tied up for the winter in Seattle and will be back in Alaskan waters next spring for its first trip of the new year to the Westward, according to Cap- tain Charles Salenjus. - —— LIQUOR LICENSES Having been instructed to issue all regular licenses, J. W. (Bilh) | Leivers, Clerk ot the District Court, and to meet him at a railroad | portant Witne Food Prices May Dropin Coming Year {Optimistic Outlook Report- ed-Everybody Hopes ItIs True, and How CHICAGO, Dec. 18— Lower food prices in 1949 is the optimistic on top of the nation’s food busi~ ness. Retailers and their suppliers, and try expressed their opinions ‘\\lmt the consumer can expect in' |the way of prices and supplies next lyear. be slightly lower next year. They also look for increased food lxppln\ and greater sales. ‘(ho consumer can expect to high quality food and service in the country stores, | tind retail Views on the food outlook for next | {year were expressed by officials in all lines of food including meat, airy, poultry, fruit and groceries, as well as by the Secretaries of Ag-, {riculture and Commerce {in articles appearing in the annual | food industry review issue of National C s Bulletin, official publication of lh( National Associa- ; tion of retal] 1 gloLLl\ i TRAININ ' ¥ 4 | A g% # | York after ONEHURT OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 18.—M—The Southern Pacitic’'s streamlined train | (“City of San Francisco plunged |off the rails at 70 miles per hour Ifive miles west of Lakeside, I1ast night. ! Although 250 passengers were ‘aboard, no one was seriously hurt fas 13 of the luxury train’s 15 cars J ,Llou"hcri to a bumpy stop across a’ ihalf mile of the desertland roadbed. ‘The cars remained upright as they ILolted to a stop. Railroad spokes- 1men credited an automatic safety device with applying the brakes evenly to the derailed section. The train did not buckle and the cars remained in a straight line after the derailment. 8o 0 v e oo 000 | WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ® This data is for 24-hour per- e iod ending 6:30 am. PST. ie In Juneau— Maximum, 37; l' minimum, 33. (® At Airport— ‘ ® minimum, 33. Maximum, 35; . FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with occasional light rain or snow this afternoon and Sunday. Highest tem- perature near 38 degrees this afternoon “and lowest tonight near freezing. @00 g00 00000000 .PBECIPITA’I’ION ® (Past 24 houss ending 7:30 a.m. today @ le In Juneau 221 inches; since Dec. 1, 3.04 inches since July 1, 69.61 inchess ® At Airport — .77 inches; ® since Dec. 1, 138 inches; 'o since July 1, 47.25 inches. . o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o UNITED FISHERMEN OF COOK INLET WILL . . . . . . . . | HAVE NLRB HEARING SEATTLE, Dec. 18—(®— The National Labor Relations Board in Seattle will hold a hearing January 110 at 10 am. on a petition by the {United Fishermen of Cook Inlet (AFL) for a collective bargaining jelection among resident fishermen outlook today by the men who keep | tother authorities in the food indus- | on | cyers They anticipate that prices will| And | s improved They were | the ; I Utah, | inal—if we set this precedent.” plans to issue permits to Juneaulte>|and allied workers in Cook Inlet ss Subpoe \COUNCIL VOTES MAROONED o0 KTioN MEN STILL | when the le cancellation of the | Alaska Transportation Company be- eifective. The municipal has been under lease since The City | comes ock 1933, Such was the unanimous decis- last evening of the Juneau Council, whose members vot- to obtain James F. Church, mer agent of the company, wharfinger. Church was asked to prepare report on maintenance and opera- tion costs, with recommendations for the use of the buildings. Last night's session, the last reg- meeting of 1948, dealt with variety. of subjects Space gements were cussed for the new Juneau port Administration Building a matter of vital importance, as the City has less than 60 days to meet the payments. The application of a C Airlines for office space was meul for the only small area remaining—inadequate, but of necessity satisfactory to all parties. Two Afiem;is—fo Snatch Fliers by Glider Fails | in Greenland i City - led WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—®—| |After two attempts to snatch a glider with nine marooned airmen |off the Greenland ice cap, the Air |Force thought up new methods to- day Headquarters was told that res- planned to drop skis to be fitted to the glider, or to advise the ¢ |nine men to remove its wheels so the craft would slide on the snow. An earlier message sald dropping of plywood to form makeshift ' {runway was considered ropes broke twice, rescuers because the glider's wheels roken through the snow crust. tried by a C-54 Anyway, “absolutely no fear is| ifelt for the safety of the men,” headquarters said. “They are well Two members of a special com- supplied -with food, clothing and|mMittee from the United Trollers heating equipment.” lof Alaska were present to have The forecast was for bad weather several points clarified relating to indicating delay in a third ‘the proposed wiring of the Small| attempt X {Boat Harbor Ralph Mortensen, skipper of the Seven of the men were stranded | on the ice cap December 9 when |Totem, and Roger Bailey, wh w koat is the Janice, expres: their C-47 made a forced landing. The other two fliers were sent out | themselves as pleased with the ar- Ito get the marooned men in a B-17, "ningvll\(’nls especially after assur- jand were marooned themselves ance that deposits would be re- when their plane plowed snowtank. (A tenth man presum- ¢ circumstance which lably rode in at the controls of the be unusual in some parts of South- glider, but there was no officia cast Alaska. word on that.) he Council recommended to the The Air Force said the mrn—AmmIBmL Harbor committee enforce- a doctor—appeared to be in good ment of the ordinance health. Radio messages indicated registration of boat-owners they had built themselves a house the harbor master of ice blocks, heated by equipment! J. Malcolm Greany, president of dropped by parachute. Food 2lso|the Seatter Water System, with was being sent in by parachute. :Joe McLean, attorney, presented e preblems of Seatter Tract resi- idents in obtaining water, McLean u HAWA“ 'I'AKES |pointing ‘out that, by its fran- v]u-e the Juneau Water Company .\ obligated to provide this utility *m cu-xv dwelling within the city FESEIEN dnd sanitation bring in a report at HONOLULU, Dec. 18.—#—Nevada | the next meeting. thbers ot { University’s Wolfpack ran wild last! ! this committee are J. A. Thibodeau, [ night, tearing up the University of | Edward Niclsen snd George Jor- | |Hawali Rainbows, 73 to 12—the Is-; 8enson. Mnders' worst football shellacking.| The one application for a And it wasn't a one-man sho by Nevada’s great passer, Stan |Heath, as everyone had expected. Heath, the nation's number one passer, performed brilliantly, but| he tossed only two paydirt passes. 'Fmelgn Wars for the Jeep Club. The whole Nevada squad figured| The Council also approved in the big score, which began to | transfer of the California Liquor pile up in the first two minutes | Store license from John Marino- with a 66-yard march to the Ha-|vich to A. T.and Eva Nygard. waiian goal. i The Council voted an indefinite e | postponement of the Alaska Elec- itric Light and Power rate hearing 4 t the request of the company Ior Crop Production ‘=" I Sels New Record| !more time (o prepare statistics bas- ed on a full year, A WASHINGTON, Dec. 16— P— A final stirvey showed today that this as a 'u‘.ux dis- Air- a Tow i The lift | seems to b 1 The Council voted to have the committee on fire, water, health y 1949 cil had not taken action the pre- { vious week was considered, mem- bers giving their approval to the application by the Veterans eight months. Council members approved a list of judges and clerks for the spec- ial bond election to be held on Tuesday, January 11. iyear’s production of crops set af judges will be Mrs. Beatrice new record Albegoff, Mrs. Robert Burns and Reporting this, the Agriculture|Mys Gudmund Jensen; clerks, Depan,mun said the aggregate vol- Grant Baldwin and Mrs. Eva Ny- ume of all crops 1s 37 per cent high- {er than the 1923-32 base, and 11 ’I‘he next regular meeting of the! points above the previous record set City Council will be Friday, Jan- in 1946. uary 7. Featuring the record harvest was Edward S. Nielsen, senior Coun- bushels of excellent quality. This huge corn yield opens the way to a sharp increase in produc- tion of meats, dairy products and poultry products. Other crops in the record pro- duction class include flaxseed, soy- |beans, peanuts, rice, pecans and crankerri STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive Sunday midnight or Mon- day noon, it all depending onl ‘Wrangell Narrows tide. Alaska, from Seattle, to arrive late Monday. Baranof, from west, scheduled southbound 7 a.m. Monday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail | Mayor Waino Hendrickson. D |OPEN HOUSE AT JEEP ! (LUB SUNDAY P. M. First large event for the weck ithat has Christmas as iis climax will be the holiday open house to- morrow at the Jeep Club, for V. F.| W. members and their guests. The festive party, for which a three-piece orchesira will play, is scheduled from 4:30 to 7:30 o'clock The half-hour from 5:30 to 6 o'clock will ke broadeast. — HOCKEY GAMES scheduled | | OF CITY DOCK of Juneau will operate | into a,funded if metered bills were paid, requiring . with of | the | ’(HINA WAR TAKINGON NEW TURN Peiping May Be Spared "Agony of Baltle'-Situa- tion at Nanking Worse (By The Associated Press) The Chinese Nationalist com- mander in North China pledged a fight to the death for Peiping. A strong belief persists, however, |that the historic eity will be spared the agony of battle. Firing around the city died down during the night. Government. military sources said encircling Chinese Communists had withdrawn from points close to Peiping. These informants estimat- ed Communist casualties in Fri- day’s fighting at more than 5,000. The figure probably was an aggeration. . Nanking's military worse. Nationalist defense head- quarters was being pulled pack !from Pengpu, 105 miles northwest of Nanking, to Chuhsien, only 30 miles normvu-cx of the capital 'IRON CURTAIN OF - SOVIET SIBERIA IS PENETRATED - Noted Colliér's- Staff Writ-! er Reveals Russian De- velopments in Article position grew | In a feature article by Franki +L. Kluckhohn, noted American au- !thor, former New York Times writer and presently a member of Collier’s staff, Alaskans are told of starling development which may well have a bearing on the lives of every man, woman and child in the Territory This account, published by Col- ler's in their edition of December 18, and titled “The Russian Knock (on Alaska’s Door,” is one which may influence national policy with regard to the deiense strucgure of Alaska. Coldest front in the cold war is Alaska. Bering Strait separates two seas, two hemispheres, two dif- w | liquor license on which the Coun-lferent days—and the two worlds Oaerais; lof Soviet Siberia and American Alaska. In Siberia the Russians are pouring five times more money and men than ever before in history dustrial heart. In Alaska our !ing akandoned! ,Red paratroopers any of our bases. The danger of this situation is sharply outlined by the author, who is one of the few men to defenses are be- | A few thousand could capture viet activity behind its Siberian Iron Curtain. H. R. VanderLeest, owner of the | Butler-Mauro Drug Co., distribu- tors in Juneau for the Crowell- Collier Publishing Company, said today that he regarded this ar- ticle as one of the outstanding contributions of the year in ac-, Lumttly reporting the Alaska scene so frequently glamorized and dis- ‘lrrled by the »m who makes a 30-day excursion mi a few port towns and then a bumper corn crop of 3.651,000.000fcjiman presided in the absence of jyriites a book on Alaska. Kluck- {in California they stopped at Ps hohn, he added, has a fundamental | knowledge of the subject and what |he has written should not only be lread but heeded, Mr. VanderLeest concluded - 1 YAKUTAT WEDDING Word s received from Yakutat/ of the marriage and George Johnson, town marshal couple were united on November 21, ler James E. Porter to the ceremony were Mr. and formerly of Juneau. - | SHREVEPORT, La. + A B-25 {bomber fell into a pasture 75 miles tat, ex- | ound-tripper tour- | Both are residents of Yakutat. The | by United States Commission- | Witnesses | and | Mrs. Joe B. Colller, also of Yaku-| I ; | i i ey W H IR LE R_Ballet Dancer Gloria Gilbert spins on slippers with precision ball bearings set in toe sockets. ALLEN SHATTUCKS [END LOKG VACATION, STATES AND MEXICO | Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shattuck re- turned on the Princess Norah fol- lowing a three and a half months vacation in which they visited most of the Southern States and Mex.co. In all, the Shattucks drove 14,750 miles and report that they didn't' have one dull day in thefr entire’ itravels | Their daughter sides in San Rafael, California, ac companied her parents on the tri and was official driver, They started out from Seattle | August direction, stopping to visit in Salt Lake City, Zion National Park, and all other points of interest along the way. Enroute to Savannah, they drove through the and the Great Smokies and | the Swanee River| Virginia, who re- on Ozar lcamped beside 'one nizht. From Georgia Florida driving to Key they continued West. On| to build air bases aimed at our in- their return trip west they followed ! 411\(- southern coast route and stopped at New Orleans, { The Ehattucks spent nearly a month in Mexico. Among the cities they visited w Monterrey, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Taxco. They visited the famed seaside resort at Acapulco and report that the heat rather than!jear; the alarming extent of So- was terrific and that as Alaskans ithey had a hard time appreciating the resort. They visited Paracutin, an active volcano which erupted violently five years ago and covered an area of ‘two miles with lava. As the Shat- {tucks were inspecting the site, volcano began to erupt and masses of lava and melten rock poured out ot the crater, down the sides of the mountain Leaving Mexico, they drove ‘through Laredc, Texas and visit- |ed Carlsbad Caverns in that state alm San they | and Barbara, and anta Barbara Emma Cobd {Eprings, Santa | Francisco. In S visited with Mrs her son Lang, |dents - | LOS ANGELES— The ocean !still is battering at Redondo {Beach today—the spot where sever- | of Annie Ducke!al houses were smashed yesterday |nolidays with Mr and twenty people driven from | their homes during storm. The | {high wayes also left about 200 per- without heat, water or light - a | sons ing teams of soldiers, sanitation imen and Red Cross workers are {laboring at top speed to help the thousands cof persons made home- less by floods. The raging waters 27 and drove in a southerly! to| the! former Juneau resi- i RIO DE, JANEIRO Hurd-wmk-) enaed in l in Spy Case 70 APPEAR ATHEARING ONMONDAY Protection of—FBI Obtained ~Testimony Said fo Be of Vital Nature WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—(P—A member of the House Un-American Activities Committee said today it has located a new witness who will glve “vital testimony” in the spy | hearings on Monday. | The member, who didn't want his [name used, said the witness is a jformer Communist who agreed to ‘mk if given FBI protection. This “Wll.‘. arranged and a subpoena served | ion the man for appearance here Monday, he said. Evidently the new witness is one of two persons questioned in New York yesterday by Rep. McDowell (R-Pa.). McDowell reported after= ward that he had obtained some new leads that required immediate attention and some highly import= ant and valuable information. In a separate development, the Committee planned to quiz two ad= mitted former Communist couriers for expert advise on how to plug iloopholes through which Govern= (ment secrets have been sneaked out. | Acting Chairman Mundt (R-SD) |said it intends to go into the sub- Jject with Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth T. Bentley. D SHIP LOSES i e K P i PROPELLOR OFF ALASKA SEATTLE, Dec. 18—M— The (steamer Maria Stathatos, a Greek freighter, radioed last night she ,had lost her propeiler 350 miles isoutheast of Adak in the Aleut- AnS. ‘The master of the helpless vessel eported she was in no immediate |danger. Weather in the area was | | | | | The Navy at Adak offered assist- {ance. The master of the vessel }\Eld he would delay asking aid un- (til after a check with his firm’s lLondun and New York offices. The Navy had a tug standing by ‘at Adak for a call. It was not known persons are aboard the | vessel. how many 7,176-ton - | MISS HARSHERGER NEW | IN GOVERNOR'S OFFICE 1 Miss Mildred Harshberger, who has been “breaking in” for several weeks on her new job, will take over as accounting clerk in the Governor’'s office Monday. She replaces Miss Etolin Coulter, who thas been in the Governor's office lor 14 years. Miss Harshberger | formerly was with Alaska Coastal Airlines. Miss Coulter was good-byes around the Capitol Building yesterday, her last day there. She plans to go Wednesday to Wrangell to spend the holidays with her family, and complete ar- rangements for her wedding there January 22. Miss Coulter will become the bride of Mr. James McAden, com- | missary steward for Pan American | Airways, on Annette Island, where {the new home will be made. ->-se - VARNESS ON VACATION Mr. and Mrs. Ingvald Varness j eft aboard the Princess Norah for ja month's vacation in the States. They will spend the Christmas and Mrs. Ture | Holm and family in Seattie. Later they and Mrs. Varness will travel to Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. Varness' | sister, Mrs, George Hill, and her |brother, Robert Fleek, reside in Phoenix. — e { WASHINGTON— All government controls in the use of oil soon may be lifted. The acting director of the Interior Department’s Oil busy saying ! | | applymng for renewal of liquir li-|area. icenses. These will be issued Mon- | 1day, subject to the Court's approv- al. No licenses will be issued by him for new Jocations. “They probably would,” replied Keenan. ' “Those are the risks that brave men take. “But,” continued Keenan. “when (Continued on Page Four) Final scores of games played last southeast of here yesterday, ex- have inundated the states of Rio'and Gas Division, Robert Friedman, from Vancouver December 30. - FROM FAIRBANKS Joe Ramstad of Fairbanks is at the Baranof Hotel. Ed Coester, Seattle representa- tive of the Seafarers' International Union, of which the AFL group is! affiliated, said more than 300 workers are concerned. | | {night in the Pacific Coast Hockey ploded and killed five airmen and ileague are as follows: two Navy hitchhikers, The plane Oakland 3; Fresno 1. was blown to bits and shattered New Westminster 5; Vancouver 4. Christmas giits littered the ground. De Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Dis- patches from Brazil list 310 known dead, and hundreds of persons are listed as missing 'says that unless there is a serious emergency, there should be plenty of petroleuam for everybody this winter.