The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1949, Page 1

'DRAG BOATS | AT ASTORIA | - TO TIE UP F:shermen Decide fo Stay in Port Until Packers Boost Prices ASTORIA, April 19.—®— Some 40 drag boats will stay tied up here until packers boost prices for bottom fish, fishermen decided last night. Leading packers cut prices up to! 50 per cent recently—and some re-| fuse to buy at any pnce—blsmlng foreign imports for collapse of the market. Ben Ferguson, Secretary for the Otter Trawlers Union, said fish- ermen agree the market is depress- ed and believe tariff protection is' ,needed. However, he said, thel men won't fish for less than last| year's prices. Joining in the tie-up decision last night were the union and the Off- shore Fishing Vessel Association. Offshore boat owners, many of! whom are members of the union said the price offers made here are the same as those made in Canada. The boat owners predicted thatjh the war-born bottom fish industry) would be wiped out if tarelgnI imports continued at below U. S. prices. —————— — v HELEN BUSH SCHOOL AT SEATTLE GOES UP! INBLAZE, EXPLOSION SEATTLE, Aprii 19— — F!re.x coupled with an explosion of an/ oil furnace, destroyed the half-| block long exclusive Helen Busru school early today. There were no injuries. Sixteen children occupying the adjacent “Lower School Dormltory" reserved for the second throughi{ sixth grades were moved mm n‘ neighbor’'s home during but were later returned to the‘ dormitory. Origin of the blaze was not; known. ‘ The first alarm was given at 4:40; am. (PST), tut as trucks arrived| at the scene firemen were greeted| by explosion of the oil furnace in} the basement of the rambling trame building. A second and third alarm followed shortly. None of the three dormitories housing some 50 of the school's 300 students was damaged. Fire Chief William Fitzgerald) estimated damage at about $25,000. ' - e ! Former Groceryman | 0f Nome Passes On| SAN FRANCISCO, April 19—@— William J. Maloney, a native of Alaska and former Nome grocery- man, died here last Friday. The funeral will be tomorrow. He was a member of both the Alaska Pio- neer Association and the Alaska! Sourdough Association. His widow, Marjorie, and daughter, Evely, survive him. The Washmgton Merry - Go- Round! By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — One factor which contributes to disastrous floods in the Far West is over-l grazing of national forests and pub- lic lands by big cattle and sheep ranchers. Regarding this, the present 81st Congress has now prov- ed itself just as bad as the much-| maligned Republican 80th Con- gress. Last year the U. S. Forest Service was Sharply criticized by a House Public Lands Subcommittee, head- ed by GOP' Congressman Frank Barrett of Wyoming for being too strict on the big cattle and sheep- men and their grazing privileges. The Forest Service uplted that 50 per cent of public range lands were] (Camlnllld on Page Four) ; help as OVER 1,000 HOMES, |WEST WASHINGTON, DAMAGED BY QUAKE School Bulldmgs Damage Also Heavy-Residents Seattle Hotel Evacuated (By the Associated Press) More than 1,100 Western Wash- ington homes suffered damage in last Wednesday's earthquake, the American Red Cross disaster serv- ice reported today. The estimate—which does not include hundreds of homes where damage was slight enough not to warrant rehabilitation grants—was made by Richard F. Gordon, di- rector of the Red Cross disaster service for the eight Western states. Gordon said 82 families have registered with the Red Cross for a result of the quake damage to their homes. More than half of the appeals for direct aid came from Puyallup, he said. Results of the Red Cross survey were made public as state, city and county officials sought to solve their own housing problems. In Olympia where both the old and new capitol buildings have ceen “padlocked” because of quake damage, only two of more than a dozen offices using the buildings have found new quarters. Governor Langlie moved into the adjacent transportation building yesterday and the Superintendent of Public Instruction set up offices in the armory. i At Seattie, city officials evacu- ated 121 residents of the Seattle| Hotel when one of the structure’s walls tegan to move and appeared ready to crumble. It was propped by the 100-foot boom of a crane qnul workmen could bind it with i cables. School officials estimated damage to Seattle schools would be between $200,000 and 3500 000. RESIDENTS DENTS, TACOMA ISLIDE AREA, URGED 'TO EVACUATE HOMES TACOMA, April 19—(®—The 300 residents of Salmon Beach, whose homes are perched on Puget Sound teneath an earthquake-loosened tcliff, were urged today by state officials to move out at once. Governor Arthur B. Langlie smd= in Olympia he was exploring his authority to issue and enforce an evacuation order. The Governor said the mere re- quest should be enough to prompt evacuation. “Parents have no right to jeopardize the lives of their children,” he said. COASTAL RAMBLER Ill LAST NIGHT; SAILS 10 * WESTWARD TONIGHT The freighter Coastal Rambler of the Alaska Steamship Line docked last night at 5:30 o’clock from Seattle and sails at approxi- mately the same time tonight. Master of the ship is Capt. Ludwig Jacobson. On April 2 the freighter left Portland and went to Point Rich- mond in San Francisco Bay where 2,000 tons of asphalt were loaded for Juneau. Stopping at Seattle on the voyage north, general cargo, lumber, and over 100 cars and trucks were loaded. The cars and trucks are to be discharged at Seward. General cargo was unloaded at Ketchikan and Petersburg with stops to be made at Valdez and Cordova. Final port of call will be Seward. Part of the 2,000 tons of asphalt is being unloaded now with he rest to be unloaded on -the return trip in about a week. With most of the cars as deckage, they were unloaded before the asphalt could be put on the dock. Of interest to oldtimers in Ju- neau, aboard the freighter are First Officer Robert Ryning, Second Officer P. E. Willard, and Chief Engineer Clare Krogh. These men lived here at one time. ———————— With the Rev. Walter Soboleff officiating, Eddie Williams of Kake took Elsie Marie Kokrine of Tan- ana as his bride in a ceremony here Satyrday. Witnesses were Marsha and John Garcia, and K. 8. Clem, Polite Thief Works New One; So Does ! His Accomplice HAMBURG, Germany, April 19— (M—“Lift your feet, please,” said a polite thief as he rolled up the rug in a doctor's waiting room. When the receptionist discovered the rug had been stolen she ac- cepted the offer of a woman pa- tient who said she would catch the thief if loaned a ticycle. Net loss to the doctor: one rug and one bicycle ELECT DIRECTORS AT ROTARY MEET; LARGE TURNOUT Appearance of the Autie Good- man Trio, and election of board of directors members brought out al- most a full house at today’s noon | Rotary Club meeting at the| Baranof. The trio of musicians who start- ed a 10-week appearance at the Bubkle Room last night were in- troduced by Program Chairman Bill Hughes. Singer Bill Bush also joined the trio tor two numbers. Rotarians named the following six members to board of directors posts for the coming year: Keith Wildes, Sam McPhetres, Carson Lawrence, Hank Harmon, Neil Fritchman and Bob Akervich. President Charles Carter named Eric Newbould to head next month's program committee of Tom Dyer,| Don Skuse, Joe McLean and Waino Hendrickson. Ellis Reynolds was, named by Carter as chairman for the June program committee, to be assisted by Del Miller, Harold* Foss and Carson Lawrence. Claude Carnegie, back from sev- eral months in the states, was giv- en a big welcome home applause. A visiting Rotarian from the Fairbanks chapter, L. T. Oldroyd, director of Experimental Station of Extensicn Services for Univer- sity of Alaska, was introduced along with guests, John Dimond, assist-| ant Attorney General, Russ Acke of Anchorage, W. Burr Johnson and Edgar Lokken, high school repre- sentative. - THOUSANDS WRITE TO ALASKA BUREAU FOR EMPLOYMENT More than 4,000 letters from per- sons looking for jobs in Alaska have been received by the Alaska Territorial Employment Service since January 1, Director A. A. Hedges said today. Job-seekers have written from every state in the union, as well as irom Canada, Mexico and sev- eral of the European countries. Employment Service offices over the Territory have also been flood- ed with inquiries on Alaskan job possibilities, Hedges said. But for nearly 100 per eent of the job-seekers, the answer is the same, according to Hedges, who said that his office. was able to encourage only a very small number of the workers to come to the Territory because at this time applicants al- ready in the Territory far outnum- ber available job openings. The huge influx of job-seekers who have come to Alaska this spring without bothering to inquire about employment opportunities be- forehand have crowded the labor market, particularly in the Anchor- age and Fairbanks areas. Even highly skilled workers are forced to draw their unemployment com- pensation, Hedges said. At present, he estimated, it ap- pears there will be no need for additional workers in Alaska prior to June 15, even if there is no further immigration to the Terri- tory before then. The fact that weather in An- chorage and Fairbanks areas has not yet sufficiently moderated to | dition of irregular service.” SKA . EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949 INDEPENDENT AR | LINES GIVEN BLOW, CAB REGULATIONS Irregular Ca_rr iers Must: Now Obfain Individual Licenses fo Fly WASHINGTON, April 19— — Independent airlines protested to- day that new regulations laid down by the Civil Aeronautics Board will knock them out of business. Chairman James Fischgrund of the National Independent Air Car- riers said the CAB's action will Jjeopardize the life savings of “hun=- dreds” of World War II veterans who turned their war flying ex- perience into profitakle businesses. The CAB notified the large ir- regular carriers they will have to obtain individual licenses to fly after May 20. The board also said licenses will be issued only where it is demonstrated that a need for irregular air service exists., The irregulars, use large-type planes in contract or charter serv- ice and are authorized to fly only on a non-scheduled basis, as dis- tinguished from . the time-table flights of the regular air lines. 110 COMPANIES HIT ‘There are about 110 large irregu- lar companies. The CAB has said some of them maintain such regu- lar flights as to put them in direct competition with the scheduled- flight companies. The CAB said “A substantial number of large irregular carriers 2ave attempted to comply” with the present blanket-licensing regula- tions. But it added that the plan “as served as a cloak for opera- tions which are not: within . the intent and purpese. of the régula- tion,” “The bonrd said 1 flyr!vctmg lhu. ] blanket’ authotity, effective May 20, and thereafter will license each of the irregulars only after an investi- gation of its operations. The objective, the Board said, is| to “confine the carrier to the ren- BLANKET AUTHORITIES The board will continue blanket authority for about 2,000 small, ir- regulars, which use planes with less than 10,000 pounds take-off weight. Speaking for Fischgrund declared ment: “The new regulations issued to- day will put out of business vir- tually every independent air line in the country. “This arbitrary ruling is an un-| precedented elimination of small Gusiness that will live long in in- famy. . . . “Unless the Congress and the Administration demand that the CAB permit these lines to exist pending hearings, it will be 4 mockery of the truth for the Tru- man administration to claim to be a friend of small business. These non-scheduled airlines represent | the life savings of hundreds of| veterans of World War Two who formed them and have operated them profitably for over three| years. “It is ironical that at the same time the Senate is investigating why the airlines are losing money and require more and more Ssub- sidy, the CAB is putting out of business the only profitable seg- ment of the Air Transportation industry.” — the independents, in a state- F oo ve o 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU' This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 47; minimum, 39, At Airport— Maximum, 45; minimum, 38. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued cloudy with in- termittent light rain tonight and Wednesday. Little enable construction projects to get under way has further aggravated the unemployment situation. If contractors had been able to commence operations at full speed, he said, they would have been able to absorb a large percentage of newcomers. —_————— MAYOR LEAVES THURSDAY Mayor Waino Hendrickson, who was authorized by the City Coun- cil to transact Juneau City business in“Seattle and Washington, D. C- plans to leave Thursday. |is at the Baranof Hotel. change in temperature with lowest tonight near 38 and highest tomorrow near 46. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .15 inches; since April 1, 7.34 inches; since July 1, 104.68 inches. At Airport — .08 inches; since April 1, 3.16 inches; since July 1, 59.56 inches. ® 000000°%°0000000°%°000000000s 0 - a — o FROM FAIRBANKS Robert V. Watkins of Fairbanks MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ROPEAN 'RECOVERY fion Measure-Eight Pens Are Used WASHINGTON, April 19.—(#— Président Truman today signed the $6,880,000,000 European Recovery authorization bill. . Truman used eight pens in the signing, giving one to each of the! seven witnesses and keeping cne; for Senator Vandenberg (R- Mich), who was unable to be pres- ent. for the White House cere- mony. Present for the signing in. Mr. an’s Oval Room office were Secfetary of State Acheson, Chair- man Connaly (D-Tex) of the Sen- at@pForeign Relations Committee; Cl ‘man Kee (D-WVa) of the Houge Foreign Affairs Committee; ECA' Administrator Paul G. Hoff- man; Roving ECA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and Deputy Ad- /ministrator William C. Foster and Aoward K. Bruce. legislation makes $1,000,000,- ‘000 immediately available to the SCA from Reconstruction Finance Corporation. These funds will keep aid flowing fo Western Europe until Congress votes additional cash. Aside from the billion dollars, the Jfll Drovldes no actual cuh GLACIER HiGH HIGHWAY PAVING 10 START TOMORROW The long-anticipated work of road construction on the Glacier High- way is expected to start tomorrow, according to the office of the Dis- rict Engineer, Public Roads Ad- ministration, which has supervision of the project. Much preliminary work has been done, chiefly in turning the Lemon Creek gravel pit into a modern asphalt plant. Two 10-ton rollers and a street sweeper for Lytle & Green, who have .the contract, arrived aboard the Coastal Rambler. Basic work to start tomorrow will be by R. J. Sommers Construction Company, subcontractors, prepara- tory to laying the asphaltic con- rete. This will include putting in 4,000 lineal feet of culverts ana underdrains. This work will start just beyond the city limits, where a large culvert crosses the road. After clearing and grubbing the highway, there will ke some 10,000 {yards of unclassified excavation work. Excavation will start at the far end of the project—where the oad splits into a “¥” at the junc- tion of highways to Auk Bay and Mendenhall Glacier. The Sommers Company also will prepare all the aggregate, which includes 35,000 yards of plant mix; 1,500 yards of chips for seal coat- e, and 10,000 yards of base course. WHITE WITHDRAWS AS ATTORNEY IN RUTHERFORD CASE This morning in District Court, Albert White withdrew as attorney for Wallace T. Rutherford, against whom the United States was to prosecute tomorrow morning. Rutherford, who is being held in federal jail until trial on charges’| of illegal cohabitation and assault, appeared in person, and Judge George W. Folta appointed William L. Paul, Jr, and M. E. Monagle as attorneys to represent him. The| case was moved to the foot of the calendar. Closing arguments were made this afternoon in the case of the United States vs. Kurt Gustav Nordgren, Petersburg fisherman charged with bribery. The 44 members of the jufy panel are to report tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, but, with postponement of the Rutherford case, a non-jury one—that of Petersen vs. Jackson— is ucheduled for ‘trial. ,—ee AT BARNOF H. J. Florensco of Tenakee is at the Baranof Hotel, BILLO. K. |President Si_gE Authoriza- | educational New Edgecumbe Units Calls for Revamp in Alaska Native Plans Big plans are underway for the expansion and reorganization of the and medical services oif the Alaska Native Service in- stallations at Mt. Edgecumbe. The entire program got a shot mn the arm last week when division heads from the ANS Territorial office traveled to Mt. Edgecumbe to meet department heads on the scene. Object of the joint meeting, ac- cording to Don Foster, ANS gen- eral superintendent, was to work cut an over-all 10-year coordinated program which will make the most use of available and planned fac- ilities. In the medical department of Mt. Bdgecumbe, construction of the new 200-bed hospital is the biggest pro- ject underway. The five-story sltructure to be built at the cost of $1,850,647, is approximately 40 per cent complete to date, according to Ralph Mize, head of the ANS construction di- vision. Work was begun on the bullding last May 15, and is con- tracted for completion January 18, 1950. Construction men are pour- ning the next to the top slab at present, Mize said. Along with the hospital construc- tion, other allied bullding work is necessary, including the remodel- ing of approximately 30 army buildings for personnel quarters. Funds for quarters appropriated to-: taled $115,000, according to Mize. Rehabilitation and reconversion of other supplementary = buildings is now underway. Following completion of the new|y hospital, -work ..on “the two -exist- ing hospitals will be started, Mize said. Patients will be moved from the Ellis Island hospital and the Or- thopedic hospital into the new unit, while workmen go in to make ma- Jjor repairs and to renovate the old- er buildings. An out-patient clinic for all per- scnnel on Japonski Island is to ke provided on the ground floor of the Orthopedic hospital, according to Mize. A total of 415 beds will he avall- BATILE OF YANGTZEIS IN MAKING Chinese G&;nmem Re- jecls Communist Demands, -Red Troops Ready, Shoot (By The Associated Press) An official source said tonight the Chinese government had decid- ed to reject the latest Communist demands—an act which is expected to touch off fthe battle of the Yangtze. ‘The that a veteran Red army of 400,- 000 men is ready to storm across the Yangi'e in the Nanking area unless the government gives in. . North of the river, 1,000,000 sea- | soned Red troops were ready to start shooting. South of the river 500,000 Nationalist troops crouched before the impending blow. Despair gripped Nanking. Gov- ernment officials got ready to flee. They met, hGwever, to prepare some sort of reply to the Reds, pinning faint hope on a plea for more time. Exact nature of the Communist surrender demands remained secret, but Nationalists admitted that they call for outright capitulation. The government .of acting Presi- dent Li Ttung-jen appeared ready to concede almost anything except that the Communist forces be per- mitted to establish bridgeheads south of the Yangtze. Economists in Shanghai saw peace as the only way to save Na- tionalist China from complete col- lapse. Inflation is running wild. The government’s gold yuan currency grows more worthless by the day. Printing presses run round the clock but they still can’t keep the coun- try in money, Communist radio warned: able upon ccmpletion of hospital projects, with 200 in the new unit, 150 at Ellis and 65 in the Ortho- pedic. An increase in beds for the Or- thepedic hospital is also in the planning stage, according to Sup- erintendent Foster. A proposal to add a 6l-bed wing to the present building is included in the 1851 budget, he said. According to Dr. Phillip Moore surgeon at the Orthopedic hospital, there are now at least 1,000 or- thopedic cases which could be brought in for medical care in the Territory. Right now, he said, there are 400 known cases awaiting care. While educational and medical divisions are separate units at M{ Edgecumbe, effdrts are now to be made to provide more educational facilities for hospitalized young- sters and for other patients, ac- cording to Dr. George Dale, ANS educational director. Patients need occupational ther- apy and hospitalized children need education, according to Dr. Dale. Plans are under way to make this possible. For ambulatory orthopedic cases, and for arrested tuberculosis cases, tories and special classrooms oper- ated under medical supervision to enable convalescing youngsters to continue their education. Hospital cases will be separated from regular class rooms, with special rooms and dormitories for both typu of convalescents, accord- Dr. Dale, All funds for sc) will come from- the hos= pital, but educational supervising will be administered by the exist- ing school supervisors, he said. In the Mt, Edgecumbe school, new emghasis on vocational training to prepare youths for work particu- larily suited for Alaska, is on the docket, Dr. Dale said. He added that plans are to separte vocation- al and college preparatory educa- tional courses in such a way that students after four years will cmerge specially trained in either jfield, with specific assistance for ndvnnced schooling made available for the college prep trained stu- dents. IVERLA COLLAR HERE, INT. REV. BUSINESS A. Verle Collar, Assistant Chief Field Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue at Anchorage, arrived yes- terday for a couple of days before returning to the Westward. He has been outside since early this month, going to Tacoma to confer with Clark Squire, regional Collect- or. Collar was on the seventh floor of the Washington Bullding, a modern oifice building in Tacoma, | Wash.,, when the earthquake oc- curred. He reports that the build- ing swayed violently, and he watch- ed bricks being dislodged from the bank building across the street. A chimney along the waterfront was half-collapsed by the temblor. In Juneau, Collar is conferring with George W. Osage, who is in icharge of the Internal Revenue office for Alaska. i —_—————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 19.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American can 92%, Anaconda 30%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvest- er 24%, Kennecott 44%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 15%, U. 8. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 830,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 176.73, rails 48.17, util- ities 36.15. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle scheduled jto arrive at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle Baturday S eee FROM PEI.ICAN Mrs, Fred Wetche and Alpha i Christensen of Pelican are regis- itered at the Gasineau, plans are to provide special dormi- | al HIRING HALL AGAIN ISSUE FOR TROUBLE Semement—l)—mnds Taft- -Harley Law Ruling-No Walkout on Coast WASHINGTON, April 19— A CIO official said today there will be a general shipping strike on ooth coasts June 15 unless “prefer- ential hiring” in the maritime in- dustry is legalized beyond any ques- Jon by that time. Hoyt Haddock, legislative repre- sentative of the CIO Marine com- mittee, made the statement to eporters after telling a Senate Labor subcommittee that a strike is probable. When newsmen asked just what' he meant by “probable,” Haddock replied: “There definitely will be a strike « the hiring hall is ruled illegal and there is no new agreement when our contracts run out June 15.” (In San Francisco, Pacific Amer- lockout agreement with 76 per cent of all maritime - employees. A if they are available. In the mari- Jme industry, this has been done -hrough the so-called “hiring hall.” dlegal under the Taft-Hartley Law in a court test scheduled for early in June. He predicted such a rul- g would kill any chance for a Jew contract in the shipping in- dustry. The Taft-Hartley Law bans the closed shop, under which employ- ers can hire only union members. A point of dispute is whether the Jan also applies to “preferential niring.” e Alaska Freighter Held Up by Bridge Damaged, Quake SEATTLE, April 19.—#®— The earthquake is over, But its repre- cussions linger on. Because the Spokane St. bridge was knocked out of line by the dis- .urbance, the span has been clos- to water traffic. 8o the Diamond Cement was held up Monday with a full load of lime rock from Al- aska. ‘The city engineer's office said there was no telling how long_the brige might ;be out of commis- sion for shipping traffic. The sup- porting plers were madly twisted out of line, jamming the span. Meanwhile, the Diamond Ce- ment, which arrived Cove, Alaska, Sunday night, was waitipg patiently at West Water- way dock. Her unloading berth at the cement plant is up the Duwam- ish Waterway—on the other side of the damaged bridge. ——————— Rabbi Wise s Seriously i BULLETIN NEW YORK, April 19—P—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, world famous Jewish leader, died at 4 p. m. today. NEW YORK, April 19—#— A world-famous Jewish leader is re- ported weaker in Lenox Hill hospit- al. Rabbi Wise, 75, entered the hospital last month for an abdominal operation. He has been on the critical Mst since Saturday, and the latest bulletin reports he is “losing ground.” - FROM ANCHORAGE Ernest R. Putnam of Anchorage is a guest at the Qastineau Hotel, from View .