The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1949, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIE, NO. 11,181 N il ——————m JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949 MIMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Third World War Predicted if China Falls ARMS AID BIG ISSUE ATPRESENT Acheson Sa-yapproval of Atlantic Pact Paves Way for Assistance WASHINGTON, April 27.—#— Secretary of State Acheson told Senators today that if they approve the North Atlantic Security ‘1reaty they will be “less free” tc oppose arms aid for Europe. Acheson was before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1o plead that the Senate approve the treaty and that Congress vote a $1,450,000,000 foreign arms pro- gram. The treaty, signed Lere ‘April 4 by 12 nations, will not be binding on the United States until the Senate approves it by a two-thirds vote, The Truman Administration plans also to ask the arms aid. It would require approval by a ma- jority of both Senate and House. In the Senate, some members have said they are inclined to vote for the treaty but doubt the wis- dom of the arms program. Senator Byrd (D-Va), for one, has demand- ed to know whether a vote for the treaty would be regarded as 2 moral conmmitment to support the arms aid. So that point was promptly rais- ed when the Foreign Relations Committee opened hearings on the treaty today with Acheson as the lirst witness. Mutual Assistance First off, Acheson read a long prepared statement that said, in effect, that if the pact is approved | by the required two-thirds of Sen- ators voting, the entire member- ship then will be committed to the principle of mutual assistance to the Western European nations linking themselves against possible Communist aggression. When Acheson concluded his statement and leaned back in the witness chair, Chairman Connally (D-Texas) leaned forward and put the big question: Could a Senator vote for the treaty and still oppose the arms program? With the crowded hearing room poised tensely for his answer, Ache- son replied: “It would be pleasant it one could answer that question ‘yes’ or- ‘no’. There is something in this treaty which requires each member to accept the principle of mutual assistance. “Once it is ratified, a Senatof would be less free to voate against a military program than he was before.” —————— STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. :Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled td sail from Vancouver Saturday. Alaska scheduled southbound early’ Monday. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Beil Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— It wasn't offi-| clally recorded, but New Hamp-| shire’s Senator Styles Bridges re-| cently struck a sharp blow at the bipartisan - foreign policy by de- manding that the GOP take its own stand on foreign affairs—particu- larly in China. He shot the challenges square- ly at Michigan’s Senator Arthur Vandenbetg, the Mr. Big of the bi- partisan foreign policy, during a secret meeting of the Republican Policy Committee. The debate got so heated that at one point Vanderberg snorted: “Now, this is within these four walls. There aren’t many here, and if this appears in Drew Pearson's column, I won't have too many to check with.” However, here is the story cf what happened at the.secret meet- B‘rldges called upon the Republi- cans to stop echoing “Me, too” to (Contlnued on Page Pour) Before an_;l _Mler Soochow Creek, normally crowded with sampans and various small craft, is shown at left with the Broadway Mansions in the back- ground. At right is the same scens after the authorities ordered the river cleared as a precaution against sabotage. (P ‘Wirephoto via radio from Shanghai. Hex Is Dgéd; Won'iBeUsed By Confessed Now on Way o Death House MOTHER OF YEAR Mrs. Pearle Owens Gillis (above), 60, of Fort Worth, Tex., was nam- ed as American Mother of the Year by the National Mothers Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation. Mrs. Gillis, wife of a Fort Worth postal department worker, has six children of her own and helped educate eight cthers. (P Wirephoto. Runaway Youth, Son of U. W. Prof., Is Stranded SEATTLE, April 27—#— The 12-year-old son of a University of Washington professor spent his last dime for food last night in a Fairfield, Calif., restaurant, and then began to cry. Police then reunited the boy, Heath Engle, with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Nathanael Engle, by tele- phone. The youth'had ran away April 5 to “see the world on his own.” He told Police Chief Rex Clift at Fairfield that he set Oakland as his goal because an Oakland man he met here had promised him a job, He couldn't remember the man’s name. * Dr. Engle is director of the Bur- eau of Business Research at the university. g STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 27—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 93, Anaconda 3u%, Ourtiss- Wright 9, International Harvester 237%, Kennecott 44%, New York Central 11'%, Northern Pacific 14%,; U. S. Steel 73, Pound $4.03%. Sales. today were 830,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: i | ward, Bird said, “I don’t believe in ‘|less than a hal]f hour after he'd Slayer Who is TACOMA, April 27—(®—The hex is dead, and the man who invoked it for five deaths is on his way to the death house May 27. The fabulous Jake Bird, 47-year- !cld North Carolina: Negro who once sonfessed implication in 44 assorted murders, defiantly saw Superior Judge Hugh Rosselini sign his death warrant yesterday. Courtroom - attaches wondered whether Jake would call down the wrath of his hex on the judge. But in a cell interview after- the hex any more.” Atmosphere was taut as Bird was brought into the courtroom, been brought from the state prison at Walla Walla. A half-hour later | he was on the way back to the state penitentiary death house on what authorities said they hoped was his “last ride.” He is the confessed axe slayed of Mrs. Bertha Kludt Oct. 30, 1947. At his subsequent trial he claimed he'd put the hex on all parties who had a hand in his conviction. In order, these men succuny:ed suddenly from heart attacks: Superior Court . Judge Hodge, who heard the case. Clerk of the Court Ray Scott, who handled the original appeal papers. Undersheriff Joseph Karpach, who obtained the original confes- sion by Byrd to “eight or nine” murders. Bird later had authorities convinced he'd been implicated in 44 of them. E. D. Detective Lieut. Sherman Lyons of Tacoma. J. W. Selden, Bird’s defense lawyer, for whom Bird still holds the most consuming hatred. “If T believed in the hex, of all the people I'd have liked to have hexed would be Selden,” he said heatedly in his cell. Selden, in addressing the jury at Bird's trial, had said: “Let your conscience be your guide, because Bird is a dark, black criminal and I am defending him simply because I must.” Selden had been appointed , by the court. /AP MAN IS UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN SHANGHAI Apr. 27.—(P—A mes- sage from correspondent Seymour Topping to the Shanghai Bureau of the Associated Press today indicated he was under house arrest in Nan- king, which was captured Sunday by the Communists. ‘The brief message said: “Presume you know Nanking communications disrupted. Have made arrangements to permit us 10 | continue filing if communications (CAPTURED NANKING : 1 CANNERY WORKERS 10 VOTE Union Election fo De(ic_ia AFL Wrestling Con- frol froT (lo SEATTLE, April 27.—(P—Salmon cannery workers bound for Alaska fthe Russians here today asking for will vote Friday in a union eleg~ tion regarded as an attempt by the AF.L. to wrest control from the C.I.O. Roy W. Atkinson, regional direct- or of the C.I.O. said his office had tried to get the National Labor Relations ‘Board to delay the elec- tion on technical grounds. The Cannery Workers Union, Local 7, has represented the work- ers in the past. It will not appear on the ballot because 1t and the parent CIO union, the Internéi- ticnal Union of Food, Tobacco, Ag~ ricultural and Allied Workers, haye not complied with the Taft-Hartley Act by signing non-Communist af- tidavits. : The cannery men will vote on whether they wish to be represent- ed by the Alaska Fish Cannery Workers of the Pacific, chartered by the AFL-Seafarers’ International Union. The alternative, on the bal- lot, is no union. The balloting will take place as the workers arrive from California to enplane for Alaska. ing will be done at Portland. The election will continue for brief periods in Mnéuune and August. FOR ALASKA NOW UP FOR APPROVAL Project Is PTaced Before: House Subcommittee for Ifs Sanction WASHINGTON, April 27.—#— A House subcommittee has been urged to approve a $200,000,006 power program for Alaska. William E. Warne, Assistant Sec- retary of the Interior, and Gov- ernor Ernest Gruening told a House Public Lands subcommittee lack of power is halting the Territory's deviopment. Gruening also said Bussia has shown great activity in developing Siberia, across the Straits from Alaska. He urged that Alaska be developed “not so much for our own sake but for America’s.” Alaska, he said “is within naked eye view of Siberia” and must be defended strongly. He said defense forces would need additional elec- tricity. Warne gaye the committee letters from military commanders in Al- aska urging approval of the power program. It would be authorized by a bill the committee is considering. Warne said the project calls for construction of eight hydro-electric projects. Only one, cn Eklunta Creek near Anchorage, is far ced in planning to es- its cost, he said. This ne $21,000,000. enough timate set at ARCTIC EQUIPMENT TESTING STATION IS PLANNED, ALASKA FORT KNOX, Ky., April 27.—(® —Military authorities today an- neunced plans for establishing a permanent testing station in Alas- ka for Arctic equipment. A group of 136 officers and men leave in June for the new nment at Big Delta, 110 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The Fort Knox group will be oined on the West Coast by simi- lar groups from Fort Bragg, N. C., Fort Banning, Ga., and Fort Bliss, Texas, a spokesman said. Col. H. H. D. Heiberg will be the commanding officer. The exact time of departure has not been set and details of the type of equipment to be tested has not been announc- ed. Officials said the temperature at Big Delta ranges from a summer- industrials 174.56, rails 47.59, uti-!are available despit ‘boy scouts’|time 80 degrees to 50 below zero in i posted by front door,” 1 ities 35.43. the winter. Some vots | RUSSIANS GET MOTE FROMU.S. Told fo Put in Writing Con- | ditions of Liffing Ber- lin B_lockade | NEW YORK, April 27.—®—The! United States delivered a note to a formal statement as to when and on what conditions they will lft their Berlin blockade. The note was taken by Philip; American Ambassator- | at-Large, to Soviet Deputy For-: eign Minister Jakob A. Malik. Jessup called on Malik at the Soviet offices on Upper Park Ave. The text of the American com- munication was not made public, but informed quarters said its main purpose was to shift the Berin! negotiations to a formal basis and | get Russia’s view down on paper. C. Jessup, Has Just Been Talk H Previously no views had been exchanged in writing since Jessup first brought up the question in an| informal talk with Malik at Lake Success February 15. Jessup brought the note with, him on his return to New York! this merning after talks in Wash- ington yesterday with President Truman and State Department | officials. i Before going alone to see Malik, | Jessup met with members of the U. 8. delegation to the U. N. He¢ disappeared later and was understood to have called on Brit- ish and French representatives to show them the note. 1 .\ Clarification Sought The American note was under- | stood to seek clarification spegifi- cally on two issues: An cxact un-' derstanding as > what would bct involved in any agreement to it the blockade and a proposed time-, f | i i i ! A U. 8. spokesman said this switch to a formal exchange oi! delay in getting Russia’s views. It was expected, he said, that Malik would transmit the American note; to his immediate superior here, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrel A, Gromyko,, who in turn probably | would have to consult Moscow be-, fore replying. 1 (OUP MADE | INCHINA Red Guerrillas Seize Pu- fung - Nationalists | Leave Soochow i By TOM LAMBERT i 1 SHANGHAI, April m—(M—Red! guerrillas in a surprise coup have; seized Putung, right across the, Whangpoo River from S8hanghai. Il At the same time Npt.ionnust! troops abandoned Soochow (Wuh- sien), guardian city for Shanghai 50 miles to the West. (Red possession of Putung in! any strength could make all opern-! tions on the Whangpoo, including | evacuation of foreigners, hazar-! dous. s (Right across from Putung point are the Chinese city council house, and the British and American Con- sulates. The Whangpoo is less than one-fourth of a mile wide there.) ‘The Shanghai garrison, without| using the word withdrawn, said ing a communique government troops| at Soochow had “shifted their posi- tions” to a point six miles nearer &hanghai. Ten thousand Communist troops participated in the Soochow battle. The Nationalists said they killed 5,000 Reds. From Soochow the Reds may pivot toward Hangchow, 85 miles south of here, or may turn di- 1ectly toward Shanghal. ———————— i ' FROM HAIN E. B. Lowman of Haines has registered at the Gastineau. table. |2 notes probably would result in some; ¥ SURPRISE || Reds Sel Shanghai Trap Red armies (open arrcw) aimed for the sea at Hangchow, hoping to trap 300,00 Nationalist troops bel the Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow Shanghai seemingly had been bypassed. could not say just where the Communist armies were. of map represents areas of Communist control and black arrows indicate direction of Red attacks across the Yangtze River. (' Wire- pheto. Q ow Shanghai, and thereby dissolve defense triangle (broken lines). Even military spokesmen Black portion W o Judith Coplen, 27 year-cld former Justice Department employee, ar- rives at U. 8. District Court in Washington for trial on charges of removing secret papers from government files. She is accom- panied by M. L. Rosenstein (cen- ter) and Attorney Archibald Pzlmer. (® Wirephoto, ALASKA IS 10 BOOM DECLARES SEC. INT. KRUG WASHINGTON, April 27—®— Secretary of the Interior Krug said today Alaska’s 100,000 population could be increased five times within three years. He also told = news conference he believes the present Congress will vote statehiood for Alaska and Hawalii, Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska told the same conference |that op- position within Alaska to statehood probably will decline very greatly “now that the Territory has passed a tasic tax program.” Krug also said: Communism in Hawaii is “no more a threat than® in Maryland, Virginia or’ any other state.” Krug said President Truman had commented on the department’s report on Alaska and said the Ter- ritory “ought to be developed as promptly as possible.” He said the president had sent him a memo- rendum saying he had read the |Algska report with much interest and adding: “It looks as if we are making some progress’” amvisFRRAL (CALDER IS } 10 BE NEW SECY. NAVY Utilities Executive Agrees | fo Take Position- Gray Now Acting WASHINGTON, April 27— (@ — Curtis E. Calder, utilities execu- | tive, has agreed to become Secre- itary of the Army. Gordon Gray, now assistant sec- retary, will be promoted to under- secretary and serve as acting sec- retary until Calaer can take over the post. This is the job formerly held by Kenneth Royall. Calder, chairman of the.toard of Electric Bond and Share, says he will be ready to take over the top Army post within 60 days. | Secretary of Defense Louis John- {son, who had been urging Calder to take the post, was reported to have discussed the matter with President Truman during a White House call today. Johnson, however. would not dis- cuss the matter with reporters. He said his talk with Mr. Truman to- day was On routine matters, such as they discuss every week. Calder, who will be 57 on May 15, was born in Winfield, Kansas, and attended public schools. there. He became vice-president of Texas Power and Light in 1917 and president in 1821, heading that cor- poration, as well as Dallas Power | and Light Co., and Texas Electric Service Co., until 1927. In 1927, Calder went to New York 2s president of American and For- eign Power Co,, a sub-holding com- pany of Electric Bond and Share. In 1944 he was elected chair- man of Electric Bond and Share. - - ALASKA TO WESTWARD WITH 15 EMBARKING The Alaska, sailing at 9:30 o'clock last night to the Westward, had| 15 passengers embarking for the voyage. For Valdez, passengers were: Ed- ward Naghel, W. S. Trim, Ernest G. Nelson, Jim Pat, John Carver, Marcus Carlson, For Hood Bay: Knute Fronstad,| Peter Jackson, Carles Swan, Verne Care. For Seward: H. G. Fairhurst, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Webber, Marie® G. Sadini, Gus Squoquist. ——— e — FROM ANCHORAGE | Mis. E. 9. Stewart of Anchor-| age Is at the Baranoui, CHIANG IS BACH; WILL FIGHT ON Forecasts TIFrJWorId War If China: Loses-State- ment Is Issued By FRED HAMPSON SHANGHAI, April 27—®— Chiang Kai-shek today returned to the battle against Communism, forecasting a third world war it China is lost. His country, he said, would be the tinderbox and furnish the men for | that war if the Chinese Commune ists win, The Generalissimo pledged to share the hardships of his coun- trymen *“on the brink of disaster.® He said he could not disregard his responsibility at such a time. The statement—his first since re= tiring from the Presidency Janue ary 21—was issued from Chikow, his ancestral home. But foreign and Chinese newspapers said le was back in Shanghal, soon per- haps to become ancther civil war battlegroung. He spoke as Director General of the Kupmmung (Government) Party. Communist forces swirled around Soochow (Wuhsien), only 50 miles to the west, a§ Chiang’s statement was made public. Chiang’s Statement Chiang said the Communists were seeking to “enslave the Chi- nese people to the cause of inter- national Communists by attempting to make all China the military e O . the benefit of the Communist plan for world domination.” Chiang - promised full support to the government of Li, but pledged to “share the sufferings of fellew countrymen.” Thus he have chesen this means of com irom retirement to lead China her battle against Communism, He called on his people to 3 as hard against Communism a4 they did against the Japanese in eight years of war. The Generalissimo said the Reds by crossing the Yangtze had blun- dered into the same miltary er- rors that mired the Japanese in their conquest of China. 3 MINISTER IS COUNCILMAN AT FAIRBANKS Named fo Fill Unexpired Term of Resigned Megm- ber-New Police Chief FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 27— (A—The City Council appointei the Rev. N. Harry Champlin, pastor of the Prescyterian church, vo fill the unexpired term of Councilman Francis Holmstrom yesterday. Holmstrom resigned a month ago. Champlin, long active in civie affairs, is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce and secretary of the Rotary club. Appcintment of the new coun=- cilman followed by a few days the designation of Dewey Orrell as Fairbanks Police Chief, effective May 1. JHe succeeds the resigning George Norton. Norton, chief for five years, said his resignation re- sulted from disagreements with City Manager Irving Call over operation of the police department. ‘The resignation prompted Norton supporters to circulate a petition to ask the council to authorize u referendum on repeal of the city manager form of government. The petition has not yet been syb- mitted. Orrell, appointed by Call, had been a police captain here two years. He formerly was a member of the police department at Jack- senville, Miss. PR e ANCHORAGE COUPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor of Anchorage are at the Baranof, o SN