The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1949, Page 1

> - v VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,182 WIDOW OF QUEZON IS SHOT DOWN Bloody Machine Gun Am- | buscade Brings Death fo Ten Persons By SPENCER DAVIS MANILA, April 28—(®—Mrs. Au- rora Quezon, widow of the Philip- pines’ first president, her daugh- ter and son-in-law were killed to- day in a bloody machine gun am- buscade that brought death to ten persons. Ten others were wounded. President Elpidio Guirino, noti- fied of the ambush in the mount- | ains of Northern Luzon, ordered an immediate campaign against the killers, whom he identified as ban- dits. The Quezon party, with an armed constabulary escort, left Manila shortly after 5 am. for Baler on the northeast coast of Luzon. The 60-year-cld widow was tb have unveiled a marker in memory of her husband, Manuel Quezon Machinegun Fire Incomplete reports here said the party was moving through a narrow | gorge of the Sierra Madre Mount- alns, 88 airmiles from Manila when | a burst of machinegun tire riddled the first two automobiles. They carried Mrs. Quezon and her im- mediate party. The attack came be- tween 10 and 11:30 am. Constabulary troops returned the fire. There was a sharp fight in which the troopers suffered three ‘The remaihing members of the party ‘were forced to retreat and raced back to the village of Bang- abong, where constabularly rein- forcements were called. Bodies Are Found Later at the scene of the am- bush the constabulary found the bodies of Mrs. Quezon, her daugh- ter Maria Aurora (baby) Quezon and the mortally wounded Felipe Buencamino, III, husband of Mrs. Quezon's youngest daughter, Zen- ! aida. Mrs. Quezon was beloved by Fili- pinos for her charity work with children, for leading the sutirage movement for Filipino women, and as chairman of the Philippine Red Cross. Quezon served the Philippines as their first elected chief of state. He | spent most of the war years In ‘Washington where he and Mrs. Quezon were close to the late Pres- ident Franklin D. Roosevelt. Quezon died of tuberculosis at the end of the war. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 28.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 92%, Anaconda 30, Curtiss- Wright 9, International Harvester 23%, Kennecott 44';, New York Central 11, Northern Pacific 147%, U. S. Steel 72%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 770,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 17389, rails 47.30, util- ities 35.31. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Terse, urgent questions affecting our hopes for peace came boiling to the top the other day behind ¢losed doors of the Senate Foreign' Relations Com- . mittee.: Apswering them, ‘the men ‘whe niust’ Jmplement the North Atlantic Pact were Kept under ¥4 steady fire for 4% hours. Big, bull-voiced Senator Vanden- berg set the pace, but each Senator got a load of questions off his chest. They combed the Pact’s fine print for pitfalls and loop- holes, and searched for hidden meanings between the lines. As a result, many tough problems were plowed up. The chief targets of this verbal shooting’ gallery were Secretary of State Acheson, Secretary- of De- fense Johnson and ECA Ambassador Harriman. They talked brilliantly, but not quite enough, to please the Senators. “I can't be offhand .and. free P S (Continued on Page Four) .| trip. Red Forces Closi ng Escape Gatesat Shanghai (10 Union Atfempts fo Prevent NLRB from Seeking Injunction Agamsl Plckelmg. Juneau Mill ey “ALL THE N ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949 51" i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Spectators crowd aronnd the plane of endurance flmrs BHI Barfl! and Dick Riedel just after they I at the Fullerton, Calir, airport after spending 1,003 hcurs and one minute in the air. They establ a new. endurance record set 10 years‘ago. The old mark was 759 hours. (¥ Wirephoto. Endurance Fliers Sit Down After 1,000 Hours- PRESIDENT oo g HAS FAITH INRUSSIA Believes Smet Union Means Business in Liff- ing Berlin Blockade WASHINGTON, April 28—M— President Truman said today he be- lieves the Russlans are acting in good faith in their new moves PARTY LOYALTY TO BE INDICATED " ON T-H MEASURE Vote, Declares President, Will Have Something fo Do with Patronage By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, April 28 —(@®— President Truman said today Democratic votes in Congress on Taft-Hartley repeal will be a test of party loyalty. He put actions of the lawmakers on other Democratic platform measures in much the same class. Thus Mr. Truman indicated that the Senators and Representatives who fail to go along with striking out the two-year old labor law and will have little to say about who gets federal jobs. | The President left wide-open the | question of whether the lawmakers who failed to back the party candi- dates in last fall's election will have any voice in patronage. On that peint he suggested that reporters wait and see how it works out. PARTY LOYALTY Mr. Truman's news conference discussion of the issue of' party {loyalty went beyond—if it was not in actual conflict with—earlier comments of Democratic National hairman J” Howard McGrath. Discussing yesterday’'s conference with Democratic party and Con- |gressional leaders, the President said that Democrats are those people who support the Democratic platform. He described the platform as the law of the party. Mr. Truman said he regards the vote on the pending bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley act as one of those tests of party loyalty. SUPPORT PLATFORM Support of the platform should carry through after the election as well as during the campaign, the President sald. He adde that he stands squarely btehind the plat- form and expects other loyal Democrats to do likewise. The platform contains a Demo- cratic pledge to support the ct- Infent of civil rights legislation. Southern opposition to Mr. Tru- man’s proposals for anti-poll tax, ‘anti-lynching and anti-job dis- crimination split the party wide open in the last campaign. Mr. Truman’s news conference statement left a question on just how much say on federal,jobs will be given to Congressmen Wwho jumped the reservation last fall. Pappa’s Feel Give Out; Walking Tour Off, Seattle fo East THE DALLES, Ore., April 28—(® —Seventy-year-old Nick G. Pappas’ feet gave out on him here yester- day on his walking tour from Seattle to New York. Nursing blisters, he climbed aboard a bus for the rest of thef “New York” is too far,” sasa Pappas after a week on the road. adhering to other platform pledges Little Shanghai Evacuee Nearing - Seaifle Relatives ANCHORAGE, April 28. —(®»— A two-year-old avacuee from Shang- hai stopped in Anchorage overnight on a flight to Seattle under mill- tary escort. Tiny Adrianne Pinder resumed her flight aboard a Northwest Alr- lines cargo plane today. She is officially in charge of Major Rich- ard J. Wade, but she showed preference for Stewardess Dee Dee Jones. The tot is to join relatives in Seattle. Major Wade said she had been in the -care of a Chinese nurse and cries for her “Ammah” almost as much as for her mother. ARRIVES IN oEATTLE SEATTLE, Apr. 28.—(#—Far from the mcb-filled streeis. of besieged Shanghai, a littleg irl played to- day in the peacetul quiet of a Se- attle home. The child, two-year-old Adriann Pinder, arrived here by Northwesl Airlines plane. One of the first evacuees to ar- rive in the United States from war- torn China, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alwyne Pinder, who remained behind. Adrianne was met here by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grosse of Seattle, aunt and uncle of her father. They will care for her unless it is de- cided for her to join her grand- mother, Mrs. Delle Trenholm, in New York City. The youngster made the two-day trip, accompanied by Major Riéh- ard J. Wade, an Air Force ofticer who is returning to his wife and two children in District Heights, Maryland. IMAJOR FLEMING IS NAMED T0 MC: LARSON AS PWA WASHINGTON, April 28 —P— President Truman today appointed | Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming to the Maritime Commission. ' He said Fleming will be designated as chairman. Larson, now War Assets Adminis- trator, will .succeed Fleming as Public Works Administrator. Rear Admiral Paul Luker Mather, now Associated Administrator, will head. the War Assets Administration. Fleming is a veteran government career officer. Mr. Truman des- cribed him as an independent with no political affiliation. On the Maritime Fleming will succeed Vice Admira! William W. Smith, whose term reg | cently expired. L e Ww. !"leld from Crdova u at the Baranof Hotel. Says Educational Level Higher Among Alaska ChildrenthanU. §.;PublicWorksProgram Urged a ! tory’s pioneers. The President said that Jesse! Commission. | WASHINGTON, ,April 28.—P— | | Based on every test, the education- tal level is higher among Alaska children than in the United States, a Senate committee was told The witness was- James C. ]Commlsslaner of Education in the| Territory. He was testifying in sup- port of a bill to authorize a $70,- 000,000 Public Works Program of Icummumty facilities in Alaska. The program would include new schools, which he said are needed immed- iately. Ryan said Alaskan children were‘ of a superior intelligence because of the “high grade” of the Terri- He added, ruefully, that the level of the settlers had | declined in recent years. Mayor Robert E. Ellis of Ketchi-| kan and Mayor Waino Hendrickson | of Juneau also testified before a Public Works subcommittee for the | bill. Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, head of the Federal Works Agency, filed la statement saying tne program is urgently needed and that its cost to the Federal Government, half the total, would be “relatively in- eignmcam 4 - {INTERPORT RATES ON AUTOS MADE BY. ALASKA STEAMSHIP SEATTLE. April 28 — (M — ‘The Alaska Steamship company extends the cov e of its special Alaska interport rates on private automo- biles of line passengers today. Adm. F. A. Zeusler, Executive Assistant to the President, announced. Admiral Zeusler cited vehicle rates which have existed for years between Cordova and Seward and Valdez, the Richardson highway gateway to the interior of Alaska. with the maintenance of the Haines Cut-off of the Alaskan Highway, Southeast Alaska resi- dents have shown an increased irterest in automobile shipping, Zeusler said. The new rates apply between the ports of Ketchikan, = Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Skagway, sitka, and Haines in Southeast | Alaska and between these ports and Valdez. Haines and Valdez .are the two couthern terminals of the Alaska Eighway system. London Darkened By Edipse, Fog LONDON, April 28.—#— London was darker than usual this morn- ing. A partial eclipse of the sun darkened the city. = Scientists at Greenwich Observatory said they couldn’t see the eclipse through the regular fog. A ol e The CDA will breakfast Sunday | morning following the 8:30 Mass. |ference that if he didn't’ think _pDeputy Foreign Minister Jakob A. Malik in New York yesterday by| " | ment whether it stands firmly or: |other than to end the blockade. toward lifting of the Berlin block- ade The President told a news con- the Russian feelers were advanced in good faith, the United States would not be continuing conversa- tions on the matter. These conversations have now reached the stage of final decision with Russia controlling the next move. The Soviets were expected to reply soon tc the questions ralsed by the Western powers on whether their only condition for ending the | blockade is a Western agreement to a meeting of the Council of For- eign ministers. The Western powers already have made known their willingness to join such a meeting, once B.rlin| conditions are restored to normal. What they are trying to nnu] down now is the point that Russia | does not insist on suspending the drganization of non-Communist Western Germany pending the ses- sion. The British-American-French in- quiry was presented to Soviet American Ambassador Phillip Jes-| sup. Jessup read a memorandum on the policy of the three powers to Malik and gave him a ncte to forward to Moscow. They mel in a conference which lasted 80 min- utes. Late in the day Jessup retvined | to Washington to report to Secre- tary of State Acheson and other American policy makers and await the next Soviet move. That coult be a long time coming. But mnny‘ authorities here believed the Soviets would respond promptly. The three power note is reporied to have asked the Soviet guveri- the blockade lifting proposal re- leased by the ‘l'ass News Azency in a Moscow dispatch Tuesday. This proposal represented Rusiia as being willing to abolish the re- strictions on surlsce iransportation ! between Berlin and the Western zenes of Germany. In exchange, “he Russians were said to want a mneet- ing of the Big. Four foreign min- isters to discuss all outstanding! German issues involving the. Four | Powers. | s | RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT | BERLIN, April 28—umn—Russian- controlled papers in Berlin are| claiming. that it was the United | States that started the new nego- tiations to lift the Berlin blockade. These papers also are telling the | German people that if the Soviets lift the Llockade, it will not indicate | they have been out-maneuvered.| The anti-Communist press has needleq the Communjsts about the new overtures and with taunts that the Russian blockade was a failure. One anti-Communist new-ptper, quotes a Russian diplomat as ad-| mitting that the Soviet has lost prestige through the failure of the Berlin blockade. A British licensed | paper credits this remark to Rus- sian Ambassador V. S. Semionov. No other source has confirmed it. The Russian is said to have de- clared that Russia had no choice| Negro Shot and Killed By Anchorage Native ANCHORAGE, April 28.—#—Ar- thurs Zumbolt, a Ntgro, was shot and killed late yesterday south of the city near the Chester Creek flats. John Tolenic, a Native, was ar- rested and held for questioning: Police said Tolenic, a fisherman, was drunk when arrested, and that he would be questioned “as soon as e’s rational.” “The Marshal's office said Tolenic had ‘been released only recently from the Federal penitentiary at Reaches Age 21 CELEBI!AT[NG twenty - first birthday, Filin Star Shirley Tem- ple comes into fortune earned as child actress, estimated at r\elx‘ly 34,000 000. (Internatic i) FISHING VESSEL OWNERS T0 FIGHT TERRITORIAL TAX Will Refuse Payment, then Prepare fo Make Test Of Issue in Court KETCHIKAN, April 28. —(P— Members of the' Seattle Fisting Vegsel Owners Association, who i control the bulk of the non-resi- dent fleet now departing from the North Pacific halibut banks, are | going to fish and cut payment. They indicated today they’ll re- fuse to pay the new $50 per man non-resident fisherman's license en- acted by the recent Alaska legis- lature. Thor Henrickson of Ketchikan, local agent for the vessel owners, said the plan is to refuse to pay the tax when the demand is made and to make a test court case out of it. The law requires the buyer ot tish to deal only with licensed crews, so the showdown is expected within two weeks when the first halibut begins to arrive. Henrickson said the previous li- cense of $25 on non-residents did | not include halibut tishermen. Vis- iting owners contend Alaska has no jurisdiction over the fleet, which | makes its catch outside the three- mile limit. Merchants here said they feared | the license would force many boats to sell their catch at Prince Rupert, B. C, or Seattle. e o o Independent India Announces Staying With Commonwealth LONDON, April 28—#— In Lon- don it has been announced that India will remain a part of the British Commonwealth -even when she becomes an independent sover- eign republic in August, By staying in the Commonwealth, | India accepts the King as the symbol of the free association, but King George will not be monarch of India. An elected president will take the place of the King's Gov- ernor-General in India. Other members of the British Commonwealth are Britain, Can- ada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. e e JAMES MAKRIS DIES AT ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL James Makris, 67, died at St Ann’s hospital at 2:50 o'clock this morning . following several days fll- ness. Formerly of Portland, he had been In Alaska for about three years. He was born in Greece, and came to America as a youth. His Reservations should be made by llelephon!ng Black 472. McNeil Island, Wash. |family has remained in Greece. SEATTLE, April 28.- The 010 Longshoremen’s Union is try- ng to get a court order here to srevent the NLRB from seeking an Alaska court injunction against the dlcketing of the Juneau Spruce Zorporation Plant. 5. District Judge Lloyd L. Black issued an order in the case yesterday. He ordered Thomas Gra- 9am, Regional Director of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board, to some inte court Monday to show H— why Le should not be restrained| rom seeking an anti-picketing in- unction in Pederal Court at Ju- neau. The injunction request in Alaska vould be aimed at the Internation- 1l Longshoremen and Warehouse- men’s Union, which has kept the Juneau mill closed for a year in a jurisdictional dispute with a CIO woodworkers union. The Seattle court action was fil- °d against Graham by Germain Bulcke, second vice president of the anion, and Erland Pearson, presi- dent of its local 16 at Juneau. The union complaint contends the district court in Juneau does not have jurisdiction in the ex- pected NLRB anti-picketing action. Graham sald today the board is preparing to file the suit in Ju- jeau. He said it notified the union of such intention after the lomg- horemen’s Union refused to stop sicketing despite an NLRB finding /hat it' was not entitled to the work it claimed at the Juneau mill The work had been done previously .| pital COMMIES " DRIVE ON Occupying chs Nearing -Americans Given t Chance fo Leave By FRED HAMPSON SHANGHAI, April 28—(®—The tscape gate from Communist threatened Shanghal began closing slowly today. For foreigners, the.last ships were preparing to get under way. For the Chinese, land routes were coming under Red troop domi- nation, Afrplanes still took out refugees over land and sea. The American liner President Wil- son, likely to be the last liner to call here for some time, sailed down the Whangphoo this after- noon. Ahoard were 300 evacuees, 150 of them American. Those Americans who elected to stay in Shanghai—some 1,500 of them—are now here come what may. One small US. Navy craft during the afternoon took a few straggler ;refugees down the river to the hos- ship Refuge. Navy sources hinted that may the last boat out. Big naval craft moored down the, river, out of range of Com- munist shore guns, may depart to- night or tomorrow, one naval afll- cer sald. The approaching Communists ap- peared (0 be at léast 30 or 40 miles - BIG CITY 9y the woodworkers union mem-laway io . bers. they took ' “Seoghow . (Wuhsien), The longshore union also con-|about 50 miles west of Shanghai, tends in its action here that the|early yesterday. Their advance may Juneau court does not have juris-{be slowed down because they still iiction, under the Taft-Hartley Act,!have not sufficlent forces ferried ‘or a damage suit against the un-|across the Yangtze to handle the ion. The $1,025000 action by the|various drives which are develop- Juneau Spruce Corporation now 1s/ing. . proceeding in the Juneau court. ‘The Reds scemed to be taking Itheir time toward Shanghai pos- 'sibly because they want an ade- “Aw READY "o |quate occupying force at hand iwhen they enter the city. Shanghai, the world's fourth largest city, is IAKE AMERI(A"S also big geographically and the Reds will need many men even for FRoM S“ A“GH AIH peaceful takeover. Guerrillas Captured The Assoclated Press office here itoday heard in a round acout way President Declares There: o’ it o™ cs, soowoen? " Seymour Topping of New York, was Has Been No "“Run lcommed to his house by the Reds rr and was not allowed any visitors. 0"' as RepOfled + (Through an error Communist !capture of Putung across the river WASHINGTON, April 28—®—|from Shanghai’s business district President Truman declared today |had been reported. Several Com- that. the Navy is amply prepared |[munist guerrillas were captured to remove all Americans fromthere. Shanghai. ! (Misinterpretation of a cable The President told a news con-jfrom the Associated Press bureau ference he understood there were in Shanghai resulted in the error. reports the Navy had run out ou|The cable read: “Group Reds cap~ American civilians at Shanghai, !tured Putung across Whangpoo now threatened by Chinese Com-{river from Shanghal.” munists. (Subsequent cables from Shang- Speaking solemnly, he said there|haj make it clear the sentence re- is no foundation- in fact for any|ferred to captured guerrillas of such report. whom an Associated Press photog- The Navy, Mr, Truman went on,} (npher tried to take pictures in has done an excellent job Al Shanghai. He was roughed up by Shanghai and has been ready h!Nmamlm soldiers and prevented all times to take out Americans in(taking the pictures as the guer- the city. lnna. were led through, Shanghai The liner President Wilson, the|streets.) President said, left Shanghai wll.hl Retired President Chaing Kai- vacancies, and the Presideat Plerce ghek left by ship Sor Amoy, island and President Van Buren are stilijport off the south coast opposite avallable for further cvacuations.|Formosa. Chiang yesterday issued The President Wilson sailed from [a statement calling on the Chinese Shanghai today. to fight as hard against the Com- The Navy, he added, has been!munists as they did against the available at all times to help these ! Japanese. commercial liners remove Ammunsl and is still ready to do so. “There are no navy combat bmu there, are there?” a reporter asked. Yes, there are, the President re- plied. | Women (ommies Stage Riof; Many Arresis Are Made CALCUTTA, India, April 28.—P— Seven persons, four of them wo- men, were killed in a clash be- tween Communists and police here last night. Tension still was marked to- day, but the city was relatively quiet. Strong police patrols were posted at known potential trouble ——— MEDIATOR WANTED, ! ASTORIA DEADLOCK ASTORIA, Apru 28—®—The fed- eral mediation service has been asked by the CIO Cannery Workers here to intervene in its deadlocked wage negotiations with packers. Henry Niemela, union secretary, said the talks have been stale- mated for two months. He said the|spots. union recently asked 13 cents an|' Last night's riot flared whén hour boost over $1.18 paid last year.iwomen Communists, defying a ban The original packers' offer was aion paradgs, started @ progession to 5-cent reduction in wages. At that!|express sympathy for those arrest- time the union had asked a 2.’:~cent|ed and put in jail. A mob hurl- ‘toost. ed bombs, bottles and brickbats. e Mg e et