The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1949, Page 1

.and Arabs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,199 TERRIS MOORE NEW HEAD OF UNIV. ALASKA Successor to Dr Bunnell Is Named by Board of Regents PAIRBANKS, May 18 —(#—Terris | Moore, treasurer of the Boston| Museum of Natural Science, is to| be the new University of Alaska president. The Board of Regents announc- | ed his appointmént today to suc- ceed Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, who retires July 1. Moore is a Harvard graduate in business administration and a form- | er instructor at the Universi¥y of | California at Los Angeles. Until| recently he was president of the Boston Museum. He has acted in | the past as consultant to the Gov- | ernors of Connecticut and Massa- | chusetts. Cambrige, Mass., is his| home. | He has visited Alaska a number of times on mountain climbing ex- peditions with Bradford Washburn | and as a civilian consultant to the military during a 1942 ascent of Mt. McKinley. The appointment climaxed the longest regent’s session in the; school's history. It began Thurs- | day and was scheduled to end late | today. The regents also authorized pre-, liminary steps for creation of a1 University of Alaska Graduate | School by September, 1950. It also| passed a resolution to allow the Executive Committee of the Board to borrow up to $500,000 on the college assets, at four per cent in- terest, for essential constryction. | | | | | i PROPOSALS MADE | IN FORD STRIKE| (By Associated Press) The strike at the Ford Motor Company reaches the end of its| second week today, with acuvel government intervention still in the | offing. i Federal Mediator Arthur Viat still has not decided whether to step into the talks between the; company and the C.I.0. United Auto Workers. Some ehserversi think hell stay out as long asj both sides keep making proposals. | The Federal Mediator has held| separate talks with company and union officials. i ITALY'S COLONY SPLIT DEFEATED The Bevin-Sforza plan to split up Italy’s prewar colonies among four nations failed early today in the United Nations Assembly. A last-minute Latin American re- volt brought defeat to the American supported measure which the Slavs had denounced as a “deal to strengthen British-Ameri- can control of the Mediterranean.” The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrixht, 1040, by Bell Svndicate, Ine.) ASHINGTON — When the edi- tors of Railway Brotherhood jour- nals filed into President Truman’s| office the other day, Truman greet- ed them with: “I understand there are no Wed- nesday Democrats in this group. I also understand that you boys did quite a job in the recent unpieas- antness.” Truman referred not to the last war kut to his political conflict| with the Republicans in Novemben “We did our best/ Mr. President,” replied Irving Lippe, editor of the| Raillway Trainmen’s hart-hitting “Trainman News” which was on; the Truman main line all during; the campeign. “However,” Lippe continued, “how are we going to make out in the little unpleasantness on Capitol Hill, | involving Taft-Hartley repeal?” “I think we are going to miake out okay,” grinned the President, (Continued on Page Four) | tured more votes than all three of | | distributed { assistant vice president of Amer- | transportation !evacuation of American citizens. i Wilson put in at Shanghai, just ! would take that city, only 25 more |year as compared to ROOSEVELT IS WINNER, N.Y.POLLS Elected fo Congress by Tre- | mendous Vofe-Tam- | many Gefs Licking | NEW YORK, May 18 — I — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr,, first of | the late President's five children to seek elective office, has launched kis = political career by giving Tammany Hall a sound licking. The 34-year-old lawyer, bearing one of the most potent political names in the nations history, cap- in winning yester- | district his opponents day’s 20th Congressional special election. 3 | Roosevelt collected 41,146 votes, | 131,037 on the Liberal party ticket and 10,109 under the Four Free- doms party banner. His three opponents got 39,726 this way: Municipal Court Justice Benjamin Shalleck, Democrat, 24,352; Willlam M. Mc- Intyre, Republican, 10,026; Dr. Annette T. Rubinstein, ALP, 5348.| Sources close to Roosevelt said | he would leave by plane tomorrow for atroad, going to Paris and Palestine. It was not known how long he planned to remain abroad.: He was not immediately available for comment on his plans. His jubilant supporters, toasting bim at rallies throughout the dis- trict last night, chanted “Next stop, Albany—the Governors Mansion” | and “The Next Governor of New! York." His father was governor two terms, vaulting from there to the White House. DANAHER ARRIVES FOR S. E. ALASKA - CAR FERRY SURVEY Among the passengers on yester-, day's delayed flight from Seattle which arrived this morning, was a| prominent West Coast steamship | man, John T. Danaher. He 1s ican President Lines, with offices in San Francisco. His career in the field includes 30 years with that line, through its| various changes. Danaher has been engaged by t,he Alaska Road Commission to conduct the car-ferry survey of Southeast Alaska requested recently by Sec- retary of the Interior J. A. Krug. He was in conference with Col. John R. Noyes, Alaska Road Com- missioner, shortly after arriving here. The tense situation in China de- layed Danaher’s coming for a week, as his office was concerned with However, according to Danaher, when the luxury liner President | when it looked as though the Reds | persons came out than were on the original passenger list. “And we thought,” said Danaher, “we'd have people sleeping in life- | boats on that trip. Most Americans | have such large financial interests there that they hated to leave.” The proposed ferry system for| truck and passenger automobiles would serve coastal towns in-South- east Alaska in links starting at Prince Rupert, B. C., and continu- | ing to Haines, probably with a terminus at Juneau and resumption of the water route at Tee Har- bor. HALIBUT CATCHES FOR FIRST 2 WEEKS Of vital interest to halibut fish- ermen is the report on the 1949 jcatch for the first two weeks of the season. It is contained in a telegram just received from H. A. Dunlop of the International Fisheries Commission. Landings from May 1 to May 14, inclusive, are as follows: Area 2 (Cape Flattery to Cape Epencer) —9,476,000 pounds this 10,491,000 pounds last year. Area 3 (Cape Spencer to Unimak Pass) —1,282,000 pounds this year, | seize control | Paris meetings. against 2,270,000 pounds in 1948. | RUSSIAIS GIVEN JOLT | year-old Jimmy Albright elimbed up ATPOLLS Staggeringilo—w Struck by Election Returns- Communists Lose (By The Associated Press) Russia, jolted by a 4,000,000 snub in yesterday’'s east German elec- tion returned, 1aces Four Power talks on Germany with a lot less bargaining power than she expected to have. The Communists claim a “tre- mendous victory” in the election, but the fact that one-third of the voters went against them was a staggering “blow. It undoubtedly has forced Russia to reappraise | her plan of action as she approach- es the Paris conference. For one thing, she must weigh new factors in deciding what posi- tion to take on any proposa! for withdrawal of all occupation armies from Germany. Before the elections the Rus- sians had been reported as favor- ing withdrawal by both East and Westoceupation forces, presumably with the idea that East German | Communists were strong enough to all man embracing zones. Another question must give the Russians pause: In an area swarm- ing with Soviet troops and Red spies, how many Germans voted for the Communist slate, although act- ually wishing they had the courage to vote against it? The one-third “no” vote greatly strengthens the hands of the United States, Britain and France in the They now will face Russia’s strategists, knowing that| most of West German's 46,000,000 inhabitants are against Communism and that at least 4,000,000 East Germans don’t like it any better. REFUGEES FROM SHANGHAI ARE COMING BY AIR SHANGHAI, May 18—M—Sixty- one European refugees departed by air today for Vancouver, B.C. Two Alaska Airlines C-54's are expected in tomorrow to take out others. * As of today 1,750 European refu- gees remained in Shanghai. Most of them were eager to get out. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 18.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 90%, Anaconda 29, Curtiss Wright 9, International Harvester 24%, Kennecott 45%, New York government Central 11%, Northern Pacific 15%, | | U. 8. Steel 70%, Pound $4.03. Sales tcday were 750,000 shares. Averages today are as follow. industrials 174.93, rails 48.02, util- ities 35.99. WANAMAKER VISITS HERE E. A. Wanamaker of the Wana- maker Supply Company. Seattle, is a passenger aboard the 'Baranof, continuing his business trip to the Westward, after most of a week in Juneau. He made a side jaunt to Sitka Monday. While here, the Seattle Rotarian attended yesterday’s meeting of the Juneau Rotary Club, and he also has been renewing many acquaint- ances. Wanamaker’s wholesale firm deals in fruit, produce and groceries, as well as Alaska and ship supplies. FROM KETCHIKAN A. G. Robie of Ketchikan is at the Baranof Hotel. of any Central Ger- | | 1y, i | bridge. ! barveling for Seattle. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1949 TEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE, May )l—lfl— Seven- i under a railroad trestle last night and stuck his head in a gap be- tween two girders. Here is what followed: A Great Northern mail train was | flagged to a stop down the tracks. A firetruck screamed to the scene. Police cars and ambulances wail- ed to a halt. Railroad crews rushed to the Traffic jammed on the highway below. Hydraulic jacks grunted and strained. An acetylene torch show- ered sparks. And 90 minutes after he stuck his head in, Jimmy pulled it out. His ears were sollen. There were tears on his face. There was lard on his head. And in his heart was a solemn vow never to go under another bridge unless he had his mother along. A playmate immediately ran ta the Clifton Albright home when 1t became apparent Jimmy's head was stuck for fair. Albright came run- | ning with the lard-bucket and they | greased the boy's head until 1t| was siick as a peeled egg. No go.| That little noggin was stuck in the bridge like a stopper in a crock. Albright called the police. Police | and firemen may have been dubious | about the message: “There’s a boy out at Ballard with his head stuck | in a railroad bridge.” But they came on the run anyway. *Up ‘the tracks the mail train wi A ot duty Northern Pacific = switchmap, J. A. France, flagged down’ the train and probably saved the boy’'s life. Officials said the weight of the rattler probably would have | crushed the youngster’s head. But the bridge fit as snug as ever over Jimmy's head. Some one came up with an idea—cut him loose. { A doctor administered a sedative | to keep Jimmy quiet—comparative- | and workers wrapped wwels,‘ asbestos and sheet . metal around him and a man came up with a| cutting torch. It was warm, but Jimmy's moth- er told him to be a man and sit | still, which he did, and pretty soon the workman had cut’a hunk right out of the girder and Jimmy | was' free. The doctor looked at him and said he was OK; but needed a bath. So he rushed home and had one. And Mr. and Mrs. Al- bright declared they never even bothered to tell Jimmy “don’t ever do that again,” VESSEL SEAMAN INJURED IN FALL To be sent to the Marine hos-| pital at Seattle by plane tomorrow is Dominic McGreal, cook aboard the Alaska Steamship vessel Coastal Rambler, who was seriously injured in a fall from the dock early Sun- day morning. MeGreal was taken to St. Ann's hospital with- a compound frac- ture of the ankle and injuries to the lower spine. He fell about 15 feet. His home is in Portland. | North Atlanfic Pad Hearingsfo | Be Ended lndayi (By Associated Press) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today winds up hear- irgs in Washington on the North Atlantic Pact after 16 days of pub- | lic testimony. 1t is expected to give unanimous approval of the treaty. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Thursday. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to safl from Vancouver Saturday. Baranof scheduled southbound on Monday. THOUSANDS | ceded today, jshelters | city officials in October. Only 626 ! voters out of nearly 5000 eligible | SEATTLE BANKER PRICE TEN CENTS HOMELESS IN SOUTH Three Days—of Turbulent | Weather Brings Toll of | B 14 Dead, 138 Injured | ] FORT WORTH, Tex., May 18—(® ! | —Flood waters that inundated great sections of Fort Worth re- leaving behind the body of a seventh victim and a crippled drinking water supply. The swirling flood that covered residential, business and industrial areas in the Trinity valley areas here injured 30 persons and left | an estimated 13,000 homeless. The homeless spent last night in public or with relatives and friends. At dawn, weary searchers, work- ing the flooded area in koats and afcot, found the body of a man identified by police as John B. Fawks near the animal cages in Forest Park. The newest drowning increased the toll for three days of turculent weather in Texas and Oklahoma to 14 dead and more than 138 in- | jured. | Miss Rita Clifford, 20, of Braintree, The count was seven drownedl and 30 treated at hospitals here, mostly from shock and exposure, five dead and 83 injured from a tornado at Amarillo Sunday night; | cne dead and more than 38 injured from twisters in Oklahoma, and one dead and at least 12 1njured lin West Texas tornadoes. |ANCHORAGE HOLDS QUIET ELECTION ANCHORAGE, May 18—(®—An- chorage voters approve increasing the mayor’s term to two years and ccuncilmen’s terms to three years, . each. Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) predicted In a small vote'at a special elec-;‘od“y Algxka is _gumg to have “ter- tion yesterday, they also favored ! Tible diificulty” in getting statehood turning over two blocks of part approved at this session of Con- reserve to the school district for a|87ess: new school, closed one road for one| He made this prediction to a block to enlarge the tall park nndim’““ Public Lands subcommittee. provided for a recreational area|““er he told a reporter passage of without a traffic hazard. Alaska, Hawaii statehood bilis had Voters will get the first chance been jeopardized by a “three-cor- to vote for longer terms for other|nered fight” between House Speak- er Rayburn (D-Texas), the Presi- dent, and Chairman Sabath (D-II) . + {of the House Rules committee, turned out in the five precinets. | “.rye president called Chairman Sabbath to the White House and i teld him to get 10 bills, including | Alaskan statehood, before the House for action,” Crawford told a report- er, “He did not mention Hawaii, and thereby produced a most beautiful setup for both bills to be killed.” Exdlanae of War Prisoners Causes Big Arab Splif Up HAIFA, Isracl, May 18—(®—An Israeli and a Syrian officer ar- |ranged a meeting in no-man’s-land today to discuss a disagreement about war prisoners. The meeting follows a break- down of armistice negotiations be- Martin is a prominent member | tween Syrla and Israel. Rumors of ashi Athletic Club | Persist of troop concentrations on g, Wasnaten, | Loth sides of the frontier. PREDICTED' STATEHOOD ® WASHINGTON, May 18.—(#-- ON ALASKA TOUR Fowler Martin, a Seattleite well-| known throughout the Territory,| showed up briefly in Juneau and will return in two or three weeks for a stay of 10 days or more. Martin, Vice-President of the Pacific National Bank, makes an annual tour of Alaska, covering every important city and many small communities between Ketchi- kan and Nome. He came north on the Princess Louise, going to Skagway; then he| flew back here Monday., Martin was on yesterday afternoon’s PNA flight to Cordova, to start an itin- erary that includes Anchorngc,} Seward and Fairbanks. g Some weeks ago an exchange of ‘an prisoners was agreed on but the ® © o ® 0’0 7 o 0 9 ® o Syrians are reported to have * ® [charged that there still ave about ® WEATHER REVORT *®|1& Syrian war prisoners held in [ (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU o | Israel. ® This data is for 24-hour pe- @ % ® riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST. ® At Juneau— Maximum, 46; Ala k R “ d Suzhyduras : Alaska Railroa ® At Airport--Maximum, 46 @ bouy . Swilchman Run ° FORECAST b4 o & . ] and Vieinity) . l l g ® Partly cloudy tonight and ® 'ell oses e ® Thursday. Lowest tempera- o FAIRBANKS, jiay i8—# Rich- ® ture near 40 degrees tonight, e ard C. Hamilton, 24, Alaska Rail- ® highest Thursday near 58. o rcad section hand, was run over| e PRECIPITATION o yesterday by a switch engine at @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | Healy, 112 miles south of here, o |lcsing one leg and suffering serious ® In Juneau — 1.06 inches; ® since May 1, 4.04 inches; e injury to the other. ® ‘since July 1, 11130 inches. ® He was flown to Fairbanks for ® At Airport — .18 inches; e |hospitalization by the Ladd Field ® since May 1, 32 inches; e Tenth Rescue Squadron plane from ® since July 1, 6381 inches. e Nenana, whence he had bgen taken L py railroad ambulance car. His © 0060000 ¢ 0 o o o foimerhomeils Los Angeles. Who! Me! | Mass., (center), registers astonish- ment as she hears judges announce her as winner of the photo- genic contest sponsored by the Boston Press Photographers’ Associa- tion. Contestants registering various reactions to news include (left to right) Gerry Slattery of Walpole, Mass., Miss Cliffod; Jane Dunn | of Mattapan, Mass., and Joan Marie Dike of Boston. (# Wirephoto. | W_|BIG PROGRAM FOR ALASKA NOW ASKED Defense Secretary Johnson Wants to Spend Over $623,125,000 } WASHINGTON, May 18-—(®—| Defense Eecretary Johnson today asked Congress for authority to go ahead with a $623,125,682 housing and building program for the armed services. He said the need is “‘eritical.” Simultaneously, a Presidential committee reported that in many places, “servicemen are forced to pay penthouse rents for chicken coop homes in the slum areas that ! have grown up near military in- stallations in recent years.” The money that would be spent in Johnson's program has been in- cluded in President Truman’s $15,- | 000,000,000 defense budget for the | vear starting July 1. But Congress had not yet approved the appro- priations. ‘The proiects include: i Alaska: Survey Valdez pipeline: $315,000. Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska: ipetroleum terminal storage, $6,- 1800,000. Fort Richardson, Alaska: Ord- nance shops, water intake, petro- leum terminal storage and dock, design of 400 tzed station hosplul.! water supply, warehouses, heat and power plant, water treatment, en- listéd men's service club, outside utilities, bachelor officers ‘quarters, | tarracks, family housing and utili- ties, $46,720,000. | Waittler, Alaska: outside utili- ties, central heat and power plant, 'Charges Made Russia Starting New Blockade Boy Gels Head Stuck Between Girders on Railroad Trestle; (ommetion (aused Thereby "'SUBTLE BLOCKADE" OF BERLIN American Of—licials Make Charge of New: Inter- ence on Highway By DANIEL DE LUCE B_ERLXN. May 18—(P—American officials charged today that Russia is seeking to relmpose a ‘“‘subtle blockade” of Berln. C. A. Dix, American Military Government transport expert hur- riedly left here by car to investi- gate why 150 West German trucks are now held at Helmstedt on the Soviet zone frontier. Official reports said the frontier guards were demanding suddenly that truckers present written per- mits from the Soviet-appointed East German economic commission for entry of all cargoes, whether consigned to West Berlin or East zonal points, ‘The Russians also claim the right to control all exports from West Berlin, although the blockade was lifted officially May 12. This claim has clocked rajl and truck ship- ments westward. The Soviet claims—if accepted by the Western Allles—would enable the Russian military administration to control the volume and charac- ter of all West Berlin's land-borne commerce with Western Germany. The Soviet frontier ban on cargoes lacking the East German economic commission's prior ap- proval yas, ins ot H proval was. instiuted. ot Helmsteds It came m lha mtdn ol Four- Power talks in Berlin attempting to straighten out disputes over trade and communications between East and West Germany. JOHN J. McCLOY IS SELECTED TO TAKE POST IN GERMANY WASHINGTON, May 18— — dohn J. McCloy, now President of the World Bank, took on the job today of representing the United States in the delicate shift of Ger- :nulny from mflimry to civilian con~ 10 The Whlte House announced President Truman has selected Mc- Cloy to be the first United States High Commissioner to Germany. He will leave for Berlin “within the near future.” Directors of the World Bank ac- cepted - McCloy's resignation and elected Eugene Black, now a di- rector, to President of the Bank. McCloy, 54, gave up remunerative law practice in New York to take over the Presidency of the World Bank on Feb, 28, 1947. During he war, he had been Assistant Secretary of the War (Army) Department, where he picked up experience bearing on toth the tank job and his new German post by handling lend- lease, military government and State Department liaison for the Army. The White House said that Mc- Cloy will serve as military governor ot the United States occupied zone of Germany pending the shift to civilian government. RIVERS IN PACIFIC composite bachelor housing, service and recreation building, $12,645,700. Adak, < Alagka: permanent com- | munication facility, including build- ' ings, collateral equipment, and ac- ctssory, construction, magazine buildings and aceessory construc- tion, permanent facilities including buildings, collateral equipment and | eccessory construction of commu- nicaticn supplemental activity, family quarters and utilities, $22,- | 616,000. | Naval Operating Base, Kodiak, | Alaska: extension of runway, family quarters and utilities, $2,- 548,000. Alaska: warmup shelters for air- craft, §1,000,000. Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska: theater, maintenance docks, utili-| ties, utildor and tie-in. to new power plant, retrlgemuon bulldmc‘ (Continued on Pnge E‘xhl) NORTHWEST RISING (By the .ssociated Press) In the Northwest, rivers are ris- ing again. The Columbia is expected to reach almost 24 feet at Vancouver, Wash., by Saturday. That's more than eight feet above flood stage at Vancouver, but six teet under the disastrous crest of 1948. No great damage is expected, but | lumber mills at Ridgefield have been closed, and a number of homes evacuated. A dozen homes were flooded at Okanogan, and a thousand acres o1 land are inundated near Tonas- ket in the northeastern part of the state. ‘The Treasury Department now collects nearly 2% billion dollars u year in taxes on alcohol.