The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,201 ACHESON 1S LEAVING FOR PARIS MEET Nearly 200 NO TROUBLE (New Threat, RUSSIAIS ONFISHING, - COOK INLET Ford Sirike —_— | DETROIT, May 20— (- Ford | Motor Company today flatly re!used‘ to open simultaneous union con- | Facin JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1949 GIVENIT STRAIGHT SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES " AREPROBED MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Ma'sProud « PRICE TEN CENTS g Peril in Northern Region 180 NATIVES CUT OFF BY ARCTIC ICE | tract talks while negotiations con- Russia Must Now Make| Overtures at Foreign Ministers Confab (By the Associated Press) U. 8. Secretary of State Dean Acheson leaves today for the Paris Foreign Ministers conference on Germany. America, Britain and France appear ready to face Rus- sia in their strongest positions since Yalta. Acheson made clear his primary purpose at the talks will not be an East-West agreement on Germany just for the sake of agreeing. In-! stead, he expressed determination te protect the economic recovery and political stability of all West- ern Europe, in which Germany plays a vital part. RUSSIANS MUST ACT Observers in Berlin pelieve that in the Paris talks for the first time the West can take the offensive or sit tight and let the Russians seek to break the deadlock. In previous parleys the West was in a defensive position, trying to seek ‘agreements from Russia. Diplomats say the Western posi- tion has Jbeen strengthened by booming prosperity in Western Germany, a growing surge against Communism throughout all Ger- many and by Russia’s open failure to freeze out the Western Powers with her Berlin blockade. “TRAFPFIC “TO BERLIN- Traffic rolled on all roads Berlin without Russian interference although. the Russians still have not answered Western protests against their on-again-off-again rules. Economists of the Russian and Western zones got together for more talks in their deadlocked ef- to Gives Denial to Com- plainf by Wiese | ' ANCHORAGS, =<1y 20—@—An | AFL Fishermen’s Union tusiness |agent charged yesterday that John Wiese, President of the CIO West- ward Alaska Fisheries Council, is not bargaining in good faith lor[ a commercial fishing contract. E Altred Owen Jr., business agent| of the United Fishermen of Cook Inlet, made the charge after Wiese requested that Henry Benson, Ter-| ritorial Labor Commissioner, ap- point a mediator to participate in| | negotiation here, i “If Wiese were bargaining in' 1good faith, he would ask for an arbitrator instead of a mediator,” Owen said. | | He explained a mediator would only act as a chairman in a meet- ing to bring the bargaining parties together, whereas an arbitrator| | would study the merits of the case and attempt to render a decision. Owen denied Wiese's claim that management has refused to nego-| tiate. | “We are having no trouble with |the industry, ~even though no sgreement has yet been reached”| Owen said. “Management is notj | failing to negotiate or bargain. We i meet every day or two and no one is mad.” Owen said contracts have not been completeq for Cordova, Ko-; diak, or Upper and Lower Cook| Inlet. Owen reported progress is being made in negotiations at Cordova,| Lower Cook Inlet and Anchorage. i “In Kodiak, there is no particular !hurry, as the season doesn't open| | until June 6,” he said. { Meanwhile, the commercial fish- ing season opens today. But Owen 8 inn | tinue for settlement of the CIO Buslness Age"' Of Union‘vnned Auto Workers' 16-day-old | strike. | eral Mediator Arthur C. Viat inter- The UAW._ threatened last night | te walk out on strike peace talks| unless the company agreed to be-| gin consideration on a new contract by next Monday. The Union's Ford contract expires July 15. | John S. Bugas, Ford Vice-Presi- dent, reaffirmed in a new confer- ence today the company’s previous stand that it would not consider starting contract talks before June ' By “The union is using this attempt to double up on negotiations as a| means of confusing the issues in!| this strike,” Bugas declared. Bugas' statement came as Fed- vened for the government in aeross- the-table peace talks on the 16th aay of the Ford strike. BRSNS SEATILE CC PARTY | HERE ON TUESDAY ABOARD ALEUTIAN SEATTLE, May 20— (® — Seattle | Chamber of Commerce members will board the steamer Aleutian Saturday for a 10-day tour of| Alaska “to find out what we can| do to help Alaska businessmen,” | John H. Perry, chairman of the Chamber's Alaska Division an- nounces. The tour will include meetings with Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters- burg, Sitka, Juneau, Seward, An- chorage and Fairbanks chambers of commerce and businessmen and a visit to the Matanuska Valley. ‘The traveling list, as announced by Perry: | the sState Department today. The (GENERATOR, COULEE State Department Sends Sharp Note Regarding | U.S. Aid to Greece WASHINGTON, ‘May 20— (®— United States has told Russia that il it wants peace in Greece it should get the Communist satellite states to stop aiding the Greek guerrillas. Until such help is ended this government will not relax assistance | tc non-Communist Greece, | These two points were disclosed | in a’lengthy statement issued by i statement brought out that the De- partment has rejected Soviet ef- forts to get the Greek situation out! of the United Nations and into the | hands of the great powers for what | amounts to a. compromise settle- ment. ‘The statement declared: “We are| prepared to discuss any matter! with the Soviet Union in the proper forum—in the case of the Greek government it is the United Na- tions.” The declaration on Greece was released as a result of a Tass re- port last night that Russia had proposed informally at United Na- tions headquarters that the United States and Britain join in a com-| mon effort to settle the fighting. DAM, IS WORKING; TRUMAN STARTS IT COULEE DAM, Wash., May 20— (M—A red light flashed atop a giant Anti-Red"Egislation Is| Under Discussion-Threat | Made by Communists | (By JACK RUTLEDGE) WASHINGTON, May 20.—(®—| Communism and economy were headline topics in Congress today. Three committees studied legisia- tive ways to railse new safeguards against infiltration of Reds into the nation’s government and economic life. Evidence given a Senate appro- priations subcommittee disclosed that a young medical student doing research work at a Boston hos- pital holds a $3,750 Atomic Energy Commission scholarship although he has been denied clearance, on se- | curity grounds, for access to secret information. AEC Chairman David E. Lilien- thal said that the scholar had de- | nied that he was a Communist. He | said, however, that security clear- | ance was withheld because of “de-| rogatory information” against him.' A House Judiciary subcommittee | studying anti-subversive legislation got a letter from Attorney General Clark that the Justice Department | is Jnvestigating or taking action| against 833 suspected subvirsive | aliens. To Go Underground Meanwhile a Senate subcommit- tee, also working on anti-Red bills, heard 'a Communist party leader W; that the party will “go un- deiground”’ if .Congress Dasses. bill requiring’ Communists and| Commuhist front organizations to| register. ' | “You would force us into !he_! position of being outlaws and you would fqrce us underground,” Arn- old Johnson, Secretary of the Com- munist party’s legislative committee, i mrs, ¥rankiin D. Roosevelt jubilantly congratulates her son, F Jr., in New York, on his victory over Tammany in special election to fill seat in Congress vacant since death of Democrat Sol Bloom. Roosevelt, running on the Liberal and Four Freedoms parties’ ticket, defeated his closest rival, Tammany backed Municipal Court Justice Benjamin H. Shalleck, by nearly 20,000 votes. Wirephoto. Winter Isn’t Over {In California; Snow in Mountains LOS ANGELE3, May 20—®— Southern California’s rugged win- ter isn't over yet, although it's mid- May. "1t snowed- tasy might in“the San Gabriel and San Bernardino moun- tains, as much as three inches fall- ing in Big Bear Valley (elevation 6750 feet). SHANGHAIIS | SHELLED BY RED FORCES Explosives from Commun- ists” Bafteries Hif in Old French Quarter Huddled on Shrinkin g Knoll as Ice Jam Causes Flood on Yukon River FAIRBANKS, May 20.—(#— Some 180 Alaska natives clustered on a shrinking poiat of high ground astride the Arctic Circle today while the ice-jammed Yukon river, which flooded their Fort Yukon { homes, inched higher about them. At Ladd Air Force base, Fairbanks | 10th Rescue Squadron officers plot- ted means of evacuating the refu- gees should efforts fail to' reblast the stubborn Yukon ice jam. The flooded area is about !0 miles northeast of here. » Four twin Mustangs, each carry- ing two 500-pound bombs, will try ianln to shatter the jam which has formed anew after being blasted | free by Air Force bombs last night. | A following C-47 then dropped | food and blankets to the natives, cut off from all sides by flood waters. : Situation »erious Rescue officlals expresséd fear that the small knoll on which the townspeople have taken refuge might become inundated. A glider or helicopter landing on the three- studded crest appears impossible and float planes are unable to put down on the river because of ice floes. lbm w; hope, however, that the jam might bring im- of 10 inches soon after last night's bombing. When the ice barrier re- locked downriver, however, the wat- er level clibed back within seven inches of its previous peak. In Danger on Knoll The radio reported there were no stlll in operation, reported s drop. . (GOV. WARREN IS | generator at 11 am. today and S forts to arrange for a revival Of| o\ o ieg. H y | :0ld the Senators. (By Associated Press) Lknown i i interzone trade. But the whole sit- uation still was a merry-go-round of confusion. WEST GERMAN STATE Plans for the new West German state continued apace. Bavaria, while rejecting the constitution for the new republic, reserved the right to enter the new government if the other 10 states in the West- ern occupation zone accept it. Four states have ratified the charter. Six others are expected to approve it, perhaps today. A West German federal government may ccme into operation by mid-July. STOCK: QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 20.—{(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 91, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 8%, International Harvester 24%, Kennecott 43%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 69%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 740,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 17352, rails 46.96, util- ities 35.73. The Washington Merry- Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrisht, 1946, by Bell Bynaicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Hottest back- fire the real estate lobby has suf- fered in its battle against public Housing didn’t get into the news- papers. It occurred at a private dinner in' Washington in honor of Sir Harold Bellman, British hous- ing tycoon. The dinner was given by Mrs. Frances Freed, widow of the late Allie S. Preed, a big construction tycoon who built the Buckingham Apartments across the Fotomac in Virginia. At the dinner were Ed- ward Carr, ex-head of the National Association of Home Builders; Oscar Kruetz, president of the National Savings and Loan League; and Morton Bodfish of the U. 8. Sav-} ings and Loan League, the latter indicted for violation of the lobby- ing act. Sir Harold is chairman of the Abbey National Building Society— British egquivalent of the Savings and Loan League—so his American (Continued on Page Four) “It doesn't matter whether there is any fishing for the next week or 5o because the fish have not begun to run yet. But we_ expect to mnl this summer without a strike. We {will complete the contract without | trouble unless there are unforeseen events to complicate it.” i 'AERIAL MAPPING | PROJECT STARTED, | | ALASKAN REGION| SAN DIEGO, Canf., May 20—#—| Four big Liberator planes of Navy | Photographic Squadron 61 left here yesterday for Nome, Alaska, to be- igin the Navy's largest aerial map- ping project. The planes, under commang of Lt. Cmdr. A. R. Barbee of Coro- |nado, Calif, will make their first stop at Great Falls, Mont. At Nome | an advanced operating base will be set up. i The expedition will be gone about four months. Results of the project are expected to provide the first accurate map ever made of the entire Alaskan region. Four Navy Beechcraft planes, with 28 officers and men, are sched- uled to leave here today for Umiat, Alaska, where they will assist US. Geological Survey personnel in ex- ploring the Brooks Mountain re- gion, at the top of Alaska. FAIRBANKS HANGAR DESTROYED BY FIRE| FAIRBANKSE, Nay fi)—(&’l—A: spark from a welder’s torch set off a blaze that completely de- stroyed the Alaska Airlines No. 3 hangar late yesterday. Frank Barr, Fairbanks manager of the airline, estimated the dam- age at $60,000, plus another $3,000 in mechanics’ personal tools. Witnesses said a workman's torch touched off the fabric on a |single engine gull-wing plane and gasoline in the wing tank ex-| | ploded. Art Leen, shop foreman, suffered minor burns. Other workmen were uninjured. WILLIAMS TO WESTWARD J. Gerald Williams, Attorney General, went to Anchorage today, planning to be there about a week on Territorial business. I ton | Schwabacher Hardware Co.; Ed- | impdsing ceremony. Ross L. Cunningham, Associate | Editor, the Seattle Times; M. Ded- erer, President, Seattle Fur Ex-| change; G. H. Duryea, Alaska | Steamship Co.; C. F. Flint, Vice- President, McKesson & Robbins, | Ino.; August Kristoferson, Pn:si-; dent, A. Kristoferson, Inc.; John H.| Perry, Partner, Perry Bros., Mor-| L. Schwabacher, President, ward H. Savage, Commissioner, Port of Seattle; Irving E. Stimpson, Partner, Frederick E. Baker & Asso- ciates; S. R. Stretton, Vice-Presi- dent, Standard Oil Co. of Califor- nia; Charles W. Thompson, Presi- dent, Washington Machinery and Storage Co.; Walter Watson, Man- ager, Seattle Branch, Armour & Co.; Herb E, Zobrist, President, Herb E. Zobrist Co.; A. L. Ganson, Seattle Chamber, tour manager; Frank C. Culver, sales representa- tave, Affiliated Gas Equipment Co.; Jack V. Rogers, director, Conser- vation and Development, Washing- ton State. ANCHORAGEMAN LOSES FIGHT ON PRISON SENTENCE, ANCHORAGE, May 20— (®—2Z. E. Eagleston has lost his 28-month fight to remain out of prison. Pederal Judge Anthony Dimond refused to suspend a three-year sentence imposed on the Anchorage businessman for assault with a dangerous weapon. Convicted -July ' 30, 1946, of assaulting and critically injuring Frank Rowley Eagleston was, sen- teniced Jan. 10, 1047 ; He carried the case to the U. 8, Supreme Court, but the high' tri- bunal refused to review it. His attorneys recently presented affidavits signed by 37 Alaska and U. S. businessmen requesting that the sentence be suspended. The mandate for judgment will be signed Monday and Eagleston will be turned over to the U. S. Marshal for transfer to the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, Wash. Eagleston paid Rowley $41,000 in a civil suit after the Ninth Dis- trict court had denied an appeal. FROM SEATTLE L. E. Buzick of the Jack T. Rau- ken Co., Seattle, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Coulee Dam became the world's greatest producer of hydroelectric power, The shining shaft of the gene- rator whirled into action as Presi- dent Truman pressed a gold tele- graph key in the nation’s capitol. Work in the east powerhouse of the big dam across the Columbia river was halted briefly for an un- “The new generator will give Grang Coulee Dam a rated power capacity of 1,100,000 kilowatts, enough to meet all the combined needs- of Washington, D.C, and Baltimore, Md.,” Reclamation Com- missioner Michael W. Straus told reporters. HOUSES FLOAT AWAY IN FLOOD, OKLAHOMA AREA OKLAHOMA CITY, May 20—® —Overnight rains brought on new flood problems for Oklahoma today as rivers, creeks and streams spread out over large areas. Thousands were driven _from their homes and crop and y damage mounted steadily as the state was gripped in its latest siege of the elements. A flash flood emerging from the waters of Cottonwood creek dealt a severe blow to Guthrie, a city of 13,000 just 30 miles north of Okla= homa City. Red Cross workers counted more than 1,000 homeless after the swol- len creek sent a wall of water surg- ing through the center of the town. Several persons . were believed missing as houses floated away. Former Regent of Greece Passes Away ATHENS, May 20—(®—Archbis- hop Damaskinos, former Regent of Greece, died suddenly today. He was 58. The Archbishop, who ruled Greece as Regent from 1944 to 1946, had been in poor health for the past several months. He suf-| fered from heart trouble. SEATTLE VISITOR J. M. Angell of the Continental Can Co., Seattle, registered yester- day at the Gastineau. i have been beaten § Money Measure The big money measure which came up in the Senate today is technically known as the Army Civ- i1 Functions bill. It provides funds : for developments in dozens oOf | states. The House already has ap- proved it. | Economy-minded Senators who three straight | times in their drive to cut gov~: ernment spending warned in ad-| vance they would try to trim this appropriation, too. Democratic Senator Douglas of | Ilinois sponsored an amendment that would reduce the total $300,- 000,000. The Senate also had before it the now-standard amendment by Republican Senators Ferguson, ol Michigan, and Bridges, New Hamp- | shire, to cut the bill by five per} cent. Economists Lose Fight i -Yesterday, economy advocntesi failed “in’ their fight to trim the $1,465,000,000 Agriculture Depart- ment bill. The Senate passed it, and sent it back to the House which had approved a similar bill. The House was talking moneg, | NOT CANDIDATE FOR U. 5. SENATE SACRAMENTO, Calif, May 20— (A—“T will not be under any cir- cumstances a candidate for the United States Senate in 1950." This was Repuclican Governor Earl Warren's response today to word from San Diego that a state- {wide move is underway to draft him for the U.S. Senate race next year. Announcement of the move- ment was credited to Jack Hanna, chairman of the San Diego County Republican committee. HANK HARMON IS NAMED DIRECTOR WELFARE BOARD Henry E. Harmon, Juneau High School instructor in industrial arts and vocational education, ' was named Director of Public Welfare too: The bill to raise military pay an average of 14 per cent was up’| for debate. Biggest increases would | go to top officers. “"'The Senate Armed Services sub- committee investigating the Mal-| medy trials was attacked in bitter | statements by Senator McCarthy | (R-Wis). The group is trying to find out if the Nazis charged with killing American prisoners of war| had been given fair trials. | Senator McCarthy claims they | were not. He says many were beat- en and tricked into confessions. Although not a member of lhe‘ Armed Services Committee, he was appointed to the investigating group | because he was one of those who! urged the probe, | Today, however, '‘be angrily quit‘ the committee because he said 1t | was “attempting to whitewash a “shameful farce.” | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Denali from Seattle scheduled to| arrive Sunday. | Aleutian scheduled to sail from| Seattle Saturday. 4 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. | Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver :Saturday, special tour trip. Baranof scheduled southtound on | Monday. today by the Territorial Board of Public Welfare, The Board today wound up its session convened here Tuesday morning. Resignation of Russell Maynard, present welfare director will be ef- fective May 31. Harmon will take over the office June 1. Harmon has been on the Juneau Public €chool faculty for the past 14 years. DISMISSAL ASKED IN EISLER APPEAL T0 SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, May 20— (#— ‘The Justice Department today noti- fied the Supreme Court that Ger- |hart Eisler is a fugitive and asked that his appeal from a contempt of Congress conviction ce dismis- sed. The notification was filed with the court in the form of a memo- randum signed by Attorney Gen- eral Tom Clark and Solicitor Gen- eral Philip B. Perlman. They said that Eisler, now de- tained in England pending a hear- ing on extradition to this country, rad “fled the United States” and so had forfeited his right to any further review of the case. The great Asiatic city of Shang- bai was shelled to#ay for the first time in China's civil war, causing the death of at least six Chinese civilians wounding 10 others. Four high explcsive shells, pre- sumably from Communist batteries :ast of the city, smashed into the old French quarter, a densely popu- lated district. A Shanghai garrison communi- jue said: the Reds opened up last night with an attack on the Woo- sung sector, 10 miles north of the :ity, where the Whangpoo river meets the Yangtze. Shanghai's time appeared to be irawing short. The Bund, famed waterfront thoroughfare, was ban- ned to civilian traffic. Important Chinese in the city were reported leaving. e 0 0007 020 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU ‘This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST, In Juneau— Maximum, 66; minimum, 41. At Airport— Maximum, 68; minimum, 35. FORECAST (Juneau and Vichity) Continued fair tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight about 40. Highest temperature Saturday about 68 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30.a m. tods. In . Jupeau City — None; since May 1, 4.04 inches; sinee July 1, 11130 inches. At ‘the. Airport — . None; since May 1, 3.2 inches: since July 1, 6381 inches. | o | TODAY’S LANDINGS ‘Today's halibut landings’ all sold | for 11 cents per pounds for small, 16.25 for mediums, 15 lor large ex- cept in one case. Selling to Booth Fisheries: Fern IT (John Lowell), 500, 5,000, 3,000; Tenakee (Ronald snnm. 1,000, 7,500, | 4,000; Frisco (Frank Wilson), 500, 2,500, 500. Selling to Engstrom Brothers: Vivien (Charles Larsen), 2,000, 6,000, Selling to E. C.'Johnson: Evolu- tion (Jim Marks), 2,000 at 11 cents, 5,000 at 16.3, 4,000 at 15. AT SEWARD GIVEN About half the population, the message said, fis gathered on the knoll, while the others, residing on higher levels of the tbwn, apparently are sate. Fort Yukon, oldest settlement on the river, lies exactly on the Arctic Circle where the Yukon makes a big bend toward the west. Airmen report a huge lake has backed ‘up across many miles of low-lying area, making it difficult to determine the exact location of the river and the stream-choking Ice jam. Ophir Also' Flooded The temperature still drops close to freezing at night in this area. Meanwhile, a second bombing squadron was to perform a similar “attack” near the mining camp ot Ophir, which is flooded by the ices choked Folger Creek headwaters. | The stream is an off-shoot of the Innoko River, a Yukon tributary. There was no report of the num- ber of persons marooned at Ophir, but an Air Force oificer who flew a bombing mission: over the area last night described the situation as “desperate.” Ophir 4s about 280 miles southwest of Fairbanks. LONGSHORE BIDS RR. TURN DOWN ANCHORAGE, May 20 — ® — Alaska Raflroad officials an- nounces they have rejécted bids re- ceived from private firms to. per- form longshoring work on the gov-" erbment dock at Seward. Bids were submitted by firms in Seattle, Seward and San Francisco. They were termed too high on a basis of cost per ton of cargo | handled. The present method of negotia- ting contracts with private firms may be supplanted by issuance of new specifications, with invitations ' to bid on the basis of straight rates | per ton for general cargo, with ex- ceptions on designated types of penalty cargo. New invitations will be offered June 4, with the awards effective Aug. 1. & Unless the new specifications produce bids from private opera- tors at rates. lower than those quoted, officials ‘sald the work would be performed by the railroad as a step -toward reducing averall costs to the Territory.