The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,206 Bridges Is Indicted for Perjury, Conspiracy FISHERMEN SEEK NON-RESIDENT TAX RESTRAINT ORDER Another suit was filed today in District Court challenging the va- lidity of the increased license of| $50 required of non-resident fish- ermen. Oscar Anderson, Secretary-Treas- urer, and the Alaska Fishermen's Union, a CIO labor union acting on behalf of certain of its mem- bers, filed a complaint against the Territory of Alaska. Represented by Attorney William L. Paul, Jr., plaintiff charges that the action of the 19th Legislature as here applied violates the 14th amendment, discriminating against. ron-residents who have equal rights Wwith residents in fishing Territorial waters; that it violates Section 9 ot the Organic Act, which deals with uniform taxes, and that it violates Article 3, Section 2 of the| Constitution, as an unwarranted| irvasion of admiralty and maritime | Jurisdiction of the United States. The AF.U. asks that the Terri- tory be restrained until further order from demanding and collecting the $50 non-resident fee, and for a judgment and decree of the court declaring the legislative act uncon- stitutional and invalid. i Roy E. Jackson of Seattle is co- counsel with Paul. Judge George W. Folta has set| June 6 for the hearing on an “ac- tion without controversy,” a friendly test case of the same legis- | lation. In that case, A. H. Ziegler, Ket-| chikan attorney, represents two non-resident masters of halibut vessels and the Polaris Fisheries of Ketchikan. | ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 60; minimum, 41. At Airport—Maximum, minimum, 32. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued fair tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight around 40 degrges. Highest Friday about 65. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In City of Juneau—None; since May 1, 4.13 inches; since July 1, 111.39 inches. At the Airport None; since May 1, 8.35 inches; since July 1, 63.91 inches. 61, | ©0000000®c0000t00000000 00 NO HANGING WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 26. —(m—State Prison Warden Tom| Smith announced today he has been notified by Justice William Denman that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had granted Jake Bird an additional 30-day stay of execution. Bird was scheduled to be hanged at the state prison here shortly af- ter midnight tonight. His long case has been filled with an almost in- credible ‘story of bkloodshed, guile and hexes. Medieval suits of armor ranged in weight from 25 to 100 pounds. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Before Secre- tary of State Acheson left for Paris, he stopped by Capitol Hill for some last-minute, parting ad- vice, which will shed light on some of the policies the United. States will follow at the Big Four con- ference. Two big questions came up dur- ing the hour-long, closed-door conference: 1. How far should we go In con- ciliating Russia? 2. Where should we draw the line on German recovery? Senator Vandenberg of Michigan cautioned the Secretary of State against taking too stern a stand with the Russians. He agreed we mustn’t give ground or show signs of appeasement, but at the same time he urged keeping an open mind to any honest peace overs e S S s (Continued on Page Four) BOAT OWNERS ARE URGED TO RETURN QUESTIONNAIRES An appeal to boat owners to fill out questionnaires regarding small boat harbor usage in the Douglas Channel area, for submission to the { Corps of Engineers, was made by Mayor Waino Hendrickson at the Chamber of Commerce meeting to- | day at the Baranof. Information asked on the forms distributed several weeks ago by the Engineers will be used in determin- ing need for harbor improvement, Mayor Hendrickson explained. Dis- trict Engineer . headquarters have| asked for speedy return of forms for compiling statistics to determine what needs are in this area. C of C President Fred Eastaugh announced that the Chamber has! engaged the services of Robert Druxman to assist in making a sur- | vey of the situation to speed up work in forwarding information to the Corps of Engineers, which is contemplating an extensive enlarge- ment of boat harbor facilities. The Chamber’s business meeting was cut short this noon to allow time for the showing of a new Bur- eau of Reclamation film on the Hoover Dam. Secretary Herb Rowland ments on the new Lempke Bill had been received in Washington, ac- cording to communications received from the Committee on Public Lands and from Delegate E, L. Barlett. Eastaugh gave a prief report to the membership on the visit of both the Seattle and Portland groups. Everett Nowell, former Juneau resident now residing in Fairbanks. { here to investigate construction of housing units in West Juneau, was| called on for a short talk, . Guests at the session included Bob Secrest, Bureau of Indian Af- fairs, E. M. Stevenson, Northern Pacific Railway, Seattle; Richmond Johnson, Bureau of Reclamation; W. R. Sterling, auditor of Seattle, and Gene Vuille. ONE-GAL SHOW AT COUNTRY CLUB TO OPEN NEW CIRCUIT The first attraction on the new| Alaska entertainment circuit will| provide for a big opening night event tomorrow at the Salmon Creek Country Club, according to Tom George, proprietor. Versatile Laverna Dale, straight irom Hollywood, will be featured in her clever, show. Laverna sings, plays the accordion and has a varied repertoire of acro- batic, toe and tap dance routines. Gecrge, who has worked for more than a year to line up night spot managers for an Alaska circuit, is pleased to announce its accomplish- ment. “With the new arrangement,” he said today, “fine Hollywood talent will be available for a change in entertainment every two weeks.” On the circuit with the Country Club are the Green Lantern, just outside of Anchorage, which is { managed by Freddy Bearden, and the Casablanca, popular Fairbanks night spot managed by J. Muldoon. SEEKS DIVORCE, ASKS CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER Ethel Elizabeth Whyte, represent- ed by Attorney Howard D. Stabler, has filed application for divorce from Charles A. Whyte. She charges incompatibility and seeks custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Susan, with $100 a month support for the minor child, and proceeds of the sale of their home and furnishings. The Whytes were married in Ju- neau September 6, 1934. Whyte is Juneau agent for Pacific Northern Airlines. DESTROYER MADDOX 1S DUE SATURDAY Latest word received in the Gov- ernor’s office on the arrival of the U.S.S. Maddox is that the destroy- er will arrive at 4 o'clock Saturday morning, and be in port until Monday. Juneau baseball authorities re- quested that the ship put a team in the field any time at the visitors® cenvenience, but no answer has yet been received, toldf members that the Chamber’s senti- | fast-moving one-gal Gruening -~ Stays as Governor WASHINGTON, May 26—®— President Truman said today that Ernest Gruening will stay on the| job as Governor of Alaska. He stated his stand at a news conference when he was asked if Gruening might ke switched to some other job. And the President made it clear that he is wheleheartedly in favor of statehood for both Hawaii and Alaska. He was told by a reporter that there had been some rumors that the administration might push legislation for statehood for Alaska ahead of that for Hawaii. Mr. Truman said he was for both | of them. | Former Klondiker Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, May 26.—(®—Philip F. Smith, 82, who in his time knew the heat and dust of the Chisholm Trail and later the ice and aval- ances of Chilkoot Trail, died here ‘Tuesday. He was one of the last survivors of the original Buffalo Bill Wiid| West Show in which he rode at the Chicago World's fair in 1893. Later, lured by the news of Klon- | dike gold strikes, Smith came to Se- i attle. He settled his family here, went to Skagway and climber Chil- koot in the days of '98, and spent many seasons in Alaska and the| Yukon. He was in Nome and later | in the Copper River country, prin- cipally around Chitina. | | 'WOMAN FLIER IS IN CHICAGO, BROKE; T0 LEAVE FOR BUFFALO CHICAGO, May 26— — Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, British round-the-world flier, says she is| broke but plans to reach Buffalo| today anyway. She klamed money troubles for being stranded here since Tuesday.| The 25-year-old aviatrix said she counted on radio to help her out. “I thought I would appear enough to pay our expenses for the rest of the way. But you know, they don’t pay you for being inter- viewed.” Mrs. Morrow-Tait figures sne needs about $300 to finish her globe-girding junket and return to her home in Cambridge, England. She was offered a free tanktul of gasoline, meals and a hotel room after appearing on a morning radio program, she related. Listeners of- fered the aid. Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her navi- gator, former RAF flier Jack Ellis of Seattle, landed their converted Vultee BT-13 at Municipal Airport yesterday. She left England about nine months ago, ostensibly to fly around the world in six weeks. She wants to be the first woman to make the trip in a light plane but trouble has pursued her. She had one crackup in Marseilles and one in! Alaska. DE. KELLY TO BE COOK AT BOY SCOUT CAMP Dr. E. Lennon Kelly, osteopath, according to announcement made | tcday, will .be cook for the 60 boys attending the Boy Scout Camp starting tomorrow. S S, e R METAPHYSICAL GROUP FRIDAY, NEW ADDRESS Now established at their own ad- dress, 113 Third Street, members of the Metaphysical Group have voted to return to their original meeting night, Friday, which was impossible under previous arrangements. All members and others interested are cordially invited to attend the meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock, at 113 Third Street. There will be no meeting tonight. SOROPTIMIST CLUB MEETS The Soroptimist Club will have| a special program tomorrow noon with Mrs. W. W. Reedy as speak- er. Mrs. Reedy will give an inter- pretive history of square dancing in the United States. Guests will | pitalized at Columbia, on some radio programs ang earn| JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 KADOW REPORTS 600D CHANCE FOR VITAL LEGISLATION Kenneth Kadow, Alaska Field Committee chairman, back from almost four months in the - States, bad encouraging words to say to- day concerning vital Alaskan legis- | lation before Congress. Kadow left in March bound for Washington to testify refore Con- gressional committees in behalf of Territorial legislation. After five weeks in Washington he was hos- S.C., but carried on work from his conva- lescent quarters. He returned to the nation’s capital to spend two weeks there before coming back to the Territory. Congressional action on several specific pieces of legislation for | Alaska looks very favorable, Kadow said. On the housing front, field in which Kadow was particularly ac- tive, Congress has authorized $15,~ 000,000 for use of the Alaska Hous- ing Authority for construction of dwellings or to loan to private or public agencies. Legislation for ap- ate sub-committee. The important Land Sale bill purchase of land for a variety ot purposes has already passed House and has the approval of the Senate committee. Passage of this bill, Kadow said, will greatly facilitate the establish- !ment of business enterprises on land now a part of the puklic domain. Through the ericrts of the Alaska Field Committee it now ' appears likely that extra funds will be made available for the Bureau of Land Management for an exten- dow said. Plans are to bring su mands. This speeded-up survey work should be of particular interest to homesteaders, Kadow said. On the housing front, Kadow said at present specific plans were completed in the states for con- struction of 736 apartment units at Anchorage by a private construc- tion company with about 300 more units to be built by local interests. Plans are now underway to com- rlete Juneau's housing needs by early fall, he said. Two separate groups are working on their plans for FHA approval, with the Field Committee assisting the Mayor of Juneau, Harry Lucas of FHA and private interests in working up their projects. Speaking of the Alaska Housing Authority act, Kadow said that contrary to general opinion, the act is primarily an instrument for en- couraging production of housing through private initiative. For all localities from Anchorage south, the legislation is aimed at | providing housing by private build- ers financed directly through FHA. In areas where building costs are uneconomically high, AHA can make mortgages to private tuilders jor can actually build and operate projects itself. Unlike the Federal Housing Authority, AHA can make loans to territorial and federal agencies to meet housing needs. AHA does not intend to operate in areas where housing needs can be met by private builders, unless such private groups fail to take up the housing challenge, Kadow said. The really significant part in the new housing legislation is the fact that the Federal National Mort- gage Association can purchase mortgages which are guaranteed by FHA. In the past FNMA could only purchase 50 percent of a mortgage and local banks had not sufficient funds to make up the difference. ‘This provision should be of great value to the builder and the banker alike in the territory, Kadow ex- plained adding that it should go a long way to meet housing needs. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday on spec- ial trip to S. E. Alaska. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 7 a. m. Friday and sails south one hour later at 8 o'clock. Aleutian scheduled southbound Sunday. HOSPITAL ROTES Admitted ta.,St. Ann’s hospital yesterday were Robert.Andrews and Alexander Cresa. . be welcomed, Rose Lee Jekill was dischurged. propriations is now before a Sen- which ‘will make possible the direct, the sive Alaskan survey program, Ka- programs, now some eight years| | behind schedule, up to current de- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS COOK INLET STARTED NOW ANCHORAGE, May 26—(#—Fish- Industry and the United Fishermen of Cook Inlet (AFL). The settlement provides $2.40 each and silvers on the lower inlet, and 62 on the upper inlet and west shore; 25 cents for chums; 16 for gilinet-caught pink salmon and 19 for seine-caught pinks. Few fish were reported runting. Alfred Owen, union business agent, said a straight seven cents hourly bocst across the board has been granted all cannery workers. The increase is equivalent to 41% per cent, which is equal to boosts received for fish prices. The union had asked a 10-cent hourly wage hike for members, but bargaining power had been handicapped by skidding salmon prices, Gwen said. He said that while the union is satisfied with the increase for can- nery workers, fishermen still are | being paid labor wages for a skilled job. 'STORIS BACK AFTER MONTH'S SUPPLY RUN TO ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Arriving back in port this morn- ing from a supply run of approxi- mately a month’s time in the Aleu- tians, the CGC Storis tied up at its berth at the A-J dock a few min- before 6 o'clock. @n April 24, the Storis left Ju- neau for Ketchikan where stores were picked up for delivery in Se- attle. At Seattle were loaded Loran electronic equipment and naval sup- plies for the Navy Operating Base at Adak. The Coast Guard ship left Seattle May 4 for the new Coast Guard Loran station at Adak. After the electronic equipment was unloaded, supplies were loaded at Adak for the Naval Weather Station on Attu. To Murder Point on Attu, supplies and electronic materials were delivered for the Coast Guard Loran station. Com- missary supplies were delivered ‘o the old CG Loran Station at Theo- dore Point on Attu. Point, the Storis had to return to .|mke an injured man off at the {naval hospital on Adak. While there, miscellaneous materials were delivered which had been ship- ped from the naval weather station on Attu. Leaving Adak last Friday after- noon at 2:30 o'clock (Juneau time), the return voyage was made via Nuamak Pass, Shumagin Islands, |nnd Kupreonor Strait. INew York Mayor Not FISHING IS ing boats ranged over Cook Inlet| today after a settlement of a pay| dispute between the Alaska Salmon | for king salmon; 66 cents for reds| The day after leaving Theodore | (Candidate, 2nd Term (By The Associated Press) New York Mayor William 0©O’- Dwyer made an announcement that apparently caught his Democratic party by surprise. O'Dwyer called in the newsmen and told them: “I will not be a candidate for re- election as mayor in the coming elections.” He would not give any reason for stepping cut after one term as mayor of the nation's larg-| est city. O'Dwyer’s health has been the subject of attention on accasion. However, his health is not regard- ed as bad for his age--38 Only a week ago, a fusior move- ment against O'Dwyer was announ- ced by Samuel Seabury. BOY FOR WHITINGS Joseph Whiting at St. Ann’s hos- pital this morning at 2:04. The new infant, to be named Eugene How- ard, joins a two-year-old brother, Joseph, Jr. Mrs. Harry H. Riggs, of Pasadena, Calif., maternal grandparent, is vis- iting at the Whiting home. DIVORCE APPLICATION Anna V, Hargrave, represented by im of ''incompatibility. ‘ couple was married August 14, 1931, . in Seattle, A baby boy, Weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs., | kokwim was broken up along a 30 M. E. Monagle, has applied for di-|drained off Aniak, and the air tield vorce. from'Harold F. Hargrave, on | there now is visible. The | | They had endured all sorts of fire. | ter taking off from McChord Field WHITE FLAG IS HOISTED ATSHANGHAI By FRED HAMPSON SHANGHAI, May 26— (®— Na- tional troops today ranup a white flag atop the Shanghai postotfice, and it appeared the dogged defense of the Lower Soochow creek was collapsing. The Communists crossed the! Szechwuan tridge and began rounding up Nationalist prisoners. The Garden bridge was evacuated by the Nationalists but still was under fire from the nearby Broad- way Mansions, 17 floor apartment where a number of Americans are trapped. The Communists had not tried to cross the creek there. It seemed to be only a ‘matter of hours before this tough knot of resistance, which has delayed Com- munist occupation of North Shang- hai, would be wiped out completely. The trick was turned when the Reds got a flanking column be- hind the bridge defenders and made a simultaneous attack in front. At 5 pm. resistance from tne’ Embankment Building’s lower floor was continuing but tenants, includ- ing some 500 foreigners, were try- ing to get the Nationalists there te quit fighting. Three persons in the Broadway Mansions said they saw a Na- tionalist machine gunner firing from the Red Cross marked en- trance to the Shanghai General Hospital on the north bank of the creek at the Honan bridge. After the white flag was raised at the ' postoffice occupants tried unsuccessfully to call the attention of the gunner to the flag. The whole city breathed a sigh of relief for the thousands of Chinese civillans on the Bund and north of Soochow creek who had been trapped since early yesterday. FOUR JET FIGHTERS LAND AT AIRPORT First jet planes believed to have ever landed at Juneau Airport stop- ped here to refuel yesterday after- noon at 4 o'clock. Two of the four planes to land were held here overnight when one plane was unable to take off be- cause of mechanical trouble. Planes were bound for Anchor- age and Elmendort Field, being pi- loted north from the California Jjet plane factory by members of the 66th Fighter Squadron commanded by Major Tarast Popovich. Jet fighters landed here only| slightly more than two hours af- at Tacoma. Pilots Lt. John Lind- say and Lt. Phil Harrison who took off for Anchorage yesterday efternoon, estimated their 600-mile | flight to the Westward would take a little more than one hour. To leave for the Westward this noon aiter repairs were brought frem Elmendorf were pilots Capt. Jesse Carpenter and Lt. Gordon Hunter. BOMBS SHATTER ICE ON 30-MILE STRETCH, KUSKOKWIM RIVER FAIRBANKS, May 26. Twelve 500-pound bombs shattered the ice in the Kuskokwim River at four points 10 miles north of Beth- el yesterday in efforts by the Air Force to prevent damaging floods near the mouth of Alaska’s second largest river. Maj. Charles Renick, pilot of a B- 17 bomber from Ladd Air Force base, said a low ground fog stymied additional preventive bombing of ice jams south of Bethel. He reported the ice in the Kus- mile stretch south of Aniak, and that the remaining 70 miles up- stream from Bethel was “half and half"—halt ice and half water, with a level two feet below the river banks. All water was reported to have Two more bombers here awaited 100-UNIT HOUSING PROJECT IN WEST JUNEAU PLANNED Everett Nom and Asso- ciates Announce Build- ing of Apariments Plans for nearly 100 housing| units, to be ready for occupancy in| the fall were disclosed today at the Chamber of Commerce meeting by Everett Nowell, well known former Juneau resident, Martin Anderson and Don L. Cooney, Seattle con- tractors. The apartment buildings, which would be built on part of the West Juneau property owned by Nowell, will in four apartment units, two floors and basement, with liv- ing rcom, kitchen and dining room on tooms and bath on the second: Plans call for insulation, shingle rocfs, plastered interiors. Units will be built around espec- ially. equipped playground areas provided for children. Accordin:: to Nowell, financing has been arranged and the group ‘|is getting bids at present for the initial work of clearing the land involved, preparing for streets and necessary utilities. ‘The area has previously been sur- veyed and platted. Everett Nowell, owner of the property, was born in Juneau and lived here until he went to Seattle in 1941 to make his home. He is now with Alaska Freight Lines in Fairbanks. With Mr. Cooney and Mr. Ander- son, contractors, it is planned to form a corporation to kegin im- mediate work on the housing units. The number of units buillt will be gauged Ly the necessity that is evident in Juneau. Area used for the construction will be about ten acres. Minimum number of units have been quoted as 64, though present plans can increase the building to 100. Should more units be required, expansion iof the project will be undertaken. It is hoped that the units can be built for approximately $8,000 each, Mr. Nowell said today. Rentals for the two bedroom apartments with heat will be about $80, according to present plans. Because of the urgent need for local housing, Nowell, Anderson and Cooney are hoping for imme- diate stert on preliminary work, necessary government clearances and a complete go-ahead on their project. SMOCK CUTTING TAKES PLACE ON TOMORROW Mrs. Betty McCormick anncunces that a smock cutting party will be held at the Elks Hall tomorrow af- ternoon starting at 1:30 o'clock. Smocks* will be cut for the Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital and the affair tomorrow is sponsored by the Al- aska Crippled Children’s Associa- tion. Volunteers are wanted for the cutting. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 26.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 81%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 23%, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- tral 11, Northern Pacific 14z, U. S. Steel 67, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 700,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: —M— | industrials 171.95, rails 46.67, util- ities 35.56. BISHOP GLEESON RETURNS The Rev. Francis D. Gleeson, S.J., Catholic Bishop of Alaska, will ad- minister the Sacrament of Confirm- ation this evening in the Church of the Nativity at 7:30. There are 35 candidates for the reception of Confirmation. Of these, fifteen are adults and the others are children. Bishop Gleeson returned to Ju- neau yesterday via Alaska Coastal Airlines after over a month’s ab- sence. While in the States he assisted at the Silver Jubilee of his consecration as a bishop of Arch- bishop Edward D. Howard in Port- land, and attendzd a meeting of the officers of the Marquette League in New York. 3 Last evening he presided at the commencement exercises of St. | clearing weather for additional 'flights to the Bethel area, Ann’s school and presented the graduates with their diplomas, the first floor and two bEd-L ACTION TAKEN AGAINST TWO OTHER AIDES SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.—(P— Harry Bridges, leftwing West Coast labor leader, and two of his top aides were indicted by a Federal grand jury yesterday on perjury and conspiracy charges stemming from Bridges’ citizenship hearing in 1945, The Immigration Service immed- iately filed a civil complaint seeking to revoke -Bridges’ citizenship. This action declared Bridges was nct only a Communist at the time 18 became a citizen, but still 1s. Many West Coast observers inter- preted the double-barrelled action signalling the start of a third gov- ernment attempt in 10 years to de- port the 47-year-old, Australian- born Bridges. He is president of the CIQ International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen's Union. Indicted with him were J. R. Rob- ertson, first vice president of the ILWU, and Henry Schmidt, member of the Longshore Coast Labor Rela- tions committee and former presi- dent of Bridges’ local here. Bail for each was set at $5,000. The union promply assailed the | Indictments as “‘a political frame- up” by the Truman administration and an attempt to put the union out business, Charges Made One count charged the three men conspired against the Immigration laws by fraudulently obtaining nat- uralization for Bridges Sept. 17, 1945. Another count charged Bridges with perjury in denying that he was then, or ever had been, a member of the Communist party. The third count charged Schmidt and Rob- ertson with perjury. them of testifying falsely that Bridges had not been a member of the Communifst party. Bridges was in New York. He went there after a recent stormy session of the CIO Executive Coun- cil in Washington, at which "he and other lefit wing leaders were | told to get in line with CIO pol- icles or get out. The union said he would leave New York today for San Francisco. Surrenders Robertson was reported in San Francisco and a union attorney said i he would surrender today. Schmidt, who has been directing the Hawaii- an waterfront strike, surrendered to | the U. S, Marshal at Honolulu. He was accompanied by six beefy stevedores who shielded him from newscameramen. He called the in- dictments “just another attempt by the employers to wreck the ILWU.” What Conviction Means . Conviction on the charges car- ries' a possible maximum penalty of seven years in prison and $15,000 fine, Government men taking part in the grand jury presentation includ- ed F. Jossph Donohue, special as- sistant Attorney General from Washington, and John P. Boyd, deputy commissioner of Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service. Boyd helped prepare the first de- portation case against Bridges in 1939. Long Investigation Boyd said the move to revoke Bridges’ citizenship culminated a long investigation. “We have new evidence which hes never been pre- sented before,” he said. reasonably certain of our case.” He added that some prominent labor leaders had been helpful in develop~ ing the case. After Bridges' first deportation then dean of the Harvard Law School, ruled the evidence failed to establish that Bridges was at that time, a member of, or affiliated with, the Communist party. Deportation Ordered 1941. Judge Charles B. Sears of New York recommended Bridges' deportation on the ground he “has been affiliated” with the Commun- ists. But the United “States Su- preme Court held there was no evidence to support the finding and reversed Sears. Slim, tough-talking Bridges be- came president of the Longshore- men in 1934, year of a blocdy, 98- day waterfront strike. He has been the driving force in the longshore- men's long series of strikes since, and only this week was returned to office. Several of the Bridges-led strikes have tied up Pacific Coast and Alaska shipping. It acoused “We feel ° hearing in 1939, James M. Landis, : ' A second hearing was held mn