The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,209 Supreme Court Gives Rulin A3 KILLED OVER NATICN ON HOLIDAY Traffic Crashes "Responsi- | ble for 253-Millions of Autos on Highways (By The Associated Press) At least 413 persons were killed in accidents over the three-day Memorial weekend, traditional op- ening of the summer resort and travel season. The score: 253 killed in traffic crashes. 87 drownings. 73 deaths in fires, falls, airplane mishaps and other accidents. The period surveyed was from 6! p. m. in all time zones Friday un- | til last midnight. ‘The toll on the highways—jam- med with some 30,000,000 autos over the extended holiday period— exceeded the estimate of 215 deaths by the National Safety Council. Sunny skies lured millions to out- ings in the first long weekend of the spring season. This year's accidental death toll| compared to an unofficial 404 over a similar period in 1947. The 1946 count was 292. California’s 47 violent deaths led | the nation. Illinois ranked second with 35 fatalities, while Ohio was third with 26. EVERYONE ATTEND i Never was there such a commit- tee! Who is on it? You, and you, and you . . . ‘ Every resident of Juneau and environs is invited to help make plans for the biggest Fourth of July celebration in the history of | the city. Mayor Waino Hendrickson an- nounces the meeting for tonight at 8 o'clock. Yes, everyone is invited—but the mayor is a realist. He has an idea | that the Council Chambers will just ubout hold all those having suffi- cient interest and initiative to turn cut. However, he thinks it would be just fine if overflow crowds were to fill the halls and even the porch and steps. All organizationy,” are asked to send a representafive. | As the fireworks display Vas been | ordered earlier, E. O. Divis was named to take charge, ard he and his committee are at work. Other- wise, plans start from scratch to-| night. } FROM CORDOVA G. E. Means of Cordova is regis- tered at the Gastineau. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — The House Armed Services committee’s probe of the B-36 and airplane contracts opening today will make some peo- ple cringe but will be healthy for the nation. However, the publc shculd take a good look at both sides before it does too much con- demning. Here are some of the confusing and difficult facts in the case: 3} 1. Congressman Jimmy Van Zandt, Pennsylvania Republiean, who charges politics in- B-36 contracts, is a Naval Reserve captain with a great yen to become an admiral. He is spearheading the navy’s bitter, sub rosa campaign against Secre- tary of Defense Louis Johnson and the Air Force. 2. On the other hand, Floyd Od-‘ lum, head of Consolidated Vultee | which makes the B-36, was one of the heavy contributors to the Tru-| man campaign and helped finance the famous' Truman train which made every “whistle stop.” Officially, Odlum’s campaign con- tribution was listed as only $3,500 to” the: Deinoératic National Com- mittee. © ‘But’ five executives who (Continued on Page Four) | | accidents. { Aviation Regulations Cited SIX DEATHS, WASH. STATE ON HOLIDAY Three Boys_DE)wn Three Miscellaneous Accidents | -No Traffic Fatalities (By The Associated Press) A lucky Washington state count- ed no traffic deaths as the flood of Memorial weekend traffic ebbed from its highways today. Three boys drowned, however, and three persons died in miscellaneous Lonnie Russell, 12, of Aberdeen, died in the waters of Lake Quinault yesterday. Six-year-old Vernca Hal- den drowned when he Jiurtled into {a Sunyside irrigation flitch on his | bleycle. Bill Renner, 6, disappear- ed in the Okanogay River, near Okanogan, while ret:ieving a bird on a hunting trip. | Searchers are still trying to find /the body. Lewis A. Dillon, /38, was electro- cuted yesterday negr Spokane, while hooking in an elgstric farm fence on a high power ljae. At Davenport, a tractor uvertuyled and fatally crushed John L./La Vigne, 47-year- old Spokane lunfberjack, as he was working on a lgging job. At Seattle, Mrs. Hannah Carlson, 69, perished iy, flames which des- troyed her fryme home Saturday. BRITISH WOMAN FLER HOPS OFF: --NOWINTORONTC, on Proposed Flying Over Aflanm WASHINGTON May 31.—®P— American officials are keeping an| eye on the globe-circling flight of Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, they said today, because of aviation reg- ulations involved. The British woman flier has ap- plied for an export license for her American-made plane, but the li- cense has not yet been issued. Meanwhile she has flown to Tor- onto from Chicago, with the an-| nounced intention of taking off for Britain later via Greeland and Ice- land. Officials said the flight to Can- ada could be authorized by a simple permit, but that the plane could not be flown across the Atlantic without violating regulations. It was described as a B-13A two- passenger trainer-type craft. Her arrival in Torontd from Chicago was unexpected, officials said. They had understood she was going by way of Buffalo and there obtain customs clearance and other necessary papers before proceeding. Customs officials indicated they were not disposed to take any ac- tion in the matter. ® 000900000 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU ‘This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 60; minimum, 47. . At Airport— Maximum, 60; minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness with an occasional very light rain shower tonight and Wednes- day. Lowest tonight about 45 degrees. Highest Wednesday near 60. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In City of Juneau — Trace; since May 1, 4.3 inches; since July 1, 111.39 inghes. At the Airport — Trace; since May 1, 3.35 inches; since July 1, 6391 inches. ® ® 0 06 0 0 00 0 0 ©000000000000000000000000000 NEW ACS MAN M /Sgt. Frank P. Porter has been transferred from Cold Bay on the Alaska Peninsula to service with the Juneau ACS station, He has been assjgned to the Lena Point Repeat- er Station. Porter’s wife and family are with him, ——— Grand Jury Probes Case 0f Bridges Sam Darcy fie Witness- " Atty. Gen. Orders New Investigation SAN FRANCISCO, May 31—(P— Sam Darcy, who ran for Governor ir. 193¢ as the Communist party candidate, is here to testify before the Federal Grand July. The jury’s probe of “the Harry Bridges case” will be resumed to- morrow. There was speculation that the new hearing would go beyond the Bridges issue; the wider field of reputed Com- rwunist activities in Pacific Coast labor unions. Darcy will be one of about 15 new witnesses. Darcy, descriced years ago as America’s No. 2 Communist, was cxpelled from the party several years ago on charges of “Demo- cratic centralism.” He refused to- day to discuss what information he might supply the Grand Jury. But | he confirmed he would be a wit- ness. In Bridges' 1941 deportation bearing, Harry Lundeberg, AFL Sailors’ Union Chief, testifieq that | Bridges and Darcy had once tried to recruit him as a Communist Party member. WITNESSES INTIMIDATED; INVESTIGATION ORDERED WASHINGTON, May 31— (P — Attorney QGeneral Tom- Clark said ‘loddy he has orderégq a Grand Jury investigation into reports of tam- pering with government witnesses in the Justice Department’s pro- ceedings against Harry Bridges. The Attorney General said the| matter has been placed in the hands of F. Joseph Donohue, his | special assistant on the west coast.| Donohue was in charge of the | Grand Jury at San Francisco which indicted Bridges, the CIO Long-| shoremen’s leader, and two other union officials last Wednesday. The indictment accused Bridges, who has twice successfully resisted | deportation, of employing fraud in obtaining his American citizenship | lin 1945, Bridges is & native of| Australia. The indictment also charged | Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robert- son, other officials of the CIO In- ternational Longshoremen's Warehousemen’s Union, with mak- ing false statements in the natur- alization proceedings. LOIS ESTEPP CATCHES, LANDS 45-POUND KING | Beginnei’s luck came to Lois Estepp last Sunday at Tee Harbor when she caught a 45 pound King salmon landing it after a fight of one hour and five minutes. But such was not the luck of Emdr. C. E. Mott, commanding officer of the USS Maddox, who was with the party. He hooked one and lost 17 Cmdr. Mott said that he intends to return some time later just for the salmon fishing. He was quite enthusiastic about the sport. The party was taken to Tee Harbor by John Quilico in his 12 foot out- board skiff spending the day there. Fishing near the Quilico party were Dolan Dul and Reynolds Young. Dubineck’ caught a king nearly as large as the one landed by Mrs. Estepp. MOTHERS CLASSES TO START NEXT FRIDAY Mothers Classes will start at the Public Health Center, 318 Main Street on Friday afternoon, June 3. The classes will be held every Fri- day afternoon from 2 to 4 for six weeks, and will be lead by Miss Edna Peterka, Public Health nurse. All expectant mothers who are in- terested are cordially invited to at- tend. MISS STEIGER LEAVES Miss Diane Stefger, who has been a stenographer in the division office of the U. S. Forest Service for sev- eral months, was a southbound pas- senger on 'the Aleutian. She plans | to return to her home in Eugene, Ore, that it would open | and | JUNEAU ,ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1949 (10 DEFENSE FUND URGED | UPONLOCALS Huge Sum fiequired ht Fight Four Cases-Geet- ings Issues an Appeal , SEATTLE, . May al—m—wmmq Gettings, regional director of International Longshoremen ani Warehousemen’s Union (CIO), t0s| day urged locals in this area set up defense committees to fight government actions brought against the union and thfee of its officers. been brought against our unioft through the National Labor Rela- tions Board, one of which may co‘ us $750,000, or approximately per member,” Gettings said. top of that they are attempting now to jail half our top lead«;e ship.” i Harry Bridges, President of the union; J. R. Robertson, Vice Presl dent; and Henry Schmidt, also ab official, were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in San Francisco last week. They are accused of perjury. HIGH OFFICIAL OF RAINBOW GIRLS HERE IHURSDA! Grand Worthy Adyiser Due-Busy Program According to word received by Mrs. Dora Sweeney, Sub-Deputy for Alaska, Pat Wolverton, Grand Wor- thy Advisor of the Washington | Order of Rainbow Girls, together with her traveling companions, Car- men Hansen and Barbee Nesbitt, | expect to return to Juneau early Thursday afternoon by plane from Anchorage. | On May 17 .the girls spent a few \houn in Juneau while on their way | to the Westward for officia} visits | to Fairbanks, Seward and Anchorge Assemblies. Now on their ‘return trip, they will officially visit Ju- neau and Ketchikan Assemblies. | | | the Rainbow Board are expected to {attend the dinner arranged for Fri- day night at 6:30 o'clock at the | Scottish Rite Temple. The cost of the dinner is 50 cents a plate and reservations should be made immediately by calling Red 505 or | Green 309. The officers of Juneau Assembly will exemplify the initiatory work for the visiting Grand Officers fol- lowing this dinner. Reservations should also be made for the pot- luck luncheon immediately preced- |ing the regular Saturday afternoon meeting of the Assembly. - At 8 p. m. on Saturday, June 4, there will be a Grand Cross of Color Cére- mony followed by a Grand Ball. LABOR DEPARTMENT OPENS BRANCH FOR WESTWARD, INTERIOR Opening of a branch office of the Territorial Department of Labor at Fairbanks tomorrow, June 1, was announced today by Commissioner of Labor Henry Benson. Mrs. Lillie Angerman, pioneer res- ident of the Interior, has been named to the post of Inspector in Charge of the new office. Otject or the brancn office is to bring more adequate labor depart- ment services to Interior and West- ward Alaska, Benson said. The new inspector in charge will divide her time between Anchorage and Fair- banks principally in acquainting employers and employees with pro- visions of new laws. Mrs. Angerman, whose home is in Fairbanks, was educated in the Territory and has been active in civic affairs. She is a representa- tive of the culinary alliance, and held the position of vice president of the Alaska Territorial Pedera- tion of Labor prior to taking over her new position. ' This is the first branch office of the Department of Labor to be cpened In the Territory, 4 i £ “No less than four cases have! 1 with Two Companione | All Rainbow Girls and members of | IBOEING STRIKE I'LEGAL United Stalfiourl of Ap- peals Makes Ruling- Lodge Thrown Out WASHINGTON May 31.—(P— The United States Court of Ap- peals today ruled that a strike of Boeing Aircraft Company employ- g& ees in Seattle last year was illegal. It also threw out the Machinists' Lodge 751 as bargaining agent for the firm's 14,500 workers there. The action over-ruled a National Labor Relations Board order that the walkout was conducted under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act and that the union is the legal col- lective bargaining agent for Boeing workers. The group involved is the Aero- . j hautical Industrial District Lodge, a branch of the International Asso- ciatfon of machinists. The three-judge appeals court held unanimously that the union acted unlawfully in not giving Boe- ing sufficient notice of intent to strike. The court also asserted the i walkout, which occurred April 25, (1948, was in violation of a then- efiective contract between the un- {mn and company. FORD MOTOR STRIKE ENDS; MEN RETURN (By The Associated Press) Operations were resumed today at | the Ford Motor Company. A strike involving 106,000 production workers ended in its 24th day early Sun- day. ‘The company and the CIO United Auto Workers drew up a plan for naming an arbitrator of a dispute over union chargey of speed-up on the assembly line. If they cannot agree on an arbitrator within three days, each will select one member for a board which will deliver a “final and binding” verdict. Two weeks are expected to pass before full scale automobile build- ing can be attained. The key Rouge factory must get into full swing of parts manufacturé before Ford’s other 49 plants can operate normally. Eight thousand employees of four of New York City's privately-owned bus lines will share in an arbitra- tion award of $840,000 in retroactive wage increase pay. The award, an- nounced the settlement of a two- year dispute between the ccmpanies and the CIO Transport Workers Union. FOREST SERVICE PICNIC FAREWELL T0 TWO FAMILIES ‘While rexretttng the depar!ure of L. E. Iversen from Juneau after | 2¢ years, U. S. Forest Service per-| sonnel had a happy time honormgz Ivy and his family at a picnic Sat- | urday. The Forest Fennessy family like- Wise was honored, although Fen-| nessy's protable transfer to Region | 6 is not yet official. Fennessy has| been Admiralty Division Forest| Service warehouseman for a num- | ber of years. | - Mr. and Mrs. Iversen, both of whom have made a 'special place for themselves here by active work in clubs and civic affairs, plan to leave Juneau Sunday. With their children, Erik and Trudine, they will be on Sunday's PAA flight to Seattle. From there, they will drive to Missoula, Mont., their new home. Ivy's work in the larger region will be similar to that he now does here, where he fs regional fiscal agent. He arrived here in August, 1529, and served with the Alaska Game Commission before taking the Forest Service post in 1935. Staff members and their families, numbering about 80 persons, tended the picnic Saturday at Auk Village beach, 1 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e B Hayworth, smile happily as they France, fcllowing their wedding. wedding reception, as 500 Vallauri via radio from Pari RUSSIA 1§ BUCKING GN BONN UNION of Project-Western Pow- ers Study New Plan (By The Associated Press) ‘The three big Western powers | sought today to some up with a new short-range plan for Germany ! that might be acceptable to the Russians after the Soviet rejection of the Bonn union project. The Western Foreign Ministers | held an unscheduled meeting be- jore coming to grips again with | Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky. ' Their apparent purpose was to salvage something, if pos- | sible, out of the four-power For- eign Ministers Council in Paris. In the first definite answer to the Western powers at this session of the Big Four, Vishinsky yesterday rejected their plan to unite Ger- many on the prineiples of the re- cently framed Bonn constitution for Western Germany. The United States,, Britain and France were reported still trying to offer a limited objective, such as economic unity for Germany, which Russia might find acceptable. This would get them back to the tangled issues arising over the rival cur- rencies. In addition to the broadside from Vishinsky, Communism dealt a needling attack on the United states by nominating Gerhart Eis- ler for the Communist-dominated Peoples’ Congress for the Russian zone of Germany. This set-up is the Russian reply to the Bonn pro- ject for Western Germany but it claims to speak for all Germany. Eisler himself .flew from London to Prague, enroute to Germany, in a Czech Airlines plane this morn- ing. Eisler said on arrival in Prague that he was glad he was not land- ing in America. The German-born Communist said he is enroute to Leipzig to tnke a university professorship, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 3} —(#—Qlos« ing quotation of Alaska Jumeau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 91%, Anaconda 277%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 23%, Kennecott 43, New York Cen- tral 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U.S. Steel 65%, Pound $4.02. Sales today were 1,240,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 168.36, ralls 44.49, util- ities 35.05. MISSOURI VISITOR 0. G. Mesley cof Il\dependerice, Missouri, is visiting in Juneau and lis at the Gastineau, Prince Aly Kal;n and hls new Brooklyn-born Princess, film star mu Seated in a grey ‘eanvertlhle coupe, the couple drop off to Aly’s nearby Chacau de L’Horizon and their Vishinsky Rejects Proposal. imany abroad. ‘in port at 3 p. m. today, and sails leave the city hall at Vallauris, is villages cheered. AMERICANS PAYHOMAGE WAR DEAD Fourth Memorial Day Since War Observed-Prayers Said for Peace (By The Associated Press) Memorial Day yesterday (Mon- day) found Americans throughout the world paying homage to patriots who. gave their lives to their coun- try, and praying for a peace that would prevent a future toll. Weather over the nation on this| fourth Memorial Day since the close of World War II was generally fair and sunny and millions took advantage of the week-end holi- day to get out. The center of the nation’s ob-| servance was at the tomb of the unknewn soldier in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Senator Tydings (D-Md), chair- man of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said America must be| s0 strong there never need be any | future unknown soldier. ® Wirephoto Hecur Of Prayer | President Truman proclaimed an | hour of prayer, asking his fellow citizens to appeal to God for per-| manent peace. The President spent the weekend with a few close friends cruising on Chesapeake Bay | in the Presidential yacht. Fleet Admiral Willlam F. (Bull) Halsey, speaking in Washington near the Lincoln Memorial, said the Army, Navy and Air Force—all three—are necessary for America's defenses and warned against “over- | zealous utterances of the so-called experts” that have ecriticized the| Navy. y | .Mighty Air Force He sajd he is “amazed” at claims | the huge B-36 bomber is “invulner- able’to fighter interception, adding | that the growing might of the Air Force has by no means made the| older services unnecessary. He said | he still regards the afrcraft carrier | as the “most potential preserver of peace in our bag of tricks.” In addition to the hundreds of | okservances at home, there were| At Anizia, Ttaly, where one of the | bloodiest battles in which Ameri- gans took part in the last war oc- curred, Gen. Mark Clark pledged ! to Italians that America ‘intends| to march side by side with your| country until-the goal to complete peace is achieved.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle due at 8:30 tonight. Princess Norah from Vanrouver | exclusive fishing rights g Alaska Tidelands After Weddmg (eremony DECISION IN KARLUK CASE IS RHURNED Interior Sety May Make Reservation But Not Grant Exclusive Fishing: WASHINGTON, May 31 —(®— The Supreme Court ruled today the Secretary of the Interior may include tidelands in a reservation for the use of Karluk Indians of Alaska, but may not give them in those waters. Justice Reed delivered the opin- ion. It was unanimous on the ques- tion of inclusion of coastal waters In the reservation. PARTIAL DISSENT Justice Rutledge wrote a partial dissent in which he said the In- dans may be given exclusive fish- ing rights. Justices Black and Murphy joined with Rutledge in full and Justice Douglas joined in part, The Karluks long have derived treir livelihocd from fishing, prin- |cipally from salmon runs. 'The Secreu.ry order included in their rexervltion offshore waters ex- | tending 3,000 feet from low-water mark. The order applied to waters at the mouth of the Karluk river of Kodiak Island, off the southern coast of Alaska, A group of commercial fishing companies won in lower Federal courts a ruling that the Secretary was: 9ot .ur.hunua in include “ip." ant Indian . v Justice - Department - appealed 1 The to the Supreme court to . reverse the ruling, Reed said’ for the majority that the coastal waters in question are clearly owned by the United States and may be included in the reser- vation by order of the Secretary of Interior. NO EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS He eaid, however, that the gov- ernment may not give the Karluks exclusive fishing rights because the White Act of 1924 fortids the Sec- retary of Interior from giving spe- cial - privileges to any one in Alaskan fishing reserves. The majority struck down the portion of the Alaska Fisheries Regulations which prohibits sal- mon fishing in the Karluk reserva- ticn area by everyone except the Indians. Reed said that since today’s opinion established a new basis for aaministrative and judicial action, the majority retrained from “now entering a final order disposing in- definitely of the controversy.” The entire case was sent back to the District Court with direc- tions that it allow the Secretary of the Interior 30 days in which he may take new action. In the meantime, the court ordered continued a district court temporary injunction which pro- hibited the Pish and Wildlite Serv- ice from enforcing the ban on fish- ing in reservation” waters. HOLD HEARING ON REGULATIONS UNDER CHILD LABOR LAW An advisory public hearing on provisions under the Alaska Child Labor law was started at 1:30 to- day at the office of Commissioner of Lator Henry Benson with rep- resentatives from several interested groups invited to participate. Similar hearings, being held to ascertain public opinion on regula- |tions to be included under the new child labor legislation, have rbeen called in Anchorage for June 14 and in PFairbanks for June 17. Following advisory hearings, final hearings are scheduled for tiie end of the month for consideration - of regulations to be drawn up as a 1esult of the three sessions. Invited to sit in on child labor law discussions were government officials in allied agencies, school officers, the Chamber of Commerce, the Parent-Teachers Association, representatives from women's at 11:30 for Skagway. Princess Louise scheduled to satl | from Vancouver June'f. - { Aleutian scheduled to' sail from! Seattle Saturday, groups and employers. FROM ANGOON llm Elmer Qarnes of Angoon is tegmnred at the Qastineay,