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

o o SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,225 LIVES LOST IN FLASH FLOODS INTWO STATES PETERSBURG, W. Va, June 18| ~—{M—More than a dozen persons were reported missing today as| flash floods sent waters rushing down streams of the Potomac- Sheflandoah valley areas of West Virginia and Virginia. West Virginia State Police said they - had received unverified re- & ports that several others were mis- Replacing Rita .4 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1949 JUDGE FOLTA TO GIVE ADDRESS AT JUDICIAL MEET After an exchange of correspon- dence in which Judge' George W. Folta asked for separation of the —_ duties of court reporter and secre- WASHINGTON, June 18.—#—tary, and how to obtain law clerks Judith Coplon told the jury trying |for Alaska courts, he was sum- her on espionage charges yesterday|moned to give the Alaska picture that her Justice Department boss|at the coming judicial conference insisted she take the notes from an|in Los Angeles. FBI “decoy” memorandum which| The Juneau judge thought he| were found in her purse when she]would talk things over somewhat was arrested. { informally. When the trigl resumes Monday| u. €. Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr., for its ninth week, Miss Coplon|informed him otherwise: Gilmore MISS COPLON TELLS ABOUT 'DECOY’ NOTE .| for providing the tickets, and to sing and feared dead. State Police Capt. Basil E. Wright said at Elkins, W. Va., that indications weére that many hun- dreds were made temporarily homeless and that property dam- age was heavy. “The situation is pretty bad,” he said. At least seven persons were mis- sing in Bridgewater, Va., after | Shenandoah river flood waters poured through the town of 1,000. Fire Chief Allen Harvey, Sr., said the town was “in a state of | confusion and near-hysteria.” | Many residents are marooned on | housetops. Petersburg was virtually lsolnted e Bridges were washed out. Commu-, | nications lines were down. Rescue! H i workers had to walk the last sev-) rs & arnler | | | 1 Is Convided of eral miles to get to the town. ACS Building Manslaughfer RIVERSIDE, Calif, June 18—(| —An all-woman jury has convicted | s V" o M Mrs. Agnes E. Garnier of man- slaughter in the slaying of her| wealthy employer and lover, John WASHINGTON, June 18—®-—A $7,600,000 building program for the| E Owen. The handsome 53-year-old busi- Alaska Communications System op-‘ erated by the Army won speedy ap- ! Hollywood | ARRIVING about time Rita Hayworth was marrying Prince Aly Khan, Cor- ine Calvet, French screen star from described as “replacement fo Rita” in films, smiles for cam- | eramen in New-York hotel inter- | view. (International Soundphoto, will return to the witness stand to finish her denial that she ever en- received an invitation to the ccn= ference from Chief Justice Williamd TWO GIRL SCOUTS 60 10 BIG CAMP; MONEY IS RAISED drive to secure funds { The w0 Lou Fagerson to the Girl Scout camp in Michigan this suinmer has been most successful. | The Senlor Girl Scouts wish to express their sincere appreciation ic the 20th Century Theatre and to the Capitol Theatre for pro- posing the fine plan for raising Hhc funds and also to the Empire a1l their Juneau {riends who rurchased tickets. The opportunity to attend the camp is a great honor and those in charge of the sénd Shirley Casperson and Mary | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SAMDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS OlL (LAM | INARCTIC PRODUCING ;Navy's Boring on North| ' Coast of Alaska Report- | ed Bringing Results WASHINGTON, June 18—®—| The world’s largest oil claim, on the | Prefers "em Brief Gives Temporary Injunction Fish Trap Tax INJUNCTION HEARING 1S ENDED HERE Plaintiffs Present Argu- ments fo Which Atfor- ney General Replies BULLETIN—Judge George W. Felta this morning granted a temporary injunction restraining Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney northern shores of Alaska has pro- | 1 | from collecting fish trap taxes, | duced a honey-colored oil that| |called upon today to explain that 1t; ness woman took the surprise ver- dict stoically, although the penalty proval yesterday of the Senate Armed Service committee. Chairman Tydings (D-Md), point-l ing to a map showing the radio | and other - networks reaching out into the Pacific near Soviet Russia, said-a first grade warning and com- ! munications system would “be vital” in case of an enemy airplane at- tack. | BIG LOAN T0 NWA IS GUARANTEEDBY (AB WASHINGTON, June 18. —#— The Civil Aeronautics Board advis- ! ed the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration yesterday that it will guar- antee a proposed loan of $12,000,000 to Northwest Airlines. The airline already has borrowed‘ $9,000,000 from private banks as part of a $21,000,000 financing pro-} gram for new flight equipment. The RFC-guaranteed loan will be used in buying 10 Boeing Strato-Cruisers. The CAB is required to pass on an airline’s financial stability in applications for loans to be guar- anteed by the RFC. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By PREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1949, by ldl Byndicate, Inc.) ABHXNG’ION— How General Tke Eisenhower happened to answer one oi the 900,000 letters Congress- man Ralph Gwinn of New York sent out opposing federal aid to education is more than anyone around Capitol Hill can understand. Maybe, conclude Congressional leaders, Ike is”just a better gen- eral than he is an educator-politic- ian. Congressman Gwinn, the man who induced Eisenhower to answer him, has abused the franking priv- ilege more brazenly than any other member of Congress in opposing aid to education, Not only has Gwinn sent out 2,250,000 copies of speeches against education, public housing, rent control, etc., but this abuse of his free mailing privilege cost the| taxpayers—through the Post Office Department—$27,000. { prison. i itary and sweetheart, was motivated may be from one to 10 years inj She had testified she acted inl self defense when Owen, 68, Presi- dent of the National Apartment| House Owpers Association, was fatally shot in the bedroom of his nearby Jurupa Hills ranch April 22. She was charged with murder-| ing him. But the jury apparently sided, in| sume degree, with the state's con- tention that Mrs. Garnier, for 12 years Owen's confidential secre- by jealousy of his attentions to | actress Irene mch l FROZENFISH IN STORAGE ANNOUNCED SEATTLE, June 18.—P-Frozen fish stocks in United States and Alaska totaled 92 million pounds on June 1, the US. Fish and Wild- life Service reported Thursday. This was one-fourth larger than| the May 1 total, and 8 percent more than June 1, 1948. Among specles in storage were 12,973,000 pounds halibut; 1,046,000 cod fillets; 6,969,000 pounds had- dock fillets; 4,204,000 pounds sal- mon and 2,339,000 pounds sablefish. | Pairolman Falls Down Hard as ' Baby Sitfer . 2 | PFAIRBANKS, June 18—#—Fel- low police officers of patrolman| Ray Skelton give him this advice: Lock up that tricycle, or better yet, lock up your boy, Tommy. The father was “booked,” on his | wife’s “complaint,” that he fell down on his job of “baby sitting.” While his wife was at a club, Skelton looked after the boy and let him play next door. The father | went to sleep and the boy disap- peared. When found down town, he {had ridden his tricycle out to the ‘Ill'pofl. abandoncd it, and hiked in- to the city where police picked him In addition the taxpayers had to pay $1755 for Gwinn's free en-| velopes, plus $3,000 for stuffing the envelopes with Gwinn's speeches. et e (Continued on Page Four) - up. | Uncle Sam bought 49493,000 ounds of Turkish tobacco in 1948, ' with an anual average 'Channel and then taxied with the' | bring it closer | Premier Marshal jagainst the attacks of his Soviet- gaged in esplonage activity. She testified yesterday that Will- iam E. Foley, chief of the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Regis-! Denman of the U. 8. Court of Ap= peals. Enclosed - was the agsenda for the June 27-30 conference. The second afternoon will be de- tions, gave her the “decoy” paper the morning of March 4 as she was about to leave for New York. Foley, when he appeared as government witness, said that he. showed the “decoy” to Miss Coplon | Court Thursday, before she left for New York and|Outside Friday. remarked that it was “hot and in- teresting.” He said he directed her! to give it to an attorney working of the Amtorg case when she had finished with it. PBY BEACHED FOR Folta on “The Needs of Alaska in the Administration of Justice,” later discussion. Judge Folta will adjourn District | planning to fly a | MEN ON STRIKE | ONNORTH COAST { SEATTLE, June 18.—(®—Approx= i imately 550 employees of the North CONVERSION WORK (OASTAI' Expul" ! Ceast Greyhound Lines walked off | their jobs today, halting north- | Alaska Coastal Airlines’ new PBY | south bus service In weste! rn Wash- was beached on the sand south of ington. - the rock dump yesterday, but the, my. girive was called. by f operation was strictly legitimate,’ and not at all an accident. :jcl;lufafl c&:fi? l:m;)slog::sr ‘::;o_' With Thane road motorists re- | yiqping session had'faled to' break turning to the. cif the aiury s b“l,m:)ir?l?:n;: | the dealock in a dispute ocer wages | 3 - and working conditions. bound on the beach, ACA men felt was all done on-purpose. Limited hangar facilities at ACA harbor installations has made it im- possible to accommodate the big, bird for final conversion work. The: plane was landed on Gastineau 114 IN, 18 OUT ON Pacific Northern Airlines carried 32 passengers yesterday with 14 ar- riving and 18 departing as follows: From ancnorage: R. Clark, Miss R. Swanson, John Goetz, Warren wheels down onto the sand beach to ! to shop facilities' while work is going on. A ship to shop telephone connection has been | effected to further facilitate work. | Peterson, Lloyd Martin, R. L. Reed, | ACA's new plane was brougm;s Cleveland, H. Stuessi. i from Long Beach, Calif., via Seattle |~ grom Gordova: Carl Erickson,| earlier this week to operate on the Mr and Mrs. George Goodrich, c’n Juneau-Sitka run. A large finger float is being con- P Wyller, MM RET R Blod ‘dart structed at the ACA dock to ac-| ; commodate the PBY, O. F. Benecke.l\,:;::; it L'““. business manager, said today. ) i To Cordova: John W. Campbell, |John Derby, Prank Little, Eimer BRIIAI" ls. "ow [wmmms W. M. Miller, Ronald B. | Dimer. (By Associated Preu To Steve Castro, Britain is near agreement with of Yugo- M4 Sgt. M. Jelsma, Dwight Rich- STEAMER MOVEMENTS slavia on a five-y trade pact.| n.rds, James Whistler, This was revealed in London by| Princess Kathieen from Vancouver ! Sir Charles Peake, British Ambas-(due at 3 this afternoon. sador to Belgrade. Prince George from Vancouver It has been estimated uxwmcln.uy]due Monday. the pact would cover about $800,-( Aleutian scheduled to sail from 000,000 worth of goods. nnnmmeanh today, due Tuesday. give Tito manufactured products| Princess Norah scheduled to sail in exchange for timber, grain and|from Vancouver 8 tonight. food. Princess Louise scheduled to sail The British trade move fits Xn]from Vancouver June 22, with the Western policy of keepm,l ‘Baranof scheduled south Sunday Tito’s regime alive and kicking, |8t 4 P. m. Anchorage: ‘| Tarrant. dominated neighicors. | of 20,669,000 pounds. e PP REts B RS inform (Communist International ; Information Bureau) a year l(o: WEATHER REPORT : for following nationalistic policies taieh riod ending 6:30 am. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 66; @ ® minimum, 48. L4 Ba"a(ks ior Am' e At Airport— Maximum, 64; ®| ® minimum, 45. . FORECAST L (Junesu and Vielnity) . Mostly cloudy with inter- @ Bekcq“e“ed mn o mittant rain tonight and © e Sunday. Lowest temperature © e night about 45; temperature WASHINGTON. June 18. —M—|e Sunday about 52. . Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) said today|e PRECIPITATION o |f the Army soon will ask Congress| e (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todey for $29,000000 to build nmzonslo In Juneau City — Trace: @ at the Hanford Atomic Plant in,e since June 1, 397 inches; ® ‘Washington state for troops which! e since July 1, 11681 inches. @ will_be assigned to guard it. |o At .the Afrgort — Trace; '@ Jackson is a member of the since June 1, 250 inches; @ joint Congressional Atomic Energy since July 1, 68.45 inches. ® Committee. He said he could not'e . divulge the number of troops. loo oo o0 0 00ece tration and - " Internal Security sec ‘\'oted 0 ot Kl by Judzef and | GREYHOUND BUS | /GEOLOGICAL MEN swells like gasoline and will pour! | at 70 degrees Fahrenheit below ze- | ro. The oil came from a test bore in | Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in the " A - re-mi.e | the most tickets and . $5 each were| 4 | 7 B | Reclamation” says in its first re-| won by Edith Lavold of Kennedy port on Alaskan resources. Street, Joan Erbland of Evergreen § A tbiants Wi nEE Lot Fuger. (_Pointing out that no oll in com- son. Many other girls did very mercial quantities has yet been| well in selling, and the time they found in the reserve, it said: i spent in helping on this drive is| “In the event that pools of sul-| creatly appreciated. | ficient size to warrant development | i are found, engineers have already | W}avf:ingh::;mkcx:v;w:\:&zid:; dml\gf_ roughed cut piplines, highways and | cuxnng a donation {rom the Juliette | possible railways linking the fields | |Low Fund of $450.00 which willl with Interior Alaska, and eventually | complete the funds necessary to| "’:}e kice “free Cokst of ‘the | dulf ‘of} ¥ " | send the two representatives byw o s " air to the Michigan camp, A dona-| The report added that oil shales | A tion raised by the Juneau-Douglas assaying from 50 to 100 gallons and | Girl Scout Council at a silver mai Z‘?e & :gn ;‘ :v]e ::e" ;0“::{ l:x“ mouth of Alaska’s Noa earlier in the spring also helped o i1z t97 gwenl e Tuhd. | It said Alaska’s coal reserves of | | more than 110,000,000,000 tons may | | be-found to justify construction of | 1 at least one synthetic oil and gas’ arive were not certain the trip could be taken uneil the friends of the scouts responded so nobly in| {aiding in financing the trip. Mrs. weorge Washington offered b | || TASTES 1n swim suits ditfer. Helga Brandt prefers this type of brief briefs made famous on France’s Riviera. Here she's 25 increased under the 1949 law, from P. E. Harris and Company and three partners in the Mutual Trap Company, intervenors. i SR Whether or not a téemporary in- |Junction shall e issued, restrain- ing the Tax Commissioner from i collecting increased fishtrap taxes {rom ‘two Seattle concerns, was put p to Judge George W. Folta late yesterday afternoon. W. C. Arnold argued for P. E. {Harris and Company, plaintiff in | the original suit, and for the inter- | venors, ! Laurence Freeburn and A. P. Wolf, ‘l:opnmers in ] Company, - August Buschmann, W. the Mutua] Trap Arnold . presented a showing which was uncontested, of irrepar- okle damage hecause of the Terri- ry’s insolvency, should the tax be paid and the law later be /deemed. invalid; he claimed the | companies would be subject to 'criminal action and possibly civik iaction involving selzure and con- | fiscation, should the tax not be | paid, -and. .he. argued the lack of & i plain, adequate and speedy remedy (Bt law, | - He pointed out that, for a hear- ing on a temporary 'injunction, pA(lFI( NORTHER" LGeologimzl Survey . Denver | | graphic Office are in Juneau mak- | aska District work. 5 ‘graphlc work with 10 of them in| Frank Holden| Maj. Emery Kunkle, [ Pat Robin-| iscn, Rynp Lehto, B. Price, 8. G.| To become hener acquamted with | the field work, J. E. Mundine, Rob-‘ ert Davis, and Roland Moore of the ‘Topo- | ing an observation tour of the Al-| Davis, regional engineer of the Topographic Division and spokes- | man for the group, said that topo- | graphic work is progressing faster !and at less cost through the use of helicopters. “Because a helicop- | ter can make use of a half day's good weather in this unpredictable | {Alaska weather, crews are able to; do the work faster and thus savel time.” “At present there are 20 field| parties in Alaska doing the topo-| | Southeast Alaska in the Glacier Bay-Skagway area, nine in the| Palmer-Tok Junction area and a| one-man party on Kodiak Island. “One is being Bay-Skagway ation,” he continued. used in the Glacier Mountain and Tok Junction areas.” { surveys, triangulation work, and the getting of elevation by vertical angles. Working somewhat on the stereoscopic principle, the aerial| photographs are projected on a i ;maps is done through controlled multiplex aereo’ projector and the contour maps are thus drawn. “At present,” said Davis, “there are two or three quadrangle maps of the Juneau area in the process of being printed. There is an ap- | proximate area of 1,000 square miles included in the maps. able next year are maps of the Territory that will include about| 5,000 square miles. The work on| these last maps are in the process of tield work. These maps hold up | | to $55 a ton at Anchorage. ‘There are three helicopters In oper-} The field werk for topomphyl plane table through the useé of n‘ To be avail- | " plant. = ‘ +toucliing up her “Bandaid” ouit- 0“ OBSERV A“O" i L:g:ll:: rflémfl:fl e b:h e“”rd f‘::[ fit at Miami Beach, Fla. In winter 1::‘; s purp oo | season Helgs is better known as IQUR oF A'.ASKA “Black conl’ dust spread over accomplished ice-skating star { snow-covered fields accelerates the| Who has appeared in numerous thawing of snow, advancing pmnt- ing as much as 14 days. { “In addition, lignite dust could be applied to garden crops during the' growing season to increase absorp- | tion of heat by the soil and mmu- { late the growth of plants.” ‘The report urged immediate con- struction of a modern cement plant, with an initial Qlant capacity of 350,000 barrels. It said the selllng price would vary between $25 and 1835 a ton, compared to the $56 a- tcn charged at Fairbanks and $52.50 | CAMPAIGNS WITH _ FIRECRACKER BALL: In the ardent hope that their| | condigate, Miss Betty Haynes, will| Fourth of July celebration, young the Baranof in serious work. Drafting plans for the queen; campaign, they came up with the |idea of a Pirecracker Ball and, | just like that, the special dance is on the calendar for June 28. Miss Haynes, one of five spon- | sored candidates for queen of the Fourth, {s an attractive staff mem- | ber in the office of the Terntorm [vetenml Onmmmloner | Here are resuh,s of fights last | i night: At San Francisco—Al Hoosman, "’15 Los Angeles, stopped Billy| McClure, - 204, Minneapols, 8. At Hollywood, Calif.—Art Aragon, to the National Map accuracy Stan- | dards of being 90 per cent accur-| !ate. This means that any point can | be safely found to be within half | | & contour interval.” Alaska is fncluded in the Rocky | Mountain District of the Topo- graphic Division. wl!h headquarters | n Denver. and will leave for Anchorage and Fairbanks this afternoon. Mundine, Dlltrm Engineer in the Denver| r the remainder of the summer. fflee will be stationed in Juneau He is in charge of the Alaska Dis- | [ trict for all field operagions. Moore | Final scores of Western Interna-, | is the Chief of Field Surveys. tional League games played last ——— right are: The United States was the big-| Yakima 10; Vancouver 4. gest buyer of the 108,395,000 pounds ~ Spokane 16; Bremerton 14. of tobacco which Turkey exported Salem 4; Victorla 1. in 1948, - , Tacoma 9; Wenatchee 5. The three men nrrlved Thursday, | 137%, Los Angeles, stopped Woll Despardins, 136, Calgary, Alberta, 2. At Denver — Corky Gonzales, {1225, Denver, outpointed Lee | Bohles, 128%, Cleveland, 10 At San Diego, Calif—Tke Patton, | 161, Honolulu, outpointed Nap | Howard, 160, Los Angeles, 10. At Cleveland—Artie Levine-Dick Wagner bout postponed to Monday | | night. WIL BASEBALL |only the showing was necessary, shows. (International Soundphoto) ' whereas proof must be made at a —‘———-_. !final hearing for a permanent one. | The action also attacks the validity jor the law in Chapter 11, Alaska relgn over Juneau's big three-day| women in Beta Sigma Phi sorority | area, with one each in the sheepispem today’s luncheon meeting at| FIGHT DO DOPE Hiss Defense fo Session Laws, 1049, Citing numerous precedents, At- ltomey General J. Gerald Williams Open Monday; Liels Issue NEW YORK, June 18.—(M— De- ; fense lawyers Monday will begin Alger Hiss did not lie when he swore he never handed out govern- | ment secrets to a prewar courler ! for Soviet spies. Apart from attacks on the credi- bility of Hiss’ chief accuser, Whit- taker Chambers, the defense, has | not indicated what jts line of ars! guments will be. However, it is expected that the lanky, Harvard-educated Hiss, one- time high State Department officlal, | | will be his own star witness. | He is charged with perjury. The i government claims he lied to a grand jury when he said he did not | supply confidential information wn | Chambers, confessed ex-Communist | !spy courier. The government rested its case| ‘yesterdny after 14 trial days, and tullmony by 33 vmne;us . 'BC Salmon Fishing | Now at Standsill VANCOUVER, B. C., June 18.—# n-mmm Columbia salmen fishing came to a standstill teday as mem- bers of the United Fishermen’s and | Allied” Workers Union voted on a new price offer by the fish compan | ies. “Union officials said the bal | loting will take several days. Terms ,or the offer were not disclosed. Earlier, the net fishermen had re- | jected a company proposal, holdmx |iast to a demand of 7 cents pound for pinks and 14 cents lm | cohoes. Engagement i | Is Announced‘ i Mr. and Mrs. George Anderlnn‘ announce the engagement of their | |d-ugmer. Miss Sylvia Grace Ander- | son to Robert L. McCain, both at-| | tending the University of Alaska. "flw wedding is set for July 2. 'The {couple plans to rema’n in Pair- ' banks. argued for the Tax Commissioner and the Territory, his chief con- tention being that injunctive re- }Ilef should not be granted because it would hlmper the function of | government. “While we do not comlder that (an injunction should be issued at all,” sald Willlams. “they would te in better position if they came in | \ BEIA SIGMA pHI | their court battle to try to prove saying they would pay the mim- ;mum tax, then seek an injunction.” Arnold claimed the Hi Com- pany already has paid $21 for 949 licenses under the previous law, and been dunned by Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney for $61,000 more. The estimated tax on Harris Company fishtraps for 1949 ‘Is approximately $132,000. The attorney general maintained that the remedy at law could not be declared inadequate because | plaintiff and intervenor declared the territory insolvent, and that public policy requires that injunc- tions not be issued to restrain col- lection of taxes. Co-counsel for Harris firm are Frank L. Mechem of Seattle and H L. Paulkner of the Juneau firm; of Faulkner, Banfield and ! Boochever, while Edward W. Allen |of Seattle and R. E. Robertson ot Juneau represery the Mutual Trap Company with Arnold, who also is executive manager of Alaska !Salmon Industry, Ine. With the taking under advise- ment of this case, Judge Folta now has three decisions to hand down affecting major tax legislatjon passed in the 1949 session. He is expected to rule on the suit of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany vs. the Tax Commissioner |challenging the new net income tax law, before leaving Friday for ithe annual conterence of Ninth Circuit Court judges in Los An- geles, The other decision is on validity of the increased license fee for non-radtknt fishefmen, on a “friendly test case” brought by At- |torney A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, representing two Seattle masters of | halibut vessels and a Ketchikan processing firm. nosmn AL NOTES Discharged lmm St. Ann's Hos- pital yesterday were J. Raymond Hope, Martin Glatke, John Hopen, and Willlam Wallace. Discharged from the Government Hospital was Elizabeth Howard. s