The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,238 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1949 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Hundreds Die in Violent Accidents Quver 4th Taft Wins Senate Labor Fight DEMOCRACY IS KEYNOTE, ATH TALKS Rededication of Principles | of Independence, Free- dom Urged by Speakers (By the Associated Press) Another loud and joyous Fourth —one that set a record for violent deaths—passed to history today. It was the 173rd since this na- tion's founders told the world they were ready to fight for indepen dence. It brought from several present| national leaders appeals for a re- dedication to the principles of in- dependence and freedom laid down| in 1776.—Principles which Secre- tary of Defense Louis Johnson said | are winning the cold war with! Communism. DEFEND DEMOCRACY Vice President Barkley, speaking at a Piggott, Ark. celebration honoring Senate Secretary Leslie| Biffle, said: “The freedom of America and Democracy . . . can not be measured | ©ty a monetary standard—it s priceless and must be defended at all costs.” Secretary Johnson spoke at Wheeling, W. Va. “There are still shackles to be broken in this world ‘today,” hej said. “The grievances that the American Communists had are the same kind of grievances that hu- man beings in many quarters of the- globe -suffer in- this -modern, age. INDEPENDENCE SPIRIT “Only a spirit Tike that of our great Declaration of Independence can throw off chains and end these grievances.” Speeches by many of the na- tion’s top military men followed a similar line. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, former Ambassador to Moscow, said that America’'s growing mil- tary strength has halted Communist expansion in Europe at least for the time being, bringing “hope andj renewed courage” to Western Eur-l ope. General Smith, now Commander | of the First Army, spoke at Wil-| liamsburg, Va. Gen. Omar Bradley,! Army Chief of Staff, spoke at Fort Leavenworth, . Kans. AGGRESSOR ON DEFENSE “The advantage has swung to| our side . .. and the aggressor who was once a friend is now on the defense,” General Bradley said. President Truman returned from a quiet three-day cruise of Ches- apeake Bay. . At Greenville, S.C, former Sec- retary of State James F. Byrnes predicted Russia would follow a; policy of rearmament and militari- zation in its part of occupied Ger- many. He reiterated his stand against a “welfare state” and called on| the United States to he strong|; militarily and economically. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON — The weather was hot outside, but not half as hot as the atmosphere behind the closed doors of the House Education and Labor Committee when Chair- man John Lesinski of Michigan, Catholic, and Rep. Graham Bar- den of North Carolina, Presbyter- ian, squared off on the issue of federal aid to parochial schools. Both are Democrats. Barden, whose aid-to-education bill has been under attack by the Catholic hierarchy, angrily assailed Lesinski for calling him a “bigot.” “I don't like this long-range snip- | ing,” asserted the North Carolinian | as he sat at the committee table within 18 inches of Lesinski. "I} like to look a man in the eye when | I have something to say abcut him, rather than give out a state- ment to the press. You went out of | ! your way a malign not only my in- i tegrity, but my character. 2 | “And you did " not speak the truth,” Barden continved, Jlooking e B P U T I SR (Continued on Page Four) ATLANTIC i mutual defense system. {FINE POLICE RECORD |last year and, what is even more jwere chiefly the shooting off of: ECONOMIC | STABILITY NECESSARY Lt. Gen. lem—ay Also Dis- | cuss National Security, Seattle Address Brother of Truman in Bad Tumble, GRANDVIEW, Mo., July 5—@—| J. Vivian Truman, the Presldent.; orother, was hospitalized today by | head injuries suffered in an Inde- | pendence Day accident. | He fell from a barn loft on the! family farm while removing picnic| SEATTLE, July 5—(P—Economic|tables from the loft. Truman was stability is just as necessary as;knocked unconscious in the eigl:t- | military strength to keep America|foot tumble. independent, Lt. Gen. Curtis E.| Dr. John R. McKee, Lemay told a July 4 audience here.| physician, said “Our continued independence de-|not ecritical. pends on how well we solve ail Truman, who is District Direc-| aspects of our national security|tor of the Federal Housing Ad- problem,” said Lemay, Commander|ministration, was reported resting of the Air Force Strategic Com-|comfortably today by hospital at- mand. | tendants Then, quoting from an addre%, prepared by Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington, orig- F o R ( E D inally scheduled speaker, he said: “You can :reak the back of the taxpayer by burdensome taxes anr: {Defroit Businessman in Ac- | i cident Near Anchorage | —Hospitalization if you do that you destroy Democ-! SEATTLE, July 5—#—A Detroit racy. Let it never be said that this; generation destroyed American up SE“ATE;busmessman and two of his three; W f 2 passengers were reported injured Democracy by creating a military establishment the nation could not afford.” !early yesterday in the forced land« ling of their private plane on the {Alaska tundra near Anchorage. W. P.' Anderson, brother of the pilot and owner, K. A. Anderson, 57, told of the accident on his arrival here enroute by chartered plane to Anchorage. Hospitalized at Anchorage were iW. A, Anderson, fractured leg, rib and collartone; his secretary, Miss Dorothy Jibb, 27, Detroit, both legs \fractured, and Capt. L. I Clarke.I i USN, of Collingswood, N.J., frac- | tured rib and dislocated knee. An-| |derson's wife, Dorothy, 49, was un- ,hurt ! The forced landing occurred on| a flight to Alaska from Seattle. | | the family his condition was (By Associated Press) Ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty is before the United States Senate. Less than a dozen Senators, | apparently, oppose the measure which links the U. S. with Canada and Western Europen nations in a; The Senators, however, are in a money-saving mood and may not |pass a full military aid program calling for expenditure of $1,450,-. 000,000. A compromise proposal extending aid to France, Greece and Turkey only, is expected. ) | ANCHORAGE REPORT An Assochted Press dispatch lo FOR FOURTH OF JULY | Police Chief Bernie Hulk Was{aninorage has checked all sources, beaming today over the fine be-|; 1 qing hospitals, and found no havior of Juneau citizens during record of it or amy Andersons or the long holiday weekend. Detroiters involved in such an ac-| The score for the whole weekend [cident, This has reference to the is not much different from anjan,ve story average Saturday night—6 drunks put in jail, and one person ar- rested for drunk and reckless'GAMBlI“G RA(KET driving. As to fireworks violations, the} chief believes there were fewer mnn "Ew ONE SpRu"G noisemaking ones, rather than TR those having a real fire hazard. LOS ANGELES, July 5. —#— A| As to the visiting men in uni-|new racket is plaguing the beleag- | form, the Police Department co-|uered Los Angeles police force and| operated in every way. Chief Hulkilts new chief, Maj. Gen. W. A. Wor- | states that any disturbances among ton of the U. 8. Marines. them are problems for the Navy| It is baseball gambling, by tele- unless they involve Juneau resi-|vision. Casinos are springing up in ‘mportant to the community, these MOSCOW, July —{P—Andr en | Gromtyko, Soviet Deput,y Porexgn s | Minister, attended Independence | existing between our two nations.” STRIKE SPREADS, HAWAI Pineapple Patkers Fish Canners Involved-Tin- plate Shortage HONOLULU, July 5—(P—Hawaii’s | waterfront strike headaches spread to the pineapple packers. and fish canners today. Another month w, so and they will be out of nnphtq. they said. | Shipments of tinplate have beer tied up in port since May 1 when the island’s 2,000 stevedores of the | CIO International Longshoremen’s | and Warehousemen’s Union struck. | They demanded their wage of $1.40 an hour be increased by 32 cents. The American Can Co. told pine- apple plantations there would be no more tineplate deliveries after the first week in August. That is about the time the $70,000,000 pine- || ¢ apple crop hits its harvest peak. | Tuna packers said they had tin- plate for another four weeks. | Shutdowns would throw about | 7,000 pineapple and 1,000 tuxm" workers out of work. . | There were no holiday develop- ments in negotiations to end the ! Gromyko Gels Gay SAYS ALASKA RATES MUST BE CHANGED Day celebration at ti Dy eebration at the American Representative Jackson, soLaughing joking, and in oevews | Speaker at Fairbanks, Boosts Research Work joined the new American Ambas- | sador, Alan G. Kirk, in toasts to | Soviet-American _friendship. i Kirk yesterday presem.edth)iskcrle-‘i SEATTLE, July 5—(P—Rep. Hen- dentials to Soviet President Nikola! jrv M. Jackson (D.-Wash,) says Se- (D.-Utah) (ce PIane Is Missing ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (M—A Wein-Alaska Airline reported missing Saturday after- noon on a flight from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks, was still unreported ‘oday, the CAA office is notitied (G PILOT, FAMILY, ENROUTE T KODIAK, Shvérnik ang pledged 0, “work un- lattle may lose a large share of its remittingly %o hetier, selations | trade to Alaska unless Alaskans are given “reasonable shipping rates and 'uninterrupted service.” o e o0 e | Jackson stopped here yesterday \enroute .to Washington, D. C., after | speaking at the University of Alaska !Frlday. | “We're gomng to have to wake up WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST.) or lose a lot of Alaska trade,” Jack- In Juneau— Maximum, 77; ison told newsmen. “The Alaskans minimum, 51. . | hostility to Seattle is real. They At Airport— Maximum, 75; ! want reasonable shipping rates and minimum, 46. tunlmerrupted service. FORECAST e hndle i (Jun and Vieloity) Unless we give it to them—and it's a big job—the Alcan Highway jand air shipments out of Minneap- ‘olis and Edmonton will get an in- creasing amount of Alaskan freight.” Jackson said he expected Congres- | sional hearings would be conducted | in Washington, D. C., in a few weeks |on possible legislation to lower Al- |askan shipping rates and construc- tion costs in the Territory. The Representative said he would | recommend to military leaders that | lall Arctic research be centered at the University of Alaska. ! “The university already has done | important work in health and agri- {culture research in the Arctic,” he Considerable cloudiness with occasional light rain shower tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight around 47; highest about 60. PRECIPITATION (Past 2+ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In City of Juneau—None; since July 1, .28 inches. At Airport — None; since July 1, .05 inches. STEAMER MOVEMENTS category is on the city record. | 'P.R.A. NOW BUREAU dents or property. Nothing in this!various sections of the city. Croup- iers stand behind green tables and sing out frequently changing odds on plays of the game being tele- vised. ‘Will the batter fly out, single, strike out? Will the runner go on the next pitch? There’s betting ac- tion on every move, and of course, it’s against the law. Worton succeeds C. B. Horrnll,s who retired during a grand jury| investigation of the police vlcei squad and underworld activities. | Hiss Trial fo Jury Thursday NEW YORK, July 5. — ® — The perjury trial of Alger Hiss will go to 1 OF PUBLIC l!OAi)SI UNDER NEW AGENCY, Oldtimers will flnd the ngw desig- nation of the Public Roads Ad- ministration easier to remember than will newcomers. Exactly 101 years ago, the Federal Works Agency | was established, and with it there was a change in the roads depal ment. H. A. Stoddart, Division Ehgineer, has received word that, et(ecuve July 1, PRA became the Bureau of Roads, as it was known here torl years. Aleutian from Seattle due at 5 o'clock this afternoon and sails for | westward at 8:30 p. m. Princess Louise from Vancouver scheduled to arrive at 7 tonight. Princess Kathleen scheduled to | sail from Vancouver 8 p. m. to- morrow. | Prince George scheduled to sail| from Vancouver 8 p. m. Friday. Baranof scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sml from Vancouver Saturday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 5—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 90':, Anaconda 26, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 247%, Kennecott 45, New York trom said, “and will be of great assistance to the military forces. “Our whole future depends on the job we do now in Arctic research. | The Russians are way ahead of us. We know very little about the Arc- |tic. It makes sense to cencentrate | our basic research at the University of Alnska i lONGSHOREMEN - AT SEATTLE IN 'ANNUAL ‘DAY OFF" SEATTLE, July 5—(®—Only| about 100 of Seattle’s 1700 Jong- | shoremen worked today on the an-| nual “day off” taken in memory | of six dock workers killed in Wesl eral branch, the General Services eral Judge Samuel H. Kaufman an- It is transferred to a new Fed-|the jury Thursday afternoon, Fed- Administration, which succeeds the |nounced today. Federal Works Agency under which| The prosecution rested its case PRA operated. today after Assistant U. 8. Attorney For, those having business with Thomas F. Murphy failed in an the office of BPR District Engineer, | | attempt to have tife court reconsider Chris. Wyller, that office has been |its ruling last week excluding t.estl- moved from the Baranof Hotel to mony of a former wife of Gerhart | Room 15, Valentine Building. Elller. »...,guest at the Gastineau. Central 97, Northern Pacific 13'%, U. S. Steel 21';, Pound $4.027. Sales today were 630,000 shares. Averages today are as follow: dustrials 169.02, rails 43.29, utilities 34.69. Coast ports in the 1934 strike William (Bill) Gettings, Regional| Director of the CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen s Union, said only two ships were being loaded. One was a Nav reefer with perishable cargo ani other an Alaska passenger vessel on which mail and baggage wert .being put aboard. PRINCE RUPERT VISITOR Saur Calvin of Prince Rupert is a Emoule to his first Alaska duty, | (jg) James Flessas, USCG, and ms family enjoyed Juneau's Sun- day celebration, especially the in- formal f‘fireworks party” betore the Denali sailed early yesterday norning. Lieutenant ang Mrs. Fiessas, with their 10-year-old son, Kendrall, 1ad come from San Diego, although the Coast Guard pilot recently ompleted a tour of duty at Holly- yood, Fla. He is familiar with Hollywood, Calif., too, as he starred n several Navy-release movie shorts | about flying, notably one ‘eaturing the Constitution. The, dllot will have a yecar's duty at the USCG Facility, N.A.S., Kodiak. While Kenny visited a shipboard ‘riend tor the evening, his parents joined a small party in the Bubzie Room, where they enjoyed the first verformance of Toni DiMaggio and Harry Wham, before returning to watch the fireworks display from the Denali top deck. With them were Mrs. Stanley Nelson of Kodiak; 8. C. McAfee, a veteran Alaska traveler for Ansco, and Edward (Babe) Seidenverg, well-known traveling man who fcrmerly was mayor of Nome. A. JENNINGS RITES TOMORROW AT CHAPEL Funeral sevices for Arthur Jen- nings, former Ploneers’ Home resi- dent at Sitka, will be held tomorrow: afternoon at 2 o'clock.in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Rev. Samuel McPhetres will officiate. Interment will be in Ever- reen Cemzt.ery Jennihgs died . last !”"’" Ann's Hospital. = * Dockworkers on Strike on Thames (By Associated Press) Britain still was plagued with a at St | dockworkers strike with a mount- ! The Thames- | ing economic crisis. side strike of 8,484 dock workers held up 92 ships. FROM SEATTLE | William Read of Seattle 'guest at the Gastineau Hotel. is July 65— plane, ! LIKE STOPOVER HERE' Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio) (right) smiles after his victory over Sen. Scott Lucas (D.-TIL) in the Senate floor battle on a new labor law. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas Labor Committee which repnru-rl out the basic labor bill on which the battle was based. #® erepllntn nter) is chairman of the Senate MILLIONS LOST BY !Searing Damage fo Rich| | Farm lands in Eight ' Northeastern Stafes (By the Associated Press) A scorching 43-day drought ap- ‘pnrenlly has killed or spoileq more | |the farmland of eight northeastern states. | damage in the area's rich fruit, vegetable and dairy regions will {soar to a vastly higher figure it ) rains do not come in a few days. The parched drought leaion stretches from Southern New Jer- the dairies and farms of New York | State, and then fans out over al- most the whole of Southern New | England. The drought, which has inflicted | its searing damage for. more than| six weeks, comes from a sluggish high pressure area that fights oft potential rainstorms. Until that high pressure area 15 | New Jersey's drought damage has | reached an estimated $28,000,000. 'Luss in the potato crop alone nc- counts for $4,500,000, And along with the temperature, | prices of fruit and vegetables have Leen climbing. crop has suffered by $4,000,000 and truck crops are reported severiy dnmnged If rain doesn’t come; DROUGHT then $50,000000 worth of crops in} Moreover, farm experts warn, the| sey’s truck crop argas up Lhmugnl shoveq aside, the drought will last. . On Long Island, the hig potato | DEATHTOLL IS HIGHEST ONRECORD | Traffic Vidi;n;kea(h 289- Drownings 240 - No Fireworks Fatalities (By the Associated Press) A record accidental death toll for the Fourth of July marked the nation's observance of this year’s exterded Independence Day holi- day. Latest grim figures showed 663 { killed in violent accidents, The grim report'on the country's celebration of the three-day holi- day was: traffic fatalities, 289; drownings 240; violent deaths from miscellaneous causes 134. The | country-wide survey covered vio- lent deaths from 6 p.m., Friday to | midnight Monday. The 1849 toll was the highest ever recorded for any Fourth of 1July The previous record of acci- | dental deaths on the Independence | Day holiday was 628 in the three- ‘iny period in 1941. This year's | mark compared with 571 deaths re- ‘porud over the three-day period {in 1948, Sweltering weather across tg» |nation brought an outpouring of | millions onto the highways headed for vacation lands and resorts. The traffic toll, as generally expected, was the leader, with ‘289 fatalities ion the highways. The Nationat |Bafety Council had estimated 200 persons would lose their lives ia traffic. mishaps over the holiday. The 'hot and humid weather sent | millions to lakes and rivers to cool {off and drownings over the three- {day period was a record-breaking ‘240. The previous high was 192 last | vear. i Michigan’s hundreds of lakes | lured thousands and 25 persons |drowned in the state. Twenty-one rdrown!d in New York, including a% |least four in New Yark City, when {a sudden storm swamped hundreds {of small boats offshore: The survey' showed' no fatalitics from fireworks. ¢ The death toll was the heaviest In Texas—47 killed in violent acci- ‘dents Thirty-two. were killed in 'tmmc mishaps; eight drowned and seven Jost. Lhen' lives in other acci- ‘dents of 'a violéent nature, New York's 45' fatalities ranked second ’nnd Michigan’s toll was 42. No violent deaths were reported in Kansas, Nevada or the District r of Columbia, i / 21 VIOLENT DEATHS IN WASH. STATE SEATTLE, July 5—1AL—Wuhlnn- |ton State tallied at least 21 violent deaths for the three-day July Fourth weekend. Nine persons died in traftic acci~ | i : E | dents, three drowned, one was fate soon, the potato crop may be de-| l“)’ hurt in an explosion and an- eted by $5,000,000 worth, tother was shot with a rifle, New Enxllnd's drought area in-| In addition, seven 'persons per- yegetable, dairy and to- ished in & fire that roared through tncco Innds that stretch from the Lafayétte Hotel in Aberdeen Southern Maine, ‘Vermont, Massa- |arly Sunday morning. chusefts and Rhodé Island to Con- uecucut. Grant B Snyder, -head ot 'o w‘knm‘ the’ vegetable gardening department | at the University of Mhsnchuse[ls said losses in New England now np- Boum FoR Soul“ | proximate five to 10 million dollars. | | Xt ‘there is no real rain within| |4 “week, prof. Gfant added. ne| Ten pasengers boarded the {New England 1oss could approxi- FFincess Norah when she docked |mn£e 30 to 40 millions, ‘hcre Southbound this merning at | The Connecticut valley region, he | {9 o'clock. Nine disembarked here |sald, is in the worst state in his| Saturddy on the Norah’s north- 128 years experience. “It would mke‘ tound voyage. Passengers included: four to six inches of rain,” Prot, 10 Vancouver: Mr. and Mrs. T. Grant said, to give much benetit. 1" VanAlystne, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. The valley got only .7 of an inch | YARAlystne, Miss ©. M. Johnson, Yot "ralai i June instead of its| - D- Melberg. |normal four inches. FROM TULSEQUAH I[ A. F. MacLeod of Tulsequah 1s registered at the Gastineau. To Seattle: Miss F. Abbott, Miss | Lilly Hagerman, P. D. Ayres, PP | scott. { Prom Vancouver: Miss Frances |J. Barnes, Cmdr. and Mrs. Edward | P. Chester and Frederick Chester, | Miss Helen A. Smirch, Mrs. Mollie The Ross barrier in the Antarctic|Greenblatt, Mrs. Ernest Gruening, thick and abtout the size of France. ais'a sheet ‘of ice 500 to 1,500 feet Miss Clara M. Johnson and Miss Janet 'E. Walker,