The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,239 Scor APPROVAL OF PACT IS URGED Sen. Vandfiérg Makes Emphatic Plea-Gives Reasons for Okeh WASHINGTON, July 6. —#— Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) urg- ! ed the Senate today to approve the Atlantic Pact as a move “to stop another war before it starts.” The Republican Foreign Affairs leader described the treaty as a shield for -free men against the “embattled, greedy Communism” which he said is the sole threat to world peace. Vandenberg opened the sccond day of thespact debate amid predic- | tion from Senate leaders thet the| treaty—signed by the United States, Canada, and 10 European nations— might be ratified after less than a | weeks discussion. Two-thirds of the} Senate must approve before this| country joins up. | “In my view,” Vandenberg de- clared, “thg pact’s invincible power for peace is the awesome fact that | any aggressor upon the North At-| lantic community knows in advance | that from the very moment he| launches his conquest he will tace whatever cumulative opposition these united allies deem necessary to beat him to his knees and re- store peace and security.” The Michigan Senator said that “‘open conspiracies” have tiie United States as their eventual goal. “We are the final target,” he sam,| “though other independent peoples | are in nearer aray. He descflbedww as “the best available implement to discour- age armed “aggression and thus to stop another war before it start. | Hiss Trial | Nears End NEW YORK, July 5—®— The defense in the Alger Hiss perjury trial closed its case at 10:37 a. m.| (EST) today. With the government’s case also completed, Federal. Judge Samuel Kaufman denied defense motions to dismiss the charges of two perjury counts against the former State Department official. The jury of 10 men and two wo- | men is expected to begin deliberat- ing tomorrow afternoon after bcth sides have completed summations. CANADIAN VISITOR Mrs. Sidney Fox of Calgary, Al-| berta, arrived on the Princess Lou-| ise for a month’s visit with her daughter, Miss Elaine Brunwell. It is her first trip to Alaska. The Washington| Merry-gg- Round By DREW PEARSON [Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) | WASHINGTON — Senator Ful- bright's probe of lobbying inside the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has unearthed a long list of- RFC officials wno have resigned to .take jobs with companies securing RFC loans. The Arkansas Senator began his | probe after this column exposed the fact that two important RFC offi- cials -had joined the Waltham Watch Company of Massachusetts and the Plywood Plastic Corp. of Hampton, S. C., after recommend- ing that these companies receive loans. To bright has introduced legislation whereby no RFC otficial can join a company receiving an RFC loan until two years ‘after the loan is granted. Meanwhile Fulbright's Banking and Currency subcommittee has dug up the following RFC officials | who went to work for the same companies for which they recom-| mended loans, E. Merl Young, RFC examiner, reccmmended a $10,000,000 loan. to Lustron Corporation: of Cleveland, (Continued on Page Four) es of Lives {ordering the first 30,000 of 90,000 | PLANEIS Jimz trio on one of the many river | CAMPERS REQUESTED remedy this, Senator Ful-!’ | about two months. TENSION GROWING INJAPAN TOKYO, July 6—®—The news-j paper Yomiuri reported today| Japan’s cabinet was prepared to declare a national state of emer- gency. Yomiuri said the action resulted from uneasiness over labor dis- turbances, Communist led riots and the ignoring of lawful authority by Red-indoctrinated repatriates | from Russia. Tension reached a climax 1 government circles this morning, the newspaper said, when the dis- membered body of President Sada- nori Shimoyama of the National Railway Corporation was found on | a railroad track. Police are investigating the pos- sibility of murder of Shimoyama. ‘> ‘Yomiuri also reported the catinet was in favor of laws curbing Japan’s Communists. A special ses- sion of the Diet (Parliament) was being considered for that purpose the newspaper said. Shimoyama’s disappearance and subsequent murder or suiclde{ brought divided opinion. Most/| authorities felt he was slain. Shimoyama disappeared after | railway workers to be fired. He was | following an order issued by Gen.| Douglas MacArthur, to ease the| cost of the occupation on Ameri-| cans, INTERIOR FAIRBANKS, Jjuly 6.—(®—Planes from Tenth Rescue Squadron, Ladd Field, and Wien Airlines, threaded through the Yukon Valley again to- day in search of a Louisiana couple and a Wien pilot missing since late Saturday. Nothing had been heard from Dr. and Mrs. Mel T. Cook and the pilot, Bill Currington, since they left Fort Yukon for Fairbanks in a light Cessna plane. Dr. Cook was identi- fied as professor of plant pathology at Louisiana State University, Baton | Rouge. The Cooks were on a tour- | ist trip. Rescuers hoped to find the miss- | bars or open areas along the route. ESEAR ST | 10 PICK UP BAGGAGE All Girl Scouts who attended | camp may pick up their baggage at the City Dock. A lost and found box of articles misplaced at campi has been placed in the Tot-to-Teen shop. The articles will be kept one week and will then be given to an| organization for distribution to the needy. | ALASKA SALMON PACK TOTALS THROUGH JULY 2 New salmon pack totals tabulated in the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice offices for the week ending July 2 show these amounts for all districts of Alaska: Red salmon—365,856 cases; king— 39,095; pink—2.891; chum—34,777; coho—628; total—443247 cases. VISITOR LEAVES Mrs. Minnie Brod left yesterday via Pan American Airways enroute to her home in' Spokane. She has been visitinng her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Dudley for the past three weeks. Mrs. Brod counts herself as a sour- dough now as this is her tenth trip to Alaska. AUDITOR ARRIVES Douglas Reld has arrived from the San Francisco regional office to audit grant-in-aid programs of | the Pederal Security Agency. These include public welfare, health department, unemployment compensation and vocational rehab- ilitation. Reid will be in the Territory The gallstones sometimes found in cattle are prized by Orientals as good-luck and good-health charms, and sell for $125 per pound. BRIDGES CAN'T 60 TO FRANCE DECLARES JUDGE SAN FRANCISCO, July 6—#— Harry Bridges today lost in his efforts to leave the United States under bond and attend a world- wide maritime conference in| France, Bridges had been named by the CIO Longshoremen’s Union, which he heads, and by the CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards; as their rep- resentative to the World Fed- eration of Trade Unions Confer- ence at Marseilles. The Longshere leader is under Federal indictment here, accused | of perjury and conspiracy in ob- aining citizenship papers in 1945. He is at liberty under a $5,000 bona pending trial. The union offered to post $100,000 bail to guarantee thaf Bridges would be here for his trial. Federal Judge Michael J. Roche| rejected the idea. | The government offered no ob- jection to Bridges' proposed trip to Honolulu where longshoremen have ceen on strike since May 1. Judge Roche said he could go after the necessary papers are signed. Bridges’ attorney, Norman Leonard, said Bridges would be in leufl‘ about three weeks. Leonard stressed that Bridges, wanted to confer with Chinese| delegates at Marseilles and wanted to work actively with them in hope of reopening Chinese ports and re- storing trade with this country. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McMillan declared “the present re- | gime of China is a Communist regime, and I think it is presump- tious of Mr. Bridges to consider such a thing at this time. It is not up to Mr. Bridges to concern him- self with such matters.” Brifain Slopping | Spending LONDON, Juyy ¢—#— Britain today ordered a halt to the spend- ing of her dwindling dollars ex- cept where importers can show such spending is a matter of ur- gent national necessity. Sir Stafiord Cripps said a buy- ers’ market has reduced exports to the United States and cut earnings | abroad so that Britain has had to dig drastically into her reserves of gold and dollars to pay her bills. | The situation likely will slash pur- chases of food and raw materials abroad. This country now obtains vast quantities of wheat, cotton,| tobacco and gasoline from the Uni- | ted States and other countries de- mand payments in dollars or other “hard” currencies. Cripps did not go into details today, but promised them later. He reported the sterling area’s re- serves were down to $1,624,000,000 after dropping radically in the last six months—but he said Britain has “not the slightest intention of re- valuing the pound.” Existing contracts for dollar-area purchases will stay in force, Cripps told the House of Commons, but the Treasury will permit further spend- ing only “where a clear case of ur- gent national interest is establish- Mrs. Boettiger Sued for Divorce (By Associated Press) A daughter of the late Presi- dent Roosevelt, Mrs. Anna Boet- tiger, has been sued for divorce. The suit was filed by John Boet-| tiger, former publisher of the Ari- zona Times. Boettiger charged extreme men- tal cruelty in his suit, which was filed in Phoenix City Court. The Boettigers started the Ari- zona Times three years ago. They sold the paper a year ago to a group of Phoenix businessmen. JUDGE FOLTA RETURNS Judge George W. Folta was aj Pan American passenger today, re- turning from the judicial conter- ence he addressed in Los Angeles. District Court will be in session | here through Saturday, before the court moves to Ketchikan for the| term there, which is expected to continue to the end of July. | \ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1949 Taken in Long Heat Wave WANTS PEP TALK FROM PRESIDENT Vinson Declares Merchants Now Frightening Them- selves on Buying (By Associated Press) While the Senate is detating the Atlantic Pact, thare were these other developments elsewhere on Capitol Hill today: [ Economic—the real danger to the nation's economy, said a manufgc- turer-turned-lawmaker, comes frém businessmen who may be “fright- ening themselves into a recession.’ “Many of them,” said Senator Flanders (R-Vt), “are pursuing a ‘perlecuy silly course by curtailing their supply of goods and materials when there is no good reason for doing so.” He expressed hope that President Truman, -in his forthcoming eco- nomic message to Congress, will give the errant merchants “a darn good pep talk.” Flanders, a member of the Sen- ate-House committees which will study the President’s report, once was chairman of the board of Jones and Kanson Machine Co, in Springfield, Vt. L WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 53; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicintty) Decreasing cloudiness to- night with lowest tempera- ture near 45 degrees. Partly cloudy Thursday with warm- est temperature about 65 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau .12 inches; since July 1, .40 inches. At Airport — .05 inches; since July 1, .10 inches. ©0000000000000"00000000%0 00 ANDREW HILDRE FOUND DEAD IN HARBOR OFFICE Andrew Hildre, harbor master of the Small Boat Harbor, was found dead shortly before noon today in his office at the harbor. Bert Lybeck and George Martin discovered Mr. Hildre’s body anc calleq Dr. C. C. Carter. Hildrs had suffered several heart attacks during recent years. Hildre is survived by his widow, who is visiting in Norway at the present time. Mrs. Hildre, who has been in the old country for three months, was due to sail from Nor- way on July 16. Hildre is also sur- vived by his Ltrother, Pete of Ju- neau and three sisters and one brother in Norway. He had two step-children, John Floberg of Seattle and Bernice Floberg of Ju- neau. Hildre was 58 years of age and was born in Norway. He came to Juneau in 1915 and was a halibut fisherman for many years. He had been harbor master for the past three years. His remains were taken to the Charles W. Carter Mor- tuary. MRS. NAYLOR NOW IS IN FISHERIES OFFICE C. L. Anderson, director of the Territorial Department of Fisheries, now has an assistant to look after the office in Room 214, Gastineau Hotel. Mrs. Gertrude Naylor is the new secretary. The new telephone number for the office is 448. BANK EXAMINERS HERE National Bank Examiners Louis I. Rasmussen and George M. Stark are in Juneau making a routine examination of Juneau's First Na- tional Bank, and will cover other national banks in Alaska. They are from the Los Angeles office of the Federal Reserve. HIRING HALLS ARE ILLEGAL, (OURT RULES Decision Made in Great| Lakes Port Case-May | Apply Elsewhere | NEW YORK, July 6—(P—The operation of hiring halls for job- hunting seamen — a long-time, jealously-guarded tradition of the CIO National Maritime Union—has been declared illegal at Great Lakes ports. The U.S. Court of Appeals yes- {terday upheld a finding of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board that the halls discriminated against non-union seamen in violation of the Taft-Hartley law. Under union hiring hall pro- cedure, job hunters must register {with the union. They are then assigned to ship jobs by rotation. ‘The court did not rule on whether | all hiring halls are illegal under the Taft-Hartley law. However, the NLRB was expected to seek to| apply the ruling to hiring halls at all ports, for both longshoremen {and seamen. i i b - o B | | $30,000 NTAX | WITHHOLDINGS PAID INONE DAY Yesterday Sefs Record for Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney Collections under the 1949 net| income tax law are beginning to come in to the Tax Commissioner’s office, as was expected by Commis-! sioner M. P. Mullaney after the recent judicial decision upholding ! that legislation. By the closing of the Looks June 30, about $190,000 had been re-| celved. Yesterday, Collector Mullaney re- ceived approximately $30,000 ot withholding tax funds which had been held in escrow or on special deposit. Some of both sums are in pay- ment for the quarter ending March 31, some for the quarter just| ended. Payments for the second, quarter will be delinquent if not| made by July 31. A rush of payments early this month is expected, and it is under-‘ stood that no legal action to col-| lect will be taken for a reasonable | time. MRS. GREENBLATT, ONCE JUNEAU RESIDENT, VISITS GOLDSTEIN FAMILY HERE To visit her sisters and brothers: in Juneau, Mrs. Hyman Greenblatt | of San Francisco arrived on ths Princess Norah Saturday. She is a guest at the home of Mrs. Robert | Simpson. Mrs. Greenblatt, who lived in Juneau as a girl, is the former Mollie Goldstein. Miss Minnie Gold- stein, Mrs, Simpson, Charles and This is her first trip north since she was. in Juneau during the ser- ious illness of Mrs. Simpson 14 years ago. Accompanying Mrs. Greenblatt on her trip to Juneau is her grana-| daughter, Helen Ann Emrich, a| charming young girl who is in her; senior year in high school mf Weiser, Idaho. | smm_govzfims Princess Kathleen scheduled sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Prince George scheduled to sail| from Vancouver 8 p.m. Friday. 1 Baranof scheduled to sall fromj| Seattle Saturday. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver Saturday. { Princess Louise scheduled to ar-| rive 7 am. Priday and sails south-, bound one hour later at 8 am Aleutian scheduled southbound Sunday afternoon. to| AT THE GASTINEAU Hotel, i | fight to convict Iva Toguri (Tokyo | Radio Tokyo. | one Chinese as an alternate Juror, 1. Goldstein are her relatives here.| MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Tokyo Rose Faces Jury, Goil. Trial Conviction fo Be Saught on Charges of Treason in Wartime SAN FRANCE, July 66— The government today opens i Rose) D'Aquino of wartime treason —but will not demand the death penalty. Speedy selection of an au-whllcv jury of six men and six women yesterday cleared the way for open- ing statements, and probably some preliminary testimony, today. The statement that the govern- | ment will not ask death came from prosecutor Tom De Wolfe in reply to a reporter’s question. The min- imum penalty upon conviction| would be five years in prison and! a $10,000 fine. ! The defendant, born in Los An-, geles 33 years ago on July 4, is charged, with eight acts of trea-) son. The government charged that, | as Tokyo Rose, she hoped to de- moralize and discourage allied mili- tary men with her broadcasts from The government used only seven jury challenges. ! Asked if the talesmen were chal- lenged because they were Negroes, De Wolfe said, “No, we were not motivated by that. There were many reasons.” The government also ruled out! ‘The defense used nine chnllengee.‘ Much testimony of & preliminary| nature was expected before the| government presents recordings of Radio Tokyo broadcasts. The government, for example,! must establish that the defendant is a United States citizen, owing al- legiance to this country. One of; of the defense contentions is that' Mrs. D'Quino became a citizen of, Portugal when she married her, Portuguese husband. 5 HoI_AEes— 0fVolcano Kills Men MANILA, July 6—(®—The Philip- pine Red Cross headquarters alterted its disaster units on Cami- guin Island in the Southern anp—] pines today after receiving reports! two men had died of burns fromj hot ashes spewed by Hitokhibok | ! I | volcano. It was not learned immediately whether the men were burned in- specting the volcano or while they were working in pearby fields. The volcano 10 months ago caused a major evacuation of the little island. It has been mildly active since then. CHAMBER T0 HEAR GOVERNOR SPEAK TOMORROW NOON| ] Governor Gruening will appear before the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon to speak to the group on his recent stay in Wash- ington, D.C., and to discuss Terri- torial affairs. A special invitation has been ex- | tended to officers aboard the Navy|ing quotation of Alaska | Cruiser USS Pasadena by Cmadr.:mine stock today is 3%, American Edward P. Chester to attend the noon session. d OVERHEATED STOVES CALL' FIRE FIGHTERS Overheated stoves were respon- sible for yesterday’s two fire calls. The first, shortly after 5 p.m., was in a tent on lower Ninth Street. The name of the occupant is not known to the Pire Department, which put the blaze out in a few minutes. The second 4-9 alarm, about 10:45 pam., took the truck and volunteer Douglas W. Reid of Sacramento,' fighters to 916 Ninth Street, where Agency, and left Sunday for his Calif., is staying at the Gastineau the resident had- extinguished the'headquarters office ‘n San Prancis- [ fire before their arrival, DEATH TOLL toll over the Fourth of July hl.)ll-| lany holiday period. |covered a period from 6 pm. last Day holiday was 628 in 1841, |n.lter 11 minutes yesterday with | hiked 32 cents. FORFOURTH IS NOW 711 “Shameful and Disgrace- ful” Is Declaration of Natl. Safety Council (By the Associated Press) The nation’s accidental death day—a record breaking T71l—was “shameful and disgraceful,” says the National Safety Council. ‘The 711 killed in violent accidents over the three-day period was the highest ever reported for a Fourth of July and near the record for The final count in the state-by- state survey showed 315 traffic fatalities, 25 more than the 290 estimated by the council; 266 drownings, and 140 killed from mis- cellaneous causes. The tatulation Friday to midnight Monday. ‘The nation’s heaviest accidental death toll for a holiday period was 761 for four days in Christmas week of 1936. Of the total, 555 were killed in traffic mishaps. The pre- vious high for the Independence STRIKE AT HAWAIL IS UNSETTLED HONOLULU, July 6—#—CIO longshoremen and employers to- day were far apart on any settle- ment of the waterfront strike. A meeting to try to settle the wage dispute that brought on the two months old strike broke up nothing done. The International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen's union went on strike May 1. They de- manded their $1.40 hourly pay be| A fact finding Ltoard last week recommended a 14 cent ralse which! employers accepted. The union voted it down. At yesterday’s meeting, the union indicated it would Ttompromise for less than 32 cents an hour increase if employers would offer more than a 12 cents an hour hike. The employers answered they would, bargain in an area “sub- stantially less” than 14 cents. Meanwhile the Hawaiian Brewery Corporation today had suspended beer sales. The measure was taken after breweries had been accused of using grain consigned to dairy- men to make beer. The grain was brought in on a rellef ship. The dairymen’s association has been denied any more relief ships to the islands. * The assoclation contended that grain used in brewing beer is con- verted into enriched cattle food. The Hawalian Brewery Corpora- tion said it would continue making beer and producing ‘“valuable cow feed.” But as a gesture of good faith it will suspend beer sales for the duration of the strike. Pineapple packers and fish can- ners said yesterday they would be out of ‘tinplate in another month if the strtke was not ended. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 6.-—®—Clos- Juneau PRICE TEN CENTS HOT BELT EXTENDING WIDE AREA Temperatures Soar Over 100 Degrees-Drought Adds fo Situation (By The Associated Press) A toll of at least 132 deaths was counted today in the longest heat wave, s0 far this summer. No immediate break in the torrid temperatures was in sight, although thunder showers cooled scattered sections of the hot belt temporariiy yesterday and last night. In addition to deatns induced by the heat, nine were known dead and five were missing from a sud- den, violent squall that raked the New York metropolitan area yes- terday. The storm knifed across Long Island Sound and capsized hundred of boats. The gstimated dead due to the heat included heat prostrations and heart attacks attributed to the heat. Toll By States The deaths of this nature by states included: Illinois 54 (includ- ing B0 Chicago ares, coroner’s office estimate of deaths from heat and heart attacks aggravated by heat); Indiana 2; Iowa 6; Maryland 3; Michigan 8; Minnesota 14; Mis- sourl 10; Nebraska 3; New - York 6; Ohlo 10; Pennsylvania 12; Vir- ginia 2; Wisconsin 2. + Most of the midwest was weary rom & week of hot, sticky weath- The eastern states also sizsled the searing heat. And in the «there was no sign the long drought. The new heat wave only added to further damage farm crops al- ready wilted -by seven weeks of rainless weather. Crop losses in the region have been estimated at more than $50,000,000. i Comfortable Spots The U. 8. weather bureau said the only comfortable spots over the two-thirds of the country in the grip of the hot weather were the northern border statess Tempera- tures were also pleasant along the Pacific coast. A mass of cool air from north- westerny Canada brought relief to parts of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, It never reached swel- tering Chicago, where the meréury hit above 90 yesterday for the six- th consetutive day. A high of 95 was forecast for today. New temperature records for the date were set in many cities yes- terday as the mercury ranged be- tween 90 and 100. Philadelphia’s 09.2 was the summer season’s hot- test day. At Lancaster, Pa., the reading was 101 for the secol straight day. er, in of year's highest and a record for July 5. At Springfield and Youngstown the top was 103. The heat brought an eruption in U. 8. 30 south of Marion, O. The macadam and asphalt pavement bulged cross-wise and split open. A temperature of 100 degrees buckled the concrete pavement on U. 8. Highway 60, 10 miles east of Owensboro, Ky. Baltimore’s 99.5 reading yesterday was the highest since August. The U. 8, weather bureau report- ed a high of 98 at Minneapolis and St. Paul and a cool 60 at Duluth, some 160 miles north on Lake Su- perior. Pittsburgh’s high was 97; Washington and Cleveland 96; New York, Nashville, Louisville, Indian- apolis and New Orleans 94. In New York, the city water com- missioner. said the city was using 1,400,000,000 gallons of water daily, 200,000,000 gallons above normal, be- cause of the drought. The situation was described as “not safe,” but rot Can 90%, Anaconda 28, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 25, Kennecott 45%, New York Central 9%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 22, Pound $4.02. | Sales today were 1,410,000 shares, | Averages today are as follows: | industrials 17068, rails 4371, util- ities 34.96. | i | | COMPLETES AUDIT Ernest Tallman, regional repre- sentative of the Bureau of Old Age | and Survivors’ Insurance, complet- | ed his field visit of the Alaska office of the FPederal Security yet “hazardous.”. The vast reser- voir gystem now holds 220,000,000,000 gallons, about 67 per cent of maxi- mum, Trumanfo Add?ess Nafl. Shrine Meel WASHINGTON, July 6—(P—Pres- ident Truman will address the Na- tional Shrine convention in Chicago Tuesday, July 19. The White House announced to- day that Mr. Truman has accepted the invitation and will fly to Chi- cago in his plane, “The Indepen- dence.”