The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1949, Page 1

. SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,248 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SA' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition TURDAY, JULY 16, 1949 AMEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Racing Cruisers BANKS WILL AID FINANCES OF TERRITORY Insfifutions in Alaska, Se- ! altle Respond o Treas- urer Roden’s Plan Bankers in Alaska and Seattle “all want to be helpful” accord- ing to Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden, and are making commit- ments to prove it. To meet the financial crisis, Ro- den had proposed that banks loan money to individuals and firms with Territorial warrants as collat- eral security. The Territory has a deficit of about a million dollars in the general fund. After conferences this week, Treasurer Roden reports that ‘the Union Bank of Anchor- age, the Bank of Fairbanks and the Bank of Seward have unre-| servedly agreed to cash $100,000 in bonds each. “Naturally, though,” said Roden, | “we cannot throw them all on the | market at once.” | The Bank of Alaska has also! promised to participate. So have! many others in the Territory, in-| cluding the Miners and Merchants | Bank of Nome and the Miners and | o ddr Ly o ogedirin Merchants Bank, Ketchikan. “The B. M. Behrends Bank in| Ralph Russo feels heat checkin Juneau also promised to do its{ share in relieving the financial sit- uation,” Roden said today. i HAWAII tinued, “are handicapped in mak-| o in Anchorage | mont, Tex., selected as 1949 Na “The National Banks” he con- ing loans of this kind. To date,' they have not been able to give| definite answers. as-40-the extent | of participation, but all expressed ! willingness. | “At present,” said the treasurer,| “we are busy working out the me- chanics of the plan. They are not | simple. Moreover, each bank nat- | urally wants to take care of its lo-| cal customers, but this cannot be | controlled.” Within the next few days, Roden | expects helpful suggestions from' George E. Cleveland and J. F.| Mullen, presidents of the First Na- ! tional and B. M. Behrends Banks, | lative Measures fo End Present Tieup the Territory agreed that these | government operation of docks as a two should act in an advisory cap- | solution for the longshore strike acity for all of them. 4‘that has paralyzed ports in these Meantime, the Treasurer is in' islands for 77 days. close touch with Seattle banks,| Goyernor Ingram M. Stainback which also have agreed to help out.| gypects o call the Territorial “While we feel confident,” sald|yegigiature in a special session and Roden, “that the banks can be|ine main measure in a legislative | paid by the middle or end of Jan- 2 ok s uary, they will have to carry the| a:?f;_nm 1 bping araliot to on0 9 warrants without interest. The| o i Board of Administration has prom- | eI ament. apACRUION, be -(ne ised to request the next Legisla-i?"v,emor‘ may be "'""Slde:“{ o ture for payment of a reasonabje| “Mion busting” by some and “free Py o | enterprise busting” by others. “The great trouble,” commented! Jack Hall, leader of the 2,000 the Treasurer, “is that many people ! striking stevedores, immediately as- believe the Territory is bankrupt. Serted the proposed legislation “fol- “It is not. We have at least ailows the employer line.” There million dollars, but we cannot touch | Was no comment from employers. it. This is in earmarked funds— A g e to my notion, a bad financial plan. It is an old-fashioned system which has not been followed else- where in the United States for 50 years.” Along with its request for the Legislature to authorize payment of interest to the banks, the Board is expected to recommend a change in the Territory's financial struc- ture to eliminate earmarked funds. As a case in point, Roden men- tioned that $31,547 was collected up to July 15 from the new tobacco tax, yet not a penns* of it can be used for current expenses, as it was earmarked exclusively for schools.| ators’ wives are embroiled in thé Some earmarked funds are so| Republican-Dixiecrat coalition th: it small, according to Roden, that the | now really rules the Senate. bookkeeping on them costs more! The Senate Ladies Auxilia than their totals. sometimes called the Senate Lac/ SIS Luncheon Club, is a friendly or- 16 KIllED ganization of all Senate wives/ re- . { | gardless of politics, which ordifiar- ily is presided over by the wife of PRUEM, Germany, July 16—(®-— A French explosives depot blew up FROM KAKE Bob Martin of Kake is at the Baranof Hotel. ‘The Washington Merry- _Gfl -Round By DREW PEARSON [Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON— Even the Sen-/ ranking wife is Mrs. Millard Tyd- ings of Maryland, whose husband WINNING OVER 18 BEAUTIES, lovely Mary Collins, 19, o ACTION Governor Proposes Legis- | HONOLULU, July 16.—»—Haw- | respectively. The other bankers in aii’s Governor turned today toward McKellar—is a bachelor, the next | BOOSTS MERCURY ON Hot pAY BRITISH STRIKE IS PLOT Communists - Labor Leaders Summoned (By the Associated Press) The British government called in | leaders of two waterfront unions |today in an etfort to setlie a strike Fthat has dealt a crushing blow to | Britain’s trade. The Labor Ministry's top negotiator met with executive | | committees of the Lightermen's | Union and the Dockers Union. | The government charges tae | wildeat strike is a Communist Jflot {to stifle international trade -and | cring Britain to her knees. More than 14,000 stevedores are idle. { Troops are now manning tife gov- | ernment-seized docks. 4 ! Britain / s facing a stafgering [li- lers | British Dominion - ~ Australia — on | the other side of ‘the world is suf- | fering a simila f plow from what |the Australiai; government also | calls a Comm: fnist plot. Communist leaders in t'pe Miners’ Union are raccused of «ingineering a strike of 124,000 min érs called at the same » u- % f Bea tional Swim for Health Girl, helps hottest day at Rye, N. Y. Officert g “thermometer.” (International) i NEw ( l E( H ; i the Tt | strike. T he strike has closed in- | dustry After industry in Australia b..F. Whitney e Dasses Away PRAGUE, Czecuwsiovakia, JU fy | H | 16-——(#—A Czech Communist | f\v.‘ CLEVELAND, Juwy 16 —/® — ty manifesto called today for mpiAlexander Fell Whitney, 76, fiery liquidation of “our greatest e jemy, | labor the church.” |and sometimes critical opponent | - MOVEMADE ON CHURCH i Charges Are Made Against| The strike came at a tyme whcn: | nancial crisis and guven/'mem lead- ! have urged a gre iter flow of British export goods 'for nationai! | survival. / |+ The national ecénomy of one i nd Helen E. Dickerson, Newton, fivities Is Made fo Congress by CIA WASHINGTON, July The Central Intelligence Agency re- | 2 ported to Congress today that 3 representatives of foreign govern- leader who was the friend;ments given visas to enter this | country have records of spy work The manifesto came on t' /» heels | of Presidents of the United States, | abroad. | of a statement by Justice Minister died at his home early today of ani These 32 are among 100 foreign | Alexei Cepicka that any éne who|heart attack. President of the: representatives about whom a Sen- | moves to put into effe /t the ex-|215,000-man Brotherhood of Rail-{ ate Judiciary subcommittee hopes | communiction of Col de- ' road Trainmen was stricken after|to question office In the same group, the intelli- mr funists creed by the Vatican “/_/:1 be arrest- i spepding a tull day at his ed and tried for trea fon. and an evening with friends at (A Vatican inforr dant said ex- |his bay village home. communication requ fres no enforce-| His wife, Dorothy Mae Whitney, ment, that it acts /upon the guilty |said she heard him call out that he in the secrecy of/ their own con-|was not feeling well early this | science.) morning. She telephoned for help, _ The party m"/nifesto said it was|returned to his side and found him ?mDEl'HNVC to * fiquidate the enemy” | dead. in qrder to e fmplete the Commun- Outspoken for the policies of thef “28_00“ of fhe country. This, it|late Franklin D. Roosevelt, Whi:«l | said, did 1/t mean liquidating the | ney served on several national com- ! Roman C ftholic Church entirely, | mittees, including the one which| but did p fean liquidation of church | guided the annual President’s: order. /{t ancther point the man-|Birthday Balls for infantiie paraly-} ‘irhcsto) £poke of liquidating “the|sis victims. B lutrL : )dq:llfxssmr)nnr;ve to crush church! Afes hours petoibabissaseih et | r ki ized a strike of Brother- auth ity was especially necessar. adeanhorlss ! y y =i beca use of the hierarchy’s hold on | hood Workers on the Southern Pa the peasantry, which must be brok- | gl rellcond. AT YAGATAGA IS | UNDER INSPECTION | wall between the hishops and the | people. It urged a campaign to | turr the people against the Catho- | CORDOVA, July 16—(®—The Ya- kataga Beach oil field, which is lic primate, Archbishop Josef Be- said to have the world’s largest rard, now a semi-captive of the natural seepage, was being in- | ¢jvernment. | !spected today by an engineering | /In a fiery speech Cepicka blast- | | #d Archbishop Beran as a traitarl of the|party representing New York and Texas oil interests. and announced that a law had {been drafted to take control of the | The Justice Minister is listed as a Test borings will be made by the party under the direction of A. I. church. | Catholic in the archives National Parliament. Rodriguez, New York engineer. The |field has a natural seepage of 10 PW Projeds Ge' oK 'rom barrels daily and has a large sur- face deposit of parafine. ‘S“btommi"ee Coal deposits at the Katalla coal | field some 30 miles from here will ‘WASHINGTON, July 16.—P— A | also be surveyed for coke coal. | House Public Works subcommittee | has recommepded approval of pre- gence agency reported, are 29 per- sons listed as high ranking Com- munist party officials. Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoet- ter, CIA director, wrote the com- mittee that 21 of the individuals involved “have reportedly or alleg- edly been engaged in active Com- munist organizational work. Hillenoketter made it plain that he was reporting only on activ- ities of the 100 in countries out- side the United States. He noted that the CIA has no police or en- fercement powers within this coun- try. Records of activities here would have to come from the FBI and other agencies, he said. The subcommittee, headed by Senator McCarran (D-Nev), heard also today that the State Depart- ment has permitted about 10 aliens to enter this country de- spite recommendations by its visa division that their admission would be against the security interests of the United States. John E. Peurifoy, deputy Under- secretary of Stat e this infor- Jbation. Peurifoy went before the subcommittee in its study of legis- lation to bar subversive aliens from this coyntry. His views were pre- sented. in writing in reply to ques- tions asized the State Department. Attotney General Tom Clark re- vealed yesterday that more than a scora of foreigners attached to the United. Nations headquarters in New Yotk are under investigation by the Cummerce Department His discl.sure came in answer to questions by the Senate Judiclary subcommittee.. Says He Wans lo Drop Dead I Charge camps in France, the Netherlands and C Darby, Pa.; Georgia Earlywine, Pratt, Kas.; Gerry Smith, Omaha, Calif.; Mercedes Urda, Sewickley, the Vice President. But since Al- last night killing 15 Germans, in- ben Barkley is a widower anfl the next Democrat in line—President juring scores more and destroying hundreds of homes in this West Pro Tem of the Senate Kenneth, German town. German police said the death toll may go still higher. Cause of the explosion was not determined, but no sabotage is sus- pected. Police said a short circuit in an electric line might te re- sponsible, . was elected to the Senate in 1927, liminary surveys of rivers and har- Mrs. Tydings, daughter of ex-|COTS Projects in five states, Alaska Ambassador Joe Davies, is one of |2nd Hawali. the loveliest ladies in the Senate,| Army Engineers would make the and it has always been taken for|SUrveys of harbors at Pert Alex- granted that the wife with the|Ander, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawaii,! | most_seniority should be automati- ‘,and the Mermentan River in Louis- | | cally elected. However, the Club's | 12na. | bylaws call for an election in case| A commilice aide said the specit- | there is no Vice President, and this | i¢ Amount of money involved would LAUNDRY ROMANCE SACRAMENTO, Calif.,, July 16.— Schull, 63, met and found romance in a laundxy. the laundry. the launcjry. | not be disclosed until the full eom- | (Continued on Page Fouri | mittee acts, i work—in/ the laundry, Is True; He Does NUERNBERG, |Germany JSuly 16 | (P—Bertha Gardner, 42, and Louis;—(®—Friedrich Cieyer, chayzed with sal being .a major Nazi offender in his appeal before tie lm.um-l They weje married yesterday—in|cation Court: “May I drop deag’ if that charze Then tljey had a reception—in|is true” A few minutes after he fell dead And tpday they went back to in the courtrgém. Dogtors sufd he died of a stipke Girl Scouts Off for Europe This group of senior Girl Scouts and assistant troop leaders pose aboard the Marine Flasher in New York harbor before sailing for Europe. They plan to work as voluntecrs in the girl guide and girl scout reat Britain. e Pa.; Margaret L Stone, San Francis N. J. P Wirephoto. SPY WORKERS Two Craff REPORTED IN Aground; ACTIONINU.S. Report on gflversive Ac-| Aid Seni SEATTLE, July 16— Two vessels were reported. hard aground today by the Coast Guard in Wash- ington and Alaskan waters. An 87-foot purse seiner wid| nine aboard sent a distress call this | morning when she became strand- | ed on Key Reef in Dixon Entrance, ' Alaska. A Coast Guard Cutter was | dispatched to aid the boat, the | Fleetwood. Her home port is not | known. ' | | Blinking lights which spelled out a distress message brought assis ance early today to a 75-foot ves- sel hard aground between Smith | and Minor Islands, in upper Puget | Sound ne Townsend. | The C d reported that the signals spotted by one | of its Smith Island. | A radio call to Port Townsend | sent a Coast Guard patrol boat to the area where the grounded craft was found to be in no danger. ALASKAGOLD | PRODUCTION ON DECLIE WASHINGTON, July 16— - were lookouts on Left to right are Margaret Ann Shoot of Upper Due in Juneau this Afternoon SIKCRUISERS FROM PUGET ~ SOUKD DUE Capital-to-Capi‘al Race s Big tvent in Yachting Circtes-Tonight's Plans | First cruisers from Puget Sound |in the Capital-to-Capital Cruiser ‘_mcn are due in Juneau at approxi- | mately 1:30 p.m. today, according to |a radio-telephone message received here at 11:35 this ferenoon from Juneau Yacht Club Commodore Jack i Burford aboard the Donjac. Eight cruisers left Prince Rupert Thursday for Juneau on the last lap of the race. These incldued the Don- ‘jac from Juneau, not entered in the competition, and the Nika, the George H. Ross entry of Queen | City. | The Nika dropped out of compe- I tition early this morning when she | developed battery trouble near Gam- |bier Bay. The Coast Guard Patrol | Boat 83524 was dispatched to her assistance from here at 9 a. m. today. br.; Virginia Milbank, Pasadena, co; Kathine Adams, Ross, Calif.; STEEL STRIKE TRUCE In Lay-Off ‘Time When Commodore Burford radio- telephoned The Empire this fore- noon, the Donjac was laying off | Maymion Island. 4 The Klatawa, skippered by C. L. Klieves of Bremerton, was taking |lay-up time somewhere between | Marmion Island and Juneau, while {the Devshir, the J. H. Smith craft | out of Portland was laying off Lime- | stone Iplet, according to Burford. % P N m | The Carmelita, skippered by Nor- | said, H H1 Final line for the cruiser race is D'spu'e w"hm 60 DaYS |the Douglas Bridge where a dele- — | gation of the city’s yacntsmen and By HA|ROLD W. WARD | officials will be on hand to greet WASHINGCON, Jhly 16. — (® — i first arrivals. A Presidentig.] fact~finding buax'dll Expected to cross the finish line in the steel ljibor disjute t00k OVEr |py 3 pm, or shortly thereafter are one of the na/tion’s bigigest economic | tha other entries, Donclie, skipper, questions todiay—shoulil there be 2 | pr J. Hart Jr. of Bremerton; Con- “fourth roumj” of DOStWAr WABE |quest, skipper, H. B. Garrett, Brem- Increases? {erton; Aileen, skipper, George H. The three-mz\n board was appoint= | patton of Nanaimo. ed last night by President Truman | pyrford reported rough weather to end a tense 72 hours speculation | p ¢t night and this morning in over whether the \steel induaug. or | gtephens Passage. ig par it, wo! ut down \ a big part of it, wowld be sh \ bty yiae indefinitely today. i e el The board's reco pmepdations on Tonight the listing o‘ e o 1 wages, pensions ar @ iAsurance 1s- the visitir yach'v,smmfln t) : "p" Jiesn the sheel Ynpate wontt be:|talsto-CRBIElGeuisck FEACE B binding on either e industry or!With a cocktall party (rxn‘:bv g Philip Murray’s C Z; s:-:exw«)rkersl.;g:elozl;nl,:b:?eo\{\l!é::; moe e e ( L i o '{bf::,,:_t o | A dinner will be held in the Gold v i | Room from 8 to 9 o'clock. During Aelworker fare of | the dinner, Miss Sylvia Davis will their fourth found deman 16 MaY |entertain with two violin numbers. well become 4 pattern for .\l in- | The selections she will play l:ncludc dustry. It '4as happened that . W8y | “Fiddle Faddle” by Rose and “Banjo before. 3 | and Fiddle” by William Kroll. A milli' £y gteelwor! From 0 to 9:30 the welcome will plans fc walkout to begin Lu't|be given to the visiting yacmsmel: midnig’ £, when the industry’s giants, |and the awards made to the (lr:u inclu¢ fng US. Steel, reluctantly guve!‘three place winners. D‘anclx‘ldgmwm in t4 the administration’s 60-day ip, > from 10 oclo«fk until m tugn- str’ ke truce plan. 1 Bud Hunter’s orchestra #4r. Truman appointed Carroll R. [ jshh ‘8 the music. | And how the 5* kers called ot | Alaska produced 248,395 fine ounce: of gold in 1948, an 11 percent de- cline from 1947, the Bureau ¢ f/ | Mines said today. The bureau said it was “an gn- | expecteq reverse of the ur araq trend and partial recovery ¢ £ this / industry since 1945." | The value of the gold ,was $8,- 1 693,825 compared with , g9 799 580 for 1947. 4 | Silver production " rcreased two |percent and lead ,‘production 25 percent, the bure 4, said. Copper and zinc output * Emained relatively small f / ~ Alaska prod fction totals for 1948 jircluded 672 4] fine ounces of silver valued at €0,947, 16 short tons of copper v flued at $6,944 329 tons of {lead va' ded at $117,782. and 22 tons | of 2in 4 valued at $5852. 187 f oz - STEAME i | - P R MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver due 3:39 this afternoon Aleutian scheduled to sail Seattle today, due Tuesday Princess Kathleen scheduled sail from Vancouver 8 p. m. night Prince George scheduled from Vancouver July 19 Princess Norah scheduled to saily from Vancouver July 20. Baranof scheduled southbound on from o to- to sail | {Bullefs, Flaming 4 ve will be an estimated 110 at augherty, Northwestern University | The, e T ta he {professor of business economics, as | the ew ents chairman of the impartial panel.;ning. Serving with him will" be Judzei A Samuel 1. Roseman, former White 3 PO S R House adviser, and David L. Cole, |® & ¢ . Paterson, N. J., labor relations ex—|® Y 03, ° pert who has served on other Tru- | WE \T“R REPORT . man labor fact-finding boards. THER BUREAG ° The President, relieved by, accet- | ® (U. 8.\ for 24-hour pe- @ ance of his peace plan by hig and (Thi; data .35 am. PST) @ little steel firms, won something 'in ricd ending ¢ aximum, 61 ® his exchange with the industiinl|® In Juneau - 1 . giants . He was able to by-pass the, e minimum, 52. ‘mum, 87; @ Taft-Hartley Act in dealing with a At Airport— Max. ° major labor crisis. e\ minimum, 48. ; . The three-man boara has until ® A\ FORECAST A ° August 30 to make its settlement |® | (Juneau and ity oy recommendations to the White ® M tly cloudy with oc . House, The truce is to continue to| ® sional light rains tonigl P September 14. e and snnday. Low tempera- ¥ - —— e ture to\ight accut 50; high ® Sunday 5\, s PRECIM™] ATION o | ® (Past 2% hours ey ¢\ 7:30 & m. today L4 lin Atlanta, Georgia, and a flaming cross was set off in the front yard of the house Inside the house, two attorneys were staying. The two attorneys yesterday had started court action against the Ku Klux Klan, which uses the flaming cross in some ol | Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. J )/ ts activities, | . In Juneau ity — None; @ (ross |n KKK (ase e since July 1, 131 nNhes. . ® At tthe Airport - \JN°ne: ® iy, e since July 1, .87 inches . (By Associated Press) ° . Bullets have spattered a residence e o o o o o « o v 09 FROM SITKA Nick Rod of Sitka registered yes« terday at the Castineau. TWO FRCM WRANGELL Staying at the Baranof from Wrangell are Betty Jo Sullivan and Miriam Myers.