The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,255 Foreign Arms Aid Pro Top Fllghl Shrmers NATURALGAS IS FOUND IN ARCTIC AREA Commercial Quantifies Re- | ported - Discovery Made by Navy WASHINGTON, July 25—(®— ‘The Navy discloses that natural| gas has been found in commer- cial quantities near Point Barrpw, Alaska, the Northernmost inhabitea spot on this continent. The discovery came in the Navy's stepped up search for gas and oil findings in the 37,000 acres Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, at the top of the world. The natural gas well, known &s “South Barrow No. 2,” has been | drilleq about six miles south of Point Barrow. A considerable de- | posit of gas is indicated. { “This discovery, plus the ‘shows'l of oil and gas tested in wells| drilled in other parts of the reserve, Justity the careful exploration pro- gram being conducted by the Navy in Alaska,” said Com. William G.| Greenman, Director of Naval Pet- roleum Reserves in a statement. | GOOD GAS FLOW The new gasser is flowing in quantities sufficient to meet the fuel requizements of the Naval in-| stallation at Point Barrow. First unit of the annual Point| Harold Lloyd (right) of Beverley Hills, Calif,, who has been installed Imperial Potentate of the Shrine gets jovial greeting from Galloway Calhcun of Tyler, Tex., outgoing Imperial Potentate. Sitting on rose-covered automobile with Calhoun are kLis son, Galloway, Jr., (left) and his daughter, Mrs. in Chicago, IIL, Robert Lee Bobbm, Jr. ® Wl.rephum. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY JULY 25, 1949 | Barrow supply fleet letr -Eeattle | July 19. In the group are the ice- breaker Burton Island and taur LST's (anding ships, tank). The remainder of the fleet will | sall from Seattle next Tuesday, beaded ty the flagship UBSS George | Clymer. It will lead four attack | cargo ships and an oiler. Point Barrow is ice-free cniy| from two to’'four weeks in August.| Last year the expedition ran a race | agalnst ‘time and the shifting lcer pack-to unload . the supplies needed | tb support theé, Navy's oil explara- tion crews ahd native villages. “SHOWS” REVEALED All of the five deep wells drilled so far, and two of the three now being " drilled, have revealed “shoys” which encourage belief that com- | mercial oil fields exist in the region, the Navy said. ! Greenman is of the opinion that | prospects look more encouraging than at any time. He feels strong;w that exploration should cominue Work is now being done under a $14,000,000 'appropriation through | June 1950. Additional” money" \vould’ be needed for the fiscal year of 1950-51. To make the withdrawal of the| oil commercially profitable, Green- man said workable fields would be | capable of producing about 100,000 | barrels a day from a reserve of| from 400,000,000 to 500,000,000 bar-| rels This is seen as necessary to war- rant building a 700-mile pipeline to an ice-free port and the expense | of getting the oil out of the frozen ground. The ofl was described as having | a very low pour point and wvum] flow through the pipes even in sub- zero weather. ° FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE Miss Prances' L. Meales of New | London, New Hampshire, is a guest at the Gastineau. The Washington Merry- Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON |Capyright, 1040, by Bell Byndicate. Inc.) | ASHINGTON— Of course, I don't like to write anything about General “Happy Harry” Vaughan which might cause the Presidem to call me an 8.0.B. again. Nevertheless, I do think that the Senate Expenditures Committee, | now investigating the so-called| “five per-centers” should take a cateful look at something which is| golng on right under the President’s | own ncse—namely, the repairing of his official atode, the White House. | Since this official abode is one which we all help to support and| |fence at the Central Double Stranglings af Nome Given as Suicide, Murder; FOUR - STATE | | stoxe, | M. ‘Behrends Bank. | scheols, and both he and his bride { were popular members of a young ! social group in Juneau. M OCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Sudden Death Shocks Juneau Promineniaiien Suffers Heart Attack Sunday Afternoon Harry I. Luces, head of Alaska Federal Housing office and one of Juneau's foremost citizens, died suddenly of a heart attack at his summer home below Thane at 4:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon. A resident of Juneau since he death touches many people who bhave known him through the years as a friend, a fellow lodge mem- ber, former mayor of the town, or a busir2ss associate, and from them all his widow and sons and grand- children have a real sympathy. Harry Irvin Lucas was born May 15, 1890 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He came to Alaska in August, 1912, was first employed at the Juneau Sawmill then with B. M. Behrends Company, first at the then for many years at B. In 1916 he was married to Miss Ina Priest, a teacher in the local ‘The Juneau Motors Company was established by Mr. Lucas in 1923 and opemted by him for several years. 'DRAGNETFOR ¥ Bodies Hanging, Cell Doors, EX- CONVICT. 10-F00T SPLINTER DRIVEN THROUGH BODY OF RACER Takes Doctors Four Hours fo Saw Away Four Feet of 2 by 4 Plank YAKIMA, Wash,, July 25—®— splintered 10 foot length of a 2 by 6 plank was driven through the body of a Cornelius; Ore., racing {car drfver yesterday when- tie driver’s car plunged- through a ‘Washington | fair grounds. Four doctors had to saw away more than four feet of the plank ton each side of the driver, Allen | E. Hobson, before he could be placed in an ambulance. The huge splinter pierced the left side of his abdomen. It ram- med more than seven feet through | his. body. Doctors worked throughout the night to save him. His condition was reported critical early today. The accident occurred during the third lap of Sl;nday‘s main. racing | event. Throughout the entire ordeal, Hobson remained conscious and grimly joked with bystanders His wife, Jean, saw the accident from the stands and remained by his side during the 55 minutes needed to extricate him from the wreckage. WEATHER REPORT (0. 8. WEATHER BUREAD (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST) In Juneau— Maximum, 55; minimum, 52. At Airport— Maximum, 55; minimunf, 46. FORECAST ¢ (Junesu and Vielnity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight o near 45. High Tuesday about o 65 degrees. ePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy e In Juneau — .28 inches; A | other prisoners after his arrest a NOME, Alaska, Juiy 25.—(®— A youthful matron and a young man were found dangling last week from | cell doors of the Nome city jail— | both strangled by cloth strips torn | from mattress covers. Their deaths —three days apart—were disclosed yesterday. Coroner’s juries ruled the man committed suicide and the woman | was strangled “by a person or per- sons unknown.” A full-scale inves- tigation is expected. Alfred Blatchford, 25, was discov- ered early Saturday hanging from | the door of the “bull pen” wher2 he had been locked up with several few hours earlier. been "broken. A coroner’s jury deliberated 10 hours and then returned a verdict of suicide. Others in the cell with Blatch- ford were questioned. None had raised an outcry over his death. He had been picked up for fighting His neck had Is Sought for Double Slay- | ing at Tacoma-Clues = | Draw Blanks ‘ TACOMA, July 25—(®—A four-| state dragnet for John Edward| Summers, 32-year-old ex-convml sought for the double-slaying of an elderly Tacoma couple, continued to| draw a blank today. Summers, whose most descrlpm"‘ feature is a two-inch séar on the back of his left hand, is charged| with first degree murder for the| shooting of Howarq Easley, 62, nnu. his wife, Elizabeth, 67, in their| home here July 16. | Federal Bureau of Investigation! agents entered the case over the! weekend in belief that Summers had driven the Easley car into Ore- | gon in violation of the Dyer act. The Portland motorist in whose and disorderly conduct about mid- Inight. Wednesday and put in the |large “tank” with a number of pris- oners, some of whom were minors charged, with drunkenness. Blatchford’s body was found when, | istrate. l An hourly checkup of the cells was ordered the same day by May- or Steve Andersen. | Late Saturday night, Mrs. Geor- ginna Lott, about 25, was arrested and held without charge. Three- quarters of an hour later, Chief W. W. Laws, making his hourly rounds, discovered Mrs. Lott’s body suspended from her cell door, a piece of the mattress cover looped around her neck. Another coroner’s jury was called in and pondered four hours before bringing in a verdict of murder by strangulation. No explanation was given on how other persons in the jail could have slain her.. STEAMER MOVEMENTS l Barantof from Seattle zheduled to arrive sometime Tuesday after- noon. Corsair scheduled to arrive 2 p. m. tomorrow. | Princess Louise from Vancouver scheduled to arrive tomorrow af- ternoon, or evening. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver July 27. 3 possession the Easley car was found said he tought it from a man an- swering Summers’ description. Thmi was Friday. | His trail ended several hours| ilater after he rode in several taxi-| the prisoners were called out to ap-|cabs. He told one driver he was Harry Lucas, which has shocked | peat for trial before the city mag-|going to Seattle. He gave his desti- |50 many in Juneau, the Governor, nation to another as San Fran- cisco. Both stories appeared to be part of an elaborate cover-up to throw! ) pursuers off the trail. Part of "'Little Blockade" May Be Lifted by Soviefs (By The Associated Press) The Russians may lift part of their “little blockade” on Western Berlin today. Russian officers have said that trucks for Berlin may pass through two of the nine border crossing points that the Soviets closed more | than two weeks ago. One border crossing point—at Helmstedt—has been open all along, but for a time the Soviets slowed up traffice there. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 25.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of American Can to- | ministration first opened offices in 1 Juneau in 1934, Mr. Lucas joined | John L. Moon of New York City, ;noon, are being made by the Ma- i whatever job capacity Harry Lucas| iserved, he served devotedly and When the Federal Housing Ad- the FHA staff of which he later Decarnc chief underwriter for -the itory. . « e was instrumental in the building of the Assembly apart- | ments early in the '30s and con- | tinued to be one of its principal owners. Elected mayor of Juneau and re- elected 1or, six more terms, he serv- ed from 1937 until 1944. Since its organization he has been secretary of the Juneau Ccld[ Storage Company. A member of the Masonic Lodge, Mr. Lucas was also a Shriner and | a member of the BP.O. Elks. Surviving Mr. Lucas are his| wldow, his two sons, Harry Lucas, 'Jr, and Lee Lucas, four grand- children and his tiivee sisters, Mrs. | Mrs. Joe Moon and Mrs. Addie | Austin’ of Los Angeles. | Arrangements for the funeral, | which will be Wednesday after-| sonic Ludge 'HARRY LUCAS i EULOGIZED BY MANY IN JUNEAU Fcllowing the sudden death of! the mayor of Juneau and other of his friends have eulogized him thus: | Governor Gruening: “The death of Harry Lucas comes | not only as a great shock but is al Lody blow to the community. In| with great ability. He was mayor of Juneau when I came here nine| and one half years ago as Gov-| ernor and his friendly welcome and | his presentation to me of the key| to the capital, is one of the plea-| sant memories of that occasion. In| the many contacts and meetings we have had since that time I} found him to be ever cooperative,| helpful and constructive in his| proposals. It will be extremely dif-| ficult to fill his place as head of Of H. 1. Lucas cams to Alaska in 1912, his sudden | closer |cnly too well that the loss of Hu- Rudy Vallee w Wl.renhnl.o. and Fiancee Singer Rudy Vallee and Miss Eleanor Kathleen Norris, 21-year-old University of California graduate, whose cngagement was announced in Reno, Nev. They plan to wed in the carly fall. at Lake ‘Tahoe where Vallee has been appearing at Cal-Neva Lodge. They are pictured =Arm|esol Communists Move, China Draw Closer to Canton's Captial - U. S. White | Paper Protested (By the Associated Press) Chinese Communists drove today to Changsha, 400 miles north of the provisional Na- tionalist Capital of Canton. The advance threatened to sweep the Nationalists from Hunan pro- vince. The Nationalists realized | nan would doom South China. Private reports placed the Reds at points five miles east of Chang- sha and 10 miles east of Chuchow Government sources conceded tha capture by the Communists of Yungan, 18 miles east of Changsha. They reported hard fighting near Liling, 45 miles southeast of Changsha. Meanwhile, the official Centrai Daily News of Canton came out against the prospective release by the U.S. State Department of A “White Paper” on China. It said such an action wculd give moral support to the Chinese Communists and impair Chinese-American friendship. The newspaper said the State Department “wants to convince Congress” that further aid to Na- tionalist China would be of no avail, ‘Informed sources in Canton said the Nationalists are getting ready to purge “bad elements” within the Kuomintang (Nagjonalist Party). ithe Alaska office of the Federal| Housing Authority to which he| brought unusual knowledge of the| protlems involved and his ever-| present faithfulness to his assign-|® out to Mrs. Lucas and the children Mayor Waino Hendrickson' “Harry 1. Lucas served as mayor of the city of Juneau for seven year: a record for that office. Since re- SALMON DERBY July 29, 30, 31 Buy Your Ticket N-0O-W! 'RENT CONTROL LAW OF 1949 HELD ILLEGAL Unconstiiuigr\gl Is Judge's Decision-Will Be Appealed CHICAGO, July 25.—(® -Federal District Judge Elwyn R. Shaw to- day held the entire 1949 rent con- trol law unconstitutional. However, his ruling does off. A government attorney said an| immediate appeal will be made to the U. 8. Supreme Court. William 8. Caplan, chief Chicago attorney for the Housing Expediter, said the law will be “administered and enforced” pending appeal. Judge Shaw held that in insert- ing a local option clause in the act, Congress had abrogated its wartime powers. The said the whole law is in- validated by a clause permitting states and other governmental di- visions to end controls in their territories by local option. Judge Shaw held this provision was an unlawful delegation of | Congress of its powers to other! government agencies. Premier Marshal Tito Sits Firmly In Ruler's Saddle g (By Au,mmled Press) A Belgrade dispatch reviewing Yugoslavia's diplomatic position said Premier Marshal Tito, the first| Communist ruler to say “no” to Prime Minister Stalin, seems to be still firmly in the saddle. More inform (Communist International Information Bureau) blasted Tito for Nationalist deviation from not| mean that all rent controls are now than a year ago the Com-| gram Given Congress Tiuman Seeks Big Sum for ArmsProgram Sends Message to Con- gress for Foreign Aid- Atlantic Pact Signed By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER | WASHINGTON, July 25—P— | President Truman signed the his- | toric North Atlantic treaty today and immediately asked Congress to back it up with a $1,450,000,000 foreign arms program. The chief executive said the Western European miembers of the | newly ratified military alliance—as well as other nations around the globe—must have American help to build up their defenses against the threat of Russlan aggression. Barely an hour before he sent a | special message to the lawmakers pleading for swift approval of his program to meet “the most press- ing current needs” Mr. Truman penned his signature to the ratifi- cation instrumev. of the Atlaniic | Pact. He called the treaty-—ratified oriy last Thursday by an 82 to 13 Sen- ate vote— “A historic step toward | world of peace, a free world, free | from fear.” i Statement At Signing “But it is only one step,” he sald |in a statement issued at the White House signing ceremony. | “We must keep ourselves moral- |ly and materjally strong. We must play our part in helping to | strengthen freedom everywhere.” | Two Republican Senators who | have played an important part in drafting this country's bi-parti- san foreign policy had served ad- vance notice on the Administra- tion that its views may not coin- cide with theirs. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, an- nounced over the weekend he fav- ored a ‘“‘stop-gap” arms program-— one to be carried out only until grand strategy can take shape un- der the Atlantic Pact. Figure Too Big And Senator Dulles of New York, a top adviser on foreign policy I matters, flatly called the $1,450,000,« 1 000 figure “too big"” even before he | entered the Senate. Actually the value of the propos- | ed foreign arms aid would approach $1,825,000,000, the State Department ‘ disclosed. | The extra value is in “excess” U. 8. military stocks, proposed to be sent to America’s friends | abroad with no charge other than the cost of getting it ready for \use. and handling. For Eight Nations About $450,000,000 worth of such material, the Department estimat- ed, can be provided with only about $75,000,000 in rehabilitation costs charged against the program. Under the program, military aid would go mainly to eight Europ- ean nations and to about a half a dozen others scattered all the way from Europe to the Pacific Ocean. “If this program of military aid |is to succeed,” Mr. Truman said in a speclal message to the law- | makers,” we must prosecute it | promptly and vigorously. Our poli- | ctes for peace are having the de- | sired effect. We cannot afford -to | lose the momentum we have al. | ready gained.” 'Another Worker for ' Government Is Put ' [n Doubtful Class | | | | | (By Associated Press) The House Un-American Activi- ties Committee has reléased a re- port on a former government | worker who, it says, put herself “in the category of a courier for | the Communist Party.” The committee's is tiring as mayor in 1944 he has al-| @ what the Kremlin regards as ortho- statement of which we are all proud, it would | o . July 1, 365 inches. seem proper for the Senate to in- e At the Airport—11 inches; based on an FBI report. The former government worker, Diamond Cement sails from Se-|day is 91%, Anaconda 28%, Cur- attle July 27, S.E. Alaska, ! tiss-Wright 8's, International Har- ! ways taken a very active personal/e o o o o o o o o dox Communism. vestigate how a friend of Gen.| Harry Vaughan's and of his lobby- ing sidekick, James V. Hunt, shculd have been appointed to repair the ‘White House—at a time when Hunt .was trying to get a commission in o since July 1, 2.12 inches. e % 00000 00 ©0 0000000000000 0000 000 CORSAIR TOMURROW The Corsair, Pacific Cruise Lines deluxe cruise ship, is due in port SR R B e e D (Continued on Page Four) at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday evening: Aleutian -scheduled to saillfrom Seattle Saturday. i Princess Norah scheduled to nr-l rive at 7 am. tomorrow, salling south at 8:30 am. vester 25%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 10, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel 23, Pound $4.03%. Sales today“were 860,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 175.9, rails 45.22 util- ities 35.48. interest in _the welfare of the city and his vice and guidance has 3 ffered | ;_&mm@nmu;:e e e s sud. | CHICAGO——-Andy Pafkol, of den b 7 ¢3| the Chicago Cubs has taken a lik- d“fln:'fi‘“'u:‘“" e e a| & 10 Brooklyn pitching. Of his PR BTN TR I first eight home runs this: season, (Continued on Page Eight) six were hit against the Dodgers. DODGER NEMESIS Mrs. Mary Jane Keeney, is said to ‘hnve gllvcn an envelope to a sus- pocud spy the day she returned A baby ;;boy (\was: born:,Sunday (mm a trip to' Europe In 1946. Mrs. night -at St. Ann’s Hospital to! |Keeney now works for the United Mr. and Mrs. Carl Martin. Weight Nations. She has denied ever being was 6 pounds, 2 ounces. a Communist. BABY BOY BORN