The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1949, Page 1

VOL. ULXXIIL, NO. 11,260 FishermenJam BoatsinToda Mother Kisses Acquitied Girl TODIEIN HEAT BELT, EAST AREA Scores Rep;rgd Prostrat- ed-Temperature Rec- ords Are Broken (By The Associated Press) Cooling breezes fanned out over the heat-weary midwest and head- ed into the sweltering eastern states today as the death toll} from the oppressive weather mounted to more than 75. The fresh Canadian air broke the week-long spell of hot and sticky weather over the central states yesterday and last night. It was moving eastward from 15 to 20 miles an hour and was expected to cover the eastern heat belt to- night. The Federal Weather Bureau at Chicago did not expect much of the cool air to drift into the hot southern states. The death toll in the eastern states mounted as temperatures soared into the 90's and broke rec- ords for the date yesterday. There | were scores of prostrations. In ‘Washington some 70,000 govern- ment employees were sent home early because of the heat. New York had five heat deaths in .the last two days. The hot spell in the Philadelphia area has indirectly caused the deaths of 37 persons, the hxghest total for any heat wave in years. Maryland reported six deaths from the heat. There were three each in Massachusetts, Maine and Virginia; two in upper New York state; and one each in Rhode Is- land and South Carclina. Heat deaths in the midwest, three in Illinois, two in Iowa and one in Michigan. | | FRANKT.BUCYIS | DEAD IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, July 30.—(®—Frank Thomas Bucy, 70, died Thursday | after a long illness. He was a| streetcar conductor and motorman for almost 40 years before his re-| tirement in 1944. | Survivors include the sons, Capt. | Lawrence W. Bucy, Kodiak, Alaska, | and M/Sgt. Norman R. Bucy, Point Barrow, Alaska, and formerly of Juneau Alvininderson Named fo IPSFC WASHINGTON, Jluy 30. A}I’t——' President Truman has appolnted' Alvin Anderson, Director of Fish- eries of the state of Wnshmgton” as a member of the International| Pacific Salmon Fisheries Comm‘xs-i sion. Anderson succeeds Milo Moore,| both in this post and that of State | Director of Fisheries. The Commission was established in 1930 by Canada and the United States. H The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON ‘What may have been a significant conference was scheduled in New York this week between Cardinal Mooney of Detroit and Cardinal Stritch of Chicago, who called on Cardinal Spellman. What they planned to talk about it not known. But it is known that | on the preceding evening, when| the distinguished prelates from Chicago and Detroit attended a‘ preview of the motion picture, | “Come To The Stable,” they did| not appear happy over Cardinal | Spellman’s attack on Mrs. Roose- velt. This brings up a highly impor-| tant point now widely asked in| both political and denomlnauonal} circles, namely—did Cardinal Spell- | man speak for the Catholic church or only for himself when he wrote | his letter to Mrs. Roosevelt? | The answer, according to lay | (Continued on Page Four) included | | Chamber of Deputies has alrea | the United States, | Canada, | 1ands, | man made a forced landing on a by a provincial police boat which “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949 | | | u.s. ENTERTA I N S—British Prime Minister Attlee and Sharman Douglas, daughter of U. S. Ambassador Lewis Doug- las, stroll at the Ambassador’s July 4th garden party in London. ‘ITMY GIVES APPROVAL o ROME, July 30.—P— Italy, fh'st\ | axis country to surrender in World | War II, lined up with some of her | former enemies today despite vlo-} | lent opposition from the country’s, powerful Communist minority. ! "PEACE PA(I‘;‘ Llsfens for News The Italian Senate approved rati- * # fication of the Atlantic Pact last! night, 175-81, and by a show of | hands, authorized the government | specifically to ratify with the western powers. The approved. The pact, previously ratified by Great Britain, ! France, = Belgium i Luxembourg, will go into formal ef- fect as soon as the Netherlands: ccmpletes action. Her Senate is ex- pected to debate the issue next week. Italy, along with Norw gal, Denmark and Iceland, i ciated with, but not a fo nation of, the pact. There were 87 members of the Senate absent as the vote on the historic alliance against aggression was taken, but the public galleries were filled despite the late hour. Italy invited herself into the pact. When the alliance was first Portu- inder- suggested last fall, Italy’s name was not mentioned. [ Foreign Minister Count Carlo| Sforza made it known Italy would be disappointed if not invited to join and said Ifaly’'s ‘“geographic | position and strategic importance” made it vain for her to hope to stay neutral in any future war. 4 ESCAPE WITHOUT | SCRATCH AS PLANE GOES INTO CRASH PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, July 30 —m—A pilot’s skill was credited by three passengers today for their escape, “without a scratch” from the crash-landing of a Queen Charlotte Airlines plane on nearby Digby Island. Aboard the twin-engined sea- plane were Mrs. E. L. Orr, of Cum- shewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Is- Stanley Thomas of Prince Rupert, A. P. Nicol of Vancouv- er, B. C, and the pilot, Ray Berry- man. With both engines dead, Berry- wooded knoll, knocking off two trees as the wings and pontoons of i the light craft were sliced off. He | also escaped unhurt. The forced landing yesterday | damaged the plane beyond repajr,i The four walked more than a| gile from the crash scene to the| beach where they were picked np brought them here. Dicby Island, is four miles away. the alliance | i /BIG SHELL may be sounding |Herman, Miss St. and: 5 i pleasant news for shapely Betty Augustine Beach of 1949, who competes La- bor Day in Hampton, Va., South- ern beauty contest.(internationat) WOMAN TRAVEL WRITER COMES ON ALASKA TRIP SEATTLE, July 30.—(®—End of a 40,000-mile trip the length of the North and South American continents is in sight for Eleanor Knowles, 54-year-old New York travel writer. Miss Knowles planned to leave this forenoon aboard a Canadian Pacific Steamship on the first leg of a trip to Fairbanks. “From there I'll travel down the Alaskan Highway to the United States,” Miss Knowles said here today. “And that will complete my travels over a route as far north as Fairbanks and as far south as Buenos Aires.” Miss Knowles plans to complete a book, “Highway, My Way,” with facts gained on her Alaskan tour. The book will tell of her adven- tures while traveling at various times on the Alaskan and Pan American Highways. ‘I don’t think the Pan Ameri- can Highway ever will be com- pleted,” she said. “The problem is who is going to pay the main- tenance costs for the road. None of the Central or South American countries want. to.” STEAMER MOVEMFNTS Princess Kathleen from Vancouv- er due 3 p. m. togay Prince George from Vancouver due Monday aiternoon. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle today, due Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver August 3. Baranof scheduled southbound ) Sunday at 4 p, m, | | “They gave up some figures on I | men. “But they did not .tell us any- | thing to clear up some | program.” | munist London Daily Worker car-| ! i i | European tour of the United States i | | "IN COLO. DEPOSITS TOP BRASS HATS NOW INEUROPE Supposed 10_6;1 Some In- formation Concerning Arms Program By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, July 30—®— | The nation’s top brass was in | Europe today to seek more infor- ;mation for a Congressional com- | mittee still not sold on President ‘Truman's big program to arm | friendly nations. ‘The Joint Chiefs of Staff left ‘Wa*hmzmn last night after testi- | fying behind the closed doors of |the House Foreign Affairs Com- | mittee on the $1,450,000,000 arms proposal. On their retun in about ten days, | the military heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force are expected to | meet with the committee again for | “more extended” discussions. | If they gave the House group any | startling secret testimony yester-| ,day it was not disclosed. Commit- tee members said the meeting could as well have teen public. strength which Russian military i \\e have seen published already, ia Republican member told newu-' of the doubts many of us have about the The committee will resume hear- ings Monday with former Secre- tary of State George Marshall and roving Foreign Aid Ambassador W Averell Harriman as witnesses. UNDESIRABLE ALIENS LONDON, July 30—(®—The Com- ried an editorial today on the| Joint Chiefs of Staff. The editorial was headed, “Un-| desirable Aliens.” ENOUGH URANIUM SAY 2 SENATORS By OLIVER W. DEWOLF { WASHINGTON, July 30—#— Colorado’s uranium deposits are ample to supply the nation’s vast| | atomic energy program, Senator Millikin (R-Colo) said today. Similar assurance came Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D- | Colo), who declared there is a { “tremendous amount of uranium” in the Colorado plateau country. Both Senators are members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. 7 They spoke out as the United States prepared to enter into “ex- ploratory conversations” with Great Britain and Canada on aj long range program of collabora- tion in raw material supplies and exchange of atomic information. At present, the United States gets| the great bulk of its uranium—the basic material for atomic weapons —from Canada and the Belgian Congo. In contrast to the rich deposits of these mines, the Colorado uranium is scattered throughout the Carnotite ore of the region. It is both difficult and expensive to extract. The primary mineral for uranium is pitchblende. The Atomic Energy Commission has' said no one is actually producing that mineral in this country. Rifa Hayworth Is Going fo Have Baby LONDON, July 30—(®—The Dail Mail said today Rita Hayworth is going to have a baby. Quoting a member of the Prince’s family, it said in a dis- patch from Paris: “Pringess Aly Khan (formerly Rita Hayworth) is expecting a baby and is cancelling her en- gagements.” The princess is now in Deauville, the dispateh said. There was no confirmation of this report from any other source, from fWednesdny and sent it back to the MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) . in a Waukegan, IlL, Circuit Court murder in the death of her 53-year-old paramour. outburst of cheers had greetul the verdict in the cou rtrcom. P Wirephoto. Joyce Schumaker (light blouse, center) is kissed by her mother as beaxging well-wishers mill about had found the 18-year- after a jury Her father, Frco AP | ‘ | old girl innocent of a charge of d, stands at léft (plaid shirt). An FOREIGN AID | MONEY BILL DEADLOCKED By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON, July 30 The Senate Appropriations Com- mittee, trying to unravel a Senate snarl over a big foreign aid money bill, clung stubbornly today to amendments which caused all the trouble. ‘The 21-member group slapped to- gether a new bill late yesterday ! but, ignoring strong administration |} pressure, refused to - withdraw amendments which would: (1) Require the Economic: Co- operation Administration and the Army to buy about $1,800,000,000 {worth of surplus American farrm products. (2) Earmark $50,000,000 of ECA | funds for loans to Spain, The committee re-wrote riders in an effort to get around Senate objections that they were writing new legislation into a money bill in violation of the rules. This was the argument which threw the entire bill into a con- fused parliamentary tangle last committee. ' The original commodity a d- ment, tacked by Senator McClellan (D-Ark) would have required ECA and the Army to buy $2,000,000,000 in surplus farm products. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 49. At Airport—Maximum, 55; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with rain to- night. Partly cloudy Sun- day. Low temperature to- night 50. High temperature Sunday, 60 degrees. CePRECIPITATION @ (Past 23 hours ending 7:30 & m. today ® In Juneau — 35 inches; ® since July 1, 5.08 inche: ® . At Airport — .49 inches; ® -sinde July 1, 3.02 inches. ® o 0 00 0 ¢ e v o 0 o0 0000000000000 5 DR. RYAN TO ANCHORAGE With a little notebook reminders, Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissionet of Education, will 80 to Anchorage tomorrow for sev- eral days," He is concerned with numerous details of supplies and ‘equipment, especially for outlying schools which must be stocked early. He also will attend to details of the three. new = buildings at Kenal Chugiak and Clark’s Point full of (P— | these | | PLANNING to wed Frauleln Getta Rauch, 30 (bottom), at her home in Bad Gleichenberg, near vienna, next October, Sam {Hedge, 60, Chicago grandfather, checks attire he plans to wear at rites. S8am courted fraulein by mail. (International Soundphoto) President Off fo Mounfains fo Get (By Assoclatec Press) President Truman is escaping the | heat in Washington this weekend. | The President is at a cool moun- | tain lodge in the Catoctin Moun- tains near Thurmoni, Maryland. The flag should be displayed daily, weather permitting, on or near the main building of every public institution Away from Heat| CHINA GOVT. FORCES IN FIGHT BACK of | | "’Aggressive_i\dion” Communist Threat Re- ported Removed By SPENCER MOOSA CANTON, China, July 30—/~ Nationalists showed signs today of fighting back in the rtattle for Ecuth China. The reported “aggressive action” 1 had removed the Communist threat from the East to Hengyang, cl me'* defense point for Hunan pruvtncey | Hengyang is about 100 miles south |ot Changsha, the provincial capi- tal, | Official accounts said govern-’ ment forces counter attacked and | recaptured Lienhwa, 90 miles east |of Hengyang in western Kiangsi. Gen. Teng Wen-yi, Army spokes- man, said this paved the way for lan attempt to cut the Red supply |lines between Kiangsi and Hunan.' In Kiangsi — Hunan's eustern! | neighbor—the Nationalists reported they had blunted the Red drive! scuthward towards Kanhsien, 215 miles from Canton. They said the! | Communists had been halted at a| point couth of Taiho. Also listed as a government suc- ces was recapture of Yungfen, 90 miles south of Nanchang, Com- munist held capital of Kiangsi. The 1200 man Red garrison surrendered, {it was said. Only importance at- |tached to the'action was that it| showed a Nationalist effort to dis- turb the Communist rear. A private telephone call from Hengyang reported the Reds with- drew from Chuchow today. Na- tionalists’ reoccupied the town. Chu- chow, on the Canton-Hankow rall-i road, is 325 miles north of Canton and 25 miles south of beseiged Changsha. \EXPLOSION ROCKS | SCUTH JERUSALEM | JERUSALEM, July 30.—M—Two thundering explosions shook south- | ern Jerusalem early today and a large blaze was seen on Mount Zion, Jjust outside the Arab-held oil city wall. Israel officials had no explana- tion for the blast. Some sources said they believed a fire on the { Arab side of the boundary line exploded land mines. Mount Zion is the site of an abbey where a joint Jewish-Catholic in- vestigating commission began work this week examining war damage ltn church property, y's Salmon Derby HUNDREDS TAKE PART INDERBY 'Woman lan‘ds_ 36-Pounder on Opening Day - Fair Weather for Sunday City streets were virtually de- | serted this morning as fishing en- thusiasts made a general exodus to the scene of the second day of the 1949 Golden North Salmon Derby. When Coast Guard green flares flashed into the sky at 6 am. to- day to mark the “go” signal, hun- dreds of boats jammed with fisher- men sped out from Auk Bay and Tee Harbor judges floats to try to snag a prize-winning salmon. Weather was a fisherman's dream, real sunlight, light clouds and a light wind blowing. Judges began early checking der- by entrants through the lines. Texas Fisiermen Ilere Texas fishermafh D. H. McCrory and his party of ‘our Lone Star state companions iinded here last night at 6:30 o'clocx after a day's delay at Annette by weather. They were to go aboard th» Donjac, skip- pered by Jack Burfo'd, for today’s fishing. Tomorrow :he party Is | scheduled to go aboad the Naha. Three men from Pamga, Texas, in- cluding Roy A. Webb, Jr., pilot of the private plane which brought the group here, accomnanied Me~ Crory. Other two men are Ed Hmdman and Earl McConnell. | Duke Nally, representative of the Amarillo Globe-News of Amarillo, Texas, co-sponsor of the Fish Ro- deo won hy McCrory, is also with the group. 36-Pounder Hooked Fishing was good yesterday with a large catch reported by the judges. A 386-pounder hooked by Mrs. John Clements is reportedly the largest catch of the day. Twice as many boats and fisher- men are expected to get into the fishing fun tomorrow with most of the populace of the town making the trek to Auk Bay and Tee Har- bor. Weather Picture Fair The weather forecast for tomor- row appeared fair. The U. 8. Wegther Bureau at Juneau Air- port reports: Mostly cloudy with rain tonight—partly cloudy Sun- day. A full bus load of fishermen ar- rived at the floats aboard the spec- ial bus run in the early hours of this morning. Most derby entrants were pre- pared to spend the entire day on the water for the best chance of hooking that big-meney. fish. Big prizes, including the first prize 1949 sedan automobile will be awarded Monday night at a 9 to 12 dance to be held at Elks Ballroom. Sunday is the last of the three day derby, starting gun at 6 a.m., fand check in at 4 p. m. McGRATH EXPECTED T0 ACCEPT POST OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (By Associated Press) Senator J. Howard McGrath is expected to accept the post of At« |torney Generdl next week. And as a member of President Truman’s catinet, he may have more success in ironing out some party problems than he has had as Democratic National Chairman. For one thing, the President has nominated an lowa judge over the objection of Iowa Senator Guy Gil- lette, The nomination is tied up in the Senate. And the White House has ignored a recommendation by Senator John Stennis on a Federal Judge appointment. Democratic leaders would like to see the differences ironed out be- fore the Congressional elections next year, It is the expected advance of At- torney General Tom Clark to the Supreme Court that opens up the post for McGrath. And Clark may set something of a record in the high court. A Justice normally does not sit on cases in which he has had a part interest. And Clark, as Attorney General has prosecuted hundreds of ‘cases which may end up in the Supreme Court.