The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT * 1 GRUENING STATEMENT ON NEW INDUSTRY BAN; INTERIOR DEPARTMENT (EDITOR" NOTE) Seeking further information on yesterday's Associated Press dis- patch reporting that the U. S. De- partment of the Interior would need special legislation by Congress in order to admit a seaweed industry to be established in Alaska, an Em- | pire reporter was instructed to ask Governor Ernest Gruening for his opinion in the hopes that, as Gov-| ernor of Alaska, he would have| some constructive solutfon for this problem Instead of receiving such com- ment, the Governor replied with his usual castigation of the Territory’s | newspapers and proceeded to give the Empire a lesson in how to run & newspaper. Gruening should | know he worked on many publications. { The Governor's dictated reply follows without further comment in order that all sides may receive a hearing for the public to decide Requested by the Empire to make a comment on story by Vern Haug- | land, appearing in Fmpire on | Plane Mofors Backfired On Seaffle Field: SEATTLE, Aug. 5——Three em- | ployees of the company operating a ' C-46 transport that crashed here July 19 testified today the plane developed minor trouble on a previ- ous Alaska flight, but that it had been corrected before the accident. The witnesses at today’s heanng of a Civil Aeronautics Board panel were Herbert S. Strauss and Robert A. Masterson, pilots, and Theodore Vosk, Maintenance Superintendent, for Air Transport Associates, Inc. All three said minor trouble was experienced during a flight from Everett, Wash,, to Annette and Fair- banks, Alaska, and return, July 16 to 18. But they said that after | adjustments were made both engines were functioning perfectly. Three persons testified yesterday that an engine of the C-46 was backfiring before it took off and crashed killing seven persons. Douglas D. Miner, aircraft and engine mechanic who has a repair shop at Boeing Field, said he “heard | an engine backfiring before the plane leit the ground. The initial application of power did not sound | like a normal application. Mal- | functioning of the ignition system probably caused the backfiring.” Miner said he noticed the trouble when he first saw the airliner, only 500 feet from where it started its takeoff roll. i “The engine did not sound nor- mal to me,” said Franklin S. Dearborn, photographic pilot for Pacific Aerial Surveys. Similar testimony was given by Francis L. Vaillancourt, Boeing Airplane Company preflight inspec- tor. James M. Adams, reserve pilot of the ill-fated plane, told the board he felt the plane “touch down” on the runway just after it took off.| “It was just a matter of seconda,"! Le explained. | Betty Haggarty, Carl Heinmiller Marriage Monday Wedding plans for Betty Haggarty and Carl W. Jean monies to be held Monday evening at 8:30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Houston. The bride-to-be is the daughter‘ of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Greiner of Seattle who arrived here Tuesday from the West Coast accompanied by their other daughter, Mrs. Hous- ton. Mr. | satisfactory talk with E. B. Mc. Heinmiller | were announced today, with cere- Heinmiller, who is general | NOTED POLARFLYER IS TO LAND C-47 ON JUNEAU "ICE CAP" Col. Bernt Balchen, famed Arctic and Antarctic flyer and pioneer in the field of aviation, landed at | August 4, under Washington date- | line of August 4, headed “Interior Proposed New | Department Bans | Industry For Alaska” | heading “Federal and a sub- | The Development of Seaweed,” I should say that the headline is completely misleading. The Inter- ior Department has not banned a | proposed new industry. The Solici- tor for the Department has merely interpreted the law of Congress. I have no doubt that the Interior De- partment would like very much to see such an industry started and I purpose to make every effort to see that such an, industry can be initiated even though according to law, which applies not merely to this one potential industry but to 11 other matters, the tide lands eral government. The implication in the Empire headline is that the Interior Department is blocking this ! industry. Obviously the Interior Department has to follow the law of Congress as does every other agency or individual. PROGRESSING, SAYS 'BOARD CONSULTART|: On a two-week trip to Pacific Coast cities, George Sundborg, con- sultant to the Alaska Development ! Board, had a chance to check on a number of projects planned for the Territory and, on the whole, found that progress is being made. In Seattle, he conferred with a number of interested persons, among them C. T. Takahashi, pur- chaser of the Wrangell Sawmill. | According to Sundborg, Takahashi hopes to start operations immed- iately, with plans for extending the interests of his company far be- yond the lumber business. In Portland, Sundborg had a Naughton, president of the First National Bank. Their conversa- tion concerned arrangements to facilitate trade between Portland and cities to the westward. While in San Francisco, Sundborg | went over some mutual problems with Fred G. Stevenot, chairman of the board of the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Company. Also in the Bay City, Fred Sex- | ton, president of the Coastwise Line, was similarly enthusiastic. He expressed himself as well pleased with results of the line's operation from Portland, San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles to Seward and Whittier. expand its activities, eventually to Southeast Alaska. In the Coast cities, Sundborg also met with Alaska Committees of Chambers of Commerce. At Oregon State College, Cor- vallis, he spoke to 150 graduate students attending the Institute on Northwest Resources, his sub- ject being “Alaska’s Relation to the | Pacific Northwest.” Word of the death of E. B. Black, of the firm of consulting engineers Black and Veach, has been received by Ernest Parsons. | Mr. Black was in Juneau sev- eral years ago representing the Kansas City firm of which he was a partner in a survey of Juneau's public utilities and during the period that Mr. Parsons was mayor of Juneau. Mr. Biack died on July 4 fol- 1lowing a long illness, according to|nuts, berries, word from his partner. | HOBO Government | Claims Control of Tide Lands For| re under the dominion of the fed- | NEW INDUSTRIES ARE The firm plans to! manager of Port Chilkoot, is the | son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hein- miller of Berea, Ohio. He attended Fenn College at Cleveland, Ohio, as | an engineering student and was a | major in the U. S. Army during the | war, serving as commander of the | Fiji Scout. i Miss Haggarty attended the Uni- | versity of Washington and was & member of the Alpha Gamma Delta | sorority. She has lived here for the | past 15 months and is now employed | | as secretary to the manager of the‘ Veterans Administration. She is alsp a member of the Alaska Delta chap- ter of Beta Sigma Phi. Attendants at the wedding will be Mr. and Mrs. Houston, with their six-year-old daughter, Sheila, as All Moose memb KING OF HOBOE flower girl. The Rev. Benjamin Morgan of the Methodist Church will preside. A reception at the Houston home | will follow the ceremonies. l Juneau Airport yesterday afternoon lin a special ski-equipped C-47 to make experimental landings on the Juneau Ice Field. Weather permitting, Rescue the U.S. Air Force 10th make two high-altitude landings Glacier near where members of the The Norwegian born flyer who aviation, over the South Pole with Admira i Richard Byrd and the first air mail flight over the Atlantic also with Admiral Byrd, said he was expecl- ing little difficulty in making the “Ice Cap” landings today. “Similar landings were made in Greenland at a higher altitude,” Col. Balchen said. “Object of Lhe experiment is to gain added intor- mation for the development of equipment for high-level snow and ice air operations.” A large cargo of the American Geographical So- | ciety's JIRP expedition, as well as| four JIRP members are to go aloft with the plane, Seismologists C. F.| Allen and Stephen Miller will take the flight and remain on the ice| field to continue their work in lacier depth determination. Beach | Leighton, California Tech geologisi and glaciologist, and Zach Stewart,| Yale University student and JIRP| photographer will also join the ex-| | pedition. Although the rotund Colonel is| best known for his work in the cold | latitudes, he has spent his sha.re' of time in the tropics, having flown | out of Singapore and the Malay States for sometime during the war. He has served under numerous | flags, having been trained in the| Norwegian Air Force, and having| flown with the Royal Air Force. In | 1941, he transferred to the U. S.| Air Force, and is now commander | lof the 10th Rescue Squadron. As a member of the O.8.S. he worked| with the Norwegian underground | behind the lines for many months. | | Colonel Baichen was a member ‘of numerous early Arctic expedi- tions including those of Amundson and Admiral Byrd. Colonel | {2 Balchen and his crew of six from| Squadron at Anchorage, were to|f today on the ice fields above Taku |: Juneau Ice Research Project have s estatlished their main base camp. | is noted for a number of firsts in| including the first flight|§ supplies for | | NIECE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TERR. §§ DIRE(TOR HAS NO COMMENT ON (LOSING DRAFT John L. McCormick, Territorial Director of Selective Service, had no comment to make today on state- ments made yesterday by Senators indicating that the “peacetime draft act probably will be allowed to die next June 25.” McCormick said that no informa- tion had been received here on the matter. The Selective Service director and assistant Perrv Hobbs returned yes- local draft boards in Anchorage, Nome and Fairbanks. Official clos- ing of the Kodiak draft board was effected in line with the economy policy. All registrants in the Ko- diak area will be handled through Local Board No. 1 at Anchorage. VISITING AT HOME OF J. J. KLEIN Houseguest at tHe home of¥ Mf. and Mrs. J. J. Klein is their Hiece, Miss Darlene Becker of Seattle. Big thrill for Miss Becker, on her first trip to Alaska, was catching & 17- pound king salmon yesterday off Capt. Roy L. Holidman is first| I pilot on the plane which is to| make first large aircraft landmgsw on the ice field. Other crew mem- bers are Capt. Harry Savio, co-pilot, | T-Sgt. Manuel Chaem, S-Sgt.| Billy Sheperd, and S-Sgt. BxlheA Clark | A ski-equipped Norseman air- | craft used by Col. Walter A. Wood in the Arctic Institute research ex- pedition on Seward Glacier was| landed in the same area about 30| miles northeast of Juneau two weeks ago. The 10th Rescue Squadron plane is equipped with a ski-wheel com- bination for land and snow opera- | tions. Skis are slotted in the cen- ter and are lowered over the wheels raised to effect landings on the| ground. The entire landing gear, |skis and wheels is, of course, re- tracted into the belly of the ship | while the plane is in flight. INO NEW TRIAL FOR ' CONVICTED SLAYER CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. Aug. 5—® —District Judge J. E. Heiserman trial for Dr. Robert C. Rutledge, Jr., St. Louis pediatrician, con- victed of second degree murder in the slaying of his wife’s alleged seducer. | Black bears ,are fond of roots, and fruits, but will 'also eat flesh and fish. MOOSE LODGE NO. 700 Annual DANCE Saturday Night, August 6th 10 P. M. ers and guests are requested to bring their own TIN CANS for areal JUNGLE STEW. S will be chosen and crowned-? shortly after midnight. pAY A Useful prize will be given. to make snow landings, and then| today overruled a motion for a new | Aaron Island. She plans a 10-day visit. o terday from a two-week trip to visit | S 1D E W ALK’AUTO M A T—_Hot food and sandwiches are available, with every item one kwartje (ten cents) in this outdoor automat on the beach at Zandvoort, Israeh Ship Is ‘Seized With illegal Cargo FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 5 —(M—U.S. Army authorities at Bremerhaven today seized an Is- raeli freighter which they said was loaded with $1,000000 worth of illegally-consigned machinery. An Army anouncement identified the ship as the Drommit, flying the Israeli flag. Her owners were not immediately identified. The fraudulently - documented | machinery was labeled as “house- hold goods” |to palestine, the |said. Army officials smuggling attempt ever discovered” occupation port. Dozens of American and Ger- man Customs officials suddenly appeared on the pier this morning while the ship was half-loaded First cases that were opened, the announcement said, discovered that boxes labeled as household goods _contairigd concrete mixers, auto- mobiles, tractors and other ma- ! chinery. announcement called the “the biggest Today’s most widely used meth- od of artificial respiration was de- vised in 1903. of Jewish immigrants| i near Amsterdam, Holland. 22 BOARD NORAH . BOUND FOR SOUTH| | Twenty passengers embarked on the Princess Norah when she| docked here at 7 a.m. today. She spiled for the South at 10:30. Pas- | sengers included: To Vancouver: Mrs. I. Skuse,| Mr. and Mrs. F. Simmons, Mr. and | Mrs. E. E. Dusenbery, Miss Smn;;e,3l Mrs. S. Fox, J. Fosterton, W. E. Poole, R. Calcutt, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Kerr, Dr. and Mrs. Gmeimer, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gmeimer, A, J. Gmeimer, Dr. F. M. Jaquish, Rev. and Mrs. A. Goulet. To Seattie: Mrs. A. Schegal. MR. AND MRS. 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