The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,271 FISHING SEASON WILL OPEN MONDAY Southeast Alaska Fish Strike Is Threatened JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1949 SE ALASKA SALMON ~ PACKIS 80 PER (ENT LESS THAN IN 1947 THE WHITE HOUSE ASKS ACTION ON REORGANIZATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—® President Truman today renewed his plea for Senate approval of re- organization plans creating a De- partment of Welfare and transter- ring the Bureau of Employment Security from the Federal Security to the Labor Department. In a letter to Vice President Barkley, the President said: “If these plans fail, the whole great endeavor to reorganize the Executive Branch in accordance | with modern principles of adminis- tration and management will ke imperiled.” 2 Mr. Truman’s letter said that “a public campaign has been insti- gated against them, and a majority of the Senate Committee on Ex- penditures in the Executive Depart- ment has recommended that they ! be disapproved by the Senate.” CONGRESSMAN ASKS ! IMMEDIATE ACTION, ALASKAN STATEHOOD AP Special Washington Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 —@— Immediate action on statehood for Alaska and Hawall was urged to- day by Rep. Poulson (R-Calif). In a statement in the Congres- sicnal Record, Poulson suggcsied ' that the United States should be more concerned with the develop- ment of Alaska, which adjoins Russia, than with spending billions | in Europe. “Alaska must be fully developed { and that can only be accomplished under statehood,” he said. “The undeveloped resources cf Alaska are unbelievable. They can only be developed by people, and people will go there only if uvhey know it is a state wherein <2ney have their full rights.” ‘The same thing applies to Hawaii, he continued. Hawaii and Alaska statehood bills have been approved by the House Putlic Lands Committee, but have not received the clear- ance of the Rules Committee 101, consideration on the floor. TAKE PRISONERS SOUTH Deputy U. S. Marshals Max Rog- ers of Sitka and Ken Thompson of Ketchikan were southbound by air today, taking four women who are mental cases to Morningside, Hospital in Oregon, and three pris- oners to McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By ROBERT S. ALLEN, Substi+ tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual'Vacation. (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | | ASHINGTON — Philippine President Elpidio Quirino received the customary . formal amenities during his Washington visit, but privately, top officials breathed a sigh of relief when he departed. Reason was a gingerly handled situation that astonished and em- barrassed them. Three leading members of Quir- ino’s party were prominent Jap collaborators and violent U.'S. de- nouncers. They are: Jose Yulo, Chief Justice of the | Supreme Court in the Jap-created puppet government. Yulo was per-{ sonally decorated by Emperor Hiro- hito for outstanding services (of Japan. Yulo is now a member of Quirino's Cnuncll of State. Federico Mangahas, zealous Sup- porter of the Japs and ghost writ- | last year. | | Gruening. He predicted that a satis- AR S (Continued on Page Four) F&WS Figur;s*Reveal 12%| Per Cent Decrease in Areafrom LastYear | SEATTLE, Aug. 12—(P—Central | Alaska’s total salmon pack through | the first week of August was listed | today about five percent below the | pack at the same time a year ago. APPOINT 2 CIECH BISHOPS GOV. GRUENING TELLS CONGRESS { | DEFENSE NEEDED WASHINGTON, Aug. Gov. Ernest Gruening told Con-| |gress today that Alaska is defense- | less Russia CaIIs Tito Govern-| ment “Enemy of the Soviet Union™ “If there 4is another Pear] Har- | bor—and this time it will be a far | more serious disaster than in 1941— | |it shall not be said that no warn- ing has been given,” Gruening SUMMARY OF TODAY’'S INTER- | said in a telegram to Senator Hunt NATIONAL NEWS (By The Associated Press) Vatican representatives in Pra-| (D-Wyo). u—«fi—i and the Territory could be| | captured tomorrow by & minor scale | airborne invasion. | Hunt placed the communication |in the Congressional Record. The Governor gave his estimate The Fish and Wildlife Service|gue disclosed today that two new | of Alaskan defenses in nppen.lsng‘ report showed the Central Alaska | bishops will be consecrated in Slo-|to Congress to act quickly om a| pack at 1,112,594 cases through Aug. 6, compared with 1,163453 a year ago. The 1947 figure to Aug. 9/ was 1,635,567. neries compared to 62 in upsratloni The report lists a total of 89 can- neries operating in the Territory, | jcompared with 106 last year and '103 in 1947. The Southeast Alaska pack to Aug. 6 was 41,510, compared with 47211 at the same time last year| and 203367 in the Aug. 9 report| two years ago. The sharpest drop | in the number of canneries is in| the Southeast sector. There are 10| this year, compared with 19, 25| ang 40 in the three immediatels | preceding. The final Bristol Bay total. pre- viously reported, was 560,426 cases compared with 1,315,012 last year.| There were 17 canneries operating | there, compared with 21 last year. SKAGWAY PROTESTS AIRPORT A group of Skagway residents} has protested against the pro- posed extension of their 2,600 foot airport runway by the Territory and the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration. The extension had been recom-| mended recently by the CAA and} the Territorial' Department of Avi- | ation because its present length is| not considered safe for most | modern planes. Another factor, ac- cording to Governor Ernest Gruen- ing, is that the waters of Lynn Canal are frequently too rough for landings by seaplanes. This means that & runway should be constructed for land planes. The Skagway residents ciaim that extension of the present run- way would take away a fourth of the town's taxable area, deprive them of their best tillacle land,| inconvenience many home owners and affect their swimming pool pro- ject. Money for the project was re- cently awarded by the Board of Di- rectors of the Alaska Aeronautica! and Communications Commission acting on the advice of its Direc- tor Tony Schwamm and the CAA. Governor Gruening conferred today in Juneau with Schwamm and Skagway's Mayor C. A. Carroll. Skagway citlzens were notified | that the project will be re-examined | to consider two alternate plans suggested by residents there. One is to construct a new airport in the Dyea area. The other plan would| involve moving the breakwater and extending the airport in its direc- tion. |Echwamm, Col. the Noyes, of Alaska Road Commission, CAA of-| ficials and others will inspect the airport on Aug. 24, said Governor factory solution will be found. Most of the funds will come from | the Territorial fuel tax. | ernment an enemy of the Soviet| | Union | was the strongest since Tito's ous- vakia Sunday, without approval of Czechoslovakia’'s Communis t-led | government. The action may cause a new struggle. Both men are known &s loyal to the Czech Primate, Arch- bishop Josef Beran. A Vatican diplomalic source said| | the state will not have grounds for | action, however. The two new Pre- lates will be named only at mular bishops, not bishops in residence. | U. S. Automobile Bombed An autemobile belonging to Cap- tain John Childs, assistant air at- tache at the American Embassy in‘ Prague, was wrecked by a bomb in front of his home during the night. Childs said the bomb ap-| parently was home-made. He sald | neither he nor the police had any theories about who planted it. | Russia called Tito's Yugoslav govfl in a broadcast today. It ter from the Russian-led Commun- ist information bureau (Comin- form). Albanian Revolt Reported Rome newspapers published re- | ports of a revolt against the Com- munist regime in Albania. There| was no confirmation. Greece’s government announced more heights captured in its new| offensive against Communist guer-| rillas near the Albanian xronnf‘r.‘ The Russians backed up more than 100 Berlin-bound trucks early today in a brief revival of last month’s “little blockade” of the German capital. Soviet guards let through only four trucks an hour from 2 a.m. to| {10 a. m, Berlin time, at Helm-| stedt cn Berlin’s main highway link with the Western occupation zones, A British official said that the guards explained they “didn’t like | the look” of passes carried by Ger- man truck drivers from the Ameri- can zone. They lifted the restric- tions after higher Soviet, officials approved the questioned passes, he said. AMG Intervenes in Voting The American military govern- ment in Germany intervened for| the first time in the campaign for elections Sunday of a West Ger- man parliament. A spokesman for U. 8. Military Governor John J. McCloy, broad- casting last night in German, lash- ed out at the “pronounced nation- | alism” demonstrated in candidates’ speeches. He declared that “not a single German party has a good word for the good work of the Western Allies. Winston Churchill of Britain, who advocates admitting Western Germany to the new Council ot Europe after the elections, battled at Straszourg for greater power for the Council's Consultative Assem- bly. Chinese Reds Advance China’s Communists were report- | ed driving with three armies total- ling 175,000 men on Kanhsien, 215 miles from the Chinese Nationalist provisional capital at Canton. | In Tokyo, Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur said he does not plan to| visit Washington to give his views by a group in Congress. He "said his ideas already are “fully on tile” with the Army Department. FROM WRANGELL Mrs. Ellen Bowman of Wrangell| | registered yesterday at the Baranof seth of Seattle are guests at the any statement,” the Chief Justice|and Hotel. | FROM SEATTLE l John Simpson and Nels Simon-| | Gastineau Hotel. . . = | fenseless and This year's pack is from 59 can-|clash in the country’s church-state| could be taken on the Far East situation, as urged | ni | $137,738,712 defense authorization. “I can state catagorically,”| Gruening said, “that Alaska is de- that the Territory tomorrow by 4/ minor-scale airborne invasion.” He said a report that Congress is deferring action at this session on the Territory’s defense authori- zation “appears to us unbelievable.” Repoflers Persist But Barkley Still Denies Wedding Plans WASHINGTON, 'Aug. 12—®— Vice President Barkley said today he has not even discussed the pos- sibility of marriage with Mrs, Carle- ton S. Hadley, St. Louis widow. The Vice President, emerging from a cabinet session, told White House reporters: “The matter of a wedding has never been mentioned or discussed, even on the fringes, between us.” Barkley described Mrs. Hadley, with whom he attended a baseball game last weekend, as “a very love- ly and charming woman.” But he specifically denied that | there would be a wedding in Pa- ducah, Ky., tomorrow. “I'm going to Paducah tomorrow to participate in the dedication of an airport to be named Bark- ley Field,” he said. He added that Mrs. Hadley and her daughter will be in Paducah as| | his guests and that he might pos- | sibly take them back to St. Louis | Sunday before he returns to ‘Wash-: | ington. “There will be no wedding?” he was asked. “No, sir,” he replied. FROM HOONAH Mrs. Albert Greenwald of Hoonah is a guest at the Gastineau. WERE DEEP FREEZER UNITS SHIPPED TO MRS. TRUMAN, OTHERS! WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—®—A report that Mrs. Harry S. Truman was among notables who received deep freezers from a concern fig- uring in the Senate’s five percent- er inquiry today brought this reply from Presidential Secretary Charl- es G. Ross: “I have no information what- ever about that.” Ross was, told a news story said Mrs. Truman, along with Chief Justice Vinson, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, James K. Varda- man, Federal Reserve Board Gov- ernor, and George E. Allen, former RFC member and Presidential in- timate also received deep freeze units. “I know nothing whatever about that, either,” Rqss said when the other names were mentioned. Vinson left & White House cabl- et meeting a few minutes later and told reporters that since the Senate investigation committee is making an inquiry, “I believe I prefer that the matter be develop- ed by the committee.” “I feel sald. I ought not to make;awar | secondary boycotts and union “hot MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | Leaves For Pnson CARRYING carton of cigarettes and thermos of milk, Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. leaves Cedar Raplds, Ia., jail en route to 70 year prison term for maurder of wife’s office lover. (International) Hawan Works on New Bill Against Secondary Boycoffs HONOLULU, Aug. 12—(M—Ha- waii's Senate worked on a bill to- day that would outlaw union in- terference with government opera- tion of docks crippled by a 104- day strike. The Attorney General’s office oftereq amendments clearing up constitutionality of the proposed law. If it passes the Senate it will be sent to the Territorial House of Representatives. Under the proposed law, strikes| and picketing against the govern- ment would be outlawed. The bill is the outgrowth of the | costly CIO International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s Union strike in the Islands. The unicn seeks a pay hike from $1.40| an hour to $1.72 an hour. The Legislature earlier autho-l rized the Governor to seize the| struck docks for government opera- tion. The proposed would ban law cargo” action against gocernment operations. The 2,000 striking union mem- bers are expected to test the vali-| dity of the law, if it is passed, in an early court action. Territorial Governor Ingram M. | Stainback has ordered the ceizure| of facilities of seven struck steve-| doring companies. The Islands government is now employing men to work ships expected here from the Gulf Coast. " There was no 1mmemate ment from any of the others. One Shipped To Vaughan The matter of the deep treeze units entered the hearing yester- day when a Milwaukee businessman testified that he shipped one In 1945 to Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, President Truman's aide. | Mr. Truman told his new confer- ence later in the day that nothing brought out at the inquiry so far had changed his opinion of Vaugh- an in the slightest. “Well, Ill be damned,” was the first reaction of Senator McCarthy " com- (R-Wis), a member of the jnvesti- gating group. When today’s hearing resumeu“ McCarthy followed up that com-| ment with a formal demand that Vaughan be called for questioning. McCarthy based his demand chiefly, however, on Vaughan's re-| ported efforts in connection Wwith a| race track construction case rather| than the deep freeze matter. | The Senate committee is looking into the question of whether im- proper influence has figured in the iman the ship. 'CHAMBER REFUTES | Tongass timber is a scheme which | paration of a complete report on Coast Unions Will Pickel Alaska Ship NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Aug. 12| —(M—An independent crew has been - placed aboard the SS Asa| Lothrop, temporarily ending con- tention between AFL and CIO| Maritime Unions which sought to Alaska ship lines officials said today a full crew has been taken| on and the vessel may leave this week end for the West Coast. The merchant ship is aj Newport News Shiptuilding and Dry Dock Company, where it underwent major overhauling. A few minor installations are still under way. Agents for the AFL and CIO, which sought to furnish cooks, oilers, deckhands and other person- nel, have left the scene, but an AFL spokesman said the ship will be picketed upon arrival at any West Coast port. The vessel is under charter from the U.S. Maritime Commission to Alaska Ship Lines, new company operating into Canada. CHARGESMADE ON S. E. ROAD FUNDS Allegations that Federal road ap- propriations for Tongass National Forest areas would be used for “private timber roads” in the “most outrageous land grab since ‘Teapot Dome,” brought action from Juneau's Chamber of Commerce yesterday. “Gross misrepresentations,” of facts involved in the request of the U.S. Forest Service for $9,000,000 for a road program in Southeast | | Alaska were charged by the Cham- | ber in letters forwarded to key people in Washington, D.C. The controversy was touched off by a letter appearing recently in the Washington Post under the signature of Felix Cohen in which he charged that “timter companies were informally promised $9,000,000 of public funds for private timber roads which they otherwise would have had to pay for themselves.” Letter-writer Cohen also added | that “such roads would serve no puklic purpose, He said they would lie within a private lumber com- pany empire.” ° Juneau Chamber officials in their letter call attention to the fact that road appropriations “would be spent on the improvement and extension of the existing road sys- tems extending into the National| Forest surrounding three Southeast | Alaska cities. The pulp company is required to build their own log- ging roads.” “Money needed for upkeep on Southeast Alaska highways has been inadequate,” says the Cham- ber, “while during the same period there has been considerable growth and development, As a result, the quality of the roads has not kept pace with the needs at the present time.” Charges made by Cohen that tim- ber company contracts for use of “contemplates relieving the Alas- kan Indians of valuable timber- lands,” were refuted by Delegate E. L. Bartlett last month before the House of Representatives. Bartlett noted that the “alleged grab was not carried out in stealth | or secrecy,” but that the Forest Service and timber companies en-‘ tered into contracts only after com- plete hearings before the House Committee on Agriculture and a House Joint Resolution. Said Bartlett, “The roads sought | would not have been roads for pri- vate companies. They would have been community ropds.” The Juneau Chamber plans pre- facgial information in connection %l:: of government contracts| with proposed road building and| Averages today are as follows: administration of federal pulp development, to be forwarded | industrials 179.29, rails 54.05, util- regulations, to Washington officials. ities 36.65, 4 . | blocking settlement. SEASON OPENING IS ADVANCED AS STRIKE THREATENS CLOSURE Cl0-AFL Ralse Dispute/ Over Non-resident Work- ers and Fish Prices Tie-up of Suuthenst Alaska’s en- | tire fishing industry on the eve of | the season opening appeared im- minent today as CIO and AFL labor leaders and Alaska Salmon Industry negotiations deadlocked yesterday at Ketchikan. Strike deadline was set for mid- night tomorrow night for all fish~ ermen and cannery workers. Main issue blocking settlement is a move to transfer to Southeast operations, a non-resident floating cannery crew who has completed the season in the Westward. | According to a wire received by CIO officials here from Robert Kinney, Seattle representative for Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers, more than 200 resi- dent Southeast Alaskan workers would be deprived of employment ty the salmon industry’s move to allow non-resident employees to work a second season. Fish prices are a second issue Pre-season negotiations have been underway at Ketchikan for the past two weeks. | W. C. Arnold, Managing Director of Alaska Salmon Industry, who has | been conferring with industry and Fish and Wildlife Service repre- sentatives on early season opening, left this morning for Ketchikan. He could not be reached for a com- ment on the threatened strike. HEARING HELD ON NON-RESIDENT SALMON LICENSE After arguments by attorneys for both parties this afternoon, Judge George W. Folta took under ad- visement the granting of a prelim- inary injunction restraining col- lection of the $50-a-man license fee from non-resident salmon fish- ermen, promising to give his de- cision Monday. Arguments were made today by H. L. Faulkner for Pacific Ameri- can Fisheries, plaintiff, and Attor- ney J. Gerald Williams and Assist- ant Attorney General John Di- mond for Tax Commissioner M. P.| Mullaney, against whom the sult‘ was brought. . R. E. Robertson filed a motion of | intervention on behalf of Nakat Packing Company, and said in open court that he intends to file simi- lar complaints on behalf of Libby, McNeill and Libby, and others. STEAMER MOVEMF™TS Coastal Monarch in port. Prince George scheduled to arrive from Vancouver at 5 p.m. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive from Vancouver tomorrow. Denali scheduled to arrive Sun- day afternoon from Seattle. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Louise sails from Van- couver tomorrow. Baranof due to arrive southbound at 6 p.m. Sunday. Diamond Cement scheduled sall from Seattle August 17. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug 12.—M—Clos- ing quotation on Alaska Juneau mine today tcday is 3's, American Can 93%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 8'%, International Harvest- er 25%, Kennecott 48%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel 22%, Pound $4.03 1/16. Sales today were 770,000 shares. to Southeast Alaska Commer- | cial Fishing to Begin One Week Early Commercial salnon f{isning has teen advanced a week in the northern section of Southeast Alaska, as the result of joint in- vestigations by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and industry representatives. Intensive aerial and ground sur- veys of Important salmon-spawne ing areas have shown that they are adequately spawned for conserva- tion purposes, with exceptions as noted. Surveys were made jointly by F.W.8, experts and industry representatives. Opening of commercial salmon fishing in the northern section will colneide with the scheduled open= ing of the southern section next Monday at 6 am., according to announcement today by George E. Kelez, F.W.8. Supervisor of PFish= eries. The early opening will affect the areas both west and east of Point Carolus in the Icy Strait District; the northern section south of Sulli= van Island, and central and souths ern sectlons (BUt not the western) in the Western District, and, in the Eastern District, Port Camden and Security Bay. A gloomy forecast was made to= day by W. C. Arnold, managing di= rector of Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. “The Alaska canned salmon pack,” he predicted, “will not ex= ceed 3,250,000 caSes in 1949—the uhorwu pack in more than 35 yenrs. with the exception of 1921. “With the coming season prace tically over,” Arnold continued, “there are less than 2,000,000 cases packed in Central and Western Alaska. “Even- with an earlier opening than originally provided, the pack in Southeast Alaska can hardly exceed 1250000 cases,” he pre- dicted. e o 0 0 3 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum,' 74; minimum, 47. At Airport—Maximum, 71; minimum, 39. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain tonight and Saturday, Lowest tempera- ture tonight near 48. High- o est Saturday 5. OePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; since " Aug. 1, 3.74 inches; since July 1, 9.03 inches. At the Airport None; since Aug. 1, . 185 inches; since July 1, 5:87 inches. s e e 0 v e v e IS M R GOLD RUSHERS HEAD SOUTH FOR REUNION IN L, A SEATTLE, Aug. 12—(P—Veterans of the Klondike and Nome gold rushes of half a century ago are heading southward this week. The annual four-day Interna- tional Sourdough Reunion opens in Los Angéles Wednesday. A soure doughs’ picnic is slated this Sunday in San Francisco. Miss Lulu M, Fairbanks, the International's Sec- retary, sald a “sourdough special” train will take the stampeders south from San PFrancisco. The International Executive Board will meet Wednesday. The convention proper opens the next day. T. W. (Thag) formerly of Fairbanks, is the an- nual banquet toastmaster. The ' general chairman is Eser w.kho).m, formerly of Nome. PRICE TEN CENTS - P Buchholz, | 1