The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1949, Page 1

VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,273 $1,000,000 LOAN FAILS SAYS RODEN Charges "le_gglistic Skull- duggery” Blocked Negotiations ‘Territorial ‘Treasurer Henry Roden today issued the followingi statement to the Empire. Asked to identify the “influ- ential business people,” the dustries” anq “the entrenched .in- terests,” Roden declined to give any names, The Tnasurer's statement fol- lows: y “Representatives of the Seattle| financial syndicate with whom I| HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ His Dealh» TWO KILLED IN COUP IN - SYRIA LAND New Cabine?N]med—Com- { munism Rebuffed by Voi- ers in Western Germany negotiated for the sale of $1,000,000 worth of warrants arrived in Ju-; neau recently to confer with Terri- | torial officials, and for the past few (By the Associated Press) A new cabmet was named Syria today following a lightning ia’ days these Syndicate represema‘!mimary coup in which the Presi"'soo,ooo in eight years from movies|the case are such as to work un- tives, consisting of Mr. O. B. Thor-| 4o« and Premier of the Middle af Point Barrow By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15—P—| Fourteen years ago today, a small| airplane nosed into the icy waters ! |at Point Barrow, Alaska, carrying Will Rogers to his death. | Most American adults bear a| memory of hearing that tragic news and fondly recall the grinning| Cklahoman who made the nauon‘ laugh. With the years he is fast| | growing into a U.S. legend. Hollywood, where he worked and lived in his last years, recalls lmni as sometimes shrewd, sometimes ! humble, but always Will Rogers. | He claimed his epitaph could be| ,T never met a man 1 didn't like.”| i But, says a former co-worker, “He {bad no use for phonies, and could | {spct 'em a mile away.” | * He played polo and earned 53.—: alone, but he maintained the com- JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1949 Folta Upholds Nonresident Fislflng Tax Intervenors in P.A.F. Case Represent All Ouiside Salmon Fishermen Judge George W. Folta today; denied the petition of Pacific American Fisheries for a tempo- rary injunction restraining -collec- tion of $50-a-man license fees from non-resident salmon fishermen. In his memorandum opinion, Judge Folta stated that the com- plaint trought by P.AF. against Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney did not show grounds for suffer- ing irreparable injury. I Judge ¥Folta’s opinion concluded | as follows: “It may be that cuacumstances of usual hardship on plaintiff and| | the Civil Aeronautics Administra- | grimson, of the law firm of Pres-! ton, Thorgrimson & Horowitz; Mr. | Geo. Marshall, of Foster & Mar- shall, bond brokers, and Mr. K. Winslow, Jr, manager of the| Seattle Trust & Savings Bank, have | been discussing with the Governor,| the Treasurer, the Attorney Gen-| eral and the Auditor the plan fo| raise cash for payment of the Terri- torial warrants, | “As reported by the press re- cently, I had previously gone to Seattle and while there had made | an agreement with the Syndicate under which it would purchase| Territorial warrants in an amount | of approximately one million dol- lars, inasmuch as it" was antici- | pated - that sufficient revenues would come into the Territoflnl] Treasury within the next six| months to make ‘it possible to pick‘ up and redeem these warrants by February 10, 1950. “The Syndicate gentiemen ha\'ei now advised Territorial officials | that recent developments have changed the situation: As soon as| the closing of the aforementioned | agreement was announced strong protests against any plan to benetit the Territory were lodged with the members of the Syndicate and the financial institutions they repre- sent by influential business people connected with industries operating in Alaska. Threats have been made East country were slain. President Husni Zayim, who had seized power only four and a halt months ago, fell before a firing racks yesterday. Premier Muhsen Bey Herazi, generally considered the brains of the regime, died | with him. OFFICERS HEAD COUP ‘The coup was carried out by a group of senior Army officers led by Col. Sami Hennawi, 51, Syrian hero of the Palestine war. Hennawi told Syrian political leaders last night that Zayim was guilty of “conceit and despotism” and said the uprising was forced by the President’s reckless spending of government funds and his failure reform. The political leaders called on elderly former President Hasem Bey Attasi to form a new govern- ment. He in turn named 11 men to serve in his cabinet. REPERCUSSIONS The coup had immediate reper- cussions in the Middle East. King Abdullah, who has made no secret iuf his desire to incorporate Syria Iinto his Hashemite Jordan (Trans- | Jordan), urged an immediate meet- img of the Arab League to discuss the Syrian crisis. WEST GERMAN VOTE Voters in Western Germany have squad at the Mazza military bar-| to follow through on promises of| mon touch that was his trade mark. | that the defendant should consent! Concerning his grammar, he said: |t; jssuance of injunction pending a “Maybe ain't ain’t so correct, but|hearing on the merits, but since I notice that lots of folks Who|gefendant has not seen fit to do ain’t usin’ ain’t ain’t eatin'.” | so, the Court is powerless to grant No one has replaced Will Rogers. | plaintiff the relief prayed for.” Radio, with its boff, bang and| | zowie type of comedy seems to have | Before learning of the opinion, Killed off the kind of ‘humor wp_\Auorney H. L. Faulkner, PAF. plied by men like Mark Twain and | ttorney, announced in court this Rogers. There is no one to match |Morning that he had just filed a such Rogers quips as: ‘complalm on behalf of the fisher-| !\ “I might have gone to West|™en themselves (Ned F. Andrich Point, but I was too proud m‘for‘ himself and some 400 non- speak to a Congressman.” | resident employees of P.AF.), seek- “Communism to me is one-third |iNg & temporary restraining order. practice and two-thirds cxplana-,He_ added that others petitioning tion.” ‘to intervene would represent every “Mexican President stopped|company having employees in the gambling in Tia Juana and the|Same category. i whole town is left unemployed. It's| Faulkner had already filed peti- | just like stopped lobbying in Wash- tions for intervention by the New | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TIDAL WAVE PRECAUTIONS FOR ALASKA Detection, Wfling System Is Announced by Civil | Aeronautics Adm. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—®— Pacific and Alaska installations of ticn have been linked into a vast tidal wave detection and warning system, the CAA has announced. The objective is to warn areas| in the path of a tidal wave in‘time to take what precautions are pns-i sible against loss of life and prop- erty damage. Because tidal waves sometimes | sweep along at more than 400} i miles an hofir, split second action | is required to make a warning sys-| tem effective. The CAA said it can | provide this with its continuous; communications channels linking Anchorage, Alaska, with Honolulu, and linking Honolulu with Wake, | Midway, Canton ando Palmyra Is-| lands in the Pacific. Honolulu, which has felt the lash| of disastrous tidal waves, has pre: ed vigorously for an adequate| warning system, and it will be the | key point in this one. | A tidal wave is relatively low| in height, but of great length, and is not easily detected by either air-| eraft or ships at sea. | Special instruments, spaced stra-| tegically, will be used in the warn- nig system to surmount that diffi- culty, said D. W. Rentzel, CAA ad- ministrator. This, he said, is how the plan will work: | Observatories at Fairbanks and Sitka, Alaska; Tucson, Ariz., and ington.” | England Fish Company and Fidalgo (Island Packing Company. MAY START TODAY | DISCHARGE SHIPS, | " HAWAUIAN STRIKE [ Government May Aftempt to Unload Freighter with | | Berkeley, Calif., will flash word of | ; i seismic or earthquake disturbances Attorney R. E. Robertson, who !0 Honolulu’s magnetic and seis-| filed on behalf of Nakat Packing mMological observatory. There a| Company Friday, announced mmg‘swm check will determine the like- | similar requests to intervene by P.| lihood of a tidal wave and its pro- | E. Harris & Company and Toad | bable course. Packing Company, and added that | Tidal gauge stations at strategic he expected similar action by|Points will be alerted to man their Libby, McNeill & Libby. istntions constantly, watch for signs Territorial Attorney General J.|©f & tidal wave, and use the CAA Gerald Williams declined to con-| | sent to issuance of injunction pend- | Word of danger. ing hearing. | Pacific American Fisheries was Nonunion workers | granted a preliminary restraining | order August 5, when the suit was to bring suits against the Syndi-| .., ffed Communists and extreme cate in Seattle to prevent the Ter-| pion¢ pro-Nazi groups. More than ritory from repaying on February | participated | HONOLULU, Aug. 15— (®— The 107th day of the Hawaiian dock| brought, today. P.AF. had put up $16,000 tonc pending the opinion given‘ | 24,000,000 = Germans 10th next, or at any other time,! ; the warrants the Syndicate had planned to purchase. In addition, | the ‘Industries’ have plainly ad-| vised the Syndicate that suits are| in preparation attacking Terri- torial tax statutes in addition to| those now pending in the courts. “After examining Tertitorial kooks, the Syndicate members agreed that the credit of the Terri-, tory is good, and that it is, in| fact, in much sounder financial condition than many states and| counties, including the State of} | (Contin;ed on Paée 6 The Washingion‘ Merry - Go-Round | By ROBERT S. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation. (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Supreme Court | Justice William O. Douglas found himself in a perplexing crossfire during his recent mountain-climb- ing trip in the hinterlands of Iran (ancient Persia). On one hand he was the tar- get of Soviet blasts as a “big devil spy,” and on the other of Iranian censorship and ircn-handed military | control. The Russian fulminations were publicized. But the Iron Curtain that Iran slammed down on Doug- las has come to light only since his return to the U. S. Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi, who comes to the U. S. in Novem- ber, personally ordered the blackout on Douglas. This is the untold stery: From American officials in Iran, Douglas learned that desperate faminine conditions prevail in Azer- baijan, northeast province that ad- joins Russia. A combination of (Continued on Page Four) yesterday in the election of a 402- { member Parliament. strike opened with a rumor that!g,. the unpaid tax of 320 fisher- the government would begin un-|men the other 80 employees hav- The Conservative Christian| aqin, 3 g the freighter Hawaiian| ., already Democrats gained the largest popu- | njerchant with nonunion workers | ing already paid theirs. i lar vote 7,356,025. The Social Demo- today. | crats (Socialists) were close behind| ne rslands' 2,000 CIO Interna- | with 6,932,303, The Free Dem“‘:m“! tional Longshoremen's and Ware-| gained third place with 2827948) % cemen's Uniop members are| votes. asking a 32 cents an hour wageE If the Christian Democrats and | cregse over their $1.40 basic scale. Free Democrats join forces they| |east of Canton, will be able to form a Conservative cabinet, COMMIES SLUMP state elections, slumped to about six percent—1,360,469 votes. This was regarded as the fourth major defeat for the Communists in Western Europe since the war. The other setbacks came in France, Italy and Western Berlin. Today marked the fourth anni- versary of Japan's decision to sur- render to the Allies. It passed with- out any direct reminders to the Japanese of their military collapse in World War II. Instead their progress they had made since the war, In China, the southward move- ment of the Communist forces con- tinued, The Chinese Reds have bypassed beseiged Kanhsien and attacked Nanking, 195 miles north the Nationalists’ provisional capital. Condition, Novelist Milche!,_ls (rifical ATLANTA, Aug. 15—(®—Novelist Margaret Mitchell appeared today to be “somewhat better, though still in critical condition,” a member of the family reported. X-rays yesterday showed the 43- year old writer received a frac- tured skull and fractured pelvis when struck down by an automo- bile Thursday night, Fhe Communists, who gained 10i i percent of the popular vote in 1946 newspapers told them how muchj The seven stevedoring companies have offered increases up to 14] cents an hour which have been spurned by the union. The Territorial government, act- \ing under an emergency law passed on Aug. 6, seized the facili- ties of the struck firms and called for workers. The union announcedl its members would not work for| the government. ; Union spokesmen said they wili test the constitutionality of the seizure law in court. i THREAT AT UNLOADING HONOLULU, Aug. 15—#—The| Hawaiian government’s first move to unload a ship on' the strike- bound Honolulu waterfront ran in- to a threat by members of two| maritime unions today to walk off the vessel. Atty. Gen. Walter D. Ackerman, Jr. and Ben F. Rush, Territorial conferred aboard the Matson freighter Hawai- {ian Merchant with representatives {of the four seagoing unions aboard. Ackerman told the seagoing un- ion men that the law provided stringent penalties for interference with government operations. Meanwhile the government was| preparing to start immediate un- loading of the Panamanian ship Nortuna. A harbor board spokes- 'man said no trouble was expected, as the ship has a non-unidn crew. It arriver Sunday from Vancouver, B. C. with a fertilizer cargo. | Harbor Commissioner, FROM OHIO John R. Edwards of Louisville, Ohio, registered yesterday at the iGa«_tmeau. |land, reported today there was no! WOMAN AVIATRiX AGAIN MISSING; ON OCEAN FLIGHT HALIFAX, Aug. 15—(®—A British | Legation official at Reykjavik, Ice- | information in the Icelandic capi~1 tal of Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, British round-the-world flier. Flying a single-engined airplane, the red-haired housewife and her | navigator, defied a Canadian gov-‘ ernment order not to fly the At- lantic. They hopped from Goose Bay, Labrador, to Bluie West One, an airfield in Southern Greenland, | Friday. Her next stop was believed to bei Reykjavik, but as far as is known Mrs. Morrow-Tait is at the Green- land station today. H If she completes. her trip, the| British flier will be the first woman | ever to make a round-the-world| flight in a single engine plane. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian scheduled to arrive from Seattle sometime tomorrow. Princess Louise arrives Tuesday from Vancouver. Diamond Cement scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday. } Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive tomorrow at 8 a. m. and sails south one hour later at 9 o'clock. ®0c0eceese0®c00c0r00ee®so®0 o0 AT BARANOF Marie Mendenhall of Ketchikan| registered yesterday at the Baranof | communications channels to flash| Rentzel said the system would | be a “vital” factor in protecting| lives and property from such dis-) asters. i TEACHERS IN FAIRBANKS IN HOUSE CRISIS Akron Boy Wins Soap Box Derby Championship; Rudy - Maier Nosed Out in His Heat BANKER OF AKRON, O., Aug. 15—(®—For the| | third t'me in the last five tries, an Akron entrant today wore the The youngster, who carved the PRICE TEN CENTS SALMON FISHING STARTS IN S.E.ALASKA Philosophy of Will Regers Recalled on Anniversary of STRIKE THREAT OFF NOW Unions Sign Contracts for try strike in Southeast Alaska was | crown of All-American Soap Box Same F'sh P"(es as | Derby Champion. KET(HIKAN | 15-year-old Freddy Derks rolled | Last Year | his black walnut speedster to vic- tory over 147 other entrants from| 4 ‘!40 states, Panama, Canada and; KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. @9 p ASSES 0“ | Aleska, —(P—A threatened fishing indus- tody of his mount from an 80-foot walnut tree, has a $5,000 college scholarship coming for his victory. The kids were sponsored by local | newspapers, Several of the writers | who accompanied them were em- phatic in their suggestions that Dies in Seatfle - Ill ? 'or Seve[al Mon'hs | Akron refrain in the future from | holding its district trials on the SEATTLE, Aug. 15—(®-—Michael| Derby Downs course. Joseph Heneghan, 75, Alaska banker | ESome said they thought famili- | and former political leader, d:edim'ity with the tilted track gave thci at his Seattle home Saturday eve- | Akronites an advantage over the ning. | visitors who did not have so much He had Lteen in ill health for|time to get acquainted with the several months. | runway. Heneghan, born in Ireland, went| FIVE HEAT WINNER to Alaska in 1904. He had interests| pDerks won five heats in grabbing at various times in utilities, cold|the championship. He opened over storage and fish packing firms. | the 9754-foot incline with a 27.25- At the time or nis death, he was| second performance, came back for president of the Miners and Mer-| three in a row with times of 27.22 chants Bank of Ketchikan. Pre-|seconds, and then winged viously he had been mayor of Ket- | 27.16 in the payoff event. chikan, He was a member of the Second place, and .a new Chev- Elks of that city and a member of | rolet automobile, went to 14-year- the Ketchikan volunteer fire de-‘om Don Klepsch of Detroit. Third partment for 30 years. | place went to 14-year-old Charles Mr. Heneghan is survived by his! P. Muhl, Jr, of Cleveland; fourth wife, Regina; a daughter, Mnrylm 11-year-old Jerry Williamson of Margaret Heneghan, and a son,| Charleston, W. Va. and fifth to James J. Heneghan, all of Seattle;|Tommy Navrkal, a 13-year-old three brothers Thomas, Toledo,|eighth-grader from Nebraska City, Michael Jo;e;h Henegan | Ohio, and Patrick and James Hene- | Neb. Second was the best any North- | west entrant was able to do in ithe first round heat results. ghan, both living in Ireland; and two grandchildren, | Rudolph W. Maier, Juneau, M T n ;Alaska. was second in his group. rs' ruma [ MAIER SENDS GREETINGS ¥ In a special dispatch to the Em- - pire from Ellis Reynolds, who ac- eclplen o companied Juneau's champion to Akron, Maijer sends his greetings . and also issues statement to Ju- 1 | neau boys as follows: eep ’eeler Fred Derks, Akron boy won to- day's running of the All-American Scap Box Derby, time 27.16 seconds in at; averted late Saturday when the CIO Food and Tobacco Workers Union sighed a contract for the same fish prices as AFL unions accepted last week. Union members had authorized their negotiating committee to call a strike at midnight Saturday if an agreement had not been reach- ed. Everett Hudson of Metlakatla, chairman of the committee, said the opening price on humpback salmon will be 37% cents per fish, the same as last year. Cannery workers of both CIO |and ARL unions will work without | interruption, officials said, pend- ing the outcome of a jurisdiction- |al elections to be held under the auspices of the National Labor Re- lations Board. ! Commercial fishing in the north- ern section of the Territory’s south- east district opened today, a week (ahead of schedule. The U. S. Fish and - Wildlife Service ordered the earlier opening after a check had shown spawning was far enough along for conservation needs. AFL NOT INVOLVED IN STRIKE THREAT N FiSH DISPUTE Floating Cannery Opera- tion Not Issue in Re- ported Strike Threat | In error Friday of last week was !the Daily Alaska Empire in fits statement that the AFL union was WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(®—| Rudy Maler was nosed out on | threatening a tie-up of the fish- his first heat. Senater McCarthy (R-Wis) says Tonight's banquet, with a capa- an employee of the company re- ported to have paid for deep freez- | city crowd of 1,600 people, closed ers sent to Mrs. Harry S. Truman!the Derby for 1949 and climaxes and a number of other notables;a wonderful week for the Juneau had engaged in “attempted smug-ichamp. gling activities.” Rudy says to tell all his friends McCarthy emphasized that he! hello. Coming home in a couple ot does not think there was anything|days to make a personal report. He “eyen remotely improper” on Mrs.|says all the fellows better get to| ‘Truman's part. imaking plans for next year and The Wisconsin Senator made his|one of Juneau’s boys may be more statement at the opening of to-}lucky and bring home the cham- day’s five percenter hearing. The ) pionship. Senate investigating committee :5 | trying to find out whether FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 15—® | —School teachers with families| oeqicia)s figures in the activities have bumped head-on into a hous-| of persons who charge fees for ing shortage here, with rental of|ne in Janding government con- $125 to $200 on availatle houses tyoots beyond their budgets. | Alert J. Gross, a Milwaukee Mrs. Eva Mehre, music InStruc-{manufacturer, told the committee tor who drove here from Los A""last week that his company sent geles with her son and daughtel',ideep freezers to Maj. Gen. Harry has set up housekeeping tempo-| g yayghan, President Truman’s rarily in the schoolhouse basement.| mijitary aide, and a number of The family is cooking on bor-|other prominent Washingtonians, rowed electric plates with camping | ge sajd the units were paid for equipment. by the Albert Verley Company, a | Chicago perfume house. CONGRESS CAN'T ADJOURN BEFORE SEPTEMBER 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—®— Senate Democratic leader Lucas said today it will be impossible for Congress to adjourn by Labor Day. He would not venture to predict, however, how long Congress will stay in session. |ing industry by strike. The AFL and the Alaska Salmon Industry reached agreement in their nego- | tiations Thursday with ‘the labor union signing contracts for the 1949 fishing season. | Also in’error was the following paragraph from the Empire’s Fri- day strike story: “Main issue blocking settlement is a move to transfer to Southeast {operations, a non-resident floating icannery crew who has completed the season in the Westward." Nick Bez, floating cannery opera- tor, denied that his move to trans- fer floating cannery operations to the Southeast was any issue in a reported threatened strike by €IO lahor leaders. Bez said this weekend that he “knew nothing about it and that it was not an issue in the dispute and was not blocking any settle- | ment.” | According to information learned here today, moving of the floating canneries to Southeastern waters from the Westward was not an |issue in the reported weekend |strike threat, and information ® o 0 0 3 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) 3 1m-I proper influence with :overnmem’ I Lucas talked to reporters after “fgiven to the Empire was incorrect. White House conference betwefn': The La Merced, operated by Bez, President Truman and Democralic . een in Bristol Bay and Prince Vaughan's Statement In a statement to newsmen Sat- Hotel. {urday, Vaughan said two old ® | friends of his—one of whom is ® | associated with the Verley Com- In Juneau—Maximum, 54; ®|o.ny and the other reported fo minimum 47. ® | have been associated with it form- At Airport—Maximum, 57; ® ey gave him seven freezers in (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod énding 7:30 am. PST.) minimum, 45. ® /1945, and that he In turn made PR EOAST ® | gifts of them to friends. (Juneau and Vicinity L Vaughan said he had one of the | freezers sent to the “Little White House” at Independence, Mo. A Variable cloudiness with an occasional light rain shower tonight and Tuesday. Lowest @ committee member said he was told temperature tonight near 49 ® {hat Mrs, Truman sent a thank- degrees. Highest Tuesday @ you note for this freezer to Gross, :bouz 63. ® thinking he was the donor. L Il;:hc IPITATI Od}‘ e Exonerates Mrs. Truman ast 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. t0day @ | At today’s session McCarthy said: In Juneau — .02 inches; ®| .r fee] there is nothing in the since Aug. 1, 490 inches; @ ,..04 suggesting that there was since July 1, 10.19 inches. @ gnuihing even remotely improper At Airport — .05 inches; ® 5n the part of Mrs. Truman. She lslnce Aug, 1, 245 inches; @y the type of lady who is incap- since July 1, 6.42 inches. ® able of doing anything improper. “® 0 0 0 v @ 0 v 0 | “I don’t think she knew any- thing about the perfume company’s | connection with John Maragon. HERE FROM ANCHORAG Leonard Hopkins of Anchorage registered yesterday at the Baranol.| IC&;lmued on Page Three) | | Congressional leaders. COAST GUARD CREW MEMBER IS INJURED SITKA, Alaska, Aug. 15—#— Seaman Payro of the Coast Guard cutter Hemlock was in critical condition at the Orthopedic Hos- pital at Mount Edgecumbe today following a shipboard accident last night, Payro suffered thigh and pelvic injuries when a towed buoy fell ‘o the deck of the cutter, pinning him to the anchor. ROBERT EUGENE IN PORT The freighter Robert Eugene, skippered by Fred Dahl arrived in port early this mornings from Prince Rupert and salls for there| !wun-m Sound areas during the | Westward fishing season. It will imove to the Southeast. | Kayak Fisheries floating cannery operated by R. V. Wilson, which Ehns operated in Prince Willlam | Sound during the Westward sea- son has also filed notice of inten- |tion to operate at Hoonah for the | southern season. . STOCK QUOTATIONS ! NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 3'4, American |Can 93, Anaconda 29, Curtiss- | Wright 8%, International Harvester |26, Kennecott 47%, New York Central 10%, Northern Bacific 14’5, iU. S. Steel 22%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 710,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: late this afternoon with a cargo | industrials 17393, rails 46.68, util- of tish, |ities 36.51.