The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1949, Page 1

‘Merry- Go- Round THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,277 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1949 ' MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Strike - Bound Plant Under Vicious Attack PRESIDENT TRUMAN POSES WITH CABINET PROSPECTS | BRIGHTEN FORLOAN Roden Is Negotiating with | New Interests for Aid | to Territory Treasurer Henry Roden today saw a ray of light to brighten the gloomy picture of Territorial finan- ces. “We are negotiating with other interests,” the Treasurer said this morning, “and we hope to get the | loan elsewhere, now that the first try was unsuccessful. “Let’s forget the past, and look | ahead.” | Like the loan originally propos-‘1 ed, it would be for $1,000,000, he said. | Records in the Auditor's office | show that, after payments this| week of some $200,000, there are | current outstanding warrants today i amounting to $424335.95. All but approximately $125000 are newly incurred obligations. In round figures, Asst. Auditor N. F. Moore estimates that all expen- | ses, including vouchers now held in | the Auditor’s office, would amount to approximately $4,600,000 by Jan- uary 31, the date on which it is| proposed to repay the loan. Tax| Commissioner M. P. Mullaney’s es- timate of sure revenue is $2,500,000, | leaving the difference between the | Territory’s anticipated’ expenses | and certain revenue $2,100,000. In his figures, Commissioner Mul- | laney does not include any tax revenues which are or may be in! controversy—such as the income and property measures passed by4 the 1949 Legislature. Treasurer Roden declined to iden- tify the “other interests” with | which he was negotiating. It is| understood that he and other Ter- | ritorial officials conferred yesterday{ and today with financial represen- ! tatives from outside. H Henry Roden, who has been m: the Territory 54 years, made a com- | ment typical of the Sourdough| spirit: “I've been in some pretty bad holes,” he said, “apnd so has the! Territory. There's never been one we couldn’t pull out of. That's| going to be true this time, too. “We are going to pull out.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Corsair scheduled to arrive at 5 o'clock this afternoon. ! Princess Kathleen from Vancouv- er scheduled to arrive 3 p. m. to- morrow. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Baranbf scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from ' Vancouver Wednesday, Aug- ust 24. Aleutian scheduled southbound late Sunday night or Monday morn- The Washington| By ROBERT 8. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation. (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — A high U. 8 official just returned from a tour of the Middle East reports one outstanding impression. It is this: That, amid the welter of assassin- ation, intrigue and autocratic rule in this ancient cockpit, the pres- tige and power of the United States stands out like a gleaming beacon. The official related this epi- sode to prove his point: Following the attempted slaying some months ago of the Shah of Iran, he imposed iron-handed mar- tial rule. The Iranian press par- ticularly felt the weight of the Shah's fury. Seventeen liberal, non-Communist newspapers were suppressed and their editors were thrown into jail. He also of- dered them tried on charges of subversive activities. To support these charges, articles (Continued on Page Four) ‘line track. For some unexplained | ambulances were at the scene. He |said there were PRACTICAL JOKE DOCTOR OPERATES ON SELF UNUSUAL PICTURE IS MADE as Dr George C. Balderston, 30, of Telluride, Colo., makes an incision Hands of assistant and nurse ho ground. The operation was successful. for removal of his own appendix. Id surgical instruments in fore- (International Soundvhota) TRAINS IN COLLISION: A0INJURED CANAAN, N.M,, Aug. 19"(M—TheI { Boston and Maine railroad’s Mon- t_real-bound Ambassador crashed head-on into the southbound Am-; bassador here tcday. First reports said there were no deaths but about 40 persons were injured. A railroad spokesman said the! southbound express, running {rom,‘ Montreal to Boston, had taken a siding here to let the northbound express pass through on the single reason, he said, the northbound train also was switched into the siding. H A reporter for the Canaan Re- porter, a weekly, said about 12 two or three stretcher cases but most of the in- juries ‘were cuts and nose bieeds. The line is single track from Con- cord, NH, to White River Junc- tion, Vt. . BACKFIRES; BOY SHOT BY FRIEND EL CERRITO Calif., Aug. 19. —rM —The gun Peter Treadaway, was showing his pal, Ronald Donald, wasn't loaded. But while --Peter's ‘back was turned, ‘young Ronald slipped a cartridge into the .22 caliber rifle. ‘Then the practical joker gaveI the gun back to Peter and s.sked “Is it loaded?” “No,” said Peter, and pulled the trigger to show him. . The bullet tore through Romld‘sI stomach. His condition is serious. AUTO PRGDUCTION HITTING RECORD DETROIT, Aug. 19.—®— United, States automobile plants will hit| an all-time record production totnll of 643,000 cars and trucks for Aug- ust, ‘Ward’s Automotive Reports es- timated today. The stafistical agency compared the figure with the industry’s monthly high of 621,910 cars and trucks, established in April, 1929. Mac FUNERAL SERVICES FOR INFANT MORROW Private funeral services were held yesterday morning in the Charles W. Carter Mortuary for Linda Ann, week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrow of Annette Island. Mrs. Morrow is the former Mari- lyn Merritt of Juneau. ISLAND STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS BOGGED DOWN Conciliation'&?vice May Be Called for Tomorrow- Cloud of Gloom HONOLULU, Aug. 19—(®—Ne- gotiations to end 111 d. of a strike on Hawaii’s waterfront wob- bled ahead today in a cloud of gloom. : “Another extremely discouraging ! session,” said an employer spokes- man of yesterday’'s meeting. The CIO longshoremen’s union didn't have anything to say Unless some agreement is reach- | ed by tomorrow, the dispute is to be thrown in the lap of Cyrus| { Ching, head of the U. S. Concilia- | House sub-committee today that it And Ching doesn’t| was not possible for politics or| tion Service. even know whether he can come to Honolulu. The employer spokesman said that in yesterday’s session the talks reached the wage issue. Harry Bridges, head of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s Union, said the 2,000 longshoremen who walked out May 1 would settle for substantially less than the 32-cent hourly in- crease originally demanded. He re- fused to stay how much less. The longshoremen now draw $1.40 an hour. Meanvhme government stevedores worked the ships. | SAILING, SAILING . . STORK FINDS SHIP SEATTLE, Aug. 19—®—A taby| boy was born to Mrs. Harold Kjolso aboard the S8 Alaska Thursday five miles north of Alert Bay, mid- way between Seattle and -Ketchi- kan, the Alaska Steamship Com- pany announced. Mrs. Kjolso and her husband are enroute to Ketchikan. A wire received from the ship’s master, Capt. Henry Burns, by company officials here, said Dr. L. D. Johnson of Chanute, Kas., a pas- senger bound on an Ala.ska.n tour, led mother and infant. All fine," the wire reported. The Alaska left Seattle at 11 am. Wednesday. The baby was born at 10:10 a.m. Thundny BRITISH PLANE CRASHES; 27 DIE MANCHESTER, Eng., Aug. 19.— (m—A British European Airways plane enroute here from Belfast crashed inte a hill in thick weather today and killed 27 of its 32 occupants. 5 Four persons were killed in an- other crash at Baildon, near Ship- ley, Yorkshire, the .Civil Aviation Ministry announced. All occupants of the planes were believed to have been British, AVIATRIX AT LAST MAKES IT [Mrs. Rlcharda Morrow Tali Refurns to Britain AfierYearandDay‘ | PRESTWICK, Sco Scotland, Abg. 19 | -—P—Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, | British round-the-worlq flier, re-| turned today to Britain/ which she left just a year and a’day ago. | | Mrs. Morrow-Tait's $ingle-engined | |plane landeq at Prestwick airport | | from Iceland at 3:05 pm. (7:06 a.m., | P.D.T.) | The model-turned-aviatrix was | held up by weather in Iceland and | |so prevented from finishing the | trip on the anniversary. | | After refueling her light plane | here, Mrs. Morrow-Tait is expected | }to fly on to London’s Croydon Air- port to end the first single-engine | round-the-world flight by a woman at the' point where she started it.| Flying with her as navigator le Michael Townsend, 36. | She was delayed by an accidem |in Alaska for months. i | WORLD FLIGHT ENDS | LONDON, Aug. 19 — # — Mrs. | Richarda Morrow-Tait, red-haired | British flier, landed at Cmydon airport tonight, completing | 'round-the-world trip. She became the first woman to| circle the globe in a single- enalne! plane. The flight, which she had hoped to make in 200 hours, took| a year and a day because of ;a series of mishaps. i Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her navi- |gator Michael Townsend, 26, put| | down after a hop from Prestwick,| ’Scotland 'NO POLITICS, " ARNOLD TELLS ~ INVESTIGATORS | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.—(#— Gen, H. H. (Hap) Arnold told a/ favoritism to enter into the selec- tion of a military airplane. “There are so many different !people—sclemlsts, boards of selec- | tion, engineers and others—involv- | ed,” he said, “in the selection of a plane such as the B-36 long | rarige bomber, that no one man ienters solely into the picture.” General Arnold testified before | the subfcommittee investigating ‘rumors hinting at politics n the: Jaelecuon of the B-36 as a type. ' | He declared “the B-36 is the out- s',andlng bomber in the world to- day," and he said it emphatically. Arnold, retired commander of the U. S. Air Force, added “the coun- try at large should be proud of it.” The sub-committee will® return! to Washington, D. C. tonight or tomorrow. PI. CHILKOOT CASE RESUMES MONDAY WITH ARGUMENTS Judge George W. Folta last night adjourned the drawn-out Port Chilkoot case until Monday morn- ing. By yesterday afternoon, counsel for both plaintiff and defendants had rested their cases, and Will- iam L. Paul, jr, plaintiffs’ attor- ney, had begun his argument of the facts of the case before the Jury. ¢ In chamber# this morning, Judge Folta instructed all parties in the case regarding the interrogatories— questions—they will present to the FISH STORY ! munist state, cracked down lon { shouted defiance. LATEST PICTURE OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND CABINET was made following luncheon meet- ing at Blair House, in Washington. Seated (from left): Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Sec- retary of State Dean Acheson, President Truman, Vice President Alben Barkley, Treasury Sec- retary John Snyder. Attorney General Tom Clark, named Supreme Court Justice; (rear, from left): Interior Secretary Julius Krug, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer and Labor Secretary Tobin, NEW FREEZER (CASE ANGLE IS REDS MAKE BIG ATTACK INFINLAND *'Smash Blo;firuck, How- | ever, Against Setting Up Commie State (By the Associated Press) Finland's government, determined ' to smash a strike offensive it says {is aimed at setting up a Com- strike leaders while the Reds ‘The chairmapiof the City Counecil at Kemi, fountainhead of the snow- balling strike movement and arena of its first violence, was arrested. | Another City Council member was| reported in custody. The Council chairman, Jahja Heikkilae, was des- jcribed as a leader of the Kemi strike call. Police and strikers exchanged fire yesterday in Kemi, a northern lumber town.* The first Finnish Infantry Station at Oulu, 60 miles away, said a striker was killed and nine persons, including three police, were injured. Communist leaders said the strike movement would grow. Aimo Aal- tonen, Communist member of Par- liament, said “The working class should more firmly than before continue their fight for better wag- es.” Moscow Cheers Moscow cheered from the side- lines. The Communist party news- paper Pravda, which has stepped up attacks on Finland ‘recently, proclaimed that a strikewave was crippling all Finland with 1CC per cent support from the workers. ! Elsewhere: 4 The Council of the Organization for European Economic Ccoperation (OEEC) hegan consideration of a rock-bottom estimate of $3,621,600,- 000 for Europe’s 1949-50 Marshall Plan needs. The U. S. Senate and House have named a committee to} split the difference in the tota; amount of Marshall Aid money voted. The House has voted $3,- 568,000,000, and the Senate $3,778,- 000,000, Disappointed delegates here had hoped for moré. The Truman Administration’s foreign arms aid program, battered by the House, looked to the Senate (Continued op Page Five) Traffic Violafions WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—M— Inspector Arthur E. Miller of the capital’s police traffic bureany said today 56 charges of traffic viola- tions appear in the file of John Maragon, current “five percenter” gation. He said only six of the charges , often mentioned in the investi- today | European . Seailtle Is "Vulnerable, Air Attack | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(P— | | An informed Air Force official s(udi | today that “strategic vulnerability” |of areas in the United States to! air attack by Russia is considered | in placing contracts for high priority combat planes. } His remark was in connection | with the propesed trip of Secretary | jof the Air Force Symington, Air Force officers and Senator Mag- nuson (D-Wash) to Seattle, Wash. The group plans to fly to Seattle in September to discuss the pro-! posed move to the Boeing-operated | plant in Wichita, Kans., of the sub- assembly work on the B-47 bomker | now kLeing done at the Boeing- owned plant in Seattle. | Since Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, this week told the B-36 Senate Investigating , Committee that Russia is the “one major military threat to the United States"—-a remark he said had been iclearcd with the State Department —the Air Force has been more {frank in discussing production matters. Asked whether the Seattle area was considered ‘“vulnerable” in Ievem of war, the, spokesman an- ’ nounced: “Take a map and look for your- self at the location of Seattle on the great circle air route irom | Eastern Russian bases,” he said. “We know that Russia has B-20 type long range bombers.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—(®—Clos- Img quotation of Alaska Juneau Imine stock today is 3%, American} Can 94%, Anaconda 29, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- er 26%, Kennecott 47%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, |0 s. steel 23, Pound sa2%. Sales today were 840,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 181.16, rails 46.84, util- ities 36.67. e © o & 5 o 0 o o . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 56; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 60; minimum, 38. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Clear and cool tonight with the lowest temperature near 42. Cloudiness Saturday with the highest temperature around 66. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @0 0®00c000®00000cec0c e (Insernaticnal) BROUGHT OUT | Suspicious Flymg Trip fo Paris Revealed by Senator Mundt WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(P— Senator Mundt (R-SD) sought to- day to link a flying trip to Paris in 1945 by three agents of a Chi- cago perfume firm with the firm’s i gifts of home freezers to Maj. Gen. i Harry H. Vaughan “and his friends. Mundt told reporters that the testimeny given the Senate Investi- gations Committee secretly Monday, {and made public yesterday, “begins to disclose a suspicion ¢. a mctive of what is behind the gifts of decp freezers.” He referred to freezers paid ior by the Albert H. Verley Perfume Company which were sent to Mrs. Harry 8. Truman, General Vaughan and Your other administration offi- sials during the summer of 1945 and the winter of 1945-46. Three representatives of the Ver- ley company on an Army transport plane in July, 1945, at a time, Mundt said, “When businessmen just couldn’t get there.” Two of the central figures in the inquiry are Vaughan, Truman's military aide, and John Maragon, Washington man-aZout- town who used to have free access to the White House. The testimony reieased by - the committes yesterday, after Presi- dent Truman had accused it of withholding testimony “favorable” to Vaughan while producing the i unfavorable parts at public hear- ings, threw a new spotlight on the W0 men. Testimony by Harry Holfman, Milwaukee advertising man who randles the Verley account, named Maragon as the man who arranged for the Army transport to carry Hoffman, Maragon and Emmett King, New York attorneyv to r«‘zmsI on Verley business. The record shows that Mundt| commented that “someone had to exert a colossal amount of influence in high circles” to wrangle such a trip. Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) said that Senate investigators are get- ting information about the activ- ities of Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan “from sources very close to the President.” McCarthy said the data also is coming from persons very close “to Vaughan in the White House.” McCarthy declined to elaborate. BETTY TAYLOR GOES made the Paris trip, President | B | Maragon Shovm Up, l MCALESTER, Okla., Aug. 19.—(®|involved movements by Maragon —After a full day’s fishing without|or his car, One was a jay walking a single nibble, Jimmy Woody gave|case. The others were for such as up. Disgillsted with his luck, he|improper traffic lane changes, four | began rowing to shore. Just thenm,|of the cases involving minor acci- | a three-quarter pound perch jump-|dents. The rest of the charges were! on parking violations. 1 ed into the boat. In Juneau City — None; ON VACATION TRIP since Aug. 1, 556 inches I since July 1, 10.85 inches. ! Miss Betty Taylor, secretary to At the .drport — None; Lt. Col. Joseph D. Alexander, Na- since July 1, 298 inches; | tional Guard Adjutant General, was since July 1, 6.95 inches. e |on today’s PAA flight, planning to e e @ » @ o6 o o o ovisit family members at Long —_— Beach, Calif, She expects to be CAA MAN HERE away about three weeks. Mean- K. G. Hageman, CAA representa- | time, Mrs. Lance (Evelyn) Hen- tive from Anchorage, is registered | drickson, bockkeeper, represents the at the Baranof. feminine contingent in the office. PARADERS BEAT UP ~ WORKERS "Belligerent Mob” Forces j Way Into Aircraft Fac- ‘ tory in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 19.—P— | Hundreds of demonstrators paraded through the strike-bound Bell Aircraft plant today. Company offi- | cials reported at least six employeel were beaten badly. Headed by Robert V. Suegler, president of striking CIO United Auto Workers Local 501, the | demonstrators marched four abreast into the main Bell building. Flashing their plant badges at gate guards, members of the group announced they were “going back to work.” Lawrence D. Bell, president of the Company, described the inci- dent as “one of the most despicable chapters in the entire history of |the Labor movement.” Bell asserted that “a belligerent mob” forced its way into the plant and “waged almost an hour of vio- lence that will leave a permanent blot on our community.” Martin Gerger of New York City, regional UAW director, asserted “that no one was dragged from the Bell plant,” and “to my knowledge no one was injured.” TWOPROJECTS FOR ALASKA OKEMED WAGHINO’ION. Aug. 19.—(P— Two Alaska projects are included in the disputed Army Civil Func- | tions appropriations bill list approv- ed by the House conferees, But there is no indication how the Senators stand on them. The projects are: Nome Harbor, 1$701,000; Wrangell Narrows, $343,- 1 000. ‘The bill has been tied up in | committee by Senate-House dis- agreement for 11 weeks. Finally, Rep. Cannon (D., Mo.) disclosed last night the projects which the House members of the conference | committee are wiiling to have in | the bill. His list included the two | Alaska projects. Chairman McKel- ilnr (D, Tenn.j of the Senate con- | ferees told a reporter the confer- ence is deadlocked on a number¥of projects. The number was reported to be 18 out for more than 300 |in the bill. There was no indi- cation whether the two Alaska Eprojccts might be among them. 'HOAX IS PLAYED INRADIO QUIZZING ABILENE, Tex, Aug. 19—(®— Mrs. Charles Lusk didn't win $16,000. Instead, she is out the cost of a telephone call to New York. Late yesterday, Mrs. Lusk an- swered her telephone and a caller sald he was the master of cere- mon'es on a national quiz radio | program. He played two records backwards asking Mrs. Lusk to identify the singers on the first record and the melody of the second. She gave him some answers and | he shouted: “Mrs. Lusk you have just won | yourself $16,000 in prizes.” Then 1 he reeled off a dizzy list of awards | which included an automobile, fur- | niture and a three-months paid vacation to Cuba.” | Mrs. Lusk spent a sleepless night. | Today, when she learned others in Abilene had not heard her name | called, she began to have her doubts. | Eo she telephoned the quiz pro- gram in New York and learned she | had teen the victim of a practical Joke. \Former Alaska Fisherman Dies SEATTLE, Ang. 19.—(M—Funer- al services will be held here Sat- urday for Ole Sjursen, 68, a former | Alaska fisherman who died Tues- day, He was a member of the Elks Lodge at Petersburg.