The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIII., NO. 11,279 WILLIAMS SEEKSLOANS FOR ALASKA Territorial Aflorney Gen- eral in'Seatfle Attempt- ing to Raise Money SEATTLE, Aug. 22—®—A new effort to obtain a $1,000,000 loan for Alaska has been started in Seattle by J. Gerald Williams, Ter- ritorial Attorney General. The money would be used to pay $400,000 in existing Territorial war- rants plus expected expenditures between now and February 1, proposed expiration, date of the loan, Williams said. An earlier attempt to secure $1,000,000 fell through and brought the charge from Treasurer Henry Roden that Seattle interests were attempting to force the Territory to repeal some taxes which had been enacted by the 1949 Legis- lature. | | Other sources said the loan ne- | gotiations collapsed when it was learned that Alaska owed more than the amount represented. Wwilliams said his negotiations | also were with Seattle interests,| although he would not name them. He also said he did not want to comment on whether or not he thought prospects were bright. SEATTLE SHOULD HELP “We're going to try to raise the money in Seattle,” he said. “We think Seattle should help us—that Seattle has a greater responsibility than either Portland or San Fran- cisco.” He said this did not preclude the possibility that efforts to ob- tain the loan might be made in some other city. 1 “Alaska is not broke,” he sald.| “If money earmarked for special purposes could be diverted to the general fund we would have suf- ficient money—we would not need to borrow any at all. But these funds are earmarked, for road con- struction, airfield construction, etc. and can not be used for general fund purposes.” PRESSURE ALLEGED Williams blamed the earlier| failure to obtain the money to “the pressure of big industries operating in Alaska.” He said the strategy of these opponents appeared to ke to| force Governor Ernest H. Gruenlng‘ to call a special session for thej enactment of a sales tax. Fifteen Alaskans, himself in- cluded, have agreed to sign promis- sory notes to insure payment of the three percent interest on’the de- sired loan, he said. He viamed Alaska’s present fi- nancial difficulty on the fact that, three taxes—Territorial income tax, non-resident fishermen’s tax and a fish trap tax—are under con- test or appeal in Alaska and Ninth District Courts. Williams said he has information that a one percent general property tax also will bet attacked. MINN. VISITOR Terry A. Klingel of Bertha, Minn. is a guest at the Gastineau. The Washingion Merry - Go- Round (Copyright, 1049, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By ROBERT 8. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation. ASHINGTON—Members of the Senate “5 Percenter” investigating committee are considering demand- ing that Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan be tried on military charges. The Senators have discussed the matters with authorities on military law. Basis for the proposed action are two factors: (1) Vaughan is not a civilian employee of the White House. He| is a reserve officer on active duty and draws pay (over $12,000) from Army funds. He is therefore sub- ject to Army regulations and rules of conduct the same as any other active officer. (2) By his own tdmiuion, Gen. Vaughan has accepted gratuities and gifts. This is in direct viola- tion of a specific prohibitory Army regulation. In addition, other charges made before the Senate e L L (Continued on Page Four) 2 (anneries Fire Swept At Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 22—(P— A spectacular early morning fire today destroyed two small canneries at an estimated. loss of $100,000. The fire was considered a heavy tlow to Cordova because of the loss of employment. The Cordova Packing Company plant and the Ocean Fresh Sea Foods Cannery burned but the city dock on which they were located was damaged only slightly. The fire started in the packing plant and spread to the second cannery. Its ‘cause was not known. Both plants were packing crabs and clams in the off salmon sea- son. They normally operated until the start of the severe winter storms. PLANE IS MISSING; 20ABOARD WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 22—®— Three Dakota planes are searching | Northern Manitoba for an amphibi- | ous last night with 20 persons aboard.: Canso aircraft missing since Royal Canadian Air Force officials said today. Those aboard included a crew of six, seven Eskimos stricken with poliomyelitis who are accompanied by a nurse, a newspaperman and a party of men from the Federal! Bureau of Transport. e o o & o e o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 70; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, minimum, 40. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Slowly increasing cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with an occasibnal light rain Tues- day, Lowest temperature to- night around 50 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 58. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City — None; since Aug. 1, 556 inches; since July 1, 10.85 inches. At the Airport None; since July 1, 298 inches; since July 1, 6.95 inches, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George from Vancouver scheduled to arrive 5 p.m. today. Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or evening. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive late tomorrow afternoon. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Aleutian scheduled to sall from Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. 72; ‘CLEAR THOSE STREETS! WARNS CITY ENGINEER If fine weather continues, crews will shortly be hard at work to put the seal coat on city paving, according to City Engineer James L. McNamara. “Folks had better get those old cars and piles of dirt and stuff off the streets,” said Mac today. “People want the streets paved, and we're ready to finish the job,” he went on. “But if that stuff isn’t off the streets, the snow may fly before we get it done.” RANGER 10 OUT With Ranger Harold Stratton aboard, the Ranger 10, skippered by Ottar J. Johnson, put out for Sitka today, the Forest Service ves- sel to serve as Stratton’s base dur- ing his work in that area. MRS. CASHEN RETURNS Mrs. Frank Casnen returned by plane Saturday from Seattle, where she has been visiting her mother, — | Mrs. Kirsten Shirk, who has been il | | | Friday. | NEGOTIATIONS INDOCK STRIKE AGAIN (OllAPSE Sides fo Make New Ef- fort fo Seftle Dispute WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—P— The government today asked op- posing sides in the Hawaiian dock strike to make a new effort to settle their dispute and if this fails to' come to Washington or New York for mediation talks. Cyrus S. Ching, director of the men was picked up by the fishing |a group of German e | U. 8. Conciliation Service, sent cable to Honolulu requesting the new attempt at a settlement of| the crippling 114-day-old strike. Ching told the striking union and | Hawailan stevedoring negotiating committee that he would' be happy | left Newport, Oregon, Aug. 17. ‘The | the ‘mmter, Eino Maenteo, and an un-‘ to meet with them in the U. S. to discuss the issues. Ching’s cablegram today was in| answer to an appeal from Hawai- JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949 Northern Section of Coast Rocked by Tremors 'SEINER CAPSIZES "IN HEAYY SEAS; CREW IS RESCUED Support From | GIVES TALK Government Asks Both Coast Guard fo. Investigate New Sou"es TO VHERANS 4 ~Challenger Breaks . ‘ Shaft, Rudder SEATTLE, Aug. 22—(!5-—(,‘0"& Guard headquarters reported today a cutter has been dispatched from Ketchikan to investigate the sink-| ing of the seiner Roundout, which | capsized in heavy seas last night. | An unidentified number of crew- vessel Martha K, bound for Ket- chikan. Details of the sinking were | not known. | Meantime, an air sea search has been started for the fishing boat ‘Linda Jean, unreported since .she | identified crewman were aboard. A cutter also was sent ‘to the aid |of the fishing vessel Challenger | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Tito Gaining | | Growing Spln in Ranks of | World Communism | Reported | (By the Associated Press) | Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo- ;\'la\'ia drew surprise support from Communists today. This sign of the growing split in the ranks of world Com- | munism came as Yugoslavia's war of words with Russia reached a new pitch of intensity. A Russian note to Belgrade at weekend threatened to take | “effective measures” to protect | Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia. Re- ian officials, and from the union|two miles west of Cape Straight, Kremlin of using those citizens as and management to go to Honolu- lu to help out in the crisis. Direct negotiations between the strikers and employers collapsed LONGSHOREMEN AGREEABLE HONOLULU, Aug. 22— (P —Ha- wali's striking CIO longshore union announced today immediate ac- ceptance of an invitation to media- tion meetings in either Washington or New York, but employers defer- red e decision, Both sides said they had oot yet received the bids from Cyrus Ching, Federal Conciliation Service Director. A union spokesman said acceptanee would e radioed as soon as the invitation arrived. but an employer spokesnian said an ¢m- ployer committee would discuss it and make the decision The strike has tied up Hawalii's | seas commerce for 115 days. EDITOR EMERITUS DIES, DES MOINES DES MOINES, Aug. 22—(®— | Alaska. The vessel shaft and rudder were bent. The cutter was escorting the| Challenger to Petersburg after mak- ing temporary repairs. The 75-foot boat is captained by John Skansi of Gig Harbor, Wash. Another cutter went to the aid jof seaman Joe Gese who suffered a cut leg aboard the fishing boat Blue Eagle in Ward’s Cove, Alaska. | | { FOREST BLAZES (By The Associated Press) Hundreds of fire fighters bat- | tled flames in national forest areas {of six western states today. At |least six major fires were still out of control, three in the Payette National Forest of Central Idaho and three in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Four crewmen were hospitalized, { radioed her | FIRE FIGHTERS ARE BATTLING plying, the Yugoslav Communist newspaper Borba accused the spies. I British newspapers quickly noied the similarity Letween the stern tone of the Soviet note and the language used by Hitler before he sent the German army into action a decade ago. They said the Rus- sian note sounded like the worst threat of war since 1929. | Titoism gow has taken | Germany. German Commumsts who hate Russia formed a new splinter party today and promptly sent the Yugoslav leader sage of support. ‘The new organization ~described itself as @ “Free Communist, Party.” It claimed 4,000 active members in! the Russian zone of Germany and another 600 in the Western sectors of- Berlin. ‘Karl-Heinz Scholz, veferan’ dfer- man Communist underground cam- paigner, told a reporter in Berli “We have formed to right impes alist bolshevism. The socalled inter- Dnationalism of Soviet Russia is a fraud. We reject any plans for a 4 dictatorship over the people.” FINNISH TROUBLES The Comimunist strike offensive against the Finnish government lo:z momentum. Workers apparently re- mained deaf to Red pleas for! r70i ln a me;- 1 PRESIDENT ‘Hils Those_OBposing His Foreign Aid Program at Jubilee Meet MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 22—(®—Pres- Iident Truman fought back today against advocates of a cut of the $1,450,000,000 in his foreign arms aid program with the warning that peace “can not be bought cheaply.” He carried his case for Senate restoration of the cut before thdus- Iands of cheering delegates to the Golden Jukilee convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In a world upset by Soviet pres- sure, he said, the arming of friend- ly nations is “part of the price of| peace.” He asked approval of funds to give military aid to democracies “without delay.” Mr. Truman'’s staff included Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, Army aide. ‘ArrestMade | At Anchorage, | BankRobbery ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 22. —(M—A U. S. Marshal was pre- parting today - to return Richard ‘Tamborski, 28, to Chicago for ques- .tlomng in the holdup-slaying of 'two Armored Express guards. ! Tamborski surrendered to the IFederal Bureau of Investigation |here Saturday and his bail was ) set at $100,000. i In Chicago, George McSwain,| jagent in charge of the FBI, satd. iTamborskl expressed willingness to! return to Chicago. L Tamborski was quoted by Chief Special Agent Clinton W. Stein in| Harvey Ingham,/ 90-year-old editor emeritus of the Des Moines Register and Tribune died yesterday in a one in California and thre2 in | Idaho. further walkouts. Strikers in many | Anchorage as denying any connec- industries were reported streamingtion with the holdup last June 25. tkack to work. These included! ; Company money guards Joseph | hospital where he has been a pa-! tient since Feb, 14. Ingham spent 60 active years as an editor in Iowa, the last 40 as editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He retired formally in 1943. He would have been 91 on Sept. 8. 'HARRY LAUDER CRITICALLY ILL STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Aug — (M —sSir Harry Lauder, the famed Scottish comedian, was re- ported critically il today at his More than 300 lightning-caused | fires, most of them small, covered an estimated 33,000 acres of timber and grass lands in the drought- !strmken forests. BY GENERAL SPAATZ WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—A— Gen. Carl Spaatz said today that if _| it weren’t for the B-36 bomber and the atom bomb, Russia could sub- due “practically all of Europe and 'B-36 BOMBER, ATOM| BOMB ARE PRAISED| fbakers. brewery workers, duck workers and lumberjacks, COMMIE REVOLT BROKEN revolt hased on a general strike, Troops evicted more tired and hungry sit-down strikers from the Lota coal mine last night and arrested 35 Communist leaders accused of fcmenting the trouble. Officials quoted the miners as saying Communist spokesmen had convinced them the government had fallen, that a general strike had crippled Chile and that a revolu- tion had broken out in Santiago, the capital. Across the world, the Chilean government announced it had| i broken ‘an attempted Communist than 1,000} Den and Bruno Koziol were mow- ed down by machine guns during a holdup of the South Chicago i Savings Bank. Robbers fled with $920 in cash and $377,000 in worth- iless cancelled checks the guards lwere carrying from the bank to their armored trucks. Police said James Hoylan, 28, and David W. Edgerly, 22, have admitted taking part in the holdup and implicated Tamborski and Joseph Kakalski, 31. Kakalski is! lthe only one still at large and he {was named as the trigger man by lboth Hcylnn and Edgerly. 'BRAVES DEFEAT Asia in a relatively short period of time.” The tired Air Force Chief made his statement before the House Armed Services Committee. The home near Strathaven. Sir Harry celebrated his 79th tirthday Aug. 4. ACA FLIES FOUR whether ' political influerice or favoritism figured in the develop- Committee is trying to find out| | IN CHINA Chinese Nationalists claimed a- DODGERS I“ ’IH ;mlllury success on the - front north of their provisional capitali of Canton. The Nationalists said] BOSTON, Aug. 22—(#—The Bos- their troops had thrown tack a|ton Braves countered a ninth in- Communist thrust aimed at cumng}ning Brooklyn rally with one of the Canton-Hankow .rallway andtheir own today to whip the Dod- MERCY MISSIONS Alaska Coastal Airlines reported four emergency flights over the weekend. One mercy flight brought Donald Cook of Sitka, a crewman on a Pyramid Packing Company tender, to Juneau for treatment of a crushed hand. Cook’s hand was injured, when caught in the flywheel of the ten- der’s engine. He will proceed to his home in Sitka after further medical at- tention here. Mrs. Annie George, 60, was flown yesterday from Superior Packing Company’s cannery near Tenakee after breaking her right arm and left hip in falling from the pcrch of her home. The aircraft which brought Mrs. George to Juneau was met by Ju- neau police, who took the injured woman to the Government hospital. Evelyn Howard, 11, was brought from Hawk Inlet yesterday with a severe case of influenza. She is at the Govetnment hospital. ACA officlals reported J. K Smith was flown from Hoonah yes- terday to te at the bedside of his daughter, who s ill. ment of the big, six-engine B-36. FIRST GOATS BAGGED BY NOON SATURDAY BY FOUR LOCAL HUNTERS Believing they set a record, Bud Brown, Mike Fenster, Ken Loken and John Quilico were back in Ju- neau by ncon last Saturday with the first mountain goats of the sea- son which opened Saturday. The four goats were bagged 20 miles south of Haines on Lynn Canal. They want it known that each man was responsible for get- ting his own trophy. The goats were put in the Sturm Lockers when the hunters arrived back in town. Brown and Fenster were flown into the area by Alaska Coastal with Quilico and Loken going in the latter’s plane. MRS. KEITHAHN RETURNS After a month visiting relatives in Washington state, Mrs. Edward L. Keithahn has returned via Pan American. As always on her visits outside, she and college classmates from “Ellensburg Normal” held a reunion in Seattle, isolating the Hunan province de- fense bastian of Hengyang. RECORD HAUL OF PINK SALMON I REPORTED, ANAN | WRANGELL. Alfl.ska, Aug. 22—A record haul of 55,500 pink salmon val- ued at more than $20,000 was! taken at Anan Creek near here Saturday by the seine boat APB Six, Capt. William Willard. Eighteen hours were required brail the seine and complete Lhe haul with the assistance of two other seiners, the Sanco and the Eagle, out of Wrangell. The entire load was taken to the ' Ketchikan cannery. It was the biggest haul reported taken anywhere in Alaska this season, and perhaps the largest in many years. Capt. Willard lay off Anan Creek on a falling tide when the fish backed out from the stream into legal waters where Willard was able to get the seine around them. Fishery agents and fishermen stood by for hours watching great event of the fish season. the | gers, 7-6. It was Boston's third straight. triumph over the Dodgers and dropped the Brooks two full igames behind the league-leading |sz. Louis Cardinals. Jeff Heath {double home Alvin Dark with the winning run. Brouklyn ...010 010 022—6 8 0 BDs'.on ¢ 200 200 102—7 10 0 Branta, Minner (6), Branca (8), |Pallca (9) and Campanella. Bick- ord, Potter (8), Hall (9) and Sal- keld, Livingston (9). This was the only game sched- uled. “|UPTURN RN REPORTED IN POLIO VICTIMS ! CHICAGO, Aug. 22 — A — The number of new cases of infantile paralysis took a sharp upward turn last week, boosting the nation’s total of victims for the month to more than 8,000. It brought the total for the year ito 15,500, compared with only 8430 cases reported by the National Of- fice of Vital Statistios through {Aug. 13 of 1948, A near record year. | Last year's 27,680 total was ex- ceeded only by the 30,000 in the 1916 record year, 1 Mysteries Presenied fo CongressNow Investigators Are Given Puzzles on Freezers, Bomber Cases WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-(P—A mysterious memorandum and a sec- | ret letter beginning ‘“Dear Pop” tock the center spots today in two separate Congressional investiga- tions. A Senate drive to cut President Truman's $1,450,000.000 foreign arms aid progrem got a new sup- porter. And tne Senate argued over whether it would reconsider the $17,500,000 appropriation it vote for rent control. Rent Director Tighe Woods has said that if the amount isn't upped he will have to lift controls from one-third cf| the areas still having them. Senator Mundt (R-SD) sald the “Dear Pop” letter is shedding new light on the perfume oil and home freezer aspect of the five percenter inquiry. { Home Freezer Gifts It was written by a former ser- viceman to his father, The father | gave it to Mundt. “The letter tied in with the whole chain of events dealing with the presentation of home freezers to prominent people in Washing- ton and the subsequent activities of representatives of the per- fume company which paid for the freezers,” Mundt said. Mundt said the youth who wrote the letter either will be called to testify at public hearings, to be resumed tomorrow, or will be ques- tioned privately. He declined to name the boy or his father. Mystery Memo Two members of the House Arm- ed Services committee, Reps. Brooks | (D-La) and Bates (R-Mass) want to. know who wrote the mystery! memo which is partly responsible for the B-36 bomber investigation. Talk has spread around Wash- ington that it was written by a prominent aircraft manufacturer whose firm competes with Consoli- dated Vultee, makers of the B-36. The committee is looking for evidence of political influence or other favoritism in the development of the big intercontinental bomber. It received the unsigned memoran- dum from Rep. Deane (D-NC) who has refused to tell reporters where he got it Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) joined in the Senate drive to cut the foreign arms aid program. He said he thought the European countries could ‘“get along with substantially less money” than Sec- ! retary of State Acheson and mili- tary leaders have asked Congress to ,approve. The House voted last Friday to chop 4n half the $1,160,990,000 ask- ed for North Atlantic: treaty sign- 18, é Bar Associafion of Washingion Sfafe Okehs Statehood - SEATTLE, Aug. 22—®—Indorse- ment by the Washington State Bar Association of statehood for Alaska was ccmmended in Seattle Sunday by J. Gerald Williams, Attorney General for the Territory. i Willlams sald Juneau will be the site of a session of the Alaska Statehood Commission August 29. The commission was appointed by the Territorial Governor. E. L. Bartlett, Alaska's Delegate to Congress, will fly to Juneau from the nation’s capital to at- tend the session as a Commission member. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 22—(M—Clos- | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 94%, Anaconda &%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- er 26%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 23%, Pound $4.027. Sales today were 710,000 shares. | Averages .teday are as follows: industrials 180.53, rails 46.50, util- ities 34.60, PRICE TEN CENTS EARTHQUAKE, PACIFIC NW, S. E. ALASKA Sharp Series Rocks Wide Area Sunday Night-Cent- ered in Brif. Columbia- (By The Associated Press) A sharp series of earthquakes rocked a wide area of the Pacific Northwest last night for about five minutes. No major damage oc- {curred and no casualties were re- ported. The violent shaking appeared to center in northern British Colum- kia, primarily in the Skeena River Valley. But tremors were felt throughout'a wide area from Prince Rupert, B. C,, east to Jasper, Alta., and from Juneau, Alaska, south to Portland, Oregon. Store windows were smashed and cars rolled crazily on streets a' Prince Rupert and at Terrace, B. C., 90 miles east. A two-foot wave swept along the waterfront at Ketchikan, Alaska, moments after the shock, Dishes were knocked from shelves and pictures from walls at Petersburg. Houseboats Adrift Ten houseboats were iorn from their moorings in Seattle's Lake Union. Power lines and water mains were broken in some parts of the city. The Queen Charlotte Islands, 500 miles northwest of Vancouver, B. C., reported “the heaviest shocks in the islands' history.” Chimneys tumbled, bufldings swayed and windows shattered. Homes rocked on ‘toundatfons and some commun- ications poles snapped. At Portland, Ore, an amateur seismologist, F. Willlam Geitz, re- corded the primary shock at 9:04 p. m. (PDT), Eight Shocks in B, C. As many as eight shocks were re- ported by the northern British Columbia communities. Willlam Baker, publisher of the Ketchikan Daily Chronicle, sald in a telephone report that the gang- plank of the S.8. Prince George almost went out from underneath him as he stepped from the llgr Theater, patrons rushed from the building In panie, but returned shortly. Baker said the initial shock was followed five minutes later by & lesser one. It was the first shock ever felt by the Southeast Alaska city, according to longtime resi- dents, A Tacoma woman said the water sloshed from her swimming pool. And in Partland, another woman sald her houseboat rocked jin the |Wlll|metu River just as it did in the Northwest’s worst earthquake four months ago. Then, April 13, the violent tem- blor caused eight deaths and dam- age of more than $15,000000 1n Washington State. TREMORS IN JUNEAU Two slight tremors were felt in the Juneau area Sunday night; the first about 8:04 lasting at deast 15 seconds and the second short- ly after of slighter period. Dishes rattled on shelves, electric lights swung and people had stag- ers, Out the highway the tremor was more pronounced and lasted per- haps half a minute. Barcus Lake became wavy and small chunks dropped from Mendenhall Glacler. Takes Tremor On Phone SEATTLE, Aug. 22— The earthquake which shook the North- west Sunday evening was felt throughout the Seattle area and as far north as Ketchikan, Alaska. One Seattle woman had the un- usual experience of feeling the quake in Seattle while talking long- distance to a man in Ketchikan who was startled by the same quake. Billie Bartee, Seattle, was talking on the telephone to John Forsell at Ketchikan when the quake struck. “Mr. Forsell said the pictures on his wall started jumping around and the floor seemed to move un- der his feet,” Miss Bartee said. “At the same time the chandeliers at my house started swinging back and forth. He was so frightened he said he was going to hang up and get out of his house.” « SECOND SHOCK PETERSBURG PETERBURG, Alaska, Aug. 22— sald she |