The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO i Finest shoes fqr GROWING FEET ON THE GO... " WEATHER OR NO! As odvertised in LIFE, THIS WEEK, and other leading magazines. Ask | | | obout these special foatures, | {attempt to B. (/l/(. Bzé’zazc!i go. | QUALITY SINCE /88T O FELDMAN GIVEN URGES AFLACTION SECOND QUIZZING | IN SUPPCRT OF IN 5% PROBING! ALASKAN DEFENSE Admits Talking fo Hunf, .5 i mion tocas rom B|g Figure in con(em_ | national AFL headquarters in sup- ing "Confracts” port of expansion cf Alaska's de- | fense program. In a wire to AFL President Will- iam Green, WASHINGTON, Aug 24*,1,}_““"(:!:"1‘1;1(1 :Am‘n‘\&e_-:laufl u'\mx’: 131 be- Bhoate” Wvesteatons today - Em- n:r;:,:;__thc residents of Alaska and fronted Maj. Gen. Herman Feld- |4 ; “It is imperative that authori- man with passages from a diary of James V. Hunt saying Feldman asked Hunt in 1948 to get in touch with “contacts” n Congress about retirement legislation for Army| officers. zation .for expanding Alaska de- fense program be granted the Arm- ed Forces,” T. B. Ericksen, execu- tive secret: ATFL, wired Green “The inactivity of Vinson's commit- | e e winos Chflil'w(:_p w:.ll l\nltvnu‘mx’uvdwn a year r more. Japanese proved thatthe Feldman admitted talking with PR S Hunt about the matter but ‘1ally@Tsx'lll(;1y is vulnerable to attack denied asking Hunt to contact any- and occupation. This session is the one on Capitol Hill. There is a prime step in North American de- 9 s 4 . | fense.” bying by Army offi- B aguinie Joboyiug by, ATy ATFL action follows by one day suspended Quarter- an American Legion, Post No. 4, Feldman, . : master General of the Army, was memorial to the nation’s legislators q urging full and immediate atten- on the witness stand for the secon e g A S e day at the Senate inquiry into mcasuresgre N a‘:lf x-x\z\‘lml whether improper influence na_s‘k”; e ua‘:_ 'l*) ssure Alas- figured in the handling of govern-| """ quate protection. ment business. | { The special subcommittee con- & ducting the investigation questioned Pmk and Blue Feldman at length regarding his relations with Hunt. { » Other witnesses have testified Shower leen by that Hunt, who describes himself as a management counselor, boasted Two Hostesses of an inside track to the White House through {riendship with Maj. Gen. Har H. Vaughan.| Mrs. James Smith and Miss Vaughan is Presdent Truman's Cathryn Mack entertained in Miss military aide. Mack’s apartment at The Assembly 4 {last night, with a dessert party \x;;: .xlonkL slmchr honoring Mrs. rry 1. Lucas, Jr. GooD FIS“'"GI BI" .y w\ 'Ct)icr guests were Miss Bess Casler, Ted Lupro, Alene Warn SAYS FWS OFFICIAL: Lee Lucas, J. Gerald Willilams, C. W. Stevenson, Don Skuse,, Eugene With everyone, including the Nelson, Monte Grisham, and Wil- Fish and Wildlife Service people, lifm H. Barron. apparently happy over the good| e, S RAN AL runs in whien "were openca 10 tuoins IF TAKES ALLOW, WE'LL i teresed m me ong-rance| KEEP ON FISHING SAYS cially interested in the long-range| view. | “Except tor o tew areas sua SALMON (0. EXECUTIVE Frank W. Hynes today, “where L sl fishing is unusually good even when ' Ask anyone in‘the salmon in- compared to the big seasons of dustry as to the future of the yesteryear, the over-all picture i8 pusiness and you'll get an answer far from what it was in the early “Alaska is still the or place '20's and '30's. in the world where csaln 1 “This season,” he conceded, “IS available in quantities and, if we better than the parent cycle Of aren't taxed out of busin we pink salmon in 1947 keep on canning salmon. The areas excepted by Hynes, answer of John T. Tenneson who is Fisher'es Management dent of Superior Packing Comg Biologist, are Anan Creek, Boca de af Tenakee and the Pyramid F Quadra (which, he says, have been eries at Sitka heavy in all the good years), Tena- Mr, Tenneson's further kee, Port Frederick and Olive Cove. the recurrent question George B. Kelez, Fisheries Man- o do about salmon fishe agement Supervisor, reports no sub- pe a “longer season and a stantial improvement in the run off | week would she Baranof and Chichagof Islands' 1In Alaska for the last week, M (outside waters), where the season Tenneson wa a £ e bou opening has been ayed until passengr on Pan Amepican Wed next Monday. nesday Peasant housewives in Ttaly and ' Climax to a week of sports North Africa use fans to drive air including boating, boxing into crude charcoal stoves, thereby hbasketball and track will be fanning the flame to boil coffee or 16th Sugar Bowl football game on Ly potatoes 1Jdan. 2 \ 316 PACT EFFECTIVE |France Deposifs Rafifica- tion Note — Other In- ternational News (By The Associated Press) The North Atlantic treaty formal- ccomes effective today when ~ ONTODAY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WILLKIE, GRAHAM REPORT ON LIBBY'S SALMON SEASON With the prospect of an unex- pectedly geod run of fish in south- ast Alaska at this time, the overall picture for the 1949 season is not as grim as pre-season predictions, .ccording to E. E. Willkie, vice president of Libby, McNeill and Lizby, who, with salmon division nanager Guy Graham was in Ju- neau the first of the week and left for Seattle on Tuesday's PAA plane. | LOW RENT HOUSING Whiskers Prove Depositary for Lottery Slips BOSTON, Aug. 24—(P—Seventy- two-year-old Harry chest-length slips. slips were found in Zeid- he was arrested yesterday. He was held for arraignment on a charge of setting up and promoting a lot- tery. Mr. Willkie. Of the operations already closed, rance deposits her note of ratifi-| | cation in shington. only really bright spot was Kenai,] | The pact of collective security|Mr. Willkie said. i Now BEI%’G pRoBED | ties in the defenses of the United| Southeast Alaska is now in the | States with Canada and 10 Europ- | midst of its best odd year run since | can nations. It comes into force {at a time when strained relations a and the Western | between Ru powers focus international attention on security problems. ANOTHER COLD WAR Commainist Yugoslavia. | | | | | | Russia has its own cold war with | }Lcw press levelled propaganda guns | operating Yakutat at Premier Marshal Tito again to- day. The Soviet army newspaper | Red Star pictured Tito as a blood- | what Alaska’s share will. be in the government’s new low rental housing program Is under investiga- tion here this week by two Public Housing Administration officials. We're here to find out what Al- s needs are in low rent hous- 1941. Start of the salmon season in SE. Alaska has been surpris- ingly good, according to the Libby men, but whether or not it will be sufficient to balance the catch for {the overall pack, cannot be deter- mined now. With the pre-season prediction |ine 1 The Mos-|of a light salmon run, Libby s not|sel from the Seattle office said to- cannery this|day year, nor the Taku cannery which Morgens, accompanied by Hubert has not operated for several years. | F: rle, economist for PHA in San A working agreement for canning)Francisco, plan to make a study of Zeidman's whiskers were, police charged, the depository for lottery | flowing white beard when | ATFL urged AFL to!; thirsty dog of the “fascist gestapo|purposes in this area has been breed.” Hungarian and Czechoslo- [ made with the Icy Straits Com- vakian newspapers stepped up their | pany at Hoonah. Southeast Alaska operations - maintained this season ty Libby’s CHINA NEWS are George Inlet, Cra’g and Kla- Chiang Kai-shek made a hurried | wock. flight to Chungking today in an| Of other Libby operations, Mr. prevent Nationalist | Willkie reported that Kenai com- anti-Tito propaganda barrage. warlords from possibly making sec- | pleted the season with a good’ pack, ret agreements with the Chinese| Moser Bay on Kodiak, fair, “as Communists. | many as last y Kozgiung, Szechwan province warlords have | fair; Ekuk on the Nushigak, poor. been' at odds with the Nationalist| A joint operation at Egigik with army commander in southwest Chi- | Alaska Packers resulted in a good na. Chiang is attempting to pa(ch‘ pack, the cannerymen said. up their differences. The National- | — ists want to rhake Chungking their | apital should Canten fall. : ‘o CATHOLIC BAZAAR Communist war machine continued to roll towards Canton. NOVEMBERAANDS However, Chiang was presented In the hope thav no other organi- with reports of Nationalist victories | n Hunan p! nce, and the Na-| ticnalist positicn in central China | ked brighter zation will schedule a major event jon those dates, parishioners today | make an early announcement of | November 4 and 5 for the Catholic | Church Bazaar. | The choice was made at a recent | parish meeting in the Parish Hall, | accordng to the Rev. Rocert L.| ial strike. Observers said the ex- T, ol ORI | the Nativit, i pulsion of four Communist-led un- i rpas b lons from the central body might| . ,;on nas had its usual two-day TROUBLE IN FINLAND Finland's Central Trade Union Federation has expelled Commun- ist-dominated unions. The Com- munists have been leading wildcat strikes causing widespread indus- :n two years since the | |low income groups and their hous- ing conditions here, and in Anchor- age and Fairbanks. PHA representatives’ aim'is to make a preliminary investigation of the market for low rental units the general attitude of ac- nce of the program in the Al- 1 towns. nformation obtained wili be turned over to PHA men, Abner D. Silverman, Assistant Commissioner irom Washington, D. C., and M. C. Redman, director of the Seattle field office, who will come to the Territory Sept. 13 for further study. | The housing program for Al- {aska comes as a result of the Hoys- ing Act of 1949 signed by President July 15 under which government | subsidizing is pledged to maintain llow rents on units built under the | authorization. Alaska Housing Authority will | be the agency authorized to build and operate units,” Morgens said. “AHA will obtain financing for con- struction through private or gov- ernment investors.” AFL MEMBERS SUE C10 MARINE COOKS split the ftrade unlon MOVEMENt|fall festival, and plans were made wige o ussia keeps a watch-| ¢ 4he meeting to make this the, ful eye on any anti-Communist move in Finland, which bord sk jedostiy Tt TR OIS W01 iTne kY. Whslan {8l b the gl 8 !dates should be announced early |s0 that pecple could keep them in BRITISH FINANCES | mind. | : Britain's financial problems came| «pany persons,” he said, “do before the Consultative Assembly!come of their Christmas shopping of the Council of Europe. Lord|ga: the needlework booth, and Layton, Britlsh liberal, predicted| want to assure our friends that the that the British pound soon Willl ;ca1 number of lovely pieces will be devalued and he urged that oth- | p. o display at the bazaar this er European currencies be revalued | | year.” simultaneously. Top British officials |~ Announcements of committee meet in Washington early next| emberships will be made at a month to discuss the British finan- later date. cial crisis. | POUGLAS NEWS RETURN TO SITKA HOME | Mrs. Earl Miller and five little girls, returned last Saturday via Alaska Coastal to their home in Sitka The family spent several weeks visiting Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Alex Demos and other rela- tives and friends on the Channel. SEES HONOLULU FRIEND Miss Estelle Wolf enjoyed a short visit with a Honolulu friend, Mrs. Amy Devereaux, while the Baranof | was in port. After coming from Hawaii, Mrs. Devereaux visited in Canada, going as far as Toronto She plans to go to Seward, An- chorage, Fairbanks and Nome, re- turning on the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse. After the rail trip to Skagway, Mrs. Devereaux probably will reach Juneau again, making Sitka the last stop on her Alaskan tour. AT —— MARY SNYDER HOME EYES EXAMINED Jesse Snyder returned this from Westward Alaska where accompanied her husband, who foreman of the drill crew for| the U. S. Bureau of Mines | Roughing it in sourdough style, she Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR . UNION IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 24—(P—Ninety- nine former members sued the CIO- National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards and Joseph Harris for $1,980,000 today in Superior Court. The complaint charges Harris, the union’s Seattle port agent, pub- lished and circulated “false, de- famatory and damaging written statements” about the plaintiffs. Bach of the 99 asked $20,000 in damages. Among the plaintiffs is Don L. Rotan, organizer of the Pacific Marine Stewards' Union. His group broke with the CIO union over union politics and joined the A.F.L. It has petitioned for an to determine collective bar rights on ships in the Alaska trade, cn which the men are employed. The complaint said Ha in let- ters to other unions, accused the plaintiffs of deserting his union during the 1948 maritime strike, and urging that they be boycotted. The basketball fives of Kentucky, before Tulane, Bradley, and Villanova wili, meet in the Sugar Bowl basketball | | tourney, Dec. 29 .and 30. | LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Juneau APPOINTMENTS PUN——— they were camped in the mountains | Cantwell most of the summer. | LEAVING, MONTH'S TRIP Mrs, Leigh 8. Grant is a pas- enger via PAA today enroute to Rochester, Minn,, where she will and a niece Xr)r: then go to Caidifornia | Warren, and| Her trip will take from home for about according to her family. 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The jury also found Kenneth P. | Gregg, who was acting as agent |for the company in bringing the suit, entered into a conspiracy with Richard L. Merrick and Buike Edwards to obtain control of the company by filing false stateme with the Federal Securities and change Commission. Judge George W. Folta has yet to find on the law in the case. The young defendants were jubil- |ant after District Clerk J. W. | Leivers had read the jur decis- lion. | They had organized the Veterans | Alaska Cooperative Company = in 946 to build a “pioneer commun- lity," had obtained the Port Chil- | koot properties, and had organized | the Port Chilkoot Company, a stock ‘company, to develop the properties After handing in the verdict, the jury was dismissed by Judge Folta. | They had been with the case siace |it first came to court June 15. Defendants in the case were Carl Heinmiller, Steve Larsson Homer, Martin A. Cordes, Tresham D. | Gregg, Jr., Karl A. Comstock, James | A. F. MacCammond, Jr., James N. 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