The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,289 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Lost Juneau Youth m Truman Signs Alaska Public Works Bill $70,000,0()—()—l\ulhorized—‘ No Appropriations Yet | for Big Program | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—#— President Truman has signed a bill authorizing a $70,000,000 public! works program for Alaska. Under the law, applications for | Federal works projects must bel made by cities, town districts or other public bodies of the Tern- tory. They must be approved by‘ the Administrator of General Sexv-‘ ices with the concurrence of the| Secretary of Interior and other interested Federal agencies. ‘The law provides for sale of the| works to the applicants on terms| which will net the government not | less than 50 percent of all money | appropriated. Public works which can be under- | taken include schools, hospitals, | public utility and harbor facilities, kridges, roads, streets, university| buildings, libraries, firehouses and| other public buildings. Funds for the program have mtrd yet been appropriated. INTERIOR MEN T0 MEET WITH WARNE AT MT. McKINLEY The Alaska Field Committee will| meet Sept. 20 at Mt. McKinley Park | with Asst. Secretary of Interior William E. Warne. Kenneth Kadow, chairman of the Alaska Field Committee, will join | Warne in Anchorage to attend the Mt. McKinley meet. He will ac-| company the assistant secretary on! an inspection trip of Department | of Interior activities in Fairbanks,| Anchorage, Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan. Warne is expected to arrive In Juneau shortly after October 1. One of the most important items | | | on Warne’s itinerary, according IO: Kadow, will be to discuss with| leading citizens of Alaska the pro-| posed development corporation bill, now in the drafting stage in the nation’s capital. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Prince George from Vancouver | due this afternoon or evening.| Nothing definite at 3 p. m. today. Princess Norah scheduled to nr-{ rive Saturday afternoon or eve- ning. Baranof scheduled to sail from| Seattle Saturday. | Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Aleutian from west southbound Sunday. scheduled | Almost 80 per cent of all iced| tea drinkers are said to use sugar| with the drink. i The Washmgton‘ Merry - Go-Round (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By ROBERT S. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation i | 74 ASHINGTON — British-Ameri- can differences aren’t the only! strained relations worrying the| State Department. Behind the scenes, a trouble- breeding situation has developed with Brazil, our traditional South American ally. Cause of the disturbing dispute is a loan—with reverse English. The Brazilians don’t want the| loan. They hotly charge that the Ex- port-Import Bank is trying to “blackjack” them into taking a $200,000,000 loan they don't want. This is the Brazilians’ story: Brazil owes several hundred mil- lion dollars to U. S. firms and banks for purchases of equipment and other supplies in the past year. It is conceded payments have been slow. The Brazilians explain this is due to an acute dollar shortage, as a result of a very heavy decrease in exports to the U. S. The Brazilians say that if they can get a $40,000,000 loan to de- — (Continued on Page Four) !s. Vandenberg; \DOUGLAS CANNERY CANNOT RECOGNIZE C10 UNION; ORDERS WASHINGTON, Sept. The National Labor Relations Board | today ordered the Douglas Canning Company of Douglas, Alaska, to ceéase its recognition of a ClO | union as the exclusive bargaining | agent of its employees. The union is the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America. The board, in | upholding a trial examiner’s find- ings, also ordered the firm to throw |out its contract with the union. It forbade the company to inter- fere in any way with the right of the employees to join the Uni- ted Alaska Fishermen and Can- nery workers Union (AFL). The company signed a contract with the CIO union in 1948. Here's Warning To Housewives; Two-Day Holiday Here's just a tip to housewives — | remember Monday, Labor Day, 1s a store holiday. Now, check your supplies and get your order in early tomorrow jor go to the stores and do your| purchasing for Sunday and Mon- ay. MILITARY CHIEFS VISITING ALASKA MAY GO T0 JAPAN WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—(®—An- nouncement yesterday that the nation’s military chiefs will make a first-hand study of Alaska Army, Navy and Air bases raised specu- lation that they might keep going southwestward and visit General MacArthur’'s Far East command. The announcement said the Alaska trip continues a policy for the joint chiefs of staff to “visit unified commands together.” It served to point up the in- | creasing attention teing given to the Far North defenses of the United States and Canada. The chiefs who will leave Tues- | day for the flying trip to the North are: Gen. Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; Air Gen. Hoyt Army General J. Lawton Collins and Vice Adm. Arthur D. Strubble, Deputy Chief of | Naval Operations who will substi- tute for Adm. Louis Denfield. They expect to be in Alaska about 10 days. \CRIPPLED JET PLANE LANDED BLINDED BY ""ESCORT SERVICE" INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2—(P—A test pilot virtually helpless in an | experimental jet fighter plane af- ter his instruments went dead, was “shepherded” to a safe landing by |a California air guard flier. Jim Younghans, veteran test pi- |lot for Allison Division of General | Motors Corp., said today he owed |his life to Lt. Walter C. Rew, 30- year-old college student of San | Bernardino, Calif. Younghans explained his instru- ments went dead yesterday as he zocmed over Weir Cook Municipal Airport here. He knew he had little chance of landing the super- fast plane by feel alone. Lt. Rew, standing by for a check hop in his F80C Shooting Star, offered to fly formation with Younghans and relay his own in- strument readings. It worked. The team swished down with Lt. Rew telling the test pilot: “You're doing swell, boy. Hold her steady. Now youre two feet off the runway—drop her in!” Both landed perfectly. Lt. Rew said he flew P-40’s nine months in the Aleutians and made 110 sweeps acPoss Germany as a P-47 pilot. NATIONAL GUARD MEETS Headquarters Detachment, Alaska National Guard, will hold a drill meeting tonight in the House of Representatives chamber on the second floor of the Federal Build- ing. 2—P—| {of insurgent troops who captured APPEAL IS MADE - 10 PUTUP FIGHT ON COMMUNISM (By The Associated Press) In a statement commemorating the fourth anniversary of victory over Japan, Acting President Li Tsung-jen of Nationalist China ap- pealed today to “all peace loving| Lpennles of the world” to join in a fight against international Com- munism, Chinese Communist forces were | surging ‘into Kwantung province in which Canton, the Nationalist! provisional capital, is located. Li said: “Unless our freedom fis protected, our sacrifices during World War II will have been made |in vain. The brutal force employ- ed by the Communists and their | totalitarian ideas far surpass those |of the fascists, and their threat to the. cultural and spiritual achievements of mankind is even| more dangerous than was that of Hitler, Mussolini and the former Japanese militarists.” In Tokyo, Premier Shigeru Yo- {shida told the Japanese people they {should pay back the money Japan has received from the United States | for aid since the war. Only in that way ,he indicated, would Japan maintain “its old reputation abroad | as a nation which never defaulted | jon its foreign obligations.” | | New light was shed on the pat- | tern of the cold war between Yu- | goslavia and Russia. The Comin- form Journal, published in Buch- arist, Rumania, said there is an organization of anti-Tito Commun- ists within Yugoslavia. Anti-| Tito Communist exile movements, it said, have their own radio sta-; tion and publish four newspnpers which circulate within YugOslavxa The United Nations World, a pri- vately printed publication in New York, said Tito is preparing to launch a new worldwide Commun- ist organization to compete against Russian Communism. | Western diplomats in Bucharest expressed belief Russia and her satelites would not engage in a ‘shootmg war to force Yugoslmm back into the fold. Rebel forces in Bolivia reported | today they are marching on Tarl-[ ja, a southern city of 20,000 popu- | lation. The latest drive is being ‘led by Carmelo Cuello, commander Yacuiba, on the Argentine border,| Wednesday. The Nationalist rebels | | are attempting to overthrow the| middle-of-the-road Bolivian govern- | ment. HOUSE HOLDS SHORT SESSION; FOURTEEN PRESENT AS TOKEN WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—®—| Fourteen members of the House| showed up today for a two-minute session, half of which was used| |up ky the Chaplain’s opening | prayer. Acting Speaker Cox (D-Ga) ad-| journed the session on motion of | Rep. Sheppard (D-Calif). The House meets again next Tuesday under a schedule requir- ing twice-weekly token sessions, with no business, until Sept. 21. LOST - $3600 RACE HORSE WIN TICKET NEW YORK, Sept. 2—®— The mystery of Sam Renick’s missing ,$3600 mutuel ticket has entered its| second day—with no solution In sight. It all started yesterday when the| former jockey bet $50 on a 72 to 1 shot and lost the ticket en route to| the cashier’s window at the Aque- duct Race Track. This morning Renick vmually! { took apart the suit that he wore | yesterday—but there was no sign of | the valuable pasteboard. If the tic- ket is not found, New York state will get the money, $3680 to be exact. 5 A el SR OUT TO SCHOOL Lynette Hebert, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Lisle Hebert, left via PAA yesterday for Seattle where she | will attend Forest Ridge. The new commander of all the American forces in Europe, General Thomas T. Handy, has set up his headquarters in Frankfurt, WATCH REDS IS WARNING GIVEN OUT U.Gen.Eiche_It;rger Gives Plain Talk fo Newsmen in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2—(®—Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, one of the top Army commanders in the Pacific theater during the war, today said of Communist moves in the Orient: “If 1 were a praying man, I'd be praying.” He made his remarks to newsmen just before he took a plane for Honolulu where he will help dedi- cate the Pacific cemetery. Fallen American servicemen from all Pa- cific areas except Manila are buried there. “We lost 300,000 casualties in. the Pacific,” Eichelberger said, “And I'm afraid we're liable to forget it. It's territle that after all the boys I saw die out there the situ- ation is what it is just four years later. “If I were a praying man, I'd be praying. The Reds are progress- ing further and further. Next theyll be in Indo China, then Burma, Siam and Malaya, and look where we are again.” "Slot Machine King' Sought For Witness| 'Will Be Called fo Testify in Inquiry Made of Five Percenters WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—®— | Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) said to- | day he will insist that Frank Cos- tello of New York, reputed “slot machine king,” be called as a wit- ness in the Senate investigation of “five per centers.” “I think Costello is a very nec- essary and important witness,” Mc- Carthy told a reporter today. McCarthy is a member of the Senate investigations subcommittee which has been digging -into the question of whether there has been improper influence in letting fed- eral contracts. He has mentioned Costello’s name several times dur- ing the hearings. On one occasion, McCarthy ask- ed Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman’s military aide, whether Vaughan got any campaign ; funds from Costello. Vaughan said he had never even heard of Costello and that he was sure none of the money came from him, Today, McCarthy said he wants to ask Costello “about a number of things that cropped up in the investigation but I can’t disclose ’v.hem now or it would foul things up.” Inquiry Recessed “Chairman Hoey (P-NC) of the Senate investigationg subcommittee recessed the inguiry yesterday tor (Continued on Fage Two) Toothache Is {Cause for 1,000-Mile Trip EDMONTON, Alta, Sept. 2.—® —A toothache can become a pain in the neck when you're 1,600 miles from the nearest dentist. For Mrs. Adolphus Norris of Ak- lavik, N. W. T., it meant a three- week trip up the Mackenzie River to Edmonton by tug boat. When she suffered a severe toothache, her husband packed her and their two daughters aboard the tug he uses in his trading business and set out for Edmonton, 1600 miles south. After a 1100-mile water trip and a 500-mile jaunt by bus, the Norrises arrived in an' Edmonton dentist’s office. Just for good measure they are all getting their teeth fixed. Norris hopes to make the return trip in ten days, Judge Rules It MONEY BILL | IS SIGNED BY TRUMAN| | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—P— President Truman has signed a bill. appropriating $7,617,739,361 for the Veterans Administration, the | Atomic Energy Commission and ;‘ | score of so-called independent Fed- eral agencies. The money is to finance the agencies for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Its total is $433,604,469 less than | the President requested. In addi- tion to the cash, the bill permits the agencies to incur contract ob- ligations up to $452,189,628. Approximately $5,000,000,000 of the. total is for the Veterans Ad- ministration and $1,000,000,000 for the Atomic Energy Commission. REPORT OF TREASURER The Territorial Treasurer’s re- {port, released - today, shows the Treasury is about “hanging even.” Henry Roden, Territorial Trea- qurgr, said the gémeral fund is still nearly a half million -dollars short 1 {of being able to take care of the outstnndmg vouchers. Bank balance at the end of Au- gust was $2,148,518.08. Warrants outstanding against this was $612,- 508.09. Special funds and funds in- i corporated in the General Fund which are not available for the gen- eral operation of the Territory amount to $1,426474.01. Cash balance in the General Fund is $109,535.98, s lllegal To Search Man's Stomach To Get Evidence in (ase LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2—(P—It's illegal to search a man's stomach for evidence, a Federal Judge has | ruled. After giving the opinion that such a procedure is “trial by ordeal,” Judge Jacob Weinberger yesterday dismissed narcotics charges brought against Andrew Willis, whose stomach was searched. Willis, 42-year-old laborer, was arrested June 26 by Federal Nar- cotics Agents. He was taken to a hospital, strapped to a bed and a stomach pump applied. Officers said they recovered two capsules of heroin by this method. Judge Weinberger commented that this was “the most unusual procedure” he had ever heard of for obtaining evidence. However Willis was immediately re-arrested by Los Angeles police on a state narcotics charge. BOEING PLANT REMOVAL TAKEN UP BY JOHNSON SEATTLE, Sept. 2-—(P—Detense Secretary Louis Johnson answered otests against transfer of mili- tary aircraft production from Boe- ing Airplane Company to the mid- west last night with the assertion that it's all a misunderstanding. In a signed statement to Sena- tor Cain (R-Wash), Johnson said that B-47 production now being done at Wichita, Kans., by Boeing “was not transferred from the Seattle plant.” “It was never intended to manu- facture this airplane at CSeattle,” Johnson asserted. “The Air Force gave this matter grave considera- tion from the very beginning and decided that this should not te done. The Boeing company origin- ally advocated the Seattle location, but later agreed with the Air Force position that the work should | be undertaken in Wichita " Johnson's statement was imme- Outstanding against that balance| diately attacked by E. L. Skeel, is $575487.59, which leaves $465,- | Chairman of the Chamber of 951.41 in vouchers which were not|Commerce Steering Committee paid. tighting to retain the Boeing pay- However, Roden pointed out, the|roll. situation is far from hopeless. “I surmise that Boeing did not Monies to be collected at the end |think it best to build B-47s at of the present quarter should take| Wichita, but was told that it would a large bite out of the unpaid|have to build them there or not vouchers—the pkills owed. This will|at all,” Skeel said. come from income, liquor and to-|{ The Defense retary = sald bacco taxes. economy and "m{npletlon of com- R, mercial orders for transport air- [ [] craft” were responsible for the (hln (hln impending curtailment of Seattle | ’ operations. ! He predicted the Boeing-Seattle # ! work force would be cut to about rom as a 10,400 workers with the completion [ ] t Some Dog . of the Air Force B-50 contract in SEATTLE, Sept. 2.—®— Chin The Alaska €tatehocod Commit- tee adopted a resolution this week in connection with the dispute, claiming any “vulnerability” of the September, 1950. The capacity work- Chin, part bulldog and part shep- load has teen around 26,000. herd, hadn’t been in Seattle long from his birthplace on Sisters Island near Juneau, Alaska, when he got into a fight. S0 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Isely took him to a veterinarian to get patch- ed up. That was on a Friday of| last week. { The following Tuesday Chin Chin made it known he'd like to go out doors for a stroll. A couple of hours passed. Four-year-old Mike Isely demanded of his folks: “Where's 'Chin Chin.” The phone rang. It was the vet»# erinarian. ~ Chin Chin, he told them, had just left for home. The Iseley’s looked out the door. | Here came Chin Chin, prouly. H He'd gone to the vets and got his bandages changed. Fairbanks Fliers " Ot for BB Meel!. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 2.— (A—The Ladd Air Force Base Fliers, a baseball team, has left for Self- ridge Air Force Base, Mich, en route to the Air Force worldwide baseball tournament to be held at New York’s Mitchell Air Force Bace September 5-12, Seattle plant was due to inadequate defenses in Alaska. 1,000 RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY A. L.; HAT DOFFED, GIVEN CRAIG (By The Associated Press) The national convention of the American Legion adjourned late yesterday in Philadelphia after adopting 1,000 resolutions. More than 6500 delegates have started for their homes in the 48 states. But the Legion's national executive committee has gone into session to pick a convention site for next year. The odds favor Los An-| ’l'he retiring National Commander of the American Legion not only| doffed his cap to the new com- mander ‘yesterday—he gave it to him. The symbolic move saw the hat pass from retiring Commander Perry Brown of Beaumont, Texas, to George Craig of Brazil, Indiana, a World War Two veteran. At the same time, the Legion lead- ership passed to Craig. 'EMERGENCY CALL MADE AT MIDNIGHT |Just Case ofi—arget Shoot- ing But General Alarm Sounded 'For Missing’ When the all-clear signal sounded [at 9:37 a.m. today, it did not mean that searchers had found a lost or injured person on Mount Juneau It did mean that a very sheepish young man had turned up to say he had been target-shooting shortly after midnight at the end of the mine road. Hearing groups of shots about 12:30 am., Mrs. Harry Bates, who lives at the end of the Basin Road in Silver Bow Canyon, called the Police Department to report what she took to be distress signals. After talking it over. with polh:e officers, Fire Chief A, Minard Mill decided to sound the 2-9 emer- gency call. That was at 12:56 a.m. 20 RESPONDED About 20 citizens responded. Most of them volunteered to organize a search immediately. Some 15 fire- men, according to Assistant Police Chief Frank D. Cavanaugh, who had come running, too, went to a point within one-half mile of “the Horn” before abandoning the search for the night. They returned about 3 a.m. Police Officer Bud Edwards set out at 5:45 am. to continue the search, planning to fire shots as signals, and arranging to meet other searchers at about 9 a.m. 'TWAS WILKERSON Scarcely an hour before the ren- dezvous, Dick Wilkerson, who operates the projector at.the 20th Century Theatre, wakened from a good sleep and learned of the search. ; A few minutes later, and very shame-faced, he told Chief Mill that he just hadn't oeen able to after work. He said that, with three he could on the mine road, set up a target in the beam of the car’s light, and blazed away with his new .38. SHOTS FIRED The shots were fired in groups by Wilkerson and his companions, he said. On learning this, Mill was just reaching for the switch to sound the “two” all-clear, signal, when someone said there was a report of two hunters being lost in the same area, Mill investigated, learned that the report ccncerning the hunters was no cause for alarm, then pulled the switch for the delayed “all iclear” at 9:37. BIG AIRLINER OF BRITISH 10 FLY; ' TAXIING TESTS BRIETOL, England, Sept. 2—(®— Britain's biggest airliner is sched- uled for taxi-ing tests tomorrow, and the first flight may be made Monday. It is the eight-engined, 130-ton | Brabazon built at an estimated cost of $48,000,000 by ‘the Bristol Aero- plane Company, The plane {s larger than any ‘Amencn.n ship in operation, but smaller than the U.S. Air Force's 150-ton expgrimental XC99 and the flying boat which Howard Hughes | tested Lriefly in 1947. | The British ship has a 230 foot wingspan, a fuselage 177 feet long |lnd raises 50 feet from the ground. Hughes’ plane was 320 feet across the wings; 219 feet long and 85 feet high. { The propeller-powered Brabazon is being tested five weeks after the debut of the 500-mile-an-hour De | Havilland “Comet" jet-liner which Britain has hailed as her challenge to American commercial air sup- remacy. Alaska Wins One ' Award, A. L. Meel PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2—(®— Alaska won one of the Ameri- can Legion’s nine annual awards Ilm- increases in State Department membership. resist trying out his new six-shooter | other men, he had driven as far as; DAN NOYES FOUND AFTER LONG SEARCH Road Comnfis;oner's Son Uninjured-Picked Up. by Santrina Dan Noyes, who nad veen missing from a hunting camp on Douglas Island for a day and a half, was picked up by the vessel Santrina shortly before noon today, appar- ently all right. The boy had made his way to the beach on the west shore of the island, where the Santrina was on patrol. His companions had looked for { him since Wednesday evening after Dan failed to return to camp. The search was intensified last night, when a party was organized here. The ten members, equipped with walkie-talkies and complete first- aid equipment, left about midnight. Dan's father, who is Alaska Road Commissioner, was one of them. Dan Noyes, 17-year-old son of Col. and Mrs. John R. Noyes, had gone over Wednesday with three companions, in order to be there for the opening of the hunting season yesterday. Others in the party were Mickey Bryson, Bill Keep and Kenneth Hildreth. . They based at a cabln on Fish Creek. After Dan had been miss+ ing from the party more than a reasonable time, his companions started the search in Fish Creek Valley late Wednesday afternoon. When they failed to find him by last night, the boys decided that Bill and Ken woull continue the search, while Mickey would report here.and -ask for' help in - . search, With the’ cooperation of Harry Sperling and others of the Forest Service, the party was organized late last night. Doug Smith, high- way fire guard, took the party over in a Forest Service truck. The ACS loaned walkie-talkies. Among those in the party with Smith were Colonel Noyes, who or- ganized the search by groups of two; George M. Tapley and Edgar Lokken, also of the ARC staff, and Bob Smith. Identiy of the others had not been learned by press time. One group was to go up to the Eagle Creek trail which starts in the middle of Douglas Island, an- other to work near Point Hilda. after talking it over, the search- ers decided that, unless Dan were hurt, he probably was lost, and would make his way to the beach, the Point Hilda drainage seeming his most likely route. The Santrina, a Juneau Spruce Corporation tug, went out this morning to patrol the shore. The U. 8. Coast Guard 83-footer also shoved off about 9 a. m. to aid in the search. (Continued on Page Five) Now See What Has Been Found NEW YORK, Sept. 2—P—Exten- sive remains of a primitive group of hunters, who roamed the Ameri- can West thousands of years iefore Christ's birth, have been unearthed near Cody, Wyo. it was disclosed here today. Dr. Loren Eiseley of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania said the Wyoming camp site probably dates Lack to between 5000 and 12,000 years before Christ. He called the find one of the most important ever made in con- nection with the cuiture of the Yuma, the nomadic group who dis- appeared centuries ago as a cultural unit. They were among the earliest known inhabitants of the new world. Dr. Eiseley estimated that the ancient camp site covered about 600 square feet of a terrace over- hargging Sage Creek, five miles northeast of Cody. The valuable deposit of tools, weapons and food remains were preserved through the centuries by dusty desert sands, mow covering the camp site to a depth of about 10 inches.