The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1949, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,294 18 DEAD IN PLANE CRASH INCANADA Two Top E;:ufives of Kennecott Copper Co. Among Victims MONTREAL, Sept. 9—(/P—A Ca- nadian Pacific Airlines plane crashed near Quebec City today, with two top executives of the Kennecott Copper Co., among the 18 passengers believed killed. The Kennecott executives were President E. T. Stannard and Vice President R. J. Parker, (coth of New York. Four crew members of the DC-3 plane also were killed. The plane crashed about 40 miles from Quebec, and a Canadian Pa- | cific official said all its occupants were dead, as far as could be de- termined immediately. Stannard, the Kennecott Presi- dent, was a director of J. P. Mor- gan and Co, Johns Mansville Corp., and the Braden Copper Co. A Kennecott employee named | only as Storke also was listed :.s dead. The crew. members were identi-! fied as Pilot Pierre Laurin, Co-| Pilot Gordon Alexander, Flight En- gineer Emile Therrien and Stew- ardess Gertrude McKay, all of Montreal. The crash occurred about 9:45 am., as the DC-3 continued from | Quebec toward Baie Comeau. E. T. Stannard was wellknown to Alaskans as he was connected years ago with the Guggenheim m-} terests in their copper property in| the Oopper River, Cordova, district. WOODEN CROSS SET AFIRE IN YARD OF NEGRO, WASH. D. (. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—(P— White neighbors doused a blazing wooden cross planted in the yard of a Negro family here early today. | reported by firemen This was called to the home of Ralph Sneed, a Navy Department mail clerk. A few moments later the home was pelted with stones. Several windows were broken. A police patrol was set up in the area. Police and firemen blamed “ju- veniles” for setting the cross and stoning the house. They said the Sneeds, who recently moved | into the neighborhood, were the only Negro residents in the block. It is located about two miles northeast of the Capitol. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 93%, Anaconda 26%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 27, Kennecott 46, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 12%, U. S. Steel 22%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 770,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 180.24, rails 45.59, util- ities 37.55. The Washington Merry - Go-Round| iCopyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Omar Bradley, top Chief of Staff,| BY DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — Shortly after the end of World War I this writer stood beside a cracked piece of pavement on the main street of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The crack marked the place where a bomb, thrown at the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, had touched off the bloodiest war so far seen by man. The bomb had been thrown sev- en years before I, then a young re- construction worker in the Balk- ans, visited Sarajevo; yet in those seven years the cracked pavement had not been repaired. ans, thought I—at that time being a very young idealist—but it moves sure. Never again would war come to sick and weary Europe. Well, another war, did come; and today events are shaping up in — (Continued on Page Four) Recon- | struction moves slow in the Balk- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1949 . Secretary of Air Defense Symington Here Big Four of Monglary (onl_erente : Seek Miss America Tifle | Five candidates for the title, Miss America 1949, stand on the At- lantic City, N. J., boardwalk prior to the opening of the annual | State, Libby Aldrich, Kelso, 'SALMON PACK, - S. E. ALASKA, ' RECORD ONE | SEATTLE. Sept. 9— (I — South- | jeast Alaska’s sazmon pack for tne; ,week ended Sept. | cases. a pack that coptinued to surprlse the expert who had pre- !dicted a poor season for the area. The Fish and Wildlife Service, which made the report, listed the total Southeast pack to gept. 3 at 1,781,068. It exceeded any previous pack for the date in the five years covered in the report. The pack in 1945 was 1,494,761 on Sept. 8. It: had dwindled yearly until’it was| last year. canning added to the Sept. 3 figure for the Southeast area’s final total. The season ended last night, but many traps were reported to still have fish in them. The Southeast spurt raised the cases, giving promise of a possible 14,000,000-case season for the Terri- ’tory. The total Alaska pack at the same time last year was 3,737,675 and the final total was 3,974,540 cases. But there was no such closing rush in the [Southeast area last year. The total for the Aug. 28-Sept. 4 week a year ago was 434,738 com- pared with this year's 739,268 cases. \GARAGE EMPLOYEES STRIKE; BUS LINE SERVICE IS TIED UP| QUEBEC, Sept. 9.—P—A strike ‘paralyzed this city of 200,000 in- habitants today. The Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company announced last buses to remain in’ their garages as a result of the dispute. | The garage employees, members of a Catholic syndicate affiliated | with the Canadian Catholic Feder- ation of Labor, went on 'a strike late yesterday to enforce wage de- mands. The company has agreed to pay a seven cents hourly wage boost, but the union demands eight cents. Originally the union demanded a 20-cent hourly wage increase, then went down to 10 cents. SEATTLE VISITORS Mrs. C. B. Willilams and daugh- ter Gloria registered yesterday at the Baranof from Seattle. TENAKEE VISITOR | F. Johnson of Tenakee is | guest at the Gastineau Hotel. 3 was 1739,268] only 999,609 in 1947 and 1,075,512’ There will be virtually a week's; Alaska total to Sept. 3 to 3,631‘779: of 122 garage .employees virtually night it had ordered all of its 187, pageant. (Left to right) Miss Oregon, Beverly Faith Keuger, The Dalles, Ore.; Miss California, Jone Ann Pedersen, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Miss Nevada, Carol Dianne Lampe, Reno, Nev.; Miss Washington Wash.; Rosebel Fraser, Billings, Mont. ) Wirephoto. and Miss Montana, Carol PLANEDOWN WITH PILOT; DISAPPEARS PORT ANGELEZ, Sep( 9—(»—A Seattle Naval reserve fighter plane and pilot vanished last night from | a home-bound three-plane forma- | i Fuca. A moonlight search by air and | water during the night failed to disclose any trace of the missing craft. The heaviest fog of the sea- son prevented any resumption ‘ot the aerial search this forenoon. A Sand Point Naval air station two pilots saw the missing craft for | the last time as it left the forma- ‘tlon with a message from its pilot: “I'll see you in a few minutes.” CRIPPS GIVES HIS SOLUTION, BRIT. - FINANCIAL CRISIS WASHINGTON,, Sept. 9—(P—Sir Stafford Cripps declared today that the “only satisfactory solution” for i Britain’s economic plight is to sell ! enough gobds for dollars to tecome self-supporting. Britain’s Chancellor of the Ex- chequer made that statement in a speech prepared for a National Press Club luncheon. I Indicating British acceptance Oii American advice to streamline sell- ing techniques, he said that “on the question of exports to dollar markets;, I believe that there is a sive salesmanship.” Sir Stafford pictured the solution of his country’s economic crisis as essential for the coordinated politi- cal and military strength of the West in its struggle with Com- munism. He said that Secretary of State Acheson and British Foreign Min- ister Bevin have made “remarkable progress” toward building the West- ern political and defense structure but added: “All this progress will be in vain if we fail to provide a sound eco- nomic basis for these combined efforts of the free Democracies.” The twin themes of Cripp's add- ress were hard work for the British people in their struggle to live on their income and hope for success in the British-American-Canadian financial talks which opened here | Wednesday. These talks, Cripps reported, “have opened in an atmosphere of | mutual determination to bring some more permanent solution so as to alavoid these recurring crisis in the Switchboard and Supply | dollar-sterling relationship.” tion over the Strait of Juan de| information officer said the other most urgent need for more inten-| MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRAP TAX CASE MOVES LOWLY; tax hearing in District Court wa: slow-moving, and gave promise of the case continuing well ifito next | week. i William J. Fronk, C.P.A,, the sec- ond witness called by P. B. Harris| and Company in its suit against was on the stand this morning. He answered questions most of the day under cross-examination by Attor- ney General J. Gerald Williams. Fronk, resident partner (in Se- attle) of Haskins and Sells, nation- al accounting firm, followed E. M. Brennan on the stand yesterday afternoon. Brennan, vice-president and general manager of the Harris Company, had been questioned on | company policy and operation un- | der the.previous tax structure and | that enacted by the 1949 Legisia- ture. Fronk, who statea he had made an exhaustive analysis of Harris operations from 1941 to 1948, inclu- sive, and projected it to 1949, was questioned on cost of trap opera- tions of the three Harris canneries |at False Pass, Kake. Williams’ questioning was on al- location of expenses for fishtrap operations in the effort, as he com- | mented at the noon recess, “to | show that, even with the increased . |trap tax, the company still would: show a profit.” | | Hawk Inlet and| Cannery Closures One of five charges in the Har- Itis complaint is that the tax a$ increased by Chapter 11, S. L. A.,| 1949, is such as to increase the cost of operations to the extent of forcing cannery closures. A large number of representa- tives of the salmon industry ab-| tended parts of today's sessions, as | did a number of Territorial offi-| | cials, among them Gov. Ernest| | Gruening who dropped in several| | times for short periods. ! The pattern of question-and-ans-| wer, an occasional query by Judge George W. Folta, and infrequent objections by W. C. Arnold, at- torney for the plaintiff, was en-}’ livened several times by a Willlams'| fiflsre-up at Arnold. Otherwise, the| frequent rustling of papers as the| judge, the witness and attorneys| located references in the volumin- | ous exhibits, was the only inter- ruption to the slow-going proceed—} ings. | Attorney Frank L. Mechem of | Seattle, who made the opening statement yesterday, is handling the | {case for the Harris Company, which also is represented by Attorney H. C.P.A. TESTIFIES | The second day of the fishtrap | Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney, |- (® Wirephcto. " The principals, who will seek a soluticn of Britain's financial crisis in conferences opening Washington, D. C., talk informally before start of first session. They are (left te right) U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, U. S. Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder, British Chancellor of the Excheguer Stafford Cripps and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bein. WARNE IS COMING TO NORTHLAND ence to Be Held at Mt. McKinley Sept. 21 By VERN HAUGLAND ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. The Interior Department said to- day the most important field con- ference it has ever held in Alaska will begin at Mt. McKinley Sep- tember 21. It will be followed by a series of public meetings conducted throughout the Territory by Assist- ant Secretary of the Interior Will- iam Warne. Warne told a reporter the meet- ings are part of a program intend- ed to speed development of Alaska. Warne leaves ' tomorrow for a speaking engagement at Milwaukee, and will fly to Anchorage by way of Seattle Sept. 20, conferring with Indian Service representatives there and at Palmer. L. Faulkner of Juneau. Representing three co-partners in the Mutual Trap Company, inter- i venors, are Attorneys Edward W. Allen of Seattle, and R. E. Robert- | | | | son, Juneau. Arnold is co-counsel| for both plaintiff and intervenors.| Representing Tax Commissioner | Mullaney are Willlams and Assist- ant Attorney General John H. Di-| mond. Plaintiffs seek a permanent in-| junction restraining collection of | | the increased taxes, and an order| declaring Chapter 11 null and void. A temporary injunction was issued June 18. WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) | In Juneau—Maximum, 59; minimum, 45. At Airport—Maximum, 60; minimum, 39. FORECAST (Juneau ana Vieinity) Continued clear tonight and Saturday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight near 40 in Ju- neau and near 32 in protect- ed valleys. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; since Sept. 1, 193 inches; since July 1, 12.94 inches. At the Airport — Tracs since Sept. 1, .50 inches; since July 1, 7.99 inches. 900 00000°0000000°%°000000000)%e00 FROM CHICHAGO | Willlam D. Burke of the Kellogg o, «m {all rin The Mt. McKinlcy meeling, through Sept. 23, will be the regu- lar quarterly meeting of the Alaska Field Committee. The committee s composed of representatives of Interior Department agencies Alaska. Kenneth +Kadow is chairman. To Review Program “We will review the progress we ,have made on the Alaska Develop- ment program and will try to iron {out the rough spots,” Warne said. “Al Day, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Indian Commissicner John Nichols and cther officials Will be present. It will be the most important field conference that we have held in Alaska” Warne said he would go from Mt. McKinley to Fairbanks. “I will go back to Anchorage early in the last week in Septem- i ber and spend most of that week in and around Anchomge." Warne said. “I have several appointments there with Interior Department (Continued on Page Eight) Teen Age Shirley Homebound After Channel Swim DOVER, England, Sept. 9.—M— Shirley May France took one last look today at the English Channel she failed to swim last week and then started her trip home to Mas- sachusetts. “It looks better today and I feel like jumping in,” she said. The American teen-ager was dressed formally in a grey faille gown and wore a perky white hat. “The hat feels uncomfortable, Shirley said, “but just look, my hair is still greasy from the swim and Chicago, is a guest at the Baranof. I have to cover it up somehow.” 9.—(M—: 1 definitely behind Help Is Now Indicaled in Brit. Crisis Important Fleld Confer- Some Short Range Plan Proposed in Dollar- Shortage Problems (By The Associated Press) Britain, it appeared today, is go- ing to get some short-range help to' ease her dollar-shortage prob- lems. American officials at the three- nation Washington conference on Britain’s financial crisis were re- ported reasonably confident a w. would be found to block the pres- lent serious drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves. However, they were not so con- tident the conference wouid suc- ceed in finding a permanent solu- tion of the island kingdom’s finan- cial woes. A long-range plan would involve a lowering of American tar- iffs and this would require con- gressional approval. The economic conference of Can2dian, British and United States officials is now in its third day. The American delegation, headed by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, has Indicated tull co- operation in a ynumber of ways toward effectual aid. Some of | these are: Helping to market Brit- ish good in America, aid in ironing out British exporters’ difficulties with U. 8. Customs, and large scale American buying of British raw materials like rubber and tin. The Nationalist Chinese c:almed in Canton today that they have dealt telling blows at the Commun- | ists on both fighting and diplo- matic fronts. The official Central Daily News said Yunnan province has decided to remain in the Natlonalist fold to fight the Communists. Last week Gov. Lu Han of the southwest China province, proclaimed his in- dependence of the Nationalists. On the military front, the Na- tionalists broadened their attacks in the area north of Canton, the Minisfry of Defense sald. Mean- while neutral observers speculated | over the reasons for the halting It is schedule on its of the Red war machine. (Continued on Page Elzhw 'Power Plant Is Destroyed in 18 Hour Fire, Macao HONG KONG, Sept. 9—#— An 18-hour fire destroyed the power plant at Macao, Portuguese colony on the South China coast, with an estimated loss of $3,000,000 (Portu- guese currency), it was revealed to- | day. Portuguese fluthormes said the fires started from a short circuit last Wednesday and through Thursday. continued | 5 THOUSAND. RAILROADERS OUT, STRIKE {Irains on ms;ouri Pacific Are Halted in Ten- State Area ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—(P— With almost all of the railroad's trains already halted, five thousand op- Pacific went on strike at 1 p. m. (PDT) today. A few trains on long distance runs were still en route to their destinations when the deadline terminals. But the railroad had - stopped most trains in its ten-state area earlier in the day to avoid last- minute confusion. An additional 22,500 non-operat- ing employees received notices their | jobs were to be abolished with the end of today's business. Some | 2,500 employees were to remain on | the job. ° The last hope of delaying the strike was abandoned by govern- ment mediators shoruy after noon, STEEL STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED NEW YORK, Sept. 9—(M—The New York Post Home News said today there are “strong indications” that the steel fact-finding board’s report to the President will avert a national steel strike. But neither the steel industry nor the CIO Steelworkers Union will like the board's recommendations, Murray Kempton wrote for the newspaper in reviewing what he called an “apparently solid” version of the guarded report. On the main point — pay and tenefits—Kempton said the board is likely to ask the steel com- panies to grant a 10-cents-an-hour I“puckage,"‘ in contrast to the 30- \cean-nn-hour demanded by the iunlon, Only a small part of this would show up in wages, with most of the | raise going for pensions and medi- {cal insurance, Kempton said. STRAUSS RITES SET FOR MONDAY MUNICH, Geriuany, Sept. 9.—# —Music from his masterpiece “Der Rosenkavalier,” will be played Mon- day at the state funeral in Mu- nich of Richard Strauss. After cremation, the composer’s | ashes will be buried in the garden of his Alpine home at Garm's:h, where he died yesterday. In conformance with his wish, the Strauss family requested the | mourners to refrain from sending | wreaths to his funeral, but to give the money instead to a fund for | aged, needy musicians. | erating employees of the Missouri | passed, and continued on to their| DEFENSE OF NORTHLAND NECESSARY ‘\High Omcifl Juneau Briefly on Way fo Make Study of Alaska Alaska must be defended in the event of any future war, Secretary of Air W. Stuart Symington said here today. He arrived at Juneau airport aboard an Air Force Constellation at 1:20 o'clock this afterncon after a three hour and forty minute | flight from Seattle. | Speaking of Alaska's defenses, he said there is nothing more im- portant to the future security of the United States. He is enroute to Anchorage with Congressman Hugh B. Mitchell of | Washington and Dave Calhoun, St. { Louis banker who is housing con- |sultant to the Air Secretary. PURPCZE OF TRIP | Purpose of Symington's trip to | Alaska is to build up #&n under- ‘standlng of the complete picture of Alaskan defense—present bases, temln. and the attitude of Alaska's | people. HOUSING PROBLEM He will also look into the pro:lem of housing for Air Force personnel. The Secretary had been in Seattle to discuss with state and city busi- ness and political leaders the part Boeing Airplane Company will play in the Air Force's plane wn- 3 struction program. Symington and members of his party lunched with Gov. Ernest Gruening at the Governor's House. The . visitors were to take off for Anchorage at 4:30 o'clock this af- | ternoon. Symington will spend a week in Anchorage, where he will meet with Joint Chiefs of Staff. or ln inspec- tion of Territorial d He was met at th) atrport by the Governor, the or's aide Lieut. Co: wwl-rd P. Chester Jr. . and Bez, Alaska fish packer. - Air Force members of the party included Col. Glen Martin, the Secretary’s executive officer, and Major Alan Gaston, his military aide. CORN CROP LARGE ONE ~ SAYS DEPT. Federal Control Probable Next Year to Hold Down Production WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—(P—The government today estimated this year's corn crop at 3,525,741,000 bushels—a figure which virtually assures federal controls next year to hold down production. A crop of- this size would te far In excess of prospective needs and would add to a big surplus of the livestock feed grain resulting from last year's record of 3,650,000,000 bushels, While mo decision is expected until later in the year, controls probably would be limited to acre- age planting allotments aimed at limiting the 1950 crop to about 3,000,000,000 bushels. Today’s , corn estimate — by the' Agriculture Department’s crop re- porting board—is slightly over 12,- 00,000 bushels less than was fore- cast a month ago. Inasmuch as the zrowing season has passed its peak, the new estimate is expected to be fairly close to the final figure. The wheat estimate was virtually unchanged from a month ago, when the fourth largest crop was esti= mated. STEAMER MOVEMFNTS Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow morning. Baranof from west scheduled| south late Sunday or early Monday. Princess North scheduled to sail from Vancouver tomorrow night. Princess Louise scheduled to sai} from Vancouver Sept. 14. |