The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,295 “ALL THE NEWé, ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949 M TBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 23 are Killed in Crash of Canadian Airliner PAY UPPING DENIED FOR STEEL MEN But. Fact Finders Recom- mend Pension, Insurance | System fo Truman WASHINGTON, Sept. President Truman's fact finders to- | day recommended no general pay ' increase in the steel industry but| called for a system of employer-| paid pensions and other insurance estimated to Increase operating costs by 2.5 percent. ‘The toard recommended a pen-| sion and insurance system which it estimated would be the equivalent of about 10 cents an hour per em- ployee in payroll costs. The CIO Steel Workers Uniom had threatened to strike a million workers, starting at 12:01 a.m., next Wednesday to back up its demand" for a 30 cent an hour “package” increase. | The union had wanted 125 cents | an hour in added wages, 1123 for pensions and 6.27 for insurance. ! Whether the union would accept | the recommendations of the fact- finding board set up by the Presi- dent remained to be seen. The| recommendations are not binding on either party. The board’s pension recommen- | dation called for $100 monthly old age payments when added to gov-| ernment Social Security benefits. ‘The recommendations were filed | with President Truman this fore- noon and released to reporters shortly thereafter. for. publication later in the day. FISH REGULATION HEARING TO BEGIN FOR 1950 SEASON The first of a series of hearings | to consider regulations for the 1950 | fishing season will be held by the | Fish and Wildlife Service on Mon- day, September 12, at 10 a. m. in; the Senate Chambers of the Fed- eral Building, Juneau. FWS officials request all persons | wishing to express their views on proposed regulations for 1950 be present. Other hearings will be held at the following places in Alaska: Sitka, September 14; Craig, Sep- tember 17; Petersburg, September | 19; Wrangell, September 20; Ketch- ikan, September 22; Kodiak, Sep- tember 27; Anchorage, September 30; Cordova, October 3; Senme,i November 7 and 8. STEAMER _MEVEMENIS Freighter Square Knot from Se- | attle, due -Monday morning. H Aleutian scheduled to sail from| Seattle today, due Tuesday. | Princess North scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. | Princess Loulse scheduled to sai from Vancouver Sept. 14. Baranof from west scheduled! southbound 11 p.m. Sunday. The Washington Merry - Go- Round! (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BY DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — There was a lot more than meets the eye be- hind the way Secretary of Defense wouis Johnson suddenly pulled in his horns about the airplane jun- keting of Congressmen. Real fact is that if Johnson had stuck to his’/guns and Congress had done’ any [nvestigating, the executive branch of the government would have been shown up for pri- vate joy-riding perhaps more than Congress. For Johnson himself uses an army airplane almost ev- ery weekend to visit his home in Clarksburg, W. Va. while Secre- tary of the Navy. Matthews uses a Navy plane to fly back and forth to his home in Omaha on week- ends. That was why wise Steve Early, Undersecrtary of National Defense, called majority leader Scott Lucas of Illinols and asked him to ar- —— e _ (Continued- on- Page Four) i | "'Wid West' Version Leaning against an old corral fence, Betty Heflin of Phoenix,, Ariz., models the West’s version of the plunging neckline. The outfit, cre- ated by Margot of Arizona, is guaranteed to make a cowboy look twice. ) Wirephoto. 21,500 ARE Show Down OUT OF WORK, Sfage Now, R.R. STRIKE Dock Strike FELDMAN RESTORED BY ARMY IDismissed Officer Back fo Duty-Waitt Goes Info Reli{@ent WASHINGTON, pt. 10—P— {The Army said today that one of two Generals who figured in the Senate’s “five percenter” investi- gation will be restored to active Secretary of the Army Gray an- nounced these actions: The application of Maj. Gen. Al- den H. Whaitt, suspended chief of the Army’s Chemical Corps, for re- | tirement will be approved. Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman will be restored to his post as Quarter- | master General of the Army effee- | tive today. | Gray suspended the two officers on July 16 pending outcome of a =Eemne subcommittee investigation |of the charges of influence in gov- ! ernment tuying. | Both men subsegeuently testitied | before the committee with regard i that of James V. Hunt, a key figure |in the inquiry into activities of five | percenters—persons who collect a government contracts. { found no evidence of dishonesty or | conduct justifying trial by court | martial.” Gray said Feldman had commit- j(ed “errors of judgment which I do not condone” but he added that Feldman has “convinced me that jthere will be no repetition of this {lapse of judgment.” | The Secretary praised both offi- | cers for their long service to the | Army. He said Waitt had served | “honestly and faithfully and that he made major professional con- duty and the other will be retired. | to reports linking their names with ' {fee for helping businessmen obtain | | 1 As for Waitt, Gray said: “I have ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10—MP—Service, on the Cotton Belt railroad’s main | 4ributions toward the development NEW YORK, Sept. 10—(P—Peace| talks aimed at settling the Ha- | | i i | | | i i Nantucket after banding together iing in lifejackets. line to the southwest was halted| waiaan dock strike moved into the for several hours today by trainmen'showdown stage toddy. on strike against the Missouri Pa-| cific railroad. : Union officials announced after a conference that interruption of Cot- ton Belt traffic resulted from a mis- understanding on the part of the strikers. They instructed strike di- rectors to permit the Cotton Belt to resume full service. g Meanwhile traffic on the far- flung Missouri Pacific System came to a standstill. “We're not even; trying to run a handcar,” a spokes-l man for the road said. Five thous- and trainmen were on strike and! 22,500 other employees were lald, off. Several Cotton Belt trains were of the Chemical Corps.” US. Mediation Chief Cyrus S.! Ching met separately with Harry| 8 A (( u S E D ‘ Bridges, President of the CIO| Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- | FTRE A N men's Union and representatives of the Hawaiian employers council| | preparatory to a joint session later Foig ", INHUNGARY Bridges, breaking his silence fm" ! the first time since the talks began | last Wednesday, said he saw no| bt i chance for a settlement unless the By ENDRE MARTON employers change their position. | APEST, Hi 2 e “Their attitude on wages “"‘mellma—u'l,'l)]e;ungarxmvir;';i;zlzc-‘ precludes any possibility of a set-|cyced eight former high-ranking tlement,” Bridges declared. { Communists today with treason and | “They insist that any wage in-‘of trying to overthrow the govern- crease must be less than 14 centsment “with the armed help of Tito| i bled something about 11 persons— an hour, and 14 cents won't settle it.” Bridges renewed his offer to end the 133-day old walkout at ence if the employers would accept arbi- tration. The employers gave no indica- tion of budging from their stand stopped by a picket line of . Mis- souri Pacific strikefS near Dupo, I, just southeast of St. Louis early today. The Cotton' Belt uses Missouri Pacific tracks between Dupo and Illmo, and the other present leaders of ‘Yugoslavia.” Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk and Lieut. Gen. Gyorgy Palffy, former Chief Inspector of the Hungarian Army—will go to trial on the in- | dictment on Sept. 16, The eight men—including former | MISS AMERICA CONTEST NEW “MISS AMERICA” IS STANDING in this grou annual pageant in Atlantic City, N. J. Winner is selected on basis G educational and other awards from sponsors of resort contest LITTLE SHIP GOES DOWN, CHOPPY SEA Three of 11 Persons Who e Float All Night Re- ported Rescued NANTUCKET ISLAND, Mass, Sept. 10—(P—Three of 11 persons who floated in life jackets all night in’ choppy seas after a cabin cruiser sank were rescued by Coast Guards today. A fourth, Russell Palmer, 24- year-old - skipper of the 38-foot pleasure craft, waded ashore here. The Coast Guard reported two bodies were picked up. Palmer was carried to the home of Mrs. Stanley C. H. Fitch after he, was found exhausted on the teach.} Mrs. Fitch quoted Palmer as say- | ing he started the long swim to other members of the party tloat- The yacht skipper was barely able to speak, Mrs. Fitch said, but mum-' three of them children—struggling in the water. He also placed thel time of the sinking at about five o’'clock last night. As the rescue continued the seas were reported smoothing with winds! dropping to 10 miles per hour. Ai blow last night brought gusts up toi 45 miles’ per hour. H Several bodies were reported sighted by the Coast Guard. The victifns of the sinking, in- cluding a Protestant minister and his family, were dumped. into the sea during a blow last night after a day cruise from Falmouth. 1 CANDIDATE Mrs, Patricia “-aix, a honey- blonde native of Sydney, Aus- tralia, will. represent San Fran- cisco in the Mrs. America contest at the Palisades Amusement Park, N. J. Mrs. Marx, whose husband | is partner in an electrical firm in San Francisco, says she won a “personality girl” and “pretty legs” contest in Australia. (® Wirephoto. ECONOMY CUT OF | NAVY LAYS OFF | 76,000 CIVILIANS R. E. Davidson, speaking for the four Brotherhoods on strike, said: “This thing that happened ntl Dupo was without a doubt caused: through an error—a misunder- standing of what the trains con- sisted of. Our men presumed thatl was an attempt to run a Missouri Pacific train. That wasn’t so.” PALMER QUEEN 10 HOLLYWOOD PALMER, Alaska, Sept. 10.—(®— Miss Alaskan Statehood (Matanuska Valley Fair variety) is heading for Hollywood. Lavon Hoetman, 16-year-old wearer of the crown, is to fly to Se- | attel today via Northwest Alrnnea.] She is scheduled for a weeks stay in Hollywood. The program calls for her entertainment by Paramount and Walt Disney stu- dios and Crosby Enterprises. The queen is a former Minnesota girl who has lived here for a year. She is a senior in Palmer High School. She is accompanied by Miles Brandon, an Eskimo tenor' from Dillingham. He won the fair’s tal- ent contest. Brandon, son of a fisherman, will go to New York to attend shows and concerts under the guidance of Marita Farrel, op-/ era star. - The 24-year-old singer | will later continue his musical ;| studies in Seattle. that wages and other cost items Copies of the indictment were | GRANDDAD WILL SEE CIRCUS AS DAD CANNOT GO ANTS POSE FOR CA p of beauties from all states at opening of MERA ;,3 of beauty and talent, receives /International Soundphoto) GIRL SAFE AND WELL Five-Year-()F Girl Found with Man Who s Placed in Cell | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10—(M-— A five-year-old girl reported kid- , naped yesterday at Trenton, N. J, | was found alive and well here to- 'day with a man companion, Lieut. Francis Deegan of the Fairmount | lPark Guards reported. | Sergeant Morris Zweigh said the | man identified himself as Gerald | A. Huff, 35 of Bridgeport, Conn., and said he was enroute to a job as cook at a Philadelphia hospital. The girl and man arrived at Park | Guard headquarters and police at! { once placed him in a cell. He was| held without bail on charges of | kidnaping and indecent assault. T0P HEADS KENNECOTT CORP. DIE Passengers and Crewmen Died Instantly When Plane Hits Bluff SAULT AU COCHON, Quebec, Sept. 10.—M—A Canadian airliner ‘prloded and crashed here yester- day killing 23 persons, including an American mining millionaire |and his two top aides. Dead in the crash, third worst in Canadian history, were E. ppan Stannard, president of the Kenne- cott Copper Corporation, and 2 Ji- rector of J. P. Mergan Company, ind two of his top executives, Vice- President R. J. Parker and Arthur D. Storke, president-designate of the $600,000,000 Kennecott concern. All three men were from New York City. They were reported en route to northeast Quebec where deposits of titanium ore have been discovered. Titanium is a med- | ium weight ore expected to bridge the gap between aluminum and steel. Died Instantly The sixteen other passengers, in- ‘cluding three children and crew of four, all Canadians, died instantly. Eyewitnesses said the plane, a DC-3, turned suddenly in the air and plummeted toward a rocky bluff which rises several hundred feet from the St. Lawrence River at this town 40 miles east of Que- bec City, To Scene Of Crash *Oscar Tremblay, a rallway sec- tion hand, said he and four fellow workmen pushed their way four miles through the underbrush to the scene of the crash, in a re- mote wilderness. “They all died eutright,” he said. Stannard had been a Seattle res- {ident for many years and ‘headed Janie, only child of Mr. and Mrs. | the Qlgska Steamship Co., until John Franz, of Trenton, was re-|1944, when the line was sold by the ported missing late yesterday. Twojxenn,mgg Company to Skinner and of her playmates told police aj| man dragged her into his shabby Eddy Corp. He lived In Seattle until the late 1930s. car on a Trenton street and drove ) | away. suiice of 11 states were warned ! in a teletype message to be on the lookout for her. Two Other Crashes Only two other crashes have tak- en a greater toll of lives in Can- ada. They also happened in Que- bec. On July 24, 1948, a Rimourski Airlines plane crashed and killed 29 on the Gaspe Peninsula. On ©ct. 19, 1943, a Royal Canadian Airforce Liberator crashed near St. Donat, Quebec, and 24 were killed. Parker, 52, was at one time ac- | FROM ALASKA'UW in African copper companies. Besides being vice president of | Kennecott, he was president of the ARE MISSING{QueMc Iron and Titanium Com- | pany. He was vice president and director of the Alaska Development | DANBURY, Conn. Sept. 10.—#® —Connecticut State Policé broad- cast a nation-wide missing persons alarm last night for five students overdue on a trip home from Al- aska, State Police Lieut. Carlton Klock- and Mineral Company, and was on the Board of Directors of .the Pitah Copper Company, the Bingham and Garfield (Utah) Rallway and the Gallup Amerigan Coal Company. er identified the five as Howard must be determined by direct bar- handed to correspondents several gaining rather than by arbitration. | hours after the Hungarian Workers (Communist) party issued a com- munique announcing the expulsion of three leading party members o |and their arrest on charges of spy- s |ing “for foreign imperialist e |powers.” The powers were not ¢ |named in the communique. eo| The three were Palffy, Zoltan o |Horvath, editor-in-chief of the o | Hungarian trade union newspaper, o |Nep Szava; and Pal Justus, former Communist member of Parliament. Dulles Will Toss Hat Info Ring for ; Senalor_lrom N.Y. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—P— Senator John Foster Dulles (R-NY) said today he would “gladly ac- cept” the Republican nomination to run for the Senate in this fall’s special New York election. New York Republication leaders have been pressing Dulles to make the race. Former Governor Herbert Leh- man has announced he will accept | the Demoeratic nomination if it is offered. The contest is to fill the unex- pired term of Senator Robert F. Wrznes, Democrat, who resigned. e 6 0 o o v 0o o . WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) e (This data is for 24-hour pe- ® i riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) . e In Juneau— Mamimum, 69; ® minimum, 45. /i ® At Airport— Maxinum, 68;- e minimum, 35. [ FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued clear this after- noon and tonight with some high cloudifiess Sunday. Highest temperature near 67 degrees this afternoon, to- night's lowest about 43. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; since Sept. 1, 188 inches; since July 1, 1294 inches. At the Airport — None; since Sept. 1, .50 inches; since July 1, 7.9 inches, ©eccccccnene e e 00 v i 000 FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. Harold Seideman and R. Scott Moore of Washington, D. C., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—®—| NOME, Sept. 10—(P—Grandad is Civilian help is being sought by;going to substitute for dad on a the Navy in an effort to find jobs|22¢0-mile flight with the kids to for 76,000 civilian workers to be|their first circus. laid off by Nov. 1 in an economy| gGarpet Martin, the 54-year-old cut. grandfather, will take the two child- At the close of a three-day con-| e; 5 geattle this weekend for the ference yesterday, Navy officials]pinoying Circus. He fs substituting from the United States, Alaska,|;,r thejr father, Thomas Martin, Hawaii and the Canal Zone gave| .. can. not make the trip after M. Colley, Jr, 21; his 19-year-old | brother, Ralph; John Miller, 21; and Alired Adler, 19, all of Dan-| bury, and Richard Hollingsworth, | 21, of Yardley, Pa. The youths went to Alaska this summer to earn money for school by working in a logging camp. They began the trip home in mid-August. Howard Colley, Sr., told police! Congressman Welch Dead, Heart Atack NEEDLES, Calif., Sept. 10.—®— Congressman Richard J. Welch (R~ Calif), died in a hospital todsy af- ter' suffering a heart attack while enroute gast by train with his wife, BURGLAR SENTENCED | Kenneth LeRoy Lee, 19, was glv-i en an 18-month sentence in the | Pederal Penitentiary at McNeil Is- land today for breaking into the Quilico Sports Center September 2 and stealing firearms, pen sets and binoculars. £ Lee, a private in the U. 8. Army, waived indictment and was prose- cuted by an information. He plead- | ed guilty. { FISH LANDINGS Landings today * were 30,000 pounds of black cod from the So- lar (Dan Twiet), 18,000 pounds or. sadmon from the Alrita (Albert Wallace), and 2,500 pounds of sal- mon from the Attu (Peter Lundy). FROM EVERETT Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richards of Everett, Wash., are registered at, the Baranof Hotel. approval to the so-called “Phila- B delphie Plan” for other dismczs.lh";:,"’j ‘f};::,fg,."émnd,am" g A tin has lived all his 54 years in Alaska. He is a Nome bakery owner and representative of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service. The publicity-wise circus man- agement advised the Martins they would be its guests for two days at Seattle’s show, with complimentary ringside seats. The circus offer fol- lowed the father’s request for tickets and his explanation that the family never had seen a circus. FROM PORTLAND ° Frank C. Buischles of Portland is a guest at the Baranof. FROM CORDOVA William Carson and Jim Shaw of Cordova are guests at the Baraof MRS. ROUSE RETURNS Mrs. Mabel Rouse, long time Ju- neau resident, returned recentiy af- ter eight year absence. She is liv- ing at the Schmidt residence on Distin Avenue. this week that almost-daily letters | \FIELD WORK FINISHED or post cards from his son had abruptly ceased without explana- tion. He said the last one was| postmarked from Dawson Creek, BY GEOI'OGI“[ wnv“ B. C, on August 29. | b Telephone calls to Grand Forks,| With the return of topographic N. D, and Cincinnati, where they |groups from the field, the topo- planned to visit, disclosed last night | graphic field work in Southeast they never arrived. ‘Alaska is now completed by the § R | Geological Survey. Work completed this season was in the Glacier Bay area, Skagway to the International APPOINTMENTS /5o Tenakee e o zone Ay Bay, on Prince of Wales Island WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—(p—| irom B85 degrees and 13 minutes Maj. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther has| Horth to Sumuer’ Stralt, Zarembo been named Army Deputy Chief of | Island, Cleveland Peninsula, and Staff for plans and combat opera- E Revillagigedo Island. tions. |- Triangwation points were set up Rear Adm. Arthur C. Davis will| for supplementary control in the succeed Gruenther as director of | establishment of horizontal and the joint staff. Gruenther is com- | vertical control points for the pleting a two-year term in uuf.‘cflmpuzthn of topographic ‘maps post under the Joint Chiefs of {from aerial photographs by multi- Staff. 'plex method. ‘This was the second Davis has been a member of the season that a helicopter was used joint strategic survey committee on|in Southeast Alaska for the setting naval operations since Oct. 15, 1945. lup of triangulation points.