The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - VOL. LXXIII., NO. 11,296 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1949 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Truce Declared in Steel Industry S Preliminary Winners RUTLEDGE PASSES ON IN MAINE Truman Repo—rled Going to Take Time for Succes- sor, High Court WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(P— President Truman® is expected to wait a.while before naming a new Supreme Court Justice to take the place of the late Wiley Rutledge. Especially he is expected to wait if his choice is Attorney General! J. Howard McGrath, as most poli- tical observers anticipate. McGrath has been Attorney General for less than three weeks and My. Truman may want to keep him in the Jus- tice Department for a time. That vacancy was created by the death Saturday night of Justice Rutledge at York, Me,, following a cerebral hemorrhage. Rutledge’s death came less than two months after that of Justice Frank Mur- phy, whose spot Clark will now take over. Funeral services for Justice Rut- ledge, 55, will be held Wednesday at the Washington # Unitarian Church, which he attended. The body was brought from New Eng- land last night. | | | Rhubarb — Cause and Effect Pictures show start, progress and finish of battle i fifth inning of Brooklyn-Boston game in New York which resulted in banishment from the contest of Brooklyn's Spider Jorgesen and Boston's Eddie Stanky. At top left Jorgensen slides into Stanky in an attem)t to break up double play. At top right the two players mix and teammates and an umpire attempt to separate them. The fighters separated, membors of both squads chew rhubarb. # Wirephoto. SALMON CANNERY WORKERS FLYING, ALASKA - SEATILE SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—(®-—.The annual exodus of salmon cannery workers from Alaska by air has| started from a dozen Territorial ports. The 800 fishermen will be flown | here for regouting to their homes. Many live in California. Pan Am- erican World Airways will add two extra flights from Alaska for five consecutive days to handle the ex- tra passenger load. Prinfers Urged fo Get Eo Polifics FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 12 —{M—Woodruff Randolph, Presi- dent of the International Typo- graphical Union, urged printers yesterday “to get into politics up to your ears.” “You aren’t going to get any- where” until you do, he told the semi-annual meeting of the North Texas Printers. He asserted the Taft-Hartley law is a challenge of “whether we exist or whether we don’t.” FISH LANDINGS The only landing this morning was 12,000 pounds of salmon from the Carol Ann (Art Mantyla). The Washingtion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON tconvright, 1949, by Bell Byndicate. Inc.) 'ASHINGTON — White House estimates say President Truman is taking the battle over Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan more seriously than the fight over Government reor- ganization, arms for the North Atlantic "Pact or any of the main planks .on the fair deal program. Before Vaughan testified, Pres- ident Truman personally coached him on every possible question the Senators could ask. Vaughan's statement was rewritten three times and reduced from 20-odd pages of vitriol to a reasonable length. The President also urged his military aide to be all sweet- ness and light, not to lose his temper, never to insult the Sena- tors, never to mention his critics by name. Mr. Truman was chiefly worried over any probing of Vaughan cam- paign contributions, since the hap- hazard general had insisted on by- passing the Democratie National Committee and worked direct with Louis Johnson. How much Vaugh- an raised in the last campaign pro- bably he himself doesn’t know, but some insiders estimate it at around (Continued on Page Pour) NAVY POWER BEING HIT DEATH BLOW | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(P— | The head of the Naval Air Train- | ing program spoke strongly today in support of the flying captain !who charged that Navy offensive | strength is being scuttled. ! “When John Crommelin, a great . Naval officer and a very superb | Naval aviator, speaks, the Ameri- can people should listen to him.” | Those were the closing words in | a statement by rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle of Glenview, Ill. Crommelin issued a statement | Saturday in which he protested 1thnl Navy power is being wrecked iin the Pentagon, headquarters of |the Armed Services. He said 1t is | being “nibbled to death” and Navy | morale destroyed. | The Navy and Air Force for sev- {ter dispute over their respective |roles in strategic warfare. (ab Driver {Gefs Drop on Holdup Men CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 12— | M—Cab driver Roscoe Spooner, 26, had the last laugh. today on two jalleged holdup men. Spooner told police the pair rob- | bed him of $8 and made him drive |to a lonely spot where they forced |him fréem the car. But while the two were starting the cab’s motor, he climbed into the trunk. Ten minutes later they abandon- }ed the cab. Spooner clambered iout, called a policeman and pointed |out the pair. They were held on | suspicion of armed robbery. 'HEADQUARTERS " OF TEXAS UNION " BEING PICKETED DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 12—(P— A- steamfitter who charged his own union with “unfair and discrimina- tory practices” against its mem- bers is picketing the union’s head- quarters again today. Ray Booker has said he will | picket local headquarters of the ‘ernl years have engaged in a bit-} AFL Plumbers and Steamfitters Tito Swings “Another Swat, —(Mm—Premier Marshal Tito flung new defiance into the teeth of the Russian bear today. Yugosavia, he declared, “steeled by tremendous experiences” in World War II, is ready to overcome any present troubles as it did its past ones. The premfer, prime target of Moscow and the Cominform as a heretic from Marxism, address a group of engineers and workers |from a motor factory. Rallying to Tito's ctandard, his Navy informed him today it is ready to defend the nation against any attacks, ‘“regardless if they \come from east or west—regardless whether they are led by Chuchill or Stalin.” Saturday's revelation that Hun- gary had jailed eight top party men for trying to overthrow the Kremlin-controlled government was taken here as the latest evidence that important persons in the sate- lite countries would like to follow Yugoslavia's example. | considered to show wide-spread re- sentment in Eastern Europe over Russia’s economic exploitation of the small “people’s democracies.” iMissing Students [From Alaska Are Safe, Headed Homes DANBURY, Conn, Sept. 12—® | —The five students who were re- lported overdue on a trip from Al- aska and subject of a nationwide | missing persons alarm are safe in Pennsylvania and heading for home. The boys went to Alaska this summer to work in a logging camp and canning factory to earn money {for school expenses. They started for home August 15 ! Their parents requested the alarm ! when they did not hear from them |for some weeks. 1 | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—(P—Clos- - 1 Russian Bear BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 12 Along with other incidents, it is) Union each monday until the union |ing quotation of Alaska Juneau “stop its boycott of memicers who|mine stock today is 3%, American |want to do a full day’s work.” Can 94, Anaconda 27, Curtiss- Booker charges the union “iIs in-| Wright 7%, International Harvest- terested in stretching out construc-|er 27%, Kennecott 457%, New York tion jobs as long as possible, and | Central 10, Northern Pacific 13, to do so instructs its members to|U. S. Steel 23%, Pound $4.02%. work at a certain pace to insure| Sales today were 1,080,000 shares. that jobs last as long as possible.”| Averages today are as follows: Union officials have offered noindustrials 181.15, rails 4589, util- comment, {ities 37.75. SHIPS OF NAVY GO WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—®— | The Navy, with an ear to predic- tions of broadscale reductions in cal year, already is getting ready to put more warships on the shelf. Starting later this month, the | | the active fleet and tie them up. | The program will continue | through the rest of this year and in the first half of next. The idea is that by the time the Navy | starts operating with funds for the 11951 fiscal year (starting next July |1 it will be pared down to fit | the present guess' of Navy officials | about the budget’s size. To the laid-up fleet, along with several carriers, will go other ships that support modern day -carrier task forces—including destroyers and probably some cruisers. ITALIAN FLIERS FAIL T0 MAKE PROPOSED HOP NEW YORK, Sept. 12—(A—Two Islands today after turning back on a Lisbon-to-New York flight be- cause their single-engine plane had insufficient fuel. Captain John Brondello and Cap- tain Camillio Barioglio of the Ital- ian Air Force had hoped to make the 3,500-mile flight to New York in 26 hours. Their aim was to be the first to cross the North Atlantic east to west non-stop in a single engine plane. 3 Brondello hoped to follow up the flight with a barnstorming tour of the United States on behalf of a proposed Italian “Boys Town” for war orphans. an American-built Beechcraft Bonanza. Last Rifes l‘l;fi For Eled Pilof COLUMBUS, Miss., Sept. 12—(® —Full military honors marked the burial yesterday of Bill Odom, the noted pilot who set round-the- world and distance fM¥zht records. Odom was killed last Monday when his plane crashed at the Na- tional Air Races at Cleveland. 185-horsepower KETCHIKAN VISITOR ‘ldeclared that finance and foreign ON SHELF | military spending in the next fis- | | Navy will begin to take ships out of | Italian fliers landed at the Azores: | The Italian fliers were piloting BRITISHAID IN CRISIS IS SHAPING UP Canadian Finance Minister Intimates Satisfactory Program Made WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—@®— | Canadian Finance Minister Doug- |las Abbott said today the United| States, Britain and Canada have agreed on a program of immediate |steps to combat Britain's dollar crisis. | In a speech prepared for a Na- | tional Press Club luncheon, Abbott ! | | | | policy ministers of the three coun- |tries, now closing their week-long meeting here, “have made very en- | couraging progress.” 1 Abbott did not spell out what| the steps would be. But he did| |say that “we have made a goodf beginning,” and clearly indicated | that the three nations had agreed jto close and continuing consulta- | jtion to get Britain out of its im- | ( mediate financial hole and keep | it out. ! | In advance, however, officials| | familiar with the work of the con- | ference said the proposed steps will | linclude (1) greater freedom for ! Britain in spending Marshall Plan | dollars for Canadian wheat and (2) { acceptance by the United States! of Britain’s need to dlscrimlnn(el i | Miss Minnesota (center), Gloria Jacque Mercer.. (® Wirephoto. competition winner in the Miss America beauty pageant at Atlantic City, N. J. Tied for tcp honors in the bathing suit division judging were Miss California, Jone Ann Pedersen, and Miss Arizona (right), trike Today PLEA MADE BY TRUMAN ACCEPTED (IO Union Ec;pts Requesi for Ten-Day Extension for Discussion. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12.—(#—The CIO United Steelworkers today ac- cepted President Truman's request for a 11-day extension of the steel strike truce and the recommenda- tions of the Presidential fact find- ing board for settlement of the, steel wage dispute. Union President Phillip Murray said collective bargaining confer- ences will be resumed with the var- lous companies of the steel indus- i try “for the purpose of attempting to conclude mutually satisfactory agreements prior to 12:01 September 25. MURRAY MADE SUGGESTION PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12.—M— The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph said today CIO President Philip Murray is reported to have recommended that hLis steelworkers agree to an a. m, M 11-day extension of the steel strike Yvonne Burkhart, was the talent 1ngiux]s'. American goods in order to, | conserve dollars. TEN-POINT PROGRAM RE'ARMIN | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—®—| (Fhe United States, Britain nnd; | Cangda today announced a 10-point | | program for dealing with Britain’s | | immediate dollar crisis. } It’s aim, too, is to make Britain | self-supporting in long-range dollar | earnings. { The program was announced at a ! | joint news conference held at the| conclusion ol the week-end three- ! | power talks here. 12 today WASHINGTON, Sept. Two Senate committees {cellor of the Exchequer, said hea $1,314,010,000 plan for re-arming lis convinced the agreements will friendly natious against Commun- | block any further dangerous drains | ism. ion Britain’s gold and dollar re-| The final vote 20 to 3, cleared the | serves. | way for the arms bill to go to the The ten points supplement Brit- | Senate. There it faces another {ain’s own belt-tightening measures. fight by a group determined to | They provide, first of all, for a|make a deep cut in the total | series of trade concessions and oth- | spending. ler steps by the United States flndi | | Canada. !launched by Senator George (D- { Immediate points include: it | Ga), who wants to slash the total Greater., freedom. | i for Britain o, nt by $700000,000, and Sen- 2 | al |spend its Marshall Plan dollars. (R-Callf), who i8 Modification Ameri _tator Knowland 1 In American cus-| g cotisfied wich the treatment pro- | toms procedures. | for ¢ Increases in stockpiling of l'ub—;v‘dm for China. 'ber and tin and an increased bp-‘ ‘;portunuy for use in this country' jof raw rubber instead of synthetic | | The prospective attacks will be rubber made here. iMarriaue {Prediction All Wrong | SOUTH GATE, Calif,, Sept. 12,—’ | m—Just after her honeymoon Mrs, |John Doke said she was warned . | . i |backs on all South China fronts that her marriage cou?n'. lf’ht be- ' yere claimed today by a spokesman cause her bridegroom “had such an|for the Ministry of National De- unholy temper.” | | 1 | | | i 1 | | CANTON, Sept. 12.—(#—Red set- { ! fense. He pictured the Communists as retreating in Hunan and Shensi provinces | They were wed in Edgerton, Mo, | and John was 20. | Yesterday they celebrated theiri H | eng, 170 miles north of Canton, has | been retaken by the Nationalists. i SLASHES WRIST, s et e e | Defense Ministry spokesman said. | e e MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 12—m1‘pAF (AN"IRY AI —The Chief Judge of the Nazi| Walter Buch, committed suicide by | PETERSBURG HAS slashing his wrists and jumping| police announced today. § Buch's kody was dragged Irom‘[ Sept. 11, 1879. She was 18 then | |70th wedding anniversary. | Tzehsing, 195 miles north of Can- S INTO LAKE ipany Supreme €ourt, Reichsleiter into Ammer Lake, Bavarian state| | the lake last Friday morning. | PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 12. MONEY IS CUT DOWN Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chan- | jointly stamped formal approval on | IN CHINA The army spokesman said Juch- ENDED SEASON/ Police said they did not know the exact date on which Buch killed himself or the motive for his deed. Buch was adjudged a major of- fender in two denazification trials. At the second trial last July, how- ever, the Munich appellate court reduced his forced-labor sentence from five years to the time he had Louise W. Miller of Ketchikan ‘u a guest at the Baranof. already been under years. E—m—wxm a mighty blast of its | whistle, Bellingham’s Pacific Am- | erican Pisheries salmon cannery | here canned its last salmon of the | season Saturday. The total pack for the seining sea- |son was only 119,500, | Clifford Glass, bookkeeper, said |the P. A, F. crew expected to leave inghun vy Sepil. 23. Miss America ' Title Goes fo | Arizona Girli ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 12| —(P—An Arizona ragch girl head- €d for the big city loday to start i her career as Miss America, 1949, Dark-haired, brown-eyed Jacque | Mercer, 18, of the X-Bar-X Ranch, | Litchfield Park, Arizona, who won the title Saturday night, starts on a round of personal appearances that will take her back across the continent. | As the new Miss America she |gets a $5000 scholarship and a 183,000 automobile, plus contracts for personal appearance. awards over a field of 52 beautiful | girls from 45 states, four major cities, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada. | | Miss America’'s married counter- | i part, Mrs. America, was selected yesterday at Asbury Park, 60 miles north of here on the Jersey shore, and promptly suggested a “Miss- Mrs.” comparison. Mrs. Frances L. Cloyd of San Diego, Calif., 23-year-old mother of three children, contended that a woman had to be married before v qualifying as really mature and beautiful. She suggested a com- petition, “perhaps for charity.” | NUCLEAR RESEARCH ILABORATORY GIVEN |OKEH FOR ALASKA SEATTLE, Sept. 12—®- The Post-Intelligencer quotes Brndfordf Washburn as saying it was ‘“en-| tirely feasible” to establish a nu-| » clear research laborator at the 18,000-foot level on ‘Mt. McKinley | in Alaskg. Washburn, director of the Boston Museum of Science, now is in Bos- ton analyzing results of a month’s survey work in Alaska. A helicopter used by his party -made five test landings on McKinley Glacier, sav- ing many weeks of climbing. EDUCATOR GOES NORTH K. 8. Clem, Education Supervis- or with the office of the Commis- sioner of Education, will leave to- jmorrow for an inspection and school visitation trip in the north. He will visit schools in the Kus- kokwim River region and at Fair- She won the | truce and accept conditionally the Presidential board’s formula for settling the industry’s wage dispute, Acceptance of the fact-finding board suggestion on pensions and insurance would hinge on accept- ance by steel, the Sun-Telegraph said. 4 5. H. LORAIN IS Following immediately announce- ment of the reorganization of the Bureau of Mines, as published Sat- urday in the Daily Alaska Empire, advices have been received from the office of the Alaska Delegate in Washington, D. C., that a re- gional office here will be establish- ed this “month. Mines Director James Boyd has named Sinclair H. Lorain, mining engineer, to head the office as Director of Region I (Alaska), with headquarters in Juneau. Lorain has made many trips to the Territory for the Bureau of Mines, which is a division of the Department of the Interjor. In recent years, Lorain has been in charge of the Bureau’s mining activities for the northwest part of the United States, with head- quarters in Oregon, Establishment of the Alaska office is part of the reorganiza- tion plan, under which, according to Director Boyd, the- Regional Di- rectar will be coordinator of all the agency's activities. in the Territory, and directly responsible to Wash- ington. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Square Knot from Se- attle in port. Alelitian from Seattle schedul- ed to arrive tomorrow afternoon. Princess Norah from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or eves ning. Princess Loulse scheduled to sail from Vancouver Sept. 14. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. ® & 0 o v v 0 0 o o 3 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) | (This data Is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, .63; minimum, 46. At Airport—Maximum, 63; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Juneaw and Vieinity) Light rain and southeaster- ly winds with lowest temper- ature near 50 degrees to- night. Mostly cloudy with showers Tuesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau — .32 inches; since Sept. 1, 225 inches; since July 1, 1326 inches. At Airport — 31 inches; e since Sept. 1, .86 inches; . - . LJ . L . . . L] L) LJ . ° [} . . banks, Fort Yukon and Eagle. His, arrest—3% | the Petersburg branch here for Bel- | trip will also take him through'e schools along the Alaska Railroad. . . . . . e since July 1, 8.35 inches. . L] &