The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,298 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Coast Guard Acc "Trouble-Shoofing Unit” 0f Communisis Reported Be in &Enirled Siales Now REPORTER ~ GIVES HOT INFO NOW Secret Meetings of Com- mies Held, White House | —Alaska Spot-lighted WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—P—A former Communist newsman told | Senators ‘today that Earl Browder, | one-time head of the Communist party in the United States, held secret meetings in the White House with the late President Rcosevelt in 1944. ‘The testimony was given by How- ard Rushmare, a reporter on the| Malkin described himself as New York Journal American, to & |Russian-torn machinist of Brook Senate Judiciary subcommittee. |iyn, N, Y. He said he helped or- Rushmore is a former member of the staff of the Daily Worker, the official Communist party organ in| this country. \ He said his information on the White House meetings came from Benjamin Gitlow, whom he identi- fied as a Communist party official. The subcommittee is holding | hearings on a bill by Senator Mc- Carran (D-Nev) to arm the govern- ment with new powers to block the entry of subversive aliens and to throw out any who are here. | Rushmore also told the commit-; tee that former Secretary of Statei Cordell ITull and Mrs. Roosevelt, | the wife of the late President, in- | tervened to allow Browder’s wife | to enter this country after she had been ordered deported. Underground In Alaska Rushmore told of a trip he made for the Journal-American to Alaska last fall. He said U. S. planes, ra- | dar, housing and anti-espionage forces there are pitifully inade- quate. “Army Intelligence and the FBI are doing a grand job but they don’t have enough personnel,” he said. Rushmore declared that Lowell Wakefield, who he knows to be a Communist, is now running a fish- ing fleet off Alaska. “The Communist apparatus in Al- aska is strictly underground,” he said. “Its entire aim is espionage. ! They work it particularly through | unions under Communist control.” ! Yesterday a self-styled charter | member of the U. S. Communist party told the committee Russia | WASHINGTON, 14.—(® A self-styled charter the U. 8. Communist that Russia has sent a secret “trouble-shooting unit” to this country. He explained Communist (think the party is in danger being driven underground. Maurice Malkin, the author of this statement, was a witness before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. He said the three men from Mos- cow attended a meeting of layer American Communists a few weeks ago in a farmhouse at Bea- con, New York. Sept. b party of 1f a reports. she plans to theater while he worl year following “spat” with Elliott after a ~ ganize the Communist party in this y in 1919, changed his mind while in Sing Sing p! n for activities in a furriers’ stri and left the party in 1937. During the last year, he added, he has been employed off and on by the Immigration and Naturali- zation Service as an expert wit- ness in deportation hearings. | Recently Malkin tee studying legislation to keep | subversive aliens out of the United ‘S(.nu Thirty-eizht closely typed { pages of his testimony were made | publ'c by the subcommittee last night. AYE ADMITS END OF MARRIAGE BLAMING DIFFERENT INTERESTS, Faye Emerson has confirmed divorce Elliott Roosevelt. She is active in ks in Hyde Park, N. Y. Photo was made last after she slashed wrist with razor, insisting it was accident “partv ” (International) has sent a secret “trouble shooting” | unit to this country. He explamed: that party leaders fear they will| be driven underground. | b P WAKEFIELD REPLIES; IS 'NOT COMMUNIST | j ew Marriage {Vow and Comeback By Bride-fo-Be ENID, Okla., Sept. 14.—P—“Will you take this womzn?” Justice of the Peace A. C. Moyer asked at a wedding ceremony here. Jeseph N. Grove, 72, Shamrock, Texas, spoke right up. “I will—if she treats | right.” me all 165, Garber, Okla., smiled. | She made no provisions it her vow, - but later demanded the groom’s assurance she could be car- testified at a| top | closed mceting of the subcommit- | His bride, Mrs. Sally B. Chitwood,‘ Lewis made this dire ;:zadxctionhied over the threshold. START TALKS ON CONTRACTS IN STEEL FIELD {Any BunglfiOver Pro- posals Made by Truman | May Give Strike Threat | PITTSBURGH, Sept. M4—#— | Cnly agreement on time and place is needed today to start new steel | contract talks. Outcome of the ne- gotiations may depend on the reluc- | tance of some steel companies to | pay the entire cost of insurance and | pensions programs. » | Reluctance of some steel com- ;panics to approve in advance the | Presidential board's proposal that | they pay for such programs wa: | interpreted in some quarters as | holding a new strike threat A spokesman for the CIO Unitec | Steelworkers said that Union Preci- | dent Philip Murray’s statement he is ready to resume negotiations for a contract based on the boavd’s re- i port meant that he will strike an { companies which failed to agree to | pay all insurance and pension eosts | At least two company officials | said workers ought to share the ;cu.ts of such programs. ! The CIO United Steelworkers |and four leading steel producers ! are ready to resume contract talks | They will seek a settlement more lor less based on the Presidential | fact finders’ recommendation of a 110 cent hourly package increase. | The ":oard advised against any wage | koost. ,‘ Negotiators will be working unde: |an 11-day extension of the strike | deadline which expired at midnizht | Tuesday. ! The union accepted the board's | recommenations without reserva- | tions. That meant giving up its | drive for a fourth post-war round |of wage increases in 1949. The junion said the board’s suggested {10-cent increase in the torm o 1company-flnanced insurance ang | pension programs was good encugh MURRAY WANTS ACTION PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14—/ — | President Philip Murray of the CIO | United Steelworkers today called |on the steel industry to say “promptly and plainly” whether it is willing to accept the Presiden- | tial board’s formula for settlement of contract differences. Murray asked the steel industry to meet with union representatives {in a joint collective bargaining | conference before end of the strike | truce expiring Eeptember 25. The CIO President’s move came in | the form of a telegram to Presi- dent Benjamin A. Fairless of US. | 'Steel Corporation, acknowledged | leader of steel industry moves. There was no immediate comment from US. Steel but a spokesman said the Murray message is being studied and a reply might be avail- able later. (ONGRESS epts Building MONKEYS, MONKEYS, MONKEYS Three of Th_ea, They Are‘ Mortgaged-May Be in Alaska, Who Knows TACOMA, Wash.® Sept. 14.—(®—! Simian seeking sheriff's deputies scratched their heads here today in puzzled perplexity as they per- formed the difficult optical feat 9f keeping one eye cocked toward | South America and the other to- ward Alaska. The local minions of the law trace their trouble to a phone call received from New York at 4 a. m.,| today from a man who identified himself as Art Eldrich. | “Do you have a seaport near you by the name of Puyallup?” Eldrich queried in the best eastern version ‘of the Indian-name town. “We have such a town but it ain’t 20 seaport,” Deputy Gordon Hill re- plied. ! “Well, there’s a circus proprie- £ tor trying to sneak off to South i America with three of my monkeys —at least I hold a $5,000 mortgage on them,” Eldrich reported. “I want you to intercept them.” { Hill and other members of thel| staff determined there were no! mortgaged monkeys in. Puyallup| buy Olympia police reported they | had a report from Seattle that! six monkeys left that town re-| cently for Alaska. | “We're waiting for reports from | our far north operatives now,” Det. | Capt. Clarence Otto said. “I don’t know what we'll do about it if the monkeys do show up. But at lenst! we're lcoking. GOP WINS ELECTION IN PENN. Naval Veteran Saylor Is Chosen, Congressional IS BEING URGED Seat, 28th District JOHNSON, Pa., Sept. 14.71M~:Se(re'afv of State A(heson Republican forces made deep in-| Makes Announ(ement of Important Move after their respective victories. of San Dicgo, Calif,, was chosen at Jacque Mercer of Litchfield, Ariz, ® Wirephoto. ! | | | | | | | | { PEACE TREATY WITH JAPANESE i 1 | i | | 1 | | i roads in Democratic strongholds | today to put the 25th Pennsylvania | Congressional District seat back in“ the GOP fold and hand the Tru- man Administration a setback. ! Naval veteran John P. Saylor,| who supplied the flag raised on| {Iwo Jima, recaptured the speclnl’@day he and British Foreign Min- election prize his party lost in the|ister Bevin are agreed that the 1948 Truman sweep. Ineed for a Japanese peace treaty is And he did it without mentioning | Urgent. in his campaign the name of Dem-| Achescn indicated to a new con- ocratic Gold Star mother Mrs. Rob- | ference at Waghington that he still ert L. Coffey, Sr., who sought the}hopes Russia will cooperate In congressional post vacated by the|making the treaty. (By The Associated Press) Secretary of State Acheson said death of her son in plane crash.| The Secretary of State met with ‘Tops Among the Women Mrs, America (left) and Miss Amdrica (right) give you bright smiles Mrs. America, Mrs. Frances L. Cloyd Ashbury Park, N. J.. Miss America, was chosen at Atlantie City, N Dad, Ma and All the Kids Going fo St_hoo-l These Days , CHARLESTON, W.Va, Sept. 14— | /—The entire Childress family is going to school these days—inclfid- ing the father, a 6l-year-old re-! tired Army officer. Maj. T. J.- Childress and his 18- | year-old son, Joe, enrolled as fresh- men yesterday at Morris Harvey ) College. | His other son, Jack, 20, enrolled ias a sophomore. | . The Major's wife, who has a BS ) degree from Morris Harvey, is i teaching in an elementary school. Said the Major: “I made up my mind not to sit Varound and grow old while every- one else is in schools.” The veteran of 25 years of service is taking a major in art under the GI Bill of Rights. WORLD Here, Moves in KEYS ARE GIVEN T0 MORRISON Establishment of Head- quarters Expected Soon- Open House Planned Final confirmation having been received from the 17th District | Commander, the United 'States | Coast Guard today officially started }v.he business of occupying Juneau's lhnndsome new Community Build- | ing. Besides moving iIn van-loads ' of | office furniture, work was begul |on installation of the communica- | tions system in, the huge, acous- tically-treated room on the second { floor. The actual date of transferring |operations to function {rom here | will depend on completion of this key installation, according to Comdr. D. McG. Morrison, ranking USCG officer here il the absence of the Chief of Staff. DISTRICT ESTABLISHMENT “Actual establishment of the dis- trict in Juneau,” Commander Mor- riscn sald today, “should be fully }ucompnshed this month, probably within ten days. s soon as the District is offi- clally established here,” he con- tinued, “we plan to have an all- day open house for public inspec~ tion. “We hope this celebration will serve several purposes,” he went on. “We want to acquaint everyone in the Gastineau area with the workings of the Coast Guard and to express our gratifude Yor the greatly appreciated efforts to house 80 many families at one time. Be- sides, it will ice an opportunity to |see what a fine building the com- munity has put up.” GIVEN KEYS This morning, Commander Morri= son accepted the box of shiny, new master keys for the three-story structure, officially turned over to him by Norman C. Banfield, presi- dent of the Board of Directors of { the Community Building Corpora=- | tion., The Coast Guard will occupy the two top floors and three rooms on the, first floor, which will have other “offices. HOUSING SITUATION “Before we talk any more about headquarters plans,’ Commander Morrison interrupted himself, “I want to express publicly for myself and the staff our gratitude for the | efforts made in the matter of hous- |ing. We appreciate very much |that has been done—those many hours on projects that have not |worked out yet, as well as the | search for immediate accommoda= | tions, “Housing of some sort has been {found for everyone who has ar- irived in Juneau. In many cases, it is not satisfactory—some quarters are crowded and in some cases rents are so exorbitant that an enlisted man cannot live that way per- manently—but housing has been found. The need for suitable per- Since Mrs. Coffey had received | reporters just before going into hl~| Truman endorsement and had cam- | second session of political talks paigned with ringing support of the | with Bevin. entire “fair deal” program, her de-| The first session was held yes- feat was seen as a blow to the Ad-|terday and concerned the Pacific ministration. |area. It produced a jeint state-! The western Pennsylvania vote ment indicating that British and provided the first test of the Pres-| American anti-Communist policies ident's “fair deal” program sin would develop along largely par- last year’s balloting. Republicans|allel lines. These include: manent accommodations still is urgent.” ASHINGTON — British Boil— The British are boilihg mad at {ments from two coal Secretary of the Treasury Snyder|controlled by the bank. tt_)r the iron-fisted way he is run-| One of the coal mining com- ning the Washington' financial con- | panies is the Island Cresk Com- ference. One British delegate has pany. James D. Francis, President _complfllned privately that Snyder|of fIsland Creek, yesterday con- is treating them as if they Were|tended that Southern coal operators i Commander, Morrison met yes- P SRR S U 3 e b 0(' SIH' (Continned on Page Four) [ ] - . | NEW YORK, Sept. 14—(P—Bar- ring a play-off, the 1949 World Series will start on Wednesday, Wakefield, Seattle businessman, | ment” today testimony before u; Senate committee that he is a | | Howard Rushmore, a New York e . (Continuea on Taze SiX) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—P— |if coal operators continue to with= J) |hold payments to the miners wel- Merr _Go_Round‘sochl convulsion in the mining Y | areas of this country.” By DREW PEARSON in a telegraphed appeal to the | of the Island Creek Coal Company, SGCKEYE SAlMo“ | MAY ouIT asking it to require welfare pay- ! SHOWS INCREASE | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—P—A | late October adjournment of Con- branded as an “irresponsible state- | Communist. |John L. Lewis declared today that The Washingto l g fare fund it “may precipitate a (Copyright, 1943, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) | Cleyeland Trust Co., representative companies " ONFRASERRIVER .~ LATE 0°7 14| gress was predicted today by Sena- WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) The two nations will BELLINGHAM, Wash., Sept. pcriv::;es f-:ifhthe Missouri Nfl“‘maliowe the miners welfare fund noth- [ —(»—An increase of 20 percent in uard and he a colonel in Battery|ing since coal contracts expired|this year's Fraser River sockeye D. Waligren or Harriman?—Presi- | June 30. Those contracts called for pay-|was reported today by Lloyd Royal, | salmon cycle in British Columbia dent Truman is thinking of naming | ment of 20 cents on each ton of | acting administrative director of the Averell Harriman as chairman of | the National Boards — A& vitally important post which hasjbeen vacant for near-| ly a year because the Senate veto-! ed Truman's old friend, Ex-Gover- | nor Mon Wallgréh of Washington. | The President was all set to name | Harriman last week, but was per- suaded to wait because the Demo- | cratic National Committee is toying | with the idea of appointing Wall- | gren to the job after Con: i leaves town. Japanese In U. S. Senate?—Sen- | ator Butler of Nebraska was dis- | cussing Hawailan_ statehood with | Admiral D. C. Ramsey, recently | commander-in-chief in the Pacific. | * wgenator,” said Ramsey, ‘“how| would you like to have Senator | oSl i e T R PR (Continuyed op Page Four) | coal mined as royalty to pay for STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, fept. 14 —#—Clcs- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday is 3%, American Can 95, Anaconda 28, . Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 28's, Kennecott 47%, New York STSS | Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, | 1,024,000 | U. 8. Steel 23%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 1,690,000 shares. Averages today are as follo industrials 183.14, rails 47.05, util- ities 37.95. FROM OLYMPIA Paul Windran of Olympia guest at the Baranof, is International Pacific Salmon Fish- Security Resources | miners health and welfare benetits. | eries Commission. The commission, charged with re- halzilitating the Fraser salmon fisheries, completed fishways at Hells Gate Gorge in time for the 1945 run. This has been the first year the effectiveness of the fish- ways could be tested on a basis of commercial cateh, Through Augusb 31, says the re- port, the Amgrican catch was sockeye, the Canadian 953,000, a total of 1977,000. Four years ago the cycle yielded 969,000 to the Canadians and 716,000 - to Ilhc Americans, a total of 1,685,000. { ! FROM SITKA Gilbert Truitt, Marian Jackson, 1 [and Caroline Jackson of Sitka are Iguests at the Baranof, tor Wherry of Nebraska, Republican floor leader. by President Truman, Democratic leaders meanwhile mapped a pro- gram that might bring the Senate abreast of its 1949 work in six weeks. tember 21, has completed most ma- jor legislation ard seems willing to call it a legislative day as soon as the Senate can catch up. Wherry told a reporter that so far as he is concerned the Repub- licans are willing the help end the session as quickly as possible. He predicted it would be shortly be- fore November 1. Senator Lucas of Illinois, Demo- cratic leader, has been blaming the Republicans for delaying tant ‘bills. FROM YAKUTAT F. McIllhardy of Yakutat |resistered at the Baranof, Barring the raising of new issues | The House, in recess until Sep-' impor- and Demccrats alike regarded it as| proceed a clue to the 1950 Congress elec- slowly and cautiously on the ques- | tions. tion of recognition of the Chinese The vote yesterday was in con- | Communist regime which is fast junction with statewide party pri-|gobbling up ail of China. maries. | Nationalism will be encouraged | Returns from 267 of 325 pre- and aided in non-Communist Asia cinets: as a shield against Marxism. Saylor, 48,042. Western capital will be used on Mrs. Coffey, 37.204. |a wider scale to bolster the living Intensive interest in the off-year ' standards of non-Communist coun- balloting brought out a big primary | tries. vote in the three-county agricul-| American officials saw little hope tural, industrial and coal mining|of dealing with Communist China district. | Britain, with important financial stakes in the Far East, was reported mere anxious to make some kind of .8 . ‘l'.d vin . n Virginia Tousainf . ‘S’ i, e For Ff. Yukon P. M. 5riciv’ acir e Wil e » L L] iBnlaln's dollar crisis which con- cluded Monday. There is no at- tempt to reach rigid decisions on WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—¥—| 4 common foreign policy. The President Truman nominated Vir-|iaiks are largely informative and |ginia E. Tousaint today as posi-|exploratory. | master at Fort Yukon, Alaska, to ok ! succeed the late E. O. Beigman. | . (Continued on P;\ge' Eight) (This data s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 52; minimum, 48. Oct. 5, in the park of the winning American League team. Tickets will cost $1 for bleacher seats, $4 for general admission or standing room, $6 for grandstand | reserved seats, and $8 for hox seats, { Commissioner® A. B. Chandler i made the announcement fcllowing a meeting today with representa- tives of the contending American and National League clubs. | FORECAST @ Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with oceca- sional rain showers to- night and Thursday, with light rain by Thursday after- noon, Lowest temperature about 48 tonight. -« Highest Thursday near 54. STEAMER HCYVEMFMTS Princess Louise scheduled to sai | @ from wcouver 8 tonight. |/*PRECIPITATION Baranof scheduled to sail from | e (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Seattle Saturday. |e In Juneau — .44 inches; Princess Norah scheduled to ar-| since Sept. 1, 296 inches; rive from Skagway 7 a. m. Friday, since July 1, 1397 inches. sailing south one hour later at 8| e At Airport — .38 inches; 4, m. o since Sept. 1, 150 Inches; Aleutian from west scheduled|e since July 1, 899 Inches. southbound Sunday night or Mon-| day morning, | [ 0 9 0 0 v v v o0