The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 41,307 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CEN Warning System Across Arctic Contemplated ARREST MADE IN EXPLOSION ON AIRLINER Quebec Je@r Charged | with Causing Crash Taking 23 Lives QUEBEC, Sept. 2¢.—(P—J. Albert | Guay, Quebec jeweler, was arraign- ed today on a murder charge con- nected with a bomb explosion aboard an airliner which sent his wife and 22 others crashing to their deaths Sept. 9. Guay, 30, was accused of induc- ing Mrs. Arthur Pitre, 40, to place | a package of explosives aboard the plane. She was arrested yesterday after taking an overdose of sleeping | pills. She is recovering. Police said she told them .she put the MUNICIPAL COSTS SLASHED BY CITY CCUNCIL MOTION Emergency Move Made as City Faces Transi- tion Period An emergency municipal economy | move was made last night at a| special session of the Juneau City Council. | A motion to make drastic reduc- tions in city expenditures was MOURN MOT HER KILLED BY HITRUN DRIVER passed by the council. October 1 the motion will have its first effect when the City Street Department crew is cut to the bare minimum, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said. The city engineering department | will be eliminated for the present, | he said. Any temporary engineering | needs will be done on a contract| basis. | The move is made necessary by: | 1. The transiton from April to| WILL STORE ATOM BOMBS LONDON, Sept. 24.—(®— The Evening News said today United States atom bombs soon may be stored in England under American | control. { “The news that Russia now has |an atomic weapon is expected to result in a closer sharing of atomic Terrific Impad Is Caused in - Wesiern World by Explosion - Disclosure by U. §. President MILITARY PLANS ARE DISCUSSED Atomic Explosion in Rus- WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—(P— The United States still holds a vast ‘lead over Russia in the field of | atomic weapons and in all proba- bility will never lose it, top Ameri- sia Starts Conjectures oAt Gericeila'mid oduy: | Regarding Defense “They’ll never catch up with us,” | R said one high security official in| FORT BENNING, Ga. Sept. 24— the wake of President Truman's| (P—Russia’s reported production of ~ IN ENGLAND disclosure yesterday that there has been an atomic explosion in Russia. While it was calmly worded, the | President’s statement itself ex- ploded throughout the westem‘i werld with terrific impact. | . It brought urgent—and hopetul— | a nuclear fission explosion hit U.S. military heads with a whole ook full of problems, led by this: Is Soviet Russia cwirently cap- able of delivering atom bombs on American targets? o far as they know, the biggest new demands from lawmakers, | sc.entists, diplomats and others for | effective international atom con-! trols—a demand which merely; cchoed Mr, Truman’s cwn words. Russian bomber is a copy of early models of the U.S. Air Force's B-29 Superfortress. That Russian version is believed incapable of striking | targets in the continental US. from | secrets between the United Sta: 1t caused a general withering uf;auss:nn sofl and returning. How- | Britain and Canada,” the paper| Congressional opposition to sharing | ever, no responsible military man { added. American atomic secrets with Brit- has ever said that fanatic Russian A spokesman for the American |ain and Canada. airmen might not be willing to Third Air Division—natural custod- And it raised questions enough|make a one-way run, package aboard not knowing what it contained, city’s financial year. This move, | The jeweler was charged specifi- | Lrought about through a Territorial | cally with the slaying of his wife, | law, has caused the city to operate | referred to by the court clérk by!for 18 months on 12 month’s fi- her maiden name, Rita Morel. Mrs. | nances. ! October of starting date for the ORPHANED BY HIT-RUN AUTO, these two-weeks-old pups are massed at grave of Blondie, their Fox terrier mother, killed while crossing Chicago street. Five pups miss Blondie even though they are being given sympathetic attention, including frequent bottle feedings. (International) | Pitre was under detention in her own apartment. v | Royal Canadian Mounted Police/ officials described the bizarre epi-| sode as part of a love triangle in-! tended to get rid of an unwanted wife and collect $10,000 insurance! on her. “We have definite proof that ex- plosives were placed aboard the plane to get ric of a woman,” said Inspector Rene Belec. There was no indication as to what kind of device caused the ex- plosion which preceded the plane crash, but officials said it occurred | in the luggage compartment, Po- lice said Guay had worked four years in a Quebec arsenal. Mrs. Pitre’s detention ended a two-week hunt for a “mystery wo- | man” who delivered a package—ad- | dressed to a non-existent person in Baie Comeau, Quebec—to the ill- fated Canadian Pacific Airways plane just before it took off. The dead included three New York executives of the Kennecott Copper Corporation. PUBLIC WORKS BILL! 15 NOW UP T0 HOUSE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—(P— The Senate has approved a $100,- 000,000 program for planning pub- lic works projects all over the country. The bill, which has been called an “anti-depression measure” in| Congress, was passed yesterday by voice vote. It now goes to the House. It would make Federal funds| available to states ‘and communi- ties for advance planning of needed | public ‘works projects. President Truman recommended such a pro-| gram last July, as a safeguard “if the business downturn should be- come more serious.” FROM WASHINGTON Elwyn Hanson of Conway, Wash. is a guest at the Baranof. The Washington | war-time, rundown of city facilities, | 2. The change’in tax collection | deadline date from September 15| | e RAJK GETS Mayor Hendrickson stated that maintenance work, heavy after; has keen virtually brought up to| SENTEN(ED date, and street improvement work is about complete. 1 October 1 marks the end of the | city’s construction season, and win- | ter work is limited to snow removal | and emergency maintenance | He stated that the unusually| (By the Associated Press) heavy expenditures caused by lnsti Laszlo Rajk, Hungary's former winter's snowfall put a load on the|No. 2 Communist was sentenced to city's finances. There have been|death today by a people’s court in practically no taxes collected sincefBudapest for plotting te overthrow that time to absorb the costs. the Hungarian government and A moderate winter will greatly;supplant it with one subservient to help the city’s financial status, he Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo- said. | slavia. Mayor Hendrickson said the ad-| TWwo other defendants also re- vantages of the new starting date|ceived death sentences. Two were for city administration would be | sentenced to life imprisonment, one great after the transition period. |% nine years and two were held When a new council takes office, | for court martial the city assessment will be com- | Rajk, former Foreign Minister plete; the new council will set a|and Interior Minister, was charged WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data 1s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 49, At Afrport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 45. millage rate for taxes; will make|With the others of working with an planning, will be ready to begin|for the downfall of the Communist- the spflx;g‘s otk | dominated Budapest government. i i S 40. In the first, cil taking office in April, the city | treason trial of 19 3 Hret, administration was forced to oper-‘“‘st February, Josef Cardinal Mind- began coming in late in August. prisonment. City Ordinance 333, which states new election dates and terms oi;SAlMO“ pA(K office, was given final reading and | fer of a retail liquor license from/ James . Payne, 305 Willoughby BOOS"“G ONE G. Stevenson. NG WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—P— ? |kept the Territory this year from ® |having the poorest fshing in its o |ice said today. . ‘The agency said the Southeast . o | gratifying” — 2,400,000 cases, com-! o |Pared with last year’s 1275000, a and the best year since the phe- nomenal 4,000,000-case pack of 1941. a budget and after the “1,,m~5iAmerican and Yugoslay spy ring In the past, with new city coun-| It was Hungary's second big ate on borrowed funds until taxes|SZenty was sentenced to life im- the law governing city elections,| was adopted. i Approval was given for the trans-f oF SE ALASKA Avenue, to Gordon L. and Frances | Southeast Alaska’s pink salmon ¢ | history, the Fish and Wildlife Serv- | Alaska pack was “surprising but| o | five-year yearly average of 1,465,000, . By contrast, the valuable red FORECAST (Junesu and Vieinity) . DEMON s STRATES 'NATURE LOO o= K s ture Look” is demonsirated by pretty Peggie Castle, first lovely signcd under = 1 ccnlracts requiring posing for “leg art.” Fashion De ed “Nature Look” idea. (Internationa!, ATTLE, Sept. 24—(P— Start- | FROM JUNEAU HQ' = ing tomorrow, three Western m _" £ Washingzor? gltl'es will probably be- District Office Established come ihe naion's onc duvigns ms- at Noon Today~Acting Commander Due | attle,- Bremerton and Port Angeles. Now it is official-"the formai USCG OPERATIONS '3 CITIES HOLD OUT “NOW CONTROLLED | ONDAYLIGHT SAVING 1if one was started in Britain—said | any ccmment on the report “must |come from much higher than this | headquarters.” ND ATOM EXPLOSION REPORTED NEW YORK, Sept. 24—(P—Tae | Mutual «Broadcasting System sald | today a second atomic explosion took place in Russia less than two weeks ago. The report was attributed to the { MBS correspondent in Stockholm, | Wwho said reliable Swedish sources disclosed the explosion took place near Crimea on Sept. 14. The Crimea is in Southern Russia, a ‘penlnsuln extending into the Black | Sea. DR. CODDINGTON, "CHEST SURGEON, 10 MT EDGECUMBE The first chest surgeon to be assigned to the Alaska Native Service medical program has peen in conference with ANS officials here and returned to his new post at Zitka. { He is Dr. Frederick L. Codding- i ton, thoracic surgeon and specialist in tuberculosis, from Portland, Ore. The Alaska Tuberculosis Asso- | ciation is cooperating in the pay- | ment of his salary. | { | | (lan for a cache of atom bombs, to keep the world guessing for | By doing that they could reach |some major American industrial centers. A second possi:ility, and one which military men long contem- plated grimly, is the possibility of seizure of American airfields in Alaska which would place the Northwest Pacific coast and pos- sibly cities in the North Central area within reach of two-way mis- slons. It is reasonable to assume this recasting of the picture may place a new premium on far north polar defenses, including a speedup in bullding an aircaft warning system across.the Arctic -perimeter of ‘the North American continent. | months, How did the news reach this country? One official who knew | said “hundreds of persons” and| | numerous agencies were involved. | Another said it was a “miracle of intelligence.” : But whether it involved sples, ground equipment, or airborne radi- ation-detecting instruments—or all| three—no one would say for sure. Was it definitely an atomic bomb, | or just an accidental explosion? | A bomb, absolutely, experts said— and, apparently, the Soviets’ first successful one. But when and where the expio- sion occurred, how efficient the Russian (comb may be, and what {effect it might have on future re- !lations between the East and the | West—those questions and dozens of | |others went unanswered except for| hints and guesses. 1 The President sala the expiosion occurred “in recent weeks.” Scientists in Sweden reported picking up an earth tremor Sept.! j 14 which they said might have been an A-bomb in Siberia. But the New | York Daily News said in a Rome; dispatch that western officials| have known about the Russian bomb for at least nine weeks. ! An American official hinted that Mr. Truman knew about it for several days, at least, Also from Rome, Pietro Nenni, Pro-Communis leader of the Itallan Socialist party, said the| bomb was touched off in Eastern Siterfa. Nenni was just tack from a trop to Moscow. 1 For the moment, there seems to be no plans to build up manpower in the Alaskan defenses—if Secre- tary of Defense Johnson's answer to a Washington reporter’s question {was intended to apply to Alaska. When asked if the Russian atomic explosion report would bring a change in the disposition of U.S. force anywhere, Johnson replied with a one word negative. RECESS STEEL STRIKE TALKS T0 MONDAY T Coal Strike in Sixth Day- GILLNETTER DAMAGED | "Hope for Ford Union BY FIRE THIS MORN; ; OWNER IS BURNED, Pension _sfltlements | (By the Assoclated Press) 1} They are scheduled to continue estaklishment of the 17th U.S daylight saving until the end of the Coast @Guard District = Headquaters imomh. But time runs backward after in Juneau. Comdr. D. McG. Morrison, Dis- trict Engineer Officer, said this|. morning, “At 1200 today, the 17th District office is established with headquarters in Juneau, with Capt N. S. Haugen designated as Acting District Commander. | midnight tonight for the sections Dr. Jam i |of the east and other Pacific North. | divector, :j\th;h(it Drg' %’;:dfi;‘:n‘:; | west icities that have continued °"’a.sslgnm’em $o the sf.a.fi of the Mt. e 1 3 | BF B 6, T bpsls. | Edgecumbe Medical Center is the s | keginning of an expanded program STAMP TAx;ror the care of tuberculosis pa- tients. Construction of tie new tuber- culosis sanatorium at Mt. Edge- cumbe is expected to be completed | THAILAND BANKOK-{P—The Thai (Siam) | | revenue department is sending out |secret agents to run down stamp Harold Hatch recelved first and| second degree burns about the hands and face early this morning when | his gilinet boat 31-A-433 burned on finger float number five in the small boat harbor. Fire started in the cabin of the 27 foot hoat from an unknown cause. At first attempts were made | to put out the fire with the ex- The coal strike today entered its sixth day without signs of an early settlement. Meanwhile talks to end the nation’s steel dispute were in recess. The steel contract talks are to resume ,Monday. The nation's lead- ing steel companies and the CIO United Steel Workers will have five | days left in the six-day steel truce. The new strike deadline—third Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON early next year. With this addi-|tinguisher on the float. The fire salmon pack of Bristol Bay—in: *“As of noon, the 17th District | tax evaders among businessmen who‘, ticn, the Medical Center will be;department was called at 1:30| since July—is midnight Oet, 1. some years among the largest in{assumes full operational control|are muleting th egovernment of | Increasing cloudiness with intermittént rain tonight, be- ICopyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Phil Murray, head of the CIO, and Ben Fair- less, head of U. 8. Steel, are both old friends and old sparring part- ners. They have sat through many difficult wage negotiations, to- gether and have always come to an agreement. This time it was ap- parent from almost the start of the negotiations that both men had their backs up. When Murray arrived for the first meeting with Federal Mediator Cy- rus Ching, Fairless greeted him like a long-lost brother. “Hello, Phil. I haven't seen you in a long time. You're looking very well.” Fairless didn’t say so, but the real reason he hadn't seen Mur- ray was because Fairless’ boss, Ens- der Voorhees, the real brains ot J."P. Morgan and the real dicta- tor of U. S. Steel, wouldn't let Fairless come to the meetings of the fact-finding board. He was afraid Fairless wouldn't be tough enough. (Continued on Page Four) | able to care for 325 pumonary tu-|o’clock when the extinguisher would | The coal strike by 480,000 United coming steady rain Sunday. Temperature: lowest tonight near 48; highest Sunday around 53. Southeasterly winds occasionally 15 to 25 miles per hour Sunday. cases, compared with 1,236,000 last year. | The total pack for Alaska, said | Howard Baltso, Acting Chief of Alaska Fisheries for the Fish and | Wildlife Service, was 4,250,000 cases. The record low, for recent years, | were the slightly less than 4,000,000 case packs of 1946 and 1948. “The good run in Southeast Alaska was due in part to the severe PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—1.09 inche: since Sept. 1, 9.28 inches; since July 1, 2029 inches. At Airport—126 (Inchess; since Sept. 1, 6.29 inches; since July 1, 13.78 inches. great escapement of spawning sal- mon,” Baltso told a reporter. “But we had an assist from na- ture. The natural factors must have Leen very favorable. “The all-time low on many runs in Alaskan waters definitely is due largely to overfishing. “It is likely that the service will have to apply fishing restrictions there similar to those which helped save the Southeast Alaska runs.” ® 0 00 v 000 Military Pay Boost Bill Vole Delayed WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— The Senate has put off until Mon- day & vote on a proposed $300,- 000,000 military pay boost. ‘The House approved a similar kill June 15. It would raise the pay of almost every rank from private to Major General, DIVORCE SUIT FILED Edward F. Scott, a fisherman, filed suit for divorce against Viola Scott in the U. 8. District Court here. Alaska—this year was only 524,000_ limits on fishing imposed in 1947, shortening the season to permit|be Chief of Staff here later, when| here for Alaska.” 1$1,000,000 a year. Captain Haugen was expected to| A revenue department official arrive carly this afternoon on one said most of the evasion is done of two Pan American flights which by keeping two sets of books, one left Seattle this morning. |to be shown to' revenue officials The 17th District, which com- and the other to keep track of the ) prises Alaska, recently was re- firms’ actual transactions, Foreign activated, but until today has becn as well as Thai business houses under the temporary.command of|join in the practice, he added. Rear Admiral R. T. McElligott,| —_— Commander of the 13th District.| j with headquarters in Seattle. FROM KAKE Captain Haugen is scheduled to|Kake are guests at the Baranof, SITKA VISITOR L. W. Peterson of Sitka“is a guest S — |at the Baranof. ADJUDGED BANKRUPT | Rear Admiral Joseph Greenspun| assumes the District command. FROM SAND POL Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wildes Sand Point are guests at Baranof. of Orville R. Wheat of Juneau was | the adjudged to be a bankrupt by the U. S. District Court today. FROM SEATTLE G. W. Averill, Howard E. Hilbun, John M. Little, Harold C. Lee, and Gene Maidment of Seattle are registered at the Baranof Hotel. SEATTLE VISITOR John Makus of the Fish and j Wildlife Service in Seattle is a guest at the Baranof. FROM GREAT FALLS LeBrun Smith of Great Falls Montana, is a guest at the Baran- Jof Hotel. FROM HOLLYWOOD is a guest at the Baranof. \ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson of | | berculosis cases. < | The ANS hospital under con- ! struction at Anchorage will have 300 | beds for tuberculosis patients and {100 beds for general medical and ;surglcal patients. Dr. Coddington completed his residency in thoracic surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School Hospital in June. He studied under Dr. John Tuhy and Dr. Wil- liam Cocklin, outstanding thoracic surgeons of the Northwest. During his residency in chest surgery, Dr. Coddington worked at the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hos- | pital, and performed chest surgery at the Doernbecher Children’s Hos- | pital and the Multnomah County Hospital. | —————— | FROM ' PORT ALEXANDER Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Paulsons of | Port Alexander are registered at "the Gastineau Hotel. ! FROM HOOD BAY C. G. Pederson, Gil Pedersen and Henry A. Gerstman of Hollywood | George Kalthoff of Hood Bay are| guests at the Baranof. not work. . | Mine Workers has resulted in lay- Azout 46 minutes after the fire|Offs of 30,000 workers on coal- department arrived, the flames | hauling rallroads. The miner walk- around the motor in the cabin were jOut is a protest against suspension put out. Hatch received his burns|0f pensioh and welfare fund bene- when the cabin door was opened. }m;, The miners’ work contract ex- ‘The full extent of demage to the | pired June 30. motor is as yet unknown. The| In Detroit, Ford and the auto cabin will have to be rebuilt. Some workers are trying to agree on i clothing was destroyed including a ' union pension demands. Hopes con- !set of ollskins and a pair of rubber | tinue high for settlement. An agree- hip boots, | ment might set a pattern for most Hatch was to have left this morn- | of heavy industry, as well as head ing for Haines with the boat. This‘ol( a threatened strike of 150,000 is the second fire this season for Ford workers. the boat with the first one the fore, In Cleveland, the CIO United part of July at Haines. Hatch is Electrical Workers asked its mem- now in St. Ann's hospital. ‘Lershlp to get rid of the right wing ! * A false alarm was sounded at|faction in their locals. The leftist- 1:45 o'clock this morning from the led union termed the right wingers | box at Second and Main. The call | “disrupters and traitors.” was 2-6. | In New York, the CIO National ‘Mermme Union voted to bar Com- A 3 and N from MOVEMFTS | Fcoming union otticers. Denali from Seattle due Sunday. | | i Aleutian from Seattle due Tues- : | day. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Blanchard of Princess Louise scheduled to sail | Taku Lodge are guests at the Gas- tineau. i FROM TAKU LODGE lfrom Vancouver September 29.