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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,324 BOLD PLAN SUGGESTED BY LEWIS Proposes AFL—Join Him in Providing Millions for Steel Strikers ‘WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.,, Oct. 14—P—John L Lewis of the United Mine Workers pro- posed today that the AFL union join with him in providing the striking CIO steelworkers with $2,500,000 a week for an indefinfte time. Lewis made a sudden bid for la- bor unity in two major strikes by writing to Willilam Green, president of the AFL. Lewis proposed that nine of the AFL unions and his own United Mine Workers each contribute $250,000 every week to the CIO. The mine leader, whose own 400,- 000 soft coal workers have been on strike since Sept. 19, said this financial credit would enable the steelworkers “to win beyond pre- adventure.” In a letter to Green, Lewis urg- ed the AFL president to “subordin- ate every other consideration and rise to meet in this fashion the giant adversaries which would deci- mate the major units of organized labor.” In this way, Lewis who has fought both Green and Murray in the AFL and CIO, appeared to be making a tremendous bid to bring all of the major labor organiza-| tions into a drive to fight what he called yesterday “a combina- tion” of powerful steel and finan- cial interests to break down unions. Lewis and his 600,000 member unions, were in the AFL until 1936 when he led the movement to or- ganize mass production industries. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 96%%, Anaconda 287%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 267%, Kennecott 47%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14, U. S.!| Steel 241, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,190,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: In- | dustrials, 186.43; rails, 49.31; ties, 38.52. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduyled to arrive at 7 a. m. Sunday and sails one hour later at 8 a. m. Aleutian from west scheduled southbound 9 p. m., Sunday. g utili- SUN RISES - SETS OCTOBER 15 Sun rises at ........7:33 am. Sun sets at . 5:54 p.m. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Only a few in- siders know it, but President Tru- man has turned sour against his former Secretary of Agriculture, Clinton Anderson. In fact, the oth- er day the President hurled his favorite insult against Anderson, now serving in the Senate from New Mexico. He called him a “big- interest man.” ‘What prompted this bitter epithet was Anderson’s fight against flat, 90 per cent farm supports. The President had long suspected that Anderson was quietly knifing the Brannan farm plan, but the clinch- er came when Anderson urged a “compromise” T5 to 90 per cent, flexible price-support scale. Anderson had spread the impres- sion that the President was back- ing his compromise. Puzzled, a congressional visitor put the ques- tions warily to Truman. “In the Senate,” he said, “Elmer Thomas (of Oklahoma) quoted you as being for 90 per cent parity, while Dick Russell (Georgia) said he understood you were against 90 per cent.” “1 don’t know how Dick got that “Senator Anderson seems to have ——————————— _ (Continued on Page Four) “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ‘ALL THE TIME” ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTH Nehru's sister. ALASKA CVA PROPOSAL BY for Agency Similar to Proposed Agency SEATTLE, Oct. aska development agency somewhat like the proposed Columbia Valley Administration will e brought be- fore the next Congress. This was the disclosure yesterday of William E. Warne, assistant Sec- retary of the Interior, who is en inspection trip. In a speech before the Young Men’s Democratic Club he outlined what he called the Interior Depart- ment’s four-point program for Al- aska development: 1. Statehood. 2. A land settlement agency and stead act. 3. A development agency, terned somewhat on the order the .proposed CVA, hydro-electric resources of Alaska | for industry and manufacturing. The agency’s board would be made | up of Alaskans. lines will be submitted to the next Congress. 4. Settlement forthwith of native ‘claims, mainly in Southeastern Al- aska, which have beclouded mlcs and are holding back developmen( “Alaska must have its own voice instead of absentee management,” of | | hood. “Greatest Forests” with its vast fishery resources and the “greatest forests standing un- der American flag today,” is vital| to the growth of Seattle and the' Northwestern states, he pointed out. “Of Alaska’s 365 million acres, only 12,500 have been put under cultivation,” Warne said, because of it alone.” He said a “reclama- tion type” development is necessary to clear land and build roads he- fore the several million acres of agricultural land can be put to pro- fitable use. “If this kind of program is car- ried out,” he said, ‘we can put 350,- 000 people in Alaska in 10 years’ time. “The most exciting thing that will happen in the United States pduring the next five years will be the development of Grand Coulee! power and Columbia Basin lands. It’s only since we began to use ithe Columbia River that industrial growth came to the Northwest. “The same thing can, and must, if even for our own protec- tion—happen in Alaska.” HOFSTAD PASSES THROUGH Capt. Thor Hofstad, wellknown last night en route by air from Seattle to Wrangell. Capt. Hofstad had taken a shipload of canned salmon to Seattle and flew to Wran- gell by way of Juneau after leaving the ship in the south. ANCHORAGE GUEST Don Townsend of -Anchorage 1s lreglst.ered at the Baranof Hotel. SECY. WARNE Four-Point%gram Calls| 14—(®—An Al-| law to replace the outmoded home- ! pat- | Warne said, in advocating state- ‘The development of the Termory,: “homesteaders just can’t make a go; Alaska mariner, stopped in Juneau | Nehru and Truman Wave Prime Minister Jawaharial Nehru of India (left) and President Truman wave from an automobile as they leave national airport in Washington, D. C., after the easterner’s arrival by air from London for a good will visit. Between them is Madame Vijaya L. Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the United States and The Prime Minister arrived in the President’s pnnnnal plane. (®) Wirephoto. Bills Delay Adjournment 0f Congress| BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | Last-minute arguments on three| major bills will prevent Congress from adjourning tomorrow. Heading the list of pending bills are: Farm legislation, a displaced persons bill and the military ap- propriations bill. A joint confer-, ence committee also is trying to| work out ‘differences in the mini- mum wage [Lills passed by both houses. ‘Today the full Senate resumes the | route back to Washington, D. C., on |debate on a displaced persons b‘”ivented completion of his fourth Alaskah!Passed by the House. The measure | number of troops in the Territory | would let 339,000 D-Ps into the | (ountry in three years. Present pro- | visions would let in 205,000 in me yeal Senate Majority Leader Sm:tg Lucas has described the flghti against the bill as a filibuster, but he says that debate will continue as long as most members remain on | hand. i Republican Senator Harry cain/| of Washington spoke for hours| to utilize the ! against, the bill yesterday. Republi- | nel. can Senators William Langer of | North Dakota and Forrest Donnell | of Missouri are expected to make A bill along these lengthy speeches against the mea-|ell said, sure today. | | HISS IS DENIED - COURT TRANSFER | INPERJURY TRIAL| NEW YORK, Oct. 14—(M—Alger Hiss' promotion for transfer of his| ‘secund perjury trial to Vermont was | denied today. The former high State Depart- +ment official had asked for the !transfer on the grounds that he could not get a fair trial in New lin a jury disagreement. Federal Judge Alfred C. C rejected the transfer motion. | Hiss’ second trial is scheduled‘ |to begin November 1. He is accused of lying when hc, denied passing State Department secrets to Whittaker Chambers for | transmittal to a pre-war Soviet spy ring. 'RITA REAL McCOY; IRAN SAYS SHE'S REALLY PRINCESS PARIS, Oct. 14.—(®— It's official, movie fans. Rita Hayworth is real- ly and truly a Princess. Some in the international society set have been scoffing that Rita didn't deserve the title she’s been | using since she married Aly Kahn. Their argument: Aly's title of Prince usually has been regarded | tas a courtesy handle because his father is the Aga Khan, spiritual | Jeader to a large Moslem sect. | oxe But yesterday Iran’s Ambassador | I informed the Aga Khan that the } Iran government' considered him as a Prince of the last dynasty of !Iranian kings. | MITCHELL ASKS | Alaska defense area.” | ramshackle nature of the squalid shelter which goes under the name 'ABOVE 150 MILLION ' York, where his first trial ended|’ | current CREATION ALASKA DEFENSE HOUSING By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—#— Rep. Mitchell (D-Wash) recom- mended yesterday that the House Banking Committee consider creat- ing an Alaskan Defense Housing Corporation “adequately capitalized to meet the minimum needs of the Mitchell, named by the commit- tee to investigate Alaska housing, recalled that during the war the Defense Homes Corporation was financed by a $600,000,000 Reécon- struction Finance Corporation loan. His proposal is in a report to { the committee on his investigation. He said the lack of housing pre- ! stationing the necessary needed for its defense. The nation cannot afford such a ituation, he said, “It cannot afford not to have adequate protection for an impor- tant far north post sith as Ladd Field Airforce Base,” Mitchell con- tinued. Mitchell urged that immediate steps be taken to improve not only quarters for troops serving in the Territory, but for civilian person- “Certainly on, the basis of per- sonal experience I agree with thej troops stationed in Alaska,” Mitch- “for anyone who has not visited these bases it will be diffi- cult to envision the makeshift, of housing for our military forces.” 'U. §. POPULATION 5 WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—(P—| The United States population will go above 150,000,000 “som¢€ time this month,” the Census Bureau pre- dicted today. Acting Director Philip M. Hauser said the Bureau’s estimate for Sept. 149,696,000, and that the rate of growth—244,000 from August to September—means the 150,000,000 mark will be passed some day this month. 1 was o 0o 0o 0 0 9 0 o o WEATHER REPORT (0. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 48; minimum, 34. Ato Airport—Maximum, 48; minimum, 29. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with an oc- casional very light shower tonight and Saturday. Con- tinued cool with lowest tem- perature tonight 38 and highest Saturday 44. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—1.12 inches; since Oct. 1, 5.81 sinches; since July 1, 27.07 inches. At the Airport—.53 inches;* since Oect. 1, 2.78 inches; since July 1, 1898 inches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ° . . . ° . . . . TRUMAN IS | chance to sound off. | ventures burned to the ground on jof exhibits. ©0000000°%°00000000%000000000000 GIVEN TP, BITTER ROW Congressme;ISrOpose Civ- ilian Board Be Named fo Settle Defense Plan Now BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—®— Two key congressmen proposed to- day that President Truman name a civilian board to referee the bitter | row over defense plans which has erupted in the Armed Forces. Their suggestion closely para- lelled one already offered Mr. Tru- man. The lawmakers' proposal came on the heels of the President’s news conference statement yester- day that he sees no need to change the fundamentals of present defense policy. Nevertheless, said Reps. Brooks (D-La) and Price (D-II), there is] a disagreement and it should e settled. The two lawmakers are members of the House Armed Ser- vices Committee. They brought up the plan after listening for more than a week as the Navy fired repeated charges that the fighting power of the fleet is being weakened, while the Air Force gets funds and favors and builds B-36s to carry out a kind of warfare that the Admirals called wrong. Previously the Air Force had made the giant intercontinental bomber sound like'a good thing to a lot of Congressmen. Brooks suggested to a reporter that the civilian board be named to find out who is right and settle the trouble that has boiled up ‘in the Armed Forces. Price nodded agreement. | The Navy sent in its top officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, to wind up its case yesterday. The Marines | take over Monday. Then the big rrass and civilian' chiefs of the Army and Air Force, and Secretary of Defense Johnson, get their NUMBER 13 JUST ONE FIRE AFTER ANOTHER TO HER FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. “14.— (#—The 13th has been unlucky for! Mrs. Mary Carter and perhaps she though she should have “stayed in bed.” But even that didn't do her any! good. Her rooming house, which she'd recently converted from a 44-year- old bar caught fire early yesterday, sending Mary Carter, her four-, year-old child and her roomers seurrying in their nightclothes to sarety “My unlucky number certainly is 13,” she declared afterward. Another of her rooming house Friday the 13th of February, 1947. Building loss was estimated at $30,000. Mrs. Carter said her per- sonal losses were $5,000. SEATTLE AMAZED! TEN-POUND SPUDS FROM FAIRBANKS SEATTLE, Oct. 14.—(P—Seattle- | ites got a wide-eyed peek today af the kind of spuds they grow in the far north. The statsiders, accus- tomed to potatoes they can wrap their jaws around, probably would not have believed it if William Os- kam of Creamer’'s Dairy at Fair- banks hadn’t brought along a batch Seven of the giants weighed 10 pounds. CITY COUNCIL SETS SESSION FOR TONIGHT A special meeting of the Juneau City Council will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the council chambers of the City Hall Councilmen will consider: 1. The resolution to extend the city limits to include the Highlarids. 2. A report from C. J. Ehrend- reich, CP.A, who has begn ana- lyzing the financial report submit- ted to the city by the Juneau Water Company. ‘The water company has proposed | a rate increase. | Applications for city positions will not be considered until the next regular meeting October 21. b Imporfant - ELEVEN TOP COMMUNIST LEADERS (ONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY; ATTORNEYS FOUND GUILTY, CONTEMPT Statement By Slalml Western observers in Moscow said’ Premier Stalin's message to the Soviet-sponsored eastern German Government in Berlin is the most important Soviet pronouncement on the German question since the war. Stalin said in his message that the Germans and Russians together could keep Europe peaceful by fighting as hard for peace as they fought for war. ALASKA PUBLIC WORKS MONEY OKEHED BY COM. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—(®—The House Appropriations Committee to- | day provided $1,000,000 in cash and $4,000,000 in contract authorization for Alaska Public Works in the sec- ond supplemental appropriation bill. The money is to start the $70,- 000,000 community facilities pro- gram in the Territory. The Budget Bureau asked $2,000,- 000 cash and $8,000,000 in contract authorization to initiate the work. The committee said it believed the sum allowed will meet all expenses of the program during the current fiscal year ending June 30. The committee rejected a budget recommendation for an additional $4,500,000 in contract authority for; construction of civil airports at Anchorage' and Fairbanks. It said appropriations and contract author- | izations totaling $12,500,000 already have been provided for the project which is estimated to cost $13,000,~ 000. The committee said it will give the Civil Aeronautics Administra- %g,p an_ opportunity to justify an iricrease in the regular ‘appropria- tions bill for next year. The committee gave tentative ap- proval to an appropriation of $32,- 000,000 and contract authorization of $48,636,700 for military construc- | tion in Alaska and Okinawa. It also approved $20,000,000 mn cash and $28,834,770 in contract authoriz- ation for Air Force construction in Alaska and Okinawa. It eliminated a budget request of $525,000 to pay overtime claims against the Alaska Road Commis- | sion. It said justification for the! request could be submitted next| year, ' PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL FOR FUNDS FOR! FLCOD CONTROL, ETC. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—P— President Truman signed yesterday “the $664,178,190 Army Civil Func- tions appropriation bill carrying funds for Army Engineer flood con- trol and navigation projects. The amount allowed to water- ways in the bill is $634,920,090—a record one-year appropriation, The money is apportioned to more than 300 projects. Besides waterways, the bill pro- vides $3,000,000 for the Alaska Com- munications System. SEARCH ON FOR MEN LOST OFF MAILBOAT! Two Coast Guard cutters and a party on foot pressed the search today for two seamen who were lost overboard in heavy weather from the mailboat Discoverer early yesterday morning. The cutters White Holly and Thistle from Ketchikan continued searching off Caamano Point in Clarence Strait while a three-man search party from the fishing ves- sel Martin F scoured the shore Le- tween Caamano Point and Junk Creek on Cleveland Peninsula. Lost were David Carley and Don Johnson, Both were good swimmers, and hopes were held that they reached shore safely. . [ESESE —- CARPENTER IS FOUND DEAD IN HOME HERE J. T. Groomer, a carpenter, was found dead this morning on the floor of his house at 514 South F Street in Juneau. Death was apparently due natural causes, police said. Groomer was a member of the Carpenters’ Union, A. F. of L, Lo- cal Number 2247. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. to ] i the defendants were NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—(#P—Elev- en top American Communist leaders today were convicted of conspiring to teach the forcible overthrow of the United States government, Immediately after the verdict, five defense attorneys and one of convicted of contempt of court Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist party, who act- ed as his own counsel, was the defendant judged in contempt. The five attorneys convicted of contempt were Harry Sacher of New York, Richard F. Gladstein of San Francisco, Louis F. McCabe of Philadelphia, George W. Crockett, 1Jr., Negro, of Detroit, and Abra- ham J. Isserman of New York. Jurors Are Polled Dead silence followed. The de- fendants sat impassive. Borman then polled the jurors. That took eight minutes. Defense Attorney Richard F. Gladstein then asked the court to COMMIES TAKE OVER IN CANTON BY ASSOCIATED FRE:ZS Victorious Chinese Communists headed into defenseless Canton to- day. Nationalist troops have desert- ed_the city, which has been the Nationalist “capital, and munictpat| *% officials jwere reported opening nego- tiations ror surrender. The Reds were said to be in pos- session of the civilian and mili- tary airfields on the outskirts of Canton. Police attempted to main- tain order until the conquerors take full control. F+ Shungking, the wartime capital on the upper Yangtze in the inter- ior, is again the Nationalist capital. At Lake Success, the United Na- tions Security Council is discussing Russia’s demand for a world count of Atomic weapons. The Soviet proposal has no provision by which the census, could be verified. Thus it is certain to be rejected. France has submitted an amend- ment to the Russian plan which would call for a count on both conventiénal arms as weil as atom weapons and for UN inspection to guarantee the truth of the count. Russia has always opposed such verification as an infringement on| Soviet sovereignty. A bitter international political tilt is developing over the election’| to fill a seat on the Security Coun- cil. Russia is supporting her satel- lite, Czechoslovakia. The United States is supporting Soviet-outcast Yugoslavia. A non-Russian eastern European source said Russia would regard the election of Yugoslavia as breaking up the principle of four-power agreement upon which the UN was founded. A Hungarian appeal court today upheld the death sentence for Lasz- lo Rajk, former Communist Foreign Minister and two others convicted of plotting to make Hungary a | satellite of Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Prison sentences for others convicted in the same plot were also confirmed, L] In Prague, by a unanimous show of hands, Czechoslovakia's Parlia- ment passed two bills aimed at| rigid control of churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church. The new laws cecome effective Nov. FINED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING A. R. Seaton was fined $10 and received a one-day suspended jail sentence in the City Magistrate’s Court today for reckless driving and failing to report an accident. e 0 0 o 0 v o 0 0 o .\ . . e TIDE TABLE o . —_— ° . OCTOBER 15 ° e Low tide, 1:20 am., 29 ft. ® e High tide, 8:09 am, 112 ft. e e Low tide, 13:40 p.m., 76 ft. ® o High tide, 19:17 pm, 130 ft. e . inquire if each juror had consid- ered the evidence separately as it applied to each defendant. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina declined the request. “I have ex- amined the rules and find they make no provision for such an in- terrogation,” he said. Then, M a thanked the jurors —eight women and four men. “I have already thanked you in my charge,” he said. “You have performed a service and deserve thanks for your careful attention to your duties.” Charges To Jury “Before I discharge you,” the Judge said, “I would like to tell you a few things. I need not tell you of the importance of this case, as stressed by counsel for both sides. I tell you now when you leave here do not discuss with any- one, anything about this case, about the deliberations, about any- thing that has to do with the case from begining to end. Do not discuss the case with relatives or friends or members of the press, magazine writers or anyone who seeks to elicit from you any infor- mation about the case.” Defendants Besides Dennis the defendants in the trial were: Jacob Stachel, 48, director of the propaganda and education division. Gllbert Green, 43, Illinols chair- man. John Gates, editor < the Baily Worker, o Benjamin Davis, Jr,, 46, New York City councilman, Gus Hall, 39, Ohlo chairman. Irvlnn Potash, 46, CIO Pur Work- state duinn. John Williamson, 43, labor secre- tary. Henry Winston, 38, organization- al secretary. Carl Winter, 43, Michigan chair- man. Dennis is 44 years of age. Gates, Hall, Thompson and Win- ston all served with the U. 8. Arm- ed forces during the war. Stachel, Potash and Willlamson are foreign-born. No date was set for their sen- tence. The jury deliberated ap=~ proximately seven hours, Attorneys Sentenced Sentences were set at once for the attorneys. Sacher and Gladstein received six months, Crockett was conviced un- der nine specifications and sen- enced to four months on each to run concurrently. McCabe was giv- en 30 days, Isserman was senten- ced to four months. 5 Dennis was sent to prison for six months on the contempt charge. The contempt judgments came as no surprise. Throughout the trial Judge Medina frequently warned the attorneys and Dennis about their conduct. Al Guilty Mrs. Thelma Dial, foreman of the jury, in announcing the verdiet said, “We find each and every one of the defendants guilty.” The verdict was returned to Fed- eral Judge Harold Medina at 11:28 a..m. The jury entered the courtroom at 11:27 am. after deliberating ex- actly seven hours. It received the case at 3:53 p. m. yesterday. The maximum penalty possible {for each defendant is 10 year im- prisonment and $10,000 fine. The jury was polled at the re- quest of Defense Attorney Harry Sacher. In taking the poll, the court clerk, William Borman, asked every juror how he found. He asked them one by one “What | the verdict was?” All answered i"Gumy for all 11.” D-nlle- On Guard The courtroom was crowded and across the front barrier separat- ing spectators from the rest of the room there were about 15 deputy marshals. About 10 other deputies stood” inside at each side of the bench, at the back of the room and at the side of the room:. There was a solid wall of deputies at the entrance to the room in | which the defendants, counsel and jury were stationed. The trial has been in progress for 39 weeks. Prosecutors estimate that the trial, which began last Jan. 17 and was one of the longest criminal trials in American history, cost the | government $1,000,000. The cost to | | o | the defense was estimated at $500,~ 000.