The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,327 Steel Strike May Shut Down Auto THREE QUEENS MEET EXPOSITION DOGS SENATE PUTS | ‘OKON 58 AIR FORCE GROUP House Wins Over Senate- Alaska Progam Is Given in Defail BY DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—[}?,—‘ Fina] Senate agreement to give the | Air Force enough money for 58 combat groups shook loose a $15,- 585,863,498 appropriation for the ! Armed Services today. In this and two other bills, the lawmakers mirrored their deep dis- trust of Communist Russia by plan- ning to spend over $17,000,000,000 for military defenses at home and across the seas. Senate and House committees | reached agreement late yesterday to pour these billions into the greatest peacetime military spending pro- gram this nation ever has under- | taken in a single year. | Included in the total is $1,314,- | 010,000 for nations lined up with the United States in the cold war| against Russia—the bulk of it to! western Europe. Also, $157,611,700 is earmarked | for military construction in Alaska | and on the Pacific Island of Okmw awa. | RADAR SCREEN TO START A $50,000,000 item provides for | the start of construction on a Ra- dar screen to guard the United States from enemy air attack. The votes which will send the | money bills to the White House are expected to be a mere formal- ity. The size 58 air rorce calls-for ten more groups than President Tru- man had requested. This was a victory for the House | over the Senate which had fought | for a 48-group force. The Senate | conferees finally capitulated in con- ference last night to the unbudging House demands for the expanded | air force. The makeup of a group! varies, from 30 big tombers to 75| fighters. About 400 combat planes ! of all types could be added \vnhf the extra money provided. i SENATE WON'T FIGHT i Senator Lucas of Illinois, Demo- crat floor leader, said there will| be no organized fight against the military appropriations bill when it reaches the Senate. The Alaska-Okinawa program | was divided as follows: Army con- struction $32,000,000 cash and $48,- 363,700 contract authority; Navy petrol reserve No. 4, Point Barrow, $5,000,000; Bureau of Yards and| Docks $10,000,000 cash and $15-/ 414000 contract authority; Air| Force $20,000000 cash and $28,-/ 834,000 contract authority. | In addition, the Senate committee | voted $2,000,000 cash and ssoooouo‘ (Continued on Page 2) | e o o o o 0 0 0 o 1 | SUN RISES - SETS | OCTOBER 19 Sun rises at 7:42 am. Sun sets at .. 143 p.m. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON | (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) , ASHINGTON— John L. Lewis is now about as sore at U. S. Steel | as his once friend, now rival cxo chief Phil Murray. This was be-| hind John L.s sudden walkout from | the conference with northern op-| erators at White Sulphur Springs, | Va. and here is the inside story of what happened. Lewis had put a “feeler” to nor- thern owners that they settle the strike by increasing the 20-cent welfare fund payments to 30 cents a ton. Also, Lewis suggested a small, straight wage increase, plus a seven-hour at the same wages the miners now receive for eight hours, work. All this was not a take-it-or- leave-it demand, but a suggested basis for negotiation. The miner boss made it clear that he was| chiefly interested welfare-fund payments. (Continued on Page Four) | 1 3 |Black Douglas Takes Seven | was expected Thursday. i Sunday. in.a boost in|® . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1949 Woman Leaps Info Nef Firemen get a net under Mrs. Helen Schwandt as she leaps from a foot-wide, third story ledge outside her apartment in Chicago, Il Her from policemen, bave his wife committed to the was taken after this leap. Chlcngu ‘fribune. huskand, Edward C. Schwant, said she was trying to escape He had gone earlier to police with documents to psychopathic hospital, where she (" Wirephoto, copyright, 1949, by The SALINA (RUL MEN RESCUED DUCKHUNTERS BY FWS CRAFT from Sinking Lifeboat- Wreck Splits in Two SEATTLE, Oct. 18—®—A “nick of time” rescue saved 17 seamen from the wind-frothed north Pac- ific last night atfer fire turned their wooden lumber schconer, the Sa- lina Cruz, into a blackened, broken hulk. The officers and men were pick ed up by the U. S. Fish and Wild- life Service vessel Balck Douglas Just a8 one of their two lifeboats was awash and sinking. The Douglas reported early to- |day all of the sailors had recov- ered from their ordeal, and she was proceeding to her home port of San Francisco. Arrival there The dramatic rescue a few hours after nightfall 140 miles west of Grays Harbor, Wash., was carried | out in heavy seas kicked up by a 25knot wind. Coast Guard search planes that had been circling over- | | Douglas to the scene. Seven in Sinking Boat Ten of the men in one of the, open lifeboats had managed LO‘ keep afloat without difficulty. They | were the first ones spotted by the| | Douglas. An hour later, after the! second boat had sent up direction | flares, the seven remaining surviv- ¢ ors were pulled from their founder- | ing craft. All members of the Salina Cruz | crew were Mexicans, with the ex- ceullun of the master, Capt. Benja- { | lContmued on Page 2) r STEAMER MOVEMEMTS | Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Thursday 8 a. m. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday at 10 a.m. Baranof scheduled southbound ® ©o 0 0 0 ° 0 0 0 o . e TIDE TABLE . . OCTOBER 19 Low tide, 5:36 am, 0.1 ft. High tide, 11:58 a.m., 17.3 ft. Low tide, 18:08 p.m., 03 ft. ® e% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 PETERSBURG BELIEVED LOST Overtuned Skiff, Oar, Pack| Sack, Sleeping Bag Found by Planes PETERSBURG, Alaska, Oct. 18— (M—Three duck hunters, missing since Sunday night, were feared to- day to have drowned while trying to cross Frederick Sound near the North Arm of the Stikine River. A radio message from two party's skiff, an oar, sleep ng bag and a pack sack. The skiff was found floating, upside down, a mile south of Coney Island, near the Stikine. The missing hunters were identi- fied as Mr. and Mrs. Connor Kin- near and James Miller, all of Pet- ersburg. Kinnear is part owner of | the Special Delivery Transfer Com- pany here. The couple has three small children. Miller, part owner of the Vet's Cab Company, was ! stationed in southeast Alaska with the Coast Guard during the war. His wife and two children are in | head throughout the day guided the | | Petersburg. The trio were reported missing when they failed to rejoin others in their party Sunday night. FIRST SNOW FALL HITS JUNEAU AREA The first snow of the season rled down in Juneau and sur- rounding territory during the night | and this morning there was over | two inches measured. The fall was | general, and mixed with rain, made | sloppy: walking time slipping along. afternoon nothing but slush left in some sections of the city. Russ Marshal Is Called by Death MOSCOW, Oct. 18.—P— Marshal Feodor 1. Tolbukhin, who led Rus- sian armies against the Germans in Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria in World War II, is dead at the age of 65. His death was announced in Mos- cow newspapers and radio broad- cast. By early this was search | i planes disclosed discovery of the Kids had a great | SYMINGTON HITS NAVY IN REBUTTAL 'Hints Second Anonymous Paper Circulating Beriding B-36 WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—(D— Air Secretary Symington, hitting back at Navy critics of the Air Force, accused them today of peddling old, “false” tales and of letting possibie enemies krow “how this country would te defended.” Symington hinted, too, that the Navy is circulating a second anony= mous document. He said one is in { circulation that attempts to «rip apart strategic Lombing and is “far | mere dangerous than the first.” | Symington was before the House | Armed Services Committee; lead- |ing off the Air Force rebuttal to Navy complaints against defense policies. | In long hearings, the Navy has | complained that present policy puts to much stress on the Air Foree | B-36 big bomber and cuts down on the Navy. | B-36 “STILL BEST” | Admiral after Admiral has taken the stand to belittle the possibilit= ies of the bomber. Their general contention has teen that the big plane could not get through an enemy’s defenses and would acs ;omplish little if it did. Symington said the B-36 still is “the best long-range bomber known.” He added: “The ability to fight from our own shores at the start of any war should not te locked on with con- empt.” | The B-36 was designed with the |idea that it would he able to fly !alnns against an enemy in any part {of the world. “BOMBING MYTH” Major missions would be hitting war production centers of the ene- my. This type of air war is called “stra- tegic bm;lhing." Symington, when he told of the new anonymous document, said it is entitled “the strategic bombing myth.” He said it is circulating around the country and has a “disturbing similarity” to arguments the com- mittee has been hearing from the Navy—even identical quotations. 1t is far more dangerous than the because it attacks methods, prin- ciples, and otjectives upen which the country must rely in the event lof war. The first anonymous document which has figured in the Navy-Air Force row was circulated on Cap- itol Hill last summer. It suggested that the B-36 procurement pro- gram was surrounded by irregular- ities and instances of political pull. 1t touched off an investigation by the House committee. Finally, Ced- ric Worth, then a Navy depart- ment official, admitted he wrote it. - RAGING FLOODS TAKE HIGH TOLL IN GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, Guatemala, Oct. 18.—(P—Raging floods in Guate- mala’s interior have taken a toll of hundreds of lives and made thou- sands homeless after more than a week of torrential rains. Estimates i of the dead range as high as 1,000. A United States amphibian plane is reported missing on a mercy mis- sion to the interior. The govern- ment last night requested the Uni ted States to send a plane for reli and rescue work. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 95%, Anaconda 27%, Curtiss- Wright 77, International Harvest- er 26', Kennecott 47%, New York Central 10'z, Northern Pacific 13% U .S. Steel 24, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,210,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | industrials 186.12, rails 4921, from bases in this country on mis-| first document, Symington went on, | MI'MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GETTING ACOUAINTED WITH RESPONSIBILITIES, queens of 1949 Grand National Livestock Ex= position meet coach degs who will keep high strung equines company at San Francisco Cow Palace durlng 10 day show starting October 28. From left: Mary2nne iervin, qucen of livestock show, and Beverly Erennan, rodeo queen, SHIPS CRASH DURING GALE; 1 GOES DOWN BERWICK, Eng.. Oct. 18.—P— The British Aircraft Carrier Al- tion and a small coal freighter <ollided in a gale in the North Sea; today. The freighter sank xwmly, and eight hours later only three of the 24 crewmen aboard were known to have survived. Lifeboats fought the foaming waves hunting survivors near the Farne Islands eight miles off the northeast coast of England. The newly Luilt. 18,500-ton Albion was manned by a civilian crew and was in tow to drydock for comple- tion. The collision rammed a hole in the carrier and she was reported taking water. The Albion had aboard three sur- vivors from the freighter, the 2,- 025-ton Maystone, carrying coal to London. A spokesman for the own- ers of the Maystone, said lifeboat crews still at sea had some hopes f picking up other survivors. SURVEY, ALASKA RAIL LINK, NOW UP TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—P— Presidential approval was awaited cday on a bill proposing an Alaska Railroad survey, a project describ- ed by Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) as of “supreme military import- ance.” The measure, which authorizes the President to negotiate with Can- ada to survey a railroal from Prince George, B. C., to Fairbanks, was passed unanimously by the Sen- ate yesterday after previous House approval. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reporting on the mea- sure yesterday, noted that military survey in 1942 indicated such a railroad was practical and could be built for about $112,000,000. The committee said it felt the survey should be brought up to date, and added: “The present bill will accomplish this purpose and will provide a firm sasis of fact on which a decision to close this gap must be made.” Under the bill, the President is authorized to negotiate with Can- ada for a standard gauge railroad for the Prince George-Fairbanks ;ap. It provides for a survey to de- termine the most practicatle route, as well as construction plans, es- timates of cost and financing plans. The President would designate such existing agenices as he may select to conduct the survey. BPR MEN AT GASTINEAU Louis B. Biggs and J. T. O'Brien of the Juneau branch of the Bureau of Public Roads are registered at the Gastineau Hotel ANGOON GUEST Helen Alice James of Angoon is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, Blg Air Searchls On for 3 Prommenl Anthorage Businessman, 2 Others, Missing, Hunhng Trip ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Oct. 18— (M—Twenty Alr Force and civilian airplanes started a wide search 'today for three persons who have | been missing since Sunday on a !hunting trip southwest of here. They are Pat Cartee, his 10-year- old son, Tom, and Bill Entrikin. Cartee is a well known Anchorage | businessman and sports enthusiast. | He formerly was connected with the | Seattle Hardware Company. Entri- |kin is employed in Cartee’s Hard- ware store. The trio left Sunday in Cartee’s | Aeronca float plane, for the Big Lake area. Cartee is known as a cautious flier. Hope is held for the missing trio on the theory that the small red |and yellow plane may have been frozen in a lake during the sharp weekend freeze. The plane's radio | was reported to have been function- ing tadly recently. 1 THEY ARE FOUND ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 18.— —Aerial searchers this afternoon found the airplane with the three missing persons on Kalgin Island, southwest of here. ' All* appeared | unhur:, TENN. PUBLISHER HAS HIS SAY IN AF-NAVY DISPUTE NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 18.—(® __James G. Stahlman, publisher ot the Nashville Banner and a former Captain in the Naval Reserve, to- day jumped into the thick of the Air Force-Navy controversy over the B-36 bomber. Stahlman said ir Secretary Symingten apparen ly referred to a booklet circulated ty him when Symington hinted at today's Con- ressional hearing of a second an- onymous document circulated by the Navy. The former Naval Reserve Cap- tain said he sent out a tooklet, “the Strategic Bombing Myth,” to fellow publishers after it had been pub- lished in the Banner. The 54-page booklet, Stahlman said, exploded the myth of strategic bombing. Its contents, he added, were taken from official records, ! “most of it from the Air Force files itself and none of which is in any way restricted.” MARRIAGE LICENSE l John M. Olson of Hoonah and jLila Bell Hagel of Juneau have applied for a marriage license in I he office of the U. 8, Commission- & Becker, queen of horse show; Linda PRICE TEN CENT (In ternnlmnall WALLGREN UP ONCE MORE; POWER JOB! WASHINGTON, Oct, 18.—(®— President Truman today named former Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of Washington State as a member. of the Federal Power Commission. The President, at the same time, nominated James M. Mead, former Demccratic Senator from New. York to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Wallgren was chosen to succeed Leland 8. Olds, whose nomination for a third term on the Power Commission was rejected by the Senate in one of its major rebuffs to the President. Wallgren's own nomination to the post of chairman of the National Security Resources Board was shelved last March by the Senate Armed Services Committee in an- other setback for Mr. Truman. The President two months later withdrew that nomination. Wallgren’s new nomination also is subject to Senate confirmation. However, Senators who opposed him for the Resources Board said they would have no objection to his appointment to another post. Both Wallgren and Mead are former members of the old Senate ! war investigating committee which was known as the Truman commit- tee when it was headed by r. Truman, then a member of the Senate. Mead was named to the Trade Commission to succeed Garland S. Ferguson for the term of seven years from Sept. 26, 1948. GETS COMM. APPROVAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—(P— The Senate Commerce Committee today approved unanimously Pres- ident Truman’s nominations of-Mon C. Wallgren for the Power Com- mission and James Mead for the Trade Commission. ® @ & o ©o ° 0 o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, minimum, 29. At Alrp(}rt ~-Maximum, 39; minimum, 22. 39; FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with rain showers tonight and Wed- nesday. Lowest temperature tonight 36 with highest on Wednesday, 45 degrees. : . : : : . . : : . : : . . | . 1 : = | . 1 . . . . . . 3 . o . . . . . ° [ . . . Industry MAKING OF AUTOS MAY BE STOPPED Supplies %fied Run- ning Low-Several Hun- dred Thousands Be Out (By The Associated Press) The nation's steel strike—if there is no quick settlement—appears headed to land a staggering blow to the country’s automobile indus- try. Many of the car and truck mak- ers, their steel supplies dwindling because of the 18 day old strike, apparently are faced with early shutdowns of three weeks or more. The shutdowns, which an indus- try source said may start early next month if steel shipments are not resumed by next Monday, will make idle several hundred thous- andn auto workers. The nation’s strike idle now is about 1,000,000, The steel walkout already has made idle some 450,000 workers. ‘The country’s second major labor dispute has put 400,000 soft coal workers on the strike lines. The walkout of 16,000 to 20,000 CIO United Steelworkers in nine plants of the Aluminum Company of America started yesterday. The steel strike started by work- ers in the basic plants Oct. 1 in the dispute over free pensions is spreading to the fabricating com- panies. Hundreds of fabricators which deal with the CIO-USW face strikes witen their strike deadlines expire between now and Dec, 15. About 20 -fabricators have signed new agreements with the union. In Detroit, a top auto industry executive, who asked anonymity, said: “If we keep going and use up all the steel we have on hand it { will take three or four weeks to store up enough more to permit re- sumption of car and truck output.” The shutdowns would delay new model changeovers by the General Motors, Chrysler and possibly Ford. Ford produges some of its own steel. Government labor officials, how- ever, moved to effect settlements in both the steel and coal strikes. If they do not succeed, it was indi- cated, President Truman will be given the job of trying to bring peace between the disputants. Cyrus 8. Ching, federal mediation | service chiet, planned to meet with officials of the U. S. Steel Cor- poration tomorrow. POLITICAL CRISIS DEEPENS IN FRANCE; CANT GET CABINET (By The Associated Press) In France, the political crisis deepened. President Vincent Auriol still could find no political leader able to obtain sufficient support to accept the premiership. Socialist Jules Moch attempted to pick a cabinet but he threw in the sponge last night. Former Pre- mier Henri Queuille precipitated the crisis. He resigned when his coalition cabinet split over freez- ing of wages under the pinch of devaluation of the franc and threatened inflation. J. T. GROOMER RITES SET FOR WEDNESDAY Funeral services for J. T. “‘Jack" Groomer, who died Friday, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary here. Pallbearers will be Mike Kerry, Charles K. Markinen, Irvin Hill, John Boland, T. B. Erickson, and Vic Power. Interment will green Cemetery. be in the Ever- RESERVE MEETING OFF Meeting of Juneau reserve of- ficers, scheduled for tonight, has ij*PRECIPITATIONS ® (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | City of Juneau—26 inches; e| since Oct. 1, €22 inches; e since July 1, 2749 inches. L] At the Airport—21 inches; since Oct. 1, 3.09 inches; @ since July 1, 18.39 inches. . . . . . . . L3 * 0 09 0 9 0 90 been cancelled because poor flying weather has prevented the instruc- tion party frem reaching Juneau, according to Col. Neil Fritchman, head of the Juneau units of re- serve officers. The meeting has beeh tentatively scheduled for Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the Salvation Army reading room,