The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,330 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 11 Convicted Communists Sentenced to Prison SOMEHOPEIN STEEL STRIKE, NOT IN COAL Mine Owners Say lems Wants to Destroy Coal Industry BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Coal operators walked out on| contract talks with the United Mine | UEW FILES ' NON-COMMIE AFFIDAVITS Left ngers Submit fo| Law - Justice Dept. fo Check Authenticity | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—(®— The left-wing United Workers, biggest - CIO holdout Electrical Cuf Spending, Boost Income; To Beat Taxes Senator Say_sfluman's Tax | Raise Needless If Income Raised BY FRANCES M. LE MAY i WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—®—| | Capitol Hill fired back at Presi-| Minufe Men Termed Key . For Security !Idea Is Advanced fo Meet Commie Threat-""Action Rather than Talk™ BY EDWARD O. ETHELL DENVER, Oct. 21.—(®—A mod- ern organization of minute men to| meet threats of Communist sabot- Workers Friday. But there was a‘ against Taft-Hartley Act rules, gave | tiicker of hope that a break maydn today and filed non-Communist dent Truman’s talk of a tax increase ‘mday with “counter proposals tofage was proposed today. It was come in the steel strike. Northern and western mine op-‘ erators left White Sulphur Sprmgs,l W. Va., where negotiations designed | to end the five weeks old coal strike, were being held. 1onths from its officers. The affidavits are required ty; the labor law before a union can| have access to National Labor Re- | | lations Board machinery for such things as collective bargaining el-| slash government spending instead. termed the key to adequate ficnunty The plan was offered ty C. B. Lister of Washington, Executive Di- rector of the National Rifle Asso- Another popular suggestion on how to make the government's ends meet was: | By tax adjustments and other in- centives, encourage a billowing in- ciation, Lister helped draft the first manual on Home Guard organiza- They accused John L. Lewis of be- | ections. They must state that the ing willing “to destroy” the coal in- | union officers are not Communists dustry “in his mad race for power.” and are not sympathetic to Com- They said they would meet Wilh;n‘dlnlrn}. union leaders again when the union| The UE has been described in leaders show they are 1eady “to hearings of the House un-American consider our employees and the| Activities Committee as a hotbed industry.” of Communist activity. The situation in the costly, 21-day | Officers who submitted the anti- steel strike, says Cyrus S. Ching, Red oaths included President Al- | dustrial and business economy with!tion in World War II. sights set on a $300,000,000,000 na- | his Board of Directors tional jncome. That, it is figured,|establish a new internal | would yield adequate revenue—|force of ,civilians in | without hikes in tax rates—to sup-,“while there is time." port federal, state and local govern- | ments. National income now is at | the rate of about $217,000,000,000. House Repuclican Leader Martin, | of Massachusetts, issued a state-| their atom bomb,” “A lot of talk—and very He asked |election of Yugoslavia to the U. N. to help ! security Council. security | states | came from Maj. Gen. | voda, who fled from the Yugoslav | “Russia could cripple this nation army to Rumania last year. in 12 hours without ever using an,said Premier Marshal Tito of Yu- Lister declared in an|goslavia had allied interview elaborating on his plan.| little | patriots’ "Cominform .loumal 0uoies. CIVIL WAR PREDICTED, YUGO I.AND General - Everything Is ‘ Spearheaded by Russ | (By The Assoclated Press) The monthly journal of the Com- inform carried an article today pre- | dicting civil war in Yugoslavia, butt Moiher Suffocated Under Daughter's Body During Sudden Ternadoin Texas Acheson Lays { 1t Right Down | | About Russia | , teacher, was the lone fatality of the| BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | U. S. Secretary of State Acheson | summed up the Russian situation | Ly dmmlbmg Russia last night as| of Moscow's rage. “the aggressively imperialist po“el\ The article, signed by a refugee| Yugoslay general, was being read in the light' of Russia’s stinging de- feat in the United Nations yester- day and her cminous prediction of “painful consequences” over tlay | of our times, seeking to expand its | ABILENE, Texas, Oct. 21.—(®—A mother suffocated today beneath the body of her daughter, critically injured in a tornado which ex= ploded their home early today. Mrs. Ruty Lee Pearson, 37, n| brief storm which appeared to have died out near this west Texas town. Her daughter, Mina La Dell, 11, was injured critically. Long nails from heavy timebers of the house were driven into her body as she y helpless over her mother's face.| Allay Pearson, 51, the husband fid father, who is blind, and Eddie | dominion where its grasp and its| | 1a; | reach coincide, and to cause con-| | fusion and disintegration where its|ar grasp falls short.” ! In a New York speech, Ache- (son urged Americans to face the - | facts of the world fearlessly, to re- civil War| giize that the problems of “Soviet Pero Popi- | i hojalism” in Europe and Asiaj are interlocked. The prediction of He himself with imperialists and thus “Yugoslav resistance to the traitors Federal Mediation Chief, “is not hopeless.” NO OPTIMISM, EITHER But, Ching said in a statement in | The ten Vice Presidents also sign- | ple.” New York last night after confer- | ences with U. S. Steel Corporauon officials; “we do not want to create the impression that there is a basis | for optimism.” Ching’s hint of hope, coupled with & warning against optimism, | followed earlier comment by Pre- sident Truman that he has no pre- sent plans for intervening in the steel or coal strikes or for seiz- . ing_elther ~imdustry.. - Ching’s statement came as the continuing steel-coal tieups choked off much of the nation's industrial | activity and made idle more than a million workers. Ching and other top mediation officials planned to meet again| today with representatives of “big steel.” They hope to get the steel‘ companies and CIO United Steel-| workers to resume negotiations and | attempt to settle their dispute over| free pensions. There was some progress in the| coal strike, insofar as the southern operators meeting at Bluefield, W.| Va., were concerned, but northern: and western operators appeared hopelessly deadlocked with John L. Lewis. CITY COUNCIL TO MEET AT CITY HALL TONIGHT City Council will hold its regular meeting in the Council Chambers | of the City Hall tohight at 8 o’clock. Matters to be considered include will be based. STEAMER MOVEMFNTS Princess Louise from Vancouver stheduled to arrive Sunday’ after- noon or evening. - Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle 10 a. m. tomorrow. Baranof scheduled southbound Sunday. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON iCopyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.! ASHINGTON — You can un-| derstand why folks get cynical about good government when you watch the parade of little income- tax evaders who are hauled to court every week, while certain big boys get their cases postponed, in- terminably. For instance, it has now been one year since this column—Oct. 19 1948—first reported the shameless manner in which two road con- tractors, living under the nose of Washington officials, had cheated their government in building the network of macadam roads which wind around the largest building in the world—the Pentagon. The two contractors, W. J. “Doc” Hardy and F. McKenzie Davison had been caught by Treasury agents quick-changing Uncle Sam out of $500,00 by all sorts of devious tricks. Among other things they made out checks to two other contractors, W. W. Thomas and S. M. Redd, (Continued on Page Four) | bert J. Fitzgerald, Secretary-Trea-|ment saying the President wants| | surer Julius Emspak, and Director | more taxes to put “his socialist| | of organization James J. Matles. | schemes over ;m the American peo- action—on civilian defense plans, | Will inevitably grow into an armed | centering mostly on disaster re- Struggle and will destroy the imper- | lief, has betrayed the average Am- .lnlist plans which already have beca | ed. The NLRB has no discretion | about accepting the affidavits. The authenticity of the oaths is a mat- | ter for the Justice. Department to | check on. RED CHARGES AT | WASHINGTON PROF SAID T0 BE FALSE j ECONOMY TERMED “SHAKY” “The American economy,” he de-| clared, “is so shaky now that an| increase in the tax burden might| easily lead to a depression with mil- lions out of jobs.” Mr. Truman disclosed his 1950 tax objective at his news confer- ence yesterday, despite (A) thnt] Congress has ignored his call last January for a $4,000,000,000 tax in-| crease, and. (B) 1950 is election year. All House members and one-third |of the Senate will be out asking votes then from taxpayers. Mr. Truman told the newsmen, SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—(®—Univer- ‘ that if anybody could tell him any | [ sity of Washington President Ray-| way, without tax increases, to | mond B. Allen sald today he be-|meet an estimated $5,000,000,000 fed- | lieves the charge that Prof. Melvm‘reral deficit in the current tiscal erican into a sense of security. “But the Communists could tack without warning. They co do it through their cells. scattered over the United States. “Even if the FBI has spotted ev- ery cell and every Communist, they could effectively sabotage our power and ‘communication systems, our water supply and transportation net, and our vital industrial plants. They | could do it before wholesale arr could be made. His plan provides simply for mat- ching each Communist cell with a | cell—or two cells—of minute men. These would be organized in ev- ery community and every strategic| industrial plant. They would be vol- {untary. Their assignments would | be to guard familiar otjects: The Rader attended a New York Com- munist school is false. It has been a disputed allegation ever since George Hewitt of New year, then he'd like to be told. highway bridge at the edge of town; PROPOSALS LISTED the dam backing up the reservoir Chairman George (D-Ga) of the|that provides water for their farm- | Senate Finance Committee came up | lands; the local power station; the big transformer at .the factory; the { | two- thirds majority, the delegations | { exposed.” | In the United Nations, where the 4 | Yugoslavs, with American support, | won the. Council seat by a bare| went their routine ways today, bub‘ there was much speculation over what Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Vishingsky had meant by‘ “painful consequences.” Yugoslav- | ia takes the seat at the end ot‘ the year, leaving Russia a lonely mincrjty of one on the powerful Council. Russia still retains the| veto, of course. As for armed conflict in Yugo- slavia, you can pick your own ru- | mor today. There have been re- IS FOR PEACE AND ECONOMY,| BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—(®— Secretary of Defense Louis John- son sald today his direction of the | military establishment is aimed to keep world . and get taxpay- ers 100 cents worth of defense for every dollar spent. The big, balding Cabinet officer cracked back hard from the witness ! chair of the House Armed Services { ports of Sovidt troop movements in \ Committee at critics of his depart- the countries of the Cominform |ment and its policies. ringing Yugosivia, reports of infu- | In truth, Johnson said, the De- | tration of potential guerrilla fight- | partment has an “emergency war ers against Tito, reports that the‘plan" that calls for utmost use of all Green Communist guerrillas with- | the services and doesn’t resemtle drawn from the written-off Greék | at all the picture painted by some Admirals. civil war were preparing to dupli- | York, self-styled former Commun-|immediately with his counter pro- |cate their tactics inside Tito's ter-! Johnson was the climactic wit- Earl, 14, a son, were less seriously injured. A vacated barracks just behind their home, several barns and other smaller buildings also were wrecked. HIGHEST SALMON PACK SINCE 1944 | IS FINAL REPORT {Total Pack -B;a_ts Last Year Southeast Alaska Is 95% Abm@ 1948 SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—(®—The fin- al 1940 Alaska canned salmon re- port today listed the season’s pack at 4,375,147 cases—highest since, 1944, “Tt compared with a pack of s.m..- 540 last year. The 1944 pack was 4,- i 893,059. . The finai report was an lncrmsei of 35,595 cases since the September 24 report. It covered the pack through October 15. All tut 310 cases of that late sea-| son addition came in southeast Al- aska. As reported previously, the boost in the 1049 pack in southeast Al- aska, where the final total was 2.-; 511,274 cases, compared to 1,283,-| i ist, testified that Rader was one! of those who attended the school for Communists in the summer of 1938 or 1939. His testimony was be- i fore the Washington State legis- lature’s un-American Activities in- ‘vestigaung (Canwell) committee last year, 'ARMY TESTS NEW DRAMAMINE CURE SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—(—Been de- cause of sea-sickness? Well, forget it. Military authorities say they {can cure 95 out of 100 cases with | dramamine pills. | The Seattle Port of Embarkation said the recent tests were made at| the request of the Army Surgeon General on 600 green-at-the-gills pasesngers on six ships on Alaska and Japan runs. Half of the sick passengers were |given the yellow dramamine pills. | The others were given a sugar-and- starch pill which they thought was dramamine. Within an hour or less, 95 per- cent of those receiving dramamine said they felt better. posal: telephone switchboards. “I think the way to meet our de- ficit ie: 1. To reduce spending, and 2. Readjust our taxes so as to en- ' FOR SEASICKNESS applications for city jobs and the | millage rate upon which city taxes | laying that océan excursion be-| courage greater production and in- spire greater activity in all lines. “I have a strong conviction that | we should encourage increased pro- duction until we achieve an an- nual nationa] income of somewhere |in the neighborhood of $300,000,000,~ ' PRAGUE ARRESTS U.S. OFFICIALS | ON SPY CHARGES PRAGUE, Oct. 21.—(M—Czecho- slovakia arrested an American Em- bassy clerk tonight and demanded the recall of an assistant attache| on charges that the two were spies. A note delivered to the U. 8. Em- bassy named the arrested clerk as Samuel Meryn, who is attached ‘Amforg Is Indicled WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—(P—A Federal Grand Jury teday indicted Soviet Russia’s Amtorg Trading| Corporation on charges of vio- | lating the Foreign Agents Registra- tion Act. Attorney General J. Howard Mec- | Grath announced the return of the| indictment by a Grand Jury here. Amtorg represents Russian commer- cial interests in the United States. McGrath said six officers of the corporation also were indicted. i ritory. SECY. JOHNSON HITS AT NAVY "STRAW MEN" WASHINGTON Oct. 21.—(P—| Secretary Louis Johnson declared today he is running the Defeme‘ Department in the interests of; the American people and world peace. He said he intends to hew to that line despite “straw men” and “ralse‘ They are charged with omitting to rumor: " which he attributed to the file with the Justice Department a registration statement as an agent of the Soviet Government, ‘They are: Aleksei Vasilievich Zakharov, Dmi- tri Ivanovich Bagrov, Vassili Petro-| to the military attache’s office, and the Embassy attache as Isaac Patch, Jr, who also is Vice Consul in Prague. Phtch comes from Gloucester, Mass. He arrived in Prague last February, after diplomatic service | in Moscow and Manchuria. vich Retrov, Serguei = Andreevich Shevchenko, Aleksander Aleksand- rovich Itschenko, and Gennadi Nik- | olaevich Oglobin. e 6 0o o 0o 0 0 o o WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) Navy. Johnson was the climax witness; befere the House Armed Services| Committee which has heard Navy charges that present defense poli- cies are wrong and are hurting na- | tional security. Johnson said all he is trying to do is see that the money of the taxpayers is put into the most modern and efficient defense equip- | ment so_that they can get a hun- dred cents worth of defense for every dollar spent. And, throwing his “wholehearted" | ness in the wind-up of the House ;791 last year and 1090456 in 1947. zroups airing of the bitter row|The southeast Alaska pack was 9s| |in the Armed Services. On the final | percent above last year, while the| | day of the two weeks of hearings{pack of other areas dropped. ‘l'he' lthe members would study the tes- | timony and, beginning Sh! Not Even a th Dorothy Lamour Is o ot support” behind unification of the! Armed Forces, the Secretary said that there is “an essential and hon- jorable role” for each of them to | fulfill under present strategy plans. (Thi; data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 48; | it also heard former President Her- {sharpest fall-off hen Hoover and Gen. George C. Marshall war-time Army Chief ot Staff and former Secretary of State. Hoover called for “peace within the Armed Services.” Marshall sald money was “at the root” of all the squabbling. The difficulty, Marshall said, is that none of the services | can have all the money they think the, need. Hoover was'the last witness. Af- ter hearing him, the committee ad- journed until Jan. 3 Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) said that meantime | | ] | Januaty, would discuss “the best course to follow.” AlASKA IMPORTANL SAYS WEDEMEYER, 'NEW 6TH ARMY (. 0. ] SAN FRANGISCO, Oct. 21.—(P— Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer as- | sumed command of the Sixth Army at the Presidio yesterday. He suc- ceeds Gen. Mark W. Clark, now! Chief of the Army Field Forces. “1 intend to do all within my lim- ited power to make the Pacitic Coast secure with the.means given to me by my government,” he told was in Bristol Bay where the pack, which ended in August, was only 563,020 com- pared to 1,316,168 last year. There were 119 canneries operat- ing in the Territory this year against 124 last year and 115 in 1947 Although the pack was greater than last year, the dollar value! was off because of the drop in’the higher priced red pack and the lower prlceq this year i RAZED SCHOONER IS “ RAMMED AND SUNK BY COAST GUARD, SEATTLE, Oct. 21— ( —The Coast Guard Cutter Northwind,| icebreaker veteran of Arctic runs,| destroyed the fire-razed bow sec- ALSO FINED $10,000 BY FED. JUDGE Ten Go fo Prison for Five Years-Eleventh Gets 3 Years—Appeal Taken (By Joe Murphy and Ed Creagh) NEW YORK, Oct. 21—(®—Fed- eral- Judge Harold R. Medina today sentenced ten Communist Party leaders—virtually the whole of the | party’s high command—to prison for five years and fined each of | them $10,000. An 11th defendant, war veteran Robert Thompson, convicted with the others of criminal conspiracy to teach overthrow of the U. S. government by force, got three years and & $10,000 fine. Medina took into consideration Thompson’s war record. Courtroom Guarded Medina imposed sentence in & packed and heavily guarded court- room while a crowd of about 1,000, including many outspoken Com- munist sympathizers, milled outside. The five-year terms and $10,000 fines were the heaviest sentences that could be imposed under a 1948 revision of the Smith Act, under which all 11 were tried and convict- ed in an historic nine-month trial that ended a week ago. Got Five Years Those sentenced to five years were: Eugene Dennis, 44, general secre- tary of the Communist party. John B. Willlamson, 46, labor sec~ rmx. nctor Gus Hall, Ohio state chairman. John Gates, 36, editor of The | Daily Worker. Henry Winston, 35, organization- ;al secretary. Carl Winter, 43, Michigan state chairman. Benjamin Davis, Jr, York City councilman. Gilbert Green, 43, Illinois chair- man, Irving Potash, 46, member of the national committee. Winston and Davis are Negroes. Asked For 10 Years U. 8. Attorney John F. X. Mc- Gohey pleaded repeatedly that each convicted man be jailed for 10 years, the original maximum under the 1940 Smith Act. Speaking for the entire group before sentence was imposed, the bulky grey-haired Dennis expressed confidence that all 11 ultimately would win ‘“vindication” in the 46, New {higher courts, to which their con- viction and sentencing was appeal= ed within an hour. Dennis declared the Communist will continue to function |“come what may." 'REPRESENTATIVES OF CHINESE REDS REPORTED IN U. §. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—P— tion of the freighter Salina CruziSenators have clamped a secrecy this morning by ramming it. /1id on a State Department mem- Coast Guard Headquarters said| orandum discussing reports that that the Cutter reported "nothlng.seven representatives of the Chi- larger than logs” temains of the nese Communist government arrived derelict hulk of the ill-fated shlpim the United States last August. which burned, broke in two and| The existence of the document capsized last Monday. 4came to light today in the printed The 100-foot section of the freigh- | report of hearings held by the Mama of Boy No. 2 HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21.—(P—It's | two boys for Dorothy Lamour now. The actress gave birth to Richard Thomson Howard, seven pounds, two and half ounces, last night at Good Samaritan Hospital. Husband Wwilliam Ross Howard III, adver- tising executive, was on hand to greet his second son. The other is Ridgely, three and a half. MARRIAGE LICENSE Levi N. McKinley and Sophie Houston, both of Hoonah, have ap- plied for a marriage license in the U. S. Commissioner's office here. DIVORCE SUIT FILED Hal Graves has filed suit for divorce against Glenna Graves in the U. S, District court here, minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 47; minimum, 40. How It Ended WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 21. —(P—The best laid plans of mice and men oftimes. ’ Victoria Penlick, nurse at the Walla Walla Veterans Hospital, and Dr. W. A. Millington, also a staff member, were married last night, seemingly with all the sec- recy they had requested. What they and Chaplain Law- rence Cousins didn't know was that the microphone near which they stood for the ceremony was on. All 400 persons in the hospital were tuned in. FORECAST (Juneau and Vietnity) Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight near freezing in town and near 27 in outlying areas. Highest temperature Saturday near 46 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 23 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—2.05 inches; since Oct. 1, 985 inches; since July 1, 3112 inches. At the Airport—99 inches; since Oct. 1, 4.64 inches; FROM TAKU LODGE i since July 1, 19.84 inches. Jack W. Campbell of Taku Lodge is registered at the Gastineau Ho- tel, ©0000000%00000000000000000000s 02 €00 0000000000000 000000000c0000s 0 0 9 9 0 0 0 reporters. He added that, though he was |not in command of the Alaskan theatre, it would ce his duty to pro- vide well-trainel men for that “very important area.” —_— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau {mine stock today is 3%, American ei/Can 96, Anaconda 28, Curtiss- -lwngm 8, International Harvester 0\27 Kennecott 47%, New York o Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, ',U S. Steel 24%, Pound $2.80%. e | Sales today were 1,200,000 shares. eo| Averages today are as follows: o industrials 186.20, rails 48.51, util- 9 9 9 v 9 9 9 ¢ o ities 3835 @ e 0o 0 v 0 0 0 0 o0 TIDE TABLE OCTOBER 22 High tide, 1:50 a.m., 18.4 ft. Low tide, 7:45 am, -05 ft. High tide, 1:32 pm., 207 ft. Low tide, 8:19 p.m., .040 ft. e®ce0oeccncene SON RISES - SETS OCTOBER 22 Sun rises at 7:49 a.m. Sun sets at .. 32 p.m. PR R R RN Y L ter was destroyed about 75 miles due west of Aberdeen. It was a threat to navigation. | SEARCH TO CONTINUE | FOR PETERSBURG MAN Further search by a 40-man pnrzyi at the mouth of the Stikine River today for the body of Connor Kin-| near, Petersburg duck hunter, trought mothing to light. | This word was reecived by the| Coast Guard Headquarters here. Kinnear was a member of a hunting party with Mrs. Kinnear and James Miller, both of Peters- burg. Their skiff was found floating | upside down a mile south of Coney Island. The bodies of Mrs. Kinnear and Miller were found Wednesay. Search for Kinnear will contmue‘ at low _tide tomorrow, the Coast Guard said, has | | Senate Appropriations Committe§ on the foreign arms program. The report shows that Senator Knowland (R-Calif) told Under- secretary of the State Webb, who was testifying behind closed doors: “I have been informed on what I believe to be reliable authority that there are seven representative® lof the North China Communist government that came into this country by way of Honolulu on or | after August 25 . FOREST SUPERVISOR RETURNS FROM MEETING IN SEATTLE Knecx Marshall, Forest Supervisor at Petersburg, arrived in Juneau yesterday via Pan American Air- ways after attending the annual * meeting of the Society of Ameri- |can Foresters in Seattle. The society is a foresters’ techni. cal organization. lllrshlll returned to Petersburg wday. acob Stache), 49, ediicational =