The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,333 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1949 MEMDER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTH Rumors and (agey Silence Abound in New Strike Area as Boom and Nufggels 6 SHORTAGE OF COAL | IS ACUTE Thousands Will Be Unable| to Heat Homes-Appeal | Made to President By Associated Press Soft coal retailers said today that thousands of people in hund- reds of cities are unable to buy fuel for home heating. They urged President Truman to act immediately to end the coal strike, they said the coal “emer- gency” is greater than that in the steel strike, A strongly worded telegram, dis- patched to the President by J. At- lee Schafer, President of the Ameri- can Retail Coal Association, de- clared that “A national emergency in the bituminous coal consuming area exists right now,” and if the government fails to take immed-| iate effective action to end the, strike, “tragic consequences for the pecple of the United States” will follow. Cyrus S. Ching, top government mediator in the steel and coal strikes, made a 45-minute report on the labor crisis to the White House. Ching talked with John R. Steel- man, the President's assistant. Steelman was to convey it to Mr. Truman' personally. The word at the White House was that the President still had no plans to intervene in the dis-| putes. H Until now, Mr. Truman has left the matters in Ching’s hands for| mediation. . Meanwhile, within ranks of the | I ! soon whether this gold rush is des- { his water-propelled fishwheel. el Bigger By JACK DAUM Fairbanks News-Miner Staffer FISHWHEEL, Alaska, Oct. 25— [M—Rumors that more nuggets had Leen found along the banks of the fabled Yukon River swept periodic- | ally through this booming gold rush | camp today. But attempts to trace the finds met with a wall of cagey | silence. - - | Prospectors eyed one another suspiciously, unwilling to talk about their luck in panning the stream until they have filed their claims. Although the temperature is 15 below and stifl falling, many of the early arrivals have begun panning for the precious stuff all men dream about, From their results we may know tined to be remembered along with the other famous ones of Alaska! history. That is the opinion held by veteran gold seekers who impa- | tiently await each dawn to renew their hunt for the yellow metal amid the Yukon sands. H Feverish activity up and down the river from last week’s discovery site 20 miles southeast of Fort Yukon heightened its tempo as a report trickled through Fishwheel's mushrooming tent city. The word | was that a three-eighth in’h nug- get had been found. NUGGETS FOUND ‘The nugget was said to have been accidentally pulled up in a miner’s bucket from the tottom of a water Fole on the south bank of the river one-quarter of a mile from tkhe original strike. Earl Hurst, veteran Alaska pros- pecter, admitted his saw the nugget, which he described as “good coarsec gold.” . A trapper from Eagle, Charlic His Lordship, the Marquess of Mil Remaine Simpson, just like any other travelers, sit on their baggage on pier as they await customs inspection following their arrival on the liner Queen Elizabeth at New York. The Marquess, second cousin of King George VI, said he and the slender, dark-haired American divorcee would be married in Washington, D. C., “late in November.” P Wirephoto. Even as You Iford Haven and his fiancee, Mrs. FIRST SNOW BRINGS COLD MANY AREAS Biederman, also said he examinec nuggets - panned half a mile up- stream from Discovery Island, on which Clifton Carroll first found pea-sized nuggets as he dismantled In neither case was it possible tc learn accurately who made the later discoveries. With aircraft streaming in from Fairbanks and Fort Yukon, scores CIO, there were developments m‘ the struggle over the majomy'sJ anti-Communist policy. At Cleveland, the CIO Executive Board met to decide what should be done about 1,000,000 members of 12 unions whose leadership has defied orders aimed at stamping out leftist. influence. There has been talk of expulsion of the dissident unions, but their membership is approximately one sixth of the entire CIO fold. | In New York, charges were aired ; that the non-conformist CIO un- | ions were making ready to form a! new Communist-dominated feder- | ation. This declaration, by Peter Aversa, President of District Six, CIO Farm Equipment Workers, was made in an affidavit to the New York Supreme Court. Justice Julius Miller ordered a, hearing Friday to determine whe- | ther a referendum of the FE mem- bership approving merger with the CIO United Electrical Workers Un- | fon should be voided. Both unions | are led by officials in official CIO disfavor. The WTISHQIM Merry - Go- Round . By DREW PEARSON ‘Copyrizht, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i ASHINGTON—Still coy about of new prospectors arrived daily lured to the rim of the Arctic by the age-old bunt for gold. A second landing field was estab- lished yesterday about five miles upstreem from Discovery Island Bush pilot Jim Magoffin paced it off and dubbed it “Yukon Ice’ airport. “TOWN” BOOMING The influx of gold seekers has doutled this mining camp’s popu- lation from last Saturday night't 75. More than 60 plane trips intt the area from Fairbanks were log- ged yesterday, compared to 50 Sun- day and 20 Saturday. Even heavier aerial traific is ex- pected with two landing strips available, Heretofore, small air- craft bearing bearded prospectols had only a Discovery Island sand- (By the Associated Press) Freezing cold hit the souther: plains today, following heavy ra which took at least three lives and damaged the cotton crop at harvest time. Even lower temperatures moved into the Northeast and Midwest after the season’s first snows lell at several points. In the Texas panhadle, Dalhart reported an early morning low of 26 degrees. Elk City, Okla., had the season’s lowest, 29, after two days’ rain which delayed the cotton har- vest but helped other crops. Thousands of geese were sighted in the chilly Midwest. They were making their annual southward mi- gration from Canada. Snow covered the ground at Georgetown, Del. There was snow in upstate New York and flurries swirled over parts of Maine. The low New England temperature was 18 degrees at Rumford and Houlton, Me. Some parts of Texas got a heavy drenching and many streams over- Towed. Three persons died. Many families in San Antonio had to tlee their homes, bar on which to put down. It is easy to separate the profes- sionals from the amateurs. Oldtimers—veterans of strikes at Chandalar, Pedro, Fairbanks and Firth River—go methodically about the business of setting up camp, storing grub and kindling their stoves. Then they find “color” in the river mud with a few swishes of their battered pans. Finally they begin staking out their claims Color consists of ‘minute gold flake: without commercial value. Newcomers usually are over- equipped and are garbed in Arctic his St. Louis romance, Vice Pres“lclothin i b g with the unmistakatle look dent Barkley blushingly admitted |or recent acquaintance with store to the Senate before adjourninggpelyes, that he “may” spend some time in NEWCOMERS' DITHER Missouri instead of heading right| Tpey invariably dash toward the back to. Kentucky. first group of men they sight, ask The question was brought up by | girections and then plunge off M':fo;";u‘:s‘;;g:n&“m‘;aess Sen-1,cr0ss the ice towhrd the tail ends ‘llow R‘; bl Sen:wr \?V“L of Fishwheel town—either up or % 4 T Waynel 4,ynstream—in a ceaseless search Stese, of. Oresty, Bited. thak the“m, unclaimed ground which may Vice President would be welcome t0 . 0o oo1d his state any time—even if he is a | %’} f‘m;t e LR Democrat. With a twinkle in his eye, Don- nell broke in: “I should like to invite the Vice President most gra- ciously to visit Missouri occasion- ally.” “The present occupant of Lhe' chair appreciates that lnvilptton,' and in view of its sincerity, the with sleeping bags too short for them, some with parkas, some with overcoats, some with pitifully in- adequate clothing—sleeping in tents and in the open as the tempera- tures dropped to 15 below zero. Things are easier for the veterans who brought stoves and proper bed- ding. Many others are seeking inore {permanent shelter at Fort Yukon, to which the “taxi” fee by air from the strike scene is $10 per trij chair may accept it,” smiled Bark-l ley. “I will say to the Vice President that I was quite confident that he| would, when I extended the invita- tion,” replied Donnell. “The chair would like to state,” STEAMER MOVEMENTS - Denali from Seattle in port westbound. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock, sails south two hours later at 9 o'cleck. ATTENTION REBEKAHS All members are-asked to attend the funeral of Chas, Bland from the Carters Mortuary Wed. Oct. 26 at 2 pm. e o 0 o o 0o o . 3 e WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau--Maximum, 48; minimum, 41. At Airport—Maximum, 45; minimum, 40. FORECAST (Juneau ana Vieinity) Rain tonight and Wednes- day. Southeasterly winds from 15 to 25 mph tonight, decreasing Wednesday. Low temperature tonjght about 40, highest Wednesday about 46. PR (Past City since since At since since eeevs00c00s0eeeran ECIPITATION s nours ending 7:30 a.m. today of Juneau—97 inches; Oct. 1, 1070 inches; July 1, 3197 inches. Airport — .03 inches; Oct. 1, 497 inches; July 1, 2027 inches, HAINES VISITOR Chester Loop of Haines is a guest {at the Gastineau Hotel, replied the Vice President, “that e ee (Continued on Page Four) i e 9 9 0 0 o o wife, Yvonne, 39. Just Like a Woman! Can You Beat If? OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. 25—P— Mrs. Fred Browne said she stop- ped and got out when she heard a clanging noise under her brand| ne car. [ car seemed to be runtile all right without the tig steel disk lying on the road but she decided to take it home for her husband to look at» “I just tugged and pulled,” she caid, explaining how she loaded it into the car trunk. “I guess I was o scared I'd wrecked ‘the car that 1 cculd have lifted almost any- thing.” Hubbie took one look at the big steel 'disk and suggested she take the manhole cover back to the city works department. MAN FROM ANNETTE SLAND IS HELD FOR KILLING OF HIS WIFE CHICAGO, Oct. 25—(P—A one= time Tacoma, Wash, housepainter was held by police last night after a woman was found shot and killed { in a West Side Chicago hotel room. The man identified himself as Arthur Barstow, 44, and told Lt. John J. Cogger the woman was his Barstow, bleeding from a slight scalp wound when arrested, said he shot his wife for “unfaithfulness.” He told Det. Arthur Paleznynski later that they had separated in Tacoma six months ago. He went to Annette Island, Alaska, and she to Chicago. He came here three weeks ago to attempt a reconcili- ation. | CONFERENCE PRESIDENT, JOHNSON IN Airing of Feuding Service; Branches Is Reported Under Discussion AMWASHINGTON, Oct. 25—(P—Sec- retary of Defense Johnson confer- red with President Truman today immediately after a huddle with, civilian heads of the three armed services on “lessons to te learned” from the Congressional airing -of feuding among the services. When Johnson left the White House, he refused to reply to a question as to whether he contem- plated a “shakeup” in the high Navy command. The question from reporters was prompted by rumors of the possi- bility of such a shakeup and by the fact that Secretary of the Navy Matthews accompanied Johnson to the White House. Jobnson said that he reported tc the President on the meeting of Armed Service heads and its dis- on of all the testimony “and lessons to be learned irom He decliced to say what the les- gons are he thinks should be learned from it. “Is there any impending changc in the high command of the Navy?” one reporter asked. “No comment,” was all Johnsor would reply. He sald he had discussed “Army Navy and Air Force matters witl the President.” # He said there was no significancc in Matthews appearing with him It has been his custom right alons to take the Army, Navy and Ai Force Secretaries in turn to the White House on his weekly discus- sion with the President, Johnsor added. SHARON SEWARD AND HER D fend off unusual weather if it develops in California. The; wearing plastic boots developed by Crosby Rosearch Foundal Boots are designed for kids (and dogs) who like to r cet pu feet first. (Iaterantio foundphoto) CZECH PRIESTS ALASKA NEEDS TOLD T0 OBEY "' SNOWBALL" (OMQI_INISTSJSAYSBARTLEH The Roman Catholic Hierarchy 25 —M— E. L. SEATTLE, Oct. in Czechoslovakla today told xts;'B_arucu, Alaska Delegate to €on- FISH 'RAP HEAR!NG priests to swear loyalty to the|gress, said here that a “snowball- 1 ing” awareness of the need for IN SEATTLE DIDN'T TAKE PLACE; FOG SEATTLE, Oct. 25—(M—A hear- ing was scheduled in Seattle yes terday on the proposed elimina- 3;: Zf\ll?shotf;aiici:u;lfl:‘ietgn:-‘ the state and take a state oath| Of this amount, he sald, the gressmen were unable to arrive ir {or loynlty (Righ 4 veversal of,; Ll iy, wil, pecainy MAGOHIPRE Bine Jierarchy's previous pesition in de- | Navy r‘325-4“-000 awd Air Force The onl Rl i % e of which a reported 300 | $24,689,567. ; _ The only member of the commit: | oo ‘haye gone to jall. The| Bartlett was the only one of four tee who made it was Alaska Dele- | jocto however, must state they|House subcommittee memters to ar-| sate E. L. Bartlett. Due to fog which curtailed ai craffic, the other three members ol the sub-committee of the Hous¢ Committee on Fisheries were un- Jommunist-led government, and ac- pt certain provisicns of the new | Northland defenses has paved the BIG COAST LABOR CASE BROUGHT UP NLRB Brings Charges Against Union, Associa- fion, Three S.5. Lines SEATTLE, Oct. 26—®—A CIO maritime union, an employers’ asso- ciation and three steamship com- panies were the target of a com- plaint issued today by the National Lator Relations Board charging discriminatory unfair labor prac- tices. - The complaint was the result of investigations of charges brought by Don L. Rotan, organizer for. the Pacific Marine Steward§s’ Union (AFL), and three other stewards. ‘The reglonal director of the N.LR.B, Thomas P. Grabam, Jr, | set a hearing on the complaint for i Nov. 29. Defendants in the action are the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union (C10), the Pacific Maritime Associ- ation, employers’ group; and the Alaska Steamship Company, the American Mail Line and Pope & Talbot, Inc. The complaint stems from a con= tract entered into by the firms and the CIO union Dec. 2, 1948, which delegated the responsibility to the CIO group for selecting personnel. The AFL group claims that the contract is illegally discriminatory against them and tends to coerce their membership into joining the rival union. ATOMIC BLAST YOU'LL BE OK MEXICO CITY, Oct. 25.—P— You do have a chance against church control law to save them rom arrest. ‘The bishops sald it was necessary way for starting work on many the atomic bomb—if you are at projects in the current fiscal year. least half a mile away from the He told the Alaska Division of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce that $96,186,922 has been appro- priated in cash and contract autho- rization for defense construction in the Territory. o accept with regret the new law to save priests “fo. the spiritual :are of the faithful.” The Hierarchy said the priests ould accept their salaries from ! rive in Seattle for a scheduled hearing yesterday on the ‘proposed el'mination of Alaska fishtraps. He said the subcommittee of the House Committee on Merchant Ma- rine and Fisheries will attempt to accept the government'’s rules with reservation that they do not vio- late the church law or priestly con- science, The new law, which becomes ef- able to get into town. They' wert| o.jye Nov, 1, gives the govern- Representatives John Allen of | ;004 control of appointments, fin- | hold the hearing in Seattle on the California, Victor Wickersham 0| ,noeq and administration of ali, sToup's return from Alaska. He held .klalt_umu and Thor Tollefson i .p.rches. a brief session yesterday afternoon Washington. g o with Joseph T. Flakne, chief of the ? Bartlett held an open session ‘Depanmem. of Interior's Alaska ate Monday afternoon to take branch, and John Drury, commit- names of Eeattleites who hoped tc estify. He said the committee wil iry to hold Seattle hearings on it return from Alaska. The committec is scheduled to leave for Anchorage Tuesday if the members get tc Seattle in time. Bartlett was accomvaniea b} Joseph T. Flakne, chief of the In- erior Department’s Alaska branch and John Drury, committee coun- 'ANOTHER U. §. OFFICIAL GETS' CZECH KICKOUT PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 25 —{M—For the second time in five days, the Communist Czechoslovak government today ordered the ex- pulsion of an American Embassy official on charges of spying. The newly named official de- clared persona non grata. is John | C. Heyn, Assistant Attache in the Embassy's political department. | However, he is already out of the country. Embassy sources said he was either in Germany or Vienna and would not return to Prague. Heyn was accused of industrial espionage and attempting to learn| Czechoslovak state secrets atout in- | dustrial production and commercial relations. He was charged with using Czechoslovak citizens to gather this information. He was assistant to Isaac Patch, the Embassy's political Attache, who was expelled last Priday on 24 sel. The scheduled Congressional sub- committee hearing on the proposed gradual elimination of Alaska fish- traps continued to be plagued by murky flying conditions again to- day. Fog caused the cancellation ot the hearings yesterday when three Congressmen failed to arrive until nightfall. Committee memkters were delayed again last night on their scheduled flight to Anchorage for a similar hearing, but planned to fly north with the first lifting of the fog, possibly this afternoon. The group tentatively agreed to hold their delayed hearings here on their return from Alaska be- tween Nov. 10 and 15. STOCK ()E(HATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—M—Clos- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 96%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 8, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 48, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel 24';, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,190,000 shares. hours notice. Heyn came to Prague April 10. His home is in Spring-| dale, Conil. Averages today are as follows: industrials 187.70, rails 4861, util- ities 38.68. tee counsel, to take the names of persons who had hoped to testify. A referendum in Alaska heavily favored gradual elimination of the fishtraps more than a year ago. LABOR GOVT. OF BRITAIN Farmer Goes Nuts;Wounds 10, iuicides WATERFORD, Mich., Oct. 25— | P—A crazed, middle-aged farmer| shot up two taverns last night, then On a mad spree with a shotgun I Joe Runyon, 57, terrorized this sleepy little resort village in a begrudging farewell to the world. Two of his victims, both women, were critically wounded, Tramping back and forth across a street, Runyon fired seven ‘or eight charges from a 12-gauge shotgun through windows of the two taverns, witnesses said. At the end of a violent 10 or 12 minutes, he walked a short dis- tance up the street and fired a killed himself after wounding ten | persons. | | | By Associated Press The British Labor Government’s new economy program is headed for critical debate tomorrow in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Attlee announced yesterday that government spending would be cut £280,000,000 ($784,000,000). Both the conservative opposition and even some of the labor gov- ernment’s own supporters are com- plaining that the cuts are tardy and insufficient to cure Britain's economic crisis. Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer will open the two-day debate. final charge through his own chest. This was the last in a series of rapid reloadings. Runyon’s gun was a single-shot weapon. Runyon, a former auto factory worker in nearby Pontaic, lived alone on a farm he was said to MARRIAGE LICENSE David Perrin Jr, and Emma Mercer ,both of Hoonah, applied have bought a year ago. Little was known of him, but evi- | dently things had gone wrong re- cently and he had become despon- dent. At his tidy farm house was tound a note saying: “Take over, Joe. Dad's quit work. at Naknek, are registercd at the| lto',q-rfllyi ‘em all," v for a marriage license in the of- u fice of the 8. Commissioner here. NAKNEK VISITORS Leo J. Wood and Lillian E. Wood, with the Fish and Wildlife Service Baranof Hotel, explosion. Maj, Albert J. Bauer, of the U. 8. Army Surgeon General's office says if you're four miles away when the bomb goes off, your chances of escaping. without injury arc al- most perfect. But from four miles in toward the center, the safety percentazes drop off sharply. From a half mile jout, to a mile and .a half from the atomic blast, it is about 50-50 that you will come out alive. In the half-mile inner circle, “there will be almost complete destruc- tion” with deaths very close to 100 percent,” Bauer says. By Associated Press Bauer prepared this report with Capt. John R. Hogness of the U. 3. Army Medical Center for presen- tation today before the 12th Inter- national Congress of Military Med- jcine and Pharmacy meeting here. Military medical officers from 28 nations are attending the Cengress. Basing their findings on the atomic explosions at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini, the two army imedical men described the effect 1ot an atomic blast and how to de- fend a city against it. Agreeing that “the atomic bomb is truly a fearful and extremely destructive weapon,” the report em- phasizes that the public must rea- lize “an atomic explosion is not the end for all concerned.” Bauer and Hogness regard wide- spread fire and severe burns as the greatest hazards of the bomb. The intense flash of the blast sends out heat waves that can ignite In- flammable materials a mile and a half away. What to do about a bomb at- tack? Bauer and Hogness recom- mend preparedness measures not much different from those for any other kind of bombing. "AUTO-RAIL” IN CRASH; 6 KILLED AVIGNON, France, Oct. 25—P— The Spanish Border Express crashed against a freight platform just out- side Avignon early - today, killing six passengers and injuring 18. €ix of the injured were reported in serious condition. The train was a self-propelled “auto rail.” William Hardman of the Inter- national Fisheries Commission from Edmonds, Wash., is stopping at the Baranof Hotel, | |4 MILES FROM