The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,337 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CE Large Farm Settlements Planned For Alaska CLAIMS DUE Legless Scout Wins Honor |SKIES CENSOR FOR TROUBLE, MINER THINKS Navigable Stream Law Is Cited by Sourdough "Who Learned Hard Way’ SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—®—An Al- aska sourdough expressed the be- lief today that gold seekers can not legally maintain exclusive claims in the Fishwheel gold rusi area on the Yukon River. He cited a decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in support of his ccntention. Clyde D. Glass, who is wintering here after spending 27 years in the north as a miner, referred to a de- cision last October 5 by the Ninth Circuit Court that Territorial tide- lands and the beds of navigabie | streams never have been open to exclusive claims. It affirmed an Alaska District Court ruling. The decision involved Fred Derit in the Nome area. Glass said he ran into the same navigable stream difficulty on « | | | . TEMPERS IN Fishwheel Men Receive’ Assay But Reaction CIou@fl Over FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 20.—! (P—Weather drew a tight curtain around the Fishwheel gold campl today, shutting off the reaction of taut-tempered prospectors to nn“ assay report that one of the orig- | inal nugget finds was brass. { Heavy clouds blanketed the tent | town approximately 165 miles northwest of here, holding more than a dozen planes on the ground. ! They are the only means of get-' ting out word from the Yukon River “diggings.” 1 The planes flew in yesterday, all carrying copies of the Fairbanks Newsminer in which were printed | lengthy accounts of University of Alaska geology Professor Richard Ragle’s assay report. Ragle looked over four nuggets claims of his own on the Niukluk | River. | “Supposin’ it should develop into | a strike,” he commented. “and sup- that set off the aerial gold rush 8 week ago. The professor said one of them was brass, the others were gold. But, he added, some of the posin’ a lot of the boys have staked out claims. Their claims aren't worth the paper they're written on. | (Continued op Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ICopyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.: ASHINGTON—Here are some of the things that are taking place backstage in the steel-strike dis- cussions. 1. Inside the steel companies: The major companies are divided re- Don Lee, 17-year-old Salt Lake limbs were amputated when he was a baby because of severe burns, receives from his guardian, Miss | | I photo. est rank in Boy Sconting, the Eagle Badge. from a deer hunting expedition for the ceremonies. from a hcrse and participates in other sports on either artificial legs or with none at all. Don failed to get a deer on this trip. (P Wire- City high school student, whose |.,14 nyggets were shiny and worn as if they had been carried in a| “poke.” . Dissatisfaction of tenderfeet and veteran prospectors over results of their search for gold in the Yukon sands was reported yesterday turn- ‘ing into an ugly mood. Several men, | openly skeptical over the validity | Anna Rosenkilde (left), the high- Don had to return He hunts | 4 NON-CONME AID BILL IS UNDER WAY; SIGNATURES NEEDED | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — # —| lof first glowing reports from the| area, were, said to be near the “fis? ’ fight stage.” ¢ OUSTING 0F SALVAGE ATTEMPT " BEGINS IN EFFORT 10 SAVE SCOTER An attempt was begun at noon Flig » e b A British naval a::man aboard the aircraft carrier H. M. S. Illustrious rushes into the flaming wreckage cf a Sea Fury plane after it had crashed on the flight deck of the carrier. Two of the rescue party were commended by the Royal Navy for their bravery in saving the pilot from the flames. The crash happened last May 25, but this picture was just released by th: British Admiralty, ‘» Wirephoto. hi Deck (rash (10 READY TO T0SS OUT PRO- COMMUNISTS CLEVELAND, Oct. 29—®—CIiO President Philip Murray indicated today he was ready to rid his labor vnion federation of all pro-Com- munist groups. pared for the annual convention garding the contributory or NOD-|president Truman's signature on a contributory pension plan. Inland iy yoviding cash for arms aid to steel already has a 80od PeNsion | .o ohgtacles today in the path plan, while Jones and Laughlin, together with Bethlehem favor a, whereby labor does for the following pension plan not contribute, reasons: Only 10 percent of the workers continue in their employ until they reach the age of 65. When they leave before that age under a worker-contribution plan, they take their contributions with them, which entails complicated book- keeping. But when they do not contribute, the amount set aside for them by the company stays in the fund and mounts up. Thus the company, over tne years, contribut- es less and less money. Flatly opposed to Bethlehem, Jones and Laughlin, and Inland is. the giant of the industry, U. S. Steel, which sets the competitive pace. Despite all arguments, U. S. Steel has held out against a com- pany-contributed pension-plan — chiefly as a matter of principle. It claims that labor should not get something for nothing, that la- bor should contribute at least a small part of the pension. Possibly this view is influenced by the fact that directors of U. S. Steel include heads of other com- | panies—Walter Gifford, of Ameri- can Tel and Tel; Sewell Avery, of Montgomery Ward and U. S. Gyp- | non-Communist nations of the $1,2314,010,00 program. Mgst of the recipient countries ed States before Mr. Truman can |start sizeable munitions shipments | on their way. | In addition to the arms aid pro- | gram, the bill includes $62,000,000 | for military construction in Alaska |and Okinawa. Disobedience Causes Priest's Jesuit Quster CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 29—(P— The Rev. Feeney, Roman Catholic |author, lecturer and poet, was dis- missed last night from the Jesuit Order in the latest move against him in a six-month-old dispute. | Rev. Feeney announced the dis- missal himself. He said it was for alleged “disobedience.” He was deprived of his priestly left only | today to salvage the Fish and Wild- life Service vessel Scoter, on the rocks at Bill Point near Cape Fan-| shaw. The vessel ran aground Thursday night. The crew was taken off yes- MATTHEWS DEMANDED | Murrav said so in a report pre- opening here Monday. He used guage in CIO record his feelings toward Communist and pro-Communist unions in the CIO. The CIO leader was reportedI 1 the most vigorous lan-) to describe | |dentifying 48 Viclims, Plaf_e (rash | PONTA DELGADA, Sao Mizuel, ) The Azores, Oct. 29.—(P—Rescue workers today began identitying the burned and broken bodies of 48 victims killed in the crash of an Air France. Constellation. ? The plane plunged into a mm|m~! ainside yesterday. It was bound from Paris to New York. A French technical mission also was at work, trying to determine the cause of the crash. Boxer Mar- KENAI GETS FIRST GOVT. COMMUNITY 150-Acre Farms Proposed -Warne Criticizes Homestead Act By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-(®—The Interior Department is planning the construction of a series of full- tlown farm settlements in Alaska. And the indications are, says In- terior's Assistant Secretary William | E. Warne, that the Kasilof area on the Kenai peninsula may obtain one of the first of these “installed communities.” Warne, newly-returned from one of the most intensive tours ot Alaska ever taken by Interior's top brags, told a reporter he found in- terest in the development plans | keen throughout Alaska, “especially ampng people who are trying to omestead land.” He said studies of Alaska have | progressed far enough to demon- |Strate that the Kasilof area “with- out question” would lend itself to ! develorment, SURVEYS PENDING e a — - - Five areas of about 60,000 acres each—including the Kasilof area— p R E | D E “ T'have been withdrawn from settle- ment pending the surveys to deter- mine whether they would serve as IMPOUNDS A'R development project sites, Warne said. | “The farms we propose would FOR([ “Ev,uvgrage 150 acres in size, and the ! rounding farms.” | Estimates are that five initial | trading center of each matured | settlement would have a population about ‘equal‘to that of the sure Signs Largest Peacefime »ojcs coud ada 16001 o 20 Bill, But Says 58.Gmup Warne said that the U.S. home- Force “Inconsistent” i " WK stead law did a good job Iin the settlement of Iowa 100 years ago, | Lut had to be modified—to provide WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—(#— President Truman signed the largest military appropriation in peace- $615,000,000 it carries to build the time history today but impounded | | for reclamation-irrigation projects —when arid regions of the west | were put under the plow. HOMESTEAD ACT FAILS “In Alaska the homestead act has been ineffective—nas fallen must sign agreements with the Unit- | terday morning by the Coast Guard cutter C which has been standing Ly since. | At noon today. salvage wotk be- gan with the construction of a| coffer dam to block the four by eight-foot hole in the vessel's :u-—‘i board side, while a gale force \\'ind‘ rages. The work is being done by men| Two Congressmen Now. Seeking Kick Ouf of | Secretary of Navy WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—#—Sec- | retary of the Navy Matthews,| 5 almly ignoring lawmakers’ de- from the FWS power-bérge Sheldon | ° M. Donnelly, Fhe Scoter and the |Mmands that he quit, combed through | Coast Guard cutter, |a list of Admirals today seeking a! Mark Meyer, FWS construction Successor tb Louis Denfeld as Chiet supervlier | whN(GR¥Hved: at iie|OF (HRYEL operations. . i <cene last night aboard the power- Matthews gave not the slightest Large, reported by radio to the FWs | ndication that he intended to heed | oifioe hers this" mEwRliG ‘that, the | SNEEY cries for his resignation from | weather is “sour.” However, he at least two members of Congress.| said that salvage' attempts could | But he declined any comment on be made if the wind does mot shift,| Mk or other statements from Cod® Construction of the concrete cof- | gressional qu.artex.» 4 ; fer dam’ whidh sdilibe shoredgitn | JDeield's speclal assistant, Cais. | ¥ Walter Karig, told reporters he ex- timkers, should be completed betore, 2 | the tide rises this afternoon. | pects the Admiral to retire Irom‘ Meanwhile, removable equipment the Navy rather than take a lesser| 2 iy the | POSt. ;:;Hhemg uiopsd ) Fien Vehement assertions that Mat i thews should leave the Defense De < v e s e ot has Redl g:‘:;n e partment came from Senator polets running ARG | Knowland (R-Calif) and Rep. Bates (R-Mass). | il | teady to tell the 11th annual con- vention there is no room in his organization for uninns. “rhe CIO wants none of the | Communist program,” Murray aides| The body of 28-year-old Miss caid the DPresident’s report would declare. Murray and other top CIO lead- ers have threatened to toss all left- wingers off the powerful executive board. They also have laid plans to throw at least three unions led by leftists out of the organization. The leit- wing unions scheduled to get the toot are the United Electrical Workers, the MNE, Mil and Emelter Workers, and the Farm Equipment Workers. The three have 1 combined membership of about a half million. SEARCH WARRANT NOT NEEDED FOR STOMACH PUMP LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29.—#—In California anyway, a policeman pro-Communist | sum; James Black, of Pacific Gas | functicns on Jan. 1 by Archbishop and Electric—which might be af- Richard J. Cushing, head of the fected by any pension precedent | Boston Diocese, for approval of set for the steel industry. iteachings of three Boston College 2. Inside the White House—Pre- lay professors that there is no sal- sidential advisers have discussed vation outside of the Catholic with Truman the idea of invoking Church. the Taft-Hartley Act, but he is| The alleged “disobedience” in- opposed for this reason: |volved Fr. Feeney’s refusal in Sep- The United Steel Workers al-|tember, 1948, to accept transfer to ready have suspended a strike for |Holy Cross College in Worcester, a 77 days at his request—practically Jesuit institution. the equivalent to the 80-day sus- Fr. Feeney said he would con- pension possible under the Taft- ltinue ‘as a Catholic Priest, loyal Hartley Act. If the President now and devoted to the Church and to invoked the T-H Act, it is feared |the Pope.” s labor might refuse to obey the in-| junction. And if half a million men refused to obey their government, BAND pRA(II(E the nation would face not only a| breakdown of derffocracy, but rev- erberating ammunition would be handed to Moscow for use in ev- ery country in the world. | Futhermore, the President’s fact- finding board’s recommendations have been accepted by the union though rejected by management. That is why other White House friends, including Mayor David (Continued on Page Four) MOOSE CLUB IS DECORATED FOR PARTIES TONIGHT : “How funny can you Look?"” | e L.0.O.M. members are asking their | o young fry. . They hope that most of the boys | e and girls going to the big Hallo- | @ we'en party in the Moose Club to. night will wear costumes to matc! the setting of Jjack o’lanterns, witches and spooks. There will be prizes for the best | | costumes at the big querade. | ® And games, and plenty of ice crtamL and other treats, too. The party for Moose boys and ‘\ MONDAY EvE"ING girls will be from 7 to 9 o'clock e | tonight. le Then L.O.O.M. and Women of the ' ® | Moose, who are giving the party, will take an hour to put the club to rights and get their sprouts The regular weekly practice of the Juneau City Band will be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the grade school auditorium. Many | pome to bed, and return to the|e selections for the coming concert ciyp for their own fun. o |will be on the racks and Director | The Moose Hallowe’en Dance will | ® |Joseph Shofner asks a full atten- gtart at 10, with unmasking planned @ 'dance of bandsmen and on time. for the witching hour of midnight. @ I e e 0o 00 2 0 WEATHER REPORT (This data s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST. In Juneau—Maximum, 45; minimum, 40. At Airport—Maximum, 44; minimum, -34. FORECAST (Juneau ana Viemnity) Rain tonight and Sunday. Southeasterly wind 20 to 30 miles per hour, occasionaly increasing to near 40 miles an hour tonight. Little change in temperature with the low tonight about 42, the high Sunday about 46. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.48 inches; since Oct. 1—1248 inches; since July 1-—33.73 inches. At Airport—25 inches; since Oct. 1—5.63 inches; since July 1—20.93 inches. |doesn’t need a search warrant. to |pump out a suspect’s stomach for « | evidence. .: Superior Judge W. Turney Fox % ‘handed down the ruling yesterday o and convicted Anthony Rochin, |22-year-old truck driver, on a nar- o | cotics charge. Rochin’s lawyers pro- o | tested that using a stomach pump o |against a man’s will is the same as I thinking 12-year-old Johnny Schne cel Cerdan, violinist Ginette Nev- eau and painter Bernard Boutet de Monvel were among those killed. {There were no survivors. \Neveau, one of France's greatest women musitians, was one of those so far identified. BOY CAUGHT | [IN CISTERN; | SCO0PEDOUT 29 —M— AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. Slight scratches on the face and side were the only physical re- minders today that Bobby Andrew Gcew, a tiny 3-year-old, was impris- oned three hours yeswrduy'dcep in an 8-inch cistern pipe. Bobby, whose 26-pound body dropped from view at 2:48 p.m. just 50 feet from his back doorstep, | was reported in good shape at; Brackenridge Hospital. Maybe he owed his life to auick- who shouted | fell ider. It was Johnny the alarm when Bobby first into the abandoned pipe Firemen and policemen were on | the scene in 10 minutes. Civilian | volunteers rolled in A steam shovel went into action | Air Force up to 58 groups. The measure carries a total of $15,585,863,408 for operation of me‘ Army, Navy, \Air Corps, and Ma- rines. In a statement the President said that Congress's action in increas- ing funds for the Air Force above his budget recommendations “could have a serious effect on our ability to maintain balanced mnuaryf seen cleared. forces in subsequent years.” " “We propose that suitable areas Declaring that the larger Air be set up as projects, and that Force insisted upon by the House clearing be done in advance by the would = be “inconsistent with a|government on a repayment basis, realistic and ralanced security pro-"and that roads be built in, land be gram which we can support in set aside for facilities, and credit peacetime,” the President added: |be made available so that houses “As additional aircraft authorized |and living facilities can be installed by the act were delivered, we|.n the first year.” should have to make corresponding; Warne said the project settle- provision for additional personnel!ment proposal has teen introduced to man them, for higher mainten- in Congress. ance and operating cost and for POWER TO GO IN greater replacement cost. It is to be supplemepted, he said, “The present authorization for by an Alaska Development Pro- increased procurement would thus|gram under which hydroelectric be mercly the first step in an ex- and industrial possibilities could be panding program which would have | developed through federal financ- to ke supported by greatly in-iing. creased appropriations in future | years.” In his budget recommendations i flat on its face—because conditions are more rigorous there,” he said. “Up there it takes a man a year |to clear five acres, eight years to clear the 40 acres that are the minimum for subsistence living. That's the reason only 12,000 or 14,000 acres of the several million that must ke usable for farms, out of 365,000,000 acres in Alaska, have Warne said he also discussed, at a series of town meetings with earlier this year Mr. Truman asked funds for an Air Force of some 48 «roups. The Senate went along with the President’s figure but the House for 58 groups. Just before Congress adjourned, the Senators yielded on this larger Air Force went into the bill. and less than three hours later o | making him testify against him- self. |ruled that evidence is admissible, no matter how you get it. | that were lying on a table. | Judge Fox said he was sorry but ... Bobb: 2 o ifornia ' , y was standing on dry | the California Supreme Court had ground at @ depth of 18 feet { Officers testified that after they The father said he had covered the broke into Rochin’s room last July 1 pipe and did not understand how | swallowed two morphine capsules the children had loosened the heavy | cover. g | Bobby was removed after the pipe | was cut. When rescuers reached Bobby is one of three children of | Mr. and Mrs. James Gow, both 35, LIQUOR LICENSE TRANSFER City Council approval was grant- ed last night for the transfer of a retail liquor license from N. J. and Mary Bavard to W. K. Burford and C. O. Sabin. The petition will now go to the U. S. District Court here. FROM PORTLAND insisted on uppwprhunu' issue and provision for the: |Lois Estes of Portland is a guest Alaskans, the program for state- nood and steps to settle native land | claims “to remove one of the blocks | to progress, especially in Southeast | Alaska.” He said that at Palmer, in the Matanuska valley, a farmers’ ‘co- operative had worked out a market- ‘ng system so that this year the valley marketed $350,000 worth of fresh vegetables, compared with a |hlfih of only $16,000 two years ago. HELP FEED OURSELVES “This is a further demonstration jof the fact that agricultural lands !in Alaska, if properly developed and if markets are developed, can make major contributions to the feeding of Alaska and to the re- duction of living costs there,* he said, s Warne sald he was STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Freighter Square Knot from Se- |attle in port. Baranof from to arrive Tuesd: Princess Louise scheduled sail from Vancouver Monday. Denali from west scheduled south- |bound 4 p. m, Monday. to 1 COAST GUARD SEARCHES The Coast Guard Cutter Hemlock is on its way to Port Jobnson on the southeast sjde of Prince of Seattle scheduled Wales Island to search for Ivan is stopping at the Baranct Hotel. |L. Winter of Metlakatla who has been missing for two days in that area, acording tc a report received by the Coast Guard headquarters | here, impressed in Alaska »,"m tion of two large airports at Pair- banks and Anchorage, the $25,000,~ | C00-a-year road improvement pro- |gram, and the 50 percent comple~ tion of the Alaska Railroad's re- | habilitation. FROM FAIRBANKS | “The ; R W, Slater of Pairbanks 1& te- | i RGNAE. DOummecy & Shet gistered at the Barancf Hotel at the Baranof Hotel. ANCHORAGE VISITOR Lyle E. Anderson of Anchorage