The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIII., NO. 11,339 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT Planes Collide in Mzdalr, Gold Seckers Work by Lanfern ernlight | So cager was this group of unidentified prospectors to get to work in seeking gold, reported recently discovered at Fishwheel on the Yukon River in Alaska, that they tcok to panning at night by the light from a gasoline lantern. (P Wirepholo "Nothing Proved' Is Creedal Fishwheel as Miners Digin STOPPED BY To Awaif Prospect Boilers GAS SHIELD FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1—(® —Dozens of prospectors, undaunted by snow and an adverse assay re-; gold boom camp on the frozen ‘Yakon river to sink their prospect holes to bedrock. Their determination . to. chane¢ their luck on the Yukon Fla's 165 miiles northeast of here was re- ported by a number of the gold seekers who returned by plane from Fishwheel. [} Most of the 100 or more men re-{ maining were said to be old time} prospectors. The rest were described as “enthusiastic tenderfeet.” Their common creed, however, was that “nothing’s proved until you scrape ted rock.” ‘To speed up the job of reachmg| bed rock, prospect boilers and core drills will be flown to the scene from Fairbanks this week. They are expected to bring final proot in a fortnight or more whether the Yukon’s silt holds gold in commer- cial guantities. Many of the veterans staying on at F.shwheel 'placed their faith in “color” found by panning the stream. They paid scant attention to, an assay report that one of the original nugget finds was brass. More than half of the 300-odd gold hunters who swarmed to the| area by plane have since returned. The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.' ASHINGTON—While certain admirals were attracting the na- t{onnl spotlight with broadsides of criticism on Capitol Hill, another Navy unit was patriotically retriev- “ing " thousands of dollars for the taxpayers without attracting any attention at all. This unspectacular nose-to-the grindstone outfit was the Pitts- burgh office of the supervising in- spector of Naval material. With headaches instead of headlines for a reward, this watchdog unit went through Navy contracts looking for bugs. As a result, enough bugs were combed out of the Navy's contract with the Canonsburg Steel and Iron Company to reverse the com- pany’s claim' for $1,346,306. In- stead of paying Canonsburg, the| Navy collected $374,157. In another case, the admirals had gloated over purchasing $1,- 131,188 worth of material from the Cooper-Bessemer ~ Corporation. at the bargain scrap price of $63251., The watchdog unit discovered, however, that this wasn't such a bargain after all. For, believe it or not ,the Navy had bought its own material, already paid for by the Navy. But, thanks again to the watch- R et il TS (Continued on Page Four) ! munist China’s new Ambassador to Most stayed butia few days with- out bothering to file a claim. FISHWHEELS COME AND | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1—(® —Typical of the calmness with which this once bustling boom town received reports of a gold strike at Fishwheel to the north is the reaction of A. E. Altiston. Across his vest hangs a string of nuggets worth $1,000. He bought them since his arrival in 1943 from proceeds of “feeding folks.” He operates a boarding house for con- tractors here. Asked whether he planned to try his luck at the new Yukon river gold camp, Albiston replied: “Naw, Fishwheels come and Fish- wheels go, but a man’s gotta eat and he can't eat gold i ng Now Bothering Vice-Pres. ST. LOUIS, Nov. ,1—(®—Vice President Barkley still hasn't found the kind of wedding ring he wants for his bride-to-be. Barkley and Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley, 38, who announced their marriage date ‘Sunday, shopped for a ring yesterday. But they were unable to find just what they wanted. The 7l-year-old Vice President planned a flying trip to Washing- ton, Pa., today for a speaking en- gagement. His plane was to leave this afternoon. | After filling the engagement, he4 will return to St. Loujs and con-| tinue his search for a ring. The wedding date is Nov. 18. Barkley said he planned to be| “floating around this area between | now and the wedding.” * New Ambassador, Communist China, | Arrives in Moscow MOSCOW, Nov. 1—@®—Com- Moscow, Wang Chia-hsiang, arrived yesterday. He was greeted by Dep- uty Foreign Minister Andrei Grom- yko and other Russian officials. YAKUTAT GUEST Carl E. Schlichtig of Yakutat is registered at the Baranof Hotel TACOMA VISITOR E. F. Haugen of Tacoma is reg- | industrials 191.25, rails, 48.16, util-|ed yesterday, | support to the entire steel strike. business, I istered at the Baranof Hotel | ities 38.75. DEAIH RAYS | Oxygen Layer Transforms Deadly Ultra-Violet Rays Above Earth LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1—(P—| Life and death on this planet may hang by so nebulous a thread as an invisible ray of light. | Two separate announcements vesterday, one by the Callrornm| Institute of Technology, the other by the University of California at Los Angeles, brought this grim specter into the realm of scientif-| ic speculation: Sixty miles above the earch ex- ists a heretofore unknown layer cf oxygen molecules which myster- iously change the wave of the sun’s deadly ultra-violet rays to infra-red rays. This was an- nounced by Dr. Joseph Kaplan, UCLA professor of physics. If some sudden piercing of the| earth’s atmospheric shield—per- | haps by a comet or an atomic ex- plesion—should let that layer of oxygen molecules escape, life ml\vhu vanish from the face of the globe[ urder the bombardment of ultra- | violet radiation frem the sun. The effect of certain types of ultra-violet rays on living organ- isms may be judged from an-| nouncement by Caltech’s Dr. Ren- ato Dulbecco, who yesterday dis-| clesed discovery of “life rays” and “death rays” in his studies with invisible light. > A certain kind of light, he said, can kill a little-known bacterial virus, and another kind of light can bring the same organism back to life. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | | Freighter Square! Sinnet from Seattle in port. Baranof from. Seattle scheduled to arrive 8:30 tonight sailing at 2| am, for Seward, Cordova. Princess Louise from Vancouver scheduled to arrive Thursday af- ternoon or evening. Sailor Sphce scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday calling at Ket-/ chikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Pelican then Juneau. Denali scheduled to sail $eattle Saturday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 44, American Can| 981, Anaconda 287, Curtiss-| Wright 7%, International Harvester | 28%, Kennecott 49%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel 25, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,300,00 shares. from i WASHINGTON, | the steel and coal strikes. pcaid pensions FREE PENSION GIVEN (10 BY BETHLEHEN, * Workers Will Share Acci- dent Insurance - U. S. "Will Look It Over”” Nov. 1--(P—A welfare plan agreement that sends 80,000 striking CIO Steel Workers Lack to their jobs with Bethlehem Steel Corp. today buoyed governms! ment hopes for a quick end to both Officials said they expect other| steel firms to follow in the foot- teps of Bethlchem, the nation's econd largest steel producer, which ned an agreement last night to ond the strike so far as this coms rfany was concerned. i The government officials snldl that now that a break has come in| the stee] strike, definite peace moves| ! into flames cn a takeoff in a fog. concern. () WIrephntc via radio (rashes Afier Takeoff The wreckage of an amphibian plane lies strewn on London Airport, atfer the plane crashed and roared Co-Pilot Earl Oscar Sivage, 33, of Los Angeles, Calif, was the lone survivor of the crash. There had been six persons aboard the plané which was owned by a Los Angeles from London. 55 Reported Killed DC-A HITBY P-38; PLANES TAKE PLUNGE 'Wors! Accident in Domes- fic History - Congress- man One of Victims WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—@—A Bolivian fighter pilot collided in the air today with a biz airliner carrying 56 p&rsnns—lncmdmgo Congress member and other not- |abledrand plunged koth planes into the Potomac river. All were believed kllkd—-exdept ths Bolivian. Based on the tentative death toll of 55, it.was. the worst domestic (ommercial aviation disaster in his- tory. The top death toli in pre- viows commercial air accidents in the U.S. was 53 in a crash near Port Deposit, Md., in May, 1947. CONGRESSMAN VICTIM Among the passengers on the Eastern Afr Lines DC-4 airliner LARGE BAIL ASKED FOR may te expected in coal because {of the close relations of the two! :asic industries. Bethlehem signed up in Cleve- .and last night with Philip Murray, President of the CIO and the striking steelworkers. ‘ “We broke the line” Murray exulted. “From here on we movei with a firmness of purpose and a, determination that victory will at-! tend our efforts.” | The precedent-making zives Bethlehem workers employer-| starting at $100 a month, including the benefits they! contract | ’r | | | & COMMIES AGREES |were Rep. George J. Bates, 58, Massachfisetts Republican; Michael J. Kennedy, 52, of New York, former member of Congress and a former Tammany Hall | eades. Gardner W. Taylor, 60, President ‘of the First Federal Savings and !.o.n Assoclation of New York. Also believed among the passen- zeu was Helen Hokinson, the car- (oonm who became noted as a por- trayer of suburban life. Two of the 51 passengers werc in- 'fmu. There were also four crew get from the government's Soci al‘ security System. $100,000 Asked for Seven Each $75,000 for Four If 2 Postoffice Def parfment | Building Scene-of Blaze | | members on the tig nane: ship. BOLIVIAN 2 The ufily person tnken trom tre lengths | . | tlement. It also calls for a death, sick= aess, dccidént and' hospital ‘cost ln- surance plan worth five cents an‘ our per worker, with employer | and worker equally sharing costs. | NEW YORK, Nov. Bethlehem has maintained a' government asked $1,000,000 bail for company-financed pension plan for some years, as|ers today in the event they are let| well as a wholly worker-financed, out of jail while their appeals are insurance system costing employeesl Leing heard. about 1% cents an hour. | Irving S. Shapiro, Special Assist- The settlement came on the smel‘nm to the U.S. Attorney, told the strike’s 31st day and the coal walk-!U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that out’s 43rd. |this was the view of Attorney Gen- Released on Appeals 1—{P—The | $50 - a -month ' the 11 convicted Communist lead- | Murray and Bethlehem officials| eral J..Howard McGrath. worked out final details and signed! Shapiro said the government the agreement at a three- hour | would want $100,000 bail each for conference between sessions of Mux- seven of the convicted men and| ray’s CIO convention at Cleve-' $75,000 for each of the four others. i and. | Al 11 have been in jail since' The reaction was swift. Govern-|their conviction last month on; ment Mediation Chief Cyrus S.|charges of conspiring to advocate | Ching said he trusted “this seme-mserthrom of the U.S. government ment will lead to industrial peace 'ty force. in the steel industry generally, fll} Federal Judge Harold R. Medina | a very early date.” refused to free them in bail pend-| U.S. Steel Corp., the biggest steel|ing their appeals. Lawyers for the producer, which has been holding|11 asked the Appeals Court today out for workers payinz part of to overrule Medina. The court re-| pension costs, invited peace taws | served deci:ion with Murray’s union. U.S. Steel's! Sresident, Benjamin F. Fairless, | aid “of course we will study the Sethlehem settlement.” ‘a | ) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(®—John L. Lewis today called a miners union policy committee meeting for| APPEAL CLEVELAND, Nov. 1,—‘Mv—with! the steel strike settled in plants| of Bethlehem Steel Co, CIO Pre-|ggiq the meeting will consider all sident Philip Murray today invited | gspects of the forty-three-day coal |the rest of the industry to “c"“‘e‘smk: situation. along” with the same kind of Bet“ The Chicago location of the meet- was considered significant. Murray spoke from the V'“"O’m“l‘here have been recurring rumors of the CIO's National Convenuonxo, a possible early settlement with lin Public Hall. As he talked, Be“"}lmnois coal producers. lehem mills employing 80,000 work-| gevera] prominent Illinois opera- |ers were firing up for a resumption | yors nave been reported impatient of operations. | for a settlement. Murray reported the settlement,| Negotiations for a new coal con- reached last night, in & talk t0yract nave been going on for six CIO delegates. Calling the month-| monens without a hint of any old steel walkout “the most magni- | break. ficent strike in the history of la-| 4 settlement with the Iniinots | bor,” he sald: | segment of the industry would set| coal strike developments, ‘ § The United Mine Workers chief | “I use this platform to invite|yp i coal a situation similar to the recalcitrant steel companies 10| pe one in steel where Bethlehem,| ::‘}f‘e;:"!:g‘:;:m::? :"t‘}:’“‘le ,t"-he second biggest producer, has|® uss now 'is the duty of the balance of | {Afaed. wisti the . stociuarRe. the industry to settle.” | Delegates gave him a standing| ovation. Immediately they adopted without dissent a resolution, pre-| F. H. Huff, HUFF LEAVES Forest Service re- left yesterday | Averages today aré as follows: pared before the convention start-|gional fiscal agent, giving the CIO's for Petersburg on Forest Service, ® e 9 0 00 0 09 0 s 0 A movie producer threw his weight arcund in Hollywoed and insisted upon a written agreement whereby actress Glorla Grghame meekly agreed that from 9 am. to 6 pm,, five days a week, her husband— | and also her director — Nicholas Ray, is the “absolute boss.” Gloria, shown while vacationing recently at Palm Springs, was thus enjoin- ed from engaging in any “discus- | ions” on the set with her husband. Producer Robert Lord told Gloria he had been around the film capi- next Monday in Chicago to consider | ¢a) long enough to know what on the set disagreements can do to a shooting schedule. » Wirephoto. o e . WEATHER REPORT (Thi; data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 51; minimum, 43. At Airport—Maximum, 50; minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with rain tonight and Wednesday. Southeast- erly winds as high as 30 miles per hour slowly de- creasing. Lowest temperature tonight about 47. Highest Wednesday near 49. . PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.03 inches. since July 136,09 inches. At Airport—02 inches; sinec July 12390 inches. e ®0cs0seccsceccsccncscss e for a iver e and still ‘n -late afternoon was ‘Eric ‘Eridoux. 28, the Bolivian. He had in broken back and other untle~ | termined injuries. The airliner crashed at the Po- | tomac River's edge. Bodles of i passengers were flung over an area of 150 yards. Many apparently were lost in the river. The only body definitely identi- fied in mid-afternoon was that of | Helen Gilbert, stéwardess. -Employees-Flee WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(M—Fire, | accompanied by a rumbling series | 1of explosions, caused heavy dam- jage to the $11,000,000 Postotfice Department building today and sent hundreds of government employees fleeing to the streets. The klaze was confined to the i eighth floor. But before firemen krought it under control, they roured tons of water into the 300 FEET IN AIR | columned, limestone structure on| rphe twp 'planes came together Pennsylvania Avenue between um'abnut 300 feet in the air. Airport and 13th Streats, Northwest. controls officials said Rios Bridoux Emoke and water damage was had been instructed by radio to !heavy. There was no immediate permit the airliner to land first, official estimate of the loss, but a/pu¢ that he let down his landing comewhat similar fire in 1935—soon gear and headed in for a landirig i after the bullding was constructed wlthouc acknowledging the instrue- {—caused $400,000 damage. tions. At least three persons were 1n-‘ Officials of the Oivil Aeronautics | Jured, either by flylng glass {rom | Agministration said Byidoux under- the explosions, or when a section o1 the seventh floor ceiling'fell in. ‘“:;‘tl,dm;fll‘::h Ay e . Two were employees of the Fed- ¢ piane was a P-38. Bolivia re- Leral Communications Commission. cently contracted to buy it from They were Richard Jamison and ine ynited States. Rios Bridoux has D. C. Corrigan. Both suffered Head |.on testing it before taking final | injuries. y | deliversy. Robert Farrington, an Assoclatéd’ PLANE IN PIECES | Press reporter, got & bad cut on| 1y tne death toll should eventu- {the shoulder. A glass door behind ally prove to be 54 or 55, it would | him was blown out on the Tth fl0oF{.." (e worst airline disaster in | while he was telephoning a "W"mmary in the United States. The!’e cn the fire to his office. Iwue 53 killed in a crash. near | Deposit, Md., in May, 1047, ‘TAX STATEMENTS T0 GO | %oBc wios ‘i tore wus apparently an explosion after the ou'l' '““s WEEKE"D Bouvsus plane struck the airliner. ‘ The plane was in pieces when the wre cam est— | Tax statements will probably he}the ;;;c;::ersver e“:: ;art QT ol mailed Saturday or Monday, C. L.| 1, the gearch for bodies, 'm Popejoy, City Clerk, said today. | motorized crane belonging to e He pointed out that before zi Force was brought to lift the . statements are sent taxpayers may | mangled flfl section from the pay at the City Clerk’s office in | river bank. ¥ the City Hall, . | The airliner was a DC-4. Planes Delinquent date will be Novem-!,¢ this type can carry 30 or more ber 15, | passengers, M A AP SR " P-38 SOLD | Government officials said the Bo- lSH“E BOAI GOES o | livian government bought two P-38 RO(KS Duk'"fi SIORM planes from the U.S. about three {or four weeks ago for the Bolivian 5 I" Air Force, The 38-foot seine boat Eag L' One was sent to Bolivia. The |Mark was a complete loss after|,ipe; pas peen kept here pending | dragging anchor and going on' .. e elearance, | rocks one mile north of Kake dur- The two pmm' struck whie in |ing the weekend storm. % ; This fact was reported to Coast :—;en T:idTI:::;e'::au:n the colii Guflrd headquarters here yester- lday from the cutter Citrus wmch‘:l;s":‘;d:l:;l::lgy T‘;’;"';u .snugm refuge from the storm at | life. ! | Kake, The Eagle Mark was owned by s Johnny Jackson of Kake. No one‘ FAIRBANKS MAN HERE was aboard at the time it went| Three young men from on the rocks. | banks, who were in Juneau for P eral days, went to Ketchikan | MRS. PYLE GOES SOUTH |PAA yesterday, planning to Mrs. T. J. Pyle is southbound |later this week before going visit in California also in to the Interior. Théy are Spokane, Wash., extending for sev- | Frickson, Dale Day apd ' Calt Weets. ,.Keben,