The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,341 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SEEK AID TO MINING, WEST AREA SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 3.—(#— Legislation to aid the west’s mining industry will be passed at the next session of Congress, Congressional delegates from four states agreed today Mining men from several states met for a breakfast with Solons from Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and California to discuss legislation pending in Congress. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D- Wyo.) and Rep. Clair Engle (D- Calif.) sponsors of the aid mea- sure, said a motion to suspend the rules for passage of the bill fail- ed to obtain the necessary two- thirds majority in the House in the closing days of the session just completed. Spokesmen for mines - told the Congressional leaders these four things are needed: 1 rassage of the Exploration Bill; 2. Adjustment of taxation to attract venture capital to the in- dustry; 3. Reform of regulations concerning raising of venture cap- ital, and 4. Protection from com- petitive low-cost foreign metal pro- duction. 15 LONGSHOREMEN ARE JAILED FOR RIOTING, FELONY PORTLAND, Nov. 3—(®—Fifteen CIO Longshoremen, indicted in the Sept. 28 pineapple riot at The Dal- les, were in jail today as police sought nine others missed in a night-long round-up. Thirteen of the men spent the night in the Portland city jail and one, refusing to cross the state line, was jailed -in Vanecouver, The fifteenth man was arrested this morning. State and city police, hampered by faulty addresses or by finding no one at home, continued the hunt for the other nine men named in secret grand jury indictments, resulting from waterfront violence that halted unloading of a pine- apple barge at The Dalles. They started the roundup at nightfall. The men are charged in the in- dictments with rioting—a felony. TIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 4 High tide 1:01 am, 153 ft. Low tide 6:51 am. 26 ft. High tide 12:57 p.m, 17.2 ft. Low tide 7:22 p.m, -0.2 ft. ® 6 ¢ o o 0 0 0 o o . SUN RISES - SETS . . . . . o NOVEMBER 4 Sun rises at . 8:19 am. Sun sets at . 5:04 pm. ® & & o 8 o 0 o e®ecccee The Washing_ion; Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndieate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—To understand why Secretary of the Navy Mat- thews had to discipline Adm. Louis Denfeld—whom this column has consistently praised—you have to understand what has gone on in the Navy for a long period of time. Over the 50-year period begin- ning with Teddy Roosevelt, the ad- mirals have led almost a charmed life. They had behind them the personay glamour and publisity that radiated from those two dyn- amic Presidents—Teddy and FDR— plus the secret but powerful sup- port of Bethlehem Steel, U. 8. Steel, Westinghouse Electric and other big corporations whose busi- ness flourished from building bat- tleships. The only two presidents who bucked the Navy in that period— Coolidge and Hoover—faced an admiral’s’ revolt not unlike that of today, aided and abetted by the big steel and . ship-building companies. Greatest heyday of the admirals came under Franklin Roosevelt. They have never got over this, and Secretary Matthews is now reap- ing the consequences. FDR appointed as his Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson, a delightful and aging ex-Senator e iR et (Continued on Page Four) Sherman Pufs " Ballentine in His Old Post WASHINGTON, Nov, 3—(®—Ad- miral Forrest P. Sherman moved the new Navy top command by assigning Rear Admiral John J. Ballentine, Pacific war hero, ranean. Sherman, pulled out of command of the Sixth Task Fleet in the sediterranean to take over as Chief of Naval Operations, was sworn in only yesterday after a shakeup growing out of the inter- service row over war roles. He was introduced fo the other members of the Joint Chiefs by the Chairman, Gen. Omar Bradley. One member was absent. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force Chiet of Stafi, left last night' for an inspection visit to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. As CNO, Sherman succeeded Ad- miral Louis Denfeld, an outspoken | backer of the Admirals’ coterie i that had contended the Navy was I being frozen out in strategic de- cisions. Ballentine will have the rank of Vice Admiral in the Mediterranean assignment. on the General Board, the Navy's policy advisory group. LOMEN DAUGHTER 15 ACQUITTED, DEATH CHARGE OF 3-YR. LD SEATTLE, Nov. 3—(P—A Superior Court jury has acquitted Mrs. Rosemary L. David, a member o Alaska’s prominent Lomen family, of a charge of negligent homicide arising from a traffic death, . An automobile driven by Mrs. David fatally injured an 8-year-old boy in a daylight accident last May. Jurors said they were unani- I'mous for acquittal on the second Lallot. Mrs. David said she never saw the boy as ne dashed into the street, One of the witnesses in her be- half was Ralph Lomen, her father, |of Nome and Seattle. She is the wife of Comdr. Warren David of the Coast Guard. Mrs. David is! the mother of two children. | . R. GUGGENHEIM DIES AT AGE OF 88 PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y.—® Solomon Guggenheim, senior mem- ber of America’s great mining family, died here early today al his' Long Island estate, Trillora Court. He was 88. The multi-millionaire copper tking was active in the family busi- !ness until three weeks ago, when his health suddenly became worse. His condition worsened early this week and his three daughters were called home. His wife, Irene, was with him when he died, and a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Obre, of Baltimore, also were pre- sent. His eldest daughter, Countess Castle Stewart, was reported fly- ing home from England. Guggenheim was the senior mem- ber of the firm of Guggenheim brothers and was the last survivor of the seven sons of Meyer Gug- genheim, who started the family in the mining business in North and South America. He also was a generous art patron. | e o 0 ® 0o 0 9 0 o WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 60; minimum, 48. At Airport—Maximum, 56; minimum, 43. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Cloudy with rain tonight and rain showers Friday. Southeasterly winds occas- jonally as high as 20 miles per hour. Little change in temperature with lowest to- night 45 afd highest, tomor- erow 50. ePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—1.63 inches since Nov. 1—4.30 inches; since July 1—4039 inches. At Airport—1.40 inches: since Nov. 1—4.08 inches; since July 1-2796 inches. ® & 0 0 0 0 0 o o | swiftly today to tighten ship under | to | his own old post in the Mediter- | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOLSTERING AID T0 TITO; ACTION TAKEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—(®—The United States and Britain have eased . their ban on the sale ot commercial planes and aviation equipment to Yugoslawvia. The first shipments, limited quantities of gascline and lubricants, were | cleared by the State Department | today. | Diplomatic officials, reporting the U.3.-British move just before the fuel and lubricants sale was an- nounced, said it marks the late t step by the West to bolster Marshal Tito in his fight with Moscow and | her Eastern European Allfes. The State and National Detense Departments are reported to have decided on the move as another ot| the “calculated risks” of the cold war, The matter was agreed upon with | the British. Then the two countries TOP COMMIES ADMITTED T0 LOWER BAIL NEW YORK, Nov. 3—(P—The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled today | that the 11 top American Com- munists convicted of conspiracy may be released in bail pending appeal of their case. The court ruled that seven could be released on $20,000 bail each and four’ on $30,000 bail apiece. The Government originally ask- ed that their total bail be set at $1,000,000. Shortly after 11 a.m. three offi- cials \of the bail fund of the Civil Rights Congress posted $260,000 in negotiable 2': percent U.S. Trea- sury bonds in $5,000 denominations. The Civil Rights Congress has been listed by the U.S. Attorney General’s office as subversive. Their release was delayed, how- ever, when the U.S. Attorney's of- fice raised the question of whether decided to notify other Western the fines of $10,000 imposed on governments of their action in lhefeach of the 11 should be paid to- hope that they will do the same. ;day in addition to supplying bond. One idea is to clear the way for!| Clarification on the point was an “airlift” to Yugoslavia if thntfsought from the Court of Appeals. j recel He has been servingj against Moscow domination | of world Communism should be | cut off by guerrilla attack from| normal transport. STRIKE OF BUS DRIVERS LASTED JUST 9 MiNUTES| HOUSTON, Nov. 3—(M—Bus drivers in Texas' largest city went on strike at 12:01 am.. (CST) to- day but reached an agreement with management at 12:10 a.m. The short-lived strike of 1,100 members of the CIO Transport Workers Union was the first major transportation tie-up in history for this city of more than 500,000 people. There was hope the buses would; roll again within a few hours. | The strikers voted 722 to 47 to' accept a last-minute management offer of a 13-cent an hour wage increase. AESIDENTS ALONG HILLSIDE WARNEC! Residents above and below Gas- tineau Avenue near the piled de-: bris of Sunday morning’s siide were warned to leave their homes early last night by City Police. The police were alerted by J. L. McNamara, City Engineer, after two men from the city street crew had climbed Mount Roberts along the slide-cleared path. They reported that stream action | had underntined trees along the | path of the slide and debris was | hung up behind a tree lying across the line of the slide. “As long as the rain continues, the situation is definitely danger- ous,” McNanara said today. Residents on both sides of Gas- ‘ineau Avenue left their homes af- ter warnings by police and spent the night in hotels or in homes of friends. Mrs. Gail Carver, who lives at 215 Gastineau Avenue was one of those who left her home last night. She returned this morning, but she said, “my husband and I cer- tainly appreciated the warning.” While city crews battled mud to keep the Mount Roberts storm drains open, Gold Creek had risen | and gone down. McNamara said the creek was up last night but had gone down this morning, damaging slightly a rock wall at 10th Street. GOP Treasurer Resigns Oflicei CHICAGO, Nov. 3—(M—James S. Kemper resigned today as treasurer of the Republican National Com- mittee because the GOP's reserve funds have fallen below $125,000. R SR FROM VANCOUVER Thomas Morrison and E. J. Montsion of Vancouver, B. C., are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. SKAGWAY VISITOR John E. Heiderberger of Skag- | way is stopping ‘at the Gastineau Hotel. ELFIN COVE VISITORS | Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hubbard of Elfin Cove are guests at the Baranof Hotel. :Beadle as chairman, and these par- An opinion handed down by Judges Learned Hand, Thomas W. Swan and Jerome N. Frank said that bail was being set because the Government “conceded that the appeal herein raises a ‘substan- tial question’.” Bail of $30,000 was set for Eu- gene Dennis, Jchn B. Williamsen, Jacob Stachel, and Irving Potash. $20,000 bail was fixed for Rob- ert G. Thomason, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr, Harry Winston, John Gates, Gilbert Green, Carl Winter and Gus Hall. Previously the Government asked $100,000 bail each for Dennis, Pot- ash, Stachel, Williamson, Hall, Green and Thomason. It recom- mended $7,500 baii each for Davis, Winston, Gates and Winter. Irving S. Shapiro, Special Assist- ant to the U. S. Attorney, told the Court of Appeals last Tuesday in urging the high bail for the Ccmmunists that “that they cannot ke relied upcn (to surrender) if their convictions are confirmed.” At the end of the trial the prose- cution described the 11 as poten- tially great security risks. The 11 were convicted of conspir- acy to advocate violent overthrow of the U. S. Government, VOICE OF DEAD DENVER EDITOR | DIRECTS FUNERAL| DENVER, Nov. 3.— (@ —The mourners faced the flower-covered coffin holding the last mortal re- mains of Oscar O. Whitenack, 79, former editor of the Denver Post Open Forum With some surprise, they l\utedl the absence of clergy or music. Then a voice spoke out: “This is my funeral. The clergy is a racket. I want no religious songs. This is going to be a per- fectly rational funeral.” The voice was Whitenack’s. Sev- eral months ago, expecting death which finally came Saturday, he had planned and recorded his own services. The voice explained, “I am an atheist and have been for many years” It went on to attack religion, the Bible, belief in a God. There was a pause. Then, very quietly, “that’s all” The body was buried in Crown Hill cemetery yesterday. The, re- cord was placed in the casket. MUSIC, LANGUAGES FOR DISCUSSION ON STUDENT BROADCAST “The Values of Music and Lan- guages in Jumeau High School” will be the topic of tomorrow's weekly broadcast by members of the public speaking class coached by Miss Helen Schaefer. The 12:30 o’clock noon-hour pro- | gram over KINY will have Stanley | 1 1 ticipants in a panel discussion: El- sa Johnson, Donna Jewett, Alice Tanaka, Edythe O'Banion and Phoebe Anne Logan. 3 WALKER MEETS ! MISSIONARY The Missionary Society of Mem- orial Church will meet for its re-| MRS. gular meeting at 8 o'clock this eve- | V. Foster, Melbourne Pidgeon, Louis 24%, Pound $2.80%. ning at 1003—10th and B St. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Edith Walker, Plane Wreckage On RiveflrfiBanwl_(‘ _ ne rear portion of an of the Washington, D. C., National Airport, following a collision in the air with a Bolivian military plane, The forward portion of the transport plane is in the river. baby, and a crew of four aboard the airliner. can history. P Wirephoto. g fastern Air Lines plane Tests on tne bank of the Potomac River, half a mile south EAL 1t Plane Wredkage Seaiihgd Firemen search the wreckage of crashed near the Washington, D. C., National Airport. (® Wirephoto. | Eastern Air Lines plane which SEC. SYNDER COMING HERE WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—#— Treasury Secretary John Snyder plans this month to inspect U.S. Coast Guard facilities in the Pa- cific. The trip will take him to Alaska, Japan, the Philipp.nes and Hawaii. In Tokyo, he Gen. Douglas MacArthur inancial advisors. The tentative schedule: Seattie, Nov. 13; Juneau, Nov. 13-15; Adak, Nov. 15; Tokyo. Nov. 17-20; Manila, Nov. 20-23; Guam, Nov. 23-24; Wake, Nov. 24; Honoluluy, Nov. 24-26; San Francisco, Nov. 27-28. In the past two years he has} visited several Coast Guard sta- tions, especially in' the Alaskan area. In some instances’ his visit has been followed by a strengthen- ing of facilities, will confer with and his ELEVEN INITIATED IN JUNEAU ELKS LODGE Eleven candidates were initiated into membership of Juneau Lodge No. 420, BP.OE, at the wcekly meeting last night in the Elks Hall, and shared in the traditional fced afterward. Martin A. Ashba became a mem- |stock today s 4, American Can 98, DOUGLAS BROKE 17| RIBS; ‘NEW RECORD’; HE LAUGHS ABOUT IT YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 3.—P- Justice William O. Douglas laugh- ingly asserted yesterday: “We may go for a new record if this keeps up.” The U. 8. Supreme Court jurist referred to a new ductors’ report that showed he broke 17 ribs, rath- er thain 13, when his horse feil and relled on him during a Cas-| cade Mountain cuting last month..| Douglas stfll does not know when he will be able to leave the hos-| pital although he occasionally sits up and dons street clothes. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver due at 7 o'clock tonight. Sailor Splice scheduied to sail from Seattle Friday calling at Ket- chikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Pelican | then Juneau. Denali - scheduled to sall Seattle Saturday, Baranof from west scheduled southbound Sunday night. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine from ber by demit from' Seattle Lodge SOCIETY |No. 92, and Elvin C. Hawiey, {rom |International Harvester 28%, Ken- Ketchikan, No. 1429, The brand new EIks are Clarence | A. Bonnett, Arthur George Steph- ! ens, Jr., Neil Fritchman, Emmett Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, necott 50%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel Sales today were 1,360,000 shares. It was the worst commercial aviation disaster in Ameri- 2 STRIKES ' MAYGOTO 'PRESIDENT Belief that éovemment Must Take Action Not Later than Weekend || WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—(®—Re« | | ports that the government may soon '|step into the 'coal strike revived today with word that Indiana op- erators have refused separate peace talks with John L. Lewis. One highly-placed official closely watching the steel-coal strike crisis said: “We can't let Lewis go much Leyond this week-end.” He indical that unless there is some progress toward settling the 46-day coal strike the govern- ment will invite Lewis and opera- tors to Washington negotiations, probably some time next week. Failure of such Federal talks would put the coal problem up to eported 55 passengers, including a President Truman. Up to now, Mr. Truman has held that neither the coal nor steel strikes has reached the national emergency stage. NO GFFORT T0 BE ' MADE ON PRESENT DEVELOPMENT BILL Bartlett Tells Chamber He Feared Federal Domi- nation Through Bill The Indlana operators last night turned down a proposal of Gov. Henry Schricker of Indiana for a separate coal pact covering that tate. Lewis had accepted the idea, aying he could submit any tenta- tive offer to his union's policy committee at its meeting in Chi- cago Monday. An appeal similar to Gov. Schricker’s was made by Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinols. But Stevenson confined himself to a plea to both sides for a quick peace plan. Minnesota’s Gov. Luther W, Youngdahl also called for an end to the strike, but he addressed his - s E No special effort will be made to ceek passage of the proposec Alaska Development Corporation Bill as, it now stands. Pregid ‘Truman. This statement was made by E. m;:,:.wn. un:::t a nmllon men 1 L. (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska’s delegate on strike in the and steel stop~ ‘to Congress, when he spoke at thel o op e, stéel strike has been { noon meet.ng of the Juneau Cham- | oouo” o “Singd Oet, 1. ‘; ter of Commerce today in the Bara- CIO President Philip Murray, | nof Hotel. directing the steel strike, has won | He was present with a party o. |, pension-insurance settlement | officials which began fishtrap hear-| oo "opne ™ gethlehem Steel Corp., ings in the Senate Chambers this the natlon’s second largest pro- afternoon. The group arrived bY| 4 cer while presiding over the Army transport airplane at 11:4¢ annual CIO convention at Cleve- this forenocon from Cordova. land, Murray is trying to get other Bartlett, said the Department of|gioe) firms to take the Bethlehem the Interior had not consulted terms ,With him before the proposed bil . was published in Alaska, but that Kenneth Kadow, Interior Depart- ment's Alaska Field Committee, had sincg said that the bill would not be presented to Congress in its prestnt form, FEDERAL DOMINATION LATE LEWIS MOVE WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—®— John L. Lewis today -asked Gov- ernor Henry Schricker to renew his effort for a separate coal strike settlement in Indiana—a proposal rejected by the State’s mine owners yesterday. “I feared the possicility of Fed-: gral domination on a continuing basis,” Bartlett said. “That would ke too great a price to pay for venture capital.” However,, Bartlett stated he was in agreement with some points in - Such a settlement might break * the way for ending the nation- wide strike of 400,000 United Mine Workers. Lewis, in a telegram to Schrick- er, declared the UMW is ready to | Territory. | in meet the Indiana operators “on a the bill. He said there is never|g.o hours' notice.” .enough venture capital in Alaska.| go called the refusal of Indiana Tax laws’ work against the Te"\‘!openwn to hold separate peace tory’s luring the necessary venture|iaiks announced yesterday by Har- capital which is needed to de- vey Cartwright, secretary of the velop Alaska. Indiana Coal Producers Assocla- He said he was in agreement|(jon g “brutal” rejection of ‘the with the part of the bill whick | Governor's peace efforts. would make possible business loans| rhe UMW chief made his new for sound business practices in the [ move amid revived reports that Bartlett also pointed 'out the|ihe coal strike. 8 \legislation which has been passed| peace efforts in the companion by the recently-adjourned Congres:!giee] strike meanwhile were ap- and provides $248,000,000 worth 0. |parently at a standstill with com- aid for Alaska. < |pany negotiators reported marking This figure includes money for|ime and awaiting United Stecl the proposed Alaska Develop- ment Corporation Bill was “rathe: foreign to the American system.” FARM SETTLEMENT He pointed out that three pieces of legislation passed by the Con~ gress would greatly aid in farm fore they have received patents on| MANILA, Nov. 3—(#—The Manila their land, and the bill making pos- | Chronicle tonight reported 200 per- sible the establishment of Farmers|S0ns were killed or drowned al Loan Associations in Alaska. Kabankalan, Negros Island, in the Victor Wickersham, chairman of | Philippines worst typhoon in years the sub-committee of the House|OR Oct. 81. Merchant Marine and Fisheries| The report, the newspaper said, | 1. Alaska should advertise more;| Freviously 57 persons officially |2. “Alaskans should work longer|Dad been reported killed on Negros hours during the good season; 3.|30d Oebu Islands. % There should be more poultry| Additional storm damage was farms in the Territory; 4. Land|Ported from the Islands of surveys should be completed; 5,|8nd Mindanao. ! Price of gold should be increased;| I Manild the Philippin Averages today are as follows: Home Extension representative of (M. Botelho, Aldrich A Long, George industrials 192.19, rails 4917, util- 1the University of Alaska. | F Shaw, Jr, and Don E. Lillie. - ities 38.08. | i defense of Alaska. Worker moves. He sald there was need for aid in — = agricultural settlement of Alaska, zoo K.ll d " . settlement. Among these were the act which made it possible for homesteaders to borrow money for Committee which is in Juneau for|Was given to the Provincial Gov- the hearing today, had some sug-|erROr's office by Esteban Abada, a gestions to offer to Alaska. Senatorlal candidate who came 6. There should be expansion of "‘"fl; l:l;l:lu was ;.Il: u:: cold storage facilities to aid fish~- Pplain President’s i its storm warnings were 12 but the colonization idea put forth In Typhoon construction and land clearing te- B W Among them were these: from Kabankalan today. 11“@ (Continued on Page 2) the government soon may step into 2 hours |