The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1949, Page 1

/OL. LXXIV., NO. 11,342 ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCTATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SUB - COMMITTEE HEARS ARGUMENT OH TRAP QUESTION “Routine”—that was the hear- ing on the abolishment of fishtraps held in the Senate Chamber of the Federal Building Thursday after- noon before the sub-committee of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee now on a quick tour of Alaska's coastal cities | to determine the attitude of the people toward abolishment of fish- traps. . It was routine because most of the arguments for and against the abolishment of traps had been heard before. The hearing took place before a full gallery of spec- tators. Seven witnesses testified in fa- vor of abolishing traps. They were Clarence Anderson, Territorial 0 At Public Hall, Cleveland, O., the CIO opened a week-long conventicn of some 800 delegates. A move by the right-wing majority to discipline CIO left- ¥ing unions promised to make the meeting one of the most important in the history of the big industrial union fedcration. (P Wirephoto. | salmon Industry, Inc., of Seattle. | Arnold termed anti-fishtrap ar- guments presented before he took the stand as “evidence by men who‘ |know not whereof they speak.” | said the people of - Alaska have no authority to regulate fishs ‘mg. “This is properly so,” he said, “because fisheries of AMska art the property of every citizen of the United States and not just those of Alaska.” He said the question is one of national interest—“a national ques- tion of policy—control of marginal seas.” The outcome should not be de- termined by a straw vote held among residents of Alaska, he said. As far as conservation by means of abolishment of the traps is con- cerned, Judge Arnold pointed out jthat British Columbia, without (traps, is showing a drop in thc preduction of canned salmon, { On Other Side | On the other side of the fence 'was Clarence Anderson, head of IMURRAY Commissioner of Fisheries, who |the Territorial Department of Fish- spoke first; Lester Roberts, who | eries. spoke for the Alaska Native Broth- | He told the sub-committee that erhood, E, B. Ericksen, Territor-|trap-owners in Southeast Alaska ial Executive Secretary of the Am- are considered “the symbol of erican Federation of Labor whose |greed.” He said that, rightly or union was active in the vote that|wrongly, most of the people in Al- abolished traps; Attorney William|aska think trap owners do not L. Paul, Sr., Harry Douglas, Mayor |care what the public attitude is of Hoonah; Andy Barlow of the:and mean to operate no matter | United Trollers and Alfred White, i what. trap watchman. He said that if he were in charge One Witness Against of fisheries in Alaska he feels he Sole witness to speak against|could do a better job with the traps abolishment was W. C. Arnold, |abolished than with them in action. Managing Director of the Alaska: He pointed out that few fish get up streams when the season is on because of the traps, so the sea- The Washington Merry - Go-Round son must be shortened to allowl By DREW PEARSON tConvright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'ASHINGTON—Here's the dope on Admiral Forrest Shermsh, the man who favored unification: { He was Forrestal’s favorite. For- restal had nim earmarkeq for Chief considered of Naval Operations, him the broadest military man he | had ever known. In fact, Forrestal sent Sherman to the Mediterranean with the idea of replacing Adm. Richard Conolly as Fleet Comman- der for Europe. But Conolly begged to stay on, and Forrestal gave in, expecting to make the transfer lat- er. Sherman and Conolly have never gotten along since, Conolly being an old-line, unimaginative, battle- ship admiral. Sherman is just the opposite—alert, aggressive, with his eyes ahead. Sherman is short, tanned, ruddy with straight gray hair. He wears glasses at his desk’/ He was a champion fencer at Annapolis, but his favorite exercise now is walk- ing. Aboard ship, he paces the deck; on land, he’d rather walk k4 a few blocks than catch a cab. Though he has a dynamié mind, runs of fish to reach and seed! streams before and after the openl season. { It would be possible to have much longer seasons, if traps werel eliminated, he said. ,The season )} could be set up without opening and closing dates and regulation of fishing to insure proper e_s-l the situation made it necessary, he | urged. [} H Credit To Labor \ E. B. Erickson, Territorial Exe- cutive Secretary of the American Federation of Labor, referred to the overwhelming vote in favor of ab- olishing fishtraps and gave his or- ganization credit for putting over the referendum. He said that from talks with trap operators he had come to the con- clusion that the biggest advantage of a trap was that it gave a can- Inery absolute control of his in- dustry through control of the source {of raw material. + He cited the town of Homer on |Kenai Peninsula as an example of i the fishing-farming economy which | jcould be developed after abolishing \fish traps. | Andy Barlow, Executive Secretary | of the United Trollers of Alaska, argued that traps got privileges !that trollers didn’t. He said that traps were allowed to take small Sherman’s personality falls short salmon, while trollers were forced i S A L T D —_— e e (Continued on Page Four) | (Continued on ’uge 2) President going to stum (10 (onvnlion Opens ELECFED (10 HEAD Chosen President for His Tenth Term Without Any Opposition By HAROLD W. WARD CLEVELAND, Nov. 4—(®—Philip Murray, 63-year-old former Scot- tish miner, was elected today to ais 10th term as President of the CIO. Murray’s name was placed be- ore the convention, without oppo- sition, by Jacob Potofsky, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. ie referred to the CIO leader as ‘Labor's No. 1 spokesman and No. statesman.” Potofsky said Murray was “strong in character, vigorous in action, undaunted in courage, and a great spiritual force for good in our country” The election came near the close of the CIO’s 11th constitutional onvention, in which the way was paved for ridding the CIO of its eft wing elements. Selection of an executive board later was expected to provide the sig test of the union’s new right- wing control. LEO OSTERMAN BACK FROM VACATION TRIP |Gen. Collins Optimistic on/ 3 RUSS TANKS | Defense Problems in || Press Club Quiz i By JERRY KORN WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—(P—Gen.*% | J. Lawton Collins, Army Cniet of |3 otatf, said today, “Frankly, sian tanks.” $ Collins addressed a luncheon sess sion of the Naiional Press Club; -n it, and ‘a question-and-answer { exchange, he ranged over a \v:d(;t, seld ol defense pro:lems. § On tanks, he said that Rus3a now has the best but that he had ust seen in Detroit a iight tani! s goud as any in the worid nndl | “all we need is a little money to)4 buy them.” He said he also saw_ prototypes of medium and heavy tanks as 2cod as any in the warld. Coliins also said: 1. The armed forces have plans {ready for moving in to maintain[» |order and handle the gituation inj* ~ event of atomic attack on the| | United States. | | ! { s { | | 2. As of the moment, the de- | fenses of Alaska are inadequate but would be reenforced quickly in case of an emergency. that she and the Vice-President condition, Those in the Far East will be in four or five months, and in the same period those at home will be “ready toé fight and ready to X‘ake on anykody in the world, any- | where, any time.” | HARLEM OUT Is Junked by Sh i coMMunists T0 PREVENT T RE-SHIPMENT \Violent Mob Welcomes, | Reds, Downs Policemen | Robeson Also Speaks : NEW YORK, Nov. 4—(P—Eleven | |top American Communists went | free on tond last night. Less than! | three hours later, a brick-hurling | Harlem mob felled six police in a WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—(#—The i wild welcome-home for one of the!government slapped rigid controls Red leaders. on shipment of strategic goods to | The Communist bigwigs signed'pmcucally the whole world today U.S. Attempts fo Stop Flow of Strategic Shipments fo Russians America particularly were covered { Supreme Court reviews their recent| by the new rules. conviction on charges of conspirmg!’ to advocate violent overthrow of| Officials told a reporter the step |the U.S. government. { was taken more with the idea of Defendant Benjamin J. Davis,| averting future re-shipment diffi- Jr., Negro city councilman, met a | cuities than because of any grea! roaring welcome when he made a| current traffic in re shipments tc p nat Announce Wedding Famri - 0 o Navy ‘Operafion Mastermind’ Furnished Adr. " Ammuriion 'FOR 3 FREED CONTROLSON 3 ion next year PLANS "FAIR DEALERS” IN '50 CONGRESS Truman Given Big Recep- tion in Twin Cities— | Makes Predictions By ERNEST B. VACCARO ABOARD TRAIN ENROUTE TO VASHINGTON, Nov. 4—(P—Presi- ent Truman's 'determination to || stump the country again next yeur {0 elect “Fair Dealers” to Congress was strengthened today by his re- ‘ception in Minnesota. White House aides said he was elated by his welcome yesterday at sinneapolis and St. Paul where olice estimated 400,000 persons ined the sidewalks to cheer him along a 20 mile parade route. An applauding crowd the police estimated at 12,000 whooped it up /| again last night in St. Paul's Civic Auditorium when he gave a fore- 5 || taste of the 1950 campaign with a Jane Hadley, 14, daughter of Mrs, Careiton S. Hadley, stands between Vice-President Alben W. Barkley and her mother, after Mrs. Hadley announced at a press conference held at St. Louis, Mo., apartment, will be married, Nov. 18. # Wirenhoto. FREIGHTER IS BEACHED AFTER FIRE {Blaze in Eme Room of Craff Off Coast Forces Vessel Aground SEATTLE, Nov. 4—#—An en- erman; Bureau By JERRY KORN WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—@-“Op 23" a Naval agency said to have masterminded the Admirals’ bitter lCunerm:onal attack on detense policies, has keen junked by Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, new Chief of slashing attack on “the propaganda of the reactionaries.” TO ELECT LIBERALS The President is convinced that he can help elect liberals to Con- gress by conducting the sort of ampaign he made in 1948 through ack platform appearances in key tates, one close adviser told re- orters. Mr. Truman stressed two. predic- ions in his talk last night—that the Jlst Congress will enact a “good leal more” of his “Fair Deal” be- ore quitting its next session and hat there will be a heavier vote in views. X y “GENERAL WELFARE" He called his elvil rights, federal Ud to education, national health .nsurance and other “general wel- are” proposals the path to tuture rowth. He said the people were behind dm. “I am not too much worried by .hose who oppose those policies,” vr. Truman declared. “Between he reactionaries of the extreme 2ft with their talk about revolu- | ! sj i ! Naval Operations. | Sherman, a strong supporter of armed forces unification, cracked {down on the 30-man unit less than 4 hours after taking over from idm. Louis Denfeld as the Navy's op uniformed officer. ‘There were reports some days 1go that the Navy's Inspector Gen- ral, Rear Adm. Allen R. McCann, ad seized the group's records and as investigating its activitie: “Op 23" was what the Navy salled its Operations Division 23. Actually, its full title was Organi- ational, Research and Policy Di- /ision of the Office of the Chief of Javal Operations. It was headed i ibail bonds totalling $260,000 and to prevent re-shipments to the . s > walked out to a freedom that may | Soviet bloc. ¥ Cfll)’t.A A Burke, vvvllu testitied last a year until the United States; Communist China and Latin n Congr against present Penta- gon policy. “WORK" COMPLETED Sherman’s order dissvived the sroup—which consisted of 13 offi- ers and 17 enlisted men—and anded its work to other Navy gencies. Op 23's “principal func- Leo Osterman of the Customs | Service staff returned aboard the | Strect-corner With him were speech in Harlem a' Russian-dominated a gine room fire drove the freighte: Andalusia to ground on a north- western Washington beach early today. A crew of 27 was safe aboard The Coast Guard reported later that the fire was out. The ground- ing ended two hours of uncertainty ion and class warfare and the re- .ctionaries of the extreme right vith their hysterical cries of bank- uptcy and despair, lies the way of progress. “BI-PARTISAN" VISIT after the first fire alarm from thc 7,117-ton Panamanian registerec freighter. The fire was reported extinguished by the crew. It rammed aground a few miler from the most northwestern tip of the continental United States. The Coast Guard Cutter Fir reached the scene shortly after the grounding and anchored 500 yards from the beached ship, four miles east of Neah Bay on the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The ship asked the cutter to stand by untii commercial tugs could get lines aboard. The Coast Guard said the ship was taking water in No. 1 and ? holds, through holes due to ram- ming the beach. It had a seven to Mr. Truman spoke on the anni- ersary of the day last November /hen he received word of his vic- ory over Thomas E. Dewey in the itter 1948 campaign. It was “Tru- man Day” in Minnesota's centen- nial observance. Republican Gov. Luther Young- lahl was one of his hosts, The “resident called it a “bi-partisan” (sit but laughed every time he did so. President Truman conferred with llinois political leaders at an un- sual hour today when they boarded his private car at 5:05 a.m. (EST) in Chicago. On the subject of Minnesota, the President recalled that the state had been created out of the terri- tory bought in the Louisiana Pur- chase. In those days, too, Mr. Tru- |o ©« o ¢ o 0 0 2 @ Princess Louise after a six-week trip in the states, his first vaca= tion in more than three years. Osterman visited numerous re- latives in Seattle, Bellingham and Spokane, Wash., Lewiston and Mos- capement could be carried out as|cow, Idaho, as well as in Portland, | Ore, and Stockton, Calif, also getting in a day at Reno. . WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 55; minimum 48. At Airport—Maximum 53: minimum 45. 000 ecccon FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with rain tonight and mostly cloudy with showers Saturday. Little in temperature with e lowest tonight 45 and high- e est Saturday 48. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—1.18 inches; since Nov. 1—5.48 inches;- since July 1—41.57 inches. At Airport—98 indes; since Nov. 1—5.06 inches; since July 1—28.94 inches. ® 0o 0 0 0.0 0 0 o sece00c®soe short time later. Hitherto tne Commer Depart- defendants Henry Winston, also & ment has applied these rigid con- Negro, and Robert Thompson. | trols only to Burope and adjacent Negro singer Paul Robeson, 19“‘5“:\“&5. mostly along the southern |target of two recent Peekskill yim of the Mediterranean. | N.Y., riots, also spoke. | The new action extends the con- | A crowd of about 2,000 cheered i) powers to exports to any place ithe speakers and then began a|in the world except Canada, which | torchlight parade up Lenox Ave-|has always been in a relatively {nue through the tense, crowded| control-free class of its own, even - heart of New York’s big Negro dis- | in wartime. | trict. | By strategic ‘goods, the depart- From rooftops came a barrage of ment means for the most part in- Lottles, bricks, saucers, cups, and | gustrial items that might contritute croomsticks. | to “war potential” of the Soviet. BULLETINS: | Five persons—including, two boys | about eight years old—died in an | early-morning fire in Chicago. | About twenty other persons were {injured in the blaze, which swept through a three-story apartment building on the South Side. YIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 5 High tide 1:36 am., 155 ft. Low tide 7:21 am., 29 ft. High tide 1:24 pm., 175 ft, Low tide 7:51 p.m, -08 ft. The City Fathers of Clairton, | Pennsylvania, are setting up a re- lief fund for the families of the city’s five thousand striking steel- | workers. The Clairton City Coun- cil has voted $50,000 for emergency relief, and the program hegins next Monday. ions have been completed,” a|nine-degree list. tatement said. The Coast Guard said the Andal- The unit was said to havel|usia is owned by the Triton Ship- ping Company of New York City, although it flies the Panamanian flag. Two tugs were reported enroute from Port Angeles, about 60 miles away. The Coast Guard said an- other ocean-going tug in the area would be released to go to the aid of the Andalusia as soon as | weak. a smaller tug from the Foss Tug Senator Tydings (D-Md), Chair-|Company could arrive to take over man of the Senate Armed Services|its tow. Committee, declayed yesterday that' The freighter was bullt by Beth- ihe U.S. Navy is “three times’ as|lehem at the Alameda, Calif., ship- strong as the combined Navies of yards. It has a steel hull and is op- other nations. |erated by oil-fueled steam turbines. On the other hand, Tydings told | reporters, “our Army with only a| few divisions is pitifully below the comparable strength of the other great country.” That was obviously a reference to Russia. | Tydings recently returned to this { country from a series of confer- ces with European military lead- napped strategy for the hroadscale -arrage laid down by top Navy »fficers in gemsational hearings be- ore the House Armed Serv Committee last month. The unit’s junking came hard on he heels of another blow aimed it the position that American sea- sower is becoming dang 1sly FISH PACKER AFIRE VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. ¥ (Continued on Page Five) " STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—Closing o5 quotaotion of Alaska Juneau mine In air strength, he said, Russia stock today is 4, American Can and the United States are about 97%, Anaconda 287, Curtiss-Wright ogual. 7%, International Harvester 28, Kennecott 49%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 24%, Pound $2.80%. | Mr. and Mrs. J. C. MacLean of | Sales today were 1,390,000 shares. | Tulsequah are stopping at the Bar- | Averages today are as follows: janof Hotel. They arrived on the industrials 19129, rails 49.55, util- | Princess Louise. | ities 39.30. \ 3 TU QUAH GUESTS man said, the standpatters and re- actionaries objected. He said they ‘laimed it would ruin the country. The President said what was true it: “Whenever there is a new pro- posal to promote the general wel- fare, we always hear the samc kind of arguments—irom the same &ind of people—for the same kind »f reasons.” 'VETERAN OF 1904 ' ATLANTIC CROSSING DIES IN EDMONDS SEATTLE, Nov. 4—(®—Capt. Ole | Martin Brude, 69, of Edmonds, who | “proved” his own lifeboat with a imid-wlnur trip across the Atlantic |in 1904, died yesterday. Brude's Atlantic crossing with | three companions was to test an odd, egg-shaped 18-foot liteboat which he had designed in an effort to curtail the loss of life at sea. His starting point was his home- town of Aalesund, Norway, and | last spring he was brought back to | Aalesund’s 100th birthday celebra- | tion as an honored guest and made !a lifetime member of the Nor- wegian Skippers' Association, then is true now. And as he worded