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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,345 ME] PRICE TEN CENTS ":\I;. ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1949 BER ASSOCIATED PRESS Second Break in | ELECTIONS, HOT FIGHTS, BEING HELD Millions Are Voling in New York, State, City-Others | Also Go fo Polls (By the Associated Press) President Truman's “Fair D program came in for a major pub- lic test today at the hands of an estimated 5,500,00 New Y 5 vot- ing on the election of States Senator. The bitter contest between Sena- tor John Foster Duiles, Republican, and former Democratic Governc* Herbert H. Lehman far oversha- dowed a number of other contests and issues in scattered electdons across the nation HARD CAMPAIGN two men, both prominent ke The putlic figures, campaigned hard to!pr fill out the unexpired term of| former Senator Robert T. Wagner (D-NY), a “New Deal iwart who resigned because of ill last July. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to serve until tl election. Wagner’s term will expire January, 1951. Ordinarily a race such a short term would ex little public interest. But the sta of the two candidates plus h clear-cut definition of issues projected the scrap into a preview of the 1950 campaign where the control of Congress will be at stake Lehman, 71, embraced the “Ial Deal” for his campaign andi stumped vigorously for Mr. Tru- | man’s program. 1 Dulles, 10y Lehman’s. jun-| has hammered away hotly at! Truman’s domestic policies. ! 3-CORNERED FIGHT The election for mayor in New York City, where a hot three-cor- red race took - bany, Binghamton, Buftalo, cusa\and Utica were expected to contAlpbute to the surge of vot todag In the New io Mr. York City c¢ Wwillian, O’Dwyer, the Democratic incumbint, had the ba of P dent Truman, O’Dwyer pre- dicted wetory but so did his two major opponents, Newbold Morri the Republican-Liberal-Fusion can didate, and Rep. Vito Marcantonio, | American Lator party. i IN NEW JERSEY | New Jersey, another state thm; went Republican in 1948, was th arena for a statewide battle pre-| dicted in advance to be close. The fight was between Republican Gov-= ernor Alired E. Driscoll and Demo- cratic State Senator Elmer H. Wene, for a four year fterm & (Centinued on Luge 2) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | | \Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | (ED. Note—This is the third “ in Diew Pearson’s series on Army | Navy unification. ; | mSHINGTONflt's easy to un-’ derstand why the air admirals are | beiling made at unification. To| some extent you have to sympa-| thize with them. | What they can't forget is that for years the Navy’s airmen had| to fight the battleship admirals and now, just as the airplane car-, rier has come into its own, they | find themeselves stymied by uni-| fication. The admirals who put up this| long running-fight with the old-} fashioned battleship admirals in- | clude such brilliant officers as Gerald Bogan, Artbur Radford, L. T, Sprague and Jack Towers, now, retired. Thirty years ago, just out | of Annapolis, they went into the relatively new Naval aviation as fliers and worked up to the top.| They were convinced that the fu-| ture of the Navy lay in the air They had the courage to believe| this even at a time when mosi of | the admirals swore that nothing could ever sink a battleship. | During the recent campa:gn in the Pacific, Admiral Sprague had the expereince of commandin Carrier Squadron 22 with several oSt A R Rt . (Continued on Page Four) ' ment’s in lcave immedia has|£f U5, OBSERVER WILL LOOK IN ON RED CHINA New Pacific P;)ii(y Is B pecied as Outcome of Projected Survey By One of Associzted Press the U. S. Depart- top trouble shooters expects to visit Communist China soon and report on the shape of things to come in th State ed source s make an changed conditions brought about by of Red China. The Columbia te to the will visit Communist o in the Professor and United Philippir China A new American policy acific is expected to be ci Jessup’s The source tely after State Department offi hington ne: week. confer with London is planning to give pition to the Chin regime “within we Britain has greater commercial i ts in China than Uni States, and hes been ve to-! wards a policy of doing business | | with the Re i In the United is backing the ese complaint that ening peace o Natui J. 8. ne threat- the Chincse 1 and are said to be opposed to allo this complaint to come to a he just - now. shall, Plan money began g toward Indonesia again (o- y. The Economic Cooperation Ad- ministration seid about $40,000, will go to the Dutch E; Ind! which” is to become sovere state early next year. The funds cut off when the Dutch be- an a “police action” against the| Indonesian Republic last December. | U. 8. Secrete of State Acheson rrived in Paris for Americ ritish-French talks opening mOrTow. a 2l CONGRESSIONAL GROUP OPPOSES INDUSTRIAL SHIFT WASHINGTON, Nov. Senate-House group organized campaign today to block the armed services from shifting defense in- dusiries inland from the Grea Lakes and Coastal States. Justice Lice wuham U, Douglas, clothes and sat up at hospital at since he suffered 17 broken ribs when his horse fell on him during P Wirephoto.. u mountain trip last nth, HEADOUARTERS Public Invited fo Insped (G Offices in New Community Building Coast Guard headquarters will n for public inspection from Louse Community Building = this morning by Capt. N. acting commander of st Guard District. neral public is inv e facilities of tb suilding,” he said. “All offices on ¢ second and third floors will be 1 for inspection, and all officers men will stand Ly in their tive divisions.” offices include- Operations, gineering, Maiine In- 1d Finance and said adm tions of all Guard facilities originates in offices open to visitors Sunday. e facilities are aircraft based Kodiak and Annette Islands, a t Guard base at Ketchikan, a dio station at Point Higgins, four transmitting stdtions, 15 stations, most of which in- beacons, two electronic shops, one at Ketchikan and at Juneau, a maintenance and \above) of the Su | witack, |ihe Great Lakes region and Calling itself the “Unofficial Na- tional Defense Committee,” the| group urges Congressienal action next year to bolster the defenses of Alaska and the coastal regions. It argues that the way to safeguard pere will be more than willing to war production facilities is to sel| explain the operations of their de- up adequate defenses for them| pariments,” Capt. Haugen said. where they are—not to try to move| them out of reach. i Senator Magnuson detachment at Ketchikan, shore aids to naviga- 113 lighted Luoys, and 318 unlighted aids. e (D-Wash) l*:! chairman of the Senate group and | Delegate Bartlett of Alaska is| leades on the House side. | They have mailed a report to 62! Senators and 281 Representatives in | the coastal and Great Lakes re-| ions saying there are uudications| these areas are not adequately de- fended. “Even more alarming) the re- port said, “is the recent evidence that the Armed Forces are tacitly admitting this and are making ef- ferts to move industries from the areas to inland locations for se- curity reasons.” The Armed Forces consider these areas vulnerable, the report added because they are within bombing range of potential enemies. The group will open the drive next year require the Armed Forces to “fortify and develop Al- aska as the key fo the Pacific Coast defenses, and to do what- ever is necessary also to prepare fhe A lantic seaboard against atlud « s e 00 TIDE TABLE NOVEMEER 9 tide 3:52 aun, 14.3 ft. tide 9:20 am., 5.0 ft. tide 3:22 p.m., 166 ft. tide 10:12 p.m,, -0.2 ft. o 0 0 9 0 0 @ High Low High Low o o SUN RISES - SETS NOVEMBER 9 8:31 am, 4:52 p.m. @0 eeecteccsseceocoen . o e e MOVEMENTS Sesttie 1 port and il westward at 5:30 e ®000CEPOC0OSOCOO0E O e D STEAMER Denal scheduled to >ele . Baranof duled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Couy s Vi m frem heduled to sail Saturday. Va . “Visitors will find that the men) Sl NO CHANGE IN PROPOSED '50 FISH SEASON FWS Predicts 1950 Run Will Be at Least 90 Per Cent of '49's | | | | EEATTLE, Nov. 8—(®—Dates have roposed for the 1950 South- a commercial fishing sea- con which are the same as those {of 1949, | They were proposed at hearings jof the Fish and Wildlife Servic | iere yesterday. The season sug- | gested was from August 15 to Sep- | tember 3 south of Sumner Strait 'and August 22 to September 3 north lof Sumner Strait. | The hearings continue today. ! Regulations for commercial fish- jerles in Alaska waters are being | discussed. Approximately 85 can- union and fishing industry attended yesterday. 1un of pink salmon in the South a area which would ex- cent of this season’s run. Testimony on how poliuted waters effect salmon life in Puget Sound wes scheduled to be heard today two members of a special Con- ‘onal subcommittee. Tomorrow the enter on Alaskan fish traps. Members of the subcommittee ar me Court, donned ' Yakima, Wash.,, for the first Jdme e |John, J. Allen, California, and Vic- !tor Wickersham, Chairman, Okla- oma. Only Reps. Tollefson and | Wickerskam will L2 in Seattle for |the hearings; their party was | byoken up because of fog between | here ahd Alaska, where they have beer¥ holding other hearings. Rep: will join the others soon, Tollefson said. | Clesures Discussed | Opposition to regulator weckend {or midweek closures on commercial salmon fishing in Alaska waters |was expressed by fishermen today ‘at hearings conducted by Fish and | wildlife Service officials. | Fishermen urged that the pro- posed 1950 season of July 20 to | august 7 in Prince Wliliam Sound e extended, or that a 60-hour weekend closure effective in that area be reduced. 12 Governors ‘Hit at Plant Transferral | Alaska and Norfhwes! 'Ex- pendable’ Philosophy Attacked by Gruening | Allen Rep. T LAKE CITY, Nov. §— Extreme caution” should e cised by the Federal government in nsplanting major industries to| protect them from possible military 1 Wespin Goreaae h“\:“l on Cook Tnlet was recommended by fishermen as an alternative to midweek closures of 24 hours dur- Vi aaiinoll” ot etate) soNbeisr k}mg the ective scason, as proposed X o~ HEHNY by the Wildlife Service, Packers ap- fo draft a recolution to that eliect| jyoyeq poth the midweek closure for action ;'.'. the chief ‘exe'cun\:‘a and a proposed reduction of drift ‘;:?jrc their mceting adjourns “”}gillnets.m‘:_n 200 Ia!.h_oms to 130 4 ._ifathems, Wildlife officials said. The Governors also z.greeq in] Regulator matters for the Cop- principal to a plan for reglonali ,er piger grea also were discussed. cooperation in setting up tralnir schools for doctors, dentists, Vel-|ayen were considered yesterday af- erinarians and (»Lher» proles'«mnm‘wnmum The hearings were sched- works This suggestion, made bY|yied to be concluded late today Gov, Lee Knous of Colorado, also |yt consideration of the Kodiak },\nl] be voted on Lefore the meet-| ajocia Peninsula and Chignik ing adjourns. 1 ALASKA agreed. The Western Governors’ Conle ence asked Frank Bane, director of |areas. “EXPENDABLE?” The issue of transplantng in- dustries was raised by Governors Arthur B. Langlie of Washington and st Gruening of Alaska.| Both men cri ed what they said! was a military defense philosophy | which would regard Alaska and| the Northwest as “expendable” in| ne event of military attack. Gov. Vail Pittman of Nevada| 1d other inland Governors said 1ey did not feel they should go on record as objecting to the removal GASTINEAU DIST. (OM. COY SCouUTS, MEETS THURSDA M. J. Whittier, district chairman for the Boy Scouts, announces {there will be a meeting of the Gas- tineau District Committee Thurs |day evening in the City Council | Chambers. Operating committee re- ports will be made and plans con- E chairman said. held at 7:45 o’'clock. gram, the meeting will | i [ of a single plant—such as the |transfer of many Boeing Aircratt | Company operations from Seattle as. But all speakers on the | | subject agreed that “careful con-| ideration” should be given to the| economic repercussions of such a move, | e et o OMEDLSH FALM 10 Lx?ge: Lhd.fl‘ xemz)\"al of the Boemg; fEAIUDED AI SKI (luB plant. It is whether we are going "HURSDAY to withdraw, in case of an attack, irom Alaska and leave the Pacitic MEE“NG Coast unprotected.” 5 o) Gruening said “very little” is be-| Cross-country skiing and ski- ing done to build up Alaska de-|jumping will be featured in a fenses. Swedish film to be shown at the Gov. Earl Warren of California, first meeting of Juneau's Ski Club commenting on moving industries in the Gold Room of the Baranof inland, said the government had Hotel Thursday at 8 p.m. “poured millions of people” into the All members of the ski club, as Pacific Coast states during the war well as ski enthusiasts who will they are not deprived of a means!winter, are urged to attend. of earning a livelihood. No admission will be charged. Applications for membership in A. R. Green of Chicago is re- the club will be accepted at the gistered at the Baranof Holel. meeting. 1 hearings will, * {Reps. Thor Tollefson, Washington; | A closure from June 20 to July| Seasonal rules for the Bristol Bay | - SaysBuyer;$ How it's Gold Féver In Calit; "Enough 'For Everyone () CASTAIC, cCalif, Nov. 8—M— Gold fever, 49er style, is gripping uny village today waie its 300 citizens await an assayer’s re- ort on California’s latest Lonanza. Nokody is sure yet whether the ! metal at the bottom of | Charley Allen’s well is actually | cold. But grizzled prospectors swear {it's the real thing and they're busy | ‘taking claims—just in case. | Allen once mined gold in North- jem alifornia’s mother lode coun- i 1y, scone of the historie gold rush 1100 years ago, He says he spotted | the shiny flecks while deepening | a 150-foot well in the back of his afe and began panning the stutt | Wit skillet, “It tested okay with sulphuric acid, and it hammers out like gold,” Allen said. “If it is gold there's nough here for everybody.” | yellow Room fer Traps and Seines, For Slrilpgenl Enforcement itka Man Asks SITKA, Alaska, Nov. 8—(Special| Dispatch to The Empire)—Fish| traps received unexpected support| at a brief hearing here yesi afternoon from a local fish tuyer who said he believes there is room for both traps and mobile gear in| Alaska | Five persons, on the other hand,| spoke against traps, citing them as unfair competition to both fisher- men and to canneries which do| not have traps. Four of the anti-| trap speakers were fishermen, the| fifth a small independent cannery operator. T Only two members of the special committee reached Sitka for the hearing. Congressman John Allen| of California and Delegate E. L.| Bartlett arrived by plane from| Ketchikan for a two and a halt| hour stay. Other members of the| Congressional Committee left Ket—! chikan direct for Seattle after hold-| ing hearings in several coastal| towns. | BOTH BREAK LAW i L. C. Berg, Sitka fish buyer for| the past 18 years and resident of| Southeast Alaska since 1900, told| the committee that both traps and seines have engaged in illegal fish-. PAN WITH ANYTHING | When the word got around, others | n panning for gold with frying | pans, pie dishes, garbage can lids jand any digging tools they coula |lay their hands on. | Castaic, a truck stop at the base (of the ridge highway, is about 1t | miles from Placerita canyon where j30ld was first discovered in Cali- | fornia in 1842. A worker at San Fer- | nando Mission, so the story goes, !puued an onion out of the ground land found nuggets in the roots. “ Jokn Marshall didn't make his | Sutter’s Mill discovery until six {years later. That's the one which tarted the 1949 gold rush. | The Placerita vein petered out in 1845. DINNER MEETING MONDAY | 15 PLANNED BY BPW (LUS | Plans for the Business and Pro- | fessional Women's Club social din- | ner meeting in Trinity Parish Hal ionday night, November 14, were | discussed at the club’s luncheon Monday on the Baranof Terrace. ; Members and guests who can at- tend—and a large attendance is | anticipated—are asked to call Mrs. Thelma Engstrom, telephone 276, |not later than Friday. The dinner |is being planned by Mrs. Bertha | £llingen’s memcership committee | and Ernestine Zollman is in charge of arrangements. At the meeting yesterday, pre- 1 ided over Ly acting president | Elizabeth Mosher, the club's annual | audit was heard, Mrs. Helen Ehren- dreich gave a report on the hapiro concert, Dorothy Pegues n ‘Teen Age Club activities and | Mrs. Betty McCormick on the | Cithopedic Hospital birthday pro- i ject f i ‘ NovemLer children at the Ortho- | pedie, gitka, who will be wished | ‘happy birthday” by BPWC are i Peter Ezi, November 5; Arthur | Douglas, November 9; Arlene Bruce, | and Percy Outwater, November 15; | Adolph Osterhous, November 21; |Paul Goodlataw and Michael | Naunoff, Novemier 27. : Aside from the greetings that |are sent by the BPW, the list is {given here so that anyone inter-| | csted may send cards to the boys sidered for the coming year’s pro- |and girl for birthdays this month. | ‘The | | Attention was cajled by a mem- |ber at the club meeting to the | community's debt to BPW for hav- |ing sponsored the first concert by Maxim Schapiro which resulted in | his second community concert| which raised much of the money | |for a community piano. Unanimously elected at the BPW‘ meeting to fill .office vacancies were | | Mrs. Ellinger, second vice president | {and Ruth Rogall, treasurer. | (CHIEF WASHAKIE T | | | Freighter Chief Washakie, sail- and now has a responsipility to se2 be skiing in the Juncau area 1hls‘h!g from Seattle Nov. 11, will make | |a call at Yakutat with freight ac- cording to announcement today. Other Alaska ports of call are ing practices. The remedy, hej thought, is more enforcement| agents and sharper teeth in Lhe: .aws. “If either a trap or a seiner is caught fishing illegally, they should be closed down for the re- nainder of the season,” Berg said.| Retention of some traps will tend | o minimize strikes among the seiners, Berg felt. He predicted that| small canneries will have difticulty /inancing their operations if they must depend solely upon seine| caught fish. Berg termed the big outheast Alaska fish run last sea-| :on accidental and said he believes he fish belonged to westward and | ere swept into this area by ocean| wirents, He predicted a small run | 1ext season, DEPLETED AREAE CITED Andrew Hope, member of the Territorial Legislature and Chair-| nan of the Fisheries Committee of | ‘he Alaska Native Brotherhood, | Peter C. Nielsen, Sitka City Coun-| ilman and fisherman, and two osther fishermen cited examples ot/ depleted fishing areas and blamed | traps for the depletion. Hope said| that fishing should be in such| condition that the fishermen will| oe able to make a living during| the season and not Le forced to| seek jobs during the winter months | He estimated the average yeurly; income of Indian fishermen in this| area at $600. Citing Lynn Canal and Peril Strait as examples, Hope said | ‘hat both had once been excellent fishing areas. He charged that| traps killed both of them and that it is virtually impossible for a| seiner to fish in either area at! present, Peril Strait, he said, made§ something of a comeback last sum- mer because the late opening of| the season allow some early fish to escape the traps in Chatham Strait. “TRAPS TOO GOOD”. are | | of 25,000 workers Nation’s Steel Strike is Made REPUBLIC SIGNS 19 END STRIKE Pension Pl;—r; Duplicates Bethlehem Plan - Insur- ance Benefits Upped PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8—(P—Re- public Steel Corporation and the CIO United Steelworkers today signed a pension and insurance agreement which ended a 39-day old strike of 45,000 union employees against the nation's third largest teel producer. The agreement provides: Insurance — Republic's present contributory insurance plan is con- tinued but with increased benefits, Employees will continue to pay three and one half cents per hour and the company will pay two and one half cents per hour. Pension—The plan is an exact replica of the Bethlehem agree- ment. Employees reaching the age of 65 who have 25 years service will receive a minimum pension of $100 a month including Social Security. Employees 65 years old with 15 to 25 years service will receive propor- tionate pensions. The agreement was signed by CIO and Steelworkers President Fhilip Murray and by E. J. Magee, acting director of Republic indus- trial relations. Agreemént was reached in one hour and 15-minute session in Mur- ay's office. Earlier today the union signed an agreement with the nation’s No. i producer, Jones and Laughlin :teel Corporation, That settlement, .00, was in line with the Bethle- hem steel pact, It. Vice President Thomas F. Patton of Republic who is also the firm's seneral counsel said the Republic agreement is effective at 3 pm. EST today. Only holdout among the country’s four top producers now is industry leader United States Steel. Cemmenting on the Republic-J. and L. agreements, a company source said: - “This looks like the handwriting on the wall.” But no negotiations have been arranged between big steel and the union. SHOTTON WILL BE DODGERS’ MANAGER NEXT YEAR AGAIN BROOKLYN, Nov. 8—(#—Burt (Barney) Ehotton, who led Brock- lyn to a pennant but lost the World Eeries to the New York Yankees last season, was reappointed Man- ager of the Dodgers today. No terms were announced but it is believed the 65-year-oid resi- |dent of Bartow, Fla., was hired for one year at the same 1igures he received Jast season—$25,000. ended. the strike . ..., CALL AT YAKUTAT E Nielsen asserted that traps entirely too efficient. He and other | f.shermen who spoke cefore Lhe; committee felt that five years is WSCS MEETING The afiernoon circle of the Wo- * g P e man’s Scclety of Chrisiian Scrvice af{‘e:uatteltlr:\e Iu;“nc]-ll:;l:l:);lmen to1°{ the Methodist Church will meet '"‘v‘v’l‘]‘; mOMmgmm of th.e local Wednesg.y allternoon, November i $ |9, at 1 o'clock with Mrs. Larry o i £mith and Morrow Cannery com: Parker in the Channel Apartments, i plained of rough competition (mm},n‘e afterncon will be spent in sew- trap caught fish in good seasons. In | ! peor seasons, he sald, the cost ap!inE and mkiig preparsiions eR trap and seine fish is about equu.i;:emglgao:;l‘g;z:l ‘:l ::ebéh::(:: but when there is a big run the| Saturday, November 19. trap canneries make a cheaper pack e PRt and are able to undersell the small operator who must depend enurelyf upon seine caught fish, Traps catch not orly cannery fish but halibut, herring and king sal- mon which other types of gear|, would not otherwise catch. Mark g Jacobs, local president of the ANB.| g told the commitiee. He predicted a o general increase in Sitka business' , if traps are eliminated. i .. v . . WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 44; minimum 36. At Airport—Maximum 47; mintmum 34. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Continued fair tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight near 30 with highest Wgdnesday 40. ° . DIVORCE CASE DISMISSED " The divorce action of Elinore | ® | McKinnon against Waller F. McKinnon was dismissed without | prejudice this morning in the Uni- ted States District Court here. le . !c |o PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 s m. today City of Juneau—28 inches since Nov. 1704 inches; since July 1—43.13 inches. At Airport—21 inches; since Nov. 1-5.75 inches; since July 1—29.63 inches. ° ARTHUR ADAMS RETURNS . Arthur Adams, who has bemi. isouth on business, returned aboard e ©0000e0%00000 000000000000 Ketchikan, Juneau, Seward, Val- \lez and Cordova, l week. | the Denali after an absence of one »