The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA. EM VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,347 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” IPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1949 A M MBER ASSOCIAT D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Lewis Defies Government in Conference Call EXTRA KRUG WILL STEP OUT ON DEC. 1 BULLETIN, Washington, D.C., Nev. 10—@—Julivs Krug an- nounced his resignation as Se- drotary of the Interior. Krug sald he has been v1nting | | | | to lcave the Cabinet for a long time and added he will step out about December 1. PRESIDENT HAS HOPES ON RUSSIA WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—(®— President Truman expressed the ! hope today that the United States can get along with Russia. el Blast iire was banked at cnset of steel strike. urnaces Fir o A Asbestes-clad steel workers at the Bethlehem Steel Company plant at Bethlehem, Pa., bu plug in tap-hole base of a blast furnace as they prepere to igniie extra coke blanks with which the Full operation will not be resumed for several days. () Wirephoto. ed GOLD PRICE | WILL NOT BE CHANGED ‘ gt 'Truman Says No Upping While He Is President —Rumors Persist WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—®— | President Truman said today there | will be no change in the value of gold as long as he is President. | The President replied with what |he described as a categorical no {when he was asked if anyone in the administration was giving con- | sideration to raising the price ot {cold as a means of reducing the national debt. Any such action would have to; teke the form of a recommendation to Congress. | The answer to the question, Mr. | | Truman asserted, is a vategorical | ino. As lony as he is President of | jthe United States, he said, the | | value of gold is fixed. | ! PRICE SET AT $35 The $35 an ounce U.S. price for |zold has been in effect siace Janu- ary, 1935. It was set when President Roose- ivelr. “revalued” the paper dollar by |lifting the government’s ruying or | selling price from $20.67 an ounce | rn away clay | He said he has always hoped By that their problems will be worked | out peaceably and continues to hope that this can be done. And he said the effort will be contin- ed through regular diplomatic channels. | M I SS I N G. ‘ This was his view when he was| [ 1 asked at his news conference about | the meeting of the foreign ministers | | in Paris. | Batanof scheduled to sail from | Aq) i i o Batanat. schedy Anchorage Girl Believed e o s 0 s - One of Passengers-Un- ported Since Oct. 5 Denali from west scheduled southbound sometime Sunday. | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 10.— {P—A 25-year-old Anchorage girl! land two men are believed to have been aboard + the 63-foot fishing vessel Salmora, which hasn't been | heard from since leaving Cordova Oct. 5. | It was headed for Monterey, Calif., for drydock repairs. : The Coast Guard at Juneau said | yesterday it believed there were | five persons aboard. Sources here said the girl was| | believed to be Virginia “Jim” Ed-| :wards. | The two men are believed to be | {Ed Warren, Captain of the vessel, and Clint Rowley, about 45 a, former Anchorage Times advertis- | ing salesman who also had been | | employed by the Civil Aeronautics | Administration at Yakutat. War- |ren is wellknown in southeast Al-| aska. Virginia has two sisters here.| [One of them, Marian, said “Jim” | |may have stopped to fish or hunt| fas she mentioned that possibility before leaving on the trip.” A letter received from her par- \ents in Eugene, Ore., said she had | The Washington By DREW PEARSON [g at Seattle, with Warren .con-| ‘Convright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) | p 53 | tinuing to California with the boat. | ASHINGTON — Harry Truman | : : and Harold Ickes, both men of ([, o o 6 0 w ¢ o 6 @ @ | positive opipions and quick tempers, | o i had a long and, friendly talk the| other day. There was a time when | the two almost spit in each other’s face over the question of making io] i p oilman 'Ed Pauley Undersecretary [: !:;';lh t:’;‘:e 12:;“; :':" lg‘: g of the Navy, but the other day all| g mion tide 4:40 p' o 15‘1 P past unpleasantness evaporated as o pow tide 11:49 pm 15 ‘;‘ the two discussed New York pol- e e '. . . . . itics and Indian affairs. et It was because of Ickes’ interest in Indians that he was first made Secretary of the Interior 17 years ago. He had been recommended | ® merely as Commissioner of Indian o Affairs, but at the Jast minute g FDR made him Secretary of the: g Interior instead. ‘ One of the things Ickes talked to | Truman about was the piight of ! the Navajos and the veto of a| STOCK QUOTATIONS bill just passsd by Congress put- | ting the Navajos under the state; NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Closing laws of Arizona and New Mexico,|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine The Catholic Church has been Stock’today is 3%, American Can worried over the divorce and re- 97%, ~Anaconda 28%, ° Curtiss- marriage systems of the Navajos | Wright 7%, International Harves- ' by which they merely appear before | €T 277%, Kennecott 50%, New York their own tribal authorities if they Central 10%. Northern Pacific wish, to diyorce. 13%, U. S. Steel 24%, Pound $2.80. However, both Ickes and Truman | Sales today were 1,170,000 shares, felt that the Indians were catitled | Averages today are as follows: J o |industrials 19045, rails 48.30, util- | itles 39.12, l o ey STEAMER MOVEMENTS e & & n 5 @ - WEATHER REPORT (Thi., data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 46; minmum 34 At Airport—Maximum 44; minimum, 30. e e e0c 0o FORECAST (Junean and Vieinity) Centinued fair tonight with lowest temperature near freezing. Variable cloudiness Friday ‘with highest temper- ature near 44 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 23 nours ending 7:30 8.mn. today City of Juneau—None; since Nov. 1—7.04 inches; since July ; 1—48.13 . inches. At Airport—Trace; since Nov. 1—5:75 inches; since July 1—29.63 inches. 6 o e e o o o { | TIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 11 SUN RISES - SETS NOVEMBER 11 Sun rises at 8:36 a.m. Sun sets at . 4:47 pm. ¢ i e 0o 0 0 s o 5 0 0 — «ontinued on Page Four) | "éh;sl Boal_"— Is Located, Alaska Beach CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 10. —A grounded “ghost boat” c askore on a voyage from scme un- known port, brought a marine mystery today to Alaska's south- ern coast. ‘Was it carried across the Pacific the Japanese current? Will it of: any clues to the fate of its crew? Those were the questions raised in this fishing town teday by word that the 40-foot steel boat had Leen discovered on Kayak Is- land. Kayak sticks into the Gulf of Alaska like a long slender fing- er, about 60 miles southeast of Cordova. No such craft has been reportad missing or in distress in this a. Fishing folk who know the craft of the Alaska coast said its des- cripticn was strange to this region of wcoden fishing boats. Ira Rockwei, former Cordova mayor, set out in his own fish- ing beat with ‘a salvage crew to investigate the grounded vessel and obably try to recover it. The best descripticn of it came from Lawrence Barr, a flier. He flew over it yesterday after two fishermen spotted it. Barr said the stranded boat ap- peared undamaged on a sandv I peach. He could see no sign of life on it er on the bsach. Fishing lines and gear apreared intact and in place. There was no report of any'name or distinctive marking on it. The heach where it drifted ashore is in line with the sweep of the cross-Pacific =~ Japanese current. Hundreds of glass fishing floats, apparently torn from Japanesce nets, have been found on the beach in the past. Speculation that the boat might have drifted across the Pacific arose in the absence of any re- ports of missing or disabled fish- ing boats along the coast. Fisher- men recalled past instances of Jap- anese fishing craft being carried across the Pacific. Truman Knows Nothing of 2nd Atomic Burst WASHINGTON, Noyv. 10.—P— President Truman said in response to questions today that he knew of no second atomic explosion in Russia. The President was asked at a news conference if he had any evidence of another Soviet atomic blast like the cone he reported Sept. 23. He said there has not been an- other so far as he knows. «|low the level which would require posted members the Department to propose market- | streets to give away $1,000 to pas- Norway lodge will be held Sat- { fus ing quotas on the 1950 crop as a sersby wearing the biggest and the urday night at 8 c’clock in the Odd | ENDHEARS INSTRIKE, STEEL: MEN ‘Workers Negofiafing with 1which had been in effect for de: icadzas. Rumors that the gold price would | be lifted again have been persistent | lin financial circles and elsewhere { outside the government. | Shares in gold mining enter- | prises have moved up several times | {as the rumors became intense. GOLD MOVES OUT “.Persistence of these reports also {fs "pelieved by government offi- cials to be a major circumstance in | causing gold to start moving from US. to foreign countries recently.! | The metal had poured into this country for the last 15 years with- jout interruption except in wartime. U. §. Steel Corporation Ofll(lals NOW | Certain foreign countries, offi- —_— | cials surmised, have been buying | PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10—(®—The |gold from this government on the CIO United Steelworkers indicated | theory that there might be some- strongiy today that its lawyers m-e|thinz to the rumor despite repeated poishing off a strike rettlement and emphatic denials by Secretary with the giant United States Steel of the Treasury Snyder. Corporation. | ONE POINT OF RUMOR Negotiations with big steel on a; One pomnt of the rumors was that legal level opened during the morn-‘\lhe administration, by raising the ts that this might | paper-dollar price of gold, would ing with prospec i end the most costly steel strike in |have a gain through irfcreasing the \ American history. {value of the $24,500,000,000 stock ol | | The union’s 35-member negotia-|gold it mow owns. The US. stock | ting committee convened at a hmel}iS about three-fifths of the wor!d‘ (at 3 pm., but was told to come |gold supply. ‘ | Ll il | (e | |back at 9 am. tomorrow. The “gain,” so the rumors went, ! One reliatle informant said the!could then te used for issuing paper | attorneys are working on a settle- dollars to pay part of the $256- | { ment -following the Bethlchem plan 800,630,000 federal debt. which started the strike break up. | Lending credence to prospects of | a break was a union call for meet- . | ing of its powerful wage policy com- ! e I(op er mittee at 3 p.m. tomorrow—possibly » to consider a settlement. { Rumors flooded this stee! capital | | that big steel is making an offer | oes ras . to put its 170,000 workers back mi’ | ithe mills across the country. | KODIAK, Alaska, Nov. 10—P—A R | Kodiak-based Navy helicopter crashed at Afognak Island 10 miles 2 from here late yesterday, shaking (oRN (Rop |S lup the crew and seriously injuring {two Navy spectators. | The injured Navy men were iden- ! ZND lARGEST | tified as Jesse L. Allen and Dale A. Lynch. Hometowns were withheld I . pending notification of kin. | The ‘copter pilot was Lt | Henry M. Buerckholts, Chicago. He | was injured slightly, as were his X passengers, Gerald Reiper and E. V. l ‘Hensen. koth Navy men. WASHINGTON, Noy. 10—(® i ; | The official estimate of this year's| BROAD SMILE 1 corn crop was cut 119,000,000 bushels | B3 today. That virtually ruled out rigid | marketing controls on next year's| woRTH SUM OF production. | | In jts semi-final report of the' s’lvER DollAR year, the Agriculture Departmt-|u| ! estimated the crop at 3.357,618,000] HARRIEBURG, Pz, Nov. 10—P | Lushels. This compares with 3477.- | —A smile was worth a bright silver 000,000 bushels forecast a month|dollar in Pennsylvania's state capi- ago. | tal today. | The indicated crop is slightly be-! The Harristurg Optimist Club| along downtown means of preventing a burdensome | broadest smiles. surplus. “The only requirement,” explained The corn crop, nevertheless, is| Optimist David Porter, “is a great| |state of siege. |in View of Featured at the 32nd anniversry of the Red of a Moscow Kremlin buliding, mcunted on a large cake. the "Kremlin the Russian Embassy in Washington, D. C., celebration of revolution was centerpiece replica At left, the wife of Russian Ambassador Alexander Pantushkin serves a slice of the foundation cake to Joseph Davies, former U. 8. Ambassador to Russia. /P Wirephoto. Fish Trap kdvosales Have The ir Inning HtHearngin Seafe SEATTLE, Nov. 10—(®—The sal- mon industry had its inn‘ng at a Congressional hearing yesterday in the lengthy controversy over pro- STATE OF SIEGE IN COLOMBIA Associated Press The conservative government of Colombia has suspended ail ses- sions of the liberal-domin Congress and imposed a nationwide By Censorship of press and radio were crdered by conservative Pre- sident Marianc Ospina Perez. The government contended it acted because of official informa- tion it has received in the past several days about grave disorders several parts of the country. Newsrapers gaid hundreds had be killed. “Public order is endangered,” it Elections are scheduled for Nov. 27. The conservative president andidate is Laureano Gomez. eral leaders last night reiterated they would not re the re- sult of the election. They threat- ened to push through a four-man provisicral government to replace President Ospina. Treops cordoned off Colombia's liament building and moved to rategic spots throughcut the na- tion. SONS OF NORWAY MEETS SATURDAY Regular meeting of the Sons of Fellows hall, President Elton Eng- strom announced this morning. All members are urged to attenc the second largest in history and | big smile. This is one day we hope this meeting; also’to get their tick- 20 percent above average. The Department said the aggre-| gate volume of all erop production|ners, Optimist members this vear is 130 pereent of the out certificates to pedestrians with 1923-32 average. That is second only | the broadest to last year's big volume which cate was exchangeable for a trand was 137 percent of the average new “silver dollar, | there won't be a frown in town." | l for the annual ball at the feature both Ecandinavian and of 1 Fray posed lezislation to aLolish Alaskan fish traps. Many of the witnesses, predom- inantly in opposition to the bill, | described the traps as the “balance wheel of the industry.” | “vicious le! our very He sa'd traps balance the supply of fish in that cannery capacity is iimited and trap-caught fish can be Leld until seine fish are pro- ces“ed. Fish caught hy ssiners must be processcd almost immediately, he contended. Both Brindle and Fred Gunder- fon of Wrangell argued that traps promotz “real, true conservation,” in t#at they are not destructive ot other fish. “All the stuff you hear about traps being great killers is a lot of poppycock,” Gunderson asserted. | a halizut and only a few flounders. slimination of traps would force independent trap operators out ol Lusiness with heavy financial loss and would tend to monopolize the industry, Gunderson said. Prindie drew a laugh {rom the audience when Delegate E. L. (Bob) { Bartlett of Alaska asked: ;| lation which would abolish traps,| or legislation which wou!d turn the adm'nistration of industry over to the Territory of Alatka?” Erindle shot back: “That is like asking me whether I prefer to be shot or hung.” Bartlett, a sponsor of the pro- | rosed legislation, sat with the com- ‘mincc conducting the hearing. Cther members were Reps. Victor | Wickersham (D-Okla), chairman; |John Allen (R-Calif); and Thor | Tollefson (R-Wash). Cne of the few persons speak ng | acainst tr at the Seattle phase lof the hearing was W. M. McCall of Ketchikan. He declared that {150,000 seiner-caught salmon were dumped outside of Ketchikan last seaton because the canneries were |swamped with trap fish and re- sed to buy them His charges that the purse seineys were victims of discrimination brought quick denials f¥om op- ponents of the bill, August Bushman of Seattle, iden- tified with Alaska fishing for more confiscatory.” He traps would and | said elimination of smiles, Each certiti- mcdern mueic under the direction |close a score or more large can- Albert Peterson and Phyllis | neries and cause several thousand be open at their usual hours, also | perzons to lose their jobs. A W. Brindle of Ketchikan de-| | scrited the measure, HR 1515, as! gislation which threatens He testified that traps seldom snareq “Which would you prefer, legls-‘, MINE CHIEF TURNS DOWN PEACE TALK Fails to Shofip for Con- ference with Ching, Also Coal Operators WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—#— John L. Lewis failed to show up today for a coal peace conference called by the government. Instead, he sent a terse wire saylng he would see the Federal mediators on Monday. 1t amounted to & sharp slap in the face to Cyrus Ching, Federal med- fation chief. It left him, too, pret- ty much in the position of the par- son when the bride-to-be doesn't show up for the wedding. Ching was there, fuming. The soft coal operators were there, {fuming. But no Lewis. In fact, it was something of a | mystery where Lewis was. Aides iof the bushy-browed union leader with the flair for the dramatic isaid” they did not know. Ching Burned Up Ching was plainly bu.med up. First, he fired a telegram to Uni- ted Mine Workers headquarters asking Lewis for “clarification.” But he didn't even know whether Lewis would see it. Then Ching delivered a report to the White Hecuse that Lewis Jhnd coolly turned dow na bid to a | peace conterence. | Ching called for his car and isped to the White House himself |to make the report. ¥ ' While. he was traveling there, | President Truman was holding’ his | regular Thursday news conference. The Lewis-Ching situation had not come to light and the ques- tions to Mr, Truman did not deal with it, . No Comment—Truman The President was asked what I might be the Administration’s next move in the coal situation. He wouldn’t, say about that. | Nor would the President comment {on Lewls' order of yesterday send=- ing the coal miners back to work ltor three weeks. Instead of a ccmment, the Presi- |dent said of Lewis: His pleture is there on the front page of the Weshington Post. ‘Take |a look at it. The Post plcture was an AP wire- photo of a glowering Lewis in Chi- cago. T Mr. Truman was asked if he Z!hought the steel seitlements would {have been reached and the coal {strike called off—at least tempor- [arlly—if the Taft-Hartley Act had inct been hanging over the unions. The President, who wants the 1Tlfl-l-flnley law repealed, sa.d |he couldn’t say. He suggested that | the question he put up to manage- ment and labor negotiators. DISMANTLING OF | ' GERMAH INDUSTRY: | T0 STOP; BI6 THREE By Associated Press : Forelgn ministers of the United { States, Britain and France meet- ing in Paris reported “satisfactory {progress” in yesterday's talks on ! Germany. The big three were said |to have reached agreement that | most dismantling of German in- | dustry should stop. | Informed sources said the foreign minister§ agreed that the west- | sponsored Bonn government should be admitted as an associate mem- |ber of the Council of Europe—& ! 12-nation advisory parliament work- inz towards European unity. The ministers are expected to | conclude their talks tonight or |early tomorrow and make a de- |flnlte announcement of agreements |reached. OFFICES, STORES " CLOSED FRIDAY | Tomorrow is a general holiday | Standing at strategic street cor- Moose hall. The public is invited |than 55 years, said the bill was|with Federal, Territorial and City handed |to attend this dance which will | “unsound |offices closed for the day, stores also, including drug stores. It js | Armistice Day. Restaurants will lounges,