The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,349 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1949 o 3 MILMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Costly Steel Strike Virtually Ended Today BLAZE MARKS FORLOST FLIER SPUR SEARCH 120 Pounds Supplies Gone from Cabin - Look Up | and Down Sfream ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12— (M—Five tlaze marks cut in trees near the lonely Susitna river cabin where Francis Brownfield rested after trekking through wilderness for 80 miles in one week—gave new impetus today in the search for the| flier missing since Sept. 5. | The blaze marks were found by trapper Oscar Vogel and Lt. Wil-| liam A. Weed, 10th Rescue Squad-| ron_helicopter pilot. They sa:d the| marks were cut 30 to 40 feet apart; in the tress heading upstream from | the cabin where a note was roundi in Brownfield’'s handwriting this| week. | As a result of the new findings,| two Cessnas and. a helicopter were sent along the Susitna river to find | signs of the man who now has been missing 67 days. | LARGE PACK i Vogel and Weed reported after inyestigating the cabin that Brown- | field took more than 120 pounds ol] food and supplies from the trap- line cabin. Included in bedroll, ax, the supplies were a socks, rope, water bucket, frying pan, 40-50 pounds ol flour, canned vegetables and milk, drled fruits, coffee, 20-30 pounds of sugar, a large supply of matches, candles and other supplies. Weed said “those supplies should (Continued on Page 2) The Washington Merry - Go - Round| By DREW PEARSON iCopyright, 1939, by Bell Syndicate. Inc | ASHINGTON—Resignation of isolationist insurance man James Kemper as treasurer of the GOP National Committee was dressed up in a high-sounding smoko—scroen‘ about foreign policy in order to| cover up a bitter personal GOP feud. Actually, his resignation was handed ‘' in one hour after Guy Gabrielson of New Jersey became the new National Chairman last August, but it was agreed to de- lay the announcement until the political horizon was calmer. Kemper’s exit puts the spotlight on some red faces and raw nerves inside the GOP Committee, which probahly will be smoothed over now that he is oqut. Although Kemper talked big about lack of funds in the GOP treasury, real fact is that he was never much of a money- raiser. The best GOP money-rais- er was the man Kemper and Dewey ousted as GOP National Finance Chairman after the 1948 convention —Walter Hope. Hope, an able New York l'awyer, learned of his resignation by’ read- ing it in the morning papers, and his friends .claim that the shock was respensible for his death a month later. Hope left in the trea- sury a surplus of $800,000 after the Philadelphia convention. He was replaced by Bourbon Prince Harold Talbot, eager aspirant to the Court of St. James, whose family had almost ordered their clothes for their presentation to the King— when they heard the news of De- wey's defeat. Between January 1949 and August 4, when GOP Chairmar Hugh Scott resigned, Talbot had raised the maginiticent sum of $71,- 000—while Scott and Kemper were spending money at the rate of $80,- 000 a month. Talbot’s main excuse was that he couldn’t collegt funds because. of the Omaha GOP fight. ‘And ‘when it became apparent that Guy Gab- rielson was to be the new chair- man, Talbot began a quiet campaign against him, which culminated in a lunch at which he and Gabriel- son patched up their differences. That same night, Talbot dined with an oil executive who reported back to the new GOP chairman that Talbot had bkegun his attack all over again. As a result of this, GOP f{manc today are in terrible shape. However. with Sinclair Weeks of Massachu- setts now in charge of the Nationai Finance Committee, they are im- (Continued on Page Four) | many CHAPMANT0 TAKE OVER, INT. DEPT. New Secrei;rT to Confinue Present. Policy on Major Issues WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(®— Oscar L. Chapman, who is to take over as Secretary of the Interior Dec. 1, says he plans no changes in policy or personnel at the In- terior Department. Chapman told a news conference he will continue present department policy on major issues. He said he favors the Columbia Valley Authority and has done so for many y He' sagl he is primarily interestcd in development of natural resources, particularly in the Western States with which the department is most closely ccncerned. Chapman said he strongly favors statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, and is pleased with the administra- tion in Puerto Rico. Chapman said he did not know the reasons behind Secretary Krug's r nation. He added: “I have enjoyed a long and most pleasant association with Secretary Krug. “When he leaves he will friends here.” leave GOVERNOR SURE CHAPMAN WILL BE FRIEND TO ALASKA Gov. Ernest Gruening said today he believed Alaskans would find the newly appointed Secretary ol the Interior Oscar L. Chapman “a sympathetic friend, effective advo- cate and able administrator.” “Oscar L. Chapman has served as Assistant Secretary and Under Secretary of the Interior for 16 and a half years. This is the long- est record in American history of membership in the so-called jun- ior cabinet,” Gov. Gruening said.| “It means that Secretary Chap- | man enters his new and important responsibilities with more experi- ence and mere familiarity with the problems of the Department of the Interior, its numerous agencies which are so important to Alaska and the many services which they render, with more knowledge than any previous Secretary of the In- terior.” Gov. Gruening pointed out that Chapman, coming from one of the 11 western states, Colorado, is par- ticularly equipped to deal with the west “whose problems are so much more like those of Alaska than the eastern states.” Gov. Gruening said that Chap- man is “intensely = sympathetic with the aspirations of Alaskans for complete self-government.’ . .” Gov. Gruening returned to Ju- neau yesterday from a trip which included meetings with the Buredu of Budget in Washington, D. C., and the governors of the 11 western states in Salt Lake City, Utah. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle due Tues- day. Princess Norah scheduled to safl from Vancouver 8 tonight. Denali from west scheduled southbound 9 a.m. Monday. ® ® & & ©o ® o o WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau_-Maximum 48; minimuny 33. At Airport—Maximum 41; minimum 26. ~ FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mgestly cloudy tonight. Lowest temperature 35. Oc- cassional light rains Sunday, high 44. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—None; since Nov. 1-7.04 inches; since July 1—43.13 inches. At Airport—None, since Nov. 1—5:75 inches; since July 1—20.63 inches. © 0 0 0 0 9 90 90 0 o - . . . . . » . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PLANS SET FOR VISIT OF SNYDER, ADMIRAL U'REILL Secretary of Treasury and Coast Guard Command- ant to Arrive Sunday Plans for the visit of Secretary of the Treasury and the Assistant Coast Guard Commandant to Ju- neau have been completed by the I7th Coast Guard District Head- juarters here. Secretary of the Treasury Jorn Snyder and Rear Admiral Merlin O'Neill are sched- uled to arrive at Juneau airport 3:35 p.m. Sunday from Seattle. They will be met by a party ot Coast Guard offi- ers at the air- port. Sunday ning, a formal dinner will be given in honor of the visiting party at the Governor's Secy. Treas. Lome. Snyder | A stag breakfast for the visitors| will be held Monday morning in| he Baranof Hotel with Coast| Suard officers and Treasury de-| sartment officials attending. | The visiting officials and others /All Le honor guests at the Lions ocn day luncheon Monday. | Fronmi 5 until 7 Monday evening, Japt. N. S. Haugen, officer com- manding the 17th Coast Guard Dis- trict and commissioned and war- rant officers attached to the Di trict staff and the ocutter Storis will be hosts at a reception to be given in the Community Building. The reception will be for invited guests only. Monday evening a Communlly‘ Building Corporation dinner will Le| .eld in the Baranof Hotel. Corpo-| ation stockholders, commuslonea} ind warrants officers of the Coast Guard and members of Juneau| _ervice clubs will attend. | Secretary Snyder and Rear Ad- miral O'Neill will leave Juneau Tuesday morning by air. Rear Admiral O'Neill has been| appointed to succeed Admiral Joseph F. Farley as Commandant of the Coast Guard when Farley| retires December 31. O'Neill will be| advanced to the rank of Vice Ad-| miral. eve- | 'FISHERIES BOARD T0 HOLD OPEN FORUM NOV. 14 FOR PUBLIC Subjects the public has rarely had |an opportunity to discuss before ian open forum may be brought up Monday as the Territorial Depart- ment of Fisheries holds a publi¢ meeting in the Senate Chambers. The five-man board, ~presided over by C. L. Anderson, fisheries director, will at 10 a.m. hold an ex- ecutive session to go over finances and routine business. At 2 p.am. the public meeting will begin. Following an introduction by Chairman Ira H. Rothwell of Cor- dovd, Anderson will outline pur- poses of the meeting, to be fol- lowed by a floor. discussion, open to everyone. Subjects to be brought up will be: Suggestions for proposed projects with available funds, which include biological research, hatcheries and restocking, inspection and enforce-| iment, statistics, licenses, taxes, |stream improvements, technology | |and exploratory fishing. . | Suggestions for 1950 fishing re- gulations will be next on the pro-| | | | i | | other Cominform countries. TITO SCRAPS. TREATY WITH ALBANIA NOW First Break Made by Yugo-| slavia with Comin- form Countries BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 12. — (M —Yugoslavia scrapped her treaty of friendship with Albania oday and charged that countrj with acts of hostility were provoked by Si et Ru: - It marked the first t'me Premicr Marshal Tito’s independent Com- | munist Government has taken the| initiative in breaking off friend- | ship pacts with Cominform count- ries. Previously Russia, Poland, Czecho- slovakia, Romania, Hungary and| Bulgaria all cast aside those tles: with Yugoslavia in steps verging| cn a break in diplematic relations. | The note—more than 3,000 words long—was handed to the Alban- ian legation here at noon. Lew g ey e 1 i b e Lowad \F1gat) ANNOUNCES TOAL clugion of meeting with his United Mine Workers policy becard .in Chicago. nedy (left) assistant to the vice-president of UMW, and John Owens, Secretary-Teasurer of UMW. ® ne orderea nis Suriking sorc PENSIONS T0 BE GRANTED: PACT SIGNED Thousands of Steel Work- ers Given Back fo Work Order—Celebrations PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12—(®—The¢ most. costly steel strike in Ameri- - €Oul muners Dack 16 WOFK, at con- Listening are Joseph Ken- | | | It listed in detail this country's | iccusations of “hostile” acts on the | oart of Albania, but emphasized at one point that the Tirana gov-| ernment had been “pushed into! its policy of open hostility and vio- lation” of the treaty by Russia and The formal renunciation followed by eight days a note to Albania demanding that Albania cease hos- | tile acts, live up to the terms of the eaty and reply to that request!' ithin the shortest possible time.” That note fell just short of au ultimatum. i DEADLOCK, | “Given Wary Looks-No industry leaders looked warily at ! jumping at the union leader's bid er early today after a homecom-| Ching said he had no present Keown, 23, of Norwood, a senior [at least. James D. Heer, 20, of Euclid, a|his demands more to their liking. clant, 5 miles from the frater-|ing more assurances against fre- Detective Kenneth Anderson said juuul—j——(m trigger-happy'.” ! ernity house lawn at 2:30 am,| {apant perserk. SHER accompanymg,m have a thorough practice on ‘the | the Beta Sigma Phi. In Event of War, Al COAST GUARD T HOLD OPEN HOUSE Coast Guard headquarters in the new Commurity Building will be open for public inspection from 1 until 3 p.m. tomorrow. “ All officers and men attached o the Coast Guard Headquarters #ill be standing by in their respec- tive divisions, Capt. N. 8. Haugen, officer commanding the 17th Coast Suard District, has announced. “The general public is invited to inspect the facilities of the new suliding,” he said, Oilices to be open for inspection nclude Operations, Personnel, En- ineering, Marine Inspection and “inance and Supply. Capt. Haugen said administration »f the operations of all Alaska oast Guard facilities orizigates in he offices open to visitors Sun- day. “Visitors will find that the men ere will be more than willing to :xplain the operations of their de- cartments,” he said. The Coast Guard facilities ad- ninistered irom the headquarters sere include aireraft based at Ko- dak and Annette Islands, a CoaSt Suard base at Ketchikan, a radio tation at Point Higgins, four Loran transmitting stations, 15 light sta- icns, most of which include radio eacons, two electronics repair hops, one at Ketchikan and ong it Juneau, a maintenance and re- pair detachment at Ketchikan, 489 ighted shore aids to navigation, 113 lighted buoys, ang 318 unlighted Zuoys. Operations and communications >ffices will be in actual operation while visitors inspect the building, Capt. Haugen said. THREE SENTENCED, ONE BOUND OVER IN SITKA BY U.5. COMMISSIONER Three perscns were sentenced and one was bound over to await ac- tion of a grand jury aiier hearing RDTO |CORS i i { IN NEW BUILDING| ! { harbor. AIR ON ROCKS; 15 L0SS Luxury Cruiser on Alaska§ Tours During Summer Piles Up, Mexico _ | ACAPULCO, Mexico, Nev. 12—M| —The luxurious yacht Cu. ,onee | the private ship of banker J. Pier-' pont Morgan, struck rocks and went aground early today in Acapulco Passengers said there was ‘“no| panic” and “no great excitement.” About 55 passengers and a crew of | 77 were taken off in lifeboats and| small harbor craft. | Port officials said the 343-foot| vessel struck rocks a few minutes| after midnight. Although she was going slowly, a large hole was torn in the bow. It had left its dockw’ only about 15 minutes previously. Capt. N. Nedden of Vancouver, B.C., who has skippered the tormer Morgan yacht since July, 1947, pointed her at a small nearby beach, “Ensenada de los Presos”, (Bay of the Prisoners). The ves-| el's bow is sucmerged a short dis-| tance off shore and shipping men said if the captain had not acted| quickly the boat would have sunk, she was shipping so much water. | It was while the Corsair was| L2ing beached that passengers i were assembled at their boats and | | when the boats touched water they | kad only a very short distance to go. } Among those akoard was John M. Allen, Seattle, general pa.ssengeri !agent of Pacific Cruises, Ltd., which | { operates the “Corsair.” Allen tele- i phoned David E Skinner, head of | (Lhc Seattle firm from Acapulco Iwnh details of the accident. Allen attributed the crash to steering engine failure, although he said the exact cause had not been detdmined. > Th Corsair operated as a luxury| cruiser betwcen Los Angeles and' in the winter and be- can history virtually ended today after the CIO United Steelworkers signed the mammoth United States Steel Corporation to a pension- insurance pact. ' Inland Steel Corporation agreed to a similar peace agreement on the Bethlehem pattern three and one-half hours after the big steel settlement last night. That left only 124,000 strikers idle of about 513,000 steelworkers who walked off their jobs last October 1 in support of demands for company-paid pensions. BACK TO WORK The end of the strike against tig | steel, largest steel producers in the world, gave 177,000 unionists the g0 tack to work” high sign. The | agreement covers only 150,000 em~ ployees in six major operating sub- sidiaries but the corporation said the union agreed that all workers should return at once. Union President Philip Murray predicted £0 percent of basic steel —the plants which produce raw steel—"will be signed to the new Bethlehem type contract by Mon- day morning.” PENSION PAYMENTS The Bethlehem settlement, signed Cctober 31, provides $100 minimum monthly pension .payments to work- rers aged 65 who ‘have served 25 years. The workers do not have to pay into the fund but they do con- tribute to Federal Soclal Security which is added to company pen- sions to make up the $100 total. Workers with fewer years of service will receive proportionately smaller pensions, The agreement also provides for a five cents an hour social insur- ance program. That cost is shared equally by workers and company. WAGES UNCHANGED Wages are unchanged for steel- | workers now earning an average of $1.65 an hour. H Asked if the settlements now signed with about 50 large and s<mall companies would bring higher steel prices, Murray declared: “I can't answer that, of course.” Industrial peace in steel towns brought impromptu celetrations. In Lorain, Ohlo, where National Tube Company, a U.S. Steel subsidiary, employs 10,000 unionists, the revel turned out to be an auto blowing Joyride. Celebrants jammed the streets in that Lake Erie port. In Homestead, Pa., near Pitts- burgh singlrig men and women filled sidewalks from curbs to store- fronts. 8I XWEEK STRIKE Over the nation, the strikers lost an estimated $270,000000 wages during the six week long strike. Added to that strike loss figure is the 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 tons ot cteel production which would have been produced if the workers had not struck, Some of the laid-off workers will be slow in returning to work. In the auto manufacturing industry, where 43,000 employees are idle, several weeks will be required to build up steel stockpiles. President Benjamin F. Fairless of Lig steel, who led the industry's . Move Unfil Monday |} SHOI Dow“ i WASHINGTON, = Nov. 12—(®— I John L. Lewis's peace feglers for a new miners contract. * COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 12—(®—An [to meet with Federal Mediation Ohio State University student was|Chief Cyrus S. Ching or “anybody ing party at the Delta Tau Delta plans to call new coal peace mect- fraternity house. /ings and the government contem- and managing editor of the Ohio| The coal operators said there State Lantern, student daily. Nor-|seemed to be no use meeting with first year veterinary student, w,.s!They want an extension of the old taken into custody some time later |coal contract, the one that expired nity house, after telephoning the quent mine shutdowns and closer State Patrol. Euclid is near Cleve- checks over miners’ welfare fund Heer admitted the shooting. The of- ! ficer quoted the student: McKeown was shot once with a| 45 caliber automatic pistol as he The Juneau City band will have ' 2 o'clock in the Grade School audi- fraternity men said. | : Pratnerity brothers torium. Director Joseph Shofner yoman home from ;Bry!';ung L i "he'pmgrnm to be given at the 20th r | Century Theatte on Tuesday, No- | Thursday night the bandsmen, in their new uniforms, held a lively But Capitol Dome WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(®— Wirephoto. [Peace Feelers of Lewis ‘ Both the government and- coal FRAT PARTY : Neither showed any signs of shot to death by a fraternity broth- | clse,” including the mine operators. The victim was Jack T. Me- plated no new moves until Monday wood s a suburb of Cincinnati. |Lewis again until he tailors down at the Columbus sewage disposallast July 1. Also, they are demand- land. | expenditures, “‘Whenever I get drunk, I gezI tried to disarm Heer on the frat-| practice tomorrow (Sunday) at aaid Heer;asks thag all bandsmen be on time * | vember 22 under the sponsorship ot Plans Made fo Move, practice and pictures of the organi- Secretary of Defense Johnson says zal !in the United States Commissioner’s Court in Sitki Thursday, accord- ling to word received by the U. S. | Marshal's office here *tcday. Elizabeth John was given 175 days sentence in the Federal Jail for tion were taken. TIDE TABLE Acapulco tween Vancouver and Alaska in the summer. ’ gram, with proposals to follow The! plans are in preparation for pos- outline of the Fish and wildli'e | sible movement of the seat of gov- | Service book of present regulations.|ernment from Washington if the Anderson said this will be folloW-|city ever becomes the target for an ed in order to give the discussion |attack. jorder. Each district will be taken‘ These plans include movement up separately. of the command of the Army, Navy The forum will be closed with re- land Airforce from Washington, marks by board members, and fol-|johnson said. Ld ‘lowed by continuation of the com-| The Secretary added that “certain © | mittee’s executive session, in which|definite steps” have been taken ®!the public hearing information to guard against “the contingency © | gathered will be gone over carefully |of a destructive military attack at o | with proposals to be drawn up for the seat of this government.” He o | presentation to the FWS for con-|did not disclcse these steps. ® | sideration. His comment is contained in a e | Most of the Tuesday meetihg will |jetter to Senator Wiley (R-Wis) @ |be taken up with this activity, An- which the latter made public to- . ‘dersun said. ‘| day. L3 —_— Wiley previously had asked John- Arnie Michaelson of Fort Richard- son what steps were being taken son is a cguest at the Gns;mmu‘,m decentralize in the event of an Holcl. lemargency, E . . . . o ° . ° . . en 80000 cesee®e00Og000 0P . NOVEMBER 13 Low tide 0:52 a.m. 21 ft. High tide 7:31 am.,, 12.7 ft. Low tide 1:16 pm., 6.8 ft. High tide 6:58 p.m., 135 ft. NOVEMBER 14 Low tide 2:00 am., High tide 8:41 am., 136 ft. Low tide 2:41 pm. 5.7 ft. High tide 8:32 p.m, 134 ft. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 ft. SUN RI - SETS NOVEMBER 13 Sun rises at 8:41 am. Sun sets at 4:43 p.m. NOVEMBER 14 Sun rises at 8:43 am. Sun sets at 4:41 pm. 0 G0 0 0 0 0 0 being drunk and disorderly. Dick McRoberts wes. sentenced to 25 days in the Federal Jail and fined $250 after being found guilty of vagrancy. Raymond French was sentenced to three months in the Federal Jail and fined $100 fer being drunk and disorderly. Walter Yatchanoff was bound over to await action of a grand jury on a charge of burglary. | “PENNY” FLOOD HERE; GOES SOUTH SUNDAY Renee (Penny) during the week from Pelican and leaves tomorrow for Seattle where she will enter the Hely Names Ac- Flood arrived | | DIES SUDDENLY COGAN STATION, Pa, Nov. 12! —(P—Judge Byron B. Harlan of the| U.S. tax court and former Demo-| cratic Congressman from Ohio| died yesterday of a heart attack| at the home of his son. He was 63. DIVORCE CASE DISMISSED Hazel Hope’s divorce suit agllns:i J. Raymond Hope was dismissed yesterday in the U. S. District| Court here. SAILOR SPLICE HER®™ Freighter Sailor Splice of the Al- aska Steamship Company s in | | | fight against the union’s demands, said in a prepared statement: “We welcome the conclusion of I the strike and resumplion of steet {operations which will enacle us to do our part in meeting the steel needs of the nation.” JAMES ROOSEVELT EXPECTED T0 RUN, CALF. GOVERNOR LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12—(®— James Roosevelt, FDR's eldest son, is expected to announce his inten- tions for the Governorship of Cali- fcrnia next Tuesday. LICENSE TO WED Olaf Melseth and Laura Aase, both of Juneau, have applied for ademy, While. in Juneau she was port and will not sail until some-|a marriage license In tie office the guest of Mrs., Aimze Ffomholz. I time tomorrow, of the U, S, Commissioner here,