The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,358 ALASKA. EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Proposed Strike WARD IS RELEASED AT MUKDEN American CRuI General, i Four Aides, Convicted But Ordered Deported WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—#— Angus Ward, the American Consul General at Mukden, has been re- leased from jail by the Chinese Communists and ordered out of the country. The Communists also released four Consulate aides who were jailed: with Ward Oct. 24 on what the State Department called “trumped up” charges of beating and insulting two Chinese in a wage dispute. The Department announced to- day that it had received word of the releases from Ward himself. It} was the first direct word from the Consul General in a month. In winding up what the Depm-t.—| ment has denounced as their “bar-| baric” treatment of Ward, the’ Communists gave him a trial be- fore a “People’s Court.” This court found them all guilty| and meted out varying prison; sentences. Then the sentences were | commuted to deportation. ‘Ward, 56-year-old veteran diplo-| mat, made his report in a tele-i phone conversation with American Consul General O. Edmund Clubb, at Pelping. Clubb rushed the in-!| formation to Washington. Ward said that the other four! men and he were “up and about.” The State Department instructed Clubb:to “tell’ Ward “that he and his entire staff are to depart from Mukden fogfhwith.” The fow" jailed with Ward were| Ralph Rehberg, of Rochester, N.Y., | a foreign service clerk; Shiro Tat-; sumi, a mechanic, formerly of| Seattle, Wash,, and two European' employees of the Consulate, Franco | Cicogna and Alfred Kristan. Reh-|{ berg and Tatsumi are American citizens. | In Rochester, N.Y., Mrs. Edward { | | | just wonderful!” Twelve Filipino seamen arrived in Yokohama today after being| Young Heroine Fire broke out in the home of Mr. . and Mrs. Herbert Davis of Moor- land a small community near Muskegon, Mich. The mother was out doing chores. But four-year-old to the occasion. Margaret Davis center, was equal She wrapped her 10-month-old brother, Dale Wil- liam, (right), in a blanket, and led two-year-old Marie, (left), by the hand, to take them safely from the burning house. /) Wirpehoto. PLANE I MISSING, 6 ABOARD Rugged Terrain North of Portland Searched for (raft-Weather Bad | PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 28.—| J. Rehberg. mother of Rehbers.';p row clouds and rain shrouded 10,100-ton greeted the news with “isn't thatthe rugged terrain north of here Eagle drifted helplessly off the! today hiding the fate of a four- engined transport plane and its crew of six. It has heen missing since shortly VESSEL IS HELPLESS ~ ONOCEAN Third Panamanian Ship Catches Afire Off Coast of Washington 23 — (A — The Panamaniai ‘x | | | | Nov. freighter SEATTLE, Washington coast today after firc Lroke out in its engine room last night None of the 34 crew members 1eccued from their foundering craft. 'before noon yesterday while on & ahoard the freighter required medi- And American freighter picked up |rcutine flight from McChord Air ca! attention. the seamen after their tug and two | barges got into trouble in bad| Bage, Tacoma, to Portland. The Weather Bureau saw little An Army transport, the Gen. H. B. Freeman, stood alongside await- weather about 180 miles south of chance of the clouds lifting today ing arrival of the Coast Guard cut- on| Kobe, Japan! The Washingt Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON iCnpvright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Xnt.‘i | /ASHINGTON — Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, No. 1 enemy | of Europe’s homeless refugees, has' now set himself up as chief vol—} unteer public relations counsel to| Europe’s No. I Facist Dictator: H On his latest junket abroad, sup- | posedly to “investigate the current| refugee situation,” McCarran gave | Spain’s Francisco Franco some shrewdly cynical advice on how to make friends and influence people. | In the course of two lengthy lnter-} views, the Senator from Nevada assured his attentive host that| “with a little smart handling at| this end, Spain can be right back| in the front parlor by this time next | year.” | McCarran happens to represent a; state contairing less than one-| tenth of one per cent of the U. 8. population, and most Nevadans are not the slightest bit interested in, Franco. Nevertheless, McCarran did | not hesitate to speak for all the American people. i “The overwhelming majority of' the American people,” he“said, “are convinced that your country has been given a raw deal. It's just a question now of pounding the point home and getting enough pressure put on enough Congressmen to; whip the State Department pinks.” A “healthy bloc of Senators,” Mc- Carran added, are prepared to ad-' vocate, early in the next Congres- sional session, that the United State sponsor Spain’s admission to specialized agencies of the United Nations. “They are also prepared to put the heat on a few of our European charity patient¢ so that to permit: aerjal search. The Cascade Mountain timbered area has been a graveyard for mili- tary aircraft during the winter months when low storm clouds roll off the Pacific. Five military planes have crashed in the vicinity in re- cent years. Some of the airmen sur- vived. The Air Force announced last inight the men aboard the plane were: Capt. Elrino Neher, Jr., 27, San Francisco; Capt. Joseph F. Chuse, 3, Mattoon, Ill; Lt. Thomas C. Hardisty, 23, Sarasota, Fla.; S/Sgt. Richard C. Hosmer, 25, New Haven, Conn.; S/Sgt. Homer C. Detwiler, 31, Pay ard M. Fanning, 31, Portland. DENFELD PURGING NOT T0 BE PROBED ASSERTS VINSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—(»—The reasons for removal of Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations will not be probed by the House Armed Services Commit- tee. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) so told newsmen today. Denfeld’s removal followed the Committee’s recent investigation of national defense policies which brought into sharp focus differences of opinion among Navy, Army and Air Force leaders. The Admiral, a “star” witness, criticized defenese policies. His removal was requested | by Secretary of the Navy Matthews. As far as he is concerned, Vin- son said, there will be no more hearings in the Armed Services squabble despite requests of some | committee members for a Congres- |sional airing of the Denfeld ouster. ‘ FROM ANCHORAGE | Ken Laughlin of Anchorage is ette, Idaho and Ist Lt. Rich- | ter Winona from Port Angeles. The cutter was expzeted to reach the vessel akout 10 p.m. (PST). Weather conditions at the scene, some 360-miles west-southwest ot | Cape Flattery, were said to be | “moderate.” The cape is the north- | vesternmost tip of Washington ! state. The stricken freighter, . third Panamanian vessel in slightly more than a month to catch fire off the ‘Washington coast, was intound to | Longview, Wash,, from Fusan, Ko- rea. It is not known whether the ivessel carried cargo or was empty. i The General Freeman came | alongside the helpless ship shortly | tefore midnight after a 60-milc dash in response fo the Eagle's !£.0.8. four hours earlier that fire | was sweeping the engine room. A message from the Army trans- iport reported the freighter was without power or radio. Boiler fires had been extinguished. Another Panamanian freighter, the Salina Cruz, tound from Van- couver, B.C. to the Orient, caught fre and sank Oct. 17, and the (heigmer Andalucia grounded and Lroke up off Neah Bay Nov. 4 after Jlmcther such fire. Neither of the earlier fires resulted in loss of life. Here's a New Cneand It Is Japanoniskie TOKYO, Nov. 23—P—Kazuro Pujii hired Yoshikane Nakamoto to install a burglar alarm in his house. But Fujii's house was burglarized anyway. Undistrubed by any alarm, W off with all his clothing. Tokyo police went to work. They nabbed the burglar, It was Nakamoto. He told officers he had failed to rig the alarm so he could loot Fu- i_ (Continued ou Page Four) lregmered at the Baranof Hotel. jil’s home undisturbed. he slept soundly while a thief made | | of Sailors Seems ATTORNEY IN BRIDGES' CASE IS TAMED MAN GetsInto Ar?u&enis Again But Is Polite and Deferential By KATHERINE PINKHAM SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23—@#— Harry Bridges’ chief attorney, whose caustic arguments got him a six months jail sentence for contempt of court yesterday, looked and acted like a tamed man today. The usually militant Vincent Hal- linan was polite and deferential sumed. He had o:jections to make —but he made them quietly and carefully. The trial of the West Coast Longshore leader got going again in a calm, judicial atmosphere. There was little reminder of the uproar’ous session yesterday—a ses- son in which Hallinan and U.S. District Judge George B. Harris clashed with a Litterness rare in a Federal courtroom. Again, though, the jury didn't remain long. The veniremen missed all the verbal fireworks yssterday. Today, they were sent out whil. attorneys argued a legal point. Judge Harris, who had lashed | hallinan in caustic terms and then meted out the six months contempt sentence, at one point agreed with the defense attorney that echief prosecutor F. Joseph Donahue had not laid the proper foundation for questioning. This came on testmony by @ 7overnment witness, ex-longshore- man John H. Schomaker, on his iirst meeting with Bridges, He said accompanied by Herman Mann, & fellow stevedore and fellow Com- munist. The jury, which got in for only 15 mihutes yesterday, was ex- cused for the argument on tne legal point. 2,000 ACRES OF FT, RICHARDSON T0 BE OPENED NEXT YEAR WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—(@- The Interior Department said to- day it is going to open 2,000 acres of public land southeast of Anchor- age, Alaska, to settlement early next year, The land has been part of the Fort Richardson reservation. Home- steads and business sites will ac- count for 860 acres of the otfering. Most of the remaining land will 22 divided into tracts of five acres or less, for sale or lease as sites for houses or cabins. “In answer to the people’s re- quest, 20 acres of land along Campbell Creek will be 'used foi a public recreational area,” Assist- ant Secretary of the Inter.or Wii- liam E. Warne said in a news re- lease. The small-tracts area is east anc scutheast of Anchorage, some of it within three and a half miles ot Anchorage postoffice and most of it accessible to the Camp:zell Air- port road. The other lands will be- come accessible upon completion ol the Potter road. “The land is generally level to gently sloping,” Warne said. “Soils are silt or sandy loam, shallow and. incompletely devel- oped.” in distribution of the tracts. Prices and rentals will be nom’'nal. Win- mined by a public drawing at An- chorage after all the units have Seen classified. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 99%, Anaconda 287%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 51, 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel 25, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,460,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 193.52, rails 48.54, util- ities 39.50. when the Bridges' perjury trial re- | he went to Bridges' home in 1933 Veterans will receive preference |- ners of land units will be deter-| New York Central| BRIDGES TRIAL LAWYER MISSES JAIL SENTENCE Judge Stays 6-Month Con-| tempt Charge-Bridges | Takes Back Seat SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23.—(®— With Harry Bridges taking a back ! seat, almost forgotten amid the tu- mult, the longshore ledder’s at-| torney in his perjury trial yester- day drew six months for criminal contempt of court. The lawyer narrowly missed hav- ing to go to jail immediately. Federal Judge George B. Harris imposed the jail sentence on at- torney Vincent Hallinan after a bit- | ter, scathing excoriation, the like | of which probably never had been paralleled in local federal court | history. | ‘The judge ordered the colorful and stormy figure of the San Fran- | cisco bar taken into custody im- | mediately. But he later relented | and granted a stay to permit Halli- | | ran to continue to represent Bridg- es for the duration of the trial Bridges, 48, naturalized Austra- | lian, is head of the left wing CIO Longshore. Union, is chatged with iralsely swearing at his 1945 natur- ialization hearing that he never had i been a Communist. He and two un- | ion aides, J. R. Robertson and Hen- | ry Schmidt, are charged with con- | spiracy to defraud the government. | ea er s To Be Fair Over Nafion Bridges would be subject to de- | portation if convicted. Two previous | government attempts to deport him failed, in 1939 and 1941. The Sup-' reme Court of the United States held in 1945, as an outgrowth of a | deportation order based on . the| {1941 hearing, that Bridges had nuti been proved a 'Communist. i Although Hallinan was granted | a stay of sentence, he probably will | have to serve it once the case has| been decided. Judge Harris’ original | order also directed that Hallinan's| name be stricken from the roll of | jattorneys in his court. His face dark witk .anger, the| Judge raked Hallinan over the| mal in Many Sections of United States By Asscciated Press Sub-zero weather nipped northern below throughout the matory” or i week of ‘the “trial. He aeciaea to stay the sentence |1da. only after urgent pleas by Hal-! The night time and early morn- linan's associate, James MacInnis, | N8 minimum temperatures includ- and after Bridges himself had ex- ed five below zero at Moulton, Me., pressed doubt he would get “a three above at Mt. Pelier, Vi, six square deal” if he had to change!3bove at Lebanon, N. H, 13 at counsel. Bridges wanted the c%se| Worcester and Pittsfield, Mass., and put over until Hallinan would be!l7 at Hartford, Conn., and Provi- available. |dence, R. L. It would have marked the second | Temperatures in New England time that Bridges had to get a new | and the middle Atlantic area were attorney in this case. Richard | 10 to 15 degrees below normal, the Gladstein, who usually mpresemSIWfalhcr Bureau said. The unusual | the union leader, withdrew as coun- lows extended well into Florida and sel after receiving a six-month con- |westward in the Ohio Valley. The Weather Bureau predicted tempt sentence in New York, where he served as counsel for the defen- @ generally fair Thanksgiving for dants in the Communist trial. | the Nation. Announcing his decision’ to let Hallinan continue, ' Judge Harris called for a “forgive and forget” attitude, and the discarding of wrangling and {1l will. | “Let’s try this case like gentle- | nen; like lawyers; like Americans,” | . | conduct during the first|freezing HLING HAT INTO POLITICAL RING SIOUX FALLS, 8.D., Nov. 23— —Major Joe Foss, famous Marine | lier in World War II, is planning |on a fling in politics, his aim, the Covernorship of South Dakota. he said. Hallinan said the Judge’s aci was | “magnanimous” as far as his client was concerned. RUSSIA "OUTLAWS' CHIANG REGIME IN U. N. COUNCIL | o'fic, was the first Capt Eddie Rickenbacker’s World War 1 record of downing 26 enemy planes. Foss operated a flying service at the Sioux Falls airport. he would be a Republican candi- date for nomination at the 1950 primary, to be held June 6. Foss, NEW YORK, Nov. 23—(P—Rus- sia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky an-| nounced today Russia no longer recognizes the Chinese Nationalist | delegation as the spokesman for China in the United Nations. This means that the Soviet Union will not consider the Chiang Kai-shek regime as a proper mem- | ber of the Security Council, where | China shares the right of veto with | the other big powers—Russia, the United States, Britain and France. Recently Yugoslavia was elected | to the Security Council, over Rus- | sian protests, but Yugoslavia will| | not share the right of veto when it | takes its seat in January. | The Soviet Union previously broke diplomatic relations with the | Chiang regime and accorded re- TRIPPERS "NERVOUS, AFRAID FOR MONEY’ MOSCOW, Nov. 23—(P—Ameri- an Eenators touring Europe and the Middle East are “nervous,” the newspaper Fravda said today. The newspaper ridiculed them as Temperatures Below Nor-; - Thanksgiving 3 NATION WILL GIVE THANKS ON THURSDAY Many Events Scheduled for Holiday Including Store Christmas Parades By Associated Press The nation pauses to give thanks lcoals for “improper” ‘and “inflam- |New England today, and it was|for many blessings tomorrow. And from all indications the east as far south as northern Flor-|weather will be good, the turkey a littie cheaper than on last Thanksgiving Day, the trains and buses crowded, the public spectacl- es big and glittering. Traditional turkey day football games are scheduled from coast to coast, among them Colgate vs. Brown, Cornell vs. Penn, Kansas State vs. Missouri, Texas vs. Texas A and M, West Virginia vs. Mary- ond and College of Pacific vs. Cal- iiornia Polytech. The President and Mrs. Truman will dine- turkey and trimmin’s— with relatives in Blair House, thefr temporary home while the White Eouse is being repaired. A bigger family gathering |is planned at Gettysburg, Pa., where Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Weichert will gather around dinner tables with 48 children, granddhildren, cognition to the Communist regime at Peiping. FROM PETERSBURG { John P. Dieringer of the CAA of | Petersburg is a guest at the Bar- anof Hotel. I A PELICAN VISITOR at the Gastincau Hotel. ‘1ound-the-world-comptrollers” and aid after U.S. failure in China the “enators are afraid their Marshall Plan and other money sent “weep.” to| recels were badly beaten Tony Zitz of Pelican is stopping | Europe and elsewhere would also|three-hour fighting before great-grandchildren and great- zreat-grandchildren. lymouth, Mass.,, townspeople in Puritan garb will march from Plymouth Rock up steep Leyden Street to commemorate the coun- ry's first Thanksgiving. Big department s-ore parades to aunch the Christmas buying sea- on will mark the day in New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and else- The 34-year-old Marine®ace said | where. Comedian Milton Berle will ead Macy's parade, one of the larg- 2st, in New York. Qenerally mild and fair weather winner of the Congressional Meda!}was forecast by the Weather Bureau for his exploits in the South Pa-|although a little light snow was in fller to equal | prospect for the Great Lakes region. Public officessand business places will be closed in most localities. BURMESE REBELS| LEAVE SIXTY BODIES, HEADLESS, IN FLIGKT RANGQON, Burma, Nov. 23—® —The headless bodies of 60 rebels were found today after government troops drove a group of Commun- ists and Karens out of the village of Mezalikangon. It was believed that the leaders | took the heads of their dead com- rades so that the bodies could not be identified. Burmese press reports said the in the they withdrew. Averted Now AGREEMENT NOW NEAR ON TERMS New Contract Negoiations Continue-Three Sides Give Views SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23—(®— Early agreement on a ncw con- tract between the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific and the Pa- cific Maritime Association was fore- cast today by both sides. Negotiations continued with Fed- eral Conciliator Omar Hoskins as mediator. Harry Lundeberg, head of the union, said the SUP would not exercise tomorrow's midnight str.ke ! deadline “because if everything goes irixht we expect to bave this thing | sewed up Friday.” Only a few details are left to settle, Lundeberg said. The PMA spokesman, J. B. Ryan, said only fringe issues rema'n to {be settled at a meeting set for Fri- !dny. “Once that Is done,” he said, | “we hope both sides will ratily promptly.” The union contract expired Sept. |30 and negotiations have bLeen in | progress since. The union asks a wage increase, old age benefits and Jjurisdiction over a number ‘of dis- puted jobs in coastwise, deep sea and Alaska service ships, EISENHOWER | ! l i | | | PRESIDENCY Puts Thumbs Down on Any Porposal Suggésting Him as Candidate By JACK BELL | WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—(®— | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s latest thumbsdown on a Presidential can- didacy found’ atout as many be- lievers as cynics in Washington today. Eisenhower told reporters at Cin- cinnati yesterday that he is de~ voting all of his time to his jo2 as President of Columbia Univers gity and has no intention of seek- ing political office. " o Paliticals willing ta jake the clect val at his word argiéd that Elsen- hower seems to ‘be W“fl‘m' the course least likely. to win him’'a .umination by repeating this state- ment. T Cynics contendzd ‘that’ the Gens eral's words left him open 3 to ‘a pessible draft by the Reputliean National Convention in 1952, They said such a draft movement might grow by leaps and bounds. MYSTERY WRITER SENT TOHOSPITAL AS ALCOHOLIC LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23—P— Craig Rice, author of many hard- boiled whodunits, has been commit- ted to a ‘state hospital as an alco- holic. Her daughter, Mrs. Nancy Atwill, . told a psychopathic court yester- day the 4l-year old Miss Rice has used liquor to excess for four or five years and needs institutional care. The court ordered the writer of “The Lucky Stiff” and “Trial by Fury” to Camarillo State Mental Hospital for an indefinite period. Several of her books have been made into movies. STEAMER MOVEMENTS - Princess ‘Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Baranof schéduled to sail from |Seattle Saturday. ' Denall schieduled southbound late Sunday or early Monday. DENVER GUEST Clarence Baumgarner of Denver is visiting at the Gastineau Hotel.