The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREKE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,359 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRII )AY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949 MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TORNADOES TAKETOLL | 14 PERSONS Forty-four i’e_rsons Are In-| jured-Many Buildings Are Destroyed BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, Nov. 25—(® — Thanksgiving Day tornadoes roared down at four points in East Alatama yesterday and killed 14 persons. Forty-four persons were injured The vicious, out-of-season storms left several other persons missing and destroyed more than a score ot Luildings as they leap-frogged in three counties about dusk. An entire family of 10 Negroes was wiped out near Hackneyville in Tallapoosa county, 60 miles southeast of Birmingham. The mammoth wind picked up their weatherbeaten little home and Lurled it 300 yards across the road | into another house. Toe second house was occupied by another large family of Negroes, but none was reported hurt. Both houses were demolished—witnesses said they appeared to explode after the smashing impact. Near Oneonta, in Blount county, two members of a white family! were killed at the Easley com- munity. The same twister hopped a small mountain and struck again on the northern outskirts of Oneonta, where 34 persons were hurt. Property damage was heavy. Another person was killed and {ive injured by the tornado’s fury on Sand Mountain, near Valley, in DeKals county. Lewis Calls Meelina Cf CI0 Policy Com. By Associated Press John L. Lewis has called a meet- ing Monday in New York of the United Mine Workers' policy com- mittee. And it’s been reported that a group of morthern mine operators have had some private talks this week in Pittsburgh. These two items have caused some | optimism among government offi- cials. It’s hoped coal peace talks will be announced next week. Jerusalem Church Damaged by Fire! (By Associated Press) The fire in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre appears to have caused little damage. Foreign diplomats have visited the church —and they say that the fire only partly damaged the leaden main dome and cupola. A layer of felt and tar underneath the dome also was damaged. The church is located in the Arab-held part of Jerusalem. Arabs, | Moslems and Christians joined in battling the flames with antiquated ; equipment, Four men who had been making 1epairs on the church have been held for questioning by Arai police. The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON iCopyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.! | 'ASHINGTON — It looks as if President Truman would soon have one of his former assistants whom he didn’t particularly like, back in ‘Washington—this time in the Sen- ate. He is William Benton, former Assistant Secretary of State, who will probal be the new Senator from Connecticut following the re- tirement of GOP Sen. Raymond Baldwin on January 1. Gov. Chester Bowles has virtually decided to appoint Benton, a Demo- crat, to Baldwin's seat. Benton, who had the difficult jobr of setting up the State Depart- ment’s new propaganda office, pio- neered the Voice of America radio program. He also went in for an art exhibit, which was sent to various foreign countries, and it was this which got him in the hair of his chief in the White House. Truman didn’t like modernistic art, and didn’t hesitate to say so. In fact, he took the trouble to write Benton a confidential letter des- cribing modern art “as merely the vaporings of half-baked lazy peo- ple. . . .There is no art at all in conneéction with the modernists, in " \Conunued on Page Four) lwer(e not very noticeable. { warm welcome wherever the group | "Monty” Is Outflanked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery finds this flanking movement tc his liking as actress Bonita Gran- ville (left) and Jenis Paige close in on him at the r:il of the Queen Ei y chairman of the Western European Union Defense Alliance, wears the Marshal Montgomery, milit; black beret he has made famous. beth on arrival in New York, He said he saw no trcat of open conflict in western Europe. ? Wire- RIFHR CONTROL DEBATE STARTS TGRRID SESSION Socialist Leader Schu- -macher Barred from 20 Sessions Over Hot Talk (By the Associated Press) Over Litter Socialist opposition, the West German Parliament to- day approved a new Allied-German agreement which relaxes conquerors’ controls over the defeated nation. The Socialists opposed the agree-. ment, which recoznizes interna- tional control of the industrial Kuhr. The Germans previously had | said they would boycott interna- tional authority over this key in- dustrial area. All-night debate on this u had Parliament in an uproar. £o- cialist leader Kurt Schumacher taunted Chancellor Konrad Ade-| nzuer for signing the agreement.;j He called him the “Chancellor of | the Allies.” The controversial issue apparently has split West Germany down. the middle on straight right- left party lines. For hot ‘words and’ declaved in-| sults Schumacher was barred 11'0m1 the Assemkly’'s next 20 sessions. France struggled through a 24-1 hour general strike without much hardship. The strike was called Ly two of the biggest labor unions as i ja demonstration for higher wages. Transportation was disrupted. Most big industries were closed, but effects of the strike on normal life i 1 HIGH SCHOOL BAND OF EUGENE PLANS| TOUR, S. E. ALASKA | EUGENE, Ore, Nov. 25—#— Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska has extended a welcome to Eugene high school band memzers who propose a concert tour of South- east Alaska during the Christmas season, according to Byron Miller, | pand director. Governor Gruening, in a recent | telephone conversation with Miller, | caid: “Alaska neéds more good | music.” He assured Miller of a{ goes in the Territory, and a per- | sonal greeting if the Governor getsf pack from Washihgton, D.C., in| time for the arrival, ‘ The band plans to be gone Dec. | 27 to Jan. 7 but the itinerary has.| not been completed. | Byron Miller is a former director of the Juneau High School band. PARIS—A French Cabinet Min- ister has called today’s general strike a “fiasco.” The 24-hour work | stoppage was declared Ly Com- | munist and anti-Communist unions, | cember 31. on the latest coup by Panama’s Pre- |as | Wesley are stopping at the Bar-| WINNING title “Queen of Queens” over 50 contestants Bobbie Collette, 17, Dinuba, Cal., will reign over annual Fresnc Raisin Bowl football game De- | (Internatonal) | 3RD PRESIDENT | CHOSEN, PANAMA PANAMA CITY, Nov. 25.—(®— Arnulfo Arias, a fiery 49-year-old surgeon, early today became Pana- ma’s third President in six days by proclamation of Congress. The Congressional approval #p- parently put the stamp of legality sident-making Police Chief, Col. Jose Remon. Remon, who forced the ouster of President Daniel Chanis, Jr. on Sunday, late last night defied a ruling of the Supreme Court and announced that Arias was the new President. A few minutes before, the Court had ruled Chanis was still the constitutional president of this Central American country. Argentines Grab Newspaper Ledgers BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25—®P— An opposition member of the Con- gressional committee on anti-Ar- gentine activities condemned today “unauthorized” the seizure of usiness officcs of newspapers andi ew agencies in Buenos Aires. Acting in the name of the full committee, a two-man subcommit- tee of Peronist Deputies, Joe Emilio Visca and Dodolpho P. Decker, took over the account hooks of the As- sociated P the United Press and seven Buenos Aires newspapers. The subcommittee announced its purpose was to ascertain the source | of funds supporting the coalition which tried to defeat Juan D. Per- on for the Presidency in 1946, SITKA GUESTS Mrs. Beatrice Anaruk and son | anof Hotel PELICAN GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Hoyt of Peli- ‘Queen of Queens FanMOSA KOW HOY SEAT AS COMMIES PLAH TAKING ISLAND 0. S, Offic?als Now Con- cerned-Authorities Deeply Worried (By Associated Press) In London,” a Communist diplo- mat from an Eastern European state said the Chinese Communists plan to take the island of Formosa and push their control over Tibet Ly next summer. Red mastery of "ivet, land of the world’s highest mountains, would bring the Communists to India's borders and give them control over her northern trade routes. In Washington, United States of- ficials were reported increasingly concerned over the fate of stra- tegic Formosa. The island juts into the American Western Pacific de- fense chain. Chiang Kai-shek’s forces are not expected to hold it 2gainst strong Red opposition. Washington observers said the possibility that a future war with Russia might find Formosa in Communist hands has U.S. mili- tary and diplomatic authorities deeply worriecd—and groping for & solution. STEEL INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN NOW IN STATE CONTRO LONDON, Nov. 25.—(P—State ownership of Britain's huge steel industry became law yesterday, bu! the labor government will have to the next general election to win |take over the key plants in-the na- tion’s economic structure. The House of Lerds put its seal ‘on the disputed bill and the King signed it a few minutes later. Thus the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee had ful- filled the last of the campaign promises it made in the 1945 elec- tions. LOCAL SLAT ARTISTS 10 ELECT OFFICERS AT MEET TONIGHT Movies and slides of local skiing activity, as well as election of offi- cers, will attract local slat artists to the meeting of Juneau £ki Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Lodge skiers, scissor-bills, snow- bunnies and Class A racers—plus anyone interested in learning to nianeuver the bent boards—are wel- come to the meeting, Neil Taylor, cluz president, said today. Tony Thomas and Dean Williams will show slides of a ski trip across the Ice Cap. Local photog=- raphers will. show both slides and which are seeking higher pay to can are ctopping at the Baranof | movies of Juneau skiers in action, make up for higher living costs. I Hotel. l TFaylor said. ASKREVERSE, BRIDGESCASE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. The Civil Rights Congress i a Federal judge to reverse his| sentence of Harry Bridges' attorne; ' to six months in jail for contempt | of court. ! “Your ruling is a violation of the; guarantee of a fair trial as em- Lodied in the constitution,” the San Francisco chapter of the Con- | gless wrote to Federal Judge Georse ! B. Harris. i It characterized the sentence ot | Vincent Hallinan, effective at the| end of Bridges' current perjury! trial as setting “a dangerous pre- cedent leading to the intimidation | of attorneys who vigorously de- fend their clients.” The trial of Bridges resumes Monday after a Thanksgiving re- cess. He and two associates are charged with conspiracy to com-! mit perjury in swearing during naturalization proceedings, the CIO | longshore leader was not a Com- | munist. ! The holiday weekend gave Judge Harris an opportunity to review a; defense contention that events| prior to June 18, 1945, date of a Supreme Court decision on Bridges, | fall under the doctrine of res ad-| judicata—things already decided. If the defense wins the argu- ment, the prosecution will have to confine its case to events between June 18 and September 17, 1945, date of Bridges' naturalization, 'DEATH TOLL ' ON HOLIDAY 15 HIGH ONE (By the Associated Press) The nation’s death toll in violent accidents over the Thanksgiving| Day holiday was one of the higm's!I in several years. There were at least 161 violent deaths from 6 p.m. (local time) Wednesday to midnight Thursday. These included 103 traffic fatalities. Fifty-eight persons died in miscel- laneous accidents, including fires, plane crashes, shootings, falls and hunting. Also included were 14 persons killed in Alabama torna- does. This year’s Thanksgiving violent deaths compared to 114 over v.hc’ same period last year; 128 in 1947, and 83 in 1946. The totals on| Thanksgiving Day holidays during the war years also were below this year’s mark. This year's Thanksgiving traffic deaths far exceeded year’s toll of 86. HOT PANTS PLANNED. FOR ICE BOWL FANS; —STRICTLY HOT AIR FAIRBANKS, Nov. 25.—(®—They may be playing football in the Ice Bowl game here Jan. 1 in frigid temperatures, but the customers can get the hot seat. At least, that’s the plan of Ladd Air Force Basp officers. They're going to install aircraft heaters under the bleachers, with| .anvas ducts carrying heat the en- tire length of the stands. The University of Alaska will clash with an Air Force eleven. Senfence Reduced To Twenty Years in Manslaughter Case FAIRBANKS, Nov. 25.—(-—Leon Jones, former Vancouver, Wash, resident, will be returned to Mc- Neil Island federal penitentiary— but for a maximum of 20 years rather than the life sentence orig- inally imposed. Jones was sentenced to the maxi- mum 20 year term on Wednesday by District Judge Harry E. Pratt He was convicted last week of man- | slaughter growing out of the axe death of Carl Ahnstrom .at Little| Gerstle July 20, 1947. He was ac- quitted of charges in connection with the death of Donald Harris. The manslaughter verdict result- ed from his second trial. Earlier | he had been convicted of first de-| gree murder of both men but the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco ordered a new trial. wants i | Day last | | 4 ! ©000000sosc0000000000000 1 CIVIL RIGHTS | Reluciani (hoese-(ake While the Italian actress Marina tomary cheesecake art in a Sienese with the statement: “In our cou weman until she can attract a'man with her clothes on.” in Hollywood for a major role in BiG FIVE PEACE PACT BY RUSSIA REJECTED BY UN. By GEORGE PALMER LAKE SUCCE:S, Nov. 26—(P— The United Nations today rejected Russ'a’'s Blg Five peace pact that ontained @ clause accusing the United States and Britain of plott- ing for, war. B s Do J The - Gene: ssembly's 59-na- tion political committee defeated the Moscow plan Ly heavy votes in paragraph by paragraph balloting and then overwhelmingly approved a counter-proposal for peace spon- sored jointly by the United States and Britain, The Western plan reafiirmed faith in the U.N. Charter and set forth 12 essential requirements for nternational peace and security. It was approved by a vote of 53 to § with one abstention. Russia and its four satellite dele- zations cast the negative votes. Yugoslavia was the lone abstainer. The so-called peace move from Moscow was the keynote of Russian policy at the current assembly. It was submitted Sept. 23 by Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, who remained fn New York more than two months to prosecute Prime Minister Stalin’s Soviet version of ow peace and atomic energy con- trol could be achieved. The United States, Britain and other Western powers denounced the Russian resolution as a phoney peace propaganda effort. Washing- ton and London jointly sponsored a substitute proposal, reaffirming the basic essentials for world peace in the U.N. Charter. e o o o . . WEATHER REPORT (Thi, data s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 43; minimum 33, At Airport—Maximum 36; minimum 32. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional mixed rain and snow. Low tonight 36, with rain and southeasterly winds oc- casionally as high as 20 miles on Saturday with highest temperature of 42. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.02 inches; since Nov. 11115 inches; since July 1—472 inches. At Airport—.03 inches STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3!, American Can 100, Anaconda 29, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 50%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S Steel 247%, Pound $2,80%. Sales today were 1,260,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 102.85, rails 47.97, util- ities 39.51. eveccec®eceecsccetosocsn e ] Berti obligingly poses for the cus- silk slip, she started photographers ntry a woman isn't considered a Miss Berti the film “Deported.” (# Wirephoto. PEACE TALKS, COAL STRIKE, REPORTED WASHINGTON, Nov, 25.—(-—Re- ports ecirculated today tliat new coal peace talks and.a further 33- day “strike truce” are in the mak- ing. There was no confirmation. from union or coal operator sources of persistent rumors that the dead- line for a new walkout, now set for December 1, swould be deferred for a month, But the fire of speculation was fed by relief that John L. Lewis (1) would rather not pull 380,000 miners off their jobks with Christ- mas approaching, and (2) does not want to tangle with the govern- ment in another Taft-Hartiey strug- gle. President Truman has made it plain that he will use the Taft- Hartley Law if he thinks a coal shortage threatens a national em- ergency. TROUBLESOME FOG PREVALLS, COAST (By Astociated Press) After almost a week of consis- tently troublesome fog, the Cali- fornia coast is in for more today. The stuff has been slowing high- way traific, causing an unusual | amount of accidents and jamming | airplane and shipping schedules. But today’s fog is expected to clear away in most areas by hoon. In the Pacific Northwest, inter- mittent rains are forecast to con- tinue as a high pressure area over jthe west and off the California i coast loses some of its Llocking power If the high pressure area vanishes, Pacific storms that have keen, moving northward may comeé irdand. OFFICE WORKER IS NABBED IN DALLAS S LOVEBURGLAR DALLAS, Nov. 25.—(®—A hand- some, 25-year-old office worker has definitely identified himself as Dal- las' notorious “Love Burglar'—a man who for many months raped |and molested women while looting homes, City Detective E. L. Munday said today. Munday gave the man's name as Fred Felix Adair, Jr. ! Adair has signed written state- | ments, witnessed by newspapermen, | involving two rapes and one case |in which a woman was choked | during a burglary, the Detective stated. | ©. V. Sanders, another city de- | tective, said four women victims | identified Adair as the boudoir | bandit. No charge had been filed against Adalr, } | WARD CASE CRITICS SAY: 'HREHEADS' "Spineless Performance’ in Demanding Release of U. §. Consul WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—(P—The State Department’s handling of the Angus Ward case was under severe Republican attack today, with five {lawmakers demandinz the immed- iate firing of responsible officials “both high and low.” The Congressmen, all members of the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee, issued a joint statement yester- day blasting the Department for its “spineless performance” in trying to get the U. S. Consul General freed from a Chinese Communist jail in Mukden. The angry lawmakers called it “one of the most humiliating chap- ters in American diplomatic his- tory” and declared that “the loss of face by the United States is be- yond calculation.” One of the House members, Rep. Judd of Minnesota, told a reporter the United States should have tried “military action” in the Ward case instead of “ignominiously sneaking off the battlefield.” Besides Judd, the statement was signed by Reps. Chipperfield of Il- linois, Vorys of Ohio, Lawrence H. 1Smith of Wisconsin, and Jackson of California. { It bristled with phrases like “un- | believable bungling” and “mishand- ling” and said the Department's “failure to take firm action” is a “by-product of the incredibly botch- ed China policy which our Govern- ment has pursued for the last four years.” The statement reserved particular jcriticism for Secretary of State | Acheson's appeal to 30 nations—in- ch “Russtac-for assistance in the Ward case. FACILITIES BUREAU OFFICIALS LEAVE ON ALASKA TOUR After preiminary conierences all week, (including several Thanks- giving Day), the Bureau of Com- munity Facilities “team” set out today to get the picture elsewhere in the Territory. 4 The Bureau officials are here to familiarize Territorial and munici- pal authorities with provisions of the Alaska Public Works Act, and to accept applications for Federal iaid for construction of community facilities under that measure. | Starting with a' breakfast ap- pointment, Arthur D. Morrell was busy today right up to departure- time for Anchorage via PNA. Mor- rell is Deputy Commissioner of the 3ureau. With Burke Riley, Execu- tive Assistant to Gov. Ernesi Gruening, Morrell will spend a week to the westward for similar :onferences. Lester Marx, Special Assistant to ! ‘he Commissioner, was booked ' for round of Southcast Alaska com- munities, with Lt. Comdr. Edward P. Chester, Jr., USCG Aide to the Jovernor, along to assist him. John Argetsinger, District Engineer, is to wandle the Fairbanks and Interior District, as well as Skagway and Haines. Traveling with him and, as al- . ways, bound to meet many old triends, is Joseph T. Flakne, Al- aska chief of the Interior Depart- ment’s Division of Territories. Flak- |ne formerly lived in Fairbanks, and ‘ls a graduate of the University of Alaska. The men plan to retwrn to Jus neau December 1, the same day that iwo Bureau experts are expected frem the states. These are Mel Fra- zier and Joe Patton, legal and fin- ancial experts, respectively. The General Services Administra- tion, of which the Bureau is a part, has opened Alaska headquarters of- jces in the Community Building here. Among those who have conferred with Morrell here are representa- tives fronr Seward, Anchorage, Ket~ chikan and Sitka. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah frc:. Vancouver due tomorrow afterncon or evening. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. 432 Denali scheduled southbound late Sunday or early Monday. 2 CRAIG VISITOR ks ! Gilmore 8. Reese of Craig is & gucst at the Baranof Hotel, 5