The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1949, Page 1

VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,362 Plane Crashes in Landin PURGE OF TITO NOW STARTED Assault by Eastern Eur-| ope’s Solid Communist Bloc Ordered (By the Associated Press) Moscox may have set the stage today for the decisive assault against the festerng score ot Titoism in Eastern Europe's solid Communist bloc. The Cominform (Communist In-| ternational Information Bureau) ! issued what unquestionably was a long thought-out blast, calling upon all Communists in the world to help overthrow the regime of the rebel| of Belgrade, Premier-Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. i “A decisive struggle is nccessaui against the intrigues of thesc agents of the Imperialists (Titoizts) wherever they try to work in the| workers and Democratic organiza- | tions,” said a resolution adopted! by the Cominform at a meeting in| {ewels at New York’'s famous diamond center. Hungary in the latter part of this; month. | “ALL THE NEWS. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES VOTED “QUEEN OF GEMS, 1949,” This apparently is a call by Mos- | ccw to other Communist parties| Olive Harvester ' making up the Comm!orm—-Polnnd.i Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia | Bulgaria and the parties of France | and Italy—to finish the job of! housecleaning begun with the re-| cent purges of those suspected ol| § leading Tito factions. Only last week in New ¥ork!| foreign diplomatic quarters said they had heard reports an anti-| Tito coup was planned for sometima Letween Christmas and Easter. These .reports. necessarily uncon- firmed, speculated that a coup against Tito would start with a/ staged revolt in Belgrade, brought about by infiltration: from Yugo- slavia’s Cominform neighbors. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORM, Nov. 29—Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 3%, American Can Lynne Carroll wears fortune (Internatio: GUNFIRE IS NOW HEARD, CHUNGKING Commies Movevlo Doors of ists’ Capital (By Associated Press) In the Far East the Communists {closed in on Chungk'ng. A dis- | patch frcm the provisional capita of the Nationalists said Communisi | gunfire could ke heard in the city. Generalissimo Chiang = Kai-shek Iv,z\% reported personally directing PROTESTS SHELLING te Departménl Warns Nationalish Govern- ment of China Sta WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—B— | The State Department drafted am “energetic protest” to the Chinese Nationalist government today s a result of a second attack on an American merchant ship. The skipper of the vessel, the &ir John Franklin, declared shells; from two Nationalist warships struck his ship 12 times during a barrage of about an hour. The incident, piling up new troubles for the U.S. and China, occurred yesterday at the mouth of | the Yangtze river, near Com-| munist-held Shanghai. | It was virtually the same spot where another ship of the same line, the Flying Cloud, was shelled by a Nationalist warship on Nov. 15. An American protest filed at| that time has produced no reply from the Nationalist government, which at the moment is shifting LL THE TIME” IAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS Governmeni {'SundayPundh’ OF SHIPHits Bridges Says 1934 Strike Run byi Communists-Saw Long- - shore Leader Pay Dues + SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29—#— g one-time associate of Harry ridges threw the government's | “Eunday punch” at the CIO long- #hore leader yesterday, g i Heralded as the person through | whom the government hoped to establish Bridges' entrance into the Qommunist party, witness John H. +Big John) Schomaker told a Fed- erel Court jury that Bridges had| teen a dues paying member of the party. The Australian-born. Bridges, who | iwice won - out against efforts to} €¢eport him, is charged with perjury | it testifying at his 1945 naturaliza- | t'on hearing that he had never| Leen a Communist, With two unior afdes, J. R. Robertson and Henry # fchmidt, he also is accused of con- spiring to defraud the government. Schomaker, a member of the | group which in 1933 put Bridges capitals again to escape the ad- | into power in the longshore umon,} vancing Communists, The new attack . brought new demands from the ships’ operators, | the Isbrandtsen Co., of New York, hat the U.S. government protect American commerce. Captain Warren Hardy, master of the Sir John Franklin, radioed ir a message, relayed to the State Department from Shanghai, that the two warships opened fire {rom a distance of 500 yards without the traditional preliminary of & warning shot across the Low. Hardy reported that the warships were destroyer escorts. NWA STRIKE LOOMS; RADIO ;p;uce B. Jones, who also was pre- testified he was a section organizer | for the Communist party on the waterfront as his territory. 1 SAW APPLICATION | Then he testified: ! He was present when an applica- tion for membership in the Com- munist party was given Bridges in 1033; ke subsequently saw the ap- plicat'on, filled out in what he said was Bridges' handwriting; he and fenmt when Bridges was given the application, handed the applica- tion to Sam Darcy, then head of the party in California. | The 193¢ waterfront strike, he| said, was gu'ded by Communists | and “wag largely Sam Darcy Lrain child.” | Schomaker said he saw Bridges | pay party dues to at least three different persons. He told of a peech in 1938 in which he said, [ o A i W 10Ses MOW are. i favorite with the Ohio State They play California in the Rose Bowl Jan. 2. squad. 240-pound tackle Jack Jennings. g, Bursts Into Flames Smelling Roses 28 KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE 'Ship Hits Chemical Plant Before Dawn—Charred Bodies Recovered DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 29.—P— An American Alrlines plane plowed into a chemical plant at the efige of Love Field and burned before dawn today, Twenty-eight of the 45 persons aboard were believed dead. Seventeen persons were hospital- ized from the big DC-6, enroute to Mexico City from New York and Washington. They appeared to be the only survivors, The plane struck as it approached ynr a landing. A crew member who staggered, dazed and bleeding, to i nearby house, said one of the an~ires was afire and he had stop- ped the other three. Colored flames from burning {chemicals lit up the scene eerily. Nearly two hours after the crash officers described the situation as “organized chaos.” | Firemen were still pulling charred and rigid bodies from the twisted University footbal At right is ‘Waching are Halfback Jerry Krall (center) and universtiy Vice-President Bland L. Stradley. P Wire- photo. ~ Flyi CHEHALIS, Wash,, Nov. 29.—(® —8ix youths, sought for the mass rape .of a 22-year-old woman, m also be charged with kidnaping and attempted murder, Prosecutor Dor- win Cunningham said today. The attack was reported by Mrs. Jesephine Huss, 22, of nearby Cen- | wreckage. | 40 Passengers Aboard | Three of the five crew members | were among the survivors, American {Afrlines sajd. There were 40 pas- sengers aboard. | A blue-uniformed representative |ef the lines stood by the plane, | weeping unashamedly as he kept jeount of the bodies brought out. Plames licked the. one-tory gal- building into whieh for hours after'{t hit. Wiremen used Imixture of plane and | It was about 5:45 al.m. when the lblx plane struck the Magnaflux | plant on the northwest edge of the field. The - plant inspects = plane engines by chemical means. Burst Intc Flames | Beth the plane and plant ap- parently burst into flames, Small | explosions followed. | i %, -Wright | 4 ’ 99%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright | | Bridges solicited memtership in the | A serously injured crew member 7%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 49; New York Central 10, | Northern Pacific 12, U. S. Steel| 24%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,310,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: | industrials 191.62, rails 47.87, util- | ities 39.20. | | KING FUNERAL Funeral services for Ed King, who was found, dead in Salmon Creek Sunday, will be held tomorrow at ! 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Charles | W. Carter Mortuary. The Washington, Merry-Go - Round By DREW PEARSON ICopyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.' ASHINGTON — Young Repre- sentative Mel Price of Illinois and| Gen. Vassily Chuikov, Soviet Com- mander in Berlin, had a long con- versation at a Berlin reception at| which the Illinoisan did some half- humorous, but blunt talking. To his| surprise, the tough Soviet soldier displayed a quaint sense of humor, | if not a knowledge of American geography. On a tour of inspection for the | House Armed Services Committee, | Congressman Price was introduced | to Chuikov at a reception for U. S,E Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Talking through an interpreter, the| Russian general inquired what state | he came from. When Price told| him, Chuikov commented. " “INinois——oh, that’s close to Col- | orado, isn't it?” | NICE LOOKING olive pickers they have in Tehama county, Calif. Rosalie Cole also will reign over convention of Shasta Cas- , cade Wonderland Association at Corning Nov. 5. ECONVICTIS FACING JURY IN EATH, AGED MAN TACOMA, Wash,, Nov. 29—(®— John Edward Summers, 33-year- old ex-convict, went into court to- day to hear the state outline its first degree murder case against him. A jury of nine women and three men, chosen in a day-long session yesterday, will try Summers for the shooting of Howard Easley, 63, last summer. Summers has admitted shooting both Easle and his wife last July (Internationat) | ! the fight. The last plane from Chungking reported the Communists on the banks of the Yangtze river oppo- site Chungking, which has been !ubanduned by the National Govern- { ment. All indications were that the i city would be in Communist hand | kefore long. Fight'ng in the Chungkiny area ‘was reported to be desperate. | The South China Morning Post : published a story that Li Tsung-jen, absent Acting President of Na- tionalist China, would leave for the United Etates soon, Li, on the outs with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, has been in Hongkong for treatment at a hospital. BATTLE RAGING HONG KONG, ivov. 29 — A — Chungking kattled tonight to stave off Communist hordes. Nationalist messages said Gen- H eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek person- ally was directing the fight, The last plane from the teleag- | vered city arrived here at nightfall. Passengers said the Reds were at lthe Yangtze river bank skirting { Chungking. The Reds fired on the plane as it took off from an island airport in the river. None was injured. Passengers left their baggage in their haste to escape. Taipeh, Formosa, Chiang’s island { redoubt headquarters off the South | china coast, reported crack troops from Szechwan had stopped the Reds before Chungking. But 2 dispatch from Spencer Moosa Of the Associated Press indicated | Chungking would nestle easily in the Communist power within hours. Most of the Nationalist officials H MEN D l S p UTF ot TOKYO, Nov. 29—(M—Radio op-] erators on Northwest Airlines’ in- ternational flights threatened to| strike today. One plane was delayed five and a half hours. Leslie Osborne, assistant Orient traffic manager for Northwest, said the radio operators agreed to work pending cabled instructions from union officials in Minneapolis. A. D. Piepgras, company comp- | troller here, said all aspects of the dispute would be handled by North- west’s head office in Minneapolis. The company said notice of a strike was received but it contained no demands. Haneda airport’s d’s- | patcher said, however, the radiomen | were demanding the same rate of pay received by operators for other airlines. A Northwest plane from Alaska which arrived at 4:30 a.m, took off for Seoul, Korea, at 9 am. It was scheduled to leave at 5:30. Piepgras said this plane would return from Seoul late today, and tomorrow’s flight from Manila to Alaska via Tokyo protably would be made on schedule. Northwest is installing air to! around facilities that eventually will | eliminate radio operators in plane crews, Peiparas said later, and the dispute centers on severance pay. Approximately 15 flight operators are employed in the Otient by Northwest, he said. | Schomaker said he attendcdf numerous Communist party meet- | ings at which Bridges and Schmidt | were present. | £am Darcy, the witness went on, | periodically sent orders to Brid ;es! through Schomaker, during the! 1934 strike. “Mr. Bridges.” the wit- | ress testified, “was under the dis-| cipline of the Communist party‘ and he had to carry them out.” ‘ AT PARTY MEET ! One of the Communist meetings | he attended, he said, was in San| Diego in 1935, when the California | State Federation of Lator was| holding its convention. He said| Eridzes and Schmidt were prescnt! at the party meeting which dis-| cussed means of getting one of | their own number in as P'ederntlon! Vice President instead of Paul] Echarrenberg. 8chomaker’s testimony was punc- tuated by a running fire of ob-| Jjections from defense counsel. It came after Judze George B. Harris | rejected a defense motion to rule it | out on the ground that no testi-' mony should be allowed on events prior to June 18, 1945. That was the | date on which the Supreme Court of the United States said Bridges had not heen proven a Communist | and cancelled an order to deport him. In another offshoot of the case, attorney George Olshausen filed a motion to vacate Judge Harris'| contempt judgment against chiet defense attorney Vincent Hallinan. Hallinan last week was sentenced to six months in jail for ecriminal contempt, but allowed to finish out the trial. SEN. HARRY P. CAIN (R), Wash., colonel in Army Reserve, tries on new uniform as he pre- pares to go on tour of duty with 82nd Airborne Div.(International) Jobs for All, Asks Truman OfLaborMen By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—(®— President Truman said today it will take the best efforts of all citizens to use the nation’s re- sources in a way that will assure jobs for everyone. That was the message the Presi- dent sent to the opening meeting of the LaLor Department’s annual | conference of State Labor Commis- cioners and representatives of labor unions. The group meets each year to review state and federal labor laws and exchange views on how they can be improved. Mr. Truman's message, read for tralia, Sheriff Frank Thayer said | staggered to a nearby home. While 8ix “John Doe” warrants charg ing rape were fssued yesterday. |Pl00d oozed from his mouth, he Mrs. Huss said that after the at-| tack one of her assailants wanted| I Want to make a statement.” to beat her over the head with a Statement Made rock. He was discouraged by his| Frances Hudson, a grocery store companions, however, and finaily °mployee, sald she took this state- agreed she should be thrown into Ment from the man, who described the flooding Cowlitz River after she ih’m““ as the co-pilot: told them she could not swim, She| ~Number four engine afire on was nude. {approach. Air opened thc right She saved herself by grabbing l!h‘“ch' The plane was on fire and I :;?acx:(k and pulling herself to the (Continued on Page Five) Thayer said all nearby mllunryi stations are being checked on the | strength of Mrs. Huss' story ma!:DEATH 'oll 2 her attackers mentioned they “had to get back to base.” All, however, oF (RAS"ES s wore civillan clothes, | R e | By Assoc'nted Press The crash of an American Air- lines plane at Dallas today raised the death toll from major civillan and military air accidents in the past month to more than 200. ‘Twenty-eight persons were belleved killed at Dallas. It was one of the worst months for aviation in peacetime history. e Just about a month ago on Nov. e 1, an Eastern Airlines plane and e |a P-38 fighter collided near Wash- ington, D. C., killing 51 passengers and a crew of four on the DC-4. ® & & » o e e o WEATHER REPORT (Thi; data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 40; minimum 35. At Airport—Maximum 40; minimum 34. FURECADT (Juneau ana Vietoity) Light rain and southeeast- erly winds as high as 25 miles per hour tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temper- ature tonight about 35 de- grees, highest Wednesday near 40, PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7.30 a.m. teday City of Juneau—.28 inches; since Nov. 1—11.70 inches; Three days before a Paris-New e York Transatlantic airliner crashed e in a flaming heap against a moun- since July 1—47.79 inches. At Airport—.08 inches; since Nov. 1—9.15 inches; {THIRD SON FOR MR. AND MRS. LINN FORREST JR.! e tain peak in the Azores. The 48 e |dead included Marcel Cerdan, form- ier French and world middleweight him by Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, said: “You meet at a time when, de- since July 3.05 inches. had fled from Chungking to o & o o o Chengtu, 170 miles to the north- west. Premier Yen Hsi-shan said I | | £ att ! “No, it’s about a thousand miles 16 and defense attorney Roswell i . T aetin t 8 3 away,” replied Price. | ?“"":fl““t_’g: igti:?ej“:::w‘;v XSI :tue:e “T 'guess you can see that I'm| 100ing Prosp TS HOT TESTIMONY TODAY | would not contest his client’s guilt. Chengtu would be the next Na- not very good at American geoc-| graphy,” admitted the Russian.| “But I know a lot about German geography.” “I hope you're not making a study i of American geography now, Gen-| eral,” observed the Illinois Con-| gréssman dryly. | With a smile, Chuikov replicd‘ that he was not, then asked Price how long he had been in Berlin. *“Time is only relative, General" responded the Congressman. “How | long have you been here?” | “Four and a half years” (Continued on Page Four) said | { | Time after time, Summers asked if jurors would take into consid- eration that Summers’ mother was a prostitute, practiced bootlegging and had married a Negro. Then he asked: “Would you feel society owes any- thing to a defendant so raised— especially if the defendant comes to court and admits in his testi- mony that he is guilty of first i e murder?” FROM SEATTLE E. M. Mundy of the CAA in Seat- tle is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. tionalist capital. It is only 30 miles trom far western Sikang province. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Seattle H Baranof from in port {bound westward. Denali scheduled Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail | from Vancouv Saturday. . to sail from FROM SEATTLE | Floyd Rodgers of Seattle is re-' gistered at the Gestineau Hotel | Mr, and Mrs. Linn Forrest Jr., be- | came the parents of a baby boy last | night at St. Ann’s Hospital. The | child weighed seven pounds 12| ounces at birth. The Forrests have two other| children, Craig, two and one-half | years, and Linn, 13 months. | Mrs. Forrest is the former Doro- | thea Hendrickson, daughtet of Mayor and Mrs. Waino Hendrick- son. | FROM NAKNEK t W. 8. Wood of Naknek is revis- tered at the Baranof Hotel. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29—(#— A government witness in the Harry Bridges perjury trial told, in his| testimony today, of Communist master-minding in the 1934 dock strike here, and spoke of “lousy waterfront conditions.” Despite govenment that this line of testimony not concern” the case, Judge Geors2 | B. Harris told the defense to pro- ceed. And Bridges' attorney did so with gusto. Paradoxically, it was the govern- ment's “Sunday punch” witnes: objections | “did | (Coutinued on'l'agr.- Five) | spite nearly record levels of em- ployment, speeial unemployment problems exist in certain areas of the country. “We need the experience and in- genuity . of all our citizens in motilizing our resources to afford them full opportunity to “work - iree from the fear of economic in- | security. “I am sure you will make a con- structive contribution to this high purpose.” Delegates to the conference were from 40 states, the District of Co- ""mbia, Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico, STORY HOUR LADY Miss Judy Greene, recent arrival here from Hastings, Nebraska, will begin a series of “Story Hour Lady” programs over KINY on December 1. The programs, directed toward the kiddies, will go on the air at 5 pm. |boxing champion. ‘Then, on Nov. 20, a Dutch mercy plane carrying 28 Jewish refugee ichildren from North Africa to | Scandinavia eame down in a mass jof twisted wreckage near Oslo, | Norway. A 12-year-old boy survived, but 34 others died. Special Christmas stories wilk be, Meanwhile, the Air Force plagued featured on the programs, which by a series of tragic mishaps, took are being sponsored by the Juneau- [some of its famed B-29 superfort- Young Hardware store. resses out of the air for overhaul. Miss Greene is a former pro-| The Air Force's November pack gram director on a Hastings, Neb- of woes was highlighted by the loss raska radio station, as well as hav- ‘or 18 personnel when two superforts ing been a club director for (he collided in a mock bombing run 'Army for many years, "near Stockton, Calif, on the 16y,