The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY A VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,365 "BRASS" MEET ENDS; T0 GO ON YEARLY, GEN. TWINING HOPES| Anncuncing that the conclave of military and governmental leaders in Alaska was concluded this morn- ing, Lieut. Gen. Nathan F. Twining said today at the Chamber of Com- merce luncheon that the same type of meeting would be attempted in the future on a yearly basis. General Twining explained the meeting’s purpose in a short add- ress, preceding the main talk given ty Kenneth J. Kadow, Alaska Ficld Committee head, who brought the men together. Explaining that because many ef- forts were duplicated by various agencies in the Territory, General Twining said the meet's main pur- pose was to thrash out main ob- jectives in transportation and com- munication, so that all govern- nental bodies would know what the other was doing, and Congress would not be confronted with sim- ilar requests from several bureaus at once. “We'll get in trouble,” the Gen- eral said, “if we don’t all work together. This meeting enables us to know what the other fellow is going and wants to do, and thus cur plans can be coordinated. He stated that transportation problems brought up had nothing to do with commercial transpor- tation, but included only “our own headaches.” ' Kadow, pointing out that the| Interior Department for the first time was adopting a policy of ask- ing Alaskans to shape the depart- ment’s policies for Alaska, declared the two most important things so far as the Territory was concerned were “(1) statehood and (2) the development till now pending. He said he and Assistant Secre- tary Warne had personally talked with more than 3,000 Alaskans to oktain ideas for the development plan. He‘said progress was halted by premature publication of the “corporation” plan which was not acceptable to_ . even . those who thought it out, but that the new bill carried none of the old one's criticized points. “The old Ickes formula of ‘let it stay in the icebox’ is done with,” he said “Two fundamental facts exist here now—first, to get de- fenses organized, and second, fo develop resources as fast as econom- ically feasible. RESOURCES DROPPING “Qur present developed resources are hard pressed,” he continued, “we burn two billion barrels of oil a year; our coal is dropping rap- idly; therefore we must find out what's in Alaska and work out plans to use its resources.” He explained the department’s; goal was 300,000 persons in Alaska in 10 years, which was “definitely obtainable, provided the risk capi- tal is availatle to start things.” He said no one here can say the Territory has enough money for its own development, and such a cpn- dition makes a development plan necessary. He reviewed the “reyolving fund” Tcéntmure'd on Page 2) The Washington; Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON ! (Copyright, 1049, by Bell Syndicate, Inc. | (Ed. Note—The b:piss ring, good for one free ride on the Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round, today goes to Oscar Chapman as he becomes Secretary of the Interior.) /ASHINGTON—A young Navy veteran stood outside the Juvenile Delinquency Court in Denver, Colo., back in 1922. He had tried eleven times to get an appointment with Judge Ben Lindsay, the famed juv- enile expert, and each time Lind- say's secretary had said no. But the young veteran persevered. Finally he caught Lindsay as he went out to lunch, and shortly thereafter became his assistant pro- bation officer. The young veteran was Oscar Chapman. And if he had not pers-: evered both in Denver and in Washington, he would not be taking the oath as Secretary of the Inter- ior today. Chapman has been a member of the “Little Cabinet” longer than anyone else in Washington. He be- came Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt’s bright and shiny new deal back in 1933, and. he has patiently stuck it out for 16 years since. Cabinet shifts have been made, new appointments have been sent to the Senate, but Chap- man has quietly kept on working. And just as he finally saw Judge (Coptinued on Page Four) | conspiracy. jtrict of Kentucky Saturday. May “ALL THE NEWS ASKA ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE —_— - JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949 Krug Offers 100,000 AcrestoSS. E. Nafives To Seftle laEtEIaims i WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—(®—Sec-! retary of the Interior Krug today offered Alaska’s natives two reser- vat'ons in an attempt to settle land cwnership disputes and open the territory to development. 1 Ditferences over the extent of native rights to Alaska land long; have been a major obstacle to RENFREWT0 HUNT, AFRICA SEATTLE, Dec. William Renfrew of Anchorage, who ! has hunted for most of the big game species in Alaska, is head- ing for Africa to try out his rifle and camera in the Veldt. i He said here today that he ex- pects to have to do some arguing to convince his elderly father, W. Claude Renfrew of Spokane, that ae shouldn’t go along too. “He’s nearly 70 years old,” said the Alaskan, “but he is ready to leave tomorrow.” .| There was a time when 1t was handy to have “Dad” along. | It was when he had “my closest call” on a brown bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula. | “I wounded a bear,” he related, | “and it turned around and chased me into a river. But my dad, wait-| ing across the stream, opened fire and stopped the bear just in the nick of time.” | Renfrew plans to fly the Atlantic by commercial airliner and meke the Africa trip with Gren Collins, and Alaska bush pilot, who is mak- ing arrangements in London. ORDER MAY T0 START | JAILTERM Must RepormMashal Sat- urday-Garsson Brothers Also fo Go fo Jail WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—(#—For- mer Rep. Andrew J. May (D-KY) today was ordered to start serving on Saturday an 8 to 24-month jail sentence for wartime bribery and Federal Judge Henry A. Schwein- Laut turned down May's appeal for a reduction of the term. May was not in the courtroom to rear the decision. The Judge di- rected that he turn himself over to the Marshal of the Eastern Dis- was at his home in Prestonsburg. Henry A. Garsson and Murray Garsson, heads of a $75,000,000 wartime munitions empire from which May was convicted of accept- ing bribes, also were ordered to jail. In their cases the order was effective immediately. May and the Garsson brothers were convicted in July, 1947, and received identjcal sentences in con- nection with $53,000 in bribes. M»y7 was accused of using his iniluence as chairman of the old House Military Affairs Committee to get the brothers war contracts. MARRIAGE LICENSE Ira B. Stevenson and Alice Stev- enson, both of Hoonah, yesterday. applied for a marriage license mg the office of the U. S. Commission- | er. here. o | o e ® & » o e e > WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 42; minimum 37. At Airport—Maximum 39; 1.—(M—Attorney o settlement of the territory. Krug, in one of his last actions in tge office he is leaving today, offered to set aside these two re- servations: 100,000 acres on Prince of Wales and Sukkwan Islands in Southeast | Alaska to the native inhabitants of Hydaburg, an Indian village on Prince of Wales Island. 750 square miles of the Arctic slope, for use by the Eskimos of Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska. . The offers are contingent upon the natives resigning all claims to other Alaska lands tecause of past. NATIVES MUST APPROVE The Alaskan natives must ap- prove the creation of the reserva- tions in an election for the plan to become effective. The reservations admittedly rep- resent only a small part of the :and claimed by the Indians. In the case of the 360 inhabitants Hydaburg, Krug said: “I realize that, to accept the offer made today-these Indians will have to trim to one-ninth the land they sought for their use, but I belizve they will wisely choose to do so. “Every passing year will make it more difficult for them and for the government adequately to protect their way of life otherwise.” WITHHOLDS OIL The offer of the Arctic slope to the Barrow Eskimos withholds from them any petroleum that might be found in the area. It includes for use by the natives a coal deposit which the Eskimos are now working and upon which of ‘they depend for fuel. Krug sald the actions wire taken on petitions by ‘the Barrow Eski- mos and the Hydaburg Indians, | after studies and hearings com- plezed months ago. He said the Barrow reservation would not affegt or supersede exist- ing rights or claims in the area, the Naval Petroleum Reserve estab- lished in 1923, or other small War, Department and Civil Aeronautics Administration reserves at Point Barrow. “The Barrow land-use withdrawal will protect the shore line of Peard Bay and Dease Inlet as bases for the Eskimoes from which to hunt whale, walrus and seal, on which they are particularly dependent,” Krug said. CAN CONTROL LIQUOR “It will help them under their own village government to control the liquor traffic in their area, and it will safeguard the coal which they must have to heat theif homes. “The reserve does not include all the hinterland that the Eskimoes use for hunting and trapping, nor all the area that they requested. “But I feel this action is fuily justified and that it must be taken now to avoid careless displacement of these people by casual inter- ference with their complex hunting and fishing way of Arctic life.” Threre are 385 Eskimoes at Bar- TOW. WARNE RECOMMENDS Assistant Secretary William ‘Warne in recommending the action to Krug said, “It is critically im. portant to the nation that we main- tain a settlement at Barrow and occupy the land. “Only the Eskimos actually live; in and ocupy this Arctic regmn,; and they must be protected to pre- serve them and their way of life there. « “They are a fine, loyal and hardy people. This action will safeguard them.” Of the Hydaburg reservation, Warne said that although there has been “relatively little outside pressure” on native settlements, the development of a Southeast Alaska pulp industry will affect natives in the future. “If these people are to be secure, they must, have protegtion in the form of a recognized land base,” occupancy or use for generations | Warne said. “Near Ketchikan, the history knd e | development of two villages that have already felt the pressure of economic development are illumi- nating. L) “«One, Metlakatla, has been pro- L3 tected since 1886 by a reserve, An- o ;nette Island, and it -prospers and o : its people are a credit to Alaska. wThe other, Kasaan, is unpro- o | tected and is dying tragically. e| “Hydaburg needs the protection o | now offered. It is a strong villege e ' today and can be kept so if the o land hase is accepted.” minimum 34. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with inter- mittent .rain occasionally mixed with snow tonight and Friday. Low temperature to- night about 35 and high about 40. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.01 inches; since July 1—48.13 inches. At Airport—.02 inches; since July 1—33.12 inches. e 2 0 9 % 0 0 0 o 90000000000 0000000000 HONOR FOR | MacARTHUR ~ PROPOSED \Would Be Placed in Com mand of American | Policy in Far East i‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—#-—Seny: ator H. Alexander Smith (R-NJi proposed toeday that General Do las MacArthur be placed in ¢ mand of American policy throu out the far east. 3 Smith said he is convinced after talking to MacArthur in Tokyo' tha&t, the general—while he didn’t say Isc—would be willing to accept this breader responsibility. MacArthur believes, the Senator added, that the United States 1§ neglecting events in Asia “that may well ke the decisive factor as to whether there will be a world war IIL” Smith gave his. views in an in-] terview and later to a news coms ference in releasing a report on his’ recent trip to the Orient as a mem- ber of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He told a reporter that MacAr- thur is the one man who could glve' unity and direction to American policies in the far east. Smith also urged an immediate move to encourage economic and | political reforms in the areas out- side Communist control. Smith said that Chiang kai-Shek, inow directing the battle against 'Red China from the new Nationalist ;capxml of Chengtu, has a burning determination to return to power as a leader of a free China. I RAPE - SLAYER IS | SENTENCED, DEATH FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 1—®— Franklin Click, 25-year-old father of five children, was sentenced to{ death today in the electric chair | i for the rape-slaying of Phyllis Co- nine, 17-year-old high school girl. An Allen county grand jury re-! turned a first degree murder ver-! dict at 3:42 a.m. after considering the case all night. Judge William Schannen was aroused from Led and he came to the court room and immediately sentenced the celery farm worker to die next March 27 in the Michigan City, Ind., state prison. Click's wife was in the court room. Click smiled and seemed re- lieved. He drank a cup of coffee in his cell and went to sleep im-; mediately. { Click also is under indictment in two other sex murders, |CITY COUNCIL MEETS AT 8 P.M. TOMORROW i Juneau City Council will meet in regular session tomorrow night at| 8 o'clock in the Council Chambers | of City Hall. Liquor license applications 1950 will be considered by Council, C. L. Popejoy, City. Clerk, said today. * Also to be discussed are city traf- fic code and automobile license and |Lax laws Committee reports will also be ‘heard, Popejoy said. i0 RUSSIANS ON TRIAL, SARAJEVO, SPYING CHARGES By Associated Press At Sarajevo, Yugoslavia began its [trial of 10 Russians accused of spy- ing for the Soviet Union. The court announced of 12 originally sched- uled to appear two were absent. The statement said ‘one of the accus- ed hanged himself after denying his guilt. Another defendant was too ill to appear. The trial is Premier Marshal Tito's latsst thornprick in the side of Russia and his first sally since the Russian-led Cominform called upon Communists to step up the squeeze-play on Yugoslavia. In the United Nations Assembly Russia is expected to roar back at Yugoslavia, which has charged the Soviet Union with leading a cam- paign to oust Tito. The Yugoslav spockesman predicted in a UN speech yesterday that the Comin- form’s plot against the Yugoslav regime would fail, for the | I HAINES VISITOR i George Meacock of Haines 'stopping at the Gastineau Hotel 4 is ‘| company, MEMLER ASSOCIATED PRES S PRICE TEN CENTS COAL MINERS | 60 ON 3-DAY WEEK DEC. 5 Lewis Authorizes Making Separate Contracts - Na- tional Policy Abandoned NEW YORK, Dec. 1—®-—John L. Lewis today reinstated the three day work week in hard and soft coal mines across the country be- b . *{ginning Monday December 5. 3 The work-week will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, as it was all summer. Lewis authorized the making of separate contracts with each coal abandoning the recent policy of striving for nationwide contracts. 3 The policy was approved by the 200-man United Mine Workers § Committee which has been stand- ing by here all week and which | allowed a truce to expire at mid- night without moving to stop a new walkout. Lewis called in réporters to the policy committee meeting on tie mezzanine floor of the Hotel Roose- velt and had copies of the resolu- tion distributed. He said: 4 “The resolution speaks for itsell and there will be no amplification.” Lewis’ first mention of making a three-day work week was at the UMW convention a year ago. He said then that employment in the industry should be stabilized “and if there is three days work, well| all work three days.” ‘ “All Together” “If we are going to starve, we'll £ 'w!*]‘ W B rades the lower left. is the smouldering Dallas Aviation School building. took the lives of 28 of 46 persons aboard the plane. (# Wirephoto. i [ONEY LACK PREVENTS §. E. DEFENSEWORK Twining Says "“First Things First”” When Mayor, Ellis Ask Military Setup It is physicaily impossible at pre- sent to nxpand defenses in South- cast Alaska because “the dollar governs,” according to Lieut. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chief of the Alaska Command. General Twining made this dec- laration in answer to pleas Ly Mayor Waino Hendrickson of Ju- neau and Robert Elils, represent- i ing the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, that airfields, roads, and other military facilities be allocated to the “panhandle.” The closed discussion of military and government leaders being held in the Senate Chambers was opened temporarily to allow the two men to present views of this portion of Alaska. “First things must come first,” the General said. “We must pay attention to key spots now—the No. 1 points—which is the primary aspect of our defense setup Things will happen here eventually, but the dollar won't stretch now. We're rot doing too well in locations we i\ are working on now.” An airview of wreckage on the edge of Love Field, Dallas, Texas, cansed by the crash of an American Airliner DC-6 as it approached for a landing. The Magnaflux plant which the plane first hit is at Pieces of the plane can be seen. Across the street The crash all strave together,” he told 3,000 Cincinnati. Last July 1, Lewis scrapped his | “no-contract, no-work” policy by;si 500 ooo : operation-, and extended the old r 4 ’ | agreement. | " i 1On September 19 the miners’ FOR ROADS { inf a “no-day work week.” Lewis authorized anthracite miners, chief- | ly in easfern Pennsylvania, and soft I“ AlASKA\ coal miners west of the Mississip- 1 pi, to return to work but the 380,- | _ 000 other soft coal miners stayed . i ! on strike until Lewis and his policy | WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—#—Sums committee called a truce November apportioned to states from the $20,- | 9, Lewis' strategy is n the form of 000,000 in federal aid funds’ avail- a compromise because it keeps the able for improvement of highways delegates to that convention in putting the three-day week into walked out saying they were start- | !coal miners at work before Christ- in national forests were announc- mas, thus reducing the threat of a ed today. revolt among the coal diggers who The funds, for use in fiscal 1951, have been reported in several stat- which begins next July 1, are to 3s to be grumbling about meager be distributed to 40 states, Alaska earnings this year. and Puerto Rico by the Commerce ————— e Department’s Bureau of Publie Roads. E'GH'I' ORIEN'I'AI.S Alictments for fiscal 1951 include: , Oregon $2,753,489; Washington | » 1$1,391,825; Alaska $1,500,000. i CONVICTEDBEING =~ ——— SPIES FOR U. S. "KIRING" | U §. HALLIS | | TOKYO, Dec. 1.—®—The Peiping | SA(RED DE(lARES Communist radio tonight said eis™it 4 : | Orlentals had been convicted in| / HEAR'"G w"“Ess‘ Mukden of spying for the United ! States. | Their convictions and subsequent prison sentences were regorted to ~SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—®—A former be responsible for the expulsicn of member of the Marine Cooks and the American Consulate staff in Steward’s Union (CIO) testified at Mukden headed by Angus Ward, 8 NLRB hearing yesterday that he Ward himself was convicted by a Would be afraid to ship to sea with- Mukden Red Court of beating a Out clearance frem the union. coolie. The American State Depart- The witness, M. R.. McMonagle, ment said the charge was a frame- aid he would fear for his safety up. “if he did. The radio said the eight were The is on hearing a National sentenced on Nov. 26 to prison|Labor Relations Board complaint. | terms ranging from two to six It charges the unfon and numerous | years. One of the defendants was ShiP owners with unfair labor prac a Chinese-American. tices. It is based on charges of dis- The eight, said the radio, were Crimination brought by the rival| accused of trylng to set up a “se- | Pacific Marine Stewards’ Union cond Manchukuo” for the United (AFL). States. | McMonagle testified carlier that |he had been denied employment (Ap"Al OF (HlNA.fl the Alaska Steamship Company | |office and referred to the union (By the Associated Press) ' hiring hall. The company attorney drew from The weary and confused Nation- alist government of China set up| him on cross-examination the com- {“job off the dock” even if it were | shop in Chengto today. Observers | offered “because the' hiring hall is sacred to the union.” CHAPMAN SUPPORTS STATEH0OD Delegate Says New Secre- fary of Interior to Boost Issue 2 By Charles D. Watkins WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—(®—Os- car L. Chapman, new Secretary of the Interior, has sald he is ready partment to attain statehood for Aleska and Hawaii next year. Delegate Bartlett of Alaska says that he had lunch with Chapman and the new Seceretary told him he was ready to “pull out all the stops” to try to get Congress to vote statehood for the territories next year, Bartlett quoted Chapman as say- ing he had conferred with Pre- sident Truman just before the Ex- ecutive left for Florida and that Mr. Truman reaffirmed his desire to_kring both Haiwaii and Alaska to statehood. The administration’s stand on statehood also was reaffirmed by William Boyle, Jr., Democratic Na- tional Chairman, at a conference | Tuesday with Victor C. Rivers, {memker of the Alaska Senate and iChmrmfin of the Territorial Demo- leratic Central Committee, Bartlett said. “Secretary Chapman,” Bartlett continued, “believes that much gpecial legislation relating to Al- aska, alwayy difficult to enact since it is likely to be suborinated to pressure on Congress to consider national affajrs, will be unnecessary if statehood becomes a fact. “Chapman is a realist. He knows statehood will fhot cure every last little ailment but he knows too it will do more than any other one thing to put Alaska on the road to ment that he would not accept | progress.” Both Alaska and Hawaii state- hood bills have been approved by the House Public Lands Committee. They now are in the hands of the to devote the resources of the De- ¢ predicted the newest refugee capi- tal would last only a month, Chiang Kai-shek has taken over leadership of the Nationalist forces again. Chungking, the previous, capital, fell to the advancing Reds yesterday. | Chengtu is only 170 miles from | Chungking. The Communist armies previously drove the Nationalists| from capitals set up at Nanking and Canton. STOCK QUOTATIOHS NEW YORK, Dec. 1—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stcck today is 3%, American Can 98'2, Araconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 50, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 12%, U. 8 Steel 24%, Pound $2.80. KETCHIKAN GUEST ! H. G. Fairhurst of Ketchikan is’ visiting at the Gastineau Hotel. Sales today were 1,470,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 19274, rails 49.26, util- ities 39.40. | Rules Committee, which would not ’cleflr them for a House vote this | year, | FROM HAINES | John J. Schnabel of Haines is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. o0 0o o 0 v o ° . TIDE TAB | . . . l L LE DECEMBER 2 Low tide 5:33 am., 44 ft. High tide 11:45 am., 162 ft. Low tide 6:20 pm, 08 ft. ® e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 “PULLING VACUUM" Hendrickson said this area fecls itself “in more or less of a vacuum” while military expansion goes on n the Interior. He said he felt Eoutheast Alaska would benefit and progress if more active support was rgiven for harbor improvements, dredging operations and a' road program. ) “Very little has been done here,” he said, “ - tion expansion. - Our watérwa,s aren't developed, and water is our road, we are told when we ask for more roads. “It is time for a secondary pro- gram to begin here now—during peacetime,” he continued, “we need help along with the Interior. Our eirfields are too far apart to allow air fighters—which are short range | —to operate here. We need fields which jets could operate from.” General Twining said the . mili- tary would endorse a program of expansion for the panhandle, in answer to a direct request from | Hendrickson that endorsement be made. The mayor pointed out that a peacetime program would aid the military in event of war. WANTS “EXCESS” Ellis, who introduced himself as a commander in the naval reserve and revlewed his wartime service in Alaska, asked that air facilities ke “put in excess” of present needs, ir. order to be ready for any emer- gency. “If the military would push for roads, civilians would Etenefit,” he ,faid. “The Coast Guard should have more planes and ships—a stronger Natlonal Guard should be formed—port facilities should be appraised and a program built up for them.” He also asked for a strong steam- ship service, and stronger air services. Although he disclaimed representation of his Ellis AT Lines serving this coast, he laugh- ingly said: i anvils—we'll carry the passengers.” He asked for a stronger naval reserve program, pointing out the finest seamen in the world live in Alaska. He said 50-man bases should be established, rather .than attempt the 200-man base used in the States. COMPLIMENTS ACS A Civil Aeronautics Authority traffic control in excess of present needs should be established, he said. He complimented the Alaska Communication System for having come “a long way” since the war, and said that it too should be en; larged beyond present needs. . Kenneth J. Kadow, chief of the Alaska Field Comppittee and co~ chajrman with General Twining of the conference, told Hendrickson and Ellis that their ideas had al- 1eady been discussed by the meet- ing, tut the question of “how to do " (Continued on ruge 2) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Baranof from west scheduled southbound Sunday afternoon cr evening. 1 s “We need steamers to carry the °