The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,369 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” + JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1949 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e More Developments in Russ Shipment Expose SCHRIMPFUP FORTHIRDDAY BRIDGES' (ASE Cross - Examination Goes| On-Three Witnesses in Four Weeks SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6—®— Henry Schrimpf, second ex-Com- munist called as a government wit- ness in the perjury trial of Harry Bridges, faced a third day of cress- examination today. Bridges, President of the CIO Longshoremen's and Warehouse- men’s Union, is accused of perjury for testifying in his 1945 naturali- zetion hearing that he was never a Communist. Schrimpf, longshore walking toss and political opponent of Bridges in the union, has testified Bridges was active in Communist party councils in the 1934 maritime strike. He has not testified he knew Bridges was a Communist. Defense attorney James M. Mac- Innis sought yesterday to tear| down Schrimpf's testimony that Communists met in great secrecy during the maritime strike to plan strike strategy. He asked if Sam Darcy, head of District 13 of the Communist party, | appeared openly before the strike | committee and offered the services | ot the Western Worker, the Com- munist party paper. | Schrimpf have. MacInnis asked if Elaine Black, a representative of the International Lator Defense, “a direct branch of the Communist party,” also ap- peared and offered its services. “That could very possibly be true,” Schrimpf said, “certainly the Communists were out to rule the trade union movement.” Later the witness testified: | “Conservatives on the strike com- mittee were very cautious about accepting aid from the Communist part.” Schrimpf couldn't recall who these conservatives were. The fourth week of Bridges' trial opened yesterday. Two union asso- ciates, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, also are on trial charged with conspiracy to defraud the| government in their testimony at Bridges' naturalization hearing. In the four weeks of trial, unlyi three witnesses have been heard. | Defense attorney James MacInnis | today got before a Federal Jury his version bf what caused the tiff conceded he = might (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round | Bv DREW PEARSON Copvright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'ASHINGTON—Recent revolu- tion and rioting in Latin America | has pointed up what the American | public has long dimly realized,! namely that while we are fighting Communism in Europe, we are los- ing out to Fascism at our own front door. Panama, which surrounds the most important waterway in the world so far as the United States is concerned, is now in the hands of a dictator, Arnulfo Arias, who had roots in Germany and Italy during the days of Hitler and Mus- solini. Just before - Pearl Harhor, we considered him such a menace; the United States helped to euchre | him out of the Presidency. In Columbia, a country equally vital to the strategic waterway which links east-west shipping, the bloodiest riots in history have been taking place. Approximately 1,000 people have been killed, and a Fas- | cist Party, deliberately aided and abetted by Dictator Franco oti Spain, has instituted such terror that it was impossible to hold two- way elections. While U. S. Senators have been! guzzling Dictator Franco’s lush| wines in Madrid, Franco has been| pulling the rug right out from un- der us. Policy in one of the most important countries in the Pan American Union. Months ago Laureano Gomez, now the Colombian strong man, went to Madrid and arranged with Franco to have his shock falange| forces smuggled into Colombia dis-| e o Dog Pound. The kitten is a new photo. Palsy» Walsy_h This kitten and the pigeon have become buddies at the Clifton, N. J., brought in by Dog Warden Tommy Stefano several weeks ago with a broken wing, has made itself friendly with all variety of cats by a simple method: the pigeon picks fleas out of the cats’ fur. ® Wire- comer to the pound. The pigeon, CHENGTU JITTTERY: REDS NEAR By Asscciated Press Political chaos appeared to be enveloping what was left of Nat- ionalist China today as Communist armies neared Chengtu, the refugee capital. In the jittery city, there was a resume the Presidency. In Hong Kong President Li Tsung-Jen or- dered Nationalist officials at Cheng- tu to carry on under his orders. Li is flying to the United States for a month and said he would telegraph his instructions. Meanwhile Communist armies ap- proached within 90 miles of Cheng- tu. Nationalists were offered a face- saver. The delegation has been urged not to press its demand that UN members commit themselv- es to non-recognition of the Com- munist regime. The face-saver for the National- ists was introduced by Cuba, Ecua- dor and Peru. It would refer the Chinese case to the year-around little assembly for “continuous ex- amination and study.” The little assembly would report its findings to the General Assembly in the autumn of 1950 . Non-Communist nations, - despite their sympathies, have made it clear they believe Nationalist China is on the ropes. Several nations including the British commonwealth group are expected to extend a form of recognition to the Communists soon. The U. S. State Department’s chief trouble-shooter, Dr. Phillip K. Jessup is leaving for China this month to make a %ast-minute sur- vey of America's far east diplo- matic problems in view of the mili- tary victories of the Chinese Com- munists who are now reported within 90 miles of the Indochina border. 'SHAH OF IRAN DUE 10 VISIT IN SUN VALLEY, IDA, SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Dec. 6—(® —His Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Iran, will spend five days here, starting Wednesday, officials at this resort announce. They said the Shah, now in Cali- fornia, will wind up his nationwide tour here before returning to Washington for departure to Iran. Good skiing ‘snow blankets here, resort officials reported. They said the Shah would be flown to Gooding in President Truman’s plane and would be taken from Gooding to the resort by car. FROM GUSTAVUS Otis Creasman of Gustavus is (Continued on Page Four) l.stopping at the Baranof Hotel. { Edmund Clubb In the United Nations the Chinesei Boulder Basin, 16 miles north of. WARD LEAVES MUKDEN WITH CONSUL STAFF | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—P—| }'Angus ‘Ward reported today that 'he and his American Consulate; staff have arranged to leave Muk- den at 3:45 am., Wednesday (11:45 | am., PST today). Atout 23 members of the Con- expelled with Ward by the Com- munists, are expected to board a| train for the 700-mile trip to the | North China port of Tientsin. 1 Ward's latest report was tele-| phoned to U.S. Consul General O. { killed Buchanan | W. Trout, 32, principal at Rockport | Vernon | the Rev. Fr. J. P. Brennan ascribed could hear his bubbling breath. 1 noisy clamor for Chiang kai-Shek to | sulate staff and their dependents,| ¥: bt e SCHOOL HEAD KILLS EX-WIFE, MT. VERNON, Wash., Dec. 6—# —A grade school principal shot and his attractive ex-wife and her fiance, then fatally wounded himself late yesterday in the partly furnished bungalow the couple was preparing for their marriage. The victims were Mrs. Betty Trout, 27; William A. O'Loane, 24, a flying instructor and Mrs. Trout's fiance; and John grammar school, 40 miles up the Skagit river from here. kon Territory, in 1925. He attended High School at Fairbanks, Alaska, and was an Air Force gunner dur- ing the war. He has been in Mount since the war. Trout was a native of Girard, Kansas. Officers said his parents still live there. Police Chief Don Landreth and the shooting to Trout's inability to effect a reconciliation with his former wife. They had been di- vorced in June, 1948. The bodies were discovered vhy‘ L. F. Buchanan, a prominent Mt. Vernon real estate man and father of Mrs. Trout. He said he and his wife returned from a shopping trip to their home | next door to the cottage. Mrs. Trout’s son, Terry, 3, was in the living room. i “Mommy go bang-bang,” the ter- ror-stricken youngster cried. Buchanan rushed next door and found toth his daughter and O'Loane dead. | “It only took one look at Trout to tell that he was still alive” Buchanan told newsmen later. “I thought I was going to kill him. I picked up the gun and looked at! it. T wanted to kill him, ! “But I finally put the gun down.| It was just a little gun.” in Peiping and re- layed to the State Department. The group of 13 American offi-| cials and their families were under | Communist orders to quit thej Manchurian capital by 8 am Wed- | nesday Mukden time. All have been yirtual prisoners for more than a year. Ward and four of his aides were recently jailed for a month. SHIP- GOES FOR WARD KOBE, Japan, Dec. 6—(--The freighter Lakeland Victory will sail tomorrow for Taku Bar off Tientsin to pick up Consul General Angus, Ward and 27 other Americans. { Capt® Paul R. Sexton of Palc Alto, Calif., Master of the Lake- land Victory, said the latest infor- mation was that 15 men, nine women and four children, one a baby, will be in the Ward party. The vessel will stop briefly in Pusan, Korea, and is due at Taku Bar Sunday or Monday. The ship will anchor about 15 miles off shore in Communist waters. BRIG. GEN, GAFFNEY LEAVING ALASKA:; TO 60 10 FLORIDA BASE FAIRBANKS, Dec. F(M,Brig.l Gen. Dale V. Gaffney was to leave | here today for his new post as Deputy Commanding General of the Air Forces Proving Ground Com- mand at Eglin Field, Fla. Commander of the Ladd Alr Force Base here since June, 1948, Gaffney will be succeeded by Col. John R. Kane, Ladd Chief of Staff under the departing General. FORMER FBI CHIEF | IN ALASKA NOW AT HONOLULU BUREAU HONOLULU, Dec. 6—®—Clinton Stein, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Anchorage, Alaska, for the last two years, ar- rived yesterday to take over the Burgau here. He replaces John K. Mumford, who has been assigned to head the FBI's Alabam and North married Jan. 9, 1950. NO SUCCESSOR T0 LILIENTHAL “UNTIL NEXT YEAR, 6—(P— KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. The White House said today that s President Truman will delay ap- pointing a successor to David E. Lilienthal until after Congress re- convenes in January. Lilienthal has promised to stay! on the job briefly as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission if any “pending work requires it” after his resignation becomes effec- tive at the end of the year. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters: “The President will not make any appointment before Congress | meets. Mr. Lilienthal doesn’t leave until January 1.” Meantime, Presidential advisors came thick and fast today to swim with President Truman and help him dfaft all-important messages to Congress. They left the Chief Executive with a personal housing problem. And no Navy man under the rank of Captain felt secure in his berth as bunks were provided for the incoming guests. ROVING DOGS PROVE DANGER IN FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Dec. 6—(®—Roving packs of dogs have aroused Fair- banks residents this week. There's plenty of sympathy for them. But | no dog catcher. Nobody wants the | FIANCE, SELF forthcoming | | O'Loane was born in Mayo, Yu- | The Mt., Vernon flying instructor | e and Mrs. Tfout were to have been | 4 SMUGGLING | Refurn Sares | % | B in London. The quads, who were 13 months old on Nov. 12, are (left Robert. (# Wirephoto. e |0RDAN "RAISED = HELL" COMMENTS | | . CINCINNATT, Dec. 6—(#—Lt. Col. |J. D. McParland of Cincinnati, ! former engineering officer for the W' Alaskan division, Air Transport Cemmand, said in an interview here today that former Maj. George Racey Jordan ‘“raised considerable hell” over shipments of uninspected cargoes to Russians from the air base at Great Falls, Mont. Jordan has claimed atomic bomb secrets and materials wcre.hhipped to Russia in 1944 and 1945. Col. McFarland, who said, he visited the Montana field “almost I cvery two weeks” declared he did not know whether Jordan's pro- | tests had anything to do with his l_xramler from the base. | “There was an uproar at Great [ Falls about letting cargoes go | through without inspection,” Col. {{ McFarland said. “But the Russians wanted no U.S. Army control over || their shipments and every time ] there was a hot dispute, they tele- ,;phonod direct to Washington—and { won.” He | 1 | | ‘MISS SWEDEN"' —Kerstin Ringberg (above), 24, relaxes at a coast resort after being chosen “Miss Sweden” for the 1949 “Miss Europe” compe- {}Aons at Palermo, Italy. emphasized he had never {I heard the names oi former Vice- /1 President Henry Wallace or the late Harry Hopkins mentioned in copnection with the shipments. Col. McFarland declared he knew Jordan “very well,” had seen his diary in which Jordan recorded incidents of uninspected Russian shipments. He expressed belief that Jordan “can substantiate everything Le's said.” OF ALIENS IS (RACKED| WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—(P—The Justice Department reported today it has cracked a Havana-Miami alien-smuggling operation and s rounding up 26 aliens slipped into this country since September. Attorney General McGrath an- nounced the arrest of two Grand Rapids, Mich., men in Miami, They are accused of flying the aliens into this country. The accused men are Gaylord Saxton and Charles Cramton, both BEING WASHED OUT UMATILLA, Ore, Dec. 6—(M—- Gold is being washed out of the sands of the Columbia River—But it's only a by-product of a $227,- 000,000 operation. The big operation is construc- ® tion of McNary Dam. The gold In addition, McGrath said, threc'minh)g is combined with the pri- of the aliens have been picked up|mary job of mixing sand and gravel in New York City. He added thatifof the dam. the Justice Department hopes toj Col. William J. Ellison of the have the others in custody shortly.!Corps of Engineers, in charge of e — dam building, sald fine flour gold STO(K ouo-I-A"o“S ranging from two to éix mills in 4 each ton of gravel is being reclaim- i i ed. It just about pays the wages of NEW YORK, Dec. 6—Closing quo- {ene of the mixing crew workers. tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock/ E. Goody of Tacoma, Wash today is 3%, American Can 99%,)runs the operation and gets the Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 7%,|gold. But under his contract he International Harvestér 27%, Ken-|gives 10 percent of it to J. G. Shot- job. Feeling mounted when a five-| year-old kindergarten child was| attacked by five dogs. The child was unharmed physically, but the animals tore at the youngster's| Leavy winter clothes. A truck driver | rescued her, Besides the, quandry posed by the scarcity of dog catchers, the city points out there’s no place to put necott 51, New York Central 10%,|well of near-by Hermiston, who Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Sv.eel'pmduces the sand and gravel mix, 25%, Pound $2.80. tand 10 percent to the government. Sales today ‘were 1,430,000 shares,| More than 50 years ago some Averages today are as follows:|gold was panned from the river industrials 194.66, rails 50.71, util-'sands here, but nobody got rich, ities 39.74. SITKA VISITOR FAIRBANKS VISITOR Charles E. Laufer of Fairbanks isi Edward J. Gavell of Sitka is re- Florida district. the dogs, even if they are caught. a guest at the Baranof Hotel. 'gistered at the Baranof Hotel, LT. COL. McFARLAND, H, HIl GOLD NOW|’ ON COLUMBIA RIVER|"ORMEX The unabashed Taylor quads of England return the stares of a spectators at the Mothercraft exhibition to right) Kevin, Annette, Paul and RUSS GOT RADAR " PLANE IN WAR, | NEW YORK, Dec. 6—(#—Former Air Force Major George Racey D.C, in the war. 'the plane’s trip to Russia followed his successful efforts to block at- the radar equipment by ripping it out of four planes at the Great Falls, Mont., air base, The former Air Férce officer touched off a new investigation last Friday. He charged that the Soviets ob- tained uranium products in the war and repeated the accusation before a Congressional committee yester- day. Urnaium is used in making atomic bombs. SPY TRIAL NEARS END (By Assocated Preds) The Yugoslav trial of 10 White Russians accused of spying for the Soviet Union neared its close at Sarajevo. All 10 defendants pleaded partially guilty to joint charges they aided the Nazis during.the war. Verdicts are expected by tomorrow Thursday. , NURSE AT ST. ANN'S IS DEAD Word has been recelved In Ju- ueau of the death ‘in San Mateo, Calif., Nov. 21, of Lt. Commander Mary Lou Brady, U.S. Navy Re- serve Corps, retired. She was a nurse at St. Ann's Hospital here in 1916. She was a member of Seattle Post No. 1, American Legion; Association of Reserve Officers of the FHS; Women’s Overseas Service League ¢t Cleveland; the Commissioned Officers Association, USPHS an@ the Business and Professional Women'’s Club of Cleveland. Funeral services were held in San Mateo and interment was in the Golden Gate National Cemetery. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali in port and scheduled to sail westward about 3:30 or 4 o'clock this afternoon. Princess Norah from Vancouver |due at 7:30 tonight and sails for Skagway at 11:30. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. JORDAN CHARGES| RUSS ATOM FORAGERS “EYE WALLACE Former Vice-President Says 'Sheerest Fabrication’ When Name Brought Up By Douglas B. Cornell i WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—(®—The House un-American Activities Com- mittee eyed former Vice President l!»{enry A. Wallace and many others today in a suddenly revived hunt for people who pushed wartime uranium shipments to Russia. Wallace commented that state- ment that he was involved is false, land part of “an unremitting effort {to tarnish the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Chairman Wood (D-Ga) promised there “isn't going to be any avenue jleft untouched” as the House Com- 'mittee digs into the story that per- ,sons in high places helped Russia iget uranium and atomic informa- tion. | One committee authority said the House probers “will have to call in Wallace sometime” for question- ing. He said Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves will be asked tomorrow whether Wallace used any pressure on him ’to get atomic materials to Russia. i Groves headed the wartime atomic bomb project. { For the sake of the American | people, Wood told reporters, “the story must either be corroborated or disproved.” Much if it is old, particulatly ‘the | Jordan said today a plane with|Part about several 'shipments ' of , secret Army radar equipment sought | Uranium compounds to Russia back ! by Russia reached the Soviet Union|M 1043, by way of Great Falls, | after taking off from Washington,|Mont, and the Alaskan air route. But now big names are being Jordan told a news conference ;Prought into it: Wallace, who was fired from the {Cabinet by President Truman for tempts of the Russians to obtain |siding too much with Russia on international policy, and Harry L. Hopkins, the late intimate and ad- viser of President Roosevelt. More Witnesses And tomorrow Wood's committee of secret material allegedly ob-|wil question Gen. Leslie Groves, tained by the Soviets in a broadcast retired, who ran the wartime atom bomb project. Committee officials said there may be 40 or 50 addition- al witnesses. But there is no indi- cation yet when Wallace might be called. ' Broddcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr., said last night that it was Wallace who “ordered the atomic materials sent to Russia” over Groves' objections. “Sheerest fabrication,” Wallace retorted from New York. It waz a former Air Force Major, George Racey Jordan, who brought Hopkins’ name into the atomic tale. He did it first in a broad- cast with Lewis Friday night and again in testimony to the committee yesterday. His charges were called “outrage- ous” last night by Mrs. PFranklin D. Roosevelt, widow of the Presi- dent. “I cannot imagine Mr. Hopkins trying to hurt his country when he literally killed himself for it,” she said when asked for comment. “1 have never met or heard of Mr. Jordan, but if you look far enough you will find someone who will find fault with anyone. Information Exchanged “I can believe, however, that Mr. Hopkins exchanged certain infor- mation with Russia, as they were doing with us, but certainly not without full knowledge of our mili- tary leaders. Mr. Hopkins cannot fight back. He is dead.” While he was stationed at the Great Falls Air Base during the war, Jordan said, Hopkins told him personally by telephone to hurry up atomic shipments to Russia and keep quiet about it. The son and numerous former assoclates of the wartime lend- lease administrator scoffed at Jor- dan’s story. Louis J. Russell, Senior Investigator for the K House com- mittee, said he knows of no evi- dence involving Hopkins in the at- omic shipments. Wood told reporters “the whole thing could be cleared up quickly and easily” if President Truman would cancel an order that keeps Congressional Committees from lay- ing hands on personnel files of past land present government employees. “I understand,” he said, “a re- |solution may be introduced in the !House to deprive the President of