The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,371 New Evidence Given in Bridges CHINA FLEES, T0 FORMOSA; REDS CONTROL Nationalists Set Up Fifth Capital-Guerrilla Forces l Stay on Mainland ! By Spencer Moosa CHENGTU, Dec. 8—(®—The Na- tionalists shifted their capital to Formosa today and virtually aban- doned most of the mother country to the Reds. The sweeping move was decreed by the cabinet. It could mean end of large scale warfare in China after 22 hectic years. Guerrilla forces were left behind to keep pecking at the Reds. But the main Chinese force was in or | headed for Sichang, behind Si-; kan’s snow covered mountains, on Formosa, or Hainan Island, 300 miles southwest of British Hong | Kong. | Formosa is Generalisimo Chiang, kai-Shek’s stronghold which has been armed and equipped for al last ditch stand against victorious Chinese Communists. The emergency cabinet session also decided to make Sichang, in Sikang Province west of Chengtu, general headquarters for operations on the mainland. The cabinet accepted the resig- nation of Gen. Chang Chun from the post of Director of southwest} China headquarters. Gen. Ku Chu Tung, was given this job in addi- tion to his present duties as chief of staff. [ Two Guerrillas Generals Hu tsung-Nan and Yang Sen were named deputy directors. Two guerrilla forces to operate under southwest headquarters were established. The commander of the first force is General Wang tsang- Shu. The commander of the second is Gen. Tang shih-Tseng. i This would indicate Nationalist | operations on the mainland will be resolved into organized guerrilla warfare. Such a step virtually is a Nationalist admission they have lost the China mainlond. It does not, however, mean they have lost completely the great war against the Reds which has beeni going on since 1927. The Nationalists evidentally hope they will be able to consolidate their remaining forces and conquer the Communists in the same way as the Reds beat them. Premier Yen hsi-Shan flew im- mediately to Taiph, which thus (Continued on Page 2) The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1939, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—When Sen. E. Thomas of Oklahoma wrote a let- ter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson last fall wanting a special Air Force plane to carry a Sen- ate Appropriations Subcommittee through Europe, someone in John- son’s office at first questioned the expenditure. This caused the Senator from Oklahoma to challenge the use of government airplanes by Secretary Johnson, Vice President Barkley and other brass hats, with the re- sult Johnson pulled in his horns, and Senator Thomas got the plane —plus six crew members. Now that Senator Thomas and “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” KA \ EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Mother of Twins—At 14 — ¥ Mrs. Pauline Kurlin, 14, is pictured in a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital with her twin sons, William (left) weighed 5 pounds and Wayne tipped the scales at four and one- 19. ® Wirephoto. half pounds. The proud father is PWA OFFICIALS EXPECT REQUESTS FOR $45,000,000 Applications in the next two months for Federal aid under the Alaska Public Works Act probably will total about $45,000,000, it was estimated today by Arthur D. Mor- rell, Deputy Commissioner of the Community Facilities Service which is administering the measure. Morrell will know more definitely after his two-week trip to Anchor- age, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, on which he was to leave this after- noon. He will discuss details of proposed projects, CFS group have done with officials of Juneau, Douglas, Petersburg, and Pelican City and other municipali- ties while here. “We expect applications from every incorporated town in Alaska and from most of the public utili- ties districts, as well as large number of independent school districts,” Morrell said shortly be- fore koarding a PNA plane this afternoon. ELIGIBLE PROJECTS “Applications on behalf of the Territory probably will “include those for a number of school pro- jects, and we have been told that the Health Department and the| Aeronautics and Communications Commission also have eligible pro- jects. “So far,” continued Morrell, “the major types of public works sought are schools, sewerage and water systems, and small boats hartors. These are the most numerous re- quested, although not necessarily the largest in terms of dollars in- volved.” GREATER APPROPRIATION With $1,000,000 in cash and $4,- 000,000 in contract authorization as a starter for the 1050 fiscal year which will end next June, work in the next few months will barely scratch the surface, accord- ing to Morrell. However, he believes that the great number of applications for essential services will be effective Colleagues have toured Europe supposedly on official business—it appears that Secretary Johnson's first impulse was right. He could have stuck to his guns. For the chief results of the Thom- as junket are an overdose of hos- pitality in Spain, and underdose of hospitality in Sweden — thereby bringing bitter complaints from Senator Thomas—and the general impression left upon Europe that U. S. Senators are ignoramuses. To illustrate why Europeans got this impression, here is an inter- view published by the highly re- liable Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune: “We saw the French Defense Minister today,” Senator Thomas told the press, to illustrate the fact that his committee was in Europe to see how the American taxpayers’ money was being spent. “He showed ! (Continued on Foun i (Continued on Page 2) Gold in Them Idaho Hills Assays $4,502 Per Ton, They Say WALLACE, Idahe, Dec. 8—(®— Location notices were filed here Tuesday on a North Idaho gold claim from which a specimen re- portedly ran 128.64 ounces of gold to the ton. That amount of gold[today is 3%, American Can 99%,| would btring $4,502 at the current from al NEW TURN, SPY TRIAL, \One Bulgariani Pleads " Guilty, Another Refracts Confession Made (By the Associated Press) Another: former Bulgarian Com- as he and the ymunit jeader pleaded guilty today | Calif, to anti-state activities before a people’s court in Sofia. But the trial is not running true to form. Yesterday the former No. 2 Bul- carian Communist, Traicho Kos- tov, repudiated his earlier- confes- | sion that he spied for British in- Itelhgence. worked for Premier | Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and be- Itrayed the Communists. ‘The retraction of Kostov, a former Dgputy Premier, reportedly shocked the court. It looked like the first t‘me in history anyone had ever dared to change their admission into a denial in a Soviet satellite spy trial. The Kostov repudiation was re- ported by Peter Burchett, corre- spondent of the London Daily Ex- press and Tass, the official Russian | news agency. The latest guilty plea was uttered by Nikola Nachev, a former Deputy Construction Minister. Altogether, 11 former leaders are on trial. All are charged with treason and spy- ing. Former Finance Minister Ivan Stefanov yesterday pleaded guilty. The trial is similar to one re- cently held in Hungary, another Soviet satellite nation. A Yugoslay regime spokesman said recently the trials are a Soviet attempt to build a case against the Tito government as & forerunner of aggression. The * spokesman said the Bulgarian trials 'had been postponed for awhile be- cause Kostov was not quite sure of his lines of confession for the trial about to be “staged.” BUREAL S HERRONS GO SOUTH D. W. Herron, of the fiscal of- fice, Trewsury Department, and Mrs. Herron, left for the south via PAA yesterday. He is on an extend- ed vacation . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 7, INSOFIA AIRLINER IS FOUND WRECKED Coast Guard Pilot Reports| | Scene of Missing Plane | —No Sign of life SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8~(®— ‘Wreckage of a missing commercial airliner with seven /aboard Wwas | sighted from the air today by a U. 8. Coast Guard 'search plane. The pilot, Lt. Jerry Rea, reported | |by radio that the wreckage was four miles southeast of Napa antl a direct line between the two cities. This is 40 miles northeast of San | Francisco. The Coast Guard pilot reported | | that he could see no signs of life about the plane. There were four | passengers and three crewmen on board when the plane disappeared in a rain storm last night on a flight from Oakland to Sacramento. | A search for the missing Calif- ornia Arrow Airlines plane began | last night after it failed to reach its destination. | | NINE BODIES RECOVERED | VALLEJO, Calif., Dec. 8—(P— The bodies of six adults and three children have been recovered from the wreckage of an airliner, a | ground party radioed. The radio was intercepted by the | Benicia Police Department, Chiet | of Police Vincent Warren of Ben- icia said. The ground crew said the plane had not burned but the| wreckage was spread over a wide, | area. | At Burbank, Calif., the Civil Aero- nautics Board listed these passen- gers aboard the plane: James 8. Garnett, pilot. Meade Dillon, co-pilot. Susan Devore, stewardess. { Mrs. George Batchelor and son, | Pat, Torrance. | { Mrs. Mirian Kimball, 23, Pasa-j dena, Calif., and her sons, Leland | {111, 18 months and John Wesley, | six_months, | Vincent N. Figley, Laguna Beach, | | | | WALLACEDID NOT RECEIVE ATOM DATA {Lt. Gen. Groves Preferred| Not fo Give Vice-Presi- dent All Reports | NEW YORK, Dec. 8—(®—Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retired, said today he had withheld from former Vice- President Henry A. Wallace secret ! ‘reports on atomic developments | which normally would have gone to | Wallace. Asked whether there was any | special reason for not showing the |reports to Wallace, the wartime |head of the nation’s atomic bomb | project said “I preferred not to.” | Groves made the statements in a telephone interview from Nor- |walk, Conn. He is a vice president |of Remington Rand. Groves said he showed Wallace one of the reports in the fall of 11943 but none thereafter. | Groves testified yesterday before a subcommittee of the House com- mittee on un-American Activities that neither Wallace nor the late Harry Hopkins used pressure on; him to get atomic secrets for ship- ment to Russia. | Groves gave his answers to ques- itions asked him by an Associated Press reporter. Groves said that he took the report to Wallace’s office and was kept waiting for some time. He said that after showing the report to the Vice President “I made up my | mind that this would be the last time I was going to show him a jabout 10 miles from Fairfield on | > Perjury Discuss Afomic Secrefs Probe Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee discuss in Washington with Chief Investigator Lewis J. Russell (right, front) probe of possible leakage of U. S. atomic secrets to Russia via lend-lease during the war. (D.-Ga.), Burr Harrison (D-Va.) WardParty |ONTRAIL DOUBT IS Is Now Due InTienfsin ! Left Mukdfllednesdays with Food Supplies fo Last Two Days WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—(P—The State Department received advices today indicating that Angus Ward and the American Consulate Group from Mukden may now be at the North China port of Tientsin. A message from the U. S. Consul General at Tientsin gaid the Group’s special train had passed Tangsan. Based on the timing of the mes- sage, State Department officials figured the Ward party of 20 should have arrived in Tietsin about 3 am. (PST) today. The State Department said it had { confirmed through British sources left Mukden on food supply for that the pafty Wednesday with i two days. These reports were the first on the long isolated consulate group since Ward got out word that he expected to be able to leave Muk- den early Wednesday morning, local time. At Taku Bar, downriver from Tientsin, an American merchant ship is to take the Ward party aboard. They will go first to Yoko- hama, Japan. KETCHIKAN VISITOR Charles Barnes of Ketchikan is a guest at the Baranof Hotel DULUTH VISITOR Margaret A. Kreidler of Duluth is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE C. H. Schulze of Seattle is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. ® o o o o ® 9 3 0 WEATHER REPORT (This data Is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 38; minimum 32. At Airport—Maximum 37; minimum 32. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with snow flurries tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature with lowest tonight 33 and highest tomorrow 38. PRECIPITATIONG (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ market. ! International Harvester 28%, Ken- | The claim, identified as the “Old | necott 51, New York Central 10%, Lewie Sam Claim” 20 miles north- { Northers Pacific 13, U. S. steel" east of- Avery, Mont., was filed by |26%, Pound $2.80%. | George Horine of Spokane. Sales today were 1,720,000 shares. He said the assay was made by| Averages today are as follows: Associated Laboratories, in industrials 194.45, rails 5057, util- ities 40.35. the Portland, Ore. l report.” He said that Wallace ™yractically | divorced himself from the atomic project. | City of Juneau—1.44 inches; since Dec. 1—221 inches; since July 1—51.09 inches. At Airport—J58 inches; since Dec. 1—101 inches; [ since July 1—34.31 inches. e o 00 000 0 0 00 SEATTLE GUEST Paul Anderson of Seattle is stop ping at the Baranof Hotel, In group are (left to right) Reps. Francis Walter (D.-Pa.), Chairman John 8. Wood (rear), and Morgan Moulder (D.-Mo), and Russell. (® Wirephoto. RUSS ATOM - SHIPMENTS House Prob&?[aunch Out on Another Slant in Exposed Case WASHINGTON, Dec 8—P— House probers are on the trail oif more wartime atomic shipments to Russia—shipments number 4 and 5 They have reason to believe per- haps 500 pounds of uranium com- pound reached’ the Reds around July of 1944. And they think they may be able to spot proof that the Russians got 1,000 grams of heavy water. The Un-American Activities Com- mittee also js trying to find out t what former lend-lease offi- cials William C. Moore and James P. Hoopes had to do with shipment number two back in the spring of 1943. It wants to know why Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, boss of the atom womb project, was reported to have approved the shipment when Groves said he didn’t. ‘The committee is exploring, too, an idea that the Soviets might kave side-stepped the lend-lease i administration to get some atomic materials elsewhere. EXPLOSION SPLITS But except for some checking on items like these by the committee I'tafl, the latest atomic explosion ‘on Capito! Hill apparently has this “sheerest fabrication.” It was a radio commentator, Ful- iton Lewis, Jr, who said Wallace was the source of pressure Wallace telephoned the commit- tee that “I would like to meet my traducers face-to-face before your just atout subsided until Dec. 19 when the hearing resumes. committee at the earliest possible moment.” Moore, Hoopes, and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace may b witnesses then, 4 ‘Wallace will get a chance to deny under oath what Groves has al- ready denied for him-—that Wal- lace put on pressure and overruled Groves to get atomic materials for the Soviets. Wallace has termel CANADA SHIPPED ATOMS OTTAWA, Dec. 8—(#—Trade minister C. D. Howe said today ithat a shipment of Canadian ura- ium oxide and uranium nitrate | went to Russia in May, 1943. | In a statement to the House of ’Commons. Howe said the shipment was valued at $2445 and made through normal commercial chan- | | nels by Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd., |a private firm which sold its | iContinued on Page 2) EXPRESSED RADAR RUN ‘Non-Stop F@Ef Not Pos- sible, Airman Says~Could Not Pass Up Alaska H ROCHESTER, N.Y, Dec. 8—(P— A war-time commander of the Army Air Base at Nome, Alaska, sald today he didn’'t think it pos- sible for a Russian pilot to have flown U.S. radar equipment to Russia from Washington, as claimed Ly former Air Force Major George Racey Jordan. H Edgar A. Coapman, Lieutenant-Colonel, said: “If a Russian pilot flew a radar- equipped C-47 out of Washington, by-passed Great Falls, Mont., where Jordan was a lend-lease expediter, and made it to Moscow, I never saw him.” Jordan told newsmen In ‘New York Tuesday that he had ripped radar equipment from four Russian- Lound planes that had taken off from Washington but that a fifth hip had by-passed Great Falls. Jordan described one of the Planes that stopped at Great Falls as a C-47. Asked how he knew of the flight, | Jordan said it was reported in newspaper stories and pictures. Jordan contended that the plane was atle to make the hop by dump- ing all baggage and unnecessary ! equipment at the end of the Wash- ington runway. Coapman said the 5,500-mile run| {rom Washington to Nome ws out- side the normal range of a C-47. “I don't think it would have been possible for a Russian pilot, under- standing no American radio signals, | to have made the tough run with- | out ‘weathering in’ somewhere be- | tween Washington, Great Fulls,; Calgary, Edmonton or Fairbanks,” | Coapman said. “A flight such as Jordan de- seribes,” Coapman added, ‘“would have Leen decidedly irregular. “All airplanes transferred on lend-lease to the Russians were flown by American pilots to Fair- banks, where they were turned over to the Soviet Purchasing Commis- | sion. Russian pilots then flew the| planes to Nome and thence to Rus- sia.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS l Baranof scheduled to sail from i Seattle Saturday. { Princess Norah due in port at 7:30 tomorrow morning and sails south one hour later at 8:30. Denali due southbound |Monday morning. a retired i early . Case BRIDGES WAS COMMIE, SAY WITNESSES Woman "FI?b—bergasted" When Statement Made, She Testifies at Hearing SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8—#F— Two more witnesses have testified Harry Bridges was active in the Communist Party. Bridges, CIO longshore leader, on trial in Federal Court for perjury, is accused of falsely denying he was a Communist at naturalization pro- ceedings in 1045. Two of his waterfront aides, Hen- ry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, are accused of conspiracy in con- nection with his obtaining United States citizenship. The witnesses are Mrs. Irene Pat- tl Harris, 63-year-old wife of a longshoreman, and Stanley Ben- Jamin Hancock, 41, of Erie, Pa. ‘They corroborated testimony of a previous government witness, John H. Schomaker, a former associate of Bridges. Mrs. Harris sald she was “flabber- gasted” to hear Bridges say he was a Communist at a meeting she at- itended in 1938, She said: “Mr. Bridges, well, he made & report on the waterfront, talked about what the Communists had done. Then he made a plea to those there to become members and also he stated he was a member of the Communist Party.” © o “Flabbergasted” Prosecutor ''Qeorge Gallagher wanted to know how she remember-~ ed the incident. She answered: “Why I was flabbergasted when he said that.” Hancock sald he was a former Communist and had worked on many newspapers. He listed them as the San Diego Sun circulation |department, Pasadena Star News, Santa Cruz Sentinel News, Union Sun and Journal of Lockport, N. Y., People’s World of San Fran- cisco, and the Erie Dispatch. He sald he resigned his position as publice relations director of the Erie paper last Friday. Hancock declared he left the San Diego Sun in 1932, quitting the ! paper to become a full-fledged functionary of the Communist Party. He asserted he had attended a Communist Party caucus in San Diego in 1935 at which Bridges and Schmidt were present. The meeting, he said, was held {at 12th and B Streets and was held to set up a “progressive” slate of officérs for the state federation of labor, then in cenvention in the southern California city. 3 TUMULTUOUS DAYS SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8—(P- A graphic account of tumultuous days in S8an Diego during the de- pression was told today at the Rarry Bridges perjury trial. The narrator was Stanley Ben- jamin Hancock, a newspaperman and a former Communist. As a government witness Hancock yes- terday testified he had seen Bridges &t a fraction meeting of the Com- munist party in San Diego in 1935. Prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue asked the witness why he entered the Communist party. He replied that it was because he saw poverty end hardship everywhere about him and nothing was being done about it. i Why did he leave the party? he was asked. “I left the Communist party te- cause slowly but surely I learned that the Communist party was not interested in human beings as such,” Hancock replied. “It placed the interest of the Soviet Union above everything else.” . Under cross-examination by James Maclnnis, Hancock told about conditions and events that led him to join the Communist party. He gave an extended recital of his own arrests and of strikes in the cotton and tomato fields. Yesterday two witnesses placed the defendant Bridges in the Com- munist party. FROM SEATTLE H. S. Ream of the Alaska Steam- ship Company in Seattle is regis- tered at- the Baranof Hotel.