The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition ) OL. yKXIV., NO. 11,373 UNBALANCED BUDGET SAID 'BITTER GIFT’ WASHINGTON, Dec. Lawmakers greeted without sur- prise today the news that President Truman won't sutmit a balanced budget to Congress, but they split on what to do about it. Rep. Reed (R-NY) called the announcement by Budget Director Frank Pace “a bitter Christmas present” for Americans—“although it is not wholly unexpected’—and demanded a cut in spending. But Senator Thye (R-Minn) said |hoon at 4 with a grand dedicatory | that while he favors economy, he opposes the view of most of the colleagues with whom he traveled to Europe that the cuts should be made in foreign recovery funds. Pace made his statement about the budget outlook yesterday at Key West, Fla. after a conference with Mr. Truman. Pace said theré is little probability of balancing the Federal Budget next year un- less Congress votes new taxes. Congress members already have made it fairly plain that they don't take kindly to the idea of upping taxes. Reed said in his statement: “On the eve of Christmas the over-taxed American who is now paying more than 25 percent of his income to be governed is told that he will have to dig deeper next year. “The people of the nation have received a bitter Christmas present from the government, the news that it will cost them a lot more dollars te let the Truman administration govern them.” LAST PROVINCE IN CHINA GOES T0 COMMUNISTS (By Associated Press) €China’s Yunnah Province, border- ing Indo China and Burma, has gone over to the Communists. It was the Nationalists’ last remaining province in South China. All that is left to the National- ists now on the mainland is a nar- row frinve of coast, plus a small area of Szechwan and Sikang prov- inces deep in the interior. The Nationalists now base their strategy mainly on holding the Island of Formosa, hoping for the day when the Red machine would show signs of crumbling from in- ternal weaknesses. In Washington, the Association of American Indian Affairs says it’s high time the movies portrayed In= dians in their true light. The group says there have been too many pic- tures where evil redskins. bite the dust The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Ed. note—Drew Pearson’s col- umn takes the form of a letter to his daughter, Mrs. George L. Arn old of Los Angeles.) WASHINGTON D .C., Dec. 5, 1949 Dear daughter, The other day I went down to the trial of Congressman J. Par- nell Thomas and sat in the court- room while the jury was being pick- ed. He was there making a show of being unconcerned and confi- dent, but somehow or other I felt sorry for him. I felt almost sorry that I had brought out all the stuff about his Kickbacks. Thomas was a lot different in the court room than when he blus- tered over witnesses in his own un-American Activities Committee. He had sent a dozen or so witness- es to jail himself chiefly for re- fusal to answer questions. And he denitd them the right of coun- sel and had hauled them before his committee from as far away as California at any time of the day or week that suited him. In contrast he now enjoyed all the carefully built-up American privileges of a free trial. He was represented by a good lawyer. He sat before a good judge, Judge Holtzoff, who was very fair. And he had the right to exclude certain jurors—though a witness before his committee had no right to ex- clude certain jurors—though ‘a witness before his committee had no right to exclude any committee members. Furthermore, the Justice Depart- ment had given Thomas one year's (Continued on Page Four) 10—»— RADIO STATION KALA SUNDAY AFTERNOON SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 10—(Special to Empire)—Radio Station KALA will open formally Sunday after- program in the Sheldon Jackson School auditorium. Representatives of all local civic organizations will speak briefly. Rev. Henry Chapman {for the Ministerial Association; Mayor Danny Doyle for the city; Fred Geeslin for the Alaska Native Service; Dr. R. H. Schuyler for the Mt. Edgecumbe medical staff; Max Penrod for the Mt. Edgecumbe school; T. J. Cole for the city school board; "Mrs. Conrad Cook for the Alaska Native Sisterhood; jAndrew Hope for the Alaska Na- tive Brotherhood; Earl Littlefield for the Central Labor Ceuncil; Glen Green for the Lions Club; O. R. Rutherford for the Chamber of Commerce; Roy Evanson for the sRotary Club; Dorothy Bilbo for the | Soroptimists; Jessie Wier Price for Ithe Council of Church Women; W. N. Knight for the Pioneers’ Home and Leslie Yaw for the Shel- don. Jackson Junior College. The musical program will include the Sheldon Jackson Junior Col- cuits and Quartette; Dr. Walter Yea, flute and Jimmy Williams sol- |uist. After the ceremonies there will {be an open house at the studios which are located on the CB road just beyond the National Cem- etery. A door prize will be given at the open house. KALA will operats daily on 250 watts 1400 KC from 6:30 am. to 11 pm. except on Sunday when the hours will be from 11 am. to 11 p.m. On the staff are Walt Welch, station manager; Ed Long, engineer, and Bob Melcher, technician. Wan- da Holic will present a woman’s program each morning at 10:30. On Sunday evening the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, which is associated with KALA, will broadcast congratulatory programs from its stations KFAR in Fair- banks and KENI in Anchorage. Station KALA is the only com- munity owned station in the ter- ritory being owned by the Bsranox'l ienterprises, a locally financed cor- poration. MILDEST WINTER| IN NOME PERMITS WORK T0 6O AHEAD NOME, Alaska, Dec. 10—(P—Ex- tremely mild weather has permit- | ted the longest outdoor heavy work | and construction here since 1926. The U.S. Smelting dredge fin- ally closed down this week for the winter. The Manson Osberg Construc- tion Co., of Seattle, building a | breakwater, is still hauling rock | from Cape Nome, 14 miles fiway cver the tundra. The project is well ahead of schedule and a second lift of rock is to be started soon. HIGHWAY PATROLMEN WARN AGAINST HIGH SPEEDS ON ICY ROADS After a series of minor accidents on ice-glazed Glacier Highway yes- terday, Sgt. John Monagle of the | Alaska\Highway Patrol urged mot- orists 9 “slow down and watch how you apply your brakes.” The curves are especially treach- erous, he said, but too much speed could cause serious accidents at any of the slippery places on the kighway. Many drivers have had their cars skid out of control only because tbey forgot to practice what they learned about winter driving last year, he said. “Twenty miles per hour is speed- ing when there is glaze ice on the highway,” he declared. White House Secretary Charles Ross told newsmen today that President Truman will deliver a Christmas-eve fireside chat over the radio from his home in Inde- pendence, Missouri. He plans to spend the holiday there—going di- rect from Key West. Porflander Named fo Head Alaska Methodist College Group; To Raise 2 Millions AT SITKA T0 GO ON| I lege Choir, the Pribilof Short Cir- | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE/[#%] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Dec. 10—(P—A spe- cial committee of the Methodist Board of Missions to establish a four-year liberal arts college in Alaska will be headed by Ernest W. Peterson, Portland. Peterson, Church Editor of the| Oregon Journal, was named at a Loard meeting at Buck Hill Falls, Pa. Before i taken, the project is under- the committee is to raise ,000—half of it for capital ex- penditures and half for endow- ment. Already $522,218 has Leen subscribed by various Methodist conferences. The committee is to select the site, erect the first buildings, organize an Alaska Board of Trustees and assist in choosing the faculty. Severa] Alaska cities are reported to have offered sites gratis. Bishop Gerland Kennedy, Port- land, who has Episcopal supervi- sion of Methodist work in Alaska, s a member of the college commit- tee. A recent report indicated Ket- chikan or Juneau as the likely site. The only higher educational insti- tution in the Territory now is the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. AUSSIES TURN LABOR GOVT. OUTOFPOWER Follows New I ealand- Party Concedes Defeat as 64 Seats Assured SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 10— —The Australian people turned out their Labor government in a gen- eral election yesterday. The Liberal-Country party coali- tion, standing for a return to the iree enterprise system as opposed 16 continued Socialism, has won— or as good as won—64 seats in a lower house of 121 voting Represen- tatives. The ruling Labor party, which has been in power eight years, has won—or as zood as won—50 seats ‘There is no reasonatle doubt about these results, although the final count in some of them is not yet in, Seven seats remain in doubt. (In London, the Australian News and Information Bureau, an agency of the Labor government, an- nounced that Labor had conceded defeat. It quoted Radio Australia as saying the opposition had won at least 62 seats, perhaps 68.) Thus, Australia followed New Zealand in the British Common- 100 KOREAN CUTTLEFISH | BOATS SUNK SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 10—@—A; violent, sudden storm ripped through the Korean east coast cut- tlefish fleet last Sunday, causing a; heavy loss of lives and boats. Estimates of fatalities ran as high as 600. The Marine Bureau of the Korean Commerce Department said, however, official reports were in complete. The first word of the tragedy came only today from the Kang- nung correspondent of the Korean Pacific Press. He said at least 100 small Loats were lost. GILMORE GOES SOUTH AS MEEKS APPEALS MURDER SENTENCE P. J. Gilmore, Jr., United StflleS| Attorney here, will leave for San! Francisco Monday to represent the United States in the appeal of George H. Meeks, twice convicted of murder in the U.S. District Court | here. | The case was first tried during February and March of 1946. Meeks was found guilty of first degree murder without capital punishment. He won an appeal and was re-tried here January, 1948. He was again found guilty. The hearing on his second appeal } is set for December 15 in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in €an Franclsco. If Meeks wins the appeal, his case will be tried in the District Court here for the third time. SON OF FDR GOES | |INTO' TELEVISION PRODUCTION WORK, HYDE PARK, N.Y., Dec. 10—/#— Elliott Roosevelt said today he was going into radio and television pro- duction. The second son of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt said he and Morgan Jones, New York City radio and television executive, had formed the firm of Roosevelt and Jones, Inc. Roosevelt said he would serve as a director of the new firm. 1 i | { GRS L £ TWO FINED, SPEEDING Virgil Klinkhammer and Bert Linne were arrested and then fined in City Magistrate’s court today on a cimnrgc of speeding and reck- less driving. The offense occurred Tuesday when they were apprehended for driving at 40 miles per hour on Main Street. Each was given a $50 fine and 20- day jail sentence, suspended. ANCHORAGE VISITOR Joseph C. Vernon. of Anchorage wealth trend to the right. Robert Gordon Menzies, the Lib- eral leader, who will become Prime Minister, commented after hearing the New Zealand results last week: “The Socialists were brought to power and Great Britain in that order. This dramatic result seems a happy omen that they will go out in the same order.” Great Britain must hold general elections before next July. Labor :Lad been in the saddle 14 years in New Zealand, eight years in Aus- tralia. It has been in power in Britain since 1945. CAA WILL INSTALL LIGHTED AIRWAY PATH TO GUSTAVUS, “Daylight only” rules soon will be u thing of the past at the Juneau Airport. 5 With a lighted airway system, pilots making instrument landings at Gustavus will be able to follow A path of light straight to the Juneau field. Work is to start immediately on installation of five powerful lights for airways and navigation between the two airports. Completion is expected in March, according to Bernie Reiten, Civil Aeronautics resident engineer, who is in charge. Double-end rotating airway bea- con lights will be installed on a Luilding at Point Retreat, on 35- foot steel CAA towers at Lena Point and Mendenhall Peninsula, and on high points at two inter- mediate locations. The installation probably will cost the government $7,500, accord- .ng to Reiten. Simultaneously, Reiten will sup- ervise construction of three one- family housing units at Gustavus for personnel. This will involve re- cruiting 25 or 30 personnel here, and opening a mess hall and con- struction camp at Gustavus. This $25,000 housing project is cxpected to be ready for occupancy by June 30, Reiten came here Wednesday irom Anchorage, accompanied by his wife, for whom it is the first Juneau visit of more than a few days. The Reitens hope to find a small apartment for their winter residence here. Most recent assignment for Rei- ten, who works out of the regional CAA office at Anchorage, was the million-dollar housing project just completed at Annette. He got an- other housing job under way be- fore leaving. Reiten formerly was stationed at Gustavus, where he rebuilt the Sal- mon River Bridge at Strawberry Point, and revised the drainage system at the airport to prevent such floods as washed the bridge out last fall. FROM KETCHIKAN T. P. Hansen of Ketchikan is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. FAIRBANKS VISITOR Elsie May Smith of Fairbanks is registered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Russell D. Duvall of Seattle 18 is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.|registered at the Baranof Hotel. oo o000 00 0 0 in New Zealand, Australia: FOUR PROJECTS MARKED PRIORITY BY CITY COUNCIL Four projects were marked priority as the City Council, meet- ing in special session last night, prepared a list of municipal needs to be submitted to the Community Facilities Service. The priority projects were: ex- tension of sewers, street paving and improvement, library building, and safety Luilding, which would house city offices, police headquar- ters and jail and fire hall. City councilmen indicated they hoped financial backing for all four projects would be given within a year under the Alaska Public Works Lilt. Listed below the priority projects were Gold Creek Flood Control, re- wiring of the city fire alarm sys- tem, and development of a new cemetery. Lions' Club members at the meet- ing requested that their psoject—a heating system for the swimming pool—be put on the city’s list The club offered to donate the $2,000 it has collected for the project to the city so that Public Works funds could be ob- tained through the city to make up the balance of the cost—estimated at over $6,000. The city council agreed to in- clude the swimming-pool heaung-' plant on the list of non-priority projects to be submitted to the Service. It was pointed out that the city must pay 50 percent of the cost of the projects undertaken, and Mayor | Hendrickson said that the city can- not afford to be overloaded. Some definite program must be set up for Cold Weather Hints to Save wile or hospital. PRICE TEN CENTS WINTER DRIVING FACTS Your Car...or Your Life! PACKED Braking Distances on Various Road Surfaces at 20 miles per hour New research by the National Safety Council brings this waring—skidding and reduced visibility substantially increase the traffic death rate during winter inonths of snow and ice. Equalized brakes, tire chains, good windshield wipers, defrosters, good lights, reduced speed—a!! can prevent your sliding to the junk 'DOG "FUEL" LACK TROUBLES MUSHER ON HIGHWAY TREK But Can’t Get Food for "Husky Team on Road KOIDERN, Yukon Territory, Dec. 10—(M—Maine’s Alaska Highway repayment of the 50 percent to the government, he said. He said a bond issue to finance construction of the safety building ! has already been approved. i Truck operators were on hand at the meeting as the council consid- ered revisions to the city traffic I ordinance. I After listening to the opinions of ! {the truck owners, the council imoved to revise the ordinance to |requh-e all trucks over one-half ton | 'Dr 4,000 pound gross size to obtain a city permit before driving on any | but designated concrete-paved streets. The permit would be granted to truckers who show they carry lia- Lility insurance or post a $1,000 bond. Purpose of the measure would be to prevent damage to new asphalt paving and needless and noisy driv- ing through residential districts, councilmen said. The ordinance calling for a city election to decide on the matter of turning over lots three and four, block seven, on which the Arctic Brotherhood Hall stands, to the Territory as a site for the proposed Territorial Building was passed in its second reading. “musher” is finding dog food a problem in the early stages of his 5,000-mile trip by sled. A truck driver gets gasoline more easily along the highway getting dog food on his sub-zero trek homeward to Lewiston, Me. The dogs needs their “fuel” re- fills oftener. Moore said he had made as much ias 40 miles a day along the high- way since leaving Fairbanks Nov. 14 For two weeks he has been trav- eling in 20 below temperatures. He was over the 350-mile mark upon arrival here. Once, before crossing the Alaska- 1 Yukon border, he said, “I had to hitch the dogs out and set out on foot to an Indian fish camp about three miles through the woods. I tried to buy fish for the dogs, but the Indians were having a drunken pow-wow and refused to sell me any fish. In the bright moonlight I walked to the Scotty Creek trad- ing post. They had 50 pounds of dog food and I took it back in the morning.” He met dog “refueling” disap- pointment again at the Dry Creek trading post after a 28-mile mush mn five and a half hours, A ship- The ordinance also calls for a de- cision on granting an option to the Territory on lots five and six, tlock seven, on which the City Hall stands, for an addition to the Ter- ritorial Building. The Territorial Board of ministration, in a message to the council, suggested several amend- Ad-| materials and equipment from the AB. Hall and City Hall when they are demolished. | The council will meet with the | Territorial Board of Administra- tion to discuss the proposed amend- meénts. Any amendments will have to be made before the third and final reading, Mayor Hendrickson said. A property-owner whose home 1is on Dixon Street reguested more strict enforcement of parking reg- ulations by city police. He pointed out that parking regulations are being broken in a dangerous man- ner on Dixon Street from Eighth Street to the bottom of the hill. ® & & o ~ & e > WEATHER REPORT (This data 1s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 32; minimum 20. At Airport—Maximum 33; minimum 16. FORECAST Jui ana Vielnity) Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday with intermittent snow beginning late tonight. A little warmer with lowest temperature tonight 25 and highest Sunday 32. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. toda: City of Juneau—None since Dec. 1—2.60 inches; since July 1—51.48 inches, At Airport—None since Dec. 1—1.09 inches; since July 1—34.21 inches. l 1 | ©000000°0000000°0000000,0 ment scheduled by truck had failed to arrive there ahead of him. l Moore stayed at a highway main- tenance camp near here Thursday night. A Yukon couple took him in and provided 10 pounds of dog { food. ments to the ordinance. One dealt | with the profits from salvage ot| He expects to make it to Bur- wash Landing this weekend, where an ample fish supply is reported. Moore is making the grueling ‘ trip to Maine with a large cargo of mafl with special stamps to raise money for a children's fund ot his home town Lions club. SOAP FOR EUROPEAN CHILDREN SPONSORED BY SOROPTIMISTY Sponsored in Juneau by Sor- optimists is the CARE-Swan Soap campaign which has been extended until December 31. Through arrangement with CARE, the Swan Soap company is sending free to needy children in Europe, one bar of Swan soap for every two Swan Soap wrappers sent in ito the company. Local collections of the soap wrap- pers is made for Soroptimists by members Laura MacMullan or An- ita Garnick. CHOIR FORMING PRIEST RETURNS TO EDGECUMBE The Rev. Ogsorgin, who last year trained and devolped a boys' choir at the Mt. Edgecumbe school of the Alaska Native Service, has returned from the States 'to re- sume his activities with students. Announcement of the vries return was. made by Don C. Foster, ANS head, prior to his taking plane for Seattle to confer with Indian Affairs officials from Washington. He hopes to develop a mixed choir this year, and extend activities to include emiployees of the institution, Foster said. He did not know how many voices were included in the present group. Cecil A. (Mush) Moore has been} Heavy Waler Shipments Making 40 Miles a Day, pI‘OOI in Hand' Storage of Afom Bombs Comes Up Casually- Groves Warns WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—(®—The House Un-American Activities Com- than | mittee dug out today what it con-! siders proof that the Russians got 1,000 grams of heavy water—valu- able for atomic experiments—in 1943. The committee aiso is rhinking of calling in the head of a Cana- dian firm for questioning about 1,000 pounds of uranium compourds ! the Soviets got in the spring cf 1943, The neavy water was the fourth wartime atomic shipment to the| Soviets the committee Lelieves it has nailed down. Additional checks have shown that a report of a fifth—a shipment of uranium com- pound in mid-1944—was a dud. While the committee was trying to find out just how much atomic material Russia got from this country duriig the war—and how it happened—a casual remark by a former Pentagon official set oft iresh speculation about where this country’s A-bombs are stored. BOMB STORAGE, The Mexico, Mo, Ledger quoted Curtis Mitchell-who until a few weeks ago was a Deputy Director of Public Information at the Pen- lagon—as saying that the first at- acks on this country in event ot war probably would be aimed at “the caves in the southwest where cur bombs are stored.” Defense Department officials de- lined comment. William Frye, Di- cector of Public Information, said: “I have no knowledge of the basis of Mr. Mitchell's remarks, but I can say that-at no time during his service in the depart- ment did he have access to atomic :pergy information.” As for the shipments to Russia, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, who headed the wartime A-tomb project and #ho testified before the House committee this week, said that the House group should press its probe because “we must know why and who was responsible” for any leakage of secret data. MAY BE THREATENED The retired General told the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers in New York that Americans should assume Russia has the atomic bomb and should consider the possible consequences: that for the first time in history, we may be threat- ened with “complete annihilation.” The House committee started looking into atomic shipments to Russia more than a year ago. Its information indicates that: The first shipment was 420 pounds of compounds the Rus- sians got from an American com- pany, under official U.S. govern- {Continued on Page 2) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle today, due here Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver, Wednesday, Dec. 14. Denali due southbound Monday morning. Il BRIDGES' CASE PROSECUTION ONLY1-30VER Government Expects fo Wind Up Mid-January- Have 20 More Witnesses SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.—(P— After four tumultuous weeks of the Harry Bridges perjury trial, gov- ernment prosecutors estimated to- day they are about one-third through their half of the bitterly- | fough case. It looks like a long trial ahead. “I'm hoping to wind up the gov- ernment case by mid-January,” said Chief Prosecutor F. Joseph Dono- hue, The prosecution so far has scored with what it calls its “Sunday Punch” witness, backed by some corroborating testimony in its effort to prove that Bridges, left-wing CIO {longshore labor leader, was and is a Communist. The hard-slugging defense team of Vincent Hallinan and James Mac- Innis has fought every step. Courte room noises sometimes threatens to drown the simple’ charge: That Bridges, a native of Australia, lied under oath when he was natdralized in September, 1945. He said he was not and had not been a member of the Communist Party. 8o far five of some 25 available prosecution witnesses have testified. | The, government says this time it |“has the goods” on Bridges. Twice i before, but in deporatation, not crim- inal, proceedings, the government failed to make the Communist label stick. Also on trial are Bridges’ two wit- nesses at this naturalization pro- ceedings, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, charged with helping him obtain citizenship by fraud. All three are charged with ‘The defense launched violent at- tacks on all the testimony in cross- examination, with varying success. It challenged creditibility, dwelt upon asserted enmity of witnesses for Bridges. Every ti in e pag popped out in defense tactics. “I'm entitled to trap lying witnesses by any trick I can—I make no apology for my method,” snapped Hallinan once. He is under a six-month jail sen- tence for contempt, slapped on early in the trial by Federal Judge George Harris, based on courtroom conduct and flouting of court rulings. The sentence Is to be served after the trial. An appeal is in progress. Prosecutor Donohue promises an- other “punch witness” early ni week. PAN AM BRINGS 18, TAKES 25 T0 SOUTH Pan American World Airways yes- terday brought 18 passengers into Juneau and took 25 out. They were: From Seattle: Mrs. E. J. Blake, J. C. Boteler, B. C. Canoles, Esther Commet, Russell Duvall, Howard }Garbutt, Floyd Guertin and child, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Morris and child, Harvey Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. 'Woodward and child Diana, Dor- othy Whitney. From Annette: Chris Lee, C. F. Franklin. To Seattle: Charles Mountjoy, Don Foster, Mrs. G. E. Krause, C. M. Childers, L. Demurs, J. McAllister, Henry Schuler, Mr. and Mrs. James Parks, Hilda Bynum and child Carol Ann, J. A, Wilber, A. D. McDonsld, Ed Kennedy, T. J. Ritchie, George Willlamson, Carl Ahransen,. Jack Mitchell, Art Sanford, Floyd Rogers, Ed Duea, H. V. Davis, William Stolz, Robert Haag, G. W. Rob- inson. WARD PARTY IS 10 LEAVE TAKU BAR ON TUG TOMORROW l TAKU BAR, China, Dec. 10.—(®— Angus Ward's party is scheduled to leave Red China, finally, tomorrow —aboard a tug. But the 20-odd members of the | U. 8. Consul General’s staff are not | expected aboard their ship of haven —the Lakeland Victory—before late at night. Their 16-mile trip from Tientsin down the Han River to e early Taku Bar, in the Gulf of chlllll. will starrt at noon.