The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,384 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Icy Waters Swirling Through PRESIDENT HOLDS OFF, COAL STRIKE Refuses to Step Into Dis- pute-May Be Strike or Lockouf January 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 23— (B — President Truman’'s new refusal to| step into the coal dispute set off | more talk today of the possibility | of a strike or lock-out after Jan. 1 John L. Lewis’ miners will work only Tuesday and Wednesday of the next two holiday weeks. After that | the big question is whether Lews ! will crack down hard and close the mines entirely in a real test of strength. Those who argue that this is | GETTING READY Lewis’ plan think he adopted the three-day work week Dec. 1 just to put some Christmas money into the | pockets of his hard-pressed min-} ers. | Having done that, some operators | reason, he may call the digge's out and try the big squeeze. This| would permit operations on:y by! those employers who sign a contract | for a 35-cent tonnage welfare roy- alty and $15 daily wage. | Even the three-day work week| is pinching the operators. | President Truman would not of-| fer any opinion at his news con-| ference yesterday on whether the three day week was causing a fuel| emergency. | He reiterated that if an emergen- | cy develops he will take the neces- sary action to halt it—presumably by seeking an 80 day injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act, which! up to now he has avoided. | | ® @ & v o ° o ! - WEATHER REPOKRT (This data s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST) In Juneau—Maximum 25; minimum 22. At Airport—Maximum 25; minimum 22. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued cloudy with in- - . TRYING OUT STOCKINGS FOR set for big day when youngsters will find them after Santa Claus wisits homes. “Peggy,” Eskimo Spitz, is proud mother. rInternational) U.S. WILL AID TITO IS WORD [ruman Giv_es— Message fo Ambassador Allen to Take to Yugoslavia WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—(P— | From President Truman to Marshall irim, a major target of Soviet thre the United States is op- °d to aggression against any ion. This is the word Mr. Truman has instructed George V. Allen, his new Ambassador to Yugoslavia, to pass on to the Tito government. Allen is due to leave for Belgrade Dec. 28. Tito has teen under heavy pres- |sure from the Russians since his break with Moscow more than a | vear ago. There has been specula- tion that sometime the Russians might try to break his power by means of guerrilla warfare. The United States and other western nations have given Tito economic and political assistance FOR CHRISTMAS SIZE, six Albany, N. Y., pups get BOBHOPE, SYMINGTON VISIT NORTH | M, | ANCHORAGE, Dec. 23—‘B—Airi Secretary Symington’s visit to Alaska—his second in three months ~—is for the ewxpress purpose of personally investigating the terri- {tory’s winter housing conditions,;in a solid front against sources here said today. { e here this| ngton, due to arr | ¢ | afternoon in company with C°m9‘icm'x.~n Gian Bob Hope, will be joined ! Tuesday kr* Governor Ernest; Gruening £ 2 confergnee on the housing- situzation. The Air Secretary will leave here | Christmas Day to inspect Ladd lan invitation POPEASKS CHECK PUT ON ATHEISM snce he stormed out of the Soviet camp. But there nevér has been any official statement of what this country’s' policy would be in the event of a Soviet-Communist attack on Yugoslavia. Mr. Truman had a talk with Allen, before his weekly news son- ference yesterday. He told Allen, he said, to state this government’s poiicy to the Tito government. Then the President added that the United States is opposed to aggres- against any country no matter where it is situated. LIFE TERMER IS GIVEN FREEDOM FOR HUMANE ACT OSSINING, N.Y, Dec. 23—(M— to all those profe: ouis Boy walked out of Sing Sing sing Protestant faiths to join with | on in the rain today and looked the church of Rome, |around at a world he hadn’t seen This coming holy year, the Pon-|in 18 years. | | | | | By FRANK BRUTTO VATICAN CITY, Dec. 23—(—| Pope Pius XIT appealed today to all | who believe in Jesus Christ to unite | under the Roman Catholic (‘hurch’ mflilr\m; advances of atheism. T People’s address, his annual | nas message, was nd(lrvssvdi to the whole world on the eve of| the 1950 holy year. There seemed | little doubt that the address was| termittent snow tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature with lowest to- night 23 and highest Satur- day 27. PRECIPITATION City of Juneau—.14 inches; since Dec. 1—4.64 inches; e | Field at Fairbanks and other e Alaska stations, including the Aleu- -?‘ tians, where the Air Force recently o:ordercd troops withdrawn for lack o | of funds. His visit to Ladd Field in- . ‘ cludes a talk to enlisted troops and (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m. today @ | an inspection of living quarters for ® | them and their families. ®| This is the second Christmas tiff said, “must be decisive, especi- | ally for the longed-for religious re- newal of the modern world.” “Oh that this holy year could| welcome also to the great return| tu the one true church, awaited over | the centuries, of so many who, | though believing in Jesus Christ, | are for various reasons separated By risking his life for a Lttle girl doomed to leukemia the 50- year-old convicted murderer won freedom from a life sentence. “I'm feeling fine,” he told report- ers. “This is the merriest Christ- mas I've ever had.” He was a smail man, standing tefore the big gates, and he seemed 11 AIRMEN KILLED IN B-50 CRASH Plane Grounds in Marsh, After Take-off - Flames | PreventReaching Scene SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 23—P—A | fiaming Air Force B-50 bomber | crashed in a dreary river marsh last night, killing all 11 airmen| aboard and scattering and burying | bodies and wreckage in the muck. | The big bomber had just taken | off from Chatham Air Force Base| here when it went down on the| bank of a branch of the muddy Savannah river. The crash was only seven miles above the city, hut it was so inaccessible it took rescue parties hours to reach it by boat. The first persons scene were forced back by flaming gasoline, floating on the water. The flames were visible for miles. 1 Col. Frederic E. Glantsberg, com- | manding officer of Chatham Field | said it took off on a traininz] flight to El Paso, Texas. It crashed about five minutes later. The plane had been in service at Chatham for a year or a year and a half. The B-50, an improved ver-| sion of the B-20 Superfortress, has a wingspread of 141 feet; is 99 feet long, and weighs 125,000 pounds.| The Air Forces describes it as a} more powerful version of the B-20 which bombed Japan The crash was only a few miles from the spot where a chartered airiiner crashed Jan. 7, 1948, killing 18 and injuring 18 Puerto Ricans 6n a flight from Newark, N.J., to] {heir home. | i | to reach the ONE VICTIM IDENTIFIED DENISON, Tex., Dec. 23—(P—Lt. Rogers Hornsby, 29, son of Rogers Hornsby of baseball fame, was 50 tombing missions during the| war. He was born and reared in Denison. Two Alaska Gi 2 Two students from Alaska who are attending Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., are pictured above as they made plans for the Christ- mas holiday season. At the left is Miss Phyllis Roell, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Roell of Nome, and at right, Miss Cecelia Selmer of Skagway, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs, Asbjorne Selmer, Miss is the house guest of Miss Jane Scott, also of Nome. Roell is spending the holiday season in California where she Miss Selmer Is spending the vacation period in Paris, IlL, visiting friends. She was correspondent of The Daily Alaska Empire at Skagway before going to college. The Christmas vacation at Stephens College started December 15 and classes will resume on January 5. JACOBSON |MIDWEST ARRESTED AS "'SPY” BUDAPEST, Dec. 23—(®—The| Iiungarian government announced tonight it arrested Israel Jacobsen American Jewish welfare worker, on “suspicion of spying against the Hungarian state.” Jacobsen, Director in Hungary of the American Joint Distribution Committee, was arrested a week ago after returning here from a leave ir. the United $tate The Hungarign Foreign Ministry issued a compunique which said onlv: “I. G. Jaeobsen, foreign citizen, since July 1—53.52 inches. At Airport —.16 inches; since Dec. 1—2.07 inches; since July 1—35.19 inches. ® & o o 0 0 0 o o The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 19:3 hv Bell Syndicate, Inc.) T ASHINGTON—Most important backstage debate over U. S. foreign, policy now involves Formosa, the; strategic island north of the Phil- ippines which Japan captured from China in the war of 1895. One/| pledge the allies made to China in the recent war was that For-| mosa would go back to China. But last month General Mac-| Arthur sent a triplc-urgent cable| urging that Formosa be claimed by | us and occupied by U. S. troops for | Japan. He warned that Formosa | was a three-hour flight from Ok-| inawa, two hours from Japan, and | that the U.S.A. might as well kiss off all its southeast Asia program if it abandoned Formosa to Chinese | Communism. | Behind this cable was the fact| that Chinese Communists are| readying a giant ‘flotilla on the! mainland to take this island, last| remairing stronghold of the Chin-| ese Nationalists. Also behind Mac- Arthur's cable is the fact that| Chiang kai-Shek, immediately af-| ter V-J Day, made the tragic mis- take of putting Formosa under one of his most unscrupulous warlords. | Result: looting, terrorism and 60.- 000 Formosans killed. Most resi- dents of the island would now wel- come the Communists. Their taste of Chinese Nationalism has been sour indeed. Prior to MacArthur's cable the joint chiefs of staff had decided to abandon Formosa. But his cable bucked them up. As a result, they (Continued on Page Four) P | troops. Last year, they that Symington and Hope havej gone abroad to be with American spent the) holidays with men on the Berlm; Airlift. | - ABOARD PERSONAL PLANE SEATTLE, Dec. 23—(P—Comedian | Eob Hope and Air Secretary W.| Stuart Symington flew. northward| today for a White Christmas in Alaska. They took off in the personal plane of Brig. Gen. Frank Arm- strong, the Air Force commander iu Alaska. The takeoff was shortly before 9:30 a.m., akout an hour behind schedule, Hope is going north to entertain Air Force units on the Christmas weekend, He is taking his wife and two adopted children, Linda, 11, and Tony, 10. X The minimum temperature last night at Anchorage, where Hope | and Symington will land, was 11 below. Three other entertainers—dancer Patti Thomas, singer Jimmy Wak-| ely and a pianist are in the Hope party. Hope had turned down General Armstrong’s first invitation to go to Alaska for Christmas, but con- sented to go when the General in- vited the Hope family. Hope expects to return to Holly- wood Monday night-in time to re- hearse for his Tuesday radio show. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 23—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, Amerfcan Cani 103%, Anaconda 28%%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 50%, New York/ Central 10'z, Northern Pacific 13, U. 8. Steel 26, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,470,000 shares. Averages today are as follows ! industrial 198.88, rails 51.50, ulll‘i ities 41.02, ! | FROM TACOMA Phyllis M. Brown of Tacoma is chikan is a visitor at the Baranof Kianey Tuesday at 2 p.m. in tife - Krasilovsky, registered at the Baranof Hotel.| i from her,” he said. ia little stunned by what had hap- “With unspeakable groanings, the pened. spirit, who is in the hearts of good| Boy's vein-to-vein exchange ot people, today cries out imploringly | blood last summer did not save the e same prayer of our Lord: that|child, taough it brought Gov. they may be one.” | Thomas E. Dewey's commutation The Pope also expressed hope|of life sentence to time already that those who have been members | served. cf the Roman Catholic church and Boy, Italian-born, voluntarily be- have strayed away would return came the first person who ever to the fold like the prodigal son. knowingly took into his veins the Apparently the Pope, in referring | taint of leukemia, a cancerous to militant atheism, meant Com-|blood disease. He acted without munism and to the extremes of | promise of reprieve. capitalism when he said: Today the prison gave him a new “In the social field, the counter- | suit of clothes, $20 and a railroad feiting of God's plan has gone to | ticket to New York. He was told its very roots by deforming thei tc report to the State Parole PBoard divine image of -man. Instead ot there. his real, created nature with origin fore and destiny in God, there has been MRS. wuu‘M Ku"[y IS CALLED BY DEATH substituted the false notion of man whose conscience is 2 law unto Mrs. William (Jennie) Klaney of {old. Mrs, Klaney was born in Angoon. BUILTFORA.P. L. s B's Bu ! erformed at Klukwan by Dr. S. G |Hall Young, a pioneer missionary new modern combination passenger- [snme day. cargo liners were announced today| Theirs was one of the first bap- closed, too, that the company was|couple his name for their Chr studying the possibility of building | name. President Cleveland class vessels | where she came to from Angoon now opcrated by the company. lin 1902. $40,000,000. These ships, Killion|and Mrs. Chris Nelson of Juncau said, would be in addition to three|and Mrs. Willlam S. Sutton of Sit- Population Increasing WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—(®—-The United States population has cross ed the 150,000,000 mark. was detained by the State Security the suspicion of the Hungarian | Authorities for i.-pylng against | state.” | Hungarian officials declined to go | bevond the statement and it could rot ke learned whether Jacobsen | would come to trial soon, or at all. The statement was the first offi- cial word from the government The Census Bureau today esti-| mated the population, growing at a 200,000-a-month clip, reached 150,- | concerning Jacobsen’s arrest. 183,000 on Nov. 1. The U,S. State Department re- This was a 2,132,010 increase in|cently banned all private travel in the first 10 months of 1949 and a | Iiungary by American citizens as a gain of 18,514,000 since the last full| result of the earlier arrest of Robert Vogeler, Assistant Vice President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. Arrested with Vvogeler was Edgar Sanders, a British accountant for I.T.&T. PATROLMAN REPORTS HIGHWAY IN TOP SHAPE The Alaska Highway from the i | | BLANKETED, FOG| JERUSALEM, Dec. 23 — P — Elinding fog blanketed the barren mountains of Jerusalem and nearby | Bethlehem today, but weather prophets forecast the mists may| lift in time for the annual pil-|States through Canada to fok grimage to Christ's birthplace. | Junction is in top shape for winter A double procession will start!criving, according to word received from the Holy City tomorrow mgm; here by Frank A. Metcalf, chief of for the traditional journey to the!the Territorial Highway Patrol. Je said today that Sgt. E. L. “Tu Mayfield, stationed at Tok Junction, hns_ just returned from a trip over the Highway from the States and reports the road in goocd condition, (ounl’ '“ SBS'O" Word from other Alaska High- { way Patrol offices indicates that all The U.S. District Court here|cpen interior roads are also in good opened this morning at 10 O'Clflckishape for winter driving, Metcall id. Church of the Nativity in Bethle: hem, where a high mass will com- memorate the tirth of Jesus. OFFICIALS RETURN; with Judge George W. Folta pre- iding. Judge Folta considered mo- tions and liquor license applica- | 'STORES ARE T0 BE CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY Juneau stores, including drug tions. He returned yesterday by air from Anchorage where he had been aiding Judge Anthony J. Dimond with court cases in the Third Ju- himself.” * HUGE pASSENGER | Juneau died in the Govern- |ment Hospital. She was 83 years Mrs. Klaney's first marriage to the late Jimmie Young in 1902 was SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23—P—jn southeast Alaska. They had ac- Plans for early construction of four|cepted Christianity earlier the by American President Lines. tisms and wedding ceremonies per- Presideny George Killion dis-|formed by Dr. Young, who gave the two fast passenger ships at least| Mrs, Klaney was active in Presby- twice as large as the 573-foot|terian church work in Juneau The four new 'round-the-world| she is survived by her husband, liners would cost approximately|three daughters, Mrs. Willie Peters Vv-2000 type luxury liners now vnder construction at Camden, N.J.| KETCHIKAN GUEST Mrs. John R. MacMillan of Ket-| Hotel i dicial Division. Court officials returning with Judge Folta were Mildred Maynard, | cpurt, reporter, Marie Jensen, deputy | cierk of the court, and M. William Folta’s ka. Also surviving her are 17 grand- children and 9 great-grand child- ren. The Rev. Walter Soboleff will conduct funeral services for Mrs. lumong eleven airmen killed when a B-50 bomber crashed near Sa-| vannah, Ga., last night. This was learned today when the | victim's mother, Mrs. J. R. Hayden of Denison was notified by the Air Force. Young Hornsby was a veteran ot | census on April 1, 1940. Judge law Memorial Presbyterian Church. | clerk, stores, will be closed for the holi- cay season which means also next Monday. The television receiver is a heayy user of vacuum tubes, re- quiring 20 or more. SHIVERS AS N.Y. WARMS By Associated Press A cold—and probably white— Christmas appeared in prospect for most of the Midwest. The cold air which covered te central part of the country spread eastward today to the Appalachian Mountains but the Atlantic coastal areas enjoyed spring-like temper- atures. It was sub-zero weather today from the Dakotas to northern Il- linois. The mercury tumbled to 21 below at Pembina, N. D, and In- ternationad Falls, Minn,, it was -2 at Rockford and Bradford, IIl, and Chicago shivered at 4 above, the coldest day of the season. New York City's early 'morning reading was a mild 60 and early holiday celebrators strolled Times 3quare carrying topcoats and ov- orcoats over their arms, Yesterday the mercury hit 62,2 a record high for Dec. 22. Light snow fell today in the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley and also in the Dakotas and Montana. sleet, ice and snow storms caused at least 38 deaths across the na- tion this week, a survey showed. The hardest hit area was southern California which reported 11 traf- fic fatalities resulting from icy roads. FIRE ROUTES CREW ON NORSE VESSEL DOCKED IN BOSTON BOSTON, Dec. 23—(M—Squirm- ing out of portholes and struggling through smoke-filled companion- ways, 40 crewmen and two steward- esses escaped in nightclothes early today as explosions and flames wrecked the midship decks of the moored Norwegian freighter, Fern Bay. One crewman suffered burns and he ship's Captain made his way wer a cargo beom to safety in the + a.m. blaze which caused loss es- timated at “between $100,000 and $500,000." Fldmes ate through the five- deck superstructure of the 10- months-old 8,000-ton vessel, out of Oslo, Norway, which arrived here recently from Port Said after a voyage to Far Eastern ports, Her cargo was crude rubber and tea. Tugs and land apparatus battled the flames. Prince George ICE JAM CAUSE OF BIG FLOOD Two Hundred Homes Are Menaced-Twister His Long Beach PRINCE GEORGE, B. C., Dec 23—(M—Icy waters from the Nech- ako River swirled through Prince George streets today, backed up by an ice jam. As flood waters rose six inches | overnight, sawmills closed, and some householders in the miil dis- | trict fled their homes, Damage al- ready totals at least $75,000. ; Dynamite was used in,efforts to divert the flood waters from in- { dustrial sections, and in the resi- dential district 200 homes are men- aced. Eight to 10 feet of freezing water has spilled into millyards, caus- ing heavy damage to machinery. Seven of 11 mills in the district have closed. LONG BEACH TWISTER LONG BEACH, Wash. Dec. 23— (M—A freak twister swept in off the Pacific Ocean into a residen- tial district near noon today, tear- ing the roof off one house and damaging several others. No one {was hurt. The twister, first ever reported here, followed a narrow path ap- proximately 50 feet wide, It first struck the house of Eric Matson, lifting the 24x32 foot roof off as neatly as if it had used a saw. TRUMAN COULD WIN ELECTION NOW, IKE 'OR NOT: SENATOR WASHINGTON, Dec. 23— (A — President Truman’s statement that he doesn't expect General Dwight ID. Eisenhower to run for Presi- | dent brought this reaction today from Senator Humphrey (D-Minn): Mr. Truman could win another Presidential election right now— whoever his Republican opponent might be, Humphrey voiced his views to re- porters after Mr. Truman told a news conference yesterday that he and Eisenhower are friends and are going to remain friends, even if the General runs for President. Mr. Truman said he doesn’t think the wartime aflied commander in Europe is seeking a TPresidential nomination, adding that he is tak- ing Eisenhower at his word, The General’'s word has always been good, the President observed. Eisenhower, who heads Columbia University, saild recently that he has no political angle and he is not going to let talk by others make him a Presidential candiate. SANTA CLAUS PARACHUTER FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 28— Sophisticated city tots who dis- Jute the existence of Santa Claus will have to argue with six child eye witnesses from Lake Minchu- mina. Lt. Louis Button of the 10th Res- cue Squadron at nearby Ladd Pield clad himself in whiskers and traditional Santa apparel yesterday and dropped 1,500 feet from a C-47 on the runway of the isolated Civil Aeronautic Administration station 150 miles southwest of her “Santa" carried a bag of toys from the airmen who were fed and housed by the station’s fam- ilies during a recent search mis~ sion Jor Lt. Alexander Murphv, 10th Rescue Squadron officer who disappeared on a routine flight Nov. 3. Button said one four-year-old skeptic demanded reindeer, but the station’s five other children, aged two to iour, accepted both Santa and the presents with equal credul- ity. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 28. Denali from west scheduled southbound Sunday evening. i