The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,388 ALL THE TIME” : ._\U. ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1949 MI“\H}HP AS ")( !~\'H ]) I RESS PRICE TEN CENTS 3 Russ Ships Lurk Near Navy Workout Red Vessels?Virgin Isles’ on Eve of Maneuvers- Take Long Way Round By Asscciated Press Three mysterious Russian ships have been reported in the Carib- bean area where the biggest U. 8. peacetime maneuvers in history, soon will be held. American au- thorities are Kkeeping a wary but diplomatically correct eye on the vessels. The three ships are the Trepang, Permautr and Chiaka, reportedly enroute from the Baltic to Vladi- vostok by way of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Authorties said this brings to 15 the number of similar type Sov- iet vessels that have crossed the Caribbean on their way to Rus- sia's important Siberian seasport in the past two and a half years. Mny Fish Grounds One informant expressed doubt that the Russian ships’ primary aim is military information. He suggested that Russia may be plan- ning to take over fishing grounds that the Japanese used before the war. o But Naval men recalled that last year three Russian vessels ar- rived at St. Thomas just a few weeks before spring maneuvers were held. Naval authorities say Soviet ships have a right to put in at St. Thom- as, but point out that the Carib- bean route is the long way around for a vessel on the Europe-Vladi- vostok run. The Russians themselves have volunteered no explanation. U. 8. military planners are com- pleting arrangements for combined services exercises involving some 80,000 men, in the Caribbean area due to held from January through| mid-March. j 1 Plane Down In Inferior; Flier Okeh FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 20— (P—Frank Williams, Wien Airlines mechanic missing since leaving for Kotzebue Mcnday was found alive yesterday in a pass between Kiana and Selawik, 387 miles west of here. A dog team was sent from Kiana, 19 miles from the crash scene to pick up Williams, who was believed to have a broken leg. The plane was badly damaged Williams was returning to work after spending Christmas with his family in Tanana, 132 miles west of here. DIVORCE GRANTED Charles E, Knapp of Craig was granted a divorce from Myrna M. Knapp in the U. 8. District Court here today. The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 19i7, hv Hell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Toward the end of the war, Presdent Roosevelt called in Juan Trippe, apple-cheek- ed President of Pan American World Airways, and suggested that his airline start a chain of hotels around the world. Shortage of dollars was sure to be one of the great economic curs- es of the world after the war, FDR warned, and one way to- spread dollars abroad was through the tourist trade. However, good hotels were necessary for the tcurists, which was why Roosevelt urged Pan American Airways to go into the hotel business. As a result, Pan Am is building a chain of modern hotels—or at least trying to build them—in var- ious parts of the world. However, their bjggest handicap, believe :t or not, is the Marshall Plan. In Latin America, where the Marshall Plan does not operate, the hotel program is going well. But in Turkey, a country blessed | with a lot of Marshall Plan money, the ECA has actually helped to stymie American enterprise. ‘What happened was that Pan American, after lengthy negotiz-| (Continued on Page Four) i + Three - o 2. Garbed in rich ceremonial robes, +Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica The traditional ceremony in the Vatican's cathedral inaugurated the 25th Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church. Papal attendants stand by during the impressive rite. (P) Wirephoto via radio from Rome). Fireworks At7P. M. Citizens® 6f Juneau have some- thing in store for them in the way of a New Year's treat this year. The Juneau 4th of July Fire- | works Committee is pleased to an- { nounce that it will present a gala display of flashing aerial pyrotech- | nics over Gastineau Channel at 7 | o’clock New Year's Eve. Over 100 large aerial shells have ar rived for the event, and they will {|be fired in such a manner that they will turst high in the air ovei the Channel immediately in froni of the Subport Dock. This will en- able most of the people of Juneau to see the fireworks without even leaving their homes, Credit goes to the following Ju- neau merchants for paying for the fireworks, which were furnished at cost: Juno Dollar Store, Juneau Young Hardware, Triangle Club, Commer- ¢al Liquor Gtore, Fred Henning, Blackie’s Bar, City Cafe, Connors | Motor Co., Bert's Food Center, S&T Clothing, Bud Whiteside, North Transfer Co., D Alaska Empire, and Northern Sales Company. The 4th of July Fireworks Com- mittee, functioning under the abl leadership of Cleo Commers, Chair- man, will arrange, and fire the display. The time for the display Pope Pius XII (left) strikes the with a silver hammer (Dec. 24). to interfere with the concert of the Eugene, Oregon, High School Band whict s to be at 8 o'clock. THREEDIE FROM DRY ICE FUMES TACOMA, Wash,, Dec. 29—(P— men were Killed and four overcome by carbon dioxide gas sarly today in the hold of the freighter A:a Lothrop at the Shaf- ey Terminal here, Tacoma Ceneral Hospital au- thorities listed the dead as William Flannry, Delbert Thiel and Albert Nyson, ‘all of Tacoma. None of the four overcome in serious condition. Foreman Carl Fearson said the 'umes came from dry i in the { bottom of two large truck trailers loaded with meat which had been placed aboard the vessel last night. Firemen donned gas masks and descended into the hold of the ship to rescue the men. Jim Skiffington, one of the sur- vivors told how his fellow work- men “dropped like flies” as they reached the bottom of the hold. J. J. Lucas, Superintendent ot perations for the Alaska ship lines, owners of the vessel, said he and another man detected the ga was 1 while inspecting the hold early this morning. He said he.gave orders for Jlowers to be installed to clear tie air, but the other men entered the hold before they could be warned. The vessel has keen hounded by tad luck since last summer when it was the center of a labor dispute at a Tacoma dock. A court hearing now is in progress on whether a temporary order restraining picket- ng of the Lothrop will be made permanent. While enroute to Alaska last sum- mer her engmes failed, setting the ship adrift. The Lothrop is scheduled to sail for Alaska soon with nine food- bearing vans. FROM SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. O. Ann Reule has arrived | from San Francisco, and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMERTS | Princess Norah from Vancouver due late Saturday afternoon or early evening. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Baranof from west scheduled| southbound Sunday evening. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YOREK, Dec. 29—Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 3%, American Can 106%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennecott 50%, New York | Central 11%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 26%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,820,000 shares, | Averages today are as follows: | industrials 199.36, rails 5271, util-| ilies 41.20. Mysterious | cetting sun. But the four pilots who {COAST GROWTH CAN SAYS SECY. SAWYER WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—(®-—-Se- cretary of Commierce Charles Saw- yer believes that the cause of prob- |lems on the Pacific Coast also will Four Pilofs Unable fo Cafch: to those dir- i provide the answer ficulties. 4 or Neon Tubes, Report report to Presidential = Assistant| HAMLET, N.C, Dec. "Something” Chased in Sky John R. Steelman, Sawyer said !that some of the areas ecurrent 20—(A—A . . fig ot ysterious object moving south g?f:;(‘m?]:;:finf?::wm " iemen westward through the sky had L y But the same growth, he added, a its rich econ- of Carolinians agog today. o.ject, on which descriptions ried, was first spotted at Fayette- ville, about 50 miles northeast of | Hamlet at about 4:30 p.m. yester- day. It was sighted again over Hamlet at about 4:45 p.m. and reports: provides “much of ‘umic opportunity.” “Here,” Sawyer explained, “arej hundreds of thousands of new workers to process the products of the forests and farms and mines, together with the resources of wat- er and power with which to do it. Safurday, {Below Zero Weather Pre- Columbia Lumber Comp.uu'.l rler of has been set at 7 o'clock so as not | | | University of Alaska. I ' i {COURT WILL RULE ICE BOWL FOOTBALL, dicted-Susan Williams to Be Crowned Queen FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 20—(@ | —Maybe you just won't believe it, but football players were happy as snow larks today over a forecast of way-down-bclow-zero weather for their Monday game. It just wouldn't be the Ice Bowl game otherwise, explained the grid- of Ladd Air Force Base and the University of Alaska. The first an- nual tilt was played last Jan. 1 with the thermometer at 20 below. ‘The opposing coaches reported that men who didn't bother to turn out last fall when the weather was almy scrambled for suits when the ury dropped and snow began o fly. Eighteen of the 30 Univer- ity players are veterans of last year's zero-zero tle with Ladd. Six of them had never played before. The Lathrop Trophy, put up for the winner, spent six months at Ladd and half a year at the Uni- versity after the inaugural game. Susan Williams, vivacious daugh- ecretary of Alaska Lew M Williams and Mrs. Williams of Ju- nean, has been elected Queen cf the Ice Bowl event and will be crowned between halves of the big game. Miss Williams is a student at the ON ALASKA SHIP LINE UNION CASE TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 20—(P— *A Superior . Court .xuling is ex- pected within a week or ten days on whether a restraining order brought by the Alaska Ship Lines, Inc, against two CIO and one in- dependent unions should be wmade final. 2 + The case, being heard in Superior Judge Hugh Rosellini’s Court, in- volves the picketing of the vessel Asa Lathrop while she was loaded here last fall with cargo for Alaska. The owners contend the three unions lost a National Labor Re- lations Board bargaining election held aboard the vessel last fall and | 1ing, I Representatives of the three un. ions asserted the AFL Seaman came from Greenwood, S.C., today | anq nere, too, is a vast new mar- that the mysterious object passed!yes ' for their output.” westward over that city shortly; , pin-point review of Sawyer's after 5 p.m. report, based on meetings in San (Greenwood is about 180 miles|pnjego’ 105 Angeles, San Francisco, couthwest of Hamlet on a direct|polang and Seattle, included line extendng from Fayetteville). {ihece jtems: Scores of residents in all three| Washington and Oregon are hav- cities reported sighting the object. “ng much less difficulty than Cal- And at Hamlet end Greenwood, it|jfornja in absorbing the influx was chased for several minutes by |or new workers. ; four pilots, Dollar shortages in the Orient Hamlet observers said it resembled | gnq Latin America have caused a- a balloon or blimp, and appeared jag in fruit and lumber exports Lo, to be'atout 20 or 30 feet in d'ame-|ihoge countries which foreign aid ter. At Fayetteville, one ODSErVeriprograms have not offset. ‘ said it looked more like a vertical neon lighting tube. Ground observers all said that it drifted into the direction of me} o ar s chased it at Hamlet and Green- | . wood said they were unable to gainj Dls‘overed on it in their planes. Except for its shape and the scores who witnessed it, the reports gl were reminiscent of the myriad (By Associated Press) tales of flying saucers current since; AD anstronomer has discovered the war. a star which he says is 27 times ’ hotter than the sun. The astrono- ANCHORAGE COUPLE mer is Dr. Thornton Page of Yerkes Mr. and Mrs. M. D. F. Beatty of [Observatory in Chicago. Anchorage are -stopping at the He says the new hot star is Baranof Hetel from two to three times greater ok A AR than any previously reported. If it was as close as the sun, all T SRS S Bl life on earth would shrivel and WEATHER REPORT die. Fortunately, it is millions of (This data is for 24-hour pe- miles further nway riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 8; e Suicide af ‘At Aupmt——flaxlmum 9; minimum -12. ‘ FORECAST (Junesu and Vieloity) Continued cold and windy tonight and Friday. Low temperature tonight about 5 in town and near 10 below in sheltered areas. High temperature Friday about 10. ePRECIPITATION 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today @ of Juneau—None; since Dec. 1—5.06 inches; e July 1—53.94 inches. “At Alrport—None since Dec. 1—237 inches; since Judy 1—35.49 inches. -onoo'..'ul\l“nano, | PAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 20—(® '—A coroner’s jury returned a ver- ® jdict of suicide yesterday in the e | death of Walter E. Schwartz, 50. Schwartz, a plumber, was found shot dead on Chirstmas night in his room in a Lacy Street Hotel ®|A 22 calbre revolver was clasped between his knees. Despondency oiwas blamed. . ° ° . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . Calif.,, survives, | Jjurisdiction. Fairbanks| | Union has azt\empted to man a vessel over which the others had ‘The picketing resulted in a wat- erfront fight in which three CIO men were injured. The unions m.. the American Radio Association, | the International Union of Marine } Cooks and Stewards Association and the Firemen's Union, the in- dependent organization, FAIRBANKS| should be restrained from picket~ 11 Rose Queca and Courd | Princesses for thei rofficial photograph at Pasadena, Calif. reign over the annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game. All the girls are students at Pasadena junior colleges. The Princesses, start- ing lower left and clockwise: Betty Brusher, Dorathy Welsh, Eddy Ruth Stewart, Carole Lynn Collins, Dorothy Scott and Barbara Jones. (P Wirephoto. Tournament of Roses Queen Marion Brown (center) poses with her She will | Plane Zooms Three Times Speed of So LOS ANGELES, Dec, :20-—@--An Air Force plane reportedly has flown 1989 miles an hour—three times the speed of sound. That's the new record of the Air Force's X-1 rocket plane, says the Los, K Angeles Times' Aviation Editor, Marvin Miles. Quoting what he calls “reliable informants,” Miles today said the X-1 had reached 2 speed of 19%J miles an hour in the stratosphere over Edwards Alr Force Bawe ! Muroz Dry Lake. The spizd w { Mach 3, he given him or three til ast as sound. Sonic velocity 663 miles an hour between the altitudes of 35,000 and 100,000 feet. Miles’' story did not say who was at the controls, but presumed it as as | was Capt. Charles Yeager or per-j haps Maj. Pete Everest. A year and a half ago the Air Force announced : { that Yeager would try to fly the X-1 up to 1700 miles an hour, the maximum speed for which it was originally designed. Everest, Miles aid, has been testing the rocket- powered craft. The needle-nosed, X-1 is dropped from the belly of CHAIN LETTERS BEING USED T0 AID SEN. TAFT ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 29—@— Chain letters asking recipients to send a dollar or more to assist the campaign of Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio made their appearance here today. The letters, some of them mailed from New York, asked that those receiving the letters send copies to 10 friends. They asked that the contribution be sent to jsen E. Tate, Treasurer of the Tal! Camwpaign Fund, 3204 Carew Tower, Cincin- nati. Taft, a Republican, is seeking re- election in 1950. “Taft has been singled out for slaughter,” the letter said in part. Honeymoon of 0'Dwyers Nears End, Nine Days (By Associated Press) The honeymoon is over today for New York City’'s Mayor Willlam O'Dwyer and his bride. They will leave Florida by plane at 3;30 this afternoon (EST) to spend New Year's at home. The honeymoon lasted nine days. O'Dwyer will be next Monday. a supertortress for its flights. MOVIE STAR AND 3 CHILDREN FLEE AS FIRE THREATENS| (By Associated Press) Movie Star Loretta Young and her three children had to flee their home in Beverly Hills, Calif,, last night because of a raging brush fire. | The fire raced to within 30 feet| of two homes in the district before it was put out. The blaze was fought by 300 firefighters, including Miss Young’s husband, radio exccutive Tom Lewis, Ophir Poslmasler Is Recommended WASHINGTON, Dec. 20— (@ — Delegate Bartlett of Alaska recom- mended to the Postoffice r:d‘velyn Cheeks as . Postmaster phir, Alaska. FINED, CARLESS DRIVING Fred C. Graham was fined $35 and had his driver's license sus pended for three months in th U. 8. Commissioner’s Court here| yesterday for careless driving. He was involved in an lccldent A brother Herbert Schwartz, of [sworn in for a new term as Mayor | while driving wiih skates on, Decemer 18 [llIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|lIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllillIllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllfllfllllll accident occurred 15 31-foot-lonz } Depart- | ment today appointment of Mrs | m! Warner Pathe News looks back over und: 1989 MP WEATHER BREAKS, | NW AREA «By the Assoclated Press) ! Flood-menaced Western Washing- ton got a break from the weather man today. Despite a forecast ol occasional showers throughout the Puget Sound and coastal area, the sky-scanners dropp"d the word: “The worst is over.” None of the anticipated showers | were expected to reach torrentiai proportions such as those which deluged the region the last two | days. The thermometer also was €x- l pected to underge a gradual drop,, ufficient to halt the rapid thaws jin the mountain snow zone, The forecast was a happy one ior the region's residents. The post-Christmas blast already has caused one death in Washing- ton state, gorged a half-dozen rivers to flood stage, temporarily | marooned scores of motorists in (moumain passes and inconveni- undreds of others, .| around 9:30 a.m. PRESIDENT i WILLTALK. WEDNESDAY Will Deliver Stafe-of-the- Union Message, Joint Session Congress WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—(P— President Truman will deliver his State-of-the-Un'on message before a joint session of the Senate and House next Wednesday. The White House announced to- day that this time was decided on in talks the President had with the “Big Four” Congressional leaders by telephone. He talked with Vice President Barkley in Washington; Senate Democratic Leader Lucas in Tlli- nois; Speaker Rayturn in Texas end House Democratic Leader Me- Cormack in Boston. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross sad the exact time ol the President’s talk has not been fixed, but that it will be (PST), Ross could not say the exact length of the President’s message but said it would require about 35 to 40 minutes to deliver. SEEKS CUT INFOREIGN HANDOUTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 20— (B — Sen. Connally (D-Texas) called to- day for cuts in foreign spending next year and continuation of a “non-partisan” foreign policy. The veteran chairman of the Senate Foreigh tee told a ne conference that U. 8. recovery and military assis- tance programs “have already in- stalled new confidence in a jittery world.” “The United States can have but one foreign policy,” he insisted. Moving into a developing Senate fight over the bi-partisan foreign policy, Connally thus generally al- lgned himself with Swn. Vanden- berg of Michigan, Republican spok- esman on many foreign policy is- sues and co-author of the bi-part- isan effort. Before he met with newsmen, Connally’s position had been ex- pected to furnish some clue to the Administration’s attitude on soothing ruffled Republican temp- ers. ) Connally told newsmen there would be no recognition of a Communist Government in China without pricr consultation by Se- cretary of State Acheson with the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- { tee. LT. HOWELL HERE Lt. Charles R. Howell, USCG, is enroute to Kodiak for duty at Coast Guard Air Facility, N.AS, He came in from Seattle yesterday via PAA, stayed overnight at the Baranof Hotel, and was booked for today's PNA (llght to Anch- orage. l lII!IlllIIIlIIIlIIIHlIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll!lllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIH SHOWPLALE or APITUL 2 wurnea NOW THRU SATURDAY THE GREATEST 1 NEWSREEL FILMS | OF THE DECADE! | the past ten “years and presents the greatest newsreel pictures of the most * civilization: fateful decade in the history of our | The Nineteen-Forlies! Commip=="