The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,389 D. E. SKINNER, GENERAL MGR. ALASKASTEAM Announcementof Appoint- ment Made by Presi- dent W. E. Skinner SEATTLE, Dec. 30—/P—D. E. Skinner’s appointment as General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Company was announced today. He is the son of G. W. Skinner, President of the firm, who made the announcement. 1.2 younger Skinner's new title will be Vice President and Gen- eral Manager. The position has been vacant since the retirement of L. W. Baker in 1947. Skinner assumes the executive post: Jan. 1, after three years as General Manager of the Pacific Cruise Lines, two years as Vice President of the Alaska Steamship Company and seven as a partner in the Northland Transportation Company, He served three years in the Navy during the war. J. F. Zumdieck, Superintendent, was named the firm’s operating manager. CAB MAKES REPORT, HOMER PLANE CRASH| 30—P— | WASHINGTON, Dec. The Civil Aeronautics Board said today the crash of an Alaska Air! Lines DC-3 near Homer, ‘last Jan. 20 protably was caused by the pilot’s flying off the estab- lished air way at an altitude too| low to clear the terrain. Three passengers and two crew members were killed when the plane ! struck Ptarmigan Head about 300 feet from its crest while flying| from Homer to Afichorage. — The Board found the plane was in ! good condition and the weather yp the pole and stabbed that fish clear. It noted, however, that the | pilot had left the regular airway and was flying by visual rules rather than instrument flight rules as required by company regulations for night flights. The only survivor was the pilot, Rector D. Land, who was seriously injured and unable to recall events immediately prior to the accident. BOY IS FATALLY Alaska, : ! JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1949 'WE ARE FOND OF EACH OTHER' i COZY TWOSOME AT NIGHT CL UB are G X ) Durston, New York cabaret singer, v e S L and Elliott Roosevelt, son of late President. Admitting fondness can’t make statement at present time.” one another, Gigi says, “We (International Soundphoto) GETSTITLE, BESTLIAR BURLINGTON, Wis., A fantastic fishing fib involv- ing the death of a Colorado trout today gave a fabricating Ohioan | the title ~of “World’s' Champion | Liar.” [ The Burlington Liar's Club said it's annual award goes to “honest John” Goerlich of Toledo “with a sigh of relief and by unanimous vote.” | Goerlich’s tall tale related that, | alone in Colorado he caught a! trout on a cane pole but in his| excitement forgot about his lnnd-‘ ing nets and gaff hooks. { He reeled his prize up to the tip of the pole which he then heaved out of the water into an upright position. The pole was | so long he couldn’t reach the fish and he dared not put the pole back into the water for fear the| trout would escape. | “I stuck the butt of that long,| imber pole into the ground, drew my trusty hunting knife, climbed to death.” Honorakle mention was awarded to Bob Elverman of Louisville, Ky., and C. E. Berry of Maumee, Ohio. DOG MUSHER T0 HIT TRAIL WHEN . WEATHER WARMS + BROOKS BROOK, Yukon Terri- INJURED BY RAM BENTLEY, Kans., Dec. 30—#—A ram charged into a two-year-old boy and injured him fatally. The boy, Robert Dosien, was on tory, Dec. 30—(M—Cecil A. (Mush) Moore, held here three days by 55 below zero weather, said today he planned to continue his Alaska-to- Maine dogteam trek tomorrow since a tour of his grandparents’ farm near here. His father, Lt. Robert W. Dosien of Pensacola, Fla., was with him but had his attention | 5000-mile jaunt diverted. The ram slammed the boy intoito raise funds for underprivilezed ! j children, said “the dogs are in fine the side of the karn. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Convrignt, 1932, hv Bell Syndicete, Ine.) ASHINGTON—Here is the in- side story on reports of friction between two of the most potent|Llelow at Swift River, Truman Cabinet members—Secre- | miles from this community, which tary of State Dean Acheson and|is about 50 miles north of the Yu- Secretary of Defense Louis John- son, both men are now leaning over backward to get along with each other. The three policies are: 1.— Sending a steel mill to Yugoslavia, which Johnson opposed but Ache- son favored: 2—Occupying Formosa with U. 8. troops, which Johnson favored but Acheson opposed: 3.—General American polfey in the Far East, where Johnson be- lieves the United States kai-Shek. Acheson has particularly resent- ed Johnson’s barging into the Far Eastern situation; and the belief has been expressed around the State Department that Johnson’s interferences could not be entirely divorced from his law firm which once represented the brothers-in- law of Chiang kai-Shek and the Soong dynasty. Argument Over Airplanes One small part of the Johnson- Acheson irritation came when the should | have vigorously supported Chiangl jcause his dogs were in danger of i frosting their lungs. He made a Actually there have been dif-|moments north of here when his ferences of opinion between them|dogs chased horses from a big game on three important policies, but|outfitter's herd. . Secretary .of Defense balked at giving the Secretaary of State a (Continued on Page Four) the weather “warmed up to 30 be- low.” Moore, who is undertaking the from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Lewiston, Me., as a stunt shape and I am in good spirits.” After spending Christmas with an American group, Moore pu i on in 50 below zero weather—so cold he had to stop one day ke- 37-mile run one day to reach the home here of Johnny Johns, guide and big game hunter. The thermometer dropped to 73 Yukon, 75 kon-British Columbia line. Moore sa’d he had a few bad “We had a fast ride,” Moore said, “for two miles.” FROM ANCHORAGE 5 Jack P. Henrickson of Anchorage | is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. L] 1 e & & o v = ® o 3 2 i . WEATHER REPORT o (This data is for 24-hour pe- e riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 8; minimum -1. At Airport—Maximum 9; mirimum -13. FORECAST (Juneau and y) Continued cold and windy tonight and Saturday. Low temperature tonight about 2 below and high Saturday about 5. CePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m. today ® City of Juneau—None; since Dec. 1-5.06 inches; since July 1—53.94 inches. At Airport—None since Dec. 1—2.37 inches; since Judy 1—35.49 inches. ® o 0 0 2 0 0 o R EE RN 0000000000000 000000e } » o PIRUVIAN BEAUTY PERUVIA Ana Maria Alvarez-Calderon, 20, winner of title of “Queen of the Americas,” in Peruvian beauty contest, waves a greeting as she arrives at New York to start a six weeks visit to the United States. The slim, five-foot, five-inch bru- nette told reporters that she sup- posed she was heiress to about $32,000,000 “although I never counted it.” (® Wirephoto. 'REAR ADM. SMITH IN NEW COMMAND; 13TH NAVAL DISI. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— (B — Rear Adm. Allen S. Smith, wartime commander of Alaska’s 17th Naval District, was named yesterday to become commandant of the 13th Naval District headquarters at Se- attle. He will succeed Rear Adm. How- ard H. Good, who reaches retire- ment Sept. 1, 1950. Prior to his Alaska Command. Admiral Smith commanded the battleship South Dakota which supported World War II operations in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands and later against Kwajalein, Tin- ian, Saipan and Guam. He also led a cruiser strike against Para- mushira Island and commanded a cruiser division in the battle for Iwo Jima. URANIUM FOUND IN MICHIGAN; SIZE OF DEPOSIT U‘NI(NOWN' NEGAUNEE, Mich., Dec. 30—(#— Uranium ore, basic material for making atomic bombs, has been discovercd in upper Michigan. This announcement was released today by the Jones & Laughlin Ore Co. with the approval of the Atomic Energy Commission. The discovery was the first to be reported in Michigan. Size of the deposit has not been determined. Neither is it known yet whether there is enough to make mining operations worthwhile, piler Hendrickson, a graduate student from the University of nesota, located the ore last st along the Huron river in the northwestern sector of isolated, orest-covered Baraga county. INDIA RECOGNIZES CHINESE COMMIES; Pending on Steps Tak- { en by Congress (By the Associated Press) The government of India today recognized the Chinese Communist I regime of Mao Tze-Tung and cut off relations with the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. India is the first government ot the British Commonwealth of na- i tions to take such action. Britain | and other dominions are expected to follow the Ind'an lead shortly. announcements Commonwealth recognition of the Chinese Communists may come fol- lewing an empire Foreign Ministers’ conference in Colombo, Ceylon, which begins Jan. 9. The of further Burma, a former empire country but now independent, has already recognized Communist China. In Washinzton, the United States was reported to be shaping a vigorous new policy on China to | replace the previous wait-and-see | plan. External and internal forces compel such a policy. Impending nd other countries is one force. | Pressure from certain American | quarters for supporting Chiang is another, speeding on, The Nationalists reported the Communists have tegun an iniil- | tration of Formosa. The 'said Communist troops in small numbers landed at isolated points ;a]ong the Formosa coastlne, then | vanished hastily into the interior. Cther Communist attempts to land on Matsu Island off China’s east coast 100 miles northwest of Formosa and Hainan off the south an administration deci- i coast, were repulsed, the Nation=- alists said. 'PRIBILOF SEALERS - GIVEN PAY RAISE; ‘I SUBSISTANCE CUT Chapman Says Must Pay fot Fuel-Eventually Must Pay Cash for Housing WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—(/—The iguvernmem is raising the pay of jits Pribilof Island fur sealers next | week but will require some of them to start buying their own fuel. Secretary of the Interior Chap- |man said the new system, effective Jan. 1, will “pave the way for .gradual transition from payment 1in allotment of necessities plus |cash to straight cash compensa- tion.” ] 1 The 525 Aleut Natives of the is- lands have been receiving, as part of their wages, free housing, food, fuel, electricity, ity and retirement benefits, In addition, the men have re- ceived cash payments dependingl upon the number of seal and fox skins harvested annually. ‘ On the basis of the pelts taken in 1949, Sealers of the first class received $922.80; second clas, $738; third class, $531.60; fourth class, $356.40, and fifth class, $265.20. Chapman said that in 1950, work- men in the skilled and semi-skil- led categories will be required’ to Ibuy fuel supplies from their cash earnigs instead of drawing a gov- ernment ration. They will, however, continue to receive as part of their compensa- tion the other necessities of life plus educational, health and re- creational facilities, Chapman estimated the value of these issues and benefits for a year at $900 for each workman. In addition, the new cash pay- ment scale calls for $1,700 a year for foreman; $1,400 to $1,600 for skilled workers; $1,000 to $1,400 for semi-skilled workmen; $700 to $1,000 for unskilled laborers, and $30 to $40 a month for boys em- ployed during the summer sealing season. . STEAMER MOVEMENTS due early evening. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. | Baranof from west scheduled southbound Sunday evening. BREAKS WITH NATS. |Action by Unifed Staes| | recognition of Red China by British Convening of Congress is! reports ! /INJURED AIRMAN BY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NON - SKED HEAD HITS AEROBOARD | Air Trans;t;t President Blasts “Government Monopoly” SEATTLE, Dec. 30—(M—A Civil Acronautics Board order that Air Transport Associates Inc. of Seattle show cause why its operating priv- ilege as an irregular carrier should not be revoked brought a prompt challenge from ATA President Amos Heacock last night. Heacock, who also is President of | the Independent Air Carriers Con- ference of America, immediately accused the CAB of preparing to revoke letters of registration of all carriers “who dare to challenge the government supported monopoly.” “I challenge you,” Heacock wrote the CAB, “to defend your action before the public opinion of the brought fresh- eggs, milk, meat and produce at prices they could afford by the non-scheds you are de- stroying.” COMFANT IN “VICLATION" i The CAB orcder was issued yes- | terday. The agency caid it acted on information that the company had been making regular flights between Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska, in ! violation of its letter of re tion as a nonscheduled operator. Heacock denied that ATA has violated the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1038. 2 He denounced the CAB as a “kan- garoo court” which is “legislator, the prosecutor, the policeman, the judge and the jury,” all at the same time. Alleged nonscheduled op>rat'on { with “undue frequency and regular- ,lty" is a crime only insofar as the Board says it is in a regulation adopted by the board “with the tull | knowledge that the regulation would put us out of business,” Heacock charged. The ATA President said the War | Assets Administration invited vet- | erans to start airlines and Congress ( { gave them priority rights to war surplus aircraft. “HUGE WASTE" “We were shocked and amazed at the utter incompetence of our i scheduled airline competitors—their huge waste—their half empty air- craft fulfilling CAB authorized schedules,” he said. “We couldn’t understand until we discovered they could not possibly lose money Le- cause the Board guaraniteed mail pay to make up any loss “As a nonscheduled airline, cock continued, “We proved we could provde low cost air transpor- tation to Alaska at one-third and less than one-third the per ton mile cost figures of the scheduled lines. Yet our scheduled competitors in Alaska service received as high as 50 percent of their revenue in mail pay.” Heacock asserted the CAB is hospitalization, | “preparing to revoke the letters of ; these thin sick leave, annual leave, nationaliregistration of ATA, Golden Nortn|She thanked me holidays plus four and a half| Airways, Mt. McKinley Air Lines,{™¢ I was a nice fe special church holidays, and disabil- | Arnold Air Service and other car-|Would rather stay in Germany and riers who dare to challenge the l government supported monopoly.” ESKIMOS RESCUE SLED TO KOTZEBUE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 30— (A—Rescued by an Eskimso driven dog team, Frank Williams, 26, was recuperating today in a Kotzebue hospital from injuries suffered in the crash of a small plane two days azo tetween Kiana and Sela- wik, 387 miles west of here. Williams, a Wien Airlines me- chanic, took off from Tanana for Kotzebue Monday after spending Christmas with his family. In the hospital it was learned he had a broken arm and jaw and fractured leg. The dog team brought him to an undisclosed landing field, whence he was flown to Kotzebue. He spcit 50 hours in severe sub- zero weather, but was able to keep warm with clothing dropped to him by a Tenth Rescue Squadron plane. FIRE ALARM Princess Norah from Vancnuver‘ Thawing frozen water pipes with late Saturday afternoon orja blow-torch caused a blaze at 720 Sixth Street at 11:30 am. to- day. Firemen said the fire was fined to rags wrapbing the pipes. All clear was sounded at noon. IRAN WILL GET LOAN FROM U.S. President Truman Assures Shah that His Requests Will Be Supported WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—P— President Truman today assured the Shah of Iran that the United States will support Iranian requests for loans from the World Bank. Faces Death Mr. Truman also informed the Shah that the U. 8. intends to peorle of Alaska who were first] help the Iranian Government through the Point Four Program ‘whlch the President has proposed |to Congress. This program would grant American financial and tech- nical aid to underdeveloped coun- tries. In a statement released by the White House, the President said, too," this country “is currently pre- pared to offer certain military as- sistance essential to Iran.” It noted that the Iranian Gov- ernment has planned a seven-year program for economic and social progress. The statement said the young Iranian ruler is leaving for home i J ol today after a tour of the United Paul Gutierrez, 25, is led from the Fresno, Calif., court of Superior |States. During his visit there he Judge A. C. Shepard by Deputy Sheriffs Glen Hunt (left) and Hubert {fl“ ";:;’ ;'18*':0“1'""10"5"0?;: Nevins, after he was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for the rictiad oF AThorighe country which borders on the brutal murder of 17-month-old Josephine Yanez on November 20. lSovlet Union, \ (M Wirephoto. (ALASKA. CONSTRUCTION we P RESIDENT oK A wir. Bur e oowr|10 OUTLINE * TAX PROGRAM PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 30— o The 8l-year-old construction | j u SI G l A D w E i 4 still hunting, and kird of mad at Ty ' i dent Truman will outline his tax program in “general terms” in his when he picked up a magazine. Tt| SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 30—(P—|State of the Union message next worker who went to Germany m’ WERE " |a magazine article. ’ Fred Stoecker Jr., said he was ad an article about how easy it;Cold? Ha, says Dr. H. P. Hansen ‘Wednesday. is for an Amerfcan to marry beau-;Of the Oregon State College Bot-| Detailed recommendations will be Ifind & wife was back home today, | in an Alaska construction camp YEARS 'oo Soo“' tiful blonde German girls. All he|any Department—come back 50,000} made later. had to do, the magazine said, was|years from now. { Charles G. Ross, Presidential Sec- to go to Germany and look around,; Along about then, Hansen lflld‘reta.ry, disclosed this after Mr. Tru- “So I end up three weeks later the Pacific Northwest Scientific! man went over his message with Assoclation yesterday, the entire|his cabinet at a two hour and 20 !in Hamburg,” Stoecker related. “T ‘announce to everybody I can find to talk to that I want a wife. T i Pacific Northwest will be covered with an ice coat many feet thick. minute meeting. The President is expected to urge He bases his prediction on the even ran an &d in the paper. The old—but scientifically proven—saw repeal of at least some of the war time excise taxes and suggest that Hea- ! magazine was right—practically ev- ery woman I talked to wanted to marry me and come back to the | United States. they be offset by higher taxes on corporation profits. He will deliver the State of the Union message to a joint session of the Senate and House at 10:00 p.m. (PST) Wednesday. MARIAN JENSEN ON VISIT TO ANCHORAGE 8 that history repeats. ‘The last glaciers of the North- west disappeared from 8,000 to 10,- 000 years ago,” he explained. “A { “That is, all but the one I want- | new wet neriog r;:med n\w:lt t4.003 ed. She sure is a pretty thing [Years ago an e general tren Twenty-one years old and just the has been toward cuntinued“ cool- right height and just the right}ness and increased moisture. weight. Everything was just right, R e S 44T except she wouldn't come back wflh'l STO(K ouorA,"ous i e. “She asked me if I would want| | Miss Mmrian Jensen went to her to stay at home and keep house | NEW YORK, Dec. 30—Closing | Anchorage yesterday to spend the and have kids. I told her anjauotation of Alaska Juneau mine|New Year week-end there with gs were on the agenda. ‘stock today is 3, American Canlher brother, Tom Jensen, and his windly and told]106%, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-|family before making a business Tfellow, but she | Wright Ti, International Harvester trip farther westward. lzm, Kennecott 50%, New” Yark| On her first “um:::nuon | Central 11%, Northern Pacific 137%, ! flight” for Pacific Nort! Alr- T O e th e o, | U. S. Steel 26%, Pound $280%. |lines, for which she is Juneau of= Ibewnfled Stoecker. And he hunted Sales today were 2,090,000 shnrc&iflce manager, Miss Jensen will wives all the way back across the Averages today are as follows::visit all agencies, spending several | Ditea st , industrials 20052, rails 5301, util-|days at Kodiak before returning | e ates, but didn’t find the Ities 4131 e 15 right one. 31 ome about January 15. “What'’s the right one like?” @ ot He isn’t quite sure, “But I'm !not,” he insisted, “too finicky.” 50,000 TELEPHONE ! WORKERS T0 STRIKEi | Celebrate the' New Year ST. LOUIS, De 0—(P-—A union attorney said today that “as things now stand” a strike of 50,000 South- Telephone Company will start New Year's at the western Bell employees in six states at midnight tomorrow Eve. Tt is the union’s view, that Southwestern Bell has effect rejected a recommendation for settling the dispute advanced } last n'ght by four Governors and representatives of two others. The Governors' conference plan | was for a 15-day period of negotia- tions with the dispute to be sub- mitted to arbitration if no settle- ment is reached ty the end of that. period. | The union seeks pay boosts, re-| adjustment of classifications of cer- | he said, Country Club Entertainment Open All Night tain exchanges and cities and! sherter hours for some of its workers. e . ] i ;