The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1950, Page 1

©° " *, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,393 “ALL THE NEW'S AIL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURS D \\ JA'\I ARY 5, 1950 MI".MRICR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. Will Keep Princess Cenfer of Atfraction NEW CUSTODY FOR FEDERAL BLDG. ASKED Grand Jury Wanfs New, Jail, New Hevators, Also | Urges Addition to Bldg. A recommendation that the custody of the Federal and Terri- tor.al Building be taken from Post- master Crystal Jenne and put in| the hands of an operating enzi- neer, is made by the Federal grand | jury as it concluded a two-day ses- sion yesterday. | The jury, composed of nine women and 12 men, also stated that while they found the jail “clean and orderly’ that it probably was a fire hazard and not adapt- aile for jail purposes. They strongly | = recommended that a new jail be built and that the present anti- quated structure be turned into a‘ Territorial museum. | Phe body returned three true| - bills regarding three cases, after hearing eleven witnesses, the lightest job a grand jury has had | in this district for years. ‘ They took time to tour both Fed- | eral buildings carefully, setting| their findings down in a six-point | recommendation addressed te Fed- eral Judge George W. Folta. NO REFLECTION They wanted it known, however, their recommendations were “in no| way” a reflection against those in | charge of the Federal Building! and jail, but rather, “the grand| jury wishes to extend its con"mm- lations to the principals involved.” Built by the Treasury Deps,rt-r ment less than 20 years ago, ther building went under the Federal| Works Agency, and all postmasters whose offices were in such bulldings | were made “agents” win control. | The General Services Administra- | tion, created this fall, now is in| control of such icuildings. | The operating engineer was re-,’ commended by the jury to be under | jurisdiction of the Commun:ty! Service Facilities, a portion of the| GSA. | Another important recommenda- tion made was that “we stmnzly urge and recommend that the serv- ices of a psychiatrist, M.D., be made | availakle to the law enforcing offi- cers of this judicial division.” | Following is their statement re-| (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go- Round; Bv DREW PEARSON | (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. ). ’ASHINGTON—The world has| read a lot of great Christmas stor= | ies, from Dickens’ Christmas car-| ol to Heywood Broun’s famous cul-\ umn, but this year we have ‘al Christmas story of doing which ranks with any of them. It's the story of veterans whn have fought our wars, led by ther American Legion, who don't want to| fight any more wars and do want to build up friendship abroad. | Recognizing that wars have cumcw in cycles of about every 20 years they have gone out to woo Europe’s | children of today—who can b our best friends or the enemy scld- | iers of tomorrow. ! That's one factor behind the, “Tide of Toys” campaign, by which | American children who can spare, an extra toy immediately afte)‘ Christmas are urged to send it, via| the American Legion, to less fort- | unate children in Europe. ‘ There was a time when the| public thought of Legionnaires; chiefly in connection with rough- housing at annual conventions. But | a new sense of international res-| ponsibility and determination to| play a part in world diplomacy is| growing in the Legion today. And :day as | mid-summer readings. But the cold | Little Princess Yasmin Khan takes the spotlight as she makes her camera debut in Montchoisi Clinic, Lausanne, Switzerland. parents Prince Aly Khan and the former Rita Hayworth beam their The infant was born to the actress on Dec. 28. (#) Wire- appmval. photo via radio from Bern. Hands Off Isle of Formosa Proud COLD CAUSE 'WIDE DAMAGE {Frost, Flood Threais Con- finues as Cold Air Moves Eastward (By the Associated Press) Cold, floods, rain, sleet and snow dealt damaging blows to wide areas of the nation today from Southern (,alumma into Dixieland. Freezing weather has caused some | damage to the multi-million dollar itrus and vegetable crops of south- ern California despite all night orchard firing. Further damage is feared, although pre-dawn temper- | atures today were a little above | yesterday’s lows. Palmedale on the deser Bur:ank 31. The forecast was tor continued cold. HOMELESS BY FLOODS Scores of families were nmdr homeless by floods ™ parts of {Illinois and Indiana. Several roads were blocked by rising creeks and rivers in western Kentucky. Bitter cold centinued in most of the Midwest. The arctic belt ex- tended from -Montana into Iowa and some parts of the Rocky | Mountains. Spencer, Ia., had 22 be- low zero today, a new Iowa low for the winter season. It was 17 below at Mason City, Ia. COLD FRONT A cold front along with rain, sleet and some snow spread irom [the Midwest eastward to the Appla- chians. Temperatures tumbled from abnormal marks to below freezing over most of the Ohio valley and southward to below Memphis. PROSPECT ELSEWHERE It looked like the end of the un- seasonable mild- weather for the middle and north Atlantic states. But no severe weather appeared in prospect for the Gulf states, Florida and the south Atlantic states. New records for the date .were set; in many eastern cities yester- temperatures climbed to air moving from the midwest was e‘tpected to put the mercury = to near normal marks soon. Washington and Norfolk, Va., had STORMS AND Early southern California tem-|]were shut by snow, throwing 1,500 { peratures today included Blythe Z7qmen out of work. Three shingle Indio 23, downtown Los Angeles 37, mills 16, m\d; If's Cold {the that is one reason why Leglonnaires ' phiohs of 71. It was 67 at Philadel- at this, the busiest time of the|phip ang 22 in New York City. year, have been cuttii'g short their |~ 1jlacs bloomed out of season in holidays to promote what amounts| Maine and Massachusetts and girls Lo a friendship train of toys '0|went swimming in the sea at As- Europe. ;Lury Park, N.J. Here is how Legionnaires and SIEAMER MOVEMEN“ the public all cver the country| Baranof scheduled to sail from are pumng across the tide of toys:|geattle Saturday. Gen. Lucius Clay’s home tOWN.| princess Norah scheduled to sail Marietta, Ga., was one of the first|pom vancouver January 14. Denali from westward scheduled ' southbound Sunday evening. The Tide Flows i (Continued on Page Four) COLD SNAP IN PAC. NORTHWEST NOW EASING UP (By the Astoalated Press) The cold snap which arrived in Pacific Northwest on New Year's Day began easing up today, bringing hope to several thousand idied lumber workers and hard- i pressed highway crews. The Weaher Bureau warmer tcmperatures today tomorrow, with snow turning rain in westen Oregon and Wash- ington. The eastern parts of the states, whee the thermometer plummeted te as low as 22 degrees below zero this morning, will get relatively watmer. The encowraging forecast came as scores o) lumber operations, closed by titter weather, added thousands tc the Pacific north- west's unemployment rolls. All the logging camps on Wash- Yington's norta Olympic peninsula forecast and to and several sawmills there were down, too. Many schools, most of them rural, remained closed today, despite the promise of improved weather. In Moscow MOSCOW, Jan. 5—®—Moscow, with temperatures dropping under 30 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) was gripped today in its sharpest cold wave since the grim winter of 1941-42 when the Germans Were driven back from the Soviet cap- ital. The oldtime- Russian winter has been building up since Christmas when the mercury plunged below zero. Ever since it's been getting progressively colder. This morn- ing the thermometer registered 31 degrees below zero. The coldest recorded temperature for Moscow was chalked up Jan. 17, 1940, with a low of 43.6 de- grees below zero. . 60 Below In Sweden STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 5— (P—The temperature skidded to 60 degrees Lelow zero today, press re- ports said, in the village of Alvros in central Sweden. TACOMAN VISITS Merle R. Strickland of the Ta- coma Drug Company - Lakeside Club of Tacoma is a guest at the Baranof,Hotel, and the JESSUPIN | JAPANON ASIA TOUR Roving U. . Ambassador Talks About China, Formosa By TOM LAMBERT TOKYO, Jan. 5—P—Roving U.S. Am assador Philip C.! Jessup ar- rived today in Japan, first stop on an Asian survey trip that will take | him to Formosa—new focal poim\ of American controversy on Far | Eastern policy. | envoy said he| The tall, lanky will confer with General Mac- Arthur on the matter of the big island. Formosa is the last-stand bastion of Chiang Kai-shek’s Chi- nese Nationalist government. There is increasing Republican pressure 1n the United States for Ameucan action—armed or other- wise—to keep Formosa from rnllmg| to the Chinese Communists. | Jessup would not comment on re- | ports that the State Department | expects the island to be taken by( the Reds who have overrun China’s mainland, | In a brace of news confgrences | after his ship docked at Yokohama | 1. The US. “has not abandoned | and will not abandon China.” 2. The UE&. has a Far Eastern policy, nothwithstanding Repub! canr charges at home to the contrary. 3. The Far East is getting “prime‘ attention” from the State Depart- | ment. 4. Soviet policy on China is sim- llar to the old imperialism of the Czars. } 5. The US. is opposed to im- perialism. i i i | Arthur about a peace treaty for Japan. But he didn’t bring along ‘anything specifically in the form of a draf FIRST 1950 COUNCIL MEETING TOMORROW Frist Juneau City Council meet- ing of 1950 will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the City Hall A date will be set for the special | election at which annexation (o the city of the Highlands will be decided upon. | Committee reports will be hcam.{ and applications for card tnM-} licenses will be considered by the| Council, according to Mayor Waino Hendrickson. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 5 — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 3%, American Can| 106%, Anaconda 30%, Curtiss- | Wright 77, International Harvester 28, Kennecot 51%, New York Cen- tral 12%, Northern Pacific 15%, U S. Steel 27, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,550,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: i | | industrials 200.57, rails 54.25, utl- ities 41.59. ® 0o v v » 0 o 3 0 WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST) In Juneau—Maximum 32; minimum 20, At Airport—Maximum 32; minimum 6. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielaity) Fair and colder tonight and Friday. Occasional gusty northeast winds. Lowest temperature tonight 20 with highest Friday 23. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—34 inches; | since July 1-—36.23 inches. ©®0000000c0000%00000000 .00 Baltimore’s harbor has been crippled by a strike of AFc Mntes and Engineers. The men o Ismkmg for more money and shorter hours. Their walkout meuns that most of the 76 ships tied up at Baltimore will stay there—un- {less some Captains try to move out of the harbor without the aid of tugs. e this morning, he reiterated that: | Jessup said he will talk with Mac- | 4 Senale Leaders Map Legislative Program Members of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee meet in Washington, D. C., (Jan, 2), to discuss plans for opening of new session of Congress (Jan. 3). From left are: Senators J. William Fullbright (Ark.); Lister Hill (Ala.); Theodore Green (R. L); Millard Tydings (Md.); Scott Lucas (IlL) (seated), Majority Leader; Richard Russell (Ga.); Semate Secretary Leslie Biffle and Felton Johnson, Secretary to Majority. (P Wirephoto. | |TRUMAN T0 BE BLOCKED, HIS PLANS Thumbs Down on Many Proposals Made by President Wmner in Rose Parade WASHINGTON, Jan 5—-£M—Con-' ressional leaders responded to President Truman’s State-of-the- | Union message today by turningi thumbs down on half a dozen of his legislative proposals — includng! more iaxes, Important memcers in both parties were quick to frown on the “moderate” tax increase asked by Mr. Truman yesterday at the out- set of a Congressional election year. : REDUCE SPENDING Instead, they emphasized reduced spending. Failing sharp economies in a budget expected to exceed $42,100,000,000, the government presumably would continue red ink spending. Similarly, Congress members in a position to act said in about as many words that the President’s| appeals for continuation of the military draft, Taft-Hartley repeal, | jthe Brannan farm plan, medical insurance and the St. Lawrence seaway will go on the shelf for this | ise;slon. ) | This is a general view of the Tournament of Roses parade as the Long Beach (Calif.) float, winner of the sweepstakes award as the most beautiful of all entries, rolled down Pasadena’s Colorado boule- vard before massed thousands of spectators. The float immediately follcwing it is one entercd by California Institute of Technology, deplctmg the 200-inch toltw‘«m- on Mt. Palomar. (® “lrepholoa Second Alomrc Explosron In Russia Predicled Now To Take Place Saturday LONDON, Jan. TO GET OKEH There was an apparently clear road for (1) expansion of social security coverage and benetits and (2) continuat'on — on a reduced scale—of economic and military aid to non-Communist countries 5—(M—The man BRIIISH WANT | who predicted Russia’s first atomic | abroad. explosion said today there will be There the list of certainties A_BOMBS AS pAR'I' another at midnight, Greenwich | ended. Mean Time (4 p.m. PST), Satur- Lawmakers lumped in the doubt- day. ful category the Presidential pro- AB( AGREEME“T Magazine Editor Kenneth m!roas}s for middle-income housing i aid, continuation of rent control,| j Course also said there are indica jtions that the Russians {expansion of displaced persons ad- now E,‘:{A:HIN(.}TO..NV, b i Sf'm‘) ahead of the U, S, “in some res- ]rm&slons, aid to education and the ain ' has proposed that it beg® = 1 5 Py ‘Point Four” program for economic given a supply of atomic bombs to]Pects” dn atomic “development, help for the world’s backward be stored in the British Isles as De Courcy told reporters he based . yoqq | part of a new American-British-1his statement on private reports ' Canadian partnership agreement on [ reaching him from behind the ANOTHER BLOCK fron Curtain, His forecast was mo atomic energy. e| They gave even less chance of | Rep. Kee (D-WVa), since Jan. 1—94 inches; | since July 1—54.88 inches. | At Airport—.09 inches; | since Jan. 1—74 inches; ©0000000°000000s°% 0000000 which the whole partnership pro- | ject will stand or fall and (2) ef- Vforts to reach agreement will re- | quire longer than previously esti- | mated by American authorities SON FOR MARKS A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Mark of Douglas yester- day at St. Ann’s Hospital. Born at 9:37 a.m., the child weiched seven pounds 15 ounces, placed informants in several east- ern European nations. statement because it suggests that the Russians are in some respects ahead of the United State of Am- erica,” the statement said. The explosion Saturday, he sald, will be of an unusual kind be- cause it will be connected with a | blasting operation in connection with an irrjgation project. “This is rather a disquieting| It was learned today that this in a written statement to the age to an international trade | proposal was made last month as a | Press. organization resolution and the British addition to other provisions| pe predicted last January that President’s Civil Rights program. of the proposed agreement. the Russians would attempt an| In his mildly-phrased message, When it was advanced, repre-|atom explosion during 1949. Presi- [the President didn't expand his sentatives of the three powers had |dent Truman announced in Septem- | “Fair Deal” but asked for action ! reached general understanding on|ber that they had succeeded. only on things he has talked about Other provisions. | The 40-year-old editor publishes | Pl In consequence, it mow appears|a monthly called “Intelligence Di- GOP STATEMENT that (1) the British request forlgest,” devoted to international af-1 pepyclicans met this immedi- {bombs may become the point on|fairs. He clalms to have highly-|ately with a scorching statement, signed by 100 House GOP mem- bers, accusing the President ot committing himself “to the even-| tual Socialization of America and the elimination of the traditional American competitive system.” | Senator Taft of Ohio, who heads the Senate GOP policy committee, said Mr. Truman's mildness re- DECLARATION IS ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT Armed Forces Not fo Be Used - Not fo Enter Conflict in China By John M. Hightower WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—(®—Pre- sident Truman today declared an American hands off policy toward the Chinese Island of Formosa. In a news conference statement, he said the United States has no desire to use its armed forces thefe or become involved “in the civil conflict in China.” He made clear the only help Chiang kai-Shek's government in Formosa can expect from the Uni- ted States is continuing economic aid. Protest Cries Made The President’s pronouncement brought sharp cries of protest from those Republicans in Congress who have been demanding that the United States use extreme mea- sures, if necessary, to keep Formo- sa from falling into the hands of the Chinese Communists. Senator Knowland (R-Calif) de- {clared in a speech to the Senate that the Administration has be- trayed the non-Communist Chin- ese forces. Knowland said a “small school of willful men in the Far Eastern di- vision of the State Department who had the backing of their sup- ‘eriofs” are responsible for the plight of Chiang kaj-Shek’s gov- ernment. “If Formosa gets into unfriendly hands;* he said,- “our -defense line of Japan-Okinawa-Philippines i3 pierced and the Pacific Coast may have to become our first line of defense.” Senator Connally (D-Tex) and heads of the Senate and House Foreign Commit- tees, defended the President’s de- cision. They said that trying to defend Formosa might lead to war. Mr. Truman said: “The United States has no pre- datory designs on Formosa or on any other Chinese territory. “The United States has no de- sire to obtaln special rights or priveleges or to establish military bases on Formosa. Nor does it have any intention of utilizing its arm- ed forces to interfere in the pre- sent situation. Keep Out of War “The United States Government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvment in the civil conflict in China. “The United States Government will not provide military aid or advice to Chinese forces on For- mosa at this time. In view of the United States Government, the re- sources on Formosa are adequate to enable them to obtain the items which they might consider neces- | sary for the defense of the island. “The United States Government proposes to continue under existing legislative authority the present ECA program of economic assist- ance.” Stops Controversy Mr. Truman’s declaration follow- ed weeks of growing controversy at the capitol over policy toward Formosa, Some Republicans—among (Continued on Page Pive) ACHESON TALKS ON BIG ISSUE Says It Is Premature fo Consider Recognition China Commies WASHINGTON, Jan, 5—(P—Sec- retary of State Acheson :aid today that the United States considers premature any consideration of re- cognition of the Chinese Com= munist government at this time. Acheson made this comment at a news conference amid word from minded him of Byron's quotation: | “The mildest manner'd man thatl ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat.” London that the British govern- ment is at the point of recognizing the Red regime in China.