The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL 71[! TIME” OL. LXXIV., NO. 11,400 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Blizzard-Like Weather OFFICIALS ASK| WO NON-SKEDS CITED FOR MAKING REGULAR FLIGHTS WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— | he Civil Aeronautics Board said oday it has cited two large irregu- ar air lines for allegedly exceed- ng their flying authorities. Such| ftations are in effect threats to| ake away their operating licenses. The lines are Arctic-Pacitic, Inc., ith headquarters at Seattle, and onomy Airways, Inc., with head- quarters at New York City. They are called “irregular” lines because hey are licensed only to make charter or special flights rather than conduct regularly scheduled service. « The board said it appeared that each of the companies had con- ducted flights between given points with such frequency and regularity | as to resemble scheduled opera- tions. Each company was given 15days| to file a written reply to the CAB allegations, and was directed to appear at a hearing, later to be set, to show cause why their licenses spould not te revoked. " "The board said that Arctic-Pa- cific had been operating what amounted to regular flights be-| tween Seattle and Fairbanks, Al- aska Economy was accused of operat-| ing frequent regular flights be- | tween New York City, Houston, | Tex., and New Orleans, La., and also with failing to report some of its flights to the board. 'ACA FLIGHTS BRING * 21 HERE: 17 DEPART Alaska Coastal Airlines flights yesterday Lrought 21 persons to Juneau and took 17 persons from ,Juneau to other Southeast Alaska | ports. From Skagway: C. Anderson; 'from Haines: T. Dyer, and William Johns; from Petersburg: Les Win- | @ard; from Wrangell: Bud White- | side; from Ketchikan: John Liki- ness and J. E. Danielson; from | Sitka: Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Movers, [ #Earlee Movers, Karen Movers, Sharon Movers, Clara Robinson, Ralph Mize, and Ronny Willams; from Hoonah: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas, Marie Douglas, Nancelieu 4 Rance, and Johnny Martin; and (mm Pelican: Mrs. E. Stamm. To Haines: Fred Sheldon, Steve “Sheldon and Leo Land; to Skag- way: Leigh Kerr; to Sitka: Harry Frank, Lowell Colby, C. W. Martin, .Gene O'Shea, Mr. and Mrs. Russ Clithero, and Pauline Ballinger; to Hoonah: Dan White and Mary Johnson; to Pelican, G. Underhill, | Mrs. Underhill, and Ed Wright; toj Gustavus: Mrs. A. F. Parker; and | #to Excursion Inlet: Ruth Allman. “The Washington| .Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) (Ed. Note—This is ‘the first of | a series of columns by Drew Pearson giving the inside on the nation’s far-flung gambling rack- +’ets and how they influence gov- ernment). # ASHINGTON—Four years ago| “I may have contributed to a mur- der in Chicago. This series of col- umns, therefore, is written as my contribution toward cleaning up an ever-widening area of big city gov- »ermment in which such murders flourish. o2 Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten-| * nessee has wisely put his finger| on this menace in his proposed probe of interstate gambling rack-| s ets. And last summer, Sen. Clyde | Hoey’s investigating committee un- earthed an important clue linking | the gambling rackets to Washing- | ton; then backed away from it as if they had stepped on a rat- | * tlesnake. This clue was a statement by #John Maragon, now under indict- ment, that he had worked for a| man named Kastell. “Dandy Phil” Kastell, an alumnus of Atlanta Penitentiary and associate of mur- dered gangleader Arnold Rothstein, is the long-time partner of the current king of the gamblers, Frankie Costello, and of Bill Helis, the “Golden Greek” of the race track world. It had long been suspected by ‘those who have carefully watched the peculiar cperations of John Maragon and, hxs amazing entre \Continued on’ Page Four* ' | rammed by the iron-clad prow of a | Scotland. The plane was to have | Kennecott 52%, New York Central BRASS WILL BE QUIZZED ON FORMOSA WASHINGTON, Jan 13—1P— | The Senate Foreign Relations Com- | mittee agreed today to invite Sec- retary of Defense Johnson and| Gen. Omar Bradley to testify Jan. 26 on the strategic importance of Formosa. Chairman Connally who opposed the move, said the| decision to ask Johnson and the/ chairman of the Joint Chiefs ot Staff to testify was reached with- | out a record vote. The two will be asked whether they consider it important for Am- erican defenses that the island ot Formosa be kept out of Chinese Communist hands. Republican Senators demanding action to prevent the| Communists from assaulting the| last stronghold of the Chinese Na- tionalist gorernmenl. 52 FEARED TO REDEAD, BRITISH SUB (D.-Tex.), | have been | CHATHAM, Eng. Jan. 13—#— Fifty-two men were feared dead | aboard the rammed and sunken | submarine Truculent today. 1 Divers and frogmen tapped out messages on the hulk of the sunken undersea raider, but up to this| afternoon apparently had received | |no response. | Vice Adm. G. B. Middleton of |the Chatham navy yard posted a notice saying “great loss of life” is feared. Word from rescue craft at the! scene indicated hope was fading| swiftly for the men still believed to be aboard the submarine which went to the bottom of the Thames | Estuary last night after she was Swedish tanker. “We have practically given up| hope,” an Admiralty spokesman saldl after divers came up and report- ed they found no sign of life, Dusk was beginning to close in on the| rescue operations, Nine are known dead. Three of these were picked up last night after the collision and six more| Lodies were found today. Fifteen| men were rescued. In addition, all five men aboard | Landcaster rescue plane were killed early today in a takeoff crash at a Royal Air Force station in picked up divers for the Chatham operation. | The submarine lay in silt about 42 feet below the surface at low tide. The ebbing tide had aided the| divers in reaching the craft, whlc‘ll had gone down in water 54 feet| deep. Of the 76 aboard, 58 were sailors and 18 were dockmen sailing as| part of the crew in a test cruise| after refitting. ! Word from the salvage vessels said the divers found at least four of the Truculent’s seven compart- ments flooded. PLANE FORCED T0 PASS UP SEATTLE { meeting | Siberia are only 54 miles apart. | prepare against a similar | fense Johnson already had denied {inland points. " SOMETHING FOR DEFENSE Meet Bringfi]p War Plant: Removal; Alaskan Nudity | of Defense Discussed By ELTON C FAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—(P— The military high command and Congress are getting new demands that something be done about the defenses of Alaska and the Pa- cific Northwest. Congress members a from the Northwest fense plans shouldn't ing war plants out that area. They say m.litary leaders contem- plated that The military leaders say they didn't. A complaint that Alaska is de- fenseless against a strike by Rus- Sia across the Bering Strait came last night from the Territory's| governor, Ernest Gruening. He made the statement at a mass arranged y the All-| American Defense Ascociation. The association, formed to protest war plant relocations, called a policy- forming session today Gruening pointed out mainlands of Alaska nd officials the de- ude mov- that the| i and Russian | Elementary would require making Ala nearly impregnable as pos said the governor. “But no thing was done.” “NEXT TO NOTHING” “During the four years from 1945 after V-J Day till the sum- | mer of 1949 next to nothing was| done for building up of Alaskan defenses. Congress, which so gen- erously voted funds to check the advance of imperial Communism in Europe, voted next to nothing to| advance to Alaska and the American con~ tineht.” Gruening’s complaints plans to transplant war factories | from the Pacific coast to an in- land location were echoed by other speakers at last night’s defense | meeting and in statements on| Capitol Hill. But if there had been such a plan it appeared to have been scotched by the opposition of Con- gress members and officials from | the Pacitic states. Pentagon offi- | cials recalled that Secretary of De- common ' sense ka as ible,” such aboutj these “rumors.” There had been a persistent re- port in recent months that the military had written—or intended | to write—into contracts with pri-| vate firms a provision requiring that production of such critical items as aircraft be carried out at Rep. Sheppard (D.-Calif.) told the Defense Association meeting he had teen assured this wasn't so. Sheppard quoted Johnson as telling him yesterday that “I never considered an order of that kind and have no contemplation of is- sumg an order now or in the tu-\ ture” Moreover, said Sheppard,| the Secretaries of the Army, Na\'y and Air Force had each given hil ‘m similar assurance. NEW ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD TAKES OVER IN BELLINGHAM, Jan: 13.—(®—A Seattle-bound Inland Airways| plane with five passengers aboard | landed at the Bellingham Airpoxl. just before 11 a.m. today on a| flight from Pasco. The landing was | made in a 56-mile-an-hour wind. The plane’s pilot told airport of- ficials he was unable to land at Seattle or nearby airtields because | of storm conditions. Seventy-five-mile gusts of wind were reported ripping wings off anchored planes at the airport. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 13—Closing quetation of Alaska Juneau “mine stock today is 3%, American Can 1062, Anaconde 20, Curtiss-Wright 8!, International Harvester 27%%, | 12%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 267%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 3,330,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 196.81, rails 54,01, util- ities 40.90. | duties as chief of the administra- | with the commission. While | extensive experience ROAD COMMISSION After 12 years with the Bonne- vile Power Administration in | Portland, Ore, and more recently in the office of the Secretary of the Interior in Washington, D. C., Donald H. Miller today took over tive division of the Alaska Road Commission. Miller replaces G. H. Skinner, who retired recently after 27 years not acquainted with road work, he has in adminis- trative duties, being stationed in the Oregon city to handle affairs| mwlvmg the power system near there. He spent some time in the secretary’s office prior to being sent to Juneau. STORIS IN PORT The Coast Guard Cutter Storis is in port after a trip which in- cluded stops at Cordova and Kod- iak. stk Blasts Cold Storage For Cars Winter's stiffest punch at Sandpoint, Ida., put these cars under three-foot blanket of snow. The snow- fall of 38-inches cut traffic to a one-way flow in many parts of the area and forced schools to call a temporary holiday. 1AP WIREPHOTO) RUSS HELP CHINA REDS PLAN ATTACK TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 13—(# »-I The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry asserted tonight that a Russian advisory group was help- ing the Chinese Communists pre- pare for an assault on the Chusan Islands. These islands, 100 miles south ot Shanghai and only seven miles oft the coast, are the base for the] recently stepped-up Nationalist air assaults on Shanghai. The Reds have failed in at least two previous attempts to capture them. The Nationalists alleged four Russian officers were at- tached to each division of Red forces preparing for the next at- tempt. No other details of Russian participation were given. The harbor of Hangchow was said to be crammed with some 2,000 junks preparatory to the amphibi- ous operation, These invasion craft were heavi- ly raided by Nationalist B-25 bom:ers during the day, the Na- tionalist air force reported. that 'MADAME CHIANG IS IN FORMOSA; BOOSTS MORALE (By Associated Press) Madame Chiang Kai-Shek ar- rived in Formosa today and was greeted by her hustand, the Gen- | eralissimo. Nationalists said her| presence in Formosa would bousli morale. A staff aid has reported to the 1 U. S. House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee in Washington that the Nationalists will be able to hold Formosa against the Communists for about 6 to 18 months without American help, Roving U. S. Ambassador thp' Jessup said in Korea the United States will continue to DppoFE’ Communism in Asia “as we do throughout the world.” Jessup is on his way to Bangkok for a meet- ‘ng of Far Eastern American dip- lomats. Clara A. Gerstenkorn of Mt.; Edgecumbe is stopping at the Bar-/ anof Hotel. i FROM PALMER i William T. Zahradnicek of Pal- mer arrived here yesterday, and 15|, a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEWARD Mrs. Helen G. Parks of { Ocean View Home, Seward, is re-| gistered at the Baranof Hotel. I FROM CRAIG | Gil Reese of Craig is a guest at the Barancf Hotel. | Harry Bridges it appeared in Federal court to- | | was thrown into Lake Washington | described himself 'LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. BRINGDALE| tribute, i Charles W. Carter Mor-} afternoen at the fun- eral services for Etta Bringdale, daughter of a pioneer family and! wife of Arthur Bringdale. | Flowers in profusion banked the! intimate chapel where the impres-; sive memorial ritual of the Order of Eastern Star was added to the comforting words of the Rev. Paul Prouty, traveling Presbyterian Min- ister. Members of the Douglas Chapter, OES. of which Mrs. Bringdale; had been a member, performed the { dignified and beautiful Eastern Star service which was as appro- priate as though written for her. Presiding at the ritualistic ser- vice were Alma Cuthbert, Worthy | Matron of Nugget Chapter; Jim| Devon, Worthy Patron; Alice Poor, | Associate Matron; Leigh Grant, As- sociate Patron; Grace Reed, Mar- shi Marie Devon, Chaplain and Mary Pinkley, Conductress. i Symbolizing the five points nxi the star of the order were: Ada— Cecelia Livie; Ruth—Helen Ehren- dreich; Esther—Mrs. Wilfred Mar- ] shall; Martha—Alfreda Dore, andI Electa—Helen Carlyle. Memorial songs were by Mn Leigh Grant, and Geneva Parsons was organist. serving as pallbearers were Jam- os McNaughton, John Morrison, Al' Zenger, Jr., Chester Zimmerman, zarle Cleveland and Tom Cashen. | Interment was in the Mason p at Evergreen Cemetery, next the grave of her mother. The late Mrs, Bringdale, daugh- ter of David Brown and the Ia Brown, Alaska pioneers, was 1 in Douglas January 20, 1900.] was educated there and was ried to Arthur Bringdale Jan- v 5, 1927 in Juneau. Mr. Bring-} le is mechanical superintendent| { the Empire Printing Company.| Besides her Eastern Star mem- | bership, Mrs. Bringdale belonged to the Juneau Rebekah Lodge and 1c Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary. She was an accomplished pianist, talented in both classical anfi popu- lar musie, A nephew, David Alfred Brown of Juneau also survives her. | |0-DEFENDANT WITH BRIDGES NAMED AS: RED DURING TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.— J. R. Robertson, a co-f deiendnnt in Harry Bridges perjury trail, named as a Communist in tes- | ony for the first time today. } He was so identified by George | Wilson, 48, Los Angeles news-| perman who once headed the| defense committee | In filled the tuary th affectionate 1e m ue ay @s a prosecution witness. Wilson, a former president of the San Francisco CIO Council, also| testitied Bridges was present at a | meeting of “Communists discussing labor problems” in a San Francisco | hotel. He did not give the date. He | as a former | Communist, U.S.POLICY IN FAR EAST MADE CLEAR (By Associated Press) Secretary of State Acheson in private and public talks is daily making clear America's policy in the Far East. The United States {intends to exploit a Russian im- i perialism which, Acheson says, haxl already gobbled up big chunks ull North China including Manchuria. The Chinese people will be stirred against the Russians, Acheson pre- dicted. He said the “righteous |anger and wrath” of the Chinese will turn eventually on the Rus- sian land-grabbers. The United States will promote the growth of nationalism in southeast Asia and help satisfy a desire for economic betterment in that area, he said. Acheson said a third plank America’s far eastern platform is |to hold the United States' western | does | Pacific defense line — which not include Formosa. CHINA WILL STAYINUN,; RUSS FAIL (By Associated Press) Russian attempts to have Na- tionalis China thrown out of the United Nations will not be success- ful at this time, UN observers said teday. expected to make another propa- ganda departure from the Security Council today if that body votes to uphold its January Chairman, Nationalist Chinese Delegate T. F. Tsiang. The chances are that the large| majority of the 11 council members | jwill decide not to oust the Na-| tionalists in favor of Chinese Com- munis Britain, which has recognized the | Communist regime of Mao tze- Tung, has said that the Russian move is premature. The United States and France, which have not recognized th- Mao tze-Tung regime, are not sup- | porting the Soviet proposal. Bul the United States has served no- tice it will accept the Chinese Com- munists as soon as a seven- nauun majority in the council is ready |to seat them instead of the Na- tionalists. SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—/—A man and drowned in a collision of three | vehicles on the Lake Washington floating bridge during today’s storm. Coroner’s was thrown over the bridge rail- | Miss volunteers have joined in the res- 1 in| Soviet delegate Jakob Malik is deputy Russell Line-| hart said Bert C. Heath of Seattle | FLOOD DANGER Rain Splasgmer Wide Area Sending Rivers Up, Over Banks (By the Associated Press) Flood dangers appeared mount- ing today in many Midwest river areas as more rain splashed over a wide belt and threatened fur- ther damage. Weather bureau officials said no break appeared in the warm, moist qulf air which is causing the steady rains or drizzle over the ‘lower sippi and Tennessee valleys They said there was a possibility of heavier rains over the flood areas during the day. Forecasters said thunderstorms in Arkansas were moving northward. Meanwhile, more than 4,000 per- sons have fled their homes from the surging rivers and streams in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, But hundreds of others have refused to move to higher | ground. The Army, the Red Cross and work to levees at cue operations and strengthen weakened many points along the rain- swollen rivers. The flood front covers areas along the Ohio and Wabash rivers, the two biggest in the Midwest’s threatening streams, as weil as several smaller rivers. The Ohio spilled into the main street of , Rosiclare, Tll, yesterday and some 60 families fled their homes, ITIS COLD INBCTODAY VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 13.—® —The mercury early today took a record-smashing gallop down | British Columbia thermometers. Vancouver Island and the lower mainland shivered under northeast winds. The mercury at International Airport here dropped to three de- grees above zero, equally frost- bitten records set in 1937 and 1943. Smithers, in the interior Bulkley Valley, reported a new 12-year record of 47 below. Prince George, 510 miles north, saw the mercury remain at the 30 below level. 'ADMIRAL ORDERS C(OLD WEATHER FOR BOYS--THEY GET IT OAK HARBOR, Wash., Jan. 13— { h—There’s Aleutian-like weather at the Whidby Island Naval Alr | Staton, but it doesn’t chill the wives of the 500 officers and men stationed here. It burns ’em up. Because Rear Adm. John Perry has ordered “advanced base” con- ditions on a 24-hour basis to train the squadrons on how to operate in Aleutian weather while’ such weather is nipping the base. All hands are restricted to the base. All social engagements are i off. The Officers’ Club bar [s closed. | The men are inside. The wives are ‘uu!slde The island has a “cold | war” of its own. “You can't train the squadrons in cold weather conditions on an cight-hour day,” an official | spokesman said, “when the weath- er, like that in the Aleutians, is | changing capriciously around the clock.” Unofficially, the word is around and about that the cold eclamp- down came after Admiral Perry showed up for duty one morning | this week and found snow on the | wings of the squadron’s planes. Of this, another source said it was true there was snow on the { wings when the admiral “came | aboard” at 8 am. tut he added ‘tlml the snow hadn't stopped until a half-hour before. | He denied there was anything | gisciplinary in the admiral's action. L How long will it last? “Maybe a | day, maybe a week—depending on weather conditions.” it is with Whidby Island's “La lmg and his body was not recovered. ' guerre froide.” MOUNTS acific N.W. HIGHWAYS REPORTED HAZARDOUS Intense Cold Prevails Wide Area; Snow Falls; R.R. Traffic Delayed (By Assoclated Press) Blizzard-like weather blasted at the Pacific Northwest today. Hazardous highway and. weather conditions brought three deaths in Washington State early today as a car skidded through wind-driven snow, on an fcy highway, into a pond in Cowlitz County. A mother and two children perished. Intense cold prevailed through- out the northwest states, Bitter wintry blasts made it worse. Ominous Signal An early morning storm wafn- ing from the U. S, Weather Bureau what was to come. Winds reported up to 60 miles an hour hit the Washington coast. The storm sank eight or nine fish- ing boats in the moorage on Grays Harbor: Men battling to save them were almost helpless, the officer in charge reported, because “they became almost walking icicles.” School Closed Schools in many of the larger cities, including Portland and Ta- coma, closed. Rural schools have been closed several days. The Weather Bureau at Port- land issued a special forecast to warn that the city might have a foot of snow by nightfall Trains from the east were run- ning behind schedule. One line reported a train nine hours late. Wind-8now Port Angeles had a heavy snow with the wind of 25 to 35 miles across the Olympie Peninsula. It had & foot of srow within ‘24 hours. The sub-zero Weather returned 10 eastern WasHington with 8 be- iow at Harrington, 7 below at Spokane and 6 below at Omak. The heavlest damage report was 1t the Westhaven fishing boat base on Grays Harbor. The moorage was built across the harbor from Aberdeen and Hi to protect the fishing craft the prevail- ing southwest winds. But today's northeaster raised havoc. Furious Wind Storm A foot of new show at Wallace, .n northern Idaho, made a total of 3¢ inches on the ground. In Ore- gon six inches of snow fell at As- toria, at the mouth of the Colum- bia River. A furious wind storm, with gusts up to 80 miles an hour, roared into the central Oregon coast this morning. The winds tore out all the telephone lines from Newport, cutting off communications. Big windows in a machinery dis- play room were smashed. Several tishing boats broke loose from their moorings. ERELARGA . 7E% o BERATO HERE Eugene N. Berato of the CAA staff at Anchorage is registered at ‘he Baranof Hotel. FROM PETERSBURG Lester L. Wingard of Petersburg is a guest at m>m;§nnl Hotel. FROM SKAGWAY C. L. Andersoh, school ‘principal from Skagway, 18 registered at the Baranof Hotel. : CARL CARLSON ' Carl R. Carlson registered at the e o o ¢ & WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 17; minimum 8. At Airport—Maximum 13; minimum -13. FORECAST a 4 Vielatts) Continued fair and cold with some high cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Lowest tonight about 8 degrees in Juneau and as low as -12 in outlying - districts. . Highest temperature Saturday about 16 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 1:30 & m. today (City of Juneau—None. since Jan. 1-—99 inches; since July 1—54.93- inches, At Alrport—None since Jan, 1—82 inches; since July 1—uu inches. e o @ - i e 0 0.0 ® 0 00000 o000t 0000009 % 080000002000 0000%000000000