The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \ “ALL THE NEWS ALL TUE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,402 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1950 MEFMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Northwest Faces Two Days Fri GOVT. RESTS "IN TRIAL OF H. BRIDGES '.Defense Is Taken by Sur- prise When Prosecution Makes Announcement SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16—@— The prosecution rested in the Harry Bridges perjury case today. ‘The move by the government was a distinct susprise. The trial of the CIO longshore leader was in its 36th day. The government had put a minor witness on the stand for a few minutes this morning. Then F. Joseph Donohue arose. “The government rests,” he said.| of at- in- Vincent Hallinan, torneys for Bridges, credulous. “What!” he exclaimed. “The gov- ernment rests? You're not going to produce any more witnesses? No Rathborne? Nobody else?” “The government rests,” Donohue said quietly. chief appeared The reference was to Mervyn| Rathtorne, former state CIO Sec- retary and one time confidante of Bridges. Two women, Bridges’ sympathizers, have been indicted on +a charge they tried to persuade Rathborne to shape his testimony | as they suggested. Bridges, born’in Australia, indicted on' a charge that when his naturalization hearing was held in 1945 he swore falsely that he had never ceen a Communist. Two other longshore leaders, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, his witnesses at the citizenship hearing, are co-defendants, charged with conspiracy in the same connection. ,ALASKA RESIDENTS GET ABOUT MILLION| * HALF, FSA PROGRAM SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16—(#—| Regional Federal Security Agency headquarters reported today that Alaska residents receivd $1,464,800 under the FSA program in the 1948-49 fiscal year. Regional Director F. W. Hunter described it .as the national gov- ernment’s share in health, educa- | tion and social welfare programs | under the agency. He said there were 3,684 men,| women and children recipients of | the agency's outlay in Alaska. The | was | U. . Defense Line i | uzow - O Ss Lo cilgers | | | UNITED STATES OF INDONESIA | 1000 ] e, | | STATUTE miues At rQuaTO; (2) and the Philippines (3)—are | views of key American officials in are shaded. (P Wirephoto. PHILIPPINES TN wancwatca \W el PLMNSULA o Lwarcus Pociic Oceon ] wARIANAS} ROTagl SAPAN “ouam ome = " s £ ioucolds LB - * AUSTRALIA |, Tonswil j40) Air mileages from key spots in western Pacific-Japan (1), Okinawa outlined in this map to llustrate Tokyo, who say American bombers I from these bases could cover thousands of miles of potential enemy territory from southeast Asia to Siberia. Communist-controlled areas {PAA'S HAWAIIAN FILM BRINGS CROWD T0 BPW Pan American’s “Wings Over | Hawaii” shown at the Business and Professional Women's Club at its meeting this noon”brought to the club’s luncheon its largest mem- kership turnout in many weeks, ac- cording to BPW President Bertha Ellingen. Fourteen visitors joined 35 mem- bers to see the colored film of a trip to Hawali by PAA Clipper. The | program was arranged by Gertrude | Wetzel, January program chair- man, and the pictures were shown by Eckley Guerin. Because of the Hawaiian cruise that is scheduled to follow the BPW International meeting in San Fran- cisco in July, local club memi:ers were especially interested in the film. Next meeting will January 23, on the Baranof race. ! be Monday, Ter- PAA IN AND OUT Pan American World Airways brought 22 through passengers direct benficiaries include children, | 1o Seattle yesterday and three old people receiving assistance and[persons who boarded at Annette those receiving Federal Social Se-!ygand, besides carrying one pas- curity benefits. The latter groubgenger from Seattle to Anneite and includes retired workers and the families of have died. The biggest item listed by the agency in the Alaska total was old age assistance; $461,000. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — When John Maragon was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury last week, it climaxed a 3-year-old newspaper expose by Drew Pearson in which Maragon at one time used the prestige of the White House to try to get Pear-| i son indicted. Beginning in March, 1947, Pearson had unfolded an amazing story of the forrher Kansas City bootblack, who was able to demote an Air Force' Brigadier General, who rode on the President’s special train, who sat in a box adjacent to the; President at the Army-Navy game, who stood on the bridge of a bat- tleship with the President when the fleet was reviewed, who treat- ed Cabinet ladies to frge perfume and supplied White H with free liquor. Among other things, Pearson told | how Maragon once pleaded guilty to transporting liquor illegally, and dug up various incidents of Mara- gon’s past, including the fact that he was fired by the State Depart- ment from a position in Greece. Nevertheless, Maragon tontinued to have free run of the White House and appeared to influence the Pre- sident on some policies, including (Contlnued‘tfli Page Four® insured workers who i se friends | three persons to Ketchikan. | Arriving from Seattle were Sgt. iNewell Banks, Emily Berg, W. J. | Bowens, W. R. Cairl, Dr. Virginia | Cobb, Ben Dubkroski, Mrs. Thomas {Farley and infant; Mrs. Gettmare jand Richard. Henry Heino, jMary Jones, Olson, Bob and Helen Pheasant, N. J. and Goldien Rauch, Mr. and | Mrs. Sterns, Mary Ann SaMinger and Eillien Uttuch, Arriving from Annette were Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. Sterns and M. B. Miller. | Seattle-bound passengers yester- |day were Eric Tompkins, D. J. McDonald, Mr, and Mrs. John Fuss- ner, Ethel Powell, Mrs. R. G. Dar- nell, Eldon Henslee, A. Scott, Ruth |and Jerry Francis and Henry Paski. Going to Annette were Walter |Robe, C. C. Beamer and H. L. Ha®- |anger. e o o H. S. Hagraves, WEATHER REPORT 0000000900000 000000c0 0 In Juneau—Maximum 22; minimum 12, At Airport—Maximum 19; minimum -12. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued fair and cold with occasional gusty north- easterly winds tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tonight near 10 in Juneau and as low as -10 in outlying districts. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—None. since Jan. 1—99 inches; since July 1—54.93 inches. At Airport—None; since Jan. 1—82 inches; since July 1—36.31 inches. Pz e et S A G I S e Arnold Lake, W. S.! 'HAP’ ARNOLD DEAD AT 63; BODY T0 EAST SONOMA, Calif., Jan. 16—®— Gen. Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, Amer- {ica’s ranking airman of World War | |11 and a pioneer of U.S. Military aviation, is dead at 63. The nation’s first General of the Air Force succumbed suddenly to a long ailing heart Sunday at his ranch home 40 miles north of San Francisco, He retired to that quiet Valley of the Moon June 30, 1946, after periodic heart attacks for two years. Arnold’s physician, Dr. Russell V. Lee of Palo Atlo, said the Gen- eral should have retired after his first heart attack in 1944, “but things were hot then and he de- cided to take his chances with the rest of the soldiers and went back to duty.” The wartime Chief of the Air Forces will be buried in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The funeral is set for Thursday after- noon. The tody was resting today at a funeral parlor here. The body will be taken to nearby Hamilton | Field and flown to Washington, .C., Tuesday (leaving at 5 p.m. 'PS’[‘). The family hdd not decided whether to hold services here. The nation’s military leaders— from Secretary of Defense Johnson down—expressed shock and sorrow at Arnold’s death. They praised him as the man most responsible for America’s air strength and said he was a key figure in the Allied defeat of the Axis. ONE OF FIRST Arnold was taught to fly by the Wright krothers in 1811. Just four years out of West Point, he was one of the first officers assigned to the infant air force—then a branch of the Signal Corps. From then on, Arnold’s career wrote many of the highlights in the military air history of America. ® | He became Chief of the Air Corps lx’l 1938. ‘ !The six-foot General's smiling face earned him the nickname ot “Happy"—later shortened to “Hap.” But he know how to get tough and was noted for getting things done. Arnold saw the Air Force grow under his guidance from 15,000 planes and 96,000 men in 1933 fo more than 70,000 planes, and some 2,200,000 men in 1945. BOMBER ADVOCATE The General was one of the strongest advocates of long-range tombing. During the Congressional kattle over the B-36 last August, he told the House Armed Services Committee the big plane was “the CHINA POLICY | up over ACHESON GETS BLASTS OVER Republican Congressmen' Aroused-British Also Have Growing Pains (By the Associated Press) Repuclican Congressmen, wrought the latest break between the United States and Red China, have levelled their guns at Secre- tary of State Acheson, demanding | everything from an explanation to 2 resignation. Democratic leaders accused the || | Republicans of trying to make polit- ical hash out of the nation’s for- eign policy in the wordy Senate debate over Formosa and China. |{ Senator Lucas of Iliinois, the || Cemocratic leader, hurled 14 charge at GOP members who have | been storming against President || Truman’s hands-off policy toward || Fofmosa [ Lucas received a sharp retort from Senator Brewster of Maine, chairman of the Republican Sena- torial campaign committee, who | declared it is the Democrats who | b i . auia s are churning up the political pot. | Top British officials are reported | seriously concerned over Red seiz- . ure of Ameriéah property in Pei- ping, Chinese Communist capital. Reliable sources in the British |(HAPMAN capital said government leaders are | worried over criticism from some | other Commonwealth members for | recognizing the Communist gov-| ernment. | From Formosa came word that | more than 100 Nationalist planes and a few warships were pummel- ! ing Communist invasion craft| massed on Luichow peninsula for | the invasion of Hainan Island an}Th‘Z‘;‘se:g’eG;rgg; s ;fi;e‘ml: The attacks were designed. to| (50 SO TETS iate toF cripple the Reds who are “‘ymg{‘sécremry n'p(hc‘ ;nt(-nur to mount an attack on i A : APPROVAL i | Both Demograts and Republicans | Sacks of potatoes are transfererd from this truck, s randed by snow storms 45 miles north of Redding, Calif. Heavy snow storms and ice has slowed traffic on all northern California highways. (P ‘Wirephoto. gid Weather 'Tr_uck Ditched by Snow i i CHARGED HOUSING (OST BARS DEFENSE HERE — ARMY Army Tailoring Needs fo Meet Alaska Prices- Tranisport Handicap 11 KNOWN DEAD FROM (OLD WAVE Blizzard Causes Property Damage Into Millions —(rews Qgen Roads SEATTLE, Jan. 16— (®—The frigidly rigid Pacific Northwest braced itself today for at least two more days of bitter cold and snow. Even as new snowfalls covered the region, the weather bu- teau said it saw hope for a mid- | week letup in a low pressure area | now 800 miles north of the Ha- waiian Islands. If it stays on the beam, the fore- casters sald, the “low” would reach | here Wednesday bringing more | moderate temperatures and rains to wash away the heavy cover of snow | that ranges up to 20 inches on the | western side of both Oregon and Washington. DEATH-DEALING The death-dealing blizzard, strik- ing appropriately on Friday the 13th, left 11 known dead in Wash- ington and British Columbia. Prop- 1 erty damage ran into the millions, | Transportation, virtually para, lyzed oy the initial fury of the region’s worst storm in history, slowly returned to some semblance of order, Bus and air travel was resumed as road crews opened most main and secondary highways. Paths were broken through to isolated communities. SNOW CLOSES HIGHWAY New snows yesterday, striking primarily at Astoria, Ore., and in- land along the Columbia river toundary .between.. and | Cregon, closed the Evergreen High- way on the river's north bank and choked the Oregon Trail on the | south bank, down to one-way traf- fic. Five of Washington's storm the big island which served as ore of the main bases of Japan's wartime southward Pacific advance. Other Formosa dispatches said (heaped words of praise on Chap- |man who” was named by Prcxidemi | Truman on Dec. 1 to succeed J. A.| ! Krug. Chapman had been Underse- | 8 Nationalist Governor Ho Kuo-\”elary Kwang was strengthening his grib |~ ge hoo peen serving as Secretary in the far inland province of Si-| 0 i aunoiiment : l-mx?igl bor:ermg ’nffl‘-’ T*;]e "ff:;:* At a committee hearing no single said Ho has promised all DEISONS, ..,.q of gopposition to Chapman who return to the Nationalist Ioldi as voiced. that they will be pardoned and Well | ppo genate is expected to give treated. | quick confirmation to the nomina- DEMAND ey anmsrons WILL BE GUEST OF FEDERAL ECONOMY Coal Strug!]l—t; Also Rela- fions of U.S.-China Start Words in Congress WASHINGTON, Jan. 16— Demands for federal economy, the coal struggle and darkening rela- tions between the United States and Communist China engaged Congress in a series of wordy battles today. President Truman is expected to send his request for a “moderate’ tax boost—to supply more federal revenue—to capital hill this week. Details are still secret. In advance of the President’s message, Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance Committee called for a $3,000,000,000 slash in Mr. Truman’s proposed $42,439,- 000,000 spending budget. George indicated he will oppose any sizeable increase in taxes. He told newsmen that if Congress lis- tens to the man in the street it will do some drastic trimming in gov- ernment outlays. Other Congressional ments: Coal—Senator Hill (D-Ala) urged President Truman to name a fact- finding board immediately to de- cide whether John L. Lewis' order for a three-day work week in ‘the coal mines has caused a national shortage. Over the weekend, a group of Ohio retail coal dealers asked Sena- tor Taft (R-Ohio) to use his in- fluence with Mr. Truman to invoke develop- (Continued on Page Three) (Confinued on Page Th};e) | (AP SOUADRON The young Juneau Squadron of | the Civil Air Patrol will play host | this week to a group of distin- guished visitors from Anchoraze and Fort Richardson, headed by Brig. Gen, Frank A. Armstronz, Jr., | chief of the Alaskan Air Command. | Instead of the regular semi- | monthly Squadron meeting Wed- nesday evening, members and their invited guests will gather at 8 o'clock in the Baranof Terrace Room for a no-host dinner honor- ing the officers, who will tell ot} CAP @ctivities and make an in- spection, Scheduled to arrive early Wed- nesday afternoon with Armstrong are Col. Jack Carr, com- mander of the Alaska Civil Alr Patfol Wing; Maj. Virgil Stone, Assistant Wing Commander, and Capt. J. D. Stone, CAP-Air Force | liaison officer. The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary unit of the United States Air Force, its officers holding tem- porary A.F. commissions. The Ju- neau Squadron, the first CAP or-; ganization in Southeast Alaska, was activated November 1. Juneau CAP members are asked to make reservations for the infor- mal dinner with Maj. Allan G. Marcum, Juneau Squadron com- mander, by tomorrow noon. Should the number exceed the capacity of the Ferrace Room, the cinner will Le held in the Gold Room. CLARKS HERE Mr. and Mrs. 8. G. Clark of Ketchikan are guests at the Bar- anof Hotel. PETERSBURG GU Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stearns of Petersburg are registered at the industria | Baranof Hotel. General f | i ] This picture is identified as Mrs. Elncra Epperly, 23, of Rock Island, 1L, as she arrived at the court- | house at Rock Island, to discuss | Davenpors tragic Mercy Hospital fire with State’s Attgrney Bern- ard J. Moran. A warrant has been filed in Davenport charging her with “murder committed in the perpetration of arson.” She was | a patient in the hospital. (/ Wire- i photo. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle scheduled to jarrive sometime tomorrow after- noon. Princess Norah from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or eve- ning. Baranof scheduled to sail from {Seattle Saturday. | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 16—Closing ‘quolalion of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 105%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 267, Kennecott 52%, New Yor Central 12%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 26%, Pound $2.80. | Sales today were 1,460,000 shares. | Averages 'today are as follows: s 19717, rails 54.61, util- ities 40.79. | {trengthening the far deaths resulted from highway ac- cidents, Three persons—two child- i i By ELTON C. FAY ! | WASHINGTON, Jan, 16— Insufficient housing is described s P as the biggest but not the only | (Continued on Page Six) problem in building up the defenses BSOS VAN 3 of Alaska against any surprise at- tack from Russian Siberia. ‘ This was the explanation given | today by military men concerned | with Alaskan defenses when asked alout reports that the Terrltnry‘s Io R now is virtually defenseless. Gov-| ernor Ernest Gruening, in a mass meeting here last week, declared that Alaska could be captured “by (ANADA "ow a minor scafe airborne inyasion.” 3 A start has teen made on north de-| mere fenses—but it is only in the earliest preliminary stages. The prevlous;Plane’ Au'o craShes Re' session of Congress authorized an! poned_P0wer lines expenditure of $96,000,000 for bulld- | ing new barracks and houses for, garrison forces in Alaska. The Air| Force assigned $31,200,000 of its| {unds for the current fiscal year to be used in speeding construction | of a radar aircraft warning and| control system in Alaska. { Defense experts say some of the| complications of carrying out the| program are these: COST HIGHER Money for building in Alaska | doesn’t buy as much as it does else- where. A house that costs $10,000 in the states, costs $50,000 or $60,000 " (Continued on Page Three) Min;r;lgnore | Lewis, Stay, Out of Pils Stay Out Bec;se Five-Day Week Wanted-45,000 Men Idle in Penn. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16— (A — Nearly 60,000 soft coal miners in six states refused to obey John L. Lewis’ suggestion they return to | work today after a one-week strike. Western Pennsylvania led the | walkout with 45,000 miners idie out of 56,000. Alabama operators |said 5,500 miners refused to work in that state. About 4,000 Ohio miners stayed (Continued on Page’ Three) Are Down (By the Associated Press) « The screeching storm which ham- mered the Northern Plains, Rocky | Mountain and Northwest States has veered into Canada but it left the area with its worst cold wave of the winter. At least 52 deaths were attributed to the storm, ten of them in Can- ada. Nine died in. the northwest klizzard, seven in crashes of two { émall planes in rain and fog, and |a woman and her three small | daughters ip. an automocile crash on an icy Michigan highway. Other fatalities were caused by the winds, flood and traffic accidents. Temperatures were far below normal all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast, while the remainder of the nation gen- erally had seasonal or balmy weather. The gales which caused consid- erable damage along the northern Lalf of the nation had abated to- day. Damage included . disabled power lines at Buffalo and Syra- cuse, N.Y., and losses of hundreds ol head of livestock in the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountain re- gions. , Southern California had another narrow escape from cold weather damage to the citrus crops. At Riverside, near Los Angeles, the mercury dipped to 36 degrees early today but Los Angeles had a safe 42. Temperatures were expected to climb today in the Northern Rockies after lows of five to ten below zero last night in Montana. Through- out the Northern Plains the mer- cury ranged downward to —15 in South Dakota and an average of 25 below in North Dakota.