The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1950, Page 1

HE DAIL ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,410 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Blizzard Sweeps Nort A RMY ASKS _TEACHER. 55, WEDS STUDENT, 20 T0 EXPAND ALASKA WORK Communica?iags, Housing Pressed-Enlistment Prob- lem Is Bad in North WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—(®—The Army is pressing Congress for $6,- 100,000 to provide better radio and w communications facilities for the armed forces and civilians in Alaska. A House Appropriations subcom- mittee made public today testi- mony in which the Army Engineers described imiportance of the pro-| gram and its tie up with Alaska’s defenses. Maj. Gen. S B. Akin, Chief Siz- nal Officer, testified the Army needs $3,100,000 in the year starting July 1 for terance of new t An additional $3,000,000 for build- ings to house eguipment and the men to operate it also is needed | urgently, he said. ' The Alaska Communication Sy: tem, General Akin said, is used 65 | percent by the Army and Air Force, | 15 percent by the Navy and other government agencies, and 20 por—‘ cent for commercial purpos “This system is essentially tho arterial communications system of the Territory, of 586,400 square miles and a pel manent population of approxi- mately 94,000 persons, an increase of 20 percent since 1945, he said. MAIN LINK It provides the main communi-{ link between Alaska and provides needed swift cations the states, service between military posts anaf between towns, its radio stat can reach out to ships at sea, and the entire setup offers services essential to the civilian population, he said. It connects with 300 pr vate radio and telephone stations already operating in Alaska. 1 The work also will tie in, he said, | with the $80,000,000 four-year plO-] gram to rehabilitate the Alaskan | Railroad; a big road expansion pro- | gram, and the Civil Aeronauuct‘ Administration’s $8,000,(¢0-a~year | plan for air port development at (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round : By DREW PEARSON | (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | 'ASHINGTON—A secret month- long poker game between an €x- installation and nnm—; elephone, telr"mghy and catle facilities and vmn\(m\ of the radio system. | which has an "usn, > | stroyed - their \becn frozen for | brigade | Dugaqua, | ! t 1 i | ) | | ROMANCE IN DRAMA SCHOOL at Umvx‘rsny of W’\\hmgton, Seattle, is climaxed by marriage of Prof. Glenn Hughes, 55, head of department, and Cleta Roger: 3 KIDDIES LOSE LIVES, KAKE BLAZE \Home Fire Fought Unsuc- cessfully with Snowballs and Bucket Brigade PETERZBURG, Alaska, Jan —Snowballs and a salt water i ucket brigade failed to stem a fire at midnight Monday which burned three children to death and de- home in the Indian | community of Kake near here. U S. Commissioner Petersburg -~ returned from esterday aidd told about it. Most of the village irhatitants | were attending a Salvation Army food sale when the alarm sounded. The town's water supply bhad weeks men started throwing snow on the two room house while the young men and boys formed a bucket to the beach,” William | | \ | | i | Hirt of there Dale Although the tide ‘was low and the temperature was likewise—be- low zero—Hirt said heroic efforts were nudu to try to rescue the : Ellen June, 5; Peter Jr., and Raymond Ernest, 3, whon- father is Peter Quick. Mrs. and two other children were at the food sale when the fire struck. While snow -and salt water were pelted unavailingly on 'the flames, Chester James dashed into Denor Judge Malcolm Douglas pcrrormed ceremony. “the old an eye-witness, recalled. Quick | Georgla priest and a Chinese P€as- | ype purping house and tound two ant may settle the fate of all Asia.| This is the confidential advice President Truman by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The game i in Moscow and the players are Josef Stalin, shrewd and impassive, who sits opposite China’s | Communist boss, Mao tze-tung. The | prize is Manchuria, the rich north- ern- province of China eyed with/ sharp desire by both Czars and politburos for more than a century. { Mao went to Moscow December 16. He is still there. Coded cables to Washington say a stubborn quarrel over Manchuria has pro- longed what should have been| a brief formal visit. Stalin has proposed an autonomous Manchur-| ia under an out-and-out MOSsCOW | stcoge, Li 1i-S8an. Mao, on the other | hand, is insisting Russia live up to its Aug. 14, 1945, treaty with China | which recognizes Chines “full sov- | ereignty” -over Manchuria. Mao is a tough customer \\lm knows he must show a streak of in-| { dependence to keep his hold over | the Chinese people. Like Yugoslav- ja’s Tito he has complete control| over his own army, but if Mao re- turns home without Manchuria 'uhh with commitments to supply R‘ls-y sia with troops, laborers and food, his authority will be weakened. | While the poker game goes on in Moscow, the Soviet is secretly trying to undermine Mao. Hundreds of Soviet officials, parading as farm advisers, military experts, engineers and welfare officials are moving into the Chinese Communist gov- ernment and now control its pro- paganda machine, | of the children alrea | | children dead from burns and suffocation. A few sec- onds later broke into the bedroom and found | the body of the third tot. The visiting Metlakatla rasketta team helped fight the fire. Hirt said it was believed might accidentally have set the fire when they tried to refill the small home's wopd stove. The children will be buried in the | | Kake. STOCK GUOTATIONS 25 — Closing mine n Can NEW YORK, Jan. quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 3'4, Amer 114, Anaconda 29, Curtiss-Wright 8, International Harvester 27, Ken- necott 53%, New York Central 12%, Northern Paeific 141, U. S. Steel 277, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,700,000 sha Averages today are as follows: industrials 188.39, rails 5451, util- ities 41.48. SELLING STORM NEW YORK, Jan. 25—®—The stock market weathered a sudden selling storm in fairly good style |today, In mid-mornine prices piunged a few cents to an extreme of around $4 a share in a whirlwind of selling that was over before it got well started. At the close of trading, the mar- ket was still lower on average but declines had been reduced to an Dugaqua and others| s, 20, junior from Troy, Tex. Su- (Inte r:mlmlm" | CHRYSLER IS TIED UP BY BIG WALKOUT ! | Nationwide Operahons Hit by Strike of 89,000 | Auto Workers ‘ DETROIT, Jan. —(P—A strike | of 89,000 auto wor hit Chrys- | Corporation’s nationwide opera- ns today. | Six months of negotiations failed | to bring agreement in a pmsion' plan dispute between the company | and the CIO United Auto Workers. | Talks broke off 15 minutes before | the 10 a.m. walkout. i From the bargaining room, | n flashed the message to le-| cals in 25 plants: | “Hit the bricks, 1 Assembly lines ground to & he ‘i; jas d hifts in the sprawling De- | troit )) ants, first to get the word, | swarmed out. Workers in the rest of | Chrysler’s factories followea suit. | Before long almost all Chysler’s | 110,000 employees across the na-| icn will be idled. The big snag in efforts %o avoid | the strike was a union demand at Chrysler make a dollars- and-| ents committment in a new con- | ct. Benefits worth 10 cents were asked the “rockbottom” figure. ysler stuck to its offer of a month plan administered en- It would be d on a pay-as-you-go basis. The company rejected the idea of [2 jointly run trust fund, upon {which the union insisted. ASKS FUND WAR DEAD | MEMORIALS National Cefiery at Sitka Is Put Down for Sum of $75,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—/—An $875,000 sum for erecting memorials to war dead in National Cemeteries | in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico s proposed for the next fiscal year. The memorial at the Sitka, Alaska, cemetery would be the smallest of the three—$75,000. The Honolulu memorial cost is budgeted at $700,000 and the one in Puerto Rico at $100,000. The figures were presented to the House Appropriations subcom- mittee handling the budget for Army civil functions. The next fiscal” year starts July‘l. “"The budget also includes a pro- posal for expansion of six national cemeteries in the states. | United | ing Chambers after Jan. 1, 193 | request that the d45-year-old Hiss be committed with impunity.” { mended that Hiss be sentenced (0 HISS GETS FIVE YEARS;APPEAL T0 HIGHCOURT Three Top Jushces May| ! Disqualify Selves If Case Heard-Bail Continued NEW YORK, Jan. 25—(P—Alger | was sentenced today to five years in a federal penitentiary. Sentence was pronounced by‘ Federal Judge Henry W. Goddmd‘ in the courtroom where Hiss \ns convicted on two perjury cuums last Saturday by a jury of’ eight| women and four men. He was not| fined. | The former State Department| oificial had denied slipping secret! ‘m’.c papers to a prewar Soviet H After sentence was pronounced | ‘de(enso counsel filed a notice of| | appeal with the clerk of the caurt; and submitted a defense motion| that Hiss be continued in bail| pending decision of the higher court | 1 of appeal. | The next step for appeal lm\m\d‘ the circuit court would be to the| States Supreme Court. it go to the highest tri- towed to a siding. BRIDGES TALKS AT | (10 MEET \Beclares Immlgrahon Ser- vice Trying fo Bust Un- Should | bunal, at least three judges are ex= pected to disqualify themselves. I They are Felix Frankfurter, Stan- | ley Reed and Tom C. Clark. The| first two testified as character wit- | | nesses for Hiss at the first trial last June. Justice Clark was U.S.| Attorney General while the g | ment worked up its case against| Hiss. i DISQUALIFICATION A decision to disquality mmsel:, is up to each justice. He Iis nul compelled by law. However, a jus- | tice customarily steps down in a case when he feels that either side| ions-Vote on Merger might be aggrieved by his consid- i Bl | ering it. | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25—(P— Judge Goddard set bail at $10,000 | | Harry Bridges told CIO fishermen pending appeal. |that the U. S. Immigration Ser- | The five year term was nnposo(l\vlcc is an “amateur Gestapo” out on each of two counts, the L(,‘xnh‘lfl ‘bust the unions.” to run concurrently. Maximum\ The CIO longshore leaders was sentence could have teen five years | |guest speaker at yesterday's open- imprisonment on each count' 'md\ing session of the annual conven- $2,000 fine on each count. ition of the CIO International Fish- The jury held that Hiss mn\ermens Union. He spoke during the when he denied passing secret moon recess of his trial for perjury State Department documents to|in Federal court here. Whittaker Chambers, self- ;‘\M\ Bridges defended policies of both courier for a Communist spy 1.ng| the Fishermen’s Union and his and lied again when he denied ,m-‘Longshorcmens and Warehouse- men’s Union both of which have |been at odds with the national |CIO because of their left wing leaning: Judge Goddard denied a defe not be imprisoned saying: “This should be a warning tha n‘ a crime of this character may not| ar” Yells Bridges “Anybody that says either of our organizations has yiolated the had recom- lConsmuMon or even the policies of the national CIO, is a liar | declared, and added that their ac- five years on each count, to run, i : concurrently. The government oro- | cusers “don’t have the guts to hold ‘U <. | public trials.” The government AWARDED MEDALS IN HONOR OF WORK In tribute to two men who have; seen the Alaska highway system grow from a few country reads to a mighty interlocking span which today reaches out to cross North America, Col. John R. Noyes today presented distinguished service med- als -to Ike P. Tayior, retiring chief engineer of the Alaska Road Com- mission and to Mrs. Edna Sterling, widow of Hawley W. Sterling, who before his death was assistant to Taylor, Mr. Sterling died in September, 1948. The new highway recently completed from Homer to Kenai was named for him recently. Colonel Noyes, chief of the Com- mission, presented the awards, and presented 18 other silver and bronze medals for meritorious and com- mendable service to five of his dis- | triet tribute upon return to their cities. The engineers were in ccnference with the Colonel and his Juneau staff the fore part of the week, iscussing 1950 programs and pol- engineers for them to dis- base Taylor Retiring Taylor retires February 35 years of government the past 29 years with the road commission. He entered govern- ment work in 1914, came to Alaska in 1916 to aid in construction of 1 after service, | secutor of the case, Assistant U= {the Alasak Railroad, following which “But, he began his present work, first as they're not pushing us | Attorney Thomas F. Murphy, {not recommend a fine. |around,” “We're too hard | ito push.” Delegates to the convention, re- | presenting some 20,000 Pacfic Coast Uishermcn voted earlier in the da k‘on a proposal that the fisherm and longshoremen’s unions be merg- | ed. Results will be announced later. Bridges approved the merger be-} . lcause it would “bring more se-! |curity to the unions.” | To File Affidavits The union, which has been ac-| cused by the national CIO of having leftist tendencies, will file non- Communist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley Law, the convention was told yesterday. | he said. Murphy had requested a 925 bail but Judge Goddard said that was “too high.” Defense counsel Claude B. Cross | of Boston told the court: “I thn | the defendant can raise $10,000.” WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 19; minimum 12. At Airport—Maximum 18; minimum -7. FORECAST (Junesu and Vieinity) Fair tonight and Thursday Lowest temperature tonight | near 16 in Juneau and as low ; as 2 in outlying districts Colder Thursday with high- est temperature about 14 and occasion al northeasterly winds. '(Continued on Page Five) | GREEK STEAMER GOES | AGROUND IN SOUTH| The Coast Guard radio station at Point Higgins early this morn-| ing intercepted a messaze from the Greek steamship Kostis Lemo reporting that the vessel had gone {aground in Sansum Narrows nea’ Sansum Point at the south end of Vancouver Island. The Greek vessel radioed it was awaiting high tide before makin, an effort to free itself, Coast Guard | headquarters here said. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled to sail PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—.09 inches; since Jan. 1—1.17 inches: since July 1—55.11 inches. At Airport—.09 inches; since Jan. 1—94 inches; since July 1—36.43 inchi e o 0 0 0 0 0 o e 0o o 0~ 8o TIDE TABLT JANUARY 26 Low tide 0:53 am. 48 ft. High tide 7:12 am., 14.0 ft. from |the Ccmmission ~ ! Ghiglione, |which work impaired superintendent in Fairbanks. Became Chief 1932 By pack train and on “prospeded™ for road locations throughout the Interior and when was transferred from the Army to the Department of the Interior in 1932 he became chief engineer. He administered building of the Glenn Highway, which connects Anchorage with the Alaska Highway. He expressed regret on the men he has worked with, foot he leaving and said that “whatever credit is given | me should go to my men.” He will be succeeded by A now his assistant. Sterling’s Work The Sterling award w; ed for the former ass 30 years service, which began in Fairbanks as superintendent fol- lowing transfer of Taylor. Colonel Noyes praised his work as direct supervisor of the Glenn Highway, his health. He later went to the Kenai Penin- ula to begin the Homer-Kenai oad but died before its comple- tion, He pioneered perma-frost tech- nique in building highways in the F. orth, Colorel Noyes said, from the time of his first job as location engineer in 1920. He built the Steese northernmost road on the con- tinent from Fairbanks to Circle. He came to Juneau in 1932 as as- sistant chief engineer. 16 Other Medals Highway, hern Plains; Bitter Bus Burns On Bay Bndge Fourteen persons were injurcd and 29 others escaped unhurt when this Key System bus, enroute from San Francisco to Oakland, struck a light standard as it approached the toll plaza and burst into flames. The near-catastrophe stalled eastbound traffic unil fire could be extinguished and charred wreckage (AP \VlRFl’llOTO) HIGHWAY PIONEERS‘4 UNIONS MUST STCP PICKETING sued Against CI0 in Lothrop Shlp (ase Jan. 25—(M— Hugh J. TACOMA, Wflih Superior Court Judge Rosellini yesterday permanently enjoining four CIO unions from picketing the freighter Asa Lothrop. The vessel, owned by the newly formed Alaska Ship Lines, Inc., has been the center of a union d:spute since Oct. 3, 1949 when a CIO picket line was set up. The Lothrop ( was manned by an AFL crew. | A temporary injunction restrain- {ing the pickets was issued the same day, but tefore it was served sev- eral pickets were beaten by men who arrived at the dock in cars. The Lothrop crew had voted in | tavor of the AFL in bargaining election held at Port Angeles, Sept. 30, 1949. The CIO unions con- tended that since only AFL men voted, the election was a farce. Judge Rosellini’s decision was the result of a pel to make the temporary injunction permanent. The AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific has been engaged in a juriedictional dispute with CIO unions for seyera] years over ves- sels in Alaska trade. ‘New Halian . Government (By Associated Press) Premier Alcide de Gasperi of Italy was expected to form a new three-party coalition today. The Premier resigned Jan. 12 for a long-planned cabinet re-| mmmmhon SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL The City Council will meet in special session at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Council chamber of the City Hall to set a date for the special election < at which voters will decide upon the annexation of | neau. Election officials will also ke chosen, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said today. city councilmen will continue work on drawing up the new traftic son declared. Permanem—l;j?undion ls-| handed down a decision | tition filed by owners | government | SESSION TOMORROW the Highlands to the city of Ju-| code for the city, Mayor Hendrick- | old RAIN, SNOW, SLEET TIE UP TRAFFIC Stinging Cold Wave with Thermometer Far Below Zero - Roads Iced (By the Associated Press) Subzero cold—30 to 40 below— froze blizzard -swept Northern Plains today. Rain, snow and sleet pelted Cen- tral States, delaying traffic. New England was sheeted with jce after an overnight storm that killed at least two persons. But it was warm as Florida in parts of the east and lower mid- west for a second straight day, and almost like summer in the south, STINGING COLD WAVE A stinging cold wave struck North Dakota in the wake of one of its worst blizzards in history. Cnly 149 miles of the state's 7,000 miles of roads were open early Wednesday. A snowstorm whipped Nebraska. Drifting snow piled from three inches high in Omaha to seven in the western parts, tut all roads were open, Two to three inches of sleet iced Southeastern Iowa roads. Western Towa had four inches of snow. The warm spell in scores of East- ern, Midwestern and Gulf areas didn't die out with darkness. Dur- ing the night it was warm as 66 in Louisville, Memphis and Nashville, 68 in St. Louis and Little Rock, 69 in Galveston and New Orleans, and parts of Minnesota, Nebraska, Towa, | Montan, Washington and the Da- kotas. IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST The Pacific Northwest’s sub-zero cold drove the mercury down to a 60-year low in Spokanc early to- day. The inland city's 22 below zero was listed as the lowest since 23 below on Feb. 26, 1890. winter clamped an icy grip on both Eastern and Western Wash- ington. It was the second time this month that rare sub-zero tempera- tures were recorded on the west side of the Cascades. OUCH — 50 BELOW To the north, in British Colum- bia, it was even colder. At Prince George, 500 miles north of Van- couver in the interior, it dropped to 50 below. Banff, Alta., reported —58 and Rouard, on Lesser Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, a —65, The prediction for today and tonight was “slightly warmer,” but continued cold. Snow was in_pros- pect generally in ‘Washington, with flurries in Oregon. The coldest spot reported in the Washington-Oregon frigid zone was at Harrington, atout 60 miles south- west of Spokane. It was 27 below. Many rural schools remained closed in Western Washington. Most train, air and bus schedules were being maintained. \CANADIAN NURSES FIGHT DIPHTHERIA IN FREEZING B. C. CAMP | VICTORIA, B.C., Jan. 25—P— .T)\e provineial public health de- | | partment told today how two | nurses fought for three weeks in | the filth, fear and freezing cold of a Northern British Columbia In- !dian camp against an attack of | diphtheria which claimed five lives. The department identified the nurses as Aileen Bond and A, Wil- son and said the village was lo- cated in Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C. The nurses wmade trips as far as 60 to 80 miles from the village to immunize other residents. The thermometer ranged between 40 and 60 degrees below zero. Miss Wilson said a funeral pyre for the third victim was burning when she arrived in the village. One of the later victims, she said, dled in an Edmonton, Alta., hospital despite the primitive methods of another Indian who had A few days ago at the State De- 40 ft. Other awards were given out by’ FROM SEATTLE reached into the patient’s throat partment there was a round-table (Continued on Pagé Four) outside of about $2 a share. Enough demand appeared for selected stocks to give them a net gain. There was no indication of what e type of memorial was proposed at e Sitka. le o o 0 @ 05 0 0 o Low tide 2:04 p.m., High tide 8:11 p.m, 10.7 ft. Seattle Saturday. Baranof from west uled to arrive Sunday 4 sched- | evening. Colonel Noyes as follows: (Continued on Page Five) E. Wick of Seattle is stopping the Baranof Hotel. L at and pulled out the diphtheria mem- brane with a pair of silver pliers.