The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1950, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEVW'S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,411 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURH\.\Y, JANUARY 26, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ANCHORAGE MAN SHOT 10 DEATH | | Arrives TUCICN, Ariz, Jan. 26—P—A! man identified as Robert E. Turner, about 55, of Anchorage,| Alaska, was found shot to death in a parked ‘car near here today. A revolver lay on his lap.” He had keen shot in the head Deputy Sheriff Emmett Newland said, “This is. definitely a case of murder. The position of his hands | on the steering wheel conclusiv show that he did not shcot him- celf. The pos'tion of the gun indi- cates that the man was murdered. | It appears he was si | ting in the| car talking with someone when he | lost his lite.” | Newland found the body when he | stopped to examine the car parked | at the roadside. { Two persons have been laken‘n into custody for questioning, and a third is being hunted. MacARTHUR ISSEVENTY | | | | (By Ascociated Press) In Tokyo, General Donglas Mac- Arthur, Supreme Allied Occupation Commander celebrated his 70th birthday. He appeared phjy ically well and mentally tough as hej| greeted a long line of well wishers. | Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) asked the U. S. Senate to call MacArthur| home to the United States to tell the people “true situation” in the| explosive Far East. Judith Coplox Sylveste J. Ryan dexnied a farth against Miss Coplon and Gubitche plot to transmit to Russia stolen defensc. (P Wirephoto. 1, former Depariment of Justiee employee, walks through the rain with her attorney, Archibald Palmer, to New York Federal Court where the trial of Mis Coplon and Valetin A. Gubitchev, Rus- sian engineer, on espionage conspiracy charzes was started. Judge | for Trial "Nothing fo Do’ [ | | With Uranium, Says Wallace “His AgencyfiaNo Author- - ity, He Testifies Before | Un-American Com. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26— Henry A. Wallace said today h ha “absolutely nothing to d« with” wartithe uranium shipments to Russia. Wallace, wartime Vice President testif'ed before the House Unameri- | can Activities Committee. He asked to be heard after radio commen- | tator Fulton Lewis. Jr., said in a broadcast last month that Wallace heiped the Russians get supplies of atomic materials. Urnajum is | used in making the A-bomb. . In a statement, Wallace told the | committee he did not even Kknow the Russians were asking licenses | for the shipments. He added: “I did know that lend-lease re- commended, after consulting witn the Manhattan District, that they be issued, and the agency which I | headed, the : Warfare, had mno discretionary authority with respect to them.” The Manhattan District was the| Army’s name for the wartime atomic bomb project. The Board ol | Economic Warfare (BEW), which| | Wallace headed, had control over| | exports and imports of war-vital| | materials. 1 The House Committee has re- | ceived testimony that several ship- | ments of uranium compounds were | sent, from the United States to| | Russia during the war. HINTED RESPONSIBLE | er delay in the trial. The charges | v are in connection with an alleged government data aifecting national il 2 l & Ingrid Is Filing for | Divorce in Mexico, HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26—(#—In- day that the actress is filing suit | for divorce from Dr. Peter Lind-| strom in Mexico today. The lawyer, Greg Bautzer, said . price support pro- the nction was being filed by|gram for ti S. fishing indu Mexican counsel. {was advocated today by the CIO “It 15 my understanding that|International Fishermen's Urica. ! the papers have been filed or will The delegates in a resolution yes te within a few hours” Bautzer terday urged all union members said. {and affiliates to back up the con- ntion’s appeal for a (Governmeni Price Support Says Hor Lawyer Program, Fishing Industry, Jrowmwoos e e g Adyocated Wallace said the testimony before the committee had raised two basic questions concerning him: (1) “It is strongly implied, if it not actually said, that I was responsible for the licensing ol |uranium and heavy water for | Russia in 1943; and (2) as a war-| time Vice President, I could not be trusted with certain contfidential information . regard ng the atom bomb.” is Bureau of Economic| - Boulder Derails Oregon Irain . s heavy rains, had fallen on the right-of-way. sengers en stalled trains were transported around wreckage in buses. (P Wirephoto. BLOCKADE PROTESTED, 3 NATIONS Western Po;é}s in Berlin Send Sharp Note to Russ Authorities (By Asscciated Press) Commanders of the three western powers in Berlin today sent a sharp Change in Alaska Area Comman et e A repair crew is busy removing wreckage of 21 freight cars, derailed 18 miles north of Klamath Falls, Ore, on main coast route of the Southern Pacific, after the locomotive struck a huge . boulder, dislodged by Ice-covered Upper Klamath Lake is in background. Pas- MANINJRED AS | FIRE CHARS HOME _ ON WATERFRONT | Flames roared through a tto-! | story frame structure at Tenth) Street and Harbor Way this morn- | ing, injuring one man and leav-| ing the dwelling charred and gut- | ted Smoke from the fire, hanging, thickly over Gastineau Channel, | was visible in all parts of the cny.; The first alarm was sounded at 10:10 a.m., and a second alarm was sounded ten minutes later as fire- men battled the stubborn hlnze.i d is Rumor ain SUCCESSOR 77T TOTWINING MENTIONED May Be Norstad, Youngest Three-Star General in Armed Forces | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—(P—L. Gen, Lauris Norstad, youthful Chiet of Operations for the Air Force, may be assigned to command the strategic Alaskan area. Air Force officials said today con= | sideration is being given to sending Norstad to Alaska to succeed Lt.. Gen, Nathan Twining, but that no | decision has teen made. | Twining, the Senior Air Com= mander in Alaska, also is Chief of { the combined Alaskan Command | of Army, Navy and Air Force. The | designation of an over-all com-| | mander is made by the Jomt Chiefs | | | | of Staff, but the choice customarily | is based on the primary interest of | '|a service in an area. In Alaska, the | major responsibility belongs to the | Air Force. | There also have been rumors |that Maj. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, | chief of the 8th Air Force with | headquarters at Carswell Base, Texas, also might go to Alaska, | possibly to tecome head of the S e W ont Sl ~—-= | Alaskan Air Command. The post is now held by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong. i SouTHEASI Air Force officials, however, de- | clined to discuss this possibility. | BOTH EXPERIENCED BlooMs As | Both Norstad and Ramey are men of long combat and operations { experience. In World War II NORTH (olD for the Meditérranean Allled Alr Forces, then was trought to Wash= ¥ ington to become Operations Chiet s o {of Staft of the 20th Air Force. It H 1fc | was set up to begin long-range bom- New Storm with Snow Hits 32512 5 25, vt e ae 42, he is one of the youngest three- Nor'hwes' A"er COIdes' star Generals in any of the armed forces. He s a native of Minne- apol's. I Ramey, lean and leathery native (By Associated Press) [ of Texas, fought the air war in the _The nation’s weather was On 8! pocirio He was commander of & climatic binge today. tomber squadron in Hawaii when s country ctions in order dollar supplies | he convention in another resolu- said the union will strive to into union organization the nized elements in the fish- ing industry. Unionization Activity i unor i price sup-| Wallace said it is “not for me to pass judgment upon my conduct,” but added: | “I state unhestitatingly that I am ! proud of my participation as Vice | President of the United States dul ing the time when the war situa- | tion was most critical, and I am} | proud to have been associated with | the administration whose policies | were so effective in making ava'l- note to Russian authorities pro-|pampered by a frozen stub from :fsm;utthc hindrance of truck traf-{ips water main to the hydrant at c between Germany. In New York U. S. High Commis- ! 4,. sioner for Germany John J. Muclo_vi Injured was W. B. Converse, is reported to have come to the ... o the house, who was burned conclusion the latest Russian movei .. ih. hands a‘nd Tade 8s- he i fg::flgi‘flaci:w:fm’;gfi‘yd; fought the flames before the ar- sources close to Mcciny. is to ‘-i;rnw | ;‘:llt ot gty Hlee-tighiing . eaiins Berlin and westeIl | e corner of Tenth Street and, | Harbor Way which left the hydrant \ | The late Most of nature’s elements appear- ‘ed on the loose, fashioning a crazy- 1quilt of contrasts across the coun- {try. January weather pic- {ture: | There was bitter cold and mount- | ainous snow over the northern i plains, Cotton was blooming in | Orangeburg County, S. C. five months ahead of schedule. At East the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, then moved to the Southwest Pa- cific to direct bombing attacks on enemy shipping and strafing op- | erations against Japanese footholds ™" in the islands. i CLAIM BRIDGES | port policy. proposed a concentration of i g { It i The Washingion Merry ¥ Go % Round {fish dropped nine percent last yea They ~ acted after Paul Pins = 2 : research director for the Californ- ;" ionization i :Alnska, fa State CIO Council, told the ad southern California, among the albacore wention that the retail price of rmen. as many monkey wrenches into the {western German economic machine as possible to thwart prosperity. Reports from Helmstedt, Ger- many, said the Russians appear to be tightening their “baby block- able the cssential materials when they were most needed.” Wallace's point No. 2 was a ref- | erence to testimony from Lt. Gen. | Leslie R. Groves, retired, that he| Bv DREW PEARSON §rompm-d with an average two per- (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) |ceut decline for other foods. A | Outlook Not Goed ‘/ASHINGTON—Georgia’s cagey | Pinsky said the outlook for Senator Dick Russell, spokesman ' consumption of fish this year for the southern Democrats, an-|not good. This, he added, w nounced at a recent closed-door cause of 2 decline in exper t due meeting of Senate Democrats that fto dollar shertages in cther coun-{? he was ready to compromise on|iries, Civil Rights. | since this is the biggest issu?|caught the fishing industry sulitting the Democratic Party, the |squeeze, Pi statement is considered significant. countries refusing to buy the Uni- However, Russell failed to amplify |ted, States product while being per it and some Senators are skeptical,| — = 5 dled into his oter R e et broent| VallleL Squawks About him to his feet was a lecture on a anana Belt (limate; ;Dusl Storms Rising party harmony from Illinois Senator in a Paul Douglas. “Reniember, party harmony is 2 two-way street,” Douglas seolded the southerners. Citing instances in which north-| VALDEZ, Alaska, Jan 26 ern Democrats had bowed to the| Residents “complained” today about will of their colleagues from the the weather. south, he urged: | There’s been no snow for ys “I hope the southerners will re-|or nights. Warm north winds ar member this and likewise give 2]blowing up dust clouds. Little.” | Nightly temperatures have been Russell retorted that the south- as high as 50 degrees above zero erners had been willing to compro-| (Valdez is a coastal town mise, but “no one wants to compro- 4an miles south of the Arctic Cir- mise with us.” He then made his cle), offer to come to terms over Civil| Rights. It was suggested by other southern Senators afterward that Jthey would not back down on 2 fair-employment bill but might pull STOCK QUOTATIONS in their horns on the anti-lynch-| NEW YORK, Jan. 26 — Closing ing and anti-poll tax bills. ;qumminn of Alaska Juneau mine istock is 3%, American Can 115, | Anaconda 287, Curtiss-Wright 8% Back Truman cn Formosa Most of the closed-door meeting Northern Pacific 14, U. S. Steel 28, was spent in a techaical discu sien | International Harvester 27%, ch?- of pending legislation and floor necott 54, New York Central 127, strat into which, however, SE‘n.\P"“""l $2.80%%. X Clint Anderson of New Mexico in- | Sales today were 1,150,000 share: jected the question ¢f Formosa. He | Averages today as follows |industrials 19853, rails 54.55; util- 'ities 41.63, (Continued on Page Four) The dollar exchange situation has | & y said, with foreizn; Delegates expected an announce- | ment today on the union’s vote ffiliate with the CIO Interna- Longshoremen’s and Ware- men's Union. 1e convention heard George An- tcdcreen, defense attorney, charge sterday that courts discriminate t lawyers representing labor to id unions “are being accused ” and lawyers “de- your rights” are accused did not show Wallace certain war- ‘time reports on the A-bomi pro- | ject. TRUMAN TO GET . PLEAFOR METAL ' MINES PLIGHT lw The flames started in the base- ment of the dwelling and .sprcad; upward between the walls. Firemen strung hose lines from! | Tenth and G Street and from Har- {tor Way at 12th Street to the Peint, Ga., an Atlanta suburb, a quince tree was abloom. | WAS l“ S'O(KIO A new storm, with heavy snow, | “ol I“ NEw vok struck the Pacific Northwest after the coldest weather in 60 years hit |COASTAL FLIGHTS ade” to the point where only one | . ha o7 d of several hun- eastern Washington yesterday. German truck was being passed onf . 3 g | In Virginia, trees were budding iica "peoie gaanesca o waien the 18 Ve, e et 3Gun: | Defense Iniroduces More :'t‘smu\:ea:t“ard jounrney every la} Blask! 3 s | The fire started while Converse, | an employee of the Alaska-Juneau | Gold Mining Company, was thaw- | ing frozen water pipes in the base- ment. He said he had left a small BR'“G 14: IAKE Z?jmlch under the pipes and had |gone to the far end of the base- Alaska Coastal Airlines fiights| ment for tools. When he returned, { yesterday brought 14 sons to!the corner of the basement Wwas uary heat records toppled in many communities. The mercury climbed Norfolk yesterday, marks for the date. travel skidded to a crawl. The thermometer reached 64.2 degrees in New York at noon to- to 78 at Richmond and 783 at| all-time top} Rain pelted wide areas. Freeezlng! rain splashed many sections and |Harry Bridges' attorneys brought Witnesses Refuting Those of Govi. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26—@-- in four more witnesses today to tell where the indicted longshore leader was on the night of June P | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26— (¥ — |Presxdent Truman is going to hear labout the plight of the metal min- ing industry. Rep. Baring (D-Nev) told a re- porter he had been invited to the White House next Wednesday and : he believes the call will give him By Assoctaded Pross) {an opportunity to tell Mr. Tru- There is no mass picketinz around man how badly the mines need the Chrysler plant in Detroit. The{Federa] help. | CIO. United Auto Workers are| p pij to advance moncy for ¢x- vreparing for a long strike whichiporation and development of new :ome union men say may last at|gre podies has been tied up by the ! least one month. {House Rules Committee since last Some 106,000 workers have been |gession of Congress. dle since yesterday at the Chrys-' ugigh costs and comparatively ler plant and at the Briggs Manu- |joy prices have caused a jous owing the party line.” MO MASS PICKETING ATCHRYSLER PLANTS facturing ~ Company, Chrysler's|economic crisis which is surely and | largest s_uppher. rapidly strangling fo death the Meantime, state and federal|sma)l and marginal mines of Nev- mediators are trying to resume|ada and elsewhere,” Baring said. bargaining talks. 'BABY BLOCKADE' Iriple_lv Boys Born; STALLS TRAFFIc| Placed in Incubator (By Associated Press) | TONASKET, Wash. Jan. 26 . At Helmstedt, Germany, Soviet|Triplet boys were born yesterday checkpoint for road and rail traf- | to 36-year-old Mrs. Roy Walker. fic moving from East to West wife of an Okanogan machinist. | Zones, 400 German trucks are stall- (The couple have no other children led in a five-day Russian “baby| The three youngsters weigh 5 | blockade.” An American Army con- |pcunds, 9 cunces; 4 pounds; and voy of 40 trucks was given speedy (3 pounds, 12’ ounces, They were | clearance. !placed in an incubator at birth Juneau and took 29 persons to points in Southeast Alaska. To Tenakee: Horlus Taug; to Haines: I. B. Houser; to Skagway: Mrs. Marlowe, Mrs. D. Clarke, and J. Patterson; to Petersbur wWil- liam Bailey; and to Sitka: Jerry Shaw, Bill Collins, Miss Hughes, Jerry Wade, Roy Peratrovich, Herb Martin, Ralph Treffers, Al Carl- son, Mary Lou Mix, Katherine Ba- vard, Dick Keithahn, Zalmain Gross, Mrs. Ebona, Elmer Lindstrom, Mr. Martinson, A. L. Kimball, Rod Pegues, S. Lewis, Dick Hansen, Joe Ninnis, Hugh Dugan, Dave Graves and Dade, Nickel. From Angoon: Mr. and Mrs. George John; from Haines: K. E. Teston, Carroll Green, Terry Tes- ton; and from Sitka: B. Frank Heintzleman, Roy Johnson, E. Tarr, O. Parmenter, Mrs. Wagner, Ray Peterson, Glen . Cooley, R. Davis, and Margaret Dick. FORMER FAIRBANK * MAN DIES IN SOUTH SEATTLE, Jan. 26—(P—Warren Wallsteed, 49, of the Treasury’s alcohol tax unit died here yester- day of a heart attack. He was a former resident of Fairbanks, Alaska, where his mother, Mrs. Lois McGarvey lives. i tlazing, he said, and he was rurned tearing blazing burlap pack- {ing from around the pipes | He said he shouted to his wife, lwho was upstairs, to phone the fire} | department while he fought the: flames with a small extinguisher. | | After phoning for fire depart-| ment help, Mrs. Converse fled| from the house with Jimmy Kirk-| ham, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen J. Kirkham, who was spending the (day at the Converse home. She took the child next door to the home of her mother, Mrs. Mar- garet Bland, 1018 Tenth Street. | Converse was treated for minor | burns at the Juneau Clinic. | The fire was brought under con- trol at 10:40 a.m, although smoke ! <till poured from the house as tire- men tore away siding to get at the flames inside the walls. All clear was sounded at 11:50 am, Mr. and Mrs. Converse, after calvaging what they could from the charred interior of the residence, went to the home of their daugh- ter, Mrs. Leroy West, 419 Tweltth Street. A representative of the Juneau Insurance Agency, agents for the firm insuring the Converse resi- dence, said this afternoon he esti- Imates the fire caused “close to Is;‘..ooo worth of damage.” day, a new all-time record for the |27, 1936. date. The governmen t, prosecuting ‘Brldges on perjury charges, says o |he was in New York for a Com- |munist Party meeting. ® | The defense says the Australia ® iborn labor chieftain was hardly ® |75 miles away that night—in Stock- °}ton. Calif.—to address longshore- {men. Bridges is accused of lying to a *® | paturalization examiner in 1945 in e ldenylng membership in the Com- munist Party. The four new witnesses joined in ® | with three who appeared yesterday ®|to corroborate Bridges' alibi. All ';tour were from Stockton. ® | Louis N. Devonshire, President of PRECIPITATION ®[0 ongshoremen’s Tocal in Stock- (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m. today @ [ (o i loag tecrified he was able City of Juneau—None; ® 1o fix the date of Bridges' Stockton L ® ® v e e o 8 0 L] WEATHER REPORT . In Juneau—Maximum 31; o minimum 15. ° At Airport—Maximfim 30; e minimum 0. FORECAST (Junean and Vieloity) Continued fair tonight and Friday. Low temperature to- @ | night about 15 except near zero in outlying areas. High temperature Friday about 20. since Jan. 1—1.17 inches; @ |speech only with the aid of a clip- e since July 1—55.11 inches. ®|.ing from the Stockton Record and . At Airport—None; . 1cer!aln papers. e since Jan. 1—94 inches; ® | He added, “a friend of mine was o since July 1—3643. inches. @l oried ort ithe saime day ead s e o o o o 2 & & © ¢ingtbrought it back to me, too.” i STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Tl ot & | Brenden O'Farrell of Seattle is Princess Norah scheduled to sail|registered at the Baranof Hotel. | from Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Baranof from {uled to arrive Sunday l FROM ANCHORAGE M. E. Proffitt, Supply Center westward sched- | Resident Engineer of Anchorage, is evening. !stopping at the Baranof Hotel. from