The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,119 JU SAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, I EB l{(':\RY 4, 1950 MEMBER ASSOC I A Il D P RI' PRICE TEN CENTS BIG CAGE GAME SET FOR SUN. House of David Team Is Delayed by Weather - Schedule Rearranged ketball game of David and two Chan- ms scheduled for tonight in the Juneau High School gym- nasium has been postponed until tomorrow night (Sunday) at 7:30 p.m, it was announced today. : delay was caused by inabil- ity of planes to where the bearded cage marvels last played. The team has arranged to to Annette Island tonight by boat so as to be ready for the X Pan-American flight The the Hou nel tes | h: bought be used for tonight may for Sunday’s e officials announced » who expected to attend to- ht and cannot be present Sunday wse of other engagements are ked to return their tickets to the u Drug Company, 202 Front y a refund and so they may Jlaced on sale at the gate. mous House of David team quintets representing Place and ' the Columbia er Company of the Gastineau Channel League. Each team will take ficials sa Dead. for a tonight 9 pm The game must be “squeezed” in tomorrow night because of lr.nn dules to the westy would be a half, of- for turning tickets back was announced as the drugstore closes SITKA GAME CANCELLED; LIONS’ MANAGER COMES HERE TO ARRANGE DATE MT. EDGECUMBE, Alaska, Feb 4—(Special to Empire)—The Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe basketball fans > hopes the House of Da- scheduled to play the champicn Alaska hood team at Mt. Edgecumbe can be arranged. The Mt. Edgecumbe Lions Club and students have been busy every day and night for the past three weeks constructing a new first class basketball court in hangar number one with a seating capacity of 1200 and are in all readiness for arrival of the House of David team. Mt. Ei umbe now has largest bas which has been constructed volunteer labor with the materials purchased from student association funds. Weather conditions in Ket- chikan yesterday prohibited arrival the (Continued on Pageislx) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WSHINGTON—It seems a far cry from the Civil Rights issue in the south to the public power ques- tion in Montana, but the story has just leaked out as to how a coali- tion of Republicans and Dixiecrats killed the Civil Rights program in the Senate a year ago. The deal was engineered by the Montana Power and Light Co., and illustrates how certain GOP mon- euvers between elections help to lose elections on election day. Key figures in this historic deal —discreetly referred to as a “vot- ing arrangement”—were smooth, shrewd Sen. Dick Russell of Geor- gia; Nebraska's gfegarious Sen Ken Wherry, the GOP floor leader; and Jack Corrette of Montana Pow- er and Light, who coached the anti-public power team in the Senate. The first “contact” was made when Senator Russell approached colorless Sen. Zales Ecton of Mon- tana last March, at which time the Senate was fighting over a cloture rule aimed at stopping a Civil Rights filibuster. Ecton then called in Wherry and Wherry pledged enough Repub- lican votes to override Vice Presi- dent Alben Barkley’s anti-filibuster rule—provided Russell would de- liver southern votes to beat a gov- ernment plan to run a transmission line from the government's Kerr dam to Anaconda, Mont. Montana Power and Light wanted to run these transmission lines itself, was vigorously opposed to government operation. between | leave Ketchikan, | Native Brother- i A etball arena in Alaska gy ing by | with rleevn-year-oid Judith Ann Fay, ster Peni Commander, after the youn by Walter E. Alessandreni, with 900,000 toys for children of W is Judith Ann’s mother, Mrs. Ger LATHROP 70 WASHINGTON [FOR GOP MEET At a meeiing of the Republican National Committee and Policy Committee of the Republican Party being held Monday, February 6, ashington, D.C., Alaska | | i i rop of Fairbanks. Margaret E. White, National Committeewoman for Alaska, said she offered her proxy to Cap. Lathrop to attend the meet- ng and he accepted. The offer was nmc to unify the Republican party f Alaska and to bring harmony sol| s to accomplish something bene ficial for Alaska. Mrs. White said,] ‘While in the past many, myself, may have d: him politically as to policies I have never doubted his ince v, his loyalty and pioneer spirit. “The Territory of Alaska is in a pitiful condition with dtude of law suits, corrupt: Jjust taxes, debts and atte: force upon us socialized medicine nd other socialized measures,” virs. White d. With min! no effort being mac e, agreed a mul- st to assist it the time lm, come for Anl‘ to di i political mis- standings and save Alaska from traveling the road down welfare state. We must try and rave capital and private industry again enter Alaska and develop it more through private capital and venture capital than by government spending paid for by the already overburdened taxpayer. “In the near future a Territorial wide meeting will be held in Juneau by the Republican party of Ala A large attendance is expected and primarily the chaotic condition of the Territorial government will be the principal matter for discussion. I know that something con: tive will be the result,” said the National Committeewoman. “I am very grateful to sponse the members of our made in filings for the fortk primary elections. I am conti that Cap. Lathrop will do a good | job in Washington and it is up to, us here to re-establish integrity m our Territorial government.” Mrs. White received the f ing wire from Cap. Lathrop: T sincerely appreciate your offer to represent the party. I am leaving tonight for Washington, D.C., and I hope we all will work together.” the re- party ing SON FOR CHRISTENSONS Mr. and Mrs, Richard Christenson of Juneau became the parents of a baby boy early this morning at St. Ann’s hospital. The child, born at 3:26 a.m. weighed seven pounds one ounce. FROM DAYTON, OHIO (Continued on Page Four) E. Balbach of Dayton, Ohio, is now staying at the Baranof Hotel. Coral Sea batile is given a hug and a handshake tion's children when the Legion sends a freighter from Philadelphia epresented by Cap. Austin E. Lath-} Republican includ- ; parcy | today g at a stand still and | et e e0.0ecs 0000006 be0etcoc0n whose father lost his life in the at Westmont, for the American Legion was chosen to sp nsylvania State Western Euro trude T. E Beaming approval #® Wirephoto. ARCTIC WINDE HALTS MARINE MANEUVERS A COAST. Communications) - testing their skill and ainst the frozen north aboard ship riding out an| rm, I Feb. 4— vision, returned to the ships off the nc st of the Alaskan peninsula after days of reconnaissance. vere to continue training| e when the storm abated. of the smaller Navy am- force ships in the annua .1‘ ather maneuvers gof unde reduce excessive rolling ale struck, one of these, t Burton Island, was tak- n water over her decks be- lifting anchor. Ik fore QUERY ASKS HY MO WAS| = HIGH AND DRY NORFOL 1 Court entire , Va., Feb. 4 of Inquiry ds s weekend over hip Missouri’s navigat- ting charts and logs. i to learn why the ship got k in the mud. > court opened briefly yester- , then adjourned until Monday r hearing one witness and ad- the charts and logs in ending 1 ] | mitting | evidence. | BEALS HERE Larry Beals of Seattle is a guest | t the Baranof Hotel. | i E Y ¢ o0 ® o e | WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 27; minimum 10. At Airport—Maximum 24; minimum 12, FORECAST (Juneau ana Vielaity) Partly cloudy and continu- ed cold tonight and Sunday. Strong gu northeasterly wir decr g gradually tonight. temperature tonight near 5 degrees above in town and 5 below in out- lying areas. Highest temper- ature Sunday 10 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30'a m. todny City of Juneau—.02 inches; singe Feb. 1—.39 inches; since July 1--55.50 inches. At Airport—trace; ince Feb. 1-.16 inches; since July 1-—36.59 inches. e o 0 0 0 2 0 0 000000 cec000e00000 00000 [ NO TRACE VANISHED (-54 SHIP of Planes Make Ex- tensive Search WHITEHORSE, Y.T., -The dogged search for a fully- loaded military transport that van- ished over the Yukon wastes Jan. 26 went into its ninth day today. The few fragile leads to the fate of the big plane and the 44 persons aboard have proved groundiess. A rumor that the U.S. Air Force C-54 had been located in a narrow canyon between a cliff and glacier was spiked by search headquarters nhere last night. “There is absolutely nothing to he report,” American and Canadian Force officials said. The rumor was heard as far away Anchorage, Alaska, and denied there by authorities at Elmendorf Air Force Base. An aura of authenticity had been given the story by the figures it con‘ained. The grapevine report aid the transport had been spotted as , 180 miles off course and 200.8 miles from Snag, the tiny weather station which the C-54 last reported miles inside the Yukon 'TLI"I)- ry from Alaska. Twent x planes took the air e yesterday in the joint U.S- Canada aerial hunt for the trans- port, which disappeared on a mgm m Anchorage to Great Falls, Mont Ten B-29’s from Great Falls made 200-mile wide radio sweep over he entire route the C-5¢ was to have followed. The Supertorts based Anchorage for the night and were scheduled to return to Great Falls today. over 20 a ANOTHER SEARCH PLANE NORTHBOUND | (oday for a foreign submarine. i DENVER, Feb. 4—M—Another amphibious search plane has left Lowry Air Force Base for Great Falls, Mont.,, to take part in the hunt for a missing C-54 in the Arctic wilds. The plane, an SA-16, is piloted by First Lt. Lester ™. Kearney and arries a crew of sir It is the 12th plane sent from the Fifth Rescue squadron at Lowry. WITNESS FOR BRIDGES HAS HIS CHANCE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4—# R. Robertson is no longer the “for- gotten man” of the Harry Bridgc perjury trial. Robertson, 44, vice president ¢ Bridges’ CIO Longshore Union, his innings on the witness stand to- day. He denied, he is or ever wa a Communist. He denied he ever attended a Communist meeting He had sat almost unnoticed almost completely ignored by testi- mony that has droned on since November 14. He had “waited ma. days to talk.” On the 47th da; the trial he got his chance to t his views and his struggles as ¢ trade union organizer. Robertson and Henry Schmid the union’s international represen- tative, are charged with conspiracy to defraud in testifying for Bride at the Australian-born labor leader citizenship hearing here in 1945 Bridges is ‘charged with conspiracy to defraud and with perjury U telling the naturalization examiner that he had never been a Com- munist. Robertson testified that he waiting to be a spectator at Bri naturalization, when he was picked as a last-minute substitute for ¢ man who could not quality Bridges’ supporting witness. “Of course, I was proud to sta up and be a witness for Bridge he testified. “Of course, I had I idea this (the trial) was going 10 happen.” At the naturalization hearing, I said he had vouched for Bridgc loyalty to the United States and “most certaintly” had recommended him for citizenship. He testified he had had no previous conversation with anyone as to what he was going to say. Bridges was expected to testily next week. go FROM ST. LOU E. R. Clayton of St. Lou | All Rumors Spiked as Fleed eb. 4—I@ | | | |CUTS WANTED | to be aireraft carrier USS Midway after he was pulled out of the water by rescue during recent Atlantic maneuvers. by aecident. P Wirephoto from Department of Defense. NAVY PLANES Snow Driffs SEARCH FOR ' Trap Scores FOREIGN SUB| NW Blizzard SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4—@—| (By the Amsgciated Press) Navy planes were ordered to search| Rescue crews battled heavy snow the waters off northern California | drifts in Oregon and Montana to- day attempting to rescue scores of nded motorists and maroones farmers and ranchers. More than 50 persons were stalled several hours in their cars and bus on the Columbia river The Twelfth Naval District an- nounced the flights as it received, with some skep m, a tourth re- port that a U-boat had been seen | for off Eureka, Calif. in The Navy did not question the|highway after a bl rd swept over previous reports — two by fishing|the Columbia river gorge in Ore- boat captains and a third by a|zon last night. private anc pilot. From these Police and highway crews early descriptions Navy spokesmen said | today rescued about 40 of the snow- the mysterious submersible appeared | (rapped travelers near Bouneville a German craft, many of|Dam, east of Portland. The last to which are now in possession of the | fety were taken into kood Russians. River by a Union Pacific stre: Ray Mason of Eureka said he saw | liner, The (rain stopped along the a sub surface yesterday ubout 600 | highway, which parallels the train yards from the Humboldt Bay life- | to pick up tra from boat station. A Navy spokesmanithe c half buried in drifts. The said the Navy was inclined to ques- | highway remained closed today tion the accuracy of the report be- Ski-equipped planes fiew over cause Mason was 3% miles trom|isolated farms and ranches in north- where the submarine emerged. lurn fontana and pilots plans to speed medical food and fuel to the maroone dents. A critica! food shor reported in some parts of the il ¢ feet Indian reservation east, of C er National Park. ‘The storm which whipped over Oregzon and Washington brought now, sleet and freezing rains. Winds ed a velocity of 65 miles an wur in some are Rain also fell in northern Culi- 1 and in southern 1 easter lexas, But elsewhere across . ry, generally fair weather was ceported. |AUSS BLOCKADE OFF AGAIN AS TRUCKS GO ONE PER MINUTE (By the Associated Press) The Russians dropped their de- laying tactics in Germany today and gave speedy clearance to truck traffic. reac IN COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —Pro- ‘pusals to cut excise taxes as much a $1,000,000,000 instead of the 000,000 recommended by the ministration drew expanding Demo- cratic support in the House today Some of President Truman’s most constant followers joined in a drive for more and deeper reduction in the wartime levies. They included some Democratic members of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and a quick check indicated that the bloc, with Republicans expected to vote solidly for larger cuts, may take control and write their own ticket They proposed to add $325,000,000 or more to the proposed specified reduction by cutting the taxes on such things as theater tickets, local telephone bills, and cameras and; e other photographic equipment. In outlining the adminisiration’s tax program in detail yesterc Secretary of the Treasury Snyde called for higher taxes on corpo- rations, estates and gifts, and the plugging of what he called loopholes in the present. law. Snyder tigures those increases would offset the proposed excise reductions and bring in net additional revenue ot about $1,000,000,000. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof from Seattle due Tu day. Denali scheduled southbound Monday afternoon. Princess Norah East German economic authori- ties said that arguments over ship- ping papers and other technicali- had been settled. The Western the “baby blockade.” East and West German economic authorities, it was veral conferences in the past two days to iron out difficulties. | Truek traffic at Helmstedt which at one time was slowed to three trucks an hour is now moving at the rate of one a minute. Western authorities had charged the Russian bottleneck was a de- ate German economic recovery. FROM VIRGINIA Mr. and their two children are gues at the Baranof Hotel, They are on is scheduled to is registered at the Baranof Hotcl isall from Vancouver February 11. llwm Alexandria, Va, Rescue b by Heluopie . Beasly, boasiswain’s mate second class, dangle; from helicopted as he is returned to the deck of the A Midway crewman grabs his leg and other shipmates move in to help as the helicopter crew lowers him to the deck. Beasly was thrown overboard from the Midway | Allies earlier had threatened coun- | | ter measures to force the lifting of | learned, had held | attempt to frustrate West | and Mrs. George W..Rogers | S | / the helicopter crew in a thrilling ~LEWIS GIVES BRUSH-OFF T0 FACT - FINDING | whether a reser' | dictions, RESERVATION vHiXUP STIRS UP ELECTIONS |Barrow andANd Shungnak Goes on Today-Confusion Leads to Mlsmformahon WASHINGTON Ttb 4—{(M—The Interior Department said today the Eskimo election to determine ion should be created at Barrow, Alaska, will go ahead today as scheduled. The election scheduied at Shung- nak on Feb. 8 has been postponed until April 24 or 28, it added. ‘The department announced yes- terday that the Barrow election had been postponed and the Shungnak election would be held today. It said today this was erroneous and due to a misunderstanding but did 10t explain how it occurred. nator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) Chairman of the Senate Interior Committee which asked that both »lections be postponed until the committee could study the situation, announced yesterday Secretary Chapman had told him the Barrow election was postponed and that at Shungnak would be held as sched- uled. The department said it found it was impossibde to postpone the Bar- row election because of lack of com- munication to the large area in- volved. Today's reversal of yesterday's announcement added another de- gree of confusion to a situation that aiready had been marked by contra- An Interior Department announcement three weeks ago was interpreted generally to mean post- ponement of all reservation votes. A department spokesman later said the postponement applied only to ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(B— John L. Lewis today in effect re-|{ jected President Truman's proposal for a fact-finding board to inves- tigate the coal strike. He declared the miners “do not wish three gers” to fix their wages and work- ing conditions. Without directly saying so, the miners’ chief thus refused to accept the President’s suggestion that nor- mal production be resumed while a three-man Presidential fact-finding group made recommendations ‘or settlement of the dispute. l Mr. Truman had given him until 5 p.m. (EST) today to reply to his proposal. i ! However, Lewis left the way open for at least a partial continuation, of coal mining if Mr. Truman could arrange resumption of direct nego- tiations between the United Mine Workers and the operators. By “three strangers” Lewis meant the Presiden proposed fact-find- ing board. A 500-word letter from the United Mine Workers leader was delivered! to the White House at 9:58 a.m. United Mine Workers representa-} tives said that the letter—one of the most cryptic Lewis ever has used in a dispute—would be the only word from their chief over the weekend. Lewis made his reply in the midst of reports that strikes would con tinue or possibly spread in the fields next week. In Ilinois it was reported that Lewis already had telegraphed local leaders across the natibn that a full-scale strike was set for Monday. There was doubt, too, that even a direct order from Lewis would re- store normal work in the mines. "'Sphinx of Threadneedle ~ Streef” Dead LONDON, Feb. 4—(®—Lord NUX‘-I longtime governor of the; bank of England and a powerful man of mystery in the world of finance, died in his sleep early to- day at his London home. He was |18 | As man, Montagu Collet Norman i"le Sphinx of Threadneedle Street’—he headed the powerful Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. King George VI made him a peer on his retirement as a reward for| his long banking service, | The Bank of England is substan- !tially the equivalent to the U. S Federal Reserve Bank. It has broad advisory powers over finance all| !through the British commonwealth and the Empire, strap- « | elections, the second election post- .he Hydaburg election in southeast Alaska, that the other two elections were going ahead on schedule. Then, after the Senate Interior | Commitee entered the plotire with a demand for postpgnement of the ponement Was announced by the department—with the resulting con- fusion over which one it was. Chief Counsel of Interior's Indian Bureau says mixup dates on Alaska reservations occurred because no written record of dates were kept in Washington. Delegate Bartlett calls the mixup “alltime high of * bureaucratic bungling.” Reinholt Brust, assistant area di- rector of the Alaska Native Service with offices in Juneau, talked over radio long-distance telephone to an Interior Department official late yesterday afternoon and was told that information concerning the election was given out correctly but received wrongly by correspondents. This is in contradiction to Asso- ciated Press information given above. Information sources have at times put blame on newsmen 1s. wrong information when they ther.- selves are wrong. FREIGHTERS TO BE INAMED FOR ALASKA LAKES AND RIVERS SEATTLE, Feb. 4 — (® — The Alaska Steamship Company has started a series of changes in names of its ships. Adm. F. A. Zeusler, executive assistant to the president, said “the new company policy will be to name its freighters after Alaska lakes and rivers.” The names will end in “Na,” meaning water in the lan- guage of the Indian tribes, he said. Painters this week have changed the Dorian Prince to Nadina. It is named for a Copper river tributary. Zeusler said the Terminal Knot and Chief Washakie are next in line for changes. PACIFIC NORTHERN BRINGS 7; TAKES 3 Pacific Northern Airlines flights yesterday brought seven persons to Juneau and carried three from here to Anchorage, To Anchorage: Mrs. John Sisson, Miss Willie Baan, and Raymond Spencer. From Anchorage: Mrs. Dell Hend- ersen, E. V. Clayton, Evonne Niner, and E. L. Stuart; from Cordova: S. S. Lee; and from Yakutat: Rex Hermann. FROM CORDOVA S. S. Lee of Cordova is a guest "at the Baranaf Hotel,