The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,420 Jl NEAU, .»\LASKA, MONTI r'l-fi!l{l,"\RY 6, 1950 AN MBER ASSOCI/ TED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS President Takes Action Today in PROBE IN MO CASE NORFOLK, Va., Feb, 6—M—The operations officer of the battleship | Missouri testified today that when | the ship was departing Hampton | Roads January 17 he told the skip- | per “we could pass to port” (in- shore) of a buoy marking an acous- tic range paralleling the main ship channel. “I was under the impression then that there were five buoys mark- | ing the range, but I know now there | were two,” Commander John R. Millett told a Naval court of inguir, investigating the grounding of th Big Mo. The court interrupted Millett testimony to take a brief recess. Returning to the hearing room, the | court advised Millett that he had | been designated “an interested party” in the proceedings, and tha! he had a right to counsel. The court then recessed to allow Millett time to retain counsel. The ship’s commander and navi- gator were named defen the proceedings at the courl’s open ing session last Friday. STAFF CHIEFS MAY; URGEBOLD STRATEGY IN OKINAWA TALKS | | (By Associated Press) ! In the Pacific the 8. joi chiefs of staff looked over Okinawa, key air base in the American de- | fense line facing Commmuat-\.uuu-} led Asia. | ‘There was no official in | what the joint chiefs might report | to President Truman and national| defense planners, after five of secret strategy conferences General MacArthur and his exper It was evident that high off] of MacArthur’s high command urg- ed a bolder Amefican attitude to save a situation they regard uU critical. The Washingion| Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) | | (Copyrisht. mSHINGTON Congressman Manny Celler of New York is keep- ing it secret so far, but his mon- opoly investigating committee has; a report on the giant Du Pont com- bine and its control over American | industry which every businessman | should read. Prepared by the Federal Trade Commission, the super-secret docu- ment shows how Du Pont, General Motors, U. S. Rubber and the Lib- bey-Owens Ford Glass Company, have teamed up to form the most | potent industrial combine this| country has ever known. This sprawling dynasty has be- come a government unto itself,| bossed by the De]eware Du Ponts, | whose chemical company alunev nets $120,000,000 annual profits af- | ter taxes. The Du Pont family, thc\ FTC report shows, controls and shares in the income of other com»‘ panies with assets amounting to| close to three billions and net pro- | fits (after taxes) of well over $300,- | 000,000 a year. | Here are some highlights from the‘ FTC report: i { | | | Minority Contrel The Du Pont investment in Gen- eral Motors stock, worth more than $500,000,000 at current market pric- | es, was purchased for only about! $47,000,000. Yet' between 1918 undi 1947 the Du Ponts received over| $670,000,000 in dividends from this stock. | Of 44,000,000 outstanding shares| of General Motors common stock, about 23 percent—or 10,000,000 shares—are owned by the Du Ponts. | The remaining 84,000,000 shares, are held by more than 400,000 in- | dividual stockholders. Yet Du Pont| controls G.M. policies and the sel-| ection of its directors, a number of whom have doubled as Du Pont directors for years. | Meantime, the Du Ponts have| bought heavily into U. S. Rubber, until today they own, either di- rectly or through personal holding- (Continued on Page Four) | never B The pro-CIO and anti-Communist | | several government posts since he | Germany took a slap at West Ger- Fishing %EW i'-rozen In hing boats were frozen in at Ice on the . EED \ w, arcmf 10 STAY INBRIDGES'ILWU also recommended that their onal officers sign nist affidavits. They d" n (ILWU) is under firej National CIO for left-w s. Bridges, himself, is on rial in Federal Court for perjury because he testified at his natur: zation hearing five years ago he was a Communist. ig votes came yesterday from 400 dele- gates representing Local 6 of the ILWU. This comprises the north- ern California warehousemen with about 15,000 of the ILWU’s 65,000 | members. They turned down an invisationi to join Dave Beck’s AFL Teumswrs.l R | ! | Luckman Denies He | Is fo Be AEC Head NEW YORK, Feb. 6—(P—~Charle: | Luckman, recently resigned presi- dent of Lever Brothers, today s I rumors that he has been offered the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission. “I know nothing about the otfer or the job,” he said. Luckman has been mentioned for | | eft the $300,000-a-year Brothers presidency. Lever 1. 5. OFFICIAL SLAPS | AT GERMAN (RITICS OF ALLIED POLICIES (By the Associated Press) The U. S. High Commissioner for man officials the Western Allies, In a tough talking-speech Com- misg er John J. McCloy told the Germans the United States intends; to keep a firm grip on the former | Reich’s political affairs. He presented a nine point pro- gram for Germany, ruling out an | Army or Air Force and pluiunu that Nazism will not rise there. It was the most critical i utterance McCloy has made con- cerning the Germans 1ce he assumed his post here last summer. West Berlin newspapers mini- for criticizing l mized a warning by Socialist leader | Kurt Schumacher that the city faced a Comimunist coup May 27 | ANCHORAGE MAN HERE N. F. Nelson of Anchorage is reg- istered at the Baranof. R 1 v ° » ° ° ° ‘e le . ° . . bay is a rare occurrer o mon Bay in Seatile, Was trict, as this aerial e. ) Wirephoto. 3@&?@% Great o bout e UNEMPLOYMENT AT POSTWAR PEAK ’2’ Missing (-54 Is Resumed... 'TON, Alta., weather aid in the for a USAF C-54 v 25 with 44 per: SHINGTON, Feb. 6-—(P—Un- 1 991,000 in Jan- t number of to 4,480,000—highest since the Commerce Sawyer, lopment, ued ) ement which ! “A sizeable increase in unemploy- nent is expected hetween mber January because of sonal developments to be that industyial be 20, “It is noteworthy mployment did not appear to s it |materially affected. A year out vlfinqustrial layoffs were an import- Falls, Mont, picked up the |,n¢ factor in the rise in unempl 1l north of Spokane. o 15 other signals The number ”fi”, the way fr n January—dropped 1,609,000, S.-Canada '_ml'd?! The full force of this de ; has f?‘“““ no | did not show up in unemployme ith the missing plane. Similar |, wever, pecause many of t ignals heard yesterday were jobs dropped out of the to Denmark. t least temporarily. The B-20, oic have been with job: ,947,000 ion raced Seven Planes In Air VANCOUVER, B.C. Feb. 6—A n air sweep cf Eritish Columbia’s interior for clues to the where- of the missing C-54 began here today despite poor Vvisi in the sparsely -populated rch area. SUMMER EMPLOYEES {OF ROAD COMMISSION i Seven planes, one of which wasj To interview prospective stu BURING JANUARY 'NOYES WILL CHOOSE ‘orced to turn back by bad weather, | summer er loyees in several nor n the = 25 with 44 persons aboard. e 11 ° . . . . . . ° l. since July 1-—55.58 inches, 1. ok off from International Airport|est hunt for the United States nsport, which disappeared Jan. Th planes, which make a pattern i visit arch extending from the inter-: ational boundary to Fort Nelson in orthern B.C., are part of the CAF’s No. 12 group. Ll Ln e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 6 — Closing juotation of Alaska Juneau mine tock today is 3%, Ameri can Anaconda 29%, Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 28, mecott 54'%, New York Central Northern Pacific 14%, U. 1 30%, Pound $2.80. said. recol 6, s. lsmn sities e 6 v v a e o 3 & althe WEATHER REPORT In Juneau —Maximum 18; minimum 8. At Airport—Maximum 13; minimum 4. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielnity) inued cold with var- iable cloudiness, Occasional light snow and occasional northeasterly gusty winds tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 12. Highest Tuesday near 16. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City eof Juneay—Trace; since Feb. 1—42 inches; will on co even - . . . ° e . . . ° . . © . . . . . 2 b poir At Airport—.02 inches; since Feb. 1-—20 inches; since July 1—36.63 inches. Noyes, Comm today Ap {be hired this summer on road ¢ istruction work in the Int ence on Road Building through confer Following students, he will stop over in toria, road problems with the of Public Roads for the Provi particularly on the problem of u keep interi Herman Pederson of o is staying at the Baranof. ern universities, Col. Jol head of the Alaska sion, planned to fly for approximately 2 to the schools, preximately 30 Students of the Univer from the Universit Oregon State of high mmended by their prof: he said. Many are chosen for manent posts with the col following the summer’s and Montana U s, he said. commission last year ma turn this season. ‘While in Seattle, Colcnel attend the Northw to b campus He wil the Washington Wednesday. with the and their nt of an emergency. hig interviews to discuss B. Q. T of access roads to its. FROM PETERSBURG students standix Many who were est C hn R | Road south week will Alaska have first bid on such joi the colonel said, with the remainder chosen Washington, Oregon. Students third year engineering cours ies g in relday that the ex-government ;.nJ‘ pe mmis wor iver- wi Ay re- onl held today e 1 commanding eral of the Seattle Port of Em tion an opproach roads to th aska Highway usag nut Mini 4 Petersburg SLIDE BURIES TRAIN OUVER, B.C. Feb. 6—® even passengers were tra ven hours early todey wh in the Fraser Canyon pa buried a Canadian passenger train. after frantic digging by work crews, the passengers were aken to the town of Yale. They Il be returned to Vancouver »npany officials said no one was jured. my temperatures — the over- 1t minimum here was 37 above ¢ tumbled many slides in the yon, 115 miles east of here, once in severing rail connections with the east. ¥%} HEAD TELLS AGERY'S ROLEIN ARREST OF SPY/ Si0n- ASHINGTON, Feb. 6 Heover gave the Congr Atomic Committee a first hand ccount today of the FBI's role the arrest of a top British sci- tist accused of giving Atemic ecrets to Ru | The Chie e Federal Bureau ation, accompanied by top aides, met with the ! ind closed doors. He told | reporters he did not plan any pub- {lic statement after the meeting | Clyde Tolson, As te FBI Di- ;'Lu..l and L. B. Nichels, A\swtunl Director, appeared with Hoover. (e o8 Leslie R. Groves, war- |time head of the U. S. Atomic en- terprise who testified to the com- mittee last week, will. not appear again today. Before Hoover's testimony, Sen- ator Bridges (R-NH) demanded a lsearch in “high places” for any scientist, German born Klaus Fuchs. American contacts of the arrested Fuchs was arrested in London last Friday and charged with (wo vio- lations of the Official Secrets Act. LEADER OF SILVER SHIRTS WILL BE FREED NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—(#-—The U. 8. Parole Board today granted parole to Willlam Dudley Pelley, founder and one-time leader of the Slver Shirts of America, who was convicted of sedition during World War II. The 60-year-old Pelley has in the Federal penitentiary Terre Haute, Ind., since late in 1942, serving a 15-year-ser ce |imposed by the Federal District Court at Indianapolis. He will be |freed Feb. 14, the Board said. Uumm COPLON ‘' DIDN'T LIKE JO3 " CHANGE, BOSS SAYS I NEW YORK Feb 6—(P—Judith |Coplon’s former bess testified to-| Gen. been at |objected when she was removed from a job that dealt with e5- pionage and sabotage. William E. Foley, Chief of the Contacts have also beem macde|Justice Department’s Internal Se- with Idaho |cutrity section, gave the testi in Federal Court in the spy conspir- acy trial of Miss Ceplon and Val- entin A, Gubitchev. Foley said he began in January, 1949, to remove Miss Coplon grad- ually from all work involving Se- |curity matters, | This, Foley said, was after Mis |Coplon came under investigation .|He added that her changed 0 suspicion. | Miss Coplon, he said, |that the change was a on her abilities.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof trum scame due arrive Tuesday evening, Denali scheduled to arrive at o'clock tonight southbound Princess Norah is scheduled to sail from Vancouver February 11 “a slight Pacific Poini Barrow Fskimos Are Overwhelmirgly Againsi Propos ed Reservation Plan | BARROW, Alaska, Feb. 6—P— Eskimos along this northern rim |of the continent have overwhelm- lingly rejected an Interior Depart- American Conlads sough' !n Brl"sh ment plan to create a reservation |for them, A B bs ( | Officials said yesterday the vote -Bomb Spy Case in Saturday's o against and 29 for acceptance. (By the Associated Press) A similar election will A demand was voiced in Wash- | ington today for investigation of whether Klaus Fuchs, German-born | | British scientist accused of unmg: atom data to Russia, may have had ' | nigh American contacts. | Senator PEridges (R-NH) de | manded a search “in high place for any U.S. contacts Fuchs may nave had. “This man Fuchs,” Bridges said, | “must have had contacts in this country and we must follow through 10 find those contacts, particularly to learn whether of them tie into high places.” An informant, well acquainted | with atomic developments, told a} reporter that all evidence indicates that a number of other persons may 1ave been involved with Fuchs. In London, the British editor who correctly predicted the Russians' «coMMON SENSE"—BARTLIJIT would explode an atomic charge in| (wASHINGTON, Feb. 6— (B — 1949, declared the Soviets alreudy;D(,legn“, Bartlett of Alaska to- have touched cff a hydrogen super;day hailed the Barrow Eskimos’ re- bomb. !jection of a proposed reservation Kenneth DeCourcy, who claimn!‘-()r them as a “testimonial to their to have sources cn both sides of the|.cmmoen good sense.” Iron Curtain, says the Russians; «rhe Barrow Eskimos by their have made three H-bombs and ex-{yote last Saturdey showed con- ploded one of them. He did not'cjusively they do not want the say when or where the blast took,goyermment to run their affairs place. .. o {even if the bait held out is held McMahon Has Hint ito be exclusively theirs,” he sald WASHINGTON, Feb, 6—@—Sen-'in o statement. ator McMahon (D-Conn) hinted to-! The Eskimos, Bartlett said, “are day that others may be involved in'to be congratulated on having em- e case of Klaus Fuchs, the British | phatically refused to accept for scientist accused of giving atomic themselves and their children the secrets to Russia. He said investi-!dreary life of reservation natives.” gations are going on in both the “I trust the Interior Department United States and Britain. |will not now attempt to do what The top atomic man in Congress it did once at White Mountain, told reporters that “further rami-jcall another election after the first fications of this matter are being vote resulted in a smashing defeat worked on by the FBI here and by for the reservation. the British Intelligence Service in| “I hope too the Eskimos in the Eritain.” Kobuk region ¢Shungnak) and the Asked if this meant others were Indians at Hydaburg, will if elec- involved, besides Fuchs, McMahon tions are held at those places in replied: |April as now scheduled, reject their “Sometimes common sense dic-'reservations as, resoundingly as tates arrests not be made imme- have the Barrow people.” diately. | The order for the creation of McMahon also said it was “deti- the three reservations, subject to nitely established” that the British a vote by the natives, was signed case against Fuchs was developed by former Secretary of the Inter- from information supplied by the ior J. A, Krug on his last day in United States. |office. McMsahon said he feels that defi- nitely Fuchs gave highly secret! atomic information to Russia. in the Shungnak area of north- western Alaska. It originally we scheduled for Feb. 8 but was posi poned late last week by the De- partment. A third Reservation election among the Hydaburg indians of| southeast Alaska also will be held 1in April, OBJECTION BY ESKIMOS Reinholt Brust, Assistant ANS Director in Juneau has been ad- any vised that the main objection to ing and trapping areas and require- ment of relinquishment of all| claims to possessory right in such area. ® 0 o v v v o 8 o o . TIDE TASBLY . . election was 231 be held | IApril 24 or 28 among the EA!mv,s‘ the proposed reservation was fail-| ure to include inland hunting, fish- | Coal Strike TRUMAN PUTS T-H LAW INTO USE ON COAL Doubfful If Miners Wil | Heed Back-fo-Work:Ord- er - Board Appointed | WASHINGTON, Feb. 6— & — ) President Truman today invoked the Taft-Hartley law in an effort to restore coal production. He appointed a board of inquiry headed by David L. Cole, Paterson, | N.J., lawyer, to look into the issues | at dispute. The other members are William W. Wirtz and John Dunlop. In view of the emergency, the President instructed the board to | report “not later” than one week from today. | Mr. Truman’s move sets in mo- | tion T-H law procedures that could |lead to a court order a week or 10 days from now for the miners to get back to work for 80 days. “Whether the miners will pay any attention to a “stop-strike” order from the courts—provided one is ! issued—is a question. John L. Lewis, the 70-year-old president of the United Mine Work- ers, told Mr. Truman last week that he doubted they would. | Presidential Secretary Charles G. }Ross said Mr. Truman's order cov- (ered only the soft coal industry. Board to Meet He said the three board members had accepted the appointments and would meet in Washington to begin work. As the number of idle miners skyrocketed . from the 100,000 out last week in gix states to at least 330,000, produetion of bituminous (soft) coal plummeted. Roving pickets were active in some areas, “Let’s wait and see what happens i % ((-:“onunut:: Ol:l Page Two) IMMOVABLE WATER SUPPLY IS PROBLEM DOWN BELOW, T00 ABERDEEN, Wash.,, Feb. 6—#— A slow trickle of water freed by rasoline flame-throwers and warmer weather raised hopes today for an early end to the water shortage in this city of 25,000 Emergency supplies diverted from neighboring Hoquiam and indus- trial sources lifted the flow in city main to about 60 percent of nermal. Nearly a third of the homes, how- sver, are still without water and pressure is still too low to combat a major fire. The improvised flame throwers were turned yesterday on a half- mile section of the three-foot nony | duties were gradually s0 as to avoid| protested to| 1 DAVID CAGERS T0 * INTERICR; ATTEMPT | . TO GET THEM HERE “Never mix whiskers weather!” | With this appropriate application' of the old saw, Lion Harry Sperl- ing today reported the House of David basketball team, scheduled to play ih Juneau sometime this past weekend, had returned to Seattle from Annette Island because of poor flying weather. | He had received word, he said, the famous be-whiskered team has| flown direct from there to Fair- banks, where a game had been set | up, originally to follow the game here and one or two in Sitka. The game here was set for last; turday evening with two Gasti-| | neau Channel teams under Lions| | Club sponsorship, but the cagers| withi® © ®© @ © o o were unable to get away trom Ket- | chikan. Then it was sef, | day evening, after they had taken a boat to await the northbound Pan American flight. A few hours later, day afternoon, but that too fell through because the airliner passed up the icebound field. Sperling said that he understood | the team might also go to Anchor- | age and if so, he would attempt to' arrange for them to stop here on | their return to the states. An $1,800 gate awaits them here and in Sitka xr they could do it, he pointed out. He said that rebates on the sell- | out would be put off until he had | received definite word on whether | the team could play here upon its | return. This will take perhaps a | week, he believed. it was decided to play Sun-| tor Sun-! J e | wooden intake pipe in an effort to o | thaw the almost solid chunk of ice. o | Water trickled through siowly last o | night and with the thermometer o | above freezing for the first time in o | days workmen hoped the flow would ® increase. FEBRUARY 7 High tide 4:51 am. 17.7 ft. Low tide 11:11 am, 03 ft. High tide 5:09 p.m., 15.5 ft. Low tide 11:19 pm. 08 ft. . Now LN N NN 16 mm Movies Available for rent Home — Churches — Schools Silent or Sound Free Information b Alaska 16 mm Film Exchange Offering the only Service in Southeastern Alaska South Franklin (Spudnut Shop) Phone 977 Juneau, Alaska (Representing Fred G. Kohli, Motion Picture Service of Anchorage)