The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV,, NO. 11,422 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Search Plane on Mercy Flight Goes Intc Crash LIAR! CRIES LEWIS AT COAL SPOKESMAN "Why Not” ‘ Get Personal, | Union Head Shoufs-Hear-| ing Was fo Be “Informal” WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—W@— John L. Lewis called coal man George H. Love a “liar by the clock”| at a Presidential board’s hearings| today on the coal contract dispute. Lewis flared up explosively at the first question board chairman David L. Cole put to Love, me‘\ spokesman for the soft coal op- erators. ! Cole asked whether Lewis ever| had presented any specific con-| tract demands to the mine opera-| tors. { Love said he was informed by | Cyrus S. Ching (Federal Mediation | Chief) that “it was the union bar- gaining technique to say that ‘youi men own the mines, I have the men | in the palm of my hand—what doy you bid?"” | Lewis jumped up and leveled off| at Love across the table: ! “That's an infamous and deliber- | ate lie. I said we represented the; men. I say to you, ‘George Love, | you're a liar by the clock’” Cole tried to interrupt. Love pro- tested: “I don’t want to go into per-| sonalities, Mr. .Cole.” \ “Why not?” Lewis shouted. Wh\‘ not?” Cole restored calm and the hear- ings went on. | The chairman announced just be- | fore the Lewis outburst that the board would not take formal testi- mony, but would instead question the principals in public hearings w‘ determine the facts. i In this way, Cole said, Lhe board could speed up its report to the President, “If one is necessary.” | He did not elaborate on that|he Communist party curing the|—Carol Ann Pe ancy |the e |doomed fatk Bridges testitied. [turn to college a statement. President Truman has| asked for a report by Monday. T The board had some . informal]| sessions with Lewis and the coal|.yye even got some from the water- up from the ordeal of her trial | operators yesterday. ; ; ‘ 1 21-year-old blonde, Who | SETYLEMENT, — MAXBE « ) ident of | pleaded temporary insanity, W WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—(M—{t , on trial!freed last night by a jury of 1 President Truman’s coal fact-tind-| 5| parents ing board today won agreement ent her 1 nig Bt Hom from John L. Lewis and the coal operators to try again for agree- ment on a coal contract through | negotiations. The new bargaining sessions were | set for 2 p.m. with the board mem- bers sitting in as observer | The board members were optimis- | tic that the whole coal dispute might | be settled before nightfall. H David Cole, chairman of the| board, had remarked that he be- lieved an agreement mig hc br‘ reached “in two or three hours. Lewis said it was “possible.” The operators indicated they were less optimistic. | i The board’s proposal came after a somewhat stormy hour and a hait of hearings during which Lewis once | called coal man George H. Love “a| liar by the clock.” Merry-Go- Round The Washlng.on‘ (Copyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—After J. Edgar Hoover's lengthy session with the Senate Appropriations Commitiee | last week regarding A-bomb leaks : newspapers reported that Senatc left the meeting ashen-faced over; the disclosures. Here is what Hoover said to cause | those ashen faces. | Hoover dramatically reported that | subversive activities in the United States are at an all-time high-| worse than during the war. He also revealed that Communists are doing away with party cards order to prevent detection and cor viction. Instead, they identify eack other by word of mouth. Hoover told the Senators that| Communists were making a special | attempt to infiltrate into strategic industries such as telegraph, tele- phone and the manufacture of electrical equipment. Asked point- | plank by the Senators whether| there still was a spy ring the government, Hoover answered “no.” The head G-man complained that | Elizabeth Bentley’s sensational dis- | (Continued on Page Four) nes: i | helpful “in bringing ultimate inside | I CRIES Hoover Takes Siand FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (left) and Associate Director Clyde Tolson seated at the witnes table for opening Joint Congressional Atomic Emergy Commitice in Washington, hearing before the in (‘Bnn(‘(‘hnn with the recent arrest in England of Dr. Klaus Fuchs. . Fuchs is accused of giving pholo. BRIDGES SAYST REDS HELPED 1N 34 STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8—# Harry Bridges admitted on the wit- | stand today that his wateriro: nt | union accepted financial help from 1934 strike here. “We weren't . we'd take money from anywk ild get i e Co the -me walkout Ah put in business,” as Bridges ne from other unions He testified the greatest pi X from the San Francisco labor coun- cil. MINERS GET AIDFROM (10 STEELMEN PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8—(®—Th CIO United Steelworkers today sent a $500.000 check to the United Mine | Workers “to assist the needy miners and their families in their struggle against the coal operators.” President Philip Murray of hoth the CIO and the Steelworkers said the donation was authorized by the steelworkers executive board. Murray also sent an appeal to the 2,200 USW locals asking them to make additional contributions to the miners in their “no coniract no work” strike. furray sent a letter to John Owens, secretary treasurer of the “the finan- be UMW, saying he hopes cial and moral support” Wil tory to the United Mine Worke | MRS. ROBERTSON LEAVES Mrs. Ann D. Robertson, long time | Juneau resident, left yesterday for | Fairbanks, to visit her daughter, | Mrs. Al Dorsh and family. Mrs. }Rob ertson, has been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert \’lee of this city for the past 3'2 munms ost of the time the Whites were in/| the states. GLENN REID HERE Glenn M. Reid of Petersburg, arrived on the Baranof, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. who Si top atomic secrets to Russta. (P Wire- WEL‘!E DAREHTS ACQUIT GIRL IN MERCY SLAYING Carol Ann Paight, Freed by Jury, Will Refurn to College PRIDGEPOR' Feb. 8—(M in Conn., ght, acquitted slaying of h canc planned today to re- mercy amf uxd e shot Police nt Carl ight, last Sej as he slept | y Stamford Ho “Oh, God,” the attractive six-foot girl scbbed as she broke down at was near complete col Golstein an fair, id “just no precedent for, a mercy in my opinion.” id the case was tried solely ue of whether Carol Ann at the time of the hooting. jury deliberated four hours before foreman 51 minute: h Memhard, 52, announced the verdict. The trial lasted two weeks. Carol e t mercy sl ave gone to convicted. was charged with second murder in Connecticut’s aying trial She would prison for life if - e o 3 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum minimum 14, At Airport—Maximum 20; minimum 13. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cleudy with occa- sional light snow tonight and Thursday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight about 16. High- est Thursday near 24. Gusty northeasterly winds. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7.30 & m. today City of Juneau—.02 inches; 21; v ° ° ° e ° ) ° . . . . . ° ° . . . . . ° ° . . since Feb. 1—49 inches; since July 1—55.60 inches. At Airport—.02 inches; since Feb. 1—27 inches; Since July 1-—-36.70 inches. o o 06 ¢ 0 o ¢ o o STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah is scheduled to sail from. Vancouver Saturday. Denali scheduled to sail from attle Saturday. Baronf scheduled southbound late Sunday from westward. BANK IS ROBBED, MWS FLOP, For Public Library by GSA; BIG SUM SAYSWARNE Other Pro;eds GeIAmounis [Two Men G§—$120,000 in Assistant Secrelary Asks $ 50 PlEDGED TO r Early Morning Holdup | Project Settlement with D A in Phoenix, Ariz. 10,000 Per Farm | LSRARYFUNDBY i ! —(M—Gen- Jess r..nn public works projects in Alaska. The projects: ledged '.helns“\" for donations | | ! 1 Juneau, public library, $142000. - | MEMBERS of IBEw‘ Douglas, water, sewer, and street 3 PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. &—@— »\\aHTN(‘TON. FL‘b. 8—(M—As- | | improvements, $69,000. i'l‘f\'o men: at least one of them sistant htumymy u{ the I“””mi ha o Ketchikan, improvements to sew- ‘mmed, early today robbed the Bank Willlam E. Warne said today (lm‘ At the rogular meeting of Local!ers streets and sidewalks, $536,000. | of Douglas in downtown Phoenix Homestead Law has failed as an| 162, International Brotherhood of . water and sewer im- ;.,{ $120,000 cash. nstrument for the agricultural de- |Electrical Workers last night, in-lprovements, $65,414. i City police said the men caught velopment of Alaska. {ividual members of the Union| airbanks, elementary school today alloted $2,685,214 for | HOMESTEAD |$142,000 Alloted fo Juneau [S FOUND TODAY ON MOUNTAIN Reports from Whitehorse Indicate None of 12 Aboard Killed WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. 8—M— A Dakota search plane which dis- appeared in the Yukon last night while searching for a missing C-54 transport has been sighted on a mountain 12 miles north of Pon Lake, 88 miles northwest of here. ‘The reports indicated no one was The plane, not badly damaged in hitting the mountain side, was sighted by another search plane which parachuted a radio to the men so full particulars could he the janitor outside the bank about That law must be supplemented 70 and sewers $125,000. “G am., lerced him to let them into 1 1 nt.‘\v authority, Y‘_“”Im‘, mld‘ n \\;m)ml of 1 » Memorial Library t Naknek, school facilities, $230,300. 1\ln- building and waited until Jim « reporter. This should include, he | *und for a total of $150 i Chugiak, elementary school facili- | killed. | Wise, a bank employee, arrived|su | This did not include the entire|jes §71,500, [ about 7:40 a.m. The classification for use of all|membership as several of the mem- | - petersburg, high school facilities Wise was forced to open the safe. public lands in Alaska. bers were necossarily absent. The ! g3g4 000, The robbers then locked the em- 2. Adcptien of project siiliement idividual pledges are now in the| pyjjingham, school addition and | ployees in a room and left. ls, |records of the Local Union 536 | romodeling, $268,000. | Bank officials estimated the men commented in connection [ Jack A, Thompson, Business Man-| pomer, school addition and re- s soon as she rests | escaped with $120,000 in bills of with the conclusions of a series | iger. modeling, $191,000. various denominations. four seminars on Alaska con- Pl ; Ninilchik, school facilities, $204,- | Police had only vague descriptions (uC ted here, 400, { of the men. One was a white man,| The seminars, led by Chairman sto plEDGED '[0 | Congress has authorized $70,- 32-35 years old, about 150 pounds icn Clawson of the Interior's '000,006 for a five year public works | mrl between five feet eight and five f ten inches tall. He wore light tan trousers and a dark brown | jacket and carried a .25 caiiber auto- | matic. The other man was a Mexican, 25-30 years old and about the same size. He wore work clothes. Both men wore gloves. Police said it was not known how the men left the scene but were be- | lieved to have had a car. 8—(P for re- HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. A $6,845068.45 contract habilitation of the Alaska Railroad awarded to Kansas City i has been nd Houston firms, the f{irms sal today. | The firms are the W. A, Su Contracting Company, Inc., Kan City, and Brown and Root, Inc., Houston. A prepared statement from the office of William A. Smith, resides in Houston, said work the project will begin about on |1 and must be completed prior to | January 1, 1952. | Bids for the work were taken {last April but the contract was lnut awarded until today because of delay in securing appropriations. The Smith Company statement said the new contract is a c tinuation of the rehabilitation pro- sram started in 1948, . Completion of the new project, it was said, will permit fast, ecor omical operation over 350 miles of the 470 mile system. Plans call for the new pr | to be split into eight sections, ca |of about 30 miles. The work will consist of rais! |and widening embankments, widc: iing evacuations, relocating the at various points, raising and | strengthening bridges, replacin: d iextending culverts, and renewing ies, rails and ballast. The announcement said work will be carried out between Potter and Anchorage, Matanuska and Kash- witna, «Caswell and Curry, Colorado and Cantwell, Healy and Clear, Nenana and Fairbanks. The Wm. A. Smith Contracting Company, Inc., of Missouri, in a {joint venture with the Wm. A | Smith: Contracting Company | California, sponsoyed and compl< the rehabilitation of 10 miles of of $7 MILLIONS FOR AURORA REPAIR WORK who | a 1130 to homesteaders aiready E Burcau of Land Management, were officials of all the agencies in Interior and Agriculture De- which are concerned th wrtments with Alaska. “It was a good series, f its kind ever held, and it ad- vanced a long way the thought and planning for the development |of Alaska,” Warne said. the first Mostly Colony “Especially it advanced that phase relating to the use of the lands.” | “In more than 50 years much land has been opened to homestead- ing in Alaska, but only 12,500 acres |haye become crop land—and of the | 12,6060,000 acress were in the Mat- ka Valley where a colony was blished. “The Homestead Law alone is not putting Alaska lands into crops. If its objective is to settle farmers permanently on the land, it has failed in Alaska.” Warne said estimates at the sem- inar of the amount of Al homesteading that now has a chance of getting into crop pro- duction range from 1 percent down to zero. He said Alaskan farmers need capital or assistance of the type provided on reclamation projects— capital in the amount of $10,000 per farm as a bare minimum, or stance as provided in the pro- ct settlement Dbill, 1 Coordinated Work That bill, now pending in the House, would provide funds for clearing land in project areas, es- | tablishing farm units, setiing aside anut | community facilities, and the ex- tension of special credit to the | settlers, | The clearing and settling activ- ed with the |ity would be coordi: ‘[rerrilozy's road-building program |s0o that “in one year’s time we | would have the people on the land,” |Warne said. | Warne said the same credit ex-| would in the “trying + bru |tended on the project are those h th | Territory, such as to eat their way throu |in the Tanana Valle; The settlement bill would ay 1000 in Alaska. | Lowell Puckett, ment official at Anchorage, | field parties are examing variou ial’eas to determine the best settle- ment uses. The Bureau is working |closely with the Soil Conservation | | Service in this direction, he said. | | “We hope soon to be in a posi- tion where we can designate land as suitable or unsuitable for de- Land Manage- velopment even outside the project | areas,” Puckett said. " CARRIER -LAUNCHED y to | 2,000,000 acres out of the 338,000 | said | LIBRARY FUND BY BETA SIGMA PHI. The regular meeting of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority evening in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel at 7:30 o'clock. In the business meeting con- ducted by the President, Ruth 3250 to the Juneau Library Fund. This amount is to be raised within was scheduled for February 18 to raise money for the Juneau Con- cert Piano Fund. Jennie Rusher innounced the plans for a sor- ority valentine party which will se held February 10. At the close of the business meet- | ing, Ione Williams, program chair- man, announced that Harriet Smith Marian Trautman, and Elizabeth Rundell would be in charge of the cultural program for the next regu- lar meeting. Mrs, Willlams then turned the program for the evening over to! Eleanor Menter and Louise Skinner ] who in turn intrdouced Mrs. Flzxmh Paul who spoke on the subjec Pride and Pleasure of Possession. Mrs. first ‘suggested prin- :iples which those who are siart- ng a collection should keep in nind. They should collect some- thing accessible, something which will stimulate griwth within the individual, and something within re individual's financial means. ng ‘ollection can educate the collector in many other fields even leading | nim to study the countries from which the wines are procured. She also showed her personal coliection of pictures of Alaskan flowers and FIVE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION N BRINK ROBBERY DETROIT, Feb, 8—(#—Four men and a young woman arrested here wmzL\y with $37,150 in cash in a paper bag were held by Detroit po-+ lice for auestioning in the $1,500,000 holdup of Brink’s, Inc., in Boston. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Secret Service agents were called in. ‘ The bag contained $28,000 in $100 bills and $9,150 in $50 bills, Series G. Bills of the same denomi- Bader, the group decided to pledge, he next two years. A bake sale ! the collection of rare wines ! s an example, she showed how al all of} program in Alaska. The funds al- loted today are from the initial $5,~ |000000 appropriated for this year. Construction will be financed en- .uroly by federal funds. The projects { when completed will be turned over (to the local communities, with an| was held last {average of 50 percent of the cost to | vbe repaid under long term sales ugreemem.s Officials explained that cost fig- ures on some of the village schools involved are higher (han in the states but are not out of line with | building costs in Alaska. WORLDWIDE i A-BOMBS OUT WASHINGTON, Feb. 88— B - Secretary of State Acheson today ‘ruled out any new overtures to Russia on international control of | ,awmtc weapons, including the hyd- | rogen super-bomb. Acheson also said States should avoid what he called | ;w.lf reproach in connection with | !atomic weapons. He said this might | | paralyze American action in devel oping a strong American policy. The Secretary’s remarks wer made in a news conference discus- sion of U. 8. policy. He told newsmen that if this lcountry can reach its goal of world | {peace by the process of agreement thgt will be the best way to do it. “But,” he added, “four years of itrying have brought us to the i Acheson spoke directly in com- | menting on recent Senate speeches |by Chairman McMahon (D-Conn) 1of the Congressional Atomic Energy i Commission and Chariman Tydings (D-Md) of the Senate Armed Ser- luu.s Committee. McMahon proposed a five-yeap $50,000,000,000 American crusade or peace, including international 'rmtrul of atomic energy. Tydings Iu ged that President Truman call '.l world conference for disarma- 1men i L. | ATTLEE, CHURCHILL SPEAK IN BRITISH ELECTION CAMPAIGN CONTROL OF {realization that it is not possible.” | shotographs of natives of Aluskn‘l {Ssfion thas 4t 1a not P i | reported baci Some of the men were walking around the plane, but the number was not reported. There were 12 aboard the craft when it disap- | peared while searching near Ais- hihik. It was found between the 5,000 and 7,000-foot levels on a mountain slope. Disappears — Spotted The Dakota, searching for a C-54 ! transport lost since Jan. 26 with 44 aboard, disappeared yesterday while sweeping the rugged, snow- | covered mountains south of Aishihik 100 miles northwest of here. It was spotted early today by an- other search plane. The plane was found near the southern boundary of its search area, It was 12 mnes nnrm of Pon Lake. Names of those aboard, which in- cluded Canadians and Americans, were withheld by search officials. Launch Rescue Plans The Air Force immediately launched plans for bringing the men out. It was not certain immediately whether it would be feasible to use one of the three helicopters which have been standing by. Ofti- ’clals said it might be necessary to send in Army Weasels, specially equipped with caterpillar treads. Meanwhile there was no word from other planes which continued | the giant search for the C-54, now | | on its 13th day. Over the general the United | search area, the weather was clear north of Snag, but patchy snow and clouds obscured most mountain pmkx More favorable weather for o | searching was forecast for the next two days. Signals Picked Up Search officials said S.0.8. signals from the C-47 were picked up last night on the 8280 distress frequency. Efforts to obtain a "fix” on them were fruitless. Ground radio posts in the area were ordered into a 24- hour alert. The signals reportedly were dif- ferent from those heard earlier in the day by planes and Coast Guard stations along the Pacific Coast. The earlier signals, reported from the United States to Alaska, were similar to those picked up from time * to time since the search for the missing C-54 began. Hope Still Held Hope was held here that the C-47 might have landed on one of the two landing fields or two lakes in the Aishihik area, about 100 miles northwest of here, where it was assigned to check a 900-square-mile area. Poor visibility eliminated a possible check on these spots last night. ‘Temperatures In the region dropped to 22 below but search of- | ficials said the plane was equipped with emergency Arctic survival equipment. It was the second search plane to line last year. |nation and series were taken in| (By Assoclated Press) become missing since the far-flung | | [ the Brink’s holdup Jan. 17. | Labor Prime Minister Clement Search began nearly two weeks ago. ;plANE SE IS NEw Police said they also were ques-|Attlce and Conservative Leader | Another C-47 crashed on a moun- “0 (lEARAN(E FOR | tioning the five in connection With|winston Churchill took to 'the|tain peak 21 miles south of here | a $48,000 holdup of Boston's Hotel|stump in Britain today as the Feb. |last week. All six persons aboard CERTAIN GOODS | DISTANCE RECORD 5uicr sun2. % tew duys atier the 25 election campaign went iato | were sescued. Brink’s joh. s ‘The five were booked for Attlee, firiug his opening gun in | tigation of armed robbery. ‘industrial Watford, outlined his| |day by a two-engine Neptune m,m-\ Detective Inspector Walter Wyrod | government’s policy of “fair shares,” ber, the Navy announced. quoled the quintet as saying Ll)\)‘l.mm s campaign cry. Launched yesterday from a car-| | got the money by gambling, but he; Churchill, in fighting trim, charg- ier off the Florida coast, the plane | said they refused to talk thu\.lse led at Cardiff, Wales, that Labor et ‘v\m conducting a whispering cam~ ipaign of “cruel lies” against pre- ‘I\'mu.s Conservative regimes. 1 ges SAN FRANCISCO—Feb, 8.—(P— | A new distance record for carrier| |launched planes was set here to- inves- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can |113, Anaconda 20%, Curtiss-Wright 9, International Harvester 28%, | Kennecott 53%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 14%, U. S. Steel 297%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,470,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 202.71, rails 54.79, util- ities 42.50, FROM RED BERLIN (By Associated Press) In Berlin, western officials ¢ | pressed concern over a newly an- 1 nounced list of goods the Russians vl are refusing to clear out of west | landed at San Francisco Municipal | | Berlin. Airport at 11:12 am. PST, having | The Soviet authorities have plac- |been in the air 25 hours 59 min-| LYNETTE HEBERT HOME ed fergous and non-ferrous sci D | utes. | Lynette Hebert, daughter of Mr.| He charged Attlee was the only | metals on the restricted list, an The distance covered, the Navy| and Mrs. Lisle Hebert, returned to|Prime Minister in the British| have objected to west Ber said, was 5,060 miles. | her Juneau home aboard the Bara- | commonwealth who wanted to |export of diugs, certain typ The plane carried three officers| nof after attending Forest Ridge in march the people down the road to electrical goods, and fine optics. 'and four enlisted men. ‘seame socialism,