The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,424 AU, ALASKA, FRIDA 1‘.RUARY 10, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS INJUNCTION IS GIVEN IN C(OALSTRIKE One of Two Issues Which | May Clear Way for Reaching Agreement WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—®—A court decision cast doubt today on the legality of four of John L. Lewis’ contract demands, and a top oili- cial expressed hope this might speed | an agreement ending the soft coall strike. NLRB General Counsel Robert N. Denham said the ruling by Fed- eral Judge Richmond ™B. Keech might narrow the area of disagree- ment between the United Mi ‘Workers president coal operators—thus the way to settlement of their long dispute. Some sources suggested, however that by stiffening the min tance it might have just the oppo- site effect. It was at Denham's request that Judge Keech agreed late yesterday to issue an injunction against union contract demands which mine owners complained were illeg All four of the contract terms in- volved were contained in the coall agreements which expired last June | inated this week in the walkout of 370,000 UMW members. A three man Presidential board is due to report to the White Flous: possibly tomorrow, on the facis of} the dispute, thus clearing the way for President Truman to seex &ng emergency Taft-Hartley Act injunc- | g the miners back to work for at least 80 days Mr. Truman told his news confer ence yesterday he doesn’t have. and | doesn’t want, power to seize the coal Japanese Fishermen Are Not fo Invade North Pauht Again ;' VANCOUVER, B.C.,, Feb. 10—#— Fisheries Minister say: nese fishing fleet ne again will be the bane of the west| coast fisheries. Minister R. W. Mayhew mads2 the statement here yesterday after fly- ing back from Japan. He said the Japanese fleet does not want to come back to the Pacitic Coast waters where they were viewed by American fishing interests before | the war as commercial invaders. “They realize it is too far from their homeland,” said Mayhew, “but | they do want permission to I in | the waters south of Japan.” 1] Merry - Go-Round! The Washingion (Copyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) 3v. DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Irate coal min- ers—Use of the Taft-Hartley Act} couldn’t have come at a better time for John L. Lewis or at a worse time for the country. For the first time in years there was real revolt against John L. in the coal pits. But not now. Now the; Taft-Hartley Act has made him a hero. Miners are suffering from the same factor which hit them be- | fore the war—overpreduction plus increasing use of gas and oil. But they had been on a short week, had been trying to negotiate—which is what the Taft-Hartley Act pro- vides* for., Now they're required under a compulsory law to do what they were already willing to do. Taft’s money—Republican Nation- al Chairman Guy Gabrielson has received a lot of gripes about the money pouring into Sen. Robert Taft’s campaign. The compl: came from Republican outside Ohio, who claim they raise funds because local fat cals are being touched for Taft’s bene- fit. The Taft crowd is sending out chain letters urging that a Taft defeat would be “a complete sur- render to Socialism—if not even- tual Communism.” Playboy Com: st—The playboy | of Communist China, Gen. Chen Yi is in trouble with the more spar: tan Mao tze-Tung, because of his lavish parties and a string of con- cubines. Early in December, Gener- al Chen gave the gest whoop-de- do parties Shanghai has seen for a | decade. Stories drifting out of (Continued on Page Four) {go pa { this building will have 10 9 0 e 00 e o o Delivers Sermon PRA\CR is offcrr‘d by Co!‘eon Townsend, 21, Hollywood film actre at st Presbyterian Church, Punxsutawney, Pa. as she tells congregation why she’s leaving movies for religious career. ‘International Soundphoto) ERMIEE SLASH OF R.R. SERVICE SLATED TONIGHT URGH, Feb. 10—(®—The railroads ith Inte orde: because ning will be )1 59 pa. service at (local number of ' railroad em- have been furlough- industries the next s John L. drs go back to 370,000 \'.l‘ trikir at ers in laid Unemy:loyr: will three week been off coal shortat SUGGESTS LEWIS GIVEONEPAYDAY | MINERS' FAMILIES NONSBURG, Pa., Feb, 10—(®— striking coal miner proposed to-| that John L. Lewis and his Llll‘(“ Mine Workers aides give up one pay check to buy food for because A ' needy diggers. He is Roman Rybarski, 55, f KhCl of seven, w said fellow wor the Lindley mine of the Puvblrgh Consolidation Coal Company think his idea is a good one. “It’s my personal opinion that it John L. and his lieutenants would one pay day, they could buy/ us miners a lot of bread, Rybarsk i “They could take their pay and spend jt on food and distribute it They wouldn’t go hungry. And why couldn’t they rifice their pay for a few days? “We miners have had a lot of pay- less paydays since last June. Rybarski has mined coal for years, ever since the age of 11. PLANS ARE MADE FOR NEW GRADE SCHOOL; | (OST NEAR $400,200 The Board of Directors of the Ju- Independent School Dist held a special meeting last night 1 neau 1 | the office of the Superintendent ot Schools to meet with the firm of Foss, Malcolm and Olsen, selected school architects for the grade whon! building to be constructed in the near future. It is estimated that assrooms, plus other facil such as a lunchroom, playroom, etc., | and will cost about $400,000. It is the desire of the Board to obtain a school site so locate to serve all of that part of J meau | md Gold Creck and in-| cludm" lhe Waynor Tract. TIDE TABLGE FEBRUARY 11 Low tide 2:16 a.n, High tide 35 a.m., Low tide 3:47 p.m.,, High tide 10:31 p.m,, 5.8 15.1 14 6 Iy . taken inemployment Lewis' | al- RUSSIANS 10 STOP | Helmstedt, $31,156,000 FU(HS pASSED Hawa ian VISIOI'S M("VI"ES ’ DEFENSEBILL DATATO RUSS, (' FOR ALASKA Feb. 10—(P—A public works e Sen- 7,156,000 nrm:l legisl; ,000 wor 11 of 'l 1 p shelters Eielson Air ndorf Air Base, 1 Air Base, $5,- ither communica- £393,887. for e 466,345; Alaska and i state the -bill 1793,000 for the for family quar- ation of euild- ojects in Wash- de Moses Lake| barracks, family t $5,230,000; acquisition of s, fuel storage Base d, pavin and barrac he bill r DIVORCE GRANTED, INGRID, ROBERTO WILL LEGALIZE IT. i (® —Jubiliant ! today he Bergman quickly as arrive frem | would marry her divorce pap ho b AC s, Wh here eight days ago, divorce in Juar terday from the ne divorce in Juarez. 4, smiling wryly, d happened ten, ed” at of her months ago. | Lindstrom ignored the Mexican \mml proceedings and remained in hnll ywood. Rossellini’ ‘.nml yesterday ittorney Gino Sotis cabled notification | |of Miss Bergman’s divorce would not be sufficient to permit lwu | to ma the Italian film director | |here. The lawyer said a copy of ! lthe decree would have to be re- |ceived in Rome before the cere- {meny could take place. | The divorce was granted on orounds of mental cruelty, non- |support and incompatibility. Ghas"y Tragedy ! DETROIT, Feb. 10—(®—An office building elevator leaped upward of control and killed a wo- yesterday. The head of the victim, 63-year- lold Mrs. Mary A. Pebley, was sev- ered from her body. city officials pressed an inves- tion today of the ghastly mis- ut irs. Pebley, a widow, was about enter the car witnesses said, i $4,300,00; ; cha to the House | y | to do in Britain, i form Russia and I established con- | December, jof COURT IS TOLD Feb. 10— (M— Klaus Fuchs, brilliant German-born Brit- ish atom scientist, confessed that nce 1942 he knowingly and con- nuously passed on to Soviet Russia 1 British-American atomic sec- . the prosecution told a British LONDON, (-n«m\‘.b" this could have in- cluded information not only on the atom bomb but also the hydrogen bomb. The Bow Street court ordered 38- year-old Fuchs held for formal trial | in Old B y criminal court at the session beginning Feb. 28 on two es of violating the official sec- | t. He faces a maximum of 14 years in prison if convicted. | Fuchs, a reportedly sclf-admitted | “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” among the master minds of the atom. ac-| cepted £100 (then $400) in 1946 “as 1holic payment signitying his ervience to the cause ‘of world Communism’,” a Crown witness toid the court. I The mild-mannered Fuchs, a war- time refugee from the Nazis, merely blinked his eyes behind his thick acles as the prosecutor, Chris Humphreys, labelled him a “po- | tical fanatic on the payroll of a ign power.” ‘, 1 the statement, Fuchs was said to have asserted that when | learned the kind of work he was “I decided to in- St- 5t- | OX‘ | tact through another member the Communist party.” “Since that time I have had con- ! tinuous contact with persons com- pletely unknown to me except that th:‘) would give information to the ns,” the statement said. ! ael W. Perrin, Deputy Con-| trolier of Atomic Energy Techni=! 1 Policy the Ministry of! which controls the research, | testified Fuchs made a detailed | statement in his presence. He saidy his concerned the nature of the in- formation passed on to Russia. This information would be of value 10 2 polen[inl enemy, he said. The witness said the giving of in- formation to Russia fell into four| periods: the first between 1942 and | 1943; the second between | 1943, and August, 1944,! when Fuchs was in New York as a member of the British Atomic] Energy Diffusion Commission; lhv" third from August, 1944, to the sum- mer of 1946, when Fuchs was in a | | position to watch American activi- | ties in New Mexico, and the iinal| period, from 1946 to 1949. Perrin said Fuchs made M December, L contacts at intervals of one or two I'wo DONA]’IONS ARE months, to deliver the docum=: involved. On the witness stand Perrin | quoted Fuchs as saying that one| contact with a Russian agent was | made at Boston, Mass., in Februar 1945.7 There was no elaboration ot the circumstances. i The brilliant scientist, plagued by | a Jekyll-Hyde personality, thought he was helping Russia toward a gozl world dominion, Prosecutor Humphreys said. Only- a part of the statement was read publicly in court. So vital! jare the secrets concerned that the director of prosecutions said he was virtually certain the fuil text never would be made public. ® 0 0 v 0 v o o { WEATHER REPORT when it suddenly shot upward. The floor of the car caught her r the chin and swept her to the top of the open door. She was killed instantly. Her head fell to the car floor. He body down the shaft. Half a dozen women were al- ready in the car. It was operated by Miss Marilyn Kankis, 20. “The car suddenly shot upward,” Miss Kanakis said. “I had not touched any of the controls.” McCLOY WARNS (By Associated Press) In Berlin, U.S. High Commis- sioner John J. McCloy in effect told the Russians to stop their arm- twisting tactics on the “slow-down blockade” or face reprisals. At the Russian tratfic checkpoint, huge lines of German trucks were stalled in both direc- tions awaiting Soviet clearance. Western authorities this week cut off steel exports to the Soviet East- ern zo-~"cCloy said this was not i | 1 I l o | a Zprisal for the Russians delaying action. He declined to say what re-| are planned. In Juneau—Maximum 27; minimum 18. At Airport—Maximum 24; minimum 16. FORECAST (Junesn and Vieloity) Cloudy with intermittent snow tonight and Saturday. Occasional gusty winds. Low temperature tonight about 24 and high Saturday near 30 PRECIPITATIONS® (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. todas ¢ | City of Juneau—.01 inches; @ since Feb. 1—52 inches; since July 1--55.60 inches. At Airport—Trace; since Feb. 1—29 inches; since July 1—36.72 inches, L I e o STEAMER MOVEMENTS ® Denali scheduled to sail [ Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah is scheduled sail fvom Vancouver Saturday Baranof scheduled southbou! te Sundav irom westward. . . . . . © . ° . . 0 . . . i la WRANGELLITE HERE Freddie Foreman of Wranocll! is stopring at the Gastineau Hot e, | that the monvy will be | ment has stated that Vogeler, i 1 4 k - of GREETED by large crowd of fans, Shirley Temple and daugh- ter, Linda Susan, arrive in Hono- lulu on vacation. (lnlematwnal) [ RUCH PLAN ON ATOMIC CONTROLS GAINING SUPPORT WASHINGTON, Feb. 10— — ident Truman found some solid ng in Congress tod for his atement that a little cooperation from Russia is all that’s necded to et up effective world atomic con- | trols. Mr, Truman | new conference isn't budging from the for control through 2tomic inspection. The Baruch plan has been before the United Nations for many onths. It is named for Bernard M. Baruch, one of its principal rchitects. Russia has refused to aceept its pro on ior inspection of atomic prgjects. - The President endorsed Secretary of State Acheson’s stand that Rus- sin keeps agreements only when forced to by ons. Mr, Truman said he sees no rea- son to set up a commission to re- survey the Baruch plan in the lighi of his go-ahead order on the H- bomb. The President also made it plain he intends to disregard a proposal by Senator McMahon (D-Conn) that this country spend $50,000,~ 000,000 on a five year economic aid plan. P made clear to his that he h plan rnational inte MADE BY EMBLEM (LUB, AMBULANCE, LIBRARY Betty Casperson, president of the Emblem Club, announced last night at the Club’s meeting that the Eiks Lodge has accepted the 25 which the Emblem Club contributed recently for the city ambulance, and used tor necessary equipment for the vehicle Emblem Club members pledgec $250 toward financing the librar A no-host luncheon for Distric Deputy Jackie Budd is planned 1o February 25, at noon at the Baranot | and members wishing to attend are | requested to make res ons with Beftty Casperson, Red 160; Haze McLeod, 121; or Lillian Uggen, 203 kefore noon Friday, Februar 4. Practice for installation of officer. for the coming Club year will be held February 12 at 2 pm,, in E: Hall. All in-coming and out-going officers are requested to attend tc | prepare for the formal installaiion ceremonies scheduled for Saturday evening, February 25. Next regular meeting will be held Thursday, February 23, with initia- ticn and a social to follow. Thosc who have birthdays in February will also be honored. VOEGLER IS TO BE TRIED AS SPY IN HUNGARIAN COURT (By the Associated Press) The Hungarian Ministry of Jus- tice announced in Budapest today | that American businessman Robert E. Vogeler would be tried for spying and sabotage Feb. 17. The govern- who is an executive of the International | Telephone and Telegraph Company, has “confessed” to his guilt. A Brit- ish associate will be tried Vogeler. lr'\cuily with | OF BRIDGES ARE TRACED Movemens in Summer of | 1936 Placed Before Federal Jury SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 A detailed report of Harry Brid ctivities in the summer of was before a federal court jury to-! day. His testimony, along with minutes union meetings, was presented vesterday in an effort to prove that the longshore leader did not at- tend Communist party meetings that summer. The Australian-born Bridges, President of the International Long- horemen’s and Warehousemen's Union (CIO), is on trial for perjury. The government accuses him of ly- ing his 1945 naturalization hear- ing when he testitied he was not and had never been a member of the Communist party Two cther ILWU officials, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Robertson, als are on trial—charged with conspir- cy. They were witnesses at Bridges’ citizenship hearing. The trial was in recess today— and until Tuesday because of Lin- coln's birthday. Defense counsel Vincent Hallinan used a blackboard to list Bridges’ daily activities from June 21 to July 4, 1935. Documents were intro- duced to prove the made a speech in Stockton, Calit., fon June 27—the date that two gov- { ernment witnesses, Paul Crouch and | Manning Johnson, testified they saw Bridges elected to the Com- munist party central committee. Hallinan asked: “Were you ever elected to anything in the Com- mur party from janitor up to Commissar of Public Defense?” “No,” said Bridges. PRAYER MEETING FOR OVER 1,500 ENDS AT WHEATON WHEATON, Ill, Feb. 10—P—A marthon prayer meeting at littie Wheaton College ended today atter 38 consecutive hours. The revival, begun unexpectedly Wednesday night during one of the! regular semi-annual week long evan- selistic services, had swept the cam- pus. Some 1500 students and 110 members at the non-sec- { tarian Fundamentalist Protestant school joined in the prayer service. More than 900 were present in the Piece Memorial Chapel when Dr. V. Raymond Edman, President of the College, called the public testimonial to a close. Classes were to resume at 11 am.} Dr. Edman halted the revival to avoid “sensationalism.” He told the students that ‘“outsiders mught think the revival had become too howy.” JiLL MONOPOLY CHARGED AGAINST TWO DRUG FIRMS| WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—(#—The Justice Department today char two leading drug making firms with rying to monopolize the le of nard gelatin capsules—used for “vitamin pills” and other medicine Attorney General McGrath an- nounced the filing of a civil anti- trust action in federal court at De- troit against Parke-Davis and Co Detroit, and Eli Lilly and Co. In- dianapolis. Hard gelatin capsules “are used primarily as soluble containers for drugs and medicines taken in ‘pill or ‘capsule’ form,” the department explained. One chief use is in vita- man pills, an official added. Both companies make and sell hard gelatin capsules as a part ot their business of marketing phar- maceuticals and biologicals. FROM GUSTAVUS Edward G. O'Brien, a CAA man from Gustavus, is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. [ FROM TULSEQUAH S. J. Hoy of Tulsequah, B. C., is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM EDNA BAY Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Moore, with Frank, Jr, and Dale, Jstepping at the Gastineau Hotel. labor leader! Woos Winter Sun } EASY way to suntan is demxm-J strated at Las Vegas, Nev. by vivacious Lora Bruce, fugitive from frigid clime. (International) DAVIDS OVERCOME |ONLY FOE TO STOP: 'THEM-THE WEATHER The long-awaited House of David basketball quintet tinally arrived in; Juneau late this afternoon, atter| battling with a snow storm which| {cet them down at Gustavus ceveral| Ihoun following their takeoff from Anchorage. The oniy opponent able to squelch ;lhe famous bearded cagers during/ their Alaska tour has been old man weather. They couldn’t make it north from Ketchikan a week ago, having to return to Seattle and fly direct to Fairbanks. Their game here, to be against two Channel teams, was set for tonight | and this afternoon it looked as if weather had stopped everything. But Pacific Northern Airiines came through, and tonight beards and asketballs will fly. In the meantime, game officials have squeezed in 13 more seats into | ! the high school gymnasium stands, which are now on sale at Juneau Drug Store, 202 Front St. After they're gone, general admissifn only | will be available, which means| standing room only. The game be-| zins at 7:30 o'clock. Although no reports have come in on how the bearded five cavorted in Fairbanks and Anchorage, they’'ve won handily all along the northern front so far, furnishing pa- | trons with plenty of laughs and gasps at trick shots and ball hand- ling. 4 Their 6 foot 6 inches named George Wagner, is lay-in man, and piles up most of the j David’s points. In Ketchikan they ! played a different team each quar-| ter, the Davids horsing around more against some teams than| others, but winning all quarters ex- -ept against the Elks, who played center, ln Prince Rupert they mmem sasketballs from all over the floor | into the basket, outclassing the als easily and playing pranks on the officials until the latter were almost driven crazy. Th Lions’ Club is sponsoring their appearance. ALBRECHT SEEKS FUND FOR ALASKA WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—(®—Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Commissioner of Health for Alaska, urged a House Public Lands subcommittee today ito approve a bill providing special federal aid for the Territory's) health program. “There is no -good reason Wwiy tuberculosis has been permitted to spread throughout Alaska,” he said, ragedy is that tuberculosis | is a preventale disease and had attention been given it many years ago the great expensg we must now face to clear up the situation could Ihu\i‘ been averted.” | Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told [the committee the bill is simply to deficiencies of the past” Alaska becomes a | be needed | ot i i “eorrect and that when |state no extra aid will gular share of Public Health assis- tance, RESCUENEAR FOR VICTIMS, PLANECRASH Two Parties on’ Way of Top of Mountain-Doctor, Food and Supplies Are Dropped WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. 10— —A second ground rescue party of about 10 men today joined in the growing effort to take aid to 10 other men marooned on a Yukon mountain top after their Dakota search plane crashed. ' The stranded men have been on the bleak, wind-swept peak since - Tuesday. They were spotted next . day by another search plane. A ground party started in to get them in “weasel” snowmobiles, To speed the effort, five men including 2 doctor parachuted to the mountain top yesterday. Today, there was still no wort whether the first party had reached its goal, and the second party l.rav- elling in six weasels set out. Heavy clouds blanketed the moun= tain top and light snow was falling as the second party struck oud up the canyon through 20-below-zero weather. The second party, led by Major George Gormley of Reading, Mass., expected to establish camps at in- tervals, Bad weather which has hampered the search from the outset, Jan. 26, again held up operations today. Only three C-54's were sent aloft as a deep vblanket of clouds obscured treacherous mountain tops. Food, Medical Aid Food and medical assistance was taken to the stranded airmen yes- terday by a team of six daring para- troopers who plummeted to the tree- less slope while a ground rescue party fought its way slowly toward the spot. The parachutists, who leaped o lanada ety Wi 30 Yards of the marooned men, some of whom were badly in need of medieal care. A short time later, another Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota (Ca- nadian *equivalent of the USA.F. C-47) dropped pup tents and half a cord of fire wood to the huddled party. The 10 men, five U.S. airmen and five Canadian soldiers, were aboard a C-47 which crashed Tuesday night during the two-week-old search for a C-54 carrying 44 persons. Leg, Arm Fractured Included among the rescue party was a doctor from Ladd Field, Fair- banks, Alaska—Major S. J. Bac- zewski of Conshohocken, Pa.; to at- tend the three airmen who suffered leg and arm fractures in the crash. Working toward the group, camped on the bald slope 7,000 feet up the moumtain, was another 12- man rescue crew going overland from Pon Lake, 15 miles away. The overland party, dogged by hard luck, had only one of its orig- inal four snow weasels at last re- ports. Three had lost their tracks in tough going along the bottom of Aishihik Creek, which winds through a canyon to the base of the moun- tain. Helicopter at Scene A helicopter was held at Pon Lake to evacuate the crash victims. Meanwhile, search officials plan- ned to-send more planes into the area southwest of Watson Lake in an effort to check a series of S-0-5 signals reported by a “ham” radio operator in South Dakota. The operator, Bob Wagner, of Lead, S.D., said the signals wera received Wednesday and gave the ! position at 130 W and 60 N, followed by the letters “No Fo . .” Then the signal faded, but Wagner said he though the last word was food. Search officials treated the re- port with caution and emphasized that the Watson Lake area had been searched repeatedly since the C-b4 disappeared Jan. 26. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 10—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 113%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 9, International Harvester 28, Kennecott 54, New York Cen- tral 12%, Northern Pacific 14'%, U.'S. Steel 30, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,780,000 shares. Averages today are” as follows: industrials 202.75, rails 54.8}, ut- (ilities 42.75. JUDGE MEDLEY HERE Judge Edward F. Medley of Se- attle, who makes his home in the mc-“"" ¢ statehood will give it @ Te-| 440 club there, is in Juneau and registered at the Baranof Hotel