The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1950, Page 1

TH. E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,426 DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOND\\ FEBRUARY 13, 1950 MEI\'I‘FR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MacARTHURTO TAKE NAVY IF NEED ARISES WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—#--The | military high command announced | today it has given Gen. Douglas | MacArthur authority to assume con- trol of American Naval forces m! Japanese waters in event of emer- | gency. This unification move wds made | known at a news conference held by | the Joint Chiefs of Staft who have | Just returned from a 10-day tour | i of Pacific bases. It was also announced that they have submitted a “top secret paper” to President Truman on the efforts on American security of the Com- munist advance in Asia. Gen. Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was asked whether Communism could be stopped at the borders of China with American aid. He replied this was primarily a State Department decision and then volunteered the statement that the | top secret report has been submitted. | Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, the | Chief of Naval Operations, said | there is no evidence that Russia | since the war has increased the per- centage of its total Naval forces | which are maintained in the Pacitic. “It is our plan to keep the Pacific fleet as strong as we can within total forces we have,” Shernwan said. “As you know, we Fave made minor adjustments in that direc- tion.” In response {0 queswuons, Sherman also said he believes that American Naval forces in the Western Pacific | are equipped and deployed to cope | with any threat from Soviet Rus- | sian submarine strength. e 0 o 0o o 0 o0 o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 43; minimum 31, At Airport—Maximum 37; _minimum 80. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy. Light snow flurries tonight and Tues- day. Lowest temperature to- night about 28. Highest Tuesday near 35. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m, today City of Juneau-—.41 inches; since Feb. 1—1.35 inches; since July 1—56.46 inches. At Airport—.31 inches; since Feb. 1—97 inches since July 1—37.40 inche: ® o o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 E E. WEBER, JUNEAU | MAN, BADLY BURNED ON TROLLER IN SITKA SITKA, Feb. 13—(P—Elmer E. Weber, 39, a construction worker, was critically burned in a fire aboard the troller Green Pea here last night. Weber’s home address is Box 13, Juneau. Amount of damage to the troller and cause of the fire was unavail- able. Merry - Go-Round The Washingtfon [Copyrisht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — The deep-set eyes of Abraham Lincoln stared somberly down from a huge por- trait. Below him milled 12,000 peo- ple, some trying to speak, some try- ing to gnaw chicken bones, some hoping to dance, some trying to| lock plebeian—all celebrating the Republican Party’s determination to take a new lease on life at one dollar a throw for a box supper. The man who once guided the Republican Party—and the nation —through its most perilous crisis, looked down on the strange sight. What he thought, nobody knows. But here is what he saw: A slightly frantic woman, bejew- eled and in a fur coat, trying des- perately to eat a chicken leg. £he was elbowed on both sides. H hat was askew. Her fixed smile had a pained lock. Periodically, a hoarse | voice in the stand above shouted, “sit down you. Down in front.” She shuddered, but gnawed. Owen Brewster, as harass perspiring as a busy grocery clerk, trying to squeeze through to the press table. His bald head gleamed but his voice retained its sense of humor. “We simple little Republi- cans support. . .,” he said. A loud boom from the high-school band " (Continued on Page Four) TORNADOES KILL 47 IN FOURSTATES ' SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 13—(#— Tornadoes whirled through four states over the weekend leaving :n. leaving at least 47 persons dead. Another 200 or more were in- jured in East Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee. Nine persons in one family were killed in the litile Tennessee farm- ing community of Hurricane Hills, near Ripley, early today. The Red Cro: eight persons were killed at Grand Cane, La. The twisters previously had struck 38 persons with death in Northwest ' | Louisiana, East Texas and Southern Arkansas. The sheriff’s office at Ripley re- ported that stil others, Negro tenants of the Woodard farm, were believed Kkilled. As the tornadoes Northwest | Southern Arkansas and | said that at least | probably | stricken | continued a! ](hapman Asks Quiz on Nalive | 'Infimidation” Wants Commmeeman io | Investigate “Influence” -Doesn’ tSay by Whom cretary of the Interior Chap asked Congress today to investigate whether Al Eskimos and In- dians have been intimidated in ef- forts to influence the voting in elections to determine whether |they want reservations established | for them Senator Chairman ska O'Mahcney of the Senate |Committee, said the committee |would not act on the request until after he talks with Delegate Bart- lett of Alaska | Chapman wrote “There have (D-Wyo), Interior O’Mahoney : come to me rumors | | WASHI\GI‘()\ F(‘b 13—(P—Se- | | northeastward course, the death toll | of efforts that allegedly were made | mounted in Louisiana and Texas. The Red Crc reported 29 were killed in Louisiana. This total did not include one fatality reported vy the Shreveport Times in Shreveport. The cdeath of 9-year-old Shirley Windsor in a Lufkin hospital early | today raised the death toll in Texas to nine. The tornadoes — spawned Satur-| day when a m: of cold air collided with a mass of warm, 24 hours. First to feel lower East Texas the twisters was A tornado | smashed LaPorte, Tex., and Alvin,las Sec Tex., Saturday afternoon. There were few immediate esti- $300,000 i~ the LaPorte-Alvin @ MONTANA TEAM IS WINNER OF 11-MILE SIERRA DOG DERBY TRUCKEE. Calif., Feb. 13— At times looking more like an ob- stacle course runner than a dog sled racer, Lewis Price of West Yellowstone, Mont., beat the field again yesterday in the Sierra Dog Derby. Price and his Siberian huskies covered an 1l-mile course along U. Highway 40 in one hou 19 minutes, 15 seconds. That is 50| minutes longer than it took him to| win an 1l-mile race yesterday around a snowy track. e The difference resulted from the| many ditches, patches of dry pave- | jutting rocks and tangled | ment, brush that slowed the sled and |exhausted the dogs along today’s course. Lloygd Van gickle of Truckee, who placed second in yesterday’ race, duplicated his feat today| in one heur, 21 minutes, 30 seconds. Larry Fields of Ashton, Idaho, came in third in one hour, 29 minutes. Al Halton of Anchorage, Alaska, and Harry Johanson of Tahoe City, Calif., were fourth and fifth, The town and surrounding area were packed by spectators for the| g8 3@ second revival of the Derby since | SEATILE, Fe0. (1 o Ohie cHiD ) 1931, Hydrogen Bomb Considered by U. S. During 1943 MANILA, Feb. 13—#—A Philippines source today said the United States has been considering | the hydrogen bomb since 1943 and was well ahead of any other nation if a race for.its manufacture de- velops. The' source, who asked that he| not be named, said his information came from -authoritative American sources. He did not name hig Ameri- can authority. The informant recently returned from the United States. While there he conferred with top government officials in Washington. | TWO COMING HERE FOR FACILITIES SERVICE Two new members of the Com- munity Facilities Service stail are; expected here tomorrow, according to John Argetsinger, district engi- | neer. They are John Adams, who will be construction engineer for Alaska, | and Thomas Quinn, district coun- sel, who is coming from the Wash- ington, D.C,, office. The CF.S. is an agency of the| General Services Administration which was created last July. ‘ | moist air— | | struck at least 20 times in less than of the elections which are scheduled | high | natives in order outcome of the recently was to intimidate the {to influence the |election which at P {or reject Krug's order 1949, for t | reservation there and of efforts that allegedly are being made to intimidate the natives of Hydaburg |and Shunznak-Kobuk for the pur- pose cf influencing the outcome of (former) dated November n Secretary 30, held | Barrow on the acceptance | establishment of a| |to be held at those places on April | |24 |24 | “I recognix my responsibility ary of the Interior to see | that free and fair elections are held ameng Alaskan intend to to and I ! dischiarge that wsppriibility the best of my ability. | “I1t would be helpful and in the | interest of good government if a | member of the staff of your com- imntee should go to Alaska for the { purpose of making an objective i study regarding - these rumors.” The Barrow election Feb. 4 result- {ed in defeat of the reservation plan 1231 to 29. 'REPORTED DROWNED | DEN HELDER, The Netherlands, IF(‘h 13—(M—Ten seamen and a stowaway drowned yesterday in the sinking of the 2214-ton Finnish | freighter Karhula off the Dutch Seventeen crewmen, including | capt. Huge David Groenstrand, and {two stowaways, were saved by Dutch lifeboats. The freighter, carrying a load of { wood pulp from Finland to France, | began leaking aufter shifting deck cargo caused it to list. | M. Edqetumbe (That's |A Ship) Burns Bearing 'And Towed fo Hospital pled Alaska Native Service vessel | Mount Edgecumbe is due here to- cutter Winona. bound for Seattle after an Alaska bearing and put into Butedale, B.C., with one engine. The Winona, dispatched from here took the vessel in tow Satur- day. | Pl Ml | MAN SENTENCED FOR BREAKING INTO CAR the U.S. Commissioner’s Court here today. He had been apprehended by city police for breaking into the car |owned by Fred Baxter. The com- ‘plaint, signed by Assistant Police | Chief Frank D. Cavanaugh, charged of the Bergman Hotel, Street. } in the Federal jail. City police recovéred the stolen goods from Meeks’ room. FIREMEN'S BALL IS The 44th annual ball of the Ju- | given in the Elks Baliroom, lf-my and later, native groups on| | mates of damage. But it was put at | approval or disapproval of the re-| - servation orders 'FREIGHTER SINKS; 11| morrow in tow of the Coast Guard | The 114-foot Edgecumbe, soum-‘i voyage, burned out a port engine Robert Meeks, 19, an enlisted man, | | pleaded 'guilty to petty larceny in| | nim with taking a radio and heater | from Baxter’s car, parked in tront | 322 Harris | | He was sentenced to three monms; | that the maneuvers ar | Whitehorse where the joint | | | | 'DECK CARGO SHIFTS, ALASKA FIGHT ON AS TROOP (COLLISION DUE Up.Road fo Meet Enemy By CLARKE BEACH WHITEHORSE, Y.T. Feb. 13—{® —A crack battalion of Canadian troops moved. up the Alaska High- way early today under a protective umbrella of U.S. and Canadiuh fighter planes. It was the start of Exercise Sweet- briar—the biggest joint Army-Air Force U.S.-Canadian mid-winter maneuvers ever undertaken. Up the highway 365 miles, at Northway, is the nearest base and airstrip of the enemy nation—ag- gressor—which has seized all of Alaska and is prepared to swoop | down on Canada and the United States. Allied forces will attempt to drive the enemy armies back. Where, or when, or how, the two forces will collide is not known. It's a real war for the more than 5,200 troops assembled here from all parts of Canada and the United tes. Spies are even working be- hind the lines. But officers in charge emphasize n't to be considered a test of defenses in the area. Because of the prodigious ef- fort involved in supplying and transporting a large-scale military operation, the task is more than a modern army could handle undm‘ fire. Rather it's a test of men and equipment under Arctic conditions. And for that, it's ideal. Here at Uus.- Canadian forces are based the mer- cury hangs around 20 below. Around | Northway, it's muchcolder—otten 60 below. During a lull préceding thie stud of the maneuver, some troops were taken on a 12-mile march on snow shoes and skis in 50 below zero temperatures. Eighteen men will be in the hospital for a month or two with frostbitten feet, according to Lt. Col. R. M. Coats, surgeon of the allied forces. He blamed it on failure of the men to take proper precautions to keep their feet dry and warm rather than on equip- ment. | But that's one of the things the Army wants to check. The exercises are under the com- | mand of Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Cham- berlain, Commanding General of the U. S. Fifth Army. 'NORTHWEST AREA AIR RAID WARNING NETWORK REVIVED (By the Associated Pres Oregon and Washington Gover- nors, acting at the request of retary of Defense Johnson, orders Saturday reviving the war- time air raid warning networks through the two states. Both, however, cautioned & hysteria or “undue concern. Governor Douglas McKay said at Salem, Ore., that reestablishment of the system “is nothing more ¢ tacular that a good insura icy.” Washington’s Governor L said the action was being ta government request “because possibilities of conflict.” ‘Warning systems of the two states will be under the Western Air De- fense Force with headquarters at Hamilton Air Force Base, Cali! State Patrol Chief James A. Pryde, named by Langlie to head the Washington reactivation, said ground observers will report to the Air Force which, in turn, will warn the civilian population in the event of an enemy attack. ainst f the 'NAVY SEARCHES FOR LOST PLANE WITH 9 ABOARD CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Feb. 13 —IM—The Navy to¢ay threw out a three-pronged search for one ol its planes, missing since Friday aiter- | noon with nine men aboard PRONOUNCED SUCCESS | | sea and air yesterday fail A dawn to dark hunt by land, find a trace of the PBM-5. A Naval | neau Volunteer Fire Department spokesman said it would start at last | Saturday night was pronounced a | success according to the boys m]plnne is still afloat,” the | charge. Dancers crowded the floor | |'Christi Naval Air Station ofti sunrise again today. “There is not much cha the | declared. General View of Bridges Irial This view in San Francisco Federal Court during absence of Judge George B. Harris, pictures Harry Bridg_('s on the witness stand. right, defense council’s table. Standing at right of bench is his chief counsel Vincent Hallinan. In front of bench, government attorneys and at extreme left the jury. Bridges is being tried for allegedly perjuring himself in connection with his naturalization proceeding At Daniel Ross Is Honored WASHINGTON, Feb Interior Department 13—(P— Th(‘ has a W ded | Brown, 28, of Tennessee, Kan., its silver medal for meritorious ser- |the leader of the ground party 1( A7 RESCUE PARIY 'LEADER TELLS STORY ‘OF LONG COLD TREK Melvin R, was (Editors note: Lieut. which last week helped to rescue |survivors of a Dakota search plane | which crashed in a 7300-foot mountnln top near Whitehorse, Yu- | 'kon. The ground party was trans- ported in winter track vehicles | known as weasels. Here tells his story). } BY LIEUT. MET.VIN BROWN. U. S. Army 14th Regimental ne per-| D. W. Cornell Is Named President Walerlrom Assn. SEATTLE, Feb. 13—(®—D. | Cornell, Seattle, was named Satur- |arrive day as President of the Waterfront sails Employers of Washington and Area oA AR e Manager for the Pacific Maritime| Americans eat about 4.2 pounds of Association. He succeeds Merele G pinach, farm weight, per capita in lnmgnnbrrg. who died last week.|a year in 1945. @ wlrephnto. 60 NORTH ON C-54 SEARCH, SOS TRACE Special radio equipment from three U.S. Air Force Bases and its| operating pmsonuel moved Lhuughlvlce to Daniel Ross upon his retire- Yukon search for the C-5¢ which jeau Land Management official at disappeared nearly three weeks ago | Juneau, Alaska. th 44 persons aboard A graduate of Prince of Wales cials said the equipment is being|ada, Ross was an Interior Depart- flown to Alaskan bases to help pin {men employee more than 23 years. down baffling SOS signals being —_— et | ern wilderness where the plane is| | believed to have gone down on a| | flight trom whitenorse to Great! MADE TO BOY SCouTS Officials said this equipment and | personnel arrives nere and left yes-| F. M. Tyvoll, camping and ac- terday for the north: | tivities chairman for the Boy Scouts, tion finder from Kelly Field, San | judges in the window decorating { Antonio, Tex. | contest - conducted last week. First 2. Airways and air communication place in the cub division went to Oklahoma City, OKla., xpecnuy""‘"k 310, Paul Burnett, cubmaster. Stathdd 4n direction finding. Their window was in Val Poor’s 3. Special plotting equipment from | drug store at Douglas. ' < vision was awarded to the American New distress signals have re-| i = > kindled hope for possible survivors | !“egk”?fi trof)p 613, with their camp- among the 44 persons who went| N8 window in the ,Juneau-Young B Lions and Rotary, respectively. master of this troop. SABAIINI AUTHOR In the explorer scout section, Is.g 0p U} dIom szouum ozt oF '(APIAIN Bloo U Jdusox Their window was in the Pan American World Airways oflice Equipment for the units winning | prizes will be awarded, Tyvoll re- ABELBODEN, b“'“z"l;mdA Fle: | mittee for judging were: Gene 13—(M—Rafael Sabatini, tlmb l\“%n- Vuille, Art Hedges, and Stanley Italian. writer whose swashbuckliNg ' G mmett, representing Kiwanis, readers, died at his hotel here mly‘ today. He was 75. The author of more than 40 his- Sabatint had suffered for years from Up 0" US I“ GUIDED stomach ule : MISSILES. WARFARE } WAIHINGTON Feb. 13— — E" PRANK Senate Armed Services Committee Bv WEEK D said today Russia is at least two years ahead of the United States A faithful friend was injured be- yond repair this weekend. siles. Johnson told a news conference outside wall of the Fire Hall, whicn | the United States may be ahead of told work-bound Juneau men and | atomic and hydrogen bombs. women whether to shiver or “But I'm afraid we are behind spire. _Russia in the ability to deliver our Saturday night or early Suncay “The three services each has a mis- morning by an unknown public |sile program of its own—but, as yet enemy. | no really worthwhile guided missi stuck at 110 degrees, with smoxe | rocket research has created a lars marks around its bottom indicating ' false impression that we have mis- it had been coaxed to a record high!siles which would be used in de- the hands of some irresponsible per- | We have none.” o | Johnson ecriticized the Armed The thermometer was installed in | Services in charging that the bulk pany. after World War II—“is still going | for weapons originally designed to ! help us win that war.” Denali from Seattle scheduled to larrive at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Princess Norah from Vancouver [ternoon or evening, Baranof from west scheduled to at 9 o'clock tonight and GREAT FALLS, Mont,, Feb. 13— here over the weekend to join the | ment, several weeks ago, as a Bur- Great Falls Air Force base offi- |Ccliege, Prince Edward Island Can- picked up out of the rugged north- Ywmnow AwARDS ARE Falls. 1. High frequerncy sensitive direc- reported today the decision ot the service personnel from Tinker Field, | Douglas Community Church’s cub Wright Patterson Field, Dayton, O, | First place in the Boy Scout di~ down with the plane. Hardware. Vernon Harris is scout- | Explorer Post 713, Chester Zenger, DEAD AI 15 YEARS in the Baranof Hotel. ‘pulls Those serving on the com- Captain Blood thrilled millions of) RUSS TWO YEARS torical novels published since 19 IHERMOMHER Is RUINED | Senator Johnson (D-Tex) of the in the development of guided mis- It is the large thermometer on the | for more than 13 years has reliably | | other nations in developing the It was the victim of a prank lale Nplnslves in battle,” he said, adding: Yesterday morning it was toul l‘ “Publicity about some of our by matches or a cigarette lighter u-\ fense of this coumry As of now 1937 by the Royal Blue Cab Com- of defense spending—five years | STEAMER MOVEMENTS cheduled to arrive tomorrow south one hour later. af- | Cembat ‘veam As Told to Graham Trotter Canadian Press Staff Writer ; WHITEHORSE, Yukon, Feb, 13— |- We started out from Pon Lake |15 miles from the mountain, at 14:15 p.m. Wednesday. It was @3 p.m. the next Saturday when we got back. One way it was 29% miles. Dave Hume, our native guide jand I figured we walked 20 of | those miles on the way in, walking ahead of the weasels to find paths through timber and testing danger- yously thin river ice. “I was never colder in my life.} My nose was frostbitten and my feet may have got a nip too— they don't feel so good now. They tell me it was 60 below zero when we finally reached the survivors Inn the mountain peak Friday after- noon, I hardly slept a wink the whole time. “There were 15 of us with the four weasels at the start. “We started climbing the moun- taln at 7 a.m. Thursday. The trees| were so thick and the trails so steep we decided to camp for the night., “Starting out again at 6:45 am. Friday we reached an approach that was very steep and had lots of rocks and dead treees. There| was no other way up. We spent two hours going through that last 50 feet of timber. We were. about 5,- 00 xeet up the mountain. got on snow that was crust- ed wlth ice. There was always the ldnnger of starting to slide which meant a 2,000-foot fall into a valley. “We reached the survivors at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The helicopter had just made the first of its three flights to take off the nine of them. “Through the whole trip we never Istopped to eat. We thawed out our rations on the weasel heater.” i ‘DEMO(RM CAUCUS CALL, THURSDAY A caucus of the Democrats of the three Juneau precincts has been called for Thursday night at 9 o'clock at the CIO Hall Delegates will be elected for the Divisional Convention to be at Sitka on March 2. Other business | will be propesals for the platform for the fall campaigr. HISTORY PROF, 43, NEXT YALE PREXY NEW HAVEN, Conn. Feb. 13- A 43-year-old history profes- will be the next president Yale University. Professor Alfred Whitney Gl’i\‘-] wold, a Yale graduate and member of the faculty since 1933, was sel- ected by members of the Yale Corporation Saturday to succeed President Charles Seymour as Yale’s 16th President. President Seymour, who reached the retirement age of 65, leaves Yale on June 30. l P sor of held v 8 MINERS SNUB LEWIS, T-H INJUNCTION "Won't Be Reduced fo Slaves” They Maintain - Pay No Heed fo Injunction PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 — (B — Angry soft coal miners continued their nation-wide “no contract no work” strike full blast today. They | ignored both John L. Lewis' work order and a federal court injunc- tion. In some areas, lack of official notification delayed a decision by | United Mine Workers Locals on obeying their chieftain’s order to re- turn to the pits “forthwith.” No mines were operating in the large bituminous (soft coal) pro- ducing areas except unorganized or indepedent union pits and those covered by new contracts with the UMW. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, In- diana, Illinois, Alabama, Ohio and other important coal states all re- ported the strike was as strong this week as last. Determined strikers vowed they’ll stay out until they get a contract. Over the weekend, Lewis bowed to the court order and directed his 372,000 striking miners ba¢k to work. But with telegraph offices closed on Sundays in many small mining com- munities, several locals were late in receiving the official word. Some idle miners said they aren’t working because this is Lewis’ 70th birthday. The UMW President’s an- niversary actually was yesterday. Dave Fowler, President of UMW District 21 in Oklahoma and Arkan- sas, looks for a continuation of the strike despite Lewis and the court. He sald:[ “Some of the miners feel the gov- | ernment is trying to make convicts out of them. The miners fought for 50 years to get their union. They | don't want it stolen away from | them and be reduced to slaves.” In Indiana, where all 8,500 UMW diggers are idle, President Louls Austin of UMW District 11 said: “Apparently the miners are angry because they have no contract.” In West Virginia, the Norfolk and Western and the Virginian Railways said no mines are reported working along their lines. About 14,000 miners are idle in Logan County, West Virginia. No mines are operating near Har- lan, Ky. Comment from rank and file diggers showed their attitude to be one of grim determination. “The injunction won’t mine coal and we know it,” said a miner at the Russellton, Pa., mine No. Two of Re- public Steel Corporation. He added: “That Taft-Hartley business 1is foolish. No contract, no work.” Miner Paul Truckley of Curtisville, a., declared: “Truman gave the operators an ace in the hole. They knew Lewis either had to order us back or leave us wide open to an injunction. In my opinion, the men are solidly opposed to going back without a contract.” Another digger, at the Wheeling Steel Corporation’s shaft at Har- marville, said: “Let the operators dig their own coal.” A flurry of violence developed as pickets appeared at some West Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania spots. The Nicholas (W-Va) County Sheriff’s office reported two or three men who tried to work at a union mine near Richwood were roughed up. Thirty to 40 carloads of pickets visited the operation. | A motorized band of 1,700 pickets patrolled highways in the Punxsu- tawney, Pa., area where some non- union mines are werking. State Po- | lice Sergeant Marcus White said ! they stormed two coal trucks. MEETING SCHEDULED PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13—#—The northern and western soft coal op- | erators today told John L. Lewis they will meet with him Wednesday at 11 am, (EST) in Washington to discuss contract negotiaticn “dif- ferences.” George H. Love, spokesman for the National Bituminous Coal Op- erators negotiating committee, sent the United Mine Workers chieftain a telegram to that effect. Earlier the southern operators agreed to meet with Lewis ai the same time. FROM TRAIL, B.C. J. C. Ross of Trail, B.C., is regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel,