The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,427 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1950 Crippled US Bom ber Down o MINES STILL IDLE; 2 MEN AREWOUNDED MinersWiIIPTobany Cele- brate Lewis Birthday Two More Weeks, Says One PITTSBURGH, Feb, 14—(®—Mine whistles shrilled in vain again today as striking soft coal miners for the second day defied work or- ders from both the Government and John L. Lewis. The no contract no work walk- out continued full force in all ma- jor coal producing states. Hund- reds of pickets roamed Pennsylvan- ia highways to make sure all pits were closed. Pennsylvania State Police report- ed two men wounded with buckshot in the area of Labrobe. It was not determined if they are miners or pickets. The men wounded were identified as Frank Kozar, 23, and Leroy Har- ris, 27. Police were trying to learn if the shooting was connected with the posting of armed guards at a nearby non-union strip mine. A truck was dynamited at that pit last week. No Orders in W. Va. The West Virginia Coal Asso- ciation said some idle mines in the United Mine Workers District 17 stated they have not received “any orders to return to work.” Association Secretary Jesse V. Sullivan said the men “are not re- volting but are awaiting instruc- tions from their union leaders to return work. The coal strike situation was un- changed in Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, Alabama and West Virginia among the larger producing states. to (Continued on Page Six) Merry - Go- Round The Washingion Copyrizht. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—The basic dif- ferences inside the Republican Party were not apparent in the new GOP Magna Charta last wgek. But during a closed-door caucus of GOP Senators, there developed a significant clevage which will have to be reconciled before the party can win any resounding vic- tories. When the proposed policy state- ment was first presented to the private meeting, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine complained that part of the statement had al- ready been broadcast by Drew Pear- son, so it was urged that the Sen- ators keep further details from “leaking to Pearson.” However, here is a brief summary of what happened. Although nearly every Senator had his own ideas on what the pol- icy statement should say, it was Brewster of Maine and Taft of Ohio who engineered the final com- promise, “If you agree with 80 percent of the statement, that is as much as anyone can expect,” argued Brewster. “We can’t draft a state- ment that will suit everyone per- fectly.” The “Young Turks,” however, de- murred. Their sharpest spokesman was Vermont’s stocky George Aiken who objected to the slogan, “Lib- erty against Socialism” and urged instead, “Liberty Against Totalit- arianism.” “These are costly statements you are making,” he warned. Aiken also condemned the “weak and vacillating” stand on Civil Rights, and criticized the implied endorsement of high tariffs. But his loudest protest was over the state- ment on farm policy. “Drew Pearson says the Re- publicans are coming* around to the Brannan Plan,” taunted Aiken, then proceeded to ecriticize the GOP’s equivocal stand on cooper- atives and failure to endorse the Rural Electrification Administra- tion. Aiken’s support of REA was so vigorously backed up by Sen- ators McCarthy of Wisconsin, Wat- kins of Utah and .Young of North Dakota that the GOP policy draft- ers agreed to insert REA in the Magna Charta. (Continued on Page Four) STATEHOOD BILLS ARE COMING UP WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— @ — House Majority Leader McCormack (D-Mass) predicted today that the House will pass the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills this session. He said he intends to call up the bills within the next *“week or two.” “I promised Delegate Bartlett of Alaska and Delegate Farrington ot Hawaii I would do that,” he told a reporter, “and I intend to do it.” McCormack expressed the opinion there would be a fight before the bills pass the House and that there might be even stronger opposition in the Senate. TOWATCH NEW COAL eral mediators served notice today that they will keep a close watch on new coal contract bargaining ses- sions, opening tomorrow, and will sit in on the meetings if they de- | cide that will help produce agree- | ment. Cyrus Ching, chief of the media- tion service, said David L. Cole of Paterson, N.J., chairman of Presi- dent Truman’s fact-finding board, is returning here for sessions. Government hopes for a quick end to the coal strike are pinned heavily to the new contract talks. The miners are paying attention to a court’s back-to-work messages the union says has been sent to 3,000 locals. 6. 0. P. DINNER IS TONIGHT AT 7 AT BARANOF HOTEL The - Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner will be held tonight at 7 o’clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel and promises to be a well attended event. Fred Eastaugh will be toastmaster or Emcee. Principal speakers will be Albert White and R. E. Roberison to be followed by introduction of Republi- who are present. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive at 7 o'clock tonight and sails for Skagway at 11:30. Seattle Saturday. Denali schedu'eC Sunday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 112%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester 28, Kennecott 53%, New York Cen- tral 12%, Northern Pacific 142 U. S. Steel 29%, Pound $2.80%%. Sales today were 2,200,000 shares. southbound industrials 202.02, rails 54.11, util- ities 24.47. v o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 39; minimum 21, At Airport—Maximum 34; minimum 19. FORECAST (Juneau ana Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with an oc- casional light snow tlurry tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 16 degrees. Highest ‘Wednesday near 28. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—.16 nch since Feb. 1151 inch since July 1—56.62 inches. At Airport—:.: inches; since Feb. 1—1.22 inches; since July 1—37.65 inches. ®© 0 o 0 00 0 00 000000 so0000000c0000c0r U. 5. MUST INVEST LIONS SHOW JUsT IN WORLD, SPEAXER HOW THINGS DONE TELLS ROTARIANS AT DINNER PARTY, | | Investmen The Juneau Lions Club met at| in “the ends of the (iflx'!l]" s essential if the United lan cvening affair last night, with States is to take its adult place in |their wives and cHildren as special {the modern world, Dr. Roy L.!guests, with Valentine’'s Day the Smith told Rotarians today at the |special event. weekly luncheon meeting in the| Lions, wives, kiddies and guests, Baranof Gold Room. “The United States has come of [Room of the Baranof Hotel, where | age,” he said, “at the most critical |the program for the evening was| h:1,;mncant pericd in our history |regular business, for the benefit —possibly in that of the world. Our |of the families getting the low | government, now 175 years old, is {down on how the Big Bad Ltons’ ithe oldest continuous government | behave when lunching away from on the globe | home. | “The tide of wealth has flowed | Of the 49 children present,| to us; now dominant in the field of | youngest child was that of Mr. and export, we must carry a burden|Mrs. Robert Shuff, Bobby Jr., 21 of world affairs such as never | months old, who received a big] before carried have opportunity | valentine box of candy as the prize.| such as no nation ever has had; |Qldest “Child” present was intro-| we must also accept the respon-|duced by Mike Monagle, who pre- | | sibility.” | sibility.” ] | sented Keith Wildes (Rotarian). Dr. Smith, world-travelling Telig- | Mayor Waine Hendrickson and ious leader. orator and journalist, | Mrs. Hendrickson, were special| called the world “one big whisper- guests of the Club and spoke brief-{ ling gallery.” |ly on the plans of the City for He sald, “A Congressman’s|Evergreen Bowl this summer. The| thoughtless statement, a Hollywood | Mayor praised the results of the| scandal, can undo the benefits of | combined efforts of Juneau and years of work, of blood. You, in moj cuglas and the Lions Club in outpost of the west,” he told his| making possible the Douglas Beach | Juneau audience, “looking across facilities and stated that the City 120 strong, tilled the banquet Gold |z CONTRACTS | these narrowing waters into the leyes of the Orient, the eyes of (of Juneau had large plans for Ev-| | ergreen bowl to further ouside sum- | | Russia, know how closely the world | mer activities. He said plans were stop strike” order or to! can candidates of the Juneau area | Baranof scheduled to sail from | has a greater importance than ever | before. “I believe in democracy because I am a Christian,” he concluded. “Democracy respects moral order, the sanctity of man and his div- y. More than ever, these values become important in must world.” Dr. Smith pointed out that Unit- jed States and Russia are now the only first-rate world pow , where- for decades there have been | eight. He traced the disappearance lof Germany, Italy, France, Holl- land and Japan from that category, and the “recedence” of Great Brit- ain, a nation he cited for having spread law and order, education and freedom of religion along with |its colonization. He recalled num- erous personal experiences in all parts of the world in illustration of his points. ed House of David basketball team, that group offered to put on an- lother exhibition game this eve- |ning, to benefit the Juneau Mem- {orial Library, should arrangements | be possible at so late an hour. (At the meeting immediately following, it was learned that the gymnasium schedule could not accommodate the “quick change.”) Clean-shaven H. Wittee, manager, |was a guest today, as was bearded i hcopster George Anderson of Ben- | ton Harbor, Mich. B. Frank Heintzleman, Library | Committee chairman, reported on the present campaign for the larg- est project ever undertaken by Ju- |neau Rotarians. | To date, $6,400 has been pledged |by clubs, with approximately $2,- 1500 more expected from that cate- igory. In solicitation of firms and | individuals, some $2,750 has bcen pledged in the last several days. He urged the necessity for reaching the goal of $24,000 in this drive, saying “It would be tragic if we the! Weather having bested the fam-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—{P—Fed- | js drawn together. The individual |peing made to construct a road into | |the bowl, so that heavy equip- ment may be brought in by truck | Much new equipment, including a| ne Merry-go-Round, and other \playground equipment is on the| |City dock and will be installed for| | this summer’s use. The Merry-go- | Round is not to be confused with |the one the Fourth of July com- | | mittee has purchased he said, but| lis a unpowered playground t | Other sporting equipment, such | as horizontal bars and ladders !pole vaulting equipment is also| ion hand, purchased recently by {the city. The Lions Club efforts| |to heat the swimming pool fits linto the general plans, he intimat- |ed. He felt that, with the resources the Club already has, and the pos- {sibility of the City sponsoring the }program under the General Serv. | Facilities Program, that the heat- |ing of the poui could be completed in the near future. Lion Ed. Chester reported for| | Harry Sperling, Lions Club Spo: | manager, on the results of Friday | night's game, with the House of | David group. Total take $1,260 |Lion’s share after expenses to be | applied on score board, $358. Bal-| ance of cost of the electrical score board to be paid out of other L |Club funds, $93.76. The electri al iscore board was presented to the i School during the game. | Lion Dr. J. O. Rude, thanked the Lions Club for the gift on b half of the Juneau School Board. | President Val Poor appointed | Lions B. W. Matheny, M. Holm and {Joe Shofner to serve on the staff lof the “Cats-Meow” official weekly | publication of the Lions, edited {Lion Sterling Sears. | He also appointed Lions Robe Shuff, Laurence Wilcox, and Homer | Hamilton to start the ball rolling | jon the Douglas Community Beach project for the summer season Lions Earl Forsythe and Jog | morrow at Juneau Drug and Harry | will ! | no reserved seats, all admissions be- !ing charged $1, seated or standing Averages today are as follows: | eee®cs0cecc | were to lose this fine $142,000 insti- | | tution for Juneau for lack of ten Or (Lions to serve on committees {OF | twelve thousand dollars.” | 4 g | the Gold Medal Basketball Tourni- | Elis Reynolds, program Cha‘”““}“mem. Forsythe also announced that {for February, had turned today’s|tickets for the Gold Medal Tourna- meeting over to Dr. I. F. Montgom- | ment would be placed on sale at {ery, who introduced Dr. Smith.| | ¥ |the Juneau Drug and Harry Race | Further “programming” for "h“{storesA onth was continued by T. A. Mor- | la i _| During part of the program an, chairman for the Rotary Val. Lion's Sextette was formed singing K | entine party Saturday night. Ad"*‘sahml DAk . Progisuii /Chairman Shofner, introduced five year old vance reservations promise a paxtyé that will warrant the use of Gold| * i, | Misses Danna Jean Poor and Clau- m, Lov I m i Roo unge and Iris Roo N ie Jean Smith Who sang “The Lions Club is The Best in T i the Baranof Hotel. . Wi A Peter C. arner, who represents Béchiivk b #8ce them s place to play on the Douglas Beach, and off !the Rotary Club on the Alaska | Crippled Children’s Association | board, reported on his attendancc}me Dotglas " streets. lat an ACCA meeting and urged| Guests for the evening the club to send magazine subscrip- | Lions families and the tions to crippled youngsters in the | 8uests, the Hendricksons, | Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. |Keith Wildes and wife and | ©. M. Archbold, forester, and|Alexander and family. member of Club No. 2,000, Ketchi| |kan, was introduced as a visiting | Rotarian, and John Bidwell, form-l(Hl“A (oMMIES ler Juneau Rotarian now living in | 2 7 Shofner also named additional a | besides honored were Paul Miami, Fla, was welcomed. RUSS'A SIG“ UP 3 I Capt. Nye Scofield, ACS chief {plant engineer, both of Seattle; ment; Fred Hanford of Wrangeu‘Peipmg radio said today the Chin- and the Rev. H. E. Beyer, pastor |ese Communists and Russia had | Other guests were Maj. Philip |Joe Alter, director of sanitation lof the First Church of God, Ju- |signed a 30-year treaty of fricnd- | Reed, chief of ACS operations, and for the Territorial Health Depart-} TOKYO, Wednesday— (P —The| neau. ship and alliance. | fore game time. 2 BOMBERS IN TROUBLE SOUTHBOUND McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE 1, Feb, 14—B-Two six-en e B-36 bombers which made emergency landings here Sunday had not taken off early today and there was no indication when they would return to their home base at Fort Worth, Tex. McChord authorities said the takeoffs were at the discretion of plane commanders. One of the bombers engine and instrument trouble route from Fairbanks, Alaska, on the return leg of a round-robin raining flight from Fort Worth. | The secord encountered mechani- cal Qiff] ties over the Puget Sound area on a training flight from its home field. 60LD MEDAL CAGE TOURNAMENT DATES SET BY LIONS CLUB The fourth annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament, sponsored by the Juneau Lions Club, will get under way at 7 p.m, February 20, with finals on February 25. The home town entrant has not | been chosen yet, but will be the winner of tonight's fracas. Other | entrants are- the Metlakatla Vets, Ketchikan Athletic Association, Wrangell Thunderbirds, Kake ANB, Sitka Columbia Lumber, Sitka ANB, pe. | Mt. Edgecumbe School, Mike's Night | ward each other. Owls of Douglas and Haines All Stars, Managers and coaches will draw for their opening opponents at 11 a.m., February 20 at the Baranof | Hotel, following which they will be | guests at the Lions Club Monday | luncheon. Complimentary tickets for the games will be issued to basketball players so they can see how the other guys are doing, and these tame tickets when presented at any local theater, will allow the bearer re- | duced admission fee. The Elks Club has invited all visiting cagers to| use their bowling alleys during the afternoons they are in town. Reserved seat sale will begin to-| Race Drug stores. Prices from Monday through Thursday evening be $150, with Friday and Saturday night at $2. General admission tickets will be $1, for standing room only, and soid at the door only. Afternoon games of Wednesday and Friday will have and all sold at the door. No tourna- ment tickets will be sold. A small block of tickets will be held available for oyt of town guests until February 18, and then put on sale to the general public, accord- ing to Harry Sperling, chairman oxj] the tourney. Tickets may be res d | by those from out of the city by sending Sperling a check, he said | addressing him in Juneau. Unsold reserved seats, if any, will | be placed on sale each evening be- The policy of reserved seats was decided upon to eliminate the scramble heretofore taking place when the doors were opened. FIRST TWINS OF 1950 ARRIVE AT ST. ANN'SE The first twins to be born in Juneau this year arrived yesterday afternoon at St. Ann’s Hospital. The proud parents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Hawkins. Mr. Haw- kins is employed by the Alaska Road Commission here. Both of them boys, the weighed five pounds one ounce and six pounds four ounces. They have| been named Perry Lee and Jerry Joe. i They are the Hawkins' first child- | ‘en. twins | s e 0 e 0 v ve s oo - . . Lol TIDE TABLZE . . * . . FEBRUARY 15 L4 ® High tide 121 am, 152 ft. o] ® Low tide 7:01 am, 33ft. o ® High tide . ® Low tide . . . JET PLANES COLLIDE IN AIR FLIGHT ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 14 »—Two F-80C jet planes collided n flight across Cook Inlet south of Anchorage today. One plane crashed. The other, piloted by Lt. Harry S. Hanna, re- turned safetly to Elmendorf field Hanna was not injured. | There were hopes that the other vilot may have been able to para-| chute to safety. A helicopter and a small airplane were sent immedi- itely to check at the crash scene, on ! the shoreline of Point Redoubt. The planes of the 65th Fighter 3quadron, §7th Fighter Wing, col- lided at about 9:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. EST). The height of the planes at the (ime was not known immediately. YUKON COLD WARTROOPS CONVERGING By CLARK BEACH WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. M———M'I"I —This is a real cold war—in more ways than pne. The opposing forces in the joint Canadian-United States military| maneuvers have so far done little | but make menacing gestures to-| And the mercury reached through the arctic depths to 25 below zero last night. The ground troops are drawing together on the Alaska Highway and are now about 140 miles apart. | The Princess Patricia Canadian light infantry, the battalion which led off the Allied attack when it pushed out of Whitehorse for the north last midnight, halted at 8:15 a.m. yesterday for sleep and re-| fueling. The aggressor in the war games, | who is supposed to have captured | all of Alaska and is now headed | south for an invasion of Canada and the United States, also is rest- ing. Umpire Hurt | He struck down the highway | from his airstrip at Northway. The only casualty sa far is one of the umpires, a Canadian Lieu- tenant whose name has not been re- vealed. He was caught between a jeep and a truck and suffered a broken pelvis. He is now in a tield | hospital here. i The aggressor was expected tof make an air raid on the field here at dawn yesterday the tirst day of the mock war. But visibility was too bad and he didn’t show up. An alert was sounded on the field | at noon when the enemy planes were about 30 miles away. But once again the sub-Aretic fog foiled them and they did not appear. The alerts are given by the| umpires, who must substitute for| radar detection of aircraft. ‘They | have practically no radar air warn- | ng here. One officer explained that | the mountianous terrain surround- ing Whitehorse makes radar, with| its line-of-sight range, useless un- less you have radar towers on the highest peaks. Constructing and maintaining | them up there on the icy, (racKle.»‘,’ crags would be extremely expensive.| Radar in Alaska, however, would | sffer no similar difficulties, he said. | On the coast and in the central| section no mountains would inter- fere when the alert came today. \Commu;d— on }a;é Si’x’) GAMES TONIGHT In Juneau High School gym to- i | | | i night there will be a double head- | er. Juneau High vs. Douglas High. and Moose and Imperials. The Im- perials are figured to win, and thus will take third place in the city League, with Juneau High hool and Mike's Night Owls. al- ready cinched in first and second ces. But if the Moose pull 2n upset, it will be necessary to piayoff luu'x‘X fon. HANFORD HERE F. G. Hanford of Wrangell is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ff Vanceuver L Six-Engined Plane with 17 Aboard Missing on Flight ~ South from Alaska; Search Underway;Secrecy Prevails { SEATTLE, Feb. 14 — (M — AN jjfe rafts and other emergency res- authoritative source whose identity | sye equipment. cannot be divulged said today that On Training Flight | & B-36 bomber has been forced down | gol, Cecil Scott, Eighth Air Force in Queen Charlotte Sound with 17| puplic Relations officer at Fort | men aboard, 400 miles northwest of worth, said the ship took off two | here. Ednys ago for a training flight to The informant said there is No| Alaska. On the return from Alaska | doubt that the plane “ditched” In ' he said the plane intended to con- | the icy waters off the British Co- /| sume about 25 hours flying around lumbia coast after encountering (ne United States before landing at severe icing conditions and tire in port Worth, one engine while on a trip - from| Names of those aboard the plane Eielson Air Force Base, near ¥air-|were not immediately released. banks, Alaska. { . o Search Planes Out Officials at McChord Air Force| Base have refused to discuss the! Eighth Alr Force tisadquarters at m’l‘Ltcr Nt k-8t of \_c'mc’ hasd Fort Worth said the Fourth Air- o secrecy has| gea Rescue Unit, Tacoma, Wash., been wrapped around the matter. ! has sent out several search planes. Plane Ditched It also said: At Carswell Air Force Base, Fort | s Worth, Maj. Gen. Roger N. aney.l Col. Bernt Balchen has been or- dered to send planes of the 10th Commander of the Eighth Air Force, said he had received a report, | Fescue Squadron, Ladd Air Force that the plane had been ditched in Queen Charlotte Sound “but has not been confirmed and to me it is just ! Base, Fairbanks, southward to par- ( ticipate in the hunt and that the | Royal Canadian Air Force has been a rumor.” requested to join the search. | missing B-36," said he. “I have re- “We have all Kinds of from all sorts of sources on thi rumors | ceived nothing definite at 2ll as to| the fate of the men or the plane.” Mackay Radio first reported the giant six-engined plane in diffi- | culty when it picked up a message at 2:5¢ am. (PST). The plane, en- route to Carswell Air Base, radioed: One Engine Afire “One engine on fire, contemplat- ing ditching in Queen Charlotte Sound between Queen Charlotte Island and Vancouver Island. Keep a careful lookout for flares wreckage.” At Fort Worth, Eighth Air Force headquarters said it received the| same report at 4:30 a.m. (CST). The plane’s third distress message said: Severe Icing “At 17,000 feet in severe icing.| Instrument and engine trouble. Severe emergency. Going to let down | through overcast to lose ice.” | The last message gave the plane’s position as roughly 400 miles north- west of Seattle. Eighth Air Force| headquarters reported the plane| missing after contact with the plane was lost after the third message. | Light Sighted : A Seattle radio amateur reported he had listened to a radio report from the Royal Canadian Air Force that it had sighted an unidentified light in Queen Charlotte Sound and was sending planes to investigate. The state patrol office in Seattle said it had been informed a B-36 had taken off from McChord Field to assist in the search but icing conditions forced it to turn back. The Coast Guard at Port Angeles, about 300 miles southeast of the ap- proximate position of the disabled plane, dispatched a seaplane with | or| ‘The Eighth Air Force said the dis- | tress calls of the missing plane were relayed by another B-36 which also 1 was flying from Eielson Air Force | Base, Alaska, to his home base at | Fort Worth. This second plane was due to reach Carswell Ficld in mid-after- noon. Gen. Ramey directed that the pilot and radio operator of the B-36 be brought to him immediately trom “lhe flight line to give a personal l;eporg on the messages received { from the missing plane. Planes Alerted A military air transport plane, bound for Seattle at about the time the distress signals were being re- ceived reported seeing a light flicker and fade on Queen Charlotte Sound, Eighth Air Force headquarters stated. Strategic Air Command head- quarters, Omaha, alerted three wings of the 15th Air Force to be ready to send planes on the search. They included: the 98th Wing at Spo- kane; the 93rd at Castle Air Base, Merced, Calif.; and the 22nd at March Air Force Base, Calif. Searchers Fan Out Planes and ships sped to the |area about 125 miles northwest of Port Hardy, on the northern tip ot Vancouver Island. The search planes fanned out over Queen Charlotte sound from bases at Kodiak and Ketchikan, Alaska; Whidbey Island and Mc- Chord Field, Wash., and from Royal Canadian Air Force Bases in British Columbia. Other air bases were alerted to have search planes ready. Coast Guard vessels were enroute from Port Angeles and Ketchikan. For several hours developments were hidden by military secrecy. Capt. William Pratt, Assistant Pub- lic Relations Officer at McChord (Continued on Page Three) NEW COUNTRY CLUB we—— VALENTINE DAY SPECIAL (February 14th only) 1.BONE STEAKS FRENCH FRIES SALAD HOT ROLLS BUTTER COFFEE $2.50 | . i el NEW COUNTRY CLUB Entertainment @ Cocktails OPEN ALL NIGHT FROM 6 P. M. | |