The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,430 ' No Trace of Five Miss HomeD | TRUMAN HITS GOPERS HARD IN ADDRESS “Negative Inaction” of Re- publicans Discussed - by President i . By JACK BELL | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— — President Truman is taking for his 1950 political line: the Republicans are croaking about Socialism to hide their own “negative inaction.” That brought new GOP challenges today for a November vote test of the issue. Mr. Truman told a glittering gath- cring of 5,300 Democrats at the $100 a plate Jefferson-Jackson dinner! here last night that the Republh" cans just sit around waiting for the | Democrats to propose something. “Then they react with an outburst of scare words,” he said. To the chuckling appreciation of his steak- fed listeners, he added: “They are ‘like a cuttlefish that | squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed.” | Calls for Full Speed | The President called for full| speed on “our domestic programs | for health, education, social security and economic stability.” He said Republican charges that these in- volve Socialism “is an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” “Now of course,” he said, this pro- gram is not Socialism. “It is based upon firm faith in the strength of free enterprise. “Confronted by the great record of this country and the tremendous promise of its future, all they (the Republicans) do is croak ‘Social-! ism’” he declared. Taft Makes Reply Senator Taft (R-Ohio), who took a leading part in framing the GOP campaign slogan of “liberty versus Socialism,” told reporters that if Mr. Truman doesn’t know his pro- gram is Socialistic “he is being hoodwinked by his ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) and CIO- PAC (Political “Action Committee) suporters who have sold him most of its features. “Police state economic controls, price-fixing, wage-fixing, govern-| ment operation of steel and utility plants, the farm controls of the Brannan plan, socialized and fed- eralized medicine and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act would duplicate the program of the Labor-Socialist government in Great Britain,” Taft said, adding: “No wonder Mr, Truman and his friends are publicly praying ror a| (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion| Merry - Go-Round ICopyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON | 'ASHINGTON—At his weekly | Cabinet luncheon, shortly after news of the London atom-secrets leak, President Truman told his official family that he had never| been so alarmed over the interna- tional situation. Not' only was he alarmed re-| garding leaks to Russia,” he ' said, but it now appeared that Russian war production had advanced much further than our intelligence infor- mation had any "previous idea of. i Flying Objed Is Seen CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 17—(®— A bright gleaming aerial object moving at terrific speed was re- pilot and passenger yesterday near Hinchinbrook Island between here | and Seward. Pilot Lawrence Barr and the pas- | senger, Mrs. Florence Barth, said they got an' excellent view of the| fast-flying object before it disap-| peared, and that it answered de- scriptions of a flying disc. Barr, sighting the object at 1 p.m, checked with the Civil Aercnautic: Authority after landing here and other civilian or military planes in the vicinity. “The object definitely could not be identified as any known type of aircraft,” Barr said. LION PETE ROARS WITH PAIN-RED OF FACE, PURSE FLAT Peter Wood nominated himself today for president of the Red-in- the-Face Club. ‘What really hurts, though, is the pocketbock department. It happened like this: Pete is chairman of the conven- tion committee for the Juneau Lions Club. For weeks now, he has been trying to drum up interest in the district convention this weekend in Seward. He thought it would bel nice if eight or ten fellows could| go from Juneau. When it came right up to the date, though, there was only one delegate—President Val Poor. | Well, Val left his drugstore in| Douglas, rode with Pete to the air- port yesterday and had waiting time to mumble ideas for his| speech. . . . dot, dot, dot, for 24-hour interim. At 1:30 this afternoon, Pete re- ceived this telegram: \ 1 “Advise where and when is con- | vention. Be prepared to explain.” Pete consulted the files for the first time in six weeks and came on this wire January 8 from District | Governor Maurice Oaksmith of | Ketchikan: “1950 district convention | Seward March 17 and 18, George| Green chairman. Regards to all Red of countenance and roaring with pain from his flattened wallet, Lion Pete dispatched this message: | “Enjoy your fine winter vacation my expense. Be prepared return | Seward in March.” i “Ou-u-uch!” howled Pete. “Round | trip fare is $144.90. There he is, stay- | ing at the Westward Hotel in An-| chorage. | “And the guy has to eat some- | thing, too.” ported by a Cordova Air Service; said he learned there had been no| | tomorrow. ‘What’s cooking your plans?” ! | fun Denies It's Daring | Aoy SETTLEMENT EXPECTED IN COAL STRIKE Efforts Being Made fo Stall Off Contempt Court Action-Miners Qut By Sterling ¥. Green WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— B — Government mediators said today they are “shooting for a settlement by Monday” ot the coal strike. David L. Cole, chairman of Pre- sident Turman’s Board of Inquiry, teld a reporter week-end set- tlement is desired to stall off pos- sible contempt of court aotion {against the strikers. The 370,000 miners have ighored | all this week an or from a Fed- jeral Judge for a return to work. | Cole said Monday {for a return to work as John L. Lewis and mine operators began their third successive day of talks. Hopres were high, because of | secret, three-hour meeting held last | night, | At this session, wages and other | contract terms were said to have i been discussed more realistically ]than at any time in the past eight { months of the coal contract dispute. Cole asked each side to reduce i their representations to not more than four persons. There have been 20 representatives for each side. It was reported that Lewis has thrown on the table a 14-point list of demands. He made no flat wage demand, it was said, but left this lopen for settlement when other points were agreed. Lewis also has suggested that the mine owners guarantee the miners 200 days of work a year. Cole and Cyrus Ching, Federal Mediation Chief, brought about last night's unscheduled talks. ! | ASKS FOR REPORT WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— @ — | President Truman today asked his| fact-finding board in the coal dis- pute to give him a personal report ! The White House announced the President’s move amid signs that the Government was putting on | heavy pressure to get the dispute wound up this weekend. | David Cole, the chairman of Mr. | Truman’s board, told reporters that | government mediators were “shoot- | ing for a settlement by Monday.” | | ATTLEE COMPLETES POLITICAL SWING TOUR OF BRITAIN (By Associated Press) Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived back in London from his 1200 mile political tour Britain, His folksy chats with the voters on planned economy and employment convinced him labor will be returned in next Thursday’s election. His chief opponent, Winston | Churchill, will make the Conserva- |tive Party's last political broadcast § | tonight. The Conservative Party, | too, said confidently “we are going {to win.” STOCK QUOTATIONS ! NEW YORK, Feb. 17—Closing is the targel | | Vogeler’s British assistant and two of | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS twister struck it. scattered valuables. One person CONFESSIONS ARE ALLEGED ATSPY TRIAL 'American Businessman { Vogeler, Others Facing Court in Budapest BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 17— (A—American businessman = Robert 1 | Hungarians confessed in court today to spying for the west, but the court skipped over Vogeler in the first day of Hungary’s newest spy trial. (Fhere was no indication whether the court’s action meant that Vogeler had refused to plead guilty along with the others. The govern- ment had announced previously that he had confessed.) The British assistant, Edgar Sanders, testified in a firm voice that he was guilty of seeking out information on Hungary's military economic and political situation and passing it on to his superiors. Vogeler, an Assistant Vice Presi- dent and European representative ol International Telephone and Tele- | graph Co., is on trial with Sanciers | his British assistant, and five Hun- | garians. One defendant is a Cathc | Priest, another a barmaid. { The indictment against Sanders | read in court today, charged he hac been a British spy since 1940. i Britain charged in a note la I night that Hungary had violate | standards of civilization and justicc in preparing for Sanders’ trial. The first two defendants to b¢ called, Imre Geiger and Zoltan Rado | confessed to spying and sabotace Geiger is the Hungarian managin: } | director of LT.&T. Budapest branch | Rado, a former government em ployee, is listed in the indictment | as a “ministry chief of section.” | Geiger told the court he became {a U.S. agent in 1946 and delivercd spy reports “prepared in five copies’ to various Americans. He said that since 1949 Vogeler received the re- ports. Geiger said an escape from | Hungary. was prepared for him by the U.S. Legation in Vienna but that o ing Bombe emolished _ mm@fi o MILITARY PLANE IN (RACK UP Fourleen Aboard But Only| | One Injured-Takes Place. | Near Snag, Yukon T. | DONJEK RIVER, Y.T., Feb. 17— ® 4 (M—The seventh large military plane | to come to disaster in the northwest |area of Canada and the United States within the past three weeks crashed yesterday on an icy lnkei | between here and Northway, Alaska. Qnly one of the four Canadians and 10 Americans aboard was in-, PRICE TEN CENTS r Survivors NEW CLUES FOUND BY SEARCHERS S0, Also Eoiprin's Re- poried Seen-Severe Weather on Isle McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash., Feb. 17—(--Snow, rain and wind hampered the search of deso- late Princess Royal Island today for five airmen still missing irom the B-36 crash off the British Co- lumbia coast Monday night. The storm, with winds up to 50 miles an hour, broke as search Jjured. | parties trudged through the rough, The plane, a Canadian Dakota' . o 4.4 hijls, encouraged by sight- (C-4T), was participating in EXer- ;.. vesterday of tree-snagged para- Veatherford at The Weatherfords received serious injuries. died and at least 12 were s, was completely demolished when a R ported injured in the tornado. homes are listed as destroyed and about 200 homeless. /® Wirephoto. tives and neighbors are collecting Twenty LONELY MAN REUNITED WITH HIS DAUGHTER AFTER TWENTY e Sweetbriar, the joint US. nadian Arctic maneuver. | Land vehicles are being sent to aid the crashed plane which piled’ up eight miles from the Alaska Highway near Snag. It was another chapter in a dis- | aster-ridden three weeks for mlh-l ary aircraft throughout the north-[ | west. I The series of tragedies began when |a USAF. C-54 vanished Jan. 26 with 44 persons aboard while nying} chutes and tracks in the snow. The search was also sparked by two new clues—a blood-spattered patch in the snow where a man had apparently fallen and- a SOS stamped in the snow. A Royal Canadian Navy spokes- man at Esquimalt, B.C., said these were sighted yesterday, but north- ern darkness closed in before in- vestigation was completed. One search party did not return to the Canadian destroyer Cayuga RENCH STRIKES ORDERED PARIS, Feb. 17—M—Nationwide railroad and coal strikes ordered by Communist unions in protest against unloading of American arms in France were said by a government official today to have been “nearly a total failure.” Officials at headquarters of the nationalized rail system which em- ploys about 460,000 workers said the two-hour Communist-led demon- stration strike had fizzled. A 24-hour strike call in the north- °rn coal fields also appeared to be ignored by miners usually respon- sive. to Communist demonstration rders. Headquarters of the Communist- ed General Confederation of Labor F | SEVEN YEARS; FUN EXPECTED EUREKA, Czlif. Feb. 17—(®—A retired contractor and his daught- whem he had believed killed in an accident, were reunited here last night after 27 years. It was the first time that J. B. Miller of Los Gatos, Calif,, had seen his daughter, Mrs. Viola Sedgewick of Seattle, since leaving 1 Colorpdo for Alaska. A conversation the overheard last summer while driving through Grand Junction, Colo., from the east led him to Eureka, Here he met members of the Barnett family, whom he had known years in Colorado. And, in turn, they knew the whereabouts of Mrs. Sedgewick. | | Miller said that, in 1925, he was advised by relatives that his two daughters had been killed in an automobile accident. He said he came to California from Alaska. His other daughter, Mrs. Hazel Rosson, resides in Portland and he has a granddaughter—about whom he learned last night—residing in Oak- land, Mrs. Janet Medling, 24. “I've been living all alone, ail these years,” said Miller. “Will we t l | from Anchorage, Alaska, to Great! until nearly midnight. It was de- Falls, Mont. No sign of the plane |, oq yhen tnickness of island has been found since, but the search growth forced members of the party continues. 1to crawl a “considerable distance” Two C-47s, participating in the | search for the C-54, cracked up but | | all occupants of both planes were ‘l rescued. Another C-54, also pnr-l | ticipating in the search for the big | | transport, piled up out of Great: on their hands and knees. SOS Spotted A United States helicopter spot- ted the SOS and imprint. Four para- chutes also were sighted, but it is Falls, killing three persons. | not’ known whether they belonged (CGT) declined to comment on the >xtent of the strike. The Communist »arty newspaper Ce Soir described he stoppage as a success, claiming " ’ 3 i i hat between 70 percent and 90 per- I?:fi,:: dl\:;;tm'gh%g;‘:rj:‘;ui:::’: 'ent of the miners had walked out.j, 4., Interior Ministry sources l'('])m'l(‘fll have fun!” He said he and Mrs. Sedgewick lwuul;l return to his hbome at Ln.,} hat the attempted rail strike; » 1gainst unloading of arms under the | "GOD'S (oMMlnEE" ent effective. At scattered spots strikers tried. " racks, or forming picket lines, but | AI BNDGES IRlAl olice dispersed them with no, ' | A Northern California CIO group, | refered to sareastically by union Atlangic Pact was less than five per- OF (10 BROUGHT UP o halt trains by massing on the. trouble SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17—(P— 1 quarters in the south as “God’s | Then Monday night, 17 persons: to the missing men or to those parachuted from an ice-sheathed, burning B-36 off the northern Brit- ish Columbia coast. Twelve of the 17 have been recovered, but five still are missing. | A B-29 cracked up Wednesdny' morning near Great Falls shortly after taking off to aid in the hunt for the B-36. Eight crewmen per- ished in the flames. ® & o © & o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 15; minimum 10. At Alrport—Maximum 17; minimum 4. FORECAST (Juneauw and Vietnits) Cloudy with snow and low- est temperature 12 degrees tonight. Snow flurries and highest temperature 23 Sat- urday. Gusty northeast winds decreasing late tonight, ePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 nours endi 1:30 & m. today e City of Juneau—.02 inches; e since Feb. 1—1.63 inches; e since July 1-—-56.74 inches. ® At Airport—.03 inches L R R R N already rescued. Better weather was forecast for tonight and tomorrow, but today’s storm not only bothered searchers but would be an additional blow to the five missing men. § Unaccounted For They alone were unacounted for of the 17 who parachuted from the ice-coated, blazing bomber. Eleven men have been brought here. and another was rescued yesterday. The nine uninjured crew ment- bers, who arrived here by plane from the north Wednesday night, took off as passengers in a C-54 before noon today for the flight back to their home base at Fort Worth, Texas. Survivor Found Inland Meanwhile, S/Sgt. Vitale Trip- podi, 23-year-old radio operator . from Brooklyn, joined 10 other sur- vivors at the McChord Base Hos- pital. A 12th man, Lieut. Charles C. Pooler, 36, engineer from Beloit, | Kans., was to be flown here today. | Pooler, suffering from a broken ankle, was found yesterday some distance inland by searchers from the Canadian destroyer. e since Feb. 1151 inches; { o since July 1-37.94 inches. H ®e e 0 0 00 0 0 0 o 1 Holly berries are comparatively scarce because only female trees | produce. berries, and then only it weather is right. « Trippodi was returned in a litter aboard an Air Force flying boat. He could not be interviewed but his condition was described as “satis- factory.” Col. Hervey Porter, Air Force doc- (Continued on Page Eight) Committee,” was discussed today in | i the perjury trial of Harry Bridges.' ! The special prosecutor, F. Joseph i Donohue, with Bridges under cross- | | examination, was reviewing the tes- | | timony of a government witness, { George Wilson, who said he was a former Communist and had seen | Bridges at Communist gatherings. Donohue asked Bridges if he didn’t All this has resulted in a decision | by the Pn!shilu'n and the Secretary i of “State €0 Write ‘a’fiew blueprint he and his family were arrested last November on the train, before it reached the border. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | | stock today is 3, American Can 112%:, | Anaconda 29':, Curtiss-Wright 9%, | know that Wilson belonged to the me group of ¢he Communist v did J. R. Robertson, another de- | Spudnut Shop of forelgn policy. This will include a revision of the American defense problem—based on the assumption | . that Russia now possesses all our atcmic and hydrogen secrets—and | will probably result in upping the budget. W Meanwhile, here is an oversall picture of what the U.S.A. faces on the two most important but| widely separated fronts of the cold war. Revolt in Balkans 1. Eastern Europe—Developments here are highly encouraging. ‘'ney are so encouraging that President Truman's long face may not be entirely justified. In Bulgaria, long considered a Soviet stronghold, unrest is so rampant that Civil War prevails outside thz big cities. It began when farmers staged a sit-down against Communist demands, re- fused to plant grain and concealed EVEN Hollywood is gasping over daring low-cu* neckline of Denicé Darcel, French actress, who thinks this style, reminiscent (Continved on Page Four) of gre-Napoleon France, is com- | International Harvester 29%, Ken- necott 9%, New York Central 12%, | Northern' Pacific 15%, U.S. Steel 120%, Pound $2.80 1/16. Sales today were 1,940,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: | industrials 203.17, rails 57.70, utili- | ties 42.65. éll. D.R. Failing Jet Crash Victim | ‘ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 17— }m——mr Force headquarters today | identified the victim of a Tuesday | collision of two jet planes as Lt. | Donald R. Failing, 25. His parents |live in New York State and his wife in St. Paul, Minn. He was thrown clear when the plane | crashed to the shore of Cook Inlet | near Pt. Redoubt. } He 'was the winner of several (International) | decorations in World War II. CONVICTION FORECAST WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—(®—Th State Department charged that the Communist Hungariar Government decided in advance of the trial to convict Robert Vogelel of spying and sabotage. The Department said that 10 da ‘before the trial opened in Buda- pest, the Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Matyas Rakosi “asserted the guilt of Mr. Vogeler” in a public speech. o A formal statement by the De- partment also raised the question of whether Vogeler, an American communications company represc tative, has been “subjected to co- ercion by intimidation, lack of food drugging, or other forms of mi treatment” since his arrest las! November. | The Hungarian Government hos |said that Vogeler ‘Confessed” to ! spying, BANANA BUYER— Miss Sally Booth, an American visitor to Puerto Rico with a lik- ing for bananas, takes advantage of the low price to buy all she wishes in San Juan. fendant, and wasn’t this known as “God’s Committee.” | Bridges said he didn’t know any- | thing about units in the Communist | | party. | Bridges was indicted last May on | charges he perjured himself at his| | 1945 citizenship hearing by swear- | ing he never was a Communist. Rob- | ertson, his witness at the hearing, is Vice President of the CIO Inter- national Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union of which Bridges is president. Henfy Schmidt, an- other defendant, is a union official. For a Fe (George Bros. Building) Will Close at G p. m. w Weeks STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver February 25. Denali schedu'é. . southbound Sunday. 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