The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1950, Page 1

e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,431 BRIDGES HITS IMMIGRATION; UNWAVERED Denies Chafig - Says De- fense Will Rest When He Concludes Testimony SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18—P— Four days of searching cross ex- amination has failed to make Har- ry Bridges waver from his flat de- nial that he ever belonged to the Communist Party. As his Federal Court perjury trial recessed yesterday for the week- end, the CIO Longshoremen's and ‘Warehcusemen’s Union leader den- ied: 1. That the Communist Party “dictated or ordered his union to change its affiliation in 1937 from the AFL to the CIO. 2. That he had ever visited Com- munist headquarters in New York. 3. That he had ever dined in New York with Roy Hudson, iden- tified by the prosecution as an im- portant Communist. The Government charges that Bridges was a member of the Com- munist Party and perjured him- self at his 1945 naturalization hear- ing when he denied membership. Two union aides, J. R. Roberson and Henry Schmidt, his chargcter witnesses at the hearing, arr. co- defendants charged with conspiracy. Bridges, after court adjourned, travelled to Stockton, 75 miles east of here, to speak before a “Bridges defense fund” rally. The stormy labor leader, who will return to the witness stand Monday, told the gathering the de- fense would rest when he finished his testimony. “Confident” He also criticizezd the U. 8. Im- migration Service for what he call- ed its “subversive, un-American, il- legal activities.” Some immigration agents “get into a habit of pushing people around because they are foreign- born and don't speak good English,” he declared. He said he was “very confid®™nt of a fair trial.” An unflattering account of Mer- vyn Rathborne, prospective rebut- tal witness, in the People's World, left-wing newspaper, caused a min- or brush at the close of court be- tween counsel. Prosecutor F. James Donohue said he thought it was an infring- ment worth court notice. Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan protest- ed that newspapers are worthless as evidence and added that the prose- cutor professed similar views earliex in the trial. He referred to the Cefense’s at- tempt to introduce a copy of the Milwaukee Journal which quoted Attorney General Tom Clark as saying the Bridges indictments would help break the Hawaiian strike. Donohue said Clark did not make the statement. Federal Judge George B. Harris called for adjournment as Hallin- an waved a copy of the Journal in court. ELLIOTT AND GIGI NOT NOW WELCOME ATN.Y. STORK CLUB NEW YORK, Feb. 18—(®—The Stork Club says Elliott Roosevelt and his girl friend, Gigi Durston, aren’t welcome there anymore. It’s because of a slight social " mixup. The fashionable East Side club had announced Thursday it plan- ned an engagement party for the couple. Roosevelt and Miss Durston said it wasn't so. Furthermore, they weren't ready to announce any en- gagement. And when, and if, they were, they said, the club wasn't the one to do it. This apparently riled the club. Owner Sherman Billingsley, in Palm Beach, Fla., yesterday sent word to . his staff to deny entrance hence- forth to the couple. “We thought we were doing them a favor,” said a club representative. “But they both got ma FROM WRANGELL The Rev. Hugh F. Hall of Wran- gell is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATIIIIDAY 1 P.M. Edition BRUARY 18, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS COUNCIL GIVES GO-AHEAD TO NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY A new industry for Juneau got the go-ahead signal from the City Coun- cil at its regular meeting in the City Hall last night. A motion was passed granting permission to the Anchor Fish Com- pany to moor a small floating can- nery to the oldest float at the north- west end of the City Wharf. The action came after a request by Donald Milnes of Juneau, presi- dent of the ecompany, that the cannery, mounted on a 30- by 80- foot barge, be allowed to operate for “at least a year” on the site He promised that all waste from the canning operation would be disposed of in a sanitary manner. He said the primary operation would be the canning of crab-meat and custom-canning of salmon and other game fish for sportsmen will also be done. “Custom packing for sport tish- ermen is a growing business in the state of Washington,” he told the council. He said that if a source oI suppiy is established, shrimps will also be picked and canned, and filleting ot fish for local markets js also plan- ned. “Prospecting” tor ready being carried on in the Ju-| neau area with the aid of a small grant from the Territorial Depart- ment of Fisheries. Milnes said he returned recently from a trip to Washington state, where he studied the latest methods of packing crab and salmon. The council passed the motion granting the Anchor Fish Company vermission to moor the floating cannery—the Crosby III—to the city float. The motion will be drawn into a legally correct form with the help of City Attorney Howard D. Stabler, ind the moorage fees will be tixed. Milnes said the cannery barge is now at Pelican and will be brought to Juneau about March 10. 'he cannery will employ at least 12 persons, he said. Financial Report Wanted The council moved to request the President of the Juneau Water Company to submit a certified pub- lic accountant’s annual statement of the company’s finances. This ac- sion was advised by C. J. Ehren- dreich, local accountant. Ehrendreich, in a letter to the council, said that the Water Com- pany President’s letter of January 23 could not be considered sufficient as the annual financial report re- quired by the Juneau city Iran- chise under which the water com- pany operates. City Ordinance 336, which pro- vides for the registration of voters at polling places at the time of elections and does away with per- manent registration, was passed in the third reading and adopted. Mayor Waino Hendrickson re- ported to the council that snow re- moval costs for this year have shrimp is al- (Continued 6n Page Six) T'he Washington Merry - Go- Round (Copyrizht. 1950, by Bell 8yndicate. Inc.) Rv DREW PEARSO] — '\“- ASHINGTON — You have to: have a card-index system these | days to keep up with the accusa- | tions of certain Congressmen re- garding Communists in the Fed- eral Government. Unfortunately the average citi- zens doesn't have time to keep a card index, so gets confused over harum-scarum Senator Joe Mec- Carthy’s recent accusation that there were 57 card-carrying Com- | munists in the State Department. When the Senator from Wis-| consin finally was pinned down,| he could produce not 57, but only four names of State Department officials whom he claimed were Communists. A careful scrutiny of these names is important. Of the four accused by MoCarthy, one, Dr. Harlow Shapley, at no time worked for the State Department. Two, Gustavo Duran and Mrs, Mary Jane Keeney, resigned four years ago; the fourth, | John Service, was reinstated after | a prolonged and careful investiga- tion and after virtual apologies to him for ever questioning his loy- alty. He is now serving with the most anti-Russian of all American | diplomats, Loy Henderson, U. S. Ambassador to India. But there is even more interest- i {and was over Snag, about 350 miles - CHECK SOON | Kaohsiung on NEW CLUE IN (RASH OF (-54 Mounties Leave White-ll i horse on Search Follow- ing Report by Indian By Clarke Beach WHITEHORSE, Y. T. Feb. 18—(® —The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are striking into the brush carly today to follow up a new lead on the C-54 transport plane | {missing in the Yukon wilderness | since Jan. 26. An Indian came snow-filled forests yesterday at Burwash Landing, about 176 miles northwest of here on the Alaskai Highway. He told the mounties that on Jan, 26 he had heard a loud crash on a mountain near where he was camping on (filadstone | Creek, north of Kluane Lake. Since then, the Indian said, he| has seen indications of landslides | on the mountain. And he has seen {large flocks of Whiskey Jacks, a| scavenger bird typical of this area The Indian did not try to ascend the mountain. The Mounted Pollce estimated | that the position pointed out is| about 16 miles west of Burwash sanding. A Constable of tne Mounties will | lead a party into the heavily forest- ed area after daybreak. He has not- ified American Army officers in the | Burwash section, and it is expected | {that they will give assistance. | in Dog sleds will be used, and, pos- sibly, weasels ‘the small tracked | vehicle which the American Army uses in overland work in this re- zion.) It will be a rough, cross-country trek, as there are probably no trails in the area. It may take two days or more. The missing C-5¢ was carrying 44 persons out of Anchorage, all service personnel, except a woman and child. The plane was homeward bound from Alaska to the United Stad®: northwest of here, when last re- ported. SMOKE SEEN INC-54 AREA; EDMONTON, Alta., Feb. 18—(P— An unexplained column of smoke was reported in northern British Columbia yesterday and Northwest Air Command officials said it would be checked in the continuing search for a U. 8. Air Force C-54 transport missing since Jan. 26 with 44 aboard. The smoke was reported to the Rceyal Canadian Air Force by the Forest Ranger at Fort St. Jonn, B. C. It was seen 60 miles west of Beatton River, in an area where there is no known habitation. The Air Force said a check would be made as soon as weather permits. Meantime four planes completed a sweep of northern sectors of the search area today. There have been numerous reports of smoke and radio signals in the long search, But thus far all clues have proved fruitless, CHINESE NATLS. HOLDING BRITISH VESSEL, FORMOSA TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 18—®— Chinese Nationalist Naval authori- ties today held the British freighter Caduceus under arrest. Reason for the ship’s detention was not disclosed. A possible rea- son is that she has traded with Chinese Communists ports in the past but this could not be confirmed here. The Caduceus is being held at the southwestern coast of Formosa. It is better known | as Takao, once a Japanese naval (Continued on Page Four) base, | from the| . L g, - b ! ... S This aerial view of the llow Chemical (ompany plmnl at Midland, ripped apart the 100 by 400-foot building in which Dow processed rubber base paint. Explosion Scene Mic! h., taken soon after an explosion At least eight work- ers were killed and dozens more were lnjnnd in the blast. \\’nrruhnto FLOOD WATERS IS NEW THREAT T0 MID - WEST (By Associated Press) Flood dangers appeared growing more serious in the south and a blizzard whipped across some mid- west states today. The rest of the country had fair weather, with many areas reporting mild temper- atures, Rising floodwaters in three states threatened further evacuation of families to join the 35000 persons already made homeless in the flood areas. East central Louisiana, south- western Mississippl and Arkansas ire the hardést hit by the flood- waterq which Iqave spilled out over millions of acres of land. An estimated 23,000 arc nomeless in Arkansas. A blast of icy air from Canada was pushing southward into the north central part of the country. It spread over eastern Montana the Dakotas and Montana night and was meving into Nebras ka, Iowa and Wisconsin today. BRITISH CAMPAIGN BOILS AS CHURCHILL, ATTLEE TRADE HITS (By Associated Press) The British election campaigt roared into a climax. Conservativt leader Winston Churchill again called for high level talks betweei the West and Russia to end an atomic arms race. He snapped back at Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin who charged the proposal of a meet- ing with Russia was only a politica stunt. “Why should it be wrong’ Churchill asked his radio audience “for the British nation to think about the supreme question of lite and death perhaps for the whole world at a time when there is & general election.” Prime Minister Clement Attlec whose Labor party predicts victory on its program of planned economy and full employment, will answer Churchill in a nationwide broadcast tonight. The election is next Thurs- day. TASKER L. ODDIE DIES IN SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO,, Feb. 18- Tasker L. Oddie, former Governor and United States Senator 1row Nevada whose political career I that state spanned the first third of the century, died at his home here last night. He was 79. Oddie suffered a heart attack four weeks ago. If Shungnak 'NMIVE SERVICE 'T00. BUSY' TO INFLUENCE ELECTIONS: FOSTER Declaring that the Alaska Native | Service “has too much work to do| to spend their time and the tax- payers' money in influencing reser- vation elections,” Don C. Foster, the service’s area director, today answered the charge of Alaska Dele- gate E. C. (Bob) Bartlett that na- tives were under “undue influence” in their reservation elections. Foster returned late this week from an extended tour of ANS in- stallations, schools and hospitals, which began before the Barrow elec- tion several weeks ago. “With or without reservations, he said, “the Alaska Native Service has too much work to do to spend their time and the taxpayers money in influencing or coercing reservation elections. “I am certain Bob Bartlett has been misinformed about so-callec pressure campaigns by ANS per- sonnei, and we welcome the Con- rressional investigation which Sec- retary Chapman has requested.” The election to accept or reject 1 730-square mile reservation arounc Barrow was overwhelmingly rejected February 4 when some 350 Eskimo: | balloted on the proposal With that statement, Foster dis- missed comment about the investi- zation of “influence” the Native} Service is alleged to have made on | he referendums for the three highly sontroversial reservation plansg sreated by former Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug. Krug set up Barrow, another area around Shungnak and Kobuk, and a third around Hydaburg, the! day before he stepped out of office. Elections were set for early this year, but later postponed. Shungnak and Hydaburg will be voted on late in April. Chance for Inspection “As a matter of fact,” Foster said ‘T was on my way to Shungnak tc observe that election when I re- ceived word the election had been called off. That cancellation gave me more time to undertake a survey which I have wanted to make tor years—to see our people at work in the dead of winter, when the Eskimo is at home.” The director Nome, White Mountain, Bethel, An- chorage and made stops in 14 other smaller communities. In Bethel, he l ever to hit an Alaskan community and saw Service doctors, nurses and teachers do a yeoman job of treat- ing the stricken and innoculating (Continued on Page 8ix) visited Kotzebue, i arrived at about the same time as| one of the worst measles epidemics j Pension Loss Threafened Reservation Rejeded Beltz Charges 18— (#—Territorial Representative Wil- ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Feb. am F. Beltz charged today that Kobuk and Shungnak natives have been threatened with loss of old| age assistance and school aid funds if they reject Interior Department | plans for establishment of a reser- | vation. The Second Division Representa- | tive, resident of Nome, wired the Anchorage Times that he learned of the threats after viewing 11 old age pensioners the two villages. “I found,” Beltz said, people and others were inter- in had | “that these | made to B 36 RESCUE - TRY STOPPED BY WEATHER ‘ Might Be Alive | McCHORD AIR FORCL BAEE, | Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 18—(®-Land and sea forces of two nations wat- ched the weatherman today for a chance to launch all-out efforts to find five airmen who para-| chuted from a blazing B-36 bomber | Monday midnight. | Gales up to 70 miles an hour | yesterday 'aept planes grounded and whipped the waters about rug- |ged Princess Royal Island to a {creamy froth, Continued scutheast torm warnings were forecast to- day. Princess Royal Island is some 500 miles northwest of here off the northern British Columbia coast. Eleven survivors of the 17 men who | hit the silk over the island have |been returned to the United Stat- {es. A 12th, with a broken ankle, 'may be flown south today if weath- {er permits. | The remaining five crew members {have not been located. Apprehen- '~u,n for their safety grew the hours went past., They have been without warmth and very likely without food since their hurriea |leap from the fiery, ice-encrusted | big bomber. Known Clues | Clues that some of them at least lare on the island included a blood- splattered patch in the snow, tree- snapped parachutes, and a report of a pistol shot heard Thursday which could have come from one of the |crewmen who was armed. A para-rescue squadron including Lt. Wallace Boyd, a paradoctor, was to leave here early today in lan Air Forces flying boat. It hopes |to settle alongside the Canadian | Destroyer Cayuga, nerve center of the search, and stand by for any emergency call to leap onto the island. Four feet of {the open places, thicl{ underbrith crusted snow in fallen logs and forced search understand if they didn’t vote for|,...qc ahd knees in order to pro- the reservation would lose those funds.” they The residents of tuose two vill- ages are scheduled to vote 24 on the proposal by former terior Secretary Jullus Krug. Earlier this week, Interior Secre- ary Chapman asked the Senale Interior Committee to look charges that Eskimos and Indi; had been Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney Wyo) said the committee probably would act after confering Delegate Bartlett of Alaski Beltz said he had made a person- al investigation of {in response to an appeal Chnme Sheldon, of Kobuk. quoted Sheldon as reporting threats were made in a house meeting. the 2FISH BIOLOGISTS WILL JOIN ALASKA FISHERIES DEPT. SEATTLE, Feb. 18— ¥ —Twc Washington Department of Fisher- ies biologists will go to the Alaska Territorial Fisheriesgstaff at Juneau | soon, Director Alvin Anderson said today. They are Robert R. Parker, 2 Assistant Chief Biologist, and Wal- ter Kirkness, 29, who has been as- signed to the Puget Sound sports salmon study. Parker on programs set up by Departmen of Fisheries Director Clarence L.| April | In-| into with | ¥ the situation | from He | school and Kirkness will work | | parties yesterday to take to their ceed. Yesterday's gnles brought even more Snow. The 12th man found, Lt. Charles G. Pooler of Beloit, K was to be taken off the Cayuga today by a Royal Canadian Air Force | Nying boat and flown to Port iflm'dy on the northern shore of Vancouver Island. From there an | RCAF Lancaster is to fly him here ans | intfmidated. Committee | € Das & broken ankle, (D-| Nine of thé survivors left here |aboard a C-54 for their home base and had another |u)hw time of it last night. Engine ,ncuble caused fire trucks to stand {by at Carswell Air Force Base, but the ehip landed safely. SOME DEMOS SAY 'SPENDING CAN BE | - CUTTO BALANCE UP | | | |at Fort Worth \VASHXNGTON, Feb. 18— (A — | Some Democrats disagreed today | with President Truman’s claim that | it is impossible to cut federal spend- | ing enough to balance the budget. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance Committee told a reporter he thinks that if Congress wanted to balance income and i | outgo it could get the job done. | “The most distressing part of the present federal economic situation is the unwillingness to face facts and bring about a reduction in fed- eral expenditures,” George said. “I not only think we could balance the | budget but that we must balance it Mr | ¢l ‘Truman said in his Jefferson- Anderson in Juneau, inaugurating | | Jackson speech Thursday night that the tagging of black cod and var- f it is ieties of salmon, Parker will arrive February ind Kirkness is due to go nortl April 1 STEAMER MOVEMENTS day. Princess Norah scheduled to sai from Vancouver February 25. Denali schedu'eC 3 a.m, Monday. 20 | slicing southbound “ “out of the question” to make revenues meet expenses merely by the $42,439,000,000 outlays he 1 | recommended for the year beginning jduly 1. Senator Byrd (D-Va), a longtime economy advocate, sided with ‘ George in declaring that the budget ‘(‘unm be balanced if Congress was Baranof from Seattle due Tu:'s.] willing to take off its coat and do the job. SITKAV HERE Henry H. Chapman of Sitka is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. 1 |29 Killed, 100 Are Injured in Railroad Crash TRAINS RIP HEADON IN COLLISION Dead, Dying]jured Piled Five Deep~Screams of Vic- tims Are Heard for Blocks ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y., Feb 18—(M—A crowded Long Island rail- road commuter tramn sped through a stop signal last night and ripped headon into another passenger rain, killing 29 persons and injur- ng 100. Many of the injured were n critical condition. It was metrpolitan New York's wo! railrond disaster, and the worst in the nation in four years, The accident occurred on a make- shift siding where a temporary “gauntlet” track was laid pending completion of a grade crossing pro- Jject. The gauntlet consists of double tracks placed so close together only ong train at a time can pass over the roadbed. Jacob Kiefer, 55, of Baldwin, N.Y., motorman of the eastbound train, was arrested and charged with sec- ond degree manslaughter. Runs Past Signal “He ran past the signal,” Nassau County District Attorney Frank Gulotta said. Motorman T. W. Markin of the westbound train was too dazed to be questioned. He was sent home suf- fering from shock. The head cars of both electric trains were torn apart by the colli- sion, which occurred at 10:35 p.n. (EST). The forward car of the east- bound train, loaded with early home-going theater crowds from Manhattan, ‘'way' sheared down the middle. It toppled over, spewing mangled bodies and wreckage along the siding. The dead, dying and injured were piled five deep atop one another. ‘They sprawled grotesquely amid the twisted steel of the cars, the shat- tered glass and crushed seats. Screams of injured victims could be heard for blocks. Police said that the eastbound train ran through a red stop signal as it entered the siding. The first car had almost cleared the smgle track when the westbound train, coming down double tracks on the other approach to the siding, crashed into it at a 15 degree angle. The impact -of the collision sheared the leading cars of both trains in half. The steel sides of the two coaches were torn and inter- mingled. The two trains carried some 1,000 passengers, many of whom had crowded into the forward cars. All the dead and injured were from the metropolitan area. Kiefer was injured — but not critically—and a police guard was placed at his home until he could be moved to the county jail for arraignment. Later, a doctor said Kiefer suffered a possible brain con- cussion and could not be questionec for at least 72 hours. o o ® o 0 @ WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 22; minimum 10. At Airport—Maximum 20; minimum 5. FORECAST | (Junesu and Vielnity) Cloudy with light snow to- wioht hecoming partly cloudy Sunday., Gusty northeasterly winds decreasing tonight. Lowest temperature 15 with highest Sunday 26. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—.03 inches; since Feb. 1166 inches; since July 1—56.77 inches. At Airport—Trace; since Feb. 1-151 inches; since July 1—37.94 inches. ® o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0-.-.-..0...-..-0.000' ®00 00 0000000000000 00s GRANDSON FOR DR. RUDE Dr. J. O. Rude of Juneau receiv- fed word this morning that his daughter, Mrs. Tommy Thompson, zave birth to a baby boy at 6 p.m. yesterday. It is the Thomp- son’s first child. The child was born in Peters- burg where the Thompsons make their home. Mrs. Thompson is the | former Lorraine Rude. | Jois ¢ SEAR FROM SEATTLE Julian Vasquez of Seattle is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel.