The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,432 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Miners Ignore all Orders to Return to Work RESCUED BOMBER VICTIMS BACK T0 AID NEW SEARCH Three Survivors Join Hunt for Five Still Missing on B. C. Islard VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 20-- (A—Three men who jumped blindly from a blazing, ice-coated B-36 bomber last Monday and were later rescued, were back today to aid | in the search for five of their com- rades. The missing airmen are believed somewhere on 50-mile long Prin- cess Royal Island, a brushy, snow- covered stretch of land along the northern British Columbia coast. A full-scale ground search, abet- ted by clearing weather, failed to| uncover any signs of the men yes- terday. Twelve of the 17 men who para- | chuted from the burning plane| have been rescued. None sutfered serious injury. The three survivors who returned here last night from Fort Worth Tex., were Capt. Harold L. Barry, pilot of the ill-fated craft; Lt. Paul Gerhart, radar observer; and | T-Sgt. Martin B. Stephens, a gun-! ner. | Royal Canadian Air Force offic- | ials said the trio, still tired from| their experiences, would remain | here to study photographs of the area over which they jumped. May Pinpeint Spots Knowing the crder in which the men left the plane, it was hoped that Barry and his two fellow crew- members might be able to pinpoint the spots where their lost com- rades landed. i Before leaving Texas, however, Barry and Gerhart said they be-| Heved the missing men might be on Ashdown Island, a tiny strip adja- | cent to Princess Royal. ! Search crews from the Canaman} destroyer Cayuga and four U. S. Coast Guard cutters criss-crossed the tiny strip adjacent to Princess Royal. Praise For Pooler Meanwhile, rescue officials had nothing but praise for the conduct of Lt. Charles G. Pooler, Beloit, Kas., the twelfth member of the ! crew to be brought out safely. He was returned to MecChord Air Force Base, near Tacoma, Wash. last night in a flight C, Fourth Rescue Squadron C-47 from Port | Hardy, B. C. “Pooler is in remarkably good condition,” said Col. Hervey Porter, Air Force doctor, after an examin- (Continued on Page Three) The Washingion/ Merry - Go- Round| ICopyrizht. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON | 'ASHINGTON—During one part | of the recent meeting of' coal op- erators with John L. Lewis, Lewis challenged Bert Manley, spokesmani for the Far West operators: “Mr. Manley, ycu know you'll sign anything the Illinvis operators will sign, the Illinois operators will sign anything the Ohio mine own- ers will agree to, and Ohio will] follow Pennsylvania, That brings us to George Love (President of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal| Company). When Love signs, the| whole lot of you will fall down like tenpins. “The trouble with you gentlemen is you don’t know how to think for yourselves. You're to easily coerced by the big banking interests that| control you.” “Speaking of coercion,” acidly shot back Love, “how about all those men on your picket lines; who are keeping the mines from reopening? I guess youd call that| coercion.” Lewis said the operators would have to meet two “conditions” be- fore he would consider a new con- tract: 1. All lawsuits against him by operators who are demanding damages for their strike losses would have to be dsopped; 2. Any operators who held back payments into the Miner’s Pension-Welfare Fund during the strike must pay upI pronto. Lewis somberly read the list of | lawsuits against him, running into millions of dollars. “I trust that you gentlemen will see to it that these suits are dis- missed,” he served notice. “The; United Mine Workers’ lawyers will await your pleasure. As for those { | murder in the “mercy killing” of a | Resurrection Lutheran Church to- | |named Harold. (Continued on Page Four) TRIAL READY FOR 'MERCY DEATH' EXCLUSIVE photo of Judge Har- old E. Westcott (right), who will preside over “mercy killing” trial of Dr. Hermann Sander, in Man- chester, N. H. Prosecutor Wil- liam L. Phinney (left) was San- der’s Dartmouth College clas;- mate. (International Soundphoto) SELECTING JURY, DOCTOR'S TRIAL, 'MERCY KILLING' MANCHESTER, NH. Feb. 20— (#—Dr. Hermann N. Sander today calmly looked on as the first six jurors were chosen to try him for PERJURY NOT MAIN ISSUE, BRIDGES SAYS UNDER QUESTIONING SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20—®— Harry Bridges, on trial for perjury, | contended today perjury “is not the main issue” in his trial. The CIO longshore leader wa: woman cancer patient wracked with | under cross-examination by prose- pain. . : | cutor J. Joseph Donohue. The early Wearing a faint smile of confi-| questioning did not touch on the dence at times, the 4l-year-old guestion whether Bridges perjured country doctor listened carefully as| himself, as charged, by denying| the slow job began of selecting the | membership in the Communist jury to sit on a case that has Str- | party when he was naturalized in red international feeling. 1945. The first four accepted—all men| ynder Donohue’s questioning —were chosen before the noon re- | prigges discussed various matters cess among a panel of 145 that in-|ang personages and, finally, his trial. cluded seven women. a [ ou might say the main issue A half-dozen prospective Jurors|nere js whether I committed per- were excused by the court after re-|jry» he sold Donohue. “But that vealing they held strong opinions—/ s not the main issue.” but they were not asked just what| «yoy don't believe that?” Dono- those opinions were. | hue asked. _Spectators were barred from the| .o, 1 don't,” Bridges replied. “I'm tiny courtroom as the trial opened no¢ pere for that. If it’s perjurers in biting cold weather that kept | they want, they got (Henry) the number of curious on the out-| senrimpf and some of these wit- side to a mere handful. nesses.” Schrimpf, a government witness, * 2 testified early in the trial that Veleran Fisherman Of Alaska Is Dead SEATTLE, Feb. 20—#—Funeral 'Moforman Blamed : g in Wreck services tor mans 0. pesersn. 75| For Train Wre veteran Alaska fisherman, will be | held Thursday at Gig Harbor. He| Goes 'o Hosp"al died Saturday. | He was a charter member of the | Alaska Fishermen’'s Union. | munist meetings. ROCKEVILLE CENTRE, N. Y, Feb. 20—(»—The motorman blamed |for the railroad wreck which killed JUNEAU PLAYER TRYOUT |29 persons and injured 105 others, The final try-out to select a cast was ordered removed from his home for the Juneau Players’ forthcoming | to Meadowbrook Hospital, in near- production of Mark Reed’s comedy Hempstead today. “Petticoat Fever” will be held at; Kiefer had been scheduled for the Sunday School room of the arraingment today on a manslaugh- ter charge. night immediately following the re- gular make-up class scheduled for | RED CROSS BOARD 8 oclock. Denis Campbell, who iS' The Board of Directors of the directing the play announces that!juneau Chapter of the American there are some male and female Red Cross will meet tonight at 7:30 roles still to be filled, and he is oclock in the Council Chambersl hopeful too that the backstage or the City Hall workers can be enlisted at the same | S L A B time. All Juneauites interested in|yps TURPIN TO SEATTLE acting or any other phase of stage- FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT craft are invited to atfend this try- | L out. | Mrs. Fred L. Turpin was a pas- {.«enaer for Seattle today via Pan MRS. RUDE ON DENALI |American World Airways, going TO VISIT GRANDSON!Lhere for treatment advised by her | physician here. Dr. Joserh O. Rude will have to| She will be under the care of a wait until later, but Mrs. Rude | relative, Dr. James E. Hunter, and was on her way today to make ac- | expects to be away for two months, quaintance of their new grandson| in Petersburg, Mrs. Rude boarded the Denali this morning. The baby, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thompson (Lor- raine Rude) of that city, has been FROM CORDOVA R. W. Korn of Cordova is regist- |cred at the Baranof Hotel FROM ANCHORAGE Nancy Carmeron of Anchorage is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | FROM SITKA Karl E. Aho of Sitka is stopping ‘at the Gastineau Hotel. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb| 20—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 112%, Anaconda 30%, Curtiss- Wright 9, International Harvester 281, Kennecott 54%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 1 U. S. Steel 30%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,420,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 203, 47, rails 55.65, util- ities 42.73, TIDE TABLGFE FEBRUARY 21 High Tide 4:27 am., 16.3 ft. Low tide 10:46 a.m High Tide 4:42 p.m, 14.2 ft. Low tide 10:47 p.m e v e o0 0 0 e e Bridges had attended several Com- | BITTER COLD IN COALLESS N. E. STATES (By Associated Press) Bitter cold and howling gales | descended on coal-short northeast- | |ern states Monday. Some areas, including Newark and Philadelphia, had the coldest day of the winter. The weather man in Washington D. C, said it looks like below nor- | mal temperatures are in sight for | the next three weeks for lower New York State to New Orleans. Rain or snow also was forecast. All this makes the coal shortage more critical. New York State has started rationing coal. Z 1 It was 17 below zero Monday at | Massena and Canton, N. Y., anul ‘uvnomlly below zero in upstate| {New York. New York City had nine ‘nlmvv at 9 am. in Chicago it was | i6 above. ! Philadelphia’s 13 above was the coldest since March 5, 1948. West- jern Pennsylvania had up to five |inches of snow. GOLD MEDAL HOOP PLAY BEGINS WITH HAINES VS. SITKA \Sitka ANB MMeets Ket- | chikan AA in Second Game Tonight | | | The fourth annual Gold Meial Basketbail Tournament will gét under way tonight at 7 o'clock in the Juneau High School gymnasium. In the first game of the double- eliminations tourney, the Haines All-Stars will clash with the Sitka Columbians. i The second game tonight will see | two of the most highly considered teams in Southeast Alaska in action. The Ketchikan A.A’s team, rated top in the far south division, will meet the Sitka Alaska Native BErotherhood five, winner of last year's Gold Medal Tournament and top quintet in the Sitka area. Loser of this game will still have a crack at the championship trom the Loser’s Bracket. It was trom this spot that the Sitka AN.B. tive came to win the championship in 1949, Nightcap tonight will be played by the Metlakatla Vets and the| Mount Edgecumbe Vocational School teams. The teams arrived yesterday and today. Although the Haines All- Stars had not arrived by press-time, tournament officials were certain they would be on hand for the opener. The drawing for first round start- ing places was held this morning in the Baranof Hotel. Billed as “Alaska’s Biggest Ath- letic Event,” the tournament will not end until Saturday night when the Gold Medal Champion is de- termined. Games will be played nightly and Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. and Friday at 3 pm Tomorrow night the Kake Alaska Native Brotherhood team will g0 against Mike's Night Owls of Doug- las; the Wrangell Thunderbirds will meet the winner of tonight's 1irst game; and the Juneau Columbians will clash with the winner of the second game tonight. Haines All-Stars will take the floor in green and white uniforms; Sitka Columbians will wear gold and black. In the second game Sitka ANB. will come on the floor in chikan A.A. players will wear white and red. The nightcap will sec the Metlakatla vets in Blue and Gold and the Mount Edgecumbe team in Gold. Frank Lee manages the Haines All-Stars; Robert Rowland is the player-coach of the Sitka Colum- bians. Sitka AN.B.’is manac by John Hope, and Johnny Mills coaches the hot Ketchikan team, while E. A. Vincent acts as manager. Charles Buchert is coach of the Metlakatla team, and James Har- rigan is the Edgecumbe mentcr The Gold Medal Tournament is & promotion of the Juneau Lions Club. Harry Sperling is chairman ol the Tournament Committee. FROM FISH BAY Sam Cotton of Fish Bay Is gistered at the Gastineau Hotel! re- scarlet and white suits; and Ket-fg SPY TRIAL OF VOGELER, SIX OTHERS, ENDS (By the Associated Press) The trial of U. S. businessman Robert A. Vogeler and six others on | spy charges in Hungary ended to- with the Prosecution demand- | the most severe punishment.”j ng Court was adjourned until tomorrow, when the verdict will be read Vogeler, in an apject “last word atement” to the people’s court, clared he had confessed to the charges without “any pressure or insults.” “T know I have to suffer punish- ment,” the Assistant Vice Pres:dent f the International Telephone and Telegraph company, said, “but hope that the court will consider my re- juest for a mild sentence and also the argumentation of my lawyer.” Prosecutor Gyula Alapi told the sourt that Vogeler, 38, an Assistant Vice President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Co., is “a spy who lost and was unmasked.” Vogeler’s friends abroad have said they do not believe the contes- sion he recited in court. ANOTHER CLUE TO MISSING C-54 IS VALUELESS, REPORT WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Feb. 20— —Hope that an Indian trapper’s story might lead searchers to a lost C-54 and its 44 occupants van- ished today. The slim clue, like others before, was apparently valueless. 4 Planes of the Royal Canadian and U.S. Air Forces penetrated the wilderness area 180 miles northwest of Whitehorse and landed a para- rescue crew on the mountain pointed out by the $idian who is known only as Jimmy. It was there the trapper said he heard a crash on Jan. 26, the day the big four-engine transport dis- appeared on a flight from Alaska to the United States. A helicopter, accompanied by a U.S. Air Force C-47, landed two young RCAP para-rescue crewmen on the mountainside today. Both are expert parachutists, first aid men and mountain climbers. Using walkie-talkie radios, they kept in constant touch with the two circling aircraft. The crewmen found a small snowslide, such as { the Indian had described, and dug into it with pickaxes. But they found no wreckage or evidence that a plane had crashed there. No further efforts will be made to verify the Indian’s story the air. Headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police here said a ground search party that set out Saturday morning is still proceeding by dog sled to the area. GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE STARTS THURSDAY Girl Scout cookie sale will start Thursday and continue until the end of the month. The scouts will first take orders for the cookies and then delivery to the custome: can be expected in about 3 weeks, according to Mrs. Robert Boochever, chairman of the sale. The girls who sell the most cook- ies will receive special prizes. Pro- fits from the sale go to carry on Scout troop activities. « ® ¥ o v o ® o 0 ¢ WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 33; minimum 23. At Airport—Maximum 33; minimum 25. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Cloudy with light rain and snow tenight changing to showers Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 32. Highest Tuesday near 36 degrees. Southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m. today City of Juneau—.15 inches; since Feb. 1—1.90 inches; since July 1-—57.01 inches. At Airport—.03 inches; since Feb. 1—.155 inches; since July 1—37.98 inches. © 0 00 0000 00 00000 sp®000000gs000 0 from | S —— SRS | WEATHER CRIES | "KAMARAD'; PATS | INVADE ALASKA Decay vs. Invasion | He said he feared decay from | within the Territory far more than possible invasion from without. | “The vastness and impenetrability of ., Alaska are already strong de- fenses,” he said. “As an offer base, it has bases with nine miles long—two near banks an one near Anchorage.| We're ready for any kind of an air strike against Russia.” { Against Statehood | The Priest said he is opposed to statehood for the Territory because of possible exploitation of the area’s rich natural reseources. | “It has too few legitimte tax-| payers to become a state. In the wrong hands it would make the Pendergast and Hague political ma- chines look like peanut sellers,” he | said. | 'm not nearly as afraid of pene- | tration from without is I am o decay from within, If we ever havi any real fear of the Russians com- | ing into Alaska, we already will| have been so hopelessly belmyedf from within that it won't much| matter.” LAKDING AT NORTH POLE NEXT SUMMER; HUBBARD ON FLIGHT : ' | SEATTLE, Feb, 20—(®—Sometime ! en {his summer an airplane is schedul- - [} b |ed to make the first recorded land- | ing at the North Pole—and among . |its passengers will be the Rev e e r( !( | Bernard Hubbard, S. J. | | 1t will be a thrilling climax to 23 W | Years of Arctic exploration for the noted “Glacier Priest.” war Tra“"ng “For years I have looked forward | to conducting mass at the North| | Pole,” he said here Saturday. DONJEK RIVER, Yukon, Feb. 20| pather Hubbard, who has covered —M—Lt. Gen. Stephen Chamber-|ihousands of miles on foot in the lain, over-all head of EXercise oy porth, climbing snow-covered Sweetbriar, said last night he feels | peaks, studying voleanoes, and the United States Army should have gathering a wide variety of scientit- | three regimental combat teams— j. data, will make the forthcoming about 15,000 men—trained for Arctic flight in a United States Air Force warfare but not necessarily ““"plx\ne, ! tioned in Alaska. & | The commander of the U.S. Fifth mg:l]: o;‘e‘: nf;o':;ef.““ic ':'1“‘:0 '.:3‘:_‘ Army is watching one battalion—|, " e has landed there—at leagt | about 800 mz;)u —of a regimental . ynited States plane. | combat team based at Camp Car- { son, Colo., face up to sub-Arctic| o nlsun“t:wnsl:ulln :L‘l:’ S IHE conditions in this joint Canadian-, meofimm ) le};m oA wr“cnnl A'gi::?flgh:x‘;‘;\;;z'mld a reporter about actual conditions on the mpi in an interview he feels 15,000 men | °f, the s 1y v | trained to face Arctic conditions|, :e:l‘:;evsemr:uwysx::; [‘:"Slpz:‘, should be sufficient for the U.S. Hc'lost—but i Sent to \'M(‘ fhepectic; | was asked if he felt they should be It's 0. galn. the inl!ul'mnlion ol 7t|:(loned i Alaaks. Jaska, | Survival there, and to perfect the | s 1 know nothing about Alas 5 |rescue program, that this flight 1s| he replied. He indicated a ‘eeh““-plmmed % | that the essential thing is to have ™ o th’e Sl Bold the ics b dipa, prainea, tains a maximum thickness of about 18 feet, and the temperature rises considerably above zero, Father Hubbard sald. | i “In fact it rains there sometim- | he added. To Sound Ocean | Among other things, the party will sound the ocean. “It is reported to be 14,000 feet DONJEK RIVER, Yukon, Feb, 20|deep, but we want to find out for _(P—Exercise Sweetbriar's Can- |sure,” he said. | \dians and Americans have driven| Father Hubbard, who lectured 300 hectic miles and were skirmish- |and showed his latest color motion | ng along the Alaska-Yukon border |pictures of the far north at the oday. Biggest news of all, the Civic Auditorium last night, said! weather had surrendered. | he considers the defense of Alaska After seven days of cracking tem- | is progressing satisfactorily. peratures between 25 and 40 below | “The situation in Alaska is good,” zero, the thermometer headed up-jhe said, “except that some places ward to around zero. The troops, |housing and recreation for the ser- jubilant as they drew nearer Thurs- [vise men should be improved. day’s climax of the first joint “Should Russia parachute troops: subzero maneuver, were still goingjand take some of our military strong. They took off some of their | fields ,they could not maintain a | bulky clothes and talked cockily line of supply, which would be & about banana-belt temperatures. |minimum of 1000 miles long. And| The Princess Patricia’s Canadian | the worst handicap—the weather, light infantry became the 1irst works against foe as well as de- military unit to invade: foreign soil | fender.” in peacetime, the first to invade ‘Alaska since the Second Worldy War, FIRE ALARM Early Sunday morning the Juneau fire department was called to the Senate Apartments on South Franklin Street to extinguish a blaze in the insulation surrounding the boiler of the heating plant. All clear was sounded a half hour after the first alarm. Firemen said dam- age was slight. STAFF CONFERENCE | The annual staff conterence of | the Territorial Department of Wel- fare began this morning in the Ter- ritorial Building here with 10 social | workers from the major cities in ! Alaska attending. | The conference will last for | full week, and problems confronting ithe field workers will be discussed. a | GRUENING TO SPEAK AT | JEFFERSON DAY BANQUET | Gov. Ernest Gruening will speak | tomorrow evening in Ketchikan at a Jefferson-Jackson Day banquet (o be held there by First Divison| ..y this morning at St. Ann's| | Democrase, | Hospital, Mr. Oja was born in| | He hnd_ not planned to leave JU- | piang He was single. | \x.u-z\u until tomorrow, but threaten- Funeral arrangements are being| ing weather made him decide 10|40 by the Charles W. Carter take off while planes were flyIng. |nrortuary, ANDREW OJA DIES | Andrew Willlam Oja, 70, died REAPPOINT MRS. PILGRIM | e | FROM KAKE | Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Kadake of ! United Mine Workers | than a score of states | | of JUDGE ISSUES "NO STRIKE” COAL ORDER Miners He;'sr Lewis Order Work, Walk Away- Brownout of N. Y. WASHINGTON, 20 — M — Feb. | Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech today issued a new no-strike ordex against John L. Lewis and the It runs until March 3 Keech has had a “stop strike order out since Feb. 11, but the 372,000 miners have ignored it Lewis himself has observed it to the extent of twice sending instruc- tions to the miners that they should 8o back to work The miners' refusal to obey the order has the government casting about for possible new actions to get coal mined. One move that is a pos- sibility is contempt action aguinst the United Mine Workers. That could result in big fines on the | union There has also been talk in Con- gress of legislation to let the gov- ernment seize the mines. But Demo- cratic leaders are not taking to that idea o House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) said after a conference of legisla~ tive leaders with President Truman today that the President has no plans to ask such authority. Mr Truman said he does not want it Senate Democratic Leader Lucas () said he had not heard any talk of seizure legislation by the ad- ministration.” Rayburn said there was only gen- eral discussion of the coal situation at the White House confere aid Mr. Truman told them he was ‘expecting some kind of report” later today on the situation. Pre- sumably, this is a report from his fact-finding board and mediation officials keeping in touch with de- velopments, MINERS BALK AT WORK PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20 A — Striking coal miners balked at work- ing today, pushing their “no con- tract no work” walkout intc its seventh week. They put the next | step up to federal offic Come-to-work whistles blew in vain throughout the coal fields. The government is reported de- bating action looking to a possible contempt of court charge against the Uaited Mine Workers for dis- obeying a federal court’s stop-sirike order, About 372,000 idle diggers in i are det and Joebn L. Lew work without a both court refusing to tract. No UMW mines are operating in Pennsylvania. All pits in Eastern Ohio falled to reopen. Near Bellaire, about a d n diggers reported at one time--but promptly turned and went home Overnight crews which did show up for work in West ia and Pennsylvania set the nation pattern. Those states employ more than half the nation’s 400,000 sofu coal miners. Food Coming In Another 8600 UMW digger idle in the Canton and Danville, I, area. Canton strikers were re- ceivingsfood which rolled into town on a truck bearir “Food for the st Fulton Count unions at Sioux Idle West Vir ered for several UMW local meet- ings at which the latest Lewis crder was read. No local voted on it. The men just listened and went back home. Meanwhile, industrial effe mounted. About 42,000 were idle m coal-using industries Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpo- con- not were ral miners from the Kake ar stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. i | SEATTLEITE HERE H. B. Crewson, broker, of Seattle is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Baranof from . Seattle scheduled to arrive about 1 p.m. tomorrow. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- |attle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Mrs. Mariette (Shaw) Pilgrim has | ration plans to close its big plants been reappointed superintendemt of in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, em- the Fairbanks Public schools for an- | ploying 25,000, unless coal produc- other year, after serving for the tion is resumed by the middle of past two years, Mrs. Pilgrim, recent | the week visitor in Juneau, was on the faculty | In Detroit, Ford Motor Company of the Juneau school from 1929 to|surveyed coal stocks with a possible | operational cutback in mind Bright lights were off last night in Pope Pius the Twelfth appeared | the electricity brownout decreed tor at beatification ceremonies Sunday K New York state. Rationing of coal in St. Peter's Basilica. It was his| began under emergency state legis- first public appearance since being | lation. stricken with influenza last week. It was demonstrated in 1898 that from Vancouver Saturday. He has been confined to his aparl-l ment. rat fleas carry plague.