The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,437 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GOP PREDICTS SWING IN U. . LIKE BRITAIN Republicans Say Western World Points fo Right- Say Will Get Control WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—(M--Re- publicans saw their Party’s stock | rising today on the strength of Conservative Party gains in the Britis elections. Administration Democrats called the inary. Republicans generally felt that |/ the narrow margin of the British |} Labor Party's victory reflects a swing to the right in the western world that may help elect GOP candidates for the Senate Honse in November. Rep. Halleck, most optimistic. He predicted that the Republicans will regain control of Congress this year. “The awakening of the British | people to the dangers of socialism is being accompanied by a similar awakening in this country,” I‘Iall-l eck declared. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said he has no doubt that the British re- sults will be reflected in this coun- try’s voting. Rep. Arends (R-III) agreed, call- ing the comeback of British Con- servatives “a forerunner of what's going to happen here.” But Administration leaders in Congress said the British results don’t mean anything so far as Am- erican politics is concerned. COAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT URGED TODAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—(®—| Government officials urgently prod- ded coal peace talks today in hope of a break in the strike before the union faces trial on contempt charges Monday. But they weren’t optimistic. With the nation's fuel crisis growing steadily worse there seemed little basis for figuring any settle- ment was near. Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus S. Ching, one of the men President Truman has assigned to try to end the eight-month-long dispute, said there hasn’t been any progress since the present court-directed bargaining got underway on Feb 15. “The situation is exactly the same as it was when these conferences started,” Ching said. FROM KETCHIKAN M. J. Klepser of the NordbyI Supply Company, Ketchikan, is a; guest at the Baranof Hotel. The Washingion Merry - Go - Round ICopyrisht. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—TIt looks like the fruman Administration’s secret in- telligence is now even tapping Sen- ator's telephones. Wire-tapping has increased un- der Truman even more than dur- ing the war, most of it being done by the Army and Navy: The FBI is careful to stay out. Newspapermens’ wires are especially watched by other agencies, chiefly to find out where they are getting exclusive information. Hitherto, it was believed that Senatars’ telephones were relatively sacrosanct, but here is what hap- pened to fighting Senator Joe Mc- Carthy of Wisconsin last week. McCarthy got a phone call from an affice assistant saying that the House un-American Activities Com- mittee had a “secret report” list- ing “400 names” of believed sub- versives. McCarthy then phoned Congress- man Richard Nixon of California to ask about the “400 names” but did not mention the matter to an- other soul. On the floor of the Senate, how- ever, before McCarthy’s speech about the State’ Department, Shrewd Senator Scott Lucas, the Administration’s spokesman, came up and asked McCarthy about his “secret report” and *“400 names.” “I've never said anything nboutl (Continued on Page Four) rise imag- and |} (R-Ind) was the Pilot Escaped Injury L I Pilot Dow Waters of Mineola, N. Y., escaped injury when his plane ended up leaning against a utility pole after a forced landing in the residential section of Sayville, Leng Island, N. Y. Lineman on {‘ pole prepares to repair damaged wires. (# Wirephoto. | STEALING OF |REVTHER SHOOTIG SECRETARMY | N deor pAPERS TolD DETROIT, Feb. 26—®—The ac- quittal of Carl Bolton left unan- swered today that perplexing ques- tion: who shot Walter Reuther? HEIDELBERG, Germany, Fel. 25 —The U.S. Army says a well- organized spy ring apparently has A Recorder’s court jury of eight women and four men decided late been masterminding the theft of secret papers from the homes of yesterday that Bolton, suave, 41- year-old convicted burglar and one- i high Army officers here over the past seven months. time minor union official, was not the gunman. i Authorities said tliieves have en- tered the homes of 30 officers in assault Bolton was the only man against | whom a formal charge ever was placed in the April 20, 1948, shoot- this U.S. Army headquarters city and made off with confidential documents, usually ignoring jewelry, cash and other valuables. “Either foreign agents, or some- one trying to peddle secret docu- ments to a foreign power is respon- sible,” one official commented. He said the ring apparently re-i ceived tips from inside the Euro- pean command’s headquarters on which officers, disregarding a se- curity warning, took confidential papers to their homes. 'MERCY' KILLING DEFENSE BLOCKS STATE TESTIMONY! MANCHESTER, N. H. Feb. 25—(# —Counsel for Dr. Hermann N. Sanders threw a block yesterdayy against state efforts to prove that| the husband of the woman he is charged with slaying had nothing to do with her “mercy” death. The block was thrown up shcrbl)‘] before the murder trial of the 41- year-old country doctor recessed for the week end. Dr. Sander is charged with killing Mrs. Abbie Borroto, 59, a cancer doomed pa- tient, with lethal air injections. Chief of defense' counsel Louis E. Wyman bounced to his feet the instant Sheriff Thomas E. O‘Erien. testified the 'prosecution had a signed statement. from Borroto. The statement $aid that Borroto claimed he had “nothing to do with Dr. Sander in this.” Testimony had been presented earlier quoting Dr. Sander as saying he yielded to Borroto’s pleadings to end his wife’s suffering even if it meant “elim- 1 1. 5. FREEZES ASSETS! 'OF RUSS-DOMINATED ing. He was accused of with intent to kill Reuther, Presi- dent of the CIO United Auto Work- ers. NATIONS HELD HERE (By Associated Press) The United States Government anncunces the freezing of all as- sets held in the United States by citizens of Bulgaria, Romania, and | Hungary. This announcement, fol- lowing a break in diplomatic rela- tions with Bulgaria earlier in the week, brought American relations with the three eastern European countries to a new low. The Justice Department said the assets of the Communist-dominated countries were frozen because of a delay in compensating American claims in three Communist nations. RED RAIDERS KLL 13, SURPRISE MOVE SINGAPORE, Feb. 25—(P—Ma- layan secwrity forces said today Red raiders killed 23 persons in a surprise assault yesterday on the Muar police station in Johore State 75 miles north of Singapore. The victims were 19 police, three police- men’s wives and a child. SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattlelites registered at the Baranof Hotel are Glenn B. Walker and Max McFayden, both inating her life.” Judge Harold E. Wescott sustain- ed Wyman'’s objections and ordered the Sheriff's stestimony stricken AT BARANOF HOTEL from the ‘record. Harry J. Pedersen of Seattle Wyman told newsmen later that|js g guest at the Baranof Hotel. Borroto would sbe called as a de- fense witness if the state doesn't place him on the stand. representing the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. FROM COLLEGE s Ivar Skarland of College, the 1University of Alaska community near Fairbanks, is at the Baranof Hotel. AWVS TO MEET The American Women's Volun- tary Services will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday at 8 p.n. at the Governor’s house. The knitting project for Mount Edgecumbe school will be continued. Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock| Peter Martin of Tenakee is stay- the nursery mothers of the AWVS|ing at the Gastineau Hotel for a will meet at the Governor’s Resx-ltew days before making a short dence. trip to Seattle, FROM FAIRBANKS A. C. Lubcke of Fairbanks is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. Wobbly Govt. In Britain Is Blow fo ECA Attlee Will Attempt fo Car- ry Emergency Measures -May Ask Second Vote (By Associated Press) - Britain's Labor Government de- y to carry on despite its slim parliamentary majority. Of 625 seats in the new House of Commons, it looked as if Labo might have only a majority of nine. That is perhaps the smallest parltamentary majority in a century and may prove unworkable. Political experts said the regime that will carry on will be a “care- taker government” without the strength to carry out Labor pol- cies. They speculated that Prime Minister zet sufficient agreement in Parlia- ment to pass a budget and settle a number of emergency matters. After that he might have to ask the King to order a new election. The wobbly position of the gov- ernment is a blow to the Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact architects attempting to strengthen Europe. Much of the new Europe was an- chored on a stable government in Britain. In the previous Parliament Labor had a majority of 146 seats which made it one of the strongest gov- ernments in the world. A Labor Party spokesman said a majority of 30 was the minimum with which any single-party gov- ernment could effectively gel through its major policies. COFFEE SHORTAGE IS LAID T0 FILCHING ON NY WATERFRONT NEW YORK, Feb, 25—(/—A big- scale coffee stealing racket, that authorities say may have accounted in part for the recent coffee short- age in this country, has been un- covered on the New York City waterfront. Special police investigators said $1,000,000 worth of unroasted cof- fee has been filched from the docks in the last year. Assistant District Attorney Louis Androezzi said the harbor racke- teers have been preying on coffee cargoes brought from Brazil to Brooklyn docks. lrving Bacheller, Novelist, Passes On WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 25— (M—Irving Bacheller, one of Amer- ica's most popular novelists at the turn of the century and after, died last night at the age of 90. WILL ROGERS, JR. FALLS DOWN IN DRAMA ON RADIO NE WYORK, Feb. 25—@—Wil Rogers, Jr., decided he couldn't play the part of his famous father in a CBS radio drama last night. Rogers rehearsed for two days to appear in the title role of “The Autobiography of Will Rogers.” But before the performance, he stepped out. “Someday, somebody else possibly play the role,” he said. “But it probably never will be me. I knew that I never could portray Dad in the movies, but I thought it might work on radio. It didn't.” The part was taken by radio ac- tor Ted De Corsia. may WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 42; minimum 34. FORECAST (Juneas and Vielaity) Continued cold with occas- sional mixed rain and snow tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperature tonight about 32, high Sunday about 38. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & . today City of Juneau—.24 inches; since Feb. 1—3.06 inches; since July 1—58.17 inches. At Airport—.10 inches; since Feb. 1—2,01 inches; since July 1—38.44 inches. ® 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . . . ° . . 3 . 3 3 . Attlee would attempt to | | I_ce (oaledT_rgwIer ‘ The fishing trawler Crest makes port at Boston, Mass., heavily coated with ice after a frigid trip from the fishing banks in sub-zero weather. Doucette, the captain and Ernest photo. : Three members of the crew (left to right) Paul Berringer, Leo Dobbins smile happily from the bridge as the vessel docks. (P Wire- VFW AND GUESTS | DANCE TO BENEFIT 'MARCH OF DIMES' Although the act amount for | the “March of Dimes” fund will nul‘ be known until members make tic-| ket reports, proceeds from the bene- | fit dance last night will be “a tidy | sum,” according to the committee. The Oldtime dance given in the }C,I,O. Hall by Taku Post 5559, Vet-i erans of Foreign Wars attracted about 50 couples. | ‘To help in its success, E. L.| (Red) Holloway of the Yellow Cab| Company had offered to transport| party-goers free. His cabs made| scores of trips taking guests to L.e l Island of -Namoa Reporied to Be In Hands of Reds (By Associated Press) The Chinese Nationalists admit the Communists have invaded the island of Namoa, which is 190 miles from the main Nationalist island of Formosa. The Reds have broadcast that the island of ‘Namoa has been captured. Though the Nationalists do not go this far, they do say their MAN KILLED, ANCHORAGE PLANE CRAS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 25— (M—An airplane crash late Thurs- day killed a passeriger and seriously injured the pilot. The wreckage was spotted from the air Friday on defending forces were minor—an in- |lonely Point McKenzie on Knik dication that Namoa’s fall can be|Arm near here. expected soon. Walt Nygard, 2b, was injured fatally and pilot Joe Vanderpool, about 30, suffered serious leg and back injuries. Nygard succumbed dance and seeing them home. Will Reedy called the squares. | On the entertainment side, an! exhibition square dance was given | by these members of The Promen- | aders: Mr. and Mrs. Gus Gissberg, | |Senlence of War Criminal Changed (By Associated Press) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dawley, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Frutiger, Eileen Nel- son and Ben Favre. Gail Tucker and Bill Avery per- formed as scheduled, both singing and Avery also doing a smart tap dance routine, but the third singer was a surprise itém. Frank Ben- ton of the Metlakatla basketeers was enthusiastically applauded. He was the guest of Vern Metcalle,’ former Taku Post commander. With Mrs. John McCormick in ! charge, the V.F.W. Ladies' Auxili- ary served the refreshments in the downstairs hall. Fred Dawley was chairman, with Frank Shepard, co-chairman, and Harold Fennel, post commander, the other committee member. FIVE WOUNDED IN NEW YORK NiGHT - CLUB GUN BATTLE (By Associated Press) New York’s Greenwich Village was startled in the early hours ot the morning of a wild gun battle in a night club (the Moroccan Village at East Eighth Street). Five per- sons were wounded—one of them a detective—and 100 persons were ter- rorized. The blazing gun battle broke out when a band of gunmen tried to hold up the place. The interior, of the club was wrecked, tables were overturned and mirrors were shat- The British army has reduced the sentence of former German Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein, who was imprisoned on war crimes charges. Manstein’s sentence was cut from 18 to 12 years. He was sentenced for alleged atrocities by his troops in Poland and Russia. i SITKANS HERE | Among Sitka residents stopping | at the Baranof Hotel are Dr. H. J. Hodgins, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Franklin, Irene Didrickson and son; Elizazbeth James, Johnny Ta- vino, Bert Hanson and Karl Leask. Susanna N, Keough and Grace Ush- | ler of Mt. Edgecumbe also are re- | gistered there. BULLETINS | The American Ambassador to| Russia, Alan Kirk, has left Moscow | by plane for Berlin. Kirk expects | to spend tonight as the guest of | United States High Commissioner iJohn McCloy in Frankfurt. | to his ‘injuries before rescuers could reach the scene. It was in freezing cold. - Vanderpool said in a hospital here that the men left from Mer- rill Field to go wolf hunting. He said his small plane spun out of control onto the beach. He was flown here by helicopter. A widow and child survive Ny- gard, a city electrical department employee. BULGARIANS —lII(E VIEST, SAYS HEATH, DESPITE CAMPAIGN (By Associated Press) On his way out of Bulgaria, U S. Minister Donald R. Heath, com- mented today on the severing of U. S.-Bulgaria diplomatic relations. At Nis, Yugoslavia, he said that Bulgaria conducted a “deliberate, meticulously planned campaign to create fear and distrust of the United States and to violate the rules not only of diplomacy, but of civilization.” He said that despite the govern- ment's campalgh the Bulgarian people have a basic liking for west- Pennsylvania State Police are setting up an elaborate convoy sys- tem to protect trucks who want to haul coal to coal-hungry Pitts- burgh. Yesterday the coal trucks were turned back by stone-throwing pickets. Chicago police and private detec- tives arc keeping a 24-hour watch ern culture and look with sympathy {to the democracies of the west, | ‘Commie Probe . By Senate Com. WASHINGTON, Feb. 256—(#—The on the apartment of Philip Armour | Senate Foreign Relations Commit- the fourth. This is the result of tee today named a five-man inquiry tered as the bullets flew. Three men | telophone threats made on Armour | group headed by Senator Tydings were captured. and his three children. Armour is| (D-Md) to investigate charges that a member of the weathy Chicago Communists hold high offices in meat packing family. | the State Department. Marathon Prayer oo o 0 oo . . s nas s . . . ; he could name 81 past or present Sesslon (on"nues . TIDE TABLGE e | State Department employees who . are Communists or fellow travelers. . FEBRUARY 26 —_— (By Associated Press) e Low tide 2:06 am. 74 ft. ‘There still is no indication when|e High tide am, 126 ft. e the marathon prayer session will|e mi, tide pm., 341t e SIEAMER MoVEME"IS end at Asbury college at Wilmore,| e High tide 10:38 p.m., 10.5 ft. o | Kentucky. Since Thursday services|e e | Denali from Seattle due Tuesday. hiave been held continuously and|e FEBRUARY 27 e| Princess Norah scheduled to sail early this morning about 300 per-|e Low tide .m., 74 ft. e |from Vancouver Saturday. sons were in the Hughes Memorial| @ High tide 9:43 am., 13.0 ft. .| Baranof scheduled to arrive Sun- Auditorium taking part in the re-|e Low tide .m., 2.3 ft. e|day afternoon at 2 o'clock and vival despite pleas by college|e High tide 11:38 p.m., 11.7 ft. e |sails south two hours later at 4 authorities that they go home. e v e e 0 e 0 o 9 o ejoclock LARGE TROOPS «OULDN'T BE (USEDINNORTH Not Room IErl—})_ugh to Fight, Couldn’t Supply Them, Say Commanders By CLARKE EEACH WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— (»— Men who led the recent mock war- fare in the Alaskan sub-Arctic agreed that large masses of men never could ‘be pitted against each other in Alaska as they were in the last war, but they couldn't agree on why this is so. This correspondent, covering the Canadian-U.S. joint maneuvers, heard from various commanders two theories why the forces that could be employed would be rela- tively 3mall. One was that only a limited num- ber of them could be supplied there because of transportation difticul- ties. This is the accepted view of he nationgl military establishment, according to officers who help do the planning in Washington. Another view, expressed by a high ranking officer with important ex- perience in military transportation, was that there just wasn't room enough, not enough battleground, for masses of men to fight. He said he could transport ample sup- plies for all the men who could be used in the region. Need Air Power I A third opinion about limitations Ion Arctic warfare was expressed by 12 Canadian ground officer in a highly responsible position. He said iir power would be decisive. With- out air superiority, he said, either big or little armies in Alaska could be quickly wiped out because of the limited space in ‘which men and equipment could. be. deployed. The men who see the problems »f supplies and transportation as most important believe that the limited: roads;and’ rafiroads would be strained to the limit in providing all the paraphernalia of modern warfare to even a relatively small force. They are thinking in terms of 24,000 Army and Air Force troops in Alaska by the time housing, warehouses and other facilities can be provided—they estimate by June 30, 1962. Need Triple Strength They believe that force will be sufficient to defend Alaska. Ac- cording to theories of military strategy, an invader would have to use three times that many men to defeat the American force as long as the Americans defended well fortified, well supplied posi- tions, They doubt that an enemy could employ effectively even a small fraction of that number in the re- gion as long as the United States held the railroad, the highways and the three great airfields—one at Anchorage, and two in the vicinity of Fairbanks. The officer who said he could supply all the troops that could be employed said that with unlimited funds and equipment the roads and railroad could be made to work miracles. Also, he would count on igantic airlifts. In winter, when the ice is deep, he pointed out, each of the thousands of lakes and rivers is a potential airfield. TRY MADE T0 RID WALLACE PARTY OF COMMUNIST TAINT CHICAGO, Feb, 25—»—Henry A Wallace's followers today tried to Y cleanse the Progressive party of a Communist taint which he says is a red smear by third party enemies. Wallace predicted success for the convention move - a resolution which in-effect is an indirect dis- avowal of Soviet Russia. Adoption would help ceunteract 1948 rejection of the resolution ‘at the party’s founding session in Philadelphia 18 months ago. “We must not allow anyone the slightest, legitimate reason for be- lieving that any working member puts Rome, Moscow or London ahead of the United States,” Wal- lace said last night. He declared in a convention key- note speech that Progressives must get rid of the Red label and fac- tions if they are to win eleciions and “a campaign for peace.” But he said the third party will not purge any Communists from its ranks. It welcomes Communists as well as those of other political labels as long as they support Progressive principles, he added. J