The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL, LXXIV., NO. 11,439 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESD_,M\ Y, FEBRUARY 28, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCI ATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Striking Miners H —_Slage Starlo ‘Wirephoto. Irene Rich, Broadway stage star, and George H. Clifford, utilities executive, hold hands as they pose for photographers in New York as Miss Rich announced plans for their marriage. fourth marriage for Miss Rich, whose latest show, “As The Girls Go,” closed last month. She is 58. BROWN TAKING BLAME Marr It Was His Fault Mis- souri Grounded | Feb. 28—M— Brown, com- | NORFOLK, Va, | Capt. Wiiliam D. § | manding officer of the battleship Missouri, said tod and I alone i | bear the sole responsibility” for her “As Captain of the ship, it was| my duty to keep her safe and se- previous defense tactics came as the | court opened its 18th day of sessions | designed to {ix responsibility for the grounding which occurred in Chesapeake Bay, January 17. | ‘When Brewn tock the stand in| JCommanding Officer Says!| grounding last month. R, Hammerin Guard Mine || his own defense February 18 and | February 20 he testified his “team | {of officers” fell down when he g Indu | | | | | | CONTEMPT CASE IS ARGUED ‘Govemmenfiear End ofi Arguments-United Mine Workers Make Defense WASHINGTON, Feb, 28—P—A quick wind up of the government’s contempt case against the coal miners union was indicated today when Justice Department lawyers said they had only “about four or five more witnesses.” The attorneys gave out this word shortly before reconvening of the | torneys for the United Mine Work- | ers as to how long they might want to make their defense. Developments outside the court room contained nothing to raise hopes for an end to the strike and a halt to the spread of misery trom the coal famine. The West Virginia Chamber of stry Down COAL PUSHES STEEL DOWN 1073%L0AD Federal SeEtEe "Immin- ent,” But Truman Not Moving-184,000 dled PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28—(®-—The continuing strike of the soft coar miners hammered mercilessly At the nation's economy today as steei plante idled additional thousands. The idle total resulting trom i the three-week-general walkout 1s inow well past the hall million marx. | That includes 372,000 striking Ur~ lited Mine cure. I didn't do it,” the 47-year- | Workers embers @ old officer to!d a Naval Court of i trial this afternoon before Federal ey gy e J about 184,000 railroad, steel an& | Inquiry. | Judge Richmond B. Keech. automobile workers. ‘Thi atic m's E iy 8. is dramatic reversal of Brown There Was I SIIation ffom &t The miners showed no sign ot | weakening their determination that | here shall be' no work without a | contract. A high government official in Washington expressed a personal opinion that unless the strike is settled by tonight, Federal sei- { sure of the mines appears inevit- able. He agked that he not be nam- 5 e | 6 o eneral cGrat] s 4 i ; g | Armed with rifles, pistols and tear gas guns these strip miners guard their fellow workers at the E. S it st BABE) Byt thsrs whk no Wign &k e assistance from my team of officers | was concerned.” { | Today, he stood tall and straight | before the court and reading from a prepared statement said: | “I feel, and I feel it strongly, | that despite all of the numerous ishormommgs of others which have been revealed in this courtroom, I It will be the Clifford, a widower, is 68. MAYDELAY VOTING ON STATEHOOD WASHINGTON, Feb. 28— (h— House votes on Alaska and Hawail statehood probably will be delayed until Wednesday. Two measures dealing with a| proposed national science founda- tion and freight rates precede the statehood bills on the House calen- could have, and should have, kept I N | the ship in deep water.” | The decision to place the ship on the contse that took her aground, Brown said, “was made by me, with- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 28— out the positive concurrence of anyone in the ship.” (#—Voters went to the polls today to decide whether they wish to pay CHIANG IS BY PACIFIC NORTHERN| half the cost of a proposed million- Pacific Northern Airlines brought dollar civic center. these five passengers to Juneau The balloting was expected to be 5 ARRIVE, 10 DEPART | a one percent sales tax to finance | | heavy in view of the heated cam- yesterday: R. F. Scott, David Dun- can, Samuel Farrington and Maj. | Tom Pugh, from Anchorage, and Harold Heaton from Yakutat. Westward-bound, Helen and How- ; community projects. ard Bremner went to Yakutat; A. paign. F. Colner, E. L. McVey, L. F. Blake Reed Coal Company near Brookville, Pa. Roving picket bands have mines in the area by force and violence. () Wirephoto. ;Rusfiians ! NOW CHIEF, Peg Ruble NATL.GOVI. NewPrice | | MOSCOW, Feb, 28—(M-—The Sov- liet Union tonight pegged its ruble jto a new gold standard, and an- Inounced this means the U. 8. dol- what IS l.e" 0' Regime Y ar will be worth only four rubles instead of the old rate of 53. This | was accompanied by a reduction in (By Associated Press) iprices of food, clothing and other Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek | articles sold in the Soviet Union. is back in the saddle as President|The reduction is intended to off- of Nationalist China. He “retired”|set the effect of raising the value as President and Commander-in-|of the ruble. Chief of Nationalist Forces over ! (Pirst reaction in financial cir- Back as P}gdent, Also Commander-in-Chief of a year ago. He announced he is re- cles in New York was that the turning to both jobs. |move was primarily a propagandaj been shutting down mnon-union ATTLEEHAS - PLANS FOR BRIT. GOV, Will Revame His Cabinet, King Informed-House l of Commo_ns Fire (By Associated Press) Fire broke out under the ancient British House of Commons today on the eve of assembly of newly elected members. It was put out in 10 minutes, There was little dam- 1age. While fire brigades rushed to ac- | Mich) meke unions liable to punishment | going to take to enforce the “stop strike” order that Judge Keech issued Feb. 11. There was no immediate comment from McGrath. At the Capitol, Rep. Hoffman (R- introduced legislation to under the anti-trust laws if they restrain commodities or services essential to the national economy, health or safety, A somewhat sim- ilar bill has been pending for some time in the Senate. J. Monroe Johnson, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commit- tee, told a House committee that be necessary if the coal strike con- Resumption of the contempt trial Judge Keech could hear the argu- ments in chambers on the question further cuts in railroad service may | tinues. i was delayed until afternoon so thnz' White House that President Tru- nan was preparing to ask for any such measure. conl.acy uegotiations between Lewls and the operators recessed after a one-hour session yesterday. The UMW is busy fighting con- tempt charges in Washington's Federal District Court. The Union pleaded innocent to the charges growing out of the miners’ refu- sal to obey a court order to go back to_work. 1 | CarnegtesIllinois Steel Corpora- tion said supplies are so low it is reducing steel making in the Pitts- purgh district from 96 to 53 percent of capacity. Unestimated thousands will be laid off. The American Iron and Steel In- stitute said steel operations in the nation are scheduled at 73.7 per- cent of capacity this week—the low- ost figure since the week of Nov- ember 14 last. of whether to admit evidence about the two previous convictions—in 1946 and 1948—of the union on} charges of contempt for ignoring a| court’s back-to-work order. CONTRACT TALKS T0 R i 'RESUME TOMORROW dar for today. The remainder of the center'sj If they are acted upon before too construction costs would come from [and Cliff Collins to Cordova, and to He is replacing Acting President|tactic, intended to show the wnrmit,gn, Prime Minister Clement At- late in the afternoon, debate may | the Alaska Public Works Act, which‘,Anchomge: V. K. Lipp, Lawrence|Li Tsunz-Jean who is recuperating!that while other currencies arejtlee was preparing to announce HUSBA“D oF DEAD WASHINGTON, Fet. 28— (B — be started on the Alaska statehood | Provides federal aid in financing |Dorre, Harold Foss and Yvonnein a New York hospital. | being devalued the ruble is being|his revamped cabinet. He informed Harvey Cartwright, an = operator g; H All that is left of Nationalist|graded upward. King George VI last night that de: woMA“ TESI‘EIES spokesman, sald today coal con- (] bill. But with two hours allowed for general debate, a vote is not ex-! pected before Wednesday. The Hawaii bill will follow that for Alaska. The Washington i Niner. k Vladetick of the Polaris Taku Mine, Tulsequah, B.C., is a! guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | e | FROM TULSEQUAH | TRIPOD ERECTED ON TANANA RIVER; ICE QUOTATIONS IS REPORTED THINK | (Financial sources said there is | little international trade carried on the Chinese coast. An invasion by|in rubles, and that Russia when Chinese Communists is imminent. |it does make deals with other coun- The Nationalists warned that all|tries always insists on dollars.) ships trading with th§ Communist§| The gold content of the ruble was are subject to air assault. 'l‘\vo|fixed at 0.222168 grams ot 1 American ships were bormbed .vnd:gold_ strafed by unidentified planes s ! The Soviet Union will buy gold pected of being Nationalist yester- China now is the Island of For-} mosa and some other islands off lat the rate of 4.45 rubles per gram site his slim majority won in I Thursday’s election he would car- 'y on the government, i Observers generally predicted the Labor Government sooner or later would be forced to resign and new lections held. Press forccasts said he elections might come in June and not later than the autwmn. It was believed that to stay In "MERCY KILLING" (#—The husband of Mrs. Borroto said today his dying wite was treated like a mother by Dr. Hermann N. Sander. MANCHESTER, N.H, Feb. 23— | Abbie | tract bargalning sessions will re- sume tomorrow at 11 a.m. (EST). They were suspended yesterday. "NEVER TOLERATE DISLOYALYY, SAYS Merry i GO 3l Round < ,umagonyoo:ui];;:: }gn;um‘::\lxlr:i day. The bombs missed. One saiior(of fine gold. power as & caretaker government ‘The 41-year-old Dr. Sander is on A(HESO“ 0“ Hlss NENANA, Alaska, Feb. 2¢--The!? PG R A 2 Can| V28 injured. The Nationalists have Lakor might have to shelve its na-| trial ~on a first degree murder v g 5 v declared a blockade of all Cox ionalization program. This move| charge—accused of ending the wo- iCopyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — A slow fire burning across the midwest prairies will stir the biggest rumpus in thel 81st Congress and decide the 1950 elections. This is the opinion of ranking politicians on both sides of the aisle. | 'The fire is a rank-and-file rarm-! ers’ revolt against the sliding scale! of parity payments which was jam- | med through Congress by the pow-| erful Farm Bureau Federation plus :Euwh Grundige and Boots Ander-| son and is all ready for the coat| tripod on the Tanana river was|S! |110%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 9%; Internaticnal Harvester |2874," Kennecott 53%, New York of red and white paint. (Centr\al 13%, Northern Pacific 1672, | The ice whefle the tripod is sitt-|U- S Steel 30%, Pound $280%. ing is 40 inches thick. The water| Sales today were, 1000300 shares. is very low in the Tanana riger bu:‘ Averages today are as follows: there is plenty of snow which should | Industrials 20343, rails 55.54, util- make plenty of water for the an-|iUes 4282 nual breakup when the ice goes out. | WRECKED PILOT SAFE erected yesterday by Slim Avery,| TIDE TABLE . MARCH 1 e High tide | munist Chinesg ports. 'H-Bomb Talk Is Like Purple Werd Cloud, Says Lilieat hal ! ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Feb, 28 (®—David E. Lilienthal says talk |about the hydrogen bomb is like a “cloud of words” that followed the explosion of the first atom bomb. BIG QUAKE RECORDLD PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 28— 4— An jearthquake, described as the most severe at great depth in the would be forced by the poweriul Jonservative opposition. The first real test will come in he debate on the speech from the hrone which outlines government :olicy. The speech will be read by he King next Monday. If the Att- lee Government - pass that test| it next mieets the budget debate.] Conservatives won many voles in the last election by promising cut in taxes. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison who managed Labors el-| ection campaign told a meeting| man’s cancer-tortured life with an air injection into her veins. Reginald Borroto, the 65-year-old husband, testified as to his wife’s last illness: “If Mrs. Borroto had been Dr. Sander’s mother or sister he eouldn’t ve done more to minister to Borroto, a retired oil salesman, said Dr. Sander came often to his | home during the last months of his wife’s life, Borroto added that the doctor often appeared voluntarily, bringing | WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—h— | Secretary of State Acheson told Senators today, “I would never knowingly tolerate any disloyal per- son in the Department of State.” Acheson told the Senate Appro- priations Committee that he did not and does not condone in any way the offenses charged against | Alger Hiss, former State Depart- | ment official. Hiss was convicted of lying about contactipg an admitted Communist courier who said he obtained secret State Department papers from Hiss. Acheson’s statement came in the a coalition of Republicans and AH’ER 4 D AY ]‘RI A | 0:19 am., 132 ft. e |last 10 years, was recorded '0a¥{ He told about 10,000 educators|j.i” nig} . : (e r southern Democrats. . o Low tide at Calfornia Institute of Tech-|inss night that affer the stom | B One e B o atory| uch 8ifts o the Alling woman a5 3| yyxe of ‘a recent Temark he made Signs of the revolt are: High tide 11:49 am.,, 154 ft. e nology. * | bombs were dropped on Hiiroshima | go yioeq Laborites to keep the canary, complete with cage, and| "\ uomen after Hiss was con- No. 1—A poll among Iowa hog ON MOUNTAINSIDE" Low tide 6:28 p.m., -0.5 ft. Dr. C. F. Richter, of Caltech'8|anq Nagasaki there followed “the culmnnmach!nery A _nmer little offerings to take her victed, that he (the secretary) farmers taken by Wallace's Farmer, le Seismological Laboratory, said 1Y greatest verbal detonation in bis-| ;0" moment P ’ ““l')‘;’ (gu'n:Z: mlfi:;y bt ;| would not turn his back on Hiss, " . cal at al ours 0o in the o apparently centered tory, a mushroom-shaped cloud of a long time friend. which revealed 45 percent favor the | oo o o0 z_m!" ® 0 e om0 : 4 : Brannan Plan of direct govern-| oo e X T veb; 36U o Okhotsk, north of the Japucse|ywords, 40,000 feet in altitude, pur- the day, Borroto sald, and some-| pcpeson testified after Deputy ment payments to farmers, while| 1S feet frozen in a four-day|o = WEATHER REPORT Island of Hokkaido. ple in color.” BR’TISH FAR E AST times as late as 10 o'clock at NGht. | ygercecretary of State John E. letting fall the prices to the con-|°Tdeal awaiting help beside his In Juneau—Maximum 39; It was timed at 2:3146 (PST)| ‘Lilienthal former chairman of | Under cross-examina#lon, BOFroto | peurifoy told the Senators that the sumer. Thirty-five percent are :r.ec_lf;d airplane on a Yukon moun- | ¢ minjmum 28, with a second shock at 2:40.37 the Atomic Energy Commission, | said: | State Department during the last ainside, Morris Grant of White<|o At Airport—Maximum 37; said “this is being duplicated In H,EEI Is JOINING u_ s. On varlous occasions, Dr. Sander |y, years has got rid of 202 em- back of the present system of the government buying and storing sur- pluses to keep prices up. The re- mainder could not decide. This is a gain of 11 percent in eight months for the Brannan idea. Commented one hog farmer, “Let( horse reached here last night aboard | ¢ minimum 22. a rescue plane. He was carried | o FORECAST from the plane and taken to a|e tJunean ana Vielaits) hospital. e Cloudy with light rain and Grant crash-landed his Tiger- ¢ snow with southeast winds Moth plane 15 miles from Taku|e as high as 25 miles per hour the past few weeks.” At a news conference preceding his address, Lilienthal was asked to comment on a statement by Dr. Leo Szilard, one of the na- tion’s top atomic scientists, that MASSACRE REPORTED FLEET IN MANEUVERS HONG 'KONG, Feb, 28— The | | British Far East fleet left Hong appeared very tired. In fact, on one occasion I told him he was a fool spending so much time working on committees outside of his otfice hours.” ployees who were being investigated as poor security risks. MRS. WILSON PASSES ON | i Mrs. Angus Wilson of Juneau | g Arm, B.C, on a flight to White- i d g 4 the price drop. Maybe some poor % &l e tonight an Wednesday. the hydrogen bomb could kil all|Kong today for North Borneo and| S . died last night at St. Ann’s Hos- folks could have a little meat—es- NOTse 1ast Wednesday. After the e Lowest temperature tonight humans in the world. the Philippines to join units of | ASONS TO SETRS THEIOED | pital after a long illness. She was pecially children. -Let’s not store|Plane was spotted three days !ater,| o near 36 degrees. Highest TAIPEI, Formcsa, Feb. 26 #—| “I won't have anything on that|the US. Far East fleet in maneu- | SCOTTISH RITE REUNION |71, a para-rescue team jumped to his|e Wednesday near 40. The Chinese Nationalist de today,” Lilienthal said. | vers. | — | Mrs. Wilson was born in Prince pork and have it wasted.” re- | Five destroyers, two cruisers, the To hold a Scottish Rite reunion | Edward Island, Canada. aid and took him 5000 feet down e PRECIPITATION But, in his extemporancous the mountainside on a sled. @ (Past 2¢ nours ending 7:30 a.m. today . From a lake near the foot of the e City of Juneau—Trace; mountain, the pilot was flown here.| @ since Feb. 1—3.14 inches; During the rescue, Grant talked | e since July 1—58.25 inches. by walkie-talkie with his father inje At Airport—Trace; a plane overhead. He said he was e since Feb. 1—2.08 Inches; “feeling okay” despite his frozen since July 1—38:51 inches. (Continued on Page Four) !tut‘ e o 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ministry said today, 3,800 pro-Na=- tionalists were massacred by the | Communists in the Shangha! arca. The reported ‘massacre occurred in the Pootung industrial area. Across the Whanpoo River from Shanghai, the Ministry said. There was no way for outsiders to cucck the report, This poll was taken in the home state of Allan Kline, Farm Bureau President, who is bitterly fight-| ing the Brannan Plan. Kline boasts “when an Jowa hog sees me, he curls his tail” Sign No. 2—In North Dakota, and to confer degrees from the| Funeral arrangements are being fourth to 32nd degree in the Mas- |made by ‘the Charles W. Carter onic Order, a number of prominent ; Mortuary. Juneau Masons embarked recently | via Alaska Coastal to Sitka. FROM PELICAN They were: Walter B. Heisel, J.| Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McCaddon J. Fargher, Howard Stabler, and|of Pelican are registered at the the Thomas L. Crooks. Baranof Hotel. }mnrks to the American Associa- | aircraft carrier Triumph, four| tion of school administrators an- | frigates, a hospital ship, a tanker| nual convention, Lilienthal said: |and a supply ship made up the| “We should have faith that our | force. Creator did not endow men with the knowledge to unlock the atom| Among Fairbanks residents stop- with the idea that he would des- ping at the Baranof Hotel are Bud lll‘o'.v himself.” IS, seltenreich and L. R. Wilken.