The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1950, Page 2

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BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE COMPANY © 1949, The Coco-Cele | Committee. iknow this to be true, although he | “reprisal” for his “frank and hon-; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Jump!” WITNESS FAILS, "Don't 10 SUPPORT GOVT. CHARGE g8 SAN FRANCISCO, March 2—® —Mervyn Rathborne, star govern- ment witness in the prosecution of Harry Bridges for perjury, testified on cross-examination today he had no first hand knowledge that Brid- ges ever was elected to the Com- munist Central Committee. Earlier he testified that he had seen Bridges and his two co-de- fendants at meetings of Commun- ists. The government dentends that Bridges perjured himself in his 1945 citizenship hearing by deny- ing he was a Communist. He is president of the CIO longshore union, and for years was closely associated with Rathborne in un- ion affairs. Rathborne testified was a Communist from 1935 through 1947, and rated high in party councils as far as labor un- ions went. Today, under cross examination by Vincent Hallinan, chief of Brid- ges' legal staff, Rathborne said he didn’t know Manning Johnson or Paul Crouch, government witnesses and professed ex-Communists. They had testified they attended the 1936 Communist convention in New York and that Bridges then was elected to the powerful Centrall he, himself, As Oakland, Calif., firemen throw a policeman But Rathborne said he didn’t had been told so. rooming from a wooden hotel building during an early morning fire, (foreground) yells “don’t jump” to Jacinto de Leon (arrow) hotel roomer, who was trapped by the flames. utes later he worked his way along the edge of the roof and was brought to safety down a ladder. (@ JUNEAU, ALASKA t 1 urchill Refain X ¥ Winston Churchill leans over to shake hands with his election opponent So (left), after announcement that Chur England. radio from London. In center is Communist ca; of Commens at Woodford, Essex, right. /» Wirephoto 1l wen re-election to the House te W.. Brooks, Mrs. Chure! ic at extreme heer a steam of water on flames mush- A few min- ‘Wirephoto. DENFELD REMOVAL | BRANDED BY COM. AS REPRISAL ACT! WASHINGTON, March 2A‘A"_I The House Armed Services Com-I mittee today branded the rcmovali of Admiral Louis Denfeld as Chiet, of Naval Operations last fall as a' American Ship Reaches Japan Crewmen Claim National- est” criticism of unification and na- . tional defense planning. ! IS'S Bombed Vessel The committee released its Iormali »; o report on investigations into :he; wnh In'en' iO K]” interservice row today, the same!| day that Denfeld after nearly 38| years active duty, retired rather than accept another job. LEGAL OPINION IS CHIANG IS CHIEF L BT gbombs, two dangerously close. One 5 u( ;; ?ss(éc:_\tev rtess) st,| crewman said one fighter plane ationalis o hina’s top Jurist, ' maqe his attack at masthead level Wang Chung-Hui, gave the opinion __«ye wasn't trying to scare us,” he (By Associated Press) A bullet-scarred American + freighter, Pioneer Dale, arrived in 1 Japan today with the story of Mon- day’s air attack on the ship outside the Communist-held port of Tsing- tao. Crewmen said hundreds of rounds of machine gun slugs ripped through the superstructure, includ- | today that Chiang Kai-shek has added, “He was trying to kill us every legal right to resume the —mpo hanes were P-51s and B-25s Presidency. Chiang became Presi- q,n a5 used by the Chinese Na- dent an_d Cpmmander-m-chxex of tionalist Air Force. the Nationalists yesterday. He ‘re-| 7S tired” a year ago to permit Vice-| President Li Tsung-jen to attempt to negotiate peace with the Com- munists. Li was unable to win peace and’ (ASE IS SERVED ON | is now in New York where he claims | v he is still Acting President and that!' Chiang is without authority to leadliu. M. w. (HlEFTA!N what is left of the nation. Li has; 2 by 4\ i (By Associated Press) said he will return to China and, ;o' yewis was served with a ;Z:‘::.‘ey“ Chiang’s right to the Presi- 1o pyong in a million-dollar dam- | age suit last night. The process i server boarded an eastbound train GI li'e Insuran(e at Defiance, Ohio, and found Lewis in a private compartment, on his ‘. . ! way back to Washington for con- Fund (he(ks Bemg ! tract talks. Lewis slammed the door shut and the server pushed the Senl by 'I'reas Dep| summons under the door The dam- . ®} age suit was filed by the Sunny Hill —_ Coal Company of Franklin County, (By Associated Press) Ohio. The Treasury Department has mailed out G.I. life insurance re- fund checks to more than half the veterans who have submitted thelrl applications. More than 7,000,000 checks have been sent out—bringing a total of one-and-one-quarter- billion dollars to ex-servicemen—or about $180 each. The checks are going out at a rate of more than 200,000 a day. NAVY FLYING BOAT DITCHED; CREW SAFE SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 2 —M—A Navy flying boat, taking part in maneuvers, was ditched in the Atlantic early today. All ten men aboard were rescued from liferafts in the rough sea a short time later. Both engines of the P-B-M quit, and the pilot ditched the plane about 300 miles north of Haiti. Two Navy surface craft made the rescue. The P-B-M was on night patrol #n the joint maneuvers of the Navy, Houseplants growing in water should be treated occasionally by dropping a piece of charcoal in the container. PAINTING AND DECORATING Bullef - Scarred 'SUMMONS, DAMAGE| HELD FRIDAY NIGHT, BETHEL TABERNACLE Another rousing Youth Rally is‘ {to be held tomorrow night, March |3, at 8 o'clock at the Bethel Tab- ernacle, Fourth and Franklin Streets. There will be a Singspira- | tion, special music on the Marimba, a Ladies Trio. Mrs. Bernice Mor- | gan will be the speaker of the! | g. All a given a hearty | invitation to attend this raliy. Drep Reporfed in . Farmers’ Income | (By Associated Press) | The Agriculture Department re- | ports that farmers’ income from marketings fell sharply in 43 stat- |es last year. Cash receipts were up ianly in Florida, Texas, New Mex-| — | ico, Arizona and Deleware. | The biggest percentage boost “‘JHEMO reported by Flo: he biggest | decline was reported by North Da- kota, with a 32 percent drop. SHAKEUP PREDICTED INBRIT. INT. SERVICE (By Associated Press) London newspapers are predicting | {a top-to-bottom shakeup in the|l&tion to a war-time E British intelligence service as the|ing civilian de result of disclosures made yesterday | 20MIC bombir lat the trial of atomic scientist Dr.| Chairmian Tydings Klaus Fuchs, | these assurances It came out during the hearing|Senate Armed that British authorities gave the|PY the tob civiliax German-born scientist access to|the National S some of Britain's most vital atom |[B021d. | secrets, even though British In-| Presidential Assistant gohn telligence knew all along he was a | Steelman, who also seryes as act- | member of the Communist party., |ing chairman of the board, pre- ented a summ of defes and | | | emerge m ation plans at a| closed-door committee session this A former chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee is the | forenoon, Steelman was accompanied® by latest victim of a “Raffles” burglar who has been operating in the | board members who have been drafting plans for industrial mob- | ilization, manpower controls, and wealthy resort town of Palm Springs, Calif., lately. The ex-chair- man of the GOP, Harrison Spang- civilian defenses for use in any em- ! | ergency, including sudden war. ler, returned to his hotel room alter‘ Nufi E KI!.lED dinner last night and found $2,000 | &u s ¥ ' AFTERKIDNAPED IN BURMA, IS REPORT gangster, and many other things. . Now that his home in a swank resi- | NEW YORK, March 2—{#—M:! dential area has been bombed, the | Selma M. Maxville, American mis- police are being asked to jail him | Sicnary nurse in Burma since 1916, as a “public nuisance.” was killed Tuesday by Burmese ‘ -_ bandits, according to word received BRAZIL'S RUBBER thusiasm monted du late vote-couniing BILIZATION PLANS MADE ON WARTIME BASIS ) Wirephoto. WASHINGTON, March | Senator ‘*ZOH ar plans this ense against possible (D-Md) e given to the anning age ity Resources In Los Angeles, the police are| trying to pin a new label on mob- | ster Mickéy Cohen, who has been | described officially as a hoodlum, a | e Women’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society said yes- Conservalives ( Londen Conservative supporters cheer jul as election results showing a Conservative gain shew up cn the ng the day as the Labor Party’s lead wi d] g £ ces Committee |} El ntly and display party posters in Trafalgar Square, London, electrie scoreboard. Conservative en- steadily reduced by Tery successes in the Prime Minister Clement Attlee (center), stands at microphoncs”in Walthamstow after the formal announcement that he had been re- elected to the House of Comumons from his district. Seated at right is Watlhamstow Maycr E. C. Redhead. The banner hanging below the microphone is thai of the “Returning Officer,” the official in charge of electicn ar gements in the constituency. Others not identified. ® Wirephote via o from London. Priced to Meet Your Budget PHONE 996 Ralph Treffers Air Force and Marines. Eigmy-| thousand men are participating. ' The ten men aboard the plane were reported in “good condition.” PRODUCTION LOW RIO DE JANEIRO—(®—Produc- | tion of natural rubber for the first six months of this year ran about 1,856 tons. It may not go over 4,-| terday it was informed of the death by the State Department in Wash- ington. The society said it received this account: Miss Maxville was kidnapped by HYDROGEN SUBPLY | TREMEXDOUS' FOR as a by-product by the Trail, B.C., plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. A Dutch businessman pleaded General Contractors Phone 357 Glacier Construction Co. New Building - Remodeling - Cabinet Work Plastering - Concrete Poured Sand and Gravel Hauling 000 for the entire year. | bandits near Moulmein several days Official figures bounce up and | 480. Arrangemends had been made down violently. A total of 4,000 for her release, when friendly vill- would be just about a record low. 22ers, acting on their own initiative, Last year it was 5446 tons, after a | forcibly rescued her. This touched dizay dive from 14510 in 1947. Re-|off a battle in which she and 12 'cox‘d high in 22 years came in 1944 villagers were slain. wjth 21,192, In 1905 rubber was| second only to coffee as Brazil's lending export product. There was a $100,000 jewelry stickup in Nashville last night. Two The United States and, a long | gunmen held up a jewelry sales- stretch behind, England, Fum:elmzm in a taxicab, and made off and Germany are the main buyers| with a king's ransom in uncut dia- of this year's crop. | monds, guilty to spying in Communist Czechoslovakia today. News re- porters from non-Communist states were barred from the courtroom. BOMBS, SAYS PROF. SPOKANE, Wash., March 2—— A British Columbia mine and smelting company already has pro- duced “a tremendous backlog” of The Socialist mayor of West Ber- lin has promised stern police action the heavy hydrogen necessary for|against any rowdyism that might production of the H-bomb, the head | develop at a Communist youth rally of the Gonzaga University chem-scheduled for May. Half-a-million istry department said yesterday. young East German Reds are plan- The Rev. Arthur L. McNeil, 8.J., | ning to take part in the West Ber- said the material is being produced | lin demonstration. e