The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1950, Page 1

| | | I i J THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,444 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOND;\,Y SOCIAT PRICE TEN CENTS , MARCH 6, 1950 “Mercy | STATEHOOD FOE 'LOST NO SLEEP" ON VOTE Not Eno ufilaxpayers,? Lathrop Says-Alaska Has Served Tutelage:Gov.Talks| SEATTLE, March 6—(#—One of the most outspoken foes of state- hood for Alaska was astonished by the strength of the dissenting vote when the House of Representatives approved admission of the Terri- tory into the Union. | Austin E. (Cap) Lathrop, 84-| year-old Alaskan industrialist, said yesterday he “didn’t los a wink of . sleep” over the 186-146 vote: which sent the statehood bill to the !, Senate Friday. | The heavy opposition vote was! surprising, Lathrop said, “because! nobody in the House could hurt| himself by voting for it, since the| Senate is there to make sure the| bill will go no further.” i The “political compulsion” that| exists in the Senate was absent| in House consideration of the mea- sure, Lathrop said. | “The State of Alaska would send | one Representative and two Senat- | ors to Washington,” he said. “Four hundred thirty-five Representatives | don’t worry too much about one | more membe,r but 96 Senators will | think a moment before they consent | to two more.” I Lathrop is in Seattle on his way | to Alaska after a trip to Washing- ton, D, C. He will fly to Fairbanks tomorrow. Lathrop has lived in Alaska since | 1896, when he sailed from Seattle| as part owner of a steam schooner | carrying gold miners. Statehood Too Costly Lathrop has opposed immediate statehood for Alaska on the grounds that too few taxpayers would have to support a government “more costly than the Territorial Govern- | ment we have not proven we can support properly now.” | Lathrop disapproved the use of | “national defense” as an argument | for statehood. “I’'d hate to think,” he said, “that | the proper defense of the nation's| most strategic area depends in any | degree on the form of government of Alaska.” Lathrop was accompanjed by his secretary, Miss Miriam Dickey. | | | i | LOCAL CONTROL IS SOLUTION; ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 6—| (A—Robert B. Atwood, Chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee and publisher of the Anchorage Times, issued the following state- | (Continued on Page Two) | | The Washingion Merry - Go- Round| ICopyrient. 1950, by Bell Syndicate. Ine.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Abe Davidian, a | narcotics runner, was found lying| on a couch in his mother’s home in Fresno, Cal, last week, a bullet hole in his head. Behind his murder were ramifi- cations extending to the New Jer-| sey Palisades, probably down to Miami, Fla., where a narcotics grand jury has been in session, end apparently up to enforcement | officers in the State of Cailifornia. In fact, Davidian’s murder illus- trates the amazing interstate net- work of organized crime. I was in Fresno in January when Davidian and 15 others were indict- | ed by the Federal Government in| an effort to break up a giant narcotics ring. At that time both! Warren Olney of the California| Crime Commission and George; White, Chief U. 9. Narcotis Agent for the West Coast, were worried. They told me they were worried | over the strange behavior of the| office of California’s Attorney Gen- eral Fred Howser in declining to co- | operate in this important case. Here is the story of this signifi- cant murder and the peculiar facts behind it. Four months ago Davidian was speeding up California’s Céntral Valley near Bakersfield with one kilogram of heroin in his car. When the police gave chase, he drove so fast that, though he tossed the heroin out to get rid of evidence, some of it flew into the back seat with such force that the police had Coper? The West's first public helicopter in San Francisco, in the shadow of the historic Ferry Building The first helicopter to land is parked on dock, while a second hovers above, as it transferred a person (in boatswain’s (tower background). chair) frem a small craft in the RAISEOF $1.40 7 SENDS MINERS ACK TO PITS orf Opens \Coal Cost Upped 25 fo 5 Cents - Work Steadied for Year or Longer WASHINGTON, March 6—(f— The signing of a new coniract sent | soft coal miners swarming back 'to the pits today—ending a serigus | threat to the nation’s economy and promising peace in the coal fields for months to come. | For the miners, the prize they | won was a $1.40 daily “package’” per | man, plus a reasonable assurance | of fairly steady work for at least a | year and perhaps until the middle | of 1952. For the operators, it meant | getting back into business. For the public the settlement | meant relief from a four-week | | | | | v 4 landing area was officially opened MIXED RACES NO BASISTO BAR HAWAII BULLETIN — WASHINGTON March 6—/P—The House tenta- tively npproved the bill granting statehcod for Hawaii by a voice vote but postponed final vote until tomorrow. Only minor op- position was made during debate. WASHINGTON, March 6—(®—A southern Democrat told the House today he could see no racial grounds for denying statehood to Hawaii. Rep. Larcarde (D-La) urged, as | the House resumed debate on the Hawaiian statehood bill, that the island territory be admitted to the Union immediately. He said he had observed in Ha- waii the intermingling of persons of many Asiatic and Polynesian ex- tractions “in perfect harmony.” “If that is their way of life, that is their business,” he asserted, add- ing that the people of the south- only ask that they be permitted to deal with their own racial prob- lems in their own way. Larcarde headed a House sub- | committee which visited the island in 1946 and recommended state hood for Hawaii. He said the ques tion whether Hatwaii should be ad- mitted to statehood was decided 50 years ago when Hawaii was ad- mitted as a Territory. Rep. Price (D-IIl) also supported statehood for Hawaii. There was brief debate on the measure last Friday—after the law- makers had approved Alaskan statehood 186 to 146—and a vote was expected on Hawaii either late today or tomorrow. Passage seemed certain. House approved a similar 1947. In general, the same House mem- bers who backed Alaska's state- hood bid are supporting the Ha- wailian measure. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 6—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 111, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 527%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 16%, U. S. Steel 31%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,470,000 shares. Averages today are as follows industrials 204.88, rails 36.42, util The bill in (Continued on Page Four) ities 42.90, GRUENING CRACKS CAB FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 6— | (P—Governor Gruening declared | Saturday the Civil Aeronautics | Board is “killing off our bush op-| erators, our local Alaskan airlines, our new non-scheds and' still not doing what is needed for success- | ful operation of scheduled car- ries The Governor spoke at an avia- tion conference called by the Al- aska Development Board. It was attended by bush pilots, nonsched- 1 strike, rescue from a looming indus- | ance of stability in what President | Truman has called “a sick indus- | One cperator put the cost of the | United Mine Workers’ gains at | cost to consumers may be anywhere | from 25 fo 50 cents a ton. | signed by UMW President John L. | Lewis and the spokesmen for all | west, the reluctant south, and the | steel-owned “captive” group — at vis wsmen: “The United bay, P Wirephoto, | Lewis told newsm J | plished the impossible.” Then he let iLhL‘ word be flashed to the 370,000 “All mines will resume work.” FAIRBANKS EDETOR jof a back-to-work order. There was | a contract, there would be work. In FOR Gop SIA"DSImuny disticts the jubilant miners i ' | to-work votes. Until now they had —Goternor Gruening told €| Lewis and the federal court. i ol et Local officials hurried the move- !h.)- 4 | back to some pits before the ink on | | the contract was fairly dry. ed a rosy future for the Territory | About one-third of his addre: was a personal attack against editor i 5| News-Miner. Strand was the Repub- Slowtv,l“DusIRY lican keynoter at the recent Lin-| coln Day dinner here, | LIMPS BEHIND paperman trained on the Chicago| R— Tribune whom ‘Cap’ Lamrupj PITTSBURGH, March 6—%—) up the paper, propagate his ideas,| coal mines swung back into opera- carry out his policies, fight state-| tion today to pace the gigantic task nor from getting reappointed and,| Resumption of digging that began | i reappointed, to prevent his con-|a bare five hours after the official .ublican Party generally, or at least | ressed slowly. But by nightfall| Ithe right wing of the Party.” |nearly every bituminous pit in the editcy between two and three | out coal. i years. Many of the 372,000 strikers re- festive mood they were in during a weekend victory celebration. Gunel murmurs of previous months. Big industries—crippled by the | behind the mines in restoring order | to the nation’s economy. how fast we can get coal,” said a spokesman for the U.S. Steel Corp. operations in a few days.” Railroads completed | trial breakdown, and some assur- | try,”—plus higher coal bills, | $250,000,000 this year. The extra The strike-settling contract was {major groups of operators—north, ‘5:30 p.m. (EST) Sunday. | Mine Workers have again accom- GOVERNOR BLASTS |- This time there was no defiance { waived formal meetings and back- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 6 .n0q orders to go back from both Widay - nighte’ faesaneNckaon | ment by radio broadcasts in some | | towns. lauded the accomplishments | of the 1949 Legislature and predict- and the Party. i | - MINES OPENING William C. Strand of the Fairbanks- ‘ | He described Strand as “a news- | brougnt in not long ago to pep|About one-third of America’s soft| hood, prevent the present Gover-|of refueling a shivering nation firmation, and to build up the Re-|end of the great coal strike prog- Strand has been the News-Miner | country is expected to be turning | ported to the mines in the same| were the grim stares and anery| fuel shortage—limped along a step| “It all depends on how soon and “We'll probably be back to normal fleets of coal cars for the big job arraying MEMBER AS alternate jurior. Inspection of h (CHURCHILL ISDARED HEARING EVIDENCE AT “MERCY KILLIN( ~ BY ATTLEE SELECT ALL-MALE JURY IN 'MERCY KiLLING' | ospital was jury’s first act. BRIT. PARLIAMENT OPENED; SPEECH BY KING MILD AS MILK Labor GoveAr;n'm—enI Shelves Further Nationaliza- tion Plans LONDON, March 6—(®—Prime Minister Attlee dared Winston Churchiil's Conservativ today to fight out the issue of state owner- ship of iron and steel, despite the | Labor party’s wobbly majority in the House of Commons. Ly @¥isking the possibility of a new telection, the Labor Prime Minister | announced his government has not the slightest intention of dropping the nationalization of that industry, although it has placed other na- tionalization projects on the shelf for the time being, at least. Anthony Eden, Deputy Leader of the Conservatives, brought the is- sue into the open during debate on the King's forenoon address to Parliament. That address, prepared by the ruling Laborites, indicated a bid to the Liberal party for their nine House votes by calling a halt on the nationalization projects. If Labor should fdil in a vote of confidence on the steel issue, it would face a new election. MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING POLICE Wesley Wililams, 40, was arrested early this morning at 420A Wil- loughby Avenue after he haa threatened to shoot police patrol- man Roland Edwards with a 410 gauge shotgun. The police had been investigat- ing a report that Williams was armed and making threats, they said. He was taken before aciing City Magistrate M. E. Monagle today on a complaint signed by members ot vhe police force. His case was continued over until tomorrow, FORMER JUNEAU COUPLE _ HAVE BABY DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Anderson| of Richmond, Va., are the proud narents of a baby daughter, is was | learned today. Anderson is the son of Mrs. An-| drew Erickson of Juneau. His wife was formerly a nurse at St. Ann's Hospital. Anderson is employed by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Richmond. e e WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 41; minimum 29. At Airport—Maximum 41; minimum 26. FORECAST (Ju u and nity) Mostly fair with lowest temperature near 32 degrees tonight. Partly Cloudy with highest temperature near 45 degrees Tuesday. SPRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—Trace; since March 1-2.72 inches; since July 1—60.63 inches, At Airport—Trace; since March 1—72 inches; evecesvcsecee o ule operators, representatives of | the regular schedule carriers and|©f moving the precious product. | businessmen. A survey of the fields indicated} He declared the Territory must | fewer than 30,000 miners on early have relief from “totally unsym- shifts answered the back to work pathetic absentee control of our| call. {economic lifeline.” He said he In some cases pits were reopened |would discuss the problem with|although a fraction of the normal authorities when he visits Wash- | Manpower was present. ington soon.. S p— —_— DR. MOORE HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Dr. Philip Moore, noted ortho- Among Anchorage residents at|pedic surgeon of Mt. Edgecumbe the Gastineau Hotel and E. A. Das- | hospital, is a guest at the Baranof son and Andrew Baker. * | Hotel /oo ® o0 » s veoseos . +| STEAMER MOVEMENIS - TIDE TABLZE . . e | Baranof from Seattle due 11:30 - MARCH 7 o !o'clock Tuesday night. e High tide 3:40 am, 19.1 ft. e| Princess Norah scheduled to sail ® Jow tide 10:02 am., -2.1 ft. e|from Vancouver Wednesday, March High tide 4:07 pm, 169 ft. e 8. Low tide 10:11 pm. -0.2 ft.” @ Denali scheduled to sail from l. @ © © © ® o o o ol FSeattle Saturday. since July 1-39.41 inches. (By Associated Press) In London, the King’s speech at the opening of the new Parliament was as mild as milk. The Labor Government, holding only a seven seat majority, shelved further na- tionalization as an immediate goal. The speecch traditionally reveals the aims of the government in sower. Today it dwelt on the need of international agreement for con- trol of atomic energy, and con- inued support of the United Na- tions. It promised to introduce leg- slauon if needed to maintain full employment, The Conservatives are not likely to call for a vote of con- fidence on such issues as these. COMMIES DiD TOP ORGANIZING JOB: GOVT. WITNESS SAN FRANCISCO, March 6P -A government witness in the Harry Bridges perjury trial tesutied today the Communist party did “an excellent job” in helping organize waterfront workeys in 1935 through 1936. The witness was Mervyn Rath- borne, one-time intimate of Bridges in waterfront union affairs. Rath- borne had testified he was an active end influential Communist trom 1935 through 1946. Further, he said, meetings with Bridges. Bridges, President of the CIO Longshoremen's and Warehouse- ien’s Union, was indicted last May on a charge he committeed perjury at his 1945 citizenship hearin: by denying he was or had ever been a Communist, Rathborne was still under cross- examination today by Vincent Hal- linan, chief attorney for Bridges He praised the Communist party for what it did in helping organiz waterfront workers in 1934, ' 1935 and 1936. “But things now are very dif- ferent” in the Communist party, he said. Hallinan asked *“didn't Harry Bridges deserve a lot of credit for organizing the unions, and wasn't his work very important?” Rathborne replied: “The work of everyone who was carrying it on was important. And Bridges had an important part in it. But I don't credit him with being the savior of the working class—who organized the unions single-handed.” FROM GRAYS MARBOR The two communities on Grays Harbor, Wash., are represented among guests at the Baranof Hotel, in the persons of Elmer L. Arm- strong of Aberdeen and Aaron Wise of Hoquiam. FROM PETERSBURG is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | ” trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander for giving injection of air to Mrs. Abbie Borroto as she lay dying of cancer near Manchester, N. H,, is this all- male jury. From left, front row: Moise Z. Marcoux, Albert Defosses, Joseph A. McNeil, O. John | Fortin, George A, Wingate, Harry Wright. Rear. from left: Earl Isham, Sr., Leo Harkeen, Edward | Auger, Alexis Norin, Louis C. Cutter, foreman; Philomon E. Houde and Dana Clark, Sr. Isham is he had attended many Communist | Walter C. Peterson of Petersburg ! fatal (International Soundnhoto) LEWIS OFFERS MILLIONTO| AUTO STRIKE WASHINGTON, March 6P+ John L. Lewis today offered a $1 000,000 loan to the CTO Auto Work- ers as aid in the seven-week Chrys- ler strike. President, that the United Mine Workers Union policy committee had authorized the offer. Lewis’ letter said the UMW hopes other unjons in the CIO and the AFL will extend money aid “to the | end that your union may be asstred, | beyond peradventure, of success in its present struggle.” Lewis’ offer was regarded as a response to the $500,000 gift check | which CIO President Phillip Mur- | ray sent to the UMW in the miners’ just-concluded contract fight, = | NEW LEFTIST PARTY| EMERGES IN GREECE; ELECTION RETURNS (By Associated Press) A new leftist party headed by an old Greek warrior emerged today as a strong force in Greece. Conser- vative foes said the leftists had hid- den Communist support. i With nearly one-half of the re- turns in from yesterday’s parlia- | mentary elections, the National| Progressive Union headed by Gen.| Nicholas Plastiras held a slender ! lead over the two big traditional parties—the Conservative Populists | of former Premier Constantin Tsal- | daris and the Moderate Liberals of Sophocles Venizelos. Still another leftist party drew {a sizeable vote. It was the Repub- | {lican front headed by former For- leign Minister John Sophianolpou- los, The Communist Party did not | take part. It has been outlawed as a result of the civil war that ended last fall. The two leftist parties held 29 percent of _ the vote with about half the 4,000 precincts heard from. 'RASH OF BERGS DOTS GASTINEAU CHANNEL| A rash of icebergs dotted Gas- | tineau Channel over the weckend,! |moving in and out with the tide| |and providing a hazard for small| |craft and landing aircraft, | Several stood above the water | more than 20 feet, and one of these posed a problem for the technically | minded: although it was reported to rise more than 20 feet out of | the water, it was seen to bump| aground near Douglas in water| known to be no more than 10 feet | deep. Icebergs are generally seven- | | eights below water, Coast Guard officials cautioned | | mariners to beware of even the | | smallest bergs which may be much | bigger under water than they ap-| |pear to be from the surface. | FROM TENAKEE | H. J. Floresco of Tenakee is a| guest at the Baranof Hotel, Lewis wrote Walter Reuther, UAW | Killing”’ Case Defendani Testifies DR.SANDERIS ON STAND IN OWN DEFENSE Defendanl}?:Mercy Kill- ing” Case Replies fo All Questioning MANCHESTER, N.H., March 6— (P—Dr. Hermann N. Sander (esti~ fied in his murder trial today that | “there w no indication of life, no reaction,” when he injected air | into the veins of Mrs. Abbie Borroto, | He also said “I never had any | intention of killing Mrs. Borroto.” Under questioning by one of his attorneys, the defendant safid he ! believed she died of cancer and he | S0 signified on her death certiticate. | Asked, then, why he dictated the jentry in Mrs. Borroto's record that | disclosed the air injection, he re- plied: “I think it is the duty of every doctor to put down on the charts what he has done for every patient whether it has any effect or not.” The 41-year-old country doctor on trial for murder in the deal of the cancer-ridden woman said he led for a syringe the morning ot last Dec. 4 after he looked at his patient and thought she was dead. “It is my opinion then that she was dead,” Dr. Sander testitied in a calm voice. “I can't explain exactly what action I took then. Something snapped. Why I did it I can't tell. It doesn't make sense.” “Did you have any intention of killing Mrs. Borroto?” asked defense { counsel Ralph Elangdell. “I never had any intention of kill- Ing Mrs, Borroto,” repiied the doc- tor. Q. Did you ever agree to kill Mrs. | Borroto? A. I never agreed to kill her. Q. Did you know what you in- ! tended to do with thn syringe¥ A. I do not know what I intended to do. I remember trying to get into her vein. Q. Was there blood on her arm? Al There was never any blood anywhere, I tried to get into the vein. I did not use a tourniquet to bring up the vein. Her veins were collapsed. LABOR, MATERIAL COSTS CAUSE RISE IN AIRPORT SUMS WASHINGTON, March 6—®— The House today passed and sent to the President a bill to increase the authorization for two’ Alaska airports from $13,000,000° to $17,- The increased authorization would provide $11,582,000 for the Anchor- age airport, and $5,418,000 tor the Fairbanks airport. A committee report said the ad- ditional funds are needed be- cause of substantial jumps in labor and material costs since the air- rorts were first authorized by Congress in 1948, Gilmore Appointment Approved; To Senale WASHINGTON, March 6—(#— The Eenate Judiciary Committee today approved the reappointment of District Attorney Patrick J. | Gilmore, Jr., for Division No. 1 in Alaska. The nomination, by President Truman, now goes to the Senate for action. TO KETCHIKAN EM1 (te) J. L. Gonzales, Jr., USCG, whose whome is in New Orleans, has been stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. He expected to 80 to Ketchikan today. FROM TACOMA S. Bessett of Tacoma is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM SITKA | Lowell Colby of Sitka is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM FAIRBANKS Tom Monk of Fairbanks is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM KETCHIKAN A. L. Ricker of Ketchikan is stopping at the Baranof Hotel, N