The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,469 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES MP IRE SDAY, APRIL 4, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HARRY BRIDGES FOUND GUILTY GRUENING GETS CALL FROM (AB Members Take Sharp Ex- ception fo Charge Board Has "Cracked Down” WASHINGTON, April 4 — @ b Members of the Civil Aeronautics BEZ PURCHASE OF HARRIS CANNERIES COMPLETED NOW SEATTLE, April 4—(®—Purchase of the P. E. Hamis and Com- pany salmon packing interests by Nick Bez and associates was an- | pounced here today. Negotiations had been reported under way for several weeks. The Earris Company owns can- neries at False Pass and Hawk In- let, Alaska, and operates a mark- eting organization. The purchase price was not dis- closed. Finangng Board took sharp exception today to a charge by Gov. Ernest Gruen- ing of Alaska that the board “has cracked down” on independent air operators in Alaska and “practically put them out of business.” Gruening, testifying in a hearing to determine the adequacy of nir service to the Territory, urged the board to add at least two more cer- tificated airlines to the two now serving Alaska and asked that both be Alaskan carriers. One of the new lines, he said, should connect the interior of Alaska with Seattle and the other link Fairbanks and northern Alaska with Chicago. “Crackdown” Alleged Gruening said the Alaskan air sit- uation has been “greatly aggravated by the crackdown of the CAB on the non scheduled lines.” He said independent carriers, which operate when they have pay- ing loads in contrast to the regularly scheduled lines which run on defi- nite schedules, have done a tre- mendous volume of business in Alaska. He said they have benefitted | the Territory’s economy. “If the board persists in its policy of putting them out of business by executive fiat, by the enforcement regulation that flights shall be oc- cational and few and far between” Gruening said, “then the void left in | the service must be filled by the board in other ways. It must cer-) (Continued on Page Two) LATHROP APPROVED FOR NATIONAL COM. Capt. Austin E. Lathrop of Fatr-| banks has been oked by the Repub- lican Central Committee of Al- aska at a meeting nere for Repub- licgn National Committeeman and the recomnfendation has been sent to headquarters effective immed- iately. Lathrop was the unanimous choice for the position at the meet- ing of the Alaska Republican con- vention held in Juneau last week.| The Washington Merry Go-Round pyrieht. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—When it comes to turning over the Senate, the Republicans are up against the fact that William How- ard Taft, father of their top lead- er, sided Against them and with Harry Truman. So did six other presidents of . the United States and a House Judiciary Committee. President George Washington was the first to say flatly “no” in 1796 when he refused to give the House a copy of instructions to U. S. diplomats who had negotiated a treaty with Great Britain. George Washington said: “As it is es- sential to the due administration of the government that the bound- aries fixed by the Constitution should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution and to the duty of my office forbids a compliance with your request.” President Thomas Jefferson con- tinued the precedent by refusing to allow two Cabinet members to supply documents at the Aaron Burr trial. President James Monroe also declined to give up papers about the conduct of Naval officers, while Andrew Jackson was ordered by the Senate to supply a memo read by him to his Cabinet on re- moval of public money from the bank of the United States. He re- fused. Later President Grover Cleveland (Continugd on Page Four) loyalty files to; 1 Los Angeles, erage firm. The new operating firm will be known as P. E. Harris Company, Inc. Its articles of incorporation were jfiled two weeks ago at Olympia As incorporators, they listed a Se- attle attorney and a representative of the Staats Company along with Bez. Bez has become one of the top figures in North Pacific fishing n recent years. He owns the con- trolling interest in the Columbia River Packers Association. It was reported that main reason for the sale was the prolonged fil- jness of P. E. Harris. He has been hospitalized more than a year. HALF BILLION MORE ASKED FORPLANES Vinson Says Admlmsira- (tion Bill To Small - ""Russ Arm for Pearl Harbor Day”’ WASHINGTON, April 4—#—The | Chairman of the House Armed Serv- ices Committee called on Congress today to vote $583289211 for war planes to help meet the threat of an “atomic blitz.” | Protesting that the administra- tion’s $13,611,127,000 military pro- gram “will wither American air | power on the vine,” Rep. Vinson | (D-Ga) urged instead that air strength be boosted promptly. Vinson said in a speech prepared for House delivery that the Presi- dent’s budget for, the fiscal year beginning in July does not assure adequate defense at a time when | “the atomic blitz of tomorrow is a | real, a genuine possibility.” He added: “It is universally known today that Russia is building the largest Air Force in the world. What are they building it for? They are building it for use whenever their carefully-timed Pearl Harbor Day comes around.” Previously Vinson has said he ex- pects to sponsor several amend- ments to the bill authorizing mili- tary spending for the year beginning next July 1. In his speech, however, he brought up only the proposal for increasing air power. The pending budget allots $1,350,- 000,000 for Air Force procurement and $650,000,000 for new planes for the Navy and Marines. Vinson would give the Air Force an additional $200,000,000 or a total of $1,550,000,000 for new planes, and the Navy an increase of $383,- 289,211 or $1,033,289,211 for the same purpose. These increases, Vinson said,. needed to maintain an up-to-date 48-group Air Force and a modern Naval air arm. A House Military Appropriations subcommittee reported recently that this country now has only from 44 to 46 modern groups. HOSPITAL NOTES William P. Wyses of Sitka, Chris Botagov, and Pete Soboff were ad- an day. William Crist, Mrs. Gordon Wahto and her infant son, and Mrs. Earl Everson and her baby boy were dismissed. Johnny Nelson of Yakutat was dismissed from the Government | Hospital, was altangedl by William R. Staats Company of | Civil Aeronautics Board heard argu- | investment brok- | mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yester- | AIR CARRIERS HITSERVICES INCABCONFAB Pan Am Slaps Northwesi- Feeder Lines. Demand Inside Alaska Routes WASHINGTON, April 4—{®—The ments yesterday in its investigation | into adequacy Alaska from lines operating from the United States to the Territory and within it. of air service to counsels for nine air | 3 Eleven companies are involved in | the case. Henry P. Friendly, | counsel for Pan American World Airways, toid | the board his company wants to| serve Anchorage in -addition to Fairbanks and other Alaskan cities and to establish co-terminals at Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles for its Alaska service He said Pan American wants di- rect service from Seattle to An- chorage, a route now operated by Northwest Airlines. If permission for such service is given, he said, another route will operate from Seattle to Ketchikan, Juneau and Fairbanks. “Not Tried” Friendly recounted that Pan American has been operating in the Tervitory for 16 years and saia his line is equipped to give the best of service. He said Northwest has not tried to provide necessary service over the route. Edward Leasure, counsel for Northwest, objected to giving Pan American authority to operate di- rect to Anchorage. He said he be- lieves there was little basis for an examiner’s report that Northwest had inadequately served Anchorage, sontending the line not only has ziven adequate service but has re- sently improved it. Theodore I. Seamon appeared as counsel for four Alaskan feeder lines—Cordova Air Service, North- ern Consolidated Airlines, Alaska Coastal Airlines and Wien Alaska Airlines. No Inner Service He urged that the Board insist hat any airlines granted permis- ion to operate between the Unitea States and Alaska be required to sive up all services within Alaska The feeder lines within Alaska can furnish all service needed within the Territory, he said. Seamon agreed with Commis- ioner Harold Jones that if too many airlines are given permission o operate to the Territory from he United States the “government will pay through the nose.” Earlier in the day Alaska Airlines contended it is the only airline 2quipped and experienced to furnish through service from the Territory o the United States and within the Territory. The Mt. McKinley Airways asked permission to furnish service from Anchorage to, Seattle. Pacific Northern Airlines asked permission to operate from Kodiak o Seattle. The hearing continued today with two more airlines and officials of Alaska, the Alaska Development Board, Interior Department, and representatives of Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash., and Chicago to be heard. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 4—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 116%2, Anaconda 28%, . Curtiss- Wright 87%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 50, New York Cen- tral 14 3-8, Northern Pacific 16, U. 8. Steel 31%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,010,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 209.05, rails 5621, util- ities 42.79. EASTER BABY SHOW The annual Easter baby show will be held at Kb6diak on Easter Day afternoon at the Orpheum theatre and boys and girls up to three years of age will parade on the stage, Captain William D. Brown, (left) T Mlssoun Sklpper onTrial skipper of the biz battleship Mlssnurl. when she ran aground near Norfolk on January 17, as he appeared before a Navy Court Martial in that city. Brown pleaded guilty | to charges of negligence. Left to right: Capt. Brown; Capt. Leon J. Manees, Rear Admiral Albert K. Mnrchauc, Rear Admiral Maurice E. Curts, and Rear Admiral Stuart S. Murray. ( Wirephoto. CHINESE MEET RED PLANES IN FIGHTS OVER MAINLAND - (By Associated Press) A Nationalist Chinese air head- guarters spokesman said today Rus- sian-built and Russian-manned war planes are now operating on the Communist-held mainland. ! The spokesman at Taipei, For- ing a raid Sunday on Red ship- ping near Shanghai met their first air opposition in four years ivil warfare, He said the planes “definitely were of Russian manufacture,” and rom the way they were flown, he d, “they most certainly were nanned by Russians.” Observers saw this development as an ominous forerunner for Red attacks on Formosa and said i crobably means Communist armie will have the protection of an air umbrella when they invade Chian, zai-Shek’s island bastion. A communique quoting intelli zence repoits from the mainla said a large number of Russian Jlanes had arrived at Suchow, 160 niles north of Nanking. Her communique said, Russian insl was painted over with the ins «r the Communist Chinese Repub- REORGANIATION CF NLRB OPPOSED (By Adsociated Press) Senator John McClellan, the Ark- nsas Democrat, says he will join ~ith Republican Senator Taft in 1 fight against President Truman's Jlan to reorganize the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Truman proposes to elim- ‘nate the office of the NLRB coun- sel Robert Denham, who has be at odds with board members cusing them of pro-labor bias. The President would transfer his pow- 2rs to Board Chairman Paul Her- z08. Taft has intrcduced a resolu- iionl opposing the change. The Ohio Senator says it would make Her- z0g “the biggest labor czar in th country.” And Democrat McClellan who supported the Taft-Hartley Act, says: “I will have to,be shown that this change is necessary.” of -ac- MRS. HUNTER LEAVES Mrs. Earl Hunter, Jr., is a pas- senger for Seattle aboard the Prin cess Norah. She is going to Atherton, Calif, to visit her sister for two months and will stop enroute to, visit thc son of the family, Buddy Hunter, who is a junior at the University ol Oregon at Eugene studying pre- medics. mosa, said Nationalist fighters dur- | f] BIXBYS 10 COMPLETE | - WORLDTRIP CALCUTTA, India, April 4—(®— [ The globe-circling Bixbys—stopped by engine trouble in their attempt to beat the round-the world flight record held by the late Bill Odom re going to fly on to San Fran- isco anyhow. The aerial husband-and-wife team, Bob and ‘Dianna, hid their disappointment behind philosophic ! smiles today as they were told it {would be several days before spare parts could be flown here for the | needed repairs on their twin-en- | gine Mosquito, the Huntress IL They were weil over half their Jjourney—11,836 miles—when they were forced to turn back to Cal- cutta’s Dumdum Air Field yesterday morning. They were right on the schedule they had set for topping Odom’s 1947 speed record cof 173 hours, The engine trouble said, when their converted bomber was up 4,000 feet. Gaskets in the cooling system of the left engine burst and the plane was showered with anti-freeze tiuid. “We knew we had to turn back, Bob said. Dianna was near tears the plane landed. ‘The couple, operators of charter cargo planes at Santa Paula, Cal plan to hop next to Tokyo, across Red China, then to Midway I:zland, and on to San Francisco. began, Bok British when AT THE GASTINEAU Mrs, Frank Loewe and two child- ren are registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel from Yakutat. They arrived via PNA Airlines yesterday. e ¢ o o o » WEATHER ~ REPOR' In Juneau—Maximum 37; minimum 31. At Airport—Maximum 36; minimum 28. FORECAS (Juneas and Vielo Cloudy with intermittent snow tonight. Decreasing cloudiness Wednesday be- coming fair in dfternoon. Strong gusty northeasterly winds tonight decreasing Wednesday. Low temperat- ure tonight about 28 in town and near 20 in outlying areas, High Wednesday about 38, PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau--Trace; since April 1—.06 inchese since July 1—60.63 inches. At Airport—.09 inches; since April 1—.10 inches; since July 1—40.30 inches; l..l..'... RED INVESTIGATION WILL BE BALKED, SENATOR PREDICTS WASHINGTON, April 4—(B—The ©enate Communist investigation ieaded for a possible stalemate to- day. Senator Connally (D-Tex) predicted the Senate won't vote centempt citations for officials re- fusing access to secret loyalty files. A Senate Foreign Relations sub- committee investigating charges by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) that the 3tate Department is harboring Communists and is being influenced by Soviet spies, seemed balked at every turn. It feced th¢ necessity of obtain- ing a contempt citation—whicli Connally told reporters stands little tle chance of getting—to reverse President Truman’s decision against rening the confidential files. Withcut much hope of success, it ought means of forcing McCarthy o make available six documents 1e turned over to the FBI in con- iection with his charges that Owen Lattimore, writer on Far Eastern iffairs, is a Soviet- agent in the state Department, The subcommittee will give Latti- nore, who already has called Mc- Carthy’s charges and “unmitigatléd ie,” a c¢hance to answer them ormally in a hearing Thursday. (utin Government Payroll Is Sought; Proposal in House (By Associated Press) The Government payroll—carry- ing nearly two million names—ap- »arently will ke the main target of ;he Republican budgét-cutting drive n the House. Bome GOP members are backing an amendment mlllm for a 10 percent reduction lanned Government personnel fur the new fiscal year. The House sesumes debate noon on’ the 29-billion-dollar om- ibus appropriations bill covering demestic spending. The R.epubhum hope to cut that figure by one Bil- lion dollars. The Interior Department in washington has asked the Civil ervice Commission for a ruling about 500 government workers—or rather, whether they are govern- ment workers. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 8 tonight. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to saill from Vancouver Saturday. from | CIO Longshore Union, IS CONVICTED OF PERJURY By KATHERINE PINKIIAM SAN FRANCISCO, April 4—P— Harry Bridges, President of the big was con- victed today of perjury. His two fellow-officers in the union, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, who helped get him cit- izenship in 1945, were convicted with | him, on two counts of conspiracy. The government said Bridges swore falsely he was not a Com- munist and that the other two sup- | ported him, It was the 1945 naturalization hearing that resuited in the three- pronged Federal Grand Jury indict- ment against the three men. Each, convicted, is subject to % seven-year prison sentence and 2 made subject to deportation to Aus- | tralia, where he was born. E Conspiracy Charge | Count one of the indictment; charged all three men with con- | spiracy to defraud the govcrnmenu in obstructing operations of the| Naturalization Department. Count| two was against Bridges, alone,| charging him with perjury. Count| three was against Schmidt and Robertson, charging them with con- spiracy to aid and abet perjury. The trial opened Nov. 14. The jury of eight men and four women received the case for deliberation: last Friday. f Verdict Is Given Today, at 11:52 am, PST mey‘ took their seats in the big jury box and passed ‘the verdict to the court, | after 31 hours of dredging through | two million words of testimony. None of the jurors would say howv many ballots they took, or how the voting went. In their own testimony, Bridges and the other two men denied re- | peatedly they were or ever had been Communists, Federal Judge George B. Harris thanked the jurors. b Bndges wife was sitting near the; defense table. She look(ld nt him, and pursed her WHAlES HAliBUT INVESTIGATED FOR INSULIN SOURCE I OTTAWA, April M—Extrncuon of commercial quantities of. insulin | from halibut and whales on me‘ Pacific coast is under investigation by the Canadian Fisheries Depart-| ment. A department publidation “Trade News,” said today that its Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station is fish provide insulin, the Canadian- | discovered preparation used in com- | batting diabetes. Canadian scientists turned to fish as a potential source because | demand for insulin has been doub- | ling every five years since 1930. The normal supply—from beef pancreas —is relatively fixed. ing the summer of 1949,” the depart- | ment said, “it would appear that sulin on this (Pacific) coast are to be found in halibut and whales.” «|Soviefs fo Keep Up | fine of $15,000. Further, Bridges was |’ { heads, I “From investigations made dur- the most promising sources of in-! WITH TWO OTHERS FOUND GUILTY, CONSPIRACY COUNTS lips th the form of a Xiss. He smiled. Bridges said, “My opinion of: the immigration service still hasn't changed. It was a frameup and still is a frameup.” He was asked, “You still say you're not a Communist?” Bridges answered, “I still say it was a frameup.” Schmidt's daughter Louisa, in tears as she embraced him. Courtroom Silent The courtroom . was absolutel, silent as the eight men and four women filed gravely into the jury box. wag “Members of the jury,” asked Judge Harris, “you have reached your verdict?” The foreman said yes. Court read: “We of the jury find Harry Ren- ton Bridges, defendant at the bar, | guilty on the first count, and guilty on the second count.” “We of the jury find J. R. Rob- ertson guilty on the first count, and | guilty on the second count.” This was repeated in the case of Schmidt. The special prosecutor, F. Joseph Donohue, told reporters as the trial ended in conviction: Jury System Vindicated “The American tradition of the Jury system is vindicated. The jury system is Jjustified. The internal security of the United States will always be maintained.” ‘Will Appeal Vincent Hallinan, chief of the de- fense legal staff, told reporters, “We will appeal, of cour: “I think it is an outrage,” Halli- | nan declared. “The dark curtain has fallen again, From now on the gov- Clerk Edward Mitchell ‘ernment will trample on witnesses.” ‘The jury foreman, Glenn Chris- tianson of Oakland, told newsmen: “All T can say is his honor (Judge Harris) interpreted the law and we as conscientious jurors interpreted the facts. “The verdict speaks for itself. | There need be no more said.” No Comment Robertson, first vice president of the longshore union which Bridges told newsmen he had ‘“no comment."” Mrs. Nancy Bridges, Harry's pretty wife, said, “It’s the last battle that counts, and that's the one we're going to win.” Her eyes were filled with teats. Wise Crack SLhmldt international vice presi- | dent of the uuion, said, “The verdict | was timely in the sense we now can get away to the San Pedro long- shore conference which takes place tomorrow morning.” It was obviously a wise-crack. Eridges told a gathering in an ad- jacent room “temporarily, some of looking into the question of having | %! battles are behind us.” “Luckily, we prepared for the worst in this case. We tried to get everything boxed down for a long pull, “We're prepared to make it. That's | the way it is, I guess.” As soon as the verdict was an- nounced, Judge Harris called for a | brief recess. Contempt Action After that, he said, he would take up the contempt of court action against the two Bridges attorneys, Hallinan and James MacInnis. Hallinan already has been senten- ced by the judge to six meénths in jail, to be served after the trial. Later, MacInnis was held guilty. ATTORNEYS SENTENCED Schmidt, international represen- U. N. Boycott Unil | Nationalists Are Out (By the Associated Press) In Moscow, the Communist party | newspaper Pravda made it clear| that the Soviet Union has no in-| tention of ending her boycott of the United Nations as long as Chinese ) Nationalist representatives sit- in| the U.N. | In a dispatch from its New Yund correspondent, Pravda said the‘ United Nations is in a state of “paralysis and desolation.” It blamed this on the “Anglo-Ameri- can bk i ! | l lpress the appeals case. nuve of the union, and Robertson, first vice president, and defense at- torneys, after recess moved for an anested Jjudgment and delay in sen- | tencing and for retrial. The court |set for hearing Monday, bail for the three men set at $5,000. Atter | Judge Harris finished with defend- ants, he called their two attorneys before him and sentenced both to Jjail for contempt of court. Hallinan wealthy lawyer, with loud boisterous courtroom manner, was sentenced to six months and James MacInnis to three months. Both will be per- mitted freedom without bail pend- ing their commitment which prob- ably will be delayed as long as they