The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1950, Page 1

W THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,484 LOST PLANE | MAY CAUSE BREAK, RUSS Severance of Diplomafic| Relations Suggested - by-Rep. McCormack ‘WASHINGTON, April 21 — ® -— Russia’s brushoff of the United States note on the Soviet-American plane incident angered Congress members today and brought from House Democratic leader McCor- mick (Mass) a suggestion that it might be well to break diplomatic relations, *" McCormack said in a statement that the Russian attitude is “in- sulting.” He added: “It seems to me the time has arrived when we should either call back our Ambas- sador for a long period of consul- tation or completely break off our diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.” In a House speech, Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the Armed Serv- ices Committee accused Russia of an act of aggression—“A murder-| ous, dastardly, despicable act which has been officially condoned by the Russian government.” He was talking about the loss ot ten American fliers aboard an un- armed Navy plane which the U.S. says was shot down by Soviet fighter planes over the Baltic Sea on April 8. Killings Deliberate Vinson addressed the House shortly after Moscow rejected as “clearly absurd” this country’s de- mand for compensation for the loss of lives and for assurance that there will be no recurrence of the inci- dent. The Armed Services Chairman took the floor when the House sus- pended other business to vote on a resolution honoring the ten lost airmen. The Senate passed the mea- sure last Wednesday, 66 to 0. The resolution directs the Secre- | tary of the Navy to award post- humous honors to the 10 fliers and expresses Congressional sympathy to their families. At the end of Vinson’s ten-minute speech, the House adopted the reso- lution by a roll call vote of 330 to 0. Vinson said the Americans were killed “deliberately, savagely and brutally.” Commie Official Ordered Out by U.S. WASHINGTON, April 21 — (® — The United States today ordered Communist Czechoslovakia to shut down its Consulate General in Chi- cago not later than May 1. The action, announced in a note to the Czech'government, was in direct retaliation of an order clos- ing the libraries of the U.S. Infor- mation Service in Czechoslovakia and the American Consulate Gen- eral in the city of Bratislava. The Washington Merry - Go- Round (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Five years- ago today, this column broke one of the most sensational and unpleas- ant stories of the war. American troops had reached the suburbs of Berlin, I reported, and then being ordered back to the River Elbe because of a demand by the Russ- ians. Publication brought immediate criticism from a great many peo- ple, who felt that I was upsetting U. S.-Russian relations. They es- pecially objected to this paragraph: “At the height of the rapid U. 8. advance (toward Berlin), and just four days before Roosevelt’s death, Stalin sent him a brusque note accusing the United States of mak- ing a deal with the Nazis in order to advance more rapidly through Germany. The note was couched in most caustic and critical lang- uage. The inference was that a U S.-German deal had permitted the Nazis to transfer more troopsi to the eastern front and thus kill more Russians.” it I mention this now, because that critical mail came from about the WILDLIFE SERVICE DONATES 93 FISH' T0 LIBRARY DRIVE The Juneau staff of the Fish and Wildlife Service is noted for their ‘“gameness,” so today they donated no less than 93 “fish” to the Juneau Memorial Library drive. The contribution was received in |the office of Dr. James C. Ryan, commissioner of education and member of the library board. Al- though Dr. Ryan has been absent in Ketchikan this week to attend a meeting of the Board of Educa- tion, his staff is right on the job to open all mail and today opened an envelope chock full of those green fish, and turned it over to B. D. Stewart, acting drive chair- man. /4 This sum, plus a bookkeeping error made by the bank in which the board keeps its funds—which favored the drive $10—brings the amount now down to $1,662.19. A spontaneous drive began in the wildlife service's offices in the fed- eral building, while busy all week writing laws, rules, regulations and such, then passing them along for reading and checking, still love tc read a little fiction and non-fiction once in a while, too. So they added their bit to the realization of the library. Total amount needed is $70,000, to be matched with funds from the Com- munity Facilities Administration, a federal agency set up to aid con- structlon of such projects in com- munities throughout the nation. HIGH SCHOOL BAND IN PUBLIC CONCERT TONIGHT IN Hi GYM In the last concert of the pres- ent school year, the Juneau High School band will appear in the gym, starting at 8 o'clock tonight and the public should test the seating capacity as Director Joseph Shofner is presenting a distinctive program. The concert is free Many of the musicians will make their final appearance in the or- ganization, graduating in May. The program tonight is as fol- lows: Argentina— Paso Doble Damerell and Evans First Movement—From Symphony In B Minor Schubert Tales From The Vienna Woods Strauss Munro Musical Typist—Marimba Solo Lois Lawrence, Soloist Two Moods—Overture Grundman On Guard—March Goldman Autumn Nocturne Myrow Roberta Messerschmidt, Clarinetist Work Song—(From The Delta) Still Student Prince—Overture Romberg STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 21—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Minc stock today is 3, American Can 119, Anaconda 30, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 27, Kenne- cott 53%, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 16%, U.S. Steel 32%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,710,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 214.16, rails 55.54, utilities 4257, ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 41; minimum, 34. At Airport—Maximum, 44; minimum, 32. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness with a few light showers mixed rain, and .snow tonight. Partly cloudy Saturday. Low tonight near 33 degrees and high Saturday about 45 de- grees. SPRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.22 inche: since April 1 — 3.64 inch since July 1—64.21 inches. At Airport — 0.11 inches; o since April 1 — 155 inches; . (Continued on Page Four) s_ince July 1—41.61 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 @ 000000 ®00cscrcsce®sosenocsen s RUSSIAN NOTE CLAIMS SHIP WAS A B-29 LONDON, April 21—(P—Russia insisted today that a U. S. plane which it claims exchanged shots with Soviet fighters over Latvia April 8 was a B-29 superfortress. In a note handed to U. S. Am- bassador Alan G. Kirk at Moscow. the Soviet Union rejected a U. S. statement that the only American plane anywhere near the scene at the time was an unarmed Navy privateer. The privateer, missing with its crew of ten since the day fixed by the Russians as the day of the exchange of fire, has been given up for lost. The Soviet note today, broadcast by Moscow radio and picked up by the Soviet Monitor in London, replied to the U. S. protest note of April 18. Text of the Soviet reply: “In reply to the United States Government’s note of April 18, 1850, the U. S. S. R. Government considers it necessray to state the following “As already reported in the note of the Soviet Government of April 11, the American aircraft which viclated south of Lepaya, Latvia, the Soviet frontier, according to verified date was a four-engined military aircraft B-29 Flying Fort- ress, which not only failed to obey the demand of the Soviet fighte: planes to follow them and land af an aerdrome but opened fire on the Soviet planes. “After the leading Soviet fighter aircraft had been compelled to fire in reply, the American aircrafi turned in the direction of the ses and disappeared. “These are the facts establishec 5y proper verification” 3,000 HOMELESS IN TWOSTATEFLOODS; LIVESTOCK- IS LOST BISMARCK, N.D., April 21—/~ First livestock losses were reportec early today as the torrential Rec River inched upward, spilling it murky waters over added acres o! North Dakota and Minnesota farm lands. Near Manvel, N.D, Leo Kinne; said eight cattle and all of his brooc sows were drowned. Raymond Kin- ney lost all his pigs in the sam: area. Red Cross officials sald there apparently were other losses, as ye unreported. At Grand Forks, the Red Rive hit a 4288 level last night, 14.82 feet above flood stage. After an aerial survey, official: estimated at least 100 highway and railroad bridges have been carriec away by the flood waters. An estimated total of more thai 3,000 people are already homeless. PRESIDENT FLIES TO GEORGIA; WILL WITNESS REVIEW FORT BENNING, Ga., April 2 —(M—President Truman arrivec here today by plane for a review of Army and Air Force troops ir action. His personal plane, the “Inde- pendence,” arrived at Lawson Field The trip from Washington requirec only two hours and 23 minutes. President Truman and severa members of his cabinet will review ground forces and watch an infan- ry-artillery team attack at this in- fantry fort. Later today the party will fly to Eglin Field in Florida to wit- ness a live ammunition display of modern air force power. FROM SEATTLE E. A. Shaffer, registered from Seattle, is stopping at the Bara- nof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver due Saturday afternoon or evening. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Baranof from west scheduled southbound 5 p.m. Sunday. .JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950 New Proposal is Made in Statehood Issue This Time If's BudenzWho's (allei "Liar” Browder Denies Reference fo Lattimore - " Shame- less Lie” Says Field By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, April 21 — (B — Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) today challenged Senate investigators to dig beyond Louis Budenz's sworn testimony that Owen Lattimore was a member of a “Communist cell.” McCarthy noted that Budenz, a former Communist, testified that his information about Lattimore came from men he said were high in the party—Earl Browder, Fred- erick Vanderbilt Field and Jack! Stachel. “I think the investigating com- mittee ought to subpoena those men and get their story,” McCarthy told reporters. Attorneys for Latti- more already had asked that Field be subpoenaed so his testimony could bé matched against Budenz’. McCarthy has accused Lattimore, Far Eastern affairs expert, of be- ing Russia’s top spy in this country. McCarthy “Not Right” Budenz said on the witness stand yesterday that McCarthy's accusa- tion on that score was not technic- ally accurate. But he did back up the Senator’s contention that the Communists exercised disciplinary power over Lattimore. A former high-ranking Army In- telligence Officer followed Budenz to the stand and bluntly disputea that Lattimore was a Communist. Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins Uni- versity professor, has flatly denied McCarthy’s charges against him. He withheld comment on Budenz's testimony, but is expected to make a formal reply @t a public hearing next week. The inquiry into McCarthy's wsertions that Communists and fellow travelers have infested the State Department is being handled by a Senate Foreign Relations sub- committee. Browder Denies Budenz said that Browder, former head of the Communist party in the United States, “referred to Latti- more as a Communist.” In New York, Browder replied that he never made any such ref- erence to Lattimore, and added: “I don’t think T ever discussed Mr. Lattimore in my life with any- one.” ’ Also in New York, Field put out a statement calling Budenz's accu- sations against him “a shameless and slanderous lie.” Budenz testi- fied that he knew Field as a Com- munist leader and a Soviet ageni. DAVIS ELECTED YACHT (LUB'S COMMODORE Trevor Davis was elected com- modore of the Juneau Yacht Club when the club met last night in the Iris Room of Baranof Hotel Bob Cowling was elected vice commodore, and Ruth Blake sec- cetary. Jack Burford, out-going ‘lub commodore was elected finan- cial secretary, and Earle Hunter was elected treasurer. Need for a clubhouse near the small boat harbor here was stres- sed at the meeting, and plans were made to construct a sign at the boat harbor to inform visiting yachtsmen where to contact the Juneau club. Burferd said today that tenta- tive plans were made for a Sunday rendezvous for yachts to be held within range of outboard motor- boats. Wayne Johnson .and Clara Van- Wert were elected to the club’s board of trustees. 4-H CLUB MEETS The Mendenhall 4-H Club for boys will hold its regular meeting Saturday, April 22, at the home ot Mrs. Joe Kendler. b Boys who have started their pro- jects will give reports. Any boys interested in this work are welcome to attend. Dick Gaines, Secretary AT GASTINEAU Three guests from Seattle regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel yes- terday. They are Willlam M. Ben- son, A, P. Feiro and A, B. Nevers. [} MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SITUATION IN WORLD ISSERIOUS Acheson Accuses Russia of Making Moves that Are Harmful ‘WASHINGTON, April 21 — (P -— Secretary Acheson said today he believes the world is in a serious situation because of recent moves by Russia but that he does not see it moving into any armed conflict. At a news conference, the Secre- tary of State said there is tension in the world now and the things the Russians are doing are far from helpful. He accused the Soviets of trying to stir up trouble in several areas, citing their stand on the Baltic air- plane incident, their accusations against the Western Powers over Trieste and their renewed demands for special rights in the Dardanelles Strait. In response to a question, Ache- son also came out against any pub- lic Congressional investigation ot been proposed by Senator Gillette (D-Iowa). | Acheson said the members of Con- to know about Germany policy without public hearings. SKAGWAY ELKSIN OFFICIAL CHAIRS, L JUNEAU MEEF For the first time in several meeting last night of the Juneau Lodge of Elks, No. 420, and also gave the impressive initiation cere- mony to three candidates. ‘Thewisiting Elks were from Skag- way, lodge No. 431, who arrived yesterday forenoen for the session and also with bowlers who are com- peting with the Juneau lodge bowl- ers in a 15-match game. Juneau Exalted Ruler Dewey Baker, opened the lodge session, then turned it over to the Skagway officers, practically all Past Exalted Rulers. The visiting Elks who took over were Charles J. Roehr as Exalted Ruler; G. L. Budd as Esteemed Loyal Knight; E. A. Lar- son as Esteemed Loyal Knight; L. T. McGuana as Esteemed Lecturing Knight; W. H. Wheaton as Secre- tary and Arnold Gutfeld as Esquire. Juneau Elks who occupied posi- tions were H. M. Porter as Tiler, Harry Murray as Inner Guard, Stuart Houston as Chaplain and C. A. (Pat) Carroll as organist. Candidates initiated were Erling O. Oswald and Marc S. Boles for Juneau lodge and Royal M. Donel- son for Skagway. Following the initiation various visiting Elks were called on for brief remarks and Arthur (Scotty) Adams made the report for Juneau on the visitation of the local offi- 'cers to Sitka and presentation of the piano to that lodge, a gift from the Juneau lodge. The usual buffet luncheon was served at the conclusion of the meeting which was pronounced 8 most auspicious occasion. Today the Juneau and Skagway bowlers are playing their match games. The first games started at 10 o’clock this morning, another game was scheduled for 2 o'clock this afternoon and a third game at T o’clock tonight. The Skagway delegation numbers 20 members and it is the first time Juneau has been visited by such a large number from the Lynn Canal metropolis. Tomorrow other games are sched- uled and further entertainment for the visiting Elks. $750,000 for New Jail at Anchorage Asked by Truman WASHINGTON, April 21—P— President Truman today sent the Senate a supplemental request for appropriations for the Justice De- partment in the year starting July 1, includipg $750,000 for a new jail at Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. policy in Germany such as hnsi gress can find out all they want! years, visiting Elks presided at the' RUSS DEMAND U. S., BRITAIN QUIT TRIESTE 'Cold War Opens on New Front-Yugoslav Forces Not Mentioned | (By the Assoclated Press) Russia seized the offensive in the cold war again today, demanding that Britain and the United States withdraw their troops from Trieste. In a note delivered to the Am- bassadors of the U. S, Britain and France in Moscow, the Soviet gov- ernment charged the three Western nations were “grossly violating” pro- visions of the Italian peace treaty. { These provisions called for making ‘Trieste, former Italian Adriatic port city, a free territory. In Washington, United States of- ficlals said Russia herself was to iblame for the delay in setting up the free territory because Russia would not agree on a Governor to {administer Trieste under a United | Nations mandate, in accordance with the Italian peace treaty, signed in 1947. i The Russian note demanded im- mediate appointment of such a gov- ernor and “liquidation of the illegal Anglo-American Naval Base” it isaid had been established in the port city. The note’ made no mention of ‘Yugoslav forces, which control Zone B of the Trieste territory. Three years ago, when Yugoslavia was in | the Russian camp, the Soviet Union backed Yugoslav claims to annex part of Trieste. Now Yugoslavia is at outs with {the Kremlin, U.S. officials said any | settlement of the Trieste question must take into account the interests of ‘Yugoslavia. Britain, France and the United States proposed in 1948 | that Trieste be returned to Italy, but Russia resisted the suggesteion. The whole issue must be settled by the U.N. Security Council, which Russia is now boycotting because of | the presence on the Council of a representative of Nationalist China. Russia insists a Communist China delegate should replace the Na- tionalist. PROPOSES SETTLEMENT WASHINGTON, April 21 — (A — Sava Kosanovic, Yugoslav Ambas- sador, today expressed his country’s willingness to ‘consider a “direct agreement” with Italy to settle the | Trieste problem. Kosanovic made the statement to reporters after paying a farewell’ eall on Secretary of State Acheson He returns to Belgrade within a [tew days to become Minister of State in the Yugoslav cabinet. The Yugoslav envoy said “there will be no real peace in the Adriatic as long as there is this Trieste prob- lem between the Italian and Yugo- slav peoples.” He noted that Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza recently ex- pressed Italy’s readiness to talk with * Yugoslavia about a settlement. { Russia thrust the Trieste problem back onto the international scene with a note charging in effect that the Big Three Western powers are turning the Adriatic Sea port intc a military base. Diplomatic officials predict the | United States, Britain and France will reject the Soviet charges as unfounded. They said the three powers will confer on a reply and it is possible a joint answer might be made when Acheson, British :Forelgn Minister Bevin and French Foreign Minister Schuman meet in London early today. Two Sitka You;g Men Bound Over, Burglary Charges SITKA, Alaska, April 21—P— Two youths waived preliminary lhesrings in US. Commissioner’s Court yesterday and were bound over for Grand Jury action on burg- lary charges. They were Keith Thurman, 21, and Julian M. Porter, 15. A complaint signed by Fred Gees- lin charged they broke into a gov- ernment storehouse at Mt. Edge- cumbe June 22 and stole radio equipment. ‘ Six other members of a juyenile crime ring were bound over for grand jury action last month. TOP-HEAVY VOTE FAVORS ADOPTION CF NEW ORDINANCE It was the largest turnout of Ju- neau voters ever seen at a special municipal election, when a top- heavy vote was cast yesterday in favor of adoption of the city prop- erty transfer ordinance. A total of 1,104 votes were cast. Only 29 voters marked their ballots “No.” Of the remaining number, two ballots were rejected and one was blank. All the rest—1,072—were marked in favor of adopting the measure, which will clear the way for' con- struction here of a new Territorial building, as provided for by an act of the last Legislature. ‘The strength of the turnout yes-: terday is indicated by a compari- son with the all-time record turn- out for the Territorial general elec- tion in 1948. During the 1948 election 1,801 vot- ers cast ballots in the city’s three precincts. Yesterday's election brought only 700 less voters to the| single polling place in the City Hall. Mayor Waino Hendrickson today termed the heavy vote “a clear ex- pression of public opinion” on the question. of which of Alaska’s cities should be the site for the building. Interest in the election is known to have been $parked by the threat of Anchorage's trying during the next session of the Legislature to have the capital moved to the Hub City. The newly-approved ordinance provides for the granting of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall property and the selling of the City Hall property and the vacant Iot ad- Joining it on Fourth Street to the Territory. The Territorial Board of Admini- stration has agreed to pay the city $60,000 for the City Hall property The money will be used by the city to purchase a site for a new municipal building, clear the lease agreement held by a cold storage firm on part of the A.B. Hall, and raze the existing buildings. Voting yesterday was above- average from the start, election of- ficials said. Citizens formed lines as they waited for their turn to vote. The Chamber of Commerce was among the civic-minded organiza- tions which staged ‘“get-out-the- vote” campaigns. An independent group of women spent the day driv- ing voters to the polling place in the City Hall and baby-sitting while mothers went to vote. Election officials—Grant A. Bald- win and Mrs. Mary Hagerup, clerks; and Mrs. Ray Day, Mrs. Gertie Berggren and Mrs. Gudmund Jen- sen, judges—were not through tally- ing until 10 p.m. last night. ROAD COMMISSION BIDS ON PAINTING, " WAREHOUSE OPENED Seven bid openings were an- nounced today by the Alaska Road Commiission, for construction of an addition to their Anchorage ware- house and for the painting of the Eagle and Knik River bridges. All bids were held under advise- ment pending formal review be- -ore awards are made, Four bidders submitted figures ‘or the warehouse addition. Low- est three were: Breeden and Smith, Anchorage, $51,179.87; Anchorage Builders, Inc., $52,521 and Swalling Construction Company, Anchorage, $54,972. For painting of the two bridges, three firms submitted bids. They were: Ken Luse and Company, An- chorage, $6,820; Antonsen Painting Company, Tacoma, $8400, and Morrison Knudsen Company, An- chorage, $22,500. Gala Fesfival for Fishermen Planned By Residents of Sitka SITKA, Alaska, April 21—®—The Chamber of Commerce is sponsor- ing a gala 24-hour fishermen’s fes- tival next Wednesday and Thurs- day as a kickoff for the opening ot the halibut fishing season. Southeast Alaska and West Coast fishermen are invited. Crown- ing of a festival queen 'and a dance will feature the opening night. The next day a special fisher- men’s worship service will be held lnt the Lutheran church, PRICE TEN CENTS GRANT HALF PUBLIC LAND T0 US: BUTLER 18 Sections Each Township Instead of Five, Solon Proposes, Amendment WASHINGTON, April 21 — (# — Senator Butler (R-Neb) proposed today that Alaska be given half ot the public land in the Territory if it is granted statehood. He introduced an amendment to the House-approved Alaska state- hood bill which would give the pro=- posed state every even numbered section of public land in each town- ship. The bill now provides that it Alaska is admitted as a state it shall receive five sections of land in each township. A township contains 36 sections. Chairman O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) of the Senate Interior Committee announced Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman will be the first witness when a hearing on the bill is begun Monday by the committee. Chapman will be followed by rep- resentatives of the Defense and State Departments, Federal Judge Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska, Gov, Ernest Gruening and Delegate Bart- lett of Alaska, former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Father Paul C. O’'Connor, all of whom fav- ored statehood. Opposition - witnesses will include Father Bernard R. Hubbard, known as the “Glacler Priest” of Alasks. He sald W. C. Arnold, representing the Alaska Salmon Industry, has the _bill. k d The chairman said 56 supporters of statehood for the Territory have chartered a plane to come to Wash- ington and six or eight members of the group will testify. He said this group will stop tonight at Cheyenne, Wyo. GOVERNOR WARREN WILL PUSH STATEHOOD BILLS SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 21— (M—Governor Earl Warren is going to make a quick trip to Washing- ton Sunday to ask Congress to grant statehood to Alaska, He will also speak in favor of statehood for Hawaii at the same time if the Senate committee hand- ling the statehood bills permits him to. Only the Alaska statehood issue is before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Mon- day. But Warren sald he will try to make his endorsement of Hawailan statehood at the same time. The California Chief Executive said he thinks the two Territories should become full fledged mem- bers of the union because they “earned it by their loyalty and devotion to our cause for more than one generation” and their active part in two wars. The Western Governor’s confer- ence, which Warren currently heads, has endorsed statehood for the two ‘Territories. STATEHOOD BILL IS 'GREAT HOAX' SAY MEASURE'S FOES ‘WASHINGTON, April 21—Special to the Empire—Much of the tub- thumping for House Resolution 331, the bill to admit Alaska as a state, “js being perpetrated by a hand- ful of politically ambitious resi- dents.” This will be one of the charges to be levelled next week when the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs holds its hearing on the highly controversial bill It was pointed out that two citi~ zens of the Territory will become United States Senators if the bill passes. Others will be congressmen or supreme court judges These ambitious people have kept the arguments over H. R. 331 con- fined entirely to the merits of statehood and have not informed the people of Alaska as to the terms under which their Territory would be admitted to the Union it 331 passes, opponents of the bill claim. The politically ambitious were " (Continued on Page Two)