The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Puhnsheu every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN p DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: ccond Class Matter. News Office, 6 374, Business _Office, MEMBER OF AS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- :m credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blds.. Seattle, Wash ST BUSTER More evidence of the manner in which the Gov- ernor of Alaska plays his personal politics is in the publication on the front page of the Ketchikan Chron- icle April 6 of a column by Robert S. Allen, syndicated columnist and former member of the Drew Pearson- Robert Allen team, which starts off with the line “Gil Skinner on Spot.” The column which reached the Chronicle—not a subscriber to the syudicated Allen articles—by means we can guess, on the same day that it appeared in subscriber newspapers, has to do with the so-called “trust-busting” maneuvers before the grand jury in the Third Division. However, instead of naming others listed in the grand jury subpoenas (in Anchorage the list is called an “honor-roll”) Allen’s attack is centered upon Gil- bert W. Skinner, “known throughout the Pacific North- west as the fabulous ‘boss of Alaska.’” In case Alaskans, familiar with this little game of attacking the “vested-interests” don’t see through the plot of these political manipulations, Mr. Allen very frankly sa; “Attorney General McGrath launch- ed this case with the backing of Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman and Governor of Alaska Ernest Gruen- ing.” Full of inaccuracies and implications, skillfully written to impute to Mr. Skinner the wealth of the Morgans, — and the same monopolistic power that formerly was charged against the Morgans—Mr. Allen also ties statehood for the Territory into his story. He begins his column with its WASHINGTON, D. C. date line: “Whether this Congress votes Alaska its long- sought statehood is still very much up in the air, but in the meanwhile the Territory is on the verge of makifg big news in another way. “It will become the scene of a justice department battle against one of the most powerful webs of mon- opoly under the U. S. flag. “In a mass of FBI evidence now being quietly presented to a grand jury, the department is charging that this extraordinary network has an iron strangle- hold on virtually the entire economy of Alaska. “Ruler of this empire is Gilbert W. Skinner, owner e e e st Crossword Puzzle The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) 1 information.” Budenz added. cret,” agreed Tydmgs. However, this column believes the public is entitled to know what Budenz is saying on such a vital question. McMahon. ment, plied Budenz. The BudGenz List Among those whom he branded as Communists are such prominent Americans as the late Brig. Gen. Evan Carlson, the Marine hero uho led the famed “Carlson’s Raider: and originated the “Gung Ho” battle cry that terrified the Japs; Edgar Snow, an associate editor of Saturday Evening Post; Joseph Barnes, former foreign editor for the New York Herald Tribune; Anna Louise Strong, who was kick- | McMahon also ed out of Russia as an American! spy; Lawrence Rossinger of the New York Times, Mary Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation; Gun- ther Stein, well-known writer. Budenz' list also includes Harriett Lucy Moore, of the American-Rus- sian Institute; Frederick Vander- bilt Field, who has never denied that he was a Communist; Victor Yakhontoff, a writer on the Red Army; Ella Winter, Peggy Snow, T. A. Bisson, a writer on Soviet affairs; Andrew Steiger, James S Allen, a member of the Commu- nist National Committee; Albert Rhys Williams, writer on Lenin’s life; and Haldore Hanson. Hanson was named by Budenz in spite of Senator McMahon's pub- lic statement teo the contrary. In fact, McMahon questioned Budenz sharply about Hanson, declaring: “This 'rather. surprises me, Mr. Budenz, because (Hanson) made about as forthright a statement as 1 have ever heard from a witness. He was never a member of any Communist-tront organization of any kind or character. T want to say to you that the impression he of names. However, the i browse through Daily Worker, { Tydings, “your on oral evidence denz. replied Budenz. “Have ee ernment. jbefore he was a “I have got a in Tydings Therefore he denz. “You know nist?” snapped you mean you same sense that more “No General back. sir, I Post explained: with the wrong, “He party, me completely.” Senatorial Quiz Then the Senator from Connec-| Communist spy. ticut began digging in: “Hanson| I don't is in the State Department at thisjbut I think she minute working o the point four | takes,” he program, and I would like, there- fore, to have you pretty carefully | dership. be bounced out neau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; | give your testimony on him.” Budenz insisted that mation on Hanson was “Not gossip around headquarters “I carried the name with me,” “Who have it to you?” demanded “Well, as I recall it at the mo- it was Jack Stachel,” He suggested that the committee give him time to however, to refresh his memory. “In other words,” this man is a Communist is based from somebody else?” “That is correct” Marine Corps General who on the list, work for the State Department. “I should say that very few are,” they ever been employ- McMahon persisted. recalled was General* Evan 8. Carlson, for- merly employed by the U. S. Gov- He was a Communist left ear and didn’ “I know Carlson was a general. was part of the gov-| ernmental machinery,” he know was a Communist?” was Carlson,” Referring to Saturday editor Edgar and he had to Amvnd his 'xmuunbuuk on orders of the party.” made on me was excellent—fooled | Moscow Hates Tears Budenz also tried to explain how Anna Louise Strong think she suggested. she disagreed with the Soviet lea- | They used to put her on‘} ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA |of the late J. P. Morgan's famous yacht *“Corsair” | and known throughout the Pacific Northwest as the | fabulous ‘boss of Alaska. " He enlarges upon his charges of monopoly, and includes this statement, “According to the justice de- partment, the average Alaskan family pays more than $400 a year in ocean freight rates alone for food.” | Admiral F. A. Zeusler, executive assistant to the president of the Alaska Steamship Company, in a recent statement brands the Robert S. Allen column as “fallacious and wholly unfounded.” Refuting the charges against exhorbitant freight rates, Admiral Zeusler quotes from the Maritime Com- mission examiners in Alaska Rate Investigation No. | 3, “The record reveals an element of bitterness between the respondent on the one hand and . .. the Territory on the other. No service can attain a high degree | of efficient and economical operation without co- operation and good faith between lebor and manage- ment, the support of public officials and an atmosphere ! | of good will on the part of the general public. Unless: such destructive antagonism disappears, the possi- | bility of better operations at lower rates is remote.” Regarding Allen’s statement that the average Alaskan family pays more than $400 a year in ocean rates alone for food, Zeusler says, “That might weil be true if the,average family ate 20 tons of groercies‘ E: ar, 769 pounds a week or 110 pounds a day, but, in fact, it can be shown that five tons is a closer approxi- ' mation of the total weight of all items consumed nyl an average Alaskan family in a year—for food, cloth. ing and all household needs. “While Allen’s report implies that the yacht ‘Cor- sair’ is Mr. Skinner’s private pleasure craft, the truth is that it was operated in the Alaska trade as a deluxe cruise vessel, bringing more tourists to Alaska and developing greater interest in the Territory.” And of course we know that the Corsair was wrecked last winter while operating on the Los Angeles- Acapulco, Mexico, cruise route, removing it forever from the Alaska trade. As to the monopoly charges, Admiral Zeusler calls attention to the fact that in addition to the Alaska Steamship Company, the Coast Line, Alaska Ship Lines, inc., Santa Ana Steamship Company, Berger Trans- portation Company, Canadian Pacific, Union Steam- ship, Canadian National, Standard Oil and Union Oil Company tankers, Petroleum Navigation Company and 1 great many small craft operating under charter ar- rangements and about ten airlines offer transportation service to Alaska. “Furthermore,” he says, “there are no legal re- strictions of any kind to prevent any other common :arrier from entering the trade since this trade is not certificated as are the coastal, intercoastal and foreign trades.” 4 Even Mr. Allen’s statements about what the gov- ernment attorneys are now telling a grand jury about Mr. Skinner and the Alaska Steamship Company are pure fantasy, according to Admiral Zeusler. “The Department of Justice is not presenting and has not oresented any evidence to a grand jury concerning Mr. Skinner or the Alaska Steamship Company and has indicated it will not make any decision in this respect until the completion of its examination of the company’s books, records and files of which were freely and voluntarily made available to the Depart- ment by Mr. Skinner and the Alaska Steamship Com- pany. “Briefly stated,” he concjudes, ‘4@llen’s whole re- port must be branded as an irresponsible attempt, to smear the Alaska Steamship Company.” To which no one in Alaska, familiar with the feud | {idea of redemption,” he explained. ,own record, Bob Swanson Curtis Carroll Michael Earl Estepp Katherine B. Wanamaker Mrs. W. B. Kirk Mae Snyder R. M. Thompson Margurei watkins ¢ o the spot in Soviet Russia, and she would weep tears and go right out and repeat Stalin’s lies. What can you do with a person like that? She would break down and take recourse in tears.” Though Budenz applied the Red brush freely, he let a few people off the Communist hook. When McMahon asked whether Philip Jessup had been a Communist, Bu- denz replied: “No sir, not to my knowledge. I never heard him mentioned as a member of the party.” “I am pleased to hear you say you don’t know him as a Commu- nist,” said the Senator from Con- necticut. “I have known him for some time, and I would hate to think that he fooled me.” Wallace Excnerated Budenz also stated flatly that “Henry Wallace is not a Commu- nist,” and that he knew “nothing about John Davies of the State Department.” Under withering cross-examina- tion by Senator Green of Rhode Island, Budenz tried to explain his shifting back and forth between Catholicism and Communism. “The Catholic church has a great “Its leaders—I am not comparing myself to them—but its leaders are people who reformed. St. Paul killed St. Stephen, the first mar-; tyr, and became a great Christian. St. Peter defied Christ. St. August led a life of attacking the church and repented and joined it.” “But in all those cases,” snorted Green, “they had not been Christ- jan first and then Apostate and then Christian.” Budenz still insisted that he was) “different man than five years “Admitting all that, I should| think it would be difficult to change from one type of mind to another,” retorted the Senator from Rhode Island. But Budenz declared: “I think, myself, the most truthful people in the world are the ex-Commu- nists.” This doesn’t agree with Budenz’ however. In writing his biography for the 1949, Who's Who, four years after he was con- verted, Budenz stated that he mar- ried Margaret Rogers in August a ago. involved, will disagree. We doubt that Mr. Allen was aware of the truth in this case« We believe he is too good a newspaper- man to lend his aid, knowingly, to such a bitter per- sonal attack. his infor- ! but official ACROSS 1 Pop & Drop bait lightly on .. the water 8. Harvest 12. Poems 13. Self ll. 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Beverage : Smail fish besides Hanson, Budens, ‘“there general.” bad cold in my broke = '%i“’!/ i & N EEm l-%%%n mo i flowers . Affirmative / . Before Hebrew prophet Garment 5. Float of legs . State posi- tively . Contradict t hear you,” replied Bu- l“;==/ - He was a Commu- McMahon. “Did him in the you know Latti-| introduced to Budenz shot Evening Snow, Budenz got in trouble ‘\ wrote something happened to of Russia as a| was a made some mi "You see spy, COMMERCIAL L Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 'The B. M. Behrends w Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent nk SAVINGS 20 YEARS AGO 7% emrpirE MAY 4, 1930 From a field of nine scatter-gun artists, Mort Truesdell emerged high in the regular weekly shoot of the Juneau Gun Club at the club- Truesdell made a perfect score of 25 to head the list. Council Barmas, Radde, house. was second with 23, followed by Morris, Johnson, Williams, McNaughton and Kirk. A son was born at 12:45 p. m. in St. Ann’s Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Severin Swanson. Capt. Swanson was skipper of the motorship Margnita and prominent in local marine circles. After making a successful trip up the Taku River to Tul.seguah.| Capt. William Strong had returned in an outboard motorboat May 3. The next morning he loaded freight on the gasboat Amy and left with several passengers for Taku Inlet, where passengers and cargo were to be transferred to the Jeanne, river boat of the United Transportation Company. Leaving aboard the Amy were Willlam Scott, George Robbins, S. Osterman and J. J. Hillard. H. Gorman, formerly of a Vancouver, B. C. drugstore, arrived to enter the employ of Butler-Mauro Drug Company. In Douglas, firemen and baseball fans were to turn out at 6:30 to fix up the diamond. Manager Bonner asked all volunteers to bring rakes and hoes. In the classified columns of The Empire, Al Forsythe offered hatch- ing eggs for sale, E. Millaeger had a special on spectacles ($3.45 a pair) at the Home Grocery. Mrs. Robert Simpson wanted a girl to assist with housework. J. B. Burford and Company needed an errand boy. Chris Jorgensen would sell a two-room cabin. Among the numerous other items were eleven “apartments for rent” ads. Newly registered at the Zynda Hotel were Susie Riesoff and brother; Mrs. A. Curtis, Miss Alice Marian Curtis; Miss Alice Bamber of Port- land, and A. B. Chapman of Taku. Frank Hatcher, mechanic for the seaplane Taku of Alaska-Wash- ington Airways, had recovered from a bad cut on his forehead, received while he was in Siltka. He had been hit by the propellor as the engine| was turned over. Approximately 1,600 pounds of king salmon was purchased by the Juneau Cold Storage Company, bought from these boats: the T-3501, Capt. S. Swanson; the T-3860, Capt. John Olson, and the Yashure, Capt. R. Fitzgibbons. Capt. Emil Samuelson brought halibut in on the Dixon, selling 2,500 pounds to New England Fish Company; the Mary, Capt. Conrad Nergaard, sold 3,600 pounds to Marlyn. low, 36; partly cloudy. Weather: High, 43; Daily Lessons in English % .. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There was no one thereL beside me.” Say, “BESIDES me.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Accede. second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bounuful TI. Bounteous; TE. SYNONYMS: Sumptuous, gorgeous, luxurious, costly. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: TENEBRIFIC; rendering dark or gloomy. (Pronounce ten-e-brif-ik, with accent on third syllable). “It lightens, it brightens the tenebrific | scene.”—Burns. MODERN ETIQUEITE Roperra Lee Q. When introucing a man to a group of persons, is it all right to introduce him to them collectively? A. No; introduce him to each person individually, but it isn’t necessary to mention his name to each person, and, if possible, you may mention two or three of the group's names together. Q. Is it a woman’s place to take the hat and coat of a man friend who is calling to see her husband? A. No; this is the duty of her husband. Q. To whom only should one send notes announcing a birth? A. Only to intimate friends. Pronounce ak-seed, accent on | 1. What well-known group of islands was once called the Sandwich Islands? 2. What is the fourth dimension, besides length, breadth and height, recognized by scientists in space? 3. What are the names of the two major political parties of Canada? 4. What is the name of the vessels in the human body that carry the blood from the heart? 5. What type of shoe is named for a university? ANSWERS: Hawaiian Islands. ‘Time. The Liberals and the Conservatives. Arteries. Oxford. GENERAL CONTRACTORS PHONE 357 Glacier Construction Co. 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Martunuk now is in Montgomery county jail, Norristown, Pa, after fleeing 12,000 miles to bring vital Russian rocket secrets to America, the lawyer said. Senator Edward Martin (R-Pa) introduced a bill which has passed the Senate granting Martunuk “lawful residence” in this country. The escapee is in jail awaiting House action on the bill, his attor- ney explained. Martunuk was an inmate of a Soviet prison camp at Svirlag and, while there, he said he came in con- tact with information about rocket installations pointed at Alaska fron: the Arctic ocean island of Novaya Zemlya. Martunuk said ne was senienced to a 25-year term because he served as volunteer with a German anti- Communist army of Russian prison- ers. Czap said Martunuk was arrested as a stowaway aboard the S.S. Mon- itor when it docked in Philadelphia in April, 1949. “I was determined to give the United States information on the operation of rockets and the work- ings of Communism,” Czap quoted Martunuk as saying. Czap said he did not know the extent of, Martunuk’s revelations to U.S. authorities, but “we can assume, since Martunuk is an engi- neer, that his observations were thorough.” ~ Czap said he was assigned to the case the day Martunuk was arrested in Philadelphia on instructions from Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, chairman of the Tolstoy Founda- tion, Inc., New York. — - cac— — e— PAINTING AND DECORATING Priced to Meet Your Budge! PHONE 996 Ralph Treffers ¥ sz Brownie’s Liquor Store Pheoe 103 139 Be. Frankiia P. O. Box 2606, bl e Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGFE STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street ~ Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sta. 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