The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1950, Page 1

I THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,500 AIRBASE PROGRAM FOR ALASKA LISTED; T0 COST 16 MILLION (Editor’s Note: For local storyi from George S. Schamm, of Alaska’s Department of Aviation, telling of most recent plans and work on sea- plane bases being done in Alaska, see elsewhere in The Empire.) WASHINGTON, May 10—®—The Civil Aeronautics Administration to- day listed 65 places in Alaska at which it believes airports should be built or improved. It also listed 37 seaplane base sites. They are, part of a national total of 5,093. The listing, required an- nually under the Federal Airport Act of 1946, is hased on the CAA’s estimates of demands for air service in the next three years. ‘The CAA emphasized this point: the listing does not necessarily mean that an airport will be built or im- proved at each place. The locations chosen for actual work will be selected, the CAA snal on a basis of greatest need and on the amount of money Congress will appropriate for such purposes. The construction list for the fis- cal year beginning July 1, 1950, wil not be anonunced, therefore, untit after Congress acts on the general appropriation bill now under con- sideration. ‘The CAA estimated it would cost a total of $15927,000 to carry out the full proposed program for Alaska. Of this, $11,906,000 would be in federal funds and $4,021,000 i funds to be put up by local spon- sors. The Alaska plan calls for mak- ing improvements at 51 existing airports and 10 seaplane bases and for constructing 14 new fields and 27 new seaplane bases. The CAA provided no breakdown of estimated costs of airports. The 14 proposed new airports at selected sites, are: Alcan, Canyon, Dillingham, Haines, Kodiak, Livengood, Mar- shall, Matanuska Glacier, Naknek Village, Ninilchik, Point Barrow, Qunnz Creek, Ruby, White Moun- Those listed for lmprovemems Alatna, Beaver, Bethel, Candle. Chicken, Chisana, Chistochina, Chitna, Circle. Hot Springs, Cor- dova, Council, Curry, Dahl Creek, Deering, Eagle, /Flat, Fort Yukon Hamilton, Haycock, Holy Cross Homer, Hooper Bay, Kasilot, Kenal Kiwalik, Kotzebue, Koyuk, ' Koyu- kuk, McGrath, McKinley Park Matley Hot Springs, Medfra, Na- paimiute, Nulato, Ophir, Palmer Platinum, Rampart, St. Paul Island Seldovia, Seward, Shungnak, Skag- way, Sleitmute, Stoney River, Tan- alian Point, Taylor, Teller, Tetlin Valdez and Wiseman. The proposed new seaplane bases are: Hoonah, Tenakee, Angoon, Bar- anof, Burnett Inlet, Craig, Dilling- ham, Fairbanks, Gustavus, Hooc Bay, Hyder, Keku Straits, Klawock Kodiak, LaTouche, Metlakatla, Mil Creek, Naknek, Pillar Bay, Port Alexander, Port Althorp, Port Con- clusion, Saginaw Bay, Seldovia Tanalian Point, Todd, Tyee, Wash- ington Bay and Whittier. Seaplane bases recommended for improvements are: Anchorage Hydaburg, Kake, Ketchikan, Pet- ersburg, Sitka, Tamgass and Wran- gell. FROM KENTUCKY John T. Price of Louisville, Ky. is registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washingtor Merry-Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1980, by Bell Byndicate, Inc.) (The brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-Round, today goes to Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, now on an important mission to Mos- WVASHINGTON—Shorfly beforc Trygve Lie left New York on hi¢ current mission to Moscow, Presi- dent Truman had announced that the world lokked better—a state- ment which Truman reiterated last week. And Trygve Lie, talking pri- vately to a friend immediately aft- erward, said: “I am glad they (the press) did not ask me to comment on Presi- dent Truman's statement yesterday that the world situation is better than in 1946!” For the Secretary-General of the United Nations thinks the world situation is in a very dangerous state—not because of an immed- iate threat of war but because the U. N. is threatened for its very life. This is the reason for his trip to Moscow. “I am. going to tell them,” he told a friend “before he left, “what Jtn (Continued on Page Four) JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— — Crowns Queen Vice-President Alben Barkley has a merry time as he crowns his step-daughter, Anne Carleton Hadley, 18, as Queen Shenandoah XXIIT of the Apple Blossom Festival held at Winchester, Va. Miss Hadley, daughter of Mrs. Barkley, is a student at New Orleans’ Newcomb 'WAR HOUSING HERE ESKIMOS MADE WRONG MOVE, | TO BE TRANSFERRED| E, UNION LINEUP TO LOCAL AGENCIES| SEATTLE, May 10—®—A repre-, SEATTLE, May 10—#—Federally sentative of 800 Northwestern owned war housing projects in five Alaska Eskimos, who work annually Western States and Alaska were in Bristol Bay canneries, decided up for adoption today. Approxi- today that his people made a mis- mately 20,000 dwellings in 134 pro- take when they voted recently to!jects throughout Washington, Ore- join the International® Longshore- | gon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming men and Warehousemen’s Union'are affected. (C1O0). - The transfer of title will be car- Joe Nashoalook of Unalakteet an-, ried out under the housing act ot nounced that he had signed an;1950. The law provides that the agreement to affiliate with the |Public Housing Administration will Alaska Fishermen's Union (CIO) give state and local governments, and break away from the ILWU. !housing authorities and institutions Nashoalook is here to negotiate of learning any or all housing units a contract for his people, scattered | within their areas which they re- from Point Barrow to the Alaska|quest. -IFAW are under charges from Na- Peninsula. They voted 700 to 4 re- | cently f join the ILWU. Pre-| viously they had affiliated with the International Fishermen ahd Allied | Workers Unjon (CIO). Both the Longshoremen and the | tional CIO headquarters of follow- | ing the Communist party line. Thei Alaska Fishermen’s Union is affili- Transfers will be made without charge if the land is leased, or the land may be sold to the local agency at cost to the government. John Taylor Egan, PHA Commis- sioner, says that applications for the transfer of a permanent hous- ing project must be made by June 19. Temporary projects may be re- quested until the end of the year. ated with the IFAW but is taking a e ————t——— referendum vote on whether to break away. Nashoalook said his action Was| subject to approval by his people but | that he was sure they would con- cur once they knew the facts. 4 Because of the uncertain posmon' of the Longshoremen in the CIO | Nashoalook said that the Alaska Fishermen’s Union would be a more responsible organization to help his people in their negotiations with che salmon industry. Alaska Fur Farmers May Get Loans; Bill Put In b_yDeIegaIe WASHINGTON, May 10— (& — Delegate Bartlett of Alaska has ntroduced a bill to permit the Agriculture Department to make loans to fur farmers in Alaska. Under present law the Farmers Home Administration of the de- partment can make loans to fur farmers in the Continental United States. VINSON WANTS DRAFT EXTENDED TWOMORE YEARS (By Associated Press) The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Carl Vinson, wants to hurry up action on a bill to extend the draft for two more years. Vinson will go betore the Rules Committee to ask that procedure be set up under which the bill will be debated. The draft law expires June 24. Vinson wants the House to take up extension immediately after it fin- ishes with the appropriations bill. 3 Postmasters Nan_le_d, Alaska WASHINGTON, May 10 — B — President Truman has sent to the Senate these postmaster nomina- tions for Alaska: Doris A. Wirsching, Annette, suc- ceeding R. C. Hutchins, resigned. James E. Evans, Metlakatla, suc- | ceeding M. M. Benson, declined. James M. McLean, Nome, suc- ceeding S. D. Mazen, resigned. HALIBUT BOAT TOWED IN The halibut boat St. Louis, Ed Krause skipper, was towed to port here late yesterday by the Coast Guard cutter 83524. The St. Louis had been disabled by engine failure at Eagle Harbor, north of Tee Harbor. CALIFORNIAN HERE Wesley Hayes of El Cerrito, Calif., is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. o 0 o o 0 ¢ 8 o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 50; minimum, 41. At Airport—Maximum, 52; minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Cloudy with rain tonight and early Thursday ch‘ans- ing to rain showers Thurs- day afternoon. Lowest tem- perature tonight near 42 de- grees. Highest Thursday around 50. Southeasterly winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—9.10 inches; since May 1 — 221 inches; since July 1—67.15 inches. At Airport — '0.17 inches; since May 1 — 0.96 inches; since July 1—43.59 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FOR USC&GS Art Ammerman of Ketchikan is at the Gastineau Hotel. He is with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. ® 0000000060000 00000000000000000 L "WE'VE GIVEN UP” SAYSR.R. STRIKE BOARD IFour Lines Tie | Up as Fire- men Walkout-Want Two "Stokers” on Diesels CHICAGO, May 10—(®—A strike 1of railroad firemen crippled the (hation’s rail network today and within a few hours mediators aban- doned hope of quick settlement. Francis A. O'Neill, Chairman of the National (railway) Mediation Board said “We've given up.” He added that a report on the leadlock will be submitted to Washington. The board has tried in contin- uous sessions since 9 -p.m. (CDT) last night to reach some agree- i ment. | Asked what the next step would Ye, O'Neill replied “I can't say antil we make our report to Wash- ngton.” He added: “We have been unable to get anywhere. For the last three or ‘our days we have been working on 1 ‘package’ deal with the brother- hood.” He declined to say what the “package” contained. I The Brotherhood of ' Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, one of the five big oprating unions, struck against four key systems in the nation’s rail network at 6 a.m. local standard time today. Their walkout was to enforce .demands for hiring a second fire- nmn on multiple diesel unit loco- tives. The railroads, whose con- Lenuon had been upheld by Presi- dential fact finding boards, main- tained this constituted “made work” as the second fireman would be unneeded on a diesel which has no I fire to tend. The New York Central, one of he struck lines, uses one fireman on such engines now. The Penn- sylvania does not. Other lineg whose operations are crippled by he walkout are the Southern Rail- way, serving the South, and the Santa Fe, a principal carrier be- tween Chicago and the Pacific Coast. It was the first major rail strike since May. 1946. Pickets representing the 18,000 ]flremen on strike appeared at key | doints. INVESTIGATIONS MAY BE HAMPERED BY RACKETEERS ] 1 (By Associated Press) ’ Republican Senator Homer Fer- guson of Michigan sees a danger of underworld leaders making a delib- erate effort to sidetrack a Senate investigation of big-time gambling. Ferguson declares that the com- ing newly rich in this country are the racketeers. ¥e says they can become rich by avoiding taxes and then use their profits from the rackets to invest in private business. RICE, NOT BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON RED CHINA AREAS (By Associated Press) Dispatches from Taipei, Formosa said Nationalist Chinese warplanes dropped rice instead of bombs on Red China Monday. The planes spilled 27 tons of rice in nine area: and dropped 270,000 propagands leaflets, Nationalist air headquart- ers said. SCHOOL SUPT. SEARS T0 SPEAK AT CHAMBER Superintendent of Schools Sterl- ing S. Sears will speak at the reg- ular noon meeting of the Juneal Chamber of Commerce tomorrow ir the Gold Room of the Barano! Hotel. Subject 0f his talk will be the $750,000 bond issue which will be ap- proved or disapproved at a special Juneau Independent School Board election Tuesday. The bond issue will be necessary to help finance the construction ol a new grade school in Juneau. FROM SEATTLE Among Seattleites at the Baranof Hotel are Vils K. Lundli, Ed Ness, Fred Speier, Mike Quick, Bennett McCord, Frank R. Nelson, C. T. Crippen and Mr. and Mrs. W. L Temby, Hospi!als Surrounded | by Flood Waters jSAlMON SHIPS The Winnipeg, Manitoba, Municipal hospitals are shown surrounded by water after dikes gave way under pressure of swollen Red River. (two center structures) just before barricades collapsed. Patients were removed from the King George and King Edward hospitals Twenty patients remain in the King George Hospital (second from right) while staff attendants meve about in boats. This is the Riverview section of wlnnipeg. w» wirephoto. LOYALTY . FILES TO CHECKERS Senate Investigators Given Information on 81 Per- sons McCarthy Named WASHINGTON, May 10— (B — Senate investigators got their first look today at loyalty files on 81 oersons named by Senator Me- Carthy in his charges of Commu- aism in the government, Four members of the Senate For- sign Relations subcommittee be- 3an looking them over at the White House shortly before 10 a.m. They were Chairman Tydings (D-Md.) and Senators McMahon (D-Conn.), Green (D-RI), and Lodge (R~ Mass.). Eben Ayers, assistant White House press secretary, said the files were brought tp the White House executive offices about an hour before the Senators arrived. Files Released Tydings said the committee mem- sers intend to pursue the examina- ion of the files “with all diligence oossible commensurate with our other duties in Congress.” The senators did their file specting in the cabinet room. Around the table with them were John Peurifoy, Assistant Secretary of State; Brig. Gen. Conrad Snow Chairman of the State Depart- ment’s loyalty board; Peyton Ford in- Assistant to the Attorney General,! ind Donald Dawson, one of Pr dent Truman'’s administrative as- sistants. Tydings has estimated that the ‘hecking on files will take aboul 1 month. File “Raped” McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican 1as charged that a lot of Commu- aists and fellow travelers have in- iltrated the State Department. He so has said that material rrmr it least one of the 81 files is nissing—that the file has been raped.” Told about that, Tydings said: “All he (McCarthy) has to do s to lay the evidence before us to sistain that charge and we will (Continued on Page Two) BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LIONS WILL MEET| President Val Poor has called a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Lions for 7:30 o'clock to- night at room 434 Federal Building. He has also called for meetings of |250 buildings the following committees at the same time: Finance, Civic Im- provements, Attendance and Mem- bership. The nominating committee w:]l meet at the close of the session and prepare the slate for new offi- 2ers, FROM ANCHORAGE A. E. Peterson of Anchorage is registered at the Baranot Hotel. | | | Evacuallon A-RESEARCH OfWinnipeg TO AID FARM Now Urged Women, Chfiren Request- ed fo Move from Strick- en City of Canada WINNIPEG, Man., May 10—&— Women and childven were asked to- day to move out ¢f stricken Winni- peg, threatened by the ever rising waters of the rampaging Red River. Brig. R. E. A. Morton, fiood re- lief controller, said the appeal was! issued in an attempt .to relieve overtaxed city facilities. He empha- sized it was an appeal and not an order. His action came as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police prepared to remove remaining residents along the Red River from greater Winnipeg to the U.S. border, 60 miles south. Morton’s appeal to “non-combat- ants” to leave this city was a move to lighten the burden of those re- maining behind to fight the rising flood. He called the action a pro- posal to effect “a thinning out of the city.” Greater Winnipeg has a population of 350,000. The flooded river already has cut all railways and highways in the valley as far south as the interna- tional line. None could predict how much higher the, river would rise. This already was the greatest flood in Canada’s modern history. Winnipeg already is menaced by the possibility of disrupted utilities and transportation services. Refu- gees pouring in from the hard-hit suburban areas, doubling the pop- ulation in some Winnipeg districts, pose still another threat. QUEBEC FIRE IS NOW UNDER CONTROL; 250 IBUILDINGS BUR NED ] tion (By Associated Press) A fire in the Quebec mill town of Cabano now is said to be under control. The wosd came from a radio station 35 miles away, (sta- C-J-F-M) in Edmundston, New Brunswick, a resident of Ed- ‘mund.slun was quoted after return- ling from Cabano. . There are no phone communications with the Quebec community as a result of the fire. According to the visitor to the |mm town, there were no casual- ties in the fire at Cabano. About were destroyed, in- cluding all the town's larger stores and a hotel. , STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise .sLl\Eduled to sail fram Vancouver 8 tonight. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. DEVELOPMENT Truman Believes Cold War With Us for “Long Time" GEAT PICKETS IN C10 BEEF Industry SFE Away Be- fore Lines Form - Square Sinnet Picketed for Time, SEATTLE, May 10 — @® — All Alaska cannery tenders and other vessels of the industry had com- pleted loading and left the harbor today before a threatened picket line of CIO Longshoremen could be established, a cannery industry spokesman said. A lone picket was stationed briefly . during the morning at Pler 50, where the Square Sinnet of the Alaska Steamship Company is berthed. He didn’t stay long. That was the only picketing in evidence although a demonstration was car- ried on from a truck moving about the waterfront area. A picket line was ordered yester- day after the Alaska Salmon Indus- try, Inc, voted against opening ne- gotiations with the Cannery Work- ers, Local 7-C, an affillate of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union. It is the successor to Local 7 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Aliled Workers Union, expelled from the CIO for following the Communist line. The industry has contracts cov- ering the non-resident cannery workers, for who Local 7-C demands negotiation rights, with Local 77, United Packinghouse ‘Workers (CIO) Il'ld an Al'l. union. ent of the ships from the hnrhor nppn.rmuy thwarted in Seattle the demands of the Long- shore local. It is possible that it will picket the vessels in some Alaska ports, however. 1BOYSCHARGEDIN | ~Would DropBomb Again | QUILICO BURGLARY By ERNEST B, VACCARO POCATELLO, Idaho, May 10—® —President Truman said today shat atomic research may lead “to much GIVEN ATTORNEYS District Judge George W. Folta today appointed attorneys to rep- resent Albin Frederickson and Charlie Jimmy, juveniles charged with burglary and grand larceny, jrowing out of their confession to entering . John Quilico’s sporting j00ds store last month. Both were arraigned in court, with District Attorney Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr., presenting a four- better grains and livestock on our farms.” He disclosed the signing of the National Science Foundation Act and said it would help the United States “exert a more vital force for peace.” Earlier he held out the grim prospect that the cold war with Russia will continue “for a long, long time.” In his speech to a trainside crowd here, the President said: “We have been making real prog- ress in putting atomic energy to work. Already, atomic research has led to important discoveries in med- icine and there is real promise that it will lead to much better grains and livestock on our farms.” The Science Foundation Act, he said, will make possible the de- velopment of “the best scientific brains in the nation,” and will keep the United States ahead in scien- tific developments. The critical international situa- tion and the determination to work for peace shared in the President’s expressed thoughts as he began the first of 14 talks on a swing through Idaho and Oregon. Would Drop K Again As heé has said repeatedly, Mr Truman told the crfowd he woule “do it again” if he faced the same situation he did when he ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb. “I had to issue.the order which caused §he dropping of two bomb:. on the enemy,” he said. He did so, he said, because he thought it would end the war quickly and save hun- dreds of thousands of lives In the future, he said, “we are going to use the energy for the de- velopment of mankind, not for de- struction.” He said if we lack the ingenuity to do that we “probably ought to be destroyed.” Some one called for Mrs. Truman and Margaret. “You wouldn't ex- (Cummued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 10 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 116, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 28%, Ken- necott 55%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 16%, U.S. Steel 32, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,870,000 shares. Averages today are as tollows: in- Alaska from west scheduled south- ‘dubll’iflls 218.64, rails 56.11, utilities i bound Tuesday. 113 .44, count charge against Frederickson and a six-count charge agains* Jimmy. Judge Folta appointed John C. Dunn as attorney to represent Frederickson and Joseph McLean to represent Jimmy. Pleadings will be entered at a later date. At time of their arrest, U. 8. Com- missioner Gordon Gray waived ju- venile jurisdiction by the depart- ment of welfare, A third youth, :aptured with the two, was re- manded to care of the department, under whose jurisdiction he had Jeen. The district attorney recom- mended that Frederickson be placed in a juvenile detention home for ‘our years, after informing the court the boy had waived right to counsel, A welfare agent asked the court the boy be sent to the home of Mrs. Dorothy Price in Haines, his sister, “for home-life he bad never had.” The judge turned this plea aside asking what interest she had shown before in her brother, and also that no direct assurance came from her husband, now unemployed, that care would be given the youth, After questioning Frederickson a few moments, the judge appointed Dunn to be his attorney. The boy had previously said “no” to a di- rect question if he desired to be represented. Jimmy, after having a series of charges read against him which involved entering of Quilico’s store, and stealing money from several other places, asked for an attorney. Charges against both youths were made by direct informatfen, a grand jury henrgng being waived. TRYGVE LIE IS NOW ENROUTE, MOSCOW Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations arrived in Prague en route to Moscow on a “Save the U. N.” mission. The United Nations has been boycotfed by the Russians, who demand that the Communists represent China at U. N. meetings instead of the Nationalists.