The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,528 NEW SOCIAL SECURITY BILL™ DEBATE OPENS Senafor Would Add 10 Million Persons fo Benefit Rolls ‘WASHINGTON, June 13 — (# — Senator George (D-Ga. said to- day a more liberal social security program is needed to protect addi- tional millions of citizens and give them reasonable retirement bene- fits. Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he opened debate on a bill which would add nearly 10,000,- 000 persons to the 35,000,000 now covered by the old-age and surviv- ors insurance system and sharply increase benefit payments. Administration leaders are hope- ful that the Senate will finish with the bill early next week. It is a revised version of a measure passed by the House last October. Its enacttment is a key part of thel administration program. "'MISS SAN DIEGO" g«-:“ 8\ George said that a higher level : of benefits is long overdue. HE noted that the retirement system’s benefit formula has been unchan- ged since 1939 “despite the shawp increase in prices and wage levels that have occurred since that time.” BRAZIL RED PLOT IS KNOCKED OVER RIO DE JANEIRO, June 13—® —Federal police said today a plot for a Communist; uprising through- out Brazil has been discovered at Recife and suppressed. ‘The plot was linked by police with a previous disclosure that the outlawed Communist party planned widescale riotings to coincide with Presidential elections Oct. 3. The Brazilian news agency Meri- dional said the uprising was sched- uled to start in Recife and fan north and south. It said the Seventh Military Regi- ment garrisoned at Recife had been alerted and was investigating a re- port the uprising would be led by Communist chieftain Luis Carlos Prestes, last reported in Bolivia on the Brazilian frontier. This is the second time within two years that police have announced a crackdown on Communists at Re- cife. Until the party was outlawed in 1047, the national headquarters was. there. WRANGELLITES HERE J. B. Bigelow, Elmer Bakke and George Gunderson of Wrangell are guests at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyrisht, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'ASHINGTON — It's a peculiar thing about Congressman John S. ‘Wood, the Georgia Democrat whose office took a. $1,000 fee from a crippled: boy for getting a $10,000 compensation bill passed by Con- gress after the boy was hit by a U. 8. Army tryck. The peculiar thing is that finan- cially Wood is well off. As most congressmen go, he is affluent, and his wife is a member of one of the big textile families of North Georgia. Yet, on top of the fee from Ralph Stanfield, the congressman also en- joys a neat arrangement whereby he put his colored servant on the congressional payroll. In other words, the servant serv- ed in the:home of Congressman; Wood while paid $50 a week by all the taxpayers. This is a way to solve the servant problem which every housewife would relish. Here - is « how,. the congressman mariipulated ghis piece of gravy. The servant’s name is William Fowler and he has been attached to the Wood family for years. When the congressman became chairman of the Un*American Ac- tivities Committee in July 1945, he promptly shifted Fowler from his personal payroll to the payroll of the committee as a janitor. Fowler's salary—paid by Uncle Sam—was $191.86 a month, which is not bad for a janitor, especially since he spent most of his . time at the Wood home rather than at the capitol. However, he did ap- pear at the committee rooms from time to time. Fowler stayed on the Un-Ameri- | M can Activities Committee payroll until Jan. 4, 1947. This was ex- S T R (Continued on Page Four) Joanne Durant, 2l-ymr-old Miss San Diego (above) was named winner of the bathing suit division in the Miss California Pagegnt at Santa Cruz, Calif. Miss Durant’s dimensions include 35 bust, 24 waist and 35 hips. She is 5 feet five inches tall and weighs 112 pounds. (P Wirephoto. BONDSMEN DENY BAIL 10" ACCUSED LOYALTY PERJURER NEW YORK, June 13—®—Will- iam W. Remington, resigned gov- ernment economist, pleaded inno- cent today to a perjury indictment charging him with lying when he denied to a Federal grand jury that he ever was a Communist. Federal Judge John W, Clancy set July 5 for naming the trial date. Remington resigned from his Commerce, Department post after being threatened with ouster pro- ceedings. Clancy set $5,000 bail for Reming- cn and gave him two days to caise the bond. Remington’s lawyer, Bethue! Webster, tcld the judge that pro- fessional bondsmen have refusec to post bail for the defendant be- cause “a loyalty question is in- volved.” He told reporters later that 1¢ surety companies had - been asked to put up bail for Remington and all have replied they would post bond “for prostitutes and murder- ers but never where loyalty is juestioned.” NARROWS DREDGING 10 GIVE BIG SHIPS CHANCE TO MAKE IT SEATTLE, June 13—(P—Dredging now under way in Wrangell nar- rows, southeast Alaska, which will cost $1,063,600, will provide a ship channel 300 feet wide and 24 feet deep at mean lower low water. sufficient for the largest vessels plying Territorial waters, United States engineers in Seattle said to- day. The contract is. held by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredg- ing Company of Seattle. Other work planned for Wrangel! narrows will provide an anchora%e basin adjacent to the channel in the vicinity of mile 14, 500 yards long, 200 yards wide and 26 feet in depth. The first contract for dredging Wrangell narrows, 20% miles in length, also held by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Com- pany, represented an expenditure of $1,229,364, and was begun June 12, 1948. Work on the project was halted when the dredge Ajax was extensively damaged by fire in December, 1948. The dredge was brought to Seattle, rebuilt and re- turned to Wrangell narrows. FROM KANSAS CITY W. M. McAdams of Kansas City, 0., is at the Baranof Hotel. The United States has about one- 'or approximately 2,000,000 miles. ‘i | SALE OF QUEEN CONTEST BALLOTS REPORTED GOOD| ‘The sale of ballots was reported booming yesterday and today as Juneau residents made an early start choosing their favorite for the Fourth of July Queen. Four local beauties, each spon- sored by two local organizations are in the running for the coveted crown. Queen of the three-day In- dependence Day celebration will be chosen by voting. Ballots went on sale yesterday for the first time, and will be available until the con- test closes June 30. All the candidates have shown their talent is not limited to pul- chritude. Roberta Messerschmidt, 17, one ot the candidates, is being sponsored by the Rotary Club and the Busi- ness and Professional Women's club. Miss Messerschmidt was a class officer in Juneau High School and salutatorian of the 1950 graduating class. She was editor of the J-Bird high school publication; a member of Quill and Scroll, a national hon- orary society; a member of the rifle and ski clubs and the high school and city bands. She is also Junior Past Worthy Advisor in Rainbow. Shirley Casperson, 17, queen can- didate sponsored by the Central Labor Council and the Filipinc Community, is a member of Rain- bow, former president of Girl Scout Troop No. 9, and delegate from Alaska for the Western Hemisphere Girl Scout camp held in Michigan last year. She is also a member of the Civil Air Patrol Cadets and the Juneau High School Ski Club. Carmen Mantyla, 19, chosen tc run for queen by the Moose and the Women of the Moose, is preseni Worthy Advisor of Rainbow, mem- ber of Eastern Star, and a gradu- ate of Juneau High School where she was a member of the Girls Ath- letic Association and the Rifle Club Nella Jermain, 18, is the candi- date of ihe American Legion anc the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She is a student at Juneau High School 4 member of the Rifle Club, the Pep Club, the Debate team, and vice-president of the junior class Miss Jermain is also a member ol the Catholic Youth Organization. SCIENTIST SAYS NEW WEAPON WILL SMASH INVASION PARIS, June 13—P-—America is developing a powerful new land weapon to smash any Russian inva- sion of - western Europe, a leading U.S. atomic scientist said today. Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of U.S. scientific research and de- velopment, described the weapon as “a marriage of the bazooka and the recoil-less gun.” He added it is one of the most important develop- ments since the last war. With this and other strategic wespom Bush declared, “relatively 7 small and well-equipped land forces should be able within four or tive years to hold off any Soviet-tank- led invasion of Western Europe until U.S. power comes to the res- cue.” Dr. Bush, now president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., addressed the American Club of Paris. Exempt Churches From Property Law, Asks Bob Barilett WASHINGTON, June 13—A—A Congressional committee was re- minded today of an old statute which says a church or charitable organization can’t own property worth more than $50,000 in a US. Territory. Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) brought the matter up. He asked the House Public Lands Committee to approve a bill to exempt Alaska from the provisions of the law, as was done for Hawalii. Bartlett said the statute was adopted in 1862, when a large part of the rontinental United States was in Territorial status. The committee took no action on the bill. TYREE-MAGORTY MARRIAGE William Tyree and Susy Mflgorty.l {both of Juneau, were married yes-l terday afternoon by U.S. Commis- sioner Gordon Gray. David M. witnesses. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1950 The Prefldenl Infercedes |COAST ATO Ml T4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS President Truman (right) assumes the role of a mediator as he sights a sailor having a vigorous ‘argument with a cab driver during his early morning stroll in St. Louis. as Seaman William Hall, 25, of The flustered gob, identified Caledonia, Mo., stared in open- mouthed amazement when he turned and discovered that the grin- ning man tapping him on the shoulder was the President of the United States. After smoothing things over, the President resumed his stroll. (/) Wirephoto. Aluminum Company Plans Survey During Summer in Area South of Whitehorse ANOTHER AMERASIA INQUIRY WANTED BY 21 GOP SENATORS WASHINGTON, June 13 — —t Twenty-one Republican senamrxi today asked a Congressional inquiry | into the Justice Department’s hand- | ling of the 1945 Amerasia secret | documents case On behalf of himself and, 20 others, Senator Capehart (R-Ind) introduced a resolution for an in- vestigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee. A Foreign Relations subcommit- tee now is looking into the five-year old case as part of its general in- quiry into charges by Senator Mc- Carthy (R-Wis) of Communism in the government. The GOP resolution would direct the Judiciary Committee to: “Conduct a full and camplew] study and investigation with re- H spect to the conduct by the Depart- ment of Justice of the investigation of, and prosecution of the deferd- ants in, the so-called Amerasia case.” The case involved discovery by} federal agents of hundreds of sec- ret government documents in thr[ New York "eadquarters of Amer asia, a now defunct magazine. There have been charges in Con- gress of “cover up” and “white wash” in prosecution of me case five years ago. Senate Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois took a dim view of the GOP resolution. He indicated to re- porters that he would oppose 2 Senate vote on it. “We certainly are not going to have two Amerasia investigations going on,” Lucas declared. “I can't understand why there should be two.” HEAVY CARGO IS FLOWN NORTH BY NORTHWEST LINES SEATTLE, Junev 13—A—North- west Airlines flew the heaviest one- day cargo volume to Alaska in its i history last night when fwo DC-4's headed for Anchorage with 30,000 pounds of cargo aboard. The record cargo included pro- duce ‘and contracting equipment Northwest officials said they ex- pect to ship up to 200,000 pounds ot ‘thlrd of the world’s telegraph wires,' Tyree and Loren A, Conner were|contracting supplies north in the "next few weeks. | was a note which read: VANCOUVER, B.C. June 13-—# —The Aluminum Company of America plans to conduct a summer survey, the Vancouver Sun said to- day, toward a possible hydro elec- tric-aluminum development south of Whitehorse, ¥.T. The project would cover an area in the northwest tip of British Co- lumbia where it coincides closely with Alaska and Yukon Territory the newspaper said. Water from Atlin and Tagish lakes in the province and Benneti and Lindeman lakes in the Yukon would be stored behind a dam con- structed in the Lewes River, south of Whitehorse, the Sun said. Paging Wildlife Service; Moose al Newspaper Doorsiep SEATTLE, June 13—®—A flop- eared moose calf, estimated to be about two weeks old, was found on a Seattle Times ramp yesterday af- ternoon shortly after an unidepti- fied man was seen near the spot. Its legs were trussed and its body was encased in burlap. Attachec 1 l “George is an orphan through no fault of mine, The people of Seattle need him to grow up in Woodland Park, but it’s not convenient for me to go up there and answer a lot of questions.” Moose generally are found in Alaska and British Columbia on the Pacific Coast. Metropolitan downtown newspaper buildings are not considered native habitat. Officials at Woodland Park, tc whom the pop-eyed, spindly-legged funny little ‘critter’ was given, said they would do what they could for it but “Moose usually can't be kept in captivity successtuny George has critical days aheas STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 13 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 117, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 29%, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacitic 15%, U. 8. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,780,000 shares. Averages today-are as follows: in- dustrials 226.44, rails 56.87, utilities 43.63. MEETING TONIGHT To make plans for camp sites, the Sportsmen’s 400 Club will meet | | | DEFENSE BAD WHOSE FAULT iMayors' Conference Hears Military to Blame-Mili- tary B'ames Civilians SAN TRANCISGu, June 13—M— Civilian leaders and military ex- perts are agreed the West Coast’s defense against atomic warfare is inadequate. But they disagree on who is to blame. The civilians ‘say the federal government and military are at fault. The military blame the civil- ians. That — plus ominous warnings o! the effects of atom bombing — wa: the tenor of a two-day conference opening here yesterday, with the mayors of Pacific Coast cities or their representatives in attendance The conference was called by Mayor Elmer Robinson of San Fran- cisco, who has charged the govern- ment with failing to provide ade- quate information for civilian de- fense in case of an attack. Robinson noted yesterday Weost Coast cities represented at the meeting have a total population of nearly 5,000,000 and “all are within approximately 10 hours flying time of the nearest Soviet air base.” But it. Col. W. M. Hanes, Sixth Army planning officer, declared many municipalities had fallen down on the civilian planning effort. He said: “One of the large bay area cities has nothing but an organization chart, despite repeated efforts of the military.” Added to this divergence of views was a gloomy picture by a medical expert who inspected the world’s first atom-bombed cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr. Stafford Warren, dean of the medical school at the University ol California at Los Angeles, said 10 atom bombs could wipe out any city along the Pacific Coast. Mayors of cities from Seattle to San Diego attended. PALOOK, ESKIMO LEGISLATOR, MADE CHAPLAININ ARMY WASHINGTON, June 13 — ® — The Army appointed its first Eskimo Chaplain today to serve in Alaska. He is the Rev. Percy Ipalook, a Presbyterian minister for 15 years who lives at Wales, Alaska. He is also a Territorial Legislator. He has the rank of Captain, has been in the Alaskan National Guard and now is assigned to the First Alaskan Scout Battalion at Nome: ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 65; minimum, 46. At Airport—Maximum, 64; minimum, 41. FORECAST (Junesu #nd Viecinity) Continued fair with little temperature ‘change tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 46 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; " since June 1 — 0.75 inches; since July 1—71.89 inches. At Alrport None; since June 1 — 0.33 inches; since July 1—46.10 inches. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from. Vancouver in port and sails for Skagway at 11:30 tonight. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 10 o'clock tonight. ~ Princess Kathleen scheduled to said from Vancouver Wednesday. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Alaska from west scheduled south- bound at 8 p.m. Friday. CALIFORNIANS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Holmes PHOTOGRAPHERS' Alluring Sue Carol Walker, 20, Miss Atlanta and a native of Opelika, Ala,, smiles after being chosen Miss National Press Pho tographer at the closing session of the National Press Photograph- ers fifth annual convention at Atlantic City. (® Wirephoto. BRITAN REJECTS EUROPEAN STEEL, COAL POOL IDEA (By Associated, Press) Until European nations turn soc- lalist, the 1ulihg British labor party declared today in a major policy ]statcment Britain should stay out tof programs for European politica’ and economic unity. The statement rejected the Schu- man plan for pooling Western Buropean coal and steel resources saying: “Such planning will be worse than useless if it Is inspired, iike the cartel of the past, exclus- ively by the desire for private profit.” The new policy, announced by the party’s national executive commft- cee, made it clear that British socialists fear mergers with Europe may threaten labor’s policy of fuli employment and increased produc- tion through government planning The statement said European unity is not an overriding end in itself. It said national sovereignty and Britain’s obligations to he: worldwide commonwealth and em- pire must come first. Labor has a shaky hold on the oresent Parliament and an elec- dion may be necessary this year or next. Labor's newly outlinec {oreign policy will play a big part n that election. U. 5. OFFICIALS DISAPPOINTED AT BRITAIN'S MOVE WASHINGTON, June 13 — (A — American officials privately ex- pressed sharp disappointment to- day at the ruling British Labor party’s rejection of British partici- pation in the Schuman Plan for European coal-steel pooling. However, State Department authorities said there was no pros- pect that the United States, al- though strongly favoring the Schu- man Plan, would threaten to with- hold Marshall Plan funds or use other means of pressuring the British government into going along. Secretary of State Acheson told a news conference last week that he does not consider it a good thing to use one foreign policy program to try to force acceptance of another. There is speculation here, how- ever, that the Labor party’s stand may create a major political igsue in Britain—particularly if Conser- . vative party leaders take the eppo- site side. SEATTLEITES HERE Among Seattle residenls at the Baranof Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Townsend, E. A. Schaffer of Swift and Company: Willlam E. Rasmussen, Don Brastow of the Fremont Electric Company, and this evening at 8 o'clock in the 'and Leonard J. Holmes of Clarks-|Mrs. Pearl Johnson and her sister Council Chambers of the City Hall. burg, Calif,, are at the Baranof, IMiss Marie Ann Shay. | i woe 3 STRIKES, BUT NO ONE FANNED-YET Newspaper, Television, ! Milk All Curdled by Walk- outs Over Wage lssues (By the Assoclated Press) A strike today halted publication of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, large evening daily news- paper. Television schedules of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System were altered by a walkout of 400 techni- cians in New York and Hollywood Monday night. The milk strikes in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pa., continued with state police .patrols ranging a seven county area in western Penn- sylvania after milk-dumpings were reported. At Morristown, Tenn., state police considered allowing pickets to re- turn to the vicinity of the American Enka Corp. plant, scene of a viol- ence-punctuated 1l-weeg strike by CIO textile workers, These were the principal develop- ments on the nation’s strike fronts. The strike against the World- Telegram and Sun, one of New York's largest evening papers with a reported circulation of 600,000, was called by the CIO American Newspaper Guild in a wage dfspute. Nearly 400 editorial and office employees launched the strike at 4:30 a.m. (EST) and set up a picket line which AFL printers refused to cross. The pa] missed its first edition and officials said they doubted they could- publish. The union has demanded a 10 percent wage increase, with mini- . mums to range from $40 a week for office boys to $120 for newsmen with six years' experience. The present top is $110. The World-Telegram and mm geniéral inereases of from to $6 weekly and - creases ol $1 to $3.50 In minimum scales to make the top minimum $113.50 weekly. Other issues were involved, in- cluding shorter work weeks, secur- ity, union preference in hiring, arbi- tration of staff reductions, night differentials and holidays. The strike affecting CBS tele- vision shows stemmed from negoti- ations involving nearly 600 members of the AFL International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers in New York, Hollywood, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The issues are wages, working conditions and se- curity. The IBEW asked raises which would lift beginning salaries from $65 to $70 a week and salaries of those with five year employment records from $128.50 to $145 weekly. In the Pittsburgh area milk strike, four pickets were arrested on charges of violating a court order against interfering with dairy op- erations. There were no signs of progress toward settlement of the five-day strike by 2,300 AFL dairy workers against 68 milk dealers. But Washington milk dealers promised to come up with a pro- posal today for settlement of the capital’s milk walkout which has been in effect since Saturday noox. NO PAPER TODAY NEW YORK, June 13—There will be no issue of the World-Telegram and Sun today, B. O. McAnney, Managing Editor said: “As long as the pressmen, the printers and stereotypers stay out we cannot print.” Later, Lee B. Wood, Executive Editor announced: “We will not print today.” ’ PLEADS GUILTY T0 BINGE WITH FUNDS OF SHIP LOS ANGELES. June 13—M— Navy Lieut. Bascom B. Boaz, charged with rifling his ship's safe of $19,000 and then spending it on a wild six-month binge, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of govern- ment i Federal Judge Ben Harrison set July 10 for sentencing the 432-year old former pdymaster of the Navy tanker Navasota. Boaz was arrested in nearby Po- mona May 25. He had only a few dollars left after the party which started when he left his ship here last Thanksgiving Day. On some of his joyride he was accompanied by a pretty woman he met at Fresno, Calif., Pearl Rose- mary Carter, 33. She was not held.