The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,5631 SPY RING SUSPECT ARRESTED ¥ FBI Agentsm(e Move in Syracuse - Chemist s Held, $IP&000 Bail | SYRACUSE, N.Y. June 16—#— | FBI agents linked a second Ameri- . can suspect today to the Klaus Fuchs spy ring which fed atomic secrets to Soviet Russia. They declared that Alfred Dean Slack, a 44-year-old Syracuse chemist arrested here last night, had admitted giving samples ot a secret high explosive to Harry Gold, Philadelphia biochemist now await- ing trial on espionage charges. Gold is accused of passing the samples and production secrets on to “his Soviet principal, Semen M. Semenov’—an employee of the Russian Amtorg Trading Corpora- tion who left the U8, in 1944. Gold’s arrest stemmed from in- formation which the FBI obtained from Dr. Fuchs, topflight British scientist serving a 14-year prison term in England for betraying British and American atomic sec- rets to Russia. Slack—a $75-a-week paint firm chemist—worked during the war years of 1943-44 at Kingsport, Tenn., where the secret explosive RDX was manufactured, and later on the Manhattan Atomic Project at Oak Ridge, Tenn. He is now being held in $100,000 bail pending transfer to Knoxville, Tenn, Slack roundly declared he was innocent when interviewed by re- porters. Asked whether he knew Harry Gold, he replied: “I don’t recall ever knowing any- body by that name.” No plea was permitted at his arraignment before U.S. Commis- sioner A. Van W. Hancock. He will enter his plea at Knoxville, where the case will be presented to a Tederal grand jury. Conviction on a chdfge of es- plonage in wartime carries a pos- sible penalty of death. A salesman for the Sundure Paint Corp., where Slack has been assist- ant superintendent for several months, pictured Slack as a “quiet, conscientious worker” and said his “ideas seemed decidedly Democra- tic.” Slack said he never had been a Communist. The company's treasurer, Philip A. Suskind, described Slack as “very capable, never a trouble-maker” and a church-goer. “He has a very charming wife and two nice children,” Suskind said. BIRTHDAY PARTY AT TEEN AGE CLUB TONIGHT All members of ‘the local Teen Age Club are reminded that to- night is the night of its fourth birthday party. X In June of 1946, four years ago this week, the teen agers began the operation of their clubhouse on South Seward Street. Tonight's affair will appropriately commem- orate the club’s continuous and very successful activities ever since. As usual, the clubhouse will be open at 7:30 oclock. The birth- day party will begin at -10:15 o’- clock. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WSHINGTON — Discovery that GOP Senators Brewster of Maine and Ferguson of Michigan tapped the telephone wire of California airplane manufacturer Howard Hughes has had two interesting aftermaths. 1. Charles Dillon, who this col- umn revealed had made a record- ing of his conversation with NBC vice president Frank McCall, has now been asked to resign as head of the defense department’s radio section. Apparently two Republi- can senators can get away with tapping telephones and planting dictaphones, but a bureaucrat can’t. 2. The Senate has in its files an interesting report on Frank Blelaski, the wire-tapper in the Amerasia case in which a Rhode Island grand jury accuses him of practicing “highly un-American ac- tions” and of “emulating the vic- jous Gestapo of Germany and the abhorrent OGPU of Russia.” The full Senate report on Biel- aski on the Rhode Island wire- tapping is signed by Republican| | yesterday~ afternoon before U. S.'under the party name of sydney} southbound Sunday. (Continued on Page Four) JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 | SRR Conversation of the smiling President Truman brings broad grins to the faces of Fred Schmidt (left), secretary of Battery “D”, and Toastmaster Eugene Donnelly at a breakfast in St. Louis sponsored by Battery “D” 129th Field Artillery, which Truman commanded in World War L (® Wirephoto. J. A. Talbot Resigns as Member D_evelopmenl Bd. Lo o M Miss Dorothy Ann Grover, 21, of Freeport, N. Y., was selected the new “sweetheart” of Sigma Chi during the national convention of the fraternity at Columbus, Ohio. @ Wirephoto. | | ! J, A. Talbot of Ketchikan Has | resigned as a member of the Alaska 1 Development board. He comment- ed that he had been a member of Ithe board for five years and that he thought it was time that he be replaced with a more active member. “Many conflicting interests are holding back Alaska's development,” stated Talbot. “Unless these in- terests can be reconciled more fully than they are at present, it is go- ing to be very difficult to interest carital in Alaska,” he said. Commenting on the resignation of Talbot the Ketchikan Daily News says: The many friend of Mayor Jack Talbot will not be surprised at his resigning as a ‘member of tle Alaska Development Board. Those who know the inside facts have wondered how much longer he could “stand the political galf,” Jack really took his duties seri- ously and wanted to get some re- sults. But to our way of thinking he was being used as “political window dressing” by the Good Dcctor Gruening because of his well-known popularity. BIDS ARE OPENED FOR 7 BARRACKS, ESCAPE ARTISTIS| FORT RICHARDSON NABBED UNDER GAL| .xcrionaos, mmesa, sune 16— FRIEND'S BED MUNICH, Germany, June 16—# —Police caught Homer Cook today under the bed in his German girl friend’s apartment, three days after the ex-soldier's third escape from a2 U. 8. Army jail. “I broke out of jail to see my firl,” the husky ex-pugilist from Vuskogee, Okla., told his captors 1s he meekly surrendered. (M—A San Franeisco construction company, J. H. Pomeroy, Inc., was apparent low bidder when bids were opened for construction of seven 200-man barracks at neighboring Fort Richardson. The company’s bid of $2,809,000 was almost $50,000 under govern- ment estimates. ‘The next two lowest bidders were Haddock Engineers and Associates of Santa Fe, N.M., $2,836,657, and Boespflug and Birch, Seattle and Helena, Mont., $3,097,971. Other bids Two American military policemen } Fanged upward to nearly $6,000,000. nd a German cop arrested the 26-year-old Cook in Munich after eceiving a telephone tip. “You don't have to use your distols on me, boys,” 'the rangy ‘ugitive from 16 Army charges said. His German girl, Anna Sporrer, was absent from the apartment as Cook was seized. His escapades had started when he reentered Germany illegally, after a bad conduct dis- charge from the Army, to see her. “I want to marry her,” he said after his first arrest. “I missed heér again,” he mutter- :d today s his captors led him .way this morning from the apart- ment. Cook escaped from jail Tuesday while a guard went to look for his relief. For three days he had eluded 3,000 German police and about 300 armed American MP’s. Charged with entering occupied Germany illegally, resisting arrest, possessing firearms and imperson- ating a Federal officer, Cook twice before had escaped from the Army. Both times he was 'recaptured. WALLIS-MANHEIM t iLos Angeles, Sidney Weinbaum un- | from ider oath before~the industrial em- ! The Haddock firm was apparent low bidder on construction of two 500-man barracks at the nearby post. Its bid of $1,917,078 compared with Pomeroy’s $1,946,000 and Boespflug and Birch’s $2,113,868. Completion of the projects by Sept. 1, 1941, has been asked by the government. FBI NABS JET SCIENTIST AS RED PASADENA, Calif., June 16—#— The FBI announced today the ar- rest of Dr. Sidney Weinbaum, 52, California Institute of Technology scientist formerly with -its jet-pro- pulsion laboratory. Richard B. Hood, head of the Los Angeles FBI office, said Wein- baum is charged with perjury and fraud against the government. In a complaint filed with U. S. Commissioner Howard V. Calverly, the government alleges that: “On or about Sept. 23, 1949 at Jack Whitfield Wallis, Jr., air- ployment review board wilfally and eraft mechanic for Alaska Coastal|fraudulently testified that he had Airlines, heim, from Washington, D.C., made ap- Commissioner Gordon Gray. and Hinda Selina Man-|never been a member of the Com- who * arrived here recently.munist party, when in faét he had {held membership in the Commu- Sen, Chan Gurney of South Dakota | Plication for a marriage license |nist party professional unit No. 122, Empson.” Breakfast with His Old Buddies TWO ALASKA Y 2R UNIONS IN MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— ] Quick Thinking Saves Tol 1Ask fo Withdraw from El-! || ectionfo Defermine Juris- il diction Canning Industry SEATTLE, June 16 — (# — Two unions sought today to withdraw} from an election to determine | jurisdiction over 2,000 non-resident |, cannery workers in the Alaska sal-}|" | | mon-canning industry. The Alaska Fish Cannery Work- ers Union (AFL) and Local 7% United Packinghouse ‘Workers’ Union (CIO), which had petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election, asked that their petition be withdrawn. Officials of the two unions charged a fair election could not be held because of a contract signed by the Industry and Local 7-Cp Interna- b tional Longshoremen and Ware- housemen’s Union (CIO), and the subsequent establishment of a hir- ing hall by the Industry. Industry observers expressed be- lief the action would not halt the dispatching of crews to Alaska tor the 1950 season. ‘Walter P. Sharpe, assistant man- ager for the Alaska Salmon In- dustry, employer group, said hiring of crews for the Bristol Bay area had been completed, and the men would be sent north by plane next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Next crews to be hired are for the Kodiak and Cordova areas in July, but only a small number of men are employed here for those areas. Three-way competition for control of the workers has been going on among the AFL union, Local 77, and Local 7-C. The NLRB announced last Saturday it had ordered_the election. Both the AFL union and Local 77 have filed unfair labor practice charges against the Industry, assert- ing the contract between Local 7-C and the Industry favors 7-C. 120 ARE KILLED IN PERUVIAN REVOLT; 300 ARE WOUNDED Fighting Still Might Be Threatening or Continu- ing, Censored Reports (By the Associated Press) Peru’'s military government claimed to have the situation in hand in riot-torn Arequipa today but army broadcasts indicated that fighting still might be threatening or continuing. Censorship of news from the big southern city was lifted yesterday but reimposed last night. One of- ficial radio broadcast - said more than 120 persons had been killed and 300 wounded in the revolt. ‘The government claimed. all rebel leaders have been arrested. It blamed the uprising on a political organization called Accion Civica (MBWIC Action), Communists and members of the outlawed leftist Apra party. ‘The leader .of Accion Civica is Gen. Ernesto Montagne. He was to have run against Gen. Manuel Odria, former president of Peru’s military cabinet, in the July 2 Presidential elections. But the Na- tional = Electoral Board rejected Montagne as a candidate last week, leaving Odria the only one in the field. he ¢ The government said the leader of the revolt is Francisco J. Mostajo, who was rejected by the Electora! Board as a vice-presidential candi- date on Montagne's ticket. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Princess Kathleen from Van. couver scheduled to arrive 3 p.m Saturday. ' Prince George scheduled to sall from Vancouver tonight. When Jnt:nn,v Shores, 2 (center), fell into a brimmin B.... | g overflow ditch in Birmingham, ‘Ala., his sister, Carol, 4 (right) gave the alarm. Jean Schatz, 17 (left), ran three blocks to a culvert and grabbed Johnny before he was swept out of sight. (# Wirephoto. THIRD ARREST, Riversin B( SPY CHARGES, Overflowing; MADE BY FB! (By the Associated Press) Arrest of a third American on spy charges—one who the governmen: says worked on the atom bomb it- self—was announced today. J.Second such arrest within 24 hours, it appeared to bear out evi- dence in the nation's capital more spy arrests were due. The arrested man was Davic Greenglass, 28, a former U.S. Arm) non-commissioned officer at Albu- querque, N.M., where the govern- ment says he fijched wartime atomic secrets for RusSia. He was seized ir New York City. Within several hours of the an- nouncement of his arrest, Green- glass was arraigned before a U.S Commissioner and held in $100,00¢ bail. Greenglass, arrested here on ¢ complaint filed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, cited this ecountry’s war- time alliance with Russia as thec explanation for his action, FBI1 : agents said. l In explaining his purported ac tions, FBI agents quoted Green glass as saying: “I felt it was gross negligence or the part of the United States no to, give Russia the informatior about the atom bomb because she was an ally.” RUSS DEMANDS ON TRIESTE TURNED DOWNBY U.S. DEPT, WASHINGLON, June i¢ — (# — The United States has emphatically turned down Russia’s demand tha. Trieste be internationalized. In a note delivered to Moscow to- day, the American government also refused to pull out U.S. Army troops stationed in the Trieste area. State Department’ officials said the British and French governments have sent similar rejections tc Russia. Russia had contended in a formal note April 20 that the United States, Britain and France were violating the Italian peace treaty by holding up plans to internationalize the Adgiatic city and its surrounding territory. |UTA TO TRY FOR COHO CONTRACT WITH BUYERS The United Trollers of Alaska, Aleutian scheduled to sail tr:ymELocal 100, has requested fish buy- Seattle Saturday. j Princess Norah scheduled to sail Vancouver Saturday. Vancouver Monday. Princess Louise scheduled to il from Vancouver ‘Wednesday, June 21, bound 8 o'clock tonight. | | ers to meet with union representa- tives to negotiate contracts setting up minimum prices for coho salmon, Chilcotin scheduled to sail from;Andy Barlow, executive secretary of the local, said today. The meeting is scheduled to be held in the UTA offices in the Valentine Building July 1. mon, Barlow said. ‘Alaska from west scheduled south-{ It is the. first time an effort has| been made to obtain a ' minimum, e Baranof from west scheduled| price contract on the silver sal-|e | NW Also Hit (By the Associated Prcss) Flooding rivers burst out of their banks' in the interior of British Columbia today and rose to alarm- ng heights in two Pacific Northwest ! states. Hardest hit in Canada was the Bridge River area. Some 5,000 per- :ons in the inland region were cut off from travel and communication with Vancouver, 200 miles to the west. | | | BUS, STREET CARDRIVERS ON WALKOU e . Service Haltedvin Los An- geles - Looks Like Shriners Must Walk | (By the Associated Press) Bus and street car service in Los Angeles was halted by a strike of 4,000 operators today as the city prepared for an influx of some The mining village of Minto, near€200,000 Shriners for their national he Bridge River, was being evs ated. Streets of the little town were under three to four feet of water. In northern Idaho, Governor C. A. Robins declared a state of emer- zency for the Kootenai River val- ‘ey near Bonners Ferry. So far, only pastureland along the river bottom 1as been flooded. "RAIN OR SHINE” PICNIC SATURDAY FOR LIONS CLUB With races and prizes and hun- dreds of ice cream cones, the younger crowd will get plenty of attention at the big Lions Club osicnic tomorrow night. Lions families and friends-of- Lions families will gather at the Lions-sponsored Douglas Commun- ty Beach at 6 o’clock for the annual frolic. Carl Rusher, chairman, promises ’hat there will be plenty of cottee, 10t dogs and ice cream cones. Fam- lies will provide any further nour- shment they need. “What 1if it pours?” Rusher was asked. “This is a rain-or-shine deal,” he answered. “We're going to have the annual Lions Club picnic. So there!” A number of club work parties have been busy for the past several weeks, clearing the beach of logs, broken bottles and such, as well as repairing playground and other equipment, Chairman WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 75; «minimum, 54. At Airport—Maximum, 78; minimum, 53. (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. Low- est temperature tonight 56, highest Saturday 74. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today - City of Juneau — None; e since June 1 — 0.75 inches; e since July 1—71.89 inches. L At Airport None; since June 1 — 033 inches; since July 1—46.10 inches. . . . . . . . . . L FORECAST . . . . . . L] . u- | convention. Mayor Fletcher Bowron appealed for a 15-day truce during the Shrine ! convention which opens next ‘weekA! But representatives of the AFL Transportation Union walked out of last minute negotiations early to- day. ‘There are not enough taxicabs in Los Angeles to handle the con- vention crowds. The city's transit lines normally carry a million riders a day. The striking union has demanded a 20 cents an hour wage hike for the opeators, most of whom now earn $147. The company did not an- nounce any offer. Milk Strike Continues ‘The milk strikes in Western Penn- sylvania - end Washington, D.C., continued, as did the CIO Ameri- can Newspaper Guild walkout against the New York World- Telegram and Sun. The publishers association of New York City halted contract ne- gotiations with the local AFL print- ers union and charged it with a “deliberate violation” of its contract by refusing to cross CIO Guild picket lines at the struck newspaper. Walkout on Newspaper Today was the fourth day of the strike by about 400 news and busi- ness employees of the World-Tele- gram and Sun, an evening news- paéper with a circulation of more than 600,000 daily. Employer insistence tlon of unresolved issues and striker insistence on retroactivity for pay hikes blocked settlement ot the strikg of 3,250 AFL dairy work- ers in Pittsburgh and seven sur- rounding counties. The strike, start- ing its second week, has cut off all except emergency deliveries to e 2,300,000 reisdents in the area. A similar week-old strike in Washington brought a proposal to- day by Rep. Miller (R-Neb) for Congressional action to Yabolish the milk monopoly” in the nation’s capital. on arbitra- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 27%, American Can 116'%, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester 28', Kennecott 56%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 15%, U.S. Steel 37%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,180,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 222.71, rails 55.95, utilities 48.55. NEW ACTION ~ IN BRIDGES - CASESTARTS | Government Motion s { Granted for Move in Re- vocation of Citizenship SAN FRANCISCO, June 16— The government today advanced another step in its move to deport CIO Longshore Leader Harry Bridges. Federal Judge George B. Harris granted a government motion to revoke Bridges' citjzenship, gained in 1945, because the Australian- born labor leader recently was con- victed of perjury. Judge Harris then directed that the government draw up an order to revoke Bridges' citizenship. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McMillan weiat to work at once preparing the decree. He said it would take him all day but it would be ready for Judge Harris’ signature Monday. Vincent Hallinan, attorney for Bridges, said “we contend Judge Harris has no jurisdiction because of the appeal now pending from the original conviction.” He said he didn’t plan to appeal today’s order; that “if the defense succeeds in obtaining a reversal of the original conviction, that would nullity to- day’s order.” McMillan wouldn’t comment on questions about the effective date ot the citizenship revocation. Bridges left by plane for Chicago about the time Judge Harris handed down his order. The perjury conviction was based on a sworn statement in his 1945 citizenship hearing that he wasn't a Communist. Bridges is under sentence to five years in prison. He has appealed. In his memorandum Opinion Judge Harris wrote: “Bridges stands before this court convicted felon. When.a defendant is convictéd, thé presumption of in- nocence vanishes and a heéavy pre- sumption of guilt supplants it. “Under the circumstances . . . he should not be privileged to retain the fruit of his illegality. “The court is satisfied that the opposition to the (government) mo- tion is without merit.” McCARTHY TOUR OF HOUSING PAYS OFF, AT A BUCK A WORD COLUMBUS, 0., June 16—#—A rough word count today showed U.S. Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy (R- Wis) recelved more than $1 a word for writing a special article for the defunct Lustren Corp. The article—"Wanted: A Dollar’s Worth of Housing For Every Doliar Spent”—covered 37 pages of a 94- page Lustron booklet entitled “How to Own Your Own Home.” ) The article contained about 8800 words. Lustron paid. Senator. Mc- Carthy $10,000 for it. § #1 just sold to the highest bidder,” said the Wisconsin Republican. f McCarthy's writing does not set any precedent. Many Congressmen and other high government officials have written magazine articles and books and have received payment for them. Photostat copies of papers filed in US. District Court show Mc- Carthy was guaranteed 10 cents for each copy of the promotion booklet sold up to 100,000 copies. Lustron sold the booklet for 35 cents. Records showing total sales have not been matie public. In a brief introduction, Senator McCarthy says the material for the Lustron article was gathered during: . a 30,000-mile tour of the nation as vice chairman of a joint Congres- sional committee investigating hous= ing. This led Clyde Foraker, court- appointed receiver for the. govern- ment-subsidized housing mlant, tG call the article “unethical.” Lustron borrowed $37,500,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration and RFC threw it into re- ceivership when the concern de- faulted on payment of $36,500,000. The plant now is in a legal tangle in U.S. District Courts in Colum- bus and Chicago. NEW YORKER HERE W. J.'Cole of New York City is at the Baranof Hotel. He represents the American Tobacco Company. FROM SKAGWAY F. 8. Calkins of Skagway 1s al the Baranof Hotel. [