The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,606 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THUR SDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e —— RED-HELD KOREAN PORTS HIT BY NAVY Bow Backs Up Charges A PAROLE IS DECLARES CHAPMAN MAY SUE Allegations Made by Sen- ator Schoeppel Again | Spoken Publicly | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— A —| Frank T. Bow, chief aide to Senator Schoeppel (R-Kans), adopted as his | | own today the Senator’s charges that Secretary of the Interior Chap- man has a “personal Alllance” with Communist Russia. He challenged Chapman to sue him. Bow told the Senate Interior Com- | mittee, which is investigating the | accusations, that he intends to voice | them publicly, where Chapman is | at liberty to sue him. { Chapman has bitterly denied the; charges which Schoeppel made in a | Sennt.e speech. Chapman told che‘ committee last week he dares the‘ Senator “or any other man” to make such charges at some forum where | they would not enjoy Congressional or other immunity from lawsuit. Bow - Accepts Challenge “I accept that dare and challenge of the Secretary,” Bow declared in a prepared statement which he read | to the committee. 5 “T shall repeat the allegations of Senator Schoeppel as my own, in a public and open forum. I shall ad- | vise the Secretary of the time and | placé, and shall furnish him with a transeript of my Temarks. “I shall speak as a cjtizen of this country without immunity or the mantle. of high publie office.” _Charges Made Public Bow, a candidate for election to the House from the 16th Ohio Con- gressional District, told reporters he actually has used some of the mater-. | ial quoted by the Senator in a cam- paign speech in Wooster, O., a week ago. Senator Murray, (D-Mont), who had read part of Bow’s prepared statement in advance, challenged it as “a political speech” even before Bow started reading it. Bow disputed Chapman’s conten- | tion that Schoeppel’ was “scandal mongering.” Not Slander “It, cannot be called reprehensible campaign of scandal mongering in- sinuation and pure slander,” Bow said, “when evidence of a substan- tial character such as the records (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go Bound WI’HIHQ- 1950, by te, Inc.) 2 DREW FEARSON WSHINOTON — Sometimes the President’s off-the- record remarks that never reach the papers are his best. Those present thought this was the case when Truman addres- sed the joint session of the AFL- CIO last week. Speaking without notes and ob- viously straight from the heart, the President made a plea for tolerance in wartime. To 8 considrable extent it was a historical speech. The President reviewed the different periods of hysteria which have gripped the country—the Alien and Sedition Act in the early days of the Re- public, the Know- -Nothing party, and Ku Klux Klanism. He pointed out that the Know- Nothing party had been anti- Mason and referred to the fact that he, himself, was a Mason. The Klan, he recalled, was first against the negro; then when Tevived in the 1920's, against the Jew and the Catholic, These were evidences of intoler- ance which did not truly represent the American people, he said, and he was absolutely confident that the good judgment of the Amer- jcan people would always win out. The President did not mention the Mundt-Nixon bill or the Mc- Carran bill, but it was obvious he had them in mind. For he referred | company has been compensated for| | ten times. | of points served in Southeast Alas- Anti-Trust Arraignment Beginning ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 14— (?—Anchorage and Seward liquor | dealers face arraignment in Third District Court today in connection | with the pending anti-trust suits. | Yesterday attorney Ed Arnell ap- | peared for 27 Ketchikan defendants | indicted for liquor and meat price | fixing, conspiracy and restraint of trade. He represented the Ketchi- | kan Retail Liquor Dealers Associa- | tion and 15 bar operators, plus the Tongass Trading Co., and owners of 10 Ketchikan meat. markets. Two Government attorneys ap- peared, indicating they would not oppose an earlier motion to trans- fer the cases to Ketchikan. Judge Anthony Dimond reiterated that no decision would be forth- coming in arguments until or after | Oct. 31 when the Alaska Steamship Co., is to appear for arraignment. 'MAIL CONTRACT INCREASED FOR ALASKA COASTAL Alaska Coastal Airlines annonuces the Civil Aeronautics Board, Wash- ington, has advised the company future for mail carrying. For the past three years tlle carrying mail at a virtually fixed' rate established in 1947. Since then mail service has almost doubled and | mail poundage has increased over | O. F. Benecke, company official, said the tremendous increase re- sults primarily from carrying by air all classes of mail including parcel post between the majm'l:y1 ka following burning of the mail boat Estebeth in March, 1948. Already half a million pounds have been carried this year. It would have been impossible to carry this quantity of mail and meet the 15 per cent annual in- crease in passengers and 40 per cent increase in cargo without the company’s 24 passenger Catalina Clipper acquired last summer and the additional Grumman placed in service this spring. L DAL [ ON BUSINESS TRIP . Zalmain Gross, local manager for the Gross Industries, has returned from a business trip’ to Sitka, in- cluding an inspection of improve- ment work being done on the Coli- seum Theatre property owned and operated there by his firm. NEW ANS EMPLOYE Miss Marjorie Orcutt from Se- attle, a new clerk-typist arrived Tuesday on PAA to work in the Alaska Native Service office here. She was formerly with Sears, Roe- buck. Her home is in Red Deer, Alberta. She is staying at the Gas- tineau Hotel. e © o o ®o 0 0 o o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 68; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 63; Minimum, 37. FORECA T (Juneau and Vieinity) Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight about 42. Highest Fri- day near 62. PRECI1PITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 s.m. today City of Junean—None; since Sept. 1—4.10 inches since July 1—15.16 inches. GIVEN MAY; OUTMONDAY WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 — ( — Former Rep. Andrew Jackson May | (D-Ky), in connection with World War II munitions contracts, has granted a parole. the Federal Parole Board, told re- porters today the 75-year-old for- mer lawmaker will be released Mon- day from the Ashland, Ky., Federal correctional institution, health, plus “an outstanding in- stitutional record” were major fac- tors in the board’s decision to free him. May plans to return to law prac- tice at his home in Prestonburg, Ky. The board voted to grant the pa- role earlier in the week, but it was not-announced until today in order to notify officials of the Ashland institution. May, wartime chairman of House Military Affairs Committee, received a sentence of from eight to 24 months. The munitions-making Garsson Brothers—Henry and Murray—were convicted with May in July, 1947, after a long trial that was a Wash- ington sensation. The Garssons were accused of paying May $53,000 | was to receive a lump sum pay-, his 1 & | ment of $30,000 for past services to use his influence to get them war |and a 80 per cent increase in the contracts, They received sentences identical to May’s. The Garssons™Becameeligible” 13r parole July 31, but the board turned them down. U. 5. COMMISSIONER IS TAKING ABSENTEE VOTES Qualified voters who will be trav- eling or who, for any other reason, cannot vote in person at the general Territorial election October 10 may cast absentee ballots now, according to U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. The actual vote may be made in the Commissioner’s office in . the Federal Building, or voters may ob- tain ballots to be mailed in., Absentee voting may be done Mon- day. through Friday from 9 am,, to 5 p.m., until 5 p.m., October 8. The Commissioner’s office here is the only place where absentee votes may be cast by residents of Juneau precinct. This includes Juneau, Douglas, Yakutat, Angoon and en- virons. Similar arrangements pre- vall in Sitka, Ketchikan and other precincts. Qualified . voters can register at the time of voting. To qualify, an adult citizen must have resided in the Territory for a year, in the precinct for six months. At the October 10 election, resi- {dents of Southeast Alaska will vote for Delegate to Congress, Territor- ial Treasurer and Commissioner of Labor, as well as two Senators and eight Representatives from the First Division. o STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska mine stock to- day is 2%, American Can 98%, Ana- conda 36, Curtiss-Wright 9%, In- ternational Harvester 31, Kennecott 65%, New York Central 15%, North~ ern Pacific 23%, U. S. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,350,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 22448, rails 66.87, utilities 39.06. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver due to arrive Saturday afternoon or evening. Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle Sept. 15. At Airport—None; since Sept. 1—241 inches; since July 1—14.41 inches. (Continued on Page Four) 1 Alaska scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. | Aleutian from west | southbound Monday. I convicted of accepting a | | bribe and joining in a conspiracy been | George G, Killinger, chairman of | Ne | FOR GENERAL ELECTION| scheduled | STATEHOOD BILL ACTION PROMISED | | Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) said | | he will bring the Hawaii and Alaska | statehood bills to the attention of the Senate this afternoon. The chairman of the Interior| Committee told reporters that ht will urge passage of the bills in a | Senate speech on the grounds that | the action would combat Russian | propaganda in Asia. Refusal to grant statehood, he said, “would be blasted from every | Killinger said May’s age and poor | Soviet microphone with the charge | that it is evidence of our imperial | istic designs in Asia.” not hopeful that they could be pass- ed by the Senate this week. They did hope to make statehood one of the first orders of business of the Senate should Congress re- cess until November. The House-passed bills have been repeatedly endorsed by President Truman, LAST RITES TOMORROW FOR WALSTEIN 6. SMITH, FORMER TREASURER Funeral services for Walstein Goodale Smith, Alaska’s first Ter= ritorial treasurer, will be held to- morrow at 10 a.m. in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mertuary. The Rev. Samuel McPhetres' will conduct the services, and Ernest‘ Ehler will sing. Mr. Smith, prominent Alaskn‘ banker since 1907, died Monday night at St. Ann’s Hospital after more than six year's illness. He was 84, Born in Columbus, O., Mr. Smith came to Alaska in 1907, first set- tling in Katalla, near Cordova, where he established a bank. He came to Juneau as Territorial treasurer when that office was cre- ated in 1913 and served as treas- urer until 1935. Survivors include a son, Walstein D. Smith of Los Angeles, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs, H, C. (Helen) Scud- der of Juneau; and two grand- children, Miss Merion Cass of New York City and John T. Cass of | Missoula, Mont, Mr. Smith’s remains will be taken to the Washelli Crematorium Seattle for cremation, after which his ashes and those of his wife, Alice Markley Smith, who died in 1937, will be taken to California to a final resting place. Friends who wish may send con- tributions to the Parent-Teacher Association scholarship fund in care of Mrs. Stan Grummett, post office box 1013, Juneau. BLOOD TYPING BEGINS HERE SEPTEMBER 26; VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ‘The Red Cross blood-typing pro« gram in Juneau will begin Sept 26, it was decided at a committee meeting held at the Baranof Hotel Marvin Kristan, Red Cross public- ity chairman, announces. It will continue until completed. Tuesday and Thursday nights are announced for the time but a placc is yet to be located, Kristan said There is a call for four voluntee typists and three receptionists. Thos wishing to volunteer please call 883 The program is on a Territory- wide gbasis with the help of the Territorial Department of Health and the Civilian Defense organiza tions, Ex-service men are urged to have themselves typed since the new procedure takes in the RH factor not considered in the Army anc Navy typing previously used. Attending the meeting were: Mr M. O. Johnson, chairman; Rev. Joh! Porter; Douglas representative; Dr James T. Googe, Dr. William P | Blanton, Mrs. Kenneth Clem, Red Cross executive secretary; Mr. Wil- liams, Health Department, Mr John Clements and Marvin Krista: I | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— @ el Backers of the statehood bills were | ’House fo Sit ~ Until Profit ' Tax Passes WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— (B — The House shouted overwhelming approval today of a resolution call- ing on Congress not to adjourn until |it has a chance to vote on a multi- billion dollar excess profits tax. €| This action came after the fail- | ure of an .effort to write a $6,000,~ | 000,000 super levy on big corporation | profits into the pending general tax 1 bnmtmg bill. That move bogged | down in House rules on procedure. | Speaker Rayburn ruled that un- | der the rules and precendents, the House could not instruct a Senate- House conference committee to in- | sert the big profits levy in the pend- |ing $4,508,000,000 tax bill. | He stressed that the conference | committee, because of the rules of the House and the Senate, could not insert new subject matter in a bill when it is trying to smooth out different versions passed by the two houses. In the heated debate that preced- ed the House action Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the Ways and Means Committee told the House that President Truman, the Trea- sury Department and the tax draft- ing committees of Congress want time to study a sound means of ap- plying an excess profits tax. He said that he is for such a levy, but op- poses haste. 'GAMES TODAY BOSTON, Sept. 14 — (® — Backed by two home runs, righthander Johnny Sain became the Boston | Braves’ third 19-game winning pitcher today by defeating the Chicago Cubs, 7-4. Three of the Chicago tallies were via the home run route. NEW YORK, Sept. 14—(P—Wally Westlake's two-run homer in the sixth proved to be the winning blow today as the last place Pitts- burgh Pirates whipped the New York Giants 7-1 in the first game of a double-header. The Pirates insured the victory with a four-run splurge in the ninth. Murry Dick- son held the New Yorkers to six | hits, one of which was Eddie Stan- | ky’s homer in the fourth. in | BROOKLYN, Sept. 14 — (M —The Brooklyn Dedges blasted four home runs today to defeat the Cincin- nati Reds, 6-3 in the first game of a doubleheader. Billy Cox, Cail Furillo, Bruce Edwards and Gil Hodges did the damage, the latter’s coming with one on as the Dodgers scored four runs in the first inning. Joe Adcock and Ted Tappe, Brem- | erton, Wash,, recent Washington | state College athlete, homered fo: the Reds, Chicago, Sept. 14—P—The Chi- cago White Sox scored all their runs in the first inning to defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-2 in the opener of a three game series today. In suffering their seventh straight loss, the A’s settled for six hits as Lefty Bob Cain posted his eighth win. CINCINNATI, Sept. 14—(P—Rep- resentatives of contending teams nd baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler today set Oct, 4 as the ate for the start of the 1950 World Series, providing a play-off is not necessary to determine one or both { the pennant winners. (OUNCIL WILL MEET 8 P. M, TOMORROW The City Council will meet tomor- W night 4t 8 o'clock in council hambers of the City Hall. It will be e regular council session. Committee reports will be heard at he meeting, according to City Clerk C. L. Popejoy. FROM TENAKEE George Murphy of Tenakee gistered at the Gastineau Hotel. is | JAP PEACE TREATY T0 BE DISCUSSED President Tells Newsmen at Conference Acheson Remains in Cabinet WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— (B — instructed the State Department to start discussions looking to a peace treaty with Japan. He told a news conference also,} in a formal statement: \ “We have long pressed the USSR for an Austrian treaty and we are exploring the possibility of ending the state of war with Germany.” Mr. Truman read the statement at the opening of his weekly news conference, at which he tossed back other questions by correspondents. These other questions dealt with the resignation of Secretary of Defense ! Johnson. He called that matter a closed | incident. And, with matter-of-fact terseness, he said that Dean Ache- son remains as Secretary of Staw.l SENATOR TAFT IN OPPOSITION T0 MARSHALL WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 — (B — Senator Taft (R-Ohio), GOP policy chief in . the Senate, said today he is dubjous about the appointment of Gen. George C, Marshall to be Secretary of Defense. He said he will vote against legis- lation to open the way for Marshall to re-enter the cabinet, although he may not speak against it in the Senate. Taft also said the Far Eastern section of the State Department, under the Truman administration, “has always been friendly to the Chinese Communists, at least in its leanings.” He said he was dubious about the idea of making Marshall Sec- retary of Defense because that would strengthen Secretary of State Acheson’s hand “in relation to the Chinese Communists.” There still were no signs that the opposition, even with Taft as a recruit, was anywhere near strong enough to block the bill on the Marshall appointment. This bill would make an exception, in the case of Marshall alone, to a law which forbids anyone to Defense Secretary who has ‘served as a commissioned oificer in the armed services in the pasL 10 years, MCLEAN_ RESIGNS AS NORWAY'S VICE CON.; EASTAUGH SUCCEEDS Joseph A. McLean announced to- day that his resignation as Nor- wegian Vice Consul for Alaska is effective, and that Frederick O. Eastaugh has; been appointed in that capacity, The resignation of McLean re- sulted from a request of the De- partment of State when it ap- peared that a conflict arose with his commission as a U. S. Army Reserve Officer . He had been ser- ving as Vice Consul of Norway since the resignation of H. L. Faulkner one year ago, Eastaugh, a native born Alaskan, is a practicing attorney associated with the law firm of R. E. Rob- ertson in the Seward Building at Juneau. He also is the City Magis- trate and the immediate Past Pres- ident of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, TODAY'S LANDINGS ‘The single landing today was from Elfin II, E. O. Swanson, and was 33,000 pounds of salmon for Alaska Coast Fisheries. Jim Hickey trucked in 1,500 pounds from Auk ln.«y for Engstrom Brothers. { | | i \ "MRS. AMERI(A" President Truman said today he has |- Mrs. Betty Eileen McAllister, com- peting as Mrs. Johnstown, Pa., holds trophy she won for culinary ability (she broiled meat) in the Mrs. America of 1950-51 contest at Ashbury Park, N. J. The cock- ing ability of 'the blonde, hi¥él= eyed mother of two children, plus other attributes, swayed the judges, sufficiently that they also crowned her Mrs. America 1950- 51. M Wirephoto. 14-YEAR-OLD BOY ADMITS SHOOTING PETERSBURG MAN Acting “U. S. Marshal Walter Hellan returned Tuesday from Pe- tersburg bringing a juvenile pris- oner charged wtih first degree mur- der. Hellan had gone there Mon- day to assist Deputy Marshal Ralph Smith in the investfgation which followed discovery 'Sunday of the body of Paul Albert Hoch, 46-year- old homesteader, The prisoner, 14-year-old Richard Eugene Harris, admitted; to the sheoting of Hoch. He said Hoch owed. him $64 for work he had done and had agreed to give him a rifle instead of the nigney. The youth said he had worked a while Satur- day for, Hoch, asked for the riflc and been told “later.” An argument sued. Hoch's body was found Sunday on the roof of his lean-to cabin, about eight miles from Petersburg on the Mitkof Road. He was killed while shingling the roof. After Hoch had failed to appear at a nearby creek where he had a fishing appointment Saturday with 9-year-old Mike Schwartz, the youngster’'s grandfather, Carrol. Clausen, who keeps chickens in an abandoned CCC camp rearby, went to Hoch’s cabin Sunday with a group of friends, i ‘They found no trace of the home- steader until one of the Dparty climbing a bank, happened to lock across at the roof. Young Harris had recently re- tuined to Petersburg, where he was born, after attending school in Cal- ifornia. His mother is the present Mrs. V. G. Fox of San Pedro, Calif. His father, Richard Harris of Petersburg, a fisherman, has been on a seine boat locating trapping sites, He flew here yesterday and engaged Mrs. Mildred Hermann as attorney for his son. After U. S. Commissioner Dale H. Hirt waived juvenile jurisdiction under the Alaska Juvenile Code, a prellminary hearing was held in Petersburg, and the defendant was held to answer to a Grand Jury on charges of first degree murder. Marshal Hellan signed the com- plaint, gainst Secy. of Int. 16 PUSH BY ALLIES INDICATED American, British Ships Start Bombardment- Ground Actions Scanty (By Leif Erickson) | ! l TOKYO, Friday—®—Heavy at- tacks by Allied warships and car- rier planes on Korea's west coast | —an apparent prelude to the prom- ised big push—prompted the Reds last night to claim four U. 8. landing craft and three destroyers were sunk. The U. 8. Navy in Washington said it had no report of any land- ing-type vessels being involved in the heaviest surface bombardment of the war by British and American ships in the vicinity of Inchon, west coast port for the Red-held capital city of Seoul. ‘The Navy said the Reds did inflict “superficial damage” on three U. 8. destroyers during fhe Inchon bom- bardment Wednesday. With ground action relatively scanty and American commanders predicting future offensive opera- tions against the North Koreans, Allied sources in Tokyo said it sounded as if the Reds were trying to manufacture a “victory” by im- plying that landing. effort had been repulsed. K earlier that Task Force 77 wrought damage along a 210-mile western strip, the main blows being at'In- chon. The attacks against troops, gun emplacements and airstrips were disclosed by the Navy Thursday. Allied ground forces either held firm or gained on the beachhead perimeter 150 miles to the south- east, Particularly active was the north- ern front—from the northwest cor- ner before Taegu to points north of the Taegu-Kyangju highway eastward. The U. 8. First Cavalry division seized three heights north of Taegu. Comparatively small-scale tighting flaned on the southern front. But the )[lvy was in the spot- light. On the east coast, an American battleship ‘cruised up and down the Sea of Japan off Pohang. One of its three escorting destroyers whipped into the Red-held harbor and exchanged fire with shore bat- teries, Thé battlewagon didn’s fire a shot, Attention was focused on the west coast by the two-day naval assault, however, Islands flanking Inchon have been seized by South Korean commandos—both for har- assing the Reds’ seaborne supply and to prepare for a possible offensive. The U. 8. Navy said American and British cruisers and destroyers blasted two whole days at Inchon, port for Seoul, which ig 22 miles in- land. The strikes were disclosed as Alli- ed ground forces, more than 150 mil- es to the southeast, either held or punched out gains on the beach- head perimeter . U. 8. Naval power turned up also on the Sea of Japan side of the peninsula, the east coast. An Am- erican battleship cruised off the coast from the ruins of Red-held Pohang, one-time No. 2 United Na- tions port. The battlewagon didn’t fire a shot, but one of three escorting destroyers zig-zagged into Pohang harbor and banged away under rep) ylng shore batteries. COURT NOW POSTPONED UNTIL 10 A. M. MONDAY Due to a delay in the return of Judge George W. Folta from the westward, the opening of the Dis- trict Court session scheduled for tomorrow has been' postponed until Monday. Court will reconvene at 10 o'clock Monday morning, according to Clerk | {or Court J. W. Leivefs, ’