The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1951, Page 1

RUSSIONAL WABSHINGTON, D. C. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,972 Red “ Garland Fund” Exposed ! ! JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1951 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE " Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee On Un-American Activities 1948 COMMUNIST FRONT. ORGANIZATIONS MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE SexaTon Newson S, Diwort Sewaton Lours G. Sutron Senaton Fazo H. Knarr Sexaron Cuyoe A. Watson Senator Hucu M. Bunxs, Vice Chairman SENATOR Jack B. TennEy, Chairman Lnvoe TenNey, Secretary Murray vam?. Executive Secretary R. E. Comps, Chief Counsel PUBLISHED BY THE SENATE Lisutenant Governor Goopwin J. Knienr President of the Senate Senator Hanoro J. Powers + President Pro Tempore of the Senate Joszrn A. Beex Secretary of the Senate 145 Dr. E. B. Towne, Rev. UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA Miss Blse Schilling, Prof. John S. P. Tatlock Dillon W, Throckmorton, Prof. B. C. Wong, Daniel €. C. Wu, Mrs, ‘Warren Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Selfridge, Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, and Mrs. Edwin R. Sheldon. Prof. Alexander Kaun is listed as the San Francisco branch chairman, @ The San Francisco headquarters is listed as 628 Montgomery Street, Room 431, telephone EXbrook 5961. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA This front organization became active in June of 1944. Its head- quarters is located at 8 West 40th Street in New York City, and the organization is under the leadership of William J. Schieffelin. It has a connecting link with various other alien Communist fronts througk Dr. Frank Kingdon. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION (See Friends of the Soviet Union.) AMERICAN FUND FOR PUBLIC SERVICE / This fund was established by Charles Garland, the son of James A. Garland. He established the fund in 1922 with $900,000. The fund grew to $2,000,000. Among the board of directors who handed out the money to left- wing organizations are Sidney Hillman, Roger N. Baldwin, William Z. Foster, Lewis Gannett, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Morss Lovett, Scott Nearing, Mary E. McDowell, Judah L. Magnes, Norman Thomas, Harry F. Ward, Morris and Walter Nelles. Some of the beneficiaries of the American Fund for Publie Service are as follows: the Daily W r, New Masses, Vanguard Press, Feder- ated Press, Russian Reconstruction Farms, International Labor Defense, Commonwealth College, International Publishers, Workers Library Pub- lishers, Young Worker’s League (the Young Communist League, now Ameérican Youth for Democracy), All-America Anti-Imperialist League, Trade Union Unity League, Labor Research Association, Novymir, League for Mutual Aid, and Manumit School. AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS On the national level this organization has enjoyed a clean bill of health. In 1936 the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress refused to admit to their organizations such Communist- dominated groups as the International Workers Order and the Icor. Thig refusal gave rise to the Communist inspired and dominated Jewish People’s Committee. In California, and particularly in the Southern California Division, there has apparently been a quiet Communist infiltration into the Amer- ican Jewish Congress. The laudable efforts to screen Communists on the national level has not been noticeable in the organization’s activities in Southern California. Rabbi Franklin Cohn, Pacific Coast Vice President of the American Jewish Congress, addressing the Southern California regional convention MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA 247 Ile was one of the signers of a petition demanding that the ba against the Communist Party in the Philippines be lifted. e has been a member of many Communist front organizations. The Friends of the Soviet Union ultimately became the present Communist front, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. FRONTIER FILMS This organization is closely interlocked through its personnel with the Film and Photo League, a Communist front for revolutionary films. i Irontier Films has faithfully followed the Communist Party line in its productions. As soon as Ilitler attacked the Soviet Union, the organ- ization ceased its attacks on American conditions and government. The followi scription, of Native Land, produced by Frontier Films, (CI0 News, May 11, 1942) is as follows: J ‘A motion picture designed to create afresh those feelings of basic American patriotism has just been completed by Frontier Films * * * The picture was directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, who have been in the advance guard of documentary film production since 1931, having collaborated on ‘‘Heart of Spain,’” “The Plow That Broke the Plains” and ‘‘China Strikes Back’ * * * The great actor and baritone, Paul Robeson, well- known and beloved by millions for his life-long struggle in the cause of democracy, has narrated the deeply moving commentary written by the fine American poet, David Wolff.” GARLAND FUND This source of revenue for Communist causes is generally referred to a8 the Garland Fund, although it was legally constituted as the Ameri- ean Fund for Public Service. Among those who have served as directors and officers of the Garland Fund or its subsidiaries, are the following: Roger Baldwin, William Z. Foster, Lewis 8. Ganngtt, Sidney Hillman, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Morss Lovett, Scott Nearing, Mary E. McDowell, Judah L. Mag- nes, Norman Thomas, Harry F. Ward, Morris L. Ernst, Walter Nelles, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Clinton 8. Golden, Freda Kirchwey, Leo Wol- man, Clarina Michelson, Benjamin Gitlow, Robert W. Dunn, Harry Elmer Barnes, E. M. Borchard, Emanuel Celler, Paul H. Douglas, Ken- neth Durant, Edward Meade Earle, Ernest Gruening, Manley O. Hudson, Charles Clayton Morrison, Kirby Page, Otto Schoenrich, Henrik Ship- stead, Edgar Speyer, Moorfield Storey, John F. Sinclair, Oswald Gar- rison Villard, and Arthur Warner. GARRISON FILMS DISTRIBUTORS, INC. This Communist front acts for films produced in the Soviet Union as well as for Communist propaganda films produced in the United States. It has followed the Communist Party line and the expediency of Soviet foreign poliey in the type of films distributed during a given period. Commenting on a so-called documentary film *“400,000,000,”’ pro- duced by Joris Ivens and John Ferno, and distributed by Glrrrlon Reproduced herewith are three pages from the Fourth Ri 1948. Read them carefully, for they describe the personnel an the “American Fund For Public Service”, better known as the The title page identifies the committee and its members. Page 145, reproduced a Young Communist League (now called Ameriean Youth For Democracy). above-mentioned Communist activities. Above and to the right Fund and its subsidiaries—those shown on Page 145 and' o thers. 2 ; We offer no comment on the significance of the names assocmte_d with Alaskans and others who read these words will want seme explanation on In fairness to those named, opportunity should, be af pleased to publish explanatery statements by any of the pcrsons named ment of indirection and generalities. from the empl ; ‘TheWashingion Merry - Go-Round (Copyzight, 1951, by B Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON BOSTON—This column is written | from within a few miles of the famous rock where the pilgrim | fathers landed and later gave thanks for being delivered into a | new land of freedom. In continuing their precedent of giving thanks, it is important to remember the conditions under which they helped to establish | a new nation, and also to draw some parallels between what hap- pened then and what is happen- ing today. When the pilgrim fathers left England there was a new surge on the part of thecommon people for freedom. For the first time the people of England were learn- ing to read and write. For the first time the Bible had begun to circulate among commoners instead of being read onmly in the churches. People read it avidly, were stifred by it, sought the freedom to think and worship for themselves. There was in' England at that time a system of thought-control not unlike that existing behind the Iron Curtain today. Whereas the thought-control in Russia is political, the thought-dontrol in England was religious. People were expected to follow the religion of the monarch, who one day might be Catholic, the next day Prot- estant. = Eventually they rebelled. They organized a 17th century crusade for freedom and established a free nation of their own. Restlessness Behind Iron Curtain; Today one of the things we can be thankful for is that a some- what similar surge of restlessness is reported from behind the Iron Curtain. It is too early yet to call it a surge for freedom, but it could be. Conditions in Russia are not unlike those existing in England ears ago. Under the Czar on- t of the people could write. Today perhaps 80 of the - Russian people | about 40, 11—L-7088-D . bove, describes the , is shown P: Stabbed dey 0f Wrangell Man Is Found WRANGELL, Alaska, Nov. 23— ,m—'rhe body of Henry Bradley, father of seven | the children, was found in the bay | yesterday after he vanished from a house party sometime last Sun-| day morning. Marshal's deputy Jack Krepps said several stab wounds in the body indicated Bradley had been slain with a knife. Krepps said Bradley last was seen about 2 am. Sunday at a house party.at the home of Mrs. Bess Gross. About 40 persons who attended the party all were being questioned. Representatives of the district attorney’s office in Ketchikan were flying here today to carry on the investigation. Krepps said an arrest could be expected “momentarily.” The widow and seven children survive Bradley, a Wrangell fish- erman. P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Attor- ney, and Walter Hellan, of the U. 8. Marshal’s office, said in Ju- neau today that few details have been learned, but Gilmore said it was “probable homocide,” and Hel- lan said a “suspect” was being in- terrogated. Gilmore said that a coroner’s in- quest has been set for 10 am. Monday in Wrangell. JOHN DUNN JOINS ANCHORAGE LAW FIRM John Dunn is leaving Juneau Saturday for -~ Anchorage where he has joined the Cuddy law firm. He will be accompanied by his wife, Corirfne and 1%-year-old son, Trace. For the past 2% years he has been associated with Faulkner, Banfield, and Boochever here. Or- iginally from West Virginia and a graduate of Stanford University, Dunn made a trfp to Alaska and liked it so much he stayed and Straightforward statem “Garland Fund”. Ke](hikan Mei Dealers Pay Fines Tofalling $2,800 Individual meat dealers of Ket- chikan paid fines totalling $2,800 to the government in a compro- mise settlement of anti-trust char- ges against them heard before the U. 8. District Court in Ketchikan, according to P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Attorney. The settlement was reached af- ter the meat dealers had entered pleas of nolo contendere (no con- test). In the anti-trust case against the Ketchikan Liquor Dealers As- sociation, a nolo contendere was made’ this afternoon and this means the court’s session will end and the officials will be aboard the - weekend steamer. arriving in Juneau Monday or Tuesday. ARC Man Given Award for Duly William Hammer, now of Che- halis, Wash., a retired foreman of construction with the Alaska Road Commission, has bheen granted a Meritorious Service award by the Department of Interior. Hammar first entered federal service in Alaska in 1916 with the Alaska Railroad and worked as brakeman and baggageman until 1924, He was employed by the ARC in 1925 and worked as fore- man or timberman until 1927. He again entered employment with the ARC in 1935 and was employ- ed until his -retirement in Sep- tember, 1951. According to A. F. Ghiglione, head of the Alaska Road Com- mission, Hammer’s loyalty and de- votion to his official duties be- yond normal requirements contri- buted materially to the develop- ment of the road program in Al- aska. , ARRIVING ON ELLIS Four passengers arrived on Ellis Airlines Friday flight with seven on interport. Arriving from Ketchikan were Les Hunsperger and John Ross; from Petersburg were H, N. Peterson and G. 5. Duryea. the “Garland Fund” in the belief that the report speaks for itself. the part of the persons named in connection with the Fund. g forded them to affirm or disclaim their connection with the “Garland Fund” and its activities. lingl so long as they confine their remarks to the matter of ithe Fund and their association with it and refrain ents are invited and will be given page one position in this newspaper. Death Toll On Holiday Is Low By the Associated Press The nation’s accidental death toll over the Thanksgiving holiday was the lowest since 1948 and far below last year's record 201. Traffic accidents, as usual dur- ing a holiday period, took the heav- iest toll. A survey showed that since 6 p.m. Wednesday until midnight Thurs- day (local time) 90 persons lost their lives in motor mishaps. An- other 30 persons were killed in mis- cellaneous accidents. The total of 120 compared with last year’s record 201 violent deaths and the previous high for the Thanksgiving holiday of 181 in 1949. The 1948 toll was 114. A year ago T9 persons were killed in a collision of two Long Island railroad commuter trains in New York City. Yesterday two holiday- crowded trains collided in a New York City tunnel but no one was killed. Twenty-seven of the 1,000 passengers were injured. California led the nation in ac- cidental deaths over the holiday with 13 killed in traffic mishaps. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. 23—»—Closing quotation of Alsska Juneau mine stock today is 8, American Can 106%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%., Anaconda 49, Douglas Aircraft %, General Electric 556%, Ge eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 41 Kennecott 87%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 58':. Standard Oil of California 487, Twentieth Century Fox 20, US. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 9587%. Sales today were 1,210,000 <hr"% Averages today were as follows: industrials 256.95, rails 78.63, utile ities 46.1¢4, AU ” Air Transport To Take CAB's Ruling fo Court | SEATTLE, Nov. 23 — (B — Air | Transport Associates, Inc., a non- scheduled air carrier flying between | seattle and Anchorage, Alaska, will appeal to the courts the Civil Aero- | nautics Board’s refusal to recon- sider its order that Air Transport Associates suspend operations. Duncan R. Miller, general man- ager of A.T.A, said yesterday a brief is being prepared and the case probably will be filed by the middle of next week. 3 Commenting on the C.A.B. rul- ing, Miller said “this is in keeping with C.A.B. policy over the .years. We've been expecting it. In the past four years the C.A.B. has put out of operation virtually every independent carrier serving Alaska either through economic regulation or other strangulation rules.” The C.AB. ruling, announced Wednesday in Washington, D.C., gives the air line 30 days in which to wind up its affairs, unless it should appeal to the courts. The board said A.T.A. had violated the terms of its permit by establishing a regular schedule between Seattle and Anchorage. Commenting on claims that Alaska would suffer hardships if AT.A’s permit was revoked, the board said it had re- cently authorized two additional airlines to fly to Alaska. The board said other non-scheduled lines “can and undoubtedly will” provide the necessary air service, Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- ;| attle today. Baranof scheduled to arrive southbound Sunday morning. Freighter Yukon Princess sched- uled to arrive Monday morning from Vancouver. FROM FAIRBANKS Willard J. Bergstrand of Fair- banks is stopping at the Hotel Ju- neau. eport of the California Legislature’s Committee on Investigation of Un-American Activities whicig was qulished in d activities of an organization whose aims and interests are inimical to those of every free American. We refer to These are the men who heard the testimony of countless witnesses and examined reams of documentary evidence. Their findings are revealing. They have compiled an authentic list of Communist Front organizations gnd persons wholz_zlji.either _l.-em‘bers of these organizations or who have st i SHpOR L Ghatis «American Fund for Public Service” and some of its heneficiaries, notably the Communist “Daily Worker”, “New Masses” and, The page also lists some of the directors of the fund—who took part in the distribution of money to the age 247 of the same report which describes this same outfit as the “Garland Fund”. Listed here are the directors and officers of the We do, however, believe that Accordingly, we will be Dr. Allen Resigns, U. Wash. SEATTLE, Nov. 23—(®—Dr. Ray- mond B. Allen has resigned the University of Washington presi- dency to take the not-yet-vacant job of director of the government'’s ! psychological strategy board. Dr. Allen confirmed -the move last night after published reports. There has been no announcement yet from the White House. However, Gordon Gray, who holds the psychological strategy board post, said today in Washington that he expects to return to his duties as president of the University of North Carolina about Jan. 1. Gray is a former Secretary of the Army. The board is the government's top planning agency in the cold war with Communism. The chairman’s salary is $16,000. Dr. Allen came to the University of Washington presidency in 1946. He had been executive dean of the University of Illinois’ Chicago col- leges (medicine, dentistry and phar- macy) and dean of the college of medicine. GUEST OF INTERIOR FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 23—#® ~Dr. Raymond B. Allen, president of the University of Washington, is due to be the guest of Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 2. Dr. Terris Moore, University of Alaska President, announced the visit Wednesday. He will' be the official guest of the university during his stay. Speeches and receptions have been arranged. A flight to Fort Yukon, above the Arctic Circle, is planned. He will be the guest there of the Rev. Wilfred Files of the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital. Dr. Moore said the University of Alaska is ‘interested especially in the program of community better- ment promoted by Dr. Allen at the U.of W, He said Alaska’s univer- ¥ A | ment. | Levie said only two or three major Reach Korea Buffer Zone ‘Agreement MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 23—{P— Truce negotiators reached agree- ment on a buffer zone clause today, opening the way for a possible armistice in Korea by Christmas. “We have reached agreement in so far as the wording is con- cerned,” Rear Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, U.N. Command subcom- mitteeman told correspondents. “The only thing left now is for the liaison officers who are work- ing on the map to finish.” Agreement on the buffer zone issue came at the 20th subcommit- tee meeting in Panmunjom. If agreement is approved by the full truce delegations, as ex- pected, negotiators would have 30 days in which to solve three other tough problems - super- vision of the armistice, exchange of war prisoners and recommen- dations to the belligerent gov- ernments. Fighting will continue in the war, now 17 months old, until all of these points are settled. Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chief UN. Command subcommitteeman indicated the full five-man delega- tions could meet Sunday to approve the buffer zone agreement worked out by subcommittees. Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie, U.N. Command spokesman, said the Allies will present a full program for solving the armistice supervi- sion clause as soon as the full del- egations approve the buffer zone plan. Levie said Hodes has suggested | that two subcommittees be put to work simultaneously on separate problems to speed a truce agree- Staff officers started mapping the actual line of battle contact Friday. differences developed along the en- tire battlefront. Hodes said they may complete the job Saturday. The line they draw is'to become the formal cease-fire line 'if an armistice is signed within 30 days, Jefs Clash Over Korea; Base Bombed | SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 23—{#—Jets clashed over Korea today for the first time in five days. The fight came just 12 hours after Superforts bombed a new Red jet base two miles from Red China's Man- churian frontier. Two MIG-15s were damaged in a battle in bright sunlight be- tween about 30 Red jets and 30 American F-84 Thunderjets, the U.S. Fifth Air Force reported. It said all Thunderjets returned safely. During the night twelve B-29 Superforts ignored an angry cordon of Red jets and roared through in- tense flak in the first bombing raid on the Communists’ Uiju je' base. The strike was effective, Far East Air Forces said. It reported all B-29s returned from the raid two miles south of the Yalu river boundary. This strike so close to the “sanc- tuary of Manchuria” pointed up the mounting Allied effort to block off the growing Communist air threat and keep the Reds from set- ting up bases in North Korea closer to the battle line. Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, chief of the US. Air Force, warned in Washington that Red China has emerged suddenly as a major air power. He said this new-born air force with Russian type jets and Russian speaking pilots has broken Allied air supremacy in Korea al- though the United Nations still holds superiority. The US. Eighth Army reported there was no other significant ac- tion Friday morning except a series of small Chinese probing attacks along the western front, west of Korangpo and southwest of Chor- won. P AL 25 A WEDNESDAY FIRE CALL An over-heated stove at 903 West Ninth street called out the fire de- partment at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, There was no damage reported by firemen. sity wants to develop a similar pro- gram of “taking it to the people.” Dr. Mocre commented: “I deem it a great honor to have the presi- dent of this great sister university take time from his many duties to pay us a visit" PRICE TEN CENTS * Navy Plane Is Missing; Susped Russ WASHINGTON, Nov, 23 — A — A US. Navy plane with a crew of 10 is missing. There appear to be strong reasons for presuming it was shot down by the Russians. In succession today: 1. It was learned that Moscow, in a formal protest on Nov. 7, charged that an American plane crossed the Siberian border and was turned back by the gunfire of Soviet fighters. 2. The Navy said a twin-engine bomber “on United Natlons weather reconnaissance” patrol has been missing since Nov. 6 and is presumed lost. The Navy statement was in an- swer to press inquiries about'the Soviet protest. However, the Navy itself did not say the Russians had shot down the plane, The Navy said three officers and seven men were aboard the plane, and that search for survivors “has been negative,” meaning none have been found. “The matter is still under search- ing investigation,” the Navy sald. ‘The Navy, in its initial answer to questions, did not identify the exact type of plane except to say it was a twin-engine bomber. 'Nor did it say where the plane was missing. All the circumstances here, how- ever, implied that this was the same , matter the Russians referred to in their Nov. 7 protest—one day after the U.S. plane failed to return from its mission. At that time, with much the Moscow press announced award of decorations to the Red fliers. the Moscow papers today of the de- coration of two Red Navy fliers for outstanding services. What they Had done was not detailed, but the way the matter was handled paral- leled last year's awards, FLIERS DECORATED MOSCOW, Nov. 28—{P—All Mos- cow front pages today carried an announcement — without explana- tion—that the Soviet government had decorated two Wavy fliers with the Order of the Red Banner for ‘“exemplary fulfillment of their service duties.” The awards were made to Lt, Ivan Lukashev and Lt. Moisel S8hchukin by special action of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (parliament). The accounts did not say what the two lieutenants did to merit the medals. While the Order of the Red Ban- er is often awarded, it is rare vhen all the newspapers record this m their front pages. It seemed bvious the two fliers participated ‘n some outstanding service. The last similarly publicized wward was in April, 1950, when the Order of the Red Banner was given o fliers who shot down an un- armed American patrol plane over ‘he Baltic Sea, with the loss of 10 crewmen. FRIDAY FIRE CALL An over-heated furnace at the Henry Roden residence on Sixth ‘treet brought out: the fire depart- ment at 10:30 o'clock this morn- ing. There was no damage repor- ted by firemen. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BURRAU At Afrport: Maximum, 37; Minimum, 25. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional showers of rain mixed with snow tonight and Sat- urday. Lowest temperature tonight about 34 and highest Saturday near 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy @ At Airport — 012 inches; e since July 1—17256 inches. . ® & & & & 0 o 0 0 eveccsecseviececeqoese Low tide 3:37 am. 41 ft. High tide 10:06 a.m, 18.3 ft. Low 4:38 pm,, 31 ft. High