Daily Sitka Sentinel
Home-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME xvi
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 6, 1955
10c a Copy
NUMBER 25i
Labor should take part in
politics, claims Sec. Mitchell
lias both duty and
responsibility
to speak out
mw YORK (JP) Secretary
©f labor Mitchell said today
organized laibor has both a
duty and responsibility to
speak out with a “loud and
clear” voice in politics..
Mitchell's remarks prepared
for the convention of the mer
ged AjFL-OIO indicated, how
ever, he expects laibor support
to be <given to Republican par
ty policies rather than to those
of Democrats.
His speech, like one deliver
ed by President Eisenhower
yesterday to convention dele
gates via a lon|g-distance hook
up from Eisenhower’s Gettys
burg headquarters, said laibor
unions have a right to deal in
political issues.
Eisenhower said that in such
expression the rights of min
orities in anions having “dif
fering social, economic and po
litical views must be scrupu
lously projected and their
views accurately reflected.”
The president and his (labor
cabinet officer appeared to he
answerinlg in ipart at least, the
expressed (fears of some Re
publicans unions are taking
too active a political role. The
speeches also signaled an ad
ministration effort to vie ac
tively with the Democrats for
the lialbor vote in (the 1956 cam
paign. ,
Gov. Averell Harriman of
New York, a (potential candi
date for the Democratic pres
idential nomination next year,
said in another speech at (the
convention today that "we
need more, not less participa
tion (by working men and wo
men in American political af
fairs.” ,
Harriman saw “a glorious
opportunity” Ito increase na
tional production Iby 50 per
cent in the next decade and
hereby improve living condi
tions. But “to get this expan
sion, we must have wise and
progressive policies,” he said
“It is up to labor to make
its voice heard to be sure we
have those policies,” Harriman
V eatchcombfng
• Too bad “Davy Crockett”
wasn’t ait Big Delta. He most
likely would have made pets
of the big meait animals.
• Fourteen years ago today
soldiers were talking about
when they would be back in
civilian life. And civilians were
not worried about the income
tax and good sleak was four
bits a pound. A lot has happen
ed in these last years.
-H
• Wish that it would eitshei
rain or snow and not do both.
-H
• When the little lady saic
“Bufif_Buff_Buff-’
was she talking about the an
imals or the condition of he
ftttire?
! added.
Harriman was given a a:and
in|g ovation as he entered the
convention hall and again
when he concluded his address
He was applauded 22 times
during his speech.
Durinlg his criticism of the
Eisenhower administration a
voice from the audience shout
ed “give ’em hell, Averell,”
a reminder of the phrase ofiten
heard during former presi
dent Harry >S. Truman’s cam
paign speeches. ,
Harriman at one point paid
tribute to Truman’s attitude
toward labor and then added
smilingly:
“I warm to make it clear I
am not talking albout politics
this morning — I’m just (talk
ing history.”
Depressed fishing
industry pictured
at hearing
TACOMA </P) A picture of a
badly-depressed fishing and
boat (building industry here was
presented at a hearing of the
senate committee on interstate
and iforeign commerce yestir
day.
The Japanese must be shop
ped from fishing out Alaska sal
mon runs if the badly-mauled
U. S. industry hopes to recover
witnesses said.
Cheap Japanese tuna has
nearly glutted the U. S. market
; and ruined the domestic fish
ing interests, they testified. \
| They also said the U. S. salmon
■ catch this season was the low
' est in 46 years, the Japanese
nearly fishing out the coastal
waters.
The hearing was conducted
by Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) &
Rep Tollefson (R-Wash), both
| of whom were hopeful "some
j thing might be done.” but de
j dined to comment on specific
1 aid measures.
I Witnesses asked the U. S.
ban Japanese from salmon fish
inlg in coasr.al waters and re
strict their catches on the open
sea. A sharp quota on tuna im
ports from Japan was also urg
ed.
Cold today in
most of nation
by The Associated Press
Another cold day was the
outlook for most of the nat ion
today.
The coldest weather was in
most of the upper Mississippi
valley and the higher eleva
tions of the 'Rockies. I: was 16
degrees ibelow zero in Fraser,
i Colo., and -15 at Grantsfourg
and Wausau, Wis.
I Temperatures were helow
freezing from southern New
I England through eastern Ken
| tucky, across northern Arkan
' | sas into sout hern New Mexico
| and northwestward around
j most of Nevada and the east
I ern sections of Oregon and
II Washington.
• | It was chilly in much of the
' southland with readings in the
I (continued on page four)
What, no beer?
OSAKA, Japan {IP) The sud
den rush oif visitors to ithe
Chinese communist trade fair
here has been explained, pol
ice say.
Visitors arrived in droves,
bearing handbills which prom
ised free Chinese beer.
They found displays of ma
chinery, but no beer.
Police blamed pranksters.
Sitka Cold Storage
Co, buys Beach
Plumbing Shop
Sale of a business which
was established here nearly
twenty five years ago was an
nounced jointly this morning
by Mrs. Kathryn Beach and
the 'Sitka Cold Storage Co.
The Beach Plumbing Snap,
opened !by 'Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam J. Beach in June of 1931,
was sold effective (December 5
to the Sitka Cold Storage Co.
The sale includes the busi
ness, equipment, building and
live apartments. Mrs. Beach
is remaininjg as manager of
the shop until Feb. 1, and
Clarence Krug, sheet metal
employee of the firm for the
paste sixteen years, is also con
tinuing with the new owners.
Mrs. Beach has been opera
ting the shop since the death
of her husband in March of
1964.
L. T. Peterson, manager of
the Sitka Coll Storage Co.,
sitated for the present the shop
will operate on the same basis
as in the past. No immediate
changes or remodeling is con
templated in the building for
the time being.
No price was disclosed for
Ithe sale.
Judiciary comm,
ready to present
{proposals soon
FAIRBANKS </P) Chairman
George McLaughlin of the
constitutional convention's ju
diciary committee said today
his grouip is ready to present
its recommendations to a ple
nary session tomorrow.
McLaughlin of Anchorage
revealed in advance the con
tents of a 6-page set of recom
mendations which the judici
ary committee hopes to have
written into the constitution.
The judiciary committee
may or may not Ibe Ibeaten to
the punch by the committee
on sutflfralge, elections and ap
portionment. which is ready
ing its recommendations cov
ering the first two topics of
its title.
If the judiciary committee
meets wit h success on all 20
sections of its report, the ju
diciary setup in the state of
Alaska would be as fallows:
Three justices would sit on
Alaska’s supreme court. Their
number could be increased by
law. The superior court would
be composed of five judges
and their number, also, could
be upped by law.
The governor would fill the
seats of the supreme court and
the superior court on nomina
tions by a judicial council.
The judicial council, as vis
ualized by the judicial commil
tee, would be composed oi
(continued on page two)
Dulles assails Russians for
stirring up trouble in Asia
Prejudice and
{hatred voiced by
Red leaders
WASHINGTON (/P) Secre
tary of stai e Dulles today
sharply assailed Soviet leaders
for what he termed stirring
up an atmosphere of hatred
and prejudice against the wea:
on their visit to Asia.
Dulles told a news confer
ence remarks by Soviet pre
mier Bulganin and party chief
Nikita Khrushchev appeared
to be a move (to encourage use
Bride flees from
buffalo at Big
Delta home
BIG DELTA (/P) A 27 year
old housewife from Maine had j
a chance to (become “Queen of j
the Wild Frontier” here last'
week. But she has turned the
opportunity down flat. j
Mrs. Shirley King, newly
married wife of a serviceman
ait Fort Greely, abandoned her
house permanently when a herd
of buffalo a.tempted to join
her in the (front room.
It all came aboot when her
husband, Sgt. William A. King, i
27, of Lisbon Falls, Maine, had ,
duty on the base alt niigiht.
Mrs. King, who also comes;
from Lisbon Falls, was home j
alone.
She had scattered salt on the
from porch to melt ice there.1
A herd of tbuffalo emerged from
nearby woods and began lick-!
ing the salt.
'Mrs. King heard a noise at
; the door. She peeked out the
i window and what she saw made
her black hair stand on end.
There was a herd of about 25
bison at the porch, and the an
imals. atLemjpting to follow the
! salt trail inlto the house, were
i pushing against the door with -
all their strength
Although she was clad only
in her hustband’s nightshirt.
Mrs. King decided to “abandon
ship.”
j She grabbed a kitchen chair,
smashed ouit a picture window,
leaped out of the house and
fled across the snow, barefoot
ed in 10 degrees below zero
weather.
When she arrived at tne near
est shelter, a tavern, the bar
i ternder obligingly provided
emergency clothes.
“She was so excilted all she
could do was stammer “'Buiff . .
.. Bufif .... Buff.” (barten
der Dick Pennington said.
When her husand came home
Mrs. King flatly refused to go
back to her house, so the cou
ple spent the night in the back
i room of the tavern.
She wouldn’t go back the
next day either, so her husband
appealed to base authorities.
| Today, the couple have been
■ comfortably settled in quarters
| on Fort Greely where Mrs.
; King vows she is going to Stay
I “They don’t have big beasts
' like that in Maine,” she ex
planed.
of force 'by India against the
Portuguese colony of Goa.
Such remarks Iby Soviet
leaders, who are now in Bur
ma, show no great desire to
lower tensions with the weslt,
he said.
Dulles added that to this ex
tent the am. ^western criti
cisms have damaged what sur
vives of the friendlier east-west
relations growing out of last
July’s summit meeting.
The secretary stressed that
the United States wants both
India and Portugal to settle
their dispui e over Goa peace
fully, without resort to force.
India’s prime minister Nehru,
he said, certainly shares this
view.
Dulles said the main pur
pose of a statement he issued
Friday with Portugal’s foreign
minister — one which aroused
angry reaction in India — was
to lessen the emotionalism
built up <by Russia’s leaders Iby •
their comments on Goa.
Dulles said he feels these
Russian statements were de
signed to create an atmosphere
which would provoke use of
force in the dispute. These
Sovia; statements were an at
tempt to inject prejudice and
hatred into the controversy, he
declared. *
(continued on page four)
Soviet lieutenant
defects to west
for political asylum
BERLIN K'/P) A Soviet army
lieutenant in full uniform fled
to West Berlin and asked the
United States for political a
sylum, i he U. S. army disclos
ed today.
The army identified the man
as Ivan Vacelevich Ovchinni
kov, 26, with the rank of (first
lieutenant.
The Russian came to the
West on the eil y elevated train
ind got off at the first stop in
the American sector yesterday
He turned himself in to the
West Berlin railway police
wiho in turn delivered him to
the American authorities.
“He asked for political asy
lum and this was granted,” am
army spokesman said. “He
stated that his request Ifor asy
lum was (based on political rea
sons.”
The Russian was flown to
West Germany immediately
and held for screening by U.
S. army intelligence officers.
Ovchinnikov is the first
Soviet officer to defect to 'the
American forces here in re
cent years.
Marine forecast ifrom Tues
day to Wednesday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Cape Spencer east to
southeast winds 15 to 25 mph
with occasional a:ron|g gusts Ibe
coming 10 to 15 mph late to
night.
Cloudy with occasional rain
or snow in south portion today