THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,630
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
House Seats Change as New Returns Counted
CHARGE IS
HURLED AT
SHIPUNION
Attempting to Tie Up Al
aska, Orient Traffic
Probe Demanded
SEATTLE, Oct. 12—<A>)—'The In
dependent Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union was accused yesterday of
“attempting to tie up Alaska and
Orient bound ships.”
The charge was made by Rep.
Mitchell (D-Wash) in demanding
an investigation be launched by U.S.
Attorney General J. Howard Mc
Grath.
Earlier the Alaska Steamship Co.,
announced that “as a consequence
of the union’s refusal to comply
with Coast Guard screening of
crewmen” it had cancelled a sched
uled Saturday sailing of the steam
ship Denali and ordered the vessel
decommissioned.
Because of difficulties with the
union, the Denali, formerly a pas
senger vessel, had been redesignated
to sail as an express cargo ship.
More Trouble
Trouble with another union had
developed earlier. F. A. Zeusler,
executive assistant for the com
pany, said that when the deadline
for crews to sign on the Denali was
reached, the Sailors Union of the
Pacific (AFL) told the company its
members would not sign on less than
a crew for a passenger vessel. As an
express freighter, the Denali would
carry 54 fewer crewmen than as a
passenger vessel. The SUP balked
at reduction in the deck department
from 15 to 12.
After refusing to do so earlier,
stewards signed on two other Alaska
line freighters, the Sailor’s Splice
and the Susitna.
“On the Spot” Inquiry
Congressman Mitchell’s wire to
McGrath urged sending an assistant
attorney general to make an “on
the spot’ ’investigation. •
“Believe this ease a clearcut viola
tion of the Magnuson port security
act . . . such delaying tactics . . .
could be dangerous to national se
curity."
He wired that the union, “ex
pelled from the CIO because of
asserted Communist domination, is
attempting to tie up Orient and
Alaska bound ships by refusing to
comply with Coast Guard screening
procedures. Many of these ships
contain defense materials vital to
national security.”
HOLIDAY - NO STOCKS
NEW YORK, Oct. 12—[10— Major
security and commodity markets in
the United States were closed today
in observance of Columbus Day.
FROM CORDOVA
William Miller of Cordova is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
(Copyright. WSO, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.l
By DREW PEARSON
(Editor’s note—This is the se
cond column in Drew Pearson’s
important crime expose, calling
the roll of the Mafia, secret
black hand society which rules
the underworl. ).
WASHINGTON—How a group of
Italian-Americans have been able
to dominate the big crime rackets
of the nation, spreading murder
and political corruption in their
wake, is one of the least-known
stories of the U.S.A.
The complete story may never be
told. For it is locked behind the
lips of men who have sworn to
die rather than talk, and whose
campaign contributions to big pol
iticians have largely put them out
side the law. Senaor Kefauver of
Tennessee is the only man, so far,
who has had the courage to beard
this gang of criminals.
Meanwhile, a roll call of their
leaders, never before published,
gives important insight into the
power and ramifications of the
Mafia. The roll call begins in New
York City with Frankie Costello,
the man who carried a suitcase to
Ellis Island on the morning his
chief, Lucky Luciano, was deport
ed back to Italy.
It is significant that Costello
^Continued on Page Four)
LIVELY DISCUSSON
TAX EXEMPTIONS
FOR NEWBUSINESS
Juneau Chamber Airs
Views on Proposed Bill
io Attract Industry
A lively discussion on new pro
posed tax incentive legislation to
encourage new business development
in Alaska took place at a regular
luncheon meeting of the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce this noon.
This followed a report given by
Joseph McLean, chairman of the
legislative committee, which en
dorsed the proposed bill in principle
but recommended clarification and
changes: (1) What constitutes
“new” industry; (2) what percentage
of the domestic corporation income
must be from the new industry;
(3) time limit such as 15 years
tax exemption be given but not
beyond 1975; (4) clarification re
garding constitutionality, if and
when statehood is granted: 15) in
clusion of provisions to help re
habilitate old industries which are
now paying taxes and still have
not prospered.
Broad Program
It was pointed out that Delegate
E. L. Bartlett would support the
bill if it did not interfere with
statehood for the Territory. Com
mander Ed Chester stated that there
was a broader program under con
sideration in Congress to aid states
and territories, which in effect
would be a domestic Point Four
program, to encourage industry in
undeveloped areas.
Curtis Shattuck said that he be
lieved it was as important for such
proposed tax legislation to encour
age existing industries as it was to
attract new ones. Several others
agreed.
H. L. Faulkner pointed out that
the proposed bill was mainly to en
courage paper mill capital to invest
in the Territory and that the bill
might be jeopardized if there were
many requests to broaden it too
much.
To Discuss Legislation
The legislative committee was di
rected by President Robert Booch
ever to meet with a Senate sub
committee due in Juneau next
Thursday. It had been decided that
only two projects would be dis
cussed with the committee mem
(Continued on Page Two)
Bellingham
ILWU Local
Quits (10
SEATTLE, Oct. 12—tPI—The CIO
claimed gains today in its campaign
to draw fishing industry workers
away from Harry Bridges’ longshore
union.
Roy W. Atkinson, regional CTO
director, said a group of workers
at Bellingham is the latest to dis
affiliate from the International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s
Union (independent).
He identified the group as Local
6. International Fishermen and
Allied Workers of America, a union
that has been a division of the
ILWU. Both the ILWU and IFAWA
have been expelled from the na
tional CIO.
Atkinson said other groups in
Blaine and LaConner, Wash., are
expected to vote soon to leave the
ILWU and seek CIO charters.
He said other locals that have left
the IFAWU since it was merged
with the ILWU include a group of
1,200 cannery workers at Astoria,
Ore., 800 Bristol Bay cannery work
ers, 300 Aberdeen workers and the
Alaska Trollers of Juneau, with 200
members. All these, he said, now
have CIO charters.
The Alaska Fishermen’s union,
largest IFAWA affiliate with some
5,000 members, voted to withdraw
from the IFAWA-ILWU in a refer
endum completed Saturday. Atkin
son said a group at Copper River,
Alaska, has withdrawn and that
' Cordova fishermen are voting on a
1 withdrawal proposal. These three
[ groups have not applied for CIO
charters, however, and are reported
planning to remain independent.
The Alaska Fishermen’s Union
vote was not disclosed, but union
headquarters sources said it was
about two to one for withdrawal.
VISAS FOR
ALIENS ARE
SUSPENDED
American Officials All
Over World Given
Instructions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — (A>> —
American officials all over the world
have been ordered to suspend tem
porarily passport visas issued to
aliens planning to come to the
United States.
Officials said today the State De
partment telegraphed the orders
yesterday to Embassies and Consuls
to permit a recheck of individual
records because of the tight new in
ternational security law.
The order does not apply to offi
cial representatives of foreign gov
ernments.
Also the order does not affect Ca
nadians coming to this country on
visits since they do not have to
have visas. It does apply to Ca
nadians coming as immigrants since
they must have passports and visas.
The State Department said the
suspension order was asked by At
torney General McGrath, the fed
eral government’s chief law en
forcement officer.
The law, enacted over President
Truman’s veto, bars the entry of
aliens who have been at any time
members of the Communist “or
other totalitarian” parties.
Its enforcement has resulted in
the detention of several hundred
aliens who already had been granted
visas—entry permits—when the law
went into effect.
More than 200 were being held
yesterday at Ellis Island, N.Y. Ger
many and Italy have protested
against the detention of their na
tionals.
2 MORE CASES OF
POLIO REPORTED
BY ANCHORAGE
Poliomyelitis cases in Alaska to
day had risen to total 37, with the
report yesterday afternoon from
Anchorage that two more children
had been stricken with the disease.
They are Louis Berry, 14, and Don
Anderson, 12, according to the re
port to the Alaska Department of
Health headquarters here.
Since the outbreak of the disease
in Alaska August 10, there have
been 15 cases in Fairbanks, 13 in
Anchorage, 6 in Ketchikan, 1 in
Juneau, 1 in Wrangell and 1 in
Pt. Barrow.
INSURANCE RATES
ON AUTOS ARE TO
BE CHANGED NOW
NEW YORK, Oct. 12—W—The
National Automobile Underwriters
Association today announced re
vised insurance rates and prem
iums by its 250 member companies
for Alaska,' Idaho, Montana and
Nevada. The changes become ef
fective Oct. 16.
The approximate over-all effect
of the changes in the various states
and territory:
Alaska—Private passenger auto
mobiles: Comprehensive rates and
collision premiums increased 10
percent. Commercial vehicles; local,
intermediate and long distance
hauling, fire and theft rates reduc
ed 5 percent; local hauling, collision
premiums reduced 12 percent, in
termediate and long distance haul
ing collision premiums increased
10 percent.
LAVENIKS to OREGON
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lavenik
left Tuesday via Pan American
clipper for Seattle where they will
visit the next two weeks and
then go to Klamath Falls. Oregon.
The Laveniks may establish their
home in Klamath Falls but have
not yet decided their definite plans.
Both retired from the postoffice
service in Juneau last year. They
sold their home on Glacier High
way to Mr. and Mrs. Lance Hend
rickson recently.
SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR
Mrs. Marian Keller of San Fran
cisco is a guest at the Juneau Hotel.
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - FIRST DIVISION - GENERAL ELECTION - 1950__
Delegate Treas. Labor Com. Senators Divisional Representatives_
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STATE DEPT.
GIVEN BLOW,
AMER. LEG.
Demand Made that Tru
man Reconstitute Dept.
-Stiff Floor Fight
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 — UD -
After a stiff floor fight, the Ameri
can Legion voted today to ‘‘demand’’
that President Truman reconstitute
the State Department.
But it sidestepped naming Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson, or sug
gesting his ouster. The convention
was to end today.
The latter had been urged by the
Legion’s retiring executive commit
tee, but was not incorporated in a
report by the foreign affairs com
mittee which condemned the State
Department’s “failure ... to deal
adequately with the grim and
bloody advance of Communism
throughout the world.”
It went on: “We submit that this
failure is due fundamentally to a
lack of understanding of Com
munism itself, and to refusal on
the part of Secretaries of State,
past and present, to evaluate prop
erly the gravity of the dangers to
America and all free peoples which
Communism presents. . .”
Executive committeeman George
Clear asked the convention to
change the wording to read “Sec
retary of State” apd eliminate the
phrase “past and present.”
Former N a t io n a 1 Commander
John Steele said, “Let’s name
names; let’s nhme Acheson.’’
National Commander George N.
Craig said; “I feel it would be sac
rilege to name .the .person meant.
“I think the original wording of,
the resolution Will leave no doubt as ;
to who is meant.”
SULLYS RETURN
Henry Sully of the Juneau-Young
Hardware Co.t and Mrs. Sully re
turned Tuesday by Pan American
clipper from Seattle after a busi
ness and vacation trip in the states.
TO VISIT IN TENAKEE
Nick Grandsma left yesterday
via Alaska Coastal Airlines lor
Tenakee where he plans to spend
most of the winter.
TWO CHIEFS
WILL MEET
AT WEEKEND
Truman, MacArthur Con
ference Expected to Be
Important for Peace
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12—<jD—President
Truman held out hope today that
he and General Douglas MacArthur
may find a way to counter the ex
plosive threat of Communism in
the Far East.
He contended that the free na
tions are “making progress" toward
peace “in spite of conditions which
are prevailing in the Far East."
Out of his weekend conference in
the Pacific, the President predicted,
may come “some contribution to
the peace of the world.”
Mr. Truman’s talk last night, to a
meeting of the Missouri order of the
Eastern Star, highlighted his stop
over here in route to the spectacular
rendezvous with MacArthur, 6,500
miles away.
Although some 12,000 persons
heard the President’s speech, to a
closed meeting of the Masonic
affiliate, newspapermen were bar
red. . .
Typewritten transcripts of his
(Continued on Page Eight)
■ V
• ••••••••••
• WEATHER REFORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Flour Period •
• ending «:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 48; •
• minimum, 44. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 48; •
• minimum, 44. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (June and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy with occa- •
• sional rain showers tonight •
• and Friday. Low tempera- •
• ture tonight near 40 and •
• high Friday near 50. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.82 inches; •
• since October 1—3.48 inches; •
• since July 1—25.55 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.22 inches; •
• since October 1—1.09 inches; •
• since July 1—20.43 inches. •
• •••••«••••
2 ALASKANS TAKE
SAFETY PROBLEMS :
TO CHICAGO MEET
Alaska will have two representa
tives at the National Safety Con
ference which will open in Chicago
Monday.
Harry R. Bates, Alaska Road
Commission safety engineer, will
represent the Juneau Federal Field
Safety Council, the only delegate
from Southeast Alaska. He left
yesterday by Pan American Airways.
Both he and Carl Steeves, Alaska
Railroad safety engineer, will be
armed with questions, as requested,
for the forum discussion on prob
lems in the field.
Chief of these, according to Leon
ard Evans, Alaska representative of
the U.S. Department of Labor, is
“How can the Juneau council help
federal agencies In the Territory
prevent and reduce accidents?"
Evans was one of ten members
attending a special meeting of the
council yesterday afternoon in the
Senate Chambers. Their specific
questions will be forwarded to Bates,
who had to leave earlier in the
day.
According to Milton J. Furness,
Council president who presided yes
terday, the group is participating
in President Truman’s safety pro
gram by which it Is hoped to reduce
accidents by 50 percent in the 4
year period of 1948-52.
LITTLE CHANGE
M STANDINGS,
ALASKA OFFICES
With 80 out of 233 precincts now
reported, the election tally for Ter
ritorial officials stands as follows:
Delegate to Congress:
Bartlett (D), 9,395.
Peterson <R) 3,530.
Treasurer:
Roden <D) 10,178.
Labor Commissioner:
Benson <R> 7,245.
Kimball (D> 5,148.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
Trolled salmon landed today were
from the Wild Bill, Ken Millard,
1,000' pounds, Edrie, Cliff Mason,
1,000 pounds, the Aurora, A1 Schra
men, 1,000 pounds. The St. Francis
landed 3,000 pounds of seined sal
mon.
UN FORCES
BOMBARD
CHONGJIN
Reds Stagger Under Mas
sive Sea Attack Led
by Mighty "Mo”
(By the Associated Press)
United Nations forces, led by
tanks, pushed ahead toward the
Communist North Korean capital
on three fronts today. Far up the
eastern coast near Red Manchuria,
the rail center of Chongjin shud
dered under a massive Allied sea
bombardment.
The reeling Communists on the
fighting front north of parallel 38
were outmanned and outgunned,
and apparently close to final de
feat. Some were resisting fiercely as
they were told to do by the Red
government, but others were fleeing
leaving heavy equipment behind.
To this staggering, shattered
army, the world leader of Com
munism, Russia’s Prime Minister
Stalin, sent wishes for success in
what he called their struggle for
“the creation of a united, indepen
dent Korea." This was Stalin's reply
in an exchange of greeting on the
second anniversary of Moscow’s dip
lomatic recognition of Pyongyang.
North Korea’s Premier sent word
of “gratitude" for Russia’s "friendly
support.”
A dispatch from the "Big Mo," the
U.S. Battleship Missouri, said that
historic battlewagon took part with
American, British, Canadian and
Australian ships in the bombard
ment of the Japan Sea port of
CHongJin, only 34 miles from Red
China's Manchuria border.
Assault from Sea
The U.S. cruiser Helena’s 8-inch
guns began the asasult, followed
quickly by the thunder of the mighty
Mo’s 16-inchers. Navy warplanes
spent 30 minutes over targets in the |
same area, strafing and rocketing in
advance of the Naval assault by a
task force under Vice-Adm. Arthur
O. Struble against the industrial i
rail and road center town of 190,000. ■
After an hour’s bombardment, I
parts of the city could be seen
burning. Chongjin, 49 miles from I
the Soviet Siberian border, is 220
(Continued on Page Eight)
GOP GAINS
CONTINUE
IN SENATE
Rivers, Peratrovich, Tay
lor Among Casualties
of Tuesday's Election
Democratic Party Chairman, Sen
ator Victor C. Rivers of Anchorage,
appeared today as a definite polit
ical casualty in Tuesdays General
Election.
Two other Democratic incumbents,
Senator Warren A. Taylor of Fair
banks and Senator Frank Peratro
vich of Klawock are also apparently
on the way out.
In the House race, Republicans
are leading in the First Division for
six seats of the eight; in the Fourth
Division for four of the five seats
and in the Third Division are hold
ing on to two of the seven seats,
although by only slim margins.
On the basis of returns so far re
ceived, Republicans will elect one
Senator in the First Division and
two in each the Third and Fourth.
No new returns have been re
ceived from the Second Division
since yesterday.
First Division
With 37 of the 57 First Division
precincts now reported, Senator
Frank Peratrovich was still trailing
Engstom of Juneau and Nolan of
Wrangell by a thousand votes. Nolan
Is considered a conservative Demo
crat.
Republicans Doris Barnes of
Wrangell, Waino Hendrlokson of
Juneau, Ed Locken of Petersburg.
J. S. MacKinnon of Juneau and
Frank G. Johnson of Kake are
holding the lead in the House race
and are apparently assured of elec
tion.
In sixth place is Vernon Metcalfe
of Juneau, Democrat. Trailing him
are M. L. MacSpadden of Juneau.
Republican, and Marcus Jensen of
Douglas, Democrat. Amelia Gunder
son of Ketchikan and Andrew Hope
of Sitka, both Democrats, are not
far behind Jensen.
Last places in the House race in
this division may depend upon the
absentee ballots, which will not be
counted until October 24. There
are estimated to be around 400 ab
I sentee ballots In this division.
Third Division
Thirty-eight of 70 precincts in
the Third Division, including all of
Anchorage, shows Gerrit Snider,
Republican, in the lead for the Sen
ate with 3,194. He is closely fol
lowed by Gunnard Engebreth, Re
publican Senate President in the
1949 Legislature. Engebreth tallied
3,171 votes. Democrats Victor C.
Rivers and Z. J. Loussac trailed with
2,323 and 1,826 votes respectively.
The Democrats, on the other
hand, apparently hold at least five
of the seven House seats, with a
possibility of taking all seven.
Standings of the leaders for the
House: Kay (D) 2,925; Scavenius
(D) 2,888; Stan McCutcheon (D)
2,842; Egan (D) 2,801; Gill <R>
2,546; Carlson <D) 2,520 and Gor
such (R) 2,520, tied for seventh
place. Trailing were Pollard (D)
Snodgrass (R, McKinley (R), Chase
(R), McLane (R) and Osbo (R),
in that order.
Fourth Division
Fifteen of 70 precincts in the
Fourth Division, estimated to be
two-thirds of the total vote, gave
Lhamon and Coble, Republicans,
substantial leads for the Senate with
1,342 and 1,250 votes respectively.
Democrats Lander and Taylor had
924 and 919. respectively.
Republicans were also ahead for
four of the five House seats. Stepo
vich with 1,530. Miscovich with 1.290
and Gasser with 1.228 lead the race.
All are Republicans. Next is Frank
lin, Democrat, with 1,207. In fifth
spot is Wilbur. Republican, with
1,172, followed by Joy. Republican,
with 1,085. Democrats who trail the
field are Dale, 966; Angerman. 829;
Jones, 936 and McCombe, 832.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Sailor’s Splice sched
uled to sail from Seattle tomorrow.
There will be no Saturday sailing
from Seattle. Denali to be decom
missioned.
Princess Louise due to arrive from
Skagway at 7 a.m.. tomorrow and
sails south one hour later at 8.