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Evening star., 1948-05-17

CdIe OF HCCIueHCaI ueHCn.
Mr.. Batch was returning from
fishing trip with his brother, Ralph
Batch. %, and Robert Belt, 81, of
the 4400 block of Branch avenue,
Silver Hill, Md, and William Or
ollie, 10, of Oxon Hill, when a
power launch crashed into their
rowboat.
Operator Not Held.
The men were about 100 yards
of shore when the collision oc-
CURED, Police listed the operator
of the motor boat as Charles Higgs
Evening star., 1948-05-17

l9, 3 e n e dict,
who was not
charged.
According to
Ralph B a t C h,
the crash threw
all four of the
party into the
W a t e r. H e
charged that the
power boat was
running without
lights and failed
to render as
sistance a t e r
the accident.
Ralph. a good
Evening star., 1948-05-17
AIbemorIe Growers to Meet

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, May
17.-Fruit growers in the Crozet
area Of Albemarle County will meet
at 8 pm. Thursday at the Crozet
High School to discuss probable
labor needs for harvesting Abe
marle's commercial apple and peach
crop.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Teachers Plan Annual Teo

The High School Teachers Asso-
citation will hold its annual open
meeting and tea at $3.50 pm. tomor-
row at the Burdick Vocational
School. Thirteenth and Allison
streets NV. Mrs Undine Fitzgerald
Is In charge OF the program.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Navy Clerk browns
AS Two Boats Collide
On Patuxent River

A Navy Department clerk was
drowned late Saturday night at
Benedict, Md, in a collision between
a motorboat and q rowboat, which
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
spy HUNT SHIFTS TO
 NEW YORK
Charge Made that Chamb- CTS 6ot US. Job While
 Drawing Commie Pay

NEW YORK, Aug. 3o-'R-The congressional spy hunt moved to this city today and a new chapter in the continuing story of Whitaker Chambers. He is the magazine edi- tor who has been key witness in hearings held by the House Com mittee on Un- American Activities.
 Committee members moved to Manhattan today for Chambers own story of how he landed United . States Government job while draw ing pay as Communist agent.
 The new development has been unfolded by Chambers himself in secret testimony before the House group. And it has led one Commit tee niember-Republican represen- tative Richard Nixon of California Ito make this claim:
 Nixon says that for the first time, the Committee now has definite probable link between the pre-war ' Red underground activity described by Chambers and the wartime Rus sian spy activities related by anoth- CT witness, Elizabeth Bentley.
 Both Chambers and Miss Bentley have told of serving as Communist couriers. But there was a five-year gap from the time Chambers said he quit the Communist Party in 1887 until the Vassar graduate claims she began her spy work.
 However, Nixon says that Cham r bers has told the Committee he got his government job from two people Miss Bentley has named. ,s v
 Chambers, confessed former Com munist, testified today he obtained a $6000-a-year Federal job in le37 through Communist influence.
 Chambers, now senior editor for Time Magazine, said he got the government post within 24 hours after applying for it. He told his story to a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Com mittec.
 Earlier, a subcommittee memper recommended contempt charges for J. Peters, whom Chambers described as director of an elite group" ot Communists in the U. s. Govern menr.
 Rep Richard Nixon tR-Calif) the member, said Peters should be cited for contempt of Congress for refus- ing to answer questions as to his alleged Communist affiliations.
 Tn 1937," Chambers testified, T decided to break with the party but $ didn't want to leave Washington without making some sort of a rec ord as I was afraid I'd be assassi- mated
 T went to Peters and told him could not float around Washington without some sort of occupation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
Hurricane
 Warnings

HATTERAS, N. C.. Aug. 30-Ih-- North Carolinians battened down along the coast today for big blow expected to hit tonight.
 Hurricane warnings were display ed from here to Wilmington as Wea- ther Bureau advisory placed the center of the tropical Hurricane about 250 miles south of here and moving north northwest or north at 10 to l2 miles per hour.
 Storm warnings were displayed as far north as the Virginia capes and as far south as Charleston. Present indications are, the Btu reau said, that the center will pass over or very near Cape Hatteras to- night, probably before midnight. Along the coastal area threatened by the twisting windstorm residents made what preparations they coule against the hurricane.
 The Red Cross alerted disaster workers all along the coast and an. Inounced at Atlanta 355 special dis. aster workers were being sent intt the threatened area.
 The military began moving it. Iairplanes out of the possible path
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
PRESIDENT BACK
 IN WASHINGTON
 AFTER VA(ATI0N Presidential Campaign in inc Works = Stassen
 Also 10 Make Talk

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-lR- President Truman returned to Washington Sunday from a 9-day yachting vacation and the first thing he did was to arrange for conference today with Secretary of State Marshall. Mir Truman will get review of the interna- tional situation.
 The President looked bronzed and fit as he left the yacht Williams burg. He told newsmen that his Presidential campaign itinerary is, as he expressed it, lin the works. y But he said he does not expect to be able to announce definite schedule of speaking engagements until he returns from his Mich igan tour next week.
 His Labor Day speech in Detroit will open the Truman campaign for the coming Presidential elections.
 The Republican National Con- mittee announces that Harold Stas- sen will answer Mir. Truman in the same city, Detroit, the follow ing day. Republican Presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, in the meantime, has been offered a timely peg for some remarks on foreign policy by a French move toward a United States of Europe.
 Dewey long has advocated such political organization of Europe And his friends say that if his campaigning runs true to form he will take advantage of that sort ca timing to express his views not only on European federation but on 'uther aspects of American foreign policy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive tomorrow af- ternoon or evening.
 Baranof, from Seattle. due late tomorrow night or Wednesday morning.
 Alaska, from Seattle, due some time Thursday.
 George Washington scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow.
 Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Sept. l.
 Aleutian scheduled southbound at o'clock tonight.
 Princess Louise scheduled to arr rive at o'clock tomorrow morn- ing and sails south one hour later at 9 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
DAVIDSON E COMING
 TO ALASKA
Assistant Secretary of In. terior Wants 10 Be on
 End of Salmon Run

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-lR-
 Assistant Secretary of the Inter
 for c. Gorard Davidson left by
 air for Omaha today on the first
 leg of a trip to Alaska.
 Davidson told a reporter he will
 confer at Omaha with officials of the Union Pacific Railroad regard ing the concession contracts fol
 three national parks.
 He will be at Portland, Oregon Wednesday for the first meeting of the wly-organized Oregon d-California Land Advisory Con- mittee and for a session of Inter- ior's Pacific Northwest Co-ordina- l tion Committee.
 Davidson will arrive in Alaska just ahead of the closing of the salmon fishing season. He saio he is very anxious to see the salmon run and the final stage oi the packing, for purposes of com parison with the Columbia River and Puget Sound fisheries. In Alaska Davidson will visit Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks anc Mount Mckinley National Park. Upon his return to the states he will attend session of the ] American Bar Association at Se- ! attle Sept. 6. hearings Of the Sen . ate Public Lands Committee al Eugene, Ore, on the three day: {, following, and will address thu Portland City Club Sept. 10.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
 ISLANDERS
 MAY VOTE
Post Office Also Probably in Set-Up : New Edu-
 edtiondl Program

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30--tR-Twt American institutions, the pos, office and the voting booth, vii
 make their debut in northern out post-the Pribilof Islands-this fall The opening of an airport, how ever-also hoped-for by the islanders this fall is still two or three years distant.
 The Pribilofs, far out in the Ber-
 ing Sea north of the Aleutians, are
 noted chiefly for the herds of ful seals that spend the summers there
 They have sos Aleur and about 90 white inhabitants.
 Ralph c. Baker. Fish and Wild life Service official, told a reporter on returning from his annual visit
 to the islands he had completed ar
 engagements for establishment o1
 voting precincts so the islanders
 can take part in the fall elections Baker added that postal in- spectator in the Aleutians told him
 Pribilof Postoffice probably will be set up in September.
 Heretofore the mail center has been the Fish and Wildlife Office lat Seattle
 Baker said the Pribilofs cannot expect regular air service until the present 3,100-foot airstrip is length 'ened to 4,000 feet and broadenec from 90 to l50 feet He said this will take at least three years because
 much other essential construction such as building roads and houses lis to be done.
 Baker said he had arranged witf the Territorial Department of Edu- jcation at Juneau to provide an ad. ,visory service for the Pribilof Edu- lcational Program.
 The St. Paul Island school ha. 100 pupils and four teachers. ane that at St. George Island 50 pupils and two teachers. Three teaching lposts are open at the St. Paul school
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
STATEMENT
 ISMADEB H. BRIDGES
IWLUHedd Claims Employ CTS FIdtIY Reject All
 Union Demands
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. so.--lR

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.--lf The International Longshoren,en
 and Warehousemens Union said to-
 day contract negotiations with the
 West Coast Waterfront Employers i Association are ''on the verge of breaking off"
 Union and employer negotiations have been meeting since Saturday in an effort to avert Pacific Coast longshore strike scheduled for Sept. ?.
 An employer spokesman. when
 told of the unions statement by ILWU President Harry Bridges.
 said.
 There has to be two parties to
 negotiate, and we still stand ready
 to negotiate"
 Bridges breaking off statement
 was issued after a half hour meet ing this morning. Bridges said
 "the employers flatly rejected all
 union demands"
 The waterfront picture became much more difficult late yesterday when longshore spokesnen termed 1 the latest employer proposals "com- pletely unacceptable They reaffirmed that their coast 1, wise strike called for next Thurs day, when an 80-day government injunction expires, would come off on schedule.
 ] But Robert Mayer, spokesman for l the employers, still maintained the i outlook was 1optimistic,
 Harry Bridges CIC longshore un- ion. through spokesman Morris ,, Watson said the employers had not i offered to continue the present form of hiring hall--key issue in the talks--and union security i The employers emphatically de-
 nied this Frank Foisie, President
 of the employer group, said the 1 union statement was pure hokum. ], intended only for confusion" :, On the hiring hall, we made { the identical concession that was
 made in the east last week which prevented strike. he added. i Foisie was speaking of the em-
 ployer offer, accepted by eastern l! maritime unions. to leave the hir- i ing hall as presently set up pend ] ing court determination of it's le- gality under the Hartley Law. ], The hiring hall now has un-
 ion -hired dispatcher; the employ
 CTS say the dispatcher, under the law, must be neutral.
 i Foisie said the employers offer of an eight-cent wage hike puts longshoremen IS percent ahead of [ the cost of living increase, based !; on Labor Department figures The union called eight cents inadequate, i far below the increases granted by other major employers. Meanwhile the National Labor , Relations Board went ahead with plans for a poll of the union mem-
 bership on an earlier employer off, CT of a boost of five cents an hour
 straight time and seven and one
 half cents for overtime. The un- ion has announced it would refuse to vote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
GAMBLING DEVICE CASE DISMISSED

Tn the City Magistrates Court. Judge William Holzheimer this af- ternoon dismissed the case against John L. Sullivan, proprietor of the Clover Club, William Sweeney, proprietor of Sweeneys Bar, and Julian Chon, owner of the For get Me-Not Curio Shop. The three men were charged with alleg- ed use of gambling devices in vio- lation of City Ordinance 3ll, Sec ton g. The case was dismissed be- cause of lack of evidence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
uN5( Rejetis Plans
 Emergency Meeting
By LARRY HAuCK

LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 30-iRA The United Nations Security Coun- cil late today rebuffed its president --Russia's Jacob A. Malik by re- fusiny to approve the agenda for ar emergency meeting he had sum- moned.
 The vote was to with seven af- firmative ballots needed for passage The Soviet Ukraine voted with Malik The other nine delegates ab- stained
 The unusual action left the Coun- cil with nothing on the table tc debate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
New Government k
 Looked For, Franle

PARIS. Aug. S0-lR-Frahce look ed for a new government. the 1lth or so since the war ended three years ngc.
 The involved French political sit- uation did nothing to bulwark the west against Russian pressure in Berlin and Germany.
 Premier Andre Marie resigned when Socialists rejected his wage and price program. Robert Schuman, Premier until 32 days ago. looked over the field to decide if he could command a majority.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
Washington 5taie Given Option, 90
 Days, Ferry Line

SEATTLE, Aug. 30-lR-Stock- holders of the Puget Sound Nayi- gation Company voted today to give the state a 90-day option for pur- case of it's ferry system for s5,975,- 900.
 Company officials said the lewiston was mot unanimous" but they did not disclose the actual vote. A two- thirds vote was necessary for ap- proval.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.--tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3ss, American Can 81, Anaconda 367s, Curtiss- Wright l0ls, International Harvest CT 29, Kennecott STA, New York Central l71s. Northern Pacific 22z U. s. Steel 78Hz, Pound $403h.
 Sales today were 690.000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows industrials l8200. rails 60.34, util- ities BATS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
WALLACE I5 GREETED BY
 B005,(HEER5
Progressive Party Candi. date Campaigning South
 of Mdson-Dixon Line

DURHAM, N. C., Aug. 30--'Rt- Henry A. Wallace today moved fur ther into North Carolina a state which greeted him yesterday witf a mixture of boo's and cheers.
 Wallace ended his first day south of the Mason-D Dixon line at the home of a wealthy Negro here few
 hours after his oratory was inter- rupted by egg hurling, pickets and catcalls.
 The Progressive Party presidential candidate addressed the state con vention of Reorganization to climax a day of whirlwind activity which included speeches earlier at Norfolk and Richmond, Va.
 Virginia Campaign Obviously pleased with his recep- ton in Virginia. the former vice. president declared upon arrival here
 If what I saw in Virginia today and what I see here is any criterion of what we'll get further on, then I'll be satisfied
 In-hospitality flared for the first time shortly before Wallace reach- led the downtdsfIi sarTnofy where the Progressive convention was held. A group of men, mostly veterans, po-
 lice said, marched into the meet ing carrying critical banners. Wallace, The Hitler" Send Wallace to Russia Wall lace is a mockery of Southern con-
 ventions Wallace. the Hitler oi ! Today the banners read. 1 A chair hit one of the banner car
 riers at the crowd estimated at l.30( whites and Negroes sang The Bat tie Hymn of the Republic"
 The presidential aspirant wa! barely into his speech when boo: and firecrackers interrupted. i He proposed $4,000. .000, 900, Fed eral Aid Program for the South ane
 as he attempted to continue hi
 message. eggs were thrown into thu audience from side doors of thu l building.
 The crowd rose to it's feet ant
 Wallace pleaded:
 "Pease sit downl Please sit down!'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
MT.5T. ELIAS pI(5To5 SHOW
 AT TONIGHT
Miller and Ldtody Now Preparing Trip to
 Taku Glacier

The public Is invited to attend the Showing of films relating the ascent of Mt St Elias two years ago swhich will be screened tonight at o'clock in the Grade School auditorium. Malcolm Miller, who was member of the party which scaled St. Elias, returned to Juneau late yesterday from the current Seward Glacier trip, will be on hand to commentate the silent col or films and to speak before and iafter the presentation. Bill La- ltoddy, also member of the St.
 Elias party, will be on hand for commentation.
 Proceeds from the showing will be directed toward the founding of Memorial Library in Juneau, and promise to be of unusual in- 1 terest to sportsmen and photo- graphers alike. Relating the sec ond successful scaling of Mt. Elias { the films cover in detail the out standing points of the 25-day trip. Expedition Successful Miller returned to Juneau yes- 1 terday to report very successful i and eventful expedition which has
 just been secured in the Seward Glacial and Mt Vancouver areas. 1 Miller said he is very well satisfied ! with the data the party was able !. to obtain, and that the members
 were successful ill the use of radar ! to {. 'tcf1ntrte 4he depth A4efe ice, for
 nations, on the glacier.
 1 Relating several highlights of the trip, Miller pointed to the instance
 when the Norseman plane with
 which the party had moved into
 the glacier cracked up and left the i 15-man group stranded with noth-
 ing but 75 miles of ice between 1t and civilization. Commenting Mau-
 rice King and Dean Goodwin for i excellent repairs to the plane, Mil- I Ter said it was miraculously re- conditioned and flown back to | Yakutat where more permanent re-
 pairs were made.
 Plane Taxied
 1 After correcting the struts, work
 ing on the fuselage and pounding
 the hent prop back into shape,
 King began taxing the plane
 around the ice cap. Finding that 1 to be satisfactory, he took a long shot, put it into the air and l flew into Yakutat The plane was repaired there and flown back into
 the glacier during the past few
 days to pick up the party. Miller said it was necessary to leave much of the scientific research equip
 ment on the glacier, but a party
 under the direction of Colonel /, Wood was making plans to go into
 the area second time next i March.
 Near Yep of Mount : Relative to the sealing of Mt. ! Vancouver while on the Seward
 Glacier trip. Miller said that he
 and another person were able to
 reach the 13,500-foot level but
 were forced to return to the base
 from which they were working due
 to sickness and the approaching winter weather Miller said that
 party of four undertook to scale
 the better than 15,000 foot noun itain but that altitude sickness on the part of one member and badly
 frostbitten feet on the part of an-
 other forced the party's return to 1 the 5000 foot level.
 l Taku Glacier Next
 |
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
36 PERISH IN CRASH
 OF PLANE
Northwest AirIines Ship Is Struck by Lightning,
 His Atop Bluff

WINONA, Minn., Aug. 30.--tR,-- Thirty-six persons died as a
 storm raked Northwest Airlines plane crashed atop wooded Mis- sissippi River bluff near here yes- terday.
 A human chain wound it's way down the steep and rocky side of a 150 foot ravine today to bring out the mangled bodies of 26 per- sons trapped in the wrecked fu- selage
 The bodies of 10 others were carried out last night.
 None of the victims were from the Pacific Northwest.
 The crash occurred between Wi mona and Fountain City, Wis, on the Wisconsin side of the river during the heighth of a severe electrical and rain storm.
 The plane was one of the air lines newer Martin 2-0-2 ships and was bound for Minneapolis from Chicago with B passengers and three crew members.
 It left Chicago at 3:5 pm, and although due in Minneapolis al ,5:3 pm, apparently was behind
 schedule because of the storm. NWA's Twin Cities headquarters said its last message from the plane was at about 5 pm, and read: Am descending through heavy overcast" The plane ther was at 1000 feet, A crash. witness told the coroner !, he saw the plane fall into the ra- 1 vine on Sutters Ridge after light ming shattered wing. Howard Rackow, farmer living on Perry Island in the Mississipp River, told the coroner he was get ting some stock out of the storm when the plane passed over. T was in the yard with my mother he said There was z flash of lightning. It struck tn, plane A part of wing fell of and the ship started down. The crash was the worst il
 NWA's history. Thirty persons diet when one of the lines Orien planes smashed into the side O an Alaskan mountain last Marcf /. 50.
 /, Less than two months ago, NWi ; was given National Safety Coun- cil award for having flown nor, ; than a billion miles without al accident.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
MRS. BERLIN ARRIVES

Mrs. Margaret Berlin, who will be teacher, also teach-in-charge, of the Willoughby Avenue School, returned to Juneau on the Princess Louise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
SKAGWAY VISITORS

The Misses Eleanor and Merylin Boyd of Skagway registered at the Baranof Hotel Sunday BAKER, SUNSET ELECTRIC,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
The W Washington Merry Go Round

BY ROBERT s. ALLEN
 (Copyrisht is4s, by The Bell syndicate
 Editors Note = While Drew
 Pearson is on a brief vacation
 The Washington Merry-Go-
 Round is being written by his
 old partner. Robert s. Allen.) " ASHINGTON Gov. Ton Deweyhas been doing a lot of unre- ported high-powered conferring.
 Among those he has counselec with in these private talks art Speaker Joe Martin. House Flool leader Charles Halleck. Sen. Style. Bridges, N. H., and Sen. William Knowland, Cal.
 In these conferences Dewey has presented the main outlines of hi! campaign strategy. He has sought advice, but in the main his opera. , tional plans are definitely formu. lated. They are as follows.
 l. The COP campaign will gel under way the middle of September and continue at an undiminishec pace until election eve, November 1. Dewey will make a Labor Da, speech. He doesn't consider i necessary to race around as exten. sively as President Truman will dC that day. Dewey will confine hi electioneering to a major speech at an important gathering.
 2. The Presidents attacks or Congress-his chief campaign issu, will be met with the counter charge that he can't get along witt Congress. To highlight this con tention, Dewey will stress his rec. ord of teamwork" with the Nev York Legislature, and also. on al occasions, will have prominentl.
 tContinued on Page Fourl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
EGGS FOR WALLACE

GREENSBORO, N. C.. Aug. 30.- iR-A shower of rotten eggs and tomatoes greeted Henry Wallace when he arrived in Greensboro to- day.
 An emergency squad of Green boro police was called out when a bcoing crowd unloosed the eggs and tomatoes at the presidential can didate A short time earlier, Wal lace had received a similar greet ing at Burlington, N. c.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-30
B BULLETINS 5

ANCHORAGE Alaska Voters have approved $30o,000 bond issue |for the purchase of diesel gen. erating plant The vote was 345 to 119.
 PASADENA, Calf instruments in California recorded relatively severe earthquake about $500 miles from here. The direction is not determined.
 SAN FRANCISCO A typhoon is moving along course in the Far Pacific between the Philippine Islands and Okinawa. PALESTINE Count Berna- dotte's Chief of Staff says the Jews have accepted United Nations proposals for banning fighting in Jerusalem A reply from Egypt is expected soon. Bernadotte's $ spokesman made the announcement after meeting in Cairo with De- iense Minister Haidar Pasha.