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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
THREE KET(HIkAN
PRISONERS GIVEN
pen" SENTENCES

Three OF the seven prisoners
brought here from Ketchikan this
week by us. Marshal William T.
Mahoney were taken before Judge
George W. Folta this afternoon in
District Court. and given peniten-
tlary sentences.
All had waived the right to in
dictment and consented to prosecu-
ton by information. In each case,
us. Attorney p. j. Gilmore, Jr.,
filed charges on information, and
each defendant pleaded guilty and
waive time for imposition of SEN
tence.
Harley Eugene Brown, who was
represented locally by Attorney
Howard D. Stabler, was given three
years on each of two counts for
violation of federal law under
the white slave traffic act.
Henry l.. Clark was sentenced to
three years on each OF two counts,
forgery and uttering q -crged in
strument.
The third prisoner turned over
from the US. Commissioner
Court at Ketchikan pleaded guilty
to a sensational crime which was
much publicized earlier this, year.
Norman Sweet is the 20-year-
Coast Guardsman who went ber-
serk in the Moose Club at Ketchi-
kan, terrorizing all present and
shooting wildly as though, to quote
one witness, "he were trying to
take Okinawa all by himself
Sweet was given six years on
each of four counts-the first three
for shooting with intent to kill.
wound or MAIN Charles Turner,
John A. Hovland and Lloyd Spen-
Ger. Spencer is the city merchant
patrolman who winged Sweet.
The fourth count, of assault
with dangerous weapon, was
based on his striking Rowland with
his gun.
All sentences at Mcneil Island
Penitentiary or similar institu-
ton are to be served concurrently.
Neither Clark nor Sweet were rep
resented by counsel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
MISSING ATOMIC
BOTTLE IS FOUND:
SOME CONTENTS GONE

WASHINGTON, June 3-R-A
missing atomic bottle has beer
found, but the search goes on fol
some of the uran.um-235 which
was in it.
Senator MacMahon (D-Conn)
made that announcement yester-
day as his SenateHouse Atomic
Energy mittee adjourned
probably until Monday, its hear
ings into charges of incredible
plismanagement' made against
David E. Lilienthal Ky Senator
H ckenlooper (R-Iowa).
Lilienthal heads the Atomic
Energy Commission, whose Ar
gonne National Laboratory in Chi
cago missed the bottle of fission-
able material last February. 1t con-
tanned an ounce of U-235, seven
eighths of which has not been re-
covered.
MacMahon said the Comm.s-
sion's General Manager Carroll
Wilson had reported to the Com
mittee that the missing bottle was
dug out of a large steel box OF
waste in the Argonne Laboratory's
special radioactive burial ground"
The uranium apparently had been
spilled from the bottle, after which
the container was discarded. 1t
was all due to "carelessness and
negligence" MacMahon said.
Besides pressing its inquiry into
the matter of still-missing eighth
ounce of U-235, he said, the joint
committee is branching out in its
investigation of the COMMISSION
to find out why construction OF a
secret atomic installation Is cost
ing three times the original ST.
100000 estimate.
The installation, located at Han
ford, Wash, is eeing built by the
General Electric Corp.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
GLACIER HIGHWAY
GETS FIRST STRIP
OF ASPHALT PAVING

The first strip of pavement on
the Glacier Highway was laid yes
terday, but, according to. Chris
Wyller, District Engineer for the
Public Roads Administration, work
cannot be resumed until the
weather clears.
The strip is 1000 feet long in a
single lane in front Of the airport,
between Renders Dairy and
Lynch's Filling Station.
approximately a mile and a half
of prime coat has been applied to
the road bed from the airport
south. A three-inch mating" OF
asphalt concrete is laid over the
prime coat. Two applications OF
seal coat over the mating" is
necessary to complete the paving
process.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
CAR FERRY RUNS
TO HAINE5 START
WHEN ROAD Open

With the prospect Of the Haines
Cutoff being opened to travel In
week or 10 days, Steve Homer
ind Ray Gelotte, owners Of the
Chilkoot Motorship Lines car
ferry Chilkoot announce that they
hope the beginning OF the 1915
service will coincide with the open
ng of the road.
The Chilkoot has completed con-
yersion to meet Coast Guard
specifications and will be in Ju-
neau late tonight or sometime to-
morrow for final inspection.
Homer and Gelotte predict that
car ferry service between Tee Har-
or, Haines and Skagway will be
on regular schedule within two
weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
B ULLET N 5

WASHINGTON - The Senate's
Democrats are meeting behind clos
ed doors today to work out a labor
program. The Administration wants
outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act and substitution of modified
Wagner Act.
WASHINGTON Both Houses of
Congress are in adjournment until
Monday. Only committee meetings
are being held.
LONDON Actress Rita Hay
worth and the Ally Khan are
honeymooning at the EPSON Downs
race track.
LONDON Defense Minister A.
". Alexander said today continuing
world tension makes 1t necessary
to go on keeping Britain's draftees
in uniform IS months instead of Is.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
HEATING IS NAMED
CENSUS DIRECTOR:
SETS up OFFICE

Rep. Clarence P. Heating, new
Director of Census for Alaska, ar
rived yesterday from Anchorage to
find office quarters and set up a
staff for the work he will begin
here July /.
Heating has just been appointed
oy the Director of Census, for the
duration of the taking of business
and per capita statistics. This is
expected to take about two years.
Heating will go to Seattle Satur-
day for conferences with Bureau
Of Census officials in the Depart
ment of Commerce. and for indoc-
trinaticn in other parts of Area IL
The region includes Alaska, WASH
ngton, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana.
AS the business census already
has been started in those states,
Heating will be sent out to study
procedure for the similar canvass
here.
1t is expected that the Alaska
business census based on 1948 bust
ness will take about seven months,
Plus a month or two for compila-
ton of statistics.
This complete market study for
business, itself, said Heating, will
principally include retail and
manufacturing firms. This type Of
survey developed from the United
States Chamber of Commerce need
for breakdown of business as to
potential needs, outlets, personnel
and related information.
The per capita count of Alaska
is expected to start in April, 1850.
AS much of his work will be to
the westward and in the interior,
Census Director Heating does not
plan to move his family here, but
will be in Juneau and other parts
Of Southeast Alaska whenever his
presence is desirable
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
1000 PLAN
BIG STRIKE

OAK RIDGE, Tenn, June 3-lR
"A strike of 1000 workers in a
huge atomic production plant in
planned for next Thursday.
If the strike comes off, it will
stop production Of uranium 235 in
one of the largest industrial plants
in the world. U-235 is the fission-
asle element that goes into atomic
bombs.
A Go union voted last night to
strike and asked its international
headquarters for authorization.
At Washington, President Martin
Wagner, of the United Gas, Coke
and Chemical Workers (CIO) said
the unions officers would take UP
the Oak Ridge locals strike reso-
luton today.
Wagner indicated a decision
would be announced after the meet
ing.
The union asked l5-cent hourly
wage increase when negotiations
began seven weeks ago for new
contract to begin June Q.
A counter proposal that wages be
reduced six cents was made by
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Corp, operator Of all Oak Ridge
Atomic installations for the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The CIO employees average wage
Is $l.59.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
CREW5(UT PASS:
HAINE5 CUTOFF TO
Open IN ten DAYS

Road crews working from Cana
dian and Alaskan bases faced each
other yesterday on the Haines CUT
off, the difficult job of cutting
through the pass having been ac-
complished for the 1949 season.
The road is SO soft in some spots
and so icy in others that Briga-
dier A. B. Connolly of the North
west Highway System, VT, be-
lieves it cannot be opened for
traffic until June 9, possibly later.
The Canadian road crew predic-
tion is for 10 days work.
In call to Frank A. Mctcalf;
Highway Engineer, Patrolman al
Lubcke this morning reported that
the steel bridge at Mile 80 over
Little Boulder Greek is completed
and open to traffic.
Only AZ miles of. the cutoff is
on the Alaska side, the pass being
in Canada where the road extends
100 miles from the border to Haines
Junction, VT.
The Canadian crew has opened
one car width for the entire Cana
dian section and now is following
with graders, making an average
0f IL miles per day. According to
q message from Ed Koenig OF
Haines, the men were working to-
lay ON the slide area at as Mile.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
NEAR ACCIDENT IS
REPORTED, MADDOX

SEATTLE, June 3-tR-A CHIEF
gunner's mate from San Diego
hurled blazing 2omm. shell maya
zine overheard from the Navy
destroyer Maddox yesterday, pre-
venting serious damage to his YES
sci and possibly saving the lives
of several of her Naval Reserve
crew.
The Maddox and her sister ship,
the Moore, en- route to their San
Diego base from training cruise
tc Southeastern Alaska, were hold
ing target practice off Cape Flat
terry when a 20 nm. shell primer
exploded aboard the Maddox. The
magazine, set afire by the blast
was wrenched loose and thrown
into the sea by Chief ~Gunners
Mate sammie T. Neel.
3. A. Hanson, Naval Reserve
seaman from Portland, was Struck
in the leg by the exploding primer,
and the Maddox returned Under
forced draft to Seattle, where he
was given first aid before transfer
to the Bremerton Naval Hospital
The extent of his injuries was not
reported. The Moore remained on
the target range.
The Maddox was in Juneau re-
Gently.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
MIDDIE5 ARE
GIVEN ADVICE
BY WAR SE(Y.

ANNAPOLIS, June 3-tR- Navy
Secretary Francis P. Matthews told
the graduating class of the Naval
Academy today that this is not
the time for indecision or defeatism
in any segment of our population
or in any branch OF the Armed
Services"
Matthews prepared address Tor
the 100 graduates was his first for
NAL speech since he became Navy
Secretary on May Is. He succeeded
John l.. Sullivan, who resigned al
ter a dispute with Defense Secre-
tary johnson over the latter's or
der cancelling construction of a
supersize aircraft carrier Charges
have been made that Navy morale
has been shaken by this incident.
The new Secretary made no ref
erence to the dispute but did devote
portion Of his address to discus
sion of pending legislation to tight
en- up the service unification law
Matthews told the Naval Academy
graduates they could be confident
that the new legislation would not
alter fundamentally the traditional
concept OF naval power nor the fun
damental necessity for Americap
superiority on the seven seas" He
added:
II believe the legislation in pros
pect. will materially strengthen the
power and authority OF the Secre-
tary Of Defense and think very
properly So"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
JUDGE IS TO MAKE
RULING ON witness
REFUSING, TESTIFY
Grand Jury Investigating
Bridges Perjury Case
Reeesses 10 Monday

SAN FRANCISCO, June STD
A Federal Judge is expected to rule
today on whether eight reluctant
prospective witnesses can be forced
to testify before the Grand Jury
that indicted Harry Bridges.
Bridges, President of the CIO
Loncshoremen's and Warehouse
mems Union, is accused of perjury
ma conspiracy to defraud in testi-
flying he had rever been Com
.nuniot. He gave this testimony to
obtain his us. citizenship N l945.
Frank Slaby, union associate
OF Bridges, refused for the second
lay in a row yesterday to testify
,efore the Grand Jury.
F. Joseph Donohue, Special
Assistant to the U. S. Attorney
General, said a contempt citation
against slaby would be presented
,oday to Judge Michael J. Roche.
Herbert Resner. attorney for
slaty, asked Judge Roche to quash
the subpoenas for Slaby and seven
others on grounds they failed to
state the nature of the action be-
fore the Grand Jury
Resner said, THE Grand Jury
is without power to swear or ques-
ton any of the eight" The Grand
Jury recessed until Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03

Bridges Says clio Will Con
tinue 10 Battle Re-
cent NC Award

SEATTLE, June 3-tR-Indica-
lions that the CLIO International
Longshoremen's and. Warehouse
mems union will continue to do
LATHE" against recert $750,0O0
Federal Court Judgment in Juneau,
Alaska, even If it loses pending
appeal we're given here last night
Ly the unions president. Harry
Bridges.
He characterized the suit as an
attempt, under a little-used Sec
ton of the Taft Hartley Act, to
put the union out of business
The Longshoremen are appeal
ing the verdict, which was awarded
the Juneau Spruce Corp. in con-
nection with union picketing activi-
ties at the company mill.
If the verdict is upheld in higher
courts after appeal we will have
to try to scrape up $750,O00 or go
cut Of business. I'm not SO sure we
intend to do either" Bridges said.
He declined TO elaborate on the
statement.
With reference to the govern
ment's recent perjury indictment
against him, the Longshoremen's
chief declared that ut won't make
me any easier to deal with just
because there are few indictments
hanging over my head"
He addressed Portland Long
shore group last night. and plans
similar meeting here,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
BOARD 10 NAME.
new SUpT. OF
JUNEAU SCHOOLS

Il Selection of new superintendent
Iof schools from more than 80 ap-
plications is the job in store fol
members of the Independent Schon.
Board when they meet next Tues
day evening.
Applications Tor the position va
Gated by the resignation of Super
intendent Edwin c. Clark como
predominsntly from the middle
west, with a number from the
West Coast.
The school board will also make
a decision on the holding of a
land sale on tax delinquent prof.
erty outside the city Limits OF Jul
neau. Property holders were noti-
fled by the board following las.
months meeting that land sale
might be ordered if taxpayers did
rot comply.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
MAY AGREE
ON BERLIN
PROBLEMS
Both Western Powers and
Russia Are Reported
Making Concessions
(By the Associated Press)

There were signs today that both
the Western Powers and Russia in
tend to make concessions to restore
peace and order in Berlin. The
Four Power Fore gn Ministers Con-
ference in Paris is discussing an
American plan to re-establish the
Kcmmandatura (Four Power Con-
troll for the former German capt.
tai.
The plan calls for city-wide cleo
tions for an all-Berlin city council.
At present the city has Western
sponsored, council and a Soviet
sponsored government in the East
arn sector. 1t also has two cur
rencies, two police departments
and two fire departments.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. vishinsky limited on Wednesday
that Russia was ready to transfer
TO German civic authority some
of the functions formerly exercised
by the Kommandatura.
This Russian hint will form the
tasis of Western bargaining. The
Western Powers are not expected
tc press too hard for the abolition
Of the veto in the established
Kommandatura. Russia, on the
other hand, is probably ready to
make some concession because OF
her desire to re-establish trade
:hannels and improve the lot OF
Eastern Germans, hard hit ty tine
Western counter blockade.
Meanwhile, Four Power represen-
.atives get together in Berlin for
the first time since the Russians
walked out of the Allied Komman-
datura a year ago. The Russians
called the meeting to discuss the
Berlin rail workers strike. The
strikers voted yesterday, 13.477 to
1893, to continue the walkout They
want payment of their wages in
West Marks flour times the value
of East Marks The Russian spon-
sored railway management offered
them go percent payment in West
Marks. The offer was rejected.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
Smith Tells
About Talk
With Stain

NEW YORK, June -R-Lt
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, former
Ambassador to Russia, says Prime
Minister Stain once told him:
I'VE do not want war any more
han the West does, but we are
.ess interested in peace than the
West and therein lies the strength
Of our position"
Smith told the Chamber of Com
MERGE of the State of New York
last night that the Russian people
have what they want politically"
They have no real understand
ing of Democratic processes ana
the secret police is much more eff
cient than it ever was during the
Czarist regime-or anywhere in the
world"
Smith, now Commander of the
First Army, said any uprising
against the present Soviet regime
is unlikely.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
CAB REGULATIONS
ON IRREGUl AR AIR
CARRIERS TO STICK

WASHINGTON, June 3-R :
The civil Aeronautics Bcarc
turned down today proposal By
Senator johnson CD-Colo) that il
delay putting into force new rules
or large irregular air carriers.
Johnson, Chairman Of the Senate
Commerce Committee, had ex-
pressed fear the regulations woulo
put the carriers "out of business .
The irregular carriers are those
that do not fly on fixed schedule;
D. routes.
CAB Chairman Joseph j
Jr., wrote johnson that
the board feels that unless it re-
quires the carriers to meet its
standards it would "condone flag
rant violations of our regulation
IN the past and encourage disre-
,pect for them in the future
The large irregular carriers
about 10 of them-have Keen since
the war under a so-called blanket
exemption from requirements which
are applied to the regularly sched-
uled airlines.
Effective May 20, the board
abolished this exemption but gave
the carriers 80 days in which to
apply for continued operation. The
board said each company applying
could stay in the business until the
application is acted on. In some
cases, that might take months.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
The W ashington
Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON

lcopyright, ls4s, by Bell syndicate. Inc,)
WAsHINGToN-When President
Truman received copy of the Ar
my's proposed citation honoring
Gen. Lucius Clay, he scribbled at
the bottom: This is the poorest
thing I have ever read. It's asin-
inc. Who wrote it? I have re-
written it myself" What Truman
didn't know was that it was writ
ten in Chief Of Staff Bradley's
office with the idea of making
Clay's citation just as laudatqry as
General Eisenhower's The two
members OF the Joint Congressional
Atomic Energy Committee who are
trying to reimpose military control
are: Rep. Cole Of New York and
Rep. Elstcn of Ohio-both Repub-
licans Congressman Van
Zandt of Pennsylvania, the Naval
Reserve officer who has been blast
ing the Air Forces, complains pri-
vately that when Naval officers
come to give him ammunition
against the Air Forces, they must
wear civilian clothes or else meet
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
RE(0NDITI0N WORK
ON SCHOOL UNDERWAY

Summer work on reconditioning
school buildings is underway, Super
intendent Of Schools Edwin c.
Clark said today.
Workmen are recoating the roof
of the elementary school building.
The high school gymnasium floor
will be sanded, refined and varnish-
ed. All class rooms ars - se kalso-
mined.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
SIfAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver June 8.
Baranof scheduled southbound on
Sunday afternoon or evening.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
WEATHER REPORT

70. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
This data is for 24-hour Pc
Rod ending $50 am. psf.
In Juneau Maximum, So,
minimum, "A.
At Airport Maximum, 81,
minimum, A.
FORECAST
Juneau and Vicinity
Variable cloudiness with
light rain showers tonight
and Saturday. Lowest tonight
about As. Highest Saturday
about 81.
p r e CLIP i T A r o
Past ~ hours ending 7:3o . m. today
In Juneau = 1.01 inches;
since June l, 1.46 inches;
since July /, 114.30 inches.
At Airport go inches;
since June /. go inches;
since July l, 65.65 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
LYLE AND GREEN
LOW BIDDERS ON
HAIMES ROAD JOB

Contract for grading. surfacing
and bituminous surfacing of the
Haines Cutoff to the Canadian
border will go to low bidders, Lyle
and Green. Des Moines, Iowa con-
tractors. the Alaska Road Commits
sion announced today.
Bids were opened here Wednes-
day with Lytle and Green's tota-
$l.594, 073 the low estimate.
The Haines Cutoff project calls
for surfacing Of 40.66 miles Of road.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
DEAL RESENTED

SEATTLE, June 3.-tR-A special
dispatch to the Seattle Post Intelli-
gencer said that Alaska housing
funds, at which the Senate baked,
had previously been authorized by
both Houses They had not been
specifically appropriated, however.
The group visiting Alaska would
include agency personnel, not Con-
gressmen.
The dispatch said Senator Mag
nuson commented bitterly:
This means housing in Alaska is
dead for another year. concede
that; this is a good time of the year
to visit Alaska, but why send a
junket up there to re-evaluate what
they already know"
Magnuson said Raymond M. Fo-
ley, Housing and Home Finance Adj
ministrator, had sold" the Senate
committee on the idea of an in
vestigating trip by his aides after
Foley had previously endorsed the
program in hearings before House
and Senate committees. He said
full details of the program had
been presented at those hearings.
Nov they want to send a small
group up there to check on their
own testimony" Magnuson contin-
ued This is the worst thing
have ever seen. Because the Hous-
ing Agency wants to go over ground
1t has already covered, the appro-
priations committee refuses to abide
by the will of Congress in its au-
thorization of the program"
The Alaska Legislature passed
housing legislation last February
in anticipation of receiving the $15,-
100000 Federal revolving fund from
which loans could be made through
the Alaska Housing Authority The
Legislature appropriated $25O.00O.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03
ALASKA STATEHOOD
BILL May NOW GO
TO HOUSE, IS CLAIM

WASHINGTON, June 3-R-
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska pre-
diets the House Rules COMMITTEES
will agree to submit the Alaska
Statehood Bill to the House for
action.
Z Bartlett told a reporter he has
teen informed the committee is
ready to act upon the bill.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-03

ALASKA HOUSING
FUNDS MAY BE IN
ANOTHER MEASURE

WASHINGTON. June 3. -tR-
Funds for starting Alaska's $15,000,-
600 Housing Program are elimin-
ated from the second deficiency ap-
preparation bill.
The Senate followed its Appro-
priations Committee which reported
it had not allowed the money be-
cause within a few weeks a report
would be made by special inves-
tigating group now enroute to AL
aska from the Housing and Home
Finance Agency.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told
reporter the report is expected
within short time and the money
may be included in the third def
cheney appropriation bill.
1t is hoped, he added, that this
procedure, will permit construction
to start this summer.
Senator Magnuson D-Wash)
tried and failed to get the Senate
to vote the $15,0OO,00O. His amend
nent was rejected by standing
vote
Magnuson pleaded for even
$1,000,000, but Chairman Mcclellan
(D-Tenn) of the Senate Appropria-
lions Committee refused to make
any compromise. Mcclellan said the
committee lacks the facts. on which
to base an appropriation.