The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LXV., NO. 10,097 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = a——————— ] ANCHORAGE PLANE CRASH KILLS SCORE Over 1200 Navy Men To Arrive Wednesday THREE CRAFT DUE INPORT flll.l. 1 DAYS UNDERWAY Assouateo USS Panamint, Largest of Vessels, Will Bring Over 600 Here One hundred six officers, 1,065 Navy enlisted men and 40 U. S Marines are,due to be in Ju.n‘.m‘ from sometime Wednesday, Oct. 24, until Thursday of the follow ing week, Nov. 1, Mayor Ernest Parsons was. advised today. That is the normal complement, | including the officers and men of the staff of the North Pacific Force Commander, of the three Navy vessels ordered to Juneau for Navy Day observance. Mayor Parsons was' advised of the characteristics and the complement of each of the three ships by Capt. W. B. Ammon, Commanding Officer of the U. S. S. Panamint, the flagship of the North Pacific Fleet. Here Wednesday Daylight Capt. Ammon’s letter states that the vessels expect to arrive in Juneau Harbor during daylight of Oct. 24 and will remain here until Nov. 1. It is proposed to put the tnree ships alongside docks, if po: sible, and projected visiting hours for the general public are to be from 1 to 4:30 p. m.,, Oct. 26 to 29, inclusive. The Headquarters Communica- tions Ship Panamint is the largest of the three fighting ships coming here. She is 460 feet in length, has| a beam of 63 feet and a draft of | 23 feet. The Panamint crew is comprised of 40 Navy officers and 550 enlisted men. In addition, she carries 16 officers and 71 men of the North Pacific Commander’s staff. The Gunboat feet in length, of 24 officers, Charleston, 328 has a complement s, 177 enlisted Navy men and 40 Marines. The De- B r Halford, 376 feet long, car- ries a crew of 26 officers and 267 men. Possibly Others Also, it is thought likely by in-| formed sources in Juneau that the normal numbers of the crews of| the three vessels will be swelled on their visit here—possibly to double size—by men from shore units and along the Aleutians being carried south for discharge. Preparations to welcome the fleet units to Junedu were set in motion | last Saturday evening at a meet- | ing of a seore of citizens, govern- \ment officials and armed . forees representatives called together at | the Juneau USO by Mayor Parsons. Entertainment Various phases of Juneau's ef-‘ fort were assigned, as follows: Pri-\ vate transportation, Mrs. Ernest! Parsons in charge; commercial transportation, Mayor Parsons; | sports program, Barney Anderson‘ and the Lions Club; dances, Ralph J. Rivers and W. J. Leivers; food | AConlmund on Puge Elyhl) The Washlngton Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — President Tru- man dropped some significant ideas | on the atomic bomb and world peace during a recent private talk with Fyke Farmer, Nashville, Tenn., lawyer. The President definitely frowned on a world peace or-| ganization such as that proposed by ex-Justice Owen D. Roberts, and admitted quite frankly that a new armament race was already started. Farmer, who has been an in tensive promoter of international goodwill, called to urge Truman to go beyond the limited scope of the ! United Nations, cut out intense | nationalism, and put the atom bomb in the hands of an interna- tional commission responsible to all mankind. Farmer also pmposed’ that the commission have the rlght\ to acquire land in various parts of e Ay ol e (Continued on Pap;- Four) | | | { | | | REVAMPING | would be broken up of | $4.03%. JAP GOVI. Breaking lB—of Powerful Laibatsu Is Approved by Emperor Himself TOKYO, Oct. 22—The building of demccratic Japan, both financi- ally and politically, occupied the center of the occupation stage to- day as government officials nounced the powerful Zaibatsu their own emperor’s of a accord and gave the blessing to development stronger diet. The announcement that Zaibatsu, the family financial giants of Japan, would liquidate themselves brought a blast from one of Tokyo's leading newspapers. Asahi Shimbun charged that the breakup, announced L Finance Minister Shibusawa s “merely reorganiza- tion in disguise,” an attempt to step from under responsibility for supporting Japanese militarists in the past. Wants Strong Diet Fuimaro Konoye, one of Japanese senior statesmen, a premier and career is one of Emperor Prince the many-times diplemat who Hirchito's close advisers, emperor is anxious that vision of the constitution provide the nation with a diet strong enough to be a guiding influence in the nation's politics. Konoye, at the command of the who followed Gen. Mac- wishes in the matter, is working on a draft of a revised constitution. Allied headquarters today stepped | into an other field where there has been much talk and little ac- tion amd ordered the Japanese educational system revamped. Japanese teaching, henceforth, the supreme headquarters ruled, concentrate on peaceful pursuits, eliminating military drill, and other swashbuckling trappings of the the re- militarist regime which it heroized | in the past. y “Nothing Doing” In answer to the request last week of some 4,000 employees of the newspaper Asahi that the own- ers step aside as disciples of the old regime and let the employees take over, the proprietors today said in effect, “nothing doing.” President Nagataka Murayama said it was not his understanding | had built by persons who had no interest in it. Konoye, who said yesterday Mac- Arthur had suggested that he lead a liberal political movement, stated in an interview today that the necessity of senior around the throne gradually would | disappear under the contempiated | constitutional revisions. S e — Ship Surveyor Back South from Aleutians SEATTLE, Oct. 22. — The Coast | and Geodetic Survey ship Surveyor. under the command of Lieut. Comdr. | C. D. Meaney, arrived in Lake Union this morning from Adak and Kiska.| The Surveyor will berth in Lake Union until she completes charts and other work from her northern trip. | B e SIO(K QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, O(‘l 22 — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau Mme‘ stock today is 7%, American Csn, 105% Anaconda 39%, Curtiss- anhL 8, International Harvester| 91%, Kennecott 447%, New York| Central 28%, chhem Pacific 29 United States Steel 82, Pound Sales today totaled 1, 140000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 187.06; rails,! 60.25; utilities, 35.85, 'NAZI TORTURER an- shall | statesmen| AT CHURCH ON SHOOTING DATE f""Beast of Bel- sen”” Puts Up His Alibi at Trial LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 22 Otto Kulessa, a Prussian defend- ant in the Belsen war crimes trial accused of shooting prisoners at the concentration camp, testified today “I was in church at the time.” The 53-year-old’ guard had been growing a Hitlerian mustache for a week, and he tweaked it proudly as he gave the evidence he hopes will save his life Kulessa told the British Military Court that the shootings of April 2, of which he was accused, were impossible for “at that time I was attending Eastern Church services at Nordhausen"—at a concentra- tion camp several hundred miles from Belsen. Kulessa is on trial with 44 others including “the Beast of Belsen,” Josef Kramer. The trial entered | its sixth week today SUDDEN GALE HITS SEATILE, 22 Y N.W.SECTIONS SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—A sudden fifty mile an hour wind whipped up| through the Northwest coastal area | last night causing at least one| known death of a Canadian mnn‘ |and extensive damage to Lake and| waterfront property and utility| wires. i S. S. Phillips of Victoria, B. C., 'field crop supervisor of the Bril Columbia Department of Agricul- ture, was apparently electrocuted when he stepped from his auto to| investigate a tree which had crashed across a high tension wire into the roadway. said the | D WHITESIDE RETURNS T. C. Whiteside, discharged la%, month from the U. 8. Coast Guard | |after three and a half years service, has returned to his position as trav- | | eling affiliate of J. J. Meherin, local | ;bxcker | amNoL» sBoARD smrp | Edward G. Arnold, new Chief of the Department of Territories and | | | T. C. |of democracy that the men be Insular Possessions of the Depart- | pushed out of the company they | ment of the Interior, from Wash- ‘ingtun, D By W passenger | |aboard the Steamer Columbia. | P : TRUCANOS HAVE | SON Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trucano of| Auk Bay announce the birth of a son, born in St. Ann's Hospital | yesterday morning. The. infant weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and is the second child of the Tru- !canos, who have a daughter two |ane one-half years old. Mr. Tru- cano is a carpenter with Don Abel, | local contractor. B LYBECK GOES SOUTH Mrs. Bert Lybeck sailed morning for Seattle, MRS. this | and plans to go from there fo join her husband | in Kent, Wash., where Mr. Lybeck since leaving the Vetexans’ Hos- | pital at Walla Walla, Wash. | Mrs. Lybeck took her car along, | !and tentative plans of the Lybecks | linclude a trip to Arizona for the winter months. e FROM THE S'I'AT ES | Arrivals from the states over the | week end who registered at the | Baranof are as follows: Glen E. Logan, LaFayette, Calif.; Charles C. Mason and Fred Cheley, Seattle; | A. C. Oberson, Seattle; R. P. Jer- | vette, San Francisco; Silva E. Gar- O. Gray and child, Kansas City, Mo Perry Huff, Seattle; Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert, Norwich, Conn.; | John L. Danapee, Seattle, and Mrs. R. H, Ralph, Phoenix, Ariz, DEGAULLE | than & | the assembly, which will have 522 |over !Chmmcle and recently to the Cor- | |dova Times. | | will receive service each puhlicauon‘ ! } AMERICANS WINS OUT - ARECAUGHT, INFRANCE VEN. REVOLT Election Refil_s Show Peo-| ple Want Fourth Re- public, Constitution By RELMAN MORIN | | Crouch in Hotel Rooms for . Three Days as Blood Spilled in Caracas MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 22—While gun- PARIS, Oct. 22—France’s first|fire spilled blood on the streets| general election in nine years|of Caracas, looters ransacked the | placed an almost ungualified stamp | city, and steel fragments caromed of approval today on Gen. de| through doors and windows, Ameri- Gaulle’s plans to found a fourth cans caught in the bloody revolu- republic on a new constitution |tionary coup crouched in barri- drafted by the people's chosen rep- |caded hotel rooms through three resentatives. | days and nights of terror. 1 Figures announced by the Min- That is the picture brought by‘ istry of the Interior this morning, |refugees from the Venezuelian re-| 12 hours after the closing of the | volt, first to arrive in this country polls, showed that de Gaulle had |since violence flared in the SuuLh: won an overwhelming victory in a | American nation Thursday. two-pronged election which decided| “The hoodlums and looters who | that ‘brukr’ loose Friday were the worst,” | 1—A constituent assemblyDesig- said Miss Mary Francis, attorney nated at yesterday's election — will from Oklahoma City, who, with | draft a new constitution rather |about 100 other Americans "chatnd‘ attempt to rebuild the gov-‘out" the revolution at the Avila| ernment on the 1875 document Hotel. | which was the foundation of the| “I saw boys 15 and 16 carrying| third republic. carbines—and they were a trigger-| 2—The executive power will be | happy bunch,” she related. vested in a provisional governmont‘ Miss Francis said the Caracas | during the seven months the as- | police force, which remained loyal | mbly sits rather than in the ns~,m ths government, apparently had sembly itself. " wiped out. Official results from Bombmg wa stoo accurate at France’s 92 departments: | Maracay, airport center just out- In favor of a new constitution,|side Caracas, for Mrs. Madge Davis 13,887,082; opposed, 554,750. | who admitted she “cried ll|rnugh[ In favor of an interim govern- |the whole thing in a hotel room | ment, 9,582,210; opposed, 4,841.249.131”& with two weeping American | The question of writing a 84 of‘ new | mothers and their bables — who | constitution was supported by all | were erying t0o.” political parties, but the Com-| “A bomb or grenade dropped | munists—aided by the Radical So-|from a plane hit the floor above cialists—had opposed de Gaulle |us and exploded,” the Saluda, S. on the interim government issue. |woman said. Official figures based on com- | plete returns from 39 of France's | 90 departments gave the popular | Republican movement 134 seats in COLUMNIST PRESIDENT CARACAS, Oct. 22 — A cabinet pledged to democratic ideals took the reins in oil-rich Vene- | - ATOMIC ENERGY LEGISLATION IS SETTLED, SENATE| day. . } WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, — The Senate has voted unanimously to ’I()rm a special committee of 11 members to handle atomic energy P SR P RUMORS STALIN % SE | The remluuon was presented by | Democratic Senator Brien McMahon |of Connecticut. Its adoption broke members from France and 64 more |zuela today under sponsorship of a from the colonies. | revolutionary junta which stamped | | | Bespectacled Romulo Betancourt, 137, a former newspaper columnist, | SEATTLE, Oct. 22. — The Sitka|,ssumed power only to provide | | Sentinel today became the Sixth|yenesuela with “free, direct univer- | This high-speed news service was first ‘started early in 1945 to t.he * . {out all important resistance to its SIIKA SEN""NE[ coup detat in a tumultuous week- { assumed the dual role of prcsxdv:ml \and minister of the interier with | Alaska newspaper to receive direcufial suffrage.” radio-teletype news service from the j | Anchorage Times and Fairbai News-Miner. Later it was excended |end of armed conflict. GETS TELETYPE a pledge that his government had Associated Press. i to the Juneau Empire, Ketchikan | The Sitka Sentinel, a tri-weekly, | dustry, Inc., in the southeast di: | trict not later than next Sept. |of the CIO-Food, Tobacco, ' ARMY ENGINEERS C., |from strong harbor currents. The | Council’s resolution 108. |is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.| ‘Bargammg Agencies For Alaska Residents Announced by NLRB| The board certified the following agents for resident WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — The National Labor Relations Board to- | bargaining day announced that it had found | worker: the collective bargaining elections held in the Bristol Bay and Alaska lied Workers of America (CIO) for Peninsula districts -and at four n(lrcsmmt cannery workers of Alaska the eight independents in South- | Salmon Industry, Inc., members in | eastern Alaska were determinative. | the Bristol Bay district. The other four did not operate this | pood, Tobacco, Agricultural and season, and elections will be held | Allied Workers Union, (CIO) for next season if they operate. | resident workers of industry mem- Elections were ordered for the pers jn the Peninsula district, and members of the Alaska Salmon In-|for resident workers of the Grin- dall Fisheries, Inc, and the Salt L. | Sea Fisheries. Bi”‘:‘“ i ‘i’f mfe L:lh'()l:::i dorp| The Grand Camp of tho Alaska gelved 8/ PR JOEIT L O E e Native Brotherhood for resident :‘;'O):"km voelin SR IaRD. S cannery workers employed at the The board dismissed the petition Agri- cultural and Allled Workers of €rs Union, affiliated with the Sea- America for certification as rep- farers’ International Union . (AFL) resentative of resident cannery for resident cannery workers of the workers of the Alaska Native Con- | West Coast Packing Co. solidated Canning Co., an inde- All are covered except tasks not pendent. The cannery did not oper- | conflicting with the AFL Ma- ate this ycar chinls‘ts Union coverage. GOP CONTROL - OF CONGRESS TOHOLDHEARING THIS WEEK, SITKA SEATTLE, Oct. 23 ~—The District Army Engineers office will hold a hearing at Sitka Wednesday on re quests by Sitka groups for navlga- tion improvements at Neva and Olga Straits, eight miles to the north, and for protection in the Sitka harbor| tion of Win in 1946~ Campaign Budget work was described in the. Sitka Tre views expressed will be in- cluded in a preliminary survey re-| port, which was called for in tht“ River and Harbor Act of March 2, bublican Party will regain control 1945, |of Congress in 1946, National Entirely separate, the Army En.ichxlrman Herbert J. Brownell of gineers already have a Congression- New York told South Dakota party ally authorized harbor improvement | workers yesterday, and elect a project at Sitka, calling for a break- | President in 1948 by presenting ! water, basin and channel dredging,' voters a ‘“clearly differentiated, at a first cost of $340,000. After Con- | positive legislative program.” gress appropriates more funds, con-| “It is not enough to harp at the struction will be resumed. Some|New Deal,” he said, adding that channel work and rock removal work 'election of 28 more Republican rep- was completed in 1940, resentatives and eight more sen- Col. Conrad P. Hardy, District En- |ators would “return government to | gineer, will fly north Tuesday o the American people and provide preside at the hearing .veto power over excessive extrava- - 5 gance.” FROM CHICAGOF Thomas Lambert, from Chicagof,| He declined to | dential candidate for 1948 | we win in 1946” and described the 8750,000 campaign budget for 1946 las the largest for any non-presi- dential yenr - FROM ANCHORAGE_ Hervey E. Aldridge, a resident of Anchorage, is registered at the. Baranof. s s Nine Juneau Girls Are Pledged Sunday >e o FROM TENAKEE Sam Asp of Tenakee has arrived in Juneau. He is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. e - SITKA RESIDENT HERE H. O. Hanson, a resident of Sitka, has reglstercd at the Gastineau Hotel. “ol CONFIRMED a stalemate of two weeks. The committee will consist of six | Democrats and five Republlrans. : Fralemlly House Swepl by Flames| NEW BRUNSW!CK. N. J. Oct. 22. —Two Rutgers University sopho- mores and a young woman guest died, and another young woman | guest, four students and an aged| Negro houseman were injured early yesterday, when a three alarm fire| swept the three-story frame frater-| nity house leased by Sigma Alpha | Mu. LONDON, Oct. 22 Andrm Gromyko,- Soviet ambassador the United States, said today answer to a question that he no information to support” ru- mors that Generalissimo Stalin is m | has been for the past few months, | gravely ill. Rumors concerning Stalin’ health have been heard since the Potsdam Conference and have gained wider circulation since Oct. 10, when it was announced from Moscow that he had gone on a vacation. e ] Television Stafions Will Soon Be on Air WASHINGTON, Qct. 22.—Federal Communications Commissicn good number” of television stations | will go on the air during 1946. Within four weeks FCC hopes to announce rules and regulations for television broadcasting. St | Clara Gaddie from Kotzebue is| |a guest at the Baranof. > Fred A. Conroy, Anchorage resi- | tield, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. Harry |perts forecast today that a “fairly| Hotel. Dr. L. L. Peterson, Dentist with the Alaska Native Service, this weekend from a trip to the Westward. MILTON HAGAN HERE | Milan J, Hagan of Sitka has ar-; |rived in Juneau. He is registered | at the Baranof, .o MISS MARINCAVI( HERE Sally Marincavich, a former resi- ! dent of Seattle, has begun work as a clerk at the Department of | Interior office here. She is regis- tered, with her mother, at the Juneau Hotel. e STEAMER MOVEMENTS Steamer Columbia from the south | due ‘sometime tomorrow but nothing definite at 3 p. m. today. Steamer Aleutian, from the west-, | ward, bound south is due sometime 'dent and rushing chairman, and ex- | tomorrow, perhaps late. Steamer Princess Louis scheduled | | tonight and is due in Juneau Thurs- | day afternoon or evening. Steamer Tongass scheduled to sail Stéamer Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday, October 27. Formal bids, for membership to | Beta Sigma Phi Sorority were ex- {tended to nine Juneau girls at a formal tea given by Delta Chapter of Juneau yesterday afternoon in the home of Mrs. R. R. Hermann, | international honorary member. The tea, held from the hours of 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, (found the spacious rooms of Mrs, | Hermant's home brightened by | bouquets of bronze and yellow i chrysanthemums. ( {centered the tea table, where Mrs. | Hermann and Mrs. Earl McGinty, ‘literary director for the chapter, presided. Assisting were Vi Klassen, {Mrs. M. W. Carnes and Irma [Nowe]l, chairman of the affair. Mrs. R. B. Willlams, vice presi- | Mrs. W. R. Carter, president, | tended the invitations to member- ex-| dent, is registered at the Gastineau | to sail from Vancouver at 9 o'clock | ship. | Initiation of new pledges will be held in conjunction with the returned | from Seattle Thursday, October 25. chapter birthday party on Nov. 4, and the names of the new members | e will be announced at that time. International Fishermen and Al- | Hydaburg Cooperative Association. | The Alaska Salmon Purse Sein- | IN BASKET Brownell M akes Predic-! PIERRE, S. D., Oct. 22—The R.e-i | | discuss a presi- | “until | By Beta Sigma Phi. An arrangement ot these flowers TRANSPORT HITS, THEN EXPLODES Victims Number Between 22 and 25-Bodies Scat- tered Over Wide Area BULLETIN — ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22.—The crash of an Army C-47 transport plane near the Elmendorf Army Air Field here last night took between 22 and 25 lives, Alaskan Depart- ment authoritles announced to- day. Witnesses said the rlane, ar- riving from Cold Bay in the Aleutians, was caught in a sud- den high wind as it attempted to land and it crashed and ex- ploded. Bodles were scattered over a wide area. The crash occurred shortly after 10 p. m., Anchorage time, Names of the victims were withheld until next oi kin are notified. CRASHES AT NIGHT ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22.— Attempting to land at Elmendorf Army Field near here in a forty- mile an hour wind, an Army C-47 transport plane crashed and explod- ed at 10:16 last night. While crash equipment was un- able to reach the scene, which was about two miles from the military reservation, men on foot searched the area for an hour and a half without finding any bodies. It was not known immediately how many were aboard the plane, which was arriving from Cold Bay. Residents who witnessed the crash !said the plane hit nose first on a knoll in a swamp with both motors running full blast. They said the aircraft broke in two and exploded. It apparently had circled the field once preparing to land. The brief wind storm which blew up just fifteen minutes before the crash registersd gusts of 70 miles !an hour for & brief period of 40 minutes. Crash equipment was directed per- sonally by Brig. Gen. Harry Johnson, Base Commander. He tried unsuc- cessfully to reach the scene and men searched on foot for an hour !and a half before the first body was found. e Truman 33rd Degree Mason WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Presi- dent Truman has crowned 36 years in the Masonic Order by becoming Ithe first Chief Executive to receive Ithe 33rd Degree, Masonry's highest. The degree was conferred at the same time on Gen.'H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces; Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, and Lt. Gens. Ben Lear and James Doolittle. Gen. MacArthur's degree, voted on the same list, will be awarded later. i WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 48; minimum, 40. At Airport—Maximum, 48; minimum, 40. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneaw and Vicinity) e o o Southeasterly surface winds, 30 to 40 miles per hour tonight, decreasing to- morrow to southeasterly 20 miles per hour. Rain tonight e and Tuesday.