The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S s ALL. THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD NOV 231945 GOPY.. = = ao——————— | VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,104 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1945 W MRI }\ ‘\\\()(l ATE l) PRESS | PRICE TEN CENTS NOME LASHED BY GALE-WHIPPED WAVES FLEET WEEK EVENTS WILL END TONIGHT Governor'sNH;use, A B. Hall fo Be Scenes for Closing Affairs “Final flings"” for men and officers | of Juneau's three visiting Navy ships are ticketed for this evening when the Governor's House will be cpened to the gold braid wearers| and enlisted personnel will be greet- ed by the Sons and Daughters of Norway at the last major dance of fleet week, which two organizations are jointly sponsoring at the A.B.| Hall. A dance for Wednesday evening, that the men of the ships had plan- ned to present as a gesture to Ju-| neau, has necessarily been cancelled, | it was stated today, b e the ves- sels are to move away from their dock terths on Wednesday, prepar- atory to sailing early the next morn- ing. Destinations of the three vessels are not disclosed. Two notably successful events of floet week were enjoyed by Juneau and Navy alike last evening a sparkling talent show presented by Navy men and drawing a full house to the Coliseum Theat re, followed by a round of “open houses” for en- listed men. The Governor's House, scene of the focal affair, and pri-| vate homes of Juneau citizens all attracted capacity gatherings as simple home amusements moved to the center of the stage. The men reported having “a grand time” and those who opened their homes were enthusiastic in their praise of the good fellowship of the Navy men and Juneau girls making the rounds.’ The big question is—who had the better time, guests or hosts Yesterday afternoon saw the end of visiting hours to the ships in ports; completing four afternoons during which hundreds of Juneau folk flocked aboard the fighting ships of the United States Navy ! This evening’s invitation to offi- cers from the Governor's House ex- tends from 8:30 o'clock, while the enlisted men’s dance at the AB. Hall is to get in full swing 9 o’clock. Mrs. Ernest Gruening lms asked particularly that ladies of Juneau planning to be on hand to assist in t('onlmw‘d on Puge E:qh{) D The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Chester Bowles, the OPA chief, let quite a big cat| out of the bag in-his testimony be- fore the Senate Banking and Cur- rency Committee the other day.| He revealed that the Army and Navy plan to spend $41,000,000,000 the first 12 months after V-J Day, This was a port of Bowles' testi- mony on how inflationary pressures | were building up in the nation. Alert Senator Charles Tobey of New Hampshire quickly caught this. “Where did you get those fig- ures?” he asked Bowles. The OPA director replied he had received them from the Army. | Tobey shook his head. “What in the world do they want to spend| it for?” he asked. | Bowles shrugged his shoulders and said he didn’t know. This $41,000,000,000 in 12 months of peace compares with a total military expenditure of only $33,- 000,000,000 during the whole World | War I. CONGRESSMEN} When the House Foreign Rela- tions sub-committee was in Moscow, members spent almost two hours in a frank, give-and-take conference IN MOSCOW ; with Andrei Vyshinsky, Vice-Com-|death ! missar of Foreign Affairs, known 4 B | el W STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 30 — Closing Hottest tepic discussed was free- dom of the press. Vyshinsky was quite outspoken on this subject, de- manding to know why the Soviet Union didn't receive “friendlier” treatment by American newspapers. | SAILOR STABBED |jail for safe keeping. | case. | bably for burial there. Set Precedent MISS MURIEL REYNOLDS | | I | RIO de JANEIRO, Oct. 30— F]\" | chief justice .of the Supreme Court assumed the presidency of Brazil today under an Army mandate to direct the country until the Dec |2 elections after Getuilo Vargas resigned in the midst of a tense| { | | | | | MRS. MARGERY PORTER FOR THE FIRST TIME in the history of the Standard Oil Company, women workers have been elevated to the status of corporate officers with a role in corporation affairs. They are (top) Miss Muriel Reynolds, Westfield, N. J. and Mrs. Margery Porter, New Ybrk, both former stenographers in the New Jersey offices, who now become assistant secretaries — the secretary’s office previously having been run by five wmere men. (International) BY SHIPMATE IN WRANGELL, DIES, 30— the | WRANGELL, Alflskfl Oct. Trage Friday night marred Navy Day celebration here when one sailor aboard the destroyer escort| U.S.S. Sellstrom was stabbed to death around midnight by a negro seaman aboard the ship. The negro is held in Federal jail, pending further investigation, and three other negroes aboard the ship have been removed to the Federal The ship’s officers refused to comment on the, The body of the 21-year-old sailor has been flown to Ketchikan, pro-| Though ships officers still refuse: to give any information, reports | say the murder was an outgrowth | of bad feeling between the dead | man, who was from Oklahoma, and | the negro. The dead man had for days been; taunting the negro, it was said, and | |the final quarrel started in a 10—\ \cal tavern and continued on ship- | board, where it was said the mu: dered man followed the negro to his sleeping quarters, still taunting him. | The negro got the knife from his| and stabbed his shipmate to quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | stock today is 7', American Can| 101'2, Anaconda 382, Curtis Wright 7%, International Harvester | 90, Kennecott 44, New York Cen-| “What do you mean?” chorused (@l 27%. Northern Pacific 29, U. S. Representatives Mundt of South|Steel 78, Pound $4.03'%. Dakota, Bolton of Ohio, Wright of| Sales today totaled 1,170,000 Connecticut, and Gordon of Illi-|Shares. A { nois. The four Congressmen in- Dow, Jones averages today are as — o [follows: Industrials, 184.15; ralls, (Continued on Page Four) 59.22; utilities, 36.38. | situation, | quest ! Joao Lins de | had | drunk; | orderly, PRESIDENT OF BRAIZIL IS OUSTED F:Army, by Mandaie, Wi!l‘ Direct Country Unfil December Elections BULLETIN — RIO DE JAN- EIRO, Oct. 30.—Getulio Vargas, who resigned as President of Brazil last night in response to an Army ultimatum, was under military guard at Guanabara Palace today while the new Pri ent, Jose Linhares, delib- erated cn what to do with him. The swift and apparently bloodless ccup ended a 15-year rule for the short and swarthy Vargas By CHANDLER DIEHL political situation. Chief Justice inducted officially at a pre-dawn ceremony at the War Ministry War Minister Pedro Aurelio Goes! Monteiro announced he had in- vited Linhares to serve until the elections were realized i Although the army appeared to be in complete charge of the| Goes Monteiro said there had been no military cottp as such He said the army would guaraniee | the holding of the elections. Goes Monteiro, an advocate of State, Congressional and Presiden- tial elections, resigned as War Min- ister but reconsidered at the re- of the army and called for Barros to resume his office as Chief of the Federal Po- lice. An ultimatum was served Getulio Vargas to resign. Tanks were assembled in the streets about the Presidential Palace. The President’s wife and a brother, Viriato Vargas, left the grounds in a presidential car Troops already had occupied key points in the city a_ precau- tionary measure The cabinet was assembled at the upon as | Presidential Palace when first word came late last night that Vargas resigned. Confirmation came shortly after midnight. In the early morning hours, band of about 1,000 men roamed the streets in the center of the| capital, Queremistas Party, which had been demanding that Vargas cancel the scheduled elections and remain at! the helm of the government he has headed since X930 {SHOOTING IN FILM STRIKE; GUNMEN BUSY HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 The temporary truce in the film strike was punctuated by violence as Herbest K. Sorrell, head of the AFL Conference of Studio Unions, reported to police that gunmen made an attempt on his life last night. The shooting came shortly after Sorrell announced that 6,000 pickets or possibly more, would marching at major studios morrow unless been reached by tonight eight-month-old walkout. The union official told Glendale detectives that four or more shots were fired at him, one narrowly in the missing him, as he was backing his | automobile out of the driveway at his nearby Glendale home. Sorrell said the shots were fired from a black sedan that sped away after two bullets struck his car and two or more others missed. - IN CITY COURT Frank Wilson, charged with being George * Roberts, drunk; Perrin, drunk; Jasper Mec- drunk and disorderly, Meisenzahl, drunk and dis- have each been fined $25 in City Police Court. Adam Bride, Eva Jose Linhares was | al resume | to-| a settlement has! and | l SHOWGIRL-—wesl Brent, performer in a motion pic- ture musical, poses for a pinup, (OMMISSION (ONTROLLING IAPANSETUP thuals Meet in Washing- ton with Russia Not Participating WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— lied commission to advise on gov- erning Japan gathered today with Russia on the sidelines Officials waited into the ea morning for word that the Soviet Unicn had decided belatedly to par- ticipate. The word never came. The Russians have insisted the USSR, Britain that trol council in Tokyo. Officials said for the record that thay were contident the ladvisory commission could be success anyway. They conceded pr vately effe a ripping down posters of the | withy g stake in the Far East would | !be gloomy indeed if Russia ignored ! 'the commission When he first proposed it, after 'mp Japanese surrender, Secretary of State Byrnes called it the “Far i Eastern Advisory Commission.” But the terms which “he {along with his proposal made it \(lmu that the commission—at least at the start—was to limit its activ- lities to advising how Japan could \best live up to its surrender obli- gations. Specifically, it was forbidden to make recommendations “with regard | to the conduct of military opera- tions” or “territorial adjustments.” ‘Thus, the group found itself today without authority even to discuss the really pressing problems of the Far East—the virtual civil war be- tween Nationalist and Communist | for in China; the Indonesian- {Britich clashes in Java and the ex- plosive Indo-China situation, D ® - Doctor, Nurse Are To Stand Trial in . Manslaughter Case’ | | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.—Dr. Ed- fward Albarian, member of the Os- teopathic staff at the Los Angek County General Hospital, and June E. Coleman, a nurse, have been or- idered to stand trial on manslaughter | charges as a result of the death last October 6 of Pauline Estrada, 14 Municipal Judge Eugene P. Fay, |at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing yesterday, held that doctor and nurse had not used due caution in preparing the girl for an | appendectomy. Dr. Frank R. Webb, {eounty autopsy surgeon, had testi- fied that the girl died of hematoly- caused by injection into the blood ‘u- am of an overly strong saline solution. g | by two An Al-| China and the | United States should set up a con- ten-nation | that the prospects for any| ive teamwork among nations| sent | the | ARGUMENTS - BEFORECAB IN CONFLICT | Alaska Ailines Asks Boihl‘ ‘Inferior and Coastal | Routes to States | WASHINGTON, flicting methods for clearing | the Seattle-Juneau, Alaska, trans- portation bottleneck were presented airlines at a Civil Aero- | nautics Board hearing sterday. John W. Cress, speaking for | Alaska Airlines, Inc., told the board Oct that air traffic presented the only i solution to the Alaska-Seattle | transportation problem, and added | that Alaska lines were better or-| : | ganized to fly the route than do- | mestic United States companies with little or no previous Alaskan experience. He pointed out that steamship rates per ton-mile from Seattle to the North were among the highest in the world and that frequently | the over-water trip to Juneau takes | as long as nine days. | ©ross ' eventually car | passengers annually between United States and Alaska. | United Airlines, Inc, | Cross’ testimony, claimed that [domestic airline would provide | Lbolm and more dependable service than an Alaskan company y as many as 100,000 the disputing Domestic Carrier Representing United, John T. Lorch told the board that a do-)| | mestic carrier might better absork ‘(lellus during the early yea of (lw service than the smaller Al- laskafl Hnes. In addition, a large airlines could provide un- broken passenger service to scat- f{tered points in the States, while the smaller companies might forced to require passengers transfer. to | He also expressed the belief that | the | most of A the passengers on a-States run would come from the uth, rather than from the| Territory, thus giving an advantage to the domestic companies. Two Outlets Wanter Alaska Airlines declared it wants | two outlets to the Seattle, another across Canada to Chicago. These additional outlets, Cros: said, sheuld be established apart from the proposed Oriental service which the CAB examiners recom- mended be routed across Canada to Anchorage and the Orient. | Alaska Airlines contended in its jargument that the present system {under which Pan American has a | monopoly between Seattle and Ju- neau, tends to throttle Alaska Air- lines' traffic ‘because it must de-, {pend upon Pan American for | carrying its passengers out of Al- aska. There’s traffic in for three the Civil also told. Hugh W. Darling, | Western Airlines’ claim to partici- pate in development of service to; Alaska, urged that WAL's opera- tion between Great Falls, Mont., and Lethbridge, Alta., should be extended to Edmonton, Alta., where it could connect with a proposed | Chicago-Anchorage route. ! Seattle May Be Out Darling said Seattle would prob- {ably. remain one of the major plenty of potential air Alaska and the Orient | ; Aeronautics Board wa | [ report by CAB Examiners ROss 1 Newmann and Lawrence J. Koster: predicting that traffic through | Chicago may some day exceed that from Seattle. He also quoted them as saying 12 states along the Rocky Mountains are a natural feeder area for the| Great Falls gateway. Darling said Western Air, mean- while “also is vigorously urging favorable action on its application | for an Alaskan service from Seattle “We do expect to get to Seattle,” Darling said. Acting board member Harllee Branch, observed that Western Air’s lines do not now reach the Puget Sound city. Attorneys Heard The board also heard attorneys| for two Alaskan airlines argue that service to the Territory from Seattle should be given to line: which have developed the Territory “You can't subordinate the in-| tercsts of Alaska to the globe- (Continued on Paye Two) 30 — Con- | up | estimated that airlines will | a he suid; | States—one 1o s | “gateways” to the North, arguing | Supreme Court Visifs Truman | White House in Washington. Justice Harlan F. L. Black tices Stanley Murphy. licitor General J. and Felix Frankfur F. Reed, Howard !, Waggaman. (AP \\ln'plmlm TAX BILL IS OKEHED be | WASHINGTON Oct. 30 House today gave its final blessing |to the plan to reduce individual and h\.‘ ness tax burdens by $5,920,000,000 in 1946 The action came in approval by a roll call yote of the reduction mea- worked out by the House and | sure Senate conferees after the two chami had put through differ- ing ashing bills. The confer- lence measurse now goes to the sen- |ate for approval there. The Senate will vote on the bill ‘Thula«hy and the measure should be Truman's hands be- lin President fore the end of the week. | The House vote was 297 to 33 | 'The bill provides this 1945 tax re- lief: An easement of $2,644,000,000 for individuals, sweeping 12,000,000 low imcome persons off the tax rolls ! completely, assuring 10 cent or more relief for the millions of others carning up to $50,600 a yzar, an maller cuts for persons with mes above $50,000. A $3,136,000,000 reduction for cor- perations by repeal of tke 855 per ‘cem excess profits tax, climination lof the capital stock and declared |value excess profits levies, and re- | ductions in the normal tax and sur- tax. Repeal of the $5 automobile use \tax, at a saving of $140,000,000 for |automobile and truck owners. | Freezing of the social security le in- |at one per cent on employer and g jemployee. Under existing law the | gateways to Alaska but he cited a tax would advance January 1 to 2.5 some 28,000 I per cent, Special treatment for veter | world War 11, forgiving all income taxes against service pay of enlist- |ed men during the war period - 'Resurvey of Alaska " Projeds Requested of Army_[_ngmeers WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—The Ho Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee asked the Army Engineers today to re-survey these waterway pro- {jects to determine if improvements should be added Alaska: Improvements on Ketchi- an,* Douglas, Kake and Homer rbors; improvements on channel across Prince of Wales Island, wid- cning and deepening of channel at Dry Pass. ka Members ef the United-States Supreme Ceutr, formal visit to the President, stand with him on the steps of the In the group are: Front (L-R) Chief Stone, President Truman, Associate Justices Hugo [sStrait at 50 to 80 miles an hour . Second row Hareld H. Third row (L-R) Associate Justice William 0. Douglas, So- MeGrath, Back row (L-R) Clerk Charles Flmore Cropely and Marshal Thomas BY HOUSE ~The | States 79,265 flying men and 18,000 JOHN P. HARTMAN | BUILDINGS DAMAGED ON WATERFRONT QMiIitary Police Standing Guard Over Supplies for Winter UNALAKLEET LEVELLED ACCORDING T0 REPORTS ' Motorship North Sfar Rides Safely Through Heavy Seas NOME, Alaska, Oct. 30.-- Military Police are standing guard today { over buildings which contain all winter supplies for this storm-buf- feted town. Martial law declared here yester- day by Col. W. B. Morgan, Com- manding Officer of the Nome Army Base, after gale-whipped waves une dermin~d structures along the wat- erfront and piled water a foot deep on Nome's main street, paying their annual Winds swept down the Bering Associate Jus- Frank (L-R) Burten, Wiley Rutledge, Attorney General Tom Clark. EARLIER REPORTS Eailier reports received from Nome indicat>d many buildings had been wrecked at Unalakleet and the whole south business yection of Nome was badly damaged, merchants moving yesterday, leveled the village of Un- then moved southward. Many of the buildings along the south side of Front Street in this | Lincoln Hotel is reported to be'n | total loss. Much of the winter si ALLIED AIR s e i ed, 1o reporte wele sty POWER GEIS available on damage here or at | The motorship North Star is re- | to have safely weathered B'G pRAISE heavy seas after being in danger ! Island, | At a meeting with the Mayor, Council, City Attorney and towns- Was De(|5|ve Fa('or ,n that an emergeney existed and the only way the Army could help was by declaring martial law. —(OSfS leen OU' plies into safe warehouses and in —— guarding open buildings, and was ASHINGTON, Oct. 30—Twelve | thanked publiely by Mayor Swiden- lied air power was the 'dt’(‘lhiVF\ By last midnight, the Arctic storm factor in the conquest of Germany. | was abating, the heavy seas receding Victory in the air cost the United and temperature had dropped to the planes, the British 79,281 fliers and, No property damage estimate is 22,000 aircraft, the conimittee said | immediately forthcoming, in a report to the War Department. ‘, e '300900 Germans—more than the | Lomen Commercial Company, sald total of U. 8. armed services dead | tcday he talked last night with his in all theaters—destroyed or heav- | brother, Ralph, at Nome, and that made Tubble of principal German | coln Hotel, the Northern Commer- cities and kept 5000000 persons, ¢ial Company, the Alaska Steam- busy repairing bomb damage. ‘shm Company Building and the fermer Secretary of War Sllmqnu‘_m"“" R]L)I]K the Snake River had at the suggestion of the late Presi- wns‘hed out in front of ife Lomex dent Franklin D. Roosevelt to make | Warehouses, where cargo was taken of aerial attack on Germany. The storm this morning, the ‘Their conclusion was that Ger- | weather Bureau told him, was over many lost the war by losing the | Kotzebue, 300-miles to the north on months of 1944, Thereafter her re- | jngula, sources were exposed to all-out| Allied air attack. were dropped, more than 1,440,000 | bember sorties and 2,680,000 fighter ies were flown. The number of alaklegt, whipped across Nome and cemmunity were damaged and the ‘ was ruined as basements were llond Unalaklect. | ported near Gambell on St Lawrence people, Colonel Morgan explained Conquest of Germany The Army assisted in getting sup- civilians declared today that Al-| berg. fraezing mark. ut their air power killed some| At Seattle, Carl Lomen of the ily damaged 3,600,000 dwellings,| he told of the damage to the Lin- The appraisers were named by, | Polar Bar. About 50 feet of revent- an impartial study of the effects|shore battle of the skies in the early|ine north side of the Seward Pen- Almost 2,700,000 tons of bombs | combat yanes reached a peak of ind at the maximum |out stock from flooded basements. 1,300,000 men were in combat com-| Foundations were undermined and 5 of mands | the Polar Building, drug store, Serv- ->>> | ice Barber Shop, Coftee Cup and the | Nome Plumbing Company were a pullml loss. The dispatch also menuoxwd the Um.nn Theatre, Paterson Hotel and North Pole Bakery were slightly | damaged "DIES IN SEATTLE SEAI"I‘LF Oct. 30.—John P. Hatt-| man, one of the 14 founders of | the W.lshlngl(m Good Road Aswcm- tion and a member of the Board of | the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, died | yesterday. He s a University of | Washington regent from 1905 to 1911.| 0' "ew Ams Hartman went to Alaska in gold‘ rush days and with three other| WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—There’ll men built the Brackett wagon road be no rationing of new automobiles. from Skagway to Log Cabin. Lnu’rl The OPA and War Production he interested finaclers in building | Board have decided it isn't neces- the White Pass and Yukon railway, sary because “There is no longer and he helped organize the North- danger of a general transportation west Steamship Co., and numerous breakdown.” However, they ask mining enterprises He was also crealers to give preference, when interested in mining property in the sales begin, to customers whose need , Atlin District s urgent (There Will Be No Rationing Rl