The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1945, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ;Buumus NEW YORK - Rescue tugs will be | sent from Bermuda to aid the Lib- STMAS GIFT ROBES are 1411:>v- CHRI fre ur Men's Shop . wool, " |erty ship Henry Ward Beecher in flaniiel, terry cloth, tie-silk, { distress about 340 miles northeast trave solid ~ {of Bermuda with troops aboard . sizes lhumobnund She dropped her pro- | pellor. % | { | KANSAS CITY—A five-day con- . | ference of Vetearns of Foreign Wars * jopened today. A resolution urging | compulsory arbitration of labor dis- | putes will be introduced. 7.95 - 29.95 ! ASCUNSION,, Paraguay—A U. S. Army plane with 15 persons aboard | is missing. It was enroute to Monte- video from here. FALL RIVER, Mass.—An explosion in the Pepperell Manufacturing Company plant sent 15 persons to hospitals. Most of the injured were |cut by flying glass. Police said nearly 1,000 windows were blown out by the blast and at least two hun- dred persons received cuts. LONDON — Another Norwegian traitor has been sentenced to death | A British dispatch (Exchange Tele- | graph) from Oslo says that Quis- ling’s Interior Minister, William | Habelin, will be executed within | three weeks. WASHINGTON — House leaders |said today that legislation will be | introduced today or tomorrow, to | carry out President Truman's re- commendations for handling labor | troubles. Speaker Rayburn (D.-Tex.) made the announcement at his news conference. LOOKING AT YOU PRETTILY is film actress Yvonne DeCarlo, one of a dozen models from Hollywood who will fashion swimsuits and other apparel at an exhibit to be held at Las Vegas, Nev. Oh, y the top suit is a two-peace diaper model with pique trim. (International) WASHINGTON The govern-1 ment is shutting down its entire | rubber - from - alcohol operations, | closing alcohol butadiene plants which cost $117,000,000, officials of | the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | peration said today. The decision, | explained as being made on “good | BUILDING PERMITS Three jobs, estimated o cost $500 newly underway here on permits issued during the are ‘MacARTHUR WAS ALERT, JAP STRIKE (Continued from Page One) Arthur last May, placed in the committee rec He said in it that some Japanese mes were decoded at Corregidor in Philippines but he had not certain specific messages he asked about. The affidavit was taken for the Secretary of War by Lt. Col. Henry Clausen. Wi the seen wa Miles Testifies Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, Chief f Army Intelligen in 1941, t fied concerning the United St pre-war action in disclosing to ain how to decode thé intercepted Japanese messages. The committee also received a report that the last President Roose- velt on Nov. 26, 1941, advised the High Commissioner of the Philip- 2ines, Francis Sayre, that the “next Japanese aggrt ion might cause an >utbreak of hostilities between the U. S. and Japan.” The Roosevelt message, put into he record, said there were “no clear ndicatfon: where th Japanese night strike but expressed the spinion that invasion of Thailand ‘seems the most probable. g - KEITHAHN AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK ON TOTEM POLES, ART Edward L. Keithahn, curator and week by City Engineer J. L. pyginess” grounds, leaves the coun- L‘F s i PRl R g ibrary and Museum in Juneau, is o entire production of butadiene, | ;.. " 3 a synthetic tubber ingredient, in | ey oo OF @ neW book onihe Bailey, for foundation re- petroleum plants which operate at | g all')zo;;n:i ]f-ul‘("u"ro‘unft.]:flf\‘;ld\"\‘ SR I > Buflding, M. Isaacs, lower cost | The book, entitled “Monuments in contractor 8l Tov dom Cedar”, is the result of 18 years of dation rep outh Frank- ywASHINGTON—Admiral William carch on the totem pole as an lin St., M. Isaacs, contractor; W. D. today opposed the proposal | institution. It contains 160 ‘]mw,\ Gross, for repairing store front at g 5 gingle national defense de- |58 pictures, and a large map of the Grand Building, Ffont at Franklin pariment as “radical” and “revolu- | ‘totem polar” region by Linn A Street, .C. Terry, 'contractor tionary.” The wartime Chief of | Forrest, also of Juneau. Included Ran T Staff to both President Roosevelt|with each book is a lithographed . v k I Army mobile bakeries produced and President Truman, told the Sen- | sockmark with a picture of Mr /Il 1,800,000 pounds of white bread a ate Military Affairs Committee he | <eithahn and ¢ etch of his ~ menth in the Eurcpean campaign was offering “my own personal|areer. He is a graduate of the The Army had more than 900 post views." | University of Washington, and be- cxchange outlets in the Pacific [fore he became curator of the mu- WASHINGTON—Capt. Charles B. | McVay, III, skipper of the ill-fated | cruiser Indianapolis, entered formal | lizence and inefficiency in the I of theg vessel today. The charge: were read to him at his public court | martial and when asked how he: ol “Not Guilty.” | IN A HOLIDAY MOOD s for PORTLAND, Ore. in the wreckage of a B-24 bomber, in the rugged hills of Cowlitz Coun- ty, Washington. party from McChord Field, Tacoma, | fcund the plane, one of two which | disappeared November 1. | HAMIKI IS SORE ON JOB; TO QUIT | AS IRAN OFFICIAL Exciting news dres | all your holidating Striking blacks, jeweled trimmed, sleek young sil- PR houettes, wonderfifl drapes, Dr broad shoulders . . . es you'll love and cherish. 1 TEHRAN, Dec. 4—Iranian Prime| Minister Hakimi announced lcday’ he would resign if he was unsuc-| cessful in reaching by direct nego- tiation an agreement with the So- viet Union on settlement of the| Azer-Baijan Province dispute. | In the midst of a tense political situation Hakima declined to at- tend a session of the Iranian Par- hament to report on conditions in the northwestern province, where insurgent forces are demanding local autonomy within the Iranian state and where Russian garrison| commanders have persisted in re- fusal to permit entrance of Iranian | Government reinforcements. | Parliament members said anl-\‘ mi’s resignation undoubtedly would ]be followed swiftly by the forma-| tion of a Government of Appease-| | ment under Quavamus Sultanen. Hakimi himself said he would | continue his direct negotiation with| | Moscow. The government has told | Moscow it is ready to discuss the ! local autonomy demand as soon as| | order is restored { ! - —— Seflemen of GM Strike _lqoked For WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 HW, | Anderson, personnel vice president | of General Motors Corporation, said | today he was hopeful the GM | strike could be settled before Presi- {dent Truman's fact-finding board | begins operation | Anderson, commenting after a conference with Edgar L. Warren.| Chief of the Federal Conciliation Service, sald company representa- tives and leaders of the CIO United Auto Workers would confer to- morrow. The company, he said, was prepared to continue general col- lective bargaining, provided the question of illegal picketing was settled first By LEOPOLD HERMAN ... From the collections of America’s Outstanding Designers. .. JOSEPH HALPERT FOX BROWNIE FROY STIX ANTHONY BLOTTA CAPRI WILLIAM BASS B M. Rehrends QAALITY SINCE 1887 | pleaded he replied in a firm voice | pole. seum here in 1941 he taught among ndians and Eskimos of Alaska at Xake, Hydabu Shismaref and pleas of innocent to charges of neg- \ Wrangell. The book regarded by many authorities who have seen it as the most complete, authentic and horitative on the Ala n tc It has been writte ver, to appeal to the tourist he Alaskan anxious to understand is au- The bodies of | more about the totem pole and In- four Aimy fliers were found today dian art generally, Legends In Cedar” contains chapters on It north- An Army search | west coast decorative art, on Low to ead a totem pole, on the Indian ‘eligion, on the colorful potlatch, ind also tells many of the cin- ating Indian “legends in cedar.” In cné place, Mr. Keithahn re- inds readers that “the time is not * distant wken these monuments will be considered a resource as im- 2ortant to Southeast Alaska and Ceastal British Columbia as the pyramids are to Egypt or the ruins of ancient Rome to modern Italy. a; | The significant fact is simply that 10 other place in the whole world s totem pol people will come ‘rom far and wide to see them . . . as long as they remain.” Urges Restoration For that reason, he urges that the werk of restoration or duplication begun in the past decade should be zentinued Among the many interesting dis- sures in “Mcenuments in Cedar” «#his on the mistaken meaning the white man has given by his term ‘Indian-giver.” = The “potlach” is a sort of banking or insurance sys- tem. For example, if an Indian has two canoes and his friend has none, the friend might remark that nobody nceds two cances, or give any other of a number of subtle hints. “When he believes the cance owner to be sufficiently impressed of his de- sire he ‘potlatches’ his friend some- thing he believes to be equal in value to the desired cance. Then, if within a reasonable time the cance is not forthcoming, he takes back his gift, and the deal is off White men, not understanding this procedure, have coined the term ‘Indian-giver' for anyone who takes back a gift - Wayto bjgp’s Heart EMPCRIA, Kaj Thirty cattle- men staged a self-imposed “starva- tion campaign” here and raised $305,000 to oversubscribe the Lyon | County Vietory Loan quota The cattlemen provided a sump- tuous dinner at a hotel and instruc- |ted waiters to withhold the fcod luntil the quota was filled. The soup wan't cool before hungry diners raised the ante. D the Brazil, with an area of 3,286,170 square miles is larger than contin- | ental United States. Until the latter part of the 19th c¢entury, Brazil was the world’s f greatest producer of tobacco. e Russell —and Movie Public—Soon To Find Out if She Really Is a Film Star By VICTOR GUNSON Central Press Correspondent HOLLYWOOD — After four Jane Russell is about to whether she is a real vears, find out movie bust Jobody knows for sure, least all Jane, who's bus up her film chores so & to Cleveland to join her hushand, Bob Waterfield. Bob, former C. L. A. ace quarterback, is star- ring this season for the Cleveland Rams. Jane is in a hurry to get going east because she is first of all a wife, and only after that an ac- tr She completing final scenes on Hunt Stromberg's “Young Widow,” which is to be released this winter. . However, that is only the reasons wh of is find out whether she is a real movie star. Howard Hughes, who loaned her to Stromberg for a reporte 0,000 consideration, i 1a. at planning to release Out- law,” whose only public since it as made in 1941 w to a few thousand people in San Francisco. So the public is at last going to get a look at Jane an actress instead of wood's champion pin-up girl as However, not all the publicity —and she has had more than most stars—has changed her. May be that was because Jane grew roys can do to one girl. Maybe it is because Jane's busi- ness executive father died some one of | Jane is gomng to| mayioe 1t is pecause Jane's adored | college football hero of a husband wouldn’t hesitate to say, in . ef-| | fect, “no temperament, chum.” | Jane's mother was an actre: | months just before Jane was| | born. She named her daughter for | seemed to take. Jane did have| | cal, high school, but she cannot| ‘l‘\'cr\ remember the names of| either. | After high school Jane went to | | work as receptionist in a dentist’s |ofice at Van Nuys. She al | posed for some commercial ph | tography. An agent sent one of| | her pictures to Hughes, who im-| | mediately cast her as the torrid| alf-breed in “The Outlaw.” Censors Gasp The censors took one look at the | \ed product and gasped. They Imitted Jane had plenty to show agreed that too much had been shown. After a while Hughes showed the picture for a couple of weeks in a little San Francisco theater and then it went on the shelf. So| | did Jane, except for her beautiful photographs, until Stromberg| came along with plenty of cas and a readiness to spend it. However, in between time, Jane | had made up her mind to marry | her st boy friend, and she | took a suspension from the studio | |to become Mrs. Bob Waterfield. icld is now the star quarter- | k of the Cleveland Rams pro- >ssional football team. | The two of them lived | lumbus, Ga., when Bob w but sta- | ars ago and Jane learned the|tioned at a nearby Army camp |band perform with ; Waterfield. by working in a Columbus beauty shop as just plain Jane Water- field. Waterfield charged finally was dis- from the Army on a star or just another big|and played on the stage in the | medical count and hack they came to Hollywood. Waterfield went on with his course at U, C. L. A. and finishing | Jane Cowl, too, but neither the|Jane took dramatic lessons from e can get|name nor the parental influencecelebrated Florence Enright. And she studied —ard kept U.|roles in two plays at Van Nuys, | house—until the Stromberg role, her second picture, came along. Stromberg and his aides say che has done a terrific acting job and that even bigger things are ahead of her, Meantime, as far as the vies concerned, the future will < time until Hughes gets the reaction to her per- m public formances. No third picture has yet been scheduled for - her and probably won't be until early next year. But, even if the worst should come to the worst, Janc Russell is not doing the slightest bit of wor- rying. She already is what she wants to be most—Mrs. Robert Any plans she makes for the future will be dependeht on that status. Waterfield, who took a physical education course at U. C. L. A., ultimately plans to become a football co: 3 Her Hollywood boosters are hoping he takes a post close tc the Hollywood area. None of Jane's friends can ev imagine her staying in the film capital if hubby Bob were called off to a job in some other part She has spent in Cleveland watch her hus- the iootball this autu! to economic facts of life early. Or|Jane augmented the Army income | Rams. New Commerdial ' DCBUGLAS Chairman of Brmsh AirRoufe Planned From U. S.-Europe PARIS, Dec. 4—The Paris Sky Chief, instituting a new commer- cial route for Transcontinental and Western Airlines, landed at Orly Field at 10:35 a. m. today after a 24-hour flight from Washington, which included a stop at London. Passengers of the big Constella- tion-type plane included Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, Senator Edward Robertson (R-Wyo), Rep. Clarence Lee (D-Calif), Rep. Cl ence Cannen (D-Mo), and Francis La Coste, French Minister Pleni- potentiary. The flight was the forerunner of regular TWA service to Europe and the Middle East .- TWO FOR ONE ROSWELL, N. W, Nov. 17—Ed Huston fired one shot, he says, and two ducks fell. Not to be outdone, his Chesapeake retriever, “Mazie” brcugh them both in on one trip. NEWS BUY VICTORY BONDS! Mayor Marcus Jensen today is- sued an appeal to Douglas - dents to “Buy Vietory Bonds” so the quota of the Channel may be attained®by next Saturday, the last day of the campaign. He admitted this is a poor time of the year for the drive, but made a.plea for all to buy. Many residents, it is ad- mitted, have purchased their bonds through Juneau agencies. Local agencies are Feusi, Douglas Service and Post Office. MEETINGS SCHEDULED Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 meets in Eagles Hall tonight. Tomorrow night the Douglas WSCS will meet with the Juneau WSCS at a Christmas party affair. D OFFICER TO KETCHIKAN Lt. to District Coast Guard headquar- ters at Ketchikan to receive orders which are expected to bring him back to Juneau later this week. Robert E. Hull, who arrived here. from Sitka last week end, flew Labor Parfy Makes Talk When Pickefed NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British | Labor Party, says no nation “is fit to be trusted with the development of atomic ener “Every implication of this' dis- means planned interna- ism—economic, social, politi- cal,” Laski told a dinner gathering last night closing a three-day atom bomb forum held by the National Associates. As he spoke Catholic pickets pa= raded outside the building carrying signs which read: “Franco saved | Spain from the Reds, Mr. Laski” and “Oust Laski, the anti-Catholic hate monger.” AIR CONDITIONNG WESTERN, Minn — A sign post- ed on a store in this village reads: “Skunk hunters please keep out Knock on the door and you will | be served outside.” Turkey Shoo Gala Turkey Shoot and Parish Party, under the sponsorship of The Serra Club . . . Open to the public. You are cordially in- vited toattend . . . ENTERTAINMENT 8:00 P. M. Saturday, December 8 PARISH HALL Church of Nativity Cloirmelirmealmmsenfipsenfipmmsonflnsen REFRESHMENTS