The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,171 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID: AY, JANUARY 18, 1946 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRUMANS WAGE PROPOSAL REJECTED 16 DIEIN (RASH OF AIRLINER Big Transb(;rf Spouts| Flames, Smoke-Breaks in Two Near New Haven CHESHIRE, Conn, Jan. 18—A| big transport plane reported to be| carrying 13 passengers and a three- | man crew crashed in flames here | today, carrying all aboard to their | deaths. { The Army Flight Service at Bos- | ton identified the plane as flight 16-B of the Eastern Airlines, en-| route from LaGuardia Field, N. Y.| to Boston. i Representatives of Eastern Air- lines at New York told the New | Haven register that radio contact had been lost with one of its New | York to Boston transports at about the time the accident was reported | here. This plane, the officials said, | carried 13 passengers and threo‘ crewman. ! The big ship, first seen withl! flames and smoke spouting from its' engines, broke in two as it came n; earth not far from the Chesshire, State Reformatory and about lfi‘ miles from New Haven. Eastern Airlines said in New| York, members of the crew ofl flight 16-B included Capt. R. E.| Kuser, pilot; R. S. Knight, and | Flight Attendant Willard Bassett. | The passenger list was not im-: mediately available, the airline said e ) ARMY T0 SEEK I JANE CORPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—The| Army wants to keep GI Jane. | Present plans call for a permanent | force of women as part of the post-{ war regular army. It would be known as the “Women’s Corps” and include army nurses as well as WACS. | * Maj. Gen. Willard Paul, chief of| 'Delegate Will Seek Aid For Alaska Servicemen On Traveling Expense | KEHOETOHEAR 'WRITPETITION District Cou;tflay Take Ac- tion Here Tomorrow in Meeks Mess Eecond Division District Judge J. W. Kehoe arrived in Juneau today from Fairbanks, ready to preside over the Court term scheduled to cpen here Monday. Immediately following his arrival he was called into the controversy concerning re- fusal ' of preliminary hearing to George Harrison Meeks. Meeks, accused of “cutting with intent to kill or wound,” a felony, has repeatedly, through his attor- ney, William L. Paul, Jr., made de- mand for a preliminary hearing be- fore U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray on the evidence against him. Meek’s demands have been sidetracked by the Commission, who has been biding his time till the U. S. Attorney’s of- fice is ready to act. Defense Attorney Paul conferred this afterncon with Judge Kehoe and later reported that the Judge has agreed to receive a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus on behalf of Meeks, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Paul stated that his petition will ask thdt the Commissioner and U. S. Marshal be ordered to present the defendant Meeks in the District Court at 11 o'clock tomorrow fore- noon. - e Proposei Bonus Before All Money Loaned Abroad WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—A bon- us of $1.50 for each day of foreign IRANIAN - RUSSO DISPUTE CAUSES GRAVE SITUATION | [ | | § Soviet Leaders at UNO | General Assembly Say Nothing - Threat (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Service men from Alaska who are discharged 1 the United States find it very expensive to return home. ! Delegate Bartlett, who represents LONDON, Jan. 18. —The Iranian ihe Territory in Congress, said some | delegation to the United Nations harged service men have spent|General Assembly today took the| as much as $300 in addition to the ' first concrete steps to bring the ex-! amount allowed them by the Army plosive Iranian-Russian dispute be-| and Navy to get home. He said sev- |fore the world security council as vice men are allowed five cents a|Soviet “delegatcs maintained com- SPECULATION 10 BE CURBED ON STOCK EXCHANGE One Hundred Percent Mar-! gin Requirements in Ef- | fect Next Monday NEW YORK, ' Jan. 18—Wall Street prepared to go an a cash and carry basis today as the’ Gov-| ernment acted to curb speculation on the current bull market by or-| dering 100 per cent margin require- | ments on security transactions for the first time in history. Special Session Indicafed, FRANCE WIL SPLIT WITH | of Alaska Legislature on March 4 Is Governor's Talk (BY CHARLES D. WATKINS) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18-—Alaska iis girding for a fight against any in- | crease in steamship rates from the United States to the Territory. thing we have,” said Gov. Ernest Gruening, here on his annual visit to help prepare the Alaska budget to be submitted to Congress. “We're going to fight with n>.very-l WAGE PLAN ~ REJECTED, UL, STERL Clo Accépls Proposal But Corporation Refuses- Other Labor Troubles (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The CIO accepted today President Truman's proposal for settling the | | mile to pay transportation costs to| plete silence on the issue. A Federal Reserve Board ruling FRANCO GOVT. Gruening sald the Maritime Com- |, te v mission had held a hearlng in i ";&x:';u;‘gfimg‘xon i their homes but after entering Alas-| Andrei Gromyko, acting chief of ka the men found it was not nearly | the Soviet delegation, making the enough. {ursl major Russian speech before| The delegate said a man could the embly, ignored the Iranian reach one of the southern ports of | question, which was causing serious | the Territory or Anchorage on his|concern among United Nations lead- | five cents allowance, but after get- ers. ting there would have to pay six, Shortly before Gromyko took the’ cents a mile on the Alaskan rail- | floor Seyed Hassan Taquizadeh, the| road and as much as 20 cents a chief of the Iranian delegation,; mile by airplane. He said men ccnferred with the executive sec- from interior points have no way retary of the assembly on what Ta- of getting home except by air. | quizadeh called “technical arrange-| Bartlett said he intends to offer ments” for placing Iran’s complaints’ legislation which would authorize the before the’ security council. Services to allow Alaskans discharg-| Some of the Iranian leader's as- ed in the United States the actual sociates had indicated earlier that cost of their trip home and to re-|the case might be filed today or, imburse men who already have had tomorrow, but they said they were to spend more than their allowance uncertain over where and how to' to get back to Alaska. |file it. Presumably this was the! i i late yesterday raised margin re- quirements from 75 to 100 per cent,| PARIS, Jan. 18—~By unanimous effective next Monday. vote, the French Assembly recom- Some brokers who preferred to|mended to the government today iémain anonymous frankly express-|that France sever relations witi ed doubt the action would put a | the Franco government of Spain brake on speculation. | and enter into contact with the ex- In financial circles the move had ' jled Spanish Republican Regime. been expected for several weeks.| Despite an earlier declaration by Stock prices have advanced almost| Foreign Minister Georges Bidault daily to within approach of the|that France would not act alone 1929 level. The inflationary flflpeflt‘ngalmt Spain, the Assembly de- of the rise has become of increas- | clared that France should “prepare ing concern to authorities. i her own rupture” with the Franco In making the announcement,|egime. France recently asked the Marriner S. Eckles, chairman of United States, Britain and Russia the Federal Reserve Board, declar-|for a re-statement of their views ed: with respect to Spain. “There is no further recourse left The action came a few hours af- to the Board so far as restraining ! ter the French Government had speculative activities in listed stocks:agreed to proposals of the United is concerned except possibly to or-| States, Russia and Britain for a der all existing margin accounts European peace conference in Par- be put on a cash basis and to make | js in May. igid.” Emil Schram, President of the Wi curtail unwise speculation in the xorket.” some of the administrative prnvb’ - ———— slons applying to banks moret New York Stock Exchange, smd:‘DRl BA MAw e are for anything that will! | > Cubs Born fo Hibernating Bear | {Puppet Premier of Burma Eeattle on rates but that he and Delegate Bartlett had succeeded in for Juneau this month postponed. Gruening said the people of the Territory opposed any increase in rates because rates now are burden- some and a heavy drain. “We have succeeded in getting time to prepare our opposition to any rate increase,” the Governor said, “and we are going to fight those proposals with everything we have.” Gruening said he hoped the Pres- ident’s budget would recommend ad- ditional appropriations for agricul- ture in the Territory. He and Bart- lett urged the President a month ago to have agriculture expanded there and to give Alaska more money for roads and housing. The Governor said he would re- main in Washington to testify before ithe appropriations committee, but rlanned to depart about Feb. 1 to be back in Juneau for the special ses- |sion of the legislature March 4. | | pOSMIRT A AL " WasTon R * AVIATION PROBLE (By James J. Strebig) having a second hearing scheduled ' Jected it. A nationwide steel strike of 800, (000 workers is scheduled for 12:01 'a. m. Monday. | Me=anwhile, the government’s ef- forts to settle the nationwide meat lpacking strike brcke down during | Washington conferences and ' the meat fact-finding panel announced public hearings would be opened in | Chicago Tuesday. { Appeals Publicly | After the U. 8, Steel Corporation lannounced its rejection, President Truman appeared publicly that it reconsider its answer. | While House Press Secretary Char- les G. Ross sald the President’s pro- rosal called for a wage increase of 8% cents hourly—within one cent of |the Union's revised offer but three ‘and one-half cents above the indus- try’s offer, The President, Ross said, had no plans for seizing the industry and no further steps were under consid- ,eration for averting the walkout. | The President's proposal would (have made the suggested wage boost retroactive to January 1. | Steel States Side - i In a.letter to. the {jamin F. Fairices, | Bteel, said the “proposal |equivalent to granting the full un- (fon’s revised demand of a wage in- crease of 19 1-2 cents an hour.” | “In our opinion,” he added, “there t, Ben- nt of U..8. . . mu " Gromyko, meanwhile, told the as-| isembly that the future peace of the: | world depends upon the unity of the ouI oF (ONIRoll | big powers and warned against any | 7 FLYING OVER NYC| ! He strongly supported big power ;p}ans to give the security council HH E . Tcontrel of atomic enérgy problems. | (G Officials Warn Remote-! s Y ; Controlled Plane May | alerted by the Coast Guard this af- terncon to be on the lookout for a; roaming radio-controlled plane—a plane without a human pilot. The {efforts to cut down their authority | Crash in New York 400,00 MEN aircraft was seen at 12:25 p. m. East- | - ‘q\x.’stmn taken up with Secretary: :by revising the charter of the un-! NEW YORK, Jan. 18—Police in: ern Standard Time, off Cape May,! | Gladwyn Jebb by Taquizadeh. ion and around New York City were! New Jersey. It was out of con- NECESSARYIN PACIFICARMY i . As (ameras Grind | | The arrival of cub bears to a hi- | bernating mother has been record- {ed on motion picture film and in still pictures, Forest Ranger Lloyd | Bansford says. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 18— | is no just basis from any point of HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. xs.—luew for a wage increase to our | Britain's great concern in rewriting workers of the large size you have © commercial agreement with the proposed. 4 United States still appeared today' He said the company's increased to be over control of fares, either offer of 15 cents, boosted from 12 1-2 directly by the governments or!cents, represented “the limit” in through an operators’ cohference the extent to which union with the governments' overseeiny could be met by his corporation. ; Arrested with 110 Other | Japanese Suspecis TOKYO, Jan. 18—Ceneral Mac- Arthur today ordered the arrest of |110 more Japanese war criminal suspects, including seven generals, Army Personnel, told a Senate mili- tary sub-committee that the pro- jected Women's Corps would be a small group, numbering between ;rg;o aid ;7000, # | Landis, in a statement explaining " Authorization for WACS, WAVES ! his legislation, said “it is high time and other women’s auxiliaries will | that we pass a bonus bill for our military service and $1 for each day of domestic service is propos- ed by Rep. Landis (R-Ind.) expire with the official ending of the | Yeterans before the New Deal Ad- ministration gives all of our money to foreign countries.” - — DISCHARGED FROM ARMY Juneau young man Clarence V. Foster, Aviation Mach. Mate, First Class, has received his discharge at the personmel Separation Center at| Bremerton, Oscar T. Dick, Aero- grapher Mate, Third Class, of Mc- Kinley Park, has also received his discharge at the same center. | The W'ashington; Merry - Go-Round| { By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Some people trol and running wild, and Coast| WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — Con- | Guard officials warned that it might ' gress has received from Gen. Doug- cresh in the New York area. When las MacArthur a warning that any last seen, the plane was headed ! attempt to cut Pacific forces be- north toward Long Island. It is & low the 400,000 strength contem-! so-called “Red Dog” radio-controlled ' plated by July 1 would “weaken | plane, with secret equipment. Ito a dangercrs degree” military A police teletype alarm warned controls over capan and Korea. that the plane may crash on Long| A cable from the supreme Allied Island. Commander in the Pacific, con- Ilaining this warning, was laid be- i fore a Senate Committee by Gen. | Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief {of Staff. Eisenhower appeared before the I Special Senate Military Subcom- ! | mittee to explain further the| | Army’s demobilization policie which he had outlined to an in- 1 - Housing Shorfage Acufe at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 18— The Ranger said he heard a ba-'and counter-intelligence officers ar- byish squall while cruising timber rested the long-missing Dr. B Maw, at Thorne Arm, looked under a puppet Premier of Burma. tree and saw a mother black bear! In Peiping, Chinese arrested Maj. with a tiny, hairless cub. A second Gen. Eugene Ott, Nazi ambassador cub arrived a moment later. |to Tokyo at the time Pearl Harbor A party of 14 soon arrived to was attacked, and announced he record the event in pictures. The would be brought to Japan for ques- 'sleepy black ' bear mother ignored ticning by MacArthur's war crln'\es the intrusion but did attempt to staff. cuddle the cubs from sight. | The 110 additional war crimes sus- —————— | pects listed for arrest included Gen. Takeji Wachi, former chief of staff je'-D’iven piane of Japanese general headquarters, Travels 504 MPH and a half-dozen other generals, as well as prison camp officers and LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18—A jet guards from the Solomons to Hon- driven Lockheed P-80 traveled from compliance. J '\ Ol Strike The British lack of modern| In Chicagb, the Standard Oil transport alrcraft figures strongly Company of Indiana announced it in their thinking on the agreement, had accepted a U. 8. conciliation although Sir William Hildren, who service recommendation for an 18 is scheduled to resign March 31 as|per cent wage increase and would Director General of British Civil!make it the basis for wage adjust- ... MICHAEL GUZY HERE Michael Guzy has arrived may have been surprised at the flare-up of G.I. mass-meetings following announcement that de- in mobilization would be delayed. Cer- | tainly, however, the General Sta.f in Washington should not have been surprised. g Anyone reading the servicemen’s nrewspapers, anyone sampling the thousands of letters which pour in on Congressman and commentators, knew that for weeks G.I. resent- ment was near boiling point. No- body stirred it up. It had been brewing for months. Most surprising fact, however,+is bat, despite this long-brewing con- | dition, the General Staff in Wash-1 ington has done nothing to correct a basic situation inside the Army which ~goes ' much deeper than merely delayed demobilization. For much of the GI. resentment springs from a sense 'of injustice! and frustration. And if we are to have a big peacetime Army, the bigger it is, the more necessary it is to mend morale permanently. Some Congressmen are convinced —as a' result of hints dropped‘ around the Pentagon Building— that the War Department deliber- | ately slowed up demobilization in | order to put the heat on for con- | scripticn. Pressure from the buysi overseas would then be such that| Congress would pass conscription | immediately, thus supplying re-' placement troops. | i 3 CENSORSHIP COVERED UP | However, whether conscripted or | rot, no Army is efficient unless| i e (Continued on Page Four) jfrom Vancouver January 22. town from Seattle and is registered at Hotel Juneau. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | i Freighter Margaret Shafer due 4 o'clock this afternoon. | Taku scheduled to arrive from Seattle Sunday afternoon. i North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Alaska southbound from Sitka, scheduled to arrive at 8 tonight. Princess Norah scheduled to safl( Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle January 25. i Baranof from the west, south- The housing shortage has reached Ithe peak in this city. This is re-! vealed by the Alaska Housing Au- thority which said at least 227 Gov- | ernment families are virtually home- less and requests for homes on file total 1134. The situation is growing increas- ingly desperate as families of -the military come in by the dozens. Civilian employees at the post! have been ordered to move to make way and they have no place to go. B B Al NOMINATIONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Presi-! dent Truman has nominated Edwin | Wendell Pauley as Unfler-secretaryl of State. Pauley has been named | | formal sesion of Representatives and Senators on Tuesday. At that meeting, Eisenhower had said the Army strength in the Pa- cific theater would be pared to 375,000 by July 1. The 400,000 fi- gure used today apparently includ- €d an additional 32,000 who wouid be stationed in Alaska and the China area on that date. Eisenhower told the committee he had: Directed all theater. commanders to “get down to ro¢k bottom” by releasing every possible surplus man and officer. Ordered a halt to all mass de- monstrations by soldiers against| oemobilization delays. STOCK QUOTATIONS since the end of the war have bcen a mystery, was confirmed by Brig. Gen. E. R. Thorpe, head of Allied shu to Truk. The surprise arrest of Dr. Maw, | San Prancisco to Los Angeles in {42 seconds yesterday, setting aa, urmese puppet whose whereabouts officially-timed speed mark approx-' Aviation, said the United Kingdom welcomed American air services despite its own lack of planes for comparable operations. “We do not stand for restric- tions or hampering,” said Sir Wil- | liam, who soon will become Direc~ tor General of the International Air Transport Association. “We do want low cost mass trav- el,” he told a press conference. “Whatever we have done or -any restrictions we have suggested have | been based on the principle that some regulation is necessary in the best interests of all concerned— ments at it§ huge Whiting, Ind, 1efinery and to other employees, Similar settlements had been made Iby other companies previously. | Meat Strike In the three day nationwide meat |strike, which has cut reserves to |very low levels in nearly every part lof the country, Government repre- |sentatives renewed conferences with th CIO and AFL strikers and repre- !sentatives of the packers. Meanwhile, York who operate all of {imating 504 miles per hour. The pilet was Army Lieutenant Claude | L. Wolford, 39, who learned to fly tin 1923 in a 90-mile-per-hour | enny. | Cashes $1,000 Check; Received Over $7,000 From Bank Teller ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 18— { Don Dorothy, formerly of Sacramen- to, Calif., pilot, found that the cost Jof remaining honest was, high. Dorothy cashed a $1,000 check at !a local bank and received more than counter-intelligence, Hz2 declined to say where Maw was being held. municioally S ST street cars and elevated Michael 1, CI10 ‘l‘nnlpofiom such a shutdown might in two weeks in protest against proposal by the Board of Transpor- tation to sell city-owned power Iplants to the Consolidated Edison _Another No Settlement “The strike of 200,000 CIO Electr} cal workers, the second largest walk out, showed no indications of im- mediate settlement. Albert J. Pitz- passenger, operator and taxpayer.” | An agreement governing com- mercial use of airfields bullt on | bases leased to the United States iln 1940 was being drafted today for possible submission tomorrow to the Anglo-American Civil Aviation con- | ference, [, AL AR S M DEMOBILIZATION RAISES HAVOC IN NAVY SAYS TOWERS ABOARD USS NEW JERSEY, Look Out; B Mille Seen TOFINC, B, C|, Jan, 18-—The | Seattle fishboat Ideal has reported the sighting of what appeared to be \a floating mine 28 miles southwest of |Ccape Beal Monday. Crew members 'sald they saw a floating spherical ington, offered to submit dispute to a limited arbi bound, due January 23. |to take the place of Artemus Gates,! NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Closing | black object about 3 1-2 feet in eescecsercse sukaralostd e ——————— { ® ® 00 0 0 v o 00 0o . .l o b | . .\ . . . . . . L] 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, 38; minimum, 32. At Airport—Maximum, 35; minimum, 26. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) e o o Fair tonight and Saturday. e continued cold with lowest e temperature near 27 degrees o tonight. . . . who has resigned. Pauley has been | President Truman’s representative on war reparations and previously was treasurer of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. The Chief Executive also sent to; the Senate the nomination of J. Stu- art Symington to be Assistant Sec-| retary of War. Symington at present s surplus property administrator. S VB Lol SYDNEY, Jan. 18—Dispatches| from Lae, New Guinea, today re- ported a violent earthquake had shaken that area last night, causing. a stampede at a movie being shown! to American negro troops. The camp of 300 “emptied in a flash,” the report said. Bottles and crockery tumbled- from kitchen shelves, bats and birds were shaken from the swaying breadfruit trees,! and buildings shuddered, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 102 , Anaconda 48%, Common- wealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss- Wright 3%, International Harvest- er 96%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 48, Kennecott 53%, New York Central 44%, Northern Pacific 34%, United Corporation 5%, U. S. Steel 90%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 3,230,000 shares Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 202.18, rails 66.65, utilities 40.35. B MRS. HODGES LEAVES Mrs. Mildred Hodges, who has been enjoying a visit for the past month with her sister, Mrs. T. J Jacobsen, and ‘friends here left to- day by plane for her home in Whitehorse, American Power and Light| Tokyo Bay, Jan. 18.—Demobiliza- tion “very seriously has reduced ef- | fielency of the U. 8. Navy,” Adm. | John B. Towers declared today, but | powerful fleet units still stand “in {complew readiness for any emer- i gency in the Pacific.” The Navy's® ranking airmen stressed the rapid stripping of U. 8. sea power at a press conference diameter with several horns pro- truding. MRS. WHITE RETURNS - e e ' TryNew Stunt Now Mrs. E. J. White, Assistant Cur- o Prof. Piccard | ator at the Alaska Museum, return~j SIERRE, Switzerland, Jan. 18— following a brief deck ceremony in |ed to Juneau on the Alaska. She|Prof. Auguste Piccard, known for his which he turned over command of | has been on a visit with her son | stratosphere balloon flights, now the Pifth Fleet to Vice Adm. Fred- and family in Fullerton, and|plans to plumb the ocean depts five erick Sherman, beribbored veteran | daughter in Los Angeles, Calif. times deeper than any human be- of carrier warfare. | ————————— ing has gone. | Towers left immediately by plane | SOUTH ON BUSINESS #| The war and quirks of fate have for conferences in Washington. H» | Elroy Ninnis, of the Juneau Mo-|brought the 61-year-old Swiss scien- will succeed Adm. Raymond A. iwrs Tompany has left for Seattle |tist to Sierre,, the dryest spot in Spruance as Commander in Chief | by plane on a brief business trip. |land-locked Switzerland, to work at of the Pacific Fleet Feb. 1. e e sy 2o comeoumeed a routine job while he spends his [ PO S AL RICHTER HERE spare time on plans for penetrat-| India is composed of 1,576,000 Al Richter of Sitka is a guest|ing the ocean depths to about 13,000 square miles - and contains more "at the Gastineau. feet in a spherical submarine, / than, 400,000,000 people. $7,000. He returried the “over” to the tell- 1er, who refused to count the money, | | saying that anybody who would| }hring it back wouldn't hold any-| thing out.. S G { | specified that the range bitration award must be 25 cents an hour wage hike demand: ed by the Union and 19 1-2 cents. Westinghouse Electric of the three struck firms, not been notified by the a desire to arbitrate the wage The walkout, which started Tuesday, also involves General Electric and General Motors, Electrical Division. toot volcano Island of threat to the elty of Hilo.