The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——— ] VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,181 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1946 MEMBER AS ) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MEEKS INDICTED AS CAMPBELL KILLER - L3 President Congratulates War Heroes President Truman, (center) ecngratulates in a five-w in Washington with the Congressional Medal of Hon R. McKinney of Weodcliff, Ga.; First Lieut. Daniel W. Lee of Aim Arthur Gary of Oakland, Calif., and Cemdr. Joseph Timothy O'Ca v hands! G ak the White House. n cf Cambridge, Mass, e, four war hcioes whem he decorated In group (L-R) are Sgt. John ; President Truman, Licut. Donald The latter two were aboard the carrier Franklin when it was hit by Japanese Kamikaze planes. Commander O'Calla- Drilling for Ardic Oil o Be Continued; Program Is Outlined af P1. Barrow BARROW, Alaska, Jan. 30.—A long range program for the continu- ation of the Navy's exploratory oil drilling project in Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 near here was out- lined today with the arrival of Rear Admiral C. A. Trexal, Director, Alaska Division of - the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and other high ranking officers. large accumulations can be found in the Navy's 35,000 square mile reserve. He said the oil is necessary to sup- plement the Californi: pply in the event of another Pacific emergency. It is planned to continue the work through 1949, he said Capt. P. H. Fitzgerald, Chief of Staff to the Commandant of the 17th Naval District, another mem- ‘The project is being turned over ber of the visiting party, announced to civilian contractors, who were re- cently awarded a $1,000,000 contract to continue the exploration started by the Navy's Seabees during the that Comd. P. D. Koon, USNR, has 1 Hoover, Curtice & Ruly, Inc, Ncw; lOOk OUI iflr Ia., general contractors, lieves that sufficient evidence has peen noted in the Stephens Passage | The WBShlngion mine was sighted at the entrance been designated as officer in charge war. York, mining and petroleum engin-, . Bergs, Mines Commodore W. G. Greenman,! __’_ been established to indicate fhal area between Point Hugh and Mid- jto Prince William Sound and sunk Merry - Go-Round ialong the coast of Alaska and con- of the project The civilian contractors, to be eers, and C. F. Lytle Co., and the| chief of Naval Petroleum Res:‘r\rm,} SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—The Coast way Islands on the Alaska route. gunfire. Mariners were warned By DREW PEARSON necting waters. - oo known as Arctic Contractors, are Green Construction Co., Des Moines, | said that the Navy Department be- Guard says “large icebergs” have g The report said also a drifting ::Lr) watch carefully for drifting mines WASHINGTON—One' point most people don't realize about Presi- dent Truman’s steel strike negotia- S e | Chief Executive tions is that he has the definite and prices. He could have rammed | R " S' an 18': cent wage increase down ooseve amps WASHINGTON, Jan 30.—-Post- wished. The Economic Stabilization Act first sheet of the new §-cent Roose- {velt memorial postage stamp today The President of the United States 4 it says, “may provide for making g stamp is the last of a series ! of @ honoring the late Franklin wages and salaries. . . . to correct gross inequities.” |of the four freedoms superimposed on a map of the globe. President gave the steel industry a tentative price increase of $4 to the public that when he asked |} Ben Fairless of U. 8. Steel to in-| he had full authority under the{ Economic Stabilization Act. He CATOOSA, Okla., Jan. 30.—Five instead of merely requesting it. |a two-engined armye airplane four Some of the President’s close ad- ! miles north of here last night, Maj. point and get a lot tougher with|of the Air Transport Command Op- the steel industry. They point out : erations, located in Tulsa, announc- ceiling prices, he is fined or even Identification of the men would goes to jail. OPA ceiling prices not be released until later, Major {as an administrative type craft and | First Sh : e Buys. First Sheef power under the law to fix wages U. S. Steel's throat if he had master General Hannegan sold the is clear and corcise on this point. to President Truman. adjustments with respect to prices, ID. Roosevelt. Tt bears the wording It is under this Act that the - - - 3 a ton. But he never made it clear’FIVE KIllED |N crease wages to 182 cents an houh, could have demanded acceptance |persons were killed in the crash of visers now want bim to clarify uus‘:George L. Hall, commanding officer that if a ‘merchant violates OPA |ed today. are fixed under the same Economic |Hall said. He rescribed the’ plane 'said that it burned in the crash. o S S (Continued on Page Four) Ickes’ Resignation CHILEAN GOVT. TAKING OVER IN SANTIAGO ' Public Servi?eg to Be Con- tinued During 24-Hour Nationwide Strike | { | | | BY VAUGHN M. BYRANT | SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 30.—~The 'Chnoan government took steps to irsqu-o continuance of public services | ‘today during a 24-hour, nationwide | rike threatened by 300,000 mem- Ibers of the Chilean Workers' Fed-| {eration protesting Monday's bloody | jpolm-lubor clash. | i Admiral Vicente Merino Bielich,! | Interior Minister, said communiea-| tions and supply lanes would be (kept open and it was expected the larmy would run the trains, at least| on necessary supply Schedules. n,‘! lalso was believed the army might| take over the street railways, light, | power and water compani ' ‘ But line operators yesterday in-! {formed the Interior Minister they, jwould be willing to remain on lhe; |job to prevent a complete transpor-| | tation breakdown if given necessary | i protection. Police guards stood by Iready to provide such protection. | Federation leaders said 50,000 coall jand copper miners, nitrate workers’ i:\nd railroaders had ceased opera- i tions last night without waiting for| the general work stoppage deadline 6 a. m, E. §. T) as CTCH (Fed-| !eration) members passed by the biers' bf their fallen comrades. Gives Birth lo Fourfia Sef of Twins J. Dabney, in less than four ) Mrs. W. sel of tw fa r (AP Wirephoto) Mother Makes A ars. in bed at Tallahassee, Fla,, surrounded by her children, gave birth to Two clder boys were born in 1937 and 1930, Mariha, Mary, Roland, Jerry, Jimmy, Carroll, Carolya, Billy and the unnamed newly-born girl twins. fermer naval stores worker who is nearly blind and unable to work. The nurses are unidentified. ppeal o Save Life of Son Facing Grand Jurors Find Murder,‘ Firsl_Peqree 'Second Charge in Two Days Brought Against Former Road Worker George Harrison Meeks, former ARC highway worker, already un- der indictment for knife assault upon Kelso B. Hartness here, today was charged by the grand jury with the brutal slgsh murder of Clarence J. Campbell, Seattle carpenter. Today’s indictment of Meeks for “murder in the first degres” cul- minated seven weeks of vigorous in- vestigation in which all law enforce- men agencies joined immediately |upon finding. Campbell's hacked body in an ice-covered roadside diteh in the Seatter Tract residen- tial district here at noon December 10. The activities of the, Federal Bur- eau of Investigation, Marshal's of- fice, City Police and Highway Pa- jtrol corralled nearly a score of wit- nesses who testified before the | grand jurors Monday afternoon and @ll day yesterday. The “true bill" returned in the U. S. District Court | bere this morning accused Meeks of | the premeditated murder of Camp- {Lell, on or about the ninth day of December, 1945, by cutting him with a weapon, “the character and des- cription whereof” is unknown to the grand jurors. her fourth The children are (L-R) The JERUSALEM Would Be Happy Thing for West HINGTON, Jan. 30.—Senator arran (D-Nev) declared today “The happiest thing that rnuld‘ come to the western states” would be : the resignation of Interior Secretary Ickes. Although the government said five ! persons were killed in the shooting I which_followed attempts by . pa- tioned military police to break up a labor meeting, Federation leaders asserted six and perhaps eight, of their members were slain. Just back from the annual meet- D - ing of the American Mining C()n-‘ 1 gress in Denver, McCarran told a re-, porter he found much resentment CONTINUES over statements attributed to Ickes| and his bureau heads “That the; United States have become a ‘have not’ nation” in minerals. | “They want us to keep our own| minerals in the ground and pur-| chase needed stocks from abroad,” Death in Killing 9_!_2 Japs | TOKYO, Jan. 30—~The mother of | ‘umdmmcd Pfe: Joseph 1. Hieswa, | “stunned and broken-hearted”, ap- pealed to General MacArthur to save her son from’ a firing squod, and the General has assured her that final, authorities in Washington would, fiaw Stations Recommended For Alaska way fo End Disorders BEINGMADE Inlensified__l):ive Under;! givi “thoughful consideration” to Jan. Mecks Arraigned Meeks was arraigned in District Court, o) n both ehari |ous weapon and murder. Meeks was jdirected by Presiding Judge J. W. |Kehoe to enter his plea to both !charges on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, along with all other defen- SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—~The Chamber Commerce board of trustees recommended Yyesterday that the government earmark $160,000 for re- construction of Washington and Oregon National ‘Forest recreational 1acilities, y A federal appropriation of $75,000 to establish.a forest and range ex- periment station. in Alaska to sur- of vey rasources of Alaska’s forests and E- Hieswa, was sentenced to death All grasslands also was recommended. JERUSALEM, 30—British gants alveady arraigned. authorities, pressing an intensified pinding of the murder indictment drive to end disorders in Palestine, goqingt Meeks is, apparently, the MI5. today conducted a large scale search ginal action on criminal matters to J, in Tel Aviv and detained an un- be taken by the present grand jury, . ¥ 2 disclosed number of persons. 'as jury foreman Waino Hendrick- “L implore you to act immediately The entire southern section of the ¢, ,‘zm(“ in report to the court to request a review of the U. S. city was cornered off during the this morning that the jurors expect- Army court martial procecdings un- search, which followed similar ac- e to have comp!eted’ their 'dfiel der which my soldier son, Pfc. Joseph tion started in Jerusalem yesterday. py'this afternoon, Public buildings traffic entering the city was were pefn; inspected by ths panel in Japan for the alleged fatal stab- halted and examined. Military during mf, forenoon. : i her defense. Making public today, the exchange of letters, headquarters said Anne Hieswa, Wallington, N. wrote on January 16: B | bing of two,Japanese.” planes circled overhead during the he declared. McCarran said he believed no new | Question of—Representa- | He was “torn away from his home operation. Body Founc Neck laid open almost to the back- legislation was indicated by di»-‘ cussions at the meetings. ¢ WOMAN CONFESSES tion in National As- sembly Big Issue CHUNGKING, Jan. 30.—A sub- committee of China’s political unity HESS IS DENIED PLEA TO BE to serve his country at the age of (Reuters reported that Vaad Leu—? 18" her letter continued; he was mi, the Jewish national council, had bone by one of several vicious knife “taught to kill, had heard of many ordered natjon-wide mass meetings slashes, the body of the man Mceks of his friends being killed, and was tcmorrow in protest against the is accused of murdering, Clarence under the emotional strain of a de-'stoppage of Jewish immigration to Campbell, wis discovered just before layed homecoming — all factors to Palestine. All Jewish shops, offices mid-day In the wintry gloom of a which might be attributed, to some and restaurants will be closed and |December Juneau Monday by Ken- extent, the cause for such abnormal sl Jewish transport will be halted yon (Spike) MacLean, local sheet EMBEZILING; SPENT | MONEY GAMBLING| — { SEATTLE, Jan. 30—Mrs. Annel! Icsman, 21-year-old bookkeeper and | wif2 of a discharged serviceman,{ has been charged with grand lar- ceny after relating, Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett said, that she embezzled $12,000 from her employers here the past ten months and gambled it away at a night spot. conference remained deadlocked to- day on the question of representa- tion in the National Assembly, but most of the other major issues have been resolved. The National Assembly will meet May 5 to adopt a new constitution. Government committeemen thus far have rejected a Communist de- mand that the Kuomintang (Na- tional) party retain only half the Assembly seats and reserve 25 per- cent for the Communists, legving 25 percent for others. While leaders of China’s political conduct 2s is reportedly alleged in for three hours, the dispatch said.) his case. - e “Certainly they should be consid- OWN COUNSEL own defense attorney was denied t0- po 1 gy fully conscious of the dis- counsel for\the former deputy fueii- pepartment for review, the' right of in the race for the Senate in this ,metal contractor, who was leaving :work on a nearby new residence. i Testimony of the medical examin- ier at the Coroner's inquest set the [time of degth between four and jeight hours previous, which would have been during the early morn- jing hours of that Monday. The Vseal of “murder” was set on the case by the verdict of the Coroner's jury {—death at the hands of person or persons unknown. { Identification of Campbell as a shingler who had been working for the Alaska Construction Company Superior Judge William N. Wil-| day by the international military grecs oceasionad Rou by this grent rer and appointed Dr. Otto St kins set bail at $1,500. The young woman, an expectant mother, said her parants lived at Toledo, Ohio. She worked for an insurance brokers firm and appeared at the prosecu- tor’s office with her lawyer volun- tarily yesterday. In a signed statement, she named a south end resort as the spot where she lost the money, the prosecutor said. She said she had never gam- bled before, and added: “I became so intoxicated with the play that I went on plunging more to recoup my losses. I never won once.” Her employers said a preliminary audit showed the amount taken may exceed $25,000, Shorett reported. Her husband, George, 24, a form- er Coast Guardsman, is attending Seattle College. CRASH OF PLANE COASTAL AIRLINES | 'MAKES 2 FLIGHTS On today’s trip to Hoonah and Haines, Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the following pagsengers: To Hoo- nah, John. Champlain, Mr. and Mrs, Harry Douglas, A. O. Peterson, and Vernon Logan; to Haines, Bud Phelps. { factions grappled with government- al issues, Minister of Information | K. C. Wu, said fighting had stopped generally in North China | but hostilities persisted in some | areas. He added that it was not the government’s policy to publicize it 'MORGAN STICKS " WITH UNRRA; IS " BACK, OLD POST ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—UNRRA completely reversed itself today on the once-projected ouster of Lt. Gen. |Sir Frederick Morgan as UNRRA chief in Germany for remarks he made about the movement of Jews from Pcland into the U. 8. occupa- Ilion zone. Instead the British officer was formally reinstated in his post and {given a public vote of confidence by Herbert Lehman, Director General lof the United Nations Relief and | Rehabilitation Administration. Lehman'’s action contrasted sharp- ly with the position taken by UN- |RRA on January 4 when public an- |nouncement was made that it “felt |obliged to call for his resignation” becausge of his assertions that a sec- | ' SURPLUS PROPERTY als ered Lefore an American soldier re- s celves a death sentence.” NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 30. maearthur on January 28 replied —Rudolf Hess’ application to be his that “Yout. letter moved me deeply, (S | e e 3rd Division The court, trying 22 ranking .phere is no manner in which 1 Nazis as war ciiminals, removed can jntercede in this matter, as the R, Gunther von Robrscheidt, who 18'yecord of the trial will go direct from _ ANCHORAGE,: Alaska, Jan. 30— hospitalized with a broken ankle, a8 tho Divisidh Commander to the War S8t. Steve McCutcheon is leading couneil for Hermann Goe 0 to act for Hess. | Rohrscheidt was injured in an ac-! cidental fall last week. | L P e R, i | BE OFFERED PUBLIC CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Government attempts to unload 50 years normal production of snowshoes, a govern- ment official sajd today, is only ohe of the troubles facing the War Assets Corporation in its disposal sale of mgillions of dollars of sur- plus property. It's “the greatest bargain sale in history,” John 8. Cooke, Vice Pres- ident of the Consumers Goods Di- vision of the agency, told the Asso- ciated Equipment Distributors in a prepared speech. | He said “in millinery we have 47,000 new and 20,000 used hats designed for WAC officers which they refused to wear; to black-face stage artists we can offer 41,000 tubes of black camouflage cold cream.” i Other government super-specials - D A single large cod May produce 'ret Jewish organization was pro-|included pigeons, gun mounts, bul-| as many as 10,000,000 eggs in one moting a mass exodus of Polish Jews let-proof glass, yea: from their homeland. searchlights sas masks, Cooke said. AIAL, fina] action on cases involving the death penalty being no longer with- in my prerogatives. “I can @ssure you, however, that you need have no fear but that all of the circumstances which your {mother’s love instinctively raises in Engebreth 557. ‘G‘REAI BARGAI“ l“ |defense of your son will. raceive the thoughtful consideration of those who sit in final judgment upon his case.” * WCTU ACTION EVANSTON, 1ll, Jan. 30.—Pres- ident Truran, as Army Commander- in-Chief, today was urged in a tele- gram by Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, President of the Woman's Christ~ fan Temperance Union, to “order the arrest and trial of those who sold or gave Pfc. Joseph E. Hieswa, 20, the liquor on which he became drunk” Pfc. Hieswa, of Wallington, N. J., is under death sentence by court martial in Japan for killing two Japanese civilians. — o FILES FOR TREASURER Leonard H. Soholt, said to be wellknown in Seward, has filed for Territorial Treasurer on the Repub- lican ticket, Soholt is to be releas- ed from the armed forces on Feb- ruary 1, the filing notice says. >-ee of its kind, Largest the white and heron has a wing spread of nearly “This is a nice birthday present T'm seven feet. Division’s first wildeat election. on the Hoonah housing project and Fourteen out of 57 precinets|who had been flown into Juneau | heard from, Cordova, Kodiak, Bris- |(he Friday previous to werk on the tol Bay unreported, give the fol-|Channel Apartments project here, lowing results: !was established later on December McCutcheon 669, (10 by Harold Stjorm, superintendent ifor the construction ‘company. Back-cheek into the activities of {the victim disclosed a week end of revelry here during which he had from Seattle, 423, several times ‘“flashed” a large For the House, R. R. “Bud” War-{amount of money—estimated at ren' has received 874 votes and | nearly $2,200—pegging robbery as the William J. Wagner 854. motive for the murder. Over 3,000 votes were expected to Meeks Flush With Money be cast in the election yesterday.; Meeks was first considered as a - |likely suspect in the case when he : i ,Wwas found in possession of fifteen Shlfle ‘l'em 'e s 18100 bills. Campbell was known to y p |denomination, as well as some of Hubby ol“ o' Army;sso, Meeks, {hough repeatedly sub- Gunnard M. Harold W. Griffen 134, Dr. A. W. Walkowski, who asked that ‘his name not be considered, in a wire have been carrying 19 bills of that jected to close questioning, by police, | marshals and ¥FBI, remained un- FORT DOUGLAS, Utah, Jan. 30 shaken in his declaration that he ~—Handsome, husky John G. Agar had won the money gambling in a traded his sergeant’s chevrons for a&'roadhouse near Anchorage. How- new certificate of honorable dis- ever, it -was established that Meeks charge yesterday and took “the nad several times appeared in want quickest way I know" back to Los of funds since his arrival in Juneau Angeles to spend his 25th birthday the month before, having sought anniversary tomorrow with his joans and drawn advances on pay- charming actress-wife, the grown- checks. It was also established iup Shirley Temple. {that Meeks had been a companicn of Maj. Earl G. Linhart handed the campbell, despite his first denials |certificate to Agar at the Fort that he knew the murder victim. | Douglas separation center, and the “Death Car” South 'former prep school athlete sald, Pirst efforts to probe the mystery (Continued on Page Eight) getting from the army.”