The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1946, Page 1

13 R . ' 1 CONGRE ST SERIAL RECOS MAR2 7 1940 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,188 — JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1946 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS g_——_:-—————"‘-—_—'—_’ 15 UNACCOUN e FOOD CRISISYamashita Is fo Die on IS APPARENT, Gallows; Death Sentence SAYS TRUMAN Cuts Made in American Rules Are fo Be Drafted |2 camm ciiminet on the saovs By Murlin Spencer TOKYO, Feb. 7T.—Lt. Gen. To- men and photographers will be barred in the western Pacific with head- quarters in Manila, selected witnesses to the execution would not be permitted to talk for publication. Yamashita, charged with condon- ing atrocities by troops under his command in the Philippines, is the ‘fivst top-ranking Japanese officer whose conviction has been review- ad by the Supreme Allied Com- mander. 1 on the gallows |in Manila—the city his trapped sol- WASHINGTON, Feb. T—Ameri- diers raped pillaged and burned. tans — called upon today to'share ~ Gen, MacArthur, as final review- their bread lest millions starve'ing authority, today upheld the overseas—actually may eat better death-sentence imposed on Yama- than ever before, for a time. |shita by a military commission in Their own bread will be dark, Manila, and ordered that his one- and they may find less whiskey and time adversary meet his doom beer, but there should be a tem- “stripped of uniform, decorations porary jump in pork, beef, poultry, and other appurtenances signifying eggs and some dairy products. | membership in the military pro- How long this richer diet may fession.” last hinges on the weather—spring| Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, act- and summer rains and fall frosts. ing on MacArthur's orders, will For a bad crop season could well|carry out the execution secretly whittle down supplies of animalland then announce it. Newspaper- products to a point where ration- il ing might be necessary late in the, year. President Truman, in a statement Hard Decision When MacArthur asserted that he passed judgment upon an adver- sary reluctantly he nalf of what he could say <cldier, no officer, no general ever wanted to pass judgment on a beaten foe. Rank and tradition | must have tugged hard in the in- ner conflict that tore MacArthur apart It would have been 3 commute the enemy’s sentence. It would have been so easy to fall hack on ancient custom and play the magnanimous victor. It took *he unselfishness of soldier to overcome this temptation Yamashita was a bad soldier. He declaring the world faces a food cricis which may be “the worst in modern times,” has ordered govern-, ment agencies to draft emergency rules to cut consumption of wheat at home so that “mass starvation” abroad may be averted. L] The cuts in American consump- tion will take these forms: 1. Millers will be required to s0 e na Is Upheld by MacArthur Styer, commander of Army forces said Army- | . |ing liquor at Excu wasn't saying | No | sides as to events occurring at EX- been violently ill for several hours 'mever even tried to be a good sol-! JURY FINDS GUSBROWN NOT GUILTY %Verdid ls Refurned This Afternoon After Brief Deliberation G. G. Brown, Juneau liquor store operator, today was foud not |guilty by the jury trying the | charge brought against him of sell~ jon Inlet with- |out a Territorial license “Ihh morning, deliberated little (more than an hour before return=- jing the not guilty verdict at re- convening of the District Court this afternoon at 1 o'clock. | With testimony presented by both | cursion TInlet on September 29, 1945, ithe time upon which the charge |was based, outsome of the trial hinged upon the jury's decision as to whether actual sale of 71 bottles lof" whiskey Brown delivered there lon that date had been effected ‘previously at his licensed retail ‘lxqunr store in Juneau. | In his closing argument, defense counsel M. E. Monagle stressed the iusages of trade locally and asked the jurors to look to their common knewledge regarding going prac- | tices of delivery by retail stores. Assistant U. S. Attorney Robert I The jury, retiring at 11:20 n'ch)rk‘ STORY OF NOW TOLD :Graphic De;i—piion Given i by Woman Passenger Aboard Yukon | ey i 1 (Editor's Note—The following graphic description of the { Yukon wreck was obtained from Mrs. Gilliard Sherin of An- chorage, whe with her hus- band and son, was enroute (o | make a new home in Clinton, ! Wash.) { GILLIARD SHERIN SEWARD, Alaska, Feb, 7.—The \sea was very rough and my baby | | (5-year-old Michael Sherin By M had I was talking to him when sudden dy we felt a light rip. A he '1\'11-” Irip followed, then a third, still i heavier. | The ship shuddered I jumped up, dressed Mike and | then helped dress my husband, who | was also ill. I put a heavy parka !on the boy, one on myself and then | ,adjusted our lifebelts. | . I grabbed a camera and an extra | 'coat and we rushed up on deck. | Scores of passengers were Crowdlng‘ lthe deck, among them a soldier | | dressed in an undershirt and a wo- man clad only in her gown. | bringing SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 7—Weary, wind-chapped survivors of the wreck of the liner Yukon reach- ed Seward in large groups through- out y aboard rescue vessels, of heroism and during the negrly spent aboard the narrow three days they doomed ship. Married men among the late ar- rivals searched through for and children the Yukon first by the rescue The Coast Steamship Company, hopes to have escapes taken in Seattle, noon The private cal to. hospitals, or evening today. town’'s hotels ONE MOR BIG ISSUE | heroina the town | off |t craft. |aboard with her stepfather, R ard said the Alaska Brown the families of all her I survivors notified of their rescue by | crewmen, Ken Ransom, who had taxicabs and many |arived on one of the rescue craft, shuttled from the duckjhul Brown had not arrived at al and private |late hour E WIFE OF HOMMA | BEFORE UNO Russians Make.Claims TED FOR IN YUKON WRECK High School Girl Is One of WRECK IS Heroines of Yukon Wred; ~ ATSEWARD - Survivers Landed at Seward SURVIVORS RECHECKED Believed MEng May Be Aboard Other Craft En- gaged in Rescue Work BULLETIN—Secattle, Feb. 7. ~The Alaska Steamship Co, recapitulating crew and pa: senger lists on the wrecked lin- er Yukon, announced this af- ternoon that but 15 were unac- counted for. They listed them as eight military personnel, five civilians and two members of the crew. Those unreported previously totalled 32. Fomes with the artivals. Red Cross and Army doctors and nurses were on the dock to render first aid as the ships arrived Doreen Ryan, 17, was the favorite of many. They said the| Anchorage, Alaska, high school Senior refused to get into a life- boat with her stepbrother, Steph- 4, insisting that ‘her mother the place She remained H Later, they said, she wrapped arms and clothing abound a Doreen | been pulled from the sterday | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. T.— Thirty-two persons were unaccount- led for when rescue vessels brought to Seward the last known load of survivors from the wrecked liner Yukon last night, and today the crew and passenger lists were bes img checked and rechecked to learn the names of the missing. All Seward watched the sea for signs of any straggling small craft which might come in with some or all of the 32. The rescuers had found no bodiés !and had removed the last of the | Yukon's crew and passengers from ‘the grounded, broken vessel and from the ‘When ASSERTS HE IS JUST GENTLE MAN General, Who Accepts Re- sponsibility for Death March, in Tears convert a larger portion of each b bushel of wheat into flour. This neathy. hore. flour will be dark in color, less tasty and less suitable for cakeg,! ) dier. That is even taking into con- | TWO Heets Of 319 fighflng:'irleratinn the different concepts | of east and west. Yamashita was a ! Boochever, opened arguments for | the prosecution this morning, stat-' ing the government's contention the mercy craft unloaded their last group of survivors at Seward and a count was made the Coast Guard Washington, 7. — Lt. Gen. Masaharu Womma, Japanese war leader Wave Washes Deck Seme men unfastened a lifeboat. | Just then a huge i Against British in Indo- BULLETIN eb. y Ships fo Be Fit “for Instant Action” Ihad soldier by Japanese standards of Bushido—that code .which the et Jgpanese hold up s the standard of their term of chivalry pies and other pastries. But it will | take fewer bushels of wheat to. meet American breéad and pastry needs. 2. The use of wheat in making whiskey and beer will be forbid- den. Also the use of other grains Navy for these beverages will be reduced. Pluep There was no immediate indica- ©°f defense—a fleet of 319 fighting tion what effect this will have on ships fit “for instant action” and current supplies. ready to launch a sky armada of 3. Farmers will be asked to feed 3627 planes. less wheat and other grains to live-| The biggest force would be allo- stock. Mr. Truman directed the cated to the Pacific where a com- Agriculture Department to develop bat force of 176 warships is plan- programs to pare down livestock ned. The Atlantic detachment production until grain supplies be- would muster 13 men-of-war. come plentiful. Behind these main operating The Presidential action was made forces would te two formidable re- necessary largely by the fact that serve fleets in stand-by conditions Americans—and American livestock ready to be mobilized swiftly should MacArthur’s Charge Here's what MaecArthur has to say on the subject. “The soldier, be he friend or foe, is charged with the protection of the weak and {unarmed. It is the very essence iand reason for his being. When he | violates this sacred trust, he not anly profanes his entire cult, but | threatens the very fabric of so- riety.” In his chill, scathing denuncia- 'tion, MacArthur charged Yama- shita with failing his duty to his +roops, to his country, to his enemy and to mankind. As MacArthur WASHINGTON, ~ Feb. 7—The revealed today its postwar| rint for the nation’s first line that Brown effected sale of liquor at Excursion Inlet by delivery there {to persons previously unknown to +him. Special Assistant to the At- |torney General R. L. Jernberg, clos- ed for the government by pointing out the fact that Excursion Inlet was then a military reservation, ! where legitimate delivery of spirits Iwould have had to have been au- ')hu-u,cn by the commanding offi- cer. 4 § Instructed Verdict { Clesing . phases of the Brown itrial were delayed until this morn- 'ing when Presiding Judge J. W. |Kehoe elected yesterday afternoon to take under advisement overnight ,a defense motion for an instructed iverdict of acquittal. The Court session opened this morning with wave washed ' over the deck, carrying the boat | withi it, and smashing it against the | ship. One man was cut by the boat | and several narrowly missed being | crushed The wave knocked us down. I! threw myself on top of Mike, and| my husband shielded us both with his ‘body. Crew members launched another | boat. It filled with water and cap-' sized. A third attempt also failed! with the front end of a boat rest- | ing on two rocks. ' Full Speed Ahead i I was told that the captain, af-, ter feeling the first rip, ordered the, ship full speed ahead to wedge it | firmly in the rocks. { nesia-Counter Charge BY JACK "SMITH LONDON, Feb. 7—The United Nations Security Council, its first crisis passed with the solution of the Russian-British dispute over Greece, moved on today to consid- ration of the Soviet Ukraine charge hat British troops in Indonesia were endangering the peace. High officials satd privately that this controvercy might be “an even tougher diplomatic nut to crack” than was Russia’s allegation that the British were jeopardizing world ecurity by maintaining forces in Greece. In the back the donesian controversy, however, In- was, cummed it, Yamashita even failed | . Judge’s announcement over- —have eaten more wheat since the changing world conditions necessi-} last harvest than the government tate reinforcements. ) kind of a soldier, this last ac-| had planned. i (| AN} ¥ e VI “_"]Il‘heb:a::f\:?d?vl:gedAil“atg"mha::em; cusation will rankle to his dymg: N ARRIVES dozen or more units, active, rcady‘bmmh‘ | i reserve, laid-up fleets, each with! Sack of Maniia i Lorraine M. Nelson, a resident of numerical designations. | MacArthur singled put the sack | Gustavus, has arrived in town and The program, including the of Manila as peculiarly callous and is stopping at the Baranof. | selection of specific ships for active Purboseless. But there were other ————— {duty, was outlined in the annual Japanese crimes and other Japan- | |veport of Secretary of the Navy| se generals. Shanghai, Nanking, The washin ton LFO,Te“fll to President Truman. Its Singapore and many, many others,v g effective date was set for com-!Japanese leaders in all the services I pletion of demobilization next fall.|refused to obey the injunctions of Merry - GO -Roun | Here are the Navy plans for the their own military code. { v | postwar fleets: i . PREIST, | ¢ . | Westerners, and Americans par- 'y | Pacific—Nin rriers; ol 4 . 2 By DRFW PEARSON |cort carriers: two 45,000 ton batui. | Louarly, sy as well forger the, |ships, 20 cruisers, s; 16! ’ WASHINGTON—It's being kept\dssmyer esg::r::? 29 sayere: 15| Japanese surround themselves under wraps so far, but Secretary ready reserve—Two carriers; mreei’rhere was a time w_hen we belxevgd! of State Bymes i planning (35000 ton battleships; elght cruis-| DAt these ceremonial géstures ve- upique step in handling American ers; 18 destroyers. . i{lresented a certain depth of feel- | foreign relations. He will soon es-| Atlantic—Four carriers; four es-|1N&: 8 sensitivity which the west | tablish a three-way Cabinet Com-cort carriers; twg 4900 ton vbattle-;“’“m not fathom or emulate. ! mittee, consisting of the, Secretary ships; eight cruisCss; 54 destroyers;' his soldier's faith. If Yamashita is! - LORRAINE M. NFEL We know that all this was part | of War, the Secretary of the Navy 20 destroyer escorts; 51 submarines. of a spurious bill of goods. It was |Carroll Hambrick, Jr., came before a:d l;lmsel!, to guide U. 8. policy{m ready reserve—Three carriers;|n facade behind which the Japan- abroad. three 35000 ton battleships; 10 ese elite worshipped strange new mcl;ferbo. the Secretary of Statecruisers; 22 destroyers; four des-| oods. Py himself, under the direction of the|troyer escorts. i i § R et Ak shwave Eandioa 1o gl N RS Tojo, Yamashits, Horama and the | eien policy Conferences were held;" e ; 'rest of the benighted leadefship "Bush Pilof” Archie with other Cabinet heads when read the wrong chapter and sput- necessary, and, during the year or tered the wrong verse. Outwardly, a0 bcfm;e Pearl Harbor, the Armylr £ l' -d tthey went through the motions of and Navy, almost more than the | elflllSOIl lal | wershipping at the nation’s shrines. ! ‘Tojo, it is recalled, made it part of State Department, dictated U. S. A nolicy toward Japan. 1'0 "avel on walel | his duties to pay regular visits to However, never before has there | 2 kel ¥ the goddess Ise. He told this legen- | been an official Cabinet Commit-| SEATTLE, Feb. 7—Archie Fer- tee to advise on foreign policy guson, the famed, irrepressible ? . ¥ “bush pilot” from Kotzebue, Alaska, Infamous sons. | i | now visiting in Seattle, has-been i JAPANESE VIEWPOINT jdary mother of the Japanese race iall about the infamous deeds of his! sich as that now being werked out by Byrnes. e % 4 One reason behind the move is|f{lying so long he’s afraid to travel| the fact that American policy now [on the water. i TOKYO, Feb. 7—Two top-rank- hinges more and more on the 10_[ In fact he doesn't think he'll even|ing Japanese generals today term- cation of U. S. troops abroad. The [take a ride in his own new boat,l“d the_ sentencing of Lt. Gen. Tl_;- State and War Departments, for|NoW under construction at Bel- moyuki Yhmzshlga to be hanged in instance, must work closely to-|lingham for the mail run between | disgrace “brutal. gother regarding the occupation of |Nome and St. Michael, he said. Lt. Gen. Yoshio Kozuki said that Germany. Likewise in Japan. | “Nope,” he grinned, “I don't trust execution of General MacArthur's those things. Another reason is the fact that e Secretary Byrnes is personafly's"“y home.” |of all military trappings for the close to Secretary of War- Patter- & Ferguson has sold his commer-'zallows would have “a deep effect son and Secretary of the Navy»ILm air line, which served the vpon the Japanese people” bu% they Forrestal, and probably can get|8reas about Kotzebue and Nome and | would accept the verdict without support for his ideas. \the Seward Peninsula, but has kept trouble “owing to the situation.” he!@ plane for personal use. On his; However kt. Gen. Mamoru Hara, Note—When FDR was alive, deminated foreign affairs. Hav‘m‘saame trip, his third venture next highest ranking officer in that lived abroad and traveled exten- sively, he made yirtually all major —_— (Continued on Page Four) craft to Fairbanks and came the|monstrations. He speculated that rest of the way by commercial air|the people might consider that the transport. verdict “carried things too far.” | cef { plication, held up for the outcome ! |charge against him of contribut- | Immediately affer Hambrick plead- | Iday amorning. jo'clock Monday morning, when the| | f)a first degree murder charge is set |10t come till morning | !to open. { ,finally split. At least one passenger tho independence of colonial peo- ! jumped from back portion of ‘the ples. Opponents of British action ship to the front. iin Java have charged that British Water was pouring into the din- |forces were being used to keep the ing room, but crew men managed Indonesians under Dutch domina- to bring out oranges and candy tion. . bars. | The British on ihe other hand, We went to an abandoned cabin !have insisted’ that their forces were in the fore part of the ship andin Indonesia on the orders of the remained therc eral hours. La- |Allied combined chiefs of staff and ter we went to the rail where ajthat their only purpose was to pre- group of passengers were g‘.u],‘red‘:sorve order while Japanese trcops | Beoms were swaying above our|Were removed and Allied internees heads. My husband guided us back 8nd prisoners of war were rescued. toward the cabin, Seconds later, a' The British case had the backing gigantic wave washed over the spot |ef the Netherlands government. where we had been standing. | Despite the difficulties of the & 4t Indonesian case, the Council faced I i WEDE Tinte {it with one distinet advantage, and of the procetding against him, like- | 1 swept the passengers into the it was the experience they had ]é‘;’eo‘:g g .:Zix:i;:ed sy JUGEE | ceq, Lie o nightmare, I waiched puined in settling the Greek dis- in“the. States T, At present, them. It was as though they Were pyts without splitting the unity of Ham.briCk Guilty {in a scene in a movie. . ithe big powers. Tiiediatety Abliow tjhe verdict |, L oounted seven heads in @ TOW. | The Russians yielded on_every 16 the iR AE. t'}‘l‘fs e r‘ ‘; Then my eyes centered On ©Ne|major charge against Britain ‘as the : IO, gy He was being swept into the council resolved the Greek . crisis rocks. He was fighting desperately |jast night. Andrei Vishinsky, Sov- for his life in the debris-cluttered ijet Vice Commisar of Foreign Af- water. He swam frantically, pushing [fairs, announced he would not in- it away with his hands sist on a Council statement saying Dashed Up On Rock that British forces should be with- ! He reached a rock and started to drawn from Greece immediately or climb out but was swept back into that they were endangering world {the sea, Then, on the crest of an- peace, as he had originally de- !other wave, he and one other man |manded. rock again. | SR s, o DISPUTE ARISES OVER UNO SITE LONDON, Feb. 7. — Russia and ruling’ the motion. In all, two witnesses were called for the prosecution: Thomas Parke and J. G. Walmer. The defense called: Milton Burreson, the endant Brown, Mrs. Brown, Gor- don Burnette, Art Burke and four character witnesses—Alfred Zenger,' City Councilmen Stanley Grum- mett and John G. Young, and J. B. Burford. All four testified to the defendant’s generally recognized “good” character. Whether and when Brown will be licensed to re-open his retail liquor store in Juneéau is not revealed. Action on his license renewal ap- 0 the bench to reverse formally his previous plea of not guilty to the ing to the delinguency of a minor.| ed guilty to the morals count, hi. attorney, M. E. Monagle, waived time for sentence. Judge Kehoe has previously in- dicated that he may pass sentence Were dashed up on a on some guilty pleaders on Satur- | They clung there weakly. | Wwith my heart in my mouth, All jurors on the present pam.”\v:nched three other men climb gut have now been excused until 10,°0f the sea on the rocks. | All night they stayed there, cry- d trial of George Harrison Meeks on ' ing piteously for help, which di G.I. Rescues Man If I can‘t fly, Il]order that Yamashita be stripped | |"nutside" ip 35 years, he flew his ministry, said there might be de-| i Judge Kehoe today set tomorrow at 2 o'clock for drawing additional jurors on the panel for the Meeks case. | e E R SRAN ! PROPERTY SALES ‘Transactions of real property re- { corded herc during the past week are: From Hector J. Plant to Jesse O. Bostwick, house and lot on Ba- sin Road; from Allan P. Fortney to Clay H. Bowmar, two hou: iand lot on Willoughby avenue. e MRS. ERICKSON HERE | Mrs. 'O. Erickson of Petersburg is a guest at the Baranof. | I saw one other.man saved. He' ,was in the water for minutes when |a soldier risked bis life to rescue! him. After tying a rope around his | ,waist, this G.I. jumped in upd‘ 1grabbed him Both were hauled to safety. | The waves continued to wash the | deck. Three hit us before we could ! escape. My husband grabbed an iron post and held it, shielding Mike and me from the forge of the water with his body. The water was up to my knees and my clothes | were soaked. ; { The back end of the vessel was ! swaying violently. The front end, (Continued on Puge E:{vi;l) China expressed their approval to- day of the Stamford-Greenwich- Westchester area of Connecticut and New York as permanent head- auarters of the *United Nations, but France asked a long delay and a reconsideration of New York city as the interim site, French representative J. Fouques Dupure said, in a continuance of ‘ast night's debate in tHe perman- ent headquarters committee, that the decision should be postponed until September or next year, “Huge foreign colonies in New York city and the fact that it is the biggest city in, the United States might present problems if it were *he interim site,” Dupurc said, The back end began to crack and jthe Soviet Union’s policy calling for I { charged with condoning - the Bataan death march, today °V: asked the Supreme Court (o | The pusseigers Kid orew. accord- halt his trial before an Ameri- }1m§ to lists announced by the Alas* can miltary commission fn | Xt Steamshis Copipany &nd e Manila. JArmy numbered 497. Homma also asked the high | ‘}‘*fd c_““"i()"flrd Np:rt from tribunal, by airmail, that he be “‘“h :fi‘d '-"W“ not known as taken out of the hands of the Vo' WHCUACE \ht Ko b:end military and that the Supreme passengers lisf actually n o] |akoard when the Yukon sailed Sun- G reviow & XIOM DN BB Iday night from Seward, seven hours hili 2 , § Philippine Supreme Court to botore e~ Faht nEboEL oh T BERDE g t of habeas (... beaten rocks in Johnstone corpus. | }Bny, isaid 465 had been carried to saf- MANTILA, Feb, 7—Lt. Gen. Masa- | barn Homma, who has accepted full moral responsibility for the Bataan march of death, was de- hed today by his wife as so All Survivors Rescued The cutter Onondaga, its crew dead tired after more than 48 hours of battle with the sea and snow and wind, messaged late yes- terday that all swvivors had been ntle that he shunned hunting as a sport. Homma, charged with responsi- bility for the horrible deaths of 67,000 Americang and Filipinos in his short tenure as commander of the Philippines, bent and convtlsed wvith tears as his pretty wife testi- fied: “I am proud of the fact I am the wife of General Homma. I have une daughter and my one wish is' that some day she will marry a man like the general.” A tear glistening in her own eye, the tiny kimono-clad Japanese wo- man animatedly and earnestly tes- titied that Homma thrice tried, “to make peace"—after the fall of Nanking, when he pleaded that un- less peace was restored immediately “it will be disastrous;” after Han- kow fell, and again when the Ku- niako Koiso cabinet was formed af- ter the loss of Saipan—"but he did not succeed. The general’s heavy shoulders convulsed and he bent low over the defense counsel’s table, a handker- chief at his eyes, as his wife for 20 years attempted to refute co- pious prosecution zeribing the death march and other horrors. - Browder Charged With Desertion by - Communist Pa testimony de- | rescued and the Yukon abandoned. |There had been reports from res- {cued passengers and crewmen that casualties had been seen, but none of these could be verified. Three crewmen pulled from the | water by a tug after the Yukon |broke in two Monday night said .they thought several were lost, one man estimating ‘the number at 20 or more. One passenger said he had been told three bodies were recovered. Repeatedly the Coast Guard's messages from the sceme said there were no reports of casualties from Ithe rescue ships and no bodies had been found. { Taken From Beach | Last to be taken aboard the On- .ondaga and the other craft were Isome 100 persons who had manag- led to reach the narrow strip of beach beneath a barren, 5,000-foot |high cliff. A pilot who carried pic- tures from Anchorage to Seattle | yesterday said the temperature at |the disaster scene was down near “zem and the people on the beach must have been whipped by spray {from the towering waves. i | “How anyone could survive long lin that water I don’t know,” he sald. Ceward opened its doors to the {survivors. Its few taxicabs and \private cars rallied at the docks to take the arrivals to hotels and private homes after they were ]checkx‘d by a crew of Army doe- tors and nurses and Red Cross | workers. | The steamer Alaska was due ear- !ly this morning to carry the sur- NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Earl Brow- vivors to Seattle, destination of the der, former head of the Communist jjl-fated Yukon. party in America, was charged to- eee — party ranks, | The national board announced e e | for 60,000 of St. Louls' 90,000 school AL DUBE HERE | children was over today with the day by the organization’s national board with desertion of “Commun- H “d y' w m ist duties and responsibilities” and | o a 0' 1) last night that it would recom- S' louk Is m mend his expulsion at the party’s, . national committee meeting here —— ! se‘tlement of a three-day strike of Al Dube, a resident of Fairbanks, about 400 custodians and matrons arrived here yesterday. He is stay- which had closed 100 of the 129 threatened with expulsion from! next Tuesday. { ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7—A heliday ing at the Baranof. nublic schools here.