The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1946, Page 1

~ Price of Farm ‘ THE LiBNARY Ot Govany SERIAL RECORD MARZ 7 1946 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI.,.NO 10,196 JUNEAU ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, (1946 L i ___ MEMBER ! ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STEEL STRIKE BROKEN BY WAGE BOOST MEEKS MURDER TRIAL OPENING MONDAY EVENT George Harrison Meeks, accused of | the brutal knife slaying of Seattle carpenter Clarence J. Campbell in! one of the most sordid and vicious | money-motivated crimes in Juneau | history, is schedluled to begi: this fight for life in the U. S. District Ceurt here Monday afternoon at 2 * o'clock. It is anticipatea tnat courtroom seats will be at a premium through ! the several days that the trial is qpecbed to last, as the Campbell murder last December occupied the central spots in the interest of Juneau residents for several mystery shrouded, rumor packed weeks. - { Commodities fo . ; Raise Is Report! WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—An “in- evitable” drive to raise the price of | farm commodities was forecast to- | d:y by Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) a5 a result of the new national formula permitting higher mdus-' trial wages and prices. | Bankhead, a leager in agricui- tural legislation, claimed that the administration’s revised economic | policy would “increase tremendous- | ly the price of everything the farmer busy.” i The Washingioni Merry - Go- Reund' By DREW PEABSON WASHINGTON—A Concremunll committee has now spent most of | the winter probing every serap or evidence regarding Pearl Harbor. | Out of this confusing mass of data, ! two points emerge: gl 1. Congress can pass no legisla- | Miss WXLG of 1946 ARME o b s L Soo Lan (above), daughter of Mr. STATI ED ! @R@E@ R@\Dn@ ON N x4 O A < AERRARERR W R X » v/ande.;s. L. Lamont of San Fran- cisco, and a member of a troupe cntertaining soldiers in the Pacific, was named Miss WXLG of 1946 while at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands recently. (Associated Press Photo) SCAP PRODS JAPANGOVT. INTO ACTION MacArthur Forces Drastic Steps to Curb Inflation, Control Distribution | TOKYO, Feb. 16- —~Under prod- | ding of General MacArthur, the Japanese government took its first 'ROME TRIP FOR CARDINAL'S CAP DENIED PRELATE| oviet Won_'fiermit Hun- garian Cleric-lo-Make Jaunt fo Vatican LONDON, Feb. 16—Reuters said' |today the Vatican had announced that Cardinal-designate \ and Primate of Hungary, had been refused Russian Permission to leave Hungary to attend the consis- | tories in Rome. . | Secret, Juseph' ‘Mmdszenty, Archbishop of Strigonia ' tion which can keep admirals and drastic steps today to control the » generals on ‘the alert. That de- shaky economy of a beaten coun- {pénds solely on them. But Con- |try plagued by inflation and black gress can pass legislation prevent- ing the airplane industry, the oil! companies, and the scrap-iron deal- ers from building up the power | lof an enemy and making it dnublyl hard to achieve victory. So far the Pedarl Harbor Committee has kepn absolutely mum .about. certain air-! plane and oil.-companies - which— ,{with the paradoxical.ieotisent. of. ““the U. 8. Army and Navy-Lsold| Japan many of the: weapons she turned against: :the -Army ' and| Navy at Pearl Harbor. 2. Nothing has emeyged from the Pearl Harbor findings, not hither- to published in the Roberts Re- (port or in this column, which: changes the basic respopsibility. of the commanders -who were on the i ‘Unfortunately, Congression-; al cross- examination at times was | so slip-shod ~ that virtually im- portant facts well known to Navy, men were ignored or glossed over. nms the public, which reads in a WTy, probably has forgotten such .blle ‘and amazing instances of ne- , glect ' as: the fact that warship P 3 hnd -been - permitted shore leate, that - water-tight hatches | m open; that anti-aircraft guns g¢ unmanneid . that no-ammuni- | n was _ readily: available;. that, e’ guns, were<even FBI WARNING Lnrgely forgotten 4lso 1s- the fact: that J. Edgar Hoaver's G-men picked up a méssage between: Tokyo | and the Jap Honolulu Censulate on Dec. 6 which ‘the FBI: considered a sure sign of ‘'war; but which both’ ~‘General Shoft’ and Admiral Klm niel completely ignored. > (Cross-examiried “before conxrea. the two commanders complathed that Washington didn’t warn them during the last few hours before the attack; but no one on the com- | mittee bothered to ask why Lhey were so concerned abouf a Wi ington warning they paid no nt- tention to one received from thc| _ ¥FBI on the spot. Most significant fact which the Pear] Harbor probers glossed over, however, was torpedo nets. Hadi A !preme Commander, Allied Powers) pwith fallures of the government 10| ., wysie Service, ended his stay ‘today Hlaced before the United Na- ‘filed with Secretary-General Trygve iLie a memorandum from the Yu- markets. Three Imperial ordinances virtu: ‘ally froze bank accounts, required |conversion of currency into new bank notes by March 7 and re- stricted distribution of foodstuffs to | authorized channels. A public relations announcement jfrom, General MacArthur’s head- «quarters .underscored the action with this explanation: "It was in response to dissatis- faction- expressed by SCAP (Su- carry eut provisions of his direc-| tives prescribing that suitable mea- sures be. taken to control infla- tion angd to insure adequate distri- bution to the people of limited, supplies of foed, clothing and other necessities of life.” POLISHARMY INITALY IS OBJECTED T0 BY, JOHN A. PARRIS LONDON, Feb. 16.—Soviet- Russia i {tions: Seuurm( Council the problem lof. Polish, Troops serving under British- Command .in Italy, ‘declar- ing tbat the presence of the Poles | there was f'a possible: future threat to-peace, .calm: and . order «on the Yugoslay : frontier.” Representing < Yufloslnvla, which iis not: 3 member .of the 11-nation couneil, Soviet . Vice Commisar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky,| goslav government declaring that ithe activities of the Polish Army, were “hostile” to Yugosalvia. i ‘The memorandum added that i “extremely numerous propaganda | {publications issued by these units are aggressive and ostensibly thrent-' iening.” { A S A this very elementary - precaution been taken, hundreds of lives would | have been saved:-and the back- bone of the Pécific fleet would not have been left lying on the muddy battom of Pearl Hatbor. (Continued on Page Four) . GARVIN RETURNS l Homer Garvin, Manager of the Capitol Theatre, returned by PAA plane yesterday, from a meined‘ business and pleasure trip- to the. States, after .an absence of several' weeks. i session, he spent a few days at BIG "LEAK" DISCOVERED IN CANADA| Confldenhal In- formation on Atomic Energy Given Out BY HARRY T. MONTGOMERY OTTAWA, Feb. 16—The Cana- dian government moved swiftly to- day to plug a leak of “secret and jconfidential information” which an n.uthorlmmn source said involved Ihandlng over atomic secrets to the | Russians. The disclosure of the move came last night after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, striking suddenly, | jhad rounded up 22 employees and former employees of Canadian government departments and agen- cies. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie |King announced the appointment of two Royal commissioners to head a thorough investigation and prom- lised the government would insti- tute prosecution “in cases in which ithe evidence warrants it.” | In his announcement, the Prime Minister mentioned neither atomic ,energy nor Russia, tive sources, which cannot be nam- jed, said both were concerned. The investigation has been go-! ing on undercover since shortly after the war ended, quarters said, and the Prime Min- iister was reported to have discuss- ed the leak with President Tru- man in Washington last fall dur- ing their talks on atomic energy. Tre atomic bomb-was developed ‘th.rough the combined efforts of | | United States, British and can- | adian scientists, and therefore a; ‘number of Canadians are familiar with the atomic secrets. Some of the 22 men rounded up by the police were known to have ,been employed by the National Re- {search Council, government agency ,through which atomic energy in- formation has been channeled. Of- ficials said they were certain they| informed ¢ i \ ! | I N. J., railroad station after their but authorita-| — . STOLZ- JOYCE | MIX GONG TO Former Reverse by Nar- row Garden Decision By SID FEDER NEW YORK, Fep. 16. — Willie All but three of the 37 Cardinal-could place serious charges against;Joyce and Allie Stolz staged one of designates already have arrived in' Rome for the ceremonies this week. | bsent besides Archbishop Minds- !zenty are Archbishops Jules Sal- iege of Toulouse, France, and Jo- hannes de Jong of Utrecht, the 1 Netherlands, both of whom will be unable to attend because of sick- ' ness. Rome sources said last night that | Mindszenty had ° signified his in- ‘ tention of attending, e CROUCH ENDS VISIT W. E. Crouch, Chief of the Divi- sion of Game Management, Fish in Juneau yesterday when he board- way back to his Chicago hendquart- ers. Crouch was here his annual trip to the Territory attend the meeting of the Alaska Game Com- mission. Following the Fairbanks F&WL regional headquarters here, - ee——— MEMORIAL ‘CHURCH CHOIR HAS DOINGS THIS EVENING ‘Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the choir .o! Memorial *Church is -sponsoring a social and benefit luncheon sale in'the church recreation hall. The young folk of this choir are desir- ;ous of having a special fund for | robes. ‘The public is cordially invit- ed to share in this program of en- tertainment 'and assistance. el TWOQ FROM KETCHIKAN Imogene Ward and Eugene A, Heath arrived, here yesterday from Ketchikan. They are both register- ed at the Baranof. e ——— FROM SEATTLE H T. Roach- and B. C. Larrabee of Seattle are guests at the Bar- anof, waknf CAPT. CUDDY HERE Capt. Daniel H. Cuddy of An- chorage arrived here yesterday. He is staying at the Baranof. ey FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Newhaven, Gustavus, are guests at the Bar- anof. PRGBS F. L. MAINE HERE F. L. Maine of Des Moines, Iowa, has. arrived in Juneau and is re- mured at the Baranof. A LEE IN TOWN at least 12 of the men. Progressive Conservative leader John Bracken, commending the government for its action, described the situation as one of “grave con- cern.” The Prime Minister’s state- {ment, he said, “Will come as a igreat surprise to the Canadian ipeople.” GOLDENBEARS ARESOUTHERN DIV. TIIlISTS ed-a southbound PAA plane on hlsr | Oregon, Idaho Still in Thick of Fight for.North Half Coast Hoop Crown (By The Associated Press) ‘The University of California put the 1946 Southern Division basket- ball pennant of the Pacific Coast Conference in storage today; while in the Northern Division the-ddaho i Vandals and Oregon State held a tie ifor the lead. | 'The Vandals, chiislig thei. first djvision championship in-23 yeats boosted their recoxd to eight wins, four losses in last night's 51-48 tri- umph over the Unfversity of Wash- | ington, at Seaftle. California’s Golden Bears' were | confident of the championship when they went against the low quintet l'of the loop, Stanford, last night at Berkeley, and their 42-31 victory merely made it official. | SIMMONS, BENECKE ON JAUNT TO FERRY BACK NEW GRUMMAN 1 Alaska Coastal Airlines officiale ! Shell Simmons and O. S. Benecke. both accompanied by their families, hopped Statesward yesterday by PAA. They are bound for Atlanta, Georgia, to pick up a second Grum- man amphibian beinhg converted for i the greatest lightweight punch par- ties in Madison Square Garden's Ihlswry last night, and after it was :owr. the referee just leaned back again the ropes and shook his head in amazement. i He may have been thinking back | to the fighting days of Benny Leon- { ard, who retired as undefeated light- welght champion, or he may have been figuring, like a lot of the cash: customers, that he had never seen a better scrap. But all he said was: Brother, this And since the visibly impressed referee in the ring last night was, gbeomrd himself, ‘you can easily! | Imapl.ne what a fistic mHS[eIDiECL_ Joyce and Stolz put on for the 14,- 137 paying guests who tossed §70,- 328 in Mike Jacobs' cash registers. Getting even for a verdict he dropped last November, Joyce won a split decision—Leonard, as referee, zave it to Stolz and the two judges voted Joyee. But-it’' was the kind of fight that, had you talking about the speed and | the swatting and the cleverness o( curly-haired Allie and Indiana Wil- lie, from the opening bell to the final gong of the ten heats. ' The| Associated Press score card voted with” Benny — five rounds for the New Jersey jolter, four for Joyce,! one even. PAA'ARRIVES WITH 13 FROM SEAfllE brought the following passengers; from Seattle: Barbara Maine, George Sumption, Homer Garvin, Yvonne Cooper, Ruth Thompson, Fred Anderson, Hillard Roach. Newell Renner, Joseph Griffin, Michael Renner, Mae Renner, Wil-! lard Jordt, Irving Ligman. Marvin Williams was an 1ncommg passenger from Fairbanks. Outgoing passengers included Cal- and Dorothy Bunce for Whitehorse. Seattle - bound passengers were: Shell Sfmmons, Bea Simmons, Shel- | Benecke; Ellen Benecke, Max Kil- patrick:: Walter Davidson, Warren Cuddy, Lucy Cuddy, Evelyn Sandoz, Winney Harold M. Lee, of Petersburg, isi ACA operation on its Southeast|Crouch, Ellen Peterson, Oscar Pet- in town, stopping at the Baranot Alaska routes. erson, Major Elmer Wiles. GONGBATTLE iIndiana Wil_li;: Avenges| by Simmons, Olaf Benecke, Clara | Evuled VeI Famlly Gel Home Charles Stanck, 27, ex-war veteran and his wife and two children are served a steak dinner by Martin Stein (standing), after he furnished them with a heated three-room apartment near his home in Ashbury Park, N. J. The Staneks spent one night in the Madison, N. J. police staiion and the previous week in a Newark, (AP erephnto) MORE CHINA TROOPS FOR eviction from a M dison upaflment Demonstration A gain st Russian Occupancy Is Started, Chungking J BY SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGING, Feo. 16~Chung- king witnessed its first demonstra- tion against the Russians today as the turbulent Manchurian situa- tion reached a boiling point- and China is given American support in 1@ request to move more troops Into ithat vast area. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedenuyer, U. 8. commander in China, told a press conference that General Marshall approved the request to move more Chinese armies into Manchuria: He did not elaborate. munist spokesman charged that government forces, preparing to | selze Yingkow, important pott, and five other Manchurian towns, had |clashes with Communists. He said the Communists had - withdrawn from Panshan to Taitan “to avoid aggravating the conflict.” (It was not ‘immediately eclear why the reported fight tor Ying- kow, from which the - Communists \reported on January 30 they had withdrawn after having wrésted it {from Government troops.) Almost simultaneously, 400 miem-; bers of the - Manchurian ' guild marched through Chungking streets to government headguarters and prmmd nine demands. It was Ithe tirst public demonstration ever ‘seen here against the Russians, ' The paraders cartiea banners’ in- scribed “We demand yluhdnwll nt Soviet troops from Mlnchuru (Soviet forces are reported: pre< |and prevent Mexican workers from paring to remain in Manchurid un- | i SARON G-Aetm- Lillian Wells models a sarong fashioned from blackout curtains used during_the war. FIGHT STATES BLACKLISTED BYMEXICANS MEXICO CITY, 'Feb, 16— The |Mexican committee against ragial' |discrimination adopted a resolution teday asking the government to, rbllcklm eight states in the U.. 8| ’somz to the U. §: under work con- t| June 1, although they had been | “‘c“ {scheduled to turn over administra- The resolution said the following tion of the territory on Feb, 1. |states discriminated against Mexi- However, the Yalta agreement gives |can workers and paid wages which Russia joint control with China of Pan Amermn Airways yesterday (Were not commensurate with their two railroads in Manchuria. 'l‘heru lln Steel \work: Colorado; *Illinois, Indiana, are unofficial reports that the Rus-. Imhlgan. Montana, Minnesota, sians have made economic demands | Wisconsin and Wyoming. jupon China. Chiang Kai-shek sald i The committee’, also asked that yesterday ' Sino-Soviet dmcnuloru ino worker be allowed to go to the are in progress, but did not elab-! | United States unless adequate sal- orale) .ary guarantees were given. i s } uvuuu MODEL CHICAGO, — Mnty-enc form- —————e - | REBEKAH DRILL TEAM MEETS MONDAY NIGHT The Rebekah Drill Team will meet | 7:30 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall west side block were models in n for practice. All members are re: novel fashion show and homecom- quested to attend. ing party, last night. » ->>o ‘The Victory Club, organized two ENDS VISIT HERE 'years ago by residents of the block |to’ ratse funds for the servicemen, Mrs. Jewel Bain, who has been had given each $100 to buy new visiting her mother, Mrs. J. C. Hayes | “civies”. A the past two weeks, returned by club’s fund was used to stage the plane to her home in Seattle, welcome home party. Thousands of Menfo Refurn To Their Jobs Big Industr—rm Resume Operations—Paves Way, for Other Setflements: (§Y THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The country's peconversion fro- {gyom . appeared headed for fast, m«nh progress today ‘as a long: ed break came In the nation- steel strike. U, 8. ' Steel Oermum “Big Steel”, settled its wage dispute with the CIO United vamu ‘last night. On Monday the eogwr- tion's 130,000 employees - are 'to - go {back to thelr jobs~—at an 18 1-2 cent hourly wages In¢rehse—after four weeks of idleness. w The settlement als0 paved the way for ending the wage. dispute $300 balance in the tween the Union and other steel |companies and the return to work nr the remaining mm atrmng (steelworlm | Collective bargaining with ' tte rest ‘of the indystry was to start |today and C10 Preésident Phillp lMumy saild he hoped for a speedy jend of the wage dispute with the ‘other firms. Another CIO offjelal prodlcud that agreements would be reached with all the key ‘steel companies within a“ week. * Indastry spokesmen said it will be from one to five woeks before n zhe steel lndl.ll"! will rou:lynnmmwym by President’ Truman, with U S. Steel getting a compensdtory {85 a ton increase in steel prices.. {the 26-day old wal an important 06 on strikes in Genieral Motors piants and the electrical industry, the. nation's othcr two major work stoppages. n Detroit, of CIO United Auw Workers the agréement as a factor which ‘would hasten |settlement of their wage ' dispute with General Motors, ending a strike mediate comment was principals in the strike of 175000 CIO electrical at Westing+ Two hours later a Chinese M-' jamin P. Fairless sald the wage hike will amount to smitoxlmwtly $32 per employee for each month of work. He described efio paynhenmel-.r‘uzlnbhem- dustry's history. The *Steel corporation’s permit to charge $5 more a ton for its product has led the new Economic Stabilization Administrator, Ches- ter Bowles, to warm' that prices of inetal goods may need to be bopt- !d a little, all along the line, but ! Bowles adds that prices -increases ‘will be used as sparingly as. pos- sible. Metal goods are said to sc- court for about niné percent ‘of the tptal living costs for m Al- 'leans. s | The encotraging ufiflu Lin r.nu steel industry. b happiness to the town of |ta, known-as the.? capital. . Mer and miners are lflflu lfl‘lh ju- | At ‘mxnuu-d. Pcnmlv pickets: have ‘joyfully butned: QMI 3 'strike banners before the main gate of the Carnegie-Illinois Corpora~ |tion. At the big Jones and Laugh- Corporation plant. -at Pittsburgh—which was first to. go on 'striké, pickets maintained their vigil in the cold until last night Then they called it a dAy et '(OASIM. AIRLINES ~ CARRIES 13 FRIDAY Alaska Coastal Alirlines ' today flfll the following passengers to To Wrangell: A. V. Richey, |George Sumption, Jerry Workman, |M. M. Custard; to Petersburg: l‘. C. Stewart; to Ketchikan: Heath, Harold Lee; to Sitka: llr and Mrs. Willlam' Klaney; to .An« good: 'Keith Roberts. ‘On yesterday's trip from Sitka were: Sue Kennedy, B. C. Larva- bee, and Imogene Ward. vin Yagey for Nome, and Douglas| for practice next Monday night at 'er service men living in one nnrth- and from Juneau: