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

» i § (v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW.S ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY QONGRES™: SERIAL RECU — VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,197 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATIONWIDE TELEPHO CHOSEN CAPITOL’ BOLD SCHEME OF JAPANESE GETS SPIKED Planned Fishing Under American Flag with Am- grican Ships,U.S.Waters TOKYO, Feb. 18—Allied head- quarters announced today it had spiked an audacious scheme by Japanese interests to recapture Nippon’s lost pre-war fishing busi- | ness under the American flag and| with American ships. | A Japanese company was prompt- | ly denied a request to enter Amer-| jcan fishing areas in American ves- | sels manned by Japanese crews.| Headquarters said the firm had! planned to can crab meat aboard | and send it into the United States —duty free. | “Because it. would have come from American ships, it would be a product of American fisheries and enter the American market without duty,” explained Lt. R. H. Fiedler, fisheries expert of headquarters’ natural resources section. HAZEL-EYED AND BLONDE, Jan Heathe adjusts her crown in Washington, D. C., after being enthroned as “the Nation’s Capitol Glamour Girl of “The significance of this scheme is not the mere fact that it was another attempt to break out of fishing areas now open to Japan,: but an audacious manner in which 1946.” She’s 19, a photographer’s model, has been busy in war bond, Red Cross and similar work. Three hundred government girls in the United Nations Girls’ Organization gave her the Japanese firm presumes to use the United States and the Ameri-| can flag to accomplish its ends.” Piedler branded the request as “brazen” and one calculated to “evade restrictions placed upon the Japanese fishing industry.” 91,000 HOSTAGES | IN GREECE SLAIN | BY NAZIS, CLAIM| Russians Present Chargesz 4 AMERICANS GIVEN HONORS BY POPE PIUS Thirty-two -Emineni Pre- lates Elevated fo Col- lege Cardinals =~ - VATICAN CITY, FEB. 18. — i Thirty-two iminent prelates, among {them four Americans, were elevated ' at Trial in Nuernberg- CIVIIIB"S Starved 1o the College of Cardinals today { with churebly pomp and ceremony. NUERNBERG, Feb. 18—Soviel| pormally, Pope Plus XII an- war crimes prosecutors presented to S GLAMOUR GIRL FBIPROBES 'LEAK’ CASE | INCANADA ‘Developments in Divulg-| ing of ""Secret, Confiden- tial Atomic Information”* OTTAWA, Feb. 18-—-The arrival | of several FBI men from Washing~ ton stirred speculation here today.j: of possible developments affecting | the United States in connection v | with the Canadian government’s in= ¢ | quiry into an alleged leakage of | “secret and confidential” atomic | information. | It was learned, meanwhile, that | the inquiry into the case—which Len authoritative source said in- volved the transmission of atomic secrets to Russia—had spread to | London, where a Canadian official i | was reported taken into custody for questioning. Twenty-two employers or former employees of the government pre- viously had been rounded up in Canada in connection with the in- vestigation. All are being held incommunicado -—many of them in the Mounted | Police barracks near the Rockcliffe Airport on the outskirts of Ot- tawa. A large detachment of Mounted | Police officers was placed around the title. (International) RGENTINA SAYS NAZI AGENTS ARE A ‘permmed in the area. Thus far the Canadian govern- BHNG DEPORIED nient has not formally identified 8 | the Foreign Mission in Ottawa al- !legedly involved in the information leakage, but government officials {have declared unofficially that it was the Soviet Embassy. s enttoUS. - EMPEROR SAYS Argentine communique—the second u S MUSI AID o 1 answer to a United States Blue| Book charging collusion with the Nazis—denies that the government ' has been slow in expelling Axis| agents. | The communique, issued last uight,, said allegations that Argen-| tina was negligent in reporting “enemy agents” were erroneous and | constitute an imputation which has | Second CoFm"—iihiQue'Ré- garding Blue Book Hirohito Gives Rare Inter- view fo Three Amer- | the barracks and no outsiders were ; IN_RECOVERY the ¥nternational Military Tribunal today an official Greek government report showing that Nazi occupation forces executed approximately 91,- 000 hostages in Greece and syste- matically starved the civilian popu- lation. The Nazi atrocities, the Russian prosecutors declared, were part of a | planned program designer to smash .| Greek resistance. L . § » ¥ Earlier defense counsel for the 21 Nazi chiefains on tria]l asked the tribunal for a three-weeks adjourn- ment at the end of the prosecu: tion's case. British prosecutor Sir David Max- ; well-Fyfe opposed the proposed re- cess, arguing for an adjournment of no more than one or two days. The Washington,| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The man who perhaps heads the list as Harold Ices' probable successor is Bartley crum of San Francisco, who, like Ickes, is a liberal Republican. Crum was Chairman of the Com- mittee of Independent Republicans for Franklin Roosevelt; during the 1944 campaign, which, - together with Senator Ball of Minnesota, pulled a lot of GOP ballots over to the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. During this campaign, Crum be- came a close friend of Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan who later offered him several jobs as a reward for his services. One was as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, an- other was as a Federal Power Com- missioner. Crum however, turned them all down. At one time last summer when | it looked as if Ickes was on his way out, Hannegan also suggested Crum as Secretary of the Interior. Crum’s reply was: “You haye too good a man in that job already.” At present, Crum is in the Near as a member, of the American- British Committee on Palestine. A relative newcomer in politics, Crum first became prominent as an e e (Continued on Page Four) nounced at a secret consistory of the College, attended by 28 of the {37 existing members, the creation (cf the 32 new Princes of the Ro- iman Catholic Church. All but three ;‘or the 32 were in Rome, and Papal emissaries delivered to them im- mediately their biglietti, or formal i notifications. With this notification {ithe Designees formally became | Cardinals. | The new American Cardinals, {making -up with Dennis Cardinal The United States and Britain submitted to the government on scribed as “the most aangerous the United Nations and whose de- rortation was considered most nec- essary,” the communique said. Of these agents, it said, one man other was already under the juris- diction of the courts. The other LDuugherty of Philadelphia, the five 98 were disposed of as follows, the {Americans in the 69-Cardinal Col- statement added: !lcge, are: { Thirty-eight were deported Sat- John Cardinal Glennon of St. urday on the S. S. Highland Mon- Louis, Dean of the group; arch, 40 were presented to the | Edward Cardinal Mooney of De- courts for action, one was ordered i troit; deported, nine are naturalized Ar- Samuel Cardinal Stritch ‘of Chi- gentines whose citizenship must | cago; !first be revoked, one is an Argen- Francis tine citizen and therefore not sub- New York. | ject to deportation, dhe is a natur- | Princes Arrive Early alized Chilean and’ eight are now Princes of the Church began ar- being investigated. riving for the consistory- about 9/ KNI, a.m., entering the great circular, i S'O(K ouoru—laus plaza before St. Peter’s church/ { through the Santa Marta Gate and proceeding in to the Apostolic. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Closing iPalace through the courtyard of quotation of Alaska Juneau mine St. Damascus. | stock today is 11, American Can 97, { In the colorful plaza, surrounded Anaconda 49%, Curtiss Wright 107 by its rich colonnade, were the International Harvester 96%, Jone: nsual number of aged women and Laughlin 'Steel 51, Kennecott 56, beggars warming their bones in the New York Central 31%, Northern Cardinal Spellman of assembled crowds to see the Car- 6%, U. S. Steel 92, Pound $4.03%. dinals arirve. | Sales today were 1,500,000 shares. College Session | Dow, Jones agerages today are The college went into session at a: follows: industrials 201.65, rails i9:35 a.m. Pope Pius went through 6557, utilities 40.46. ithe centuries-old formality of noti- | PRICES SATURDAY fying the Cardinals the appoint-| Clesing quotation of . Alaska Ju- ment of 32 new members, largest neau mine stock last Saturday was group ever elevated to the Cm‘-‘u-‘x, Alleghaney Corporation 7%, jdinalate at one time. American Can 96%, Anaconda 51%, rot real basis. | bright sunlight. There were non- Pacific 32%, United Corporation| ~ ForPa. Governor ican Publishers | TOKYO, Feb. 18.—Emperor Hiro- per executives in a rare interview Axis agents against the security ot today that the speed of his beaten ! 'little or no effes nation’s recovery depends on the cwoperation of the United States. | In an atmosphere of unusual in- formality, the Emperor received Fhiladelphia Evening Bulletin and of the Associated Press; Norman | Chandler, President and publisher |of the Los Angeles Times; and edi- |tor McKelway, of the Washington | Star. Over teacups, they discussed a | wide range of 'subjects non-political, with the Emperor observing at one point: “MacArthur is a very great man.” | American troops are conducting themselves “cooperatively” he said. | The 30-minute interview—longest sudience ever granted foreign newspapermen— was given at a rare invitation to tea extended dur- ing the executives’ tour of the Pa- lcific as guests of the War and | Navy Departments. Jimmy Stewart Declines fo Run PHILADELPHIA, . Feb. 18.—Jim- jmy Stewart has declined the tele- (graphed offer from Thomas P. Mc- {Henry, Philadelpiia Democratic Ward Leader and County Com- missioner, that the film actor bid {for the Democratic nomination for The Pontiff’s allocution, declaring ithe designation of new Princes of {the Church from every continent I put into a new light the universal- {ity of the church, lasted but five imlnutes. { Then the Papal emissaries sped jon their rounds to the 10 different places where the new Cardinals/ were waiting. i P e D FROM FAIRBANKS | E. Mitchell and E. L. Meares, residents of Fairbanks, are in town. They are stopping at the Baranof Guring their visit in this city, Mry. governor of Pennsylvania. Stewart is a native *of Indiana, Fa.® Curtiss Wright 11%, International Harvester 98%, Jones, Laughlin| Steel 52, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 32%, Northern Pacific 33'%, United Corporation 6%, U. 8. Steel 95%, Pound.$4.03%. Sales Saturday were shares. ————.- - G. A. MILTON HERE 1,380,000, G. A. Milton has arrived in Ju- e, CAIRO — Student demonstrations which wrecked an Egyptian cabinet last week continued today when 40,000 assembled peacefully before King Farouk’s palace demanding that British troops quit the coun—} e FROM SALT LAKE CITY Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Peterson of Salt Lake City, Utah, have arrived in Juneau. They are staying at the Gastineau. neau from Sitka. He is stopping at | the Gastineau during his visit here.’ -~ NE STRIKE LOO CHANGES IN - WAGES,HOURS 1S DEMANDED { INFLATIONARY " EXPLOSION IS © THREATINU.S. Bowles, H;wever, Says Truman’'s Wage - Price | Policy fo Prevent Crisis WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 —Chester with pressure “up to the bursting point.” | But he declared that President Jan. 14 a list of 100 persons de- kito told three American newspa-;’rr“m"“'s new wage - price policy “a program that will work” with on food, rent or clothing prices if the bulge in |the stabilization line is not permit- ited to become a break-through. “I think it is a good program, is ! was reported in July, 1944, and an- Robert McLean, President of the land I mean to put everything I've jgot into making it succeed,” the ilwwly—designa.ted stabilization boss Isaid in testimony prepared for the !House banking commitiee. ! Bowles appeared to urge exten- |sion “at the earliest possible mo- ment of the pricé control and other | stabilization acts now set to expire June 30. He called, too, for action by Congress to “stop the inflation lin the real estate market,” if the {administration's new homes-for- !veterans program is to succeed. And he also said the food subsidy ! program must be continued — . Gruening, Magnuson 'On Canadian Trip On Highway Subjedt : WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—8ena- i tor Warren G. Magnuson (D- Wash.) and Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska, left for Ottawa to dis- | cuss, with members of the Cana- jdian cabinet, the proposed connec- jtion of the Pacific and Alaska | Highways. | The Senator said that if |cabinet approved the plans, it |would provide a connection at Prince George, B. C., but that de- | tails would have to be worked out |later. the e | FROM GUSTAVUS Alberta Parker, a resident | Gustavus, arrived here over of the anof. B B BN . OLSON ARRIVES JOHN terday from Hoonah. He is staying {at the Gastineau. Sbisin e I SR A. L. FLORED HERE ! A. L. Florence, Ketchikan, guest at the Gastineau. is a ATOMIC BOMB TEST SITE_ chief, points to a map of Bikini atoll, in the Marshall Islands, where he will direct experiments in which the atomic bomb will be dropped on warships next spring. jMan with Liberal Views, Bowles told Congress today the na- | |tion faces an inflationary exploston R ——... Vice Adm. W. H. P. - Who Knows Wesi, Wanted COUNCIL ENDS For Nex! Inferior Secrefary LONG SESSION BY ‘WILLIAM E. LOWELL i WASHINGTON, Feb. 18:-A more liberal attitndé thufInterior Secretary Ickes displayed in the ad-! ministration of national resources would please many western Con- gressmen. | But even this group doesn’t want the Government's property handled too carelessly. Perhaps a fair appraisal of what westerners think an Interior Secre- tary should be was expressed by Senator McCarran (D-Nev), who didn’t get along as well with Ickes as most of his western colleagues. He told a reporter: One Who Knows West “The Secretary should ke from the west, preferably from the' public land states. He should be able to geot along with the people who are now using the public domain and also with those who want to de- velop it.” Rep. Robinson served: | “We should have a man’ who not only knows the west intimately but who also knows how the govern ment especially congress, operates.” He thought a good many of the tiffs betwzer Ickes and Congress could have been avoided by a less abrupt approach on the part of the Secretary. (D-Utah) ob- Hits Alaska Having varied activities under his control, Ickes did a lot of things that irritated congressmen. Re- cent spats were over a proposed in- crease in grazing fees; creation of the hugh Jackson' Hole National Monument without consulting Con- gress; his insistence on an expen- isive plan for assessment of Alas- kan resources. Some members thought he was bottling up mineral resources that should be developed. Others wanted grazing rights or reservoir sites in National Parks. The recurring con- trovercy whether the Forest Service |should be in the Agriculture De~ partment or in Interior kept agi- |tating troubled waters. Some Kind Words { But, withal, there are many kind words- for Ickes, even from .those who disagreed with him on one thing or another. There is a re- !port, unconfirmable but not im- possible, that every western Senator but one asked President Truman som2 time ago to keep him on. The idea seemed to be that the ‘public domain is a great asset to nassdecretary. 5;1 eral An- wian Miller, was found strangled to g 4 { | 4 | Blandy, Navy special weapons UNO SECURITY nounces Appoinfments fo Four Positions LONDON, Feb. 18. — Secretary | General Trygve Lie announced four | appointments to the United Nations | secretariat over the weekend as final items of business were disposed of following the adjournment of the | Security Council. . The new appointments are ‘Abra- | ham H. Feller of New York, who will be. General Counsel to the Secre- | tery Geperal, with the rank of Di—i rector; Arkady A. Sobolev of (he U. 8, 8. R, Assistant Secretary General in charge of the Depart- ment of Security Council Affairs; | Adrian Pelt of the Netherlands, As-f sistant Secretary General in charge | of the Conference and General Serv- ices, and A. D. K. Owen of Britain, | Executive Assitsant in the office of the Secretary General with the rank ! of Director. i At the closing session .of the Se- | curity Council Saturday night, Rus- ! gia invoked the veto power, thus | overruling a U. S. proposal for nego- | tiation of the demand by Syria and 8 Lebanon that French and British | roops be withdrawn immediately ftom their territory. 1700 Soldiers Are Quizzed on Death 0f Young Woman' CANTERBURY, England, Feb. 18. | —Seventeen hundred British sol- diers have been confined to their barracks at Canterbury pending the investigation of the slaying of a Canadian soldier’s wife. The attractive blonde, Mrs. Lil- death near the camp. Investigators said the 2l-year old woman at- tended a dance at Canterbury Sat- urday night. Her body was found | Sunday near a gravel pit only 200 | vards from the soldiers’ barracks. Mrs. Miller’'s husband recently re-| turned to his home at Montpelier, Canada. She and their one-year- | old son, Victor, were scheduled to| go to Canada next month to join ) him, | e LR | { i i g ’ (By The Associated Press) e |four months to one year and onz ‘day and to pay a $1,000 fine, | weekend., She is staying at the Bar- | John M. Olson -arrived here yes- | the nation—that it should be con- served, but not allowed to lie dor- mant. PROMISE SAN FRANCOISCO, Superior On cne thing all were in agree- Judge Herbert Kaufman addressed a ment: prisoner before him on a repeat “We do not want a politician.” charge of passing fietitious checks: i 75 | “My man, you've had your chance. This time you go to San Quentin.” HABII | The prisoner held up a finger and | 1eplied patiently: o | — | “But Judge, when I appeared be- | FAUL, Idaho—Theophil Pfeifer's fore you eight months ago, you said | five year old Jersey cow has pro- if I didn't behave myself, you'd duce¢ her third set of twin calves. give me a year in the county jail” 1. was the second pair within a The records were checked—and the yeer. C priscner went to county jail. Recommendation Made for 20,000 Members fo Walkout on Jobs The threat of a natlonwide tele- pHone strike loomed today as the Executivé Board of the National Federation of Telephone Workers 1ecommended that its 260,000 mem- bers strike to support wage-hour demands. The board, meeting at Memphis, Tenn,, recommended the strike but took no immediate action on its recommendation. Jeseph A. Beirne, President of the independent NFTW, said the situa- fon will be discussed thoroughly at further meetings this week. The strike recommendation was announced as the steel strike of- fieially ended for more than 360,000 C1O steelworkers. Negotiators trying to find com« mon ground between General Mot- {ors Corporation and the CIO United | Auto Workers were balked by the { union security issue. At Lancaster, Pa,, Acting Mayor Daniel W. Coulter declared a “state of emergency” as | & general strike of approximately 12,000 AFL unionists threatened to stagnate the city’s business and in- dustrial life. The phone workers are demand- ing raises of $10 a week, a minimum of 65 cents an hour and a 40-hour week, Curley Given Prison Term Man, Who Is Also Repre- senfative, Senfenced for Mail Faud WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-Rep. James M. Curley, 71, who is also Mayor of Boston, was senteneéd in {Federal court today o serve from six months to a year and six months and pay a $1,000 fine for mail fraud. Sentenced with him for activities in Engineers Group, Inc., an organ- ization that the Government con- tended collected $60,000 by . repre- eenting its ability to get war con-. tracts for clients, were Donald Wakefield Smith, former member of the National Labor Relations board, and James G. Fuller, now serving a five-year sentence at Atlanta .for fraudulent use of the mail. Federal Judge James G. Proctor entenced Smith to serve from and Fuller to serve from 16 monihs fo {four years. The three men have announced their intention to appeal to the U, 8. Circuit Court of Appeals. Curley said he will carry his appeal to the Supreme Court if necessary. Curley, a Democrat, who started his political career 46 years ago as a Boston City Councilman, has been governor of Massachusetts four times, mayor of Boston, and four times a member of the House of Representatives. BRRCARLS s SPIEEL 12 Survivors of Ship Wreck Meet Death, Open Boal DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Feb. 18.— Twelve persons in an open life- boat died of exposure in the Bay of Punday after thals silr the 265~ ton coastal steamship Robert G. Cann, foundered Saturday night eight miles off Grand Manan Is- land, New B The crew left the fouridering ship in a 17-foot lifeboat which tossed in a raging gale for 19 hours before it was driven aground near here. - FROM KOTZEBUE John A. Lathamon and Sam O. Shafsky of Kotzebue are registered at the Baranof. s Bosfon Mayor -