The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1946, Page 1

THE LISRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECCRD MAR 27 1946 RO s B i DY b THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE . VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,198 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = ———————— PRICE TEN CENTS NEW DETAIL MEEKS TRIAL Q JURY IS NOT ~ YET SELECTED, { { Lengthy Ou_es—tioning of Jurors Delays Open- ing of Case Proper The trial of George Harrisoni Meeks for the alleged murder of Clarence J. Campbell has moved into its second day—with final selec~ tion of 12 jurors to try the cause still seeming far distant. Twenty veniremen, almost one-| third of the full panel, have so| far been called to qualify. Five of | them have been excused for cause and three of the 30 available per- | emptory challenges have been exer- cised; two by defense counsel, one | by the Government. When the noon recess was taken'! today, the following twelve prospec- ! . B British brides of American Gls ari uinfuplefs Help(row_nOueen Francis Frair, Queen of North Bay, Ontario’s Winter Carnival, is surrcunded by one of which, Cecile, is placing the crown on her head. Seccnd from r Talking things cver after landing on Queen Mary at New York, these Left to right: Mrs. Harry Rennell bound for Riverside, Calif., Mrs. | Robert Gyer on way to Los Angeles, and Mrs. Charles Hammer, en- recute to Redwood City, Calif. (AP Wirephoto) U.S. FLAG IS ' TORN DOWN, THEN BURNED Unexplained Demonstra-| { tion Takes Place in Bom- | bay - Report Is Made { BOMBAY, Feb. 19—A mob of Indians, including a number wear- |ing the uniform of the Royal In- | dian Navy, today tore the United | States flag from the U.'S. Informa- { tion' Service office here and burn- jed the flag in the street. | Walter D. Shackelton, in charge | of the office, said he had informed the American Consulate and Ralph | Block principal public affairs offi- cer of the U. S. I. S. at New Delhi, | and that he was awaiting instruc- ‘tions concerning filing an official protest to the Indian and British | governments. Shackelton said that ‘about 500 | demonstrators who were marching in the street suddenly swarmed up 3 jte the U. 8. 1. S. office where the the famous Dionne Quints, |ynited States flag flew from a | pole just over the door of thej ‘ngency's library. “One man climbed onto the shoulders of another man and tore | down the flag,” he said. “They ran around the corner | with the flag and when they failed | in their efforts to set it afire with ,matches they obtained a newspaper, ‘llb the paper and used this as a tereh to burn the flag,” Shackelton | said. The cause of the demonstration ; was not clear, but some observers (exprofiséds belief it might have | statted as a manifestation of sym= | pathy with a sitdown strike staged | yesterday by 1,000 Royal’ Indian Navy seamen in a demand for bet- ! | ter rations and a revision of pay ! | allowances, | ‘[ .o {HIGH TREASON | -~ ISCHARGEDTO | 12 AMERICANS | Investigators fo Go fo Eur- ope fo Make Survey ~Take Up Trail WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Attor-! {ney General Tom Clark disclosed | today that Justice Department in-| | vestigators in Europe are on the trail of 22 Americans suspected Of | wartime treason. i Clark told a reporter he plans toj send a special emissary to speed; the collection of evidence against | these suspects and six others al- ready indicted for treason. g o —— ight is Barbara White and at right irephoto) ifornia Homes e now enroute to their new hemes, | i CANADIAN REVELATIONS Meanwhile, secret revelations are ten, William D. Burfield, C. L.| by both prosecution and defense, etti, who had not yet been ques- en, Mrs. Anna Locken, Mrs. E. L. the conduct of business affairs with Congressional delegations called on | th shi e s Jpould B °pp°sedibuslnessmen, was recommended to witness Kenyon MacLean, She K consideration. sians over Iran. Then they helped | “7he girective not only prohibits Cab drivers and - their families I we continue ducking, the plot icountries concerned. seek relief in Washington from ' a |as Supreme Commander to obtain Would put their case before the De- stirring in Canada. They will make break. . . . Not a pretty story, but States and other nations may be the group pulled into town. tive trial jurors were in the box: Val A. Poor, Maude Kunz, Mrs. Stanley Nowicka, Joan J. Talking- Skuse, Mrs. Isabel Cashen, Mrs. Mary D. Giovanetti, Mrs. Esther Erbland, William J. Reck, Dora| s her sister, Joan While, runners up in the contest for Queen. (AP W Spaulding and Mrs. J. W. Mc-| & G 2 : bt 5 A Kinley. ! | All had been “passed for cause”;z SU((ESSORS E | ' ( I with the exception of Mrs. Giovan- | .',o l(KES ARE nrou e o a tioned. i The seven women and five men' originally pulled to fill the jury; box were: Mr. Poor, Andrew Twei- 3t ten, Mrs. Talkington, Mrs. Nowicka, ' i Jonn Rogers, Mr. skuse, Mrs. cash- | President Reported Open.| Hunter, Mr. Reck, Mri: spaniaing, ! minded-Douglas May and Mrs. McKinley. i B : I_ f J b Excused For Cause H Mr. Rogers was first to be ex-| e intine or Jo cused, for cause, when questioning 4 N 3 disclosed that he is engaged in WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — Two | the chief counsel for the defense, ; President Truman today to propose William L. Paul, Jr. Mr. Burfielri separately the selection of Rep. | succeeded Mr. Rogers in ‘the box, Frank Boykin (D-Ala) and Rep.| Next to be exoused, also for HArry R. Sheppard (D-Calif) as % 4 _ | successor to Interior Secretary Ickes. cause, was Mrs. Locken, Who re-i ™., " ame of Boykin, 61-year-old to capital punishment with con- . 3 viction dependent only on circum- ' :":” 2‘;‘;‘;‘:" by ‘i’ ‘k‘]‘;"‘gf’ °v§ :;,:’02;:: | stantial evidence. Mrs. Hunter was !e:red wit(;:s‘l\dilfiuman Sanator ) i E 4 e i e e tced |5y Bankhead (D-Ala) told newsmen | close friendship with prosecution | the President promised to give Boy- | nnounced that sh | Sheppard’s name was advanced | Tt e oaimtom e [ad #Me2dY, "o delegation which included Rep- | § ! resentatives Elliott, Lea, Engle and (Continued on Page Eight) | King, California Democrats. | Boetme.. o o cacran. ; Sources close to the President re- ‘ - _ ,Rorted, meanwhile, he is still open | The w ashlngton {and that no final decision has been g i made despite heightened speculation | :that Associate Justice William O.; MerrY o GO "Round | Douglas is in line for the job. { | Douglas lunched yesterday with | 3 Mr. Truman. By DREW PEARSON ; g, i WASHINGTON — Random mus- ! 1 ings of a rchronic columnist—The.| American public today is so absorb- ed with strikes, prices, Cabinet re- | FROM FISHI"G IN signations, and city shut-downs ! that we can't get our eyes on that | battle which is being lost right un- AIN WAIERS | der our noses—the battle for which | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The, this Nnu:n so. Fecently ngm_“‘.!apnnese cannot fish in deep sea! Now UNDERWAY pe’“;‘"":mp“::g e Y AN [oreas near United States territory| Y \ . ;e’; laut of the next wWar |, ny of its “island responsibil- | Al Saify ik ?;;"’;2:: ities,” the State Department dis- empires, the British and the Rus- iC?:.i;s ban is part of the United Ve'erans AufOIflg '0 Capl- sian. And/ the one nation able to' i | . States policy covering the Japanese lead, the one nation more powerful ‘“;:“ng pi(;d:stry mcgrpora',edpin a' fa“oPrOfeS' Chl(ago than either, sits on the sidelines | the joant chi : : . : directive from the jont chiefs of , practising appeasemenit and old-lsarr to Gen. MacArthur last No- Taxi Ofdmafl(e fashioned diplomacy. {vember.. The policy outline was resvo 5 American qiplomsg.s in L.ondm'nm made public previously for se-| MASSILLON, O. Feb. 19—A ducked a show-dofn'With the Rus- o\ ity reasons. modern “Coxey’s Army” of taxi the British duck a’show-down over 'Japanése deep sea fishing in areas headed for Washington today.after Greece and the' Dutch East Indies'pear yUnited States territory or ah overnight stop in the home town : . Basic reason for which the|'jgang responsibilities,” but. Jap of the man who headed a march United Nations' was ' created was fishing ‘vessels are also barred from from here to the capital’in 1804: keeping the peace and protecting!areas” under * Allied jurisdiction! The approximately 550 Chicago small nations, but we ducked. . . .{without prior permission from the veterans, loaded in 148 cabs, will of Connecticut land selected for the ! “These prohibitions,” according city ordinance limiting the number United Nations will be as useful’t, the ‘directive “should continue 0f Chicago cabs to 3,000, mest of as the empty buildings along the 'until international agreements are them controlled by two companies. shores of Lake Geneva, once the |negotiated permitting Japanese Edgar Sirles, ; home of the League of Nations. |fishing in these areas.” Ameri_can Cab Drivers Association i The order also directs MacArthur [0F Discharged Veterans, said they i \data from the Japgnese concerning Partment of Jusice -on grounds Pacific fishing area which they that ‘comrol by the two companies people hold their hats and run for | formerly exploited, to determine the CODStituted, a monopoly. the diplomatic storm cellars. The 'effect of restrictive security mea- W€ are going to camp in Wash- biggest story of espionage and in-sures on the Japanese food supply ington until we get satisfaction,” trigue since the war is about to and the extent to which the United the 26-year-old veteran asserted as it can’t be ignored. . . . The Cana-;ahle to exploit thoss areas. i 2 dians have ‘taken’'over 4 Russian' R o e e | H. B. WEISNER ARRIVES agent, who, in turii, has given 'the;'*ANNETTE ISLAND VISITORS - | ; names and location of about 1,700 rn(:eg:;?fl‘;z ltfi:y, ';'. }E.ASmith,’ R. H. Weisner, a resident of 2 3 . residents of Annette Ketchikan has arrived here and is Island, are guests at the Baranof. staying at the Gastineau, — (Continued on Page Four) NEW MARCH ON —v:ilhousand—s Perishe; President of the| | wood mountains of central { Three men ocrawled {eountry north of Geyséf, about 60 { Union City, Tenn, to Anchorage, | Tenn., Wednesday. BRILLIANT CEREMONY AlaskaBound | Planes Down In Mountains Occupation;a Two Craflr Escape Death-Search for Third Craft BULLETIN—GREAT FALLS, Mont,, Feb. 19.—One civilian flier was killed and three oth- ers escaped with only minor in- juries when their three small planes, bound from Union City Tenn,, to Anchorage, Alaska, crashed in the rugged High- wood mountains of central Montana late yesterday. Killed was Thomas E. Weston, of Ma. Juliett, Tenn. His body was found early today it ihe crumpled wreckage of his plane by an Army Second Air Force search and rescue crew. Cap- tain Amos Little, Army doctor, said the . flier was killed in- stantly when his plane smashed into the side of a mountain about 5,000 foot elevation. EAKLY REPORT GREAT FALLS, Mont,, Feb. 19. Occupants of two small planes e caped death when they crashed or made forced landings in the High-! Mon- tana last night, on a Tennessee- ! Alaska flight. . H An Army rescue party searched ' today for a third missing plane ' which contained one man. ¢ from the | GLORIA CHAVEZ, beautiful daughter of New Mexico Senator * Dennis Chavez, became the bride recently of Naval Lieutenant Jerge Enrique Tristani, son of Mr, of Puerto Rico. Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of the.Presi- dent, was a bridesmaid and wore a wreckage of the two planes, which | Wiy TENRWED: SoR. SIE | ding took place in St. Matthews R mounulnous, Cathedral. Photo shows .(upper) Mr. and Mrs, Jorge Tristani and (lower) Senator Chavez and Miss Truman. miles east of Great Falls. They!' walked to & ranch and were rushed to a hospital here, In Critical Condition i James Hibbett was in critical con- dition. Ralph Leftwich suffered | second degree burns on his handsl and face and Cato Dass escaped | with cuts and bruises. All were be- | lieved to be from Nashville, Tenn.! a es a(e Hibbett suffered a skull fracture. Search was started last night | when two of a group of five small ex-army planes landed at Oreat; n a w a @alls east air base and occupants . reported they were separated from | {the missing aircraft Quring a snow | 7.A,quall about 60 miles east of here. 1 Mag"uson' G.l'uenlflg D|S' Flight To Anchorage The planes were being flown from cuss Plans with Canad- ian Cabirfl Officials Alaska, reported Ray ‘Peterson of ! Anchorage, one of the pilots. thi Peterson was mechanic Robert | Steinbrecher also of Anchorage. | OTTAWA, Feb. 19.—A plan to The five planes left Union City,'connect the Alaska Highway with ,Oregon and Washington state ‘ They were flying in close forma- through British Columbia was dis- tion yesterday afterncon when they cussed with Canadian cabinet offi~ encountered squally weather near cjals yesterday by U. S. Senator Geyser, the pilot reported. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash) vanced trainers. ka. | Timothy A. McInerny, the De- partment’s director of public in-} formation, will fly to Europe and/ maks a survey of the investiga-| tions under way in Germany and outher former Nazi-dominated coun- | In Leningrad During 900-Day Siege i ‘ McInerny, a former lieutenflnt} NUERNBERG, Feb. 19. — Soviet colonel on Gen. Dwight EXSenhow-; prosecutors told the International er's staff, will work with Army In- Military Tribunal today that 632,253 telligence. | residents of Leningrad perished of Clark said the Justice Depart- | hunger during the 900-day siege of ment “is determined to bring every | Russia’s second largest city by the fingle American who played the | German army. Axis game swiftly to trial. No ef-| An additional 16,747 were reported fort will be spared because we must | slain and more than 33,000 wound- show the world that we are not. ed by artillery fire and air bomb- 5I0PPY sentimentalists where the | bardment. At the height of the crime_of high treason is concern-j siege, the daily ration of bread— ©d- [the only avaflable food—dropped to|"AS soon as evidence has been ob- | about a fifth of an ounce, the tained,” he added, “each of the ('-OSEDER—["G 5:;:;5%5'%510— !a.ce a | ONYUKONWRECK; 10 ppbvENT ANy CAPTAIN TESTIFIES e sMUGGLING i of inquiry investigating the causes| SEATTLE, Feb. 19.—E. L. Chit- of the wreck of the liner, Yukon, tenden of the U, S. Customs umcel {Feb. 4 off Kenai Peninsula com- nere said today customs enforce- | pleted their second full day of ment officers were going through | hearings yesterday behind closed “refresher” courses to prepare for; doors. an anticipated upsurge of narcotics' | The Yukon's master, Capt. Chris. smuggling from the Orient. | Trendsen, testified Friday at the! “We are preparing to meet what | l i fline to Whittier. | impassable by The Americans flew nere tor the ‘day, Gruening said after the talks IRAFFI( o" ALASKA ithat they had discussed the “pros tand cons” of highways in the north- lwest‘ particularly the project to RA“.ROAD IIED u Ibuild an extension of the Alaska | Highway, bringing it down through s el ithe more populous regions along ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 19— the Pacific Coast. The highway Scuthbound rail traffic was halted 'now leads to Edmonton, Alberta, when a high wind stripped a rai1-¥wmch lies east of the Rockies and road bridge of its tracks, ties and north of the state of Montana. stringers in the Bear Valley on the, «we are looking forward to fur- ther talks either here or in Wash- ington,” Gruening said. D !Stores (losed Friday; Housewives /Given Warning i — .- - i Railroad spokesmen reveal also that five boxcars were blown from the same bridge abeut a month ago by a strong gust of wind. Officials say the line is further rendered snow slides. B Ll STOCK QUOTATIO NEW YORK, Febh. 19.—Closing | cuotation of Alaska Juneah mine! stock today is 10%, American Can 96, Anaconda 47%, Curtiss-Wright | 10%, International Harvester 95':, [ | Juneau stores, following the annual custom, will be closed all day Friday, Washingtons Birthday. Housewives are warn- ed to check their shelves and then also remember that Satur- day is another day for check- ing up for Sunday. Schools, Territorial, many Federal offices, City offices and banks wili also take a holiday Friday. MARTIAL CUPID HARRISBURG, Pa., — Daniel E. Heavy selling today gave the stock | Sullivan, Emporium, Pa., farmer, market one of its sharpest jolts in al- told an Army recruiting officer, Jones, Laughlin Steel 48%, Kenne- cott 55, New York Cengral 30, Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor- poration 6, U. S. Steel 887%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 2,300,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: industrials 198.15, rails €2.96, utilities 39.10. i and Mrs, Jorge Guillermo Tristani The planes were described as ad- and Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alas- | S IN CANADIAN 5PY CASE 'LEAK’ CASE DETAILS IN NEW ANGLE |Russians Attempted foPur- chase Uranium on ‘Black Market’ OTTAWA, Feb. 19.—The govern- ment’s investigation into a leakage of highly secret Information was linked today to its probe of El- dorado Gold' Mines, Ltd, Canada's source of uragium, by a Montreal report that Russian agents had tri- od to buy $500,000 worth of “black market” uranium. The Montreal Gazette published a report stating that “a Russlan plot,” the buying of more than 1£500,000 worth of virtually “black market” uranium in Canada to bring about the successful culmina- | tion of its atomic bomb espionage | conspiracy in Ottawa and other |parts of the Dominion, has been | uncovered. | “Toronto was the locale of the |Russian scheme to obtain the ne- {cessary activating force to complete the circle begun by. agents who | conspired, - ‘allegedly with Cana- | dian etvil service employees, to ob- (tain secret and confidential infor- mation on atomic energy, the paper said. ‘ y Official Inguiry The Gazétte story indicated that | those allegedly buying the ‘urad- |ium failed-to get 1t out of Canada. | The paper recalied government e3« propriation ‘of the Eldorado mine i"..'.'f«é’."‘k%’ 5 an- ofmelar e quiry, now being Y. by J. Grant Glassco, Toronto aceount: ant. 5 | Glassco's activities, however, are es veiled in sectecy as the Royal Commission’s inquiry into the leak- ‘age of informabion, although it is known that 22 employees or former ! cmployees of the government were arrested Friday in connection with the information leak. One of the 22, it is learned, held a rank “very close” to Deputy Min- ister, highest yank attainable, by & civil servant in the Dominion. None of the suspects, however, held that rank. (The full text of Prime Minister MacKenzie's first -official state< ment regarding the leakage of in- formation was broadcast without comment by the Mescow radio last night.) 1 RUSSIA HAS RIGHT HAVANA, .Feb, 19.—Russta, “in self defense, has every moral right tu seek atomic bomb secrets through military espionage if ex- cluded from such information by her former fighting allies,” says Joseph E. Davies, former U. S. Am- bassador to the USS.R. | “If Russia had developed the atomic bomb and the United States were in her shoes, we certainly would try to obtain such informa- tion—especially if we faced a po- tentially hostile world,” Davies said in an interview here. FOREIGN SPIES WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — Es- pionage was one of the c! con- cerns of Congress today. Dr. Ralph McDonald of the National Educa- tion Association told the Senate Atomic Committee that a network ,of foreign spies hunting American ‘atomic secrets is inevitable, The best | safeguard—he said—is more 'and oetter research. . CANADIAN CABINET ACTS | _OTTAWA, Feb. 19—The Cana- dian Cabinet In its regular meet- |ing today was reported to have tak- en up broader phases of the gov- ernment’s. investigation into the | leakage of secret information which Iis said to have concerned atomic | energy. No authoritative information icame from the cabinet council, | however and the investigation pri- | marily was in the hands of the 'Royal Canadian Mounted Police. | Meanwhile, best available infor- mation indicated there was no con- |nection between the investigation jand the government probe into the El Dorado Gold Mines, Ltd., Can- ,ada’s source of uranium. U. S. PROBE ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — The House Committee on un-American activities was urged by Represen- |opening session and other licensed may. be the biggest attempt in|most. six years with leading steels, |“It’s up to us older fellows to get tative John Rankin of Mississippi officers took their turns yesterdsy.‘ 1y. | years to revive dope smuggling,” he Several passengers volunteered to motors, rails, rubbers, aircrafts, the younger men home so they can to investigate the spy ring which said, adding that huge stocks were | coppers, utilities and assorted in-|get married and raise families.” operated in Canada. The committee testify and some of them have ap-|believed hidden in Oriental ports,' dustrials cut down $1 to around $9 But the Army turned a deaf ear. discussed the matter but decided to peared before the board. awaiting an outlet. share at the worst. At 63, he was too old. de nothing at present.