The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1946, Page 1

THE LIBRARY G SERIAL RECORD MAR7 1946 “u - T W~ - ,. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” - VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,201 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946 _ MEMBE RESS PRICE TEN CE} R ASSOCIATED P RUSSIA, CANADA APPEAR "ABSOLUTE REBELLION” IN BOMBAY Brifish Parétr_oopers Force| Surrender of Warship Taken by Mufineers By G. Milton Kelly | BOMBAY, Feb. 22. — City-wide civilian riots touched off by a sea- | men’s mutiny flamed in Bombay | today amid machinegun fire. Bri- tish troops, planes and warships | converged on the city of 1,400,000 which A. E. Caffin, Deputy Police Commissioner, declared to be in a| state of “absolute rebellion.” | The Royal Indian Navy mutiny continued here, but at Karachi,| parachute troopers with artillery | fired for 25 minutes on the HM.LS. | Hindustan, 1,000-ton sloop seized | by rebellious seamen, and forced| the mutineers to run up the white flag. Mobs On Looting Spree In Bombay, rifle and machine-| gun fire crackled in many sections | against mobs which beat, stoned | and knifed their victims, set fire to many police and military trucks and private cars, smashed store and bank windows and went on a looting spree. | At least 18 were reported killed | and 250 injured, including 165 wounded by bullets, in the rioting. Hundreds of British Tommies | poured into the city in trucks and armored cars with orders to flrn‘ as occasion demanded. A heavy * force of bomber planes arrived atf airfields ringing the city. In the | harbor, mutinous Indians still in control of 2 flotilla of 19 small warcraft were faced by the advance guard of a strong Royal Navy| force ordered here to put down the mutiny. Heavy artillery was being sent to the city. Unconditional Surrender Demand (Prime Minister Attlee in London told the House of Commons that the all-India Congress Party had officially disclaimed participation | in the mutiny, “but left wing ele- ments and Communists are trying| (Continued on Page Two) The Washir?gton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON—U. S.-Canadian officials haven’t wanted to pub-| licize it, but une thing which has irked them for sometime is the| suspiciously large staffs maintain-| ed by the Soviet in Ottawa, Wash-! .ngton and certain other strateg\ci Western Hemisphere capitals such as Havana and Rio de Janeiro. _ In Ottawa, for instance, there are | around 240 Russian attaches, some of them going and coming across| the border so often that it.is dif-| ficult to keep track of them. | That any foreign government should need so large a staff in|director of Seattle Youth for Chnst, and disposal, which would greatly | y;mption it would be regulated only Ottawa was considered a cause for Juneau youth will have their first cut down sources of food Supply;i.n the basis of conserving fish and | suspicion, even aside from the re- cpportunity to participate in the the removal of structural and in-lgiq any departure from that policy cent leakage of highly secret mili- fine type of program being carried cidental rat harborage; the institu- | you1q jead “to chaos.” : tary information. In Moscow, for instance, the British Government| maintains a staff of not much over | 20. The American staff in Moscow | is about the same. i On the other hand the Russians| maintain a staff of 136 in the, small country of Cuba. In Mexico, prior to the mysterious death of Ambassador Oumansky, the Soviet| staff was even larger. In Ottawa, ten homes aside from the Embassy are officially leased to Russian attaches. They are: 24 Blackburn Ave., 14 Range Road,| 55 Somerset St. WA 77 Marlbor- ough Ave., 38 Vaughn St., 150 Met- calf St., 154 Daly Ave, 41 Spring-| field Road, 429 Rideau St. and 235 Chapel St. Quiet surveillance of | these homes, however, has shown ! that every one of them is jammed | with cots and extra beds. ik Officially, of course, the Soviet| representation in Canada is well| under 240. And it 15 belleved that some of the unofficial influx into Canada is from the Soviet Embassy in Washington. They cross back and forth across the border con- tinually and, of course, enjoy dlp-l lomatic immunity. Meanwhile, U. S. officials have become interested in the appoint- ment of a new Soviet Ambassador v e (Continued, on Page Four) | will AVOCADO GIRL_Miss Norma Crieger plucks a few avocados in a grove in California, her native state, RUSS TANKER BREAKS UP IN ALEUTIANS }Viclory Gardens | Again Urged fo Aid Food Shorlage WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—The na- jtion’s Victory Gardeners were call- ed on today to duplicate their yeo- man wartime service and help re |lieve the postwar global food short- | ages Assistance Sent from Navy e, o7, cim, from President Bflse at Adak_De' L ad “for food from this country fails Lacking {tinued effort to add to our total {food supy \ emphasize the importance of con- - gent food outlook also WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—A Rus- w. ed by Secretary of Agri- sian tanker has broken up about 360 culture Andersen in a simultaneous miles south southeast of the Navy’s statement late yesterday. He sum- Adak base in the Aleutian Islands. moned the nation’s farmers to in The Navy Department in Washing- |crease their 1946 foodstuff plant ton said it has received details of ing by more than 3,200,000 acres. the disaster from its Adak | — alf OF CITY IS FIRST STEP, RAT CONTROL The American tanker Puente Hills sighted the floating section of the smp and has radioed that it is at-| tempting to tow it to port. The naval operating base at Adak ' also ordered a 213-foot salvage sel, the Gear, to proceed to the id of the distressed Russian vessel. give sanitary survey of all private A medical officer was put on the'gng pusiness premises as the first salvage ship. step in the Rodent Control Program A Navy seaplane and two Army were outlined to Zome Leaders by bombers and a fleet tug, the Sarsi, james Stone, at a meeting held last are making a ,search of the area night in the Juneau Public.Health for other survivors. ! Center in the Territorial Building. The Puente Hills radioed that, wyp. Stone emphasized the fact none of the Russians aboerd the tha¢ the main purpose of the rod- after half of the vessel spoke ENng- ent control program is not just a lish, and consequently details of whirlwind campaign to eliminate the m‘ishap could not be learned rats through trapping and poison- immediately ing; rather, it is to be a long- - range program leading to the event- ual riddance of anything which jwould attract the rodents, or pro- vide harborage for them. | This is a program calling for the | wholehearted cooperation of every- one in the community, and can be |carried out suecessfully only with h: o —— BIG YOUTH RALLY WITH BOB PIERCE MOND_A_.Y_EVENMG | Bome. o dhigites ace s With the coming of Bob Pierce, improvement in garbage collection on all over America’ today. In more tion of rat-proofing measures in than 1000 cities and towns of the both new and old construction; the United States, the young people adoption of municipal ordinances |are conducting these wholesome and Which will provide better sanitary | beneficial programs in full cooper- conditions throughout the city, and ation with churches and church the organization of a permanent people. It has such an attraction Rodent Control Committce. for young people that hundreds of; Juneau has been divided into 20 [thousands of young men and wo- Z0nes with a Zone Leader appoint- Imen and boys and girls are now ©d by Frank Metcalf, Chairman of participating and en- the Committee on Zones, Each thusiastically. |Zone Leader will appoint his own Bob Pierce, 31 years old and son- Block Leaders, who will make the sidered one of Youth for Christ’s actual surveys, working on conjunc- foremost platform personalities, tion with their Zone Leaders and brings with him on his visit to officials of the Public Health Ser- Juneau, capable Willis Shank, ac- Vice. By diyiding the work among complished magician, song leader a sufficient numker of workers it and instrumentalist. A large crowd is felt that the actual survey can is expected for the meeting, which be accomplished in a comparatively be held in the Methodist brief time and without undue hard- Church on Monday evening, Feb- ship on any of the workers. ruary 25, at 7:30 p. m. All are. This is a program which will advised to go early, in order to mak2 Juneau a cleaner, healthier secure seats. and more attractive city, and with i HSALA the cooperation of all home owners, CAIRO, Feb. 22.—Ordey was re- business houses and property own- stored to troubled Egypt today as ©rs it cannot fail of eventual suc- British troops and Egyptian police (¢S5, kept close guard over British estab- . lishments which were attacked dur- PETERSBURG GUEST ing violent rioting yesterday. | T. O. Hansen of Petersburg is A committee representing student stopping at the Baranof. and labor groups appealed to Egyp- -— tians to avoid further violence but JOHNSON HERE denounced British troops for firing Elmer G. Johnson of Ketchikan on the demonstrators. c a Hotel Baranof guest. regularly R /ARNOLD HINTS IF LIMIT IS SET | :Induslry S;;bkésman Pro-; I phesies Chaos in Indus- try at Trap Hearing By C D. Watkins WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, — Pro- posed amendments to the Alaska Commercial Fisheries regulations threaten a serious reduction in Am- icl'h‘un food productions and “scores lof millions of dolla invested’ in | fish packing plants, a representa- tive of salmon packers testified esterday. The Interior Department opened hearings on its proposal to limit | salmon traps to 20 for any firm or | individual. A spokesman said, eight ipuckinu companies now have 221 of 397 available trap sites and ad- ded that one company controlled | R4 35. The maximum number of sites was 420, the Department figures showed. !"'W. C. Arnold, of Seattle, repre- senting the Alaska Salmon Indus- tries Inc., only witness heard dur- ing the day, was closely Cross-ex- jamined by Warren W. Gardner. Acting Under-Secretary. Arnold told the Under-Secretary ne believed that if the Department 1 limited its permits, as planned, pre- sent holders of traps would insti- {tute court proceedings. ! The witness said he believed if the plan became effective it woule cause chaos in the industry, adding ne represented 52 firms and indi- viduals who produce 95 percent of {the Territory’s canned salmon. He said the plan would prevent full { preduction this year because it ‘xnultl deprive the present canners jof their traps. | 1 Present Holders Not Sell He said it wou'd cost $50,000 to 100,000 for independents to install traps and added that the present 10lders would not lease or seil their squipment. He said new owners of trap sites ~ould not obtain materia I | 1 to in-| i tall the traps in less than a year | Methods for making a comprehen- | o5 v onehs and this would ceuse | ETeatest danger was a “slow rot of '1 sharp drop in production. Gardner asked why a canner could not buy his fish from inde- [ vendent. trappers and the witness | -eplied there was no assurance the ish could be delivered and that it | ost up to $500,000 for the canners ' to prepare for the Alaska Hshmgf eason, Canners, he asserted, would { not invest that amount unless they | were assured of getting needed! fish. i ; "“Some one in the Department,’ | Arnold said, “epparently believes, that it is an evil thing to operate | more than one fish trap.” ; The proposed regulations would* orovide that first preference for fish traps be given to independent owners in Alaska. i Regulation To Conserve Arnold declared the Alaska sal- non industry was built- on the as- He agreed under questioning that ‘theoretically” it might be a good ihing to award traps to residents of Alaska but insisted there were only a few residents who could af- | tord t¢ install traps. He said that the “real trouble” with independent trap owners was | that .they are unable to finance installation of a cannery. He refused to answer a question {hy Gardner as to what would be the long range effect of limiting traps to a maximum of 20 to a firm or individual. “I am opposed to the entire plan’ he said, “and do not care to ans- wer such a question.”. The hearing will be resumed to-|} day and is expected to continue | shrough Saturday. | ——— SHRINE DANCE 1S SOCIAL| EVENT TOMORROW NIGHT The last of the winter season’s de- | lightful Shrine dances will be held tomorrow night in the Scottish Rite Temple, with dancing to start! at 10 o'clock. The affair is invita- | tional, and all Masons, Kastern! Stars and their friends are anti- ~ipating the usual enjoyable eve- ning. | | | l 55 traps, another 48, and a third | | LANDON HITS NEAR BREAK k' CHURCHILL TO VISIT CAMPU S_rhis is a view of the campus at Westminster Collegs, Fuiton, Mo., where Winston Churchill. former British prime minister. will sneak March & Gloomy Picture Painfed * Dulles Gives sion UNO Sessions tewspaper plant Wrecke For Fulure impres AT TREND OF ' PRESENT DAY Greatest Danger of Coun- fry Is “"Slow Rot of Ideas, Adtivities” TULSA, Okla., Feb. 22.—Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican Presiden- tial nominee and former Kansas governor, said today the country’s the ideas and activities which are the foundation of popular govern- ment.” The Topeka, Kansas, oil man added in a speech prepared for de- livery before the Chamber of Com- merce Public Affairs fohum that the peril lay in the “citizen who Iis either unfilling or unable to thipk rationally for himself.” He decried “the tempered skep- ticism and freezing nicism” which he said create racial hatred Landon said there was an organ- ized campaign to ‘“create distrusts and suspicion and hatred of the one and universal protector of the weak and heavily burdened.” “While this campaign is aimed primarily at one church, it is de- structive jof ‘all denominations— Christian and Jew alike,” the Kai- !san continued. — e \ Is Executed For Treason PARIS, Feb. 22.—Jean Luchaire, head of the collaborationist press during the German occupation, jwas executed for treason today at Fort de Chatillion on the outskirts of Paris. B g AIN'T SUCH! PARIS, Fep. 22. — Reporters of many nationalities combed the left bank of the Seine last night and came back to their offices today |with the news: There are no sep- tuplets in the Rue Galande, Not even twins. They started the search on the basis of a report telephoned to a British news agency yesterday by a tipster that a woman in the tiny street had given birth to seven children—four girls and three boys. jall living. E—— ANCHORAGE MAN HERE William Pairclough, Anchorage resident, is a guest at Hotel Gas- tineau. WRANGELF COUPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gocdrich of Wrangell are registered at the Ho- tel Baranof. i PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 22. — | John Foster Dulles, member of the United States delegation to the |UNO, said today that the first | meetings of the United Nations “nado it perfectly clear that the big | nations “do not feel it very im- portant to-settle-théfy differences.” In an address prepared for the annual Washington Day exercises at Princeton University awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Dulles, who re- turned from London T y, de- clared: “I have listened for hours to re- presentatives of the: Security Coun- |cil accusing others and defending themselves. Most of the time it seemed the members were using the Council as a through propaganda and clever maneuvers they could score a na- tional gain at the expense of oth- ers.” The situation. he said, was dis- turbing. “We have no time to waste. The pattern of the future js already taking form, and the form is not a pleasing one. It re- sembles much the patiern of the past.” - e - (10 DOCK WORKERS TO STRIKE SAN ERANCISCO, Feb. 22.—Pac- ific Coast CIO dock workers are agreed 13 to 1 to strike on or be- fore April 1 unless agreement is reached with waterfront employers on wage and working conditions de- mands. Louis Goldblatt, Secretary of the International Longshoremen’s and ‘Warehousemen's Union, announced last night that members of his un- ion voted 13,979 to 1,120 to sup- port their demand for an increase in pay which would bring their hourly earnings up from $1.15 to $1.50. FROM ANCHORAGE | Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lewis of An- chorage are staying at Hotel Bar- anof. - e e 00 s 0 v o0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 41: minimum, 32. At Airport—Maximum, 38; minimum, 30 WEATHER FORECAST (Jeneau ana Vieinity) Cioudy with light rair showers tonight and Sat day with some sunshine Sat- urday. Slightly warmer to- | night with coldest tempera- ture above freezing. ‘e ® 00 0 v 0 0020 forum where (HARGES HURLED ATKING | Moscow NJpaper Hits Both Premier, British Foreign Secrefary MOSCOW, Feb. 22.—Russian- | Canadian relaticns deteriorated fur- ther today when the official news- paper Izvestia charged in an editor- ial that Prime Minister Mackenzie ‘Klng and British Foreign Secretary .Ermm Bevin were trying “to un- .|dermine the growing iaternational authority of the Soviet Union.” Only yesterday, the Communist ,party newspaper Pravada criticized King for his statement that Can- {adian secrets had been ferreted out {by .agents of a foreign mission. Izvestia printed its editorial con- spiciously this morning under a headline reading :“Downfall of King and his friends. (] |COMMUNISTS | CANADA TO REPLY OTTAWA, Feb. 22.—The Canad- | IN (HUNGK!NGHM\ cabinet, alter a |5»len, was reported today ldecided to issue a brief reply | Russian charges the Dominion gov- jernment had acted in a manner un- friendly to the Soviet Union in it disclosure of a leakage of secret li- formation. There was no indication when thi | as Students Demand Rus- | with travel . . . | sia fo Quit Manchuria | ——— reply would be made, but an interim BY SPENCEP. MOOSA report on the Royal Commission's CHUNGKING, Feb. 22, — The inquiry into the circumstances sur- three story downtown office and rounding the leakage was expected bock store of the Communist new ;before the week end. China Daily News was wrecked to- -t o obistatied day. p Intruders smashed all !urnlture! and tossed it out of windows with fittings, personal belongings of em- ' ployees and books and papers, | which were torn to bits. | Communists charged the intru-, ders were Kuomintang (National) | party secret service men. They said , the intruders battled Communist | employees from room to room and | floor to floor. | 2 Two employres were hospitalized | S with serfous injuries. Meantime, | R more than 10,000 Chinese studen'.si‘ U_ S. Army Ofilce[ Denies marched through Chungking streets, | . demanding that Russia “quic Man- | Tass Wrifer Right fo churia” and asking that Com- g wmunists answer five questions, in-| v's" So' Korea cluding “who is organizing puppet ' regimes in Manchuria,” ! 5 s Unidentified intruders also,’nTgfd:S'hf:b⪚L:'TL;g :()J' wreeked the business offices of the [y, ™ 0 B Ol T ol it | Democratic Daily, mouthpiece oribemmlen 16 vlsl(yauuther:oxor“. the Democratic League which has | .o pucdan commanders ":lh. been protesting government policy Anidrioasy nislhian o vislt ;x”ort‘mv in Manchuria, it Five Chinese newspapers here;:;'d l::;:n, A Sgshoritative by carried a joint protest by 20 na-{ The Tuz corfespondent's request cionally known scholars calling lhe!w'ls directed to G‘:;lernl b’dachn}: Yalta secret agreement the mOst' ... ‘pesdquarters which rela '; unjustified I modern . diplomstie ;" tq odge ns commander of e hListory. They charged that the late Pres- % e LRNA00 RS S ident Roosevelt traded Manchuria ' * ior Russian support in the an‘n_!dme:;der-:;led::f:;g;ny 10Tk o ese war and declared that hls' rivileges “tragic mistake” could not be ex- | T 6 cused despite his contributions lo-l ward victory. gy oo \YUKON INQUIRY flew Leonard Johnson, Elmer John- i son, Ernest Leask and William Lund | SEATTLE, Feb. 22.—A board of to Ketchikan; Robert Nelson to Pet- { inquiry investigating the wreck of ersburg; Ray Nielsen and W. F.!the liner Yukon in Alaska Feb. 4 Ward to Sitka; Ottis Babbitt tojadjourned its hearings yesterday Tenakee; and Tex McCoy to Cha-l.mm Monday, after a full day of tham, | hearing testimony from surviving Yesterday Coastal brought Art|crew members. Hammer and Marjoriet Newburn inl ‘The Baranof is due today from from Sitka; Mr. and Mrs. C. D.|Seward with 15 more of the 488 Sharrett, Joseph Pratt, William Wil- | survivors. liams, Christine Helle rand Cecil | | Rhede from Hoonah. | Leaving here yesterday for Hoo- ! nah were Mr. and Mrs. Hnrry‘ Douglas, Marlene Douglas, Annie | Willard and Cecil Rhode. e ELLIS AIR TRANSPORT LIS PASSENGERS OUT STEAMER MOVEMENTS Margaret Shafer, from Seattle, due at 6:30 tonight. | North Sea, from Seattle, due late Monday or Tuesday. Denali scheduled ! Seattle tomorrow. Passengers flown to Juneau by night. the Elis Air Transort yesterday Baranof scheduled to were Lindel Hall, Frank Oliver, A. Seattle February 28. . Ferguson and George Rudy from | Columbia, from west, due south- "((-v.chlkan. and Brooks Hanford bound, probably tomorrow. irom Wrangell. Princess Norah scheduled to sall Mrs. John Wyne was flown from 'from Vancouver next Tuvsday here to Ketchikan and Charlotte -- rompkins to Wrangell. GIRL YOR HARTS .. oy il was born to Mr. ang USCG MAN. HERE Bruce H. Hart at @ o'elock Lindel Hall of the Coast Guard ‘his morning in &t Ann's Hosp has registered at Hotel Baranof. ‘7The infant weighed & pound to sail from suil from BABY