The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,205 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1946 i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS URGE) FIR MEEKS TRIAL |$500,000 Requested for HITS FASTER | Army Airfield at Juneau; SPEED TODAY | Permanent Installation — | Indian Girt Testifies Camp- | ihe bell Still Had Money Sunday Morning Trial of George Harrison Meeks for alleged first degree murder of Clarence J. Campbell progressed at a stepped-up pace through yes- terday afternoon and this morning that caught the prosecution off | stride and resulted an an early| recess this forenoon. Since noon Tuesday, eight Gov- ernment witnesses had finished their turns on the stand up till 11:30 o'clock this morning when, at the request of U. S. Attorney Pat- rick Gilmore, Jr., the trial was re- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Perm- activities was introduced in anent installations in Alaska cost- House. Johnson explained that in war- s e e time, aircraft operated from fields templated by the War Depart- gng strips which did not meet min- ment. |imum peacetime standards. “In wartime our troops live in| Construction contemplated by the tents, mess in the open, use pit Department, he said, includes Ladd latrines and have few recreational | Field, near Fairbanks, $1,194,000; facilities; in peacetime, these troops Nome, $495,000; Fort Richardson, ircquirn- barracks, mess halls and near Anchorage, $717,000; Juneau, Irecreational facilities,” Gen Dwight $500,000, and others unidentified to- F. Johnson told the House Appro- taling $265,000. priations Committee. | The contemplated housing and op- His testimony was made public erational facilities, he said, “are a today when a bill to reclaim some part of our permanent line of de- appropriations made for wartime fense.” s L v L and - Sefflement Study B o s Sated. st tha | |Il Alaska |s proposed; $20,000 Asked for Star next witness to be called by '.hc: Government is a crippled woman ) who can not be readily brought to Court; that she had been instruct- ed to report for this afternoon’s; Chinese Stage Mass Dem- session, but that the speed of the| proceedings had brought -her turn onstrations Against I Soviet Occupation WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.--Con- gress today was asked for $20,000 {for an investigation to determine | what sort of land-settlement stud- |ies should be made in Alaska. j The House Appropriations Com- mittee turned down “numerous |items” asked by several Bureaus lif the Agricultural Research Ad- | ministration und, instead, included, in the Department’s 1947 financ- ing bill, the $20,000° for expensés of a scanning survey. | 1 [ on,” said the report on the bill,| “that a program of this sort should | IDEMAND RELEASES [FRANCE REQUESTS 'OR CHARGES MADE| KEARING BY UNSC IN CANADIAN CASES| OF FRANCO REGIME Popular Outcry for Out- right Diplomatic Rup- ture Increases PARIS, Fes. 27-—Foreign Minis- ter Georges Bidault reportedly in- formed the Forzign Affairs Com- mission of the Constituent Assemb- iy today thot he American and British support for a French effort to bring Spain be- fore the United Nations Security Council on chaiges of endangering international pesce and security. Deputies emeirging from a Com- mission meeting said Bidault told them he had :1ade the appeal in a joint note to Washington and Lon- don as directed by the cabinet yes- teérday, following its decision to close the French-Spain border to wrade, effective at midnight Fri- day. "These deputies said the Foreign Aitorneys @ing Impa- tient at Government's Secrecy-13 Suspects | OTTAWA, Feb. 27—Canadian attorneys, impatient at government |secrecy concerning the leakage of 'official information, prepared today to demand that criminal charges be filed against 13 suspects now being held incommuicado in the 12-day- old investigation or that they be re- |leased. | Raymond Quain, Ottawa lawyer, said he would press for adoption by the Carleton County (Ottawa) Bar Association of a resolution pro- Itesting the restriction of personal liberty, which he said deprives the uspects “of the constitutional right leither to have a charge laid against |them or to be set free.” | Two other attorneys complained |that the suspects in the espionage | case, identified by the Ministry of |Justice. last night as “public offi~ sake the initiaive for bringing the |cials and other persons in positions | gpanish situation before the {of trust” had been denied the Tight|syrity Council at its next meeting, |to confer either with counsel OF|gonedquled for March 21, even if members of their families. negative replies were received from The government previously had|ihe United States and Britain. |announced that the earliest report | jon the Royal Commissions investi- gation of the case—Russia has ad-) \mitted frankly that she obtaind {secret data from Canada—would| inot be made public for two or three weeks | outright diplomatic in- creased. Fifteen Socialists and Labor rupture thousand Communists, Union mili- 'ACTION TAKEN 10 PREVENT SHIPPING | cigco Franco’s regime last night, at which speakers called on the Unit- ed Nations to break off diplomatic | relations with “pain at once. LESENTS FitONTIER CLOSING LONDON, Feb. 27. — A Britis\ Foreign Offic. ' spokesman depre- i i 1 | had requested | tants attended a mass meeting of | protest againsy Generalissimo Fran- | New Secrefary of Interior Public - Power Man; Has Made Record, Past Years Krug, the President's choice as the THOUSANDS OF:""W Secretary of the Interior, is a | public power ma: with reservations. JAPS BARREDi On the records the far west can |icel that the job of making the | ‘dt\svrt bloom i5 in sympathetic | nands, for “Cap” Krug became a big name in the government by Cabinet Makes Final Polit- . Associates class him this way: a | I(al Purge on Ma(' !New Dealer but not as new deal- v ish as his irascible predecessor at Arthur’s Order | t WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—J. A helping build the Tennessee Valley ! |authority, prototype of the big wvestern dam and power projects. | complete public ownership, however. Intgrior, Haroll L. Ickes; an or-| | pnrizer but not a politician. | TOKYO, Feb. 27.—Japan’s cabin-| ug catapuited into prominence | The hefty, vouthful appointee | emphatically does not believe in et, applying General MacArthur's|in [1944, when the top command | |final political purge list, today of WPB blew up. Executive Vice- | | | efficials of 32 industrial and bank- resigned in anger growing out of | ling corporations along with “tens|a ng smouldering feud wlth’ man Donali M. Nelson; Nel- | of thousands” of other wartime Chafy leaders, large ard small. lmn as sent to China by President ! ! In this far reaching blow against | Rnosevelt. | {the wartime industrial hierarchy| Krug, a Nelson protege who had ! |ance also disqualified officials of at|Naval lieutenant. ileast 14 industrial control asso-| ciations and other government-con- -commander, was! uddenly tapped to come back and | ake charge. de did so, pledging ' trolled organizations. ;:ull-steam production but making | The ordinance detailing regula-;the promise: |tions for the application of Mac-| “When the war is over, the gov- | Arthur's ultra-nationalist purge, ' ernment should get out of the wayl’ closely parallelca the Allied direc-|of private business.” 5 tive. Cabinet ofiicials estimated u! His selection Lo replace Ickes may |would hit “tens of thousands” of |not satisfy ‘politicians who believe | { wartime figures in public life. an Interior Secretary should hail| “ Japanese - sources asserted thatifrom the far west for Krug many present ieaders of unaffected frnm Wisconsin where he was born government corporations will be el-!¢nly 38 years ago. M STAND ON RUSSIA BY U.S. 'VANDENBERG SPEAKS OUT, U. 5. POLICY Must Talk Plainly fo Mafcti’ Russia’s Firmness-Big Question Asked By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Reb. 27-—Sen- ator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) called today ‘for a vigorously plain-spoken American foreign policy that will match Russia's in firmness. Reporting to the Senate on his work as a delegate to the United Nations meeting in London, the Chairman of the Republican Sen- atorial Conference told his col- leagues that the world today is ask- ing: “What is Russia up to now?" Without attempting to answer that question specifically, Vanden- berg said in a prepared address that Minister asserted that France would | o oeq from public office the top |Chdirman Charles E. Wilson had upon the answer may depend the future fate of world efforts to keep the peace. It would be entirely futile, the Michigan Senator said, “to blink the fact that two great, rival ideo- logies—democracy in the west. and Meanwhile, popular outery for an "y non “the new cabinet ordin- |dropped out of WPB to become a communism in the east—here find themselves face to face with the desperate need for mutual under- standing in finding common ground upon which .to strive for peacé fur both.” Puts It “If” » But he said the Upjted Stat's and Russia “can live together in reasonable harmony if the United States speaks as plainly upon all occaslons as Russia does; if the United States just.as vigorously sus- tains its own'purposes its ideals upon all occasions as does: “The committee 15 of the opin~f "E'upr pA(- COASI SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.—The | clated today Uue action of the | French government in ordering the French-Spanish. frontier closed on iminated from office for “ultra- nationalist records in the past.” The order aléo provided for re- In those 38 years “Cap”—a child- ¢ lhood nickname which stuck and ;4om which he prefers to his given 1if we abandon the misersile fic- often encouraged by our f<l- {low travellers, that we somehow not be initiated without a very Federal Conciliation Service today | March 1. Such incidents, he said, jeopardize the peace if our cantdo: (Continued on Page Eight) to testify sooner than anticipated. The increased speed of the pro- ceedings has resulted from defense decision, with regard to several witnesses, to forego the extensive cross-examination that marked early phases of the murder trial. The defense waived all cross-examina- tion of two Government witnesses called yesterday afternoon. Youth On Stanc On the stand ut adjournment yesterday and further cross-exam- ined at the opening of proceedings this morning was Edward Schwaes- dall, 16-year-old son of a Fair- banks mining family. Schwaesdall,! SHANGHAI, Feb. 27,~}.{igh Chi- a close associate of the delend‘mlnese military circles in Chinshien Meeks when both were Alaska R‘Dad{reported today that Russia is land- Commission employees at Gulkanaljn, gqgitional thousands of troops last summer, was revealed to have';\"pujren and Port Arthur, indi- been brought here from San Diego, ' (qting an intention to remain in California, to testify that he loaned | ny,nchyria indefinitely. This was Meeks $60 at Anchorage last Octo-poi confirmed officially. ber to help Meeks pay his fare to 5 Juneau. From the Manchurian capital, Schwaesdall’s testimony m"owed‘changchun. a Russian Tass News that of Theresa Johnson, ‘nd‘mi‘AgenCy dispatch quoteq the Soviet girl who recounted re-newing & z?xgh Command as saying all Rus- former acquaintance with the mur- sian troops wquld be gone from dered man, Clarence Campbell, on.Manchurla at icast no later than the Saturday evening just preced-| i ing his slaying. She related that|China: probably before. she had drunk with Campbell that! Public demonstrations in China ,Y:m and that at about 10 o’clockiagnlnsl, continued Russian occupa- 1l following Sunday morning, in tion of Manchuria mounted despite Chiang Kai-shek's admonition to i the nation not iu be too concerned. ! In Nanking, more than 10,00 @ | demonstrators jammed the city's The washlngion'middxe (high) school compound ’ vesterday. Here in Shanghai almost 20,000 students staged their third erry- Go-Round such demonsiration in three days, parading past the Russian Con- ‘sulate building. thousands also By DREW PEARSON marched in Chungking, Chengtu WASHINGTON —~On February | *¢ Other cities. 45 this column published certain] Chinese mililary men in Chinh- facts regarding George Allen, new- |sien who reported the movements 1y appointed dircctor of the RFC,isaid they found nothing to indicate and his insurance company connec- |a Russian evacuation of Manchuria. tions which dii Mr. Allen an in-,To the contrary, they said, Rus- Justice. sjans are buying Japanese homes It was stated that Mr. Allen was|und other property and are sending made Vice President of the Home |for their families. Insurance Company in 1938, at a| Associated Press correspondent sime when th> Federal Government ; Spencer Davis toured Mukden and was investigating the Missouri in- surance scandal preparatory to convicting Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast, lifelong friend of Harry Truman. It was also -tated that the fire insurance companies operating in Missouri had -been forced to im- oound $9,676,002 while the courts were threshing out the question of a new rate in¢rease, and that by promising a bribe of $750,000. to Boss Pendergast, the insurance compantes were able to get 80 per cent of this nine-million~-dollar kitty returned to them. It was also stated that the Home | which made | insurance Company, the delightful Mr. Allen its Vice- President during the thick of '.hei fight, had the heaviest amount at stake in th2 nine-million-dollar Kkitty. Although Pendergast was convicted about a year after Al- jen’s appointment as Vlcc-Presl-| dent, the fire insurance executives who bribed him were not con- victed. APOLOGIES TO GEORGE ALLEN | Further facts in the case have' not developed And we opologize jor this unintentional injustice (Continued on Page Four) said the city had been stripped of inachinery and “any hope China’s Central Government may have had of taking over a ready-made indus- irial empire in Manchuria” -had been shattercd. Agriculture Depariment Bill in House WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A bil- lion dollar Agriculture Department appropriation bill to help finance j“an industrial revolution on the land” went to tae House floor to- ;day. | Pirst big peacetime fafm measure, lit carries funds for the fiscal year | starting next July 1 for the De- partment’s many activities, includ- ing rural rehabilitation and rura} electrification loans and for farm conservation nayments. Along with the bill, scheduled to he debated early next week, the Appropriations Committee made public testimony of Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson predicting steadily increasing farm production. 1 careful survey of the needs and | possibilities of worth-while results, so that an over-all program may be formulated as the basis upon which to maz: the initial appro- priations.” The Interior Department has been trying unsuccessfully -for two years to finance an exhaustive sur- vey of Alaskan opportunities for settlement by returning service men. These proposals,” the committee | American troops withdrawn from observed, “appcar to presage a far-| | reaching prograia of research in Alaska, the total of which may, in ithe course of time, involve a very large aggregate sum.” | The first Interior Department irequest was for $3,860,000 for an !agency to be-called “The Alaska Development Commission.” Rep. Johnson (D-Okla.) said it was “un- animously kicked out” at that time. | The Departmznt came back with !an unsuccessful request for $1,072,~ 0. | Claim of Alask Firm lnfroduced; Loss, Evacuation WASHINGTON . Feb. 27.—A bill has been introduced by Senator ‘fhomas (D-Utzah) which would give the court of claims jurisdiction over claims by the Aleutian Livestock Company Inc., of Utah, for any losses sustained to its business through the evacuation of the civil- ian population fiom Umnak Island, Alaska, during the war. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive Friday afternoon or evening. Tongass, from Seattle, due Sun- day. Taku scheduled to sail from Se- attle March 1. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle March 2. Golumbia scheduled to sail from Seattle March 6. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle March 9. Alaska schedlued to sail from Se- attle March 18. North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled scuthbound Thursday night. Denali, from westward, scheduled southbound Monday. P e, HERE FROM CHICAGO A. R. Lehne, Chicago, has arrived in Juneau, He 15 staying at Hotel Juneau. ’ - |longshoremen from the waterfronts {on and Secretary of the Navy For- sought to bring together represen- | tatives of employeers and CIO Wat- erfront Workers in an_effort to avoid a threatened strike in Pacific | were likely to yrolong Generalis- | simo Francigco ¥ranco's regime by ;making the Spanish Chief of State Coast ports. ""1 na..f:lam:l hero instead of a re- The CIO International Longshore- | f“g;‘& R i Aeih men’s and Warehousemen'’s Union, | e 8| smsn’ emphas " 3‘" accordance with the Smnh-cgn-L’lDWEVH- the o{zlcml British line {nally Act, has notified the govern- | foward Spain as stated in P”“"“' 'ment of its intention to strike. ‘ment by Fm‘cxgx:v S?Fretnry" Ernest | A walkout would take about 22,000 Bev‘n;‘hflt tBNllnm dflwso F‘lr::ll; 0 and wants Lc see a “popul of nine major Pacific Coast ports.|~UPported” goveinment in Spain. The union has asked a pay ralsl!i S 2l A B i vt QUIET REIGNS IN |of The San Francisco Waterfront | Employers Association announced | |delay of a proposed meeting wlthi union leaders while employers stud- | jed a letter from Harry Bridges, ILWU President. | Bridges charged in the letter that | | the association in recent weeks “has undertaken tp provoke stoppages of | work by longshoremen and water- e esons Facie OUArdsmen, Pafrolmen on Coast ports” and asserted that the | fa- ! orobunane: e un esemse o - Slrges of Columbia- | !refuse to negotiate new contracts H with (Ba s | Negro Area Frisked | A dispute between union and em- | ployers over the number of checkers| COLUMBIA, Tenn, Feb. 27.—A to be employed was said by both |tense quietness prevailed here to- sides to have threatened a tie-up of |day @6 State Guardsmen and High- this port and Portland, The union |way Patrolmen patrolled the city to has asked arbitration on the issue prevent a recurcence of shootings and offered to work on the basis of |touched off by racial friction in lone checker per gang of longshore- | which 10 persons were wounded men, but employers maintained ship | Monday night. operators should determine the| All automobiles, buses and trains number of checkers. | entering this sgricultural center of 112,000 populaticn were checked by - e - | ratrolmen, who, with the militia-! ‘;men, were virtually the only per- | sons remaining on the streets dur- |ing the night after Mayor Eldridge Denham proclaimed an overnight | curfew. | About 300 weapons, ri various type: ¢ firearms, knives s ol WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The and razors, had been confiscated armed forces pu’ in a bid today for by the Guardsmen and patrolmen a 20 percent pay hike and found in a house-to-aouse search of sec- first Congressiunal reaction favor- tions of the city in another move able although the boost probably to prevent repetition of trouble. would cost $600,000,000 a year. | Meanwhile, U. 8. District Attor- To many lawmakers reluctant ney, Horace Frierson said he was about continwiag the draft, the|investigating for the Justice De- proposed increase in pay and al- | partment the aisorders which Sher- lowances, for ail military personnel iff J. Underwood said arose Mon- represented a tresh inducement for day after a Neg:o woman and her voluntary enlistments — and more volunteers, the less demand pushing a Whice man through a on selective service. | plate glass window on the public ‘The increase was recommended‘;squnr@ jointly by Secretary of War Patter- | The sheriff said a recheck showed 75 Negroes, including three women, restal who said the objective was iiad been jailed on charges ranging <0 bring pay schedules “more in|from disorderly conduct to assault line with the increased living costs,” | with intent to commit murder. as well as to spur the current r —— ————— cruiting: campaign. ANCHORAGE MEN VISIT — .- HOONAH VISITOR Harold L. Sowuer and Howard P. Charles B, Metz of Hoonah is a)Dusch, Anchorage residents are at guest at the Baranof, the Baranof. \ | | CITY WRACKED BY including | the ron were arrested on a charge of | moval from o‘lice or disqualifica- tion of men in these categories: War criminals, career military and naval olficers, members of army and navy secret police, influ- ential members of 118 specifically named patriotic societies, leaders of wartime totalitarian political or- sanizations, officers of financial and development organizations which had a rolz in Japanese ag- gression, and governors, political advisers and other officials of for- merly occupied aieas. DENY PLEA OF NAZI DEFENSE NUERNBERG, Feb, 27—The Inter- national Military Tribunal denied today Joachim von Ribbentrop’s \plea that Winston Churchill, Edou- {ard Daladier and other pre-war | Allied leaders be summoned as de- fense witnesses in the war crimes Itrial of 22 Nazi leaders. The tribunal rejected 22 names of a list of 38 submitted by the former German foreign minister and also trimmed sharply the lists submitted by défendants Hermann Goering and Field Marshal Wil- helm Keitel. i The tribunal’s action led prosscu- tion sources to predict the entire case could be completed within sev- en weeks. In rejecting Ribbentrop’s request for Churchill and other witnesses from Britain and France, the tri- | | | RACIAL TROUBLE testimony would be irrevalent or cumulative.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb, 27.—Closing quotation of Aiaska Juneau mine { 1 Anaconda 457%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, | International Haivester 88%, Jones, | Laughlin Steel 45%, Kennecott 53'%, |New York Central 29, Northern Pa- cific 29%, Udlited Corporation 6, United States Steel 82%, Pound $54.03%. | Sales today were 1,400,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are |2s follows: inaustrials 189.06, rails |62.04, utilities 38.94. | RO - kil | |the OPA knows — A ithe building in which the OPA the QPA to move by March 31. |bunal said “it appears that their, stock today is 10, American Can 95, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27—Now .office is located, has notified reinstatement. names, Julius Albert—has rolled up tnis record of accomplishment: | At 27 he became public utilities | expert of the Federal Communi-! cations Commission. { At 20, Director of the Kentucky! Public Service Commission. 1 At 30, Chief Power Engineer of ! the TVA. In tnat job he negotiated | the ticklish, $80,000,000 deal with | the late Wencell Willkie, then President of Commonwealth and | | Southern, which enabled TVA to’ take over properties of the Tennes- |see Electric Company. The deal is ! credited with putting TVA on its| Teet. | At 35 he became Director of thal | Office of War Utilities and, more | important, Proycam Vice-Chairman of WPB. | Physically, Krug's dimensions are | | huge. He excee:ls 6 feet and 200 pounds by wide margins. He eats a lot and drivks a little. He likes o little poker. He is shy and soft- spoken—a shaip contrast to the acid-tongued, scrap-loving Ickes. The Krugs have kept their resi- dence in Washington, - although Madison, Wis., is Cap's birthplace |and Norris, Tenn., is “home.” The rest of the household is daughter Marilyn Ann, son Allen, and Mrs. Krug—whom Cap married while £till a studen:t at the University of ‘Wisconsin. 'Airplane Dives Low At Kotzebue; Eskimo In Freak Accident KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Feb. 27.—An airplane dived low over Kotzebue |Monday in a farewell gesture. One ski caught and snapped a telephone wire and the ‘flailing end of the wire whipped around the neck of a watching Eskimo. Heavy fur on the man’s parka cushioned the wire and the Eskimo escaped with moderate face lacera- tions. The plane was undamaged. | | i Anthor_aqe Official Wins Suit; ""Come and Get It,” He Yells Now ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 27— City Engineer Hal Reherd said last ywhich we have too frequently is as firm as Russia’s always 1s; and if we assume & moral leadership al- lowed to lapse.” One Rule Needed “We need but one rule” and Viii- denberg added, “What is right Where is right? Where iz ji D' There let Amerjca take her stand’ Along with that, Vandenbers said the United States must make it plain “There is a line beyond which compromise cannot go.” “But how can we expect our alien friends to know where that line is unless we establish the habit of saying only what we mean awd meaning every word we say?” he asked, adding: “I have the feeling it is the bust way to win ‘Soviet respect and Soviet trust. Respect must precede trust and both are indispensable to peace.” . Early—ReIurns from Argen![n_a Election BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 27.—Larly returns from two small proviuces zave Argentine Presidential can- aidate Jose Tambarini a two to one .cad over Col. Jyan D. Peron to- day as five other provinces mads ready to tally the vote of Suntlay's elections. The only significance political observers reacd into the scant first returns was that there had been no Peron landslice, but the fact that only two western provinces—San Luis and San Juan—had reported, end these only partially, made even that prediction subect to change. | Russians Are fo Wlill_d_raw, Iran TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 27.—A So- viet Embassy official gave assur- ance today that Russian troops would be witadrawn from Northern . Iran but the Iranian Foreign Min- istry and military observers there is no apparent sign of a Rus- slan evacuation, { An American officer said he be- {lieved it was “impossible” for the |night-he planned to stand on the|Russians to withdraw by March 2, City Hall steps and yell to his cred- itors: “Come and get it.” Reherd was dismissed last fall business college, which owns by Mayor John Manders and has; local waged a proponged court battle for Yesterday he won ,his case and will be reinstated. tne date agreed upon for the eva- ‘cmfion of all foreign troops from - HOONAH COUPLE HERE Mr. and Mvs. C. D Sharvet Hoonah are Baranol gucsts. l