The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1946, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,215 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1946 _ ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 2 NATIONS MAKE PROTEST, RED TROOPS MANY PLANTS OF Velerans Back ASSEMBLY LINES Benefits Bill openep By FoRD Be'ore Sena'e; Production of 1946 Model | Autos Moved Up fo Hearing Goes On Info Saf-. 30,000 Weekly urday Evening-To Be | e, s 11—win wne re- | openin today of several of the Resumed Today R Motor Ford Motor company's assembly lines this week's production of 1946 Tentatively slated to continue its model passenger automobiles will Committee of the Whole hearing on move up again toward the 30,000 the Alaska World War II Veterans unit level. Act this morning, the Senate of Al-| ‘The industry’'s normal peacetime aska’s Legislature decided instead Output is around 100,000 cars wesk-‘ to recess in order to use the bright 1V i § morning hours for committee work.| Returning to The Committee of the Whole, was Were the Ford assembly lines at more or less agreed, would be re- nearby Dearborn, Louisville, Ky., . d Buffalo, N. Y. Other Ford sumed this afternoon at 2 o'clock, 2 ., 3 with several more last war plants at Edgewater, N. J., St. Paul, planning to be heard Minn., and Chester, Pennsylvania, Veterans Testify are scheduled to reopen tomorrow With Senator Norman R. Walker, and those at Somerville, Mass., Kan- chief proponent of the bill, in the ?giciitg‘ rr:’"v%::ss;'-re"n” e chair, Alaska’s Senate Saturday _g ’ i ks e 3 fternoon opened Committee of the | Currently in production b‘eslde,s :m” s o 5.5 ARS Kldaka the Ford, Mercury and Lincoln Wecld \:'argn Vetorans Act, ana lnes are Chrysler’s Plymouth, 2 Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler divis- ®ot a large earful from a seeming- i, " giyqebaker, Hudson, Nash and ly unending stream of World War Overland, the latter on II veterans wishing to speak their peacetime “jeep” assemblies. minds on the measure, Closed factories are General Mo- Despite the fact that the hearing ;.- Gheyrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmo went through all of Saturday af-|y;, pujck and Cadillac divisions, ternoon and was reopened Satur- i jge.pound since last Nov. 21, and ~ |the Packard Motor Car Co oyl - production today vets (Continued on Page Tw;; e The Washingion MacARTHUR HEARS Merry-Go-Round WIFE ASKING LIF oy ouew piansox FOR GEN. HOMMA WASHINGTON —Henry Wallace i H > A has walked across the White House Aggfiyg‘ dl:‘:' 22 cijlv e((;’ ef‘f‘éijfizr threshold hundreds of times, but o =\ oo ience — Mrs. Masaharu rarely was he more heavy-hearted Hemma, and promised her that he than when he went in to confer y,;q consider carefully all the with his good friend, Harry Tru-'goois in the case before he would man, regarding the atom bomb. peymit her husband’s execution by Wallace had been asked by Tru-|., american firing squad. man to keep on eye on the battle 1ne ajljed commander in a half- of atomic energy now raging Oon noyr jnterview told the wife of his Capitol Hill, and the purpose of his ' pataan foe of 1941-42 that he “un- visit was to tell the President the'gerstood and sympathized,” when latest and saddest news—th»% the|she informed him it would be a Senate Atomic Committee Was great loss to the world if Lt. Gen. ready to report out a bill which Homma were executed. would turn atomic energy over 0 MacArthur now is reviewing the the same military control Wwhich case; and his word will be final. He delayed its development during the can uphold—or ease—the sentence. war. If atomic energy is left in the! Mrs. Homma did not beg hands of the military, Wallace told plead for her husband’s life, Truman, the Army would be in a Capt. George A. Furness, attorney position to take the:first real steps for the defense at the Manila war- toward fascism this country has crimes trial, who accompanied her. ever seen. | Homma was convicted Feb. 11 For example, the Army would be of permitting the Bataan death able to: (1) Appoint military men'march and other atrocities which exclusively to the Presidential Com- |cost 67,000 American and Filipino mission on Atomic Energy; (2) Put lives. such blanket restrictions on com- munication between scientists that | atomiq research would be halted; (3) Give the military the right to! fire any scientist from public ur[ private employment; (4) Give the| military full authority to make its| own laws for people working on said CARDINAL'S BODY STARTED ON LAST nor | ‘ PRAVDA SAYS MEDICAL BILL AT | | mwst convenion CHURCHILL 1§ of the legislature as their chief ob- | | jective, members of the Alask: ’ | Territorial Madical Association are !hu]ding their first annual meeting {in Juneau. o i The doctors attending opening | |sessions this morning voted unani- | X ooy 1o tavorof tne proposed| COmmunist Paper legislation which would prescribe | P Fee ‘certain tests in the basic sciences.! LONDON, March 11.—The Mos- i('hemislx . biology, etc., for medical!cow nefspaper Pravda accused| land non-medical practitioners in o | Winston Churchill today of trying, |entering the Territory. |to incite war against the Soviet! | The bill is being drafted by the Union and declared that if his| |attorney general, Dr. Willliam M. jdeas for a British-American mili- Whitehead said today. “The 'daS“-;tm’y alliance were put into effect ciation,” he said, “feels that Whi" would mean the death of the| a bill will greatly improve the class | United Nations | 101 medl(‘&\lg’.’md }non-medlcul pmc-i The Communist party organ,| {titioners entering the territory.” | breaking Russian editorial silence | | The association, he continued, i ‘on the former British Prime Min-| iquite sure that the legislation wxll‘me,-"s speech last week at Fulten, |be passed. !Mo., said Churchill had attempted | Officers of the assoclation in-lto “intimidate the whole world with |clude: Dr. A. N. Wilson, Ketchikan, {the horrors of Soviet expansion and | President; Dr. Dwight Cramer, Vice /its alleged menace to true democra~- | President, and Dr. William Blanton, |cy in the west.” | {Juneau, Secretary. Dr. Paul Hage-| “In reality,” declared the edi- {land, Fairbanks, who is president-!torial, which was broadcast by the |elect for 1947, is expected to arrive|Moscow radio, “Churchill tried to later today impress the idea that a new warj Among those attending the ses-|js inevitable. More than than, h2 sion here are: Doctors G. Lee Stage, incites people to this war and, | Ketchikan; C. Earl Albrecht, T"m':uamelj to war against the Soviet!| torial Commissioner of Health, Ju-!ynijon. neau; A. Holmes Johnson, Kodmk;‘ Churchill, Pravda asserted, “slan- iWilliam M. Whitehead, Juneau; D.idered the USSR by saying that So- |M. Coggwell, Anchorage; Capt. El-|yiet Russia wants the fruits of war {mer F. Lowrey, Naval Medical ;flifl(nd unlimited expansion of ber icer at Kodiak; N. Bernita Block, of |strength and her doctrine.” |the Territorial Dept. of Health; L.| Commenting upon Churchill’s ad- {G Gehrig, T. B. consultant for the |yocacy of a.“fraternal” alliance be- iDept. of Health; Edgar W. NoItis, tween Britain and the United States, {medical director of the U. S. Public pravda said: !Health Service at Juneau; John H. “He adds quite openly that this {Clements, Juneau; Max Van Sandt, military alliance must be directed officer in charge oi the Alaska Na- against the USSR, but the military {tive Hospital, Juneau. alliance of two of the partners of { Others attending the session are: g coalition against the ‘third means I Doctors Ray Banister, Seward; Dfl'ythe end of the coalition of the ,vid Hoehn. Palmer; Robert L. three great powers, which was es- Stricker, Cordova; A. N Wil»‘gfl-nahmmd in the course of the sec- Kstchikan; R. N. Hester, Ketchi-(ong world war.” kan; Rudolph Haas, Medical offi-| yere Churchill's ideas put into \cer of the tuberculosis samsmnumlmmucev Pravda asserted “it would at Skagway; Joseph Rude, Juneau; ' mean nothing else but the liquida- ;aud William Blanton, also of "“';Lion of the United Nations organ- neau. |ization.” Paul Monroe, representative from jSeautle for the Squibb pharmaceu- 10 ‘tical company, is also attending. I k [ The convention opened at ( es In o'clock this morning with a busi-| iness meeting presided bver by Dr.; ILee Stagg of Ketchikan. Physicians | registered, committees were named; i ’ ... NEW YORK, Mar. 11.—Former ;] 1 his ai-; tersrtz:ngua;uiifits:C:;Etitm Dr, : Secretary of the Interior Harold Wilson, President, presiding, was |Ickes was cast in a new political {role today that of executive iheld and. the program was & fol| (0, iy T ndependen it !cose veins, by Dr. Wm. Whitehead {ens committee of the Arts, Sciences | i § ;. (and Professions | {X-ray interpretation of tuberculi- i 2 i 4 His appointment was disclosed by sis , ; Applica- i | is, by Dr. Rudolph Haas; Applica-| = organiztion in a statement tion of Tuberculosis Control Pro- N0 Tiewe Indli iehl | gram, by T, Lepoyls Gehsk, ! Sculptor Jo Davidson, National 8:00 “onight—Program cpairman of the committee, said DOCTORS SUPPORT | ‘Former British Premier ! Editorially Attacked by | — - land an open forum conducted on| llegislation. At 1 o'clock a medical | }luncheon was served. o'clotk lcpen to all professional personnel. {Meeting to be, held in basement ;room of Methcdist Church. Gastro Iduodenal ulcer and surgical physiol-' in the statement that “we believe, that his active participation will prove .invaluable in mobilizing the millions of independent voters in the atomic energy “over and above the TRIP T0 AMERICA Espionage Act;” (5) Set up aclen-‘ tists over and above those pro-| DUBLIN, March 11.—To the slow seribed by Congress; and (6) Per- measures of a dirge played by an mit private ownership of fissionable |Irish army band, a procession of material (the material from which fmourners escorted the body of John atomic bombs are made). |Cardinak Glennon today through Wallace pointed out that it was|lines of sorrowing Irish folk to the; | absurd to give such powers to the outskirts of Dublin. ogy envolved, by Dr. Joel W. Baker | oounry for united political action.” |of Seattle. : | Ickes asserting in the statement, The program tomorrow is as fol- wye gre in a crisis that can lead lows: 'us.into World War IIL" called up- 10:00 a. m.—Business meetingg, by | " citizens to “demand that our| IDr. Arthur Wilson, presiding. Report |ooyernment reaffirm its intention to lof Committees. Isupport the United Nations and dis- | 11:00 a. m—Program. Report 0D, yqy those disrupters who are un- {two cases of Mesenteric Thrombosis, dermining the unity that brought us military in times of peace. ' “We wouldn’t give them control of all gasoline or coal, even though they .too are used for national de- fense, would we?” the Secretary of Commerce argued. TRUMAN OPPOSES MILITARY President Truman emphatically agreed. He even went further and promised that he, would do every- thing he could to prevent brass-hat military control of atomic energy. How far the President will get with the Senate and House Com- mittees, however, is problematical. The Senate Committee on Atomic Energy is one of the most reaction- ary on Capitol Hill, while on the House side, Chairman Andrew May of the Military Affairs Committee says privately that when the Atom over to U. 8. Deputy Marshal Wal- \ Differe: Bill gets into secret Senate-House conference he will make sure that his own May-Johnson Bill is sub- stituted for any non-military mea- sure that Senator McMahon of | morning at 2:30 o'clock in the door- | Connecticut is able to write. What has happened in the Ser- ate hearings is inter:sting. The Senate Commitiee bas listenea to {he scientists who did the real wovk —_————————— (Continued cn Page Four) | It'was the beginning of the long ilast journey from the Cardinal’s na- tive land to his adopted home in {8t. Louis, where his body will be laid in crypt in the beautiful ca- thedral whose construction he |guided. | A solemn requeim mass was sung !in the chapel of All Hallows College {in Dublin, where the Cardinal Arch- |bishop of St. Louis once studied to irecome a missionary to America’s |Missouri valley more than 60 years ago. ASSAULT-BATTERY William Hart and Donald John- son, picked up by Juneau police this morning on a charge of as- sault and battery have been turned |ter B. Hellan of the Marshal’s of- | fice. t Hart and Johnson are alleged to | have attacked a local man Sunday way of the Gross building. F. J. HART IN TOWN [ F. J. Hart, a resident of Tenakee, lis staying at the Gastineau during his visit here, |by Dr. G. Lee Stagg. Territorial {Department of Health Plans, by Dr. C. Earl Albrecht. { 1:00 p. m~—Medical luncheon. Ann’s at the hospital. 2:30 p. m—Closing business meet- iing, Dr. Arthur Wilson presiding. 3:30 p. m.—Program: Treatmént of the Acute Gall Bladdér, by Dr. {A. Holmes Johnson; Papers by Dr. {Wilson and Dr. Haggland. 5:30 p. m.—Reception at home of Dr. Wm. Whithead. | 7:00 p. m—Banquet open to all TProresswnal Personnel. Address by | Gov. Ernest Gruening. Aspects of | Venrereal Disease Control by Dr. E. IW. Norris. Address by Dr. Joel W. Baker—"Acute Surgical Abdomen— ntial Diagnosis at Operation ]Table." o IBEFEE. Foan. Y | PAUL-STARR NUPTIALS | William Paul, Jr, and Virginia Ione Starr were married Saturday night in the Northern Light Pres- | byterian Church by the Rev. Willis R. Booth. | Witnesses were Mrs. William L. Paul, Sr, and W. A, Winn, Physicians guests of Sisters of St.| Moving | ,pictures, courtesy of Squibb & Co. victory.” R 1 ' STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 11.—Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 92, Alleghany Corporation 6 ! American Can 93, Anaconda 46, | Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 89z, Kennecott 52%, New York Central 26%, Northern Pacific 129, United Corporation 5%, U. S. Steel 82%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 880,000 shares Dow, Jones averages today are as jfollows: industrials 192.89, rails 16181, utilities 40.08. ! PRICES SATURDAY | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- {neau mine stock last Saturday was {9%, Alleghany Corporation 6% | American Can 94%, Anaconda 46%, | Curtiss-Wright 10, Internatiopal | Harvester 89%, Kennecott 52%, {New York Central 27%, Northern Pacific 30%, United Corporation | 5%, U. S. Steel 84, Pound $4.03 Sales Saturday at the short ses- !sion were only 460,000 shares. i Dow, Jones averages Saturday | were as follows: industrials 194.45,; rails 6257, utilities 40.28. | B o - NEW TRANSPORT —Pointing her nose upward, this new transport plane, known to the Army as the XC-112 and commercially as the DC-6, starts her maiden flight at Santa Monica, Calif. BRITISH MOVING OUT EAST INDIES; DUTCHMOVINGIN Fighting Breaks Out in One Area - Planes Go Info Action BATAVIA, March 11.—Approxi- mately 1,000 British Indian troops boarded ships today as the British began to carry out their announc- ed policy of gradually withdrawing their forces from the Netherlands East Indies ‘The embarkation followed the ar- rival here Saturday of 2,400 Dutch troops from Malaya. A communique issued at that time said they would replace the British forces when the latter “eventually leave.” Fighting broke out last night when a British convoy was “heavily engaged” by Indonesians between Buitenzorg and Bandoe! a Bri- tish statement said, and Spitfires made five strafing runs on the na- tives. This marked the first time months that British planes gone into action here. The statement said fighting con- tinued through the night and the convoy was still halted road- blocks and landmines. The British placed their casualties at seven killed and 25 wounded as of 8 p.m. yesterday. Meanwhile, an atmosphere of tension prevailed as a new series of conferences of Dutch, British and Indonesian leaders was scheduled HERE FROM FAIRBANKS TO ATTEND EDUCATION & WELFARE BD. MEETS Mrs. Hjalmar Nordale, whose hus- band is mayor of Fairbanks and a former member of the Territorial Senate, arrived in Juneau by plane Saturday from her home city, to attend meetings of the Territorial Board of Education Mrs. Nordale is a guest Hotel Baranof during her stay here. Also from Fairbahks is Mrs. Clif- ford Smith, in Juneau to attend meetings of the Territorial Board of Public Welfare, of which she is a member. in had R POLICE COURT NEWS H. Weislemen, pleading guilty to drunkenness and under investiga- tion for theft,' has been fined $25 by Municipal Judge William Holz- heimer. Also fined were Jake Cropley, Jr., $25, charged with being drunk and disorderly; William Jackson, $25, drunkgnness; Amos Walog, sentence of $10 and five days in jail for drunkenness suspended provided he goes back to his home in Hoonah - - WASHINGTON - Immediate ng- gotiation with Indians in Alaska for surrender of their rights to all lands and waters in the Territory they no longer need was proposed today in legislation introduced by Delegate Bartlett, SEPARATE OFFICE FCR BOOSTING OF ALASKA WANTED Senator Még.fifison Makes Suggestion Regarding Cabinet Com. WASHINGTON, March 11.—Sen- ator Magnuson (D-Wash. has sug- gested to the President's Cabinet Committee on Alaska that it act as a semi-autonomous body with separate offices in the President's executive office. Magnuson said he believes this should be done to remove the com- mittee offices from the influence of any department. The committee is composed of the Secretaries of Ag- riculture, Commerce, and Interior. The Senator also proposed that the committee appoint an executive secretary and allow the office funds, probably $50,000 a year, to operate and employ a staff. “The development of Alaska and the settlement of veterans there in agriculture, commerce and in- dustry,” Magnuson said, “will re- quire the close cooperation of all government agencies. It should be carried forward immediately and the President’s® Alaskan program set in mofion because of seasonal factors and the increasing pres- sure from veterans for aid in es- tablishing themselves in the Ter- ritory." D RITCHHIKES T0 MINN., | FROM CALIF. AFTER RELEASE FROM NAVY MANCHURIAN ‘OCCUPATION Brifain Joins U. S. Profest- ing to Russian Refain _of Troops in Area LONDON; March 11,—United States protosts to Russia against the ‘mn(inm-d presence of Red Army ,troops in Manchuria and the remov- {al of industrial machinery from |that section of China were Lbolstered | today a similar British com- | plaint A British foreign office spokes- | man disclosed dispatch of a note on IManchuria to Moscow, following by |several days the American protest. He added that the British govern- ment maintained that all factory !installations in Manchuria should ‘te Teft in the custody of the Chi- 'nese until an Allied decision was imade for their dsposal Early kepiy Oemanded The spokesman also said that the British Charge d'Affaires in Mos- | | | i | |cow had been instructed to “press }Im‘ an early reply” to a nots de- |manding an explanation of Rustia’s failure to evacuate Iran in accord- {an(-e with a Big Three agreement. |The United States had previously {protested to Moscow over the situa=- |tion in Tran. , Th Moscow radic, meanwhile de- ovER MuKDENlcmd what it described as “irre- . |sponsible talk” in the United States, ey t and said it appeared that certain « %% ‘people there were attempting to Nationalists, Comm unist;;piant secds of s new woria Sar: Troops En'er C“y as imc Soviet Union.” ‘Russians Evacuate Friendship Essential Ry . — o~ -t ; The Broadeast declared Soviet- ! American friendship was essential to iworld peace and asked why the SPENCER ' United States should “defend Brit- CHUNGKING, March 11.—Chin- |ish colonial policy.” % ese Nationalist and Communist re-. “Why should any American feel inforcements today were reported'that while British actions in the moving to Mukden, where, the|colonies and elsewhere are sevorely Central News Agency said, the rival 'criticized, America should turn forces were battling after sudden away from the United Nations and withdrawal of Soviet troops. ;smrt getting ready for andother Chinese press dispatches said that 'world war?” the Moscow commen- the Communists, heavily outnum- 'tator asked. bering Nationalist troops in the city { “Clear thinking people In the of 2,000,000—Manchuria’s largest——ivnited States . . . turn away from had occupied the power plant and .this third world war propaganda.” northern district. ( B ciaars: on o commeend Other reports said the Central | Government had proclaimed mar- ’isalmon pa(kinq on MOOSA been picked clean by the Russinns‘; The press reports declared that | elements of four Nationalist armies | ment elements were identified as|{ ASTORIA, Ore, March 11.—Sal- frcm the 13th, 52nd, 1st and sth{mon canning, once the mainstay of armies. iall fisheries here, dropped to third tial law in the skeleton city, whose Columbia River in were marching to Mukden and that | Communist réinforcements were | ! place in the Columbia River Pack- Enter Mukden ers Association 1945 sales volume once - great industrial plants had moving in from the north. Govern- : The Central Daily News said (hel from its local operations, the an- Netionalist 14th Division entered | nual report to stockholders reveals. | Mukden Saturday. | Fresh and frozen fish sales, chief- The suddenness of the Soviet |y of fillets produced from the withdrawal was blamed for theigcean bottom catch, grossed $2,117,- “serious” street fighting in Mukden. |g23 The albacore tuna pack, Dispatches said the Nationalists did | handled for the first time commer- nct have sufficient troops to cope with the situation They said that for the past few With more than three years ser- vice in the U. 8. Navy, and a lot of miles of travel behind him, Don- ' days Soviet authorities in Man- ald Rude, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. O.'churia, from Marshal Rodion Y. Rude, arrived home via Petersburg:Malinovsky, Soviet Commander, to and the boat Donjac last night. junior officers, had been inacces- cially in 1937, grossed $1,949,485 on 139,674 cases. The Association’s Col- umbia river salmon pack was a | close third at $1,724,080. & | Crabmeat production, a compar- atively new enterprise here, totaled 225,354 cases valued at $173,411. at the' He was recently discharged at San Francisco, shortly after returning from Okinawa. Before coming home, young Rude hitch-hiked from San Francisco to Minneapolls, Minn, to visit rela- tives, going into Mexico on the way. He made the trip in six days —almost record time considering travel conditions @s they are in the States at present. He had planned to try to return via the Alean Highway to White- horse, then fly from there, but weather . conditions and other fac- tors made the idea seem impracti- cable, so he resorted to the more conventional means and came through Canada via the Canadian Northern Railways, then by steam- er to Petersburg. He was in that city for the basketball games Friday and Saturday, and returned with the High School yplayers on the Donjac. - -re HAMELN, Germany — Six Ger- mans have been hanged for tortur- ing and slaying Allied prisoners of war last year. British hangman Al- bert Pierrepont carried out the sentences of the War Crime Court here Priday. sible to Nationalist officials. The Central News Agency did not interpret the withdrawal from Muk- | den as a general Russian evacua- tion of Manchuria. The agency de- clared that six trains from Mukden ; had unloaded troops, tanks, artil- lery and automobiles at Changchun, Manchuria capital. Yet another report said Chang- chun was full of rumors that Soviet | forces intended to quit the ecity. No known developments supported this. | -+ PAC Doesn't Want | Hoover in New Job Thirty-five million pounds of fish were purchased by the Assoclation during the year. - HERE FROM Capt. E. F. Lawery and Dr. A | Johnson, both of Kodiak, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. KODIAK VETERANS! Read Today’s Editorial on NEW YORK, March 11.—The Na- ! tional Citizens Political Action com- mittee wants former President | Hceover replaced as European fam-: ine investigator by “an appointee in whom the American people, and people throughout the world have | greater faith and confidence.” H ‘The PAC asked repldcemnt of Hocver in a letter to President Tru- | man who recently requested the' former President to undertake the study. Page Four