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

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” M b LY DR —— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,221 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1946 ~ MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSO-AMERICAN RELATIONS TENSED | TROUBLE IN 'KOREA HAS NEW ANGLE Dr. Rhee Announces De- cision fo Resign Im- portant Position BY MORRIE LANDSBERG SEOUL, March 18—Dr. Syngman Rhee, who came out of 27 years of exile to work for Korean inde- pendence, announced today his de- cision to resign as chairman of the American supported representa- tive council of South Korea. The surprise political develop- ment in the complicated Korean political situation came as the ten- man Russian-American Korean commission prepared to hold its first metieng, aimed at unifying the nation with a view to ultimate self-| rule. | Seventy-year-old Rhee gave ill health as his reason for stepping down from his important post. Rhee was the target last week of the Russian newspaper Pravda,| | The Washington| Merry - Go- Round | | | By DREW PEARSON | —_— | | WASHINGTON A group of | atomic scientists were being quiz- | zed by Senator Joe O'Mahoney of | Wyoming and Congresswoman Hel- en Gahagan Douglas of California at a private dinner. Leading scien- |tist present was Dr. Leo Szilard, | | who discovered one method of cre- | ating the atom bomb. The Senate Atomic Committee | nad just voted to set up a military board with broad powers over the| | scientists, and Senator O'Mahoney | | was anxious to get Dr. Szilard’s | | ideas of army control. | Szilard told several stories of] how the Army, because it lacked | scientific knowledge, hampered the fsc&cntis's during the war. At one| | time, Dr. Szilard said, he came into | |his office and found that the! | book-cases had been turned around | to face the wall. He asked the| Army officer in charge why they | had been moved and got this re nly: 4y | here was a vial of uranium in| your book-case and orders are that | I nothing * shall be revealed” or ex- | posed. So we turned the book-cases {to the wall.” | Dr. Szilard explained that many which charged he headed a Korean scientists were so apprehensive of group seeking to grab govemmen-:v.he new Army control and the pos- tal power and control mining -en- | cibility, in talking to another scien- Memorial Asks Boof Be Given Gov. Gruening | The rush of bills to get under the § |last day deadline commenced in the | Alaska Senate this morning with! | three memorials and two bills hit-{ ting the hopper. | ‘Top talk-maker was Senator N. |R. Walker's Senate Memorial No. 1, | asking the Congrees, President Tru- | { lman and new Interior Secretary 1 | Julius Krug for immediate removal lof Governor of Alaska Ernest | Gruening. Whereases in thz mem- {orial based the request on politi- ical activities of the Governor, in- .v;cluding his Senate-lambasting | “Green Book.” i | Senat> Joint Memorial No. 2, a| ‘rcquest measure offered by Sena- Itor Grenold Collins is an “eyeful” asking the Alaska Development | Board to turn over $5000 to the! | Alaska Statehood Association for research. SJM. 1, also by Collins, wants| emergency landing strips made by| | strategically placing wide spots inj future roads. § Senate Bill 28, by Walker and| Butrovich, is a new case levy, 1ori 1946 only, on salmon: Twelve cents | | i 'Dead’ Soldier Returns-Wife Aboutte Remarry — ¥ £gt. Joseph Hadriah, his wife, Eva, and their son, Jcosiph are ACTRES S_viltian Molieri, Iper case on kings and reds, six terprises. Pravda said he was “making deals with the Americans;"” Rhee called this “absurd.” Saying he was speaking frankly “to my countrymen,” Rhee declar-| ed, “A political campaign has be- gun in Korea. Russia desires to Communize our country.” In_an interview he spoke angrily of the partictioned foreign rule of Korea and added he preferred to be a private citizen in order to voice strongly and freely his in- dependent views. It was considered likely here that Rhee's frank comments about Rus- sia made his position untenable, particularly in view of the Russian- U. 8. meeting which will begin on Wednesday. Rhee submitted a written resig- nation today but the council was adjourned. He postponed a schedul- er redio broadcast until tomorrow | night. | | tist, of accidentally revealing some- | thing, that they wanted to get out| of atomic science altogether. | “That would be a tragic mistuke."} advised Senator O'Mahoney. “You must not do that. Atomic experi- mentation must continue.” Dr. Szilard told about some of the amazing new fields which the atom | had opened up, especially in medi- | cine. For instance, it is now pos- | sible to put an atom in carbon, | feed it into the human body, and follow it through the body. Thus, | for the first time in history, the lexact flow of matter through the body can be traced. | | “But,” remarked the noted scien- ‘tist, “according to the Bill just ladopted by the Senate Committee, | all this will be under an Army |board. And, from my previous ex- | periences with the Army, such ex-! | periments will be very difficult in |the future.” CONGRESSIONAL TEMPERS | Representatives Earl Michener of KEEP DRAFT cents on all other species; trap li-| cense fees increased 50 percent and | the excess catch levy increased from | -1$2 to $4 on each one thousand fish| caught in any one trap in excess | {of 100,000. | SB. 20, by Lyng, is last session’s | bruited “Audits Bill” back againl for legalization by incorporation of | 'an enacting clause and with an| |emcrgency cause added to put the| law right into effect. | Committee references: .M. 1, Ju-| diciary; S.JM. 1, Transportation; {8.JM. 2, Pinance; S. B. 28, Taxa: tion; S.B. 29, Judiclary and Fin-| ance. ! Received from the House were:| e H.B. 17, empowering cities to zone jand require garbage disposal, to | Municipal Affairs; H.B. 21, congol- jidating tax cellection in Taxation | Department, to Taxation. | Senate Committee reports today !were: House Bill 1, “do pass with WASHINGTON, March 18—The amendments” from Labor; HIM 1, idea of a six-week compromicz ex-|“do pass” from Municipal Affairs; tension caught the fancy of some S.B. 4, “do pass with amendments”, Nicaraguan beauty, came to the U. 8. to study banking but tched to movie acting, ‘ ALIVE PLAN IN SENATE Selective Service Must B Extended to Give Mili- fary Strength | from Elections; H. B. 4, “without| after he turned up alive (¢ refute mande unit. cide whether to marry anoth KRUG TAKES OVER TODAY AS SEC. INT. Immediately An nounees Chapman Will Be Made Under Secrefary WASHINGTON, March 18.—Jul- ius A. Krug took office today as Secretary of the Interior, and im- mediately announced that Oscar L. Chapman would be mnominated ma Sgt. Hadrian phencd his wife while sh 0 {Michigan and Everett Dirksen of GIVE up pARI [11linois, both Republicans, are usu- ally mild-mannered men. Both have PORTAGE, Wis., March 18.—The served on the Joint Committee for Senators today as pressure grew for | keeping the draft alive. | Eclective Service now is due to expire May 15. The six-week per- recommendation” from Elections; S. B. 13, “without recommendation land re-refer to Judiciary”, from Elections. Progressive Party of Wisconsin, a liberal organization founded 12 years ago, has decided to abandon its party identity and seek to carry ouf its policies in Republican ranks. ! A decision to abandon the Pro- gressive organization and rejoin the| Republicans, from which the Wis- | consin group was organized in 1934, | came at a state-wide conference of | party members here Sunday after | Sen. Robert M. La Follette, one of | the Progressive Party’s founders and | its titular head, recommended the action. | The vote to return to the GOP| came after a stormy six-hour con- | ference in which labor groups, sup- porting a move to have the Pro-| gressives join the Democrats, and other minority groups fighting a losing battle to retain party identity, tinally had to bow to the wishes of | the majority who could see no fu- YOLCANO IN SOUTH PACIFIC SPOUTING TOKYO, March 18.—A mile-wide lava stream, threatening at least one village on southern Kyushu, is /the Reorganization of Congress, which proposed the plan of pen- | sions for Congressmen. This is a ticklish question and tempers were high during the vote which finally defeated it. When the House vote came up, Michigan’'s Michener voted in isvorl of the pension plan. Beside him, he heard Illinois’ able Dirksen vote | “Present,” which means neither | Aye mnor Nay. i “Everett,” whispered Michener, “you haven't got any guts.” | Dirksen saw red. Calling Michen- | er an unpublishable name, he re- plied: | “Why, I've at least got the guts | to vote the way I see things in- | stead of ducking back and forth and bobbing up only when it’s safe | to make my position known. You | always know where I stand on an | issue just as soon as I do—but it's | an awful tough job to figure out your position.” Michener now was fighting mad. He accused Dirksen of infsulting him and insisted that Dirksen lik- | ed to duch issues. Several other members tried to calm hirth. Finally | Dirksen, in a voice loud enough to | be heard some distance across the House floor, said: iod would carry it to July 1. 1 With the Senate military commit- | ( I 1 tee set for a full dress review of the subject tomorrow, there were o I p ' these developments: | vera os wa' 1. Secretary of State Byrnes add- . ed his pleas to those of President p d d Be ‘ i Truman and top army officers ro " Ion as l when he told a New York audience H ' when he tald o New vork e Drayious Records needs military strength to supporl} the principles of the United Na-' wASHINGTON, March 18—Over- | tions. He said “The situation Will|ay postwar prod'uctton already is| ::f:x?:iiacmmal unless the draft i85 outstripping anything achieved in| @ R | 2. Members of the House mlli-“:‘:,c:l:fifiez:fo::"mgl;d l:zg:;al e tary committee disclosed secret tes-| wproduction in the whole eu‘momy, Z;‘m°“}’h°f W‘:r fi?’;:mfe’;‘l‘ ‘::)flf)’:ll“‘includlng agriculture as well as| Oy iy 121047, r e AN R of Hollly, 1s ! » ) |now above the level of any peace- | % : e average for the-years 1935 to :‘:lfi million men below the ”my"’llm." the publication said. al. 3. Twenty-six 1 House members! joined in sponsoring a resolution calling for a special study of meQCA"ADIA“S GIvE“ draft question by a Senate-House| g PROGRAM T0 AID IN FOOD CRISIS, i | o INFliTION BEING | | | 1 Undersecretary. | Chapman, a 49-year-old Colorad- j0an, has served as Acting Secre- [tary since the resignation of Harold L. Ickes. In a speech which followed, the 38-year-old Secretary, last chairman of the War Production Board, said that during his administration “We'll be guided scrupulously by the will of the peopl> as expressed through Congres: “I admit that sometimes my own personal views will differ, and I shall not hesitate to state and urge them,” Krug said, “but where they are not supported in Congress they will not affect the activities of the Department.” Krug sald President Truman had authorized him to announce tho nomination of Chapman to the post vacant since Abe Fortas re- signed to enter private law practice. He described Chapman as “able, modest and public-spirited.” —— - ‘MacARTHUR AIDE SAYS COMMUNISTS INFILTRATE ARMY HONOLULU, March 18.—Maj. OTTAWA, Ont, March 18— A |Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, .Intel- Foiagy, a repert he was kilted a year ago orking and (AP Wirephoto |kome Pioneer |90 Years Cld On §i. Pairicic’'s Day | | NOME, Alaska, March 18.—Rob- | {ert Ledgerwood, resident of Nome | | since the early days, celebrated his | 80th birthday yesterday, March 17, | 8t. Patrick’s Day. | Ledgerwood is still very active in | lodge work, especially the Odd Fel- lows, keeps house for himself and gets along very well. His wife died several years ago. | e o | KILER OF 63 | GOESONTRIAL INPARIS COURT PARIS, March 18.—Black-bearded Dr. Marcel Petiot, charged with murdering perhaps as many as 63 persons, goes on triel in a Paris court today. The 55-year-old beetle-browed little physician is.charged with lur- ing his intended victims to his home, a large house behind a 20- foot wall, with promises of help- ing them to escape from Nazi- cccupied France fin return for a fee. A miscellany of human remains, ircluding partially burned limbs and kodics contorted in a lime pit, were found by police summonad two years ago to the home hy neighbors, who complained of thick, malodor- cus smoke. ‘The smcke was found to be coming from a white-hot fur- nace in which human remains were later discovered. Thirty-nine valises containing 97 petticoats, 57 palrs of socks, 97 |shirts and other clothes were found at another house. I PR Blackie, with Military Record, Buried with Honors - FOSTERED BY OPA “All right, Earl, there’s no sense nine-point program was laid beforeligence Officer for moving toward the sea from Min-in fighting in here. You come on | ami Dake, historic Japanese vol- cano which has flared into activity | on Sakura Jima peninsula across from the city of Kagoshima, the newspaper Asahi reported. Asahi said three evacuation ships (Enminued on Page Four) Bob Hope Troup Is CLAIMS NAM HEAD WASHINGTON, March 18—The price controls on all manufactured |the Canadian people by their gov- {ernment today in an effort to step up this country’s shipments of food {to the needier areas of the world. The new program is directed in | National Association of Manufac-| turers called upon Congress to end;geneml at increased efficiency in |handling of food rather than at in- General Mac- PHILADELPHIA, March 18— Arthur throughout the war, said last Blackie, a little five-year-old Labra- night he is convinced Communists dor retriever, probably never dream- ‘are infiltrating into key positions ed it would happen to him but sev- {in the United States Army. en World War 11 veterans—his pals | He was discussing the recent during 32 months of Pacific fight- [transfer of two newsmen from the ing—paid him final homage yester- |Pacific “Stars and Stripes” for day, a burfal with full military were ready to remove the 800 resi- |- dents of Kurogami, in the path of the flow, and less than a mile from it. ‘The lava is traveling a quar- ter mile daily, and is expected to reach the city in two days.. The volecano “is belching tremen- dous smoke clouds with grumbling earthquakes” and sifting ashes over the peninsula, the newspaper’s cor- respondent at Kagoshima said. The lava is “setting ablaze big boulders and crushing everything in its path-| way. - GLENN REID HERE Glenn W. Reid of Petersburg, ar- rived here yesterday. He is regist-' weekend from Glendale, Calif. He is | Berg of Ketchikan are guests at the jencourage planting of home gar- ered at the Gastineau. To Try for Record CLEVELAND, March 18—A chart- ered Two Constellation bearing thef |comedian Bob Hope, and his troupe |will leave Burbank, Calif., tonight| {for a try at breaking the flight] record to Cleveland—set in the 1920 |Bendix Trophy Race by a speed {plane. MBI ARG A, | RAYMOND WILLIAMS HERE Raymond C. Williams, Superin- tendent of Maintenance, Pacifi¢ Northern Airlines, arrived here last stopping at the Baranof. creasing production. An increa: in wheat acreage, urged strongly in| some quarters as a means of aiding | goods, contending that OPA is “fos- tering inflation enabling black| markets to flourish” and slowing down production. | Robert R. Wason, President of NAM, opposed a year's continua- tion of OPA as asked by President | Truman in a statement prepared | for the House Committee. | He termed “false” the Adminis- tration claim “that only OPA stands between the people and disastrous inflation.” - TWO FROM KETCHIKAN Ml‘s. S. Whiteside and Mrs. J. A. !world, was not recommended. The program, as announced by Prime Minister King, W. L. Macken- | zie, calls in part for: 1. A reduction of 50 percent over 1945 figures on the amount of wheat for distilling. 1945 amounts in wheat made avail- | |able for domestic milling. | 3. wheat and wheat products, and w: Gastineau. dens, “negative report” on a loyalty honors. check. ‘Willoughby told reporters that all the way down.” “How and where they are placed is probably by pre-arranged plan,” he added. The tall, dignified ex-military science teacher (Fort Benning, Ga.) dent in army newspapers, ‘Willoughby, who escaped with Japan, said the atomic bomb end- ed the war. The General is enroute to Japan. An unofficial “technical sergeant” attached to the 282nd Coast Artil- the hardest-pressed regions of the|the placement of certain individuals lery of the 10th American Army, |“started in Washington and went Blackie was buried in the Chelten- ham Pet Cemetery. A Legion drum and bugle corps played “taps” as bis master, James Dadario of Phi: delphia placed a tiny stone on his grave. Bleckie’s army file, the battalion 2. "A reduction of 10 percent over‘sald the infiltration was most evi- kept bis personal history record, shows he was AWOL only once. It also ‘says he left 10 heirs in the A campaign to encourage sav- MacArthur from Corregidor to Aus- Pacific. ing by consumers in the use of traMa and then went with him to, ROBERT J. CLAIR HERE | Robert J. Clair of Anchorage 1 a guest at the Baranof. plotured together in Detroit, Mich., hile serving with a Canadian Com- found she hed been trylng to de- IRAN [S READY 10 NEGOTIATE ON OiL BUT MAKES AN i Will Talk Concessions with Russia Provided Troops Leave Counlry LONDON, March 18—Iranian embassy officials in London said today that Iran was prepared to| negotiate oil concessions with Rus- sia only on condition that Soviet troops leave the country. An embassy, spokesman said he could neither confirm nor deny re- perts that Premier Ahmed Qavam es Saltaneh is at present negotiat- ing with the Russians in Terhan. He sald its was “highly improb- able” in view of an Iranian law prohibiting oil talks until foreign trcops were evacuated. “Wa do not believe that the Premier would dare to breach this law,” he added. The spokesman added, however, that since parliament has been dis- solved, Qavam s the virtual ruler of country, but ceclared the Premier would have to answer to the new parliament when it is elected. Embagsy officials sald there were no Irarian objections to Russia hav- ing ofl concessions in northern Iran. | Both the British and Americans are understood to hold the view that they should be given an op- rortunity to negotiate oil conces- slons on an equal basis with Russia or any other power. Navy Again Lowers Discharge Points Effective June 2 WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Navy has its discharge point standards again, eliminating at the same time higher require- ments for some specialists than for other enlisted men and women. Effective June 2 all enlisted men with 24 points and Waves with 18 may return to civillan life. These scores drop to 23 and 17 on June 15, Reductions In point requirements effective June 2 and June 15 will make about 307,000 enlisted men and women and 26,000 officers eli- gible, the Navy Department esti- mated last night. Male commissioned and warrant officers in general may be discharg- ed with 34 points May 15, 32 on June 2, and 30 on June 15. Re- quirements for others on the same dates: male doctors, 42, 40 and 39; aviators above ensign rank, 21, 20 and 20 aviator ensigns, 20 on each date; female officers, 24; 23 and 22; male enlisted, 26, 24 and 23; female enlisted, 19, 18 and 17. lowered CRISIS IN IRAN NEARS BIG BREAK ‘]New Difficulties, Sensa- tional Incidents Reveal- ed-New Developments (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) WASHINGTON, March 18.-—~With a single week remaining until UNO's Security Council meets, the Iranian crisis neared the breaking point today—and Russian-American relations tensed perceptibly. A steady stream of reports of new difficulties and sensational in- jcidents in the strife-ridden middle eastern country brought these lat- est top developments: 1. The American Vice Consul at | Tabriz, Robert Rossow, was retain- ed half an hour at a Red Army post last Friday. This was three ld:\ys after the United States told the world that Instead of pulling out of Iran Soviet forces were mov- ing through Tabriz deeper into { that country. The Russians expres- ced regret, and the State Depart- ent here sald it attaches no sig- 4mrmnnce to the incident. Russian Warning : | 2. While little of what is hap- | pening in Tehran squeezes through i the tight lid of secrecy, one report officlally forwarded here came to light. It said the Russian diplomat in Tehran had warned Premier Ahmed Qavam es Sultaneh that Russia would consider it an un- friendly act for the Iranian gov- ernment to reopen its ease before |the United Natons Becurity Coun- jeil. There is no evidence, however, ;that the Iranian Premier in any | way modified his earlier word to the United States government that Iran would present its case. Key Point In Crisis 3. American officlals’ best esti- mate of the possibilities at the mo- jment is that the Russians may try | either to break Qavam's resistance or pull off a coup d'etat to put a [new government in power. The im- mediate Soviet objective would be !to get officlal Iranian authority for | the presence of Red Army troops in Iran. Those troops were supposed to have been withdrawn March 2, and the fact that they still remain | is the key point in the entire Iran- tian crisis. No Military Alliance 4. The tenor of American- Rus- slan relations was set meanwhile by Secretary of State Byrnes with his assurance on the one hand that the American government does not intend to enter into a military ‘al- i lance with Britain and his insist- | ence on the other that the United States must act immediately to ,malmnln and strengthen its arm- ed forces. To do this he called |Ior extending the draft law beyond (Continued on Page Throg) PRAVDA REFLECTS NO TENSENESS IN TODAY'S EDITION BY EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW, March 18—The Com- munist party newspaper Pravda, only morning newspaper publist:ed in Moscow on Monday, reflected none of the tenseness shown in other capitals of the world con- cerning the present international situation. Pravda’s main editorial was head- ed “Stalin Plan Will Be Put Into |Effect,” and was an optimistic commentary predicting success of the Generalissimo's new industrial program designed to boost produc- tion to record high levels. Most of the inside pages of the six-page issue were devoted to dis- cussions among delegates to the Su- preme Sovizt on the new five year plan, which calls for research on development of atomic power and for industrial production by 1950 of |one and a half times the pre-war level. | The situation In Iran was con- | spiciously absent from columns de- voted to the principal news. | — .- DR. SAPPINGTON ARRIVES ! Dr. Edith Sappington of the U. | 8. Children’s Bureau has arrived 'in Juneau frcm San Francisco. She is registered at the Baranof. | {