The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1946, Page 1

| | :\ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " VOL. LXVIL., NO. 10,223 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 1946 ME MPLR /\SQOCIATE [) PRE SS " PRICE TEN CENTS NOW ADVOCATED BIG THREE MEETIN | the cards for peace, Harriman told | other conference of *Big Three” l leaders and clearly ' stating his Ideas. ARMY PLANES IN CRASHES IN CALIFORNIA Big C-47 Hits in Mounfain- B-29 Smashes Up on 3.820-H. Peak SAN FRANCISCO, March 20— Crashes of two big army planes in northern California mountains yes- terday apparently took a death toll of 33 army and navy men, whose bodies ground crews labored in dif- ficult terrain today to recover. Twenty-three bodies, some of | them buried several feet in snow,| & had been found early today at the| scene of a C-47 crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 8 mile from the ghost town of Hobart Mills and sev-| | en miles from Truckee, Calif. Three others listed on the flight from| Stockton, Calif., bound for Ogden, Utah, were believed in the yet in- accessible flight control compart-| ment of the wreckage. | B-23 Crashes | A ground crew pushed toward the | wreckage of a B-29 which crashed | with seven crewmen into the top orl ~ 3890-font neak near Jivermore, $0-mile-southeast -of San Francisco.' ‘\ne pomper came 1IOM FlKiwai. Field, Honolulu. Its radio reported | engine trouble several hours before | the plane plummeted to earth 10 feet from the top of the peak. Explodes In Air Witnesses said they say the C- 47] explode in the air, and Captain | Harold Simer, commanding the Reno, Nev. Army Air Base, said! the wreckage indicated a wing, which has not .been found, was| blown off before the crash. Snow piled as high as 12 feel| in drifts. Army workers and volun- teers who reached the C-47 wreck-| age by snowmobile toiled through the night by campfire and fln.sh- light in removing snow to recover | the frozen bodies, some of which| were bndly mangled STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vzmcauvex,i scheduled to arrive Friday after- ' noon or eyening. Tongass, from Seattle, scheduled 1o arrive Saturday. Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. { Taku scheduled to sail from Se- attle March 29. } Aleutian, from west, scheduled to | g arrive at 3 o'clock Friday after- ncon. i - FROM FAIRBANKS i Mr. and Mrs. Neil Cecil of Fair-| banks have arrived in Juneau and are stopping at the Baranof. | The Washington| 'Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEABSQN WASHINGTON — Ex-Ambassa- «dor W. Averell Harriman gilded no hllies in his talk on Russian rela-| tions at that hushed-up session of | ‘he Senate Foreign Relations Com-‘ mittee. He was candid and realistic ! about the prospects of another war —s0 candid, in fact, that he had his‘ dignified listeners sitting on the edge of their chairs. “Let’s get one thing straight,” Harriman told the Committee. “Russia does not want war, espec- | ally with the United States. How- | ever, that doesn’t mean that war can be averted.” | The big danger, he declared, lay in Russia’s over-reaching herself .in Iran, Turkey and elsewhere. In other words, Soviet expansion in these areas can't be ignored by the United States and Britain without making a mockery of their prestige and the whole concept of the Unit- ed Nations. In the present international “po-| ker game,” Stalin controls most of | the closed-door session. He could ake himself one of the greatest| figures in history by asking for an- | It will be necessary for Russia to clarify to the rest of the. world that she doesn’t plan to devour the | - (Continued on Page 'Four) Accused in Canada Spy (ase |""Furious Resistance” Be- RUSS REGIME ‘lAmerlcan Russian commission to-{ |SHVERNIK IS Russia Can't Wage War [HIGH MANIN Warlmmediately, Says U. . Military Observer 'SOVIET UNION BLUNTLY TELLS KOREAN POEICY ‘Son ofJannor Old Bolshe- DOESN'T BELIEVE \ ing Conducted by Re- ' actionary Groups EEOUL, March 20—The Soviet Union bluntly stated its aims in Korea at the opening of the joint WASHINGTON, March 20.-—Sov- fet Russia’s ability to wage a suc- cessful major war now was ques- sald food shortages are major tacles to further | tionied today by a career U. S. urmy‘[ officer and military observer who| ob-| Red Army cam- | ;day and charged “there is furious#l MOSCOW, Match 20. — Nikolai| paigns. resistance” to Korean democracy khailovich Shvernik, 58, a leader | Col. Conrad H. Lanza, retired, “by reactionary and anti-democratic, the trades union ‘movement in| Ingtime commentator for the semi- groups.” 4 Russia, became the chalrman mdsy Hlmmler S Ordefs co" official field artillery journal, re-| Col: Gen. Terenty Shtykov, Rus- of the Presidium of the Supreme‘ perted In a survey of current con- ( | RUSSIAN RELATIONS TAKEN UP Senator Pepper Calls for Session for Truman, 1 Attlee, Stalin WASHINGTON, Mar. 20—Amers ican relations with Russia continug ito be a prime topic of discussion in the capital today. First off, the Senate Foreign Relations com- Cart. Gerdon Lunan, 30, in civi Canada’s Wartime Information (right, top) an electrical engineer in the Naticnal R ian clothes (top, lett), member of Beard; Edward Wilfred Mazerall search Ceuncil working on radar in Canada; Miss Kathleen Mary Willsher (left, bettom), 41. and peared at the cit to viciate «fficlal government czys, \thnlmtur 'MAY EASE CREDITS T0 VETERANS WHO 'WANTTOBUY FARMS Bartlett Seeks Amend-, ments fo Bill o Apply fo Alaska Homesleads WASHINGTON, March 20.—The| Senate Agriculture Committee has approved legislation easing gov- ernment aids for veterans who in a spy ring su {want to buy farms. The bill of Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.) amends the 1937 Bank- head-Jones Farm Tenant Act under which the Farm Security Adminis: tration makes loans for farm pur chases. It removes, so far as veterans are concerned, |original act that: Loans may be made only to per- sons with farming experience. Loans may be made only on ! farms of a size such that operations | likely will return the purchaser a iiving. the restrictions in the Mrs. Emma Woikin, 25, (right, bottom) as they ap- jail in Ottawa for beoking on charges of conspiracy crets legislation. They are involved, the Canadian pplying information to Russia. (AP Jlmmy Doollme Is Member of {Gripe Board FORT WORI'H Tex., March 20.— | X( Gen. James H. Doolittle, who i has accepted an appointment to | head Secretary of War Patterson’s }armd to study officer-enlisted men | relations, said today the board ! would begin work in Washington ! March 27. | Doclittle, on terminal leave from the Army Air Force, disclosed that | the first meeting would be a closed session to determine whether the | best interests of the service can be | achieved by subsequent public hear- ‘ngs on G.I. gripes. Witnesses will be summaned, he said, to make complaints about a alled “caste system” within the service. Patterson Monday appointed a board of six former servicemen ranging in rank from General to [ cergeant to hold hearings and re- mmmend any changes mcessary ! “puilding a ullzcu: army.” f(HIANG PlEADS ~ Bill Appears Cerfain | |sian commander in northern Korea, ireplied to the welcoming address of commander in southern Korea, }\nth “The Soviet Union has a keen in- | terest in Korea being a true demo- ‘cmn and independnt country,| { friendly to the Soviet Union, so that ! tin the future it will not become a {base for an attack on the Soviet | Union.” He said his nation championed “self-determination and free exis- ‘tencr" but “serious difficulties” ob-1 {structed a realization of democracy {in Korea. This he laid to “furious iresistance of reactional and anti- dsmocrati" groups and certain ele- ! ments whose object is to undermine e work of creating and firmly i establishing a democratic systam in | Secretary General of the Central|sons between June and July, 1941, | Korea.” ! o | ATG ABOLIION BILL GOES OUT SENATE WINDOW Conference on Veferans' i . . | i from Discussion | g BULLETIN—By a vote of 14 | te 2, the Senafe this afternoon | | passed Senmate Bill No. 1, the | Workmens Compensation mea- ! sure by Senator Green. 4 Senator N. R. Walker was again i the center of action in the Senate's vrief session this morning. First on tap was the Ketchikan solon’s no- I tice of reconsideration of his vote ',yesterday to indefinitely postpone :SB. 18, the bill aimed at junking |Lhe Alaska Territorial Guard. ' When the votes on tossing out the bill were again counted up this }mnmmg, Walker had picked one: i vote* addition to his own in favor | of consideration of the bill, but! Guard opponents were still on the ! {short end and S.B. 18 now Is de-l finitely “indefinitely postpcned" Vote today was 9 to 7 for dumping, i the bill. In argument, Walker re-affirmed his contention that military need for the Guard is passed and that{ the Guard has been mainly used | Ifor political purposes. Senator Don Carlos Brownell challenged the ‘Walker view, stating that the Ketchikan Senator has failed to | present evidence of political acti- | Vities in the Guard. | |Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, American & fessed by Commandant of Horror Camp | ditlons in Europe and the middle mittee took steps to send an am- East that the Soviet Union “faces| assador to Moscow, where we have oviet, a post generally referred to| President of the Soviet Union. He succeeds Mikhail I\'anavlch‘ 1 critical shortage” in labor and|had no top representative since alinin, known to millions of pea- | - | military supplles as well as food.|w. Averell Harriman left several nts as “the grand old man of BERLIN, March 20.—The gassing| “In the late war, her impres .skvmweeks ago. The committee gave its um Sovie. Union,” who resigned | of 2,000,000 Jews and other persons offensive efforts were made Pos- | unaimous approval to the appoint- use of failing e; ight. Kalin- | at the Oswiecim horror camp has|sible by tremendous quantities of \ment of Lieutenant General Walter in, 71, has held the office for 27 been admitted in a signed state- | materiel and supplies furnished by Bedell Smith as Harriman’'s succes- !last night, also re-elected General- | eralissimo and remains head of the received from Himmler lof the council of ministers—then i known as commissars in May, 1941. | { He succeeded Vyacheslav M. Molo- |, "3 more accurate estimate of | ‘the Supreme Soviet is not in ses- 'ALASKA IS "DEAD" {Alaska has been declared & (Union, the Alaska Steamship Com- years. He remains a memberof the| .ment given to British authorities Presidium. { by Rudolf Hoess, 46-year-old com- Stalin Ke-clected | mandant of the camp, who was ar- The Supreme Soviet, before ad-|rested on March 8. Journing its first post-war sesslon| Hoess, who was found hiding out on a farm near Flemsburg, ngned ‘lhe confession on March 16, Bri- ‘m)\ officials declared. They quoted Hoess' statement as saying: “I personalty arranged, on orders in May, the gassing of 2,000,000 per- issimo Joseph Stalin chairman of Russia’s council of ministers (Pre- mier). The vote was unanimous. Stalin also retains his title of Gen- forces and Soviet Union's armed 1941, Committee of the Communist Party. and the end of 1943, during whic (The Moscow radio, heard IniT was commandant at Oswiecim. { Lendon, said Stalin hu\nrorn\ After he lert Oswiecim, Hoess would be called “Prime MInister.") | (4 "he relayed Himmler's orders | Stalin first was elected chairman | g "o gassing of an additional | half-million persons. British in-| vestigators said evidence showed | tov, who has been re-elected vice the figure would be 2,000,000 — chairman of the council and con-| bringing to some 4,000,000 the num- tinues as foreign commissar, to ber of persons for whose deaths known in the future as Minister of | g . might be held responsible. Forelgn. Affairs. Asked by British interrogators Shvernik Has Powers itor, | Vhether he belleved in God, Hoess Shvernik, the son of a janitor, .. quoted as saying: has been first vice chairman of the —.yroc ” | emphatically, no. Prosidium since Feb. 1, 1944, h e N0 The Presidium is the supreme B u l l E T I N S authority in the USS.R. when WASHINGTON —President Tru- man today proclaimed April 6 as sion, and thus naturally has great powers. It convenes sessions of the Supreme Soviet, ratifies treaties, interprets laws, conducts referenda, |Army Day and asked the nation and has power to declare war. to give “full support” to its sol- Shvernik is an old Bolshevik Who ' giare has belonged to the Communist Party since 1902 | MOSCOW — The Soviet News Agency Tass informed the Russian neople today that Soviet forces had begun withdrawing from the Dan- ish Island of Bornholm off the (wa pAID | outhern tip of Sweden. AN CHORAGE, Alaska—Mrs. Al Parkhill, liquor store clerk, was in a serious condition today after an elderly man hit her with an iron |var while she was standing behind the counter. Police said he gave no reason for the attack. SHIP"; OFF IN SEATIL Over 300 Stranded Pas- sengers May Come | i ] Nonh on Columbia | A}SPn,r";:ng’:-; h!:ea_”l E;r‘jnlx::-l 'duce a bill to revive daylight sav- ing time nationelly as a means of combatting starvation and suffer- ing abroaed. He told a reporter the “’ast” time would conserve coal and also provide more daylight hours for home gardening. SEATTLE, March 20.—The liner “dead ship” and will be laid up in Lake pay reports, saying the action was| ordered by the War Shipping Ad-/ ministration due to a company- union deadlock. ? INDEPENDENCE, Mo.—Dr. P'red- Consider Vets Act the United States and the Britisi: | Empire,” Lanza wrote in the jour- nal. “This flow ceased upon ter- mination of the war, and Russia is now on her own. “She can not even produce enough food and supplies for im- mediate needs, let ‘alone those that | would be required for war. The immediate problem is to tide over the first year or two, until food for everybody is available.” BEING WAGED i IRANIAN CAPITAL : Russian Troops Create Jit- | ters by Rattling Arfil- lery Around Tehran | BAGHDAD, March 19.—(Delay- ed)—A former Iraq diplomat just returned from Tehran declared to-| day that a “war of nerves” is be- ing waged in the Iranian capital, with Russian troops contributing to the general state of jitters by “mak- ing a lot of noise outside the city | gates moving artillery around.” ¢ Leclaring that the Leftist Tudeh party could stake a coup D’Etat at wily time, this informant said: “The great fear in Iran today is that if the Iranians officially an- | nounce that they will take the mat- ter to the UNO, then the Com- | munists probably will ke given the word to strike.” (UNO General Secretary Trygve Lie disclosed yesterday in Washing- ton that Iranian Ambassador Hus- sein Ali already had filed a com- plaint against Russia on behalf of his government.) It is feared, the informant added, that such a coup “might be worse than the occupation.” Asserting that there “is definitely an exodus from Tehran,” the diplo- | mat added: “You cap see it right here from | your own hotel in Baghdad—see the number or Iranians who are ar- riving from Tehran . . . they are all going south to Isfahan and Ahwaz. Texan Is Not Called in sor, | Chairman Tom Connally of Texas said that Smith, General Eisenhow- er's former chief of staff, had made an excellent impression on the com- mittee and that he would leave for Moscow shortly. In the Senate itself, Senator Claude Pepper took the floor to ap- peal for a meeting of the Big Three soon. The Florida Demo- crat would not limit the parley to | Truman, Attlee and Stalin. He pro- posed that there be representatives [0t the people in all walks of life, umlmm, lavor and agricuiture, as '\\'Lll as their diplomatic and mill- umy chieftains, | Only such a full-scale confers ence, said Pepper, wiil dispe! the suspicions which have led to the | present “crisis of confidence.” The | Zoutkorn Senator also declared that /the United States should smash ev- |ery atomic Bomb 1t has and share |the secrets of atomi¢ energy with | While Senator Pepper was speak- ing, Representative Chester Merrow introduced a resolution in the 'House calling for an immediate (meeting of President Truman and |Prime Minister Stalin. The New ll-!nm):'smm Republican declared (that the meecting should clarify 'both American foreign policy and |Russian objectives — and that once the facts are determined they should be made public. NEGOTIATIONS "IN GM STRIKE " AGAINSNAGGED {Local Grievances Brought | to Front - Company i Makes Statement DETROIT, March 20~Hopes for | speedy resumption of normal out- |put on General Motors Corporas tion’s huge assembly lines were snagged teday as a new company- {union row flared up over local | arievances. GM, its produetion facilities idled for the 120th day, stood pat on an assertion it would not reopen any one of its 96 struck plants until the CIO United Auto Workers Bartlett Acts | E. L. Bartlett, Delegate from | Fok u“l" OF Alaska, sought an amendment au-| CHINA PEOP[E ‘Walker was next in the spotlight | ‘n consideration of House Amend- ments to Senate Bill 9, the Veter- idemands for a change in quflrners; i The Sailors Union of the Pacific|erick M. Smith, 73, President of the refused to sail the ship saturdxy‘rtcmnnlud Church of Jesus Christ when the *company refused union|of Latter Day Saints, died today. | agreed to open them all. Yukon w’e(k probe- “The officers of the UAW-CIO had a clear understanding with ! Bankhead told him that if he could | the corporation that the strike set= thorizing FSA loans for improve-| ments to homesteads in Alaska.| ‘Communist Delegation Is Absent as Peoples’ Pol- itcal Council Meets get the Interior and Agriculture Departments to agree on the word- | |ing of such an amendment it wuuld’ !be considered when the measure | comes up on the Senate floor. Bartlett explained that Alaska’s| particular problem on FSA loans is | this: Asks FSA Loans Much of the land in Alaska is still in the public domain. A home- steader requires five years to, per- fect title to land he settles. ing those five years, the FSA can make him no loan or improvements, because the homesteaders cannot give a mortgage on the land. Bartlett wanted an amendment permitting the FSA loan with a lien on the improvements as se- curity. The Interior Department admin- isters public lands while FSA is under the Agriculture Department. - BANKER ERWIN HERE Mr. and Mrs. E Wells Erwin, residents of Anchorage, have ar- rived in Juneau for a brief visit. Mr. Erwin is cashier at the First National Bank of Anchorage. Dur- | CHUNGKING, March 20.—With the Communist delegation conspic- |uously absent, Chiank Kair-shek pleaded for peace and unification of China at the opening today of {the People’s Political Council. Chiang also expressed hope ' for friendly relations with other coun- itries. The council was called to discuss domestic and international |affairs and make recommendations to the government. Communists boycotted the opening session as a protest against alleged undermining by the recent Kuomin- tang (National) agreements reached at the January political unity conference. How-~ ever, it was expected that’ |Communists would attend later sessions. The council will meet un- til April 2 e - | SEATTLE MAN HERE C. B. Finnegan, guest at the Baranof. party congress of! some | amendments after hearing only a portion of them read and insisted upon a non-concurrence vote thenl and there, in the face of the ex-; pressed wishes of at- least several other members of the body to hear the rest of the House changes be- | 'Iore being called upon to vote| Whether not to concur. i From views expressed, it appear- ed a certainty that at least some jof the House amendments will not | be acceptable to the Senate and. that the bill will go into confer-| ence. The sometimes-heated, 20-minute argument on Walker’s non-concur- rence mpuon extended up to the| noon recess and was expected to { be re-opened when the Senate re- iconvened this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. No vote of any kind was| taken this morning on S.B. 9. | { - > CORA A. BBOWNLEE HERE | | ( | Cora A. Brownlee arrived here! i i i Seattle, is a yesterday from Chicago. She is Anchorau. is a guest at the Bar-] 'stopping at the Baranof, ans Benefits Act. As chief framer for quartermasters. | NEW YORK CITY—The Presi-| of the original Senate version, he| H. N. Peterson, head of the com-| dent of Wuunghow Electrical| DENISON, Tex., March 20.—Phil- | ement covered only national is« became incensed at the House! pany’s shipping department, sald Corporation, Gwilyn Price, has de- lip Wesley Moss of Denison, ex- ‘5“9“ and that upon ratification of serviceman aboard the Yukon when | the national strike agreement, cer the liner foundered off the coast of | | fain locals might remain on strike Alaska last month, yesterday said, | because their plant managements he had not been asked to appear had failed to settle local issues sat- efforts would be made to pro\'de clared that a compapy wage offer passage for 335 strikebound passen-| has been rejected by the CIO Elec- gers on the 88 Columbia. Cargo| trical Workers Union. However, the for Alaskan ports was discharged Westinghouse official ~continues, from the idle liner last night and|gage negotlatlons are contlnuing the company said the crew would be paid ott nt once. STOCK QUOTATIONS New York, Mnrch 20.—Closing | quotation of ‘Alaska Juneau mlne stock today is 9%, Alleghany Cor-| poration 6%, Arherican Can 92%,! Anaconda 46%, Curtiss-Wright B, ASTORIA, Ore, March 20.—It's International Harvester 88, Kenne- unnounced that red salmon canning | cott 53%, New York Central 27%, in Bristcl Bay, Alaska, will be Northern Pacific 29%, United Cor- pooled again this year, but at least poration 6%, U. S. Steel 82%, one operator will reopen a war- 'Pound $4.03%. | closed independent cannery. Sales today were 1,290,000 shares. f‘ The Columbia River Packers As- Dow, Jones averages today are sociation in Astoria will include as follows: industrials 195.53, rnlls{n\s Naknek cannery in the pool, 63.30, utilities 40.97. - e mdepcndenuy ‘The unit was closed NOCK IN TOWN during the war. The company is Selwyn P. Nock, a resident of |bullding four new shallow draft towing boats and five gillnet sailing boats for the season. ;SAI.MON CANNING . WILL BE POOLED anof. but will run the Nushagak cannery before the Coast Guard inquiry| board. | Moss' letter to the family of an Altoona, Pa., soldier, telling them of their son's death in the storm nnd stating that the Yukon crew ‘wns drunk, was forwarded to Rep. Broumbaugh (R-Pa) who read it into the Congressional Record. It was then reported that the |Coast Guard would call the Texan | to testify. - DIDELIUS RETURNS | W. E. Didelius, FBI ‘agent sta- | tioned in Juneau, returned to this city yesterday from Anchorage on the Douglas Coastliner, Pacific | Northern Airlines. ——————— W. C. ARNOLD ARRIVES W. C. Arncld, manager of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., ar- rived from Seattle yesterday via Pan American Alrways. isfactorily,” declared the union. GM told the UAW, “until we re- ceive notification that the strike is ended in all our plants, we will have to assume that the strike con- tinues and that resumption of pro- duction will be delayed until that time.” Harry- W. Anderson, GM vice | president, declared “you are aware | that our manufacturing is so geared |that we cannot start production in a part of our plants with others F. ROBERT NORTON HERE | F. Robert Norton, a resident of Hoonah, has arrived in Juneau. He is staying at the Gas ——————— FROM PETERSBURG D. W. Pettigrew of Petarshies g stopping at the Baranof during his stay in this city.