The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1946, Page 1

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” t MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ORE STRIKE | i | | | UNGA REPORTS 3 DEATHS DUE T0 DIPHTHERIA iDodors, Nurses Rushed fo Disease-Swept Shu- magin Island Three deaths are reported re- sulting from an epidemic of diph- |theria now striking the Shumagin Island settlement of Unga. First word of the disease’s rav- ages was received here by Dr. James Ryan, Commissioner of Edu- top-terth | cation, in a wire from Donald V. | Lawvere, school principal at Unga. | Immediately following his return this week from Anchorage, Dr. Ry- Upheavalin NavyRanks Spgc_ulaled Truman's Bifing Blast Re- garding Stand on Merg- | er Taken in Silence ‘WASHINGTON, April 12.—In shocked and angy silence the Navy Department held aloof today from wide speculation that resignations might follow President Truman’s biting blast at admirals and other opposing his armed for- ces merger program. an referred the matter to the Ter- {Immediate conjecture centered | ritorial Department of Health. on whether Secretary of the Navy| pr Berneta Block, of the Health Forrestal might decide to quit noW| pepartment, today stated that'Dr. instead of watiing until summer,|payig M. Cowgill, District Officer was being held in Knox County jail | under $100,000 bond pending re- | moval hearing tomorrow. BULLETINS | OTTAWA — Viscount Alexander’ and whether Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval opera- for the Department at Anchorage, has secured the dispatch to Unga i WASHINGTON—President Tru- | man signed into law today a bill; | providing $253,727,000 for veterans’! | housing. The funds will be used to ito tions, would request rétirement.| s . doctor and two Red Cross Both have vigorously fought thel,..,coc from Fort Richardson. merger. 1 There was no. question that Mr.. The Health Department has re- Truman had the gloves off when he|ceived only one communication pointedly notified the Navy where|from Unga regarding the epidemie, he stood. He used the words propa-| Dr. Block indicated. That message ganda and lobbying in speaking of | reported two deaths and five other continued opposition, and said the known cases. However, Dr. Block jpublic was interested in facts in-'stressed, first diagnosis of the dis-| stead. ease was not made by a physician. The President told his news con-| Principal Lawvere’s wire to the ference yesterday that, while in-jcommission of Education stated: dividual naval officers are entitled ~ «gchool closed this week due to voice their honest opiniohs,| gipntheria epidemic. Two deaths he expected both Navy and War synday and one Tuesday. Lt. F. A. Departments to support the unifica-| rorrey from Fort Randall in charge tion policy when he, as comman- gnq two other doctors and three EXISTING TAX STRUCTURE T0 BE MAINTAINED Hasty Action in Any Cutting Process WASHINGTON, April 12—Presi- dent Truman's assertion that “we are on the way toward a balanced budget” prompted Capitol Hill's No. 1 tax authority teday to geclare: “Now, if tke people will quit run- ning to Washington for money, we can reduce taxes.” But Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the powerful House Ways and Means committee tempered his tax- cutting forecast by telling reporters the, prospect is slim for any fur- | ther reductions this year. Mr. Truman, too, cautioned against hasty action, saying in his ilblfiement revising previous esti- mates of the government’s fiscal position that the existing tax struec- ture must be maintained “for the present.” Mr. Truman reported that the jending June 30 now is expected to be $7,000,000,000 telow the January “‘PresidentCaufionsAgainst? HIGHWAY PROPOSAL BLOCKED {Magnuson Objects to Al- askan - International Commission - Why | WASHINGTON, April 12—A bill {to create an Alaskan International |Highway Commission has failed to clear the House Rules Committee after Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) protested that such a body could serve no real purpose at this time. Magnuson said surveys of possible routes connected the United States with Northwestern Canada and Alaska already have been made by two commissions. Moreover, Can- ada has taken the position that It will not assist in buiding such 1route. or connecting roads with the present Alcan Highway at this time, he testified. | “Although I agree with the ba- |federal deficit for the fiscal year|gic concepts of the bill, I just don't| 'know what good such a commis- sion could do,” Magnuson stated. 'GOVERNOR LAUDS LEGISLATURE TO AFL CONVENTION \ | | | I iRes . Gruening Defeated at | Anchorage Meeting | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 12 | —(8pecial to the Empire)— Gov.| Ernest Gruening, addressing the| annual convention of the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor (A/ FL) here, lauded the recent speclal sesslon of the Alaska Legislature for passage of progressive labor legislation. He put forward as goals for la- {bor: Diminishing of absentee own- (ership and home rule for Alaska. A resolution presented to the con- vention, commending Gruening as Alaska's greatest governor, was de- feated, 32 to 30. | olution Praising| SETTLEMENT PROGRESSES ONEREPORT One New Condiion Drop- ped Info Picture Re- garding Agreements Little change has developed since yesterday in the strike of long- shoremen tying up Alaska shipping. Agreement on all other issues has left as the sole stumbling block the new union demand dropped in~ to the strike picture yesterday: The condition that ‘“all provisions of pending Pacific Coast longshore agreements and all agreements in tre future automatically be ex- An executive session was held by the delegates in which it became In a telepnone conversaiion tonded to Alaska.” |estimate—or a total of about $21,- 700,000,000. Receipts are running| $4,300,000,000 higher than estimated, expenses $2,600,000,000 lower. His new report estimated that ex- |penditures during the fiscal year {will total nearly $64,700,000,000. R R I TWO NEW U. 5. For House Action Rep. Mansfield (D-Mont) asked \the committee to bring the bill be- irore the House for action. Term-I ing it “one of the most important; | measures ever to come before Con- |gress,” he said that an Alaskan {route would be vitally important to| \military operations in Alaska and| |Northern Canada. “It wll fit in| |with the thinking of today,” he I night at a meeting of the Frontier apparent that Frank Marshall will this morning with Secretary of not be a candidate to succeed him- Alaska Lew M. Willlams, Jack A. self as Federation President. It Talbot of the Ketchikan Water- Is also fairly well established that front Employers Association stated Tom Moore of the Ketchikan Bar|that negotiations tuere with the and Culinary Workers Local, will ke |Alaska Negotiating Committee of clected president. the International Longshoremen's |end Warchousemen's Union (CIO) | have progressed to the point of agreement upon all other issues, but the employers definitely refuse to bind themselves on future commit- ments. Specifically agreed upon, as GOV. BLASTS SENATE ANCHORAGQE, Alaska, April 12— (Special to the Empire) —Gov. Ern- est Gruening appeared here last Legion of Alaska Guardians (FLAGS) to discuss veterans legis- lation. He spent the period blast- ing the Senate of the Alaska Leg-' islature and told the veterans the | provide approximately 100,000 tem- | porary dwellings for war veterans. cer-in-chief, once established it. Mr. Truman’s sharp words tock| | nurses enroute.” i The Alaska Native Service of-! COMMISSIONERS |added. Magnuson said the Army, during Senate did not do anything for veterans at the special session— ,$1.98 per hour overtime |1, 1046, VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,243 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946 C o s {Rape-Killer Earl McFarland BY "‘R“M AN Captured in Knoxville -He Faces Chair H i ill| KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 12— A""mahve Made He w'"i’rhe nation’s most hunted criminal ici —rape-killer Earl McFarland—was ca"y 0“' POh('es Of {back behind bars today, awaiting H removal to Washington and even- I-a'e Preslden' | tual death in the electric chair. | The 24-year old ex-Marine, who By Ernest B. Vaccaro | was captured here yesterday on a! YYDE PARK, N. Y, April. |street corner a block from City | 12—Standing bareheaded in a |jai by two FBI agents, sald “my chill, Hudsen Valley wind, |go06e is cooked and I'm ready to President Truman today VOW- g0 and added that he would not ! ed to carry on foreign and do- | fight extradition to Washington. mestic policies of Franklin D. | ppr agent Norman H. McCabe | Roosevelt as he dedicated the |giq McFarland, who escaped from late President’s ancestral es- |(he District of Columbia jail April tate as a National historic site. |3 i company with another con- The President spoke from the |demned killed, Joseph D. Medley, | porch of the rambling house at brief ceremonies dedicating the stucco and granite mansion and rolling acres as a shrine on this, the first anniversary of Mr. Roosevelt's death. Earlier, the President visited the Roosevelt Memorial Library, the Roosevelt home and placed | ,r punis, former Allied Command- a wreath of white gladioli and | ¢ i, the Mediterranean, was sworn ferns on the former Chief Ex- | today as Governor-General of ccutive’s grave. ) Canada and personal representative ! The 33-acre Dutchess County |in the Dominion of King Georgei estate where the late President | VI ] was born and now lies buried | in the hemlock-hedged rose | garden was turned over to the Secretary of the Inmterior, J. A. Krug by Mrs. Eleanor Roose- velt. On the spacious lawn, seated in an amphitheater arrange- }Most of the homes will be convert- ment, were 700 special guests, including members of the Unit- ed Nations Seeurity Couneil. |ed service barracks. the Navy Department completely by | fice nhere revealed today that it surprise. into the evening last night in the tive peoples of the village of Squaw | Towicys | OTTAWA—A suggestion that the!«topside” offices of the Navy head-| po 0. yeve peen “exposed” to the ! | United Kingdom put up the Bri- . HYDE Paii, NO¥,april _fl.—}.euh ‘West Indies as security for a! President Truman vowed today toiPreposed $1.250,000,000 loan from ! carry on Franklin D, Roosevelt’s| Canada was before the Dominion | fight against “tyranny” abroad and, Parliament today. The loan agree-! for the “progressive and humane; ment, signed recently, won the np-‘y principles of the New Deal.” | proval of spokesmen for all t.hreei Standing “in reverence” at cere- | opposition parties soon after fi- monies dedicating “this hallowed nhance minister J. L. Iisley laia it spot’—the Roosevelt estate—as a before Parliament late yesterday. national shrine on the first anni-| quarters building, - Forvestal, Wha | uypineriy eptdemic at Unga. How- has been ill at his home for several ever, no cases of the disease are re- days, had no immedate comment. . d ported at Squaw Harbor. No word The same went for the uniformed| any ieind. tias ‘twen- feceived froni high’ command. | Sand Point, the third major com- ! munity on the island. DEBATERS OF HIGH GOVERNOR VIEWS But lights burned 10ng ¢ peer advised some of the m-‘ |the war, selected its own route for '1 ARE APPOINTED“’" Alcan Highway on which it| I 2 |spent $139,000,000, and ignored the, survey. “The only military use of the | highway was that the Russians flew |planes over the route from Great Koo ¥ 'Harold Dawes fo Be Chi i Aftorney for Veterans Adminitrafion ™ M s e | ‘\ b, oo turned over to the Canadian gov- | Two new United States Commis- erpment and closed 6 all but mili-' [sioners. have appointed 1IN tary -traffic, he told the commit-| | Southeast Alaska Presiding Dis- | pae- |trict Judge J. W. Kehoe and both' } | 2—Dr, Vernon Mund, versity of Washington, The Governor left the veterans ah o With the impressioh¢he House Blll 5 ed' to tio passed, -not the Senate Bill. He ., .. what perfod prior asked the veterans to study the :e m““,’.,. longshoremen ':n Journals of the session closely and ¢, retroactive pay on the make efforts to insure that people petween wages actiially voting against them do not return and the $1.32 base rate; to the Legislature. 1 Every effort to get the Governor titled to retroactive pay on the dif- away from. politics failed and very ference hbetween the 'prior little constructive discussion was hase of $1.26 1.2 per hour had. |wages actually paid them; what 80 the House bad to put the bonus bill in, versary of Mr. Roocsevelt’s death, President Truman said: NUERNBERG — Ernest Kalten- | brunner concluded his testimony “May Almighty God, who has before the International Military watched over this Republic as it; Tribunal today with the statement grew from weakness to strength, | that he remained in his job as give us the wisdom to carry on in | Lieutenant to Heinrich Himmler” | the way of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” because I considered it my duty v.oi It was Mr. Truman’s first trip to stay and fight the wrong after I Hyde Park since he journeyed here found out what conditions existed.” | a year ago for the burial of hi.s{ e predecessor. FIRE ALARM jthe high seas. 'SCHOOL IN RESCUE WORK, HOMEBOUND Juneau High School debate team | returned last night victorious from | their stand against the Ketchikan | KODIAK, =Alaske, High Debate Team and filled with o o0 " 0o 0™ o stories of a dramatic adventure on! ' Following their winning the neg- |, EmMons, MEDAL AWARD 10 LT. GEN. EMMON April 12— 17th Naval ening, Gov- ernor of Alaska, and Lt. Gen. Delos USsA, duties. Rep. Sabath (D-II), | Representatives and Senators get | i committee | |have already assumed their new'cnajrman, proposed that Northwest' The Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor (AFL) convention spent teday in committee meetings with other conditions of the War Labor Board. directive August 18, 1945 concerning Coast ports Named to succeed former COM- ozcther and zee if they cannot the exception of three speeches; missioner Harold Dawes at Peters- {burg is John E. Longworth. New | Commissioner at Craig is Gladys i Schroy, vice' James T. Brown. | Mr. Dawes, brother of Dr. L. P. 'Dawes of Juneau, resigned to ac-' cept & new post as Chief At.tor-[ Commanding ney for the new Regional Office o reach an agrezment on the propos- ed legislation. BB W o0 000 00w e . WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) made by Senator Steve McCutchebn and Representative Stanley Mc- Cutcheon and Bud Warren. Each extolled his personal great efforts for labor, 4 A. A. Hedges, Alaska Director of | the U. S. Employment Service, made a brief speech outlining the thould be applied to Alaska ports. Additiongl Issues Any settlement made in the cur- and the Alaska Negotiating Com- mittee. Whatever agreement adopted there is expected to be the Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 o'Clock This Morning o o 0 In Juneau—Maximum, 40; minimum, 34. At Airport—Maximum, 41; minimum, 36. |General Alaskan Department, made of the Vaterans Administration in|e |an informal and unofficial visit t0| Alaska. He is expected to come e im“ -!“ziznmfi::ly ‘:;‘::Y-BT:!: 3&3&‘!"" Juneau in about two months. ’ . was ma - 5 ; | bodisd men between. the ages fitook off from Banndorr Fteld.‘.xx-n:s mfl:}i m:;‘e:m: g ME,E: AT S 118-24 should have one year of mil- | prchorage, at 9:32 o'clock a. M./Dawes is now in Seattle Tecelving o BUSNETH HERE itary training.” The debate team ;g jangeq at the Kodiak naval training in his new duties at thele Peter L. Bunneth, of Sitka, is a|left Ketchikan Wednesday MOID- /gy a6 gt 11:12 o'clock a. m. | geattle Regional V-A Office. Daw- o Bara H | hy f. ing on the Clarenhope, a boat own- | i i x5 ed by Clarence Rands of Sitka. | The visitors were greeted by Rear|®® is a member of the Alaska Bar. ative side Monday night against | Ketchikan’s affirmative on “Re- solved: whether or not all able functions of his office. | Election of officers was in order | today. moci2l for. other Alaska ports, & ‘hlxpflnl officials :u stated. lowever, there an 52 {lssue to be mw‘w STOCK QUOTATIONS |5unces. rcwo cocas 10, neve, Juneau. ILWU Local 18, has demanded a pay increase, over NEW YORK, April 12—Closing|8bove the $1.32 base scale to $1.72 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Per hour straight time, $250 over- | Fire in a shack on the hillside | Homage By Deeds |above Sixth and Kennedy caused “The loss which America suffer-|an alarm from box 3-9 at 3 p.m. to- ed through the death of Frankiin|gay and sent the Department to D. Roosevelt cannot be softened by 'the scene. the spoken word,” the President| said. “Tributes can only emphasize our loss. But those of us who have| survived in the seat of Government e WEATHER FORECAST can pay homage to his memory by our deed.” Mr. Roosevelt’s foreign policy, he said, “recognized the solemn duty of this country toward nations which have been weakened in the death struggle against tyranny.” The _WashiEgion Merry -Go- Round i For these principles of Interna-| tional cooperation, Mr. Truman de- | clared, “we are determined to fight| By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — It has now| Stopping overnight at Peurs-iAdm. F. A. Daubin; Capt. P. H. burg, the team was invited to give Fitzgerald, Chief of Staff, and its winning negative argument be- Capt. R. R. Lyons, commanding fore the Petersburg P-TA meeting officer of the Kodiak base. that night, and were special guests; Adm. Daubin, as Commander of at the P-TA’s refreshment hour. |the North Pacific Force, conferred It was the next morning after upon Gen. Emmons the Leglon of Former Craig Commissioner |Brown, onme of that community's lold-timers and a promient mer- chant, retired in keeping with plans ‘Swtes for the benefit of his health. to leave Craig and reside in the; the group had started Juneauward that the adventure occurred. Hav- UNIVERSITY EXTENSION i Merit medal awarded to the gen-| eral by Rear Adm. Ralph Wood on| April 3, just prior to Adm. Wood's| with all our strength.” FDR’s Domestic Policy Mr. Roosevelt's domestic policy, continued, was “a recognitioh the bagic truth that this govern- ment exists not for the benefit of a few but for the welfare {been one year since Harry Truman to a saddened White House and the awesome task of filling the shoes of Franklin Roosevelt. A great deal has been written, and more will be, about the man- |ing - left Cape Fanshaw, the boat | was nearing Grand Island when| just opposite Taku Harbor a fish, ing vessel in distress appeared. The boat, filled with three men, was floundering in the high waves and unable to clear itself. The Clarenhope circled the boat, relinquishing command of this| area. | The ceremony took- place in the |Administration Building in the| |presence of Gov. Gruening, the Admiral’s Staff, visiting Army offi- {cers and other ranking officers of OPENS GARDEN CLASSES HERE MONDAY NIGHT Harold W. Rice, assistant dir- ector of the University of Alas- ka's Extension Service, also in charge of 4-H Club work through- . . (Juncau and Vielnky) L 'e . Rain showers with some sunshine 'and not much change in temperature to- 1 night and Saturday. | LI I ) s 8 0 030 HORROR MAN OF SCREEN MARRIES BOULDER CITY, Nev., April 12. —At 58, actor Bori!Karloff—who stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- poration 7%, American Can 96%, Anaconda 43%, Commonwealth and Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 96, Kenne- cott 57%, New York Central 27%, Northern Pacific 31%, United Cor- time. Operators contend that any increase above the $1.32 scale should be left to negotiation of a !new working agreement and should Inot be an {ssue of the current |strike negotiations; Attention ' In Washington ner in which he has done that job.‘ Among ‘those close to Roosevelt there has also been speculation ul to what would have happened if Senator Sam Jackson of Indiana had not rapped the gavel on that own | finally got a line aboard and start- the station. ed towing it toward the harbor. | The citation read by Adm. Daubin Halfway in, the line parted. This |in presenting the medal commends s § ttempt | Gen. Emmons for “cooperation w:p:::le;;vul:e Fan it ariguy with the Navy far beyond that normally expected” which “con- frightens folks with his horror roles but actually is a mild-man- here Monday evening, April 15, m‘w m‘um m : the High School Auditorium. la ceremony berformed in a floral Rice will discuss such subjeets! shop by & justice of the peace who out the Territory, will open & series of garden school classes varie- While opposing camps are closer together at Ketehikan, Alagka longshore strike is now re. ~clving attention in Washington, poration 6%, U, 8. Steel 83%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,230,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are, as follows: industrials 206.94, rails 63,63, utilities 42.70. PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR IS BACK FROM METLAKATLA; IS ELECTED MODERATOR The Rev. and Mrs. Willis R. “Those same principles apply legislation assuring full production | and full employment, legislatfon for stem from the principles for which President Roosevelt fought, for which, we who are carrying on af- ter him, now fight, and for which we shall continue to fight.” Simply stated, Mr. Truman said, the nation’s task “is to carry for- rived here yesterday He is staying at the Gastineau. {hot July night in Chicago, adjour-| ning the Democratic Convnnflbn} just as the Wallace band-wagon seemed on the verge of rolling hnn‘ {into the Vice Presidency. In other words, if Henry Wallace ! had been President of the United States, would the first year since Roosevelt’s death have been much different? How much did Sam Jackson’s gavel-rapping tactics ichange the course of history? WOULD HISTORY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT? Some changes, of course, would have been certain. Sumner Welles today would be Secretary of State,: with Harold Young, not Bob Han- negan, the Postmaster General. ‘Wallace's press relations would have been worse than Truman’s, his radio appeal to the public much (&nfinwm Page Four) The activity delayed the Juneau students with their debate coach A. B. Phillips, school superintend- |tributed immeasurably to the suc- |cess and efficlency of the North i for Sitka in the Clarenhope this Pacific Force.” The visitors were to return to ent, for two hours. Instead of ar- riving in the Juneau small boat harbor at 7 last night they arrived Anchorage late today. The Legion| at 9 o'clock. {of Merit was also awarded to “But the students thought the Brig. Gen. Robert M. Bathurst,| excitement and adventure of tow-|USA, as Chief of Staff to the Com-| ing in a distressed boat was worth |manding General, by the Com-| it,” said Mr. Phillips. mander of the North Pacific Force. Members of the debate team This award was delivered to Gen. making the trip were Bill Vernon, Emmons to be conferred at a later Pat Oakes, Dick Wingerson, Mary |date. Lou Fagerson and Bob Goldstein. ————-—— After depositing his ‘“cargo” of | 4 Mexico Observing Death of Roosevelf debaters in Juneau, Mr. Rand left MEXICO CITY, April 12—The Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Thomas,|first anniversary of Franklin D. residents of Excursion Inlet, dre Roosevelt’s death was widely ob- guests at the Baranof, served in Mexico today. | [ morning. — - FROM INLET as garden soils, fertilizers, ties of plants, pests and chemicals. Garden Club memters are urged to attend and use the Sixth Street Auditorjum entrance. Prior to army induction Rice was District Agriculture Agent at Matanuska Valley for two years. Rice also will meet with 4-H Club members here to help make plans for the 1946 4-H Club season. ————— TO WED AT MIDNIGHT Robert P. Townsend and Mary Irene Peyton will be married at midnight tonight by U. S, Commis- sioner Felix Gray in his Douglas home. The couple will {ly to Seattle to- morrow for an indefinite stay. Townsend has been an interior deccrator with the R. E. Tremble Co. for several months. The bride has been on St. Ann's Hospital nursing staff since 1939. also grow flowers. Karloff, whose real name is William Henry Pratt, was married Iw Mrs. Evelyn Helmar, New York divorcee, only a day after he sev- ered his martial ties to Dorothy |Stine Pratt, 15,000 WORKING WOMEN IN RIOT AT HOSIERY SALE EAN FRANCISCO, April 12—A near riot of 15,000 working women occurred on Market Street last night when police called off a scheduled sale of 10800 pairs of nylon hosiery at'a kig department store, which had attempted to ac- commcdate them after office hours |Booth today were back from the |annual meeting of Presbytery and !Presbyterial of the Presbyterian |Chureh, held at Metlakatla this year, over which Mr. Booth presid- od. Juneau. ‘Today the dJuneau Industrial Union Council—ClO advised 'the | Al Southeast Alaskan wm!m |were represented at the meeting,, which elected the Rev. Booth to' (the office of Moderator of the, Presbytery. Others attending from Juneau were: Mrs. A. O. Peterson of the Northern Light Church; Mrs. Clara Bariowe, Mrs. Anna Anderson and the Rev. Wal- ter Soboleff of the Memorial Pres- byterian Chureh. ke S R. A. DREZER HERE men have Just cause - of Labor’s support in the (Eigned—Clyde Turner, R. A. Drezer of Kodiak has ar- rived here. He is stopping at the Wesley G. Baranof during his visit in Ju- both of neau. the Baranof. Rose and J. R. are