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§ o !l'u;w S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS 4ALL THE TIME” _—— REAK TORNADO KILLS N FOUR BRITONS| | KIDNAPPEDBY VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,300 LIGHT VOTE | IS CAST AT MAINE POLLS Michigan, Massachusefts Having Primaries To- “day, Various Offices (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) { Voters of Michigan and Massa-| chusetts turned out todgay to stamp epproval on nominees2 for Governor, | House and Senate after a quietJ Monday primary in Mainz. | Despite a veterans bonus issue the | Maine voting was tke second light-| est 'in history. 1 Republicans re-nominated Gov. | Horace A. Hildreth for a second two-year term over Roy L. Femaldl of ‘Wintersport, an attorney making his fourth unsuccessful bid for the| nomination. Hildreth’s margin was| 4 fo 'l | F. Davis Clark of Milo, a 30-‘ year-old veteran, was the Democrat- | ic choice over State Senator Leland B. Currier of Lewiston by more than 2,500 votes. i Fernald, Clark and Currier all proposed paying a cash bonus to discharged members of the armed forces. Hildreth promised to let the legislature dispose of the Yuestion at a special session next month. U. S. Senator Owen Brewsier wes unoppesed for rencmination on the | Republican ticket. In the general election he will face Peter M. Mc- Donald, former State Democratic chairman, who also had 'no rivals. | Contest In Michigan Michigan’s four way contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomi-| mation and a few Congressional district races there and in Massa-| chusetts provide the noteworthy' competition in today's voting. Republican aspirants to the Mich- igan state house post are Lt. Gov. Vernon J. Brown, Mayor Edward J.| > Jeffries, Jr., of Detroit, Raymond J. Kelly, former Naticnal Com-| mander of the American Legion, and Kim Sigler, former special prosecutor for a grand jury which (Continued on Page Eight) | NEW YORK, June 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 814, Alleghany. Cor- | poration 67, American Can 102, Anaconda 47%, Commonwealth and | Southern 5'2, Curtiss-Wright 75 International Harvester 99, Ke: necott 57%, New York Central 267 Northern Pacific 32%, United Oor-, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JUNE 8, 1946 PATRIOTIC DIET PAYS OFF JUST FOUR MONTHS AGO Mrs. Marie Wilson of Kansas City had her photograph taken (left) when she weighed 180 pounds. Her hubby overseas and with two children to care for, she had little time to fulfill a desire to exercise and lose weight. Then, she decided to heed the gov= ernment’s plea for food conservation and went on a “famine” diet. Today, Mrs. Wilson is a glamorous 120 pounds (right). For her efforts she won a “Beautify Your Figure” contest and a 10-day trip to New York, where she was taken to nightciubs and shows. (International) Major Wagner Given Award | eron, Joseph Keller, G. Didrichson; from Sitka: Esther Caro, M. E. Monagle, Hal Finch, John Little- field, Martha L. Littlefield; Ketchikan: E. McCarren, E. Mc- Ginty, E. Smeltzer, G. W. Clark. For Services Anchorage Bond Issue Is Passed By House, Buf Cut WASHINGTON, June 18.— The Hcuse passed today and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing Anchor- age, Alaska, to issue up to $5,000,000 of bonds to finance public works. The House reduczd the amount from $7,500,000 and eliminated au- thority to use the money for con- - 'struction of recreational facilities. The bonds may be issued upon ma- jority vote of registered voters. — e PATRICK COCHRANE Major Chester T. Wagner, Com- mander of Juneau Subport of Em- barkation, yesterday received the Army Commendation Ribbon for meritorious service under the Seattle Port of Embarkaticn Command, ac- cgrding to advices received today au the Empire from Seattle. The citation authorizing fhe 21 jor to wnz- ithe Army Ccmmenda- ke tion Ribbon by direction of Secretary of War read in part exceptionally outstanding sefvice ccmmanding officer at the Juneau Subport of Embarkation from Jan- uary 19, 1945, through February, 1946. Through his wunderstanding and leadership of men he was abl to overcome the loss of civilian i lplnsum.\ at the railw to! RAIDING JEWS Terrorists Snatch Officers| as Hostages for Con- - | demned Duo ' | | | JERUSALEM, June 18.—A reli-| | | able informant said four British| "\'fflters were kidnapped today from ! an officers club at Tel Aviv by a| | dozen Jewish ‘extremists armed| | with tcmmy guns, i The new cutoreak Of ierrorism | spreading throughout Palestine came after a wild night in Haifa, when nine Jews were killed in a| | pitched battle after they attacked| | the Central Railroad shops. The deaths during gunfire and 15 ex-| ed the toll in recent d i 1 The informant reporting the kid- | napping at Tel Aviv said the ban- | dits were believed to be members iof the Jewish extremist organiza- | tion, Irgun Zvai Leumi. The British | officers were believed seized as ;ll(sm,’;es against th impending exe- | cution of two Irgun members. sen-, | tenced to deatt last week for parti- cipating in a raid last March on a | British army camp. ! Raid Hotel Club The dozer terrorists raided the | Hotel Yarkon, which has been a leading officers club in Tel Aviv for several years. Their victims ! were blindfolded and forced into | taxicabs, the informant said. | (The British War Office in Lon- !den expressed surprise when in- | formed of the reported kidnaping, tasserting that “this is the first we, {have heard of it.”) (Reuters reported from Tel Aviv | that the British Sixth Airborne | division was scouring the city for |the kidnapers and their victims, reported to be fliers.) | The underground Jewish radio said at the weekend some counter- | measure would be taken against {the death sentences imposed on the | Irgun members by a military court in Jerusalem. | Latest advices from Haifa said ! the railway shops and a power- i house were destroyed last night. A | locomotive was ruined: Police con- | tinued to cordon off the area of | the battle. Set 15 Explesions The raiders set off 15 explosions {in the rail yards and escaped over ! heavily mined roads. | The oificial announcement said ! five persons, including two women, were inured seriously and that 14 | i — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EARLY SHOWGIRLS — Maud Betty Blomberg (left), SHE'S SEXLINGUAL PEACEHOPES AREDIMMED, NORTH CHINA Comm“unisisr(lrlra im New Demands Are "Most Unsatisfactory” NANKING, June .C.—A Chinese Cemmunist spokesman charged to- day the Government had dimmed hopes for peace by demanding that the Communists yield a number of strongholds in north China, includ- ing all the coastline of strategic Shantung province. The spokesman, Won Peng-mnan, said the Government mremorandum was handed to General Marshall, special U. 8. envoy, who turned it over “without comment” to Gen. Chou En-lai, Chief Communist ne- gotiator. The Government's new proposal, repo ly laid down as the price of peace, was described by Com- t sou as “most unsatis- 19, blonde from Sweden who stznds 6 feet, one inch, poses with a group of her fellow New York showgirls. The others (1. to r.): Marian Davies, Myra Willlams, Ruth Sitarr. Vickv Denasand. Beverly Michaels. BRUSH BLAZE RACES IN §O. CAL. CANYONS A |Cabins, Ranches, Oil Lands Threatened by Sum- | mer’s Worst Fire | Los Angeles, Juné 18.—A brisk[ brush blaze rushed unchecked today thrcugh Hasley Canyon, west 011 the heavily traveled ridge route,| and foresters poured men andj equipment into the arvea in an at-| tempt to beat down the summer's, worst Southern California outbreak.! Cabins, ranches, grazing land and | some oil wells are in the area, but Assistant Dispatcher Richard Flynn: said it could not be immediately; determined whether any were in, immediate danger, } Gusty winds fanned the flames! as they climbed a ridge dividing]| Hasley and Nicholson Canyons. The weather bureau said northeast gusts: up to 30 miles an hour could bei expected throughout the day but! would probably shift and diminish | b | SCORE HUNDREDS INJURED IN WIND BLOW {Property Déagge in South Michigan, Ontario, Can- ada Reported Enormous DETROIT, June 18. — A freak June tornado struck viclously Mon- day night ifto scuthern Michigan and adjacent Ontario, Canada, and left behind today a death toll of at least 17 and more than 100 in- Jured Searching parties hunted through a one-hundred yard path of dev- astation in Canada for possible ad- ditional victims. The identified dead totaled 13, but hospitals in the Windscr area reported at least “seven or eight” other victims eri- tically injured and near death. The search through the debris began at the first streak of dawn today less than 12 hours after the twister roared across the Detroil River and into a sparsely settled rural area near Windsor. No Mcre Bodies Found At noon ne additional bodies had been reported found in the wreck- age of the twister. The search in the Windsor area continued. About 50 persons were reported still in hespitals on the Canadian side. In all, it was estimated the injured toll approximated 200, including those only slightly hurt. River Rouge, Mich, a Detroit suburb and home of the huge Ford Motor Company Rouge plant, sus- tained the first shock of the tor- nado shortly, after § pam., but tiny Sandwich, Ont., bore ‘the .full fury of the blast. Property damage was expected to run into the millions of dollars. Hundreds Hommeless Hundreds of persons are homeless as the wind toppled their homes like so many straws, Business establishments are wrecked, autos were tossed about like playthings and bodies of the victims were buffeted as the tor- nado reached its zenith. The tornado, climaxiig two days of violent rainstorms in the area, struck without warning. Scores. of residents of populous River Rouge were at their supper tables when it hit. Housing Units Levelled The Fisher Low Cost Housing Project was first to feel the fury of the tornado which leveled 10 of the 546 units and caused severe damage to others. At least 15 project residents were pgflion 5%, U.. ;8 Steshy w’“fl“‘”“""‘ and to build an envia AlASKA I_INE OI. ‘men and a woman were arrested an Shantung, where the by tomorrow. jinjured as the wind ripped build- Pound $4.03%2. * {esprit de corps within his com- | No casualties were reported among have been closing in The scene is two miles south-|ings as if they were made of pa- Sales today were 1,150,000 shares.imang” The citation was signed by MER DIE HEREwBrmsh army personnel. cn the great U. 8. Marine-held east of Cesaic, which is on the'per. Several small fires broke out, Dow, Jones averages today are Major General Edmond H. me.lTI 'l S | Previously the government an-|Port of Tsingtao, the areas to be main inland highway from here|adding to the pamic. as follows: Industrials 207.71, ralls|Chjet of Transportation and was i nounced that six Jews were slain!8iven ‘up were not detailed by the to Contral and Northern California.{ The tornado, which weather bu- 67.44, utilities 4231 accompanied by the green and White! pollowing a heart attack aboard|Sunday night in attacks during SPokesman. 7 Five m way are two heavily-{reau officials said traveled more | Army Commendation Ribbon. |ship which resulted in his removal| which all of Palestine’s frontier| He sa'd they embraced “several timkered tional forests, Los|than 250 miles an hour, tore on Major Wagner also received a let- from the steamer Alaska, while|bridges were wrecked. A British provinces” north of the Yellow m Padres and Los Angeles. through the business district of river involving several of the COm- i o P 4 | populous River Rouge, leaving & that vessel was in port ‘here last:ofricer and two British soldiers al- evening, Patrick A. Cochrane, SS|so died, the officer while dis- Alaska Storekeeper, died at St. mantling a mine under a bridge the award and extending “sincere'Ann’s Hospital here this morning and the two soldiers in a clash positions The W ashingtonfbfl from Qolonel Fenton S. Jacobs, Commanding officers of Seattle Merry - Go- Round munist’ most important outside Manchuria. Swapely Lfacs Chrsiian (above), ! headquarters, ccmmending him on her press agent declares, is the “ <trail of destruction in its wake. 6 DAYS REMAIN | noce waterouts It then zoomed across the Detroit — e - —_— { congratulations and best wishes for'at 11 o'clock. | with Arabs. only actress in Hollywood who is FOR So Ap Box }mver, the suction of the tornado By DREW PEARSON jsuccess in all your future endeav-| Cochrane, an Alaska Line em-| The British army, meanwhile, . sexlingual—and she doesn’t have { creating four huge waterspouts. ’ S e jors.” i | Coast Guardsmen said that as far ! ployee for more than a score of years, continued tc question the 62 male An oilicer @ the U. S. Army for|is widely known along the whole|residents of the village of Beth the past 5 1-2 years, Major Wagner iAlaska coast, with many friends|Haavara, on the Dead Sea, in con- served more than three and a half [in every port of call. He and MIs.|nection with the®wrecking of the years in Ireland, France, Wnl»:s,iCochrnne have long resided at 1509 pridges. The entire population of and England. He came to Juneau | Fourth Avenue West, on Queen|the village attempted to bar the from Mukilteo Explosive Loading|Anne Hill, Seattle. troops by linking arms and taking las they knew, no boats had been | damaged by the huge freaks of ! nature. | ALl boys interested in enl.cring; The terrifying funnel, estimated the 1946 Soap Box Derby, and Ro-|yaricusly at from 20 to 100 feet at COlONEl K“.IAN luman and Daily Alaska Empire|jts base, sucked nearly everything representatives will meet Friday!in » 100-yard swath® into its fatal to say a word to prove it. Sex- | lingual, cf course, refers to her | ability to read, write and speak :1 six languages, i DERBY ENTRIE WASHINGTON — Some people | seem to be laboring under the im- pression that wrangles_are new on the Supreme Court. Actually, wrangling began soon after the Court was formed, with the at- Murphy No funeral arrangements have yet| tempted impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, continued vigorously under John Marshall and has flar- ed-up intermittently ever since. | Latest wrangle, prior to the Jackson blow-up, was between am-| iable Chief Justice Harlan Fiske, Stone and austere Justice Owen J.| Roberts. Although Republicans and Hoover appointees, they did not get along well in recent years, and | there was one hot though private; argument between them over the| question of sitting \on a case in- volving Stone’s former law firm. Before that, however, the most| virulent fend on the Supreme; Court revolved around . cranky, crusty Justice James C. Reynolds, | the only justice credited with driv- ing an associete off the Court. For six years Justice John H. Clarke sat beside him,. and for six 'years McReynolds never spoke. Finally Clarke resigned. ¢ McReynolds also tried to drive the late Jusiice Louis D. Bragndeis off the bench. He would rattle his papers or even leave the bench when Brandeis rendered an opin- (Continued on Page Four) (COASTAL LINES Terminal in Washington state, on January 15, 1945. At that time the Juneau subport command include 200 men, 12 officers, and 110 cv. i |been made. H —— o0 00 00 en>e e ilians. The operations concerring, lumber ‘control and stock Dpiling: WEATHER REPORT ° were recently turned over to lhef (U. 8. WEATHEK BUREAU) B Alaska District Engineer, with Ma- x . Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 o'Clock This Morning jor Wagner retaining headquart: ers at the subport until it is de: clared officially inactive by Seattle o o o Port of Embarkatioh. In Juneau—Maximum, 59; The Amny Commendauun Ribbon,) ® minimum, 51. L a new award introduced by the At Airport—Maximum, 60; e \Army early in this year, com-| minimum, 51. pares to the Bronze Star and th g o Air Medal in significance of merit. WEATHER FORECAST e (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness with | | | occasional light showers to- o" DA".Y Hops night and Wednesday. Little o i change in temperature. . . Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the.® @ @ © ¢ @ @ & ¢ & o o o following passengers yesterday tol —_—————— Pelican: Don Milnes, J. Eddington,l LIBRARY STORY HOUR H. Erland, P. Pearson, Ingra Lang;! from Hoonah: Ben Gachson, Gene-' The weekly story hour will be vieve Wies, Mamie Wies; from, started tomorrow morning at 10 Point Althorp: T. Dyer, E. B. Davis, o’clock at the Juneau public li- H. V. Davis; to Sitka: E. R. Cam- i brary. a stand. 'Flood Control Bill Has Alaska Projecis WACJINGTON, June 18.—Items in the flood control bill before the cuse teday included the follow- ng in Aaska: | Skagway River and Harbor, | $438,000. The measure also ‘Army engineers to survey |areas, with a view to flood control . land other projects: Gold Creex, Alaska. ghena Slough, Alaska. —— e ' NINE LIVES SAVED TERRYVILLE, Conn. —Members of the newly organized Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department waited impatiently for their first call Finally, after three weeks, it came. They went to Lake Plymouth where they reseued a cat stranded in the Jtop of a tree. H°"°’°d5 T0 STAND TRIAL, SEATTLE, June lS.—Chm'les“ Murphy, Superintendent of Opera-! (RUELIY (HARGFS tions of the Alaska Communication | g ot System, today received a meritor- ious civillan award from Maj. Gen.! BAD NAUHEIM, June 18.—Col. Harry C. Ingles, chief Army fignal James A, Kilian, commander of the Corps officer, at a ceremony in tle Litchfield, Eng., guardhouse during Federal office builaing | the war, lost his two-day fight Murphy, a member of the Signal|today to avoid trial before a U. S. Corps for 47 years as a soldicr and| courtmartial on charges of cruelty civilian, and who was among the to American soldier prisoners. first scldiers to build the old Wam-, After six and a half hours of cats line north from Valdez in heated argument and attempts to 1900, received his citation for “out-,question two major generals and standing performance and for ini-'geveral colonels the military court tiative in devising policies and pro- overruled Kilian's motion to quash cedures.” the charges. P Murphy and Domenico Centrella, “ who has served the Alaska Com.l munication System 37 years as 4| civilian, were congratulated by Gen.! Ingles for their long service. A o R pany cannery African slaves were first immn:"k""perEd b_y Fraficls "Roach, duced thto Brazil in the middle of | UP at.the Ciiy Float at 8 pm. yes- the 16th century. terday on her first seasonal trip B in from Hoonah. The tender will Naturalists classify the jack rub-‘;leavr.- with supplies at 8:30 am. to- bit as a hare, | morrow, e, FROM HOONAM . | | [ ! inight at 8 o'clock in the Lptheran Church for a meeting to discuss! final plans for the Soap Box Derby | races to be held July 25. No entries will be taken for race| participation after June 25, next Tuesday. Six more days remain forj applications to be filed. Boysi may still get full information and| have ample time to construct meiry racing caps if they apply for en-| |trance in the contest within the next six days, said Dr. Willlam Whitehead, of the Rotary Soap Box Derby committee. e e CEILING PRICES | ~ ONTIRES 6O UP| WASHINGTON, June 18.—OPA! teday authorized an immediate in-! The same’ percentage increase,! granted to offset producers’ higher wage and materials cost, also was granted to manufacturers and wholesalers, It also applies to motoreycle tires, grip. Little Sandwich and outskirts of the Canadian communities recoiled under the full blast of the tornado before it headed for Lake St. Clair, where the weather bureau said it dissipated. The weatherman skid the torna- (Continued on Page Eight) PRI o iy ALASKA SCHOOL BOND MEASURE PASSES HOUSE WASHINGTON, June 18—A bill authorizing bond issues by Alaskan school districts for raising funds The Icy Straits Salmon Com-'crease of 3.3 percent in retail ceil-|to construct and improve schools tende Neb“::“y‘lng prices for passenger car tires.) Was passed by the House yesterday. e The bonds cannot amount to more than 10 percent of the aggregate value of the real and personal pro- perty subject to taxation in the district. The bill now goes to the Senate,

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