The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,301 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1946 MEMBER A SSOCIATE D PRESS PRICE TEN cgq_r;s FIGHTERS READY FOR GONG TONIGHT She's An Early June Bride SIGLERIS | NOMINATED BY GOPERS Wins Out in_fiichigan by, Big Vote-Results Giv- en in Massachusetts (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Kim 3igler, colorful Battle Creek attorney who prosecuted State Leg- islators and lobbyists on bribery charges, won the Republican nom- ination for Governor of Michigan today. 4 Sigler’s victory in the four-man contest, top race in Michigan and Massachusetis primaries Tuesday, was assured when Lt. Gov. Vernon J. Brown conceded defeat after re- turns from more than three-fourths | of the State's precincts gave Sig-| ler a lead of approximately 33,000 over Brown. | Two other outstripped opponents » Raymond J. Kelly, former National Commander of the American Le- gion, and Mayor Edward J. Jeffries of Detroit, had tossed in the towel long before the 72-year-old Brown, gave up. Brown had the backing of | Gov. Harry F. Kelly. A The silver-haired Sigler, some-! times called “the Hollywood Kid” because of his flashy dress, will oppcse former Gov. Murray D. Van J Wagoner in the November general election. Democratic nomination by land- slide proportions over William J. Cody of Detroit. In Massachusetts Meanwhile, returns from . the Van Wagoner won the! | S and ACTRESS BETTY FURM divorced only a month previous, are shown just after their re-mar- midnight, June 1, at the Litt riage one minute after West at Las Vegas, Nev. They ter this time the marriage “will stick.” [ AIDRUSHEDTO HOMELESS IN WIND'S WAKE | Michigan Troopers Are on Watch for Looters in River Rouge DETROIT, June 10.—Aid was rushed today to the hundreds of || homeless left in the wake of Mon- | day's tornado, which took 14 lives | and caased millions of dollars in ' damage in the Detroit and Wind-' | sor, Canada, area. ) River Rouge, hardest hit on the American side of the Detroit Riv-| er, called on individual residents | | to helM the destitute while Cana-| HOUSE WRECKER | dian relief agencies mobilized e~ | mergency assistance for the storm' victin there. Clothing and field kitchens were taken into Windsor from Toronto and Camp Borden. Volunteers manned food canteens which pa- trolled the stricken areas of Te- cumseh, Ojibway and Sandwich. A company of Michigan State troopers patrolled the River Rouge, |sweeping in a path a quarter of a ; mile wire through communities cn the cutskirts of Windsor. At least 50 homes were demolished, 200 badly damaged and more than 900 persons left homeless. s W injured, with nearly PRICE TIEUP IS SETTLED Salmon Operations Get Under Way After 3 Weeks Delay her husband, Bud Ernst whom she Church of the med their breakup “silly” and said persons hurt in the Fisher ——— | Housing Project in River Rouge | which was almost completely fiat- SEATTLE, June 19.—Seftlement tened. 1% of the fish price dispute in the Ko- i diak, Alaska area, which has delay=~ ‘7257 Million Dollar Pfdgram <d the. @rlmon . fishing operations Massachusetts voting put the well! kncwn names of Kennedy and Coclidge in the winner's circle. John F. Kennedy, 29-year-old Navy veteran and son of former Ambassador Joseph E. Kennedy corraled the Democratic nomina- tion for Congress in the Bay State’s 11th district while Arthur Cool- idge, distant cousin of former SEATTLE, June 19.—Construc- __ tion will start this summer on a $25,000,000 program for permanent | nousing and other facilities at two |Alaskan army posts—Ladd Field at Fairbanks and Fort Richardson at (Continu‘e’d on Page Three) B 0f Consfruction al 2 Army Postsin Alaska Aqqpumed there for nearly three weeks, Was anncunced lakor union ana op- rerators’ representatives here yes- | terday Ed Coester, International vice precident of the Seafarers Interna- tional Union, parent body to the United Fishermen of Alaska, said foot hangar, gas storage, parking areas and rehabilitation and relo- cation of existing buildings. Vi IN vISII fishing and canning were reported . § ‘uncer today. The U. F. A, has 120 by 220 feet, a 300-foot by 200-| feparted represents about 750 Kodiak area fishermen. —————— 'Secrefary Schwellenbach | Talks with Commis- | Anchorage. 8 announcement of th DIRECTOR PILOT MAKES postwar construction program ¢ ; BUD(';H ‘GROUND' DRY BAY from Washington, D. C. yesterday. Col. James D. Lang, head of the KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 19.— Alaska District of U. 8. Army The Coast Guard cutter McLane is gineers, reported the details here enroute to Dry Bay, about 150 miles today. northwest of Juneau, to assist the Contracts were awarded, Lang grounded coastal boat Alsack, the said, to Fay, Spofford and Thorn- Service reported. idike of Boston for architect-en- The report also said the Navy gineer services totaling about $900,- sioner Sharpe SMITH QUITS FOR | WORLD BANK JOB. WASHINGTO, june 19.—Harold D. Smith quit as Director of the Federal Budget today to hkecome Eecretary of Labor Lewis B. SAFE lANDING Schwellenbach and Mrs. Schwellen- G (R A FT bach visited in Juneau yesterday afternoon and evening while the Princess Louise was in port and the Secretary consulted briefly with labor officials here. The cabinet memkber and his wife net tender Boxwood arrived at Squaw Harbor yesterday to aspist the Navy salvage crew in pumping out the boiler room of the disabled steamer Santa Cruz, which is to be towed to Seattle. "The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—This column is fow able to publish for the first| time what may prove to be one * of the most historic letters Frank- lin Roosevelt ever wrote. Hitherto it has been secret. The letter was sent to Secretary of War Stimson in the late summer of 1944, just as the U. S. Army was rolling: over Normandy and as the War Depart- ment was first beginning to Worry about governing Germany. Today, as the Foreign Ministers debate the peace in Paris, much , of what Roosevelt warned against has been igrored. The letter was inspired by the Army’s “Handbook for defeated Germany.” “It gives me the impressiin,” Roosevelt wrote Stimson, “that Germany is to be restored just as much as the Netherlands or Bel- gium, and the people of Germany brought back as quickly as possible to their pre-war estate. “It is of the utmost importance # that every person in Germany should realize that this time Ger- many is a defeated nation. . . .The fact that they are a defeated na- tion, collectively and individually, must be so impressed upon them that they will hesitate to start any new war. “There exists a school of thought both in London and here which would, in effect, do for Germany (Continued on Page Four) 000, and to Birch-Johnson-Lytle for construction work approximating 1$24,000,000. Both were on a cost plus fixed fee basis. | The construction contract, a joint \venture of 8. Birch & Sons Con- struction Company of Great Falis Mont., Al Jobnson Construction Co.,| |of Minneapolis, and C. F. Lytle | Construction Company of Sicux ‘City, Ia., calls for permanent hous- !ing and technical facilities at Ladd |Field and Fort Richardson. .The {architect-engineer contract calls for |engincering design and construc- |tion supervision of the projects. Both companies will maintain of- fices in Seattle. [3 | Services of the Seattle District | will include recruiting personnel for |the Alaska district and assistance |with supply, engineering, conjract administration and auditing. Contractors will perform their own recruiting. | Thg¢ program calls for permen- |ent housing facilities at Ft. Richard- {son, Anchorage, including quarters for 140 military families, a 200-man bachelor officers’ quarters, a 400- man military messhall, a 2,000-man ‘enlisled men’s barracks, quarters {for 64 civilian families, a 240-man |civilian buchelor quarters, a 400- man civilian messhall and rehab- ilitation of existing buildings. I jardson include a 150 foot by & {foot warehouse, gas and fuel stor- \age and plane parking areas. | Facilities expanding Ledd Field {at Fairbanks, called for in th2 con-| |cularly a ferry service from Prince | tract include temporary housing for 1,000 men and permanent fac¢- ilities including expansion of :ios- pital facilities, a 1000-man mili- tary barracks, quarters for 92 mili- tary families, bachelor military quarters, bachelor civilian quarters, quarters for 48 civilian families, a |250-man civilian mess hall and a 250-man military mess hall. Technical facilities include two warehouses, one 120 by 200 feet, onc Technical facilities for Ft. Rich-| vice president of the new $7,670,000,- 000 International Bank. President Truman accepted his resignation with regret, Press Sec- retary Charles Ross told reporters, and only because of the import- ance of his new assignment. Smith’s new job means that the top two posts in the world bank will be held by Americans. The president is Eugene Meyer, until re- cently the editor and publisher of Tre Washington Post. Mr. Truman immediately ap- pointed Paul H. Appleby acting di- rector of the budget. Appleby has been assistant director. JUNEAU, DOUGLA MAYORS TO TALK AT C. C. MEETING Members of the Douglas Cham- ber of Commerce will be guests of | the Juneau Chamber of Commerce f | i ‘at its regular luncheon-meeting | tomorrow noon in the Baranof Gold Room. | Douglas Mayor Mark Jensen and Juneau Mayor Waino Hendrickson will speak on civic developments in |the two cities. | Art O'Harra, operator of the !O'Harra Bus Lines in the Interior, will speak on the Haines-to-Fair- | banks busline and also on projected plans for Southeast Alaska, parti- { Rupert to Haines. O'Harra arrived ! here today and is in the city on a | from the States. - e — | GEORGE L. TOBASCO HERE 'business trip. He has just arrived | George L Tobasco, a resident of Haines, is staying at the Hotel Juneau during his visit in this city. 42-Passenger PAA Clipper Is Brought Down with Ease During Trouble | Mrs. Ernest Gruening and Act- ling Governor Lew Williams met WILLIMANTIC Conn., June 19.— ithem at the dock yesterday and Forty-two passengers, including ac- itke couple visited at the Governor's tors Laurence Olivier and his wife, House. Vivien Leigh, were winging their | Secretary Schwellenbach conferr- way to England today aboard a ed with Territorial Commissioner of | Pan American clipper of the Con- |Labor Walter P. Sharpe on Alaskastellation type after surviving a |labor problems and discussed Fed-| pancake landing et a tiny airport eral-Territorial cooperation on mat- here. |ters pertaining to labor. He also| The are on a brief pleasure trip. They left Seattle without notifying friends but word got out that they were Alaska bound before the boat |docked at Ketchikan. trans-Atlantic plane in . Italked with Arthur Hedges of the which they left LaGuardia Field, U. S. Employment Service and New York, at 1 p.m., PST, yester- with Len Evans, inspector with the day developed engine trouble a few ;Wagas and Hours Division of the miles 2ast of here, forcing it to Department of Labor. |come into Windham Field, an air- Secretary and Mrs. Schwellenbach | o1t designed only for much smal- were entertained at dinner at the ey craft, Governor's House. with the wheels retracted. S | Captain Leo Carroll, head of the H State Police detail that rushed to 4seward S'arllng the rescue, was full of praise for ‘ Move 'o purthase co-pilot, Woodrow L. Lawson, who made the difficult landing. “That pilot did a remarkable job Dock, Not Lease I . Captain Samuel H. Miller and his ringing that big ship in on | hr¢e engines without hurting i SEWARD, Alaska, June 19.—To anybody,” he told reporters. |remedy the “intolerable situation| - e of this landlocked port,” Mayor Phil Harding said yesterday he ihopes to arrange for the purchase |rather than the lease of the army |dock at Seward. With the cooperation of the en- tire DSes lto m%“:‘;:y’u::amaozebpy“}’;m_ poration 6%, American Can 102%, |ing a bond issue. - Anaconda 46%, Commonwealth and | The Mayor and a committee of Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, business men met Monday night [nternational Harvester 97%, Ken- and decided to present Seward’s hecoit 56%, New York Central 27, case to Congressional Delegate Bart- Noithern Pacific 32%, United Cor- lett and to ask him to intercede poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 87%, |with the Department of Interior of- Pound $4.03%. ficials. The dock was built in 1942 at a| STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 19.—Closing tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- Dow, Jones averages today are 11,250,000, o751, utilities 4221, on three engines and Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. | B » A v IN ACTION — A 3,000-pound’ ball swings from a crane to knock dowa walls of a building te make room for a new housing development in New York Qity NOVICE ! | | They say the odds are 10,000 to 1 against it, but Lila Leeds (above) came to Hollywoed recently from her home in Clovis, N. M., de- termined to crash the movies and | succeeded. She was signed to an M-G-M contract after making one appearance in a play at a drama scheol, (AP Photo) PREPAREDRESS IN FMERGENCY S DISCUSSED Truman Confers with Army and Navy Munitions Board Members WASHINGTON, June 19,—Presl-' dent Truman conferred today with the Army and Navy Munitions Board on industrial preparedness in the event of another emergency. Discussing the conference later, Chairman Richard R. Dupree, told reporters that “industrial prepar- edness is very important for the |assurance of a lasting peace.” | The Board is charged with the | respenslbility for stockpiling ma- | |terials and for keeping a con- | stantly modernized program for throwing the nation’s industrial machinery into action for the Gov-! ernment whenever necessary. ) In a statement following the meeting with the President, Du- pree said Mr. Truman “seemed mcest interested in problems of pre- paredness and understood that cer-| tain things must be done if we are to keep our nation sirong indus- | trially.” These things, he said, must be done “so that we may be equipped klalnuzs of the future.” MARINES WILL HELP TO TURN RED ASSAULT U. S. Forces fo Aid China Natl. Govt. in Defense of Tsingtao TSINGTAO, June 19.—The U. 8 clared today his forces would help Chinase authorities “maintzin peace and order” in this vital Shantung port should the Communists at- tack. The commander, Briz. Gon. Wal- ter Clement, declined to say at . were quoted at 3-to-1 against Marine commander in Tsinglao de- CHAMP JOE, BILLY CONN WEIGHED IN :Both Men Afieponed in Fine Condition-Bet- ting Odds Given By Gayle Talbot NEW YORK, June 19.—~Champion Joe Louis scaled 207 pounds to Challenger Billy Conn's 182 at the officials weigh-in for -tonight’s 15- round heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium. For their other fight five years ago, which Louis won by a knock- jout in the 13th round, the cham- | pion weighted 199 1-2 to Conn's 174 The latest official weather fore- (cast report cloudy skies with a (light easterly wind and a temper- ,ature of about 60 degrees at fight time 6:00 p. m. (PST). It was learned reliably that the referee will be either Eddie Joseph, (who was in the ring for the o'lici Louis-Conn fight, or Johnny By a middleweight fighter of the 20's. A crowd of several thousand ! lined both sides of Broth Street ,Joining Madison Square Gaiden wnd had to be held back by a cetail o police while the two fighters wore Leing weighed in the Garden Ring. ns Betting Odds The latest official bettin: chances of winning the title the man who has beld it for nin years. The Amefican Broadca [ Company will broadcast the figh. Joe Louis, a ring-weary victim of 32, will defend his title for the 22nd time, and he very likely will leave Billy Conn a quivering mass a press conference, however, wheth- in the resin somewhere about ihLe er the Marines would defend the fourth round. city itself should the Communists The indelible impression after —now reported on the move on all sides of Tsingtao—move against the port’s defenses. Reds North-bound (The government's Central News Agency reported in a broadcast heard by the Associated Press lis- tening post in San Francisco that National troops had Chengyang, only 18 miles north of Teingtao, from the The Marine General also declin- recaptured ' Communists, * who were retreating northward.) watching the big Negro and his slighter but dead-game 28-year-old opponent from Pittsburgh train for the past 10 days is that Louis siili carries too many bazookas for Billy, just as he did on another June night five years ago. Louis Looks Good Although he has not fought ser- fously for four years, Louis will 2n- ‘ler the ring tonight a beautifully itrained speciman. Veterans of the fight game who doubted that Joe ed to comment on reports that the could bridge the chasm of time and Communists had asked the Ma- rines to withdraw from T:amgtau,[p,-mchmg his pre- jonce a summer anchorage for parts: watched his |whip himself into anything ap- war form have closing workout in of the British and U. 8, Asiatic cpen-mouthed amazement. ileets. Un/friendly Gesture (Communist propagandists in Peiping erted, meanwhile, that U. 8. aid to the Nanking govern-' ment while peace negotiations were in progress was “an unfriendly gesture to the Chinese people.”) | Cn the other hand, Li Sien-liang, | Mayor of Tsingtao, urged United ves forces here to commit them- | to the defense of the city, saying that would deter the Com-, munists. Li declared that the Marines ar-! rived last October not only to (hs-i arm and repatriate Japansese, but| to establish a far-eastern naval| base. | Public Hearing on Control of Floods' SEATTLE, June 19.—Last public hearing in a series of eight to de-! termine river and harbor impmvw’ ments desired by southeast Alaska residents will be held June 28 at Skagway, it is announced by Col. Cenrad P. Hardy, District Engineer, Seattle District U. 8. Army En- gineers The session will convene at 1] p.am. Friday, June 28, to hear views! of local interests on desired flood control measures. CLEVELAND CLUB MAY BE SOLD OU CLEVELAND, June 19.— The Cleveland News said today that major stockholders had agreed to sell the Cleveland Indians to Bill Veeck, 32-year-old former owner of i { | i | | | of Chicagoans. [W. Albert; to Hoonah: Mrs. 0. j The big man who has held the crown for nine years still hits fast and with paralyzing force. His legs <till look trim, aid he shuffles about on his large feet abou’ as swiftly as ever. Conn Feariess As for Billy Conn, he will carry {into the ring no measurably greater weapons than he had that other blazing night when he went down under a hurricane of blows in the 13th round. Billy still has ¢ fight- ing heart the size of a pumpkin, he is utterly fearless of Joe Louis, he is fast — and he thinks he can win. Also possibly on the credit side, Billy has put on a few rugged pounds, which might help him take {a punch better and hit a little harder. (For other particulavs of th fight, read sporting page.) C(OASTAL AIRLINES IN, OUT YESTERDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines fle following yesterday to Pelican McCadder, T. Jacobsen, Long, J. Munsom, Mr. and A. Gatlin, Jane Scott; to Sam Asp, S. Johnson, H. W Mi's T sen; from Hoonah: 8. Jac Havelon; to Skagway: G. Sanford to Haines: W. Whittier, S. Smith to Petersburg: N. Haley, H. Finch to Wrangell: Mrs. A. Buickl R Hayes, Frant Clayton: to Kelc ikan: Lt. Comdr. B. Sherman, M Lantry, R. Charls, Clyde Rhoc Helen Decoto; to Sitka: J. T. Tos- ney, C. Tosney, B. Reed, Lynn For- rest, Mr. and Mrs. Chad Trower: from Ketchikan: Carl Hanson. J ¥ Van Gilder, John Elliott, A, Marr, Jessie Stuart. e e Cork trees grow to 30 feet in cost estimated by Harding at about as follows: industrials 20574, rails to mect the difficulties and uncer- the Milwaukee Brewers, and group height, and their trunks reach a diameter of three or more feet.