The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,306 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1946 ALL THE TIME” = 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 7 MEET DEATH IN FLAMING BUS PLUNGE 8n. Mitchell eeks Flight Invesfigation Wa‘shingion—g)lon Wants| fo Know Why Alaska Gov. on Booster Trip WASHINGTON, June 25.—A dele- gation of Alaskans who flew here from Anchorage to boost a direct airline between the Territory andl the midwest departed for home to- day as Senator Mitchell (D-Wash) said he will ask an investigation of Alaska Governor Ernest Gruen- ing’s participation in the trip. Gruening accompanied the dele- | gation, which was organized by the | Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. Members of the group said they wished to block a proposed t airline to the Orient from Seattle. Gruening said yesterday the Alas- | | | | | Jap Food Rioters Storm Imperial Palace ' | Price Controllers Win Last| HALF-HEARTED, Alluring Miss Wins 3rd Title OPA MEASURE ! PUT 10 HOUSE Minute Victory in Con- ference Deal i . | | WASHINGTON, June 25—Chair- | man Spence (D-Ky) of the House| Banking committee today expressed | belief that President Truman will| ]:lgn the compromise OPA bill work- led out last night by a Senate- {Hcuse conference committee, In his opinion, Spence said, the bill “is workable.” { The Kentuckian, who has battled |for months for continuation of a strong price control law, made this statement to newsmen as the Hous2 ‘ccnvened two hours earlier than its tusual noon meeting time, for a [:emon which probably will see a |showdown vote on the OPA com- NINE OTHERS ARE INJURED IN ACCIDENT Car Loaded with Baseball Players Crashes Down Mounfainside SEATTLE, June 25.—Seven mem-~ bers of Spokane's Western Inter- national League Baseball Club death last night in the flami plunge of their chartered erc state bus from the Snoqual Pass Highway four miles south of ts summit in the Cascade moui+ ains, The driver and eight other play- ers were injured, several critically One survivor described the vic- tims as being ‘“scattered all over the hill.” The identified dead are: First baseman Vic Picetti, of San, kans would not oppose the Seattle | 5 Francis line if they could have direct con-| THE STRIKING AND DRAMATIC PHOTO was taken at Tokyo when hundreds of demonstrators, some iprgmlsf e L o w;t}]"i):fi'anfil; 5 f:::e‘;’ly "plsye.t: i i | ildr o 2 gate o ing g pence voic confidence tha . escribed nection with the midwest. He| of them women carrying small children, stormed th> gates of the Imperial Palace, demanding that their BT sohtove the oam- the most promising young player said each member of the party had paid his own expenses, “I intend to ask why the Gov- ernor of Alaska tock part in a flight to Minnesota, Illinois, In- diana and Washington in the in- terest of a private commereial air- line which wishes to bypass the traditional transportation lines through Seattle which have served Alaska in the past and must serve | ration of rice, principal article of diet, be increased. Note upraised hand inside gate as attache seeks to bar | | intruder from sacred precincts. No UNRRA Funds for the Territory in the future,” Mit-| chell told a reporter. “Nothing Unusual” Edwin Arnold, Director of the In- terjor Department’s Territories Di- vision, told a reporter he could see (Continued on Page Two) Krug Pledges Overland Air Road Support Aflthoragefif-t Group Assured of Action on Direct-East Skyway . Russians 0.8 Finallyahing Tough | -House Members Go ’ Info Angry Huddle WASHINGTON, June | “none-for-Russia” tag on this coun- |try’s $465,000,000 final contribution |to UNRRA became a definite pos- |sibility today. Moscow had balked a t letting American correspondents report on {the relief agencies activities in two ‘Soviet republics sent influential igouse members into an angry hud- | dle. They tried before but failed to ban the use of United States funds {in nations which refused to give 25— A ‘ ‘ThéVWash}ingIm’lA Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — General Joseph ‘T. McNarney, who is doing a bet- tér job as commander of occupied Germany than most people think,' {ukes to sing. And when he comes {up to Berlin for his regfilar visits with the other Allied commanders, | he always engages in a song fest | with the Russians. As a result, the Russians have adopted a new song which they | virtually regard as the American | national anthem. They sing it on| any and all occasions. They tmnk‘ it brings pride and pleasure to the | hearts of Americans; and the Red | | to please Americans. Actually, the song may brlngl great pride and pleasure to Gen- | (eral McNarney, but other Ameri- |cans privately are getting a bii jweary of it. The Russians have {learned the English words, and tc | the tune of “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” here is what they sing WASHINGTON, June 25—Presi- | American press and radio represent-| ¢ the new American national an- dent Truman received a 31-pound king salmon yesterday. +The big fish was taken into the White House only a few hours after a South Carolina delegation pre- sented Mr. Truman with a bushel of peaches grown in the Spartan- burg, S. C, area. The king salmon was flown into ‘Washington by the party of 21 Alaskans interested in obtaining di- rect air lines to Alaska. The group is ., particularly interested in the pending Civil Aeronautics Board decision in. the so-called Pacific Case. They want Alaska included on proposed routes from the mid- west to the Orient originating on the Pacific coast and in the mid- west. . . Expect Favorable Action The delegation was assured later that Alaska would have Adminis- tration support in getting Civil Aercnautics Board approval for an air service to be operated from the ry to the midwest by an Al- air line. retary of the Interlor Julius A'X received the entire dele- gation and said he felt the Presi- dent would ask the CAB to re-ex- amine the Alaska airline situation. “You have.my support for such a service,” Krug said. “I'll do more than sympathize with your aim. I expect to get favorable action on it.” Magnuson To Support “We are concerned with a direct connection with the midwest,” Al- aska’s Governor said, “We do not objéect to a Seattle air route to the Orient but we want an alternate route that will permit an Alaska carrier to operate from the terri- tory to the midwest so we can get to the east quickly.” He said Sen- ator Magnuson (D-Wash) had as- sured support for the plans of the delegation. ‘The delegation, the first that has ever come from Alaska to the Cap- ital by air, will depart tomorrow for home, stopping at Milwaukee, Wis., tomorrow night and at Great Falls, Mont., the next day. lanves free access to UNRRA news. | Finally they settled for a provis- {ion requiring the President to seek ithrough “appropriate channels” to jobtain admission of American cor- |respondents to recipient countries. “Apparently we did not go far enough and will now have to get tougher,” Rep. Clarence Brown (R- Ohio) told a reporter. “It may be that the House now will be willing to insist that no UNRRA funds supplied by the United States be used in countries which won't allow our reporters to go inside and find out how the money is being used.” FORMER ‘TROOPSHIP SEATTLE, June 25.—A replace- menf for the recently disabled SS Santa Cruz is scheduled to arrive in Seattle from San Francisco next week, Alaska Steamship Company officials announced today. ‘The replacement, a C-2 type for- mer troopship, the 88 Young Am- erica, is expected to sail on her about July 10, H. N. Peterson, Pas- senger Traffic Manager said. The Santa Cruz was crippled at Squaw Harbor, Alaska, when her boiler room flooded after a con- denser plate was removed. She is awaiting towage to Seattle. | STOCK QUOTATIO NEW YORK, June 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor~ | Anaconda 45%, Commonwealth and Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 95%, Ken- necott 56%, New York Central 30%, Northern Pacific 33%, United Cor- poration 5%, U. S, Steel 86%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were: 880,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 202.54, rails 65.18, utilities 41.62. FOR ALASKA ROUTE first Alaska voyage from Seattle| poration 6%, American Can lM“ | them: | “Three cheers for the Sam Jones Junior High School, | The best junior high in Toledo.” There are a lot more words to |the song, and the Russians, ap- |parently not realizing that not all American soldiers have had the | benefit of an education in Toledo, | Ohio, have carefully learned all ! the words. | The fact that they have done so | illustrates a point which some of {our top-bracket statesmen don’t lalways realize—namely, despite our | difficulties with the Soviet Gov- ernment, we have no quarrel with | the Russian people. Not much has {been said about it, but relations i between the American and Soviet Armies in Berlin have been ex- traordinarily good. At first, the Russians ‘were suspicious, didn’t {want any fraternization of their ichops with ours. But tiiat suspicion | has largely disappeared. The Red Army is a large, unwieldly, badly jdisciplined, very human cross sec- {tiolf of the Russian people, and that part of the Red Army which {is in Berlin likes Americans. | However, nobody in the higher | brackets in Washington or Moscow lis doing much to bring the Rus- |sian and American people together. {This column has long maintained that if we had the same U. S.- U. S. 8. R. interchange of students that we have with China and Eng-| land as a result of the Boxer Re- belliori and Rhodes Scholarships,| our Russian troubles gradually | would go up in smoke. | SCIENCE AND PIG BUSINESS President Truman had a signifi- cant talk recently with his old| friend Senator Harley Kilgore of| West Virginia regarding the devel-i business. { The West Virginia Senator had |introduced a national science bill! which the great majority of scien-' tists supported but which the Na=' | tional Association of Manufacturers| { backing of has fought tooth and nail. They| even induced nice, naive Congress- | man Wilbur Mills of Arkansas to| introduce a counter bill by which promise, which is far short of what the administration asked, but a good deal less stringent than it expeeted to get. \ Controls Left On With other legislation scheduled for prior consideration, a final vote the U. 8. Government subsidizes'on OPA was not expected before scientific development, but big business will have a large hand in reaping the patents and the re- cults of that subsidy. President Truman told Kilgore midafternoon. Left intact were price controls over meat, butter, cigarettes and gasoline, but the one-year extension of the war-born agency yanked that he was emphatically opposed away many of OPA's powers over to this business control, especiaily the Arkansas-NAM idea of having $l-a-year men operate the Scienti-| fic board. “If they try to puv a doliar-a-| year board in to operate the foun-! dation,” said the President, remem- | bering $l-a-year man inefficiency ! ne had exposed as head of the| Truman Committee, “I' veta the | bill, “If they cut out your puLent[ compromise,” Truman continued, | President Truman’s disclosure that| Army in Berlin, at least is anxious| “I'll see to it that patents develop-E ed with Federal funds are made | freely available unless Congress| expressly directs in the bill that| none of these patents can be made reely available.” Truman also assured Kilgore that ne would put the whole Adminis-! ration behind a move to pass the; ill at this session of Congress. | “I'm afraid,” he added, “the Na-| ional Association of Manufacturers nay have muddied the waters so the national economy. Rent con- trols were left unchanged. The , then the Senate, and (Continued on Page Eight) MISS JACKIE JENNINGS, 18-year-old University of Miami brunette took her third title recently when 1946, The selection was announced at Miami Beach. she was chosen “Miss Florida of She had previcusly won the title of “Miss Coral Gables” and “Model University Coral Gables, Fla. She is the daughtér of Mr. and Mis. John F. Jennings, of ATOMIC ARMS Suspense, Drama-Packed Day RACE SEEN IN And Night Will Precede Test RED ATTITUDE Of Atom Over Afom Control Stirs | U.S. Coggressmen AWar af Bikini Atoll June 24-—(Delayed)—The joint Army-Navy task force disclosed to- day for the first time the full com- plexity of its time chart for the suspensz-packed atom bomb day WASHINGTON, June 25. — The 8t Bikini July * threat of a United Nations dead-, Despite careful calculation of all nuch that we may not be able to lock over atomic energy control, risks and infinite precautions to fcllowed by a global atomic arms protect the 40,000 pe csonnel involv- come through right away. “I don't know what's got into erring to the scientist who has Jeen the chief front for the Man- ufacturers Association. “He's get-| i race, stitrred Congress today as the ed, Vannevar Bush,” he concluded re- . ..¢* ¢ Russia’s plunt “do-it-our- energy will make way” approach to the problem. Leading lawmakers declared em- phatically that this country is not to roll, at Vice Adm. W. H. the imponderab'es of atomic it a day of hless suspense and drama. o complex machinery will kegin P. T ting this bill into the same trouble | oo vo" qurrender its A-bomb se- Blandy's signal, the morning be- ne got the Atomic Energy Bill| [..i. until tested international con- fore test day—if weather forecasts .nto.” WARTIME CHICKENS | An interesting election takes olace in Maryland today which/ will test people's memories regard- ing wartime patriotism. During the war, Maryland State Comptroller, Millard Tawes, receiv- cd nationwide publicity of a most unpleasant kind when he drove a| 12-cylinder Cadillac all the way to Georgia to attend a wedding. People who were carefully count-|geator Russell (D-Ga), & com- last-minute adjustmenis ing their gas coupons at home didn't like it a bit. Furthermore, the auto driven by Millard Tawes to Georgia was owned by the State of Maryland. | When a Republican Editor in Maryland, Rives Matthews, brought out these facts, the Democratic Administration in Maryland jump- ed on him rather than on the sasoline-wasting Tawes. The Re- publican editor was indicted for criminal libel, while the Democratic | Comptroller merely forfeited some gas coupons. Now, however, the same Millard| Tawes is running for governor in| the Democratic Primary with the Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. It will be interest- | ing to see what the rvoters now think of his wedding march tu‘ Georgia. | Another interesting figure is also| who now aspires to the U. 8. Sen-| ate. At the time of the Tawes gas_‘[maintlln the position that they| oline scandal, it was discovered the| Governor O’Conor’s wife had been (Continued on Page Four) guarantee. Pravda Charge Criticized A charge by sharp counter criticism from mem- bers of the Senate’s Special Atomic Committee. Calling the charge mittee member, told a reporter he ments, thinks “the Russians should stop equipment. | trols are set up—something which arc favorable. | the Soviet plan does nct appear Lo‘ At that time (10 & m. June 20 &t Bikini; 3 p. m. June 29, PST), 34,000 Army and Navy personnel the Communist wu; agin moying out of the lagcon | newspaper Pravda that the Ameri- ;.4 149 can plan for international control of the weapen ‘“reflects evident ., istriving for world rule” provoked ganger area. | , not part of the an- fleet, will steam to peints outside the hiy d target dezvous Last Minute Detail | Late that night, only 236 men “ridiculous,” will be left in the lagoon, making w instru- cameras and cording Patrol vessels will judging . all other nation's motives police the anchorage and shores to make sure that all of these men are|ident, he added, explained that he their clothes burned off and one by their own selfish attitudes.” “Nobody in the world has ever removed. ! offered to give away so much for All ships except the target fleet! ‘:Sovief Insis'en(e on Veio ABOARD USS. APPALACH‘IAN. yond the reach of radio-activated waters and cloud. Nearest to the blast will be Ad- miral Blandy’s flagship, the Mount McKinley, and escorting destroy- er, approximately 8 1-2 miles from the lagoon. The Appalachian, press ship for the test, will be about 18 miles east of the- lagoon. As ihe ships steam toward saf- ety, Army and Navy air units will swing in action from Kwajalein, Eniwetck and Roi, in a great acrial| show. Truman Undetid'éd Abouf Any Visit To Northland WASHINGTOR, June 25. — A White House caller reported Presi- demt Truman as hopeful but still undecided about a trip to Alaska this summer. The Governcr of Alaska told re- vorters yest.rday that he renewed his invitation for Mr. Truman to visit the territory in August. The President, he said, did not know whether he would be able to o cr not, ining he couldn’t say for sure at this time. The Pres- hoped he could make the trip. Governor Mon C. Wallgren of so little,” the Georgia Senator de-‘must signal they're out of range. Washington State has been trying clared. “The Baruch plan is a gen- hours before the hour of the bomb|to get Mr. Truman to fly to Olym- were enroute to Bremerton for a erous proposal in which we offer blast—now set tentatively at 9:30 pia and gg from there by boat to|series with the fourth place team to give away a development bought'a. m. Bikini time (2:30 p. m. Junt“Alaska. | with our genius and our money. All 30, PST). |we ask in return is protection for| | the world and ourselves against its Bikini atoll—only test animals on/ |target ships in the lagoon, a few| Delegate Bartlett, the War Ship- and the fish in the|ping Administration has indicated | use for destructive purposes. Veto—Deadlock The Georgia Senator said he fears Russian insistence on the veto, renewed in the Pravda out- burst, may deadlock U.N. atomic negctiations, a view shared by Sen- ator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo), another committee member. Both said the result of ultimate failure to' agree on international opment of scientific experiments | y,nnin in the Maryland Primar-| controls is liable to be a new arm- |and their monopolization by his:,es, ukgnble poviy He¥Mrt O'CQnor,;”me"u contest. No human being will be left mi birds ashore sea. The senior minute crew is charged with the| safety of his companions. | have been at work, he will hoist a| red and yellow striped pennant—; gependent upon renewal by Con-! the all-clear signal. All-Flags 'Warning If any man is missing, the all-| clear will be hauled down and, “If the Russians continue to|every flag aboard the ship will be | must . have & veto over the opera- tion of «the control machinery,” Johnson ‘said, “an atomic bomb | armament race becomes inevitable.” run up simultancously — a verl-% table Christmas tree of bunting— to halt the test until he is found. | The working fleet will steam up- wind from Bikini, to positions be- 4 - e ——— JONES ACT EXTENTION Fellowing recommendations by that the Treasury Department will member of each last-|pe yequested to extend the Jones! Act waivers now in effect beyond As all| june 30, This will be of particular | |leave the target ship on which they pepetit to Skagway in connection with Canadian shipping. Extension gress of the Second War Powers | Act, but there seems to be little| doubt of this. w— - ADVANCE WRANGELL P.O. Delegate Bartlett has been in- formed by the Post Office Depart- ment that the third class post of- fice at Wrangell is to be advanced to a second class status on July 1. jon the Pacific coast last.season.” | He died enroute to a Seattle hos- ial George C. Risk, 27, infielder from Hillsboro, Ore, {er from San Diego. Unidentified Four bedies were unidentified as they lay in the light of fliekering tcrches at the wreck scene last night, but the King County Cor- |oner said he belleved they were: | Manager Mel Cole of Wenatchee, | Wash.; Bob Kinnaman, former W. - | ton State- Gollege pitche .‘“}‘?';@ :Brcoklyn, Wash.; | Outifelder Bob James of Tempe, | Ariz,; | Outfielder Bob Patterson of San | Francisco. . | In Critical Condition | Three of the casualties are re- i;;x.rtsd in poor or critical condi- i tion in hospitals. They are: | Glen Berg, 24, of Spokane, the | bus driver, who was burned se- {verely; Christ Hartje, 30, San '1 Francisco, one-time Brooklyn catch- (er, severely burned; George Lyn- | den, Tensed, Idaho, 8 pitcher, head injuries and burns. Others Injured The others injured are: | Levi McCormack, former Seattle and Portland outfielder, head in- ( juries; Richard Powers, Oakland Calif, head injuries wnd possible neck fracture; Erwin Konopka, Moscow, Idaho, former University of Idaho catcher, head injury; Benjamigaraghty, Livingston, N. J., formerly with Sacramento and In- |dianapolis, head lacerations; Peter Barisoff, Los Angels, cuts and bruises (released from hospital); | Darwin (Gus) Hallbourg of Boston, burned on pitching hand and arms. | The accident, unexplained, oc- |curred at 8 pam., as dusk was set- | tling. Hallbourg, who later caught |a ride across the mountains to El- [lensburg, said the bus suddenly | veered through the cable guard railing and caught fire as it start- ed hurtling and rolling down the precipitous, rocky mountainside. It went off on a straight stretch of road. Bus Lands Burning Estimates of the distance of the drop ranged from 300 to 500 feet. The burning bus landed upright. An hour later it was only a twist- ed steel skeleton. | The more seriously injured had | witness said the seared skin on the worst cases was hanging loose. The fifth place Spokane Indians {from that Puget Sound city. EIGHTH VICTIM DIES | SEATTLE, June 256.—The death (Continued on Page Two, S e | At 6:30 o'czocm., weather permit~ | ting, the Elks meet the Legion in | second half. At 7:30 o'clock, in the Northern | Light Presbyterian church parlors, Soap Box Derby contestants will | meet. At 8 o'clock, the Juneau City Band will practice, meeting in the High School Gym. All members are requested to be prompt in at- tendance. Frederick T. Martinez, an infield- . the second baseball game of the