The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1946, Page 1

“dLL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e— m:—— "VOL. LXVII., NO. 10,307 JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1946 MLMB[;R ASSOClAThD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW ORDER' EXPERIMENT " FOR ARMY Social, Oth;_Distindions, Beiween Officers, En- | Ilsied Men Narrowed { WASHINO'IDN, June 26.—The Army launched & military “new or- der” experiment today by narrow- ing social and other distinctions be- | tween officers and enlisted men | without wiping them out. It also decided it can get along| with less saluting, except where 2| snappy salute counts. Secretary of War Patterson put; > the new formula into army ure} when he gave carefully qualified papproval to all but two of the 14; recommendations submitted by the| Doolittle “gripe” board which 1n~Y vestigated postwar GI complaints of | too much caste in the service. | Patterson announced that the War Department is ordering: | 1. Abolition of saluting except! on military posts, in overseas oc-| cupied areas and on ceremonial oc- | [ casions. 2. Elimination of an existing re- ¢quirement that officers wear dis- tinctive uniforms, live apart from | their men in garrison, and confine | tkeir social contacts to other offi-| cers. 3. Granting enlisted men the| same privilege as officers, effec- | tive July 1, in accumulating unused leave time, currently 30 days @ year. i & 4. Btudies looking to a possible! upward revislon of pay schedules balong with allowances {or food, quarters and travel. 5. Measures to train offlcers bet-l ter for leadership, assign them “in| the best interests of the seryice” and to overhaul the present sys- tem of promotions. 6. Rewriting of regulations to define “essential” privileges of offi-| cers and to prohibit or minimize | “possible abuses of authority and \ prestige. ; 7. Efforts to improve the social facilities available to enlisted men.| Announcing the War Depart- ment’s action on recommendations made by the Doolittle board a month ago, Patterson rejected out- right a proposal that the terms | “officers” and “enlisted men” be eliminated entirely. ; ——e—o— FOOD FOR THOUGHT OCALA, Fla—Summoned to put out an oven blaze, Fire Chief Tom , Sexton was worried about the edi-| b‘my of a flaming meatloaf if he doused it with water. He extin-| guished the fire with a can of con-j densed milk. The Washington' ‘Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | ! /WASHINGTON—Atomic ~energy | mwob.bly affect the Nation! Pheto from U. S. Army) New Arub ng ) WEARING the uniform of a general, King Abdullah I of Transjordanre= views parade of his British-trained troops duging celebrations marking the declaration of Transjordan in- dependence and the kingship of Abdullah, A direct descendant of the Prophet, the new ruler’s full formal name is Malik Abdullab Tbn Hussein. (International) 'RUSSIA BREAKS POTSDAM PACT; CHARGE IS MADE than any other modern de- velopment, yet When the House my Affairs Committee debated its cantrol, many Democratic mem- pers dxd not even bother to be t. Furthermore, the Com- fim debate was held in strict secrecy. The American = people, whose lives will be affected, had Japanese Captured in Manchuria TOKYO, June 26 —Chairman| N 'NEWORDER' | Held in MacArthur Plof Terunari Arai, 18, is guarded by Japanese police in Tokyo, after his statement that he had plotted to join the Communist Party and then pretend to kill General MacArthur in order to discredit the Com- munists. When arrested he said that MacArthur must be eliminated. He was judgcd melltally competent by examining psychiatrists, (AP Soviefs Fail fo Repatriate $2,600,000 - FORALASKA | - ROAD WORK | House, Senate Conferees| | in Agreement - Re- striction Removed | WASHINGTON, June 26.—House |and Senate conferdes on the In- | terior Department 1947 Appropria- |tion Bill have agreed to allow Al- | aska $2,600,000 for construction, re- | pair and maintenance of roads. | | They also supported the Sennte] |in eliminating a restriction requir- | ing the Territory to pay one fourth | of the cost of road construction. | The House originally allowed the | Territory $2,252,900 for roads and ‘the Senate increased it to $3,790,- | 400 | 1 The agreement allows $79,100 for | l.uneys for new roads; $1,360,000 | for new road construction includ- | {ing $800,000 for the Kenai-Homer | | road; $560,000 for the Eagle-Tana- | ‘c)uss highway and $750,000 for thel MOECOW, .June 26—Two form- erly autonomous Soviet republics in | ‘ ‘ Richardson Highway. } hereafter Alaska would be expect.ed‘ to contribute one fourth of the cost of road construction. 'wo SOVIEI gures allowing transfer to Aluskal | TEMPER) GEI instead of 19 proposed by thel . () } | House. { | B | | | | { | OF MEAT PLANTS. Moscow Decrees Bamsh-' i ‘ ment of Inhabifants for | WASHINGTON, June 26—Sena-| w r.l.r a(he; tor Wherry (R-Nebr) cried out to- H £ Relief of Meat Famme Not| arironchery. - 4 trol would produce “actual violence i in this country” as Senate tempers rew hot in th idst of a show- 3 i Sepsoapbp "OI POIKY Set 'south Russia have kteen ceprived of His face flushed in anger, Wherry 1% shouted across the floor to Sena- | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) |Infiabitants have been resettled in tor Guffey (D-Pa): \other parts of Russia as pan:ulncs‘ A virtual famine in fresh meat|for wartime treachery, it was dis-! for mpost of the nation was reported cloc His asserti during a nois! .s_sxusm &dung; c:,":ih Gu?fey ang today — with no indications of im-| The Crimean and Chechen-Igush other Senatofs were ordered by the mediate relief—as the Senate pre-\aumnrmnu_a Soviet Socialist Repub- end their audible floor huddle or|compromise OPA bill retaining meat ! duced to the status of provinces of leave the chamber. |price controls. ithe Federation. Wherry declarsd that Guffey had Some packer industry spokes-| Total populations of the areas Ccnferees said however that | The group accepted Senate fi- Railroad of 20 diesel locomotives | F day that another year of price con- Seen Unfil Fate of Con- 7 extension of OPA. Ao debate. (. eXiEnla |their autonomy and many of thsir B¢ bbe: i : ou're a rubber stamp, lelosad officially today. i Senate’s presiding officer either to pared to act on the House-approved |lic, were abolished as such and re-! never voted against an n{mtnis—‘men said should thebill kecome a last were listed as 1,500,000 but a tration .measure, Alnw, keeping the lids on livestock large proportion of Russians and As Wherry continued his nmu_\sm:l meat prices, the wunzrys meat | Ukrainians, who lived in the re- ment for stripping the OPA of even: supply “will get even worse." publics and whose loyally was un- a questioned, were not remo Frcm Oil Areas The banisk2d res includ- ed those who lived around the Grozny and Mosdok cil iields in the Northern Caucasus, ncar the high tide of the German invasion The action was revealed in publish- more controls than thoss recom-| Others asserted the scarcity would mended by a joint Congressional centinue for ceveral months. One committee, Senator Bridges (R-NH) !large packer said the shortage would chimed in, too. continue “until the fate of OPA is Bridges said “we’ve reached a.dezermm " -There were threats pretty low level when you have to ‘of a CD'“PIE“‘ shutdown of facil- violate a law in order to buy a!lties because of expressed dissatis- loaf of bread.” |faction over the OPA bill provis- | The time of a vote on the ex- ions. ed decrees of the Russian .ioviet tension legislation was uncertain:| Fish and foul and eggs replaced Federal Socialist Republic. Pre- | Wherry's efforts were directed at the main meat dish on the coun-|cisely how many were uprooted and loverthrowing the joint committee's try's dinner table as hundreds of |wher: they wore raoved, were not compromise recommendations and | butcher shops across the country announced. forcing a new get-togather between |closed. ~ Operations in packing| (The revelations were first offi- representatives of the House and })hnl:. dropped to new all time low|cia] Russlan ennouncements of levels. the ! treachery affecting territorial units | Clerks in some of the butcher of the Soviet Union during the re- }shops in- Portland, Ore., are work-'cent war.) { ing part time and, a meat cutters, A decree .said “many Check2ns union official said, they go fish- and Crimean Tartars . . . voluntar- ing so they can get “enough meat!ly and together with the German | | 1] Y l KAI (o {for their town table.” G. E. Carl- army waged an' armed struggle . ;on Secretary of the Independentagainst units of the Red Army. Un-| | etall Meat Dealers in Portland, der German orcers, they also form- | SEATTLE, June 26—Sale of the|S8id that dealers will get “panicky ed diversion bands for a struggle |Senate on the final form of OPA bill. ' Skate Champ Here| y SWEDEN'S figure skating champion, Butta Rahlen, poses in ship news style for the American photogra- phers on her arrival in New York on the 8.S. Gripsholm. (International) PASSENGER TRAIN PLOWS INTO TRUCK; 9 PERSONS KILLED !George C. Atcheson, Jr., told the| ;w chance to know what was going on. ‘However, this column is able to a few of the details of what hIWed behind closed doors. i O s Congressmen who led the drive‘ ‘The Russian member said the Allied Council for Japan, today, in, |effect, that Russia was violating ithe Potgdam surrender terms by failing to repatriate Japanese cap- Seattle-Alaska steamships Tyee and | Pretty soon. Taku by the Alaska Transportation iCo., to the Lloyd ,Shipping Co., of San Franeisco for operation from | California ports to the West Coast| of Mexico and Central America, Seattle was not gemnv much meat. A check of one of the city's largest markets showed that five tually bare. One had 100 pounds (with Soviet power in the rear.” Traitors Not Fought { The decree also stated that “Th2’ 'main mass of the population of |of* six meat departments were vir-| |Chechen-Igush and the Crimean autonomous Socialist Soviet Repub- HAR.LI]\GLn “Tex, June 26— Nine were killed and 12 seriously injured when a passenger train plowed into an open truck packed with Latin American farm workers to reinstate brass hats on the couneil wasn't ssupposed to talk Atomic Energy Control Board | gpont. that; it wasn'c on the agen-| were: Republicans Charles H. El- g4, of the transportation company, said ston of Cincinnati, O.,, J. Parnell| Tne American chairman made/delivery of the 14-knot steel 1,400 ' Thomas of Northern New Jersey, his point this way: ton vessels will be made in Seattle Forest A. Harness of Kokomo, Ind,| He quoted the Potsdam declaru-‘withln lhe next two weeks. C. Arends of the Iinois tion, to which Russia was a GoB o“ was announced today. 8. J. Swanson, general manager of beef to meet demands totalling jics did not give opposition to these 2000 pounds. At the sixth market,|iraitors” and adcordingly the Che- UM & Palm-lined right-of-way near . here shortly after dusk yesterday. mfl wwhtgn lozntzel:xgd“sobrzz fiflfjfilefif‘d Fiapetn, Tartars | were | * The accident was strikingly sim- meat. | The Ministry of State Control ilar to one in 1940 when 29 were - ‘!di.sclox,ed also that more than aKilled near Alamo, a few miles to S‘o(K wo'l"'"ous |score of faetory, mill and mirxc"’h,‘;h‘”"St of here. .exuuuves had been punished for e victims and wreckage were sappropriation or misusing funds ! scattered ior 150 feet. Some were NEW YORK June 26.—Closing in various kinds of plants and en- burled almost into nearby orange quotation of Alaska Juneau mine terprises throughout Russia. und grapefrul_t orchards, for which stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| The Ministry said a favorite prac- | | the semi-tropical Rio Grande Val- | poration 6%, American Can 100%,|ticc was the falsification of pro- l¥ is famous. Anaconda 45%, Commonwealth and quction reports by directors and! All were believed to be residents | Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, | sub-executives in order to increase Of nearby La Paloma. They were | International Harvester 95%, Ken- the prize money which was paid|all Latin Americans, or American necott 56, New York Central 26, as reward to themselves and their | Citizens of Mexican heritage. corn belt, with some support from as providing that “Japanese mm-w tic Militarist Robert R. tary forces, after being eompletely| of West Florida. |disarmed, shall be permitted to re-| e Senate, after weeks of debate turn to their homes.” SK AGw AY M A“. Ruu 1d careful scrutiny, had haned; He followed with figures on the ‘military men from the - Atomic percentage of Japanese repatriated Control Board. The White House from various areas—including: So-; James V. Davis' Estebeth will go and the War Department agreed. viet areas, zero percent. lon the Juneau to Haines and ¢ But the above gentlemen (with| (American news correspondents Skagway mail route next week, sup- zub rosa encouragement from the who entered Manchuria last Febru- | plementing her present Sitka and 5 Army) ruled that at least two |ary drew from the Red Army com- men be on the Board which mandant at Mukden, Maj. Gen. An- will rule on the future fate of drel Kovtoun-Stankevitch, the atomic energy. statement that disarmed Japanese mmccmmmdumps in his area had been sent by train to work projects in Si- (Continued on Page Four) beria.) way ports run. The Estebeth will leave here at 11 p. m. Monday for Skagway and at 6 p. m. Wednesday for BSitka weekly. She will stop at Haines toth et and going on the Skagway run. | | | Northern Pacific 29%, United Cor- friends. The dead and injured lay along the rails for half an hour until am- poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 86%, Sl Pound $4.08%. | MRS. MOSCRIP HERE bulances from Harlingen and Mer- Sales today were 1,020,000 shares‘ Mrs. Jim Moscrip, the Iormer cedes arrived to pick them up. Dow, Jones averages today are | Ruth Cronkite, arrived here yester- No one on the Missouri Pacific as follows: industrials 202,10, rails|day by Pan American Airways from | passenger train was hurt, and the 64.93, utilities 4147, | geattle. 'tram ceniinued to Harlingen. THIS WAY OUT—FOR OUR PILOTS IN TROUBI.E A PILOT TRYING TO BAIL OUT of trouble in today’s jet or high speed planes would find it impossible because of the powerful air slipstream. To save fliers’ lives, the pilot ejection seat, which shoots from the cockpit with the pilot in it, has been developed and perfected at Wright Field, Ohio. Cpl. Fred Hunter (left) is shown in the seat in a fleld laboratory. At right, during a demonstration, the seat is shot from a cockpit (arrow) into the air with a dummy nlaced in it at a speed of approximately slxty feet a second. (International) 4 SUBS ARE TO OPERATE OFF ALASKA Hazards of Ardic Maneuv- ers fo Be Probed Dur- ' ing Coming Month HONOLULU, June 25.—The U. S. submarine Becuna is probing the Arctic ice pack between Siberia and Alaska gathering data for| July’s “operation iceberg,” in which four underwater craft will explore the hazards of Arctic maneuvers. A Naval spokesman emphasized teday that the Becuna's cruise is not an isolated experiment but the first phase of preparations for any ! eventuality. He said it is the fore- runner of a series of cold tempera- | ture maneuvers designed to increase the efficiency of U. S. suhmnrlnes- in Arctic waters. Comdr. L. P. Ramage of Hono- lulu, helder of the Congressional Medal of Honor and Commandant of the Pearl Harbor submarine base, will head the July operation, | The subs Trumpetfish, Blackfish, Cusk, and Diodon will participate. They will rendezvous in late July near Kiska and proceed through Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean. The lects tests will determine the ef- of frigid temperatures on mechanisms for both surface and; erwater operations, including orpedo firing. e, — SENTENCE IS SUSPENDED FOR - TEXAS KILLER NEW YO&K, oune 26—Army Captain Archie Miller, Bellevue, Tex., veteran who pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Capt. Eugene Dale last Dec. 28, today received a suspended sentence from General Sessions Judge John A. Mullen. An Army detail was waiting for Miller and he was taken to Gov- ernor’s Island to face army action. He originally was indicted for murder after Capt. Dule, 27, sur- vivor of the Bataan Death March, was shot in the apartment of Miller's estranged wife, a former Powers model from Jonasboro, N. C. The prbseculur had recommend- €d clemency in the case, telling the court that the shooting took place “under emotional strain” after Mil~ ler returned from overseas “to find ' that his wife belonged to another.” Defénse counsel Miller. had elected to plead guilty rather than subject his wife—whém he still loved—to the embarrass- ment of a trial. Under the court’s sentence he will be placed on probation which may extend from one to 20 years, told the court; KRUG PLANS ALASKA TRIP IN AUGUST SECRETARY OF INTERIOR TO COME NORTH | Declines fo Comment on | Governor Making Trip With Plane Party WASHINGTON, June 26.—Secre- tary of the Interior J. A. Krug says he plans to visit Alaska, pro- bably in August, but declined com- {ment on criticism of the Alaskan Governor’s trip here with a dele- gation king air service to the Territory. Krug was asked at a press con- ference for comment on the state- ment by Senator Mitchell (D- Wash) that he would ask for an investigation of the Alaska Gov- ernor's participation in the flight from Anchorage here by an Alas- kan group seeking a direct mid- west Alaska air route. Members of the group sald they opposed a direct line from Seattle to the Orient, The Alaska Governor | said yesterday the Alaskans would lnm. oppose the Seattle line if they cculd have direct midwest connec- The Anchorage Chamber of Com- merce organized the trip. Alaska's Governor said each person in the party paid his own wly IMoIoIov Calls Surpmn Meel, For. Mmlslers f PARIS, June 26.—8oviet Foreign | Minister V. M. Molotov called a surprise private meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council for 9:45 o'clock tonight (1:46 p.m. PST) to discuss Italian affafrs, an Ameri- can informant said. This disclosure was made fol- lowing reports in the French press that Molotov was expecting a tele- phone call from Moscow which might bring a break in the Trieste Issue, the key to Italian peace ne- gotiations. Secretary of State Byrnes was represented by American inform- ants, as encouraged by a serics of private talks with Molotov, who has been adamant in demandin: tha Trieste be transferred from Tial to Yugoslavia. The frequent conversaiior tween Byrnes and his Russian counterpart at the Councii of For- feign Llnisters have given risc conjecture in diplomatic cirele ‘hat a compromige on the Adriaii port might be shaping up. A special commission set up by the Foreign Ministers Council to break the deadlock on the ques- tien if Italy’s colonies, meanwhile | held its first meeting today. RECRUITING OF CIVILIANS INTO AED CONTINUES SEATTLE, June 26.—R. D. Whe- lan, chief of the Personnel Branch of the Seattle Engineer District, said today recruiting of ecivilian personnel for the new Alaska En- gineer District and for the Alaska {Department ‘will continue indefin- |itely. The Alaska Engineer District, es- tablished May 1, now has a total jof 125 civilian employees and three {officers on duty at ths Anchorage headquarters. Thirty-five more civ- ilians in professional engineering, administrative and clerical categor- iies are needed to complete the or- {ganization of the office that will direct postwar military construc- ition in Alaska. | In addition to recruiting for the Alaska Engineers, the Seattle dis- trict also serves now as employ- ling agent for civilian personnel needs of the Alaska Department. Army Engineers anticipate skilled i construction workers and mechanics will be needed at the rate of 100 ° men per month for employment on |repairs and utilities at Alaska De- partment installations for an indef~ inite period. |