The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1946, Page 1

— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVII., NO. IO 311 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE SS — " PRICE TEN CENTS OPA DEAD; END MARKED BY CONFUSION Bikini A-Bomb Test Effect Is Questionable THREE TARGET VESSELS SUNK BY EXPLOSION BLASTWAS BEAUTIFUL RED BALL Crew of Afomic Bomb Plane Ot DU, JULY PAY CALL SWEETENED FOR SHINGT ON J\ll} cound $50,000,000 sweeter today for ARMED FORCES 1.—Presi- dcn( Truman made July pay call OPA-LESS U. S. FINDS LITILE PRICE (HANGE REGULATIONS ARE NOW OFF OVER NATION o | {officials and men of the Armed PP _ & 5 | Forces. : Expecled Tidal Waves and | Seaman First Class Thorn B e ket he fhing i MerchamsCutTagsto Meel Agency’s Temporary Ex- i Observes Explosion- tension Sought by Con- gressional Action | subject almost to the last minute. | The Chief Executive waited until| |1ate Saturday before he signed in-| Earthquakes Do Not De- Market Bullish — velop - Just Big Flash ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN OFF BIKINI, July 1.—Three of the 73 old target warships were sunk and eight othcrs badly damaged in! today's spectacular test of the fourth atomic bomb, Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy reported tonight as vessels of his task force moved | jnto Bikini Lagoon to survey dam- age. This was based on a cursory in-| spection. Many ships are burning. The total could be higher by day- break. Whether the atomic bomb will| force navies of the world into new construction and battle tactics re- mained the day’s big question. No Capital Ship Sunk The bomb wrought a great deal of damage to ships anchored in the lagoon but the blast did not sink a capital ship, even though they were directly under the explo- sion. Admiral Blandy declined at a press conference to draw any con- clusions from the test. “That's not our job,” he said. Eyes Uncovered ABOARD USS APPALACZ{IANE OFF BIKINI, July 1.—The most| | beautiful sight of the atomic blast| was that seen on the Appalachian by seaman first class Kenneth Thorn, who kept his uncovered| eyes looking directly at the flash all the time, despite warnings all | aboard should wear special da)k goggles. Thorn, who lives in the Brulw. “New York, unwittingly contributed ia new scientific chapter to the A-bomb explosion. He saw the first | flash as a bright red ball. Every- Kone who kepu his glasses on saw his flash as white. | What happened to Thorn was that in the first few millionths of a second, the flash caused slight blind spots in the center of his eyes. Because of these spots he | saw the red color for a few sec- onds. “Boy!” he exclaimed. “It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw. I can’t describe the brilliance of the red ball T saw. Tt was a lighter |coltyr than a red stop light. It was Feour memhch (f lhe crew of the B-29 selected to drop the atomic bomb in lhrh‘ plane at Kwajalein. Left to right: Maj. Woorcw P. Swancutt, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis,, pilot; Capt. son, Odessa, Tex., co-pilot; Maj. W.i H. Wood, Bordertcwn, N. J., bombadier. May Hold am B. Adams, |MRS. POLET, NOME " PIONEER, PASSES (AP Wircphoto) the test at Bikini pose near San Bernardino, Calif.,, navigator, Everybody in Ito law the bill which provides higher wage scale for those in uni form, starting with 50 percen percent for mirals. The suspense arose from the fac that if Mr. until today, the new pay rates rep- ‘resenting an estimated monthly in |crease of top generals and ad- | firs |signed into law, i(cmrorlably close to the deadlin: | Lawmakers estimate the pay in SISTER OF MRS. BOB | MARTIN IS VISITOR Miss Ann Gruaow, Mrs. Robert Martin’s sister, boosts for privates and apprentice seamen and tapering down to 10/ Truman had delayed! some $50,000,000, would day of the month after it was s0 June 29 was un- creases will cost about $632,000,000 has arrived here J Competition-Stock | al -i’ (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | t| The first few hours of OPA-less| xhrpping produced few surprises| |for the American buying public, a nationwide survey showed today. The price of milk ros: two cents |a quart in Connecticut and some | sections of Massachusetts. Little fluctuation was reported; in other food prices, even meat,| |for which a 10 percent price bcost t| not have gone into effect until| | N had been forecast by some experts. | |August. The bill specified —the, Ty oaions Jarger food stores| raises were to be effective on the' (and department stores with few ex- ceptions operated under OPA ceil- |ings and in a few instances inde- | pendent merchants announced price reductions. ‘t In the stock mark:ts, prices on jannually, or roughly 850000000} e nation's commodities list bolt- | monthly. :_t‘d upward. ! Steels, motors, coppers, rubbers,| ‘and mail orders rosc $1 to more lthan $3 a share in early dealings! |in industrial shares. ! Cotton futures at New York jump- | ed better than $3 a bale and wem) '.Xup the $5 a bale limit at New Or- leans. A firm hold-the-iine attitude was' BULLETIN ‘Washington, July 1. — The Administration won its first test in the House today on revival of OPA. By voice vote the House decided to consider immediately a stop- gap resolution restoring price centrol for 20 days while a new OPA bill is drafted. The outlook for any new OPA lease of life was dark, however, as Senate efforts to get through a temporary con- tinuing resolution were block- ed. After voting on a rule to bring the stop-gap bill to the floor, the House proceeded with debate. A showdown vote was probable before nightfall. The debate was marked by speeches declaring that Con- gress would risk “uncontrolled " inflation” if it dees mot revive OPA. Rep.-Babath (D-11)" declared some “un-American” merchants alrexdy are “gouging” custom- ers. # Prices 1o away v seamiie Business Now alive. It spread in a flash to a big, frcm New York City. She will spend | | “We put facts before the evalua- tion board of the point chiefs of staff and the evaluation commis- sion of the President and they draw conclusions.” Scientists aboard the Admiral’s flagship said they thought today’s’ bomb was about equal in nuclear efficiency to the one used at Nag- asaki. ‘What Was Done A recapitulation of the bomb’s destructive power showed two at- tack-transports, the Carlisle and the Gilliam, sunk. The destroyer Lamson was capsized and later went down, and the destroyer Anderson; was so badly damaged it was ex- pected to sink momentarily. The Japanese cruiser Sakawa was ripped open at the waterline and may sink. Fires still were burning late to- (Continued on Page Siz) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—The secret ses- slons of Senate and House confer- ees on extention of price control were highlighted by the voting acrobatics of two Senators—Rad- cliffe of Maryland and Tobey o( New Hampshirc. Chief acrobat was namby-pamby Democrat George L. Radcliffe, FDR’s old bauking partner who has been drifting further and further irom New Deal policies ever since Roosevelt’s death. He prolonged the conferences tvo days and almost caused a hopeless deadlock by bolt- ing his Democratic colleagues and voting with tne Republicans to re- move price controls on meat, poul- and dairy products. t was New Hampshire's usually liberal Senator Charles W. Tobey, a Republican, who finally broke the deadlock and saved whatever was left of OPA Ly voting to continue meat-poultry-dairy price ceilings. | ‘Originally he had voted to abolish them. Tobey’s switch-vote at the last minute made the score of the Sen- ate conferees 4-2 in favor of OPA extension. For, by that time, Rad- cliffe was absent in Maryland, listening to primary election tellers announce the end of his 12-year career in the Senate. One big stumbling block to OPA continuation was the proposed three-man board, with power to 1ift or remove price ceilings. Inside fact is that the House conferees were bitterly opposed to this board. red ball and the color turned red-! ryellow I never dreamed anythlng‘ {could be so brilliant.” | After that in a few seconds Thorn’s color vision returned to normal and he saw the spectacle the same as other observers. | ATOM TEST TAKES ONE LIFE IN FAR | OFF LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, July 1.—Depress- ed by the radio broadcast of the Bikini atom bomb test, police said, Susanah Gregory, 23, nurse, plung- ed to death from the roof of a 13- story apartment building. Det. W. A. Cummings quoted Mrs. R. L. Garlich, aunt whom the |nurse was visiting, as saying Miss Gregory expressed fear for the fu- ture of the world and then ran to the edge of the roof, on which sev- eral persons weré sunbathing yes- terday afternoon. ——e—— TEST BLAST IS MEMORY WAKER FOR HIROSHIMA HIROSHIMA, July 1—The people! ot this first atom-bombed city read with interest today results of the tests at Bikinl. Mayor Kichiro Kihara called the| bombing of Hiroshima less than al year ago “the first step toward! peace.” He said: “We fervently hope that atomic energy henceforth will be used nev- er for war, but for peace and for, the advancement of civilization. “Hearing of the Bikini test, we in Hiroshima—through our person-} al experiences—are able to call to mind vividly all that happened| that day less than a year ago.” Reconstruction plans underway | {include erection .of a monument at| the scene of thc center of the first| atom blast. STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 1—Closing i quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| poration 6%, American Can 100%, Anaconda 48%, Commonwealth and Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%,' International Harvester 98, Ken- necott 57%, New York Central 25%, poration 5%, U. S. Steel 91%, Pound $4.03% OPA Levels NEW YORK, July 1—Scores of business and industrial executives declared teday prices- would be held at OPA levels despite the death of the price-fixing agency. This was not a unanimous vlew however. A spokesman {u- tne National| Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, for instance, said it was probable that prices would be| advanced in the industry to balance‘ the higher costs of the last few‘ years. The overall increase, he sald. weuld not exceed 3 percent on a retail basis. OPA, he asserted, had ' planned to allow the industry in- creases averaging close to that fig- ure. The removal of OPA restrictions, he added, did not mean more shirts would be produced. Higher shirt output, he explained, was contin- gent on availability of labor, mach- inery and piece goods. The American Paper & Pulp Aso- ciation stated no general risc paper prices was likely to follow the end of OPA. A spokesman held the door open for possible advan- | ces, however, by adding that the only increases likely to be made were those forced by rising costs. JUNEAU POST, LEGION WILL SPONSOR CURTIS SALES CAMPAIGN HERE Carl V. Goettel, Field Manager for the Curtis Publishing Company, will speak before members of the out tonight at 8 o’clock. On a return call to Juneau after three years, Mr. Goettel arrived here this week end from a similar visit to Anchorage. He will stay in this city for approximately three | weeks and will solicit subscriptions; for Curtis publications, including, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, Jack and Jill and Holiday, The latter magazine is the lat- est Curtis publication on the mnr- ket. Released last March, it is a' monthly magazine. | The Juneau Post will derive a substantial portion of the profits made during the magazine-sale campaign in Juneau. This money will be used toward meeting ex- Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor-|penses of the Legion League base- Hotel at present. ball club and the Teen-Age Club.| During the Curtis Pubueanon' ! Tuesday. TACOMA, July 1—Mrs, Mary F.| Polet of Nome, Alaska, prominent lodge and club leader in that Terri- torial city, will ke buried here The wife of Antonio Polet, Nome merchant, she was flown to Seattle recently for medi: cal treatment, and died there. Sur- vivors include a son, Alvin Polet, at Fairbanks. e — Amos Burgls Alaska Bound SEATTLE, July 1—Amos Burg, Oregon-born explorer, left Seattle Friday in the sailboat he built from a lifeboat, bound for Alaska to spend three months exploring for the National Geographic So- citey. Most of his time in the ‘Territory will be spent in Icy Strait. This is his tenth trip to Alaska. - — = FOREST WORKER3 PAY RESPECT 10 RETIRING FELLOW At the closing hour of office business here, Friday afternoon, {fellow workers in the District and |Regional gathered to express their good wish- Forest Service offices es at the closing of the 35-year Forest Service career of retiring Ad- ministrative Assistant Harold Smith. His associates presented Mr. Smith with a wrist watch as a tok-| en of their respect. He was also |Juneau Post, American Legion, at given a framed scroll, the artwork Itheir regular meeting in the Dug- of Linn Forest, on which the well- wishes of the staff are signed by each of Smith’s colleagues. DR. E. A, SCHWINGE JOINS HEALTH DEPT. Dr. Elaine A. Schwinge, from Georgetown, South Carolina, start- ed her duties this morning as Jun- jor Field Physician for the Terri- torial Department of Health. Dr. Schwinge is a graduate of ‘Women’s Medical College of Penn- sylvania and recently completed her internship at St. Luke's and Children's Hospitals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is staying at the Baranof ———————— TWO FROM KETCHIKAN Bosses Price WASHINGTON, July 1. — The butcher, the grocer, the baker—all are their own price bosses today. Since midnight, the government! has had no power to limit the price they ask for ary commodity. That goes for automobiles, flow-| ers, screwdrivers, restaurant meals, | hotel rgoms, laundry, a pair of | half-scles, a steam locomotive. President Truman has asked that | businessmen hold to their old ceil-| ings while Congress reconsiders the price problem. But no law makes them do so. Neither does the government! have any say on rents or evictions. ' Any local laws still stand, however, and your leasc is still good, if you have one. OPA STAFF HERE fi STAYING ON JOB| | Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Alaska’s Office of Price Administration Di- rector, said today that she had re-|{ ccived mo word from Washington! regarding discontinuance of price control, except official notification | this morning that President Tru-| man had vetoed the OPA extension bill. The local office will remain open pending instructions, Mrs. Hermann added. DRIVERS IN SOAP BOX DERBY TO GET MEDALS Soap Box Derby drivers will re- ceive wheels at 8 o'clock tonight in the Lutheran Church. All drivers are urged to be pres- ent. | YA S8 e 1 2 GEORGIAN JUNEAUITE Miss Billy Henslee, of Atlanta, Georgia, is now adding a definite accent of the Old South to the at- mosphere of the Regional Forest Service officc here. Miss Henslee, a Forest Service employee in her home state, has transferred here as a Clerk-Stenographer. She arrived | in Juneau Friday, by plane. —-————— FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Saull, resi- dents of Sitka, are guests at Lhe[ | Baranofy i s the summer with Mr. and Mrs.| ways, alarm clocks, and the jo'clock rush” for the next twoj months. | visit to the Territory and the Mar- tins have planned many scenic trips and typically Alaskan adventures for her. The guest, who arrived on a sun- delight with the climate. - - ALASKA AIRLINES IN Arriving over Friday, lines were the following passenger: From Anchorage: Milton Levy,| [Mrs. M. Levy, M. Munson, Wm Lloyd, U. Nielson, B. Patterson, Mr. Peterson, H. Sorello, L. V rt, B. R. Bowman, Don Williams, L. Sor- rel, Lloyd Smith, H. Hoover, P. Score, Jack Perry, D. Wolfe, G. Crafton, John Horning, Mrs. Helen King, M. L. Manksbury. From Cordova: Ralph Imler, Myrtle Edmond, Lillian Muehlen-} brugh, Vivian Jackson; from Gus- | tavus: Mr. and Mrs. A. B. James, The following passengers depart- ed for Anchorage: Henry Boedeck- er, Billie Bingham, Charles Boitra, Gilbert Truitte, Hallie Speaker, Lyle Edgington, Mrs. Lyle Edging- ton, Zada Barham, John Kanich, Oliver Anderson, R. J. Bartoo, Hel- en Spliid. Frederick Frohbose, Louis Bran- chi, Harold Koslosky, M. R. Smith, Ed Suddock, Harry Townsend, Caroline Townsend, T. R. Jolley, A. L. Toenges, Walter Blue, Jesse Agnew, Lloyd Halefield. Ralph Kerby, Larry Hagen, Milton Smith, Ralph Smothers, Mrs. R. Smothers, Mrs. W. L. Ward, M. Hazel Wright, Don Melton. For Cordova: Albert Dehart, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bush- man, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Eroh. ., FROM ANCHORAGE ing at the Baranof are Helen Pray- iclesed her apartment there for the summer and plans to cmpletely | forget “double-decked buses, Sub-|greq conditions more leather will be 6 |available for shoe manufacturers.” ny afternoon, has expressed great city of Juneau,| its surrounding scenery— and the WITH 27; 47 60 WEST Saturday and Sunday with the Alaska Air- Richard Mowat, George Owens,rb Miller, Cammilla Mitchell, Leonard | Melton, Mrs. Melton, Betty Vaara, Peterson, Dan Nylander, ‘Fred Dehart, Tom Arrivals from Anchorage stay- |evident, however, in New York City, | Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, | | Martin at their Baranof Hotel!p (0 " ong clsewhore — at least Abarinent. 2 until Congress has a chance to re- A resident of New York ror'.store some system of price control. many years, Miss Grudow has —one paltimore shoe store adver- in all “under five percent slash the belief that |tised a prices on A New York delicatessen owner ladvertised “since there is no more duced to meet competition.” A Milwaukee men's storz pro- pristor announced that he was re- \vising all prices—five precent lower. ——————— \RENTS SOAR ' AS OPA LID COMES OFF iNafional Association Asks| | that Increases Hold 15 i Per Cent Limit | (By The Associated Press) | Rents scared upward as much as 33 1-3 percent and in isolated cas- es even higher today as the death |of OPA yanked the lid off ceiling prices in all bat two states and the District ‘of Columbia. In Miami, Fla, many tenants were notified of raises from one| third up. One 20-unit apartment ‘house in Miami Beach hoisted $50 {rents to $150. The Cleveland Plain Dealer re- perted numerous telephone calls | complaining of rent hikes mngmg\ between 15 and 40 percent. \ A Cleveland Heights house jack- ed up its $60 and $70-a-month ' suites a flat $15 a month. In Denver, one justice of the| peace said he had issued 1,000 lank forms used for 10-day evic-| | tion notices under Colorado law. The death of OPA rent controls! (found only New York State and | the District of Columbia with legis- national regulation. The National Apartment Owners 50 principal cities asking them to cent of present rates, ; In Oregon, tenants could draw some slight comfort from a state- ment by District OPA Director ling lation substituting local ceilings for\ Association sent telegrams to own- | ers of 50,000 apartment houses in| Lold rent increases within 15 per-| McDanne!l Brown saying Oregon | WASHINGTON, July 1.—Speak- er Raynurn forecast after a White House coafcrence today that the House “will vote temporary exten- sion of OPA, but Scnate Majority Leader Barkley (D-Ky) held out no hope of early Senate action. For 45 minutes Congressional leaders talked with President Tru- man over the situation created by the end of OPA last midnight af- This is the New Yorker’s first!opa our prices will be greatly re- | ter Mr. Truman vetoed an exten- |sion bill ' possible.” ! Barkley told reporters he hoped ‘that the Senate could work out a | more permanent piece of iegislation “that will be acceptable.” Rayburn said he expected the House to pass a resolution restor- ing prices controls for 20 days. |Such temporary action, Pending permanent legislation was asked by Mr. Truman in his veto message. Meanwhile, OPA is dead. Confusion Results Throughout the country, its end was marked by confusion, unc tainty and sharp political c:oss- which he called “im- | fire. With OPA passed the myriad o regulations that have governed tli nation's economy for the and a half years. (Prices on the ration’s conun: dity markets bounded upward as trod- began on the first OPA-! day. Steel, motor, copper, rubb: and mail order shares rose fro $1 to more than $3 a share in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (Cotton futures jumped more than $3 a bale at New York and rose the limit of $5 at New Orleans. In Chifcago and. Minneapolis the grain markets responded similarly. Early prices on the Chicago live- |stock market jumped from $2 to 18250 a hundred pounds, with many | being held for still higher returns.) Revival Blocked At the Capitol as Barkley spoke, |Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex) again blocked an effort by Ecnator Wag- |ner (D-NY) to introduce a resolu- tion to revive OPA and continue its operations until July 20. O'Daniel first had blocked intro- |duction Saturday. Under Senate rules, introduction of the continuing resolution now ‘wul have to be delayed until 0T~ row. Further objections at that |time would delay its consideration \by a committee until the follow- ing day. Barkley said today's conference with the President was a “friendly” one. What Is To Happen? | The immediate question on Capi- {tol Hill, indeed, throughout the !land, was: | What will happen to the cost of living? foul ton, Edward V. King, Maj. P. Leon- ard, Bennie L. Leonard, Jr,, Mitch- ell Cornufle, Mrs. W, L. Ward, W. ©. Bolton, Fred Mayo, | law required 30 days notice for rent increases, allowing Congress time | to act before any rents boosts could | become effective. | | Spiders are not insests—they be- long to the class arachnida, which also includes scorpions, mites and ‘ucks. Sales today were 1,560,000 shares.|campaigns here in 1940 and 1943, Dow, Jones averages today were|the Post received |ppmx1mav.ely Lois Saloyer and D. Westerby, as follows: industrials 206.47, rails $400 as “agent’s commission” for both of Ketchikan, are guests at 65.78, utilties 42.06. 'km\uy sponsoring the campaign. {the Baranof Hotel. However, ‘sith both sides dead- locked, Demccratic Representative (Continued on Page Four) Forecasts varied hugely, but most seemed agreed that it would te ( Contmud on Puyc Tu«n)