The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVII, NO. 10,316 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1946 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — | PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA DOCK RAVAGED BY FIRE SUNDAY OPA MEASURE| | IS EXPECTED DURING WEEK Bill Safisfad*;r& to Truman Is Promised by Lead- ers in Congress WASHINGTON, July 8—Leaders ¢of the Administration in Congress told Presideni Truman today they| hoped to obtain passage of OPA| legislation that will be satisfactory| to him. ‘The legislative “big four” con- ferred with Mr. Truman shortly before the pav-off battle on OPA was to open in the Senate. | Senate majority leader Alben W.| Barkley, Ky., said Mr. Truman had assured them he believed they were| exerting their best efforts to pass a satisfactory OPA bill to, replace the one -the President vetoed. | “We told him we hoped we would | get a bill he could approve,” Bark- | ley said. Others at the conference were| Senate President Kenneth McKel- lar, Tenn.; House Speaker Sam‘ Rayburn, Tex.; and House Majority | Leader John W. McCormack, Mass. | The Senate fight resumed today | amid charges that both opponents | and supporters of price control were using pressure tactics. As the Senate convened, Sen. Kenneth Wherry, R.Neb.predicted the Senate would not reach a vote before the end of the week. He said he wanted a vote “as soon as possible” on his amendment to abolish controls on meat, poul- try and deiry products. | Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel, D, Tex., entered the chamber with an arm- load of “filibuster material,” but he told reporters he did not plan to speak against the OPA “until the other boys get tired.” He said the bill would not reach a vote by Saturday. “In fact, I am | not sure it ever will get through,” he said. | | i H | | i - - i ROBERTSON HERE William Robertson, maintenance man for Alaska Native Service schools, is here enroute to a spec- jal detail assignment at Skagway. Mr. Robertson has been trans- ferred from tke White Mountain school to Eklitna, and will assume his duties there following comple- tion of his Skagway work. The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Veterans who | go to coliege will be living in house- boats if a plan by Gen. Graves Erskine, chief of the Labor De- nartment’s Retraining and Reem-‘I ployment Administration, is adopt- ed. In order to alleviate housing problems for war vet students at| rolleges and universities, General} Erskine has persuaded the Mari- time Commission to provide surplus river boats for colleges in water- front cities. The boats will be loan- ed to the schools at no cost, ex- cept for uvkeep, and will be used| as floating dormitories for the vet STATE PRIMARY IN WASHINGTON TO BE HELD ON TFUESDAY Six Congr(;sj_()nal Seats, Other Officers to Be Selected at Polls (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) About a million voters are re- gistered to cast ballots tomorrow (Tuesday) in Washington state’s first postwar primary election, which is bound by wartime laws which scheduled it for midsummer and will hoid the polls open until 10 pm The 10 am. clesing hour blaced in the laws by the last leg- slature to favor war workers, most cf whom have left the state or set- ved into jobs with convential hours since V-J Day. When hostilities are declared over officially the closing time will drop back to 8 pm. Decide Many Positions Six United States Representa- tives, one Senator and numerous county offices will be contested for and three State Supreme Court positions are to be decided. The number of candidates over the state runs well into four figu appointive successor of Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, goes to the electorate for the first time seeking to re- tain his office. Opposed to him in the Democratic primary are State Ireasurer Russell C. Fluent and Sam C. Herron of Bremerton. Former Mayor Harry P. Cain of Tacoma is seeking the Republican | nomination to the same office, op- | posed by J Parkhurst Douglass of Tonasket, House Seais The quest fo: seats in the House shaped up like this: First district, Democrat: Hugh iDeLacy (incumbent), Howard G.!$3,750,000,000 Britain loan. Costigan, Joseph D. Roberts, Henry R. Cliff drawn). Jones, Hansen. Second district, Democrat: Henry M. Jackson (incumbent; unoppos- Republican: Payson Peterson, Ernest W. Lennart. Republican: Homer Raymond E. Knight, ed). was | Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell (D-Wash), ! S. Noon, Alired R. Rochester (with- | STASSEN IN ~ TEST FIGHT, - MINNESOTA | Shipstead, _Tfle Battle at | Polls in Primary To- [ day Is Significant WASHINGTON, July 8—Minne- otans voted today in a Senatorial |primary that promises to have vis- |ible effect on the trend of na- | tional and foreign political policies Wrapped up in the Republican race in which Senator Henrik Ship- stead is seeking renomination in a |battle with Gov. Edward H. Thye re issues that may resqund in Congress and be felt in the 1948 | Presidential campaign Thye carries with him into to- |day's contest the hopes of former |Gov. Harold E. Stassen for the next |GOP Presidential nomination. It | Thye wins, Stassen will recover ‘mu(h of the prestige he lost in |Nebraska last month when he back- ed Gov. Dwight Griswold in an unsuccessful effort to, wrest the | Republican nomination from Sen- |ator Hugh Butler. Thye loses, Stassen’s friends Lere say he is through. They add ithat this probably would convince |the Republican leadership that no i candidate who holds the strong views on international cooperation expressed by Stassen could expect !the politically-necessary solid sup- |port from the midwest in 1948. A victory for Shipstead, 61-year- jold veteran of 25 years in the Sen- ate would be regarded generally |as a vindication of his congress- ional voting record which has been |attacked by Stassen and Thye | Shipstead voted against both the | United Nations Charter and the While the latter has not been made an issue in his campaign as it was in Butler’s, victories for the two loan opponents might make the credit bill's passage more difficult in the ARE INJURED | (FIVE 'NEW BOAT LINE 'FOR S, E. ALASKA ~ ANNOUNCED TODAY Coastal Na;igiation Co. fo! Have Headquarters Here =Service Is Outlined An anncuncement has been made | of the incorporation of a naw Alas- ka company, the Coastal Naviga- tion Company, with headquarters at Juneau. J. F. Church, manager, announced plans to commence op- erations with two newly-acquired vessels, effective with the sailing of tte MS Coastal Glacier frem Ketchikan on Thursday, July 11, to be continued on a weekly basis un- til the companion vessel, the Coast- al Forest, is made ready for ser- vice. Twice maintained Ketchikan, weekly schedules will ke thereafter between ‘Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, and Skagway, with weekly scrvice from Juneau to Hoonah, Pelican, Tenakee and Sit- ka. Passenger Accommodations Both boats have been almost en- tirely refitted to accommodate 24 sleeping passengers in Pullman- type or stateroom accommodations, which are said to be equal or superior to those available on large ships and with additional accommo- dations for 26 lounge passengers' iwho may be traveling only shortj distances and do not wish to pur- chase sleeping accommodations. 1 i bl Cold Storage - Service | cULVER cITY, Calif, July 8— When the second boat is placed|yrovie and mirplane maker How jon the run, Church said cold stor-iy,gnes gmazed his doctors today as age will be offered to Prince Rupert., . Sapiieq from critical injuries he 2s by that time both vessels wmu-uf!e;?d yestorday as his - latest have modern refrigeration facilities. | a9 e gt AL g vt e o ff'o:e“ A g, plané creation crashed, explodéd and < . : » 1O hurned -on it., inaugural flight. freight in the immediate future| "p iioinic at Good Samaritan is planned dasioe : f D! al said the -year-i 1- Church stated that every effort!loobiiat S the AT bas and will be made to furnishj 'OWEVE BUEACES ST - mg genius now has “a better than Pictare shows smoke HOWARD HUGHES IS BADLY INJURED dependable, regular service, the need A RRAGE Ml rasRURE AR of which has been evident for ajy'eh CHENCe. “b”;p‘" i m‘lfm long time. With the increased in-| !/ ¢S¢ Injuries 5 > bone, sevei Y fractures, fractured terest in Alaska by tourists and o o e others, the opening of the Hainesj?o5: ' laceratons of the scalp, a Road, and the inadequacy of pres- mail fracture of the skull, a punc- ent travel facilities, Church be-iture wound in the left knee, and | fiaVies “that ‘the mew. sérvice will be]crush iinjuries to his lungs. iwell received. | 1 Hughes' traditional luck holds Agents Named e wil ive Lo continue the specia S ’ rular ¢ Tl >~ as im o) 15" aadition to. the corpany's du- |- arisateer (ak ip pude: il ons drawn), R. Mazetter, John F. Mc- Kay. Republican: Walt Horan (in- cumbent), Virgil A. Warren. Sixth district, Democrat: John M. Coffee (incumoent), Burton W. Ly- on, Jr. Repubiican: Thor C. Tol- lefson (uncpposed). HUNGARY NOW BEING SACKED BY HSSIANS Boy Scouts, Catholic Youth Ordered Disbanded- * Commodities Seized BUDAPEST, July 3.—(Delayed) — Hungarian informants said today that Soviet Lt. Gen. Sviridov had students. The vets will be charged a small; sum for loaging and will be fur-| nished two meals a day by the| Government at low cost. | Two such vessels, with state-; room accommodations for 400 vet-| crans each, soon will be brought, 10 Washington, D. C. to house| overflow students in this area. | Note—General Erskine is being| bombarded with reports that with| increased living costs brought on by | Congressional, scuttling of OPA; many war vet college students can- not make ends meet. In many cas- ¢s, veterans have been compelled to vestrict themselves to two meals a| day. { WHY TRUMAN HAS TROUBLE At a recent White House Cabinet luncheon, Judge Fred Vinson pro- posed the appointment of Gael Sul- livan, hard-hitting Assistant Post- master General, as the new Direc- tor of the Budget Attorney General Tom Clark im- (Continued on Page Four) sent Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy a note which may cause the col- lapse of the predominantly small holder government, which is large- |ly anti-Communist in its leanings. They said Sviridov’s note contain- ed demands for disbanding of the Hungarian Boy Scout and Catholic Youth organizations omr the grounds they are “Fascist.” They expressed the belief that Nagy and his party would not agree to such demands and would probably resign. The Russians have taken $5,000,- 1000 worth of commodities out of the country as reparations since March, according to well-informed sources and are now in the process of removing 60,000 head of cattle and thousands of horses. — . —— SWORDS INTO-—? SYDNEY.—Surplus war material is being put to unusual uses in Australia. A man who bought a captured Japanese tank planned to exhibit it and then use it to tow his pie-stand. A breakfast food firm is said to be using obsolete ack-ack guns for puffing wheat, Magnus Hansen, Jr., crashed head- on into a parked vehicle at Mile 142 on the Glacier Highway, near the Auk Bay store. Both cars were severely damag- ed, Hansen reporting his car a com- plete loss. Most seriously injured of Hansen's four passengers were |Miss Iona Wells and Wilbert Sev- |ers. Both were taken to St. Ann’s |Hospital here for treatment. Severs | was |Miss Wells also was expected to e released from the hospital to- |day. discharged early today and| Third district, Democrat: Charles 3 el = R. Savage (incumbent, unopposed). i SATURDAY EVENING s S oftibe; in-ihe Oastineau Build-“”‘ America’s hhi}i‘k";),“f) é(:u‘;un‘\- | Republican: Fred Norman, R. M. ling, Church stated that the fol-|POrary flsures. He Hes bewn It Wright, O M. Nelson. | lowing agents have been appoint-| "l ¢rast but until yesterday Fourth distiict, Democrat: Jesse IN HIGHWAY (RASH‘ed: The Alaska Travel Bureau at)nlone resulted in serious injuries to H. Smithson, Ed Gerrick, Earl S.! |Ketchikan; the McCormack Dock |Dim-: % : 3 Coe. Republican: Hal Holmes (in-| S |Company at Wrangell; Kayler and | ' Plane Exploges 2 cumbent, unopposed). Five Juneau residents sufferedipan) at pstersburg; B. A. Barnett ! I{uzl_nes plane, tl?o XF-11, which Pifth district, Democrat: John Cuts and bruises Saturday evening ,¢ Haines; George W. Hooker at!he designed and built for the Army T. Little, Edwin A Beck (with. When a Studebaker car driven bY|skagway; the Pelican Cold Storage|Alr Forces for long-range photo- Co., at Pelican; Prosper Ganty at|graphic reconnaissance, struck and Hoonah; Dermot O'Toole at Tena-|sct afire ihree houses and a gar- kee, and the Conway Dock Co., atia in Beverly Hills before it ex- | The two other passengers Were j port north or west of Juneau to John Floberg and Bill West. Hansen reported to Highway Pa-'Nayigation Company, he stated, has trolman Hubert J. Gilligan that puplished through rates between |the accident occurred when he Was|gych ports, even though transfer !crowded over into the parked €&l may be made at Juneau; and the by another auto he was attempting ey gservice, therefore, promises in to pass. The Hansen car is Te- many cases a saving over present ter the crash. STOCK QUOTATIONS to a charge of reckless driving.| mately 80 yards further along the the joint service of two different highway before it left the road af-|jjoq" i Young Hansen appeared before U. ' |S. Commissioner Felix Gray here |this morning and pleaded guilty {He paid a fine of $50. | NEW YORK, July 8. — Closing A A 55 {quotauon of Alaska Juneau mine ON VISIT HERE stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- ported to have slithered approxi-|fayes where a passenger has to use! | Sitka. ipleded in a vacant lot. It landed i Through Rates {less than 100 feet from an auto- | For the convenience of passeng-|mobile in which Lana Turner’ ers, and to speed up schedules, ar- {mother and actress’ daughtel rangements have been made to op-|Cheryl Chrisune Crane, were rid erate the boats on certain trips|ing. Miss Twrrer, whom Hughes from Auk Bay with direct bus con-|has been uiring lately, was not nections from Juneau without ad-|in the auto, which was driven by ditional charge. At the present;Lana’s former husband, Steve |time, Church stated, it is not al- Crane. ways possible for passengers travel-{ Hughes, a pilot of rare ability, ling from ports south of Juneau to{who established transcontinental | speed records and flew arcund the lenjoy through rates. The Coastal|world in thrce and one-half days in 1938, encountered engine trouble after the experimental plane had been in the uir about an hour. He | previously had radioed the control tower at thie Burbank airport that i his landing gear was not working. i The exact nature of the trouble i¢till was unknown, however, as | Hughes, although conscious at in- | tervals, was unable to talk His amazing vitality enabled him to stand and walk after Marine Sgt. william L. Durkin pulled him from {the flamirg wreckage. He collapsed later at a receiving hospital. H — e — Arriving here this afternoon via Pan American Airways from Seattle | were Mrs. Willlam J. Ducey and son John James Ducey and Miss Katherine Sullivan, Mrs. | sister. Mrs. Ducey is a former Ju- neau resident and her son was born here. They plan a two-week visit |and will be house guests of Mrs. |Hnrley J. Turner. They were met jat the airport by Frank A. Boyle, jone of their many former acquain- tances in Juncau. B FORESTER ARRIVES James C. Iler, specialist in post- tation, arrived here today from the Portland on 2 month’s detail to as- sist the Alassa Regional Office in work-load studies, Ducey'’s | war planning and work implemen-| Regional Forest Service Office afK | poration 8%, American Can 101 | Anaconda 47, Curtiss-Wright 7! International Harvester 98, Kenne- cott 57%, New York Central 25's,, i Northern Pacific 29%, United Cor-|iime tomorrow but no definite hour 90,14t 3 p.m. today. poration 5%, U. S. Steel Pound $4.03% { Princess Louise, from Vancouver, | Sales today were 680,000 shares. |que tomorrow afternoon or evening. Dow, Jones averages today are| North Eea, from Seattle, schedul- to arrive tomorrow night or as follows. industrials 206.62, rails .q Wednesday morning. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, due some- |65.05, utilities 41.61. Gov. Sfainback from Vancouver 9 p.m. Wednesday. ————-—— OVER HAINES ROAD Highway Engineer W. Leonard s | Is Renominated [ smith is to leave Juneau tomorrow WASHINGTON, July 8—Presi- bound for a two weeks trip into dent Truman foday nominated In-|the Interior over the Haines High- gram M. Stainback for another way. He will make a full report on term are governor of the Territory condition of the newly reworked "of Hawalii, ! Haines link, following his return, | | Princess Norah scheduled to sail | Smoke Billows Up from Sunday A. M. Fire rising from the Alaska Dock and Storage Company dock soon after the fire broke out which resulted in the gutting of the living quarters on the second floor and deing extensive damage to the first floer. Photo and engraving by Larry Parker. Potalo Planfing Honors Rebuilder 0f Bombed City HIROSHIMA, July 8.—Civic lead- ers of this atomic-bombed city wondered how to honor Lt. John D. Montgomery of Kalamazoo, Mich., for helping them plan a model city of the future. Today they decided how. They told Mont- gomery: “Today we planted in Hiroshima 100,000 potatoes in honor of you and the aid vou are giving us in rebuilding our city. -, Truman Urges Brifish Loa WASHINGTON, July 8.-—Presi- dent Truman told the House today that unless it votes the $3,750,000,- 000 British loan “it will be diffi- cult, if not impossible, to proceed with the United National program for international economic coopera- tion.” Economic conflict between Great Britain and the United States, Mr. Truman said, woud be “disastrous to the economic well-being of both countries.” The President and Secretary of State Byrnes personally made new appeals for the loan as some ad- ministration leaders privately voic- ed concern at how the house will vote. bate on the loan starts today Mr. Truman appealed fer con- sideration in the Hcuse by Demo- crats and Republicans, without reference to party affiliations Pyrnes, in a cablegram from Paris, where he is participating in tr2 Foreign Ministers conference, declared “The British loan is the first essential economic step toward peace and security HOUSE IN ACTION WASHINGTON, Juy 8—Urged by President Truman to speed action, the House beat down 181 to 67 to- day efforts to block consideration of the $3,750,000,000 British loan. The vote put the loan formally before the House for four days of debate. However, it furnished no accur- ate measure of the strength of the opposition, as anti-loan forces split on an effort by some members to block consideration of the Senate- approved legislation ratifying the credit. R New Superintendents For Naka! Packing Co. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 8— ‘The Nakat Packing Corporation an- nounced Fritz Frolich, Superintend- dent of its Waterfall cannery 11 years, will become Superintendent cf the Union Bay plant, succeed-| ing the late C. C. Harris. William Fonken, Waterfall foreman 13 years, becomes superintendent there. il ‘The male mosquito is a vege- tarian ARABS TAKE " HARD SWAT AT TRUMAN for Slap - Serious Trouble Is Threat JERUSALEM, Juty 8-—Threats of a possible Arab civil disobedience program in protest against Jewish immigration to Palestine were coupled today with an Arab slap 'at President Truman and a sug- gestion that he open America to Jewish immigrants “if he really is in sympathy” with them. Dr. Higher Executive Committee, said Jewish Imm_i-g;aiion Cause HfI F. Khalidi of the Arab SHIP AGENT'S FAMILY FLEES 'VIA WINDOWS Gucker and Adams Lose Homes in Two - Alarm | Blaze-OfficesDamaged Alaska Steamship Company, lmm-m-sm Railway Express and lAlu.sk.n Dock and Storage Company (offices here were severely damaged vesterday forenoon when explosion and fire turned the north end of the Alaska Dock building into a blackened shambles. Almost completely destroyed were the apartments of broker J. W. Gucker and Alaska Line Agent Horace O. Adams, located above the offices. Gucker, who with his two sons, Jack, Jr., and Jerry, was at his Point Louisa cabin when the fire struck, saved only the old clothes he was wearing and several firearms which were in a closet jand escaped the direct wrath of the flames. Several of the guns were charred, and all were wetted, how- ever. Destroyed by the fire were i Gucker’s extensive collections of na- \tive ivory carving and basketware. {He estimates his loss of personal tgoods at several thousand dol- {lars—about half-covered in insur- iance. | Oil Furnace Explosion { Originating in an ofl furnace ex- plosion, the fire spread rapidly. {Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their 'dudwer Louise, asleep - in their ,nparlment, found tHélr way to the {only stairway already flame-blocked |immediately after Mr. Adams had ‘been awakened by smoke. After {phoning in the alarm, the Adams .family saved some clothing, throw- ing it out findows through which {they made their escape. Horace Adams, Jr., also residing Iwith the family, had risen early to go to work and was not present when the fire came. The Adams family is now staying temporarily !at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. i Bavard. Second Alarm Called out at 9:45 o'clock with a that group was drafting a new note|second 2-5 alarm sounded a few to Britain warning that unless the!minutes later, the Juneau Volunteer British government took immed- Fire Department, assisted by a fire iate steps to halt the illegal en-{crew from the Subport under Will- try of Jews into Palestine there would be “a wave of non-coopera- tion by Avabs, followed possibly by civil disobedience.” “After that,” the spokesman said, “the next step may be mass ,demonstrations by Arabs, and this executive will refuse to accept re- spensibility for them.” Khalidi's statement came as the ixecutive Committee disclosed it already had drafted a letter to President Truman accusing him of “flagrant, empty and irresponsible statements” in connection with the problem of Jewish immigration to alestine, The note was prepared in reply to a White House statement last Tuesday to the effect that the \iam Niederhauser, carried on an ;excepnonnlly effective battle and shortly past 11 o'clock had the fire under control, with only mopping up of isolated flame pockets re- {maining. Searing Flames { The main, clerestory warehouse Isection of the dock structure was {in most part saved by the able fire- !fighing crew, although a first flash sent searing flames the full length of the building and left roof timbers and the tops of sup- porting posts in charred condition. A bit more than 50 feet of the Isouthern end of the warchouse was ;hardly more than scorched, as the iflames were soon confined to the closed-in north end. | Wharf. Little Damaged The fact that the flames were prevented from getting below the heavy deck planking is credited United States was prepared to as-| sume technical and financial re-| cponsibility for the transportation |of 100,000 European Jewish refugees | to Palestine in accordance with With saving the entire dock from | recommendations of the Brlush-}d%h‘uflwn- A survey today show- American inquiry commission, jed little damage to the wharf it- SSRGS T iself; the superstructure only bear- H {ing the brunt of the flames. Add- FIRSI ('TIZEN OF ing much to the effectiveness of ! ithe fire fight was the assistance qiqiven by four boats which turned UN“’ED S]‘A]‘ES |S {to and promptly brought heavy | streams of water from their pumps | H to bear on the flames. Three of ElEvATED AS SAINIHhe boats were U. S. Army craft | |from the Subport. The LT 390, ST VATICAN CITY, July 8. Church.rlss and the ST 382. The fourth of bells pealed throughout the Eternal City of Rome yesterday to pro- claim the elevation of Mother | Frances Xavier Cabrini to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church— [the first time a citizen of the | United States has been ceclared a saint. Pope Pius XII, presiding over the majesic rites of canonization, de- clared that “the nations and peoples will learn from her—who ardently loved her fatherland and | scattered the treasures of her charity and labors even to other | countries—that they are called to ‘tonsmule a single family, a fam- illy that must not be divided in | stormy rivalry. >-ee - | The gall bladder is absent from iall common members of the deer | family. ,the assisting vessels was the Alaska- “Juncau mine tug Trojan. i Water Damage { Fortunate was the fact that little express or freight was in the term- inal and that the major portion of |1t was saved with little more than jwater damage. The total is esti- \mated at about 50 measurement j tons. Unfortunate was the fact ithat all of the freight and boxed jexpress had been booked for ship- |ment on the Alaska Line freighter !Victoria, and that vessel had sailed {at 10 o'clock the evening before ‘after being prevented from loading by the longshore strike here. Other- ;Wwise the dock would have been cleared of goods. Express Agent Roy Mulvihill ex- lpects that boxed express will have suffered little, as it was in metal- (Continued on Page Siz)