The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1946, Page 1

¢ 1SA'I'IIIIH\Y P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,327 COMPROMISE ON OPA CONTROL WARPROFITS PROBE TURNS ONTO COFFEE Washington Congessman Will Be Called fo Ex- plain ‘Contribution’ WASHIN(‘TO—I_‘J,__JUIY 20.—Sen- ator Brewcier (R-Me), a member of the Senate War Investigating Committee, suid today that Rep. Coffee (D-Waush) would be asked to “explain” a five-year-old $2,500 “campaign contribution” from a Tacoma war contractor. ‘Already, at Tacoma, Coffee had| declared: “I welcome an of the entire icatter.” Brewster said that the Committee has already usked the Department of Justice for its files on an inves- tigation which Coffee has said it made of the contribution. Brewster bluntly called Coffee’s definition of the $2,500 as a cam- paign contrioution a “belated alibi.” Brewster said of Coffee’'s willing- ness'for an mvestigation: “He certainly will be welcome. The more quickly he appears, the better.” investigation “POLITICAL CANARD” TACOMA, July 20—Contractor Eivind Andcrson said today he had “a patriotic purpose” in writing the $2,500 check which has prompted | the Senate Micad Committee to in- vestigate the affairs of Rep. John M. Coffee (D-Wash). Qoffee identified himself last night as the Congressman- invelved in the investigation, saying in a statement issued through his sec- retary, Adalya Davis, he had not wished heretofore to “dignity this political canard with detailed re- futation.” Anderson Press: told the Associated = —~ — — = — — ;i A JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDA_\;. JULY 20, 1946 A MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS The Washington By DREW FEARSON WASHINGTON—Various people, including my somewhat worried wife, have been looking askance at my bearding the Ku Klux Klan in its home lair in Atlanta. They I am giving the Klan too much publicity, that the Klan doesn't amount to anything, that it should be ignored. That. of cowse, Was what folks also said shout Hitler, and about | the Capone gang in its infancy, and about ibe old Klan after the last war. Yet each developed tragic and amaz'ng ength. As a very young newspaperman, | I remember going out to to cover the fight which William Allen White was then making against the ¥ Klux Klan in his jrace for Covernor. White was one | of the great leaders of the Middle | West, one of the great figures of | {the Nation He stood for something | | which was truly and finely Ameri- |can. Yet tle Klan was too strong| for him. His weapon against it was | homely philosophy. The Klan's| | weapons agaiust him were hatred, | terrorism, "ahd one of the most air- | tight polit Nation has ¢ er seen. the Klan. 1 { There ere many others who} |rought the Klan—Gov. Henry Allen | lof Kansas, Gov. John M. Parker| | of Louisiana, Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia. Dorsey reported 135 | cases of lyrciing in Georgia in two | | years. | “In some counties the Negro is| being driven cut as though he were | a wild beast,” Governor Dorsey re-| | ported. “In ctiers, he is being sold | {as a slave. In others, no Negroes! |remain. In only two of tne 135 | cases cited ic { rape—involved.” | | | | | i | LOUISIANA APPEALED FOR | HELP { Governor FParker, who was no| 1carpetbaggm‘, had to take the un-| {usual step of appealing to Federal! Merry - Go-Round Kansas | § | .FAMOUS LEGS of Mistinguette, which once were A -al organizations the| doilars, are in prominent display as the former Frenc 70-YEAR-OLD LEGS STILL FAMOUS insured for a million h dancer and musical comedy actress, now past 70. enjoys the sights of Rome with | That was my first brush with | Bier newlv acquired husband, Tenor Lino Carenzio. SIZILING HOT WAVE STRIKES EAST SECTION | | pressive Heat Accord- ing fo Forecasters (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) (International} Voles Cast for Inf. Dept. Bill Will Save Life e “usal erime' Ralief Promised from Op-| Del. Bartleft Lauds Con- gress for ““Sound In- vestment in Alaska” SOUGH SCHEDULE FOR ALASKA FISH HEARINGS SET 'Public Meets Will Discuss| | Commercial Regulations | ‘ and Trap Sites e | WASHINGTON, July 20.—A Sl‘ri('.\; of hearings ‘will be held in Seattle | and in Ala: to discuss proposed | changes in the Alaska commercial | fisheries regulations for 1947, Secre- | |tary of Interior Krug announced today | The schedule of hearings: Kodiak, | Sept. 10; Ancherage, Sept. 13; Cor- | dova, Sept. 16; Juneau, Sept. 20; | Sitka, Sept. 23; Klawak, Sept. 25; ! | Wrangell, Sept. 27; Ketchikan, Sepl.: 28; Seattle, November 14. i Krug said the hearings will be | conducted by the Fish and Wildlife Service. | Discussion of trap-site limitations, | jon which hearings were started in | | Washington in February, 1946, will | {be postponed until later, Krug an- ! [naunr(-d An exception, however, is iLhe new section of the regulations |known as 201.26, proposed by the | Interior Department in an order | |March 6, 1946. | This section, which will be up for | diseussion, contains provisions which | would exclude from any trap-site a | person who held a permit for that |site in 1946 but who, instead of |occupying it himself, leased or as- | signed it without bearing all or a 'HAP’ ARNOLD substantial part of the expense and financial risk involved in the in-| | stallation, care, service, and risk and | | use of the trap. | | | SET-ASID | E OF * AF's War Chief Fore(astsj Atomic Terror from | Polar Regions | STRAY SEAL_nelen M. Walden, 19, holds Betty, two- months-old seal picked up near a bathing beach in Portland, Me., & mile from the business district, by Miss Walden's brother-in« law. Ramsey Doughty. VISIONS TRUE SPACE CRAFT s | LASTHUDDLE 15 ON TODAY ~ ONMEASURE 'Legislation May Go Back ' | to House Floor-Porter | Gives His Views (By The Associated Press) Representatives of the House and Senate will go into another huddle tods and it may be their last chance to reach a compromise on [ price control, | So far, the House delegation has Irefused to accept those provisions iur the Senate OPA bill that would outlaw any future price controls on meat, eggs, milk and other basic food products. If the joint conference cannot reach some kind of an in-between settlement, the question may be taken back to the House floor, for a vote on whether or not to accept the Senate bill as it now stands. Administration leaders want to avoid that possibility. President Truman has condemned the Senate bill, and indicated thas he would veto it if it came to his desk—and that would mean more delay in i bringing price controls back to life. + OPA Chief Paul Porter went on lthe air today to broadcast (over !ABC) a warning that it may not be i | | { | BEATEN 10 DEATH AT ANCHORAGE i possible to restore price controls to the level of June 30, when his agency passed out of existence. Porter sald “Perhaps some of the damage {of the last three weeks can't be {repaired.” But he added that a lot ;uf price controls can be put back, and price increases that are threat- SRy ening can be stopped. The Price Administrator said he woman’s Body, Bfulsed ‘hnpcs no one gets the idea that the Badly, Found in Truck— |ine deatn” of ‘o ‘v santimes Officials Seek Man jeven if price controls are kept off. 1He pointed out that the flood of WASHINGTON, July 20.—Rep. ‘j(HUM SAlMoN . Across |livestock includes many hogs and “There was no evil purpose in the | officials to help him keep order | payment of this money. It Was Der- | inside the State of Louisiana. This fectly honoruble in all respects. I'ywas in 1922, not 1870. He reported was merely trying to achieve some- | hat state officials could not cope thing that wis highly honorable at' with the “horrifying crimes” of the Another day of oppressive heat was in prospect for most of the| eastern section of the nation today‘vamd Tar “the; Imerjor sDepaigment v il | 1947 appropriation bill “voted to bk melinl seeshdu: BEBe/RGORVE save the lives of people who other- tomorrow. Bartlett of Alaska yesterday told | the House that every member who | | LOS ANGELES, July 20.—Gen. H. H. Arncla, wartime chief of the| A woman identified as M | Army Air Forces, says he belives Mackey, 37 believed to have lived any future blow against the United | formerly in Seattle, was found States “will come across the Polar | beaten to aeath yesterday in a res- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 20.— Jean OR 1946 OFF F !cattle that were held back during May and June while Congress was debating the future of price con- (trol. Moreover, he said, there is an 'acute shortage of grain, and without ;gram as feed you can't expect large the time—remove handicaps, as it was urgent Lo get something done.” Pairiotic Purpose He said he had a 72-building project under way at Fort Lewis with a contract calling for comple- tion in 90 dsys and “things were not moving iast enough.” “Mine was a patriotic purpose.” Coffee saic the check “was given to me by Livind Anderson in the spring of 1941, though my then secretary, Paui A. Olson.” “Mr. Angerscn and Mr. Olson were both candidates for Mayor in the primary campaign (this year),” he continued. “Mr. Anderson was eliminated i the primaries. There- after he decided to impute to a; campaign Conation something of a questionab.e character.” BALL PICNIC ON THIS EVE. Despite WCTU protestations for admission of its members on a bottle of roct beer, the Elks’ Ball| Team's scheculed picnjc is to go on - tonight as scheduled, it was. stressed today. The picnic is sched- uled for Auk’ Bay, to begin about 7 o'clock, when cars are to leave Elks’ Hall. Not even the weather is expected to be “dry.” ———.e———— DRUNK DRIVER William Weir was arrested here last night on South Franklin street, by City Police, on charges of driv- ing a car while drunk and without a .driver’s license. This morning, Weir was fined $50 by City Magis- trate Willizm A. Holzheimer, and condition viaced that no driver's license is to be issued to Weir for 30 days. - e JOBY ON FISHING TRIPS Hal William’s Joby left this morning for a fishing trip to Dody’s Cove with Mr. Walter Walsh and his party. Tomorrow the Joby will leave with the fishing parties of Mr. Harold Stjern and George Almond. i |Klan. A surer-Government had been created, more powerful than the State Government because it was invisible. Local police were | powerless. It was impossible in some states to be elecica without joining or | bowing beiuie the will of the Klan. Its memiversiup grew in 1922 at the |rate of 3,500 a day. By 1925 it had 8,904,871 members. | And yet it had mushroomed from | nothing. People had laughed at it, ;advised that it be ignored. The {Klan will die a natural death, they | said. Once it got started, however, the opposite was true. It seemed nothing covid stop the power of the KKK. Lawe were passed forbidding hooded orcer.. The Klan was de- ‘bated at the Democratic National | Convention i 1924, but in the end the Convention dared not go on| record specitically against it. The Klan's greatest strength lay in the fact that it waé the first organization 1n the USA to adopt the block-by-block system of se- curing memocrship. The CIO’s Pol-| itical Action Committee has been| credited with originating the block- | by-block system, but the Klan had‘ proved the eificiency of this system 15 years before. | Prior to thc Klan, political lead-“ ers thought they were good when they organizcd a county or even a township. But the Klan wasted no| time with such piddling methods. It sent its solicitors to every house insthe block. The membership had a real incentive, for the solicitor | got a cut on the $10 initiation fee, | while the Grand Dragon also got his cut ana the Kleagle and the Imperial Wizard also got theirs. It| was one of the wealthiest rackets ever operated in the USA—all built on hate. With this close-knit political organization, the Klan could elect almost any 1:an to office, and, once elected, the Wizards and the; Kleagules rcguired just two pay-| offs: Police protection and State contracts. When the hooded order went out at night, it expected—and got— immunity 1roin the police. To be sure, this meant a system whereby one Government operated inside another cvernment. But that made no difference, for one was wise would have died.” The break in the heat wave for the North Atlantic states and some | parts of the east central states was said by Federal forecasters to be the same that came to the plains states and to the upper Mississippi Valley yesterday and today — a, mass of cool air and thunder show- | ers. i The forécasters said that the cool air was moving slowly and had| reached northern Ilinois and northern Indiana today, but they expected it would extend to the; Atlantic seaboard by tomorrow. The mercury climbed to new) highs for the date in many cities yesterday, zooming to an even 100 in Detroit to shatter a T4-year record for the date, while in Bos-| ton the high of 96 was the hottest| July 19 in 68 years. Oklahoma | City's thermometers touched 102, while a sizzling 114 was registered in Redding, California. PREDICTED LIFE FOR 150 YEARS; PASSES ON AT 64, MOSCOW, July 20—Dr. Alex-| ander Alexandrovich Bogomolets, Soviet scientisi and politician who | said that human beings normally should live to be 150 years old, died | last night at Kiev. He was 64. H The Sovici Council of Ministers said that Degomolets, who created a serum known as A. C. (anti-re- ticular cytotoxic) which he main- tained would hold off old age by! slowing up deterioration of con- nective tissues, succumbed of a “grave disease.” In an interview six weeks ago,| Bogomolets said that some of his assistants had taken doses of his serum, but said nothing about hav- | ing taken it himself. He told currespondents at that time that a heart condition made! it uncertain whether he would ac-! cept an invita*ion to visit the Unit- ed States ncxt September. —— Py One hundred tons of hituminous| coal will furnish 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas which will operate 625 gas elected by ihe other and the elected AN IR R ) ) (Continued on Page Four) burning houschold refrigerators for one month. ;' ing tuberculosi | Alaska Native Servite would take lover Army and Navy installations - assist in some small way in making He said the bill contained funds| WASHINGTON, July 20. — The to enable the Terrtiory to start in|Department of Agriculture has an- the “humanitarian task of conquer- |nounced that canners will no longer s.” The Delegate ex- have to set aside part of their 1946 scourge nf Ala use. “It is nov so because the climate The department estimated that is hospitable to it,” Bartlett said.|more than 238,000 cases of chumj “The primary reason is that we have | salmon -thus would be released to| simply done nothing or practically domestic consumers, | nothing about it.” The set-aside originally was in- | New Sitka Sadatorinm :len(led to provide the fish for relief He said that under the bill the [€¢dIE purposes, the department | | announced. -, — | at Sitka and with a $1,300,000 ap- | | propriation provide another 200-bed sanatorium for native patients. Bartlett said. that up to the time | of the World War, the tuberculosis | DISCOVERED 0" i situation was ‘worse in Alaska than anywhere else in the world.” | (AS(ADES pEAK “If during my term of office 1| ‘ accomplished nothing else than to R, | sure that tuberculosis would never| again take so many lives and cause | so much heartache and anguish in Alaska,” Bartlett said, “I shnuld" feel my contribution had been worth while.” Afmy wre(k Praises Road Appropriation Bartlett paid a tribute to Congress| TACOMA, July 20—The body of | for appropriating more money for |Sidney Matz, New York bu.siness1 Missing New York Execu- five Found Dead-Also I | | | roads which he said would aid in |cxecutive who disappeared on the development of the Territory |flight July 8, was found last night and open up the fabled Fortymile N the wreckage of his plane on mining district where gold was dis- @ high peak in the Cascade Moun-| covered in the early Territorial tains. | | days. 2 | A ground search party reported| Bartlett said the Interior Depart- | the body was pinned in the crumpl-| ment would spend $10,000,000 in|ed fuselage and could not be extri-| Alaska this year while the War De- |cated. The men planned to return| partment, aside from its other ac- to the scene today with tools to cut | tivities in the Territory, will spend the body free. | $24,000000 in its building program| The searchers' report said that| at Fort Richardson and Ladd Field. the plane had evidentaly struck a| —_————— tall tree and crashed, killing Matz, YOUTH FOR CHRISTTO e The search for Matz led to the| (EI.EBRAIE BIR'HDAY overy of the wreckage of anoth-| r plane—an Army craft missing AT AFFAIR ]‘omfim‘ from Buckley Field, Colo, since February of 1945—and brought| eath . Mines i rash The Youth for Christ will cele- ::! a :;;Xcumh:gl:‘m]:{;?:&.m oy | brate their first birthday tonisht he ground party reported the| in the Odd Fellows Hall With ,opaing of four men, all badly games, songs and refreshments. EV- . ned, were in the wreckage of eryone is invited to join in an eve- ;. army plane. ning of fun and fellowship. 7he s TP | program will start at 7:45 c'clock | —e — — Eighteen-ingh tall Jeffery Hudson, At South Bethlehem, Pa., is a English 17th century dwarf, fought rock carveG by nature in the shape|a duel with and killed a man h:ur‘ of George Washington's head. /times bis own height. 210ST PLANES - regions, not oy way of the seas.” Predicting future atomic ‘bombs “may well pe 1,000 times as de- structive” as those exploded over Japan, Gen. Arnold in a press con- "}plalned that the disecase whs the chum salmon pack for government ference coun‘ered an inquiry as to whether the U. S. could know if any other nations were secretly building atomic bombs with this question “Who knows what's going on dec ‘nside Rt Later, in a speech beiore Jic stitute of Acronautical Sciences, he predicted “invasion of the stratos- here” by “i.ue space ships . . . capable of one or more trips ar ia? the world.” “You know and I know that this is not an idle fantas; he told engineers atierding institute ses icns cn tne Los Angeles campus of the University of California “There is & real pogsibility of de- veloping a rccket-propelied vehicle which will ciunb above the atmos- phere 1o s a velocity that its 1t ifu; fcrce balances the at- traction of gravity. I am told this velocity 15 of the order of 26,- 000 feet po ccond-—but five times that already attained by the V-2 (German 1ocket Bomb).” - RADIQTELEPHONE SERVICE FEATURE ANNOUNCED, ACS The Alaska Communication Sys- tem at Juneau has now extended the facilities to furnish 24 hour radiotelephone service to Seattle and the states. Long distance calls may be placed any time during the day or night. Radiotclephone service is also available to Ketchikan during the hours 8 a. m. and 12 midnight. Calls to Sitka will be accepted subject to circuit conditions be- tween the hours 9 a. m. and 11 p. m. daily and from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. and 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Sun- days and holidays. In the near future it is planned to establish radiotelephone service betw Southeast Alaska and points westward. Resumption of this service will be announced up- cn completion of installation of equipment, | idential dis i Federal fercement seeking a 4h-ye been with ner t in Anchorage. Anchorage law en- |duantities of meat. Porter tied in his warning with a d man who had ' Promise that if ceilings are restored, They expressed nm!OPA will be ready to eliminate belief she was killed Wednesday | CONtrols on an important number of night. Three men, two of them Ne- |1!éms. He said OPA expects to groes, are hew. cn charges of fail-;Erant @ Whole serles of price in- Vis T tev. v tha attae. ;creases on building materials, to : encourage construction of h ) A native woman tound the body | e and cificers said they were - when she iited some old clothes| SOME ADDED TO OPA n the back of a truck park&-d! across the et from her homre; and saw ¢ ROLLS; OTHERS RESIGN WASHINGTON, July 20.—Uncer- rotruding hand. The tajn future or not, OPA has added weman had been beaten so severely g few employees to its rolls since about the face that both eyes ap-ithe expiration of price controls. peared as Welts covered the | An official of the agency reported head and foce. The body was bruis- ‘today that even though there was ed badly. no assurance when they could be > was ciad in a pink slip oripaid, 19 persons joined the OPA wgown and sweater. An nld-iw shington staff during the two- type Army “dog tag” chain hung\week period which began July 1, :bout her ncck. jwhen the price act went off the - fbooks. PONTIFF URGES | i ot e HAVOC OF WARS slits, tha signations appear to be hold- ing “at about the normal rate.” He said from July 1 to July 15, a itotal of 56 out of 3,315 national BE UNDERSIOOD loffice workers quit their jobs. Dur- |ing the previous three months, the :“ | official said, the rate of Washington Asks Ame”(ans NO' '0 :‘;;“:;‘i:z?i: in each of the six two- | Lock Away Experiences | A ANES | it Mook {COASTAL AiRLINES tits ON DAILY FLIGHTS VATICAN CITY, July 20—Pope} Pius urged a group of American| Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the Senators and Representativ whom;rullowmg yesterday to Sitka: Elin he received today in private aud- Coons, Mrs. R. Goodwin, R. Haber, ience, to share the experiences ac- 'R. Grover, L. Sherwood; from Sit- quired on their around the world ka: Walter Fuehrer, Mrs. Walter journey; so that men will under- Fuehrer, N. S. Peret, Mrs. Roy stand more fully “the havoc wrought Hill, Mrs. Ben Kettleson; to Hawk by war and the tremendous diffi- [Inlet: G. D. McKay; to Todd: L. culty of reconstruction.” !Conpoasona; to Chatham: Mrs. L. ‘The Pope spoke in English. He Lewis; to Hoonah: E. Bogh; from told his listeners, who arrived here Todd: Nick Bez. last night from Cairo by way of | B - - o Athens, that the spectcles of shat- | RI“‘,HBTE‘“ED AT BARANOF tered landscapes that they had seen, | Arrivals from the States regist- and the havoc in the lives of men €riNg at the Baranof are: Bob Bol- should not be “locked away in idle g-ny, :""“‘e: Cagfl;:? "'JM“che‘l;- memory.” an rancico, alll.] ames . The Pontiff afterward received a ' Ilesler, Scatile; Mr. and Mrs. second group of Americans, includ- | Romiel, Oukland, Calif.; Mr. and ing Postmatser General Robert E. Mrs. Arthu: I. Wallace, Berkeley, Hannegan, Undersecretary of War | Calif.; J. Borgseth, Seattle; Mrs. W. Stuart Symington, Sen. Millard Fanchen Summers and daughter, E. Tydings of Maryland and Gael | Barbara, Oakland, Calif.; John P. Sullivan, Second Assistant Post- | Van Orsdal, Seattle; Mrs. Charles master General. The Pope also ad- E. Hulett, Alice Hulett, San Fran- dressed this gorup in English. cisco, Calif.