The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,328 OPA BILL IS BACK TO HOUSE, SENAT Also LEFTISTS IN (OMMAND OF BOLIVIA NOW Revolution@lay Former| “Strong Man"-Stage | Macabre Parade | LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 22.—Stu- dent and labor revolutionists took over the government of Bolivia to- day after assassinating President QGualberto Villarrcel, who was thrown bodily from the Presidential | pélace, hanged to a lamppost and | then paraded lifeless and naked through the streets on an army; tank. After the macabre parade in this| highest capital in the world, the| slain president’s body again Wwas hanged from a lamppost before thei palace. Several of his lieutenants and members of the palace guards were hanged on other lampposts | in the square. | His death marked tke end of a| regime that began on December 20, ! i943. Villarroel assumed the presi-| dency on that day, after a revolu-| tion overthrew the government of | General Enrique Penaranda. 2,000 Casualties Every hospital and dispensary in| La Paz is filled to overflowing with | casualties of four days of fight-| ing In the streets. Many members| of Villarrcel's military regime diedi with their leader — but most of the 2,000 killed or wounded wers rev- olutionists. ~ Some of Villarroel's men managad to escape to the hills, ut there are no indications yet if ey Wil try a countermove on| the capital. The revolutionary leaders promis- ed that suppressed civil liberties would be restored immediately. Nestor Guillen, dean of the Su- perior Court, assumed office as act- ing president, but vowed to relin- quish the office when Thomas Mon- je, court president, was well enough | to take his place. He called the| regime “a provisional government | to call elections and then turn over power to a government chos-| en by the people.” The revolutionists also have promised that all political prisoners will be freed and all political ex-' iles welcomed back to Bolivia. Student Slaying Started The revolution, led by college pro- fessors, students and labor groups, began on July 13, when a student‘ was killed during a demonstration demanding higher pay for teach- (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON * WASHINGTON—Patient Senator Alben Barlley of Kentucky hasn't blown off steam since he stampeded the Senate against FDR’s veto of the last war tax bill. But at a Iuncheon ihe other day he indicat- ed to friends that the pot again| was beginning to boil. Barkley stated categor-| I fact, Barkley | mack (Mass). ) jcally that hc¢ would resign if Pres- ident Truman vetoed the present OPA bill. He said he was tired of living on a treadmiil, that the present OPA bill was the best he could get out Of the Serate, and if the Presi- dent would't accept it, he would resign as mujority leader. The serious and protracted ill- ness of the Einator's wife and the tecent disclosure that his son was employed by the Erie Basin war profiteers nave increased Barkley’s already Leavy burden. the price-control problems will be ironed out or that Barkley will re- consider. The Barkicy conversation took place -just vrior to a luncheon com- mefmorating the 200th anniversary ot Princeton University, attended by Senators Alexander Smith of New Jersey and Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania, both Princeton men. Admiral Eruie King (Annapolis) and Senatcr Barkley (Emory Col- lége, 'Ga.) though not Princeton grads were alco present. NEW DEAL LOBBYIST Ex-FCC Chairman Larry Fly was once a stickler for many things. Now he is 2 lobbyist for several op- 2 (Continued on Page Four) Senate | friends hope, however, that either | | JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — 20-20 Trio Perfect Visions BRITAIN'S HQ N PALESTINE - ISSHATTERED Bombing of | Huge King " David Hotel by Ter- ; orists Kills 50 JERUSALEM, July 22—Terrorists Lombed and shattered part of the huge King David Hotel, head- arters cf the British Ar and v st 50 lernment, today, killing at shook the modern part of this an- cient city. The attack came the British Army occupied the Jew- ish agency and arrested 2,000 Jews |and leaders. A police communique gave the estimate of dead. | Among the 60 reported unofficial- ly as injured was an American, Correspondent Richard Mowrer of the New York Post, who was re- portcd to have suffered a broken leg while walking past the hotel. A curfew was clamped on. Pedes- trians and traffic vanished from the ets in Jewish quariors of Jerusalem. Tight cordons barred Secretariat of the Palestine gov-| !persons in a terrifying blast that' 23 days after’ access to the King David Hotel, one | (of the finest in eastern Mediter- ranean countries, while soldiers dug, into the rubble for more bodies and | for wounded. H 'Mushing’ Ends ATIRACTIVE Gloria Durant, 21, is { shown at LaGuardia Field, N. Y., ' with her fiance, ex-Sgt. William H. McMullen, Brooklyn, N. Y., shortly after she flew from Alaska. Gloria, who is part Eskimo, met McMullen while she was a USO hostess in « Anechorage. (International) ( Tomorrow for Rehearsal Sef | No _(imgress MEET THE 20-20 GIRLS—Jane Harker, Arlene Dahl and Suzi Cran- dall are kncwn as the 20-20 girls on their lot in Hollywood, not only because they are perfect (20-20) visions, bus, because, born twenty years ago, they will participate in the 20th anniversary celebration of talking pictures. They will appea and history of the “talkies.” Adjournment Immedialely Many Musm;sures Must Be Disposed of, De- clares Barkley WASHINGTON, July 22—Senate Democratic leader Barkley said af- jter a couference with President Truman today he sees no prospect of adjourning Congress before the middle of next week. The Keuluckian told reporters Mr. Truman is having the compro- mise OPA revival bill analyzed with a view to deciding whether to accept or veto it. Barkley said he hopes Mr. Tru- man will sign the measure, but added: | “We didn't ask him whether he would sign it and he did not tell us whether he would.” Barkley coinferred with the Presi- dent along with Senator McKellar (D-Tenn), Speaker Rayburn and House Demiocratic leader McCor-| Asserting ne had abandoned hope of Congress quitting at the end of | this week, Barkley said “I'm afraid we will have to go into the middle of next weck.” In addition to OPA legislation, Barkley said Congress still must act on a terminal leave pay bill, a railrcad retitement bill, aviation treaty. In additivn, he continued, the long range hiousing legislation pass- ed by the Sciate is still pending in the House. Replying to.a question, Barkley said the President did not- mention | farm security legislation also pend- ing on Capitol Hill. It was when a reporter asked Barkley whether he thought Mr. Truman would sign the OPA ex- tension bill worked out in a con- ference comunittee over the week- end, that Darkley said he did not know. “I hope he will,” he said. Another key measure on which the Senate and House must seek agreement is that for controlling atomic energy. ., A. E. WOODLEY HERE A. E. Woucley, owner of Pacific Northern Airlines, of Anchorage, arrived here during the weekend. He is staying at the Baranof Hotel. ncdy, a veteran of 25 years of gov- ernment service in Palestine, (known to have been killed | The explosion was likened by a British army officer to the deton- ation of a 500-pound bomb. It shattered the u calm of Jeru- salem, torn by Jewish demands for more immigration and Arab opposi- tion, at 12:30 p. m. was r in a film depicting the progress U. S MARINES GET “ o nns FIGHTING WARNING FIGHTING FACTIONS FROM COMMUNISTS IN CHINA CLAIMING - YANGIZE VICTORIES TIENTSIN, July 22.—The Chinese Communist radio at Yenan today warned United States Marines that a search of Communist held terri- tory for seven Marines seized in Northern China July 13, was a vio- lation of Chinese sovereignty. Makes Charges Incrim- The warning was made at a tx'mc‘ inating U. . when there were indications, not ST confirmed by the Marine corps, that! SHANGHAI July 22. — Chinese the seven have been found in a Communists and the ggvernment village 50 miles southwest of the mutually claimed victories north of port city of Chinwangtao. the Yangtze River today as Madame Yenan radio said that unless the |Sun Yat-sen accused Government leathernecks called off the hunt |Party reactionaries of striving to in- they must assume full responsbility cite war between the United State: for any clashes between Marines and Russia in the hope of thus and Communists. {crushing the Communists. i ver. i - Madame Sun, highly ha’fghiex‘:;mf:e ns;z‘;sr'e-s: ldse:}r:cyr)-: ! widow of China’s revolutionary hero for the seven, captured by a bang |@nd sister-in-law of Gene_rnnssimo of 80 armed Chinese in a small vil- ichlang Kai-shek, declared in a rare jage 22 miles southwest of Chin- Istatement that China was heading wangtao while going to buy ice. Al-| though the corps would not con_“l\merlc‘an reactionaries were abet- respected Madame Sun Yat-sen! | down the road to disaster and that! Postmaster General G. D. Ken-! ' . Je(0Nna A-1es %Explosion Stheduled This | Waek, But Poor Weath- ¢ er May Delay Action i S | ABOARD USS MT. McKINLEY, July 22.—Preparations for the un- !derwater test of the atomic bomb (will be completed tomorrow (Mon- jday, U. S. time) when target sub- !marines aré submerged in Bikini ‘Lagoon and an electronics rehear- !sal is staged. As preparations went ahead, Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, atom test jcommander, observed that the bursting of the world’s fifth atomic }bomh might be delayed at least a (week because of adverse weather. Blandy added, howe Imeteorologists hoped a high pressure area would shove an inter-tropical ifront southward and bring clear weather to the area. Test Set For Thursday The test now is scheduled for (Thursday Morning, Bikini time | (Wednesday afternoon, U. S. time.) Six submarines will be submerged omorrow at a depth of 60 feet. Actual submerging operations be- igan today but it will take until to- Imorrow to complete. Two other submarines—the bomb- |battered Skate and the Parche— will be anchored on the surface. Sub commanders agreed that the submerged craft will stand little {chance of surviving the 1 terrific | firm reports the seven have been |!ing Chinese reactionaries. found at the village of Lotinghsien, Marine sources did say that a spec- ial team was preparing to leave for that village. funderwater blast, since they will be| l(onfil_lee Ma l On Atiack on Pearl Harber: Responsibil | | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) ] Majority | | sible effort” to avert war.' | Find no cvidence that Roose- | velt “provoked” Japan into at- tacking U Place primary blame for Pearl Harbor unieadiness on military commanders in Washington and Hawaii. Minority of two Republicans New Probe of Pearl Harbor !.oom_ipg Now {Canol Engineer to Be Cen- ter of Senate Commit- | kes Report |COMPROMISE MEASURE IS fies Announced SUBMITTED —hold Euosevelt chiefly re- TApprOVfll EXpededA(COTd- ities Announced ority of Senate-House sponsible. Suy Truman impeded Investigating Committee — six | jnouiy | H Democrats, two Republians. | S e — | ing fo Barkley, Then _Ccmmend - President Roose- | yippier controls against sp Upnt P id velt he made “every pos- ‘ Unified commands at military D 0 Fresi em Naval outposts. | Integration of | Army and Navy | intelligence. | | | WASHINGTON, July 22, — A House-Senate conference committee }(lmnlul today that, in the revival of OPA, price ceilings cannot be re- By JACK BFLL WASHINGTON, July 22—Pearl stored before August 20 on meat, | Harbor investigators split 8 to 2|Poultry, eggs, milk and a list of | with a Democratic-Republican ma- [other basic foods. | jority praiging the “ability and| Whether these foods can be con- | foresight” ot the late President|trolled at all again will be left to | Roosevelt and two Republicans in-|the determination of a three-man sisting he must bear final respon- sibility for the naval disaster. | Two other Republicans joined the six Demc on the Senate-House| The conference committee com- Sommittee in reporting to Congress|Pleted the writing of the com- that the Mlitary Commanders in|Promise OPA measure and tossed Washington and Honolulu were|the issue again directly to the chiefly at fault in failing to anti-|House and Senate for a showdown cipate the snrprise attack with | tOMOITow. board with higher authority than OP. Bill Tossed Back which the Japanese began the war.| Parlier Senate Democratic Lead- This icjority recommended|€ Barkley of Kentucky, predicted changes in military methods rang- ¢ the White House that the House ing from unity of command in the 20d Senate would approve the com- field to cilnination of “brass” Promise promptly and expressed walls betweea commanders and DOPe President Truman will sign it. their subordinates. | The compromise bill was approv- | fee Investigation | A | WASHINGTON, July 22—\ new but pin-pointed Pearl Harbor inves- | tigation hove into view today | The Senate War Investigating | Ccmmittee—taking its cue from the | volumjinous report assessing re- |sponsibility for the December 17, 11941, military debacle—decided to ;r(-opvn its own inquiry into pre-war | delays in fortifying the Pacific bas- | tion. Senator Brewster (R.-Me.) said a similar effort two years ago was -‘blocked by refusal of the House Military Committee headed by Rep. {May (D.-Ky.) to release a key wit- iness to the Senate group. | Brewster is a member of both the !Senate - House committee which |delved into the blame behind Pearl | Harbor and of the Senate’s Special War Investigating Committee, now |engrossed in an attempt to summon ‘May for testimony concerning his relations with a midwestern muni- tions combine. | Central figure in the projected inew inquiry is Col. Theodore Wy- man, Jr., Army District Enginecr in the Hawailan Department when Five months later Wyman was as- signed to the Canol Oil Project in Canada. That was an undertaking | which the Senate committee. then headed by President Truman as a | Senator, declared in a December 23, 1943 report, never should have be:n started. i — e, Truman Signs Bill |the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. | Shaority led by 11 of the 15 Senate and ) House conferees who wrote it. The Senators three ceclining to sign it were | Fergusen (R-Mich) concluded in a Eenators Milliken (R-Colo), Rep. ! mincrity 1egort that the Commit- Wolcott (R-Mich) and Smith (R- | tee’s six month investigation had Repori i} ster (R-Me) and Ohio) . | shown “failur: to.perform the re-| Barkley told reporters at the sponsibilities indispensably essential White House he did not know (to the defense of Pearl Harbor rests' whether Mr. Truman would sign lupon the iaw President Rnoseve]l‘thc compromise .revival bill, and: | Up To Truman Henry I. Etimson, former Secre-| The Senate Democratic Leader, tary of War; ihe late Frank Knox, accompenied by Democratic chisfs | former Secrctary of the Navy; Gen. of both houses, sald Mr. Truman ! George C. Marshall, former Army | was not asked whether he would put Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold R. his cignature to the proposal which Stark, forn.er Chief of Naval Oper-'would greatly alter price control ‘ations and Maj. Gen. Leonard T. procedure. Gerow, former head of the War “And he did not tell us whether | Loans Division of the War Depart- he would,” Barkley told reporters. ment. | The President,'he said, is having Japun Not “Tricked” |the legislation analyzed. OPA Ad- | The Comuwittee has found no evi- minister Paul Porter will see -Mr. dence to support the charges, wiade Truman this afternooh. before and during hearing that| The report presumably is intend- the President, the Secretary of ed as a sign-or-veto guide to the State, the Secretary of War or the chief executive. Howeéver, one offi- Secretary of the Navy tricked, pro-|cial in a positioh to know said Mr. | voked, Incited, cajoled or coerced, Truman already had indicated a Japan into attacking the nation in decision to approve the measure “re- order that @ declaration of war|luctantly. might be more easily obtained from! Big Headache Congress. One of the biggest headaches for “On the contrary all evidence the administration is the likelihood conclusively points to the fact that Of at least another four-week holi- they discharged their responsibili- 42Y from price ceilings on meats, ties with distinction, ability and 981ty products, grains, cottonseed foresight in keeping with the high- @nd soybeans and feed products. est traditions of our fundamental Y¥inal determination whether these forelgn policy.” items shall be brought back under |control August 20 is left to a | Sharc of Blame |three-man board with power to Brewster and Ferguson along overrule OPA on both de-control with the majority, said that a share, and re-control deeisions. of the blat*e for the surprise ele-| This board will also decide wheth- ment in the fleet-shattering attack er ceilings shall be re-imposed on must go to the Hawailan Com-|poultry, eggs, food and feed pro- manders, Maj. Gen. Walter ¢, ducts made from them, tobacco As steps toward solution, she urged Giving Treasury, P. 0. [closest of the center of detonation. |formation of a coalition govern- |ment, withdrawal of all American | troops from China, and cancellation Heavy-hulled submarines, besidmempzoyees Their pay the Skate and Parche, are the Den- tuda, Pilotfish and Apogon. Ligm; WASHINGTON, July 23— Presi- Short and Rear Adm. Husband E.|and its products and petroleum and Kimmel. Toe majority attributed|its products. this to “cirors of judgment and, FPaul Portiz, OPA Administrator, not derelictions of duty,” the latter| (0ld newsmen “we are now working of all war materials and other mili- |tary assistance from the United | States. | FEDERAL (lAIM I'o | Even as her statement was issued, hull craft include the Skipjack, the |Tuna and the Searaven. i Concrete Anchors Concrete blocks, anchored, by | dent Trum: 604,862,140 Appropriativns Bill has signed the $1,- Treasury-Post Office which means and an| OIL TIDELANDS IS . SEEN ON WAY out WASHINGTON, July 22—The Senate foretold probable passage of |legislation renouncing Federal !claims to tidelands and their oil deposits today by rejecting 44 to 35, a proposal to strip the measure of its major provisions. ! By this margin, Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky) lost an ef- fort to limit the bill's effectiveness to land under inland waterways, 'leaving open the question of title to oil-rich tidelands, extending |three miles or more into the ocean. | Also rejected 64-15, ‘was an amendment by Senator Capehart (R Ind) which would have limited state boundaries seaward, .to the point held at the time of admission ito the Union. | Senator Connally (D-Tex) told {the chamber that the amendment was one “directed particularly at the state of Texas.” ————————— | About one-fourth of all the land !in the Netherlands is below sea ‘level‘ | however, the Communists claimed | |that now postal employes can get bridles fore and aft, will hold the| a resounding victory and capture of lqubmaflnes at the desired del H P e pth. ‘12,000 Government soldiers on _the The boats can be raised by pump-| important coastal plain only 60 miles ling air into them northeagl of Nanking. | The electronics rehearsal is rou-| | Government quarters countered [, . { iwith’ assertions they had buried 1a in today thal 120,000 Communist dead after a long |, = "0¥, Warned again today (damage to, ships in the forth-com: |and bitter battle in the same area. {ing test will be “unspectacular” anc i F II inot so impressive to the lay observ- Em l ler as were the battered and burnin‘;i p oymen ships in the lagoon after the aer-| | Ad Baard May Be | The air burst damaged skips'| {superstructures while damage dcne ial explosion July 1. { | “amed This week::‘n“:m second test will be under- | —_—————— WASHINGTON, -July ‘22— Presi- | STOCK QUOTATIONS |dent Truman probably will an-| ° | ! nounce appointment of an Eco- ( NEW. YORK, July 22. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| | nomic Advisory Council this week, | | White House Press Secretary Charles | stock today is 7%, Alleghany Cor-| | G. Ross said today. | poration 5%, American Can 95%, Ross told a news conference that | Anaconda 4G, Curtiss-Wright 7%, selection of the board is “still in| International Harvester 94%, Ken-! the works” but that he thought the | necott 55%, New York Central 23%, announcement will come this week.” | Northern Pacific 28, United Cor- The three-man board will ad-|poration 5 U. 8. Steel 80%, minister the so-called Full Employ- / Pound $4.0323. ment Act. Sales today were 690,000 shares. ——————— Dow, Jones averages today are| The first Michigan state fish 2s follows: industrials 200.54, rails' hatchery was built jn 1873, 62.78, utilities 40.58. ! their pay ' BOOS - CHEERS Scme ‘Ireasury employees also |had been awaiting this action S0 endeavored they could get belated pay checks. - { FOR PEARSON | ATLANTA, July 22—Intermittent | | boos were hurled at Drew Pearson, | ¢Ommittee members frem exploring syndicated Washington columnlst.’ |during an anti-Klan speech here SOD didn’t answer all of the ques- yesterday. Pearson spoke on the steps of the | Georgia Capitol and his speech want broadcast over a national radio hook-up (ABC). State patrolmen | and policemen were present in large | numbers. Cheers also interrupted the col- | umnist at several points. —— FROM ANCHORAGE Mrs. D. G. Clifford and family, and R. E. Hubbard arrived here! this weekeni {rom Anchorage. They are staying ot the Baranof. |an offense that might be subject/O" 8N analysis of the bills' econ- to court martial action. |omic consequences for submission to { |President Truman.” Porter would Supplement Report |not say whether he would recom- In a supplenent, Rep. Keefe (R- mend another veto. Wis) expressed his view that the| Chairman Spence of the House majority report, which he signed, banking committee, leader in the o throw as soft a administration’s fight for a strong light as possin’e on the Washington' OPA, commented: I dont think it scene.” He contended General Mar-|is a very effectlve bill, but it is the shall and Acmiral Stark each had best we can do. I believe the “failed to cxercise the care and President will sign it as the last re- diligence which his position requir- course.” ed.” | The House-Senave conference Brewster and Ferguson declared committee which finally agreed on that President Truman put diffi-|the compromise Saturday night af- culties in the way of the inquiry ter a five-day deadlock set another by pernitinz only Committee Meeting for today to resolve differ- counsel to obtain documents from | ences of opinion on just what been departments and barring individual | done. PRICES HAVE GONE UP WASHINGTON, July 22.—The |White House teday made public a statement asserting that prices have the fil s. They said Secretary Stim- | tions put to bim, adding that the| Committee cidu’t get many messag-|rison rapidl: es exchanged between President! e IR o of existence Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, "conlr:l ef:es df:g“:e::)m;fic:: 2:1‘:: D | minimum” Y MARION BARTLETT LEAVES |is decidea bl bt The statement, prepared by the After being employed as a fe‘}Commerce Department, asserted porter by ti. Empire for the past|that the spurt in prices following four months, Marion Bartlett, !or-‘me lapse of OPA controls on June merly of Sar Francisco, left Ju-'30 “boosted the Bureau of Labor neau yesterday for Anchorage. ‘smus"cs index of daily spot mar- Miss Barticit plans to live in An"ket prices for 28 basic commodi- chorage and will be on the staff of ties 25 percent during the first 16 the Anchorage Times, Iday of July.”