The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — —_— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,329 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OPA LEGISTATION APPR rug SECRETARY OF INTERIOR T0 VISIT NORTH ltinerary for_len-Day Tourl of Alaska for First Hand Info, Is Announced WASHINGTON, July 23—Secre- tary of Interior J. A. Krug will leave | by plane Augyst 11 for a 10-day| visit to Alaska. Krug said the trip is being made| “to obtain at first hand the infor-| mation necessary to form the basis| for speeding up the Territory's| economical and social develop- | ment.” | He will be accompanied by Ed-| | win G. Arnold, Director of the De-| partment's division of Territories and island possessions, and other . members of his staff. | The party’s itinerary, subject to| change because of weather condi- tions, follows: | Aug. 11—Leave Great Falls, Mont.; Aug. 12.and 13, Fairbanks Aug. 14, Point Barrow and Nome, (alternative Gulkana and Palmer);, Aug. 15 and 16, Anchorage; Aug.| 17, Matanuska Valley and Mt. Mc- | Kinley National Park; Aug. 18, Anchorage and Juneau; Aug. 19, Juneau; Aug. 20, Sitka, Hydaburg’ and Ketchikan; Aug. 2], Ketchi- kan and Metlakatla; Aug. 21, leave Annette Island for Seattle; Aug. 22,| rcturn to Washington. | At each point on ‘the route Krug' will hold round table discussions of | the Territory’s needs with business Will Be In Juneau D FIFTH A-BOMB| EXPLOSION IS IPER SCHEDULE 75 Target Ships Will Be| TOLD T0 GO 'HAZY' IN TESTIFYING IN | WAR PROFITS CASE Former Secretary of Muni-| tions Combine Tells | of Meetings WASHINGTON, July 23.—Red- haired Jean Bates, former secre-| tary in the Washington office of a; munitions combine, said today that Joseph Freeman and Henry Gars- son had asked her to be “hazy” in testifying before the Senate War| Investigating Committee. She testified that Freeman and| Garsson, officials in the combine,| had attempted to “ply upon my sympathy” when she met their re- quest with a refusal to ‘“perjure myself.” ; They were particularly anxious, she said, to prevent her from tell- ing the committee, under oath, that, she had seen Albert Jacobson, $9,-| | 975-a-year War Department con- ers located. sultant in the combine’s Washing- ton office. | The conversation with her former | employers, she related, took place! 20 JEWS ARE UNDER ARREST FOR BOMBING Ninety - EEIE Dead or Missing in Terroristic | Reign, Jerusalem | JERUSALEM, July 23.—A policc‘ spokesman announced today the d:-; tention of about 20 Jews in con- nection with the terroristic bomb- ing yesterday of the King David hotel which left 98 persons dead or missing. The known dead mounted to 48. Military rescue crews who toiled in the debris of the hotel, the seat of British Army Headquarters and the Secretariat of the Palestine govemment, reported that 41 bodis had been recovered and seven oth- | Fifty persons were unaccounted for. Young Jews Involved The police spokesman said that, although most of the party which on July 12—the same day she ap- planted mik cans of explosives wm-e‘ peared before an executive session | Arab dress, all the evidence indicat- | of the ccmmittee to tell what she ed they were young Jews. Eye-| knew about the affairs of the com- | witnesses said the attackers spflk€1 bine. | Hebrew. The spokesman sald a| She said that Mrs. Freeman had 'search was “going on right now in| called her away from her brother’s|the old city of Jerusalem.” birthday party to the Freeman; A truck and a taxi, both stolen,| home where she met both Freeman Which were abandoned by the at- and Garsson. |tackers were searched for finger-| They asked her first what -she|Prints and other possible clues. i i f de- had told. the committee in private| Workers moved 200 tons of | cession, she said, and then quickly;bfls under floodlights d;rlns tfi‘ got to the point of Jacobson. ;mgh_t and the officer in charge sal I the job was less than half complev.-‘. D BY HOUSE TIDELANDS BILL IS POLITICALLY HIGH EXPLOSIVE Legislaiionvgfieded fo Be on President Truman’s Desk Today WASH!NGTOY:,“-JUI_V 23.—Con- gress appeared ready today to dump the politically explosive tidelands bill on President Truman’s desk. But even legislators who think they sometimes know the White House attitude in advance admit they are puzzled about its fate. Granting the states clear title to often oil-rich tidelands extending three miles or more into the ocean, the bill involves a long-standing controversy between Edwin W. Paul- ey and former Secretary of the In- terior Harold Ickes. . Despite the vigorous opposition of Democratic Leader Barkley (D- Ky) the Senate passed the measure by a 44 to 34 vote yesterday and sent it back to the House for ex- pected early agreement on its final form. Barkley said he hopes the President will veto it. But any such action would be a slap at Pauley, California oil man! And | who favors state ownership. it would be a feather in the cap of Ickes, who has been critical of the President since he from the cabir As it ds, the tidelands bill would leave in unchallenged effect all state oil permits such as those Pauley’s company held. Because of this, Republicans in- dicated they will attempt to make political capital of the measure if Mr. Truman signs it. ‘Subjected fo Undream- ed-of Pressures (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Barring last minute changes, the earth’s fifth atomic bomb explosion will occurr at 8:55 am. Thursday, July 25, Bikini time. That will be 4:35 p.m.,, Wed- nesday, Eastern Standard Time. A forecast of good weather gave promise the program will be carried out as planned. Seventy-five ship: in Bikini Lagoon are ready. Near detonation center are the tleship Arkansas and the rier Saratoga. Next is the tleship New York, with four landing craft behind her. About a dozen miles away 3 P} 1 T — Joan Hyldoft, 18-year-old Huntington, W. Va., skater, cools off during rehearsals of a New © m > - z o - rk ice show in which is she is appearing. VON PAPEN IS KARLUK CASE resigned ; will be the observers, Army and Navy men, scientists, working newspapermen and no- tables. Drene planes with scientific instruments will fly through | the water plume. Other planes will be in the immediate vi- | cinity. Speedboats will pe ready fo | dash through the lagoon be- fere radio-activity diffuses. Others will wait for radicactiv- | ity to subside—perhaps five MAN OF PEACE ‘Was Ousted by Hiiler, De- - clares Witness at Nuern- berg War Trial Judge Samuel Dickstein of the groups, government officials, union|New York Supreme Court testified | groups, natives, Territorial Senators that it was possible that he had| ed Hospitals reported that 50 per-| Senator Tobey (R-NH) hinted at| days. NUERNBERG, July 23.—Defense and Representatives, mining asso- ciations and others. With information gained from! these contacts, the announcement sald, 'Krug “will soon inaugurate a program for vigorous development of Alaska’s industrial, agricultural and business potentialities.” — e The famed Swedish botanist Lin- naeus built a flower clock that told time by the opening and clos-| ing of the flowers. i - | | - - John Honeyman, an unsung hero| of the American revolution, help-‘ ed George Washington cross the| + Delaware. | < ———— The Washington Merry - Go- Round, By DREW FEARSON b s | WASHINGTON—While the en-| tire nation waited for Congress to ¢ make up its mind on the vital question of price control, the in- side fact was that the House con- ferees angrily walked out of one; meeting in protest against the ab- senteeism of two Senators. One was Majority Leader Alben‘ Barkley of Kentucky who failed to show up at all for one afternoon session and left in the middle of the next day's séssion for a trip + out of town. ¥ Barkley’s excuse for the first ab- sence was “important businesss on the - floor.” However, when House' conferees learned that the businsss was a silver bill and an equal rights measure, they blew up and disgust- | edly stalked out of the meeting. | The other absentee was lame- duck George Radcliffe of Mary-| | ] ill undergoing treat- he |Sons were stil i SIpL Bub Washinglon oftice, of e\mem for injuries and that dozens!| f::nbme, but only on a social mat-(‘oi cihers Had been . Grested e | minor wounds. i MAJ. GEN. TESTIFIES | Among, fseihg i aid Gen. Alden H. Waitt acknowledged i ¢ ish officers of the government Sec- today that while traveling at gov- A é rrnni’ent expense he hu(lk al:efded'mmnat' The names of the Br".“h a gay New York party given py| victims were being witheld pending | a munitions maker during s\'arumm"c;g;sfg::: gitvighel:erv‘lrc‘e watkers kut contended he had Lransacted‘whedu”led a 15-minute memorial of ofi‘ilc;?:‘bus:fi:f u:f u:::a"g];;?ém‘snence at noon today for the work-| Warfare Service, testifiad before the ern o n the» nisxt Senate War Investigati d it ‘ Situation gens tee. Earlier, Chflsirlria:‘%vx:::"?;;): A curfew imposed shortly after NY) had ;i;manded that the war |the explosion was lifted at 5 a. mfl g 3 i i area of Department “discipline” high-rank-':figep;l 0‘&,0;? hl;l;‘.em::enheless, t’;stfi?if::t;hg:"n;gfl?:l"eo:gf;’:“‘"dA:m Palestine continued tens. i 2 ers. | Resentment of both Arab an m\:l;;%ds;:g u;:" bheMwas mv:lid“!owish communities rose noticeably o one: oF p:hey pzom:)xtn:sy (zf 5~ following publication in the Pa]esb;r 0 2 ne mes of Aral midwest munitions combine, who Ll posh 0L tie s '9land Jews who were killed. f::;;hg]re.s :,r::;n;n honor of his|“.rne crazed calculations of men v I with their cause T General tesiifled that when|"1C D8VE BFOKSD iray Gasson paid all the officers’| ke accepted he obtained official| orders to go to New York to trans- act government business on the| Monday following the Sunday eve- ning party. He said he and his wife left for New York on Sunday morn-| ing and returned Monday evening. He did not know when he went,| Walitt said, that Garsson was going | to pay his hotel bill in New York. When he asked for his bill at the hotel desk, he told the committee, he was told “that’s been taken care of.” Hotel records showed that Mur- hotel bills. SLAYER OF TWO | have weighted the air with horror,” FOUND DELIRIOUS; land. House Chairman Brent Spence of Kentucky sharply criti- I U“DE | cized the “lack of cooperation” of| R ARRESI the two Senators, aiming his ire| AR chiefly at Barkley, who had been| NORRISTOWN, Pa.,, July 23.— counted on to spearhead the fight Wounded and delirious, a 25-year- for Senate recess on"the contro- old former serviceman sought for versial Taft “guaranteed profits” a week in the slaying of his es- amendment and the de-control of tranged wife and her escort, emerg- food products. ied from a woodland hideout today “Here we are discussing the econ- and was captured without resist- omy of the entire nation,” causti-|ance. cally remarked another Hous: Kenneth Hanley stumbled into his| . spokesman. “It seems to me that home at 7:15 a. m.,, forced by heavy this is more important than silver rains from nearby Six Boys Woods or an equal rights bill. We don’t where posses had sought him after produce more than $25,000,000 finding his abandoned automobile worth of silver annually.” |nearby. A relative summoned police. Offi- cers James Burns and Patrick TAFT STANDS PAT House members walked out after O'Hara found Hanley drinking cof- fee in the Kkitchen. to a hospital. He was taken (Continued on Page Four) | plosive was set to go off only a said the Post, which is the voice of official Zionism. i CRIME LAID TO BRITISH JERUSALEM, July 23 —A mes-; sage in Hebrew and signed by the illegal Irgun Zval Leumi under- ground organization asserted to- night tha! the King David Hotel was bombed by “soldiers” of that group. The message was handea to the Associated Fress by an unidentified messenger toy. It asserted that the loss of life in the terrorist attack yesterday was caused “by the Bri- tish themselves, who paid no at- tention to warnings.” The Associated Press previously had received the same kind of typed messages in the same man- ner when the Irgun Zval Leumi had attacked the government and | there was no reason to believe that the message today was not authen- tic. “On July 22 at 12:05, soldiers of : Irgun Zvai Leumi attacked the | central British admipistration; the | Secretariat of the Conquering Gov- ernment and headquarters of the Conquering Army,” the statement | said. “The attack was carried out with a fight with Army patrols and the British police force. “According to a plan that was | thought out beforehand, the ex-|band will hold the weekly practice on the Japanese cruiser Sakawa| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 23.—| | tonight at 8 o'clock in. the High and two others stayed too long on police are looking for a self-styled census taker who is suspected of | {taking a $300 watch along with the| half hour (underlined) after it was brought into the building.” — - Hemlock trees usually mature in| 150 to 200 years, such a possibility when he told the Senate yesterday that a “sordid picture” had been created by “oil company lobbyists” who he said had |been “cajoling” Senators to support the bill. Tobey, who led the fight against Pauley’s nomination to the Navy post, joined Barkley in opposing passage of the tidelands measure. | The Democratic leader said the bill | represents an effort “to give away hundreds of millions of barrels of oil in the tidelands in order that it might be exploited by private operators.” HOTEL BLASTING TERMED WORST OF ALL OUTRAGES Brifish Prime Minister At-! flee Makes Report to House of Commons | LONDON, July 23—Prime Min- ister Attlee told the House of Com-| mons today that, “of all tke out- rages in Palestine, many and hor- rible in the past few months,” the blasting of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem yesterday was the worst. Attlee said his latest figures for “this insane act of terrorism” were 41 dead, 52 missing and 53 injured. (Dispatches from Jerusalem said 48 were known dead and 50 were unaccounted for.) The Prime Minister said all available information was to the effect the perpetrators of the crime | were Jews. “As this House knows,” Attlee con- tinued, “His Majesty’s government are at this moment in-tonsultation with the government of the United States with a view of arriving at proposals for a just settlement of the Palestine problem, which will be placed before the representativ of both Arabs and Jews. “His Majesty’s government has‘ stated and stated again that they will not be diverted by acts of violence in their search for a just and final solution of this problem.” —_— e, BAND PRACTICE The members of the Juneau City School gym. - South American catfish in time of drought migrate across dry land in schools to find new water. FIRST UNDERSEA BOMB counsel for Franz Von Papen to- day described Hitler's best known X E diplomat as a man interested only ABOARD THE USS MT. M'KIN- j, peace, who accepted ambassador- (LEY, July 23—Good weather Was js] posts in Austria and Turkey only forecast today for Thursday (Wed- y; work for an amicable settlement nesday, U. S. time) when the first of Rurope's problems. atomic bomb ever touched off be- pDr Egon Kubuschok, in conclud- low water subjects 75 ships to man- jng his final defence summary, said {made pressures heretofore un- gijtlor recalled Von Papen from {dreamed of on earth. Austria before the 1938 Anschluss, As an “intertropical front” moved pecause Hitler realized that Von off 100 mile to the south, carrying papen would not follow a with it the clouds that have hung radical political course. heavily over Bikini, scientists made Kubuschok said Von Papen hesi- up a pool and guessed how many tated in. taking the post of Am- of those 75 ships will perish in the bassador to Austria in July, 1934, i lagoon. and finally accepted only because | 100-Times Greater Shock he alone would be in a position to Associated Press science writer fulfill this task within the frame- Howard Blakeslee reported from work of true pacification.” % ithe Appalachian that these guesses Kubuschok quoted Ven Papen as | were not being given out but one saying he had advised against the scientist said the shock would be Anschluss, but that Hitler had 100 times greater than that from ‘“committeed the madr2ss of issu- stern, cent of the power entering the wa- ter to possibly 90 percent of the total nuclear energy released. Ii the latter figure proves correct the damage to target ships should be terrific. Dr. R. A. Sawyer, Chief of the scientific staff, said there probably would be no flash of light visible in daylight from the underwater burst, and no goggles would be needed. Immense Water Dome Instead, he continued, a dome of water half a mile wide should rise. The dome would be pierced by a water spout going up\two or three miles high. Bomb testers do not need the atomic perfect conditions required for the air drop but they do de- | mand winds up to 20,000 feet blow- ing from the east to carry away I contaminated spray or rain. A reasonably clear spot in the sky also is needed to allow a pho- tographic recording of the explo- sion and weather good enough for | aircraft peration. | It was disclosed that four men | 'were exposed to radioactivity from two to four times beyond the safe- ily lim% in the first test but all |are receiving. One was exposed in !a plane which drew too near the | atomic cloud, another was exposed | radioactive ships. i It is estimated that a pound of honey represents the life work of about 1,000 bees. the air blast July 1. ing the order to march in.” The scientists were divided, The counsel said Von Papen was Blakeslee added, on how much of unpopular with Hitler thereafter {the bomb's awesome power will go and retired from public life for into water and how much into the mcre than a year, and was not air. cellcd back until a situation arcse The guesses ranged from 50 per- where ghis appeasement policies were of value. e e MORE CHARGES ARE HURLED FORTH BY SOVIET RED STAR MOSCOW, July 23.—The Russian army newspaper Red Star asserted today that former Gestapo agents and storm troops were carrying on anti-Soviet campaigns “while fat- tening on UNRRA" bread and but- ter in American refugee camps out-: side Munich and Nuernberg. “The Americans too often inspire Fascist elements in their zone, al- though issuing strict anti-Fascist idecrees,” the article asserted. “Around Munich and Nuernberg exists a thick network of camps of Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Yu- goslavs and Czechs.” e — :(ensus Taker at Anchorage Takes: Other Things family figures. missing after he gained admittance to an apartment, The watch was; REVEALED AS PUT OVER AT SEATTLE END iFive PackinggACompanies | Now Ordered fo Show | Cause on August 5 SEATTLE, July 23.-—-The United States end of the Karluk fishing controversy—which is before Federal Courts in Fairbanks and Seattle— ran into a delay today. | A hearing on the suit of the government to keep non-Karluk fishermen from the waters adjac- ent to the Karluk reservation on Kodiak Island, under Department of Interior regulations, was postponed until August 5. District Judge John A. Bowen continued at government request the hearing, at which five packing companies must show cause why the fishing order should not ke enforced egainst them. | In the Fairbanks suit, brought by the packers, they won last week a temporary restraining against the Interior enforcement of the against their fishing. The defendants in the gnvel'n-i ment case filed here are Frank McConaghy and Company, Inc.; Libby, McNeill and Libby; Parks Canning Company; San Juan Fish- ing and Packing Company, and Ugarik Fisheries, Inc. > —— SHELLWORTHS COMING HERE TODAY FOR VisIT Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Shellworth are arriving this afternoon on the Princess Norah from their home at Manhattan Beach, Oregon, for a visit with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert| Davlin. | The Shellworths are former resi- dents of Juneau and also of Chil- koot Barracks and are wellknown. " ST0CK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, July 23, — Closing quntation of Alaska Juneau mine stcck today is 8%, American Can 937%, Anaconda 4%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvester 192, Kennecott 52%, New York Cen- tral 22, Northern Pacific 26%, U. | 5. Steel 86%, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 1,690,000 shares. i Dow, Jones averages today are {as follows: industrials 195.22, rails ‘60.41, utilities 39.63. HYNES TO ANCHORAGE Regional Pish and Wildlife Di- rector Frank W. Hynes flew to An- chorage on the weekend. There he was to meet Asst. National F & WL Director Milton C. James for a prief fisheries resources survey trip on and about Cook Inlet. Mr. ! Hynes is to return to his head- | quarters here at the end of the week. order Department’s | regulations uring Next Month C(OMPROMISE 'MEASURE IS - SENT, SENATE ‘ gk Fast Action in Upper House May Put Bill on Tru- man'’s Desk Tonight WASHINGTON, July 23. — The {Hnu.\l' today aproved the new com- | promise OPA revival bill. The roll _‘cnll vote was 210 to 142. | ‘the action sent the measure, | worked out in a Senate-House con= ference committee, to the Senate for action there. The plan was to obtain Senate action later this afternoon so that | the measure, if finally approved | might go to the White House by night fall. | The House earlier decisively re- | jected a move to strip all price controls from the compromise bill, i+ which would have 'left the measure as a simple authority over rent The plan was defeated first on a standing votg of 159 to 120, and then rejected on a formal roll call 220 to 135, The move to limit the controls to rents was made by re- presentative Clarence Lea of Cali- fornia. The vote came after Democratic leader McCormack of Massachu- etts told the House that, if Con- gress approved the measure, it weuld become law. This was seen |as definite assurance that President ! Truman would sign the bill if and [when it reached his desk. The | President may get the legislation i tonight. If and when the OPA bill does beeceme law, there’ll be cash on hand for its operation. Today, | President Truman signed a bl providing 75 million dollars for OPA operations during the fiscal ycar which began July first. The measure also includes about two billicn dollars for the veterans ad- ministration and a new 465 million dollar contribution to UNRRA. - e Takes Rest Beside Railroad Track; Man Decapifated ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jjuly 23.— Only 15 minutes after having been | ordered by police to go home be- cause he had been drinking heav- ily, James B. Morrison, 49, was de- capitated by a train as he lay be- iside the tracks near the depot Sunday night. 'WORK —————— ON WRANGELL NARROWS T0 START IN NEXT 2 MONTHS Engineer Announces Slate of Harbor Improve- ~ ment Projecls SEATTLE, July 23.—Ten Pacific Northwest and Alaska locations will receive harbor improvements during the next five months, Col. L. H. |Hewitt, District Engimeer of the | Seattle District U. 8. Army En- gineers, announced yesterday. |” These range from the $3,500,000 ‘four-yuar project to improve align- \ment of the present navigation 1chnnnel at Wrangell Narrows, Alas- |ka, for which bids will be called ;wilhin the next 30 days, to piling |and derelict removal near Seattle jand Bremerton. The latter pro- |ject is scheduled to get under way |in September. | The Wrangell Narrows project, to |be started within 60 days, calls for removal of underwater ledge-rock and enlargement of the present channel for more than eight miles. Colonel Hewitt said this season’s operations on reconstruction of re- vetments protecting Nome Harbor will end this month, and will be completed next June. Harbor dredg- |{ing at Nome will continue until the October freeze,