The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,330 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED — PRICE TEN CENTS — 3 CANNERY TENDER SINKS; 10 LOSE LIVE FIGHT ON TERMINAL G. I. PAY House Says "No”* to Sen- ate’sPlanfo Issue Bonds Payable in Five Years WASHINGTON, July 24.—House| supporters of terminal pay for Gi's and gobs shouted an emphatic “no” tcday to the Senate’s plan to issue bonds cashable only after five years. Rallying behind the cry that “if cash is good enough for officers, it's good enough for the enlisted men,” the group planned to fight for restoration of the original Houss provision for lump sum. payments. That fight will be made in a Senate-House conference to which the bill passed by the Senate late yesterday may be sent by night- fall. Rep. Sikes (D-Fla), chairman ofi the military subcommittee which| | | wrote the House bill, and Rep.| Dwight L. Rogers (D-Fla), its co-| sponsor, told reporters they will demand a reversal of the Senate's position. | “If cash is good enough for the, officers, it's good enough for the| enlisted men,” said Sikes, who pro-| bably will be one of the House con-| ferees. | Main Argument “The main argument for pay- ments in bonds,” Sikes added, “is that it would be inflationary to pay; out so much cash at one time. It's| @ strange thing that the only time rome people worry about inflation is when the GI's are liable to get scme cash. I didn’t hear any cries of inflation when we voted to give| several billion dollars to Great| Britain.” i Rogers and Sikes both noted that | the bond payment plan was mot| even considered by the House when | it passed the bill without & dis- | senting vote on June 11. The Sen- ate action yesterday was by voice, vote. The bond provision, suggested by | President Truman after the House| acted on its own bill, provides that; BARKLEY ASKS R Loan Bill el T Truman Signs Brifish ¥ President Truman (scated, center), signs the $3,750,000,000 British lcan agreement bill at the White Heuse as (left to right) U. S. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Lord Inverchapel, the British Ambassador to the U. S. and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex.) lock on. (AP Wirephoto) 00D CONTROL SENATE, PASS L oot OPA MEAS“RE | But Truman Withholds Re- W - quest for Any Funds for Concedes There Are Some Projects Covered ‘Severe Headaches' Bt | wassvcron, suy as—prea Ad on Bi”, Request dent Truman, signing two big flood control, navigation and water power WASHINGTON, July 24—Con- any request for the funds they au- BIG EVENT AT Underwater Explosion of ' Atomic Bomb Is Eagerly Awaited BULLETIN — By Associated Press—The carth’s first atomic bomb detonated Thursday (Wednesday U. S. Time) with a | giant roar, precisely on sched- uled time 8:35 a.m. Eikini time yor 1:30 p.m. Pacific time. i The roar was plainly heard ! by radio listeners in San Fran- | cisco. | The water spout immediately chot up 2,000 feet. Most of the cpray completely obliterated from view the 75 target vessels. The cfficial broadcast said the water spout took an entire- ly different shape from the | acrial burst that rocketed up | 8,000 feet. A cloud hung in the lazily blue sky over Bikini. The out- er row of target ships first ap- | peared out of the awesome haze showing at least some survived the blast. Bv DON WHITEHEHAD (Assoriated Press Staff Writer) ABOARD B-29 “THE VOICE” OVER BIKINI, Thursday, July 25. —~We headed for Bikini Lagoon | ju after dawn today to see the | first underwater explosion of an atomic bemb. No cne knew just what tg ex- pect. It’s impossible for the mind to conceive of the fabulous power to be released beneath the waters of the Lagoon by atomic fission. Most everyone aboard has seen a pl n of a 600-pound depth charge. But the atomic bomb is 6,000 depth charges all rolled into one. 5 Capt. Louis W. Whittaker, Okla- homa City, commander of the “Voice” said his crew had been bills said today he would withhold briefed on what to expect—to look |m for a tremendous water column payments generally are to be iNiceding that some “severe head- thorize at least until next summer. shot into the heavens. bonds unless the amount is less than $50. In that case the reciv- OpA back into business again, Ma- habor bill, which he said author- we'd see the Saratoga going right fent would get cash. [ Bond Issuc | aches” may be ahead in getting' One measure is a rivers and jority Leader Barkley (Ky) today izes projects which ultimately will urged the Ecnate to give speedy cost $945,000,000. The other is a He grinned “this guy said maybe on up with the water.” That is one thing we were told BIKINITODAY terspout created by the ex- | UPSETS IN OKLAHOMA | 5 l i | 1 | ;"Anii - Incumbent” Senti- i ment Strikes at Congress- men, State Officials | OKLAHOMA CITY, July 24—A \wave f “anti-incumbent” senti- ijment swept three veteran Demo- {cratic congressmen and three long- | time state officials from office in !yesterday’s Oklahoma runoff pri- 'y election. | Personalities were | the races. No outstanding s I national questions were raised. In addition v voung the veter- {an officeholders out, the state’s | Demcerats picked Roy J. Turner, enly issues in The bonds would be in $25 de-|approval to the new compromise flood control bill, ultimately to cost ta watch for—the possibility of the | . althy Oklahoma City oil and nominations, non-negotiable and (Centinued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON - | trols. con- $952,000,000. “I take them to be primarily au- He told his colleagues that the thorizations to enable the War De- legislation for reviving price measure worked out by the Senate- partment to plan its future pro-jalein at 6:17 am. (2:17 p.m. East- | explosion lifting battleships out of | the water. “The Voice” took off”from Kwa- tcattleman, as their nominee for governor in the Nov. 5 general { election. Turner will face Olney F. Flynn, House conferces and approved by gram soundly, and I understand ern Standard Time) and roared in-{{cymer Tulsa Mayor, who won the the House yesterday is sed said in a statement. “I do not intend the same bill that Congress pas previously and that the President| vetoed.” But, he asserted that disngro‘-‘during the current fiscal year. Fin- ments between House and Senate ancing, whenever made,” must be to . request {‘which will make Navy history. ! We went to the field before dawn wunds for any of these projects ghile the crews prepared the fleet | lof B-29's and other aircraft which will record and photograph this ATLANTA—The most Hitleresque j,4 made it necessary to “make based on budgetary requirements co.ong atomic bomb test. governor since Huey Long is back in power in Georgia. Ole Gene Talmadge, for three some concessions if we got any for that period.” bill at all.” | Mr. | Truman said the two bills Everyone felt this was a lucky |day. And it was phenomenal luck : th two that there is no expectation oflty the sky to join the air armada!Republican nomination in the first or three exceptions, in substance early appropriation,” the President taking part in the historic event! primary July 2. cver Dixie prosecutor. 3,586 of gave Turner was chosen silmer, Tulsa county ! Unofficial returns from |the state’s 3,701 precincts | Turner 190,328, Gilmer 166,345. Defeated were Congressmen Jed {Johnson, in the House 20 years; Lyle Boren, in Congress 10 years, ALL SET FOR | Jews Behind Barbed Wire of Detention (a sh organizati n members. (AP Takes Rap al Russians Over PRIMARY Boofy of War U. S. Will Oppose Soviet Demand for Share of Japan Reparations WASHINGTON, July 24.—A two- Crowding the barbed wire fence which surrounds the Latroun Detention Camp in Palestine are these men taken in recent British round-up of Jewi Wirephoto) CIVIL WAR IS NEARING FOR CHINA United States May Post- pone Plan fo Develop Million-Man Army i WASHINGTON, July 24.—Mount- CRAFT HITS HEAVY SEAS OFF KODIAK Vessel Breaks in Two After Sending S0S-One Sur- vivor Picked Up KODIAK, Alaska, July 24—The {treacherous waters of Shelikof |Strait left a lone known survivor of a sunken cannery tender today to tell how the 10 others aboard the 65-foo} eraft apparently perish- ed in the storm-lashed waves. The Navy's Alaska Sea Frontier commander’s headquarters reported the survivor, severely injured, was !m be flown to a hospital here af- ter another vessel rescued him from (a floating gasoline contairer., He iw” Harold Aga of Larsen's Bay. ; Hope was abandoned for the three \crew members and seven passeng- ers, including two women, after |ships and a navy plane failed to find a trace of any other surviv- 1urs in an all-day search yesterday. | The navy reported the tender Cou- {gar, owned by the Salmon Packing {firm of Frank MecConaghy, Inc., ibroke in two and sank quickly after sending an S.0.8. early yesterday, |during heavy seas. ! The scene of the disaster, north- lwest of Kodiak Island, was about 1100 miles from the naval base. The ,vessel was bound for Kodiak with 120,0€0 fish from the Indian Reser- vation town of Karluk. The identified missing are: Glen Palmer, the captain, of Tacoma, . Wash,, (7231 8 Prospeet) ;- Engineer A. G. Sturman, Belliticham, Wash., '(830 Mason St.); Ray Lawson, a deckhand from Aberdeen, Wash. 1(523 First) ; Louls Mueller, special officer of the Alaska Native Ser- vice, whose home is believed to be in Denver; Mrs. Amund Taylor of 'Longview, Wash, who was enroute Lome while her husband was fish- | continent diplomatic Russia and ing evidence of undeclared civil war i ‘ | 2 454 . Y iy jing in Kodiak waters; Lester Kana- the United States appears to be in China seemed almost certain to- gin and Willie Roft, Kodiak Island shaping up today over German and Japanese war booty. At the root of the impending trouble are these factors: 1.—Reparations Commission this country is considering a per- manent halt to G deliveries to Ru: than $2,000,000,001 churian industry “incapacitated” by Soviet removals from thet country. 2.—Disclosure by other officials that the United States will oppese an expected Russian demand for a share in reparations from the Jap- anese mainland. | Reporting to a news' conference late yesterday on his findings dur- ing a 16-country survey, Pauley charged that the Soviet action in Manchuria has upset the “lives and welfare of 900,000,000 people throughout the far east for at least a generaticn. In the light of this d it is day to kill for this year Ameri- can plans to help develop a mod- ern, million-man Chinese army. | Both Senate and House leaders organ train and equip such an nent. There was some bellef at the Capitol that a last minute appeal by Secretary of State Byrnes might bring action. But there was no indication at the State Department |that any such move is being plan- ned. of tre ment’ itary said the biil is one pieces in the govern- inese policy built on the on that Gen. George Mar- President Truman’s special » maker, would succeed in his to unify the Nationalists I8 effort and Communists forces. natives; an unidentified woman who was reported to be a waitress ‘at Carmel; an unidentified fisher- (man and an unidentified man Ed- agreed privately that legislation to from Carmel, * | win W. Pauley’s announcement that 2uthorize the United States to help| The death toll was the worst in !Alaska waters since the loss of 11 .rman reparations A'mY has practically no chance of persons from the steamer Yukon 2 to offset “more Passage in the few days that re-ijast February. worth of Man. Main before congressional adjoun- | It is customary for residents of small island villages to travel via {fish boats as it is the only means of transportation. This is the rea- ;son why passengers were aboard ‘the ill-fated craft. MUELLER KNOWN HERE Louis C. Mueller, one of the vic- tims of the cannery tender disaster, +was Chief Specialist Officer for the |Indian Bureau with offices in Den- iver. Colo. He was in Alaska with Charles Brunskill, alo of the In- dian Bureau, on a special assign- Imvnt in the Karluk area. i A member of the Indian Office Mr. In reply to a question, Barkley Dring the authorized backlog of | get good weather right on sched- | istaff for the past 15 years, i riv i an a @ 151 e] I ONa the Milita: Pre; aiio terms virtual dictator of Georgia, | ;4 that he had received “positive Tiver improvement work under War|,;."gurng one of the worst wea- .. s el L PhUAL. % fhag . thes: o ,.‘1‘ H’ o ]l.p‘,". § ’illl I Mueller was chosen by the Fish is now in the saddle again, looking| v g e dmin- Department jurisdiction to approxi- % . " five years. ates could extend its cur- American officials are st .opc-l a little thinner, a Jittle older, pu | 25surance” from he OPA Admin mately $5,000,000,000 ’ ther periods in this part of the on deliverics of German ful. But the flow of reports dur-["“d Wildlife office and the Alaska Sl snapping his red galluses, stil| StTator that some program would T, (e tha this estimate of |PACHIC Hetortn Bawiin. ;. equipment’ to Russia I8 the'last ten days ot so telling (Native Béiylce o aidin enfarsing |be worked out to alleviate the sit- » 7 2 Johnson was beaten by district S’ " of increasing military operations by | 1946 fishing regulations in connec- able to grandstand his way into the ygtion of elevator owners and other $3000000000 is accurate and ex SIGNAL SOUNDED judge Toby Morrls of Lawton, who clating . the. four-power 0 R b d|tion with the Karluk Reserve. arts S. h rience would indicate that it is s Vs >otsdam agreemen repars s, both the Communis orces ane 3 ml!e h:; ss;:s:ikv?:e;cwe, witn |878in purchasers who had bought gfo;mhly 10w 7% HaCaAnRaSadt: “and | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) was making his fourth race against| ¥ C!¥44 gt Riite Serarabionad, . of Chiang Kai-shek havel The Specialist Officer came to | i g Juneau the latter all the earmarks of a Hitlerian| vietory. In fact, the Georgia elec-| tion, carefully examined, looks like, the most alarming political devel- cpment in the nation. In the first place, Talmadge, like Hitler, was elected by a minority of the voters. His opponent, James Carmichael, rolled up a clear Ma-|ator Tobey (R-NH) if he did not| jority, but under Georgia's pecu- Mar unit rule, Talmadge won. Like Hitler also, Talmadge has a great radio technique. Carmichael had none. A total of 125 Georgia newspapers were against Talmadge, while only seven were for him. But his radio appeal won out in the end. BIG BUSINESS BACKED TALMADGE And just as big business in Ger- many put up the money to fin- ance Hitler, so the Georgia Power Company and big business general- ly backed Talmadge. Worried over the CIO drive to organize the South, they knew Talmadge would be anti-labor, keep down taxes, play ball with big business. As Governor before, he had put tex- at current, above-ceiling prices bu who faced the possibility of a roll- back of prices on Aug. 20. Barkley said the OPA Administra- |tor would “go as far as possible |toward bailing out these people |caught in that situation.” The Majority Leader replied in the affirmative when asked by Sen- ‘agree that “when, as and if they |start to roll back these various |number of headaches.” 'Man with Six Wives, T Aliases, Held On Fraud Charges NEW YORK, July 24—The Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation said today a Lowell, Mass, man with |six wives and 37 aliases was being A broadcast from the official|the veteran Congressman. Youth- communications ship Spindleye said “30-minute signal had just sounded for the world’s first un- assuming the new wotk can be | prosecuted at the 1947 appropriation Irate, it will take 35 years to bring| ‘h® 'to completion the river and harbor | {ful attorneys and World War II iveterans Clen D. Johnson and {Preston E. Peden were chosen FRANCHISE GIVEN |prices there will be a considerable projects and 20 years to complete |the flood control jects now au-| thorized.” (ROSSING POLLS INDEPENDENCE, Mo., July 24.— Councilman I. Reuben Lynch asked | that “something be done for his third ward constituents, upset by | the “annoying and excessive whist- {ling” of a switch engine. | Roger T. Sermon, Democratic maycr of President Truman’s | hometown, suggested it would be unwise to stop the whistling since | dangerous intersections were in- | volved. “But mayor,” protested Lynch, |held under a 1940 indictment ac-| lcusing him of impersonating an|“we might need these people (the| | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine of appeals 32 of the last 38 years; '@ waterworks business within the | FBI agent in Boston. | constituents) two weeks from Tues- | E. E. Conroy, FBI Chief in New day.” (That’s the date of Missouri | York, identified the man as Al- primary election.) exander Arlinsky, 41. | “1f the train doesn’t whistle at Conroy said Arlinsky’s marriages thcse intersections,” retorted Egr- | “were part of his scheme to de-i mon, * they may not be' here two derwater atomic bomb explosion. The broadcast was heard by the | Associated Press listening post in Standard Time (8:06 a.m. Bikini Time) indicating that the explo- sion was going off right on sched- ule. There was no announcement of any delay in the detonation, al- though the twelfth district Navy headquarters in San Francisco had said earlier a radio message from the Mount McKinley, Bikini Task Force command ship, reported the test would be delayed until 9:05 a.m. Thursday, Bikini time, or 2:05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, today. . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 24. — Closing f |stock today is 7%, American Can 94%, Anaconda 45, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester |tral 22%, Northern Pacific 26, U. San Francisco at 1:06 p.m. Pacific | ! Demoeratic nominees to supplant| | Boren and Wickersham, respec-| ! tively. H In a race which only the offi-| |cial returns may decide, Carl Al-| bert, McAlester attorney, led Bill| — | Steger, Durant attorney, by 184| Although 1300 were qualified to | votes in the race to succeed retir-|vote in yesterday’s special election {ing Rep Paul Stewart, third district | for granting a 20-year franchise to ! Democrat. Twenty-two precincts|the Juneau Water Company, only are still out. | 176 cast their votes ratifying the Four other Oklahoma congress- Proposal and 43 voted against. men won re-nomination in the first| Apathy of the voters indicated | primary. They were George B. however emphatic, silent approval ' Schwabe and Ross Rizley Republi-|0f the proposal. 'cans, and Mike Monroney and W.| The franchise grants to Rich- G. Tigler, Democrats. |ard F. Lewis, his heirs, successors In other upsets in the runoff,|and assigns, the right to lay and !three veteran Democratic officials maintain pipelines along and under |were ousted by the voters. They public thoroughfares within the were Judge Thomas H. Doyle, who City, for {ne supplying of water to WATER COMPANY started discussions among some au- thorities of what the United States might be able to do if unrestrain- ied civil war should be declared. Points while i Major At the moment, t the States part of last month with Brunskill. The two men jremained here several days to con- i fer with ANS authorities, and then left for Kodiak. High in the estimation of both i United | his fellow workers and the natives, policy remains unchanged.|pMr. Mueller had “proved of ines- the talk seems to be along twoltimable value” to the Alaska Na- major lines: ! 1. Whether the United States should continue to give its full support to Chiang Kai-shek, worst comes to worst, or; 2. Whether is should adopt some other attitude, possibly involving recognition of the Communists as legitimate belligerants. Already, under the specially pro- longer authority of the otherwise expired lend-lease act, assistance to Chiang has dropped off to tiny faction of what it once war. What aid is continuing is based mainly on the theory that Chiang needs ”i | Californi tive Service, Fred Geeslin ANS ad- ministrative officer said today. Not only adept at understanding " (Continued on Page Two) ol S witak Go fo Iceland, U. S. Minister WASHINGTON, July 24—Presi- dent Truman today nominated has served on the criminal court ioner for Mrs. Mabel Bassett, Commis: of Charities and Corrections 93, the last 22 years, and A. L. Crable, proved the franchise on June 7 in Kennecott 52%, New York Cen- state superintendent of Public In-|the form of Ordinance No. 306, and struction since 1936. help on completing the repatria- tion of Japanese troops, and in occupying the areas from which the Japs have been removed. ap-| - Juneau inhabitants and to conduct | City. The Juneau City Couneil i WASHINGTON—The Civil Aer | it becomes effective now upon rati- onautics Administration took step: Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr., now Min- {ister to Iceland, to be Minister to | Sweden. 1 I Dreyfus, a career diplomat, suc- ceeds Herschel V. Johnson, who re- igned May 3 to become Deputy United States Representative on tile St?rk:z:nbectn“;g :n:am;vcv;f fraud women of their money.” His weeks from Tuesday,’ S. Steel 87, Pound $4.03%. ‘ —— e —— gxxcaznf;xn. today to keep Lockheed Constella-'the United Nations Security Coun- m“"l""e xpect him to do it again. | €Xploits profited him between $17,-) Sales today were 1,160,000 shares.' In the stern discipline of ancient | TR 0 - T ARSg tion Airlines grounded indefinitely | cil. oy they < ' and $20,000, the FBI said, the‘} Flooding oil wells with water is| Dow, Jones averages today are Rome's legions, the soldiers were| Geologiste cstimate that 1500- but a government official predicted A legal resident of Santa Bar- 000 How that ey Tave Siapled, sl latest being at Houston, Tex., where a common rieans of secondary re- he obtained $7,100 from a woman.' covery of petroleum. as follows: industrials 19537, rails taught to fear their officers more: 000 square miles in the United|the planes will be back in service bara, Calif, Dreyfus has been in than the enemy, 60.65, utilities 39.67, ' States are potential oil territory. | “in the not too distant future.” the fereign service since 1910, (Continued on Page Four)