The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1946, Page 1

OPA EXTENDER BILL IS UP TO TRUMA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,331 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946 SOC PRESS ——— PRICE TEN CENTS DEATH TOLL OF TENDER GIVENAS 8 Lone Survivor Tells Thrill- ing Story of Founder- ing of Cougar KODIAK, Alaska, July 256 — The death toll of the cannery tenderl Cougar which sank Monday night| in stormy Shelikof Strait was re- duced from 10 to 8 today when the lone known survivor of the craft reported a fisherman and cannery worker, first listed among the vic-| tims, were not aboard when the ship foundered. The survivor, Harold Aga, 20, was brought here for hospitaliza- tion. He is suffering from body and leg bruises and exposure after spending 11 hours in the chilled waters before being rescued. i Aga said at one time he consid- | ered himself a “goner” and de-| cided to take off his lifebelt to| avoid prolonging his suffering in| the frigid waters. Dies When Rescue Near But with Louis Mueller, Alaska Natlve Service official, he clung| to & six-foot gasoline tank which had broken from the tender's deck.! Mueller, he said, weakened after 7 hours in the water and slipped| from the tank even while lights, from rescue ships could be seen.| One previously unidentified wom-l‘ an victim was named yesterday a.si Lerraine D. Habeh, a widow who, had been working in a Kodiak Tslihd cannery. Another woman BOTH BLIND, James Riley, 18, and (He ridiculed rumors the Com- munists were infiltrating. into areas an excellent job of probing Con-| 2 o . peasants for an uprising within gressman May and. war proflteer-,sm“gm“ each other, and probablv never will K ominlang’s | Troops Close vietim, Mrs. Amund Taylor, was " SR o starting homeward . to Longvuw,‘ - f I e a'n Wash., to have a baby. Surviver Tells Story Aga, in the hospital here alt.er‘c : G keing rescued and brought here: e e o Sanice | LIRSt Declare Govt. ing story about the sea disaster: | m Fu" 2 S(ale Nonh ‘The Cougar was about four miles! (:h' 0" S offshore hitting heavy seas when| without warning she sprang a! Ina enS've leak. Water began raising in the > engine room. Mrs. Amund Taylor| NANKING, July 25.—Chinese who was going home to Longview, government troops were conceded Wash., to have a baby, was awnk-‘by the Communists teday to have add in the c'nplain's' cabin ana Penetrated 50 miles into Commun- GB® local Nz;uve boys Lester‘js" areas north of the Yangtze Riv- Kanagin and Willie Rock were i Klangf\_x _vam("“’. a O, awakened by Aga in the fo'csle. ;tsl;le gl}"’eaxt cities of Nanking and 6 Hpa | Shanghai. . i‘;lee_’ i ";:sga Sli;:::ix;i;l se’:‘:: The Communists, contending that ‘t}le Sé‘:::t n(“xuarg The SOS ywas‘EO,CDO government soldiers were in- e !volved and that 20,000 had been Regrd. by othe{ lf(l.Shmg wis:e}s. The‘lost in the operation to date, said boat, ""gd'"‘“ = ol at ehs‘:";)-‘mxs was a “full-scale” offensive by ‘::: I::vlvavrd d::‘s‘engirssa ;::b\e)ed afihe government along a 130-mile A | front. skiff :fte}: dc‘gm‘k:‘g l)lmll“e p'“"’x" A government spokesman, how- er “t“ ixsn:]vdi :]e Sa t‘))ivger. wnv; ever, said merely that there were AN meCHAIesy {“ample” troops in the area to caught it and crushed it against piock any Communist threat to this """ capital and Shanghai. (In Shanghai, Communist Gen & Chou Enbalai told newsmen em- “e W ashln fop praticany his forces had no inten- g |tion of attacking in the direction BT |near Shanghai. He added he had By DREW PEARSON |assured Mayor K. C. Wu there was |“not a shred of truth” in Kuom- BAEIOION Fho ! Mead intang reports the Communist: ing might do a little further dig- g(ng into phony E-awards and pos- % sible connections with the Ken-| tuckian who still Chairmans the u. S. TRoops ARE of Nanking or Shanghai. Committee, which has done such'plmned to organize 10,000 armed House Military Affairs Commit- 'Specifically. they might examine an E-award given to General Tire| and Rubber Company, the very same company which got May’s nephew out of the Army after he had been in only nine days, and is BLIND LOVE AT THE ALTAR MEMBER AS IATED his pretty bride, the former Joan Ingham, 20, are led down the aisle by their seeing-eye dog following their marriage in St. Andrew’s Church, Chicago. They have never seen HANDWRITING, FINGERPRINTS POINT SUSPECT Ransom N();an'd Lipstick ¢+ 1Court Ruling Is Needed to KRUG FAVORS TRIBE CLAIMS COMMUNISTS | RELEASE 7 BEREVIEWED U.S. MARINES 'Men Capluf«e?]uly 13 Arel Finally Set Free- ! ! Clear Dark Cloud Over [ Alaska Pulp Timber ¢ Names Given | SEATTLE, July 25—Interior Sec-| TIENTSIN, China, July Sev- | |retary J. A. Krug declared in an en U. S. Marines who were captur- interview published in the July ed July 13 by some 80 armed Chi- | jissue of Pulp & Paper Industry rese Communists, were released last | | that he wants a Federal Court de- night to a special executive head- lcision to settle—at the earliest Quarters truce team, the Marine ;pmmlc date—the question of In- commandant announced today. They | | dian claims to Alaska timberlands. Were unharmed. The Marines wer eized by the | The magasine satda that all ne-| { gotiations between the U. S, For. Chinesc at a small village 22 miles | |est Service and private industry Southwest of the port of Chin- for the building of a pulp undjwnnglan. where they had gone tco ‘papvr mill in Alaska were dropped obtain ice. | when former Interior Secretary| Marine headquarters for the first | Ickes awarded Indians exclusive ‘::‘f“s(i;s’fl”b(‘d the captors as Com-{ | use to 273,000 acres of forest lands * i g " | 1ast July‘- R % | The Marines were identified as| : |Sgt. John P. Herndon, Pfc. Will-, “The Ipdians probably have some'jom O Wick, Pfe. George A. Sul- sound theoretical basis for their |jyon pfe. Robert P. Wright, Jr.,| claims,” Krug was quoted as say- pfe. Wallace R. Maisei, Pvt. James ing. “I do not want to waive any w, ghipley and Pvt. Arthur Mai- | S were not | ;Indian rights. But I feel this 1S donado. Home" address |a matter that should be settled by given. | {the courts as soon as possible.” ey were turmsdiover to the| { He said he preferrea a “clear cut truce team at Niching, about 50 lcase” initiated by a fishery indus- miles southwest of Chinwangtao,| try whose “prerogatives” may be and were returned to their base! threatened. There are no pulp today. ! mills in Alaska. But the magazine Search by land, sea and air was! said the “Interior Department-in- conducted for six days after the stigated Indian claims” have “hung Marines were seized. The hunt was | like a dark cloud over efforts of called off to permit the truce team {the Forest Service to interest pri- to negotiate with the Communists. | {vale industry in a pulp and paper Marine headquarters offered noj jer newsprint mill.” x‘:(ph.gu’mn of the incident. High| 1 Marine officers previously express- | ed the theery the Communists had | seized the men in an effort to! The cnly SUilsure puip Limber in Alaska is in this disputed area, the magazine added. It said Ickes had FRANKFURT, Germany, July 25. still paying him a juicy salary. If the Mead Committee should probe deeply enough they would} —One Jew was killed and at least six persons were injured last night in fighting between Jewish displac- ‘ Message Linked to 17- |always held his decisions were fin- g’;]’;‘; B8, BRAGCE . e T 0] and sub, review b ; ek, Year_old S'uden' ‘:(l,ur‘;:_ not subject to review by e 5 B~ e A { he went before the Grand Jury tn‘57 HEADA(HES seek indictments charging the hus- | ky youth with the kidnap-slaying of six-year-old Suzanne, whoce dis-| membered body was recovered from| gan FRANCISCO, July 25.—The various sewers Jan 7, and the k“l"llner Mariposa, on her last trip as ing of Lhe‘rormer ‘Wave some three‘a bride ship from Australia, today weeks earlier. brought a $500 headache to 57 en- Previously the State’s Attorney|egaged couples. had announced that i, gerprints on| The $500 is required as bond for the ransom note and one found each of the 57 brides-elect on board in the Brown apartment were thosz|to gain legal entry into this coun- of Heirens. The FBI in Washing- try. ton confirmed this, he said. | The girls left Sydney July 11 to {marry Americans who mthey had INDICTMENTS RETURNED |met in Australia during the war. CHICAGO, July 25 — True bills But, the Red Cross reported, ap- charging William Heirens, 17, Uni- parently nobedy told the fiancees versity of Chicago student, with about the law which became ef- murdering Suzanne Degnan, 6, and fective July 2, allowing girls be- a former Wave, Frances Brown, trothed to American service men .33, were reported voted today by to enter the United States inde- the Cook County (Chicago) grand pendently of immigration quotas — ury. |provided they post the bond to The true bill against Heirens was show intention of getting married. | reported voted little more than an| Hurriedly the Red Cross contact- hour affer the grand jury began|ed most of the intended husbands hearing evidence from various wit- and explained that someone would i nesses in connection with the Dgg-ihave to put up $500 before they nan slaying and the “lipstick” could see their girls. killing of the former Wave. “If you marry within three |months, youll get your money back,” Red Cross officials told the |anxious men. —_—a—— CHICAGO, July 25—State’'s At- torney William J. Tuohy said to- day the handwriting on the Suz- anne Degnan ransom note and the lipstick message on the apartment wall of the slain former Wave, Frances Brown, was that of Will- iam Heirens, 17-year-old “Univer- ty of Chicago student. Tuohy made his announcement as ‘Alaska Engineer . Dislrict Going fo Morning Son Is Handle Prfleds"“ Custody at USs. Calls Air Freedom Pact | ~ Not Workable This Country_N_ow fo Nego-| tiate Directly with In- |= . dividual Nations | WASHINGTGN, July 25 — The| United States today acknowledged its failure to obtain internationall aviaticn pacts by multi-lateral; means and announced that it would now seek agreements through: direct negotiations with individual nations. A State Department announce- I ment said this country “has de- cided to withdraw” from the Inter- national Air Transport agreementi signed in Chicago in December of | 1944, which provided for the multi- | lateral approach. The Department gave as its rea-: son that a recent civil aviation conference has “made it clear that | the *agreement cannot be relied upon as an effective medium for !the establishment of international | air routes for operation by United | States carriers.” Under the so-called “Five Free- doms” agreement accepted by 15 naticns at Chicago, each country | pledged to grant to other signers| |the right of flying over its ter- | ritory, stopping to pick up and | discharge passengers and going on| |to any other destination they de- sired. —_—a—— I | Saratoga, SEATTLE, July 25—When the| | Wrangell, Report | \ FROM ALASKA IN A SHOWER OF RICE ex-GI Hen bride, Gloria Durant of Anchorage, TO BROOKLYN ry McMullen and his part Eskimo , Alaska, start on their honeymoon S from a Brooklyn, N. Y., church. They met a year ago in Anchorage when McMullen was serving with the Army Transport Service and Miss Durant was a USO hostess. (International) AtomicBomb, in Awesome Roar, Sends Ships sunk by underwater at- emic bemb: Battleship Arkansas, carrier Saratoga, one concrete yard oiler, one tank-landing ship. (Plus medium landing-ship from which bemb was suspended). Ships seen listing and evident- ly damaged: Battlcships New York and Na- gate, carrier Independence, cruis- er Pensacola, destroyer Hughes, transport Fallon. Scen resting on bottom, dam- age undetermined: Five submarines been submeorged By HOWARD BLAKESLEE Abcard USS Appalachian, Bikini Lagoon, July 25—The first under- water atomic bomb, exploding with an awesome roar that thundered upward into a beautiful cioudy gey- ser, destroyed the battleship Ar- kansas and sank the huge cld air- craft carrier Saraloga and seven lesser vessels today. which had Associated Press Co pondent Don Whitehead, in the b po- sition to view the blast from a B-29, said it was so powerful that the Arkansas was shoved out of her original anchorage just be- fore she plunged and cther target vessels near the center of the of 75 were tossed about like to, Disappear First to go in the mighty plu- tonium blast that was the second Nine Vessels To Boffom olBikin‘i Lagoon still were “hot” with radioactivity many hours later. Navy men and scientists edged ever closer and re-entered the lagoon with sensi- tive instruments, trying "to deter- mine the danger and ascertain the full damage as soon as possible, Dies Al LEGISLATION 'NOW PASSED - BY (ONGRESS 'Senate Last fo Ad by 53- 26 Vote-Life Given fo Next June BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, July President Truman “reluctantly” signed into law to- day the one-year OPA revival bill. He anncunced also at a news confercnce he would make pub- lic its three-member price decon- trol board shortly. The President made the an- nouncement five minutes after he signed the bill, telling re- poriers he was sending a state- ment to Congress within a couple of hours outlining his views., WASHINGTON, July 25 — Presi- dent Truman's expected signature was the last step needed to re- vive OPA today. Except for rents, many of the agency's wartime powers will be curbed or removed. | i | i But on Capitol Hill, virtually no ;one expressed any real doubt that i the President will sign the extender +bill which the Senate passed a few minutes after midnight, 53 to 26, |and sent to the White House. | The House previously had ap- proved the measure, 210 to 142. { When signed by Mr. Truman, ! the bill automatically will re-estab- vl rent awd many of the price | cetlings' which lapsed July 1. OPA’s ‘plans are to follow quickly with a number of temporary adjustments ‘on prices, pending calculation of new and higher cellings required under, the measure. The bill gives OPA life through next June, but it prohibits restor- ation of price controls at least August 20 cn such major until market basket items as meat and dairy products, as well as on grains, petroleum and tobacco. | During the final long and some- The radioactivity was 50 great times bitter debate, Senators Wher- that two tugs which went to the ry (R.-Neb.) and O’Daniel (D.- rescue of the atoga, under or-|Tex.) joined with others in de- ders from Ta Force Commander Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy to try to beach her, had to turn back and let the gallant old lady die alone. The' hattleship New York and the Japanese battleship Nagato were listing, evidently damaged, as were the battered carrier Indepen- dence, the destroyer Hughes, the transport Fallon and the heavy | cruiser Pensacola Oldest Aircraft Carrier Sunk Aboard USS Mt. McKinley, July 25—At least seven times the Jap- anese claimed they had sunk the 53,000-ton Saratoga, oldest aircraft carri in the U. S. Navy. Irc illy, she went down in a former Japanese-owned lagoon. On claims were almost right. pedo crippled her once. Kamikaze (& ide) planes banged her up on another occasion. The Saratoga started two occasions the enemy’s out as a battic cruiser but was converted to! A tor-| manding rejection of the compro- mise bill approved by a House- (Senate conference committee. | e (OBJECTIONS MADE - T0 SALARY RAISE . FOR CONGRESSMEN ! WASHINGTON, vuly 25—A Sen- | ate-approved bill to reorganize | Congressional procedure is meeting |criticism as it comes before the 1 House. Opponents are objecting to an ‘ln(‘,l‘ease in Congressmen salaries to $15,000 a year. They also would become eligible for retirement pay. Other provisions drawing fire are these to reduce the number of House committees and to establish a new budget procedure. Under this proposal, Senate and House chapter of the Army-Navy “oper-|@ carrier during construction to|committees which pass on mea- ation crossroads” was the old 26,- 100-ton battleshi) Arkansas. and two small craft, a yard oiler and a tank-landing ship, simply disappeared ins the pink-fringed mist at 8:35 a.m, (1:35 pm.,, PST, Wednesday). Seven hours and 32 minutes lat- er, at 4:07 p.m. the 33,000-ton war-worn old carrier, settled protestingly to the bottom of the Bikini Lagoon. Her prow nosed upward as if her stern were resting on the bottom, then disap- Shv{ meet terms of the Washington' | Naval Treaty in the early 1920s. it Kl O e ‘Boy Baby Born fo - Singer Giimy Simms HOLLYWOOD, July 25--Mr. and Mrs. Hyatt Dehn (you know her as singer Ginny Simms) are par-| |ents of a son, David Martin, born sures to raise revenue would have |a voice in fixing a celling on ex- i penditures. ‘living Conditions Are Profested by ' Civilian Workers Salary Boosts MANILA, July 25 — American | yesterday. unearth the following amazing ed persons and German police near Alaska Engineer District is weli || facts: Musch, the U. 8. Thirdp.zrmynan-yorgamzed, it will “assimilate civil| WRANGELL, Alaska, July 25 —| I p I ( peared. Bk S Dr. William B. Thompson said|¢ivilian employees of the United \ wil| Moming Son is merely a pet crow| |11 PAFS LaUSES ubs on Bottom the ‘mother and nine.pound boy!States Army in the Philippines General Tire and Rubber had a nounces. American troops were | works assignments of river A little later five submarines of fldod control | named Oscar, owned by Tink Bakke | were doing well. | complain that living conditions are | contract with the Army to make harbor improvement, called to restore order. | Scores of German civilians and|and similar duties,” now handled|family. He arrived home on the Commodity Raises the six that had been submerged S {not as good as promised when pneumatic floats for the Army en- | e ¢ | 2 i in the laZoon were found to be they were recruited gineers. These were big rubber|s0 to 100 Jews from the Wolf- by the Seattle District, Col. Theron|Princess Louise, flew down Main s o . bags which were ‘inflated for air|Rathausen displaced persons camp, 1D. Weaver, North Pacific Division|street and from the top of a tele-| PARIS, July 25 — Prices for|resting u'n the bottom. Whether| STO(K ouorAnouS | A spokesman for the workers * . S. Army, said,| Phone pole cawed loudly relating | food, transportation and advertis- they were crushed or had sunk| ’clmmcd that they had been prom- and used to hold up pontoon 15 miles south of Munich, were in-| Engineer for the U. |ing jumped in Paris today and; through some defects in their aid ised modern homes, low eating , bridges. The famous crossing of |volved. | The separate district was made|details of his trip to Juneau. i £ ? 9 the Rapido River in Ttaly fl:: al- voThe Third Army said a shoo’ing=necessary,pa<:oloncl Weaver said, by‘ Oscar, however, is now in the the newspapers said they feared lines was not known. i NEW YORK, July 25 — Closing costs, pfricers' club privileges and most every military crossing of!tray on a road outside of the Wolf- |the great wartime impatus to Alas- | custody of authorities and is/a run of inflation. The increases Probably the most powerful|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine recreational facilities. Instead, he water was done by pontoon bridges supported by rubber floats. These rubber floats, of course, had to be absolutely airtight. FRAUD ON ARMY However, when General Tire Rathausen camp started the riot, and it spread rapidly to the town.| Jews from the camp started a; parade and demonstration which finally was broken up by Amerlcan‘ military police and constahulxryl troopers. i — floats were tested by the Army en- . (Continued on Page Four) South Dakota is known as the “Sunshine State”. kan development and by the scope of the War Department’s construc- tion now going on. The Colonel was in Seattle en- routg to Alaska to inspect the new district. — e, —— Only ahour half of the U. S. |area believed to contain oil has yet been exglored for it, | charged with violating the Jones generally were attributed to salary ; man-made force ever loosed—per- stock today is 7%, American Can Act and traveling under an as- boosts of 15 to thirty per cent | haps even stronger than the bomb 94%, sumed name. |which are going into effect’ The Bakke family believes Os-| throughout France. car’s survey of Juneau gals f that razed most of Nagasaki last a mate was evidently unsuccess-| pound, railroad fares were in- ful. He returned still single but! creased ten per cent and freight with a hangover. The Wrangell|rates thirty per cent. Hotel rates Sentinel suggests a check-up at were boosted fifty per cnt last Mike's. month, 75 target vessels as obggrvers had expected. “Hot” With Radioactivity The true extent of the damage 15 still unknown, however. Ships Anaconda 45%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- Bread went up | August—the atomic bomb did not!er 92%, Kennecott 53%, New York or| about two and one-half cents per|immediately sink as many of the Central 23, Northern Pacific 26%, place where husbands and wives U. S. Steel 867, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 900,000 shares. Dow; Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 196.25, rails 60.95, utilities 39.86. sald, they were forced to live in a gloomy barracks ten miles from Manila, that there were no recre- ation or transport facilities, and no ‘could meet even in off hours. | B About three-fourths of U. S. oil wells are of the “stripper” variety —using pumps to strip the pool.