The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1946, Page 1

S R R o m——4 SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,345 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE| “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY | 1 P.M. Edition SOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS = SOVIET TACTICS DISRUPT TREATY MEET TEXAN LEADS CONGRESSMEN ALASKAWARD House Milifi Group En- route for 3-Day Peek at Army’s Doings WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Mem- bers of the House Military Affairs Committee took off today for a six- weeks trip to Algska, the Pacific and the Far East. They will stuay surplus war prop- erty disposition, demobilization, military government in occupied areas, army morale, and sites for permanent military bases. Members who signed up for all or part of the trip include repre- sentatives Ewing Thomason of Tex-| as, John E. Sheridan of Pennsyl-| vania, J. Lindsay Almond of Vir- PRETTY WAR BRIDES FROM ITALY SZATED ATOP LIFE RAFTS, a quartet of war brides from ltaly pose for ginia, Robert F. Sikes of Florida, | Melvin Price of Illinois, Philip J.| Philbin of Massachusetts, and Resi- | dent Commissioner Jesus T. Pinero of Puerto Rico, Democrats; Repre- | sentatives Dewey Short of Missouri, | Paul W.Shafer of Mich., Thomas E.| Martin of Iowa, J. Eroy Johnson! of California, Charles R. Clason of Massachusetts, and Charles N. El-| ston, of Ohio, Republicans. | Accompanying them will be Rep. Michael A. Feighan, Ohio Demo- crat, representing the House Judi- ciary Committee, several Army Of-i ficers and newspapermen. Thoma-‘ son is senior member of the group | in the absence of Chairman Andrew | J. May of Kentucky. After stopping at Cincinnati and Kansas City today to pick up mem- bers, the Committee will leave Great Falls, Mont., Sunday for, Fairbanks, Alaska. They will spend three days in Al- aska before flying to San Francisco for departure August 16 for Hono- lulu. From Honolulu the Commit- tee will go to the Marshall Islands, Guam, Tokyo, Shanghai, the Phil-| ippines, the Fiji Islands, the Can-, ton Islands and Australia before/ returning to Washington in mid- September. DISABLED (RAFT IS TOWED SOUTH; " LANDED, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—The disabled freighter Santa Cruz arrived here today after a 1,600-mile tow by the deepsea tugboat, Sand Key, from Squaw Harbor, Alaska. the photographer in approved shipboard style on the Thomas Barry as it arrived in New York City. They are (1. to r.): Mrs Gincora Bell, from for Detroit; Mrs. Mary Lend, who ‘s bourd for Memphis, Teni.; and Mrs. Loray Clark, Genoa, on ter way to Winsor, Coun. (International) Americans Killed in WASHINGTON, Aug. AMOS BURG BA(K suards at the Mauthausen prison . Americans with sneak bullets in the 'l back of the neck while ostensibly posing them for photographs, a war died the same way, Col. Henry Ro- Yearning for “a breath of Alaska | senfeld, Jr., said at a press confer- again,” Amos Burg, noted explorer, ence. reau with his 36-foot yawl, En- into a small room fitted up like a deavor. | photographic studio and located America’s famous sea-rover is off | conveniently next to the crema- to Cape Spencer from Juneau. He|told to sit in a chair facing a was in Alaska in 1941, but he’s camera. While expecting to have ack! The reason for that may | his picture taken, he was shot in Service's lines . Rosenfeld, whose home is 3 “Some say it's a fine land to shun:|Helly, N. J., said his first leave in Maybe; but there's some as would | this country since 1941 had been For no land on earth—and I'm|ericans have “forgotten all about ORE- |the Nazi atrocities and seem more Those seem to ke the sentiments ' interested in bridge games.” e We encountered him during a Lread, peanut butter and um»wo‘RUSSIA“s SWIT(H snack. Making his first trip to 5 the waterways | Naples, who is going to Detroit; Mrs. Bruna Klar, of Milan, alse e lad Nazi Prison Camp by camp in Austria killed about 60 BREATH oF NORIH crimes prosecutor disciosed. Hundreds of other Allied soldiers sl | author and lecturer, is back in Ju-| “They were taken one at a time on another Alaskan tour enroute | tory,” he said. “Each prisoner was ba be symmed up on one of Robert the back of the neck by a guard. trade it “soured” by his finding that Am- of Amos Burg. Alaska since 1941, 10. — Nazi © | HINA PEACE NOW APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE | Gen. Marshall, Ambassa- | i dor Stuart Joint in [ Pessimistic View Comptroller Before Mead (ommitiee lee | NANKIN Aug. 10. — Peaceful ! | settlement of China’s spreading | | civil war appears impossible, Gen.| George C. Marshall and U. S. Am~ | bassador John Leighton Stuart de=-| | clared today in a frankly pessimis- ! !'tic statement issued even as U. 8. | Marines in north China exchanged | fresh shots with Chinese who blew | Iup a coal train they were guarding. ' | Whetuer the two American peace | negotiators were throwing in the[ | towel after numerous fruitless con-| | ferences with Generalissimo Chiang| Kai-shek and Communist Gen. junou kEn-lai was not yet clear.!| Their dour statement said “every| § e . | possibility” had been explored to- Comptrcller General Lindsay Warren (left, foregrouni) testifies in Washington before the Mead Commit- | ward ending the conflict and de-| {ee, stri r at “damnable practice” of Army officers obtaining lucrative jebs from war producers whose veloping a Democratic form of gov-! government contracts (hey helped draft and settle woile in service. At committec table are (from left to ernment for China. right) Sen. W. R. Knowland (R.-Calif.), Sen. Hugh Miichell (D.-Wash.), Committee Counsel Francis They said the fundamental issues| Flanogan, Chairman James M. Mead, Committee Counsel Georze Meader, and Scn. Homer Ferguson (R.- | | | unsolved concern the type of local | government to be maintained in | areas evacuated as the result of the j redisposition of troops of both sides. | Marine headquarters at Peiping announced that four Marines riding the caboose of a coal train were (RASH AT . AIRSHOW Mich.). (AP Wirephoto) Juneau Soap Box Derby ‘ Winner and Skuse Are | fired upon by 50 Chinese (presumed in Peiping to be Communists) after ges placed on the tracks de- d the locomotive and eight cars. "“je Marines, unhurt, were picked up by an 80-man rescue pa- On Their Way fo Akron trol. Two Chinese casualties were | reported. -y S PRI S0 B SN P S SRR ¢ S, | Government officials warned ar- By DON SKUSE | Six Persons Killed When Two Attack Bombers in Collision GREAT FALLS, Mont., Aug. 10.— ter the July 29 clash with Com- munists on the Peiping-Tientsin highway, in which four Marines were killed, that the United States could look for further clashes with Communists hoping to force Amer- ican withdrawal from China. An UNRRA agricultural expert LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 8.—(De- | Party Too Rough? |, (""" (Gt Suness| Soap Box Derby winner, arrived in | | Seattle last Saturday night after a| | most interesting trip south from | Juneau, part of which was spent in the pilot’s seat of the plane of the | Los Angeles Air Service. | s S Army authorities today were en- | from Tientsin, Carrol Deyoe (ad- # 2 On Sunday, Leo went to his nd- | dress unavailable) reported at the gaged in the grim task of complet- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Negoe- | same time that he and his Chinese 1n¢ identification of the charred sen ,at Vancouver, Wash., after ship- interpreter were fired upon Thu becies of six persons Killed when ping his racer and getting the car | day by more than 40 Chinese dress- attack bombers collided during ready for the trip. ed in the blue-grey uniforms of an airshow Friday before 20,000 I picked up Leo early this morn- | Communists, as they rode in a jeep s | ing and we drove up the scenic Co- | 10 miles from Tientsin after agri-|Orrified spectators at the North lumbia River Highway, stopping to | Mcntana State Faur. Two of the dead, watch the Indians spear salmon | cultural talks with Communist | from precarious perches on the rocks leaders in Jehol Province. Neither kitied when a |was hit but the jeep was holed by plane hurtled into a race horse| of Celilo Falls. ’ | builets. barn, were identified as Lt. Arthur! We then took the old historic tral, | | — e — Pelletier, Cleveland, Ohio, ‘and Dof used by Lewis and Clark on their | | othy Mae Szabo, of Belt, Mont, return from the mouth of the Co- | BUSINESS 'I'Y(OON Montana State University student. lumbia River, to Clarkstown, Wash., | | T L A ke whe Leo is visiting his other { An iy Liveslisaiing patel. ford grandmother, Mrs. Maud Bennett, | the Great Falls Air Base launch=d we will I | Pe | was “e ized Ttal | dauit ITALY WAILS AT FEATHER SOFT PEACE Molotovfles Double Walkout on Pleas of Greek Delegate PARIS, Aug. 10.—Ttaly told the » Conference today that the proposed treaty granting her peace mely harsh” and jeopard- s very independence, Premier Alcide de Gasperl spoke the case for the former Axis power before the conference after a morn- ing session devoted to an incon- slusive debate over an invitation to Albania to attend. In the course of that debate Russia’s V. M. Molotov walked out on an address by Con- stantin Tsaldaris, chief Greek dele- gate and foe of the Albania regime. The morning sion adjourned in a scene of disorder with Molo- tov's assistant, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, ittempting to hold the floor against the will of Chairman Georges Bi- The French President bang- *d his chairman’s gong and asked Vishinsky to respect “the privileges of the chair.” De Gasperi declared at the outset that he was speaking as an “Italian anti-Fascist.” The Italian statesman said the limitation of weapons provided for [taly in the treaty “go so far beyond their scope as to jeopardize the | defense of our very independence.” Mclctov left the chamber in sim- ilar fashion yesterday when Tsald- arls was speaking, as he was today, n opposition to the Yugoslav pro- oosal that Albania be invited to the peace negotiations with a “con- | sultative” voice. Molotov remained away through- out the remainder of Tsaldaris’ address and the two translations of it which followed. At the time of Molotov's depar- ture, Tsaldaris was declaring that the inviting powers had not “wished to carry their generosity toward lormer enemies” too far. 4 (Albania’s request for membership in the United Nations now is being | considered by a committee of the UN in New York). RS P S Landsdide af Savoonga; 2 g fls i through the Bitter | The steamship, operated by the €XPlorer has “been hunery for the| nt. MIND ONAUSTRIA | CAPS ROMANCE BY an inquiry inte the acc - E ) Root Mountains tomorrow morning | Boys Are Hurt beautiful country in the world. It| et burns. Alaska Steamship Company, for the country” for the last five ye: Two persons in the vieinity of 5 R War Shipping Adminlgtratlon was and now he has been able to come | INDUSI‘RIA[ plA“ WEDDING “EGRESS ¥ when the plane on another hop of our drive to| disabled June 15 when a condenser P2ck to what he thinks is the most | i ¥ truck were treatod for shock and Akron and the big race. | NOME, Alaska, Aug. 10, — Word plate was removed accidentally and the engine room was flooded. The Sand Key started the long tow July 31. The Washington Merry-go_- Round By DREW PEARSON PARIS—(by wireless) — Perhaps it has ceased to be news but, even so, it can’t be emphasized too often that this so-called Peace Confer- ence is actually a choosing up of sides fcr another war unless some- thing vital and electrifying in the way of diplomacy steps in to pre- vent it. Events are moving with terrific speed while this conference moves with humdrum slowness. In the Russian Zone of Germany, twelve factories are pouring out munitions for the Red Army. In Czechoslo- vakia, $400,000,000 have been ap- propriated for munitions—all of a standard type, interchangeable with either the Czech or the Red Army. Yugoslavia and Poland also are pouring out standardized Russian arms. Meanwhile, this Peace Conference | talks sonorously, piously of proce- dure and precedents. Meanwhile, dlso, the sides are chosen—the line- up, unless heroic measures head it off—for the next war. The line-up of Russian satellites never varies. In all the conference voting, from San Francisco through the United -Nations assembly . in New York to Paris today, Russia's , SRR i R A (Continued on Page Four) ALICE COUGHLIN SOUTH Alice Coughlin left yesterday by plane for Seattle where she plans vacation for several weeks, might be well to note that Mr.| . Burg has seen them all and shoud| SOViel Commander Asks know. | . . Speaking before 4,000 members of | Veto When FIndS Nahon |the National Geographic Society in; 17ati |Constitution Hall at Washington,| alization Hurfs USSR |D. C. Mr. Burg brought back a| [story of the war boom in Alaska| VIENNA, Aug. 10. — A Soviet lafter his last 1941 trip. He wok‘abqut-face on the nav.ionnhzauf)n ihis color camera through the In-|Of industry threatened today to dis- side Passage and also brought back|member Austria, as the Russians |a story of Alaska’s war boom, rival- | Pluntly “reserved the right” to in- 'ing the 1898 gold rush. Many | Validate four-power control Ry fol- | newspapers and people in the States |lowing a separate set of rules for ihave praised Amos Burg's lectur s | their own occupation zone. |for their extraordinary material| Col. Gen. L. V. Kurrasov, Soviet and composition. | commander in Austria, ‘called for | Mr. Burg's very first voyagea to|a showdown by demanding an Al- Alaska was made in 1928. It was &|lied veto of Austrian nationaliza- voyage down the Yukon to cover|ticn legislation as an “unfriendly the caribou migration for MGM. act,” after having supported it on |Also, at that time he wrote a story | a general Communist principal un- concerning those events for the|(jl discovering that it would na- National Geographic Magazine, en- tijonalize several eastern Austrian titled “A Voyage Down the Yukon."|gssets in the Soviet zone which the ARPAENIICS. SEAMAN | Russians now claim as their own. Now for a little bit about the| Gen. Mark W. Clark, U. S. Com- |man who feels as we do about!mander in Austria, refused to com- |Alaska. Amos Burg made his first:ply with the Russian demand. He |voyage as an apprentice seaman to| apnounced flatly that he would |Australia at the age of 14. NOW| yithnold his veto. Unless all four ‘lhls Viking. sailor knows more about | .o manding generals veto legisla- |the waterways of the world than| ., = it pecomes effective by de- | most people do about their "w"|fault in 31 days. |home towns. X a . A Since 1997 Amos Biirg has been Clark said his government recog taking care of assignments as a|jonglize industry, including that director-cameraman of films for| ¢ o reigners, provided it was done |Encyclopedia Brittanica. While ony . nemocratic process, fairly and ;hxs W41rip, e Mmade s it ok with equitable reimbursement to jall of Alaska sponsored by Dr.f. = o 0.0 | Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic {explorer. Also. he flew to Nunivak |to make a series of pictures on Eskimo life for Dr. Henry B. Collins of the Department of Anthropology (Continued on Page Two) to nized the right of Austria to na-| Does "Honorable Thing’ < for Daughter SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10—Gus- tav Woerner, 78, wealthy San Fran- | cisco business man, said today that | he had married Juanita Smith, 45- lyearmld Negress, in Albuquerque, {N. M, after a romance of 30 years | “in order to get a birth certificate” for their 15-year old daughter. | The unusual romance was reveal- ed after the Woerners returned here by plane from their Thursday wedding. ‘Woerner told .questioning report ers that the daughter witnessed the ceremony. * | The San Francisco Examiner | quoted Woerner as saying, “in or- der to get a birth certificate for the child, I married this woman. | | | | | |It's my responsibility. It was the | honorable thing to do.” | He said Mrs. Woerner lived a block away from his own residence At her address she hurled dish- pans of water at a reporter and said, “Leave me alone.” She threat- {ened to call the police. Woerner is Vice-President of the Schlage Lock Company. He was di- | vorced by his first wife, Lillian, for the second time in 1914. 1910 she obtairted an interlocutory decree, but they were remarried in 11911, - PELTIER HERE Iris 1. Peltier has arrived here from Sitka. She is dtaying at the Baranof Hotel, IRIS Wealthy - San * Franciscan - Eight automobiles parked by the cture were demolished as the plane ripped through {flimsy tim- ber Three of the twin-engined med- ium bombers were roaring low over 2 NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INNORTH | WILL BE OPENED a grandstand packed fair- goers when, eycw es id, a | » . 5 3 wing from one of the planes - roouer oot poris Platt abovey BISHOP Fifzgerald in Seat-| Jbarently sheared off the tail of ihe, Is suing William Leeds and Irwin OHES : ’ (Dick) Kramer, both heirs to large One of the planes burst into| goqunes for $100,000 for injuries ¢ flames and zocomed into the ROISC| ghe gays were inflicted during a barn, filled with race horses. Tke| U5 ‘ot Wroughhouse” in a New other spend crazily on, flaming it| work hotel. A jiu=jitsu demonstra= dug into the earth a mile away. | tion which landed her on the floor T T e AT was among the indignities she says she suffered. (International) Munifions Firm,Now —— Under investigation, Husband Dead Four Has Been Sold Out Years; Woman Takes Life in Odd Manner YOUNGSTOWN. O, Aug. 10 Mrs. Ruth Allen Barber, 60, dis solate since the death of her hus- fle Makes Announce- | ment RegardingPlans | into SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—Visiting here | after attending the centenary cele-| bration of the establishment of the Diocese of Victoria, B. C., the Most Rev. Walter J. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Alaska, today announced two new Parochial Scheols will be opened next month at Ketchikan and Fair- | banks. He will visit Portland before returning north. | ster of Charity of Providence will be in charge of the Fairbanks school and the Ketchikan school! will be taught by Sister of St.| Joseph of Newark. Until now, there | was but one Catholic Parochial School in Alaska, taught by Sisters of St. Ann at June although the Territory had five Catholic Mission Schools for Indians and Eskimos in | Alaska. Bishop Fitzgerald also announced | the prospect of a parish church building at Kodiak soon. Mass now is celebrated in the Masonic Lodge | Hall there. | e - | SABINS GO SOUT | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabin left| CHICAGO, Aug. 10—Batavia Met- al Products Inc., part of a midwest- ern munitions combine which is be- | ing investigated by a Senate Com tee, has been sold to two New York industrialists. sidney S. Gohrman, an attorney | band, Homer, 4 years ago, commit- for the firm, disclosed the sale of | ted e by “opping & tombstone a bankruptey hearing against the ujmpany before referee Martin By David Ab Balisky Ward. 1 Gorhman said Dr. Henry Gars-'ported today. son, head of the Batavia concern,| Mrs. Barber had been missing sold all Batavia stock to James since Wednesday, She arranged Stein, President of Metaplast Co.,|small stones carefully near her hus which produces metal and band’s grave. | plastic products in New York, and; Dr. Belinky said an examination | Herman, Staff, head of the Dia-|indicated Mrs. Barber tried twice vesterday by PAA plane enroute to mond Production Company, also before she crushed her head. He |Rochester, Minn. Mr. Sabin will re-i | of New York, which produces in-!said a compound fractured skull |ceive medical attention at the Mayo| I dustrial diamonds, ‘caused death | Clinic, on- on her head at her hushand’s grave, | Coroner re- s received here yeslerday that two hoys were seriously injured in a landslide at Savoonga, on St. Lawr- ence Island, in northern Bering Sea. An Army plane was awaiting a break in stormy weather, to fly to the island and bring the victims here for treatment. (10 FISHERMEN RESUME FISHING ON CALIE. COAST SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—The CIO International Fishermen’s un- ion announced today that its salmon fishing members in California had voted to return to work but to continue a protest against the OPA salmon ceiling price. The fishermen stopped work carlier this week, but the union announced there was no official strike. Atout 150 boats were tied up in Eureka by the action. During the recent lapse in OPA control, the price paid by dealers was 22 cents a pound. The OPA ceiling now 16 cents a pound. Victor B. Martin, Northern Cali- fornia union chairman, said the fishermen believed they could not continue for long selling “their fish at a 1942 price, while some of the suppliss which have no ceiling have advanced as much as 300 percent since 1942, - -o IN FROM TODD Eldon Nicholl arrived here yes- terday from Todd. He is a guest at the Baranof Hotel,