The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1946, Page 1

! i £ = = i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,348 AFOLLETE IS - UNSEATED IN " 6OP PRIMARY & » s } Party - Backed Ex-Marine Topples Veteran Pro- gressive Senator (By The Associated Press) Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, whom Wisconsin voters sent to the U. S. Senate for 21 straight years, con- ceded defeat today in his effort for another six-year tarm, as a Re- publican. Joseph R. McCarthy, 37-year-old ex-Marine, toppled LaFollette on nearly ccmplete returns from yes- terday’s Republican primary elec- tion. Returns from 3,085 precincts out of the state's 3,146 gave McCarthy 203,840 to LaFollette's 197,146, a lead of 6,694. Perry Stearns was third with 29,132, 40 Years of LaFollettes The outcome means that for the first time in more than 40 years, the State will not be represented in the Senate by a LaFollette, father or son. LaFollette had turned to the Re- publican party for nomination to succeed himself, after 12 years un- der the Progressive Party banner. However, the Republican state organization threw its support to McCarthy, former gunner of a Marine dive bomber squadron. Mc- Carthy was elected Circuit Judge at 30 to become the youngest per- son ever chosen for such a post in Wisconsin, The Republican Senatorial nom- inee will be opposed in November by Howard J. McMurray, who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Governor Beats Party Wisconsin’s 83-year-old Governor, Walter S. Goodland, like LaFol- lette, ran against the opposition of the State party orgnnlzaf.ion., However, Goodland ran far ahead of his two opponents for Republi- can renomination. Goodland will be opposed in No- vember by Daniel W. Hoan, form- er Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee. Hoan rolled to an easy vietory in his race for the Democratic nom- ination for Governor. LaFollette, whose Progressive party organization voted to dis- solve a year ago last March, had staked his prestige on the out- come of the primary. He said he would not run as an Independent if he failed to receive the nom- ination. Stands On Record McCarthy called him an isola- tionist. and challenged him to de- bate the issue, but the Senator said he would stand on his record. In addition to seeking the ouster of LaFollette, the State Republican organization had picked Delbert J. YContinued on Page Three) The Washington Merry- Go- Round By DREW PEARSON VIENNA. (By Cable)—The place where the United States and Rus- sia have come closest to grips is not Berlin but Austria. Here the Red army got in first and for a time it kept the other Allies out. Here the Russians im- mediately ~appointed their own Austrian Government and expsct- ed to run it and here—in a little country almost completely sur- rounded by ' Russian-dominated Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary — Moscow planned to es- tablish its economic capital for the Danube. The amazing thing is that with all the cards stacked in their favor the: Reds have completely failed. This is due partly to the ruth- lessness of the Red, army, which has alienated everyone it has come in contact with, and partly it is due - to the shrewdness of an American General who has out- smarted the Russians at every turn. His tactics are worth study- ing. They may be the key which the United States should adopt in other areas, perhaps even as a national policy. Vienna, of course, is the most famous ecity in history when it {Continued on Page Four) MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —=---... PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1946 First Anniversary of World War Il Vidory | Prayerfully Observed 4 f | | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Without formal pause the nation| | joyfully yet prayerfully observed the first anniversary today of vic- tory in World War II, one year to | the day after he proclaimed Japan’s | unconditional surrender, President | Saily ROTTED ‘AR\. lO(ATED’;’I‘ruman asked Americans to ‘dedi- | cate this first *“Victory Day” to | prayer and high resolve that: ALASKA R.R, =5 e and international goodwill should ey be advanced with undiminished and | +p: | unremitting efforts, inspired by the; 'Members Of HOllse MIII' valor of our heros of the Armod . . Services.” {fary Affairs Committee | whie miary men ana others| . were paying tribute to the Make DISCOVETY | who fought and died to bring the ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14— Reconversion Director toted up the Members of the House Military Af- balance sheet to ses what a year of fairs Committee, Army officers and Peace has meant to the home front.; press representatives figuratively Objectives | |“bit their nails” yesterday as they In a statement, John R. Steel- | inspected the picturesque Loop Dis- man recalled these four objectives Itrict of the Alaska Railroad where Of a vear ago and outlined the tracks make a 180-degree turn for a | “Tecord of progress we have made."; {300-foot altitude change. 1. Joks for all those willing and Long a foremost tourist attraction, able to work: “We have substan-| { the party reported they found num- tially full employment and have erous rotted ties and piling on the created nearly five million new ! wooden trestle construction. Jobs in the process . . . Now we The tracks are on a section of the face the task of consolidating these | line which will be abandoned should 8ains by ever-increasing produc-| business be routed through the new tion and employment opportunities.” | port of Whittier instead of Seward.' 2. A steadily rising standard ,of The inspecting party left today living: “The yearly production rate for Adak enroute to the Orient. i°' goods and services for civilian| e e i e luse has increased more than $30,- 000,000,000 Total construction and| |'production of * some “gocds - ‘Has ‘TURKS REjE(Tiquadrupled. Total income pay-[ { 'ments to individuals equal or ex- ‘ceed the wartime peak. RED MOVE ON ;. 5% o | 'DARDANELLES 3. Stabilization of our economy: | “We have successfully avoided in-| {flation which threatened when war | plants closed . !mains a constant threat.” 4. Increased opportunities farmers and businessmen: “Almost a quarter of a million new busi- nesses were established in the last half of 1945, and there is every ireason to hope that the birth of new businesses will continue at a high rate . . . Farmers are looking Infernational Decision On Vl'a| SffaliS forward to bumper crops, and can |sell at good prices all they can ISTANBUL, Aug. 13—(Delayed) grow.” —Usually well informed sources said tonight that Turkey had re-| | i | Istanbul Wil Consider Only i | i MacArthur's Summary MacArthur himself withheld a men | : war to its inclusion, Mr. Truman's, Clicks With Kleigs ILARGE SCALE Flaming Re_pl; Made fo| Chiang Kai-shek's Pro- | gramfo Restore Peace NANKING, Aug. 14—New re- ports of large scale fighting in| North China today wrote a flam-| ing reply to Chiang Kai-shek's six point program to restore peace to { iman chareed, “The government ; |wants war!” Communists’ Yenan radio The Istabion said that Red Troops has wiped out two government divis- fons north of the key city of Jukao in a resumption of heavy fighting in North Kiangsu Province. It also said 5000 government troops had laid down their arms after seeing 3,000 comrades killed or wound- { ¥Yenan said fierce fighting was (raging on both sides of the Lung- hai railway in East Honan and | North Kiangsu Provinces. It added hhlt government troops were re-; ceiving considerable air support. | In Peiping, the Independent news- paper Hsin Min Pao reported Com-| {munist troops attacking Tatung had pierced government defenses with- ‘in seven-tenths of a mile east of that North Shansi Province rail jJunction. It said Red forces were within two miles of Tatung on the inorth, west and south and fixed ithe combatants’ strength os 10 fCommunist regiments against obout (10,000 government defenders. Meanwhile, the government’s Cen- tral News Agency quoted Brig. Gen. 1 William E. Clement, commander of 7iU S. Marines at Tsingtao, as say- 1ing only one battalion or regiment {would be left there as reserves were returned to the United States. PAULA DREW was well on her way to fame as a vocalist with the Detroit Civic Opera until a movie scout decided that she should be in Hoilywood and signed her to a contract. One look at Paula and you'll agree. {International) AN UNDERSTAND! his nation as a Communist spokes-|_ . “NOW, LOOK HERE! It's perfectly all right. The fellow’s my pop—Marine Sergeant Major Frank L. Fercival. Hi that’'s mama he’s kissing. We came ING BYSTANDER e’s just come home from Japan and to meet him at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Cal, For a fellow who has seen action at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Tinian he’s still got plenty of action left in him.” (International) Juneau Soép Box'"l)'étby ' Winner Doi ng His Parl On Food Storage Problem ULGARS PUT . . but inflation re-i for | GOING UP fused categorically the Soviet Un- ion’s demand that the Dardanelles be placed under joint Russian- Turkish defense and that the con- summary of the first year of his stewardship for the Septemker 2 anniversary of the actual surrender ccremony aboard the Missouri. Itrol of that vital strip of water {be handled by the Black Sea' But in an order to his. troops, powers. ,the Supreme Allied Commander said The Turkish reply, these sources today is miore than a day of vic- said, was understood to have con- tory. : tended that the Soviet demands,! “It is” he said, “one of thanks- as contained in a noté delivered iving on which we bow our heads {last week, exceeded the limit of in extreme humility and thank God the Mantreux Convention and left that we, of Democratic faith, have Turkey no choice but to reject demonstrated to the world that | them. |peace can be gained and kept by i p These sources said Turkey's reply 8overnments established from and asserted that the Soviet demands, PY the common people. battleshid | supsidy of 3 cents a pound. [N PRICE s AT o | WASHINGTON, Aug 14 — OPA | today authorized immediate retail | price increases on coffee, rang- {ing from 10 to 13 cents a pound. | The increase results frum: 1. Cancellation of an important The subsidy was discontinued when the price control law lapsed July 1. 2. An increase of about 2 cents a pound authorized for importers Wing Ping-nam, Communist {spokesman replying to Chiang's !peace program, charged “the gov- g We find tle no ernment wants war. government neither wants peace has any faithful desire for it.” RATES ON AIR MAIL DEMANDS FOR WEST. THRACE 'Nazi Satellite Claims Land Heroically Defended by Ally Greece | BY DON SKUSE CHICAGO, Aug. 13—Leo and I did not make the milage driving today for we found a country that appealed to us, and as w2 were a little ahead of our schedule, decided to take the day looking, over this beautiful section of Wis~; consin and Minnesota. { The weather has been much! Wey BAN ON JEWS BRINGS TENSE SITUATION BRITAINWILL ' HOLDCOURSE " INPALESTINE | Truman Decision on Di- I vision of Holy Land Awaited Today | BULLETIN—LONDON, Aug. 14 | —A Foreign Office spokesman said tonight that Prime Minister Attlee had received President Truman’s communication on the propeced plan for dividing strife- tern Palestine into a four-zone federal state, The contents of the Truman communication were not dis- closed, but authoritative sources reported that it proposed an 1,800-square-mile Jewish zone, as compared with the 1,500-square- mile area projected by a Brit- ish-American Cabinet committee of experts, and also called for mcre powers for the zone in con- trolling its own immigration. Cabinet heard reports from the chiefs of the Army, Air Force and Navy of a tense situation in the Holy Land today and agreed, an | authoritative source said, to stick to its present course “however much the position deteriorates.” The three armed services will icontinue to take “whatever mea- !sures are necessary” to implement .’the government's decision to end ‘ unauthorized entry . of Jewish refugees into the Holy Land, the informant sald, > od ! Crowds storm Cordons { Three persons were killed and I'seven wounded at Haifa yesterday 'when crowds stormed at British + military cordons guarding the port +while 1,000 immigrants were tak- en off their ship and put aboard tyoop transports for shipment to detention camp on the island of Cyprus. While the Cabinet was in ses- sion a Forelgn Office spokesman | LONDONM, Auz. 14—The British i i cooler today than lately, much to . % Leo's delight. We visited Eau Galle | 5214 President Truman’s declsions on the Chippewa River as well asi"" the British-American Cabinet Bau Claire and the famous lakes | Plan for division of Palestine into and resorts that abound in this dis-| four provinces possibly would ar- trict. Leo was constantly asked to|Tive today. posé for his picture and has al-| The Forelgn Celice also an- ready built up quite a fan-backing|#cunced that Britain had “ap- for. the race. {proached” the U. 8. State Depart- Eiorywhere we go we see evi-|ment about six weeks ago on the dence of bumper crops and Leo is|Publication of appeals in United nm’ucmf | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — Presi- | {dent Truman today signed legis- {lation reducing thé domestic air-/ June 28. - This increase had not been passed on to retail levels. 3. A 'further increase of about‘ ] mail rate from 8 to 5 cents an ounce, effective October 1. i Simultaneously Postmaster Gen- eral Hannegan issued an order set- ting anp air mail- postage rate of 3 cents a pound in importers ceil- ings authorized today as an in- ducement to increase coffee lmpor-‘5 cents am ounce between all U. ik, |S. territory and members of the The amount of the. retail in-{symed Forces abroad. The exist- crease will vary depending uponimg rate is 6 cents a half ounce. which amounted to permission to set up bases along the Dardanelles, were predicated not on internation- | pollo o“ w A“E IN FEW STATES; MINN. HARD HIT al security but solely for the bene- (BY TXE ASSOCIATED PRESS) fit 6f three nations. Turkey had considered the Straits Infantile paralysis was report2d on the wane today in some states, a matter for international consul- tation only. but health officials said it was yet too early to tell if the worst wave of the disease since 1916 had yeach- ed its peak. Use of a plastic “baby lung”— which during the war kept wounded fliers alive until their planes could return to base—was offered to | 'YUGOSLAVS NOT TALKING ABOUT | INTERNED PLANE BELGRADE, Aug. 14. The' | Charge d’Affairs at the U. S. Em- bassy here awaited a reply today from the Yugoslav Foreign Office to a request for information concern- ing the 10 persons aboard an Am- erican transport *plane; who have forced down by Yugoslav fighters near Ljubljana last Thursday. So far, Yugoslav authorities have refused U. S. State Department | representatives permission to .see the crew members or passengers and have not divulged the whereabouts of the internees. The only Yugo- slav comment has been' that “an investigation” has been started. ————— FROM ANCHORAGE Mr. and Mrs. Orman T. Smith have arrived here from Anchorage. Hotel. istricken communities by the Army Air Forces. While the disease appeared abat- ing in Kansas, Towa, Nebraska, Ok- been interned since their ship Was [lahoma, Ohio and Florida, the pic- ture remained dark in Minnesota, Mississippi, Colorado and other scattered areas. Poliomyelitis had struck hardest in Minnesota where 1,124 cases and 81 deaths surpassed the worst pre- vious wave of the disease, 955 cases in 1925. Postponement of school open- ings was being considered in four Mississippi counties where polio is epidemic. The state has 144 cases compared with 20 a year ago. Colorado reported the most ex- i crease of 10% cents a pound for { method of distribution of coffee, OPA said. The agency authorized an in- processors of roasted coffee, cof- fee, coffee compounds, soluble cof- fee and soluble coffee products. OPA said that wholesalers and retailers, including retail wagon route sellers, may apply their regu- | lar percentage markups to the new, higher cost of coffee. NATIVE HUNTED IN DEATH CASE APPREHENDED COPPER CREEK, Alaska, Aug. 11 —(Delayed)—A 17-day air and | ground search for Lawrenre Frank, a Native sought in connection with the death of Joe Sam last month,]| ended. yesterday. Frank was apprehended by Depu- | p,cifis in the Transportation Corps. 1wars was “too light for a country ty Marshal Nelson McCary and Constable Russell Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at i his brother’s fishing camp in the Snag River country across the Can- adian border. The Native is held on a charge of manslaughter pending action by the grand jury in Anchorage in |tensive outbreak in its history, 377 October. They are guests at the Baranof cases. Hospitals' lacked sufficient keds to care for the vietims. Sam’s body was found floating in Scotty Creek July 19, The new domestic rate makes 5-cent air mail postage applicable to all U, S. territory and involves reductions from present rates ranging as high as 90 cents an { ounce. { {THREE ENLISTMENTS IN ARMY REPORTED Lt. John Kelly, Army Recruiting Officer in Juneau area, has an- nounced the enlistment of three iresidents of Alaska. The new re- jer uits left Monday for further pro- rcessing at Fort Richardson. of Juneau, signed for the Pacific ! Victor E. Hardin, 19, a resident | PARIS, Aug. 14—Bulgaria form- ally presented a claim to the Paris Peace Conference today for the present Greek territory of western Thrace and was supported by the Soviet Ukraine delegate. Frankly admitting a “shameful alliance” with Germany during the war, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgi Koulishev nevertheless main- tained that the Bulgarian Army “did nct fight on any front against the anti-Hitlerian coalition.” He asked that his nation be accorded the sta- tus of an Alliéd co-belligerent, the same as that sought yesterd: by Rumania, ancther defeated Germ:n Western Thrace is a narrow strip cfsterritory along the nerthern coast {of the Aegian Sea which gives [Gr'cece a common frontier with | Turkey. | | D. Manuilsky, chief of the Ukraine | delegation, charged that Greek pol- |icy was “instigated from abroad” |and protested against her “demands for foreign Balkan soil.” Saying he ! supported Bulgarian demands for an Aegean outlet, Manuilsky sajd he |favored a return to the Bulgarian irontier as provided in the treaty lof Bucharest in 1913, This would |give Bulgaria western Thrace and the present Greek harbor of Alex- |androupolis (Dede Agach). doing his share to take care of the food storags problem. The fresh corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, to say nothing of the melons and fruit; States newspapers calling for fi- nancial contributions to aid illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine. “The nature of the State De- «that Leo is keeping from spoiling ,partment's respcg se is not yet is amazing. He is in very goodlkncwn to me,” the spokesman said. trim right now for the race, thoughj One advertisement cited, pub- at times I fear he might be over-ilished in April, referred to “Ameri- coing it. The dry heat here Leund to dry out his car, so T am sure that he has the right lead in trying to compensate for it. We are stopping for the night at Rcchester, Minnesota, the home of the Mayo Clinic, at a little cottage by & lake. is i can dollars” being pitted against “British arms.” Another said that 1$250 would pay for transport of a |Jew from Furope to Palestine. DETENTION SHIPS AT CYPRUS NICOSIA, Cyprus, Aug. 14—Two ¢shiploads of persons, reported to be the most desperate of those ar- 112 DRIVERS IN RACE rested in recent roundups in Pal- AKRON, O., Aug. 14 — The hopes | of 112 teen-age youngsters today centered about their sleek little heme-made gravity propelled rac- ers and the 1,000-foot track of Akron's. Derby Downs where the National Soap Box Derby takes place Sunday. i One out-of-town contestant, 15-| year-old John Slinger of Elizabeth, N. J, alrecady was on hand to size ‘up the race course and tune up his car. Others will arrive in the next few days from all parts of the country. Traveling the greatest distance will be Leo Osterman, winner of the Derby contest in Juneau, Alaska, D e estine, anchored in Famagusta Harbor today under escort of the British Cruiser Ajax. (The British Colonial Office said the two ships were carrying il- legal immigrants, “but no recent- ly-arrested desperadoes.”) The ships were described as de- tention - vessels under strict disci- pline, The Government of Cyprus is- sued a decree formally authoriz- ing the detention here of Jews intercepted while trying to enter Palestine illegally and providing a penalty of one year in prison for any who escape. |Theatre in the Airborne Infantry Wincenty Rzymowsky, chief Polish [for three years’ service. Also signing | delegate, also declared Bulgaria “de- WILLIWAW FORCE for that theatre and the Airborne" | Infantry was Billy D. Smothers, 18, ja resident of Juneau and Grants | | Pass, Ore. He will serve three years. ; Peter Jack, 19, of Angoon, joined | (during which he will serve in the | 'Jack had previously sérved two years in the Navy at Kodiak. | ————————— AT BARANOF | Arrivals from the States regis-| (tering at the Baranof Hotel arc:‘ Earl E. Shower, Spokane, Wash.; | Elizabeth Buckipy, Los - Angeles, | Calif.; George V. Beck, Portland,| Ore.; Philip T. Rich, Reardon J. Nehiels, Midland, Mich.; Fred L.I Shephan, San Francisco, Calif. i serves an indulgent peace.” 1 Greece swiftly dissented. Her chief | delegate, Premier Constantin Tsal- | daris, accused Bulgaria of interna- | tional crimes and declared the draft allied with Germany in the last two, which associated herself with the ' German aggressor.” [ Koulishev acknowledged that Bul- ! garia (traditional Balkan friend of Russia) had declared war on Great Britain and the United States, but asserted: { “The Bulgarian Army was merely{ STOCK QUOTATIO! NEW YORK, Aug. 14 — Closing 101%, Anaconda 47, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 94%, Kennecott 58'4, New York Central 23%, Northern Pacific 28'%, U. 8.} Steel 90%, Pound $4.03%. ! Sales today were 800,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 203.99, rails 63.12, utilities 41.60. | - e —— Iceland was first settled some-' COMING TO ALASKA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14—Six- th Army headquarters announced | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | tpe advance unit for winter com- the Army for a three-year period |treaty for the country which was Stock today is 7%, American Canipgt manepvers in Alaska and the Aleutians would leave here today by plane for Seattle on the first lap of the trip. Task Forces Williwaw, Frigid and Frost, with a total of 2,700 men, will participate in the maneuvers and will test various types of Army equipment. The meneuvers will be held from September through March, Maj. James Millot, 37th Division used as an occupation force and time before 800 A. D. by a small veteran, leads today's advance from not one single soldier fought against |colony of Culdees or Celtic hermits Task Force Willlwaw, which train- Yugcslavia or Greece.” { from Scotland. ed at Fort Ord for the operation,