The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” —_——— — ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1946 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— | VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,369 3,000 SHIPS TIED UP ON Killed In Plane Crash Near Four Are THREE COASTY CRAFT HITS _ ANVIL MOUNT, IN DENSE FOG Furrow Plowed in Sloping Hill, Wing Torn Off, Ship Catches Fire NOME, Alaska, Sept. 9.—The new & Mt. McKinley Air Freight, Inc., to-'f day suspended operations between Alaska and Seattle pending an in- vestigation into the death of four persons Saturday in the crash of one of the company’s two planes in a dense fog on Anvil Mountain, iive‘ miles north of here. | The victims were Capt. Marvin L. Pratt, pilot, and his wife, of Bellingham, Wash.; John Campbell, ' Anchorage, Alaska, co-pilot; Lee § Chesterfield, . Anchorage, company Vice-President. { The plane and crew were making their first flight to Nome for the newly-organized air line and had taken off from Fairbanks, The craft reported to the home air field control tower at 11:18 am, that it had cnly 30 minutes of fuel left | and nothing further was heard. ! Later in the day a miner sighted ! the wreckage and reported to the Army air base at Nome. Searchers who located the plane said it had plowed.a furrow up the sloping hill, breaking off a wing and catching fire. | The Captain’s mother, Mrs. Etta Pratt. lives in Bellingham and Roberta’s Pratt’s parents, Mr. and! Mrs. C. F. Reynolds, live nearby in| | & i | ,’*‘ Dorothy Hart, 23, Cleveland, O, beauty who turned down a Screen career two years ago because she wasn't “quite ready for it,” studies ker first movie role in Heollywood after finally signing as leading lady for a Randolph Scott picture. She refused a film career when she wen a national Cinderella Laurel. cever girl contest in 1944, (Relatives of the Captain and his| wife said in Bellingham that he! was 25 years old and Mrs. Pratt was 24. They leave a son, Darryl| TA S K Fo R (E just a year old.) Capt. Pratt was said by line of- ficials to be one of the best pilots in Alaska, both the pilot and co- pilot were Navy fliers during the war and had had considerable fly-| NEW USE REPUBLICANS N FAVOR AT MAINEPOLLS ‘ g Governor, Congressmen | to Be Chosen at Nation's First General Election (By The Associated Press) Maine voters harvest the first | | fruits of the Congressional cam- | i])axgn today with a general election !in which the Republicans appear to | hold the edge for Senator, Governor and three Representatives. Nominating conventions and pri- | maries in Connecticut, Colorado, | Louisiana and Rhode Island make ( lup the remainder of the week’s| | major political attracticns | | In Maine, Senator Owen Brew- | ster (R.) is bidding for a six-yea: | extension to, the Congressional | career he began with his election | | to the House 12 years ag» tomorrow. | After the three terms in the Housé, | ! Brewster is ccmpleting his first Senate term. | A victory for him over Peter M. MacDonald, former Democratic State Chairman, probably will, (plunge into an active campaign on | behalf of some of his colleagues. | He is expected to take over com- { |mand immediately of the Republi- @ <« can Senatorial Campaign Commits| e *5* ' b - tee. Gov. Horace A, Hildreth, secking | ' SCREEN ACTRESS. MARTHA VICKERS shows, in Hollywood, his second term, is opposed by F. | Davis Clark, Milo lawyer and Army | veteran, who won the Democratic | nomination. A State veterans’ bonus !is an issue. Hildreth has advocated I'the proposed $150 payments but Clark has opposed the method sug- | gested for financing them—a $16,- | 000.000 increase in the State’s bond- ed debt. % | In the House races, Republican | | incumbents Robert Hale of Portland, | what can be done in making at- tractive beachware of father's— or husband’s—pajamas. The tops make a roomy jacket for lounging, while the bottoms have been turn- ed into a matching beach kit. The usual swim suit is underneath, of course. (AP Wirpehoto) 4 |LIBERAL PATH 'WASH. DEMOS TOLD T0 KEEP | Mk ! , Keynoter F;epber Accuses| | GOPers of Striking at | Russian Ties i OLYMPIA, Sept” 9.—The Demo- cratic leaders of the State of Wash- | ington in a hectic convention Sat- | urday were told by one of their own | Senators the party could not win | « unless it remains liberal and by a | visitor ' from Arkansas that “We | don't have any Republican trouble in my State.” 4 The first observation came from | Sen. Maghuson (D.-Wash.) and the second from Sen. McClellan (D.- Ark.) Florida’s Sen. Pepper, key- noting the convention, accused the Republicans of “striking down the efforts of ccoperation with Russia made by (Secy. of State) Byrnes | and (President) Truman.” | He ‘eomplimented the del tes | with: “f know of no State in which | democracy is so close to the pattern | set by Franklin D. Roosevelt as the State of Washington.” { | Magnuson also observed that “the oppesition hasn’t a program so it tries to criticize ours.” { Planks in the platform, adopted as recommended by the Resolutions | Committee without a dissenting vote, included: Support cf the United Nations; early retu.r. ¢t U. S. troops from all countries except Germany and Japan; stronger price and rent con- trolsy ceiling prices on resale of homes; creation of a State Housing Authority to speed low-cost houses; $100 monthly pension for teachers; | easing of overcrowded conditions at State institutions; new minimum wage of 65 cents an hour now and | Peter DeCat who walked off between 35 (AP Wirephote) Jewish Terror Rl Uiy TUKEEY By | U L “(¥lhoi, BuSiness Agent Of the Sailors Union of and 40 ships in Baltimore harber in thz national maritime stiike. Left te right: Thomas Hedges (kneeling), Union Organized Charles Starling and Wil Nome Seamen Ready Picket Signs |COMMERCE El STRANGLED ~ BYSTRIKE ‘Supplies for Industry Are Slumping Off - WSB Hearing Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The Wage Stabilization Board decided today to proceed with hearings scheduled for tomorrow in the AFL | maritime dispute, even though the seamen are on strike and may not appear. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, meantime, conferred all day at the White House on the strike prob- iem. An associate who told report- ers of the conferences was unable to say whether President Truman | sat in or whether the Schwellen- | bach talks were only with Recon- sion Director John R. Steelman and others, | Up to mid-afternoon, no word | had been heard by the Labor De- : partment on the expected arrival of Philip Hannah, Assistant Secretary, | whom Schwellenbach sent to San | Francisco t¢ meet with Harry Lun- | deberg, head of the AFL sailors un- | ion, | Hannah was unsuccessful in per- | suading Lundeberg to cdne to © | Washingten, with him. Wage Argumeni i A Wage Board spokesman said | the hearings would be on the pes- | sibility of the panel reconsidering | its August 23 ruling which limited | o ¥, TERY wing d o VAN O the Pacific, supervises painting cf picket signs for use by striking seamen | m Duncan (kneelingl. to $17.50 a month the amount of | pay ncreases the AFL unions on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts could receive. This was the amount previously approved for POLES ASSAIL : whegan and Frank Fellows of Ban- FRIGID NOW ing time and experience in the Ter- | NORTHBOUND ritory. b Jack Scavenius, President of the! company organized by veterans | only three and one-half months| ago, left Seattle yesterday for Al- aska to conduct an investigation| 1,500 men of and arrange for removal of the|Force Frigid” s, |for winter operations in the fa northern reaches of Alaska. “Task the Army's “Task — ., WINDOW CRASHER 2 i Task Force Frigid boarded Leo Jacobs was arrested here last|Sea Star which will evening by City Police after he|Whittier, the army port hdd fallen through a large window | chorage, Alaska. The men then at 415 South Franklin street. He'will travel by rail to Ladd Field, 3 ; The purpose of thz Army ground The Washingt e as ln ona semble information on problems Two other ships, the Clarksdale (Today Drew Pearson, back in .|suppli was charged wi%h being drunk. i Fairbanks, to set up winter head- |forces winter test program, officers uerrY a GO _Roundjand difficulties that arise from Victory and the Trinidad Victory, Washington, writes his column = | quarters. aid, is to test equipment and winter conditions. By DREW PEARSON 'will carry Frigid's equipment and Task i the form of a message to the diplo: f the Paris Peace Con- ?boxtt a week for Adak in the Aleut- | R o ians to conduct similar tests. Both ference, which he recently at- tended.) for perliminary traihing. DAY F T6 The Delegates Of The Peace Conference: For many days, gentlemen, watched your deliberations in Par- i5. For many weeks I have studied | all the reports on your progress. I| [NO TAG DAY FOR am not alone. Millions of others| YUGO_SL__A_V RELIEF who' pray their sons may live in McKEESPORT, Pa., Sept. 9—Mayor a warless world, wives whose hus- Charles A. Kinkaid announces he bands' future depends on you. Alljhas cancelled a permit granted earl- are watching you. |ier to the American Committee for We have watched you win a point ' Yugoslav relief to hold fund-raising of procedure and hail it as if you'tag days Sept. 20-21 in this indus- had won a battle. We have heard /trial city near Pittsburgh you debate claims and counler-{ The Mayor said he acted because claims, restitution and national he considered the shooting down honor. We did not send you to Par-|of American planes over Yugoslavia i% to defend our honor; we defend- | “unwarranted and an act of ingrati- ed it ourselves in battle. |tude and unfriendliness against the We sent you to Paris to secure United States.” pedce. Yet you have sat in the red Corp. John Dick, son of a Mc- plush seats of the Palace of Lux.;Keespor[ fireman, was a radio op- efibourg, prim, proper, helpless, erator on the first plane shot down watching a new world catastrophe jover Yugoslavia August 9, an inci- descend upon you, doing little to dent which Mayor Kinkaid said hesd it off. This is supposed to be | “jeopardized Dick’s life 4 time of reconstruction, of build-| e T Iceland is believed to have been colonized originally by the Irish, - (Crmtlnuni on Page Four) | Connecticut Republicans, opening OAKLAND, cCalif, Sep. 9.—The(2 two-day convention today, had all | arrangements made to nominate embarked Saturday|Gov. Raymond Baldwin for the |Force Williwaw” isn't quite ready.|Hart. the | proceed to; for An-| Force Williwaw will sail in/ units have been a Ford Ord, Calif.,| ‘squatters who took over two luxury Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith of Sko- gor, are -opposed respectively, by Democrats John C. Fitzgerald of Portland, Edward J. Beauchamp of Lewiston and John M. Cogghill of | Old Town. Senate scat being vacated by the retirement of Senator Thomas C. SQUATTER - TROUBLES . INLONDON Luxury Houses Taken Over ~British Cabinet in Special Session LONDON, Sept. 9.—The British cabinet met in special session to- day and mapped strategy to check a Communist-led squatter cam- paign to seize public and privately owned buildings for, housing 10,000 persons. Even as Prime and his ministers Attlee meeting, | Minister were ‘apar(ment buildings and eight other dwellings yesterday extended their | “invasion” to four additional houses lin the swank Kensington district. { Many of the more than 1000 |men, women and children who took | |part in yesterday's mass move-in —part of a Communist direct action campaign—declared they would not| budge. | Authoritative sources said the | prevailing opinion in government eircles was that the squatters now | :are taking over private property. rather than disused army camps as |in the past months, and that “ncr- | I mal processes of law” must be used }m get them out. | ——t—— | still was maintaining his “hands- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 89'2, Anaconda 36%, Curtis 6, International Harvester Kennecott 43's, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 73, Pound $4.03%%. Today’s sales were 2,830,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: industrials 172.03, rails 50.45, utilities 35. The stock market lost 1 to more ‘than 6 points today on top of last week's $4,000,000,000 loss as selling was renewed in the face of a threat of more serious labor disorders. The decline wiped out more than $2- 750,000,000 in market values and carried the general list to a new low since late August, 1945. Wall Street quarters generaiy traced the day's selling:to fears of more widespread strikes on the heels of the present tieups in the trucking and tugboat industries in New York City and the country- wide maritime strike. Some of the heaviest selling fol- lowed a White House statement to the effect that President Truman off” policy in the maritime strike. At one time, prior to mid-day turn- over because heavy enough to force the tickers to lag three minutes behind transactions on the exchange floor. All sections of the list joined the break, with individual high-priced issues off as much as 18': points in international business machines. Armour preferred cracked 18 pomts.‘ Eastman was 215, off 7'%. Pivotal groups were hard hit. In the steels late losses ranged to 5% points in Bethlehem, which was a small amount above its extreme low. U. S. Steel lost 4%, and Re- public was off 2%. | Losses in the motors ranged tol 4 points in Chrysler which had' been off 5% points at its worst time. General Motors lost 3%. e — PRINCETON-HALL SAILS | M. 8. Princeton-Hall ,Presbyterian mission boat, skippered by Roland Burrows, left Juneau at 2 am. to- day for the South to pick up slu-‘ , In the Middle Ages, barbers ex- tracted teeth and did surgery. |dents for the opening of Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, | CIO-National Maritime Union mem- [ CampaignSeen U.S. STAND ON $27.50 on the Atlantic coast. other public power legislation and », gell Social Securify bill 75 cents in two years; passage of Columbia Valley Authority and In Breakouts | The AFL had negotiated inreas- | es of $22.50 on the west coast and Wave of New Violences Coincides with Brit- opposition to initiative 166; enact- ment of the Wagner-Murray-Din- B 13 U. S. PLANES GIVE AR SHOW AT ATHENS TODAY ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 9.—The| initials FDR were spelled out in{ ish-Arab Confab | JERUSALEM, Sept. 9.—A British | nformation officer announced to- { jay the Palestine raflway had been ut in 50 places, the flow of oil to the port of Haifa disrupted and two rersons Killed in a sories of out- bold felief today by 73 planes breaks coinciding with the opening launched from the departing United | of “British-Arab talks in London. States carrier Franklin D. Roose-| Exvl nd gunshots broke velt | sut in various sections of the Holy Thousands lined the streets of!Land: The information officer said these incidents were “apparently ancient Athens to see the demon- stration shortly before noon me the 45,000-ton carrier was 40 miles | at sea. part of a larger Jewish teiror cam- paign which partially failed becaus of a break in timing® ] The initials were about a half The officer said he believed the mile long and at 2,000 feet. Thecompaign was planned by either planes flew other intricate designs.| Hagana or Irgun Zvai Leumi (Jew- The Roosevelt, departing for Malta, | ish underground groups), probably Algiers, Tangier and Casablanca,|Irgun, as a demonstration of threaded through mine-fields off | strength to coincide with the open- Greece before launching her fight- [ ing of the London conference, which ers and dive bombers. i"hp Jews so far have shunned LT R - e WINNING BIDDERS |Black Caf Being ON 18 (CC UNITS Airplaned fo ANNOUNCED TODAY Kodiak Successful bidders on installations| SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—A black alley at the Montana Creek CCC camp'cat rode into Seattle in style Sat- near hgre were announced today by |urady—aboard an airplane—and the U. 8. Forest Service as follows: stopped off to await the arrival of Ludvik Gusjaas, one unit; J. R.|its master before moving on to a Hope, one unit; George Bedner, new home in Kodiak, Alaska. one unit; Obe Graveson, four units;| The cat belongs to the family of Ben Rodebaugh, eight units; H. O.|Cmdr. James D. Dabb, USN., which Behrends, three units. Els transferring from Annapolis to Of the 21 items listed for sale!KDdlak His wife and children, on which bids were opened here said Dabb, “insisted the cat must Friday, no bids were received on|go along.” three small structures, a meat| It was sent ahead to Seattle by hcuse, powder house and b]arksmnhiair express. shop. I —_————— Sucgessful bidders have 90 dflysl MRS. MEIERS GOES SOUTH in which to remove their purchased; Mrs. Frank Meiers and daugh- structures from the present site,|ter Rosie has left via PAA plane Forest Service officials stressed. for Seattle where the latter will — - enter the Metropolitan Business The Grand Canyon is 6,000 feet College. Mrs. Meiers will return deep at. its deepest point. within a couple of weeks | Curran Gives Support B RDE | Joseph Curran, leader of 90,000 | National Maritime Union (CIO) | seamen, reaffirmed his support of | the nationwide strike by AFL sea- | men for restoration of a Wage Sta- | bilization Board “pay cut” and de- clared he would demand a match- ing raise for his men. Newspaper Se' Afire | The announcement came as the v greatest shipping strike in history entered its fifth day with the idle- WARSAW, Sept. 9.—Shouting| ness of a half millon men and ev- ‘down with Mikolajezyk, down with ery seaport in the country strangl- the defenders of Germany!" Polish jng international commerce and af- demonstrators milled in front of! fecting many domestic industries. the residence of U. S. Ambassador! gyrike leaders said only an out- Arthur Bliss Lane yesterday and|right reversal would bring a “back- then set fire to part of the news-|tg.work” order. iper plant of Vice Promier Miko- Industries dependent Demonsiraiion Staged at American Embassy- on sea- ‘*"J""l.k | borne cargoes began to feel the im- Thé demoenstration followed a pact of the shipping strike today ithering at the Roma auditorium) while New York suffered the ef- where 5 crowd of 5000 heard Vice|fects of a week-long trucking strike. Premier Wladislaw Gomulka assail| In the maritime strike, Harry U. 8. 8 ary of States Byrnes for!| Lundeberg, in San Francisco, Sec- having the “audacity” to give theretary of the striking Sailors’ Un- Germans any hope for revision of jon of the Pacific (AFL), announc- their eastern border ed that his conference with Assist- Lane was reported to be aw ay injant Secretary of Labor Philip Han- the country when a crowd of 2,000| nah failed to effect a settlement. eathered in front of the I‘ulunlA‘ More Labor Trouble Hotel, where he resides, while about| Otrer labor developments: 200 demonstrators paraded with| 1.-.The International Brothers clenched fists | hood of Teamsters (AFL) at a rank the and file meeting refused to vote on the a compromise proposal to end the Peas-| week-old trucking strike among New York City and New Jersey truck drivers. Dispersed by militiamen, demonstrators moved on to headquarters of the Polish ant Party, which also houses Miko- lajezyk's Gazeta Ludc The news- paper has refrained from joining in| 2.—Pittsburgh, Pa. residents pra= editorial attacks upon Byrnes state- pared for a total blackout after ment that the United States dces, President George L. Mueller of the not consider Poland’s western bord- Independent Union of Duqueshe ers to have been fixed permanently Light Company announced that upon the Oder River power workers would walk off their .- | Jobs at one minute past midnight Log tonight unless union demands are t Seln"‘g Flee' oi mg Philip Murray, President of |the CIO, told delegates to a re- | gional meeting of CIO United steelworkers that the CIO planned to demand portal-to-portal pay for workers in all industries. “Tragic Blundering” In announcing that the maritime Fraser River [ies Upas Big Profest VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 9—The strike would econtinue, Lundeberg Fraser River seining fleet of about'said thzt the walkout was due sole~ 180 vessels tied up today in pro-|ly to “the tragic blundering” of the test against failure of the Canad-| Wage Stabilization Board, ian government to extend s2ining| He said that the SUP had no Loundaries off the river mouth. The} disag ment with ship owners who tie-up involves about 1,300 crew - members, ' (Continued on Page Fight)