The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1946, Page 1

| accidents in this city occurred at| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,381 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1946 Bob (onverse, Rittenhouse Are Viclims Structure Is Up sef ACA, ELLIS ASK CERTIFICATES, 3 MAIL ROUTES Companies, Ketchikan- small Craft Hifs Ground, | rU 5. s on Russian Side, Juneau-Sitka Service Bounces Into Air, Ex- | plodes af Skagway SKAGWAY, Alaska, Sept. 23.— One of the worst and most tragic about 4:50 o'clock Saturday after- noon when a small two-passenger | Fairchild PT-19 crashed on the tide flats, bounced high in the air and exploded, killing the pilot, Bob Converse, of Juneau, and William | Rittenhouse, Skagway resident. Converse was giving Rittenhouse a ride just before taking off for Juneau. | He was making a sharp turn at| too low altitude when the plane crashed and both men were appar-| ently killed instantly and their| Lodies partially cremated. | The Skagway Volunteer Fire De-! partment responded in less than; 1ive minutes. The plane was a| blazing inferno but the bodies could be seen in the seats in the| cockpit. A rope was attached and the| cockpit pulled away, allowing the} bodies to drop free. Fiancee Witnesses Tragedy Converse and his fiancee, Miss Haffner, also of Juneau, whose par- cnts live on the Glacier Highway,; arrived from Juneau about 9 o'clock Saturday morning to visit Miss‘ Haffner’s sister, Mrs. William Rit-|, tenhouse. The two women were at| the field waiting for the two men to return from their ride. Both women were prostrated with grief.| Rittenhouse leaves a small son be- sides his widow. Story By Eye Witness Ruth Honius, eye witness to the| accident, gives her story as follows: “I had been playing cards dur-! ing the afternoon at the home of | a friend who lives in a house fac- | ing the beach and about one block from where the plane chashed. We heard a plane over the house, fly-| ing very low and recognized the yellow visiting plane which had been flying numerous times during the day at low altitudes. “The plane seemed barely over the. roof tops. The pilot apparently tried to make a sharp turn back tm the airport. It looked like the | s 22! (Conttnued on Page Two) i e The Washington, Merry - Go-Round| | /) By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — In addition to| the tough trans-Atlantic telephone conversations with Senators Con- nally and Vandenberg, there was one other factor in the back of President Truman’s mind which led finally to Henry Wallace's resigna- tion. Truman remembered how, nine| months before, Byrnes himself was under terrific inner-Cabinet fire for entertaining somewhat the same sympathetic views on Russia as 2re now advocated by Wallace. The heat was so great that reports of Byrnes' impending resignation were even circulated and Gen. George Marshall was tentatively picked to take his place. Truman, however, finally stood by ( Byrtes and decided to try out the Russian appeasement policy Wwork- ed scut in Moscow last December. Since then the policy has been triec and Byrnes has come to the conciusion that it doesn't work. *In other words, Truman’s con- clusion after a lot of backing and filling last week, was that the; ‘Wallace policy came nine months too late. Only a handful of Byrnes’ ad- visers know the full story of what‘ happened during his Moscow pil- | grimage. However, he did his best | to carry out many of the essential ideos now put forward by Wallace, and even concurred with Wauace‘s (Continued on Page Four) | perceptable change” Against Britain on Ru- manian Reparations (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A surprise American move has put the United States on the Rus- sian side against Britain in the Balkan economic commission at the Pariz peace conference. Britain has been demanding 100 percent compensation for property iosses suffered by Allied investors and concerns in Rumania. Today, Willard Thorp, the State Depart- ment’s expert on the commission, announced that the United States now is convinced that Rumania ccuid not meet all reparations and compensations included in the or- igiral Big Four treaty draft. Rus- sia nas been insisting from the start that there only be one-third compensation for private property loss: horp took this position that full compensation for damage to United Nations property would mean Ru- mania would have to pay $70,000,000 | for that alone. Of that amount, {$50,000,000 represents damage to ou‘ property by Allied bombers or de-! molition by the Nazis when they retreated. And of this amount, said the American, $10,000,000 has been paid by Rumania. But, Thorp add- | ed, occupation costs and reparations totalling $750,000,000 with which Rumania has been saddled by the Russians was enough for a small i country such as Rumania to pay. Thorp’s statement did not indi- cate what percentage of losses the United States now would ask compensation. But it is clear that the American move has upset the| whole indemnity structure of the peare conference. The British re- prescntative acknowledged that the| American development has changed the situation, but he implied that Britain would hold to its original 100 pereent compensation demand. The French remained on the side- | lines, although they indicated they | might go along with the Americans | and Russians later on. Behind the scenes at Paris, For- eign Secretary Bevin conferred sep- arately today with Russian Foreign Minister Molotov and President Bi- {dauli, of France. Presumably the |talks had to do with Bevin's ef-| { forts to convene the Big Four min- isters conference within 48 hour: a proposal he made during a meet- ing on Saturday with Secretary of State Byrnes. — et — 2,000 WASHINGTON REPUBLICANS CALL FOR FREE SOCIETY SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—State Re- publican hopes were lifted high by the party’s largest state gathering in history—2,000 delegates—over the weekend. The convention adopted a 498- word, simply-stated platform with-| out change and after a single read-| ing. The platform, which Harry P. Cain, convention chairman and Republican Senatorial nominee, de- |clared “dedicates us to unity and {harmony,” subscribes the party to a “free American society and against any totalitarianism fur‘ America.” The platform called for a bi-par- tisan American foreign policy, and declared the party stood for “free enterprise, free from Federal con- Itrols and |economy" " bureaucratic ‘planned free management; free collective bargaining — free from govern- mental meddling; the right to pro- fit; the right to strike.” - — NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y,—“No in| ; “a free trade unionism;" I | WASHINGTON, Sept. Alaskan airlines urged the Civil Aeronautics Board today to grant them permanent certificates to ¢ ry muil over three southeast Alaska | air routes. The Ellis Air Transport and the | Alasza Coastal Airlines asked per- manent certification on a route fror Ketchikan to Juneau and the | Alaska Coastal Line similar certi- fication for routes from Juneau to Sitka and Juneau to Skagway. A Board examiner be granted temporary -certificates for a seven-year period. Theodore Seamon, Counsel for the two concerns, told the Board that having temporary certificates ‘vould interfere with long range planning and financing of the two lines. He said they already had per- manent certificates for carrying passcugers and commerce and said the Postoffice Department had ask- ed for permanent certification on the Juneau-Ketchikan and the Ju- neau-Sitka route. { A Postoffice Department repre- | sentative told the Board the De-| partment wanted permanent service {on the two routes, while it had not asked for permanent service on the Jureau-Skagway route. V. R. Grundman, government public counsel, urged the board to grant permanent certification on the Juneau-Ketchikan and the Ju- neau-Sitka routes, but said he agreed with fhe examiner that a seven-year certificate was suffi- cient for the Juneau-Skagway route. Grundman was criticized by James Landis, chairman of the | Board, for not presenting evidence on the financial standing of the | two companies which the counsel said had “started on a shoe-string” and had reinvested their profits in their line. Landis said the public counsel should have furnished data lon what the Skagway route would | cost the Postoffice and how financ- |iag will be handled. The Board will make a decision {later. SEARCH ON FOR " MISSING HUNTE The Fish and Wildlie Re- i gional Office here this after- neon reported a message had been received from the vessel Grizzly Bear, stating that Jim Caldwell had been found and was being brought into Juneau. Missing on a weekend hun! trip to Admiralty Island, Jim Cald< well, Fleet Clerk for the Fish and| Wilaife Service, today was being Juneau. One of four hunters who early ver Inlet, aboard Pete Warner's boat, Caldwell failed to report back to the boat at the agreed time of o'clock in the afternoon. Warner and the other scunded signals and waited for him | until well into the evening beiore | retwrnirg 10 Juneau for aid to Peonar | F&WI. vessel Grizzly Bear went, | out with a party of six men aboard. ‘The Grizzly Bear returned here this morning and was to take out| anotner group of six searchers at 'noon today. | of six which inlet this morning to join in the search. ' AMERICAN LEGION 70 NOMINATE NEW | OFFICERS TONIGHT, American Legion, Junean Post, Post Office Supports Two| 23.—Two . recommended they " sought by three search parties from | Sunday went to Green's Bay, Oli-| i hunters ence search. Last evening the | 1om Parke headed another party went out to Oliver| [ JILTED MISS ASKS | $100,000 2 | \ | MARIE asks $100,000 damages in suit on file in Chicago, charging she came from France to marry a former ANN BRINGHURST, 21, soldier, George C. Pitzer, only to find he had a wife and child. The couple met while the former lieu- tenant was an interpreter for the French underground. | SLAVS SAY HELD AMERICAN TOOK BANKED PHOTOS u. S Embassy Receives First Reply fo 3 Requests on Army Employee i EELGRADE, Sept. 23—The Yu-| goslav foreign office informed the| United States embassy today that Roy H. Stoeckel, of Kearney, N. J., a civilian employee of the U. S.| army at Linz, Austria, was being held on charges of illegally cross ing the border and taking photo. graphs of “different prohibited ob- | jects The foreign office said Stoeckel | was arrested July 15 at the village (of Kramerovac, in the Murska So- |bota district near the Austrian| frontier. i The Yugoslav note was the first. ‘reply to two formal requests and one informal request by the Ameri- can embassy regarding the where- |abouts of Stoeckel, reported miss: ing since the day of his arrest. The “embassy will be informed on the| (further course of the investigation,” ; (it said. | ‘L ‘The only clue the embassy had at the time of its inquiries was a let- ter from Stoeckel delivered by the | Yugoslavs to the British vice-consul | in Ljubljana saying he had been \detained while on a picture-taking |jeep tour. ‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK Sept. ZSACloslng- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 5'%, American Can | 88¢, Anaconda 367, Curtiss-Wright | \6 &, International Harvester 5%,/ ! Kennecott 43%, New York Central| 15, Northern Pacific 17's, U. S‘v | Steel 66%, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 2,110,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 166.50, rails 45.69, utilities 33.69. D Seattle Fisherman - Swept Overboard | When Craft Sunk | SEATTLE, Sept. 23—A Seattle |fisherman has been drowned in a |fishing boat accident near the Inortheast tip of Vancouver Island. ‘Flshermen say Agnal Angell, co- jowner with Einer Peterson of the 72 foot fishing boat Atomic, was suept overboard when the $100,000 vessel capsized and sank in a swell in the Ameri-, will nominate officers for the 1946- Eight other fishermen aboard the can falls was reported Saturday by 47 term at the regular meeting a% craft were rescued. Niagara Frontier Parks officlals| after checking on a report that a‘ _ buge rock fall had occurred. the Legion Dugout here this eve- ning, J. A. Thibodeau, Post Com- mander announcec. L s i TR T There are about 100 species of sunflower. | government | “it- will be too late,” 'CHIANG FORCES LAUNCH DRIVES AIMED AT PORT Funnel for | Supplies to Communists Goal of | New Offensive NANKING, Sept HARRIMAN. | 1S NAMED SECY. COM. ‘Ambassador o Britain Is Nominated to Succeed Henry A. Wallace | 23.—Two crack armies today were re- | ported launching a new Manchurian ! | | | offensive near the border of Rus- s sian-controlled North Korea, aim- WASHINGTON, Sept 23.—W. ing at the port of Antung. One Averell Harriman, United States government spokesman described Ambassador to the Court of S(.! the city as “a funnel for delivery (James, has been nominated to su jof foreign supplies to the Chinese ceed Henry A. Wallace as Su:-x'v(axi\" ro evidence that Russians have giv- en any direct aid to the Chinese Reds. Cemmunist peace negotiator Chou En-lai meanwhile sent from Shang- aid to them and ! term as amba; Incidentally by the British| scribed Har handling lend-leas in his two year dor of Moscow article distributed Press Association d |hai a new written demand that man as always a very close friend, General Marshall's “Committee of of Britain, too. o Three” be resurrected to attempt' Moscow still is silent on Harri- to halt hostilities. The committee’s man's appointment, but Amerizan | E.Rnifizcifinf laJ”I: _l,m‘f‘"‘i‘: efforts to reach a workable truce business men are issuing statements, gwimming suit designed to Show last winter failed. of approval. The latest comes from | off her graceful proportions There wer2 fresh reports—from Robert Wason, president of (m" sources close to Marshall, this time National Association of Manufact-, F | —that the American mediator might urers. Wason said that Harriman 'y w pive up his 10 months' struggle for will strengthen the cabinet. KA'SER DE(I_ARtS fw peace and pc home. TATEMENT : Respite Juneau Boy,Skagway Man Killed, Plane Cr Indemnity ACAEWSASK | as Thnee U ] (r The na fron iscor een ) | Y WO! I 1 ) Communists.” of Commerce. | back to their He did not mention Russia—the, Harriman generally is credited ed cut of Ea {cnly foreign power near Antung— with having had a big hand in Lor nor did he explain whether he framing the current American pol- The r |thought the “funnel” was already in jcy of firmness with Soviet Russia. | Saturday n operation or merely a future possi- It is said he got those ideas on how Coast uni Lility. Thus far there has been to deal with the Russians in| withdrawing pick disr lction CI10” uni | g e o PROFITS NOT BiG - \ LONDON, Sept. 23.—W. Averell ciation PERSIAN NOMAD oo omimatea o & FROM SHIPYARDS .2 | Secretary "of Commerce, said today | York today 'I'RIBES REVOI.I would keep hands off interna-' WASHINGTON, Sept. 23— Henry &0d Pilots tional affairs, although he fully en- J. Kaiser, mass prc of terms in ‘dmsed the Truman-Byrnes foreign time merchant ships for the morrow pORI ATTA(KED | ernment, said today the comktinet! Other | He issued a formal statement' net profits of those companies he the mari |praising President Truman and operated were less (han one-tenth bY a juris TEHRAN, Sem 22— (Delayed)— | Secretary of States James F. Byrnes of one percent of dollar volume af- AFL and Rehellious nomad tribesmen have for “carrying on the high principles ter deducting losses and paying geles, tiein captured several Persian Gulf vil-|and objectives laid down by Mr.! taxes the end of 'ages and launched repeated attacks | Roosevelt.” He again voiced this Kaiser made the assertion in a @ War ¢ upo Bushire, one of the largest| pelief at a press conference. statement given to reporters as he dent of the orts cn the Iranian coast, Lhe! He emphasized, however, that his waited to testify before a House (Ind) and newspaper Keyhan reported today.;job was not involved with foreign merchant marine subcommittee maritime ferred from C I and the The Bushire garrison is still re- policy. looking into profits of ship build- sting the tribal assaults, Keyhan' Harriman said he expected to go ers who used shipyards built by d, and Premier Ahmed Qavama’s to Paris soon for consultations with the government. government has dispatched stror cretary of States James F. He released it as Marvin Coles, trocp reinforcements to the area. |Byrnes. He will return to the committee investigator, told the compan; | United States shortly thereafter to ccmmittee that the total fees and gatior FOREIGN ARMS |assume his new post. profits received by the Kaiser cc the AF LONDON, Sept. 33—A Tehran! The retiring ambassador issued panios amounted to $162237.284 on m government spokesman was quoted his statement after spending the a total capital investment of $2,- union | by (he Daily Telegraph today as|We¢ kend in the country, where he 510,000. ed departy sayng Iranian insurgents were re- received word of Mr. Truman’s an- S 3 wh ceiving arms through the Persian nouncement naming him to succeed Gulf ports from “ a foreign power” Henry A. Wallace. and that foreign warships had been Job Weicomed | ceen near Iranian coastal waters. | the opportunity of A British Foreign Office spokes- Drumbn's “eabinst tas man said that Britain was not sup- Harriman Geneval Who Onee Governed Oregon © Dead af Porland Cabincl “I welcome joining Mr. | Secretary of Commerce,” w to the mpany ma ( plying arms or ammunition to the 'gaiq. “I know the department well, tribesmen. The Foreign Office de-|,s 1 was an active member and. R s o 2 : linca further comment on the re-|then chairman of the business ad- cp.50c §r ppa \’:“ i \.ll \’H:j ']_.' ; volt, saying “it is a matter for the yisory committee of the Depart- [ oo ‘1\'1\‘:‘111 v('l:n-l o :“, ;x.;: ;1' y Persian government.” ment of Commerce during Mr. ... (.“.n..‘.h;];;l“]» Paratilno e tHed up l:‘” i AR e Roosevelts S1pst /(WD SEMIe, was a former Congressman and coast | 'During the past six years in I€p- Gouainor of Oregon, died at his, The b plEA MADE FOR resenting Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.|y oot O o ion Wi 1 Truman on various overseas Mis-|" y. paq lived in quiet retirement directed, in sions, T have had an opportunity 0| w1 pis wife bers the past nine workers on SHIpS To (ARRY learn at first hand the grave yeurs gfter capping a brilliant m month Lonomlc problems lhac face the! |tary carcer with a brief but tu Look To Us [in the 1930’5 L “They look to us with hope and DAL | ‘ faith for help and moral lu\dex- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 23.|ship. Fond must reach Alaska's Arctic| “In playing our part in world re- rim before the end of October or|construction, the development of al the Territorial|stable and expanding economy at| | Governor said in a long-distance [home is of primary importance. ':lnp‘mne plea to Secretary of In- Expandmg peacetime productivity terior Krug to obtain Army tran m the United States available for SMASH VICTIMS BE INTERNED AT DISASTER SCENE (ports or other steamships to haul the needs of all our people, and| FESRES \)n fvod. The Governor urged Sec- Ior export as well, is an essential| GANDER, Newfoundland, Sept etary Krug to 'v.ak(- whatever ac-|and sound foundation for prosper-|23.-—Gilbert Perier, General Man- nuv is necessary” to speed food to ity and happiness at home, and for|ager of the Sabena Airl said Nome, St. Michael, Golovin, Teller, our ability in cooperation with oth- | teday that ths bodies of persons BELGRA Kotzebue and other towns in the|er nations to offer a continuing, who lost their lives when a Bel- learned tc Second Division, which face the helpful hand to the people of the|gian trans-Atlantic airliner crash- sen lonz winter without their customary | world. jed near hi would be prop n'r supplies, as a result of the |“It is the essential base for lasting buried at the scenz of the disas- demand ! shipping tieup: peace that all peoples crave. | ter rather endanger the lives two arm -+ ! “I fully support the foreign pol-|of rescue teams by attempting to five flier ey of Mr. Truman and Mr. Byrnes, |bring the bedies out of tha wilder-| The RUDES HERE |who are carrying on the high prin- ness Yug —— lciples and objectives laid down hv‘ Perier lost his daughter and re- and - Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rude have|mMr. Roosevelt. There lies the road cently-divorced wife in the . crash. lic car arrived from Hoonah and are guests to peace Eigteen survivors of the disaster, is no official at the Baranof Hotel. | Harriman’s appointment was hail- cured by helicopter, are, now in M hal T o ed in British diplomatic quarters, ‘u hospital here. HERE FROM YAKUTA' ‘v»ho believed it would be warmly| Meanwhile, members of an Army rescue party, which hacked a path through tangled forests to reach tie survivors, told the full story of the | disaster. | welcomed by the foreign office - e — Prince Edward Island ada's smallest province, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard D. Ford- borg from Yakutat are staying at! the Baranof Hotel. is Can- et nder The sen. rur Tito States to p: placed m for wa for bi u ptive | pictu ) wards’ old ¢ comp has 1al disy