The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,401 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —— -] PRICE TEN CENTS — s 10 NAZI CRIMINALS SWING TO DEATH Goer BIRNESON WAY HOME FROM PARIS Will Make Broadcast Fri- day Night Regarding Peace Conference - BY JOSEPH DYNAN PARIS, Oct. 16—Secretary of | State Byrnes, taking off for the United States this afternoon, an- nounced he would make a broadcast report Friday night on the 21- nation Paris Peace Conference. Byrnes and his wife left Orly Field in President Truman’s plane, “The Sacred Cow,” at 3:57 p. m. (9:57 a. m. EST), after a news! confernece in which he expressed | confidence that Yugoslavia eventu- ally would sign the peace treaty with Italy. The Secretary said he thought' that on consideration Yugoslav | leaders would realize that no one power could make the peace, and would bow to the opinions of the | other 20 allied nations. | He emphasized that there has been no change in American foreign policy. Work Accomplished Giving correspdndents his views on the 2l-nation peace conference which. came to an end yesterday with Yugoslav delegates boycotting ! the final session, Byrnes said he felt the 1l1-week-long parley has: accomplished much important work ' in registering world opinions on! peace treaty issues. Asked how he would describe current Russian-American relations, | Byrnes said he would put that in his talk Friday night. The Secretary commented that after trying out the new method of | diplomacy whereby the press was admitted to committee meetings, he was still all for publicity on con- ferences. He said some differences might have been exaggerated by; pliblicity, but that it had permitted | the people to learn directly how! decisions were taken, rather than, learning from a few foreign mm-'} isters, whose accuracy might be subject to doubt. He said he regretted that such conference publicity was not uni- | | | i (Continued mTPZz'ye Two}” The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ‘WASHHINGTON—It wasn’t pub- licized, but at the last session of ‘Congress, the big western cattle-; fen now withholding meat from!: the public also forced the American | taxpayer to continue footing a large part of the bill for feeding the western cattle which he cannot now eat. ‘About 145,000,000 acres of public Iand in the western states are open to ranchers under the U. S. Graz- ing Service. Ranchers are permitted to turn their herds loose on the| public lands for nearly the entire year at a cost of only five cents per head per month for cattle and one cent per head per month for sheep. The Grazing Service, with a force of only 400 men and a bud- t of a little over $1,000,000, has ne a valiant job of fighting ero- sion, keeping water available for vegetation and seeing to it that the land is in good condition for grazing. Total yearly rentals amount to about $850,000, with holf going to| land. Thus, the taxpayer has to pay quarter to improvements on the and. Thus, the taxpayer has to pay | the remaining four-fiiths of the| cost of keeping the range in shape for the big cattlemen. To offset this deficit, Grazingr Service officials have been trying to raise the rental. Private and| state lands, they point out, rent at, from three to eight times as much. The American people, they argue should be permitted at least to "7 (Continued on Page Four) ing 4 ‘Eye to Future’ 0 In an “Eye-to-the-future” contest, limited to hcspital students and personnel in Tckyo, Japan, a bath- ing suit designed by Army nurse Lt. Florence Serbin of Wilmette, HL., wen third prize, in the Ameri- can Red Cross-sponsored contest. The suit, made frem a nurse's old uniform tied with silk parachute cords, is shown being modeled here by Elaine Meredith, civilian actress technician. 'SENATOR WHERRY ISSUES CHALLENGE, PRESIDENT TRUMAN MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 16.—Sena- tor Wherry (R-Neb) today chal- lenged the truthmulness of President Truman's statement that the so- called profiteering amendment to the OPA bill passed by the Con- gress last summer was his measure. The Senator also declared, Mr. Truman had maliciously charged him and Senator Taft (R-Ohio) with maneuvering to break down \price controls. He said the black market was re- sponsible for failure of OPA con- trol of meat, and added that Mr. ‘Truman decontrolled meat because he feared the next congress would abolish the entire OPA. The decontrol action came at this time, he went on, because break- down of meat regulations was hurt- ing chances of Democrats presently running for congressional seats. ——— e — REPUBLICANS MUST PAY FOR AIR TALK NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—The Mu- tual Broadcasting System announces Che | L4 ats e (jalolot;JsQBjy_?T_an RELIEF SHIP FORALASKA LOOMSNOW Three-Man Committee! Meets Today with Mari- | time Unity Com. | SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—Selection of | a three-man committee, one of whom will be Mayor William F.| Devin, to confer with maritime strikers in an effort to determine| what relief supplies should be sent| to strike-isolated Alaska was agreed | upon at a meeting in the mayo ottice today, attended by represen- {tatives of the union's Committee for Maritime Unity. Lieut. Comdr. Edward Naval Aide to the Governor of| Alaska, and John J. Lichtonwalnor | of the Department of Interior will| lalso serve on the committee. Chester was sent to Seattle with instructions to do everything pos-| sible to find an immediate answer | to the question of how Alaskans lcan obtain fcod, clothing, medical| supplies and feed for their live- | stock. i It was agreed that the three-; man committee should define just| what supplies should be cleared for shipment on relief vessels and that,‘ later, discussions will be held on de- |- tails of the movement of vessels. A general meeting of the Mari- time Unity Committee was to be held late today to go into the Alaskan relief situation further. CHIANG KAI-SHEK MAKES PROPOSAL - TOEND CIVIL WAR| i { | | i | NANKING, Oct. 16.—Chaing Kai- shek in one of his rare public! statements today set forth eight proposals for ending the civil war; between his central government ! trcops and the Chinese Commun- ists. “The present political and mili- tary situation in this country must not be allowed to continue and in- tensify the sufferings of the peo- |ple,” said the Generalissimo, recent- | ly re-elected by a standing com- | mittee of the Kuomintang (Gov-! ernment party) as President of! China until a new constitution can be drafted. Among the eight provisions was one that the Communist concurrent with a proclamation for | cessation of hostilities, announce its ' intention to participate in a na-| |tional assembly drafting the con- stitution and to publish lists of, |delegates. The assembly has been | convened for early November, but |so far the Communists have shun- ned the proceedings. — —,———— STRIKE-CLEARED SHIPS NOW HAVE . i | | publican National Committee. it has refused the rezquest of the | Republican National Committee :"orI free time to answer President Tru-| man’s speech on the lifting of meati (REw DIFFI(ULI I controls. SEATTLE, Oct. 16—Disputes over Robert D. Swezey, Vice-President the hiring of a chief engineer and and General Manager of the chain, |Crew quarteds tied up two ships said the network did not regard here today which had been given the President’s speech as a political clearance by striking maritime un- talk. He said the President made a | ions. report to the people in a period of | The Liberty ship Augustin Daly, pmergency. {laden with wheat for the army in The American Broadcasting Com- Japan, was prevented from sailing pany agreed to give free time at;by a disagreement between the 10 p. m. (EST) tomorrow, the Re- ‘iAlaska Steamship Company and the publican speaker to be announced, CIO Engineers Beneficial Associa- today. The Columbia Broadcasting |tion. The company is general agent System gave free time last night to |for the vessel. Carroll Reece, Chairman of the Re-| The Chanute Victory, carrying icargo for the army at Whittier, 'Alaska, was delayed by protests of {deck crew members of the AFL | Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, who efused to sign on unless changes A fire alarm just before 8:30 were made in quarters. o'clock this morning took the Vol-| | RN il ~ unteer Fite department to Prank-i LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. — The lin street in front of the Sugar ynited Nations Security Council Bowl restaurant. A truck belonging gat in closed session today to decide to the Snow White Laundry had whether to drop two controversial| caught fire in the engine, but quick jssues from its docket—the long work with extinguishers put it out' dormant Spanish and Iranian before the fire truck got there. cases. e FIRE ALARM She's Sea Shell Queen Chester,| _ Weston Jayne wears a big smile an sea shell by the sea shore after being named Sea Shell Queen at St. Petersburg, Fla., beach frolics. (AP Phote) | | | | DECONTROL OF WAGES SEEMS PROBABLE NOW WASHINGTON, Oct, 16.—The 1 AFL member of the Wage Stamliza—: |tion Board said today he will ad-| vise the White House that labor never will cooperate with an all- public wage board, being considered to succeed the present three-sided agency. ‘Walter Mason, the AFL represen- tative, and Carl J. Shipley, the CIO member on the Board, were called to the White House for a conference with Reconversion Di- party,{rector John R. Steelman and Econ- p 59 pacusan omic Advisor John R. Collet this afternoon. Earlier the Board's public mem- bers, Chairman W. Willard Wirtz and Vice-Chairman Phillips L. Garman, talked with Steelman and Collet about the conference yes- terday by the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Re- conversion, Wirtz and Garman told reporters that they had recommended a quick decision on the problem of the Board’s status. In answer to a reporter's ques- tions, - Wirtz acknowledged that there had been some discussion of a proposal to exclude from the board’s jurisdiction any wage in- creases negotiated in collective bar- gaining. This would have the ef- fect of virtual decontrol of all wages almost immediately, Wirtz said, and he did not believe that that sug- gestion was being seriously consid- ered. Thus on both the price and wage fronts quick action appeared to ke shaping up in line with the swift- er decontrol tempo signalled by President Truman when he scrap- ped all Federal restraints on meats. — e CHICAGO—Reid Robinson, Pres- ident of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and a National CIO Vice-President, charged today that President Tru- man’s decontrol of meat had inval- idated every wage agreement of the past year. In a telegram to M. Truman, Robinson assailed removal of meat controls. - eee - A honeybee weighs about one three-hundredths of an ounce. 'HANDSOME SLAYER . PAYS PENALTY FOR - FiEhDISH MURDER . Hundreds Mill About Grim | Prison to Awaii Curt Nofice of Execution LONDON, Oct. 16.— George Clevely Heath, handsome yeung former RAF pilot, was hang- d at grim Pentonville Prison to- day for sadistic murder of movie extra Margery Gardner. A crowd of approximately 500 ! men, women and children milled i about outside the prison walls, { waiting for the posting of the curt| announcing that the curly- paid with notice d aviator for a crime Britain. Heath was convicted of slaying ' Mrs. Gardner in one of the most sensational murder trials in Brit- ain’s history. A jury of 10 men snd two women rejected his plea of moral insanity. Mrs, Gardner’s body, nude with ankles bound, was found in Heath's Londen hotel room last June 21. It had been lashed-17 times across the breasts and back, there were tceth marks on the body and she had been severely mutilated with a peker-like instrument. * PASA READY T0 " TAKE STEPS TO END SHIP STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 acitic American Steamship Asso- ciation announced it stands ready today to negotiate with the strik- had 4P d little bathing suit as she helds a to recognize the Committee for ‘Mzmume Unity for bargaining. DREAMBOAT OFF AGAIN, OCEAN TRIP BULLETIN —Westover Field, Oct. 16.—The U. S. Army B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat, which left Paris at 9:39 am. (3:38 a EST), landed at this Army field at 4:05 p.m. with which the engineers are affil- jated, had asked Mayor Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco to hold |meatings sezking a settlement of e 16-day old strike. Lapham sounded out the ship- owners, who declined to participate. The Shipowners’ Association is negotiating here with the AFL Mesters, Mates and Pilots, also on strik> since Oct. 1. Negotiations have been deadlocked since last week in the strike of a third mari- time union, the CIO longsnoremen. e 'WORK HALTED B NAVY ON VESSELS WASHINGTON, Oct. 16— The Nuvy has halted all alterations to except “essential work,” By ROBERT EUNSON PARIS, Oct. 16.—The U. S. Army Dreamboat roared away from Orly Field at 9:38 a.m. (3:38 a.m. EST) today for a flight to Westover Field, Mass, which may set a new transatlantic speed ! record. part of the economy program There were some indications that auising from Ludget cuts, it was an effort wor'c, be made to beat learncd today. the cld mark, but Col. C. S. Ir- An order to all Navy yards from vine of St. Paul, Nebr., pilot of the the Bureau of Ships directed that plane which recently made a 9,500~ altcrations—which were defined as mile flight across the Arctic from ¢hanges in the characteristics of a Hawali to Cairo, declared when V°ssel—must stop unless they: questioned as to whether he in- (1) Affected the immediate tended to go aiter a record: ety of the ship, or, (2) were classed “I'm not going to push it.” Observers expressed belief the ments. Dreamboat would make the flight Repair work is not affected by in about 11% hours, At a rate of the order, a Navy spokesman said about 315 miles per hour. e s i e o | STOCK QUOTATIONS ;':,‘,’,'.'.;’ %ifl'h, NEW YORK, Oct. i6. — Closing His 'rom judg. | quctation of Alaska Juneau mine ’ | stock today is 5%, American Can GcHICAGO, Oc:. 16.—Judge Sam- 83, Anaconda 39%, Curtiss-Wright ye| Heller of the Chicago Licen: 6%, International Harvester 76, court js a man who obviously does Kennecott 47'4, New York Central not like alibis—and especially in 16, U. 8. these days of the great meat short- Northern Pacific 19%, eel T1%, Pound $4.03%. lage. Sales today were 1,650,000 shares., pytcher James Fiduccia appear- Dow, Jones averages today are eq pefore Judge Heller on a charge as follows: industrials 174.35 rails of gjying a customer short weight 45,66, utilities 35.16. i"“ hard-to-get meat. | Explained the butcher: “She was BUTTI\I-EGG PRICES |a- millionaire, Judge, and I thought SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—Butter pric-|ghe could afford it.” es to retailers, AA93 score, prints, Replied Judge Heller: “Must be| 90; cartons 91; large grade AA €ggS g lot of millionaires in your neigh- | 69. |borhood.” Judge Heller went on to| PP !remind the butcher that he had The earth would require almost peen convicted three times on short 2 hall million moons to provide il- wejght charges since 1941 and lumination equal to that of the fined him $200 and costs on the sun. \latest count. Neville | his | which shocked all | ing CIO marine engineers but not' The CIO-led, seven-union CMU,; saf- as essential or emergency rcquire-‘ @ l SUICIDE OF H. GOERING IS ' BIG MYSTERY \Was Always Under Strict Guard-Official Inves- tigation Starfed BULLETIN—Nuernberg, Ger- many, Oct. 16. — Maj. Fred Teich, Assistant Chief Secu cfficer at the Nuernberg prison, said today he was convinced Hermann Goering had carried his death potion with him ever since his trial as a war crim- inal began 11 months ago. Teich told newsmen every inch «f Goering’s cell and his posscssicns had been kept un- | der a microscopic search, and | the manner of concealing the poison with which he cheated the gallows in the 11th hour remained a mystery. | | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PREDS) ¢ How did | commit suicide? the poison? | Those two questions are echoing across Germany and around the ‘wurl(i in a mystery sequel as ilam- jboyant as the chapter in history ;written by the 11 Nazi free-bBooting political racksteers who died in the Nuernberg prison fow did Goering, who was !guarded day and night for a ye: |land a half and searched time and jagalin, get the potassium cyanide Goering manage to Who slipped him |than two hours before he was to hang? ! Official Answer | To give an official answer to that question, a secret board of three men have begun an investigation. But every armchair detective also is at ‘work—and here are some. of the |known clues { The poison Goering took was con- [tained in a vial concealed inside a | copper tube made of an old bullet |cartridge. It was the same sort | *‘75:;{&':1431 an Pngc‘:';m;} ® - SECRET PLACE | i FINAL BURIAL ‘Two Sealed Vans, Under | Heavy Guard, Carry Re- mains Ouf of Prison NUERNBERG, Oct. 16. — Two | sealed vans sped out of Nuernberg prison under armed escort at 5:30 im. teday carrying the bodies of suicide Hermann Goering and his ten hanged satellites I [ ng Poi of poison with which Joseph Gm'b-‘\ BODIES TAKEN, 4 4 son NOOSE COILS SNUFF LIVES' ~ OF GERMANS 1Convicted MénnMeei Death | Stoically After Taking Their Last March By THOMAS A. REEDY | NUERNBERG, Germany, Oct. 16.—Hermann Goering, who ended | his life mysteriously in the agony of poison, and ten other top Nazis who died on a shangman's rope were taken to nameless graves on | this bleak, cold morning in final | expiation for the colossal crimes of | Germany. Grim and manacled because in some unexplained fashion Goering | had been able to escape the ignom- iny of the gallows, Joachim von | Ribbentrop started the death mar- ‘ches and plunged to enternity at {1:14 am. (4:14 pm. Tuesday, Paci- fic time.) | Arthur Seyss-Inquart was dead at 2:57 am, just an hour and 43 minutes after the once dapper Ger- .man Foreign Minister had pulled | taught the 13 coils of the noose | placed by Master .Sgt. John C. | Wood of the United States Army. | ‘The.other eight climbed the 13 black stéps one by one, dying al- ternately on twin gallows ordered by the International Military Tri- bunal of the United States, Russia, r - Great Britain and France. Goering, even by his death less than two hours before the execu- I 5 The,With which he took his life less|tion, did not escape the shadow of the gallows. While Seyss-Inquart and Col. Gen. Alired Jodl still were twitch- ing with the last faint sparks of life, the body of Goering was brought in on a stretcher and plac- ed between the gallows in symbolic execution. The generals represent- ing the Allied Control Council were allowing no legend to spring up that the German who once was outranked only by Hitler had es- caped death Pains of Last Agony The blanket was rcaioved and there lay the former Reichmarshal, jclad garishly in soaking wet paja- imas of black silk and a blue jacket. | | Physicians had used water in at- tempts to revive him. His face was icommted with the pain of his last ju;(,ny. He had swallowed a vial of cyanide of potassium, which kills swiitly, just as Heinrich Himmler | did at the end of the war in which countless millions died, victims of i the Nazi system the 11 ringleaders represented. Takes Myctery To Grave How Goering got the | lit and took it were myster | shrunken fat man perhaps Lovk to | nis grave. In death, he had robbed his ]l’elluwb of another 10 minutes of |life, for it took about that timie | for each to expire and Goering was (to have been the first. | The other ten died stoically, | plunging into an inclosed trap tha! {hid their death pangs from the eight newspaper correspondents and 01 Where the bodies were taken will|30 other witnesses. None collapsed. remain a secret, Captain Samuel |All but Alired Rosenberg made Binder of the Security Police de-|brief statements, the main theme in tail declared emphatically. They went to nameless graves | somewhere, and it is a good guess part of the journey was by plane. The trucks were protected by two jeeps filled with military police and | of which were “long live Germany.” | Most endeavored to show bravery. Screams “Heil Hitler” | Julius Streicher, the bald tormen- (Continued on Page iMwo) - e brandishing submachine guns. Also, the parade was a long black autcmobile and sitting in it was a Brigadier General, The convoy left at breath-taking speed and doubled back and forth over Nuernberg until finally head- ing for Furth, where there are two Army airiields. Both fields were dark and none of the few ants seemed to know anything un- usual was going on The convoy turned toward Er- langer, where there is another Army airfield. Military police threw up road blocks throughout the area and it was impossible to trail them further. The trip lasted two hours appar- ently. An officer included in the party was back in Nuernberg at 7:30 a.m. attend- | 'EIGHTH SEAT IN - LEGISLATURE IS - STILL IN DOuBT Late returns from the First Di- vision as tabulated by the Empire shows that Frank D. Price, Republi- can, has gained on both John W. Smith and J. F¥ (Jo2) Krause for the eighth seat in the House. Krause now has 2443 votes, Price 2439 and Smith 2437, With Kasaan missing, a precinct with possibly 200 votes, and 200 ab- sentee ballots, half of them from Juneau, the eighth seat is still in doubt.