The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,412 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1946 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTE ALASKA RELIEF SHIP TO HAVE 4,000 T ON Stalin Gives His Opinion On Many Questions NO ATOMIC " BOMBNOW IN RUSSIA Takes Rap at Churchill- Says War 'Instigator’ Should Be Curbed By EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW, Oct. 29.—Prime Min- ister Stalin declared in a statement made public today that the Soviet “Union has no atomic bomb or anj thing like it, and urged “rigid in- ternational control” of atomic en- ergy. B The Soviet leader, replying to 31 questions submitted to him by Hugh Baillie, President of the United Press, said Russia’s troop strength in the occupied countries of eastern Europe totaled 60 divi- sions, and would be reduced within two months to 40. Stalin expressed opinions on a broad range of subjects, covering almost every paramount interna- tional issue. His replies were broad- cast this morning over the Moscow radio. Curb War Talk Asked what should be done if the | threat of a new war should arise, the Russian leader said its “insti- gators” should be curbed, and he TWO MEN MISSING AT NOME Not Reported Since Lin- | coln Hotel Collapse- Storm Warning | NOME, Alaska, Oct. 29.—Resi- | dents of this far north community today faced the possibility of new | storms even as they sought to lo- cate two men feared to have been lost in last weekend’s blasts. New storm warnings were posted |last night as south and southwest winds whipped up to gale velocity diminishing from their! 60- speed during the after | mile-per-hour day. (The steamship North Star is re- ported stormbound at Port Clar- ence, and the Oduna stormbound at Naknek. Both were enroute south.) The two men, Emil Laurin and Ernest Balsinger, were unreported since the Lincoln Hotel collapse at | the height of the weekend storm which damaged 18 buildings. With only one more ship able to reach here before the winter freeze- up of Bering Sea, residents see {little hope o1 reconstruction work I'to the city’s hard-hit business dis- BULLETINS MOLOTOV IN 'ADDRESS 10 UNASSEMBLY ;Soviet Unidn?l?eady to Ac- WASHINGTON—AI fats and oils are now free of price control. Most of them had been ireed previously but a new OPA action today com- pleted the job. | YAKIMA Delegates from five | northwest states and British Col- umbia are attending the tenth an- BIGPOWER VETO ISSUE ISDEBATED 5U. \ Dele:giation to Ap- Truck Haul Ove iMay Be Settled Shortly; Two Governments in Move | hat | F I ERY IA l K [;:mml States trucks to move goods BIG CARGO NOW READY IN SEATTLE Designatibnrbfrtrafl Await- r Highway OTTAWA, Oct. 29. confusion over Indications the right of | nual convention of the American | | Federation of Labor Northwest | hR H c i pedcaion o Lo Nernwett - count for Troops on - { proach RussiatoEnd Con o v the ataea ey, €0-More Angles Reveal - Council. The four-day session clos- H S H 0 0 H may soon be ended came today . Pyt . Foreign Soil . froversy Over Question . T i o araer s 00 A% ORI T gates are participating. : ey | sions by the two governments o bl NEW YORK, Oct. 29 Soviet | NEW YORK, Oct The Unit- ' | Last week Senator Warren G.| SEATTLE, Oct. 29—A cargo of NEW YORK—Leading sugar re-|Foreign Minister Molotov told the ed States delegation disclosed to- | Magnuson of Seattle asked the U. 4,000 tons for shipment to Alaska finers have some good news for, nited Nations Assembly today|May that it would spproach Rus- l | S. State Department to inquire into already is listed and approved, but American housewives in the east|that the Security Council had madesia directly in an effort to end y |an ailegstion that U. S. shipments is waiting for designation by the and south. They say cane sugar |8 “sreat mistake,” which xt‘duced‘!hv centroversy over the Big Pow- | were being barred. Canadian auth- Maritime Commission of a .rr-nr-f will be on its way back to eastern mlz\\luhom“. in I'er'lll:m!H\N‘l‘;m‘:;‘ V;‘J‘«):‘ \\l'hl;hl was :‘hmp‘!livfl in R — lm‘flh'.\ said there was no treaty ship and an agent to -handle it. & ey grocery shelves by;2nd Iranian s to drop thejthe United ations Assembly to- " . 7 | covering such shipments an are Shipping concerns S § PTG e S e D i s G Tate. | Stores: | PseUA0-LIDBRRIS | e S o Gt Doa | tnia. slesr Ay O ¥ il | Speaking before a large Assembly |ment delending the veto H H H toms regulations for *“in bond”| Lieutenant Cammander E WASHINGTON — The OPA has ducience after teing welcomed by ®The Assembly delegates ~looked in Both ParileS—Flghf moversnts by trusk in Canada,” |Ohester, Alkaka A, e announced: that cotton textile pric-|Prolonged applause, Molotov; deliyfly Siet, Forelgn Minister V. M Is Urged Yesterday, in Seattle, Senator Alde, said he had telephoned and e honsed during. thel€7ed his address in Russtan for|[Molotoy for an expanded declgra- S urge: Magnuson released a telegram from telegraphed in efforts -to expedite month of November -despite the|¥hich pending official translations, Han ‘ot policy in his speech sched- M g fiean ‘Achéson nt Secretary haming of the ship. Pt that fhey Bed 1k I8 each of | . 81 unofficial English versionjuled for 4 p.m. {EST). TACOMA, Wash, Oct In alof State, saying his Department's The Commission's Assistant Dir- the three previous months | was available | ' As small nations took the ros-|fiery denunciation of the “pseudo-|understanding was that “in bond" ector, G. H. Wagner, said he had s | Presumably leading up to a dis- tfum one after the other to urge literals in both parti former | shipments were allowed under an Pominated Saturday through his HONOLULU-Eric B, Croft, chief cussion of the veto question, hellimitation of the veto in the Se-|Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wal-|existing agreement. He asked for/San Francisco office a ship to CEAN Pabifit Buteatr atdns Xntcr»‘dm.]""‘d !}hul there are some “un-'curity Council and appeal for bi2|jace last night urged a battle specific information so the matter make the voyage (BT Boarhiient says- thiaed 4 1D “b-‘:;‘l‘l““‘:‘:“\'l1::“"?& ]lll‘(lluwlu\l\lmklhf:: Frl::r . Um~<,1%:~n-ag::].:._w:ll'l \\i\;;:“I':'Illlli‘ll'\l}‘é"ag:un.\l rv.w(‘uvn by liberals of both|would be further discussed with| The vessel. will go to Kodiak stacle in the path of Hawaii at- ln“'l‘;In‘-ox))]‘um'(l bm-l“”w % h;d A\l‘»'m' s wurkn:i: . "A s m(i l‘)rmm'\:nu- and Republican! Canadian authorities and then back along the coast to taining statehood tie- aaried ¥ i : ml.;; Waseg e g ]".‘mp“l m!’-‘fi;}]“‘-\-[} iy e e s | External Affairs Department said |Cther Alaskan ports. -Only food. o | atoiotor acknanded that el coun- s RBRIALy with ‘sli the five st 48 & vegall L RO TS| an lnsg, el tigtl ol £1otbing, JpCiol mipRIEs QR NEW YORK—Spokesmen for the .’ o0 g 50 o Tl . . g 3 o Wi AJustmpny o I itical | sions were underway with the Unit-|S0¢k fecd are being accepted for tries chould give an accounting of major powers, including Russia, in lines which would create a Liberali ed States on the of the high- the cargo. Commander Chester little nations, one after another, urged limitation of the big power veto voting rule today in pleas be- their |said the give full troops on foreign soil Soviet Union was ready to infermatis and an effort to reach an off-the-floor and a aggeement he disclosure of the U. S. plans Conservative party in the United States, | “It is time that the parties right way by through truck trafiic fromSays he hopes loading can start to- the United States to Alaska maorrow, O . Intcrmaifon trom, shippers is be- - — folfe consultation with the .Big “"eithemselves on these problems and' SEATTLE CC ACTS ing collected by Art Ganson of | e a e ’ B el Winson ORurshll. o i scies. |fore the United Nations Assembly. tain’s war-time Prime Minister, of | peforts to bring. emergency. £00d | Npw yORK “The distribution of i among such instigators. He| ashore {rom the steamship Victoria| tooq and other consumer goods sald, however, that he did not|were hampered yesterday by Sand| puiied sharply in New York today | 'NEW GRUMMA agree with U. S. Secretary of State | 4 . . o o i retary of State)and debris which littered the har-| gity the end of the trucking and (Continued on Page Five) - The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—It is interesting to look over the field of candidates Weaver, Alaska Airlines pilot, for-! the Republicans have rushed in to merly of Tacoma, was believed to-| run for Congress now that they;du_\v to have perished. Part of his: States has accus expect a landslide. Fortunately for them but unfortunately for the miles south of Kotzebue. He ha(l_;,mc,, parties in the Nov. 19 elec- country some of the'voters are not | been missing since last Monday on tjon campaign, the State De taking the trouble to dig into their regords. ‘Take, for instance, the record of Fred W. Danner, Republican can- didate to Congress in Akron, Ohio. The average voter does not have the time and inclinatjon to exam- ine documents in the Recorder Oifice in Summit County, Ohio, but if he did things would develop. These records show that Mr. Danner, who now seeks to be paid by .the Federal Government, for three years did not even bother to pay, his taxes to the Federal Gov- ernment. In fact, he did not both- er to pay up his back taxes until June 27 of this year—just a few meeks after he was nominated on #4he Republican ticket. Only at that very late date he finally straightened out his tax record with Uncle Sam. ‘Meanwhile on Sept. 11, 1939 the Collector of Internal Revenue, be- ing unable to collect $273.71 of back taxes, filed a lien against Danner’s property. Then, as further Federal taxes remained unpaid, the Col- legtor of Internal Revenue filed seven other tax liens totalling $3.- 280.22. These included Danner’s in- come tax for 1940, social security taxes for part of 1939, and capital stack tax for 1940. Though Mr. Danner was unwil- ling or unable to pay his taxes to the Government which he wants to represent in Washington, last spring—when he decided to run for Congress—he seemed to have plen- ty of money. At that time he spent a total of $14,553 on his primary elegtion, polling a total of 14,416 votes, or one vote for every dollar spent. He is now reported to be spending even more. BRITISH ENVOY WASHES 3 DISHES When British Ambassador Archi- bald John Clark-Kerr made an un- announced visit to an Iowa farm yepently he threw a big scare into e (Continued on Page Four) some interesting ! ‘| refreshments provided |Elks, as well as local members, are i bor. I J ST T 'FLIER WEAVER IS BELIEVED T0 HAVE PERISHE 29—Norman NOME, Alaska, Oct | missing plane was found seven a flight between Candle and Kot- |zebue with mail ! Weaver took off from Candle a| {week ago yesterday on a flight to | Kotzebue. Although no trace has {teen found of a body, discovery of !the wing was the first hint of the . pilot’s possible fate. Weaver for- imerly lived in Tacoma. ‘GOVERNMENT IS ~ GETTING LESS IN ~ SALES, SEAL SKINS | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 — The | Government is now getting than two-thirds as much' for its Alaska fur-seal and fox skins as |it got last spring. i’ The Fish and Wildlife Service re- | ported today that prices paid for seal skins at an auction in St | Louis, Oct. 21, were 37 percent be- |low prices at a similar April auc- |tion. Bids on fox skins were 36 | percent below those of April. { Acting through its agent, the !Fouke Fur Co. of St. Louis, -the | Government auctioned off 26,032 finished seal skins from the Pribi- lof Islands, for a total of $1,397,384, |or an average of $54.45 per skin. Six hundred and sixty-four fox skins were sold for $6,321. Bl ST, 'ELKS ROLL CALL TOMORROW NIGHT Juneau Lodge No. 420, BP.OE, will hold their annual Roll Call tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, with {special entertainment features and All visiting cordially invited to attend. | - KENDLER, JR. RETURNS Joe Kendler, Jr., returned by | PAA plane from Seattle yesterday, after a month’s visit in the States. IS FLOWN HERE FOR AC AIRLINES Alaska Coastal Airline’s new sev maritime strikes. Along the water- fronts, trucks and stevedores strove to clear jammed warehouses and crews of some 400 long idle ships! were back cn the job. ’ —— en passenger Grumman, which was SOFIA Complete returns from flown here from Seattle last Sat- the Bulgarian elections showed to- urday by Shell Simmons, co-owner Iday that Communist-dominated | of the company, is now undergoing | Fatherland Front parties polled 2,-Ye-painting and refitting. | 980,175 vctes, compared with 1,230,-! The plane, which is a duplicate ; i ' 960 for opposition groups. ‘ul the two present Grummans,| R came from Trinidad, where it had WASHINGTON — The United Seen 500 hours service under the sed the Rumanian British as a navigational and 'bombing training plane. It arrived here still in its flashily colored coat of camouflage paint This plane marks the third ad- been sent to Rumania, it was re- dition to the Alaska Coastal squad- vealed, reminding that nation of 'R in less than a year, and Sim- lits promise last January to guar- mons said that the company now government of intimidating oppo- art- A note h ment disclosed today. aRiaoT s eaSaibabine lowns 11 planes. The latest addi- Nk itlon will not go into service for approximately 30 days, until new CROCKETT, Cal—The Californ- ian and Hawaii Sugar Company,| the worid’s largest reiinery, began ! clesing down today for lack of raw: sugar held up by the maritime strike. installations and testing are com- pleted. - - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 29. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine MILWAUKEE, Wis—Picket line ! stock teday is 57, American Can viclence erupted today before the' 7 Anaconda 35':, Curtiss- i, International Haryes- Kennecott 43, New York strikebound Allis-Chalmers Farm' wyight { Equipment plant for the second ter 69, | successive day as CIO United Au-| Central 54 |lom0hk‘ workers fought to bar|gy. s. Steel 68's, Pound $4.03 | participants in a back-to-work| sales today were 1,240,000 shares. | movement from going to their jobs. Dow, Jones averages today are i | as follows: industrials 164.21, rails | WASHINGTON The Senate| 4652, utilities 34.38. Campaign Investigating Committee gave a clean bill of health today to| BUTTER, EGG PRIC | Sen. Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn,| SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—Butter pric- land a committee source predicted s to retailers, AA93 score, prints | a duplicate will be issued soon ror‘&?» cartons 90 | Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss. | Egg prices to retailers large grade ) AA, 69, medium 58, small 44-45. R - FISH LANDINGS | , SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The CIO| | United Rubber Workers Union set | the post-OPA demand pace today | by asking pay increases of 26 cents an hour for its 193,000 members. | Only two boats have landed car- | | goes | - of fish at the Cold Storage | WASHINGTON — The Armored ! this week. They were the Gordon Cavaury Journal said today in a D. skippered by Dan Stanyorth, | copyrighted article that the Rus-, with 17,000 pounds of black cod jan army is the largest in the|and halibut; and the Wanderer, | world with China second, Great under .S. A. Stevens, with 2,000 lbs Britain third, the United States salmon. Both boats scld to Sebas- tian-Stuart. ceee - — LOS ANGELES — International! HYNES, FURNESS OFF President Milton Murray of the ON TRIP TO INTERIOR | C10 newspaper Guild was enroute Frank W. Hynes, Regional Di- | here today to sit in on possible rector of Fish and Wildlife, and | resumption of negotiations with the Milt Furness Administrative offi- strike-bound Evening Herald-Ex»lcer. F&WL, leit yesterday for pre Fairbanks on official business. PEIPING—Unconfirmed Chh\kfit? Mr. Hynes will be concerned with news dispatches tonight claimed the | official work on the Karluk land Nationalist capture of Communist- reservation case, and Furness will {neid ‘Tunghwa and Linkiang, 130‘make a general inspection tour of and 180 miles, respectively, north-lall Fish and Wildlife properties in east of recently-won Antung, that area, , fourth and Yugoslavia 1ifth. , | | 5%, Northern Pacific 19z, on T4¢ veto question was made in a statement by an ' American | spokesman who denied a published veport that the U. S. delegation was working with Great on a compromise formula - — GOVT. MAY STEP " INTO DEADLOCKED " PILOTS’ STRIK Britain 29. WASHINGTON, Oct. Presi- dent Truman’s top advisory com- mittee on ation was expected to intercede tecday in the deadlocked 1eight-day-old pilots’ strike. | The walkout, involving 1,400 I'Trans World Airline pilots, has tied (up the 28,000-mile TWA system in a dispute over wages since Oct. 21. | The question is whether the Gov- ernment, as urged by both com- {pany and union, should take over |the line to get it back in operation | - e — | FISHTRAP HEARING IS ~ NOW SLATED SEATTLE, Oct. 29. — Opponents of Alaska, fish trap legislation will be given a hearing following next | month’s Fish and Wildlife session Lt. Gen. R. A. Wheeler, Army En- | gineer Cor] Commander, id in | response to a request that legisla- {tion be suspended for one year un- 'til it can be threshed out with the Department of Intericr The suspension was asked by Archie Shiels of Bellingham, chair- man of the executive committee of | Pacific American Fisheries. The meeting, sponsored by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, al- so was attended by R. P. Robin- scu, Wenatchee Chamber of Comi- merce president, and Rufus Wood, publisher of the Wenatchee World, in behalf of the proposed Foster Creek Dam. “I have already appeared for sev- days before a Congressional | Committee, speaking in favor of your project,” the General assured them eral WIFE - - MAKES CHARGE his wife, Dorothy, with ass battery, pleaded not guilty when arraigned this morning in the U. 5. Commissioner’s Court. Bond was set at’ $500, and the case is pend- ing hearing at a later date quit deceiving the people.” { | Wallace termed the late Wendell | Willkie as one of the few liberals ever to lead the GOP and Willkie, he said, was hated by Republican Senators in Washington The former Cabinet member classed both Governor Harold Stas- |sen of Minnesota and Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, Republican, as “pseudo-liberals,” and declared | there “no danger” of the Re- publican party nominating Stassen for President “because Stassen bas at times expressed liberal senti- ments.” - Prospecting For Oil Will Be Encouraged Revisions Mad; in Mineral Leasing Act Will Pro- mofe More Efforts ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Oct —Undersecretary of Interior Os L. Chapman asserted today that “there can be no dcubt” that visions made in the Mincral Les ing Act will encourage prospecting for oil on public domain lands. | In a speech kefore the mine al isection of the American Bar As- |sociation, Chapman warned, how- lever, that States should supple- ment the act with laws of their iown to conserve the resources of (known oil fields. 20 | Chapman dmcussu& changes the Mineral Leasing Act under leg- islation by Senator O'Mahoney (D- Wyo.) passed in the last Congress. “It is also necessary that the States which will benefit mest from this measure ¥hould enact laws {which will assure the efficient pro- duction of the oil and gas which have already been found and that | which it is hoped will be found” he said. “With one exception, these States have not enacted such laws It will take legislation by these | States to apply uniformly the prin- ,ciples of engineering the country \which are necessary to prevent |waste and to increase the ulti € recovery of oil.” Prospecting for oil on public lands is expected to be stimulated under the revised act through lib- eralization of regulations applying to royalties, limitations on acre- age holdings, authorization of op- tion agreements and lease exten- sions, Chapman explained e, Empire Wantads get results! SEATILE, Oct, ~The Seattle Chamber of Commerce, on behall of the Fairbanks, Alaska Cham- ber, asked the Northwest Trade As- the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Ganson says the cargo already listed includes 35 hundred tons of dry cargo, 400 tons of refrigerated sociation today to protest to the cargo and 110 tons of cooler cargo. Canadian Government against the reported restrictions on trucking over the Alaska Highway Information received that a large convoy is ed at Edmonton, Alta Following a telephone convers tion with Fairbanks officials, Glenn Carrington, Chairman of an Alaska Relief Subcommittee, wired Stan- ley McKean, Vancouver, B. C., President of the Northwest Associ- PICKETING AT FRISCO SEATTLE, Oct. 20-Acting Se- attle Agent for the AFL Master Mates and Pllots © Association, Captain C. F. Petersen, says the Seattle local was “almost certain” to approve at a meeting tonight a San Francisco headquarters recom- mendation that it start picketing the waterfront Petersen says the coastwise ac- here said now strand- ation asking that a protest be ticn was recommended because of made in the name of the Associ- failure by the operators to make ation concessions the union regarded as In a letter received here, the comparable to those made by the Masters, Mates and Pilots. Up to this time the union has not par- ticipated in picketing. No More Rellef Ships Fairbanks Chamber also said the| city is faced with prospects of food, clothing and supplies shortages Le- cause of the maritime strike and demanded that the Canadian Gov-| Captain Pctersen also said his ernment “live up to its Alatka Policy Committee had decided Highway agreement” with the t sailing any more reliel United States. because, he charged, Alaska operators are refusing to hire pil- ots on thece ships and are “taking 'advanta of the union - BONDED BOURBON “We 'rocently released the Cor- ‘ ova for a relief trip to Nome he said. “Now we are receiving rams saying the ship is put- te c“ MARKH’ SOON ling into ports in Southeast and Southwest Alaska to load com- mercial cargo in violation of our agreement.” This move, however, will not af- Price Will BéTStaggering’ ~Revolt at High Cost 5iuie theone ited for K- fiak. he said. 'S EXpe('ed “:\ .\‘[:uk;.‘\';nn for the Alaska Steamship Co. tonfirmed that the Cerdova was loading southbound but *said the unions placed this when the LOUISVILLE, Ky Oct. 29, ~— Bended bourbon whiskey soon will carge, be available in liquor stores here no restrictiol on and elsewhere, industry spokesmen ship was released. said today, but “the price will Although only one passenger was stagger you a bit.” aboard northbound, the ship car- P. Booker Robinson, Liberty Na- ried a full crew of cooks and stew- tional Bank's Authority on Whiskey ards so that a full passenger load Dealings, said the prices probably could Le brought back, the :Zokes- would range between $7.50 and $9 man said “There unions evidence a fifth, compared to a price of was n arcund $1 a fifth under OPA ceil- would refuse cargo and the Cor- ings. But there was little or no dova is loading a return cargo. merchandise available at the latter The Governtnent gets the revenue figure from the ship and we are only Zach Oppenheimer, president of doing what any agent would do. the Kentucky Liquor Dealers As-|!I¥ing to get a load back sociation and of the Louisville Li- “All the unions would have to quor Dealers Association, said deal- do.” he said, “would be to tele- ers in this area had threatened a Braph their agents in Alaska fo revolt at the proposed higher pric-|Téfuse to load the ship. The ship es when bourbon becomes more SAiling was listed to earry an \plentiful—“just like the housewife Army cargo north, and has a mas- Hidian imeat.” . nd three licensed deck officers | capable of navigating the ship te Latest ofiicial figures from the ,State Revenue Department, show- and it is to travel via the “Outside od there were 1586385 cases of Pacsage” and will not need apilot, bended whiskey in Kentucky ware- Ne added. It is equipped with houses, as of last April 30. But rader. fathom meters and divec- Robinson said there ‘probably had|ton finders been in increase singe that time. i Hutare 1 o MEETING AT FRISCO here are teo rare white buf.| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29—Wat- falo living in the United % (Continued on Page Five) .