The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - - = o e e VOL. LXVIIL,, NO. 10,418 el . ]L\ AU, ALASKA TUESDAY, '\OVl ’VIBLR 3 |946 MEMBER ‘\\SO( IATE I) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MAN KILLED BY FATAL BLOW ON TEMPLE DEADLOCK Flying Ace’s Widow Weds 0'Harra Files Iniunclion" She Can'! Keap m xWIFE HITS C(ONTINUES b VN Sale of Chilkoof Barracks; | R. ANDREWS SHIP CASE Ccop Plans Going Ahead - FATALBLOW Only Hope for "Mercy Ship” ! {Tragedy Occurs in Gold fo Alaska Is Quick Seftle- | Street Home Early ment, Says Chester | This Morning BU LLETI\— E'\I‘TLP N 5 | Fcllowjng a quarrel in the bed- —A proposal the Government be room of their home at 315 Gold asked to send someone West claim to purchase the abandoned ong off its five founders is Steve| strect, Clara Zibio Andrews, 50, this from Washington, D. C. with ; i\ i 2 : Army camp of about 400 acres, 85 yarggen Homer, of Fairfield, Conn.! worning shortly after 5 ek R sufficient authority to take ac- ' &0 3 > 4 . miles north of Juneau ex-Navy Lieutenant (jg.) ‘hwod{yl»t‘ruck “her husband, Raloh tion to end the current tiewp of 5 : } The sult sets forth that O'Harra|former Alaska |Andrews, 45, a fatal blow on the the Alaska-assigned relief ship . and the Veterans' Alaska Cooperat- ‘(rmplv l\l\'m\'n water glass. Grommet Reefer, has been voted ive Company each bid $105,000 for yaACCO is a cooperative only to! Andrews, who si 1944“}, s D by the Alaska Committee of the the property. A drawing then the lextent that each member must| 11“»,-"::'\}‘& 10 X nc-Ll as ee: Chamber of Commerce. | ordered by the Interior Depart- puyy one $100 share of common | “‘FmPL)kj 'Ht;‘lml!ll“lt‘sf m l. 000d The proposal was made by Glen ment, and O'Harra won. Then, the | gtock in the company. This in- ;n A;x_mr:m ookl tEE pTBnts Ao Carrington, Chairman of the Veterans' Alaska Cooperative ap-| vestment entitles him to share in hotels, dicd at St. Ann's Hospital at group’s Relief Sub-committee. pealed and after a hearing here, 1oy cost buying of food through as R o onk Fifty-two members of the 105- an Interior Department order dir- Go-gp store, operated by the com- | Tmmediately following Andrew's man Alaska Committee aitended. pany ifor the benefit of all itsf death, his widow was taken into custody. At present she is held at Prominent Alaskans attending in- . . q members i ! the Federal jail on alleged charge Members will also be able to, purchase wholesale supplies um,ugh) cluded Capt. A. E. (Cap) Lath- of . murder in the second degree, on the Co-op with which to operate rop, Charies Hattrick, Ketchikan; formal complaint by Assistant Dis- | their own small businesses. Profits} made by the Co-op wouid be l'l-; turned to members as a aivitiend. ! Arnest Patty and Norman : Stinas, Fairbanks; Cemdr. Jack trict Attorney Robert Boocflever. Homer says VACCO has received | Bercon (USN), Retired, and Lt 1000 applications for membership and currently has 60 members m} Comdr. E. P. Chester, Jr, Naval good standing, Every stock own- WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — Ken- egted sale of the property to the| neth E. O'Harra, Anchorage, Al-| ggoperative | aska, war veteran, filed suit il The Cooperative Company (VAC, District Court today asking an in- gg) already has been laying ex-; junction to prevent government sale {engive plans for settlement by; of the Chilkoot Barracks profect young people, primarily velerans, in Alaska to the Veterans Alaska who view Alaska as a land of op- Ccoperative Co. portunity O'Harra contends he has first, = president of the company and| | | { traveler Cooperation Dying Statement Aide to the Governor of Alaska. A company-unicn dispute over manning the Grommet Reefer has delayed sailing. the dying man made a statement to attending physician Dr. William P. Blanton, who had been called by Mrs. Andrews shortly after An- er has one vote in the Cooperative | ” ¢ 4 drews Hac tas AIE. regardless of the amount of stock ! . . S . Blanton, who notified police im- People GO fO POIIS Eal’ly he owns. v i fi% s £ 5 i mv(hf(:ly. lchm'x“edh A:d:ews subse- Under All Sorts of B B | st Grabah, 24, who pulled out the lucky numbers which won some )y 001 (0 “shock {rom loss of o VACCO's founders say its aim is| 250 Prizes of hard-to-get items given away at a Republican rally in' | gapieq to the scene of the alleged Weaiher CO"dl"OflS “planned settlement.” Its N Denver, had a chanceto examine samples before the draw—but she crime were: Syd Thompson of t) bers must be U. S. citizens s ’ had to give tham all back. (AP Wirephoto) o 4 N8 mnhdifi'g office, a local FBI i peepsg Tt B B i Rioho o cerely ‘enger to go to the Territory,| ———— ! man, Police Chief Leonard Willlam- longer is a relief ship but has be- | @ing in Hollywoed are Qfarjori Maj. Richards B S TR as - ot a o, Aty ey - iefey HID.” i Yt TN, 3 waslen TiprIng #iems salcs ‘HAHAFER BOLK : sel up housekeeping, raise families| ACy,-Wid Askisiang Folite IS SR0 N oagy Y5 4 he 5 AP, 7 Sk 2 > g Heavy balloting in many pop-| and become a permanent part nr) louse. There are parts of Auska | _Bong, an Ameri ace, was killed 15 months ago while i jon centers pointed toward athe community ar u eserva Ion ls ¥ i that are out of everything in the| test fiying a jet fighter plane. (AP Wirephoto) possible record “off-year” vote to-| Six members of the compan: ! Having Difficulties’ The "couple was- married last way of essentlals. The Rellef Com- ‘- = A5y ud- RniaribanRs chose: n ek sircady” at. GHUXGIE (ritesing . mittee has done all it can. All| con i yriv oL ¥ vear October 13, by Commissioner e 1 ress in the first peacetime gen-| for the a 1 of 50 V. O fam-| s ) sS we can do now is hope-for a quick | ¥ SEEKNG (HANGE sral election in six years. 11‘;,), ;‘;‘. e nv‘q;;-m: P | ase e(l e In avor o Felix Gray approximately 16 months settlement of the dispute,” he smd.! Elcction officials called the early| Chilkoot has eighty-six buildings, | o after Andrews had arrived here i i i EN EAB ARTERS lturnout in Chicago "very heavy.”|one of them a iully equipped 1 " [ ::‘im '?k.’:id“"' vty Pr-ewo“hw SITUATION ON COAST although Illinois had neither gov- ped hospital. A complete sewerage Ilfi we .(‘l:m. Mrs. Andrews had SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 — One vo TES II . erncrship nor senatorial races sstom. Fiatar: AT SYduioa)| l::o:y:[m:fl.:w:er:;:: Mlg;;(;r:cg‘:::l:;g ritical issue in the 36-day West In Chio, it £ “unusually plant @ o y are o " . e e A e * GF UNEIED NATIONS b %94 piant - and OB HEREERY QMY ‘”‘; ' ing Alex Zikio, she had carried the FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov, 5 name of Effler and earlier, Roman- Justice Department Instructions 64 “’L”l‘(' aw ll[l}(i l“d“‘& l‘l":ll'(hll ; l: 1t 'ds rcpm'led that the COllplC 4oty day regarding & pa4 . peen “having difficulties” for SEATTLE, 'Nov. 5 — Describing | conferees of the Alaska Steamship Co., and Marine Engineers Union: as unable to agree on methods of | manning the relief ship Grommet Reefer, Lt. Comdr, E. P. Chester, Jr., Alaska Relief Committee head, declared last night the ship ‘“no OCIATED PRESS) are 22, Coast maritime strike was settled | (heavy.” In Michigan it was the|ready for operation last night but both sides agreed | e me. Similar reports came from Plans Outlined today that no immediate return; R . : Pennsylvania. Kansas City, Mo., e~ Homer s [m. Tand and instal- e iy | While RussiaMakBsHatle o5 & exceptionaily hebvy atoist i oo e R R { 1 Dr. Nathan P. Feinsinger, Special | el H vote, 000. Founders of VACCO have out- Government appeal from a decision _ Labor Department Mediator, de-| e on Official American The first precinct to report Was lined these plans, which they say| of District Judge Harry Pratt thay jome time. “Ll';iisntgsl;l::,r:er Al clared optimistically now that . . Pointe Aux Barques in Huron coun-| i) pe the procedure if the rum-' the Department of the Interior pr. _“ 8 4 5! - ow ) groundwork had been laid for n.mwTruman, Daughler Cast Hospllallly ty, Michigan. Twelve of the 13'pan.'ic allowed to proceed: Feservation powers do not appy to HERTY Moy of Sitka and did not agreements not only with the CI0 | B ” ' . H ]- — eligible voters there cast straight ’M, m',,“ s of the Co-op will mme Bhiean: Wwhikts : :tm‘n h(-redunl.us:;oung Olctob?r L el ic 5 3 p ingle % e urn T longshoremen but also with the; aliols in neme lown LAKE SUCCESS, 8. ¥ Nov. 5 Republican ballote, one & SInele i the decreased cost of consumers') He ruled in favor of seven Ko- yo oclioee 10 SUOH ettt o o | s White Russia, in a shatp attack]Democratic, e count from the e resulting from mass purchase, diak fishing companies, in perman- (Continiied on Page Tto) i Off for Washington Yhite RABIA 0 SR precinct in 1944 was 14 Republican, . igad b i ently enjo e e, AL that’ tiine.he ol JUlA Helper c d that th ntl; ing the United States | 1 ] American hospitality, g : by the Co-op. Beyond that the ity enjoining the United States mann Hotel and Restaurant Work- T T S R j i . United Nations today tojSIX Democratic. 1In 1942, last off-'Go o, win' not enter extenslvul), Fish and Wildlife Service {rom cro Union secretary here, that he LSSl opean site for per-|year clection, Republicans carrled ynio the set-up. s v giving residents of the Karluk Res- was wajl washed qut i Juneau” the precinct, 7-6 Merry - Go- Round'w L 1y headguarters arly mentioned the old aticns cgpital in G Members will own their own ervation exclusive fishing rights in gpq®sraterred: to work in Sitka, a whole, fine stores, filllng stations, mu\lr"SharpeS' Criticism Yet waters jof . Igadlak: Isiand st b .d a larg> houses, restaurants and the like,: I The ruling does not involve the Came Here Sunday free from any Co-op control. The! Mdde Delwered by L. land reservations, but only wheth- Mrs. Andrews flew to Sitka Wed- For the country ¢ fall weather encour 9:30 2. m {(CST) today aboard the special i s vote. An exception was the Rocky % i i o s SARAEER N e Presidential train shortly after ia's proposal was filed pro ain area, where one of the Co-op will provide a guaranteed G H (: er Congress intended reservation nesday and returned here wi r By DREW PEARSON “'\ulngg in his home town in the y-General Trygve Lie ;\\Im\:'lll:stllm‘:i\(':lor‘r:s(;rt\ yg:u'x moved market for owners of these small, en I.U(IUS |6Y pewer to extend to ccean waters, |husband Sunday. Andrew's plans |election which w ape the fu- 4= in over the weekend. businesses. Retail businesses will hv; S B - o for future residence are not known WASHINGTON — Unlike FDR, ure course of his administration t Satur ad) UbMIs- | Decpite the heat engendered by restricted in number by the. ex-i oo o8 SONND PORE L gy huy A6, Js - belleved e NAUAD ) private estimate of today’s election 'ganghter, Margaret, who voted for the Ger 1 Ving' anw’ 48 afiajor violence n Main Activitie: [—Lt. Gen. Lucius ay accused Last December Andrews had been and tucked it away in a the first time in the Democratiz’ Lie turned it over to the Assemi-'nNeyw York City's Harlem, a Repub- Four main activities are expe(‘u-d:::;' (,r\l;-’:/l:‘\lm ‘;y(‘::»-v‘:fl x‘x\)ll WANI A placed under formal complaint by on his desk to be opened | a g turr bly’s steering committee which ;. il g §4 5 e 1pply rmel r g ands Lonnie MacIntosh, Narcotic Agent, Dt iprimary last August urned in bly's eerin cc lican district captain reported he to supply employment for all “"“d‘lume,\ ey and eviad ol tu . after the voting is over. {their ballots nearly an hour after meets at 2 p. m. EST, to take up yaq slugged from behind while at Chilkoot. They are lumb on a charge of using an alias to However, President . Truman did{Mrs. Truman. She walked over to a United States proposal to r€oDen’ waiking near a polling place. He shipping, tourist and fishing U"m’rlnn’k.;l the military government would WIIH AMERI(A obtain narcotics. receive a confidential report on|the Séventh precinct of Blue town- the sité question tc include ONI¥ gufrered a lacerated scalp and pos- sufficient capital is raised by in back ‘the obs <ol danariio While in Juneau Andrews had the election’s outcome from Sena-!ship with her sister-in-law and New York City and the San Franl- o internal injuries. dividual members to purchese thess jtion in the American zone SR Ly b L Leen employed at Percy's Cafe, the tor-elect John Sparkman of Alu-lnsighbor. Mrs. Frank Wallace, to|cisco Bay areas along with the sur-i 1n yna swelling tide of ballots, the industries from the Co-op they will The Deputy U. §. Military Gov-- PARIS, Nov. 5 ~Rene Capitant. Baranof Hotel, the Juneau Bus Sta- bama, who called at the Whitelcast ballot numker 31. veyed areas in the Westchestel|yorers registered their reaction to be rented. ernor delivered his warning to of- 2 friend of Gen. Charles De ' tion, and most recently the Gastin- House with Alabama’s Governor,! The President and Margaret ar-|county suburbs of New. York. ly 15 months of government ef-. VACCO plans that employees of {ficials of the provisional German Gaulle, and Education Minister dur- eau Hotel Cafe, just prior to its |government at a monthly meeting ing De Gaulle's presidency, told a closing of the Laenderrat, composed of the Gaullist union rally that his party’s’ Mrs. Andrews, who came to Ju- kmmister presidents of thre2 foreign policy was based on “an al- peau in 1931, had been employed {American zone states. They lict- liance with America in order to con- a dish washer at the Bus sta- ened in glum silence, tain the menacing Russian imper-|tion when she and her husband, Clay conferred with the German jalism” met. At that time she had been leaders briefly after his speech and, Such an alliance also, he said, cperating her Gold Street boarding then reported to a press confer- should aim to “guarantee all th® house, for a number of years. “Big Jim” Folsom, and new Ala’l‘»rivcd at the Memorial Building,] The White Russ bama Congressman Bob Jones WhOvII!rce blocks from their h is taking Sparkman’s place in the|9:05 a. m. an resolution | goyiq 1o shift the nation’s economic all business enterprises will be able; e at mentioned difficulties of housing| p,chinery from war to peace. to purchase an interest in them. nd office accommodations in the =y i expected that fully 36,000,000 Most members of VACCO are House. | The President received his bal- New York area, shortage of trans-y,ies will be cast before the polls veterans, though it is not>required. To them the President expressed!| ¢ from Mrs. Jesse Flower: Re- | pertation, troubles entountered in' jnc. tonight. The veterans will be able to take! confidence that the Democx'ata-pubhm“ judge, after being checked maintaining a liason and the pro-' pere's the election picture: full advantage of the GI Bill and would win both houses of CON-joff the voting by Mrs. James Posed budgetary expenses of main-| 1, par(® 2 Colorado, voters are other veterans' legislation. Special| taining headquarters in New, York. gress. iMlUEl Democratic checker. The trudging through drifts of newly homestead laws for veterans have 4 emarke 2 et ence: small nations the tions of - Despite newspaper polls indicat~lpresident then greeted the other| It remarked on failuwre of e fa)ien snow—which in some places jong been on the statute bOOKS,| .Tpe minister presidents accept- :: :r nn :-;1:1::::1«-“‘: q.:xm?)‘n-l:;-mu:»’.- i ing GOP control of the House ““d‘pmunu officials. v N. to conclude a convention ml. reached 45 inches . . . In Chicago. and some veterans may be able t0|oq my criticisms in good faith wnd development.” He i 3 a tough battle for the Senate, des-| yike Mrs. Truman, the Presidert “the privileges and immunities 0f | g 00 yolunteer: g P ion - Two Former Army re hel lice o i 3 3 are ping po obtain homesteads in areas Near |y ,mised to exert their best efforts as “the only indust Dsation an eye on floaters and repeat- Chilkoot. Others will gain title to 4o potrer results.” pite pessimistic statements bYlaiq. he voted the siraight Demo-|of the United Nations O i S : Ath the government' of the D able of helping us and without ke Governor,Arnall of | 2 o Sen- With the government of the United| g - L a . Democrits like Governor, A letatle fickes, whieh dncluded Sen-ifEs ers ¢ 8 mall sites” under U. S. Public| ackeq what excuses the presidents whem we will be condemned to Geprgia, Truman prefiicted 2 ator Briges (D-Mo), his own dfi' In New York State, Republicans L.md laws, gave for failure of the denazifica- living in penury double-barreled il !“’ sor. fn- the Senate, Heé &5 pre lmfi.“"g for, lands}ide Mgty To the north of Chilkoot lies soil {yion court set up by the Germans His spee‘zlx. in anticipation of the e Chmrmnc . lil]eiC!eu s DA oajems BAH-OI IN OMAHA for their entire state ticket. They well suited to the growth of berries izt Spring, Clay said they blamed French election Sunday. was one " OIII a' p0"S Democra?\c Nauonfl.l Bell, Fourtl_\ District cnnjxe man. predict .thflt Gov. Tth‘nAf E. me» and root crops. "larguly N e Naniedd foufitd e i A merionl Speakers' Bureau, drew him out{ The President has remained de- | {will carry the state by anywhere Must Have $2,000 st MUE Y overmar Al Lra o e il 4 by declaring that reports from the |{erminedly on the sidelines du:i \.: IS 13 FEET lONGIrmm half a million to one million. The Company is not accepting as | (pe Am“‘“ S e ot 2_‘:0"’”‘“' ")"f‘l‘i’““;l;‘ [:):l_‘f i nm:‘n:}: BOSTON, Mass,, Nov. 5—War vet- field indicated the Republican trend |the campaizn and he retired to nis) votes, and thus improve his chances mempers any applicants who don't | nounced an immediate o » 2 crans in Massachusetts are await- i i der that tion. had run its course and that Demo- |Missouri home last night withort | A e - of getting the Republican Presiden- 2 . 5_Voting ‘hére to- d have at least $2000 cash. The, srman who had béen rémoved o cratic candidates were smadll} even issuing @ statemer | OMAHA, Nov voting here to-j . = ation in 1948, Demo- no German who ha oved| Most obsery | ; = i day was like curling up with a; | Board of Directors feels each mem-1from office by the military govern- flected De ¢ s f’_f'?s"g up CETRAAG ) 4R Anies, 98- 2% | good book. f)’a‘; Hi ?‘"“s'“g tme{; r:“"pe;le;’g ber should have that much cashiment might be returned to office dbnment of the strict neutrality be- g i | Voters were handed a 13-foot bal- | United States Senator James to get himself organized, to meet|{without military government tween and West which was ! . goi::si‘)‘“ll‘z;: it R (old wave S'"kes |10t containing 26000 words—half bl o the governorship from yn. initial cost of living and 10 proval, even though tried and clear- the cornsrstone of his foreign pol- ¢ My » g g !the length of the average novel. | STy start up a small business ed of Nazism by German denazifi- jcy when he was President of the : $ Pxf;i;iiig;.r ;:sz;x.ted Sparkman, In the far west, the election spot VACCO, takes a dim view of!cation courts. interim government is opposing Major General Sher- 4 | Most of the 57 questions pertain s ; i A C P y efas Syamarl- .. n (hlm 0 a sproposed $15,000000 city-wide N8B is on the states of Washing- |, ospective members' who-100k ONI. It was the sharpest criticism yet A man Miles, who was chief of the prop ¥ ity Lhat. e Baale . was ; | improvement plan, ton and California. The big fight 5ja5kq as a land of quick profit-!made of the provisional Getman, LONDON — A Foreign = Office Army's Intelligence Service at the the safest for the Democrats, he R |in California is between W. Rogers, |, ver, ¢! spokesman said today that discus-| time of Pearl Harbor. Foster is !ing with interest the outcome of a political battle between a former Army Corporal and a retired Ma- jor-General. ! A. Frank Foster, who served as a Corporal with the 45th Division, wgreed that it re- alle’s increasing aban- 1 s o 0 VS 2 tors prn A | ol £ is-1 The unwieldy ballot was expect- Homer says speculal government by military governme g | PR e ) }?f:[fiigv !::vor:ed \p{g:d \Vd\\ led to slow up both voting and Junior, one of the youngest candi~l,¢ 5,y sort at all won't find alofficials, who last Spring turned|sion of @ proposed British' loan of{a Democrat and Miles a Repubil- ‘However, I think we'll hold our patches P £ \-| counting of votes. Mayor Charles dates ever to run for the Senate| .u.r in VACCO's table of or-|gver to the Germans the respon- $10,000,000 to Czecho-Slovakla was can own in the House.” suuLk Changchun, capital of Truman said that a number of churia, sending the mercury to »mw Leeman appealed to citizens to| -_ 4 degrees below zero. There W make up. their minds beforehand (Continucd on Page Four) heavy fall of snow, ,-.., avoid® congestion at the polls. (Continued on Page Two) Alas| {from that state, and Senator Will-! . i/tion. Rather, he says, mem- |gibility for clearing their own |E0ing on in- Washington between The prize is a seat in the Massa- liam Knowland, who at 38 is four .., of VACCO regard Chilkoot and \ranks of Nectsm in the Awierican|British and American representa-| chusetts House from Boston's Ward ca as their permanent home. !zone, tives Five—long a Republican stronghold. . It is understood unofficially that g