The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e —— " JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1946 MEMB] ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =] @ Control Of Hous Polifical Readion SWATGIVEN TRUMAN N HOME AREA Democraiicfi;ganizaiion, Headed by Pendergast, Receives Hard Blow Nn\. 6—Presi- political prestige and that of the Democratic or- ganizaticn headed by his close friend, James M. Pendergast, was dealt a hard blow by Jackson County voters yesterday. Democrat C. Jasper Bell was re- elected to Congress in the Presi-| dent’s own Fourth District but Mr. Truman's hand-picked candidate for the other Jackson County Con- gressicnal seat was defeated by a youthful Republican, Albert L. Reeves, Jr. Unofficial returns from the 255 precincts in the Fifth District gave Reeves, running for his first elec- tive office, 40,035 votes to 35711 for Enos Axtell, likewise a politi-! cal beginner. It was. Axtell KANSAS CI : 4 dent Truman's whom the Presi-| dent had asked his friend and] political ally, Jim Pendergast, to| kack in the August Primary against ! “Kep. Rogér U. Staughver, the Con- gressman the President said he didn't want back from his home| county. | On top of the Axtell blow, the| Pendergast organization of which the President is a dues paying member, lost two important posts | in the county courthouse to Re-! pubiicans—Presiding Judge of the; County Court and Prosecutor. \The Demcerats did give the lead- er of their ticket, Senator Frank P. Briggs of Macon, a 3,000 ma- in the county over his Re-| publican opponent, James P. Kem of Kansas City, but it was not enough to ease the sting of de- feat suffered by the loss of a Con- gressional seat and two important urthouse positions. JKem's state vote 57,000-vote victory T - R e - DEMOCRAT ROGERS LOSES, CALIFORNIA' SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6—Re- publican U. 8. . Senator William' ¥ Knowland, in defeating Willl Rogers, Jr.' Democrat of , Los| geles county for the Senatorial seat, piled up a lead of 66,930 votes | in 9,662 of the 15296 precincts tal-| lied. H The vote then: Knowland 546,946; Rogers 477,016, Rogers is the son humorist. gave him a gin. of the late R The Washington Merry -Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Now that elec- tions are over, Democcratic Na- tional Committee. Treasurer George Rillion will make an almost revo- Jutionary proposal to President | Truman for the financing of fur- ther political campaigns. Killion raised $3,000,000 for the Party in the last year and a half, an almost incredible amount for Democrats, in a non-Presidential year. Despite | that, Killion considers fund raising 8 messy job. “You never { know who's really giving the money,” he says. “You| can only hope that it is honest money. You must work on the| premise that the press and Con- gress are looking over your shoul- der every minute.” During the recent campaign, Kil- lion turned down more than $100,- 000 in proffered contributions be-| cause they were contingent on some lavor or other from the Ad- ministration. Now, however, Kil-! Jion will propose that further cam- | paigns be financed not by contri- [ butions, but out of the public trea- (Continucd on Page Four) | | elect | rebuke to President | would e | uncfficial | 85 percent of the precincts in the 1 lead over LONDON, Nov. 6—The press announced the results of United States elections today with ming headlines proclaiming a S. Landslide to the right.” The French press interpreted the on’s results principally as a Truman, with ‘ruman’s Ad- se headlines reading versaries Triumph, avewed by the Americans “Reversal of the Majority United States.” “If Mr Harry Prime Minister States jinstead of rved the London Standard, “he out of office today in a world turning more and more to the left, America has turned sharp- ly, and dramatically to the right.” It is, apparently, as clean a and the in Truman of the President,” were United ob- sweep as Britain's 15 months ago, though brocm posite the in the has pt direction.’ - Idaho Goes Republican BQISE, Idaha.Nov. 8 - Veferan Democratic Rep. Cempton I. White | ceded his defeat today, complet- a Republican sweep of every state office and Congres- at stake in yesterday's r balloting e, secking TIdaho sicnal place Whit ive term, was defeated by Republi- can Abe Goff, Moscow attorney and 1 of World War I concession came returns from more than First Congressional District had given Goff a 1,400-vote margin Rep. Henry C. Dworshak (R), running for a short-term in the United States Senate, defeated Democrat George Donart. The | Republicans won also in the Sec- ond ousted Congressional Di{ricy and a Democrat from the Gov- i ernor's chair. -+ \GERMANY HAVING TROUBLE RUNNING DENAZI PROGRAM STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 6 The Denazification Ministers of all three states in the American Ocuuutmn Zone of Germany have ' tendered their ignations a> a result of sharp criticism by Lt. Lucius D. Clay of the work oI German Denazification courts, Ger- man governmental officials said ! tonight. Their resignations have not yet | been accepted by the German Min- ister-Presidents, these officials said. Clay, Deputy Military Governor of the American Zone, charged yes- terday that German Denazification | courts were ‘“whitewashing” Nazis and told the German Council of States that the Military Govern: ment would take back control of the Denazification program unless the Germans showed improvement within 60 (lay MONTANA PUTS IN REPUBlI(AN HELENA, Mont., Nov. 6 — Re publican Zales N. Ecton, Manhat tan wheat farmer, built a sizeable Democrat Leif Erickson today in their struggle for early the Senate seat now held by Bur-| - SECTIONS TODAY ton K. Wheeler (D). Ecton would be the first Montana Republican Smatm since 1912. Erickson was able to Montana and the rural vote elim- inated this -as the counting pro-|today, making inter-city auto traf- | Association. |gressed so that Ecton's manager made a flat claim of victory. Er-! {ickson, in reply, said the race stilller_11 was in doubt early today With 719 of 1,156 precincts re- ported the storm was blankeung]Numnb«rg. will be tried by a Stutt- ported, Ecton had 66,897, Erickson 59,260, London the | his ninth succes- | when | run up’ | only a relatively narrow advantage |in the urban centers of western tain area with an icy paw for three 4 e, Senate Taken From De ((ENSORSHIP, PEACE TIME, CARLISLE, y of War favor of telling and the soldier the full facts about the Army without censorship. That except for what he describes as reasons of real security. In an address to Army Informa- tion School graduates today, Pat- terson asserted that censorship is anathema to Americans The mam is witless,” he said, “who assumes that the American people will submit to censorship in time of peace because they willing- lly accepted it in time of war.” | . In Patterson’s opinion real | curity is the only excuse for cen- scrship—not fan fauciful se- curity, he put stemming from a desire to hold back essen- | tial information. In times of peace, he told the future public relations | officers of- the Army, should cover all the bares i mum of classified activities. What bout the m bomb? Well, Patterson’s only reference to that was an opening remark in 6—Secre- all in Pa., Nov. Patterson is both the or it mini- | of the explosives of warfare is as pewerful as the forge of words. 'WORLD AT (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) CHINA—Military observers said | Communist counterattacks had cur- tailed the Government’s broad Sh. Peninsula offensive | Shantung RUSSIA — Moscow officials ranged for a military palade only 80 minutes in the ceremonies tcmorrow to celebrate the 29th an niversary of the | GREECE—More than 75,000 civil | employees began 24-hour strike | for her wages, closing schools ;m)d public buildings. ar- PALESTINE—Arabs and Jews ¢: pressed qualified approval of a new conciliatory policy of the British,| { but Jewish leaders said the struggle for an independent Jewish home- iland would coutinue. i - -eo - 'HERO OF FIRE NEAR | KETCHIKAN IS DEAD | { KhTCHIKAN Nov. 6—Victim of { his own heroism, Carl Lemke, about {70, died yesterday from burns and shock suffered saving the I in which three other children per- ished Monday. Funeral services }Banu 9, daughter | Lemke, and Jean Griffin, Patrick Griffin, 2, children of Sam | Griffin, awaited the return of Hen- ry Lemke from a hunting trip. The Coast Guard was trying to | 1ocate him Mrs. Lemke and the rescued thldlen were still in a hospital e fire destroyed a home at near- by Kuud.snn Cove. >-re - ;STORM LINGERING, " ROCKY MOUNTAIN for of Mrs. Darlene Henry i l DENVER, Nov, 6.—A storm which .cuffed Denver and the Rocky Moun- !days still lingered in the region; {fic hazardous. As Denver felt coldest weath- degrees above zero—since last winter, weather forecasters re- ‘most of Kansas, Nebraska and East- 'ern Colorado, CONDEMNED public | security ' his speech to the effect that none| A GLANCE of | oviet Revolution., s of | | two of his grandchildren in a fire| 5, and! TAFT TALKS L(IO LWUPUTS RACES FOR 'WASHINGTON 4 mos REPUBLICANS ~ ONRESULTS FORTH SMALL GOVERNORS STATEISBACK (OMEBACK IN Sen. Rnb- reviewing \ NCINNATI, Nov. 6 A. Taft (R-Ohio), election results, today de- “for the first time in fous | teen years the United States no longer is in a state of emergency. PEACE OFFER ert the | clared Longshoremen Willing fo 3} ot e Aorkan meooieaatine| &1 WOTK-FOreign, Army itely »;l}l‘l‘ uppu.u-d to ,gmm an 1‘1‘1;‘ % and Navy ShlpS bitrary central government | power and money to regulate their ! daily lives. “Under Republican leadership we can sit down calmly and work out ) the constructive measures neces sary for peace, for full employ- ment under private enterprise and!'Ss for social welfare, while leaving the| If accepted by the Waterfront people free to run their own af- | Emplo Association, the offer fairs.” | would the strikebound ships | \except those operated By companies of the Pacific American Shipown- ers’ Association 'The offer indicated the longshore- men are willing to work foreign Army and Navy ships, and those operated by Atlantic and Gulf Coast companies. Shipping on the West b*n tied up by strikes lohgshoremen, the eng the AFL Masters, Mates since Sept. 30. The chief between employers and the | WASHINGTON_Republican’ Na- officers’ union has been a | tichal Chairman Carroll Reece to- déf7and for preferential "day claimed a “great vietory” for | Cl&Uses In their contracts ! the Republicans and called on| Prog i President ‘Truman cooperate | Shoremen’s strike i with the GOP ior the good of the |Federal Mediator country singer Ltefore an interruption of ’ negotiations yesterday. The nego- tiations are expected to be resumed Friday when Feinsinger returns from Hawaii, where he is mediating the sugar strike. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 'CI0O Longshetemen's and housemen’s. union today offered lift its West Coast strike vessels except those picketed by the triking CIO marine engineers. 6.—The Ware- to --- BULLETINS | WASHINGTON-President Tru- man said today the United States is willing to put former Japanese islands in the Pacific under United | Nations trusteeships, with this na- tion kee administrative con- trol. Coast of has t ing obstacle ships’ was reported by Nathan P. Fein- HONOLULU—Joseph R. Farring- ton was re-elected Republican Con- gressional Delegate from Hawaii, ion returns showed today. Far- publisher of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was opposed by Ter- | ritorial Tax Cemmissioner William | D. Borthwick, a Democrat H | eled rington, OFFER REJLCTED SAN FRANCISCO, i Coast ship operators rejected to- iday an offer by the CIO Long- SAN FRANCISCO—Below & ban-, 4, emen's and Warehousemen's Rey. headiiue, HOF. e Unicn to lift its coastwise strike grope’, Wie. San | Franaecy I frem all vessels except those pick- first edition today carried the eted by striking CIO Marine En- anner: California does Hm.l%‘ i € A spokesman for the Waterfront Employers Association declared his group would stand on previous de- mands for complete settlement of all points of issue between mari- { time labor and employers and was opposed to what he termed “picce- meal” settlement Had the union's offer been ac- cepted, all strikebound ships would ve been freed except those op- ,erated by compani oi the Pacific American Shipowners' Associaticn . - STUDENT PiLOT AT ELMENDORF TAKES JOY RiDE (N C-47 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 6.— | An unauthorized “joy ride” in a | C-47 transport plane during a snow |storm Sunday evening by a pilot {with only six hours flight training in a small plane brought detention today of the pilot and his compan- ion. The names of the two, both Army corporals, were withheld by Fort Richardson authorities The two had “warmed up” the motors for a hop by other flyers and suddenly took off without clearance or instructions. Major Charles Mossen, base operations Nov. 6—West ews sub- what WASHINGTON—There was no confirmation today of published reports that Gen. Mark W. Clark would be released as U. S. Military Governor of Austria. WASHINGTON — Coal contract negotiations were resumed today after a one-day layoif for the elec- 'tions. Neither Secretary of Inter- ior J. A. Krug nor President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work- ers (AFL) attended the negotiating session, LAKE SUCCESS, N. | battle over a permanent site for the | United Nations headquarters was | raging here today with the United ! States apparently set on San Fran- cisco and Soviet Russia determined to move the world organization from this country to Geneva. -o- — - (CLOSED SHOP BAN . CARRIES, 3 STATES | NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Proposals !to ban the closed shop won sub- majorities from | stantial voters in TNobmska South Dakota and Ariz- | ona. | Union leaders announced prompt- |ly that they would fight applica- tion of the laws. «ficer, hurried to the control tow- Nebraskans voted heavily for the er and as the plane circled the city most inclusive of the closed shop and Elmendorf Field several times | proposals. It prohibits written or|contacted the men by radio. |oral contracts between employers, He gave instructions how to land and labor unions which deny the and after the two made several iright to work because of member- passes at the field they finally ship or non-membership in a labor brought the ship down success- organization or because of resig-'fully, as ambulance and crash and Ination or expulsion from a union. fire fighting crews stood by. Furthermore, it becomes effec- The two were with {he tive immediately and no further ac- Tyoop Carrier squadron tion by the State legislature is nec- - Do essary to put it into operation The measure was backed by the| pRIN(ESSk |.0U|SE SOUTH IN MORNING INebraska Small Business Men's acquitted by the Interna- Canadian steamer s Lou- War Crimes Tribunal at i is scheduled to arrive from Skagway at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow morning and sails south just one hour later, dt 7:30 o'clock 54th | eee Hitler financial miracle- Adolf worker tional gart D(-nnzmcauou court in Janu- jary as a “major offender,” from alll [ 1) and Pilots union | hiring s toward settling the long- (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Paced by Thomas E. Dewey won re-election in New York by nu;,z- majority, the Republican par-| collected governorships in at lmul 20 states in Tuesday's elec- tion. Republicans ousted Democrats as| achusetts | |governors in Ohic, Ma: and Idako, but lost in Colorado for 'a net increase of two over their pre-elsction holdings. Democrats retained control in Rhode Island, Wyoming, Maryland, ‘Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tex- as. They held commanding lead in Arizona and Oklahoma, and were abead by lesser margins in Neva- da and New Mexico. With ten governorships assured, and leadership in four other state the Democrats have an opportun- ity to retain 14 of the 16 offices they held prior to the b.mmnu,r - TRUMAN HAS NOTHINGTO WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Presi- dent Truman returned to Wash- ington today, without comment on the outcome of yesterday's elec- tions. ‘The Chiel Executive, however, promised to state his reaction at a news conference in the near future. He Dean ate, kett, at the train by Acheson, Undersecretary of and Captain James Fos- the President’s Naval Aide. Reperters crowding around, ked his reaction to Democratic set- backs. “No comment,” he replied. Then he added that he would see reporters in a day or two. “Does that mean no press con- ference today?” a reporter asked. Mr. Truman replied affirmativel The Chief Executive, who re- mained up until 2 am. reading electicn returns and listening to the radio, was smiling as he ar- rived at Union Station with Mrs, Truman and his daughter, Mar- garet. They accompanied him from Independence, Mo., where all three voted. was met the -+ Political Casualties WASHINGTON, Nov, 6.—Upset votes down makers. | Democrat ‘David I Walsh, Massachusetts, sixth from the in Senate seniority by virtue service since 1926, fell before al vigorous attack from a former col- league, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge. Swept out with Walsh were such familiar Capitol figures as Sena- tors Guffy (D-Pa), Tunnell (D-Del) and Briggs (D-Mo). Briggs is a close personal friend of President ‘Truman. several widely-known of top Rep. Andrew Jackson May, chair- man of the House Military Affairs! |Committee, could not make good his bid for re-election despite sup port from Senate Majority Leader |Barkley and other powerful Demo- crats. Among other well-known ! Hulhc members defeated were Rep. | !O'Neal (D-NY), a high anking inember of the Appropriations Com- (mittee; Rep. Sheridan (D-Pa), Rep. | Biemiller (D-Wis) and New Dealer 'Hugh Delacy of Washinzton | The summer primaries took an earlier toll Casualties included Senators LaFollette (Prog-Wis), Wheeler (D-Mont) (R-Minn), along with Representa- tives Tarver (D-Ga) and Jed John- son (D-Okla), Arkansas, | SAYTODAY in the off-year election put: law- | (vl P and Shipstead Repubh(ans Elect Senator -Three Representatives Are Ahead in Vote | SEATTLE, Nov. 6-—Washington State rejoined the Republican fold today after a l4-year absence. The Republicans elected a U. 8. Senator and three Representative: and were ahead in two of the re- maining three districts The voters also roundly |ed two referenda sponsored by | Democratic Govervor Wallgren, and ved from early returns that, islature would take on trounc- 1947 a Republican tinge. | the With close to e's 3375 pr {Cain, former ! incumbent two-thirds of the incts in, Harry P. Tacoma mayor, led Democrat Hugh B. Mit-' jchell by near! 30,000, with the margin steadily mounting. Wesley | L. Jones, defeated in 1932 by Homer T. Bone, was Washington's last previous Republican Senator. DcLacy Walloped the First Congressional Republican Homer R. Jones Nuval veteran, ped Rep. Hugh Delacy Seattle Democrat by almost 45,000, with 720 out of 771 precinets reported. De- lacy had been accused during the campaign of following Communist ! “party lines” which he vigorously denied. He contended he was a follower of the Roosevelt New Deal program In trict, of Bremerton, at Has Edge Rep. Henry Jackson, of Everett, in the Second District, was the only Democrat to have an edge in the Congressional races. With 282 precincts reported out of 584, he led Payson Peterson, Perennial Re- publican neminec. 23,619 to 22,687 Two Reputlican incumbents, Hal Holmes of Ellenshurg and Walt Demoet " Horan of Wenatchee, easily topped their Democratic opponents. Cain led Mitchell 202,020 to 172,- 914 with 2,046 precincts reported out of 3,375 3 arrow Leads In the Sixth District, Thor Tol- lefson had a lead of 5,600 over| incumbent Democrat John M. Cof-| fee and in the Third District form- er Rep. Fred R. Norman, Republi- can, had a scant advantage of 800, over Charles Savage, another in- cumbent Democrat. Savage defeat-! 'ed Norman by a slight margin two years ago. The vote stcod: Nor- jman, 20,731 Savage 19,484, with 302 precincts reported out of 591, - - "HAD ENCUGH?” - ORIGINATOR IS | NOW DISCLOSED BOSTON, Nov. 6—Now it can be told identity of the man who thought up the widely used Mass- achusetts GOP election slogan Had Enough? Vote Republican [has been disclosed. He is Karl Frost, President of a Boston concern bearing his name. Frost says he and his associates | “booked up” the slogan at the re- quest of the Massachusetts Repub- lican committee. But Fre says it requi a series of tiles before [the catchy phrase was Concocted And, he adds, the paint was hardly 1dry on Massachusetts’ signs before the Republican National Committee | | requested authority to use the slo- Dis-, top-! | vided . IN GOP FOLD BIG UPSURGE Tide of Protest Vofes Come from East fo West Coast in Election (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Republicans, with a comeback of landslide proportions have won control of both House and Senate of the 80th Congress. The triumphant landslide over- turned the Democrats for the first time in 15 years. Riding a tide of protest votes, the GOP swept to its first ma- jor victory since it lost power in the depression days of 1932, The thundering tide of votes coursed through New Ijigland, lapped the borders of Dixie and surged on to the West Coast. The size of the Republican landslide, lifting the party into control of both House and Sen- ate, mounted hourly today on late returns from the Congres- sional elections. With 399 House races decided, the GOP had 223 seats clinched, and the Democrat: 175. A ma Jority of 218. Eleven of the 35 districts where election counting was inconclusive are represented by Republicans in the present Cengress. The party was assured of 51 of 96 Scnate seats. Democrats had won 42 seats and their can- didates led in Maryland, Wes# Virginia, and New Mexico, the three states where Senate races are not settled. In the upsurge Senator kansas face of the overwhelming of Republican strength, J. William Fulbright, Ar- Democerat, suggested that his ty turn over the White House also to the GOP to avoid the confusion that iollowed the first World War and the 1930-32 deadleck in Washington. Fulbright said this could be done it President Truman appointed a Republican Secretary of State and then resigned. “It probably would be the wisest thing for the President to do,” Fulbright added in an interview in | Philadelphia. There was no comment in high Washington quarters on this idea. No top official appeared to con- ' sider it seriously. Early Reports Republicans spurted to at least a tie with the Democrats in the Sen- ate today with 48 members assurad seats, and battled on the crest of a landslide for control of both Houses of Congress, according to early reports. A victory by Republican Harry P. Cain, former mayor of Tacoma, over Democratic Senator Hugh B. Mitchell in the Washington Sena- tol race boosted GOP gains in ‘Tuesday's elections to nine. They need one more seat to win num- lerical control and the right to or- " lganize the Senate Tte Republicans previously had over urned more than enought Dem- ocret seats to win the House—pro- they hold their own in 53 contests which still are undecid- ed. The net GOP gain in contests which have been decided was 39. A final net increase of 26 is enough to insure Republican control when all races are finally settled. Close Contests For a victory in the Senate— which could be obtained by winning one more Democratic seat—the GOP {looked to close contests in Nevada, |8an | — e " STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Nov. 6 — Closing | quotation of Alaska ' Juneau mine| stock today is 6':, American Can . Anaconda 37%, Curtiss-Wright | | International Harvester T1'.,| | Kennecott 44'2, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. | Steel 70%, Pound $4.03 516 Sales today were 2,000,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are! follows: industrials, 168.86, rails 148,68, utilities 35.23, 857 | Montana, | Their Utah and New Mexico. candidates held leads in all of these. In Maryland and West Virginia, where races are not set- tled, the Democrats were ahead. If the Democrats won all of these races, the Senate would face a 48 to 48 deadlock, which could only be broken by agreement between | /the parties or shift of some mem- ber, since there is no vice president to cast a deciding vote. Prospective Upset The prospective upset in congress- ional contral would mean a chanqe Continued on Page Two)