The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 55 1946 — "W PRICE TEN CENTS MI:.MBER ASSOCIATED PRLSS VOL. LXVIII., NO. 10,448 4 MARINE CORPS PLANE MISSING WITH 32 BRITISH ClausLane (UN IS GIVEN alivesMayGet BIG PLANE o Alaska Nafives May Ge! PROPOSAL B GIFTFORNEW Huge Land Reservations DISAPPEARS, Hallywood s Santa MISSING * ficulty confronting the United Na- DROPPED f§ Compromifie__lieached on Worldwide Troop . Count at UN Meet LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Dec. 11. —A powerful United Nations com- mittee was reported authoritatively teday to have dropped a contro- versial British proposal for a world- wide troops and armaments count in a sudden compromise move to break a jam holding up a general disarmament resolution. This settlement of the major dif- ticns assembly after last night's plenary session was understood to be conditional upon its acceptance by the United States, Great Brit- ain and Soviet Russia. However, the representatives of those nations attending the meet- ing of an 8-nation drafting com- mittee on disarmament accepied the proposal, said to have been urged by President Paul-Henri Spaak, of the Assembly. They agreed to report to their chiefs and then inform the 20-nation disarm- ament sub-committee at 3 p. m. to-| day the result of their resolution. | Before the meeting the United States faced the “dangerous” pos-| sibility of being forced to disclose her vital atomic secrets to,the rest of the world immediately. | If the three great powers agree on the compromise plan, it was said, the whole resolution can bel completed in ten minutes this af- ternoon and the assembly can act.| VENUS, MORNING STAR, | BRIGHT THIS MORNING Early risers today, looking to the east, saw a wcnderful sight in the heavens. It was Venus, in all its brilliancy cn a perfectly clear blué background. At the same time there was a gorgeous sunrise, but ‘“sky red in the morning, sailors take warning.” Alaska Woman Leff | Part of BigEstate’ | SEATTLE, Dec. 11—Two daugh-' ters, Mrs, Doréthy Henry, Kasaan, H H Alaska, and Gertrude Burman, of fle‘d, Bomb cap“‘ Seattle, and a stepson, George Barger, Seattle, were named bene- CARACAS, Venezuzia, Dec. ficiaries of the $90,000 estate left by Insurgents seized the major Thomas H. Burman, 67-year-old port of Maracay, atout 50 apartment manager, his will dis- {frm this capital, in a sunrise at- closed todav He died Monday ack today and immediately dis- atched a captured plane on a The WaShlng‘ton bombing mission over Maracay and Merry - Go-Roun Caracas. By DREW PEARSCH turing film and radic stars. JENEZUELA INSURGENT DROP BOMBS Followers of Deposed President Capture Air- 11— air- miles One bomb, estimated to be a 25-| pounder, landed near the Presi- idential palace. Another struck with-| in 3C0 yards of the Jardin Hotel | Hnuywtod Br.nl vurd was a fairyland of lighted C hr Lm the movie capital officially opened its annual Officiuls cstimated 1,000,000 persons saw the trees and a parade fea- (AP Wirephoto) | Forces and Bell Aircraft Corp., trecs as :nta Claus Lane. Tiny Plane, with Speed 0f 1,700 Miles Per Hour, Given Test, High Altilude HOMEINN. Y. | Rockefeller, Jr., Gives $8.- 500,000 for Perma- nent Headquaiters LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 11 —John D. Rockefeller, Jr., today offered the United Nations a gifi of 8,500,600 with which to purchase a large tract of land in mid-town Manhattan for a permanent siie. kefeller said he had already ed assurances the City of v ork was prepared to give to the U. N. the balance of a city Llock on wiich his gift purchase ncluded two small plots. He added. that he predicted his gift for tha land purchase on as- surances New York City would per- mit the U. N. to use the entire area without restriction and would lolso turn over to U. N. use all !ulkheads and piers on the East River frontage between 42nd and 48th Streets. The gift, he added, must be de- clared to be free of all federal and |state taxes. | Action must be taken within 30 ]dnys from Dec. 10. | In a letter asking that the com- munication ke transmitted to the cite committee, Rockefeller stated ithat he had “ventured to locate {territory on the East River in the midtown area,” both because he be- lieved the people of New York City wanted the U. N. among them and because New York City af- 1forded -the -best spot for the U. N, to locate permanently. ok BEF e 110 S STATEHOOD LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11—A tiny Arr its xpect to delve into the un- d realm of supersonic speed, has successfully completed itc rirst vests. The XS-1, with 23-year-old Pilot Chalmers (Slick) Goodlin, New Al- Pa, at the controls, was cut loose from the belly of a B-29 bomber over Muroc Army Air Base Monday. Seconds after America’s first rocket-propelled plane dropped from the big bomber, Goodiin ed cn the power, and the craft darted away with a momentum which the former Navy pilot com- pared to the thrust irom a cata- pult aboard a carrier. The plane is designed to fly at plane with which the Army tur 1,700 miles an hour, but Goodlin made no attempt to step it up that high. He loafed along at a mere 550, using first one cylinder, | | tld a reporter, “at least not until then two, and finally—for only a seconds—all four. The plane was cut loose ai 25,- 000 feet. Goodlin nbed under his n power to 35,000, meantime div- g, banking and climking. He flew for 19 minutes, not quite sev- FORHAWAII - IS DISPUTED By HOWARD DOBSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Con- gressmen at opposite ends of the Capitol, and of opposite political faiths, disagreed sharply today on the prospects of Statehood for Ha- waii. Rep. Miller (D-Calif.) disputed a prediction by Sen. Butler (R-Neb.) (that *“no oifshore area wil ever get Statenocd.” Miller asserted the Hcuse, at least, would approve Statehced for Hawali right now. “I never will vote for Statehood ior any offshore area,” Butler had the pecple of this country have been thoroughly educated to ‘the responsibilities that would involve. I.am expressing the opinion of every other member of Congress I ever have talked to on the subject.” TEWISCASE LEFT UP T0 TIGH COURT ! 14 ) I i 1 Un- 4 !- - Naricing M o1 Decision Made U per Tribiunal Y!‘.GT(I Dec. 11—Federal Alan Goldsborough today hoel girl diary and left h-x ved an agreement between Derkcley, Calif, boarding hous rment and John L. Lewis at- Nov. 13 and hasn’t been seen or | 'Ormeys to delay until late January ny further lower court action ainst the United Mine Workers rowing out of the recent coal trike. The jeint stipulation approved by ¢ Goldsborough provides that ny further litigation be deferred ntil ten days after the Supreme urt hears arguments on the ap- al of Lewis and the miners from | their contempt convictions in Golds- rough's court. 'he appeal is due to be argued 1 Jan. 14. Hinging on the appeal are fines of 1% 000 on the UMW President and Bl Spauldin was living in the| *3,°00.000 cn the nnion, G at the time, and he had lert it i the Supreme Court will require no BO n to the beach with Max Mielke to help the latter with | MOFe than two weeks to conciude lLie case there. his boat. Befcre he left he stuffed o SRS the kitchen stcve with fuel, includ- | ing an old viece of tar. The tar 1 created gas which blew up the "I(K BEZS (RAF' stove and set fire to the Kitchen. ASTORIA, Ore, Dec. 11.—The acific Exploration Company's deep beard from since. (AP Wirephoto) | SPAULDING HOUSE AT AUK BAY BURKS D SUNDAY chpitly emoon last Sunday he Bpauding hcuse, long a land-| mark of Auk ay, caught fire and surned to the ground. When Spaulding and Mielke re- turned, smoke was pouring out from under the eaves. Spaulding en- the kitehen, and had to crawl because of the intense heat. He discovered the glass fire extinguish- er had already been broken, so P tried to get his rifle from the wall, * sea fishing fleet will sail from here bUHe“Jl;a::dhén :A) d:;] e before January 1 for southern wat- adothin g: ro WITOW = SOME erg prior to heading for the Ber- vothing out ~of a bedroom yng geg, the Columbia Rivers Pack- window, but it was too small to ers Association reported today. oL Ul Anyting very: lareg, The firm reported the converted With small croup of nearby auxix,. ini_p’.{ l"a:x;‘cvn.;»])n'cr, now residents standing by helplessly, b°In2 readied in Puzet Sound. will iiding was forced to leave the P€ 8ccompanied to waters off Mex- ico and Central and possibly South pull an auto from the garage next Amc:lca. 'by l2fl[}§“mg‘te=.sels a:l\d house. The garage was also 2% airplane which will spot the destroyed. Aside from the car and minz hcuse. Miclke was able to The expedition is sponsored by ome tools, and the old clothes : 4 dow, nothing (was saved. Thelp pe, geattle, head of the house burned to the ground com- pletely by about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Salmon lndustry here. - Kurkham Wendling they have been assigned | Ala Under New Dept. Poluy‘ WASHINGTON, Dec 11.—The Interior Department decided today L ay two groups of Alaskan In-: dians and Eskimos may be entitled to counsiderably more land than | It set aside a land order issued last August by the Department. which allotted 750 square miles of | land and 50 square miles of wat for the. 600 Eskimos as Barrow, and 12,800 acres for the 200 Indians at Klukwan. { On the basis of hearings held in| Alaska last October, Irwin W. Sil- verman, chief counsel of Interior’s' Division of Territories, recommend- | ed against establishment of the two; reservations, and Secretary of In-| terior J. A. Krug approved his re- port today. I Silverman said the palives of| Klukwan were interested not in a| reservation but in government recognition of their claims to ap-| proximately 700 square miles of, hunting, fishing, trapping und‘ Lerrygathering ground { Silverman recommended that the Department conduct hearings tol determine the extent of native' rights, and give the Indians a chance to retain the lands or to! sell the portions as they wish, At Barrow, the natives said they hunted, tropped and fished over a 30,000 square mile srea, @nd, within the limits of the proposed reservation could use little more than the shore line. v Silverman sald none of the Bar-| row natives favored the proposed: resexvedion, but-thiey do want pro- tection from liguor traffiec and -neroachment by outside commer- cial interests. The report proposed that lhe' ka Game Commission consider, the establishment of a 30,000 square mile game reserve in the Barrow sector to protect the native hunt- ing and trapping rights. ! - > H RE(ORDS TELL OF - NAZIBRUTALITIES | IN ‘EXPERIMENTS' | NUERNBERG, Germany, Dec. 11.| —Prosecutor James McHaney intro-i duced today records showing Nazi| doctors singled out certain’ concen- ! ration camp victims to undvrgo, brutal experiments until they died One record stated that the ht‘nrll of a 37-year-old Jew continued | ating for some time after the| brain was removed. This led Hein- rich Himmler to suggest in a let-! ter that those who could be re- ived should be “pardoned” to chi mprisonment, provided they were 1ot Poles or Russians. DROWNED WHILE | | tacted when 1‘ the imiles south of Chehalis, WEST. WASH. ‘Was on Fligm from San Diego fo Seattle- Crash Is Reported BULLETIN, Seattle, Dec. 11— A Ccast Guard Officer, flying in the secarch for a Marine Corps plane missing with 32 men aboard, was forced down at the Toledo Airport in Southwestern Washington today, but immedi- ately began a ground trip with cther Coast Guardsmen to in- veotigate lecal reports of a “plane crash” near there. The flyer, Licut. (j.g) Ralph E. Osterbere, relayed a message here that the reported crash was three and a haif miles Souih- cast of the airport. He had been forced down by bad weather. Earlier the Coast Guard here had announced that Osterbaxg had reported actually sighting the plane down. MISSING ON FLIGHT SEATTLE, Dec. 11 — The Navy alerted Forest Rangers State Patrol and all of Western Washington today in search of a Marine Corps transport plane missing with 32 men since 4:13 p.m. yesterday. ‘The search wus handicapped by thick weather and the dark color of the plane which made visibility from the air doubly difficult. The twin-engined RS5Q (Curtis Commande) was one of six which left San Diego, Calif., at 10:36 am., yesterday on a nonstop flight to ! transfer a Marine Corps contingent to Seattle. They encountered bad weather in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Four landed at Port- land. One made it safely to Sand :Point Naval Air Station. The missing plane last was con- the pilot wirelessed Toledo range station, a few and was cleared to next communicate with the poweriul Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration station at Everett, said Comdr. P. D. Duke, Saxni Point Operaticns Officer. The Toledo range stawo™ repor.- ed it cleared the plane tc ily high- ier, due to icing conditions it was encountering at 9,000 feet. Thetreafter it was silent despite frantic efforts of Navy, Army and {CAA radio stations, Commander Duke added. The plane was expected here at 1:06 pm. When it finally became ipparent the ship could be listed as “missing” rather than merely overdue”, the Navy appealed to newspapers, news services and ra- dio stations to ask clues from the public. Duke said the plane had fuel suf- ficient to keep her in the air some % hours beyond her scheduled ar- ival time. i r ir- 2 lied in an interview: The i » |in Maray and another on the air-| " 4o power and made a per- i\fll“U' rep! AR {l({ (-T ghi The Navy Public Relations Of- | SN rmm‘neld of the military aviation school| 1;‘.x\dixll]g Lot S Yo 1 V‘I; l:kes \s:n:\l{x;lflt w;:]at n';lc]xex P' L .nfl Sioni looKENG FOR DAD'HCE SE Ban. Hisgh R s ikt S i 4 se“l::mem near Maracay—all without causing gine. idle. S 5t G “Ju St Slamen . e s e ransport carried a crew of three 05! r long- 8 T reate al, al a ‘ SAIC, . Y, e, 11+ i ergeant §§°§ny b oo ocibe ha! oeio dfl;n R:.eiimry spokesman ‘sald anti-| TD€ 1’?’"‘”"5 il ‘5":“”‘5!‘;:“ it l;fnfu;; 1 do riot see how we & ; f threo children who dis- ::filjz. TJX?::;::? ":lb al“sb:fg:; from elder statesman James M. aircraft fire drove the aerial raid- ;]’:)rs‘:};:;;r" Hlosiesloiny o S tanisy, con deny Statehood to Hawall ( BHG-L&S: in the wooded swamp-|The men had seabags and full Cox, former Governor of Ohio and er away from the palace. Erin. Ol . Hall's. cHilar Pt They want it. They are ready for ! near West Mountain Lake|pack packs. Their names were not candidate for President against! A chambermaid of the Jardin 2 P it> e were recovered from "hc’dnulged Warren Harding in 1920. Hotel was the only casualty. shef?:: gs;gnae:ai?;b;:emz?x:e.oiai:un':y Butler’'s ccmment was made in ""'"A‘ e Ad‘ 4 l \-';';i % waters of Ten Mile River shortly, i tial bod: y vhen ' ~ | conneet: i visit 1 c ! Mrs. Willis t ock Lefore noon today. e D e ol Y Was struck by a stray bullet Wheh parison, the engine. could be said iy L 8 Vislt, o Woek and after handlin ¢ i 1 opal 8 puties and state t ”wo JUNEAU GIRI.S TO similar to the Tennessee Valley loyalist soldiers in a jeep fired their 1o/ Hevelon: 80,000 :hovsebwar Ik by a delegation of Puerto Ricans Sl : ; pu (1!"1 s ;E roop- in- f | , . \tten : ine ade the following recom- Church ! has. ers, using icehooks to drag the} fiuzhoficv to regulate the coal rifles at the plane busAs. «ethiv] -alochdl « bEInTsEHC By iten ding the Republican National . tions to the Teen-Are Club ci river, found two of the bodies to- GRADUAIE AS "u lustry. Pointing out that the min- President Romulo Betancourt, liquid oxygen. mmittee meeting in Washington. L Gid Hard on ; i ; , fo ; ik ik o hd f the stick who himself seized power in an up- ; The g K ,» that the Board advise the il cther and the third a short dis-,; d ;;i f:-:n;heye{:fi:l.eazm:h: public re- :ising Tast ;;a: fiseited :hflrgy The engine is unbelievably small étj'fi mgul;‘l’"éi':g“;::fi e &nd the Teen-Aze Club fricnds of the y tance away. { AT SH“[E Ex[u‘m cently got it, he proposes that it afternoon that the situation was to Rnera‘te such a tremendous reported. [ mcre strict adhercnce to their -ttend both the 1 rvices The children were almost within is now time to make sure that under control. | thrust. Without f\{el it weighs only 4 R concerning ncn-members us- 2nd L_hn reception s to be sight of their farm home from{ Two Juneau girls, Spra Lee At- all sides get a square deal; and President Betancourt said the re.[210> Pfi}lr‘ds. and its overall length n _l.‘u club be enforced held in their honor i Gold w™ich they set out yesterday withikinson and Dorothy Langseth, will that the way to do it is by regu- volt was led by followers of Gen,|is 56 inches. The plane itself is MEETING CF WORLD ‘Scccnd, the Board recommended Room of the Baranof Hotel, fol- their collie puppy to meet their {be members of the graduating class lation of the coal industry. |Isaias Medina Angarita, whom the | smaller than the average fighter, hat present or past attendance of lowing the wedding cerem step-father, who had gone into the{from Providence Hospital in Seattle The more you study the coal cha- present regime overthrew 14 months Measuring 31- feet from tail to tp, SERVKE (IR([E 'S Juncau or Douglas cols be a > oo woods to cut Christmas trees. lar the exercises to be held this ol x JANE M T'ul il requisite to membership Tecn-Age Club. “Third, that membership in the ‘The todies of David Murphy, 10, 12, ‘evening. 9, were | training river | Lee Both girls took their cadet in local hospitals. Sara is the daughter of Mr. and ago. with a wing span of only 28 feet. Caracas itself was quiet during| Army authorities emphasized at the afternoon and normal calm was|a Press conference that the plane, os, the more plausible Cox's pro- posal appears to be. In the Penn- sylvania anthracite regions, for ifi- - il i larence, near the and Mary, spot in the ~ SCHEDULED FRIDZY N { stance, mine operators have dug broken only by the single bomb| | of almost conventional design, was — club be confined to those teen- where searchers a short time earlier Mrs. Lee Atkinson and Dorothy is under towns to such extent that dropped near the President’s resi-, 'not designed as a fighter, a bomber The World Service Circle will ers who haveea parent, guardian CON(E T i(\, "’GHI found the body of the puppy in thelthe youngest daughter of Mr. and cave-ins have swallowed streets and dence. Ior any other special type of craft. meet in the parlors of Northern or person in whese custody they S el river. (Mrs. Jack Langseth. S thians —_— Its mission is purely and specifical- Light Presbyterian Church Friday rcside in the Gastineau Channel ik ; > i i i f the at 2 pm. E. L. Keithahn, guest area. | The concert sponscred by the C. C. MEETS TOMOBBOW Another problem th removal . ly to permit investigation of a p , g { e e APA Direciors Take | ot o one STOCK QUOTATIONS | of wooden mine props and coal mine pillars. The removal of wooden props causes cave-ins after “ D d d Ad a mine is abandoned; the reten-| o "I en lon tien of coal pillars leave vnlunhle' coal underground never to be util-| SAN F'RANCISCO‘ Dec. ll,—w ized by man. Once a mine is aban- | Alaska Packers Association Direct- doned, i: is difficult, sometimes ors took no dividend action at their impossible, ever to bring to the final meeting for the year, leaving surface the coal left therein. 1946 payments at $5, the amount Another problem is conflicting paid in May. Last year paymentc \were $5 in April and $3 in Decem- (Continued on Page Four) /per, a total of $8 a share. supersonic speed ranges. S e NIGHT AT TEEN-AGE CLUB PARENTS' Parents of Teen-Agers are re- minded that tonight is Parents’ Night at the Teen-Age Club, .and the doors will be opened as usual at 7:30 o'clock. Square dancing, beginning at 9 o'clock, will be the leaturc of the cvening. lspeaker. has cnosen “Alaska, Land of Romance” as his subject. Mrs. Paul Prouty will lead the |devotionals, and Mesdames Nick | Rocovich and John L. Peterson are hostesses. A box of gifts for the children of the Miniield Home is being packed by thé Circle. Any- cne altending the Friday meeting who desires may take a suitable Igm. Offered as suggestions are | warm mittens, caps, scarfs or toys, either pew or used. “Fourth, that the club make ar- Juneau Wom !rangements to issue guest cards to at 8:15 any tecn-agers who temporarily re- Methodist Church, side in this area with parents or llenry (Gen) Harmon mezzo-50- guardians or who are guests of a Prano, and Mrs. Don (Jane) Mc- family residing in this area.” mullin, pianist, promises to be an These recommendations will be ¢njoyable event for music-lovers. passed on at an early meeting of No tickets are being sold, but a the Teen-Age Club membership. collection will be taken to defray xpenses of the aifair. .- It takes 11 pounds of coal 'haul each ton of freight 100 miles. o'cleck tonight in the featuring Mrs. ——— The black opal was discovered in 900 in the white cliff region of New South Wales, to as NEW YORK, Dec. 11 — Closing ! auotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 90, Anaconda 40%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 76, Kennecott 51!z, New York Central 19, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S. Steel 73%, Pound $4.027. Sales today were 1,230,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are follows: industrials 176.07, rails .27, utilities 37.11. The Chamber of Commerce pro- gram scheduled for tomorrow's luncheon-business meeting is an opéen discussion on transportation problems facing the Tirritory dur- ing the interim between the end of the War Shipping Administra- tien operations and the date when permanent plans become effective. All members are urged to attend this important round-table discus- sion.