The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE T MF" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIII., NO. 10,449 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DI:CEMP[ R I i, “4(» —_— PRICE TEN CENTS MANY KILLED UNDER CRUMBLING WALL High S— Water Endangering Hundreds of Lives "TRUMAN NAMES ADVISORY (OM., ~ ATOMIC ENERGY | WASHINGTON, Dec 1pmmmeut of a general mmmnlev headed by~ FLOODS RAGE INWESTERN ARMS REDUCTION PLANE IN PLANS ARE NOW CRASH ON MOUNTAIN . By MAX HARRELSON UP T0 UN MEET SHIP SAILS BIG REVISION CC PLARKNG 10 BUILDING FOR ALASKA TOMORROW advisory NEW YORK, Dec. 12—A United | President | ations. sub-committee wrote | James B. Conant of Harvard Uni—‘ | new feguard into the n mlousf ——— versity, to advise the Atomic En- | !world arms reduction plans today! Two Hundred Families Are | rey Commision on scienitic and| Missing Marine Corpsiny proviaimg e any prosram| 1W0 Others Scheduled fo |technical matters was announced | ted in the Security Council Evacuated from Farms | today by President Truman. Transport Hit Slopes Of | Gntst be approvea by @ speciat ses-| LEAVE Sealtle for North Other members of tke commit- P . sion of the 54-nation General | in Auburn Vicinity |we are tee A Dussicge, presen: Rainier, s Belief acemins Durmg Saturday of the California Institute of Tech- | - - | The new factor was injected in- L ess) {nology; Enrico Fermi, Professor of: gcpaTTLE, Dec. 14—The Marine (0 the aims resolution as Assembly| SEATTLE, Dec. 12—The first M«Ql:g n;::] ;:);“U((“‘,‘:fiis I;‘x;:s Been | EOYEL l’;"“mb“y o Chic:i\'gfi‘:‘.!. Corps transport plane missing since :” \"“"“‘ Paul- 1{“}"? Spaak of Bt‘n‘éislnp in ({heldu!od Alaska se evacuated from farms to mghg,‘P SF‘E“ S os“inll,n;eamxlecd Tuesday hight with 32 men board SIUD auNOUACEd Nt Was prepared (o leave Saaitle since before the ground in Auburn early today as o Lh‘; m:vm:nl)mm?lur OHieS or|is believed to have:crashed on- the|t0 sta¥ 1o’ New Yark untll “Ohuiet mafitime strikel wil sail av 10 o amphibious Army “Ducks” and Ct‘ _3 e ol Phyiics, ‘Columbig | °uth slopes of Mount Rainier {taiiata s |.h.? e "cductlon:m' “:Y‘U“PW for Cordova, Valdez SheiHs cars Ddied) taslie uper-‘P"? &Ot % "‘n_““’v Srowe. Viee| Coast Guard officer, Licutenant| St !“'“ s e a0 jand Seward dtlons. bo).Kent Sheadl-of ‘the ‘oFeeb| pet ia ot ke tifs United Fouls Gome| COMIMANAEL R, M, Finley says that; PRS- SE0 SRIEIREED. ali e TSR te AlRks; will have of the worst flood to hit Western porioc (;l(e’x‘xl i - .S('abor" oniier S CoCkg SiSHeh el peaks b w rl" sall kx(.r.\i (m‘ le"‘x‘ra 3\' re- 100 Frave boah v i “i\”\.’v': Washington since 1034. e chititit for the ‘Mastlattsa P30 1U hng been desldnt thad $hei ol Ll SO E e MR UL B FlooT waters were Teportod WHh= Iyttt ‘or the University of Ohle:Pline should be an Niyually Gla- o o L i e il 1 o o 8 40 blodks jotdiie dieart of BiEnbion S0 Slaniey Ral: it v hete ahove BB Totk | ke S oy Bits James i JA""‘ L e L tons &t one place on the cutskirts, Water atitilba of Metals, and: Hoad Worthe| 102 People who heard s plans oyer- i3 U & RS Re L e e e Gt sTl s was reported within six_inches of S Otigmital Tnginecs. for- Dl {1 T0 Tueedsy. HILEEHGn GRYE Meell o ot o SRRV S i il ot e SR MRS RR AT S the top of a dike, south of Kent, de “hfrw urs and Company Sonsclidated ‘&l R A PE le; t“m"‘ro\\ Wi S '&:“}‘ “. - Ah::l‘:'..tfkn?! ‘?“’“ SRRl Y oAl | aty. Toman skl e e e S, O PRI ARGt OL ey e i aauire Asssad | UM o o The Weather Bureau said, how- ference v{{t;xncrwt that the .;lun‘ Hotntatn. | The 18 CIPpEEY. X U‘H" “)]l;;) al of any Security (‘,“nm-‘“ colEndie i Rl Bin? tha Yo Pavine Western ;:,i.‘,,. P i e e D plane being heard that evening vf pp s g ;f dl‘ ‘C age .3 i Adas i B Meariin o N S o o from a ranger at Paradise Cil arms plan was offered by Can-| The steamship North Sea is post- Washington rivers ha reac vid E. Lilienthal, will establish 0ther wayev “apout a half mile east of 2G4 and approved by a vote of 10'ed to sail Saturday for Southeast thelr peak and should subside to-|committees later to advise it on . Giacier [to 9. The amended resolution r with 160 passenges ahd & day. i other teachnical problems. Commander Finley said an air|tRins a previously accepted pro- of general freight. Tt will be No loss of life was reported but The group appointed today willl .l of the mountain slopes to-|Vision for ratification by each mem- | the first sailing of this company property damage believed to concentrate on matters relating to is impossible, but he sald he ber of the U N lin 113 days, because of strikes. run into hundreds of thousands of ‘materials, production and research. S uihis Wit FEngaRA Rk - The sicamship Tongass also is dollars. e Valley 4t the 850D %06t Alevasion posted to sail for Southeast Alaska 5 'Vllanv. “rmlgm&\n:glel'{e::\n‘li[u (s to be ready to continue the n fiu]@ WOfiKERS IG Sntuum} The vessel will have a ast Valley Ro sed | PRESIDENT IS TO SEND 3 MESSAGES TO NEXT CONGRESS Truman Declines to Make Comment on Tax Re- duction Prospects offers to take them into Kent al-| though dozens of homes were found flooded by King County deputies | and soldiers from Amphibious Truck Company 458 from Fort Lewis. One Duck with Lt. Herbert Wells and State Patrolman Dan Weston | in ¢l rescued five children a few miles out of Kent and then | turned back for six more young- ster Scoves of stalled autos and trucks with water up to the win-! . were seen along the road. ‘The front of the new Vale The- WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Presi- ! ater in Kent was sandbagged dent Truman declined today tol gainst the waters which threat- talx about prospects for tax re- ened to pour into the structure. |ductions at a news conterence n| B T e | which he said he will send three INFORMATION WANTED parate messages to the new Con- AN R i gress. ““SE“M' B AL Told that the Republicans in d “Who can s what is radi- Llnr,l m e asking for information re: garding the whereabouts of her son! Everett Vail. st & ‘his state of the union message Mrs. Dillman says Vail came 10, goug call for what he believes to Alaska several years ago, and snc‘be necessa has had‘ letters from ditferent |y .coq States. places. l\pnc of her letters have‘ This message will reached him, l}owe_verr though she | viewpoint, he gaid has heard he is still in the Terri-) o pers of Congr foxy. {to have theirs. { He refused to be drawn into .W The w a sh i n g ton: xlitx‘:‘?l;;xc‘; tolv:ld Jla]::hx,m;_:::; | Merry - Go- Round Chief of the United Mine Workers, By DREW PEARSCIN against whom the Government 1s waging a court fight. Mr. Truman told questioners the Lewis matter was in the courts and | . he would have nothing to say about | WASHINGTON—If Judge Alan|the mine workers’ leader or aboui | Goldsborough had required John|che recent coal strike. L. Lewis to disclose all the money| “You hope the courts will follow the Lewis family receives annually | the election returns?” one r(‘pun.cr from union dues, it would have|pressed. Mr. Truman replied with' been sufficient to pay Lewis’s $10- |a simple “no e & €00 fine fifteen times over. If a member of Congress hired cal? He said his recommendations in embrace. his adding that s were cx'tmed KEITHAHN 70 SPEAK 3 \was said to be very thick Tue: ito comb ithe !'Tuesday y for the weliare of the |covered a bit of humor, that, while ‘not affecting the returns, will dis- {be away on hunting trips on thz wken the weather clears. The weather on the mountain day en the Seattle bound tr radiced its last position ¢ 't to. NEW YORK l)(‘('. 12.~The CIO' the Toledo range station about 40 United Auto Workers may of Mount Rainier Its Flooded str s and washed out Lridges hampered Coast Guard and | Army search parties in their efforts a 50-square mile area im- ely south of lofty Mount which is believed to hold of 32 men missing since! aboard a Marine Corps |transport plane. The National Park service office at Longmire, reported goal of the rapidly-shifting hunt, said none of the searchers had arrived there during the night although tkeoy were expected during today. Long- mire is near the fcot of the 14,408- foot mcuntain, where an unidenti- fied plane was reported to have been heard late Tuesday afternoon about the time the missing plane would have been in the area. Coast Guard spokesmen in Seattle said their communications car at Eatonville, midway between Tacoma nd the mountain, reported the ad- vance party was having difficulty ! moving into the area because of flooded streams which had swept Sk PAN AMERICAN ON e SEs L FLIGHTS WEDNESDAY POLLING DATES; OUT |, o o e o | GOES ENTIRE YOTE |Jucou on its Alska Division se miles southwest their wage plans today dent, Walter Reuth ed that the union's e tive probably will announce kefore over the wage increases boa; the it medie Rai There is no offi- ! of what the mands will be, but unofficially ithere are hints that the boosts would come up to about $2 a day. | Reuther took issue with a state- Iment made recently by General Mctors President C. E. Wilson, who ed that the cost cf a car is actically all wages—and that if] salaries go up 25 percent car prices, wovld have to be hiked amount. keuther s next year. 1 indication e fate a similar ! countered by that auto prices must go down. he And | said he'd like to bet that a ar from now prices will be low- than today, wages will be high- rer rer and General Motors will be mak- ing money. .- ;Lt rday, carrying the following p: R | sons: Whi!> checking over the ballot From Seattle: Cora Amsbaugh, turns from this years' election|Ncrbet G. Ottke, Phyllis Baltazer, | retuins, the Canvassing Board dis-| George Baltazer, Gordon Ford, Mrs. ! Susanna Olson, Iris Bassett, Clark Bassett, Sonia Mether, Diane Meth- er, | From Ketchikan: Herbert Olsen.’ Jack Talbot, Elaine Talbot. | From Whitehorse: Paul Johnson. From Fairbanks: Orah Clark, Rae icount the votes from the little vil- |lage of Kivalina, in the Second Division. It seems that a number of Kivalina's voters were going to| scheduled election day, October 8, as many relatives and paid them| |so the polls were opened in the.Ht’);pes. 3 g i s, 2 i ! 0 Seattle: Pat Boblenz, William | g:etnolru‘:\ulfillfv. ft)‘;“(\ih’a:l:flll‘;?(:l\d ]la‘;'f AT W(S MEE"NG ‘vulage 0‘: Se’?tembel: 1 ‘;l‘:d 35 votes| Boplenz, Frank Krsul, Geneva! is's funds, collected from 400,000 “lerzlc P ('7 “n‘:;“}‘"‘f"‘(:an\pen William Meals, Phyllis | " miners, in a sense are also public| At the Woxld Sume Circle meet- {ongOL‘lober l;oalso pened again | Gaunt. ; funds. Nevertheless he has long; ing tomorrow afterncon, Edward, ALL thip 18" {ust a:ebsib freail Burdette Winn, Isadore Gold- tism than | Keithahn will speak on “Alaska,| 8ular|sein, Clayton Luther, Herman Win- | got away with more nepotl 5 s0 the Canvassing Board decided|anc Burton Shendel. Here The Land of Mystery. e ()I}T FOR HOLIDAYS H almost any man in America. is the roll-call of the Lewis fam-| ily supported at one time or other| by the dues of the miners: | John L. Lewis, President, $25,- John G. Oberg plans to sail on| 000 plus expef,s% '|he Princess Louise to spend the. Denny Lewis, brother, head of | Christmas holidays with his son,: 4 s daughter-in-law and new grandson United ' Construction Workers Or- peiney ganizing Committee, $12,000 plus ex—i“‘ ellingham, penses. to return to Juneau about thei Kathryn Lewis, daughter, secre-'-“‘t of the year. During Oberg'’s tary-Treasurer o,' District 50, $10.- ghsence, his shoe repair shop here ! 000, plus expenses, will be Cloxd.-" R. O. Miller, brother-in-law, man- i 2 ager of UMW building at Spring- | RYAN TO SITKA field, Ill, $10,000. } Dr. James C. Ryan, Commission- | Ann Miller, daughter of R, O.| of Education, is leaving for) Miller, UMW -stenographer, $3,000. \leka today to meet with the, William Thomas, cousin, manag- 1 8chool Board in that city on his | annual routine check. He will re-! I turn to Juneau on Sunday. Wash., He expects anptu:urd on Page Four) !that Kivalina votes would have to y ’ Sanna Carlson, W. J. Johmnm {be discarded for this year. B“L‘Don.s Norman, Stanley Norman,| since this was Kivalina's first elec-! ;orqon eFlemister, Norma Flemister. |tion and since the village is made| To Ketchikan: Carl Stolber up of Eskimos, this is not Cons“"(‘urdon Wallin £ ered in the light of an attempt tm Bl sy ‘;’-, “stuff” the old ballot box. Bat | EARLY A. M. ALARM Kivalina will know better next year. i L S e { enggs. R. E. ROBERTSON HONORED Early this morning, at 2:35 A |c'clock, a fire alarm, 1-7, was has | turned in from the Northern Ho- Attorney R. E. Robertson !'tel, on Lower Franklin opposite the been notified by the, American Bar | Asscciation of his appointment as!City Dock. The furnace had back- | the Fire Departme: it with only minor a member of the Standing Com-|fired, and mmec on Hearings of the House tcok care of of Delegates of the Association. | damage. The House of Delegates i§ the gov- Lrnmfl body of the Association and Mr. Rgbertson is the Alaskan rep- resentative in it - PETERSBURG MAN HERE Ingval Ask of Petersburg i istere at the Hotel Junsau declaring | * plight 1ing icargo of 1,000 tons and 12 passeng- SEEK WAGE BOOST - REEF KNOT 1S LOADING; IS T0 in all consignments for various dealers compared to the cus nary k cargo handling cn ships here The Reef Knot is scheduled to Saturday and arrive at Cor- next Tuesday. Capt. Heniy Burns, Seattle, said the v el would require about two weeks to unload at six Alaskan ports. - FIGHT STARTS ONUNRRA 21D By ROGER D. GR. 5 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—An Am- san-Soviet dispute threatened to- to precipitate 2 wide-ops7 in the 48-nation UNRRA Council over the method of windG- up aid to war-blighted na- tions. At issue is more than $625,000,650 ail dova in Rus , through its chiet delegate, Nikolai Feonov, has demanded that 1. Existing contracts for UNRRA aid to needy countries be «carried to the letter, and That UNRRA, officially sched- 1 to end Dec. 31, continue until April, 1947, Both proposals encountered im- mediate, bitter opposition from the American Delegate, C. Tyler Wood. “The receiving countr must not e deprived of the promised relief only because some calendar date arr ,” Feonov told the delegates at yesterday ssion. “The question will UNRRA fulfill its programs or will it ter- minate its activities leaving the ms unfulfilled and the funds out 2 - e FROM OLYMPIA Wes John- Hotel Ju- From Olympia, Wash., son is: registered at the reau unexpended UNRRA funds for| | velief shipments abroad. TS OLD WAR MAMEDEMARDSID “ ME SE}. = M@ Industry Lef;(;ws See "An- 2 other Series of Seri- Sieelman and Maj. Gen. ous Strikes” Fleming Will Head New WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 —lnaus-l I : y leaders declared today the Control Administration | cios tresn wsistence that wages — | can ke raised without boosting WASHINGTON, Dec pri may lead another ser- e(dent Truman tpday re ies erious stri He| entire war emergency set-up. recalled the CIO had em- abolished the War Motilization and || 1 the same ument in press- Reconversion office and named|ing its initial postwar wage de- John R. Steelman as assistant- to! mands in the steel, autemobile -and the President other heavy industries last spring The President made public at his{put that prices had gone up fol- conference an utive or- wage inereases. under which he named Maj In preparing for a new round of n. Philip B. Fleming head| pay demands, CIO President Phil- | of a new office of temporary con- ip Murray said CIO unions will trols, which will carry on remain-| embrace as their “guidepost” a sur- ing functions of OPA, WMR, the yey contending that present indu. Civilian Production Administration,| tyy profit levels will permit wages and the office of Economic Stabil; be Increased up to 25 per cent ation | without hiking prices or cutting Steelman, the new assistant to profits much below wartime peaks. the President, has been Reconver- his survey was made for the. sion Director and Economic Stabil-| 010 by Robert R. Nathan, con- lper. ulting eccnomist and former lead- | Mr. Tr 1 at the same time| o Government economic planner named Raymond M. Foley &s HOUS-| o4 war Agency official ing Administrator and Frank R. Pl Creedon as Housing Expediter, the two posts recently relinquished by Wilson W. Wyatt after a contro- versy with the RFC over loans for prefabricated housing. I an executlve order ident ako! tion Boa .3 the Econimic immediately BLUM TO GET FRENCH POST PARIS, Dec. the" Pre: 1 the wage stabiliza- y Slubxlllelrnl Brnnl -Secialist Leon that ‘he hes'no. intent Blum, 74, was elocted President- doning rent controls Premier teday of the Interim SA“. SATURDAV In response to reporters’ qi French Government whieh will EeN tions as to whether an immediate| serve until mid-January. POKTLAND, Ore. Dic. 12—More | [iCfease in rent ceilings was in| |\ oo (opulators said the Na- , Mr. Truman that he| longshore gangs were due at the plans to order such an| tenal Assembly gave Blum about dockside of the Alaska reliet ves-|y 0 0 575 ballots. He noeded 310 for sel Reef Knot to speed 10ading to- [ 2ooud however, there e absolute majority. s o possibility that some in.! Blum now faces the task of Comdr. E. P. Chester, Alde to misht be under considera.| BCting the parties to agree ou.a he Territorial Governor, said load- OPA program, and on whether the ing was slowed yesterday by lack e Rightist Parties should be in- oi workers to handle the cargo cluded in the Cabinet off trucks. | Port officials noted the ditterence HSHING S(HOONER mm» Dee. 12—Socialist Leon | loading of Alaskan cargo in s 74, was virtually assured of u..m 1 as President-Premier of the xuumr French Government today, SINKS; EXPL OSIOH orges Bidault’s popular not to present an opposition | ca m.mum NEWPORT, Ore., Dec. 12— The| poreement on the candidacy of fishing schooncr! Etta May sank| giuy - premier of the 1936 “Popu- 0”‘;,‘:' il “"’)”‘]‘ "\'“?Mu Front” Government ended a two- 4 PEDAONG vl b ld Cabinet, ¢ He was ding .over the B~ “’”‘wm to be clected by a nearly the crew of three “““;unnmnn.:u vote later in the day by 7 | the National Assembly, meeting for May haa put out with aljts third try at electing an Interim | g5 of potatoes for a, where | President-Premier. cap Pii 0, plan-| Blum's most outstanding role acd to fish mext - since he was liberated from Bowden was but other| German prison camp in May, 1945, L !l Wheeler, of | was the negotiation of the United ! d, hanck, of|states loan to France last spring. Toledo, escaped injury B Hundreds of persons linad beach for an hour as the schooner| S"‘O(K QUOIAHOHS burned and the fishing toat Boris, captzined by Ivor Anqueli, wer o alengside and took the three men| NEW YORK, Dec. 12 — Closing off. of Alaska Juneau mine L y is 5%, American Can aconda 39%, Curtis: Very Good Joh by Wright 6, International Harve 5%, Kennecott 50, New York Cen- tral 18%, eel Northern Pacific 21'4, 71%, Pound $4.02 ales today were 1,000,000 shares v, Jones averages today are industrials 173.91, Truman in Strike 0f Mmers Bul—— {as follows utilities 36.96 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Sena- AR R 35 e i tor J. William Fulbright (D-Ark) credited President Truman today| H e e o manains| Ellioft Roosevells the coal strike crisis but clung to his recommendation that the ck E I ' p I d executive resign in favor of a Re- nro“ e o o an publican. S - Despite a barrage of criticism! MOSCOW, Dec. 12—Elliott Roose- {from both fellow Democrats and veit and his actress wife, Faye Em- Republicans, the 41-year-old law- erson, left by plane today for a | ma id he still is convinced t visit to Poland. |that Mr. Truman should step down' They returned to Moscow from “for the good of the country and the C ian Soviet Socialist Re- |for the good of his party.” public late yesterday, laden with | - oranges and tangerines, CARACAS, Venezuela—The Gov-: Roosevelt sald he planned ta be ,ernment: of President Romulo Bei- in the United States either Dec ancourt emerged unscathed toda or 23 to spend Christmas with after an abol 12-hour revolt 'his mother | yesterday He was invited to visit Poland GET WAGE BOOSTS a U.| rails ! COLLAPSES, NEW YORK ‘Five-A!arm?re Results ir Tragic Scene - Score Buried Under Debris BULLETIN—New York, Dec. 12 | —Hundreds of grim rescuc work- | ers, digging into the debris of a | collapsed tenement building re- ported teday no scunds of life could be heard from 36 people, now believe dead, who were en- tombed when the building crumpled after a five-alarm fire " in an adjoining ice houce brought down a wall EIGHT KNOWN NEW YORK, Dec. 12—At least leight persons dead and 33 'others, including children, were be- fl\ewd buried under tons of debris | following a five-alarm fire early DEAD were today in an abandoned ice house on | Manhattan's upper West Side, ‘w!m'h caused a five-story wall to | ccllapse, crumpling an adjoining | tenement building | Police and firemen, digging | frantically against time, removed + four bodies from the wreckage and ‘\(wl they had sighted four more. ‘M'ub'y hospitals admitted more {Man a score of injured. Ambu- |lances were rushed to the scene jsnd a first aid station was set up. The identified dead are Frank Mh(x'(‘lll".\d. 27-year-cld fireman; | Anthony Bianeardi, 11; Daniel Cor- imdn, 25; and Thomas Phillips, 70. tAll except the fireman were resi- idents of the tenement building. | Fire Marshal Thomas P. Brophy !said the cause of the fire was not jknown. A small rubbish fire had | been extinguished the day before lin the ice plant, located at 484 West 184th Street Theipile of debris from the tene- jment building was as high as the secend story. One portion of the tenement was flattened, the other y wrecked by the force of the col- + laps 3 Blood plasma units were availablt at the scene. Priests from a near- | by parish clambered over the debris wdminister last rites as two der- k5 bit into the wreckage. Police pulled from the wreckage Jeseph Poper, Jr., nine years old. | He had cried and shouted until rhl.‘];) reached him. He said his {brother and sister still were trapped - . - SIT DOWN STRIKE HALTS CAPITOL'S [ WASHXN(JTON D(‘c 12.—Tele- |pkhone service was disrupted in ‘W‘nhml.ton today bty a twe-hour i sit-down strike of switchbeard op- erators. The Chesapeake and Po- ‘N,m’u‘ Telephone Company an= inounced that 235 girls sat at their 'l‘(mld\ but refused to work. Mrs. Mary Gannon, President of the Washington Telephone Traffic union told a newsman that be- |tween 700 and 800 workers were | involve the tie-up. She order- led the girls back to work at noon. |Mrs. Gannon said their grievance will ke taken up with the company. The girls complained that three union operators were affecting morale. ne their > - BPWC( LUNCHEON TO BE HELD TOMORROW Professional | Buciness and Wo- {men’s Club will hold its regular luncheon at noon tomorrow in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Mrs. Bess Winn, executive secretary of the Alaska Tuberculosis Asso- ciation, will give a history of the Association in the Territory. Members are rominded to contact Mrs. Irma Purington or Betty Me- Cormick in regards to the Christ- mas party to be held in ths I00F Hall, December 18 at 7 p. m.