The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1946, Page 1

| RICHFIELD 11 ARE HURT | ! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS == PRICE TEN CENTS ' VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,452 | Alaska Pulp Timber REDUCTION OF ARMED FORCES PLANNED ~ MAY OPEN UP FAIRBANKS; Krug Tells flegotiationSiMiliiary Personnel Trap- With Private ped for Hours in Interests . Crumpled }etuon WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Alaska; FAIRBANKS, Dec — Eleven appeared today to be on the long- | persons were reported recoverinsf awnited verge of pulp-timber de-|tcday at the Ladd Field Hospitai velopment. - | from exposure and injuries in the “Conversations have Leen uuder crash of a four-engined C-54 in ; way for many months with several’ 56_pelow-zero-cold interests who are actively seeking| The injured men, all military per- to develop the pulp and paper in-|sonnel whose names were With- dustry in the Teritory,” Secretary: peld, were trapped in the crumpled of Interior J. A. Krug told a Te- noce secticn of the plane for four porter. { hours following the accident late Krug estimates that Alaska can priday night before rescuers could produce 1,000,000 tons of newsprint| .o them a year—a quarter of the nation’s| . plane _developed engine needs. { trouble on a takeoff from the Ladd o Hennlor Osd Hgyden \D'i Field base and smashed into a met- B, ichaTman DE e qoint oAl hangar after a forced landing i :E\mechox: p.lr-mm;‘g',ga?‘:dafi:y“:::-; from a few feet oif the ground. on that if privat ¥ - sl tinues to be slow about Alaskan The rescuers were forced to work ¥ .| with hand tools because of large S ounieol, We EOETONIY Ay | quantities of gasoline spilled around have to take a hand. ) | Y ver heaters “Nobody wants the government , the ground. Lfilze bl?wal r}ta ; to build a paper mill up there “.providcd some relief from the cod i " 1 e he trappe # » the|@nd doctors passed t 5 Jeluatet indusiy.. il doi. g, _‘ e! men drugs which they administered Senato; ! eporter. b Pnuzrv:g (:,:vgr (1;0 print the Con- themselves while waiting to be ex- rd—and we have to| tricated. . E:e\:sfi:;‘ernfsodg u."d by { Seventeen of the plane’s 28 pas- Other slm | sengers escaped with only cuts and 1. The Interior Department has! bruises. 16 The ’W“:;;l’lihglong Flood Waters Merry-Go-Round, Are Receding By DREW PEARSON In Northwest ed the White House with protests SEATTLE, Dec. 16—The freezing against the firing of Housing Ad-. ii00 following a two-hour long ministrator Wilscn Wyatt. What these protestants did not jngton’s water-logged residents to- know—and they included Vgterans'day the Weather Bureau's cheering of Fereign Wars' commander Louis|word that the worst of the past WASHINGTON—There was one important 1act unknown to the| Starr, Amvets commander Ray'week's Jloods “is definitely over.” Sawyer, and American Veterans The week-long ¢flood waters Committee commander Charles' whigh at times lapped house eaves Bolte—was that the American Le-!throughout the White River valley gion, influenced by the powerfullsouth of Seattle and stood 10 feet real estate lobby, helped administer |deep over the Longacres race track the last death blow to Wyatt and|were reported generally receeding. his veterans housing program. - e The American Legion's skillful! drive against the housing program lA“D RUSHT B began last September just before its San Francisco convention, when ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—With all the fanfare but none of the the powerful National Association | of Home Builders sent lobbying instructions to its members to but- tonhole Legion delegates and do their best to undermine the Wyatt, buggy-busting competition of | ploneer days, there’ll be a land Irush in a goldfish bow! come Wed- nesday out in Oregon. The stakes will be 86 small farms housing program. “Determine irom your local coun- ty and state American Legion of- ficers who the delegates are to the! convention,” the Home Builders lobby advised. “Talk to every Le- gionnaire you know to prevent any | resolution endorsing Wyatt’s hous- |a well-stirred bowl containing the ing program for veterans.” |names of 1,305 World War II veter- However, the mass of Legion-'ans. naires at San Francisco rallied to ————————— the defense of Wyatt and his hous- | ing program; so temporarily Lhev(HAPEMDIES “AVE rex;slmes:;te fgbblyon(l:sz..&s a com-é (“RISIMAS pAn“ ON TUESDAY NIGHT promise a hand-picked committee of Legionnaires was appointed to! study housing. And last week, Na-| T : _ tional Commander Paul Griffith; The Chapeladies will hold their called on President Truman and |Christmas party tomorrow evening |af. 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Stanley Jekill. will be Mrs. Charles Dobbin. day the winners will be drawn, from \ spent nearly an hour cutting the ground out from under Wilson Wy- att, the man who has done his best } rans. wa;‘;f‘:;ilhh:oT;s T:\L:;l:xell;e was con- |urged to attend, and to take with vinced the present housing setup.tbem a Christmas present. should be abolished and placed in' Ao 4. R R d: f board, , - the bands of an emersency st Goyernment R Tape Is for Sale eral Housing Administration. He| argued that the great majority of | war vets do not want to buy, and do not have the money to buy homes in the current high market.| MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 16 — The Therefore, more multiple units for renting should be bullt. (The lat-| red tape—at 28 cents a roll. The War Assets Administration ter, incidentally, was the same| recommendation previously made | today by Wyatt.) items for sale: | “16 rolls tape, red, cellulose, un- 'used, 28" (Continued on Page Four) snow flurry brought Western Wash- the ion the Klamath irrigation project.' The reclamation bureau said to- | All member$ of Chapeladies are BILBO COM. T0LD $3,75 GIFT "LOST" WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—~B. L | Knost, Meridian, Miss., contractor told the Bilbo investigating com- !mittee today that he had learned that a $3,750 contribution he and I bis partner made to a Mississippi ‘campaign fund in 1941 had not been turned over to the men run- ning that campaign. He testified that he turned the money over to Edward P. Terry, then secretary to Senator Bilbo (D- Miss), for use in the unsuccessfi |campaign to elect Wall Doxey to |the United States Senate. He added, however, that in re- 'cent talks with Robert Gandy and Forrest Jackson, also associated ,with Bilbo in backing Doxey’s can- !didacy, he had been fold they did not get the money from Terry. ! “It may have been used in the | campaign, but it never got into their hands,” Knost said.” " " | Previously he had testified that in June of 1942, he and another |contractor jointly gave 85000 to Bilbo for Doxey's ca paign. ) g tractor, also’ had told of giving w $25,000 for the same purpose - ,ee C(OLD WAVE ~ BREAKSUP After reaching zero last Satur- iday as the climax in the cold wave |in Juneau, the weather started ‘ moderating. Temperature went to 3 above at {9 o'clock Saturday night, was at |6 above at 8 am. Sunday, 12 | above at 8 p.m. then it began to | snow and at 2 am. today the ther- i mometer registered 17 above. ' At 8 o'clock this morning the temperature was 21 above and has !been slowly going up during the (forenoon and afternoon. About | freezing is the forecast for to- | night. ! Incidentally the Taku breezes iLave apparently ceased, for the time. e — IThomas A. Davies Dies at Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 16—Funeral ser- vices will be held at 2 pm. Wed- nesday for Thomas Arthur Davies, 80, Seattle civic leader, banker and newspaperman. He died yesterday from a heart ailment. ! In 1898 he followed the call of 'gold and became manager of a ! Yukon River steamboat at Daw- son. In 1903 he purchased a steam- {boat business on the Columbia | River. He was Presient of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in 1936. ! Davies was also interested in Co-hostess| Alaska mining. | — e —— HOLMES GOES SOUTH ! Frank Holmes, maintenance man |of the Juneau Cold Storage, left :by PAA plane Saturday to spend ithe holidays with relatives. Rt wsll ) FROM ALASKA AREAS | | Guests from parts of the Ter- ritory who arrived in Juneau yes- | Government is getting rid of ifs;terday included N. A. Collins of | Douglas, Hugh Daniels of Hoonah, | George E. Leighton of Sisters Is- advertised among the surplus |land, Edward Morrissy of White- horse, Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Mac- |Leod, Mrs. Florence Stanfield of Kake, | Newton, still another con- | GOVERNMENT PLANE CRASH, Pan American Flying Four Tons of (andy Free fo Alaska Kids r| i “"°n:_lchrl.slmas movie party | ‘fing of the packages i UMWNOW IN Santa is coming from Seattle in- | stead of the North Pole this year| for thousands of Alaska children| who are faced with a bleak Christ- | mas duz to the marine tie-up.| Seattle civic organizations have laid plans for flying four tons of Christ- | May Present 10-Point Ap- peal from Historic Con- tempt Conviction WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The Su- Hg8 TRreal R Alaska ““ld"""‘lurcme Court today permitted John who otherwise would recelve feW|y, fewis and his United Mine gifts this year. | Workers to come before it with a is L. J. counselo! Heading the movement Dowell, public relations for Pan American World Mrway:.‘“mp.\ who is working with Seattle| . Nile Temple and Shrine clubs ‘":uf Le Alaska and Seattle, and with busi-| ness men interested in Alasku‘.s,cu“ welfare. i 1¢-point appeal from their convic- and $3.510,000 fines for con- historic case, growing out wis’ flaunting a restraining order intended to prevent the re- 17-day coal strike, thus was outlined for court of 1 in ioee toope C“"“‘m“’d'?ac“:gf;“xm its broad legal aspects. It is °°“l‘(“"_“"g ot e Al i@ final, “authoritative’—a ruling cookies, oranges and apples Will be| o, 4pe aotion of Federal District distributed to Alaska children m’m“Jud.m- Ketchikan to Nome. Dowell said Pan American re- ceived permissicn Monday from the CAB to carry the four planeloads: of gifts free of charge, and Shrin ers in each of the Alaska citie: bave volunteered to assist in distri- | bution. Parties are being planncdi by them or jointly with other locali organizations for the children | sl mefhaps. doktt: he communities the cor es | said they had refused to sail on In Juneau, Pan American Afrways; - .0 iy 3 Worg] Manager Dick Johnson said flm,mmm and Dutch ships with arms i£ A g jto yppress the Indonesian revolt. ntout 859 gift.packages will be dis- % A tributed with the Shriners de]iver-“A lowee _onun Talled U? Dlock Lh(‘u" ing 200 and 650 being distributed by | dePortation. They are held in the Juneau Elks Lodge at their | 16Xas next Sat-| T. Alan Goldsborough in the | restrainer. All arguments are set | for Jan. 14 It was another busy opinion day Count : 1. Declined to pass on the ap- peal of 219 Indonesian sailors fight- ing agamst deportation to Java m..snylng they face prosecution there, Their attorney Refused to reconsider its re- ( cent decision upholding Mann Act urday for the youngsters. H 4 . The gifts are being flown to the | nvictions of six members of a main cities of Ketchikan, { Utah “Fundamentalist” cult whose 2 STEAMER MOVEMENTS Juneau, | y hitehorse, Fairbanks and Nome plural marriages were held to come by Pan American : the Anchorage | RS, 7 A allotment from Juneau, according ! to District Manager Charles wnyze,|FR|6|D WEATHER The Christmas packages were 1 of the Glenn Carrington Company, | (EN'RA[ SIATES Northern Commercial Company, the | ST Rogge Commission Company, the' o 3 o Standard Oil Company of Califor- By. the ‘Associated Press) el o _ | Northern Plains States today, ac- \0?\1!.(‘fl?rs Trom, Y.he Besttle Diugh | companied by light snow, and tem- ters of the Nile and Order of East- o\ iyreg fell to near zero in the ern Star are arranging for the stuf- | }; %5 oL movement of the cold air will bring colder temperatures to the upper Mississippi Valley and Lower Lakes 1 re n tonight, with the reading in scheduled to arrive at 7:30 o'cleck grees. tenight and sails for Skagway at Cold wave warnings have been 11:30 o'clock. {issued 1or Wisconsin, Towa and Alaska, from Seattle, snowbound; ' Minnesota. Temperatures are ex- morrow before noon. Is bound:for degrees below zero in northern westward. Minnesota tonight North Sea sailed from Seattle at There was no official forecast as 4 pm. Baturday and is scheduled to the expectable duration of the Pacific Nnnhern,wm‘i“ the scope of the law. Airlines will fly made possible through the support' nia and the Shrine Clubs. Women | A push of cold air penetrated the The southward and eastward Princess Louise, from the south, | Chicago expected to reach 20 de- expected to arrive sometime to-pected to fall as low as 10 to 1 cold snap, but the U. S. Weather to arrive in Juneau toward the end of this week. Bureau at Chicago said that in the Tongass sailed from Seattle Sat-' of cloudiness and light snow urday afternoon and is due in Ju-|zud drizzle, weather would be fair neau Saturday. | and quite cold for several days. Northern Voyager, now loading in| Weather continued mostly fair Seattle, is scheduled to sail Thurs- jand cold over the eastern United day night or Friday morning for;Sld(ES, with temperatures below Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, (2¢ro in northern Maine. Juneau, - Haines, Skagway, Sitka, | s e AR Tenakee and Klawock. | LYBECK SOUTHBOUND Palisana, from the westward, now| Bert Lybeck leit by PAA plane loading frozen fish. Is expected to| Saturday for Seattle. | - sail south tomorrow am. AT > o — ESTEBETH ICED DCWN © v 00 00 00 0000 e o o s o o o o WEATHER REPOR1 (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 A.m. today) In Juneau Maximum, 21; minimum, 14. At Airport — Maximum, 22; M. S. Estebeth, Capt. Pat Davis, arrived in Juneau this morning frem Sitka and way points with| 25 passengers. Heavy weather was | encountered on the return trip, and @ the little ship was iced down from ® |bow to stern. At some points the ® lice was over six inches thick, and minimum, 6. olits total weight was estimated to —_— ®be at least five tons WEATHER yOKRECAST o - -~ - (Juneau and Vicinity) . Snow or rain and snow mixed e SIO(K OUOMHONS i tonight and Tuesday. Warmer e —_— | with highest temperature above ® | NEW YORK, Dec. 16 Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! tock today is 5!, American Can | 88':, Anaconda 39%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 175, Ken-i freezing. Southeasterly winds 20 to 25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION In Juneau—01 inch; since necott 50%, New York Central Dec. 1, 1.20 inches; since July 19',, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S. 1, 51.15 inches. el 72%, Pound $4.03. | Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are as| follows: industrials 174.85, rails| 5188, utilities 37.20. At Airport—.03 inches; since Dec. 1, 84 inch; since July 1, 85.51 inches. ® 000 00 000 000 SUP. COURT session, during which the Supreme hous Development Is Nea — r LEWIS AND Program for Civilian Rehabilifation Is Now UN ASSEMBLY 'ENDS SESSION Assured in Nerthland IN NEW YORK NEW HOUSING CHIEFS PLAN NEW ACTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 new chiefs of the Government's housing program took effice today and promised to speed in carrying out President Truman's orders stripping most controls off the building industry Under the new setup, the Gov- ernment is planning to boost non- residential construction by perhaps 40 per cent; put a limit on the floor space of new homes and give a freer hand in solving the wrtage Frank A. Creedon, Housi peditor, and Raymond M. Foley, Administrator ~of the National Housing Agency, took their oaths of office in the quarters occupied until ten days by Wilson W. Wyatt, who quit both jobs in pro- ago test against Mr. Truman's hous- \ing_ pelfey. Wyatt was followed into retire- ment today by one of his deputies, Norton Long, who denounced the revised program as “boom or bust,” and “not a program at all.” Climaxing a series of White hud- dles, Mr. Truman on Saturday night wiped out the $10,000 ceiling on the selling price of new houses end announced that any can build a home for right that for 11 months only vet- erans have enjoyed Nevertheless the President said the new program will be a “vigor- cus cne” with the Government stressing rental housing. The whole new pregram, with emphasis shift- ing from Federal control to busi- ness initiative, “will produce re- sults,” he promised. - Big Marine Transadtion Put Ihrough SEATTLE the first of America Dec, 16—Loading of nine ships, purchased Mail Lines, Inc., in the est marine transaction of Pa- « Northwest history, is sched- uled to get under way Dec. 23, A R. Lintner, Line President, said to- day. The nine cargo carriers, built during the war at a total cost of $25,000,000, were purchased by the line irom the Maritime Commis- sion to ply between Pacific North- west ports and the Orient Purchase price was $12,000,000. Lintner said « the entire nine would be ready for weekly sailings from Seattle to Japan, China and the Philippines by July 1 > HERE FOR Robert and Susan Helgesen ar- rived by PAA plane Saturday from cellege in the States to spend the Christmas holida here HOLIDAYS TO CHRISTMAS citizen ! himself—a | | father, Notification has been xm'vn‘vdi - from the Federal Security Agency 2 i 4 L by e Termtorin ottiee of voen. | SigNIficant Achievements Rehabilitation that Federal for a rehabilitation ]u'n',*.rnm“ Attained-World Dl;}’fl- tional funds a for civilians in Alaska are now as-) H mats Going Home The 1946 Extraordinary Se: ..;n} 01 the A Legislature reepted | By JOHN A. PARRIS, JR the Federal program for vocation-| NEW YORK, Dec. 16—The Unit- al rehabilitation by passage of an|cd Nations Assembly turned over enabling act providing for exten-,to the ll-member Security Council sion of rehabilitation services to|teday the monumenta k of set- Alaska in accordance with provis- | ting into motion a program for ions of the Federal act reducing the armies of the world The Territorial measure desig- | and destroying the mass destructive nated the Territorial Board of Edu-|weapons of war cat in ex-officio capacity, as the| Ending an historic eight-weeks’ administrative beard to be charged | session at 12:44 am. (EST), the with ccnducting the rehabilitation | op diplomats of 54 natlons gave pregram in Alaska. On September | the - world its first conerete hope Lirst Board dppointed Burke|for outlawir ar and then head- Riley ef Juneau director of the ed for home after writing another Territorial agency and instructed|chapter in man’s long search for him to prepare a plan ior voca-|peace tional rehabilitation suitable for Al-| The next regular meeting will be aska After preparation of such | held in New York next Sept. 16, plan it was adopted by the Board|but the Assembly may be called and submitted to the Federal Se-|into special session in six months lcurity Agency as the basis for theto approve world-wide arms reduc- granting of Federal “matching | tions which the Security Oouncil funds”. Approval to the plan hasjs to plan in detail just been received and the first In the vaulted gold-and-blue as- allotment of Federal funds was cer-| sembly hall at Flushing Meadow tified to the Treasury last week! Park, the world’s diplomats gave a according to advices received injsolemn piedge that their countries - Juneau: { would support jmmediate stops to. . Fund Allotment * ‘reduce their armed forees and pro- It was stated by Mr. Riley that,|hibit the use of the atomic bomb. during the past three years, the Significant Work average participation by States in{ This was regarded as the most the cost of rehabilitation has been jsignificant achievement of the As- 30 per cent, or, that for every|sembly, wiich met in the United $3 of State money expended for!States for the first tme and se- rehabilitation there has been a|lected a Manhattan skyscraper for Federal expenditure of §7 for the|its permanent home. same purpose within the State. This! But almost equally as significant is explained by the t that the was the attainment of virtually Federal government ssumes 100 | unanimous agreement among dele- per cent of case costs in some ' gates, a unanimity that had been classes of cases, 50 per cent of v.m-‘<'<:n<|»|vuuu.~l\ lacking since the cests in all others, and 100 prl"‘l.'mlr'(l Nations was born cent of administrative and voca-| For the first time since hostilities ticna)l guidance costs. With the ap-|ended, delegates agreed there was proval of the Alaska program, vo-an increase in cooperative spirit cational rehabilitation, underway | between Soviet Russia and the elsewhere since 1920, now extends Western Powers. to ever » and Territory i Trcop Disposition The program is designed for re- There was evidence in some re- habilitation of the civilian disabled, | spects of a softening of Russian including the veteran whose physi-pclicy and the diminishing of So- cal disability is not of service or-!viet suspicions. Delegates agreed igin. To qualify for vocational re- generally that U. S. Secretary of habilitation an individual must be|State James F. Byrnes contributed of legal employable & have an'grea to this by disclosing volun- tarily the number and position of American troops on foreign sofl— jmlunnnuun that Russia fought un- cecupatenal handicap because of a disability and be capable of being made employable through its treat- ment or correction { successfully to have every nation Limitations | give to the UN. A limitation upon physical res- This advancement in United Na- toration services is that treatment | tions relations keynoted by may be giver: ua'y for conditions, Warren R. Austin chief of the which are relatively stable and re- U. S. delegation in the closing mediable. This rules out the or- hours of the session. dinary case of acute illness or in-g Starting with the ink and paper jury until such time as the handi- charter,” Austin told fellow dele- cap has become static. However, gate: we progressed from positive of a long-term ill- awaited before re- disagreement and skepticism as to | the solution of the great problem: the end result ness need not be habilitation services may be start- corurenting us, to a newly discov- ed 3 | ered harmony to almost unani- A further limitation is that phy-|mous agreement. I think that we sical restoration services may be | have established the essential re- provided at public expense only toality of the United Nations.” Dramatic Finale Similar sentiments were expressed frem the kleig-lighted r m by | Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Assembly President Paul-Henri ik of Belgium at the dramatic | finale. Most delegates agreed that the | importance of the Assembly was emphasized by the fact that Rus- had sent her top-flight diplo- individual pay for such services | However, initial medical and such service: veceational guidance, counseling training and placement may be furnished without cost, regardless of the individual's financial sources. By the elimination or substantial reduction of physical nandicaps to that the is the extent unable to himselt examination, as employment, and the teaching of imats to the session—Foreign Min- new skills by training “around”|ister V 1. Molotov, Deputy For- handicaps, thousands of Americans, eign er Andrei Y. Vishinsky oftentime public charges other-|and Andrei A, Gromyko. wise, have been restored to self-{ Behind the delegates as they supporting ‘status. In addition to|hurried home today for the Christ- | the benefits measured in terms of mas holidays was a job that in individual morale, the sound econ-|pure paper work alone staggered omy of converting t consumers | the imagination. The record to- to tax producers is beneficial to all.| taled 4,814 documents, - 119,582,784 words. HOOPES <~ -~ EXCHANGE MARRIAGE VOWS Mrs. Robert Hoopes has arrived| Artl Kobbivik and Eleanor M. in Juneau via PAA frem Fairbanks. | Murray were united® in marriage Mr. Hoopes, Territorial Representa- | Saturday in the U. S. Commis- tive-elect from the Fourth Division, | siene cffice with Judge Felix continued to Seattle on a business| Gray performing the ceremony. trip. Mrs. Hoopes is visiting her | Witnesses were Rudy Brash and Ray H. Stevens | Flsie W. Hildreth, 33,086 pages, MRS, HERE C