The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1946, Page 1

VOLAXVIIL, NO. 10,453 S THE DAILY ALASKA [EMPL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” -~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS .S. LOSES FIGHT ON AT Army, Navy Forces Abroad AGREEMENT C(OMPLETED ON MERGER Seven Areas Are Defined Including Command in Alaska, On Pacific By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — The Army and Navy agreed today on unified command for armed forces abroad but left unsettled the wran- gle over merger at home. The joint Chiefs of Staff, with the bitter experience of Pearl Har- bor’s dual command in mind, cli- maxed a long series of negotia- tions by announcing a plan under which overseas forces will be un- der the operational command of a single man—Army, Navy or Air as the situation dictates. The plan was approved by President Tru- man. The establishment of seven Over- seas Commands among other things whittled away some of the domain of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and put under the Navy areas of the Pacific he had controlled. It also reestablished some pre-war com- mands and created a new Northeast Command, its details as yet undiss closed. Concurrently with the announce- SCHOOLS CLOSED IN DAWSON WHEN COLD REACHES 61 BELOW DAWSON, Y. T. Dec. 17—Schools | were open again today after the ' weather moderated to only 40 be- | low. Dropping temperatures hit the Yukon a month ago and last week ithe mercury dropped to an official 61 degrees below zero and an un- official 70 degrees below. Oldtim-/ ers called it the coldest in 10‘ | years. | The two schools closed and the 200 children stayed home. Social | gatherings were canceled and a | shortage of wood fuel was feared as | wood-haulers quit work. But with moderate weather | terday, schools reopened. SEARCHISONTO LOCATE MISSING | THREE-YEAR-OLD | | SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17 — Every available police ofiicer was thrown 11nt0 a search today for three-year- old Patricia Johnson, missing since yesterday with a strange young man who said he wanted to add joy to her Santa Claus shopping jtour by taking her to an amuse- ment zone. The hunt for the brown-eyed child, whose fatheg, Ivan Johnson, said he allowed her to leave a tav- i r ! | ves- { | MIC CONTROL 'SEARCH PARTIES Vandenberg S T Nof Seeking L] . i e | SEATTLE, Dec. 17—Aerial and I l iground searchers, baffled by weath- er and inaccessible terrain in their !week-long hunt for the missing WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Senator | Marine Corps transport plane and Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich) |its 32 passengers, were to be joined announced today “I am not a can-|today by a helicopter flown fronr didate for the Presidential election McChord Field to “take a close | | | i and I anticipate no campaign in my look” at two objects noted on the | behalf.” | southern slopes of Mount Rainier The tall Michigan Senator, one of during yesterday’s full-scale aerial Secretary of State Byrnes' advisers search. at the recent peace conferences,/ At the same time, the search read off the statement from a slip was to branch out to investigate a of paper at a packed news confer- “terrifically bright flash lasting lence in his office. | several minutes” which Mr. and “The Republican task at hand is Mrs. Quill Robertson, a farm exclusively one of mnow justifying couple living in the isloated Pleas- our November victory,” he asserted. ant Valley area near Elbe, report- Vandenberg has been considered ed last night that they saw last ore of the half dozen outstanding uesday. Elbe is 20 miles west of possibilities for the Republican L.ngmire. nomination in 1948. - When the 1948 question was posed in the news conference, Vanden- herg said with a smile, that he had been expecting it. He picked up the' slip of paper and read his state- ment. | > Louise in From South The Princess Louise, on her last trip of the year before being re- | lieved by the Princess Norah, ar- rived in Juneau. last night at 7 | o'clock and sailed for Skagway lat 2 o'clock this morning. The following persons disem- 3IBATILES | RAGING: 1 TESTIFY IN - OWNBEHALF Senator May Relate About Money Loaned Him, , ‘ { Other Incidenfals | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Sena-, ‘lcr Theodore G. Bilbo (D-Miss.) | appeared likely to get a chance to- day to relate his side of the story | | of jhis reiations with a dozen war | conitractors who: | L Loaned him money; { 2. Bought him a car; 4 Dug him a lake and, | 4. Chipped in more than $30,- 000 for his futile campaign to elect | Dogey to the United States Senate | {in 1942. | | With the witne:+ list drained low, Chairman Mead (D-N.Y.) of a Senate War Investigating Subcom- mittee said Bilbo probakly would | | be called today. Senator Fergus- on (R-Mich.) likewise told a re- i portér “it lcoks like ‘the man’ will ! zet his chance to talk.” Bilbo sometimes refers to him- self in campaign speeches in the third person, as “The Man Bilbo.” He has been an attentive listener | |to all the proceedings since the BILBO MAY |Alaska Shipping Problems re Now Unified HARNESSING To Be Studied Before Any OF ATOM IS (hange Will Take Place BIG ISSUE M oA i | s |posal for returning Alakan ship-| M n I ! ping to private carriers will be ac-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 17— Vice| Admiral W. W. Smith, Maritime | Baruch Demands Approv- al of U. 5. Plan-Makes Brief, Poinfed Talk By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 17. —The United States lost its fight today for immediate approval of its plan for controlling atomic energy after Soviet Russia pleaded for de- lay to study the proposal paragraph by paragraph. Bernard M. Baruch, U. S. dele- cepted until after careful scrutiny| of the possible effects upon the! Territory’s economy. " & The ships which were cperated by L] the government during the war w‘de Se('|0ns are expected to be returned to their owners soon after the first of the sl | vear (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The former private operators have | A cold wave movea mnto a large 9eclared they cannot provide ser- section of the country today, and Vvice Without increased freight rates. as temperatures skidded to below Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) has gate who had come to the meeting ero in many areas Federal fore- | Written Smith, urging that no rate|with the full intention of getting a casters promised colder weather to- increase be allowed. |decision today, finally agreed to mOrrow. | The chairman wrote Bartlett the|aqjournment until Friday, but crit- The chilly blasts which penetrat- commission was fully aware of the icized “delays and delays” in com- ed over the Northern plains states Alaska situation and was trying to mission action. yesterday moved across the Great tuwrn the ships back to the owners| Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet dele- Lakes region into the Ohio and 88 ordered by Congress |gate, countered Baruch's call for lower Mississippi valleys and head- “All bossible solutions are Leing'immediate action with a Soviet ed for the Eastern seaboard and €xplored in hope of finding onelwarning against “rushing” in this New England states. Forecast- Which will meet the needs of Alaska 'matter. ers said temperatures in the cold Both from a lr-.nspnr.l.;\(mn» and an; Baruch answered: |belt area would remain sub-normal economic standpoeint,” Smith said. ‘“Holidays, delays and delays— most of the week. |“All factors entering into the prob-)(ime goes by, then years go by and New falls of snow ranging as lem will be duly considered in ““?"‘nothing is done.” high as nine inches and winds Proposal which may be received.| Ho finally left the time of the reaching a velocity of 45 miles an|C8reful scruliny as to its accuracy meeting in the hands of the chair, hour accompanied the sub-zero|@nd &s to its effect upon the in-| Gromyko, who has set in on vir- public hearings started last Thurs- |temperatures in the Northern sec-|ternal economy of the Territory.” |tually every meeting of the atomic | . |tions of ‘Minnesota, Wisconsin and - R commission and of its political com- ment of the single command plan | ern with ra) bout 26, | (I" AFIRE ! barked here: Elizabeth Ackerman, dags . i i for overseas drzgmmuons came af:m.d e cxllf. in:,fi:' B:‘Q u;um'- | Sarah Lee Atkinson, Myrs. Helmi Tue committee would have pre- ,""N"e" Mln:higng last nlggm foisit | 4 xm‘mddml ".‘t J‘m 1 *g'h fl! z ; N8 ' ¢ 5 ferred to wait for Bilbo's rebuttal ear blizzard conditibns’ pfevail- SE(om Div’sm - as! , sald d 2 o2 B: i down uil d g Congressional committee recom- cities. | Bach, Elizabeth Banta, Susan ‘not nad & 8p By the mendation in another field of com- ' bined operation. Intelligence Operations ‘The House Military Committee proposed that permanent legal status be given to the National In- telligence Authority established by President Truman last January. That agency was created to weave together the intelligence operations of various Government agencies in- , cluding the Army’s G-2 seétion, the Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence | and units of the State Department which include vestiges of the war- time office of Strategic Services. Seven Areas Seven areas defined in the an- nouncement are: Far East, commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Pacific, by Adm. John H. Tow- ers, g Alaskan, a new Command, by Maj. Gen. H. A. Craig. Northeast, also a new Command, commander to be named. Atlantic Fleet, by Adm. Marc A. Mitscher. Caribbean, operating under the (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ‘WASHINGTON —Handsome Av- erell Harriman, new Secretary of Commerce, got somewhat in wrong with his chief recently, and quite a bit in wrong with Mrs, Truman, when he failed to attend an of- ficial White House reception. The President and Mrs. Truman were giving a gala reception for the press, and were reverting to the ornate peacetime formality which no one has seen much of around the White House since Pearl Harbor. This meant that at an appointed hour, the entire Cabinet lines up behind the Chief Executive and the First Lady and together they march down the grand stairway while the band plays “Hail To The Chief.” This grand march was scheduled for last week's reception. Only trouble was that the Cabinet was so seriously depleted that not many were around to march. Sec- retary of the Treasury Snyder was in Mexico. Secretary of State Byrnes was in New York at the United Nations meeting. Postmast- er General Hannegan was in Flor- ida resting—all unavoidably away. But Secretary of Commerce Harri- man and his lovely wife, who had been - in Washington all that - day, (Continued on Page Four) Police received a report the man {and child had been seen at the' i Santa Fe Railroad depot about 6:30 !p.m. yesterday. This was two hours \after they left the tavern, where { the father had stopped for a drink. e [FISH CONFERENCE TAKES WALLGREN T0 CAPITAL CITY i WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Gov.| ,Mon C. Wallgren of Washington is there for conference with the State !Department on international fish- eries. ‘Wallgren, paying a social call on| yhis old friends, President Truman,, Itold White House reporters today | ithat he came with a delegation from, the three West Coast states for the| conferences. ! He had dinner last night at the {White House with jand Mrs. Truman. - e———— | the President| /NORTHWEST ALTO | | CALL, WHITEHORSE| WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — The!, Civil Aeronautics Board today au-| | thorized Northwest Airlines to in- | clude Whitehorse, Canada, as an! intermediate point on its route be-| tween the United States and An- chorage, Alaska. This makes possible direct ser-| vice from Chicago and Eastern cities to Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska, with one change at White- | horse. : | The Doarc said, however, that{ service to Whitehorse is subject to negotiations between the United States and Canadian Governments. The Board, in a supplemental| | opinion on the Pacific Air Routes | case, denied applications of Penn- sylvania Central Airlines for routes | between Washington and Chicago and Alaska; and of Alaska Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines for routes between Seattle and Alaska., The opinion was approved by President Truman. ‘The Board said the combined ser- vices of Pan American Airways and Northwest are adequate for the U. S. to Alaska route at the pres- |ent time. e ——- WASHINGTON—The House Mili- tary Affairs Committee today called (for creation of a permanent au- i thority to coordinate all Govern- ment Intelligencc activities and in- sure this nation against sneak' at- tack. 3 Banta, Edith Barras, Nan M. Bla- ATHENS, Dec. 17.—The Bulgar- y, My Lou Blenkinsop, M jan village of Ortakio, just across Magnhild Bogre, Floyd Bush, Sam- the Greck border, was reported atire ., " ny oprictie Rathryn Cullup, today in one of three battle around Thomas H. Dyer, Margaret Dyer. the Greek bulge between Turkey Donsld Erlck.st;n Marie M. Em- and Bulgaria. Newspapers said at mart, John Priesen; Fred, Eliza- le“:‘ 33 guemll“'hége’h of ‘;‘;l:’m' beth and Betsy Anne Hakkinen; ¥y sayernment; e * |Alan D, Helen S. and Helene Dispatches said battle souncs Alene Hansen; Peggy Harris, Ar- could be heard from the Ortakio thur B. Hicks, Glen and Martha region. Unconfirmed reports told Johnson, Ruby G. Kelly; William of widespread fighting in the area, W. Gerirude and Karen D. Knut- but the full extent was not known scn; James and Freda M. Langs- on the Greek side of the frontier. ton, Harry Morford, Trudie Nielsen, The smoke from the blazing village, | Patricia Paisley. however, was clearly seen from| John F. Prouty, Harvey J. Smith, Greece. |Medora Spriostersbach, Miriam Twenty guerrillas were reported Troutman, Glenn W. Trueblood, killed in a 14-hour battle in the'John Torgersen, Mae Williams, snow clad mountains near the Beatrice K. Williams, George Ban- Greek village of Trifyllion, at the|ich, Margaret Friesen, William R. Bulgarian frontier. | Graham, Allen Lehto, Arthur Legge, Army headquarters at Komotini| Robert Kelly, John Privtorono and said another battle took place north| Walter D. Russell. and south of Didimotikon and also! Sailing for Skagway were Don around Souphli, where nine ln.sur-]Balmut, Shirley McCormick, Ruth gents were killed in a fight in an|Renner, Lyle Franklin, Mrs. Pri- area between Didimotikon and Or-|cilla Parker, Mr. and Mrs. S. Work- estrias, and six were wounded' and|man, H. E. Mayo, R. H. Stewart, ten captured. John Brown, H. G. Bryan, and Greek army losses were not re-| Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Andreson. ported. Some of the “large num-| - ber” of Guerrillas reported captured rits reporied covtured (ONDITION OF FRANK PRICE REPORTED BAD said they camp at Buljkes, Bulgaria, for ac-| The condition of Frank Price, of tion against Greece, press reports said. Sitka, Republican Representative- elect cof the First Division, is re- ported as grave. This is accord- ing to private advices received here by Albert White from Myrtle . 1} 0 Kimball's Campaign » Literature Is Just - Being Re(elved "ow Price was taken to the Pioneers’ jHome Hcspital several days ago ‘but has failed to respond to treat- KETCHIKAN, Dec. 17—Ross E.|ment, it is said. Kimball, running for Territorial| Lab C issi - o o s sunien (anada Will Drop 3-Cent Tax on Gas literature last September 13 at Fair- OTTAWA, Dec. 17—Canada will banks. He finished a poor third, how- ever, in the October 8 General Election, receiving a light vote in Southeastern Alaska. He has found a possible con- tributing reason for the light vote. When the relief ship Grommet Reefer arrive from Western and Interior Alaska, bringing mail long delayed because of the maritime strike, it included Kimball’s cam- paign literature mailed last Sep- tember. - e SWINK OUT ON BOND | | | |gasoline April 1, lannounced today. The tax was a iwm".i.\'ne measure. Provincial taxes on gasoline will continue. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 17T — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can £9%, Anaconda 39%, Curtiss-Wright | 6%, International Harvester 75%, Kennecott 50, New York Central {18%, Northern Pacific 22, U. S. Steel 73%, Pound $4.08%. the government John Leonard Swink was released last night on $500 bond after his arrest on charges of alleged assault and battery and selling liqudr with- | out a license. Swink pleaded not | plaintiff in the case. 51.62, utilities 87.04. until after examining Edward P. Terry, Bilbo's secretary from 1939 until last January. But Terry, who claims his life ' has been threatened if he says any- thing against his former boss, has been in a Quitman, Miss, hospital with/'a heart ailment and is not due to arrive here until tomorrow morning. Bilbo told reporters he planned to present a wrilten statement ex- plaining his side of the affair. He recently underwent a mouth oper- ation and cannot wear his denture ! comifortakly. CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—An at- torney for Senator Bilbo (D-Miss.) expressed the opinion that “hun-! dreds of thousands of dollars” can Ibe spent in Mississippi political | campaigns despite a State Corrupt: Practices Act. ‘The attorney, Forest was questioned about the State | Jackson, ‘ed for brief periods in the thrae~ forecasters in (U. 8. resolutions presented Dec. 5, | RETURNS (ouNTED!whlch embodied the essential fea- R itures of the American plan. He |wanted to survey them in the light > Canvassing Board announces of the arms resolution adopted by D. The lowest in Minnesota was, 8 Tecord total of 1883 votes cast in the General Assembly last Satur- 12 below at International Falls. the Second Division on October 8. day. Wisconsin had three below at Land | When the Third and Foutth Divis- | O’ Lakes. lion count is completed, @ Acting | ¥ : 8 N Vovernof - Lew Willikia® exBitte a1 more SUOCBRSSH. ¥y e I Ireturn of around 16,000 votos to be PdB:;';:“:h’e”ufi;‘:;;”;;?m“}{t:::; announced. |Energy Commission today to ap- Results of the Second Division prove the United States plan for canvassing returns are given as|harnessing the atom. foliows: In a brief speech to the full For Delegate—Bartlett 1033; Pe- meeting of the commission, Baruch terson 731. |said that the question had been For Treasurer—Cole Olson |detated long enough and that the 923, |time for action had come. For Labor Commissioner—Benson Baruch, the United States repre- 718; Kimball 243; Sharpe 680. ‘sentative of the Atomic Energy For Senate (elected)—Munz 1139; Commission, came to the meeting Charles Jones 993; (defeated) How- with the determination to push for ard Lynn 767; Bess Cross 535. ‘a decision as soon as possible. For House (elected) —Dewey | Anderson 948; L. E. Ost 892; W.| state area, federal Chicago said. ‘The nation’s coldest official tem- perature early this morning, was 18 deg.ces below zero at Pebina, N. - - WEST EUROPE IS HIT, COLD V/AVE LONDON, Dec. numbed the fincers and toes of western Europe's t clad chil- dren and their elders by the mil- lions today. From Belgium and Holland, where frozen canals halted freight barges, to Italy, wkere shivering young- sters peeled “Reconstruction Loan” from walls 17.—Bitter coid 7 63; Tke commission is considering for fuel, the ipolicy for its political committee to posters W. Laws 873; Edward Anderson 796, Lefeated for the House were: Madsen 721; McDonald 78%; Milli- law by Senator Ferguson (R~ Mich.) at the Bilbo war contracts inquiry. cold wave which swept in from Si- beria last weekend held sway. After asking about the alleged| OR¢ mMan died of exposure in ggp 735; Wallace Porter 747, . | Paris, s were taken to' g ho referend sults: £ payment of $11,000 to former Rep.|, A L 2 Statehood referendum results: for Rose” Oathinat campaten mankger | Lospicals: cold drove herds of gatehood 742; against 933. i wiid hogs and other animals from phs planket primary referendum after Collins lost his bid for a Benatarislantimation in 1943, Pers | . L yrenicess Mountains o < the cutskirts of French villages. Snow received 924 votes in favor and 682 against. | follow in drafting the recommenda- | tions section of a report the com- |mission must make to the United Nations Security Council by Dec. 31, 1 Enphasizing that the [Unided ‘suucs stcod firm on its plan first iput forward last June 14, Baruch |sald: | guson queried: ! “How did you get around the | Mississippi Corrupt Practices Act? | You did not report this as a cam- | paign expenditure.” | Jackson replied that only the ain committee of a candidate was required to report its expendi- 'tures. “Informal” groups were ex- | mpt, he said. “What good is the State hen?” asked Ferguson. “I don’t think it's any good,” ‘Juukson replied. i D | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | - | Alaska in port and scheduled to | law | |sail westward this afternoon. Princess Louise scheduled to ar-| rive in port from Skagway at 9 drop its three-cent Dominion tax on g'clock tomorrow morning and sails; wholly dispossessed by floods south at 11 o'clock. North Sea, from Seattle, schedul- | ed to arrive Friday or Saturday. | Tongass, from Seattle, schedul- | led to arrive Friday of Saturday. i Northern Voyager scheduled to ‘rail from Seattle Thursday night or Friday morning. REBEKAH CHRISTMAS PARTY IS THURSDAY ‘The Christmas party of the Re- Sales today were 1,020,000 shares. bekahs, scheduled for Friday night, burglaries in the Bremerton, Seattle | Dow, Jones averages today are has been advanced one day and will and Bellevue areas, police said fo- guilty. Mrs. Letha Fewcett is the as follows: industrials 17447, rails be held on Thursday night at 8 day. The burglaries were commit- oclock in the Odd Fellows Hall. 'RUNNING OFF; MANY Four Yo and ice gave a wintery veneer to 5 “We have no pride of authorship, - - the Riviera. | :l{ut !wc can no;l, in justice to our In Germany. authorities express- | trust, accept changes in purpose. ed fear the sub-freezing weather S'eals Irut oa |We have debated long enough.” He said that the debates on o‘ wh= k i ( h' arms limitations in the United Na- Es ey' aufl |tions General Assembly and the ! L | speeches,of Vyacheslav M. Molotov, SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—A 86-year- [80vlet Russian foreign minister, and old truck driver, F. W. Paton, was Einest Bevin, Britain's foreign sec- held today after, Detective Captain retary, had covered much of the Clyde V. Dailey said, signing a con- |éTound on atomic matters. fession that he sole a truckload of | Referring to Secretary of State State Liquor Board whiskey and James F. Byrnes' speech to the rum valued at $10000. The truck Assembly, Baruch said that Byrnes and all but 12 cases of the liquor|Dad brought the United Nations and were recovered jthe public to a “refreshed under- st S | standing of the fact that abstract- DYERS RETURN |ions have been debates, and it is EpipeLT {now up to us—the Atomic Commis- and Mrs. Tom Dyer, who Sion—to préSent an immediate, a would increass illnesses among peo-. ple badly housed. FLOOD WATERS ARE FAMILIES NEED AID SEATTLE, Dec. 17—With contin- ued cold weather permitting a run- off of flood waters throughout western Washington, Red Cross of- ficlals today turned an eye toward Mr. “rehabilitation” of the estimated paye peen visiting in the Smtes:p"““c” and a realistic program.” 1034 families either partially or o, the past five weeks, returned | Apparently referring to the top | at o Juneau on the Princess Lou-:Priority given the atomic problem Kent, Renton, Riverton and in- jeo pleased with their trip but glad bY the General Assembly in its res- olution on arms limitation, Baruch ! said: “We have accepted the duty and Ld we much proceed promptly to its fulfillment, we believe, and our work follows this belief, that the !!:est way of gaining our objective (is to do first things first. In the \very forefront of that effort lies the control of atomic energy. i |we are able to solve that vast prob- lem, the others will come easier.” e R DON ABLE tervening valley farm lands, south of Seattle. to return home. - uths Under Arrest for Thirty Buralaries in Month SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—The arrest of four youths, ranging in age from 14 to 16 years, has cleared up 30 SOUTHBOUND Don Able, éz;}be;ter contractor, with his shop on Main Street, left for the south via PAA plane. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS ted during the past month.