The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL. THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIII.,NO 10,454 ]UNLAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, I‘H() PRI(I TEN CENTS NEW SHIPPING TROUBLE AT KETCHIKAN Geological Search Being Made In Alaska MASS EXECUTION TAKES PLACE IN CANADA THIS AM. LP']HBRID(:E Alta., Dec. 18 Four German prisoners of war and Canadian army veteran were :nnged for murder early today in Canada’s largest mass execution in | 60 years. Three of the Germans HUNTFOR NO CHANGE IN URANIUM CHINA POLICY UNDERWAY SAYS TRUMAN : WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — Presi- Investigation on of Other Po- ! p o dent Truman reaffirmed United | yngyccesstully attempted to commit 'enhalmes Made States recognition of the Nationall ivide a few hours before the 1 Government of China today ““d}han:m«;f by cutting their w! During Summer said this nation will persevere in| rTpe Canadian veteran, Donald | its policy of assisting the Chinese | gperman Staley, economic | 29, of Bracebridge, was convicted of the sex slay- 24 of six-year-old Don- Alta. Police H)vopl(\ to “peace and recovery.” In a statement clarifying United ont {ing on July | nie Goss in Calgary, (By Vern Haugland) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — The Interior Department disclosed today | states policy toward China, the|iq he also confessed killing 11- it is making a thorough geologi- | president said American forees | voar-old Garry Billings in Vancou- cal search to determine thmer‘thcne have been reduced from 113,- | Alaska may be a source of uranium, ! the basic material for atomic en- “It is a matter of deep regret ergy and the atomic bomb. | that China has not yet been able Also under survey are Alaska’s|t, achieve unity by peaceful meth- potentialities in oil, coal, gold and! 45 the President said his 000 to less than 12,000. The German prisoners were con- { victed of murdering Cpl. Karl Leh- mann in a Prisoner of War camp |at Medicine Hat, Alta., on Sept 10, in g e o 3 ' - radium, and means of coping With | jengthy document :::*v?;-nbv.f.l::m"\lvr/‘:"u%:::;]:m‘s = the construction problem of VOl-| Bacause of the seriousness of the ! 3 EhaBeEh I canic activity and l’"maf””['—’_h"‘prublem and the importance of a permanently frozen ground Which colution, the President said, Gen underlies the territory. | George C. Marshall “has remained ALASKA COASTAL The Department’s Geological | at his post even though active ne- ¢ said in a report to Secre- gotiations had been broken off by A'Rll"[s (ARRIES Krug, 56 geologisis took part!the Communist Party.” The Presi- in a summer-long field study which | dent said the United States stands 49 ON TUESDAY covered a wide range. Laboratory | “ready to help China as she moves analyses of their finds will continue ' loward peace and genuine Demo- i through the winter. | cratic Government.” Adhiien Clootlll ROPRUAE eitasiny Underlining the ismportance at- The President insisted that the o g 5 gy . tached t¢ rhe suvey, the report plan for political unification agreed made flights to Hoonah, Funter said the wreas studied and the to-|to last February is “sound.” | Begy Tetmkes ssud Btk - Ohie fal micahentiar ki “empluad Wt | Sk |a ‘total of 49 passengers. From bemg withheld “for security rea- Juneau to Hofinnh ‘g: lfll;:yu;.; s persons were flown: Chuck Hiatt, sons” It gave po hint whether \MEMBM OF WNAA Archie White, ¥. R, Norton, Bus’ the field workers uiseovbred uran-i ium in worthwhile quantities. | John C. Reed, special assistant to { Ansell, Hugh Daniels, Mr. and Mrs, Harry Douglass and Marlene Doug- HAVE BRIDGE PARTY Survey Director W. E. Wrather, '}asg‘ Ma.rc SRRt »»Fle-tchsr i told a reporter the main purpose! Members of the Women's Na ‘lehan.].s. Donald Erickson and| of the explorations is to pinpoint tional Aeronautical Association en-'Margaret Randolf b underground resources, particularly |tertained a group of prospectivel Fm‘,"_ ‘v"““““' to l.:‘“““" Bay: Ted; those expanded in huge quantities|members at a bridge party last]CDilders; to Tenakee, Mr. and Mr“ during the war. The Interior De- !Dight, at the Scottish Rite Temple. B e P .sm“" g partment also hopes to break the | Christmas holly and candles provid- Glenn Green, Dr. M. Van Sandt, " Don Foster, Mrs. Laura Walton grip of gold on Alaska's ecenomy | jed attractive decorations for the e: |Blue Room. Mrs. John Mancell by cpening cther sources of natural Mrs Pete|Mize, Max Penrod, Evelyn Wells wealth. won first prize at bridge; An understanding of how to deal: Gilmore, first for rummy, and| and R. J. Bingham. with permafrost is vital in any Mrs. Milt Furness won the Lul‘ From Sitka to Juneau, Mr. and Alaska construction program of the Prize. Ml’; rf CG;T' Jorl;nl Cu‘s:hlln;‘r Mlx( it e Eeedesaid i The committee in charge of the;&nd Mrs. Willlam Bates, Cal Fran ‘ s . |Bob Abblie, Earl McGinty, Eve Me- | He explained: arrangements and refreshments in-! “The l:)crman st study at fu—sz"'fl“ded Mrs. T. C. Whiteside, Mrs. | Donnally, Harold McDonnally, Joe lance might appear to be a case J0ePh A. McLean, and Mrs. Alex- gbsuéh}?:} BEaivk . 'RRaL: et | ' o] annon. of locking the barn door after the ander Young ‘ R | Mrs. Prank Hermann is president | _Ffom Hoonal to Juneau: L. Will- “Ignorance of permafrost condi-{Qf the local unit of WNAA, }mms o 8 Rlck SHaty More 1, Hi6he oot Hhk TInltes Erwtes fafls inational organization working to‘M‘ and Mrs. William , Johnson | lions of dollars during the war,Promote public interest in aviation, | Esther Bach and F. M. Shd'-‘cé: There was a terrific amount of | i < jand from Tenakee to Juneau, waste in the maintenance of the | COLD AT ANCHORAGE !Malvin and Ole Anderson. { e Canol pipeline and the Alaska high- | bty B way, and of such airfields as Nome,; The thermometer registeved 337 Galena and Northway, due to dis- | degrees below zero at A“‘-‘“"‘““'(ONCERI Bv HIGH vegard of the problem of nwen}lafit Saturday. During the around. |night, thc Luoma boarding house S(Hool GRoupS is a sub-sei-| caught fire and was destroyed, and | “Permafrost study ence, and the Russians are advanc- | | 26 roarders were made homeless. ed in it far beyond the Amencans‘ > and Canadians.” The United States could have saved “millions of dollars” in wm- time if it had possessed the Rus- sian permafrost “know-how,” thm Survey report commented , 3 | Juneau Public Schools will pre- sent their annual Christmas con- ‘The Washmgton; Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON FRki i + WASHINGTON — 1935, L (ho‘ola'e Bars {tional, likeable New l“Iork ba:mk(e)r . % rburg, fi friend of Are Going Upin |Fun s Rociese wrote a ook, . . Price, Is Claim in the High School gymnasium. The High School band, under the di- irection of Mr. Joseph M. Shofner, and the High School chorus and Eighth Grade girl's glee club, di- rected by Miss Cordelia Keppinger, will present a varied group of selec- tions. The Band will open the program with Sousa's U. S. Field Artillery| March, followed by an overbure, a trumpet solo by Bob Sanford, and “Hell-bent For Election,” castigat- ing the financial policies of the| President in whosc Brain Trust he! had served. Next election Jimmy NEW YORK, Dec. 18—Chocolate | was back in the Roosevelt camp,|Argentina. Miss Keppinger will bars have already gone up in price,| urging FDR for a third term. !direct the mixed chorus in Come but they may go much higher in the; Today, some insiders think Jim- |to the Fair, then the Girl's Glee Club in Balloons in the Snow. Boys' Glee Christmas number, We Three Kings of Orient Are. Schubert’s Maria will be sung by the Girls’ Glee Club, and the Eighth Grade| girls will sing a Christmas Folk| Song. Closing the vocal portion 0! the program, the mixed chorus mll sing Irving Berlin’s White Christ- mas. Mr. Shofner will direct the Band ! again, Dale Roff will play a clari- net solo, and Buddy Hunter a trombone solo. The Band will close the program with a Rhapsody, Deep South. next few months, because the price of cocoa beans have jumped ap- proximately 180 per cent in the past | two months, trade sources said to- day. my Warburg, once the, violent foe \or Germany, must be preparing to write a new book: “Hell-bent For Rebuilding Germany.” | Warburg represents a growing| grcup of State Department Street | ‘thinkexs passionately bent on mak- ing Germany a strong buffer state against the onrush of Russian Communism. In 1932, just a few months before Hitler came into power, the same Jimmy Warburg dined with a group {of Jewish tycoons in Germany, then | secretly tinancing Hitler to be a | bulwark against- Communism. And Sales today were 1,110,000 shares. |\hile Warburg — as far as this Dow, Jones averages today are|yriter knows—did not participate as follows: Industrials 174.84, Rahi,m that financing, he did have con- | 5184, uumxes 3113 |crete evidence that the German et N | \copard does not change his spots. | HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Jimmy Warburg, however, is not | Among the new arrivals in Ju- | jone. Also dining in New York the | neau are two visitors from Anchm-l sther night. with a confidential | age, D. M. Flitter and Harvey J. Smith, —_———— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 18 — Closing | quotation of Alaska - Juneau mine stock today is 5!z, American Can! 89%, Anaconda 39's, Curtiss-Wright | 6, International Harvester T74%, Kennecott 497, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 721, Pound $4.03%. - - GRIZZLY BEAR LEAV The Grizzly Bear left Juneau yesterday afternoon for a week's patrol run with John Likens and Dan Ralston on board. The crew will return in time fc: the Christ- ' mas holiday. (Continued on Page Four) and daughter, Ralph Young, Rnlph' " TOMORROW NIGHT lcert tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock | Club will sing one| Ave! SCHOOLBUS STASSEN IS CRASHEDBY ' CANDIDATE, R.R. TRAIN PRESIDENT Ten Are Killed - Bodies Dedlares Plnatfrbm Will Be‘ | Scattered Along Track Immediate Changing for Half a Mile Wagner Labor Act NEWBERRY, S. C, Dec. 18 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Harold Ten pupils and the driver of a E. Stassen ripped the lid off the | ¢ when|1948 Republican Presidential nomi- |school bus were killed tod: |the bus and a southbound railway|nation battle by declaring his can-| didacy on an immediate platform pa nger train collided at a grade cr ng on the outskirts of Silver-jof changing the Wagner Labor | street, village sevem miles south-, Relations Act west of here. The 39-year-old three-time gov-| | Eleven other school children were ernor of Minnesota and former | jinjured in the accident. They were Navy captain added that he is out brought to Newberry County Hos- (o steer the GOP along a “truly pital for treatment. Attendants!literal path.” |said all were in critical condition One of his first efforts, Stassen | Mrs, H. N. Wa of the Mc-|told a news conference will be di- |Swain Funeral Home, where five of | rected toward amend: the Wag- iths dead were brought, said am- ner Act to describe set of un L\llunm' drivers told her the train|fair practices” for labor such as | Istruck the bus on the side and| ‘“mass picketing Practices now 'dragged it for half a mile down|spelled out as unfair in this law ithe track apply only to management Some bodies were carried along Stassen said he nts to “balance ! the cowcatcher of the engine, up this collective bargaining Iwrile others were scattered beside His announcement, unexpected according to her infor-ionly because of its timing before so long! the 1948 nominating conven- tion, came after Senators Vanden-| ed on a straight stretch of road. kerg of Michigan and Taft of| It was theorized, she added, that Ohio. had told reporters they ave! the «tus driver was not expecting,not candidates. Each, however, left “the ‘train because it was reported the way open for any campaigns inT | | ¢ (the track, mation M Wallace said the crash oc- running late. their Lehalf. Richard Sunderc was' the . 'VESTRY MEETING OF , | HOLY TRINITY WILL Fur Coat | BE HELD ON SUNDAY ‘ The Vestry of the Church of the | Holy Trinity ataounced this morn- ing that the annual Parish Meeting would be held on Sunday, December 22 immediately following the 11 driver. - Prices fo ~ TakeDrop o'clock service. This meeting has| WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Albert' |Leen postponed due to the fact that{n Day, Director of the Fish and repairs and improvements to the willife Service, cautiously predict- ! Parish Hall had not been complet- oq oday a decline in the price of | ed, but it was decided that the ry, coats in the not-too-distant \mwum, could beé postponed no long- ¢y, | At the meeting annual reports will ‘be made by the Rector and officers ‘of the Parish. Also three men will |be elected to the vestry for the next At recent sales, mink pelts sold for 5 per cent less than I year’s prices, and American-process- ed Pribilof sealskins sold for an av- !few years. All communicants are erage cf $46.64 each, compared wnh jeligible to vote in this election. |an $80.28 average last September. ( - Day told a reporter that, due to 4 the price lag between wholesale | S b H and retail markets, it might take | ; por') rle s a little time for these lower prices ' to be reilected in fur-coat costs. | Here are boxing results: Lloyd that the importation | Marshall of Sacramento won a ten- 2 skins—-rabbit, badger, |round decision over George* Henry parten, 1 frem Manchuria ! |of Los Angeles at Sacramento, John',nd other countries has been re-| Park of Los Angeles won a split sumed, and eventually may help to {Cecision from Joey Barnum of down the prices cf the more | Ocean Park in ten rounds at LoS jyxuriant furs | | Angeles. ;Mario Trigo of San An- tonio, Texas, punched out a ten- Then too, there's consumer re- Iround decision over Jackie Wilson of Pittsburgh at San Jose. The scheduling of a fight in San | w Francisco January 6 between ban- itam king Manuel Ortiz and Harold iDade of Los Angeles Has brought a sistance to high prices and inabili- |ty of women nowadays to afford he fur coats they bought so fn.elv» vhen they worked in airplane and munitions factories. | “My wife had her heart set on an Alaskan sealskin, but I advised | protest to the National BOXINg ney not to buy it,” Day confessed. !Absociauon. The complaint comes Why? It costs too danged! {from the manager of Manuel’s ;.. i {Honolulu challenger, David Kui/ foptd ke Kong Young. | Manager Charlie Miller prolestsi that it's the same old run-around.; ar qua e ‘The NBA has promised to look into the matter. Monday the Association ordered| Ox'tu to arrange an early defense of his title or forfeit the crown.| M Eurekai \Young was recommended as the ) ! = ke opponent since he is listed' as “,“‘ EUREKA, Culll, Dec. 18 — The | Number. One challenger. Incident-' heaviest earthquake in 14 years shook this coastal area of Norlhern‘ California at 6:21 a.m. today. Light | | fixtures swayed and dishes rattled | |but no damage was reported. The last heavy tremor in this area, in 1932, caused extensive damage. Ially, Ortiz knocked out Young in u;even rounds last summer in a.non- ’Htle affair. | —_— } Inability of the Washington State | College Cougars to take over pos- [session of the ball, as Wyoming stalled for two minutes to protect a one point lead, cost the Inland Empire five a 36-35 decision last night. A hard-fought game, the lead changed hands 10 times and the score was tied five. The game was played in Laramie, Wyoming D FROM KETCHIKAN R. E. Ellis and Clefole Hoffman nave arrived in Juneau from Ket- chikan and are staying at the Bar- anof Hotel : V-2 Rocket | sparkling | who ast | . | Maritime | special Portland cargo during | the \GRAHAM, DOBBS ARE a THREATOF DEATH IN BILBO CASE @10, AFLIN DISPUTE AT KETCHIKAN Shoots Up 111 Miles SANDS, N Rk e B 2 . Former Secrefary of Sen- Manning of Winches and cometoiee o a veenra 111 s ator Claims He Was ' Hatches Starfs Trouble- 1 the heavens last night, but its Warned, Life at Stake man-made meteorites were so puny they eluded most eyes ] A scientific evaluation the S0 Compan-es Act of WASHINGTON; Dec. 18.—Edward SEATTLE, Dec. 18.—Drastic re- meteorites experiment awaits deve- P. Terry former sec ATy to strictions on cargo bound for lopment of film from cameras, Senator Bilbo (D-Miss), testified Ketchikan, Alaska, were ordered to- seme 3200 of which were trained /today that war contractor A. B. day by the three Seattle shipping here and over the southwest on ihe |Friend warned him he would be companies serving Alaska after word heavens over this southern New killed if he told what he knew was received from the northern Mexico ordnance proving ground. | about Bilbo. Friend promptly as-|port that the first vessel to arrive The rocket shoot itself was term- serted he did “nrot recall' the in-'there after the prolonged maritime ed the best so far by Lt. Col. Har- cident strike was involved in a jurisdic- old R. Turner, White Sands Com-| Terry testified at Bilko's war tional dispute between rival AFL- mandant contract inquiry that Priend gave' CIO unions Not only did the 14-ton missle him the warning while they were' crack the July 30 altitude record dining with Mrs. Terry in a Miss-| The new order places immediate of 104 miles, but also it established |issippi hotel last April. Friend Festrictions on Ketchikan cargo a new speed of 5350 feet per sec- managed Bilbo’s campaign in last! 10adings to only one hatch in ves- ond—more than a mile a second Summer’s elcction Qing 1ing Baatide e R nd about five times the speed of| Called to testify after Terry told Amounts also will be limited pend- sound. of the alleged threat, Friend con- N8 settlement of the dispute. offi- e eded that “I might have said in| Cials said la friendly way that somebody” Ketchikan dispute hinges on might get on you, or that you' ., - s gL T e gl o might get killed if you don't watch paiches, the AFL-Sailors Union of LLy the Pacific or the CIO-Internation- The contractor qualificd that by al Longshoremen's and Warehouse~ repeating that he had no exact men's unior said he had known Mr. and Mrs.|\ ot 2 Northiand Transporta- ”””““‘»"L‘“ ',f" ‘.3""‘!;‘.'\4“":':1.&1\1\ Cumpany’s North-€ea will, un- Toad only one hateh. &t a time a5 a result of the dispute. “Weo cannot operate that way,” he said. It would mean a four or five day tieup each time.” William Semar, Northland, said in Seattle that under the steamship companies’ contracts with the unions all avail- able sailors union men are to be given work in the unloading of ships at Ketchikan and tken if any jobs are not fillsd, Ketchikan long- Terry said he was “very much up- shoremen may be hired. Howover, set” but was “interested in defeat- the Ketchikan longshoremen are ing Senator Bilbo” on account of dcmanding that, if any of its men the threat. He said he talked the are given jobs, the winch men and matter over with friends and they batch-tenders on such hatches adviced him to make a statement must also be ILWU men, he said of the facts and go on to Florida where he had started a business. “And if I slipped on a banana peel the people of Mississipp would know who to accuse,” Terry added - > Terry also testified that “Santa Claus™ delivered the keys of a shiny new $1,912 automobile to Bilbo on Christmas Eve of 1941 He related that Mor ey asked him to present the new auto. Bilto I k B d covered his eyes with his hands so Alaska Bound Ter: [ing: “Ed, / had quoted Friend as say- 'WITH PARENTS if you t or tell what on Eenator Bilbo, you'll Terry, testifying at a contracts investigation later in the evening Mrs ed Friend if Bilbo kill her husband “He said no,” Terry “there were two men the job.” any part in this you know be killad Senate war that Terry ask- going to SAN DIEGO, Caiii,, Dec. 18. Three and one-half-year-old Patr cia Johnsen, her dark brown eyes with the excitement of the past 36 hours, was back with her parents today after disappear- ing from here Monday She was found at passenger terminal in yesterday in company with a man, identified himself as Darold Hoff, 23, of San Diego, a Marine corps pilot from N. D. President of was recounted the union going to do Los Angeles Neal R. former Douglas, Hoff, who told police he brought the girl to Los Angeles Monday night after her father, Ivan John- son, had give nhim permission to take her from a San Diego tavern (to visit an amusement zone, said ‘I must have been terribly drunk.” de- load We do not agree to such mands and henceforth will only part of one hatch on each ship for Ketchikan,” he said. “That will consist of mail, baggage, €x- press and a limited amount of per- ishables.” Ed Coester, Sailors union agent kere, said it was an attempt of the ILWU te “move in” on SUP work. Officia of the CIO union were not available for comment. The North Sea was the first ves- sel reach Ketchikan after the 69 maritime tieup. Another ship from Seattle, the freightcr Tongass of the Alaska Transpor- tation Company, is scheduled t¢ arrive there today > Coal Mines Wrecked ByRetreafing Japs Are Fully_l{eslored MOSCOW, Dec. 18—At least 25 coal mines on the Island of Sa- khalin which were wrecked by re- treating Japanese forces near the end the war, have been fully restored and are over-fulfilling es- timates bv 112 per cent, the Soviet trade un newspapt Trud re- ported tc khalin Japan Soviet Southern n ihe could not see the car until he |got the keys, Terry went on. In discussing Bilbo's 1940 paign debt, Terry said his boss had told him it would paid by the contractors. - THIRD DIVISION RETURNS COUNTED Governor Lew Williams anncunced the results of the Third | Division election returns which were totaled today by the canvass- mg board. Total number of votes cast in the division stood at 5778. he results are as follows For Delegate: Bartlett 4025; erson 1560, For Treasurer 2100 For Cc son 246 For Victor Rivers Cutcheon 2561; For = House lected were 2; . Steve Barnett 30 | 2514; List to day cam- former be PORTLAND, Ore., Alaska relief ship, sailed from here late Scutheast Alaska ports tons of cargo. C. Roy Albers, manager of Lidell and Clarke, Inc., berth agents for the ship here, imated the Reef Knot would dock at Cordova Sat- iurday. It also has cargo for Val- dez, Seward, Seldovia and Kod The vessell, assigned by the U Commission to carry Dec. 18.—The Reef Knot yesterday for with 4842 Acting S the the is Puget Sound maritime dispute only ship eduled to leave here for the Territory. > Pet- of Olson 3285; Cole mn Island imissioner of Labor: Ben- > 1807; Kimball 1117 slbreath 2868 Stanley Mc- Snodgrass 2078 entative Snic 2633 Hunt TIED, GRID HONORS NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The sea- son-long race Letween Otto Graham Cleveland's Western division| (hampxmh and Glenn Dobbs, Jr, Brooklyn pace master, for the All- America football conference passing championship has ended in tie > Brothers, Moiher Perish in Flames BROOKLINE, Mass., Dec. 18 Three persons, two brothers in their twenties and a 43-year-old mother lies north of geologists estimate the Sakhalin coalfields cover about 10,000 square area of T M Gill Pollard 2478 utcheon 2519; a candidates in- clude Morris 0; Mrs. Atwood 2425; Andreson 2119; Bugge 1971; Keating N MacDonald 2072; Warren 1466, Weimer 1951 Votes cast in favor Statel 3427 while were The Blanket Primary Iitl- erendum received 4456 votes in 1av- and 959 opposed of defeated d were t against or of three——perished early today in | ¢ : ficp. Whicls .roared. through aj Fuurth Divisian revusmis Wil be SHOPPING DAYS B e tat soarbirent Bulkding: 4 announced by the Canvassing Board ree-story partinent bu 110, NG totiarvor ot Bridas TO CHR]STMAS 3 penthouse