The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL. THE TIME” 1 P.M. Edition = VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,459 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY; DECEMBER 24, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIAN THREAT SEEN IN DARIEN MOVE ODEADIN PLANE CRASH GERMANS GRANTED AMNESTY ‘ 2 ,Rm De Janeiro fire department an- {nounced today that 20 persons were ikilled and one injured when an | RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 24. AT‘hei 'YVONNE'S WINDOW - CHOSEN AS BEST IN KIWANIS CONTEST First prize for th(' store window | display best depicting the spirit of the Christmas season, in the window | display contest fostered for the first | | time this year by the Kiwanis Club, TRAIN HITS ANOTHER; 61 ARE INJURED S. D, Dec. 24.—A fast | AXIS SALLY The American girl known to thousands of GI's as Axis Sally has | Today's IS SET FREE GET TOUGH Christmas WITH RUSS Story {been released from a United States | army prison. Her real name is Mildred Gillars, A Christmas story comes today IS DEMAND AMERICANS ARE BARRED FROM PORT air transport of the Argentine ] WAUBAY, ! Hundreds of Ihousaflds Oflp ; route from London | has been awarded to Yvonne's wom- | freight overshot a siding and ram- |and she use g from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Senafor Stewa” Declares ama Line, enroute 3 3 d she used to live i rtland, L I N G | to Buenos Aires, crashed yesterday |€n's apparel store in the Baranof |med into the Milwaukee Railroad's|Maine. During the war, she sanz The story is about « Wolley car- U S B T E ittle Nazis” Given {Tiear thix eity. Hotel Building. With the honor |Olympian last night, injuring 61 fover the Nazi radlo—the voice % car full of passerce 1 happy een 100 casy Kept Under Sf”d ch . i Gifl The sole survivor was identified |80€S a_cnsh prize of $25, awarded by |of its 450 Christmas holiday trav- heard by tired and battle-weary and y, as befits thi hiistmas w”h SOVI61 Ufllon risimas lus claudio Mendonca Rios, 27, a|Kiwanis _|elers. Twenty were hospitalized. | American soldiers as they fought Season o Survel“an(e e technician of the Peruvian Air| Second and third prizes of $15 ' The head-on collision occurred a |their way across North Africa and The motorman was happy, too, as A By JAMES J. DEVLIN Force. A doctor said Rios' ge"emljzgd‘:ll]gwrenp;:;g:éy v;:: “F‘:‘r::::i: ;mll}e” eas? ‘?fx Wa‘ul:gy, ;‘h{?re me into Europe. I:v' lfrifdnv"‘ (njllw lm\ am and ”‘\.v.:\:,m,\'([;'x( \'i‘l’(.. 24 Sf“.f'u]. S S H o FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 24.| condition was good. e Prises ces | passenger train, eastbound for Chi- | *You haven't got a chance,” she StePPe D0 g HEAEHRY G Stewph. 000 Re00) declaring | penresenting The Combined — Approximately 800,000 “Little| Unusual clinging mists were blam- | Ann’s Beauty Salon; third prize, | cago from Tacoma, Wash., had come ysed to tell them. In his absence, another motorman “We've been entirely too easy” with World Press) N i the. American zone of|ed for the crash of the plane|The Hayes Shop. Honorable men-to a virtual stop while waiting for| But the American did have a tock over—a bogus motorman he Russia, today urged a thorough in- s + occupation were granted amnestv\agmnst the Pico Do Papagaio |pm-l“‘°" was accorded to: Alaska Music | a clear track; the freight V\“S'chn.nu- and they stormed into Ger- Was, although the passengers didn’t vestigation into the “verbal ulti-!| DAIREN, Manchuria, Dec. 20— today—the day before Christmas—lmls Peak) about 30 miles from | S\IPPEI.Y Inc., Alaska EleC"lCSLlltl;h' schedued to enter a siding at that imany and Axis Sally was arrested. realize it. Then clang, clang, clang n‘mlum' which {l)l‘rrd an unnamed | (Delayed) —Soviet Russia, I learn- by proclamation of Gen. Joseph T.|downtown Rio De Janeiro. |and Power Company, and to Sully’s |pcint but failed and rumbled on Now she is getting her freedom. W the trolley United States Navy ship to leave ed today, intends to retain full con- McNarney, U. S. commander in| g Ay | Bakery. down the main line. {The order came from the Justice The phoney motorman was just as Dairen. ‘tml of the city of Dairen—gateway Europe. % | Judging was by a committee head»‘ Both locomotives were derailed. | pepartment, at whose request she light-hearted and gay as the pas- Stewart referred to thy edict| to Manchuria—and will keep her By the amnesty the number oi FEDERAL woRKs td by Mayor Waino Hendrickson, | A baggage car and four freight cars | paq been held by the Army. sengers. He ccllected the fares and | which sent the vesesl, on a routine | military forces there until after G y ir v,hy American who was assisted by representatives |were overturned. The baggage Car| Also given their freedom were StUck them in his pocket. Every |courier mission, hurrying from the |the peace treaty is signed with S e from the Juneau Woman's Club and | was crumpled and Dr. Faris PISEY, | ywo other Americans who broad- 'ime a passenger got off, the motor- | Manchurian port after receiving | Japan. liable to prosecution under dennzx-‘ fication laws is reduced from ap- AGENCY PROJECTS from the Business and Professional | ‘Wchn.’ Club. The three judges | of Webster, 8. D., said the fact it absorbed most of the shock probably cast for the Nazis—Minnesota-born | Herbert Burgman, once a clerk in man handed him a fistful of tra: “Mer: |this warning from Russian military fers and mahed him a hearty © officers: This will be done under a tech- | nical definition of a clause in’the g;«:};lglogtely 3000000 to about| A-I-ED IN AI.ASK A\que their rounds last evening, |averted more serious casualties|ine American embassy at Berlin, 'V Christma “Unless you leave within 20 min- | Chinese-Russian pact concerning VO 'w' Wil chief of Public" carefully reviewing all local store ;amnug the Olympian’s passengers. |anq Donald Day, former corres- The trolley went “Clang, Clang” |utes we will not be responsible for |Dairen, which says “in peacetime Satity l;sxon'American military| dows. The judges stated that,| Dr. Pfister, with two other physi- | pondent for the 'Chu.ap.u Tribune. 811 the way across Pittsburgh, and |the consequences.” |Dairen is not included in the oy o e { WASHINGION, Dec. 24. — The | wxm the shortness of time since the |cians who answered calls for doc- finally halted at another carbarn, | Commenting on a Dawren dispatch |sphere of efficacy of naval base |No charges are pending against any government, estimated the amnesty i Federal Works Agency has approved | contest first was announced being | tors and ambulances, ireated 50 pas- | six miles away from the starting fbh Sor o ' gut {of the three. ) in which Scripps-Howard reporter regulations determined by agree- and a .specdup Kl G:;"“(;‘ :0“? the following appropriations for .considcrcd a gratilving fine gl‘(\\lprsel\gr’xs at the scene. Many were ¥ S 2 point. There were still twelve nderslw,“,"m H. Newton told gf the ment on Port Arthur of A’\’xmt 14, hearings would allow the denazif { project planning: | of windows was presented for their | soldiers enroute home on ChrMmas in the car. The motorman rang the |incident for the combined World |1945, and shall be subject to mili- cation program in the U. S. zone | to be completed in another 18 months. “At .the vresent rate, it would! have taken six years to get through the backlog of 3,000,000 cases,” said Wilson, formerly a police executive of Berkeley, Calif. | The University of Alaska, $26,300 | selection, making the choice of |{urlough from Army posts in Waah- for buildings at College, Alaska, and ,prlze -winners very difficult. | ingten. Injuries wnsxsteu 0i spre i new agricultural experiment sta- O. A. Harrison, spokesman for the ' cuts and bruises. tions at Fairbenks, Matanuska and | contest committée of the Kiwants | Nine of the 20 quulrh!g hospital | Bov S(OUTS MEE'I’S | Petersburg. Estimated cost of proj- Club, expressed the deep apprecia- | treatment were members of the! ect is $795,000. |tion of his organization for the dining car crew. Some were cut by | | The grants -are exclusively for ‘cflorls of the judges and the co- 'flying glass and china. Several | A meeting of the Fxecutive Com- | planning and must be repaid when {operation of the merchants. Other |others were burned when the im- |mijttee of the Alaska Council, Boy EXECUTIVE COM. OF He said 40,000 German civilians congtruction is started. were interned in the American zone, | « BRI 3 awaiting denazification trials. More | GOVERNOR RETURNS than 400 German tribunals are NOW | The Governor of Alaska returned | he;:nx cas@st : cement | 1250 Dight to Juneau aboard thc e amnesty, the announ | Coast Guard Cutter Citrus. said, will apply to all persons Who paiph Burns, commanding offmer are not chargeable under the “law | ¢ the Citrus, took the Governor | ;)f llbel;iaflm;ll '.fmm ‘national J;g“g:" and his son, Peter, aboard at Mev.- sm and militarism” as ma, lakatla. fenders, or offenders whose vearly| rppo Gitrus and crew will be in | income during the calendar years| ;yneqy over the Christmas holiday. | 1943 and 1945 was less than 3000\ marks and whose taxable propetty in 1945 did not exceed 200001 marks. B 'Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PE ARSCHN | NEW S | WASHINGTON —Republican can- didates who attended the Gridiron | Club dinner — and most of them FIRE DEP"I‘ OPEN HOUSE \were there—were unhappy about Chief Pusich called and said only one thing. They wished thnt something like this “There will be|senator-elect John Bricker’s speech a “Open House” of the Douglas could have been broadcast to the Volunteer Fire Department, on|nation instead of being delivered, Christmas Day from 1 o'clock to 5/ off-the-record, to select dinner o'clock. Tell Douglas people to drop|guests who weren't supposed to down to the Fire Hall and get a|mention it above a whisper. little Christmas cheer wlth the| For if and stay a minute or couple of his chances for the GOP nomina» hours.” | tion would have pretty much gone {up in smoke. LIBRARY CLOSED TONIGHT i Bricker talked for 22 explosive Because of the many activities of | minutes—longer than any other Christmas Eve, there will*be no; | guest. If he had sat down after six Library hours tonight, it was an- | minutes, he would have been a nounced by Librarian Mrs. Thomas|success. But he went on to deliver Cashen. Next regular Library nightia stump speech before one of the will be Saturday, Dec. 28. most sophisticated audiences in the world—ambassadors, cabinet mem- bers, Senators, newsmen, and rival A. J. Balog, City Clerk announced, GOP candidates. He harangued this morning that 1947 car licenses them as if he were addressing a were now on sale at the City Hall. fjury rather than speaking to the He stated that Territorial and City | judge. drivers licenses may also be obtain-| Furthermore, he made the mis- ed and certificates of ownership on |take of insulting the President of vehicles, also. | the United States to his face. That is something never done at a Grid- iron dinner. The President is twit- ted and jibed, but no oneever hits ! him below the belt. ’471 TAGS, ON SALE GIRL SCOUT MEETING The Girl Scouts will meet Thurs- day aiternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of the leader Mrs. Marcus Jensen. e Lessees of Winecoff Hotel Indided by Atlanta Grand Jury ATLANTA, Dec. 24. — A Fulton|pe gently threw Brickers barbs County grand jury investigating the pack Referring to the Ohio ex- disastrous Winecoff Hotel fire,| Governor's sarcastic promise to in- TRUMAN REPLIES When Truman finally got chance to hit back, there were smiles on Democratic faces for the a beautiful job. Either the President is better at extemporaneous speak- else he had had an advance peak at Bricker's manuscript. At any 'The Washmgton‘ the general public had first time since Nov. 5. He did a| ing than at formal speaking, or| rate, without any sign of lrntanon,t membcrs of the judging committee | were selected by Mayor Hendrick- | son. | I e Pioneers fo Meet Friday The Pioneers of Alaska and Aux- ight, December 27 at 8 o'clock in l}‘ Odd Fellows Hall. The regular myelmg will be held and a Christ- | |mas party will be enjoyed later. \ Auxiliary members are requested 'to take a “ladies” gift and Pioneer | members are asked to bring “man’s” gift for the evening’s ex-| change. Gifts are not to exceed the cost of 50 cents. e 'SALMON CREEK (OUNTRY ((LUB OFFICIALLY OPENS Salmon Creek Country Club held its grand opening last night with an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred members and their guests. | | In spite of rain and icy, slushy| road conditions, people continued to arrive all evening; and so far as this reporter was able to discover, everyone enjoyed themselves. -oo RETURN FROM HONEYMOON | Mr. and Mrs. Glenn J. Kirkham have returned from their honey- moon trip to Ketchikan. The, newlyweds have been gone one week and are at home in Douglas. e, ® o 0o s 0 00 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 42; minimum, 39. At Airport—Maximum, 40; minimum, 35. \ . WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with intermittent rain today, with rain or snow showers Wednesday. Some- what cooler tonight. PRECIPITATION | @ (Past 26 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) & In Juneau — 47 inches; since Dec. 1, 5.03 inches; since July 1, 54.98 inches. iliary members will meet Friday | af seecec o pact threw them against stoves. YULETIDEAT | WHITE HOUSE (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The big Christmas tree on the White House lawn will be the! scene today of a traditional Yule- |tide ceremony. There will be music by the Ma-| |rine band and then, when Pleald{‘nl! {Truman give the word, the tree will be lighted. Climaxing the ievent, the President will deliver a |Christmas eve message to the \Amencan people. It will be car- ried by the major networks begin- ‘nmg at about 5:17 p. m. Eastern time. After the ceremony, Mr. Trumarn will fly home to Missouri to wish ‘hxs mother a Merry Charistmas in ———.——— — | | Scout | transporting and carrying of | jured persons in sub-zero weather, how Scouts of America, was held in the Office of the Goldstein Building under the Chairmanship of Charles G. Burdick, ' Council President. Important business brought be- fore the Committee and approved, was the securing of Army Air Corps Training Films on ski safety, in- to land and survive in the Arctic and several other applicable to this section of the country. Alas- ka Council Treasurer Geo. A. Parks stressed the importance of secur- ing films which were not merely recreational picture show variety, but films which bore directly on phases of the program of the Boy Scouts of America. “These films appear to be the very thing we are looking for,” Mr. Parks said. Council President Burdick will ap- point s Committee to consider candidates over the entire Terri- tory of Alaska for the Silver Beaver Award. This is the highest award granced by the Boy Scouts of America to individuals who have per(nrmed outstanding service to | boyhood. - MASONS ELECT Last evening, Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. and A. M, held its an- | nual election of officer for the year | 1947, with the result that Charles B. Holland was elected to serve a8 | Worshipful Master; Willis R. Booth | |as Senior Warden and Glenn O. | Abraham as Junior Warden. Daniel !Ross and J. W. Leivers were re- | elected as Treasurer and Secretary, | respectively. Joint installation ceremonies with | the Order of Eastern Star are sched- | Monday, January 13. e MOOSE PARTY HELD J Juneau's Moose organizations held their annual Christmas party for {the children last evening in the Hodge rooms. Five children rep‘ ® irecented Mooseheart «n the short| | program, and two were dressed as ® lan old couple to represent Moose- ® |haven. | Maria Worobec did a dance, Pat | |Armour sang “The Lord’s Prayer”| ® with a sack of candy, nuts and| ® 'goodies on his back, and distributed them to all the children present. Ice cream and cookies were served. it it Dt LT | STAYING AT THE BARANOF ident, uled to be held on the evening of | | Next meeting was called by Pres- Burdick for January 6, at 4 oclock in the Scout Office. PETERSON - BELL NUPTIALS DEC. 26 Miss Theresa Peterson will be- come the bride of Mr. Steven Bell {on December 26 at 8 p.m. in the | Memorial Presbyterian church. Rev. | Walter A. Soboleff will officiate at | the ceremony. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mrs. George Peterson and the late Mr. Peterson. The groom is the son of Mrs. Andrew J. Wanamaker of Angoon. All iriends bride and of the | eroom are invited to the wedding and to the reception which will follow in the church dmmg room. - - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali, from i--attle scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock tonight going west. Northern Voyager, from Seattle. ”by Malotte. Santa Claus arrived| @u¢ Thursday or Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver Saturday. Sword Knot scheduled to saill from Seattle Saturday. Alaska from west, due tomorrow mommg but nothing definite at 12 | noon today. bell again, and once more he wished all on board a Merry Christmas. Then hq vanished in the darkness, taking the fare§ with him. ' The puzzled riders waited ten minutes, scratched their heads and then reported the incident. SiX |have to say.” miles back, they learned, was the | The State Department has been real motorman — anxiously hunting silent’ pending an official report for his trolley and for a certain |from H, Merrill Benningoff, the mysterious fl-“‘“‘a“ American Consul General at Dairen. st | A spokesman said that if the report |is not reecived shortly, efforts will Grudge Game {be made to speed it up. The Starr Hlll Stars of Juneau have challenged the Mikes Night Owls of Douglas to a game of basketball in the Douglas High School gym Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. This game should be one of the best this season as both teams are young, fast and in top shape. This will not ke the first time these two teams have met. The Starr Hill, team was first organiz- ed around seven years ago. At that time, memibers of both teams were in Grade School. Every year the two teams have battled it out with the exception of the last two sea- sons, when most of the players were in the serv All the games have been very closz and exciting. The starting lineup for the two teams will probably be as follows: Pusich, Russo, Devon and Bonnett for Mikes; K. Thibodeau, L. Hog- ings, H. Mead, E. Scott and J, Dapcevich for the Starr Hillers. There will be no admission charge as this is an unofficial game, but donations will be ac- cepted to help pay for the refinish- ing of the gym floor. MEMORIAL (HURCH | PROGRAM TONIGHT Sunday School and Choir of Memorial Presbyterian church will present a special Christmas pro- gram this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the church. The program will include the |a reporter: “This is 8 matter which. ought to! |be gone into thoroughly. I will be much interested to see what the State Department and the Navy has been an acknowledgment that the landing craft described in the a U. S. base in China last Friday, ‘ll\e dn the ultimatum was issued ought not to have been 1llmved to enter Manchuria in the first place,” have done nolhing but pillage that whole area,” - SOLEMN HIGH MASS CATHOLIC CHURCH High Solemn Mass celebration at the Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Vir- gin Mary. Celebrant at the Solemn Mass will be the Rev. Clifford Allbutt, S. J. The Rev. James U. Conwell, S. J., will be deacon, and the Rev. H. L. Sweeney, S. J., will be deacon. Milton Furness will master of ceremonies. be Beginning at about 11:30 p. m. The music of the Solemn Mass will be Rene L. Becker's “Mass in Honor of St. Catherine” At the Offertory will be sung Pletro Yon's “Gesu Bambino,” with vocal solo by Ted Keaton. The choir will be under the direction of Mrs. Henry Harmon, with Mrs. A. M. Uggen at the organ. Following the Solemn Mass there will be a Mass of Thanksgiving. On Christmas morning Masses will be at 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00 and 10:30. There will be two Masses in Douglas, at 9:30 and 10:15. It has been announced that since the church at midnight Mass will be filled with devout Catholic worshippers, thcse who are not of following numbers from the Sunday the (;xfim“c faith, if they wish school: A Christmas Greeting, A o attend, should consult the pas- Shining Light, Christ’s Love Shines, 4. Our Gift To You, Keeping Christ- mas, The Message of the Christ- | mas Star and What Do You Want? Senior Choir will present a short ‘progmm of music, including “There | Were Shepherds Abiding,” Earle; ,“Glory Be To God,” Thompson; “The Lord’s Prayer,” Malotte, with| Francis Barlowe as soloist; “Wel-| { come to Earth” and “As With Glad- | - FRANCE'S FOURTH REPUBLIC STARTS PARIS, Dec. 24.—France's fourth republic afficially came into being Press, the Tennessee Senator told | The only Navy comment thus far' Stewart declared. “They | at mxdni?ht‘ will be the center of the Christmas sub- | the choir will sing Christmas carols. | tary supervision or control in this | zone only in the case of war qplnst Japan " . | “In peacetime” is me catch. Technically, China and Russia still jare al, war with Japan until a peace |treaty is signed. | Despite the fact that two Ameri- can correspondents who visited {Dairen aboard a U. S. Navy courier ship were refused permission to enter the city by the Russian com- mander, Maj. Gen. V. U. Korzhan- olf, a comprehensive picture of conditions under the Soviet rule has been obtained from neutral rand Chinese sources. | Dairen dispatch has left there for ' Dairen is a cold, depressed, dis- mal city. Life is almost as closely regulated as behind the iron cur- tain, The only currency is Soviet mili- ‘tary seript. Industry is paralyzed. Hunger and unemployment is wide- spread. Only three buildings in the city are heated against the freezing cold. Prices are wildly inflated. Russian and Chinese civilians who lived there before and dur- ing the war eke out an existence of privation and fear. None dares to be intimate with the Americans, who are under almost constant sur- veillance. Summary arrests and punishment are the rule rather than the exception. There is no freedom of speech or of the press. One Chinese lan- guage newspaper is published in- | frequently, whenever its Communist publishers “can think "of something to say against the United States,” |according to reliable sources. | Petty cruelties to the Chinese and White Russlans are an almost daily cecurrence. Many young Chinese students have been arrested for ex- pressing beliefs that full Chinese sovereignty should be restored. Soviat propaganda posters, featur- ing portraits of Stalin and other Soviet dignatitaries—are everywhere. |Other posters advise the hungry and jobless Chinese people if the Soviet controlled city that if Amer- ica wouid get out of China there would be peace and prmperny - OVER-NIGHT SKI HIKE FOR SCOUTS Dean Williams, President of the Juneau Ski Club, announced thay all Boy Scout Troops of the Gas- | tineau District will take an instruc- tional over-night ski hike to the ski | trail for instructions under the direction of the Juneau Ski Club. | Also Scouts who have skiis should contact their Scoutmasters for de- tails of the hike. The hike is planned to be an over- night hike Friday, December 28 and Saturday, December 29. All Scouts which claimed 119 lives, today in- At Airport — .16 inches; ®| Registered at the Baranof Hotel North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled ness,” by Wooler A Christmas this afternoon. The upper house of are eligible to go on the hike 2 dicted the lessees of the hotel on three counts of involuntary man- slaughter and accused them of op- erating a “fire’ trap.” vestigate everything connected with |the Truman Administration, the President said: since Dec. 1, 2.24 inches; since July 1, 36.91 inches. ® are Gus George, Jen Johnson of (0 arTive at 10 o'clock tomorrow ® Petersburg, Larry Howard, Mr. and bisht, southbound. ® Mrs, Leon Alexander, and. E. J. Baranof, from west scheduled to ® Collins. | arrive southbound next Monday. J (Continued on Page Four) Drama, “The Prince of Peace,” will Parliament held its first session and be followed by the closing number, | “Hallelujah Chorus,” from Handel’s | “Messiah.” stored after six years of war, con- constitutional government was re- quest by the Nazis, ahd libération.’ whether they ski or not. ‘Menues and camping equipment should be worked out by Scout leaders,” Wil- liams said.”