The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA I “ALL THE NEWS ALI. THE TIME™ pa—— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,460 " JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1946 MEMB R ASSOCIATE D PRESS _ PRICE, TEN CENTS 85 PERSONS KILLED IN PLANE CRACKUPS < ' d PRESIDENT WILL HAVE 3 MESSAGES Wili Appe;r in Person on | Capitol Hill to Give | Talk on Nation (BY THEZ ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Truman is paying a farewell visit to his 94-year-old mother before he starts back to Washington. fhe chief executive declared that he will call upon Mrs. Martha Truman at Grandview, Missouri before taking off in his special plane at 3 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. Upon his return to the White House, Mr. Truman will resume work on three sep- arate messages to Congress—on legislative, financial and economic affairs of the nation. The President still has under consideration the administration’s course of labor legislation. Some of his friends sre urging sweeping changes in the Wagner Labor Re- lations Act, but others are advising him to leave the problem of such legislation up to the new Republi- can controlled congress. The chief executive likely will make a final decision after conferences next week with members of his cabinet and other officials. In addition to the important State liuon message, Mr Truman will make a statement on the new budget and another on em- ployment which will be based on a confidential report submitted by his new economic advisory council. The President is said to have de- cided to go to Capitol Kill person- ally with his State of the Union message. Before leaving for Mis- souri, Mr. Truman told friends in Congress that he would use vigor- ous language in dealing with labor- management relations. However, the best guess of {riends—and they emphasize that it is only a guess—is that the chief executive will take a middle of the road ap- proach and recommend that con- gress establish equal responsibility under the law for both labor and management. But whatever his recommendations are, most Demo- crats expect the President to be specific in calling for the kind of legislation he thinks necessary to remedy the labor situation. .- oL e A total of 4,962 new transit ve- hicles were delivered last year— 4,441 buses, 332 street cars and 189 trolley coaches—making a total The Washingion; Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—It won't be an- nounced for awhile, but Attorney General Tom Clark is hatching a unique plan for selling civil liber- ties to the American people. He will send a special train through the 48 states carrying some of the priceless treasures of American, freedom. It was Clark, working quietly be- hind the scenes who had more than anyone else to do with or- ganizing the President’s special Committee on Civil Liberties which will study southern lynchings and race problems. Clark, who comes from Texas, has been prompt to invoke Federal law in South Carol- ina-Louisiana race disputes, but be- lieves that more can be done by education. Accordingly he has evolved the idea of sending a special train ac- ross the United States containing the most sacred documents of American history which guarantees, our freedom. ( At first Clark proposed equip-| ping two special cars with show- cases which would display the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the Emancipation Proc- lamation, the Constitution and A on. However, he found that the Proc- | lamation of Emancipation by which} Lincoln freed the slaves was in the hands of Abraham Rosenbach of | Philadelphia, famous collector of | old manuseripts. Clark therefore, | called Rosenbach to tell him about ‘his plan and ask for the loan of the Proclamation. | (Continued on Page Four) | missien. | dochina who had | Argenlieu and most of his regime.! | The delegates maintained that dis- ‘satisfaction with D'Argenlieu was | The Royal Court - liere’s the reyal gourt for the Pasadena Tcury these girls will be named queen of the other six serving as her princesses. , Beverly Lcber; center, Joyce bottom: Barbara Jones, Rege Louise Campbeil; Wirephotc) nent of Roses. One of Vew Year's Day pageant, with Left to right, top: Jean ikson, Norma Christopher, Dawn Rae Dixon. (AP the Man Has Hard Time fiivirng Away $1500inN.Y.Bowery INDOCHINA NOW SCERE OF BATILE French Troops Spread Out in' Northern States to Attack Opposition istamp of approval that the bills the Island. Another body is still PARIS, Dec. 26—Colonial Min- ister Marius Moutet today began an on-the-spot investigation of the situation in Indcchina as French| troops slowly fanned out through the northern states of Annam and Tonkin against stubborn opposi- | tion by Viet-Nam Nationalists. Dispatches from Saigon in the Southern state of Cochinchina re- orted Moutet’s arrival there yes-! terday on a special fact-finding He was greeted by Ad-: miral George Thierry D'Argenlieu,| French High Commissioner for In-! arrived from Paris earlier in the week. | Moutet also was greeted at the| airport by delegates claiming toI represent the majority of the An-! namite population as well as many French, who presented him with a) petition asking replacement of D'-} largely responsible for the trouble| in the north. Saigon it said was fairly quiet during the night, the French Press| Agency reported. Hand grenades were said to have been thrown into; a French barracks and at a French! military truck, but without causing any casualties. A policeman was| killed and another seriously wound- | ed in another incident, the Agency | said. Saigon was under a 10 p.m. to 5 am. curfew. - REPAIR DOCK FRONTAGE Piling repairs to the dock front-: of the coal bunkers of the Alaska Dock and Storage company | are underway. The work is being done by Jim Cole’s pile driver! crew. NEW YORK. Dec. 26. — Joseph Bonavita, ¢ aocwn to the Bow- ry yestprday bearing gifts—real bright, green dollar bills. But unlike Santa Claus, the 39- year-old ex-fighter turned restau- ranteur, had & hard time disposing of h for the Bowery resi- dents are a cynical and disillusioned lot. When police finally gave their were authentic' U. 8. coin of ihe realm and igned a detective to persuade the more difficult cases that this was so, the money flowed like water Bonavita gave away nearly all of the $1,500 he came down to ths Bowery with from Brooklyn. He teld police “This is the fifth Christmas I've done tk but not on such a scale befor (OMMUNIST GUERRILLAS TAKE TOWN PEIPING, Dec. 26.—Chinese Com- munist Guerrillas, in a surprise move, captured a village only seven miles north of Peiping tcday and provoked the government into an about face in its policy. The Communists’ unexpected at- tack from the north elicited a state- ment frem 11th War Zone Head- juarters that National trcops would begin a. “country purge” to crush uerrillas threatening the Peiping- lientsin railroad. Previously, government military leaders persistently maintained the guerrilla attacks were not secrious ind dismissed them as nuisance tactics. Government reports said 1,000 to 2000 Communists captured the vil- lage, Lutung, Christmas Day after a 15-hour battle and still held it today althcugh they once were driv- en off by government reinforce- ments. The local press said guerrillas were harassing National garriscns other villages around Peiping and 2o have begun attacking the sutheast section cf the railroad. The Communists also stepped up their attacks around Paoting, capi- tal of Hopeh Province. in' SCORES DIE Fire af Fairbanks Deslroys ~ " INHOLIDAY | Telephone Exchange When NC Office Building Is Burned ACCIDENTS HomesinNatin | § REVEALED THIS NATION The gaiety of the Chrisimas holi- day turned to sadness today in cores of the nation's homes where black crepe replaced the green hol- 4 Iy a mounting toll of violent 4 ~ |deaths, most of tem i watne Chief Counse for Unameri- { “ccidents, were recorded since early - hristmas Eve | an Adivities Makes | Generally fair weather through- out the country lured thousands of motorists to the highways, many Formal Report 'in their new Christmas automo- By WILLIAM F "ARBO(‘,AST biles, and the number of traffic WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Eriie | fatalities totaled 199. Adamson, chief counsel for the | Viclent deaths by miscellaneous poyse committee on un-American ! fires, plane and train gotjvities, says there is a “con- ie asphyxiation, drowning— gpiracy” afoot to foment a revolu- accounted for 37 victims. The 236 tion in this country, | total this Christmas compared to 414 in 1945, which included 219 raffic fatalities The 199 traffic deaths were far n excess of the 150 estimated by he National Safety Council from p.m. Tuesday through Wednesday. A Council spokesman said the | eventual death toll in highway ac- cidents for the general strike or otherwise. The matter is dealt with in a formal report which Adamson has given the committee. The docu- ment summarizes information as- sembled by his staff during 1946. Although printed by the govern- ment printing office the report has not yet been approved formally by period would be ths committee | “considerably more than 300.” Besides referring to the revolu- tion “conspiracy,” the report (A) More than one-fourth of the traf- fic deaths—55—occurred in Calif- crnia. The heavy toll in highway | accidents was blamed by a poliee | traffic official on a “combination of wet streets and drinking.” For- iree of the 55 deaths were re- | ed in a 10-county area near Los Angeles. Rain and fog were re- ported in the area. - > 'BOAT WRECKED; ~ WOMAN'S BODY " FOUND AT SCENE U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray announced that the body of a wo- man and a wrecked boat was di ! covered yesterday on Sentinel Is land by the lighthouse keeper of contains critical references to rep- resentatives of foreign governments attached to the United Nations, (B)_ claim: that 17 impeortant la- bor umions are controlled by Com- munists' and (C) calls the Library of Congress a “haven for aliens and foreign-minded Americans.” Of the general findings, Adamson wrote: “This committee cannot empha- size too strongly to the House and to the country the danger from this {ifth’'column within our gates which follows with blind obedience the dictates of Moscow. They must be recognized for what they are—the agents of a foreign government and enemies of our American sys- tem.” DENALI HERE FROM SOUTH BOUND WEST Denali, Alaska Steam- ship Company, arrived in Juneau tound for the Westward at 11 o'clock Christmas Eve, and sailed at 1:30 p. m. Christmas Day. Tie ivllowlng passengers arriv Lere from Seaille: Agnes C. Ayres, Dr. John M. Bond, Stanley Grum- mett, Milan J. Hagen, R. P. Ham- itca, Mrs. June Hanford, Vieki Haniord, Magnus Hansen, William Hanscn, Chris Henning, Robert L. Hooper, Mr. ‘helieved to be missing from the | wreckage, which has been identi- "lied only as a boat bearing the number 31-D-972. The tragedy was discovered ear- ly yesterday when a stray dog ap- proached the lighthouse residence yin search of food. The lighthouse keeper and his wife walked around | the island in search of the boat and found the woman’s body and boat had been washed ashore but time of the drowning was not im- | mediately known. Judge Gray revealed that a Coast Guard craft will probably be dis- patched to bring in the body and conduct a search -for other possi- ble members of the ill-fated boat. | s w ~ JUST NEWS Steamer 1¢s W. Huston, Jr., Char Mr. and Mrs. Warren L , Bdward E. Lupro, H. L. Mur- ray, Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Neal Susa, N. G F. Baft, Ottks, Jr., Jaby, Juaitt and A. L. Newman, Mrs F. J. Parsons, Henry Kenneth G. Shudshift. Barbara C. Smith, Willlam L Smith, Jr, Waunalee Suess, Ken- neth J. and Dorothy Thibodeau, S. Torgransen, Judith Lynn Trimble, (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) The retired international com- William Trimtle, Ruth Van Tassel, 'mander of the Salvation Army, Maurice J. Whittier, Donald M Williams, Douglas Gregg, Carl B | General Evangeline Booth, has cele- 'brated her 8lst birthday. General | Booth, who resides in Hartsdale, INew York, had to forego her cus- tomary horseback ride on her tirthday, because her mare was ill It is announced in New York that Baron Robert de Rothschild, | former leader of the famous bank- ing house, died yesterday in Laus- anne, Switzerland. He was 66 years ‘old. Rothschild had lived in the , United States following the invas- iion of France until early this year. | The wife of a film producer, Mrs. |Howard Hawks, has been named (the best dressed woman in the :world by 150 fashion editors, sty- {lists and social celebrities. But ‘Mrs. Hawks is not too much im- pressed. Informed of the news, she commented: “Most of the judges have never sren me—mavbe that's why they sclected me. If they ever saw me runnjne around in my blue jeans jand wild shirts, they might changedays and Carlson has Jtheir minds.” back to claim it. izines, Erling Oswald and Harry Sperling. West-bound on the Denali were Albert Fietz, John Friesen, Mr. a» Mrs. Dan Ralston and Sidney Mc- cullough, all for Seward - AMONG MISSING Deputy U.S. Marsuall Walter Hel lan announced that a search is un- der way to locate David Carlson, power plant operator from Thane, who has been missing for the past five days. Carison disappeared from his home in Thane at that time, and apparently had been in Juneau for several days since, as his car was found here. The car, according informa- tion received, has heen parked iv the same place for the past three not gone to through a and Mrs. Don Hunger- FATRBANKS, Dec. 26 Officials of the fire-razed Northern Com- mercial Company pressed efforts| today to obtain surplus equipment | from the Army to establish af | makeshift teiephone exchange and restore at least partial service to | this city of 8,000. | | The two-story structure which | housed the Telephone Company garage, Northern Com- mercial Utilities office, Alaska Ar- chitectural oifice and the Quist| Jewelry Shop, was leveled by fire | Tuesday night. Damage was estimated at $300,- 000. Officials said unless equipment is made available it| may be months before communica- uon can be restored completely. Ciy firemen, aided by fire fight-| [1om nearby Ladd Field, battled | the blaze for four hours and were| successful in halting its spread to! U adjomning building housing the | W 's waler pump pluant. | - { STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. % - ( icn A unea ock tcday is 5%, can Can | Aniconda 40'%, Curtiss-Wright | 5%, International Harvester T4,| Kennecolt 51%, New York Central i8%, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S.| Steel T1'%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,150,000 shares.| Low, Jones averages today are| s follows: Industrials 175.21, Rails| 5093, Utilities 36.84. s declined fractions to more st than a point in quiet trading to-| day Railroad issues dragged the mar- ket down when some of their lead- ers recorded lof running to 2 peints and more. A few of the, industrials had wide Ic notably Eastman Kodak which was off 3% | points at its low for the day. Utili- ties held steady to slightly lower. Oils yielded fractions. | | BUTTER TO DROP SEATTLE, Dec. 26—Seattle whole- salers today predicted prices of the st grades of butter would drop 2 or 3 cenis a pound tomorrow and that cheaper grades likely would | drop at least 1 cent. i Pound prints of 93-score butter was wholesaling here today for' 84 cents. | .o PLANE MISSING IN CALIFORNIA; TWELVE ABOARD SAN DIEGO, Calif,, Dec. 26— A rancher who told Western Airlines he saw a plane explode in Chrisimes Eve added im- air ’ petus today to the search of the Laguna Mountain area for the lines’ missing transport and the 12 persons aboard. Johnny Johnson, the rancher, also brought a piece of airplane plexi- I glas window to the Western's office ¢ he had here, reporting found in the area of the explosion. it PASTOR TREAT HAS LOST HIS SHEEP The Rev. Robert Treat. vastor of the Methodist Church, reports the loss of a sheep. It was one of the figures in the Nativily scene on the lawn in frc church n Fourth Although Rev. Treat left the rest of Lis ligures in search of the one which was lost, so far he has been unable to find it. An vho can engineer its return will ceeived with rejoicing. D | COINCIDENCE HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26.—Chalk up another one for coincidence: Driving home in a borrowed car after reporting his own as stolen, Mason J. Nurick was bumped in a minor crash as an intersection. Alighting to inspect the damage, he did a double taks. The offend- ing car was his own. | The driver was booked on sus- picion of grand theft. Exchange, | it surplus | ¢ | port Foiven by a Soviet DAIREN CASE 3 CHINESE IS EXPLAINED AIRLINERS BYSTATEDEPT. GO SMASH L | T No Ultimatum Issued for, Wrecked in Fog-Blanketed ' Area-Fourth Transport Naval Ship to Leave- Trouble, Shanghai | Missing, 12 Aboard . WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 | SHANGHAI, Dec, 26—Three Chi- State Department announced today | pesa airlines, loaded with more than ted Russian complaints | 100 perscns anticipating gay Christ- two Soviet citizens were at-!mas parties here, cracked up in the acked by American Military Police ' for_nlanketed Sha n Shanghai on Sept. 23 I night, killing or iujuring 85 pe"cns The Department blamed the two|one American pilot was kil'va and Russians for the fighting which oc- | snother injured : curred aiter an automobile acci- A fourth transport is missing d:-’::v:-nTtl:w R(”-'rlm:u-.,h:'dm.ll‘f‘::ix|x:(1 feared lost with at least 10 ocipe \}le inj received | poreons aboard The incident first drew a com- :“'_‘“m“‘_y was the blackest in laint from local Soviet authorities’ Cind’s civilian aviation history. | The American-owned Shanghai i Shanghai on Dec. 19, the pro- s was taken to the State Depart ig“;‘"’;’\'ie;::: “’::‘dM*c"rC“'y reported aent by the Russian Embassy her "km‘l;' £ m" S/ GERWESIY:) WS Coincident with the Department's ot WAC 0 WEPe Injured, somo o itatement, the Department's Press|“ 0¥ L1¥ "a¥ ROt SUEY e Officer Lincoln White, expressed ,, » Gpinese Woman was killed and the cpinion that there was no ulti- /ot (e chhcren were injured matum involved in a warning by |o;G0 OTF O U0 THARSPOTES °‘;’h‘ Soviet officials at Dairen, Man- oo <Pl S churia last week to American Naval =~ g ‘ hany - flicers to get their ship out of ;t;d 5;’:1 paper:ul';;"" had re after its authorized 48-hour b . JEIoaN:: thie i} kL ur roo i three planes, but revised their fig- tay had expired. ures downward. This appeared virtually to close my . . he Post the Dairen incident far as thy ?s aa Megiey N i) b ;of the victims were Americans— State Department concerned, Capt. J. M. Greenwood, who was White said that tbe warning was,jiled. and R. B. Preus i:mred .uctal in charge | : seriously. Th of the dock rather than by Soviel yore not zive:‘r FOE A Military Commanders and th.:. it: in his opinion, “not in any sense an ultimatum.” Greenwood and Preus were pilot- (ing two _of the crashed planes, ‘Lot owned by the Chinese Nation- White previcusly had stated that!a Aviation Corp, the country's the Russian officials were within'leading airline. It employs many their legal rights in requestirg the Americans as pflots. The third ship to leave. iplane was owned by the Central He explained today that a clan-"Air Transport Corp., also a Chi- iication of an earlier official report nese company. on the incident showed that nlter: Another American, Willlam H. the naval vessel had approached 'Byrne, wing flight surgeon of the . the expiration of the 48-hour per-!U, S. Air Transport Command's iod, the Soviet cfficial in charge of Tokyo headquarters, nearly lost his the dock granted a two-hour ex- life in a hero's role. He went into tension. jthe burning fuselage of one of the As the end of the extension per- planes in search of survivors. Over- iod neared, White said, the Soviet !ccme by fumes, h2 was pulled to cfficial reminded Americans in safety by another American officer, charge of the ship that they would jwho was not identified. Byrne is ive to leave in 20 minutes. His|from Cookville, Tennessee. warning that he couldn’t be respon- { All three of the crashed planes sible tor, consequences if they stay-|were from Chungking, loaded with ed beyond the deadline was inte passengers planning a Christmas preted at the State Departmnt night in Shanghai. meaning that he simply didn't knrzw{ - what would happen since he evi-! dently had granted the exmnsmu}(ONFESSES completely on his own authority | and was uncertain what the re-! action of his superiors might be, | - TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 26.—De- tective Capt. Al Farrar said today £ James Mitchell, 20, had signed & h“o Bulga"an Area confession to the fatal shooting |the night of December 18 of Dr. T |John R. Thompson, 78, a physi- ATHENS, Des Three Athens|cian and optometrist. newspapers quoted Brig. Gen. Nich-} Dr. Thompson was found dead in olas Pappanicholou, Greek Com-jhis downtowh office by his daugh- mander at Drama today as saying {ter. s forces had been ordered to pur-{ Farrar said Mitchell's confession ating guerrillas “into Bul-(stated he had shot the physician garia despite the consequenses.” while in a “drunken stupor.” (Drama is in the narrow Thrace! He was linked with the case area between Bulgaria and theiwhen a ring, stolen from Dr. Agean Sea. Considerable fightingThompson, was found on his finger has been in progress in Thrace.) (after his arrest Tuesday night in - - connection with the shooting and !knifing of a cab driver, Farrar NIMROD ISLANDS ™ .- CAN'T BE FOUND'ALASKA FROM WEST anopnn vz ot ov HERE GOING: SOUTH Antarctic Expedition is concerned, the Nimrod Islands are missing, | Steamer Alaska arrived in Ju- The ships Yancey and Merrick |P€au southbound to Seattle at 5 say they've covered an area for |8 m. yesterday, and smled'at 1:40 several miles in all directions from |P- M. Passengers disembarking here the rumored position of the island ' Were John Melnnis from Seward, group without seeing any land, ~ (and V. Litoon and George Sund- The Nimrods supposedly were POr8 from Cordova. sighted in 1828 by a Captain Eil- Southbound passengers to Ketch- beck of the' ship Nimrod. Later ikan included J. K. Johnson, Mar- explorers have suggested that the Saret Horwath, Jack Holland, Mr. islands may have been a Mirage, 2Nd Mrs. William Race, Jarred The Navy is inclined to that theory. Race, Barbara Taylor, Elinor Will- Given instructions ToPursue Guerrillas o il iams, Stanley Aaksmith, Robert Gore and Martin Hansen. CUMBERLAND, Md.—Cherry Al- Passengers for Seattle were Mr. 1 here became Cherry Place be- and Mrs. Robert Miniers, H. P. ause a landlerd told the mayor and Middleton, Ernie Pasquan, G. A city council that tenants of two Schnakel, J. J. Schnabel, C. E. apartments with entrances on the alley might not like the reference. Mattson, John Whittier and Peter Hangen.