The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1946, Page 1

[=OTHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,462 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, I ‘)4() _PRICE TEN CENTS DISPUTE TIES UP STEAMERS AT SEWARD iant Trans - World Airlines Plane Crashes ~ Quake Cracks River Levee ( | | | CRAFT DOWN IN IRELAND: TWELVE DIE Terrific Explosion Scatters Bits of Burning Wreck- age Over Wide Area (By Associated Press) Mystery still surrounds the crash of a giant Trans-World Airlines plane today in an isolated swamp | in Ireland Some 23 persons are believed to have been aboard, and it is known | that 12 were killed. Survivors in- | clude a French war bride and her | four-months-cld baby son—both of them The plane, a big Ccnstellation,‘ crashed on a lonely island in the| Shannon river not far from shanw non airport. There was a terrific | explosicn, and bits of burning| wreckage from the plane were scat- tered over hundreds of yards of water and swampland. The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, and hours afterward TWA officials said they had not yet found out why it happened. The plane crashed at about 2 am., Irish time, and the noise of the explosion awakened people on the mainland. Some of them row- ed out to the island in boats. They brought the survivors out of the swamp and ferried them back to the mainland where ambulances were waiting. | The French war bride survivor is Edith Augustine DeLaby, who was flying with her baby son to; join her ex-GI husband in New- ark, New Jersey. Mother and chlld‘ were taken to a hospital at Limer-‘ ick, where their condition is des-! cribed as grave. Among the 12 who died were 3 crewmen—two of them listed as| flight engineers and one a naviga- | tor. The remaining nine dead were | passengers—some of them French business people enroute to New’ York. The plane, the Constellation | Cairo, was bound for New York! irom Paris. Most of the survivors were bemg\ treated for burns, cuts and frac-| tures, or for shock. Only the moth- | er and baby were described as in ' critical condition. ! Capt. Sidney P. Harrington of ! Holyoke, Mass, a Pan-American' 2 Airways flier who helped in the rescue, said “The worst wreck I| Five Killedin | Road Accident GLASGOW, 0., Dec. 28 — F'ive“ of 17 passengers on a Santa Fe| Trailway bus were killed and eight were injured when the swaying read end of a truck trailer crashed into the side of the bus on a small bridge near here. The impact ripped a hole six feet long and four feet high in the{ side of the bus. The dead are Clarence Famber‘ of Springtield, Ill, and four Mis- ‘ sourians, including a 25-year-old | mother, Mrs. Marjorie White, Hale,| Mo., and her three-months-old son. | e, BLOODY BATTLING ONFOOD SHORTAGE ROME, Dec. 28— The' big south- | eastern port town of Bari, with a population of 200,000, this morning | went into the second day of a gen- | eral strike against food shortages | that yesterday brought bloody bat- tling between ugly-tempered crowds and police. One university student was dead and 25 other people wounded, in- | cluding six police, at the end of the first day of the strike, which arose in critical condition. {a | President. Cracks show plainly aleng the Sahi River levee near Okayama, Japan, as a result of the quake and tidal waves which hit southern Japan. This photo was transmitted by Signal Corps radio frem Japan (o Honchun and flown to San Francisco. 'The Washlngion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSCHN WASHINGTON—The hundreds of letters sent every day to the White House do not, of course, reach the Except for letters from actual Iriends or very important people, he never sees his mail. Let- ters from others are sorted out and sent to appropriate branches of the Government for routine re- plies. If, however, President Truman | should take time to read some of the letters that pour in to him from veterans on their housing plight, he probably would think twice akout his pollyanna statement that all was going to be well in regard to- housing. In fact, if the President read isome of tht veterans’ mail received by this writer, he might come to |the conclusion that the White House surrender on housing’ would be chalked up as his major hu- manitarian. if not political, mistake. Whether a political mistake or not, however, the human emotions expressed in some of the housing letters received at this Christmas season are such that I am pub- lishing excerpts from two of them. One is from the chief housing manager of Louisville, Ky., Marshall F. Dumeyer, who writes: “Unashamed tears came from war heroes. Fear of divorce is routine during interviews. ‘Where can I go?" ‘What can I do?’ “Serious? Yes. Urgent? Yes. |Pitiful? Yes. Yet we could not help most of them because of | pitiful situations. jonly to families with children or ‘We have placed no families with the exception of a completely paralyzed veteran and his wife. children and an immediately ex- (Continued on Page Four) e e e e Krug Talks AbouIAIask WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Secre-| tary Krug of the Interior Depart-| ment has told the Governor of Alaska that he favors Alaska hav- ing the same control over its natur- al resources, including fisher: as other states if the Territory be- comes a state. Alaskans voted in favor of state- hood last September and bill make Alaska a state will be intro- duced in the next session cf con- gress. Krug wrote that, while he fd\nr— ed Alaska as a state having con- trol over fisheries which would bring greater income to the new state, the government would have to retain control over any mnu.er with an international aspect. would include such phases as fish-| ing xround; PASSENGER FREIGH TRAIN IN COLLISION RALEIGH, N C Dec. 28—A; Southern Railway passenger train and a freight collided headon today near Auburn, eight miles from here. Early were killed but the passenger fire- man was reported unaccounted for. The engineer of the passenger train, No. 64 from Greensboro, was said to have set his brakes and Jjumped from the car upon seeing the freight. The trains were not | more serious, more urgent and more | traveling fast at the moment of I refer above‘”"pan ‘The passenger engine left the where a child is expected within‘m“s and plowed into an embank- |a short time. | childless f: | remained on the track. | apiise br hasespootan | Ambulances and officers rushed ment, but the freight locomotive to the scene from Raleigh after | news of the accident was received “We did reach the vet with two| | | | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Northern Voyager, from Seattle, due Monday. Square Sinnet, from Seattle, not | RETURNS FROM ANCHORAGE | due before January 5 or 6. Princess Norah scheduled to sail W. Leonard Smith, Territorial|from Vancouver at 9 tonight. Highway Engineer, returned yes-| Sword Knot scheduled to sail terday from a four day conference | from Seattle January 3. with CAA officials in Anchorage. North Sea scheduled to sail from out of the refusal or inability of |Smith said ‘that discussions con- | geattle January 10, local authorities to grant popular | demands for relief from hunger and soaring prices, according to dis- patches to the Rome press. cerned construction and repair the airfields at Seward, Dilling- ham and Palmer. Baranof, from west, scheduled | work which will start in April on | gouthbound maybe January 1. Denali, from west, southbound January 1. | Nine days ago, i ithe official Christmas Eve rebirth! i of war-shattered constitutional gov- ! Thl*" reports said no passengers | INDOCHINA Truck Is | BATILINGIS SPREADING | France Must Use Guns and| Planes fo Keep Her | { Colonial Empire PARIS, Dec. 28.—Insurrection in | Indochina, now reported as have ing spread to the south, has forced France to realize she must use guns and planes in addition to di- plomacy to keep her rich, 400-year- old colonial empire from falling apart Though a permanent government under the new Fourth Republic is ‘not yet complete, this country al- jready has had to bring into play| the sterner aspect of a two-edged policy: loosen the bonds te hold colonials impatient for wider free- dom; but when French authority jis challenged, fight while President- | Blum tackled the | new Socialist in- and even before Premier Leon problems of a terim government !ernment, fighting br out between ! | Viet-Namese and French in Hanoi, | capital of Indochina and of the| young Asiatic Viet-Nam republic. [ Engagements were reported swm— i1y in parts of the Northern Protect- !orate states of Tonkin and An- | nam. “Yestérday news dispatches mld of troubles also in the south- \Pilot, Co-pilot Reported Killed ~ Many of 21 Persons Injured Corps. (AP Wirephoto) 'exn Indochinese colony of Cochin | | China. The French press agency reported |24 Annamite, Indian and Chinese civilians killed in Christmas night ‘gunfnu attacks on four automo- hl]c< near Saigon, Cochin China's capunl French army officers were |said to have attributed the attacks Ito efforts of Viet-Nam adherents | to disrupt communications |hruuuh-‘ uut the colony, perhaps in prepara- Ition for an offensive. i | The newspaper France-Soir said! ‘that, with 10 p. m. curfew already MICHIGAN CITY, Ind,, Dec. 28— ‘3:}15:’1"1'“‘:1'a‘::”;‘;r":l‘;;e"”;hfi::‘ég"‘, An American Alrlines plane entoute el ~ .. i from Buifalo, N. Y, to Chicago, '."“hé' d‘“;‘(fil‘;‘,fifv"‘t’;’“‘;gr;i:;?‘ o erash-landed three miles east of o iy gty Satrols 1n| here- this morning, the Michigan ithe ety and road’ guards. on the| Olfy News-Dispatch reported The paper said first reports in- | outskirts. | 5 dicated several of the 21 persons aboard had been injured. It wa$ IY AKIM A H AS i nct determined immediately wheth- ter anyone had been killed The plane left Buffalo at 6 ain Ml(‘hlgan City is 40 miles southeast (nu oss Lake Michigan from Chicago: The paper said the plane crash- ]n"d(,d in International Friendship Garden, a historical beauty spot, which at one time was offered as YAKIMA, Dec. 28 — A 850000 ; site for the permanent home of i blaze that raged for four hours ihe ynited Nations. early this morning destroyed the rThe pilot of the plane was re- one and one-half story frame| | ported seriously injured and was foundry of the Lindeman Power | ‘Lqmpmem Company but was pre- vented from spreading to the firm'’s TWO ARE KILLED | main bnilding nearby. CHICAGO, Dec. 28 — American Fire Chief W. K. Moore estimat- | Airlines said that the pilot and co- ed the loss at $15,000 for the foun- . pilot of one of their planes which dry structure and $35,000 for ma-|crash-landed near Michigan City, terials and machinery. A pattern|Ind., today were killed and that 21 | shop, electric furnace and trans-|others were in hospitals. formers were not damaged. The pilot was F. M. Ham and Cause of the fire, which broke|the co-pilot was H E. | out shortly before 2 a.m., has nut‘ ‘been determined. Bus SHowERED f The firm, which was sold recently | to John Deer & Co., of Maline, Ill, | manufactures crawler-type tractors. | Its plant is located two-thirds of | a mile south of Yakima's business\ | WORLAND, Wy Dec. 28 — | Showered with gascline after it! ‘Lulllded with a truck on a narrow, | snow-covered bridge nine miles center. | north of here, a bus became a | flaming death trap for four per- CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican | | sons late yesterday afternoon. Republic, Dec. 28.—A strong earth- | Many of the 14 injured persons, quake was felt here last night, but some of them trapped in the burn- there was no damage here, and no | ing Burlington Trailways bus, owed reports had been received today of | their lives to a soldier passenger damage in the interior. who smashed out the windows, and i —————— 'a man working in a nearby field DIVORCE SOUGHT | who pulled them to safety, Shellfl | John Nicola said. Pascual Niere has filed: suit for| So badly were the four bodies divorce from Elsie Niere on burned that coroner Arnold Veile grounds of mental cruelty. They | scheduled an autopsy today to de- | brought to a clinic here. scheduled | were married in Jupeau in April o('lermme the sex and make final depth of snow | eight inches. | 1945. | identification. A truck lies on its side after the earthquake and {idal wave struck the scuthern ceast of Japan, ture, flcwn to San Francisco from Honolulu to where it had been radioed frem (of Wrecked in Earthquake - B3 This pic- Tokyo by the Signal SALESMAN IS BEATEN 10 DEATH BROCKTON, De Gaulie Is Nof (andidate For President Mass., (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Dec. 28.—A General Charles De Gaulle de- 34-ycar-cld Brockton automobile nounced the French government in salesman was beaten to death in 4 bitter terms today and ved ro- bedroom of his third floor apart-| tice that he will net run for Pres- ment =arly today by an intruder ident who entered an unlockzd door. A French President is to bz elect- Police Lt. Harry F. Kearns sald ed by the legislature on January that the victim, Rene Cote, died 16, and there has been some spec- of strangulation and a blow from ulatisn that De Gadulle, wartime 2 blunt instrument that lacerated leader of French resistance forces, his forehead from temple tn l‘m- might come out of political retire- ple. ment and be a candidate Police said tnav the attack oc- But now De Gaulle says that he curred while Cote's wife, Bertha. 28, Barbara Ann, and his four- year-old daughter wants no part of the present French 4 slept in a side bed- regime. s he: “I do not believe that it would be well for me to room Authorities found fresh serve tk< country by pretending prints in snow leading from the to becoife the guarantor of a con- back door of the apartment stitution which consecrates that g oo venomed siat the terrific regime and to preside, with im- . o010 iy Cote's bedrom awakened pulen.(.'t‘. over the impotence of the his wite: WHD MRA 1018 15W floor Aace to telephone police. They found At the moment, there is only one = 3 % % s the salesman lying in a pool of man in France who has openly an® | o 8 rounced his intention of seeking g SN % th2 Presidenc He is Vincent Aurio!, veteran Sceialist leader. Oth- er pos:ible candidates might include Socialist Leon Blum, who now is . cerving es President- and Premier an interim government, and former Premier George Bidault, leader of the Popular Republican ! movement. BUTTER PRICE PROBE STARTS WASHINGTO! Dec. 28-—Atlo ney General Tom Clark has dir STARTING GOP FIGHT By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.- Senator Reed of Kansas predicted today that “eight or ten" of the 17 new Re- publican members will support his move to upset advance al nge- ed his aides to look into the Ne ments for handing out leadership ok butter price situation, to da. | PlUms in the GOP-controlled Sen- termine if there have been any A viclations of the Anti-Trust Laws. Recent transactions on the New York butter market, leading up to | Thursday's sharp price break, are already being m\rslix.,ul('d by the Agricultural Department. Secretary Anderson ordered this inquiry yes- Reed further confused plans for working assignments to the new majority by announcing that if he fails to win the Commerce mittee chairmanship he will se to head the Public Lands group The Kansan already had said he lexdu) will contest an attempt by Senator White of Maine to take both the | party’s floor leadership post and the ing of the 51 Senate Republicans Monday The second hmv snow fall of Facing a possible challenge by the season hit Juneau during the 'Senator Tobey of New Hampshire past 12 hours. Up to 8 o'clock this morning the was from six to for the Commerce job in any event, Reed told reporters he Jas his second choice. Com- | Kt can claim seniority in the Public Lands group | UNLOADING OPERATIONS - AREHALTED Manning of Winches and Hatches Causes Trouble + =SUP, Cl0 Wrangling SEWARD, Jjurisdictional | AFL Sailors Alaska, dispute Union of Dec. 28 ~— A between the the Pacific |and the CIO International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s ! Union ov manning of winches and hatches spread yesterday from . Ketchikan to Seward and halted 1 unloading operations on the steam- . ship Baranof after half its cargo had been discharged Also atfected by the work stop- page, involving 150 longshoremen, is the relief ship Reef Knot, whose cargo has not been touched. A | third vessel, the Denali, is due to | arrive here today. The scheduled | departure of the Ba been postponed. Union spokesmen in Seward said ia settlement must be reached in San Francisco by leaders of the two | Maritime unions before their men will go, back to work The dispute flared at Ketchikan . Dee. 17, disrupting the unloading Pof” the Norfhtand “Transportation | Company's North Sea nof today has At that time W, m Semar, President of the Northland Com- pany, said in Seattle the conracts of all Alaska steamship lines with the unions provided for giving all | available SUP men work in unload- ing ships, and then if any jobs are i not rilled ILWU men may be hired. : The Ketchikan ILWU local, he said, demanded that if any of its mem- [ were employed, the winch ,men and hatch tenders on such hatches must also be ILWU men. - ALLEN NOW GOING BACK TO OLD ROLE AFTER RESIGNATION WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—George E. Allen’s resignation as an RFC director cleared the way today for his return to the unofficial role of Presidential “spadeworker” and | key consultant. This was the view expressed by men in close contact with the President as well as by friends of the big, jovial former insurance man, These sources attributed the resig- [nation to: 1. Financial considerations. They !said Allen could have earned $80,000 in 1946 through -corporate connections if he had not taken the $10,000 government job. As it | was, they said, he drew only $10,000 from a series of private director- | ships. | 2. A cesire to stay out of con- | troversies such as his differences with former Housing Administrator Wilson Wyatt over RFC loans for manufacturers of prefabricated housing. Allen, they said, feels that fights which keep him in the limelight hamper his usefulness to the President in the political field: Until the appointment to the governmental financial agency a year ago, Alien attended virtually all of President Truman's 9 a. m. ‘staff conferences where important decisions are made. > ‘ENTIRE SKI TRAII. IN GOOD CONDITION Ski conditions are reported to be excellent on the entire ski trail |with a large number of board rid- ers taking to the trail today. The ski tow will be In operation all day tomorrow and all skiers are reminded to take the necessary fee which is 50 cents for club mem- kers, 25 cents for juniors, and $1 for non-members. The outdoor committee will hold a special event run Sunday after- noon which will prove interesting to skiers and spectators alike.