The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ ——L_ ——— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,463 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1946 Mrmm_k mmmrrb PRLSS PRICE TEN CENTS ORENTAL AIRTRIP PLANNED Northwest StTwIs Flight on New Year's Day- Other Schedules | ST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 30. — Northwest Airlires officials said to- day that its survey flight to the Orient, preparatory to inaugurat- ing regular airline service to the| Far East via Alaska, has been scheduled for New Year's Day. | Simultaneously, Northwest an- nounced that its first regular flight from the Twin Cities to Anchorage, | inaugurating thrice-a-week service to Alaska over the “inside route” via Edmonton, will begin Thursday. | Other flights will follow each Tues- | day, Thursday and Saturday. | D. J. King, vice president of the) lines in charge of the Orient oper- ation staff, said today that special| installations on a four-engine DC- | 4 transport have been completed for the Orient flight. | King said the plane will stop! briefly at Tokyo, continue to Seoul,’ Korea, thence to Shanghai where | it will remain at least five days before proceeding to Manila. Af-| ter two days in Manila the plane will hop to Hong Kong. Pilots for the flight will be Captain Lloyd Milner who as a| civilian pilot during the war was| awarded the Army Air Medal for pioneering work in the Aleutians, and Captain Carl Luethi, a Navy| Captain who commanded the Navy Air Transport.in the Orient. B GUESTS FROM THE STATES The following guests registered | at the Baranof Hotel from the States during the past few days: Robert Broem of Madison, Wis., Letha Gentry of Seattl Edward | Roncone and Doris Jardine, both of Minneapolis. The Washington, Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Owing o weather conditions, | Drcw Pearson’s column for re- ! lease on Christmas Day, did not I | reach the Empire office by air mail until last Saturday, too late for insertion. The column i~ too good tc consign it to the waste paper basket, because | of lateness in arrival, so the ' Empire is printing it today. —Editor. ‘WASHINGTON — Except for the mailman, today is a day when Washington and the Government shut up shop. Even Bureaucrats, being human, need Christmas. In fact, we all do. We need it in order to think a little more about our friends and our neighbors and the man on the cross who wanted —and died—to make a better life | for his fellow men. needs Christmas. | Like the mailman, however, a columnist is supposed to work on‘ Christmas Day. His public may not want to read a word on Chrisl-k mas, and he himself may be much | more interested quired electric train. makes no difference. must go on. There was a time, 20 years ago,| But when I had a great dodge for the Alaska Steamship Co., avoiding work on Christmas Day. | had been informed that one hatch An insignificant reporter coverlng was still the State Department, letter to the Secretary of just before Christmas every year, I wrote a asking whether the United States fected by the Ketchikan work stop-| was going to claim Christmas Is- Page, land or surrender it to the British./north after the prolonged maritime Christmas Island is a pinpoint of strike. land in' the Pacific discovered by an American sailing captain 100 years ago, and almost entirely ne-f‘ glected—so neglected, in fact, that! Secretary of State Frank B. Kel-| log, and later Secretary Stimson, | always wrote back that they weren’t interested in Christmas Island. This, of course, gave me a lead on | which I could hang a Christmas/ story about Christmas Island— the | island nobody wanted. And, hav-| ing written the story one day in (Continued on Page Four) Troop Air Transport |department of the AFL Sailors’ Un- So, even a newspaper columnist jon of the Pacific. in his son’s ac- said members of the that were entitled under contract agree- The column ment to handle — |from Anchorage are Kenneth R.|the Alcan Highway cay be used. RUMP GROUP | - OF GOPERS IS Still Happy Couple Sen. Tobe&?edares Se- lecting of Committee Heads Is Wrong By JACK BELL ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Sen: Republican leaders’ plan to divide up committee assignments at an af- ternoon meeting bumpsd into a | challenge from Senator Tobey NH) today of their right to now In advance of the meeting, Tobey ! told reporters that a rule adopted |by the Republican conference (the| |organization of Senate G.O.P. mem- |bers) on Dec. 15, 1944, forbids mak- (R act | members of the outgoing Republi- lcan committee on committees that |they were merely making recom-| ;meud'lt‘onx to the full group of 51 Republican Senators and Senators< | elect. | ‘Tobey | “rump” “Any |doesn't know that those recommen- called group, committee declared: this but a |snowball is just kidding himself.” | Totey's attitude | Senator Reed of Kansas for —tentatively assigned by the lead- 2 } i Ser & o Attractive dancing parfers as they circled the floor in each other’s <% fo Semator White of Maine arms at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, are an impeccably clad and apparéitly Happy Duke adg Lis cqually happy and spasually sawncd Duchess of Windsor. Occasion was a benefit fcr disabled war vet- erans and, coincidentally, it was likewise the tenth anniversary of ihe Duke's abdication as King Edward VIIT of England fer “the woman I love,” Baltimere’s Wally Warficld. tn the GOP meetjng. « The gathering of all GOP Sena= tors wes called to agree on organ- lization of the Senate branch Ithe choice leader: | Tobey made it ip posts. clear he would |challenge at the meeting the right! jof what he called a “rump” com- mittee on committees to- make any committee assignments. He declared that under exisiting rules, the new committee on com- mittees could not be appointed un- {til after the next sessfon of ‘con- i gress 1clu'\lly convenex on Friday. 'LOGGERS OF B (. Service Now Planned For Defense of Alaska (By Elton C. Fay) WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — The MAKE DEMA“DS defense of Alaska, the nation's vi- | will rest almost entirely on the efficiency of the Troop Air Trans-| R SHIP (AS_E port System and the mobility of LVYAvNCO‘{VE(’;“ )B' C}- D?Cha_‘)f' the Air Fleet, milltary planners,:°3ging men declare the timber in = . the Queen Charlotté area of Brit- disclosed today 2 f ish Columbia is bigger, the terrain Only a comparative hanGiui of s more rugged, the falling is hard- und combat troops—two battal- 2 er and the weather is more severe P ;m())lso probably numbc;l;mg less m:m"m,, e othes. ‘Sialition | And” o > ;2,000 men in all—will compose the they intend to boycott the nine SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—The Alaska' pyienp Garrison for the airfields| Queen Charlotte Island logging Steamship Company appealed Sat-| Y & ¢ o g edny i the. Masitifia. Oofntalsston {and other Army installations spot- camps until operators agres to pay for action to settle a jurisdictional| 160 Across the sprawling 586,000 eight cents an hour more and fare : : "M% | square miles of the territory. for 1947 O ispute that spread 10T “The planners explained the Alas- This is announced by Harold Thloading 61tk ‘steamship kan defense blueprint is in accord- pnmhe” president of the British | Baranof in Seward was held up by ance with the current concept for Colylnbla district of the Inter- |the controversy between Seward protecting offshore bases—quick re- national Woodworkers Association infecreement by air from strategic Pritchett says union representatives units within the United States. lare to meet the employers today tc Tiny Alaska Garrison Italk things over. The union has As outlined officially, the troop rejected an gncrease of five cents deployment program by next July an hour, but ¥Pritchett declares the (the time at which the Alaska boycott is not a strike—merely a |drive winches in all hatches their!troop strength figures will ‘be ef- mass decision to obtain work else- men were working. | fective) calls for a force of about where. Steamship company | four combat divisions and 31 air | groups in the United States, with | ‘ Gid one of those divisions on the West | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Initial reinforcement of the | {CIO longshoremen and the deck The trouble started in Ketchikan {Dec. 17, company officials said, when longshoremen demanded to spokesmen AFL union winch-driving in| Coast. | Alaska ports. tiny Alaska garrison in event or‘ Princess Norah, from Vancouv- J. Zumdieck, superintendent of emergency presumably would comeé ler, due tomorrow afternoon or eve- said he from the home forces of the regu- ning. lar Army. | Northern Voyager, from Seattle, | being worked on the| The Army installations built and jdue lomarru\_\v. | Baranof, < presumably the hatch: building in Alaska will be kept in| Jumper Hitch, scheduld to sail State ‘manned by the deck crews. a ready condition with - airstrips,|from Seattle tomorrow. The Baranof and North Sea, af-|repair iacilities and supply systems| Sword Knot scheduled to sail! in shape for immediate use. For|from Seattle January 3. | Alaska scheduled to sail from| this purpose a sizeable but so far| undisclosed number of service d"d‘»eame January 8, going westward | technical troops will be kept m‘after calls at Ketchikan and Ju- ne: | Alaska. i i Air Transport Plans lflndlsesttle January 10. Transport airplanes could D o { Baranof and Denali probably| the first reinforcement troops and‘t d Se their personal equipment in Alaska | ied. up. 8 ward. by labor trouble, |time -of arrival in Juneau south-| almost in a matter of hours. Wlth\b d indefi airfields in condition and fuel and |°°Und inde tails, s VISITORS IN JUNEAU ammunition dumps at hand, bomb- | ers and fighters, with transports| Recently signing the guest regls- | carrying maintenance | can be rushed to the area. carried much needed cargo North Sea scheduled to sail from | Robert E. Sheldon, Executive Di- rector of the Alaska Unemploy-‘ ment Compensation Committee, left December 20 on a routine busi- ness trip to the Westward. He ex- pects to return within two weeks. - - - HERE FROM ANCHORAGE For an| following Alaskans visiting from Woods of Tee Harbor; T. D. Batch- elder of Fairbanks; and Mr. and Mrs. A Nagel of Yakutat. Registering at the Baranof Hotel men and supplies the sea route andi Bowman and George W. Morgan. (Continued on Page Five) ~ CHALLENGED -ipart {ing or approving any committec |assignments until after Congress| |actually convenes. | He took notice of statements by| child of adolescence who| {dations will gather the forces of a| and a bid by! the! | Commerce committee chairmanship | of | {the new Congress and parcel out| | ensuing flow of large masses 'Jf‘o[her parts of the Territory: Chas. | POLICIES OF SOVIET UNION SHOWN UP ((OLD WAVE SETTLING Sub-zero Weather with No Let Up Thls Week THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The nation can look forward to a continued influx of Sikerian air with the U. S. Weather Bureau's promise that it would be the bett of a week before sub-zero | temperatures moderate appr iably. (BY “There’s a lot of weather around,” the ferecasters said. “It's settling |dn‘n pretty well all over the coun- try and behind it is a lot more ux‘ the same air—with temperatures in parts of Canada as low as 35 and 40 below zero. “Ther to be some in about two days, but even so, it will remain below normal most of Ithis week.” They explained the storm area loriginated in Siberia, “and moved down the North Alaska route, the Yukon Valley and due south down through the Dakotas to Texas. Along about the Chio Val- ley it bumped into the warm Gulf jair and pushed underneath These nortaern temperatures ranged from 25 below at Bemidji, Minn., to Chicago’s five above. At Rockford, Ill, a minus flve was reported, while Alexandria, had minus 17 - raised the prospect of 2 sharp row ‘FourBrifishers | 'Are Kidnaped, ‘Given Lashes 'Jews Chargrwfiwith High- handed Crime - Man Hunt Organized By CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM, Dec. 30.—The Brit-' ish Military announces that all Jewish communities along the Pal- estine coast had been placed out of ibounds to the 30,000 British troops on duty in the area, as authorities pressed a rch for the armed kidnapers who abducted a British major and three sergéants last night and gave each 18 lashes in what was described as a retaliatory move. A military source, predicted authorities, fearing British trcops might seek vengeance for the flog- gings, would keep the ruling in force until at least after New Yzar's The Provost Marshall's office e that Eve said that “feeling is running high’ in the military camps. Jewish agency sources expressed T gr: for the floggings. Meanwhile the British ship, |Ocean Vigour, arrived in Haifa harbor, bringing 750 Jewish refugees |who were deported to Cyprus when :Lhey originally arrived here without immigration certificates. | search for the perpetrators of last night's floggings continued, {with British authorities and Pal | tine police participating in the ma | hunt. - —— 'PNA MAKES SUNDAY FLIGHT WESTWARD Pacific Norlhnrn Airlines on Sunday brought cne flight from | Anchorage, under Capt. Jack Dean | first Officer Dave Schirmer, Ob-| ess Marcia Shepherd. The same| crew returned to westward in the 'lfternoun Passengers from Juneau to Cor- dova were Fay Middleton and Lucy |Handise; to Anchorage Mrs. G. lcarson Hary Carlson, R. M. John- {son- To Juneau: Carl Nelson, C. W. personnel, | try at the Baranof Hotel were the |Duboard, Ken Bowman, Ken Hage-|All a candidate need man, Mrs. B. J. Logan, Jack Hunk- |er Julie Hunker, Elwell Thawley, ‘Dick Toply, Nina Warren, Harold Engseth, Ken Knudsen, Ted Ander-! Json, Ethel Kelly, Nora Kieto, IN STATES | Siberian Air Is Spreadingj moderation | Minn., server Ed Thornton and Steward-| CHARGES AGAINST RUSSIA Gustavus Recommended ks Site for Great Air | Base on Oriental Route WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— The (yining 2997456 acres, is the second | [Netional Purk Service, which 1s 0b- argest avea administered by the ‘Special House Com Makes | P in_principle to airfieds in parg gervice. For emergency rea-! |National Parks, polnted to the EC sons of national defense, aefeld] Report - Sharp Official | ay Natlonal Monument ,,giyction was allowsd in thel T . lin Auska today as o major step- (it TRUC N0 Sunean suanie| CPiMicism of Soviels ping stone of the air route to the i."o Jeave pomber base \ ey, Orient “Gustavus Point will be the main | (By Alex H. Singleton) Newton B. Drury, patks director, | altport for Ig commercial planes| WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Charges in his annual report to’ the Secre- {rom the States, where passengers of *economic enslavement political tary of the Interior, said further Will {rang-ship to smaller planesi terrorism, religious repression, brok- developments ars needed at the for various Alaska points, or willlen promises and ambitions for mili- [Army-built airport at Gustavus continue on the large plahes to the|tary power were leveled against Point within the monument Orient,” Drury wrote | Russia today by the Special House grounds Unfavorable weather in [l\:l(‘Cflmmle‘ on postwar economic " In the same report, he urged aréa could ground several hundred|policy % |that the policy prohibiting con- Plane passengers there fc The Committee report — the struction of runways and airfields days, vet the field has no facilities sharpest official criticism of Rus- in other national parks and monu- ¢ither for feeding or for housing|sia on Capitol Hill since the Soviet ments be perpetrated to preserve prospective traveler ! Union went to war with Germany— The liklihood of carly and heavy’ i demanded that the United States visitation by both steamship ‘mi'“qw” ‘positive leadership” in Euro- plane passengers points to the need| pean economic affair: of accommodations for both! Simultaneously it asserted that if group iRuBsiu actually is found to be us- (ing German war plants to rearm, ' the Western Allies should denounce |the entire Potsdam Big Three agreement and demand that the Soviets “evacuate Germany com- i pletely.” N Protest Made [ Pirst reaction to the éommittee’s ' document came in the form of a !pl‘ctrst against “headline hunters” | bPJmoi-—h-tign emfwyta hrdluuu | tiring Chairman of the House For- teign Ailfairs Committee. Blocm told reporters the commit- !tee should have submitted its evi- | dence “if it has any” to the State .and War Departments for investis rustic solitude for wildlife and park visitors | Glacier Bay Monument, extending from the coast northwest of Juneau {to the Yukon boundary and con- Hail fo Queen of Roses ! gation. He contended - the report [ jwould do “far more harm than f gocd” in current diplomatic nego+ tiations. The State Department declined any immediate ccmment. The unanimous committee report {cffered a number of specific ‘rec- | ommendations, among them: General Review 1. A review of the financial as- pects of American occupation policy i"‘ “order to substitute productive (and self-supporting economies in ex-enemy countries for the present method of supporting them with American money while they in turn are being drained by Russia and ! France.” ;2. Loans to American occupation j authorities through the Export-Im- ‘porl Bank to start the flow of raw | materials necessary for industrial ! production { 3. An inquiry into restrictions on Framed in roses (above) is Nerma Christopher, 18, blonde, Pasadena | the movement of Ameri®hn busi- Junicr College student, selected o reign as Queen of the Tournament | N¢Ssmen, and into the methods “by of Roscs classic at New Year's Day feotball game in Rose Bowl, She | VDich it g M bl i 05 weighs 113 pcunds, is 5 feet 4 inches tall and has bluc-gray eyes. LEIn SOMRBOS T Sierien te 4. A specific study of safeguard- ,mation agencies including books, magazines, papers and movies as AP Tells How GROMYKO | i | {ing the trade recommendations 60p EIQ hanl Blo(KING . “with respect to the abuse of state b {trading practices, particularly by { well as our reporters can be facilit- I ated.” p ! the state monopolies of nations who ] tare not members” of the World w a s v l ( I o r u Bank, monetary fund or similar L] | L[] L] | international organizations. | 5. A moratorium on the sale of gL “;57“[@” o ! surplus vessels to Russia “until her 8 j wartime lend-lease agreements have | The Republican victory in No- vember was one of the major news i i { | feguarding Trade BU| LLle\' LAKE 30—The U Energy C been kept. The Committee charged Russia with failure to “keep Potsdam and cmmission approved |events of the year, and to the lmi “ " 1 { Associated Press took @ look at the| Cycrwhcimingly today the United |giper ggreements,” and declared States Atomic Control Plan des- | ; election returns and explained how, "l oo Too e Russian obe |t the Soviet agreement “in prin- ithe GOP elephant did it jr"i"'m s i jciple” to broaden outlines of inter- | The official vote returns tabu- f“ » vote was 10 for the Unit. | Nationsl Atomic inspection ‘“does {lated by the Associated Press re- he vote was 10 for the Unit- 4 ot guarantee performance.” veal that the GJOP made its strong- , ©3 States pian with Russia and It asserted that the “most seri- Polland abstaining. : est showing in the East and Mid- g jous of all violations of the Pots- | west—that is, he nation’s re > | dar g| is re- s at is, in the nation’s more; LAKE SUCCE am agreement is the alleged re . N. Y., Dec. 30— | thickly populated areas. . ¥ {arming of gt o i ;\,nIdmLA Gromyko, Soviet Russian | § oiiftimls by Qermag plaity clegate, t8iepted today SEd: United in the Russian-controlled zones, in- {a dozen states—a total of 2i—and Ot gy J“‘d‘ i f ay the Unlled foiygirig the rocket-making plants \in them the Reppblicans captured “'% SR - the veto be g and testing s -~ 207 of the party’s total of 246 seats WAived on Atomic control and call- | i rounds. At Bespe areas has (munde which were to have been ; Mok sprosenta. | €d for an item-by-item discussion ! . . " :.‘mwgu new House of Representa-| & JOF 140 HemCOr-lel 08 p]an.,‘suappcd; 2 SN In all but three of those 24 key| SPeaking to the most critical} states, the GOP rolled up a bigger Meeting of the United Nations, STO(K OUOTMIOIIS |combined vote than the Democrats Atomic Energy Commission, Gro-| lin the House elections, This alone Myko said the United States, by ! NEW YORK, Dec. 30 — Closing nations violat- | quotation of Alaska-Juneau mine proposing there should be no veto | on punishments of would be more than enough to win |the Presidency in 1948 if the plur- alities were maintained That's ing the Atomic Pact, was in fact|stock today is 5%, American Can |because the 21 Eastern statas that revising the United Nation: Charter.' Anaconda 40%, Curtiss-Wright | went Republican in November have CULT A 5 en T ¥ 1 International Harvester T71%, R Shinhin e Salsctaral cuota "of 466 MRS MANTHEY HOME | Kennecott 51%, New York. Central is 266 elec- B | 18, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S. \wm] votes to send him to the ~Mrs. Dorothy Manthey, who has'Steel 71'¢, Pound $4.03%. White House. | been in St. Ann's Hospital for over Sales today were 1,400,000 shares. o two weeks, returned to her home Dow, Jones averages today are Older heris are more subject to'in the Waynor Tract Sunday after- as follows: Industrials 176.23, Rails disease than younger pullets, ncon 51.07, Utilities 37.10.