The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1947, Page 1

M 1 P.M. Edition e e VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,465 CHINESE RIOTER Stork Gets Priority on NEW YEAR | USHERED IN BY CROWDS Highway De_afls, Midnight| Strike Cast Shadow | on Celebration i (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The nation heralded a new year; today, but highway deaths and a| last minute strike cast their shadow over an otherwise extensive and expensive celebration. | In New York, a crowd estimated by police at 900000 gathered in| Times Square to welcome 1947 with | a pre-war din, while on the edge of Greenwich Village firemen dug| through tons of rubble to extricate four comrades who were trapped when three floors of a downtown loft building collapsed during a fire. San Francisco's New Year's Eve celebration was dampened by a strike of Yellow Cab drivers, who, left their wheels one minute after midnight, taking 500 taxis out of| service at the peak of the celebra- tion and cutting the downtown sec- | tion’s crowds about half. ! While the nation looked to thej New Year to bring an improvement | over 1946, twelve persons died in| auto accidents during the night and | early morning hours. | But in Atlantic City, N. J., hotels| were jammed for holiday parties at | prices ranging from $2 to $12 while a cash prize and gifts frol 28 merchants waited the winner o! the resort town’s traditional “first baby” contest. Virginians got an appropriate New Year's gift from the state's alcoholic beverage control board — the end of liquor rationing, effec: tive immediately. But state stores were closed for the holidays, so most Virginians saw the year out with rationed whiskey. ‘Throughout the nation, merrymak- ers crowded the urban centers, jamming restaurants, night clubs and bars, paying high prices and stiff cover charges in a noisy revel featured by the popping of corks ! doctor’s, firemen’s and other emer- | \ Talkie Sef as Fairbanks ~ UNLOADED AT Goes Without Telephones SEWARD PORT | destroyed the Northern Commercial FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan 1 —| Company's telephone building. The stork got in on the prefer-| The Alaska Communications Sys- red list today as Fairbanks strug- | tem switchboard has 11 telephones gled along without telephones. {in use and police and fire patrols Radio amateurs manned a 15-| were given seven handie-talkie sets state network to transmit police,|by the Army for their use. One of the sets was also placed gency messages, following the $300,- | in a home where a baby is ex- 000 fire a week ago tonight which | pected shortly. Needed Ca;g;Being Dis- charged by CIO Long- shoremen-Protest ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan -1— Seward's CIO longshoremen were to unload vitally needed cargo from three ships today but announced the work was being done under protest. The men, members of the Inter- housemen’s Union, agreed to unload \ the passenger and cargo ships Bar- 'anor and Denali, and the freighter y {Reef Knot, Mayor Phil Harding [] ! of Seward said in a telephone call Bilbo Ouster CONGRESS =i :F:-i i refused to work any other ships ;unul a jurisdictional dispute with o the AFL Sailors Union of the Pa- WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Policy-; WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—Con-' ¢cific is settled. making ,Senate Republicans, com- gressional Republicans greeted the] The ships, among the first to mitted to try to oust Democratic'new year today with their post-|sail north from Seattle after the Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of election leadership troubles all but;Maritime tieup have been idle sev- Mississippi, turned today to the|disolved in an air of apparent har-| era] days in a dispute in which problem of how to do it. | mony. iongshoremen demand the right to Chairman Taft of Ohio called a| The peace pipe was being passed | supply winch-drivers for all holds New Year's afternoon meeting of (as Congress prepared to convene|being worked by the CIO. The the GOP Senate steering committee | Friday. Alaska Steamship Company and to map strategy as: With Rep, Clarence J. Brown of, the SUP both assert their con- 1. The Justice Liepartment press-|Ohio formally out of the race, theg tract gives such jobs to SUP men. ed an independent investigation of jway was cleared for the election of PRSP SN SRy Bilbo's affairs. Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana 2. The embattied Senators, rom-[as GOP floor leader of this House. ing to “fight on,” declared anew| This appeared to be little more " JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1947 national Longshoremen's and Ware- hat he is innocent of any wrong-ithan a formality at tomorrow’s { doing. He sent a letter to each |caucus of Republican Representa- Imember of the Senate, in support|tives-elect, even though two other {of his contention. | candidates—Reps. Thomas Jenkins 3. The Senate war investigating|of Obio and Everett M. Dirksen of committee scheduled for release to-|Illinois refused to follow Brown out {night its Teport on an inquiry into|of the centest. Bilbo’s dealings with war contrac tors. One member said the repor |charges that Bilbo “used his high office” for “personal gain.” 4. The three Democratic mem-| bers of the special Senate cam-| paign investigating committe rush- | ed work on a majority report which Iwill contend nd proof has been iturmshed to support charges that ARE UNDER ATTACK BY PREMIER, JAPAN LABOR ELEMENTS. | Bilbo intimidated Negroes from vot- TOKYO, Jan. 1—Premier Yoshida and helped along by the rustle of| good green currency. e —— SEATTLE — Burglars visited the Granada Theatre last night and opened an old safe that the owners| hadn't been able to get into since the combination was lost five years ago. Gene Johnson, assistant manager, said the safe was empty. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round today sug- gests the following New Yenr'sl resolutions for certain people—who could use them: Harry Truman—I resolve to be- come President of all the people, | not some of the people-—~from Mis- souri and Arkansas. John L. Lewis—I resolve to count to 3,500,000 before starting a strike. Housing Administrator Prank Cree- don—I firmly resolve to put vet- erans Housing ahead of Burlesque shows. Patrick J. Hurley—To post a “dead end” sign along the Santa Fe Trail. Harold Stassen—To be comforted by the fact that the GOP didn't want Willkie, either. Governor Dewey of New York—| *Til ’48, patience and fortitude. Governor Warren of California— Ditto. Governor Bricker of Ohio—Ditto. Senator Taft of Ohio—Likewise. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan —The same. B (Continued on Page Four) ling in last summer's Senatorial/ iy 5 New Year's message attacked OFFICERS - ARE SHOT LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. The Chief of Little Rock Detec- tives and his Lieutenant were | found shot to death today in a | suburban parkj area barely an | hour after they had. left police headquarters. The officers, Chief O. N. Mar- tin, 50, and Lieut. Jack Deubler, 10 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ “ALL THE NEWS gLL THE TIME” ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— TTACK AMERICANS SURPRISE ACT BY PRESIDENT {Ending of Hostilities fo Bring Review of All War Powers WASHINGTON, Jan 1—Republi- cans kept their law books handy | { today while awaiting word from | President Truman on which cast-| | eff war powers he wants back and | which additional ones he is willing o junk. While generally applauding lhe; | Chief Executive's surprise action in ! declaring War II hostilities at an | nd yesterday, GOF lawmakers | | Inade clear they want a quick und: | full-scale review of the nearly 500 | émergency controls still in effect. ! | Rep. Michener of Michigan, who | i slated to head the House Judi-| ! ciary Committer when the Republi- eans take control of Congress Fri- ; day, told newsmen: “I'm 1or repealing all the laws l(.)m are shown to be not essential tp “the fuuctioning of the govern- ; xren(. * | | Parly Heads to Study | | Other party leaders echoed Mich-| ener's views but said they prefer-| !red to wait until they have given! |the complex subject more study before citing specific examples of‘ | which wartime restrictions should |be added to the 18 Mr. Truman| threw overboard yesterday, with 33/ others set to die June 30. Most Congress members said they hoped the Prsident would go into greater detail in his stale of the union message scheduled for Monday. The end of hostilities Proclama- tion caught not only Capitol Hill but most Government agencies, as well, completely off guard. In re- trospect, however, it appeared that at least two factors dedicated the timing: Aids Bookkeeping 1. By acting when he did, Mr. Truman made the sharpe excise SHIPS BEING APPLAUSE FOR Yous Wi Turns on Gas_ HILADELPHIA, Jan. 1—Helene Bradley, 42, left a 29-word last testament in the gas-filled kitchen of her apartment. Detective Alexander Starrett said the gas was turned on in the oven and near the woman's body was this note: “I am leaving my body to sci- ence. I think they will find it in- teresting. “As for the rest of the world, they can all go to hell.” R Helgoland fo Be Blown Up HAMBURG, Germany, Jan 1— A British Naval Officer says the great German island fortress of Helgoland would be blown up about March 31 in a biast he said would be “the nearest rival to the Atomic bomb." The 15 miles of tunnels in the | tortress will be crammed with Nav- al depth charges and blown to oblivion in one “big bang” the officer said. - - N. Y. SUBWAY IS SCENE OF MASKED MURDER ATTEMPT NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Mrs. Olga | Rocco, 28-year-old pretty Brooklyn housewife, lay near death today in Roosevelt Hospital, the victim of ai | bizarre shooting in a crowded Times | | Square Subway Station which police | said apparently was perpetrated by | | a vengeful husband. Her right thigh was torn by the | full charge of a 12-guage sawed-off shotgun fired by an attractive blonde who snapped what she thought was a concealed camera’s shutter but instead set off the) | weapon, hidden in a package trim- | med with gay Christmas wrapping Taken into custody was Miss Pearl Lusk, 19, who, still standing WORLD GREETS SHANGHAI NEW YEARIN SCENE OF HOPE, PEACE DISORDER Bugles Ring Out Era of Tur- Offensive Actions Taken moil as Hope for Better by Demonstrafors World Symbolizes | Against U. S. SHANGHAI, Jan. l.-—Several TN | Americans, including an Army Lieu- LONDON, Jan. 1.—Bugles echo-/ienant and an Associated Press pho- ed through the green valleys of|{ographer, were molested in a par- Wales this morning, as the Oldlucuhrly vehement anti-American World in working clothes greeted | gemonstration by 1,000 ~Chinese the new year on a keynote of hope, ynjversity students to;iny, following gay reveleries last night| A pjeutenant, walking with & girl in Burope's capitals, where somelon Avenue Joffrehin, the, former ' also prayed for a brighter future. |prench concession, was assailed by ized for Paraders, who struck him ‘over the realized, | head with light bamboo canes. Thy also tried to pull off the girl's cloth- ing and shouted obscenities. . The silver bugles symbol Britain the hope—still un but still much alive—of its Soclalist Wi anners for a new and ‘ggf:';r“rmzl R, The Lieutenant, clasping the i girl’s hand, forced a path using | They marked the start of gov- his body as a shield. The demon- |arnment ownership of coal mines— strators suddenly left them. union leader Will Lawther called, An Associated Press photographer it “the end of an epoch of turmoil, forcibly was prevented from tak- |strife and suffering” for 700,000 ing pictures by demonstrators who \miners, who form the biggest bloc|blackened one of his eyes and beat yet to call the government boss. him on the back and shoulders with fists. He swung his camera | . { The bugles sounded the hope*ol {, clear a path and maki e his Ithe whole devastated continent for 4o cet ® P s 11947. Russia, in a year-end pro- | nouncement over the Moscow radio, | |expressed a feeling that 1946 had Some posters in the Bund were brought victory to the Soviet Un-|particularly offensive. They bore jon’s foreign policy and defeat for the two words “Bitch! Biteh!” “atomic diplomacy,” thus improving Military personnel and their wives the hope for peace. or companions pass that thorough- In France, where a hard-pressed ;z:;s lflo:: (Lf“:.;:g :l?‘:d‘h?'d? l{:; people somehow defied the inexor-'co. itomen and their families. able laws of supply and demand ™ pogers shook fists and shouted and found a little wine and some .gey oyt you beasts!™ festive food to celebrate the advent Whipp;:d to a frenzy by cheer of another new year, Premier Leon j..qerc the demonstrators demand- Blum ordered a flat five percent .4 inediate withdrawal of Ameri- cut in the marked prices of all .on rorces and a change in United goods and declared that “"”“““"states policy in China five percent cut would be ordered " .gei out or we'll throw you out” in 60 days. and “China is not an American London crowds packed the streets colony” read two of their banners. from wall to wall, singing and They placarded buildings, buses, dancing and kissing each other as trucks and even private automo- Big Ben bonged the hour. Quieter piles. thousands thronged the forecourt Buildings Placarded of St. Paul's cathedral, symbolizing | They grew especially vociferous the countless dots on the world’'s g they passed Broadway Mansions, Offensive Posters election in Mississippi. labor elements he said instigated|about 35, were found by a rabbit The two Republican members, of | jngustrial strikes and warned that|hunter about 9:30 am. alongside tax cuts called for correspond With on the subway platform with the the Government's fiscal year. Thus package in her hand, told police she | the new lower rates—such as $6 in- | thought she was taking Mrs. Rocco's | stead of $9 a gallon on liquor and this committee are, preparing aithe Allied Nations as a result “may | dissenting report. ! cease to consider with sympathy Taft announced late yesterday|, material importation plan in the that the new Republican steering! g ,re committee had voted unanimously | to try to bar Bilbo from the Sen- . | He expressed fear that actions of ate. | those ‘“who are trying to avail | themselves of the current economic | cuisis to further their pplitical i ipR[““'"ARY “EARI“GI ends” may bring about a change MURDER (ASE. Expm lin the attitude of the Alles. T0 BE HELD THIS WEEKL STEAMER !9“"““ U. S. Commissioner Eglix Gray js | expected to set a date this week for | Square Sinnet, from Seattle, due the preliminary hearing in the case 1 Saturday. | of Austin Nelson, negro, who has| Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail |been held in the city jail since | from Seattle today. | December 22 op first degree murder | Sailor Splice scheduled to sail from | charges. Nelson was arrested short- | Seattle January 3 going direct to |1y after the body of Jim Ellen was Sitka, then Juneau southbound. | discovered slain in his Willoughby | Sword Knot scheduled to sail | Avenue store and on the strength |from Seattle January 3. | of evidence found, Nelson was charg- | Alaska scheduled to sail from | ed with alleged murder in the first [Seattle January 8, going westward| ppipicn Military Court on war crimes | | degree. He pleaded not guilty to the |after cails at Ketchikan and Ju- charge and is theld in the Federal |neau. North Sea scheduled to sail from | Seattle January 10. Baranof and Denali are stilll tied up at Seward by labor trouble, Miss Dorianne Barnes returned to time of arrival in Juneau south- | Juneau on the Princess Norah aft-|bound indefinite. | er spending a Christmas vacation' Estebeth scheduled to leave for | with her mother, Mayor Doris! Sitka at 2 p.m. tomorrow. | Barnes of Wrangell, visiting in| Princess Norah scheduled to ar- | Seattle and San Francisco. Miss | rive from Skagway at 8 o'clock to- { Barnes will return to her duties at | MOrTow morning and sails south at | the Baranof Hotel, where she is a| 10 o'clock. | member of the staff. T | MOSCOW — The Moscow Press | Lighting engineers estimate 10/4] was filled -with cartoons today :000 lives per year could be saved ridiculing numerous Americans and | by proper lighting of highways and Europeans as war mongers and i streets to avoid accidents. | Fascists. | jail. i e O AT | DORIANNE BARNES RETURNS | ! their squad car. Deubler had been shot in the | back with a shotgun. Martin was shot in the head with a large cali- bre revolver. R 'THOUSANDS OF WOMEN GASSED; HITLER'S ORDER HAMBURG, Germany, Jan. 1.— Johann Schwarzhuber, former as- sistant commandant at the Ravens- bruck Concentration Camp, testi- fied in an affidavit today that i women inmates too sick to work were gassed to death as shooting | was too slow. He and 15 other staff members of Ravensbruck, largest woman’s prison on record, are on trial before a charges. Schwarzhuber said Hitler ordered | the women put to death in the gas chamber. He said 150 were ordered to disrobe and marched faked into ithe chamber on the pretext that | they were to be deloused. The door was locked. A gas container was | thrown through a window. | “For two minutes, I heard whimp- {ering and moaning, then all was | quiet,” the affidavit said. It is esti- mated 200 women were shot at the camp, but that 2,400 were executed by gas in the interest of speed — e During World War II flax cul- ture in northern Ireland expanded to 125,000 acres, four to six times prewar averages. 10 per cent instead of 20 per cent on furs—will go into effect July 1. Any other date would complicate the Treasurv's keeping system 2. If he had waited a single day lenger the Government's vast Ag- ricultural Price Support Program | would have been carried through | three more fuil years. This pro- ' gram, which would cost as much book- as $1,500,000,000 a year, now will expire Dec. 31, 1948. While yesterday’'s Proclamation eut an immediate end to the Gov- ernment’s power to seize strike- threatened industrial facilities and marked the whole Smith-Connally war labor disputes Act for death on June 30, the general view on ‘Clpltul Hill appeared to be that | new strike control legislation will be enacted before then \French H&i&e ' On Crashed Plane . On Critical List 1 LIMERICK, Erie, Jan. 1—Three |crash of a New York-bound TWA | Airliner near Shannon Airport last Saturday remained in critical con- ;dltlun today, but the remainde: | were reported improving. join her husband in Newsrk, N. J. serve to} picture. The first patrolman on the scene, ! William Walsh, asked the wounded woman, “Why did this woman shcot | map where prayers — rather than where 200 U. 8. servicemen and parties—welcomed the new year. their dependents live, and at U. 8. But in London, in Rome, in Paris, Naval shore headquarters on the in Brussels, in Copenhagc-,x\ ‘“‘Bm\d. They placarded buildings Stockholm and the rest, the fuel there. shortage indicated ah early end t0| One of their themes was “Ameri- you?” t Mrs. Rocco replied, he said: “You | | fool. she didn’t shoot me. My hus- | band did.” Miss Lusk then said, poice re-| ported that she had been engagod’ by a man known to her as Allan La Rue to take a picture of Mrs.| Rocco who, he told her, was sus pected of carrying jewels under her clothing. | | La Rue, the woman said, repre-| | sented himself as an insurance ‘invesugawr who was on the trail lof a big “jewel thief.” ¥ - | 'Radio Announcers | In Seattle Delay | - Walkout 1 Week | SEATTLE, Jan. 1. — Scheduled walkout of Seattle radio announcers set for last night has been post- poned for a week at the request of | Federal mediators. | The walkout was called by the AFL-American Federation of Radio | of the 11 persons injured in the| Artists, representing 200 announcers, actors and singers, to back demands for wage inceases and changed | working conditions. - e — | LONDON — The British Labor | ‘Those still on the critical list;Govemment took possession of the tinuing through Thursday. | included Mrs. Edith Augustine De- | nation's coal industry today and it er, with lowest temperature tonight|Montana, ) laby Waterbury, French war bride promised a new deal for the miners around 25 degrees. who was enroute with her baby to and more fuel for consumption and winds 10 to 20 miles | export. | Imperial on Triangle Place. the revelry. Celebrants had to g2t'can GI's are worse than Japanese home before transportation szoppedf“wp,.n Crude cartoons placarded running. on buildings depicted an American In Germany, where the economic gajjor knifing a Chinese man and a I mergers of the American and Brit- y s Marine trampling a Chinese ish occupation_zones became effec- woman underfoot. \ tive today, the parties were few— A leaflet distributed in the name and chilly. In Hamburg, for in- of National Fuhtan University, of stance, theaters, cinemas and res-'ghanghai, called Americans hypo- Itnurams were ordered closed at 7 crites who preach Christian prin- P ;n..b zes:’r:l:lso‘"’?:z. ;Zo:;:: ":gl-ydples in Chine but who lynch ~Itheir Negro citizens at home “on dio's New Year's morning broad- the sligl:f:n complaint.” cast was given over to New Year Flareup Demonstration greetings from Czechoslovakia and: The demonstration was a flareup Rumania, thanking the Soviet Army | of similar student parades at Peip- again for their !xberauon. Tass, ing, Tientsin and the Hongkew the’l official anzm pews uzfllcy-‘mmn of Shanghai over the week- sent out a New Year's Day greel-feng, They originated in Chinese ing “to all friendly agencies T€-|gccusations that two U. S. Marines celving our emissions. raped a Chinese girl, but later ! gl SR |generally were attributed to anti- SMOKE—NO FIRE American sentiment, inspired in art by Chinese Communist propa- Funny thing happened at 11105‘:’]"(’“ against U. S. help to the o'clock last night. Someone saw Napking government. smoke coming from a room in the! Marine officials, investigating the > e 2 mfle:l:; rape charge, unofficially exoner- —alarm rang in. en the ated one Leatherneck; sald the Departments boys, coming from all other insisted his relations ‘with directions, arrived at the scene— (the Chinese girl were on a profes- no smoke, no fire. |sional basis. i - ' — - VISITING FROM STATES \ Among the recent arrivals from Juneau and vicinity, increasing the States registered at the Bar- | cloudiness this afternoon with u;htiano( are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hall snow beginning tonight and con- of Los Angeles, T. J. Tully of Warm- | Seattle Paul S. Walder of Libby, Elwood Jones of Hay- Southeasterly | ward, Calif., Mrs. Otto Krueger of per hour to-| San PFrancisco, Calif., and C. Ap- pleton and F. Fletcher of Seattle. \ WEATHER FORECAST |night and Thursday.