The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1947, Page 1

o ¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" = —————————— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,475 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1947 —_—— GOPERS SPLIT ON WAR PROFITS PROB 6 SURVIVE CRASH IN ANTARCTIC Three Killed When Sea-| plane Explodes Scatter- ing Debris 100 Yds. By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE | ABOARD THE USS MT. OLYM- PUS, Jan. 13.—Surviving two weeks huddled in the wreckage of their| crashed seaplane in ice-piled Ells-| worth Land, six of the Byrd An-! tarctic expedition’s nine missing fliers rested in warm bunks aboard their mother ship today. | Their near-miraculous rescue, af-!| ter blinding Polar fogs had balked repeated search attempts, t,ouchedl off wild celebrations aboard ships! of the Navy task force — but three | of their companions were listed as dead. | Aboard the ceaplane tender Pine Island, whose skipper, Capt. Henry H. Caldwell, was one of the rescued men, the survivors told how their Mariner photo plane had brushed a peak of snow and ice, but remain- ed airborne, only to explode, scat- tering aircraft fragments and men First GOP Congress in 18 Years (onvenes - General view of the House TROOPS MOVE 27 Killed STRIKE BOUND In Crashes Chamber as the first GOP Congress in eigheen years convened January 3. Ralph R. Roberts, dcorkeeper of the House, shown on restrum above stairs, (lower left) opened the session. Top legislative priority in both Houses went to proposed measures which would curb the powers of labor unicns, cut taxes and launch a series of drastic econcmies in government. (Soundphoto) MARSHALL IS PLEDGED GOP| SUPPORTNOW i — | {Byrnes, Vandenberg Map| { Out Program—General fo | Take Oath This Week | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Gen. {George C. Marshall becomes Sec-| retary of State this week with as-; of Republican support on major, diplematic issues expected to arise| {during the months ahead. " Final plans for Marshall to tak: the oath as successor to James F. Byrnes are yet to be announced,| but officials said privately that the| ceremony will be held at the White! House the latter part of the week. | Marshall, resting after 13 months lof arduous diplomatic work in Chi- Ina, remainad in Honolulu over the ————— |Weekend | Meanwhile, the pattern of his future tasks and something of the jextent of the Republican support {he can expect in striving for their |accomplishment were made clear in ExploDED l“ speeches by Byrnes and Vanden- | berg, the chairman of the Senate, Foreign Relations Committee. surances from Senator Vandenberg| . over 100 yards of frozen waste. ‘ When Accident Occurred Visibility had suddenly faded on that Dec. 30 photo mission, they related; earth and sky had merged, into a dull white mass, with no visible horizon. The accident oc-| curred just as the co-pilot, Lt. (&) | William H. Kearns, Jr., of Boston,| turned to return to the Pine Is- land. Five of the six rescued men suf- fered minor injuries; the sixth, the pilot, Lt. " (jg) Ralph Paul Le-| Blanc of Martinsville, La., was more severely hurt. He was drawn on & sled as the group followed a trail blazed by the discovery plane to open water eight miles away. was there that a second seaplane landed yesterday to pick them up. Reports of their physical condi- tion were not immediately avail-, able. The group, in addition to/ Captain Caldwell, Pilot LeBlanc, and Kearns, included: i James Haskins Robbins, Aviation Radioman 3-¢, San Diego, Calif.; William C. H. Warr, Aviation Ma- chinist’s Mate c-2, Portsmouth, Va., and Owen McCarty, Chief Photo-, graphers’ Mate, Sonoma, Calif. | The Dead The dead were: | Ens. Maxwell A. Lopez, Newport, Rhode Island. LONDON FOOD Thousands of Workers Walkout as Action Tak- en - City Is Tense By TOM WILLIAMS LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Labor government used 8,000 troops and sailors today to move strike-bound food to hungry Londoners, touch- ing of a wave of sympathy strikes which involved more than 7,000 workers and threatened to mush- room to gigantic proportions. Within 15 minutes of the arriv- al of army personnel at Smithfield Market, the city’s largest meat dis- tributing center, more than 2,000 employees walked off the job in support of more than 15,000 truck drivers who started an unofficial, strike last Monday and rejected the pleas of union leaders to return to; work. instead of a 48-hour week, two| weeks paid vacation, half pay dur- Of Planes HAIFA; 4 DIE Program Explained Vandenberg, addressing the Cleve- land Council in world affairs Satur- President Addresses {ongress [SHOWDOWN President Truman, making his “State of the Union” address before a joint sessicn of Congress in the House Chamber at Washington, calls for passage cf a four-point labor program designed to prevent strikes PUT OFF T0 WEDNESDAY \Quarrel Starfed by Senafor Taft - Another Ques- tion Causes Worry Y PO WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 Republicans today put off until 4 | Wednesday a showdown on their 5 idmpute over whether a special com- % mittee should investigate war pro- | fits The quarrel, which has split the {GOP, comes down to this: Wheth- jer an inquiry, if made, should be | undertaken by the regular Armed |Eervices Committee, headed by Senator Gurney (R-ND) or by a | special committee under Senator | Brewster (R-Maine). | Republicans Leld a private con- ference on it this morning. Senator | | Taft (R-Ohio) told reporters after- |wards that no decision was reached jon the main question and that it |will be discussed further Wednes- day. He said there was an agreement !that the special committee, if ap- proved, should be limited to in- quiry into what has happened in the past. This would leave to the 13.—Senate Senate President Pro-Tempore is left bebind him and Speaker which stifle the nation’s eccnomy. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) Armed Services committee questions of future policy, “Taft sald another question. both- (eY SOCIATED PRESS) Airplane crashes took a toll of 27 lives in the United States yesterday as only two of 29 persons in five involved ' disasters “suf- THE A planes vived. Eighteen persons, 15 passengers and three crew members, died in the flaming wreck of an Eastern Air- lines Detroit-Miami passenger plane which crashed during a rainstorm in hilly country -near Galax, Va. William Eiiis Keyes, Jr., 25, of Boynton, Fla, the lone survivor, was dragged from the wreck by two residents of the community who saw the crash. He suffered shock, lacerations and burns Five persons were killed when two planes collided over the Miami (Fla) Aviation Center airport. Onz persons was injured critically | Miami Police Chief Karl said tke planes Engel collided as their ! The truckmen demand a 44-hour | Pilots attempted to land on opposite runways. Another disaster in Florida cost {ing illness and adjustment of over- the lives of two persons as an Frederick Warren Willlams, Avia- 4 o0 conditions. The 45-mem-'army training plane crashed near tion Machinist's Mate, 1-¢, Munt- ington, Tennessee. Wendell K. Henderson, Radioman 1-c, Wilton; Wis. Huddled In Wreckage | The fact the survivors huddled grimly in the wreckage, as instruct- Aviation (Continued on Page Two) - ! ber road haulage central wages toard met in emergency session to! consider the demands and a pre-; |vious decision which touched off Detroit, the walkout. London was tense. All police| leaves were cancelled and mounted constables accompanied the con-/ voys of military trucks. i Long lines of army trlicks poured into the city’s East End past thous-| Cocoa in Brevard county, Florida. A two-seated private plane crash- ed near suburban Van Dyke, near killing its occupants, an Army Air Force veteran and & student pilot. Witnesses said the plane went into a tailspin about 200 feet from the ground. In New York City, major air- lines reported that plane reserva- tions, almost impossible to obtain » | The w aShlngion,mds of unsmiling persons at the last summer, have been going beg- Merry - Go- Roundi By DREWZPEARSON WASHINGTON — There will be| one important difference between President Truman's relations with his new Secretary of State George, Marshall and those with his retiring Secretary, Jimmie Byrnes. | With Byrnes, Truman was always | a litde uncomfortable. He respect-! ed Jimmie, had confidence in him, | but resented the fact that Byrnes| operated as a one-man team. The| President had almost nothing to' say about foreign policy. Byrnes had been a senior Senator and later | Supreme Court Justice when Tru-| man was a very insignificant junior, Senator. Also, Jimmie had the ha- bit of playing diplomacy by ear. A| master musician, he didn’t wm-ry‘lindivldunl states. | about accompanists, seldom sent | the White House reports from Paris or London, didn't always tell the President about his future plans. At one time, Truman objected to this so vigorously that he almost fired his Secretary of State. The in- cident occurred just after Byrnes returned from MOSCOW one year ago and announced even before he cabled a full report to the President, that he would give a radio report to the American people. Truman was furious, Summoning: Byrnes to come aboard the Presi-| dential yacht immediately, the curbs. Almost immediately after ging for the last few days, with a the number of planes leaving with Smithfield workers struck, 3,000 empty seats. laborers walked out at Covent, Rep. Rivers declared in Washing- Garden, chief vegetable market in London. ———,———— Reports of Old - Age, Pension Commission’ Agents Put On File WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Thirty- five representatives of the Town-| send Old Age Pension mcvement,| 17 of them working on commission,| have filed reports of, their activities| under a law requiring registration | of lobbyists. | Commissions vary from 25 to 50| percent of donations received inj ton that “the Americap people are horrified and scarred to death. If | there is something wrong with the whole doggone set-up, then some- thing should be done.” He noted specifically the crash of an Eastern Airlines Detroit-Miami passenger plane during a rain- storm near Galax, Va., yesterday in which 18 persons—15 passengers {and three crew members—died. H. JOY HOFFMAN, VA OFFICIAL, IS HERE ON ROUTINE INSPECTION {@ay night, spoke out for: | |1, Congressicnal appropriations {to carry on an American relief pro-| Police Station Wrecked, {erom in war-wreckea countries. | 142 lnjufed—c“y IS i 2. Rehabilitation loans for the {countries which need them, and | | 3. Continuance of tariff-reducing! Undef Clll’few | reciprocal trade agreements in some | form. By CARTER L. DAVIDSON | Controversy Indicated JERUSALEM, Jan 13. — Haifa's sc?;y"l?geg‘”‘; g g ot Bl curtew imibesa That Sighiins. | Soantor ‘&lbo Nrged -4 poilcy. shith ter ' VIBIERG AXnIbAIOR WHKBA Tha | 0 Sekina, ESRIGG, the Tnited Hiskes| i ) \ |now should support the coalition of y's police statlon, Killing four|,,n communist parties backing pnhcemgn and injuring more than|cpinas new constitution. Rl S i This evidently would mean aban- The casualty list showed two doning the policy which Marshall British policemen and two Arab followed during his stay in China— temporary constables dead; 62 po- a policy of equality between the licemen—British, Arab and Jewish— Communists and the Nationalist hurt, one Briton severely; 48 civil- Kuomintang which to date has run ians hospitalized; 32 given first aid, the government. and many more cut, bruised or For Rio de Janeiro Meet shocked. Moreoyer, in an apparent break The blast—set off at 5:10 p.m., in|with prevailing State Department an automobile load of explosives|policy, Vandenberg also demanded| planted outside the station—shovk that the long celayed Pan Ameri- Palestine’s main seaport through- can conference on hemispheric de- out, sent glass splinters flying for fense be held at Rio De Janeiro in as much as a mile, disrupted traf- the immediate future. | fic and the telephone system and| Vandenkerg spoke on the same started fires that raged for a half Program as Byrnes, but while he‘- hour in the next-door postoffice |devoted himself to specific issues, and other nearby buildings. {the retiring Secretary directed his | discussion more to broad questions The Government said that the| v : six-story headquarters, at the foot of world peace and American aims. of Mount Carmel and about 100 Euipe-Qrelared himsell b yards from the harbor entrance h).confid{ent than ever before that the| a Jewlsh-Arab neighborhood 'Was,Unlt,ed State: “can auluevs-.a just “yirtually leveled.” 2 peace by ccoperative effort” with; Officials repnn‘ed i A other nations provided it will ro:‘ one in police garb and the othurs: A o uphu}ding “ttie tights | in raincoats, drove the bomb-car,| MyGH of pyrnes’ speech SAtKIEE) labeled "poli‘ce” s for ths bufl‘d—'}en over to a plea for the main-| ing and fled in‘to & tangle of s"eeh}:;n‘::ce il it A!()rces adequatei 8y ) carry out American oceu- :nd allcy_& Guards fired after them, | pation policies in Germany and nd, noting a blazing fuse in the|japan, | au[omol?ile, gave an alarm to clearl‘ (B) Uphold American prestige the station. in dealings with other nations, and e NS 1k KT | (C) Discharge American obliga- 'ADOLPH JOHNSON IS [tions within the United Nations. FOUND. DEAD, CABIN AL ASKA MAILBOAT cas B st s EXPLODES, BURNS twelve years, was found dead in his| KODIAK, Alaska, Jan. 13—~The {cabin on Willoughby Avenue Sat-|Navy today received a report that Jlirday night. Chief of Police|tne 90-foot mailboat Clarinda ex- 2onard Willlamson, who was first {to discover the death, was called | Flogest au higmen af HANLE G | , 375 miles southwest of here, last ito the scene by neighbors concern- | guening. { ed because lights had been burning| myore were ng reported m‘m_! |all day in the cabin and Johnson | ioq to passengers or crew and no not been seen. Death WaS| goiaic of the mishap. The boat was | MAYONIS ERUPTING IN LUZON Lava Stream Shoofs Up| Over 8,000 Feet Above 1,903-Foot Peak MANILA, Jan. 13.—Southern Lu- 1 zen's towering Mayon volcano, boil- ing for five days, ecrupted this morning with a furious shower of boulders and lava. Lt. (j.g.) Robert Case of Nevada, Ohio, a Navy weather officer, cir- cled the volcano at 10,000 feet dur- ing the display in an Army plane piloted by Capt. Robert A. Harris of Dayton, Ohio. “It (the peak) got' redder and swelled like a bubble, then broke,” Case related. “A lava siream went straight up to a heizht we estimat- ed at 8,000 to 10,000 feel above the peak (itself 7,903 ieet.) “We saw huge rocks blown straight up. They looked like small houses to us even at a distance of a mile and a half or two miles. The eruption lasted about a half) hoyr.” Two towns near the base were ordered evacuated carlier boiled over down the ern and southern slopes and black smoke mushroomed three miles into the sky. e Check for $10,006 is Given Bradley o Buy Radios for Velerans WASHINGTON, Jan, 13.--Gen. Omar Bradley, veterans administra- tor, received from the CIO today a $10,000 check to buy radios for| all of the veterans hospitals. Jack Carey, CIO Secretary-Treas- urer, and Irving Abramson, Chair- man of the CIO Community Service of the Heuse Joseph W. Martin, Jr.,, (R.-Mass.) is at right. (AP Photo) ~ from Colorado and Wyoming. _ ering the Senators—whether to have a cpecial committee to investigate the problems of small business— will be discussed tomorrow. In House On the House side of the capitol, members who are war veterans or- ganized into an_jnformal associa- - CONTINUES tion. Rep. Francis E, Walters (D- Pa), who was named chairman, told reporters “this isn't going to {be a pressure bloc.” A committee /was appointed to make recommen- dations on whether the group should |sponsor any specific legislation. Sub-zero Temperalures fo| Tue matter of the specia com- Rise Some Localifies, cven division smong the Senate's Drop in Others 1 Republicans. Gurney told reporters that Brew- (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESE) No prolonged relief trom wintry | |ster definitely had abandoned the i weather was in prospect for the /idea of carrying out an investiga- tion of the military government in Germany-—a matter which caused 2 a serious intra-committee row a i northeastern section of the United oy weeks ago. | States today. Field Investigations While temperatures were due to, Gurney said if any such investi- rise in some sections, snow was pre- gation is needed, the Armed Services dicted to follow. In other sections, committee will make it. Undoubt- a cold wave was expected to moveledly, he added, his committee will in. !find it necessary later to make a | Northern New York and sections' number of field investigations, pro- ‘of inland New England states were bably in France, Germany, the beset by sub-zero temperatures Philippines, Guam and Japan. which moved in with a cold mass of ' Senator Revercomb (R-W Va) air that swept eastward along the said the Republican Senators decid- Canadian border. Another cold mass|ed informally after studying debate iwas moving into Montana from over the reorganization bill, that Canada, causing the wmpemturejmey were well within the new rules to drop from 34 yesterday afternoon in proposing the special commit- to seven above carly today at Havre, tees. Mont. Earlier the Republican policy This mass was expected to move committee, headed by Taft, had southeastward, encountering a low voted a year's extension of life for pressure area moving northeastward the War Investigating Committes {and to back a resolution continuing As the two air masses meet, snow |small business inquiries for eight was predicted, with heaviest falls months. The latter would be made |expected in Minnesota, upper Michs 'Ly a new committee headed by Sen- |igan and Northern Wisiconsin— | ator Wherry (R-Neb), replacing the {areas already covered by a snow old group headed by Senator Mur- blanket ranging from four to 18 ray (D-Mont). (inches. - | Light drizzling rain fell in some > |sections of Illinois, Indiana, Low-| \er Michigan and Wisconsin eflrly‘APPO'"'MEmS {today, sometimes accompanied by ARE (W'm[o 40 degrees were expected to last for! —— 24 hours in Chicago, followed by a! WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— The (drop tomorrow. |Senate today confirmed the ap- | In lower New York, Pennsylvania pointment of former Senator War- iand New Jersey, where low temper- ren R. Austin of Vermont as Amer- (atures have prevailed, warmer ican representative on the United weather—accompanied by snow— Nations Security Council was anticipated. Austin’s nomination was among o seven diplomatic appointments ap- | freezing temperatures which made | driving hazardous. Temperatures of § had H. Joy Hofiman, Supervising gitriputed to hemorrhage of the Salaries range up to $7.800 a| |year for Dr. F. E. Townsend of Cleveland, who is paid by the | Townsend National Weekly, Inc. "I Don't (are"?iirl, Loan Guaranty Officer of the Vet- : eratis | Administiation,’ Efnsty’ 51| nel ECICES @I dohn Olems | Seattle, arrived in Juneau by Pan jonhnson was born in Sweden and ;Amencan Friday, for a routine in- was 56 years of age. All known i spection of the VA loan office here. rejatives are living in Sweden. He !He will be in Juneau several days hag been in poor health in recent | conferring with Ernest E. Lincoln, months. According to U. S. Com- | Regional Manager and Willlam W. missioner Fleix Gray, Johnson Tuttle, loan guaranty officer 0r leaves an estate which will be pro- | Eva Iang"‘y, Dea the Veterans Administration in AI“bated at an early date. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13. — Eva aska. SrSee E o, Tanguay, the “I don’t care” girl of | Mr. Tuttle has just returned from ! FROM WINNEPEG vaudeville, died Saturday after a Ketchikan where he spent several, Mr. and Mrs. Maicolm McDowell leng illness. She was 68 years old. Almost blind, bedridden for years rbecause of arthritis, Miss Tanguay, [Continued on Page Four) cnce the toast of two continents, rarely had visitors. | days contacting lending agencies of Winnipeg, Canada, are visiting and Veterans of World War II con- at the home of Mrs. John Cross, cerning government guaranteed who is sister to Mrs. McDowell. The loans for the purchase of homes, couple plan to be in the city for farms or businesses. i several weeks. | owned and operated by Jesse Pe- | trich, Langley, Wash., and was | making its first postwar trip on a | new contract, serving between Sew- ard and the Aleutians. — > BABY GIRL IS BORN | | A ginl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lindemeyer in a Se- attle hospital on January 11 and | brother of Miss Esther Lindemeyer, Grade school. TO F. LlNDEMEYEISI | the little Miss has been named Lofs. | The father is a former JuneauSteel 69%, Pound $4.03%. | High School coach and he is the! committee, also presented Bradley| |proved by the Senate. with a radio similar to the one they wish installed - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 93, Anaconda 38', Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 70%, Kennecott 467, New York Central £S5 WINN IS OFF st |were: | o" 'I'Rlp 'l'o soul‘“ Mark F. Ethridge of Kentucky, { Security Council Representative to Mrs. Bess Winn, secretary of the investigate border violations in |Alaska Tuberculosis Association, | Greece; O. Max Gardner of North |sailed from Juneau gn the Princess Carolina, Ambassador to Great Norah for a trip to the States, |Britain; S. Pinkney Tuck of New With her on the trip was her| York, Ambassador to Egypt: George daughter, Mrs. Willlam Roberts, Wadsworth of New York, Ambassa- and Per two children, who had been dor of Iraq; Lowell C. Pinkerson of visiting Mrs. Winn in Juneau. They‘Mlssoun. Minister to Lebanon; and are returning to join Mr. Roberts,(J. Rives Childs of Virginia, Min- 16%, Northern Pacific 18%, U. S. who is located in Seattle. |ister to the Kingdom of Yeman. ‘ S S g | e i Sales today were 1,590,000 shares. GUESTS FROM PELICAN Erie, which was called the “poor- Dow, Jones averages today are Fred Emerson and Hennie John- | teacher of the First Grade, Juneau' as follows: industrials 172.49, ralls son, both from Pelican City are one of 47.76, utilities 25.83. registered at the Gastineau. house of Europe” in 1840, today has the highest per capita wealths in Europe.