The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,484 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ORMER CONGRESSMAN MAY INDICTED " Friend of Man Slain in Massachusefts | 3RD PLANE CRASHES IN ANTARCTIC New Helicopter in Accident on Takeoff-All Aboard Rescued, Uninjured ABOARD U.S.S. MT. OLYMPUS, LITTLE AMERICA, Jan. 22— (De- layed)—A new helicopter of the Antarctic expedition crashed intc | | le l I % the Pacific Ocean today on a take- off from the carrier Pnilippine Sea but all aboard were rescued unin- jured, Admiral Cruzen announced (Names or number of the res- cued men were not reported, but it is presumed the helicopter was of the usual two-seater type used for survey flights.) The helicopter was the third plane lost by this expedition. The first was a PBM Mariner which crashed with three fatalities Dec. 30. The second was a Wwheeled helicopter from the Pine Island of the Eastern group, which was lost Sunday because its rotors become jced. Its two occupants were res- d The wheeled helicopter lost today was starting a reconnaissance flight in good weather when it suddenly went overside from the - carrier. Admiral Cruzen said he had no ce- tails. Cruzen, in a busy news con- ference, also announced it was con- sidered too hazardous to try to re- cover the bodies of the three men killed in the PBM crash on Icy James Elsworth coast. He said one or two families had requested the bodies be returned for burial. Six men, injured, survived that crash. Cruzen also said he had been in touch with Admiral Byrd atoard the Philippine Sea, still 700 miles away, and that it might be neces- sary for the Central group to leave Little America much earlier thap planned. Senator Bilbo Now Improving After Operation NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23.—Sen- ator Theodore G. Bilbo (D-Miss) a patient at Touro Infirmary, was reported still improving today, fol- lowing his operation of last Mon- day. It was the second operation the Senator has undergone here for re- moval of a malignant growth from his mouth. Thewggl’lingtofl Merry- G_o- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — At the exact moment President Truman’s tight- rcpe-walking Secretary of War Bob Patterson was refusing to help be- leagured Gov.' Ellis Arnall of Geor- gia, President Truman himself was blasting Arnall's chief foe, the Ku Klux Klan. Truman's blast took place at the first meeting of his Committee on Civil Rights, organized to combat bigotry and race prejudice. The President talked Straight-from-the- shoulder and the churchmen, busi- riessmen and educators who com- prise his committee were greatly impressed. Livest member of the new com-| mittee turned out to be Charles|poq peen recognized as “Acting President Truman Luckman, head of the giant Lever Brothers Soap Company. Dullest was Charles E Wilson, pontifical head of General Electric. Appointed Chairman of the civil rights group because he knew Truman back in the days of the old Truman Com- mittee, Wilson seemed more en- grossed in details than in big ob- Jectives. New York attorney Morris Ernst, author of “The Four Freedoms,” caused a buzz of discussion at the closed-door meeting when he pro- posed : “Why not invite the Ku Klux Klan, the Columbians and Gerald o This photograph of Barbara Belmore, New York dancer, was feund in Rene Cote’s desk at Brockton, Mass., by police investigating his slaying, th in the world to the sweetest and nicest person I know—| Lt. Gen. Geiger, MarineCorps Leader, Dies WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Roy S. Geiger, one of the top Marine Corps lead of World {War 1II, died today Bethesda {(Md) Naval Hosnital His death, at 7:20 a. m. came only eight days before he was due to retire from active service. He was 61. Geiger, who commanded the 10th {Army on Okinawa and later the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific, entered the hospital last Thurs- |day. Physicia said he suffered {from inflamation of the veins and pulmonary complications. Geiger entered the Marines an elisted man and rose to General rank during 40 years of service in 3bulh world wars and assignments :d the globe —Lt. Gen in as A pioneer of Marine aviation. he was known as a tough, hard-driv- i commander willing to take on y job he gave his men In World War II, he command- ed thc Marines who invaded Guad- alcanal, and then led combined Army-Navy forces in their island- hopping assaults across the Pacific. He took over on Okinawa after Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., was killed and held the post until! relicved by Gen: Joseph Stilwell of the Army. He was a native of Florida, Sur- viving are his widow, Mrs. Eunice Renshaw Geiger of Rosemont, Pen- sacola, Fla., a son,- Roy S. Geiger, who is in the Army at Fort Sill, Okla.; and a daughter, Mrs. Robert .J. Jackson, of Pensacola. BANK RECOGNIZES M.E. THOMPSON AS GOV. OF GEORGIA | ATLANTA, Jan 23—M. E !Thompson announced today he |Governor” of Georgia by the Ful- iton National Bank of Atlanta which cashed “without question” the first {executive check drawn since he ‘took office. | Thompson said the check, for $50, was for postage and had been presented in person by Phil Lan- jdrum, Thompson's Secretary of the {Executive Department. It ;drawn against approximately $97,- ,000 which was turned over ‘Thompson by retiring Governor El- 'lis Arnall. | Herman Talmadge, rival ernor” by virtue of electicn by tire | Georgia General Assembly. said in “Gov-| y announced. ve alwa SKAGWAY IS GIVEN HARD JOLT Tuberculosis Sanatorium to Be Closed, Moved to Sitka at Once SKAGWAY, Alaska, Jan. 23.— Howard P. Adreson Superintendent of the Skagway Tuberculosis Sana- torium, threw a bombshell into the meeting of the Skagway Cham- ber of Commerce last night with the announcement he had received official orders from the Indian Affairs to be prepared to evacuate the Sanatorium to an in- stitution on Alice Island, Sitka, by February 1 The news came as a big surprise as no inkling that such & move had been decided upon has been allow-! ed to get out here. Andreson announced a will ke left here to dismantle the build- crew ings which will presumably become surplus. All business men present as guests of the Chamber last n the news with dismay as townspeople for loss of the sanator-| town ium will be a blow to the which was given no warning in time to fight to retain the institu- tion. - BULLETINS SEATTLE The Northwest Air- lines' “Trailblazer,” Orient route survey plane, left Anchorage. this forenoon for Seattle, on the last leg of its 22,000-mile flight over the Aleutian route to the far east and return. It was due here at 4 p.m. WASHINGTON—Hope that the government can hold the line on rent .controls was expressed by today. ATLANTA—AIll Georgia revenue collections and the operation of the state’s highway department h: been tied up by the dispute ovi the governorship, state treasurer George B. Hamilton disclosed today. WASHINGTON—President Tru- was man said today that his new Sec- retary of State, George C. Ma to shall, has a free hand in the State Department. WASHINGTON--Agriculture Sec- retary Anderson said today retail sugar prices might jump to 41 L. K. Smith to give us their views a new conference he expected to cents a pound if price and ration on racial prejudice also. There is no reason why we should shut our ears and hear only one side. Our (Continued on Page Four) 'have custody of the executive funds in time to meet his 1. | Thompson sai dtoday. “I think this answers Mr. Talmadge.” payroll Feb.| present now. The is about removed he said, were, price, controls 8.2 cents. WASHINGTON The Senate Bureau of | It bears the message “For Rene, with all best wishes 's, Barbara.” (AP Wirephoto) Comnmerce Committee today unan- imously aproved President Tru- i man’s nomination of W. Averill Harriman as Secret; of Com- merce, succeeding Henry Walls WASHINGTON — The Senate expenditures committee today or- dered a broad investigation of the War Assets Administration. It also macde a bid for the right to act on the forthcomig Army-Navy unification legislation. WASHINGTON — Parnell Thomas ouse committee Chairman J (R-NJ) of the in Un-American Activities declared today ths man who got the idea for portal pay suits and the lawyer who brought the one sustained by the Supreme Court “both have long records of Communist affiliations.” 5 - HERE FROM YAKUTAT John H. Lee of Yakutat has ar- rived in Juneau and is registered at the Hotel Juneau -—— HOTEL JUNEAU GUESTS Merle L. Sipprell of Skagway and Gil A Smith are among the guests registered at the Juneau Hotel - - HAINES MAN HERE R. Laurin, from Haines, has ar- rived in Juneau and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. - HERE FROM WYOMING Al Fietz, whose home is in Lusk, Wyoming, registered as a guest of the Gastineau Hotel. - BASKETBALL MEN HERE Coach R. Gaylord of the Sitka High School basketball team, and Leonard W. Peterson, skipper of the bkoat that brought thé squad to .Juneau, are registered as guests at the Baranof Hotel. E B SR PNA PILOTS LAY OVER Capt. J. Robert Dean and First Officer Joe Burns of ‘Pacific North- | ern Airlines broght the regular PNA ship from Anchorage yester- day, and are registered at the Bar- anof Hotel. - D - SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR Carol Williams, from San Fran- cisco, Calif., arrived in Juneau yes- terday via PAA, and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. — e ANCHORAGE VISITORS Flying to Juneau from Anchorage vesterday, the following Anchorage residents are staying at the Bar anof Hotel: K. C. Johnson, Robert! D. Lewis, Leigh E. Robinson, Robert Matson and C. B. Sutter. - >-ees - RED CROSS WORKER HERE Helen Cass, American Red Cross worker from Fort Richardson near Anchorage, has arrived in Juneau | tative-elect Gerrit H. Snider fromWaldron, Sam Styles. John Powers and is registered as a guest of the Baranof Hotel. R REP.-ELECT JOY HERE Representative-Elect L. F. Joy and Mrs. Joy, from Fairbanks, ar- rived yesterday in advance of the | opening of the Territorial Legisla- ture, and are registered at the Baranof. "Lucas and Wherry—is 'SCARE IS THROWN - BY DEMOCRATS IN - RANKS OF GOPERS | 'Republican Plan Only Wins' Out by Two Voteson | Senate Vote | WASHINGTON Democrats v votes of upset in the 80t posted notice jhave their bi {future GOP | Senator L { minority whip, Ito 456 vc by i ! Jan. 23—Senate | came within two Republican plans wgress’ first test,! yday that they will artillery ready forj oposals cas of said Cc yesterday's 47 which the Repub- licans beat an attempt to 'scuttle the Brewster war investigat- |ing committee is merely a sample of a new s of Democratic unity l we showed the Re-! v have to watch their ¢ |step on what they propose,” Lucas {told a reporter } GOPers Not Worried But Senator Wherry of Nebraska, jthe majority whip, retorted that ithe Republicans aren't particular ‘ly worried. H: noted the final ‘tally w 49 to 43 to keep the | Brewster committee in operation, iafter the previous closer vote had defeated attempt to turn over all war I 1 penditures committee “I think the Democrats have reached their peak and I doubt that 'they’ll ever again be able to line up as many of their own memkers lor get as much Republican sup- port,” Wherry said The chief job of the two whips to try intact to keep their lines on major issues. ! ‘Wider Victol Wherry foreci party rorecast a2 much wider victory margin for a resolution now | to authorize an investigation of special com- Nebraskan will the Senate months’ business which before eight small mittee head. A vote on this issue is set for late Friday and Democrats concede they probably will lose again e though Senator Tobey (R-N), also is seeking to kill off the special group. Tobey yors turning its chores over to the banking com- mittes which he heads Chairman Taft (Ohio) of the GOP steering committee agreed with Wherry that the sailing looks smooth for the small business group. but he told a newsman that there is rough water ahead for any other special committee that may be proposed by the Plans of House Across the capitol, House Martin (R-Mass) told a that as much possible gaticns in his chamber will be made by regular committees and, that the general' policy will be to] discourage special groups. The Republican organization leaked at scme of its seams in yes- terday's Senate vote. It lost the support of Senator Aiken of Ver- mont, Cooper of Tennesse2, Morse of Oregon and Tobey on the 47 to 45 test. Senator Reed (R- present, didn’t vote & made an advance agreement with| Senator Wagner (D-NY), under which neither votes when the other is absent As it was, the Democrats, out- numbered 51 to 44, lost only Sen-| ator O'Daniel of Texas from thei ranks of their party members pres- | ent and voting. Spe reporter i . who was 1se he had| 1) ' STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, due tomorrow night i Tongass, from Seattle, to arrive Saturday Alaska scheduled Seattle January 27 to sail from North Sea scheduled to sail from | Seattle, January 29 Denali, scheduled ttle, February 1 Aleutian due southbound {January 27 or 28 ! .- LEGISLATORS AT BARANOF to sail frors about | Senator-elect Gunnard M. Eng- | ebreth from Anchorage, Represen- | Wasilla and Representative-elect O. 8. Gill and Mrs. Gill from An-|Canniff, Cecil Roley chorage all arrived in Juneau via' Pacific Northern Airlines yesterday. They are registered at the Baranof Hotel. I - - Thomas Edison invented the talk- ing machine when he was 30 years of age. Right Battle Cry for mmois. tne)One Suspect Submits to i Lights-Not Man aud inquiries to the vx-l iman whom Alice says kidnaped her (Monday night—hunting for nk(-r:“'h" will fit this descr investi- | weighing 165 to 170 pounds, dark |88 dan. PACIFIC NORTHERN AIRLINES ON TRIP {between Juneau {with one stop at Yakutat .xcheduled! G. Engebreth, N. J {Miss J. Daniel, i Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gill, Gerrit ported as far north as Nebraska | (CONSPIRED Ardtic Soldiers, What | TODEFRAUD He Wears, IsNowTold' U, S. GOVT. By CLARK BEACH wEIRD IAlE or WITH TASK FORCE FRIGID, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 23 iThree Oflicialsflof Wartime Munitions Combine Also Face Charges WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.-Attor- and kecping your clothes dry |, ov General Clark announced to- ver perspiring this all takes{gqy the indictment of former Rep. large fraction of your Aretic! Apdrew J. May (D-Ky) and thre {officlals of a wartime munitions combine on charges of conspiring to defraud the government Clark said those named with sed, | May in the indictment, returned by and |4 grand jury here, are 40 Henry M. Garsson, Murray Gars- !son and Joseph F. Freeman, all | former officers and employees of i the Erie Basin Metal Products, Ing { Elgin, Tll, and of Batavia Metal { Products Inc., Batavia, Tl | He said one count charges 5! May, wartime chairman of outer | Hg Military Committe ag to receive” from the: your muk-jq total of $33.634,07.” ‘What'll T wear? seems to be the right battle for the Arctic dier Puttin and taking off cloth- choosing the right things to ery sol- | on 1 ing | wenr by never up a day ¥ Test Under Glare of u get up at 7 am, an hour and a half before sunrise. Before you to the shack next door to| wash up. you must get fully dr ! because it's a dash across ice snow through air that's 30 to degrees below zero. Here's Wardrobe Here's your wardrobe: after vou've slid into the long woolen un- (BY TH= ASSOCIATED $5) It's a weird tale which continues unfold in the kidnap case at | Lodi, California The first possible suspect the middle-aged slicker who held |pretty 17-year-old Alice Dean De- you pile on four layers of sock Ivine for a day ‘and demanded ang two trousers, light wool socl {810,000 ransom has been cleared. | heavy ski socks, thick felt { Yesterday, the Lodi police chief!wool" trousers and cotton quoted Alice as saying that & Pic- yroucors ture of Earl Shelton, a 40 ol oyey {8an Francisco ex-convict resembled ! ) . with two felt inner soles : the man who lured her away on|, g O%:| May,was defeated in last fall's |Monday night: SHe was enticed to ‘]]"f'n “:"]h.‘, SATYRS ‘I'U’f‘.““‘“'“'” election aiter a campaign in which |a photographic studio to Have 1|.-r1;‘]f:j‘ l‘(l;:':i eggings are laced up to! his relations with the Gar bro- \stbture: taie B o sasedly | cet i thers had figured. Now 71, he had {":‘n" it h"f“fl’ ;‘;‘r‘l“:f’“ li‘("fl‘f:”"]l:‘ Now you're woolen ! served in Congress since 1930 |national magazine articles on typi-| Shirt or two, depending on the| ‘The indietment was yeturned to 5 Then a; Chief Justice Bolitha Laws of the ‘cal American high school girls i wehther U, 8 Swantas o thick pile parka.On top of that an, Federal District Court. ast summer the Senate War In- Alice returned home Tuesday { | outer cloth parka, both with dozens ‘\'usliguung Committee inquired into as dies, that the “did firms s0¢! 50 these you pull ready for a in a man' before iption: about (42 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with his founder North soon Raatikainen for Alaska w Ford brown hair receding at the head and sharp features. He driving an old-gray-colored 05 - see night, somewhat bruised, and told '~ police she had freed herself from|©°f Puttons Aboard Cavalcade , May’s relations with the Garssons auto camp in the absence of her Yesterday we boarded a caval- The brothers are said to have or- . eaptor. | i\ Wren . Shelton, who operates a 8¥¢ a kind of track laying jeep bine which reeeived more than 78 which runs fine on ice but pitch | million dollars in war contracts {dancing teacher, heard that he had|8nd toss over the rifts and ruts ' contracts which May admitted he ‘been identified as the possible kid- naper, he went to police head- We went to the Tanana River, ' denied ever receiving any ment which has ice four feet thick. The , for his efforts in their behall a good alibi—the stories of about heaviest vehicles can run on it al > 130 girls who said they were taking J it and preserve the ic the ! itime Alice disappeared. But he spring, the Army engineers have| H ‘agreed to go to E};m_ California, to Alaska w'"‘ logs locked together with ice from' ood fl h {secret rendezvous took place on a “Buddy System” 23, Alaska- | Then ran 40 ton tanks across the [bound to become his uncle’s busi- iglare of automobile headlights Alice and the other members of We stood around and watched ont alinen, 21, arrived today from Fin- Fer well-to-do family gazed at 8nother’s faces for signs of freez-|land wearing a sult 40 percent ing. The Army tells you to use a;Wood. To oblige newsmen, and i“This is not the man.” Her mother ljoiriad fn" exarierating Shelton one another. Never venture away Ccloth. he let them hold his suit {" The California police still are from camp alone jcoat, which was as heavy and ' | It was relatively warm today i thick an average overcoat: eye ! brows and mustaches froze e iscarce in Finland,” he said. “Ev- 116 day ‘was over, erything goes to Russia to pay for The cavalcade next went to an| He will go machine guns were tested. It suncle, Kalle curios to the hammer of Polioan S5ty 45 automatic pistol so slowed down foR: | NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Closing | After that we traveled through|guotation of Alaska Juneau mine forests of snow laden evergreer Ly!n(k today is 5 American Can k ' Anaconda 38%, thick you could hardly the' 5%, International Harvester 72 weasel ahead, to another purt of|Kennecott 46'c, New York Centrs were fired. The snow bounced and|Steel 724, Pound $4.03 15-16 vibrated with the sheck Sales today were 880,000 shi IEM ~ - { Dow, Jones averages today rope bonds and escaped from an! | cade of weasels and jeeps. Weasels | ganized 19 companies into a com- {photo studio and ~ doubles as a like a small boat helped get for them. May, however |quarters in San Francisco. He had most anywhe but to mm-nu,uu-n-( H ia dancing lesson from him at the oming fo made an fice bridge of laminated 'stand inspection a | SEATTLE, Jan country road west of Lodi. In th2! lar bridge and tried out signal flares. |n€ss partner and heir, Arvo Hom- {Shelton. And then the girl said “buddy system” up here. Look after |show the weight of the wood-fibre ‘hunting for the smooth-talking up | 1s S5 Bades baiow peves.. Yot ! “Clothing and food are very {the war.' encampment where small arms and | ot . by ice that it wouldn't explode the ! SIO(K 0“0]“"0"5 with ice fog from the exhausts s0: g5 Curtiss-Wright the river where anti-aireraft gunsiig Northern Pacific 18%, U. AIURES 1as follows: industrials 175.13, 10, FROM WEST Pacific Northern Airlines yester- day made flights both directions and Anchorage The in-| coming plane from Anchorage was' piloted by Capt. Jack Dean and First Officer Joe Burns, with Stewardess June Rees rails i{‘l 17, utilities 36.66 MODERATING IN | -ee ! "THE KID"” WEDS SOME PARTS, U.S. The following persons were Car- (BY THE ASSOCIALED PRESS THIRD TIME ried into Juneau: C. B. Setter, Al Frigid temperatures which have | 1 PFletz, Col. Tony Frank. K. C. 8ripped the midwest all week mod- Johnson, Leigh ® Robinson, Robert efated today, and the s\ldllm)l Matson. change made spring seem ju.q! O'Brien, around the corner ! | Readings in the 50's were re-| Ruby Sowder. Snider, Ed Allen, John Lee and Missouri yesterday, and the Capt, Maury Keating, First Of-!Weather bureau said the warmer ! {Ticer Ed Thorton and Stewardess Weather would cover the entire ! Marcia Shepherd took the following middle portion of the nation today. | passengers to the Westward from In Chicago, which had a low of {Juneau to Yakutat: A Bonnett,'about 4 above yesterday, the tem-{ B emls Mess I perature will climb 45 degrees | Juneau to Anchorage: Jean John- today, the weather bureau predict- | ison, Don Stykes, Martin Rijney, ed. | (Andrew Fedje, J. M. Beall, Shirleyh Howe is was still quite cold in{ Davis. #he Atlantic States. with Caribou, | | Harvey Smith, Joe Stejskal, A. M€, reporting a low of 14 below ! zero last night. Freezing temper; ! tures were reported as far south! as Florida, where Jacksonville had 29 and Ocala 28. Light snow was falling from upper Michigan east- ward to western New York state - oo - BEN MULLEN HERE Ben Mullen arrived ‘in Juneau yesterday via PAA, making a busi- | ngss trip here from the east to Nye, Laurel Charles Wil- |Charles Davis, Ed Jackie his bride, Singer Ann McCormack, are shown cutting their wedding cake the heme of Superior Judge Edward Brand, of Los geles, where they were wed. the third altar trip for Co and the second for his brid son. ! 3 SRS | BETTY NINNIS RETURNS in Mrs. Betty Ninnis, who went south several weeks ago because of illness of her father, returned via PAA yesterday It's gan