The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1947, Page 1

\ SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ——e VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,486 HE DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition ]UNE:AU. ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947 VETS' SETTLING IN JURICHIS | REELECTED, | (10 UNION. IF and AWU - Alaska Statehood Favored SAN PEDRO, Calif, Jan. 25.— Joseph F. Jurich of Seattle was| re-elected President of the Inter-, national Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, CIO, at the close of the four-day convention of dele- gates from Alaska to San Diego. | Jeff Kibre, San Pedro, was re-; elected as Secretary-Treasurer and Oscar Anderson of Seattle succeed-| ed Fred Scheel of Los Angeles as Vice President. Next Year held in Oregon, named later. The convention passed resolutions urging new treaties with Canadai and Mexico and an overhauling of conservation studies between Fed-, eral and State Agencies.’ i The group favored statehood for Alaska and sought an agreement with Canada granting all United States fishing boats access to Do- minion ports. At present only hali- | but boats are admitted. - e Held in Passport Case Convention will be| the city to be Mrs. Edith Reynolds, 27, of London, England, and daughter of a London public official, is held by immigration officials in Hartford, Conn., cn a charge of procuring a false passport. (AP Photo) ELEVENDEAD: NOWARNINGBASE w1 NORTH.ALASKA repores. pI_ANE (RASH Brigadier General Everest George Washingion became Pres- | Makes S'a'emen' fO ident of the United States at the! G A ; < age of 5T. ‘Craft Hits Another at Air- Visiting Newsmen FAIRBANKS: Ala;‘kn Jan TR @ : 3 !~ port - Both Burst ! e commander o he Yukon sec- The Washington. oo Flames e e v e Merry - Go- Round : £ oat B = oo SOROPTIMIST (LUB , BUSINESS MEETING | MONDAY EVENING A business meeting of the So optimist Club’ is called for Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Wayne | Johnson, Apartment 4, Orpheum! LONDON, Jan 25.—A Rom tound plane of the Spencer Air- ‘ways carrying settlers for South | Africa, crashed and burned in the ‘takeoff from Croydon Airport Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 4y, killing at least 11 of its 23 oc- cupants, seven of the 18 passengers tion issued an inconspicuous rou-. tine announcement stating that lts, 00 Lol of the five crow members, BPA program would expire Jan. 22.1 Relatives fmd friends of the vic- To mest people this meant nothing. tims witnessed the tragedy. The, Fie: thoneRnda ar M6 Trissmessan \WIEngined DC-3. plane {sitared, <N : throughout the country, however, it momentarily as it became airborne otber bases are located meant the difference between pros- % light snow, and then plum-| General Everost Qeclared: hogy perity aud inE oppoeite imeted to the field, crashing into an|expenditures will be necessary to To peopls insida the .RFC't\mh~ unoccupied Czech Airlines craft. pycnde adequate bases and effective 3 Both ships burst into flames aircraft warning system. ermore, it represents oge of the ",y Gommodore Vernon Brown, - strategic operations by Army B-2 In a conference with newsmen, Brigadier General Frank K. Ever- st added that there is no adequate aircraft warning em in the area. The General's sector com- prises all of northern AlasKa, but dces not include Anchorage, which has a B-29 base, nor does it in- clude the Aleutians where two By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Last week the to- o 0 3 2 3 Aaevoecaoa 5 i § oo | GROSS TO SKAGWAY 1 W. D. Gross and Zalmain G left on the Princess Norah on short business trip to Skagway. Attorne; s who has a was a D ‘cess Norah cleverest rush-jobs of backstage ' cpjer inspector of accidents for the| maneuvering in recent RFC history. ' pinjstry of Civil Aviation, said SIANDINGS OF Two Republican RFC Comxrusslon-“m plane was “burned out.” ers, taking advantage of two Deme- Many of the passenges wer lEAGUE TEAMS cratic absences, abrogated the RFC mempers of families of ex-service | plan to guarantee 75 percent of men offered free passage on the bank loans to small business up to g000-mile trip to South Africa, 'N BASKETBA[[ $100,000. In the last year these sup- |where they planned to make their port loans to small business have'pomes. — been the most important loans the Bagps City Basketball League Director RFC has made. ' | A. B. Phillips yesterday drew up a Here is the inside story of what complete picture of the results of happened. [“oMI“AIIoN ‘the 1946-47 cage season to date. Charles - Henderson, RFC Chair- | | Mike's Night Owls of Douglas are man and generally considered a CONHRMEDm the top position, and Juneau friend of small business, was ab- ! High School’s Crimson Bears are sent in California. George Allen, ' holding down second place another Democrat, and a staunch| WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— The| Following are the qomplcu» stand- champion of small business, resign- Senate has confirmed the nomina-| ings of all teams in the Juneau ed effective Jan 18. John Goodloe, [tion of Miss Frances Perkins, Sec- | City Basketball League: nominated to take his place as a retary of Labor in the Roosevelt| Team GP Democratic commissioner, had not!Administration, to be a member Imbs 6 2 been: confirmed by the Senate. {of the Civil Service Commission Juneau 1 This left the RFC, on Jan. 17— Confirmation yesterday was by Mikes the day after Allen resigned—in'voice vcte, with no objection. hgomc” control of three men—two Republi- — - - arnells cans and one Democrat. i PAA On that date also the two Con- ! HOSP"AL "o“S VA gressional Committees on Small ” Douglas Business had mnot yet been reor-| St. Ann's Hospital admitted Mrs. ACS ganized. Both have staunchly Don Balmat and Ole Anderson for - - - championed RFC loans to small medical attention yesterday, and bysiness, but since the new Con- on;:‘ matern;ty case this morning BoDDl“G IRA“SFER gress began, the two committees rs. David Reischl gave birth to have be;l in the throes of reor- & baby girl weighing six pounds and SOlD TO BASSFORD ganization. , eight ounces at 1:12 am. After 23 y.ars in business in Ju- i Discharged from St. Ann's were negu, Mr. and Mrs Olaf Bodding BIG BANKER VIEWPOINT . Mis. Donald Couey and baby boy, operators of Bodding’s Transfer, to- —_— { Dale Batchelor and Philip Senour. day announced their retirement. On Jan. 17, therefore, one day: Government Hospital admitted The transfer compay has been sold aiter Allen resigned, and before the' Inez Vosotros this morning, made to their son-in-law, Earl Bassford Small Business Committees on No discharges either yesterday or who has keen assisting Capitol Hill could get going, com- today. eration for some months. missioner Henry T. Bodman moved - to drop the BPA program, in other ! Ralph E. Robertson, words, the “Blanket Participation been south several weeks 7&-1}?{5:1&& on iPagr, Four) base | in the Yukon sector adequate for' in its op-| LEG!SLATURE 'WILL CONVENE NEXT MONDAY The Eighteenth S Alaska Territorial L convene in Juneau next Monday for a 60 day session According to present arrange- ments, the House will be called to session at 11 o'clock Monday fore- } noon and the Senate one half hour { later at 11:30 o'clock. Legislators will be sworn in, tem- porary officers will be chosen. The membership of the Eigh- teenth Legislature is as follows: FIRST DIVISION Senators N. R. (Doc) Walker, holdover. Joe Green, holdover. Dr. L. P. Dawes. Frank Peratrovich SECOND DIVISION Senators O. D. Cochran, holdover. Tolbert Scott, holdover. William Munz Charles D. Jones THIRD DIVISION Senators Edward D. Coffey, holdover. Don Carlos Brownell, holdover. Gunnard M. Engebreth. Victor C. Rivers FOURTH DIVISION Senators Leo W. Rogge, holdover. John Butrovich, Jr., holdover. Andrew Nerland E. B. Collins. Representatives are as follows FIRST DIVISION Anita Garnick Mrs. Elton Engstrom. James Nolai. Steve Vukovich. Harry E. Newell. Andrew Hope G. E. Almquist Frank G. Johnson SECOND DIVISION C. Dewey Anderson L. E. Ost. W. W. Laws. Edward Anderson. THIRD DIVISION william A. Egan Gerrit Snider Steve D. McCutcheon ! . Glen Barnett Oscar S. Gill Walter E. Huntley. C. A. Pollard FOURTH DIVISION A. P. (Joe) Coble « L. F. Joy. Maurice T. Johnson. . Robert Hoopes. i Lawrence W. Meath. on of the | \ [ l i | | | | ‘ONE-DAY WALKOUT, LONGSHOREMEN AT SEATTLE, IS OVER | SEATTLE, Jan. 25—The one day | walkout of about 20 CIO longshore- men at work loading the Alaska freighter Northern Voyager has| ended. The men agreed to resume | work last night on the condition | ) that watchmen stationed on the { ship would not be armed. ! However, President of the Water- ! I’tmm Employers’ Association, M. B. ! Ringenterg, told newsmen that the { watchmen never were armed. A spokesman for the Alaska Transportation Company said the ! watchmen had been hired to cut idow‘n pilferage losses which he said i had been heavy. The Voyager was ' i \ i A L] scheduiled to sall today, however, 21 styuction would be of some help to spokesman says it may be delayed 'as a result of the walkout, SEWING BASKET IS " SOLD T0 STERLINGS | | The Sewing Basket, babys' and children’s store on Franklin street jcame under new ownership yes terday, when Ruth and Francis Sterling purchased the business from Angelo and Evelyn Astone. { Mr. and Mrs. Sterling have been residents in Juneau for 12 years, and state that they have no plans !for any major changes in the Sew- iing Basket. Rose McMullen and daughter Su- zanne, arrived on the Princess senger north on the Prin- | Norah following a visit of several| turn ‘weeks in the states. slature will | ter "FOR VETS ON " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS LASKA IS STUDIED WASHINGTON U | DEFEATED AGAIN BY OREGON STAT SEATTLE, Jan Oregon State winner of 17 of 18 games this sea-| Isgn, raced well ahead of the pack| lim Northern Division Pacific Coast lc*uerrn(‘v basketball play teday af- an overwhelming win over ‘Weshington But Washington State {algo had a wining streak under; iway. The Beavers, beaten only by Long Island University this season, {trounced Washington convineingly |here last 1 feats. | At Pullman, Washington ‘ern State which receded for a time yesterday man Langer (R-ND) that the In-|jes G. Bolte of the American Vet- FLOODS NEW ¢ THREATBY HEAVY RAIN Western Waéfingion Val- leys Again Hit-Many Leave Homes KENT, Wash, Jan. 25. newed the flood threat in wesl Washington valleys. Rives More| t 59 to 37 for a fifth|than,12 hours of heavy rainfall have | down federal {conference victory against no de-lre 'SUPERVISION OF ' INDIAN TRIBES IS T0 BE CONTINUED WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.--Secre- ary of Interior Krug said today | the government should continue its | supervision of Indian tribes “untit they can move into society safely Krug told the Senate Civil Ser- vice Committee that when that time comes “we have an equal re- sponsibility to release the controls and restrictions of guardianship.” The Committee is holding hear- ings on possible ways to whittle employee rolls. The | Indian matter came up in connec- tion with a- suggestion by Chair- |t | BOLTE TOLD - OFPLANNING - BY TRUMAN {National Chairman AVC Is- | | sues Statement Follow- ing Talk with President WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Presi- |dent Truman has a cabinet com- mittee studying the possibilities of | veterans settling in Alaska, Char- {wen its fourth straight, defeatingiare once again rising, and Red!terior Department’s Indian Aairs|arans committee said today. Ofgeon 51 to 37, and climbed t midg |per in 16 points to lead his team| 'as’ Washington kept their eyes aster number of persons have left their in lowlying areas to seek State Patrol and Red Cross dis- units are standing by in ‘m;lnly on Big Red Rocha, Oregon|yeadiness for an emergency and the iState center, who held eight points ward, counted was 13 points and the 1o Army is sending three Ducks from Cliff Crandall, a for-| Fort Lewis The Seattle weather bureau re- t0 Cross headquarters at Kent reports' Bureau be liquidated. {segond piace in the. face with alg \fise won, three lost record. | homes guard, Lew Beck, drop- refuge with neighbors. > MARSHALL MAY LET ONE SECRETARY 60 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.--Secre- ary of State George C. Marshall the a Bolte, national chairman of AVC, made this statement in news conference after a 20-minute !talk with Mr. Truman at the White | House. Bolte said he had gone to see Mr. Truman to suggest a study of Alas- ka. In a letter to Mr. Truman Bolte® said: | “The AVC urges that a Presiden- Lest scoring effort by Washingtonports one ‘and one-half inches of a5 yeported today to be studying itial commission be created whose !was forward Boody eight Gilbertson's rain fell between 4 p. m. vesterda and 7:30 this morning, with P ' plans for tigthening uv the State the | Department high command by elim- available to war veterans. The Washington Pavilion, packed rainfall general throughout Western | ingting one of its six dssistant secre- to overflowing and with a big neW wachington, housed 13.-/gusts up to 40 miles an hour ac- 4 new companied the rain in Seattle seating section opened 500 spectators for the game {Paclfic Northwest record { At Pullman ibullt up a good early ‘out in front 28 to 23 at and Leld it to the end Bob Ham- jlton, Washington State guard, scor- ed 12 to lead both teams. | The teams play again tonight. BLEAK NEWS basketball crowd Washington Strong winds with In the highlands, warmer tem- increas- runoff D 'PEANUT SHINNY PARTY HELD BY B.S. TROOP 61 Lion sponsored Troop 614 met Thuesday night in. the recreation. .., hall of the Memorial Presbyterian NEW HOMES (BY THr ASSOCIATED PRESS) The man in charge of housing! controls—Major General Philip B. Fleming—had some more bleak| news for tenants and home-seekers today. Even a for most veterans, an Had My Way.” The picture showed 'of Nome arrived via PAA to repre- Clift outlined coming District said | 20d encouraged the boys to get into | resentatives-elect Walter E. Ifunt- 2 the Scout program activities und‘ley of Palmer and Glenn larnett Church for a Peanut Shinny party. | Scoutmaster Lester Roberts led the Scouts in games and Scouting con- Legiglaturs arrived in Juneau’ yes- te: The Rev. Walter Soboleff showed excellent film entitled “If I Boy Scout camp in Kansas, Mis- souri and outlined the general pro- tered at tre gram of a Boy Scout camp. Neighborhood Commissioner Roy the plans of the rally January 30, taryships. The plan one of many under study would eliminate the job formerly held by James C. Dunn parts’ of the world Latin America. o It has been vacant for more tnan a year, ever since Dunn went to Londen in’September of 1945 to be James F. Bvrnes' deputy at ihe Council of Foreign Ministers. > 4 MORE LEGISLATORS except Four memkers of the Territorial terday by air from Nome, Fair- banks and Anchorage. Senator- elect Willlam Munz and Mrs. Munz sent the Sgeond Division and regis- Baranof Hotel. Representative-elect R. F. “Joe” Coble arrived from Fairbanks an also is registersd at the Baranof. At the Gastineau Hotel are Rep Fleming, the chance to buy a home | g o oo o team just as they had of Anchorage, both ot whem arriv- this year is likely to remain whatiyoon going during the evening injed yesterday on ¥ the games of The reason for that, he told a Wo- Scouting Program is a pro he called an unattainable luxury.| “The am for competition men's National Defense Lonhvrrncmycu to enjoy and at the same time in Washington, is our system of ) doing things. For one thing, said learn many valuable things that| will be worth while to you in later cisco Calif., Fleming, the building comlructiuu;l“e‘,. Mr. Clift said industry still is using techniquesi which are long out-of-date. Of this, he remarked, for a country that boasts the greatest productive ca- pacity on earth, the wretched con- dition of much of our housing is paradoxical. The General made three recom- mendations: Construction costs, he said, should be reduced through the use of mo- dern mass-production methods -the adoption of those cost-cutting technological improvements used in the construction of automobiles and refrigerators. Another thing, centinued Flem- ing, must be a revision of bujlding codes. Finally, he said, the govern- ment should build houses for those in the low-income groups. Fleming estimated that one mil-| lion dwellings will be built this year, | although he called this a mere drop; in the bucket. Because, he said,| we will need at least one million houses a year for 20 years. The General thought that the 1947 con- | i { veterans. He said they might be; |able to rent more houses as the people who make money move into {new houses. { | Fleming'’s announcement yester- day that landlords will be permitted | ® | to charge higher rents in hardship | ® cases has provoked resentful state-:® ments from the real estate lobby in Washington, It doesn't help|® much, say the real estate spokes-|® men. The only solution is for a|® general increase in all rents. And|® |OPA officials have indicated that| ® ! eventually, there also might be oth-|® er adjustments in rents. K4 ARCHIE SHIELS HERE i Archie Shiels of the PAF andp Mrs. Shiels arrived on the Princess|® Norah from their home in Belling- | ® ham| le - -> ; . PULLENS RETURN |® W. S. Pullen and Mrs. Pullen re-|e® ed on the Princess Norah after!® jan extended trip in the states. Stan H. Perry brought the eve- ning to a close with the Peanut | Shinny. One Scout was selected to swing at the sack of peanuts and' Arriving from Anchorage by air after three unsuccessiul tri ] turned i the ball bat over to Raymond Den- I nis who hit the sack squarely and ' scattered peanuts all over. the floor. After a mad scramble for peanuts and everybedy's pockets bulging the i meeting was dismissed. Boys in at- . tendance at the meeting were: Al- bert Wilson, Joe Wilson, Joe James, Jerry Cropley, Lawr Blackwell, | Frank Blackwell, John alis, Raymend Dennis, Miles Jones, Dan- ny Martin, Jerry Ja 3 | Scoutmaster Lester Roberts, Com- Imtssloner Roy G. Clift, W. H. Ern- iest, Stan H. Perry, Del Hanks, the | Rev. Walter Soboleff - e v o v o v e e WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning. In Juneau—Maximum, 30 minimum, 21 At Airport—Maximum, 30 minimum, 22 WEATHER FORECAST (Jubeau and Vicinity) Decreasing cloudiness with some snow flurries and cold- er this afternoon. Fair and colder with lowest tempera- ture near 8 degrees tonight and Sunday. Northeasterly gusty winds PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 @ . today) In since since At since since 01 8:71 71.89 01 473 44.22 inches inches inches. inches inches inches Juneau Jan. 1, July 1, Airport Jan. 1, July /o @ @ ¢ o o o o @ o o yill be in Everg ©0 0000000000000 00%0000000 00000 Pacific North- ern Alrways - - 8. F. DOCTOR VISITS Dr. C. F. Bentley, of San Fran- arrived in Juneau on the Princess Norah, and is {registered at the Baranof Hotel. - D ANCHORAGE FOLK HERE |yesterday, the following persons are staying at the Baranof Hotel: S. B. Ritzhugh, Mrs. Methel Latham and H. J. Cheatham D VISITING BELLINGHAM MAN Joe Waddell, arriving from Bel- lingham, Wash, on the Princess Norah, {s registered as a guest at 'the Baranof Hotel. R FAIRBANKS VISITORS Andrew Nerland and Maurice King of Fairbanks, arrived here on Pan American Airways yesterday, and are both staying at the Bar- anof Hotel. Nerland is a Sentor- | elect. - - o KASILOF DOCTOR H Dr. A. C. Pollard, from Kasilof, Kenai Peninsula town on Cook In- let, arrived in Juneau yesterday, and is registered as a guest of the Gastineau Hotel, He is a Represen- | tative-elect. - VISITOR FROM WESTWARD Arthur Utterberg, from Jonesville, is a newly registered guest at the lGaslmenu Hotel. - WHITEHUL 3SE VISITORS Stopping in Juneau st the Bar- anof Hotel after arriving from | Whitehorse, Y. T., are Mr. and Mrs R. Sheu and George Ramsay. - - DAILEY RITES MONDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Georg- ianna Dailey, who passed away re- cently at the Skagway Sanatorium, will be held Monday, January 27, in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary at 2 pm Marcus Dailey has come from Wrangell, the family home, to at- tend the fumeral services in Ju- neau. The Rev. Clifford Allbutt, 1 cemetery COME HERE BY PLANE function will be to make Alaska “This commission should develop and carry out a program for the settlement of Alaska with particu- lar emphasis on encouraging the | settlement of the tens of thousands peratures are reported near head- qpe post dealt with problems in all ‘of veterans who are keenly inter- State waters of threatening rivers, add- . ¥ of veterans. wha, afe’ Raaniy lead and got|ing to the danger of an halftime, eq but need realistic guidance istance.” When he spoke to Mr. Truman about this, Bolte said, the Presi- dent told him the cabinet commit- tee was at work. > SKIERS T9 ested, and 'GET BREAK ON WEEKEND ‘Team of Fivei: Six Racers Are Coming Here from Anchorage in Feb. Skiers will get another break again this weekend with snow con- |dition improving steadily. New snow covers the entire trail areas at the present time with indications for more during Sunday. The Anchorage 8ki Club has in- formed Juneau skiers to be ready for a team of five or six racers to arrive in Juneau February 21, to be on hand for the main racing cvents of the year. From all re- ports, the Anchorage team will con- ¢ist of several top notch board riders which will put Juneau skiers on their toes throughout the rac- ing events. Sunday afternoon’s program will censist of several time runs over diffzrent courses to prepare those interested in races to sharpen up their runs. Hot coffee with the usual snack is also the promise of the outdoor committee. CAPONE IS KEPT ALIVE BY OXYGEN MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25— Scarface Al Capone was being kept alive by oxygen and expert medical attention today, but one of his physicians said there was doubt akout the gang leader's recovery. The first activity around Ca- pone’s 26-room walled villa on Palm Island today, was the delivery of additional oxygen tanks.’ - | STEAMER MOVEME Alaska scheduled Seattle January 27 North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle, January 29 Denai, scheduled Seattle, February 1. 9 Prin Norah scheduled tw ar- rive from Skagway Sunday morn- ing at 7 o'clock and sails south at 8:30 o'clock Aleutian due Junuary 27 or to sall frori to sail N southbound about 28 D e POLICE WOMAN BACK Hartung, returned from Juneau Police the south Isabell | woman, e|S. J, will officiate, and interment on the Princess Norah. She has been absent for several weeks